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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q2 | Aug 22, 2025 | Baron Real Estate Fund | 3.6% | -3.5% | ABNB, AMH, AMT, AVB, BAM, BN, BXP, CBRE, CHDN, CSGP, EQIX, EQR, EXR, GDS, IRT, JLL, LPX, PLD, SITE, SPG, TOL, WELL, WYNN | Data centers, Homebuilders, real estate, Recovery, REITs, Travel, Valuations | Fund invests across REITs and non-REIT real estate categories with focus on demand exceeding supply dynamics. Manager sees compelling valuations with many properties trading below replacement cost and expects transaction market recovery. | View | |
| 2025 Q2 | Jul 22, 2025 | Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund | 6.8% | 6.4% | AMH, BAM, BN, CBRE, DHI, FMCC, FNMA, FPH, FR, GRI.L, JLL, JM.SI, LEN, PHM, PLD, RYN, SKY, SUI, UHAL, UTG.L, WCC, WY | GSEs, Industrial, Manufacturing, Onshoring, real estate, REITs, Residential, value | Supply chain disruptions from Covid-19 have accelerated efforts to reshore critical industries including defense, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and materials. U.S. manufacturing investment has increased three-fold over five years to $230 billion annually, with nearly $2 trillion of reshoring initiatives announced since 2023. | J36.SI SKY WCC PLD JAR LN SKY WCC PLD |
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| 2024 Q1 | May 7, 2024 | Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund | 15.7% | 0.0% | AMH, BKG.L, BN, BYG.L, CBRE, DHI, FMCC, FNF, FNMA, GRI.L, JLL, LEN, LOW, PLD, RYN, SEGRO.L, SUI, SVS.L, UHAL, WY | active management, Data centers, Homebuilders, real estate, REITs, value | AI and LLM advancements are driving enormous capital requirements for data center buildout and colossal power needs. Data center demand expected to increase 10% annually through 2030, requiring 18 Gigawatts of incremental power. Fund avoids direct data center REIT exposure due to supply concerns and low free cash flow yields of 2.5%. | View | |
| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Baron Focused Growth Fund | -8.0% | -8.0% | ABNB, ACGL, AMH, ANSS, BIRK, CHH, CSGP, DEI, FDS, FIGS, GWRE, H, IBKR, IDXX, ILMN, IRDM, JEF, KKD, LVS, LYV, MSCI, MTN, ONON, RRR, SHOP, SPOT, TSLA, VRSK | AI, consumer discretionary, Electric Vehicles, financials, growth, real estate, software, technology | X.AI Holdings Corp. is developing an AI model to understand the true nature of the universe, launching Grok 3 which demonstrated top scores ahead of other industry-leading AI models. The company opened the Colossus data center with over 100,000 GPUs and recently acquired X (formerly Twitter) to access vast real-time multimodal data from 600 million users. Tesla's AI ambitions include a robotaxi service launching this year and a fast-growing humanoid program that could transform its growth story. | View | |
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Baron Focused Growth Fund | 14.4% | 29.5% | ABNB, ACGL, AMH, ANSYS, BRKR, CHH, CSGP, DEI, FDS, FIGS, GWRE, H, IBKR, IDXX, ILMN, IRDM, JEF, KREM, LVS, LYV, MSCI, MTN, ONON, RRR, SHOP.TO, SPOT, TSLA, VRSK | consumer discretionary, Electric Vehicles, financials, growth, Hotels, Space, Streaming, technology | Tesla continues to demonstrate strong performance with 54% quarterly gains, driven by core automotive acceleration and new lower-cost model releases expected in 2025. The company benefits from lower interest rates helping car sales and halting continuous price reductions, while energy storage business grew 60% sequentially. | View | |
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund | 0.4% | 14.1% | 1113.HK, AC.PA, AMH, BKG.L, BN, BYG.L, CBRE, DHI, FNF, FPH, FR, JLL, LEN, PLD, RYN, SGRO.L, SUI, UHAL, WCC, WY | Commercial, Homebuilders, NAV, rates, real estate, REITs, Uk, value | Fund maintains significant exposure to commercial real estate through REITs and operating companies focused on industrial, logistics, self-storage, and real estate services. Holdings include platforms like Big Yellow self-storage, Prologis industrial, and CBRE services that benefit from structural demand drivers and limited maintenance capex requirements. | AC.PA BYG.L BKG.L |
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| 2023 Q3 | Oct 25, 2023 | Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund | 15.7% | 0.0% | 0004.HK, 1113.HK, AMH, BAM, BKG.L, BN, BYG.L, CBRE, DHI, FNF, FR, GRI.L, INA.AX, INVH, JLL, LEN, LOW, NSA, PLD, RYN, SEGRO.L, SUI, SVS.L, UHAL, WY | Cap Rates, Commercial Property, interest rates, NAV, real estate, REITs, Residential, value | Fund maintains 31% allocation to commercial real estate enterprises focused on secular trends including industrial properties, self-storage facilities, and last-mile fulfillment. Holdings include companies capitalizing on structural changes driving demand for these property types. | BYG.L SUI |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 21, 2025 | Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund | 6.7% | - | AC.PA, AMH, BKG.L, CBRE, DHI, FMCC, FNF, FNMA, FPH, FR, JLL, LEN, PHM, PLD, RYN, SUI, SVS.L, UHAL, UTG.L, WY | Commercial, global, Homebuilders, Mortgage, real estate, REITs, Residential, value | Fund holds 27.5% in North American commercial real estate companies including CBRE Group, JLL, Brookfield Corp, Prologis, First Industrial, Wesco, and U-Haul Holdings. These represent platforms that would be very difficult to reassemble and comprise select pockets of commercial real estate that favor long-term investors with structural demand drivers, limited maintenance capex, and prospects to self-finance accretive reinvestment. Commercial banks are estimated to be lending significantly less to commercial real estate, with current pace at less than half of the previous 10-year average. | UTG CHMP ACCOR UTG CHMP AC ROG BOISE DBK OR HBR LUN CS |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 21, 2025 | Baron Real Estate Fund | 10.2% | 6.4% | AAON, ABNB, AMH, AMT, BN, BX, CBRE, CRH, CSGP, EQIX, FND, HLT, IRM, IRT, JLL, TOL, VMC, VNO, WELL, WYNN | Commercial, Data centers, Homebuilders, real estate, Recovery, REITs, Travel, value | Fund believes commercial real estate services companies like CBRE and JLL will benefit from structural tailwinds including outsourcing and institutionalization of commercial real estate. Early days of rebound in sales and leasing activity expected with potential for 20%+ annual earnings growth. | FND AAON WYNN FND AAON WYNN |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 27, 2026 | Diamond Hill Small-Mid Cap Strategy | 1.2% | 8.5% | AMH, ARE, BAH, CCS, CIEN, CUBE, GIS, GTES, HII, HLIO, IAC, LEA, PRGO, SBAC, UDR, WCC, WIX, WLK, WNS | defense, healthcare, industrials, mid cap, real estate, small cap, technology, value | The portfolio faced headwinds from AI-driven market exuberance creating momentum-driven rallies favoring lower-quality businesses. However, some holdings like Ciena benefited from hyperscaler and AI-related demand optimism. The managers express caution about AI bubble concerns emerging in December. WESCO International's data center business reached nearly 20% of total revenue and drove better-than-expected organic growth. The rapid expansion of this segment was a key contributor to the company's outperformance during the quarter. Huntington Ingalls Industries benefited from strong execution, new frigate contract awards, and discussion of a potential Trump-class battleship. Booz Allen Hamilton faced pressure from Department of Government Efficiency initiatives but remains well-positioned given differentiated technology capabilities and sustained government demand. The portfolio includes exposure to various real estate segments including self-storage (CubeSmart facing occupancy pressures), wireless tower infrastructure (SBA Communications), life sciences real estate (Alexandria Real Estate), and single-family rentals (Invitation Homes). The sector faces headwinds from higher interest rates and housing market challenges. | INVH ARE BAH SBAC CUBE GTES HII WCC CIEN ZTS HII |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | Baron Real Estate Fund | -1.4% | 4.9% | AMH, AMT, BX, CSGP, DHI, FBIN, GDS, GMG.AX, H, HLT, IRM, JLL, PLD, RKT, SKY, TMHC, TREX, VNO, VTR, WELL | Commercial, Data centers, Housing, Industrial, real estate, REITs, Travel | Fund invests in leading commercial real estate services companies CBRE, JLL, and Cushman & Wakefield that benefit from outsourcing trends, institutionalization of commercial real estate, and market share opportunities in a fragmented industry. These companies are expected to generate 15%+ annual earnings growth as commercial real estate sales and leasing activity rebounds. Multi-year setup for data centers is as strong as ever with expanding demand from cloud computing, IT outsourcing, and AI workloads from Magnificent 7 companies. New supply is constrained due to elevated construction costs and power constraints while rents are rising. Fund owns Equinix, Digital Realty Trust, GDS Holdings, and Goodman as multi-year beneficiaries. Travel companies benefit from favorable shift in consumer preferences away from goods spending to prioritizing travel experiences. Fund owns best-in-class hotel companies Hilton and Hyatt which should continue benefiting from these secular trends including flexible work arrangements allowing more travel and cyclically depressed business activity creating opportunities. Despite near-term housing market challenges from affordability issues and buyer/seller strikes, there is structural underinvestment in housing relative to demographic needs. US builds same number of homes today as 1960 despite 160 million more people. Fund sees long-term bullish opportunity in companies like Toll Brothers and Champion Homes as housing market rebounds. Industrial real estate benefits from multi-year demand drivers including e-commerce growth, last mile infrastructure needs, onshoring trends, and shift from just-in-time to just-in-case inventory management. AI's physical manifestation through robotics and automation will require more industrial facilities. Fund owns Prologis, EastGroup Properties, and Terreno Realty. | IRM VTR WELL FBIN SKY CSGP H PLD JLL |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 22, 2026 | Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund | -1.8% | 11.3% | AMH, BKG.L, BRK-A, BYG.L, CBRE, DHI, FMCC, FNF, FNMA, FPH, JLL, LEN, PHM, PLD, RYN, SKY, SUI, UHAL, UTG.L, WY | Commercial, Homebuilders, real estate, REIT, Residential, value | Fund maintains significant exposure to commercial real estate platforms including real estate services, asset management, industrial and logistics properties, and self-storage facilities. These holdings represent platforms that would be very difficult to reassemble and comprise select pockets of commercial real estate with structural demand drivers and limited maintenance capital expenditure requirements. Fund holds positions in major U.S. homebuilders including Lennar Corp., D.R. Horton, PulteGroup, and Champion Homes. These companies are supported by near-record low levels of for-sale inventories, near-record high demand for affordable product, and industry dynamics favoring scaled players over time. Fund focuses on well-capitalized enterprises with discounted securities trading at more than a 20% discount to estimated Net Asset Value at year-end. The strategy targets strategic real estate at value prices with prospects to compound capital over time. Multiple portfolio companies engaged in share repurchase activities during the quarter, including Lennar Corp. completing an exchange offer that effectively acted as an accelerated share repurchase program, exchanging Millrose Properties shares for 5% of its outstanding A shares. | DBK GR BIRG ID 2330 TT HBR LN CS CN LUN CN HCC |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Baron Focused Growth Fund | 11.7% | 13.2% | ABNB, ACGL, AMH, ANSYS, BIRK, CHH, CSGP, DEI, FDS, FIGS, GWRE, H, IBKR, IDEXX, ILMN, IRDM, JEF, KKD, LVS, MRNA, MSCI, MTN, ONON, RRR, SHOP, SPOT, TSLA, VRSK | concentrated, consumer discretionary, financials, growth, long-term, small caps, technology | Tesla represents the fund's largest position at 9.8% of assets, with the stock contributing 274 bps to quarterly performance. The manager believes lower interest rates should help Tesla sell more cars and halt continuous price reductions, while the energy storage business continues to grow rapidly. | View | |
| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund | 15.7% | 0.0% | AMH, BN, BYG.L, CBRE, DHI, FMCC, FNF, FNMA, FPH, JLL, LEN, LOW, PLD, RYN, SGRO.L, SUI, SVS.L, UHAL, WCC, WY | Commercial real estate, Homebuilders, Hotels, Housing, real estate, REITs, value | Fund holds major homebuilders like Lennar and D.R. Horton positioned to benefit from persistent housing supply deficits and consolidation trends. Large publicly traded builders have increased market share to 55% from 40% five years ago by focusing on attainable housing and offering rate buydowns through captive mortgage subsidiaries. | WCC AC.PA |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jul 27, 2024 | Baron Focused Growth Fund | 11.7% | 13.2% | ACGL, AMH, ANSYS, ARE, BIRK, CHH, CSGP, DEI, FDS, FIGS, GWRE, H, IBKR, IDXX, ILMN, IRDM, JEF, KKD, LVS, MSCI, MTN, ONON, RRR, SHOP, SPOT, TSLA, VRSK | concentrated, consumer discretionary, Disruptive Growth, growth, Long/Short, rates, technology | Tesla continues to drive manufacturing costs lower and invest heavily in AI initiatives. The company expects to launch a lower cost model as soon as late 2024, which should result in accelerated revenue growth and increased factory utilization. Tesla's energy storage business almost doubled in Q2 from Q1 levels. | COST GWW IBKR TSLA SPOT |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jul 19, 2024 | Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund | 15.7% | 0.0% | 1CKH.HK, 4WH.HK, AMH, BAM, BKG.L, BYG.L, CBRE, DHI, FMCC, FNMA, FR, GRI.L, JLL, LEN, LOW, PLD, SEGRO.L, SUI, SVS.L, WCC | Commercial, Data centers, Grid Upgrade, infrastructure, real estate, REITs, Residential, value | Fund has approximately 30% of capital invested in companies with ties to the data center value chain, including leasing powered shells, realizing higher-and-better use opportunities by repositioning land for data center development, and providing energy and logistics services. The rapid adoption of AI and accelerated build out of energy-intensive data centers is driving demand for electrical grid infrastructure. | PLD WCC |
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| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund | -0.5% | -0.5% | 4.HK, AMH, BAM, BN, CBRE, DHI, FMCC, FNF, FNMA, FPH, GRI.L, INA.AX, JLL, LEN, PHM, RYN, SUI, SVS.L, UTG.L, WY | Commercial, demographics, Homebuilders, Mortgage, real estate, Student Housing, value | Fund initiated position in PulteGroup, recognizing demographic tailwinds from millennials entering prime home-buying years. Large-scale builders like Pulte, Lennar, and D.R. Horton have evolved to more defensive business models with land options versus ownership, strengthened balance sheets with net cash positions, and gained significant market share. These companies are positioned to maintain profitability and sustain share repurchases despite near-term headwinds. | UTG.L PHM |
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| 2023 Q4 | Jan 31, 2024 | Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund | 15.7% | 0.0% | 1113.HK, 4.HK, AMH, BAM, BKG.L, BN, BYG.L, CBRE, DHI, FMCC, FNF, FNMA, FPH, FRT, GRI.L, ING.AX, IVT, JLL, LEN, LOW, NSA, PLD, RYN, SGRO.L, SUI, SVS.L, TPHS, UHAL, WY | Commercial, Homebuilders, interest rates, real estate, REITs, Residential, value | Fund has 33% invested in commercial real estate enterprises focused on secular trends including industrial properties, self-storage, and last-mile fulfillment. Holdings include companies capitalizing on structural demand changes and urban densification. | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Jan 17, 2026 | Seeking Alpha | Seeking Alpha | American Homes 4 Rent | Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) | Single-Family Rental | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | AFFO growth, American Homes 4 Rent, diversified portfolio, institutional buying ban, market valuation, regulatory uncertainty, REIT, rental demand, Single-Family Rental, supply challenges | View Pitch |
| Jan 9, 2026 | Seeking Alpha | Seeking Alpha | American Homes 4 Rent | Real Estate | Residential REIT | Neutral | New York Stock Exchange | American Homes 4 Rent, housing affordability, Institutional Investors, political risk, Real Estate, REIT, rental market, short-term leases, single-family properties, valuation | View Pitch |
| Manager Name | Fund Name | Fund AUM | Invested Value | Portfolio Weight | Shares Owned | Shares Bought / Sold During Quarter | % Bought / Sold During Quarter | % of Shares Outstanding Owned |
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