BlackRock has launched an Absolute Return Bond fund for Ian Winship, targeting positive performance above cash in all market environments.
Fund groups have applauded Morningstar's move to scrap its absolute return sector in favour of 18 different alternative investment categories, calling on the IMA to consider a similar move.
Legg Mason's absolute return specialist Dipankar Shewaram has left the firm to pursue other opportunities.
In the latest Conjecture debate, our panellists from Aberdeen Asset Management, Standard & Poor's and Threadneedle discussed Absolute Returns.
Newton's Iain Stewart puts one-fifth of Real Return portfolio in cash as volatility strikes.
£4bn Newton Real Return suffers short-term performance dip on misjudged currency bets.
Dalton Strategic Partnership has hired Goldman Sachs' Gaurav Pant to run an Indian Absolute Return fund.
HAS ABSOLUTE RETURN BEEN MIS-SOLD?
Legal & General IM is to reposition its £529m Diversified Absolute Return Trust in a move which may see it change the fund's name as well as its investment objective, Investment Week understands.