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Showing posts with label arbitrage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arbitrage. Show all posts
Monday, 13 January 2020

Areas of Opportunities for Value Investors: The Cycles of Investment Fashion - The Risk-Arbitrage Cycle

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Many participants in specialized areas of investing such as bankruptcy and risk arbitrage have experienced inferior results in recent years...

Areas of Opportunities for Value Investors: Investing in Risk Arbitrage

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Risk arbitrage is a highly specialized area of value investing. Arbitrage, as noted earlier, is a riskless transaction that generates pr...
Sunday, 7 May 2017

Overview of the Different Classes of Arbitrage

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Classic Arbitrage Category 1.  Friendly Mergers This is where two companies have agreed to merge with each other. An example would be...

Tendering Your Shares

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The company doing the buying will make an announcement that it is asking shareholders to tender their shares between, say, June 1, 2010 and...

Arbitrage - where to look for these companies?

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Where to discover what companies are - planning on merging, attempting a hostile takeover  spinning off a business,  doing a liquidat...

Leverage and Arbitrage

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When is it safe to use leverage in your arbitrage? The certainty of the deal presents an opportunity to safely use leverage - borrowed...

The Arbitrage Risk Equation Warren Learned from Benjamin Graham

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An example of arbitrage. Announcement of the $55 a share tender offer Stock was trading at $44 a share before the announcement. After t...
Friday, 5 May 2017

The 7 classes of arbitrage and special situations that Warren Buffett has invested into.

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Warren Buffett has focused on seven classes of arbitrage and special situations. Classic Arbitrage  Friendly Mergers Hostile Takeovers...

Time Arbitrage

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Example to illustrate "time arbitrage": Company ABC's stock is trading at $8 a share. Company XYZ offers to buy company A...

The work of the arbitrageurs (Market arbitrage)

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A particular commodity, e.g., gold,  trades virtually at virtually the same price in different markets in the world. This is the work o...

Arbitrage is Warren's secret for producing great results

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Professors Gerald Martin and John Puthenpurackal's studied the stock portfolio's performance from 1980 to 2003 of Berkshire Hathaw...

Arbitrage and Special Situations

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In the past, these have been the domain of professional investors, who have access to lower brokerage rates. In the world of arbitrage a...
Monday, 11 April 2016

Arbitrage is the simultaneous purchase and sale of securities or foreign exchange in two different markets; a process of identifying market inefficiencies.

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In 1954, a temporary shortage of cocoa in US caused its price to increase from 5 cents to 60 cents per pound, a whopping 12 times. As ...
Sunday, 29 March 2015

INVESTMENT MADNESS

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INVESTMENT MADNESS TIM KELLEY  March 16, 2015  Here’s a question for you: what kind of business becomes more attractive as an inve...
Friday, 5 April 2013

A 5% return may end up being a better deal than a 20% return.

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If one is able to get a 5% return in a month, we could argue that it is a better investment than one that earns us a 20% return over a two-y...
Friday, 21 December 2012

Warren Buffett on Arbitrage

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Arbitrage      Berkshire’s arbitrage activities differ from those of many arbitrageurs.  First, we participate in only a few, and usua...
Friday, 17 February 2012

Ways to Limit Opportunity Cost - Most Important is holding Part of your Portfolio in Cash

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The most important determinant of whether investors will incur opportunity cost is whether or not part of their portfolios is held in cas...
Friday, 14 October 2011

Rule No. 1: Do Not Lose Money. How Warren Buffett avoids yearly losses in his entire portfolio?

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Avoiding losses is probably the most important tool for long-term success in investing.  No investor, even Buffett, can avoid periodic losse...
Thursday, 31 March 2011

Welcome to the World of Stock Arbitrage and Special Investment Situations

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Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day.  Teach a man to arbitrage and you will feed him forever. - Warren Buffett One of the g...
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Sunday, 13 September 2009

Focus on how Buffett best avoids losses

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List Your Top 5 Rules for Success in Investing If I polled 1,000 investors and asked them to list their top 5 rules for success, their answe...