DeBellotte Global Ltd.

05/09/2026

A 200-year-old brand can disappear from view without losing its value.

Swiss watchmaker Gallet was founded in 1826. After years outside the commercial spotlight, the brand has returned under Breitling with new products, modern distribution, and access to an established manufacturing system.

The lesson extends beyond watches.

Family wealth is not limited to cash, property, and investment accounts.

It may also include:

• Trademarks

• Designs

• Patents

• Archives

• Commercial rights

• Institutional knowledge

• Reputation built across decades

These assets can survive a founder. They can also lose their value through fragmented ownership, missing records, family disputes, or the absence of a capable steward.

Preservation alone is not enough.

Gallet did not return because someone kept its name in an archive. It returned because ownership, heritage, capital, management, manufacturing, and distribution were brought together around a new commercial purpose.

Families should ask the same question about every asset intended to outlive its creator:

Will the next generation inherit an object, or a structure capable of putting it to productive use?

Legacy requires more than something worth inheriting.

It requires ownership, records, authority, and stewardship.

Wealth, governed for generations.

03/09/2026

Nick Cannon says estate planning and legacy go hand in hand.

With 12 children, he says he wants every member of his family taken care of.

The important word is not “stuff.”

It is “every.”

Once a family includes several beneficiaries across different ages, households, needs, and stages of life, inheritance becomes more than a division exercise. It becomes a governance question.

Does fairness require equal distributions?

Should education, healthcare, housing, entrepreneurship, and disability receive different treatment?

Should each child inherit assets outright, or benefit from assets held for the family?

How will future grandchildren enter the structure?

Who makes decisions when the founder is gone?

What prevents one estate from becoming 12 separate estates, then dividing again with every generation?

A will can divide property.

A properly designed and independently administered trust can establish rules for how family wealth is owned, used, protected, and continued across generations.

Legacy is not measured only by how much each person receives.

It is measured by whether the family receives a structure capable of surviving the transfer.

Wealth, governed for generations.

Nick Cannon, who has had 12 children since 2011, believes that estate planning and legacy go hand in hand.

30/08/2026

A trust is not a hiding place. It is a blueprint.

Families devote years to building wealth. Far less time often goes into deciding how control should pass.

A properly structured trust does not erase ownership or reporting obligations. It defines who holds legal control, who may benefit, under what conditions, and how decisions continue across generations.

Control. Protection. Succession. Stewardship.

Four responsibilities. One governing structure. Clarity designed to outlive its founder.

If you are researching trust structures for your family, do not begin only with what you want to protect.

Ask how your wealth should be governed when you are no longer making every decision.

Wealth, governed for generations.

19/08/2026

Quiet trustee update.

A trust can appear inactive from the outside.

Behind the scenes, administration continues through:

• Beneficiary record reviews

• Asset register maintenance

• Trustee decision records

• Scheduled governance reviews

• Private reporting

• Compliance monitoring

These tasks rarely create dramatic moments.

They create continuity.

A family should not have to search for records or rebuild its plan during death, incapacity, succession, or another major transition.

For every trust accepted under our administration, DeBellotte Global acts as sole discretionary trustee.

We administer each trust according to its deed, our fiduciary duties, and applicable law.

A trust can look still.

Stewardship keeps moving.

16/08/2026

The highest form of control is choice.

You should understand your affairs and retain the authority to manage every part of your planning.

You should also have the freedom to step away.

A well-designed system gives you both options:

• Manage decisions personally when you want direct involvement

• Delegate administration to qualified Professionals

• Retain oversight without handling daily ex*****on

• Reclaim your time without surrendering control

Your future should remain yours to direct, without demanding your daily attention.

Planning creates structure.

Professional administration creates freedom.

You decide how involved you wish to be.

11/08/2026

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09/08/2026

Would you hand your children or grandchildren unrestricted access to everything you spent decades building?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
That is one of the uncomfortable questions behind generational wealth.
The truth is, every generation is different.
One may be disciplined. One may be entrepreneurial. One may be reckless. One may simply not understand what it took to build the wealth in the first place.
That is why generational planning should be about more than inheritance.
A well-designed trust can create guardrails around how assets are managed and distributed, even after the original wealth creator is gone.
You are not just deciding what your family receives.
You are deciding how the wealth should serve them.
So here’s the question:
Would you rather leave the next generation complete control, or a structure designed to protect them from their worst financial decisions?

06/08/2026

Many families are already generous.

They fund schools, support NGOs, sponsor scholarships, contribute to water projects, and help when communities need support.

But after a while, giving starts to become work.

Who vets the contractor?

Who reviews the school budget?

Who checks if the quote is inflated?

Who confirms the water system was installed?

Who follows up when updates stop coming?

Who makes sure the money reached the mission?

For many families, the issue is not whether they want to give.

The issue is whether they want to keep managing every charitable project themselves.

That is where a Charitable Trust can help.

A trust gives the family a formal structure for giving.

The family defines the mission.

The trust holds the capital.

The trustee administers the mandate.

Approved funds can support:

• Schools

• NGOs

• Scholarships

• Water projects

• Health initiatives

• Community infrastructure

• Mission-aligned impact work

The trustee can help review service providers, check budgets, control disbursements, maintain records, and keep the giving aligned with the trust mandate.

The family can keep giving without carrying the full administrative burden of every project.

That is structural philanthropy.

A donation can fund a project.

A Charitable Trust can create the system behind the giving.

DeBellotte Global Ltd.

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Stewardship of wealth, purpose, and legacy.

31/07/2026

📈 Trust Performance Highlight: 12-Month Case Study

At DeBellotte Global, effective trusteeship means ensuring high standards of oversight, record-keeping, and fiduciary care for every trust under our watch.

Here is a look at a recent 12-month performance overview (ending 30 June 2026) for an anonymized trust under our trusteeship:

🔹 Strategy Allocation: Arvocap Multi-Asset Strategy Special Fund (USD)

🔹 Reported Fund Performance: 35.16% over the 12-month period

🔹 Trust Participation: The trust’s holding participated in this reported growth throughout the reporting period.

🤝 Understanding Our Role

Arvocap Asset Managers manages the fund and reports its performance.

DeBellotte Global acts strictly as the trustee, exercising fiduciary judgment in accordance with the specific trust's Trust Deed, maintaining accurate trust records, monitoring holdings, and reporting trust-specific results privately to beneficiaries.

⚠️ Risk & Regulatory Disclaimers

Risk Classification: The fund carries a Category 7 (Highest) risk classification from the fund manager. Its value can rise or fall, and past performance does not predict future results.

No Financial Advice: DeBellotte Global does not issue financial advice, investment advice, an offer, a recommendation, or a solicitation to invest. All investment criteria must be defined directly within the Trust Deed, and the Trustee executes directives within the Trust Deed strictly within the confines of the law.

🌐 Learn more about our trust management services: debellotteglobal.co.ke

22/07/2026

A US$1.2 million estate claim raises a larger question:

Can an estate creditor reach an offshore trust whose assets never belonged to the deceased?

The Malcolm-Jamal Warner family dispute offers a timely case study in ownership, independent funding, trustee control, and jurisdiction.

The answer depends on one distinction many families overlook:

Are these estate assets placed beyond a creditor’s reach, or trust assets which were never part of the estate?
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