An insider purchase by the CFO of a 104 year old company caught my attention a couple of weeks ago and it was interesting to see it also show up in our Double Dipper list. As described in our Stocks...Only ...

With the last four premium posts focused on merger arbitrage opportunities, I figured I would shift my attention to some of the other event-driven strategies that Inside Arbitrage offers and discuss an insider purchase that caught my attention this week....Only ...

Over the last 14 months since the launch of the premium version of Inside Arbitrage we have added numerous features to the site including, spread charts to display the history of each deal’s spread from announcement to completion or failure...Only ...

With the acquisition of athenahealth (ATHN) by the private equity firm Veritas Capital and Elliott Management discussed in our last premium post closing a few weeks ago, I started looking for other opportunities and decided to dig deeper into the Celgene...Only ...

Over the last several weeks we embarked on a little research project to analyze the characteristics and returns of the “potential” deals we have been tracking in a section of Inside Arbitrage called “Deals in the Works” (DITW). We started tracking...Only ...

Merger and acquisitions that include collars tend to increase uncertainty for arbitrageurs and depending on the complexity of the deal, we sometimes classify these deals as “Special Conditions” deals. These are either all stock or cash plus stock kinds of...Only ...

American Homes 4 Rent (AMH) $22.49 The U.S. housing market, as represented by the S&P Case Shiller Index, peaked nearly a year before the stock market started its sharp decline during the great recession of 2008-2009. While the stock market bottomed...Only ...

Joel Greenblatt, the founder of the hedge fund Gotham Capital and adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, managed to build a stellar track record from 1985 to 1994 with average returns of 50% per year by focusing on special situations...Only ...

We are excited to release two new features related to the strategies of Merger Arbitrage and Stock Buybacks. These features went live last Friday and it looks like some of you have already discovered them. Both these features were developed...Only ...

We featured a couple of mergers arbitrage opportunities worth exploring for premium members last month that had spreads of nearly 4% and one of those deals, the all-cash acquisition of AveXis (AVXS) by Novartis (NVS), closed last week just 37 days...Only ...