Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Douglas Research Advisory

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>Repatriation Investment Account (RIA) has surpassed 1 trillion won ($690 million) since its launch about a month ago in Korea. </li>
<li>Total amount of overseas listed investments by Korean investors increased from $27 billion at the end of 2020 to $131.7 billion as of 22 April 2026.</li>
<li>RIA account is aiming to slow down this aggressive growth of overseas stock investments by Korean investors and rather try to repatriate these overseas investments into the Korean stock market. </li>
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Repatriation Investment Account (RIA) has surpassed 1 trillion won ($690 million) since its launch about a month ago in Korea. 
Total amount of overseas listed investments by Korean investors increased from $27 billion at the end of 2020 to $131.7 billion as of 22 April 2026.
RIA account is aiming to slow down this aggressive growth of overseas stock investments by Korean investors and rather try to repatriate these overseas investments into the Korean stock market. 


Repatriation Investment Account (RIA) Surpasses 1 Trillion Won in One Month in Korea

Quality-first, Business-perspective, Long-term, Urbem (HK) Limited

Urbem Capital

Quality-first, Business-perspective, Long-term

Quality-first, Business-perspective Strategy

Urbem (HK) Limited

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>From energy drinks to a 19th-century land trust, ten different stocks turned USD 1 into over USD 300 from 2001 to mid-2025, versus USD 7.7 for the S&amp;P 1500.</li>
<li>Five conditions explain their compounding: a long runway, self-funding growth, pricing power, scale that improved the business, and per-share discipline, guided by owner-minded leaders.</li>
<li>The next pre-giants show improving rather than already-high returns, gross margin rising first, and a label the market still gets wrong; our screen sets out what to test.</li>
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From energy drinks to a 19th-century land trust, ten different stocks turned USD 1 into over USD 300 from 2001 to mid-2025, versus USD 7.7 for the S&amp;P 1500.
Five conditions explain their compounding: a long runway, self-funding growth, pricing power, scale that improved the business, and per-share discipline, guided by owner-minded leaders.
The next pre-giants show improving rather than already-high returns, gross margin rising first, and a label the market still gets wrong; our screen sets out what to test.


Before They Were Giants: What Ten 300-Baggers Shared, and How to Spot the Next One

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal, Shenton Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China Biotech

Shenton Research

Shenton Research is an independent Asia Pacific equity specialist. Our quantitative research covers index rebalancing flows, alongside exchange data analytics accross Asia Pacific. On the equity capital markets side, we focus on Asia Pacific ECM, especially biotech and TMT. Our lead analyst is frequently cited by international media.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Xiaomi and Stepfun all shipped model updates, with price cuts and open weights at the center of the week.</li>
<li>AI infrastructure financing stayed active across Akamai, Nscale, Firmus, Oracle-linked data centers, CoreWeave facilities and SoftBank debt.</li>
<li>Regulatory and security news focused on Pentagon supply-chain controls, OpenAI evaluation incidents and US review before UK model testing.</li>
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Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Xiaomi and Stepfun all shipped model updates, with price cuts and open weights at the center of the week.
AI infrastructure financing stayed active across Akamai, Nscale, Firmus, Oracle-linked data centers, CoreWeave facilities and SoftBank debt.
Regulatory and security news focused on Pentagon supply-chain controls, OpenAI evaluation incidents and US review before UK model testing.


This Week in AI (Sep 20-26): Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Launch Cheaper; Data Center IPO Delays

Asian Hedge Fund Manager, Long Short Equity, Macro

David Mudd

<ul>
<li>The US market is weakening again as an interday reversal after Nvidia results foreshadows continued selling in the AI theme.  Market breadth is weakening and stocks at 52-week lows surging.</li>
<li>Volatility has reached levels last seen during the tariff tantrum in April. Insider sales of Nvidia have surged since June. Private credit and private equity markets are showing stress.</li>
<li>US consumption has narrowed and is highly dependent on stock market gains. Household debt levels are at new highs, and consumer sentiment is lower than during the GFC in 2008/09.</li>
</ul>


The US market is weakening again as an interday reversal after Nvidia results foreshadows continued selling in the AI theme.  Market breadth is weakening and stocks at 52-week lows surging.
Volatility has reached levels last seen during the tariff tantrum in April. Insider sales of Nvidia have surged since June. Private credit and private equity markets are showing stress.
US consumption has narrowed and is highly dependent on stock market gains. Household debt levels are at new highs, and consumer sentiment is lower than during the GFC in 2008/09.


US Market: WALK TO THE EXIT NOW BEFORE EVERYONE STARTS RUNNING!

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<li>The KOSDAQ index rose by 7.1% today to 1,064.4 today which was one of the largest single day returns for KOSDAQ in the past three decades.</li>
<li>Will this 7% upside move be a fake reversal or the start of a strong, sustainable momentum trade driven by a potential 17 trillion won inflow into the KOSDAQ companies?</li>
<li>The Korean government is trying to encourage the injection of nearly 17 trillion won into KOSDAQ listed companies through venture capital (raised through integrated market assets (IMAs) and commercial papers).</li>
</ul>


The KOSDAQ index rose by 7.1% today to 1,064.4 today which was one of the largest single day returns for KOSDAQ in the past three decades.
Will this 7% upside move be a fake reversal or the start of a strong, sustainable momentum trade driven by a potential 17 trillion won inflow into the KOSDAQ companies?
The Korean government is trying to encourage the injection of nearly 17 trillion won into KOSDAQ listed companies through venture capital (raised through integrated market assets (IMAs) and commercial papers).


KOSDAQ's 7% Rise Today - A Fake Reversal or Sustainable by a Potential 17 Trillion Won Inflow?

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NVIDIA Corporation designs, develops, and markets three dimensional (3D) graphics processors and related software.  The Company's products provide interactive 3D graphics to the mainstream personal computer market.

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Repatriation Investment Account (RIA) Surpasses 1 Trillion Won in One Month in Korea

Repatriation Investment Account (RIA) has surpassed 1 trillion won ($690 million) since its launch about a month ago in Korea.

Douglas Kim

Before They Were Giants: What Ten 300-Baggers Shared, and How to Spot the Next One

An energy drink, a freight carrier and a 19th-century land trust beat the market by hundreds of times. The traits they shared were visible earlier...

Urbem Capital

This Week in AI (Sep 20-26): Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Launch Cheaper; Data Center IPO Delays

This week in AI: Anthropic and OpenAI cut frontier-model costs, Grok 4.7 entered major coding channels, and financing stress hit infrastructure.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

US Market: WALK TO THE EXIT NOW BEFORE EVERYONE STARTS RUNNING!

A record share Americans are taking hardship withdrawals from their 401-K plans according to Vanguard, pressuring a central underpinning of the US...

David Mudd

KOSDAQ's 7% Rise Today - A Fake Reversal or Sustainable by a Potential 17 Trillion Won Inflow?

The KOSDAQ index rose by 7.1% today to 1,064.4 today which was one of the largest single day returns for KOSDAQ in the past three decades.

Douglas Kim

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