KCG is launching a new risk arbitrage group, aimed at providing its clients with insight into complex and special situations through expert regulatory and event arbitrage-related analysis. As part of ...

Explore how arbitrageurs leverage market inefficiencies to earn profits by exploiting price differences. Understand their ...

Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...

Arbitrage trading is about as close to real-time, instant profit-taking as you can get. Rather than trade the price of a security in relation to itself, arbitrage capitalizes on the different value of ...

Arbitrage is, by definition, a zero-risk strategy (provided that it’s executed correctly). In scenarios where margins are too tight to justify the trade, the funds will remain idle in a bank account, ...

The business of betting on mergers and acquisitions is coming back from the dead. As Wall Street insists that the merger business will rise again, hedge funds are pouring money into betting on the ...

Q. I am a civil engineer working with a construction company in Pune, my wife is a scientist working with a bio-medical start-up in Pune. We have been invested in largecap and midcap mutual funds for ...

Empirical research confirms that merger and acquisition strategies (M&A), as represented by M&A index returns, are positively related to the interest rate and the change in interest rate. This ...

There’s a whole class of traders out there that trade merger & acquisition (M&A) rumors and news. When one company makes a buyout bid for another company, the bid is typically priced at a premium to ...

The investment seeks to generate positive absolute returns. The fund normally invests at least 80% of the value of its total assets (net assets plus the amount of any borrowings for investment ...