Volume 1 · An expanding evidence collection

Research into practice.
Judgment into stewardship.

A disciplined reading path for families who govern capital. Each attributed research edition sits beside an original practical companion, with a separate passage agent for each work.

New research editions

104

New practical companions

104

Paired passage agents

208

A purposeful collection

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Family-office research is complemented by relevant studies of family businesses, capital markets, property and financial decisions. Each article states the setting actually studied. An application to a family office is an editorial inference, not a claim that every original study sampled family offices.

The reading paths

Evidence and its practical counterpart

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Intelligence, trust & financial decisions · CC BY 4.0

Too soon to worry? Longitudinal examination of financial planning for retirement among Spanish aged workers

Francisco Palací; Irene Jiménez; Gabriela Topa

PLOS ONE · 2018-12-14

Provides a structured follow-through process for family-enterprise retirement education and transitions, with economic constraints kept distinct from motivation.

Original practical companion

Planning That Persists: A Ninety-Day Retirement Readiness Review for Family Enterprises

Retirement planning is a process that must survive competing demands, not a document completed once. This companion proposes a ninety-day review for family-enterprise employees and participating family members, separating knowledge, confidence, economic constraints and completed actions. It draws on a longitudinal Spanish worker study without importing its findings as individualized advice.

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Intelligence, trust & financial decisions · CC BY 4.0

Acceptance of AI-based tools in consumer financial decision-making: An application of the extended technology acceptance model

Tomasz Szopiński; Michał Buszko; Małgorzata Porada-Rochoń

PLOS One · 2026-03-19

Supports a carefully bounded AI financial-learning service for beneficiaries and next-generation family members without conflating engagement with competence.

Original practical companion

From Useful to Used: A Measured Pilot for AI-Supported Financial Learning

Positive attitudes toward an AI assistant are not evidence that it improves financial judgment. This companion proposes a limited learning pilot that measures comprehension, source checking and appropriate escalation alongside adoption. It uses a study of consumer acceptance to distinguish a service people like from a service they can use responsibly.

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Intelligence, trust & financial decisions · CC BY 4.0

Gullibility, loneliness, exploitation or just bad luck? Exploring older adults’ perceptions of fraud risks, protections and victimhood

Elisabeth Carter; Vasileios Karagiannopoulos; Annie Kirby; Mark Button

Security Journal · 2026-10-15

Informs respectful incident disclosure, cross-generational support and practical fraud learning without assigning blame or overriding decision-making authority.

Original practical companion

From Blame to Disclosure: A Family-Office Conversation Protocol After Suspected Fraud

How a family responds to suspected fraud can determine whether the affected person shares the next warning sign. This companion proposes a nonjudgmental disclosure and learning protocol grounded in qualitative research on older adults’ perceptions. It protects autonomy, distinguishes support from authority and keeps causal claims within the source’s limits.

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Intelligence, trust & financial decisions · CC BY 4.0

Prediction of robo-advisory acceptance in banking services using tree-based algorithms

Witold Orzeszko; Dariusz Piotrowski

PLOS ONE · 2024-05-06

Helps offices challenge a vendor’s customer segmentation claims and protect beneficiaries from propensity scores being mistaken for sound financial recommendations.

Original practical companion

Interest Is Not Suitability: Auditing Predictive Targeting for Digital Wealth Services

A model that predicts who will accept a digital financial service does not establish who should use it. This companion develops a purpose-limited audit for family offices evaluating predictive targeting by banks or technology vendors. It separates marketing propensity, informed consent, appropriateness and observed outcomes.

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Intelligence, trust & financial decisions · CC BY 4.0

Digital financial literacy and household consumption: Total expenditure versus consumption structure in China

Yan Shen; Wenxiu Hu; Xin Wang

PLOS One · 2026-09-01

Adjacent evidence relevant to family-office financial decisions, governance, education or property risk. The original study is not a direct family-office sample; the practical transfer is proposed and limited.

Original practical companion

Digital financial literacy without a spending target: a family-office education protocol

This AI-assisted editorial analysis uses a Chinese household survey to distinguish digital financial literacy, higher consumption and financial wellbeing. It proposes an education protocol that measures understanding and affordability rather than account openings, borrowing or spending targets. The source does not establish that training improves wealth or welfare.

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Intelligence, trust & financial decisions · CC BY 4.0

Characterizing uncertain sea-level rise projections to support investment decisions

Ryan L. Sriver; Robert J. Lempert; Per Wikman-Svahn; Klaus Keller

PLOS ONE · 2018-02-07

Adjacent evidence relevant to family-office financial decisions, governance, education or property risk. The original study is not a direct family-office sample; the practical transfer is proposed and limited.

Original practical companion

Coastal property decisions under deep uncertainty: build a decision threshold before choosing a forecast

This AI-assisted editorial analysis translates a 2018 idealized Port of Los Angeles infrastructure study into a proposed process for examining coastal-property decisions under deep uncertainty. It separates exploratory scenario counts from probabilities and links decision thresholds to current local engineering evidence. Historical model outputs are not current property-risk estimates.

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Intelligence, trust & financial decisions · CC BY 4.0

Self-awareness for financial decision-making abilities in healthy adults

Preeti Sunderaraman; Silvia Chapman; Megan S. Barker; Stephanie Cosentino

PLOS ONE · 2020-07-02

Adjacent evidence relevant to family-office financial decisions, governance, education or property risk. The original study is not a direct family-office sample; the practical transfer is proposed and limited.

Original practical companion

Confidence is a separate variable: calibrating financial understanding without taking away agency

This AI-assisted editorial analysis uses a study of 93 healthy adults to separate confidence in financial decisions from demonstrated understanding. It proposes respectful, task-specific clarification and consent records while preserving personal agency. Research measures are not clinical or legal capacity assessments.

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Intelligence, trust & financial decisions · CC BY 4.0

The effects of normal aging on multiple aspects of financial decision-making

Dorien F. Bangma; Anselm B. M. Fuermaier; Lara Tucha; Oliver Tucha; Janneke Koerts

PLOS ONE · 2017-08-09

Adjacent evidence relevant to family-office financial decisions, governance, education or property risk. The original study is not a direct family-office sample; the practical transfer is proposed and limited.

Original practical companion

Designing financial decisions for a long life: reduce complexity without stereotyping age

This AI-assisted editorial analysis draws on research finding different age relationships across financial decision tasks. It proposes clearer constraint comparisons, documented support preferences and explicit authority without using chronological age as an individual capacity judgment. Laboratory findings do not establish real-world loss prevention.

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Intelligence, trust & financial decisions · CC BY 4.0

Understanding the factors that affect households’ investment decisions required by the energy transition

Armando Aguayo-Mendoza; Ane Irizar-Arrieta; Diego Casado-Mansilla; Cruz E. Borges

PLOS ONE · 2024-03-21

Adjacent evidence relevant to family-office financial decisions, governance, education or property risk. The original study is not a direct family-office sample; the practical transfer is proposed and limited.

Original practical companion

Beyond a subsidy: testing the adoption case for household energy investments

This AI-assisted editorial analysis uses expert elicitation and household survey research to examine energy-investment adoption assumptions beyond price subsidies. It proposes tracking technical fit, perceived control and actual adoption stages. Unvalidated archetypes and inconsistent subgroup statements are disclosed and are not used to target individuals.

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Intelligence, trust & financial decisions · CC BY 4.0

Individual investment decision behaviors based on demographic characteristics: Case from China

Qiujun Lan; Qingyue Xiong; Linjie He; Chaoqun Ma

PLOS ONE · 2018-08-09

Adjacent financial-decision research relevant to family-office investment governance; no family-office population directly studied.

Original practical companion

Beyond demographic proxies: a consent-based investment preference record

This AI-assisted editorial analysis uses a Chinese investor survey to distinguish predicting reported behavior from establishing an individual’s investment needs. The proposed workflow replaces demographic shortcuts with direct preference records, outcome-specific validation and human review. It has not been tested in family offices.

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Intelligence, trust & financial decisions · CC BY 4.0

What factors affecting investment decision? The moderating role of fintech self-efficacy

Norhazimah Che Hassan; Aisyah Abdul-Rahman; Siti Ngayesah Ab. Hamid; Syajarul Imna Mohd Amin

PLOS ONE · 2024-04-18

Adjacent financial-decision research relevant to family-office investment governance; no family-office population directly studied.

Original practical companion

Fintech confidence is not investment suitability: governing digital access without social pressure

A survey of Malaysian Muslim Islamic unit trust investors links reported intentions with attitudes, subjective norms, financial literacy and fintech self-efficacy. This AI-assisted companion proposes a digital-access and decision-consent process while preserving the distinction between confidence, intention and investment suitability. Reporting inconsistencies in the source are explicitly retained as limitations.

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Intelligence, trust & financial decisions · CC BY 4.0

To maximize or randomize? An experimental study of probability matching in financial decision making

Andrew W. Lo; Katherine P. Marlowe; Ruixun Zhang

PLOS ONE · 2021-08-26

Adjacent financial-decision research relevant to family-office investment governance; no family-office population directly studied.

Original practical companion

When pattern seeking replaces a decision rule: a probability-matching audit for investment committees

A laboratory lottery experiment found different tendencies to randomize under different payoff structures. This AI-assisted companion translates the study into a proposed audit of decision rules, evidence updates and pattern claims. It does not equate diversified investing with an error or claim the experiment validates a family-office trading strategy.

Publication and review record · 2026-11-02

Count the evidence. Preserve the distinction.

This expansion has added 208 works toward the requested 4,000: 2,000 source editions and 2,000 practical companions. The 104 works already in the journal are excluded from that target.

5.2% of the requested expansion published.

Article-specific license, metadata and source checks are recorded separately from human peer review. New practical companions are AI-assisted editorial analyses; no independent human peer-review acceptance is asserted. Recorded independent human acceptance for the new companions: 0. Source authors, original journals, publication dates and existing DOIs remain unchanged.

1,778 further metadata-screened leads are retained for investigation. Potential sources only. Publisher/version rights, full text, quality, retraction and related-version checks remain to be completed. They do not count as published articles or agents.

Checked DOI, source-version DOI and normalized title in available repository catalogs. Live submissions and all earlier review queues were not fully available; platform-wide novelty is not claimed.