This Fund Is Winning Big as Merger-Arbitrage Spreads Return to Levels Not Seen in 20 Years

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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The Gardner Lewis Merger Arbitrage Fund is up 15.1% year to date after the second quarter, versus the HFRI ED Merger Arbitrage Index's year-to-date return of 0.2% and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index's loss of 0.7% year to date.

In the firm's second-quarter letter to investors, which was obtained by Hedge Fund Alpha, Kristen Salfas said the second quarter marked their sixth straight quarter with a positive return while wrapping up a strong first half for 2024. Thus, she believes the fund is in a "solid" position to "nicely" surpass last year's net return of 10.4%....

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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.