(MoneyWatch) Investors would love to be able to achieve positive returns in both bull and bear markets. That's the "promise," or at least the idea behind, absolute return funds. The devastating bear ...

When comparing investments, returns are one of the metrics you might zero in on. But there are different ways to gauge an investment’s performance. Absolute return measures an investment’s returns ...

More than a decade ago, before the Internet bubble burst, investors focused on return on capital. Today they seem more concerned with risk-adjusted returns. They want to know that their hard-earned ...

If you missed the recent launch of Putnam's new Absolute Return funds, you really have only yourself to blame. Their debut earlier this year was backed by a full court press push: full page color ads, ...

All underlying fund holdings added to absolute return. Within equities, US large-cap and US value equities posted the largest ...

Simply sign up to the Fund management myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Investors have pulled billions of euros from Europe’s biggest absolute return funds this year as sentiment has ...

Investors have started to pull money from the U.K.’s largest absolute return fund after a poor year’s performance. The £23 billion fund saw outflows of £10.2 million over the past 12 months. The fund ...

Investors rely on absolute return to define how an asset or portfolio performed over a certain period. Relative return is the difference between the absolute return and the performance of the market.

It has become customary in every market downturn to point out the weak performance from absolute return funds. While many had a ‘good’ financial crisis, in aggregate the sector has not delivered well ...

For most of us, talk of economic downturns and recession means a flight to financial safety. We batten down the hatches while the storm rages around us. For investors, while this strategy means that ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...