The Arkin Group, a global danger consulting and intelligence agency, has launched TAG Intel, which is able to present non-partisan geopolitical intelligence to the wealth administration neighborhood. TAG Intel is led by Jack Devine, a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Company, who goals to democratize the data he’s been bringing to world 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 popularity within the intelligence neighborhood; he led the CIA’s Counternarcotics Middle when drug kingpin Pablo Escobar was taken down. He was accountable for this system that drove the Soviets out of Afghanistan within the late Nineteen 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 mentioned the human sources and community he’s constructed over time differentiate his intelligence.
“All over the world, I’ve individuals which might be indigenous and are very educated about their nations,” he mentioned. “And so they construct up a really spectacular, in my opinion, community.”
A yr and a half in the past, Devine began to satisfy with wealth and asset managers.
“Most of the asset managers specifically mentioned, ‘We have all the time checked out geopolitical issues all over the world. And we had fashions. However now these fashions aren’t working for us. It’s a far more advanced world. And despite the fact that AI gives a number of data that’s standard knowledge, it’s stuffed with what everyone else thinks,'” he mentioned.
There’s additionally a number of disinformation round geopolitical occasions, so these firms have been searching for a supply of intelligence they might belief. Devine mentioned his content material doesn’t lean towards one occasion or one other, and it’s primarily based 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 world crises and different occasions purchasers could ask about.
It will embrace a turnkey subscription-based content material service, The Intel Director’s Temporary, which begins at $10,000 a yr. That subscription features a weekly evaluation of geopolitical points and their impacts, a disaster report on fast-breaking world 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 yr, advisors can get entry to the weekly experiences, and for $500 a yr, they’ll get the disaster experiences, in accordance with TAG Intel’s web site.
“What I hear from asset managers or wealth is, ‘the world is advanced, and it is unsure, and we do not know the place to go to seek out the reply,’” Devine mentioned.
“They’ll move it on to their purchasers; they are often sensible. And it relieves a number of that stress about, ‘I’ve this particular person’s cash, however is there going to be a conflict subsequent week?’ Or, ‘Is Putin going to truly use a nuclear weapon?’ And I’ve solutions primarily based on a fairly laborious assortment on all these points,” he mentioned.
For instance, his content material may discover the chance of a full-blown conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, given latest developments. He’ll discuss the place the conflict in Russia goes and the way that conflict may be advantageous. He’ll take a look at how steady issues are in Brazil and Argentina.
“Every thing on this planet is interlocked at this time,” he mentioned. “In case you’re Russia, they have their hand within the Center East. In case you’re Iran, they have their arms in Russia and the North Koreans. In different phrases, every little thing’s interconnected. The cash’s interconnected.”
