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/newmont-mining-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:14503:1" rel="noopener">Newmont Mining (NEM US)</a> has made an indicative, non-binding and conditional proposal to acquire <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/newcrest-mining-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:691:1" rel="noopener">Newcrest Mining (NCM AU)</a>. The exchange ratio is 0.38 Newmont shares for each Newcrest share.</li>
<li>At <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/newmont-mining-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:14503:1" rel="noopener">Newmont Mining (NEM US)</a>'s last close, this values <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/newcrest-mining-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:691:1" rel="noopener">Newcrest Mining (NCM AU)</a> at A$27.4/share and at an equity value of A$17.3bn, a 22% premium to the last close.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/newmont-mining-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:14503:1" rel="noopener">Newmont Mining (NEM US)</a> intends to list CDIs on the ASX following the acquisition and that will have implications for changes in the S&amp;P/ASX family of indices.</li>
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Newmont Mining (NEM US) has made an indicative, non-binding and conditional proposal to acquire Newcrest Mining (NCM AU). The exchange ratio is 0.38 Newmont shares for each Newcrest share.
At Newmont Mining (NEM US)'s last close, this values Newcrest Mining (NCM AU) at A$27.4/share and at an equity value of A$17.3bn, a 22% premium to the last close.

Newmont Mining (NEM US) intends to list CDIs on the ASX following the acquisition and that will have implications for changes in the S&amp;P/ASX family of indices.


Newmont's Indicative Offer for Newcrest Mining (NCM AU)

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 Jan 27th (reported today) which has an aggregated short interest worth USD16.9bn.</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 Anz Group Holding, Westpac Banking, Metcash, Seek, Idp Education, Perpetual, Pilbara Minerals, Qbe Insurance, Nickel Industries.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in short interest of ASX Stocks as of Jan 27th (reported today) which has an aggregated short interest worth USD16.9bn.
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 Anz Group Holding, Westpac Banking, Metcash, Seek, Idp Education, Perpetual, Pilbara Minerals, Qbe Insurance, Nickel Industries.


ASX Short Interest Weekly (Jan 27th): Anz, Metcash, Seek, Perpetual

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<li>We currently see 1 change for the ASX20, 2 for the ASX100, 4 changes for the ASX 200 and 9 adds/ 6 deletes for the ASX300 Index in March.</li>
<li>Passive trackers will need to trade over 3 days of ADV on 13 stocks, over 5 days of ADV on 9 stocks and over 10x ADV on 4 stocks. </li>
<li>Shorts have been covering positions on stocks where there are expected to be passive inflows and increasing positions on stocks that are expected to have passive outflows.</li>
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We currently see 1 change for the ASX20, 2 for the ASX100, 4 changes for the ASX 200 and 9 adds/ 6 deletes for the ASX300 Index in March.
Passive trackers will need to trade over 3 days of ADV on 13 stocks, over 5 days of ADV on 9 stocks and over 10x ADV on 4 stocks. 
Shorts have been covering positions on stocks where there are expected to be passive inflows and increasing positions on stocks that are expected to have passive outflows.


S&P/​​​​​​ASX Index Rebalance Preview: High Impact Changes in March

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<li>We analyzed the changes in short interest of ASX Stocks as of Jan 13th (reported today) which has an aggregated short interest worth USD17.4bn.</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 Anz, Woodside Energy, Northern Star, Bhp, Pexa, Lynas Rare Earth, Champion Iron, Macquarie, Qbe Insurance.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in short interest of ASX Stocks as of Jan 13th (reported today) which has an aggregated short interest worth USD17.4bn.
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 Anz, Woodside Energy, Northern Star, Bhp, Pexa, Lynas Rare Earth, Champion Iron, Macquarie, Qbe Insurance.


ASX Short Interest Weekly (Jan 13th): Anz, Woodside, Northern Star, BHP

Pan-Asia Index Flows & Special Situations, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Pan-Asia Index Flows & Special Situations

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

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<li>In this insight, we take a look at the potential index changes for S&amp;P ASX 20, 50, 100, 200, 300 in the run up to the March 2023 Rebalance.</li>
<li>I expect there to be one, two, and four changes, respectively, for the ASX 20, ASX 100, and ASX 200 indices in the March 2023 Rebalance. </li>
<li>For ASX 300, there could be 14 ADDs and 12 DELs in the March 2023 Rebalance including some high impact names based on days-to-trade.</li>
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In this insight, we take a look at the potential index changes for S&amp;P ASX 20, 50, 100, 200, 300 in the run up to the March 2023 Rebalance.
I expect there to be one, two, and four changes, respectively, for the ASX 20, ASX 100, and ASX 200 indices in the March 2023 Rebalance. 
For ASX 300, there could be 14 ADDs and 12 DELs in the March 2023 Rebalance including some high impact names based on days-to-trade.


Quiddity Leaderboard-S&P/​​​​​​​​​ASX Mar 23: Multiple Names with Decent Impact

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Newmont's Indicative Offer for Newcrest Mining (NCM AU)

Newmont is looking to acquire Newcrest Mining at an exchange ratio of 0.38 NEM shares per NCM share. That is a 22% premium for NCM. NEM intends to...

Brian Freitas

ASX Short Interest Weekly (Jan 27th): Anz, Metcash, Seek, Perpetual

We analyzed ASX short interest report for the past week and highlight short interest changes in Anz Group Holdin, Westpac Banking, Metcash, Seek,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

S&P/ASX Index Rebalance Preview: High Impact Changes in March

We currently see 1 change for the ASX20, 2 for the ASX100, 4 changes for the ASX 200 and 9 adds/ 6 deletes for the ASX300 Index in March. Lots of...

Brian Freitas

ASX Short Interest Weekly (Jan 13th): Anz, Woodside, Northern Star, BHP

We analyzed ASX short interest report for the past week and highlight short interest changes in Anz, Woodside, Northern Star, Bhp, Pexa, Lynas Rare...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Quiddity Leaderboard-S&P/ASX Mar 23: Multiple Names with Decent Impact

I expect there to be 40 names involved in the March 2023 Rebalance collectively for the ASX 20, 50, 200, and 300 indices. The majority of these...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

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Newmont's Indicative Offer for Newcrest Mining (NCM AU)

Newmont is looking to acquire Newcrest Mining at an exchange ratio of 0.38 NEM shares per NCM share. That is a 22% premium for NCM. NEM intends to...

Brian Freitas

ASX Short Interest Weekly (Jan 27th): Anz, Metcash, Seek, Perpetual

We analyzed ASX short interest report for the past week and highlight short interest changes in Anz Group Holdin, Westpac Banking, Metcash, Seek,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

S&P/​​​​​​ASX Index Rebalance Preview: High Impact Changes in March

We currently see 1 change for the ASX20, 2 for the ASX100, 4 changes for the ASX 200 and 9 adds/ 6 deletes for the ASX300 Index in March. Lots of...

Brian Freitas

ASX Short Interest Weekly (Jan 13th): Anz, Woodside, Northern Star, BHP

We analyzed ASX short interest report for the past week and highlight short interest changes in Anz, Woodside, Northern Star, Bhp, Pexa, Lynas Rare...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Quiddity Leaderboard-S&P/​​​​​​​​​ASX Mar 23: Multiple Names with Decent Impact

I expect there to be 40 names involved in the March 2023 Rebalance collectively for the ASX 20, 50, 200, and 300 indices. The majority of these...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

S&P/ASX Index Rebalance Preview: High Impact Changes in March

Quiddity Leaderboard-S&P/ASX Mar 23: Multiple Names with Decent Impact