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>Companies in India have disclosed their shareholding pattern as of end-September in October. There are companies with significant float changes from end-June and/or end-March.</li>
<li>The changes in free float could be reflected in domestic and global indices over the next few weeks and months resulting in flow from passive trackers.</li>
<li>Depending on the date that the shareholding was published, there could be 20 stocks with passive inflows from global trackers while 6 could have passive outflows in November.</li>
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Companies in India have disclosed their shareholding pattern as of end-September in October. There are companies with significant float changes from end-June and/or end-March.
The changes in free float could be reflected in domestic and global indices over the next few weeks and months resulting in flow from passive trackers.
Depending on the date that the shareholding was published, there could be 20 stocks with passive inflows from global trackers while 6 could have passive outflows in November.


India: Potential Free Float Changes & Passive Flows in November

India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic, Beat the Street

Sudarshan Bhandari

India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic

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Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Gem Aromatics, a specialty ingredients manufacturer, opened its INR 450 crore IPO (Aug 19–21) at a INR 309–INR 325 price band. </li>
<li>The company supplies sticky, specification-heavy ingredients (mint derivatives, aroma chemicals) to marquee FMCG and F&amp;F players—segments benefiting from “China+1” and premiumisation in India.</li>
<li>Quality of customers and process capabilities are positives, but concentration, raw-material cycles and a pending land litigation temper enthusiasm, execution on citral scale-up is key.</li>
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Gem Aromatics, a specialty ingredients manufacturer, opened its INR 450 crore IPO (Aug 19–21) at a INR 309–INR 325 price band. 
The company supplies sticky, specification-heavy ingredients (mint derivatives, aroma chemicals) to marquee FMCG and F&amp;F players—segments benefiting from “China+1” and premiumisation in India.
Quality of customers and process capabilities are positives, but concentration, raw-material cycles and a pending land litigation temper enthusiasm, execution on citral scale-up is key.


Gem Aromatics IPO Analysis: A Niche Aroma Player

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), Axis Direct

Axis Direct

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Colgate Palmolive (India) / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Subdued Performance: Colgate-Palmolive reported Q1FY26 revenue of Rs 1,421 Cr, down 4.4% YoY, affected by muted urban demand, heightened competition, and an unfavourable base effect.</li><li>Despite topline pressure, management highlighted continued progress in category premiumization, with a strong focus on innovation.</li><li>The premium portfolio delivered robust growth during the quarter, partially offsetting broader volume weakness. </li></ul><p><em>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.</em></p>

Subdued Performance: Colgate-Palmolive reported Q1FY26 revenue of Rs 1,421 Cr, down 4.4% YoY, affected by muted urban demand, heightened competition, and an unfavourable base effect.Despite topline pressure, management highlighted continued progress in category premiumization, with a strong focus on innovation.The premium portfolio delivered robust growth during the quarter, partially offsetting broader volume weakness. 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.

Colgate Palmolive (India) Ltd - Miss on All Fronts; Long-Term Strategy Intact

Index Rebal/Special Situations, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Index Rebal/Special Situations

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Max Healthcare Institute / Index Rebalance

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<li>NIFTY 50 represents the 50 largest stocks listed in the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India and the NIFTY Next 50 index tracks the next 50 largest names.</li>
<li>In this insight, we take a look at the names leading the race to become ADDs/DELs for these indices during the September 2025 index rebal event.</li>
<li>We see two changes for NIFTY 50 and five changes for NIFTY 100 in the September 2025 rebal.</li>
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NIFTY 50 represents the 50 largest stocks listed in the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India and the NIFTY Next 50 index tracks the next 50 largest names.
In this insight, we take a look at the names leading the race to become ADDs/DELs for these indices during the September 2025 index rebal event.
We see two changes for NIFTY 50 and five changes for NIFTY 100 in the September 2025 rebal.


Quiddity Leaderboard NIFTY Sep25: Multiple Changes to Expected ADDs/DELs; New Pair Trade Ideas

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC 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

Schloss Bangalore Ltd / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/schloss-bangalore-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43983:1" rel="noopener">Schloss Bangalore Ltd (SCHBL IN)</a> raised about US$400m in its India IPO. </li>
<li>It is a luxury hospitality company which owns, operates, manages and develops luxury hotels and resorts under ‘The Leela’ brand, through direct ownership and hotel management agreements with third-party owners.</li>
<li>We have covered various aspects of the deal in our previous note. In this note, we will talk about the demand and trading dynamics.</li>
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Schloss Bangalore Ltd (SCHBL IN) raised about US$400m in its India IPO. 
It is a luxury hospitality company which owns, operates, manages and develops luxury hotels and resorts under ‘The Leela’ brand, through direct ownership and hotel management agreements with third-party owners.
We have covered various aspects of the deal in our previous note. In this note, we will talk about the demand and trading dynamics.


Schloss Bangalore IPO Trading - Decent Anchor; Muted Overall Demand

India

Colgate-Palmolive (India) Ltd. manufactures consumer products in the oral care and body care area. The Company's products include soaps, cosmetics, toilet preparations, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shaving brushes, and glycerin.

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Colgate Palmolive (India) (CLGT IN)

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Brian Freitas

Gem Aromatics IPO Analysis: A Niche Aroma Player

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Sudarshan Bhandari

Colgate Palmolive (India) Ltd - Miss on All Fronts; Long-Term Strategy Intact

Subdued Performance: Colgate-Palmolive reported Q1FY26 revenue of Rs 1,421 Cr, down 4.4% YoY, affected by muted urban demand, heightened...

Axis Direct

Quiddity Leaderboard NIFTY Sep25: Multiple Changes to Expected ADDs/DELs; New Pair Trade Ideas

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Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Schloss Bangalore IPO Trading - Decent Anchor; Muted Overall Demand

Schloss Bangalore Ltd (SBL) raised about US$400m in its India IPO. In this note, we talk about the demand and trading dynamics.

Akshat Shah

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India: Potential Free Float Changes & Passive Flows in November

Changes to shareholding patterns could lead to changes in float for some stocks in local/global indices in November. Passive trackers will need to...

Brian Freitas

Gem Aromatics IPO Analysis: A Niche Aroma Player

​Gem Aromatics opens INR 450 crore IPO, supplying specialty ingredients to FMCG and F&F players, facing challenges with concentration and raw...

Sudarshan Bhandari

Colgate Palmolive (India) Ltd - Miss on All Fronts; Long-Term Strategy Intact

Subdued Performance: Colgate-Palmolive reported Q1FY26 revenue of Rs 1,421 Cr, down 4.4% YoY, affected by muted urban demand, heightened...

Axis Direct

Quiddity Leaderboard NIFTY Sep25: Multiple Changes to Expected ADDs/DELs; New Pair Trade Ideas

There are multiple changes to our expected ADDs and expected DELs lists for NIFTY 50 and NIFTY Next 50 since the last time we published an insight...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Schloss Bangalore IPO Trading - Decent Anchor; Muted Overall Demand

Schloss Bangalore Ltd (SBL) raised about US$400m in its India IPO. In this note, we talk about the demand and trading dynamics.

Akshat Shah

Gem Aromatics opens INR 450 crore IPO, supplying specialty ingredients to FMCG and F&F players, facing challenges with concentration and raw...