Wealth builds different tomorrows. Three generations of a Monterrey family enterprise reviewing plans, Cerro de la Silla in the background.

Tailor-made wealth and risk architecture for entrepreneurs, families and Family Offices in Mexico.

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A first conversation is designed to determine fit — not to recommend a product.

Our Approach

Not every situation
requires a new structure.

Sometimes what a family or company already has is doing exactly what it should.

If that is the case, we will say so.

Our first responsibility is to determine whether there is a problem worth solving.

Selective by fit.Personal by design.
  • What should continue to grow?
  • What should remain liquid?
  • Which risks should you keep?
  • Which risks could be transferred?
A senior entrepreneur in discussion with family members and advisors, Monterrey skyline behind.
Who We Work With

How Family Offices think

Not every peso should have the same job.

Growth

Businesses. Real estate. Investments.

Liquidity

Opportunity. Flexibility. Optionality.

Risk Transfer

Transfer selected risks to another balance sheet.

Succession

Create structure and liquidity for the next generation.

Capital allocation is also risk allocation.
Family Office · Private Wealth

We don't replace
what makes you wealthy.

Businesses, real estate and investments already have a job: to create and grow wealth.

We address a different part of the balance sheet.

  • Strategic Risk Transfer
  • Legacy Liquidity
  • Limited-Pay Capital Architecture
  • Succession
  • Wealth Preservation
Private boardroom, marble table, Monterrey.
Business Continuity

The business should
outlive the people
it depends on.

Businesses insure buildings, equipment and inventory.

The harder question is: what happens when enterprise value depends on a specific person — the founder, a partner, or the next generation already running it?

  • Key Person Risk
  • Shareholder Continuity
  • Business Succession
  • Executive Risk
  • Liquidity for Transition
  • Tax-Aware Structures

Structures designed with applicable tax and legal requirements in mind. Subject to applicable legal, fiscal, underwriting and contractual requirements.

Risk Transfer

Why fund
every risk
with your own capital?

A strong balance sheet gives you the ability to retain risk. That does not mean you should retain all of it.

Total Family Wealth at the center. Growth, Liquidity, Succession and Risk Transfer around it. Retained risk stays with the family; transferred risk moves to a third party.
Your investments are there to grow.This part of the architecture has a different job.
If a risk can be transferred,why automatically retain 100% of it?
Institutional Risk Transfer MetLife

Where appropriate, selected risk-transfer structures are issued and supported contractually by institutional insurance counterparties such as MetLife México.

The insurer issuing and contractually supporting the corresponding structure is MetLife México, subject to underwriting, terms and conditions. S&P Global Ratings rates the corresponding credit strength only.

S&P Global Ratings mxAAA / Stable ↗

MetLife México reports the maximum national-scale rating mxAAA / Stable, ratified by S&P Global Ratings.

Rodrigo Ibáñez, Founder & Wealth Strategist, The Riba Wealth Management.
Leadership

Led by
Rodrigo Ibáñez

Founder & Wealth Strategist
20 years
Industry Experience
10 years
2×
Court of the Table
2×
MetLife National Champion
2024 · 2025

We understand
how entrepreneurs think.

Because the conversation is rarely about buying a product. It is about capital, control, liquidity, risk — and what happens next.

I don't work backwards from a product.I start with the balance sheet, the family and the risks that actually matter.

The question in a first conversation is not what to buy. It is whether there is anything we should change at all.

Private Review

You've already
built the wealth.Let's decide what it should and should not have to carry.

A private review begins with one question:
Is there actually something worth changing?

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Confidential. Your request goes directly to rodrigo@theribagroup.com.

Torre VAO2, San Pedro Garza García
Office
Torre VAO2 · 14th FloorSan Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, México
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