Absolute Return Podcast

#40: Cannabis Stocks Go Up In Smoke. Buy, Hold or Sell?

Cannabis Boom Goes Bust as Economic Reality Bites and Pot Stock Prices Plummet. Why are Cannabis Stocks Crowding the 52-Week Low List?

Apollo Tees Up the Largest Leveraged Buyout of the Year with $5.4 Billion Tech Data Acquisition. Why is it Trading at a Premium?

Canada’s Open Text Continues its Consolidation Strategy with Acquisition of Data-Protection Firm Carbonite. What’s the Strategic Rationale?

Apartment REIT Continuum Scraps IPO and Sells to Starlight Instead for $1.7 Billion. Why Did They Sell to Private Equity?

#39: The Largest Leveraged Buyout of All Time: Does This Mark the Cycle Peak?

CPPIB Acquires Canada’s Biggest Wind Power Producer for US$2.6 Billion. What’s the Strategic Rationale?

Walgreens Considers Going Private in the Largest Leveraged Buyout of All Time. What are the Chances of it Happening?

GFL Environmental’s IPO Flops. Why Did They Pull the Deal?

Saudi Aramco Launches Much Anticipated IPO. Should Investors Buy the Stock?

A Review of October Factor Performance

#38: Pre-Arbitrage and the Art of Deal Speculation

Fitbit to be Acquired by Google for $2.1 Billion. How Did Merger Speculators End Up Doing?

French Luxury Giant LVMH Makes Play for Tiffany & Co. Does this Unsolicited Proposal Have a Shot?

Canfor Strikes Friendly Deal at Same Price as Previous Unsolicited Offer. Why Did the Board Settle? 

Federal Reserve Cuts Rates as Bank of Canada Holds Steady. Why the Divergence in Monetary Policy?

#37: Investor Biases and the Sunk Cost Fallacy

Softbank Bails Out Near-Bankrupt WeWork as its Valuation Tumbles from $47 Billion to $8 Billion. Did Softbank Commit the Sunk Cost Fallacy?

Hudson’s Bay Strikes a Friendly Go-Private Deal as Insiders Bump Their Bid by 9%. But will it be Enough for the Shareholder Activists?

Pension Funds Acquire AltaGas Canada for $1.7 Billion. Why are Pension Funds Owning Infrastructure Assets?

A Discussion on Why Merger Arbitrage is a Great Fixed Income Alternative with the Merger Yield at 5.7%.

#36: M&A 101: What's a Contingent Value Right?

U.S. and China Reach Preliminary “Phase 1” Trade Deal. Does This Mark the End of the Trade War?

Charles Schwab to Allow Investors to Trade Fractional Shares. But Will Individual Investors Benefit?

Alexion Announces Acquisition of Achillion in $930 Million Biotech Deal. What Makes This Deal Unique?

UK and European Union Reach Deal on Brexit. Is Brexit Finally Going to Happen?

#35: When Deals Fall Apart: An Investor's Perspective

Hong Kong Stock Exchange Drops its Bid for London Stock Exchange. Why are we not Surprised?

Greece Sells Bonds at a Negative Yield. Should Investors be Buying?

Brookfield Sells North American Palladium to South African Firm in Unusual Deal. What Makes the Deal so Interesting?

QE4? The Fed Restarts Asset Purchases in Bid to Placate Money Markets. Why did they do it?

A Discussion on September Factor Performance.

#34: Profitless IPOs: Should You Invest?

Broker Battle Breaks Out as Schwab Drops Commissions to Zero. How Are They Going to Make Money?

U.S. PMI Falls Below 50 in an Ominous Sign for the Global Economy. Is a Recession Imminent?

FanDuel Owner Pushes All-In with its $6 Billion Acquisition of PokerStars Parent. What’s the Strategic Rationale?

LBO Hot Potato Continues as Great Wolf Resorts Bought by a Third Leveraged Buyout Firm. Can Private Equity Still Add Value?

A Discussion on Why You Shouldn't Invest in Money-Losing Companies

#33: IPOs: Idiots Purchase Only?

Peloton Falls as Much as -15% in its Underwhelming IPO. Why Did Investors Sour on the Stock?

UFC-Owner Endeavor Pulls IPO Amidst Lackluster Demand. Why Did its IPO Flop?

WeWork CEO Fires Himself After Investors Lose Confidence in the Co-Working Company’s Leader. What Led to His Downfall?

Altria and Philip Morris Call off Merger Talks as Vaping Crisis Hits Juul. Why Did the Deal Fall Apart?

#32: The Anatomy of a Short Squeeze

Blackstone Acquires Dream Global REIT in $6.2 Billion Real Estate Deal. What Makes this Deal so Interesting?

Attack on Saudi Oil Infrastructure Takes 5% of Global Production Offline. What are the Implications?

WeWork Delays its Highly Controversial IPO. Why Did it Flop?

A Divided Fed Cuts Interest Rates as the Stock Market Nears New Highs. Why Were Some Members Against the Rate Cut?

A Discussion of the Great Short Squeeze of 2019.

#31: The Activist Hedge Fund Playbook

Activist Hedge Fund Elliott Management Targets Conglomerate AT&T. What does the Activist Investor Want?

Business Legend T Boone Pickens Dies at 91. What Made Him so Notable?

Hong Kong Stock Exchange Goes Hostile for the London Stock Exchange. Why is this Potential Deal so Interesting?

ECB Cuts Rates and Restarts Quantitative Easing. Why did they do it?

It’s a Momentum World and You’re Just Living in it. A Discussion of August Factor Performance.