Founder of Antler Capital

Stanley Tsai, CFA

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

In the spirit of the long-awaited UEFA Euro 2020, we present our inaugural "China Financials: Silver Linings Playbook", which summarizes our views on the names that are best positioned to navigate an environment of progressively slower credit growth, tighter liquidity and rising defaults. 
Our screen consists of 100+ stocks in the A/H share universe, as well as a select number of international / non-traditional names that have significant exposures to China's financial system. We have a preference for larger-cap and liquid names, which are then filtered by our opinions on their fundamentals, value, momentum and recent trading volumes. We also try to make our selections versatile and less vulnerable to single-factor movements.
Each player's position on the pitch and the team formation itself convey incremental information about our thoughts on the sector's performance over a three to six-month horizon. To the extent possible, we intend to update our ideas on a periodic basis. This provides a feedback loop with our other ongoing research on the industry.
However, our team selections are not investment recommendations. Instead, they are meant to give structure to our analysis. The playbook allows us to articulate our views on the sector in a timely, concise manner. Our objective is to ensure we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater as sentiments on the sector remain bleak.
With that out of the way, the following is our starting XI. We will dive deeper into our rationale for our selections in the remainder of this insight (Exhibit 1).
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Source: Our analysis
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In the spirit of the long-awaited UEFA Euro 2020, we present our inaugural "China Financials: Silver Linings Playbook", which summarizes our views on the names that are best positioned to navigate an environment of progressively slower credit growth, tighter liquidity and rising defaults. 
Our screen consists of 100+ stocks in the A/H share universe, as well as a select number of international / non-traditional names that have significant exposures to China's financial system. We have a preference for larger-cap and liquid names, which are then filtered by our opinions on their fundamentals, value, momentum and recent trading volumes. We also try to make our selections versatile and less vulnerable to single-factor movements.
Each player's position on the pitch and the team formation itself convey incremental information about our thoughts on the sector's performance over a three to six-month horizon. To the extent possible, we intend to update our ideas on a periodic basis. This provides a feedback loop with our other ongoing research on the industry.
However, our team selections are not investment recommendations. Instead, they are meant to give structure to our analysis. The playbook allows us to articulate our views on the sector in a timely, concise manner. Our objective is to ensure we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater as sentiments on the sector remain bleak.
With that out of the way, the following is our starting XI. We will dive deeper into our rationale for our selections in the remainder of this insight (Exhibit 1).



Exhibit 1: China Financials | Silver Linings Playbook





Source: Our analysis




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<li>In a move to shore up liquidity, but not to repay debt, Evergrande has sold stakes and "right to debt" in four development projects to SOEs at “fire sale” prices;</li>
<li>Only USD 47.2 bn in liabilities to go Chairman Hui, but didn’t you say less than two weeks ago “no fire sales”?; and    </li>
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Municipalities, investors, and CINDA are picking off Evergrande assets on the cheap as well.    </li>
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In a move to shore up liquidity, but not to repay debt, Evergrande has sold stakes and "right to debt" in four development projects to SOEs at “fire sale” prices;
Only USD 47.2 bn in liabilities to go Chairman Hui, but didn’t you say less than two weeks ago “no fire sales”?; and    

Municipalities, investors, and CINDA are picking off Evergrande assets on the cheap as well.    


China Evergrande Group – Drop In The Bucket

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<li>The shares of Evergrande aren’t worth the paper their printed on;  </li>
<li>Shanghai Construction receives a positive court outcome at expense of Evergrande; and</li>
<li>The likelihood that Evergrande has enough liquidity and will not have a fire sale of assets is nil – we can add Evergrande to the list of the walking dead. </li>
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The shares of Evergrande aren’t worth the paper their printed on;  
Shanghai Construction receives a positive court outcome at expense of Evergrande; and
The likelihood that Evergrande has enough liquidity and will not have a fire sale of assets is nil – we can add Evergrande to the list of the walking dead. 


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