Kristina Nissen is a CFA® charterholder with eight years of experience at Trinexus Capital, LLC. She began her career independently before joining Trinexus in 2018 and also worked with Ellie and June, LLC from 2016 to 2018. Trinexus Capital provides investment management services to individuals and institutional clients, including family offices, endowments, and pensions. The firm employs a combination of quantitative and fundamental analysis using proprietary factor models to actively manage equity strategies across various market segments.

Jack Donius is an Investment Consultant at Fidelity Investments. He partners with clients to build, implement, and monitor comprehensive financial plans. He joined Fidelity Investments in 2021 and has held several roles including Customer Relationship Advocate, High Net Worth Service Associate, Financial Representative, and currently, Planning Consultant. This progression reflects his experience in client service and financial planning within the firm. Outside of his professional work, Jack enjoys social events with friends, playing golf, watching movies, and reading.

Robert Wofchuck is a CFP® professional at Ledgewood Wealth Advisors, LLC with 23 years of industry experience. He has been with Ledgewood Wealth Advisors since 2005. Ledgewood Wealth Advisors serves individuals, trusts, estates, and business entities with portfolio management and financial planning services. The firm employs fundamental analysis and continuous monitoring, using both discretionary and non-discretionary accounts, and may incorporate active investment techniques based on client objectives and risk tolerance.

Patrick Dichter is a financial advisor at Appletree Financial Services LLC with a Series 65 credential and one year of industry experience. He has previously worked at Cultivate Advisors and RevLocal, and since 2021 has been involved with Appletree Business Services. Appletree Financial Services is a fee-only registered investment adviser serving individuals, high-net-worth clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm offers discretionary investment management, comprehensive financial planning, and retirement plan consulting, employing both passive and active strategies guided by Modern Portfolio Theory and tailored client preferences.

Rosemarie Connolly is the principal advisor at Connolly Financial Advisors, Inc. in Havertown, PA, holding CFP® certification and Series 63 and 65 licenses, with 23 years of experience in financial advising. She also operates a CPA practice providing tax and accounting services to individuals and various business entities. Connolly Financial Advisors offers wealth management, investment advisory, and comprehensive financial planning primarily for individual clients, as well as trusts, estates, charitable organizations, business entities, and retirement plans. The firm manages client portfolios on a non-discretionary basis through a manager-of-managers structure using the SEI Private Trust Company platform.

Frank Sabin is a CFA® charterholder with 20 years of industry experience and has been with BlueLine Advisors since 2012. He holds a Series 63 license and teaches courses at Southern New Hampshire University outside of his advisory role. BlueLine Advisors provides fee-based investment advisory and wealth management services to individual clients, retirement plans, trusts, estates, and business entities. The firm employs a discretionary portfolio management approach using strategic and tactical asset allocation with a focus on ETFs and mutual funds, and it also serves as a sub-advisor and service provider to other advisers and plan sponsors.

Jonathan Hahn is a financial advisor at NorthStar Capital Inc with one year of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has prior work experience including service in the United States Army and roles at automotive companies BMW and Toyota. NorthStar Capital serves wealthy individuals, families, and selected institutional accounts with discretionary management of long-only portfolios focused on long-term growth equity. The firm emphasizes fundamental research and regularly reviews client accounts, managing approximately $104.1 million in discretionary assets.

Lawrence Sarkozy is a financial advisor at Ledgewood Wealth Advisors, LLC with five years of industry experience. He holds the Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has been with Ledgewood Wealth Advisors since 2010. Ledgewood Wealth Advisors serves individuals, including high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, and business entities by providing portfolio management and financial planning services. The firm uses fundamental analysis and continuous monitoring to implement client allocations, employing both discretionary and non-discretionary strategies tailored to client objectives and risk tolerance.

Rachel Decarolis is a CFP® and Series 65-registered advisor with 11 years of industry experience. She has worked at Northstar Financial Planning, LLC since 2020 and previously at Northstar Financial Planning, Inc. and Perennial Advisors Group, LLC. Northstar Financial Planning advises individual clients, including high-net-worth households, and provides consulting services to employer-sponsored retirement plans. The firm employs a strategic asset-allocation approach combining passive ETFs with selected active managers and integrates technology such as Betterment Advisor Solutions to support automated portfolio management and reporting.

Katherine Adams is a financial advisor with Summit Wealth Group LLC, holding a Series 66 designation and bringing 24 years of industry experience. She has been with Summit Wealth Group since 2016. Summit Wealth Group LLC provides personalized financial life planning and wealth management services to individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, foundations, pensions, and corporations. The firm integrates portfolio management with ongoing financial planning, tax preparation, and consulting, employing client-specific investment policies and occasionally using tactical investment tools and artificial-intelligence platforms for research.

Robin Young is a CFP® professional with 22 years of experience in financial advising. He has been with Northstar Financial Planning since 2003, working first at Northstar Financial Planning, Inc. and then at Northstar Financial Planning, LLC since 2020. Northstar Financial Planning serves individual clients, including high-net-worth households, and provides advisory and consulting services to employer-sponsored retirement plans. The firm employs a strategic asset-allocation, core-and-satellite approach that combines passive ETFs with selected active managers, and integrates third-party technology such as Betterment Advisor Solutions to support automated rebalancing and tax-loss harvesting.

Abigail Hurlburt is a CFP® with 26 years of experience, currently serving at Summit Wealth Group LLC and Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments since 2016. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and is based in Exeter, NH. Outside of her advisory role, she serves on the boards of the Weston Playhouse Theatre Group and Upper Valley Hostel, contributing to organizational management and business decisions. Summit Wealth Group LLC provides personalized financial life planning and wealth management to individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, foundations, pensions, and corporations. The firm combines portfolio management with tax planning and consulting services, employing written investment policies, discretionary account management, and tactical tools tailored to client risk tolerances.

Paul Pignone is a financial advisor with Beck Bode LLC in Dedham, MA, holding the CFP®, ChFC®, and Series 63 designations and bringing 25 years of industry experience. He has worked with Beck Bode Wealth Management since 2018 and Boston Retirement Advisors since 1996. Beck Bode provides discretionary investment management, financial planning, and pension consulting to individuals, families, and retirement plans. The firm uses fundamental analysis and proprietary Growth and Income Growth strategies, including dividend-paying equities in the utilities sector, to tailor investment decisions according to client goals and risk tolerance.

Julie Fortin is a CFP® professional with 10 years of industry experience. She has been with Northstar Financial Planning since 2016, initially at Northstar Financial Planning, Inc., and continuing at Northstar Financial Planning, LLC since 2020. Northstar Financial Planning serves individual clients, including high-net-worth households, and provides advisory and consulting services to employer-sponsored retirement plans. The firm uses a strategic asset-allocation approach combining passive ETFs with selected active managers, and integrates third-party technology such as Betterment Advisor Solutions to support automated rebalancing, tax-loss harvesting, and consolidated reporting.

Kyle La Sella is a Series 65-registered advisor with Rise North Capital Investment Advisors and has one year of industry experience. Prior to his current role, he worked at Foundations Investment Advisors LLC and has experience as an insurance and annuities agent reviewing and proposing client solutions. He has also worked in the hospitality industry and was a full-time student for eight years. Rise North Capital Investment Advisors provides discretionary asset management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and business entities, with a unique co-advisor operating model and a focus on ongoing portfolio reviews and educational workshops.

Alexa Darbe is a CFP® professional with 18 years of industry experience, currently serving at Northstar Financial Planning, LLC since 2020. Prior to this, she worked at Northstar Financial Planning, Inc. for 13 years. Northstar Financial Planning advises individual clients, including high-net-worth households, and provides advisory and consulting services to employer-sponsored retirement plans. The firm employs a strategic asset-allocation approach that combines passive ETFs with selected active managers and integrates technology solutions such as Betterment Advisor Solutions to support automated rebalancing and tax-loss harvesting.

Sarah Brookes Governo is a financial advisor at Summit Wealth Group LLC in Exeter, NH, with 12 years of industry experience. She holds Series 65 and Series 66 licenses and has been with Summit Wealth Group since 2015. Summit Wealth Group LLC provides personalized Financial Life Planning and wealth management services to individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, foundations, pensions, and corporations. The firm integrates portfolio management with ongoing financial planning and offers tax preparation and tax-planning services on a subscription basis.

I was hanging on every word… It was a beautiful spring day in Palo Alto in 1996. My Modern Portfolio Theory professor – Nobel laureate Bill Sharpe – was explaining the “illusion of stock picking skill” and the idea that stock pickers as a group lose big to the stock market as a whole. I remember closing my eyes and taking it all in. Was it possible that a several hundred billion dollar industry was just harming investors? That the whole thing was built on an illusion? Even a lie? I was just entranced. (It turns out I caught a brief glimpse of my true calling that day, but it would be another 17 years before I actually took concrete steps to become a financial advisor.) But then the class ended, and I went back to the business of graduating from Stanford Business School. I headed back to consulting for a couple years, and then co-founded a dot com. But in 2003, I ended up in awkward position. An awkward position that ultimately lead me to my true calling. I had accepted the position of Publisher & Chief Marketing Officer at The Motley Fool, the personal finance website. I loved the people, and rocked the job. But something was wrong. You see, one of my responsibilities was to convince millions of investors that we had superior stock picking skills. There was just one problem with this – I didn’t believe it. Beliefs are a funny thing. I came to believe back in 1996 that stock picking skills are an illusion, and that belief had just stuck. And I couldn’t unstick it. I eventually left The Fool with mixed feelings. I was proud of our commercial success, and my role in that. But I also felt like I had betrayed my beliefs. It wasn’t a good feeling. I tried jobs in other industries, but something kept pulling me back to investing and personal finance. And then it finally hit me. I knew what I was meant to do, and I set out to form my financial advisory firm, Clark Asset Management, LLC. Now I get to help people directly, and do it in a way that’s 100% consistent with my beliefs. I get to leverage a career’s worth of skills in financial planning and analysis, problem solving and client communication. And I get to do my part to help transform an often shady industry into a helping profession. It’s awesome. …if you’d like to learn more, I encourage you to download one of my complimentary guides or schedule a complimentary phone consultation.

Erik Potts is a CFP® with 23 years of industry experience, currently serving as an advisor at Summit Wealth Group LLC since 2021. His prior work includes roles at Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments and Panorama Wealth Strategies, among others. Outside of financial advising, he is involved in managing an auto dealership and aviation-related businesses. Summit Wealth Group LLC provides financial life planning and wealth management services to individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, foundations, pensions, and corporations. The firm combines portfolio management with ongoing financial and tax planning, employing client-specific investment strategies and third-party managers, and integrates in-house tax preparation alongside investment advice.

Lucas Gagne is a Series 65-licensed advisor with Affinity Investment Group, LLC, where he has worked for three years. His prior experience includes roles at Channel Building Company, Inc., and the University of Vermont. He is also an independent insurance agent, dedicating a portion of his time to this activity outside of his advisory work. Affinity Investment Group serves individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities by providing investment management and financial planning. The firm employs a strategic asset-allocation, core-and-satellite approach using no-load or load-waived mutual funds and passive ETFs as the core, supplemented with actively managed funds.