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In today’s briefing:
- (Mostly) Asia-Pac Weekly Risk Arb Wrap: Sigma Health, Vinda, Outsourcing, Allkem, Costa, Hollysys
- Index Rebalance & ETF Flow Recap: HSTECH, SIG/CWG, KQ150, REPT BATTERO
- EQD | Volatility Update: Weekly Review of Vol Changes and Best Trades-And Pivot!
- Last Week in Event SPACE: Benefit One, CPMC, Samsung C&T, Sands China, Shinko Electric, Hankook & Co
- Weekly Deals Digest (17 Dec) – Benefit One, Shinko Electric, Toyo, CPMC, Vinda, Hollysys, Rept
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(Mostly) Asia-Pac Weekly Risk Arb Wrap: Sigma Health, Vinda, Outsourcing, Allkem, Costa, Hollysys
- I tally 46 – mostly firm, mostly Asia-Pac – transactions currently being discussed and analysed on Smartkarma. Inside is a timetable of upcoming key events for each deal.
- Four new deals discussed this week: Sigma Healthcare (SIG AU)‘s reverse takeover; Tanotos’ tilt for Vinda (3331 HK); and Tender offers for Shinko Electric (6967 JP) and Outsourcing (2427 JP).
- Key updates took place on: Pact Group Holdings (PGH AU), Allkem (AKE AU), Costa Group Holdings (CGC AU), T&K Toka Co Ltd (4636 JP) and Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI US).
Index Rebalance & ETF Flow Recap: HSTECH, SIG/CWG, KQ150, REPT BATTERO
- It was a busy week with rebalance implementations at the close of trading on Thursday in Korea and then across the region on Friday.
- The SET 50 Index changes should be announced this week and the Yuanta TW Div+ ETF will continue to implement the changes till Thursday.
- There were inflows to China ETFs during the week while there were big outflows from Korea Stock Exchange KOSPI 200 (KOSPI2 INDEX) ETFs.
EQD | Volatility Update: Weekly Review of Vol Changes and Best Trades-And Pivot!
- Weekly summary of vol changes and moves across Global Markets
- Analysing ATM volatility and skew changes over the last 5 days
- We suggest a few trades to take advantage of the implied vol surfaces
Last Week in Event SPACE: Benefit One, CPMC, Samsung C&T, Sands China, Shinko Electric, Hankook & Co
- M3 extends its Tender Offer for Benefit One (2412 JP). M3 can match Dai-Ichi Life proposal, financially, if backed. And Dai Ichi Life Insurance (8750 JP) can probably bump further.
- Haier Electronics Group Co (1169 HK)‘s CEO and ORG Technology Co., Ltd. A (002701 CH) reckon they can trump SASAC’s Offer for CPMC Holdings (906 HK).
- First City of London Investment Management, then Palliser Capital and now Whitebox, urge Samsung C&T (028260 KS) to improve its cash spending, improve governance and communications and simplify its corporate structure
Weekly Deals Digest (17 Dec) – Benefit One, Shinko Electric, Toyo, CPMC, Vinda, Hollysys, Rept
- A weekly summary of key developments across ECM and Event-Driven names tracked by us across Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, India and Chinese ADRs.
- ECM developments – REPT BATTERO Energy (1998104D CH) IPO and Denso Corp (6902 JP)‘s US$4.0 Billion Secondary Offering and US$1.4 Billion Buyback.
- Event-Driven developments – Benefit One Inc (2412 JP), Shinko Electric Industries (6967 JP), Toyo Construction (1890 JP), CPMC Holdings (906 HK), Vinda International (3331 HK), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI US).