19% returns a year? We're serious.

Who wants to earn 19% returns a year?

With a promise like that, you might be suspect of a scam. Understandably so, in a world of 1% returns on savings and a volatile market with Washington's decision paralysis encouraging fear and instability in the business world.

Yet those returns are what Joe Hahn promises, sans an elaborate Ponzi scheme. Hahn, who spoke at this month's Gulf Coast CEO Forum meeting, espoused the benefits of 80-20 management.