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.

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Asset Allocation - Global and GEM Equity

Equity Bottom-Up

<p>This report was written using data from the May edition of the Global Funds Asset Allocation Report.  The holdings of 152 global equity funds are aggregated and analysed to give a precise picture of the investment landscape across global countries, sectors and stocks.  Here we highlight a negative and declining ownership picture in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/73" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:73:1">Toyota Motor Corp (7203 JP)</a>.</p><p>Toyota now ranks as the 14th largest underweight holding among global peers and the largest underweight among Asia Pacific Companies.  The…</p>

This report was written using data from the May edition of the Global Funds Asset Allocation Report.  The holdings of 152 global equity funds are aggregated and analysed to give a precise picture of the investment landscape across global countries, sectors and stocks.  Here we highlight a negative and declining ownership picture in Toyota Motor Corp (7203 JP).Toyota now ranks as the 14th largest underweight holding among global peers and the largest underweight among Asia Pacific Companies.  The…

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