In a recent Crain Currency article, WE Family Offices CEO and Managing Partner Mel Lagomasino addresses one of the most pressing challenges facing family offices today: maintaining investment discipline when markets are moving fast, and the pressure to react is high.
Mel makes the case that distinguishing between information that genuinely changes underlying fundamentals and noise that simply moves prices is what separates reactive decision-making from sound long-term stewardship. Decisions driven by short-term sentiment, she writes, can derail carefully constructed allocation strategies and erode the long-term compounding that multigenerational wealth depends on.
The article also examines the macro backdrop for 2026, including the IMF’s GDP growth projection of 2.4% for the U.S., fiscal expansion in Japan and Germany, the case for gold as a strategic allocation and why geopolitical headlines rarely warrant a portfolio response on their own.
Read the full article here.
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