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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Asia Ex-Japan Funds: Stock Sentiment Analysis

93 Active Asia Ex-Japan Funds, AUM $63bn. Asia Ex-Japan Stock Sentiment Investment levels among the thousands of stocks in the investible Asia universe differ greatly. Some stocks are widely owned, others largely avoided with ownership levels changing every month. We combine current and historical positioning against shorter-term manager activity to get a handle on where sentiment lies for every stock …

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