Glencore Fails to Set Hong Kong Investors Abuzz - Wall Street Journal
One Hong Kong-based merger arbitrage hedge fund trader said ... Some bankers say Hong Kong’s investing public is still unfamiliar with resource stocks and it will take time for them to become familiar with companies like Glencore and ...
February's Merger Arbitrage Option Plays - Seekingalpha.com
Individual investors hoping to capitalize on merger arbitrage* strategies can elect to buy shares in target companies. Investing in target equity, or the "long side" of merger arbitrage is not arbitrage in the sense of riskless return ...
Hedge Funds Redeem B In December '11 - FINalternatives
Hedge funds redeemed about .2 billion in December 2011 and underperformed the S&P 500 for the year, according to the latest report from BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research ... equity market neutral, merger arbitrage and fixed income—showed ...
David Simon’s Twin Capital Management Hires Brett Patelsky as Senior Analyst - PRWeb
Previously, Mr. Patelsky was a general partner at Tiedemann Investment Group where he co-managed the Arbitrage Associates Merger Fund. In addition, he founded and managed the Arbitrage Associates Event Fund which grew from million to million in ...
Medco Health Solutions: Potential Catalysts And Risks - Seekingalpha.com
The merger arbitrage spread in this deal is about 13% while other ... declining from 52 at the end of Q2. Total hedge fund investment in UNH also dropped from merger+arbitrage+investing.76 billion to merger+arbitrage+investing.20 billion. Based on the three companies' financial statistics ...
A Market List for Seekers of Calm - Barron's Online
SOME INVESTMENT STRATEGIES ARE FLATTERED by the extreme low interest rates that now appear to be with us for the foreseeable future. One of those is merger arbitrage—simply buying shares in the target companies in announced mergers and ...
Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta ("LAB") Index Up 1.34% in January - Marketwatch
Bloomberg ticker, CSLAB; The Credit Suisse Merger Arbitrage Liquid Index seeks to gain broad ... offers clients its combined expertise in the areas of private banking, investment banking and asset management. Credit Suisse provides advisory ...
Amit Shabi, Bernheim Dreyfus: “The failure of the AT&T/T-Mobile deal has led to a repricing of antitrust risk that we believe is exaggerated” - Hedge Week.com
AS: During the crisis, volatility surged, which led us to increase our exposure to merger arbitrage (announced deals) and decrease our exposure to special situations (expected deals). GFM: Please describe your investment process. AS: The first ...
Retirement Yield Drought: 4 Ways to Beat It - CNBC
Glassman suggest merger arbitrage funds, which invest long and short in companies involved in a merger or acquisition. And when it comes to protecting your retirement portfolio against low investment yields, choosing the right investment isn't the only safeguard.
Short selling best returning hedge strategy in 2011 - Financial Post
The next best performing strategy was fixed income arbitrage, up 3.9% on the year, followed by merger arbitrage and equity market neutral which climbed 2% and 0.9% respectively. The worst performing strategies in 2011 were emerging markets down ...
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