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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q2 | Jul 21, 2025 | Sands Capital Emerging Markets Growth Fund | 12.9% | 15.7% | 0700.HK, 1211.HK, 1299.HK, 1810.HK, 2020.HK, 2454.TW, APOLLOHOSP.NS, ASML, BAJFINANCE.NS, BRITANNIA.NS, CPNG, HDFC.NS, HDFCBANK.NS, MELI, NU, RELIANCE.NS, SE, TITAN.NS, TSM, WALMEX.MX | AI, E-Commerce, emerging markets, Fintech, gaming, growth, semiconductors, technology | AI infrastructure buildout continues with sustained momentum, particularly in semiconductor demand. Taiwan Semiconductor reaffirmed its long-term goal to grow AI-related revenue at a mid-40 percent compound annual rate through 2029. AI is accelerating a winner-takes-most dynamic, benefiting companies with scale, differentiated offerings, and the ability to productize innovation. | View | |
| 2025 Q2 | Jul 16, 2025 | Harding Loevner Global Equity | 10.2% | 7.9% | 0700.HK, 1299.HK, 300760.SZ, 4519.T, 6146.T, 6758.T, 6861.T, ABBV, ACN, ADBE, ALC, ALFA.ST, AMAT, AME, AMZN, APH, ASML, ATCO-A.ST, ATD.TO, ATKR, AVGO, BBCA.JK, BKNG, CME, CPG.L, CRM, CSGP, D05.SI, DE, DHR, DPLM.L, EPIA.ST, GLOB, GMAB, GOOGL, HDFCBANK.NS, HEI, HLN.L, HON, JNJ, META, MSFT, NFLX, NOC, NOW, NVDA, PGR, ROG.SW, SAP, SGS.SW, SHEL, SLB, SNPS, SU.PA, SY1.DE, TMO, TSM, TTD, TW, V, VRTX, WALMEX.MX | AI, Cloud, Data centers, global, growth, semiconductors, technology | AI models released in 2024 have demonstrated marked improvement in performance against new benchmarks, including major strides in reasoning to solve complex problems. Many companies can now point to real products and applications as well as measurable effects on their businesses. Competition among big tech companies appears to be intensifying as more companies join the race to develop cutting-edge AI systems. | ADBE BKNG ADBE |
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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 8, 2026 | SGA – Emerging Markets Growth | 0.6% | 22.8% | 035420.KS, 0700.HK, 1299.HK, 1398.HK, 9983.T, BABA, BJFN, CPALL.BK, CPI.JO, FEMSA, GRAB, HDFCBANK.NS, HTHT, INFY, MELI, MMYT, OR.PA, SE, SLM.JO, TCS.NS, TME, TOTS3.SA, TSM, UL, WALMEX.MX, XP, YUMC | AI, Cyclical, E-Commerce, emerging markets, Quality, semiconductors, valuation | The rapid acceleration in artificial intelligence has been a key catalyst behind the recent cyclical resurgence across emerging markets. Large-scale capital expenditure by global hyperscalers has driven sharp increases in demand for semiconductors and data-center infrastructure. However, SGA believes the current trend of AI CapEx growth is unsustainable and has largely run its course due to structural constraints in power availability, skilled labor, and capital availability. Several investments in e-commerce leaders across Asia and Latin America, including MercadoLibre, Sea Limited and Alibaba, faced a more competitive operating environment during the period. As long-term investors, SGA observes that competitive intensity in these markets tends to ebb and flow over shorter time horizons, with market leaders typically emerging from such periods with strengthened strategic positions given inherent network effects. The portfolio's underweight to South Korean semiconductor companies, including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, was a key driver of relative underperformance. These stocks continued to benefit from strong AI-related memory demand and elevated investor enthusiasm. Memory chips are largely a commoditized product with weak pricing power, extreme capital intensity and pronounced boom-bust cycles that lead to volatile earnings. SGA sees worrying signs of excess and weakening lending discipline from credit markets. The scale of capital required has led to greater reliance on private credit markets and off-balance-sheet structures. Transactions such as Meta's $27 billion joint venture with Blue Owl Capital highlight both the availability of capital and the risk of excess. The sustained focus on cyclicality and momentum has driven the quality factor to historically depressed relative levels. The valuation premium for high-quality stocks has compressed to levels typically observed only during periods of crisis. SGA remains committed to businesses with pricing power, recurring revenues, and strong balance sheets - attributes that may be underappreciated in today's momentum-driven market. | OR FP TME GRAB SE BABA 9983 JP INFY TSM |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 20, 2025 | Baillie Gifford -International All Cap | 1.0% | 13.6% | 000333.SZ, 005930.KS, 0388.HK, 0700.HK, 1299.HK, 300750.SZ, 4519.T, 4612.T, 4911.T, 6098.T, 6273.T, 669.HK, 6861.T, 7733.T, 7741.T, 7980.T, 8035.T, 8113.T, ABI.BR, ADYEN.AS, AHT.L, AI.PA, ASML, ASSA-B.ST, ATCO-A.ST, AUTO.L, B3SA3.SA, BHP, BIM.PA, BNZL.L, CABK.MC, CFR.SW, DSV.CO, EPIROCK-A.ST, EXO.MI, EXPN.L, FEMSAUBD.MX, GAW.L, GRG.L, HDB, IMCD.AS, INVEB.ST, ITRK.L, JMT.LS, LONN.SW, MC.PA, MELI, NEM.DE, PRX.AS, RADL3.SA, RCO.PA, RMV.L, ROG.SW, RYA.L, SCT.L, SEB-A.ST, SIK.SW, SOI.PA, SPOT, SPX.L, TRN.L, TSM, TTE, UBS, UL, UOB.SI, WALMEX.MX, WEIR.L, WISE.L | AI, Asia, Europe, growth, healthcare, international, semiconductors, technology | Artificial Intelligence remained a dominant theme during the quarter, with several perceived beneficiaries rallying. Rising demand for AI-related chips is pressuring customers to push into more advanced nodes and adopt EUV technology. The rapid adoption of AI applications and high-performance computing is driving unprecedented orders for leading-edge technologies. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 20, 2026 | Harding Loevner Emerging Markets Equity | 3.7% | 29.1% | 000660.KS, 005930.KS, 2330.TW, 700.HK, ASIANPAINT.NS, BABA, EPAM, GLOB, HDFCBANK.NS, ICICIBC.NS, ITUB, MARUTI.NS, MELI, MMYT, PING, SE, TCOM, TCS, TSM, WALMEX.MX | AI, emerging markets, energy, Memory, nuclear, semiconductors, technology | AI-related stocks sustained the relentless rise of the EM index, with seven of the 10 largest contributors being AI-related and accounting for more than 40% of the index's 34% return. The surge reflects sharply accelerating capital investment into AI physical infrastructure, with hyperscalers repeatedly increasing capex plans. EMs are standout beneficiaries because significant portions of AI physical infrastructure are sourced from EM companies, especially Asia-based enterprises like TSMC. The AI boom is engendering structural changes in the memory market that should support higher and more consistent profitability. Three key developments are changing industry dynamics: growing demand for customized, high-value memory products like HBM; the need to surmount the memory wall for AI workloads; and increasing constraints on memory manufacturing capacity as more capacity is allocated to HBM production. The energy demands of AI data centers are staggering, with AI-specific servers using 53-76 terawatt-hours in 2024. This puts renewed attention on nuclear power advantages, which is both scalable enough to meet huge AI data center power requirements and carbon-emission free. Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet have announced plans to invest in nuclear energy, driving demand for uranium. | 688188 CH KAP LI 000660 KS 005930 KS |
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| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Harding Loevner Emerging Markets Equity | 12.2% | 11.6% | 005930.KS, 0700.HK, 1211.HK, 1299.HK, 2454.TW, ASML, BABA, EPAM, GLOB, HDFCBANK.NS, ITUB, JD, MARUTI.NS, MELI, TCOM, TCS.NS, TS, TSM, TTI.HK, WALMEX.MX | China, E-Commerce, emerging markets, growth, semiconductors, Stimulus, value, Vietnam | Chinese stocks rallied 25% in the final nine trading days of the quarter following extensive monetary and fiscal stimulus measures. The People's Bank of China reduced interest rates and bank-reserve requirements while implementing measures targeting the real-estate sector and establishing new facilities for institutional stock purchases. | View | |
| 2024 Q3 | Sep 30, 2024 | Harding Loevner Global Equity | 5.2% | 15.6% | 0700.HK, 1299.HK, ADYEN.AS, AMZN, B3SA3.SA, BBCA.JK, BKNG, CME, CPG.L, GOOGL, HDFCBANK.NS, HLN.L, KER.PA, META, NFLX, PINS, SLB, SONY, TW, WALMEX.MX | AI, China, global, growth, healthcare, momentum, Quality, semiconductors | The letter extensively discusses momentum investing challenges, noting that disciplined fundamental investors have been challenged by momentum concentrated in a few large stocks. The manager explains their deliberate resistance to incorporating momentum factors due to trading costs, volatility, and FOMO risks. | View | |
| 2023 Q3 | Sep 30, 2023 | Baron Emerging Markets Fund | 9.0% | 16.2% | 000333.SZ, 005930.KS, 0700.HK, 2313.HK, 600519.SS, BABA, BAJFINANCE.NS, BBRI.JK, BIDU, BZ, HDFCBANK.NS, M&M.NS, NU, SUZB3.SA, TATACOMM.NS, TRENT.NS, TSM, WALMEX.MX | China, emerging markets, Fintech, India, semiconductors, technology, value | Despite recent underperformance driven by near-term economic concerns, the manager remains encouraged by ongoing regulatory and financial easing cycles. China's authorities appear sensitive to market signals with enhanced expectations for more substantial support forthcoming. The manager sees no evidence in China's currency, bond market, or credit spreads that policymakers are losing control. | ARGX BB|DAVA|DDOG|GLOB|ILMN|LOAR|MELI|NET|NU|NVDA|TSM MAHM.NS 600519.SS TATACOMM.NS SUZB3.SA 000700.HK 005930.KS AIR FP|ICLR|LIN|MRVL|NOW|TSM |
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| 2023 Q3 | Sep 30, 2023 | Diamond Hill International | 5.7% | 12.4% | 7751.T, CFR.SW, CNQ, CPG.L, DNP.WA, FFH.TO, FMFL.NS, FUC.DE, HDFCBANK.NS, HWDN.L, IMO, KCR.HE, SAP.DE, SN.L, WALMEX.MX | Banking, China, energy, Europe, inflation, international, rates, value | Energy names including Canadian Natural Resources, Imperial Oil and Japan Petroleum Exploration Company benefited from rising oil prices in Q3 as WTI crude rose from roughly $71/barrel to $90/barrel. The manager maintains conviction in energy holdings despite anticipated ongoing volatility tied to oil price movements. | View | |
| 2024 Q2 | Jul 26, 2024 | Diamond Hill International | 5.7% | 12.4% | 0700.HK, 8058.T, ARVIND.NS, CNHI, EVT.DE, GXI.DE, SPOT, TSM, WALMEX.MX, WHC.AX | AI, Coal, Elections, Electric Vehicles, geopolitics, healthcare, international, value | AI advancements are creating substantial buzz with international companies providing necessary tools and hardware, especially chip makers, poised to benefit immensely. The ripple effects include a massive investment cycle and potential global materials shortage due to skyrocketing demand. Taiwan Semiconductor outperformed due to strong financial performance and increasing optimism about AI growth. | GXI.DE ARVIND.NS WHC.AX CNH 0700.HK SPOT TSM |
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| 2023 Q4 | Jan 31, 2024 | Harding Loevner Emerging Markets Equity | 12.2% | 11.6% | 005930.KS, 1211.HK, 1398.HK, 2015.HK, AIA, ASIANPAINT.NS, BABA, EPAM, FEMSA, GFNORTEO.MX, GLOB, HDFCBANK.NS, ITUB, JD, MARUTI.NS, TCEHY, TCS.NS, TENARIS, TSM, WALMEX.MX | China, Electric Vehicles, emerging markets, India, Manufacturing, technology, value | China performed poorly despite reopening optimism, falling 11% for the year due to real estate deleveraging, weak consumer confidence, and geopolitical tensions. However, the manager sees significant opportunities in Chinese companies with strong growth prospects and competitive advantages in manufacturing and technology. | View |
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