Ellicottville Coffee Club
Ellicottville Coffee Club
A monthly market update club coming to the Ellicottville Bake Shop
Photos / ellicottvilleNOW, Ellicottville Bake Shop and Jim Coupe Linked-In
Mr. Jim Coupe, CEPA®
Ellicottville is about to get a new club – a market update coffee club, that is! Spearheaded by Mr. Jim Coupe, CEPA®, an Edward Jones financial advisor by day and rock guitarist by night, Ellicottville’s first-ever market update coffee club – which he is calling the Ellicottville Coffee Club – will hold its inaugural session on Wednesday, October 30th at 9:00am at the Ellicottville Bake Shop. The coffee club meetings will be held on a monthly basis.
“[The coffee club] is open to anyone who wants to come. It is going to be the last Wednesday of each month, and it’s going to be at the same place every month, Ellicottville Bake Shop,” said Coupe, by way of a recent phone interview with ellicottvilleNOW. “They have a nice little conference room that is separate from the main coffee shop, so it’ll be quiet, and we’ll have all the amenities that they have at a coffee shop. We’ll buy coffee or a bagel, or whatever they want for breakfast, that type of thing.”
For those unfamiliar with Ellicottville Bake Shop, the bakery opened to rave reviews this past March at 5 E. Washington Street. Owners Jennifer and Corey Hogan found inspiration for their European-style bakery in their travels throughout Europe and the U.S. and landed on Ellicottville as the perfect spot. With a selection of daily-baked fresh artisanal and specialty breads, gourmet pastries, breakfast and lunch items, and fresh coffee, Ellicottville Bake Shop prides itself on using locally sourced ingredients whenever possible, making it the ideal venue for a local coffee club.
Coupe says that the meet-ups are for anyone who is interested in what the market is doing. “I’ll have a different product partner each month, and some of them I’ll do on my own, but we’ll bring product partners from Fidelity, J.P. Morgan, John Hancock – places like that – and we’ll do a monthly update, basically, a market update, telling people what’s going on in the market, what we foresee in the next month, or the next six months – you know, what has changed since the last time the interest rates came down in September, which affected the market immediately.”
To keep things interesting, Coupe will invite a lineup of guest speakers, who he says will cover any market changes seen in the last month and beyond. “Our product partners will present what they think is going to happen in the next few months,” he shared. “It will be a little different each month because we’ll have different people going, so it won’t be boring in the sense that we’ll have different companies and outlooks on what’s going on in the market.”
Coupe hopes that participants will learn about the market in general, how the market works, and alleviate any fears. “Some people are afraid of the market, or afraid of what’s going to happen in the market, and we’ll go through, maybe a short history of what’s transpired in election years, because if you look at election years in general, the market has done well in almost all election years.”
Having had success with a similar coffee club concept in Hamburg where Coupe also operates an office, he hopes that the Ellicottville Coffee Club will inspire conversation and build community. After receiving interest in such an event, the time was right to get the coffee club off the ground. In addition to the coffee club, Coupe also has plans to open a local Edward Jones office. “My goal is to open an office in Ellicottville, so I’m traveling a lot back and forth trying to develop clientele,” he said.
Coupe hopes that it will be as well-attended as the Hamburg meet-ups which garner around 15 attendees each month. When asked about the duration of the meetings, Coupe offered that the coffee club could run “as long as it lasts – we don’t want to make it long and boring, so it will be a lot of back and forth, question and answer, and a lot of personal interaction.”
The first guest speaker for the inaugural Ellicottville Coffee Club is Angelina Smith with Fidelity Investments out of Orchard Park, NY. The event will take place on Wednesday, October 30th at 9:00am and will run until approximately 10:00am at the Ellicottville Bake Shop located at 5 E. Washington Street in the shopping plaza next to Kwik Fill. The monthly coffee club meetings will be held the last Wednesday of every month thereafter, skipping December as it falls on Christmas Day. Capacity is limited to 15 so advanced registration is required. Please contact Jim directly to reserve your spot at 716-783-1525.