Eight spin-offs

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Summary

• Spin-offs can lead to value dislocations, especially if the spun-off entity is smaller than its parent, the parent is an index constituent in unrelated industries, or the spin-off is “icky” in some respect.

• Spin-offs are rare in the Asia-Pacific, but…