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

Shenton Research

Shenton 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.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash and hired underwriters for a Shanghai IPO. US agencies and Anthropic separately accused Chinese labs of extracting US model outputs.</li>
<li>OpenAI published a proposed Navier-Stokes proof and opened its Agents API beta. Xiaomi introduced MiMo Desktop for invited users.</li>
<li>Zhipu proposed USD 5bn of financing. Cognition announced a larger USD 2bn round, while Nvidia discussed an Anthropic IPO anchor investment.</li>
</ul>


DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash and hired underwriters for a Shanghai IPO. US agencies and Anthropic separately accused Chinese labs of extracting US model outputs.
OpenAI published a proposed Navier-Stokes proof and opened its Agents API beta. Xiaomi introduced MiMo Desktop for invited users.
Zhipu proposed USD 5bn of financing. Cognition announced a larger USD 2bn round, while Nvidia discussed an Anthropic IPO anchor investment.


This Week in AI (Sep 6-12): DeepSeek V4.1-Flash and IPO; OpenAI's Astra Solves NS Equation

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 review period for the June rebalance of the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hang-seng-tech-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31367:1" rel="noopener">Hang Seng TECH Index</a> ended on 31 March, the changes will be announced on 22 May and implemented on 5 June.</li>
<li>2 constituent changes and capping changes will result in a one-way turnover of 3.5% resulting in a round-trip trade of HK$24bn (US$3.1bn).</li>
<li>The forecast adds have benefited from the AI theme while the forecast deletes have dropped as software application companies continue to be hit by expected AI disruption to business models.</li>
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The review period for the June rebalance of the Hang Seng TECH Index ended on 31 March, the changes will be announced on 22 May and implemented on 5 June.
2 constituent changes and capping changes will result in a one-way turnover of 3.5% resulting in a round-trip trade of HK$24bn (US$3.1bn).
The forecast adds have benefited from the AI theme while the forecast deletes have dropped as software application companies continue to be hit by expected AI disruption to business models.


HSTECH Index Rebalance Preview: Style Rotation Drives AI Additions & Software Deletions

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.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and capital markets this week: a leaked OpenAI memo reopens the Anthropic-vs-OpenAI revenue debate ahead of both listings.</li>
<li>Claude Opus 4.7 shipped and continues Opus 4.6's top SWE-bench Pro position, with a silent API price lift via a new tokenizer; OpenAI lost three senior executives.</li>
<li>Cerebras filed publicly for a Nasdaq IPO; DeepSeek opened its first external fundraise; SenseTime placed HK$32bn; Stepfun restructured to list in Hong Kong.</li>
</ul>


We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and capital markets this week: a leaked OpenAI memo reopens the Anthropic-vs-OpenAI revenue debate ahead of both listings.
Claude Opus 4.7 shipped and continues Opus 4.6's top SWE-bench Pro position, with a silent API price lift via a new tokenizer; OpenAI lost three senior executives.
Cerebras filed publicly for a Nasdaq IPO; DeepSeek opened its first external fundraise; SenseTime placed HK$32bn; Stepfun restructured to list in Hong Kong.


This Week in AI (Apr 12-18): Anthropic/OpenAI Rivalry Intensifies; Opus 4.7; Cerebras IPO Filing

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<li>We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and M&amp;A this week: OpenAI and Anthropic refreshed frontier models while Moonshot started its Hong Kong IPO process.</li>
<li>MiniMax powered HUMAIN's Arabic sovereign model, Alibaba refreshed Qwen, and Artificial Analysis kept new US frontier releases at the top of the ranking.</li>
<li>Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, Anthropic expanded compute financing, and AI infrastructure demand flowed through hyperscalers, hardware vendors, chips and memory.</li>
</ul>


We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and M&amp;A this week: OpenAI and Anthropic refreshed frontier models while Moonshot started its Hong Kong IPO process.
MiniMax powered HUMAIN's Arabic sovereign model, Alibaba refreshed Qwen, and Artificial Analysis kept new US frontier releases at the top of the ranking.
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, Anthropic expanded compute financing, and AI infrastructure demand flowed through hyperscalers, hardware vendors, chips and memory.


This Week in AI (Aug 30-Sep 5): GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 in Same Week; Moonshot Files IPO

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

Suzhou Dongshan Precision A / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/suzhou-dongshan-precision-a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:8796:1" rel="noopener">Suzhou Dongshan Precision A (002384 CH)</a> (SDPM), a global PCB and other component provider, aims to raise up to US$3bn in its H-share listing.</li>
<li>SDPM was the third largest PCB supplier and seventh largest global transceiver supplier by revenue in 2025, according to CIC.</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>
</ul>



Suzhou Dongshan Precision A (002384 CH) (SDPM), a global PCB and other component provider, aims to raise up to US$3bn in its H-share listing.
SDPM was the third largest PCB supplier and seventh largest global transceiver supplier by revenue in 2025, according to CIC.
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: Suzhou Dongshan Precision A/H Listing - PHIP Updates and Thoughts on A/H Premium

China

MiniMax Group is an artificial intelligence company that develops multimodal AI models and consumer applications. Its offerings include AI character apps like Talkie and Xingye, and video-generation services such as Hailuo AI. The company also creates proprietary foundation models capable of understanding, generating, and integrating various modalities including text, audio, images, video, and music. Headquartered in Shanghai, China, MiniMax was founded in December 2021.

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This Week in AI (Sep 6-12): DeepSeek V4.1-Flash and IPO; OpenAI's Astra Solves NS Equation

This week in AI: DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash and hires Shanghai IPO underwriters. US agencies and Anthropic accuse Chinese labs of model...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

HSTECH Index Rebalance Preview: Style Rotation Drives AI Additions & Software Deletions

The 2 constituent changes and capping changes will result in a one-way turnover of 3.5% and in a round-trip trade of HK$24bn as the market rotates...

Brian Freitas

This Week in AI (Apr 12-18): Anthropic/OpenAI Rivalry Intensifies; Opus 4.7; Cerebras IPO Filing

This week in AI: leaked OpenAI memo alleged Anthropic inflated revenue; Opus 4.7 continues the Opus series top benchmark spot with a silent API...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

This Week in AI (Aug 30-Sep 5): GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 in Same Week; Moonshot Files IPO

This week in AI: GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 arrive together; Nvidia buys Hugging Face for USD 12.93bn; Moonshot files for a Hong Kong IPO.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Aequitas: Suzhou Dongshan Precision A/H Listing - PHIP Updates and Thoughts on A/H Premium

Suzhou Dongshan Precision (002384 CH), a global PCB and other component provider, aims to raise up to US$3bn in its H-share listing. In this note,...

Sumeet Singh

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