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Magellan co-founder Mackay turns ultra-bearish

Tom Richardson
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Magellan Financial Group co-founder, Chris Mackay, has quietly turned extremely bearish on equities, switching almost half the holdings in his $1.6 billion global equities fund to cash.

MFF Capital Investments, a listed investment company known as the Magellan Flagship Fund until a rebranding and operational restructure in 2016, has built a 46.4 per cent cash position as of May 29, mostly held in US dollars.

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Tom Richardson writes and comments on markets including equities, debt, crypto, software, banking, payments, and regulation. He worked in asset management at Bank of New York Mellon and is a member of the CFA Society of the UK as a holder of the Investment Management Certificate. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at tom.richardson@afr.com

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