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

Event-Driven

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<li>We expect the maximum permitted 30 changes at a single review to take place at the June rebalance. Most changes are high probability.</li>
<li>We estimate a one-way turnover of 4.25% at the rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 10.677bn.</li>
<li>Industrials, Information Technology and Materials sectors are expected to have the most net inclusions, while Health Care and Financials are expected to have the most net deletions.</li>
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We expect the maximum permitted 30 changes at a single review to take place at the June rebalance. Most changes are high probability.
We estimate a one-way turnover of 4.25% at the rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 10.677bn.
Industrials, Information Technology and Materials sectors are expected to have the most net inclusions, while Health Care and Financials are expected to have the most net deletions.


CSI300 Index Rebalance Preview: 30 Potential Changes as Sector Rotation Continues

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<li>With a few weeks to the end of the review period, we see 30 potential changes (the maximum allowed at a review) to the index in June.</li>
<li>Most of the changes are high probability ones. We estimate a one-way turnover of 4.48% at the June rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 7.86bn.</li>
<li>The potential inclusions have outperformed the potential deletions over the last couple of months. There could be more to go here as positions are built in the next few weeks.</li>
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With a few weeks to the end of the review period, we see 30 potential changes (the maximum allowed at a review) to the index in June.
Most of the changes are high probability ones. We estimate a one-way turnover of 4.48% at the June rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 7.86bn.
The potential inclusions have outperformed the potential deletions over the last couple of months. There could be more to go here as positions are built in the next few weeks.


CSI300 Index Rebalance Preview (June): Maxing Out the 30 Changes

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<li>Nearly midway through the review period for the June rebalance of the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/shanghai-shenzhen-csi-300-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22906:1" rel="noopener">Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index (SHSZ300 INDEX)</a>, we see 29 potential changes to the index.</li>
<li>There are a lot of high and medium probability changes that could result in a one-way turnover of 4.2% and a one-way trade of CNY 10.17bn at the June rebalance.</li>
<li>The potential inclusions have underperformed the potential deletions by c.15% over the last month and this provides a good entry point into a long short/trade.</li>
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Nearly midway through the review period for the June rebalance of the Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index (SHSZ300 INDEX), we see 29 potential changes to the index.
There are a lot of high and medium probability changes that could result in a one-way turnover of 4.2% and a one-way trade of CNY 10.17bn at the June rebalance.
The potential inclusions have underperformed the potential deletions by c.15% over the last month and this provides a good entry point into a long short/trade.


CSI300 Index Rebalance Preview (June 2022): Changes Near the Midway Mark

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Has there ever been so much disinformation, speculation and conjecture for a takeover of, ostensibly, a straightforward asset?
From the onset, the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/soho-china-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4123:1" rel="noopener">SOHO China Ltd (410 HK)</a> deal traded wide on concerns the transaction could turn political on account of the company's founder's son allegedly making salacious comments aimed at China's PLA around the time India and China engaged in skirmishes along the Sino-Indian border last year. 
A vacuum of any positive news and continued speculation reached a helm on the 29 July, following a vague media article suggesting the deal faced regulatory "obstacles." The shares cratered, falling 31% at one point, before "recovering" to $3.02/share, around the undisturbed price and ~40% adrift of the $5.00/share offer price.
Five days later a sister publication of the one behind the "obstacle" article, issued a note that several banks had obtained internal approvals for underwriting some of Blackstone Group’s loans to fund the Offer. Shares consequently popped.
But it appears there was considerably more substance behind that pop in price. 
Last Friday afternoon, after the close of market, SOHO announced that on 3 August 2021, Blackstone received a <a href="https://www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2021/0806/2021080600685.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notice</a> from SAMR dated 2 August that the case concerning its notification under the PRC Anti-Monopoly Law had been formally accepted by SAMR for review. 
Formal acceptance should be viewed as a major positive.  Less positive is that the application does not appear to a "simple procedure" review.  
More below the fold. 
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Has there ever been so much disinformation, speculation and conjecture for a takeover of, ostensibly, a straightforward asset?
From the onset, the SOHO China Ltd (410 HK) deal traded wide on concerns the transaction could turn political on account of the company's founder's son allegedly making salacious comments aimed at China's PLA around the time India and China engaged in skirmishes along the Sino-Indian border last year. 
A vacuum of any positive news and continued speculation reached a helm on the 29 July, following a vague media article suggesting the deal faced regulatory "obstacles." The shares cratered, falling 31% at one point, before "recovering" to $3.02/share, around the undisturbed price and ~40% adrift of the $5.00/share offer price.
Five days later a sister publication of the one behind the "obstacle" article, issued a note that several banks had obtained internal approvals for underwriting some of Blackstone Group’s loans to fund the Offer. Shares consequently popped.
But it appears there was considerably more substance behind that pop in price. 
Last Friday afternoon, after the close of market, SOHO announced that on 3 August 2021, Blackstone received a notice from SAMR dated 2 August that the case concerning its notification under the PRC Anti-Monopoly Law had been formally accepted by SAMR for review. 
Formal acceptance should be viewed as a major positive.  Less positive is that the application does not appear to a "simple procedure" review.  
More below the fold. 




APAC IPOs & Placements

Zhen Zhou, Toh

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

WM Tech Corporation / Equity Capital Markets

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/wm-tech-corporation" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32976:1" rel="noopener">WM Tech Corporation (WMT HK)</a> is looking to raise US$1bn in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. WM Tech (WMT) is a fresh food and FMCG retailer in China. The company operates its business primarily through two brands, Wumart (物美) and Metro (麦德龙). The Metro brand belonged to Metro China in which WMT acquired an 80% stake in and started consolidating in April 2020.In this note, we have  compared WMT to other supermarket operators.We have previously covered the IPO in:<ul>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/wm-tech-pre-ipo-digitalization-efforts-coming-through-but-not-well-substantiated" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:52007" rel="noopener">WM Tech Pre-IPO - Digitalization Efforts Coming Through but Not Well Substantiated</a> </li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/wm-tech-pre-ipo-wumart-as-main-brand-marginalized-on-the-ground" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:52273" rel="noopener">WM Tech Pre-IPO: Wumart as Main Brand, Marginalized on the Ground</a> </li>
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WM Tech Corporation (WMT HK) is looking to raise US$1bn in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. WM Tech (WMT) is a fresh food and FMCG retailer in China. The company operates its business primarily through two brands, Wumart (物美) and Metro (麦德龙). The Metro brand belonged to Metro China in which WMT acquired an 80% stake in and started consolidating in April 2020.In this note, we have  compared WMT to other supermarket operators.We have previously covered the IPO in:

WM Tech Pre-IPO - Digitalization Efforts Coming Through but Not Well Substantiated 

WM Tech Pre-IPO: Wumart as Main Brand, Marginalized on the Ground 


WM Tech Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison and Pre-IPO Valuation - Some Signs of Advantage

China

Yonghui Superstores Company Limited operates supermarket franchises . The Company mainly operates hypermarkets, marketplace and supermarkets.

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CSI300 Index Rebalance Preview: 30 Potential Changes as Sector Rotation Continues

We forecast 30 changes at the June rebalance for the CSI300 Index - most high probability. Industrials, IT and Materials sectors will have net...

Brian Freitas

CSI300 Index Rebalance Preview (June): Maxing Out the 30 Changes

We estimate 30 changes at the June rebalance with a one-way turnover of 4.48% leading to a one-way trade of CNY 7.86bn. The potential adds have...

Brian Freitas

CSI300 Index Rebalance Preview (June 2022): Changes Near the Midway Mark

Nearly midway through the review period for the June rebalance of the CSI300 index, we see 29 potential changes resulting in a one-way turnover of...

Brian Freitas

SOHO China (410 HK): Time To Buy

Formal acceptance for review is a big positive development. Most deals in China are simply not accepted for review if they are a no-go - and the...

David Blennerhassett

WM Tech Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison and Pre-IPO Valuation - Some Signs of Advantage

WM Tech (WMT) is a fresh food and FMCG retailer in China. The company operates its business primarily through two brands, Wumart (物美) and Metro (麦德龙).

Zhen Zhou, Toh

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