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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q1 | Jun 30, 2025 | Antero Peak Group | -1.9% | -1.9% | ADI, APO, AXON, CCI, CEG, CME, ENEN.DE, EQIX, GE, HWM, ISRG, KKR, KMI, LIN, LLY, MCO, MSFT, MSI, NDAQ, NVDA, PRMB, RR.L, SAF.PA, SPGI, TDG, TSM, VST, WMB | aerospace, AI, alpha, earnings, energy, growth, large cap, technology | Aerospace normalization theme was a strong contributor in Q1 with General Electric continuing clean execution as a pure play aerospace engine maker and Rolls-Royce seeing positive upward revisions. The team sees aerospace cyclically inflecting ahead of a long duration upcycle supported by secular growth of the global middle class. | View | |
| 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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| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Renaissance Investment Management – International Small Cap Equity | - | - | 6481.T, 6849.T, ATAT, BB.PA, CLS, CSTM, CWK, ERO, FINV, IMAX, MRX.L, MTLS, NEXNY, OSW, PLYA, PRMB, RDWR, SPNS, STNG, TPK.L, UBI.PA, WNS | China, Europe, international, small cap, tariffs, Trade Policy | Trade tensions are front of mind for investors and likely to ratchet higher in 2025 after Trump takes office. Trump has floated ideas such as a 10% tariff on all imports and 60% tariff on Chinese imports. Countries running large trade deficits with the US are most at risk. | View | |
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 31, 2025 | Third Point Partners | 3.2% | - | 000660.KS, 005930.KS, 402340.KS, 6361.T, AMAT, CRH, DSV.CO, FIX, FLTR.L, GOOGL, KVUE, LSEG.L, MIK, MSFT, MU, NVDA, PCG, PRMB, TSLA, TSM | AI, Asia, credit, distressed, Event-Driven, Memory, semiconductors, technology | AI compute demand has accelerated beyond efficiency gains, driven by reasoning-based models and post-training techniques that are orders of magnitude more compute-intensive. OpenAI's recent deals to grow compute capacity by 20x over five years highlight the compute-constrained environment. Third Point maintains investments in TSMC and NVIDIA as integral pieces of this buildout while watching for potential corrections. | CRH LN NVDA TSM 6361 JP 000660 KS CRH LN NVDA TSM 6361 JP 000660 KS |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 28, 2025 | Baron Discovery Fund | 2.8% | 10.6% | AAON, AEIS, BIRK, BMI, CDNA, CYBR, DKNG, DT, EXAS, GTLS, INSP, KTOS, LLYVA, MEG, MRCY, PAR, PRMB, SPRY, WING, WYNN | cybersecurity, defense, earnings, growth, Quality, small cap, technology, water | The Fund benefits from a generational increase in defense spending amid heightened global conflicts. Defense companies like Kratos, Mercury Systems, and Karman Holdings are winning new contracts across multiple divisions and benefiting from the current administration's openness to smaller, agile defense contractors. The defense spending cycle appears to be in a generational upswing. | KTOS WING INSP PAR BIRK KTOS WING INSP BIRK |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 14, 2025 | Aristotle Small/Mid Cap Equity | 2.6% | - | AEIS, AGI.TO, ALE, AZEK, CIEN, COLB, CRI, FLWS, HAE, HGV, JHX, MTSI, PNW, PPBI, PRMB, SCI, SUPN, VYX, WTRG, WWW | AI, Banking, gold, healthcare, mid cap, small cap, technology, Utilities | Artificial Intelligence driven optimism fueled risk-on sentiment as companies with AI exposure or disruptive potential saw disproportionate gains. Investors chased momentum and future earnings potential over traditional valuation metrics. Ciena benefited from AI-related demand and technological innovation in optical networking equipment. | 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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| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Madison Small Cap Fund | -9.0% | -9.0% | AXS, BOX, CFLT, CMCO, CSL, EHC, HQY, OPCH, POWI, PRMB, RVLV, SHAK, SMG, SMPL, WK | Construction, consumer, financials, healthcare, small cap, tariffs, technology | Industrial economic activity remains depressed and the back half recovery expected in residential and non-residential construction now seems in jeopardy due to stubbornly high interest rates. The managers believe companies with depressed construction exposure are attractively valued but acknowledge these stocks may take longer to inflect upwards than previously anticipated. They continue to see opportunities in construction-related industries due to this unique cycle where many companies have strong balance sheets and higher than normal margin profiles. | View |
| 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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