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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 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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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 7, 2026 | ITUS Capital Fundamental Value Fund | 0.0% | 6.6% | CUB.NS, DRREDDY.NS, EICHERMOT.NS, ERIS.NS, HDFCAMC.NS, HDFCBANK.NS, HDFCLIFE.NS, HINDCOPPER.NS, HINDZINC.NS, ICICIBANK.NS, ICICIGI.NS, NAVINFLUOR.NS, PAYTM.NS, PBFINTECH.NS, PIRAMALP.NS, SBIN.NS, SRF.NS, SWIGGY.NS, TITAN.NS, VEDL.NS | Bottom Up, earnings, growth, healthcare, India, Mining, Multi Cap, selectivity | The fund maintains an overweight position in mining and metals, driven by rising demand for copper in manufacturing and batteries. Performance was largely driven by strong stock selection within the sector, though they remain cautious on incremental additions at current valuations above long-term averages. Despite a challenging year due to tariff-related concerns and adverse headlines from the US, many healthcare businesses continue to invest meaningfully in their core franchises and R&D capabilities. The fund's exposure is aligned toward companies where earnings quality and long-term visibility remain intact. The fund's exposure spans banks, NBFCs, and select non-lending financial institutions. They remain opportunistic in adding risk selectively, guided by valuation discipline and balance sheet strength, with a bottoms-up outlook on lending growth. The fund's consumer exposure is less focused on brands and more on businesses that control distribution channels. They believe this segment has potential to drive incremental growth as consumption normalizes and pricing power becomes more relevant. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 27, 2026 | Baron Emerging Markets Fund | -1.3% | 30.1% | 000660.KS, 005930.KS, 0700.HK, 1024.HK, 300750.SZ, BABA, BAJFINANCE.NS, BAP, BEL.NS, BHARTIARTL.NS, HDFCBANK.NS, NU, RELIANCE.NS, SQM, TSM, ZLAB | AI, Banking, China, emerging markets, geopolitics, India, semiconductors, technology | The fund maintains significant exposure to AI-related investments, particularly through semiconductor companies like TSMC and SK hynix that benefit from AI chip demand. The manager discusses the ongoing AI data center arms race with $550 billion expected to be spent in 2026, while noting some concerns about sustainability of competitive advantages and funding environment. Strong focus on semiconductor investments across Taiwan, Korea, and China, with holdings in TSMC, Samsung Electronics, and SK hynix. The manager believes in long-term growth driven by AI, 5G, automotive, and IoT applications, while noting recent volatility around China semiconductor trade policies. The fund maintains exposure to Chinese technology and e-commerce companies despite fourth quarter volatility. The manager expects improved US-China trade relations and technology flow resumption, believing global investors underestimate China's emerging AI and technology ecosystem capabilities. Large overweight position in India despite flat performance in 2025. The manager believes India is poised for an earnings upgrade cycle supported by infrastructure spending recovery, tax relief, and GST 2.0 implementation, positioning for catch-up with other EM markets. Added positions in South African banks (Absa Group, FirstRand) and Latin American digital banking (Nu Holdings) based on favorable banking cycles, improving loan growth, and digital disruption opportunities in underbanked markets. Investments in sustainability themes including Korean shipbuilding companies (HD Korea Shipbuilding, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries) and energy storage (Contemporary Amperex Technology) that benefit from global decarbonization trends. | NU FSR SJ ABG SJ BABA 005930 KS 000660 KS TSM |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | American Century Emerging Markets Fund | 5.8% | 35.3% | 000660.KS, 005930.KS, 0700.HK, 0939.HK, 1810.HK, BABA, BHARTIARTL.NS, HDFCBANK.NS, NTES, RELIANCE.NS, SUNPHARMA.NS, TSM | AI, Asia, emerging markets, Energy Transition, semiconductors, technology, Trade Policy | Strong technology-related performance supported gains as semiconductor names and other technology-related stocks benefited from robust AI spending and demand. Rising AI workloads have boosted demand for rechargeable batteries, and the firm believes several EM firms possess manufacturing leadership in this sector. Taiwan and South Korea remain essential to global chipmaking. SK Hynix was a top contributor as demand for AI-related memory remained high amid the generative-AI boom and surging data center investment, with quarterly results overwhelmingly powered by surging demand for AI components, especially high bandwidth memory. Many EM offer lower-cost, more readily available power that supports rapid data center build-outs. Rising AI workloads have boosted demand for data center infrastructure, with companies like Zhongji Innolight benefiting from strong demand in cloud computing and 5G infrastructure. U.S. tariffs and trade policy have not been as challenging for EM as investors expected, in part because many markets have adapted well. Some have negotiated more manageable tariff structures with the U.S., while others have focused on non-U.S. relationships. The path of global trade and U.S. policy remains uncertain going forward. HD Hyundai Electric benefited from demand for power transformers, switchgear and smart grid solutions, with U.S. infrastructure investment plans around AI data centers and grid upgrades supporting the stock. The company has been well positioned for global trends around electrification and sustainability. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 22, 2026 | Touchstone Sands Capital International Growth Equity Fund | -4.2% | 10.9% | 6861.T, ADDTECH-B.ST, ADYEN.AS, AJINOMOTO.T, ARGX, ASML, BAJFINANCE.NS, DNP.WA, DOL.TO, EL.PA, FLUT, HDFCBANK.NS, HEXA-B.ST, III.L, MELI, NU, PME.AX, PNDORA.CO, RACE, SE, SHOP.TO, SPOT, STVG.MI, TSM, VACN.SW, WEGE3.SA | AI, defense, energy, growth, international, Robotics, Space, technology | AI spread across industries in 2025, reshaping business models and driving market leadership. The firm maintains meaningful AI exposure through hardware and software providers with clear economic models, while avoiding areas where prices assume years of success or sustainable profit remains uncertain. Defense technology is entering a structural growth phase driven by rising geopolitical risk and convergence of military and commercial innovation. Focus on autonomous systems, space sensing, secure communications, and software that connects these pieces. Advances in AI compute power are pushing robotics forward with near-term pull in logistics and warehouse environments. Focus on companies that make robots reliable, safe, and economically compelling rather than headline makers. Energy transition is blending with new power demand from data centers, transportation, and industry, straining grids and forcing aggressive investment in power infrastructure. Expecting multiyear investment cycle across the entire power value chain. Cyberattacks have become more frequent, costly, and sophisticated as more activity moves to cloud and AI tools spread. Security is no longer discretionary but a core operating requirement and foundation for trust. Space is becoming part of everyday life with satellites helping run internet, support defense, and guide transportation. Lower launch costs and improved satellite capabilities are creating growing businesses with steady, long-term revenue. | EL FP MELI RACE IM SPOT 2802 JP SE SHOP VACN SW 2330 TT GALD SW |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 20, 2026 | Harding Loevner Emerging Markets Equity | 3.7% | 29.1% | 000660.KS, 005930.KS, 2330.TW, 700.HK, ASIANPAINT.NS, BABA, EPAM, GLOB, HDFCBANK.NS, ICICIBC.NS, ITUB, MARUTI.NS, MELI, MMYT, PING, SE, TCOM, TCS, TSM, WALMEX.MX | AI, emerging markets, energy, Memory, nuclear, semiconductors, technology | AI-related stocks sustained the relentless rise of the EM index, with seven of the 10 largest contributors being AI-related and accounting for more than 40% of the index's 34% return. The surge reflects sharply accelerating capital investment into AI physical infrastructure, with hyperscalers repeatedly increasing capex plans. EMs are standout beneficiaries because significant portions of AI physical infrastructure are sourced from EM companies, especially Asia-based enterprises like TSMC. The AI boom is engendering structural changes in the memory market that should support higher and more consistent profitability. Three key developments are changing industry dynamics: growing demand for customized, high-value memory products like HBM; the need to surmount the memory wall for AI workloads; and increasing constraints on memory manufacturing capacity as more capacity is allocated to HBM production. The energy demands of AI data centers are staggering, with AI-specific servers using 53-76 terawatt-hours in 2024. This puts renewed attention on nuclear power advantages, which is both scalable enough to meet huge AI data center power requirements and carbon-emission free. Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet have announced plans to invest in nuclear energy, driving demand for uranium. | 688188 CH KAP LI 000660 KS 005930 KS |
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| 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 14, 2026 | Hardman Johnston Global Equity | 2.9% | 0.0% | 6501.T, AMZN, BAC, C, CCO, CTVA, EL, ELAN, GOOGL, HDFCBANK.NS, LLY, MELI, META, PRX.AS, RHM.DE, STAN.L, TMUS, UBER, VRT, VRTX | AI, banks, Data centers, defense, financials, global, nuclear, technology | The manager sees AI as having long-term potential to drive productivity gains and positions to take advantage of that growth. However, they remain cautious about AI becoming the only game in town and continue to monitor exposure closely. They note that excitement about AI has stretched beyond IT into energy, utilities and other businesses in the AI value chain, creating concentration risk. The manager remains positive on defense fundamentals and long-term growth potential despite sporadic pullbacks. They see a clear structural shift toward defense after years of underinvestment, with visible growth stretching years into the future through strong orders, high backlogs, and political will to invest in national security. Banks were leading sector contributors with strong performance from Standard Chartered and Citigroup. Standard Chartered benefits from wealth management platform growth and cross-border services, while Citigroup's transformation strategy is paying off with improved deal activity and better regulatory environment expected in 2026. The manager re-entered Vertiv given the long-term secular data center infrastructure story and strong fundamentals. They reference approximately 100GW of incremental data-center capacity additions from 2024-2029, representing meaningful revenue upside for companies with global presence in thermal and electrical equipment. The manager initiated a position in Cameco, citing structural shifts away from Russian uranium sourcing and reinvigorated nuclear development due to AI energy needs and low carbon merits. Westinghouse's agreement with the US Department of Commerce to support at least $80bn of new reactor construction materially increases earnings power. Estée Lauder drove Consumer Staples performance as the company progresses through its turnaround with outperformance in sales, margins, China, US and Travel Retail. Beauty overall is described as one of the more resilient categories enjoying both volume and value growth, with luxury beauty positioned well in the K-shaped economy. | VRTX TMUS CTVA VRT HDB ELAN CCJ 6501 JP LLY MELI UBER RHM GR EL C |
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