Joseph L. Shaefer is the CEO of Stanford Wealth Management, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor with $30 million in assets under management. He spent 36 years of active and reserve military service, the first six in special operations. He followed this real-world experience with 30 more years in geopolitical and financial intelligence.

His career as an economic and stock analyst began in 1972 as a retail and institutional broker with Kidder Peabody, then as a principal with Investment Management Associates, which he later sold to Charles Schwab. Joe stayed at Schwab and became a Regional, then Senior, VP, with his last job the head of Fixed Income Investments. He retired to found Stanford Wealth Management, LLC, in 1990.

Author of the best-selling investment book, Bringing Home the Gold, he is the editor of the subscriber-based monthly investment letter, Investor's Edge®, which explains the forces and events that shape the investment arena and recommends those industries and companies that will benefit most. In the nine years since inception, the Investor's Edge® Growth and Value model portfolio is up 293%, while the S&P 500 is up less than 8%.

He has been featured in Forbes, Barrons, Financial World, the Wall Street Transcript, and numerous other publications, and has been a guest on ABC, NBC, PBS, FNN and CNBC.