Smartkarma Daily Briefs

• As announced, there are 8 adds and 3 deletes for the MSCI Standard indices in Asia Pacific. To trade, there are 8 adds and 2 deletes.
• Most of the changes are inline with what we forecast. The non-inclusion of Gcl Poly Energy Holdings Limited (3800 HK) is the big surprise, though that could change.
• All the adds in China are potential inclusions to the FTSE All-World Index in September and that will add to the passive inflows on the stocks.

• Swire Pacific (A) (19 HK)/Swire Pacific Ltd-Cl B (87 HK) has announced a HK$4bn buyback. While that is 6.5% of shares out, it is over 15% of real float.
• Swire Pacific (A) (19 HK) was trading at a 50% discount to NAV and near the widest level over the last few years.
• There will be passive selling once the buyback is complete, but the stocks should run up prior to that.

• Today Swire Pacific (A) (19 HK) (and Swire Pacific Ltd-Cl B (87 HK)) announced earnings, and they announced a large (HK$4bn) buyback.  
• Details are somewhat thin, but there are a bunch of possibilities, and all of them should have non-negligible impact on Swire and Swire vs Peers. 
• The immediate market response was to send them up 10% on the day. That puts both at somewhere near one-year highs, but the discount to NAV is still big.

• Japan Post Insurance (7181 JP) reported soft Q1 Tuesday on negative existing policy premium growth and higher (covid-related) underwriting claims costs. Guidance was unchanged but JPI also announced a buyback.
• The buyback structure is designed to keep Japan Post Holdings (6178 JP) under 50% to continue to abide by the strictures and goals of the Japan Postal Privatisation Act.
• 50% or more will be done in a ToSTNeT-3 buyback Thursday morning 12 August. The rest will be bought on market. Impact is non-negligible. And JPI is cheap cheap cheap.

• Swire Pacific (19 HK) has announced a “small” buyback at HK$4bn, but it is a material portion of ADV.  
• What remains unknown is how the buyback will be split.  The split will only be known once buyback volumes are announced. 
• Swire is trading cheap at a look-through forward P/B of 0.28x compared to its five-year average of 0.38x, and the two-year average pre-Covid of 0.48x. 

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