Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning, Copley Fund Research

Steven Holden

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning

Copley Fund Research

Copley Fund Research provide research and data on asset allocation among Global and Emerging Market equity funds.  The analysis details absolute and relative positioning across countries, sectors and industries together with highly granular data on single stock and single fund allocations.  The data is updated monthly with time series going back to January 2011.

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Asset Allocation - Global and GEM Equity

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Utilities have benefited from sector rotation among UK managers over the last year.  Typically an underweighted sector, managers are now overweight by 0.22% on average, the highest on record.</li>
<li>Over the last year, average weights have increased by +0.55%, the percentage of funds with exposure by +1.18% and 7.85% of the UK funds in our analysis moved to overweight</li>
<li>Nearly 2/3rds of allocations are in National Grid plc, SSE plc and Northumbrian Water, though UK managers are raising exposure to Centrica, Drax Group and United Utilities. </li>
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Utilities have benefited from sector rotation among UK managers over the last year.  Typically an underweighted sector, managers are now overweight by 0.22% on average, the highest on record.
Over the last year, average weights have increased by +0.55%, the percentage of funds with exposure by +1.18% and 7.85% of the UK funds in our analysis moved to overweight
Nearly 2/3rds of allocations are in National Grid plc, SSE plc and Northumbrian Water, though UK managers are raising exposure to Centrica, Drax Group and United Utilities. 


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<p>The decision to build two new nuclear power stations At Hinkley C in Somerset, England, has rightly been called in for review. It cannot be supported on cost, environmental, political or security grounds. It should be dropped.</p>

The decision to build two new nuclear power stations At Hinkley C in Somerset, England, has rightly been called in for review. It cannot be supported on cost, environmental, political or security grounds. It should be dropped.

Good Reasons Not to Go Ahead with Hinkley C

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Pennon Group Plc operates and invests primarily in the areas of water and sewerage services and waste management.  Their principal subsidiary, SouthWest Water Limited, holds the water and sewerage appointments for Devon, Cornwall and parts of Somerset and Dorset. Viridor Waste Limited operates a waste treatment and disposal businesses in the United Kingdom.

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UK Utilities Rotation

Utilities exposure among active UK equity funds is on an upward trend. Underweights have been closed as managers increase exposure to key stocks,...

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Good Reasons Not to Go Ahead with Hinkley C

The decision to build two new nuclear power stations At Hinkley C in Somerset, England, has rightly been called in for review. It cannot be...

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