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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 21, 2025 | The Bristol Gate U.S. Equity Strategy | - | - | ACN, ATD CN, AVGO, CIGI, EFN CN, ENGH CN, GE, JWEL CN, MCHP, MCK, MMC, TMO, TVK CN, UNH, WCN CN, ZTS | dividends, free cash flow, income growth, Quality, Resilience | The letter focuses on quality U.S. equities with rising dividends and strong free cash flow generation. Management positions dividend growth as a stabilizing factor amid policy uncertainty and market concentration. AI-led growth is acknowledged but balanced with income discipline. | ACN MCK AVGO |
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| 2024 Q1 | Apr 18, 2024 | The Bristol Gate U.S. Equity Strategy | 6.5% | 6.5% | AMAT, AMT, AVGO, CTVA, MCK, MMC, UNH, ZTS | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 9, 2025 | ClearBridge Investments Dividend Strategy | - | - | AVGO, MMC, ODFL, ORCL | Artificial Intelligence, defense, Dividend Investing, inflation, valuation | The strategy stresses dividend growth as an all-weather approach amid elevated valuations and market concentration. Flexible dividend policies allow participation in growth sectors like AI while maintaining capital discipline and downside resilience. Dividend growers offer income, inflation protection, and lower volatility across cycles. | ODFL MARSH LHX TEL ORCL AVGO |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 24, 2025 | The Bristol Gate U.S. Equity Strategy | -0.6% | 4.6% | ACN, APH, AVGO, CARR, INTU, MMC, TMO | AI, cash flow, dividends, earnings, Quality | Bristol Gate lagged the S&P 500 as defensive dividend growers trailed AI-linked momentum stocks. Managers highlight Broadcom, GE Aerospace, and Thermo Fisher as key contributors, while Accenture and Intuit detracted. The team remains confident that dividend growth and cash flow quality will outperform over the long term as fundamentals reassert themselves. | UNH MMC APH INTU ACN CARR GE TMO AVGO CARR GE TMO AVGO |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 7, 2026 | ClearBridge Investments Dividend Strategy | 0.0% | 0.0% | AAPL, ADP, APD, AVGO, GOOGL, ITX.MC, KO, LHX, META, MMC, MSFT, NESN.SW, NVDA, ODFL, ORCL, TEL, TMUS, UL, UNP, XOM | AI, Concentration, diversification, dividends, large cap, semiconductors, technology, value | AI will radically change lives, labor markets and the economy, but investors already ascribe trillions of dollars of value to AI-related enterprises while aggregate AI-related revenues are minimal relative to embedded expectations. The landscape is evolving too swiftly to conclude today's favored players will be ultimate winners, with fundamental questions remaining about LLM commoditization and revenue sustainability. The strategy's average holding has grown its dividend at 10% over the last 12 months with similar growth expected in coming years. The fund maintains focus on dividend-paying companies as part of its core investment approach and diversification strategy. The ClearBridge Dividend Strategy trades at a significant discount to the broader market with a P/E ratio of 19.8x versus 24.7x for the S&P 500. The managers value securities based on free cash flow yields and gravitate toward those with asymmetric risk-reward profiles. | View | |
| 2022 Q4 | Jan 26, 2023 | ClearBridge Investments All Cap Growth | 2.7% | -6.5% | AMZN, AVGO, CRWD, DIS, EL, IMGN, MMC, NFLX, NKE, TEAM, TSLA, UNH, V, WOLF | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | American Century Equity Income Fund | 1.8% | 11.9% | BDX, EPD, GOOGL, JNJ, JPM, MCD, MCHP, MDLZ, MDT, MMC, MU, NSC, PEP, PNC, RHHBY, SYY, TFC, UL | Consumer Staples, dividends, financials, healthcare, Quality, value | The fund continues to focus on higher-quality companies with stable revenues and profits, low indebtedness, resilient cash flows and predictable business models that are less sensitive to economic conditions. This approach is viewed as offering resilience amid continuing inflation and uncertain macroeconomic conditions. Healthcare led all sectors in the fourth quarter after being beaten down for much of the year. The fund remains keen on healthcare stocks, particularly those in the healthcare equipment and supplies industry, because they are attractively valued and demand tends to be less susceptible to changes in the economic environment. The fund's investment objective focuses on current income and long-term capital growth, with a strategy of investing in companies believed to be undervalued. The portfolio positioning emphasizes income generation through dividend-paying stocks and preferred securities. | 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 | The Davenport Value & Income Fund | 1.5% | 13.7% | ACN, ADBE, ARE, C, CTAS, EOG, FDX, GOOG, HPQ, ISRG, META, MMC, MRVL, MSFT, NOW, NVDA, ORCL, SPOT, UBER, UNP, VRTX | AI, Buybacks, dividends, large cap, technology, value | Technology and AI-related stocks led the charge again in 2025, with tech and communications services sectors advancing 23.83% and 32.47% respectively. AI darling Nvidia was up 38.87% after a 171.17% gain the prior year. A gold rush mindset developed across the AI ecosystem with fervor spreading to speculative corners of the market. In 2025, 36 of the Value & Income Fund's 42 holdings increased their dividends by an average of 7% year-over-year. Companies like McDonald's, Exxon Mobil, Fidelity National Financial, and Becton-Dickinson continued their annual streak of dividend enhancements at 49, 43, 10, and 54 years respectively. In 2025, 30 of the Value & Income Fund's holdings reduced their share count via buybacks by 1.2% on average. Companies are taking advantage of discounted valuations to accelerate buyback pace and return capital to shareholders. The managers focus on stocks that have been cast aside as investors focused elsewhere on momentum plays. They believe the market's sun could shine elsewhere soon and can't stomach the risk associated with many of today's highflyers. Their conservative approach has weighed on relative performance but they've seen this dynamic before. | 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 Q4 | Jan 14, 2026 | Hardman Johnston Large Cap Equity | 4.3% | 0.0% | 7269.T, AMZN, AZN, BDX, CCO.TO, CMCSA, EL, EW, GOOGL, HDB, ILMN, IQV, MA, META, MMC, PYPL, SCHW, SLB, SN, TMUS | AI, Genomics, growth, healthcare, large cap, Lithium, technology | AI remains an important driver for portfolio performance, with investments made years ago benefiting from the surge in AI spending. The manager sees AI as particularly relevant in healthcare where it can help achieve both innovation and efficiency while controlling healthcare spending growth. Albemarle is benefiting from a surge in lithium prices due to near-term production disruptions at competitors, improving outlook for global EV penetration, and investment in batteries as energy storage platforms for alternative energy supplies. Illumina, with almost 70% market share in gene sequencing, has weathered a storm of life science funding cuts and competitive entries. While challenges remain, they are well positioned to benefit from any acceleration in clinical and research spending in life sciences. | OLED AEIS ILMN ALB |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 13, 2026 | Mawer International Equity Fund | -1.8% | 18.4% | 000660.KS, 0700.HK, AJG, APH, ATR, BA.L, BNS.TO, COR, CSU.TO, DHR, FTT.TO, GOOGL, MFC.TO, MMC, MSFT, PNG.V, RY.TO, TD.TO, TOI.TO, WAT | AI, defense, equities, global, gold, Quality, semiconductors, Valuations | AI remained the dominant market narrative, yet the year's shift from a focus on computing power to concerns about data centre profitability and power supply raised bubble concerns. The combination of industrial-scale spending, still-unproven economics, and higher valuations increases the risk that expectations get ahead of reality. Amphenol benefited from robust demand for AI-related interconnect products, which now account for over a third of its revenue. Gold remained well supported against the backdrop of easier global policy and unresolved geopolitical and trade risks. The firm narrowed their long-standing underweight to gold stocks in a measured way as geopolitical uncertainty, de-dollarization, fiscal indiscipline, central bank gold purchases, and falling interest rates created a more supportive backdrop. They focused on gold-related companies with differentiated, relatively lower-risk business models. Defense contractors such as the UK's BAE, Italy's Leonardo, and France's Thales experienced pullbacks in the fourth quarter on the possibility of a diplomatic breakthrough in the Russia-Ukraine war. However, geopolitical events early in the year helped defense company shares more-than-offset the declines seen in the fourth quarter. Kraken Robotics also benefited from increased government defence spending. High-bandwidth memory leader SK Hynix nearly doubled in the quarter thanks to explosive demand for its products. Other AI-linked semiconductor companies were rewarded for continued fundamental strength, such as TSMC and Kokusai Electric. European equities were supported by semiconductor stocks among other factors. | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Jan 24, 2026 | Fund Letters | Allen T. Bond | Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. | Financials | Insurance Brokers | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | Brokerage, cashflow, Consulting, Insurance, Retention, valuation | View Pitch |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Fund Letters | Achilleas Taxildaris | Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. | Financials | Insurance Brokers | Bear | NYSE | Brokerage, Consulting, Cycle, dividends, exit, Insurance, Pricing | View Pitch |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | RB Equity | Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. | Financials | Insurance Brokers | Bull | NYSE | — | View Pitch |
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