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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 8, 2026 | Auxier Asset Management | 2.0% | 15.2% | BK, BRK-A, BTI, C, CAT, CVX, FI, GE, GLW, GOOGL, HD, LOW, MSFT, MU, NOW, PH, QCOM, RTX, UNH, VLO | AI, Banking, Buybacks, defense, energy, healthcare, technology, value | Technology hyperscalers spent close to $400 billion in 2025 on AI infrastructure with potential to reach $527 billion in 2026. However, an MIT study found 95% of generative AI pilots failing to deliver measurable returns, raising concerns about overinvestment similar to the dot-com era. Supply demand dynamics favored US stocks with $1.1 trillion in total stock buybacks versus only $46 billion in IPOs. Energy leaders like Chevron rewarded shareholders with aggressive stock buybacks alongside strong production and growing dividends. Over 100 countries dramatically increased defense spending in 2025, providing a boost for the aerospace and defense sector. Jet engine production and maintenance soared, benefiting firms like Parker Hannifin, GE, RTX and Berkshire's Precision Castparts. In the fourth quarter, investors shifted toward undervalued, high-quality companies with strong free cash flow yields. Healthcare led with an 11.25% catch-up return as its valuation metrics remain at a significant discount to the broader market. Larger banks enjoyed steepening yield curves and robust capital markets activity, with Bank of New York and Citigroup showing strong fundamentals at cheap valuations. JPMorgan predicts a breakout year for IPOs in 2026 with names like SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic potentially entering the market. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 23, 2026 | Mott Capital Management Thematic Growth Portfolio | 0.0% | 0.0% | AAPL, AMZN, BRK-A, BSX, GOOGL, GRAIL, META, MSFT, ORCL, OXY, ZTS | AI, Debt, energy, Rotation, technology, underperformance, valuation | Manager expresses significant concerns about AI bubble conditions, citing excessive debt accumulation and CAPEX spending by major tech companies. Believes AI fears are being realized as software stocks decline and valuations become problematic. Questions sustainability of current AI investment levels and competitive dynamics. Manager initiated position in Occidental Petroleum, viewing energy sector as underperforming since dot-com bubble. Believes oil prices are currently depressed and energy represents contrarian opportunity given poor relative performance versus S&P 500. | OXY MSFT |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 20, 2026 | Aquamarine Fund | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1211.HK, AXP, BAC, BRK-A, EXO.MI, IEX.NS, MA, MC.PA, MCO, NESN.SW, RACE | Compounding, global, Health, large cap, liquidation, Quality, value | The manager emphasizes shifting toward durable, time-friendly compounders where time is our friend and the range of outcomes runs from decent to superb with very low chance of permanent loss. He focuses on companies that can rinse, repeat, and grind through, moving away from binary outcomes toward inevitable businesses. The portfolio review demonstrates a value-oriented approach, learning from masters like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. The manager reverse-engineered thinking from successful value investors and applied similar principles to find undervalued companies with strong fundamentals across various markets. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 11, 2026 | Tweedy, Browne Value Fund | 4.8% | 21.6% | 005930.KS, BRK-A, CNHI, CVS.L, DHLG.DE, ENVB, FDX, GOOGL, HEIA.AS, IONS, JNJ, NESN.SW, NVST.SW, PRU.L, RMS.PA, ROG.SW, SAF.PA, TTE, U11.SI, WFC | defense, global, healthcare, industrials, international, Pharmaceuticals, technology, value | Health care holdings including pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies added meaningfully to returns. Holdings such as Roche, Novartis, and Ionis Pharmaceuticals benefited from new drug approvals, steady and growing earnings, and business models that continue to generate cash through a wide range of economic conditions. The fund continues to focus on financially sound enterprises purchased at attractive valuations where company stock prices are more than collateralized by underlying intrinsic value. The gap in valuation between US and non-US equities remains quite significant and should serve the fund well going forward. Defense-related holdings such as BAE Systems and Rheinmetall had been standout performers for much of the year but fell back in the 4th Quarter. While these businesses currently benefit from secular growth in defense spending around the world, share prices have moved ahead of underlying fundamentals. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Dec 31, 2025 | ACATIS Investment | 0.0% | 0.3% | ADBE, AMR, BARC.L, BKNG, BNTX, BRK-A, CLS, CRM, DHR, EBS.VI, EL.PA, EPAM, GLE.PA, GOOGL, KKR, LRCX, NVDA, PGR, TSMC, ZTS | AI, Asia, Banking, Europe, Geopolitical, semiconductors, technology, value | The report discusses the continued global race to scale artificial intelligence capabilities, emphasizing capital intensity in semiconductors, data centers, and energy infrastructure as structural drivers of corporate investment. Management highlights the migration of value from hardware build-out toward software monetization, while warning that elevated equity valuations and geopolitical fragmentation increase dispersion across regions and sectors. Portfolio positioning favors globally competitive companies with durable pricing power and exposure to long-term innovation cycles rather than cyclical beta. | PLTR KOG NO DB1 GR 1177 HK 600183 CH DHR BARC LN AMR ADBE TUNE LN FAA AV EBS AV EPAM |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 7, 2026 | INN8 | 0.0% | 0.0% | AMZN, AU, BRK-A, CSCO, GFI, GOOGL, HMY, IMPUY, MRP.JO, PIK.JO, SBSW, SHP.JO, SPP.JO, TFG.JO, TRU.JO, WHL.JO | AI, Defense Spending, diversification, Global Markets, gold, rates, Trade Policy | AI remained the dominant theme driving US equity markets with the S&P 500 up 17.8% and Nasdaq gaining 21%. The AI trade broadened beyond chips to include data center companies, with three of the S&P 500's top 10 performers being data storage companies. Investment in AI infrastructure is reaching unprecedented levels with trillions in spending, though questions remain about whether revenue can justify the massive capital deployment. President Trump's hardline tariff agenda became one of the most consequential stories of 2025, lifting average tariff rates to nearly 17% from less than 3% at the end of 2024. The tariffs generated roughly $30 billion monthly for the US Treasury and brought world leaders to Washington seeking trade deals. Despite multiple rounds of meetings, a final agreement with China remains incomplete, with China using its leverage in rare earth minerals to push back against further tariffs. Safe-haven gold gained 65% in 2025, its best annual gain since 1979, driven by geopolitical uncertainties, expectations of US rate cuts, strong central bank buying, and the de-dollarisation trend. Gold mining companies delivered massive returns with Gold Fields up 200%, AngloGold up 242%, Harmony up 124%, Sibanye up 313%, and Implats up 204%. European defense shares surged 56% driven by pledges of higher defense spending across Europe. Germany is expected to spend up to a trillion euros on defense and infrastructure, reflecting the broader commitment to increased military expenditure across the region. The Fed cut interest rates three times in 2025, lowering the benchmark rate to 3.5%-3.75% range as employment growth slowed and unemployment rose. However, new projections show only one rate cut expected this year with further cuts likely on hold until inflation falls or unemployment rises more than anticipated. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 5, 2026 | Douglass Winthrop Advisors, LLC | 0.0% | 0.0% | AMZN, BRK-A, COST, FAST, GOOGL, MA, MSFT, NVDA, ORCL, UBER | AI, inflation, Quality, technology, Trade Policy, value | AI represents a transformative technology but current valuations appear stretched with thin margins of safety. The firm believes winners will be companies embedding AI into workflows rather than those selling AI directly. They prefer established players like Alphabet and Microsoft over pure-play AI companies. The firm emphasizes seeking investments with wider margins of safety and focuses on quality common stocks with recurring revenue, pricing power, and fortress balance sheets. They highlight opportunities in undervalued quality companies like Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway. The letter discusses concerns about protectionism and tariff policies, noting that tariffs erode national wealth by raising consumer costs and restricting supply. Government intervention in markets through golden shares and royalties on exports complicates strategic planning for companies. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Sorfis Investments | 0.0% | 0.0% | BRK-A | AI, Capital Expenditures, technology, Valuations, value, volatility | AI is expected to have an impact significantly greater than the internet on our lives. Companies involved in AI are spending unprecedented amounts of money, with formerly capital-light businesses becoming among the most capital-intensive in the world as demand for data centers and infrastructure drives capital expenditures to a scale never seen in U.S. economic history. Key uncertainties include the return on this spending, duration of the boom, energy resource adequacy, and financing methods. The manager identifies as value investors at heart and notes that value stocks generally performed well in the first quarter of 2025, underperformed major indices for most of the year after Liberation Day, and finished with solid gains. They continue to find good value outside of major indices and expect to find more opportunities if volatility returns to markets. The manager expects volatility to eventually return to markets as it always does, which would create more value opportunities. They reference volatility around Liberation Day that provided opportunities to add to holdings, and note that savvy investors may have less time than previously thought to prepare and protect portfolios given historical patterns of capital expenditure booms. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Star Magnolia Capital Limited | - | - | 0700.HK, BRK-A, CVNA, KMX, SPY | Asia, Compounding, Europe, Geographic Diversification, long-term, manager selection, Relationships | The letter emphasizes the importance of long-term investing and staying invested despite volatility. The manager discusses how distance from markets and structural design matter more than temperament for successful long-term investing. Examples include Berkshire Hathaway shareholders who stayed invested for decades and achieved compounding returns. The firm focuses on building long-term relationships with investment managers rather than transactional approaches. They maintain relationships averaging 7.1 years with current managers and emphasize investing in people rather than just businesses. The letter details their process for both building and terminating manager relationships. The firm is increasing exposure to Asian markets as part of geographic diversification away from Americas where valuations are viewed as frothy. The team conducted extensive travel across China, Indonesia, and other Asian markets for research and relationship building. The firm is expanding European relationships and published research on European shareholder activism. They view Europe as an attractive alternative to expensive American markets and are building manager relationships in the region. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | Ironvine Capital Partners, LLC | 0.0% | 0.0% | ADI, AMAT, AMZN, AON, APH, ASML, BRK-A, HEI, MA, MCO, MSFT, SPGI, TSM, V | aerospace, AI, Capital markets, infrastructure, payments, Quality, semiconductors, technology | Amazon's e-commerce marketplace connects massive customer base with millions of third-party sellers, providing unmatched breadth and depth at competitive prices. Its increasingly dense fulfillment network enables faster delivery speeds at lower cost, with 10% reduction in average travel distance for packages and 10% fewer touches compared to 2024. Amazon Web Services powers much of the digital world with approximately 30% market share and structurally lower unit costs than competitors. AWS offers more than 200 fully featured services and has consistently reinvested scale advantages into developer tools and proprietary chips, making customer workloads 20-40% more cost-effective. Semiconductors are the most fundamental technology in modern economies, with consumption expected to approach $1 trillion annually by end of decade. The industry has consolidated into dominant players at each key step in the value chain, resulting in deep customer relationships and prolific free cash flow generation. AI demand is driving explosive growth in datacenter interconnect requirements where companies like Amphenol are winning outsized market share. Microsoft's strategic partnership with OpenAI has created valuable new customer sources, while continued AI investments are driving demand for advanced chips across the semiconductor supply chain. HEICO benefits from aerospace industry supply chain problems as manufacturers struggle to ramp production of new aircraft. Rising air travel demand served through greater utilization of existing fleet has created higher maintenance demand, parts shortages, and price inflation - a perfect environment for HEICO to gain market share. Global payment networks Visa and Mastercard are uniquely durable businesses deeply embedded in global commerce plumbing. The digitization of payments continues as a multi-decade growth tailwind, particularly in underpenetrated geographies in Asia and Latin America, with value-added services providing additional monetization opportunities. Moody's and S&P Global operate near monopolies in credit ratings assignment, with regulatory requirements making their ratings industry standard. Both companies are on pace to set new highs in revenue and profitability driven by credit market conditions fueling widespread growth in debt issuance across the economy. | BRK.B AON MSFT V MCO HEI AMZN |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | Weitz Partners III Opportunity Fund | 0.7% | 3.2% | AMZN, AON, BRK-A, CHTR, DHR, EEFT, GOOGL, GPN, IEX, KMX, LBRDA, LH, MA, META, MSFT, ROP, SIRI, TECH, TMO, V | AI, Biotechnology, contrarian, healthcare, Long/Short, technology, value | The fund owned several companies deemed AI Winners including Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms, averaging roughly 16% of Fund assets in 2025. Google's latest Gemini AI release surpassed expectations with benchmarks showing performance moved to the front of the pack. The fund's deep value stocks averaging roughly 16% of portfolio assets had a disproportionately negative impact on returns in 2025. As value-oriented investors, the managers are comfortable taking contrarian positions but must be clear-eyed about how companies' prospects change. The portfolio's life sciences investments representing roughly 18% of average assets experienced a lost year in 2025. The industry began with pressure on research budgets and heightened scrutiny of healthcare apparatus, reorienting around a new normal before organic growth pickup spurred a rally. | BRK.B PRM CHTR KMX GOOGL |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 26, 2026 | Davis Financial Fund | 0.0% | 29.3% | AXP, BAER.SW, BK, BRK-A, CB, COF, D05.SI, DIS, FI, FITB, JPM, MKL, PNC, RE, RKT, RNR, USB, WFC | Banking, capital, financials, insurance, regulation, returns, value | Banks continue to represent the majority of holdings with strong tailwinds across credit, spreads, expenses, and regulation. Interest spreads have begun widening as fixed rate assets roll over at higher yields, revealing attractive economics of low-cost deposit franchises. Many banks are generating returns on tangible equity in the mid-to-high teens with management targets suggesting sustainability in the medium term. Capital markets firms were among the drivers of S&P Financials Index performance and contributed to fund outperformance. The regulatory environment has been moving in a favorable direction with capital rules being finalized that are far less onerous than under the prior administration. Regulators are more willing to consider M&A transactions with relief on certain supervisory limitations. Property & casualty reinsurers were added to the portfolio as capital was redeployed from trimmed bank positions. Pricing trends in insurance markets have been strong in recent years. Chubb has consistently generated returns on equity comfortably ahead of the industry owing to advantaged lines of business with disciplined underwriting and operating culture. Payments and consumer lending companies were the biggest contributors to relative performance including Capital One, American Express and Rocket Companies. Capital One's transformational acquisition of Discover Financial closed with anticipated annual cost synergies of $1.5 billion and network synergies of $1.2 billion from transitioning card volumes into Discover's networks. Financial stock valuations have begun to reset higher with price-to-tangible book value multiples expanding by over 70% on average in the past three years. The portfolio in aggregate is valued at approximately 13x this year's earnings, representing a significant discount to both the broader S&P 500 Index and S&P Financials Index. | CB WFC COF |
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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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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 22, 2026 | Resilient Asset Management | - | - | BRK-A | AI, diversification, international, long-term, uncertainty | Manager discusses AI's permeating influence on stock market sectors and society, noting uncertainty about its ultimate impact ranging from white collar job obsolescence to being just another technology tool. Highlights unusual venture capital activity with AI startups raising massive funding without clear products. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 21, 2026 | Zeno Equity Partners LLP | 0.0% | 0.0% | BRK-A, DHR, FTV, GE, ITW, JCI, NVST, VRLT | Biotechnology, Capital Allocation, Conglomerates, Ownership, Spin-Offs, value creation | Danaher has transformed into a pure play Bioprocessing, Life Sciences and Diagnostics business through strategic acquisitions and spin-offs. The company acquired Pall Systems for $14 billion to gain foothold in bioprocessing space and later acquired GE Biopharma, focusing on manufacturing and sales of consumables and equipment used in production of biotech drugs. The letter discusses how executives typically monetize stock options regularly in the market through stock ownership programs, contrasting this with founder-owners who maintain substantial long-term shareholdings. This highlights different approaches to capital allocation and ownership alignment. | DHR |
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