Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>On Friday after the close, the S&amp;P DJI Index Committee announced changes to the S&amp;P 100, S&amp;P500, S&amp;P MidCap400, and S&amp;P SmallCap600. Changes happen at the close 15 March 2024.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/super-micro-computer-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:7921:1" rel="noopener">Super Micro Computer (SMCI US)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/deckers-outdoor-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:3028:1" rel="noopener">Deckers Outdoor (DECK US)</a> replace <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/zions-bancorporation" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:9490:1" rel="noopener">Zions Bancorporation (ZION US)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/whirlpool-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:1538:1" rel="noopener">Whirlpool Corp (WHR US)</a> in the S&amp;P500. 2 changes to 400, 6 to 600.</li>
<li>The immediate reaction was to send SMCI up 12.5%. That's shortsighted. It pays to count the pennies involved. There are a LOT of pennies.</li>
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On Friday after the close, the S&amp;P DJI Index Committee announced changes to the S&amp;P 100, S&amp;P500, S&amp;P MidCap400, and S&amp;P SmallCap600. Changes happen at the close 15 March 2024.

Super Micro Computer (SMCI US) and Deckers Outdoor (DECK US) replace Zions Bancorporation (ZION US) and Whirlpool Corp (WHR US) in the S&amp;P500. 2 changes to 400, 6 to 600.
The immediate reaction was to send SMCI up 12.5%. That's shortsighted. It pays to count the pennies involved. There are a LOT of pennies.


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White Brook Capital’s Thoughts and Views, White Brook Capital

White Brook Capital

White Brook Capital’s Thoughts and Views

White Brook Capital LLC is a socially responsible, investment advisory firm founded in 2016, based in Chicago. The Company invests separately managed accounts and manages the White Brook Capital Partners fund for qualified investors

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<ul><li>Last night Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that in exchange for OpenAI’s position in MacOS, IOS, and iPadOS, Apple would pay OpenAI nothing. </li><li>To level set, earlier this week, Apple unveiled their implementation of artificial intelligence, branded “Apple Intelligence”.</li><li>Apple Intelligence separates itself from Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT by identifying and addressing user queries that contain personal information, but for capabilities it isn’t capable of performing, asking for user permission, and outsourcing the request to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, anonymously. </li></ul>

Last night Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that in exchange for OpenAI’s position in MacOS, IOS, and iPadOS, Apple would pay OpenAI nothing. To level set, earlier this week, Apple unveiled their implementation of artificial intelligence, branded “Apple Intelligence”.Apple Intelligence separates itself from Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT by identifying and addressing user queries that contain personal information, but for capabilities it isn’t capable of performing, asking for user permission, and outsourcing the request to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, anonymously. 

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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

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<li>The last week was a very busy one. The coming week has some announcements and implementations but is a relatively quieter one.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sse-science-and-technology-innovation-board-50-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29279:1" rel="noopener">SSE STAR50 (STAR50 INDEX)</a> and STAR100 Index changes for March will be implemented at the close on Friday, the 8th.</li>
<li>Another week of inflows for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ishares-msci-emerging-markets-223f5da3-7054-4e4f-bc55-b7f0852c2581" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31998:1" rel="noopener">iShares Emerging Markets ex-China (EMXC US)</a> ETF as creations cross US$2bn for 2024. ETF AUM has gone from US$420m in 2021 to US$11bn now!</li>
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The last week was a very busy one. The coming week has some announcements and implementations but is a relatively quieter one.
The SSE STAR50 (STAR50 INDEX) and STAR100 Index changes for March will be implemented at the close on Friday, the 8th.
Another week of inflows for the iShares Emerging Markets ex-China (EMXC US) ETF as creations cross US$2bn for 2024. ETF AUM has gone from US$420m in 2021 to US$11bn now!


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Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

Baptista Research

Independent research on the U.S. markets

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Equity Capital Markets

<ul><li>Box had a successful third quarter and delivered an all-around beat with accelerating revenue growth, an operating margin of 21%, and RPO growth of 25%.</li><li>Box's net retention rate was 109%, with 97 deals over $100,000 and a 63% attach rate of Suites over $100,000 in the quarter.</li><li>Box is seeing early success in customer adoption and use of Box Sign, with leading organizations replacing their incumbent signature solutions with Box Sign.</li></ul>

Box had a successful third quarter and delivered an all-around beat with accelerating revenue growth, an operating margin of 21%, and RPO growth of 25%.Box's net retention rate was 109%, with 97 deals over $100,000 and a 63% attach rate of Suites over $100,000 in the quarter.Box is seeing early success in customer adoption and use of Box Sign, with leading organizations replacing their incumbent signature solutions with Box Sign.

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<ul><li>Box had a mixed third quarter, with revenue below Wall Street expectations but stronger than expected earnings.</li><li>Their leading security and data governance tools, Box Governance and Box Shield have received many significant upgrades.</li><li>The Box Shield ethical wall feature was also made public during the quarter.</li></ul>

Box had a mixed third quarter, with revenue below Wall Street expectations but stronger than expected earnings.Their leading security and data governance tools, Box Governance and Box Shield have received many significant upgrades.The Box Shield ethical wall feature was also made public during the quarter.

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