Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

December 2004 An insight into how convertible arbitrage works and what lies behind its extraordinary risk adjusted return statistics Heard of an asset class that earns current income, has a principal ...

The investment seeks to achieve positive absolute returns over the long-term with low volatility when compared to traditional market indices. The fund invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Alternative investment advisory firm Tyndaris plans to launch a global convertible bond fund led by managers Damien Regnier and Eric Daniel, a source with knowledge of the matter ...

Convertible Arbitrage: Managers invest in companies' convertible securities. Typically, they will be long the convertible bond and short the common stock of the same company. Positions are designed to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A new approach to convertible arbitrage will be required in 2007 in order to produce better returns in a crowded sector, according to hedge fund manager Andy Preston, who has ...

Part two of Susan Kitchens' discussions with hedge fund managers about the recent short-selling ban. Kitchens covers alternative investments for Forbes magazine. Dan Kochav is a partner at Tenor ...

During the first four months of this year, convertible investors witnessed a peculiar event. While the Standard & Poor's 500 dropped 4.0 percent, convertible funds declined 6.6 percent, according to ...

Named after a neighbourhood in the Bronx, New York, Highbridge Capital Management was set up in 1992 by Glenn Dubin and Henry Swieca as a convertible arbitrage hedge fund. It was always on the cards ...

Many hedge-fund managers are having their worst year ever, but few are having a worse one than managers of convertible-bond-arbitrage hedge funds. These funds have lost almost one-fifth of their money ...

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