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 September rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices started 1 June and will end 31 August. The changes will be implemented at the close 7 September.</li>
<li>We see 7 migrations from MidCap to LargeCap, 6 migrations from LargeCap to MidCap, 7 new adds to MidCap, and 17 migrations from SmallCap to MidCap.</li>
<li>Historically, stocks migrating from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed stocks that are migrating between other categories.</li>
</ul>


The review period for the September rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices started 1 June and will end 31 August. The changes will be implemented at the close 7 September.
We see 7 migrations from MidCap to LargeCap, 6 migrations from LargeCap to MidCap, 7 new adds to MidCap, and 17 migrations from SmallCap to MidCap.
Historically, stocks migrating from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed stocks that are migrating between other categories.


KOSPI Size Indices - Plenty of Migrations to Attract Active Flows

<ul>
<li>The review period for the September rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices started 1 June and will end 31 August. The changes will be implemented at the close 7 September.</li>
<li>We see 8 migrations from MidCap to LargeCap, 7 migrations from LargeCap to MidCap, 6 new adds to MidCap, and 16 migrations from SmallCap to MidCap.</li>
<li>Historically, stocks migrating from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed stocks that are migrating between other categories.</li>
</ul>


The review period for the September rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices started 1 June and will end 31 August. The changes will be implemented at the close 7 September.
We see 8 migrations from MidCap to LargeCap, 7 migrations from LargeCap to MidCap, 6 new adds to MidCap, and 16 migrations from SmallCap to MidCap.
Historically, stocks migrating from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed stocks that are migrating between other categories.


KOSPI Size Indices - Plenty of Overlap With Other Index Flows

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

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

Mirae Asset Tiger Media Contents ETF / Event-Driven

<ul>
<li>Next Thursday, the rebalancing trading of the WISE Secondary Cell Index will occur. The current AUM is ₩0.15T, and the AUM has increased a bit in the last two weeks.</li>
<li>Four names (2 Longs &amp; 2 Shorts) are screened as follows: CJ ENM, Dear U, JYP Entertainment, &amp; Jcontentree Corp.</li>
<li>We should consider putting only JYP Ent in the Short basket. On the other hand, it seems okay to put CJ ENM and Dear U together in the Long basket.</li>
</ul>


Next Thursday, the rebalancing trading of the WISE Secondary Cell Index will occur. The current AUM is ₩0.15T, and the AUM has increased a bit in the last two weeks.
Four names (2 Longs &amp; 2 Shorts) are screened as follows: CJ ENM, Dear U, JYP Entertainment, &amp; Jcontentree Corp.
We should consider putting only JYP Ent in the Short basket. On the other hand, it seems okay to put CJ ENM and Dear U together in the Long basket.


WISE Media Contents Rebalancing (TIGER ETF): Long/Short Tradable Names

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<li>WISE Media Contents rebalances every quarter in January, April, July, and October. The effective date for the upcoming rebalancing is April 15.</li>
<li>The gap between the rebalancing weight change estimations based on the float-adjusted market caps and the actual implementation of the ETF operator (TIGER) is not significant.</li>
<li>Following stocks are worth paying attention: (Short) Jyp Entertainment, S.M.Entertainment, Studio Dragon, Jcontentree, and SBS Contents Hub / (Long) CJ ENM, DearU, D&amp;C Media, Genie Music, and IHQ</li>
</ul>


WISE Media Contents rebalances every quarter in January, April, July, and October. The effective date for the upcoming rebalancing is April 15.
The gap between the rebalancing weight change estimations based on the float-adjusted market caps and the actual implementation of the ETF operator (TIGER) is not significant.
Following stocks are worth paying attention: (Short) Jyp Entertainment, S.M.Entertainment, Studio Dragon, Jcontentree, and SBS Contents Hub / (Long) CJ ENM, DearU, D&amp;C Media, Genie Music, and IHQ


WISE Media Contents (TIGER ETF) Rebalancing Preview

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Jcontentree has hit a home-run with "All of Us Are Dead" zombie drama reaching number one in Netflix Inc's global charts.</li>
<li>According to Flixpatrol on the 31 January, All of Us Are Dead took the top spot in Netflix's global popularity rankings for two consecutive days from its release.</li>
<li>Jcontentree's valuation multiples are likely to rise 20-30% or more in the coming days, driven by the global success of the All of Us Are Dead zombie drama.</li>
</ul>


Jcontentree has hit a home-run with "All of Us Are Dead" zombie drama reaching number one in Netflix Inc's global charts.
According to Flixpatrol on the 31 January, All of Us Are Dead took the top spot in Netflix's global popularity rankings for two consecutive days from its release.
Jcontentree's valuation multiples are likely to rise 20-30% or more in the coming days, driven by the global success of the All of Us Are Dead zombie drama.


Jcontentree: "All of Us Are Dead" Zombie Drama Surges to #1 in Netflix Global Charts

South Korea

Jcontentree Corp publishes sports daily newspapers.  The Company also manufactures fur and leather garments.  The Daily Sports exports its products to the United States, Europe, and Japan on an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) basis.

Jcontentree Corp (036420 KS)

KOSPI Size Indices - Plenty of Migrations to Attract Active Flows

We currently forecast 53 migrations for the KOSPI Size Indices. There are stocks that are potential KOSPI200 adds in December and others that will...

Brian Freitas

KOSPI Size Indices - Plenty of Overlap With Other Index Flows

We currently forecast 52 changes for the KOSPI Size Indices. While there are few passive assets tracking these indices, they are used by active...

Brian Freitas

WISE Media Contents Rebalancing (TIGER ETF): Long/Short Tradable Names

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

Sanghyun Park

WISE Media Contents (TIGER ETF) Rebalancing Preview

This post previews the upcoming rebalancing of the WISE Media Contents Theme Index (TIGER ETF), whose effective date is April 15.

Sanghyun Park

Jcontentree: "All of Us Are Dead" Zombie Drama Surges to #1 in Netflix Global Charts

Jcontentree has hit a home-run with "All of Us Are Dead" zombie drama reaching number one in Netflix Inc's global charts.

Douglas Kim