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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 3, 2026 | Gator Capital Management | 4.1% | 31.9% | BCS, BNP.PA, C, COMP, CUBI, FCNCA, GLE.PA, GPN, HOOD, HOUS, JPM, JXN, PYPL, SOHO, TD, TFSL, UMBF, VRTS | Banking, Capital markets, financials, real estate, Regional Banks, small caps, value | The fund focuses on small and mid-cap financial institutions, particularly regional banks with mutual holding company structures. TFS Financial represents a key investment in this space, offering leveraged exposure to earnings recovery through its unique MHC structure. Significant exposure to mortgage-related businesses through TFS Financial's traditional thrift model and Anywhere Real Estate's real estate services. The fund sees opportunity as the housing market recovers and interest rate environment normalizes. Strong positioning in capital markets through investment platforms like Robinhood Markets and traditional investment management firms. The fund benefited from continued product innovation and growth in retail trading platforms. | TFSL |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | Hotchkis & Wiley Global Value Fund | 3.8% | 23.8% | AIG, BNP.PA, CMCSA, CRM, ELV, ERIC, FFIV, FISV, GEHC, GOOGL, UNH, USB, WBD, WDAY | AI, financials, global, healthcare, software, technology, valuation, value | The portfolio trades at 13x forward earnings and less than 10x normal earnings, representing attractive valuations relative to the broad market. The fund focuses on opportunities outside the Magnificent 7 where overall valuations remain near average despite elevated market multiples. The fund views AI as more likely to be a tailwind for application software vendors like Workday as they incorporate AI-powered features into their software suites. Google delivered strong new AI products that appear to be taking material share of Consumer Chatbot activity from OpenAI's ChatGPT. The fund has significant exposure to cloud-based enterprise software companies like Workday and Salesforce, which provide human capital management, financial management, and analytics solutions. These companies benefit from sticky customer bases and recurring revenue models. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | Brandes International Equity Fund | 5.7% | 39.1% | 005930.KS, 1876.HK, 4503.T, 8306.T, BABA, BNP.PA, CX, DGE.L, DPW.DE, EBS.VI, ERJ, GRF.MC, GSK, HEI.DE, KER.PA, MNDI.L, NG.L, ORA.PA, OTEX.TO, RI.PA, TSCO.L, TSM | emerging markets, Europe, international, Outperformance, packaging, Utilities, value | International value stocks continue to trade within the least expensive valuation quartile relative to growth stocks since style indices inception. The valuation gap is evident across multiple metrics including price/earnings, price/cash flow, and enterprise value/sales. Historically, such discount levels often preceded attractive relative returns for value stocks over subsequent three- to five-year periods. Exposure to emerging markets helped returns, led by South Korean Samsung Electronics, Mexico's Cemex, and Erste Group Bank operating across emerging Europe. Leading contributors for the year included emerging market holdings such as Alibaba, Samsung, Taiwan Semiconductor, Brazil's Embraer and Mexico-based Cemex. The portfolio continues to have larger weighting to select emerging markets, particularly Mexico, South Korea, and Brazil. National Grid has strategically repositioned its asset base toward electricity networks, reducing exposure to gas and aligning with long-term energy transition trends. Over the past decade, roughly 75% of its regulated asset base is in electricity, expected to rise to 80% by 2029, supported by structural growth in electrification and renewable integration. The company's position as a critical enabler of decarbonization provides attractive risk-adjusted returns. Mondi is a leading European producer of corrugated packaging, containerboard, kraft paper, and uncoated fine paper with strong presence in Eastern and Western Europe. Secular trends such as sustainability, convenience, and the shift from plastic to paper underpin steady growth in fiber-based packaging. The company's cost leadership, strong positioning in high-barrier-to-entry kraft paper market, and integrated operations provide competitive advantage. | TSCO LN NG LN MNDI LN |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 22, 2026 | Thornburg Equity Income Builder Fund / Thornburg Investment Income Builder Fund | 7.0% | 37.0% | 005930.KS, AVGO, AZN, BNP.PA, C, CME, DTEGY, ELE.MC, ENEL.MI, KPN.AS, MRK, NN.AS, NVS, ORAN, PFE, RHHBY, T, TSCO.L, TSM, TTE | dividends, financials, global, healthcare, Telecommunications, Utilities, value | The fund maintains exposure to dividend-paying firms with resilient businesses and strong capital structures. The portfolio's weighted average dividend yield of 4.2% significantly exceeds the MSCI Index's 1.7% yield. Most holdings have made reasonable progress growing their bases of paying customers and distributable cash flows to support multi-year dividend growth. The portfolio trades at attractive valuations with a weighted harmonic average 2025 consensus P/E ratio of 14.3x, well below the MSCI All Country World Index's 21.6x. The manager believes these businesses are valued very attractively relative to their own histories and other assets, incorporating significant intrinsic value. The fund focuses on businesses that occupy important positions in their respective markets and tend to be well capitalized. These firms retain their market positions providing important products and services that generate cash flows. The manager emphasizes resilient businesses with strong capital structures that can maintain operations through various market conditions. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 11, 2026 | Thornburg International Equity Fund | 4.5% | 34.2% | 005930.KS, 4901.T, 6501.T, 6758.T, 8306.T, AZN, BABA, BNP.PA, BZ, CP, DPW.DE, LIN, NN.AS, ROG.SW, SU.PA, TTE | China, Europe, fundamentals, international, Japan, value | Trade tensions remained a significant theme with continuing negotiations between the U.S. and major trade partners including China, which is also in contentious trade talks and tit-for-tat tariff and procurement walls with the European Union. Technology-related industries showed strength, particularly in Northeast Asia and the U.S., where chip stocks rallied on AI optimism during the fourth quarter. The U.S. Federal Reserve cut its target rate 25 basis points in December. The Bank of Japan lifted its rate a quarter point while the ECB stood pat, creating rate differentials that played out in currency markets. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 11, 2026 | Thornburg Global Opportunities Fund | 6.5% | 41.1% | 0027.HK, 005930.KS, 0700.HK, 300750.SZ, BABA, BIRG.L, BNP.PA, C, CACI, COF, FCX, GOOGL, LLY, META, NN.AS, ORA.PA, RELIANCE.NS, SAP.DE, SCHW, SHEL, T, TSCO.L, TSM, TTE | Digital Economy, financials, global, growth, semiconductors, technology, Trade Policy, value | The fund holds significant positions in semiconductor companies including Samsung Electronics, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Contemporary Amperex Technology. These technology firms were leading contributors to portfolio performance during Q4 2025, with the manager highlighting their role in the digital economy transformation. Financial intermediaries represent 20.5% of the portfolio, with the manager believing they should benefit from interest rates determined primarily by free market forces. Key holdings include Citigroup, Bank of Ireland, BNP Paribas, NN Group, Capital One, and Charles Schwab, which were significant contributors to Q4 performance. The portfolio includes major e-commerce platforms Alibaba Group, Tencent Holdings, and Meta Platforms, though these were among the most significant detractors from Q4 performance. The manager maintains exposure to firms tied to the digital economy despite recent underperformance. Energy investments comprise 6.9% of the portfolio, including positions in Shell PLC and Total Energies SE. The manager notes periodic fluctuation of investor confidence in industrial commodity sector businesses, with Total Energies contributing positively to Q4 performance. The manager explicitly discusses evolving U.S. trade policies and their impact on global trade flows, noting that winners and losers among multi-national producers of tradeable goods will become obvious in time. The current outlook for many global businesses remains uncertain due to new trade policies. | View |
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