Elizabeth Leigh Bivings CDFA®, CFP®, Ph.D.


Beacon Pointe Advisors

115 Newbury Street, Suite 302
Boston MA 02116
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617-542-2420

Leigh Bivings, Ph.D., CFP®, is the founder of Artemis Financial Advisors and is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst® (CDFA®), trained specifically in the financial issues of divorce. She brings an interdisciplinary approach to the challenges of divorce with her knowledge of investments, financial planning, and Massachusetts divorce laws.

Divorce-related services from Artemis Financial Advisors include the following:

Pre-Settlement

  • Identify and explain the financial data needed to make fully informed and intelligent decisions.
  • Help complete financial affidavits accurately.
  • Analyze the short- and long-term financial implications of a divorce settlement.
  • Document marital standard of living.
  • Support clients and their attorneys in the creation of budgets that demonstrate the right level of support.
  • Offer insight into the advantages and disadvantages of different settlement proposals.
  • Strategize and build creative options to complicated settlement issues such as stock options, valuing closely-held businesses, life insurance policies, etc.

Post-Settlement

  • Assist with post-divorce asset transfers, estate planning, and development of long-term financial goals.
  • Help resolve specific challenges such as:
  • Loss of health, life, or disability insurance coverage
  • Loss of retirement plan benefits
  • Need for new or updated estate planning documents
  • Develop an investment plan that reflects the new reality.

Prior to founding Artemis, Leigh was a managing director at Stax, Inc., an investment research firm, and a partner at the Monitor Group, a global strategy advisory firm. Her international experience spans Latin America where she was a Peace Corps volunteer and conducted her doctoral work. She has also worked in Canada, South America, and Europe.

Leigh has a Ph.D. in applied economics from Stanford University, an M.A. in International Trade and Finance from the University of Sussex, and an A.B. in International Relations from Pomona College. She has received a variety of awards, most notably the AAEA National Prize for Most Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in 1993.

Leigh is a member of the Boston Economic Club and serves as a volunteer with the Internatinal Institute of New England, a non-profit at the center of the refugee resettlement effort.