Event-Driven Investment Opportunities, Special Situation Investments

Dalius Tauraitis

Event-Driven Investment Opportunities

Special Situation Investments

Focus on event-driven trades and low risk arbitrage opportunities with short term catalysts

Event-Driven

<ul><li>FAR Limited's earnout monetization is uncertain; Harvest Lane increased its stake to 18.8%, indicating potential positive outcomes.</li><li>Benson Hill's director stepped down; Grosvenor may join the buyer consortium, maintaining interest in the $8.60/share offer.</li><li>OCI N.V. announced a €14.5/share dividend; future capital returns possible, but focus shifts to investments and M&amp;A.</li></ul>

FAR Limited's earnout monetization is uncertain; Harvest Lane increased its stake to 18.8%, indicating potential positive outcomes.Benson Hill's director stepped down; Grosvenor may join the buyer consortium, maintaining interest in the $8.60/share offer.OCI N.V. announced a €14.5/share dividend; future capital returns possible, but focus shifts to investments and M&amp;A.

SSI Weekly Newsletter: Portfolio Updates, Earnout Monetization, Shareholder Movements

<ul><li>SSI Tracking Portfolio decreased by 0.7% in September but has increased by 8.4% year-to-date, with a detailed performance breakdown available.</li><li>Territorial Bancorp (TBNK) merger arbitrage opportunity presents a 17% upside; shareholder vote on Hope Bancorp merger set for October 10.</li><li>OCI N.V. closed its Clean Ammonia business sale, with 80% consideration received; further asset sales pending completion.</li></ul>

SSI Tracking Portfolio decreased by 0.7% in September but has increased by 8.4% year-to-date, with a detailed performance breakdown available.Territorial Bancorp (TBNK) merger arbitrage opportunity presents a 17% upside; shareholder vote on Hope Bancorp merger set for October 10.OCI N.V. closed its Clean Ammonia business sale, with 80% consideration received; further asset sales pending completion.

SSI Newsletter: September Performance, TBNK Merger Arbitrage, OCI Asset Sale, MMLP Privatization

Providing investors with a balanced perspective, Massif Capital

Massif Capital Research

Providing investors with a balanced perspective

Massif Capital

Research focused on providing investors with a balanced perspective on the environmental and economic realities of achieving a carbon-neutral economy for businesses within the Energy, Basic Materials and Industrial industries.

The Massif Capital Real Asset Strategy is a global long/short equity strategy built around bottom-up stock picking. We are focused on creating a portfolio of businesses from within the Energy, Basic Materials and Industrial sectors that balance the environmental and economic realities of achieving a carbon-neutral economy.

Macroeconomics

<div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Outperformance of Metals and Mining sector: The fund's gold, copper, and lithium investments outperformed their respective industry performance.</li><li>Interesting trends in the gold market: We examine gold prices and propose a shift from wealth-driven to fear-driven consumption patterns. We also identify several events that could reduce fear and slow gold price momentum.</li><li>The evolving situation at OCI: The fund holds a 6% position in OCI, a global fertilizer business that announced two significant asset sales in December 2023, from which we expect to receive a substantial capital return in 2024.</li></ul></div>

Outperformance of Metals and Mining sector: The fund's gold, copper, and lithium investments outperformed their respective industry performance.Interesting trends in the gold market: We examine gold prices and propose a shift from wealth-driven to fear-driven consumption patterns. We also identify several events that could reduce fear and slow gold price momentum.The evolving situation at OCI: The fund holds a 6% position in OCI, a global fertilizer business that announced two significant asset sales in December 2023, from which we expect to receive a substantial capital return in 2024.

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

iShares MSCI ACWI ETF / Technical Analysis

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<li>In last week's Int'l Compass (Aug. 18) we discussed that global equities are going through a bottoming process, but that the real test will come during the eventual pullback.</li>
<li>We are getting the pullback now, but so far, there has yet to be any failed breakouts among the indexes discussed over the past month -- a positive sign.</li>
<li>Worth noting- further breakout attempts have failed on some of the leading market indexes, notably the Nasdaq 100 and India's SENSEX, but they remain well-above their breakout levels from July.</li>
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In last week's Int'l Compass (Aug. 18) we discussed that global equities are going through a bottoming process, but that the real test will come during the eventual pullback.
We are getting the pullback now, but so far, there has yet to be any failed breakouts among the indexes discussed over the past month -- a positive sign.
Worth noting- further breakout attempts have failed on some of the leading market indexes, notably the Nasdaq 100 and India's SENSEX, but they remain well-above their breakout levels from July.


Pullback Underway; Buy Ideas: Energy, Materials, Japan/India Motor Vehicles, Japan Health Care

Pan-Asia Index Flows & Special Situations, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Pan-Asia Index Flows & Special Situations

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

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<li>The index changes for the STOXX Europe Indices for the June 2022 Rebalance were announced yesterday. </li>
<li>There will be 11 Adds and 11 Deletes for the STOXX Europe 600 Index. Some of these changes will also be reflected in the EURO STOXX Index.</li>
<li>Below is a closer look at the Inclusion Parameters and price performance of the names involved in this Rebalance Event.</li>
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The index changes for the STOXX Europe Indices for the June 2022 Rebalance were announced yesterday. 
There will be 11 Adds and 11 Deletes for the STOXX Europe 600 Index. Some of these changes will also be reflected in the EURO STOXX Index.
Below is a closer look at the Inclusion Parameters and price performance of the names involved in this Rebalance Event.


STOXX Europe June 2022 Rebal: Focus on Wacker Chemie, Telefonica Deutschland, CD Projekt, and Nokian

Netherlands

OCI N.V. is a fertilizer producer with projects and investments in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and North Africa. The Company is also an engineering & construction contractor.

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OCI NV (OCI NA)

1st Quarter 2024 Letter to Investors

Outperformance of Metals and Mining sector: The fund's gold, copper, and lithium investments outperformed their respective industry...

Massif Capital Research

Pullback Underway; Buy Ideas: Energy, Materials, Japan/India Motor Vehicles, Japan Health Care

Pullback Underway; Problem: U.S. Dollar $DXY, Global 10-Yr Sovereign Yields, and Commodities All on the Rise Again; Actionable Themes: Energy,...

Vermilion Research

STOXX Europe June 2022 Rebal: Focus on Wacker Chemie, Telefonica Deutschland, CD Projekt, and Nokian

STOXX Europe June 2022 Index changes have been confirmed. The estimated volume impacts seem low but historical performance is promising and paying...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

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