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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q2 | Jul 17, 2025 | Ariel International Fund | 12.6% | - | 000660 KS, 1590 TT, 2319 HK, 6361 JP, 6920 JP, BBVA SM, CHKP, JD, LTMC IM, SNY, TSCO LN | diversification, fundamentals, International Equities, Mean reversion, valuation gaps | The letter discusses international markets benefiting from valuation discounts relative to the U.S. Management emphasizes stock selection in developed and emerging markets with improving fundamentals. The outlook expects long-term convergence as capital flows rebalance globally. | CHKP 6920 JP |
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| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | The Sound Shore Fund | -1.9% | -1.9% | CHKP, PYPL, TEVA IT, VST | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 12, 2026 | RS Large Cap Val Strategy | 5.8% | 16.2% | C, CHKP, ETN, GOOGL, KEY, MDLZ, PNC, REGN, SEE, TEVA, ZBRA | AI, Data centers, financials, Grid Upgrade, healthcare, large cap, ROIC, value | AI has been a key theme driving popular equity indexes higher and creating unusual market dynamics with elevated concentration risk. The rapid integration of artificial intelligence may drive significant long-term productivity gains and provide a counterweight to softening employment conditions and inflationary pressures. Value stocks outperformed growth counterparts in Q4, with the Russell 3000 Value Index gaining 3.8% versus 1.1% for growth. The team sees intriguing investment opportunities in value-oriented stocks that are being largely ignored, creating an attractive backdrop for stock pickers. Strong demand for data centers has accelerated sales for companies like Eaton Corporation. The buildout of AI-associated data centers is driving increased demand and margin improvements for companies benefiting from this infrastructure spend. The need for upgraded electric grids has accelerated demand for Eaton's products. The process of electrification and grid investment should provide improvements in ROIC along with additional benefits from AI infrastructure spend. | ETN SEE |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 27, 2026 | Diamond Hill Mid Cap | 3.7% | 13.5% | CHKP, CIEN, CIVI, CUBE, GIS, HII, LEA, POST, VRSN, WCC, WIX, WLK, ZTS | AI, defense, healthcare, industrials, materials, mid cap, technology, value | AI-related spending continued to be a primary driver in equity markets throughout 2025, with many top-performing portfolio positions benefiting from ongoing AI-spending buildout across industrials, materials and information technology. However, the managers note increased investor scrutiny around AI developments and market bubble discussions in December. Data center business growth was a significant driver for portfolio holdings, with WESCO International's data center business reaching nearly 20% of total revenue and driving better-than-expected organic growth. The theme reflects the ongoing infrastructure buildout supporting AI and cloud computing demand. Defense spending opportunities emerged through Huntington Ingalls Industries, which benefited from strong Navy shipbuilding demand, new frigate contract awards, and discussion of potential Trump-class battleship opportunities. The company showed improving execution as labor challenges eased. | 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 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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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Ariel International Fund | 7.6% | 0.0% | 005930 KS, 7270 JP, CHKP, JD, PUB FP, SNY, STLA, TSCO LN, VEA | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Ariel Global Fund | 6.9% | 0.0% | 005930 KS, 7270 JP, CHKP, CMA, JD, PUB FP, SNY, STLA, TSCO LN, WAL | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Ariel Global Fund | 6.3% | 6.3% | 7832 JP, AQN, BAC, BBNI IJ, CHKP, CVS, ISP IM, NTAP, OC, TDC, TSM | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Ariel International Fund | 11.7% | 11.7% | 7832 JP, AQN, CHKP, ISP IM, NNMI IJ, OPA FP, PUB FP, TSCO LN, TSM | - | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Dec 3, 2025 | Fund Letters | Rupal J. Bhansali | Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. | Information Technology | Systems Software | Bull | NASDAQ | buybacks, cloud, cybersecurity, growth, Margins, Platforms, Software, Subscriptions | View Pitch |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT | Check Point Software Technologies | Information Technology | Software - Infrastructure | Bull | NASDAQ | — | View Pitch |
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