Herd turns on big iron

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Not before time, from the AFR:

Two staunch supporters of Australia’s mining sector, Pengana Capital and Fidelity, are adopting a wait-and-see approach…”We have enough,” Pengana Capital’s senior fund manager Tim Schroeders said.

…Fidelity portfolio manager Paul Taylor said his firm is currently slightly underweight to BHP and Rio Tinto combined, relative to their benchmarks.

Not underweight enough. JPM just cut Fortescue to underweight as well.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.