Carmignac Portfolio Tech Solutions: Letter from the Fund Manager - Q4 2025
During the fourth quarter of 2025, Carmignac Portfolio Tech Solutions delivered a strong return of +7.66%, outperforming its reference indicator, which gained +4.12%. In 2025, the Fund achieved a strong performance both in absolute and relative terms, returning +29.41%, compared to +14.76% for its reference indicator.
Market environment
In 2025, equity markets delivered solid overall gains despite a volatile start to the year. The early months were marked by uncertainty surrounding Chinese competition in artificial intelligence (AI), trade tensions, and the timing of interest-rate cuts, triggering episodes of sharp but short-lived sell-offs. From the April lows, markets rebounded strongly through year-end, supported by resilient global growth, fiscal stimulus announcements across several regions, and interest-rate cuts by major central banks, all of which boosted valuations and risk appetite.
U.S. markets remained buoyant throughout the year, underpinned by continued enthusiasm around AI. This momentum was sustained by significant investments from hyperscalers, robust corporate earnings, and a surge in deals and partnerships across the infrastructure and cloud computing sectors.
European and Emerging Markets outperformed U.S. equities. In Europe, declining inflation, improving macroeconomic conditions, and the announcement of a German fiscal stimulus package supported equity performance. Emerging Markets benefited from a weakening U.S. dollar and renewed investor interest. Notably, Taiwan and South Korea posted strong gains, driven by their exposure to the semiconductor sector and, in South Korea’s case, post-election optimism.
How did we fare in this context?
Over the fourth quarter, stock selection was once again the largest driver of outperformance. In the Tech Materials space, our exposure to Taiwanese and South Korean semiconductors took the lead. Both TSMC and SK Hynix were among our top contributors as they are large suppliers in the manufacturing of chips and the wider AI ecosystem.
Performance in both the fourth and third quarters was consistent and demonstrated how we have been able to deliver strong outperformance during 2025.
In 2025, we saw a few highlights across the technology / AI value chain. Not only have we seen strong performance in the Tech Materials space with names like TSMC and SK Hynix, but also with other components of the AI value chain like Elite Materials, the Taiwanese company that produces the copper clad laminates for circuit boards. The stock price was up over 150% over the year.
Over the year we have also benefitted from our stock selection in names in Industrial Tech & Infrastructure, connectivity and networking space as well as contract manufacturers like Amphenol and Celestica. Our holdings in data centre related names were also strong with Comfort Systems one of our top contributors, which specializes in data centre construction and maintenance. In the fourth quarter we exited both Celestica and Comfort Systems due to valuation concerns.
Cloud & Software was an area we had mixed returns in. nevertheless, Alphabet was our largest performance driver there. The company went from being written off by the market as an AI loser, to becoming an AI winner with the successful release of Gemini and the success of their TPU enabling machine-learning models -which run faster and more efficiently. They have demonstrated innovation and strong execution in the AI space, proving to be a credible competitor to the likes of Microsoft and their support of ChatGPT, but also Nvidia in the Infrastructure space. While overlooked versus the other Magnificent Seven’s earlier in the year, Alphabet posted the strongest performance among them.
Outlook
Looking ahead to 2026, we expect market dispersion to increase further, both within the technology sector and relative to the broader equity market, as faster and increasingly reversible investor arbitrage amplifies volatility. In this environment, performance will depend on being positioned on the right side of disruption, including cases of internal disruption within the technology complex, particularly in hardware. We are therefore becoming more selective in our AI hardware exposure, focusing on high-quality companies that benefit from the ongoing capex cycle without facing excessive pressure on free cash flow or profitability from overly aggressive investment plans. We also prioritise companies that are relatively immune to internal technological disruption while still offering valuations that remain reasonable relative to their growth prospects. Within this framework, SK Hynix and TSMC continue to stand out as attractive long-term opportunities.
At the same time, we are building exposure to companies that are, in our view, wrongly perceived as AI casualties, particularly within software. While AI implementation is advancing rapidly in specific areas such as coding, we believe that, for most enterprises, AI will be deployed on top of existing software stacks and that adoption will remain gradual rather than disruptive in the near term. This underpins our increased exposure to established software platforms such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, GitLab and Atlassian, a positioning that currently remains contrarian relative to prevailing market sentiment.
1MSCI AC World Information Technology 10/40 Capped NR index.
2Equity Sector Technology.
3Fund launched on 21/06/2024.
Carmignac Portfolio Tech Solutions
Carmignac Portfolio Tech Solutions F EUR ACC
- Periodo minimo di investimento consigliato
- 5 anni
- Livello di rischio*
- 5/7
- Classificazione SFDR**
- Articolo 9
*Scala di Rischio del KID (documento contenente le informazioni chiave). Il rischio 1 non significa che l'investimento sia privo di rischio. Questo indicatore può evolvere nel tempo. **Regolamento SFDR (Regolamento relativo all’informativa sulla sostenibilità nel settore dei servizi finanziari) 2019/2088. La classificazione SFDR dei Fondi può evolvere nel tempo.
Principali rischi del Fondo
Costi
- Costi di ingresso
- Non addebitiamo una commissione di ingresso.
- Costi di uscita
- Non addebitiamo una commissione di uscita per questo prodotto.
- Commissioni di gestione e altri costi amministrativi o di esercizio
- 1,15% del valore dell'investimento all'anno. Si tratta di una stima basata sui costi effettivi dell'ultimo anno.
- Commissioni di performance
- 20,00% quando la classe di azioni supera l'Indicatore di riferimento durante il periodo di performance. Sarà pagabile anche nel caso in cui la classe di azioni abbia sovraperformato l'indice di riferimento ma abbia avuto una performance negativa. La sottoperformance viene recuperata per 5 anni. L'importo effettivo varierà a seconda del rendimento del tuo investimento. La stima dei costi aggregati di cui sopra include la media degli ultimi 5 anni o dalla creazione del prodotto se inferiore a 5 anni.
- Costi di transazione
- 0,35% del valore dell'investimento all'anno. Si tratta di una stima dei costi sostenuti per l'acquisto e la vendita degli investimenti sottostanti per il prodotto. L'importo effettivo varierà a seconda dell'importo che viene acquistato e venduto.
Performance
| Carmignac Portfolio Tech Solutions | +29,4 | +6,5 |
| Indice di riferimento | +14,8 | +7,5 |
| Carmignac Portfolio Tech Solutions | +29,4% | - | +23,3% |
| Indice di riferimento | +14,8% | - | +14,8% |
Fonte: Carmignac al 31 dic 2025.
Data primo NAV : 21/06/2024.
Le performance passate non sono un'indicazione delle performance future. Le performance sono calcolate al netto delle spese (escluse eventuali commissioni di ingresso applicate dal distributore). L'investimento nel Fondo potrebbe comportare un rischio di perdita di capitale.
Il rendimento può aumentare o diminuire a causa delle fluttuazioni valutarie, per le azioni non coperte da copertura valutaria.
Indice di riferimento: MSCI AC World Information Technology 10/40 Capped NR index