Hedge Funds In The Business Of Breaking Up Deals See Big Payoff

(CNBC) Carl Icahn recently tried to destroy Cigna’s $54 billion purchase of Express Scripts by buying shares of Cigna and pushing it to get out of the deal….Icahn’s strategy, also employed by others, runs counter to this traditional merger arbitrage and is one researchers have dubbed “activist arbitrage.”

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