{"id":27683,"date":"2012-02-29T08:34:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T13:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27683"},"modified":"2012-02-29T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T13:34:52","slug":"cheyne-hedge-fund-eyes-golden-period-for-merger-arbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2012\/cheyne-hedge-fund-eyes-golden-period-for-merger-arbs.html","title":{"rendered":"Cheyne hedge fund eyes &#8220;golden period&#8221; for merger arbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Bold merger arbitrage funds are set to enjoy rich pickings this year amidst a rebound in M&amp;A activity, helped by the reluctance of many investors to trade complex deals after last year&#8217;s choppy markets, says hedge fund firm Cheyne Capital.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Davies, whose European Event Driven fund, has raised $500 million (314 million pounds) since launch in October 2009, told Reuters that last year&#8217;s volatility had made many investors &#8220;quite risk averse&#8221;, meaning there is room for arbs to profit from more complex deals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/02\/29\/uk-cheyne-ma-idUSLNE81S00I20120229\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Bold merger arbitrage funds are set to enjoy rich pickings this year amidst a rebound in M&amp;A activity, helped by the reluctance of many investors to trade complex deals after last year&#8217;s choppy markets, says hedge fund firm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27684,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683\/revisions\/27684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}