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.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of KRX stocks as of Sep 4th. The aggregated holding was USD1,642.8bn.</li>
<li>We estimate that foreign flows to be outflows of USD2,855mln. We tabulate the league table for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.</li>
<li>We highlight changes of foreign holdings in SK Hynix, Woori Financial, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Elec (PREF), Samsung SDI.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of KRX stocks as of Sep 4th. The aggregated holding was USD1,642.8bn.
We estimate that foreign flows to be outflows of USD2,855mln. We tabulate the league table for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.
We highlight changes of foreign holdings in SK Hynix, Woori Financial, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Elec (PREF), Samsung SDI.


KRX Foreign Holding Weekly (Sep 4th): SK Hynix, Woori Financial, Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDI

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>We have summarized 2Q24 earnings of major overseas CXO and life science upstream (LSU) companies, which engage in clinical CROs, preclinical CROs, C(D)MOs, and LSU fields.</li><li>We find that those companies’ 2023 earnings growth varied across sub-sectors, with later-stage CXOs performing better than earlystage ones and non-manufacturing CXOs outperforming manufacturing ones.</li><li>However, the performance differences among sub-sectors decreased in 1Q24, and continued to narrow in 2Q24, with earnings of LSU and C(D)MO companies performing better than expected. </li></ul><p><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></p>

We have summarized 2Q24 earnings of major overseas CXO and life science upstream (LSU) companies, which engage in clinical CROs, preclinical CROs, C(D)MOs, and LSU fields.We find that those companies’ 2023 earnings growth varied across sub-sectors, with later-stage CXOs performing better than earlystage ones and non-manufacturing CXOs outperforming manufacturing ones.However, the performance differences among sub-sectors decreased in 1Q24, and continued to narrow in 2Q24, with earnings of LSU and C(D)MO companies performing better than expected. 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.

China Healthcare - Overseas CXO/ Life Science Upstream 2Q24 Review

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

TSE Tokyo Price Index TOPIX / Technical Analysis

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<li>We continue to believe a 1-4-month pullback/consolidation is ongoing. Important supports have been violated, including $110 on MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US) and $41 on MSCI EM (EEM-US).</li>
<li>We're shifting our outlook to neutral on $ACWI after being bullish since early-November 2023. Major price breakdowns combined with deteriorating market dynamics have increased the odds of a topping pattern.</li>
<li>Also downgrading Japan to market weight. 7/25/24 we said "Japan's TOPIX breaking below 2800-2815 is near-term bearish, suggests it could pull back to its long-term uptrend, or worse."</li>
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We continue to believe a 1-4-month pullback/consolidation is ongoing. Important supports have been violated, including $110 on MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US) and $41 on MSCI EM (EEM-US).
We're shifting our outlook to neutral on $ACWI after being bullish since early-November 2023. Major price breakdowns combined with deteriorating market dynamics have increased the odds of a topping pattern.
Also downgrading Japan to market weight. 7/25/24 we said "Japan's TOPIX breaking below 2800-2815 is near-term bearish, suggests it could pull back to its long-term uptrend, or worse."


Downgrading Japan; Stay Defensive; Downgrading Outlook on Global Equities $ACWI to Neutral

<ul>
<li>We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of KRX stocks as of Aug 28th. The aggregated holding was USD1,632.1bn.</li>
<li>We estimate that foreign flows to be outflows of USD5,652mln. We tabulate the league table for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.</li>
<li>We highlight changes of foreign holdings in SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics, Alteogen, Samsung Elec (PREF), Hyundai Motor.</li>
</ul>


We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of KRX stocks as of Aug 28th. The aggregated holding was USD1,632.1bn.
We estimate that foreign flows to be outflows of USD5,652mln. We tabulate the league table for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.
We highlight changes of foreign holdings in SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics, Alteogen, Samsung Elec (PREF), Hyundai Motor.


KRX Foreign Holding Weekly (Aug 28th): SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics, Alteogen, Samsung Elec (PREF)

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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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/wuxi-apptec-co-ltd-class-h" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27795:1" rel="noopener">WuXi AppTec (2359 HK)</a> is looking to raise around US$300m via selling some of its stake in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/wuxi-xdc-cayman-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39917:1" rel="noopener">WuXi XDC (2268 HK)</a>.</li>
<li>Wuxi AppTec has sold a number of times before, although all the past secondary deals since 2025 haven’t done much.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
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WuXi AppTec (2359 HK) is looking to raise around US$300m via selling some of its stake in WuXi XDC (2268 HK).
Wuxi AppTec has sold a number of times before, although all the past secondary deals since 2025 haven’t done much.
In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.


Aequitas: WuXi XDC Placement - Past Deals Have Been Mixed but Has Strong Momentum

South Korea

Samsung Biologics Co.,Ltd. manufactures bio-healthcare products. The Company develops, refines, and distributes biopharmaceutical products.

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KRX Foreign Holding Weekly (Sep 4th): SK Hynix, Woori Financial, Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDI

We analyzed KRX foreign holding data for the past week and highlighted foreign holding changes in SK Hynix, Woori Financial, Samsung Electronics,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

China Healthcare - Overseas CXO/ Life Science Upstream 2Q24 Review

We have summarized 2Q24 earnings of major overseas CXO and life science upstream (LSU) companies, which engage in clinical CROs, preclinical CROs,...

CMB International

Downgrading Japan; Stay Defensive; Downgrading Outlook on Global Equities $ACWI to Neutral

Downgrading Japan TOPIX, Nikkei; Stay Defensive; Downgrading Outlook on Global Equities $ACWI $EEM to Neutral; Many Risk-Off Signals increase odds...

Vermilion Research

KRX Foreign Holding Weekly (Aug 28th): SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics, Alteogen, Samsung Elec (PREF)

We analyzed KRX foreign holding data for the past week and highlighted foreign holding changes in SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics, Alteogen, Samsung...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Aequitas: WuXi XDC Placement - Past Deals Have Been Mixed but Has Strong Momentum

WuXi AppTec (2359 HK) is looking to raise around US$300m via selling some of its stake in WuXi XDC (2268 HK). In this note, we talk about the deal...

Sumeet Singh

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