Taking Stock of the Almost Excessive Alpha Generation From TOPIX-Nikkei Skew Trades
Since the 17th of March we have published several notes regarding skews in performance between names that have heavy weights in TOPIX vs. those...
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What Do You Buy if the Softbank Mega-Buyback Drives a Nikkei Squeeze?
Softbank stock ended up locked limit up towards the end of the trading day after the company announced a massive ¥4.5trn in asset...
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Smartkarma Originals
A Potential Asian LBO Screening System
With a relatively full slate of large value takeovers in Developed Asia in the past year - often by parents but also by buyout funds - and the...
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Showa: Has Been Trading at a Discount to Peers, So Price It Low?
This insight follows our previous insights on the Honda Motor (7267 JP) parts and Hitachi Automotive Systems merger: Hitachi – Thoughts on the...
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Are Hitachi and Honda Following the Toyota Group's J-QuAD Dynamics JV?
Hitachi Ltd (6501 JP) Hitachi announced that its Automotive Systems company, along with three Honda Motor (7267 JP) Keiretsu Group companies, are...
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