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

Yamaha Motor – Struggling But Still Too Cheap

Yamaha Motor – Lowballing Guidance on Material Costs

Yamaha Motor – Comfortable Beat of Consensus on the Cards

Yamaha Motor – Indonesia Drives Recovery

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/yamaha-motor-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:7411:1" rel="noopener">Yamaha Motor (7272 JP)</a> announced a short-term buyback. 3 months, 3%. It isn't huge but it helps with the TOPIX FFW changes to come in two weeks. </li>
<li>It also helps with the extra overhang from last year's selldown and the significant cross-holding overhang which exists. </li>
<li>But the shares are very inexpensive vs peers when one looks at consensus forward earnings and EBIT, and better growth is expected too.</li>
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Yamaha Motor (7272 JP) announced a short-term buyback. 3 months, 3%. It isn't huge but it helps with the TOPIX FFW changes to come in two weeks. 
It also helps with the extra overhang from last year's selldown and the significant cross-holding overhang which exists. 
But the shares are very inexpensive vs peers when one looks at consensus forward earnings and EBIT, and better growth is expected too.


Yamaha Motors Buyback (7272) - Medium-Bigly Buyback Complicated by TOPIX FFW and Cross-Holdings