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 Index Maintenance Sub-Committee of NSE Indices will meet on 21 February to conduct a semi-annual and quarterly review of stocks in various Nifty equity indices.</li>
<li>The changes will be announced after market close tomorrow and will be implemented at the close of trading on 28 March.</li>
<li>Based on the forecast index changes and capping changes for a few indices, the round-trip trade will be over US$2.5bn and many stocks will have over 0.5x ADV to trade.</li>
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The Index Maintenance Sub-Committee of NSE Indices will meet on 21 February to conduct a semi-annual and quarterly review of stocks in various Nifty equity indices.
The changes will be announced after market close tomorrow and will be implemented at the close of trading on 28 March.
Based on the forecast index changes and capping changes for a few indices, the round-trip trade will be over US$2.5bn and many stocks will have over 0.5x ADV to trade.


India: March Rebalance Announcement Tomorrow; Round-Trip Trade Over US$2.5bn

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

Dr Agarwal's Health Care Ltd / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/dr-agarwal-s-health-care-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43984:1" rel="noopener">Dr Agarwal's Health Care Ltd (8140044Z IN)</a> raised around US$350m in its India IPO.</li>
<li>Dr Agarwal’s Health Care is a healthcare/hospital chain in India providing eyecare services, including surgeries; consultations, diagnoses, non-surgical treatments; and sells opticals, contact lens, accessories and eyecare related pharmaceutical products.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance and valuations in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
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Dr Agarwal's Health Care Ltd (8140044Z IN) raised around US$350m in its India IPO.
Dr Agarwal’s Health Care is a healthcare/hospital chain in India providing eyecare services, including surgeries; consultations, diagnoses, non-surgical treatments; and sells opticals, contact lens, accessories and eyecare related pharmaceutical products.
We have looked at the company’s past performance and valuations in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.


Dr Agarwal’s Healthcare IPO Trading - Decent Anchor Demand but Subdued Overall Coverage

India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic, Beat the Street

Sudarshan Bhandari

India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic

Beat the Street

Beat The Street was founded by Nimish Maheshwari and Sudarshan Bhandari, both of whom are Chartered Accountants by Profession, known for their expert analysis in the fields of Business, Sectoral analysis, and Corporate governance.

With a strong social media presence of 45,000+ Subscribers across various platforms, they are considered trusted voices in the industry. Their insights and analysis have been featured in some of India’s most prominent publications, including the Economic Times, Dalal Street Investment Journal, The Morning Context, and The Ken.

Their analysis on Bankrupt & Insolvent companies has been instrumental in saving investors from significant losses. They have a keen eye for identifying red flags and has identified exclusive redflags earlier in Vedanta, Nykaa, Dhani Services, Adani and many more.

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>IndiaAI Mission is set to launch a GPU access portal for startups and researchers, with procurement bids from major firms like Jio Platforms and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tata-communications-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:20892:1" rel="noopener">Tata Communications (TCOM IN) </a>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/jefferies-financial-group-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:17648:1" rel="noopener">Jefferies Financial Group (JEF US)</a>  expects ITC Hotels to experience $190 million in fund outflows due to ETF selling and BAT's planned stake sale. </li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/larsen-toubro-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:2499:1" rel="noopener">Larsen &amp; Toubro (LT IN)</a> secures an $80 million multi-year deal with a US-based manufacturer to drive digital transformation using advanced technologies. </li>
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IndiaAI Mission is set to launch a GPU access portal for startups and researchers, with procurement bids from major firms like Jio Platforms and Tata Communications (TCOM IN) 


Jefferies Financial Group (JEF US)  expects ITC Hotels to experience $190 million in fund outflows due to ETF selling and BAT's planned stake sale. 

Larsen &amp; Toubro (LT IN) secures an $80 million multi-year deal with a US-based manufacturer to drive digital transformation using advanced technologies. 


#95 India Insight: IndiaAI to Launch GPU Portal, ITC Hotels Faces ETF Outflows, L&T Secures Deal

Derivatives and Quantitative Strategist

Gaudenz Schneider

Equity Derivatives

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nifty-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23617:1" rel="noopener">NIFTY Index</a> implied volatility could be seen as rich when compared to its own history and in comparison to realized volatility.</li>
<li>Putting implied volatility into context with <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nifty-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23617:1" rel="noopener">NIFTY Index</a> market levels and trends will lead to a different conclusion. Implied volatility is not nearly as rich as conventional measures suggest.</li>
<li>This Insight provides a quantitative indication at which price implied volatility can be assessed as rich, given current relative index levels.</li>
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NIFTY Index implied volatility could be seen as rich when compared to its own history and in comparison to realized volatility.
Putting implied volatility into context with NIFTY Index market levels and trends will lead to a different conclusion. Implied volatility is not nearly as rich as conventional measures suggest.
This Insight provides a quantitative indication at which price implied volatility can be assessed as rich, given current relative index levels.


EQD | Nifty 50 Option Strategy - Implied Volatility Is Not as Rich as It Seems

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<li>Indian media firms, including NDTV, Network18, and the Indian Express, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of scraping their content to train AI models without proper copyright permission.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/larsen-toubro-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:2499:1" rel="noopener">Larsen &amp; Toubro (LT IN)</a>  lost a Rs 70,000 crore tender for building six submarines after its bid was deemed non-compliant by the Defence Ministry.</li>
<li>UBS is in advanced talks with India's 360 One WAM to form a joint venture aimed at expanding its wealth management presence in India, a rapidly growing market for HNI.</li>
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Indian media firms, including NDTV, Network18, and the Indian Express, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of scraping their content to train AI models without proper copyright permission.

Larsen &amp; Toubro (LT IN)  lost a Rs 70,000 crore tender for building six submarines after its bid was deemed non-compliant by the Defence Ministry.
UBS is in advanced talks with India's 360 One WAM to form a joint venture aimed at expanding its wealth management presence in India, a rapidly growing market for HNI.


#93 India Insight: Indian Media Sues OpenAI, L&T Loses Submarine Tender, UBS Explores JV in India.

India

Larsen & Toubro Ltd manufactures engineering equipment, undertakes large scale engineering projects, and acts as the Indian representative for a number of overseas manufacturers of heavy machinery. The Company's products include bulldozers, road rollers, dairy machinery, chemical and pharmaceutical plants, switchgears, food processing machinery and feed milling plants.

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Sudarshan Bhandari

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India: March Rebalance Announcement Tomorrow; Round-Trip Trade Over US$2.5bn

The March changes for the Nifty indices will be announced tomorrow. There are changes forecast for most indices with large AUM. Round-trip trade...

Brian Freitas

Dr Agarwal’s Healthcare IPO Trading - Decent Anchor Demand but Subdued Overall Coverage

Dr Agarwal’s Healthcare raised around US$350m in its India IPO. In this note, we will talk about the demand and trading dynamics.

Akshat Shah

#95 India Insight: IndiaAI to Launch GPU Portal, ITC Hotels Faces ETF Outflows, L&T Secures Deal

​IndiaAI Mission launches GPU access portal for startups/researchers with bids from major firms; ITC Hotels faces fund outflows, Larsen & Toubro...

Sudarshan Bhandari

EQD | Nifty 50 Option Strategy - Implied Volatility Is Not as Rich as It Seems

​Implied volatility of the Nifty 50 Index may seem rich historically, but when compared to market levels, it's not as high as it appears.

Gaudenz Schneider

#93 India Insight: Indian Media Sues OpenAI, L&T Loses Submarine Tender, UBS Explores JV in India.

​Indian media firms sue OpenAI for allegedly scraping content without permission, Larsen & Toubro loses submarine bid, UBS in talks for wealth...

Sudarshan Bhandari

IndiaAI Mission launches GPU access portal for startups/researchers with bids from major firms; ITC Hotels faces fund outflows, Larsen & Toubro...

Implied volatility of the Nifty 50 Index may seem rich historically, but when compared to market levels, it's not as high as it appears.

Indian media firms sue OpenAI for allegedly scraping content without permission, Larsen & Toubro loses submarine bid, UBS in talks for wealth...