Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Highly experienced ex-Delta One trader with 17 years of experience trading arbitrage and related strategies across Asian markets.

Exempt Financial Adviser (EFA) under CrossASEAN Research Pte Ltd.

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Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

CSI Hong Kong Connect Internet Index Rebalance: 10 Changes & Big Impact

BYD (1211 HK): God's Eye & Potential HSTECH Index Inclusion

Hang Seng Internet & IT Index (HSIII) Rebalance: Float & Capping Changes

HSTECH Index Rebalance Preview: BYD (1211 HK) Could Replace China Literature (772 HK); Huge Trade

Hang Seng Indexes: ADR Depositary Holding Changes; Round-Trip Trade Is US$5.1bn; NetEase Outperforms

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 3 constituent changes for the CSI Hong Kong Connect Internet Index in June. Plus there are some fairly large capping changes for some stocks.</li>
<li>Estimated one-way turnover is 4.9% and the round-trip trade is HK$5.4bn (US$694m). The impact on the deletes will be a lot larger than the impact on the adds.</li>
<li>The forecast adds have outperformed the forecast deletes over the near-term, though the trade has been quite volatile over the medium term.</li>
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There could be 3 constituent changes for the CSI Hong Kong Connect Internet Index in June. Plus there are some fairly large capping changes for some stocks.
Estimated one-way turnover is 4.9% and the round-trip trade is HK$5.4bn (US$694m). The impact on the deletes will be a lot larger than the impact on the adds.
The forecast adds have outperformed the forecast deletes over the near-term, though the trade has been quite volatile over the medium term.


CSI Hong Kong Connect Internet Index Rebalance Preview: 6 Changes & US$700m Trade

JF Wealth Holdings

CSI Hong Kong Connect Internet Index Rebalance Preview: 6 Changes & US$700m Trade