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

Toyota Group Musical Shares - Toyota Industries' (6201) Big Multi-Year Denso (6902) Selldown & More

Battle Lines Drawn As BABA Builds Out First/Last-Mile Capacity; But Who Will Fund 75+ Bn CNY CapEx?

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>On Thursday, mid-day, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/taisei-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:7896:1" rel="noopener">Taisei Corp (1801 JP)</a> announced Q2 earnings, and it announced a VERY BIG BUYBACK of up to 30mm shares and up to ¥150bn. That's 16.41% of outstanding.</li>
<li>The share price popped such that the buyback is really only about 10-11%, but that's still a lot. </li>
<li>It is worth looking at the details of this buyback and how it plays out.</li>
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On Thursday, mid-day, Taisei Corp (1801 JP) announced Q2 earnings, and it announced a VERY BIG BUYBACK of up to 30mm shares and up to ¥150bn. That's 16.41% of outstanding.
The share price popped such that the buyback is really only about 10-11%, but that's still a lot. 
It is worth looking at the details of this buyback and how it plays out.


Taisei (1801 JP) - In-Line Earnings, BIG Buyback, Already In The Price?