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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | Bell Global Emerging Companies Fund | -1.8% | -5.9% | 3064.T, 6146.T, AMS.MC, AUTO.L, BJ, BOOT, CHKP, CNM, COR, CPG.L, DB1.DE, GWW, LPLA, MSCI, ODFL, PCTY, SCI, TSCO, TTC, TTI.HK, VEEV, WKL.AS | global, industrials, Quality, SMID Cap, technology, value | The fund follows a Quality at a Reasonable Price (QARP) approach, focusing on consistently high returning companies with durable growth characteristics. 2025 was challenging for this style as markets favored momentum and sentiment-driven narratives over fundamentals, but the team believes quality investing will reassert itself as markets become more earnings driven. The fund invests in global small and mid cap equities with 30-60 holdings, maintaining benchmark agnostic positioning. The portfolio targets companies with market capitalizations in the SMID cap range, seeking to outperform the MSCI World SMID Cap Index over rolling three-year periods. The fund emphasizes valuation discipline as part of its QARP approach, seeking quality companies at reasonable prices. Many high-quality businesses in the portfolio are trading at compelling valuations, with the portfolio's weighted upside potential sitting at the upper end of historical ranges based on conservative assumptions. | VEEV AUTO LN COR TSCO CNM TTC 3064 JP 6146 JP CPG LN LPLA GWW ODFL |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | Bell Global Equities Fund | -1.5% | 0.0% | 3064.T, 6098.T, 8697.T, AAPL, ACN, AMZN, AUTO.L, AVGO, BOOT, GOOGL, GWW, JPM, LPLA, META, MSFT, NVDA, ODFL, SAP.DE, SNPS, TSCO, V | financials, Global Equities, industrials, QARP, Quality, technology | Bell maintains a Quality at a Reasonable Price (QARP) approach despite challenging performance in 2025. The team believes quality investing periods of underperformance often create compelling opportunities to lean in as fundamentals ultimately reassert themselves and valuations matter again. The portfolio benefits from sustained demand from AI-driven data centre investment, with technology companies like NVIDIA representing significant holdings. AI infrastructure continues to drive performance across multiple portfolio positions. | JKHY LPLA GWW TSCO ODFL |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 19, 2026 | Forager International Shares Fund | -2.0% | 15.0% | AUTO.L, BKNG, CRH, CRM, FISV, FIX, FLUT, G24.DE, INCH.L, INGA.AS, IT, LNR.TO, NUTX, NXT, PSI.TO, REA.AX, SES.MI, WISE.L, XRO.AX, ZEG.L | AI, global, Quality, small caps, technology, Travel, value | AI companies' insatiable demand for data centres and power generation led to significant returns for heating and cooling system installer Comfort Systems and solar equipment company Nextpower. Markets are increasingly questioning whether new AI-enabled competitors and solutions threaten the dominance of application software companies. The fund added three technology companies that have each halved over 2025 and hopes to add more. Many tech stocks had become expensive but recent falls present opportunities, though most still aren't cheap enough including Xero. International arrivals into Australia set post-Covid records in recent months, with August, September and October combined seeing arrivals hit 97% of 2019 levels. Travel has historically grown at a multiple of GDP growth and there is still catching up to do. Quality businesses with strong moats and decades of earnings growth suffered in 2025 as share prices had been growing faster than earnings. High multiples became a problem even for the best businesses, resulting in years of no returns or significant derating. | ARX AU ZEG LN NXT NUTX FISV |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 18, 2026 | Distillate Capital International | 0.0% | 41.5% | 005930.KS, 066570.KS, 1024.HK, 2319.HK, 2618.HK, 267270.KS, 601600.SS, 6594.T, 9618.HK, AEM, AUTO.L, BATS.L, CX, FMX, GIB.TO, MC.PA, RHHBY, RIO.AX | cash flow, fundamentals, international, Quality, valuation, value | U.S. equities are historically expensive by any measure and at a valuation level that has typically been associated with much more subdued future returns. The S&P 500 is near record multiples and trading at concerningly rich valuations primarily due to a short list of very large and expensive stocks. International stocks look very appealing even after significant outperformance in 2025. International stocks significantly outperformed their domestic counterparts in 2025, and the less expensive portions of the market did particularly well. International companies offer an important counterbalance to the richness of the broader U.S. market when selectively chosen and are beneficial from a diversification perspective. The strategy systematically filters out highly levered or fundamentally less stable companies and focuses on cash flow stability and low indebtedness thresholds. Quality metrics include fundamental stability scores and leverage ratios that differentiate the portfolio from broader market benchmarks. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 16, 2026 | Ennismore Global Equity Fund | -4.1% | 4.0% | 3994.T, ACP.WA, AUTO.L, BCG.L, FORTY.TA, PDX.ST, PRJ.WA, SPX.L, STC.L, WISE.L | AI, Classifieds, disruption, global, Long/Short, small caps, technology | The year's dominant theme has been physical vs. digital, with AI disruption fears broadening beyond obvious early casualties to wider sectors including software, digital advertising, and business information. The manager provides extensive analysis of AI disruption risks to classified platforms, concluding that while the bear case is coherent, it overstates key dynamics and underestimates structural barriers protecting incumbents. The fund holds eight long positions in classifieds representing 11% of NAV. Share prices are down 30-50% over six months as the market prices in AI disruption risks. The manager argues the bear case is substantially wrong, citing verified inventory advantages, multi-sided lock-in effects, and partnership rather than displacement as the natural structure. Watson Marlow experienced a Covid-driven boom-bust cycle followed by multi-year inventory unwind that stabilized in 2025. Destocking has ended across the sector with companies like Sartorius Stedim, Danaher, and Merck reporting solid growth. The manager estimates biopharma sales could grow 30% in 2026. | BCG LN AUTO LN SPI LN PDX SS WISE LN |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 15, 2026 | Canopy Investors | - | - | 4194.T, ASSA-B.ST, AUTO.L, AZEK, JHX, MEDP, MONC.MI, NEM, PTC, TREX, TW | AI, Enterprise Software, global, Japan, Quality, SMID Cap, valuation | AI has driven significant market rotation away from quality stocks, with concerns about disruption weighing on enterprise software and online classifieds companies. The fund believes AI disruption fears are overdone for their portfolio companies, which are more likely to be beneficiaries than victims of AI adoption. Quality was the worst-performing investment factor in H1 FY26, with lower-quality and more volatile stocks significantly outperforming. This represents a continuation of quality underperformance reminiscent of the late 1990s dot-com era, driven by speculative investor behavior and thematic investing. Japan faces structural labor shortages driving increased mid-career hiring and workforce mobility. The country has a new pro-business Prime Minister and depreciating yen enhancing export competitiveness, though it faces labor shortages, inflation, and geopolitical risks with China. Enterprise software companies face investor concerns about AI disruption, particularly around AI agents displacing traditional interfaces and reducing barriers to entry. However, many providers digitize structured processes that AI cannot easily replace and are likely to benefit from AI integration. | 4194 JP TREX AUTO LN MEDP PTC |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 15, 2026 | Baillie Gifford -International All Cap | - | 19.0% | 005930.KS, 3317.T, 4519.T, 6869.T, 8035.T, ASML, AUTO.L, DSV.CO, EXO.MI, GAW.L, MC.PA, MELI, NMET.DE, RMV.L, ROG.SW, TSM | AI, growth, healthcare, international, Luxury, Quality, semiconductors, technology | AI continues to drive robust demand for advanced chips, particularly benefiting TSMC and related semiconductor equipment companies. However, AI tools and functionality create uncertainty for online platforms like Rightmove and Autotrader, as markets take a cautious stance on potential position erosion or increased investment needs. The impact appears mixed across sectors with clear benefits for chip manufacturers but concerns for consumer-facing platforms. Semiconductor companies were among the most significant contributors to performance, driven by robust demand for advanced chips used in artificial intelligence. TSMC benefited from AI chip demand, Samsung was supported by improving memory market conditions particularly high bandwidth memory, and related equipment companies like ASML, Tokyo Electron and Chroma also performed well during the quarter. The portfolio maintains a structural bias towards high-quality growth businesses, though this created headwinds during the quarter as quality stocks underperformed the broader international market by a margin rarely seen in recent years. The manager emphasizes focus on exceptional businesses with durable competitive advantages, strong balance sheets, and compelling long-term growth opportunities. LVMH contributed positively to performance in the quarter, supported by improving trends in Asia and the resilience of its leading brands after a period of weaker demand for luxury goods. The recovery suggests stabilization in the luxury sector following previous weakness. | View |
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