Commerce City, CO Office

Elm3 serves individuals and families—including high‑net‑worth clients—as well as trusts, estates and small businesses, providing discretionary portfolio management, ongoing investment advice, financial planning, and stand‑alone consulting such as Social Security planning. The firm offers both ongoing investment management and one‑time or hourly financial planning engagements.

The firm describes an active, multi‑disciplinary investment approach that combines top‑down macro, technical and fundamental analysis with both short‑term trading tools (short positions, options, and ETFs for hedging and sector rotation) and a diversified long‑term core allocation that includes individual bonds and equities to enhance tax efficiency and avoid fee layering. Elm3 monitors accounts regularly and emphasizes tax‑aware portfolio construction and opportunistic trading alongside patient, core wealth‑building positions and some exposure to alternatives.

Elm3 is notable for its formal affiliation with a separate tax and accounting business created in 2022, to which the firm may refer clients for tax preparation, tax planning, and small‑business accounting services (the affiliate is paid on an hourly basis), a relationship the firm discloses as a potential conflict of interest. The firm also requires clients to custody assets through Fidelity’s institutional platform and describes operational practices such as block trading and custodian‑debited advisory fees, which may affect trade execution and reporting.