Reference no: EM133305995
Identify the hedge fund strategy's broad category and specific subcategory.
- George Soros (of the famous Quantum Fund) shorting the Great British Pound (GBP) on a bet that the Bank of England could not successfully maintain its currency peg • Jim Chanos (formerly of Kynikos Associates) shorting Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and cryptocurrencies
-John Meriweather of Salomon Brothers buying outstanding U.S. federal government bonds and shorting newly issued Treasury bonds with similar maturities.
- Algorithms processing data across global exchanges looking for small price discrepancies to exploit
-A hedge fund that invests in catastrophe (CAT) bonds, credit default swaps, and weather derivatives.
- Stinson Dean, lumber trader, going long physical and short futures contracts.
-Carl Icahn buying 5% of outstanding Apple shares and pressuring the Board of Directors to approve a $1 billion share buyback program
-Vulture funds buying Puerto Rican bonds with $100 face values for $20 and using litigation to force Puerto Rico to make full repayment of the bonds.
- Buying Twitter for $50/share after a merger is proposed at an acquisition price of $54.20/share. • Private equity firm that buys shares of other private equity funds