My name is Joe Cantu, West Point Graduate with Mechanical Engineering, Concentration in Economics degree from United States Military Academy, New York and served in the Army as a Pershing Nuclear Weapons Launch Officer and Helicopter Pilot and Commander in Europe, Latin America and the United States. I have a Master’s degree from Boston University, USA received in Heidelberg, Germany and the Chief Investment Officer at Cantu Tactical Wealth Management with over thirty-six years of experience at three of the largest Wall Street firms as a stockbroker and money manager.
Concurrently, I taught college for fourteen years with such courses as “High Net Worth Retirement and Estate Planning” and with a Stock Options business, as well.
So, from a tax free municipal bond and Houston energy IPO stockbroker, pension board money manager, 401k plans, charitable foundation’s asset manager and working for three of the largest Wall Street firms to – finally – starting a tactical money management practice, I have seen and experienced the best, the good, the bad and the ugly in the world of the securities investment business. And now, with this Retirement Hidden Truths channel, I will attempt to pass on my life of knowledge to you, before leaving planet earth.
Legal disclosures are that I am a Fiduciary and registered investment advisor in the states of California, Florida, Georgia and Texas offering pure independent advice and money management services.
My wife has been on this lifelong journey with me; we met at age fifteen.
We have lived in and traveled to other countries around the world. We have experienced more than seventy countries and over one hundred fifty major cities around the world.
We have been to such historical places as the Great Wall of China; gazed at the majestic waterfalls of Iguazu Falls, South America; we’ve stood at the base of Christ the Redeemer in Brazil; we were mesmerized by the stately Taj Mahal in India; walked like Romans in the Colosseum in Rome, Italy; crossed the treacherous Drake’s Passage to the waters and glaciers of Antarctica; marveled at the Pyramids of Giza; cruised the Nile River; swam in the Pacific Ocean at the Great Barrier Reef; visited Islands of the South Pacific; touched both Eurasian and North American tectonic plates in Iceland; Star City, Russia and Kazakhstan, where we witnessed a Russian Soyuz Launch; we’ve been humbled by visiting a Holocaust site in Dachau, Germany; the WWII Japanese tunnels and U.S. Cemetery in Manilla, Philippines as well as the beaches of Normandy in France.
We have traveled to the sites of the Pilgrims from the Dutch Netherlands and Southampton, England where the Pilgrims left for America to finally land in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. My wife has been to the gravesite of her eleventh great-grandfather in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She is a verified and certified Mayflower Descendant. Thanksgiving is a special and celebrated day in the Cantu family.
I have paraglided off of Signal Hill mountain top in Cape Town, South Africa; experienced the people of the Baltics; traversed one of the longest underground caverns in Europe; and we have experienced the wonderful cultures and religions from people around the world. Needless to say, it has shaped our perspective and provided an understanding of business and life on this magnificent world of ours.
My past hobbies, skills, and licenses include music, airplane and helicopter instrument licensed, fifteen years as a one hundred ton US Coast Guard licensed captain owning over twenty-three vessels, Army Parachute Jump badge, underwater PADI Scuba Diver and FAA drone licensed pilot.
