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ABSOLUTE RETURNS FEATURE

Newton’s Stewart: Policymakers are to blame for current crisis

Investment Week | 19 Aug 2011

Newton’s Iain Stewart puts one-fifth of Real Return portfolio in cash as volatility strikes.

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HSBC’s GEM AR portfolio shorts consumer stocks following solid first year

Negyal and Timberlake’s stockpicking approach ensures year of solid positive performance.

Investment Week | 17 Jun 2011

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Return to form for Absolute Return sector

Absolute return funds returned to form in the second half of 2010, after a period in which many failed to deliver, says Standard & Poor’s Fund Services.

Investment Week | 17 Jan 2011

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The holy grail of investments

Why are investment managers moving away from benchmark investing? It is increasingly unnecessary in a world of absolute returns, writes Legg Mason's Christopher Zuehlsdorff.

Investment Week | 19 Apr 2010

The rise and rise of absolute returns

Cherry Reynard looks at what the future holds for absolute return funds.

Investment Week | 29 Mar 2010

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Absolute Insight copes well with fierce headwinds

Reza Vishkai’s Absolute Insight range of Ucits III strategies has made positive returns against cash over the three years since inception

Investment Week | 22 Mar 2010

IMA Absolute Return sector is second best net seller of 2009

Net sales for IMA Absolute Return sector have reached a total of £2.55bn since its launch in April 2008

Investment Week | 20 Feb 2010

Unleashing the mysteries within absolute returns

The absolute return sector has proved popular with investors yet confusion remains over the scope, target returns and investment time horizon of absolute return strategies

Investment Week | 01 Feb 2010

The DNA growth of absolute return

Formula-defined risk and returns – without active management risk

Investment Week | 25 Jan 2010

Fad or fancy?

The downturn caused investors to move away from relative returns and resulted in a wave of new funds. Despite once being considered a flight of fancy absolute returns have proved they are here to stay

Investment Week | 21 Dec 2009

Knowing your way around absolute returns

Absolute return funds aim to make a gain in every market condition but not all of these vehicles operate in the same way, making it vital for advisers to understand how they are constructed.

Investment Week | 30 Nov 2009

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DART managers using a range of instruments in global macro play

L&G Diversified Absolute Return co-manager Ben Gill expects more groups to enter the global macro space

Investment Week | 23 Nov 2009

What's the buzz?

The youthful absolute returns sector has had a meteoric rise in popularity, but what does absolute return actually mean?

Investment Week | 09 Nov 2009

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Exploiting volatility with a contrary stance

Insight’s Ireland-domiciled currency fund has delivered returns of 13.1% over one year by buying and selling against the market trends

Investment Week | 02 Nov 2009

Absolute returns – a strategy for all seasons?

Is the growing number of absolute return funds a knee-jerk reaction to a fear of relative return products after market volatility? Will absolute return strategies prove their worth in good times as well as bad?

Investment Week | 26 Oct 2009

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