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What smart money is saying about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd

TSM · Technology · Semiconductors · Market cap $2257.99B

38 funds in our archive have pitched Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd — most recently Guinness Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund in July 2026.

Company profile

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC), along with its affiliated entities, operates globally in the semiconductor industry, specializing in the manufacturing, packaging, meticulous testing, and worldwide distribution of integrated circuits and other crucial semiconductor components. Its expansive international presence covers key markets such as Taiwan, China, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, and the United States. The company is renowned for its diverse array of wafer fabrication processes. These capabilities enable the production of various advanced semiconductor types, including complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic, mixed-signal devices, radio frequency components, embedded memory, and bipolar CMOS mixed-signal circuits. Beyond its core foundry services, TSMC extends its offerings to include dedicated customer and engineering support. It also undertakes the production of specialized masks, actively invests in burgeoning technology startups, and manages the entire lifecycle—from research and development through to manufacturing, packaging, testing, and sales—of color filters. Furthermore, the company provides a range of investment services. TSMC's cutting-edge products are indispensable across numerous sectors, powering high-performance computing, modern smartphones, Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems, sophisticated automotive systems, and a broad spectrum of digital consumer electronics. Established in 1987, the enterprise is officially headquartered in Hsinchu City, Taiwan.

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114
Reported positions
13
Bought
16
Sold
151
Letters

Position history

Between Q4 2024 and Q3 2026, 114 fund letters reported a position in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd13 opened or added to the position, 16 trimmed or exited.

Fund letters reporting a position in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd, by quarter
QuarterLettersBoughtSoldTheses
Q3 202621011
Q2 202681121215
Q1 202612137
Q4 20250006
Q3 20250002
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Q1 20250002
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Fund activity · 115 positions · 29 moves

  • HoldsAcatis
    September 2026

    Listed in Acatis’s reported holdings.

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  • Listed in Guinness Asian Equity Income Fund’s reported holdings.

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  • Listed in Guinness Greater China Fund’s reported holdings.

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  • TSMC delivered Q2 earnings which beat consensus on sustained AI data centre demand, reporting sales growth of +12% over the quarter and +36% year-over-year.
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  • Listed in Harding Loevner International Equity’s reported holdings.

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  • In IT, German power management chip manufacturer Infineon Technologies, Dutch lithography equipment manufacturer ASML, South Korean semiconductor and electronics manufacturer Samsung Electronics, and Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer TSMC all gained, reflecting broad-based strength of shares across the semiconductor supply chain.
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  • Listed in Harding Loevner Global Developed Markets Equity’s reported holdings.

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  • HoldsBlueBox Global Technology Fund
    August 2026

    Listed in BlueBox Global Technology Fund’s reported holdings.

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  • Semicon- ductor companies such as Lam Research, Kokusai Electric, Naura, TSMC and Lasertec proved to be the main drivers almost throughout.
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  • In semiconductors, TSMC, which the Fund does hold, also performed well, but the Fund's equally-weighted portfolio construction results in a structural underweight relative to the benchmark.
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  • While hyperscaler capex is clearly a key focus area for markets, foundry and memory capex are becoming increasingly important in a semiconductor rally that is being driven by both supply constraints and huge AI-led demand due to the critical role of semiconductors in AI applications. The memory cycle remains highly cyclical and commoditised: when capacity is tight, pricing rises quickly; when new supply arrives too fast or demand weakens, pricing can fall just as quickly. This cycle is therefore being supported by AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), DRAM and NAND, but also by the fact that supply cannot be added immediately. Memory player Micron has explicitly pointed to cleanroom constraints, long construction lead times and limited DRAM and NAND supply all constraining server demand. There are now clear signals that both foundries and memory fabs (fabrication facilities) are preparing to increase spending to address these bottlenecks. As shown in the first chart below, expectations for FY26 capex on fabs have risen from $146bn in December last year to $185bn by June 2026, while the second chart shows that expected capex growth has also broadened, with total spending across the key fabs rising to 46% by October 2026. The strongest upward revisions are in memory: Micron is now expected to grow capex by 159% and SK Hynix by 110% compared to expectations before the cycle began in 2025. TSMC also stands out on the logic side, with expected capex growth rising to 42%, reflecting stronger demand for advanced foundry and packaging capacity.
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  • The Fund had a 13.7% allocation to Taiwan and a 6.0% position in TSMC.
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  • Benchmark performance continues to be driven by a narrow set of names, namely TSMC, SK Hynix, and Samsung Electronics. In June, these three names made a positive cumulative contribution of +0.94% to the benchmark’s total returns, but this was not enough to fully offset the negative contribution from the rest of the benchmark constituents. This narrow leadership has been a defining feature of performance over the year so far; in Q2, these same three names accounted for 63% of the benchmark’s total return, while year-to-date they have contributed more than 78%. Source: Bloomberg, MSCI, Guinness Global Investors. Net returns in US dollars as of 30th June 2026. Year-to-date, the Fund has suffered from both negative allocation effect and selection effect, primarily driven by being underweight Technology and more specifically not holding SK Hynix or Samsung Electronics. As a reminder, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics do not qualify for our investment universe. Source: Bloomberg, MSCI, Guinness Global Investors. Net returns in US dollars as of 30th June 2026. However, we highlight that every Technology name within the Fund, except TSMC and Tech Mahindra, contributed positively to the Fund’s absolute returns. TSMC detracted as it is held at an underweight of approximately 10 percentage points versus the benchmark, a result of our equal weighting approach. Tech Mahindra has lagged this year, despite better- than-expected reported profits, primarily due to investor anxiety over weaker IT services demand and slowing revenue growth as global tech spending outside of AI remains more conservative. The Fund’s overweight to Consumer Discretionary detracted from relative performance. Within the sector, Corporate Travel Management, Zhejiang Supor and Suofeiya were the greatest detractors (explanations for these names in the following section). 5 Guinness Asian Equity Income July 2026 The Fund’s zero weight to Materials, Energy and Industrials provided some positive relative contribution for the Fund, as did both the under-allocation to the Communication Services sector, and the stock selection within that sector, specifically not holding Tencent. LEADERS AND LAGGARDS Leaders Elite Material (+223.2% year-to-date in USD) saw strong performance amid continued excitement over the AI capex (capital expenditure) super-cycle. The company is a leading manufacturer of premium copper-clad laminates, which are used in AI servers, switches and data centre infrastructure. Strong AI server demand, tight high-end laminate supply and repeated industry price increases have driven a powerful earnings-upgrade cycle and a major valuation rerating for the company. Largan Precision (+73.4%) has recovered after a share price fall in Q1 was more than offset by a +100.3% rise in Q2: first, the company reported better-than-expected revenues for April, up +23% year-on-year, driven by stronger iPhone sales than the market was expecting; and secondly, Largan reported advancements in its co-packaged optics (CPO) technology, which uses light to transmit data, improving speed and efficiency. The company debuted a fibre array unit (FAU), which has a higher degree of precision than the current industry standard, and is actively courting customers in the chip design space in the hope of breaking into the AI server and data centre market. TSMC (+54.3%) remains a key manufacturing bottleneck for the AI hardware super-cycle.
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  • Listed in Harding Loevner International Equity’s reported holdings.

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  • Listed in Harding Loevner Global Equity model portfolio’s reported holdings.

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  • Listed in Harding Loevner Global Equity ADR’s reported holdings.

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  • Elsewhere in IT, the absence of both AMD and Micron from the portfolio helped relative returns and overcame the drag from our off-benchmark exposure to TSMC in Taiwan.
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  • As we’ve discussed over many months, our core semiconductor holdings – SK hynix, TSMC and Samsung - have been major contributors to Fund returns.
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  • TSMC Taiwan Info Technology
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  • Semiconductor stocks such as TSMC and ASML also weakened amid AI capex concerns; reports that China has begun limited production of immersion lithography tools added to investor uncertainty.
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  • The MSCI World index declined in sterling terms in July. Market performance was marked by a mid-month AI sell-off on concerns over capex sustainability, followed by a sharp rebound as hyperscaler earnings validated ongoing AI investment. The fund underperformed in July. Negative contributors included ASML, a Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer, impacted by fears of Chinese competition and caught up in a broader AI sell-off, and TSMC, a leading manufacturer of semi-conductor chips, as higher capex guidance and weaker AI sentiment outweighed otherwise strong earnings beat.
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  • June 2026
    We began accumulating stakes in AppLovin, GE Vernova, Legrand, Mastercard, Netflix, Nextpower, Sage, The TJX Companies, TSMC, Uber, Veeva Systems, and Yum! Brands.
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  • What I'm meandering towards here is the concept of 'bottlenecks'. After a brief hiatus in March, when energy stocks leapt to the fore, the biggest driver of emerging market indices and our clients' portfolio performance over the past 18 months has been semiconductor stocks, notably TSMC, Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and more recently MediaTek. We have held TSMC and Samsung Electronics continuously in our emerging markets strategies since the 2000s.
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  • Taiwan Semiconductor, the world’s largest foundry for high-end chips, was up strongly as it continued to gain pricing power due to its near monopoly on production and advanced technology.
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  • Portfolio Positioning We currently have about 9% of the portfolio in semiconductor-related stocks. We believe this gives us enough exposure to benefit from the wonderful growth that chip stocks enjoy without overly exposing the portfolio to a highly volatile sector currently trading at cyclical highs. During the quarter we initiated a meaningful position in Nvidia, after the company announced a 25-fold increase in its dividend, taking its yield from almost zero to 0.5%. We also increased our exposure to Taiwan Semiconductor, which, as the largest producer of computer chips in the world, should prosper regardless of whose chips are used for AI computing.
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  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) delivered a strong quarter and raised its full-year outlook, reflecting continued robust demand for leading-edge semiconductors.
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  • In the Fund, we hold two positions in Taiwan which, under our equal-weight portfolio construction methodology, have a combined weight of c.6.6%. As Taiwan outperformed in the month, the Fund’s underweight to Taiwan was a detractor to relative performance against the MSCI Golden Dragon Index. This predominantly came from TSMC, which continued to outperform in the month.
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  • Listed in Guinness Greater China Fund’s reported holdings.

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  • What are our Fund holdings saying? LAM Research (semiconductor capital equipment) "In January, we shared our outlook for 2026 WFE [wafer fabrication equipment] in the $135 billion range. Since then, spending projections from customers have moved higher across all device segments. We now expect WFE of $140 billion with a bias to the upside as the industry continues to work through various constraints." - Timothy M. Archer, CEO Applied Materials (semiconductor capital equipment) "AI adoption is accelerating and diversifying, fuelling broader demand for semiconductors, manufacturing and equipment... we now expect our semiconductor equipment business will grow more than 30% this calendar year." - Gary E. Dickerson, CEO 14 Guinness Global Innovators June 2026 Nvidia (chip designer) "Demand for AI infrastructure continues to expand at an unprecedented pace. The build-out of AI factories is accelerating. The value of NVIDIA AI infrastructure is rising. The price of renting an H100 has risen 20% year-to-date, while A100 cloud pricing is up nearly 15%." - Jensen Huang, CEO AMD (chip designer) "What we've seen is all of the things that we believed in terms of agentic AI and inferencing, and all the CPU compute that is required is just happening, and it's happening at a much faster pace." – Dr Lisa Su, CEO TSMC (foundry)
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  • Listed in Guinness Global Equity Income Fund’s reported holdings.

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  • These new additions were funded by the reduction of holdings that have continued to perform strongly, TSMC and ASML in particular, as well as Delivery Hero and French luxury business Kering, which has been improving following some difficult years.
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  • Listed in Sequoia Fund (Ruane Cunniff LP)’s reported holdings.

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  • Our own chip names more than offset this headwind, though. TSMC and Mediatek were top contributors to relative returns.
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  • Our own chip names more than offset this headwind, though. TSMC and Mediatek were top contributors to relative returns.
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  • On a more in-depth look, names related to our big three investment themes paid off in the front half of 2026. AI-related investment propelled Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and Samsung to new highs.
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  • Within IT, stock selection was beneficial, led by Micron Technology, the Strategy’s best-performing holding for the quarter. The stock was supported by growing confidence in the AI-driven memory cycle, with strong demand for high-bandwidth memory used in AI servers reinforcing expectations for pricing strength and earnings growth. Taiwan Semiconductor also contributed as leading-edge semiconductor demand and AI-related capacity investment remained strong.
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  • June 2026

    Listed in Hosking Partners’s reported holdings.

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  • During the quarter, we were unusually busy. We bought Hermès and sold Tractor Supply Company, Zoetis, and CDW. We increased positions in Chubb, Progressive, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Visa. We trimmed United Rentals, Alphabet, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.
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  • Listed in Hardman Johnston International Equity Strategy’s reported holdings.

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  • June 2026
    It is why we own NVIDIA and TSMC thus far, and not memory stocks or the AI supply chain.
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  • Taiwan Semiconductor moved higher on pricing power and a healthy backlog due to its position as the dominant foundry for leading edge chips.
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  • Portfolio Positioning In the June quarter, Montaka made some targeted changes to the portfolio. We substantially increased our investments in Visa and Mastercard on the basis described above. We see a major mispricing here: as the probability of strong growth increases, valuations have fallen to unusually low levels as the market remains focused on semiconductor stocks. We funded these investments by trimming TSMC and Alphabet, both of which have run up materially in recent months.
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  • June 2026
    We trimmed positions and/or booked gains in Taiwan Semiconductor, TD Synnex, Alphabet, Astronics, and Broadcom.
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  • We continue to own several such great companies in our portfolio (DBS, TSMC, Tencent, CNOOC, Sheng Siong, KKR, Apollo, Microsoft etc.) and have selectively added onto them in the past quarter.
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  • This 15.9% exposure excludes our large investments in the hyperscalers Alphabet and Microsoft. Nonetheless, as noted above, the MSCI ACWI benchmark has approximately 26% exposure to semiconductors and technology hardware today, so we remain underweight versus the index. We have been invested in TSMC since the inception of the Global Leaders Strategy in 2015.
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  • Our preference remains to invest in critical enablers whose path to success is not dependent on the adoption of a single or narrow technology. Prime examples of this thesis include TSMC and ASML , which were also among the top contributors to performance over the quarter. We have held both since Positive Change's inception in 2017.
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  • Some of the best performers were stocks benefiting from investors’ increasingly positive view on the semiconductor cycle and AI-related demand. Holdings in Intel, SK Square, TSMC and ASM International were among the fund's strongest contributors.
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  • For example, our assessment of competitive advantage places NVIDIA, TSMC, and ASML above most other semiconductor-related businesses.
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  • Top 3 Contributors to Relative Performance  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Sponsored ADR (TSM) – TSM shares rose sharply during Q2, continuing to benefit from attractive demand fundamentals as AI-driven investment accelerated.
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  • AI-related investment propelled Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and Samsung to new highs.
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  • I nformat ion Technology 19.0 ASML Holding N.V. Netherlands 6.7 Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment Jan. 2014 Infineon Technologies AG Germany 5.1 Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment Mar. 2025 STMicroelectronics NV France 4.8 Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment Jul. 2025 Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co., Ltd. Taiwan 2.4 Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment Jan. 2021
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  • On a more in-depth look, names related to our big three investment themes paid off in the front half of 2026. AI-related investment propelled Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and Samsung to new highs.
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  • Listed in Mar Vista U.S. Quality Premier Portfolio’s reported holdings.

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  • We added to Cisco Systems and Lumentum Holdings, reflecting our improving conviction in their respective wealth creation outlooks and attractive valuations. We also initiated a position in QXO, taking advantage of share price weakness to gain exposure to what we believe could become a leading consolidator in the highly fragmented building products distribution market. We increased the portfolio's exposure to specific parts of the AI infrastructure theme through purchases of Nebius Group and Arm Holdings. Nebius is emerging as a compelling beneficiary of growing AI infrastructure demand through its neocloud platform and is increasingly moving from concept to commercial reality. Arm, meanwhile, remains a high-quality accelerator within our framework, with an expanding addressable market in data centre and AI workloads that we believe is not fully reflected in current consensus expectations. Funding for these purchases came from several lower-conviction holdings including Flutter Entertainment, Comcast, Church & Dwight, BJ's Wholesale Club and Tyson Foods, where we believe capital can be allocated more effectively elsewhere. We also trimmed TSMC following a period of strong share price performance, although it remains a significant active position within the portfolio.
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  • While technology remained an important contributor, returns were generated across multiple sectors and investment themes. Taiwan Semiconductor, Applied Materials, Analog Devices, NVIDIA, Astera Labs and Seagate contributed meaningfully as part of our Compute Infrastructure theme.
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  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) is the world's largest contract chipmaker and the leading manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors used in modern AI accelerators. Shares rose during the quarter as investors increasingly recognized that TSMC, rather than any individual chip designer, sits at the center of the AI supply chain. High-performance computing now represents the majority of TSMC's business. AI demand is consuming so much leading-edge capacity that smartphone and PC production is increasingly shifting to older technology nodes, reversing a dynamic that defined the foundry industry for much of the past decade. Management also raised its full-year outlook and increased capital spending to support demand that remains well above available supply. We retain long-term conviction in TSMC and view its leading-edge manufacturing monopoly, pricing power, and 2-nanometer technology roadmap as durable advantages that support multi-year earnings power.
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  • Some of the best performers were stocks benefiting from investors’ increasingly positive view on the semiconductor cycle and AI-related demand. Holdings in the Intel, SK Square, TSMC and ASM International were among the fund's strongest contributors.
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  • Top 10 holdings Weighting (%) Alphabet Inc. Class A 6.43 Apple Inc. 3.55 Micron Technology, Inc. 3.08 Microsoft Corporation 2.87 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Sponsored ADR 2.85 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.30 Cisco Systems, Inc. 2.15 AbbVie, Inc. 2.10
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  • We also trimmed TSMC following a period of strong share price performance, although it remains a significant active position within the portfolio.
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  • Our fourth-largest position is Taiwan Semiconductor, which is up nearly 100% since we bought it last summer.
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  • Listed in Hood River CM Emerging Markets Fund’s reported holdings.

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  • This process has also incorporated TSMC as a store of value, which can increase in weight as a receptacle for appreciated semiconductor proceeds.
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  • Portfolio performance was also notably broad-based. While technology remained an important contributor, returns were generated across multiple sectors and investment themes. Taiwan Semiconductor, Applied Materials, Analog Devices, NVIDIA, Astera Labs and Seagate contributed meaningfully as part of our Compute Infrastructure theme.
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  • New positionAve Maria Funds
    June 2026
    The Fund also initiated positions in Intel Corporation, Nvidia Corporation, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. during the quarter to increase the Fund’s exposure to the A.I. buildout.
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  • Our top contributors in Q2 were AMD, Lam Research and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC). AMD is a leading semiconductor company focused on high-performance computing and AI infrastructure. Shares rose following a strong quarter, with revenue and guidance exceeding expectations, driven by continued strength in data center demand. Management raised its long-term outlook for the server CPU market, reflecting the growing role of CPUs in inference and agentic AI workloads. We continue to believe AMD is well positioned to benefit from increasing compute intensity across AI infrastructure and cloud computing. After adding to the position ahead of the stock’s rally, we trimmed our exposure as the valuation moved beyond our reasonable expectations, consistent with our valuation discipline. Lam is a leading supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, with dominant positions in etching and deposition. The company delivered results that exceeded elevated expectations, with margins remaining above anticipated levels and guidance pointing to continued momentum. In response to rising semiconductor capital spending, particularly in memory, management increased its outlook for 2026 wafer fabrication equipment spending to approximately $140 billion, representing roughly 27% year-over-year growth. Given the stock's recent appreciation and valuation approaching the upper end of our target range, we trimmed the position to manage risk and position size. TSMC is the global leader in advanced semiconductor manufacturing, with strong pricing power supported by AI-driven demand.
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  • Several of our AI-infrastructure and semiconductor investments also contributed to absolute and relative performance, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (the world’s advanced-semiconductor manufacturing champion), indie Semiconductor, Inc. (automotive semiconductor innovator), Coherent Corp. (optical technology leader), ASML Holding N.V. (the world’s dominant provider of advanced lithography semiconductor manufacturing equipment), Micron, and Broadcom.
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  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) is the world's largest contract chipmaker and the leading manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors used in modern AI accelerators. Shares rose during the quarter as investors increasingly recognized that TSMC, rather than any individual chip designer, sits at the center of the AI supply chain. High-performance computing now represents the majority of TSMC's business. AI demand is consuming so much leading-edge capacity that smartphone and PC production is increasingly shifting to older technology nodes, reversing a dynamic that defined the foundry industry for much of the past decade. Management also raised its full-year outlook and increased capital spending to support demand that remains well above available supply. We retain long-term conviction in TSMC and view its leading-edge manufacturing monopoly, pricing power, and 2-nanometer technology roadmap as durable advantages that support multi-year earnings power.
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  • The quarter still included several good outcomes as Alphabet , Monolithic Power Systems , NVIDIA , Broadcom , Amazon , and our largest addition during the first quarter, Lam Research , each added more than 100bps. Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC), the Fund’s largest holding, appreciated 41.6% and contributed 310bps to absolute returns.
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  • June 2026
    Among others, during the second quarter we initiated or added to the following positions: Space and satellite communications: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
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  • For example, our assessment of competitive advantage places NVIDIA, TSMC, and ASML above most other semiconductor-related businesses.
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  • Listed in Hosking Partners Strategy’s reported holdings.

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  • Top contributors in the period were once again driven by AI. We continued to see Agentic AI driving the story, which kept us bullish on the need for memory, as memory is what makes agentic AI possible. AI agent workloads drive demand not just for HBM (High Bandwidth Memory), but across the entire memory spectrum, including conventional DRAM and NAND for AI servers. SK Hynix and Samsung, the two strongest contributors, both benefited from increasing demand for memory. SK Hynix continued to be driven by its leadership in HBM, which is made to order and customized. Samsung has made progress in the next generation HBM4 chips and has benefitted from the memory upcycle (DRAM and NAND) driven by demand and pricing. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) was also a top contributor in the quarter, as it reported exceptionally strong results for every metric.
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  • Several of our AI-infrastructure and semiconductor investments also contributed to absolute and relative performance, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (the world’s advanced semiconductor manufacturing champion), indie Semiconductor, Inc. (automotive semiconductor innovator), Coherent Corp. (optical technology leader), ASML Holding N.V. (the world’s dominant provider of advanced lithography semiconductor manufacturing equipment), Micron, and Broadcom.
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  • Listed in Cambiar Investors International Equity Fund’s reported holdings.

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  • NVIDIA, Micron, Broadcom, AMD, Applied Materials, Seagate, Western Digital, Corning, SiTime, TSMC, ASML, and Sandisk were among the positions that contributed to the quarter’s technology-led gains.
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  • Our largest additions included the following names: CME Group, TSMC, Amazon, NVIDIA, Alphabet, Visa, ASML, S&P Global, Stevanato Group, and Brookfield.
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  • Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC), Datadog, and NVIDIA added over 200bps each
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  • Strong price appreciation from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSM), KLA Corp (KLAC), and Marvell Technology Inc (MRVL) increased the weighting.
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  • Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited were a strong contributor during the quarter, driven by surging AI demand.
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  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) is the world's largest contract chipmaker and the leading manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors used in modern AI accelerators. Shares rose during the quarter as investors increasingly recognized that TSMC, rather than any individual chip designer, sits at the center of the AI supply chain. High- performance computing now represents the majority of TSMC's business. AI demand is consuming so much leading-edge capacity that smartphone and PC production is increasingly shifting to older technology nodes, reversing a dynamic that defined the foundry industry for much of the past decade. Management also raised its full-year outlook and increased capital spending to support demand that remains well above available supply. We retain long- term conviction in TSMC and view its leading-edge manufacturing monopoly, pricing power, and 2-nanometer technology roadmap as durable advantages that support multi-year earnings power.
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  • From a stock specific perspective, the Fund’s 26.7% gain was driven by 32 contributors against 10 detractors. It is tempting to describe it as SpaceX and everything else, but it would not be correct and would not do the quarter justice. Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC), ASML, Nebius, NVIDIA, Forgent, and Amazon contributed over 100bps each to absolute returns,
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  • Listed in Brown Advisory Large-Cap Sustainable Growth Strategy’s reported holdings.

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  • South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), and Taiwan-based AI server manufacturer Wiwynn generated significant gains as investors increasingly focused on companies benefiting from growing AI infrastructure demand.
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  • Portfolio Changes We added exposure to hardware and compute through purchases of Amazon, TSMC and STMicro, with the latter two also increasing regional exposure to Taiwan and Europe respectively.
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  • June 2026
    Portfolio Positioning In the June quarter, Montaka made some targeted changes to the portfolio. We substantially increased our investments in Visa and Mastercard on the basis described above. We see a major mispricing here: as the probability of strong growth increases, valuations have fallen to unusually low levels as the market remains focused on semiconductor stocks. We funded these investments by trimming TSMC and Alphabet, both of which have run up materially in recent months.
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  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited is the world's largest contract chipmaker and the leading manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors used in modern AI accelerators. Shares rose 41.6% during the quarter as the company continued reporting stellar financial results underpinned by AI demand with revenue growth of 35% year-on-year and EPS growth of 58%, with 66% gross margins and 58% operating margins. High-performance computing now represents the majority of TSMC's business. AI demand is consuming so much leading-edge capacity that smartphone and PC production is increasingly shifting to older technology nodes, reversing a dynamic that defined the foundry industry for much of the past decade. Management also raised its full-year outlook and increased capital spending to support demand that remains well above available supply. We retain long- term conviction in TSMC and view its leading-edge manufacturing monopoly, pricing power, and technology roadmap as durable advantages that support a long duration of growth.
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  • Listed in Coronation Global Managed Strategy’s reported holdings.

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  • Listed in Coronation Global Equity Strategy’s reported holdings.

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  • Top 10 HOLDINGS* as of June 30, 2026 % of Net Assets Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 9.14
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  • Portfolio Changes We added exposure to compute through the purchase of TSMC.
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  • Listed in Liontrust GF Sustainable Future US Growth Fund’s reported holdings.

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  • Listed in Liontrust Global Dividend Fund’s reported holdings.

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  • Listed in Liontrust GF Global Dividend Fund’s reported holdings.

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  • We added exposure to hardware and compute through purchases of TSMC and STMicro, which also increased regional exposure to Taiwan and Europe respectively.
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  • The Fund participated in the rally in SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics and TSMC; however, the Fund could not fully replicate the benchmark’s concentration, particularly in TSMC, where the position was already close to the practical maximum permitted by the Fund’s 10% security limit.
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  • New positionMayTech Global Investments Global Growth Strategy
    June 2026
    We initiated a position in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s leading foundry for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.
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  • Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) also contributed meaningfully to our performance.
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  • South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), and semiconductor firms Infineon in Germany and STMicroelectronics in France generated significant gains as investors increasingly focused on companies benefiting from growing AI infrastructure demand.
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  • including larger positions in Taiwan Semiconductor, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta Platforms, the strongest performers in 2Q26 were companies more directly benefiting from AI-related capital spending.
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  • TrimmedAugustine Asset Management Global Equity & Fixed Income Strategies
    June 2026
    We also increased positions in Regeneron, United Therapeutics, Shell, and TotalEnergies following recent weakness. The increased positions exhibit investment process preferences for attractive relative valuation, quality, and fundamental outlook. We eliminated positions in Nike and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories after those holdings no longer met our investment process preferences for quality and fundamental improvement. We also reduced exposure to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing per our portfolio construction rule regarding single position exposure. The stock has performed well and continues to be fundamentally attractive.
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  • Portfolio Performance and Attribution In Q2 2026, the Portfolio returned 8.4% (net of fees) compared to 14.9% for the Index. Top relative contributors to the Portfolio’s performance included Tokyo Electron, TSMC, and ASML.
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  • The strategy’s top contributors continued to benefit from the sustained global AI build-out, which has intensified supply- demand imbalances across the AI value chain. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the leading global foundry for advanced semiconductors used in AI training and inference, continued to experience demand running well ahead of manufacturing capacity.
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  • ExitedCDT
    May 2026
    For example, we started a position in Amazon (AMZN) in the low 200s, increased our position in the high $100s and exited around $270 per share. For Taiwan Semi (TSM), we entered in the low 300s and exited at around $400 per share.
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  • Listed in HL Global Carbon Transition Equity’s reported holdings.

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  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) reported a strong quarter and raised its outlook, as it continues to benefit from robust demand for leading-edge semiconductors. TSM’s technological leadership, which is underpinned by its scale advantages, proprietary process expertise, and decades of manufacturing experience, was evident in its strong revenue growth and expanding gross margins during the quarter. The company also increased its long-term revenue outlook, which is supported by its dominant position as a leading manufacturer of cutting-edge chips that are powering the AI revolution. As the share price appreciated and the margin of safety narrowed, we reduced our position to an average portfolio weight and reallocated capital to opportunities with a more favorable risk-reward profile.
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  • Despite the broad sell-off among large-cap growth stocks during the first quarter, three portfolio holdings demonstrated double-digit price appreciation – all within the semiconductor area. Consensus spend expectations for data center infrastructure continue to expand rapidly, particularly among the hyperscalers. During the first quarter of 2026, consensus estimates for 2026 and 2027 capital expenditures among Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Oracle(ORCL) cumulatively increased by 25% and 23% respectively, largely to support data center demand – inclusive of chips and related equipment. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSM), one of the world’s leading contract chip manufacturers and our largest active weight in the portfolio, saw both its 2026 and 2027 consensus EPS estimates climb by 15% during the first quarter driven by favorable management guidance and fundamental strength in its business.
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  • Listed in Brown Advisory Global Leaders Sustainable Fund’s reported holdings.

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  • We have had similar moments with our aerospace and travel exposed investments during COVID-19 in 2020 and one of the most uncomfortable decisions we ever made was to add to our semiconductor exposure back in 2022. We added to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSM) in November 2022.
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  • We added to our holdings in Broadcom (AVGO), GE Aerospace (GE), Netflix (NFLX) and NVIDIA (NVDA) and trimmed Intuit (INTU), Linde (LIN) and Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM).
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  • Within Information Technology, ASML Holding NV and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. were the strongest contributors
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  • March 2026
     We eliminated Uber Technologies (UBER) and trimmed Canadian National Railway (CNI), reducing the weighting in Industrials. We initiated a position in Watsco (WSO).  Our weighting in Information Technology increased during the period as we initiated positions in NVIDIA (NVDA) and SAP SE Sponsored ADR (SAP). We exited Workday (WDAY) and trimmed Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) and KLA Corporation (KLAC).
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  • Listed in Buffalo International Fund’s reported holdings.

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  • Listed in Giverny Capital Asset Management (GCAM) model portfolio’s reported holdings.

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  • Within Information Technology, ASML Holding NV and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. were the strongest contributors, while Vertiv Holdings Co. Class A and Prysmian S.p.A. also contributed positively within Industrials.
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  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing: TSM was the second-largest contributor for the quarter, gaining 11% despite significant volatility driven by the Iran conflict and associated risk- off selling in March.
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  • August 2026
    The MSCI World Semiconductors Index fell 13% driven by sharp falls in Korea and Taiwan, with notable declines in SK Hynix, Samsung and TSMC amid potential Chinese competition and unwinding leverage.
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  • August 2026
    The MSCI Taiwan Index fell by 5.4%, driven by the global sell-off in crowded AI and technology positions rather than a deterioration in corporate fundamentals. TSMC reported robust second-quarter results, raised its 2026 revenue growth guidance to more than 40% and increased its capital expenditure forecast to $60-64bn.
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  • Whilst hyperscaler capex is clearly a key focus area for markets, foundry and memory capex are becoming increasingly important in a semiconductor rally that is being driven by both supply constraints and huge AI-led demand, given the critical role of semiconductors in AI applications. The memory cycle remains highly cyclical and commoditised: when capacity is tight, pricing rises quickly; when new supply arrives too fast or demand weakens, pricing can fall just as quickly. This cycle is therefore being supported by AI-driven demand for HBM, DRAM and NAND, but also by the fact that supply cannot be added immediately. Memory player Micron has explicitly pointed to cleanroom constraints, long construction lead times and limited DRAM/NAND supply, all constraining server demand. There are now clear signals that both foundries and memory fabs are preparing to increase spending to address these bottlenecks. As shown in the first chart, expectations for FY26 fab capex have risen from $146bn in December last year to $185bn by June 2026, while the second chart shows that expected capex growth has also broadened, with total spending across the key fabs rising to 46% by October 26. The strongest upward revisions are in memory: Micron is now expected to grow capex by 159% and SK Hynix by 110%, compared to expectations before the cycle began in 2025. TSMC also stands out on the logic side, with expected capex growth rising to 42%, reflecting stronger demand for advanced foundry and packaging capacity.
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  • The primary alternative provider in this sector is TSMC, which commands the vast majority of advanced nodes globally, with estimates indicating a market share of 80% to 90% for high-volume, cutting-edge artificial intelligence silicon.
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  • Other detractors included TSMC (Information Technology), Screen Holdings (Information Technology) and Advanced Drainage Systems (Industrials).
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  • What's on Our Minds Not long ago AI development seemed a phenomenon concentrated in the US. In 2022, San Francisco-based OpenAI's release of ChatGPT ignited the generative AI boom. Nvidia, headquartered just 40 miles south in Santa Clara, became the dominant supplier of the graphics processing units (GPUs) used to train advanced AI models. From the start, however, EM companies—particularly hardware manufacturers in north Asia—have been crucial in supplying the building blocks of AI systems. Equities markets have reflected their importance: In the first half of the year, the contribution to the MSCI EM Index return from the semiconductor and technology hardware industries surpassed the overall index return. Semiconductor giants TSMC in Taiwan and Samsung Electronics and SK hynix in South Korea have all exceeded trillion-dollar market capitalizations, while Information Technology (IT) has grown to nearly half of the index.
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  • ASML has benefited from a related but distinct dynamic. For some time, leading edge EUV tools looked like a two-buyer market: only TSMC and Samsung could afford to purchase at the scale required.
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  • June 2026
    Given the deliberate restrictions and discipline of where we invest, the two and three year numbers are more acceptable and have been created with a fraction of the volatility of many other funds and wider indices from a long only, ungeared, unhedged portfolio. At this stage, any mild disappointment is not from major business or valuation errors within the portfolio but from omission. Not just in memory chips where Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) is within our universe of controlled companies. We attended a fabulous morning debate on the industry with back-to-back presentations1 on Micron Technologies (MU), TSMC and ASML
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  • In particular, stock selection in the communication services, health care and industrials sectors, overweights to the communication services and materials sectors and an underweight to the IT sector weighed on results. On the positive side, stock selection in the IT, consumer discretionary and consumer staples sectors, along with an underweight to consumer staples, contributed to performance. On an individual stock basis, the largest relative detractors included Netflix and Intuitive Surgical as well as not holding Advanced Micro Devices, Lam Research and KLA. The largest relative contributors were Palo Alto Networks, ASML, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Datadog and an underweight to Microsoft.
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  • WFE supercycle In recent months, investors have come around to the view that there will be a WFE “supercycle” over the next several years, driven by unprecedented leading edge logic and memory (DRAM) capacity expansion. TSMC raised its 2026 capex guide to the high end of the $52-56 billion range and disclosed that capex over the next three years will be “significantly higher” than the past three years ($101 billion).
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  • Elsewhere, Asia and emerging markets delivered some prolific returns, driven in particular by Korean and Taiwanese indices, which hit record highs. This reflected the performance of AI- related hardware stocks, including SK Hynix, Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC).
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  • TSMC will continue to benefit from the compute needs of data centers providing training and inference for agentic AI.
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  • Investment Perspectives Market The MSCI ACWI ex US Index returned 5%. Emerging Markets gained 10%, led by South Korea (+35%) and Taiwan (+17%). These gains reflect the continued strength in the Information Technology (IT) sector, which rose 24% as shares of AI-related semiconductor and hardware companies advanced, including ASML in the Netherlands, TSMC in Taiwan, and South Korean index heavyweights SK hynix and Samsung Electronics.
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  • May 2026

    Named in a table in HL Global Equity’s letter.

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