Absolute Return

Schroders has re-opened Paul Marriage's Absolute UK Dynamic fund and is to shift the portfolio to weekly dealing as a result of "declining liquidity" within the UK equity market, Investment Week can reveal.

Standard Life Investments' GARS team have outlined their key themes and strategies as the £20bn fund positions for the year ahead.

Swiss fund group Syz Asset Management is bringing its institutional absolute return strategy to UK investors through its Oyster Absolute Return fund range.

Morningstar has launched a range of four real return portfolios as it further expands its discretionary management service.

Old Mutual Global Investors' Global Equity Absolute Return (GEAR) strategy is nearing its maximum "comfortable" size, according to co-manager Ian Heslop.

Schroders UK small-cap manager Paul Marriage has said the company is considering reopening his Absolute UK Dynamic fund after assets fell to a more manageable level.

Kames Capital has expanded its absolute return range with the launch of two new mandates for David Griffiths and David Pringle.

Schroders is planning to change the investment remit of its UK Absolute Target fund to a pan-European mandate following the departure of co-manager Julie Dean, Investment Week understands.

Jupiter's James Clunie has been cutting back on a short position in Hargreaves Lansdown ahead of the firm's full year results tomorrow, as he begins to find "many, many ideas" for other companies to bet against.

Tom Yeowart has joined Troy Asset Management to run the Troy Spectrum fund, working under chief executive Sebastian Lyon and fund manager Francis Brooke.