Carlson Capital's Black Diamond Arbitrage fund is up 5.77% for the first eight months of the year, including a 1.72% return for August. Last year, the fund returned 2.39% for the whole year.
Q3 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more
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The fund consists of merger arbitrage mainly consisting of signed or "rate of return" deals, certain hostile and unsigned deals and reverse-spread positions. The strategy also includes special situations involving a variety of hard catalyst corporate events hedged at the position level.
Background on the fund
Headed up by Jesse Ho, the fund has delivered consistent returns with minimal correlation...



