European Event-Driven Analyst

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

Jesús is an Insight Provider (Event-driven) on the Smartkarma network, where he looks across sectors at opportunities arising from securities mispricing (both credit and equity), share classes, bid announcements, prospective bids, and special situations. He has served as Economic and Business Advisor at the Spanish Congress in Madrid. Prior to that, he has worked in the City of London: as a Credit Analyst at Bloomberg; Event-driven associate at former boutique European Research; and doubled as Special Situations and Equity-linked VP (convertible bonds) at Merrill Lynch. Jesús has an MBA from the London Business School, a BA (Hons.) degree in Economics from the Complutense University in Madrid, and a BA (Hons.) in Law from U.N.E.D., also in Madrid.

EURO STOXX 50: Engie Stands Out Into Implementation

Index Rebalance

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<li>Société Générale and Engie lead our current addition screen, while Nokia/E.ON remains a live race: just 1.9% relative performance separates the two ahead of the 31 August cut-off.</li>
<li>The flow numbers favour the addition side: estimated ETF buying reaches ~7x ADV for Engie and 6.3x for E.ON, compared with 2–3x ADV selling for the main deletion candidates.</li>
<li>We favour the addition side: Engie offers the strongest prospective flow/liquidity setup, while E.ON becomes particularly interesting if it overtakes Nokia; we are more cautious on pre-positioning deletion shorts.</li>
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Société Générale and Engie lead our current addition screen, while Nokia/E.ON remains a live race: just 1.9% relative performance separates the two ahead of the 31 August cut-off.
The flow numbers favour the addition side: estimated ETF buying reaches ~7x ADV for Engie and 6.3x for E.ON, compared with 2–3x ADV selling for the main deletion candidates.
We favour the addition side: Engie offers the strongest prospective flow/liquidity setup, while E.ON becomes particularly interesting if it overtakes Nokia; we are more cautious on pre-positioning deletion shorts.


EURO STOXX 50: Trading the September Rebalance

Engie SA

EURO STOXX 50: Trading the September Rebalance