Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Index Rebalance

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/king-slide-works-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:7130:1" rel="noopener">King Slide Works (2059 TT)</a>'s stock price has more than doubled over the last 4 months and that should result in global index inclusion in August.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/king-slide-works-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:7130:1" rel="noopener">King Slide Works (2059 TT)</a> has outperformed its peer group over the last few months and now trades at a big valuation premium.</li>
<li>There has been a lot of short covering, and positioning in the stock appears to be smaller than the estimated passive buying.</li>
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King Slide Works (2059 TT)'s stock price has more than doubled over the last 4 months and that should result in global index inclusion in August.

King Slide Works (2059 TT) has outperformed its peer group over the last few months and now trades at a big valuation premium.
There has been a lot of short covering, and positioning in the stock appears to be smaller than the estimated passive buying.


King Slide Works (2059 TT): Sliding into a Global Index

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

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.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of TWSE Stocks as of Aug 1st. The aggregated holding was USD1,155.3bn.</li>
<li>We estimate that foreign flows to be inflows of USD659mln. We tabulate the league tables for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.</li>
<li>We highlight changes of foreign holdings in TSMC, Quanta Computer, Hon Hai Precision, Taishin Financial, MediaTek, TSMC, Quanta Computer, Hon Hai Precision, Taishin Financial, Mediatek.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of TWSE Stocks as of Aug 1st. The aggregated holding was USD1,155.3bn.
We estimate that foreign flows to be inflows of USD659mln. We tabulate the league tables for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.
We highlight changes of foreign holdings in TSMC, Quanta Computer, Hon Hai Precision, Taishin Financial, MediaTek, TSMC, Quanta Computer, Hon Hai Precision, Taishin Financial, Mediatek.


TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Aug 1st): TSMC, Quanta Computer, Hon Hai Precision, Taishin Financial

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<li>We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of TWSE Stocks as of Jul 25th. The aggregated holding was USD1,172.5bn.</li>
<li>We estimate that foreign flows to be inflows of USD3,804mln. We tabulate the league tables for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.</li>
<li>We highlight changes of foreign holdings in Taishin Financial, Hon Hai Precision, TSMC, MediaTek, CTBC Financial, Taishin Financial, Hon Hai Precision, TSMC, Mediatek, Ctbc Financial.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of TWSE Stocks as of Jul 25th. The aggregated holding was USD1,172.5bn.
We estimate that foreign flows to be inflows of USD3,804mln. We tabulate the league tables for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.
We highlight changes of foreign holdings in Taishin Financial, Hon Hai Precision, TSMC, MediaTek, CTBC Financial, Taishin Financial, Hon Hai Precision, TSMC, Mediatek, Ctbc Financial.


TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Jul 25th): Taishin Financial, Hon Hai Precision, TSMC, MediaTek

Index Rebal Trades & Special Situations, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Index Rebal Trades & Special Situations

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Tung Ho Steel Enterprise / Index Rebalance

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<li>The TDIV index tracks the top 50 names in the Taiwan Stock Exchange with the highest dividend yields. It is a yield-weighted index with unique capping rules.</li>
<li>In this insight, we take look at Quiddity's expectations for index changes and capping flows for the TDIV Index for the September 2025 index rebal event.</li>
<li>Currently, we expect no changes for the TDIV index for the September 2025 review and we estimate the one-way capping flow to be US$662mn.</li>
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The TDIV index tracks the top 50 names in the Taiwan Stock Exchange with the highest dividend yields. It is a yield-weighted index with unique capping rules.
In this insight, we take look at Quiddity's expectations for index changes and capping flows for the TDIV Index for the September 2025 index rebal event.
Currently, we expect no changes for the TDIV index for the September 2025 review and we estimate the one-way capping flow to be US$662mn.


Quiddity Leaderboard TDIV Sep25: Sector-Neutral Pair Trade Ideas with Some High Impact Names

Managing Director, Zero One, Zero One

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Managing Director, Zero One

Zero One

Founded in 2015, Zero One produces independent investment research and provides corporate finance advisory services with a focus on both listed and private technology companies. Founder Vincent Fernando has over 20 years of experience in US and Asia capital markets.

Independent Investment Research

Equity Bottom-Up

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing) - ADR / Equity Bottom-Up

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing) - ADR

<ul>
<li>TSMC's Most Advanced Node -- 5x Growth to 200K Wafers a Month? Upcoming 2nm Node Capacity Ramp Could Be Much Bigger Than Many Think</li>
<li>OpenAI's Sam Altman 'Jokes' About Owning US$3 Trillion Worth of GPUs One Day...</li>
<li>AI PC Delay -- Nvidia-MediaTek Push AI PC Chip Launch to 2026</li>
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TSMC's Most Advanced Node -- 5x Growth to 200K Wafers a Month? Upcoming 2nm Node Capacity Ramp Could Be Much Bigger Than Many Think
OpenAI's Sam Altman 'Jokes' About Owning US$3 Trillion Worth of GPUs One Day...
AI PC Delay -- Nvidia-MediaTek Push AI PC Chip Launch to 2026


Taiwan Tech Weekly: TSMC Preparing 5x 2nm Ramp into 2027; Altman 'Jokes' About Buying 100x More GPUs

Taiwan

Asustek Computer Inc. manufactures and markets computer motherboards, interface cards, notebook computers, and other related products.

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Asustek Computer (2357 TT)

King Slide Works (2059 TT): Sliding into a Global Index

King Slide Works could be added to a global index in August. Shorts have been covering and the positioning appears to be smaller than the estimated...

Brian Freitas

TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Aug 1st): TSMC, Quanta Computer, Hon Hai Precision, Taishin Financial

We analyzed TWSE foreign holding data for the past week and highlighted foreign holding changes in TSMC (2330 TT), Quanta Computer (2382 TT), Hon...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Jul 25th): Taishin Financial, Hon Hai Precision, TSMC, MediaTek

We analyzed TWSE foreign holding data for the past week and highlighted foreign holding changes in Taishin Financial (2887 TT), Hon Hai Precision...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Quiddity Leaderboard TDIV Sep25: Sector-Neutral Pair Trade Ideas with Some High Impact Names

Assuming no index changes take place in September 2025, we estimate one-way capping flows of US$662mn. Some of these names have fairly high impacts.

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Taiwan Tech Weekly: TSMC Preparing 5x 2nm Ramp into 2027; Altman 'Jokes' About Buying 100x More GPUs

TSMC's upcoming 2nm node could see a significant increase in wafer capacity, OpenAI's Sam Altman jokes about owning trillions worth of GPUs, and...

Vincent Fernando, CFA

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King Slide Works (2059 TT): Sliding into a Global Index

King Slide Works could be added to a global index in August. Shorts have been covering and the positioning appears to be smaller than the estimated...

Brian Freitas

TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Aug 1st): TSMC, Quanta Computer, Hon Hai Precision, Taishin Financial

We analyzed TWSE foreign holding data for the past week and highlighted foreign holding changes in TSMC (2330 TT), Quanta Computer (2382 TT), Hon...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Jul 25th): Taishin Financial, Hon Hai Precision, TSMC, MediaTek

We analyzed TWSE foreign holding data for the past week and highlighted foreign holding changes in Taishin Financial (2887 TT), Hon Hai Precision...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Quiddity Leaderboard TDIV Sep25: Sector-Neutral Pair Trade Ideas with Some High Impact Names

Assuming no index changes take place in September 2025, we estimate one-way capping flows of US$662mn. Some of these names have fairly high impacts.

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Taiwan Tech Weekly: TSMC Preparing 5x 2nm Ramp into 2027; Altman 'Jokes' About Buying 100x More GPUs

​TSMC's upcoming 2nm node could see a significant increase in wafer capacity, OpenAI's Sam Altman jokes about owning trillions worth of GPUs, and...

Vincent Fernando, CFA

TSMC's upcoming 2nm node could see a significant increase in wafer capacity, OpenAI's Sam Altman jokes about owning trillions worth of GPUs, and...