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About

We would rather ask you ten questions than show you one chart.

GGM Wealth Advisors is an independent planning practice in Mandeville, Louisiana, founded and led by Matt Hightower.

Matt grew up in Collierville, Tennessee, studied business administration at the University of Memphis, and met his wife Kristen there. They married in 2007, moved to Mandeville, and have three children. Most of his weekends belong to baseball fields, cheer competitions, and volleyball courts.

The family part matters because it shapes how we work. We know what it is to weigh a career decision against what it costs at home, and to carry two generations at once. Those are the conversations clients bring us, and they are not really about money.

The work itself is straightforward to describe. We help people identify what they are trying to accomplish, show them what their current setup will actually produce, find the gaps and the tax opportunities sitting in plain sight, and put strategies in place that hold up over years rather than quarters.

Portrait of Matt Hightower
Matt Hightower
Role
Founder & CEO
Based in
Mandeville, LA
Studied at
University of Memphis
Works with
Executives, physicians, owners

How we think about this work

Four things you can count on

  • Your story comes before your statements

    We want to know how you got here and what you are carrying before we have any opinion about your money. Advice without that context is guesswork with charts attached.

  • Somebody has to hold the whole picture

    Your CPA sees taxes. Your attorney sees documents. Your insurance agent sees policies. We sit above all three and make sure they add up to one plan.

  • The best planning happens before a deadline

    Most of the expensive mistakes we see are timing mistakes. That is why the important conversations happen in the fall, not in April.

  • You should understand what you are paying for

    If you cannot explain a recommendation back to us in your own words, we have not done our job. That includes explaining how we get paid.

The firm

Why we built it this way

GGM Wealth Advisors is an independent practice, which matters for a practical reason: nobody hands us a list of products to sell this quarter. When we recommend something, it is because it fits what you told us in the first meeting.

We also work with the people you already trust rather than around them. Property and casualty agents, attorneys, CPAs, bankers. A good plan needs all of them pulling in the same direction, and somebody has to make the calls that get them there. That is the part of the job most people have never had done for them.

Securities are offered through Registered Representatives of Cambridge Investment Research, Inc., a broker-dealer, member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory services are offered through Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor. Cambridge and GGM Wealth Advisors are not affiliated. You can look up Matt’s registration history on FINRA BrokerCheck, which is linked in the footer of every page here.

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About Matt and the firm

Ask us the hard questions first

Bring the ones you have been meaning to ask someone. What would happen to my family if I could not work. Whether I could step back at 55. What that vest in March is going to cost me. Those are the questions a first meeting is for.