Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

HK Type 4 license through Ballingal Investment Advisors Ltd. ("BIA" or "BIAL")

BACKGROUND
I have 20+yrs experience in Asia doing alternative strategies (i.e. non-delta1 non long-only) in fixed income, equity derivatives, and activist/catalyst/event-driven and long-short equity strategies with most of that time spent managing money. 

4 years in fixed income macro, 8 years running internal hedge fund and 4yrs investment banking at Citi in Japan, 3 years running an Asia multi-strat portfolio at a hedge fund, 4+yrs as an independent special situations analyst.

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

China Mobile Parent Ups The Ante - Announces Share Increase Plan

China Mobile (941 HK) Buyback Period Starts

Another Reason To Like China Mobile (941 HK)

China Telecom A-Share IPO Prices; H-Share Discount Wide; Buy China Mobile

Last Look at China Mobile Convexity Near-Term?

China Mobile Prices RMB A-Share IPO - Disappointing IPO Price So A-Share Could Yield ~CGBs+230

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-mobile" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35371:1" rel="noopener">China Mobile (600941 CH)</a> A-Share IPO at RMB 57.58/share starts trading tomorrow on 5 January. I thought this premium disappointing, and the dividend overly attractive.</li>
<li>At 800x over-subscribed, with substantial clawback, IPO allocations to mainland investors were limited. Cash should be back in investors' hands and the yield is very attractive on A-shares and H-shares.</li>
<li>Today, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-mobile-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27:1" rel="noopener">China Mobile (941 HK)</a> announced it would start executing on its buyback mandate (10% of H-shares out (2.047bn shares). This is potentially enormous. And absolutely praise-worthy.</li>
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The China Mobile (600941 CH) A-Share IPO at RMB 57.58/share starts trading tomorrow on 5 January. I thought this premium disappointing, and the dividend overly attractive.
At 800x over-subscribed, with substantial clawback, IPO allocations to mainland investors were limited. Cash should be back in investors' hands and the yield is very attractive on A-shares and H-shares.
Today, China Mobile (941 HK) announced it would start executing on its buyback mandate (10% of H-shares out (2.047bn shares). This is potentially enormous. And absolutely praise-worthy.


China Mobile (941 HK) - Massive Buyback Announced on Eve of A-Share IPO