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

JAPAN ACTIVISM:  Silchester's Chugoku Bank AGM Ploy Fails - Won't Be an Activism Target

JAPAN ACTIVISM:  Silchester AGM Effort Fails But Bank of Iwate (8345) Is Cheap As Chips

Bank of Kyoto (8369 JP) Holdco Maybe Rich-Ish - Watch for TOPIX Rebal SELL Flow

Bank of Kyoto (8369) Surprises With a Cross-Holding Sale Plan (Albeit Small)

JAPAN ACTIVISM:  Silchester Goes After Bank of Kyoto

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>Silchester, after holding <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bank-of-kyoto" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:5248:1" rel="noopener">Bank of Kyoto (8369 JP)</a> shares 16 years, becoming the largest investor, FINALLY publicly asked the bank to make a gesture to pay out a tiny special div. </li>
<li>The bank rejected them, but they took it to to the AGM. And there Silchester got rejected by the shareholders. Soundly. Hostile activism is not going to be easy here. </li>
<li>But all is not lost. Since December, the bank has raised its payout ratio to 50% and has promised to cut a piece of its cross-holdings in the MTMP.</li>
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Silchester, after holding Bank of Kyoto (8369 JP) shares 16 years, becoming the largest investor, FINALLY publicly asked the bank to make a gesture to pay out a tiny special div. 
The bank rejected them, but they took it to to the AGM. And there Silchester got rejected by the shareholders. Soundly. Hostile activism is not going to be easy here. 
But all is not lost. Since December, the bank has raised its payout ratio to 50% and has promised to cut a piece of its cross-holdings in the MTMP.


JAPAN ACTIVISM:  Silchester's Bank of Kyoto AGM Results - Activism Still Failing