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

Cheng Shin Rubber Ind Co., Ltd. / Event-Driven

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<li>There are 5 adds and 4 deletes to the Yuanta/​P-Shares Taiwan Dividend Plus ETF in December with implementation taking place from 15-21 December.</li>
<li>The constituent changes and capping changes result in an estimated one-way turnover of 16.1% resulting in a one-way trade of US$1.26bn.</li>
<li>There will be positioning in a lot of the adds/deletes and the real action could be in the other stocks with capping and/or funding flows.</li>
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There are 5 adds and 4 deletes to the Yuanta/​P-Shares Taiwan Dividend Plus ETF in December with implementation taking place from 15-21 December.
The constituent changes and capping changes result in an estimated one-way turnover of 16.1% resulting in a one-way trade of US$1.26bn.
There will be positioning in a lot of the adds/deletes and the real action could be in the other stocks with capping and/or funding flows.


Yuanta/​P-Shares Taiwan Div+ ETF Rebalance: Changes Lead to Huge Turnover

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

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.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of TWSE Stocks as of Dec 15th which has an aggregated holding worth USD701.6bn.</li>
<li>We tabulate league table for top changes by value for 1 week, one 4 weeks, 1 year and top stocks held by foreign instutions by dollar value.</li>
<li>We estimate that foreign flows to be inflows of USD2,114mln and highlight foreign changes in TSMC, Largan Precision, Evergreen Marine, Far Eastone Telecom.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of TWSE Stocks as of Dec 15th which has an aggregated holding worth USD701.6bn.
We tabulate league table for top changes by value for 1 week, one 4 weeks, 1 year and top stocks held by foreign instutions by dollar value.
We estimate that foreign flows to be inflows of USD2,114mln and highlight foreign changes in TSMC, Largan Precision, Evergreen Marine, Far Eastone Telecom.


TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Dec 15th): TSMC, Largan Precision, Evergreen Marine

Managing Director, Zero One, Zero One

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Managing Director, Zero One

Zero One

Founded in 2015, Zero One produces independent investment research and provides corporate finance advisory services with a focus on both listed and private technology companies. Founder Vincent Fernando has over 20 years of experience in US and Asia capital markets.

Independent Investment Research

Equity Bottom-Up

Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) - ADR / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Overall, it was a strong week for Taiwan Tech. TSMC and Mediatek showed strong performances, as well as key names we like such as Yageo and Himax.</li>
<li>AI-Related Taiwan plays showed relative weakness. This weakness interestingly happened during a week when <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nvidia-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:5891:1" rel="noopener">NVIDIA Corp (NVDA US) </a>performed well.</li>
<li>According to insight provider Patrick Liao, MediaTek WiFi 7 chip competition is likely to become fierce in 2024.</li>
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Overall, it was a strong week for Taiwan Tech. TSMC and Mediatek showed strong performances, as well as key names we like such as Yageo and Himax.
AI-Related Taiwan plays showed relative weakness. This weakness interestingly happened during a week when NVIDIA Corp (NVDA US) performed well.
According to insight provider Patrick Liao, MediaTek WiFi 7 chip competition is likely to become fierce in 2024.


Taiwan Tech Weekly: AI Plays Weak Despite Strong Taiwan Tech Market Performance

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<li>We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of TWSE Stocks as of Dec 8th which has an aggregated holding worth USD681.7bn.</li>
<li>We tabulate league table for top changes by value for 1 week, one 4 weeks, 1 year and top stocks held by foreign instutions by dollar value.</li>
<li>We estimate that foreign flows to be outflows of USD563mln and highlight foreign changes in Umc.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of TWSE Stocks as of Dec 8th which has an aggregated holding worth USD681.7bn.
We tabulate league table for top changes by value for 1 week, one 4 weeks, 1 year and top stocks held by foreign instutions by dollar value.
We estimate that foreign flows to be outflows of USD563mln and highlight foreign changes in Umc.


TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Dec 8th): Umc

Taiwan Tech Focused Senior Analyst

Patrick Liao

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<li>On December 8th, GUC reached its daily limit at the closing price, but the company did not consistently demonstrate an agreeable attitude.</li>
<li>The "AI" is an explicit knowledge for today, while GUC is a company of project based. </li>
<li>GUC's monthly revenue decreased by 22.15% YoY in November 2023.</li>
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On December 8th, GUC reached its daily limit at the closing price, but the company did not consistently demonstrate an agreeable attitude.
The "AI" is an explicit knowledge for today, while GUC is a company of project based. 
GUC's monthly revenue decreased by 22.15% YoY in November 2023.


GUC (3443.TT): Why the Company Did Show a Bit Cautious Attitude with the Market Price?

Taiwan

MediaTek Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions. The company provides SOC system solutions for wireless communications, high-definition TV, optical storage, DVD and Blu-ray products.

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Yuanta/P-Shares Taiwan Div+ ETF Rebalance: Changes Lead to Huge Turnover

On average, the adds have outperformed the deletes by 5.2% since the announcement of the changes and by 1.12% since the start of the implementation...

Brian Freitas

TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Dec 15th): TSMC, Largan Precision, Evergreen Marine

We analyzed TWSE foreign holding data for the past week and highlight foreign holding changes in TSMC, Largan Precision, Evergreen Marine, Far...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Taiwan Tech Weekly: AI Plays Weak Despite Strong Taiwan Tech Market Performance

AI-Related Taiwan plays showed relative weakness. This weakness interestingly happened during a week when NVIDIA Corp (NVDA US) performed well.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Dec 8th): Umc

We analyzed TWSE foreign holding data for the past week and we highlighted the foreign holding weekly and yearly changes in Umc.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

GUC (3443.TT): Why the Company Did Show a Bit Cautious Attitude with the Market Price?

GUC's daily limit reached, but company's attitude inconsistent. GUC's project-based nature contrasts with the prominence of "AI" knowledge....

Patrick Liao

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Yuanta/​P-Shares Taiwan Div+ ETF Rebalance: Changes Lead to Huge Turnover

On average, the adds have outperformed the deletes by 5.2% since the announcement of the changes and by 1.12% since the start of the implementation...

Brian Freitas

TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Dec 15th): TSMC, Largan Precision, Evergreen Marine

We analyzed TWSE foreign holding data for the past week and highlight foreign holding changes in TSMC, Largan Precision, Evergreen Marine, Far...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Taiwan Tech Weekly: AI Plays Weak Despite Strong Taiwan Tech Market Performance

AI-Related Taiwan plays showed relative weakness. This weakness interestingly happened during a week when NVIDIA Corp (NVDA US) performed well.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Dec 8th): Umc

We analyzed TWSE foreign holding data for the past week and we highlighted the foreign holding weekly and yearly changes in Umc.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

GUC (3443.TT): Why the Company Did Show a Bit Cautious Attitude with the Market Price?

​GUC's daily limit reached, but company's attitude inconsistent. GUC's project-based nature contrasts with the prominence of "AI" knowledge....

Patrick Liao

Yuanta/P-Shares Taiwan Div+ ETF Rebalance: Changes Lead to Huge Turnover

GUC's daily limit reached, but company's attitude inconsistent. GUC's project-based nature contrasts with the prominence of "AI" knowledge....