Chief Executive Officer, Emmer Capital Partners Limited

Manishi Raychaudhuri

Chief Executive Officer

Emmer Capital Partners Limited

Emmer Capital Partners is an Asia Pacific focused financial advisory firm engaging in strategic financial asset allocation advice, bespoke thematic research and advising early-stage companies and connecting them to investors. Emmer Capital provides macro-economic and multi-asset investment strategy inputs to institutions, family offices, private wealth managers, private equity, and corporate boards directly and through independent research platforms. Emmer Capital also advises a wide range of startup companies on fund raising and business strategy. Emmer Capital's active engagement with the print and electronic media reaches a broad spectrum of investors across the globe.

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>Asian currencies bottomed out in early April. FII flows turned positive in May. Flows into Taiwan are recovering the fastest, followed by those into Korea. India's recovery is relatively tepid. </li>
<li>Flows into ASEAN remain negative - the lack of recovery, we think, is due to lack of macroeconomic catalysts, declining EPS estimates and trade related worries. We remain underweight ASEAN.</li>
<li>We are overweight Korea (recovering EPS, cheapest, flows accelerating). We like Taiwanese tech, key beneficiary of investors’ renewed AI enthusiasm. Overweight on India, despite its overvaluation, stems from bottom-up ideas.</li>
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Asian currencies bottomed out in early April. FII flows turned positive in May. Flows into Taiwan are recovering the fastest, followed by those into Korea. India's recovery is relatively tepid. 
Flows into ASEAN remain negative - the lack of recovery, we think, is due to lack of macroeconomic catalysts, declining EPS estimates and trade related worries. We remain underweight ASEAN.
We are overweight Korea (recovering EPS, cheapest, flows accelerating). We like Taiwanese tech, key beneficiary of investors’ renewed AI enthusiasm. Overweight on India, despite its overvaluation, stems from bottom-up ideas.


Asian Equities: Foreign Flows – Some Strength, Some Sustained Disappointments

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.

Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/national-securities-depository-ltd-nsdl" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39939:1" rel="noopener">NSDL (NSDL IN)</a> is looking to raise around US$460m in its upcoming India IPO.</li>
<li>It is the largest depository in India in terms of number of issuers, number of active instruments, market share in demat value of settlement volume and value of assets.</li>
<li>In this note, we undertake a peer comparison and talk about valuations.</li>
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NSDL (NSDL IN) is looking to raise around US$460m in its upcoming India IPO.
It is the largest depository in India in terms of number of issuers, number of active instruments, market share in demat value of settlement volume and value of assets.
In this note, we undertake a peer comparison and talk about valuations.


National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) IPO - Peer Comparison and Thoughts on Valuation

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

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/national-securities-depository-ltd-nsdl" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39939:1" rel="noopener">NSDL (NSDL IN)</a> is looking to list on the exchanges by selling up to INR 40bn (US$464m) of stock at a valuation of up to INR 160bn (US$1.85bn).</li>
<li>The stock will not get Fast Entry to either of the global indices. The earliest inclusion in a global index should take place in November.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/central-depository-services" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27902:1" rel="noopener">Central Depository Services (CDSL IN)</a>'s stock price has dropped following the announcement of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/national-securities-depository-ltd-nsdl" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39939:1" rel="noopener">NSDL</a>'s IPO price band and the muted results could lead to further downside in the stock.</li>
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NSDL (NSDL IN) is looking to list on the exchanges by selling up to INR 40bn (US$464m) of stock at a valuation of up to INR 160bn (US$1.85bn).
The stock will not get Fast Entry to either of the global indices. The earliest inclusion in a global index should take place in November.

Central Depository Services (CDSL IN)'s stock price has dropped following the announcement of NSDL's IPO price band and the muted results could lead to further downside in the stock.


NSDL (NSDL IN) IPO: Offering Details & Index Inclusion Timeline

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC IPOs & Placements

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> is looking to raise 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 in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the RHP updates and IPO valuations.</li>
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Aditya Infotech Ltd (6596564Z IN) is looking to raise 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 in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the RHP updates and IPO valuations.


Aditya Infotech IPO - RHP Updates & Thoughts on Peer Comp and Valuation

Specialist in Indian Banking and Economic Research

Hemindra Hazari

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<li>Zubin Mody, Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) abruptly quits <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/indusind-bank-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:1558:1" rel="noopener">Indusind Bank (IIB IN)</a>
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<li>His resignation adds to the leadership vacuum at the top as the bank has no CEO or any executive directors on the board</li>
<li>Apparently the board of directors wants to reboot the bank with a clean senior executive slate</li>
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Zubin Mody, Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) abruptly quits Indusind Bank (IIB IN)

His resignation adds to the leadership vacuum at the top as the bank has no CEO or any executive directors on the board
Apparently the board of directors wants to reboot the bank with a clean senior executive slate


Indian Banking’s Longest-Serving, Highest-Paid HR-Head Quits IndusInd Bank

India

HDFC Bank Ltd. offers a wide range of services to the global corporate sector. The Bank provides corporate banking and custodial services and is active in the treasury and capital markets. HDFC also markets project advisory services and capital market products such as Global Deposit Receipts, Euro currency loans, and Euro currency bonds.

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HDFC Bank (HDFCB IN)

Asian Equities: Foreign Flows – Some Strength, Some Sustained Disappointments

Interesting reallocation by foreign investors in July – Korea bought $3.06bn, Taiwan bought $7.05 bn, India sold $2.03bn. AI capex enthusiasm is...

Manishi Raychaudhuri

National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) IPO - Peer Comparison and Thoughts on Valuation

NSDL (NSDL IN) is looking to raise around US$460m in its upcoming India IPO. In this note we undertake a peer comparison and talk about valuations.

Sumeet Singh

NSDL (NSDL IN) IPO: Offering Details & Index Inclusion Timeline

NSDL is looking to list by selling up to INR40bn of stock at a valuation of up to INR160bn. No Fast Entry to global indices. Stock could be added...

Brian Freitas

Aditya Infotech IPO - RHP Updates & Thoughts on Peer Comp and Valuation

Aditya Infotech is looking to raise about US$151m in its India IPO. We have looked at the company’s past performance previously. In this note, we...

Akshat Shah

Indian Banking’s Longest-Serving, Highest-Paid HR-Head Quits IndusInd Bank

Indusnd Bank's CHRO exit adds to the leadership vacuum in the bank and though it demonstrates a clean senior executive slate it heightens concerns...

Hemindra Hazari

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