Tracking developments across tech supply chains, Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Tracking developments across tech supply chains

Equity Bottom-Up

Hon Hai Precision Industry / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Silicon Shield 2.0 involves managing risks and building partnerships to secure supply chains in today's economic landscape.</li><li>AMD collaborates with ZT System engineers to simplify rising AI system complexity, enhancing efficiency and productivity.</li><li>Foxconn leverages AI server trading models to increase profits, while Taiwan's president calls for regional de-risking and trade partnerships to adapt to supply chain shifts. #Taiwan #trade #partnerships #supplychain. Innodisk's AI revenue surpasses 20%, foreseeing growth in revenue and profit in the second half of 2024. SK Hynix's revenue doubles in the US and China, attributed to increased AI demand in the first half of 2024. TSMC's new fab in Germany is expected to generate jobs and enhance wafer ecosystems in Europe.</li></ul>

Silicon Shield 2.0 involves managing risks and building partnerships to secure supply chains in today's economic landscape.AMD collaborates with ZT System engineers to simplify rising AI system complexity, enhancing efficiency and productivity.Foxconn leverages AI server trading models to increase profits, while Taiwan's president calls for regional de-risking and trade partnerships to adapt to supply chain shifts. #Taiwan #trade #partnerships #supplychain. Innodisk's AI revenue surpasses 20%, foreseeing growth in revenue and profit in the second half of 2024. SK Hynix's revenue doubles in the US and China, attributed to increased AI demand in the first half of 2024. TSMC's new fab in Germany is expected to generate jobs and enhance wafer ecosystems in Europe.

Tech Supply Chain Tracker (23-Aug-2024): Silicon Shield 2.0: supply chain security & diplomacy.

<ul><li>SE Asia &amp; India deploying semi supply chains for efficiency &amp; cost reduction, with focus shifting to automotive &amp; mobile ventures.</li><li>Taiwan leveraging strong semiconductor industry to attract foreign students &amp; enhance industry leadership. </li><li>Wiwynn suing Musk's X over unpaid server bills, UK reassessing semiconductor strategy amid US &amp; China influence. Apple's Foxconn to manufacture iPhone Pro in India, AMD entering AI market with $4.9 billion investment. TSMC building EUR10B fab in Dresden to boost semiconductor industry.</li></ul>

SE Asia &amp; India deploying semi supply chains for efficiency &amp; cost reduction, with focus shifting to automotive &amp; mobile ventures.Taiwan leveraging strong semiconductor industry to attract foreign students &amp; enhance industry leadership. Wiwynn suing Musk's X over unpaid server bills, UK reassessing semiconductor strategy amid US &amp; China influence. Apple's Foxconn to manufacture iPhone Pro in India, AMD entering AI market with $4.9 billion investment. TSMC building EUR10B fab in Dresden to boost semiconductor industry.

Tech Supply Chain Tracker (22-Aug-2024): SE Asia & India semi supply chains deployment

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

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>Emerging Market allocations are stabilizing among active Global equity funds.</li>
<li>Country-Level shifts show China &amp; HK allocations more than halving since 2022, while Taiwan has seen strong gains. India becomes the top country underweight.</li>
<li>Alibaba has declined to record lows, Tencent ownership is stabilizing, and TSMC has reached new highs.</li>
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Emerging Market allocations are stabilizing among active Global equity funds.
Country-Level shifts show China &amp; HK allocations more than halving since 2022, while Taiwan has seen strong gains. India becomes the top country underweight.
Alibaba has declined to record lows, Tencent ownership is stabilizing, and TSMC has reached new highs.


Emerging Markets:  Structural Shifts as Allocations Stabilise Among Global Funds.

<ul><li>Foxconn benefits from regionalized production with improved efficiency, reduced shipping costs, and better supply chain integration.</li><li>AMEC is confident in their lawsuit against the US Department of Defense, showing strong belief in the merit of their legal case.</li><li>Japan's economy faces uncertainty with financial resources at risk after Kishida's resignation, raising concerns amidst the country's economic landscape and supply chain players cautiously optimistic about AI server boom.</li></ul>

Foxconn benefits from regionalized production with improved efficiency, reduced shipping costs, and better supply chain integration.AMEC is confident in their lawsuit against the US Department of Defense, showing strong belief in the merit of their legal case.Japan's economy faces uncertainty with financial resources at risk after Kishida's resignation, raising concerns amidst the country's economic landscape and supply chain players cautiously optimistic about AI server boom.

Tech Supply Chain Tracker (20-Aug-2024): Regional production helps Foxconn.

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 Aug 16th which has an aggregated holding worth USD955.9bn.</li>
<li>We estimate that foreign flows to be inflows of USD2,501mln. We tabulate the league table for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.</li>
<li>We highlight foreign changes in TSMC, Umc, Yageo, Evergreen Marine.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of TWSE Stocks as of Aug 16th which has an aggregated holding worth USD955.9bn.
We estimate that foreign flows to be inflows of USD2,501mln. We tabulate the league table for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.
We highlight foreign changes in TSMC, Umc, Yageo, Evergreen Marine.


TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Aug 16th): TSMC, Umc, Yageo, Evergreen Marine

Taiwan

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. manufactures integrated circuits based on its proprietary designs.  The Company offers a comprehensive set of integrated circuit fabrication processes to manufacture CMOS logic, mixed-mode, volatile and non-volatile memory and BiCMOS chips.  Taiwan Semiconductor is an affiliate of Philips Electronics N.V.

Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) - ADR (TSM US)

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Tech Supply Chain Tracker (23-Aug-2024): Silicon Shield 2.0: supply chain security & diplomacy.

Silicon Shield 2.0: AMD, Foxconn, Innodisk, SK Hynix, and TSMC leveraged AI and regional partnerships to secure and grow supply chains amidst...

Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Tech Supply Chain Tracker (22-Aug-2024): SE Asia & India semi supply chains deployment

SE Asia, India, Taiwan, UK, and US focus on semiconductor industry growth and competition, with companies like Xiaomi, Foxconn, AMD, TSMC, and...

Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Emerging Markets: Structural Shifts as Allocations Stabilise Among Global Funds.

Average EM weights of 7.05% sit near the lower end of the decade-long range. While active managers remain structurally underweight EM, this has...

Steven Holden

Tech Supply Chain Tracker (20-Aug-2024): Regional production helps Foxconn.

Regionalized production boosts efficiency for Foxconn, AMEC confident in lawsuit, Japan's financial resources in jeopardy, supply chain players...

Tech Supply Chain Tracker

TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Aug 16th): TSMC, Umc, Yageo, Evergreen Marine

We analyzed TWSE foreign holding data for the past week and highlighted foreign holding changes in TSMC, Umc, Yageo, Evergreen Marine.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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