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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q1 | Apr 8, 2025 | Jacob Fund | - | - | GRAB, SNAP | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q1 | Apr 15, 2023 | Contrarius Global Equity Fund | 7.3% | 7.3% | DASH, DHER GR, GRAB, TKWY NA, UBER | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 8, 2026 | SGA – International Growth | 1.0% | 9.6% | 1299.HK, 6098.T, 9983.T, ADYEN.AS, ALC, AON, ARM, BABA, CP, DSY.PA, EXPN.L, FEMSAUBD.MX, GALD, GRAB, HDFCBANK.NS, HEIA.AS, HLN.L, INFY, LIN, MELI, OR.PA, SAP, SE, SGE.L, SHOP, SRT3.DE, STE, TEAM, TSM, UL, UMG.AS, WALMEX.MX, WCN, YUMC | AI, Cyclical, E-Commerce, growth, international, Quality, Southeast Asia, valuation | SGA continues to believe the most attractive long-term AI opportunities reside with businesses building long-term value through proprietary data and integrated workflows. The portfolio is positioned to capture AI value through companies providing essential intellectual property and manufacturing capability for the AI ecosystem, including TSMC, Arm Holdings, SAP, and Dassault Systemes. The portfolio focuses on high-conviction quality growth businesses anticipated to achieve consistent mid-teens earnings growth with reduced variability. Despite market headwinds favoring cyclical assets, SGA maintains conviction in quality companies with predictable revenue and cash flow generation that should become more sought after if market volatility increases. New positions were established in Sea Limited and Grab Holdings, both Southeast Asian consumer internet companies with integrated ecosystems. Sea operates Shopee e-commerce platform with integrated payments and logistics, while Grab provides super-app services for ride-hailing, food delivery, and digital payments across Southeast Asia. | TEAM ARM DSY FP SRT GR 9983 JP |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 8, 2026 | SGA – Emerging Markets Growth | 0.6% | 22.8% | 035420.KS, 0700.HK, 1299.HK, 1398.HK, 9983.T, BABA, BJFN, CPALL.BK, CPI.JO, FEMSA, GRAB, HDFCBANK.NS, HTHT, INFY, MELI, MMYT, OR.PA, SE, SLM.JO, TCS.NS, TME, TOTS3.SA, TSM, UL, WALMEX.MX, XP, YUMC | AI, Cyclical, E-Commerce, emerging markets, Quality, semiconductors, valuation | The rapid acceleration in artificial intelligence has been a key catalyst behind the recent cyclical resurgence across emerging markets. Large-scale capital expenditure by global hyperscalers has driven sharp increases in demand for semiconductors and data-center infrastructure. However, SGA believes the current trend of AI CapEx growth is unsustainable and has largely run its course due to structural constraints in power availability, skilled labor, and capital availability. Several investments in e-commerce leaders across Asia and Latin America, including MercadoLibre, Sea Limited and Alibaba, faced a more competitive operating environment during the period. As long-term investors, SGA observes that competitive intensity in these markets tends to ebb and flow over shorter time horizons, with market leaders typically emerging from such periods with strengthened strategic positions given inherent network effects. The portfolio's underweight to South Korean semiconductor companies, including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, was a key driver of relative underperformance. These stocks continued to benefit from strong AI-related memory demand and elevated investor enthusiasm. Memory chips are largely a commoditized product with weak pricing power, extreme capital intensity and pronounced boom-bust cycles that lead to volatile earnings. SGA sees worrying signs of excess and weakening lending discipline from credit markets. The scale of capital required has led to greater reliance on private credit markets and off-balance-sheet structures. Transactions such as Meta's $27 billion joint venture with Blue Owl Capital highlight both the availability of capital and the risk of excess. The sustained focus on cyclicality and momentum has driven the quality factor to historically depressed relative levels. The valuation premium for high-quality stocks has compressed to levels typically observed only during periods of crisis. SGA remains committed to businesses with pricing power, recurring revenues, and strong balance sheets - attributes that may be underappreciated in today's momentum-driven market. | OR FP TME GRAB SE BABA 9983 JP INFY TSM |
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| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Sands Capital Select Growth Fund | 8.8% | 24.3% | 300750 CH, APP, AXON, DXCM, EW, FND, GRAB, LRCX, NFLX, NOW, NU, OKTA, RBLX, SSFN, YMM | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Sands Capital Global Growth Fund | 5.3% | 15.7% | 6861 JP, ALGN, APP, AXON, DXCM, EW, GRAB, LRCX, MELI, NFLX, NOW, OKTA, SPOT, SSFN, TTEK | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Touchstone Sands Capital International Growth Equity Fund | -4.1% | 8.4% | APP, EVD GR, G, GRAB, SHOP, SIKA SW, SSFN, STOP, TSM | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Sands Capital Emerging Markets Growth Fund | -10.8% | 3.1% | 300750 CH, 603288 CH, APP, BYD, GRAB, HTHT, LAM, NOW, NU, RENT3 BZ, RJHI AB, SSFN, TSM, YMM | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 22, 2026 | Sands Capital Emerging Markets Growth Fund | 0.1% | 21.6% | 000660.KS, 005930.KS, 0700.HK, 1211.HK, 122870.KS, 1299.HK, 1810.HK, 2269.HK, 2454.TW, 300750.SZ, 3690.HK, 4966.TW, 500570.BO, 532978.BO, APHS.NS, ASML, BABA, BBCA.JK, CPNG, DIDI, DNP.WA, FPT.VN, FTA, GLOB, GRAB, HDB, HDFCLIFE.NS, HTHT, ICT.PS, KSPI.L, MELI, NU, PHNX.NS, RADL3.SA, SE, TSM, WEGE3.SA, WMMVY | AI, China, E-Commerce, emerging markets, growth, Memory Chips, semiconductors, technology | AI is spreading across industries, reshaping business models and driving market leadership. The firm sees an ongoing AI boom rather than a full bubble, with meaningful exposure in semiconductors and digital advertising while maintaining valuation discipline. Memory chip cycle strengthening fueled by growing AI demand. SK hynix and Samsung are effectively sold out of memory inventory for 2026 with limited capacity in 2027. High-bandwidth memory remains essential for AI servers. Select ecommerce businesses underperformed despite strong fundamentals. Sea, MercadoLibre, and Coupang faced near-term headwinds from increased investment and competitive pressure, but maintain strong long-term positioning. Defense technology entering structural growth phase driven by rising geopolitical risk and convergence of military and commercial innovation. Focus on autonomous systems, space sensing, and secure communications. AI advances pushing robotics forward with near-term opportunities in logistics and warehouse environments. Focus on companies that make robots reliable and economically compelling rather than headline-grabbing names. Energy transition blending with new power demand from data centers and AI, straining grids and forcing aggressive investment in power infrastructure. Multiyear investment cycle expected across entire power value chain. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 18, 2026 | Octahedron Capital | 0.0% | 0.0% | ABNB, AMZN, BKNG, CART, CHWY, CPNG, CVNA, DASH, ETSY, EXPE, GOOGL, GRAB, MELI, META, NVDA, PINS, RDDT, SNOW, UBER, W | AI, Cloud, Digital, E-Commerce, growth, infrastructure, semiconductors, technology | AI infrastructure demand remains robust with cloud providers aggressively adding capacity and seeing strong bookings. Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating with over 70% of Google Cloud customers using AI products. AI is enabling productivity gains and new business models across software companies. On-demand delivery continues accelerating growth with companies like Uber reaching $12B grocery run-rate and DoorDash seeing highest growth in 3+ years. Cross-selling and new product initiatives are driving engagement while autonomous delivery platforms are being deployed. Cloud providers are seeing demand significantly ahead of capacity with AWS reaccelerating to 20.2% growth and Azure growing 40%. Multi-billion dollar bookings and long-term contracts are driving unprecedented infrastructure investments. Memory entering historic cycle with step-function margin gains and tight supply through 2026. AI networking components fully booked through 2027 while foundry utilization improves with increased capex outlook. Payment volumes remain stable with consumer loan charge-offs steady. NuBank continues dominating LATAM with Mexico scaling and strong unit economics while maintaining growth focus over margin optimization. US travel rebounded strongly in Q3 with nights and seats booked up 9% year-over-year. Booking.com's Genius program accounts for mid-50% of room nights while Airbnb received 110,000 experience supplier applications. | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Mar 18, 2026 | Seeking Alpha | Seeking Alpha | Grab Holdings Limited | Technology | Ride-Hailing and Delivery Services | Bull | Nasdaq Stock Market | competitive moat, Delivery Services, EBITDA growth, Grab Holdings Limited, market share, quick commerce, revenue streams, ride-hailing, Southeast Asia, super app | View Pitch |
| Feb 21, 2026 | Fund Letters | HRISHIKESH (HK) GUPTA | Grab Holdings Ltd | Industrials | Passenger Ground Transportation | Bull | NASDAQ | deliveries, Fintech, Margins, mobility, Provisions | View Pitch |
| Feb 4, 2026 | Twitter / X | @BourbonCap | Grab Holdings Limited | Ground Transportation | Passenger Ground Transportation | Bull | NASDAQ | Fintech, Fooddelivery, Indonesia, Payments, Ridehailing, SoutheastAsia, Superapp | View Pitch |
| Feb 4, 2026 | Twitter / X | @MikeLongTerm | Grab Holdings Limited | Software | Application Software | Bull | NASDAQ | acquisition, AIPlatform, Cashrich, delivery, DineOut, Fintech, mobility, Multipleexpansion, NetworkEffect, SEA, Superapp | View Pitch |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | IWA Research | Grab Holdings | Information Technology | Software - Application | Bull | NASDAQ | — | View Pitch |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | APAC Investment News | Grab Holdings | Information Technology | Software - Application | Bull | NASDAQ | — | View Pitch |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | The Alpha Analyst | Grab Holdings Limited | Other | - | Neutral | NASDAQ | — | View Pitch |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Substack | The Finance Corner | Grab Holdings Limited | Information Technology | Software - Application | Bull | NASDAQ | — | View Pitch |
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