Roy Behren and Mike Shannon, professional merger arbitrage investors, make money by placing on bets on how likely it is that a deal will get completed. They do this by investing in targeted companies and sometimes shorting potential acquirers. What's unusual about them is they also give retail investors a way to profit from their decisions through the Merger Fund, a publicly traded mutual fund they run through Westchester Capital Management. Plus, Behren and Shannon give Deal of the Week host Alex Sherman opinions how to reap gains from Yahoo's sale process, the merger of Dupont and Dow Chemical's and Bayer's pursuit of Monsanto.

<p>Roy Behren and Mike Shannon, professional merger arbitrage investors, make money by placing on bets on how likely it is that a deal will get completed. They do this by investing in targeted companies and sometimes shorting potential acquirers. What's unusual about them is they also give retail investors a way to profit from their decisions through the Merger Fund, a publicly traded mutual fund they run through Westchester Capital Management. Plus, Behren and Shannon give Deal of the Week host Alex Sherman opinions how to reap gains from Yahoo's sale process, the merger of Dupont and Dow Chemical's and Bayer's pursuit of Monsanto.</p>

Bloomberg M&A reporters, joined by outside experts and members of Bloomberg's Deals team, examines the week's biggest deals and highlights M&A trends most under scrutiny by Wall Street. He'll talk to reporters who broke Bloomberg's major scoops and interview investors, executives, lawyers and bankers for an inside peek into what's going on inside corporate boardrooms and what it's like working with the world's largest companies and richest people.

Bloomberg M&A reporter Alex Sherman examines the week's biggest deals and highlights M&A trends most under scrutiny by Wall Street.

Deal of the Week

29: Even You Can Profit from Merger Arbitrage!

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