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

Victory Giant Technology (HuiZhou) / Index Rebalance

Victory Giant Technology (HuiZhou) (2476 HK)

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<li>There could be 55 potential inclusions and 14 potential deletions for the Hang Seng Composite Index in September. There are more stocks that are close on market cap/liquidity.</li>
<li>A lot of the potential adds are very recently listed stocks that have a limited trading history. The low free float could lead to price spikes in the stocks.</li>
<li>There are stocks that have a very high percentage of holdings via Stock Connect and there could be some unwinding prior to the stocks becoming Sell-only.</li>
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There could be 55 potential inclusions and 14 potential deletions for the Hang Seng Composite Index in September. There are more stocks that are close on market cap/liquidity.
A lot of the potential adds are very recently listed stocks that have a limited trading history. The low free float could lead to price spikes in the stocks.
There are stocks that have a very high percentage of holdings via Stock Connect and there could be some unwinding prior to the stocks becoming Sell-only.


HSCI Index Rebalance Preview and Stock Connect (Sep 2026): Adds Outnumber Deletes as IPOs Dominate

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

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sk-hynix-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16955:1" rel="noopener">SK Hynix (000660 KS)</a> (SKH), a leading global memory producer, aims to raise up to US$27bn via an ADR listing.</li>
<li>We have looked at the past performance and other deal dynamics in our previous notes.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the recent updates and deal dynamics.</li>
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SK Hynix (000660 KS) (SKH), a leading global memory producer, aims to raise up to US$27bn via an ADR listing.
We have looked at the past performance and other deal dynamics in our previous notes.
In this note, we talk about the recent updates and deal dynamics.


Aequitas: SK Hynix US$27bn ADR Listing - Discount Has Already Been Narrowing

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.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 189 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 85.5% as of Jul 3rd.</li>
<li>The average A-H premium changed by 0.4ppt week-on-week, led by consumer staples, health care, energy and offset by utilities, consumer discretionary, materials.</li>
<li>We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for China Longyuan, Psbc, Cicc, Yangtze Optical Fibre And-H, Midea, Ceb Bank.</li>
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We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 189 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 85.5% as of Jul 3rd.
The average A-H premium changed by 0.4ppt week-on-week, led by consumer staples, health care, energy and offset by utilities, consumer discretionary, materials.
We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for China Longyuan, Psbc, Cicc, Yangtze Optical Fibre And-H, Midea, Ceb Bank.


A-H Premium Weekly (Jul 3rd): China Longyuan, Psbc, Cicc, Yangtze Optical Fibre And-H, Midea

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<li>We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Jun 26th.</li>
<li>Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period.</li>
<li>We highlight short changes in Zijin Mining, Kingboard Laminates, Tencent, Alibaba, AIA, Sunny Optical, Vgt, Wuxi Xdc Cayman, Montage Tech, Guming.</li>
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We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Jun 26th.
Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period.
We highlight short changes in Zijin Mining, Kingboard Laminates, Tencent, Alibaba, AIA, Sunny Optical, Vgt, Wuxi Xdc Cayman, Montage Tech, Guming.


HK Short Interest Weekly: Zijin Mining, Kingboard Laminates, Tencent, Alibaba, AIA, Sunny Optical

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<li>We analyze the weekly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of July 3rd.</li>
<li>The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market, HSCEI, mid cap and s/mid cap groups.</li>
<li>We highlight flows for Kingboard Laminates, Smic, Alibaba, Kingboard, China Mobile, Hua Hong Semi, Knowledge Atlas, Xiaomi, Meituan, Ping An.</li>
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We analyze the weekly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of July 3rd.
The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market, HSCEI, mid cap and s/mid cap groups.
We highlight flows for Kingboard Laminates, Smic, Alibaba, Kingboard, China Mobile, Hua Hong Semi, Knowledge Atlas, Xiaomi, Meituan, Ping An.


HK Connect Flows Weekly (Jul 3rd): Kingboard Laminates, Smic, Alibaba, Kingboard, China Mobile

China

Montage Technology is an integrated circuit (IC) design company that provides IC-based solutions for cloud computing and AI infrastructure and data centers. The company offers components for memory modules, PCIe retimers, CXL Memory eXpander Controllers, clock chips, and the Jintide server platform. Montage Technology was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

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Montage Technology (6809 HK)

HSCI Index Rebalance Preview and Stock Connect (Sep 2026): Adds Outnumber Deletes as IPOs Dominate

There could be 80 changes for the HSCI in March. That could result in 70 changes to the Southbound Stock Connect list and also have implications...

Brian Freitas

Aequitas: SK Hynix US$27bn ADR Listing - Discount Has Already Been Narrowing

SK Hynix (000660 KS) (SKH), a leading global memory producer, aims to raise up to US$27bn via an ADR listing. In this note, we talk about the deal...

Sumeet Singh

A-H Premium Weekly (Jul 3rd): China Longyuan, Psbc, Cicc, Yangtze Optical Fibre And-H, Midea

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for China Longyuan, Psbc, Cicc, Yangtze Optical Fibre And-H,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

HK Short Interest Weekly: Zijin Mining, Kingboard Laminates, Tencent, Alibaba, AIA, Sunny Optical

We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Jun 26th and highlight short interest changes in Zijin Mining (2899 HK),...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

HK Connect Flows Weekly (Jul 3rd): Kingboard Laminates, Smic, Alibaba, Kingboard, China Mobile

We analyzed southbound Hong Kong connect flows in the past week and highlighted flows for Kingboard Laminates (1888 HK), Smic (981 HK), Alibaba...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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