Assessing the promise of positive returns
Absolute return has become hugely popular with institutional investors amid the volatility of recent years. It’s not hard to understand why: investors like its ability to generate relatively stable returns that are uncorrelated to other asset prices. It is often said that investors would rather lag just behind a rising market than underperform in a weak one, preferring to be in control of their portfolio’s volatility as opposed to being exposed to the wide performance swings of risky assets in fluctuating market conditions.
This roundtable of industry experts discuss absolute returns’ performance, how investors are positioning it in their portfolios, its use in DC and more.
