Log on to a site run by credit suisse/tremont, which maintains the tass hedge funds database of the performance of more than 2,000 hedge funds and produces indexes of investment performance for several hedge fund classes. click the hfri indexes tab, and then look for the link to all hedge indexes. click the download historical performance link (free registration is required for access to this part of the website). select credit suisse broad hedge fund indexes, and you will obtain historical rates of return on each of the hedge fund subclasses (e. g., market neutral, event driven, dedicated short bias, and so on). look at the year-by-year performance of indexes for several hedge fund classes. how does the variability of performance results in different years compare to that of the s& p 500?