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Amar Pandya is the Portfolio Manager of the Pender Alternative Arbitrage Fund, Pender Alternative Arbitrage Plus Fund and the Pender Alternative Special Situations Fund. He joined the company in October 2017.
Amar began his investment career in 2011 in the Portfolio Management Training Program at a large global financial services company. He moved to pursue his passion for equities becoming an Associate Portfolio Manager at a large-cap equity value firm before being drawn to Pender and the west coast in 2017.
As an advocate of a contrarian value investing approach, Amar works to identify out of favour, high quality compound growth businesses, as well as opportunistic close-the-discount investment opportunities trading at a significant discount to intrinsic value. He has also developed an expertise in event driven special situations with a primary focus on M&A and balance sheet driven special situations. Amar has researched and uncovered many such opportunities which have contributed to Pender’s equity mandates.
Amar holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance (Honours) from the University of Manitoba. He earned his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2015. He is actively involved with CFA Society Vancouver where he serves as a member of the CFA Vancouver Programs Committee. He also sits on the Steering Committee for the Vancouver chapter of Women in Capital Markets.
The Pender Alternative Arbitrage Fund (PAAF) marked one year since its inception on September 8, 2022 with performance of 4.3% since inception. The Fund was up 1.1% in August, bringing year to date performance to 2.2%[1]. The Pender Alternative Arbitrage Fund was launched with the goal of providing investors with a low-risk, low-volatility, absolute return-focused […]
The Pender Alternative Arbitrage Fund (PAAF) ended the month of July 2022 with a NAV of $10.30 per unit[1]. Download PDF The first seven months of 2022 saw $2.3T of deals announced globally, the fourth highest year-to-date total on record2. M&A activity was down 62% in July, totalling $200.8B of deals announced, likely driven by […]
Dear Unitholders, The Pender Alternative Arbitrage Fund (PAAF) ended the month of June 2022 with a NAV of $10.27 per unit[1]. Download PDF The first half of 2022 closed off with $2.2T of global M&A activity continuing the two-year streak of >$1T in quarterly deals2. While down 21% from last year’s record pace, M&A activity […]
Dear Unitholders, The Pender Alternative Arbitrage Fund (PAAF) ended the month of May 2022 with a NAV of $10.23 per unit[1]. M&A activity remains elevated with over $1.8T of deals announced globally at the end of May, a total that has only been exceeded three times in history2. A total of $377B of merger deals […]
Dear Unitholders, The Pender Alternative Arbitrage Fund (PAAF) ended the month of April 2022 with a NAV of $10.23 per unit[1]. Download PDF After a slow-down last month, M&A activity is picking back up with the value of global deals rising 23% in April[2]. Global M&A totaled $1.4T at the end of April, down from […]
Dear Unitholders, The Pender Alternative Arbitrage Fund (PAAF) ended the month of March 2022 with a NAV of $10.28 per unit[1]. M&A activity ended Q1 with over $1 trillion of global deal activity, down 21% from last year as the impact of rising inflation and geopolitical tensions may be causing some acquirers to hit the […]
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