{"id":2769,"date":"2004-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"csfb-tremont-launches-sector-invest-indices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2004\/csfb-tremont-launches-sector-invest-indices.html","title":{"rendered":"CSFB\/Tremont Launches Sector Invest Indices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>  \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"MsoHeading7\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" align=\"center\">    <font face=\"Lucida Sans Unicode\" color=\"#000080\" size=\"2\"><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><u><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><strong><font face=    \"Arial\"><font color=\"#000000\">CSFB\/Tremont Launches New Hedge Fund Sector Invest Indices <span style=\"BACKGROUND: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow\"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns     = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"     \/>    <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/u><\/i><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoHeading7\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" align=\"center\">    <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><u><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span>Ten Style-Based Indices Debut with 114    Funds<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/i>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoHeading7\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=\"left\">    \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=\"left\">    <font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Arial\"><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">NEW YORK, NY, October 7, 2004<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span><\/span><\/i>    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">&#8212; Answering widespread investor demand, CSFB\/Tremont Index LLC announced today that it has launched ten new investable hedge fund indices, designed to provide    representative and objective benchmarks of the style-based investment strategies in the hedge fund universe.<\/span><\/font><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=\"left\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=\"left\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Arial\">The new investable indices, called the CSFB\/Tremont Sector Invest Indices, are derived from the CSFB\/Tremont Hedge Fund    Index, the most widely quoted hedge fund index in the world with almost 400 constituent funds.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span> The ten Sector Invest Indices currently include 114    funds.<\/font><\/font><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=\"left\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=\"left\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Arial\">The CSFB\/Tremont Sector Invest Indices aim to achieve a high degree of representation and generally include the largest    funds by assets under management that are open to investment and meet certain liquidity conditions in each of the following 10 style-based sectors: Convertible Arbitrage, Dedicated Short Bias,    Emerging Markets, Equity Market Neutral, Event Driven, Fixed Income Arbitrage, Global Macro, Long\/Short Equity, Managed Futures, and Multi-Strategy.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span> The    complete set of Sector Invest Index Rules can be found on www.hedgeindex.com beginning October 15.\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/font><\/font><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=\"left\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Arial\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/font><\/font><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=\"left\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdIn constructing these ten investable sector indices, we relied on our long-term experience and proven transparent, objective    construction methodology,\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/font><\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #003366; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">said    Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse First Boston Tremont Index LLC.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span> \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdWe applied the rules-based selection process,<\/span> <span style=    \"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\">minimizing subjectivity in fund selection, that was successfully introduced in the CSFB\/Tremont    Investable Index last year and remains an unmatched standard for hedge fund indices<\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">.\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span><\/font><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=\"left\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Arial\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/font><\/font><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=\"left\">    <font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span class=\"MsoPageNumber\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\">CSFB will<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">offer    investment products linked to the Sector Invest Indices, allowing investors to construct their portfolios according to their risk\/return preferences and actively participate in the tactical asset    allocation process.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=\"left\">    <span class=\"MsoPageNumber\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"Arial\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=\"left\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\">Additional information about the CSFB\/Tremont Sector Invest Indices will be available on<\/font> <a href=    \"http:\/\/www.hedgeindex.com\/\"><span style=\"COLOR: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"><font face=\"Arial\">www.hedgeindex.com<\/font><\/span><\/a> <font face=\"Arial\"    color=\"#000000\">on October 15.<\/font><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><font color=\"#000000\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/font><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">    \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><font color=\"#000000\">Credit Suisse First Boston Tremont Index LLC is the    joint venture company of Credit Suisse First Boston Index Co., Inc., CSFB Alternative Capital, Inc. and Tremont Capital Management, Inc.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span> Credit Suisse    First Boston Tremont Index LLC is headquartered at 11 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010-3629.<\/font><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">    \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">    <font color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; 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CSFB\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds businesses include securities underwriting, sales and trading,    investment banking, private equity, financial advisory services, investment research, venture capital, correspondent brokerage services and asset management. CSFB operates in 69 locations in 33    countries across five continents. The Firm is a business unit of the Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group, a leading global financial services company.<\/span><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><font color=\"#000000\">Tremont Capital Management, Inc. is one of the leading    global alternative investment management firms, whose business lines include research and investment management services, sale and distribution of its proprietary investment products, and    database sales and information services. Tremont advises on over<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span> $11 billion in alternative investment assets.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span>    Through its information and market intelligence unit, TASS Research,<\/font> <font color=\"#000000\">the firm provides data on the performance of more than 3,000 alternative investment managers and    funds.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span> Tremont is headquartered in Rye, New York and has offices in Toronto, Bermuda and London.<\/font><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><font color=\"#000000\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/font><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" align=\"center\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><font color=\"#000000\">#<span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span> #<span style=    \"mso-tab-count: 1\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span> #<\/font><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText2\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">    \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText2\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">    <span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><em><font color=\"#000000\">Certain statements in this Press Release constitute    \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdforward looking statements\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/span> Such forward-looking statements involve known and    unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the companies to be materially different from any future results, performance or    achievements expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. The Companies assume no obligation to update these forward looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in    assumption or changes in other factors affecting such forward looking statements.<\/font><\/em><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText2\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">    <span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><em><font color=\"#000000\">\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/font><\/em><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>  \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd CSFB\/Tremont Launches New Hedge Fund Sector Invest Indices \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdTen Style-Based Indices Debut with 114 Funds \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd NEW YORK, NY, October 7, 2004\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd &#8212; Answering widespread investor demand, CSFB\/Tremont Index LLC announced today that it has launched ten new investable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}