Biding their time

With few mergers or defaults, funds that trade on corporate change have little to do

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By Kit R. Roane

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Illustration: Joe McLaren

Event-driven funds pitch themselves as being less correlated with the vicissitudes of the market than other hedge fund strategies, as they can cash in on mergers when times are good and profit from corporate distress during downturns.

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