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126 New Investment Ideas from Wall Street’s Best Stock-Pickers (Part 2)

An itemized breakdown of new positions, re-entries, and conviction adds across global markets.

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René Sellmann
Sep 04, 2026
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Welcome back to Part 2 of our “new ideas from underfollowed portfolio managers” series – a briefing built exclusively for our paying members.

As outlined in part 1, the goal of this briefing is simple: save you dozens of hours of research – from hand-picking the right funds to track and hunting down their latest publications, to digging through tedious SEC filings just to spot new bets that could be interesting. In a single, quick read, you get an immediate look at where some of the sharpest, unconstrained minds in the market - importantly, those not showing up on Dataroma - are allocating capital right now.


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If you want to review the full background or methodology of what we are doing in this series – or simply missed part 1 and don’t want to miss the ideas shared in it –, check out part 1 of the series here.

Let me just summarize again what we are attempting to do here.

In a Nutshell:

  • Summarizing newly initiated and significantly expanded stock positions from smaller institutional fund managers and their respective letters and filings across Q1 and Q2.

  • Providing a brief business overview, manager thesis, key risks/moats, and key charts (multi-year growth CAGRs, margins (LTM and 5-year mean), ROIC, price action, market cap, valuation snapshot) for every single stock covered.

And with that, let’s jump straight back into the idea overviews without any more fluff.

This is where it gets interesting:

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