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.

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<li>Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, A/H lsitings show no signs of slowing down, despite CNY fast approaching.</li>
<li>On the placement front, Japan deals accounted for the bulk of the flows this week</li>
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Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
On the IPO front, A/H lsitings show no signs of slowing down, despite CNY fast approaching.
On the placement front, Japan deals accounted for the bulk of the flows this week


Aequitas ECM Weekly (2 February 2026)- Eastroc, Muyuan, Han's CNC, Wuxi Lead, Sungrow, Kokusai

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Index Rebalance

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<li>KOSPI 200 is the famous Korean blue-chip index that tracks the 200 largest and most-liquid names listed in the KOSPI section of the Korea Exchange (KRX).</li>
<li>In this insight, we have presented our expectations for ADDs and DELs for the upcoming semiannual review in June 2026.</li>
<li>We expect up to 4 ADDs and 4 DELs in the June 2026 index rebal event based on the latest available data. Only one is high conviction now.</li>
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KOSPI 200 is the famous Korean blue-chip index that tracks the 200 largest and most-liquid names listed in the KOSPI section of the Korea Exchange (KRX).
In this insight, we have presented our expectations for ADDs and DELs for the upcoming semiannual review in June 2026.
We expect up to 4 ADDs and 4 DELs in the June 2026 index rebal event based on the latest available data. Only one is high conviction now.


[Quiddity Index] KOSPI 200 Leaderboard for Jun26 Rebal: 4 ADDs (One High Conviction), 4 DELs

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

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<li>The review period for the March rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices commenced on 1 December and will end on 28 February.</li>
<li>A third of the way through the averaging period, we forecast 37 migrating stocks. Among new listings, 1 stock could be added to LargeCap, 2 to MidCap, 2 to SmallCap.</li>
<li>The upward migrations have outperformed the downward migrations by a lot over the last few months. The gap between the small and mid-cap migrations has continued to widen.</li>
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The review period for the March rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices commenced on 1 December and will end on 28 February.
A third of the way through the averaging period, we forecast 37 migrating stocks. Among new listings, 1 stock could be added to LargeCap, 2 to MidCap, 2 to SmallCap.
The upward migrations have outperformed the downward migrations by a lot over the last few months. The gap between the small and mid-cap migrations has continued to widen.


KOSPI Size Indices: Small-To-Mid Migrations Running Up

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Douglas Research Advisory

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>In this insight, we provide the top 10 stock picks and key catalysts in the Korean stock market for the next two weeks (7 to 21 November 2025).</li>
<li>Our top 10 picks in the next two weeks include KT&amp;G, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Life Insurance, Orion Corp, Dentium, Hanmi Pharm, LG Chem (pref), Amorepacific Corp, Daewoong Pharm, and SK.  </li>
<li>Notable stocks with excellent share price performances in the past two weeks are as follows: Taihan Electric Wire (up 32.7%) Hanmi Pharm (up 29.5%), and SK Hynix (up 13.7%).</li>
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In this insight, we provide the top 10 stock picks and key catalysts in the Korean stock market for the next two weeks (7 to 21 November 2025).
Our top 10 picks in the next two weeks include KT&amp;G, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Life Insurance, Orion Corp, Dentium, Hanmi Pharm, LG Chem (pref), Amorepacific Corp, Daewoong Pharm, and SK.  
Notable stocks with excellent share price performances in the past two weeks are as follows: Taihan Electric Wire (up 32.7%) Hanmi Pharm (up 29.5%), and SK Hynix (up 13.7%).


Top 10 Korean Stock Picks and Key Catalysts Bi-Weekly 7 to 21 November 2025)

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<li>Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, India deal flow remains strong, with HK A/H listing starting to flow in again.</li>
<li>On the placements front, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/wuxi-apptec-co-ltd-bf4a1265-beef-48b6-b82d-29308426030f" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27795:1" rel="noopener">WuXi AppTec (2359 HK)</a> undertook a mega raising, while <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/prosus-nv" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28104:1" rel="noopener">Prosus NV (PRX NA)</a> has begun to pare its stake in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/meituan" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26970:1" rel="noopener">Meituan (3690 HK)</a>. </li>
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Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
On the IPO front, India deal flow remains strong, with HK A/H listing starting to flow in again.
On the placements front, WuXi AppTec (2359 HK) undertook a mega raising, while Prosus NV (PRX NA) has begun to pare its stake in Meituan (3690 HK). 


ECM Weekly (4 August 2025)-Meituan, LG CNS, Wuxi AppTec, SICC, NSDL, Aditya Info, GigaDevice, WeWork

South Korea

Daehan Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. provides shipbuilding and ship repair services. The Company builds and repairs ocean vessels such as liquefied natural gas carriers, container ships, oil tankers, and bulk transport ships. Daehan Shipbuilding conducts businesses across worldwide.

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Daehan Shipbuilding (439260 KS)

Aequitas ECM Weekly (2 February 2026)- Eastroc, Muyuan, Han's CNC, Wuxi Lead, Sungrow, Kokusai

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

[Quiddity Index] KOSPI 200 Leaderboard for Jun26 Rebal: 4 ADDs (One High Conviction), 4 DELs

The KOSPI Rebal for June 2026 has 4 ADDs and 4 DELs likely at this time but there are months to go in the data observation period. One high...

Travis Lundy

KOSPI Size Indices: Small-To-Mid Migrations Running Up

There could be 37 migrations across categories in March, plus new listings being added. The small-to-mid cap migrations have continued to move...

Brian Freitas

Top 10 Korean Stock Picks and Key Catalysts Bi-Weekly 7 to 21 November 2025)

Our top 10 picks in the next two weeks include KT&G, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Life Insurance, Orion Corp, Dentium, Hanmi Pharm, LG Chem (pref),...

Douglas Kim

ECM Weekly (4 August 2025)-Meituan, LG CNS, Wuxi AppTec, SICC, NSDL, Aditya Info, GigaDevice, WeWork

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

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