 Schiff began his career as a stockbroker at a Shearson Lehman Brothers brokerage in the early 1990s.In 1996, Schiff and a partner acquired an inactive brokerage firm, renamed it Euro Pacific Capital, and began operating it from a small office in Los Angeles, relocating the firm to Darien, Connecticut, in 2005, and later to Westport, Connecticut where it is currently headquartered, with branch offices across the US in Scottsdale, Arizona, Boca Raton, Newport Beach, Manhattan Beach, California, and New York City.Schiff founded Euro Pacific Bank, a full reserve banking operation originally in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.