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A special situation in finance is an atypical event which has the high potential to alter the future course of a business, materially impacting the company's value. The connotation of the event may be both positive (for example, merger or acquisition) and negative (conflict, distress, etc.)
KPS Capital Partners is an American investment company that manages KPS Special Situation Funds, a family of investment funds.KPS specifically invests out of two funds raised in October 2019: KPS Special Situations Fund V ($6.12 billion) and KPS Mid-Cap Fund ($1.02 billion).
Event-driven investing or Event-driven trading is a hedge fund investment strategy that seeks to exploit pricing inefficiencies that may occur before or after a corporate event, such as an earnings call, bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, or spinoff. [1]
In his book You Can Be a Stock Market Genius, author and investor Joel Greenblatt highlights the opportunity hidden in mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, and restructurings. Some deals are so ...
Special situations are events that impact the value of a company's stock, including the restructuring of a company or corporate transactions including spin-offs, share buy backs, security issuance/repurchase, asset sales, or other catalyst-oriented situations. To take advantage of special situations the hedge fund manager must identify an ...
Samena Capital's main business lines include asset management (through special situations investments, credit market opportunities and direct investments/projects) and hedge fund seeding. Through its special situations funds, it invests in companies that have the ability to go across markets (within the SAMENA region) and capitalise on cross ...
Special Situations hedge fund — GSO's hedge funds invest in long/short credit, event-driven opportunities and distressed securities. These funds invest across a broad range of securities including secured loans, high yield debt, distressed securities, second lien loans, mezzanine debt as well as equity securities and credit derivatives.
A "fund of funds" (FOF) is an investment strategy of holding a portfolio of other investment funds rather than investing directly in stocks, bonds or other securities. This type of investing is often referred to as multi-manager investment. A fund of funds may be "fettered", meaning that it invests only in funds managed by the same investment ...