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>It was a busy week with rebalance implementations at the close of trading on Thursday in Korea and then across the region on Friday.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/stock-exchange-of-thailand-set-50-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31493:1" rel="noopener">SET 50 Index</a> changes should be announced this week and the Yuanta TW Div+ ETF will continue to implement the changes till Thursday.</li>
<li>There were inflows to China ETFs during the week while there were big outflows from <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/korea-stock-exchange-kospi-200" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26021:1" rel="noopener">Korea Stock Exchange KOSPI 200 (KOSPI2 INDEX)</a> ETFs.</li>
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It was a busy week with rebalance implementations at the close of trading on Thursday in Korea and then across the region on Friday.
The SET 50 Index changes should be announced this week and the Yuanta TW Div+ ETF will continue to implement the changes till Thursday.
There were inflows to China ETFs during the week while there were big outflows from Korea Stock Exchange KOSPI 200 (KOSPI2 INDEX) ETFs.


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Articles from Caixin Global, Caixin Global

Caixin Global

Articles from Caixin Global

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Chinese data center firms are ramping up their overseas expansion to ride the artificial intelligence (AI) wave, especially in Southeast Asia, said a senior executive at GDS Holdings Ltd., one of the country’s largest data center operators.</li><li>While traditional computing requires proximity to the end-use market, AI computing power is more oriented towards natural resources, and Southeast Asia has both resources and cost advantages, said Jimmy Yu, senior vice president of international business at GDS in an interview with Caixin on July 27.</li><li>“Developing AI computing power requires a resource-rich region to carry out training and inference in large models. Southeast Asia has rich land and power resources, and the costs are much lower than in the Middle East, Americas, or Europe,” Yu said.</li></ul>

Chinese data center firms are ramping up their overseas expansion to ride the artificial intelligence (AI) wave, especially in Southeast Asia, said a senior executive at GDS Holdings Ltd., one of the country’s largest data center operators.While traditional computing requires proximity to the end-use market, AI computing power is more oriented towards natural resources, and Southeast Asia has both resources and cost advantages, said Jimmy Yu, senior vice president of international business at GDS in an interview with Caixin on July 27.“Developing AI computing power requires a resource-rich region to carry out training and inference in large models. Southeast Asia has rich land and power resources, and the costs are much lower than in the Middle East, Americas, or Europe,” Yu said.

Southeast Asia Is Looking Mighty Fine to China’s Data Center Firms

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.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>GDS reported in-line FY4Q22 and guided a soft FY23E outlook with revenue/ EBITDA growth of +8.6%/ 6.2% YoY respectively as the company focuses on existing backlog delivery with tighter control on capex (-33.5% YoY to RMB7.5bn).</li><li>Despite short-term pain, we like GDS improvement in customer and geographical mix and that the reliance on Alibaba and Tencent is decreasing.</li><li>We remain positive on long-term data center demand given Digital Economy and AI development. Maintain BUY.</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>

GDS reported in-line FY4Q22 and guided a soft FY23E outlook with revenue/ EBITDA growth of +8.6%/ 6.2% YoY respectively as the company focuses on existing backlog delivery with tighter control on capex (-33.5% YoY to RMB7.5bn).Despite short-term pain, we like GDS improvement in customer and geographical mix and that the reliance on Alibaba and Tencent is decreasing.We remain positive on long-term data center demand given Digital Economy and AI development. Maintain BUY.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.

GDS (9698 HK) – Focus on quality growth with cautious expansion plan

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<li>We expect at least one change to the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hang-seng-tech-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31367:1" rel="noopener">Hang Seng Tech Index (HSTECH INDEX)</a> in March - though there could be another change as well.</li>
<li>Changes to the index handling for Dual Primary Listings should result in an increase in free float and passive inflows to <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/li-auto-inc-3dbe6187-544f-40dd-b9f9-72fba9c0110e" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33811:1" rel="noopener">Li Auto (2015 HK)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/xpeng-inc-4cc65854-d10c-4d20-bf7e-ca0e016715ff" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33772:1" rel="noopener">XPeng (9868 HK)</a>. </li>
<li>Estimated one-way turnover is 5.83% resulting in a one-way trade of HK$4.87bn and this is mainly driven by float and capping changes.</li>
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We expect at least one change to the Hang Seng Tech Index (HSTECH INDEX) in March - though there could be another change as well.
Changes to the index handling for Dual Primary Listings should result in an increase in free float and passive inflows to Li Auto (2015 HK) and XPeng (9868 HK). 
Estimated one-way turnover is 5.83% resulting in a one-way trade of HK$4.87bn and this is mainly driven by float and capping changes.


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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.

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<li>Today PCAOB announced that they had secured complete access to inspect and investigate Chinese Firms for the first time in history.</li>
<li>This was on back of the Aug 2022 agreement between PCAOB, CSRC and MOF, which was followed up with a Hong Kong visit by PCAOB officials over Sep-Nov 2022.</li>
<li>We wrote about this on 14th Dec 2022 and expected the results to be out on Friday (16th Dec), they have come out a day earlier than we expected.</li>
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Today PCAOB announced that they had secured complete access to inspect and investigate Chinese Firms for the first time in history.
This was on back of the Aug 2022 agreement between PCAOB, CSRC and MOF, which was followed up with a Hong Kong visit by PCAOB officials over Sep-Nov 2022.
We wrote about this on 14th Dec 2022 and expected the results to be out on Friday (16th Dec), they have come out a day earlier than we expected.


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China

Hwa Create Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, and sells system simulation technologies and solutions.  The Company's products include real time test-and-control systems, projection system integration solutions, and visualization simulation systems.

China TransInfo Technology Co., Ltd. develops industry specific software and provides information system integration services.  The Company's services include IT system design, IT management and consultation, and IT system maintenance.

DHC Software Co., Ltd. develops industrial application software and provides computer system integration services.

Chinasoft International Limited develops and provides solutions in China to government authorities and its IT (Information Technology) service providers. The Company also provides IT consulting and training services, IT outsourcing services and standalone software products.

Digital China Information Service Company Ltd is principally engaged in systems integration, technical services, application software development and finance special equipment related businesses.

Digital China Information Service (000555 CH)

Taiji Computer Corporation Limited develops, designs, manufactures, sells and repair computer, integrated circuit, software and communication equipment. The Company's services include industry-specific solution, IT consulting, value-added services, and IT infrastructure services.

Bringspring Science and Technology Company Limited provides third-party data center services, information technology solutions to key industries and financial IT outsourcing services. The Company's main products include IT services.

Bringspring Science & Technology (300290 CH)

Wonders Information Company Limited is a public sector information technology software and service provider. The Company's main business areas include application software, professional IT services and hardware and software systems integration.

Guomai Technologies, Inc. provides Telecommunication network technical support and system integration.

PCI-Suntek Technology Co., Ltd. provides customer service solutions for telecommunication service providers, banks, and securities firms.  The Company develops voice service systems, calling center systems, telecommunication operation and maintenance systems, and other value-added service solutions.

Net One Systems Co., Ltd. designs, installs, maintains and supports computer network systems.  The company also installs computer security related products and integrated audio visual data communication environment system by applying IP (Internet Protocol) technology.  Net One Systems builds virtualized data center environment as well.

Firstsource Solutions Limited provides business process outsourcing services. The Company provides services globally to companies in the banking, financial services, and insurance industries.

INFOCOM CORPORATION provides business solutions in information technology.  The Company offers services in such fields as health care, mobile communications, network security, voice recognition, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.  Infocom also provides information distribution and systems management services.

EVERTEC Inc. operates a full service transaction processing business. The Company offers merchant acquiring, payment processing and business process management services.  EVERTEC Inc. provides its services in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Sonata Software Limited operates an Information Technology company, which provides software products, development services, IT consulting, and a number of business solutions services.  The Group exports its products primarily to the U.S.A., Europe and Asia.

WNS (Holdings) Ltd., operates as a holding company The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides business process outsourcing services including finance, accounting, customer relationship management, and business administration services.

NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation designs, constructs, and maintains communication systems.  The Company's services include system integration services for digital switching, local area network (LAN), and mobile communication systems.  NEC Networks & System Integration also constructs information infrastructure and intelligent building facilities.

My E.G. Services Bhd provides E-Services between the Malaysian Government and its citizens and businesses.  The Company's services include electronic delivery of driver and vehicle registrations, licensing and summons services and utility bill payments.

Perficient, Inc. is an information technology consulting firm. The Firm designs and delivers business-driven information technology solutions, such as business analysis, portal, content management, business integration/SOA, commerce. business intelligence and customer relation management (CRM). Perficient serves clients from a network of domestic and global locations.

Information Services International-Dentsu, Ltd. provides integrated business solutions.  The Company plans, designs, develops, and maintains systems and provides consulting services, hardware configuration, and software support. Information Service International-Dentsu sells software and hardware as well.

GDS Holdings Limited operates as a leading developer and operator of data centers. The Company offers colocation and managed services, as well as direct private connection to major public cloud platforms. GDS Holdings serves large Internet companies, financial institutions, telecommunications, and IT service providers in China.

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