Ben Horner joins UBS in prime-broking sales

Hedge-fund veteran Ben Horner is joining UBS in Hong Kong as an executive director to work in its prime-broking sales department covering hedge funds in Asia. He most recently worked as chief operating officer at Cranmore Capital, a Hong Kong-based hedge-fund platform started by Kurt Baker, formerly Asian head of prime broking at Morgan Stanley. That project did not come to fruition, with Horner subsequently leaving Cranmore and Baker joining Larry Zhang to start a Greater China hedge…