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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q2 | Jul 17, 2025 | Platinum International Technology Fund | 18.4% | - | AAPL, KLAC | Artificial Intelligence, infrastructure, semiconductors, software, valuation | The letter centers on artificial intelligence as a transformative investment theme reshaping compute demand, software economics, and semiconductor supply chains. Management stresses valuation discipline and differentiation between true growth and hype. AI infrastructure beneficiaries are favored as early-cycle winners. | KLAC |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jul 12, 2024 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | 8.6% | 13.3% | ADYEN NA, BILL, BMRN, CPRT, CSGP, GWRE, KLAC, LULU, MPWR, MSCI, POOL, SLNY, SQ, TER, TT, WDAY, WDC, WST | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q1 | Apr 27, 2024 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | 8.6% | 13.3% | ADYEY, BMRN, KLAC, LULU, MELI, MTD, NTR, PGR, SQ, TT, WDAY | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 23, 2026 | Bailard Technology Strategy | -2.2% | 19.2% | ADBE, AMZN, CRM, DDOG, GOOGL, HUBS, KLAC, LRCX, META, MNDY, MSFT, MU, NOW, NTNX, NVDA, QCOM, SAP, TEAM, TSM, WD | AI, growth, infrastructure, positioning, semiconductors, software, technology | The AI infrastructure cycle has mirrored cloud computing build-out with hyperscalers aggressively financing GPU and data center deployments. The focus is shifting from building computational backbone to realizing value through software and application layers. AI agents are creating concerns about disrupting legacy software applications, but incumbents can embed agents into existing systems to leverage proprietary data and customer relationships. The AI build-out is causing extremely tight supply for memory chips, benefiting companies like Micron that supply memory chips and equipment manufacturers like Lam Research and KLA that manufacture wafer equipment needed to expand the supply chain. The semiconductor complex is expected to remain fundamentally strong with potential for further acceleration in specific verticals. Software sector demonstrated resilient but normalizing revenue growth with highly bifurcated results. High-growth leaders maintained 25-30% growth while enterprise stalwarts sustained low-20% growth. Software valuations faced pressure due to fears that AI agents might disrupt legacy feature-heavy applications, creating a selective opportunity to own high-quality firms at a discount. Hyperscalers have aggressively financed massive deployments of GPUs and data center capacity using robust internal cash flows. Energy availability is becoming the constraining factor on datacenter growth, and the nature of AI investment is evolving toward more complex financing structures including alternative financing and circular financing arrangements. | View | |
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Parnassus Core Equity Fund | 0.3% | 18.5% | AMZN, AVGO, BAC, BALL, CI, CME, CRM, DE, DHI, FERG, FI, INTL, KLAC, LIN, LLY, MDLZ, O, ORCL, SYY, VRTX, WDAY | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | -2.5% | 10.6% | A, ADYEY, ALGN, CSGP, DDOG, EFX, FTNT, GWRE, IDXX, KLAC, MELI, MTD, ODFL, PCOR, PGR, POOL, ROK, SHW, SQ, TEAM, TT, XYZ | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q3 | Oct 3, 2024 | Vltava Fund | 0.0% | 0.0% | AAPL, BN, HUM, KLAC, MKL | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Jan 6, 2025 | Vltava Fund | 0.0% | 0.0% | AMAT, KLAC, LRCX | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 22, 2026 | Jensen Investment | 0.0% | 5.6% | AAPL, ACN, AMZN, APH, AVGO, BRK.B, CPRT, GOOGL, JPM, KLAC, LLY, META, MMC, MSFT, MU, NVDA, STX, TSLA, WDC, WM | AI, growth, large cap, Market Concentration, Quality, semiconductors, technology | The AI investment cycle is maturing with prominent beneficiaries beginning to meet quality criteria as earnings become more sustainable and competitive advantages emerge. The portfolio now includes foundational AI enablers like Nvidia, Amazon, Meta, and KLA Corporation as highly profitable, cash-generative businesses with dominant positions in computing and semiconductor ecosystems. Jensen maintains focus on businesses with durable cash generation, resilience, and consistent returns on equity rather than abandoning discipline for momentum-driven rallies. The strategy emphasizes companies capable of compounding economic value over full cycles with strong competitive advantages and financial strength. Semiconductor equipment companies like KLA Corporation benefit from growing investor recognition of pricing power and mission-critical roles in advanced chip manufacturing. The sector saw broadening beyond consensus AI winners to reward memory and storage beneficiaries like Western Digital, Seagate, and Micron. The ten largest S&P 500 weightings comprised 38.29% of the Index and accounted for 55.40% of total returns, creating headwinds for strategies underweight these mega-cap leaders. This concentration in AI-related companies has been a defining feature since late 2022. | AVGO SYK WM CPRT MMC ACN LLY APH KLAC |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 18, 2026 | Parnassus Core Equity Fund | 1.6% | 11.6% | AAPL, AMAT, AMD, AZO, BALL, BRO, CRM, DHR, EFX, FISV, GOOGL, HD, KLAC, LIN, LLY, MSFT, ORCL, TMO, VRTX, WDAY | AI, growth, healthcare, large cap, Quality, semiconductors, technology, value | The fund views AI as a generational demand driver creating durable need for faster, more powerful and energy-efficient computing. They are likely in the early stages of a decade-long AI investment cycle, seeking upside capture while managing risks of rapid technological change, rising competition and growing financial leverage. The gap will widen between AI winners versus AI losers, favoring active portfolio management. The fund maintains exposure to semiconductor companies benefiting from AI-driven demand. Applied Materials and KLA gained from sustained AI-driven semiconductor demand with improving customer outlooks. The portfolio includes semiconductor manufacturing equipment suppliers and chip designers positioned for the AI infrastructure build-out. The fund invests in hyperscalers and cloud infrastructure companies. Alphabet showed improving growth in its cloud segment and renewed confidence in its vertically integrated AI strategy. The portfolio includes companies providing cloud services and infrastructure supporting the AI transformation. The fund holds pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly, which rebounded sharply as concerns around pricing, penetration and competitive dynamics for GLP-1 weight-loss drugs eased following stronger-than-expected demand data. The portfolio favors companies that continue to innovate to improve patient outcomes. The fund invests in life science tools companies such as Danaher and ThermoFisher that provide valuable equipment and services for clinical research. These companies benefited from improving sentiment around life sciences end markets as pharmaceutical customers signaled higher-than-expected spending on research and development. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 16, 2026 | Janus Henderson Global Sustainable Equity Fund | -1.5% | 9.2% | 1299.HK, AAPL, AJG, EXPN.L, GOOGL, IFX.DE, KEYS, KLAC, MMC, MU, NTDOY, NVDA, ORCL, PGR, SPOT, STN.TO, TMUS, TSM, UBER, WD, WK | AI, Climate, Energy Transition, global, semiconductors, sustainability, technology | AI remained a dominant trend with NVIDIA becoming the first company to reach $5 trillion market cap. The rally broadened to the AI value chain including memory companies like Micron. Structural demand across the AI value chain remained robust despite concerns about overstretched valuations. TSMC continued positive momentum with robust results, beating revenue and margin expectations driven by strong demand for advanced products. The company raised full-year revenue guidance to 35% reflecting explosive growth in AI demand from consumer, enterprise and sovereign AI models. Clean technology economics reached a tipping point with renewables and EVs achieving cost parity, driving record investment of $2 trillion in 2025. Global EV sales reached 20% of new car purchases despite policy uncertainty, with solar attracting $500 billion in investment. 2025 was one of the three hottest years ever recorded with climate-driven disasters causing significant costs. Despite political challenges, 84% of large companies maintained climate commitments and investor sentiment remained resilient with 70% committed to sustainability long-term. | View | |
| 2025 Q1 | Apr 14, 2025 | Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund | -10.0% | -10.0% | APP, ARES, BILL, BLDR, BR, CMG, CTAS, DDOC, FTNT, GWRE, HOOD, ICLR, KLAC, MELI, NTRA, ORLY, ROST, SNDK, TER, TTD, VRSK, WST, XYZ | - | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Feb 4, 2026 | Twitter / X | @TheValueist | KLA Corporation | Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment | Semiconductor Materials & Equipment | Bull | NASDAQ | AI, annuity, China, ExportControls, HBM, Inspection, Metrology, Packaging, semiconductors, services, yield | View Pitch |
| Jan 24, 2026 | Fund Letters | Allen T. Bond | KLA Corporation | Information Technology | Semiconductor Materials & Equipment | Bull | NASDAQ | AI, Inspection, Metrology, Pricing power, process control, Wafer fab | View Pitch |
| Jan 17, 2026 | Substack | Monopolistic Investor | KLA Corporation | Semiconductors | Semiconductor Equipment & Materials | Neutral | NASDAQ Stock Market | Chip production efficiency, Free Cash Flow Growth, Moat score, Overvaluation, Patient investors, Pricing power, Quality score, Semiconductor inspection, switching costs, target price | View Pitch |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Fund Letters | Andrew Clifford | KLA Corporation | Information Technology | Semiconductor Equipment | Bull | NASDAQ | Capital Spending, Cycle, Equipment, process control, semiconductors, technology | View Pitch |
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