Hartford Hires Eaton Vance’s McLean for Mutual Fund Distribution

Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (HIG), the insurer selling life units, hired Jac McLean as head of distribution for the mutual-funds business.

McLean, 43, worked most recently as head of U.S. retail and offshore sales at Eaton Vance Corp. (EV), according to a Business Wire statement today from Hartford, which is based in the Connecticut city of the same name.

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