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 short interest of ASX Stocks as of Jun 16th (reported today) which has an aggregated short interest worth USD16.6bn.</li>
<li>We tabulate league table for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.</li>
<li>We highlight short interest changes in Agl Energy, BHP, IDP Education, Pilbara Minerals, Cochlear, Worley, Computershare, Suncorp.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in short interest of ASX Stocks as of Jun 16th (reported today) which has an aggregated short interest worth USD16.6bn.
We tabulate league table for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.
We highlight short interest changes in Agl Energy, BHP, IDP Education, Pilbara Minerals, Cochlear, Worley, Computershare, Suncorp.


ASX Short Interest Weekly (Jun 16th): Pilbara Minerals, Cochlear, Worley, Computershare, Suncorp

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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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ansell-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:10777:1" rel="noopener">Ansell Ltd (ANN AU)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/challenger-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16870:1" rel="noopener">Challenger Ltd (CGF AU)</a> will be deleted from the MVIS Australia Equal Weight Index at the close of trading on 16 June.</li>
<li>One way turnover is 5.9% resulting in a one-way trade of A$107m. Only the two deletions have more than 1 day of ADV to sell from passive trackers.</li>
<li>With the passive selling between 33-50% of short interest on the deletions, there could be short covering at the close on Friday.</li>
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Ansell Ltd (ANN AU) and Challenger Ltd (CGF AU) will be deleted from the MVIS Australia Equal Weight Index at the close of trading on 16 June.
One way turnover is 5.9% resulting in a one-way trade of A$107m. Only the two deletions have more than 1 day of ADV to sell from passive trackers.
With the passive selling between 33-50% of short interest on the deletions, there could be short covering at the close on Friday.


MVIS Australia Equal Weight Index Rebalance: Two Deletions & Other Changes

<ul>
<li>We analyzed the changes in short interest of ASX Stocks as of May 26th (reported today) which has an aggregated short interest worth USD15.9bn.</li>
<li>We tabulate league table for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.</li>
<li>We highlight short interest changes in Westpac, Suncorp, Aristocrat Leisu, Megaport, BHP, Woodside Energy, Idp Education.</li>
</ul>


We analyzed the changes in short interest of ASX Stocks as of May 26th (reported today) which has an aggregated short interest worth USD15.9bn.
We tabulate league table for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.
We highlight short interest changes in Westpac, Suncorp, Aristocrat Leisu, Megaport, BHP, Woodside Energy, Idp Education.


ASX Short Interest Weekly (May 26th): Westpac, Suncorp, Aristocrat, Megaport, BHP, Woodside Energy

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

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Among active Global equity funds, exposure to Banking stocks is at the lower end of the decade long range</li>
<li>Over the last 6-months, Banks experienced the largest drop in average fund weight of -0.4%, suffered fund outflows of $-1.98bn and had 40 more sellers than buyers over the period.</li>
<li>The failure of SVB Financial, First Republic and Signature Bank has effected sentiment in US Banks, but elsewhere we see strong momentum in Singaporean Banks, Indonesian Banks and Indian Banks.  </li>
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Among active Global equity funds, exposure to Banking stocks is at the lower end of the decade long range
Over the last 6-months, Banks experienced the largest drop in average fund weight of -0.4%, suffered fund outflows of $-1.98bn and had 40 more sellers than buyers over the period.
The failure of SVB Financial, First Republic and Signature Bank has effected sentiment in US Banks, but elsewhere we see strong momentum in Singaporean Banks, Indonesian Banks and Indian Banks.  


<ul>
<li>We analyzed the changes in short interest of ASX Stocks as of May 19th (reported today) which has an aggregated short interest worth USD16.8bn.</li>
<li>We tabulate league table for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.</li>
<li>We highlight short interest changes in Wesfarmers, Coles, Xero, ANZ, Bhp, Woolworths, Newcrest Mining.</li>
</ul>


We analyzed the changes in short interest of ASX Stocks as of May 19th (reported today) which has an aggregated short interest worth USD16.8bn.
We tabulate league table for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.
We highlight short interest changes in Wesfarmers, Coles, Xero, ANZ, Bhp, Woolworths, Newcrest Mining.


ASX Short Interest Weekly (May 19th): Wesfarmers, Coles, Xero, ANZ, Bhp, Woolworths, Newcrest

Australia

National Australia Bank Limited is an international banking group which operates in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Asia and the United States.  The Group offers banking services, credit and access card facilities, leasing, housing and general finance, international and investment banking, wealth and funds management, life insurance and custodian, trustee and nominee services.

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National Australia Bank (NAB AU)

ASX Short Interest Weekly (Jun 16th): Pilbara Minerals, Cochlear, Worley, Computershare, Suncorp

We analyzed ASX short interest report for the past week and highlight short interest changes in Agl Energy, BHP, IDP Education, Pilbara Minerals,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

MVIS Australia Equal Weight Index Rebalance: Two Deletions & Other Changes

There are 2 deletions and a lot of capping changes for the index. One way turnover is 5.9% resulting in a one-way trade of A$107m. The two...

Brian Freitas

ASX Short Interest Weekly (May 26th): Westpac, Suncorp, Aristocrat, Megaport, BHP, Woodside Energy

We analyzed ASX short interest report for the past week and highlight short interest changes in Westpac, Suncorp, Aristocrat Leisu, Megaport, BHP,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Global Banks: Positioning Deep Dive

Positioning in the Banking industry group among Global equity funds stalls after US Banking failures, but non-US sentiment is improving.

Steven Holden

ASX Short Interest Weekly (May 19th): Wesfarmers, Coles, Xero, ANZ, Bhp, Woolworths, Newcrest

We analyzed ASX short interest report for the past week and highlight short interest changes in Wesfarmers, Coles, Xero, ANZ, BHP, Woolworths,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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