Risk Arbitrage: Abbott Labs and Alza Harvard Business Review Case Study 1. BACKGROUND Risk Arbitrage is essentially just arbitrage with some element of risk. Three main types of risk arbitrage are merger and acquisition arbitrage (also known as just merger arbitrage)‚ liquidation arbitrage‚ and pairs trading. We will focus on merger arbitrage‚ as it pertains to this case study. Merger arbitrage is an investment strategy that chooses to capitalize upon arbitrage that presents when a merger
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ARBITRAGE PRICING THEORY ( APT ) Originally developed by Stephen A. Ross. The CAPM predicts that security rates of return will be linearly related to a single common factor : ----- the rate of return on the market portfolio. The APT is based on a similar approach but assumes the rate of return on a security to be sensitive to a number of factors. Market equilibrium is driven by individuals eliminating arbitrage
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M. Ashley Szczukowski AMH 2010 March 17‚ 2010 The Covered Wagon In today’s society‚ just thinking about not having the use of transportation is unimaginable. Well think about how it must have felt in the 1800’s; it was very different. People did not have cars to make their daily commute. Without cars‚ how do you think they would get from one place to another? In colonial times the Conestoga wagon was popular for migration southward along the Great Wagon Road. After the American Revolution
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“The APT is derived from the premises that asset returns follow a linear returns generating process‚ and that in well-functioning financial markets‚ there will be no arbitrage opportunities. On the basis of these assumptions‚ one can show that there is an equilibrium linear relationship between the returns on risky assets and a small set of economy-wide common factors. While several macroeconomic variables do have some relationship with different risky assets‚ the APT postulates that the pricing
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Dorsett BUSI 303-002 Liberty University Arbitrage is a profit producing practice that operates by acquiring an entity at a low price‚ and then selling it once the price increases. Akram‚ F.Q.‚ Rime‚ D.‚ & Sarno‚ L. (2008). Arbitrage in the foreign exchange market: Turning on the microscope. Journal of International Economics 76(2). 237-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2008.07.004 The focus of this source is to explain the inevitability of arbitrage in the FX market. This source provides
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Define regulatory arbitrage. Briefly discuss the new capital buffer requirements proposed under Basel 3. Regulatory Arbitrage This is a practice whereby firms capitalize on loopholes in regulatory systems in order to circumvent unfavourable/unprofitable regulation. Arbitrage opportunities may be accomplished by a variety of tactics‚ including restructuring transactions‚ financial engineering and geographic relocation. For example‚ a company may relocate its headquarters to a country with lower tax rules and favourable regulatory policies to
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Arbitrage Pricing Theory The fundamental foundation for the arbitrage pricing theory is the law of one price‚ which states that 2 identical items will sell for the same price‚ for if they do not‚ then a riskless profit could be made by arbitrage—buying the item in the cheaper market then selling it in the more expensive market. This principle also applies to financial instruments‚ such as stocks and bonds. For instance‚ if Microsoft stock is selling for $30 on one exchange‚ but $30.25 on another
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MGT 409 Case 1: Arbitrage in the Government Market 1. In 1991‚ major discrepancies in the prices of multiple long maturity US Treasury bonds seemed to appear in the market. An employee of the firm Mercer and Associates‚ Samantha Thompson‚ thought of a way to exploit this opportunity in order to take advantage of a positive pricing difference by substituting superior bonds for existing holdings. Thompson created two synthetic bonds that imitated the cash flows of the 8¼ May 00-05 bond; one for
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7 International Arbitrage and Interest Rate Parity Lecture Outline International Arbitrage Locational Arbitrage Triangular Arbitrage Covered Interest Arbitrage Comparison of Arbitrage Effects Interest Rate Parity Derivation of Interest Rate Parity Determining the Forward Premium Graphic Analysis of Interest Rate Parity How to Test Whether Interest Rate Parity Exists Interpretation of Interest Rate Parity Does Interest Rate Parity Hold? Considerations When Assessing Interest Rate Parity Changes
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CHAPTER 8 APT 1.In a factor model‚ the return on a stock in a particular period will be related to _________. A. firm-specific events B. macroeconomic events C. the error term D. both a and b E. neither a nor b 2.Assume that stock market returns do follow a single-index structure. An investment fund analyzes 500 stocks in order to construct a mean-variance efficient portfolio constrained by 500 investments. They will need to calculate ________ estimates of firm-specific variances and ________
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