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<ul><li>Pursuit of credit expansion in last days of the year: As of December 20, 2023, YTD credit growth reached 10.85%; remarkably, however, within the span of just 10 days, this figure surged to an impressive 13.7% YoY.</li><li>Put differently, the credit expansion observed in 4Q23 is nearly equivalent to that of 9M23 combined.</li><li>Overall, credit growth in the banking sector has nearly reached the SBV’s lower-bound target of 14-16% YoY. </li></ul><div class="content-highlight"><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></div>

Pursuit of credit expansion in last days of the year: As of December 20, 2023, YTD credit growth reached 10.85%; remarkably, however, within the span of just 10 days, this figure surged to an impressive 13.7% YoY.Put differently, the credit expansion observed in 4Q23 is nearly equivalent to that of 9M23 combined.Overall, credit growth in the banking sector has nearly reached the SBV’s lower-bound target of 14-16% YoY. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Banking Sector - 2023 Update and Outlook - Progress in Motion

<ul><li>The HSX recently announced updates to the component securities (including changes in component stocks and calculation factors) in the VN30 Index, VNDiamond Index, and VNFin Lead Index baskets. In detail, these changes will affect component weighting in specific baskets.</li><li>Thus, ETFs that replicate the respective indexes will also undergo similar structural changes in their baskets of component securities on the rebalancing date.</li><li>For the VN30 Index and VNDiamond Index, there are no changes in any component stocks, only changes in their calculation factors. </li></ul><div class="content-highlight"><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></div>

The HSX recently announced updates to the component securities (including changes in component stocks and calculation factors) in the VN30 Index, VNDiamond Index, and VNFin Lead Index baskets. In detail, these changes will affect component weighting in specific baskets.Thus, ETFs that replicate the respective indexes will also undergo similar structural changes in their baskets of component securities on the rebalancing date.For the VN30 Index and VNDiamond Index, there are no changes in any component stocks, only changes in their calculation factors. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

<ul><li>By end-1Q23, credit growth was low, at 2.1% YTD. This was the second lowest rate since that of 2015, when the domestic banking sector began to recover from the credit crunch in 2012.</li><li>The biggest reason for the low credit growth was the high lending rate.</li><li>In terms of the loan yield of listed banks, lending rates reached the highest level of the past ten years, curbing credit demand from borrowers. </li></ul><div class="content-highlight"><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></div>

By end-1Q23, credit growth was low, at 2.1% YTD. This was the second lowest rate since that of 2015, when the domestic banking sector began to recover from the credit crunch in 2012.The biggest reason for the low credit growth was the high lending rate.In terms of the loan yield of listed banks, lending rates reached the highest level of the past ten years, curbing credit demand from borrowers. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Banking Sector - 1Q23 update and outlook - Return of dovish policies

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

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/saigon-thuong-tin-commercial" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:650:1" rel="noopener">Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial (STB VN)</a> will be deleted from the MVIS Vietnam Index at the close of trading on 17 March.</li>
<li>One-Way turnover is 4.2% and the one-way trade is US$21m. There are two stocks where passive trackers need to buy over 1 day of ADV.</li>
<li>There have been big inflows to the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/market-vectors-vietnam-etf" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:648:1" rel="noopener">Market Vectors Vietnam ETF (VNM US)</a> over the last three months as the index has traded near its lows.</li>
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Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial (STB VN) will be deleted from the MVIS Vietnam Index at the close of trading on 17 March.
One-Way turnover is 4.2% and the one-way trade is US$21m. There are two stocks where passive trackers need to buy over 1 day of ADV.
There have been big inflows to the Market Vectors Vietnam ETF (VNM US) over the last three months as the index has traded near its lows.


MVIS Vietnam Index Rebalance: One Deletion; Float & Capping Changes

Marketing Director, Asia Frontier Capital

Asia Frontier Capital

Marketing Director

Investing in high growth Asian frontier economies.

Asia Frontier Capital Ltd. is a pioneering fund management company based in Hong Kong that specializes in investing in high growth Asian frontier economies by managing the AFC Asia Frontier Fund , AFC Iraq Fund and the AFC Vietnam Fund.

The AFC Asia Frontier Fund invests in public equities of Asian frontier countries that are seeing increasing consumption due to favorable demographic trends, rising incomes and high GDP growth. The fund invests in listed equities of companies that have their principal business activities in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Iraq, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. The AFC Asia Frontier Fund is positioned to take advantage of the continuing economic shifts in these countries and offers high returns combined with significant diversification opportunities. This fund is directed by the founder and CEO of Asia Frontier Capital, Thomas Hugger, who has been investing in frontier markets across Asia and Africa for more than 20 years.

The AFC Iraq Fund was launched on the 26th June 2015 and aims to achieve long-term capital appreciation for investors by capturing value and growth potential in the post conflict high-growth & resource rich Iraq market. The fund emphasises long term investment horizon to truly capture the opportunity in Iraq. The fund's investable universe consists of locally listed companies that have their principal business activities in Iraq as well as foreign listed companies that have the majority of the business in Iraq as a whole including the prosperous Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI). The AFC Iraq Fund offers access to investments in post conflict recovery potential of Iraq, including the KRI, and/or stability in its territory. The AFC Iraq Fund is managed by Asia Frontier Capital (Iraq) Limited, Cayman Islands under the executive leadership team of Thomas Hugger (CEO & Fund Manager) and Ahmed Tabaqchali (CIO) who have more than 47 years of investment experience as well as an extensive background covering global, emerging, frontier and MENA markets.

The AFC Vietnam Fund invests exclusively in listed Vietnamese equities to capture value in growth companies with a focus on the small to medium size companies. This market segment offers a unique investment opportunity as the valuation gap between large- and small-cap stocks in Vietnam is presently much wider than in comparable neighboring markets and the valuations are significantly depressed versus their regional peers. The fund adopts a fundamental-quantitative approach and employs an in-house earnings model to identify attractive companies where we see high growth opportunities. In conjunction with targeting the maximum upside potential the portfolio has been structured to mitigate corporate government and liquidity risks. The fund invests in a diversified portfolio of 70-90 attractively valued companies to carefully control concentration risk.  This approach allows the fund to sell, or buy, positions without having a significant market impact. The fund is directed under the executive leadership of Thomas Hugger and Andreas Vogelsanger who have more than 50 years combined experience managing investments in frontier markets, Asia and around the world.

For more information about the fund, management team and investment strategy please contact us at info@asiafrontiercapital.com.

Cross Asset Strategy

<ul><li>The year began on a strong positive note for global equity markets and most AFC funds also had a positive return at the start of the year.</li><li>Investor sentiment continues to improve as confidence grows that we are at the peak of global inflation and interest rate hikes.</li><li>This was also evident in the less aggressive 25 basis point increase in interest rates by the U.S. Fed on 1st February 2023, as well as less hawkish messaging from the U.S. Fed in the past few weeks.</li></ul>

The year began on a strong positive note for global equity markets and most AFC funds also had a positive return at the start of the year.Investor sentiment continues to improve as confidence grows that we are at the peak of global inflation and interest rate hikes.This was also evident in the less aggressive 25 basis point increase in interest rates by the U.S. Fed on 1st February 2023, as well as less hawkish messaging from the U.S. Fed in the past few weeks.

Asian Frontier Markets Start the Year Strong - Asia Frontier Capital (AFC) - January 2023 Update

Vietnam

Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint-Stock Bank, known as Sacombank, operates various personal and corporate banking services such as deposits, foreign exchange transactions, loans, outward transfer, and international payments.

Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial (STB VN)

Banking Sector - 2023 Update and Outlook - Progress in Motion

As of December 20, 2023, YTD credit growth reached 10.85%; remarkably, however, within the span of just 10 days, this figure surged to an...

Mirae Asset Securities

ETFs Monitor in 1Q24

he HSX recently announced updates to the component securities (including changes in component stocks and calculation factors) in the VN30 Index

Mirae Asset Securities

Banking Sector - 1Q23 update and outlook - Return of dovish policies

By end-1Q23, credit growth was low, at 2.1% YTD. This was the second lowest rate since that of 2015, when the domestic banking sector began to...

Mirae Asset Securities

MVIS Vietnam Index Rebalance: One Deletion; Float & Capping Changes

There is one deletion from the index, plus a bunch of changes to float and capping factors. One-way turnover is 4.2% and passives need to buy over...

Brian Freitas

Asian Frontier Markets Start the Year Strong - Asia Frontier Capital (AFC) - January 2023 Update

The year began on a strong positive note for global equity markets and most AFC funds also had a positive return at the start of the year.

Asia Frontier Capital