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<ul><li>China’s mutual funds produced a mixed bag of performance last year. Publicly offered equity funds endured a second straight year of losses, grappling with a prolonged stock market rout. Bond funds, on the other hand, had a comparatively stellar year.</li><li>The uptick in bond fund flows fueled a shift in China’s asset management landscape, with mutual funds emerging as the most preferred asset management avenue, outstripping banking wealth management for the first time.</li><li>This shift reflects investors’ concerted efforts to navigate prevailing financial market volatility and mitigate risk in the country’s stock market, which has seen a protracted rout continue into this year.</li></ul>

China’s mutual funds produced a mixed bag of performance last year. Publicly offered equity funds endured a second straight year of losses, grappling with a prolonged stock market rout. Bond funds, on the other hand, had a comparatively stellar year.The uptick in bond fund flows fueled a shift in China’s asset management landscape, with mutual funds emerging as the most preferred asset management avenue, outstripping banking wealth management for the first time.This shift reflects investors’ concerted efforts to navigate prevailing financial market volatility and mitigate risk in the country’s stock market, which has seen a protracted rout continue into this year.

China’s Bond Funds Outshine Equity Peers Amid Stocks Slump 

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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<ul><li>International advertising market (global ad market ex-China, same below unless otherwise specified) still has ample room for further digital transformation, benchmarking to rather advanced state in China’s market.</li><li>The pandemic accelerated the digital transformation towards online and mobile advertising globally.</li><li>According to eMarketer, spending in international ad market reached US$809bn in 2023, with that for digital ad reaching 66% of total at US$533bn (vs. pre-pandemic level of 47% in 2019). </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

International advertising market (global ad market ex-China, same below unless otherwise specified) still has ample room for further digital transformation, benchmarking to rather advanced state in China’s market.The pandemic accelerated the digital transformation towards online and mobile advertising globally.According to eMarketer, spending in international ad market reached US$809bn in 2023, with that for digital ad reaching 66% of total at US$533bn (vs. pre-pandemic level of 47% in 2019). Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

US Digital Advertising – AI-Empowered Digital Transformation

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<li>Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta, collectively known as Hyperscaler 3 &amp; Meta, have recently announced their CY4Q23 results, unanimously claiming to increase investments in AI-related infrastructure from the current levels.</li>
<li>Per Bloomberg consensus, the capex of Hyperscaler 3 &amp; Meta will grow 22.6% in 2024, higher than prior forecasts of 16.6%.</li>
<li>This capex boost further confirms our perspective on the ongoing AI momentum into 2024, driven by strong demand for building computing capacity.</li>
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Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta, collectively known as Hyperscaler 3 &amp; Meta, have recently announced their CY4Q23 results, unanimously claiming to increase investments in AI-related infrastructure from the current levels.
Per Bloomberg consensus, the capex of Hyperscaler 3 &amp; Meta will grow 22.6% in 2024, higher than prior forecasts of 16.6%.
This capex boost further confirms our perspective on the ongoing AI momentum into 2024, driven by strong demand for building computing capacity.


Semi - Hyperscalers’ FY23 Results Review

Next Generation Financial Data Tools, Calcbench

Calcbench

Next Generation Financial Data Tools

Founded in 2011, based in New York and Cambridge, MA, Calcbench is a financial data platform designed for detailed fundamental research. Created by former analysts and supported by a team of financial experts with serious credentials in Finance, Accounting, and Applied Mathematics, Calcbench helps analysts looking to go a level deeper become more productive and accurate in their financial analysis. With Calcbench, analysts can systematically access all the data (numbers and text) in financial statements, including the details hidden within the footnotes.

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<li>Quick Takes on Microsoft, Google Tech giants Microsoft ($MSFT) and Google ($GOOG) both filed their latest quarterly earnings releases on Tuesday — giving us an excellent opportunity to showcase how Calcbench can help you dive into the details of their operating segment performance.</li>
<li>Lots of charts and tables coming up! For example, we looked at the segment-level disclosures in Microsoft’s earnings release , which Calcbench lets you export into Excel.</li>
<li>With just a few keystrokes that led to Figure 1, below, which lets us see which of Microsoft’s many lines of business grew the most year over year.</li>
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Quick Takes on Microsoft, Google Tech giants Microsoft ($MSFT) and Google ($GOOG) both filed their latest quarterly earnings releases on Tuesday — giving us an excellent opportunity to showcase how Calcbench can help you dive into the details of their operating segment performance.
Lots of charts and tables coming up! For example, we looked at the segment-level disclosures in Microsoft’s earnings release , which Calcbench lets you export into Excel.
With just a few keystrokes that led to Figure 1, below, which lets us see which of Microsoft’s many lines of business grew the most year over year.


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

Shenzhen Longsys Electronics / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/shenzhen-longsys-electronics-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45480:1" rel="noopener">Shenzhen Longsys Electronics (301308 CH)</a> (SLE), a branded independent semiconductor memory product enterprise, is now said to be aiming to raise around US$1.5-2.0bn in its H-share listing.</li>
<li>SLE designs, develops, manufactures and sells a comprehensive portfolio of memory products for edge AI and traditional consumer, enterprise and industrial applications.</li>
<li>In our previous note, we had looked at the company’s past performance and other deal dynamics. In this note, we talk about its PHIP updates, and likely A/H discount.</li>
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Shenzhen Longsys Electronics (301308 CH) (SLE), a branded independent semiconductor memory product enterprise, is now said to be aiming to raise around US$1.5-2.0bn in its H-share listing.
SLE designs, develops, manufactures and sells a comprehensive portfolio of memory products for edge AI and traditional consumer, enterprise and industrial applications.
In our previous note, we had looked at the company’s past performance and other deal dynamics. In this note, we talk about its PHIP updates, and likely A/H discount.


Aequitas: Shenzhen Longsys Electronics A/H Listing - PHIP Updates and Thoughts on Valuations

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China’s Bond Funds Outshine Equity Peers Amid Stocks Slump

China’s mutual funds produced a mixed bag of performance last year. Publicly offered equity funds endured a second straight year of losses,...

Caixin Global

US Digital Advertising – AI-Empowered Digital Transformation

International advertising market (global ad market ex-China, same below unless otherwise specified) still has ample room for further digital...

CMB International

Semi - Hyperscalers’ FY23 Results Review

This capex boost further confirms our perspective on the ongoing AI momentum into 2024, driven by strong demand for building computing capacity.

CMB International

Quick Takes on Microsoft, Google

Quick Takes on Microsoft, Google Tech giants Microsoft ($MSFT) and Google ($GOOG) both filed their latest quarterly earnings releases on Tuesday

Calcbench

Aequitas: Shenzhen Longsys Electronics A/H Listing - PHIP Updates and Thoughts on Valuations

Shenzhen Longsys Electronics (301308 CH) (SLE), a branded independent semiconductor memory product enterprise, is now said to be aiming to raise...

Sumeet Singh

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