Kevin J. Palmer

BIO

Kevin J. Palmer uses his Wealth Stratification expertise to understand markets and as a writer/producer to champion financial justice. He has spent decades driving profits and performance for Wall Street firms and developed high margin revenue business models that allowed broker-dealers to gain substantial competitive advantage. He was responsible for improvements in financial delivery systems and recurring revenue models that were scalable across the United States. 

 

Recently at his behavioral finance firm, this recognized wealth expert, mapped how ordinary people used cognition and personality to make financial decisions that created wealth. 

 

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.” – Michel de Montaigne

“Financial Freedom is not worrying about the ignorance of imbeciles.” – Kevin J Palmer

“Kevin Palmer’s work merges human anecdotes with intellectual insight.” – P. H. Casidy

Kevin J. Palmer

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Easter Economics

  Noted author and scholar R.R. Reno said, “From the end of the Civil War until the 1960s, the wealthiest, best educated, and most powerful Americans remained largely loyal to Christianity (but) that’s changed…” He was not alone in arguing that material attainment and ethics are often mutually exclusive. Growing rich, is demonstrably under attack, […]

Growing China’s Middle Class

By Caitlin Milmeyster Sr. Consultant Enterprise Risk Services, Deloitte & Touche And Kevin J. Palmer CEO SMA Institute Growing China’s Middle Class From The Inside Out Economic pundits are coming to grips with a new global realty check. The realization that industrialized double digit export growth in China is unsustainable. However, that has not deterred […]

Kevin J. Palmer a Trendsetter

    Kevin J. Palmer The Quiet Rich      

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Kevin Palmer SMA Institute

Patriot Day September 11 2001

Four months and 3 days prior to this date, I took early retirement from Merrill Lynch after decades of leadership to discover and correct market misalignment’s my own way. Orchestrating an alliance of other Wall Street and Business Executives I founded a broker-dealer advisory firm that drove revenue & alpha performance during a time the […]

Beyond your comfort zone

Success Standards – Dancing to a Heartbeat

            For fear your grace should fall.  —David Bowie     In sound economic models, people add value and there is a direct benefit. Corresponding reward usually is proportionate to what is provided. Problems arise when people steal reward through power. In the public sector, it’s an easy place to […]

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Myself in Others – Envision Potential

The surfing life, I discovered against the backdrop of the city, is a venerable one.  —Ed Thompson     While visiting in Los Angeles one summer, I invited my niece Brooke to lunch. She was bright, beautiful, and had a law degree but was employed as a retail clerk. She was making even less than […]

immigrants inner compass

Inner Compass

As darkness falls, I can hear them telling stories. The scent of cigarettes. There’s danger in the air. —Alejandro Escovedo     It makes no difference who came before whom. All Americans are immigrants.  —even the homo sapiens who crossed the Bering Strait during an ice age 14,000 years ago. Because of this, we are […]

Living Quietly in a Corner of Nature

Wings of a Plan July 23, 2020 By Kevin J Palmer Wings of a Plan My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. —Claude Monet Kevin J Palmer Behavioral Finance Strategist You too can use Secret Success Standards from Peter’s life story like the ones below as stepping stones to […]

Kevin Palmer the Quiet Rich

I keep the beat with each step

  “Kevin wrote this story as a reaction to oppression of women in the workplace.  I hope you found it as powerful as I did” ~ Alana   Continuing the conversion from last time…   The first time I met Jane, I was deep in my task of putting together this economic think tank. Finding […]

Another world of rhythm and motion

  “Kevin wrote this story as a reaction to oppression of women in the workplace.  I hope you found it as powerful as I did” ~ Alana     Continuing the conversion from last time…   During my committee tenure over those long months, I was surrounded by some of the best market-oriented thinkers and […]

Success is Unselfish Service to Others

  “Kevin wrote this story as a reaction to oppression of women in the workplace.  I hope you found it as powerful as I did” ~ Alana     Continuing the conversion from last time…   Dancing to Sounds of a Heart   For fear your grace should fall. —David Bowie   In sound economic […]

The Quiet Rich

Your Word is Forever Written in Ink

  In this chapter, two friends who had not seen each other in years joined a wildlife rescue team to determine security of bald eagle fledglings in a vast natural recreation area. After the work was complete they went camping as a reward. What happened that evening in the rugged wilderness taught as much about nature, as […]

It’s been a thrill, and it has paid off

  In this chapter, two friends who had not seen each other in years joined a wildlife rescue team to determine security of bald eagle fledglings in a vast natural recreation area. After the work was complete they went camping as a reward. What happened that evening in the rugged wilderness taught as much about nature, as […]