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Simran Capital Management, a “pre-event driven” activist hedge fund focusing on stressed and distressed credit markets, is expanding its team with the addition of two new portfolio managers.

Belstar Group has appointed two senior investment professionals, Simina Farcasiu and Jeffrey Moses, to its fixed-income team.

Hedge funds are getting a big vote of confidence from a big institutional investor.

Another set of hedge fund indices show that investors would have been better off with a stock index mutual fund last month.

Just weeks after launching the first hedge fund index-linked exchange-traded fund in the U.S., IndexIQ has rolled out an ambitious plan for a whole suite of hedge fund replication ETFs.

Pequot Capital Management is on the move: The $4 billion hedge fund shop has signed a long-term lease on new Connecticut digs for its headquarters.

A former Occam Asset Management hedge fund manager has joined Baring Asset Management as the new head of its Japanese equities team.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, during a visit to Missouri this week, provided additional details on the administration’s plans for smart-grid development.

London-based Castlestone Management has begun marketing a modern art fund to investors abroad, pitching it as the only art investment vehicle currently available to individuals at the low minimum investment requirement of $10,000 or £10,000.  

The firm has set up its Collection of Modern Art fund, a mutual fund domiciled in the British Virgin Islands, as an eight-year investment vehicle, for launch at end of May.

Allen Wolkow and Janah Angelou, both formerly of Ramius Capital Group, have founded Hedge-Source, a securities-lending consulting firm.