In the first quarter of 2013, institutional investors added to their equity holdings in the healthcare sector while reducing their exposure to the technology stocks. Among the most widely held stocks, portfolio managers as a group added to positions in Citigroup (C), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Microsoft (MSFT), and BlackRock (BLK), and trimmed positions in Apple (AAPL), Oracle (ORCL), Pfizer (PFE), and Coca-Cola (KO).
Hayman Capital’s Kyle Bass sees Japan in “its final checkmate phase” at the end of a 70-year debt supercycle. Bass will be speaking at the 66th CFA Institute Annual Conference in Singapore.