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>It was a busy week with index rebalance implementations and announcements of index changes.</li>
<li>The coming week has the KOSPI200 and KOSDAQ150 rebalancing on Thursday and a bunch of onshore China indices rebalancing on Friday.</li>
<li>There were big inflows to China ETFs during the week while the largest inflows went to the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tracker-fund-of-hong-kong-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29257:1" rel="noopener">Tracker Fund of Hong Kong Ltd (2800 HK)</a> ETF.</li>
</ul>


It was a busy week with index rebalance implementations and announcements of index changes.
The coming week has the KOSPI200 and KOSDAQ150 rebalancing on Thursday and a bunch of onshore China indices rebalancing on Friday.
There were big inflows to China ETFs during the week while the largest inflows went to the Tracker Fund of Hong Kong Ltd (2800 HK) ETF.


Index Rebalance & ETF Flow Recap: CSI300/500, Chinext, China Semi Chips, Nifty Next50, SET50, REMX

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<li>The review period for the June rebalance ended on 31 May. Announcement of the changes will be made on 9 June with implementation at the close on 16 June.</li>
<li>There could be 3 or 4 A-share additions due to their inclusion in Northbound Stock Connect. That in turn expands the index universe and could result in 2-3 deletions.</li>
<li>If there are 4 adds and 2 deletes at the June rebalance, estimated one-way turnover at the rebalance will be 13.4% and will result in a one-way trade of US$81m.</li>
</ul>


The review period for the June rebalance ended on 31 May. Announcement of the changes will be made on 9 June with implementation at the close on 16 June.
There could be 3 or 4 A-share additions due to their inclusion in Northbound Stock Connect. That in turn expands the index universe and could result in 2-3 deletions.
If there are 4 adds and 2 deletes at the June rebalance, estimated one-way turnover at the rebalance will be 13.4% and will result in a one-way trade of US$81m.


MVIS Global Rare Earth/​​​​​​​Strategic Metals Index Rebalance Preview: Changes Afoot

Yunnan Chihong Zinc&Germanium Co, Ltd. / Event-Driven

<ul>
<li>The review period for the June rebalance ends on 31 May. Announcement of the changes will be made on 9 June with implementation at the close on 16 June.</li>
<li>There could be 4 or 5 A-share additions due to their inclusion in Northbound Stock Connect. That in turn expands the universe and could result in up to 3 deletions.</li>
<li>If all changes go through as expected, estimated one-way turnover at the rebalance will be 15.1% resulting in a one-way trade of US$99m.</li>
</ul>


The review period for the June rebalance ends on 31 May. Announcement of the changes will be made on 9 June with implementation at the close on 16 June.
There could be 4 or 5 A-share additions due to their inclusion in Northbound Stock Connect. That in turn expands the universe and could result in up to 3 deletions.
If all changes go through as expected, estimated one-way turnover at the rebalance will be 15.1% resulting in a one-way trade of US$99m.


MVIS Global Rare Earth/​​​​​​Strategic Metals Index Rebalance Preview: Identifying Potential Changes

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/Ioneer-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:10264:1" rel="noopener">ioneer (INR AU)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/avz-minerals-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:6148:1" rel="noopener">AVZ Minerals (AVZ AU)</a> will be included in the MVIS Global Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index at the close of trading on 17 December.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/jinduicheng-molybdenum-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:2121:1" rel="noopener">Jinduicheng Molybdenum Co, Ltd. (601958 CH)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/toho-titanium-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:12709:1" rel="noopener">Toho Titanium (5727 JP)</a> will be deleted from the index at the same time. There will be capping and funding changes too.</li>
<li>There is a large impact on the adds, deletes and some other stocks. There was a recent stock placement on AVZ, while LTR is an inclusion in the ASX200.</li>
</ul>



ioneer (INR AU) and AVZ Minerals (AVZ AU) will be included in the MVIS Global Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index at the close of trading on 17 December.

Jinduicheng Molybdenum Co, Ltd. (601958 CH) and Toho Titanium (5727 JP) will be deleted from the index at the same time. There will be capping and funding changes too.
There is a large impact on the adds, deletes and some other stocks. There was a recent stock placement on AVZ, while LTR is an inclusion in the ASX200.


MVIS Global Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index Rebalance: Some Big Impact Changes

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