Asian Insight Provider - Actionable ideas, CrossASEAN Research

Henry Soediarko

A Long & Short Investment Ideas generator for Asian Equities with 10 years experience in a Hedge fund focused on bottom-up ideas, searching out mispriced ideas and misunderstood investment thesis. Provides on-the-ground insights in various Asian markets with a sway towards ASEAN. Experienced and survived the Asian Financial Crisis in a family business, as well as the Global Financial Crisis in financial markets where lessons learned. It's all about understanding business drivers and navigating business cycles, which has high applicability in generating investment ideas. 

Investment horizon: Mid to Long term

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CrossASEAN Research

At CrossASEAN Research we strive to produce unbiased and differentiated on the ground insights on companies across South East Asia. Our Research is produced for the most part after face to face meetings and conversations with company management to dig deep into the long term vision and strategy of the companies we cover. We seek to deliver investable and actionable themes on sectors and markets across SE Asia, often in collaboration with other Insight Providers across the region, pooling the vast experience of the analysts within the Smartkarma Ecosystem. We also offer bespoke work and tailor made trips for our clients. 

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Equity Bottom-Up

<p>The SGD 100 Discover Singapore vouchers that were handed out since 1st December 2020 to its citizens have provided the much-needed sparks in Singapore's hospitality industry that also benefits the Singapore transport sector. <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/comfortdelgro-corp-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:497:1" rel="noopener">Comfortdelgro Corp (CD SP)</a>captures this in two angles; higher revenue in public transport as well as in the taxi segment. The taxi segment has a historically higher gross profit margin compared to public transport although of late, the online ride-hailing app has challenged the former's dominance. </p>
<p>Although Phase 3 is unlikely to happen today after PM Lee's speech, today's speech will highlight more positives rather than negative news on the COVID-19 development for Singapore and will help to increase higher mobility in Singapore that benefits ComfortDelgro. There will be an increase in group size on phase 3 and capacity limits in public places and events including weddings. Borders will also be slowly reopened that invite more tourists to come to Singapore. </p>
<p>Although Hong Kong is still juggling with more pandemic cases compared to Singapore, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/mtr-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:13289:1" rel="noopener">MTR Corp (66 HK)</a> share price has held up far better compared to <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/comfortdelgro-corp-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:497:1" rel="noopener">Comfortdelgro Corp (CD SP)</a> . Thus ComfortDelgro's share price should play a catch-up. </p>
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The SGD 100 Discover Singapore vouchers that were handed out since 1st December 2020 to its citizens have provided the much-needed sparks in Singapore's hospitality industry that also benefits the Singapore transport sector. Comfortdelgro Corp (CD SP)captures this in two angles; higher revenue in public transport as well as in the taxi segment. The taxi segment has a historically higher gross profit margin compared to public transport although of late, the online ride-hailing app has challenged the former's dominance. 
Although Phase 3 is unlikely to happen today after PM Lee's speech, today's speech will highlight more positives rather than negative news on the COVID-19 development for Singapore and will help to increase higher mobility in Singapore that benefits ComfortDelgro. There will be an increase in group size on phase 3 and capacity limits in public places and events including weddings. Borders will also be slowly reopened that invite more tourists to come to Singapore. 
Although Hong Kong is still juggling with more pandemic cases compared to Singapore, MTR Corp (66 HK) share price has held up far better compared to Comfortdelgro Corp (CD SP) . Thus ComfortDelgro's share price should play a catch-up. 


source: Capital IQ


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