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 review period for the Nifty 100 Low Volatility 30 Index ends on 29 August. The changes will be announced mid-September and implemented at the close on 29 September.</li>
<li>Two potential constituent changes, volatility changes and capping changes will result in one-way turnover of 10.7% resulting in a round-trip trade of INR 12.6bn (US$145m).</li>
<li>The forecast deletions will also have sell flows from the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nifty-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23617:1" rel="noopener">NIFTY Index</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nse-nifty-next-50-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36053:1" rel="noopener">NSE Nifty Next 50 Index</a> and/or the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nifty-100-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36051:1" rel="noopener">Nifty 100 Index</a>, so the impact will add up.</li>
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The review period for the Nifty 100 Low Volatility 30 Index ends on 29 August. The changes will be announced mid-September and implemented at the close on 29 September.
Two potential constituent changes, volatility changes and capping changes will result in one-way turnover of 10.7% resulting in a round-trip trade of INR 12.6bn (US$145m).
The forecast deletions will also have sell flows from the NIFTY Index, NSE Nifty Next 50 Index and/or the Nifty 100 Index, so the impact will add up.


NIFTY100 Low Volatility 30 Index Rebalance Preview: 2 Changes as Review Cutoff Nears

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

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<li>With the review period now complete, there could be 11 changes for the NIFTY Midcap 150 Index at the September rebalance.</li>
<li>Estimated one-way turnover is 7.7% resulting in a round-trip trade of INR 17.6bn (US$201m). With over US$43bn tracking the index actively, the impact on the stocks will be much larger.</li>
<li>The outright forecast adds have outperformed the forecast deletes over the last 4 months and there has been a jump in the last week.</li>
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With the review period now complete, there could be 11 changes for the NIFTY Midcap 150 Index at the September rebalance.
Estimated one-way turnover is 7.7% resulting in a round-trip trade of INR 17.6bn (US$201m). With over US$43bn tracking the index actively, the impact on the stocks will be much larger.
The outright forecast adds have outperformed the forecast deletes over the last 4 months and there has been a jump in the last week.


NIFTY MIDCAP150 Index Rebalance Preview: 11 Potential Changes in September

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

Aditya Infotech Ltd / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/aditya-infotech-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43994:1" rel="noopener">Aditya Infotech Ltd (6596564Z IN)</a> raised about US$151m in its India IPO. </li>
<li>Aditya Infotech is a CCTV/video surveillance provider offering a range of advanced video security and surveillance products, technologies and solutions for enterprise and consumer segments under its CP PLUS brand.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance and valuations in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
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Aditya Infotech Ltd (6596564Z IN) raised about US$151m in its India IPO. 
Aditya Infotech is a CCTV/video surveillance provider offering a range of advanced video security and surveillance products, technologies and solutions for enterprise and consumer segments under its CP PLUS brand.
We have looked at the company’s past performance and valuations in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.


Aditya Infotech IPO Trading - Strong Overall Demand with Decent Anchor

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 based on current data. We see US$1.2bn a side to trade.</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 based on current data. We see US$1.2bn a side to trade.


Quiddity Leaderboard NIFTY Sep25: Reference Period About to End; Some Changes to Expectations

India

Dabur India Limited is a leading Indian multinational consumer goods company specializing in Ayurvedic and natural healthcare products. The company operates in key consumer product categories, including healthcare, hair care, oral care, skin care, home care, and food and beverages, offering over 250 herbal and Ayurvedic products. Dabur was founded in 1884 by S. K. Burman in Kolkata, India, and is currently headquartered in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Brian Freitas

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NIFTY MIDCAP150 Index Rebalance Preview: 11 Potential Changes in September

There could be 11 changes in Sep. Estimated one-way turnover is 7.7% and round-trip trade is INR 17.6bn. With over US$43bn tracking the index...

Brian Freitas

Aditya Infotech IPO Trading - Strong Overall Demand with Decent Anchor

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Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

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NIFTY100 Low Volatility 30 Index Rebalance Preview: 2 Changes as Review Cutoff Nears

Two constituent changes, volatility/capping changes result in one-way turnover of 10.7% and a round-trip trade of US$145m. There will be a LOT more...

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

NIFTY MIDCAP150 Index Rebalance Preview: 11 Potential Changes in September

There could be 11 changes in Sep. Estimated one-way turnover is 7.7% and round-trip trade is INR 17.6bn. With over US$43bn tracking the index...

Brian Freitas

Aditya Infotech IPO Trading - Strong Overall Demand with Decent Anchor

Aditya Infotech raised about US$151m in its India IPO. In this note, we will talk about the demand and trading dynamics.

Akshat Shah

Quiddity Leaderboard NIFTY Sep25: Reference Period About to End; Some Changes to Expectations

These are our final expectations for ADDs/DELs for the NIFTY index family for the September 2025 index review. The reference period ended on 31st...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

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