Masaki Taniguchi, former president of Sparx Asset Management and COO of Sparx Group, has rejoined Goldman Sachs Asset Management as head of product development in Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong.

HSBC has named Melvyn Ford (ex-Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank) as head of prime services in Asia.

Jacky Cheung is leaving Credit Suisse to set up a hedge fund, Kong Ming Capital, in Hong Kong.

Benedict Yap has left his gig as senior research consultant at Mercer Investment Consulting in Singapore where he covered both hedge funds and mutual funds. Earlier in his career he was at EIM, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Ernst & Young.

Pierre Prunier has joined Seekers Advisors in Singapore as an executive director. He joins from CME Group where he was director of CME’s hedge fund business in Asia. Earlier in his career he worked at Eurekahedge.

Hong Kong-based Kelvin Woo and Joe Zhang are leaving GLG Partners to launch their own Asia-focused global macro fund.

Stephen Diggle’s Vulpes Investment Management in Singapore has attracted Tudor as a cornerstone investor in several of its new funds.

Hidetoshi Ohashi is leaving Morgan Stanley in Tokyo, where he is head of fixed-income research, to set up a hedge fund in Singapore with a focus on Japanese corporate bonds and CDS. Earlier in his career he worked at Nippon Life.

Adam Wallace has left JP Morgan’s hedge fund services group in Hong Kong to join Factorial Management as COO. Earlier in his career he worked at Citi and Fortis. Factorial, a pan-Asia hedge fund, was recently set up by ex-DKR Oasis portfolio manager Barun Agarwal.

London-based Met Capital Management plans to launch the Met Pacific Fund, an Asia Pacific equity long/short strategy. Met’s co-founder Jonathan Gordon will be the portfolio manager for the new fund.