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

Second Brookfield-MCB Bid for AGL Energy Rejected

MCB Goes Big To Thwart AGL Energy De-Merger

MCB May Block the AGL De-Merger, But Think About the Alternative

AGL Energy (AGL AU): Carbon/Zero-Carbon Split

AusNet (AST AU) Enters Scheme With Brookfield

AusNet (AST AU): Scheme Booklet Out. Meeting on 28 January

AusNet (AST AU): ACCC Commences Informal Review

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>AFR revealed late Saturday that Brookfield and Atlassian billionaire and recent green warrior Mike Cannon-Brookes had lobbed an A$8bn (4.7% premium) bid for AGL ahead of its vote to split.</li>
<li>The bid is too low, and would be fraught with competition issues, but it begs the question of whether the company would be better un-split and made greener, faster.</li>
<li>Other megacaps out there have expressed interest in owning Australian integrated utilities, and there are plans on the drawing board which would allow greening if more firming capacity investment arrived.</li>
</ul>


AFR revealed late Saturday that Brookfield and Atlassian billionaire and recent green warrior Mike Cannon-Brookes had lobbed an A$8bn (4.7% premium) bid for AGL ahead of its vote to split.
The bid is too low, and would be fraught with competition issues, but it begs the question of whether the company would be better un-split and made greener, faster.
Other megacaps out there have expressed interest in owning Australian integrated utilities, and there are plans on the drawing board which would allow greening if more firming capacity investment arrived.


Brookfield/Cannon-Brookes Lowball Bid for AGL (AGL AU) Likely to Get the Kibosh.

AGL Energy Ltd

Brookfield/Cannon-Brookes Lowball Bid for AGL (AGL AU) Likely to Get the Kibosh.