I guess there are two ways of thinking about merger arbitrage as a hedge fund strategy. One is: “Merger arbitrage is a bet on ...

Merger arbitrage is the business of trading stocks in companies that are involved in takeovers or mergers. The most basic of these trades involves buying shares in the targeted company at a ...

Here are just a few of the primary stat arb strategies. Risk arbitrage is a form of statistical arbitrage that seeks to profit from merger situations. Investors purchase stock in the target and (if it ...

The US election has much of Wall Street riveted. For merger-arbitrage traders, there’s a lot riding on the outcome, and a ...

Another Millennium Management portfolio manager specializing in merger arbitrage is leaving after a money-losing bet for the ...

Such expertise helps identify and size exposures to successful deals while avoiding broken deals—the biggest risk to a merger-arbitrage strategy. The team hasn’t dodged all breaks, such as the ...

The announcement by Denver-based FirstSun Capital Bancorp and Seattle-based HomeStreet, Inc. on October 29 that the Federal Reserve and the Texas Department of Banking had asked them to withdraw their ...

Recommend buying Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc. shares due to a 2.5% merger-arbitrage opportunity with Aperam's $45/share all-cash acquisition deal, expected to close in Q1 '25.

We list the best PDF merger tools, to make it simple and easy to combine documents together into one file. We put the top tools to the test to see which makes for the best workflow. The easiest ...

A U.S. District judge has halted the merger between the makers of Coach and Michael Kors handbags, saying it would reduce competition and hurt consumers. In her ruling Thursday, U.S. District ...