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>Nearing the end of the review period for the December rebalance, there could be three changes for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ishares-ftse-a50-china-index-etf" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:249:1" rel="noopener">iShares A50 China (2823 HK)</a> / <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/csop-ftse-china-a50-etf-26e3b671-fa47-4165-a12e-bf841640c5a3" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23664:1" rel="noopener">CSOP China A50 (HKD) (2822 HK)</a>. </li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sungrow-power-supply-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4255:1" rel="noopener">Sungrow Power Supply</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/cmoc-group-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28168:1" rel="noopener">CMOC Group</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-cssc-holdings-ltd-a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:2464:1" rel="noopener">China CSSC Holdings</a> could replace <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/maanshan-dingtai-rare-a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4128:1" rel="noopener">S.F. Holding</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-everbright-bank-co-ltd-675cb9b4-f4fb-4317-9df7-75e3849a2f5a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:885:1" rel="noopener">China Everbright Bank</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bank-of-jiangsu-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27216:1" rel="noopener">Bank of Jiangsu</a> in the ETF at the close on 19 December.</li>
<li>The forecast adds have outperformed the forecast deletes over the last 3 months and it is not even close as the gap has kept getting wider</li>
</ul>


Nearing the end of the review period for the December rebalance, there could be three changes for the iShares A50 China (2823 HK) / CSOP China A50 (HKD) (2822 HK). 

Sungrow Power Supply, CMOC Group and China CSSC Holdings could replace S.F. Holding, China Everbright Bank and Bank of Jiangsu in the ETF at the close on 19 December.
The forecast adds have outperformed the forecast deletes over the last 3 months and it is not even close as the gap has kept getting wider


China A50 ETFs Rebalance Preview: Three Changes in December

Smartkarma AI, Smartkarma

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Smartkarma AI

Smartkarma

Smartkarma unites the fragmented investment industry, connecting institutional investors, independent research providers, and corporates within a single network.

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Equity Bottom-Up

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  <li>Sungrow is a global leader in the renewable energy sector, holding a dominant market share in solar PV inverters and rapidly expanding its footprint in the high-growth energy storage systems (ESS) market. The company's strategic shift is evident as the ESS segment has become its largest revenue contributor, surpassing inverters.</li>
  <li>The company has demonstrated exceptional financial performance, with significant year-over-year growth in revenue and net income, coupled with expanding profit margins. This growth is fueled by strong demand in both its core inverter business and the booming ESS market, driven by the global transition to clean energy.</li>
  <li>While poised for continued growth, Sungrow faces risks from intense market competition, potential slowdowns in global solar installation rates, geopolitical tensions, and reliance on policy-driven demand. The company's forward-looking strategy includes technological innovation, international market expansion, and entry into new sectors like AI data center power supplies.</li>
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  Sungrow is a global leader in the renewable energy sector, holding a dominant market share in solar PV inverters and rapidly expanding its footprint in the high-growth energy storage systems (ESS) market. The company's strategic shift is evident as the ESS segment has become its largest revenue contributor, surpassing inverters.
  The company has demonstrated exceptional financial performance, with significant year-over-year growth in revenue and net income, coupled with expanding profit margins. This growth is fueled by strong demand in both its core inverter business and the booming ESS market, driven by the global transition to clean energy.
  While poised for continued growth, Sungrow faces risks from intense market competition, potential slowdowns in global solar installation rates, geopolitical tensions, and reliance on policy-driven demand. The company's forward-looking strategy includes technological innovation, international market expansion, and entry into new sectors like AI data center power supplies.
This content is AI-generated and displayed for general informational purposes only. Please verify independently before use.

Primer: Sungrow Power Supply (300274 CH) - Sep 2025

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning, Copley Fund Research

Steven Holden

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning

Copley Fund Research

Copley Fund Research provide research and data on asset allocation among Global and Emerging Market equity funds.  The analysis details absolute and relative positioning across countries, sectors and industries together with highly granular data on single stock and single fund allocations.  The data is updated monthly with time series going back to January 2011.

Global Research - Analysis of 165 prominent Global equity funds, combined AUM $335bn
GEM Research - Analysis of 127 prominent global EM equity funds, combined AUM $250bn

Asset Allocation - Global and GEM Equity

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Active conviction rising: China Industrials allocations are nearing all-time highs, with record participation and expanding net overweights despite a declining MSCI EM benchmark weight.</li>
<li>Clear conviction overweight: 76% of GEM funds are overweight China &amp; HK Industrials, making it the strongest country/sector conviction play across the EM universe.</li>
<li>Broadening beyond CATL: While CATL remains dominant, ownership is widening to emerging names, even as second-tier stocks show sharper rotations and selective positioning.</li>
</ul>


Active conviction rising: China Industrials allocations are nearing all-time highs, with record participation and expanding net overweights despite a declining MSCI EM benchmark weight.
Clear conviction overweight: 76% of GEM funds are overweight China &amp; HK Industrials, making it the strongest country/sector conviction play across the EM universe.
Broadening beyond CATL: While CATL remains dominant, ownership is widening to emerging names, even as second-tier stocks show sharper rotations and selective positioning.


China & HK Industrials: EM’s Key Overweight Grows Stronger

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/cmoc-group-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28168:1" rel="noopener">CMOC (603993 CH)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sungrow-power-supply-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4255:1" rel="noopener">Sungrow Power Supply (300274 CH)</a> will replace <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/maanshan-dingtai-rare-a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4128:1" rel="noopener">S.F. Holding (002352 CH)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bank-of-jiangsu-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27216:1" rel="noopener">Bank of Jiangsu (600919 CH)</a> in the ETFs at the close on 19 December.</li>
<li>Passive trackers will need to trade between 0.1-0.5 days of ADV in the constituent changes.</li>
<li>The adds have outperformed the deletes by a big margin over the last 6 months. After a period of underperformance in November, the adds have started moving higher again.</li>
</ul>



CMOC (603993 CH) and Sungrow Power Supply (300274 CH) will replace S.F. Holding (002352 CH) and Bank of Jiangsu (600919 CH) in the ETFs at the close on 19 December.
Passive trackers will need to trade between 0.1-0.5 days of ADV in the constituent changes.
The adds have outperformed the deletes by a big margin over the last 6 months. After a period of underperformance in November, the adds have started moving higher again.


China A50 ETF Rebalance: Two Sets of Changes

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

<ul>
<li>We analysed the earning revision of component stocks of CSI 100 in the past month.</li>
<li>We tabulated stocks with the top impact on index's EPS, stocks' EPS revision, and revenue revision.</li>
<li>We highlighted EPS revision on CHINA VANKE, PING AN INSURANCE, BOE TECHNOLOGY, TCL TECHNOLOGY, COSCO SHIPPING, GANFENG LITHIUM, Cosco Shipping, Ping An Insurance, China Vanke, Boe Technology, Tcl Technology.</li>
</ul>


We analysed the earning revision of component stocks of CSI 100 in the past month.
We tabulated stocks with the top impact on index's EPS, stocks' EPS revision, and revenue revision.
We highlighted EPS revision on CHINA VANKE, PING AN INSURANCE, BOE TECHNOLOGY, TCL TECHNOLOGY, COSCO SHIPPING, GANFENG LITHIUM, Cosco Shipping, Ping An Insurance, China Vanke, Boe Technology, Tcl Technology.


CSI 100 Index Earning Revision (Nov): CHINA VANKE, PING AN INSURANCE, BOE, TCL

China

Sungrow Power Supply Company Limited develops, produces, sells and provides services for solar PV inverters, wind power converters and other power supply. The Company also provides system solutions to renewable energy industry users.

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Sungrow Power Supply (300274 CH)

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Brian Freitas

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Sungrow is a global leader in the renewable energy sector, holding a dominant market share in solar PV inverters and rapidly expanding its...

αSK

China & HK Industrials: EM’s Key Overweight Grows Stronger

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Steven Holden

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Brian Freitas

CSI 100 Index Earning Revision (Nov): CHINA VANKE, PING AN INSURANCE, BOE, TCL

We analyzed CSI 100's consensus for Nov 2025 and highlighted changes of EPS in CHINA VANKE (000002 CH), PING AN INSURANCE (601318 CH), BOE...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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