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<ul><li>Cover Story: China’s AI Battle Moves From Chatbots to Agents Upload a set of spreadsheets to Tencent’s WorkBuddy and an agent can analyze the data and build an interactive dashboard.</li><li>Ask ByteDance’s Doubao Work to go through product comments, and it can identify what buyers like, recommend products to promote, and prepare advertising images and copy in several languages.</li><li>China’s Bank Resolution Regime Rated ‘Materially Non-Compliant’ by Global Watchdog The Chinese mainland’s bank resolution regime was rated “materially non-compliant” by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), which cited limited funding capacity and insufficient operational readiness for managing the failure of systemically important lenders.</li></ul>

Cover Story: China’s AI Battle Moves From Chatbots to Agents Upload a set of spreadsheets to Tencent’s WorkBuddy and an agent can analyze the data and build an interactive dashboard.Ask ByteDance’s Doubao Work to go through product comments, and it can identify what buyers like, recommend products to promote, and prepare advertising images and copy in several languages.China’s Bank Resolution Regime Rated ‘Materially Non-Compliant’ by Global Watchdog The Chinese mainland’s bank resolution regime was rated “materially non-compliant” by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), which cited limited funding capacity and insufficient operational readiness for managing the failure of systemically important lenders.

CX Daily: China’s AI Battle Moves From Chatbots to Agents 

Equity Research Analyst - Long-Short

Raj S, CA, CFA

Equity Bottom-Up

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 Medium term: Delta remains well placed to capture the AI power upgrade cycle, with PSU leadership extending into DC/DC, BBU and HVDC power racks as 800VDC adoption scales through 2027-28e.</li>
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 Short term: 2Q26 margin pressure was driven by supply constraints and input-cost inflation; 3Q/4Q should show price pass-through. Even if normalization slips into 1Q27, this is not a thesis breaker.</li>
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 Valuation: Rolling FY2 P/E has corrected to ~28x from ~35-39x at the recent peak, while earnings remain strong. That creates a better entry point with original upside thesis intact.</li>
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 Medium term: Delta remains well placed to capture the AI power upgrade cycle, with PSU leadership extending into DC/DC, BBU and HVDC power racks as 800VDC adoption scales through 2027-28e.

 Short term: 2Q26 margin pressure was driven by supply constraints and input-cost inflation; 3Q/4Q should show price pass-through. Even if normalization slips into 1Q27, this is not a thesis breaker.

 Valuation: Rolling FY2 P/E has corrected to ~28x from ~35-39x at the recent peak, while earnings remain strong. That creates a better entry point with original upside thesis intact.


Delta Electronics (2308 TT) - Buy Into Short-Term Weakness - Architecture Confidence Increasing.

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning, Copley Fund Research

Steven Holden

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning

Copley Fund Research

Copley Fund Research provide research and data on asset allocation among Global and Emerging Market equity funds.  The analysis details absolute and relative positioning across countries, sectors and industries together with highly granular data on single stock and single fund allocations.  The data is updated monthly with time series going back to January 2011.

Global Research - Analysis of 165 prominent Global equity funds, combined AUM $335bn
GEM Research - Analysis of 127 prominent global EM equity funds, combined AUM $250bn

Asset Allocation - Global and GEM Equity

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<li>Active EM funds average +26.0% YTD, their strongest year since 2017, though still underperforming the benchmark by -1.8%. Fewer than 40% have outpaced the iShares MSCI EM ETF.</li>
<li>Style and regional positioning drove dispersion. Value managers and South Korea exposure supported gains, while Aggressive Growth styles and India-heavy allocations weighed on returns. High Active Share strategies also trailed.</li>
<li>Active EM outperformance remains consistent long-term. Active funds have beaten the benchmark in 14 of the past 22 years, with the ETF often ranking near the peer group median.</li>
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Active EM funds average +26.0% YTD, their strongest year since 2017, though still underperforming the benchmark by -1.8%. Fewer than 40% have outpaced the iShares MSCI EM ETF.
Style and regional positioning drove dispersion. Value managers and South Korea exposure supported gains, while Aggressive Growth styles and India-heavy allocations weighed on returns. High Active Share strategies also trailed.
Active EM outperformance remains consistent long-term. Active funds have beaten the benchmark in 14 of the past 22 years, with the ETF often ranking near the peer group median.


EM Active Funds: What’s Driving Performance in 2025?

Managing Director, Zero One, Zero One

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Managing Director, Zero One

Zero One

Founded in 2015, Zero One produces independent investment research and provides corporate finance advisory services with a focus on both listed and private technology companies. Founder Vincent Fernando has over 20 years of experience in US and Asia capital markets.

Independent Investment Research

Hon Hai Precision Industry / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>COMPUTEX 2026's first AI Robotics Zone showcased Taiwan's pitch:  supply enabling Physical AI solutions — motion, reducers, vision,  edge-AI compute — rather than build robot brands, echoing its semiconductor  playbook.</li>
<li>Commercially, the floor ran on robot arms and wheeled-base units for  manufacturing and logistics, plus edge-AI compute and machine vision; bipedal humanoids were mostly showpieces, with volume three-to-five years out.</li>
<li>High-Precision reducers remain a Japanese stronghold (Harmonic Drive  6324 JP, Nabtesco 6268 JP), but listed Taiwanese names are climbing: Turvo  (2233 TT) debuted a micro harmonic reducer at the show.</li>
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COMPUTEX 2026's first AI Robotics Zone showcased Taiwan's pitch:  supply enabling Physical AI solutions — motion, reducers, vision,  edge-AI compute — rather than build robot brands, echoing its semiconductor  playbook.
Commercially, the floor ran on robot arms and wheeled-base units for  manufacturing and logistics, plus edge-AI compute and machine vision; bipedal humanoids were mostly showpieces, with volume three-to-five years out.
High-Precision reducers remain a Japanese stronghold (Harmonic Drive  6324 JP, Nabtesco 6268 JP), but listed Taiwanese names are climbing: Turvo  (2233 TT) debuted a micro harmonic reducer at the show.


TechChain Insights: COMPUTEX 2026 -- On the Ground with Physical AI's New Supply Chain

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Event-Driven

Delta Electronics (Thailand) / Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/delta-electronics-thailand-pcl-98806732-8ac4-42b2-a565-ba32673d1e5a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:20912:1" rel="noopener">Delta Electronics Thailand (DELTA TB)</a> is trading at a huge valuation premium to <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/delta-electronics-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:12688:1" rel="noopener">Delta Electronics (2308 TT)</a>, though that has narrowed over the last couple of months.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/delta-electronics-thailand-pcl-98806732-8ac4-42b2-a565-ba32673d1e5a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:20912:1" rel="noopener">Delta Electronics Thailand</a> has already been on the Market Surveillance list for 2 months and inclusion for another 2 months will mean <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/stock-exchange-of-thailand-set-50-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31493:1" rel="noopener">SET 50 Index</a> deletion in June.</li>
<li>A placement by <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/delta-electronics-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:12688:1" rel="noopener">Delta Electronics (2308 TT)</a> is not out of the question and that further increases the downside risk for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/delta-electronics-thailand-pcl-98806732-8ac4-42b2-a565-ba32673d1e5a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:20912:1" rel="noopener">Delta Electronics Thailand (DELTA TB)</a>.</li>
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Delta Electronics Thailand (DELTA TB) is trading at a huge valuation premium to Delta Electronics (2308 TT), though that has narrowed over the last couple of months.

Delta Electronics Thailand has already been on the Market Surveillance list for 2 months and inclusion for another 2 months will mean SET 50 Index deletion in June.
A placement by Delta Electronics (2308 TT) is not out of the question and that further increases the downside risk for Delta Electronics Thailand (DELTA TB).


Delta Electronics (DELTA TB / 2308 TT): Off the Peak; SET50 Deletion Risk Increases

Taiwan

Delta Electronics Inc. manufactures power supplies and video display products. The Company's products include switching power supplies, telecom power systems, uninterrupted power supply (UPS), variable speed alternating current (AC) monitor drives, high resolution color monitors, and projectors.  Delta also manufactures magnetic and networking components.

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CX Daily: China’s AI Battle Moves From Chatbots to Agents

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