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>With the review period nearing completion, there could be 5 changes for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nse-nifty-next-50-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36053:1" rel="noopener">NSE Nifty Next 50 Index (NIFTYJR INDEX)</a> in March.</li>
<li>Constituent changes and capping for non-F&amp;O stocks leads to an estimated one-way turnover of 10.5% and in a round-trip trade of INR 88.5bn (US$974m).</li>
<li>The forecast adds have outperformed the forecast deletes and there could be further performance over the next few weeks ahead of the announcement of the changes.</li>
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With the review period nearing completion, there could be 5 changes for the NSE Nifty Next 50 Index (NIFTYJR INDEX) in March.
Constituent changes and capping for non-F&amp;O stocks leads to an estimated one-way turnover of 10.5% and in a round-trip trade of INR 88.5bn (US$974m).
The forecast adds have outperformed the forecast deletes and there could be further performance over the next few weeks ahead of the announcement of the changes.


NIFTY NEXT50 Index Rebalance Preview: Forecast Changes & Close Names

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

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>In this note, we summarise our top high conviction ideas for 2026</li>
<li>Delhivery, Edelweiss and JSW Energy are out top ideas for the year.</li>
<li>We expect stocks like BlueJet and Sammaan Capital that have not performed well in recent months to pull back in the coming months</li>
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In this note, we summarise our top high conviction ideas for 2026
Delhivery, Edelweiss and JSW Energy are out top ideas for the year.
We expect stocks like BlueJet and Sammaan Capital that have not performed well in recent months to pull back in the coming months


Happy New Year: Summarising Top Ideas for 2026

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC 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

Canara HSBC Life Insurance / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/canara-hsbc-life-insurance" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45165:1" rel="noopener">Canara HSBC Life Insurance (CHLI) (2908709Z IJ)</a> raised about US$284m from its India IPO.</li>
<li>CHLI is an Indian private life insurer, promoted by Canara Bank and HSBC Insurance (Asia-Pacific) Holdings, offering a range of life insurance products tailored for both individual and group customers.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
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Canara HSBC Life Insurance (CHLI) (2908709Z IJ) raised about US$284m from its India IPO.
CHLI is an Indian private life insurer, promoted by Canara Bank and HSBC Insurance (Asia-Pacific) Holdings, offering a range of life insurance products tailored for both individual and group customers.
In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.


Canara HSBC Life Insurance IPO Trading - Muted Demand All Round

Index Rebal/Special Situations, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Index Rebal/Special Situations

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

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<li>NIFTY 50 represents the 50 largest stocks listed in the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India and the NIFTY Next 50 index tracks the next 50 largest names.</li>
<li>In this insight, we take a look at the names leading the race to become ADDs/DELs for these indices during the March 2026 index rebal event.</li>
<li>We see no changes for NIFTY 50 and three changes for NIFTY 100 (which would result in similar changes to NIFTY Next 50).</li>
</ul>


NIFTY 50 represents the 50 largest stocks listed in the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India and the NIFTY Next 50 index tracks the next 50 largest names.
In this insight, we take a look at the names leading the race to become ADDs/DELs for these indices during the March 2026 index rebal event.
We see no changes for NIFTY 50 and three changes for NIFTY 100 (which would result in similar changes to NIFTY Next 50).


Quiddity Leaderboard NIFTY Mar26: Hindustan Aeronautics and Adani Enterprises Close to the Borders

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), Axis Direct

Axis Direct

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<ul><li>FY25 was a transformative year for JSW Energy Ltd (JSWE), as it reached 10 GW+ of installed capacity and ~30 GW of locked-in capacity.</li><li>The company delivered its highest-ever EBITDA (incl. other income) and PAT on the back of capacity expansions, strategic acquisitions, and operational excellence.</li><li>It has laid out its ‘Strategy 3.0’, envisioning 30 GW of installed capacity and 40 GWh of energy storage by 2030. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

FY25 was a transformative year for JSW Energy Ltd (JSWE), as it reached 10 GW+ of installed capacity and ~30 GW of locked-in capacity.The company delivered its highest-ever EBITDA (incl. other income) and PAT on the back of capacity expansions, strategic acquisitions, and operational excellence.It has laid out its ‘Strategy 3.0’, envisioning 30 GW of installed capacity and 40 GWh of energy storage by 2030. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

JSW Energy Ltd - Surpassed 10 GW Capacity in FY25; Charting Towards 30 GW by FY30

India

JSW Energy Limited is an Indian power company primarily engaged in power generation, transmission, and trading. The company operates a diversified portfolio of thermal, hydro, wind, and solar power assets, and is expanding into new energy frontiers like green hydrogen and battery energy storage systems. JSW Energy was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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JSW Energy (JSW IN)

NIFTY NEXT50 Index Rebalance Preview: Forecast Changes & Close Names

There could be 5 changes in March. Estimated one-way turnover is 10.5% and round-trip trade is INR 88.5bn (US$974m). Passives need to trade more...

Brian Freitas

Happy New Year: Summarising Top Ideas for 2026

We summarise our High Conviction ideas for 2026, namely: Delhivery, JSW Energy, Edelweiss Financial, Sammaan Capital, and Bluejet Healthcare

Himanshu Dugar

Canara HSBC Life Insurance IPO Trading - Muted Demand All Round

Canara HSBC Life Insurance raised about US$284m from its India IPO. In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.

Akshat Shah

Quiddity Leaderboard NIFTY Mar26: Hindustan Aeronautics and Adani Enterprises Close to the Borders

We see Hindustan Aeronautics (HNAL IN) as the highest-ranked potential ADD and Adani Enterprises (ADE IN) as the highest-ranked potential DEL for...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

JSW Energy Ltd - Surpassed 10 GW Capacity in FY25; Charting Towards 30 GW by FY30

FY25 was a transformative year for JSW Energy Ltd (JSWE), as it reached 10 GW+ of installed capacity and ~30 GW of locked-in capacity.

Axis Direct

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