Jamie Michaelson

TIC hedge funds seek capital appreciation through discretionary and quantitative trading and investing on a global basis, both long and short, across a broad range of securities and derivative instruments in the fixed income, currency, commodity and equity asset classes, both exchange traded and OTC.

Visium Asset Management seeks to achieve consistent, positive absolute returns by investing in a variety of industry sectors and in a wide range of financial instruments. Such instruments include, but are not limited to, long or short positions in US or non-US publicly traded or privately issued or negotiated common stocks, preferred stocks, stock warrants and rights, corporate or sovereign debt, bonds, notes or other debentures or debt participations, commodities, partnership interests, interests in investment companies, convertible securities, swaps, options (purchased or written), swaptions, futures contracts and other derivative instruments.

DKCM invests client assets using a variety of arbitrage and other event-driven strategies, including risk arbitrage transactions and investments in financially distressed companies. The firm's primary investment strategies include distressed investing, mergers and acquisitions (or risk) arbitrage, long/short equities, and convertible and volatility arbitrage. As distressed investment opportunities are identified, they are subjected to rigorous, fundamental, bottom-up analysis.