Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning, Copley Fund Research

Steven Holden

Steven Holden is the CEO and Founder of Copley Fund Research, an independent provider of research on equity fund positioning and performance.  Set up in 2014, Copley focuses on global, global emerging market, US, Asia Ex-Japan and China active equity funds, covering over $4tr in assets across 1300 active managers.  The company provides data and analysis on market trends, manager exposures and active fund performance to an audience of investment managers, pension funds and fund selectors worldwide.  Mr Holden’s 14-year investment banking career started in 2000, where he worked for Morgan Stanley as an equity derivative trader focused on emerging markets in London.  Following this, he spent 4 years at Citibank in London and Hong Kong as an Executive Director in derivative sales, focused again on emerging markets.

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning

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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

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Allocations in China Technology stocks have soared since late last year, breaking out of their decade long range of between 1.4-2% and powering on to 2.55% today.Asia Ex-Japan investors have increased exposures to <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/beijing-kuaishou-technology-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29725:1" rel="noopener">Kuaishou Technology (1024 HK)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/longi-green-energy-technology-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:12703:1" rel="noopener">LONGi Green Energy Technology (601012 CH)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/glodon-company-limited-a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:10536:1" rel="noopener">Glodon Company Limited A (002410 CH)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/xinyi-solar-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:318:1" rel="noopener">Xinyi Solar Holdings (968 HK)</a> through the last 6-months.Such has been the scale and speed of the ownership rise suggests a seed change in how investors are viewing the China Information Technology sector.  Currently, China Technology is the 9th largest country/sector holding, behind the major China sectors and the big hitters from South Korea, Taiwan and India.  But, as investors grow in confidence both in buying in to the sector and increasing existing allocations, China Technology looks to have a good chance of making the leap to the big league. Taken from our Asia Ex-Japan fund research, covering 96 active strategies with combined AUM of $82bn.

Allocations in China Technology stocks have soared since late last year, breaking out of their decade long range of between 1.4-2% and powering on to 2.55% today.Asia Ex-Japan investors have increased exposures to Kuaishou Technology (1024 HK), LONGi Green Energy Technology (601012 CH), Glodon Company Limited A (002410 CH) and Xinyi Solar Holdings (968 HK) through the last 6-months.Such has been the scale and speed of the ownership rise suggests a seed change in how investors are viewing the China Information Technology sector.  Currently, China Technology is the 9th largest country/sector holding, behind the major China sectors and the big hitters from South Korea, Taiwan and India.  But, as investors grow in confidence both in buying in to the sector and increasing existing allocations, China Technology looks to have a good chance of making the leap to the big league. Taken from our Asia Ex-Japan fund research, covering 96 active strategies with combined AUM of $82bn.

Universal Scientific Industrial (Shanghai) (601231 CH)

Universal Scientific Industrial (Shanghai)

LONGi Green Energy Technology (601012 CH)

Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipmen (300450 CH)

China Technology:  Sentiment Change Forces Allocation Shift