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The companies modernizing how care is delivered and paid for.

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Carter Healthcare Select
MC
Managed by Michael Carter
Performance
+18.6%
1M3MYTD1YAll
Since inception
+18.6%
1M
+2.1%
3M
+5.4%
YTD
+11.2%
+20%+15%+10%+5%0%
Mar 13Apr 3Apr 24May 15Jun 5Jul 17
Strategy Overview

A long-only healthcare strategy focused on the companies modernizing how care is delivered and paid for.

Investment thesis

Healthcare delivery is shifting toward software, outpatient settings, and value-based payment. The companies enabling that transition are positioned for durable, multi-year growth as adoption compounds across the system. Reimbursement is following the same path, rewarding the operators who can document outcomes and manage cost, and the portfolio owns the software, diagnostics, and care-delivery companies best positioned for that shift.

Approach

A concentrated portfolio of fifteen to twenty holdings, built through fundamental research and held with a multi-year horizon. Position sizes reflect conviction and liquidity, every change is documented with a written rationale at the time it is made, and turnover stays low by design. The strategy avoids the legacy cost structures the transition strands, and it treats drawdowns as the price of concentration rather than a reason to abandon the thesis.

Characteristics
Risk
Moderate
Sector
Healthcare
Style
Growth
Key statistics
AUM $4.2M
Active investors 128
Followers 1,450
Inception Mar 2026
Terms
Management fee 1%
Minimum investment $100
Investor Perks
$10,000+: quarterly strategy calls
$25,000+: access to the manager's quarterly letter
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