Index Rebal Trades & Special Situations, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Index Rebal Trades & Special Situations

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Index Rebalance

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<li>The HSTECH Index tracks the performance of the top 30 technology companies listed in Hong Kong that have high business exposure to certain technology themes.</li>
<li>The official index changes and indicative weights for the June 2025 index rebal event will be announced after the close on Friday 16th May 2025.</li>
<li>We continue to expect zero index changes for June 2025 but we estimate there to be capping flows of US$1.85bn one-way.</li>
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The HSTECH Index tracks the performance of the top 30 technology companies listed in Hong Kong that have high business exposure to certain technology themes.
The official index changes and indicative weights for the June 2025 index rebal event will be announced after the close on Friday 16th May 2025.
We continue to expect zero index changes for June 2025 but we estimate there to be capping flows of US$1.85bn one-way.


Quiddity Leaderboard HSTECH Jun25: US$1.85bn One-Way; Announcement Soon

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

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<li>Post market close on Friday, Hang Seng Indexes will announce the changes for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hong-kong-hang-seng-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22899:1" rel="noopener">Hang Seng Index (HSI INDEX)</a> that will be implemented at the close on 6 June.</li>
<li>With no constituent changes, one-way turnover will be 1.9% with 3 stocks being capped and FAF changes for a few stocks due to a methodology change for Secondary Listings. </li>
<li>We highlight 7 stocks that have a higher probability of being added to the index. Everything depends on the index committee, and we would not be surprised by zero changes.</li>
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Post market close on Friday, Hang Seng Indexes will announce the changes for the Hang Seng Index (HSI INDEX) that will be implemented at the close on 6 June.
With no constituent changes, one-way turnover will be 1.9% with 3 stocks being capped and FAF changes for a few stocks due to a methodology change for Secondary Listings. 
We highlight 7 stocks that have a higher probability of being added to the index. Everything depends on the index committee, and we would not be surprised by zero changes.


Hang Seng Index (HSI) Rebalance Preview: Inclusion Candidates for June25

Blue Lotus Non US Internet research, Blue Lotus Research Institute

Ying Pan

Blue Lotus Non US Internet research

China growth and global non-US Internet equities

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Blue Lotus Research is a Hong Kong Type 4 Licensed investment advisory firm focusing on Chinese growth equities and global non-US Internet equities

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>JD US/3690 HK:Both JD and Metiuan Raise Standards for Premium Food Delivery (+)</li>
<li>700 HK/1024 HK: Tencent Releases Multimodal Video Generation AI Model Hunyuan Custom (+/-)</li>
<li>BILI US: Bilibili Launches New AI Advertising Tool “Insight Agent” (+)</li>
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JD US/3690 HK:Both JD and Metiuan Raise Standards for Premium Food Delivery (+)
700 HK/1024 HK: Tencent Releases Multimodal Video Generation AI Model Hunyuan Custom (+/-)
BILI US: Bilibili Launches New AI Advertising Tool “Insight Agent” (+)


[Blue Lotus Daily-TMT Update]:JD US/3690 HK/700 HK/1024 HK/BILI US/BIDU US/BABA US

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 analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of May 2nd.</li>
<li>Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period.</li>
<li>We highlight short changes in Baba (9988 HK), CCB (939 HK), Jd (9618 HK).</li>
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We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of May 2nd.
Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period.
We highlight short changes in Baba (9988 HK), CCB (939 HK), Jd (9618 HK).


APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Nicholas Tan

APAC IPOs & Placements

Equity Capital Markets

Unisound AI Technology / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/unisound-ai-technology-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36800:1" rel="noopener">Unisound AI Technology (1053075D CH)</a> is looking to raise at least US$300m in its upcoming HK IPO.</li>
<li>The firm specializes primarily in speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities</li>
<li>In this note, we look at the firm's past performance.</li>
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Unisound AI Technology (1053075D CH) is looking to raise at least US$300m in its upcoming HK IPO.
The firm specializes primarily in speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities
In this note, we look at the firm's past performance.


Unisound Pre-IPO: Growing Steadily but Burning Cash

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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Tencent (700 HK)

Quiddity Leaderboard HSTECH Jun25: US$1.85bn One-Way; Announcement Soon

We estimate one-way flows of US$1.85bn which translates to a turnover of 8.4%. Some names are expected to see large index inflows due to upward...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Hang Seng Index (HSI) Rebalance Preview: Inclusion Candidates for June25

We highlight 7 potential inclusions for the HSI in June, though the index committee could make no changes as we have seen in the past. Pop Mart...

Brian Freitas

[Blue Lotus Daily-TMT Update]:JD US/3690 HK/700 HK/1024 HK/BILI US/BIDU US/BABA US

JD and Meituan raise standards for premium food delivery, Tencent releases new AI model, Bilibili launches AI advertising tool.

Blue Lotus Research Institute

HK Short Interest Weekly: Baba, CCB, Jd

We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of May 2nd and highlight short interest changes in Baba, CCB, Jd.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Unisound Pre-IPO: Growing Steadily but Burning Cash

Unisound is looking to raise at least US$300m in its upcoming HK IPO. The firm specializes in speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities....

Nicholas Tan

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Quiddity Leaderboard HSTECH Jun25: US$1.85bn One-Way; Announcement Soon

We estimate one-way flows of US$1.85bn which translates to a turnover of 8.4%. Some names are expected to see large index inflows due to upward...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Hang Seng Index (HSI) Rebalance Preview: Inclusion Candidates for June25

We highlight 7 potential inclusions for the HSI in June, though the index committee could make no changes as we have seen in the past. Pop Mart...

Brian Freitas

[Blue Lotus Daily-TMT Update]:JD US/3690 HK/700 HK/1024 HK/BILI US/BIDU US/BABA US

​JD and Meituan raise standards for premium food delivery, Tencent releases new AI model, Bilibili launches AI advertising tool.

Blue Lotus Research Institute

HK Short Interest Weekly: Baba, CCB, Jd

We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of May 2nd and highlight short interest changes in Baba, CCB, Jd.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Unisound Pre-IPO: Growing Steadily but Burning Cash

Unisound is looking to raise at least US$300m in its upcoming HK IPO. The firm specializes in speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities....

Nicholas Tan

JD and Meituan raise standards for premium food delivery, Tencent releases new AI model, Bilibili launches AI advertising tool.