About

What is a Saeculum?

The Name & The Mission

“Saecula” roughly means generations. A single “Saeculum” is a period of time corresponding to the average human life. Our lifetimes, like nature, can be divided into seasons: adolescence, early adulthood, midlife, and elderhood. We believe society and markets exhibit a similar rhythm.

Our singular focus is to help you navigate not only the cycles and changes of your life but those of society and markets through ongoing and comprehensive financial planning integrated with investment management.

Don’t seek to outperform, outlast.

The Saecula Wealth Difference

Endurance-Based Investing.

Instead of dismissing our clients’ concerns about markets and the nature of our economy, we sought to find solutions. The answer we’ve found is seeking to investment in a manner that can endure all outcomes. We know storms will come, but we want to be humble and not predict the weather day to day.

Family Flourishment.

We seek to find the real, deeper purpose behind the plans we create. The goals we define in the plan aren’t the real purpose. Retirement, education, buying a home. These are not ends. Beneath them is some richer and deeper purpose. While only you can truly define purpose and values, we’re here to help you unearth them and ensure every decisions is filtered through that lens.

Focus on Advice.

Our only service, ultimately, is advice. Obviously, that doesn’t mean perfect and all knowing or not colored with our beliefs. However, we do try to do that without conflict and anchored in our core values. Having thought deeply on the impediments to delivering quality advice, we think there’s two key structural issues that the standard way of delivering advice faces:

Building a business versus a practice. Advisory businesses cater to customer wants. Our practice orients towards your needs.
- A practice doesn’t grow and scale the same way as a business. To provide the quality we seek, our capacity is limited. The calling to service and toward mastery of craft has to be higher than the calling to commercial success alone.
- We don’t look to ‘win’ customers; we strive to earn clients. The sales pitch must give way to deep education and empowerment.
- Alignment. Our practice is an extension of what we do for our own family. Our advice is aligned with our personal actions.
- Intentionality & Focus. Time and resources are scarce, and the clients who entrust us deserve a singular focus on our shared mission. To attempt to be all things to all people would only dilute the quality we seek to deliver.
Compensation structures matter. No compensation structure is perfect, but we believe the flat fee structure is the least conflicted, most transparent, and fairest form.
- Should you pay off your mortgage early? Should you sell your business? Should you purchase physical gold? Our compensation is not beholden to the recommendations we make; you pay us to give the best advice we can.
- The size of your assets might be a good proxy for the complexity of your situation, but why use a proxy at all? We aim to charge a fair and transparent fee based upon the complexity of your situation and the time required.

Meet Matthew

Matthew Pierce, CFA

Founder & Financial Adviser

Matthew discovered his passion for investing during his junior year of college at Syracuse University and never looked back. While his degree in International Relations serves him well particularly with the seemingly rising influence of geopolitics in markets, his knowledge in the world of finance and economics has all come from rigorous self-study including completion of the CFA curriculum. Matthew, at his core, is a student of the markets and history.

Matthew has over seventeen years experience in wealth management. Prior to starting Saecula Wealth he was the head of investments for two larger RIAs. He served as a Senior Portfolio Manager for Austin Wealth Management and the Director of Research and Trading for the Wealth Consulting Group. He began his career as a Relationship Manager for United Capital of Las Vegas.

Matthew now calls the Bluegrass State home and resides in Georgetown, Kentucky with his wife, two kids, and two dogs. Over the years, he’s learned that maintaining balance in life and away from the screens only benefits his craft. To that end, he loves spending time with family, traveling, and being outdoors.

Experience

2026: Founder, Saecula Wealth
2021-2026: Senior Portfolio Manager, Austin Wealth Management
2010 - 2021: Director of Research & Trading, The Wealth Consulting Group
2008-2009: Relationship Manager, United Capital Financial Advisors

Consistently good compounds to great.

We believe the role of an advisor is a sacred responsibility, a calling to protect and steward the resources of the families who entrust us. We strive toward the highest ideals of what an advisory practice can be: free from avoidable conflicts, rooted in love for the craft, and driven by a focus on client needs over what sells, client interests above the practice’s interests.
We believe time and resources are scarce, and the clients who entrust us deserve a singular focus on our shared mission. To attempt to be all things to all people would only dilute the quality we seek to deliver. As advisors, we look to inspire the families we serve to discover and articulate that same clarity of purpose aimed towards their long-term flourishing.
We have chosen and endeavor to uphold a path of independence in our thoughts, words, and actions. We believe it is essential to fostering the freedom our clients aspire towards and that stewardship demands. We believe this autonomy must always be tempered by the profound responsibility it requires - a responsibility to the integrity of our practice and to those we serve.
We believe our lives, markets, and the world around us are dynamic - forever shrouded by our incomplete knowledge of the future. A true steward cannot rest on orthodoxy and absolve themselves of the need to discern and act. Stewardship requires a ceaseless hunger to learn and improve - to study the past, observe the present, and remain open to the possibilities of the future.
We believe conventional planning and investing have been hyper-optimized for the recent past - fragile models built upon the edifice of a fragile system. We will never bet against human ingenuity and progress, but our deference to the cycles of history renders conventional views ill equipped for the long-term resilience we prize and that families seeking to thrive across generations require.