Lifespan appoints Jonathan Pain to committee

Yasmine Raso

Senior Journalist, Financial Newswire

14 December 2022

Lifespan Financial Planning has appointed author of popular investment newsletter The Weekly Pain Report, Jonathan Pain, to its investment committee.

Pain brings over 35 years of experience in the international investment space, having managed investment teams in London, Bahrain and Australia, as well as publishing his newsletter that dissects financial markets and the world economy and featuring as a regular guest commentator on CNBC Television.

Lifespan CEO, Eugene Ardino said the committee would be strengthened by Mr Pain’s deep

experience and at times different way of viewing the world.

“Each Lifespan Investment Committee member has been chosen for their diverse background and specialist expertise to help ensure there is diversity in thinking and robust discussion at committee meetings, and ultimately a thoroughly debated approval decision,” Eugene Ardino, Lifespan chief executive, said.

“I look forward to Jonathan’s contribution to these rich debates and his entertaining and well researched perspective of the world and willingness to call things exactly as he sees them.”

Pain joins the Lifespan Investment Committee to research, review and approve products that are then used by over 250 financial advisers part of the firm’s advice network. The committee also manages the Lifespan MDA and Managed Portfolio Solution and the six portfolios available through its direct investment platform, Lifespan Invest.

He said he was “looking forward to joining the committee and working with members to try to determine what financial markets might look like in the future, and equipping advisers with the products and portfolios to navigate them well”.