Do you know where you are heading financially? Let’s start working on your plan!

We can create a plan no matter the goal.

Independent & Objective Advice.

As a fiduciary, our core objective is to do what is best for you and our attention is focused solely on helping you achieve your goals.

Financial Success Begins with a Plan.

Good planning today can help you avoid bad outcomes in the future. We can help design a clear goal-oriented plan for you that lets you know where you are now and defines what must be done to achieve your goals.

Clear, Straightforward Fees.

We deliver investment advisory services in a fee-based environment where our client, not a third party, is the source of our compensation. This eliminates conflicts of interest that may arise when the source of compensation lies somewhere else.

Giving You Peace of Mind.

We strive to help clients make better decisions consistently over time to best enable them to achieve their goals. Clients trust us to help manage, grow, and protect their wealth and legacy.

Our Approach

Patient, disciplined investing based upon a well-defined plan is the key to long term success.

Investors make terrible mistakes when their decisions are driven by emotions, whether in up or down markets. We believe it is important that and investor keeps her wits about her when everyone else has lost theirs. Following a goal oriented, plan-based investment approach will help you maintain the discipline necessary to avoid making poor, emotion-driven decisions particularly in volatile economic times.
A plan will help you:
- Define the challenges ahead;
- Formulate a budget and timetable;
- Benchmark and monitor progress toward your goals;
- Identify potential challenges to make timely adjustments to your plan to keep you on target;
- Stick to a course of action;
- Achieve peace of mind.
Defining the goal is the first step.
You must define your goals and priorities - what you want to see happen - whether growing savings for retirement, managing retirement income and savings, or putting together a college saving plan.
A plan is the roadmap toward achieving your goals.
Once the goals are established, we will help plan the 'how' to achieving them. We start by determining where you are now by reviewing with you your assets, investments, income, and expenses. Then we will formulate a plan to get you from “here” to your “there.”
With a plan set, we will consider with you a variety of investment alternatives and design a portfolio that is risk appropriate for you. Whether stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, or other types of investments, we will advise you which options best align with your plan and goals.
Periodic reviews help keep you on track over time.
Once implemented, we will monitor the plan with you on a regular basis to make sure you stay on track and make periodic adjustments when necessary to maintain progress toward your goals.
Paint Creek Investment Advisors assumes a fiduciary role in working with its clients.
A fiduciary investment advisor is legally and ethically obligated to prioritize your financial goals and interests above their own, ensuring recommendations align with your goals and needs rather than their profit.
Fiduciaries are required to provide full disclosure of fees, conflicts of interest, and investment strategies, fostering a transparent relationship that builds trust and confidence in their advice.
A fiduciary advisor offers personalized, unbiased guidance based on your unique financial situation, avoiding one-size-fits-all solutions or products that may benefit them more than you.
Our fees are 100% transparent and you'll be confident that we’re looking out for your interests first.

Our Services

Personal, conscientious attention and service are the foundation of Paint Creek Investment Advisors. Using a cross-discipline approach developed from the fields of law and financial planning, we offer clients a true holistic advisory experience that delivers improved efficiency and greater convenience in the planning, implementation, and maintenance of a financial plan or investment portfolio.

We don’t follow one approach because we don’t have only one client. Our style of wealth management is flexible. We design wealth strategies specifically to fit the needs of each individual client – taking advantage of new opportunities, investments, and technologies as they arise.

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Who We Are

Paint Creek Investment Advisors brings a wealth of knowledge and experience gained from over 30 years of providing holistic financial planning, investment, and insurance services to a diverse client base including individuals, businesses, and charitable foundations.

Paint Creek Investment Advisors is part of a nationwide network of independent investment advisors dedicated to helping individual and business clients make smart financial and investment decisions in their best interest. We offer a broad geographic perspective and reach throughout the United States.
- Comprehensive estate and financial planning.
- Design and implementation of retirement plans and strategies for individuals and business owners.
- Investment portfolio design, implementation, and auditing.
- Designing and implementing plans to consolidate and transfer closely held business interests to succeeding generations, including the use of family LLCs and partnerships.
- Designing and implementing charitable gifting strategies—including charitable trusts and family foundations—to maximize philanthropic desires and minimize income and wealth transfer taxes.
- Advising fiduciaries in trust and estate administration matters.
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When you choose a CFP® professional, you can be assured that you’re working with an advisor who has demonstrated competency and made a commitment to ethics. CFP® professionals must successfully complete a multi-year, multi-step process to obtain the skills and real-life experience they need to serve your best interests, no matter what your financial goals are.
Learn more about working with a CFP® professional at: letsmakeaplan.org
The founder of Paint Creek Investment Advisors, Thomas J. DelPup, JD, CFP®, is a licensed attorney and Certified Financial Planner™ professional with over 30 years experience providing financial planning and investment advisory services to a diverse client base including individuals, business owners, fiduciaries, and charitable organizations.
With his training and background in law, Thomas understands the importance of working with clients in a conflict-free environment. Thomas is committed to the fiduciary model of client service.
Thomas is a graduate of the University of Detroit and the University of Detroit School of Law. He has held the Martindale-Hubbell “AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating” for attorneys since 1997.