TY - BOOK ID - 64858564 TI - Merger Masters : Tales of Arbitrage AU - Welling, Kate, AU - Gabelli, Mario, PY - 2018 SN - 9780231548915 0231548915 9780231190428 0231190425 PB - New York, NY : Columbia University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Arbitrage KW - Consolidation and merger of corporations KW - Investments KW - Investing KW - Investment management KW - Portfolio KW - Finance KW - Disinvestment KW - Loans KW - Saving and investment KW - Speculation KW - Acquisition of corporations KW - Acquisitions and mergers KW - Amalgamation of corporations KW - Business combinations KW - Business mergers KW - Buyouts, Corporate KW - Corporate acquisitions KW - Corporate buyouts KW - Corporate mergers KW - Corporate takeovers KW - Corporations KW - Fusion of corporations KW - Hostile takeovers of corporations KW - M & A (Mergers and acquisitions of corporations) KW - Merger of corporations KW - Mergers and acquisitions of corporations KW - Mergers, Corporate KW - Takeovers, Corporate KW - Corporate reorganizations KW - Golden parachutes (Executive compensation) KW - Industrial concentration KW - Trusts, Industrial KW - Securities KW - Consolidation KW - Mergers KW - Law and legislation KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:64858564 AB - Merger Masters presents revealing profiles of monumentally successful merger investors based on exclusive interviews with some of the greatest minds to practice the art of arbitrage. Michael Price, John Paulson, Paul Singer, and others offer practical perspectives on how their backgrounds in the risk-conscious world of merger arbitrage helped them make their biggest deals. They share their insights on the discipline that underlies their fortunes, whether they practice the "plain vanilla" strategy of announced deals, the aggressive strategy of activist investment, or any strategy in between on the risk spectrum.Merger Masters delves into the human side of risk arbitrage, exploring how top practitioners deal with the behavioral aspects of generating consistent profits from risk arbitrage. The book also includes perspectives from the other side of the mergers and acquisitions divide in the form of interviews with a trio of iconic CEOs: Bill Stiritz, Peter McCausland, and Paul Montrone. All three took advantage of M&A opportunities to help build long-term returns but often found themselves at odds with the short-term focus of Wall Street and merger investors. Told in lively, accessible prose, with bonus facts and figures for transaction junkies, Merger Masters is an incomparable set of stories with plenty of unfiltered lessons from the best managers of our time. ER -