Edouard Herbo, makeshift supervisor and stopping in inheriting in circles | EUROtoday

For a acknowledged fortune supervisor, Edouard Herbo nonetheless has a humorous means of speaking about cash. “Within the family, the money is toxic, that is really a certainty”, He assaults with out ciller, seated in his Parisian places of work, boulevard Haussmann. “And then money can finance beautiful causes, but also destroy the planet”, he continues. On the opposite hand, he doesn’t hesitate to hurry his clients, patriarchs with prints of 100 million euros or extra. Investing within the United States in energy-consuming synthetic intelligence? “It is not reasonable! he shakes them. Your money, you have earned it here. It is better to leave your grandchildren a quality of life and employment, rather than the cash that feels death. »» At the end of an appointment with one of them, he confides: “Having so many heritage is a curse!” »»

Personally, the boss of Keepers Family Office has made a radical promise: in a few years, once he has consolidated his wealth management consulting company founded in 2018, he will sell it and create, with money, a foundation in favor of biodiversity. The Mare Foundation, perhaps. A nod to the one where he looked at Frogs and Sortons, in his childhood, near Lille. “There, I’ll have made sense to my life and I will have a look at the local weather change figures with out miserable”, projects the 45 -year -old man. His wife and four daughters are warned: useless for them to dream of a colossal heritage, the essential will go to this foundation. “Yes, the answer is dispossession, I’m satisfied”, Professor Edouard Herbo.

Funny words, really, in the mouth of a financier who manages more than 3 billion euros on behalf of rich French families, in particular northern industrialists – even if the American businessman and philanthropic Warren Buffett and a handful of other large fortunes have also declared themselves hostile to the inheritance. “It is reassuring to see that there are some folks like him on this sector, totally conscious of the drifts of finance and who attempt to restore him”, Applauds Jezabel Couppey-Soubeyran, professor of economics at Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne University (and columnist at World), who regularly exchanges with him.

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