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.

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Absolute value is a mathematical concept often used in conjunction with a number line or graph to represent the relative value from zero (modulus). To illustrate this idea in a different way, the ...

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