July Closed-End-Fund Odd Lot Tender Offers

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Jun 24, 2012


While the JAKK and CACC tenders haven’t yet completed a bunch of new tender offers with odd lot provisions have already been announced for July. They are for closed-end funds, and instead of a fixed dollar value per share you will get a percentage of NAV. Since they are all trading at a discount this creates an opportunity with positive expected value, but you do have market risk while holding the position. Because of that I’m going to wait till the last moment before buying, since I don’t expect that the discount will significantly change between now and the close of the tender offer.

The following funds have announced a tender offer:

FundTickerNAVLast PriceOfferDeadlineEV ($)
MS Eastern EuropeRNE15.9214.4198.5%July 10126
MS Emerging MarketsMSF14.9013.5898.5%July 10109
MS India InvestmentIIF16.1814.6398.5%July 10129
Turkish InvestmentTKF15.0113.6698.5%July 10111
Latin American DiscoveryLDF15.0813.9598.5%July 1089
China FundCHN23.7721.5199.0%July 23200
Total expected value for the all the closed-end fund tenders is 764 dollars before transaction costs, or an ~8.4% return on a ~$9,000 dollar position that you have to hold for just a few days if you want to play it safe (although I actually think you don’t need to wait before the trade settles before you can tender, so you could buy on the last day).

Disclosure

Not long any of the funds, but will buy between now and the deadlines.