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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q4 | Mar 1, 2026 | Berkshire Hathaway | - | 10.9% | 8001.T, 8002.T, 8031.T, 8053.T, 8058.T, AAPL, AXP, KHC, KO, MCO, OXY | Capital Allocation, energy, Float, insurance, Quality, Railroads, Underwriting, value | Berkshire's insurance operations generated pre-tax underwriting gains and grew float to $176 billion. The combined ratio of 87.1% across property and casualty businesses was exceptional. However, increased competition and rising claim cost trends may pressure future earnings. BNSF improved operating margin to 34.5% from 32.0% through operational improvements and efficiency gains. The railroad generated $8.1 billion in net operating cash flows and returned $4.4 billion in dividends to Berkshire. BHE operates regulated utilities serving 5.4 million customers and natural gas pipelines. The business faces significant investment needs driven by AI computing demand and wildfire risk mitigation, particularly in the Western U.S. Berkshire maintains its disciplined approach to capital allocation, seeking businesses with durable advantages and long-term economic prospects. The company holds over $370 billion in cash and U.S. Treasury holdings as dry powder for opportunities. The company emphasizes investing in businesses with excellent economics, durable competitive advantages, and high-integrity management. This quality focus is evident in concentrated equity holdings and operating business acquisitions. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 20, 2026 | Aquamarine Fund | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1211.HK, AXP, BAC, BRK-A, EXO.MI, IEX.NS, MA, MC.PA, MCO, NESN.SW, RACE | Compounding, global, Health, large cap, liquidation, Quality, value | The manager emphasizes shifting toward durable, time-friendly compounders where time is our friend and the range of outcomes runs from decent to superb with very low chance of permanent loss. He focuses on companies that can rinse, repeat, and grind through, moving away from binary outcomes toward inevitable businesses. The portfolio review demonstrates a value-oriented approach, learning from masters like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. The manager reverse-engineered thinking from successful value investors and applied similar principles to find undervalued companies with strong fundamentals across various markets. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 12, 2026 | Bretton Fund | 1.4% | 11.6% | AXP, AZO, BAC, BRK-B, DFH, EXP, GOOGL, JPM, MA, MCO, MSFT, NVR, PGR, ROST, RVTY, SPGI, TJX, UNH, UNP, V | AI, Banking, consumer, financials, Housing, technology, value | The fund views the overall market as fairly elevated but not in bubble territory regarding AI, though some parts of the AI craze appear bubble-like. Alphabet's AI chatbot Gemini exceeded expectations and was on par with leading AI models, contributing significantly to performance. The managers are comfortable missing out on highly speculative AI investments while focusing on long-term value. Banks had a strong year due to increased lending, reduced regulation, and moderately high interest rates. American Express cardholders continue spending with high payment rates, while the Platinum Card remains desirable despite competition. Credit and banking environment remained strong throughout the period. Off-price retailers TJX and Ross returned to form after struggling during post-Covid inflation, with strong stock performance. AutoZone faced challenges navigating tariff impacts on earnings, though the consolidated auto parts retail market historically passes through price increases. Consumer spending patterns showed resilience in certain segments. Housing investments had a weak year as high interest rates and hopes for lower rates left potential buyers on the sidelines. Home builders initially held up well when rates first rose in 2022, but continued high rates eventually impacted demand. The managers expect pent-up housing demand to eventually drive performance once the market unfreezes. | RVTY GOOG UNH |
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| 2016 Q4 | Dec 31, 2016 | Aquamarine Fund | - | 8.5% | AAPL, AMZN, BHC, COST, MCO, META, NFLX, TSLA | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q3 | Dec 15, 2025 | Qualivian Investment Partners | 6.4% | - | APH, BN, BRO, CPRT, GOOG, MCO, ORLY, TJX | Behavioral Finance, Capital Allocation, Compounding, moats, Quality | The commentary reinforces quality compounders as the most reliable path to long-term outperformance, drawing parallels between stock markets and probability-weighted betting outcomes. High-probability businesses with strong moats, pricing power, and capital allocation discipline are favored over speculative long shots. Behavioral biases are cited as a persistent reason why quality stocks can remain mispriced. | View | |
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 7, 2025 | Mar Vista US Quality Select | 6.4% | 16.1% | AAPL, ADBE, GOOG, INTU, MCO, NVDA, SAP | Artificial Intelligence, diversification, Growth Stocks, technology, valuation | The fund emphasizes owning a concentrated portfolio of exceptional U.S. businesses with durable competitive advantages. High returns on capital, pricing power, and disciplined management underpin long-term value creation. Quality is viewed as the most reliable driver of compounding through cycles. | View | |
| 2022 Q3 | Oct 21, 2022 | Bretton Fund | 10.0% | 0.0% | AMNF, AXP, AZO, BRK/A, DFH, GOOG, JPM, MA, MCO, MSFT, NVR, PGR, PKI, PRK, ROST, SPGI, TJX, UNH, UNP, V | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | Ironvine Capital Partners, LLC | 0.0% | 0.0% | ADI, AMAT, AMZN, AON, APH, ASML, BRK-A, HEI, MA, MCO, MSFT, SPGI, TSM, V | aerospace, AI, Capital markets, infrastructure, payments, Quality, semiconductors, technology | Amazon's e-commerce marketplace connects massive customer base with millions of third-party sellers, providing unmatched breadth and depth at competitive prices. Its increasingly dense fulfillment network enables faster delivery speeds at lower cost, with 10% reduction in average travel distance for packages and 10% fewer touches compared to 2024. Amazon Web Services powers much of the digital world with approximately 30% market share and structurally lower unit costs than competitors. AWS offers more than 200 fully featured services and has consistently reinvested scale advantages into developer tools and proprietary chips, making customer workloads 20-40% more cost-effective. Semiconductors are the most fundamental technology in modern economies, with consumption expected to approach $1 trillion annually by end of decade. The industry has consolidated into dominant players at each key step in the value chain, resulting in deep customer relationships and prolific free cash flow generation. AI demand is driving explosive growth in datacenter interconnect requirements where companies like Amphenol are winning outsized market share. Microsoft's strategic partnership with OpenAI has created valuable new customer sources, while continued AI investments are driving demand for advanced chips across the semiconductor supply chain. HEICO benefits from aerospace industry supply chain problems as manufacturers struggle to ramp production of new aircraft. Rising air travel demand served through greater utilization of existing fleet has created higher maintenance demand, parts shortages, and price inflation - a perfect environment for HEICO to gain market share. Global payment networks Visa and Mastercard are uniquely durable businesses deeply embedded in global commerce plumbing. The digitization of payments continues as a multi-decade growth tailwind, particularly in underpenetrated geographies in Asia and Latin America, with value-added services providing additional monetization opportunities. Moody's and S&P Global operate near monopolies in credit ratings assignment, with regulatory requirements making their ratings industry standard. Both companies are on pace to set new highs in revenue and profitability driven by credit market conditions fueling widespread growth in debt issuance across the economy. | BRK.B AON MSFT V MCO HEI AMZN |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 13, 2026 | Generation Investment Management Global Equity | - | - | ADYEY, AMZN, ASML, CRM, CSL, DHR, GOOGL, LEGN.PA, MCO, MELI, MSCI, MSFT, SIK.SW, SNPS, SPOT, SU.PA, TMO, TSM, VWS.CO, WDAY | AI, Energy Transition, global, long-term, Quality, sustainability, technology, valuation | Generation believes computing power demand will roughly triple if a third of internet users interact with AI services via voice for 20 minutes daily. They invest across the AI build-out from chip manufacturing (TSMC, ASML) to electrical equipment (Legrand, Schneider) to cloud companies. Roughly one third of the portfolio is involved in AI build-out in some capacity. Generation focuses on quality companies with strong pricing power, indispensable products, and long-term thinking management teams. They believe quality stocks have had one of their weakest relative performances in 15 years, creating attractive valuations. The portfolio has never been so cheaply valued relative to benchmark despite faster earnings growth. MercadoLibre serves as Latin America's core digital infrastructure, operating in 18 countries with strong positions in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. The platform handled 1.8 billion shipments in 2024, roughly doubling from 2020 figures. Over half a million SMEs sell on the platform representing upwards of 70% of gross merchandise sales. Generation invests across the payments ecosystem including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Adyen. Adyen processes EUR 1.4 trillion of payments with a single global platform approach. More than half of MercadoLibre users say Mercado Pago was their first digital payment method, demonstrating the financial inclusion benefits. The portfolio includes renewable energy companies like Vestas Wind Systems and energy efficiency companies like Legrand and Schneider Electric. Companies are setting science-based emissions targets with 67% of portfolio covered by validated targets. The transition faces political headwinds but technological and economic advances continue to accelerate. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 12, 2026 | Akre Focus Fund | -2.8% | 1.2% | ABNB, BN, CCC, CSGP, CSU.TO, FICO, GOOGL, KKR, MA, MC.PA, MCO, MSFT, NVDA, ORLY, ROP, TOI.TO, V | AI, Concentration, ETF, Quality, software, value | The manager believes AI concerns about their software holdings are overblown and that their businesses will be enormous beneficiaries of AI. They argue that much of the business and financial benefit from AI will accrue to already-advantaged users of AI tools rather than providers, particularly businesses with customer intimacy, ecosystem dominance, and proprietary data. AI is viewed as the first technological shift to favor incumbents over new entrants. The manager emphasizes their focus on quality businesses with durable competitive advantages, strong balance sheets, excellent returns on capital, and high profitability. They note that quality has historically outperformed over time, citing the S&P 500 Quality Index's superior long-term returns versus the S&P 500. The current performance disparity between quality and growth reminds them of 1999. The fund converted from mutual fund to ETF structure in October 2025. The manager discusses their unorthodox approach to ETF management, using cash-only create baskets to maintain opportunistic deployment rather than pro-rata approaches. They favor buying stocks at known prices rather than receiving shares in-kind at unknown prices through the ETF creation process. | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Jan 30, 2026 | Fund Letters | Matt Barnes | Moody’s Corp. | Financials | Capital Markets | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | buybacks, cash flow, credit ratings, Debt Markets, Regulatory Moat | View Pitch |
| Oct 6, 2025 | Substack | Monopolistic Investor | Moody's Corporation | Financials | Financial Data & Stock Exchanges | Neutral | AI disruption, credit ratings, financial services, Free Cash Flow, market position, network effects, oligopoly, regulatory lock-in, Revenue Growth, valuation | View Pitch | |
| Oct 6, 2025 | Value Investors Club | felton2 | Moody’s Corp | Financials | Financial Data & Analytics | Bull | NYSE | credit ratings, refinancing, private credit, analytics, duopoly, FCF | View Pitch |
| Sep 1, 2025 | Substack | Compound and Fire | Moody's Corporation | Financial Services | Financial Data & Stock Exchanges | Neutral | analytics, balance sheet, capital allocation, credit ratings, FCF yield, premium valuation, revenue compounding, risk assessments, ROIC, shareholder focus | 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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