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

Event-Driven

Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) / Event-Driven

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<li>Reports continue to indicate a US$5bn raise for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/contemporary-amperex-technolog" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:24404:1" rel="noopener">CATL H-shares</a> with a discount of up to 10% to <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/contemporary-amperex-technolog" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:24404:1" rel="noopener">CATL (300750 CH)</a> and with cornerstone investors taking up half the deal.</li>
<li>The company is currently gauging investor demand. The IPO could open next week and the H-shares could list later this month.</li>
<li>Index Fast Entry largely depends on the cornerstone investor allocation. Float higher than 50%/60% is required for Fast Entry to global indices.</li>
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Reports continue to indicate a US$5bn raise for CATL H-shares with a discount of up to 10% to CATL (300750 CH) and with cornerstone investors taking up half the deal.
The company is currently gauging investor demand. The IPO could open next week and the H-shares could list later this month.
Index Fast Entry largely depends on the cornerstone investor allocation. Float higher than 50%/60% is required for Fast Entry to global indices.


CATL (300750 CH): Index Inclusion as Potential Listing Nears

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 analyse the changes of A-H premium on 150 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 90.4% as of Apr 11th.</li>
<li>The average A-H premium changed by 3.7ppt week-on-week, led by financials, health care, energy and offset by consumer discretionary.</li>
<li>We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for Beigene, China Oilfield Services, Dfzq, Innocare Pharma, China Life, Csc Financial.</li>
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We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 150 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 90.4% as of Apr 11th.
The average A-H premium changed by 3.7ppt week-on-week, led by financials, health care, energy and offset by consumer discretionary.
We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for Beigene, China Oilfield Services, Dfzq, Innocare Pharma, China Life, Csc Financial.


A-H Premium Weekly (Apr 11th): Beigene, China Oilfield Services, Dfzq, Innocare Pharma, China Life

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<li>We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 150 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 83.3% as of Mar 21st.</li>
<li>The average A-H premium changed by -0.4ppt week-on-week, led by utilities, consumer discretionary, communication services and offset by consumer staples, financials.</li>
<li>We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for Huadian Power, Livzon Pharma, Joinn Lab, Maanshan Iron&amp;Steel, Datang Intl Power.</li>
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We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 150 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 83.3% as of Mar 21st.
The average A-H premium changed by -0.4ppt week-on-week, led by utilities, consumer discretionary, communication services and offset by consumer staples, financials.
We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for Huadian Power, Livzon Pharma, Joinn Lab, Maanshan Iron&amp;Steel, Datang Intl Power.


A-H Premium Weekly (Mar 21st): 47 Stocks at 52 Week High A-H Premium

Index Rebalance

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<li>With nearly 90% of the review period complete, 2 non-constituents are in inclusion zone and 3 constituents are in deletion zone.</li>
<li>We estimate one-way turnover of 4.7% at the June rebalance leading to a round-trip trade of CNY 16.4bn (US$2.27bn). Index arb balances will increase the impact on the stocks.</li>
<li>The forecast adds have outperformed the forecast deletes over the last 6 months but there has been a retracement in returns over the last month.</li>
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With nearly 90% of the review period complete, 2 non-constituents are in inclusion zone and 3 constituents are in deletion zone.
We estimate one-way turnover of 4.7% at the June rebalance leading to a round-trip trade of CNY 16.4bn (US$2.27bn). Index arb balances will increase the impact on the stocks.
The forecast adds have outperformed the forecast deletes over the last 6 months but there has been a retracement in returns over the last month.


SSE50 Index Rebalance Preview: Three Changes; Some Misses

HK/China Equity Long-Short

Osbert Tang, CFA

Equity Bottom-Up

China Communications Construction / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Long <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-communications-construction-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:265:1" rel="noopener">China Communications Construction (1800 HK)</a>, short <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-railway-group-ltd-h" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:264:1" rel="noopener">China Railway Group Ltd H (390 HK)</a> is a good strategy to capitalise on the recent underperformance of CCCC.</li>
<li>CCCC has a stronger contract momentum than CRG - its FY24 new contracts were up 7.3%, but CRG was down 12.4%. CCCC is also better positioned for urban construction growth.</li>
<li>In terms of dividend yield, CCCC is higher at 6.8% for FY25, yet CRG is only 6.3%. CCCC's performance should pick up in the rest of 2025.</li>
</ul>


Long China Communications Construction (1800 HK), short China Railway Group Ltd H (390 HK) is a good strategy to capitalise on the recent underperformance of CCCC.
CCCC has a stronger contract momentum than CRG - its FY24 new contracts were up 7.3%, but CRG was down 12.4%. CCCC is also better positioned for urban construction growth.
In terms of dividend yield, CCCC is higher at 6.8% for FY25, yet CRG is only 6.3%. CCCC's performance should pick up in the rest of 2025.


China Pair Trade: Long China Comm Const (1800 HK), Short China Railway Group (390 HK)

China

China Railway Group Ltd. offers transportation systems construction services. The Company builds railroads, roads, tunnels, and bridges.

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China Railway Group Ltd H (390 HK)

CATL (300750 CH): Index Inclusion as Potential Listing Nears

CATL is said to be raising US$5bn at a single digit discount with half the deal allocated to cornerstones. Listing could take place late May. Index...

Brian Freitas

A-H Premium Weekly (Apr 11th): Beigene, China Oilfield Services, Dfzq, Innocare Pharma, China Life

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for Beigene, China Oilfield Services, Dfzq, Innocare Pharma,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

A-H Premium Weekly (Mar 21st): 47 Stocks at 52 Week High A-H Premium

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for Huadian Power, Livzon Pharma, Joinn Lab, Maanshan...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

SSE50 Index Rebalance Preview: Three Changes; Some Misses

There could be 3 changes in June. Estimated one-way turnover is 4.7% leading to a round-trip trade of CNY 16.4bn. The adds have outperformed the...

Brian Freitas

China Pair Trade: Long China Comm Const (1800 HK), Short China Railway Group (390 HK)

Long CCCC, short CRG is a strategic move to capitalise on CCCC's stronger contract momentum, better urban construction exposure and higher...

Osbert Tang, CFA

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CATL (300750 CH): Index Inclusion as Potential Listing Nears

CATL is said to be raising US$5bn at a single digit discount with half the deal allocated to cornerstones. Listing could take place late May. Index...

Brian Freitas

A-H Premium Weekly (Apr 11th): Beigene, China Oilfield Services, Dfzq, Innocare Pharma, China Life

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for Beigene, China Oilfield Services, Dfzq, Innocare Pharma,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

A-H Premium Weekly (Mar 21st): 47 Stocks at 52 Week High A-H Premium

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for Huadian Power, Livzon Pharma, Joinn Lab, Maanshan...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

SSE50 Index Rebalance Preview: Three Changes; Some Misses

There could be 3 changes in June. Estimated one-way turnover is 4.7% leading to a round-trip trade of CNY 16.4bn. The adds have outperformed the...

Brian Freitas

China Pair Trade: Long China Comm Const (1800 HK), Short China Railway Group (390 HK)

​Long CCCC, short CRG is a strategic move to capitalise on CCCC's stronger contract momentum, better urban construction exposure and higher...

Osbert Tang, CFA

Long CCCC, short CRG is a strategic move to capitalise on CCCC's stronger contract momentum, better urban construction exposure and higher...