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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 9, 2026 | Vision Capital | -5.0% | 9.8% | 000660.KS, 005930.KS, AMZN, GOOGL, MELI, META, MSFT, MU, NOW, NVDA, ORCL, PME.AX, SE, SPOT, STX, TSM, TTD, WDC, WISE.L, ZS | AI, Asia, Cloud, E-Commerce, growth, long-term, semiconductors, technology | Manager expresses skepticism about LLMs as a path to AGI, viewing them as sophisticated pattern recognition systems that mimic understanding without genuine comprehension. LLMs face architectural limitations including quadratic computational costs, memory inefficiency, and persistent hallucinations. The manager believes a fundamental breakthrough in architecture is needed beyond current transformer models. Sea Limited represents the manager's conviction play on Southeast Asia's digital transformation through its dominant Shopee platform with 52% market share. The company has achieved an inflection point with rising take-rates and improving profitability across its integrated ecosystem of e-commerce, logistics, and financial services. Manager avoided memory semiconductor investments despite strong 2025 performance, citing historical cyclicality and commoditization concerns. While acknowledging industry consolidation into an oligopoly, the manager questions sustainability of current supernormal profits and prefers exposure through TSMC and NVIDIA rather than memory-specific players. Manager declined Oracle investment despite strong cloud growth due to concentration risk from OpenAI and high leverage. Also avoided neoclouds like CoreWeave and Nebius, viewing them as commoditized GPU providers vulnerable to demand fluctuations and lacking durable competitive advantages versus hyperscalers. | SE |
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| 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 20, 2026 | Pernas Research | 4.8% | 54.3% | ADBE, APLD, CARD.L, CELH, META, NKE, PSFE, SEMR, STX | AI, defense, Mean reversion, small caps, technology, value | AI represents a consequential technological shift reshaping business and consumer behaviors. The AI-driven capex cycle is expected to persist over the next 12-16 months. The manager sees a barbell opportunity in owning clear AI winners alongside companies mislabeled as AI losers. Smaller-cap companies offer outsized opportunity due to their ability to pivot quickly in a period of rapidly increasing dynamism. Over the past two years, multi-baggers among smaller-cap names have been roughly double the 20-year average due to their organizational flexibility. The definition of defense is expanding beyond traditional military applications. Robotics, AI, cybersecurity, and data infrastructure are now central components of national security as the peace dividend and security provided by Pax Americana are eroding. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 19, 2026 | Hosking Partners | 7.2% | 33.5% | 000660.KS, 005930.KS, 055550.KS, AA, AAPL, BARC.L, C, FCX, HCC, IMPUY, MSFT, MU, SBSW, STX, SYF, TIGO | AI, contrarian, emerging markets, Japan, Mining, Platinum, technology, value | The strategy maintains a contrarian value approach, betting on mean reversion after a decade of growth dominance. Valuation spreads have reached extreme levels with enterprise value to sales ratios spanning 100-fold, creating opportunities in undervalued sectors. The AI capital paradox is creating opportunities as technology leaders face increasing capital intensity. McKinsey estimates $5.2 trillion in physical asset investments by previously asset-light firms, likely compressing returns on assets and valuations. South African platinum group metals were major contributors with Impala Platinum up 243%, Sibanye Stillwater up 360%, and Northam Platinum up 298%. The metals and mining sector weighting of 12% versus 2% index exposure drove significant outperformance. The strategy maintains triple-weight exposure to Japan at 14% versus 5% index weight, betting on corporate restructuring and activist investor pressure. Over 50 holdings target companies with depressed ROA ratios capable of dramatic improvement. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 15, 2026 | M&G Investment | 0.0% | 0.0% | 000660.KS, 005930.KS, 0700.HK, 2308.TW, 2317.TW, BABA, BE, EXPN.L, GOOGL, LITE, LSEG.L, NVDA, REL.L, STX, TSM, WDC | AI, geopolitics, Polarisation, Quality, semiconductors, technology, value | AI remains a dominant theme with opportunities broadening beyond enablers to beneficiaries and providers. The team expects AI-related investment opportunities to encompass an increasing number of companies that stand to benefit from capital-fuelled AI advancements, while being selective about frothy valuations. Quality stocks suffered their worst relative decline in developed markets in more than two decades in 2025. The team is taking advantage of the market shunning quality stocks, finding opportunities in companies with high return on capital and good long-term defensive characteristics that have been unfairly de-rated. US Growth versus Value shows the widest valuation gap in decades, while Value has performed better in other regional markets, notably Europe and the UK. The team sees opportunities for Value catch-up as AI moves from builders to users across traditional sectors. Semiconductor cycle remains strong with companies like SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics delivering substantial earnings upgrades. However, there are risks that higher prices could lead to demand destruction as customers baulk at paying elevated prices for electronics. | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Oct 23, 2025 | Value Investors Club | kerrcap | Seagate Technology Holdings | Information Technology | Datacenter | Bull | NASDAQ | AI, data center, hyperscalers | View Pitch |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | Moretus Research | Seagate Technology Holdings plc | Information Technology | Computer Hardware | Bull | NASDAQ | — | View Pitch |
| Aug 8, 2025 | Seeking Alpha | The Alpha Analyst | Seagate Technology Holdings | Information Technology | Computer Hardware | Bull | NASDAQ | — | View Pitch |
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