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Jerry Buss structured his estate to keep the Los Angeles Lakers in the family after his death. But some of the safeguards meant to preserve that legacy have driven his children apart, according to trusts and estates attorneys.

Five of Buss’ six adult children want to sell the family’s remaining stake in the basketball team, valued by a separate recent transaction at $12.5 billion. Meanwhile, their sister Jeanie contends that her siblings do not have the legal authority to give up ownership and is opposing the sale, which would result in Jeanie Buss losing her position as governor of the Lakers.

The Buss stake in the franchise is owned by a family trust, which includes a “last man standing” clause, as described by sister Janie Buss to ESPN in 2017. That provision transfers a sibling’s equity upon their death to their surviving siblings rather than their own children, incentivizing the siblings to sell during their lifetime, Janie Buss told ESPN at the time.

Steven Fox, partner at Buchalter, said it’s common for parents passing down a business to want to limit the number of stakeholders. However, this type of clause is unusual, he said.

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“I rarely draft that into estate plans, because just because one sibling has cancer and all of a sudden is going to die young, it’s not fair for their children to be divested,” he said. Fox, like the other attorneys who spoke to CNBC, has not seen the terms of the Buss family trust.

While few family businesses are like the Lakers, the broad strokes of the Buss family’s predicament are familiar, according to lawyers who spoke to CNBC. These succession conflicts are also likely to grow more common with the great wealth transfer underway and baby boomers passing on businesses to their children, said Sean Weissbart, partner at Blank Rome LLP.

Trusts and estates attorneys pointed to three steps that can make family business transitions smoother.

Use life insurance to compensate family members

The impulse behind the “last man standing” clause makes sense, Fox said. Without limits on inheriting equity, a family business can end up with dozens of shareholders. However, there are ways to avoid having too many cooks in the kitchen while compensating the next generation fairly, he said.

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Fox and Weissbart each recommended using life insurance to essentially buy grandchildren’s equity. Typically, the trust would take out policies on the children of the patriarch or matriarch. After the child dies, their shares revert to their surviving siblings while the grandchildren receive cash from the life insurance payout.

If the death benefit isn’t sufficient to compensate the grandchildren, the trust can provide them with a secured note, placing a lien on the family business, according to Fox. The secured note can be paid out over time and paid in full if the business is sold.

Even before the business is sold, “there’s plenty of money for them to have a great lifestyle,” he said.

This approach can also be used a generation earlier to buy out children of the wealth creator who do not wish to be involved in the business. However, first-generation entrepreneurs are rarely able or willing to take out expensive life insurance policies while they are still relatively young, according to Fox.

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Limit decision-making power

Jerry Buss divided the family’s controlling stake in the Lakers evenly among his six children, with each child receiving an equal vote. However, he designated Jeanie Buss to replace him as the team’s governor.

According to a letter written by Jeanie Buss’ lawyer, the trust requires two of Jeanie’s siblings and her co-trustees, Janie and Joey, to vote in a way that keeps her ownership above the 15% minimum for team governors.

Lawyers for Jeanie Buss and her siblings did not respond to requests for comment.

It’s common for parents to be torn between wanting to treat their children equally while acknowledging that one child is best-suited to run the business, Weissbart said. However, dividing decision-making power may not be in the children’s best interest, he added. He suggested allocating voting rights to one or two children who are best equipped to run the business while dividing the economic interest equally.

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“Giving people the say over a multibillion-dollar business who don’t know how to actually manage it is detrimental to the business,” he said.

Weissbart and Fox both recommended placing the family business in a trust and naming only one child as trustee with the ability to make managerial decisions.

The shares are pooled into one so-called pot trust, and in the event of a sale, the proceeds are distributed to the individual siblings’ trusts, according to Fox. He said he sometimes adds an independent co-trustee such as an advisor from a bank or an advisory committee.

“It’s so much easier just to have one person dealing with it than to have to gain approvals from various children’s trusts or children themselves,” he said. “Siblings are difficult. We’re talking about a lot of bad blood.”

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Still, Fox said most of his clients prefer a majority-rule approach, which he believes can worsen family ties.

“I always tell clients you’re going to destroy the relationship between your children. Once three of them gang up on one of them, the one that gets outvoted — and the business then gets sold — is going to harbor bad feelings the rest of their life against these three siblings,” he said.

Though Fox and Weissbart were largely in agreement, there isn’t widespread consensus.

George Taylor, partner at Brinkley Morgan, said instead of concentrating power with one sibling, he would recommend giving each child an equal say. Each sibling would be the trustee of an individual trust with equal shares of the business, and they could act through majority when selling.

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“Obviously it’s more common than not that one child is left in control,” he said, “but this would be the ‘let’s get along, Kumbaya’ approach.”

Reconsider children’s involvement in the business

Perhaps the best way to keep a business in the family is to keep family out of managing it, according to Fox.

Keeping a family business through multiple generations is a steep challenge, he said. One of the families he works with has a fourth-generation billion-dollar company, according to Fox. He said their secret to success is that no one in the family is allowed to work for the company.

After the second generation of the family spent 10 years battling in court for control of the company, the third generation amended the shareholder agreement in the ’80s to keep family members out, he said.

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“That doesn’t work for the Lakers, because there’s a lot of swag that goes along with running the Lakers. But it works for some businesses, and it’s worked perfectly for this family,” he said. “I’ve now done that with several clients.”

There’s no silver bullet for keeping children from taking family feuds to court, Fox said. While many trust documents have clauses requiring arbitration or disinheriting children who choose to sue, they are not necessarily enforceable, he said.

“I tell my clients you’re never going to stop your kids and grandkids from suing each other, because they didn’t earn this; it’s inherited,” he said. “You built it up. You took all the risk when you had nothing and were putting everything on your credit card. They don’t have that muscle memory.”

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American Airlines announced Thursday it will add seven international routes to its 2027 schedule, with many of those on its Airbus A321XLR planes.

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Here are the additions:

  • Charlotte, North Carolina, to Barcelona, Spain, starting May 27, on a Boeing 777-200ER.
  • Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, starting March 19, on a Boeing 787-9.
  • New York John F. Kennedy International Airport to Amsterdam, starting March 28, on an Airbus A321XLR.
  • New York JFK to Nice, France, starting May 6, on an Airbus A321XLR.
  • Philadelphia to Porto, Portugal, starting March 28, on an Airbus A321XLR.
  • Philadelphia to Reykjavik, Iceland, starting May 27, on an Airbus A321neo.
  • Philadelphia to Vienna, starting May 6, on an Airbus A321XLR.

The carrier is also adding a fourth daily flight between JFK and London Heathrow Airport, on a Boeing 787-9, starting March 28.

The Airbus XLR, which stands for extra long range, has the ability to go up to 4,700 nautical miles. The single-aisle planes are smaller than others in the airline’s fleet, like a Boeing 777 or Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which makes them cheaper to operate.

The airline rolled out a new interior and configuration with its inaugural XLR flight last year. It’s allocated more space to premium seats — which take up a fifth of the plane — than it has on its other aircraft.

American’s plan is to use the XLRs to focus on routes to smaller European cities from its Philadelphia hub or from New York City.

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“It really opens up the menu for all these destinations that are just too small for a widebody,” American’s senior vice president of network and schedule planning, Brian Znotins, told CNBC last year.

The interior of American Airlines’ new Airbus A321XLR aircraft during a showcase event at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, U.S., December 11, 2025.

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The airline said its Vienna route will extend through early January 2028 to draw tourists who are aiming to visit European Christmas markets. That follows a growing trend, as airlines have been adding more capacity in the shoulder seasons and even in the off-peak winter period as travelers opt to fly in the fall and other cooler, cheaper times of the year.

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American’s announcement comes the same week that United Airlines unveiled its 2027 destinations. United is adding routes to less traditionally popular tourist destinations for U.S. travelers, spanning Ljubljana, Slovenia, to Okinawa, Japan.

United offers more international service than other U.S. airlines.

American has been trying to close a profit gap with rivals United and Delta Air Lines and said earlier this year that its flying is split about 80% domestic versus 20% international.

International flights often carry a high premium compared with domestic routes — and the planes serving them generally have more luxurious seats on board, which can be more profitable for airlines.

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Family offices boosted their stock holdings in the second quarter and trimmed their exposure to real estate and private market investments, according to the latest CNBC Family Office Portfolio Tracker.

Single family offices held 37% of their portfolios in stocks in the second quarter, up from 34% in the first quarter, according to the CNBC Portfolio Tracker powered by Addepar, the foundational data and artificial intelligence platform used by financial professionals globally.

The surge in family office stock holdings is the largest in several years and signals their continued bullishness on the AI trade and equities, despite fears of a bubble and highly concentrated market.

“I’d read it as family offices are more comfortable being more highly allocated to public equities,” said Addepar CEO Eric Poirier. “The increase in public equities was the biggest quarter-on-quarter shift that we’ve seen over the over the course of the last three four years.”

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The CNBC Portfolio Tracker provides a real-time look into the portfolios of single family offices, the private investment arms of wealthy families. While most information on family office investments comes from surveys, Addepar’s data reflects the actual portfolios of hundreds of family offices — aggregated and anonymized — representing a total of more than $1.4 trillion in assets.

The rise in stocks in the second quarter was offset by a pullback in private markets and real estate. Family office holdings of private companies, real estate, private equity, venture capital and private credit dropped by 3 percentage points. They also drew down their cash piles by less than 1 percentage point in the quarter, suggesting a push to put more of their money to work.

While the 3 percentage point swing from alts to stocks is substantial for family offices, and challenges the notion that the richest investors prefer exotic alts over retail-friendly stocks, it was largely the result of market fluctuations rather than active buying and selling. The rally in stock markets in the second quarter — with the S&P 500 up about 15% during the quarter — powered their stock gains. The declines in private market valuations, led by troubles in private credit, brought down their allocations to alts.

Yet family offices are letting their stock allocations grow as a share of their portfolio, rather than rebalancing, suggesting a long-term bullish tilt to stocks. Poirer said the AI trade is likely driving much of the interest.

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“The AI thematic bet is getting so much action and so much activity, and it’s being expressed in large part in public markets versus private markets,” he said.

The top five most commonly held stocks by family offices in the second quarter were Microsoft, owned by 77% of family offices, followed by Amazon and Alphabet (76%), Apple (70%) and Nvidia (69%).

In private markets, family office allocations to alternatives fell to 46% from 49% in the second quarter, the largest drop in years. Addepar said the decline was mainly driven by private credit funds marking down the values of their assets. Fully 18% of recent vintage private credit funds (vintages 2020 or later) have posted markdowns in net asset values, according to Addepar. That compares with an average of 9% in write-downs for private credit funds with vintages of 2016 or later through the first four years of the lifecycle.

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Real estate and venture capital funds also had markdowns, Poirier said.

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“We’re not actually seeing changes in inflows or outflows,” Poirier said. “It’s more just where family offices are marking their private holdings.”

Family office holdings of fixed income held steady at 8%, hedge funds remain at 7% and “other alts,” which includes commodities and collectibles, held at 6%. Their largest investment segment after pubic equities was private companies, at 15% of their portfolios.

Looking ahead to the third quarter CNBC Family Office Portfolio Tracker, Poirier said the big themes to watch will be in interest rates and bonds.

“The rates environment, the fixed income world is very dynamic right now,” he said.

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What does the Meta settlement mean for the UK? Five things we learned

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The UK has its own measures in place to protect children online.

The Online Safety Act mainly put restrictions on what content young people can see online.

But the UK government has gone further than the US ban already.

Earlier this year, it announced an outright social media ban for under-16s, which will take effect in 2027.

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Some other measures will apply to 16 and 17-year-olds, such as curfews and restrictions during certain hours of the day.

The US has to some extent followed the same path: Start by policing the content on the platforms, then move on to restricting access to social media.

But the core difference is children in the US will not be banned completely.

Instead, they will not have access to Facebook and Instagram overnight, have to follow time limits, and there will be prompts for children who use them for a long time.

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Unlike in the UK, these are not put in by law, and will only apply to the two platforms so far (more on that below).

The UK government said it was “following developments closely” in the Meta settlement.

But now those safety features have been accepted by Meta in the US, other countries may start asking for them too.

“These tech platforms don’t usually do anything unless they are told to do it,” said Trevor Johnson, a former senior figure at Meta and TikTok, who spoke to Radio 4’s Today programme.

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“But I do think the UK will feel empowered to at least ask for the same restrictions.”

Another former Meta director, Zvika Krieger, said Meta agreed to the changes because it saw “the writing on the wall”.

“They’re trying to demonstrate, ‘Oh, you don’t need to go and do a complete ban’,” he told 5 Live Breakfast.

“I think that they probably would roll out a lot of these features to the rest of the world as well.”

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I am a CFA Charterholder with over 15 years of experience in global capital markets, having worked across fixed income, equity analysis, structured products, and quantitative analytics at several of the world’s leading financial institutions. My career has given me hands-on experience with the full spectrum of financial analysis — from loan-level mortgage data and CLO tranche modeling to equity valuation, earnings quality assessment, and macroeconomic framework development across multiple market cycles. On Seeking Alpha, my primary focus is fundamental stock analysis grounded in CFA Institute methodology. This means rigorous application of discounted cash flow modeling, comparable company analysis, EV/EBITDA and P/E relative valuation, DuPont decomposition of returns on equity, and earnings quality screening — the same frameworks used by institutional buy-side analysts, not the surface-level price target commentary that dominates most retail finance content. I believe most individual investors are underserved by analysis that stops at headline EPS and price-to-earnings multiples without examining the underlying quality of earnings, capital allocation discipline, balance sheet strength, and competitive positioning that actually drive long-term returns. My stock analysis approach follows a structured three-stage process. First, I screen for businesses with durable competitive advantages — companies with pricing power, high returns on invested capital, and management teams with demonstrated capital allocation discipline. Second, I build a full valuation model using multiple methodologies, stress-testing assumptions across bull, base, and bear scenarios rather than anchoring to a single price target. Third, I assess the macro and sector context — interest rate sensitivity, credit cycle positioning, and industry structure — using the same analytical lens applied on institutional trading desks. My sector interests include financial services, technology, industrials, and dividend-paying equities where balance sheet analysis and cash flow quality are particularly differentiated factors. I have a strong interest in identifying situations where the market misprices companies based on short-term earnings noise rather than long-term intrinsic value — the classic gap between price and value that the CFA curriculum identifies as the foundation of active investing. I hold a Master of Science in Information Systems and have completed advanced coursework in financial valuation, M&A analysis, and financial risk management in addition to the CFA designation. I am also the founder of an AI-powered technology company, which informs my analysis of technology sector companies and the growing intersection of artificial intelligence with business model disruption across industries. My motivation for writing on Seeking Alpha is to bring institutional-grade equity research discipline to individual investors. The CFA curriculum represents hundreds of hours of investment analysis training — I want to put that framework to work in public analysis that goes deeper than most retail-facing content and gives readers a genuine analytical edge rather than recycled consensus views.

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Waist Size, Not BMI, May Better Predict Longevity Risk in Older Adults, New Study Finds, Doctor Explains

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A new study is complicating the long-standing use of body mass index as a measure of health in older adults, finding that waist circumference may offer a more reliable signal of early death risk than the widely used BMI formula.

The research, published Aug. 19 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, found that among adults 65 and older, having a larger waist circumference was linked to a higher risk of early death. But being classified as overweight by BMI was, counterintuitively, associated with a lower risk of early death in the same population — a seemingly contradictory finding that has prompted closer examination from medical experts.

What the study found

Researchers analyzed data from nearly 7,000 adults age 65 and older who were tracked as part of a large, nationally representative study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Participants were followed for up to 14 years, allowing scientists to examine how changes in BMI and waist circumference correlated with mortality risk over time.

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Compared with men whose BMI fell in the normal range, men classified as overweight, with a BMI between 25 and 29.9, had a 46% lower risk of death. Men with class I or II obesity, defined as a BMI between 30 and just under 40, also showed a lower risk of death relative to the normal-BMI group.

Among women, those classified as overweight had a 27% lower risk of death compared with those in the normal BMI range. However, class I or II obesity was not associated with a statistically significant difference in mortality risk for women, and for both men and women with class III obesity, defined as a BMI of 40 or higher, there was no statistically significant difference in mortality risk compared with the normal-BMI group.

The pattern shifted considerably when researchers instead examined waist circumference. Men with a waist circumference greater than 40 inches and women with one greater than 35 inches had a 24% higher risk of early death compared with those below those thresholds — and that elevated risk held up even after researchers statistically accounted for participants’ BMI.

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The findings touch on what researchers sometimes call the “obesity paradox“: the puzzling pattern in which obesity is strongly linked to increased risk of conditions such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes, yet appears associated with lower mortality risk in some older populations.

Dr. Leana Wen, CNN’s wellness expert, an emergency physician and clinical associate professor at George Washington University who previously served as Baltimore’s health commissioner, cautioned against reading the results as evidence that gaining weight is protective in older age. The study’s authors explicitly caution against interpreting the findings as evidence that excess body fat is biologically beneficial, Wen said.

Wen pointed to several possible explanations. One is reverse causation: serious illnesses such as cancer and heart disease can cause people to lose weight, which could make lower body weight appear linked to higher mortality risk when an underlying illness is actually driving both outcomes. A related factor is survivorship bias — people who reach older age despite having obesity may differ in meaningful ways from those who developed obesity-related disease and died earlier in life. Wen also noted that BMI itself may simply be an imperfect measure of body composition.

Why BMI can be misleading with age

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BMI is calculated using only height and weight, without accounting for what actually makes up that weight. Two people of identical height and weight could have very different body compositions — one with substantial muscle mass and relatively little fat, the other with less muscle and more fat — yet register an identical BMI.

That limitation becomes more pronounced with age, according to Wen. Older adults tend to lose muscle mass over time, and can also lose height and experience shifts in where fat is stored on their bodies. As a result, a higher BMI in an older adult could actually reflect greater preservation of lean muscle mass, while someone with a BMI in the “normal” range might have lost substantial muscle while retaining excess body fat — a combination that can leave a person more vulnerable despite an outwardly reassuring number.

Why waist size matters

Fat that accumulates around the waist and deep within the abdomen, often referred to as visceral fat, is associated with inflammation, insulin resistance and other metabolic changes that raise the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Waist circumference offers a simple way to estimate that visceral fat, and Wen said many experts now advocate using waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or direct body fat measurements alongside BMI when assessing whether someone has overweight or obesity.

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Measuring waist circumference requires no specialized equipment, allowing people to track it at home using a simple tape measure placed around the abdomen, between the bottom of the ribs and the top of the hip bones, kept level and snug without compressing the skin.

The risks of being underweight

The study also identified a particularly elevated mortality risk among older adults who were underweight, with men and women in that category facing nearly double the risk of early death compared with those in the normal BMI range. Wen said this finding aligns with known risks tied to frailty, since older adults depend on muscle strength to perform daily activities, maintain mobility and reduce their risk of falls. Someone losing weight due to muscle loss could become more vulnerable even as their BMI moves toward a range conventionally considered healthier. Still, Wen cautioned that being underweight may often be a consequence of poor health rather than its cause, since chronic disease can itself drive unintentional weight and muscle loss.

What older adults should focus on instead

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Rather than fixating on a specific weight or BMI target, Wen recommended that older adults prioritize overall health and physical function — including the ability to perform everyday tasks independently, maintain muscle strength, and stay physically active through a mix of aerobic exercise and strength training, along with adequate protein intake.

She also advised paying attention to changes over time rather than single measurements: an expanding waistline can signal rising abdominal fat even when overall weight and BMI remain largely unchanged, while unexplained weight loss should prompt a conversation with a healthcare provider. Wen recommended that older adults discuss with their doctors what a healthy weight looks like for them individually, incorporating not just BMI but body composition, fat distribution, physical function, and metrics such as blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol.

This story touches on health and mortality-related research; readers experiencing concerns about their own weight, health or mental wellbeing are encouraged to speak with a licensed healthcare provider.

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Good morning, everyone, in Europe. Good afternoon to those in Asia. Thank you for joining Jinhui Shipping and Transportation Limited Q2 and First Half 2026 financial results. Can everyone hear me? Sorry, there are other people joining, so I’ll accept…

I trust that you’ve all had a look at the financial results announcement, and you have a copy, and I’ve shared the presentation on the screen. So going through the highlights of current quarter. For Q2, we recorded USD 36 million for revenue, EBITDA of USD 17 million and a net profit for the quarter, USD 5 million. Basic earnings per share, USD 0.048 for Q2. For the first half of 2026, we recorded a revenue of USD 69 million, EBITDA of USD 34 million, a net profit of $10 million, basic earnings per share, 0.088 and a gearing ratio as of the end of June, 7%.

Compared to Q2 2025, Q2 2026 recorded a slight decrease. This should be a 9% decrease. This should be quite apparent because we — there’s a reduction in the number of ships we sold some secondhand ships. Net profit, $5.3 million in Q2 2026, which represents a 374% quarter-on-quarter increase. Average daily TCE stands in Q2 2026, USD 18,015 per day, which is a 30% increase compared to Q2 2025 number. For the first half, first half 2026 revenue compared to first half 2025 is a 13% drop. Again, this is due to the lower number of vessels in our fleet, given that we’ve sold some. Net profit, $9.6 million, 37% drop compared to the first half of 2025.

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