Deep Dive: Advantages of protected equity and absolute return

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Anja Needham, portfolio manager at Secor Asset Management, dives into absolute return

Unlike relative return funds, which simply seek to outperform a given benchmark (even if this means posting a negative return), absolute return funds aim to achieve positive performance across all market environments. To achieve this objective, absolute return funds tend to invest in a range of diversified assets across the spectrum of equities, fixed income, derivatives, and alternatives. 'It was not terrible, but it was not great': ASI's Fowler and Bint on why the future looks bright for GARS Absolute return funds may be appealing to investors looking to avoid losses and volatility ...

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