In today’s briefing:
- An Update on HSCEI Index Related ELS Losses for Korean Financials + BOK’s Pivot in 2024
- An Early Look at the Potential KOSDAQ150 Rebalance Candidates in June 2024
- Aequitas Korea IPOs + Placements Broker Performance 2023
An Update on HSCEI Index Related ELS Losses for Korean Financials + BOK’s Pivot in 2024
- The local media have started to provide some concrete figures of the amount of losses related to HSCEI related ELS products sold by major Korean banks and securities firms.
- If HSCEI continues to remain at about 5,450 to the end of March 2024, the total losses could rise to nearly 1.6 trillion won, impacting more than 45,000 investors.
- Concerns about HSCEI index related ELS losses have negatively impacted both the major Korean banks and securities companies in Korea in the past 1-2 months.
An Early Look at the Potential KOSDAQ150 Rebalance Candidates in June 2024
- In this insight, we discuss the potential KOSDAQ150 rebalance candidates in June 2024.
- The following companies are likely candidates to be included in KOSDAQ150 rebalance in June 2024, including LS Materials, Gigavis, and Cafe24 Corp.
- We also provide a list of 10 companies that are potential exclusion candidates from KOSDAQ150 rebalance in June 2024.
Aequitas Korea IPOs + Placements Broker Performance 2023
- In this note, we will take a look at broker performance for Korea IPOs and placements in 2023.
- The following dataset includes all Korean IPOs and placements above US$100m, which amounted to a total of seven deals. Given the small number of deals, we’ll keep the note short.
- The deals you see in this note are based on our historical IPO and placement tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information.