Listed Real Estate Asia, KT Capital Group

Jacob Cheng

Listed Real Estate Asia

KT Capital Group

Principal investments and advisory firm that focuses on connecting the CIS countries with East Asia.

Principal investments and advisory firm

Equity Bottom-Up

Wharf Real Estate Investment C / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Wharf REIC reported 2% yoy core earnings growth, the first earnings increase since 2019. The results also show Hong Kong retail business is more resilient than expected</li>
<li>The upcoming catalysts include 1) lower interest rates, 2) weakening currency environment and 3) bottoming out of HK retail market</li>
<li>Market is forward-looking and we think the worst is behind us.  Valuation is very compelling.  The stock is a beta play.  BUY</li>
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Wharf REIC reported 2% yoy core earnings growth, the first earnings increase since 2019. The results also show Hong Kong retail business is more resilient than expected
The upcoming catalysts include 1) lower interest rates, 2) weakening currency environment and 3) bottoming out of HK retail market
Market is forward-looking and we think the worst is behind us.  Valuation is very compelling.  The stock is a beta play.  BUY


Wharf REIC: Beta Play W Multiple Catalysts, Lower Rates, Weaker Currency and Returning of Shoppers

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>RTHK just reporting that HK Finance Secretary Paul Chan has said in his budget speech that HK will remove all property cooling measures in place, with immediate effect. </li>
<li>That would be That is Special Stamp Duty, Buyer's Stamp Duty, New Residential Stamp Duty. "Measures no longer necessary given the current economic and market conditions."</li>
<li>This should cause people to get excited short-term about property developers.</li>
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RTHK just reporting that HK Finance Secretary Paul Chan has said in his budget speech that HK will remove all property cooling measures in place, with immediate effect. 
That would be That is Special Stamp Duty, Buyer's Stamp Duty, New Residential Stamp Duty. "Measures no longer necessary given the current economic and market conditions."
This should cause people to get excited short-term about property developers.


Hong Kong To Scrap All "Spicy Measures" (Property Cooling Measures)

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<li>The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/link-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:872:1" rel="noopener">Link REIT (823 HK)</a> rights offering caused some upset amongst investors. They got dilution where they did not need it, and de-leveraging from a REIT wanting to invest.</li>
<li>The units fell in price, then fell some more. Then the rights started trading.</li>
<li>Last week in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/link-reit-823-nil-paid-rights-start-trading-tomorrow-the-trades" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:97326" rel="noopener">Link REIT (823) - Nil Paid Rights Start Trading Tomorrow - The Trades</a> I said strategy was to be long by Tuesday or Wednesday. It's Wednesday.</li>
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The Link REIT (823 HK) rights offering caused some upset amongst investors. They got dilution where they did not need it, and de-leveraging from a REIT wanting to invest.
The units fell in price, then fell some more. Then the rights started trading.
Last week in Link REIT (823) - Nil Paid Rights Start Trading Tomorrow - The Trades I said strategy was to be long by Tuesday or Wednesday. It's Wednesday.


Link REIT (823) - Anchors Aweigh! Fair Weather Sailing Ahead

David Blennerhassett

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<li>China's swift and sudden abolishment of its Covid rules triggered across-the-board outperformance for Hong Kong stocks. The HSI is up ~13% since early December 2022. </li>
<li>A strong rebound of inbound tourism and the resumption of normalised travel between Hong Kong and the mainland should underpin the city's recovery.</li>
<li>The retail sector, notably the high street shop segment, should lead this post-Covid recovery in terms of both rents and prices. </li>
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China's swift and sudden abolishment of its Covid rules triggered across-the-board outperformance for Hong Kong stocks. The HSI is up ~13% since early December 2022. 
A strong rebound of inbound tourism and the resumption of normalised travel between Hong Kong and the mainland should underpin the city's recovery.
The retail sector, notably the high street shop segment, should lead this post-Covid recovery in terms of both rents and prices. 


Hong Kong Property: Retail Reopening Front-Runners

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

TSE Tokyo Price Index TOPIX / Technical Analysis

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<li>Major indexes in the three largest global equity markets (U.S., Europe, Japan) all remain below critical resistances of 5783 on SPX, 5000-5120 on EURO STOXX 50, and 2740-2820 on TOPIX</li>
<li>Additionally, broad global MSCI indexes (local currency) including the ACWI, ACWI ex-U.S., and EAFE all remain at/below resistance from their YTD highs; reduce exposure or shift to defensives.</li>
<li>In late-July we discussed expectations for a 1-to 4-month pullback/consolidation period on MSCI ACWI. We believe it seems likely to last closer to four months, and potentially 4- to 6-months</li>
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Major indexes in the three largest global equity markets (U.S., Europe, Japan) all remain below critical resistances of 5783 on SPX, 5000-5120 on EURO STOXX 50, and 2740-2820 on TOPIX
Additionally, broad global MSCI indexes (local currency) including the ACWI, ACWI ex-U.S., and EAFE all remain at/below resistance from their YTD highs; reduce exposure or shift to defensives.
In late-July we discussed expectations for a 1-to 4-month pullback/consolidation period on MSCI ACWI. We believe it seems likely to last closer to four months, and potentially 4- to 6-months


U.S., Europe, and Japan Still Holding Below Resistance; Favor Defensives

Hong Kong

Wharf Real Estate Investment Company Limited provides real estate investment services. The Company develops, invests, and operates residential and commercial properties. Wharf Real Estate Investment operates business in Hong Kong.

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Wharf Real Estate Investment C (1997 HK)

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Jacob Cheng

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Travis Lundy

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Travis Lundy

Hong Kong Property: Retail Reopening Front-Runners

HKL is cheap at a forward P/B of 0.32x. Both Link and Wharf will benefit from the HK/China border fully opening. But Wharf REIC's two premier...

David Blennerhassett

U.S., Europe, and Japan Still Holding Below Resistance; Favor Defensives

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