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Eaton Vance has hired Vincent Leon as director of offshore sales, reporting to John Moninger, managing director, retail sales. Leon hails from 3D Asset Management where he served as national sales manager.

Here’s a sampling of bank reps who were recently promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility.

AdvisorShares is launching the AdvisorShares Athena International Bear ETF (HDGI) on July 19. HDGI is subadvised by Greenwood Village, Colo.-based AthenaInvest Advisors.

Bloomfield, Mich.-based Flexible Plan Investments has launched The Gold Bullion Strategy Fund (QGLDX), which the firm is touting as the industry’s first gold bullion fund offered to retail investors through a mutual fund product

Readers weigh in on HSBC’s decision to put its advisors on salary.

Regions Insurance opened a new office in Columbia, S.C., its first in South Carolina. The new office is the third significant addition to Regions Insurance in the last six months.

Bond funds netted redemptions of $59 billion (excluding exchange-traded funds) last month, according to Strategic Insight.

Alternative mutual fund shop Collins Capital has appointed Casey Wamsley as a director, focusing on both the mutual fund and limited partnership businesses of Collins Capital.

To help financial services firms adhere to corporate and regulatory standards when it comes to social media communciations, Actiance unveiled review and approval capabilities to its Socialite social-media management program.

USAA Investments has added two new mutual funds to its lineup.