META - Event-Driven Strategies Commodities And Writing Options With Asif Suria
2024-05-28 13:00:00 ET
Summary
- Asif Suria focuses on risk rather than reward with event-driven strategies.
- Interest in commodities, particularly copper, oil, and gold, which have been performing well.
- Scaling back on tech stocks and exploring opportunities in merger arbitrage, spin-offs, insider transactions, and stock buybacks.
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Asif Suria talks focusing more on risk than reward with event-driven strategies (0:55). Market liquidity, commodity prices and portfolio ideas (5:40). Scaling back on tech; pre-mergers and rumored situations (10:55). Tracking SPACs on long and short side (14:00). Pfizer's acquisition disconnect (20:05) Why bonds are really interesting right now (29:10).
Transcript
Rena Sherbill: Asif Suria, welcome to Seeking Alpha. Welcome to the Investing Experts Podcast. It's great to talk to you. It's great to have you on the show.
Asif Suria: Thank you for having me on, Rena. I'm very excited to be on.
RS : I'm excited to have you on. I've been reading your stuff on Seeking Alpha for quite some time. You haven't written on there on the free side in a while. You also run an investing group called Inside Arbitrage .
You also have a book coming out called The Event-Driven Edge in Investing: Six Special Situation Strategies to Outperform the Market.
With all that said, Asif, how are you looking at the markets right now? How are you synthesizing your observations and what are you focused on?
AS : Yeah. So one of the things that happens, Rena, if you follow the markets long enough is you become acutely aware of risks. And as you get more experience, as you go through the school of hard knocks, you're more aware and you're thinking about the risk rather than just the return....
Event-Driven Strategies, Commodities, And Writing Options With Asif Suria