AlphaSituations-Event/Catalyst Driven Research, AlphaSituations

Robert Sassoon

Robert Sassoon has been an equity analyst for more than twenty years focusing primarily on global special situations. Robert has worked in research for several large sell-side institutions, including Credit Suisse, Natwest Capital Markets and Societe Generale. During his career, he has achieved top 5 rankings in various analyst surveys, including the Extel and Greenwich surveys.

In 2017, Robert founded AlphaSituations, an idea-generating investment research service with the goal of delivering a unique portfolio of ideas to drive client growth and returns by uncovering compelling and highly profitable value propositions as well as lucrative shorter-term trading situations arising from select dislocating corporate restructuring events and catalysts. Currently, the main geographical focus of the research is North America. Since its establishment, AlphaSituations has delivered a track record of outperformance with a hit rate of winners of more than 70% of its portfolio of ideas generating annualized average returns of 20%.

In January 2022, AlphaSituations was contracted  by Water Tower Research,  an investor engagement and stakeholder communication platform to provide coverage of Special Situations.

AlphaSituations-Event/Catalyst Driven Research

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AlphaSituations

Since its establishment, AlphaSituations has delivered a track record of outperformance with a hit rate of winners of more than 70% of its portfolio of ideas generating annualized average returns of 20%. In January 2022, AlphaSituations was contracted by Water Tower Research, an investor engagement and stakeholder communication platform to provide coverage of Special Situations

Event-Driven

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<li>BBBY's slower than hoped for turnaround has caught the attention of another activist, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/gamestop-corp-class-a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:13790:1" rel="noopener">GameStop (GME US)</a> Chairman Ryan Cohen's RC Ventures</li>
<li>Cohen is urging BBBY to spin-off its outperforming buy buy BABY business or sell BBBY as is outright in a Go-Private transaction</li>
<li>With the long-term impact of the latest development uncertain, the boost already given to the shares may prove short-lived  leaving additional share price strength an even better reason to exit</li>
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BBBY's slower than hoped for turnaround has caught the attention of another activist, GameStop (GME US) Chairman Ryan Cohen's RC Ventures
Cohen is urging BBBY to spin-off its outperforming buy buy BABY business or sell BBBY as is outright in a Go-Private transaction
With the long-term impact of the latest development uncertain, the boost already given to the shares may prove short-lived  leaving additional share price strength an even better reason to exit


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