Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

As discussed in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/tuesday-and-wednesday-big-days-for-japan" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:18815">Tuesday and Wednesday - Big Days for Japan</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/your-scorecard-for-tuesday-wednesday-in-japan" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:18844">Your Scorecard for Tuesday &amp; Wednesday in Japan</a>, there is a significant phenomenon in Japan around what happened today and what happens tomorrow. This was discussed in an outright manner in the first two pieces. This brief followup shows how there is slight rotation during these two days.The first set of tables showed that after Tuesday and Wednesday, there was a pullback in performance as well in the few days afterward historically.But there's a trick there.

As discussed in Tuesday and Wednesday - Big Days for Japan and Your Scorecard for Tuesday &amp; Wednesday in Japan, there is a significant phenomenon in Japan around what happened today and what happens tomorrow. This was discussed in an outright manner in the first two pieces. This brief followup shows how there is slight rotation during these two days.The first set of tables showed that after Tuesday and Wednesday, there was a pullback in performance as well in the few days afterward historically.But there's a trick there.

Tuesday Done, Wednesday Coming. Watch Passive Tracking Vs Non-Passive Tracking Indices

ESG Research Specialist, Lightbulb Capital

Simon Peladeau

ESG Research Specialist

Lightbulb Capital

Directly engaging with companies is often the solution to better understand risks, cultures and operational performance. In instances of ESG nondisclosure, poor performance on material ESG factors, not enough disclosure, or where factors do not provide the full picture, further analysis is required. Below is a list of key ESG engagement questions within the Financial sector.

Directly engaging with companies is often the solution to better understand risks, cultures and operational performance. In instances of ESG nondisclosure, poor performance on material ESG factors, not enough disclosure, or where factors do not provide the full picture, further analysis is required. Below is a list of key ESG engagement questions within the Financial sector.

Key ESG Engagement Questions - Financial Sector

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

Msci Ac Asia Pacific Index / Technical Analysis

Global equities continue to stabilize, with the MSCI ACWI’s 50-day moving average acting like a magnet as prices have oscillated above and below it. More importantly, support levels have held and long-term uptrends are intact. While we expect to see continued heightened volatility and consolidation, our long-term outlook for global equities remains bullish.  In today’s report we put a spotlight on Japan, broad Europe, Germany, and the UK, where small-caps are outperforming large-caps.

Global equities continue to stabilize, with the MSCI ACWI’s 50-day moving average acting like a magnet as prices have oscillated above and below it. More importantly, support levels have held and long-term uptrends are intact. While we expect to see continued heightened volatility and consolidation, our long-term outlook for global equities remains bullish.  In today’s report we put a spotlight on Japan, broad Europe, Germany, and the UK, where small-caps are outperforming large-caps.

Cross-Asset Liquidity Strategist, CrossBorder Capital

Michael J. Howell

Cross-Asset Liquidity Strategist

Implementing Research Using Alt Data & AI

CrossBorder Capital

CrossBorder Capital is a London-based independent investment advisory firm. Founded in 1996, it exploits a gap in the investment arena by focusing on Central bank liquidity. 

It specialises in the monitoring and analysis of global liquidity flows - an important determinant of asset prices, from currencies through to bonds, equities and real estate.

CrossBorder Capital implements its investment strategy and currently manages over US$ 350m.


Macroeconomics

Ahead of Chinese New Year, 'liquidity-sensitive' Chinese bank stocks are breaking higher. Alongside, the Chinese yield curve, a sound barometer of bank margins, is trying to bottom and steepen. Meanwhile, as flagged by our databases, Chinese lending growth is robust, while Now-Casts of the Chinese economy show it accelerating into 2018 and not cooling as was widely predicted. Liquidity appears abundant. Is the Wall Street bubble migrating to Asia?Yet concerns over Wall Street and anticipations…

Ahead of Chinese New Year, 'liquidity-sensitive' Chinese bank stocks are breaking higher. Alongside, the Chinese yield curve, a sound barometer of bank margins, is trying to bottom and steepen. Meanwhile, as flagged by our databases, Chinese lending growth is robust, while Now-Casts of the Chinese economy show it accelerating into 2018 and not cooling as was widely predicted. Liquidity appears abundant. Is the Wall Street bubble migrating to Asia?Yet concerns over Wall Street and anticipations…

Is There An Asian Financial Cycle? Look How Chinese Banks Stocks Are Breaking Higher

Bonds matter, particularly for Asian investors, and there are gowing pressures forcing US yields higher and the Treasury yield curve to steepen. This note summarises our recent fixed income research views. Conceptually, nominal yields and the yield curve can be broken down into two distinct parts, notionally divided by tenor: (1) the ‘front-end’ is related to short-term Central Bank monetary operations and commercial banks’ liquidity management and (2) the ‘longer-term tenors more affected by…

Bonds matter, particularly for Asian investors, and there are gowing pressures forcing US yields higher and the Treasury yield curve to steepen. This note summarises our recent fixed income research views. Conceptually, nominal yields and the yield curve can be broken down into two distinct parts, notionally divided by tenor: (1) the ‘front-end’ is related to short-term Central Bank monetary operations and commercial banks’ liquidity management and (2) the ‘longer-term tenors more affected by…

Wonkish Comments On The Bond Panic – Liquidity & Capital Flows Warn Asian Investors To Monitor Risks

Japan

The MSCI AC Asia Pacific Index is a free-float weighted equity index. It was developed with a base value of 100 as of December 31, 1987.

Msci Ac Asia Pacific Index (MXAP INDEX)

Tuesday Done, Wednesday Coming. Watch Passive Tracking Vs Non-Passive Tracking Indices

As discussed in Tuesday and Wednesday - Big Days for Japan and Your Scorecard for Tuesday & Wednesday in Japan, there is a significant...

Travis Lundy

Key ESG Engagement Questions - Financial Sector

Directly engaging with companies is often the solution to better understand risks, cultures and operational performance. In instances of ESG...

Simon Peladeau

Global Equity Strategy

Global equities continue to stabilize, with the MSCI ACWI’s 50-day moving average acting like a magnet as prices have oscillated above and below...

Vermilion Research

Is There An Asian Financial Cycle? Look How Chinese Banks Stocks Are Breaking Higher

Ahead of Chinese New Year, 'liquidity-sensitive' Chinese bank stocks are breaking higher. Alongside, the Chinese yield curve, a sound barometer of...

Michael J. Howell

Wonkish Comments On The Bond Panic – Liquidity & Capital Flows Warn Asian Investors To Monitor Risks

Bonds matter, particularly for Asian investors, and there are gowing pressures forcing US yields higher and the Treasury yield curve to steepen....

Michael J. Howell