Embedded below is my Fall 2012 strategy paper, “Hunting Endangered Species: Investing in the Market for Corporate Control.“
From the executive summary:
The market for corporate control acts to catalyze the stock prices of underperforming and undervalued corporations. An opportunity exists to front run participants in the market for corporate control—strategic acquirers, private equity firms, and activist hedge funds—and capture the control premium paid for acquired corporations. Eyquem Fund LP systematically targets stocks at the largest discount from their full change?of?control value with the highest probability of undergoing a near?term catalytic change?of?control event. This document analyzes in detail the factors driving returns in the market for corporate control and the immense size of the opportunity.
Hunting Endangered Species: Investing in the Market for Corporate Control Fall 2012 Strategy Paper
This is the investment strategy I apply in the Eyquem Fund. It is obviously son-of-Greenbackd (deep value, contrarian and activist follow-on) and, although it deviates in several crucial aspects, it is influenced by the 1999 Piper Jaffray research report series, Wall Street’s Endangered Species.
For more of my research, see my white paper “Simple But Not Easy: The Case For Quantitative Value“ and the accompanying presentation to the UC Davis MBA value investing class.
As always, I welcome any comments, criticisms, or questions.
