Money managers most underweight U.S. stocks since January 2008, but NASDAQ is most crowded trade

According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s most recent survey, money managers are 20% underweight U.S. equities. Managers haven’t been this underweight since January 2008. At that point the Standard & Poor’s 500 was near a peak before crashing in the global financial crisis.The underweighting is a result of valuation. “A net 80% of investors think the United States is the most overvalued region.”