Losing a fortune can come down to one thing - family

San Francisco

ONE of Frances Stroh's earliest lessons about wealth involved a game she played as a six-year-old with her father: how to not be kidnapped.

Ms Stroh would stand outside the family's six-bedroom Spanish Mediterranean home in the manicured Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe in 1973 as her father, Eric Stroh, pretended to be a stranger as he drove by in his silver Chrysler, waving a chocolate bar as temptation and beckoning her to the car.