Liontrust
Liontrust Global Innovation Fund
Jun 2026 → Jun 2026
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What it bought and sold
From the watchlist we keep for these moments, we initiated Lonza (3.3% at quarter end), HEICO (3.0%), Thermo Fisher (3.0%), Morgan Stanley (2.9%), TJX (2.9%), Costco (2.7%), Walmart (2.6%), Uber (2.0%), Intuitive Surgical (2.0%) and Texas Instruments (1.9%), and rotated AI supply chain exposure eastwards through AMEC (1.8%), Eoptolink (1.6%), BYD (1.6%), Hesai (1.4%), Montage Technology (1.1%), Kioxia (0.9%) and Delta Electronics (0.9%).
With Boston Scientific, Shopify and Mercadolibre discussed above, the quarter’s dealing totalled seventeen positions sold and seventeen initiated: unusually high turnover for this Fund, and a deliberate response to the concentration above.
From the watchlist we keep for these moments, we initiated Lonza (3.3% at quarter end), HEICO (3.0%), Thermo Fisher (3.0%), Morgan Stanley (2.9%), TJX (2.9%), Costco (2.7%), Walmart (2.6%), Uber (2.0%), Intuitive Surgical (2.0%) and Texas Instruments (1.9%), and rotated AI supply chain exposure eastwards through AMEC (1.8%), Eoptolink (1.6%), BYD (1.6%), Hesai (1.4%), Montage Technology (1.1%), Kioxia (0.9%) and Delta Electronics (0.9%).
Having added through the first quarter, we exited, redeploying into healthcare franchises where growth is intact and the discount wide, Thermo Fisher, Lonza and Intuitive Surgical among them.
Shopify (- 22%) and Mercadolibre (-12%) also detracted; both were exited as we concentrated the portfolio on fewer, better priced ideas.
We locked in gains across the complex, exiting Credo in full and materially reducing Astera Labs and Arm.
- TrimmedElite MaterialJun 2026
Applied Materials was exited after the June surge and Elite Material halved.
From the watchlist we keep for these moments, we initiated Lonza (3.3% at quarter end), HEICO (3.0%), Thermo Fisher (3.0%), Morgan Stanley (2.9%), TJX (2.9%), Costco (2.7%), Walmart (2.6%), Uber (2.0%), Intuitive Surgical (2.0%) and Texas Instruments (1.9%), and rotated AI supply chain exposure eastwards through AMEC (1.8%), Eoptolink (1.6%), BYD (1.6%), Hesai (1.4%), Montage Technology (1.1%), Kioxia (0.9%) and Delta Electronics (0.9%).
With Boston Scientific, Shopify and Mercadolibre discussed above, the quarter’s dealing totalled seventeen positions sold and seventeen initiated: unusually high turnover for this Fund, and a deliberate response to the concentration above.
From the watchlist we keep for these moments, we initiated Lonza (3.3% at quarter end), HEICO (3.0%), Thermo Fisher (3.0%), Morgan Stanley (2.9%), TJX (2.9%), Costco (2.7%), Walmart (2.6%), Uber (2.0%), Intuitive Surgical (2.0%) and Texas Instruments (1.9%), and rotated AI supply chain exposure eastwards through AMEC (1.8%), Eoptolink (1.6%), BYD (1.6%), Hesai (1.4%), Montage Technology (1.1%), Kioxia (0.9%) and Delta Electronics (0.9%).
We banked the gains, exiting both before the quarter closed.
Even after the fall the stock trades at more than 100 times earnings; nothing operational deteriorated, and we used the weakness to add modestly.
From the watchlist we keep for these moments, we initiated Lonza (3.3% at quarter end), HEICO (3.0%), Thermo Fisher (3.0%), Morgan Stanley (2.9%), TJX (2.9%), Costco (2.7%), Walmart (2.6%), Uber (2.0%), Intuitive Surgical (2.0%) and Texas Instruments (1.9%), and rotated AI supply chain exposure eastwards through AMEC (1.8%), Eoptolink (1.6%), BYD (1.6%), Hesai (1.4%), Montage Technology (1.1%), Kioxia (0.9%) and Delta Electronics (0.9%).
- New positionHesaiJun 2026
From the watchlist we keep for these moments, we initiated Lonza (3.3% at quarter end), HEICO (3.0%), Thermo Fisher (3.0%), Morgan Stanley (2.9%), TJX (2.9%), Costco (2.7%), Walmart (2.6%), Uber (2.0%), Intuitive Surgical (2.0%) and Texas Instruments (1.9%), and rotated AI supply chain exposure eastwards through AMEC (1.8%), Eoptolink (1.6%), BYD (1.6%), Hesai (1.4%), Montage Technology (1.1%), Kioxia (0.9%) and Delta Electronics (0.9%).
With Boston Scientific, Shopify and Mercadolibre discussed above, the quarter’s dealing totalled seventeen positions sold and seventeen initiated: unusually high turnover for this Fund, and a deliberate response to the concentration above.
From the watchlist we keep for these moments, we initiated Lonza (3.3% at quarter end), HEICO (3.0%), Thermo Fisher (3.0%), Morgan Stanley (2.9%), TJX (2.9%), Costco (2.7%), Walmart (2.6%), Uber (2.0%), Intuitive Surgical (2.0%) and Texas Instruments (1.9%), and rotated AI supply chain exposure eastwards through AMEC (1.8%), Eoptolink (1.6%), BYD (1.6%), Hesai (1.4%), Montage Technology (1.1%), Kioxia (0.9%) and Delta Electronics (0.9%).
We banked the gains, exiting both before the quarter closed.
We added to Eli Lilly, now the Fund’s largest position at 4.5% after a quarter of 56% revenue growth, 156% earnings growth and raised guidance, and to Amazon, Meta, L’Oréal and Vertex; healthcare more than doubled to 18% of the Fund.
- ExitedUpstartJun 2026
With Boston Scientific, Shopify and Mercadolibre discussed above, the quarter’s dealing totalled seventeen positions sold and seventeen initiated: unusually high turnover for this Fund, and a deliberate response to the concentration above.
Five of the quarter’s ten largest contributors were exited outright: SK Hynix, SanDisk, Applied Materials, Credo and Ciena, the last having doubled over the half year.
We locked in gains across the complex, exiting Credo in full and materially reducing Astera Labs and Arm.
From the watchlist we keep for these moments, we initiated Lonza (3.3% at quarter end), HEICO (3.0%), Thermo Fisher (3.0%), Morgan Stanley (2.9%), TJX (2.9%), Costco (2.7%), Walmart (2.6%), Uber (2.0%), Intuitive Surgical (2.0%) and Texas Instruments (1.9%), and rotated AI supply chain exposure eastwards through AMEC (1.8%), Eoptolink (1.6%), BYD (1.6%), Hesai (1.4%), Montage Technology (1.1%), Kioxia (0.9%) and Delta Electronics (0.9%).
We added to Eli Lilly, now the Fund’s largest position at 4.5% after a quarter of 56% revenue growth, 156% earnings growth and raised guidance, and to Amazon, Meta, L’Oréal and Vertex; healthcare more than doubled to 18% of the Fund.
From the watchlist we keep for these moments, we initiated Lonza (3.3% at quarter end), HEICO (3.0%), Thermo Fisher (3.0%), Morgan Stanley (2.9%), TJX (2.9%), Costco (2.7%), Walmart (2.6%), Uber (2.0%), Intuitive Surgical (2.0%) and Texas Instruments (1.9%), and rotated AI supply chain exposure eastwards through AMEC (1.8%), Eoptolink (1.6%), BYD (1.6%), Hesai (1.4%), Montage Technology (1.1%), Kioxia (0.9%) and Delta Electronics (0.9%).