Mr. Doyle, 34, works in New York as a vice president for strategy at a hedge fund unit of Auda Advisor Associates, an investment management firm.
Mr. Kurland, a top executive of New Castle Funds, a hedge fund unit that was spun out of Bear Stearns Asset Management, has been accused of conspiring with Danielle Chiesi to trade stocks based on secret corporate information.
Mr. Caraher, 30, is an associate portfolio manager working in New York and San Francisco for Symphony Asset Management, a hedge fund unit of Nuveen Instruments.
He had previously led the bank's flagship private banking business before taking responsibility for the entire bank, whose operations also include asset management and investment products, including a hedge fund unit, GAM, and Artio Global Investors USA.
The growth has come from a quantitative fund unit it acquired in 2002, called Enhanced Investment Technologies, or Intech.
Tim Benedict, a spokesman for G.E.'s fund unit, summed up a fundamental marketing shift toward nontraditional channels, including fee-based planners, wrap programs and 401(k) plans, that occurred during the last decade.
Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, has been seeking a buyer for its British fund unit, which has been losing pension clients, for six months.
Fortress has been hit with a series of departures at its hedge fund unit.
Citigroup named Dean Barr as the head of its Tribeca Global Management unit, succeeding Tanya Styblo Beder, in an effort to jump-start the hedge fund unit's sagging returns.
Until January, Mr. Benz, 41, was a portfolio manager at the real estate hedge fund unit of Grubb & Ellis, the real estate brokerage and services company in Santa Ana, Calif.
The trustee has previously reached large settlements with several Madoff investors, including the hedge fund unit of Banco Santander and the family of Carl Shapiro, a longtime Madoff investor.
