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>South Korea moves to the bottom of the 'big 4' as managers aggressively rotate portfolios in 2022.</li>
<li>Nearly a 5th of Asia Ex-Japan managers made the switch to underweight over the last 6-months, pushing allocations to their lowest levels in over a decade. </li>
<li>KakaoBank, Samsung SDI, Kakao Corp and Samsung Electronics Pref Shares saw allocations fall the most.</li>
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South Korea moves to the bottom of the 'big 4' as managers aggressively rotate portfolios in 2022.
Nearly a 5th of Asia Ex-Japan managers made the switch to underweight over the last 6-months, pushing allocations to their lowest levels in over a decade. 
KakaoBank, Samsung SDI, Kakao Corp and Samsung Electronics Pref Shares saw allocations fall the most.


Asia Ex-Japan Funds Rotate Out of South Korea

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>We are starting to see early signs of a potential bottom on MSCI EM (EEM-US).</li>
<li>Specifically, the EEM-US has reversed topside its 6-month downtrend. If MSCI EM has indeed bottomed, we want to be buying the leaders; that is where this report comes in.</li>
<li>Specific themes include attractive opportunities in India and Thailand, and also many in Taiwan and South Korea. Attractive Sectors include Energy, Financials, Materials, and Industrials.</li>
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We are starting to see early signs of a potential bottom on MSCI EM (EEM-US).
Specifically, the EEM-US has reversed topside its 6-month downtrend. If MSCI EM has indeed bottomed, we want to be buying the leaders; that is where this report comes in.
Specific themes include attractive opportunities in India and Thailand, and also many in Taiwan and South Korea. Attractive Sectors include Energy, Financials, Materials, and Industrials.


Finding Leadership Within Emerging Markets

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Bottom-Up

Hyundai Engineering & Construction / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, is expected to visit South Korea in late October/early November 2022.</li>
<li>In this insight, we discuss the top 14 stocks in Korea that could benefit from his visit of South Korea in a couple of months.</li>
<li>We think that many local investors have been buying some of the 14 stocks mentioned in this insight with the expectation of further positive news from MBS visiting South Korea.</li>
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Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, is expected to visit South Korea in late October/early November 2022.
In this insight, we discuss the top 14 stocks in Korea that could benefit from his visit of South Korea in a couple of months.
We think that many local investors have been buying some of the 14 stocks mentioned in this insight with the expectation of further positive news from MBS visiting South Korea.


Top 14 Korean Stocks to Benefit from Mohammed Bin Salman's Visit to South Korea in October/November

Founder/CEO of ROK Advisory, ROK Advisory LLC

Ken S. Kim

Founder/CEO of ROK Advisory

ROK Advisory LLC

ROK is an independent research advisory firm. We guide you to minimize the information gap between foreign and local investors in Northeast Asia with a focus in Korea, Taiwan and Japan.

Independent Research Advisory Firm

Samsung Electronics Pref Shares / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>With JY Lee pardoned this past Monday, there is a lot of speculation about the speed of restructuring</li>
<li>A lot will depend on what happens with whether Samsung Life will be forced to sell its shares in Samsung Electronics</li>
<li>What should be done for the best of the family and shareholders is to buyout the pref shares</li>
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With JY Lee pardoned this past Monday, there is a lot of speculation about the speed of restructuring
A lot will depend on what happens with whether Samsung Life will be forced to sell its shares in Samsung Electronics
What should be done for the best of the family and shareholders is to buyout the pref shares


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<li>Our base case NAV valuation of Samsung C&amp;T is 147,095 won per share, representing 20% higher than current share price.</li>
<li>Samsung C&amp;T is up 4.7% YTD, significantly outperforming the market and its major affiliates including Samsung Electronics (down 24.9% YTD).</li>
<li>We mention four major factors leading Samsung C&amp;T to outperform Samsung Electronics' shares this year including shift to value stocks, Neom project, higher commodity prices, and downturn in semiconductor sector.</li>
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Our base case NAV valuation of Samsung C&amp;T is 147,095 won per share, representing 20% higher than current share price.
Samsung C&amp;T is up 4.7% YTD, significantly outperforming the market and its major affiliates including Samsung Electronics (down 24.9% YTD).
We mention four major factors leading Samsung C&amp;T to outperform Samsung Electronics' shares this year including shift to value stocks, Neom project, higher commodity prices, and downturn in semiconductor sector.


Samsung C&T: Closing the NAV Discount Gap

South Korea

Samsung C&T Corporation conducts diversified business support services and resort operation activities. The Company offers a range of services in areas including clothing retail, construction, energy, real estate, food service, and resort accommodations. Samsung C&T also operates a resort with amusement rides, a zoo, water park, golf clubs, and restaurants.

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Samsung C&T (028260 KS)

Asia Ex-Japan Funds Rotate Out of South Korea

Active Asia Ex-Japan managers have rotated away from South Korean stocks in 2022, pushing allocations towards their lowest level in over a decade.

Steven Holden

Finding Leadership Within Emerging Markets

We are starting to see early signs of a potential bottom on $EEM. Specifically, the EEM has reversed topside its 6-month downtrend. If EEM has...

Vermilion Research

Top 14 Korean Stocks to Benefit from Mohammed Bin Salman's Visit to South Korea in October/November

In this insight, we discuss the top 14 stocks in Korea that could benefit from Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman's visit of South Korea in a...

Douglas Kim

JY Lee Pardoned; What Should He Do Next?

What is good for JY Lee could be good for minority shareholders of Samsung Electronics. How to get 2 birds with one stone.

Ken S. Kim

Samsung C&T: Closing the NAV Discount Gap

Four major factors leading Samsung C&T to outperform Samsung Electronics' shares this year include a shift to value stocks, Neom project, higher...

Douglas Kim

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