Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

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.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 149 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 98.3% as of Oct 18th.</li>
<li>The average A-H premium changed by 3.8ppt week-on-week, led by consumer discretionary, consumer staples, financials and offset by health care.</li>
<li>We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for TSINGTAO, Goldwind, HAITONG, Guotai Junan Securities, Haohai, FMSH.</li>
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We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 149 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 98.3% as of Oct 18th.
The average A-H premium changed by 3.8ppt week-on-week, led by consumer discretionary, consumer staples, financials and offset by health care.
We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for TSINGTAO, Goldwind, HAITONG, Guotai Junan Securities, Haohai, FMSH.


A-H Premium Weekly (Oct 18th):TSINGTAO, Goldwind, HAITONG, Guotai Junan Securities, Haohai, FMSH

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>Huge volumes traded on the mainland, Southbound volumes dropped, AH Premia contracted a little bit, but not much. Things are starting to stabilise.</li>
<li>Average AH pairwise volatility is super high. Intracorrelation of spreads quite low. Lots of room to market-make wide spreads/high premia. High premia may continue to contract on speculation.</li>
<li>Continuing different onshore and offshore opinion regarding the nature and vibe of Chinese stimulus will continue to lead to interesting dispersion. Identify the trend, then market make around it.</li>
</ul>


Huge volumes traded on the mainland, Southbound volumes dropped, AH Premia contracted a little bit, but not much. Things are starting to stabilise.
Average AH pairwise volatility is super high. Intracorrelation of spreads quite low. Lots of room to market-make wide spreads/high premia. High premia may continue to contract on speculation.
Continuing different onshore and offshore opinion regarding the nature and vibe of Chinese stimulus will continue to lead to interesting dispersion. Identify the trend, then market make around it.


A/H Premium Tracker (To 18 Oct 2024): AH Premia Drop Sharply; High Premia May Contract More

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

Inner Mongolia Furui Medical Scie / Event-Driven

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<li>The review period ends on 31 October, the changes should be announced on 29 November and will be effective after the close of trading on 13 December.</li>
<li>We forecast 4 potential changes for the index in December where there could be buying of 0.5-3x ADV in the adds and selling of between 0.5-1.3x ADV in the deletes.</li>
<li>The forecast adds have drifted lower versus the forecast deletes following the rally in the markets and the large ETF creations. That could reverse from now till review period end.</li>
</ul>


The review period ends on 31 October, the changes should be announced on 29 November and will be effective after the close of trading on 13 December.
We forecast 4 potential changes for the index in December where there could be buying of 0.5-3x ADV in the adds and selling of between 0.5-1.3x ADV in the deletes.
The forecast adds have drifted lower versus the forecast deletes following the rally in the markets and the large ETF creations. That could reverse from now till review period end.


CSI Medical Service Index Rebalance Preview: Four Potential Changes in December

<ul>
<li>We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 148 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 95.2% as of Oct 11th.</li>
<li>The average A-H premium changed by -13.0ppt week-on-week, led by consumer staples, consumer discretionary, financials.</li>
<li>We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for BYD, SMIC, TSINGTAO, Guotai Junan Securities, HAITONG, CanSino, Junshi Biosciences, FLAT Group, China Tourism.</li>
</ul>


We analyse the changes of A-H premium on 148 stocks over the last week. The average A-H premium was 95.2% as of Oct 11th.
The average A-H premium changed by -13.0ppt week-on-week, led by consumer staples, consumer discretionary, financials.
We highlight weekly changes in A-H premium for BYD, SMIC, TSINGTAO, Guotai Junan Securities, HAITONG, CanSino, Junshi Biosciences, FLAT Group, China Tourism.


A-H Premium Weekly (Oct 11th):BYD, SMIC, TSINGTAO, Guotai Junan Securities, HAITONG, CanSino

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

Equity Capital Markets

Akeso Biopharma Inc / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/akeso-biopharma-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28830:1" rel="noopener">Akeso Biopharma Inc (9926 HK)</a> is looking to raise around US$200m from its primary placement. Proceeds from the placement will be used for R&amp;D.</li>
<li>Past deals in the name haven’t done well recently but the shares have been doing well and the deal size remains small.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
</ul>



Akeso Biopharma Inc (9926 HK) is looking to raise around US$200m from its primary placement. Proceeds from the placement will be used for R&amp;D.
Past deals in the name haven’t done well recently but the shares have been doing well and the deal size remains small.
In this note, we talk about the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.


Akeso Placement - Opportunistic Raise, past Deal Record Has Been Mixed but Relative Size Is Small

China

WuXi AppTec Co., Ltd. manufactures medical products. The Company produces biological agents, antibodies, biological diagnostic reagents, and other products. WuXi AppTec also provides biological analysis, technical study, and other services.

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WuXi AppTec (2359 HK)

A-H Premium Weekly (Oct 18th):TSINGTAO, Goldwind, HAITONG, Guotai Junan Securities, Haohai, FMSH

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for TSINGTAO, Goldwind, HAITONG, Guotai Junan Securities,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

A/H Premium Tracker (To 18 Oct 2024): AH Premia Drop Sharply; High Premia May Contract More

AH Pair Premia start to settle down as an average but there is a lot of dispersion still across names and sectors. It's a great time to have an...

Travis Lundy

CSI Medical Service Index Rebalance Preview: Four Potential Changes in December

There could be 4 changes for the CSI Medical Service Index in Dec. Trackers will need to trade between 0.5-3x ADV. The adds have underperformed as...

Brian Freitas

A-H Premium Weekly (Oct 11th):BYD, SMIC, TSINGTAO, Guotai Junan Securities, HAITONG, CanSino

We analyzed A-H premium changes in the past week and highlight A-H premium changes for BYD, SMIC, TSINGTAO, Guotai Junan Securities, HAITONG,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Akeso Placement - Opportunistic Raise, past Deal Record Has Been Mixed but Relative Size Is Small

Akeso Biopharma Inc (9926 HK) is looking to raise around US$200m from its primary placement. Proceeds from the placement will be used for R&D.

Sumeet Singh

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