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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q2 | Aug 7, 2025 | Stenham Asset Management | 8.4% | 9.2% | AIR FP, AMZN, CME, GE, MA, MSFT, SAF FP, TSM, V | asset allocation, diversification, geopolitics, risk management, volatility | The letter emphasizes diversified global exposure as geopolitical fragmentation and macro volatility increase dispersion across regions and asset classes. Capital preservation and flexibility are prioritized as traditional correlations break down. Active allocation is positioned as critical to navigating regime change. | CME GE SAF FP AIR FP MA V AMZN MSFT |
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| 2025 Q2 | Aug 11, 2025 | Baron FinTech Fund | 9.2% | 7.7% | ATEG, CME, CWAN, FI, HOOD, INTU, MELI, PGR, SCHW | Digital payments, Financial Services, Fintech, innovation, Platforms | The letter discusses long-term growth in financial technology driven by digitization of payments, capital markets, and financial services. Market volatility has favored challengers and innovative platforms, while regulatory and competitive dynamics remain key risks. Fintech adoption is viewed as structurally increasing across geographies. | View | |
| 2024 Q2 | Jul 31, 2024 | VGI Partners | 0.0% | 0.0% | AMZN, CME, DB1 GR, DSFI AV, GEHC, LSEG | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q1 | May 1, 2024 | Cooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged) | 5.5% | 5.4% | AER, CME, DHR, ERF FP, LPX | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q1 | Apr 23, 2025 | Pelican Bay Capital Management | -2.6% | -2.6% | CBOE, CME, RPRX | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 8, 2026 | BlackRock Advantage Global Fund | 3.8% | 23.9% | AAPL, AMZN, CME, GOOGL, JPM, MS, MSFT, NVDA, PFE, TSM | global, large cap, quantitative, Sentiment, technology | Large-cap technology stocks led for much of 2025 but weakened into year-end, with more speculative names under pressure. Macro-thematic measures helped motivate successful overweight positions in U.S. and Taiwanese technology stocks. | View | |
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Parnassus Core Equity Fund | 0.3% | 18.5% | AMZN, AVGO, BAC, BALL, CI, CME, CRM, DE, DHI, FERG, FI, INTL, KLAC, LIN, LLY, MDLZ, O, ORCL, SYY, VRTX, WDAY | - | View | ||
| 2022 Q4 | Nov 1, 2023 | Alpha Wealth Funds – The Insiders Fund | 0.0% | 1.2% | ALB, CF, CME, CRK, ET, MOS, NSA, RKT, SD, UAL, UPLD | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q3 | Oct 17, 2023 | Mawer International Equity Fund | 6.9% | 16.0% | 80TE LN, CME, MC FP, NVO | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 16, 2025 | Magellan Global Fund | 0.0% | - | CME, CMG, GOOG, TSM | Artificial Intelligence, Defensive Growth, Derivatives, Digital infrastructure, Quality Investing | The Global Fund continues to emphasize quality growth stocks with exposure to secular AI and digital trends, while balancing risk with defensives like Nestlé and Eversource. Management notes strong fundamentals across tech leaders but warns against speculative excess. The fund highlights CME Group as a core holding that benefits from volatility and rising retail derivatives activity. | CME |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 14, 2025 | Cooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged) | 0.0% | - | BME LN, CME, G24 GR, GEHC, TKO | Derivatives, infrastructure, Quality, risk management, software | Cooper Investors highlights steady returns despite diverging from tech-heavy benchmarks. The portfolio emphasizes high-quality niche businesses like Bentley Systems that support global infrastructure projects and CME Group as a long-term royalty on financial risk management. Management focuses on disciplined capital allocation and avoiding speculative tech exposure. | TKO G24 CME |
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| 2024 Q3 | Oct 14, 2024 | Upslope Capital Management | 14.8% | 18.1% | 7011 JP, 8697 JP, ATR, BARN SW, CHG LN, CME, CMPO, DPLM LN, DSFIR NA, FTT CN, GRMN, HSY, NVT, NWC CN, TDY, WPK CN | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Baron Durable Advantage Fund | 2.7% | 16.6% | AMZN, AVGO, BX, CME, COST, CSGP, DHR, GOOGL, LPLA, MA, META, MPWR, MSCI, MSFT, NVDA, PWR, TMO, TSM, V, WELL | AI, growth, large cap, Quality, semiconductors, technology | AI disruption is coming for all knowledge workers and most physical workers. Companies must overcome innovators' dilemmas, challenge conventional wisdom, and invest aggressively to survive. The Fund benefits from AI buildout through semiconductor investments and companies adapting to AI disruption like Alphabet's Gemini development. Semiconductor investments continue to benefit from AI buildout with over 100% of performance explained by growth in fundamentals rather than multiple expansion. NVIDIA, TSMC, and Broadcom are key beneficiaries of the AI infrastructure build-out with strong demand for next-generation nodes. Google Cloud Platform accelerated growth as Alphabet's AI investments began paying off. Cloud revenue growth accelerated to 34% year-over-year driven by demand for AI cloud services, with large deals over $1 billion signed through Q3 2025 exceeding prior two years combined. Quanta Services positioned to benefit from secular growth tailwinds including AI data centers increasing electricity demand, grid modernization, electrification, and energy transition investments. Utility capex cycle accelerating through at least end of decade. | WELL DHR MSCI MSFT CSGP META ACGL NVDA PWR AVGO TSM GOOG |
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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 22, 2026 | Pelican Bay Capital Management | 8.5% | 20.6% | ACM, BF.B, BLDR, CME, CSCO, FDS, GNRC, Gold, GOOG, MU, ODFL, ON, TOL, ZTS | AI, concentrated, healthcare, Homebuilders, Quality, semiconductors, technology, value | Portfolio benefited from strong performance in AI-related businesses, particularly Alphabet which established itself as a leading player with its Gemini Large Language Model alongside Claude and ChatGPT. The manager notes perception has improved significantly since initially purchasing GOOG in March 2023 when consensus was that Google missed the AI boom. Core investment philosophy centers on investing in high-quality companies with durable competitive advantages when they trade at steep discounts to intrinsic value. The manager emphasizes the importance of maintaining wide margins of safety and only investing when securities trade below the bottom end of their intrinsic value ranges. Homebuilding companies were weak performers due to elevated mortgage rates and slowdown in new home sales souring investor sentiment. However, the manager remains bullish on long-term prospects believing there is a housing shortage and these companies trade at large discounts to intrinsic values, adding to positions in both BLDR and TOL. | GOOGL ONON ZTS FDS ACM |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 20, 2026 | Madison Dividend Income Fund | -0.2% | 8.3% | AAPL, AMZN, AVGO, BLK, CME, CVX, GOOGL, HON, JNJ, MDT, META, MS, MSFT, NEE, NVDA, TSLA, UNP, XOM | defensives, dividends, income, large cap, Quality, value | The fund focuses on high-quality, above-average dividend yield stocks with sustainable competitive advantages. Portfolio holdings increased dividends by 6% on average over the past year, well above inflation rates. The fund's absolute portfolio dividend yield of 2.53% compares favorably to 1.12% for the S&P 500. Many dividend paying companies are historically cheap compared to the broad market. The relative yield of the Dividend Income Fund was 2.25x the S&P 500 at year-end, at the very high end of historical ranges. The equal weight S&P 500 is trading at just half the valuation level of the S&P 500. The fund maintains a high-quality portfolio with strong balance sheets that could protect on the downside in a market correction. 94% of fund holdings are rated A- or better by Standard & Poor's, which compares favorably to the S&P 500 at 35% and the Russell 1000 Value at 22%. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 20, 2026 | Harding Loevner Global Equity | 1.9% | 12.7% | 0700.HK, 1299.HK, 2308.TW, 300124.SZ, 300760.SZ, 4519.T, 6758.T, 6861.T, ABBV, ACN, ADBE, ALFA.ST, AME, AMZN, APH, ASML, ATCO-A.ST, ATD.TO, ATKR, AVGO, BKNG, CME, COMP.L, CSGP, D05.SI, DE, DHR, DPLM.L, EFX, ELV, EPI-A.ST, FN, GMAB, GOOGL, HDFCBANK.NS, HEI, HLN.L, HON, JNJ, META, MSFT, NFLX, NOC, NVDA, PGR, ROG.SW, SAP, SGSN.SW, SHEL, SLB, SU.PA, TMO, TSM, TTD, TW, V, VRTX, WMMVY | AI, global, international, semiconductors, technology, value | AI represents a capital-expenditure regime with two distinct camps: hyperscalers investing in computing capacity and physical enablers of the buildout. The US market is more dependent on AI continuing to surprise to the upside due to richer valuations and concentrated exposure. Global semiconductor ecosystem enables AI buildout, spanning chip foundries, memory-chip makers, and equipment manufacturers. International markets are more heavily tilted toward this manufacturing and infrastructure provider segment. International markets trade at roughly half the multiples of US stocks, offering more attractive valuations. Non-US markets start from cheaper valuations and possess more diverse growth opportunities unrelated to AI. | GOOG |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 13, 2026 | Upslope Capital Management | 2.0% | 14.8% | 6954.T, 8697.T, BAH, BIO, CCK, CME, DPLM.L, FCN, GOOGL, HOLN.SW, HSIC, HSY, INTC, MKTX, SAND.ST, SMIN.L, STE, TDY | AI, Automation, defense, healthcare, industrials, Japan, Long/Short, mid cap | Manager exited European defense stocks for the first time since early 2022, citing full valuations and expectations that the Ukraine conflict may wind down. However, maintains exposure through Booz Allen Hamilton and Korea Defense ETF, noting long-term secular tailwinds from rising geopolitical risks and defense spending. AI is described as everywhere, particularly on buyside analyst desktops, contributing to faster market pace and gambling-like behavior. Manager sees AI moving into the physical world as a catalyst for industrial automation companies like Fanuc, which is positioned to benefit from AI's expansion beyond digital applications. Fanuc holds ~50% market share in CNCs and is a leading factory robotics player, positioned to benefit from AI moving into the physical world and rising trade barriers boosting global reshoring. The company serves general industrial, automotive, electronics, and aerospace end markets with global diversification. Portfolio includes Japan Exchange Group benefiting from ongoing Japanese equity market structure reforms and corporate governance improvements. Fanuc represents exposure to leading Japanese industrials with fortress balance sheets and global market leadership in automation. | HSIC 6954 JP CCK BAH |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Appalaches Capital | 3.0% | 7.1% | CME, CNI, CPNG, CSX, GOOG, OCI NA, PLX FP | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q2 | Aug 8, 2023 | VGI Partners | 0.0% | 0.0% | AMZN, CME, DB1 GR, GEHC, LSEG LN, ZX6 GR | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | BNY Mellon Global Equity Income Fund | -2.4% | 1.4% | AZN LN, BYR GR, CME, IP, NEM, SMDS | - | View | ||
| 2022 Q4 | Jan 31, 2023 | VGI Partners | 0.0% | 0.0% | AMZN, CFR SJ, CME, DB1 GR, DIS, IAC, OLYMY, RHMB GR, SAP, XM | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Jan 18, 2025 | Appalaches Capital | 0.7% | 7.9% | CME, CPNG, GOOG, MKL, PLX FP, SAFT | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Jan 15, 2025 | Upslope Capital Management | -7.3% | 9.4% | 7011 JP, 8697 JP, ATR, CHG LN, CME, CMPO, CRL, DPLM LN, DSFIR NA, NVT, QQ LN, TDY, VFC | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q4 | Jan 2, 2024 | VGI Partners | 0.0% | 0.0% | AMZN, CME, META, RHM SW, SPOT | - | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Jan 8, 2026 | Fund Letters | Kevin Arenson | CME Group Inc. | Financials | Financial Exchanges & Data | Bull | NASDAQ | Derivatives, Exchanges, Networkeffects, Rates, Volatility | View Pitch |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Fund Letters | Arvid Streimann | CME Group Inc. | Financials | Financial Exchanges & Data | Bull | NASDAQ | compounding, Derivatives, Exchanges, growth, Liquidity, Margins, Monopoly, Volatility | View Pitch |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Fund Letters | Peter Cooper | CME Group Inc. | Financials | Financial Exchanges & Data | Bull | NASDAQ | Derivatives, dividend, Exchanges, Liquidity, Margins, network effects, Volatility | View Pitch |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Albert Anthony | CME Group Inc. | Financials | Financial Data & Stock Exchanges | Bull | NASDAQ | — | View Pitch |
| Aug 8, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Cyn Research | Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group | Financials | Financial Data & Stock Exchanges | Neutral | NASDAQ | — | View Pitch |
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