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Schedule of investments (unaudited) | December 31, 2023 |
(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)
SECURITY | SHARES | VALUE | ||||||
COMMON STOCKS - 99.6% | ||||||||
COMMUNICATION SERVICES - 7.5% | ||||||||
Diversified Telecommunication Services - 1.1% | ||||||||
Telkom Indonesia Persero Tbk PT | 21,971,500 | $ | 5,636,704 | (a) | ||||
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Interactive Media & Services - 6.4% | ||||||||
NAVER Corp. | 27,806 | 4,811,005 | *(a) | |||||
Tencent Holdings Ltd. | 737,600 | 27,847,994 | (a) | |||||
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Total Interactive Media & Services | 32,658,999 | |||||||
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TOTAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES | 38,295,703 | |||||||
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CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY - 10.6% | ||||||||
Automobile Components - 0.7% | ||||||||
Minth Group Ltd. | 1,674,000 | 3,385,884 | (a) | |||||
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Automobiles - 1.6% | ||||||||
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. | 67,949 | 8,407,367 | (a) | |||||
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Broadline Retail - 4.1% | ||||||||
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. | 303,640 | 2,924,825 | (a) | |||||
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., ADR | 167,841 | 13,009,356 | ||||||
JD.com Inc., ADR | 160,196 | 4,628,062 | ||||||
JD.com Inc., Class A Shares | 37,371 | 539,753 | (a) | |||||
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Total Broadline Retail | 21,101,996 | |||||||
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Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.4% | ||||||||
Meituan, Class B Shares | 666,900 | 7,001,636 | *(a) | |||||
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Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 2.8% | ||||||||
Titan Co. Ltd. | 323,774 | 14,290,413 | (a) | |||||
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TOTAL CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY | 54,187,296 | |||||||
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CONSUMER STAPLES - 2.7% | ||||||||
Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail - 2.2% | ||||||||
Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc. | 2,590,555 | 1,854,908 | ||||||
Wal-Mart de Mexico SAB de CV | 2,187,600 | 9,196,912 | ||||||
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Total Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail | 11,051,820 | |||||||
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Personal Care Products - 0.5% | ||||||||
Proya Cosmetics Co. Ltd., Class A Shares | 202,000 | 2,831,237 | (a) | |||||
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TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES | 13,883,057 | |||||||
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ENERGY - 4.9% | ||||||||
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 4.9% | ||||||||
Cosan SA | 2,615,352 | 10,301,809 | (a) | |||||
Reliance Industries Ltd. | 469,646 | 14,576,850 | (a) | |||||
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TOTAL ENERGY | 24,878,659 | |||||||
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See Notes to Schedule of Investments.
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MARTIN CURRIE EMERGING MARKETS FUND
Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d) | December 31, 2023 |
(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)
SECURITY | SHARES | VALUE | ||||||
FINANCIALS - 25.9% | ||||||||
Banks - 20.5% | ||||||||
Al Rajhi Bank | 457,856 | $ | 10,615,856 | (a) | ||||
Bank Negara Indonesia Persero Tbk PT | 14,892,400 | 5,196,552 | (a) | |||||
Bank Rakyat Indonesia Persero Tbk PT | 29,532,400 | 10,976,245 | (a) | |||||
Capitec Bank Holdings Ltd. | 58,949 | 6,577,250 | (a) | |||||
China Merchants Bank Co. Ltd., Class H Shares | 1,852,500 | 6,443,974 | (a) | |||||
Credicorp Ltd. | 34,220 | 5,130,605 | ||||||
Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV, Class O Shares | 1,056,300 | 10,643,244 | ||||||
HDFC Bank Ltd., ADR | 309,871 | 20,795,443 | ||||||
ICICI Bank Ltd., ADR | 634,400 | 15,124,096 | ||||||
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. | 382,043 | 8,753,581 | (a) | |||||
Ping An Bank Co. Ltd., Class A Shares | 2,817,000 | 3,730,100 | (a) | |||||
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Total Banks | 103,986,946 | |||||||
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Capital Markets - 1.8% | ||||||||
B3 SA - Brasil Bolsa Balcao | 3,097,500 | 9,267,628 | (a) | |||||
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Insurance - 3.6% | ||||||||
AIA Group Ltd. | 1,225,600 | 10,666,253 | (a) | |||||
Ping An Insurance Group Co. of China Ltd., Class H Shares | 1,724,500 | 7,807,328 | (a) | |||||
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Total Insurance | 18,473,581 | |||||||
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TOTAL FINANCIALS | 131,728,155 | |||||||
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HEALTH CARE - 3.2% | ||||||||
Health Care Providers & Services - 1.5% | ||||||||
Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Services Group Co. | 39,736 | 3,007,423 | (a) | |||||
Odontoprev SA | 1,845,000 | 4,413,840 | (a) | |||||
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Total Health Care Providers & Services | 7,421,263 | |||||||
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Life Sciences Tools & Services - 0.9% | ||||||||
Wuxi Biologics Cayman Inc. | 1,267,000 | 4,792,115 | *(a) | |||||
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Pharmaceuticals - 0.8% | ||||||||
Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd., Class H Shares | 1,783,000 | 3,883,520 | (a) | |||||
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TOTAL HEALTH CARE | 16,096,898 | |||||||
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INDUSTRIALS - 4.9% | ||||||||
Electrical Equipment - 3.6% | ||||||||
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd., Class A Shares | 260,560 | 5,998,239 | (a) | |||||
LG Energy Solution Ltd. | 4,099 | 1,352,734 | *(a) | |||||
WEG SA | 1,483,300 | 11,268,239 | (a) | |||||
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Total Electrical Equipment | 18,619,212 | |||||||
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Machinery - 1.3% | ||||||||
Shenzhen Inovance Technology Co. Ltd., Class A Shares | 742,000 | 6,609,196 | (a) | |||||
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TOTAL INDUSTRIALS | 25,228,408 | |||||||
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MARTIN CURRIE EMERGING MARKETS FUND
Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d) | December 31, 2023 |
(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)
SECURITY | SHARES | VALUE | ||||||
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - 32.2% | ||||||||
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 2.5% | ||||||||
Delta Electronics Inc. | 737,367 | $ | 7,519,987 | (a) | ||||
Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. | 13,886 | 5,055,765 | *(a) | |||||
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Total Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components | 12,575,752 | |||||||
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IT Services - 4.1% | ||||||||
EPAM Systems Inc. | 13,742 | 4,086,046 | * | |||||
Globant SA | 47,903 | 11,399,956 | * | |||||
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. | 119,171 | 5,427,512 | (a) | |||||
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Total IT Services | 20,913,514 | |||||||
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Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 15.8% | ||||||||
Globalwafers Co. Ltd. | 425,000 | 8,110,744 | (a) | |||||
SK Hynix Inc. | 186,549 | 20,359,578 | (a) | |||||
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., ADR | 476,368 | 49,542,272 | ||||||
Xinyi Solar Holdings Ltd. | 3,824,000 | 2,235,688 | (a) | |||||
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Total Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment | 80,248,282 | |||||||
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Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 9.8% | ||||||||
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. | 822,674 | 49,933,713 | (a) | |||||
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TOTAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | 163,671,261 | |||||||
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MATERIALS - 7.7% | ||||||||
Chemicals - 3.8% | ||||||||
Asian Paints Ltd. | 178,385 | 7,289,983 | (a) | |||||
LG Chem Ltd. | 20,272 | 7,797,087 | (a) | |||||
Orbia Advance Corp. SAB de CV | 1,929,025 | 4,270,187 | ||||||
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Total Chemicals | 19,357,257 | |||||||
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Construction Materials - 1.6% | ||||||||
UltraTech Cement Ltd. | 62,534 | 7,888,741 | (a) | |||||
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Metals & Mining - 2.3% | ||||||||
Antofagasta PLC | 550,451 | 11,769,728 | (a) | |||||
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TOTAL MATERIALS | 39,015,726 | |||||||
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TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 99.6% | 506,985,163 | |||||||
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities - 0.4% | 1,833,145 | |||||||
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TOTAL NET ASSETS - 100.0% | $ | 508,818,308 | ||||||
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* | Non-income producing security. |
(a) | Security is fair valued in accordance with procedures approved by the Board of Trustees (Note 1). |
Abbreviation(s) used in this schedule:
ADR | — American Depositary Receipts |
See Notes to Schedule of Investments.
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MARTIN CURRIE EMERGING MARKETS FUND
Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d) | December 31, 2023 |
This Schedule of Investments is unaudited and is intended to provide information about the Fund’s investments as of the date of the schedule. Other information regarding the Fund is available in the Fund’s most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.
See Notes to Schedule of Investments.
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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited)
1. Organization and significant accounting policies
Martin Currie Emerging Markets Fund (the “Fund”) is a separate non-diversified investment series of Legg Mason Global Asset Management Trust (the “Trust”). The Trust, a Maryland statutory trust, is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as an open-end management investment company.
The Fund follows the accounting and reporting guidance in Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946, Financial Services – Investment Companies (“ASC 946”). The following are significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Fund and are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), including, but not limited to, ASC 946.
(a) Investment valuation. Equity securities for which market quotations are available are valued at the last reported sales price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange on which they trade. The valuations for fixed income securities (which may include, but are not limited to, corporate, government, municipal, mortgage-backed, collateralized mortgage obligations and asset-backed securities) and certain derivative instruments are typically the prices supplied by independent third party pricing services, which may use market prices or broker/dealer quotations or a variety of valuation techniques and methodologies. The independent third party pricing services typically use inputs that are observable such as issuer details, interest rates, yield curves, prepayment speeds, credit risks/spreads, default rates and quoted prices for similar securities. Investments in open-end funds are valued at the closing net asset value per share of each fund on the day of valuation. When the Fund holds securities or other assets that are denominated in a foreign currency, the Fund will normally use the currency exchange rates as of 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). If independent third party pricing services are unable to supply prices for a portfolio investment, or if the prices supplied are deemed by the manager to be unreliable, the market price may be determined by the manager using quotations from one or more broker/dealers or at the transaction price if the security has recently been purchased and no value has yet been obtained from a pricing service or pricing broker. When reliable prices are not readily available, such as when the value of a security has been significantly affected by events after the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded, but before the Fund calculates its net asset value, the Fund values these securities as determined in accordance with procedures approved by the Fund’s Board of Trustees. This may include using an independent third party pricing service to adjust the value of such securities to the latest indications of fair value at 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time).
Pursuant to policies adopted by the Board of Trustees, the Fund’s manager has been designated as the valuation designee and is responsible for the oversight of the daily valuation process. The Fund’s manager is assisted by the Global Fund Valuation Committee (the “Valuation Committee”). The Valuation Committee is responsible for making fair value determinations, evaluating the effectiveness of the Fund’s pricing policies, and reporting to
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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)
the Fund’s manager and the Board of Trustees. When determining the reliability of third party pricing information for investments owned by the Fund, the Valuation Committee, among other things, conducts due diligence reviews of pricing vendors, monitors the daily change in prices and reviews transactions among market participants.
The Valuation Committee will consider pricing methodologies it deems relevant and appropriate when making fair value determinations. Examples of possible methodologies include, but are not limited to, multiple of earnings; discount from market of a similar freely traded security; discounted cash-flow analysis; book value or a multiple thereof; risk premium/yield analysis; yield to maturity; and/or fundamental investment analysis. The Valuation Committee will also consider factors it deems relevant and appropriate in light of the facts and circumstances. Examples of possible factors include, but are not limited to, the type of security; the issuer’s financial statements; the purchase price of the security; the discount from market value of unrestricted securities of the same class at the time of purchase; analysts’ research and observations from financial institutions; information regarding any transactions or offers with respect to the security; the existence of merger proposals or tender offers affecting the security; the price and extent of public trading in similar securities of the issuer or comparable companies; and the existence of a shelf registration for restricted securities.
For each portfolio security that has been fair valued pursuant to the policies adopted by the Board of Trustees, the fair value price is compared against the last available and next available market quotations. The Valuation Committee reviews the results of such back testing monthly and fair valuation occurrences are reported to the Board of Trustees quarterly.
The Fund uses valuation techniques to measure fair value that are consistent with the market approach and/or income approach, depending on the type of security and the particular circumstance. The market approach uses prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable securities. The income approach uses valuation techniques to discount estimated future cash flows to present value.
GAAP establishes a disclosure hierarchy that categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value assets and liabilities at measurement date. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
• | Level 1 – unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments |
• | Level 2 – other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.) |
• | Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments) |
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The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
The following is a summary of the inputs used in valuing the Fund’s assets carried at fair value:
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DESCRIPTION | QUOTED PRICES (LEVEL 1) | OTHER SIGNIFICANT OBSERVABLE INPUTS (LEVEL 2)* | SIGNIFICANT UNOBSERVABLE INPUTS (LEVEL 3) | TOTAL | ||||||||||||
Long-Term Investments†: | ||||||||||||||||
Common Stocks: | ||||||||||||||||
Consumer Discretionary | $ | 17,637,418 | $ | 36,549,878 | — | $ | 54,187,296 | |||||||||
Consumer Staples | 11,051,820 | 2,831,237 | — | 13,883,057 | ||||||||||||
Financials | 51,693,388 | 80,034,767 | — | 131,728,155 | ||||||||||||
Information Technology | 65,028,274 | 98,642,987 | — | 163,671,261 | ||||||||||||
Materials | 4,270,187 | 34,745,539 | — | 39,015,726 | ||||||||||||
Other Common Stocks | — | 104,499,668 | — | 104,499,668 | ||||||||||||
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Total Investments | $ | 149,681,087 | $ | 357,304,076 | — | $ | 506,985,163 | |||||||||
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* | As a result of the fair value pricing procedures for international equities utilized by the Fund, which account for events occurring after the close of the principal market of the security but prior to the calculation of the Fund’s net asset value, certain securities were classified as Level 2 within the fair value hierarchy. |
† | See Schedule of Investments for additional detailed categorizations. |
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