Bryan Barth is the principal advisor at Barth Capital LLC in Boston, MA, holding a Series 66 designation with 14 years of industry experience. He has led Barth Capital since 2014. Outside of his advisory role, he is also involved in photography services as the principal photographer for Barth Real Estate Photo. Barth Capital provides discretionary investment management to high-net-worth individuals, trusts, and various institutional clients. The firm employs a multi-strategy, market-timing absolute-return approach utilizing equities, fixed income, closed-end funds, ETFs, and derivatives, with an emphasis on both long and short positions and active trading.

Matthew Breuer is a financial advisor at Bowditch Advisory Services, LP in Boston, MA, holding a Series 65 credential with three years of industry experience. He has worked at Bowditch Advisory Services since 2021 and is also a software developer for Close Reach Investment Systems, a financial software company he has been involved with since 2013. Bowditch Advisory Services provides discretionary investment management and financial planning to a small set of high-net-worth clients, including individuals, families, trusts, and small businesses. The firm employs a client-centric separately managed account approach that integrates quantitative equity models with systematic futures trading and offers options overlays and actively managed futures strategies.

Alan Hoffman is the sole advisor at Hoffman, Alan N. Investment Management, holding a Series 65 license with 24 years of industry experience. He has worked at Pearson since 2011 and served as a tenured professor and textbook author at Bentley University for 32 years. His outside activities include authoring textbooks for Pearson. Hoffman, Alan N. Investment Management is an independent, single-advisor firm founded in 1995 that provides discretionary asset management to individuals and high-net-worth clients. The firm focuses on large-cap growth equity investing using fundamental analysis and long-term purchase strategies tailored to client objectives and risk tolerance.

James Murray is a CFP® and holds a Series 66 license with 16 years of industry experience. He has been the principal advisor at Jadim Wealth Management, LLC since 2009. Outside of his advisory role, he is a managing member of Cobalt Archive, LLC, a web archiving platform. Jadim Wealth Management provides investment management, financial planning, and pension consulting services to individuals, corporations, and pension plans. The firm employs both fundamental and technical analysis and offers a range of active and passive portfolio strategies tailored through an Investment Policy Statement.

If I asked you how to drive from Boston to Florida, you would probably tell me it’s a lot easier to get there with a map or GPS. Now what if I asked you how to get from here to… retirement? Financial planning is like a road map for your future. With a holistic perspective, we dive into every aspect of your financial situation, ensuring that no opportunity for growth or security is overlooked, and we put together a plan to help you realize your dreams. Then, we help monitor your progress, like a financial GPS, as you navigate traffic along the way, or choose to stop at a few scenic overlooks. I began my career in Corporate Finance, but my passion for personal planning was sparked when I realized that I missed a few financial opportunities in my own life. In the early years, between work and building a family, time is at a premium. While my husband and I had interest in managing our financial lives, we didn’t have the time to be intentional about it. Working with a financial professional would have been beneficial, but at the time, we didn’t know how to afford it, who to trust, or where to seek qualified advice. So, I decided to become the person we were seeking. In 2017, I started pursuit of the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification, which requires a fiduciary oath to always put my clients’ best interests first. I founded Ascend Financial in 2023 because I believe financial planning should be accessible. At Ascend, we have no asset minimums. Our typical client is in their career-building phase, seeking advice on managing a lot of big-ticket expenses, and trying to maximize their opportunities for savings and retirement. In addition to comprehensive financial planning and investment management services, we also provide college funding analysis and student loan planning. Knowing that education is often one of the largest expenses a family incurs, we prioritize our skills in navigating the complex and ever-changing landscape of student loan and financial aid programs. At Ascend, we help clients organize their financial lives, dream about their goals, and analyze the what-if situations that come up. Our goal is to make sure that you see the opportunities that lie ahead, instead of noticing them in the rear-view mirror.

Annette Sun is a financial advisor with SW Private Wealth, LLC, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 23 years of industry experience. She has worked at Livingston & Haynes Investment Advisors and Tanager Financial Services before joining her current firm in 2017. SW Private Wealth is a small, independent registered investment adviser serving individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm offers tailored investment management and financial planning, utilizing both passive and active investment strategies, with a focus on non-discretionary client relationships and assets-under-advisement services.

John Foley is a financial advisor at Harvest Capital Management, LLC in Quincy, MA, with 15 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has been with 2.0 Capital Management, LLC since 2014. Harvest Capital Management provides wealth management and discretionary investment management to individuals, high net worth clients, trusts, and estates. The firm employs a combination of a dynamic Global All Asset ETF strategy and a catalyst-driven Health Care/Biotech equity strategy, incorporating the routine use of options to generate income and manage portfolio positions.

Nathanael Brayton is the sole advisor at Nathanael R. Brayton, CFA, an independent firm based in Boston, MA. He holds the CFA designation and has 30 years of industry experience, having operated his own practice since 1991. Outside of financial advising, he serves as a non-management director for a specialty chemicals company. The firm provides discretionary portfolio management and non-discretionary investment advice to individuals, high-net-worth clients, families, IRAs, and personal or family trusts. Its investment approach is bottom-up and valuation-focused, primarily utilizing individual publicly traded securities with occasional use of mutual funds, ETFs, and derivatives for hedging.

Christopher Kondracki is the principal and sole advisor at Kondracki Advisory, LLC, an independent registered investment adviser based in Hingham, MA. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 13 years of industry experience, operating his firm since 2012. Kondracki is also a licensed insurance agent and occasionally offers insurance products to clients. Kondracki Advisory, LLC manages approximately $70 million for around 186 clients, providing discretionary investment supervisory services and tailored portfolio management that includes equities, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, and insurance products. The firm uses fundamental analysis with both long- and short-term trading strategies and serves individual and charitable organization clients.

Planning for what's NEXT My goal as a Financial Planner with NEXTEN FP, is to partner with you in building towards your vision for the Next Ten years. Why the Next Ten? Looking ahead ten years offers a motivating perspective. It is close enough to inspire action, while allowing time for progress. We meet you where you are so that you can move forward confidently in planning for where you want to go. Our Planning Process At NEXTEN FP, we build relationships that clients value with our LEAP process: -> Listening: To your story and the journey that brought you here. -> Exploring: Your goals for the life you are building. -> Aligning: Your wealth through a collaborative, goals-based planning process. -> Progressing: Together, offering guidance and support along the way. Focused on your next ten years, we operate with a less is more philosophy, distilling planning topics to their core so that you can see, plan and act with clarity. You can expect focused language and clear visuals designed to engage you before giving your attention back to what matters most. Who We Serve We work with individuals and families who want to be more intentional with their wealth, supporting their vision for the decade ahead. If you are ready to start planning, we provide fee-only expertise to help you in moving forward.

Brian McGivern is a financial advisor with Stonestreet Financial, Inc., holding a Series 66 designation and 18 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Stonestreet Financial in 2017, he worked at Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc. and Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. He is also president of CFO Strategies Inc., which provides QuickBooks training, and serves as a business development consultant and accountant for Brenda J. McGivern, P.C., a CPA firm. Stonestreet Financial serves individual and high-net-worth clients as well as pension and profit-sharing plans, offering portfolio management, financial planning, and pension consulting services. The firm utilizes a goals-based investment process with both discretionary and non-discretionary arrangements, and it has a focus on pension consulting and employer plans.

David Trott is the sole advisor at Aragorn Ltd., an independent firm based in Milton, MA. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 21 years of industry experience. In addition to his financial advisory work, he is the president and owner of a law firm that provides tax, business, and estate planning services. Aragorn Ltd. offers financial planning, consulting, and discretionary investment management to individuals and a variety of institutional clients, including pension plans, trusts, and charitable organizations. The firm customizes portfolios based on clients’ risk tolerance and time horizon, employing fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis to allocate assets across multiple categories.

Brent Garcia is a CFA® charterholder with 22 years of industry experience. He has been the sole advisor at Broadwater Capital Management LLC since 2002. Broadwater Capital Management provides discretionary investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, charitable entities, small institutions, and personal corporations. The firm creates customized portfolios using both fundamental and technical analysis, managing investments with a long-term orientation while retaining flexibility for shorter-term trades based on client needs and market conditions.

Stephen Gorman is the principal advisor at Gorman Financial Management in Hingham, MA, with 32 years of industry experience. He has served at his firm since 1992. Gorman Financial Management provides fee-only comprehensive personal financial planning, investment monitoring, and financial consulting for individual clients and families. The firm focuses on a Modern Portfolio Theory approach using pooled investment vehicles and does not accept discretionary authority over client accounts.

Robert Hurley is the sole advisor at Investor Resources Inc in Boston, MA, where he has provided financial advisory services since 1996. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 29 years of industry experience. Investor Resources Inc offers financial planning, investment consultations, and portfolio management primarily through selecting and monitoring third-party managers and model portfolios. The firm serves individuals, families, and small businesses, operating on a fee-only basis with a manager-of-managers approach and limited discretionary authority focused on account rebalancing.

Juan Garcia is a financial advisor at Holistic Capital in Boston, MA, holding Series 63, 65, and 66 licenses with nine years of industry experience. He previously worked at Morgan Stanley and Eaton Vance, including roles at Eaton Vance Distributors and Eaton Vance Management. Holistic Capital provides non-discretionary investment advisory services to individuals, high net worth clients, trusts, estates, businesses, and retirement plans. The firm employs a risk-managed approach combining quantitative and fundamental analysis with tailored asset allocation and offers a range of strategies across equities, fixed income, alternatives, and outside managers.

David Quinn is a financial advisor with Targeted Equity Consulting Group in Scituate, MA. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 24 years of industry experience, including 15 years at Stifel Nicolaus & Company. Outside of his advisory role, he is involved with 3Step Sports LLC. Targeted Equity Consulting Group provides portfolio management and pension consulting services to pension and profit-sharing plans, high-net-worth individuals, and business entities. The firm focuses on equities and non-U.S. securities, using a combination of fundamental, quantitative, technical, and cyclical analysis alongside long- and short-term strategies.

Charles Hoilman is a financial advisor with MHA Financial Corp in Westwood, MA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and over 55 years of industry experience. He has been with MHA Financial Corp since 1977 and is also involved with Four Points Capital Partners LLC, New Frontier Partners LLC, and M&A Counselors and Fiduciaries LLC. Outside of his advisory work, he serves as an attorney at M&A Counselors and Fiduciaries LLC and is involved in managing real estate investments through New Frontier Partners LLC. MHA Financial Corp provides personalized financial planning and portfolio management to individuals, trusts, estates, and small businesses. The firm employs a core-and-satellite investment approach combining passively managed index and ETF core holdings with actively managed funds and individual securities, and offers both discretionary and non-discretionary advisory services.

Joseph McCarthy is a CFP® with 43 years of industry experience, currently serving as an advisor at AFG Fiduciary Services. He has worked at Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Inc. and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC. In addition to his advisory role, he is involved in selling fixed income annuities and insurance. AFG Fiduciary Services provides discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advisory services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, families, trusts, businesses, and retirement plans. The firm employs a primarily long-term, fundamental-analysis investment approach and offers tailored, holistic engagement solutions.

Stephen Carluccio is a financial advisor at Mad River Investors in Boston, MA, holding a Series 65 designation with 19 years of industry experience. He has been with Mad River Investors since 2012 and concurrently operates SCC Legal and Business Services, where he provides a small amount of outside legal work for former clients with employer approval. Mad River Investors offers discretionary investment management to individuals, high-net-worth clients, companies, trusts, and institutional clients. The firm uses an opportunistic, concentrated equity-oriented approach with a long-term, contrarian focus, managing portfolios typically consisting of 20–25 positions and including diverse asset types such as options and digital assets.