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

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Multiple Countries / Cross Asset Strategy

<ul>
<li>Global EM managers have increased Semiconductor exposures to their highest levels on record.</li>
<li>Taiwanese and South Korean Semiconductor overweights hit all-time highs.</li>
<li>Most favoured stocks are <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing-company-tsmc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:11230:1" rel="noopener">Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) (2330 TT)</a> , <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sk-hynix-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16955:1" rel="noopener">SK Hynix (000660 KS)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/mediatek-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:772:1" rel="noopener">Mediatek Inc (2454 TT)</a> with buying seen in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/win-semiconductors-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:18112:1" rel="noopener">Win Semiconductors (3105 TT)</a> </li>
<li>Fund close positions in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/chipbond-technology-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4630:1" rel="noopener">Chipbond Technology (6147 TT)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/novatek-microelectronics-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:10904:1" rel="noopener">Novatek Microelectronics Corp (3034 TT)</a> </li>
<li>Semiconductor stocks are the largest Industry group overweight bet by EM active managers heading into 2020.</li>
</ul>


Global EM managers have increased Semiconductor exposures to their highest levels on record.
Taiwanese and South Korean Semiconductor overweights hit all-time highs.
Most favoured stocks are Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) (2330 TT) , SK Hynix (000660 KS) and Mediatek Inc (2454 TT) with buying seen in Win Semiconductors (3105 TT) 
Fund close positions in Chipbond Technology (6147 TT) and Novatek Microelectronics Corp (3034 TT) 
Semiconductor stocks are the largest Industry group overweight bet by EM active managers heading into 2020.


Semiconductor Surge:  GEM Managers Hit Max Exposure