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| Quarter | Letter Date | Fund Name | QTD | YTD | Tickers | Keywords/Themes | Theme Commentary | Pitches | Letter |
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| 2025 Q2 | Aug 11, 2025 | Baron Emerging Markets Fund | 15.2% | 18.6% | 0700.HK, 1211.HK, 300750.SZ, 3690.HK, 3988.HK, 9988.HK, BABA, BAJFINANCE.NS, BAP, BHARTIARTL.NS, JIOFINANCE.NS, JMFINANCIL.NS, KOTAKBANK.NS, MAXHEALTH.NS, NUVAMA.NS, PONY, RELIANCE.NS, TRENT.NS, TSM, XP | AI, China, defense, emerging markets, India, Korea, semiconductors, Shipbuilding | Korean defense companies are benefiting from geopolitical tailwinds and increased collaboration with the U.S. Navy. Companies like Hanwha Systems and Korea Aerospace Industries are positioned to benefit from shifting geopolitical priorities and EU/Asia/U.S. defense spending. | View | |
| 2026 Q1 | Apr 28, 2026 | SGA – Emerging Markets Growth | -12.3% | -12.3% | 9983.T, APOLLOHOSP.NS, HDFCBANK.NS, INFY, MMYT, SE, TCS.NS, TOTVS3.SA, TSM, XP | AI, emerging markets, energy, Geopolitical, quality growth, semiconductors, valuation | View | ||
| 2024 Q1 | Apr 15, 2024 | Baron Emerging Markets Fund | 9.0% | 16.2% | 0027.HK, 005930.KS, 006400.KS, 0700.HK, 105560.KS, 2313.HK, 2319.HK, 300760.SZ, BABA, BHARTIARTL.NS, HDFCBANK.NS, INDIGO.NS, NU, PDD, RELIANCE.NS, RENT3.SA, SUZB3.SA, TME, TSM, XP, ZLAB | China, Digitization, emerging markets, Fed policy, Fintech, India, Rate Cuts, semiconductors | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited contributed significantly due to investor expectations for continued strong cyclical recovery in semiconductors and significant incremental demand for AI chips. The company's technological leadership, pricing power, and exposure to secular growth markets including high-performance computing, automotive, 5G, and IoT will allow sustained strong double-digit earnings growth. Many EM companies including Taiwan Semiconductor, Samsung Electronics, and SK hynix are increasingly recognized as key beneficiaries of the AI phenomenon. | View | |
| 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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| 2024 Q4 | Dec 31, 2024 | Sands Capital Emerging Markets Growth Fund | -10.8% | 3.1% | 006400.KS, 0700.HK, 1120.SR, 1179.HK, 1211.HK, 1299.HK, 1398.HK, 2020.HK, 300750.SZ, 6862.HK, APHS.NS, ASIANPAINT.NS, ASML, BABA, BAF.NS, BBCA.JK, BBRI.JK, BRIT.NS, CPNG, DMART.NS, DNP.WA, FPT.VN, GLOB, GRAB, HDB, HDFCLIFE.NS, ICT.PS, KSPI.L, MELI, NU, RADL3.SA, RELIANCE.NS, RENT3.SA, SE, TCS.NS, TSM, TTAN.NS, WEGE3.SA, XP | AI, Banking, China, Electric Vehicles, emerging markets, growth, semiconductors, technology | AI has rapidly evolved from a conceptual novelty to a transformative tool since ChatGPT's launch in late 2022. Portfolio companies like AppLovin and ServiceNow are leveraging AI to enhance their core offerings, with AppLovin building an AI advertising placement platform and ServiceNow using AI to automate repetitive tasks and improve decision making. | View | |
| 2025 Q3 | Nov 8, 2025 | Brown Advisors Global Leaders Strategy | 0.5% | 13.0% | ALLE, ASML, BBCA.JK, DB1.DE, EVD.DE, GE, GOOG, INTU, LSEG.L, MA, MSFT, SCHW, TSM, UL, V, WDAY, XP | AI, financials, global, growth, Quality, technology, value | The manager discusses AI's impact on their portfolio, noting underperformance from not owning AI winners like NVIDIA, Oracle, and Broadcom. They analyze AI risks to London Stock Exchange Group's data assets and explore opportunities in AI-enabled SaaS companies like Workday that can harness AI to improve customer outcomes. | WDAY BBCA IJ TSLA |
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| 2025 Q3 | Oct 23, 2025 | Praetorian Capital Management | 5.7% | 12.2% | ALLFG.AS, B3SA3.SA, JOE, SII, XP | AI Bubble, Capital markets, Economic Decline, emerging markets, gold, inflation, real estate, value | The fund owns the ecosystems of bubbles including brokers, exchanges, intermediaries, and back-office settlements. These croupier businesses should benefit from government desires for asset inflation while being somewhat insulated from economic deterioration. | JOE JOE |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jul 27, 2024 | Baron Emerging Markets Fund | 9.0% | 16.2% | 005930.KS, 009540.KS, 0700.HK, 4966.TW, BABA, BDO.PS, BHARTIARTL.NS, BKRKY, CUMMINSIND.NS, INDUSTOWER.NS, PDD, POWERGRID.NS, RELIANCE.NS, RENT3.SA, SRF.NS, SUZ.SA, TRENT.NS, TSM, WEGE3.SA, XP | AI, China, emerging markets, Fed policy, India, semiconductors, Valuations | AI enthusiasm has broadened from GPU/data center arms race to edge AI applications on servers, PCs, and handsets, driving demand for hardware replacement cycles. Many EM companies benefit from this transition, including semiconductor and hardware ecosystem players. The fund sees potential for market leadership changes as AI moves from training to inference phases. | 4966.TW WEGE3.SA SRF.NS CUMMINSIND.NS POWERGRID.NS 009540.KS 0700.HK TSM |
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| 2024 Q2 | Jul 18, 2024 | Harding Loevner Emerging Markets Equity | 12.2% | 11.6% | 005930.KS, 0700.HK, 1211.HK, 1398.HK, 2330.TW, B3SA3.SA, BABA, CATL, EPAM, GFNORTEO.MX, GLOB, HDFCBANK.NS, ITUB, MARUTI.NS, MELI, RENT3.SA, TCS.NS, TS, TSMC, XP | AI, China, Elections, emerging markets, financials, semiconductors, underperformance, valuation | Strong performance driven by AI supply chain in Taiwan, particularly TSMC and semiconductor companies benefiting from NVIDIA chip orders. Portfolio holds AI-enabling companies like Aspeed which saw accelerating growth from hyperscalers and rising demand for traditional and AI servers. | ICICIBANK.NS RADL3.SA |
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| 2023 Q2 | Jun 30, 2023 | Harding Loevner Emerging Markets Equity | 12.2% | 11.6% | 005930.KS, 1211.HK, 1398.HK, 2308.TW, 2330.TW, 2331.HK, 2454.HK, 300207.SZ, 601012.SS, BABA, BBDC4.SA, EMAAR.DU, EPAM, HDFCBANK.NS, ITUB4.SA, JD, MARUTI.NS, TCS.NS, WEG, XP | Brazil, China, Electrification, emerging markets, Energy Transition, financials, semiconductors | The manager views electrification as a transformative multi-decade opportunity, with emerging markets driving over 80% of electricity demand growth by 2030. They highlight three portfolio companies adapting their technical expertise to this new environment: WEG (electric motors), Delta Electronics (power supplies for EVs), and StarPower (semiconductor components for solar and EVs). | View | |
| 2023 Q4 | Jan 27, 2024 | Baron Emerging Markets Fund | 9.0% | 16.2% | 000858.KS, 005930.KS, 0700.HK, 1876.HK, B3SA3.SA, BABA, BAJFINANCE.NS, BHARTIARTL.NS, BIDU, HDFCBANK.NS, NU, PDD, RENT3.SA, RI.PA, SUZB3.SA, TRENT.NS, TSM, XP, YUMC | China, E-Commerce, emerging markets, Fed policy, Fintech, India, Rate Cuts, semiconductors | The fund added PDD Holdings, China's second largest e-commerce platform with 20% market share. PDD's competitive moat lies in its team purchase model facilitating bulk buying through direct partnerships with manufacturers. The company's international platform Temu has become one of the fastest growing apps globally, leveraging China's excess manufacturing capacity. | KAYNES.NS PDD TRENT.NS 005930.KS AIR FP|ICLR|LIN|MRVL|NOW|TSM |
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| Date | Pitch Type | Author | Company | Industry | Sub Industry | Bull / Bear | Stock Exchange | Keywords | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2025 | Short Thesis | Bear Cave | XP Inc | Financials | Investment Banking & Brokerage | Bear | NASDAQ | Brazil, Brokerage, Macro, Margins, Regulation | View Pitch |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Short Thesis | Grizzly research | XP Inc | Financials | Capital Markets | Bear | NASDAQ | Brazil, Brokerage, Competition, Regulation, Retail trading | View Pitch |
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