| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q4 | Mar 6, 2026 | Polen Capital – U.S. SMID Company Growth | -0.3% | 27.7% | BE, CORT, FSLR, NTNX, NVDA, RKLB, WDC | aerospace, AI, Biotechnology, Electrification, growth, innovation, SMID Cap | AI has been the defining theme of market leadership in 2025, driving surge in data center capex and benefiting AI-adjacent industries like semiconductors, electrical equipment, and tech hardware. AI data centers require enormous amounts of power, creating demand for solutions like Bloom Energy's fuel cells. The theme reasserted dominance after NVIDIA's strong earnings in late November. Portfolio maintains largest absolute and relative exposure to Industrials sector representing conviction in Electrification theme. This includes companies like Bloom Energy providing power solutions for AI data centers and First Solar manufacturing solar panels. The theme benefits from energy transition and infrastructure needs. Portfolio maintains significant conviction in Aerospace theme alongside Electrification within Industrials sector exposure. Rocket Lab operates as end-to-end space company developing rocket launch and control systems, with strong earnings results and growing backlog during the quarter. Biotech delivered its best quarter in five years driven by improving rate environment, easing regulation enabling more M&A, and excitement around AI's promise in drug discovery efficiency. Corcept Therapeutics represents exposure to this theme with drugs modulating cortisol activity and expanding pipeline in oncology. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 5, 2026 | Polen Capital – U.S. Small Company Growth | -1.5% | 25.1% | AGX, BE, CORT, LRN, METC, NVDA, WGS | AI, Biotechnology, Electrification, Energy Transition, growth, innovation, small caps | AI has been the defining theme of market leadership in 2025, driving data center capex and benefiting companies like Bloom Energy that provide power solutions for AI workloads. The theme faced scrutiny in early Q4 but reasserted dominance after NVIDIA's strong earnings, with AI also providing structural tailwinds for biotech through drug discovery efficiencies. The portfolio maintains significant exposure to electrification themes through companies like Bloom Energy, which provides clean, reliable power solutions for AI data centers. The energy transition represents a structural opportunity as companies race to build power infrastructure to support growing electricity demands from AI workloads. Biotech delivered its best quarter in five years, benefiting from improving interest rates, easing regulation enabling more M&A activity, and excitement around AI's promise in drug discovery. The portfolio nearly doubled its biotech exposure during the quarter as more opportunities presented themselves in this improving environment. The portfolio includes exposure to critical minerals through Ramaco Resources, which produces metallurgical coal and is developing a rare earth elements deposit aimed at strengthening domestic supply chains for defense, batteries, and advanced technologies. However, the rare earths narrative faced increasing investor scrutiny during the quarter. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | abrdn U.S. Small Cap Equity Fund | 0.5% | 8.8% | ARCB, ARQT, ATEC, ATZ.TO, AZZ, CARG, CORT, ELF, HLIO, ITGR, LRN, LZB, OSW, PI, REVG, SUPN, TRNO, VIAV | healthcare, industrials, infrastructure, Quality, small caps, technology | The fund focuses on US small-cap equities, which rose over the quarter but lagged broader US equities. The manager emphasizes higher-quality small-cap businesses that offer resilience against macroeconomic headwinds while benefiting from secular trends. The manager sees compelling opportunities from increased infrastructure investment as a secular trend. New position AZZ is positioned to benefit from grid modernization and domestic manufacturing reshoring. Reshoring of supply chains presents compelling opportunities for smaller companies. AZZ is positioned to benefit from domestic manufacturing reshoring trends, while the broader strategy targets companies that can capitalize on this shift. The fund initiated a position in AZZ, which is positioned to benefit from accelerating data-center development. This reflects the manager's view on the growth potential in data center infrastructure. | CORT |
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| 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 Q2 | Jun 30, 2024 | abrdn U.S. Small Cap Equity Fund | -7.5% | -3.2% | ATKR, BOOT, CORT | - | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Jan 30, 2026 | Fund Letters | Christopher Colarik | Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated | Health Care | Biotechnology | Bear | NASDAQ | biotechnology, drug approval, Pipeline Uncertainty, Regulatory risk | View Pitch |
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