{"id":52073,"date":"2016-04-05T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T12:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52073"},"modified":"2016-04-05T08:48:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T12:48:17","slug":"man-glg-a-bumper-year-for-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2016\/man-glg-a-bumper-year-for-ma.html","title":{"rendered":"Man GLG: A bumper year for M&#038;A?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Hedgefund Intelligence) We are currently witnessing an unprecedented opportunity in the world of M&#038;A arbitrage, with deal spreads at historical wides and a wave of merger activity ahead. This perfect storm of wide deal spreads and frantic deal volume could have the potential to offer real opportunities for M&#038;A arbitrage.<\/p>\n<p>2007 was the last bumper year for M&#038;A (although spreads then were nowhere near as wide as they are now). Post-Credit Crisis, CEO confidence was crushed, which meant that despite a backdrop of cheap financing and low global growth (which should drive deals), management teams were focused on cost-cutting and getting their houses in order. The situation has now changed dramatically.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundintelligence.com\/Article\/3542748\/Absolute-Return-HFI-Blogs-Archive\/Man-GLG-A-bumper-year-for-M-A.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Hedgefund Intelligence) We are currently witnessing an unprecedented opportunity in the world of M&#038;A arbitrage, with deal spreads at historical wides and a wave of merger activity ahead. This perfect storm of wide deal spreads and frantic deal volume could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52073","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52074,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52073\/revisions\/52074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}