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

Strong Telecom Flows in TOPIX FFW Transition Months

NTT (9432) - Salutary Earnings Salutary Buyback, More to Go

JTower Inc - DoCoMo Tower Agreement Is a Milestone

NTT (Buy) - Q3 21 Results Reaction: NTT Data Drives Beat and Raise with Dividend Boost

Watch the $1bn Sell-On-Close on NTT (9432) Wednesday

Gravity Works As WeWork Doesn't; Now Plan B

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

NTT (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone) / Event-Driven

NTT (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone) (9432 JP)

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<li>The TSE launched its new cash equity market structure earlier this week. The TOPIX Index changes include a one-off FFW Methodology Review, where results were announced today. </li>
<li>The changes announced today go part-way to fixing float issues, but there will be follow-on changes in October, and one should expect companies to react with share cancellations.</li>
<li>The big gainer in this TOPIX rebal is <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nippon-telegraph-telephone-corporation" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:623:1" rel="noopener">NTT (Nippon Telegraph &amp; Telephone) (9432 JP)</a>. There are a fair number of "losers." The 3-month total trade is about ¥2.3trln one-way.</li>
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The TSE launched its new cash equity market structure earlier this week. The TOPIX Index changes include a one-off FFW Methodology Review, where results were announced today. 
The changes announced today go part-way to fixing float issues, but there will be follow-on changes in October, and one should expect companies to react with share cancellations.
The big gainer in this TOPIX rebal is NTT (Nippon Telegraph &amp; Telephone) (9432 JP). There are a fair number of "losers." The 3-month total trade is about ¥2.3trln one-way.


The BIGLY TOPIX April 2022 Rebalance - $20bn One-Way Split Over 3 Months