The Arkin Group, a world threat consulting and intelligence agency, has launched TAG Intel, which is able to present non-partisan geopolitical intelligence to the wealth administration group. TAG Intel is led by Jack Devine, a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Company, who goals to democratize the knowledge he’s been bringing to international company purchasers since 2000.
Devine created The Arkin Group in Might 2000, together with New York lawyer Stanley Arkin, who handed away in 2023. The agency focuses on worldwide disaster administration, strategic intelligence, investigative analysis and enterprise problem-solving.
Devine has fairly a fame within the intelligence group; he led the CIA’s Counternarcotics Heart when drug kingpin Pablo Escobar was taken down. He was accountable for this system that drove the Soviets out of Afghanistan within the late Eighties. He was in Chile when Salvador Allende was overthrown in 1973. He was head of Iranian operations in the midst of the Iran-Contra affair, which he’s been outspoken about saying was not a good suggestion.
He stated the human sources and community he’s constructed through the years differentiate his intelligence.
“World wide, I’ve individuals which might be indigenous and are very educated about their nations,” he stated. “They usually construct up a really spectacular, in my opinion, community.”
A 12 months and a half in the past, Devine began to fulfill with wealth and asset managers.
“Lots of the asset managers specifically stated, ‘We have all the time checked out geopolitical issues around the globe. And we had fashions. However now these fashions aren’t working for us. It’s a far more complicated world. And though AI gives loads of data that’s standard knowledge, it’s stuffed with what everyone else thinks,'” he stated.
There’s additionally loads of disinformation round geopolitical occasions, so these firms have been on the lookout for a supply of intelligence they may belief. Devine stated his content material doesn’t lean towards one occasion or one other, and it’s based mostly on data he’s receiving from sources on the bottom in these nations.
TAG Intel will present this identical intelligence in a shortened model for wealth managers to scale back uncertainty round international crises and different occasions purchasers might ask about.
It will embody a turnkey subscription-based content material service, The Intel Director’s Transient, which begins at $10,000 a 12 months. That subscription features a weekly evaluation of geopolitical points and their impacts, a disaster report on fast-breaking international occasions and potential market impression, a quarterly report that gives deeper intelligence into industries and sectors, month-to-month stay Q&A classes with analysts, entry to Devine’s podcast, and in-person occasions with Devine for choose purchasers. For $299 a 12 months, advisors can get entry to the weekly reviews, and for $500 a 12 months, they will get the disaster reviews, in keeping with TAG Intel’s web site.
“What I hear from asset managers or wealth is, ‘the world is complicated, and it is unsure, and we do not know the place to go to search out the reply,’” Devine stated.
“They’ll move it on to their purchasers; they are often sensible. And it relieves loads of that rigidity about, ‘I’ve this particular person’s cash, however is there going to be a struggle subsequent week?’ Or, ‘Is Putin going to truly use a nuclear weapon?’ And I’ve solutions based mostly on a fairly arduous assortment on all these points,” he stated.
For instance, his content material would possibly discover the danger of a full-blown struggle between Hezbollah and Israel, given current developments. He’ll speak about the place the struggle in Russia goes and the way that struggle is perhaps advantageous. He’ll have a look at how steady issues are in Brazil and Argentina.
“All the pieces on this planet is interlocked immediately,” he stated. “Should you’re taking a look at Russia, they have their hand within the Center East. Should you’re taking a look at Iran, they have their palms in Russia and the North Koreans. In different phrases, the whole lot’s interconnected. The cash’s interconnected.”
