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

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>South Korea moves to the bottom of the 'big 4' as managers aggressively rotate portfolios in 2022.</li>
<li>Nearly a 5th of Asia Ex-Japan managers made the switch to underweight over the last 6-months, pushing allocations to their lowest levels in over a decade. </li>
<li>KakaoBank, Samsung SDI, Kakao Corp and Samsung Electronics Pref Shares saw allocations fall the most.</li>
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South Korea moves to the bottom of the 'big 4' as managers aggressively rotate portfolios in 2022.
Nearly a 5th of Asia Ex-Japan managers made the switch to underweight over the last 6-months, pushing allocations to their lowest levels in over a decade. 
KakaoBank, Samsung SDI, Kakao Corp and Samsung Electronics Pref Shares saw allocations fall the most.


Asia Ex-Japan Funds Rotate Out of South Korea

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

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<li>WCP raised around US$314m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its Korean IPO.</li>
<li>WCP designs, manufactures, and sells separators, which are one of the four core materials for secondary Lithium-ion batteries.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the demand for the deal and other trading dynamics.</li>
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WCP raised around US$314m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its Korean IPO.
WCP designs, manufactures, and sells separators, which are one of the four core materials for secondary Lithium-ion batteries.
In this note, we will talk about the demand for the deal and other trading dynamics.


WCP IPO Trading - Peer Correction Means Price Cut Still Wasn’t Enough

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.

Event-Driven

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<li>A South Korean lawmaker introduced legislation that would mandate that appraisal right exercise prices in split-off listings (equity carve-out) be based on asset/earnings value rather than market price (stock price).</li>
<li>We may find an arb opening in DB Hitek. The appraisal price based on the asset/earnings value is at an 11.31% premium to the last close.</li>
<li>If DB HiTek postpones the split-off listing to next year, FY22 earnings should be reflected. In this case, the appraisal price will be at a 90% premium.</li>
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A South Korean lawmaker introduced legislation that would mandate that appraisal right exercise prices in split-off listings (equity carve-out) be based on asset/earnings value rather than market price (stock price).
We may find an arb opening in DB Hitek. The appraisal price based on the asset/earnings value is at an 11.31% premium to the last close.
If DB HiTek postpones the split-off listing to next year, FY22 earnings should be reflected. In this case, the appraisal price will be at a 90% premium.


New Pricing Rule for Appraisal Rights in ECO: Potential Arb Openings in DB Hitek

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<li>Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, a few large Hong Kong IPOs managed to launch their bookbuild over the past week.</li>
<li>There were no large placements launched this week, although <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/atlas-arteria-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:14430:1" rel="noopener">Atlas Arteria (ALX AU)</a> kept many occupied.</li>
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Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
On the IPO front, a few large Hong Kong IPOs managed to launch their bookbuild over the past week.
There were no large placements launched this week, although Atlas Arteria (ALX AU) kept many occupied.


ECM Weekly (25th Sep 2022) - Onewo, Leapmotor, CALB, Socionext, WCP, Sula, Jenscare, EbixCash, Atlas

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries  / Event-Driven

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<li>Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) was listed on Korea Exchange on 17th September, 2021. Its one year lock-up will expire on 17th Sep, 2022.</li>
<li>Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is a South Korean shipbuilder. The company is majority owned by Korea Shipbuilding &amp; Offshore Engineering (009540 KS) after the latter’s spin-off in 2019.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the upcoming lock-up expiry, along with recent updates.</li>
</ul>


Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) was listed on Korea Exchange on 17th September, 2021. Its one year lock-up will expire on 17th Sep, 2022.
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is a South Korean shipbuilder. The company is majority owned by Korea Shipbuilding &amp; Offshore Engineering (009540 KS) after the latter’s spin-off in 2019.
In this note, we will talk about the upcoming lock-up expiry, along with recent updates.


Hyundai Heavy IPO Lock-Up - Last of the Lockups with Employees Coming Free

South Korea

KakaoBank Corp. operates bank businesses. The Company provides deposit money, withdraw money, credit cards, stock accounts, linked loans, and other services. KakaoBank conducts businesses in South Korea.

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KakaoBank (323410 KS)

Asia Ex-Japan Funds Rotate Out of South Korea

Active Asia Ex-Japan managers have rotated away from South Korean stocks in 2022, pushing allocations towards their lowest level in over a decade.

Steven Holden

WCP IPO Trading - Peer Correction Means Price Cut Still Wasn’t Enough

WCP raised around US$314m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its Korean IPO. In this note, we talk about the trading dynamics.

Sumeet Singh

New Pricing Rule for Appraisal Rights in ECO: Potential Arb Openings in DB Hitek

This post explains the newly proposed pricing rule for the appraisal rights in split-off listings (equity carve-outs) and investigates how it will...

Sanghyun Park

ECM Weekly (25th Sep 2022) - Onewo, Leapmotor, CALB, Socionext, WCP, Sula, Jenscare, EbixCash, Atlas

Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.

Sumeet Singh

Hyundai Heavy IPO Lock-Up - Last of the Lockups with Employees Coming Free

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) was listed on Korea Exchange on 17th September, 2021. Its one year lock-up will expire on 17th Sep, 2022.

Sumeet Singh

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