NEW YORK (Reuters) - CME Group Inc , the world's largest derivatives exchange operator, warned against forcing futures and equities markets into the same regulatory mold on Tuesday, ahead of hearings in Washington.

Japan’s Mizuho Corporate Bank has big plans for its flagship commodity trading advisor.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is lobbying to control the greenhouse gas credit markets

Man Investments is jointly planning to set up a managed futures fund with UK hedge fund advisory and marketing firm Dexion Capital Group

Proposal supports exchange-set position limits and administration of exemption programs contingent upon increased CFTC oversight of position reporting for all applicable US derivatives

FAIRFIELD, Iowa, September 21, 2009– Managed futures gained 0.41% in August according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge.“Investor optimism remained high in August as the rally in equity markets extended to six consecutive months,” says Sol Waksman, founder and president of BarclayHedge.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The Thomson Reuters/Jefferies CRB Global Commodity Equity Index Fund on Monday began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The exchange-traded fund, designed to replicate the half-century-old CRB commodity futures Index , consists of 50 energy stocks, 35 agricultural stocks, 35 base metal stocks and 30 precious metals stocks. The index is "an alternative for investors looking for exposure to commodities without exposure to the commodities futures market," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist, Jefferies & Co. Jefferies is expected to formally announce the fund as soon as Tuesday.

Faced with collapse in September 2006, Amaranth Advisors turned to commodities hedge fund Touradji Capital Management, with the latter agreeing to buy the former’s base metals portfolio. Three years later, Amaranth is suing Touradji and several of its executives and employees, alleging its fellow hedge fund traded on confidential information from Amaranth.

China's sovereign wealth fund is buying an $850 million stake in Noble Group Ltd., one of Asia's biggest trading houses, to expand its commodities investments.

The dollar, already plumbing its lowest levels of the year, is expected to continue to weaken even as an improving U.S. economy leads the Federal Reserve to unwind more of its liquidity-boosting programs.

LONDON (Reuters) - A hedge fund run by RAB Capital that invests in gold has fallen about 17.5 percent since the start of June, the group said, missing a large rise in the gold price because of bad bets.

Touradji Capital Management is dismissing a lawsuit filed by collapsed hedge fund Amaranth Advisors accusing it of trading on confidential information.

Many hedge funds that debuted last July would consider themselves lucky to be alive—if, in fact, they were still alive. Quantum Global Financial Corp.’s Holon Fund hasn’t just survived, it has thrived as few other hedge funds have during the last 14 months. The Victoria, British Columbia-based firm has seen its systematic quantitative hedge fund soar 54.65% since its debut on July 1, 2008.