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NEW YORK (April, 2006)-Dow Jones Hedge Fund Indexes, Inc. (DJHFI), today announced component changes to the Dow Jones Hedge Fund Equity Market Neutral Strategy Benchmark. Effective with the opening of trading on March 31, 2006, SSI Investment Management Inc., will no longer be a component of the Benchmark. In addition, with the opening of trading on April 3, 2006, Analytic Investors, Inc., a Japan market neutral manager, will become a component of the Equity Market Neutral strategy. This leaves the number of components in the Benchmark unchanged.

The Dow Jones Hedge Fund Strategy Benchmarks measure individual hedge-fund strategies. The six existing strategies are Equity Market Neutral, Convertible Arbitrage, Distressed Securities, Merger Arbitrage, Event Driven and Equity Long/Short. DJHFI provides style-pure, hedge-fund strategy indexes that exhibit highly correlated component returns. The methodologies and components underlying the Dow Jones Hedge Fund Equity Market Neutral Strategy Benchmark are available on the Dow Jones Indexes Web site at www.djhedgefundindexes.com.

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Dow Jones Indexes Hedge Fund Strategy Benchmark Advisory Committee Members

John A. Prestbo, Editor and Executive Director, Dow Jones Indexes and Chairman, Dow Jones Hedge Fund Indexes Advisory Committee
Ridgely Walters, President of Dow Jones Hedge Fund Indexes, Inc., and Senior Director, Client Development, Dow Jones Indexes
Jeff Lopez, Deputy CEO, Lyra Capital LLC
Philip Halpern, Independent Adviser
Laurence Siegel, Director of Research, The Ford Foundation
Edgar J. Sullivan, Managing Director, Research, General Motors Asset Management

Please also note that effective April 15th, 2008, Garry Crowder, resigned from the Benchmark Advisory Committee and was replaced by Jeff Lopez, Deputy CEO, Lyra Capital LLC.

Manager additions to and deletions from the Dow Jones Hedge Fund Strategy Benchmarks do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the assets managed by any such manager.

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