How best to generate absolute returns

This week's Conjecture focuses on the growing number of absolute return funds, which aim to deliver posiitve returns in all market conditions

This week's Conjecture debate focuses on the crop of absolute return funds that have entered the market recently. Mark Lyttleton, manager of the BlackRock UK Absolute Alpha Fund, Neil Nuttall, manager of the JPMorgan Cautious Total Return and Randal Goldsmith, director of fund research at S&P - also, by phone from Edinburgh, Craig Inches, manager of the SWIP Absolute Return Bond fund - join us. IW: What are the best ways of generating absolute returns? NN: On our Cautious Total Return fund, we feel a combination of top-down asset allocation decisions - together with bottom-up security...