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- Arbitrage
- the buying and selling of foreign currencies, products, or financial securities between two or more markets in order to make an immediate profit by exploiting the differences in market prices...
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- IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Providers' Converging Value Propositions Creating Strategic Dilemma: Everest and Bernstein Webinar July 10
- DALLAS -- The strategic dilemma facing Infrastructure Outsourcing IO suppliers - caused by the convergence of 'traditional' multinational and offshore suppliers' value propositions, a maturing remote infrastructure management delivery model, and adoption of labor arbitrage by traditional suppliers - will be discussed in a one-hour Webinar hosted by analysts from...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- What determines the level of short-selling activity?
- I test several explanations for the short-sale trading for a sample of the NYSE and the Nasdaq stocks during the 1988-2002 period. I find that short-selling activity is positively related to arbitrage opportunities and hedging demand, and negatively related to previous short-term returns. ANOVA analysis shows that the stock option...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- IRS: AGENCY BROKE TAX LAW ON BONDS
- The IRS has told Colorado Springs Utilities it violated the tax code on $345 million in bonds issued in 1991, which could force the city agency to pay millions of dollars or face other consequences. If the IRS determination stands, the city-owned enterprise could lose tax-exempt status...
- Research articles 2007-11-12
- Crash: private equity falls back to earth.
- Byline: Jennifer Hewett May 06, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Airline Partners Australia APA consortium has not been able to gain enough acceptances for its bid for Qantas Airways. The private equity players led by Bob Mansfield had made an...
- Research articles 2007-05-06
- 'We're applying for a refund'
- Not many people or businesses pay Uncle Sam more than they have to, but Colorado Springs Utilities has been an overly generous taxpayer. The utility mistakenly gave the Internal Revenue Service an extra $1.1 million. The overpayment was discovered during an audit, still under...
- Research articles 2006-08-12
- The Forgotten Strategy
- The Idea in Brief Multinationals' global operations consistently underperform their domestic operations. Why? These companies' strategies focus mostly on similarities across their markets: whenever possible, global companies standardize their business models to achieve economies of scale. They...
- Articles 2007-11-02
- Converting out.(market condition for hedge funds)
- The June closure of convertible arbitrage hedge fund Marin Capital Partners, with its nearly $2 billion under management, appears to be just the tip of the iceberg for the troubled strategy. The Barclay Group estimates the strategy has lost more than 20% of its assets, to $52.53...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- A Course of Inaction
- THE FIRST WAVE OF SCANDALS CAME IN 2001. Beginning with the fall of Enron, a host of similar cases of accounting irregularity quickly followed, most involving overstated earnings and understated liabilities. These events culminated in 2002 with WorldCom's record-setting bankruptcy and the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Later that year,...
- Research articles 2004-03-09
- Arbitrage: The Key to Pricing Options
- Arbitrage is the act of simultaneously buying and selling assets or commodities in an attempt to exploit a profitable opportunity. Although the idea behind arbitrage is fairly simple, it is quite powerful because the ability to exploit such opportunities is needed for markets to operate efficiently. Arbitrage ensures, for example,...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Texas Teacher-Retirement System Considers 'Dead Peasant' Insurance Policies.
- Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 11--When a Dallas-area legislator wanted to give Texas the ability to secretly insure the lives of retired state employees and name itself as the beneficiary of those policies, few could understand why. ...
- Research articles 2003-12-11
- Banks' department walls are crumbling.
- Byline: Natasha de Teran Investment bankers used to be able to live in splendid isolation within their product areas. Credit specialists dealt with credit and equity specialists with equity - experts within the two separate groups reported to their line managers, without so much...
- Research articles 2003-11-23
- Mellon HBV lists funds on the Irish exchange.
- Byline: Anuj Gangahar Mellon HBV, the $850m ([euro]721.8m) alternative investment arm of Mellon Financial Corporation, is bolstering its European presence with new versions of its distressed and event-driven hedge funds on the Irish Stock Exchange ISE.Mellon's Cayman Island-registered European special situations fund will...
- Research articles 2003-10-10
- Spitzer v. the Fund Industry
- New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's complaint against the Canary hedge fund for illegal mutual fund trading cites several articles written by Mercer Bullard in 2000 warning of the very problems now on the front pages. Bullard, a professor at the University of Mississippi, is a former assistant chief...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- 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
- New regs likely on trading; Focus on stale pricing, after-hours trades.(News)
- Byline: David Hoffman Expect big changes in the fund industry. That's what some industry experts have been saying since New York Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer launched a probe of the trading practices of mutual funds. ...
- Research articles 2003-09-15
- Geared equity investments: a case study of tax arbitrage down under
- Abstract: Geared Equity Investment (GE1) contracts are an over-the-counter financial derivative product offered by Macquarie Bank, Ltd. to individual investors in Australia and New Zealand as a managed-risk investment in local shares carrying significant tax shield benefits. Upon issuance, a geared equity contract has three stakeholders: (1) the investor;...
- Research articles 2003-06-01
- 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
- Merrill hires Galishoff to run new mortgage arbitrage team.
- Byline: Vivek Ahuja Merrill Lynch has recruited Alan Galishoff, the former head of collateralised mortgage obligation and mortgage derivative trading at JP Morgan, to run a newly created US mortgage relative value trading desk.A spokesman for Merrill Lynch said that Galishoff will take charge...
- Research articles 2003-01-29
- Bond Repackagings Soared in 2002.
- Repackagings of real estate securities almost tripled last year, becoming a growing niche in the collateralized-debt-obligation market. There were $12.8 billion of transactions collateralized mostly by commercial MBS and/or REIT bonds. That was up from $4.5 billion in 2001. The number of deals almost...
- Research articles 2003-01-24
- Deal Profile: HSBC tackles the US.
- Byline: Janine Brewis HSBC is widely regarded as a canny acquirer but analysts wonder whether the UK bank has bitten off more than it can chew with its latest acquisition.HSBC said in November that it would buy Household International, the US consumer credit company,...
- Research articles 2003-01-05
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