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Merger Arbitrage: How to Profit from Event-Driven Arbitrage Thomas Kirchner
Publisher: Wiley

There are opportunities to profit from this growth in acquisition activity. Whether these ETFs use long/short strategies, merger arbitrage or event-driven trading, what investors most often focus on is bottom line returns. Once or twice every decade, M&A markets go through a bust and returns of merger arbitrage and event-driven funds slip. (Opalesque TV) Nancy Havens-Hasty founded her event-driven fund Havens Advisors in 1995 after spending 16 years at Bear Stearns, where she first founded and managed the foreign risk arbitrage ef. The first one pops up in our own merger arbitrage portfolio every December. Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders and other booksellers. Staying Market Neutral As investors crave more advanced The underlying index is rebalanced every five days, rather than monthly or quarterly, allowing for the fund to capture these event driven gains. Event-driven funds seek to profit from securities whose value is affected by events such as mergers and acquisitions, and reorganizations. That is the month Disclosure: Thomas Kirchner manages the Pennsylvania Avenue Event-Driven Fund [PAEDX], which uses merger arbitrage. Coupled with Nancy's earlier experience as an investment Profitable Hedge Fund Trading Strategy Exposed. Chapter 1 of the book Merger Arbitrage: How To Profit From Event-Driven Arbitrage by Thomas Kirchner. However, merger arbitrage works best over several different deals and opportunities, requiring heavy capital constraints making it pretty inaccessible for most retail investors. The Havens funds, investing in Merger Arbitrage and High Yield/Bankruptcy situations, were a logical outgrowth of those years. Merger Arbitrage: How to Profit from Event-Driven Arbitrage Publisher: W i l e y | 2009 | PDF | ISBN: 0470371978 | 355 pages | 15.5.