Estimated return — disclosed long book

What Triple Frond Partners LLC’s US-listed long positions did, derived from the share counts and market values in consecutive 13F filings, shown against SPY over exactly the same quarters. This is not the fund’s return. A 13F excludes shorts, bonds, cash, non-US listings and derivatives, says nothing about fees or leverage, and only sees positions held at both quarter ends. The fund figure is a price return while SPY is a total return, so the comparison is tilted against the manager by roughly a dividend yield.

Q1 2026
-8.5%
SPY -4.4% -4.1%alpha
By calendar year
YearEstimatedSPYAlpha
2025+24.5%+17.7%+6.8%
2024+19.4%+24.9%-5.5%
2023+43.0%+26.2%+16.8%
2022-29.9%-18.2%-11.7%
2021+15.1%+28.7%-13.6%
2020+23.0%+18.3%+4.7%
2019+52.6%+31.2%+21.4%
2018-7.2%-4.6%-2.6%
2017+32.7%+21.7%+11.0%
20163/4 Q+6.3%+7.9%-1.6%
2015+2.7%+1.2%+1.5%
20142/4 Q+10.5%+6.1%+4.4%

Years marked n/4 Qare built from fewer than four quarters, and the benchmark shown beside them covers the same partial set — so the alpha is like-for-like, but the year is not a full year.