Meet the Founding Partners

The founding partners of The Stock Pawnshop are typical of other pawnshop operators:

  • Highly skilled in appraisal
  • Comfortable in highly regulated businesses
  • and prone to writing haikus

Glenn, Joe and Jim provided institutional-quality investment analysis to, well, institutions for decades, Now they’re eager to share their insights, creativity and optimism with the broader public. Filter optional.

Glenn W. Primack

Glenn W. Primack has 20-plus years of investment experience. His experience ranges from being an analyst at a credit/equity long/short hedge fund in Chicago to being co-manager of The FMI Focus Fund (FMIOX) long-only small-cap concentrated fund.

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James VanMetre

Jim is a veteran fixed income trader with 33 years of market experience and a track record of 32 winning years out of 33. His career is defined by disciplined risk management, consistent P&L generation, and the ability to adapt across shifting interest rate and credit cycles.

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Joseph Graves

In addition to being a founding partner of Aligned Access Advisory and the Stock Pawn Shop, Joe is an accomplished institutional equity sales leader with a track record of success managing 70+ accounts across 7 states for over 25 years on the Lehman Brothers/ Barclays platform.

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