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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 8, 2026 | SGA – Global Growth | -0.3% | 3.1% | 1299.HK, 9983.T, ADYEN.AS, ALC, AMZN, AON, ARM, AVGO, BABA, CMG, CP, CRM, DHR, EXPN.L, GOOGL, HDB, INFY, INTU, IT, MELI, META, MSFT, NFLX, NOW, NVDA, SAP, SE, SNPS, SPGI, STE, TSM, UMG.AS, UNH, V, WM | AI, cyclicals, global, growth, Quality, valuation | AI capital expenditure growth is expected to moderate due to structural constraints including power availability, skilled labor shortages, and capital availability limits. Hyperscalers are approaching 90% of operating cash flows for CapEx spending, creating natural constraints on future growth rates. Quality factors including sales stability and high gross margins continued to underperform in 2025 as markets favored cyclical and momentum-driven assets. The portfolio's quality growth companies are trading at historically attractive relative valuations. Market leadership was dominated by momentum and cyclical assets while quality growth strategies faced headwinds. Extreme concentration and momentum effects created significant winners and losers independent of company fundamentals. | INFY NOW ARM MELI MSFT SE NFLX AVGO 9983 JP TSM GOOG |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 8, 2026 | SGA – International Growth | 1.0% | 9.6% | 1299.HK, 6098.T, 9983.T, ADYEN.AS, ALC, AON, ARM, BABA, CP, DSY.PA, EXPN.L, FEMSAUBD.MX, GALD, GRAB, HDFCBANK.NS, HEIA.AS, HLN.L, INFY, LIN, MELI, OR.PA, SAP, SE, SGE.L, SHOP, SRT3.DE, STE, TEAM, TSM, UL, UMG.AS, WALMEX.MX, WCN, YUMC | AI, Cyclical, E-Commerce, growth, international, Quality, Southeast Asia, valuation | SGA continues to believe the most attractive long-term AI opportunities reside with businesses building long-term value through proprietary data and integrated workflows. The portfolio is positioned to capture AI value through companies providing essential intellectual property and manufacturing capability for the AI ecosystem, including TSMC, Arm Holdings, SAP, and Dassault Systemes. The portfolio focuses on high-conviction quality growth businesses anticipated to achieve consistent mid-teens earnings growth with reduced variability. Despite market headwinds favoring cyclical assets, SGA maintains conviction in quality companies with predictable revenue and cash flow generation that should become more sought after if market volatility increases. New positions were established in Sea Limited and Grab Holdings, both Southeast Asian consumer internet companies with integrated ecosystems. Sea operates Shopee e-commerce platform with integrated payments and logistics, while Grab provides super-app services for ride-hailing, food delivery, and digital payments across Southeast Asia. | TEAM ARM DSY FP SRT GR 9983 JP |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 4, 2026 | AMG Yacktman Fund | 6.2% | 19.8% | 000660.KS, 005930.KS, 012330.KS, AAPL, CNQ, FOXA, GOOGL, MSFT, MU, NFLX, NVDA, PEP, PG, SCHW, UHAL, UMG.AS, VIV.PA, WBD | AI, Electric Vehicles, free cash flow, long-term, Media, semiconductors, South Korea, value | Yacktman builds the portfolio based on evaluating normalized free cash flow and business fundamentals, comparing price to arrive at forward rate of return based on current market valuation. The approach focuses on risk-adjusted returns and owner's mindset investing with long-term focus on underlying business performance. Samsung was late relative to competitors in HBM design wins with NVIDIA but was awarded HBM qualification with NVIDIA in 2025 and ramped production quickly. Memory chips are ubiquitous in AI data centers and broad array of IOT devices from cars to refrigerators to wearables. South Korea is launching broad value-up reforms modeled after Japan's program, shifting governance standards from company-centric to shareholder value creation focus. The country may eventually be re-rated by MSCI from Emerging Market to developed market, with investor access and index flows beginning to close the 30-year Korean discount. Samsung has three primary lines of business including memory, foundry, and phones. The company has long been a leader in memory including NAND, DRAM, and now HBM. Samsung has focus on U.S. foundry with massive fab outside Austin in Taylor, Texas. Hyundai Mobis benefitted from share gain and electrical vehicle penetration by Hyundai and Kia, continuing strong capital allocation discipline. The company is one of the top global auto parts suppliers. Warner Bros. Discovery has been a relatively small position along with other sizeable media holdings. After legacy Warner Bros. merged with Discovery, the company embarked on multi-year deleveraging process and management transition. Netflix and Paramount-Skydance bidding process has re-rated the company price. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 11, 2026 | Pershing Square Holdings | -5.4% | 20.9% | AMZN, BN, CMG, FMCC, FNMA, GOOG, HHH, HLT, HTZ, META, NKE, QSR, UBER, UMG.AS | AI, Concentration, growth, megacaps, Performance, Quality, technology, valuation | AI is having a transformative impact across portfolio companies, particularly in search, cloud computing, and digital advertising. Google's AI Overviews reach over 2 billion users globally, while AWS benefits from AI-driven compute demand requiring datacenter capacity doubling through 2027. Meta leverages AI for content recommendation and ad targeting improvements. AWS operates as the leading cloud hyperscaler in a highly concentrated market, growing 20% annually at $140 billion run-rate despite capacity constraints. The planned doubling of datacenter capacity through 2027 is expected to be rapidly absorbed by scaling AI inference workloads. Amazon operates the largest global e-commerce platform enabled by a unique logistics network fulfilling over $700 billion in gross merchandise value annually. The retail business has significant margin expansion opportunity through increasing advertising revenue mix, network density, and automation initiatives. Digital advertising represents a secularly fast-growing space with Meta as the dominant leader serving over 3.5 billion daily active users. AI-driven content recommendation systems and granular consumer behavior visibility enable highly precise ad targeting, making these platforms essential for businesses. Universal Music Group operates as a high-quality, capital-light business benefiting from greater music consumption. Streaming 2.0 deals incorporating wholesale price increases should drive higher subscription revenue growth, while AI partnerships with new platforms create additional monetization opportunities. Uber demonstrates strong momentum with 19% bookings growth and accelerating user engagement reaching new all-time highs. The company is positioned for continued teens-plus bookings growth and 30%+ earnings growth while expanding autonomous vehicle operations across 10+ cities by end of 2026. | CMG HHH QSR HTZ FNMA META GOOG AMZN UBER BN |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 6, 2026 | Tapasya Investment Fund | 0.0% | 23.5% | 0700.HK, ADBE, ADYEN.AS, BABA, BLDR, CMG, CVNA, FNMA, GLBE, GOOG, IBKR, LULU, PRX.AS, UMG.AS | AI, Concentration, global, Homebuilders, long-term, Quality, technology, value | The manager extensively discusses whether we are in an AI bubble, noting that AI appears to be the most significant digital disruptor of our lifetime. While acknowledging extremely stretched valuations in AI-associated hardware and semiconductors, the fund avoids these sectors due to inability to forecast cash flows confidently. The fund employs value-based investing principles, focusing on concentrated investments in high-quality businesses at fair valuations. The manager notes they often underperform during periods of extreme sectoral valuation surges but expects long-term success from this approach. The anticipated recovery in the homebuilder sector has stalled due to persistent affordability issues driven by high home prices, despite lower interest rates and strong wages. The fund maintains conviction in Builder FirstSource despite the housing market recession. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Sequoia Fund | 0.4% | 22.1% | ACN, AHT.L, ALGN, COF, CSU.TO, ELV, ERF.PA, GOOGL, ICE, JEC, META, MSA, RR.L, SCHW, TSM, UMG.AS, UNH | AI, Concentration, defense, healthcare, long-term, Quality, technology, value | Alphabet released Gemini 3 model that soared to top of AI leaderboards, demonstrating the company's full-stack AI capabilities. Google is successfully integrating AI into Search with AI Overviews and AI Mode, showing increased user satisfaction. Accenture faces questions about whether generative AI might upend the IT services industry, though the company's moats remain intact. UnitedHealth and Elevance faced multi-year fundamental pain from rising healthcare utilization and volatile medical costs. The managed care industry is under-earning across most business lines due to repricing challenges and regulatory constraints. Policy risk has increased with renewed scrutiny of industry business practices including prior authorizations and pharmacy benefit management. Rolls-Royce's Defense segment is benefiting from the new threat environment in Europe and resulting surge in defense spending. The company is the sole producer of nuclear power plants for new Dreadnought-class submarines and is developing systems for the Global Combat Air Programme next-generation stealth fighter. Universal Music Group's paid streaming revenue grew at high-single-digit rates driven entirely by subscriber growth. The company signed new agreements with streaming platforms that include wholesale price step-ups, providing incentive for retail price increases. UMG continues acquiring catalogs in developing markets to secure future growth drivers. MSA Safety benefits from growing focus on safety as regulation and employer behavior trend toward higher standards. The company is transitioning to technology-enabled safety equipment with connected portable gas detectors moving to subscription models. MSA is developing connected SCBA solutions for firefighters that should drive significant revenue growth over 5-10 years. | ELV UNH GOOG RR LN ALGN ACN MSA |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | Alluvium Global Fund | -1.1% | -0.1% | 005930.KS, AN, BABA, CHTR, DKS, GOOGL, GPI, HCA, HRB, LBRDA, LNR.TO, LYB, MCK, RHI, RYAAY, THO, UMG.AS, V | AI, Airlines, global, healthcare, technology, underperformance, value | The fund discusses the rapid adoption of AI technologies, particularly Alphabet's Gemini AI which gained 650 million monthly active users in six months. Questions remain about quantifying efficiency gains and monetary benefits versus the immense capital outlays by providers. Ryanair represents the fund's largest position at 9.4%, benefiting from earlier aircraft deliveries and upgraded traffic expectations. Management expects reasonable net profit growth with strengthening competitive positioning. The fund follows a value-oriented approach, buying more of poorly performing investments as they decline. The managers acknowledge the value investor's curse of buying too early and selling too early, citing examples of premature exits from gold miners and semiconductor companies. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 20, 2026 | Highwood Value Partners | 5.7% | 10.2% | 2333.HK, ALIM-B.ST, BOL.PA, BORR, BUR.L, FEVR.L, GETB.L, JZC.L, MOT.L, ODET.PA, PROT.OL, RYA.L, STDRL.OL, SYY, TAP, TGO.PA, UMG.AS, VIV.PA, VWS.CO | Capital Cycle, Concentration, energy, Europe, Litigation Finance, special situations, value | Manager emphasizes concentrated value investing approach, buying companies at significant discounts to fair value. Portfolio trades at 48 cents on the dollar of estimated intrinsic value with median P/E of 7.5x. Focus on fundamental bottom-up analysis with 5+ year holding periods. Burford Capital represents the largest position as a litigation finance leader. The business generates returns by funding commercial litigation claims and managing third-party capital. YPF case represents major catalyst with clear judgment in favor. Borr Drilling is a special situation in shallow water drilling rigs. The capital cycle investment thesis centers on industry oversupply working through the system, with rig rates recovering from current levels toward long-run averages as old rigs retire. | RYAAY FEVR LN GETB LN BORR NO BUR LN |
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