APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

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

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<li>In this note, we will take a look at the performance of bookrunners for Korean placements from 2019-2022. </li>
<li>The following dataset includes all Korean placements above US$100m for the period of Calendar Years 2019-2022, which amounted to a total of <strong>29 deals</strong>.</li>
<li>The deals you see in this note are based on our historical placements tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on any of these placements.</li>
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In this note, we will take a look at the performance of bookrunners for Korean placements from 2019-2022. 
The following dataset includes all Korean placements above US$100m for the period of Calendar Years 2019-2022, which amounted to a total of 29 deals.
The deals you see in this note are based on our historical placements tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on any of these placements.


Aequitas Korea Placements Bookrunner Performance (2019-2022)

<ul>
<li>In this note, we will take a look at bookrunner performance for Korean IPOs from 2021-2022. </li>
<li>The following dataset includes all Korean IPOs above US$100m for the period of Calendar Years 2021-2022, which amounted to a total of <strong>11 deals</strong>.</li>
<li>The deals you see in this note are based on our historical IPO tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on any of these IPOs.</li>
</ul>


In this note, we will take a look at bookrunner performance for Korean IPOs from 2021-2022. 
The following dataset includes all Korean IPOs above US$100m for the period of Calendar Years 2021-2022, which amounted to a total of 11 deals.
The deals you see in this note are based on our historical IPO tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on any of these IPOs.


Aequitas Korea IPOs Bookrunner Performance (2021-2022)

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>There are 7 adds and 7 deletes for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/korea-stock-exchange-kospi-200-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26021:1" rel="noopener">Korea Stock Exchange Kospi 200 Index (KOSPI2 INDEX)</a> rebalance to be implemented at the close on 9 June.</li>
<li>There are also a bunch of stocks that will have changes applied to their free float. There were announced last week and are much less tracked.</li>
<li>The flows and impact on some of the float change names are significant and pre-positioning and passive flows could move the stocks over the next few days.</li>
</ul>


There are 7 adds and 7 deletes for the Korea Stock Exchange Kospi 200 Index (KOSPI2 INDEX) rebalance to be implemented at the close on 9 June.
There are also a bunch of stocks that will have changes applied to their free float. There were announced last week and are much less tracked.
The flows and impact on some of the float change names are significant and pre-positioning and passive flows could move the stocks over the next few days.


KOSPI200 Index Rebalance: Float Changes, Flows & Trades

Korea / Special Situations, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Situations

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

Event-Driven

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<li>The KRX officially announced the float rate changes of the KOSPI 200 constituents at this June rebalancing: 11 increases and 5 decreases.</li>
<li>Kakao Bank has the most significant change of 43%p, followed by Krafton and Woori Financial. NH Investment and HD Infracore will suffer a drop of 9%p.</li>
<li>As for passive flow x ADTV, Kakao Bank leads the pack at 2.95x, followed by Kakao Pay (1.15x). NH Investment and Korea Gas will face a noticeable outflow.</li>
</ul>


The KRX officially announced the float rate changes of the KOSPI 200 constituents at this June rebalancing: 11 increases and 5 decreases.
Kakao Bank has the most significant change of 43%p, followed by Krafton and Woori Financial. NH Investment and HD Infracore will suffer a drop of 9%p.
As for passive flow x ADTV, Kakao Bank leads the pack at 2.95x, followed by Kakao Pay (1.15x). NH Investment and Korea Gas will face a noticeable outflow.


KOSPI 200 Official Announcement: Float Rate Changes (11 Up & 5 Down)

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<li>Trading for price gain by building a position 2-3 weeks before the dividend record date and selling it before the ex-dividend date provides better performance than directly aiming at dividends.</li>
<li>There are signs that this pattern will repeat itself this year. Already, local financial stocks have outperformed the market this month.</li>
<li>Even from now, we can consider building an outright long position on these dividend stocks in a basket and getting out before (or at) the dividend record date.</li>
</ul>


Trading for price gain by building a position 2-3 weeks before the dividend record date and selling it before the ex-dividend date provides better performance than directly aiming at dividends.
There are signs that this pattern will repeat itself this year. Already, local financial stocks have outperformed the market this month.
Even from now, we can consider building an outright long position on these dividend stocks in a basket and getting out before (or at) the dividend record date.


Korea Dividend Stocks: Yearend Trading Approach

South Korea

NH Investment & Securities Co., Ltd. provides brokerage, underwriting, and securities dealing services.  The Company's offerings include financial advisory service, online trading, corporate financing, research, foreign exchange service, beneficiary certificates, investment consulting, financial derivatives, bonds, and mutual funds.

NH Investment & Securities Co (005945 KS)

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Aequitas Korea Placements Bookrunner Performance (2019-2022)

In this note, we will take a look at the performance of bookrunners for Korean placements from 2019-2022, which includes all Korean placements...

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Aequitas Korea IPOs Bookrunner Performance (2021-2022)

In this note, we will take a look at bookrunner performance for Korean IPOs from 2021-2022, which includes all Korean IPOs above US$100m, amounting...

Ethan Aw

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There are significant flows and impact on some stocks that have float changes at the upcoming KOSPI2 rebalance. With over 5 days ADV to buy,...

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KOSPI 200 Official Announcement: Float Rate Changes (11 Up & 5 Down)

This post details the official results of the KOSPI 200 float rate changes in the upcoming June rebalancing, which will be effective next Friday.

Sanghyun Park

Korea Dividend Stocks: Yearend Trading Approach

This post lists the dividend yields of the high-dividend stocks (> 5%) in Korea at today's closing price. And it discusses yearend trading...

Sanghyun Park

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