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How To Invest Like Gordon Gekko

A legendary mystique surrounds arbitrage, largely the creation of Michael Douglas-as-Gordon Gekko in the seminal cinema classic “Wall Street.” Though the swashbuckling corporate raider of the 1980s is now more often a steely-eyed mathematics wiz, this type of investing can be understood by the average investor. Real Vision’s Jamie McDonald breaks it all down – merger arbitrage, convertible arbitrage, special situations, distressed assets – in this introduction to event-driven investing. Using real-world examples featuring some of history’s best "arbitrageurs," Jamie demonstrates how to exploit price inefficiencies in and around corporate events.