New York, July 31, 2007 Credit Suisse Index Co., Inc released today its second quarter performance review for the Credit Suisse/Tremont Blue Chip Investable Hedge Fund Index, reporting that it finished the quarter up 3.97% net, according to Oliver Schupp, President of the Credit Suisse Tremont Index, LLC. The Investable Index was up 6.81% year-to-date.

• The Hedge Fund Index (the “Broad Index”), an asset-weighted benchmark that measures hedge fund performance;
• The Blue Chip Investable Index (“INVX”), an investable index comprised of 60 funds across the ten style-based sectors in the broad index that are open to investment; and
• The Sector Invest Indices, which provide investment access to any of the ten style-based sectors in the broad index on an individual basis.

“We are pleased to present our quarterly review analyzing the performance of the Credit Suisse/Tremont Blue Chip Investable Hedge Fund Index for the second quarter of 2007,” said Mr. Schupp. “Hedge fund managers experienced a generally strong second quarter, thanks to a favorable market environment, that allowed nine of the ten hedge fund strategies in this index to produce positive quarterly results. Record highs in the beginning of the quarter in global equity markets, a continued upward trend in mergers and acquisition activity and high volatility at the end of the quarter all contributed positively to hedge fund performance for the second quarter of 2007.”

Highlights for all three of the Hedge Fund Indices in the second quarter of 2007 include:

• Consistent positive performance of the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index led to a strong second quarter for index-linked products;
• Managed Futures, Event Driven and Long/Short Equity were the top performing sectors of the quarter for the Credit Suisse/Tremont Blue Chip Investable Hedge Fund Index (“INVX”);
• INVX outperformed, on a year-to-date gross basis, several competing investable indices. INVX year-to-date for 2007 was up 6.81%, as compared to Hedge Fund Research HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index (“HFRX”), up 4.67% and the MSCI Hedge Index (“MSCI”) that was up 6.39%; and
• Eight of the ten Credit Suisse/Tremont Sector Invest Indices performed positively for the quarter with particularly strong performance from Event Driven, Long/Short Equity and Multi-Strategy.

The Bear Stearns Structured Credit Fund and its Enhanced Fund were not members of INVX and had no impact on overall performance.

The complete second quarter performance review is available on the News and Press section of the website www.hedgeindex.com.

*INVX returns are presented gross of a 0.07% monthly management fee.

Sources: All performance data shown above is taken from Credit Suisse Tremont Index LLC, www.hedgeindex.com, www.msci.com, www.hfr.com. MSCI and HFR Index data was obtained from publicly available sources. Credit Suisse Tremont LLC does not guarantee the accuracy of such data

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