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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 18, 2025 | Mairs & Power – Balanced Fund | - | 2.7% | ABT, AMZN, FI, TECH, TTC, USB, WEC, WFC | balanced allocation, capital preservation, dividends, income, Quality | The commentary focuses on balanced allocation as a way to navigate uncertain markets while preserving capital. Emphasis is placed on dividend-paying equities and high-quality bonds to smooth returns. The approach targets steady compounding across market cycles. | View | |
| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Mairs & Power – Balanced Fund | 0.0% | 11.0% | AMP, CASY, FI, NVDA, PG, TGT, WFC | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 3, 2026 | John Hancock Bond Fund Class I | 1.0% | 7.7% | AAL, BAC, DELL, F, FMCC, FNMA, JPM, WFC | Bonds, credit, duration, Fed policy, fixed income, Mortgage | The fund maintained significant overweight positions in agency MBS, focusing on middle coupon stack securities (4.0% to 5.5% coupons) for higher income and prepayment protection. Agency MBS was the top performing market segment and remained attractive versus corporates despite tightening spreads. The managers reduced allocations to investment-grade and high-yield corporates due to very tight yield spreads versus history. They focused on optimizing income through security selection rather than adding material risk given current tight valuations. The Fed enacted two quarter-point rate cuts in Q4, bringing total 2025 reductions to 75 basis points. The fund maintained neutral duration positioning and retained bias for yield curve steepening through intermediate-term overweights. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 3, 2026 | Fidelity Freedom 2055 Fund | 3.8% | 23.7% | BAC, GEV, UPS, WFC | asset allocation, diversification, equities, global, target date, Valuations | The fund emphasizes portfolio diversification as a key strategy, particularly highlighting the need for diversification in fixed income and inflation-resistant assets to hedge against macro risks including government debt, global fragmentation, aging demographics and new technology impacts. The fund views elevated asset valuations, particularly for U.S. stocks, as providing little cushion against near-term risks. However, they believe valuations outside of the AI epicenter are reasonable, with many sectors showing improving growth expectations. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Feb 18, 2026 | The Gabelli Dividend Growth Fund | 5.2% | 18.8% | AIG, AMZN, C, GOOG, IP, MDLZ, MRK, MS, NEM, ORCL, PNC, PRGO, SATS, WFC | AI, dividends, financials, gold, healthcare, value | AI euphoria faded in Q4 but companies in the AI ecosystem continued to deliver impressive results against high expectations. Concerns mounted around ever-increasing capex outlays and financing of sizable capex commitments. The commoditized see-saw battle among five major LLMs for next generation model leadership continues. The Fund focuses on dividend-paying stocks and benefited from M&A activity and a large position in gold miner Newmont. Despite a modestly defensive posture throughout 2025, the Fund benefited from appreciating stocks that were sized as larger positions. Gold had its best year with the price of gold benefiting the Fund's position in gold miner Newmont, which was one of the top contributors. Gold served as an inflation hedge and store of value amid macroeconomic uncertainty. | NEM MS GOOG |
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| 2025 Q4 | Feb 11, 2026 | Tweedy, Browne Value Fund | 4.8% | 21.6% | 005930.KS, BRK-A, CNHI, CVS.L, DHLG.DE, ENVB, FDX, GOOGL, HEIA.AS, IONS, JNJ, NESN.SW, NVST.SW, PRU.L, RMS.PA, ROG.SW, SAF.PA, TTE, U11.SI, WFC | defense, global, healthcare, industrials, international, Pharmaceuticals, technology, value | Health care holdings including pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies added meaningfully to returns. Holdings such as Roche, Novartis, and Ionis Pharmaceuticals benefited from new drug approvals, steady and growing earnings, and business models that continue to generate cash through a wide range of economic conditions. The fund continues to focus on financially sound enterprises purchased at attractive valuations where company stock prices are more than collateralized by underlying intrinsic value. The gap in valuation between US and non-US equities remains quite significant and should serve the fund well going forward. Defense-related holdings such as BAE Systems and Rheinmetall had been standout performers for much of the year but fell back in the 4th Quarter. While these businesses currently benefit from secular growth in defense spending around the world, share prices have moved ahead of underlying fundamentals. | View | |
| 2024 Q4 | Feb 11, 2025 | Artemis Global Select Fund (converted to Artemis SmartGARP Global Smaller Companies Fund on October 6, 2025) | 2.7% | 10.1% | 6861 JP, AXP, FI, NVO CN, TSM, WFC | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Oakmark Fund- International Small Cap | 2.0% | 16.0% | ABNB, CG, CNC, ELV, GEHC, KDP, WFC | - | View | ||
| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Hotchkis & Wiley Large Cap Fundamental Value | -0.9% | 12.8% | CVS, ELV, FFIV, GM, OLN, WFC | - | View | ||
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 24, 2025 | Mairs & Power – Balanced Fund | - | 6.5% | AMZN, ENTG, FI, FUL, JPM, MSI, TECH, TXN, UNH, WFC | asset allocation, Data centers, inflation, tariffs, Utilities | The team keeps a long-term, valuation-disciplined balance across equities and bonds while noting extreme market concentration in AI mega-caps. They highlight a multi-year buildout in power and thermal infrastructure tied to data centers, and added utilities exposure benefiting from that demand. Tariff uncertainty and persistent inflation keep them selective and quality-focused. | View | |
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 14, 2025 | Aristotle Value Equity Fund | 3.8% | 8.7% | AMP, CTVA, MLM, SNPS, WFC, XEL | Artificial Intelligence, financials, Quality, Trade, value | The fund emphasizes valuation discipline amid renewed market exuberance fueled by AI infrastructure spending and fiscal stimulus. It compares the current AI cycle to past overinvestment eras, noting selective opportunities in quality firms like Synopsys and Wells Fargo. Broader trade normalization and resilient U.S. earnings underpin the cautious optimism. | WFC US SNPS US |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Unison Asset Management | 0.0% | 0.0% | AAPL, AMAT, AXP, BAC, BRK-B, CDW, DE, ELV, GOOGL, JPM, LMT, META, NOC, NU, NVDA, ONON, TSLA, TSM, UNH, WFC | AI, Cloud, Long Term, semiconductors, technology, value | AI continues to assert itself across markets and the real economy in ways that demand to be addressed. The race is for AGI, with wealth accruing to whoever reaches it first. Big Tech's AI spending accounts for roughly 90% of corporate capex and contributes an estimated half of total U.S. GDP growth in 2025. TSMC represents a durable bottleneck in the infrastructure layer—the point of least slack in the global silicon supply chain. All roads lead to TSMC, with approximately 67% share of global foundry revenue and roughly 90% share of leading-edge nodes. Alphabet's cloud business made meaningful progress with revenue expected to reach approximately $57 billion (+32% YoY), while operating profit is projected to nearly double. Revenue backlog is growing faster than reported revenue, underscoring the persistent supply-demand imbalance. By designing proprietary silicon and committing to capital outlays for data centers on a financial scale attainable by only a handful of nation-states, these firms have constructed a physical moat that is, for all practical purposes, unreplicable. On Holding represents a play on the growing scarcity of the real. As digital marketing becomes commoditized and AI floods the world with generic content, value migrates toward physical community and technical prestige. On is selling membership in a curated, physical ecosystem that AI cannot replicate. | AMRZ HOLN SW NU ONON BRK.B TSM GOOGL |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Artisan Focus Fund | -0.5% | 19.9% | AAPL, ADI, AXON, CAT, COF, ENR.DE, GE, GS, HWM, ISRG, JPM, LLY, NDAQ, NVDA, ROK, RR.L, SHOP.TO, TSM, WELL, WFC | aerospace, AI, energy, financials, growth, industrials, semiconductors, technology | AI impacts on productivity should create abundant inflection points across nearly all S&P sectors in profitability and ROIC. When amortizing AI capex over the system that will use it, the returns appear massive and under-reported. S&P margins look structurally too low in most forecasts as labor efficiency gains may likely create an upward drift in margin ceilings. Aerospace is cyclically inflecting ahead of a long duration upcycle supported by secular growth of the global middle class. The Aerospace Normalization theme was the largest positive contributor in 2025 with General Electric, Rolls-Royce and Howmet all making meaningful contributions driven by fundamental strength. Power demand creates new secular growth opportunities, with data centers reaching deep into industrial portfolios. Caterpillar's co-located power capability at data centers represents significant revenue upside potential to the Energy & Transportation segment. Analog Devices represents the premium analog compounder as the cycle turns, with best-in-class economics including 70%+ gross margins and 45-50% EBIT targets. The team believes 2Q25 marked the restart of the semiconductor cycle with pricing and margin inflection underway. De-globalization theme involves redirection of capital on post pandemic priorities for security of energy and reliability of supply chains. Companies like Siemens Energy, GE Vernova, Constellation Energy and Vistra are positioned to benefit from this structural shift. Industrial automation represents a key secular trend with companies like Rockwell Automation positioned to benefit from digitization and AI-enabled transformation of enterprise operations. This includes factory automation and process optimization across manufacturing. | GE |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 30, 2026 | Aristotle Value Equity Fund | 1.0% | 9.7% | AMGN, CBSH, COF, LEN, MRK, MSFT, PH, SONY, STZ, TDY, UBER, USB, WFC | AI, earnings, large cap, rates, Trade Policy, US, value | Artificial intelligence continued to be a major theme with more than 300 S&P 500 companies mentioning AI on earnings calls. This enthusiasm helped propel mega-cap tech stocks higher and drive market gains. However, scrutiny increased around AI-related revenue circularity, massive capital spending scale, and durability of longer-term returns on investment. Trade relations between the U.S. and China remained a key market focus. Tensions flared with tariff escalations and export controls, with China expanding export controls on rare earth minerals and the U.S. threatening 100% tariffs in retaliation. President Trump and President Xi ultimately reached a one-year trade truce at the APEC summit. The Federal Reserve implemented two 0.25% interest rate cuts during the quarter, lowering the federal funds target range to 3.50%-3.75%. Fed Chair Powell emphasized a data-dependent approach, acknowledging risks to both sides of the Fed's dual mandate and maintaining a cautious stance going into 2026. Value stocks handily outperformed growth stocks with the Russell 1000 Value Index outperforming its Growth counterpart by 2.69% in the quarter. However, for the full year, the Russell 1000 Growth Index outperformed the Russell 1000 Value Index by 2.65%, reflecting continued growth leadership despite quarterly value outperformance. | CBSH COF PH UBER SONY |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 29, 2026 | Pzena US Focused Value Strategy | 2.5% | 7.3% | BAX, C, CTSH, DAL, DG, DOX, FMC, KNX, MDT, PPG, QRVO, RHI, SWKS, WFC | Buybacks, Capital markets, earnings, Freight, Trade Down, value | Dollar General delivered strong same-store sales and margin improvement as customers traded down from grocery and pharmacy channels. This trade-down behavior provided a tailwind to margins that are expected to persist into 2026. Knight-Swift operates in a prolonged freight downturn with excess capacity added during the 2021 profit peak persisting despite weaker demand, pressuring rates and earnings. The company's scale and network efficiency should drive profitability recovery as conditions normalize. Citigroup rose amid strong capital markets activity and benign credit conditions. The company continued to repurchase stock and return capital to shareholders while transformation-related expenses are expected to decline next year. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 28, 2026 | Fidelity Freedom 2045 Fund | 3.7% | 23.8% | BAC, GEV, UPS, WFC | asset allocation, diversification, equities, fixed income, global, Target-Date | The fund emphasizes portfolio diversification as a key strategy to navigate macro-oriented themes including government debt, global fragmentation, aging demographics and new technology. Diversification in fixed income and inflation-resistant assets remains attractive to hedge these risks. Active risk is at the low end of the historical range based on elevated asset valuations, particularly for U.S. stocks, which provide little cushion against near-term economic and geopolitical risk. Valuations outside of the AI epicenter are considered reasonable. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 26, 2026 | Cambiar SMID Fund | 1.6% | 0.0% | ACVA, ALGN, BOKF, COO, EEFT, FNF, GOOGL, JBHT, LAZ, MAS, NVDA, WFC, WSC | AI, Credit Stress, financials, healthcare, Quality, small caps, value | The market has priced in a near-flawless AI future for years, but sentiment is shifting as investors become more scrutinizing. Only two of the Mag7 outperformed in 2025, and the market is now more discerning about how AI investments will translate into financial returns. Increased debt financing for AI capex creates vulnerability to credit tightening. The fourth quarter saw a reversal in the growth versus value trade, with traditional value sectors like Healthcare and Financials performing well while Mag7 largely lagged. The fund's quality bias and valuation sensitivity were out of step with a market prioritizing higher-beta momentum stocks. Value stocks offer attractive return potential going forward. Small cap stocks trailed larger cap counterparts for the year despite posting respectable 12.8% gains. Companies with negative income outperformed by wide margins in 2025, creating challenges for quality-focused strategies. The market environment paralleled 2021's speculative period with little regard for valuation or earnings. Corporate bankruptcies spiked in 2025, highlighting growing financial pressure amid elevated borrowing costs. Middle and lower income consumers are increasingly stretched with high credit card balances and subprime auto loan delinquencies at highest levels since 2008. Rising unemployment likely to amplify these pressures. | COO |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 26, 2026 | Davis Financial Fund | 0.0% | 29.3% | AXP, BAER.SW, BK, BRK-A, CB, COF, D05.SI, DIS, FI, FITB, JPM, MKL, PNC, RE, RKT, RNR, USB, WFC | Banking, capital, financials, insurance, regulation, returns, value | Banks continue to represent the majority of holdings with strong tailwinds across credit, spreads, expenses, and regulation. Interest spreads have begun widening as fixed rate assets roll over at higher yields, revealing attractive economics of low-cost deposit franchises. Many banks are generating returns on tangible equity in the mid-to-high teens with management targets suggesting sustainability in the medium term. Capital markets firms were among the drivers of S&P Financials Index performance and contributed to fund outperformance. The regulatory environment has been moving in a favorable direction with capital rules being finalized that are far less onerous than under the prior administration. Regulators are more willing to consider M&A transactions with relief on certain supervisory limitations. Property & casualty reinsurers were added to the portfolio as capital was redeployed from trimmed bank positions. Pricing trends in insurance markets have been strong in recent years. Chubb has consistently generated returns on equity comfortably ahead of the industry owing to advantaged lines of business with disciplined underwriting and operating culture. Payments and consumer lending companies were the biggest contributors to relative performance including Capital One, American Express and Rocket Companies. Capital One's transformational acquisition of Discover Financial closed with anticipated annual cost synergies of $1.5 billion and network synergies of $1.2 billion from transitioning card volumes into Discover's networks. Financial stock valuations have begun to reset higher with price-to-tangible book value multiples expanding by over 70% on average in the past three years. The portfolio in aggregate is valued at approximately 13x this year's earnings, representing a significant discount to both the broader S&P 500 Index and S&P Financials Index. | CB WFC COF |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 18, 2026 | Dodge & Cox Stock Fund | 2.5% | 13.7% | AON, AVTR, BAC, BK, BN, CHTR, CMCSA, CVS, FDX, FI, GILD, GOOGL, GSK, JCI, MET, MSFT, OXY, REGN, RTX, SCHW, TSM, WFC, WTW | contrarian, financials, industrials, technology, valuation, value | The fund maintains its value-oriented investment approach despite a fully valued U.S. equity market. The portfolio trades at an attractive valuation of 14.6 times forward earnings, representing a significant discount to the S&P 500 at 22.9 times. The fund continues to find opportunities where long-term fundamentals are not fully reflected in current prices. The fund reduced its overall weighting in the Financials sector while shifting exposure across industries. They trimmed more cyclical bank holdings like Wells Fargo and Bank of America, while increasing exposure to insurance brokers and alternative asset managers. Despite headwinds, they added to Fiserv as its valuation compressed significantly. | FISV |
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| 2025 Q4 | Jan 18, 2026 | Mairs & Power – Balanced Fund | 0.0% | 6.6% | AMZN, CASY, ENTG, FI, GOOG, HD, HON, HRL, JPM, LLY, MSI, NEOG, PFG, RHHBY, ROK, TECH, TGT, TRV, TXN, UNH, USB, WEC, WFC | AI, Balanced, earnings, financials, healthcare, rates, technology | AI and increasing market concentration took center stage in 2025, with the rate of investment in technology and AI infrastructure spending driving market narrative. McKinsey projects nearly $7 trillion in capital expenditures will be needed worldwide by 2030 to build up AI infrastructure. The Fund believes we are entering a transition period for AI, moving into a higher risk phase with flood of capital and unusual financing structures. The consistency of corporate earnings is a major reason for continued stock market strength. The S&P 500 is projected to deliver 12% earnings growth in 2025, while small cap companies are showing their first signs of earnings growth recovery after three years of contraction, posting 13% growth in 2025. The Federal Reserve began cutting rates in the fourth quarter with cooling inflation giving policymakers confidence. Lower interest rates are expected to continue into 2026, which typically takes around a year to feel effects through the economy and would likely support small business hiring and consumer confidence. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 11, 2026 | Richie Capital Group | 0.0% | 0.0% | LEVI, WFC | AI, Bubble, Gold Rush, infrastructure, Investment Strategy, Speculation, technology | The AI-driven expansion rests on genuine technological innovation with capacity to deliver meaningful productivity gains. OpenAI reports one-tenth of world's population uses ChatGPT with potential $200 billion annual revenue by 2030, yet has committed $1.4 trillion in computing spend over eight years. The tension between genuine productivity gains and conspicuous speculation defines the AI ecosystem. | View |
| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
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| Jan 30, 2026 | Fund Letters | Chris Davis | Wells Fargo & Co | Financials | Diversified Banks | Bull | New York Stock Exchange | Asset Cap, banking, buybacks, efficiency, tangible book | View Pitch |
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