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A complimentary 30-minute introductory conversation to determine fit and scope, not financial advice or strategy.
The Long Arithmetic, by Alina Trigub
Think beyond the next financial decision.
A weekly analytical essay for high earners who have outgrown conventional personal finance. Alina writes about capital, liquidity, risk, enough, and the decisions that quietly compound over time and shape long-term wealth.
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The Long Arithmetic
One important question every Monday.
“The choices that shape wealth rarely look important at first. Time does the arithmetic.”Read The Long Arithmetic
About Alina
A long view shaped by more than one financial world.
Alina Trigub brings experience in Big Four tax consulting at Ernst & Young, more than two decades in technology, private equity investor relations, and commercial real estate investing. Her perspective is also shaped by her experience as an immigrant learning financial and investment systems from the outside. She is a TEDx speaker, Amazon bestselling author, founder of SAMO Financial LLC, investor, philanthropist, and writer of The Long Arithmetic. Her work examines how structure, psychology, and time alter the financial choices that look obvious in the moment.
Private Client Work · The Household Map
When one person is holding the whole financial picture
You may already have a financial advisor, CPA, attorney, insurance professional, and other specialists. Yet one person is still responsible for keeping the whole picture connected.
The Household Map is a focused private engagement that makes your current structure, responsibilities, open questions, and one-person dependencies visible.
See who holds what, before it all depends on you.
Map the moving pieces
One fixed-fee package: a 60-minute paid working session, a written Household Map Summary, and a 45-minute follow-up conversation.
Keep ownership of your information
We work collaboratively in live sessions. Your sensitive financial documents stay with you. I do not hold credentials or log into your financial accounts.
My role is organization, coordination, documentation, question preparation, follow-through, and family continuity. I do not provide investment, tax, legal, or insurance advice, recommend investments, products, legal structures, or tax strategies, manage money, make financial decisions for you, or replace your licensed professionals.
Request a Complimentary 30-Minute Introductory ConversationExplore The Household Map and the optional Family Wealth System
Prefer to write first? Contact Alina.
Speaking topic examples
Clear ideas for financial lives that have grown more complex.
Alina accepts a limited number of paid speaking engagements, including keynotes, panels, workshops, and private events. Drawing on her experience as a TEDx speaker, bestselling author, investor, and writer of The Long Arithmetic, she brings a clear-eyed, long-term perspective to conversations about wealth. The topics below are examples of potential speaking engagements and can be adapted to the audience and event.
Inquire about a speaking engagementThe Power and Limitations of Passive Investing
What passive investing can do well, what it cannot solve, and the risks that disappear from view when investors confuse less activity with less risk.
Seven Steps to Financial Well-Being
A practical framework for moving from high income and financial activity toward clarity, resilience, and intentional wealth.
The Long Arithmetic of Wealth
How liquidity, structure, psychology, and time quietly reshape financial decisions long after the initial choice is made.