Global Emerging Market Equities, Propitious Research

Wium Malan, CFA

Global Emerging Market Equities

Independent, Fundamental Quantitative Research

Propitious Research

Fully independent, fundamental and quantitative equity research, focused on companies in the Telecommunication, Media, Technology, Internet and Healthcare sectors in the Global Emerging Markets. Idea generation focused on Quality stocks, trading below their intrinsic Value, with sound Corporate Governance.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>The Global Emerging Markets weekly provides a summary of the key news and related developments impacting the largest countries and constituents of the Global Emerging Markets equity indices.</li>
<li>In our final weekly for the year, we look back at 2022 to see which stocks, countries, and currencies out and underperformed in the Global Emerging Markets.</li>
<li>We also look forward to 2023F to see what’s expected for the major GEM economies next year.  </li>
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The Global Emerging Markets weekly provides a summary of the key news and related developments impacting the largest countries and constituents of the Global Emerging Markets equity indices.
In our final weekly for the year, we look back at 2022 to see which stocks, countries, and currencies out and underperformed in the Global Emerging Markets.
We also look forward to 2023F to see what’s expected for the major GEM economies next year.  


Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>On 15 December, it was announced that Korea's FTC decided to refer K Cube Holdings (KCH) to the prosecution over alleged illegal execution of voting rights to Kakao companies.</li>
<li>This could signal that the financial regulators may become more forceful in enforcing numerous other regulatory pressures on Kakao Corp and its affiliated companies to reduce their monopolistic business practices</li>
<li>Our NAV valuation of Kakao Corp suggests NAV per share of 45,942 won, which is 17% lower than current price.</li>
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On 15 December, it was announced that Korea's FTC decided to refer K Cube Holdings (KCH) to the prosecution over alleged illegal execution of voting rights to Kakao companies.
This could signal that the financial regulators may become more forceful in enforcing numerous other regulatory pressures on Kakao Corp and its affiliated companies to reduce their monopolistic business practices
Our NAV valuation of Kakao Corp suggests NAV per share of 45,942 won, which is 17% lower than current price.


Kakao Corp: FTC Going After Chairman Kim Beom-Su's K Cube Holdings

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, 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.

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/net-protections-holdings-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35162:1" rel="noopener">Net Protections (7383 JP)</a>, a buy now pay later service provider, raised around US$570m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its Japan IPO in Dec 2021.</li>
<li>As per Yano Research, it had 40% market share in the domestic BNPL market for B2C transactions.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the upcoming lock-up expiry on 9th Dec 2022.</li>
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Net Protections (7383 JP), a buy now pay later service provider, raised around US$570m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its Japan IPO in Dec 2021.
As per Yano Research, it had 40% market share in the domestic BNPL market for B2C transactions.
In this note, we will talk about the upcoming lock-up expiry on 9th Dec 2022.


Net Protections Holding IPO Lock-Up - PE Owner Is Free to Shed Its Remaining Stake

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

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

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

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<li>
 Kakao managed to stay out of the relegation zone. Instead, Kia was pushed to the borderline. But POSCO failed to up its float rate, so Kia stayed in.</li>
<li>Besides that, LG Energy Solution and Celltrion made it to the index, replacing KB Financial and Shinhan Financial.</li>
<li>These passive flows appears to be of sufficient magnitude to cause a substantial price impact on T-1 Effectiveness. But it should also be approached with a fairly short window.</li>
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 Kakao managed to stay out of the relegation zone. Instead, Kia was pushed to the borderline. But POSCO failed to up its float rate, so Kia stayed in.
Besides that, LG Energy Solution and Celltrion made it to the index, replacing KB Financial and Shinhan Financial.
These passive flows appears to be of sufficient magnitude to cause a substantial price impact on T-1 Effectiveness. But it should also be approached with a fairly short window.


TIGER Top 10 Rebalancing: Four Names to Trade on T-1 Effective

Equity Capital Markets

Alibaba Group Holding  / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, things are picking up again going into the year end.</li>
<li>There were no large placement or blocks this week, although prior lockup linked blocks kept flowing through.</li>
</ul>


Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
On the IPO front, things are picking up again going into the year end.
There were no large placement or blocks this week, although prior lockup linked blocks kept flowing through.


ECM Weekly (27th Nov 2022) - Growatt, Lygend, Sunshine Ins, Weilong, DPC, Daiei, Skymark, GoTo

South Korea

Kakao Corp. provides Internet portal services such as news, free e-mail, and leisure information.  The Company also offers cross-platform mobile messaging application that allows users to exchange messages.

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GEM Weekly: 2022 Yearend Edition

In our final weekly for the year, we look back at 2022 to see which GEM stocks, countries, and currencies out and underperformed, and look forward...

Wium Malan, CFA

Kakao Corp: FTC Going After Chairman Kim Beom-Su's K Cube Holdings

On 15 December, it was announced that Korea's FTC decided to refer K Cube Holdings (KCH) to the prosecution over alleged illegal execution of...

Douglas Kim

Net Protections Holding IPO Lock-Up - PE Owner Is Free to Shed Its Remaining Stake

Net Protections, a buy now pay later service provider, raised around US$570m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its Japan IPO in...

Sumeet Singh

TIGER Top 10 Rebalancing: Four Names to Trade on T-1 Effective

This post screens four names to trade at the TIGER Top 10 ETF rebalancing in December based on FnGuide's latest float rates, and discusses trading...

Sanghyun Park

ECM Weekly (27th Nov 2022) - Growatt, Lygend, Sunshine Ins, Weilong, DPC, Daiei, Skymark, GoTo

Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.

Sumeet Singh

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