Vulcan Value Partners Q3 2025 Letter

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Our outcomes are detailed within the desk beneath. As we now have typically stated, we place no weight on short-term outcomes, good or dangerous. After we suppose we are able to enhance our potential long-term returns and decrease danger, we’ll make these choices with out regard to their impact on short-term efficiency.

INVESTMENT STRATEGY	QTD	YTD	Annualized Since Inception*
Giant Cap Composite (Gross)	4.7%	10.0%	10.6%
Giant Cap Composite (Internet)	4.6%	9.5%	9.8%
Russell 1000 Worth Index	5.3%	11.7%	7.6%
S&P 500 Index	8.1%	14.8%	10.9%
Small Cap Composite (Gross)	4.3%	6.6%	8.3%
Small Cap Composite (Internet)	4.1%	6.1%	7.3%
Russell 2000 Worth Index	12.6%	9.0%	6.5%
Russell 2000 Index	12.4%	10.4%	7.7%
Focus Composite (Gross)	3.8%	7.3%	14.5%
Focus Composite (Internet)	3.7%	7.0%	13.5%
Russell 1000 Worth Index	5.3%	11.7%	7.9%
S&P 500 Index	8.1%	14.8%	10.9%
Focus Plus Composite (Gross)	3.8%	7.2%	14.1%
Focus Plus Composite (Internet)	3.7%	6.1%	12.9%
Russell 1000 Worth Index	5.3%	11.7%	7.6%
S&P 500 Index	8.1%	14.8%	10.9%
All Cap Composite (Gross)	5.7%	9.9%	11.2%
All Cap Composite (Internet)	5.5%	9.3%	10.3%
Russell 3000 Worth Index	5.6%	11.5%	10.2%
Russell 3000 Index	8.2%	14.4%	13.4%

*Inception date is 3/31/2007 for Giant Cap, Small Cap, and Focus Plus Composites. Inception date is 11/30/2007 for Focus Composite. Inception date is 4/1/2011 for All Cap Composite. Previous efficiency isn’t any assure of future outcomes. Please see vital disclosures on the finish of this doc.

Please reference further efficiency data for every of the composites within the technique opinions that observe and vital disclosures on the finish of this doc.

Within the dialogue that follows, we typically outline materials contributors and detractors as corporations having a better than 1% influence on the portfolio and needs to be seen in context with the efficiency data offered for every technique. With respect to the dialogue of contributors and detractors or the efficiency of any particular person holding proven right here, no particular person funding is meant to be consultant of any explicit technique. For an entire understanding, please see the efficiency and accompanying disclosures on the finish of this letter.

We finish the third quarter of 2025 feeling excellent about our portfolios. Absolute efficiency is optimistic in all methods. Relative efficiency has lagged. Extra importantly, the person companies we personal are, within the mixture, performing properly essentially. Our values are compounding and plenty of of our corporations are repurchasing their shares that each we and so they consider are undervalued, which is additive to our price per share progress.

Inventory worth volatility spiked earlier within the 12 months primarily attributable to tariff associated issues. We took benefit of that volatility and allotted capital to what we consider are secure worth corporations at engaging worth to worth ratios. Since then, a variety of these companies have seen significant inventory worth appreciation whereas a number of particular person corporations have seen vital inventory worth declines in a recovering market. We’ve reallocated capital from our greater worth to worth ratio shares into these extra discounted corporations. All of our portfolios have skilled optimistic absolute returns 12 months so far. Regardless of these returns, we now have improved the value to worth ratios for all of our portfolios this 12 months. We’re very happy with this end result.

In a world the place we see particular person corporations that we predict are overvalued and top-down metrics indicate that “the market” is, on the very least, not low cost, it’s gratifying to personal excellent companies that we consider have substantial margins of security. Focus and Focus Plus are our “most costly” portfolios with worth to worth ratios within the higher 60s, which we view as being very engaging. Our most discounted portfolio stays Small Cap, with a worth to worth ratio within the mid 50s. All of our portfolios are absolutely invested and we now have a significant bench of discounted corporations on our MVP record.

Whereas none of those measures affect short-term efficiency, they do imply that we get pleasure from a margin of security, which lowers danger and improves our long-term potential returns.

Sincerely,

C.T. Fitzpatrick, CFA

Giant Cap Evaluation

As of 9/30/2025

INVESTMENT STRATEGY	QTD	YTD	1 YEAR	3 YEAR	5 YEAR	10 YEAR	Since Inception
Giant Cap Composite (Gross)	4.7%	10.0%	10.1%	26.3%	10.9%	11.4%	10.6%
Giant Cap Composite (Internet)	4.6%	9.5%	9.4%	25.5%	10.3%	10.8%	9.8%
Russell 1000 Worth Index	5.3%	11.7%	9.4%	16.9%	13.9%	10.7%	7.6%
S&P 500 Index	8.1%	14.8%	17.6%	24.9%	16.5%	15.3%	10.9%

Inception 03/31/2007

We bought one new place in the course of the quarter: Fiserv Inc. (FI)

We offered one place in the course of the quarter: CBRE Group Inc. (CBRE)

There have been two materials contributors to efficiency: Medpace Holdings Inc. (MEDP) and Alphabet Inc. (GOOG)(GOOGL)

There was one materials detractor to efficiency: CarMax Inc. (KMX)

Fiserv Inc. is an organization we now have efficiently owned a number of occasions previously. It’s a world funds options and monetary providers supplier. The enterprise consists of two segments: service provider options and monetary options. Every of those segments gives important services and products to its clients. Fiserv’s merchandise have excessive switching prices, which aids in buyer retention and will increase the stickiness of their income. The corporate expects to generate over $5 billion of free money move this 12 months. The corporate is utilizing its free money move to repurchase its discounted shares, which will increase our price per share progress. Fiserv inventory has declined meaningfully since we offered it earlier this 12 months. Our worth has remained secure. We’re happy to have the ability to personal this glorious enterprise with a considerable margin of security as soon as once more.

CBRE Group Inc. was a superb funding for us. Because the world’s largest industrial actual property providers firm, CBRE has a market-leading place in leasing and property gross sales brokerage. It additionally has a big and rising recurring enterprise, which incorporates services administration, undertaking administration, and funding administration. These companies present earnings stability throughout cyclical downturns in industrial actual property transactions. CBRE additionally advantages from strong diversification throughout asset lessons, together with workplace, industrial & logistics, life sciences, retail, and multifamily. We bought shares in June 2022 at peak concern relating to the way forward for the workplace attributable to distant work, rising rates of interest, and a weakening economic system. Since then, less-transactional segments have continued to see robust progress, and leasing has largely recovered. Whereas property gross sales stay beneath pre-COVID ranges, CBRE expects its core EPS to realize a brand new file in 2025. CBRE’s worth grew over the course of our possession, however its share worth rose quicker, and we reallocated capital to extra discounted companies.

Medpace reported robust leads to the second quarter. The corporate’s income grew at a mid-teens charge whereas working earnings had been up 20% 12 months over 12 months. The administration crew took benefit of the corporate’s share worth weak spot all through the quarter by repurchasing practically 6% of the excellent shares. Importantly, Medpace considerably elevated its outlook for income and earnings for the complete 12 months. The mix of a greater biotech funding setting, fewer cancellations, and quicker consumer choice making (amongst different optimistic developments) is now positioning the corporate to drive accelerated progress. This can be a notable change from our prior expectation for 2025. Increased working earnings and a meaningfully decrease share rely has led to a big enhance in our price per share estimate. Throughout the quarter, the share worth rose quicker than our price and following our self-discipline we trimmed the place and reallocated capital to extra discounted companies. Immediately, Medpace’s place measurement within the portfolio is in keeping with its worth to worth ratio. We proceed to be impressed with the corporate’s efficiency, and much more enthusiastic about its prospects.

Alphabet delivered robust outcomes throughout its second fiscal quarter. In early September, Alphabet acquired a good treatments choice within the case introduced by the Division of Justice regarding Alphabet’s default distribution agreements with unique gear producers, browser builders, and wi-fi carriers. The treatments choice from early September and the court docket’s August 2024 ruling that Alphabet violated Part 2 of the Sherman Act are each nonetheless topic to enchantment. Nevertheless, we consider that the treatments choice issued in early September alleviates sure outsized danger to Alphabet’s enterprise mannequin. We proceed to observe the AI disruption dangers and the continuing antitrust circumstances in opposition to the corporate. We’ll observe our self-discipline as we obtain extra data.

CarMax is the most important used automobile retailer within the U.S. The corporate additionally has the third largest wholesale enterprise within the U.S. and a big captive finance enterprise. The used automobile business remains to be feeling the results of COVID and the ensuing inflation. This was evident in CarMax’s second quarter outcomes, throughout which the corporate’s retail volumes declined by 5%. The weak quantity efficiency within the quarter was because of the continued irregular volatility in used automobile costs in addition to demand that had been pulled ahead into the primary quarter as customers reacted in anticipation of the early April tariff bulletins. On a year-to-date foundation via the second quarter, CarMax’s volumes and earnings are each up 12 months over 12 months. Though the used automobile market and CarMax’s outcomes could stay bumpy within the short-term, we consider CarMax is an excellent enterprise with favorable long-term prospects. We consider that CarMax’s buyer expertise, model, scale, vertical integration, and omnichannel method are aggressive benefits that can allow them to proceed taking market share in a extremely fragmented market. Whereas the corporate is presently beneath incomes, we consider it’s properly positioned to develop volumes, leverage fastened prices, and considerably enhance earnings because the market normalizes. The corporate has a stable stability sheet, produces vital free money move, and is presently shopping for again shares. Our worth stays secure. We adopted our self-discipline and added to the place.

Small Cap Evaluation

As of 9/30/2025

INVESTMENT STRATEGY	QTD	YTD	1 YEAR	3 YEAR	5 YEAR	10 YEAR	Since Inception
VVP Small Cap (Gross)	4.3%	6.6%	-1.0%	13.6%	9.1%	6.4%	8.3%
VVP Small Cap (Internet)	4.1%	6.1%	-1.7%	12.8%	8.3%	5.5%	7.3%
Russell 2000 Worth Index	12.6%	9.0%	7.9%	13.5%	14.6%	9.2%	6.5%
Russell 2000 Index	12.4%	10.4%	10.8%	15.2%	11.6%	9.8%	7.7%

Inception 03/31/2007

We didn’t buy any positions in the course of the quarter.

We didn’t promote any positions in the course of the quarter.

There was one materials contributor to efficiency: Medpace Holdings Inc.

There was one materials detractor to efficiency: CarMax Inc.

Focus Evaluation

As of 9/30/2025

INVESTMENT STRATEGY	QTD	YTD	1 YEAR	3 YEAR	5 YEAR	10 YEAR	Since Inception
VVP Focus (Gross)	3.8%	7.3%	14.2%	32.2%	17.5%	18.3%	14.5%
VVP Focus (Internet)	3.7%	7.0%	13.8%	31.7%	17.0%	17.6%	13.5%
Russell 1000 Worth Index	5.3%	11.7%	9.4%	16.9%	13.9%	10.7%	7.9%
S&P 500 Index	8.1%	14.8%	17.6%	24.9%	16.5%	15.3%	10.9%

Inception 11/30/2007

We didn’t buy any positions in the course of the quarter.

We didn’t promote any positions in the course of the quarter.

There was one materials contributor to efficiency: Alphabet Inc.

There was one materials detractor to efficiency: Salesforce Inc. (CRM)

Salesforce is the world’s main SaaS vendor for buyer relationship administration (CRM) and salesforce automation (SFA) software program, together with AI brokers. Salesforce gives many different merchandise together with software program for advertising and marketing automation, customer support automation, analytics, software integration, and enterprise collaboration amongst others. Development steerage for the upcoming quarter was barely decrease than anticipated main some buyers to query whether or not Salesforce’s progress was slowing and AI investments weren’t bearing fruit. These questions have been amplified by a bearish business narrative that AI will take market share from enterprise software program corporations like Salesforce. We consider the corporate is poised for sustained progress and can really profit from AI. Salesforce’s software program is deeply embedded within the enterprise. The corporate is increasing its product suite with a number of cloud choices, proprietary knowledge, and an emphasis on being an AI innovation chief. As well as, its clients would reasonably concentrate on working their companies as a substitute of designing, testing, sustaining, and securing inside AI merchandise in an ever-evolving panorama. Salesforce is deeply entrenched inside its buyer base, has excessive retention, excessive recurring income, and is a really scalable enterprise with excessive margin potential. Salesforce is dominant throughout its choices and is continually innovating with new merchandise like Agentforce to deepen buyer relationships and develop the enterprise.

Focus Plus Evaluation

As of 9/30/2025

INVESTMENT STRATEGY	QTD	YTD	1 YEAR	3 YEAR	5 YEAR	10 YEAR	Since Inception
VVP Focus Plus (Gross)	3.8%	7.2%	15.2%	32.9%	17.8%	18.5%	14.1%
VVP Focus Plus (Internet)	3.7%	6.1%	14.0%	31.6%	16.7%	17.5%	12.9%
Russell 1000 Worth Index	5.3%	11.7%	9.4%	16.9%	13.9%	10.7%	7.6%
S&P 500 Index	8.1%	14.8%	17.6%	24.9%	16.5%	15.3%	10.9%

Inception 03/31/2007

We didn’t write any choices contracts in the course of the quarter. We use choices to decrease danger. Fairness-like returns are attainable when possibility costs mirror greater ranges of implied volatility. If exercised, these choices give us the fitting to buy stakes in corporations we wish to personal at a lower cost than the market worth on the time the choice was written. We want for these choices to be exercised and have put aside money for that goal. We make use of no leverage. In impact, we’re being paid whereas we look forward to decrease costs and a corresponding bigger margin of security. We additionally use choices to exit positions. Typically, we write coated calls with the strike worth being our estimate of honest worth. As with our places, we’re being paid to do one thing we’d do anyway at a given worth.

We didn’t buy any positions in the course of the quarter.

We didn’t promote any positions in the course of the quarter.

There have been two materials contributors to efficiency: Alphabet Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH)

There was one materials detractor to efficiency: Salesforce Inc.

As a reminder, we bought UnitedHealth Group within the second quarter after its inventory had declined from roughly $600 per share to beneath $300 per share. Our estimated worth remained secure. In late July, UnitedHealth Group issued its revised 2025 monetary steerage which was poorly acquired by the market. Throughout the second week of September, UnitedHealth Group made a number of bulletins that had been positively acquired by buyers. The corporate reaffirmed its 2025 steerage. It additionally disclosed that based mostly on preliminary evaluation, 78% of its Medicare Benefit membership will probably be in 4 star or greater plans for Star Yr 2026/Fee Yr 2027, which is in keeping with historic efficiency.

All Cap Evaluation

As of 9/30/2025

INVESTMENT STRATEGY	QTD	YTD	1 YEAR	3 YEAR	5 YEAR	10 YEAR	Since Inception
VVP All Cap (Gross)	5.7%	9.9%	7.4%	23.8%	10.1%	10.4%	11.2%
VVP All Cap (Internet)	5.5%	9.3%	6.6%	22.9%	9.3%	9.5%	10.3%
Russell 3000 Worth Index	5.6%	11.5%	9.3%	16.7%	13.9%	10.6%	10.2%
Russell 3000 Index	8.2%	14.4%	17.4%	24.1%	15.7%	14.7%	13.4%

Inception 04/01/2011

We bought one new place in the course of the quarter: Fiserv, Inc.

We offered two positions in the course of the quarter: Sealed Air Corp (SEE) and Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. (JLL)

There have been two materials contributors to efficiency: Medpace Holdings Inc. and Alphabet Inc.

There have been no materials detractors to efficiency.

Fiserv Inc. is an organization we now have efficiently owned a number of occasions previously. It’s a world funds options and monetary providers supplier. The enterprise consists of two segments: service provider options and monetary options. Every of those segments gives important services and products to its clients. Fiserv’s merchandise have excessive switching prices, which aids in buyer retention and will increase the stickiness of their revenues. The corporate expects to generate over $5 billion of free money move this 12 months. The corporate is utilizing its free money move to repurchase its discounted shares, which will increase our price per share progress, Fiserv inventory has declined meaningfully since we offered it earlier this 12 months. Our worth has remained secure. We’re happy to have the ability to personal this glorious enterprise with a considerable margin of security as soon as once more.

We offered Sealed Air Corp and Jones Lang LaSalle as a way to allocate capital to extra discounted corporations. Each stay on our MVP record and we nonetheless personal Sealed Air Corp in our small cap portfolio and Jones Lang LaSalle in our small and enormous cap methods.

Closing

We’re very pleased with the work our analysis crew has finished this 12 months. We’ve finished a superb job of sustaining our MVP record and reacting rapidly to alternatives created by inventory worth volatility. We’re additionally grateful for you, our consumer companions. Your long-term time horizon permits us to execute our funding philosophy. The mix could be very highly effective and provides us a aggressive benefit within the market.

We hope that you simply benefit from the altering seasons and look ahead to updating you within the New Yr.

The Vulcan Worth Companions Funding Group,

C.T. Fitzpatrick, CFA

Stephen W. Simmons, CFA

Colin Casey

Taylor Cline, CFA

David Shelton

Vital Definitions

*These definitions needs to be referenced within the context of Vulcan commentary and don’t essentially characterize the meanings which are utilized in all contexts.

Disclosures

Vulcan Worth Companions LLC is an funding advisor registered with the Securities and Change Fee beneath the Funding Advisers Act of 1940. Registration doesn’t indicate a sure degree of talent or coaching. The efficiency offered is for our Giant Cap Composite, Focus Composite, Focus Plus Composite, Small Cap Composite, and All Cap Composite. The mannequin composite portfolio efficiency figures mirror the deduction of brokerage or different commissions and the reinvestment of dividends and capital beneficial properties. We’ve offered returns gross and web of charges. Gross of charges returns are calculated gross of administration and custodial charges and web of transaction prices. Internet of charges returns are calculated web of administration charges and transaction prices and gross of custodian charges, taken on the highest relevant charge. The efficiency figures don’t mirror the deduction of any taxes an investor may pay on distributions or redemptions. Our normal charges are offered in Half 2 of our ADV.

Opinions and views expressed represent the judgment of Vulcan Worth Companions as of the date proven and should contain a variety of assumptions and estimates which aren’t assured and topic to alter with out discover. No illustration is being made with respect to their accuracy on any future date. Though the knowledge and any opinions or views given have been obtained from or based mostly on sources believed to be dependable, no guarantee or illustration is made as to their correctness, completeness or accuracy. Opinions, estimates, forecasts, and statements of economic market developments which are based mostly on present market situations represent our judgment and are topic to alter with out discover, together with any forward-looking estimates or statements that are based mostly on sure expectations and assumptions. The views and methods described is probably not appropriate for all shoppers. This doc doesn’t establish all of the dangers (direct or oblique) or different concerns which is likely to be materials when getting into any monetary transaction.

Vulcan focuses on long-term capital appreciation; buying publicly-traded corporations that we consider are competitively entrenched and emphasize a margin of security by way of worth as in comparison with our estimation of their intrinsic worth. Worth is our estimate of the intrinsic price of an organization based mostly on our evaluation of sure quantitative and qualitative components. Vulcan defines danger discount as lowering the portfolio’s worth to worth ratio by both shopping for (or including to current positions) prime quality corporations that are buying and selling properly beneath honest worth as estimated by Vulcan or promoting positions that are buying and selling at or close to their honest values.

References to particular securities, asset lessons and monetary markets are for illustrative functions solely and usually are not supposed to be, and shouldn’t be interpreted as, suggestions. There isn’t any assurance that any securities mentioned herein will stay within the composite or that the securities offered won’t be repurchased. The particular securities recognized and described usually are not consultant of all of the securities bought, offered, or really helpful for consumer accounts. Precise holdings could range for every consumer and there’s no assure {that a} explicit consumer’s account will maintain all the securities described. The securities mentioned don’t characterize the composite’s total portfolio. It shouldn’t be assumed that any of the securities transactions or holdings mentioned will show to be worthwhile, or that the funding suggestions or choices we make sooner or later will probably be worthwhile or will equal the funding efficiency of the securities mentioned herein. There could also be market or financial situations which have an effect on our efficiency, or that of our related benchmarks, which will have modified Vulcan Worth Companions’ views relating to the prospects of any explicit funding. It shouldn’t be assumed that suggestions made sooner or later will probably be worthwhile or will equal the efficiency of the securities mentioned on this letter. Vulcan buys concentrated positions for our portfolios, at occasions averaging 5% in our mannequin portfolios, which can make our efficiency extra unstable than that of our benchmark indices, and our efficiency could diverge from an index, positively or negatively, in consequence. Our focus is on long-term capital appreciation, so our shoppers ought to think about at the very least a 5 12 months time horizon for an funding with Vulcan.

The S&P 500 Index is an unmanaged index of 500 frequent shares chosen for market measurement, liquidity, and business group illustration. It’s a market-value weighted index. The Russell 1000® Worth Index measures the efficiency of the big cap worth section of the U.S. fairness universe. It consists of these Russell 1000 corporations with decrease price-to-book ratios and decrease anticipated progress values. The Russell 2000® Index consists of the 2000 companies from the Russell 3000® Index with the smallest market capitalizations. The Russell 2000® Worth Index measures the efficiency of these Russell 2000 corporations with decrease price-to-book ratios and decrease forecasted progress values. Index figures don’t mirror deductions for any charges, bills, or taxes. Traders can not make investments straight in an index.

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Giant Cap Composite Info: This portfolio technique invests in corporations with bigger market capitalizations. Topic to cost, any publicly traded firm with above common economics that’s too massive to be included in our small capitalization composite could be a possible funding on this portfolio. A core place is 5% in order that theoretically our shoppers would maintain 20 names diversified throughout numerous industries. It is extremely uncommon that sufficient corporations are sufficiently discounted to warrant this degree of focus so focus will range with the value to worth ratio. We’ll make investments consumer property in positions as small as 1% when worth to worth ratios are greater. We won’t make investments consumer property in any enterprise that’s buying and selling above our estimate of honest worth. The composite benchmark is the S&P 500 which is an index of 500 shares chosen based mostly on market measurement, liquidity, and sector and is designed to offer a broad snapshot of the general U.S. fairness market. New accounts that match the composite definition are added initially of the primary full calendar month for which the account is beneath administration. Closed account knowledge is included within the composite as mandated by the requirements as a way to remove a survivorship bias. The composite was created on March 31, 2007. Portfolios beneath the minimal asset degree of $50,000 usually are not included within the composite.

Focus Composite Info: This portfolio technique invests in corporations with bigger market capitalizations. Topic to cost, any publicly traded firm with above common economics that’s too massive to be included in our small capitalization composite could be a possible funding on this portfolio. This can be a very concentrated portfolio holding between seven and fourteen positions. We won’t make investments consumer property in any enterprise that’s buying and selling above our estimate of honest worth. The composite benchmark is the S&P 500 which is an index of 500 shares chosen based mostly on market measurement, liquidity, and sector and is designed to offer a broad snapshot of the general U.S. fairness market. New accounts that match the composite definition are added initially of the primary full calendar month for which the account is beneath administration. Closed account knowledge is included within the composite as mandated by the requirements as a way to remove a survivorship bias. The composite was created on November 30, 2007. Portfolios beneath the minimal asset degree of $50,000 usually are not included within the composite.

Focus Plus Composite Info: This portfolio technique invests in corporations with bigger market capitalizations. Topic to cost, any publicly traded firm with above common economics that’s too massive to be included in our small capitalization composite could be a possible funding on this portfolio. This can be a very concentrated portfolio holding between seven and fourteen positions. We’ll use choices as a substitute of restrict orders to accumulate and/or promote the inventory. We don’t intend to make use of any leverage, however will make the most of choices to promote volatility when it’s costly and purchase volatility when it’s low cost. We’ll concentrate on choices which give our shoppers the fitting to purchase or promote inventory in corporations at costs that we’d purchase or promote anyway, and we’ll generate income via possibility premiums. Typically, we plan to make use of choices as a substitute of shopping for inventory straight after we can earn double digit returns from promoting choices. We solely intend to buy choices beneath uncommon circumstances, and to proceed to concentrate on lowering danger via the acquisition of qualifying corporations at engaging costs. We won’t make investments consumer property in any enterprise that’s buying and selling above our estimate of honest worth. The composite benchmark is the S&P 500 which is an index of 500 shares chosen based mostly on market measurement, liquidity, and sector and is designed to offer a broad snapshot of the general U.S. fairness market. New accounts that match the composite definition are added initially of the primary full calendar month for which the account is beneath administration. Closed account knowledge is included within the composite as mandated by the requirements as a way to remove a survivorship bias. The composite was created on March 31, 2007. Portfolios beneath the minimal asset degree of $50,000 usually are not included within the composite.

Small Cap Composite Info: This portfolio technique invests in corporations with smaller market capitalizations. Topic to cost, any publicly traded firm with above common economics that isn’t “massive” could be a possible funding on this portfolio. Whereas we don’t have any outlined cutoffs, we use the Russell 2000 as a information to outline small cap, and any small publicly traded firm with affordable economics could be a possible funding on this portfolio. A core place is 5% in order that theoretically our shoppers would maintain 20 names diversified throughout numerous industries. It is extremely uncommon that sufficient corporations are sufficiently discounted to warrant this degree of focus so focus will range with the value to worth ratio. We’ll make investments consumer property in positions as small as 1% when worth to worth ratios are greater. We won’t make investments consumer property in any enterprise that’s buying and selling above our estimate of honest worth. The composite benchmark is the Russell 2000 Index which measures the efficiency of the small-cap section of the U.S. Fairness universe and consists of roughly 2,000 of the smallest securities based mostly on a mixture of their market cap and present index membership. New accounts that f it the composite definition are added initially of the primary full calendar month for which the account is beneath administration. Closed account knowledge is included within the composite as mandated by the requirements as a way to remove a survivorship bias. The composite was created on March 31, 2007. Portfolios beneath the minimal asset degree of $50,000 usually are not included within the composite.

All Cap Composite Info: This portfolio technique invests in corporations throughout all market capitalizations. Typically, positions held on this technique can even be held in both the Giant Cap or Small Cap methods, although typically with differing weights. As with these methods, a core place on this portfolio is 5% in order that theoretically we’d maintain 20 positions diversified throughout numerous industries. As a result of it’s uncommon that we’d discover 20 corporations assembly our funding pointers, focus will range with the value to worth ratios we decide for corporations wherein we make investments. We’ll make investments consumer property in positions as small as 1% when worth to worth ratios are greater. We won’t make investments consumer property in any enterprise that’s buying and selling above our estimate of honest worth. The composite benchmark is the Russell 3000 Index which measures the efficiency of the most important 3000 US corporations representing roughly 98% of the investable US Fairness market. New accounts that match the composite definition are added initially of the primary full calendar month for which the account is beneath administration. Closed account knowledge is included within the composite as mandated by the requirements as a way to remove a survivorship bias. The composite was created on April 1, 2011. Portfolios beneath the minimal asset degree of $50,000 usually are not included within the composite. All returns are expressed in US {dollars}.

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