It will be the first commodity trading adviser strategy to be launched by Man Group's quantitative investment unit with Chinese partner Citic Securities.
Quant giants Winton and AHL are making inroads into China, where onshore CTA managers are already trading commodity futures on the mainland and abroad.
Man Investments is providing $150 million in proprietary capital to subsidiary GLG Partners' first Asia-focused hedge fund strategy, and expresses optimism over institutional interest in alternatives.