Asian Hedge Fund Manager, Long Short Equity, Macro

David Mudd

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Hong Kong market breadth stays strong despite market pullback in November.  Mainland investors continue to increase exposure to HK market through Southbound Connect platform.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/baidu-inc-a55ca720-5968-48f0-8194-ac94390d065c" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32212:1" rel="noopener">Baidu (9888 HK)</a> , <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/baidu-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:179:1" rel="noopener">Baidu (BIDU US)</a> , the global leader in Robotaxis, was granted a license to start operating its autonomous cars in Hong Kong.
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/vitasoy-intl-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:2807:1" rel="noopener">Vitasoy Intl Holdings (345 HK)</a> shares surged on takeover rumours after <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/yeo-hiap-seng-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:9051:1" rel="noopener">Yeo Hiap Seng (YHS SP)</a> increased its stake to more than 12% allowing them to call a Board meeting.
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</ul>


Hong Kong market breadth stays strong despite market pullback in November.  Mainland investors continue to increase exposure to HK market through Southbound Connect platform.

Baidu (9888 HK) , Baidu (BIDU US) , the global leader in Robotaxis, was granted a license to start operating its autonomous cars in Hong Kong.


Vitasoy Intl Holdings (345 HK) shares surged on takeover rumours after Yeo Hiap Seng (YHS SP) increased its stake to more than 12% allowing them to call a Board meeting.



The Heat Is On: News Flow and Sentiment in CHINA / HONG KONG (December 2)

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

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>AI boom reflected in record fund ownership in ASML Holding NV (ASML NA), NVIDIA Corp and Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) (2330 TT).</li>
<li>The 'Magnificent 7' group of stocks have hit a record underweight of -6.83% below the MSCI ACWI index.  They collectively account for 11.2% of the average Global fund.</li>
<li>Recovery Stocks: The old guard of At&amp;T Inc (T US), International Business Machines (IBM US) and General Electric (GE US) appear to be gathering some support from active Global funds.</li>
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AI boom reflected in record fund ownership in ASML Holding NV (ASML NA), NVIDIA Corp and Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) (2330 TT).
The 'Magnificent 7' group of stocks have hit a record underweight of -6.83% below the MSCI ACWI index.  They collectively account for 11.2% of the average Global fund.
Recovery Stocks: The old guard of At&amp;T Inc (T US), International Business Machines (IBM US) and General Electric (GE US) appear to be gathering some support from active Global funds.


Global Stock Positioning:  MSFT Dominates, Mag7 Record U/W, Apple Inflows, Tobacco Uninvestable?

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Nicholas Tan

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

Pateo Connect Technology / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/pateo-connect-technology" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43712:1" rel="noopener">Pateo Connect Technology (PTC HK)</a>  is looking to raise up to US$300m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO.</li>
<li>It is one of the largest domestic providers of smart cockpit and intelligent connectivity solutions in China, providing full-stack smart cockpit solution and cloud-based vehicle connectivity, for Chinese OEMs.</li>
<li>In this note, we look at the firm's past performance.</li>
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Pateo Connect Technology (PTC HK)  is looking to raise up to US$300m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO.
It is one of the largest domestic providers of smart cockpit and intelligent connectivity solutions in China, providing full-stack smart cockpit solution and cloud-based vehicle connectivity, for Chinese OEMs.
In this note, we look at the firm's past performance.


Pateo Connect Pre-IPO: Undifferentiated and Unprofitable

Blue Lotus China New Economy Research, Blue Lotus Research Institute

Eric Wen

Blue Lotus China New Economy Research

China growth and global non-US Internet equities

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Blue Lotus Research is a Hong Kong Type 4 Licensed investment advisory firm focusing on Chinese growth equities and global non-US Internet equities

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul>
<li>The election of Donald Trump with overwhelming majority changes the investment logic of our sectors and perhaps others. But besides acknowledging, what is actionable is the broad impact expected globally; </li>
<li>Thus the questions of whether Trump's policies will be successful, become important: how flexible they are, what are the signposts and who stand to benefit and be hurt;</li>
<li>Our standing assumption is that both MAGA and non-MAGA will claim victory.  We are assuming quality executions from the Trump team but the odds of achieving is still daunting.</li>
</ul>


The election of Donald Trump with overwhelming majority changes the investment logic of our sectors and perhaps others. But besides acknowledging, what is actionable is the broad impact expected globally; 
Thus the questions of whether Trump's policies will be successful, become important: how flexible they are, what are the signposts and who stand to benefit and be hurt;
Our standing assumption is that both MAGA and non-MAGA will claim victory.  We are assuming quality executions from the Trump team but the odds of achieving is still daunting.


<ul>
<li>TSLA US: Model Y Price Reduced by RMB 10,000 In December (-)</li>
<li>LKNCY US :  Starbucks Considers Selling Its China Business. (+)</li>
<li>ZTO US: Parcel volume delivery grew 33.6% yoy in the prior week (+)</li>
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TSLA US: Model Y Price Reduced by RMB 10,000 In December (-)
LKNCY US :  Starbucks Considers Selling Its China Business. (+)
ZTO US: Parcel volume delivery grew 33.6% yoy in the prior week (+)


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Tesla Inc. operates as a multinational automotive and clean energy company. The Company designs and manufactures electric vehicles, battery energy storage from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services. Tesla owns its sales and service network and sells electric power train components to other automobile manufacturers.

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Blue Lotus Research Institute

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The Heat Is On: News Flow and Sentiment in CHINA / HONG KONG (December 2)

Hong Kong market breadth is high as mainland investors continue buy HK shares. Baidu, the largest Robotaxi operator was granted license to operate...

David Mudd

Global Stock Positioning: MSFT Dominates, Mag7 Record U/W, Apple Inflows, Tobacco Uninvestable?

The latest in stock-level investor positioning among over 300 active Global funds. We explore the AI boom, key over/underweights, Tobacco's...

Steven Holden

Pateo Connect Pre-IPO: Undifferentiated and Unprofitable

Pateo Connect (PTC) is looking to raise up to US$300m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. It is one of the largest domestic providers of smart cockpit...

Nicholas Tan

Smart Trump, or Dumb Trump?

​Election of Trump shifts investment logic but we differ on how. First realization is it is a zero sum game and assessing MAGA's chance of success...

Blue Lotus Research Institute

[Blue Lotus Daily]:TSLA US/LKNCY US/NIO US/ZTO US

​Tesla reduces Model Y price, Starbucks considers selling China business, ZTO sees 33.6% increase in parcel delivery volume.

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Election of Trump shifts investment logic but we differ on how. First realization is it is a zero sum game and assessing MAGA's chance of success...

Tesla reduces Model Y price, Starbucks considers selling China business, ZTO sees 33.6% increase in parcel delivery volume.