| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q2 | Aug 11, 2025 | Baron FinTech Fund | 9.2% | 7.7% | ACGL, ACN, ALKT, CME, CWAN, FICO, FIS, GLOB, GWRE, HOOD, IBKR, INTA, INTU, KKR, KNSL, LPLA, MA, MCO, MELI, MORN, MSCI, PGR, SCHW, SPGI, TW, V, VRSK | Capital markets, E-Commerce, Financial Services, Fintech, payments, technology, volatility | The fund focuses on competitively advantaged, growing fintech companies across all market capitalizations and geographies. The portfolio is segmented into seven investment themes including Tech-Enabled Financials, Information Services, Enterprise Software, Capital Markets, Payments, E-Commerce, and Digital IT Services. The manager expects fintech companies to outperform over time due to their competitive advantages and growth prospects. | View | |
| 2025 Q2 | Jul 25, 2025 | Baron Discovery Fund | 14.7% | 7.6% | ALKT, BASE, CW, CYBR, DAY, DKNG, DT, EXAS, GWRE, INSP, IRT, KTOS, LLYVA, MAC, MEG, MRCY, NOVT, PAR, RH, TEM, WYNN | AI, Cloud, cybersecurity, defense, growth, small caps, sports betting, technology | The fund is positioned across multiple defense companies benefiting from increased funding and demand for advanced military technologies. Companies like Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and Karman Holdings are well positioned for accelerated multi-year growth in areas such as hypersonic technology, drone engines, missile defense, and space launch components. | WYNN INSP CLWR KARH MEG KTOS |
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| 2026 Q1 | Apr 16, 2026 | Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund | -8.4% | -8.4% | ALKT, ALM, AMPL, CGON, KEX, ZBIO | AI, Biotechnology, Geopolitical, growth, healthcare, small cap, technology, Trade Policy | View | ||
| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | NCG Micro Cap Growth Strategy | 14.8% | 14.8% | ACVA, AGX, AGYS, ALHC, ALKT, ARQ, ATRO, CSTL, CVLG, DAVA, DCBO, FLYW, FROG, GDYN, HROW, IRTC, MRTN, NEO, OLO, PAL, PDFS, PYCR, SDHC, SMWB, TNDM | growth, healthcare, Micro Cap, small caps, technology, valuation | NCG emphasizes investing in what they believe are the fastest growing and highest quality companies in America. They maintain focus on fundamental growth drivers of each holding and seek companies that can grow revenue and profits at strong rates in any economic environment. | View | |
| 2023 Q4 | Dec 31, 2023 | NCG Micro Cap Growth Strategy | 9.5% | 10.2% | ACVA, ALKT, AUGX, CCS, CSTL, DCBO, ENFN, FWRG, PDFS, SEMR, TNDM, VCYT | Fed Pivot, growth, healthcare, Microcap, Quality, small caps, technology | Healthcare holdings drove much of the underperformance across all strategies in 2023, primarily due to investor perception that GLP-1 drug benefits will reduce medical interventions. Many healthcare companies began recovering in Q4 and the manager believes in long-term growth fundamentals. | ENFN VCYT PDFS SEMR ALKT CCCS FWRG AUGX ACVA DCBO CSTL TNDM |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 24, 2025 | Meridian Growth Fund | -1.8% | - | ALGN, ALIT, ALKT, CARG, CHDN, COO, DT, GFS, HALO, MDGL, RELY, SPT, STE, TRMB, ZD | AI, growth, healthcare, industrials, Quality, small caps, SMID, technology | The fund sees signs of exuberance and speculative behavior in AI infrastructure ecosystem, particularly in technology and industrial sectors. While AI remains transformative long-term, valuations have become disconnected from fundamentals with companies exceeding $10 billion market caps lacking profits or revenues. The fund remains disciplined and unlikely to pursue high-momentum AI names without meaningful revenues or profitability. | ZD HALO MDGL ALGN SPT ALIT |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 24, 2025 | Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund | 4.2% | - | ALIT, ALKT, AMPL, CARG, CCSI, CERT, KEX, RELY, SPT, TPB, VCYT, VNOM, ZENA | AI, growth, healthcare, industrials, Quality, small caps, technology, Valuations | The fund sees signs of exuberance and speculative behavior in AI infrastructure ecosystem, particularly in technology and industrial sectors. Many companies are trading at historically elevated valuations despite being potential one-time beneficiaries of the AI investment cycle. The fund remains disciplined and avoids high-momentum AI names lacking meaningful revenues or profitability. | CCSI ZENAS TPB KEX SPT ALIT ZD HALO MDGL ALGN SPT CCSI KEX SPT |
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| 2024 Q3 | Oct 11, 2024 | Driehaus Micro Cap Growth Strategy | 8.2% | 24.0% | ADMA, ALKT, CRNX, MOD, TMDX | AI, Biotechnology, Fed Cuts, growth, healthcare, Micro Cap, small caps, valuation | AI infrastructure spending by Hyperscalers remains robust despite concerns about ROI. The manager views AI as an existential threat to major tech companies, driving continued capex investment in GPUs, servers, networking equipment and data centers. While 40% capex growth may decelerate in 2025-2026, AI infrastructure spending should remain strong. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 26, 2026 | Baron Discovery Fund | 0.2% | 11.0% | ALKT, CWAN, CWST, DKNG, DT, ESTA, EXAS, FROG, GCI, GTLB, INDIE, LLYVA, LOAR, MRCY, PRMB, RGEN, S, SITM, TREX, VRNS, WAY | AI, defense, growth, healthcare, Quality, small caps, software | The fund discusses AI as a transformative force requiring careful alignment of goals with humanity's interests. They view AI advancement as creating massive capital investment opportunities, particularly in datacenter buildout, while acknowledging concerns about AI's impact on software competitive advantages. The fund maintains significant exposure to enterprise software companies, particularly cybersecurity and systems software. They believe complexity of enterprise integration protects established players from AI disruption, with companies like Dynatrace, Varonis, and SentinelOne offering defensive moats through proven resilience and security. The fund focuses on innovative healthcare companies including molecular diagnostics (Exact Sciences), medical devices (Establishment Labs), and healthcare IT (Waystar). They see opportunities in companies improving patient outcomes through technology and automation in healthcare processes. The fund holds defense companies benefiting from increased defense budgets, including allocations for unmanned vehicles and missile defense systems. They trimmed positions after meaningful valuation increases but maintain defense as a core holding area. | CWST GLIBA PRMB LLYVA VRNS INDI FROG CAS WAY CWAN ESTA EXAS |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 21, 2026 | NCG Micro Cap Growth Strategy | 6.4% | 11.9% | AAOI, AGX, AII.TO, ALKT, AMPX, AMSC, ATEC, AVPT, AXGN, BLND, INOD, INTA, PHAT, PL, PSNL, TATT, TCMD, UAMY, UTI | active management, Biotechnology, growth, Microcap, Quality, small caps, underperformance | The firm emphasizes investing in high-quality growth companies with proven business models and sustainable growth drivers. They note that quality factors worked against active managers in 2025, with low-quality stocks significantly outperforming. The S&P 600 Growth Index, which requires profitability and has market cap constraints, returned only 5.4% versus Russell 2000/Microcap Growth at 13% and 22% respectively. Biotech was a significant area of outperformance that the firm avoided, contributing approximately 8 points to the Russell Microcap Growth Index's 21.84% return. The firm maintains low or no exposure to biotech, viewing many business models as unproven despite strong recent performance. This sector constituted almost all of the relative underperformance from their microcap strategy. The firm sees improving conditions for small cap performance, with earnings growth turning positive in 2025 and expected to accelerate in 2026. Small caps historically benefit during Fed rate-cutting cycles and continue to trade at a relative discount to large caps. Combined with an improving fundamental backdrop, they believe there's opportunity for this discount to narrow. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 21, 2026 | Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund | 0.9% | 0.0% | ALKT, AMPL, AXGN, CCSI, CDNA, CERT, GPCR, KEX, RELY, TPB, VCYT, VNOM, ZNAS | Biotechnology, growth, healthcare, Quality, small caps, technology, value | Healthcare was the portfolio's largest allocation and top-performing sector for the quarter. The manager continues to view the sector as undervalued relative to long-term fundamentals, noting it has lagged the broader market over the last four years. Multiple biotech holdings contributed positively, including Structure Therapeutics with promising obesity therapy trials, Axogen with peripheral nerve regeneration technology, and Zenas BioPharma with autoimmune disease treatments in Phase 3 trials. The fund emphasizes investing in high-quality businesses with recurring revenue, sustainable competitive advantages, strong balance sheets, and clear visibility into sustainable earnings growth. This quality bias created a modest headwind during the quarter as lower-quality stocks outperformed. | ZBIO AXGN GPCR RELY CERT CCSI EXAS TNDM GMED RELY DOCS CERT |
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| 2023 Q3 | Sep 30, 2023 | Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund | 6.2% | 0.0% | ALIT, ALKT, CCCS, HCCI, HDSN, MATX, MIR, QDEL, RBA, TPB | growth, healthcare, industrials, small caps, technology | View | ||
| 2022 Q2 | Jun 30, 2022 | Baron Discovery Fund | 13.5% | 9.3% | ALKT, ASGN, CDAY, CWAN, DAVA, DH, ESTA, GTLB, GWRE, MEG, PGNY, REXR, SAIL | - | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Apr 28, 2026 | Fund Letters | NCG Micro Cap Growth Strategy | Alkami Technology | Information Technology | Software | Bull | NASDAQ | cash flow positive, credit unions, digital banking, financial technology, market share gains, Modern Platform | View Pitch |
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