New Presage Global Research Featured in Coverage of UHNW Estate Security Gaps
- Jun 23
- 1 min read
A new study from Presage Global and household management platform Nines is the subject of recent industry coverage examining why ultra-high-net-worth families remain exposed despite heavy spending on estate security.
Based on a survey of more than 100 estate managers, family office executives, chiefs of staff, and residential security professionals - representing families from under $50 million to above $10 billion in net worth - the research finds that the real weakness is not budget or technology, but governance, formalization, and integration.
Among the standout findings: family resistance, not cost, is the leading barrier to better security; households with fragmented security coordination reported a 62% incident rate versus 25% for those with fully integrated operations; nearly two-thirds of respondents have received no formal annual security training; and three in four never refresh background checks after the initial hire. The families with the lowest incident rates were not the biggest spenders, but those that shifted from reacting to incidents to anticipating them.
As Presage Global founder and CEO Edward V. Marshall notes in the coverage, the tools and resources usually already exist - the consistent constraint is structure and governance.
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