Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, 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

Zhejiang Leapmotor Technologie / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Leapmotor (LM) aims to raise around US$1bn in its Hong Kong IPO. LM is a smart EV company based in China, founded in 2015.</li>
<li>It focuses on the mid- to high-end segment in China’s NEV market with a price range of RMB150,000-300,000. As of end FY21, it had delivered a total of 52,832 cars.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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Leapmotor (LM) aims to raise around US$1bn in its Hong Kong IPO. LM is a smart EV company based in China, founded in 2015.
It focuses on the mid- to high-end segment in China’s NEV market with a price range of RMB150,000-300,000. As of end FY21, it had delivered a total of 52,832 cars.
In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.


Leapmotor Pre-IPO - The Positives - Planned Launches Should Prop up Growth

Life Insurance  of India / Equity Capital Markets

<ul>
<li>Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.</li>
<li>On the IPOs front, LIC's lists tomorrow, while Delhivery's bookbuild wasn't great.</li>
<li>There were no major placements this week, with even Air New Zealand failing to hold its deal price.</li>
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Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
On the IPOs front, LIC's lists tomorrow, while Delhivery's bookbuild wasn't great.
There were no major placements this week, with even Air New Zealand failing to hold its deal price.


ECM Weekly (15th May 22) - LIC, ThaiBev, Delhivery, One Store, Yunkang, VistaREIT, Ngern Tid Lor

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>April was another tough month for active Asia Ex-Japan managers. Average returns of -6.18% lagged the MSCI Asia Ex-Japan index by -1.02%, with just 27.8% of funds beating the benchmark.</li>
<li>On the year so far, more than 80% of Asia Ex-Japan funds are underperforming the benchmark. Returns are largely correlated to Style, with Value outperforming Growth by +6.5%.</li>
<li>Overweights in both Mediatek Inc and Sea Ltd  have been the most costly on the year, in addition to a number of underweights in the key state run China banks</li>
</ul>


April was another tough month for active Asia Ex-Japan managers. Average returns of -6.18% lagged the MSCI Asia Ex-Japan index by -1.02%, with just 27.8% of funds beating the benchmark.
On the year so far, more than 80% of Asia Ex-Japan funds are underperforming the benchmark. Returns are largely correlated to Style, with Value outperforming Growth by +6.5%.
Overweights in both Mediatek Inc and Sea Ltd  have been the most costly on the year, in addition to a number of underweights in the key state run China banks


Asia Ex-Japan:  MediaTek, Sea Ltd and China Banks Weigh on Performance

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<li>Average returns among GEM active managers came in at -7.02% for April, lower than the MSCI EM Index by -1.46% with 21.2% of funds outperforming.</li>
<li>This year’s underperformance of -3.69% ranks as the worst start to the year for over a decade, worse than the first 4 months of both 2009 (-2.70%) and 2015 (-2.71%).</li>
<li>Russian Financials (overweight) and Saudi Arabian Financials (underweight) accounted for nearly 1% of the performance deficit, with Singapore Comm’ Services, Taiwan Technology and Indian Utilities further dragging on relative returns.</li>
</ul>


Average returns among GEM active managers came in at -7.02% for April, lower than the MSCI EM Index by -1.46% with 21.2% of funds outperforming.
This year’s underperformance of -3.69% ranks as the worst start to the year for over a decade, worse than the first 4 months of both 2009 (-2.70%) and 2015 (-2.71%).
Russian Financials (overweight) and Saudi Arabian Financials (underweight) accounted for nearly 1% of the performance deficit, with Singapore Comm’ Services, Taiwan Technology and Indian Utilities further dragging on relative returns.


GEM Fund Performance.  April Compounds Woes for Active Managers

Articles from Caixin Global, Caixin Global

Caixin Global

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Multiple Chinese electric-vehicle (EV) makers posted shrinking monthly deliveries in April as the country’s severe Covid outbreaks disrupted sales channels, supply chains and road transport.</li>
<li>The Covid-19 resurgence in the Yangtze Delta region continues to cause severe industry-wide disruptions in supply chain, logistics and production since late March</li>
<li>China has been battling the worst wave of Covid-19 outbreaks since late March, in which Shanghai logged record daily infections during five weeks of an ongoing citywide lockdown.</li>
</ul>


Multiple Chinese electric-vehicle (EV) makers posted shrinking monthly deliveries in April as the country’s severe Covid outbreaks disrupted sales channels, supply chains and road transport.
The Covid-19 resurgence in the Yangtze Delta region continues to cause severe industry-wide disruptions in supply chain, logistics and production since late March
China has been battling the worst wave of Covid-19 outbreaks since late March, in which Shanghai logged record daily infections during five weeks of an ongoing citywide lockdown.


Chinese EV-Makers’ Deliveries Plunge as Lockdowns Hit Dealers, Plants

China

NIO Inc. manufactures and sells automobiles. The Company offers electric vehicles and parts, as well as provides battery charging services. NIO serves customers worldwide.

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Leapmotor Pre-IPO - The Positives - Planned Launches Should Prop up Growth

Leapmotor (LM) aims to raise around US$1bn in its Hong Kong IPO. LM is a smart EV company based in China, founded in 2015. In this note, we will...

Sumeet Singh

ECM Weekly (15th May 22) - LIC, ThaiBev, Delhivery, One Store, Yunkang, VistaREIT, Ngern Tid Lor

Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.

Sumeet Singh

Asia Ex-Japan: MediaTek, Sea Ltd and China Banks Weigh on Performance

After 3 years of solid outperformance, active Asia Ex-Japan managers find themselves on unfamiliar ground. Following on from a challenging Q1,...

Steven Holden

GEM Fund Performance. April Compounds Woes for Active Managers

It has been one of the worst starts to the year for active EM managers in over a decade. We analyze recent performance, attribution and how this...

Steven Holden

Chinese EV-Makers’ Deliveries Plunge as Lockdowns Hit Dealers, Plants

Multiple Chinese electric-vehicle (EV) makers posted shrinking monthly deliveries in April as the country’s severe Covid outbreaks disrupted sales...

Caixin Global

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