#65 Asif Suria: The Event-Driven Edge in Investing

Investing by the Books

Asif Suria is an entrepreneur and investor in the US who focuses on a specific investing strategy that we haven’t talked about much in the podcast: event-driven investing or special situations. The title for this conversation is Asif’s book The Event-Driven Edge in Investing, in which he explains six different event-driven strategies, such as merger arbitrage and stock buybacks.

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This episode was recorded on November 6, 2024.

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Episode Chapters

(00:00) Introduction by Eddie & Niklas

(01:26) Welcoming Asif

(02:50) The Event-Driven Edge in Investing

(07:28) How to know when a specific strategy is “in-season”

(08:59) The six event-driven strategies in the book

(09:41) How to interpret insider buying

(16:19) Asif’s work on the weekends

(18:27) General talk about the strategies

(22:04) Coping with the risks

(24:32) Spin-offs

(29:23) Management changes

(33:29) Interesting combinations of events

(34:29) InsideArbitrage.com and Asif’s work

(39:50) Book discussions

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Books Mentioned

• The Event-Driven Edge in Investing - Asif Suria
• You Can Be a Stock Market Genius - Joel Greenblatt
• Special Situations Investing - Brian Stark

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Companies Mentioned

• Vertex Pharmaceuticals
• Pebblebrook Retail Trust
• Silicon Valley Bank
• Pfizer/Biohaven
• Activision Blizzard
• Microsoft
• Twitter
• Jetblue
• Western Digital
• Chipotle
• Ferrari
• Danaher
• Nike
• GE
• Disney

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More on Asif

Twitter/X

LinkedIn

InsideArbitrage.com

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About the Podcast

Intro episode: https://www.redeye.se/podcast/investing-by-the-books/817383/0-intro-to-investing-by-the-books

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Disclaimer

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