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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Ariel Appreciation Fund | 9.9% | 0.0% | BIO, KN, LAZ, MSGE, NVST, NVT, SNA, WBA | AI, earnings, Electrical, Entertainment, healthcare, mid cap, value | Investor enthusiasm around artificial intelligence drove broad-based market rally in Q1. AI-themed mega-cap stocks showed exuberance that may eventually prove excessive, though patient investors focus on fundamentals over market psychology. | BIO NVST KN WBA MSGE LAZ NVT |
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| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Ariel Small Cap Value Strategy | 10.1% | 0.0% | CG, DNB, LAZ, LIND, MGPI, NVT, OSW, SPHR | AI, Electrical, Entertainment, small cap, Spirits, Travel, value | Investor enthusiasm around artificial intelligence drove broad-based market rally in Q1. AI-themed mega-cap stocks dominated performance, though their concentration and elevated valuations remain influential on overall market performance. | MGPI DNB OSW LIND NVT LAZ SPHR |
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| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Harding Loevner Global Small Companies | -3.1% | -3.1% | AAPL, ALGN, ASML, CBSH, CHD, EPAM, FIVE, FTI, GLOB, HP, LAZ, LIVN, LPLA, MKC, NBIX, NDAQ, OLLI, PEN, RGA, STNE | Germany, global, infrastructure, Quality, small caps, Trade Policy | The portfolio significantly increased exposure to Germany over the past couple years, with an 8.3% average weight versus 1.1% in the benchmark. Despite economic challenges, the manager found high-quality growing businesses trading at reasonable prices. Germany's constitutional amendment to allow fiscal stimulus and infrastructure spending of over $500 billion boosted market performance in Q1. | 7747.T 6952.T FPE3.DE NEM.DE G24.DE |
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| 2023 Q3 | Dec 10, 2023 | Longleaf Partners International Fund | 11.2% | 10.4% | 0288.HK, 1238.HK, 1999.HK, 4502.T, AC.PA, APPS.MC, BABA, CFR.L, DHER.DE, DPG.L, EXO.MI, FFH.TO, GLB.L, GRUMAB.MX, KER.PA, LAZ, LXS.DE, PFD.L, PRO4.L | Buybacks, China, Europe, international, Luxury, value | Luxury holdings faced challenging quarter due to weak Chinese economy and consumer concerns in US/Europe. Companies like Richemont and Kering trading at trough valuations despite strong structural themes of emerging middle class in China and shift towards branded products remaining intact. | DHER.DE KER.PA CFR.SW GLB.L DPG.L |
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| 2022 Q3 | Oct 26, 2022 | O’Keefe Stevens Advisory, Inc | 0.0% | 0.0% | LAZ, SRG | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Jan 9, 2025 | LVS Advisory – Growth | - | 37.0% | EVR, JEF, LAZ, MC, MEDP, NVDA, PJT, PWP | Antitrust, Concentration, Event-Driven, growth, Investment Banks, M&A, Portfolio Management | M&A activity expected to surge in 2025 under Trump administration with less aggressive antitrust enforcement. Investment banks outperformed significantly in 2024 anticipating this recovery. Event-driven portfolio positioned to benefit from wider deal spreads and improved merger arbitrage environment. | View | |
| 2024 Q4 | Jan 9, 2025 | LVS Advisory – Event Driven | - | 8.0% | EVR, JEF, LAZ, MC, MEDP, NVDA, PJT, PWP | Antitrust, Event-Driven, Investment Banks, M&A, Merger Arbitrage, portfolio construction, Trump | M&A activity expected to surge in 2025 due to Trump administration's less aggressive antitrust stance. Investment banks outperformed significantly in 2024 anticipating this recovery. The exit of several large merger arbitrage funds creates supply/demand imbalance for wider deal spreads. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 26, 2026 | Cambiar SMID Fund | 1.6% | 0.0% | ACVA, ALGN, BOKF, COO, EEFT, FNF, GOOGL, JBHT, LAZ, MAS, NVDA, WFC, WSC | AI, Credit Stress, financials, healthcare, Quality, small caps, value | The market has priced in a near-flawless AI future for years, but sentiment is shifting as investors become more scrutinizing. Only two of the Mag7 outperformed in 2025, and the market is now more discerning about how AI investments will translate into financial returns. Increased debt financing for AI capex creates vulnerability to credit tightening. The fourth quarter saw a reversal in the growth versus value trade, with traditional value sectors like Healthcare and Financials performing well while Mag7 largely lagged. The fund's quality bias and valuation sensitivity were out of step with a market prioritizing higher-beta momentum stocks. Value stocks offer attractive return potential going forward. Small cap stocks trailed larger cap counterparts for the year despite posting respectable 12.8% gains. Companies with negative income outperformed by wide margins in 2025, creating challenges for quality-focused strategies. The market environment paralleled 2021's speculative period with little regard for valuation or earnings. Corporate bankruptcies spiked in 2025, highlighting growing financial pressure amid elevated borrowing costs. Middle and lower income consumers are increasingly stretched with high credit card balances and subprime auto loan delinquencies at highest levels since 2008. Rising unemployment likely to amplify these pressures. | COO |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Ariel Small Cap Value Strategy | 10.1% | 0.0% | BRC, CLB, JLL, LAZ, LESL, LIND, MHK, SRCL, WEX | energy, Manufacturing, payments, real estate, small caps, Travel, value | The fund focuses on small cap value investing, with the Russell 2000 Value Index outperforming growth in Q3. The manager believes patient investors who own differentiated businesses with solid competitive positioning and robust balance sheets will reap superior returns over time. | WEX CLB LIND LESL MHK LAZ JLL |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Ariel Fund | 12.1% | 0.0% | BIO, CLB, GNTX, JLL, LAZ, LESL, MHK, MIDD, SRCL | healthcare, industrials, real estate, small caps, SMID Cap, value | The fund focuses on investing in undervalued companies trading at discounts to private market value estimates. Management emphasizes patient investing in differentiated businesses with solid competitive positioning and robust balance sheets to generate superior returns over time. | MIDD BIO CLB GNTX LESL JLL LAZ MHK |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Ariel Appreciation Fund | 9.9% | 0.0% | CBRE, CLB, LAZ, NOV, SCHW, SRCL, SWK, WBA | Buybacks, earnings, free cash flow, interest rates, mid cap, value | Stanley Black & Decker delivered robust quarterly earnings with positive organic revenue growth in Tools and Outdoor segment for the first time since late 2021. The company's transformation initiatives remain on track with margin expansion from sourcing initiatives and productivity improvements. | SCHW CLB NOV CBRE LAZ SWK |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Third Avenue Value Fund | 1.2% | 0.0% | 6856.T, 7270.T, BIRG, BMW.DE, BZU.MI, CKHUY, CMA, CPSCF, DB, EZJ.L, LAZ, MBG.DE, SUBCY, TDW, TM, VAL, WMC | Autos, Buybacks, global, Offshore Energy, undervaluation, value | Manager discusses the persistent valuation chasm between cheap and expensive companies in U.S. equity markets, noting that multiples assigned to the least expensive quartile actually declined from 2014-2024. The fund continues to find attractive value in several automotive industry OEMs and other sectors despite the challenging environment for value investing. | 7270.T |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Harding Loevner Global Small Companies | 7.8% | 4.1% | AAON, AAPL, ADTC, ALLE, AMBU.CO, APPF, ATKR, BWA, CGNX, CYBR, DISO.MI, DPLO, ELANCO, ENS, EXPO, FIVE, GLOB, GWRE, HP, IPGP, KXS.TO, LAZ, LOB, LPRO, NCRX, OLLI, PEN, RGA, ROLL, SPLS, WTS, XPEL | AI, Consumer Staples, global, healthcare, industrials, small caps, technology | Artificial intelligence may have profound effects on plenty of industries and companies, but what it won't change are the human needs and desires underpinning demand for food and health-related products. The technology may change the way food and health-care businesses operate, but the demand that fuels their growth is less likely to be affected. | View | |
| 2023 Q2 | Jul 19, 2023 | Longleaf Partners International Fund | 11.2% | 10.4% | 0288.HK, 1999.HK, 4612.T, AC.PA, APPS.MC, BABA, CFR.TO, EXO.MI, FFH.TO, GLB.L, GRUMAB.MX, JFC.PS, JUVE.MI, KER.PA, LAZ, LXS.DE, MLCO, PFD.L, PRX.AS, TIGO | Asia, Buybacks, China, concentrated, Europe, international, value | Fund focuses on concentrated portfolio of 18-22 best ideas trading at discount to intrinsic value with compelling price-to-value ratio in mid-60s%. Management teams actively using buybacks, spin-offs and divestitures to crystallize value when persistent gaps exist between price and intrinsic value. | 4613.T 1999.HK LXS.DE AC.PA APPS.MC |
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| 2023 Q1 | Apr 20, 2023 | Longleaf Partners International Fund | 11.2% | 10.4% | 0001.HK, 0288.HK, AC.PA, APPS.MC, BABA, CUERVO.MX, DOM.L, ERF.PA, EXOR.MI, FFH.TO, GLB, GRUMAB.MX, HDB, JFC.PS, JUVE.MI, KER.PA, LAZ, LXS.DE, MC.PA, MLCO, PFD.L, PRX.AS, TIGO | Asia, China, concentrated, Europe, international, Luxury, Travel, value | China is arguably the only economy of size that is easing on a regulatory, fiscal and monetary perspective, while the rest of the world is tightening. The region offers compelling upside from both an economic and valuation perspective as Asia emerges from three years of lockdown with consumer sentiment rebounding strongly. | KER.PA CFR.SW AC.PA TIGO |
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| 2023 Q1 | Mar 31, 2023 | Ariel Focus Fund | 10.6% | 0.0% | APA, BAC, BK, BOKF, FAF, GNRC, Gold, GS, JNJ, KKR, LAZ, LH, LMT, MHK, MOS, NTRS, ORCL, REZI, SNA, WU, ZBH, ZBRA, ZIMV | Banking, Fed Tightening, industrials, Recession, technology, value | The fund emphasizes low PE stocks as core to their approach, trading at significantly lower multiples compared to both value indices and the broad market. This value emphasis has been a near-term performance headwind but positions them well as the market begins to look past Fed tightening. | View | |
| 2022 Q1 | Mar 31, 2022 | Ariel Fund | 12.1% | 0.0% | CLB, LAZ, MAS, MHK, MSGE, PARA, TGNA | - | View | ||
| 2023 Q3 | Mar 10, 2023 | Ariel Focus Fund | 10.6% | 0.0% | APA, BK, BWA, CVX, GNRC, GS, JNJ, KVUE, LAZ, LESL, MHK, PHIN, SPHR, WU, ZBH | Buybacks, capital returns, discount, energy, large cap, value | The fund holds multiple energy positions including APA Corporation and Chevron Corporation. APA continues delivering strong earnings with solid production volumes and expects to hit oil production guidance. Chevron is viewed as competitively advantaged with sustainable growth pathway and expects double-digit return of capital employed by 2027. | PHIN KVUE CVX GNRC MHK LESL ^GSPC WU ADNT|APA|BPOP|FLR|KOS|OLN |
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| 2024 Q4 | Jan 28, 2025 | Third Avenue Value Fund | -9.6% | -2.5% | 6856.T, 7270.T, 7433.T, AAPL, AMZN, BIRG.L, BMW.DE, BZU.MI, CBG.L, CMA, CS.TO, DB, EZJ.L, GOOGL, HCC, HRB.L, LAZ, LUN.TO, MBG.DE, META, MSFT, NVDA, ORI, SUBCY, TDW, TSLA, UGP | Active Share, Autos, Concentration, global, small caps, value | The fund has significant exposure to traditional automakers BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Subaru, which the manager views as extremely undervalued despite facing challenges from higher interest rates, electric vehicle transition, Chinese competition, and potential tariffs. The manager argues these companies are adapting well and trading at distressed valuations despite strong fundamentals. | 7270.T MBG.DE BMW.DE |
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| 2023 Q4 | Jan 24, 2024 | O’Keefe Stevens Advisory, Inc | 0.0% | 0.0% | AER, AMGN, BGC, DFIN, EAF, FPH, HCC, ICLTF, LAZ, LIVE, LL, NVDA, QCOM, TSLA | AI, commodities, Concentration, Predictions, small caps, technology, value | AI became mainstream in 2023 with Nvidia appreciating over 200% as the fund's largest position. The manager notes AI's significant impact on technology sector performance despite cautious analyst commentaries. | EAF AER FPH |
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| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Ariel Appreciation Fund | Lazard Ltd. | Financials | Investment Banking & Brokerage | Bull | NYSE | asset management, Bull, cost savings, financial services, investment banking, M&A Advisory, Revenue Growth | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Ariel Small Cap Value Strategy | Lazard Ltd. | Financials | Investment Banking & Brokerage | Bull | NYSE | asset management, cost savings, Financial advisory, investment banking, Mergers acquisitions, Private Market Value, Revenue Growth | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Ariel Small Cap Value Strategy | Lazard Inc | Financials | Investment Banking & Brokerage | Bull | NYSE | Active Strategies, asset management, Financial advisory, investment banking, M&A Advisory, Private Market Value, rate cuts, Revenue Growth, Specialty Offerings | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Ariel Fund | Lazard Inc. | Financials | Investment Banking & Brokerage | Bull | NYSE | Active Strategies, asset management, Discount Valuation, Financial advisory, investment banking, Value | View Pitch |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Ariel Appreciation Fund | Lazard Inc | Financials | Investment Banking & Brokerage | Bull | NYSE | Active Strategies, asset management, Financial advisory, investment banking, M&A, Revenue Growth, valuation discount | View Pitch |
| Manager Name | Fund Name | Fund AUM | Invested Value | Portfolio Weight | Shares Owned | Shares Bought / Sold During Quarter | % Bought / Sold During Quarter | % of Shares Outstanding Owned |
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