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 ...

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 ...

Convertible-bond-arbitrage funds thrive on the sort of uncertainty roiling markets today, but they've also held their own in calmer times. Convertible-bond-arbitrage funds thrive on the sort of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hedge funds are establishing convertible arbitrage positions. Related to the notes offering, Okta is entering into capped call transactions with institutional investors, a common maneuver intended to ...