Managing Director, Zero One, Zero One

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Managing Director, Zero One

Equity Bottom-Up

Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) - ADR / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul>
<li>TSMC ADRs are trading at a small premium; 4Q22 results will be released on January 12th.</li>
<li>UMC ADRs are trading at a discount; 4Q22 results will be released on January 16th.</li>
<li>ChipMOS ADRs are trading at a decent discount, opening a trade opportunity.</li>
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TSMC ADRs are trading at a small premium; 4Q22 results will be released on January 12th.
UMC ADRs are trading at a discount; 4Q22 results will be released on January 16th.
ChipMOS ADRs are trading at a decent discount, opening a trade opportunity.


Taiwan Dual-Listings: Premium/Discounts Mostly in the Middle, ChipMOS Opportunity

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)

<ul>
<li>GEM funds reduce exposure to Taiwanese Semiconductors, switching from overweight to their largest underweight in over a decade.</li>
<li>Absolute positioning levels still high, with Taiwanese Semiconductors the largest country/industry allocation for 61% of the managers in our analysis and a top 3 allocation for 78%.</li>
<li>Value investors moved first, switching from near equal weight in early 2020 to -1.95% underweight today.  All Style groups are now positioned underweight the MSCI EM benchmark, on average.</li>
</ul>


GEM funds reduce exposure to Taiwanese Semiconductors, switching from overweight to their largest underweight in over a decade.
Absolute positioning levels still high, with Taiwanese Semiconductors the largest country/industry allocation for 61% of the managers in our analysis and a top 3 allocation for 78%.
Value investors moved first, switching from near equal weight in early 2020 to -1.95% underweight today.  All Style groups are now positioned underweight the MSCI EM benchmark, on average.


Taiwan Semiconductors: Value Funds Drive Underweight

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

<ul>
<li>We analyzed the changes in short interest of TWSE Stocks as of Dec 23rd which has an aggregated short interest worth USD13.2bn.</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 analyzed TWSE short interest report for the past week and highlight short interest changes in Wan Hai, Hon Hai, Realtek, Kinsus, Taiwan Cement, Yang Ming Marine, Wiwynn, Chna Steel.</li>
</ul>


We analyzed the changes in short interest of TWSE Stocks as of Dec 23rd which has an aggregated short interest worth USD13.2bn.
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 analyzed TWSE short interest report for the past week and highlight short interest changes in Wan Hai, Hon Hai, Realtek, Kinsus, Taiwan Cement, Yang Ming Marine, Wiwynn, Chna Steel.


TWSE Short Interest Weekly (Dec 23rd): Taiwan Cement, Yang Ming Marine, Wiwynn, Chna Steel

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs Specialist, Objective Analysis

Jim Handy

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs Specialist

Objective Analysis

Objective Analysis offers third-party independent market research and data for the semiconductor industry and investors in the semiconductor industry.

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs

<ul>
<li>Micron's earnings call gives a good advanced warning of similar companies' reports</li>
<li>The company's downturn is the worst in the past 13 years</li>
<li>Not all chip companies will suffer this downturn, and few will do as badly as commodity memory makers.  Tool makers will feel the impact next year.</li>
</ul>


Micron's earnings call gives a good advanced warning of similar companies' reports
The company's downturn is the worst in the past 13 years
Not all chip companies will suffer this downturn, and few will do as badly as commodity memory makers.  Tool makers will feel the impact next year.


<ul>
<li>We analyzed the changes in short interest of TWSE Stocks as of Dec 16th which has an aggregated short interest worth USD14.0bn.</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>Overall short interests decreased by 1.5% WOW. We highlight short interest changes in Wiwynn Corp.</li>
</ul>


We analyzed the changes in short interest of TWSE Stocks as of Dec 16th which has an aggregated short interest worth USD14.0bn.
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.
Overall short interests decreased by 1.5% WOW. We highlight short interest changes in Wiwynn Corp.


TWSE Short Interest Weekly (Dec 16th): Wiwynn Corp

Taiwan

United Microelectronics Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets integrated circuits (ICs) and related electronic products.  The Company's main products are consumer electronic ICs, memory ICs, personal computer peripheral ICs, and communication ICs.

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Taiwan Dual-Listings: Premium/Discounts Mostly in the Middle, ChipMOS Opportunity

While most premium/discounts are relatively normal, ChipMOS ADRs are trading at a decent discount, representing a trade opportunity.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Taiwan Semiconductors: Value Funds Drive Underweight

Taiwanese Semiconductor allocations among GEM active funds are well off the highs of 2021 as more funds scale back holdings and many move to an...

Steven Holden

TWSE Short Interest Weekly (Dec 23rd): Taiwan Cement, Yang Ming Marine, Wiwynn, Chna Steel

We analyzed TWSE short interest report for the past week and highlight short interest changes in Wan Hai Lines, Hon Hai, Realtek, Kinsus, Taiwan...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Micron Earnings Give Semi Market Outlook

Micron's just-announced revenues indicate trouble today for its peers and trouble next year for tool makers, but other sectors should fare much...

Jim Handy

TWSE Short Interest Weekly (Dec 16th): Wiwynn Corp

We analyzed TWSE short interest report for the past week (as of Dec 16th) and highlight short interest changes in Wiwynn Corp.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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