Following a successful investment career and seven years practicing psychology, Jim Blume founded Blume Capital Management in 1993 with the vision of bringing an institutional level of investment expertise to individual clients. Jim began his professional career on Wall Street in 1966 as an equity research analyst for Faulkner, Dawkins & Sullivan, a prominent Wall Street institutional research firm, and was subsequently a founding member of the firm’s investment banking department. Among other companies, he successfully arranged financings for Koger Properties, a developer of suburban office parks in the Southeast and Southwest. In 1974, Jim left Wall Street and began a career in real