(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, ...

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 ...

Learn how absolute percentage growth helps you evaluate the standalone performance of your investments without benchmarks.

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 ...

The investment seeks a high level of total return that is consistent with preservation of capital. Under normal market conditions, the fund will invest at least 80% of its investable assets (net ...

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 ...

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 ...