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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 22, 2025 | Baron Real Estate Fund | 3.6% | -3.5% | ABNB, AMT, BAM, BN, BXP, CHDN, CSGP, EQIX, EXP, GDS, IRT, PLD, WYNN | Balance Sheets, interest rates, real estate, REITs, rents | The commentary discusses public real estate equities amid higher interest rates and uneven property fundamentals. Management focuses on high-quality REITs with strong balance sheets, embedded rent growth, and long-term demand drivers such as logistics and residential housing. Valuation dispersion is creating selective opportunities despite near-term macro headwinds. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Mar 2, 2026 | Baron Global Opportunity Fund | 6.5% | 27.5% | ADYEN, AMZN, ARGX, ASML, BILL, CPNG, CRWD, DDOG, GDS, ILMN, MELI, NET, NU, NVDA, SHOP, SNOW, SQ, TSM, WIX, ZS | AI, Cloud, E-Commerce, global, growth, innovation, semiconductors, technology | AI represents the dominant investment theme with companies adapting to disruptive change. The pace of innovation is unprecedented with LLMs becoming more intelligent, costs declining 10x per year, and agentic AI task duration doubling every 6-7 months. Portfolio companies are categorized as AI infrastructure builders, providers, early adopters, and beneficiaries of productivity gains. E-commerce platforms benefit from AI adoption in recommendation engines, advertising algorithms, and customer support optimization. Companies like Amazon, MercadoLibre, Coupang, and Shopify are leveraging AI to improve conversion rates and reduce service costs while expanding into new markets and verticals. Semiconductor companies, particularly TSMC and NVIDIA, are benefiting from AI demand with TSMC raising revenue guidance to mid-30s% growth. NVIDIA continues evolving from graphics cards to leading AI infrastructure company, while TSMC maintains 90% market share in leading-edge manufacturing with ability to raise prices. Cybersecurity companies are using AI in core algorithms to better identify anomalies and block malicious traffic. CrowdStrike is seeing reacceleration in growth with new Falcon Flex offering, while Netskope continues gaining SASE market share with strong competitive win rates. Biotechnology investments focus on companies with differentiated technologies and expanding addressable markets. Argenx continues strong performance with Vyvgart sales exceeding expectations, while BillionToOne disrupts prenatal and oncology diagnostics with innovative QCT technology achieving superior accuracy. Cloud infrastructure companies are positioned to benefit from AI buildout with AWS aggressively investing in capacity and offering full-stack AI solutions. The data gravity of existing customers provides competitive advantages while companies expand AI inference and development platforms. | View | |
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 28, 2025 | Baron Emerging Markets Fund | 10.9% | 31.5% | 0TDG LN, 1024 HK, 700 HK, BABA, BHE IN, GDS, INDUSTOW IN, INPST NA, TRENT IN, TSM | Artificial Intelligence, China, Data centers, emerging markets, India | The fund outperformed its benchmark as AI infrastructure buildouts and global easing cycles fueled emerging market gains. Managers highlighted Chinas growing AI ecosystem and leadership in EVs, robotics, and cloud infrastructure, noting parallels with the U.S. hyperscaler boom. India remains a core conviction, with expected earnings upgrades driven by government capex, tax reform, and easing monetary policy, despite temporary headwinds from tariffs. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | Baron Real Estate Fund | -1.4% | 4.9% | AMH, AMT, BX, CSGP, DHI, FBIN, GDS, GMG.AX, H, HLT, IRM, JLL, PLD, RKT, SKY, TMHC, TREX, VNO, VTR, WELL | Commercial, Data centers, Housing, Industrial, real estate, REITs, Travel | Fund invests in leading commercial real estate services companies CBRE, JLL, and Cushman & Wakefield that benefit from outsourcing trends, institutionalization of commercial real estate, and market share opportunities in a fragmented industry. These companies are expected to generate 15%+ annual earnings growth as commercial real estate sales and leasing activity rebounds. Multi-year setup for data centers is as strong as ever with expanding demand from cloud computing, IT outsourcing, and AI workloads from Magnificent 7 companies. New supply is constrained due to elevated construction costs and power constraints while rents are rising. Fund owns Equinix, Digital Realty Trust, GDS Holdings, and Goodman as multi-year beneficiaries. Travel companies benefit from favorable shift in consumer preferences away from goods spending to prioritizing travel experiences. Fund owns best-in-class hotel companies Hilton and Hyatt which should continue benefiting from these secular trends including flexible work arrangements allowing more travel and cyclically depressed business activity creating opportunities. Despite near-term housing market challenges from affordability issues and buyer/seller strikes, there is structural underinvestment in housing relative to demographic needs. US builds same number of homes today as 1960 despite 160 million more people. Fund sees long-term bullish opportunity in companies like Toll Brothers and Champion Homes as housing market rebounds. Industrial real estate benefits from multi-year demand drivers including e-commerce growth, last mile infrastructure needs, onshoring trends, and shift from just-in-time to just-in-case inventory management. AI's physical manifestation through robotics and automation will require more industrial facilities. Fund owns Prologis, EastGroup Properties, and Terreno Realty. | IRM VTR WELL FBIN SKY CSGP H PLD JLL |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Baron Opportunity Fund | 4.0% | 25.1% | AVGO, CRWD, DUOL, GDS, GWRE, INDI, MBLY, META, MSFT, NVDA, PAR, TEAM, TSLA | - | View |
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