By David Randall – After a six-year lull, deal making is back with a vengeance. That means investors may need to rethink strategies to profit from increasing numbers of mergers and acquisitions.
Deals are up 10.5 percent to $288 billion this year from the same period last year, according to Thomson Reuters data. Last year, global M&A rose just 2 percent to $2.6 trillion.
“I’m pretty negative about the market in general in 2013, but the one thing that could upset my hypothesis is M&A, because you have the perfect storm of conditions” for a rally, said Uri Landesman, president of New York-based Platinum Partners, with more than $1 billion in assets under management. more> http://tinyurl.com/aygxt2y
