Japan Long Weekend Portfolio Blowout Theme Is Working Quickly
On Thursday we highlighted a number of stock pairs that had seen extreme levels of relative performance dislocations, speculating that this was due...
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What Is Getting Blown Out of Portfolios Before the Long Weekend in Japan?
We previously highlighted the strong skew between names which have a heavy weighting in Topix vs. those which have a heavy weighting in the Nikkei....
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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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Hitachi Chemicals – Is Antitrust a Concern?
This morning the Nikkei reported that Showa Denko’s tender offer for Hitachi Chemical would be delayed into March or later due to delays obtaining...
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SK Materials - The Biggest Winner from SK Group's Vertical Integration of Semiconductor Materials
We believe SK Materials is the biggest winner from SK Group's efforts to vertically integrate the sourcing of semiconductor-related gases and...
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