The sub-adviser to SilverPepper
Merger Arbitrage Fund (SPABX / SPAIX) has changed its name from Brown Trout Management, LLC to Chicago Capital Management, LLC.
Touchstone
Merger Arbitrage Fund (TMGAX) has reopened to a select subset of investors: RIAs, family offices, institutional consulting firms, bank trust departments and the like.
Merger arbitrage funds hold a long position in target stocks while shorting the acquiring company profiting from the difference.
Not exact matches
Magnetar's tactic of filing lawsuits challenging takeover valuations in order to make money, also known as appraisal
arbitrage, has become increasing popular with hedge
funds in recent years, especially in the
merger litigation hotbed of Delaware.
After working briefly at Warburg Pincus, the private equity firm that owned an equity stake in Mattel, and at Island Records, where he was director of corporate development, he joined Lafer Equity Investors, a New York hedge
fund, where he learned the «craft» of risk
arbitrage — betting on the outcome of
mergers and acquisitions and other «event driven» opportunities.
Merger Arbitrage is a hedge
fund strategy in which the stocks of two merging companies are simultaneously bought and sold to create a riskless profit.
While Paulson is known for shorting sub-prime mortgages he actually specialized in
merger arbitrage before tackling the macro hedge
fund world.
Strategies adopted in a multi-strategy
fund may include, but are not limited to, convertible bond
arbitrage, equity long / short, statistical
arbitrage and
merger arbitrage.
Merger Funds: More Tame Than Reputation Some investors have been turning to a mutual - fund niche that may offer an attractive way to diversify away from the risks of stocks or bonds: funds that engage in merger arbi
Merger Funds: More Tame Than Reputation Some investors have been turning to a mutual - fund niche that may offer an attractive way to diversify away from the risks of stocks or bonds: funds that engage in merger arbit
Funds: More Tame Than Reputation Some investors have been turning to a mutual -
fund niche that may offer an attractive way to diversify away from the risks of stocks or bonds:
funds that engage in merger arbit
funds that engage in
merger arbi
merger arbitrage.