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 Weekly H/A: National Team Buys Less, Southbound Less Active, Spreads Rebound. 50+ Recos.

China Mobile (941 HK): Probably Too Cheap

OFAC Clarifies The Clarifications of Its Clarifications

FTSE Announces Measures for Trump Exec Order on Chinese Military Companies

Trump's Executive Order on Chinese Military Companies

MSCI Joins the Index Crowd on Trump China Military Names and SMIC (981) Rocked

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

On the 12th of November, newly lame duck US president Donald Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-addressing-threat-securities-investments-finance-communist-chinese-military-companies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Order</a>(Executive Order on Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments that Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies) banning investment and capital provision by "US persons" to companies in lists established by the US Department of Defense pursuant to Public Law 105-261, Section 1237 (Fiscal Year 1999 National Defense Authorization Act).The various global index providers immediately commenced consultations with their myriad investors and with OFAC (the Office of Foreign Asset Control of the US Treasury Department) and decided in early December for the most part to delete certain securities from their indices. New guidance from OFAC in the form of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions related to Executive Order (E.O.) 13959, "Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments that Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies":  <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/faqs/857" target="_blank" rel="noopener">857</a>, <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/faqs/858" target="_blank" rel="noopener">858</a>, <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/faqs/859" target="_blank" rel="noopener">859</a>, <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/faqs/860" target="_blank" rel="noopener">860</a>, <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/faqs/861" target="_blank" rel="noopener">861</a>). This insight looks at the indirect holdings and subsidiaries.It is a BIG list (I have a list of 133 names, most of which appear to be 50+% controlled, which could be affected in portfolios).Investors would do well to understand how much of the float is for sale.

On the 12th of November, newly lame duck US president Donald Trump signed an Executive Order(Executive Order on Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments that Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies) banning investment and capital provision by "US persons" to companies in lists established by the US Department of Defense pursuant to Public Law 105-261, Section 1237 (Fiscal Year 1999 National Defense Authorization Act).The various global index providers immediately commenced consultations with their myriad investors and with OFAC (the Office of Foreign Asset Control of the US Treasury Department) and decided in early December for the most part to delete certain securities from their indices. New guidance from OFAC in the form of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions related to Executive Order (E.O.) 13959, "Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments that Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies":  857, 858, 859, 860, 861). This insight looks at the indirect holdings and subsidiaries.It is a BIG list (I have a list of 133 names, most of which appear to be 50+% controlled, which could be affected in portfolios).Investors would do well to understand how much of the float is for sale.

China Electronics Corp Holdings Co Ltd. (85 HK)

OFAC Makes a Longer List of Trump Names of China Military Cos