John Breon This is Me

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1. 1. On Wall Street

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   Published on: 3/1/2006   Last Visited: 3/1/2006

   "We wanted to make sure that our people have a sense of urgency about growing their practices," explains John Breon, senior vice president and director of private client branches at Piper.
   
   Still, Breon says the new rate cut only affects advisers with more than six years of experience.
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   Breon says executives made the change to provide advisers with a long-term, tax-deferred wealth plan."We wanted to put more equity and greater retirement benefits into the hands of our most successful people," says Breon.

2. 2. News Release - Piper Jaffray

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   Published on: 6/10/2003   Last Visited: 8/12/2006

   John Breon Named Director of Branches for U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray: 6/10/2003
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   MINNEAPOLIS -June 10, 2003-U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray (Piper Jaffray) today announced that John Breon has been appointed director of branches for the Private Advisory Services division and will report to Paul Grangaard, head of the Private Advisory Services division.
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   Breon was formerly a senior vice president of investments for the Private Advisory Services division.As director of branches for the firm, Breon will be responsible for the day-to-day senior leadership of the Private Advisory Services branch network, including client service, recruiting, financial advisor training and growth.The division currently operates 120 private client offices in 20 Midwest, Mountain, Southwest and Pacific states.
   
   "John has demonstrated outstanding leadership talents within the firm and in his active role in the community," said Paul Grangaard, head of the U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Private Advisory Services division.
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   "I have spent the last 21 years helping clients achieve their long-term financial goals," said John Breon, director of branches for the Private Advisory Services division."I look forward to leveraging my experience across the whole organization to further client service, financial advisor training and profitability."
   
   Breon has more than 21 year's of financial experience.Before his most recent post at Piper Jaffray, Breon was an assistant treasurer, at Innsbrook Corporation in St. Louis.
   
   Breon graduated with a bachelor's degrees in accounting from Regis University in Denver and holds a CIMA designation.Breon serves as vice president of the board for Catholic Youth Camps of St. Paul, Minn.He lives in Wayzata, Minn., with his wife Susan and their four children.

3. 3. Finance and Commerce

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   Published on: 10/29/2002   Last Visited: 10/29/2002

   John Breon, an investment officer at Piper Jaffray, agrees that gold is perceived as a hedge during slow economic times, even though the price of gold has fallen considerably since reaching the $400 mark in 1996.
   
   "When the stock market went down 20 percent this year and 15 to 20 percent last year, you would have been better off in gold," he said.
   
   But even with the poor performance of the stock market in the last couple of years, and the relatively stable price of gold over the last three years, Breon doesn't anticipate any big moves toward investing in precious metals.
   
   Over the long haul, he said, the stock market has consistently outperformed gold.
   
   "For 20 years, gold has been bad and for 20 years stocks have been good," he said."That's a generation that - all they know is stocks.There's a big retraining when you think of it that way."
   
   Still, there is plenty of evidence that people are seeking safer investments during uncertain times on Wall Street.U.S. money market funds - always a safe harbor - hit a record high $2.26 trillion last week, according to the Investment Company Institute., a Washington, D.C., based mutual fund trade group.