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...Pimco, M&G and Hermes Investment Management have launched debt funds in the past month. The strategies have been popular with pension funds....
...“We had built big strategic positions in a number of asset classes,” he says, including a popular range of funds called Global Absolute Return Strategies, as well as UK fixed income and private markets focusing...
...The growth of SLI was based on a range of funds called Global Absolute Return Strategies, which analysts at RBC Capital Markets have described as “the fund management success story of the past decade”....
...He adds that fund managers are turning away from measuring their performance relative to traditional equity benchmarks to focus on providing absolute returns for investors in any market condition....
...Myles Bradshaw joins as head of global aggregate strategies from Pimco while David Ric takes on the role of head of absolute return strategies after moving from BlackRock....
...Another is the absolute return fund – such as Standard Life’s £22bn Global Absolute Return Strategies fund – which tries to deliver positive returns whatever the market conditions....
...This is just a fraction of the size of the £24.2bn M&G Optimal Income fund and the £22.6bn Standard Life Investments Global Absolute Return Strategy fund....
...But he is more willing to discuss one of the most prevalent criticisms levelled at Standard Life’s fund business: that it is too reliant on its flagship Global Absolute Return Strategies (Gars) fund, one...
...Here’s how Nomura explained IRIS in 2010 (when it launched an absolute return fund using it): IRIS is an interest-rate positioning index which dynamically adjusts in changing market and economic conditions...
...Pimco, the number-one selling manager in 2012, crashed out of the top-25 ranking after the disappointing performance of its flagship Total Return fund prompted investor withdrawals....
...SLI’s phenomenally successful Global Absolute Return Strategies fund has been a leader in the UK’s multi-asset fund market since it launched in 2008....
...The Trend Master Index series uses a trend-following strategy in an effort to offer equity-like returns with reduced volatility....
...With these ageing populations, we have got to allow these assets to flow to fund the returns. The world needs that GDP growth.”...
...The fund leans heavily on long-short investing and uses five different absolute return strategies, each of which is overseen by a specific investment manager....
...● Lyxor Asset Management has expanded its range of absolute return funds with the launch of Absolute Return Multi Assets 8, aiming to deliver returns from 6 to 8 per cent per year with average volatility...
...periods in return for improved yields....
...The strategy behind Eaton Vance’s first retail alternative fund, the Global Macro Absolute Return Fund, can be traced back to 1997 when it was used in an existing mutual fund, Mr Godfrey says....
...But the effectiveness of this strategy is damningly weak, the study’s author, Ric Thomas, head of absolute return strategies at SSGA, concludes....
...Global Absolute Return Strategies (Gars), which is now a £15bn fund range, was conceived as a fix for Standard Life’s pension fund that had a deficit of about £200m at the time of demutualisation in 2006...
...With Ucits III it has become a well-promoted overlay on traditional funds in the form of absolute return strategies....
...Finally, there is a strong appetite for absolute return strategies ranging across continents and asset classes, including derivatives....
...Standard Life’s Global Absolute Return Strategy continued its strong growth, winning 12 mandates worth about £500m, with Baring and Ruffer also in demand....
...Enthusiasm for high yield helped propel Kames Capital into the UK top 10 alongside Troy Asset Management, a beneficiary of rampant demand for “absolute return” strategies that also played into the hands...
...● Pimco has unveiled a Credit Absolute Return Fund for investors seeking a global, diversified strategy that is focused on absolute return....
...return fixed-income strategies at Pimco....
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