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.

Global Research - Analysis of 165 prominent Global equity funds, combined AUM $335bn
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Asset Allocation - Global and GEM Equity

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

China Industrials / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Over the past 2 years, Industrials exposure has almost doubled among China A-Share active investors.  Today's weight of 18.7% and overweight of 1.69% are near peak levels.</li>
<li>The most widely held stocks in the sector are CATL (A), Luxshare Precision Industry (002475 CH), Shenzhen Inovance Technology Co. (300124 CH) and EVE Energy (300014 CH)</li>
<li>Weight increases in the Industrials sector far outweighed decreases over the last half of 2021. Sungrow Power Supply (300274 CH) and NARI Technology Co (600406 CH) were among the beneficiaries.</li>
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Over the past 2 years, Industrials exposure has almost doubled among China A-Share active investors.  Today's weight of 18.7% and overweight of 1.69% are near peak levels.
The most widely held stocks in the sector are CATL (A), Luxshare Precision Industry (002475 CH), Shenzhen Inovance Technology Co. (300124 CH) and EVE Energy (300014 CH)
Weight increases in the Industrials sector far outweighed decreases over the last half of 2021. Sungrow Power Supply (300274 CH) and NARI Technology Co (600406 CH) were among the beneficiaries.


Jiangsu Hengli Highpressure Oil Cylinder (601100 CH)

Anhui Honglu Steel Construction Group (002541 CH)

Shenzhen Inovance Technology Co., (300124 CH)

Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) (300750 CH)

Ming Yang Smart Energy Group L (601615 CH)

China A-Shares: Industrials Revolution