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 analyze the weekly Shanghai/Shenzhen northbound Connect flows with our data engine.</li>
<li>Inflows into consumer staple were offset by the outflows from materials.</li>
<li>We highlight inflows into Moutai, East Money, Gree, Wuxi Apptec, and Tongwei.</li>
</ul>


We analyze the weekly Shanghai/Shenzhen northbound Connect flows with our data engine.
Inflows into consumer staple were offset by the outflows from materials.
We highlight inflows into Moutai, East Money, Gree, Wuxi Apptec, and Tongwei.


Northbound Flows: Moutai, East Money, Gree, Wuxi Apptec, Tongwei

<ul>
<li>We analyze the weekly Shanghai/Shenzhen northbound Connect flows with our data engine.</li>
<li>Financial, material, consumer discretionary led the inflow of USD 1.0bn last week. </li>
<li>We highlight inflows into CMB, China Yangtze Power, BYD, Longi Green Energy, SF Holding.</li>
</ul>


We analyze the weekly Shanghai/Shenzhen northbound Connect flows with our data engine.
Financial, material, consumer discretionary led the inflow of USD 1.0bn last week. 
We highlight inflows into CMB, China Yangtze Power, BYD, Longi Green Energy, SF Holding.


Northbound Flows: CMB, China Yangtze Power, BYD, Longi Green Energy, SF Holding

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

Equity Capital Markets

Life Insurance  of India / Equity Capital Markets

<ul>
<li>Government of India (GoI) is looking to raise around US$2.7bn via selling a 3.5% stake in Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) in its upcoming India IPO.</li>
<li>This is less than half of its initial plans in terms of fundraising target and comes at less than half of its initial valuation target.</li>
<li>We have looked at various aspects of the deal in our earlier notes. In this note, we compare it to its international peers and talk about valuations.</li>
</ul>


Government of India (GoI) is looking to raise around US$2.7bn via selling a 3.5% stake in Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) in its upcoming India IPO.
This is less than half of its initial plans in terms of fundraising target and comes at less than half of its initial valuation target.
We have looked at various aspects of the deal in our earlier notes. In this note, we compare it to its international peers and talk about valuations.


Life Insurance Corporation of India IPO - Regional Peer Comparison

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>Financials sector allocations continue to move higher.  Average holding weights stand at 18.78%, the highest level since early 2020 and well up from the lows of 15.06% in Sep 2020</li>
<li>Indonesia, Singapore, India and Thailand were responsible for the moves higher, with China &amp; HK not participating in the upturn. </li>
<li>AIA Group Ltd is the most widely held stock.  China Merchants Bank and Bank Central Asia the key overweights. China Construction Bank and ICBC are largely avoided by Asian investors.</li>
</ul>


Financials sector allocations continue to move higher.  Average holding weights stand at 18.78%, the highest level since early 2020 and well up from the lows of 15.06% in Sep 2020
Indonesia, Singapore, India and Thailand were responsible for the moves higher, with China &amp; HK not participating in the upturn. 
AIA Group Ltd is the most widely held stock.  China Merchants Bank and Bank Central Asia the key overweights. China Construction Bank and ICBC are largely avoided by Asian investors.


Asia Ex-Japan:  Financials Recovery Leaves China Behind

<ul>
<li>We analyze the weekly Shanghai/Shenzhen Connect flows with our data engine.</li>
<li>The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market and big cap stocks.</li>
<li>Top three stocks we highlight are Kweichow Moutai, Ping An Insurance, and Zijin Mining. </li>
</ul>


We analyze the weekly Shanghai/Shenzhen Connect flows with our data engine.
The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market and big cap stocks.
Top three stocks we highlight are Kweichow Moutai, Ping An Insurance, and Zijin Mining. 


Northbound Flows: Moutai, Ping An, Zijin Mining

China

Ping An Bank Co Ltd provides a full range of commercial banking services including RMB and foreign currency deposit, loan, international and domestic settlement, discount, currency trading, letter of credit, bank guarantee, and other related services.

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Northbound Flows: Moutai, East Money, Gree, Wuxi Apptec, Tongwei

We highlight northbound Hong Kong Connect inflows into Moutai, East Money, Gree, Wuxi Apptec, and Tongwei from offshore investors.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Northbound Flows: CMB, China Yangtze Power, BYD, Longi Green Energy, SF Holding

We highlight weekly northbound inflows into China Merchant Bank, China Yangtze Power, BYD, Longi Green Energy, SF Holding, and outflows from...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Life Insurance Corporation of India IPO - Regional Peer Comparison

Government of India is looking to raise around US$2.7bn via selling a 3.5% stake in Life Insurance Corporation of India in its upcoming India IPO....

Sumeet Singh

Asia Ex-Japan: Financials Recovery Leaves China Behind

Financials exposure moves higher. Active weights hit their highest level since early 2020. Indonesia, Singapore and India Financials were the...

Steven Holden

Northbound Flows: Moutai, Ping An, Zijin Mining

Top three stocks we highlight for Northbound Shanghai/Shenzhen Connect are Kweichow Moutai, Ping An Insurance, and Zijin Mining.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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