What’s news around the hedge fund industry for Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012:

Around the web

Man Group among MSCI deletions. (Reuters)

Ex-Rubicon managers Santiago Alarco and Tim Attias ready hedge fund with Brummer & Partners. (FINalternatives)

Ex-King Street Capital Management trading chief Kieran Goodwin launches $500 million hedge fund – Panning Capital Management. (Bloomberg, via FINalternatives)

Texas Permanent School fund set to use two strategic partners for $2.5 billion hedge fund portfolio. (Pensions & Investments)

Greece examines a debt buyback as one way to reduce its burden. (NYTimes.com)

13F watch: Third Point adds to AIG and Apple. (Benzinga)

Funds including Tiger Global bought Facebook shares. (Bloomberg)

Soros reports new AIG, LinkedIn stakes and smaller Facebook holding. (Deal Journal)

Einhorn cut Apple stake, shed positions in Best Buy, Carefusion. (Deal Journal)

Citigroup’s stock lured Louis Moore Bacon, Lee Ainslie as Pandit exit loomed. (Bloomberg)

Lansdowne Partners adds new Morgan Stanley stake, boosts JPMorgan. (Bloomberg)

CFTC proposes swaps position reports. (Financial Times)

Former Fairholme Capital exec. Charles Fernandez starts Barnstar Opportunities Fund. (HedgeFund.net)

Guggenheim Partners launches hedge fund platform. (HedgeFund.net)

DoubleLine Capital hits $50 billion mark. (HedgeFund.net)

Icahn pledges $200 million to Mount Sinai medical complex. (Reuters)

Record sale of contemporary art as Christie’s tops $400 million; Cohen-owned Richter painting goes unsold. (Reuters)

Ex-Mizuho banker’s lovers acquitted of insider dealing. (Reuters)

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