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                            <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">par
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        indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock that may be issuable as a
        result of a stock split, stock dividend, or similar transactions under the
        Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. Omnibus Incentive and Equity Plan (the
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        Investment Partners, Inc. to pay deferred compensation in the future to
        eligible participants in accordance with the terms of the Virtus
        Investment Partners, Inc. Excess Investment Plan (the &#8220;Excess Incentive
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  required by Part&#160;I to be contained in the
  Section&#160;10(a)&#160;prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement
  in accordance with Rule&#160;428 under the Securities Act and the Note to
  Part&#160;I of Form&#160;S-8.</font></div>
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  Commission on June 30, 2008, as amended, including the description of the
  Company&#8217;s common stock contained therein, and any amendment or report filed for
  the purpose of updating such description.</font></div>
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  Act of 1934,&#160;&#160;after the date of this registration statement (the
  &#8220;Registration Statement&#8221;) and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
  that indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters
  all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated herein
  by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the
  date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a
  document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be
  deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement
  to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently
  filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
  modifies or supersedes such statement.&#160;&#160;Any such statement so modified
  or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
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  under the Excess Investment Plan are unsecured general obligations of the
  Company to pay the deferred compensation of participants in the plan. The
  deferred compensation obligations under the plan will rank equally with the
  Company&#8217;s other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness from time to time
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  Excess Investment Plan and is based on elections by the
  participants.&#160;&#160;Participants designate the funds (in any combination of
  the funds offered as investment options under the plan) in which their
  hypothetical account balances will be deemed to be invested for purposes of
  determining the amount of earnings and losses to be credited to their
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  the funds in which he or she is deemed invested. The participant may change his
  or her choice of funds at any time.&#160;&#160;All amounts credited under the
  Excess Investment Plan, with the exception of any matching contributions which
  may be made by the Company, are immediately vested.</font></div>
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  upon a scheduled distribution date or the participant&#8217;s retirement, long-term
  disability, death or other employment termination in accordance with the terms
  of the plan and subject to Section 409A of the Internal Revenue
  Code.&#160;&#160;A participant may also receive a distribution earlier than
  initially elected in the event of an unforeseeable emergency.</font></div>
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  of the State of Delaware, the Company has provided in its Certificate of
  Incorporation that no director shall be liable to the corporation or its
  stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director,
  except to the extent that the director breached his or her duty of loyalty to
  the corporation or its stockholders, failed to act in good faith, engaged in
  intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, authorized the unlawful
  payment of a dividend or approved an unlawful stock repurchase or redemption, or
  derived an improper personal benefit.</font></div>
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  the power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be
  made a party to any suit or proceeding because such person is or was a director,
  officer, employee or agent of the corporation or was serving, at the request of
  the corporation, as a director, officer, employee or agent of another
  corporation against all cost actually and reasonably incurred by him in
  connection with such suit or proceeding if he or she acted in good faith and in
  a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best
  interests of the corporation.&#160;&#160;Similar indemnity is permitted to be
  provided to such persons in connection with an action or suit by or in the right
  of a corporation, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or
  she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
  corporation, and provided further that such person shall not have been adjudged
  liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his duty to the
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        Investment Partners, Inc. Omnibus Incentive and Equity Plan (incorporated
        herein by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Company Form 10, filed June 30,
        2008 as amended)</font></div>
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        Investment Partners, Inc. Excess Investment Plan (incorporated herein by
        reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Company Form 10, filed June 30, 2008 as
        amended)</font></div>
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        date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective
        amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a
        fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration
        Statement;</font></div>
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        include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution
        not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material
        change to such information in the Registration
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  required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is
  contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant
  pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
  that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.</font></div>
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        for the purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of
        1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
        registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
        offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
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        securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
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        any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
        Registrant&#8217;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of
        the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of
        an employee benefit plan&#8217;s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
        Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the
        Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
        relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such
        securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide
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        as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of
        1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of
        the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
        Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
        Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
        expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a
        claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment
        by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
        controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any
        action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
        controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the
        Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been
        settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
        jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against
        public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final
        adjudication of such issue.</font></div>
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  to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has
  duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
  undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Hartford, State of
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  o
  As filed with
        the Securities and Exchange Commission on December [  ],
        2008
  Registration No.
        ___________
  SECURITIES
  AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
  WASHINGTON,
  D.C. 20549
  FORM
  S-8
  REGISTRATION
  STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
  VIRTUS
  INVESTMENT PARTNERS, INC.
  (Exact
  Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
  Delaware
  95-4191764
  (State
        or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)
  (I.R.S.
        Employer Identification No.)
  100 Pearl
  Street, 9
  th
  Floor
  Hartford,
  CT 06103
  (Address,
  including Zip Code, of Principal Executive Offices)
  Virtus
  Investment Partners, Inc. Omnibus Incentive and Equity Plan
  Virtus
  Investment Partners, Inc.  Excess Investment Plan
  (Full
  Title of the Plan)
  Kevin J.
  Carr, Esq.
  Virtus
  Investment Partners, Inc.
  100 Pearl
  Street, 9
  th
  Floor
  Hartford,
  CT 06103
  (800)
  248-7971
  (Name,
  Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Agent
  For Service)
  With a
  copy to:
  Warren J.
  Casey, Esq.
  Day
  Pitney LLP
  P.O. Box
  1945
  Morristown,
  New Jersey 07962-1945
  (973)
  966-6300
  Indicate
  by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
  accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See
  definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," and "smaller
  reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
  Large accelerated filer
  o
  Accelerated
        filer
  o
  Non-accelerated filer
  x
  Smaller
        reporting company
  o
  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
  CALCULATION
  OF REGISTRATION FEE
  Title
        of Each Class
  of
        Securities To
  Be
        Registered
  Amount
  to
        be
  Registered
  Proposed
        Maximum
  Offering
        Price
  Per
        Share
  Proposed
        Maximum
  Aggregate
  Offering
        Price
  Amount
        of
  Registration
  Fee
  Common
        Stock, $0.01
  par
        value per share
  1,800,000(1)
  $25.50(2)
  $45,900,000
  $1,803.87
  Deferred
        Compensation
  Obligations(3)
  $4,000,000
  100%
  $4,000,000
  $157.20(4)
  (1)
  In
        addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933,
  as amended (the
        "Securities Act"), this registration statement also covers an
        indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock that may be issuable as a
        result of a stock split, stock dividend, or similar transactions under the
        Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. Omnibus Incentive and Equity Plan (the
        "Plan").
  (2)
  Estimated
        pursuant to Rule 457(c) and 457(h) of the Securities Act solely for
        purposes of calculating the amount of the registration
    fee.
  (3)
  The
        Deferred Compensation Obligations are unsecured obligations of Virtus
        Investment Partners, Inc. to pay deferred compensation in the future to
        eligible participants in accordance with the terms of the Virtus
        Investment Partners, Inc. Excess Investment Plan (the "Excess Incentive
        Plan").
  (4)
  Based
        upon estimated obligations in the amount of
  $4,000,000
  , used solely
        for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457
        of the Securities Act of 1933, as
  amended.
  PART
  I
  INFORMATION
  REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
  ITEM
  1.
  Plan
  Information
  ITEM
  2.
  Registrant Information
  and Employee Plan Annual Information
  Information
  required by Part I to be contained in the
  Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement
  in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act and the Note to
  Part I of Form S-8.
  PART
  II
  INFORMATION
  REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
  ITEM
  3.
  Incorporation of
  Documents by Reference
  The following documents filed by Virtus
  Investment Partners, Inc. (the "Company") with the Securities and Exchange
  Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated herein by reference:
  (i)           The
  Company's registration statement on Form 10 (File No. 001-10994) filed with the
  Commission on June 30, 2008, as amended, including the description of the
  Company's common stock contained therein, and any amendment or report filed for
  the purpose of updating such description.
  All documents filed by the Company
  pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
  Act of 1934,  after the date of this registration statement (the
  "Registration Statement") and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
  that indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters
  all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated herein
  by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the
  date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a
  document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be
  deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement
  to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently
  filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
  modifies or supersedes such statement.  Any such statement so modified
  or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
  constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
  ITEM
  4.
  Description of
  Securities
  The deferred compensation obligations
  under the Excess Investment Plan are unsecured general obligations of the
  Company to pay the deferred compensation of participants in the plan. The
  deferred compensation obligations under the plan will rank equally with the
  Company's other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness from time to time
  outstanding.
  The amount of compensation which may be
  deferred by each participant is determined in accordance with the terms of the
  Excess Investment Plan and is based on elections by the
  participants.  Participants designate the funds (in any combination of
  the funds offered as investment options under the plan) in which their
  hypothetical account balances will be deemed to be invested for purposes of
  determining the amount of earnings and losses to be credited to their
  accounts.
  The rate of return earned on a
  participant's hypothetical account balance is based on the actual performance of
  the funds in which he or she is deemed invested. The participant may change his
  or her choice of funds at any time.  All amounts credited under the
  Excess Investment Plan, with the exception of any matching contributions which
  may be made by the Company, are immediately vested.
  Under the
  Excess Investment Plan, each participant's account will be payable only in cash
  upon a scheduled distribution date or the participant's retirement, long-term
  disability, death or other employment termination in accordance with the terms
  of the plan and subject to Section 409A of the Internal Revenue
  Code.  A participant may also receive a distribution earlier than
  initially elected in the event of an unforeseeable emergency.
  The Company may amend or terminate the
  plan at any time in accordance with the terms of the plan.
  ITEM
  5.
  Interests of Named
  Experts and Counsel
  Not applicable.
  ITEM
  6.
  Indemnification of
  Directors and Officers
  The Company is a Delaware
  corporation.  Pursuant to Section 102 of the General Corporation Law
  of the State of Delaware, the Company has provided in its Certificate of
  Incorporation that no director shall be liable to the corporation or its
  stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director,
  except to the extent that the director breached his or her duty of loyalty to
  the corporation or its stockholders, failed to act in good faith, engaged in
  intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, authorized the unlawful
  payment of a dividend or approved an unlawful stock repurchase or redemption, or
  derived an improper personal benefit.
  Section 145 of the General Corporation
  Law of the State of Delaware provides, generally, that a corporation shall have
  the power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be
  made a party to any suit or proceeding because such person is or was a director,
  officer, employee or agent of the corporation or was serving, at the request of
  the corporation, as a director, officer, employee or agent of another
  corporation against all cost actually and reasonably incurred by him in
  connection with such suit or proceeding if he or she acted in good faith and in
  a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best
  interests of the corporation.  Similar indemnity is permitted to be
  provided to such persons in connection with an action or suit by or in the right
  of a corporation, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or
  she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
  corporation, and provided further that such person shall not have been adjudged
  liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his duty to the
  corporation.
  2
  Section
  6.04 of Article VI of the By-laws of the Company provides in effect that the
  Company shall indemnify its directors, officers and employees to the extent
  permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
  The Company maintains directors' and
  officers' liability insurance which, subject to policy limits, indemnifies
  directors and officers for losses as a result of claims based upon certain acts
  or omissions as directors and officers of the Company.
  ITEM
  7.
  Exemption from
  Registration Claimed
  Not applicable.
  ITEM
  8.
  Exhibits
  4.1
  Virtus
        Investment Partners, Inc. Omnibus Incentive and Equity Plan (incorporated
        herein by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Company Form 10, filed June 30,
        2008 as amended)
  4.2
  Virtus
        Investment Partners, Inc. Excess Investment Plan (incorporated herein by
        reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Company Form 10, filed June 30, 2008 as
        amended)
  5.1
  Opinion
        of Day Pitney LLP
  23.1
  Consent
        of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  23.2
  Consent
        of Day Pitney LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 hereto)
  24.1
  Power
        of Attorney
  ITEM
  9.
  Undertakings
  (a)
  The
        undersigned Registrant hereby
  undertakes:
  (1)
  To
        file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
        post-effective amendment to this Registration
    Statement:
  (i)
  To
        include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act
        of 1933;
  (ii)
  To
        reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective
        date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective
        amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a
        fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration
        Statement;
  (iii)
  To
        include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution
        not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material
        change to such information in the Registration
    Statement;
  Provided, however
  ,
  that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information
  required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is
  contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant
  pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
  that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.
  3
  (2)
  That,
        for the purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of
        1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
        registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
        offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
        bona fide offering thereof.
  (3)
  To
        remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
        securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
        offering.
  (b)
  The
        undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining
        any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
        Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of
        the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of
        an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
        Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the
        Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
        relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such
        securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide
        offering thereof.
  (c)
  Insofar
        as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of
        1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of
        the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
        Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
        Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
        expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a
        claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment
        by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
        controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any
        action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
        controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the
        Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been
        settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
        jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against
        public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final
        adjudication of such issue.
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  SIGNATURES
  Pursuant to the requirement of the
  Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds
  to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has
  duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
  undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Hartford, State of
  Connecticut, on December 19, 2008.
  VIRTUS
        INVESTMENT PARTNERS, INC.
  By:
  /s/
  George
        R. Aylward, Jr.
  George
        R. Aylward, Jr.
  President,
        Chief Executive Officer and Director
  Pursuant to the requirements of the
  Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the
  following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
  /s/
  George
        R. Aylward, Jr.
  President,
        Chief Executive Officer and Director
  (Principal
        Executive Officer)
  George
        R. Aylward, Jr.
  /s/
  Michael
        A. Angerthal
  Chief
        Financial Officer
  (Principal
        Financial Officer and Principal Accounting
  Michael
        A. Angerthal
  Officer)
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  INDEX TO
  EXHIBITS
  4.1
  Virtus
        Investment Partners, Inc. Omnibus Incentive and Equity Plan (incorporated
        herein by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Company Form 10, filed June 30,
        2008 as amended)
  4.2
  Virtus
        Investment Partners, Inc. Excess Investment Plan (incorporated herein by
        reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Company Form 10, filed June 30, 2008 as
        amended)
  5.1
  Opinion
        of Day Pitney LLP
  23.1
  Consent
        of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  23.2
  Consent
        of Day Pitney LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 hereto)
  24.1
  Power
        of Attorney
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