Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

Event-Driven

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<li>The additions are primarily in line with the predictions. But, the deletions contain many surprises. Webzen is the biggest surprise. Echo Marketing should also surprise a lot of fund trackers.</li>
<li>Creas F&amp;C will face the most substantial passive inflow at 4.08x ADTV, closely followed by Unitest. But factoring in liquidity, WYSIWYG Studios will likely draw the most attention</li>
<li>JNTC will suffer the most among the deletions. However, Webzen will likely be in the limelight as its outflow is by far the largest at ₩8.6B, equivalent to 3.84x ADTV.</li>
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The additions are primarily in line with the predictions. But, the deletions contain many surprises. Webzen is the biggest surprise. Echo Marketing should also surprise a lot of fund trackers.
Creas F&amp;C will face the most substantial passive inflow at 4.08x ADTV, closely followed by Unitest. But factoring in liquidity, WYSIWYG Studios will likely draw the most attention
JNTC will suffer the most among the deletions. However, Webzen will likely be in the limelight as its outflow is by far the largest at ₩8.6B, equivalent to 3.84x ADTV.


KOSDAQ 150 Rebalancing Results: Passive Flows & Basket Trading Candidates

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

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<li>There are 12 inclusions and 12 exclusions for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kosdaq-150-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31077:1" rel="noopener">KOSDAQ 150 Index (KOSDQ150 INDEX)</a> at the June rebalance to be implemented at the close on 9 June.</li>
<li>Most of the inclusions were expected, but there are quite a few surprises among the deletions. The impact on the deletions will be higher than that on the inclusions.</li>
<li>The adds have outperformed the deletes and there has been another leg up in the last couple of weeks. Expect the trend to continue till implementation week.</li>
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There are 12 inclusions and 12 exclusions for the KOSDAQ 150 Index (KOSDQ150 INDEX) at the June rebalance to be implemented at the close on 9 June.
Most of the inclusions were expected, but there are quite a few surprises among the deletions. The impact on the deletions will be higher than that on the inclusions.
The adds have outperformed the deletes and there has been another leg up in the last couple of weeks. Expect the trend to continue till implementation week.


KOSDAQ150 Index Rebalance Preview: A Dozen Changes in June

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<li>Enchem (348370 KS) is in a bit tricky situation. Applying the KRX's review period calculation criterion to Enchem satisfies the minimum listing requirement.</li>
<li>So, we should consider Enchem's addition odds quite high. Enchem's inclusion will pave the way for Sungwoo Hitech (015750 KS) to leave the Index.</li>
<li>We have ten adds/deletes, and WYSIWYG Studios (299900 KS) leads the adds for the passive impact, whereas JNTC Co Ltd (204270 KS) will suffer the most relative to ADTV.</li>
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Enchem (348370 KS) is in a bit tricky situation. Applying the KRX's review period calculation criterion to Enchem satisfies the minimum listing requirement.
So, we should consider Enchem's addition odds quite high. Enchem's inclusion will pave the way for Sungwoo Hitech (015750 KS) to leave the Index.
We have ten adds/deletes, and WYSIWYG Studios (299900 KS) leads the adds for the passive impact, whereas JNTC Co Ltd (204270 KS) will suffer the most relative to ADTV.


KOSDAQ 150 Rebalancing: Complete List of Candidates, Including Enchem

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<li>The review period for the June rebalance of the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kosdaq-150-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31077:1" rel="noopener">KOSDAQ 150 Index</a> ended on Friday. We see 14 potential changes to the index - most are high probability. </li>
<li>The impact of passive trading is higher on the deletions than on the additions. Short interest on the potential adds is zero/negligible and a lot larger on the potential deletions.</li>
<li>Short interest on a couple of potential deletion exceeds the estimated passive selling, while there are others where short interest is three-quarters of the estimated passive selling.</li>
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The review period for the June rebalance of the KOSDAQ 150 Index ended on Friday. We see 14 potential changes to the index - most are high probability. 
The impact of passive trading is higher on the deletions than on the additions. Short interest on the potential adds is zero/negligible and a lot larger on the potential deletions.
Short interest on a couple of potential deletion exceeds the estimated passive selling, while there are others where short interest is three-quarters of the estimated passive selling.


KOSDAQ150 Index Rebalance Preview: 14 Potential Changes in June

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<li>The local regulators will likely announce a full resumption of short selling within this month, and it will likely be implemented either next month or at the latest within April.</li>
<li>Immediate candidates filtering on KOSPI (outside KOSPI 200): Huchems Fine Chemical, Hana Tour, Samyang Foods, and Douzone Bizon.</li>
<li>Immediate candidates filtering on KOSDAQ (outside KOSDAQ 150): UniTest and Kolon Life Science.</li>
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The local regulators will likely announce a full resumption of short selling within this month, and it will likely be implemented either next month or at the latest within April.
Immediate candidates filtering on KOSPI (outside KOSPI 200): Huchems Fine Chemical, Hana Tour, Samyang Foods, and Douzone Bizon.
Immediate candidates filtering on KOSDAQ (outside KOSDAQ 150): UniTest and Kolon Life Science.


Short Selling Full Resumption Schedule & Immediate Candidates Filtering

South Korea

UniTest Inc. develops and manufactures semiconductor device test equipment.  The Company's products include test platforms, application level testers, and testing software.

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Sanghyun Park

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