Most investors try to generate ideas from news, social media, or random stock lists, but some of the best signals come from studying people with strong, long-term track records. Great investors leave clues in their holdings, position changes, and quarterly filings.
When you follow the right managers, and you keep the process simple, you start seeing themes earlier and understanding which companies attract real, long-term conviction.
The challenge is knowing who deserves your attention. Not every famous investor offers useful signals, and not every big portfolio translates into actionable ideas. You want a list of managers who think clearly, act patiently, and hold stocks long enough that their decisions reveal a real point of view.
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TIKR makes this easy. You can review each investor’s holdings, check changes across quarters, and track long-term themes without digging through filings by hand. With one click, you see what these managers own, how much they’ve added, and which ideas keep showing up in their portfolios.
This article highlights five investors whose portfolios often contain timeless, well-researched ideas. They have different styles, but they all bring a level of consistency that makes their moves useful for individual investors. You do not need to copy their trades. You only need to understand what they find interesting and why those positions stay in their portfolios.
Below is a simple, structured way to follow them using TIKR.
Stanley Druckenmiller: Macro Awareness With High-Conviction Bets
Stanley Druckenmiller is known for his ability to tie company fundamentals to big macro trends. His portfolio often highlights themes before they become mainstream, whether it’s AI infrastructure, energy shifts, or changes in monetary policy. His moves tend to be bold, but they’re grounded in deep research and clear conviction.
Some of Druckenmiller’s top holdings include Natera, Insmed, Teva, TSMC, and Woodward. Last quarter, the firm added to positions like Natera, Insmed, Teva, Coupang, MercadoLibre, and DocuSign, while cutting back sharply on Woodward.
Duquesne is especially useful to follow because Druckenmiller tends to reposition early when his views on economic or industry trends start to change.
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Seth Klarman: Deep Value and Highly Selective Investments
Seth Klarman’s Baupost Group takes a disciplined deep-value approach, often focusing on mispriced assets, turnaround opportunities, and special situations. His top positions typically remain stable for years, which makes his portfolio one of the cleanest sources of long-term value ideas.
Last quarter, Klarman made some notable moves, including a massive increase in Restaurant Brands International and Elevance Health, while also starting a new position in Union Pacific.
At the same time, he trimmed positions like Alphabet, CRH, WESCO, and Willis Towers Watson.
Klarman’s patience means that even small changes in position size can reflect meaningful changes in his view. His filings are sparse but of extremely high quality, making them ideal for investors who prefer value-oriented research.
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Li Lu: Concentrated Quality With a Focus on Durability
Li Lu’s Himalaya Capital is famous for its concentrated, long-term holdings in high-quality companies with strong competitive advantages. He invests rarely but decisively. These concentrated positions make his filings some of the clearest to read. When he adds to a position or holds something for a decade, it reflects a durable conviction.
The firm’s largest positions include Alphabet, PDD, Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway, and Postal Savings Bank of China.
Last quarter, the biggest move was a sizable trim to Postal Savings Bank of China, while core positions like Alphabet, PDD, and Bank of America were left untouched. Himalaya is especially interesting to track for high-conviction, long-term ideas in both U.S. and Chinese equities.
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Cathie Wood: Innovation-Focused Themes With Long-Term Horizons
Cathie Wood’s portfolios at ARK Invest offer a different angle. Her strategy centers on disruptive innovation, spanning AI, genomics, EVs, fintech, and next-generation software. While her performance has swung widely at times, her research-heavy approach and willingness to hold through volatility make her portfolios useful for spotting early-stage trends.
Top holdings include Tesla, Coinbase, Roku, Palantir, Roblox, and Shopify. Last quarter, ARK added to Tesla and AMD, while trimming or reducing exposure across many other positions like Coinbase, Roku, Roblox, Shopify, CRISPR, and Tempus AI.
ARK is worth tracking less for timing and more for idea generation in emerging tech platforms and long-duration growth themes.
Guy Spier: Long-Term Compounding With Low Portfolio Turnover
Aquamarine runs a very Buffett-style, ultra-concentrated, long-term portfolio focused on high-quality compounders. The portfolio is dominated by Berkshire Hathaway, American Express, Bank of America, and Mastercard, which together make up the vast majority of assets.
Guy Spier of Aquamarine Capital is known for his steady, long-term approach inspired by Buffett-style investing. He prefers understandable businesses, strong management teams, and consistent cash generation. His portfolio rarely changes dramatically, making his 13F filings particularly good for reading long-term conviction
In TIKR, you can scan his top holdings across several quarters to see which names anchor his strategy. His portfolio turnover is low, so any position that climbs the rankings or consistently grows in weight may be worth a closer look.
Last quarter, Spier mostly sat tight and did not make major changes, though he trimmed Micron by about 60%, continuing to de-emphasize cyclical semiconductor exposure. This is a portfolio to follow if you want ideas in high-quality, low-turnover businesses with durable moats.
Putting It All Together
Following great investors is not about copying their trades. It’s about understanding how they think and using their decisions to strengthen your own research. When you study these five investors together, you start noticing patterns, overlapping positions, rising conviction in certain themes, or shifts in core holdings.
TIKR turns this into a repeatable workflow. You can compare filings, track changes across quarters, review position sizes, and explore ownership trends without hunting through PDF filings. This helps you follow proven investors with a clear structure and far less effort.
TIKR Takeaway
Tracking great investors can expand your idea pipeline and help you understand where experienced managers are building conviction. TIKR gives you the structure to do this cleanly. You can see top positions, quarter-over-quarter changes, long-term themes, and overlapping holdings in one place. That clarity helps you focus on the ideas that matter and ignore the noise.
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