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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| Q4 2025 | Mar 13, 2026 | Baumann Capital | - | - | AHT.L, AI.PA, LIN, SOL.MI, WIT.MI | AI, Europe, healthcare, Home Health, Industrial Gases, infrastructure, Quality | SOL Group operates one of Europe's leading industrial gas franchises serving 50k customers across 32 countries, with a network of 39 air-separation units and 50+ filling plants that took almost a century to assemble. The business creates regional oligopolies due to expensive logistics of moving gases, with high switching costs from buried pipelines and bulk tanks installed at customer sites. Vivisol has grown from 140k patients in 2010 to 750k by 2024, representing 13% compound annual growth driven by Europe's aging population and healthcare systems moving chronic care from hospitals to patients' homes. The business provides home respiratory therapy, ventilation support, and infusion treatments with 80% recurring revenues and renewal rates above 95%. The fund focuses on super-durable, quality businesses with sustainable competitive advantages, excellent management with aligned interests, and reasonable entry valuations. The manager emphasizes businesses designed to last like Roman aqueducts, with high barriers to entry and exceptionally resilient business models that can compound for decades. The manager acknowledges AI as a main risk requiring early spotting to avoid losing money, particularly challenging for software investments. The strategy tilts towards businesses unlikely to see their daily unit economics negatively affected by AI over the next decades, favoring infrastructure and business services players over software. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 11, 2026 | Latitude Global Fund | 0.0% | 21.0% | AI.PA, ASSA-B.ST, AZO, COR, DEO, DG.PA, DLTR, EIF.PA, GOOGL, ICE, JPM, MCK, RPRX, RYA.L, SHEL, TSCO.L, UNH, V | AI, Buybacks, Europe, growth, healthcare, infrastructure, retail, value | Lower-income Americans continue to feel the squeeze, and local stores like Dollar Tree present unbeatable value and convenience. Their investments in merchandising and distribution are key competitive advantages in a world of tariffs and potential inflation. The company's prospects are bright, especially if we do ever see a rise in unemployment, which tends to benefit discount stores. Healthcare stocks have broadly underperformed the market since the election of President Trump, due to a plethora of regulatory, pricing and tariff risks. However, the distribution model has proven its strong resilience, with companies having meaningfully reduced their dependence on drug pricing. They are in effect a toll road on the US healthcare system and the opposite of economic rent-seeking businesses. Covid, somewhat ironically given the cancellation of so many flights, impacted the industry positively, as around 10% of aircraft were withdrawn from the market due to bankruptcies. Moreover, post-Covid supply chain shocks at Boeing and Airbus mean that the fleet is not going to be replaced any time soon. Ryanair's cost advantage almost doubled from levels in 2019. Google would be best positioned in an AI world, given its vertically integrated model and its pedigree in AI. The AI revenue model is clearly highly uncertain and far from guaranteed, but the likely attributes of winners in this space are data, processing power and distribution. Google dominates all three. Investing in physical assets in a world with an infrastructure deficit, and the potential resurgence of inflation, is very appealing. The requirement for renewed infrastructure investment in Europe is in the early stages, and competition will remain low giving both Vinci and Eiffage a meaningful competitive advantage. Combining low valuations and high cash conversion, our companies will generate around a 7% of their market cap in free cash flow. We expect them to pay an average dividend of 2.6% and are committed to share buybacks of around the same level. This is a 5% annual tailwind to the portfolio's fundamental growth outlook over the coming years. | ICE JPM GOOGL RYAAY RPRX MCK AZO DLTR |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | American Century International Growth Fund | 0.3% | 15.6% | 6758.T, 6954.T, 7532.T, AI.PA, AIR.PA, ASML, AZN, BABA, BVI.PA, GALDA.SW, GLE.PA, IBE.MC, RACE, REL.L, ROG.SW, SAP, SU.PA | AI, Automation, Europe, international, Japan, large cap, Pharmaceuticals | Artificial intelligence-related market uncertainty drove broad rotation into value and away from growth. While investment in data centers has created optimism, concerns persist about financing, supply chain and power constraints. Investors also continue to consider the impact of AI on traditional business models. Demand for AI-integrated processes and robotics has increased as businesses move to factory automation. Companies are poised to benefit from new applications in industries like agriculture. The fund initiated a position in FANUC, expecting revenue and earnings to accelerate as global automation demand grows. Companies in the pharmaceuticals industry have focused on new products in therapeutic areas with unmet needs, including cancer and skin conditions. These select companies with innovative product pipelines are positioned to benefit from an inflection in growth. The acceleration of digitalization is benefiting technology holdings exposed to cloud computing, automation, digital payments and IT services growth. Japan-based companies, in particular, are investing heavily to increase efficiency and profits as they seek to catch up with their international competitors. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 19, 2026 | Artisan International Fund | 1.6% | 36.3% | 005930.KS, 0700.HK, 300750.SZ, AI.PA, DANSKE.CO, ELI.BR, NGG, SSE.L, TSCO.L, TSM, UBS | defense, Electrification, Europe, growth, international, semiconductors, Utilities, value | The portfolio benefited from defense holdings including South Korean companies Hanwha Aerospace and LIG Nex1. Defense companies continue to expand globally with European governments investing for security independence outside NATO agreements. The Middle East has emerged as an opportunity area for Korean defense companies. Utilities and grid modernization were areas of strength. National Grid and SSE contributed positively reflecting investor confidence in regulated asset bases and accelerating investment in grid modernization. Elia Group is supported by significant acceleration in capital investment across German and Belgian electricity grids. The portfolio has exposure to electrification trends through companies like LS Electric benefiting from global spending on grid modernization and power transmission infrastructure. CATL provides exposure to battery products for electric vehicles and energy storage systems aligned with long-duration electrification tailwinds. Samsung Electronics provided exposure to AI infrastructure growth as a direct beneficiary of high demand for AI-related chips including DRAM and HBM. Samsung's sixth-generation HBM4 semiconductor recorded the highest operating speed in technical tests, boosting sentiment toward semiconductor manufacturers. | MELI 300750 CH MNC TSCO LN 005930 KS SSE LN NG LN 010120 KS 079550 KS 012450 KS |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 11, 2026 | Impax Global Environmental Markets Fund | -1.5% | 14.0% | A, AI.PA, AMAT, ITRI, KYGA.L, LIN, MSFT, RNR, SU.PA, TSM, UNP, VIE.PA | AI, Energy Efficiency, Environmental, global, Industrial Gases, semiconductors, technology, Waste management | AI-related investments drove portfolio performance with impressive execution from semiconductor foundries, chip equipment manufacturers, and power management companies. The team maintains high conviction in a picks and shovels approach to AI, focusing on performance efficiency and companies improving power supply delivery. Despite market concerns about elevated AI capital expenditure, the team believes AI-driven secular tailwinds remain intact. Energy efficiency remains a core focus with holdings in HVAC, heat pumps, and power management electronics. Weaker US residential construction volumes contributed to underperformance from energy-efficient HVAC and heat pump exposure. The strategy emphasizes companies bending the total power demand curve and improving efficiency of power supply. Industrial gases holdings like Linde and Air Liquide provide operationally defensive businesses with resilient end markets and clear multi-decade pricing power. These companies operate within oligopolistic market structures benefitting from durable demand and attractive pricing power, serving as portfolio ballast despite current muted volume growth. Waste and recycling holdings offer compelling reward-to-risk characteristics through operationally defensive businesses tied to resilient end markets. The team maintains exposure to high-quality businesses in waste and recycling as portfolio ballast, benefiting from oligopolistic market structures and durable demand patterns. Smart and efficient grids exposure faced challenges with companies like Itron disappointing on order intake expectations. However, grid upgrades remain attractive secular growth opportunities over the long-term as part of the broader infrastructure modernization theme. Water infrastructure holdings experienced underperformance during the quarter due to factors including profit taking and poor business execution. Despite near-term challenges, water infrastructure remains part of the long-term environmental markets opportunity set. | View |
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