My name is Mark Anderson and I’m the one who launched SeeJekyllIsland.com. I served honorably on active duty in the United States Marine Corps infantry for one four-year enlistment (i.e. 1995 to 1999), so I know what discipline, hard work, and dedication are. I’m a disciple of the Austrian school of economics, having read authors like Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises for almost two decades now.
Presently, I hold Georgia, Alabama, and Florida real estate licenses. My licenses are active with Realty Hub. I also hold an insurance license that contains all major lines of authority: property, casualty, life, and health.
Previously, I held the NFA Series 3 license (futures and futures options broker) which I did a voluntary withdrawal on because I couldn’t in good conscience sell managed futures, which are designed for institutional clients, since firms would do better to hire an in-house trader to trade a proprietary account with a discount broker rather than allocating assets into a managed futures account, which I outlined in my withdrawal request. I’m proud to say that I never bagged a single client for MF Global because if I had bagged a client it would have been for MF Global, since I was hired by MF Global through a Guaranteed Introducing Broker.
Shortly after departing MF Global, MF Global collapsed and its customers had trading accounts that were inaccessible. Why? MF Global failed to segregate client funds from their own proprietary trading accounts, losing client funds in the process. Amazingly, nobody went to jail. I learned something about myself in the process of leaving MF Global. If I don’t believe in something, I can’t sell something. I want to know that what I’m offering a client is in that client’s best interests.
Having held the Series 3 license, my expertise is in helping companies and individual clients develop strategies to hedge against economic uncertainty. I’ve done original work explaining how inflation drives up prices while driving down rates of return (in both nominal and real terms), how inflation undermines earnings and engenders capital outflow, as capital naturally gravitates to cheaper, higher-yield economies through arbitrage. I’ve written many commentaries that have been carried by major publications.
Understanding the threat from inflation, I believe real estate is an important component to any portfolio. That’s a huge reason I made the decision to become a real estate professional. I get great satisfaction from knowing that I am helping others.