Rachel's Bio
Rachel Elson, CFP® (she/her) is a wealth advisor at Perigon Wealth Management, providing full-service financial planning and wealth management services. Her clients tend to be in their 30s and 40s, many of them tech industry employees in San Francisco, Brooklyn and Seattle.
Before joining Perigon, she was a longtime personal finance journalist – most recently as the No. 2 editor at MONEY, but also at Financial Planning magazine, CBS MoneyWatch, and MSN Money.
Rachel serves on the board of So Percussion and is a frequent volunteer with Project Open Hand and Habitat for Humanity. She graduated from University of Pennsylvania and is a San Francisco resident, a longtime runner and cyclist, and a voracious consumer of music, theater, and other arts.
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Rachel's Latest Insights
Invitation: How to Talk Money With Your Family
For many of us, money is a taboo subject within the family. But financial conversations can also be important and even necessary. What do existing estate plans look like? Do older generations intend to contribute to grandkids’ college or wedding bills or give everything to charity? Do family elders have enough to support themselves without family assistance? Do we need to add “financial support to parents” to our own financial plan?
Inflation! Recession! Market Volatility! OH MY! How do we handle scary economic news?
The news – coming at us from every channel, broadcast, blog, or tweet – can sound scary and grim. Inflation, potential recession, rapidly rising interest rates, the wildly gyrating stock market … It’s enough to make us want to tune out the news completely or throw our investment statements in the shredder unopened.
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Stock Market But Were Afraid to Ask
Join Perigon for our next Women's Conversation Circle. BY: Rachel Elson, Mary Ballin, Andrea Hamilton, and Anne SappDate: Thursday, February 24, 2022Where: Online via Zoom – we'll send out a conference link the week of the circleTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Pacific TimeRSVP:...