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Multi-asset manager Virtus Investment Partners has launched a mobile app designed to give users access to what the firm has to say about the latest developments in the financial markets.

Retirement plan provider ShareBuilder 401k has expanded its All-ETF 401(k) platform with five new funds.

Santa Fe, N.M.-based Teucrium Trading, LLC today unveiled the Teucrium Agricultural Fund, which is being touted as the first fund to offer exposure to agricultural commodities in a single fund of exchange-traded funds.

Pentegra Retirement Services has hired Pete Swisher to serve as senior vice president for national sales.

Financial services firms, including mutual fund managers, admitted that they invited negative public perception by their actions, or inactions, according to the 2012 Makovsky Wall Street Reputation Study.

iShares has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a frontier market exchange-traded fund.

Aston Asset Management, LP has promoted Mark Kim to managing director, Southeast Region where he will be responsible for external sales. Kim has been with Aston for seven years.

John Hancock Financial Services has launched a television campaign, titled “You Are Not Alone,” that Hancock’s chief marketing officer, David Longfritz, says taps into the frustrations, as well as the resilience, of American investors now.

Dallas, Texas-based Pyxis Capital, L.P. has launched the Pyxis Natural Resources Fund to invest all of its assets in the Ascendant Natural Resources Master Fund, which is managed by Ascendant Advisors, LLC.

Peter Graham is the head of Product Development and Marketing at New York-based Mirae Asset Global Investments (USA), an arm of an Asian financial services firm that tries to provide investors in the United States with access to investments in emerging markets.

J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services today said that it has been appointed by Yorkville ETF Advisors, LLC to provide custody and exchange traded fund transfer agency services to its newly launched Yorkville High Income master limited partnerships ETF.

Portland, Ore.-based Invest n Retire, LLC, a record keeper for tax-deferred retirement plans, has appointed Agustin J. (Gus) Fleites as chief executive officer.

The independent broker-dealer network National Planning Holdings, Inc. has named Frank Hayn vice president of retirement plans.

Horizon Investments has launched a no-load actively-managed mutual fund that invests in exchange-traded funds.

Bank of America today released a its own version of a multiple employer plan for small businesses, dubbed Merrill Edge Small Business 401(k), targeting plan sponsors with 401(k) plan assets under $250,000.

Standard Retirement Services, Inc. is launching two enhanced retirement plan websites to provide advisors, plan sponsors and participants with a “more informative and intuitive online experience”.

Wilshire Associates Inc. has promoted John Hindman to the role of president of the firm.

Analytical market data provider Benchmark Solutions has appointed Tim Grant has head of sales and marketing.

The people and events that took center stage in Phoenix, starting March 19.

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