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Former Odey Manager Reflects on Higher-than-Average Spread Widening

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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The GA-Courtenay Special Situations Fund USD I class returned 0.6% in November, resulting in a year-to-date return of 4.8%. The average merger-arbitrage spread held by the $45 million Irish UCITS fund widened to 6.61% at the end of November, up from 4.97% at the end of October.

Largest arbitrage holdings

At the end of last month, the GA-Courtenay Special Situations Fund was invested in 39 arbitrages and still had room to boost its allocation to the team's highest-conviction opportunities while increasing fund leverage.

The GA-Courtenay Special Situations Fund is a "performance-oriented, event-driven strategy that targets absolute correlations to the...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.