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 are 7 adds and 7 deletes for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/korea-stock-exchange-kospi-200-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26021:1" rel="noopener">Korea Stock Exchange Kospi 200 Index (KOSPI2 INDEX)</a> rebalance to be implemented at the close on 9 June.</li>
<li>There are also a bunch of stocks that will have changes applied to their free float. There were announced last week and are much less tracked.</li>
<li>The flows and impact on some of the float change names are significant and pre-positioning and passive flows could move the stocks over the next few days.</li>
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There are 7 adds and 7 deletes for the Korea Stock Exchange Kospi 200 Index (KOSPI2 INDEX) rebalance to be implemented at the close on 9 June.
There are also a bunch of stocks that will have changes applied to their free float. There were announced last week and are much less tracked.
The flows and impact on some of the float change names are significant and pre-positioning and passive flows could move the stocks over the next few days.


KOSPI200 Index Rebalance: Float Changes, Flows & Trades

Korea / Special Situations, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Situations

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

Event-Driven

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<li>The KRX officially announced the float rate changes of the KOSPI 200 constituents at this June rebalancing: 11 increases and 5 decreases.</li>
<li>Kakao Bank has the most significant change of 43%p, followed by Krafton and Woori Financial. NH Investment and HD Infracore will suffer a drop of 9%p.</li>
<li>As for passive flow x ADTV, Kakao Bank leads the pack at 2.95x, followed by Kakao Pay (1.15x). NH Investment and Korea Gas will face a noticeable outflow.</li>
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The KRX officially announced the float rate changes of the KOSPI 200 constituents at this June rebalancing: 11 increases and 5 decreases.
Kakao Bank has the most significant change of 43%p, followed by Krafton and Woori Financial. NH Investment and HD Infracore will suffer a drop of 9%p.
As for passive flow x ADTV, Kakao Bank leads the pack at 2.95x, followed by Kakao Pay (1.15x). NH Investment and Korea Gas will face a noticeable outflow.


KOSPI 200 Official Announcement: Float Rate Changes (11 Up & 5 Down)

Mirae Asset TIGER Secondary Cell ETF / Event-Driven

Mirae Asset TIGER Secondary Cell ETF (305540 KS)

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<li>In general, the projection hit rate for the top market cap constituents was sufficiently high. And the correlation between their stock price direction and passive flow was also high.</li>
<li>However, the projection hit rate for the constituents with a small market cap was relatively low.</li>
<li>If we traded the proposed tradable names with an equal-weighted Long/Short basket, we would have achieved a return of 1.76%. Even excluding Hanjin Kal, we would have achieved 1.31%.</li>
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In general, the projection hit rate for the top market cap constituents was sufficiently high. And the correlation between their stock price direction and passive flow was also high.
However, the projection hit rate for the constituents with a small market cap was relatively low.
If we traded the proposed tradable names with an equal-weighted Long/Short basket, we would have achieved a return of 1.76%. Even excluding Hanjin Kal, we would have achieved 1.31%.


Recap on WISE Theme Indexes (TIGER ETFs) Rebalancing Trading on April 14

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<li>Three WISE theme indexes undergo quarterly rebalancing today at the close.</li>
<li>The flow projections shown below in the DETAIL are based on the closing prices of April 12.</li>
<li>We have 13 Long/Short tradable names based on these flow projections: an ADTV of at least ₩10B &amp; a passive flow impact of 0.10x ADTV or more</li>
</ul>


Three WISE theme indexes undergo quarterly rebalancing today at the close.
The flow projections shown below in the DETAIL are based on the closing prices of April 12.
We have 13 Long/Short tradable names based on these flow projections: an ADTV of at least ₩10B &amp; a passive flow impact of 0.10x ADTV or more


WISE Theme Indexes Rebalancing Today: Flow Projections as of Close on April 12

Mirae Asset Tiger Tour Leisure ETF / Event-Driven

Mirae Asset Tiger Tour Leisure ETF (228800 KS)

<ul>
<li>Next Thursday, the rebalancing trading of the WISE Secondary Cell Index will occur. The current AUM is ₩0.24T, and the AUM has slightly increased in the last two weeks.</li>
<li>Five names (2 Longs &amp; 3 Shorts) are screened: <strong>Hana Tour Service, Lotte Tour Development, Asiana Airlines, Paradise Co Ltd, &amp; Hanjin KAL Corp</strong>.</li>
<li>All the short targets are available for short-selling. The Long targets have also not seen much volatility recently, so it looks fine to put them all in a Long/Short basket.</li>
</ul>


Next Thursday, the rebalancing trading of the WISE Secondary Cell Index will occur. The current AUM is ₩0.24T, and the AUM has slightly increased in the last two weeks.
Five names (2 Longs &amp; 3 Shorts) are screened: Hana Tour Service, Lotte Tour Development, Asiana Airlines, Paradise Co Ltd, &amp; Hanjin KAL Corp.
All the short targets are available for short-selling. The Long targets have also not seen much volatility recently, so it looks fine to put them all in a Long/Short basket.


WISE Tour Leisure Rebalancing (TIGER ETF): Long/Short Tradable Names

South Korea

Hanjin KAL Corporation is a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in airline, hotel, and travel related services. Hanjin also invests in real estates.

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Hanjin KAL Corp (180640 KS)

KOSPI200 Index Rebalance: Float Changes, Flows & Trades

There are significant flows and impact on some stocks that have float changes at the upcoming KOSPI2 rebalance. With over 5 days ADV to buy,...

Brian Freitas

KOSPI 200 Official Announcement: Float Rate Changes (11 Up & 5 Down)

This post details the official results of the KOSPI 200 float rate changes in the upcoming June rebalancing, which will be effective next Friday.

Sanghyun Park

Recap on WISE Theme Indexes (TIGER ETFs) Rebalancing Trading on April 14

This post is a recap of our flow trading on the WISE Theme Indexes (TIGER ETFs) rebalancing, which was carried out on April 14.

Sanghyun Park

WISE Theme Indexes Rebalancing Today: Flow Projections as of Close on April 12

Three WISE Theme Indexes undergo quarterly rebalancing today at the close. This post screens 13 tradable names for a Long/Short basket day trading.

Sanghyun Park

WISE Tour Leisure Rebalancing (TIGER ETF): Long/Short Tradable Names

This post recommends Long/Short tradable names for the rebalancing trading event of the WISE Tour Leisure Index (TIGER ETF) next Thursday.

Sanghyun Park

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