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>There could be 4 constituent changes for the Yuanta/P-Shares Taiwan Top 50 ETF in December as positioning for buying by one set of index trackers pushes stocks into other indices.</li>
<li>There will be passive inflows in some of the forecast adds week after next and the flows from these index trackers will come a few weeks later.</li>
<li>With large AUMs tracking the dividend indices, stocks that have moved up a lot now have low dividend yields and there could be opposite flows from those index trackers.</li>
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There could be 4 constituent changes for the Yuanta/P-Shares Taiwan Top 50 ETF in December as positioning for buying by one set of index trackers pushes stocks into other indices.
There will be passive inflows in some of the forecast adds week after next and the flows from these index trackers will come a few weeks later.
With large AUMs tracking the dividend indices, stocks that have moved up a lot now have low dividend yields and there could be opposite flows from those index trackers.


Taiwan Top 50 ETF Rebalance Preview: Plenty of Big Overlapping Flows Coming Up

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<li>A massive rally in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/chroma-ate-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:7731:1" rel="noopener">Chroma Ate Inc (2360 TT)</a> should see the stock added to a global index in November and then to another country ETF in December.</li>
<li>With one exception, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/chroma-ate-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:7731:1" rel="noopener">Chroma Ate Inc (2360 TT)</a> has outperformed its peers over the last 6 months. With large buying to come, that could continue in the short-term.</li>
<li>There is positioning in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/chroma-ate-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:7731:1" rel="noopener">Chroma Ate Inc (2360 TT)</a> and its peers. With continued momentum in the stock, the path of least resistance is higher.</li>
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A massive rally in Chroma Ate Inc (2360 TT) should see the stock added to a global index in November and then to another country ETF in December.
With one exception, Chroma Ate Inc (2360 TT) has outperformed its peers over the last 6 months. With large buying to come, that could continue in the short-term.
There is positioning in Chroma Ate Inc (2360 TT) and its peers. With continued momentum in the stock, the path of least resistance is higher.


Chroma Ate (2360 TT): Double Index Inclusion Coming Up with Plenty to Buy

Tracking developments across tech supply chains, Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Tracking developments across tech supply chains

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Samsung's new Exynos 2600 chip aims to rival offerings from Apple and Qualcomm in the market.</li>
<li>Chroma has appointed I-Shih Tseng as CEO to enhance governance and operational efficiency.</li>
<li>Transcend expects memory supply constraints to persist for the next 3-5 months amid market instability.</li>
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Samsung's new Exynos 2600 chip aims to rival offerings from Apple and Qualcomm in the market.
Chroma has appointed I-Shih Tseng as CEO to enhance governance and operational efficiency.
Transcend expects memory supply constraints to persist for the next 3-5 months amid market instability.


Tech Supply Chain Tracker (05-Dec-2025): Samsung unveils Exynos 2600, rivals Apple and

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

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>The percentage of Global funds invested in Taiwan hits an all-time high of 57.8%.</li>
<li>Taiwan has been a key beneficiary of manager rotation alongside India, Argentina and South Korea over the last 6-months.</li>
<li>TSMC is the dominant stock holding, with 49.8% of funds holding a position and has hit record ownership among Global funds.</li>
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The percentage of Global funds invested in Taiwan hits an all-time high of 57.8%.
Taiwan has been a key beneficiary of manager rotation alongside India, Argentina and South Korea over the last 6-months.
TSMC is the dominant stock holding, with 49.8% of funds holding a position and has hit record ownership among Global funds.


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 analysed the earning revision of component stocks of MSCI Taiwan in the past month.</li>
<li>We tabulated stocks with the top impact on index's EPS, stocks' EPS revision, and revenue revision.</li>
<li>We highlighted EPS revision on WPG, Taiwan Cement, MSI, Wan Hai Lines, AU Optronics, King Yuan Electronics, TSMC, Synnex Technology International, King Yuan Electronics, TSMC, Wpg, Synnex Technology International, MSI.</li>
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We analysed the earning revision of component stocks of MSCI Taiwan in the past month.
We tabulated stocks with the top impact on index's EPS, stocks' EPS revision, and revenue revision.
We highlighted EPS revision on WPG, Taiwan Cement, MSI, Wan Hai Lines, AU Optronics, King Yuan Electronics, TSMC, Synnex Technology International, King Yuan Electronics, TSMC, Wpg, Synnex Technology International, MSI.


MSCI Taiwan Index Earning Revision (Nov): WPG, Taiwan Cement, MSI, Wan Hai Lines, AU Optronics

Taiwan

Chroma Ate Inc. manufactures and markets electronic and automation measuring instruments.  The Company's main products are test and measurement instruments, auto test equipment, power electronics, uninterrupted power supply (UPS), telecommunication power systems, industrial computers, and special materials.

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Chroma Ate Inc (2360 TT)

Taiwan Top 50 ETF Rebalance Preview: Plenty of Big Overlapping Flows Coming Up

We currently forecast 4 changes for the ETF in Dec. That could increase to 5. Multiple stocks will have same-way flow from other index trackers...

Brian Freitas

Chroma Ate (2360 TT): Double Index Inclusion Coming Up with Plenty to Buy

Chroma Ate should be added to a global index in Nov and a country ETF in Dec. There will be over US$850m to buy in the stock. Momentum is strong...

Brian Freitas

Tech Supply Chain Tracker (05-Dec-2025): Samsung unveils Exynos 2600, rivals Apple and

Samsung's new Exynos 2600 chip aims to rival offerings from Apple and Qualcomm in the market.Chroma has appointed I-Shih Tseng as CEO to enhance...

Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Taiwan: Underowned, Yet Gaining on Peers

Taiwan hits record levels of exposure among actively managed Global equity funds, yet it still lags behind its counterparts in the USA and Europe.

Steven Holden

MSCI Taiwan Index Earning Revision (Nov): WPG, Taiwan Cement, MSI, Wan Hai Lines, AU Optronics

We analyzed MSCI Taiwan's consensus for Nov 2025 and highlighted changes of EPS in WPG (3702 TT), Taiwan Cement (1101 TT), MSI (2377 TT), Wan Hai...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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