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BNY Mellon Asset Management has launched the BNY Mellon Enhanced Coefficient Select Fund, a global macro hedge fund, aimed at institutional investors.

The Kansas Public Employees Retirement System is looking for portable alpha managers to provide beta overlay management services to the $14 billion pension fund.

You’re probably familiar with Tim Sykes, the 26-year-old hedge fund manager named as one of the industry's most promising young stars by Trader Monthly two years ago, or maybe even Evan Vaughan, who at the ripe old age of 24 launched his first hedge fund last January.

R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management has hired Susan Roberts as a senior managing director responsible for high-level interdisciplinary initiatives involving investment, strategy and business development.

John W. Henry & Co. continued its winning ways in March with gains in five out of its six programs.

Pictet Asset Management, the institutional division of the Swiss private bank Pictet & Cie, has launched the Pictet Water Opportunities Fund, a Cayman-domiciled public and private equity investment vehicle.

Citadel Investment Group has hired Derek Kaufman as a senior managing director and head of its U.S. fixed income business.

Babson Capital Management has acquired the distressed debt hedge fund business of Murrary Capital Management, it said yesterday.

Bahrain-based Investcorp is prepping a new fund of hedge funds designed to profit from a turnaround in the credit markets.

AIG Capital Partners, a member company of AIG Investments, has raised almost $700 million for a new Latin America private equity fund.