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

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

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

Event-Driven

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<li>We see 37 potential adds (including plenty of new listings) and 25 potential deletes (on market cap and liquidity) for the Hang Seng Composite Index in September.</li>
<li>We expect 32 stocks to be added to Southbound Stock Connect following the rebalance while 24 stocks could be deleted from the trading link and become Sell-only.</li>
<li>There are stocks that have a very high percentage of holdings via Stock Connect and there could be some unwinding prior to the stocks becoming Sell-only.</li>
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We see 37 potential adds (including plenty of new listings) and 25 potential deletes (on market cap and liquidity) for the Hang Seng Composite Index in September.
We expect 32 stocks to be added to Southbound Stock Connect following the rebalance while 24 stocks could be deleted from the trading link and become Sell-only.
There are stocks that have a very high percentage of holdings via Stock Connect and there could be some unwinding prior to the stocks becoming Sell-only.


HSCI Index Rebalance Preview and Stock Connect: Potential Changes in September

New Zealand Professional Investment Services Firm, Forsyth Barr

Forsyth Barr

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Residential consents ticked lower in May but remained bound in the 30–35k range for another month.</li><li>Residential consents have been running at these levels since August last year but industry anecdotes suggest that activity declines have yet to level off to the same extent.</li><li>The backdrop remains challenging; housing turnover remains low, inventory continues to lift, and prices appear to be softening again. </li></ul>

Residential consents ticked lower in May but remained bound in the 30–35k range for another month.Residential consents have been running at these levels since August last year but industry anecdotes suggest that activity declines have yet to level off to the same extent.The backdrop remains challenging; housing turnover remains low, inventory continues to lift, and prices appear to be softening again. 

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Research from Water Tower Research, Water Tower Research

Water Tower Research

Research from Water Tower Research

Water Tower Research is a leading equity research firm that provides research on micro, small and mid cap companies.

Water Tower Research was founded by Wall Street veterans after witnessing a fundamental shift in the investment research industry with the result being a declining knowledge base among investors, a lack of awareness and a shrinking pool of fundamental research being conducted on companies across the small-cap and micro-cap spectrum. The same issues are now increasingly occurring in the mid-cap space. This sea change within the investment community is impacting not only the companies themselves but also current shareholders and potential investors. With significantly less active sell-side sponsorship by Wall Street, a substantial information gap has developed between companies and various constituents in the financial community. The net result is fewer channels for insight and information to flow between companies and investors.

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Equity Bottom-Up

Pioneer Power Solutions  / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>The WTR Sustainable Index was down 0.7% W/W versus the S&amp;P 500 Index (down 0.1%), the Russell 2000 Index (up 1.3%), and the Nasdaq Index (down 0.1%).</li><li>Energy Technology (14.2% of the index) was down by 2.7%, while Industrial Climate and Ag Technology (60.5% of the index) was down 0.4%, ClimateTech Mining was down 6.2%, and Advanced Transportation Solutions (19.7% of index) was down 0.2%.</li><li>Top 10 Performers: HLGN, OPTT, EOSE, ARVL, LTBR, NVVE, EGT, ENVX, FFIE, LICY</li></ul>

The WTR Sustainable Index was down 0.7% W/W versus the S&amp;P 500 Index (down 0.1%), the Russell 2000 Index (up 1.3%), and the Nasdaq Index (down 0.1%).Energy Technology (14.2% of the index) was down by 2.7%, while Industrial Climate and Ag Technology (60.5% of the index) was down 0.4%, ClimateTech Mining was down 6.2%, and Advanced Transportation Solutions (19.7% of index) was down 0.2%.Top 10 Performers: HLGN, OPTT, EOSE, ARVL, LTBR, NVVE, EGT, ENVX, FFIE, LICY

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/asm-pacific-technology-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:15061:1" rel="noopener">ASM Pacific Technology (522 HK)</a> is expected to replace <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ping-an-healthcare-and-technol" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27008:1" rel="noopener">Ping An Healthcare and Technol (1833 HK)</a> in the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hang-seng-tech-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31367:1" rel="noopener">Hang Seng TECH Index (HSTECH INDEX)</a> at the September rebalance.</li>
<li>Constituent changes and capping changes will result in a one-way turnover of 3.7% and that will result in a round-trip trade of HK$7.8bn (US$1bn).</li>
<li>Short interest is near the lows on both stocks but there has been a recent tick higher for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/asm-pacific-technology-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:15061:1" rel="noopener">ASM Pacific Technology (522 HK)</a>.</li>
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ASM Pacific Technology (522 HK) is expected to replace Ping An Healthcare and Technol (1833 HK) in the Hang Seng TECH Index (HSTECH INDEX) at the September rebalance.
Constituent changes and capping changes will result in a one-way turnover of 3.7% and that will result in a round-trip trade of HK$7.8bn (US$1bn).
Short interest is near the lows on both stocks but there has been a recent tick higher for ASM Pacific Technology (522 HK).


HSTECH Index Rebalance Preview: ASM Pacific (522) Could Replace Ping An Health (1833); US$1bn Trade

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<ul><li>In its efforts to clamp down on the rising irrationality in option volumes (F&amp;O), the SEBI has directed exchanges and market infrastructure institutions (MII) to discontinue the practice of charging turnover-linked slab-wise fee structures, and levy uniform transaction charges instead</li><li>While exchanges currently levy regressive slab-wise fees (higher the turnover, lower the fees), brokers usually charge their customers at the highest prescribed slab rate, resulting in excess profit residing with brokers, especially discount brokers, which is accounted as “ancillary transaction income”</li><li>Our analysis of ANGELONE’s disclosures suggests that this revenue stream contributes ~8% to revenues and a material 20% to pre-tax profits, which is likely to be vulnerable to the SEBI’s “True to Label” mandate that calls for a complete pass-through from customers to MIIs</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

In its efforts to clamp down on the rising irrationality in option volumes (F&amp;O), the SEBI has directed exchanges and market infrastructure institutions (MII) to discontinue the practice of charging turnover-linked slab-wise fee structures, and levy uniform transaction charges insteadWhile exchanges currently levy regressive slab-wise fees (higher the turnover, lower the fees), brokers usually charge their customers at the highest prescribed slab rate, resulting in excess profit residing with brokers, especially discount brokers, which is accounted as “ancillary transaction income”Our analysis of ANGELONE’s disclosures suggests that this revenue stream contributes ~8% to revenues and a material 20% to pre-tax profits, which is likely to be vulnerable to the SEBI’s “True to Label” mandate that calls for a complete pass-through from customers to MIIsContent is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

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