Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal, Shenton Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China Biotech

Shenton Research

Shenton Research is an independent Asia Pacific equity specialist. Our quantitative research covers index rebalancing flows, alongside exchange data analytics accross Asia Pacific. On the equity capital markets side, we focus on Asia Pacific ECM, especially biotech and TMT. Our lead analyst is frequently cited by international media.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash and hired underwriters for a Shanghai IPO. US agencies and Anthropic separately accused Chinese labs of extracting US model outputs.</li>
<li>OpenAI published a proposed Navier-Stokes proof and opened its Agents API beta. Xiaomi introduced MiMo Desktop for invited users.</li>
<li>Zhipu proposed USD 5bn of financing. Cognition announced a larger USD 2bn round, while Nvidia discussed an Anthropic IPO anchor investment.</li>
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DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash and hired underwriters for a Shanghai IPO. US agencies and Anthropic separately accused Chinese labs of extracting US model outputs.
OpenAI published a proposed Navier-Stokes proof and opened its Agents API beta. Xiaomi introduced MiMo Desktop for invited users.
Zhipu proposed USD 5bn of financing. Cognition announced a larger USD 2bn round, while Nvidia discussed an Anthropic IPO anchor investment.


This Week in AI (Sep 6-12): DeepSeek V4.1-Flash and IPO; OpenAI's Astra Solves NS Equation

DZT Research

DZT Research is an independent Asia Pacific equity specialist. Our quantitative research covers index rebalancing flows, alongside exchange data analytics accross Asia Pacific. On the equity capital markets side, we focus on Asia Pacific ECM, especially biotech and TMT. Our lead analyst is frequently cited by international media.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>China announced game approval for the April batch. The number of games approved remained at a higher level than in 2023 and 2024.</li>
<li>The pace of China game approval appears to have accelerated to the same level as pre-tightening.</li>
<li>Of the companies that we are monitoring, Tencent and Netease got a total of 2 approvals.</li>
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China announced game approval for the April batch. The number of games approved remained at a higher level than in 2023 and 2024.
The pace of China game approval appears to have accelerated to the same level as pre-tightening.
Of the companies that we are monitoring, Tencent and Netease got a total of 2 approvals.


Tencent/Netease: One Approval for Each in April

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>A global index provider will be moving to a new float methodology from the upcoming rebalance in May. That will lead to lower floats for a lot of HK-listed stocks.</li>
<li>Lower float will result in passive selling of over US$5bn across HK-listed stocks. The top 15 sells by notional make up over 75% of the total sell flow.</li>
<li>The largest passive selling is expected in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tencent-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26:1" rel="noopener">Tencent</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-construction-bank-h" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45:1" rel="noopener">China Construction Bank</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bank-of-china-ltd-h" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:656:1" rel="noopener">Bank Of China</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sun-hung-kai-properties-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:111:1" rel="noopener">Sun Hung Kai Properties</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/trip-com-group-ltd-23a341d0-4f63-4175-a8c5-ee990906cacd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36424:1" rel="noopener">Trip.com Group</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/beigene-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27352:1" rel="noopener">BeiGene</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/baidu-inc-a55ca720-5968-48f0-8194-ac94390d065c" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32212:1" rel="noopener">Baidu</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nongfu-spring-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28955:1" rel="noopener">Nongfu Spring</a>. </li>
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A global index provider will be moving to a new float methodology from the upcoming rebalance in May. That will lead to lower floats for a lot of HK-listed stocks.
Lower float will result in passive selling of over US$5bn across HK-listed stocks. The top 15 sells by notional make up over 75% of the total sell flow.
The largest passive selling is expected in Tencent, China Construction Bank, Bank Of China, Sun Hung Kai Properties, Trip.com Group, BeiGene, Baidu and Nongfu Spring. 


Global Index Float Methodology Change: HK Stocks with Big Passive Sells

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<li>We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and M&amp;A this week: OpenAI and Anthropic refreshed frontier models while Moonshot started its Hong Kong IPO process.</li>
<li>MiniMax powered HUMAIN's Arabic sovereign model, Alibaba refreshed Qwen, and Artificial Analysis kept new US frontier releases at the top of the ranking.</li>
<li>Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, Anthropic expanded compute financing, and AI infrastructure demand flowed through hyperscalers, hardware vendors, chips and memory.</li>
</ul>


We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and M&amp;A this week: OpenAI and Anthropic refreshed frontier models while Moonshot started its Hong Kong IPO process.
MiniMax powered HUMAIN's Arabic sovereign model, Alibaba refreshed Qwen, and Artificial Analysis kept new US frontier releases at the top of the ranking.
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, Anthropic expanded compute financing, and AI infrastructure demand flowed through hyperscalers, hardware vendors, chips and memory.


This Week in AI (Aug 30-Sep 5): GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 in Same Week; Moonshot Files IPO

Asian Insight Provider - Actionable ideas, CrossASEAN Research

Henry Soediarko

Asian Insight Provider - Actionable ideas

CrossASEAN Research

At CrossASEAN Research we strive to produce unbiased and differentiated on the ground insights on companies across South East Asia. Our Research is produced for the most part after face to face meetings and conversations with company management to dig deep into the long term vision and strategy of the companies we cover. We seek to deliver investable and actionable themes on sectors and markets across SE Asia, often in collaboration with other Insight Providers across the region, pooling the vast experience of the analysts within the Smartkarma Ecosystem. We also offer bespoke work and tailor made trips for our clients. 

Insights across South East Asia

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/eeka-fashion-holdings-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:17725:1" rel="noopener">EEKA Fashion (3709 HK)</a> has diversified away from only golf apparel and has successful on building apparel brands for other sports. </li>
<li>Their online sales only make up to 20% of the total sales, while the peers reached 30-40%; thus, the unit of profitability is lagging behind. </li>
<li>Currently, it lacks a catalyst for a buy while it is too risky to short sell Eeka after a period of underperformance to the peers. </li>
</ul>



EEKA Fashion (3709 HK) has diversified away from only golf apparel and has successful on building apparel brands for other sports. 
Their online sales only make up to 20% of the total sales, while the peers reached 30-40%; thus, the unit of profitability is lagging behind. 
Currently, it lacks a catalyst for a buy while it is too risky to short sell Eeka after a period of underperformance to the peers. 


China

Tencent Holdings Limited operates as an investment holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides Internet and mobile value-added services (VAS), online advertising, and e-commerce transactions. Tencent Holdings offers services to users worldwide.

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Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Tencent/Netease: One Approval for Each in April

NPPA released its April 2026 domestic game approval batch. Tencent and NetEase each secured one approval after two months of zero approvals. We'd...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Global Index Float Methodology Change: HK Stocks with Big Passive Sells

A lot of the stocks with expected passive outflows have underperformed the indices over the last couple of weeks. We would look to unwind trades in...

Brian Freitas

This Week in AI (Aug 30-Sep 5): GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 in Same Week; Moonshot Files IPO

This week in AI: GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 arrive together; Nvidia buys Hugging Face for USD 12.93bn; Moonshot files for a Hong Kong IPO.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Eeka Fashion (3709): Ladies Fashion

Good product, high gross profit margin but net margin is low due to the high cost compared to the peers. Unless they can increase their online...

Henry Soediarko

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