Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

I’ve not been a fan of the Target Absolute Return (TAR) sector historically: it has tended to overpromise but underdeliver. TAR funds have the aim of achieving positive returns in any market ...

Much of the confusion about what an absolute-return portfolio is arises from the rather cavalier way that some of these funds are labeled. Many funds are advertised as absolute-return plays simply ...

LONDON, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Absolute return funds could be turning into Europe's next investment mis-selling row. Sign up here. As freefalling equity and bond markets ravage people's savings, private ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Investors who bought into "absolute return" funds hoping to make money in relentlessly turbulent trading are instead finding their capital eroded in markets that are making a habit ...