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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 25, 2026 | The D. E. Shaw Group | - | - | AAPL, AMZN, AVGO, BRK-B, CVX, GE, GOOGL, IBM, JNJ, JPM, META, MSFT, NVDA, PG, TSLA, WFC, XOM | active management, AI, Concentration, market structure, Mega Cap, portfolio construction, risk management, technology | Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have helped drive notably strong performance in a handful of mega cap stocks. The concentration in tech and AI-related companies has contributed to the current market dynamics where the ten largest S&P 500 constituents account for more than 40% of the index's weight. The document extensively analyzes how market concentration affects portfolio risk characteristics and active management strategies. It discusses the implications for risk models, beta distributions, and the challenges concentration poses for traditional risk management approaches in equity portfolios. The analysis focuses on how equity market concentration impacts the fundamental law of active management, transfer coefficients, and breadth of investment opportunities. It examines the structural changes in capital markets that affect managers' ability to generate alpha and express investment views effectively. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 12, 2026 | Bretton Fund | 1.4% | 11.6% | AXP, AZO, BAC, BRK-B, DFH, EXP, GOOGL, JPM, MA, MCO, MSFT, NVR, PGR, ROST, RVTY, SPGI, TJX, UNH, UNP, V | AI, Banking, consumer, financials, Housing, technology, value | The fund views the overall market as fairly elevated but not in bubble territory regarding AI, though some parts of the AI craze appear bubble-like. Alphabet's AI chatbot Gemini exceeded expectations and was on par with leading AI models, contributing significantly to performance. The managers are comfortable missing out on highly speculative AI investments while focusing on long-term value. Banks had a strong year due to increased lending, reduced regulation, and moderately high interest rates. American Express cardholders continue spending with high payment rates, while the Platinum Card remains desirable despite competition. Credit and banking environment remained strong throughout the period. Off-price retailers TJX and Ross returned to form after struggling during post-Covid inflation, with strong stock performance. AutoZone faced challenges navigating tariff impacts on earnings, though the consolidated auto parts retail market historically passes through price increases. Consumer spending patterns showed resilience in certain segments. Housing investments had a weak year as high interest rates and hopes for lower rates left potential buyers on the sidelines. Home builders initially held up well when rates first rose in 2022, but continued high rates eventually impacted demand. The managers expect pent-up housing demand to eventually drive performance once the market unfreezes. | RVTY GOOG UNH |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 11, 2026 | Tweedy, Browne International Value II | 4.2% | 23.8% | 005930.KS, 6869.T, 7958.T, BA.L, BRK-B, CNHI, CVSG.L, DGE.L, GOOGL, IONS, JNJ, JSG.L, NESN.SW, NOVN.SW, ROG.SW, RWM.DE, SAF.PA, SW.PA, TTE, WFC | defense, Europe, Hedging, international, Japan, Pharmaceuticals, 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. Defense-related holdings such as BAE Systems and Rheinmetall had been standout performers for much of the year but fell back in Q4. While these businesses currently benefit from secular growth in defense spending around the world, share prices have moved ahead of underlying fundamentals. The firm continues to focus on financially sound enterprises in parts of the world where company stock prices are more than collateralized by underlying intrinsic value. They believe a diversified portfolio of well-capitalized, competitively advantaged companies purchased at attractive valuations offers the best defense against market uncertainty. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Dec 31, 2025 | Fortress – Caribbean Growth Fund | 2.3% | 13.3% | BRK-B, JNJ, MRK | AI, Bonds, Caribbean, emerging markets, global, healthcare, value | The Fund uses a value approach to invest primarily in Caribbean and international equities. The manager continues to see attractive opportunities for value conscious investors, particularly those with globally diversified portfolios. Healthcare and consumer staples shares have been left behind by the recent AI and technology frenzy and are still trading at very appealing valuations. Returns broadened beyond the narrow group of stocks linked to artificial intelligence. This quarter saw value outperform growth as valuation concerns took some steam out of the AI trade. Healthcare and consumer staples shares have been left behind by the recent AI and technology frenzy. Global equities, especially those outside the U.S., powered equity returns. In emerging markets, shares of companies linked to commodities were the strongest performers as commodities rallied. Even after a strong year for international and emerging markets shares, we still see some of the best value in the world in these areas. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 9, 2026 | Tsai Capital | 0.0% | 7.6% | AAPL, AMZN, BN, BRK-B, COST, GOOGL, IDXX, MA, META, MKL, MSCI, MSFT, NVDA, QXO, TSLA, TYL, V | Compounding, disruption, Ecosystems, growth, innovation, Networks, technology | Tesla is described as a leading artificial intelligence company with formidable competitive advantages. The manager believes Tesla's AI capabilities remain underestimated and undervalued, anticipating the company will eventually operate millions of autonomous vehicles and own the majority of the autonomous market. The letter extensively discusses robotics as a transformative medium that changes workplaces, economies, and society. Amazon's robotic warehouses are highlighted as exemplifying the medium's power, creating unparalleled logistics efficiency and competitive advantages. Tesla is positioned as leading the inexorable shift toward electric vehicles, steadily eroding the foundations of legacy automakers burdened by obsolescent infrastructure. The manager expects Tesla to significantly increase vehicle production as the overall EV market expands. Amazon Web Services is described as the undisputed leader in cloud computing, accounting for more than 50% of Amazon's aggregate operating profits. The transition from local servers to cloud environments is highlighted as a key growth driver. Amazon's e-commerce arm continues to capture additional market share with remarkable agility despite its immense scale. The shift from brick-and-mortar retail to digital marketplaces is identified as a key trend driving Amazon's revenue growth. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Unison Asset Management | 0.0% | 0.0% | AAPL, AMAT, AXP, BAC, BRK-B, CDW, DE, ELV, GOOGL, JPM, LMT, META, NOC, NU, NVDA, ONON, TSLA, TSM, UNH, WFC | AI, Cloud, Long Term, semiconductors, technology, value | AI continues to assert itself across markets and the real economy in ways that demand to be addressed. The race is for AGI, with wealth accruing to whoever reaches it first. Big Tech's AI spending accounts for roughly 90% of corporate capex and contributes an estimated half of total U.S. GDP growth in 2025. TSMC represents a durable bottleneck in the infrastructure layer—the point of least slack in the global silicon supply chain. All roads lead to TSMC, with approximately 67% share of global foundry revenue and roughly 90% share of leading-edge nodes. Alphabet's cloud business made meaningful progress with revenue expected to reach approximately $57 billion (+32% YoY), while operating profit is projected to nearly double. Revenue backlog is growing faster than reported revenue, underscoring the persistent supply-demand imbalance. By designing proprietary silicon and committing to capital outlays for data centers on a financial scale attainable by only a handful of nation-states, these firms have constructed a physical moat that is, for all practical purposes, unreplicable. On Holding represents a play on the growing scarcity of the real. As digital marketing becomes commoditized and AI floods the world with generic content, value migrates toward physical community and technical prestige. On is selling membership in a curated, physical ecosystem that AI cannot replicate. | AMRZ HOLN SW NU ONON BRK.B TSM GOOGL |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | Weitz Multi Cap Equity Fund | -1.5% | 3.2% | ACN, BRK-B, CDW, CHTR, CMCSA, CSGP, DHR, GOOGL, HEI, IDXX, IEX, IT, KMX, LBRDA, LH, LKQ, META, PRM, SIRI, TECH | healthcare, multi-cap, technology, Telecom, underperformance, value | Google's Gemini AI surpassed expectations with latest release, moving to front of pack among frontier models according to industry benchmarks. Investors questioning value of Gartner's research offerings in rapidly evolving GenAI landscape. Heightened competition continues weighing on broadband investments including Liberty Broadband and Charter Communications. Charter's capital investment cycle beginning to ease, expected to improve free cash flow and support share repurchases at depressed prices. CarMax faces challenging environment with constrained availability and affordability of late model used vehicles. Online competitor Carvana taking share while CarMax's omni-channel investments have yet to deliver improvements, leading to strategic changes and CEO departure. | CHTR KMX PRM |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 27, 2026 | Diamond Hill Large Cap Strategy | 1.4% | 5.7% | AIG, AON, BRK-B, CAT, CB, CL, COF, COO, DOV, EQT, GM, GOOGL, HCA, HIG, LH, MU, NDAQ, SOLV, SYY, WIX, ZTS | AI, Defensive, financials, healthcare, large cap, Quality, technology, value | The fund remains cautious of AI-driven market exuberance where investor sentiment often appears to outpace business fundamentals. AI optimism drove strong performance in information technology and communication services sectors, with hundreds of billions in AI-related capital spending supporting stocks like Micron and Sandisk. The fund continues to find attractive opportunities among high-quality, cash-generative businesses with defensive characteristics including Colgate, Aon and Berkshire Hathaway. These fundamentally stable businesses underperformed in 2025 but continue to perform in-line with expectations. The portfolio focuses on fundamentally stable, higher quality businesses trading at discounts to intrinsic value estimates. New positions like Dover Corp were initiated when stocks traded at significant discounts to estimated intrinsic value. | EQT SOLV WIX DOV COO SYY LH ZTS COF AIG GM |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 24, 2026 | Miller Howard Investments | - | - | AAPL, AMZN, BAC, BRK-B, GOOG, GOOGL, JNJ, JPM, META, MSFT, NVDA, PG, TSLA, WMT, XOM | Concentration, dividends, Indices, Magnificent 7, nuclear, SMRs, value | The US is on the cusp of a nuclear renaissance driven by rising electricity demand, policy support, and emerging technologies like small modular reactors. Nuclear capacity could quadruple by 2050, though regulatory, economic, and execution risks remain significant challenges. Miller/Howard maintains strict dividend focus across portfolios, avoiding Magnificent 7 stocks in income-oriented strategies. The firm emphasizes high current income and growth of income as core differentiators in an increasingly concentrated market. Index reconstitutions have compromised style integrity by adding growth-oriented Magnificent 7 stocks to value indices. This creates concentration risk and challenges traditional value investing principles based on lower valuations and higher dividend yields. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | GreensKeeper Value Fund | 0.0% | 0.0% | ADBE, AXP, BRK-B, CBOE, CFRUY, CHKP, ELV, FISV, GOOG, ICE, ICLR, LULU, MRK, NVO, SPGI, V, VRTX | AI, Concentration, Discipline, financials, Luxury, technology, value | The dominant narrative of 2025 was the market's evolving view of Alphabet's search business in an AI-first world. Alphabet aggressively transformed its research into consumer-ready products, deployed Gemini 3 which led key performance benchmarks, and launched AI Overviews within search. The company's proprietary Tensor Processing Units allowed efficient scaling while avoiding the Nvidia Tax. The fund maintains a disciplined value approach, refusing to abandon discipline simply because the market has become expensive. They deliberately prioritized capital preservation by trimming positions that reached price targets. The manager emphasizes that even wonderful businesses are not worth infinite prices and allocates capital elsewhere when valuations become stretched. Richemont's Jewelry Maisons continued to outperform the broader luxury market with stabilization of the Chinese consumer. The company maintained pricing integrity and brand stewardship, avoiding aggressive price hikes that peers used. This long-term thinking proved superior as luxury peers eroded brand value through discounting while Richemont maintained prestige. | ADBE ICLR NVO LULU FISV CFRUY AXP GOOG |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 13, 2026 | Mar Vista US Quality Select | 1.8% | 18.2% | AAPL, AMT, AMZN, APH, AVGO, BRK-B, EFX, GOOG, META, MSFT, MTD, NFLX, NVDA, ORCL, ROP, TSM, VLTO | AI, Cloud, growth, large cap, Quality, semiconductors, Streaming, technology | The structural shift driven by Artificial Intelligence is transitioning from proof-of-concept to demonstrable return on investment. Early monetization is visible in advertising, cloud computing, and semiconductors where companies are seeing tangible improvements in ROIC. The transition from infrastructure build-out to enterprise and consumer monetization will accelerate into 2026. Cloud computing continues to show strong growth with Google Cloud reaching 34% revenue growth and a $155 billion backlog. Microsoft's Azure platform remains capacity-constrained with accelerating growth. Premium AI cloud services are driving high utilization and multi-year contracts. Taiwan Semiconductor represents the dominant manufacturer for leading fabless chip designers including NVIDIA, Apple, and Broadcom. The global arms race to develop artificial general intelligence will support multiple years of robust growth for foundries with leading-edge capabilities. Semiconductor manufacturing barriers to entry continue rising due to escalating costs. Netflix has built a durable economic moat around its globally-scaled streaming business with over 300 million members. The company enjoys the lowest content cost per subscriber in the industry, enabling it to profitably outspend rivals. The acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery represents a shift from streaming platform to global media powerhouse. | ROP EFX NFLX TSM MSFT META ORCL AAPL MTD GOOG ROP EFX NFLX TSM LIN MSFT ORCL DHR JNJ GOOG |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 13, 2026 | GoodHaven Capital Management | 0.0% | 7.1% | BAC, BLDR, BRK-B, DVN, EXOR.MI, GOOG, JEF, LEN.B, TVK.TO, VNOM | concentrated, energy, financials, Housing, Quality, technology, value | Secular tailwinds in the shift towards digital advertising. Largest firms have significant network effects and competitive advantages, with high barriers-to-entry. Companies trading at significant discount to intrinsic value. Strong balance sheets and capital levels indicate enduring competitive advantages. Attractive businesses to take advantage of recovery cycles. Accelerating demographic changes in the US producing strong underlying housing growth. More capital light business models minimize big boom and busts, and increase returns on invested capital. Broader pricing strength supportive of suppliers. Industry capital allocation discipline with emphasis on accelerated cash distributions to shareholders. Favorable demand-supply dynamics after industry consolidation and strategic players. | MKL |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 13, 2026 | FAM Value Fund (No separate Fenimore Value Strategy hedge fund exists) | -1.2% | 4.9% | ADI, AJG, APH, AZO, BAM, BR, BRK-B, BRO, FAST, HEI, IEX, KEYS, MKL, MLM, PGR, ROST, SYK, TT, VMC, ZBRA | AI, fundamentals, mid cap, Quality, Speculation, value | Fenimore maintains focus on high-quality companies with strong balance sheets, consistent profitability, and prudent capital allocation despite continued underperformance versus speculative names. The firm believes solid business fundamentals should reassert themselves as the primary driver of stock prices in the long run, similar to the tech bubble period. AI-related infrastructure investments continue driving market enthusiasm, with companies like Amphenol benefiting from data center buildouts. However, the firm views AI excitement as creating speculation that draws capital away from other areas, leading to extended valuations for AI-related stocks. | FAST AZO BRO APH MKL |
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