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<ul>
 <li>Ebara is a premier global industrial machinery manufacturer, strongly positioned to capitalize on secular growth trends in the semiconductor, environmental, and energy sectors.</li>
 <li>The Precision Machinery segment, serving the semiconductor industry, is the primary growth and profitability driver, benefiting from the expansion of AI and data-centric technologies.</li>
 <li>While the company exhibits robust revenue and earnings growth, its free cash flow generation has been notably weak, representing a key area for investor scrutiny.</li>
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  Ebara is a premier global industrial machinery manufacturer, strongly positioned to capitalize on secular growth trends in the semiconductor, environmental, and energy sectors.
  The Precision Machinery segment, serving the semiconductor industry, is the primary growth and profitability driver, benefiting from the expansion of AI and data-centric technologies.
  While the company exhibits robust revenue and earnings growth, its free cash flow generation has been notably weak, representing a key area for investor scrutiny.
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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

<ul>
<li>Global Ex-USA funds have almost eliminated a decade-long Japan underweight, lifting average exposure to 13.64%, just 0.22% below benchmark.</li>
<li>Japan has seen strong rotation in 2026, with an estimated $3.8bn of net inflows and broadening ownership across Industrials, Financials and Materials.</li>
<li>Stock selection is shifting towards semiconductors and industrial technology, led by Kioxia, Advantest and Sumitomo Electric, while established holdings including Nintendo and Sony lose ground.</li>
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Global Ex-USA funds have almost eliminated a decade-long Japan underweight, lifting average exposure to 13.64%, just 0.22% below benchmark.
Japan has seen strong rotation in 2026, with an estimated $3.8bn of net inflows and broadening ownership across Industrials, Financials and Materials.
Stock selection is shifting towards semiconductors and industrial technology, led by Kioxia, Advantest and Sumitomo Electric, while established holdings including Nintendo and Sony lose ground.


Japan Specialist

Mark Chadwick

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul>
<li>Japanese equities slid as rising US long-term yields overwhelmed strong domestic fundamentals and hit AI-linked, long-duration technology valuations. </li>
<li>Treasury long-end buybacks helped yields retreat, exposing Japanese semiconductor stocks’ growing sensitivity to Washington’s debt-management decisions. </li>
<li>AI capex remains Japan’s growth engine, but higher US term premia threaten valuations, making November’s buyback expiry a key test.</li>
</ul>


Japanese equities slid as rising US long-term yields overwhelmed strong domestic fundamentals and hit AI-linked, long-duration technology valuations. 
Treasury long-end buybacks helped yields retreat, exposing Japanese semiconductor stocks’ growing sensitivity to Washington’s debt-management decisions. 
AI capex remains Japan’s growth engine, but higher US term premia threaten valuations, making November’s buyback expiry a key test.


Japan Strategy Weekly | AI Winners Held Hostage to US Bond Yields

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AI-Levered core: Precision Machinery drives &gt;60% of future profits via CMP near-duopoly and dry vacuum leadership, tightly linked to AI, HBM and advanced-node WFE capex.</li>
<li>
 Balanced earnings base: Data-centre liquid cooling in BS&amp;I adds defensive, secular growth and margin upside, while Energy provides niche LNG/hydrogen optionality and earnings diversification.</li>
<li>
 Valuation disconnect: Trades at industrial multiples despite semi-like growth; SOTP implies ~35% upside as capex peaks, margins normalize and FCF inflect into FY26–27.</li>
</ul>



AI-Levered core: Precision Machinery drives &gt;60% of future profits via CMP near-duopoly and dry vacuum leadership, tightly linked to AI, HBM and advanced-node WFE capex.

 Balanced earnings base: Data-centre liquid cooling in BS&amp;I adds defensive, secular growth and margin upside, while Energy provides niche LNG/hydrogen optionality and earnings diversification.

 Valuation disconnect: Trades at industrial multiples despite semi-like growth; SOTP implies ~35% upside as capex peaks, margins normalize and FCF inflect into FY26–27.


Ebara Corp (6361 JP) | A Mispriced AI Enabler

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

Index Rebalance

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<li>After the recent rally, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ebara-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4728:1" rel="noopener">Ebara Corp (6361 JP)</a>'s increased market cap and free float market cap should result in inclusion in a global index in November.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ebara-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4728:1" rel="noopener">Ebara Corp (6361 JP)</a> has underperformed its larger peers, and the stock is trading cheaper than the average of its peers on most metrics.</li>
<li>There has been a large increase in cumulative excess volume for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ebara-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4728:1" rel="noopener">Ebara Corp (6361 JP)</a> since July and we do not see a similar increase in its peers.</li>
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After the recent rally, Ebara Corp (6361 JP)'s increased market cap and free float market cap should result in inclusion in a global index in November.

Ebara Corp (6361 JP) has underperformed its larger peers, and the stock is trading cheaper than the average of its peers on most metrics.
There has been a large increase in cumulative excess volume for Ebara Corp (6361 JP) since July and we do not see a similar increase in its peers.


Ebara (6361 JP): Global Index Inclusion & Increased Positioning

Japan

EBARA CORPORATION manufactures pneumatic and hydraulic pumps and related equipment.  The Company's products include fuel, oil, water, and firefighting pumps, as well as steam turbines and boilers.  Ebara Corporation also engineers garbage incinerators, smoke desulfurizers, and other products related to environmental technology.

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Ebara Corp (6361 JP)

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