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

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We look at short interest across Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan in April to identify stocks/sectors that have seen the largest changes in each market.</li>
<li>Korea and Taiwan are showing a clear divergence with short notional increasing as the market moves lower, indicative of new shorts being initiated.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-merchants-bank-co-ltd-3388a037-4214-4997-b45d-520518cfdb57" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:10987:1" rel="noopener">China Merchants Bank H (3968 HK)</a> has seen the largest short covering as the stock has tumbled in the last couple of weeks.</li>
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We look at short interest across Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan in April to identify stocks/sectors that have seen the largest changes in each market.
Korea and Taiwan are showing a clear divergence with short notional increasing as the market moves lower, indicative of new shorts being initiated.

China Merchants Bank H (3968 HK) has seen the largest short covering as the stock has tumbled in the last couple of weeks.


Asia Short Interest: Large Moves in April

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Event-Driven

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<li>The former Doosan Group Chairman Park Yong-Man and his sons will sell 1.296 million shares of Doosan Corp (000150 KS) in a block deal, representing 7.85% of outstanding shares.</li>
<li>We have a positive view of this block deal sale and we would take the deal.</li>
<li>Our NAV analysis of Doosan Corp suggests NAV per share of 188,511 won per share, representing a 61% upside from current levels. </li>
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The former Doosan Group Chairman Park Yong-Man and his sons will sell 1.296 million shares of Doosan Corp (000150 KS) in a block deal, representing 7.85% of outstanding shares.
We have a positive view of this block deal sale and we would take the deal.
Our NAV analysis of Doosan Corp suggests NAV per share of 188,511 won per share, representing a 61% upside from current levels. 


Doosan Corp: Block Deal Sale of Former Chairman Park & His Sons' Stakes

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>Yoon Suk-Yeol was elected the new President of South Korea on 10 March.</li>
<li>As the next President of South Korea, Yoon will certainly try to increase much needed housing supply and this will certainly benefit the major construction companies in Korea.</li>
<li>Another major sector that will likely benefit as a result of Yoon becoming the President is the nuclear industry.</li>
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Yoon Suk-Yeol was elected the new President of South Korea on 10 March.
As the next President of South Korea, Yoon will certainly try to increase much needed housing supply and this will certainly benefit the major construction companies in Korea.
Another major sector that will likely benefit as a result of Yoon becoming the President is the nuclear industry.


Yoon Suk-Yeol Becomes the New President of South Korea

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

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<li>Doosan Heavy Industries &amp; Construction is currently conducting a rights offering of 82.9M shares. December 28th is the first-round pricing, and the 30th is the ex-rights date.</li>
<li>There is an event waiting for the stock price to undergo a significant correction just before the ex-right, it is likely to become a new factor in our ex-right play.</li>
<li>18.2M shares subscribed by the ESOP in last year's ₩1.2T capital increase will be released on the 27th. This is 3.5% of SO, which is equivalent to 2.3x ADTV.</li>
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Doosan Heavy Industries &amp; Construction is currently conducting a rights offering of 82.9M shares. December 28th is the first-round pricing, and the 30th is the ex-rights date.
There is an event waiting for the stock price to undergo a significant correction just before the ex-right, it is likely to become a new factor in our ex-right play.
18.2M shares subscribed by the ESOP in last year's ₩1.2T capital increase will be released on the 27th. This is 3.5% of SO, which is equivalent to 2.3x ADTV.


Doosan Heavy Ex-Rights Play Amid the Lockup Release (3.5% of SO) Next Monday

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<li>KRX calculates floats fairly aggressively even in new IPOs. This was symbolically shown in the case of Kakao Pay, which received a 35% float rate.</li>
<li>So, we need a trading setup that raises the float rate prediction range in future KOSPI 200 Fast Entry cases.</li>
<li>Considering that rebalancing trading that occurs on the implementation day is now partially digested in regular trading hours, we need to consider getting out positions before the closing auction hours.</li>
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KRX calculates floats fairly aggressively even in new IPOs. This was symbolically shown in the case of Kakao Pay, which received a 35% float rate.
So, we need a trading setup that raises the float rate prediction range in future KOSPI 200 Fast Entry cases.
Considering that rebalancing trading that occurs on the implementation day is now partially digested in regular trading hours, we need to consider getting out positions before the closing auction hours.


KOSPI 200 New Entrants: KRX-Concluded Float Rates & Rebalancing Trading Pattern Today

South Korea

Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd. manufactures and distributes construction machines. The Company produces gas turbines, engines, turbine generators, boilers, power plant equipment, and other related products. Doosan Enerbility also offers energy solutions for thermal power, nuclear power, and renewable energy.

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Doosan Enerbility (034020 KS)

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Brian Freitas

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Douglas Kim

Yoon Suk-Yeol Becomes the New President of South Korea

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Douglas Kim

Doosan Heavy Ex-Rights Play Amid the Lockup Release (3.5% of SO) Next Monday

This post discusses the ex-rights trading approaches for Doosan Heavy's ₩1.5T rights offering with the major lockup release waiting right before...

Sanghyun Park

KOSPI 200 New Entrants: KRX-Concluded Float Rates & Rebalancing Trading Pattern Today

Kakao Pay eventually received a 35% float rate, meaning that KRX has included all of Alipay's non-locked stake in the float.

Sanghyun Park

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