Outsourced Chief Investment Officer
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A third-party investment-management arrangement in which an OCIO firm assumes day-to-day portfolio responsibility under an investment policy set by the family — common for families below the SFO-staffing threshold and increasingly for those above. The entry covers the OCIO/RIA distinction, the fee structures, the cost-of-capability tradeoff, and the conflicts of interest to surface in selection.