Key Takeaways

  • In 2025, our core strategies underperformed their benchmarks, driven by an underweight to AI-related names due to our concerns about the evolving structural dynamics of supply (too much compute) and demand (not enough revenue on the horizon from the LLMs to pay the providers of cloud services)

  • The data we are monitoring in AI continues to keep us underweight tech. We are reluctant to pay high multiples when companies appear to be overearning at cyclically high margins that we do not feel are sustainable

  • While we focus on fundamental, bottom-up stock selection, we are certainly aware of the evolving macro environment as it relates to the earnings power of the companies in which we invest. Our current view is that many developed market countries are trending toward weaker manufacturing PMIs and higher unemployment, inflation, and long-term interest rates

  • We are focused on building portfolios of resilient companies that are well-positioned to generate considerable returns comprising prospective earnings growth, a current dividend yield, and a reasonable terminal valuation multiple. Should an unwind happen where frothy AI-related companies experience negative earnings revisions, we anticipate a rotation into the beautiful, boring names that already populate our strategies

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