Investors rely on absolute return to define how an asset or portfolio performed over a certain period. Relative return is the difference between the absolute return and the performance of the market.

Given the latest market run, I am getting a lot of questions about chasing returns and individuals comparing themselves to the S&P 500 index. The flaw of human nature is that whatever we have is ...

In Like a Lion The biggest fund happening of 2009 was the launch of the Putnam Absolute Return series. In the late '90s, Putnam had briefly been the nation's largest mutual fund company, but the next ...