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>Eastern Europe has quietly become a consensus overweight among active EM managers, with 60.6% of funds positioned above the iShares MSCI EM ETF benchmark, the third most overweighted sub-region globally.</li>
<li>Eastern Europe's reliance on Financials is the highest of any sub-region, concentrated in just a handful of stocks.</li>
<li>Breadth of the investable universe remains a structural constraint, with Eastern Europe invested across only 149 companies, comparable to non-benchmark Developed Europe and far behind the EM Big Four's 2,336.</li>
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Eastern Europe has quietly become a consensus overweight among active EM managers, with 60.6% of funds positioned above the iShares MSCI EM ETF benchmark, the third most overweighted sub-region globally.
Eastern Europe's reliance on Financials is the highest of any sub-region, concentrated in just a handful of stocks.
Breadth of the investable universe remains a structural constraint, with Eastern Europe invested across only 149 companies, comparable to non-benchmark Developed Europe and far behind the EM Big Four's 2,336.


Equity Capital Markets and Advisory Business, Auctus Advisors

Auctus Advisors

Equity Capital Markets and Advisory Business

Auctus Advisors is a specialist Equity Capital Markets and Advisory business with a focus in the Energy Sector. The partners have complementary skill sets, with decades of experience across Equity Capital Markets, Investment Banking and the Energy industry. We have worked at Société Générale, Canaccord Capital, BMO Capital Markets and Schlumberger. Most recently we have worked together for many years at GMP FirstEnergy. Auctus has been set up at the beginning of a new decade in which we see significant opportunities in the Energy space. Globally, demand for energy is at record levels and continues to grow. Conversely, investment in traditional energy sources has been severely constrained. We believe this imbalance creates opportunities for both companies and investors. Auctus provides Corporate Broking, Equity Research and Investment Banking services.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>• The government of Minesota has signed into law new legislation updating the state processes for the permitting of gas extraction projects.</li><li>In particular, this will advance a helium-specific framework for gas resource development in Northeastern Minnesota.</li><li>Detailed implementing regulations are expected to be completed by early 4Q26.</li></ul>

• The government of Minesota has signed into law new legislation updating the state processes for the permitting of gas extraction projects.In particular, this will advance a helium-specific framework for gas resource development in Northeastern Minnesota.Detailed implementing regulations are expected to be completed by early 4Q26.

Global Mobility/Transport, Equity Long-Short

Mo Aziz

<ul>
<li>SOH transits collapsed 46% WoW in Week 21 to just 34 vessels; over half now routed via Iran’s dictated corridor, with dark traffic masking the true severity of the disruption.</li>
<li>Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) has been OFAC-designated, escalating legal and sanctions risk for owners, operators, and banks coordinating with Tehran on safe passage.</li>
<li>India’s $1.5bn Bharat Maritime Insurance Pool goes live, filling the war-risk cover gap left by IG P&amp;I clubs — a model other Gulf-exposed nations may urgently replicate.</li>
</ul>


SOH transits collapsed 46% WoW in Week 21 to just 34 vessels; over half now routed via Iran’s dictated corridor, with dark traffic masking the true severity of the disruption.
Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) has been OFAC-designated, escalating legal and sanctions risk for owners, operators, and banks coordinating with Tehran on safe passage.
India’s $1.5bn Bharat Maritime Insurance Pool goes live, filling the war-risk cover gap left by IG P&amp;I clubs — a model other Gulf-exposed nations may urgently replicate.


Strait of Hormuz: Traffic Collapse Deepens, PGSA Sanctioned, India Fills the Insurance Void

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist, Ingenuity

William Keating

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

Ingenuity

Our focus is exclusively on in-depth research & consulting in the broader semiconductor industry. We focus on the key players, namely Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC & Global Foundries - as well as some of the lesser known, but nonetheless critical, companies such as ASML (for EUV), Mellanox, Cavium, Xilinx etc. We specialise in their products, roadmaps, process technologies, competitive advantages & threats etc. We also help our clients understand the implications of new and emerging technologies, e.g. 3D X-Point, 3D NAND, Carbon Nanotubes, Autonomous Driving, Graphene, Silicon Photonics, Wafer-Level Optics, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, GPU, ASIC etc. 

Semiconductor Analysis & Research

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<li>Huawei introduced the “Tau Scaling Law” under which chip designers optimise for the time taken for elements of a chip to communicate, rather than for the space between transistors. </li>
<li>Huawei’s next-generation Kirin SoC, due autumn 2026, will be the first commercial chip to fully adopt the resulting architecture, which Huawei is calling “LogicFolding.”</li>
<li>Huawei chips designed under this framework will deliver transistor density equivalent to a 1.4nm process by 2031, three years after TSMC’s publicly stated 2028 timeline for its A14 (1.4nm) node.</li>
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Huawei introduced the “Tau Scaling Law” under which chip designers optimise for the time taken for elements of a chip to communicate, rather than for the space between transistors. 
Huawei’s next-generation Kirin SoC, due autumn 2026, will be the first commercial chip to fully adopt the resulting architecture, which Huawei is calling “LogicFolding.”
Huawei chips designed under this framework will deliver transistor density equivalent to a 1.4nm process by 2031, three years after TSMC’s publicly stated 2028 timeline for its A14 (1.4nm) node.


Huawei’s “Tau Scaling Law” and “LogicFolding”. Desperation, A Genuine Breakthrough Or Both?

<ul>
<li>Chinese AI is profitable across the entire stack. Tencent (38% op. margin), Alibaba Cloud (EBITA-positive), Baidu (profitable), Sea Ltd ($1.6Bn net profit) — all generate real cash from AI today.</li>
<li>Western AI compute costs now exceed human payroll. Compute costs exceed employee costs according to research conducted by MIT: AI is more expensive than humans in 77% of roles.</li>
<li>The Chinese AI philosophy is structurally superior. Embed AI in existing profit engines. Frugal MoE architectures, ecosystem distribution, and patient capital mean Chinese AI monetises faster at dramatically lower cost. </li>
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Chinese AI is profitable across the entire stack. Tencent (38% op. margin), Alibaba Cloud (EBITA-positive), Baidu (profitable), Sea Ltd ($1.6Bn net profit) — all generate real cash from AI today.
Western AI compute costs now exceed human payroll. Compute costs exceed employee costs according to research conducted by MIT: AI is more expensive than humans in 77% of roles.
The Chinese AI philosophy is structurally superior. Embed AI in existing profit engines. Frugal MoE architectures, ecosystem distribution, and patient capital mean Chinese AI monetises faster at dramatically lower cost. 


AI Sustainability: East Profits. West Burns.

Hungary
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