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>We can consider three types of dividend stocks, targeting the March 31 dividend base date: 1. 1Q fiscal year-ending dividends, 2. Interim (quarterly) dividends, 3. REITs regular dividends</li>
<li>The ex-dividend price corrections of fiscal year-ending dividend stocks have been pretty tight recently. In addition, the futures basis has not reached a desirable level either.</li>
<li>So, either outright dividend trading or dividend arb play does not have much trade opening. So, I'd consider setting up a long/short basket trading, by focusing on high DTV ones.</li>
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We can consider three types of dividend stocks, targeting the March 31 dividend base date: 1. 1Q fiscal year-ending dividends, 2. Interim (quarterly) dividends, 3. REITs regular dividends
The ex-dividend price corrections of fiscal year-ending dividend stocks have been pretty tight recently. In addition, the futures basis has not reached a desirable level either.
So, either outright dividend trading or dividend arb play does not have much trade opening. So, I'd consider setting up a long/short basket trading, by focusing on high DTV ones.


KOSPI/KOSDAQ End-March Dividends: 1Q Fiscal Year-Ending, Interim(Quarterly), & REITs

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<li>The KFSC officially unveiled revisions to the guidelines on corporate governance disclosure. The key to these revisions is to regulate the equity carve-out (ECO).</li>
<li>These protection measures may include granting PREEMPTIVE or/and APPRAISAL rights to the parent company shareholders in a post-ECO listing.
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<li>There will be high potential for short-term momentum for POSCO, which has already decided ECO, and SK Innovation (SK On), whose post-ECO listing is practically a foregone conclusion.</li>
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The KFSC officially unveiled revisions to the guidelines on corporate governance disclosure. The key to these revisions is to regulate the equity carve-out (ECO).
These protection measures may include granting PREEMPTIVE or/and APPRAISAL rights to the parent company shareholders in a post-ECO listing.

There will be high potential for short-term momentum for POSCO, which has already decided ECO, and SK Innovation (SK On), whose post-ECO listing is practically a foregone conclusion.


Preemptive/Appraisal Rights to Parent Company Shareholders in ECO Listing in Korea

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<li>There are 71 interim dividend stocks on KOSPI and KOSDAQ. Of these, 9 stocks pay quarterly dividends: 7 KOSPI and 2 KOSDAQ.</li>
<li>All except POSCO and Shinhan Financial employ an equal quarterly split. As expected, SKT offers the highest quarterly dividend yield. At the last closing price, it is 1.55%.</li>
<li>Since the absolute yield level is tight, it may not be appropriate to consider a dividend arb play, except for SKT. Nevertheless, it may act as short-term price momentum.</li>
</ul>


There are 71 interim dividend stocks on KOSPI and KOSDAQ. Of these, 9 stocks pay quarterly dividends: 7 KOSPI and 2 KOSDAQ.
All except POSCO and Shinhan Financial employ an equal quarterly split. As expected, SKT offers the highest quarterly dividend yield. At the last closing price, it is 1.55%.
Since the absolute yield level is tight, it may not be appropriate to consider a dividend arb play, except for SKT. Nevertheless, it may act as short-term price momentum.


KOSPI/KOSDAQ Quarterly Dividend Stocks: DPS & Yield Estimations

Research on Tech Companies

Evelyn Zhang

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Prices for Neon have been rising rapidly recently, in the short term, global semiconductor companies have 6 months inventory of the noble gas.</li>
<li>China, as a major steel producer, has mature purification technology and production process for these noble gases,  around 30% of noble gases for wafers above 8-inch  are Chinese suppliers. </li>
<li>It takes 3 to 6 months to find replacement due to the complex process of chip lithography; this crisis will accelerate the domestic substitution  of Chinese semiconductor material manufacturers.</li>
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Prices for Neon have been rising rapidly recently, in the short term, global semiconductor companies have 6 months inventory of the noble gas.
China, as a major steel producer, has mature purification technology and production process for these noble gases,  around 30% of noble gases for wafers above 8-inch  are Chinese suppliers. 
It takes 3 to 6 months to find replacement due to the complex process of chip lithography; this crisis will accelerate the domestic substitution  of Chinese semiconductor material manufacturers.


How Semiconductor Supply Chain in China Stands to Benefit from Ukraine Crisis

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust / Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-mobile-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27:1" rel="noopener">China Mobile (941 HK)</a> announced it would start executing on its buyback mandate (10% of H-shares out (2.047bn shares). This is potentially enormous. And absolutely praise-worthy.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/mapletree-commercial-trust" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:106:1" rel="noopener">Mapletree Commercial Trust (MCT SP)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/mapletree-north-asia-commercial-trust" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:5127:1" rel="noopener">Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust (MAGIC SP)</a> prospective merger means a lot of flow. Lots and lots of flow. </li>
<li>The market was assigning ₩18bn (₩232,000/share) less for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lg-chem-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:3583:1" rel="noopener">LG Chem (051910 KS)</a> stub ops since December 2020, when the battery business division (<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lg-energy-solution" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33464:1" rel="noopener">LG Energy Solution (LGENERGY KS)</a>) was carved out.</li>
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China Mobile (941 HK) announced it would start executing on its buyback mandate (10% of H-shares out (2.047bn shares). This is potentially enormous. And absolutely praise-worthy.
The Mapletree Commercial Trust (MCT SP) and Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust (MAGIC SP) prospective merger means a lot of flow. Lots and lots of flow. 
The market was assigning ₩18bn (₩232,000/share) less for LG Chem (051910 KS) stub ops since December 2020, when the battery business division (LG Energy Solution (LGENERGY KS)) was carved out.


Last Week in Event SPACE: Mapletree Merger, China Mobile, LG Chem, China Logistics

South Korea

POSCO manufactures various types of steel products.  The Company produces hot rolled steel, cold rolled steel, stainless steel, and other forms of steel. The products are mainly used for automobile, construction, and shipbuilding industries.

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Sanghyun Park

Preemptive/Appraisal Rights to Parent Company Shareholders in ECO Listing in Korea

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