Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

I investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

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Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

Equity Capital Markets

The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) revised the securities declaration form (the IPO prospectus) and the securities issuance performance report so that institutional investors' voluntary lockup commitments can be made known to the market in more detail.<h2>As-Is</h2>To induce long-term investment in IPO stocks, the FSS operates a system that preferentially allocates IPO stocks to institutional investors who have pledged to hold them for a certain period of time after listing.However, only the total voluntary lockup of all institutional investors is disclosed in the securities declaration form and the issuance performance report. As a result, it is impossible to check the status of institutional lockup obligations by institutional type.<h2>To-Be</h2>The details of participation in the bookbuilding for each lockup commitment period should be classified by the following 6 institutional investor types in the securities declaration form (including the correction report). Also, in the securities issuance report, the allocation details of institutional investors shall be described in detail in the same way.<ol>
<li>Public offering fund (publicly raised funds)</li>
<li>Brokerages</li>
<li>Pensions, funds managing proprietary assets, banks, and insurance companies</li>
<li>Local other: discretionary investment companies, savings banks, real estate trust companies, capital companies, and leasing companies</li>
<li>Foreign institutional investors (with transaction record): foreign institutional investors who have a business relationship with the underwriter or of whom the underwriter acquirer is aware of the identity</li>
<li>Foreign institutional investors (without transaction record)</li>
</ol>

The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) revised the securities declaration form (the IPO prospectus) and the securities issuance performance report so that institutional investors' voluntary lockup commitments can be made known to the market in more detail.As-IsTo induce long-term investment in IPO stocks, the FSS operates a system that preferentially allocates IPO stocks to institutional investors who have pledged to hold them for a certain period of time after listing.However, only the total voluntary lockup of all institutional investors is disclosed in the securities declaration form and the issuance performance report. As a result, it is impossible to check the status of institutional lockup obligations by institutional type.To-BeThe details of participation in the bookbuilding for each lockup commitment period should be classified by the following 6 institutional investor types in the securities declaration form (including the correction report). Also, in the securities issuance report, the allocation details of institutional investors shall be described in detail in the same way.
Public offering fund (publicly raised funds)
Brokerages
Pensions, funds managing proprietary assets, banks, and insurance companies
Local other: discretionary investment companies, savings banks, real estate trust companies, capital companies, and leasing companies
Foreign institutional investors (with transaction record): foreign institutional investors who have a business relationship with the underwriter or of whom the underwriter acquirer is aware of the identity
Foreign institutional investors (without transaction record)


Korea IPO Lockup Allocation Disclosure Rule Change: Starting with SD Biosensor & Krafton