What’s news around the hedge fund industry for Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012:

Around the web

China sunshine funds miss hedge slump to triple assets. (Bloomberg, via SFGate.com)

Aviva Investors ‘disappointed’ by TPG offer for GlobeOp. (HFMWeek)

Asian hedge funds top equity markets again in 2011. (Dubai Chronicle)

Hedge funds add 2.26% in January. (FINalternatives)

Hedge funds redeem $5 billion in December 2011. (FINalternatives)

Atwater Capital shuts. (Financial News, via FINalternatives)

Red Kite chief Michael Farmer named U.K. Conservative Party Treasurer, succeeding Stanley Fink. (FINalternatives)

Taylor Rule founder John Taylor warns U.S. debt could ‘explode’. (ZeroHedge)

Prosecutors broaden charges in insider trading case. (WSJ.com)

Ackman’s Pershing Square funds up net 6.1% to 6.3% in January – letter. (Dow Jones Newswires)

Saw Mill Lane launches new market neutral portfolio. (HFMWeek)

What Andrew Lo learned from reading 21 books about the financial crisis. (NPR’s Planet Money)

Fortress Investment Group macro funds gain 2.21% to 3.82% in January. (WSJ.com)

A termination tempest in a teapot. (DealBook)

LIBOR probe keys on traders. (WSJ.com)

Creditex Group founder Sunil Hirani seeks approval to launch swaps exchange. (WSJ.com)

HFT and dark pools keep Australian Securities and Investment Commission on its toes. (Financial Standard)

Tactics over returns for major hedge funds in January. (Institutional Investor)

SEB merges Key Asset Management with alts team. (FINalternatives)

People moves

SkyBridge Capital’s Scott Prince departs firm, Tatiana Segal to head up risk management. (HFMWeek)

Loop Capital Markets taps four former MF Global execs. (Crain’s Chicago Business)

Jaimin Rangwalla quits Coatue Management to start new long/short fund. (HFMWeek)

Ex-TCI star Oscar Hattink emerges at rival Thélème Partners. (Financial Times)

Corey Ribotsky out as head of NIR Group hedge funds. (Long Island Business News)

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