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14 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Weirdest thing, but getting less weird as time goes on.

Just had the third kingfisher (trying to figure out what it is - there are more different kingfishers than I knew) fly inside in the past 6 weeks.

Cute little buggers.

Got the cat ALL excited.
Kingfishers are year-round, but as we approach winter, LOTS more migratory birds show up. The striated heron we had standing on a railing 1 meter outside my front door yesterday when I woke up is non-migratory but I think came when his friends started showing up 2-3wks ago.
Over the winter, we get about a half dozen types of heron/egret, some cormorants, a number of other shore birds as well as a variety of songbirds. Going to try to attract more songbirds this year. The seabirds can stay further away. Pretty, sure, but cleaning up after them? Nah.
Looking at a pic mrs Bau got, pretty sure it was just a Eurasian kingfisher (a.k.a. common kingfisher)

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14 Nov
@therobotjames For the sake of playing devil's advocate, I will take the other side of that, "for most" for a couple of reasons.

I will start with the following assumptions (which may be wrong-footed, but their mine):
a) there is no tax differential between high turnover and low turnover
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13 Nov
An interesting 🧵.

The process described is commendable. The optimisation tweaks (i.e. lower turnover) are debatable.

In my experience if one has significant conviction in single name alpha and conviction in the sizing methodology, higher turnover can lead to significant value
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12 Nov
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11 Nov
Brief thread on Evergrande:

Great article. Lots of color.

This is playing out very much as one would have thought (and did) in summer.

wsj.com/articles/everg…
The government has been insisting on a "market-oriented approach" which is a signal they won't publicly bail out the company's capital providers.

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9 Nov
Holy smokes.

There was a merger vote at an EGM 12 days ago in Japan. The third largest shareholder, who had made an earlier competing takeover proposal (better for the co and shareholders, but not mgmt) objected, as did others.

It passed.

It needed 66.67%. It "just passed."
It was so close it had to go to marksheet voting on the spot.

Meeting ended 1:40pm. Then vote.

Chamber closed at 2 to reconvene at 3.

Vote counted at 2:50. Inspector General of the EGM gets the tally. Tells chairman.

Chairman of the meeting delays restart 'just to be sure'
At 4:10pm, Chairman walks in and says "it passed, by a small margin."

Done. dusted.

Usually, the result is published by the company in a regulatory filing within 1bd, sometimes same day. This took 7 days. When it came out, it was 66.68%.

Remember it needed 66.67%.
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9 Nov
A month later and there is more news coming out.
Earlier in the thread I noted Oasis PR of 4 October, after Japan Catalyst PR on 24 Sep and Silchester on 27 Sep; Orbis followed on 7 Oct

Japan Catalyst: japancatalyst.com/pdf/JCI_NIPPO_…

Silchester: apparently on BBG but I can't find elsewhere now

Orbis: businesswire.com/news/home/2021…
Yesterday one activist set up a website, basically acting as a proxy for the Special Committee of NIPPO, saying that NIPPO would welcome alternative over-bidders to the ENEOS/GS deal.

That's fun.

That's the first time I have seen that.

ft.com/content/94b503…
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