Jana Partners Uses Options To Manage Exposure To PetSmart

By Alex Gavrish, Etalon Investment Research; author of “Wall Street Back To Basics”   With activist investors more active than ever, more and more attention is being paid by investors to the investments they make. Publicity often reduces hedge funds maneuverability and ability to trade positions quickly. Fund managers have to work with this restriction […] Read more »

Event Driven Strategy Outlook: Looking Beyond Merger Arb

By Alex Gavrish, Etalon Investment Research and author of “Wall Street Back To Basics”   Credit Suisse recently released its Annual Hedge Fund Investor Survey. The survey, produced by Credit Suisse’s Capital Services Group, is one of the most comprehensive in the industry, with over 500 respondents – including pension funds, endowments, consultants, family offices […] Read more »

Activist Hedge Funds – Book Extract

By Alex Gavrish, CEO of Etalon Investment Research and author of “Wall Street: Back To Basics” The following is a chapter from Alex Gavrish’s book “Wall Street: Back to Basics”*. Two of the three case studies in this chapter on Activist Investors have been included.   Chapter 4: Activist Investors   Activist shareholder activity has […] Read more »