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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Ariel Global Fund | -3.7% | 7.1% | 000660.KS, 6460.T, ABBV, BARC.L, BEZ.L, BMY, CMA, CNP, COF, CVS, GSK, JD, ORAN | AI, Banking, global, healthcare, Telecommunications, Utilities, value | Markets worldwide were led by U.S. mega-cap technology companies and investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence themed stocks. The narrow ascent of AI themed stocks have driven market returns in recent years, though opportunities should broaden to companies utilizing AI to create real-world efficiencies. SK Hynix is positioned to benefit from increased deployment of its leading-edge High Bandwidth Memory products experiencing rapid demand growth to power Artificial Intelligence. | 6460.T 000660.KS REE.MC ORAN.PA CNP BEZ.L BARC.L ABBV COF |
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| 2024 Q3 | Oct 20, 2024 | Marram Investment Management | 8.1% | 14.3% | CMA, COF, ENLC, KEY, OKE, PSFE | Banking, energy, financials, infrastructure, MLPs, Opportunism, payments, value | Following the March 2023 banking crisis, the manager significantly increased exposure to large regional banks at fire-sale prices. The strategy focused on distinguishing between Held To Maturity versus Available For Sale securities unrealized losses, viewing AFS losses as future upside potential. The manager estimates this basket will generate approximately 2.0X returns in the next 3 years through AFS unrealized loss reversals, profitable earnings yields, and valuation multiple expansion. | PSFE |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 22, 2026 | Third Avenue Value Fund | 7.4% | 35.2% | 0001.HK, 2603.TW, 6951.T, 6955.T, BIRG.L, BMW.DE, BZU.MI, CMA, CS, DB, HBR.L, HCC, IFP.TO, LUN.TO, SFOR.L, SSUB.OL, SUBCY, TDW, VAL | Banking, Copper, energy, Europe, Mining, Resource Conversion, value | Fund holds significant positions in copper miners Lundin Mining and Capstone Copper, viewing copper as indispensable to modern economies with exceptional supply challenges. Manager believes copper demand growth has evolved from Chinese construction to renewables, electric transportation, and data center construction, while supply increases remain elusive due to aging mines, declining ore quality, and decade-plus timelines for new projects. Warrior Met Coal was the single largest contributor to Fund performance during the quarter, benefiting from early completion of Blue Creek metallurgical coal mine eight months ahead of schedule. The completion portends far higher coal production, much lower capital spending, and likely return to significant cash distributions to shareholders. Manager discusses the materials-intensive nature of renewable energy infrastructure, noting the irony that mining companies producing materials for solar panels, wind turbines, electrical grids, and batteries were deemed global pariahs while renewable energy companies were market darlings. The build out of data centers and electrical infrastructure has become entwined with copper consumption growth. Fund holds offshore oil and gas service providers and one upstream producer, believing more offshore spending is required to maintain current production levels. Manager notes U.S. onshore production growth has slowed significantly due to lower drilling activity, exhaustion of Tier 1 acreage, and water challenges, potentially leading to future production declines that would enhance the importance of long-life offshore production. Manager highlights a profound divergence in U.S. sanctions activity, noting recent seizure of dark fleet oil tankers, arrest of Nicolas Maduro, U.S. claim of control over Venezuela's energy industry, and sanctions on Russia's largest oil producers. This marks a departure from decades of avoiding sanctions that would impact energy flows, with gunboat diplomacy and military embargos returning. Manager emphasizes resource conversion activity including share buybacks as a key component of their investment approach for undervalued, well-financed companies. The Fund focuses on companies where management teams can create shareholder value through buybacks, recapitalizations, special dividends, asset disposals, spin-offs, acquisitions, or sale of the business. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 15, 2026 | ClearBridge Investment Value Strategy | 0.0% | 0.0% | 300750.SZ, ARGX, CELH, CHTR, CMA, CORT, FCX, FI, FITB, GPN, ICE, META, MTB, MU, NEM, OM, PYPL, SLGN, TLN, WBS | AI, financials, gold, healthcare, materials, semiconductors, technology, value | AI adoption is expected to broaden economic benefits in 2026, requiring justification of massive capital investment. The team sees opportunities in AI adoption across sectors where it's not currently priced, while maintaining exposure to AI-related infrastructure investments despite reducing exposure during volatility spikes. Value spreads remain at historic extremes with value stocks trading at the cheapest 10% of their history relative to growth. The team believes this creates a probability gap with meaningful upside potential for valuation-driven investors as the market prices value stocks as having little chance of leading. Memory chip demand driven by AI exceeded supply growth, creating price spikes that benefited holdings like Micron Technology. The team correctly anticipated AI would drive memory demand well above supply growth, positioning in picks-and-shovels AI infrastructure plays. Gold prices spiked higher than reflected in mining stock prices, benefiting Newmont Mining. The team has been long-term bullish on gold due to limited annual supply and new demand sources, creating opportunities to buy high-probability events at low-probability prices. | PYPL FITB |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Ariel Global Fund | 6.9% | 0.0% | 005930.KS, 7270.T, AD.AS, CHKP, CMA, DANSKE.CO, DLG.L, JD, PUB.PA, SNY, STLA, TFC, TSCO.L, USB, WAL | Automotive, Banking, China, cybersecurity, global, Pharmaceuticals, Stimulus, value | Ariel's non-consensus approach seeks to identify undervalued, out-of-favor franchises that are misunderstood and therefore mispriced. The fund believes growth stocks are trading at elevated valuations, whereas value stocks remain cheap. They strongly believe reasonably priced, higher quality companies offering sustainable, profitable growth and robust balance sheets will be the drivers of future outperformance. | WAL TSCDY PUB.PA CMA STLA 7270.T 005930.KS SNY CHKP JD |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Third Avenue Value Fund | 1.2% | 0.0% | 6856.T, 7270.T, BIRG, BMW.DE, BZU.MI, CKHUY, CMA, CPSCF, DB, EZJ.L, LAZ, MBG.DE, SUBCY, TDW, TM, VAL, WMC | Autos, Buybacks, global, Offshore Energy, undervaluation, value | Manager discusses the persistent valuation chasm between cheap and expensive companies in U.S. equity markets, noting that multiples assigned to the least expensive quartile actually declined from 2014-2024. The fund continues to find attractive value in several automotive industry OEMs and other sectors despite the challenging environment for value investing. | 7270.T |
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| 2023 Q1 | Apr 24, 2023 | Marram Investment Management | 8.1% | 14.3% | CMA, FITB, KEY, RF | energy, Fintech, MLPs, Opportunistic, Regional Banks, SPACs, value | Manager significantly increased exposure to large regional banks from 11% to 24% NAV following March banking crisis, viewing fire-sale prices as compelling opportunity. Selected banks with high floating rate loans, stable deposit bases, and substantial AFS unrealized losses that will reverse over time. Estimates 2.0X to 3.5X returns over next 5 years from combination of AFS loss reversals, profitable earnings yields, and valuation multiple expansion. | FITB |
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| 2023 Q4 | Jan 31, 2024 | Third Avenue Value Fund | 1.2% | 0.0% | ASHM.L, BIRG.L, BMW.DE, BOLSAA.MX, BZU.MI, CMA, CS.TO, DB, EZJ.L, HMC.T, HMT, HTHPF, SFOR.L, SUBCY, TDW, UGPA3.SA, VAL | Banking, Buybacks, Electric Vehicles, global, interest rates, value | The Fund carried a weighted average price to earnings ratio of approximately 8.2x as of year-end, positioning in attractive businesses without relaxing criteria for balance sheet strength or liquidity. The manager highlights how cheap stocks have become even cheaper while expensive stocks experienced valuation expansion. | BOLSAA.MX BMW.DE CMA S4C.L |
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| 2024 Q4 | Jan 28, 2025 | Third Avenue Value Fund | -9.6% | -2.5% | 6856.T, 7270.T, 7433.T, AAPL, AMZN, BIRG.L, BMW.DE, BZU.MI, CBG.L, CMA, CS.TO, DB, EZJ.L, GOOGL, HCC, HRB.L, LAZ, LUN.TO, MBG.DE, META, MSFT, NVDA, ORI, SUBCY, TDW, TSLA, UGP | Active Share, Autos, Concentration, global, small caps, value | The fund has significant exposure to traditional automakers BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Subaru, which the manager views as extremely undervalued despite facing challenges from higher interest rates, electric vehicle transition, Chinese competition, and potential tariffs. The manager argues these companies are adapting well and trading at distressed valuations despite strong fundamentals. | 7270.T MBG.DE BMW.DE |
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| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Apr 28, 2026 | Fund Letters | Third Avenue Value Fund | Comerica | Financials | Regional Banks | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | contrarian, Corporate Lending, financials, floating rate, interest rate sensitivity, regional bank, US | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Ariel Global Fund | Comerica, Inc. | Financials | Regional Banks | Bull | NYSE | Commercial Banking, Deposits, Interest rates, Loans, regional bank, risk/reward, valuation, wealth management | View Pitch |
| Aug 8, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Veltri Capital Insights | Comerica Incorporated | Financials | Banks - Regional | Neutral | NYSE | — | View Pitch |
| Manager Name | Fund Name | Fund AUM | Invested Value | Portfolio Weight | Shares Owned | Shares Bought / Sold During Quarter | % Bought / Sold During Quarter | % of Shares Outstanding Owned |
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