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

MergerTalk:Battle For Kansas-Will Canadian National Derail Canadian Pacific’s USCMA Strategy? Part 2

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

<p>The first major railroad merger transaction in North America in more than two decades could develop into a bidding war between the two major Canadian railroad operators battling for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kansas-city-southern" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:6157:1" rel="noopener">Kansas City Southern (KSU US)</a> as each look to exploit more fully the benefits of last year's inked USCMA. While there could be further surprises, we assess below why  it looks like the easy pickings from this battle may have been already picked from the perspective of arbs.</p>

The first major railroad merger transaction in North America in more than two decades could develop into a bidding war between the two major Canadian railroad operators battling for Kansas City Southern (KSU US) as each look to exploit more fully the benefits of last year's inked USCMA. While there could be further surprises, we assess below why  it looks like the easy pickings from this battle may have been already picked from the perspective of arbs.

MergerTalk: Kansas City Southern-Will Canadian National Derail Canadian Pacific's USCMA Strategy?