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In the ever-evolving landscape of global finance, banks and financial institutions continually seek innovative strategies to manage and mitigate risks associated with lending and investing. One such innovative approach that has garnered ...

The “German back-end” trade is a form of corporate activism used by event-driven hedge funds in the context of public takeovers in Germany. This approach, centered around leveraging litigation post-takeover to profit from minority ...

In July 2021, Bill Ackman told investors he would be liquidating and returning capital in his Pershing Square's $4 billion SPAC, the biggest ever SPAC, after failing to find a suitable target company to take public through a merger. ...

Merger Arbitrage has had multiple challenges during the first half of the year, leading to disappointing performance from many hedge funds in this space, but we now believe that spread widening has priced in much of the risk, and therefore ...

AI is a vast multidisciplinary that seeks to develop computer systems capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language, recognizing images, making decisions, and learning from ...

The market downturn last year presented a vortex of formidable challenges to investors. Most significantly, the rapid decline in prices for publicly-traded securities bred the emergence of portfolio imbalances. This created an unexpected ...

Since the GFC, a combination of prolonged ultra-low interest rates to sustain economic growth and fiscal and monetary backstops at times of trouble has helped support earnings growth and appreciating valuations, ultimately fueling the ...

Overview Of The Convertibles Market Convertible securities (“CB”, or “converts”) offer investors the potential for equity-like appreciation while providing the downside risk protection of a fixed-income instrument. The defensive nature of ...

In February of this year, we highlighted a trend amongst hedge funds of locking up investors capital for longer time periods, but we noticed that this trends applied to a small number of successful managers, both in terms of recent ...