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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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But you can guarantee that if the rally continues investors will start complaining that these absolute returns are too boring. Merk, who identified the building of the credit bubble in 2003 and in 2005, positioned his clients to move out of real estate and the faltering dollar by investing in hard currencies and gold, says the "no-load" mutual fund seeks to generate positive absolute returns by investing in currencies. The conference included four plenary sessions in the morning: Global opportunities: the international perspective, Global opportunities: as seen from the Middle East, Alternatives and absolute returns and Searching for growth: when will the US lead us out of global recession? |
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