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Fund of hedge fund firm Silver Creek Capital Management has added four investment and business development professionals to the firm’s global team.

New York-based Titan Capital Group has hired hedge fund industry veteran Keith Danko as a partner.

Technology services provider Eze Castle Integration has formed a new subsidiary aimed at delivering a comprehensive fund of funds technology platform to the investment management industry.

Things continue going from bad to worse for former Bernard Madoff feeder fund mogul J. Ezra Merkin.

Robert Moffat, the former IBM executive-turned-insider-trading tipster, was given until next June to begin serving his six-month sentence in the Galleon Group case. But the waiting, apparently, proved to stressful.

Commodity hedge fund Armajaro Asset Management’s flagship hedge fund remains down more than 7% this year after posting a small positive return last month.

A new Singapore hedge fund founded by a former ABN Amro Group executive is seeking US$100 million for its maiden fund.

Consolidation isn’t the only force likely to shrink the hedge fund industry, according to a new report.

September has become something of the month of the comeback. The latest hedge fund veteran to plot his return as summer wanes is Ray Iwanowski, the former co-head of Goldman Sachs’ Global Alpha fund.

Iwanowski has been speaking with prime brokers in New York, AR magazine reports. In the talks, Iwanowski, who left Goldman early last year after his one-time “Cadillac of hedge funds” proved a Pinto, has sought to determine what strategies investors are interested in.

The former trading chief at Capstone Investment Advisors is set to launch his own volatility arbitrage hedge fund.