Early View: Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index Posts Estimated Negative Performance of -2.73% in May

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Jun 08, 2010, 12:30 ET

NEW YORK, June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Early estimates indicate the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index ("Broad Index") will experience its first down month since February 2009, posting -2.73% in May (based on 78% of assets reporting).

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Key highlights for the month:

Estimates indicate that May marked the first month of negative returns for hedge funds since February 2009. The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index lost an estimated 2.73% for the month. The index remains up 1.52% year-to-date. Despite overall losses, based on comparable indices hedge funds outperformed global equity markets, which finished down -9.91% for the month, as managers reduced portfolio exposures and risk levels in May.
Event Driven funds lost an estimated 3.23% in May as equity-oriented managers declined with global equity markets. While distressed and merger arbitrage funds performed slightly better, market sell-offs and indiscriminate levels of correlation across asset classes made it difficult for managers to generate positive performance in May.
Global Macro returned -0.82% in May, outperforming most of the other sectors in the Index as managers benefited from the overall liquidity of their holdings and their tactical ability to reposition their portfolios in the midst of market volatility. Gains in the space were driven by short euro and equity trades.
Long/Short Equity funds struggled to find profitable positions amid the global equity market sell-offs in May and returned an estimated -4.08% for the month. Conversely, Dedicated Short Bias was the only strategy to lock in gains last month, finishing up an estimated 6.03%.

Strategy Estimates


Index	May-10	Apr-10	2010
CS/Tremont Hedge Fund Index	-2.73%	1.24%	1.52%
Convertible Arbitrage	-3.40%	1.69%	1.70%
Dedicated Short Bias	6.03%	-3.89%	-7.63%
Emerging Markets	-3.65%	1.01%	-0.11%
Equity Market Neutral	-3.87%	0.43%	-4.15%
Event Driven	-3.23%	1.89%	3.30%
Distressed	-2.63%	1.69%	3.98%
Event Driven Multi-Strategy	-3.67%	2.09%	2.86%
Risk Arbitrage	-2.37%	-0.10%	-1.11%
Fixed Income Arbitrage	-0.76%	1.75%	4.57%
Global Macro	-0.82%	1.65%	3.41%
Long/Short Equity	-4.08%	0.29%	-1.12%
Managed Futures	-4.42%	1.89%	-0.58%
Multi-Strategy	-2.14%	0.96%	1.35%
MSCI World	-9.91%	-0.16%	-7.59%
Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index	-1.56%	+0.02%	-1.82%
DJ-UBS Total Return Commodities Index	-6.92%	1.94%	-9.89%

Estimates are based on 78% of assets reporting; final May performance will be published June 15th on Bloomberg and online at www.hedgeindex.com. For a complete description of the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index, please see the index rules available at www.hedgeindex.com.

Credit Suisse Tremont Index LLC is the joint venture company of Credit Suisse Index Co., Inc., a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Alternative Capital, Inc., and Tremont Group Holdings, Inc. Credit Suisse Tremont Index LLC is headquartered at 11 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010-3629.

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