Head of Trading/ Partner, AceGama Advisors

Sankalp Singh

Head of Trading/ Partner

Proprietary Trading Desk

AceGama Advisors

Trading desk specializing in the Listed & OTC options strategies for risk management & investment purposes.

Event-Driven

The NIFTY 50 index is National Stock Exchange of India's benchmark stock market index for Indian equity market. Nifty is owned and managed by India Index Services and Products (IISL), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the NSE Strategic Investment Corporation Limited.

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<li>IVs guided lower as Inflation data furthers expectations of easier monetary policy. Weekly IVs lower by -3.3 vols, Monthly IVs lower by -1.6 vols &amp; Quarterly IVs remained unaffected.</li>
<li>IV mark-down seems overdone given the heavy upcoming event-risk calendar. Weekly contracts capture the 18.12.2024 FOMC meeting. </li>
<li>Strategic Implications: (1) Consider Long Gamma positioning given upcoming event risk &amp; IV markdown (2) Retain Short Vega allocations while Monthly IVs still above 10.5%.</li>
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IVs guided lower as Inflation data furthers expectations of easier monetary policy. Weekly IVs lower by -3.3 vols, Monthly IVs lower by -1.6 vols &amp; Quarterly IVs remained unaffected.
IV mark-down seems overdone given the heavy upcoming event-risk calendar. Weekly contracts capture the 18.12.2024 FOMC meeting. 
Strategic Implications: (1) Consider Long Gamma positioning given upcoming event risk &amp; IV markdown (2) Retain Short Vega allocations while Monthly IVs still above 10.5%.


EQD / NSE NIFTY50 Vol Update / Markdown in Short-Dated IVs Overdone Given Upcoming FOMC Event Risk

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

Ventive Hospitality Ltd / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ventive-hospitality-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43933:1" rel="noopener">Ventive Hospitality Ltd (0807075D IN)</a> is looking to raise about US$188m in its India IPO. The deal, a fresh issue of shares, is downsized from an earlier size of ~US$240m.</li>
<li>Ventive Hospitality Limited (VHL) is the largest hospitality asset owner amongst public listed market peers, focused primarily on luxury offerings across business and leisure in India and Maldives.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the IPO valuations.</li>
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Ventive Hospitality Ltd (0807075D IN) is looking to raise about US$188m in its India IPO. The deal, a fresh issue of shares, is downsized from an earlier size of ~US$240m.
Ventive Hospitality Limited (VHL) is the largest hospitality asset owner amongst public listed market peers, focused primarily on luxury offerings across business and leisure in India and Maldives.
We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the IPO valuations.


Ventive Hospitality IPO - Quick Thoughts on Peer Comp and Valuation

Continuum Green Energy Ltd / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/continuum-green-energy-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:44172:1" rel="noopener">Continuum Green Energy Ltd (1580973D IN)</a> is looking to raise about US$430m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Kotak, Ambit, Citi and JM Fin.</li>
<li>Continuum Green Energy Limited is an independent power producer with over 14 years of experience in identifying, developing, constructing and operating renewable energy projects in India.</li>
<li>It acquired its first 16.50 MW wind project in 2010 and has grown its portfolio to a total operational and under-construction capacity of 3.52 GWp, as of Dec 9, 2024.</li>
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Continuum Green Energy Ltd (1580973D IN) is looking to raise about US$430m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Kotak, Ambit, Citi and JM Fin.
Continuum Green Energy Limited is an independent power producer with over 14 years of experience in identifying, developing, constructing and operating renewable energy projects in India.
It acquired its first 16.50 MW wind project in 2010 and has grown its portfolio to a total operational and under-construction capacity of 3.52 GWp, as of Dec 9, 2024.


Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Douglas Research Advisory

LG Electronics India / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Our base case valuation of LG Electronics India is implied market cap of 1,256 billion INR or US$14.7 billion.</li>
<li>Several media accounts have mentioned that LGEI could be targeting a valuation of about US$13 billion to US$15 billion.</li>
<li>LGEI's valuation would need to be about US$13 billion or less in order for us to be Bullish on this IPO. </li>
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Our base case valuation of LG Electronics India is implied market cap of 1,256 billion INR or US$14.7 billion.
Several media accounts have mentioned that LGEI could be targeting a valuation of about US$13 billion to US$15 billion.
LGEI's valuation would need to be about US$13 billion or less in order for us to be Bullish on this IPO. 


LG Electronics India IPO Valuation Analysis

Quantitative Researcher, MRM Research

Nico Rosti

Quantitative Researcher

MRM Research

Quantitative Research

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nifty-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23617:1" rel="noopener">NIFTY Index</a> has been rallying more than 5% since its bottom 4 weeks ago. However the index has not returned to its all time high (26277).</li>
<li>Our models indicate that the index is starting to be overbought, but is not yet super-overbought, so the question is: will it continue higher? Or will it pullback soon?</li>
<li>This coming week will be crucial to sustain momentum and possibly accelerate, our models say that when this pattern is encountered the index can rally up to 7-8 weeks.</li>
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The NIFTY Index has been rallying more than 5% since its bottom 4 weeks ago. However the index has not returned to its all time high (26277).
Our models indicate that the index is starting to be overbought, but is not yet super-overbought, so the question is: will it continue higher? Or will it pullback soon?
This coming week will be crucial to sustain momentum and possibly accelerate, our models say that when this pattern is encountered the index can rally up to 7-8 weeks.


EQD | NIFTY at a Fork: Is the Rally Over? or Can It Stretch for 3 More Weeks?

Indian Blocks Bazaar
Indian Blocks and Placements

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Ventive Hospitality IPO - Quick Thoughts on Peer Comp and Valuation

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Akshat Shah

Continuum Green Energy Pre-IPO Tearsheet

Continuum Green Energy is looking to raise about US$430m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Kotak, Ambit, Citi and JM Fin.

Akshat Shah

LG Electronics India IPO Valuation Analysis

Our base case valuation of LG Electronics India is implied market cap of US$14.7 billion. LGEI's valuation would need to be about US$13 billion or...

Douglas Kim

EQD | NIFTY at a Fork: Is the Rally Over? or Can It Stretch for 3 More Weeks?

The NIFTY 50 this week broke through the support level at 24407 (50% probability of reversal) and got closer to the 23718 level (75% probability of...

Nico Rosti