Absolute Return

HSBC Global Asset Management is to launch a Ucits III European absolute return fund next month.

The Standard Life Investments multi-asset team believes taking a long sterling position against the euro now looks attractive.

Jonathan Ruffer is chief executive of Ruffer LLP and something of a maverick in the world of fund management. His listed fund (Ruffer Investment Company) has been an enormous success over the last few years, as has his Ucits III fund co-managed with Steve...

Aegon's UK Equity Absolute Return launch will have a conservative investment strategy with a VaR of just 5%.

AEGON Asset Management has launched its first absolute return fund to be run by its UK equity team.

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

Martin Gray is perhaps the most experienced manager operating in what could be called, liberally, the absolute returns space. He has been successfully running money at Miton for more than a decade using a very liberal interpretation of the concept of...

Polar Capital Absolute Retun Fund

Mark Lyttleton is probably the one name that comes to most people's lips when describing a successful, popular implementation of an explicitly absolute return strategy. His fund's record is of consistent positive net of fees returns through the market...

Gartmore's Roger Guy and Guillaume Rambourg have delivered returns of more than 10% since launching the European Absolute Return fund a year ago.