Morgan Stanley Adds to Hedge Fund Stable

Here’s betting that John Mack has a very focused Christmas list.

Picking up where he left off before Black Friday, the Morgan Stanley chairman has scooped up his fifth hedge fund firm of the year. An internal memo said the giant investment bank had acquired substantially all of the $221 million in assets of New York-based long/short credit manager Brookville Capital Management, and hired its investment team, Reuters reports.