'We're very pleased to build our relationship with AlternativeSoft in a way that will meaningfully strengthen Crédit Agricole Structured Asset Management's presence in the alternative investment software sector. We are happy to offer AlternativeSoft and their potential clients the Casam Hedge database for their 15 day software trial," says Jeff Lopez, deputy chief executive of Credit Agricole Structured Asset Management Advisers.

'AlternativeSoft is a user-friendly quantitative portfolio construction software which focuses on extreme negative events. Our potential clients will have access to 13'000 hedge funds and this for free during the 15 days software trial. The trial of our software becomes effortless. The user can essentially construct and optimise their portfolios within minutes of opening the software, even in the 15 days free software trial,' says Laurent Favre, chief exexcutive of AlternativeSoft.

AlternativeSoft offers analytical software solutions and is a Swiss registered company with offices in Zurich and London. It provides a platform for portfolio construction, hedge fund selection, tactical asset allocation and hedge fund replication dedicated to fund of funds, banks and institutional investors. The software enables investors to analyse numerous hedge funds, funds of funds to help construct portfolios which minimise extreme negative returns.