Fortis hires institutional sales exec

Bruce D. George joined Fortis Investments as a senior vice president, institutional sales, said John Brown, executive vice president, sales. It is a new position. He will focus on large corporate pension funds, endowments and foundations, and public pension funds. Mr. George was an executive director and client adviser with UBS Global Asset Management. UBS spokesman Peter Casey said Mr. George left UBS at the end of 2004 as the money manager was combining its U.S. and Canadian institutional sales operations, and he was not replaced.