Expertise
Jack has broad and deep expertise in investment suitability, Regulation Best Interest, fiduciary duties, and complex investments and strategies, including: hedge funds, fund-of-funds, liquid alternatives, private equity, venture capital, managed futures, structured products, securitized products, and other private placements, as well as equities, corporate, government, and municipal bonds, crypto and digital assets in general.
He also has expertise in insurance and risk management products and strategies, including: exchange-traded and OTC options, collars, pre-paid forwards, insurance-linked securities, and traditional life, health and variable insurance products such as: variable life and variable annuities.
Lastly, he also has expertise in lending and loan-related strategies, including: margin, Regulation U loans, and premium financed insurance.
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Expertise
Jack has broad and deep expertise in investment suitability, Regulation Best Interest, fiduciary duties, and complex investments and strategies, including: hedge funds, fund-of-funds, liquid alternatives, private equity, venture capital, managed futures, structured products, securitized products, and other private placements, as well as equities, corporate, government, and municipal bonds, crypto and digital assets in general.
He also has expertise in insurance and risk management products and strategies, including: exchange-traded and OTC options, collars, pre-paid forwards, insurance-linked securities, and traditional life, health and variable insurance products such as: variable life and variable annuities.
Lastly, he also has expertise in lending and loan-related strategies, including: margin, Regulation U loans, and premium financed insurance.
(For search purposes, not intended to be a comprehensive list)
Jack is the managing partner and an expert witness at Accelerant LLC, a securities litigation consulting boutique. He has broad and deep experience in investment products and strategies, Modern Portfolio Theory, damage calculations, supervision and compliance, securities rules and regulations, fiduciary duties, Regulation Best Interest, Registered Investment Advisor practice, and insurance.
Jack is frequently called upon to create damage models, prepare statistical analyses, and to analyze offering documents. He is comfortable analyzing large data sets and uses a variety of statistical and analytic techniques to pull the meaning out of data.
Since 2004, Jack has been retained in over 500 arbitration cases, participated in over 60 mediations, and has testified or been deposed 59 times in state or federal court or arbitration proceedings. He has consulted and testified for a number of regulators, including: the FINRA Department of Enforcement, the Kansas State Securities Commission, and the Department of Labor. He is also an arbitrator for FINRA.
Jack is the CEO of Bantam Inc. a registered investment advisory firm, and is the Managing Member of the Bantam Digital Assets Fund, a cryptocurrency hedge fund.
His writings on markets can be found at: https://tarotfso.substack.com/
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