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Funds hunger for arbitrage trades as appetite grows for mergers

By Jon Close

Thursday, April 06, 2017

Hedge funds are looking to make gains from merger arbitrage trades across credit and equities, as companies in slow-growth industries are pushed into levering up and buying competitors

TAGS: Europe Investment grade credit Xena Synthetic/SRT

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