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

Go Digit General Insurance / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/go-digit-general-insurance" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36266:1" rel="noopener">Go Digit General Insurance</a> is looking to raise about US$503m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by ICICISec, MS, Axis, Edelweiss, HDFC Bank and IIFL.</li>
<li>Go Digit General Insurance is a digital full stack insurance company, offering motor insurance, health insurance, travel insurance, property insurance, marine insurance, liability insurance and other insurance products.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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Go Digit General Insurance is looking to raise about US$503m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by ICICISec, MS, Axis, Edelweiss, HDFC Bank and IIFL.
Go Digit General Insurance is a digital full stack insurance company, offering motor insurance, health insurance, travel insurance, property insurance, marine insurance, liability insurance and other insurance products.
In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.


Go Digit General Insurance Pre-IPO - The Positives - Has Been Growing a Lot Faster than the Industry

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), HDFC Securities

HDFC Securities

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<ul><li>AMCs—tepid flows to drag earnings: Active equity schemes witnessed a deceleration in net inflows at INR339bn (Q1FY23: INR598bn), despite an all-time high SIP flow run rate (Q2 average: INR126bn)</li><li>Increased volatility in capital markets, rising concerns on global macros, and higher interest rates appear to have resulted in muted lumpsum flows; however, a sharp recovery in capital markets resulted in a 12% QoQ rise in Active Equity AUM</li><li>Interest rate hikes are likely to keep treasury gains under check</li></ul>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.

AMCs—tepid flows to drag earnings: Active equity schemes witnessed a deceleration in net inflows at INR339bn (Q1FY23: INR598bn), despite an all-time high SIP flow run rate (Q2 average: INR126bn)Increased volatility in capital markets, rising concerns on global macros, and higher interest rates appear to have resulted in muted lumpsum flows; however, a sharp recovery in capital markets resulted in a 12% QoQ rise in Active Equity AUMInterest rate hikes are likely to keep treasury gains under checkContent 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.

Non-Leveraged Financials - Volatile Markets and Weak Macros Drive Slowdown

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Motilal Oswal

Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited is an Indian diversified financial services firm offering a range of financial products and services. 

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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>In its FY22 Annual Report, STARHEAL outlined the strong growth opportunities in the Health Insurance space in India.</li><li>After the lifting of COVID-related restrictions, there is growing acceptance of the need for hospitalization, leading to larger customer walk-ins wanting to avail Health Insurance policy without being prospected.</li><li>With India ranking high in terms of diabetes, obesity, and cancer, along with increasing share of the older age population, the severity of hospitalized cases will continue to rise.</li></ul>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.

In its FY22 Annual Report, STARHEAL outlined the strong growth opportunities in the Health Insurance space in India.After the lifting of COVID-related restrictions, there is growing acceptance of the need for hospitalization, leading to larger customer walk-ins wanting to avail Health Insurance policy without being prospected.With India ranking high in terms of diabetes, obesity, and cancer, along with increasing share of the older age population, the severity of hospitalized cases will continue to rise.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.

Star Health and Allied Insurance Company - Enhancing Reach Via Distribution and New Products

<ul><li>Within the INR1.3tn retail health insurance opportunity (by FY32E), standalone health insurers (SAHIs) are slated to grow faster than multiline players, translating into market share gains on the back of a formidable distribution network (sustainable competitive advantage) and regulatory arbitrage (transient)</li><li>We believe that the recent extension of “Use and File” for retail products is likely to reflate portfolio profitability by containing the mispricing of inferior products</li><li>We construct an industry-first HSIE-Health Insurance Franchise Scorecard (HSIE-HIFS) to evaluate various health insurers on multiple vectors across four pillars—quality, profitability, distribution and longevity.</li></ul>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.

Within the INR1.3tn retail health insurance opportunity (by FY32E), standalone health insurers (SAHIs) are slated to grow faster than multiline players, translating into market share gains on the back of a formidable distribution network (sustainable competitive advantage) and regulatory arbitrage (transient)We believe that the recent extension of “Use and File” for retail products is likely to reflate portfolio profitability by containing the mispricing of inferior productsWe construct an industry-first HSIE-Health Insurance Franchise Scorecard (HSIE-HIFS) to evaluate various health insurers on multiple vectors across four pillars—quality, profitability, distribution and longevity.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.

<ul><li>Capitalising on an early-mover advantage and significant regulatory arbitrage, STARHEAL is positioned as the largest standalone health insurer (FY22:33% market-share), anchored on an extremely strong and highly productive agency-dominated distribution network and retail-dominated business mix (FY22: ~90% of GDPI)</li><li>Despite potential regulatory convergence, we believe that STARHEAL has meaningful headroom to pivot to a high-quality franchise, translating into better quality of earnings</li><li>Having aced the agency channel, we argue that the company now needs to build a credible banca strategy in order to sustain its lead in the long term.</li></ul>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.

Capitalising on an early-mover advantage and significant regulatory arbitrage, STARHEAL is positioned as the largest standalone health insurer (FY22:33% market-share), anchored on an extremely strong and highly productive agency-dominated distribution network and retail-dominated business mix (FY22: ~90% of GDPI)Despite potential regulatory convergence, we believe that STARHEAL has meaningful headroom to pivot to a high-quality franchise, translating into better quality of earningsHaving aced the agency channel, we argue that the company now needs to build a credible banca strategy in order to sustain its lead in the long term.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.

Star Health and Allied Insurance - Bellwether Health Insurer with Inimitable Moats.

India

Star Health and Allied Insurance Company Limited operates as insurance company. The Company offers health, travel, and accidental insurance policies. Star Health and Allied Insurance serves customers in India.

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Star Health (STARHEAL IN)

Go Digit General Insurance Pre-IPO - The Positives - Has Been Growing a Lot Faster than the Industry

Go Digit General Insurance is looking to raise about US$503m in its upcoming India IPO. Go Digit is a digital full stack insurance company.

Sumeet Singh

Non-Leveraged Financials - Volatile Markets and Weak Macros Drive Slowdown

Active equity schemes witnessed a deceleration in net inflows at INR339bn (Q1FY23: INR598bn), despite an all-time high SIP flow run rate (Q2...

HDFC Securities

Star Health and Allied Insurance Company - Enhancing Reach Via Distribution and New Products

With India ranking high in terms of diabetes, obesity, and cancer, along with increasing share of the older age population, the severity of...

Motilal Oswal

Health Insurance 1.0: Advantage SAHIs

We believe that the recent extension of “Use and File” for retail products is likely to reflate portfolio profitability by containing the...

HDFC Securities

Star Health and Allied Insurance - Bellwether Health Insurer with Inimitable Moats.

Capitalising on an early-mover advantage and significant regulatory arbitrage, STARHEAL is positioned as the largest standalone health insurer...

HDFC Securities

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