Asia L/S Equity PM/Macro/Thematic Idea Generation

Rikki Malik

Equity Bottom-Up

Tracker Fund of Hong Kong  / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>If a sustainable bottom was made in January, which sectors are best to invest?</li>
<li>China State Owned Enterprises fit the current uncertain investment climate</li>
<li>The Hang Seng China Affiliated Index (red chips) provides some good ideas</li>
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If a sustainable bottom was made in January, which sectors are best to invest?
China State Owned Enterprises fit the current uncertain investment climate
The Hang Seng China Affiliated Index (red chips) provides some good ideas


Further Opportunities in the Hong Kong Market

Cross Asset Strategy

<ul>
<li>A monthly review at how the markets and our themes are currently performing</li>
<li>Analysing what went wrong and what went right in stocks and sectors</li>
<li>Highlighting positions  added or removed  from the thematic investment portfolio</li>
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A monthly review at how the markets and our themes are currently performing
Analysing what went wrong and what went right in stocks and sectors
Highlighting positions  added or removed  from the thematic investment portfolio


February Themes and Thematic Portfolio Review

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

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.

Equity Capital Markets

Sunshine Insurance Group  Lt / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sunshine-insurance-group-co-lt" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36464:1" rel="noopener">Sunshine Insurance Group (6963 HK)</a> (SIG), a life, health and P&amp;C insurance company, raised around US$850m in its HK IPO in Dec 2022. Its IPO linked lockup will expire tomorrow.</li>
<li>SIG is an integrated insurance provider which offers both life and health (L&amp;H) and property and casualty (P&amp;C) insurance in China</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and updates since our last note.</li>
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Sunshine Insurance Group (6963 HK) (SIG), a life, health and P&amp;C insurance company, raised around US$850m in its HK IPO in Dec 2022. Its IPO linked lockup will expire tomorrow.
SIG is an integrated insurance provider which offers both life and health (L&amp;H) and property and casualty (P&amp;C) insurance in China
In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and updates since our last note.


Sunshine Insurance Group IPO Lock-Up - US$5.3bn Lockup Release Tomorrow, with No Liquidity

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>The NAFR announced Life and P&amp;C premium income of all registered insurers in Sep, showing trends that: 1) the liability side of the sector continued to improve, despite recent regulatory tightening on channels, products and agent behaviour.</li><li>Personal life reversed a negative monthly YoY from -0.2% in 8M23 to +0.9% in 9M23 (Fig 1), and P&amp;C strengthened growth to +5.9% YoY in 9M23 (vs +3.2% YoY in 8M23), driven by an upward auto growth of 6.9% YoY in 9M23; 2) total investment assets expanded to RMB27.2tn in 9M23, up 8.5% from 12M22, with allocation in bonds increased to 44.0% in 9M23 (vs 43.6% in 8M23), and in stocks and equity funds down to 12.8% (-0.1pct from 8M23, Fig 15).</li><li>We believe the upward trend in long-term yields, evidenced by GCNY10 staying above 2.7% since mid Oct (Fig 18), will continue to benefit investment returns and asset performances of the sector, to serve as a shore-up for the sector’s valuation.</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

The NAFR announced Life and P&amp;C premium income of all registered insurers in Sep, showing trends that: 1) the liability side of the sector continued to improve, despite recent regulatory tightening on channels, products and agent behaviour.Personal life reversed a negative monthly YoY from -0.2% in 8M23 to +0.9% in 9M23 (Fig 1), and P&amp;C strengthened growth to +5.9% YoY in 9M23 (vs +3.2% YoY in 8M23), driven by an upward auto growth of 6.9% YoY in 9M23; 2) total investment assets expanded to RMB27.2tn in 9M23, up 8.5% from 12M22, with allocation in bonds increased to 44.0% in 9M23 (vs 43.6% in 8M23), and in stocks and equity funds down to 12.8% (-0.1pct from 8M23, Fig 15).We believe the upward trend in long-term yields, evidenced by GCNY10 staying above 2.7% since mid Oct (Fig 18), will continue to benefit investment returns and asset performances of the sector, to serve as a shore-up for the sector’s valuation.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Articles from Caixin Global, Caixin Global

Caixin Global

Articles from Caixin Global

Caixin is a media group dedicated to providing financial and business news through periodicals, online content, mobile apps, conferences, books and TV/video programs. Caixin aims to blaze a trail that helps traditional media prosper in the new media age through integrated multimedia platforms.

News from Caixin

<ul><li>Rate /: China needs more than monetary stimulus to bolster flagging economy, analysts say</li><li>Kissinger /: Kissinger meets China Defense Chief in pursuing closer ties</li><li>Consumption /Chart of the Day: China’s consumer spending data show sluggish housing growth</li></ul>

Rate /: China needs more than monetary stimulus to bolster flagging economy, analysts sayKissinger /: Kissinger meets China Defense Chief in pursuing closer tiesConsumption /Chart of the Day: China’s consumer spending data show sluggish housing growth

CX Daily: China Needs More Than Monetary Stimulus to Bolster Flagging Economy, Analysts Say

Hong Kong

China Taiping Insurance Holdings Company Ltd., through subsidiaries, underwrites life and property/casualty insurance and reinsurance.

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China Taiping Insurance Hldgs (966 HK)

Further Opportunities in the Hong Kong Market

As global and emerging market funds return to Hong Kong, some underperforming index names will attract flows. Seeing good technical action, volume...

Rikki Malik

February Themes and Thematic Portfolio Review

We review market performance, our investment themes, highlighting additions and subtractions in the thematic investment portfolio.

Rikki Malik

Sunshine Insurance Group IPO Lock-Up - US$5.3bn Lockup Release Tomorrow, with No Liquidity

Sunshine Insurance Group (6963 HK) (SIG), a life, health and P&C insurance company, raised around US$850m in its HK IPO in Dec 2022. Its IPO linked...

Sumeet Singh

China Insurance – 9M23 Monthly

We believe the upward trend in long-term yields, evidenced by GCNY10 staying above 2.7% since mid Oct, will continue to benefit investment returns

CMB International

CX Daily: China Needs More Than Monetary Stimulus to Bolster Flagging Economy, Analysts Say

Rate /: China needs more than monetary stimulus to bolster flagging economy, analysts say Kissinger /: Kissinger meets China Defense Chief in...

Caixin Global

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