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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 | Polen Capital – International Growth | 6.9% | 6.9% | 8035 JP, AON, BNZL LN, EVO SS, EXPN LN, GLOB, IBN, ICLR, INPST NA, MELI, MMYT, NVO, SAP GR, SE, TME | Compounding, earnings, International Growth, Quality, valuation | The letter emphasizes international growth opportunities in businesses with strong competitive positions and long-duration earnings power. Management argues that non-U.S. markets offer attractive relative valuations without sacrificing quality or growth. The focus remains on compounding intrinsic value over full market cycles. | IBN ICLR GLOB AON SAP GR 8035 JP MELI |
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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 26, 2026 | Mobius Capital Partners | 2.9% | 0.0% | EPAM, KARO, MELI, MMYT, TCOM | active management, Asia, emerging markets, mid cap, Quality, Recovery, technology, underperformance | The strategy focuses on high-quality, innovative, under-researched mid-cap compounders with strong fundamentals. Quality stocks suffered significant underperformance in 2025 due to style headwinds, with investors favoring perceived safe-haven assets and larger, more liquid equities during periods of macroeconomic uncertainty. The portfolio benefits from AI-driven demand, particularly in the software/IT services sector. Recovery prospects are supported by AI-driven demand and the resumption of previously deferred projects, with companies like Elite Material benefiting from GPU customers utilizing additional printed circuit boards. Taiwan continues to benefit from a powerful semiconductor investment cycle and globally competitive innovation ecosystem. The portfolio includes exposure to semiconductor testing equipment manufacturers like Chroma, which should benefit from wider adoption of system-level testing solutions and continued data center investment. The portfolio includes exposure to Latin American e-commerce platform Mercado Libre, which faced short-term pressure due to Brazilian election volatility but maintains intact long-term market and operational fundamentals. The strategy also initiated positions in online travel agencies benefiting from India's growing online travel market. The fund initiated a position in MakeMyTrip, the dominant Indian online travel agency, positioned to benefit from India's online travel market expected to grow at 22% CAGR from $12bn in 2022 to $60bn in 2030. The company enjoys high brand recall and organic traffic, resulting in strong operating leverage. | KARO MMYT RADL3 BZ 2383 TT EPAM |
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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 | OAM Asian Recovery Fund | 0.0% | 9.5% | 0700.HK, 1919.HK, AAXJ, MDLZ, MMYT, NVDA | ASEAN, Asia, China, Consumer Finance, Quality, Travel, value | India's burgeoning travel sector exemplified by MakeMyTrip benefits from rising household incomes and expanding middle class. India opened more than 70 new airports last year and airlines have massive order books for new jets. The transformation of Mumbai's airport terminal from chaos to capacity constraints demonstrates the rapid growth in India's traveling class. Asian retail investors are shifting from traditional assets like gold and property toward equities through systematic investment plans. In India, retail investors are moving monthly savings to SIPs similar to US 401K plans. Chinese households are also shifting from property concentration toward equities as private pension products open new channels for capital market flows. Quality companies in emerging economies with high return on equity, low debt, and steady growth characteristics underperformed benchmark indices by 17 percentage points last year. The fund invests in steadily growing, high ROE, low debt or net cash companies serving ASEAN consumers that are trading at less than 11x earnings with over 30% return on capital employed. Asian equities are moderately valued while US equities are very expensive, similar to conditions in 2000. ASEAN markets are trading at valuation levels last seen during the Global Financial Crisis. The fund's quality holdings are trading at less than 11x earnings with 5% dividend yields despite generating 30% returns on capital. Chinese households are shifting from property concentration toward equities as real estate weakness changes attitudes. Private pension products are opening new channels for household wealth to flow into capital markets with annual inflows estimated to increase 10-fold to over RMB 1 trillion by 2030. The RMB appears significantly undervalued and poised for appreciation. ASEAN markets are completely off foreign investors' radar screens and have been massively de-rated over the past four years. Most ASEAN markets now have a total market value less than America's largest company. Indonesia and Philippines are trading at valuation levels last seen during the Global Financial Crisis. | MMYT |
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| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 2026 | Fund Letters | Desmond Kinch | MakeMyTrip Ltd. | Consumer Discretionary | Online Travel Agencies | Bull | NASDAQ | Consumption, Emerging markets, income growth, S Curve, Travel | View Pitch |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Fund Letters | Carlos Hardenberg | MakeMyTrip Ltd | Consumer Discretionary | Online Travel Agencies | Bull | NASDAQ | Consumer Growth, India, Online Travel, operating leverage, Platforms | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Campbell | Baillie Gifford | $120.3B | $423.3M | 0.35% | 5,155,036 | +114,975 | +2.28% | 7.7811% |
| Sarah Ketterer | Causeway Capital Management LLC | $7.3B | $5.6M | 0.08% | 68,159 | -14,160 | -17.20% | 0.1029% |
| Dmitry Balyasny | Balyasny Asset Management | $76.6B | $30.5M | 0.04% | 371,088 | -20,134 | -5.15% | 0.5601% |
| Israel Englander | Millennium Management LLC | $233.2B | $11.3M | 0.00% | 137,023 | -185,871 | -57.56% | 0.2068% |
| Terrence Murphy | Clearbridge Investments | $124.9B | $24.0M | 0.02% | 292,031 | -20,015 | -6.41% | 0.4408% |
| David Siegel & John Overdeck | Two Sigma Investments | $67.5B | $383,254 | 0.00% | 4,667 | -142,588 | -96.83% | 0.0070% |
| Brian Ashford-Russell | Polar Capital Holdings | $25.8B | $42.7M | 0.17% | 519,857 | +156,029 | +42.89% | 0.7847% |