July 1, 2025 09:03 AM GMT Asia Catalyst Matters | Asia Pacific An Overview of Upcoming Volatility Events Certain events play an outsized role in creating equity market volatility, particularly for large cap, highly liquid stocks with significant investor positioning. Here we provide a tracker of key upcoming events for some of Asia Pacific's largest companies. Working with our analyst teams across the region, we have compiled a list of potential market-moving events in the coming months. The list includes s ...

17 June 2025 | 10:25PM HKT AIA Group (1299.HK): Key takeaways from Asia Financial Corporate Day Bottom line: We hosted AIA IR at our Asia Financial Corporate Day on Jun 17. Investor questions focused on 1) outlook for share buybacks, 2) impact of recent movements in rates, equity market, and exchange rates, 3) mainland China sales growth and margin outlook, including further footprint expansion in mainland China. Overall, AIA expects limited rates impact and positive translation impact from USD weakness. Th ...

Historically equity market volatility in China rose mostly due to external shocks (e.g. COVID in 2020 and ADR delisting in 2022) and has typically seen negative returns with MSCI China down 6% during these periods of rising volatility (see Figure 1). That said, the market typically overshot in times of uncertainty and as volatilities declined in the ensuing period, the index actually delivered a positive return of 5% on average. Using the option implied volatility in the HSI as a proxy, we found that invest ...