Pan-Asia Index Flows & Special Situations, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Equity Analyst with 10+ years experience in fundamental and event-driven research.

On Smartkarma, I mainly publish insights on index flow events. This includes predicting regular and intra-review index changes and formulating market-neutral trading strategies based on flow catalysts. I also cover special situations such as mergers & acquisitions, equity offerings, buybacks, and other corporate restructuring events.

Pan-Asia Index Flows & Special Situations

DAX Index: Quiddity Leaderboard for March 2022

DAX Index: Quiddity Leaderboard for March 2022 (2.0)

DAX Index: Quiddity Leaderboard for June 2022

DAX Index: Quiddity Leaderboard for December 2021

Varian-Siemens Deal: DAX Promotion on the Cards for the Acquirer

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Event-Driven

<div><p>DAX is a blue-chip index that now tracks the 40 largest companies listed on the Regulated Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Historically DAX has consisted of 30 companies but following the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/wirecard-ag" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:21743:1" rel="noopener">Wirecard AG (WDI GR)</a> scandal, the index was reconstituted and the number of constituents was increased from 30 to 40 to reduce concentration issues and more stringent eligibility requirements were introduced to protect the overall quality of index constituents in future. This reconstitution was completed on 20th September 2021. </p></div><div>
<p>The DAX Index is reviewed four times a year. In our previous insight, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/dax-index-quiddity-leaderboard-for-december-2021" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:58053" rel="noopener">DAX Index: Quiddity Leaderboard for December 2021</a> we had a look at the potential adds and deletes for the next review which will take place in December 2021.</p>
<p>Below is a follow-up insight discussing the latest changes to Quiddity's DAX Leaderboard. </p>
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DAX is a blue-chip index that now tracks the 40 largest companies listed on the Regulated Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Historically DAX has consisted of 30 companies but following the Wirecard AG (WDI GR) scandal, the index was reconstituted and the number of constituents was increased from 30 to 40 to reduce concentration issues and more stringent eligibility requirements were introduced to protect the overall quality of index constituents in future. This reconstitution was completed on 20th September 2021. 
The DAX Index is reviewed four times a year. In our previous insight, DAX Index: Quiddity Leaderboard for December 2021 we had a look at the potential adds and deletes for the next review which will take place in December 2021.
Below is a follow-up insight discussing the latest changes to Quiddity's DAX Leaderboard. 



DAX Index: Quiddity Dec21 Leaderboard Update (2.0)

Hannover Rueck

DAX Index: Quiddity Dec21 Leaderboard Update (2.0)