Japan Convenience Store Pair Trade: Long Lawson/Short Seven & I
Japan’s convenience stores outperformed the Topix index by over 10 percentage points during the COVID-19 led equity sell off in March 2020. Over...
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After Covid: The Future for Japanese Retail: Winners & Losers
No one really knows what will happen after the initial shock of the coronavirus fades away. Many observers in Japan, expert and otherwise, are...
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Screening the Silk Road: (Small) Mid Cap Free Cash Flow
The overall expectation at the start of H1 2019, was that following a decade of seeing growth as the key focus (as ultra-accommodative global...
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Taking Stock of the Almost Excessive Alpha Generation From TOPIX-Nikkei Skew Trades
Since the 17th of March we have published several notes regarding skews in performance between names that have heavy weights in TOPIX vs. those...
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Some Resistance to Cashless Payments in Japan
The Japanese government and larger retailers are still gung-ho about cashless payment systems. Cash, which still makes up 60-70% of all...
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