Joan Perry Biographical Information
Joan Perry is the founder and President of Take Charge Financial!, a FINRA licensed securities firm, and she has over twenty-five years of experience as an investment banker and active money manager.
Her impressive professional market experience grew from founding the first female investment banking firm in the Country, known as Perry Investments Inc., and the firm structured and underwrote billions of dollars of municipal bonds for government entities, such as the State of California, and Cities of Chicago and Philadelphia – and her firm took risk for major bond positions in the market. Beginning in this capacity and continuing to the active management of money in the markets for individuals and institutions today, Joan demonstrates in-depth trading and market expertise.
This substantial market expertise distinguishes Joan from people who talk about the markets, instructing people with their money, but unlike Joan have not been active money managers in the forces of the markets. Joan’s advice is real, practical and applicable from her solid history and expertise, which she offers in today’s financial markets.
Joan received her MBA from Vanderbilt’s Owen School of Business, with an undergraduate from Denison University, and has become one of the Country’s leading experts on Women and Money. Her book, A Girl Needs Cash, Random House, focuses on enabling women with their wealth.
Joan has grownTake Charge Financial! to invest and educate, and serve in the development of personal wealth for StreetSmart investors. She hosts seminars, teleseminars and speaking engagements to inspire investing and money education, and this information is particularly important in the dramatically changing financial conditions of our times. As a keynote speaker, Joan has spoken to the San Jose Women’s Health Trust Conference, the Women’s Alumni groups of Arkansas and Oklahoma and the Michigan Economic Development Conference. She also spoke at the T Harv Eker’s Peak Potentials Extreme Wealth Program.
CentsAbility and Stock Market Mastery are two examples of the successful teleseminar courses that Joan teaches – which have dramatically aided many people here and internationally to hold on to the principal in their investment accounts in these turbulent market times because she teaches how to read market conditions in her trainings. Joan explains how to maneuver in any economic situation so that investors can stay on top and thrive. Take Charge Financial! Invest and Educates – and Joan welcomes opportunities to be with you and your group or organization.

