CME Group has launched clearing services for a new Mont Belvieu ethylene futures contract

Harewood Solutions, part of BNP Paribas, has raised a total of £25.5m after a month of fund raising ...

Schroders is to launch its first managed currency fund which will aim to outperform the Global Currency Index by 3%.

June 4, Chicago - National Futures Association (NFA) announced today that it has taken an emergency enforcement action against M25 Investments, Inc. (M25), M37 Investments LLC (M37), David P. Fearis, III, president of M25 and director of M37, and Ronald L. Larson, president of M37.

Company increases its ETF offerings from one to six ETFs.

Pure Capital, a New Zealand-based quantitative hedge fund, has launched The Pure Protection Fund, which aims to provide protection to portfolios during equity bear markets, while maintaining or improving returns in bull markets.

Renaissance Technologies founder James Simons this year took steps to retire from his famed hedge-fund firm but has put the plans on hold for now.

Dexion Alpha has offered shareholders either a return of capital at NAV or a new long-short commodities mandate after they voted down continuation proposals.

James Simons has postponed his retirement plans and will continue to lead Renaissance Technologies, the hedge fund he founded nearly 30 years ago.

If market rumors are to be believed, hedge fund giant Man Group may be ridding itself of its stake in its former futures brokerage.

The US government wants the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission to police and prevent fraud in the derivatives markets

MF Global has launched an alternative investment strategies division, which will provide retail and institutional investors with access to the fast-growing managed futures sector via managed accounts. AIS will also take a stab at the fund management business in the U.S.

LONDON (Reuters) - Investec Asset Management currency manager Werner Gey van Pittius has shorted the Chilean Peso, the Taiwanese dollar and the Czech crown using a computer model which predicts the likelihood of currency crises.

Posted By:CNBC.comGlencore International, the discreet commodities trading house based in Switzerland, is considering listing on the stock market, the Financial Times reported Friday.

Alternative investment firm Cogo Wolf Asset Management has launched a fund of hedge funds, the Cogo Wolf Trimaran Liquidity Fund. The new vehicle is being managed by co-chief investment officers and managing partners Christopher Wolf and Giles Conway-Gordon. According to the San Francisco-based firm, the highly-liquid fund offers complete transparency and targets 16-18% net return with expected volatility of 6-8% without the use of leverage.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Commodity index traders had snapped up more than 200,000 wheat contracts by mid-2008 that helped fuel last year's record jump in prices, which ended up raising costs for both industry and consumers, according to a year-long bipartisan Senate probe.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - All derivatives dealers should have capital and leverage limits, be subject to new fraud penalties, reporting and recordkeeping regulations, said a key regulator on Wednesday. "By fully regulating the institutions that trade or hold themselves out to the public as derivative dealers we ensure that all OTC products, both standardized and customized, are subject to robust oversight," Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler told the Managed Funds Association in Chicago. However, Gensler did not make clear whether the regulation should come from the CFTC, which oversees futures derivatives, the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is responsible for securities derivatives, or the Federal Reserve, which oversees the investment banks where most dealers are based. In addition to dealers, Gensler is calling on new regulation for derivative traders. 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.

The newly-appointed head of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is calling for stricter rules covering hedge funds, blaming them for “destabilizing” the global financial system.

NEW YORK & LONDON----Bache Commodities Group launched today the Bache Commodity Green IndexSM to offer investors a tool to invest in commodities with an environmental focus. Bache Commodities Group is the commodities and financial derivatives business of Prudential Financial, Inc.

Viteos Fund Services has unveiled an administration platform for managed accounts