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"13F equity value" = market value of this filer's US-listed long equity positions only. It excludes cash, bonds, non-US and short positions, so it understates a fund's true assets under management — often by a lot.
13F holdings are disclosed ~45 days after quarter-end, and they never reveal when within the quarter a fund actually bought. So any 13F-based summary is structurally late and blurred — this applies to every fund, including this one.
We backtested copying it. Buying this fund's new positions the day each filing went public, over 8 quarters, returned +11.9% per quarter versus +4.0% from owning every 13F stock, beating that baseline in 87.5% of quarters (excess t = 2.14, statistically significant). Caveat: across all 5,072 funds we tested, past performance shows near-zero persistence (rank correlation −0.018) — with thousands of funds, some will look significant by chance alone.
Quarterly compounding, invested quarters only · entry 47 days after quarter-end (when 13F data becomes public)
Top 20 holdings of 70 · 2026 Q1
| Ticker | Value | Weight | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| EEM | $117M | | ADD |
| EFA | $101M | | ADD |
| HOL | $91M | | ADD |
| EA | $69M | | TRIM |
| PBR/A | $59M | | NEW |
| AAUC | $51M | | NEW |
| EWZ | $36M | | ADD |
| EWC | $30M | | NEW |
| EWA | $27M | | NEW |
| PAM | $25M | | ADD |
| EMLC | $22M | | NEW |
| WBS | $21M | | NEW |
| APLS | $18M | | NEW |
| MELI | $17M | | NEW |
| CWAN | $17M | | NEW |
| KVUE | $16M | | NEW |
| UNF | $15M | | NEW |
| NU | $14M | | ADD |
| TERN | $12M | | NEW |
| PAGS | $12M | | ADD |
QoQ vs previous quarter's share count · NEW = new position · ADD/TRIM = ±2% shares · HOLD = unchanged.
New positions in 2026 Q1
Method & Limitations
Method: a "new position" = held this quarter, absent last quarter (options excluded; stocks with <50 prior holders excluded to filter spin-off artifacts). Entry 47 days after quarter-end — the first day the public could act on the filing. Benchmark = equal-weighted universe of all 13F-held stocks. Limitations: quarterly snapshots can't see intra-quarter trades; survivorship bias — funds that shut down are absent, which flatters the sample. Statistics, not advice.