Absolute Return Hedge Fund List — 214+ Funds with Contacts & Emails

The Absolute Return Hedge Fund List is the most comprehensive downloadable database of absolute return strategy hedge funds available.

It includes detailed contact information for more than 214 hedge funds worldwide that pursue absolute return objectives — seeking positive returns regardless of broader market direction.

Covering managers across the US, UK, Switzerland, Japan, and 20+ additional countries, this list spans the full range of absolute return approaches from market-neutral equity strategies to diversified multi-asset programs. Each listing includes 40 categories of data including direct email addresses, executive contacts, AUM, investment strategy, and current hiring status. Delivered in Excel (.xls) and .csv format for instant use with any spreadsheet or CRM software.

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Who Uses the Absolute Return Hedge Fund List?

Researchers & Consultants

Need comprehensive data on absolute return hedge funds? Our list provides AUM figures, strategy classifications, employee counts, year founded, and dozens of other data points for quantitative analysis. Perfect for studying downside protection, portfolio diversification, and the role of non-directional strategies in institutional allocations. Download and work with the data in Excel instantly.

What Is an Absolute Return Hedge Fund?

Absolute return hedge funds aim to generate positive returns in all market environments — rising, falling, or flat — rather than measuring performance relative to a benchmark like the S&P 500 or MSCI World. This benchmark-agnostic approach is the defining characteristic of the strategy and the reason it appeals strongly to institutional investors seeking portfolio diversification and downside protection. Absolute return managers typically employ a combination of long and short positions, hedging techniques, and risk management frameworks designed to isolate alpha (manager skill) from beta (broad market exposure). The result is a return profile that has low correlation to traditional equity and bond markets, making absolute return funds a core allocation for pension funds, endowments, family offices, and insurance companies looking to reduce overall portfolio volatility.

Absolute return is best understood as an investment objective rather than a single trading technique. Managers pursuing absolute returns may use a wide range of underlying approaches, including equity market-neutral strategies (maintaining roughly equal long and short equity exposure to eliminate directional market risk), statistical arbitrage (using quantitative models to exploit short-term pricing inefficiencies), relative value strategies (profiting from price discrepancies between related securities), and diversified multi-asset programs that dynamically allocate across equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities. What unites these sub-strategies is the shared goal of delivering consistent, positive returns with controlled volatility, regardless of the direction of underlying markets. Many absolute return funds target annualized returns of 5–10% with single-digit volatility and a Sharpe ratio well above 1.0.

Each of the 214+ hedge fund listings in our Absolute Return Hedge Fund List includes 40 categories of verified information. Contact data includes company address, main phone and fax numbers, company website URL, main company email address, and direct email addresses for up to four key executives. You will also find each fund’s assets under management (AUM), 12-month and 24-month change in AUM, primary investment strategy, year the fund was launched, number of employees, number of clients, and current hiring status. Funds in this list are located across 20+ countries, with the heaviest concentrations in the United States (New York, Boston, Greenwich, Chicago), the United Kingdom (London), and Switzerland (Geneva, Zurich).

The Absolute Return Hedge Fund List is formatted for immediate use. Sort and filter by country, city, AUM range, or any other data field using Excel’s built-in tools. Whether you are building a targeted marketing campaign to reach absolute return fund managers, researching the competitive landscape of non-directional hedge fund strategies, prospecting for new business among institutional-quality managers, or identifying absolute return funds that are actively hiring, this list gives you the data you need in a format you can use right away.

Unlike enterprise hedge fund databases like Preqin or PitchBook that charge tens of thousands of dollars per year for subscription access, HedgeLists provides this data as a one-time download at a fraction of the cost. Your purchase includes 12 months of free updates — every 30 to 60 days we will send you a link to download the latest version with new funds added, updated contacts, and current AUM figures.

Related Strategy & Hedge Fund Resources

Explore our other strategy-focused and regional hedge fund lists before you buy. Absolute return overlaps with several related strategies — see our Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund List for diversified platforms, our Long/Short Hedge Fund List for directional equity managers, and our Fixed Income/Credit Hedge Fund List for credit-focused absolute return approaches. You can also browse by geography — see our North America, Europe, or Asia Hedge Fund Lists. For worldwide coverage across all strategies, explore our Global Hedge Fund List covering 10,000+ funds across 30+ countries.

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• Long/Short Hedge Fund List
• Fixed Income/Credit Hedge Fund List
• Global Macro Hedge Fund List
• North America Hedge Fund List
• Europe Hedge Fund List
• Asia Hedge Fund List
• Global Hedge Fund List

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