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- a fund which tries to take advantage of price discrepancies for the same asset in different markets
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- Risk Arbitrage
- Risk arbitrage is one of several styles of hedge fund investing that constitutes the event driven strategy. Event driven investing is a strategy that seeks to profit from special situations or opportunities to capitalize on price fluctuations or imbalances. It is generally equity-oriented investing designed to capture share price movement...
- White papers 2001-11-01
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- News: GAM takes arbitrage idea global.(Global Asset Management to launch GAM Multi-Arbitrage Fund)(Brief Article)
- Global Asset Management GAM, a UK-based multi-manager, is to launch a multi-arbitrage fund this month. The GAM Multi-Arbitrage Fund aims to achieve long-term capital appreciation with low volatility and low or negative correlation to equity or bond markets. The fund will...
- Research articles 2002-09-23
- S&P Withdraws Rtgs on Integral Bond Arbitrage Fund Ltd
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Standard & Poor's CreditWire 9/1/98-- Standard & Poor's today withdrew its triple-'Af' bond fund credit rating and double-'b' bond fund risk rating on the Integral Bond Arbitrage Fund Ltd.
- Research articles 1998-09-01
- Credit Agricole launches Dutch fund of hedge funds.
- Byline: Anuj Gangahar Credit Agricole's alternative investment products group, a subsidiary of Credit Agricole Asset Management, has registered its arbitrage fund of hedge funds for distribution in the Netherlands, following approval by the Dutch regulatory authorities.Green Way Arbitrage is a Luxembourg-registered fund of...
- Research articles 2003-01-21
- Dow Jones Newsletters Launches New Publication on Flourishing Hedge-Fund Industry; New ``Hedge Fund Trades'' Will Focus on Hedge-Fund Investment, Strategy and Performance
- NEW YORK -- Dow Jones Newsletters today launched a new weekly publication, "Hedge Fund Trades," that covers the thriving hedge-fund industry in the U.S. and around the globe. In the inaugural issue, "Hedge Fund Trades" examines how hedge funds are playing the retail sector; how one manager is putting options...
- Research articles 2005-10-24
- Gam fund aims to offer stable absolute returns; Gam has launched multi-arbitrage fund of hedge funds managed by Dorothy Dewitt.(Global Asset Management Associates Inc.)
- Shaista Ahmed Funds of hedge funds are becoming increasingly popular as volatility in equity markets continues. Fund of hedge funds aim to build diversified portfolios, limiting exposure to risk and volatility. However, despite this limited risk approach, European hedge...
- Research articles 2002-10-14
- IndexIQ Planning First Merger Arbitrage ETF
- Michael Johnston submits: IndexIQ, a pioneer in the area of hedge fund and inflation hedge ETFs, is preparing to launch another fund, the IQ ARB Merger Arbitrage ETF. The fund is scheduled to begin trading later this month under the clever ticker MNA. The proposed ETF will track the IQ...
- External links 2009-11-05
- Risks in Hedge Fund Strategies: Case of Convertible Arbitrage
- Using data on Japanese and US convertible bonds and underlying stocks, it analyzes the risk return characteristics of convertible arbitrage funds. The hypothesize that there are three primitive trading strategies that explain convertible arbitrage funds, returns, positive carry, volatility arbitrage, and credit arbitrage. They are referred as asset-based style factors....
- White papers 2004-09-16
- How Effective Is Arbitrage of Foreign Stocks? The Case of the Malaysia Exchange-Traded Fund
- ABSTRACT: Unlike closed-end country funds that usually trade at large premiums to the values of their portfolios, exchange-traded funds facilitate arbitrage to prevent their prices from deviating from their underlying values. However, such arbitrage can involve significant transaction costs, which have caused some to question the ability of this arbitrage...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- Galleon Surrenders Ship Even as Its Funds Surge
- By Joseph A. GiannoneNEW YORK (Reuters) - The Galleon Group, caught up in the largest-ever hedge fund insider-trading scandal, is liquidating its funds even as investors enjoy one of the firm's best years.On Friday U.S. authorities arrested Galleon founder Raj Rajaratnam, New Castle Partners' Mark Kurland and four others for...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Galleon Surrenders Ship Even as Its Funds Surge
- By Joseph A. Giannone NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Galleon Group, caught up in the largest-ever hedge fund insider-trading scandal, is liquidating its funds even as investors enjoy one of the firm's best years. On Friday U.S. authorities arrested Galleon founder Raj Rajaratnam, New Castle Partners' Mark Kurland and four...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Merger Arbitrage: Evidence of Profitability
- Merger arbitrage is widely considered one of the principal areas of hedge fund investment. While the investment process of merger arbitrage is generally known, less information exists, at least in the practitioner community, as to academic research as to the basis for various merger activity as well as to the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- ECB Warns EU on Hedge Fund Plans
- By Marc JonesFRANKFURT (Reuters UK) - The European Central Bank has warned that EU plans to tighten regulation of hedge funds and other alternative investors risk creating a two-tier playing field that could drive the industry out of Europe.European governments and the European Parliament have the final say on a...
- News items 2009-10-22
- Capital Structure Arbitrage Strategies: Models, Practice and Empirical Evidence
- Capital structure arbitrage strategies currently are the fastest growing sector in the hedge fund market and in proprietary trading departments in large banks. The objective of the thesis is the theoretical and practical background of capital structure arbitrage and hedging strategies, and the empirical evidence of key relationships applying these...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Hedge Fund-of-Funds Asset Allocation Using a Convergent and Divergent Strategy Approach
- Hedge fund asset allocation can be a challenging endeavor given the dearth of tools available to deal with the unique statistical characteristics of long and short strategies. From a top-down perspective, the hedge fund industry is classified into several substyle categories including long/short equity, market neutral equity, convertible bond arbitrage,...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Gabelli's Global Deal Fund: Finding Value in Turbulent Times
- Relative Value Partners submits: The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article on top performing mutual funds, highlighting the Gabelli ABC Fund (GACBX), a modified merger arbitrage strategy fund as the best YTD performer through March 31, 2009. This survey included 1,663 funds that had greater than $50 million in...
- External links 2009-04-08
- Custody, Settlement and Technology News: SEI picks up Rose Glen private fund.(Brief Article)
- Rose Glen Capital, a US-based arbitrage firm, has appointed US-based multimanager firm SEI Investments to administer a $115m private investment fund. Rose Glen Capital, a US-based arbitrage firm, has appointed US-based multimanager firm SEI Investments to administer a $115m private investment fund.
- Research articles 2002-11-04
- Man Group launches arbitrage product.
- Byline: Anuj Gangahar Man Group, the world's largest hedge fund firm, is to launch a capital guaranteed structured product in response to increased investor demand for managed futures and arbitrage investment opportunities.The Man AP Unison Series 1 features allocations to arbitrage, managed futures,...
- Research articles 2003-05-06
- Graphic Representation of Citi Arbitrage Carnage
- Tyler Durden submits: It took all of 2 weeks for the Citi Common-Preferred (C.P) arb to become Volkswagen Jr. And if the administration feels abnormally nasty, this could become a fast money hedge fund neutron bomb that would make the Volkswagen megasqueeze seem like dress rehearsal for the Mormon...
- External links 2009-03-18
- Convertible arbitrage funds suffer performance setback.
- Byline: Anuj Gangahar Convertible arbitrage funds have suffered a performance setback this year following a bumper 2002 in which they attracted a quarter of all money flowing in to the hedge fund sector.Convertible arbitrage funds were the second best-performing strategy class after global macro...
- Research articles 2003-11-30
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