Today, a lot of so called arbitrage, much of it done by hedge funds, involves assets that have some similarities but are not identical. This is not pure arbitrage and can be far from risk free. Arbitrage pricing theory This is one of two influential economic theories of how assets are priced in the financial markets.
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