“Absolute return investing, on the other hand, it's not just a long only fund. I can go long. I can go short. I can put on relative value trades. I can use synthetics like credit default swaps.”

Bill Egan, JP Morgan Strategic Income Opportunities Fund · Animal Spirits Podcast · Talk Your Book: Will AI Debt Cause a Recession?

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used absolute-return strategy that can go long, short, and use credit default swaps to generate returns regardless of benchmark moves

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