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.

Global Research - Analysis of 165 prominent Global equity funds, combined AUM $335bn
GEM Research - Analysis of 127 prominent global EM equity funds, combined AUM $250bn

Asset Allocation - Global and GEM Equity

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>Industrials and Consumer Staples Remain Top Overweights, Though Sentiment Fragile for Both.</li>
<li>Energy sector shows signs of a turnaround from long-term decline, whilst Financials remain unloved by China investors.</li>
<li>Real Estate allocations have hit record lows, with average holdings at just 2.93%, while Consumer Discretionary sector approaches all-time highs.</li>
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Industrials and Consumer Staples Remain Top Overweights, Though Sentiment Fragile for Both.
Energy sector shows signs of a turnaround from long-term decline, whilst Financials remain unloved by China investors.
Real Estate allocations have hit record lows, with average holdings at just 2.93%, while Consumer Discretionary sector approaches all-time highs.


Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>From peak allocations of over 8% at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, China &amp; HK Health Care allocations have fallen back in to their long-term range</li>
<li>Greater China managers have actively rebalanced portfolios away from China &amp; HK Health Care over the last 6-months, with Taiwan Tech the key beneficiary</li>
<li>Venus MedTech and Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine led the exodus, but it wasn't completely one-sided, with Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics and Aier Eye Hospital Group capturing new investment from Greater China managers.</li>
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From peak allocations of over 8% at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, China &amp; HK Health Care allocations have fallen back in to their long-term range
Greater China managers have actively rebalanced portfolios away from China &amp; HK Health Care over the last 6-months, with Taiwan Tech the key beneficiary
Venus MedTech and Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine led the exodus, but it wasn't completely one-sided, with Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics and Aier Eye Hospital Group capturing new investment from Greater China managers.


Greater China Funds: China Health Care Reversal

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>The Quiddity Mainland Connect NORTHBOUND Monitor. Like the A/H Premium Monitor and HK Connect SOUTHBOUND Monitor. Lots of Flows/Position Tables and Charts with which to play.</li>
<li>Last week saw NORTHBOUND net SELL RMB 21.9bn of A-shares. NORTHBOUND bought tech and sold everything else, especially consumer names. Kweichow Moutai, Midea, appliances and renewables.</li>
<li>Ongoing questions as to whether the NORTHBOUND volumes to the buy side are all foreigners. Some suspect there is national team buying mixed in, as was expected from earlier announcements.</li>
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The Quiddity Mainland Connect NORTHBOUND Monitor. Like the A/H Premium Monitor and HK Connect SOUTHBOUND Monitor. Lots of Flows/Position Tables and Charts with which to play.
Last week saw NORTHBOUND net SELL RMB 21.9bn of A-shares. NORTHBOUND bought tech and sold everything else, especially consumer names. Kweichow Moutai, Midea, appliances and renewables.
Ongoing questions as to whether the NORTHBOUND volumes to the buy side are all foreigners. Some suspect there is national team buying mixed in, as was expected from earlier announcements.


Mainland Connect NORTHBOUND Flows (To 14 June 2024): Large Tech Buying, Large Consumer Selling

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

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<li>We analyze the weekly Shanghai/Shenzhen northbound Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of June 14th.</li>
<li>We estimate the weekly outflows to be US$3,126.0 million, led by consumer staples, consumer discretionary, financials, and offset by information technology.</li>
<li>We highlight flows for CATL, Mindray, Luxshare Precision, Shanxi Xinghuacun Fen Wine Factory, China Citic Bank, Moutai, Bank Of Communications, Wuliangye, China Yangtze Power, Midea.</li>
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We analyze the weekly Shanghai/Shenzhen northbound Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of June 14th.
We estimate the weekly outflows to be US$3,126.0 million, led by consumer staples, consumer discretionary, financials, and offset by information technology.
We highlight flows for CATL, Mindray, Luxshare Precision, Shanxi Xinghuacun Fen Wine Factory, China Citic Bank, Moutai, Bank Of Communications, Wuliangye, China Yangtze Power, Midea.


Northbound Flows (Jun 14th): CATL, Mindray, Luxshare Precision, Xinghuacun Fen Wine

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Event-Driven

Beijing Strong Biotechnolo-A / Event-Driven

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<li>CSI announced the changes for the June rebalance after market close on 31 May and the changes will be effective after the close of trading on 14 June.</li>
<li>There are 5 adds/deletes - we correctly forecasted 3 adds and all 5 deletes. Passives need to trade 0.5-3x ADV on the adds and 0.5-2.1x ADV on the deletes.</li>
<li>With the index not very widely forecasted, the adds could outperform the deletes over the next week in a repeat of the performance at the December rebalance.</li>
</ul>


CSI announced the changes for the June rebalance after market close on 31 May and the changes will be effective after the close of trading on 14 June.
There are 5 adds/deletes - we correctly forecasted 3 adds and all 5 deletes. Passives need to trade 0.5-3x ADV on the adds and 0.5-2.1x ADV on the deletes.
With the index not very widely forecasted, the adds could outperform the deletes over the next week in a repeat of the performance at the December rebalance.


CSI Medical Service Index Rebalance: Adds Could Outperform Deletes in the Coming Week

China

Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. manufactures and distributes medical equipment. The Company produces life information supporting, in vitro diagnostic, and medical imaging equipment equipment. Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics also produces supporting reagents.

Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics (300760 CH)

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China Macro: Sector Positioning Update

Sector positioning among active China Funds. Industrials and Consumer Staples Remain Top Overweights, Energy shows signs of a turnaround, whilst...

Steven Holden

Greater China Funds: China Health Care Reversal

Greater China managers have actively rebalanced portfolios away from China & HK Health Care over the last 6-months, with Taiwan Tech the key...

Steven Holden

Mainland Connect NORTHBOUND Flows (To 14 June 2024): Large Tech Buying, Large Consumer Selling

Mainland Connect NORTHBOUND flows this past 4-day week were heavily to the sell side. Consumer Staples/Discretionary were HUGE net sells. Tech was...

Travis Lundy

Northbound Flows (Jun 14th): CATL, Mindray, Luxshare Precision, Xinghuacun Fen Wine

We analyzed northbound Shanghai/Shenzhen connect flows in the past week and highlight flows for CATL, Mindray, Luxshare Precision, Xinghuacun Fen...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

CSI Medical Service Index Rebalance: Adds Could Outperform Deletes in the Coming Week

There are 5 changes for the index in June. We correctly forecast 3 adds and all 5 deletes. The adds outperformed the deletes post announcement in...

Brian Freitas

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