Financials & FinTech research, Galliano’s Financials Research

Victor Galliano

Financials & FinTech research

Financials & FinTech, EM & Developed Markets

Galliano’s Financials Research

Galliano's Financials Research provides fundamental research in Emerging Markets financials, including FinTech, as well as financials in select Developed Markets.

The investment style applied is generally value oriented, although Growth At Reasonable Price (GARP) strategies can also be used where appropriate. 

Our investment research approach aim is often contrarian, looking to capitalise on overly sceptical or optimistic consensus views. In terms of valuation techniques, the focus is on PBV ratio to ROE, PE multiples and dividend yield, as well as the application of PEG ratios and, where appropriate, Sum of the Parts (SOTP) valuations.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>We stick with our core theme for exchanges of growing post-trading revenues, as well as capitalising on “big data” in financial transactions and data services, as we head into 2023</li>
<li>We identify four relative value opportunities in exchanges; HKEx, LSEG, MexBolsa and Deutsche Borse feature positively multiple times in our value screens and they are all diversifying revenue streams</li>
<li>We stick with Coinbase as the exchange to avoid, in our view; its revenue streams are heavily exposed to low volumes of crypto transactions, and recent events highlight counterparty risk</li>
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We stick with our core theme for exchanges of growing post-trading revenues, as well as capitalising on “big data” in financial transactions and data services, as we head into 2023
We identify four relative value opportunities in exchanges; HKEx, LSEG, MexBolsa and Deutsche Borse feature positively multiple times in our value screens and they are all diversifying revenue streams
We stick with Coinbase as the exchange to avoid, in our view; its revenue streams are heavily exposed to low volumes of crypto transactions, and recent events highlight counterparty risk


Global Exchanges – Conviction Picks for 2023

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

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<li>This is now the third Int'l Compass/third week in a row where we are discussing an increasing number of country indexes experiencing bullish 3.5-9-month downtrend reversals.</li>
<li>Importantly, all of the previously mentioned indexes are holding above their breakout levels (i.e., there has yet to be any failed breakouts).</li>
<li>Now, the U.S. dollar (DXY) is starting to show early signs of topping. We continue to believe that global equities are going through a bottoming process.</li>
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This is now the third Int'l Compass/third week in a row where we are discussing an increasing number of country indexes experiencing bullish 3.5-9-month downtrend reversals.
Importantly, all of the previously mentioned indexes are holding above their breakout levels (i.e., there has yet to be any failed breakouts).
Now, the U.S. dollar (DXY) is starting to show early signs of topping. We continue to believe that global equities are going through a bottoming process.


U.S. Dollar Topping?; Bullish Reversals Continue; Ideas in Growth/Cyclicals, Financials

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<li>Exchanges continue to seek revenue streams outside of the traditional trading fees in post-trading, as well as capitalising on “big data” in financial transactions and data services</li>
<li>We identify three relative value opportunities in exchanges; MexBolsa, B3 and Deutsche Borse feature positively multiple times in our value screens and they are all diversifying revenue streams</li>
<li>Coinbase remains the exchange to avoid, in our view, despite its share price collapse; aside from negative news-flow, its revenue streams are heavily exposed to low volumes of crypto transactions</li>
</ul>


Exchanges continue to seek revenue streams outside of the traditional trading fees in post-trading, as well as capitalising on “big data” in financial transactions and data services
We identify three relative value opportunities in exchanges; MexBolsa, B3 and Deutsche Borse feature positively multiple times in our value screens and they are all diversifying revenue streams
Coinbase remains the exchange to avoid, in our view, despite its share price collapse; aside from negative news-flow, its revenue streams are heavily exposed to low volumes of crypto transactions


Global Exchanges – The Quest for Recurring Revenues

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning, Copley Fund Research

Steven Holden

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning

Copley Fund Research

Copley Fund Research provide research and data on asset allocation among Global and Emerging Market equity funds.  The analysis details absolute and relative positioning across countries, sectors and industries together with highly granular data on single stock and single fund allocations.  The data is updated monthly with time series going back to January 2011.

Global Research - Analysis of 165 prominent Global equity funds, combined AUM $335bn
GEM Research - Analysis of 127 prominent global EM equity funds, combined AUM $250bn

Asset Allocation - Global and GEM Equity

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<li>Allocations in German Financial stocks have fallen heavily over the past year.  Just 31.5% of Global managers are now exposed to the sector.</li>
<li>Declines have been among the worst among country/sector peers over the last 6-months, led by selling in Allianz SE and Deutsche Bourse.</li>
<li>With only 2 stocks owned by more than 10% of funds, German Financials appear to have lost their appeal among Global managers.</li>
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Allocations in German Financial stocks have fallen heavily over the past year.  Just 31.5% of Global managers are now exposed to the sector.
Declines have been among the worst among country/sector peers over the last 6-months, led by selling in Allianz SE and Deutsche Bourse.
With only 2 stocks owned by more than 10% of funds, German Financials appear to have lost their appeal among Global managers.


Silver Point

Thomas J. Monaco

Independent Insight Provider

Silver Point is a boutique research firm that focuses on the broader financial services sector, with a particular focus on troubled institutions globally. 

Asia Ex Japan

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>HKEX reported a weak set of 4Q21 earnings results of HKD 2.7 bn, declining HKD 577 mn (17.7%) linked quarter, driven by the decline in cash ADT and higher costs; </li>
<li>Derivative activity remained flattish linked quarter with contract volume at 507 thousand – despite the successful launch of the MSCI China A50 Connect (HK A50); and </li>
<li>With HIBOR set to increase, HKEx is likely to become more reliant on lower quality investment income. </li>
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HKEX reported a weak set of 4Q21 earnings results of HKD 2.7 bn, declining HKD 577 mn (17.7%) linked quarter, driven by the decline in cash ADT and higher costs; 
Derivative activity remained flattish linked quarter with contract volume at 507 thousand – despite the successful launch of the MSCI China A50 Connect (HK A50); and 
With HIBOR set to increase, HKEx is likely to become more reliant on lower quality investment income. 


Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing – Negative Jaws

Germany

Deutsche Boerse AG provides a variety of stock exchange introduction, trading, and operational services to institutions and private investors. The Company offers electronic trading systems for buying and selling of securities on stock exchanges in Europe.  Deutsche Boerse offers indices such as DAX, MDAX, SDAX, and XTF, as well as trading in options and futures.

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Global Exchanges – Conviction Picks for 2023

Our 2023 picks of HKEx, LSEG, MexBolsa and Deutsche Borse feature positively multiple times in our value screens and they are all diversifying...

Victor Galliano

U.S. Dollar Topping?; Bullish Reversals Continue; Ideas in Growth/Cyclicals, Financials

This is now the third week in a row where we are discussing an increasing number of country indexes with bullish 3.5-9-month downtrend reversals,...

Vermilion Research

Global Exchanges – The Quest for Recurring Revenues

We identify MexBolsa, B3 and Deutsche Borse as exchanges that feature positively multiple times in our value screens and that are diversifying away...

Victor Galliano

German Financials: Freefall

Allocations in German Financial stocks have fallen to their lowest levels in history. Just 31% of Global managers hold a position, hit by heavy...

Steven Holden

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing – Negative Jaws

HKEX: HKEX reported a fairly weak set of 4Q21 results, declining 17.7% QOQ, and driven by the overall decline in cash ADT and higher overall costs.

Thomas J. Monaco

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