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This week in new hires, new chair and committee announcements, the CFP Board announced new chair appointments; John Byrne and Bryan Hissong returned to Prudential Retirement; Jac McLean was named head of distribution at Hartford Mutual Funds; Aaron Meder advanced at LGIMA; Michael Palmieri joined Pentegra Retirement Services; and Jim Le Rose went to Fiduciary Trust.
Also, Advisor Impact welcomed Tim Whiting; John Johnson was named president of NPC; Integrated Financial Partners announced a new strategic partnership; Commonfund announced a number of promotions, changes and additions; and Kleinberg Kaplan welcomed Claudio De Vellis and Dorothy Santos.
CFP Board Announces Chair Appointments
The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP Board) announced Monday the appointments of its 2013 chairs to the disciplinary and ethics commission, public policy council, council on education and council on examinations.
Martin Siesta was named chairman of the disciplinary and ethics commission. He is the founding principal of Compass Wealth Management LLC in Maplewood, N.J. Previously, he was a senior financial planner with the Wealth Planning Group, an office of Metropolitan Life.
Roger Begin was named chairman of the public policy council. He is the sales director for BNY Mellon's wealth management group for the Rhode Island region. He has more than 15 years of investment sales experience, working as a private client advisor at Bank of America Private Bank prior to joining BNY Mellon.
Dr. Jesse Arman was named chairman of the council on education. He is the vice president of regulatory and government affairs at the College for Financial Planning in Greenwood Village, Colo. Prior to that, he spent 15 years as the college's vice president of academic affairs. He has been involved in financial services and education for 35 years as a higher education administrator, and concurrently as a financial and tax practitioner.
Craig Lemoine was named chairman of the council on examinations. He holds the Jarrett L. Davis Distinguished Professorship in financial planning technology at The American College, where he has been an assistant professor since 2008. He began his career in 1998, and previously worked for PIE Technologies as a financial analyst and at Lincoln Financial Advisers as a team manager and financial planner.
Prudential Retirement Welcomes Back Byrne, Hissong
Prudential Retirement, a business unit of Prudential Financial, recently welcomed back two sales team members, John Byrne and Bryan Hissong. Byrne has been appointed vice president of institutional retirement plans, and is now responsible for the development and sales of large tax-exempt, Taft-Hartley and corporate defined-contribution and defined-benefit markets. Hyssong, who will be located in Overland Park, Kans., has been named vice president, regional sales director, and will be responsible for the new business development and client relations for the south region.
Byrne has more than 17 years of experience and returns from Lincoln Financial Group, where he was vice president of institutional retirement plans.
Hissong, who also returns from Lincoln Financial Group, originally joined the firm in 2002. He has been in the retirement industry since 1989, and previously worked for American United Life, AIM Funds and MFS Funds. Hartford Mutual Funds Names Jac McLean Head of Distribution
Hartford Mutual Funds has named Jac McLean (left) head of distribution. In this newly created position, he will be responsible for retail sales, institutional sales and key account management.
With more than 20 years in the industry, McLean began his career at MFS Fund Distributors, where he held positions of increasing responsibility during his 16 years at the firm. Most recently, he served as head of U.S. retail and offshore sales at Eaton Vance.
LGIMA Announces Leadership Promotion
Legal & General Investment Management America (LGIMA) announced Monday that Aaron Meder, head of U.S. pension solutions, has been promoted to global head of solutions. In his expanded role, Meder will continue to oversee the U.S. liability-driven investment (LDI) business. He succeeds Kerrigan Procter, who has been promoted to managing director, annuities, legal and general, and will report to Mark Zinkula, CEO of LGIM.
Meder joined LGIMA in 2010. Prior to that, he was a managing director and head of asset-liability investment solutions, Americas for UBS Global Asset Management. Previously, he held roles with Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt Worldwide.
Michael Palmiere Joins Pentegra Retirement Services
Pentegra Retirement Services announced Tuesday that Michael Palmiere has joined the organization as senior vice president and chief operations officer. He will oversee the firm's actuarial services, defined contribution services, information technology, trust services and TPA operations areas. He will report to John Pinto, who will assume the role of president in July of this year, as previously announced.
Palmiere previously held senior level positions at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch and several large public accounting firms. Fiduciary Trust Co. International Appoints Jim Le Rose
Fiduciary Trust Co. International recently announced the appointment of Jim Le Rose as managing director and relationship manager.
Le Rose joins with more than 28 years of experience working with individuals, families and foundations. Prior to joining, he served as a senior relationship manager with Lazard Wealth Management and senior client account manager at Bessemer Trust. Previously, he was a private banker with Chase Manhattan Private Bank. He began his career at Citibank, based both in Europe, where he was responsible for U.S. correspondent banking services, and in the Middle East, where he was in charge of institutional relationships.
Advisor Impact Expands Management Team
Advisor Impact announced Tuesday the appointment of Tim Whiting (left) to the position of vice president, business development. He will report directly to CEO Julie Littlechild.
Prior to joining, he was the group publisher, financial planning at SourceMedia. He previously served as the corporate relations team leader for the Financial Planning Association, and held senior business development roles at Inc. magazine and Scientific American.
National Planning Corp. Names John Johnson President of Broker-Dealer
National Planning Corp. announced recently that John Johnson has been promoted to president of NPC, which is part of National Planning Holdings. NPC was created specifically for the independent investment professional and Johnson has been the firm's interim president since November. Prior to his promotion, he held dual roles as SVP of NPC and first vice president, NPH. He will now lead all departments including strategic development, product development, and advisor planning and education.
Johnson has more than 25 years in the financial services industry, and earlier was vice president, account management for MetLife Investors, formerly Security First Group. Integrated Financial Partners Expands National Footprint
Integrated Financial Partners (IFP) announced Monday that it has entered into its latest strategic partnership with Burke & Associates CPAs, a full-service public accounting and consulting firm. This alliance adds to the over 100 such relationships already in place at IFP.
Prior to founding Burke & Associates in 2003, John Burke was a partner with BDO USA LLP. He has approximately 30 years of experience working with closely held companies and their owners, as well as extensive experience helping clients with acquisition, sale and financing transactions. He is a registered representative of Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp.
Jason Horwitz is a member of IFP and a registered representative of Lincoln Financial Advisors. He has been in the financial services industry for more than 11 years, and brings a depth of experience in retirement planning, wealth management, portfolio analysis, estate planning and risk management analysis. He will offer a range of financial planning services to the clients of Burke & Associates. While the two firms will work together, each firm is independently owned and operated.
Commonfund Capital Announces Promotions, Additions, Changes
Commonfund announced Monday three promotions and two additions to Commonfund Capital, its wholly owned subsidiary investing in global private equity, venture capital and natural resources.
Leenong Li, who heads Commonfund Capital's Beijing office and Asian initiatives, has been promoted to managing director. Li joined in 2010, and has more than 25 years' experience in global private capital investing. From 2004 to 2009, he was the managing director at Jerusalem Venture Partners' Shanghai office, and a partner at China Broadband Capital.
Managing Director Mark Hoeing, who has led Commonfund Capital's London office since 2009, now has the added title of head of Europe. He joined in 2005. Managing Director Brijesh Jeevarathnam, who joined in 2006, is now co-head of venture capital. Both Hoeing and Jeevarathnam will participate on the investment committee with observer status.
Tim Yates rejoined as a managing director, a new position responsible for portfolio construction of its separate/custom accounts. He originally joined the firm's rotational analyst program in 2000, and was part of its strategic solutions team for the last 10 years.
Dave Jensen joined as an associate director, a new position focusing on private equity. He comes from Portfolio Advisors, where he specialized in due diligence on private equity, venture capital and emerging markets opportunities.
Commonfund also announced that it has named Bradford Gallagher as chairman of its board of trustees. He will succeed Laurance (Laurie) Hoagland, who has retired from the board after serving a 12-year term. Commonfund also announced the retirement of Charles (Jeff) Pippin from the board after the conclusion of his 12-year term.
Gallagher has been a member of the board since 2005, and is most recently founder and president of Spyglass Investments LLC. His career spans 30 years in the securities and investment industry. In 1995 he founded Cypress Holding Company with Berkshire Partners of Boston, Mass. Kleinberg Kaplan Adds Claudio De Vellis and Dorothy Santos
Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen P.C. announced recently that attorneys Claudio De Vellis and Dorothy Santos have joined the firm in the estate planning and administration practice. De Vellis joins as a member and Santos joins as an associate.
De Vellis, a trusts and estates attorney with more than 15 years of experience, joins from the New York City office of Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP, where he was a partner in the estate planning and wealth protection practice. Previously, he practiced in the area of trusts and estates at other New York law firms, including Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. He is also a certified public accountant and practiced with a regional New York accounting firm prior to beginning his law career.
Santos also joins from the estate planning and wealth protection practice of the New York City office of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP.
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POETRY DISPATCH No.383 | October 5, 2012
Editor's Note: We must remember to revisit our own bookshelves more frequently for lost books, lost authors, writers who once made a difference in our lives even though we've moved on to other places these days, other interests, other ideas, and the stories and poems and books which once spoke to us have been gathering dust for years. I find myself late at night searching for something among all my poetry titles—and find something else instead. An old friend. Hmmmmmm…Marge Piercy…where have you been, love?…it's been such a long, long time…
Hmmmm, this is exactly the kind of poetry I had in mind…something I knew I had somewhere on my shelves. Exactly what the doctor would prescribe for a writing-friend to take to heart, mind, art…in a time of need.
Thumbing through the pages, rereading poems here and there, I recall putting this book in any number of hands: students, poets/writers who have never read it. Poets who are blocked, readers who just love to read poetry. Poets who are not quite beginners but new writers who have all the tools already at their disposal (perhaps born with them) yet are not sure what they should be making of everything. (For beginning poets…my preference would be 'concrete' imagery alone…haiku. Begin there.)
What Marge Piercy brings to the table in MY MOTHER'S BODY is an honest simplicity of language, such an everydayness of narrative welcoming one-and-all, layering, spreading into a poetry of resonance both recognizable and profound in the mystery of afterthought. It's all so good, so satisfying, you want to read it again immediately, to taste it twice, to re-live the narrative, to allow the poem to inhabit you till you see everything so clearly, so differently.
This is the kind of poetry that works best. The skill, the workmanship, the artistry is there…yet the poet isn't addressing the reader in a second language, as too many poets do these days. Nor does the poet speak down leaving you with chunks of prose, nothing that glows with an inner light.
So I take this book off the shelf, prepare to put it in my briefcase to either mail or hand to a friend tomorrow. But then, with books like these that I've rediscovered, poems like these that re-energize my faith in the written word once again—I just can't part with it. I even catch myself entertaining the notion of not revealing my love for this book to anyone, let alone pass it on one to someone who needs it at the moment much more than I. It's mine. I will never let it go. Who knows when I may need it again?
Instead I go to the computer…go to the internet…check the book dealers…find a good, affordable used copy…and send it to a friend who needs it. — Norbert Blei
The Listmaker
I am a compiler of lists: 1 bag
fine cracked corn, 1 sunflower seeds.
Thin tomato seedlings in hotbed;
check dahlias for sprouting.
Write Kathy. Call Lou. Pay
oil bill. Decide about Montana.
I find withered lists in pockets
of raincoats, reminders to buy birthday
presents for lovers who wear those warm
sweaters now in other lives. And what
did I decide about Montana? To believe
or disbelieve in its existence?
To rise at five some morning and fly there?
A buried assent or denial rots beneath.
I confess too that sometimes when I am listing
what I must do on a Monday, I will put on
tasks already completed for the neat pleasure
of striking them out, checking them off.
What do these lists mean? That I mistrust my memory,
that my attention, a huge hungry crow
settling to carrion even on the highway
hates to rise and flap off, wants to continue
feasting on what it has let down upon
folding the tent of its broad dusty wings.
That I like to conquer chaos one square
at a time like a board game.
That I fear the sins of omission more
than commission. That the whining saw
of the mill of time shrieks always in my ears
as I am borne with all the other logs
forward to be dismantled and rebuilt
into chairs, into frogs, into running water.
All lists start where they halt, in intention.
Only the love that is work completes them.
Peaches in November
On the peach's wide sieve of branches
the buds crouch already in whitish caterpillar fur.
All winter they must hold tight, as the supple
limbs are strained wide by the snow's weight,
as the ice coats them and turns them to glinting
small lights that splinter the sun to prickles.
Must hold tight against the wet warm tongue
of the thaw that lolls off the Gulf Stream
smelling of seaweed and the South, as if
not spring visited but summer in January.
Hold tight against the early March sun
with the wild tulips already opening
against the brown earth like painted mouths
when the ice will return as a thief
to take what has too widely trusted.
The news they carry can only be told once
to the bees each year. The bud is the idea
of sweetness, of savor, of round heft
waiting to build itself. As the winter
clamps down they hibernate in fur,
little polar bears on red twigs
dreaming of turning one sun into many.
Six Underrated Pleasures
1. Folding sheets
They must be clean.
There ought to be two of you
to talk as you work, your
eyes and hands meeting.
They can be crisp, a little rough
and fragrant from the line;
or hot from the dryer
as from an oven. A silver
grey kitten with amber
eyes to dart among
the sheets and wrestle and leap out
helps. But mostly pleasure
lies in the clean linen
slapping into shape.
Whenever I fold a fitted sheet
making the moves that are like
closing doors, I feel my mother.
The smell of clean laundry is hers.
2. Picking pole beans
Gathering tomatoes has no art
to it. Their ripe redness shouts.
But the scarlet runner beans twine
high and jungly on their tripods.
You must reach in delicately,
pinch off the sizable beans
but leave the babies to swell
into flavor. It is hide-and-seek,
standing knee deep in squash
plants running, while the bees
must be carefully disentangled
from your hair. Early you may see
the hummingbird, but best to wait
until the dew burns off.
Basket on your arm, your fingers
go swimming through the raspy leaves
to find prey just their size.
Then comes the minor zest
of nipping the ends off with your nails
and snapping them in pieces,
their retorts like soft pistolry.
Then eat the littlest raw.
3. Taking a hot bath
Surely nobody has ever decided
to go on a diet while in a tub.
The body is beautiful stretched
out under water wavering.
It suggests a long island of pleasure
whole seascapes of calm sensual
response, the nerves as gentle fronds
of waterweed swaying in warm currents.
Then if ever we must love ourselves i
n the amniotic fluid floating
a ship at anchor in a perfect
protected blood-warm tropical bay.
The water enters us and the minor
pains depart, supplanted guests,
the aches, the strains, the chills.
Muscles open like hungry clams.
Born again from my bath like a hot
sweet-tempered, sweet-smelling baby,
I am ready to seize sleep like a milky breast
or start climbing my day hand over hand.
4. Sleeping with cats
I am at once source
and sink of heat: giver
and taker. I am a vast
soft mountain of slow breathing.
The smells I exude soothe them:
the lingering odor of sex,
of soap, even of perfume,
its afteraroma sunk into skin
mingling with sweat and the traces
of food and drink.
They are curled into flowers
of fur, they are coiled
hot seashells of flesh
in my armpit, around my head
as if someone said, Close
your eyes and draw a picture.
Now open them and look.
5. Planting bulbs
No task could be easier.
Just dig the narrow hole,
drop in the handful of bone
meal and place the bulb
like a swollen brown garlic
clove full of hidden resources.
Their skin is the paper
of brown bags. The smooth
pale flesh peeks through.
Three times its height
is its depth, a parable
against hard straining.
The art is imagining
the spring landscape poking
through chrysanthemum, falling
leaves, withered brown lushness
of summer. The lines drawn
now, the colors mixed
will pop out of the soil
after the snow sinks from sight
into it. The circles,
the casual grace of tossed handfuls,
the soldierly rows will stand,
the colors sing sweet or sour.
When the first sharp ears
poke out, you are again
more audience than actor,
as if someone said, Close
your eyes and draw a picture.
Now open them and look.
6. Canning
We pour a mild drink each,
turn on the record player,
Beethoven perhaps or Vivaldi,
opera sometimes, and then together
in the steamy kitchen we put up
tomatoes, peaches, grapes, pears.
Each fruit has a different
ritual: popping the grapes
out of the skins like little
eyeballs, slipping the fuzz
from the peaches and seeing
the blush painted on the flesh beneath.
It is part game: What shall
we magic wand this into?
Peach conserve, chutney, jam,
brandied peaches. Tomatoes
turn juice, sauce hot or mild
or spicy, canned, ketchup.
Vinegars, brandies, treats
for the winter: pleasure
deferred. Canning is thrift
itself in sensual form,
surplus made beautiful, light
and heat caught in a jar.
I find my mother sometimes
issuing from the steam, aproned,
red faced, her hair up in a net.
Since her death we meet usually
in garden or kitchen. Ghosts
come reliably to savors, I learn.
In the garden your ashes,
in the kitchen your knowledge.
Little enough we can save
from the furnace of the sun
while the bones grow brittle as paper
and the hair itself turns ashen.
But what we can put by, we do
with gaiety and invention
while the music laps round us
like dancing light, but Mother,
this pleasure is only deferred.
We eat it all before it spoils.
[from MY MOTHER'S BODY, Poems by Marge Piercy, Pandora Press, 1985]


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