Wherever you're headed, we're right beside you.

After spending 12 years with some of the world’s biggest financial services firms, Jim Hemphill and David Burd had gathered extensive experience and a number of loyal clients, but they’d also grown wary of an industry that was wading deeper into convoluted products and strategies and farther away from people.

Jim and David simply wanted to work with a firm that didn’t let its own bottom line get in the way of doing what was best for its clients. So in 1990, they built it themselves, and they called it TGS Financial Advisors.

Today, TGS is an independent Registered Investment Advisor focused on helping high-net-worth individuals and families make the most of the complexities of wealth by simplifying it. Our team provides fee-based, discretionary investment management and financial planning services at four distinct levels – basic, enhanced, custom and concierge.

In the years since Jim and David founded the firm, we’ve been proud to serve a distinctive, growing group of high-net-worth clients, and we’d be proud to count you among them.

What’s in a name?

Twenty years ago, two guys who’d graduated from Swarthmore College started a financial advisory practice and gave it a simple, if slightly mysterious name. Then the firm grew. Fortunately, “three” also starts with a “T,” and Two Guys from Swarthmore happily became Three Guys from Swarthmore, or TGS Financial Advisors.