Portsmouth, NH (2026) Nvest Financial, LLC, – Nvest Financial is proud to announce that our partner, Dinon Hughes, CFP®, AIF®, has been named the recipient of the College for Financial Planning’s Outstanding Early Career Alumni Award for 2026.
Dinon’s path at our firm has been nothing short of remarkable. He joined Nvest Financial in 2022 as a Financial Planning Intern and was promoted to Partner in 2026, in recognition of his exceptional leadership and contributions to the firm’s growth. A graduate of Bentley University with a B.S. in Economics & Finance, where he studied under George Raftopoulos, Dinon went on to further his education, recently completing his M.S. in Personal Financial Planning from the College for Financial Planning.
Yet Dinon’s greatest passion lies in democratizing financial knowledge. A stock market game in his high school economics class first sparked his curiosity about wealth, and today, he returns to that same classroom every year to teach basic financial literacy to students in Maine, a state where such education isn’t required. He serves as a board member and NextGen leader for the Financial Planning Association, is active in his local Rotary Club and the Greater York Region Chamber of Commerce and has been featured as an industry expert in CNBC, CBS, Reuters, and MarketWatch.
“I don’t believe in gatekeeping knowledge,” Dinon says. “My hope is to inspire more planners to enter this field and help our population become more financially literate.”
We are honored to have Dinon as a partner at Nvest Financial and even more honored to see his leadership, growth, and dedication to financial education recognized on a national stage. Congratulations, Dinon!
