2025 Tariffs Market Commentary

How Does the Stock Market Perform After Declines?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

The stock market has taken a bit of a tumble recently. Interestingly enough, almost exactly a year ago, the stock...
Topics: Investing, Market

How Are You Using Your Income?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

When you make money, it can only go to four places. You can pay taxes. You can pay down debt....
Topics: Income

Investing Lessons From March Madness

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

Just as March Madness rolls around each year, so does this article. I share it every year because I think...
Topics: Investing

The Luckier You Are, The Nicer You Should Be

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

I’ve been thinking about the role that luck plays in our lives recently, and wanted to revisit a story I...
Topics: Behavioral Finance

Stop Complaining About Gas Prices

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

With President Trump’s strikes on Iran and the widening war across the Middle East, a lot of people are understandably...
Topics: Finance 101, Market

The Next Big AI Company?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

How difficult is it to pick the best-performing stocks? Well, it seems like pretty much everyone is on the hunt...
Topics: Market

Is Life More Expensive Today?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

One of the cool things about the internet is that you can occasionally find a nifty tool that makes complex...
Topics: Finance 101

What Game Are You Playing?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

Kevin O’Leary is a Canadian businessman who has had a ton of success in his career. He founded a software...
Topics: Behavioral Finance

What I’m Into

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

It’s been a while, so here’s another post about some of my favorite things I’ve watched, listened to, or read...
Topics: Work Life Balance

On Silver and Diversification

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the best-performing asset classes of 2025. Emerging markets took the top spot,...
Topics: Market

Do You Really Need to Buy a House?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

I was in Disneyland this past week with my family, so I didn’t have time to write something new. However,...
Topics: Real Estate

What Was The Best Investment in 2025?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

Each year, Ben Carlson updates his asset allocation quilt chart, detailing the performance of different market segments from the previous...
Topics: Investing