Pender Alternative Arbitrage Plus Fund

Dear Unitholders, Highlights The Fund initiated positions in 14 new or previously announced mergers while five merger deals held within the Fund closed during the month. At the end of September, the Fund had 41 investments in small-cap deals under $2 billion, 32 of which were valued at under $1 billion. Deal activity in Canada […]

Highlights The Fund initiated positions in 20 new or previously announced mergers, while nine merger deals held within the Fund closed during the month. Performance was impacted by a regulatory challenge to a merger deal held by the Fund and the widening of spreads in certain other deals driven by regulatory approval delays and extensions […]

Highlights: July was an active month for the Fund as we continued to harvest returns from closed merger deals and reinvest that capital in new mergers. Merger arbitrage spreads continued to remain at wide levels in July following an expansion of spreads in June with some key catalysts on larger merger deals resulting in a […]

Highlights June was a good month for the Fund as it harvested returns from several closed merger deals, which we added to at wider spreads in May. The Fund took advantage of recent volatility to bring net exposure to nearly 100%, the highest level this year. The Fund initiated positions in seven new or previously […]

Highlights In response to the hostile regulatory environment for merger deals this year and particularly in May, spreads for mergers have widened considerably. Merger arbitrage spreads now offer increasingly appealing returns with average merger arbitrage spreads in North America increasing to double digits from last year[1]. As the SPAC sector shrinks, so has the SPAC […]

Highlights April saw a return to a more normalized merger arbitrage market following a volatile March fraught with regulatory pushback and increased uncertainty due to the regional banking crisis. A benefit of the elevated volatility and regulatory risk was a widening of arbitrage spreads. We continue to see favourable conditions for deal activity in the […]

Highlights A positive development during the month was banks returning to provide buyout debt financing. March was the peak month of SPAC maturities for 2023 with the industry now fully lapping the peak of the 2020/21 SPAC bubble by the typical two-year maturity date. As the size of the SPAC sector and the number of […]

Highlights 2023 is seeing deals materialize from a more diverse range of sectors. We expect technology sector M&A to continue representing a leading share of deal flow over the next year. The relative slowdown in M&A activity this year is a likely consequence of the current macro environment, marked by higher inflation, interest rates and […]

Highlights After a busy December where we had positioned the Fund to take advantage of the wave of year-end SPAC liquidations, January was an active month as we redeployed proceeds from those liquidations into new deals. The Fund initiated positions in 12 new or previously announced merger deals, with eight merger deals held within the […]