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 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>
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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)

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Private Capital Markets

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<li>There is a strong possibility of the launch of corporate growth fund private companies ETFs in Korea in 2023. </li>
<li>Once government gives final approval to launch the unlisted Korean companies ETFs in 2023, there is likely to be much greater interest in investing and researching in private Korean companies.</li>
<li>Starting next year, there is a strong probability that we will spend a lot more time on researching and writing about these promising, private companies in Korea. </li>
</ul>


There is a strong possibility of the launch of corporate growth fund private companies ETFs in Korea in 2023. 
Once government gives final approval to launch the unlisted Korean companies ETFs in 2023, there is likely to be much greater interest in investing and researching in private Korean companies.
Starting next year, there is a strong probability that we will spend a lot more time on researching and writing about these promising, private companies in Korea. 


Launch Of Unlisted Korean Companies ETFs in 2023 & How Our Smartkarma Research Would Change

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.

Index Rebalance

<ul>
<li>FnGuide Samsung Group has the most AUM among locally themed indexes. As of last Friday's closing price, AUM is ₩1.52T.</li>
<li>The share price movements of Samsung Group affiliates basically show high cointegration. Therefore, a small differential impact on the flow significantly affects the short-term price direction of these stocks. </li>
<li>So, we should consider a long/short setup on a swing trading window. Particularly, we need to focus on the first two trading days, when the rebalancing impact is relatively significant.</li>
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FnGuide Samsung Group has the most AUM among locally themed indexes. As of last Friday's closing price, AUM is ₩1.52T.
The share price movements of Samsung Group affiliates basically show high cointegration. Therefore, a small differential impact on the flow significantly affects the short-term price direction of these stocks. 
So, we should consider a long/short setup on a swing trading window. Particularly, we need to focus on the first two trading days, when the rebalancing impact is relatively significant.


FnGuide Samsung Group Index Rebalancing Preview

Event-Driven

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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

<p>The closing date for the stock market this year is December 30 (Thursday). So, <strong>the ex-dividend date</strong> for the fourth quarter and fiscal year-end (for the December settlement companies) is <strong>December 29</strong> (Wednesday).</p><p>Among local stocks that have consistently paid dividends over the past three years, stocks with a <strong>dividend yield of 4%</strong> or higher at this point based on the FnGuide consensus DPS are as follows. Breaking down by industry, there are many financial and steel/chemical stocks in the list, which, of course, isn't surprising at all.</p><div class="content-highlight"><p>The stocks highlighted in yellow in the list below (POSCO and Shinhan Financial) are stocks that pay quarterly dividends. And the stocks highlighted in red (Hana Financial and KB Financial) pay interim dividends.</p></div><section class="figure"><section class="figure"><figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"><img src="https://static-prod.smartkarma.com/images/media/000/240/690/original/Screen+Shot+2021-11-09+at+9.27.33+AM.png?1636468072" class="editor-image img-responsive" data-smartkarma-image-id="240690"></figure></section></section>

The closing date for the stock market this year is December 30 (Thursday). So, the ex-dividend date for the fourth quarter and fiscal year-end (for the December settlement companies) is December 29 (Wednesday).Among local stocks that have consistently paid dividends over the past three years, stocks with a dividend yield of 4% or higher at this point based on the FnGuide consensus DPS are as follows. Breaking down by industry, there are many financial and steel/chemical stocks in the list, which, of course, isn't surprising at all.The stocks highlighted in yellow in the list below (POSCO and Shinhan Financial) are stocks that pay quarterly dividends. And the stocks highlighted in red (Hana Financial and KB Financial) pay interim dividends.

Korea Dividend Stocks: +4% Yearend Yield & +50% YoY Growth with +₩10B ADTV

South Korea

Samsung Securities Co.,Ltd. provides personalized asset management services. The Company provides brokerage, investment trust, underwriting services, and other services. Samsung Securities also provides cyber trading, mutual funds, asset backed securities issuing, municipal bonds trading services.

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