The sMa Institute
The sMa Institute is a Behavioral Finance think tank. It’s early wealth-stratification research revealed how emotional intelligence leads to decisions that enable economic dignity and improves quality of life.
The company began as New York /Scottsdale based Strategic Management Advisors. It was there, seasoned executives developed breakthrough objectives, vastly improving business models and operating performance for a broad range of end users.
By 2008 it evolved exclusively into a research firm. Subsequently, it introduced deeper discoveries about emotional factors inherent in economic data, setting new standards for socio-economic-forecasting and investment policies.
Today, sMa Institute Ltd., is a stock market centric private company advocating Peace through Prosperity. It challenges injustices by identifying cognitive factors that maximize financial self-empowerment.
sMa Institute’s senior partner is industry veteran and wealth expert Kevin J. Palmer. A decisive leader and investor who values knowledge, ethics and method. He spent decades developing and driving strategic revenue models for Wall Street companies before becoming CEO of a behavioral finance firm.
sMa Ltd. (not for profit) Peace through Prosperity
Philanthropically investing for the public good to challenge Injustices through self-empowerment. Rooted in its firm's Behavioral Economic Research that once set standards for NYSE companies. It now focuses on how emotional intelligence leads to decision processes that enable economic dignity & improves quality of life. (As investment entity it is, “stock market centric”.)
The holding company is comprised of distinct yet interwoven specialties, some of which are operated under royalty agreements, that include but not limited to:
Financial Literacy - Media content that illustrates better understanding of how behavioral events translate into economic success, to improve the human condition
Investment Policies – Using socioeconomic factors to make an alpha difference in investment performance for stock market portfolio managers and accredited investors
Broker Dealer Advisory - Increasing revenue growth and margin expansion through Business Model Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisition and Valuation