Strategy Selection: Absolute Return Strategies - Transparency brings...

Financial Times Mandate;  May 1, 2006 ;     787 words ......resulted in increased interest in absolute return strategies among institutions across...world. By getting rid of benchmarks, absolute return managers are free to exploit return...their managers. There is no doubt that absolute return strategies have a role to play in...

Citi Quilter considers absolute return launch.

Investment Adviser;  September 29, 2008 ;     459 words ......the first onshore funds of absolute return funds as the Treasury continues...to have launched an onshore absolute return fund of funds are City Financial, whose GBP4.2m Diversified Absolute Return fund sits in the Global Growth...

Absolute return funds fail to make the grade.

Investment Adviser;  April 23, 2007 ;     311 words ...performance Absolute return funds have not produced consistently...The group, which launched a new Absolute Return Sector with Trustnet last week...and bonds, which make up the Absolute Return Sector. The most consistent fund...

SWIP absolute return funds.(Product of the month)

What Investment;  October 1, 2006 ;     460 words ...Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has launched three absolute return funds, the Absolute Return Macro Fund, Absolute Return UK Equity Fund and Absolute Return Bond Fund. The Macro Fund aims to produce a total...

Absolute return for you and your clients.

Investment Adviser;  May 21, 2007 ;     506 words ...Absolute return has become the latest hot topic in...next. The fundamental idea behind absolute return funds is that they smooth out these...a savings accounts. Therefore, an absolute return fund should usually have an annual...

Absolute Return - An Essential Diet of News and Analysis.

M2 Presswire;  September 29, 2004 ;     616 words ......September 2004-Research and Markets: Absolute Return - An Essential Diet of News and Analysis...have announced the addition of the `Absolute Return` report to their offering. Absolute Return is a glossy magazine aimed at hedge...

Special Report: Absolute Return Strategies - It's time to start thinking...

Financial Times Mandate;  December 1, 2005 ;     787 words ...Byline: Pascal Blanque The absolute return market is booming. Credit...in terms of the number of absolute return products it has launched and...innovation in taking advantage of absolute return strategies to return alpha...

Gartmore to merge funds into absolute return vehicle.

Investment Adviser;  August 11, 2008 ;     252 words ......Management is planning to create an absolute return fund by merging two of its multi-manager...Alpha funds will combine to form the Absolute Return fund in October, subject to regulatory approval. Like its predecessors, the Absolute Return fund will be a Nurs portfolio. It...

Absolute return funds can be hit - and miss Funds that target a specific...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  September 7, 2008 ;   Cherry Reynard;   787 words ......Investment Management Association's new absolute return sector has been a top seller this...But there have been worries that "absolute return" is a misleading tag, lulling investors...money. So how should people approach absolute return funds? The sector only launched relatively...

Gartmore ready to roll out absolute return vehicle.

Investment Adviser;  September 15, 2008 ;     363 words ......roll out the first of a series of absolute return products with the launch of its European Absolute Return fund. The new vehicle will be managed...proposals for the Gartmore Multi-Manager Absolute Return fund in July, we are delighted to...

IMA shifts Newton fund to Absolute Return sector.(Brief article)

Financial Adviser;  August 7, 2008 ;   Redgrave, James;   265 words ......Intrepid fund has been moved into the Absolute Return sector by the Investment Management...Services, said the growing demand for absolute return products was being fuelled by poor...People are very interested in the Absolute Return sector as the market is going down...

News: Investors warned of absolute return risk.

Pensions Week;  April 14, 2008 ;     321 words ......caution over the growing popularity of absolute return funds, due to concerns about manager...with the market for each asset, for absolute return funds the risk lies largely with the...the economic reasoning behind some absolute return funds are highlighted by Rob Treich...

Research and Markets: Absolute Return - An Essential Diet of News and...

PR Newswire;  September 28, 2004 ;     482 words ......Ireland, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Absolute Return is a glossy magazine aimed at hedge...publications are mainly news-focussed, Absolute Return is more focussed on analysis and trends...20040820/RESEARCH ) Every issue of Absolute Return is packed with an essential diet of...

SLI plans absolute return fund.

Investment Adviser;  November 12, 2007 ;     263 words ......rolling out a retail version of its Absolute Return fund. The group is exploring plans...product early next year. Its Global Absolute Return Strategies fund was launched for institutional...Hargreaves Lansdown, said: I find absolute return funds a very interesting idea, although...

Absolute return funds differ from the index.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  September 26, 2005 ;     155 words ......Adviser - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Absolute return funds are arguably the complete...concerned, the performance of an absolute return fund is largely based on the skill of the manager. Absolute return managers attempt to reduce as...