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

[Japan Governance] FSA Urges Japan Non-Life Insurers to Eliminate Cross-Holdings - Sales Coming

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nissan-tokyo-sales-holdings" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:1800:1" rel="noopener">Nissan Tokyo Sales (8291 JP)</a> is a network of 120 dealerships with revenue from sales and repairs of about US$1bn a year. Nissan owns 34%. P&amp;C insurers own 21%.</li>
<li>The P&amp;C insurers will sell their 21%, to an offering and a ToSTNeT-3 buyback. Expect the net offering to be 10.5%, which is still 60+ days of ADV.</li>
<li>But it has net cash, securities, more securities, and landholdings. It trades at &lt;0.5x book and a very large part of book is finance-able. This looks like an MBO candidate.</li>
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Nissan Tokyo Sales (8291 JP) is a network of 120 dealerships with revenue from sales and repairs of about US$1bn a year. Nissan owns 34%. P&amp;C insurers own 21%.
The P&amp;C insurers will sell their 21%, to an offering and a ToSTNeT-3 buyback. Expect the net offering to be 10.5%, which is still 60+ days of ADV.
But it has net cash, securities, more securities, and landholdings. It trades at &lt;0.5x book and a very large part of book is finance-able. This looks like an MBO candidate.


Nissan Tokyo Sales Holdings (8291 JP) - Large Offering on Tiny Cap With Deep Value