Janus Henderson Absolute Return Income Opportunities Fund returned 2.35% and the ICE BofA US 3M Trsy Bill TR USD returned ...

(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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

Putnam Investments of Boston today announced that it has launched four target absolute-return mutual funds designed to seek annualized total returns of 1%, 3%, 5% or 7% above those of U.S. Treasuries ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Absolute return investing is an important way to control risk but the concept needs to be carefully defined. It ...

Simply sign up to the Fund management myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Debate continues to rage over the primacy of relative return and absolute return approaches to evaluate ...

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 ...

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 ...