Risk arbitrage/merger arbitrage: related pages

Hedge funds use a range of generally high risk investment strategies including arbitrage and short selling , they are frequently highly geared.

Trading in investments a bank does with its own money putting its own capital at risk.

A securities trader who specialises in arbitrage and arbitrage like strategies.

A market neutral trading strategy based on expected reversions to past relationships between securities prices.

A strategy that aims to exploit inconsistencies between the price of a convertible and the equity it can be converted into.