Glossary

Finance & Investment Glossary

This Finance & Investment Glossary is what every arbitrageur needs to know about trading event driven investment strategies such as merger arbitrage. The construction and execution of trading a merger arbitrage investment strategy often requires researching official documents that frequently refer to the following financial terminology. Traders can also find these terms in other popular hedge fund investment strategies and aspects of personal finance and stock market trading. We explain these essential business terms and financial concepts in a concise and simple manner. In many cases, we also provide examples and links to additional resources.

We refer to this Glossary often throughout our strategy and commentary categories. Frequent references are also made within our merger arbitrage spread tracker. These terms also feature heavily in our comprehensive merger arbitrage book list and academic research resource pages. We highlight in-text glossary terms in standard blue font with a dashed underline. This makes them easy to access without interrupting the flow of the text. In addition, the user has the option of hovering the mouse pointer over the highlighted glossary item to see an instant snippet of the definition.

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