what is the value to MCI shareholders? 3. Merger arbitrage (or risk arbitrage) funds speculate on the completion of stock and cash mergers‚ typically buying the target and hedging the risk of the acquirer’s shares accordingly to exchange ratio in stock mergers. What positions would risk arbitragers take in this deal? How would their positions change if the board appears to favour Quest offer? 4. Consider the Worldcom-MCI merger and the Qwest-US West merger. Trying to avoid hindsight bias‚ should
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The purpose of this essay is not to determine whether or not‚ were the merger to go ahead‚ would it significantly lower competition (slc)‚ as without new players entering the game this is somewhat inevitable. Our concern is whether any entrant that has the capacity to counterbalance this reduced competition in the market is significantly deterred from entering due to the existance of barriers. In determining this it must be proven that entry is not only possible but likely (European Union‚ 2004)
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Dorsett BUSI 303-002 Liberty University Arbitrage is a profit producing practice that operates by acquiring an entity at a low price‚ and then selling it once the price increases. Akram‚ F.Q.‚ Rime‚ D.‚ & Sarno‚ L. (2008). Arbitrage in the foreign exchange market: Turning on the microscope. Journal of International Economics 76(2). 237-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2008.07.004 The focus of this source is to explain the inevitability of arbitrage in the FX market. This source provides
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“The APT is derived from the premises that asset returns follow a linear returns generating process‚ and that in well-functioning financial markets‚ there will be no arbitrage opportunities. On the basis of these assumptions‚ one can show that there is an equilibrium linear relationship between the returns on risky assets and a small set of economy-wide common factors. While several macroeconomic variables do have some relationship with different risky assets‚ the APT postulates that the pricing
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CHAPTER 6 QUESTIONS : 8‚13‚14‚15 QUESTION 8 Akira Numata –UIA Japan Assumptions | Value $ | Yen equivalent | Arbitrage funds | 5‚000‚000 | 593‚000‚000 | Spot Rate (¥/$) | 118.60 | | 180-days forward Rate | 117.80 | | Expected spot Rate | 118.00 | | 180-days U.S dollar interest rate | 4.80% | | 180-days Japanese Yen Interest Rate | 3.400% | | Calculations Calculating forward Rate (i= interest rate) F180 sf/$ = S sf/$*1+ (isF*180/360)/ (i$*180/360)
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Define regulatory arbitrage. Briefly discuss the new capital buffer requirements proposed under Basel 3. Regulatory Arbitrage This is a practice whereby firms capitalize on loopholes in regulatory systems in order to circumvent unfavourable/unprofitable regulation. Arbitrage opportunities may be accomplished by a variety of tactics‚ including restructuring transactions‚ financial engineering and geographic relocation. For example‚ a company may relocate its headquarters to a country with lower tax rules and favourable regulatory policies to
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Why do most mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fail to create value for the acquirer ’s shareholders? What are the main reasons in your opinion? Identify the difference between a good company and a good investment Most of publicly traded companies’ mergers destroy value for buy-side shareholders and at the same time sellers are compensated with premiums1. The same opinion is stated in one of the most quoted book about valuation and creating value: most of M&A deals don’t create value for buyers2
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voluntary merger. There was significant value addition of HDFC in terms of increase branch network‚ geographic reach‚ customer base and a bigger pool of skilled manpower. For HDFC Bank‚ this merger provided an
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MERGER AND RECONFIGURING OF HYUNDAI-KIA Byoung-Hoon LEE‚ Sung-Jae CHO The Korean auto industry continued to grow without a slump from the early 1980s to the mid of 1990s. As illustrated in <Figure 1>‚ the auto industry in Korea had shown a sustained growth in sales of domestic and overseas markets until 1996. Between 1981 and 1996‚ it recorded a notably high rate of averaged annual growth in production (22.7%)‚ domestic sales (19.5%)‚ and export (36.2%). However‚ it experienced an unprecedented
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I. OBJECTIVES To select the best managers for the available positions To finalize the members on the management levels of the merger To determine on how the co-CEOs will agree with the process of selecting the best managers for the merger II. PROBLEM STATEMENT According to the story‚ the merger had left the Arlington with two managers for almost every available position at upper and middle management levels. The co-CEOs had already selected the executives on board prior to the merging
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