Insight on managed futures, with Jon Sundt, Altegris Investment president & CEO; Kelly Campbell, Campbell Wealth Mgmt.; and CNBC's Sue Herera.

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, announced today the launch of calendar spread options for corn, wheat, soybeans, soybean meal and soybean oil futures, scheduled to be available for trading on June 1.

John W. Henry & Co.'s programs declined in March, with losses ranging from 1.8% to 6.8%. The declines were led by the JWH GlobalAnalytics, which dropped 6.78% (-8.44% YTD) and the Financial and Metals Portfolio, which was down 3.34% (-9.54% YTD).

Quality Capital Management is making key changes to its management team and product line in an attempt to drum up interest from U.S. investors. The firm last month launched a U.S.-domiciled version of its flagship Global Diversified Program, which has been trading since December 1995 and returned 59.51% last year. The new vehicle, the Otus Fund USA, will feed into its flagship offering.

WisdomTree launches new actively managed currency ETF focused on emerging markets.

MF Global, the brokerage spun off from Man Group, the London-listed hedge fund, has been ordered to pay as much as L20 million in compensation to a day trader who says he was deceived about the value of his investments.

Last year's trading princes reared their toad-like heads again in April, finishing -1.96% for the month and -4.01% YTD, according to the Newedge CTA Index.

The Michigan Municipal Employees Retirement System is seeking an active fundamentally oriented commodities manager

Ospraie Management is getting back into the hedge fund business. Almost nine months after announcing the closure of its flagship, firm founder Dwight Anderson told investors that he will launch two new hedge funds.

Most hedge funds flourished in April. Renaissance Technologies took a bath. The Long Island firm's Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund lost between 8.33% and 9.47% last month, depending on the share class. The fund, RenTech's largest, is now down between 16.86% and 17.61%, according to a letter to investors obtained by Dealbreaker.

Posted By:Jennifer WoodsThe last boom-to-bust cycle may have scared some away, but the group remains a great way to diversify your holdings.

BlueGold Capital Management has certainly struck gold this year.

A former partner at commodities hedge fund Ospraie Management is readying his own hedge fund that will invest in the sector.

Posted By:JeeYeon ParkCurrencies make a lot of sense in a diversified portfolio and many investors are missing the boat when it comes to the currency market, said Bill Spiropoulos, CEO of CoreStates Capital Advisors.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission last week filed a complaint charging Gordon Driver and his Las Vegas-based firms Axcess Automation and Axcess Fund Management with a $13.5 million fraud involving over 100 investors in the U.S. and Canada.

London-based Galena Asset Management has launched an energy fund to trade oil and energy futures, options and swaps.

Akhi Kamkolkar, head of futures at Halifax Investments & Kingsley Jones, portfolio manager at Macquarie Funds Management Group reveal to CNBC's Oriel Morrison how they are cashing in on soft commodities.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is seeking industry comment on plans to ramp up net capital requirements for futures commission merchants as well as introducing brokers that do not operate under a guarantee agreement with an FCM

With investors clamoring for greater transparency from their hedge funds, the Man Group appears ready to give it to them.

MF Global Ltd. said Thursday fourth-quarter net loss widened to $111.7 million, or 98 cents a share, from a loss of $83.1 million, or 69 cents a share in the year-ago period. Adjusted loss fell to 5 cents a share from net income of 39 cents a share. Excluding items, adjusted net income totaled 4 cents a share in the latest period. Net revenue at the New York-based derivatives trading firm dropped to $256.7 milion from $407.9 million. A non-cash expense of $82.0 million was recognized in the fourth quarter as a result of the company's analysis of intangibles and goodwill impairment. Analysts expected earnings of 7 cents a share, according to a survey by FactSet Research. 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.

LONDON (Reuters) - The perceived wisdom of diversified investments, shattered last year as assets plummeted in lock-step, is being rehabilitated as hedge funds and other alternatives start to become a viable source of returns again.

Lake Shore Asset Management has been banned from trading on US futures exchanges for failing to cooperate with investigators

Managed futures managers suffered losses in April dropping 0.77% on average. The strategy is down 3.63% since the beginning of the year.

A bill introduced to the US Congress would give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulatory oversight over carbon dioxide derivatives

Eurex, the derivatives exchange, is launching a set of agricultural futures contracts as part of an expansion of its commodity trading business

Welton Investment Corp. today announced that Guillaume Detrait has joined the firm as chief risk officer.