Crédit Agricole Structured Asset Management announces the launch of “casamhedge.com”,

The CASAM CISDM Database, formerly the MARHedge Database, is the longest standing alternative products database of its kind. It provides comprehensive hedge fund and Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) data to accredited institutional investors, consultants, pension funds and fund of funds managers as a means of identifying and analysing the hedge fund universe. Subscribers can view and analyse historical returns and qualitative information on over 5,000 hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, commodity trading advisers and commodity pool operators. The database is also the source of the Barron’s Hedge Fund and CTA League Tables.

“We are pleased to announce the official launch of our hedge fund database website. Initial reactions from our subscriber base are enthusiastic. Our subscribers enjoy the website’s user-friendly functionality and the enhanced features that allow them to efficiently research and analyse the hedge fund universe” stated Jeff Lopez, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of CASAM Americas.

casamhedge.com features Subscribers to the site can access hedge fund performance and background data, with the functionality to download and analyse the CASAM CISDM data using a choice of search criteria including strategy, domicile, geographic focus, currency, liquidity, and performance statistics. Summary reports can also be produced for funds and user-specified portfolios.

Hedge fund managers can increase their exposure by listing their funds for free through an online uploading tool.

The new website displays performance information and statistics for a wide range of proprietary indices, the CASAM CISDM Indices, derived from the CASAM CISDM Database. Over the past two years the database has been significantly enhanced by increasing the amount and quality of data. The family of indices has also been extended.

The CASAM CISDM Database is available for a free trial directly by subscription to casamhedge.com. Access is also provided through third party analytic software packages such as those provided by PerTrac Financial Solutions, LLC, Zephyr Associates, Inc., Markov Processes International, LLC, and Imagineer Technology Group, Inc.

CISDM - Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets (Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachussetts Amherst), a non-profit academic research center which focuses on security and investment fund performance in both U.S. and international asset markets