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

Biwin Storage Technology / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/biwin-storage-technology-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40391:1" rel="noopener">Biwin Storage Technology (688525 CH) </a>(BST), focuses on the R&amp;D, design, packaging, testing, production, and sales of semiconductor memory, and aims to raise around US$1bn in its H-share listing.</li>
<li>BST is an independent provider of semiconductor memory solutions with expertise across the full technology stack — from controller chip design, memory solution design to advanced packaging and testing.</li>
<li>In this note, we look at its past performance and other deal dynamics that might impact the listing.</li>
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Biwin Storage Technology (688525 CH) (BST), focuses on the R&amp;D, design, packaging, testing, production, and sales of semiconductor memory, and aims to raise around US$1bn in its H-share listing.
BST is an independent provider of semiconductor memory solutions with expertise across the full technology stack — from controller chip design, memory solution design to advanced packaging and testing.
In this note, we look at its past performance and other deal dynamics that might impact the listing.


Aequitas: BIWIN Storage Technology A/H Listing - Strong Memory Revenue Growth but Low Market Share

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>The next rebalance of the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kraneshares-csi-china-internet-etf" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28208:1" rel="noopener">KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF (KWEB US)</a> will take place at the close of trading on 12 June.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-ruyi-holdings-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:3296:1" rel="noopener">China Ruyi (136 HK)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/meitu-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23573:1" rel="noopener">Meitu (1357 HK)</a> will be added to the ETF while <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/healthyway-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39862:1" rel="noopener">HealthyWay (2587 HK)</a> will be deleted.</li>
<li>The ETF did not buy <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/caocao-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:42803:1" rel="noopener">CaoCao (2643 HK)</a> following its inclusion in the index in December and the float increase could result in buying in June.</li>
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The next rebalance of the KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF (KWEB US) will take place at the close of trading on 12 June.

China Ruyi (136 HK) and Meitu (1357 HK) will be added to the ETF while HealthyWay (2587 HK) will be deleted.
The ETF did not buy CaoCao (2643 HK) following its inclusion in the index in December and the float increase could result in buying in June.


KWEB Index Rebalance: China Ruyi, Meitu IN; HealthyWay OUT

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lingyi-itech-guangdong-co" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:19050:1" rel="noopener">Lingyi iTech Guangdong (002600 CH)</a> (002600 CH, LIT), an intelligent manufacturing platform, aims to raise around US$1bn in its H-share listing.</li>
<li>LIT offers a full range of development and manufacturing capabilities that cover core materials, high-precision functional components, modules and assembled systems for diverse end products.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous note. In this note, we talk about the recent updates and likely A/H premium.</li>
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Lingyi iTech Guangdong (002600 CH) (002600 CH, LIT), an intelligent manufacturing platform, aims to raise around US$1bn in its H-share listing.
LIT offers a full range of development and manufacturing capabilities that cover core materials, high-precision functional components, modules and assembled systems for diverse end products.
We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous note. In this note, we talk about the recent updates and likely A/H premium.


Aequitas: Lingyi ITech A/H Listing - PHIP Updates and Thoughts on A/H Premium

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal, Shenton Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China Biotech

DZT Research

DZT Research is an independent Asia Pacific equity specialist. Our quantitative research covers index rebalancing flows, alongside exchange data analytics accross Asia Pacific. On the equity capital markets side, we focus on Asia Pacific ECM, especially biotech and TMT. Our lead analyst is frequently cited by international media.

Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable / Index Rebalance

Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable (601869 CH)

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<li>MSCI announced the quarterly review results on 12 May 2026. As the cycle enters implementation, this note updates the stock setup.</li>
<li>ADD weakness is broad, with CH Mid-vel and CH Low-vel both failing to build bridge support.</li>
<li>DELETEs already sold off, but HK High-vel DELETE still has the weakest first-week implementation profile.</li>
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MSCI announced the quarterly review results on 12 May 2026. As the cycle enters implementation, this note updates the stock setup.
ADD weakness is broad, with CH Mid-vel and CH Low-vel both failing to build bridge support.
DELETEs already sold off, but HK High-vel DELETE still has the weakest first-week implementation profile.


MS-China June 2026 Rebalance: Pre-Implementation Update

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<li>We analyzed the post-announcement return pattern of MSCI China June 2026 rebalance stocks, separating A-share (CH) and H-share (HK) cohorts within both ADD and DELETE groups.</li>
<li>DELETE: pre announcement was positive, but CH and HK High-vel history still supports shorts.</li>
<li>ADD: CH High-vel was stretched; bridging window's history is positive but inconsistent.</li>
</ul>


We analyzed the post-announcement return pattern of MSCI China June 2026 rebalance stocks, separating A-share (CH) and H-share (HK) cohorts within both ADD and DELETE groups.
DELETE: pre announcement was positive, but CH and HK High-vel history still supports shorts.
ADD: CH High-vel was stretched; bridging window's history is positive but inconsistent.


MS-China June 2026 Rebalance: Post-Announcement Trading Pattern Analysis

China

Meitu is an AI-driven technology company specializing in image, video, and design creation software and applications. Its key products include mobile apps like Meitu App, BeautyCam, and Wink, offering photo editing, beauty enhancement, and video editing tools. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Xiamen, China.

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Meitu (1357 HK)

KWEB Index Rebalance: China Ruyi, Meitu IN; HealthyWay OUT

Meitu and China Ruyi are in, HealthyWay is out. Global index trackers sold Meitu in May and may sell China Ruyi in August. The changes in real...

Brian Freitas

Aequitas: Lingyi ITech A/H Listing - PHIP Updates and Thoughts on A/H Premium

Lingyi iTech Guangdong (002600 CH, LIT), an intelligent manufacturing platform, aims to raise around US$1bn in its H-share listing. In this note,...

Sumeet Singh

MS-China June 2026 Rebalance: Pre-Implementation Update

MSCI China enters implementation phase on June 1st. We provides an update to stock's performance and discussed implementation trades.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

MS-China June 2026 Rebalance: Post-Announcement Trading Pattern Analysis

Following MSCI May 2026 announcement, we a look at the trading pattern of affected stocks for MSCI-China from historical perspective by overlaying...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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Aequitas: BIWIN Storage Technology A/H Listing - Strong Memory Revenue Growth but Low Market Share

Biwin Storage Technology (688525 CH) (BST), focuses on the R&D, design, packaging, testing, production, and sales of semiconductor memory, and aims...

Sumeet Singh

KWEB Index Rebalance: China Ruyi, Meitu IN; HealthyWay OUT

Meitu and China Ruyi are in, HealthyWay is out. Global index trackers sold Meitu in May and may sell China Ruyi in August. The changes in real...

Brian Freitas

Aequitas: Lingyi ITech A/H Listing - PHIP Updates and Thoughts on A/H Premium

Lingyi iTech Guangdong (002600 CH, LIT), an intelligent manufacturing platform, aims to raise around US$1bn in its H-share listing. In this note,...

Sumeet Singh

MS-China June 2026 Rebalance: Pre-Implementation Update

MSCI China enters implementation phase on June 1st. We provides an update to stock's performance and discussed implementation trades.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

MS-China June 2026 Rebalance: Post-Announcement Trading Pattern Analysis

Following MSCI May 2026 announcement, we a look at the trading pattern of affected stocks for MSCI-China from historical perspective by overlaying...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM