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Daily Brief Quantitative Analysis: Tencent/Netease: September Batch of Game Approval & Thoughts on Trading and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Tencent/Netease: September Batch of Game Approval & Thoughts on Trading
  • Sector Vs Factor-Based Benchmark Selection

Tencent/Netease: September Batch of Game Approval & Thoughts on Trading

By Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

  • China just announced game approval for September batch. More games were approved in September compared to July, June and August.
  • Pace of China game approval continued to pick up albeit at a much slower pace than pre-tightening.
  • Tencent continue to score zero and Netease managed to get one game approved in 14 months. 

Sector Vs Factor-Based Benchmark Selection

By Nicolas Rabener

  • Manager-Selected benchmarks are suboptimal as they are not free of conflict of interests
  • Perhaps, investors can use sectors to identify more appropriate benchmarks
  • However, this ignores factors, which are better at explaining investment returns

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