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

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 - Many private investors have noticed that the stock of two companies involved in a potential merger or acquisition often react differently to the news of the impending action and try to take advantage of the shareholders' reaction. With over 7,000 hedge funds, there the positions at a profit. 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. Merger Arbitrage: How to Profit from Event Driven Arbitrage. Merger Arbitrage: How to profit from event-driven arbitrage. Considering how the merger revival that so many strategists and analysts predicted has not occurred, the event-driven community is in all the same names. 302: LEVERAGE AND OPTIONS Merger arbitrage is a low-volatility strategy. Event Driven – this strategy bases its investment on a particular event, a common example of which is investing in a “distressed” READ: bankrupt company. Event Driven - This scenario is triggered by corporate upheaval, whether it be a merger, sale of assets, some sort of restructuring or even bankruptcy. By Thomas Kirchner Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons 2009. Designed correctly, these strategies can yield profit on either side of the entry points. There are several variations of this strategy, one being merger arbitrage, in which a manager bets on the price of the company to be acquired, hoping it will be different from what the marketplace anticipates it will be.