| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q2 | Jul 25, 2025 | Open Insights Capital | - | - | ATH.TO, CNQ.TO, CVE.TO, CVX, MEG.TO, OXY, SCR.TO, SU.TO, XOM | Carbon Capture, energy, M&A, oil, tariffs, Trade Policy | The US is engaged in a trade war with China, implementing tariffs as high as 145% on Chinese goods. The manager believes this decoupling strategy will ultimately fail as the US is already backtracking and softening positions. Trade frameworks lack substance and the market is betting on the TACO trade (Trump Always Chickens Out). | OXY MEG.TO OXY SCR CN MEG CN |
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| 2025 Q2 | Jul 15, 2025 | Smead International Value Fund | - | - | MEG.TO, SCR.TO | Canada, Capital Allocation, energy, M&A, oil, value | The manager views oil companies as wonderful businesses producing low to mid-teens return on investment capital and trading at or below total invested capital. They focus on returns on capital rather than current spot oil prices, seeing significant opportunity in the sector when others are pessimistic. | MEG.TO SCR.TO |
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| 2026 Q1 | Apr 21, 2026 | Smead International Value Fund | 14.4% | 14.4% | BARC.L, CVE.TO, FRO, PNDORA.CO, SCR.TO, UCG.MI | concentrated, energy, European Banks, international, Unconventional, value | View | ||
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 19, 2025 | Smead International Value Fund | 9.1% | 28.5% | AMGN, APA, AXP, BAWG.VI, BMPS.MI, CVE.TO, DHI, FRO, LEN, MAC, MEG.TO, MRK, NVR, PNDORA.CO, SCR.TO, SPG, UCG.MI, UMG.AS, WFG.TO | Banking, energy, Europe, Mergers, oil, Scale, value | The fund owns MEG Energy which has been subject to a bidding war between Cenovus Energy and Strathcona Resources. Cenovus expects $400 million in annual cost savings from combining with MEG, representing about 45% of MEG's market cap. The oil business is seeing significant value creation through mergers and acquisitions as companies seek to scale operations. | UCG MEG SCR CVE |
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| 2024 Q3 | Oct 15, 2024 | Smead International Value Fund | 0.7% | 11.6% | BARC.L, BAWG.VI, BKT.MC, BRK-A, CVE.TO, FRO, G.MI, MEG.TO, NWG.L, PNDORA.CO, SCR.TO, UCG.MI, WFG.TO | banks, Compounding, energy, Europe, returns, value | The fund focuses on finding businesses that produce strong double-digit returns where investors are not overpricing them. They seek companies trading at significant discounts to economic value, exemplified by their European bank holdings which continue to be appraised at substantial discounts despite improving fundamentals. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 21, 2026 | Smead International Value Fund | 8.2% | 39.1% | BARC.L, BAWG.VI, BKT.MC, CVE.TO, GLEN.L, OXY, PNDORA.CO, ROG.SW, SCR.TO, TGA.JO, TVE.TO, UCG.MI, WFG.TO | banks, energy, Europe, oil, value | The fund employs a concentrated value approach focused on maximizing long-term returns. The managers contrast momentum investing (driven by stories and mythos) with value investing (analytical approach examining capital structure, returns on capital, and future growth). They believe value investing represents a more logical and analytical framework that will ultimately prevail. The managers challenge the mythos that American energy producers will drill regardless of price, noting that capex per rig has moved to higher levels coinciding with attractive entry points. They highlight that OPEC production increases have been muted relative to announcements, with Saudi Arabia being the only member capable of bringing back meaningful production at 2.1 million barrels per day. The fund sees Europe transitioning from mythos (over-regulated, poor decision-making) to logos (analytical capital allocation). European banks now believe they must earn their cost of capital and provide investor rewards through declining cost-to-income ratios, stock buybacks, and consolidation. Germany's removal of its debt brake for rearmament signals a future driven by returns and investment. | View | |
| 2024 Q2 | Jul 15, 2024 | Smead International Value Fund | 0.7% | 11.6% | CVE.TO, FRO, G.MI, IFP.TO, MEG.TO, OXY, PNDORA.CO, SCR.TO, UCG.MI, WFG.TO | banks, energy, Europe, Government Spending, inflation, technology, value | The fund is focused on the reserve life of oil and gas assets in places like Canada with investments like MEG Energy, Cenovus and Strathcona. In a world that is far less interested in investing in energy compared to AI, they believe that the assets' lives need to match the current long lead time capital cycle. | View | |
| 2025 Q1 | Apr 14, 2025 | Smead International Value Fund | 5.7% | 5.7% | BARC.L, BRBY.L, CVE.TO, FRO, GLEN.L, MEG.TO, PNDORA.CO, SCR.TO, UCG.MI | banks, Canada, commodities, energy, international, value | The fund holds significant positions in Canadian oil and gas producers in the tar sands. Energy has been a major detractor through mid-2023 to March 2025. The manager believes these businesses have much less risky capital structures than perceived, with companies like Meg Energy having less than 50% of cash flow in net debt. | View | |
| 2023 Q4 | Jan 16, 2024 | Smead International Value Fund | 0.7% | 11.6% | BAWG.VI, CVE.TO, FRO, GOOS.TO, IFP.TO, IWG.L, MEG.TO, OXY, PNDORA.CO, SCR.TO, UCG.MI, WFG.TO | banks, Change, Europe, Geopolitical, oil, value | America transformed into an OPEC-sized producer of oil and gas products over the last 20 years. American producers decided to quit drilling new holes in spring 2020, leading to explosive returns for investors as stock buybacks and dividends rained in from operating cash flow. Oil and gas producers are now being rational with their capital allocation. | BAWG.VI |
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| 2024 Q4 | Jan 14, 2025 | Smead International Value Fund | -6.2% | 4.7% | 7270.T, BARC.L, BG.VI, BRBY.L, CVE.TO, FRO, G.MI, GLEN.L, IFP.TO, MEG.TO, PNDORA.CO, ROG.SW, SCR.TO, UCG.MI, VOW3.DE, WFG.TO, WHC.AX | Autos, banks, Buybacks, energy, Europe, Japan, value | The letter extensively discusses share buybacks as a key investment strategy, comparing them to Pac-Man gobbling up shares. UniCredit reduced shares outstanding by 19.4% through buybacks, and Japanese companies including Subaru are implementing their first-ever buyback programs. | 7270.T UCG.MI |
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| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Apr 13, 2026 | Fund Letters | Smead International Value Fund | Strathcona Resources Ltd | Energy | Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | Bull | Toronto Stock Exchange | Bitumen, capital allocation, contrarian, Counter-cyclical, energy, Heavy Oil, M&A, Oil sands, Return on capital | View Pitch |
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