Active management with a focus on quality to ensure investors are rewarded for the risk taken and remains a true defensive strategy to deliver stable
absolute returns over time.
Furthermore, as most investors require fixed income exposure for income, liability management or to diversify the downside risk in their portfolios from equities, the asset allocation of the portfolio should be set with an eye to delivering a stable,
absolute return over time.
Not exact matches
This means that periods of relative underperformance are inevitable, but the economic logic underpinning fundamental value investing should ensure satisfactory
absolute returns when measured
over a suitable
time horizon.
As you add money to your invested funds
over time, your risk gets amplified such that a negative
return in later years will cost you more in
absolute dollar terms than in earlier years.
- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament -
Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to
return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some
time - Long - term youth unemployment of
over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit
over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade
Absolute return is a
return that asset (such as mutual fund) delivers
over a period of
time.
... As we emphasized in our Semi-Annual Letter to Shareholders, our goal is to generate good
absolute returns with limited downside risk
over time.
- Fortunately, none have a negative
absolute return over their life
times.
TAM is happy if the Funds»
absolute returns are OK and if the Funds outperform relevant indices on average, most of the
time and
over the long run.
Not only have mid-cap stocks generated higher
absolute returns over the longer
time frames, mid-caps have also provided these superior
returns with less associated risk.
The relative momentum performance is calculated as the asset's total
return over the
timing period, and the
return of 1 - month treasury bills is used as the risk free rate for the
absolute momentum filter.
Considers risk management factors, such as the underlying funds» relative and
absolute performance, as well as their volatility of
returns over time.
We seek to reduce risk and deliver positive
absolute returns for our investors
over time.
Although the CTA industry is aiming for
absolute returns, it is important to compare the track records to a benchmark to account for changes in performance
over time that are not due to any of the issues already discussed in the introduction.
All available data CLEARLY shows that this is an
absolute fallacy, and that stocks will
return many
times the
return of fixed income investments
over any viable investment timeframe.
Over Southeastern's history, including the post 2008 period, we have achieved our absolute return goal 78 % of the time over quarterly rolling 10 year peri
Over Southeastern's history, including the post 2008 period, we have achieved our
absolute return goal 78 % of the
time over quarterly rolling 10 year peri
over quarterly rolling 10 year periods.