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 ...

Putnam Investments has developed what the firm calls the first suite of target-date funds that integrate target absolute return strategies with traditional mutual funds. Challenged by market ...

Investment risk refers to the potential for an investment to experience a loss or deviation from its expected return and can come from a variety of places. All investments carry some level of risk ...

The ideal portfolio mix should have at least 20% allocated to absolute-return strategies, Joseph Dowling, senior managing director and global head of Blackstone multiasset investing, said in an ...

While investors may have hoped absolute return funds would hold up relatively well in the drama of the sell-off, just one in four funds managed to produce positive returns, Morningstar Data reveals.

LONDON (Reuters) - Investors who bought into "absolute return" funds hoping to make money in relentlessly turbulent trading are instead finding their capital eroded in markets that are making a habit ...

Columbia Threadneedle Investments has launched the Threadneedle (Lux) Global Investment Grade Credit Opportunities fund. The strategy, which will be managed by Alasdair Ross and Ryan Staszewski, will ...

One of the best strategies for succeeding in the stock market is patience. The market’s volatility can definitely lead to losses in the short term, but if you keep your money in long enough, you will ...