The IMA’s Absolute Return Sector has become one of the industry’s whipping boys. If we are to believe the hype, Absolute Return funds are expensive, risky and poorly performing. Are they simply misunderstood or is their longterm survival in jeopardy? Was it all just a fad?

Threadneedle provide an indepth guide to ‘absolute return funds’ and how these products seek to deliver positive returns over the medium term, irrespective of market conditions. Elsewhere in this guide they set out how absolute return funds work, how they at

In this comprehensive guide Threadneedle look at how portfolios can incorporate a wide range of different assets, all of which have their own characteristics. Understanding these characteristics, and their implications on how a portfolio will perform in different conditions, is a key step in the