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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 2, 2025 | Baron Global Advantage Fund | 22.6% | 11.0% | ARGX, BILL, CPNG, CRWD, DDOG, ENDV, GLOB, ILMN, LOAR, MELI, NET, NU, NVDA, PDD, SHOP, SNOW, TSLA, TSM, TTAN, ZS | AI, E-Commerce, global, growth, semiconductors, technology, volatility | AI infrastructure buildout is durable with NVIDIA maintaining leadership. Scaling laws have expanded beyond pre-training to post-training and test-time scaling, driving GPU demand. AI workloads will be supported by large language models in datacenters, unlocking trillions in value across intelligence-bottlenecked industries. | View | |
| 2024 Q2 | Jul 12, 2024 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | 8.6% | 13.3% | ADYEY, ALGN, ALNY, BILL, BMRN, CPRT, CSGP, EFX, GWRE, KLAC, LULU, MPWR, MSCI, POOL, SQ, TER, TT, WDAY, WDC, WST | AI, growth, Housing, Life Sciences, mid cap, semiconductors, software, technology | The fund maintains an overweight position in semiconductors, which was the most significant contributor this quarter. Holdings include Teradyne, KLA Corporation, and Monolithic Power Systems, all benefiting from AI-driven demand. The fund re-initiated a position in Western Digital to participate in AI via an undervalued memory semiconductor stock. | View | |
| 2026 Q1 | Apr 28, 2026 | Lazard Enhanced Opportunities Portfolio | - | - | AKAM, BILL, FIVN, IREN, ORCL, PGY | Convertibles, Data centers, energy, Middle East, software, technology, volatility | View | ||
| 2026 Q1 | Apr 17, 2026 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | -7.0% | -7.0% | ARES, BILL, BLDR, CSGP, DKS, EW, HOOD, HUBG, KLAC, ODFL, RDDT, RKLB, ROK, TER, VMC | AI, growth, Housing, industrials, mid cap, semiconductors, technology | View | ||
| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | AMG Frontier Small Cap Growth | -14.4% | -14.4% | AMTM, BECN, BILL, CACI, CG, CZR, DLB, DOCN, EPRT, FTAI, INDI, LTH, MAT, MDB, PGY, TXG, UCTT, UTHR | AI, Cloud, defense, healthcare, semiconductors, small caps, technology, Trade Policy | Technology was the largest detracting industry with underperformance from indie Semiconductor and Ultra Clean Holdings. indie faced weakness in China and tariff uncertainty affecting auto build rates globally, while Ultra Clean experienced product qualification delays at a Chinese customer and weakening semiconductor equipment demand in China. | View | |
| 2023 Q1 | Mar 31, 2023 | Baron FinTech Fund | 4.8% | 4.8% | ACN, APO, BILL, CME, ENDV.L, FICO, GWRE, IBKR, INTU, LPLA, MA, MELI, MKTX, MSCI, PGR, SCHW, SPGI, TW, V, WEX | AI, Banking, Financial Services, Fintech, payments, software, technology | The Fund focuses on competitively advantaged, growing fintech companies across seven investment themes including Payments, Information Services, Tech-Enabled Financials, and Enterprise Software. Private market valuations for fintech companies are starting to catch up to steep drops in public markets, with reduced private capital investment expected to temper competitive intensity and increase profitability for publicly traded incumbents. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Mar 2, 2026 | Baron Global Opportunity Fund | 6.5% | 27.5% | ADYEN, AMZN, ARGX, ASML, BILL, CPNG, CRWD, DDOG, GDS, ILMN, MELI, NET, NU, NVDA, SHOP, SNOW, SQ, TSM, WIX, ZS | AI, Cloud, E-Commerce, global, growth, innovation, semiconductors, technology | AI represents the dominant investment theme with companies adapting to disruptive change. The pace of innovation is unprecedented with LLMs becoming more intelligent, costs declining 10x per year, and agentic AI task duration doubling every 6-7 months. Portfolio companies are categorized as AI infrastructure builders, providers, early adopters, and beneficiaries of productivity gains. E-commerce platforms benefit from AI adoption in recommendation engines, advertising algorithms, and customer support optimization. Companies like Amazon, MercadoLibre, Coupang, and Shopify are leveraging AI to improve conversion rates and reduce service costs while expanding into new markets and verticals. Semiconductor companies, particularly TSMC and NVIDIA, are benefiting from AI demand with TSMC raising revenue guidance to mid-30s% growth. NVIDIA continues evolving from graphics cards to leading AI infrastructure company, while TSMC maintains 90% market share in leading-edge manufacturing with ability to raise prices. Cybersecurity companies are using AI in core algorithms to better identify anomalies and block malicious traffic. CrowdStrike is seeing reacceleration in growth with new Falcon Flex offering, while Netskope continues gaining SASE market share with strong competitive win rates. Biotechnology investments focus on companies with differentiated technologies and expanding addressable markets. Argenx continues strong performance with Vyvgart sales exceeding expectations, while BillionToOne disrupts prenatal and oncology diagnostics with innovative QCT technology achieving superior accuracy. Cloud infrastructure companies are positioned to benefit from AI buildout with AWS aggressively investing in capacity and offering full-stack AI solutions. The data gravity of existing customers provides competitive advantages while companies expand AI inference and development platforms. | View | |
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Baron Global Advantage Fund | 11.8% | 26.1% | ARGX, ASML, BAJFINANCE.NS, BILL, CPNG, CRWD, DDOG, ENDV.L, INDI, MELI, NET, NVDA, RIVN, SHOP.TO, SNOW, TSLA, TTAN, WIX, ZOMATO.NS, ZS | AI, Cloud, E-Commerce, global, growth, Robotics, semiconductors, technology | The fund views AI as one of the biggest disruptive changes in human history, comparing it to the early internet era. AI model intelligence is improving rapidly through multiple vectors including scaling laws, multiple modalities, synthetic data, post-training techniques, and inference-time scaling. The fund owns businesses positioned to benefit from this paradigm shift including NVIDIA at the epicenter and platforms like Shopify that can utilize AI to help merchants. | View | |
| 2023 Q4 | Dec 31, 2023 | Baron Global Advantage Fund | 14.7% | 25.3% | 3690.HK, AAPL, ADYEN, AMZN, ARGX, ASML, BILL, BJFNF, CPNG, CRWD, DAVA, DDOG, EPAM, FVRR, GLOB, GOOGL, INPST, MELI, META, MSFT, NET, NVDA, SHOP, SNOW, SQ, TSLA, WIX, ZI, ZS | AI, Cloud, cybersecurity, Digitization, E-Commerce, global, growth, technology | GenAI is creating an inflection point that benefits many portfolio companies beyond just NVIDIA. Enterprises are accelerating digitization trends to benefit from GenAI, with less than 10% of companies having mature data and AI capabilities. This trend should be a tailwind for businesses that enable or benefit from digitization such as cybersecurity, infrastructure monitoring, and data platforms. | View | |
| 2024 Q3 | Oct 28, 2024 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | 8.6% | 13.3% | A, ADSK, BILL, CDNS, EFX, GWRE, IQV, JBHT, KLAC, LPLA, MELI, MTD, NET, NTR, ROST, SHW, TEAM, TER, TT, WDC | growth, healthcare, mid cap, Quality, semiconductors, software, technology, Transportation | Fund maintained overweight position despite third quarter underperformance, expecting holdings to benefit as AI moves from data centers to smartphones and laptops. Increasing semiconductor complexity requires more design, capital equipment and testing. | View | |
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 27, 2025 | 13D Activist Fund | 8.9% | 2.7% | ABG, ALV, APD, BILL, EXEL, KVUE, MIDD, MRCY, PENN, PFGC, PSO.L, QRVO, RIOT, SWX, TRIP, TWLO, VSAT, VSTS, WK, YETI | activism, M&A, SMID Cap, technology, value | Activist activity and success have been flourishing with the Universal Proxy Card increasing campaign success rates from 73% to 88%. The fund expects significant alpha generation from activists like Jeff Smith, Scott Ferguson and Dan Loeb as markets rotate into value investing. | WK VSAT TRIP PFGC |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 20, 2026 | Marram Investment Management | 0.0% | 4.0% | AVDX, BILL, FITB, FOUR, OKE, PAA, PAGP, PAY, PSFE, PYPL | Banking, biopharma, cash flow, energy, payments, value | Payment technology businesses experiencing disconnect between operating fundamentals and share price performance. Companies continue to compound value per share despite valuation compression and shareholder turnover. Manager rebalanced allocation by exiting some positions and concentrating in higher-conviction holdings at lower prices. Energy infrastructure companies with indispensable assets benefiting from geopolitical strife, inflation, and increased recognition of renewable energy limitations. MLPs remain cornerstone allocation with favorable industry demand dynamics, stable cash flows, conservative balance sheets, and inflation protection. Large regional banks purchased during March 2023 banking crisis at fire-sale prices have generated 30%+ IRR. Manager continues to view sector favorably for steady 10%+ annual profits but has prudently moderated exposure due to expanded valuations and gradually easing credit underwriting standards. Sector out of favor due to political factors leading to lower industry R&D spend. Manager believes society will continue to need new drugs and health innovations, expecting capital to return and R&D spend to reaccelerate. Initiated diversified basket allocation via ETFs and service-based businesses. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 18, 2026 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | -0.8% | 9.2% | ALC, APP, BILL, BLDR, DASH, GWW, HLT, HUBB, INSM, MORN, MPWR, ODFL, PWR, ROK, SN, SQ, TEAM, TER, WCN, WDAY | AI, growth, industrials, mid cap, portfolio, semiconductors, technology | The ongoing AI megatrend boosted demand for memory and storage while industry supply growth remained constrained. Holdings in Information Technology sector were dominant contributors through exposure to AI, primarily through semiconductor companies. The fund continues to see accelerating demand for AI models and cloud computing with no signs of slowdown. Semiconductor companies were primary beneficiaries of AI demand. Teradyne is starting to win new sockets and gain market share after investing in AI-semiconductor testers. KLA benefited from AI infrastructure build-out with strong earnings growth. The fund increased exposure to high-quality industrial businesses with potential for cyclical upturn. Added Quanta Services for AI data center build-out, Hubbell for electrical grid upgrades, Old Dominion for freight cycle recovery, and Waste Connections for secondary market focus. | MTD ROK KLA TER SNDK |
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| 2023 Q1 | Apr 17, 2023 | SandbrooK Capital | 6.0% | 11.1% | AMZN, BILL, BOX, CFLT, CRM, CROX, CRWD, ESTC, ETSY, GOOS, HCP, HIMS, MSFT, NKE, RH, SNAP, SNOW, SPT, VRT, ZM | consumer, Long/Short, Macro, risk management, software, technology | Manager focused on large cap tech and growth software names, particularly beaten-up tech stocks in January. Positioned in CRM, CRWD, ZM, SNOW, BILL, AMZN, MSFT, and ESTC as top contributors. Also shorted tier 2 high growth software names where multiples had run above long-term averages. | SONO |
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| 2025 Q1 | Apr 14, 2025 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | -10.0% | -10.0% | A, APP, ARES, BILL, BLDR, BR, CMG, CTAS, DDOG, EFX, FTNT, GWRE, HLT, HOOD, ICLR, JBHT, KLAC, MELI, NTRA, ODFL, ORLY, ROST, SQ, TER, TTD, VRSK, WDAY, WST | AI, growth, Housing, industrials, Logistics, mid cap, semiconductors, technology | DeepSeek's emergence as a Chinese AI challenger triggered sharp selloffs in AI software and infrastructure stocks. The market faced concerns about slowing AI capex spending, affecting momentum-led growth stocks significantly. | View | |
| 2023 Q4 | Jan 27, 2024 | Carillon Eagle Mid Cap Growth Fund | 0.0% | 0.0% | BILL, CRWD, DXCM, GTLS, HAL, MPWR, PAYC, PLNT, SNPS, TRU | AI, cybersecurity, energy, growth, healthcare, mid cap, semiconductors, technology | Artificial intelligence applications are driving demand for semiconductor chips and enterprise data centers. The rise of AI is expected to make it easier for criminals to generate sophisticated cyber attacks, increasing demand for security software. Technology companies are leveraging AI in new product announcements. | View | |
| 2024 Q4 | Jan 17, 2025 | Carillon Eagle Small Cap Growth Fund | - | - | APPF, AROC, BILL, ESAB, EVH, EXR, FRSH, KWR, LPLA, LSTR, MMSI, MSA, PCVX, PI, PJT, RBA, SUM, TMDX, ZETA | AI, Election, financials, growth, healthcare, M&A, small caps, technology | The letter discusses significant AI investment themes, noting that one major chip designer's data center revenues are expected to represent approximately 15% of total U.S. capital spending in 2025. The managers highlight the risk of excess capacity if generative AI applications fail to drive demand, requiring hyperscalers to generate $400 billion in revenue to justify current spending levels. | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Jan 8, 2026 | Substack | Voss Capital | Bill.com Holdings, Inc. | Software | Software | Bear | New York Stock Exchange | Bill.com, capital expenditures, financial health, market conditions, operating margins, profitability, Rule of 40, Software, stock-based compensation, valuation | View Pitch |
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