Guinness Asset Management LTD
"13F equity value" = market value of this filer's US-listed long equity positions only. It excludes cash, bonds, non-US and short positions, so it understates a fund's true assets under management — often by a lot.
13F holdings are disclosed ~45 days after quarter-end, and they never reveal when within the quarter a fund actually bought. So any 13F-based summary is structurally late and blurred — this applies to every fund, including this one.
We backtested copying it anyway. Buying this fund's new positions the day each filing went public, over 25 quarters, returned +1.5% per quarter — versus +3.1% per quarter from simply owning every 13F stock. It beat that baseline in only 40.0% of quarters (excess t = 1.06, not statistically significant). Its filings tell you what it bought — not what you should buy.
Quarterly compounding, invested quarters only · entry 47 days after quarter-end (when 13F data becomes public)
Top 20 holdings of 143 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| JNJ | $266M | | TRIM |
| AVGO | $255M | | TRIM |
| ABBV | $239M | | TRIM |
| AFL | $236M | | TRIM |
| CME | $236M | | TRIM |
| MDT | $235M | | TRIM |
| MSFT | $227M | | ADD |
| EMR | $227M | | TRIM |
| TXN | $224M | | TRIM |
| PEP | $223M | | TRIM |
| CSCO | $222M | | TRIM |
| KO | $220M | | TRIM |
| ETN | $214M | | TRIM |
| MDLZ | $200M | | TRIM |
| ITW | $198M | | TRIM |
| PG | $197M | | TRIM |
| AJG | $195M | | ADD |
| BLK | $190M | | TRIM |
| PAYX | $181M | | ADD |
| OTIS | $181M | | ADD |
QoQ vs previous quarter's share count · NEW = new position · ADD/TRIM = ±2% shares · HOLD = unchanged.
New positions in 2026 Q1
Method & Limitations
Method: a "new position" = held this quarter, absent last quarter (options excluded; stocks with <50 prior holders excluded to filter spin-off artifacts). Entry 47 days after quarter-end — the first day the public could act on the filing. Benchmark = equal-weighted universe of all 13F-held stocks. Limitations: quarterly snapshots can't see intra-quarter trades; survivorship bias — funds that shut down are absent, which flatters the sample. Statistics, not advice.