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Fired for Insubordination

Remember Doghouse Reilly Proudly Fired for Insubordination To achieve wealth, and the financial freedom that goes with it, all you need to do is change how you think. A recent SMA Institute study reveals, it’s not hard to change neuropathways in the brain and move into top percentiles of income Read more…

Fighting for Fights of Financial Professionals

Last week, investors’ attorneys went on the offensive in trying to snuff out advisors’ ability to expunge frivolous investor complaints. Through their captive non-profit foundation, the Public Investor Arbitration Bar Association (“PIABA”) released a 29-page document purporting to be the Foundation’s “Study” into FINRA’s customer dispute expungement process. As a Read more…

Palmer Holding Group Pinnacle Peak

A Door Will Open

My first consulting job started by mistake with Montauk Securities when I was hired as a producing national sales manager. It was an ego move for a bigger title and not much more money. In the ended I needed to resuscitate its bad business model and help rebuild the B-D Read more…

On Success

“Some people think Walter Hunt may have conceived hundreds of major inventions whose designs were all lost. Hunt’s flaw was that once he solved a problem in his mind he moved to the next case.”   Established under The Palmer Holding Group Ltd., a company grounded on two generations of Read more…

Something Mercenary

Brooke Southall: “There is something mercenary about the way that the former insurance broker-dealers get bought, sold, spruced up and staffed. The (formerly ING) Cetera and (formerly AIG) Advisor Group entities are equal parts grand rafts of human financial advisory potential and leftover insurance broker culture that meant not only selling but favoring the Read more…