The significant oversubscription demonstrates substantial investor interest in Oracle’s convertible securities despite the large offering size, with both traditional investors and specialized hedge ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hedge funds look for new game plans Convertible arbitrage and short-selling have been the cornerstones of hedge fund strategies. Competition and difficult underlying markets, however, are forcing ...

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 ...

In this episode of Alternative Angles, host Steve Rosen, a former portfolio manager in Fidelity’s High Income & Alternative Investing division, digs into convertible arbitrage. Along with guests Seth ...

BUYING AN INVESTMENT BOUtique that focuses on energy and natural resources might sound like a strange pursuit for a hedge fund executive who specializes in convertible arbitrage and credit strategies.

The EMEA convertible bond market has made a recovery and is back as a financing option for corporates. High-quality investment-grade corporate credit has driven a frantic second quarter for ...

Risk-free profit. It sounds nice, doesn't it? That's what arbitrage strategies look to accomplish. But what is arbitrage? The term "arbitrage" tends to get thrown around a lot, and not always ...