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 analysed the earning revision of component stocks of MSCI Taiwan 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 WPG, Taiwan Cement, MSI, Wan Hai Lines, AU Optronics, King Yuan Electronics, TSMC, Synnex Technology International, King Yuan Electronics, TSMC, Wpg, Synnex Technology International, MSI.</li>
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We analysed the earning revision of component stocks of MSCI Taiwan 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 WPG, Taiwan Cement, MSI, Wan Hai Lines, AU Optronics, King Yuan Electronics, TSMC, Synnex Technology International, King Yuan Electronics, TSMC, Wpg, Synnex Technology International, MSI.


MSCI Taiwan Index Earning Revision (Nov): WPG, Taiwan Cement, MSI, Wan Hai Lines, AU Optronics

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>There could be 2 changes for the Yuanta/P-Shares Taiwan Top 50 ETF in September - one is high probability and the other is right at the cusp.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/king-slide-works-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:7130:1" rel="noopener">King Slide Works (2059 TT)</a> is being added to a global index this month, so the ETF inclusion will come hot on the heels of that.</li>
<li>The impact on the stocks is pretty big with passive trackers needing to buy between 1.3-5.5x ADV in the adds and sell between 3.4-6.4x ADV in the deletes.</li>
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There could be 2 changes for the Yuanta/P-Shares Taiwan Top 50 ETF in September - one is high probability and the other is right at the cusp.

King Slide Works (2059 TT) is being added to a global index this month, so the ETF inclusion will come hot on the heels of that.
The impact on the stocks is pretty big with passive trackers needing to buy between 1.3-5.5x ADV in the adds and sell between 3.4-6.4x ADV in the deletes.


Taiwan Top 50 ETF Rebalance Preview: Another Inclusion for King Slide

Index Rebal Trades & Special Situations, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Index Rebal Trades & Special Situations

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

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<li>The TDIV index tracks the top 50 names in the Taiwan Stock Exchange with the highest dividend yields. It is a yield-weighted index with unique capping rules.</li>
<li>In this insight, we take look at Quiddity's expectations for index changes and capping flows for the TDIV Index for the December 2025 index rebal event.</li>
<li>We expect at least six index changes for the TDIV index. On top of that, there will be capping flows too.</li>
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The TDIV index tracks the top 50 names in the Taiwan Stock Exchange with the highest dividend yields. It is a yield-weighted index with unique capping rules.
In this insight, we take look at Quiddity's expectations for index changes and capping flows for the TDIV Index for the December 2025 index rebal event.
We expect at least six index changes for the TDIV index. On top of that, there will be capping flows too.


Quiddity Leaderboard TDIV Dec25: ~US$3bn One-Way; Some Changes to Expectations; New Ideas

Tung Ho Steel Enterprise / Index Rebalance

<ul>
<li>The TDIV index tracks the top 50 names in the Taiwan Stock Exchange with the highest dividend yields. It is a yield-weighted index with unique capping rules.</li>
<li>There were some key methodology changes announced for this index yesterday.</li>
<li>In this insight, we take look at Quiddity's expectations for index changes and capping flows for the TDIV Index for the December 2025 index rebal event.</li>
</ul>


The TDIV index tracks the top 50 names in the Taiwan Stock Exchange with the highest dividend yields. It is a yield-weighted index with unique capping rules.
There were some key methodology changes announced for this index yesterday.
In this insight, we take look at Quiddity's expectations for index changes and capping flows for the TDIV Index for the December 2025 index rebal event.


Quiddity Leaderboard TDIV Dec25: Key Methodology Changes; High-Impact Flows; US$3.6bn One-Way

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<li>We analyzed the changes in short interest of TWSE Stocks as of Sep 26th. The aggregated short interest was USD26.4bn.</li>
<li>We tabulate league tables for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.</li>
<li>We highlight short interest changes in Yageo, Taiwan Cement, Unimicron Technology, Delta Electronics, TSMC, Yageo, Taiwan Cement, Unimicron Technology, Delta Electronics, TSMC.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in short interest of TWSE Stocks as of Sep 26th. The aggregated short interest was USD26.4bn.
We tabulate league tables for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.
We highlight short interest changes in Yageo, Taiwan Cement, Unimicron Technology, Delta Electronics, TSMC, Yageo, Taiwan Cement, Unimicron Technology, Delta Electronics, TSMC.


TWSE Short Interest Weekly (Sep 26th): Yageo, Taiwan Cement, Unimicron Technology, Delta Electronics

Taiwan

Taiwan Cement Corporation manufactures and markets cement.  The Company's products include Portland cement, high strength cement, oil well cement, and sludge treatment agents.  Through its subsidiaries, the Company also operates in transportation, construction, and information products businesses.

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Taiwan Cement (1101 TT)

MSCI Taiwan Index Earning Revision (Nov): WPG, Taiwan Cement, MSI, Wan Hai Lines, AU Optronics

We analyzed MSCI Taiwan's consensus for Nov 2025 and highlighted changes of EPS in WPG (3702 TT), Taiwan Cement (1101 TT), MSI (2377 TT), Wan Hai...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Taiwan Top 50 ETF Rebalance Preview: Another Inclusion for King Slide

There could be 2 changes for the Yuanta/P-Shares Taiwan Top 50 ETF in Sep. King Slide Works is also an add to a global index this month. Passives...

Brian Freitas

Quiddity Leaderboard TDIV Dec25: ~US$3bn One-Way; Some Changes to Expectations; New Ideas

Based on our latest estimates, many names have very high-impact flow expectations. There have been some changes to our expected ADDs/DELs list...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Quiddity Leaderboard TDIV Dec25: Key Methodology Changes; High-Impact Flows; US$3.6bn One-Way

We expect 6 ADDs and 6 DELs based on the latest index methodology. We expect US$3.6bn in one-way flows in December 2025 which is around 21%...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

TWSE Short Interest Weekly (Sep 26th): Yageo, Taiwan Cement, Unimicron Technology, Delta Electronics

We analyzed TWSE short interest report for the past week and highlighted short interest changes in Yageo (2327 TT), Taiwan Cement (1101 TT),...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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