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Hong Kong Indexes’ new rule will allow Ant Group to swiftly join its China gauge
* Ant could join the China Enterprises Index as soon as the market close of November 18, if the company’s market value ranks within the top 10 of current members
* The new rules make the China gauge ‘more representative’, says Hang Seng Indexes director

Bloomberg
Published: 2:30pm, 3 Nov, 2020

Hong Kong’s stock index compiler is rolling out the red carpet for new listings in its China gauge, just days before the biggest initial public offering of all time.

Hang Seng Indexes Co will fast-track new listings into its China Enterprises, Composite and Tech gauges – meaning Jack Ma’s Ant Group could be eligible to join them in as little as 10 trading days after its dual debut in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Previously, stocks needed to be listed for at least one calendar month before they could be added to the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, which is down 11 per cent this year.

Under the new rule, Ant could join the China Enterprises Index as soon as the market close of November 18, if the company’s market value ranks within the top 10 of current members. The cut-off is currently about HK$1 trillion (US$129 billion), and based on its IPO price Ant’s shares would be valued at HK$2.4 trillion, according to a stock exchange filing last week.

The new rules make the China gauge “more representative”, said Daniel Wong, director and head of research and analytics at Hang Seng Indexes. He added that the composition of the benchmark Hang Seng Index is also being reviewed, which comes after revamps this year.

For now the changes do not include the Hang Seng Index. It has fallen 13 per cent this year, in contrast to a gain of 15 per cent for China’s CSI 300 Index and a 1 per cent rise for the S&P 500. It is near its lowest level versus the MSCI World Index in 17 years, and the gauge’s abundance of old-economy financial stocks has made it look outdated in an age when China’s tech giants have increasing sway.

“The Hang Seng Index is filled with laggards like financials. So it may not capture the best investment opportunities out there,” said Kenneth Lau, a senior portfolio manager at BEA Union Investment Management. “That’s why we are overweight mainland Chinese stocks and underweight Hong Kong stocks, because the growth outlook in China is much better.”

More details in https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/...y-join-its
Ant Group - IPO suspended - due to tighter regulation.
https://www.bloombergquint.com/markets/-adr-ipo


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Been a Communist Party member since the 1980s, Jack Ma should have built relatively deep relationships within the party, especially with the resources he has had for the last decade. So, it definitely comes as a surprise especially when they have been doing a lot of "National Service" like having BABA to return from the US.

With the amount of havoc created in the HKD-USD peg system by this IPO demand, things are probably euphoric over there. And it comes as a surprise if it were the CP themselves deciding to take the punch bowl away (2015 China Market crash as the lesson learnt?). The alternative is probably more sinister in nature if one has to question whether there are really skeletons in the closet.
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