It’s no wonder Citadel Investment Group is so protective of its high-frequency trading group: The division is a cash-cow.

Irene AldridgeBy Irene Aldridge -- High-frequency trading has been taking Wall Street by storm. While no institution thoroughly tracks the performance of high-frequency funds, colloquial evidence suggests that the majority of high-frequency managers delivered positive returns in 2008, while 70% of low-frequency practitioners lost money, according to The New York Times.

The Futures Industry Association on Oct. 1, 2009 submitted a comment letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in connection with the recent amendments to the commitment of traders report.  FIA suggested that the Commission add information ...

The French bank is quietly challenging rivals for leadership among second-tier banks in derivatives, with the purchase of Fortis' unit fuelling its growth ambitions

Graham MillerBy Graham Miller – High-frequency trading (HFT) could use a good image consultant. Everyone from Floyd Norris to Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have questioned the validity and even legality of high-frequency strategies, as they have taken over from exchange floor specialists as the mainstream media’s favorite whipping boy.

High-frequency traders – those investors using computers to seek good prices and trade at break-neck speeds – have returned to the US government bond market in recent months

James Simons, who has led one of the world's most profitable hedge funds for nearly three decades and helped pioneer computer-driven trading, will retire as chief executive of his firm, Renaissance Technologies, at the start of next year.

Its superfast, supersecret oil trading software was called the Hammer.And if the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is right, the name fit well with an intricate scheme that allowed commodity traders in Chicago working for Optiver, a little-known company based in Amsterdam, to put their orders first in line and subtly manipulate the price of oil to the company’s advantage.

Hedge fund billionaire George Soros is pouring more than $1 billion into a different kind of green.

The Managed Funds Association is to form alliances with regional hedge fund associations and their members in order to collaborate on key initiatives.

Swiss Alpha, an alternative asset manager specialising in systematically managed and quantitative based alternative investment strategies, has launched the Swiss Alpha Sicav Strategy Europe Fund.

By Oliver Prock -- The already written off hedge fund sector has reinvented itself after last year’s crisis. Everybody is talking about “UCITS hedge funds” as a new and innovative concept for meeting clients’ increasing demands of consistent returns, market independence and capital protection.

FAIRFIELD, Iowa, October 19, 2009– Managed futures gained 0.93% in September according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge.“The Barclay CTA Index edged into positive territory for the year aided by September’s gain,” says Sol Waksman, founder and president of BarclayHedge. “The Index is now up 0.05 percent year-to-date.”

Hedge fund manager David Einhorn is bullish on gold and is betting interest rates will rise

LONDON (Reuters) - Fund firm Record Currency Management said on Tuesday outflows of client money were at $2 billion (1.2 billion pounds) in its second quarter, offsetting positive market movements.

Managed futures gained 0.93 per cent in September, according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge.

Despite the big returns, most hedge funds are trailing the broader markets this year. But few hedge fund strategies trail their benchmarks by as much as commodity hedge funds, which often don’t even have the double-digit returns to help them sleep better at night.

The commodities hedge fund of Louis Dreyfus Investment Group has quadrupled its assets to 410 million in less than a year

Man Investments has launched the latest addition to its flagship IP 220 family – Man IP220 Series 7.

Hedge fund manager Molinero Capital Management has launched Molinero Global Markets Fund, a systematic CTA hedge fund.

Despite a difficult year for the average commodity hedge fund, one newcomer has had little trouble attracting assets, and investors have been rewarded for their confidence thus far.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Sovereign wealth funds will focus their buying on natural resources and emerging markets in 2010, after picking commodities over financials for most of their $94 billion investments this year, a senior Barclays banker said.

Another British hedge fund seems to be hedging its bets when it comes to impending tax increases in the U.K. and hedge fund regulation in Europe.

Lyxor Asset Management has launched the Lyxor/Tudor Momentum Fund, which replicates the trend following component of the Tudor Tensor quantitative managed futures programme.

John Kilduff an energy analyst has left MF Global to launch a food and energy commodity hedge fund