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

7&I Rejects ACT's Bid As Too Low, Not Worth Discussing, ACT Whines, 7&I Taps The Sign

The New FEFTA List (With 7&I (3382) As "Core") Is Not a Big Hurdle for Couche-Tard

7&I (3382) - Asset Sale News Designed to Get Shareholder Attention to Future Value

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>This AM, partway through the morning session, Bloomberg carried an article saying <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/alimentation-couche-tard-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:25103:1" rel="noopener">Alimentation Couche-Tard (ATD CN)</a> had upped its bid for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/seven-i-holdings-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:1041:1" rel="noopener">Seven &amp; I Holdings (3382 JP)</a> to US$18.19/share.</li>
<li>The stock popped, then faded sharply. Near and after the close we got more headlines. Some of these preview tomorrow's earnings report. Some preview the restructuring announcements.</li>
<li>The Nikkei comment regarding an earnings shortfall vs Plan suggests weaker US convenience store sales and consumer footfall are to blame. Details will matter. But I'd buy dips.</li>
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This AM, partway through the morning session, Bloomberg carried an article saying Alimentation Couche-Tard (ATD CN) had upped its bid for Seven &amp; I Holdings (3382 JP) to US$18.19/share.
The stock popped, then faded sharply. Near and after the close we got more headlines. Some of these preview tomorrow's earnings report. Some preview the restructuring announcements.
The Nikkei comment regarding an earnings shortfall vs Plan suggests weaker US convenience store sales and consumer footfall are to blame. Details will matter. But I'd buy dips.


Revised Couche-Tard Bid for 7&I and a Flurry of News Items Ahead of Earnings