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Our CEO/CIO (Chief Investment Officer), retired Brigadier General Joseph L. Shaefer, serves as a consultant and sub-advisor to financial and geopolitical institutions who solicit his perspective on world events. With his dual experience track in capital markets and geo-political affairs, General Shaefer stands at the nexus of financial, military, national, and international affairs.
With 6 years experience in Special Operations (Airborne PSYOP and Special Forces, US Army) and 30 more years in Intelligence (primarily HUMINT — Human Intelligence — US Air Force and Intelligence Community) General Shaefer has served in the Middle East, Southeast and Northeast Asia, and numerous other emerging and developed locations.
He has been an intelligence analyst, area specialist, strategic interrogator / debriefer, defense attaché in Southeast Asia, and Air Combat Command A2 (Director, Air Intelligence). He is adjunct professor of Intelligence and Counterterrorism at American Military University.
FOR PORTFOLIO MANAGERS AND BUY-SIDE MANAGERS:
SEPARATE MANAGED ACCOUNTS SUB-ADVISORHow can quality hedge fund managers, portfolio managers, and buy-side managers lower the risk inherent in making decisions on macro events around the world, no matter their style and approach? By understanding the geopolitical environment in which all financial decisions are made.
It isn’t easy to find capable money managers who also have decades of experience in analyzing government, regional and non-state actors and actions, who understand the culture of the areas of investment interest, and who can assess the likelihood of various scenarios in order to act decisively.
One way to acquire this experience and expertise is to hire Stanford Wealth Management as a sub-advisor. We blend a low-risk long-term value approach that stresses global securities and, when appropriate, a long-short approach. We never concentrate in a single security decisions, but we do establish large sector concentrations when it is propitious to do so. Our intimate understanding of political, social and military trends worldwide that allows us to succeed where others are merely guessing. We invite your inquiries...
