Asia Ex-Japan Fund Positioning Analysis, April 2023

89 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $55bn Asia Ex-Japan Fund Positioning Analysis, April 2023 In this issue: Q1 Performance & Attribution Malaysia: Can’t Catch a Break Taiwan Banks: Un-Investible? Real Estate: Consolidating the Lows? 89 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $55bn Q1 Performance & Attribution The latest stats on performance and the drivers of performance for Q1 2023. Active Asia …

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Asia Ex-Japan Fund Positioning Analysis, March 2023

89 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $55bn Asia Ex-Japan Fund Positioning Analysis, March 2023 In this issue: Asian Financials: Closing the Underweight The Philippines Depression Asia Ex-Japan Fund Holdings Guide   89 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $55bn Asian Financials: Closing the Underweight An increasing number of Asia Ex-Japan funds are moving to overweight the Financials sector An increasing number …

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Asia Ex-Japan Fund Positioning Analysis, February 2023

91 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $55bn Asia Ex-Japan Fund Positioning Analysis, February 2023 In this issue: Adani Group of Companies: Actively Uninvestable Vietnam: Time to Invest? Indonesian Financials: Consensus Overweight Asia Ex-Japan’s Rising Stars   89 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $55bn Adani Group of Companies: Actively Uninvestable Active Asia Ex-Japan investors never warmed to the Adani group of …

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Asia Ex-Japan Fund Positioning Analysis, January 2023

91 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $55bn Asia Ex-Japan Fund Positioning Analysis, January 2023 In this issue: 2023 Asia Ex-Japan Positioning Update Asia Ex-Japan Stock Radar NAVER Corp: Back to the Lows   91 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $55bn 2023 Asia Ex-Japan Positioning Update   We start with the major regional splits.  EM Asia Major, which includes the top …

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Asia Ex-Japan Funds: 2022 Performance & Attribution Report

91 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $70bn. 2022 Performance & Attribution Report In this report, we provide an overview of 2022 performance among the Asia Ex-Japan active funds in our analysis. We look at annual performance broken down by Style and Market Cap focus, together with longer-term analysis of active versus passive. We then identify the drivers behind 2022 performance …

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Asia Ex-Japan Fund Positioning Analysis, November 2022

92 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $49bn Asia Ex-Japan Fund Positioning Analysis, November 2022 In this issue: Asia Ex-Japan Sector Rotation Oil Refining/Marketing All-Time Highs Singapore Telecommunications: Demand Surge   92 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $49.5bn Sector Rotation   The make-up of sector positioning among active Asia Ex-Japan investors is changing.  Over a period of just 6-months, average weights …

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China & HK Semiconductors: Fund Positioning Analysis

92 Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $52bn, 115 China A-Share Funds, AUM $57bn, 117 MSCI China Funds, AUM $44bn, 45 Greater China Funds, AUM $15bn China Semiconductors With US sanctions hitting Chinese domestic Semiconductor stocks this week, we analyse allocations in the China & HK Semiconductor Industry group among Asia Ex-Japan, MSCI China, China A-Share and Greater China actively managed equity …

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Asia Ex-Japan Funds: Q3 Performance & Attribution

92 Asia Ex-Japan funds, AUM $60bn. Q3 Performance & Attribution In this piece, we provide an overview of Q3 performance among the Asia Ex-Japan active funds in our analysis. We look at quarterly performance broken down by Style and Market Cap focus, together with longer-term analysis of active versus passive. We then breakdown this quarter’s performance based on the average …

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Asia Ex-Japan: Country Positioning Update

92 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $62bn Country Positioning Update In this piece we provide a comprehensive analysis of country positioning among Asia Ex-Japan equity funds. We look at the current ownership dynamics and tie that in to the long-term trends in country positioning and more recent manager activity. We find that Taiwan and South Korea have born the brunt …

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Asia Ex-Japan Fund Positioning Analysis, August 2022

93 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $63bn Investor Positioning Insights Singapore Financials: Surging Higher China Technology: Stalling Sentiment Asian Restaurant Boom   Singapore Financials: Surging Higher Allocations in Singapore Financials continue their cyclical turnaround. From a low of 0.67% in early 2021, average holding weights have soared to 1.81%, closing in on the highs of 2%+ through 2018 with managers …

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