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

<ul>
<li>Major global indices have decided to relegate Russia to the "standalone" and "unclassified" market status due to sanctions and restrictions on transfer/payment/clearing.</li>
<li>Talk of significant flows into major non-Russia EM markets such as China, Taiwan, Korea, etc is misguided. </li>
<li>Russia <em>was</em> a non-negligible weight in global EM a few months ago, but GDRs have fallen dramatically and Russia-listed are effectively now portfolio pocket lint.</li>
</ul>


Major global indices have decided to relegate Russia to the "standalone" and "unclassified" market status due to sanctions and restrictions on transfer/payment/clearing.
Talk of significant flows into major non-Russia EM markets such as China, Taiwan, Korea, etc is misguided. 
Russia was a non-negligible weight in global EM a few months ago, but GDRs have fallen dramatically and Russia-listed are effectively now portfolio pocket lint.


Russia Gets the Boot from Major Indices - Minimal Impact But World's Largest Small Sidepocket?

VanEck Vectors Russia ETF

Russia Gets the Boot from Major Indices - Minimal Impact But World's Largest Small Sidepocket?