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Absolute Return What Does Absolute Return Mean? The return that an asset achieves over a certain period of time; it considers appreciation or depreciation (expressed as a percentage) of the asset, which is usually a stock or a mutual fund. Absolute return differs from relative return because it looks only at an asset's return; it does not compare returns to any other measure or benchmark. Investopedia explains Absolute Return Generally, mutual funds seek returns that are better than those of their peers, their fund category, and/or the market as a whole. This type of fund management is referred to as a relative return approach to fund investing. Absolute return funds seek positive returns by employing investment strategies that often are not permitted in traditional mutual funds, such as short selling, futures, options, derivatives, arbitrage, leverage, and unconventional assets. Alfred Winslow Jones is credited with forming the first absolute return fund in New York in 1949. Today, the absolute return approach to fund investing has become one of the fastest growing investment products in the world; it's called a hedge fund. Related Terms: How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division recently
consolidated its alternative investments platform under RREEF
Alternative Investments, which now consists of four businesses: Real
Estate, Infrastructure, Absolute Return Strategies and Private Equity. GoldenTree Asset Management, with offices in New York, London and
Los Angeles, manages a variety of absolute return strategies, which
invest in bank debt, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, middle-market
loans, equities and real estate and employs 132 people. s
$4,000,000 principal protection absolute return barrier notes, 2006
series F - which closed Dec. |
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