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Strategies & Market Trends : Mr. Pink's Picks: selected event-driven value investments -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Marty Lee who wrote (2537)	9/3/1998 6:19:00 AM
From: Mr. Pink	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18998

Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a place and time that people made money BUYING small captialization stocks involved in special situations. Such situations included spin-offs, dutch tenders, recapitalizations etc. These "event-driven" situations were different than other cheap stocks for they had a "catalyst" to help realize value. But then the Big Bad Bear came and took out the fund managers that owned such securities and one by one took them out back behind the cottage and shot them behind the ear. The sector was repriced, liquidity reduced and the concept of event driven investing on the long side died. But maybe if you close your eyes and imagine real hard a time will come when people make money in that sector again. Maybe next year. Until then.... Mr. Pink