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.

Event-Driven

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<li>Among the local theme indexes in Korea, we have three noteworthy ones for July. They are the WISE theme indexes. They will all rebalance on July 15.</li>
<li>Due to some constituents' recent significant price movements, we can now expect some notable passive flows.</li>
<li>These names are worthy of our attention: SKIET, Solus Advanced, Kangwon Land, Hanatour, T'way Air, Yong Pyong Resort, HYBE, CJ ENM, and Studio Dragon.</li>
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Among the local theme indexes in Korea, we have three noteworthy ones for July. They are the WISE theme indexes. They will all rebalance on July 15.
Due to some constituents' recent significant price movements, we can now expect some notable passive flows.
These names are worthy of our attention: SKIET, Solus Advanced, Kangwon Land, Hanatour, T'way Air, Yong Pyong Resort, HYBE, CJ ENM, and Studio Dragon.


WISE Theme Indexes (TIGER ETFs): Rebalancing Flow Estimations

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<li>This ETF's AUM has decreased by 20% over the past three months, remaining at ₩120B. It has 22 constituents, and there won't be any addition/deletion at the upcoming rebalancing.</li>
<li>As HYBE's recent share price plunged, we can expect a fairly interesting passive impact from this rebalancing, because its 10% cap reversion is certain to occur despite the price plunge.</li>
<li>CJ ENM (-0.19x ADTV) and Studio Dragon (+0.25x ADTV) are also expected to have a significant passive impact.</li>
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This ETF's AUM has decreased by 20% over the past three months, remaining at ₩120B. It has 22 constituents, and there won't be any addition/deletion at the upcoming rebalancing.
As HYBE's recent share price plunged, we can expect a fairly interesting passive impact from this rebalancing, because its 10% cap reversion is certain to occur despite the price plunge.
CJ ENM (-0.19x ADTV) and Studio Dragon (+0.25x ADTV) are also expected to have a significant passive impact.


WISE Theme Index "Media Contents" Rebalancing Projections: HYBE, CJ ENM, & Studio Dragon

Mirae Asset TIGER Secondary Cell ETF / Event-Driven

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<li>In general, the projection hit rate for the top market cap constituents was sufficiently high. And the correlation between their stock price direction and passive flow was also high.</li>
<li>However, the projection hit rate for the constituents with a small market cap was relatively low.</li>
<li>If we traded the proposed tradable names with an equal-weighted Long/Short basket, we would have achieved a return of 1.76%. Even excluding Hanjin Kal, we would have achieved 1.31%.</li>
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In general, the projection hit rate for the top market cap constituents was sufficiently high. And the correlation between their stock price direction and passive flow was also high.
However, the projection hit rate for the constituents with a small market cap was relatively low.
If we traded the proposed tradable names with an equal-weighted Long/Short basket, we would have achieved a return of 1.76%. Even excluding Hanjin Kal, we would have achieved 1.31%.


Recap on WISE Theme Indexes (TIGER ETFs) Rebalancing Trading on April 14

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<li>WISE Media Contents rebalances every quarter in January, April, July, and October. The effective date for the upcoming rebalancing is April 15.</li>
<li>The gap between the rebalancing weight change estimations based on the float-adjusted market caps and the actual implementation of the ETF operator (TIGER) is not significant.</li>
<li>Following stocks are worth paying attention: (Short) Jyp Entertainment, S.M.Entertainment, Studio Dragon, Jcontentree, and SBS Contents Hub / (Long) CJ ENM, DearU, D&amp;C Media, Genie Music, and IHQ</li>
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WISE Media Contents rebalances every quarter in January, April, July, and October. The effective date for the upcoming rebalancing is April 15.
The gap between the rebalancing weight change estimations based on the float-adjusted market caps and the actual implementation of the ETF operator (TIGER) is not significant.
Following stocks are worth paying attention: (Short) Jyp Entertainment, S.M.Entertainment, Studio Dragon, Jcontentree, and SBS Contents Hub / (Long) CJ ENM, DearU, D&amp;C Media, Genie Music, and IHQ


WISE Media Contents (TIGER ETF) Rebalancing Preview

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

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<li>According to a local media outlet called ETNews, CJ ENM is considering on selling about half of its stake in Netmarble to potentially acquire the controlling stake in S.M. Entertainment.</li>
<li>Although CJ ENM is the lead candidate to acquire SM Entertainment, other contenders including Kakao Corp and Naver are not totally out of the M&amp;A race. </li>
<li>Overall, we would wait on buying CJ ENM at current levels. We think that the market is still concerned about CJ ENM overpaying for SM Entertainment.</li>
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According to a local media outlet called ETNews, CJ ENM is considering on selling about half of its stake in Netmarble to potentially acquire the controlling stake in S.M. Entertainment.
Although CJ ENM is the lead candidate to acquire SM Entertainment, other contenders including Kakao Corp and Naver are not totally out of the M&amp;A race. 
Overall, we would wait on buying CJ ENM at current levels. We think that the market is still concerned about CJ ENM overpaying for SM Entertainment.


CJ ENM: Potential Block Sale of Its Stake In Netmarble & Concerns About Corporate Reorganization

South Korea

Studio Dragon Corporation owns and operates drama studios. The Company produces television content, shows, and dramas. Studio Dragon serves customers in South Korea.

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WISE Theme Indexes (TIGER ETFs): Rebalancing Flow Estimations

This post contains the estimations of the passive flows for the constituents of the three WISE theme indexes, which rebalance on July 14.

Sanghyun Park

WISE Theme Index "Media Contents" Rebalancing Projections: HYBE, CJ ENM, & Studio Dragon

This post projects the upcoming rebalancing of the TIGER Theme ETF "Media Contents": Hybe Co Ltd, CJ ENM, and Studio Dragon.

Sanghyun Park

Recap on WISE Theme Indexes (TIGER ETFs) Rebalancing Trading on April 14

This post is a recap of our flow trading on the WISE Theme Indexes (TIGER ETFs) rebalancing, which was carried out on April 14.

Sanghyun Park

WISE Media Contents (TIGER ETF) Rebalancing Preview

This post previews the upcoming rebalancing of the WISE Media Contents Theme Index (TIGER ETF), whose effective date is April 15.

Sanghyun Park

CJ ENM: Potential Block Sale of Its Stake In Netmarble & Concerns About Corporate Reorganization

According to a local media outlet called ETNews, CJ ENM is considering on selling about half of its stake in Netmarble in a block deal to acquire...

Douglas Kim

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