Box 1 represents a neutral return, meaning it is the benchmark for the other three boxes.

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Such funds throw around terms like risk parity, equity long-short, market neutral and absolute return.

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The British preferred to allow him to return via Portugal, formally a neutral country but under the thumb of Germany.

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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.

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Jewish groups and lawyers for Holocaust survivors had been clamouring for three years for the return of wealth that flowed through neutral Switzerland during the second world war.

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The Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers landed at Venezuela's Libertador military airfield and "will spend several days carrying out training flights over neutral waters, after which they will return to the base, " the ministry added.

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Described in typical industry gobbledygook as a "multistrategy, market-neutral arbitrage" fund, SRI eked out a net 0.07% return its first six months.

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For example, the SEC alleges that ThinkStrategy reported a 2008 return of 22.6% for its Capital Fund-A, a long-short market neutral hedge fund, when the actual performance was -77.9%.

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The participant who is neutral on prices wants to see how the current price trend develops before making a decision whether to return to the market in the New Year.

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