"Big 5 hyperscaler capital expenditure — Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta & Oracle — benchmarked against the $2.68 cost of Cleveland's new Huntington Bank Field..."
"The bottom chart graphs the combined capital spending of five of the largest tech companies building AI infrastructure: Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and O..."
"When Nvidia's market value is more than twice that of the entire energy sector, the question of whether the AI bubble will burst naturally arises. But as value ..."
"Amazon.com, Inc. ($AMZN) is cited as a primary example of durable artificial intelligence infrastructure returns, with AWS generating an estimated 25% return on invested capital from incremental spending."
"Meta Platforms is a global technology powerhouse operating dominant digital communications and advertising networks. The manager has initiated an aggressive long position, making the stock the fund's largest holding, grounded in the view that Meta's newly launched autonomous consumer AI agent, Muse, positions the company to become the primary front-end gateway of the modern internet. The market currently values Meta solely on its core social media and digital advertising cash flows, effectively giving zero valuation credit to the transformational monetization potential of its autonomous agent technology. From an economic standpoint, owning the primary consumer digital gateway provides unprecedented pricing power and immense network effects. By executing real-world consumer tasks such as booking travel and purchasing retail goods directly, Meta intercepts commerce demand before search engines or merchant marketplaces. This front-end positioning expands the company's addressable operating leverage and enables superior return on invested capital by commercializing massive prior infrastructure capital expenditures without requiring proportionate increases in operating costs. Key upcoming catalysts include sustained adoption of Muse, international rollouts beyond the United States, and tangible revenue contributions surfacing in earnings reports. Major downside risks to monitor encompass technical execution missteps, consumer transaction security failures, regulatory scrutiny regarding autonomous financial transactions, and advertising margin compression."
"Apple Inc. is the second-largest holding in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF at 6.44%, part of the top-10 holdings that account for 38-39% of the total index...."
"Oracle's share price rose sharply in September following a series of AI-related announcements, which led to a significant re-rating of the shares. Our return of..."
"We bought shares in Visa and Kaspi.kz. Visa probably needs little introduction. Nevertheless, I'll describe the company briefly, as people are often surprised b..."
"Netflix has given up a lot of the gains following its rally after walking away from its bid for Warner Bros Discovery. This was driven by a combination of a mor..."
"Alibaba reported an in-line quarter, and the stock reacted positively after the report. However, from mid-May through quarter-end, the stock declined as investo..."
"The bottom chart graphs the combined capital spending of five of the largest tech companies building AI infrastructure: Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and O..."
"The largest positive contributors to performance were Samsung (+100%), easyJet (+61%) and Merck (+39%). We also reduced Samsung. All three names approached our ..."
"Despite reporting strong first-quarter revenue growth that exceeded expectations, shares of MercadoLibre, Inc. declined after earnings fell short as operating m..."
"Micron Technology is a leading global designer and manufacturer of semiconductor memory products, primarily dynamic random-access memory and flash storage. After capturing exceptional price appreciation of more than 270% year-to-date, the manager fully exited the position, adopting a bearish tactical posture because prevailing market share prices fully discount the extended cyclical upswing while no longer offering an adequate margin of safety relative to inherent commodity volatility. Memory manufacturing is a classic cyclical commodity business characterized by substantial capital intensity and severe operating leverage. While booming artificial intelligence infrastructure demand previously created supply shortages and surging unit pricing, excessive price levels inevitably incentivize demand destruction and algorithmic efficiency improvements. New memory-compression technologies like TurboQuant and DeepSeek V4.1 drastically reduce the memory footprints required by frontier models, dampening unit economics and threatening terminal multiples for hardware producers. Catalysts that could trigger further price compression include decelerating memory contract pricing, rapid enterprise adoption of memory-efficient AI models, and margin normalization as supply catches up. Risks to this exit thesis involve prolonged hardware bottlenecks and unexpected spikes in physical memory hardware allocation."
"We substantially increased our investments in Visa and Mastercard on the basis described above. We see a major mispricing here: as the probability of strong gro..."
"Eli Lilly is experiencing explosive revenue growth driven by global demand for its blockbuster diabetes and obesity treatments. The company is prudently investi..."
"Declines in ServiceNow, Microsoft, KKR, Salesforce and Meta Platforms were among the largest detractors from portfolio performance over the 12 months...."
"Adobe returned -2.5% in USD over Q2 and was sold during the quarter. We initially bought Adobe for its high-quality fundamentals: a subscription-based model tha..."
"Separately, all of the nation's systemically important financial institutions passed the Federal Reserve's annual stress test, facilitating JPMorgan Chase & Co ..."
"At its recent investor day, Sweden's Spotify, the market-leading music streaming service, announced a licensing agreement with Universal Music, the largest musi..."
"Uber was among the weakest performers, with weakness in selected internet and gaming platforms as the market penalised businesses perceived to face AI disruptio..."
"We made some small rebalancing changes, including trimming ELF after a solid month to buy a little more Shopify. Shopify represents 1.5% of the portfolio as of ..."
"We divested CDW to fund larger investments in several high-quality businesses that are not AI sensitive and trading below our assessed fair value, thus offering..."
"During the quarter, we added to our existing positions in Autodesk, Adyen, Ferrari, Microsoft, Novo Nordisk, Salesforce, and Trip.com as near-term price weaknes..."
"SK hynix Inc. ($000660.KS) remains a top ten holding in the portfolio after the manager halved the position to harvest gains while retaining exposure to the prolonged memory semiconductor upcycle."
"Charles Schwab's performance followed an increase in assets under management and improving profit expectations. We initiated Charles Schwab and topped up a numb..."
"Intuit Inc. provides financial management, accounting, and tax-preparation software for small businesses, consumers, and accounting professionals. The manager held a profitable short position that was covered in early October, predicated on fundamental growth decelerations and prolonged downward revisions in key franchise lines such as TurboTax. The economic rationale focused on the phenomenon of bad news drift, where high-multiple compounders face multiple compression as organic growth slows. When mature software businesses experience decelerating unit volume growth down to low single digits, their premium price-to-earnings multiples contract significantly, even as legacy investors attempt to defend prior valuation assumptions. While the manager successfully covered the short after a sharp decline, continued risks for Intuit include further consumer tax software market share erosion and macroeconomic pressure on small enterprise accounting budgets."
"Alibaba and Tencent may not lead in open-source AI models, but value can accrue to the cloud, distribution, and commerce layers they already dominate...."
"The Fund's recent relative performance has suffered, mainly due to its underweight position in Information Technology and weak performance by three holdings: Fi..."
"During the second quarter, we sold the troika Lam Research, Applied Materials, and KLA Corporation, all of which are key suppliers of manufacturing equipment an..."
"We view TMO as a leading picks-and-shovels provider to the life sciences industry, supplying essential tools, consumables, and services across drug discovery an..."
"Sold the entire holding. The firm has grown so large and diversified that it acts as a cross-section of the U.S. economy, making market-beating growth unlikely. It now trades within its fair value ran"
"Regarding laggards, the global professional services company Accenture was among the largest, with the shares remaining in the midst of their most severe drawdo..."
"CoStar Group (CSGP): Launched Homes Ai and Apartments.com Ai, adding conversational natural language search capabilities to its leading home and apartment onlin..."
"During the second quarter, we sold the troika Lam Research, Applied Materials, and KLA Corporation, all of which are key suppliers of manufacturing equipment an..."
"Dividends of our holdings increased 10.5% over the past 12 months, with all but two increasing their dividend. The top dividend growers were Amphenol Corp. (APH..."
"One of our long-term holdings, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has made a significant investment into Polymarket; it has branched out from its traditional deri..."
"Johnson & Johnson is listed as the third largest holding in the portfolio at 5.6% of net assets with a market cap of $611.4 billion, acquired in 2025 when the m..."
"Constellation Software is a very high-quality compounder founded by Mark Leonard. It operates a buy and build flywheel of vertical market software (VMS) assets...."
"Intuitive Surgical is a pioneering medical technology company best known for its da Vinci robotic surgical system, which enables surgeons to perform precise, mi..."
"Sea Limited was another strong performer for the Fund over the quarter, with the share price appreciating by approximately +16%, driven by a sharp re-rating fol..."
"Progressive Corporation is in the financial stocks basket. Financials are the 'well, how are things going?' sector - if the economy is working, we spend more, p..."