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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<li>2025 marked our tenth year covering Equity Capital Markets (ECM) in Asia Pacific. In 2025, IPO volumes were driven by a strong rebound in HK, while India flow remained resilient.</li>
<li>We ended 2025 with an accuracy rate of 72.2% across 119 IPOs that we covered and 64.3% across 125 placements.</li>
<li>For those not familiar with our coverage, we aim to cover all IPOs and placements with a minimum deal size of US$100m across Asia-Pacific, including China ADRs.</li>
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2025 marked our tenth year covering Equity Capital Markets (ECM) in Asia Pacific. In 2025, IPO volumes were driven by a strong rebound in HK, while India flow remained resilient.
We ended 2025 with an accuracy rate of 72.2% across 119 IPOs that we covered and 64.3% across 125 placements.
For those not familiar with our coverage, we aim to cover all IPOs and placements with a minimum deal size of US$100m across Asia-Pacific, including China ADRs.


Aequitas 2025 IPOs and Placements Performance Review - HK Breached COVID Peak, India Flow Strong

Index Rebalance

ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company / Index Rebalance

ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company (ICICIAMC IN)

ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/icici-prudential-amc-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45499:1" rel="noopener">ICICI Prudential AMC (ICICIAMC IN)</a> (IPAMC) raised around US$1.2bn in its India IPO in December 2025.  The lockup on its promoters and pre-IPO shareholders is set to expire soon.</li>
<li>IPru AMC is an asset management company involved in managing mutual funds, providing portfolio management services, managing alternative investment funds, and providing advisory services to offshore clients.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics and possible placement.</li>
</ul>



ICICI Prudential AMC (ICICIAMC IN) (IPAMC) raised around US$1.2bn in its India IPO in December 2025.  The lockup on its promoters and pre-IPO shareholders is set to expire soon.
IPru AMC is an asset management company involved in managing mutual funds, providing portfolio management services, managing alternative investment funds, and providing advisory services to offshore clients.
In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics and possible placement.


Aequitas: ICICI Pru AMC Lockup Expiry - US$4.6bn Lockup Release for JV Partner

India focused: IPO, special situations, Stylus Holdings

Himanshu Dugar

India focused: IPO, special situations

Stylus Holdings

Stylus Holdings is a buy-side equity research firm. We offer bottom-up investment ideas as well as provide on demand equity research and portfolio tracking. 
At Stylus, our focus is to identify market dislocations that can generate 20+% IRR with a reasonable margin of safety. As part of our research process, we do a deep dive into the fundamentals of the company, evaluate their competitive positioning and assess their valuation.
Our investment team is led by Himanshu Dugar. Himanshu is a Chartered Accountant and a CFA charter holder. He has 10+ years of active experience in the stock market with stints at CRISIL Research, a S&P Global copmany and Miras Investments, a single family office based in Dubai.

Equity Research Firm

ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Ipru AMC, the largest AMC with high active AUM share and 60+% of Equity AUM boasts of one of the best operating metrics in the industry.</li>
<li>The IPO is being priced in line with peers based on FY25 accounting PE (40x vs 40-44x), however, based on Core PE the relative valuations stands at 40x vs 48/52x</li>
<li>We are bullish on the industry/company from a long-term perspective, although near-term valuations may look fully priced in light of regulatory tightening of profit pool and intensifying competition.</li>
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Ipru AMC, the largest AMC with high active AUM share and 60+% of Equity AUM boasts of one of the best operating metrics in the industry.
The IPO is being priced in line with peers based on FY25 accounting PE (40x vs 40-44x), however, based on Core PE the relative valuations stands at 40x vs 48/52x
We are bullish on the industry/company from a long-term perspective, although near-term valuations may look fully priced in light of regulatory tightening of profit pool and intensifying competition.


ICICI Prudential AMC - Reasonably Priced for the Longer Term.

US-EU Index Rebalances / Quantitative Researcher

Dimitris Ioannidis

Global Financial Data and Analytics Platform

ORTEX

ORTEX is a global financial data and analytics platform providing real-time securities lending and short interest data, index rebalance data, holdings and insider transactions, trading signals, corporate actions and news,  stock machine learning and factor scores and other analytics. The majority of the data are downloadable and accessible through APIs.

<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/icici-prudential-amc-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45499:1" rel="noopener">ICICI Prudential AMC (ICICIAMC IN)</a> went public on 19 December on the NSE and has a market cap of $16bn following a price surge of 35% above offer price.</li>
<li>Inclusion in Global All-World is expected in June 2026, as the security meets eligibility criteria, including minimum free float and float cap.</li>
<li>The security is anticipated to be excluded from Global Standard due to insufficient free float even after the lock-up expiries.</li>
</ul>



ICICI Prudential AMC (ICICIAMC IN) went public on 19 December on the NSE and has a market cap of $16bn following a price surge of 35% above offer price.
Inclusion in Global All-World is expected in June 2026, as the security meets eligibility criteria, including minimum free float and float cap.
The security is anticipated to be excluded from Global Standard due to insufficient free float even after the lock-up expiries.


ICICI Prudential AMC (ICICIAMC IN): Partial Global Index Inclusion with Low Float

Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic, Sree Capital

Sreemant Dudhoria

Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic

Fundamental Research on Listed Indian Companies

Sree Capital

Sree Capital is a platform to share fundamental research on listed Indian companies. We do this research for our own investment

Equity Bottom-Up

ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul>
<li>In 2025, Indian mainboard IPOs raised approximately INR 1.83 trillion of capital.</li>
<li>In this Insight, we review our hits and misses in the Indian Primary Market with focus on companies where post issue market cap was above USD 1 billion.</li>
<li>We review the initial rationale for each company before the IPO and how it played out immediately on the listing day.</li>
</ul>


In 2025, Indian mainboard IPOs raised approximately INR 1.83 trillion of capital.
In this Insight, we review our hits and misses in the Indian Primary Market with focus on companies where post issue market cap was above USD 1 billion.
We review the initial rationale for each company before the IPO and how it played out immediately on the listing day.


2025: A Review of Our Hits and Misses in the Indian Primary Market

India

ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company is a leading Indian asset management firm that offers a diverse range of investment solutions, including mutual funds, portfolio management services (PMS), and alternative investment funds (AIFs). It provides savings and investment products across various financial asset classes to both retail and institutional investors. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

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ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company (ICICIAMC IN)

Aequitas 2025 IPOs and Placements Performance Review - HK Breached COVID Peak, India Flow Strong

2025 marked our tenth year covering Equity Capital Markets (ECM) in Asia Pacific. In 2025, IPO volumes were driven by a strong rebound in HK, while...

Sumeet Singh

Aequitas: ICICI Pru AMC Lockup Expiry - US$4.6bn Lockup Release for JV Partner

ICICI Prudential AMC (ICICIAMC IN) (IPAMC) raised around US$1.2bn in its India IPO in December 2025. The lockup on its promoters and pre-IPO...

Sumeet Singh

ICICI Prudential AMC - Reasonably Priced for the Longer Term.

Ipru AMC is up 28% since listing and now trades at a 10-12% premium vs closest peers Nippon and HDFC AMC. After a flattish QoQ performance impacted...

Himanshu Dugar

ICICI Prudential AMC (ICICIAMC IN): Partial Global Index Inclusion with Low Float

ICICIAMC IN went public on 19 Dec, has a $16bn market cap and is expected to be included in Global All-World but excluded from Global Standard due...

Dimitris Ioannidis

2025: A Review of Our Hits and Misses in the Indian Primary Market

In 2025, Indian mainboard IPOs raised INR 1.83 trillion; this insight reviews our hits and misses in Indian Primary Market for companies with post...

Sreemant Dudhoria

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Aequitas 2025 IPOs and Placements Performance Review - HK Breached COVID Peak, India Flow Strong

2025 marked our tenth year covering Equity Capital Markets (ECM) in Asia Pacific. In 2025, IPO volumes were driven by a strong rebound in HK, while...

Sumeet Singh

Aequitas: ICICI Pru AMC Lockup Expiry - US$4.6bn Lockup Release for JV Partner

ICICI Prudential AMC (ICICIAMC IN) (IPAMC) raised around US$1.2bn in its India IPO in December 2025. The lockup on its promoters and pre-IPO...

Sumeet Singh

ICICI Prudential AMC - Reasonably Priced for the Longer Term.

Ipru AMC is up 28% since listing and now trades at a 10-12% premium vs closest peers Nippon and HDFC AMC. After a flattish QoQ performance impacted...

Himanshu Dugar

ICICI Prudential AMC (ICICIAMC IN): Partial Global Index Inclusion with Low Float

ICICIAMC IN went public on 19 Dec, has a $16bn market cap and is expected to be included in Global All-World but excluded from Global Standard due...

Dimitris Ioannidis

2025: A Review of Our Hits and Misses in the Indian Primary Market

​In 2025, Indian mainboard IPOs raised INR 1.83 trillion; this insight reviews our hits and misses in Indian Primary Market for companies with post...

Sreemant Dudhoria

In 2025, Indian mainboard IPOs raised INR 1.83 trillion; this insight reviews our hits and misses in Indian Primary Market for companies with post...