Nicholas Moody

Campden Wealth’s family business awards coming to Americas

January 18, 2019

Campden Wealth is calling for nominations for its inaugural gala awards in the Americas to recognise the best-in-class family enterprises across the region.

Campden Wealth is calling for nominations for its inaugural gala awards in the Americas to recognise the best-in-class family enterprises across the region.

Organisers at the New York wing of Campden said they were “shocked” to discover there were no existing awards recognising excellence among multigenerational business families of sustainable wealth on the entire continent.

Cantabria tales: How Santander's most famous family is giving back

August 20, 2015

Santander’s most famous family is taking a hands-on approach to philanthropy in areas as diverse as bioinformatics to boys’ education. Fundación Botín’s director general tells Nicholas Moody about how a €900 million endowment is driving social change

Fundación Botín is not your usual endowment-spending foundation. What makes it different? a) Size - it holds slightly less than 1% of all shares in the Spanish banking empire, Santander; b) Investment strategy - it doesn’t have one, it only holds Santander shares; and c) Philosophy - it’s constantly innovating, despite the temptation for a 51-year-old foundation to follow the status quo.