During my lifetime, I have:

•Invented the first new investment strategies in over half-a-century that do not rely on fundamental or technical analysis as primary screens to select stocks but instead utilize the strength of corporate-government-banking relationships to predict share price appreciation.

• Earned a degree in Neurobiology from the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school perennially ranked with Yale and Harvard as one of the best universities in the world.

• Earned two master degrees (a Master in Public Policy and a Master in Business Administration) from top U.S. graduate programs at the University of Texas at Austin.

• Earned a black belt in aiki-jutsu with special weapons skills under the tutelage of a U.S. Navy SEAL that possessed guerilla and jungle warfare training, as well as trained in Mansekan Aikido, Seidokan Aikido, Chin-na, and Northern Shaolim Gung Fu.

• Managed money for some of the richest people in the world at Fortune 500 companies and Wall Street firms in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and San Francisco;

• Delivered healthcare to some of the poorest Americans at a community healthcare corporation in Philadelphia; and

• Lived and worked in Asia and the United States as well as traveled throughout 8 different countries in Asia and numerous different cities throughout Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.

Why am I telling you this?

Because every single piece of knowledge in all of the above endeavors was necessary to formulate my revolutionary investment strategies.

While working in impoverished cities in the U.S. delivering healthcare, I learned the hard facts about economics that never make it to the wide, doe-eyed world of the elite Ivy League educational institutions. Yes, elite traditional forums of education will teach one little of the knowledge necessary to build wealth. It is only by seeking information outside of the traditonal institutions of education that enabled me to invent my wealth creation system. Fascinated by what I learned there, I spent an entire year researching my graduate thesis about how information flows through the media chain.

I read seminal books like Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”, Herbert I. Schiller’s “Information Inequality”, the Media Studies Journal (printed by Columbia University), J. Herbert Altschull’s “Agents of Power”, Gerald M. Meir’s “Leading Issues in Economic Development”, and Mark D. Alleyne’s “International Power and International Communication.” These books taught me a thousand times more about learning how to successfully invest than any books with titles like “Grow Rich in the Stock Market” and “Build 7 Figure Stock Portfolios”.

Why? Because those books taught me exactly where I needed to find information relevant to making smart investment decisions – information that rarely is ever reported by the mainstream media.

While earning my undergraduate degree, a concentration in Neurobiology, with several required courses in Psychology, I learned how the sheep-herd mentality of people often drives irrational behavior. I found this knowledge to be critical to accurately predicting how stock markets behave in the safest way possible. While earning my public policy Masters degree, I attended speeches and lectures by former U.S. Presidents, U.S. Secretaries of Defense, and U.S. Governors who spoke openly about the “corporatocracies” that exist in the world today.

Furthermore, when I spoke to my U.S. Navy SEAL martial arts instructor about war, I realized that attempting to predict global economic trends without fully understanding politics is a futile exercise. U.S. Navy SEALs are among the best managers in the world, able to multi-task in situations ten thousand times more stressful than the most stressful of corporate jobs. I took some of these Navy SEAL lessons about management and observation and used them to develop some of my proprietary MoneyPing ™strategies. If nothing else, I learned the lessons of hard work from SEALs, as I estimate that I've invested no less than 10,000 FTE hours of my own time in developing the SmartKnowledgeU™ curriculum.

Finally, I refined the last stages of my MoneyPing™ strategies while taking IT (Information Technology) classes in business school. Deeply curious with the concept of “the flattening of the world”, I soon realized that although an enormous wealth of information existed to help people make much smarter investment decisions, that most investors and financial consultants used less than 2% of this available information in their investment decision-making process.

For this reason, I refer to my MoneyPing™ investment strategies as evolutionary. MoneyPinging™ was born out of a mix of political, financial, economic, and cultural knowledge. It evolved over time from a career working with some of the richest and poorest people in the world, from hobbies that involved everyday contact with elite special forces military personnel, from a life exposed to many global cultures, and from a heavy dose of curiosity and unconventional thinking.

Once my proprietary MoneyPing™ strategies had evolved to a point of applicability, I refined them with knowledge I gained from speaking to hundreds of people across a broad spectrum of professions (journalists to geologists) and wealth (people with a net worth in excess of over USD $50,000,000 to people that couldn’t afford healthcare).

Financial consultants and wealth advisors that do not have the curiosity to explore many different cultures, hobbies, and careers will never realize what I know. This is why they tell you that “markets are 100% efficient.”


When I worked at a top global investment firm, I was told,

“When it comes to investing your clients’ money, you can not be a perfectionist. That will kill your ability to get ahead here.”

But I am a perfectionist and I don’t mind admitting it. The pursuit of perfection in investing does not kill returns. The pursuit of perfection only kills the ability to gather as many assets as possible for a Private Wealth Manager or Financial Consultant that works for a large investment firm. But I have no doubt that the pursuit of perfection, when it comes to investing, creates dramatically decreased risk, astoundingly better performance, and the identification of the safest places to invest money. And that’s our goal at SmartKnowledgeU™, LLC, because here We Build Wealth. Not Dreams.

-J.S.