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Case Study: the Bayer-Monsanto Acquisition Deal
Case Study: The Bayer-Monsanto Acquisition Deal Student: Georgios Ritsos-Kokkinis (SNR:2013707, ANR:927674) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Schneider Second reader: Prof. Dr. Olivier de Jonghe Tilburg, August 2020 Acknowledgements I would like to thank my supervisor Dr. Christoph Schneider, Assistant Professor at Tilburg University – Department of Finance, whose expertise and guidance were invaluable in soundly formulating all the relevant methodologies, and concisely structuring the output results. Your feedback pushed me to sharpen my thinking and brought my work to a higher level. I would also like to thank fellow scholar Thanos Vasiliadis, PhD candidate in Mathematics at Université côté d'Azur, Laboratoire Dieudonné, for his support, encouragement and constructive comments, which were instrumental to the completion of this dissertation. ABSTRACT The acquisition of Bayer-Monsanto was one of the largest M&A deals of the past decade. In this study, I document the motives of this transaction and the timeline of events that took place, from the initial rumors until Bayer’s milestone settlement of Monsanto’s “Roundup” litigation in mid-2020. Fundamental valuations of the two individual companies and their officially disclosed synergies reveal that the premium paid over Monsanto’s overvalued share price was not justified, as is commonly observed in the M&A ecosystem. Multiple approaches to the calculation of the discount factor reach the same conclusion. Averaging across multiple costs of capital, shows that the combined intrinsic value with synergy of roughly $177bn was some $2.12bn higher than the sum of parts, suggesting a rather profitable investment opportunity. However, Bayer, did overpay by 18.08% to reap these benefits. -
Tracking Errors of Exchange Traded Funds in Bursa Malaysia
Munich Personal RePEc Archive Tracking Errors of Exchange Traded Funds in Bursa Malaysia Ku, Alfred Ing-Soon and Liew, Venus Khim-Sen and Puah, Chin-Hong RHB Investment Bank Berhad, 102, Pusat Pedada, Jalan Pedada, 96000 Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia., Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Jalan Datuk Mohammad Musa, 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak., Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Jalan Datuk Mohammad Musa, 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. 2019 Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/107990/ MPRA Paper No. 107990, posted 27 May 2021 07:20 UTC Tracking Errors of Exchange Traded Funds in Bursa Malaysia Alfred Ing-Soon Ku RHB Investment Bank Berhad, 102, Pusat Pedada, Jalan Pedada, 96000 Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia. Tel: 6-084-329214 E-mail: [email protected] Venus Khim-Sen Liew Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Jalan Datuk Mohammad Musa, 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. Tel: 6-082-584291 (Corresponding Author) E-mail: [email protected] Chin-Hong Puah Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Jalan Datuk Mohammad Musa, 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. Tel: 6-082-584294 E-mail: [email protected] Citation: Liew, V.K.-S, Ku, A. I.-S., & Puah, C.-H. 2019. Tracking Errors of Exchange Traded Funds in Bursa Malaysia. Asian Journal of Accounting and Finance, 11(2), 96-109. Abstract This study measures the tracking errors of exchange traded funds (ETFs) listed in Bursa Malaysia. Five measures of tracking errors are estimated in this study for the seven ETFs involved. Overall, the best ETF is METFAPA with the least tracking error. -
Monthly Economic Update
122 Winnebago Street, Decorah, IA 52101 309 HWY 150 N, West Union, IA 52175 1-877-566-9468 Text: 563-412-4770 [email protected] Visit us at www.knoxfin.com In this month’s recap: stocks stay in rally mode, helped by hints that the U.S. and China may be closing in on a phase-one trade deal; hiring bounces back; key real estate indicators look stronger. Monthly Economic Update Presented by Jason Knox, AIF®, CRC®, December 2019 THE MONTH IN BRIEF The S&P 500 rose 3.4% in November and attained a series of record closes in the process. Earnings results helped stocks, as did intermittent signals that the first stage of a U.S.-China trade agreement might be near at hand. Job creation improved, and consumer spending lived up to market expectations; consumer confidence and business activity, not so much. Housing indicators communicated good news, and the rally in stocks made the commodity sector look less attractive. DOMESTIC ECONOMIC HEALTH Were the U.S. and China close to signing off on the first phase of a new trade deal? According to officials from both countries, the answer was yes. When would this phase- one deal be finalized? No definite answer emerged. On November 8, President Donald Trump said that such an agreement was near, and six days later, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said that negotiators were “getting close” to an accord. On November 26, China’s commerce ministry announced that trade representatives had “reached a consensus” on remaining issues, and President Trump said that negotiators were in the “final throes of a very important deal.” Still, November ended without any announcement that a phase-one pact had been reached.2,3 The Department of Labor’s latest employment report found that the economy generated 128,000 net new jobs in October. -
Press Release Paris – June 21St, 2021
Press Release Paris – June 21st, 2021 Europcar Mobility Group rejoins Euronext SBF 120 index Europcar Mobility Group, a major player in mobility markets, is pleased to announce that it has re-entered into the SBF 120 and CAC Mid 60 indices, in accordance with the decision taken by the Euronext Index Steering Committee. This re-entry, which took place after market close on Friday 18 June 2021, is effective from Monday 21 June 2021. The SBF 120 is one of the flagship indices of the Paris Stock Exchange. It includes the first 120 stocks listed on Euronext Paris in terms of liquidity and market capitalization. The CAC Mid 60 index includes 60 companies of national and European importance. It represents the 60 largest French equities beyond the CAC 40 and the CAC Next 20. It includes the 60 most liquid stocks listed in Paris among the 200 first French capitalizations. This total of 120 companies compose the SBF 120. Caroline Parot, CEO of Europcar Mobility Group, said: “Europcar Mobility Group welcomes the re-integration of the SBF 120 and CAC Mid 60. This follows the successful closing of the Group’s financial restructuring during Q1 2021, which allowed the Group to open a new chapter in its history. Europcar Mobility Group re-entry into the SBF 120 and CAC Mid 60 is an important step for our Group and recognizes the fact that we are clearly "back in the game”, in a good position to take full advantage of the progressive recovery of the Travel and Leisure market. In that perspective, our teams are fully mobilized for summer of 2021, in order to meet the demand and expectations of customers who are more than ever eager to travel”. -
Darkest Before Dawn – Shariah Perspective
Malaysia July 29, 2021 Strategy Darkest before dawn – Shariah perspective by Ivy NG Lee Fang, CFA │ T: (60) 3 2261 9073 │ E: [email protected] This report delineates our 2H21F equity strategy outlook from a Shariah perspective. The market was hit by a perfect storm in 1H21 with persistently high Covid-19 cases, multiple lockdowns, ESG concerns and political uncertainty. At the current run rate, we project Malaysia to be on track to inoculate around 70-80% of the population by 4Q21. We expect recovery stocks to see renewed interest in 4Q and the market to re-rate to our KLCI target of 1,604 pts, after an anticipated lacklustre 3Q21. We provide six trading themes for 2H21F in this report; our top Shariah sector picks are Islamic banking, healthcare, media, oil & gas, packaging, semiconductor, EMS, transport and utilities. Our top three Shariah stock picks are Gamuda, Telekom Malaysia and Unisem. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES, INCLUDING ANY REQUIRED RESEARCH CERTIFICATIONS, ARE PROVIDED AT THE END OF THIS REPORT. IF THIS REPORT IS DISTRIBUTED IN THE UNITED STATES IT IS DISTRIBUTED BY CGS-CIMB SECURITIES (USA), INC. Powered by the EFA AND IS CONSIDERED THIRD-PARTY AFFILIATED RESEARCH. Platform Malaysia │ Strategy │ July 29, 2021 Content Page Key takeaways of our views on the outlook for 2H21F 3 Shariah-compliant investments 4 1H21 review 6 Outlook 17 Malaysian retail investors’ survey 27 ESG ratings from F4GBM index perspective 28 Key trading thematics 29 Risks 37 Market valuations 42 Economic outlook 44 Technical analysis 49 Top picks and sector ratings 51 2 Malaysia │ Strategy │ July 29, 2021 Key takeaways of our views on the outlook for 2H21F The market was hit by a perfect storm in 1H21 with persistently high Covid-19 cases, multiple lockdowns, ESG concerns and political uncertainty. -
Why Switzerland?
Why Switzerland? Marwan Naja, AS Investment Management January, 2010 I. Executive Summary Swiss Equities Have Outperformed: Here is a fact you probably did not know: The Swiss equity market has arguably been the best performing developed world market over the past 20, 10, 5 and 2 years. The SPI Index, which incorporates over 200 Swiss stocks, is the best performing index in Swiss Franc (“CHF”), US Dollars (“USD”), Euro (“EUR”) and British Pounds (“GBP”) over the past 20 years1,10 years, 5 years, and 2 years when compared to similar broad-based total return indices in the United States (S&P 500 Total Return), the United Kingdom (FTSE 350 Total Return), Germany (CDAX), France (SBF 120 Total Return) and Japan (TOPIX Total Return)2. For most of these periods the magnitude of the outperformance is significant. Furthermore, the Swiss market has exhibited attractive risk characteristics including lower volatility than comparable markets. Figure 1: SPI 20 Year Performance (red) Compared to Major Developed Indices in CHF3 1 The 20 year comparable excludes the EUR which has not existed for that duration and the French SBF 120 TR which was established in 1990 and has underperformed the SPI over the 19 year period. 2 The Swiss market is the best performer in our local currency comparison (stripping out the foreign exchange effects) over 20 years and marginally trails the FTSE 350 for the 10 year, 5 year and 2 year comparisons. 3 Source of all graphs is Bloomberg unless otherwise indicated. Why Switzerland? AS Investment Management Contents I. Executive Summary ............................................................................................................ 1 Swiss Equities Have Outperformed ................................................................................... -
Eurofins Fact Sheet March 2021
FACT SHEET Company Overview Our Vision: To be the Global Leader in Eurofins is Testing for Life. Eurofins is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and Testing for Life cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research services. Eurofins is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, Our Mission: To contribute to a safer and forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an healthier world by providing our customers emerging global presence as a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation. The Group with innovative and high quality laboratory, also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing research and advisory services, whilst and in-vitro diagnostic products. creating opportunities for our employees and generating sustainable shareholder value History Eurofins Scientific was founded in 1987 with four employees to market the SNIF-NMR technology, Our Values: Customer Focus, Quality, a patented analytical method used to verify the origin and purity of several types of food and Competence & Team Spirit and Integrity beverages and identify sophisticated fraud not detectable by other methods. Today, the Eurofins Group is a leading provider of testing and analytical services with: • an international network of more than 800 laboratories in over 50 countries Revenues in EUR million • over 50,000 staff • a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods • more than 450 million tests performed each year Eurofins has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies. Since its IPO on the French stock exchange in 1997, Eurofins’ revenues have increased by 34% each year (in compound average) to over EUR 5.4 billion in 2020. -
Emergence of World-Stock-Market Network
Emergence of world-stock-market network M. Saeedian1, T. Jamali2, M. Z. Kamali1, H. Bayani3, T. Yasseri4,5, and G.R. Jafari1,6,7 1Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, G.C., Evin, Tehran 19839, Iran 2School of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), P.O. Box 19395-5531, Tehran, Iran 3Faculty of physics, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 4Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles, OX13JS Oxford, UK 5Alan Turing Institute, London, UK 6The Institute for Brain and Cognitive Science (IBCS), Shahid Beheshti University, G.C., Evin, Tehran 19839, Iran 7Center for Network Science, Central European University, H-1051, Budapest, Hungary ABSTRACT In the age of globalization, it is natural that the stock market of each country is not independent form the other markets. In this case, collective behavior could be emerged form their dependency together. This article studies the collective behavior of a set of forty influential markets in the world economy with the aim of exploring a global financial structure that could be called world-stock-market network. Towards this end, we analyze the cross-correlation matrix of the indices of these forty markets using Random Matrix Theory (RMT). We find the degree of collective behavior among the markets and the share of each market in their structural formation. This finding together with the results obtained from the same calculation on four stock markets reinforce the idea of a world financial market. Finally, we draw the dendrogram of the cross-correlation matrix to make communities in this abstract global market visible. -
Financial Market Data for R/Rmetrics
Financial Market Data for R/Rmetrics Diethelm Würtz Andrew Ellis Yohan Chalabi Rmetrics Association & Finance Online R/Rmetrics eBook Series R/Rmetrics eBooks is a series of electronic books and user guides aimed at students and practitioner who use R/Rmetrics to analyze financial markets. A Discussion of Time Series Objects for R in Finance (2009) Diethelm Würtz, Yohan Chalabi, Andrew Ellis R/Rmetrics Meielisalp 2009 Proceedings of the Meielisalp Workshop 2011 Editor Diethelm Würtz Basic R for Finance (2010), Diethelm Würtz, Yohan Chalabi, Longhow Lam, Andrew Ellis Chronological Objects with Rmetrics (2010), Diethelm Würtz, Yohan Chalabi, Andrew Ellis Portfolio Optimization with R/Rmetrics (2010), Diethelm Würtz, William Chen, Yohan Chalabi, Andrew Ellis Financial Market Data for R/Rmetrics (2010) Diethelm W?rtz, Andrew Ellis, Yohan Chalabi Indian Financial Market Data for R/Rmetrics (2010) Diethelm Würtz, Mahendra Mehta, Andrew Ellis, Yohan Chalabi Asian Option Pricing with R/Rmetrics (2010) Diethelm Würtz R/Rmetrics Singapore 2010 Proceedings of the Singapore Workshop 2010 Editors Diethelm Würtz, Mahendra Mehta, David Scott, Juri Hinz R/Rmetrics Meielisalp 2011 Proceedings of the Meielisalp Summer School and Workshop 2011 Editor Diethelm Würtz III tinn-R Editor (2010) José Cláudio Faria, Philippe Grosjean, Enio Galinkin Jelihovschi and Ri- cardo Pietrobon R/Rmetrics Meielisalp 2011 Proceedings of the Meielisalp Summer Scholl and Workshop 2011 Editor Diethelm Würtz R/Rmetrics Meielisalp 2012 Proceedings of the Meielisalp Summer Scholl and Workshop 2012 Editor Diethelm Würtz Topics in Empirical Finance with R and Rmetrics (2013), Patrick Hénaff FINANCIAL MARKET DATA FOR R/RMETRICS DIETHELM WÜRTZ ANDREW ELLIS YOHAN CHALABI RMETRICS ASSOCIATION &FINANCE ONLINE Series Editors: Prof. -
ETF/ETN Monthly Report May-2012
issue date ETF/ETN Monthly Report May-2012 ◆Market Summary TSE's Newly Listed Inverse/Leveraged ETFs made a good start and scored #3 and #6, respectively in terms of Trading Volume. ■ TSE's ETF market in April reflected the overall market sentiment and closed 18.09% down in terms of volume. However, since the stock market closed down 20.73%, the ETF market was hit less badly. ■ Nevertheless, with the market being in doldrums, the newly listed "TOPIX Bull 2x ETF" [1568] and the "TOPIX Bear -1x ETF" [1569] as well as the "Thai Stock SET50 ETF" [1559] and the "Bursa Malaysia KLCI ETF" [1560] of the Next Funds family showed strong growth throughout the past month. ■ In terms of volatility, ETF Securities' Natural Gas ETF [1689] once again scored the top position. ◆Trading Value - Monthly(Auction) (Apr-2012) Total(JPY) Daily Average (JPY) ◆Trading days:20 Month on Month 117,384,578,555 5,869,228,928 -18.09% ◆Ranking ETF 110 ● Monthly Volume (Apr-2012) ETN 10 Volume Fund # Code Name Benchmark index Category Month on Month (UNIT: 1,000Yen) Administrator Japanese Equitiy Index 1 1330 Nikko Exchange Traded Index Fund 225 Nikkei 225 43,246,090 -3.34% Nikko AM (market) Japanese Equitiy Index 2 1306 TOPIX Exchange Traded Fund TOPIX 40,312,794 -21.01% Nomura AM (market) 3 1568 TOPIX Bull 2x ETF TOPIX Leveraged (2x) Index Leveraged / Inverse Index 5,714,807 -100.00% Simplex AM 4 1308 Nikko Exchange Traded Index Fund TOPIX TOPIX Japanese Equitiy Index (market)4,617,333 -57.38% Nikko AM World Gold 5 1326 SPDR® Gold Shares Gold Commodity/Commodity Index -
European Sicav Alliance
EUROPEAN SICAV ALLIANCE Audited annual report as at 31/12/18 RCS Luxembourg B35554 Database Publishing System: CO-Reporter® by CO-Link, Belgium. EUROPEAN SICAV ALLIANCE Table of Contents Organisation and Administration 3 Swiss Country Supplement (unaudited) 5 Annual Directors’ Report 6 Report of the Réviseur d’Entreprises Agréé 9 Combined Statement of Net Assets 15 Combined Statement of Operations and Changes in Net Assets 16 Sub-funds: EUROPEAN SICAV ALLIANCE - GALAXY 17 EUROPEAN SICAV ALLIANCE - RPM EVOLVING CTA FUND 31 Notes to the Financial Statements 48 Unaudited information 61 Subscriptions are only valid if made on the basis of the current offering prospectus supplemented by the last annual report and the last semi-annual report if it is more recent. Page 2 EUROPEAN SICAV ALLIANCE Organisation and Administration REGISTERED OFFICE 5, Allée Scheffer L - 2520 Luxembourg Grand Duchy of Luxembourg PRINCIPAL CLEARING BROKERS SG Americas Securities, LLC 550, West Jackson Boulevard Suite 500 Chicago, Illinois 60661 5716 USA Société Générale International Limited 10, Bishops Square London E1 6EG United Kingdom Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB 2, Cannon Street London EC4M 6XX United Kingdom Goldman Sachs International (since February 1, 2018) Peterborough Court 133 Fleet Street London EC4A 2BB United Kingdom DEPOSITARY / CENTRAL CACEIS Bank, Luxembourg Branch ADMINISTRATION AGENT AND 5, Allée Scheffer TRANSFER AGENT L - 2520 Luxembourg Grand Duchy of Luxembourg LEGAL ADVISER As to English Law: Dechert LLP 160 Queen Victoria Street London EC4V 4QQ United Kingdom As to Luxembourg Law: Dechert (Luxembourg) LLP 1, Allée Scheffer BP . 709 L - 2017 Luxembourg Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT RPM Risk & Portfolio Management AB FUND MANAGER Linnégatan 6 SE - 114 47 Stockholm Sweden CABINET DE REVISION AGREE KPMG Luxembourg, Société coopérative 39, Avenue John F. -
Final Report Amending ITS on Main Indices and Recognised Exchanges
Final Report Amendment to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1646 11 December 2019 | ESMA70-156-1535 Table of Contents 1 Executive Summary ....................................................................................................... 4 2 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 5 3 Main indices ................................................................................................................... 6 3.1 General approach ................................................................................................... 6 3.2 Analysis ................................................................................................................... 7 3.3 Conclusions............................................................................................................. 8 4 Recognised exchanges .................................................................................................. 9 4.1 General approach ................................................................................................... 9 4.2 Conclusions............................................................................................................. 9 4.2.1 Treatment of third-country exchanges .............................................................. 9 4.2.2 Impact of Brexit ...............................................................................................10 5 Annexes ........................................................................................................................12