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

Index Rebalance

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<li>The review period for the December rebalance of the CSI All Share Semiconductor Index ended 31 October.  The changes should be announced on 29 November and implemented on 13 December.</li>
<li>We forecast 12 adds and 6 deletes for the index with a one-way turnover of 2.5% and a one-way trade of CNY 642m (US$90m).</li>
<li>The forecast adds to the index have outperformed the forecast deletes over the last few months with a move higher in the short-term too.</li>
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The review period for the December rebalance of the CSI All Share Semiconductor Index ended 31 October.  The changes should be announced on 29 November and implemented on 13 December.
We forecast 12 adds and 6 deletes for the index with a one-way turnover of 2.5% and a one-way trade of CNY 642m (US$90m).
The forecast adds to the index have outperformed the forecast deletes over the last few months with a move higher in the short-term too.


CSI All Share Semiconductor Index Rebalance Preview: 18 Changes as Adds Outperform

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<li>The big price moves for China stocks in the last month have resulted in quite a few changes to the potential index inclusions and deletions in December.</li>
<li>We now forecast no changes for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sse-science-and-technology-innovation-board-50-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29279:1" rel="noopener">SSE STAR50 (STAR50 INDEX)</a> and 5 changes for the STAR100 Index in December.</li>
<li>There will be big selling in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/semiconductor-manufacturing-in" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31062:1" rel="noopener">Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) (688981 CH)</a> due to capping and that results in buying in the other <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sse-science-and-technology-innovation-board-50-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29279:1" rel="noopener">SSE STAR50 (STAR50 INDEX)</a> constituents.</li>
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The big price moves for China stocks in the last month have resulted in quite a few changes to the potential index inclusions and deletions in December.
We now forecast no changes for the SSE STAR50 (STAR50 INDEX) and 5 changes for the STAR100 Index in December.
There will be big selling in Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) (688981 CH) due to capping and that results in buying in the other SSE STAR50 (STAR50 INDEX) constituents.


STAR50/STAR100 Index Rebalance Preview: No Changes for STAR50; 5 for STAR100; US$2bn Trade

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

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.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 149 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 95.8% as of Oct 25th.</li>
<li>The average A-H premium changed by 1.4ppt week-on-week, led by consumer staples, information technology, real estate and offset by utilities, consumer discretionary, financials.</li>
<li>We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for SMIC, ZOOMLION, PICC, FDZJ, FLAT GROUP, INNOCARE.</li>
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We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 149 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 95.8% as of Oct 25th.
The average A-H premium changed by 1.4ppt week-on-week, led by consumer staples, information technology, real estate and offset by utilities, consumer discretionary, financials.
We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for SMIC, ZOOMLION, PICC, FDZJ, FLAT GROUP, INNOCARE.


A-H Premium Weekly (Oct 25th):SMIC, ZOOMLION, PICC, FDZJ, FLAT GROUP, INNOCARE

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<li>We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 148 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 95.2% as of Oct 11th.</li>
<li>The average A-H premium changed by -13.0ppt week-on-week, led by consumer staples, consumer discretionary, financials.</li>
<li>We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for BYD, SMIC, TSINGTAO, Guotai Junan Securities, HAITONG, CanSino, Junshi Biosciences, FLAT Group, China Tourism.</li>
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We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 148 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 95.2% as of Oct 11th.
The average A-H premium changed by -13.0ppt week-on-week, led by consumer staples, consumer discretionary, financials.
We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for BYD, SMIC, TSINGTAO, Guotai Junan Securities, HAITONG, CanSino, Junshi Biosciences, FLAT Group, China Tourism.


A-H Premium Weekly (Oct 11th):BYD, SMIC, TSINGTAO, Guotai Junan Securities, HAITONG, CanSino

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<li>We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 144 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 112.4% as of Aug 9th.</li>
<li>The average A-H premium changed by 1.5ppt week-on-week, led by consumer discretionary, information technology, energy and offset by utilities, health care.</li>
<li>We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for Asymchem Lab, Shanghai Pharm, China Eastern, Air China, Smic, Hepalink, WuXi AppTec, Pharmaron, Hangzhou Tiger.</li>
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We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 144 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 112.4% as of Aug 9th.
The average A-H premium changed by 1.5ppt week-on-week, led by consumer discretionary, information technology, energy and offset by utilities, health care.
We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for Asymchem Lab, Shanghai Pharm, China Eastern, Air China, Smic, Hepalink, WuXi AppTec, Pharmaron, Hangzhou Tiger.


A-H Premium Weekly (Aug 9th): Asymchem Lab, Shanghai Pharm, China Eastern, Air China, Smic, Hepalink

China

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation operates as a semiconductor foundry. The Company provides integrated circuit foundry and technology services including the testing, development, design, manufacturing, packaging, and sale of integrated circuits. Semiconductor Manufacturing International offers its products and services around the world.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) (688981 CH)

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC)

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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) (688981 CH)

STAR50/STAR100 Index Rebalance Preview: No Changes for STAR50; 5 for STAR100; US$2bn Trade

We forecast no changes for the STAR50 and 5 changes for the STAR100. Capping will result in passives selling SMIC. The forecast adds to the STAR100...

Brian Freitas

A-H Premium Weekly (Oct 25th):SMIC, ZOOMLION, PICC, FDZJ, FLAT GROUP, INNOCARE

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for SMIC, ZOOMLION, PICC, FDZJ, FLAT GROUP, INNOCARE.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

A-H Premium Weekly (Oct 11th):BYD, SMIC, TSINGTAO, Guotai Junan Securities, HAITONG, CanSino

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for BYD, SMIC, TSINGTAO, Guotai Junan Securities, HAITONG,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

A-H Premium Weekly (Aug 9th): Asymchem Lab, Shanghai Pharm, China Eastern, Air China, Smic, Hepalink

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for Asymchem Lab, Shanghai Pharm, China Eastern, Air China,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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CSI All Share Semiconductor Index Rebalance Preview: 18 Changes as Adds Outperform

There could be 12 adds, 6 deletes in Dec. Impact is not very large, but 12 stocks will have flows from other index trackers too. The forecast adds...

Brian Freitas

STAR50/STAR100 Index Rebalance Preview: No Changes for STAR50; 5 for STAR100; US$2bn Trade

We forecast no changes for the STAR50 and 5 changes for the STAR100. Capping will result in passives selling SMIC. The forecast adds to the STAR100...

Brian Freitas

A-H Premium Weekly (Oct 25th):SMIC, ZOOMLION, PICC, FDZJ, FLAT GROUP, INNOCARE

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for SMIC, ZOOMLION, PICC, FDZJ, FLAT GROUP, INNOCARE.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

A-H Premium Weekly (Oct 11th):BYD, SMIC, TSINGTAO, Guotai Junan Securities, HAITONG, CanSino

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for BYD, SMIC, TSINGTAO, Guotai Junan Securities, HAITONG,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

A-H Premium Weekly (Aug 9th): Asymchem Lab, Shanghai Pharm, China Eastern, Air China, Smic, Hepalink

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for Asymchem Lab, Shanghai Pharm, China Eastern, Air China,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM