SINGAPORE (Reuters)—A former portfolio manager at Tudor Investment Corp. who oversaw energy investing from Singapore for the giant hedge fund is setting up his own business with a handful of former colleagues, according to several people familiar with the matter.

Andrew McMillan is the latest among a growing number of hedge fund industry executives pursuing dreams to launch their own funds by spinning out from former employers.

One source said the split was friendly between Mr. McMillan and Paul Tudor Jones‘ $11.6 billion firm, where the fund manager had worked for a decade. Mr. McMillan will take five ex-Tudor people with him.

Tudor partners have promised to invest with Mr. McMillan, said the source.

With Asia remaining a key focus for investors, Tudor has no plans to leave Singapore, however.

The firm has hired Ai Ning Wee from the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, one of the world’s leading sovereign wealth funds, to work in its Singapore office. The focus will be on macro investing, the very bet that made Tudor famous in the three decades since Mr. Jones, a former cotton trader, founded the firm.

Like other funds bruised during the financial crisis, Tudor reorganized in the last few years, including a high-profile split from former star trader James Pallotta who ran the Tudor Raptor fund.

In 2012, the firm’s flagship Tudor BVI fund returned 6.27 percent, less than half the Standard & Poor’s 500 gain of 13 percent.

The spinout from Tudor joins the likes of Alp Ercil, the former Asia head of New York-based Perry Capital, who raised $940 million for his Asia Research & Capital Management in the biggest hedge fund launch in Asia last year.

Others such as Tybourne Capital, launched by the former Asia head of hedge fund firm Lone Pine Capital, Eashwar Krishnan, and Maso Capital, started by two former managing directors of Och-Ziff Capital Management, Manoj Jain and Sohit Khurana, also joined the fray last year.

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Nishant Kumar

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