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

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>After a spike higher in fund ownership in 2021, active Asia Ex-Japan funds are beginning to close out positions.</li>
<li>Funds including T.Rowe Price, LO Funds and Nikko AM have closed out exposure this year.</li>
<li>JD.com remains a very well owned stock among institutional investors, at a time when performance is anything but stellar so far this year.</li>
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After a spike higher in fund ownership in 2021, active Asia Ex-Japan funds are beginning to close out positions.
Funds including T.Rowe Price, LO Funds and Nikko AM have closed out exposure this year.
JD.com remains a very well owned stock among institutional investors, at a time when performance is anything but stellar so far this year.


External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>China’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume rose 6% YoY and 3% MoM to 1.97mn units in Sep 2023, 4% higher than our prior forecast.</li><li>YTD retail sales volume rose 4% YoY. Wholesale volume rose 7% YoY and 9% MoM to 2.49mn units in Sep 2023, the best Sep in history, and 9% higher than our prior forecast.</li><li>Wholesale volume rose 7% YoY (or +1.14mn units YoY) YTD, all aided by 67% YoY growth (or +1.14mn units YoY) of exports. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume rose 6% YoY and 3% MoM to 1.97mn units in Sep 2023, 4% higher than our prior forecast.YTD retail sales volume rose 4% YoY. Wholesale volume rose 7% YoY and 9% MoM to 2.49mn units in Sep 2023, the best Sep in history, and 9% higher than our prior forecast.Wholesale volume rose 7% YoY (or +1.14mn units YoY) YTD, all aided by 67% YoY growth (or +1.14mn units YoY) of exports. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Auto Sector – Strong 4Q23 sales mixed with rising competition

China/Asia TMT

Shawn Yang

China growth and global non-US Internet equities

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Blue Lotus Research is a Hong Kong Type 4 Licensed investment advisory firm focusing on Chinese growth equities and global non-US Internet equities

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<li>PDD/BABA/4385JP：TikTok Shop US opened up, initial target categories in Mercari, ETSY and eBay（/）</li>
<li>BABA ：rumor says Taobao/Tmall looking to shuffle CEO（ / ）</li>
<li>LI/NIO/XPEV: AITO’s sales performance during the National Day holiday see good performance（-）</li>
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PDD/BABA/4385JP：TikTok Shop US opened up, initial target categories in Mercari, ETSY and eBay（/）
BABA ：rumor says Taobao/Tmall looking to shuffle CEO（ / ）
LI/NIO/XPEV: AITO’s sales performance during the National Day holiday see good performance（-）


China TMT Update Oct.12-Pdd/Baba/4385jp/BABA/LI/NIO/XPEV-TikTok Shop US/Taobao Management Change

<ul><li>We summarize the Sep 2023 price discounts at dealers for major automakers in this report.</li><li>Note that such discounts for each automaker are calculated based on weighted average of Aug 2023 retail sales volume for each model, as Sep retail sales volume data have not been released yet.</li><li>Discounts at dealers for most brands widened MoM in Sep 2023, as the price war persists with more and more competitive product rollouts and raw material price decline. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

We summarize the Sep 2023 price discounts at dealers for major automakers in this report.Note that such discounts for each automaker are calculated based on weighted average of Aug 2023 retail sales volume for each model, as Sep retail sales volume data have not been released yet.Discounts at dealers for most brands widened MoM in Sep 2023, as the price war persists with more and more competitive product rollouts and raw material price decline. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Auto Sector – Sep discounts widened again

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<li>BABA：SME merchants benefited from new Taobao rules ( + )</li>
<li>LI/NIO/XPEV: The cumulative large deposit order volume of Wenjie’s new M7 has exceeded 50,000 units(-)</li>
<li>Gaming Industry: August Market Sustains Ongoing Recovery with Impressive 46% YoY Growth in Domestic Market(+)</li>
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BABA：SME merchants benefited from new Taobao rules ( + )
LI/NIO/XPEV: The cumulative large deposit order volume of Wenjie’s new M7 has exceeded 50,000 units(-)
Gaming Industry: August Market Sustains Ongoing Recovery with Impressive 46% YoY Growth in Domestic Market(+)


China TMT Update-Oct.10-Baba/LI/NIO/XPEV/Tencent/NetEase-Huawei Wenjie's New M7/New Taobao Rules

China

Li Auto Inc. manufactures automobiles. The Company designs, develops, and sells smart new energy electric sport utility vehicles. Li Auto conducts businesses in China.

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JD.Com: Losing Its Appeal?

JD.com remains a very well owned stock among institutional investors, at a time when performance is anything but stellar so far this year.

Steven Holden

China Auto Sector – Strong 4Q23 sales mixed with rising competition

China’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume rose 6% YoY and 3% MoM to 1.97mn units in Sep 2023, 4% higher than our prior forecast.

CMB International

China TMT Update Oct.12-Pdd/Baba/4385jp/BABA/LI/NIO/XPEV-TikTok Shop US/Taobao Management Change

TikTok Shop US opened up; rumor says Taobao/Tmall looking to shuffle CEO; AITO’s sales performance during the National Day holiday see good...

Blue Lotus Research Institute

China Auto Sector – Sep discounts widened again

Discounts at dealers for most brands widened MoM in Sep 2023, as the price war persists with more and more competitive product rollouts and raw...

CMB International

China TMT Update-Oct.10-Baba/LI/NIO/XPEV/Tencent/NetEase-Huawei Wenjie's New M7/New Taobao Rules

SME merchants benefited from new Taobao rules/The cumulative large deposit order volume of Wenjie’s new M7 has exceeded 50,000 units(-)/ August...

Blue Lotus Research Institute

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