(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 ...

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

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 ...

Much of the confusion about what an absolute-return portfolio is arises from the rather cavalier way that some of these funds are labeled. Many funds are advertised as absolute-return plays simply ...

There's an old saying that if sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is. That warning applies to absolute return funds. While most actively managed funds try to beat a benchmark (such as the ...

Robert Reynolds, President and CEO of Putnam Investments, today discussed why he feels that this is the time for advisers and investors to adopt absolute returns into their portfolios—and a survey of ...

Given the latest market run, I am getting a lot of questions about chasing returns and individuals comparing themselves to the S&P 500 index. The flaw of human nature is that whatever we have is ...

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 ...

Since my last commentary, the Absolute Returns portfolio has exited a number of positions including Vivendi (FR.VIV), which approached our estimation of fair value on a sum-of-the-parts basis. I also ...

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 ...

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 ...