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

Opus Fixed Income Fund (Schroders NewFinance Capital). The arbitrage fund, Paulson Enhanced, is up 10.5 percent while Paulson International is up almost 5 percent. Risk arbitrage hedge fund managers can employ an event-driven investment strategy or merger arbitrage investment strategy, seeking situations such as hostile takeovers, mergers and leveraged buyouts. Best Arbitrage Fund CIAM Merger Arbitrage Fund (CIAM). Contrarily, Paulson Advantage and Advantage Plus are down 12.68 and 18.4 percent respectively. Key Recovery Fund (Key Asset Management). Seeks to exploit deviations of market prices Event Driven Hedge Fund Strategy Below please find a definition of "Event Driven Strategy" Event Driven Strategy: An approach that seeks to anticipate certain events, such as mergers or corporate restructurings. Merger Arbitrage or relative-value strategy hedge funds which aim to profit off from mispricings while unsuccessful in others. GHF Sicav Global Macro Fund Class A (Thalìa). It employs structure arbitrage, closed-end fund arbitrage, pair trading, merger arbitrage and event driven strategies. The SOGAsia fund is an Asia including Japan, multi-strategy arbitrage fund. He currently runs two hedge funds, the SOG Fund (global multi-strategy arbitrage) and SOGAsia. The SOGAsia Fund was It is commonly viewed that arbitrage strategies have to leverage up to the high single digits in order to make money off some very small spreads. Surprisingly, John Paulson's merger arbitrage funds are returning better than his event driven strategies. Below please find a definition of “Merger Arbitrage Fund” Merger Arbitrage Fund: Trading the stocks of companies that have announced acquisitions or are the targets of acquisitions. Most Innovative Allblue Fund (BlueCrest Capital Management). Signet Global Fixed Income Fund (Signet Management).