In the latest Conjecture debate, our panellists from Aberdeen Asset Management, Standard & Poor's and Threadneedle discussed Absolute Returns.
Newton's Iain Stewart puts one-fifth of Real Return portfolio in cash as volatility strikes.
£4bn Newton Real Return suffers short-term performance dip on misjudged currency bets.
Dalton Strategic Partnership has hired Goldman Sachs' Gaurav Pant to run an Indian Absolute Return fund.
HAS ABSOLUTE RETURN BEEN MIS-SOLD?
Legal & General IM is to reposition its £529m Diversified Absolute Return Trust in a move which may see it change the fund's name as well as its investment objective, Investment Week understands.
Raings agency Fitch has branded European Absolute Return (AR) funds "prone to performace disappointment" and "mis-selling" to unsophisticated investors.
Standard Life Investments' £8bn Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) Fund has initiated new pair trades for the third quarter in expectation of euro weakness, higher Eurozone inflation and resilient commodity prices.
Asset flows in the Absolute Return sector hold firm despite period of lacklustre performance and high correlation between asset classes