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Great-West Retirement Services has hired Adam Blitz as regional sales director for Long Island, a newly created position in which he is responsible for developing 401(k) plan business through brokers, financial advisers, consultants, wirehouses and third-party administrators.

The Boston fund company named D. William Kohli, Michael V. Salm and Paul D. Scanlon co-heads of fixed income.

UBS has hired Louise F. Gunderson as a new managing director of investments for its midtown New York office.

Advisor-owned firm HighTower has expanded its advisor force with the addition of four Merrill Lynch veterans in Portland, Maine.

The St. Louis brokerage company continues to its slow-but-steady growth with new addition in Connecticut.

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.

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.

The New York-based company announced it hired Robert Glaser as part of its effort to expand in the greater Las Vegas region.

Two teams from D.A. Davidson have joined Raymond James to open an independent branch office in Spokane Valley, Wash.

Barclays Wealth has added Daniel Esslinger to its team as managing director and head of Latin American relationship management and distribution, boosting the firm’s decision last year to focus on that region.

In less than two weeks, Peter Bain will take over as president and CEO of Old Mutual Asset Management, a measure that would permanently replace the role left vacant following Tom Turpin's departure in September.

Emerging Global Advisors named former UBS Wealth Management Americas CEO Marten S. Hoekstra as its new chief executive.

Charles Slater and Bryan Nunberg both join Bank of America from Morgan Stanley.

Led by a former Morgan Stanley Smith Barney exec, the company will target family clients.