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Lumida is an SEC-registered investment advisor and Wealth Architect for owners and creators.
One team designs your investing, trust and estate, and tax planning as a single structure — endowment-style, integrated, human, and part of a community.
What People Say About Lumida
Merry Christmas Ram! Thanks for all that you share all year long! You've not only helped me make some money this year, but helped me frame my thinking in a different way. I hope 2024 is as prosperous for you as 2023 was!
Excellent work Ram. A must follow account!
Always great thought and insight from Ram and Lumida. Highly recommend the newsletter.
Gr8 call! $LNG $UNG $NG. Ram is a must follow. He shares lots of timely ideas. I can only lead horse to water.
Best account to follow.
Everyone who followed your advice made, and saved, a lot of money.
Can’t speak highly enough of Ram and the team at Lumida. Congrats on the new launch!
Excellent follow and value-adding account. Great calls Ram, also very much enjoyed your session with amitisinvesting.
Ram when it comes to making expert calls
Just spoke with Ram, ex crypto lead at Cross River Bank + CEO at Lumida. We discussed: • What SVB, Signature, CS mean for crypto • What people get WRONG re: global CB policy impact on crypto • Chokepoint 2.0 Must watch for anyone investing in crypto
"You should always take DOGE seriously," Lumida's Ram tells Markets Daily host helenebraunn. "DOGE is a commodity," he adds.
To my entire 80 ardent followers... the Lumida outlook is legit aka pragmatic. Be sure to hit the next one if you missed today's webinar. cc Ram
What does the Fed have to do with the Bitcoin ETF? Insights from the conversation between biancoresearch, Ram of Lumida and AshBennington on BTC spot ETF developments, the Fed's rate decision, and the macro landscape.
Allowing commercial firms to own banks would inject much-needed capital and engineering talent into aging financial institutions, writes Ram of Lumida in AmerBanker BankThink.
Ram's newsletter from Lumida is probably the best multi-asset weekly newsletter I get. He gives you relevant, actionable, unbiased information for free. Hard to beat that tbh... What do you have to lose Anon? Subscribe and see for yourself...
ARedbord of trmlabs and Ram, the CEO of Lumida, join AshBennington to discuss the latest from the FTX investigation and what could be the story of the year: Gemini-Genesis-DCG on The Crypto Daily Briefing.
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Our Origin Story
We built Lumida because three forces are reshaping wealth — and each one demands a rethink most advisors aren't doing.
Inflation is taxing anyone still hiding in cash and bonds, pushing real returns into private markets and alternatives — a rethink of how you invest.
Longevity is stretching every timeline — a rethink of how you protect and pass on wealth across generations. And AI is redrawing the economy faster than public markets can price — a rethink of what you own, and how you plan around the tax on concentrated gains and liquidity events.
Investing. Trusts and estates. Tax.
Three legs that have to be reasoned through together, and redrawn as the world moves.
That's what a Wealth Architect does for founders, operators, and creators. One team, one blueprint, one relationship.
Three legs that have to be reasoned through together, and redrawn as the world moves.
That's what a Wealth Architect does for founders, operators, and creators. One team, one blueprint, one relationship.
Lumida CEO
Ram Ahluwalia
Founder & CEO
Ram Ahluwalia, CFA is an investment professional recognized for his ability to identify undervalued opportunities across asset classes. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, American Banker, and CNBC, and has co-authored pieces with figures like former SEC Chair Arthur Levitt.
Ram founded Lumida to bring an endowment-style approach to wealth management, focusing on long-term growth and preservation. His strategy combines top-down themes, bottom-up analysis, and quantitative insights, with a blend of alternative assets such as private credit, real estate, and digital assets.
Born in Detroit and raised in Upstate New York, Ram attended Phillips Exeter Academy and studied Philosophy and Economics at Columbia University. He built his expertise early in his career at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America.
Ram’s insights reach over 50,000 followers through his Lumida Ledger newsletter and social media. He enjoys his time with his wife and growing family just outside of New York City while continuing to build and shape the future of Lumida Wealth Management.
Our Services
What We Offer
Integrated by design. All three pillars, working as one. One team. One relationship.
Investment Management
Tax Planning & Mitigation
Private deals
Trust & Estate Planning
Our Insights
Lumida Ledger
Insights on the macro, markets and alternatives, that are top of mind for investors, executives and policymakers.
Non-Consensus Investing
Riveting conversations with pioneering business and cultural leaders about leadership, strategy, and offbeat opportunities across diverse sectors. Each episode dives into unique ideas and insights, challenging mainstream investment thinking and uncovering hidden gems & strategies.
The Wealth Architect, in three pillars
We start by understanding your life, your goals, your family, and the timelines that matter, then draw your blueprint across the three domains that matter most.
INVESTMENT
Compound with conviction. Public and private markets, diversified. Non-consensus themes, spotted early. Select pre-IPO deals for qualified clients.
TRUSTS AND ESTATES
Protect what you pass on. Multi-generational planning. Trust and estate architecture. Legacy and philanthropy design.
TAX MITIGATION
Keep more of what you earn. Planning before your liquidity events. Tax-aware investing at every turn. Quiet structures that last decades.
WHO WE SERVE
Owners and creators are focused on growing and protecting the wealth they've built.
They've navigated real complexity to get here, and they make deliberate choices about what comes next.
What they seek is guidance sophisticated enough to integrate every part of the picture.