Hugues Salomé on Succession and Simpler Family Structures

Hubbis has published an interview with Hugues Salomé centered on two themes that keep wealth managers awake: succession planning and the shift toward simpler family structures.

The piece, carried by the wealth-management platform Hubbis, frames succession as more than a legal handover. Salomé's insights, as presented in the article titled "Succession and Simpler Family Structures: Insights from Hugues Salomé," address how families can streamline their arrangements rather than let complexity compound across generations.

That framing matters for practitioners. Multi-jurisdictional holdings, layered trusts and sprawling holding companies are the default output of a family's second and third generations. Simplification, in this reading, isn't cosmetic. It's a deliberate restructuring choice that makes the eventual transfer of control cleaner and less contestable.

What does this change for advisors?

For private bankers, family offices and trustees, the message is to treat structure as a living decision. Families that revisit and simplify their architectures before a transition tend to hand over assets with fewer points of friction — fewer vehicles, fewer jurisdictions, fewer disputed roles.

The Hubbis interview sits squarely in the platform's usual territory: practical guidance for wealth-management professionals serving high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth families. Succession remains the sector's structural growth driver, driven by intergenerational wealth transfer rather than market cycles.

Salomé's contribution adds a practitioner's voice to that conversation. Readers working on family governance mandates will find the full interview on Hubbis, where the discussion of simpler family structures is laid out in his own terms.

The broader signal for the industry: the next decade of succession work won't just be about moving assets. It will be about consolidating them first — and advisors who can lead that simplification will own the mandate.