Q1.Give some examples of arbitrage in the past decade?
Arbitrage -in the 1980’s. Bankers used leverage buyouts as a tool for arbitrage. These tools were called "deals." The deals were between 100 million-10 billion. Their effect was by finance to transfer ownership of corporations.
Q2. Can anybody suggest contempory leverage/arbitrage transactions that are on a smaller scale than 100 million-10 billion? Here is an example I can think of: I recently stayed at a 20 year old hotel for $102 per night. Somebody bought this solvent well-established hotel. They have dumped a lot of money into remodeling it. I imagine they will now be as full for $150 per night.
Michael,
Thanks for your answer. I am curious about your background. Where did you graduate from and what degree did you receive? In what capacity are you working now? You eluded to the fact you didn’t believe that you accurately answered my question. This is only partially true, you aptly elucidated an arbitrage transaction. I guess I am more interested in a leverage transaction. Leverage transactions happen daily as well. I would like some suggestions pertaining to some of those transactions. Can you help?
Arbitrage happens on a daily basis in the financial markets across the world. One easy example is international finance. The example is as follows (i’ve over-simplified to illustrate the point):
A bank in America asks a bank in Mexico if it can borrow 100,000 US dollars for 30 days. Mexico says "ok, but you must pay us the principal plus 3% interest at the end of those 30 days, 103,000 US dollars." US says "let me get back to you", and then runs up to Canada that same day and asks if anyone wants to borrow 100,000 US dollars for 3.2%. Guess what? Nova Scotia says "beauty, eh! We we’re gonna borrow 100,000 US dollars from Great Britian for 3.25% for 30 days, but you’re deal is better! We’ll take it, eh!" The US bank then does both deals, simultaneously, (hey, there a big bank, they can coordinate things like that!), getting 100,000 for 3% from Mexico, while giving 100,000 to Canada for 3.2%, both for 30 days.
At the end of the 30 days, The US bank goes to the Canadian bank in Nova Scotia and says, "pay up, Canuck!" Nova Scotia bank then happily pays 103,200 US dollars to the bank in America, and and then America turns to Mexico and says, "here’s your 100,000 plus 3,000, and don’t worry about that other 200, that’s a little juice for us. Peace!"
Doesn’t really answer your question, but it makes me feel smart.
Once you get this concept down, you can apply it to anything, all you gotta do is find two suckers in two completely different places, (where I went to school, we call those companies the "employers who hire big ten football business school graduates") and just keep them seperate. Thanks higher education!
Basically, what is the difference between Leverage and Arbitrage?
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Arbitrage happens on a daily basis in the financial markets across the world. One easy example is international finance. The example is as follows (i’ve over-simplified to illustrate the point):
A bank in America asks a bank in Mexico if it can borrow 100,000 US dollars for 30 days. Mexico says "ok, but you must pay us the principal plus 3% interest at the end of those 30 days, 103,000 US dollars." US says "let me get back to you", and then runs up to Canada that same day and asks if anyone wants to borrow 100,000 US dollars for 3.2%. Guess what? Nova Scotia says "beauty, eh! We we’re gonna borrow 100,000 US dollars from Great Britian for 3.25% for 30 days, but you’re deal is better! We’ll take it, eh!" The US bank then does both deals, simultaneously, (hey, there a big bank, they can coordinate things like that!), getting 100,000 for 3% from Mexico, while giving 100,000 to Canada for 3.2%, both for 30 days.
At the end of the 30 days, The US bank goes to the Canadian bank in Nova Scotia and says, "pay up, Canuck!" Nova Scotia bank then happily pays 103,200 US dollars to the bank in America, and and then America turns to Mexico and says, "here’s your 100,000 plus 3,000, and don’t worry about that other 200, that’s a little juice for us. Peace!"
Doesn’t really answer your question, but it makes me feel smart.
Once you get this concept down, you can apply it to anything, all you gotta do is find two suckers in two completely different places, (where I went to school, we call those companies the "employers who hire big ten football business school graduates") and just keep them seperate. Thanks higher education!
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If you are more interested in leveraged buyouts and liquidation arbitrage you should look into small private equity firms they go through these types of transactions on a daily basis. Also there is a wonderful little arbitrage opportunity in the financial markets. Its called convertible bond arbitrage. How it works, companies often issue convertible bonds, which are bonds that can be converted into common stock if the underlying common reaches the conversion point, which is preset in the bond contract. When a company issues a convertible bond you buy as much of the convertible bond as possible, and short the underlying common stock. If you buy 10 convertible bonds and each one is converted into 5 shares of common stock then you would short 50 shares of common stock. Then you hope that the price of the stock goes down. If it goes down then you will receive the dividend from the bond as well as a profit from your short. If the bond goes up and converts into the common you own as many shares short as you do long at the same price so therefore you are basically covered. They only way you can lose money is if the bond converts then plummets which very rarely happens.
Hope this is what you were looking for.
GCJ
P.S. your example really isn’t arbitrage, arbitrage is the simultaneous buying of one security and the selling of that same security to profit from the difference with little or no risk. Your example is close but there was still alot of risk in that group buying that hotel.
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