Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Convertible Arbitrage: Managers invest in companies' convertible securities. Typically, they will be long the convertible bond and short the common stock of the same company. Positions are designed to ...

Convertible-bond-arbitrage funds thrive on the sort of uncertainty roiling markets today, but they've also held their own in calmer times. Convertible-bond-arbitrage funds thrive on the sort of ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. Shifting from one of the worst performing strategies of 2008 to one of the best in 2009, convertible arbitrage is ...

In this episode of Alternative Angles, host Steve Rosen, a former portfolio manager in Fidelity’s High Income & Alternative Investing division, digs into convertible arbitrage. Along with guests Seth ...

During the first four months of this year, convertible investors witnessed a peculiar event. While the Standard & Poor's 500 dropped 4.0 percent, convertible funds declined 6.6 percent, according to ...

Arbitrage is the practice of purchasing and selling an item at the same time on several platforms, exchanges, or locations in an effort to profit from the price difference. The quantity of the ...

Risk-free profit. It sounds nice, doesn't it? That's what arbitrage strategies look to accomplish. But what is arbitrage? The term "arbitrage" tends to get thrown around a lot, and not always ...