Center for Family Legacy resources

Building a legacy looks different for every family—which is why a multi-dimensional approach is key. Explore the impact of financial, human, and intellectual capital in these resources.

Thought leadership on generational wealth

The 25 best practices of multi-generational families | Truist

The 25 best practices of multi-generational families | Truist

Center for Family Legacy 25 best practices of multigenerational families

Ways to improve your odds of sustaining wealth across generations

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08/28/2025
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Learn best practices around cohesiveness, governance, philanthropy, and planning that multigenerational families are using to sustain their wealth.

Safeguard Your Family’s Future in 6 Simple, Effective Steps

Safeguard Your Family’s Future in 6 Simple, Effective Steps

Center for Family Legacy Safeguarding your family’s future in 6 steps

With just a few simple tools and the right mindset, you can plan for your family’s future and a lasting legacy.

Article
08/19/2025
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Discover how emotional alignment and planning can secure your family legacy for generations.

What is a family story? Share it to build stronger bonds

What is a family story? Share it to build stronger bonds

Center for Family Legacy Build stronger bonds—share your family story

Teaching younger family members about their shared history helps the family’s values and purpose endure.

Article
07/10/2025
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Sharing your family story with younger members is an important way to make sure the family’s purpose endures. Storytelling helps them understand.

Providing financial and career education to your family

Providing financial and career education to your family

Center for Family Legacy Providing financial education to your family

Preparing for wealth transfer requires financial literacy, career education and exploring shared values.

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07/10/2025
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Preparing for wealth transfer takes more than financial literacy—career education and exploring shared values also are important. It starts at a young age.

Next-gen personal and professional development

Next-gen personal and professional development

Center for Family Legacy Next-gen personal and professional development

Strategies to support the next generation’s desire to become wealth creators.

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07/10/2025
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Educating your next generation on career skills, entrepreneurship, and leadership provides them with a foundation that’s critical to success.

Make Buying or Building Your Dream Vacation Home a Reality

Make Buying or Building Your Dream Vacation Home a Reality

Lifestyle What makes the perfect vacation home?

Your Truist Wealth advisor can help make your dream second home into a reality.

Article
05/19/2025
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Learn three areas to consider when planning to finance a second home and how a Truist advisor can help you get one step closer to meeting your goals.

Luxury Travel Planning Tips To Capitalize on Market Growth

Luxury Travel Planning Tips To Capitalize on Market Growth

Lifestyle The new era of luxury travel

Growth in the luxury travel sector gives you new opportunities for unique getaways.

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05/12/2025
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Learn how a wealth advisor can help you take advantage of recent growth in the luxury travel sector, and find opportunities for unique getaways.

Episode 30: Raising independent heirs: Balancing wealth and self-reliance

Episode 30: Raising independent heirs: Balancing wealth and self-reliance

Center for Family Legacy Episode 30: Raising Independent Heirs

Drew Egan of the Center for Family Legacy on providing for your children while fostering self-reliance.

Podcast
05/12/2025
Episode 30: Raising independent heirs: Balancing wealth and self-reliance

Drew Egan, of the Truist Wealth Center for Family Legacy, talks with Oscarlyn Elder about the challenge that parents with wealth face in raising children to become independent, self-reliant adults.

Strategies to transcend cross-generational communication gaps

Strategies to transcend cross-generational communication gaps

Center for Family Legacy Bridging the cross-generational communication gap.

Strategies to help communicate across generations.

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04/08/2025
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Learn communication strategies to address differences in generational communication regarding technology, gratification, traditions, and generalizations.

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    Bridging beliefs and behaviors

    Executive Summary

    Bridging family beliefs and behaviors

    Key insights into effective wealth transfer across generations

    Podcast

    I've been meaning to do that

    Join Truist Wealth’s Co-Chief Investment Officer, Oscarlyn Elder, to learn how purpose can impact your portfolio.

    Podcast

    I’ve Been Meaning To Do That: From Purpose To Action

    Join Truist Wealth’s Co-Chief Investment Officer, Oscarlyn Elder, to learn how purpose can impact your portfolio.

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