Author: Guy Wyser-Pratte
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: classics, investment, wiley, arbitrage, risk
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-01-27
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0470415711
ISBN-13: 9780470415719

Originally published in 1982, Risk Arbitrage has become a classic on arbitrage strategies by the "dean of the arbitrage community." It provides an overview of risk arbitrage, how it has been used over the centuries and particularly in modern markets, with a focus on merger arbitrage. From average expected returns to turning a position, cash tender offers, exchange offers, recapitalizations, spinoffs, stub situations, limited risk arbitrage, and corporate freeze-ins, the book provides a step by step walk through of a world of arb strategies illuminated by real world examples and case studies.

Author: Keith M. Moore
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: guide, investor, arbitrage, risk
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-09-06
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0471248843
ISBN-13: 9780471248842

The current wave of corporate mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, and similar transactions has created unprecedented opportunities for those versed in contemporary risk arbitrage techniques. At the same time, the nature of the current merger wave has lent such transactions a much higher degree of predictability than ever before, making risk arbitrage more attractive to investors of every stripe. Yet, surprisingly, there continues to be a near-total lack of instructional material for those interested in learning the latest risk arbitrage techniques.Now, in the first insider’s guide to

Author: Thomas Kirchner
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: arbitrage, wiley, finance, driven, event, profit, merger
Number of Pages: 355
Published: 2009-08-03
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0470371978
ISBN-13: 9780470371978

A detailed look at an important hedge fund strategy Written by a fund manager who invests solely in merger arbitrage, also referred to as risk arbitrage, and other event-driven strategies, Merger Arbitrage is the definitive book on how this alternative hedge fund strategy works. Initial chapters are dedicated to the ins and outs of the strategy–cash mergers versus stock for stock mergers, legal aspects of mergers, and pitfalls of the merger process–while later chapters focus on giving the reader sound advice for integrating merger arbitrage into an investment portfolio. Merger Arbitrage h

Author: Mark Whistler
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: statistical, arbitrage, strategies, risk, hedging, pairs, capturing, profits, trading
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 2004-07-29
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0471584282
ISBN-13: 9780471584285

An accessible guide to the pairs trading technique A leading arbitrage expert gives traders real tools for using pairs trading, including customizable Excel worksheets on CD. Mark Whistler (Denver, CO) is the key developer of pairstrader.com as well as a licensed securities trader and broker and leading arbitrage expert.

Author: M. Anthony Wong
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: investing, arbitrage, value, management, options, bond, trading, risk
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 1991-01-02
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 047152560X
ISBN-13: 9780471525608

To become successful in the bond options market, it is important for professionals to gain a basic, yet thorough understanding of how options are priced, traded, and used in interest-rate risk and fixed-income portfolio management. Provides practical answers to questions that new participants will ask as they become more sophisticated in the bond option market. It describes the U.S. government bond options markets and discusses how options pricing and computer technologies are used in market-making, strategic trading, and value investing. After introducing standard options terminology, it prov

Authors:Mary Buffett, David Clark,
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: arbitrage, special, investment, situations, strategies, proven, art, stock, warren, buffett
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2010-11-09
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1439198829
ISBN-13: 9781439198827

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, DISCOVER HOW WARREN BUFFETT HAS MADE UNHEARD-OF PROFITS IN THE WORLD OF ARBITRAGE AND SPECIAL INVESTMENTS, AND HOW TO BE A PLAYER IN THESE VENTURES.Investors around the world recently learned that from 1980 through 2003 Warren Buffett’s arbitrage operations produced an astronomical average annualized rate of return of 81.28%. Even more amazing, this incredible rate of return was produced with very low rates of risk. Long considered one of the most powerful and profitable of Buffett’s investment operations, but the least understood, these special types of investment

Authors:Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson,
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: risk, earthscan, society, globalization, series, analysis, contours, volume, social, corporations
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-06
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1844071758
ISBN-13: 9781844071753

We live in a ‘risk society’ where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence.Jeanne and Roger Kasperson are two of the world’s leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk. ‘The Social Contours of Risk’ brings together in two volumes their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field.Volume 2 centers on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally