Elad Nahum

Founder & CEO, Guardfolio | Portfolio Risk & Fintech Contributor

Personal

• Name: Elad Nahum
• Location: Israel
• Author Role: Fintech and portfolio-risk contributor

Education and Work

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Economics
• Graduate Education: Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• Job Title: Founder & CEO
• Company/Organization: Guardfolio
• Professional Background: Full-stack technical founder with more than 15 years of experience building software products and systems.
• Markets Background: More than 17 years of personal investing and portfolio-analysis experience, with a focus on stocks, ETFs, diversification, and long-term portfolio construction.

Investing Profile

• Investing Style: Long-term, research-driven, and risk-aware
• Areas of Expertise: Portfolio construction, ETF overlap, concentration risk, sector exposure, diversification, allocation drift, brokerage-account aggregation, and fintech
• Favorite Instruments: Broad-market ETFs, sector ETFs, U.S. equities, and diversified multi-account portfolios

About

Elad Nahum is the Founder and CEO of Guardfolio, a portfolio monitoring platform built for self-directed investors. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and an MBA, combining formal business and economic education with extensive experience in software, fintech, and investing.

With more than 17 years of personal investing experience and over 15 years in software development, Elad focuses on the intersection of technology, investing, and portfolio risk. His work centers on challenges that many self-directed investors face across multiple brokerage accounts: hidden ETF overlap, concentrated exposure, sector risk, duplicated holdings, and allocation drift.

Through Guardfolio, Elad works on tools that help investors better understand what they truly own and monitor portfolio-level risk without encouraging unnecessary trading. He writes about portfolio construction, diversification, ETFs, investor behavior, financial technology, and practical frameworks for evaluating investment risk.