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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 20, 2025 | Pershing Square Holdings | - | 15.5% | AMZN, BN CN, CMG, FNMA, GOOG, HHH, HLT, HTZ, NKE, UBER, UMG NA | activism, Capital Allocation, Concentration, Governance, value creation | The commentary focuses on concentrated ownership in high-quality businesses where engagement can unlock operational and strategic value. Management emphasizes disciplined capital allocation, strong balance sheets, and long-duration growth. Activism is positioned as a catalyst for value realization rather than short-term trading. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 3, 2026 | John Hancock Bond Fund Class I | 1.0% | 7.7% | AAL, BAC, DELL, F, FMCC, FNMA, JPM, WFC | Bonds, credit, duration, Fed policy, fixed income, Mortgage | The fund maintained significant overweight positions in agency MBS, focusing on middle coupon stack securities (4.0% to 5.5% coupons) for higher income and prepayment protection. Agency MBS was the top performing market segment and remained attractive versus corporates despite tightening spreads. The managers reduced allocations to investment-grade and high-yield corporates due to very tight yield spreads versus history. They focused on optimizing income through security selection rather than adding material risk given current tight valuations. The Fed enacted two quarter-point rate cuts in Q4, bringing total 2025 reductions to 75 basis points. The fund maintained neutral duration positioning and retained bias for yield curve steepening through intermediate-term overweights. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 11, 2026 | Pershing Square Holdings | -5.4% | 20.9% | AMZN, BN, CMG, FMCC, FNMA, GOOG, HHH, HLT, HTZ, META, NKE, QSR, UBER, UMG.AS | AI, Concentration, growth, megacaps, Performance, Quality, technology, valuation | AI is having a transformative impact across portfolio companies, particularly in search, cloud computing, and digital advertising. Google's AI Overviews reach over 2 billion users globally, while AWS benefits from AI-driven compute demand requiring datacenter capacity doubling through 2027. Meta leverages AI for content recommendation and ad targeting improvements. AWS operates as the leading cloud hyperscaler in a highly concentrated market, growing 20% annually at $140 billion run-rate despite capacity constraints. The planned doubling of datacenter capacity through 2027 is expected to be rapidly absorbed by scaling AI inference workloads. Amazon operates the largest global e-commerce platform enabled by a unique logistics network fulfilling over $700 billion in gross merchandise value annually. The retail business has significant margin expansion opportunity through increasing advertising revenue mix, network density, and automation initiatives. Digital advertising represents a secularly fast-growing space with Meta as the dominant leader serving over 3.5 billion daily active users. AI-driven content recommendation systems and granular consumer behavior visibility enable highly precise ad targeting, making these platforms essential for businesses. Universal Music Group operates as a high-quality, capital-light business benefiting from greater music consumption. Streaming 2.0 deals incorporating wholesale price increases should drive higher subscription revenue growth, while AI partnerships with new platforms create additional monetization opportunities. Uber demonstrates strong momentum with 19% bookings growth and accelerating user engagement reaching new all-time highs. The company is positioned for continued teens-plus bookings growth and 30%+ earnings growth while expanding autonomous vehicle operations across 10+ cities by end of 2026. | CMG HHH QSR HTZ FNMA META GOOG AMZN UBER BN |
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| 2024 Q4 | Feb 11, 2025 | Pershing Square Holdings | - | 10.2% | BN, CMG, CPKC, FMCC, FNMA, GOOG, HHH, HLT, NKE, QSR, UBER, UMG | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 6, 2026 | Tapasya Investment Fund | 0.0% | 23.5% | 0700.HK, ADBE, ADYEN.AS, BABA, BLDR, CMG, CVNA, FNMA, GLBE, GOOG, IBKR, LULU, PRX.AS, UMG.AS | AI, Concentration, global, Homebuilders, long-term, Quality, technology, value | The manager extensively discusses whether we are in an AI bubble, noting that AI appears to be the most significant digital disruptor of our lifetime. While acknowledging extremely stretched valuations in AI-associated hardware and semiconductors, the fund avoids these sectors due to inability to forecast cash flows confidently. The fund employs value-based investing principles, focusing on concentrated investments in high-quality businesses at fair valuations. The manager notes they often underperform during periods of extreme sectoral valuation surges but expects long-term success from this approach. The anticipated recovery in the homebuilder sector has stalled due to persistent affordability issues driven by high home prices, despite lower interest rates and strong wages. The fund maintains conviction in Builder FirstSource despite the housing market recession. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | O’Keefe Stevens Advisory, Inc | 0.0% | 0.0% | FNMA, GLW, HCC, ICLTF, MODG, NVDA, PRGO, SCL, SPHR, WY | AI, Cash, Entertainment, Lumber, Portfolio Management, positioning, technology, value | 2025 marked the year of AI exploration and testing, with 2026 expected to be the year of implementation. AI will unlock efficiency but create uneven impacts across businesses, particularly those with seat-based pricing models. The manager views AI as table stakes that may dilute alpha over time as it democratizes information access. The lumber industry has been in a 3+ year downturn following COVID demand. Canadian softwood exports to the US are near Great Financial Crisis levels, with significant capacity offline. The manager believes they are at or near the beginning of a lumber price rebound as supply has come offline and inventory liquidation is ending. Sphere made significant progress with strong ticket sales for The Wizard of Oz content, selling over 1.6-1.7 million tickets. The economics are evolving as AI-driven tools reduce content production costs from $100m to potentially $10m, improving unit economics for future Spheres and enabling franchise partnerships. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 22, 2026 | Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund | -1.8% | 11.3% | AMH, BKG.L, BRK-A, BYG.L, CBRE, DHI, FMCC, FNF, FNMA, FPH, JLL, LEN, PHM, PLD, RYN, SKY, SUI, UHAL, UTG.L, WY | Commercial, Homebuilders, real estate, REIT, Residential, value | Fund maintains significant exposure to commercial real estate platforms including real estate services, asset management, industrial and logistics properties, and self-storage facilities. These holdings represent platforms that would be very difficult to reassemble and comprise select pockets of commercial real estate with structural demand drivers and limited maintenance capital expenditure requirements. Fund holds positions in major U.S. homebuilders including Lennar Corp., D.R. Horton, PulteGroup, and Champion Homes. These companies are supported by near-record low levels of for-sale inventories, near-record high demand for affordable product, and industry dynamics favoring scaled players over time. Fund focuses on well-capitalized enterprises with discounted securities trading at more than a 20% discount to estimated Net Asset Value at year-end. The strategy targets strategic real estate at value prices with prospects to compound capital over time. Multiple portfolio companies engaged in share repurchase activities during the quarter, including Lennar Corp. completing an exchange offer that effectively acted as an accelerated share repurchase program, exchanging Millrose Properties shares for 5% of its outstanding A shares. | DBK GR BIRG ID 2330 TT HBR LN CS CN LUN CN HCC |
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| 2022 Q4 | Mar 28, 2023 | Pershing Square Holdings | 0.0% | 6.3% | CMG, CP, FMCC, FNMA, HHC, HLT, LOW, NFLX, QSR, SVB, TWTR, UMG AV | - | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Feb 21, 2026 | Fund Letters | Bill Ackman | Federal National Mortgage Association | Financials | Mortgage Finance | Bull | Dubai Financial Market | Conservatorship, Housing, Privatization, recapitalization, warrants | View Pitch |
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