Commodity hedge funds did far better than most of their peers last year, and investors have rewarded them.

Man Investments is to launch a Ucits III fund of its successful managed futures strategy, AHL.

Paul Touradji is joining the hedge fund gold rush. Touradji Capital Management is the latest hedge fund to plunk down a sizable chunk of its assets on the precious metal, or a reasonable facsimile thereof.

Eliminating all market asymmetries is impossible but regulators are right to ask questions

The hedge fund controlled more than half the United States natural gas market before its collapse in 2006.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has proposed creating a new account class for overthecounter derivatives

FAIRFIELD, Iowa, August 17, 2009– Managed futures traders had mixed results in July, averaging out to a 0.06% loss according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. “Intra-month price reversals in major futures markets made for a difficult trading environment in July,” says Sol Waksman, founder and president of BarclayHedge. Read the entire Hedge Fund Press Release by clicking here.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief regulator of U.S. commodities markets, Gary Gensler, is serious about limiting speculation in energy futures trading and will move to provide details about managed funds' contract positions in an attempt to make markets more transparent.

From InvestmentNews.com: After gaining an average of 13.9% last year, managed-futures funds have come back down to earth this year as their managers sit with cash and look for signs of a discernable market trend.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday proposed increasing federal oversight of the Chicago Climate Exchange's carbon spot contract.

ETF Securities made a big splash with its new silver fund, SIVR. Next up on its wish list are funds focusing on gold, platinum and palladium.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The U.K.'s Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said Thursday that they've taken steps to strengthen cross-border supervision of the energy futures markets. Cooperation between the two regulators may include direct access rights to trade execution and audit trail data, mutual on-site visits of exchange operators, and coordination of taking emergency action. "I believe that we must effectively utilize all existing powers to ensure that futures markets remain free of manipulation, fraud or other market abuses," said CFTC chairman Gary Gensler in a statement. "Achieving this goal requires a coordinated international response." Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

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While the broader markets soared in July, managed futures hedge funds swooned.

GSG becomes fourth commodities-focused exchange-traded product to halt creations.

By the Essvale Corporation -- High-performance computing (HPC) can be described as the use of (parallel) supercomputers and computer clusters; that is, computing systems comprising multiple (usually mass-produced) processors linked together in a single system with commercially available interconnects.

Amaranth Advisors is finally out of the regulatory woods: The collapsed hedge fund, which earlier this month settled two sets of regulatory charges, won’t face an enforcement action by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The truce between politicians and the futures markets is over after less than a year Hostilities were reopened by Gary Gensler new chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission when he announced on July 7 a consultation on whether the CFTC should set its own position limits for all commodities trading as it does already for agricultural products How hedge exemptions are awarded will also be reviewed

AlphaMetrix, a $1.8 billion managed account platform for institutional and accredited investors, has hired Jodie Gunzberg as managing director of risk.

LONDON (Reuters) - A new foreign exchange broker on Thursday urged peers to help raise billions of pounds for charity as it vowed to donate part of each transaction to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Investors can tap into solar energy and reap a steady, bond-like return of 7.25% a year, according to boutique fund management group Independent Portfolio Managers.

Investors should include commodities and fixed income into their portfolios, says Michael Yoshikami, founder, president, and chief investment strategist at YCMNET Advisors. He tells CNBC's Lisa Oake, why.