Friday Finance: What differentiates absolute return funds?

FRIDAY FINANCE

clock

In this week's live Friday Finance interview, Investment Week's editorial director Lawrence Gosling talks to John Cleary, founder and CIO of specialist boutique Focus Capital, about opportunities in emerging markets.

This week’s Investment 101 is from Kate Hollis of S&P Fund Services, answering the question ‘How are absolute return funds different from standard funds?’ There is also recorded footage of Chris Derksen, head of frontier markets at Investec Asset Management, talking about Africa as an investment continent. The programme is shown live at 11am every Friday. If you have missed a Friday Finance, see our audio/video section to access previous episodes.  

To continue reading this article...

Join Investment Week for free

  • Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the investment industry, including the Sustainable Hub covering fund news from the ESG space
  • Get ahead of regulatory and technological changes affecting fund management
  • Important and breaking news stories selected by the editors delivered straight to your inbox each day
  • Weekly members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from leading industry experts
  • Be the first to hear about our extensive events schedule and awards programmes

Join now

 

Already an Investment Week
member?

Login

More on Investment

Stories of the week: US equities, the FCA, and Mark Carney

Stories of the week: US equities, the FCA, and Mark Carney

Tariffs, Artemis, and aberdeen: The biggest stories from the world of investment and asset management this week

clock 14 March 2025 • 1 min read
Investment Week reveals finalists for Fund Manager of the Year Awards 2025

Investment Week reveals finalists for Fund Manager of the Year Awards 2025

Special 30th Anniversary Awards ceremony on 19 June

Katrina Lloyd
clock 12 March 2025 • 10 min read

Partner Insight: US fiscal policy: opportunities amidst uncertainty

T.Rowe Price
clock 12 March 2025 • 2 min read
Trustpilot