Market Review

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

Do Trump Accounts Stink?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

This is a text I got from a friend a few days ago: “Jake, write an article next week on...
Topics: Finance 101, Investing

Should You Invest in 2026?

By Jake Elm, CFP®, Financial Advisor

Happy New Year! I hope all of your goals and resolutions are off to a strong start. via GIPHY Before...
Topics: Investing, Market

What I’m Into – Best of 2025

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. In what has become a fun tradition for me, I’m ready to...
Topics: Work Life Balance

Is Inflation Ruining Our Lives?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

Gallup conducts a survey each year asking Americans their biggest financial concern: As you can see, starting in 2022, worries...
Topics: Economy, Finance 101

The 3 Types of Investment Accounts

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

Let’s revisit some investment account basics, shall we? The more conversations I have about investing, the more I realize the...
Topics: Retirement Plans