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

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

On Friday Jan 26, MOTHERS-listed and extremely fast-growing Osaka-style skewer/grill restaurant chain company <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/26733" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26733:1">Kushikatsu Tanaka Co (3547 JP)</a><a href="http://contents.xj-storage.jp/xcontents/AS06609/6dcfe7e3/984e/4e21/b1a8/c5dc0cae41c7/140120180126456983.pdf" target="_blank">announced</a> (日本語 only) that it would conduct a tachiaigai bunbai for 456,400 shares on January 29th, at ¥3,899/share - a 3.01% discount to the ¥4,020 Friday close. Maximum purchase quantity per shareholder is 5,000 shares so this will lift shareholder count by 90, at least. The company, at last reported count, had 2,093 shareholders. The goal is clearly to get…

On Friday Jan 26, MOTHERS-listed and extremely fast-growing Osaka-style skewer/grill restaurant chain company Kushikatsu Tanaka Co (3547 JP)announced (日本語 only) that it would conduct a tachiaigai bunbai for 456,400 shares on January 29th, at ¥3,899/share - a 3.01% discount to the ¥4,020 Friday close. Maximum purchase quantity per shareholder is 5,000 shares so this will lift shareholder count by 90, at least. The company, at last reported count, had 2,093 shareholders. The goal is clearly to get…

Kushikatsu Tanaka Co

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