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>With no stocks in inclusion or deletion zone, we do not expect any constituent changes for 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 December.</li>
<li>Capping changes will result in a one-way turnover of a touch below 1% and that will result in a round-trip trade of US$255m.</li>
<li>The impact on the stocks is relatively small for now but that could increase till the end of November when the stocks will be capped.</li>
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With no stocks in inclusion or deletion zone, we do not expect any constituent changes for the Hang Seng TECH Index (HSTECH INDEX) in December.
Capping changes will result in a one-way turnover of a touch below 1% and that will result in a round-trip trade of US$255m.
The impact on the stocks is relatively small for now but that could increase till the end of November when the stocks will be capped.


HSTECH Index Rebalance Preview: Round-Trip Trade of US$255m in December

China/Asia TMT

Shawn Yang

China growth and global non-US Internet equities

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Blue Lotus Research is a Hong Kong Type 4 Licensed investment advisory firm focusing on Chinese growth equities and global non-US Internet equities

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Baba's recent management change - Daniel Zhang proposed stepping down</li>
<li>NHC Director said healthcare anti-corruption must balance pros and cons, suggesting the campaign might nearing its end</li>
<li>Alibaba's subsidiary, Lingxi Games, has released a self-developed new mobile game called "Forest Kingdom." (森之国度) </li>
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Baba's recent management change - Daniel Zhang proposed stepping down
NHC Director said healthcare anti-corruption must balance pros and cons, suggesting the campaign might nearing its end
Alibaba's subsidiary, Lingxi Games, has released a self-developed new mobile game called "Forest Kingdom." (森之国度) 


China TMT Update-Baba/Healthcare-Daniel Zhang Stepping Down/ Anti-Corruption Might Nearing Its End

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

Malo Medical Management / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/malo-medical-management" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40035:1" rel="noopener">Malo Medical Management (MMM HK)</a> (MMM) is looking to raise around US$100m (estimated) in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. The deal will be run by Haitong.</li>
<li>MMM is a dental service provider in China. It ranked ninth among all private dental service providers and second among all premium dental service providers, as per F&amp;S.</li>
<li>MMM provides dental services to patients through a widespread network of Malo Clinic-branded specialty dental clinics. As of Apr 2023, it owned 29 dental clinics in 13 cities in China.</li>
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Malo Medical Management (MMM HK) (MMM) is looking to raise around US$100m (estimated) in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. The deal will be run by Haitong.
MMM is a dental service provider in China. It ranked ninth among all private dental service providers and second among all premium dental service providers, as per F&amp;S.
MMM provides dental services to patients through a widespread network of Malo Clinic-branded specialty dental clinics. As of Apr 2023, it owned 29 dental clinics in 13 cities in China.


Malo Medical Management Pre-IPO Tearsheet

HK/China Healthcare Analyst (ex-Fosun Pharma)

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Neusoft Xikang Healthcare Technology Co Ltd / Equity Capital Markets

Neusoft Xikang Healthcare Technology Co Ltd

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<li>Anti-Corruption campaign has affected healthcare companies’ IPO. It’s crucial for companies to explain the compliance of selling expenses in IPO approval process. Investors need to be aware of potential risks.</li>
<li>Roche posts interim TIGIT OS data after “inadvertent disclosure”, which seems to give investors a glimmer of hope. But for now, we remain cautious about TIGIT based on our analysis.</li>
<li>We updated our views on Neusoft Xikang. We still hold a conservative view towards whether Xikang can successfully IPO this time, mainly due to some negative factors and gloomy outlook.</li>
</ul>


Anti-Corruption campaign has affected healthcare companies’ IPO. It’s crucial for companies to explain the compliance of selling expenses in IPO approval process. Investors need to be aware of potential risks.
Roche posts interim TIGIT OS data after “inadvertent disclosure”, which seems to give investors a glimmer of hope. But for now, we remain cautious about TIGIT based on our analysis.
We updated our views on Neusoft Xikang. We still hold a conservative view towards whether Xikang can successfully IPO this time, mainly due to some negative factors and gloomy outlook.


China Healthcare Weekly (Aug.25) - Anti Corruption Affects IPO, TIGIT Revives Again? Neusoft Xikang

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>When we discovered that JD Health's growth could face a downturn crisis, we hope to find a suitable substitute. ClouDr has such potential due to its good performance/reasonable business model.</li>
<li>The current anti-corruption campaign could bring new opportunities to ClouDr, who can rely on “hospital first” strategy to take the upper hand, but it should be based on some prerequisites.</li>
<li>ClouDr’s business is expected to keep strong growth momentum in 2023. The Company is expected to achieve breakeven in 2024. Investors could see good stock price performance at that time.</li>
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When we discovered that JD Health's growth could face a downturn crisis, we hope to find a suitable substitute. ClouDr has such potential due to its good performance/reasonable business model.
The current anti-corruption campaign could bring new opportunities to ClouDr, who can rely on “hospital first” strategy to take the upper hand, but it should be based on some prerequisites.
ClouDr’s business is expected to keep strong growth momentum in 2023. The Company is expected to achieve breakeven in 2024. Investors could see good stock price performance at that time.


ClouDr Group (9955.HK) 23H1 - Turning Losses into Profits Is Within Reach

China

JD Health International Inc. operates drug stores. The Company retails Chinese and Western medicines, nutrition products, health care products, and other products. JD Health International markets its products throughout China.

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JD Health International (6618 HK)

HSTECH Index Rebalance Preview: Round-Trip Trade of US$255m in December

We do not see any constituents changing in December. Capping will lead to a one-way turnover of 1% resulting in a round-trip trade of US$255m....

Brian Freitas

China TMT Update-Baba/Healthcare-Daniel Zhang Stepping Down/ Anti-Corruption Might Nearing Its End

Daniel Zhang proposed stepping down;NHC Director said healthcare anti-corruption must balance pros and cons, suggesting the campaign nearing its...

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Malo Medical Management Pre-IPO Tearsheet

Malo Medical Management (MMM HK) is looking to raise around US$100m (estimated) in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. The deal will be run by Haitong.

Sumeet Singh

China Healthcare Weekly (Aug.25) - Anti Corruption Affects IPO, TIGIT Revives Again? Neusoft Xikang

Corruption crackdown has affected companies’ IPO.Investors need to be aware of potential risk. Roche's TIGIT data bring a glimmer of hope but we...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

ClouDr Group (9955.HK) 23H1 - Turning Losses into Profits Is Within Reach

ClouDr has the potential to beat JD Health due to reasonable business model/logic. Unlike other companies, ClouDr could even benefit from...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

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