| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q1 | Mar 31, 2025 | Saturna Sustainable Funds | -3.7% | -3.7% | AAPL, ADBE, ASSA-B.ST, AV.L, AVGO, CB, DANOY, GSK, LLY, MSFT, NOW, NTDOY, NVDA, NVO, NVS, RHHBY, SIE.DE, SONY, TSM, WKL.AS | AI, global, infrastructure, international, policy, semiconductors, tariffs, technology | AI infrastructure buildout continues despite market volatility. DeepSeek's competitive model caused sharp selloffs in AI-exposed companies, but hard data points to continued infrastructure investment. Reality versus expectations dynamic creates volatility as crowded trades exacerbate market movements. | View | |
| 2025 Q3 | Oct 9, 2025 | Mawer International Equity Fund | 3.7% | 21.8% | 0700.HK, AJG, APH, ASML, ATR, BDX, BMO.TO, BNS.TO, BWXT, DB1.DE, FNV.TO, GOOGL, LSEG.L, MLM, MMC, MSFT, RELX.L, RY.TO, SHOP.TO, TD.TO, TME, TSM, VRSK, WAT, WKL.AS | AI, Banking, Canada, gold, rates, semiconductors, technology | AI-related stocks have dominated market returns since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022, accounting for a lion's share of S&P 500 returns, earnings growth, and capital spending. Corporate spending on data center infrastructure and semiconductors is projected to be several trillion dollars over the next three years. AI companies are making enormous investment deals with each other, staying largely within the established AI ecosystem. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 9, 2026 | Fundsmith Equity Fund | 0.0% | 0.0% | AAPL, ADP, AMZN, BF-B, CHD, COLPF, EL.PA, FTNT, GOOGL, IDXX, INTU, META, MSFT, NVDA, NVO, PEP, PM, TSLA, WKL.AS, ZTS | AI, Concentration, Index Funds, Performance, Quality, technology, valuation | Major tech companies are in an arms race to build AI capacity through massive capital expenditure on GPU chips and data centers. Whether this spending produces adequate returns remains an open question, with companies like Apple potentially benefiting by avoiding the race and leveraging others' infrastructure. Index funds now hold over 50% of US equity fund assets, creating momentum-driven buying that distorts markets. This passive investing creates a multiplier effect where $1 of flows can move stock prices by 5.5x, benefiting large index constituents regardless of fundamentals. Weight loss drugs are having a lasting impact on consumer behavior, directly affecting companies in snacks and alcoholic beverages. The manager sold positions in Brown-Forman and PepsiCo due to reduced appetites from these medications. The fund maintains focus on companies with high returns on capital (31% ROCE), strong margins (62% gross, 28% operating), and consistent cash conversion (94%). These quality metrics remain superior to broader market indices despite recent underperformance. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 26, 2026 | Brown Advisors Global Leaders Strategy | 0.0% | 15.2% | ADBE, ALLE, ASML, AZO, EFX, EXPN.L, GE, GOOG, ILMN, LSEG.L, MA, MRVL, MSFT, ROG.SW, RTO.L, TSM, V, WDAY, WKL.AS, ZTS | AI, Data, global, infrastructure, Quality, technology | AI is incredibly fast moving with innovations from DeepSeek in China to chain of experts and reasoning models becoming default standards. The potential for disruption in advertising, call centers and software is running way ahead of current adoption. Three or possibly four LLMs have pulled away from the pack with feedback loops from reasoning models creating one-sided network effects from scale. Credit bureau market is effectively an oligopoly with extremely high barriers to entry due to uniqueness and scale of data. Equifax and Experian provide critical data and analytics services across various sectors with distinct growth drivers in workforce solutions, healthcare, marketing and international markets. Strategy focuses on high-quality companies with superior customer outcomes that can pass on prices and generate high levels of recurring revenue while requiring low financial leverage. Many quality compounders that were historically unjustifiably expensive have become significantly more attractive over the past couple of years. | View | |
| 2025 Q4 | Jan 23, 2026 | Bell Global Emerging Companies Fund | -1.8% | -5.9% | 3064.T, 6146.T, AMS.MC, AUTO.L, BJ, BOOT, CHKP, CNM, COR, CPG.L, DB1.DE, GWW, LPLA, MSCI, ODFL, PCTY, SCI, TSCO, TTC, TTI.HK, VEEV, WKL.AS | global, industrials, Quality, SMID Cap, technology, value | The fund follows a Quality at a Reasonable Price (QARP) approach, focusing on consistently high returning companies with durable growth characteristics. 2025 was challenging for this style as markets favored momentum and sentiment-driven narratives over fundamentals, but the team believes quality investing will reassert itself as markets become more earnings driven. The fund invests in global small and mid cap equities with 30-60 holdings, maintaining benchmark agnostic positioning. The portfolio targets companies with market capitalizations in the SMID cap range, seeking to outperform the MSCI World SMID Cap Index over rolling three-year periods. The fund emphasizes valuation discipline as part of its QARP approach, seeking quality companies at reasonable prices. Many high-quality businesses in the portfolio are trading at compelling valuations, with the portfolio's weighted upside potential sitting at the upper end of historical ranges based on conservative assumptions. | VEEV AUTO LN COR TSCO CNM TTC 3064 JP 6146 JP CPG LN LPLA GWW ODFL |
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| 2023 Q1 | Apr 14, 2023 | Mawer International Equity Fund | 6.9% | 16.0% | AMZN, BA.L, FBK.MI, GOOGL, HO.PA, MC.PA, MSFT, REL.L, RHM.DE, SHB-A.ST, TD.TO, WKL.AS | Banking, Bonds, Canada, defense, Europe, global, technology | Defense companies performed well in the quarter reflecting expectations for structurally higher defense spending by NATO countries. Holdings in defense companies such as Rheinmetall, Thales, and BAE Systems had strong returns. | View | |
| 2024 Q4 | Jan 14, 2025 | Mawer International Equity Fund | -1.2% | 14.6% | AAPL, AHT.L, AON, APH, ASM.AS, ASML, AVGO, BAM, CME, CPG.L, CTS.TO, IAG.TO, META, NFLX, NVDA, TSLA, TSM, TVK.TO, V, WKL.AS | AI, financials, global, long-term, Quality, semiconductors, value | Mawer believes they are in the earlier stages of AI deployment and therefore long-term winners and losers are too difficult to predict. They maintain diversified exposure toward companies that benefit from AI use cases as well as those focused on building AI infrastructure. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. performed well on strong AI-driven demand and advanced chip technologies, while Amphenol continued its positive trajectory with AI-related products driving significant growth. | View |
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