The mastermind of an international Ponzi scheme that cheated investors out of $210 million yesterday pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges.Richard Blech, chief executive of now-defunct Swiss firm ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more ...

Here's how covered interest parity works. Think of two ways to invest money, risklessly, for a year. Option 1: buy a one-year CD (conceptually. If you are a bank, or large corporation, you do this by ...

In my previous post on the Allied-Ares merger arbitrage opportunity, I introduced a topic which I realized I've never quite talked about here. As I intend this blog for both beginning investors and ...

The massive demand for bitcoin futures ETFs has added to buy pressures on bitcoin futures contracts. This has made the bitcoin basis trade — an almost riskless arbitrage strategy — more profitable. A ...

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan bill quietly introduced in the Senate months ago may serve as a starting point for key discussions among regulators about how to develop rules requiring dealers to disclose ...

In my prior post, “Allied Capital Goes from Value Trap to Deep Value,” I made the point that the Ares/Allied acquisition created a potentially interesting merger arbitrage opportunity. As astutely ...

Over the fall of 1975, Carl Icahn and his right-hand man, Alfred Kingsley, hashed out a new investment strategy in the cramped offices of Icahn & Co. Located at 25 Broadway, a few steps from the ...

Talk about strange bedfellows -- Gold and the dollar have recently been positively correlated. Gold priced in dollars should inherently move in the opposite direction of the greenback, but... Bespoke ...

The law of one price (LOP) is tested for narrowly defined commodities traded in futures markets in different countries during the period 1973-80. Although the LOP holds as an average tendency for most ...