By buying convertibles and shorting the underlying stock, hedge funds distribute equity exposure to well-diversified shareholders. We find that a higher fraction of a convertible is privately-placed with hedge funds when institutional ownership, stock liquidity, issue size, concurrent stock...

We provide evidence that security design reflects the interplay of capital supplier and security issuer preferences. While call provisions have historically been the default option in convertible security design, only a minority of post-2005 issues are callable. Because hedge funds dominate the...

This online appendix belongs to the paper "Disappearing Call Delay and Dividend-Protected Convertible Bonds" and provides a further investigation of explanators of call delay. Internet Appendix I sets out a dividend-related signaling model that can explain a delay in calling...