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Robert S. Zuccaro will rejoin GAMCO Investors as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He is currently the chief financial officer of Commonwealth Management Partners. Previously, Zuccaro was executive vice president and chief accounting officer with National Financial Partners. Prior to joining GAMCO originally in 1998, Zuccaro was the vice president and treasurer of Cybex International, where he worked for 13 years. Before, that he was with Shearson Lehman, and began his career with Ernst & Young.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said Friday that Enforcement Executive Director James S. Shorris will leave the self-regulatory agency in April and return to the private sector.More information about the reason for Shorris’ departure or his future role were not disclosed.

Baird has added one advisor to its Charlotte, N.C., office, and three to its Charleston, S.C., office. All four come from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

FSC Securities Corp., based in Atlanta has already picked up more than 50 of QA3's old reps.

Renshaw Bay is backed by RIT Capital Partners and Reinet Investments.

Through an internal memo issued Wednesday, Bank of America executives announced it hired Tom McAuliffe, the former director of consulting at Morgan Stanley's Graystone Consulting, to head institutional consulting at BofA Merrill Lynch.

NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Borse announced their merger Tuesday morning, creating “the world’s premier global exchange group, the world leader in derivatives trading and risk management, and the largest, most well-known venue for capital raising and equities trading,” the exchanges said.

Manulife Asset Management has acquired the assets of Optique Capital Management of Milwaukee, Wisc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the companies did say that Optique has $800 million in mutual fund and separately managed account assets under management.

Frank Moore has joined CPI Qualified Plan Consultants as a retirement plan consultant in the Birmingham, Ala., consulting office. Moore will work with plan sponsors and financial advisers on their qualified and non-qualified retirement plan programs.

Hughes, formerly a business development partner at private equity firm Camden Partners, was named to the newly created position of managing director of endowments and foundations.