Derivatives and Quantitative Strategist

Gaudenz Schneider

Equity Derivatives

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Context: Volatility cones chart implied volatility against historical percentiles across the term structure, providing a clear framework to evaluate whether options are trading cheap or rich.</li>
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Highlight: Several high-profile HK stocks currently show historically cheap implied volatility. With some of them trading near 52-week highs, now may be an opportune time to hedge.</li>
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Why Read: Spot opportunities, assess regime shifts, and manage risk effectively — volatility cones turn complex data into actionable insights for traders and investors.</li>
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Context: Volatility cones chart implied volatility against historical percentiles across the term structure, providing a clear framework to evaluate whether options are trading cheap or rich.

Highlight: Several high-profile HK stocks currently show historically cheap implied volatility. With some of them trading near 52-week highs, now may be an opportune time to hedge.

Why Read: Spot opportunities, assess regime shifts, and manage risk effectively — volatility cones turn complex data into actionable insights for traders and investors.


Volatility Cones: Opportunities Across 8 Hong Kong Stocks

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

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<li>Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.</li>
<li>On the IPO front,  a number of companies are lining up to start 2H listing season, which is likely to be one of the busiest over the past few years.</li>
<li>On the placements front as well, given ongoing earnings annoucement there were only one large placement last week.</li>
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Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
On the IPO front,  a number of companies are lining up to start 2H listing season, which is likely to be one of the busiest over the past few years.
On the placements front as well, given ongoing earnings annoucement there were only one large placement last week.


ECM Weekly (18 August 2025)- Eve Energy, CNGR, Will Semi, 52 Toys, JSW, Bluestone, Tuas, Hexaware

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<li>Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, Inida ECM flows continued unabated with more deals being launched.</li>
<li>On the placements front as well, India saw over US$2bn worth of deals during the week.</li>
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Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
On the IPO front, Inida ECM flows continued unabated with more deals being launched.
On the placements front as well, India saw over US$2bn worth of deals during the week.


ECM Weekly (11 August 2025)-Bharti, Eternal, Paytm, LG CNS, Guming, JSW, Bluestone, SICC, Roborock

Overseas Chinese Equities, Aequitas Research

Ming Lu

Overseas Chinese Equities

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>We believe the boycott against JD.com benefited Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall Group in 3Q25 results. </li>
<li>We believe 3Q25 results will not reflect the benefits of the disposal of Intime and Sun Art despite that Alibaba may not revise its financial data in 3Q25 results.</li>
<li>We set a stock upside of 42% for the next twelve months.</li>
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We believe the boycott against JD.com benefited Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall Group in 3Q25 results. 
We believe 3Q25 results will not reflect the benefits of the disposal of Intime and Sun Art despite that Alibaba may not revise its financial data in 3Q25 results.
We set a stock upside of 42% for the next twelve months.


Alibaba (BABA) 3Q25 Preview: Benefit from Boycott Against Competitor and Disposals

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>Ownership in Alibaba has rebounded to 76.4% of EM funds, nearing its 2020 peak and making it the second most widely held stock among GEM funds, behind only TSMC.</li>
<li>The past six months have seen strong momentum, with 29 new fund positions marking a 7.7% rise in participation— the third highest among all EM stocks.</li>
<li>Alibaba attracts broad cross-style interest, with Value funds leading on allocation size, but Growth and GARP strategies among the top holders, reflecting high and diverse conviction.</li>
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Ownership in Alibaba has rebounded to 76.4% of EM funds, nearing its 2020 peak and making it the second most widely held stock among GEM funds, behind only TSMC.
The past six months have seen strong momentum, with 29 new fund positions marking a 7.7% rise in participation— the third highest among all EM stocks.
Alibaba attracts broad cross-style interest, with Value funds leading on allocation size, but Growth and GARP strategies among the top holders, reflecting high and diverse conviction.


Alibaba: Sentiment Rebounds Among GEM Funds

China

Alibaba Group Holding Limited provides online sales services. The Company provides internet infrastructure, electronic commerce, online financial, and internet content services through its subsidiaries. Alibaba Group Holding offers its products and services worldwide.

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Alibaba (9988 HK)

Volatility Cones: Opportunities Across 8 Hong Kong Stocks

Spot opportunities and manage risk in HK stocks reporting soon: Meituan (27 Aug), Ping An Ins. (27 Aug), Alibaba (29 Aug), BYD (29 Aug). Several...

Gaudenz Schneider

ECM Weekly (18 August 2025)- Eve Energy, CNGR, Will Semi, 52 Toys, JSW, Bluestone, Tuas, Hexaware

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

ECM Weekly (11 August 2025)-Bharti, Eternal, Paytm, LG CNS, Guming, JSW, Bluestone, SICC, Roborock

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

Alibaba (BABA) 3Q25 Preview: Benefit from Boycott Against Competitor and Disposals

We believe the boycott against JD.com benefited Alibaba’s 3Q25 results. We also believe Alibaba will benefit from disposals of Intime and Sun Art....

Ming Lu

Alibaba: Sentiment Rebounds Among GEM Funds

Alibaba is back in favour with GEM funds, now the 2nd most widely held stock. Broad style participation and rising conviction point to a renewed...

Steven Holden

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