Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

HK Type 4 license through Ballingal Investment Advisors Ltd. 

I'm a highly experienced sell-side analyst with in excess of 22 years of covering Asia Pacific equities, the past 19 years immersed in event strategies encompassing M&A risk arbitrage, directional long/short, stub trades and restructuring.  

My background also includes accountancy (liquidation/bankruptcy/receivership) earlier in my career and as a chief financial officer of a global commodity company based in the US and Mexico.

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Straits Trading: Discounted Way into 2021 SGX's Hottest IPO

Straits Trading: ARA's Pre-IPO Funding From SMBC

Straits Trading Cheap As ARA Asset Exposure Monetized

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

Back on the 14 August 2020, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/straits-trading-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:15745:1" rel="noopener">Straits Trading (STRTR SP)</a> announced its <a href="https://straitstrading.listedcompany.com/newsroom/20200814_171924_S20_ETSA0B9VKYMLZIBA.2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1H20 result</a>s, which showed a 62.9/87.5% decline yoy in EBITDA and EPS, due in part to lower average tin prices and lower sales quantity of refined tin; and the knock on-effects from COVID-19 to its hospitality operations.
Tin prices are up 38% since the March low and 10% since  30 June. There are signs of life in the hospitality front, with talk of bubble travel between countries, which may indicate operational losses have troughed.
But of more interest is STR's 22.06% stake in ARA Asset Management. STR added 1.1% in <a href="https://links.sgx.com/FileOpen/R706A%20Announcement.ashx?App=Announcement&amp;FileID=627835" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May</a> of this year at for S$30.2mn. There is talk of IPO'ing ARA, some four years after it was taken private.
STR's stake in ARA, based on its recent stake increase, is worth around the same as its current market cap - indicating the market is assigning almost zero value for the remaining real estate, hospitality segment, and the 54.8% stake in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/malaysia-smelting-corp-bhd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:14425:1" rel="noopener">Malaysia Smelting Corp (SMELT MK)</a>, and stake in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/suntec-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:151:1" rel="noopener">Suntec REIT (SUN SP)</a>.
Illiquid, depressed pricing, with a potential major catalyst in the pipeline, this appears ripe for Tecity to take the company private.
As always, more below the fold.

Back on the 14 August 2020, Straits Trading (STRTR SP) announced its 1H20 results, which showed a 62.9/87.5% decline yoy in EBITDA and EPS, due in part to lower average tin prices and lower sales quantity of refined tin; and the knock on-effects from COVID-19 to its hospitality operations.
Tin prices are up 38% since the March low and 10% since  30 June. There are signs of life in the hospitality front, with talk of bubble travel between countries, which may indicate operational losses have troughed.
But of more interest is STR's 22.06% stake in ARA Asset Management. STR added 1.1% in May of this year at for S$30.2mn. There is talk of IPO'ing ARA, some four years after it was taken private.
STR's stake in ARA, based on its recent stake increase, is worth around the same as its current market cap - indicating the market is assigning almost zero value for the remaining real estate, hospitality segment, and the 54.8% stake in Malaysia Smelting Corp (SMELT MK), and stake in Suntec REIT (SUN SP).
Illiquid, depressed pricing, with a potential major catalyst in the pipeline, this appears ripe for Tecity to take the company private.
As always, more below the fold.

Straits Trading

Straits Trading - Ripe For Privatisation