All underlying fund holdings added to absolute return. Within equities, US large-cap and US value equities posted the largest ...

While investors may have hoped absolute return funds would hold up relatively well in the drama of the sell-off, just one in four funds managed to produce positive returns, Morningstar Data reveals.

For most of us, talk of economic downturns and recession means a flight to financial safety. We batten down the hatches while the storm rages around us. For investors, while this strategy means that ...

Absolute return funds continue to divide opinion. Fund inflows have remained solid but critics highlight poor performance across many vehicles amid the turbulent conditions of recent years. Since the ...

Rather than concentrating on one fund this week, I will take a more general look at the absolute return sector, an area that was something of a mixed bag in 2010. The aim of these funds is to preserve ...

Absolute return funds - designed to turn a profit come what may - fell 4.9 per cent during the market carnage last month, new analysis reveals. That loss looks benign relative to the massive declines ...

10:37, Sun, Sep 3, 2023 Updated: 10:40, Sun, Sep 3, 2023 Yet that's what exactly what the brains behind a new type of investment fund claimed in 2008, and investors and financial advisors threw money ...

Absolute return describes a style of defensive investing which aims to make money for investors, regardless of what direction stock markets are heading. Absolute return funds can do this because they ...

“A professional investor with deep knowledge of an absolute return fund manager’s process will have a good idea why the performance is poor as well as an expectation of what conditions are required to ...

The best and worst performing absolute return funds over the past three years have been revealed. Data from FE Analytics, covering the period from the January 1, 2016, to January 1, 2019, shows the ...

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