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

NAB - Profit Slightly Down in 3Q, Credit Costs Collapsed, but Bad Loans Are Rising Significantly

Tax-Loss Selling In Australia 2024 - Time To Reverse The Trade (7.2-8.6% Rtn in Two Months So Far)

Tax-Loss Selling in Australia 2024 - Historical Analysis and A Trade Basket

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>The theory is that stocks which are down hard FY-to-date by end-April end up being good sells because Australians will harvest their losses into end-June. </li>
<li>The idea is then to buy those oversold names and hold them for 30-40 trading days. That has worked 10 out of the last 12 years hedged vs ASX200.</li>
<li>This year, the "sold-down" list is very heavily weighted to miners. They have continued to fall since end-June so it's down. But hedged vs a basket of miners? It's up.</li>
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The theory is that stocks which are down hard FY-to-date by end-April end up being good sells because Australians will harvest their losses into end-June. 
The idea is then to buy those oversold names and hold them for 30-40 trading days. That has worked 10 out of the last 12 years hedged vs ASX200.
This year, the "sold-down" list is very heavily weighted to miners. They have continued to fall since end-June so it's down. But hedged vs a basket of miners? It's up.


Tax-Loss Selling In Australia 2024: Trade Reversed Is Tale of Two Hedges, Time To Unwind

Core Lithium Ltd

Tax-Loss Selling In Australia 2024: Trade Reversed Is Tale of Two Hedges, Time To Unwind