People Moves

New York-based real estate private equity and asset management firm Savanna has hired Ian Moore as senior analyst.

Geoffrey Barker, who managed Ballingal Investment Advisers' US$200 million Pacific Macro Fund until this summer, is returning with a new Asian macro fund.

Harvard Management alumnus Neil Mason has joined the Man Group as senior managing director and lead portfolio manager of Man GLG multi-strategy portfolios.

Brevan Howard Asset Management's push to build a staff at its year-old New York office has not been without hiccups.

Investcorp Group has placed former Lyxor Asset Management chief investment officer Lionel Erdely at the helm of its U.S.-based hedge fund business.

Hedge fund administrator SS&C Technologies has added a former IBM executive to its board of directors.

Odey Asset Management is hanging out its shingle in the world's hedge fund capital.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's top lawyer in the Fabrice Tourre case has chosen a new home.

After 25 years, FX Concepts is getting out of the hedge fund business, as poor performance and investor redemptions proved too much for the one-time currency giant to survive.

New York-based FX said yesterday that it would close its investment management business and liquidate all of its hedge funds. The firm expects the process to be completed by the end of next month.

Meredith Whitney, who came to fame in 2007 when she predicted trouble for Citigroup, has closed her brokerage and is planning a hedge fund.