Barclay Convertible Arbitrage Index

This strategy is identified by hedge investing in the convertible securities of a company. A typical investment is to be long the convertible bond and short the common stock of the same company. Positions are designed to generate profits from the fixed income security as well as the short sale of stock, while protecting principal from market moves.

The Barclay Convertible Arbitrage Index is recalculated and updated real-time on this page as soon as the monthly returns for the underlying funds are recorded. The number of funds that are currently included in the calculations for the most recent months can be found in the footnotes below. Please note that the calculation for the number of funds is time-stamped and that the number of funds will continue to increase until all funds categorized within the sector have reported monthly returns.

	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001
Jan	-0.41%	1.37%	2.39%	-1.09%	0.95%	2.54%	1.44%	3.93%
Feb	-1.50%	1.18%	1.23%	-0.69%	0.13%	1.31%	0.23%	1.78%
Mar	-2.03%§	0.61%	0.87%	-1.70%	0.53%	0.80%	0.76%	1.88%
Apr	0.24%†	0.26%	0.50%	-3.43%	0.38%	1.46%	0.92%	1.74%
May	-	0.98%	1.06%	-1.48%	-1.32%	1.30%	0.74%	0.75%
Jun	-	-0.07%	0.24%	1.28%	-1.09%	-0.60%	0.21%	0.08%
Jul	-	-0.36%	0.72%	1.57%	0.45%	-0.65%	-1.07%	0.92%
Aug	-	-1.47%	0.98%	0.47%	0.40%	-0.73%	0.53%	1.23%
Sep	-	1.43%	0.80%	1.41%	-0.18%	1.35%	1.46%	0.77%
Oct	-	1.72%	0.41%	-0.10%	-0.53%	1.52%	1.06%	1.25%
Nov	-	-1.54%	0.84%	-0.10%	0.85%	0.74%	2.50%	0.79%
Dec	-	-1.41%	1.12%	0.73%	0.44%	0.40%	1.42%	0.37%
YTD	-3.67%*	2.66%	11.75%	-3.21%	0.98%	9.80%	10.64%	16.57%

^†Estimated performance for April 2008 calculated with reported data from 31 funds.
^§Estimated performance for March 2008 calculated with reported data from 66 funds.
^*All estimates and 2008 YTD amounts are calculated with reported data as of May-9-2008 08:12 US CST.