Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Douglas Research Advisory

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>In this insight, we provide the top 10 stocks picks and key catalysts in the Korean stock market for the two weeks (20 June to 4 July 2025).</li>
<li>Kakaopay was the best performing stock in KOSPI in the past two weeks. It could be a key potential beneficiary of the increased use of stablecoin based system in Korea.</li>
<li>The top 10 picks in this bi-weekly include S&amp;T Holdings, Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung SDS, Samsung Securities, Hyundai Elevator, SK Hynix, Paradise, Hanwha System, Hanwha Aerospace, and Korea Kolmar. </li>
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In this insight, we provide the top 10 stocks picks and key catalysts in the Korean stock market for the two weeks (20 June to 4 July 2025).
Kakaopay was the best performing stock in KOSPI in the past two weeks. It could be a key potential beneficiary of the increased use of stablecoin based system in Korea.
The top 10 picks in this bi-weekly include S&amp;T Holdings, Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung SDS, Samsung Securities, Hyundai Elevator, SK Hynix, Paradise, Hanwha System, Hanwha Aerospace, and Korea Kolmar. 


Top 10 Korean Stock Picks and Key Catalysts Bi-Weekly (20 June to 4 July 2025)

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<li>Some of the Corporate Value Up program's initial guidelines proposed by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) were announced today.</li>
<li>Overall, the initial guidelines were disappointing mainly because they lacked concrete figures with regards to tax incentives for companies that make significant improvements to their corporate governance.</li>
<li>More concrete measures announced today included recommendations for overlapping parent company listing (split listing) and disclosure recommendations for the majority shareholder's profit transfer to an unlisted private company (tunneling).</li>
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Some of the Corporate Value Up program's initial guidelines proposed by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) were announced today.
Overall, the initial guidelines were disappointing mainly because they lacked concrete figures with regards to tax incentives for companies that make significant improvements to their corporate governance.
More concrete measures announced today included recommendations for overlapping parent company listing (split listing) and disclosure recommendations for the majority shareholder's profit transfer to an unlisted private company (tunneling).


Corporate Value Up Program Guidelines Proposed by the FSC - Disappointing & Needs Improvement

Derivatives and Quantitative Strategist

Gaudenz Schneider

Equity Bottom-Up

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Context: This Insight follows up on previously highlighted relative value opportunities, using a statistical methodology based on mean-reversion to identify opportunities in paired securities.</li>
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Highlights: Currently six pair trade opportunities persist across four markets and four sectors.</li>
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Why read: Statistical analysis offers a unique perspective on relative value. Gain insights into actionable statistical pair trade opportunities and monitor performance of previously highlighted pairs.</li>
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Context: This Insight follows up on previously highlighted relative value opportunities, using a statistical methodology based on mean-reversion to identify opportunities in paired securities.

Highlights: Currently six pair trade opportunities persist across four markets and four sectors.

Why read: Statistical analysis offers a unique perspective on relative value. Gain insights into actionable statistical pair trade opportunities and monitor performance of previously highlighted pairs.


Relative Value Opportunities in Asia-Pac, Pair Trade Roundup (31 Aug 2026)

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Context: This Insight follows up on previously highlighted relative value opportunities, using a statistical methodology based on mean-reversion to identify opportunities in paired securities.</li>
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 Highlights: Currently seven pair trade opportunities persist across three markets and five sectors. 
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Why read: Statistical analysis offers a unique perspective on relative value. Gain insights into actionable statistical pair trade opportunities and monitor performance of previously highlighted pairs.</li>
</ul>



Context: This Insight follows up on previously highlighted relative value opportunities, using a statistical methodology based on mean-reversion to identify opportunities in paired securities.

 Highlights: Currently seven pair trade opportunities persist across three markets and five sectors. 


Why read: Statistical analysis offers a unique perspective on relative value. Gain insights into actionable statistical pair trade opportunities and monitor performance of previously highlighted pairs.


Relative Value Opportunities in Asia-Pac, Pair Trade Roundup (24 Aug 2026)

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

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<li>Our overall outlook remains largely unchanged; we remain bullish on global equities as long as the MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US) is above major $93 support.</li>
<li>We also discussed that if the 10-year Treasury yield remains below 4.35% and the DXY is below $105.70, we would continue to expect $93 support on ACWI-US to hold.</li>
<li>The 10-year Treasury yield is attempting to break above 4.35% and this could create a problem for ACWI-US; we will continue to monitor closely.</li>
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Our overall outlook remains largely unchanged; we remain bullish on global equities as long as the MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US) is above major $93 support.
We also discussed that if the 10-year Treasury yield remains below 4.35% and the DXY is below $105.70, we would continue to expect $93 support on ACWI-US to hold.
The 10-year Treasury yield is attempting to break above 4.35% and this could create a problem for ACWI-US; we will continue to monitor closely.


Overweight Value Within Global Ex-U.S. Equities; DXY Below $105.70; Buys in Global Value

South Korea

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd. provides insurance services. The Company offers auto, fire, marine, casualty, health, leisure, and retirement products and services. Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance serves customers in South Korea.

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance (000810 KS)

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Top 10 Korean Stock Picks and Key Catalysts Bi-Weekly (20 June to 4 July 2025)

Top 10 picks in this bi-weekly include S&T Holdings, Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung SDS, Samsung Securities, Hyundai Elevator, SK Hynix, Paradise,...

Douglas Kim

Corporate Value Up Program Guidelines Proposed by the FSC - Disappointing & Needs Improvement

Some of the Corporate Value Up program's initial guidelines proposed by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) were announced today. Overall, the...

Douglas Kim

Relative Value Opportunities in Asia-Pac, Pair Trade Roundup (31 Aug 2026)

Discover six pair trade opportunities across four markets and four sectors using statistical mean-reversion methodology for actionable insights.

Gaudenz Schneider

Relative Value Opportunities in Asia-Pac, Pair Trade Roundup (24 Aug 2026)

Discover seven pair trade opportunities across three markets and five sectors using statistical mean-reversion methodology for actionable insights.

Gaudenz Schneider

Overweight Value Within Global Ex-U.S. Equities; DXY Below $105.70; Buys in Global Value

We're constructive on global equities as long as $ACWI is above $93 support, however, the 10-year Treasury yield $TNX is breaking above 4.35%...

Vermilion Research

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Top 10 Korean Stock Picks and Key Catalysts Bi-Weekly (20 June to 4 July 2025)

Top 10 picks in this bi-weekly include S&T Holdings, Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung SDS, Samsung Securities, Hyundai Elevator, SK Hynix, Paradise,...

Douglas Kim

Corporate Value Up Program Guidelines Proposed by the FSC - Disappointing & Needs Improvement

Some of the Corporate Value Up program's initial guidelines proposed by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) were announced today. Overall, the...

Douglas Kim

Relative Value Opportunities in Asia-Pac, Pair Trade Roundup (31 Aug 2026)

​Discover six pair trade opportunities across four markets and four sectors using statistical mean-reversion methodology for actionable insights.

Gaudenz Schneider

Relative Value Opportunities in Asia-Pac, Pair Trade Roundup (24 Aug 2026)

​Discover seven pair trade opportunities across three markets and five sectors using statistical mean-reversion methodology for actionable insights.

Gaudenz Schneider

Overweight Value Within Global Ex-U.S. Equities; DXY Below $105.70; Buys in Global Value

We're constructive on global equities as long as $ACWI is above $93 support, however, the 10-year Treasury yield $TNX is breaking above 4.35%...

Vermilion Research

Discover six pair trade opportunities across four markets and four sectors using statistical mean-reversion methodology for actionable insights.

Discover seven pair trade opportunities across three markets and five sectors using statistical mean-reversion methodology for actionable insights.