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

Event-Driven

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<li>The review period nearly complete, we see 7 potential adds and 9 potential deletes at the December rebalance. However, there can be a maximum of 5 changes at a rebalance.</li>
<li>We estimate a one-way turnover of 4.28% at the December rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 3.42bn. Index arb activity could add to the impact on the stocks.</li>
<li>The potential adds have dropped over the last month while the potential deletes have moved higher over the last couple of weeks.</li>
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The review period nearly complete, we see 7 potential adds and 9 potential deletes at the December rebalance. However, there can be a maximum of 5 changes at a rebalance.
We estimate a one-way turnover of 4.28% at the December rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 3.42bn. Index arb activity could add to the impact on the stocks.
The potential adds have dropped over the last month while the potential deletes have moved higher over the last couple of weeks.


SSE50 Index Rebalance Preview: Sector Shift as IT and Financials Drop

Asian Insight Provider - Actionable ideas, CrossASEAN Research

Henry Soediarko

Asian Insight Provider - Actionable ideas

CrossASEAN Research

At CrossASEAN Research we strive to produce unbiased and differentiated on the ground insights on companies across South East Asia. Our Research is produced for the most part after face to face meetings and conversations with company management to dig deep into the long term vision and strategy of the companies we cover. We seek to deliver investable and actionable themes on sectors and markets across SE Asia, often in collaboration with other Insight Providers across the region, pooling the vast experience of the analysts within the Smartkarma Ecosystem. We also offer bespoke work and tailor made trips for our clients. 

Insights across South East Asia

Equity Bottom-Up

Sino American Silicon Products / Equity Bottom-Up

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sino-american-silicon-products-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:3441:1" rel="noopener">Sino American Silicon Products (5483 TT)</a>  is a Taiwan-based company mainly engaged in the research, development, design, manufacture, and distribution of semiconductor wafer products with subsidiaries in both listed and unlisted companies including <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/globalwafers-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:17916:1" rel="noopener">Globalwafers (6488 TT)</a> , <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/parade-technologies-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:6987:1" rel="noopener">Parade Technologies (4966 TT)</a> , <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/actron-technology-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4989:1" rel="noopener">Actron Technology (8255 TT)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/advanced-wireless-semiconduc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16559:1" rel="noopener">Advanced Wireless Semiconduc (8086 TT)</a> with only in Globalwafers - SAS owns more than 51%.
The large discount between SAS and its subsidiaries could be due to 1) lack of bulge-bracket coverage, 2) higher polysilicon price 3) and 3) weak 1H demand from the solar and the semiconductor from COVID-19 plague which caused investors to care less about the value dislocation between SAS and its subsidiaries.
With a somewhat certain 28-30% gain in the earning as early Q1 2022, investors should start slowly building positions in SAS as the risk-off beast may disturb the confidence in the equity market much longer than what investors would like. The second scenario of increasing stake in Parade Tech should be treated as a call option as when it happens, it is a bonus of another 24%. Thus the total upside could be around 54%. 
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Besides the above-mentioned reasons, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sino-american-silicon-products-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:3441:1" rel="noopener">Sino American Silicon Products (5483 TT)</a> remains a smart way to gain exposure in Globalwafers which trades at 24x PER, compared to SAS that trades at 13x PER. The other factor is that Globalwafers dividend yield is 2.28% while SAS is 5.22%. 
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Sino American Silicon Products (5483 TT)  is a Taiwan-based company mainly engaged in the research, development, design, manufacture, and distribution of semiconductor wafer products with subsidiaries in both listed and unlisted companies including Globalwafers (6488 TT) , Parade Technologies (4966 TT) , Actron Technology (8255 TT) and Advanced Wireless Semiconduc (8086 TT) with only in Globalwafers - SAS owns more than 51%.
The large discount between SAS and its subsidiaries could be due to 1) lack of bulge-bracket coverage, 2) higher polysilicon price 3) and 3) weak 1H demand from the solar and the semiconductor from COVID-19 plague which caused investors to care less about the value dislocation between SAS and its subsidiaries.
With a somewhat certain 28-30% gain in the earning as early Q1 2022, investors should start slowly building positions in SAS as the risk-off beast may disturb the confidence in the equity market much longer than what investors would like. The second scenario of increasing stake in Parade Tech should be treated as a call option as when it happens, it is a bonus of another 24%. Thus the total upside could be around 54%. 

Besides the above-mentioned reasons, Sino American Silicon Products (5483 TT) remains a smart way to gain exposure in Globalwafers which trades at 24x PER, compared to SAS that trades at 13x PER. The other factor is that Globalwafers dividend yield is 2.28% while SAS is 5.22%. 


Sino American Silicon (5483): Entry to Globalwafers and Others

On 3 June, President Biden amended Executive Order 13959 with respect to the threat posed by the military-industrial complex of the People’s Republic of China, and expanded the list of companies to include entities that operate in the defense and related materiel sector or the surveillance technology sector in China, or own, or are owned, or are controlled by persons that operate in the above sectors.There were a few entities that appeared in Trump's list that were dropped while there were new entities that were added to the current list.Some major changes were that the name of the list was changed from Communist Chinese Military Companies (CCMC) to Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (CMIC), the list would be maintained by the Treasury Department as opposed to the Defense Department, and restrictions on subsidiaries would apply only if the subsidiary was explicitly named in the list.It has been reported in the media, quoting senior officials, that the list will be updated on a rolling basis. As we were typing out the Insight, Reuters published an article that says <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-biden-china-investment/analysis-more-chinese-companies-could-fall-under-bidens-broader-investment-ban-idUSL2N2NM13H" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more Chinese companies could be added to the investment ban</a>.In this Insight, we try to identify some of the subsidiaries of companies that could be added to the CMIC list where the parent entity is already included on the list.

On 3 June, President Biden amended Executive Order 13959 with respect to the threat posed by the military-industrial complex of the People’s Republic of China, and expanded the list of companies to include entities that operate in the defense and related materiel sector or the surveillance technology sector in China, or own, or are owned, or are controlled by persons that operate in the above sectors.There were a few entities that appeared in Trump's list that were dropped while there were new entities that were added to the current list.Some major changes were that the name of the list was changed from Communist Chinese Military Companies (CCMC) to Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (CMIC), the list would be maintained by the Treasury Department as opposed to the Defense Department, and restrictions on subsidiaries would apply only if the subsidiary was explicitly named in the list.It has been reported in the media, quoting senior officials, that the list will be updated on a rolling basis. As we were typing out the Insight, Reuters published an article that says more Chinese companies could be added to the investment ban.In this Insight, we try to identify some of the subsidiaries of companies that could be added to the CMIC list where the parent entity is already included on the list.

POTUS Executive Order: Potential Additions to the CMIC List

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

In 1998, before the US and China entered into Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China in 2000, the US Congress enacted a law requiring the Clinton Administration to publish a list of Chinese companies in the US which did business with the People's Liberation Army (Public Law 105-261, Section 1237), and a "Communist Chinese military company" was defined in that law as any company named in to Defense Intelligence Agency documents from 1990 and 1995 and "any other entity owned or controlled by the PLA and engaged in providing commercial services, manufacturing, or exporting."That law basically lay dormant until last year when the Pentagon launched a review of such companies following the Trump White House's labelling of China (and Russia) a "revisionist" power in its first National Security Strategy <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NSS-Final-12-18-2017-0905-2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> in 2017. The goal was to investigate and warn about supply-chain vulnerabilities. The Department of Defense published a list in June 2020 of 20 companies which were "Qualified Entities". It updated the list in late August 2020. The former Secretary of Defense was ousted several days ago and the new Secretary of Defense is now responsible for the list. There is, as of last night, an Executive Order by the White House blocking US 'persons' investment in any of the names mentioned - a list now 31 names long.More below on the impact.

In 1998, before the US and China entered into Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China in 2000, the US Congress enacted a law requiring the Clinton Administration to publish a list of Chinese companies in the US which did business with the People's Liberation Army (Public Law 105-261, Section 1237), and a "Communist Chinese military company" was defined in that law as any company named in to Defense Intelligence Agency documents from 1990 and 1995 and "any other entity owned or controlled by the PLA and engaged in providing commercial services, manufacturing, or exporting."That law basically lay dormant until last year when the Pentagon launched a review of such companies following the Trump White House's labelling of China (and Russia) a "revisionist" power in its first National Security Strategy report in 2017. The goal was to investigate and warn about supply-chain vulnerabilities. The Department of Defense published a list in June 2020 of 20 companies which were "Qualified Entities". It updated the list in late August 2020. The former Secretary of Defense was ousted several days ago and the new Secretary of Defense is now responsible for the list. There is, as of last night, an Executive Order by the White House blocking US 'persons' investment in any of the names mentioned - a list now 31 names long.More below on the impact.

Trump's Executive Order on Chinese Military Companies

Equity Capital Markets

SDIC Power Holdings / Equity Capital Markets

The name of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sdic-power-holdings-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:10857:1" rel="noopener">SDIC Power Holdings (600886 CH)</a>, an SOE-owned SOE which constructs and operates electric power generation plants (hydropower, thermal, wind and PV solar in China, in addition to its ownership of Red Rock Power, a Scotland-based wind farm operator) has for weeks been crossing the tape as the next likely Global Depository Receipt issuance using the Shanghai-London Connect program. On July 3rd the company said that its Board had approved the issuance of shares and listing GDRs in London. On Saturday the company announced they had recently received approval from the SASAC (State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission) of the State Council to issue up to 10% of the company's share capital - or up to 678.602mm A-share equivalents underlying the GDRs. <figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"><img src="https://static-prod.smartkarma.com/images/media/000/095/371/original/Screenshot%202019-08-12%20at%2012.53.46%20PM.png?1565585642" class="editor-image img-responsive" data-smartkarma-image-id="95371"></figure>That is about US$830mm worth at last traded price, though one would expect there would be a significant discount applied.The deal still requires approvals from the CSRC and the FCA. In the earlier GDR issuance event of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/huatai-securities-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28124:1" rel="noopener">Huatai Securities Co Ltd (HTSC LI)</a>, CSRC approval was announced 4 June 2019, FCA approval was announced 11 June 2019, with the pricing range officially out that day, and the GDRs priced on the 14th of June (or the 13th - it wasn't clear, really) and then they first traded on the 26th.

The name of SDIC Power Holdings (600886 CH), an SOE-owned SOE which constructs and operates electric power generation plants (hydropower, thermal, wind and PV solar in China, in addition to its ownership of Red Rock Power, a Scotland-based wind farm operator) has for weeks been crossing the tape as the next likely Global Depository Receipt issuance using the Shanghai-London Connect program. On July 3rd the company said that its Board had approved the issuance of shares and listing GDRs in London. On Saturday the company announced they had recently received approval from the SASAC (State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission) of the State Council to issue up to 10% of the company's share capital - or up to 678.602mm A-share equivalents underlying the GDRs. That is about US$830mm worth at last traded price, though one would expect there would be a significant discount applied.The deal still requires approvals from the CSRC and the FCA. In the earlier GDR issuance event of Huatai Securities Co Ltd (HTSC LI), CSRC approval was announced 4 June 2019, FCA approval was announced 11 June 2019, with the pricing range officially out that day, and the GDRs priced on the 14th of June (or the 13th - it wasn't clear, really) and then they first traded on the 26th.  

SDIC Wins SASAC Approval To Launch GDR Sale - Expect Strong Response

China

China National Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. is a nuclear energy power producer. The Company invests in, constructs, manages and operates nuclear power plants throughout China.

China National Nuclear Power C (601985 CH)

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SSE50 Index Rebalance Preview: Sector Shift as IT and Financials Drop

We forecast 5 changes in December as Energy, Industrials and Materials weights increase and IT and Financials drop. One-way turnover will be over...

Brian Freitas

Sino American Silicon (5483): Entry to Globalwafers and Others

Sino American Silicon remains a smart way to gain exposure in Globalwafers (24x PER), compared to SAS (13x PER). The other factor is that...

Henry Soediarko

POTUS Executive Order: Potential Additions to the CMIC List

There could be more entities added to Biden's Executive Order if US-China relations continue to worsen. Defense & surveillance stocks, plus subs of...

Brian Freitas

Trump's Executive Order on Chinese Military Companies

The White House announced an Executive Order prohibiting "US persons" from "providing capital" to a list of "China Military Cos" which has been...

Travis Lundy

SDIC Wins SASAC Approval To Launch GDR Sale - Expect Strong Response

The name of SDIC Power Holdings (600886 CH), an SOE-owned SOE which constructs and operates electric power generation plants (hydropower, thermal,...

Travis Lundy

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