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

Event-Driven

In early March, massage chair tycoon Ron Sim launched a buyout at S$1.32/share of his massage chair empire <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/18713" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:18713">OSIM International Ltd</a> and the situation was ably introduced on Smartkarma by <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/profiles/8" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="accounts:8">Jon Foster</a> in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/a-happy-ending-for-minorities" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:2939">A Happy Ending for Minorities?</a> A month later on April 5th, the day after the expected S$0.02 dividend had gone ex-, the bid was raised from $1.32/share to S$1.39 a share (or $1.37 ex-dividend) and declared final. It traded for part of the day, then it was halted. Now it is messy.  Investors who sold…

In early March, massage chair tycoon Ron Sim launched a buyout at S$1.32/share of his massage chair empire OSIM International Ltd and the situation was ably introduced on Smartkarma by Jon Foster in A Happy Ending for Minorities? A month later on April 5th, the day after the expected S$0.02 dividend had gone ex-, the bid was raised from $1.32/share to S$1.39 a share (or $1.37 ex-dividend) and declared final. It traded for part of the day, then it was halted. Now it is messy.  Investors who sold…

OSIM: One Bump & "Final" Gets Another Bump to Be REALLY Final.... For the Avoidance of Doubt that Is

Osim International

OSIM: One Bump & "Final" Gets Another Bump to Be REALLY Final.... For the Avoidance of Doubt that Is