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Relative return

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Relative investment performance is a mode of portfolio management that tries to get a close but better performance than a market index.

It dffers from absolute investment performance, a method that tries, via diversification in several asset classes and / or active management to get a positive evolution of the portolio value whatever the index evolution, thus even when the index value falls.

See also: Index fund, enhanced indexing