Family Investment Committee Terms of Reference: Authority, Challenge and Decision Records
Define mandate, responsibility interfaces, conflicts, meeting evidence and escalation mechanisms.
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Define mandate, responsibility interfaces, conflicts, meeting evidence and escalation mechanisms.
Define decision classes, thresholds, consultation duties, emergency procedures and evidence requirements.
Base classification on actual activity, income, assets and management, maintaining consistency across data, responsibility and evidence.
Reconcile entity classifications, registration duties, controlling-person data and the annual information lifecycle before implementation.
Reconcile the SCR with the family tree, beneficial ownership map, trust arrangements and changes in control.
Substance is evidenced through capable people, Hong Kong expenditure, real decisions and continuing oversight of outsourced activity.
Use an activity-based analysis of regulated activity, supported by records of the business model, authority and persons served.
Translate tax-concession conditions into maintained evidence of ownership, management control, substantial activities and record keeping—not a one-off application.