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Charles B. “Chuck” Lawless was promoted to senior managing director in the investment advisory group at Mesirow Financial.   

Roberta Casper Watson has been named head of the welfare benefits department at the Wagner Law Group.

Jeff Pawliger has been named regional director in Janus’ Advisor Solutions Group.

Andrew Kirton, Jeff Schutes and Akhil Sethi have been appointed to senior positions in investments and retirement divisions in global regions at Mercer.

Steven Shackelford joined PAi as executive vice president of sales.

Mike Flahaven and Brian Forneris are newly appointed retirement plan consultants for the central sales region of StanCorp Equities Inc., a subsidiary of StanCorp Financial Group Inc.

David S. Israel was promoted to senior managing director of the investment advisory group at Mesirow Financial.

Employee benefits consulting firm Cammack LaRhette hired Arthur Scalise as managing actuary.

Eddie Griffin joined July Business Services as the Northeast regional sales consultant.

Staffan Lindfeldt was named head of global emerging market equities and Isabelle Alexander, investment manager of global emerging market equities at Barings Asset Management.

Rich Hunter has been named president and chief operating officer at Commonwealth Financial Network, effective immediately.

John Mason, chief investment officer at OneAmerica Financial Partners Inc., was promoted to senior vice president.

 Elyse Mittenthal and Claire Guido joined UBS’ corporate employee financial service division, and Matthew Strapko, Michaelangelo Dooley and Michael Hersh are new to its participant experience team.  

Ryan Sullivan has been made principal-in-charge of Rehmann Retirement Builders.

Lynn Gillis was hired as vice president of client services and Ryan P. McDermott, as vice president of business development by Longfellow Benefits.

Natalie Young joined CUNA Mutual Group and its affiliate, CPI Qualified Plan Consultants Inc., as a regional vice president for southern California.

Patrick Labriola joined the Newport Group as regional director covering the Northwest.  

Patrick J. Bello was named 401(k) national sales director of Mutual of Omaha Retirement Services.

Kerry James has been named head of institutional distribution at Robeco Investment Management, effective June 1.

Wilshire Consulting has added actuarial services to complement its investment advisory and outsourcing business.