Survey of five Japan-based fund managers conducted between October 16 and 25
Respondents on average wanted to allocate 38.0 percent of their overall stock holdings in their model portfolios to North American equities in October, from 25.5 percent in September
- Japanese stocks to 41.3 percent in October from 43.8 percent in September
- Euro zone equity holdings to 8.3 percent from 10.8 percent
- Asia excluding Japan stocks to 4.2 percent from 9.2 percent
- total exposure to stocks was at 37.3 percent in October, unchanged from September
Overall bond holdings to 57.5 percent in October from 57.3 percent in September
- North American bonds to 38.1 percent from 32.3 percent
- Japanese bond holdings unchanged at 33.2 percent in October
- euro zone bonds to 18.8 percent in October from 19.8 percent in September
