Greenwich Van Leads Investible Hedge Fund Indices

by Carla Johnson, Investors Offshore.com

27 February 2006

The Greenwich-Van Composite Investable Hedge Fund Index continued its third straight year of out-performing competing investible indices, according to hedge fund index provider Greenwich-Van Advisors, LLC.

Each year since its inception in January 2003, the Greenwich-Van Investable Index has out-performed the other investible indices, achieving the highest total annualized return of 10.7% from January 2003 to December 2005.

This was significantly higher than competing indices, including the CSFB (6.6%), the HFR (6.1%), the S&P (5.9%), the FTSE (5.8%) and the MSCI (5%).

Margaret Gilbert, Greenwich-Van Managing Director noted that: "In addition to return, measuring how well an investible index tracks its respective benchmark is important to investors looking to achieve hedge fund asset class performance."

"Of all the investible indices, the Greenwich-Van Composite Investible Index has tracked the closest to its broad benchmark."

Since January 2003, the Greenwich-Van Investible Index has returned 10.7% annually, compared with 11.5% for the Greenwich-Van Global Hedge Fund Index, a difference of less than 1% over the three year period.

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