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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<li>The review period for the March rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices ends 28 February. The results will be announced early March and implemented at the close on 9 March.</li>
<li>We see 5 migrations between MidCap and LargeCap, 8 migrations from SmallCap to MidCap, 3 new adds to MidCap, and 11 migrations from MidCap to SmallCap.</li>
<li>Stocks migrating from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed stocks that are migrating between other categories.</li>
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The review period for the March rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices ends 28 February. The results will be announced early March and implemented at the close on 9 March.
We see 5 migrations between MidCap and LargeCap, 8 migrations from SmallCap to MidCap, 3 new adds to MidCap, and 11 migrations from MidCap to SmallCap.
Stocks migrating from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed stocks that are migrating between other categories.


KOSPI Size Indices - Potential Changes in March

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

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<li>We discuss end of the mandatory lock-up periods for 40 stocks in Korea in July 2022, among which 7 are in KOSPI and 33 are in KOSDAQ.</li>
<li>These 40 stocks on average could be subject to further selling pressures in July and could underperform relative to the market. </li>
<li>Among these 40 stocks, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lg-energy-solution" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33464:1" rel="noopener">LG Energy Solution (373220 KS)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/heung-a-shipping-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:2762:1" rel="noopener">Heung A Shipping (003280 KS)</a> could face further selling pressures in the coming weeks.</li>
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We discuss end of the mandatory lock-up periods for 40 stocks in Korea in July 2022, among which 7 are in KOSPI and 33 are in KOSDAQ.
These 40 stocks on average could be subject to further selling pressures in July and could underperform relative to the market. 
Among these 40 stocks, LG Energy Solution (373220 KS) and Heung A Shipping (003280 KS) could face further selling pressures in the coming weeks.


End of Mandatory Lock-Up Periods for 40 Companies in Korea in July 2022

Equity Research Analyst, Maritime sector, Drewry Maritime Financial Research

Ankush Kathuria CFA, FRM

Equity Research Analyst, Maritime sector

Maritime Sector, Equity & Credit Research

Drewry Maritime Financial Research

With no ties to other players in the shipping, finance or banking world, we provide a uniquely impartial view of the markets and companies we cover. Our parent organization, Drewry is a leading independent provider of research services to the maritime and shipping industry, employing over 100 professionals across an international network of offices in London, Delhi, Singapore and Shanghai. Combining our market-leading resources with seasoned sector expertise DFRS offers a highly differentiated and comprehensive range of investment and financial research services to lenders and prospective investors in publicly listed maritime and shipping companies. The full service of reports, supporting resources and sector orientated webinars provides our clients with the most complete picture of the organisations under coverage as is possible. We have been charting and analysing the world’s maritime markets for more than 40 years. This unrivalled intelligence and understanding provides the foundation of our research service. Our analysts have access to one of the most up-to-date, comprehensive and reliable sources of market insight and research data available today. We look at globally listed companies within the following sectors: Port Operators, Container Shipping, Container Manufacturing & Leasing, LNG Shipping, Dry Bulk Shipping and Tanker Shipping. Combine in-depth sector expertise with financial analysis focusing on over 50 stocks globally.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<blockquote>
“Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.”
―Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world (2009)
</blockquote>This morning, Hanjin Shipping Co. said it will apply for court receivership after lenders decided to halt all support. We have been highlighting these risks from 2013 and in our last update on troubled container shipping company, we had highlighted the…


“Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.”
―Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world (2009)
This morning, Hanjin Shipping Co. said it will apply for court receivership after lenders decided to halt all support. We have been highlighting these risks from 2013 and in our last update on troubled container shipping company, we had highlighted the…

Hanjin Shipping(117930 KS) - Borrowed Time Comes to an End

The four major construction stocks in Korea <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/4292" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4292">Hyundai Engineering &amp; Const</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/7699" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:7699">Hyundai Development Co Engg &amp; Cnstn</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/15916" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:15916">Gs Engineering &amp; Construct</a>, and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/12333" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:12333">Daewoo Engineering &amp; Constr</a> share prices are on average down 10% from 13 April 2016 (in the same period KOSPI was up 0.3%) , post the election of the National Assembly members in Korea. We gave out a warning on 17 April 206 on these four Korean construction stocks <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/warning-on-korean-construction-stocks-ruling-saenuri-party-is-crushed-in-national-assembly-election" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:3422">Warning on Korean Construction Stocks: Ruling Saenuri Party Is Crushed in National Assembly</a>…

The four major construction stocks in Korea Hyundai Engineering &amp; Const, Hyundai Development Co Engg &amp; Cnstn, Gs Engineering &amp; Construct, and Daewoo Engineering &amp; Constr share prices are on average down 10% from 13 April 2016 (in the same period KOSPI was up 0.3%) , post the election of the National Assembly members in Korea. We gave out a warning on 17 April 206 on these four Korean construction stocks Warning on Korean Construction Stocks: Ruling Saenuri Party Is Crushed in National Assembly…

Close Out the Shorts on Korean Construction Stocks?

This is a follow-up to the warning on the Korean construction stocks which we issued more than a month ago. <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/warning-on-korean-construction-stocks-ruling-saenuri-party-is-crushed-in-national-assembly-election" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:3422">Warning on Korean Construction Stocks: Ruling Saenuri Party Is Crushed in National Assembly Election</a> We gave a strong warning on the four major construction stocks and they are down on average 7.2% from the end of the National Assembly Elections in Korea (about 5 weeks ago) to today, under performing KOSPI which is down 1.7% during the same period.  We continue to be bearish on the Korean…

This is a follow-up to the warning on the Korean construction stocks which we issued more than a month ago. Warning on Korean Construction Stocks: Ruling Saenuri Party Is Crushed in National Assembly Election We gave a strong warning on the four major construction stocks and they are down on average 7.2% from the end of the National Assembly Elections in Korea (about 5 weeks ago) to today, under performing KOSPI which is down 1.7% during the same period.  We continue to be bearish on the Korean…

Korean Construction Stocks - Household Debt Is the Achilles Heel

South Korea

Heung-A Shipping Co., Ltd. provides shipping trade services.  The Company also provides chemical tankers to transport petrochemicals in areas that includes Japan, Taiwan, China, and Southeast Asian regions.

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Heung A Shipping (003280 KS)

KOSPI Size Indices - Potential Changes in March

The review period for the March rebal of the KOSPI Size Indices ends on 28 February. We see quite a lot of potential migrations. Some stocks could...

Brian Freitas

End of Mandatory Lock-Up Periods for 40 Companies in Korea in July 2022

We discuss end of the mandatory lock-up periods for 40 stocks in Korea in July 2022.Among these 40 stocks, LG Energy Solution could face further...

Douglas Kim

Hanjin Shipping(117930 KS) - Borrowed Time Comes to an End

“Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a...

Drewry Maritime Financial Research

Close Out the Shorts on Korean Construction Stocks?

The four major construction stocks in Korea Hyundai Engineering & Const, Hyundai Development Co Engg & Cnstn, Gs Engineering &...

Douglas Kim

Korean Construction Stocks - Household Debt Is the Achilles Heel

This is a follow-up to the warning on the Korean construction stocks which we issued more than a month ago. Warning on Korean Construction Stocks:...

Douglas Kim

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