Such funds throw around terms like risk parity, equity long-short, market neutral and absolute return.
The Absolute Return Distressed Index has produced a median return of 10.58% through October.
Wall Street noticed that success and firms have been heavily marketing absolute return mutual funds.
So clearly small-cap value stocks would appear to be the best bet on an absolute return basis.
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The appealing aspect to absolute return is that an investment manager can use strategies to respond to economic climates.
Swensen says investors should invest in market-based index funds, not absolute return strategies.
Before you make the leap to include absolute return strategies in your portfolio, below are a few points to consider.
Dave emphasizes a flexible management style (known commonly as an Absolute Return strategy) and focuses on a risk managed approach to the markets.
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In addition to absolute return, there are many meaningful risk metrics that should be considered when evaluating who you should trust with your money.
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Its chief executive, Glyn Jones, say it has done this to meet the demand for absolute return and to attract and retain the best talent.
Of 8 absolute return funds on the market during the 2008 financial crisis, only one ended the year with a positive return, albeit a slight one at only 1.1%.
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If you want your investing to be based on advice from the brightest minds in investing, listen to Swensen and think twice about the promise of absolute return funds.
Absolute Return Magazine has a very long story out today trying to explain that hedge funders are still giving more to the Democrats than the Republicans these days.
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The absolute return segments of the Titan Global Return Fund have not been hit as hard, but are still down by some 33% in 2010, says a person familiar with Titan Capital.
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The event will include two panel discussions, featuring high-level participation of government representatives (Indonesia, Namibia, USA), UN agencies and international organizations (Deputy Secretary-Genearal, UNESCO, UNOP and Education International), foundations (IDP Foundation, and Ford Foundation), NGOs (Sesame Workshop and Absolute Return for Kids).
Part of the fear that drives investors to products such as variable annuities, equity-indexed annuities, and the false promises of active management (including absolute return funds) is the misplaced fear of the recent lost decade in the performance of stocks.
Performance data show that sponsor-to-sponsor deals did underperform other types of deals slightly on an absolute return basis by 3 percentage points, on average, in the years prior to 2004, and by 8 percentage points since then, according to PERACS, a PE performance analytics company (see Figure).
Jupiter is looking at absolute-return funds with performance fees, in which it would take some control of asset allocation.
We look at stock-price performance on an absolute-return basis and rank winners according to portfolio performance of generally at least five stocks.
Morningstar's "long-short" mutual-fund category includes market-neutral and absolute-return funds, which are designed to generate returns in any market environment, and arbitrage funds, which try to exploit market inefficiencies.
Low inflation implies that prices may have to fall by more in absolute terms to return to fair value.
The men and women of our armed forces are the best our nation has to offer, and they deserve nothing but the absolute best in return.
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But Bulke also pointed to the progress made by the private sector in the development of emerging economies, which has in return reduced rates of absolute poverty.
Sir Roger Gale told the Commons the sheep on the vessel had a further journey after their return to Ramsgate and suffered "absolute misery".
Chairman David Gold had been adamant that an immediate return to the Premier League was an absolute priority, and, whatever his personal qualities, it seemed highly unlikely McLeish would get a chance of a second shot at the second tier if he failed.
For example, Bank of America ( BAC), one of the worst performers during the crisis, finally started to turn around and produced over 100% return for investors who picked up the stock when it was at absolute rock bottom.
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Even if growth rates never return to their glory days, we are on the verge of realizing absolute annual gains that will be permanently larger than in the Golden Age.
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In fact, the rate of return you can earn today on high yield bonds (6.61%) is the lowest absolute yield on record.
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