Sentences with phrase «merger arbitrage funds»

Merger arbitrage funds hold a long position in target stocks while shorting the acquiring company profiting from the difference.

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.

The sub-adviser to SilverPepper Merger Arbitrage Fund (SPABX / SPAIX) has changed its name from Brown Trout Management, LLC to Chicago Capital Management, LLC.

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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.

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