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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 6, 2026 | Third Point Partners | 1.9% | - | 000660.KS, 034730.KS, BHC, CRS, CSGP, DSV.CO, ENR.DE, META, MIK, MSFT, PCG, PRMB, QBR.B.TO, SNBR, TPG, VST | AI, credit, defense, healthcare, Mortgage, semiconductors, Telecom, value | AI dominates market headlines and is forcing a re-think of established beliefs about capital-light business models like software. Many software companies now face increased investor skepticism about the sustainability of their moats and scrutiny of their high-margin structures. The AI theme seems less bulletproof with recent Oracle selloff. Ongoing rotation from software into semiconductors, memory, and semicap equipment. SK Hynix has solidified its leadership in high-bandwidth memory (HBM), emerging as the exclusive HBM supplier for Microsoft's in-house AI accelerator and securing roughly two-thirds of NVIDIA's anticipated HBM4 demand at meaningfully higher price points and margins. Continued strength in European defense equities as capital-intensive businesses like defense contractors are having their moment. Investors are waking up to their mission critical role in the rebuilding of supply chains and national security complexes. Both private credit and private equity will continue to struggle with monetization due to billions of dollars trapped in private equity that cannot be monetized at acceptable prices. The line between public and private is blurring with the more relevant distinction being traded and not yet traded. Expect more liability management exercises and in-court restructurings with almost 40% of restructurings being repeat offenders. Ratings downgrades and defaults continue to pressure stressed leveraged loans creating attractive entry points with elevated dispersion in the leveraged loan market. Residential mortgages remained resilient in 2025, particularly seasoned loans with lower balances. There is currently $35.8 trillion of home equity in US homeowners' balance sheet, creating large margin of credit protection and ability to expand investments in residential real estate into home affordability products. | SGI 402340 KS |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 24, 2025 | Titan Wealth | - | - | BIRK, INSP, KRMN, KTOS, MEG, MRCY, NTSK, PAR, PRMB, WING | Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, Data centers, defense, infrastructure | The firm reported strong performance across portfolios, driven by AI, emerging markets, and global infrastructure spending. Managers highlighted the expansion of data centers, defense, and renewable projects as key drivers of long-term growth. The Stock in Focus feature on CrowdStrike emphasized cybersecurity as a structural necessity in a digitizing and AI-powered economy, with rising enterprise adoption and high profitability metrics supporting the sectors investment case. | View | |
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 14, 2025 | Aristotle Small/Mid Cap Equity | 2.6% | - | AGI CN, CIEN, COLB, HAE, HGV, JHX, MTSI, PNW, PRMB, SCI, WTRG | Artificial Intelligence, M&A, Manufacturing, small caps, Utilities | Small and mid-cap equities benefited from AI optimism, easier monetary policy, and valuation appeal versus large caps. The fund added companies with durable cash flows and pricing power like Essential Utilities and Service Corporation International. It remains optimistic on U.S. manufacturing reshoring and M&A-driven growth. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 26, 2026 | Baron Discovery Fund | 0.2% | 11.0% | ALKT, CWAN, CWST, DKNG, DT, ESTA, EXAS, FROG, GCI, GTLB, INDIE, LLYVA, LOAR, MRCY, PRMB, RGEN, S, SITM, TREX, VRNS, WAY | AI, defense, growth, healthcare, Quality, small caps, software | The fund discusses AI as a transformative force requiring careful alignment of goals with humanity's interests. They view AI advancement as creating massive capital investment opportunities, particularly in datacenter buildout, while acknowledging concerns about AI's impact on software competitive advantages. The fund maintains significant exposure to enterprise software companies, particularly cybersecurity and systems software. They believe complexity of enterprise integration protects established players from AI disruption, with companies like Dynatrace, Varonis, and SentinelOne offering defensive moats through proven resilience and security. The fund focuses on innovative healthcare companies including molecular diagnostics (Exact Sciences), medical devices (Establishment Labs), and healthcare IT (Waystar). They see opportunities in companies improving patient outcomes through technology and automation in healthcare processes. The fund holds defense companies benefiting from increased defense budgets, including allocations for unmanned vehicles and missile defense systems. They trimmed positions after meaningful valuation increases but maintain defense as a core holding area. | CWST GLIBA PRMB LLYVA VRNS INDI FROG CAS WAY CWAN ESTA EXAS |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 20, 2026 | Madison Small Cap Fund | -0.4% | -6.9% | AAON, AMPL, CCOI, CFLT, CIEN, EHC, ENTG, FORM, GTLB, MIR, POWI, PRMB, RVLV, SMG, VCEL, VFC, VIAV, WAL, ZION | AI, Consumer Staples, Quality, Risk Appetite, small caps, software, Speculation, underperformance | The AI capital spending boom drove strong performance in select technology stocks like Ciena and Confluent. However, the manager questions how long the AI capital spending cycle will last and whether investors will begin asking for returns on this investment. The fund avoided most speculative AI-related opportunities due to quality parameters. Software stocks faced significant pressure as investors feared AI-powered solutions would displace traditional applications. The manager fundamentally rejects this thesis, believing enterprises won't migrate mission-critical data to language models generating errors at 60% rates. They used the selloff to add GitLab and Amplitude at attractive valuations. Consumer Staples was the epicenter of underperformance as investors showed no appetite for defensive businesses in a pro-cyclical, speculative bull market. The sector now trades at historically steep discounts despite facing perceived challenges including input cost inflation, GLP-1 impacts, and tariff supply chain effects. The market demonstrated insatiable appetite for risk, with the best performing stocks being the most speculative companies with no profits or revenue but thematic AI linkage. This extended to biotechs, meme stocks, crypto, and mining stocks, while defensive businesses were deeply out of favor. Small caps continued underperforming large caps despite a strong year for the Russell 2000. The fund significantly underperformed due to the speculative nature of the rally favoring companies without profits or revenue. Quality businesses with durable moats can now be found at attractive prices again. | AAON GTLB VIAV AMPL VCEL MIR CIEN CCOI WAL |
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| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Jan 28, 2026 | Fund Letters | Andrew Peck | Primo Brands Corp. | Consumer Staples | Household Products | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | Bottled Water, cashflow, consumer staples, Margins, recurring revenue | View Pitch |
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