Asian Hedge Fund Manager, Long Short Equity, Macro

David Mudd

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>ETF flows showed subdued activity during the week although the Southbound Connect platform had a minor outflow.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/great-wall-motor-co-ltd-cb302af9-398c-4d2d-ba39-023e43287eef" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:128:1" rel="noopener">Great Wall Motor (2333 HK)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-feihe-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:24413:1" rel="noopener">China Feihe (6186 HK)</a> both had positive news sentiment helping their share prices rally on better earnings announcements.
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/new-world-development" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:7037:1" rel="noopener">New World Development (17 HK)</a> announced a major asset impairment write-down sending its stock to historic lows.  <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-tourism-group-duty-free" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36229:1" rel="noopener">China Tourism Group Duty Free (1880 HK)</a> disappointed on 2Q24 sales and profits.
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ETF flows showed subdued activity during the week although the Southbound Connect platform had a minor outflow.

Great Wall Motor (2333 HK) and China Feihe (6186 HK) both had positive news sentiment helping their share prices rally on better earnings announcements.


New World Development (17 HK) announced a major asset impairment write-down sending its stock to historic lows.  China Tourism Group Duty Free (1880 HK) disappointed on 2Q24 sales and profits.



The Heat Is On: News Flow and Sentiment in CHINA / HONG KONG (September 7)

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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<li>The Midea Group (300 HK) IPO is being offered at a price range of HK$52-54.8/share, a discount of 20.9%-25% to <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/midea-group-co-ltd-a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16185:1" rel="noopener">Midea Group</a>. That will raise US$3.28bn-US$3.46bn for the company.</li>
<li>Midea Group (300 HK) will not get Fast Entry to the HSCI but will be added to Southbound Stock Connect on 14 October once the price stabilisation period has ended.</li>
<li>Midea Group (300 HK) should get Fast Entry to one global index and that could lead to inclusion in the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ishares-china-large-cap-etf" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:766:1" rel="noopener">iShares China Large-Cap (FXI) (FXI US)</a> too.</li>
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The Midea Group (300 HK) IPO is being offered at a price range of HK$52-54.8/share, a discount of 20.9%-25% to Midea Group. That will raise US$3.28bn-US$3.46bn for the company.
Midea Group (300 HK) will not get Fast Entry to the HSCI but will be added to Southbound Stock Connect on 14 October once the price stabilisation period has ended.
Midea Group (300 HK) should get Fast Entry to one global index and that could lead to inclusion in the iShares China Large-Cap (FXI) (FXI US) too.


Midea Group (300 HK): IPO Open Now; Upcoming Index Flows

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.

Event-Driven

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/midea-group-co-ltd-a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16185:1" rel="noopener">Midea Group Co Ltd A (000333 CH)</a> aims to raise up to US$3bn in its H-share listing, as per media reports.</li>
<li>Midea Group is one of the world’s largest home appliance manufacturing companies with a presence in over 200 countries. Its A-shares have been listed since 2013.</li>
<li>We have covered the company and deal background in our previous notes. In this note, we talk about the past A/H listing and possible premiums.</li>
</ul>



Midea Group Co Ltd A (000333 CH) aims to raise up to US$3bn in its H-share listing, as per media reports.
Midea Group is one of the world’s largest home appliance manufacturing companies with a presence in over 200 countries. Its A-shares have been listed since 2013.
We have covered the company and deal background in our previous notes. In this note, we talk about the past A/H listing and possible premiums.


Midea A/H Listing - Thoughts on A/H Premium and past A/H Listings

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/midea-group-co-ltd-a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16185:1" rel="noopener">Midea Group Co Ltd A (000333 CH)</a>, recently filed its PHIP as it aims to raise up to US$3bn in its H-share listing, as per media reports.</li>
<li>Midea Group is one of the world’s largest home appliance manufacturing companies with a presence in over 200 countries. Its A-shares have been listed since 2013.</li>
<li>We have covered the company and deal background in our previous notes. In this note, we talk about the updates from its 1H24 results.</li>
</ul>



Midea Group Co Ltd A (000333 CH), recently filed its PHIP as it aims to raise up to US$3bn in its H-share listing, as per media reports.
Midea Group is one of the world’s largest home appliance manufacturing companies with a presence in over 200 countries. Its A-shares have been listed since 2013.
We have covered the company and deal background in our previous notes. In this note, we talk about the updates from its 1H24 results.


Midea A/H Listing - 1H24 Updates - Strong Growth, Margins Uptick Continues

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

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

Quantitative Analysis

<ul>
<li>We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 145 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 109.4% as of Aug 30th.</li>
<li>The average A-H premium changed by 0.3ppt week-on-week, led by real estate, information technology, consumer discretionary and offset by consumer staples, industrials.</li>
<li>We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for China Tourism, Shanghai Pharma, GAC Group, Tsingtao Brewery, Huaneng Power, PICC Group.</li>
</ul>


We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 145 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 109.4% as of Aug 30th.
The average A-H premium changed by 0.3ppt week-on-week, led by real estate, information technology, consumer discretionary and offset by consumer staples, industrials.
We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for China Tourism, Shanghai Pharma, GAC Group, Tsingtao Brewery, Huaneng Power, PICC Group.


A-H Premium Weekly (Aug 30th):China Tourism, Shanghai Pharma, GAC Group, Tsingtao Brewery

China

China Tourism Group Duty Free Corporation Limited engages in sales of duty free goods and tax goods. The Company sells tobacco, wine and spirits, perfume, cosmetics, fashion and accessories, watches, jewelry, food, luggage products,and other products. China Tourism Group Duty Free also engages in investment and development of tourism destination commercial complexes.

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The Heat Is On: News Flow and Sentiment in CHINA / HONG KONG (September 7)

China Feihe beat estmates for 2Q with higher profits and GW Motor substantially increased international sales of EV's. NWD will take a large asset...

David Mudd

Midea Group (300 HK): IPO Open Now; Upcoming Index Flows

Midea Group is offering the H-shares at a 20.9-25% discount to the A-shares and is expected to list on 17 Sep. The H-shares could get Fast Entry to...

Brian Freitas

Midea A/H Listing - Thoughts on A/H Premium and past A/H Listings

Midea Group Co Ltd A (000333 CH) aims to raise up to US$3bn in its H-share listing, as per media reports. In this note, we talk about the likely A...

Sumeet Singh

Midea A/H Listing - 1H24 Updates - Strong Growth, Margins Uptick Continues

Midea Group Co Ltd A (000333 CH), recently filed its PHIP as it aims to raise up to US$3bn in its H-share listing, as per media reports. In this...

Sumeet Singh

A-H Premium Weekly (Aug 30th):China Tourism, Shanghai Pharma, GAC Group, Tsingtao Brewery

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for China Tourism, Shanghai Pharma, GAC Group, Tsingtao Brewery,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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