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

The Amended FamilyMart Document Is A MUST READ For Investor-Stewards

FamilyMart Tender Offer - Winnie and HunnyPot Redux

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>On 5 December, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tomony-holdings-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:17118:1" rel="noopener">Tomony Holdings (8600 JP)</a> - a holding company for two regional banks based in Tokushima Prefecture and Kagawa Prefecture - announced (gasp!) a NEW SHARE OFFERING. </li>
<li>It offered 28mm shares + 4.2mm greenshoe - a share count increase of 20%. At 0.27x book. This IS unusual. Especially when banks are being asked to produce better ROC. </li>
<li>The deal priced at ¥366. We're there now. Banks have been sold. It is worth looking at where we are and what could happen next. It's cheap.</li>
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On 5 December, Tomony Holdings (8600 JP) - a holding company for two regional banks based in Tokushima Prefecture and Kagawa Prefecture - announced (gasp!) a NEW SHARE OFFERING. 
It offered 28mm shares + 4.2mm greenshoe - a share count increase of 20%. At 0.27x book. This IS unusual. Especially when banks are being asked to produce better ROC. 
The deal priced at ¥366. We're there now. Banks have been sold. It is worth looking at where we are and what could happen next. It's cheap.


Tokyo Kiraboshi Financial Group (7173 JP)

Tomony Holdings (8600 JP) - Regional Bank NEW SHARE Issue - Not What You Want To See, But Buy Anyway