
Carmignac Portfolio Tech Solutions: Letter from the Fund Manager - Q2 2025
During the second quarter of 2025, Carmignac Portfolio Tech Solutions (F EUR Acc) delivered a robust return of +22.5%, significantly outperforming its reference indicator, which posted a gain of +14.5%. Year-to-date, the Fund has achieved a positive performance of +3.9%, in contrast to a -1.4% decline recorded by its reference indicator.
Market environment
The second quarter was characterized by heightened volatility, with a sharp drawdown, a swift rebound, and record-setting highs.
Markets opened the quarter under pressure after the announcement on April 2 by President Trump regarding broad tariffs. The move triggered a sharp selloff, pushing U.S. equities into bear market territory, with declines exceeding 19% from February peaks. However, sentiment quickly reversed when the administration paused the tariffs for 90 days on April 9, sparking a dramatic V-shaped recovery.
By the end of June, the technology sector rebounded sharply from volatility earlier in the year and outperformed broader equity indices. This rally was driven primarily by large-cap technology and AI-related stocks, especially in the semiconductor space, where Nvidia, Microsoft, and Broadcom emerged as key performance leaders. The pickup in semiconductor names also benefitted emerging markets, primarily Taiwan and South Korea, with names like TSMC rebounding c.40% from its April trough, benefitting from surging demand for advanced chips and AI accelerators.
Performance review & positioning
During the quarter, the Fund outperformed its reference indicator, driven primarily by strong stock selection in our Industrial Tech & Digital Infrastructure and Tech Materials buckets. Our Korean and Taiwanese semiconductor names, Elite Materials, TSMC and SK Hynix were among our largest contributors throughout the quarter, demonstrating the benefits of diversification across the Asian technology value chain which supported our performance during the recovery phase.
Our biggest reinforcements were in Alphabet and MediaTek, both names in which we have a high conviction -which were bought on weakness. MediaTek, was added based on its repositioning from a leading chip design house specializing in smartphone application processors to a broader AI enabler including cutting edge AI. Additionally, the company is less geopolitically sensitive compared to Nvidia or TSMC.
Within the theme of datacentres, we increased our weight to electricity related industrials on weakness following DeepSeek’s developments in January. Namely Schneider Electric and Eaton involved in electrification and cooling systems, as well as initiating a position in Vertiv.
Finally in the software space, sub-sector in which we are structurally underweight, we initiated new positions in Salesforce, SAP and Adobe on the back of recent weakness in these names.
Outlook
Trump’s mandate introduced uncertainty and volatility while fiscal discipline under a Republican leadership looks unlikely. In this environment, we favour tech names with strong pricing power and robust balance sheets—companies that can absorb inflationary pressures and perform even if interest rates stay elevated. We also believe that overall, technological innovation continues to advance, largely independent of political shifts.
The sharp market drawdown allowed us to increase our weight in many of our large US and Taiwanese Tech names as well as software names we had not held since launch, and benefitted from the upside from their trough in early April. We see their current valuations as a buying opportunity and see this period as a growth inflection point we have actively taken part in.
In a market environment influenced by political rhetoric, our strategy remains focused on identifying the tech companies at the forefront of innovation that offer indispensable products and services. We look for those technology companies that have a dominant position within the value chain and benefit from high barriers to entry across geographies and market cap.
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 | +3,9 | +6,5 |
| Indice di riferimento | −1,4 | +7,5 |
| Carmignac Portfolio Tech Solutions | +10,2% | - | +10,3% |
| Indice di riferimento | +6,3% | - | +5,9% |
Fonte: Carmignac al 30 giu 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

