UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-CSR
CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES
Investment Company Act file number: 811-04000
SUMMIT MUTUAL FUNDS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
4550 Montgomery Avenue
Suite 1000N
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
William M. Tartikoff, Esq.
4550 Montgomery Avenue
Suite 1000N
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (301) 951-4800
Date of fiscal year end: December 31
Date of reporting period: Year ended December 31, 2008
Item 1. Report to Stockholders.
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Summit Zenith Portfolio
Annual Report
December 31, 2008
Summit Mutual Funds
Calvert
Investments That Make A Difference
A UNIFI Company
Summit Zenith Portfolio
Annual Report, December 31, 2008
Table Of Contents
3 | | Portfolio Manager Remarks |
6 | | Shareholder Expense Example |
7 | | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
8 | | Schedule of Investments |
11 | | Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
12 | | Statement of Operations |
13 | | Statements of Changes in Net Assets |
14 | | Notes to Financial Statements |
18 | | Financial Highlights |
19 | | Explanation of Financial Tables |
20 | | Proxy Voting and Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings |
21 | | Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract |
23 | | Director and Officer Information Table |
Summit Zenith Portfolio
Managed by Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
Performance
For the 12 months ended December 31, 2008, the Summit Zenith Portfolio returned -39.49% versus -36.85% for its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Value Index. The Portfolio's underperformance was largely reflective of stock selection in the Financial sector.
Investment Climate
The subprime housing weakness in 2008 was only the tip of the economic iceberg. The overly leveraged global consumer and financial system was what lay beneath the surface. From the consumer being whipsawed by fluctuating energy prices to credit tightening and job loss fears, the equity markets were a reflection of the pain.
Many have cited the decision to let the Lehman Brothers brokerage firm fail as the most negative catalyst for the financials group and the equity markets. As banks started to doubt their ability to collect on overnight loans, liquidity dried up, credit spreads widened, and financial fear spread.
Throughout the year, the energy sector showed bouts of market euphoria, followed by a complete turnaround to the downside. Financial stocks were a drag on the markets, economy, and stock market performance, with the occasional, volatile chase by certain fund managers to add beaten-down financial names to boost short-term performance. In addition, we took advantage of opportunities to lighten up on outperformers and add to quality names which had been beaten down.
Summit Zenith Portfolio*
Comparison of change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment.

Average Annual Total Return (period ended 12.31.08) | |
One year | (39.49%) |
Five year | (1.50%) |
Ten year | 2.94% |
*Performance information is for the Portfolio only and does not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Past performance does not indicate future results.
Portfolio Strategy
The Energy Sector
As energy prices skyrocketed, we eliminated certain positions in our more volatile energy company holdings and reduced others. We sold energy driller Nabors and reduced fairly large positions in several outperformers, including Royal Dutch, Devon, ConocoPhillips, and Spectra Energy. Some of this exposure was reallocated to more defensive names with upside potential, including Marathon and British Petroleum.
As the year progressed and oil prices began their precipitous decline, we added back to some of these energy positions, including Anadarko, Marathon, Devon, British Petroleum, and Royal Dutch. Several common themes made these companies attractive: they were not highly leveraged, they had exposure to natural gas (the cleanest of the carbon fuels and therefore more politically palatable), and they had taken big price hits.
The Financial Sector
A seminal event in the market was the forced sale of the brokerage firm Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase that produced great uncertainty and volatility in the financial sector. We reduced our exposure to JPMorgan Chase on market enthusiasm for the deal and reinvested the proceeds in General Electric, Microsoft, and Boeing. We sold financial stocks Wells Fargo and Bank of New York on strength and subsequently repurchased them. We added several finance companies that had severely corrected: Travelers Insurance, MetLife, American Express, and Citigroup.
The Portfolio was less fortunate in attempting to buy and sell Fannie Mae. Although we had assumed the government would provide price support for Fannie Mae shareholders, unfortunately Congress didn't want to be seen as bailing out Wall Street and our Fannie Mae position was sold at a loss.
Other financial trades were to add to MetLife and take a quick profit as it rebounded. Hartford Insurance was eliminated and Allstate was reduced and the proceeds were put into Travelers Insurance.
Economic Sectors | | % of Total Investments |
| | |
Consumer Discretionary | | 7.7% |
Consumer Staples | | 10.1% |
Energy | | 17.3% |
Financials | | 18.4% |
Health Care | | 10.4% |
Industrials | | 9.7% |
Information Technology | | 10.5% |
Materials | | 3.3% |
Telecommunication Services | | 7.4% |
Utilities | | 5.2% |
Total | | 100% |
Company Subsector Swaps
Throughout the year, we swapped out companies in subsectors by reducing positions in strong-performing firms and investing the proceeds in companies we deemed attractive that had declined. Early on, Newmont Mining had risen precipitously and was reduced, with the proceeds added to solid, long-term technology firm Cisco. Other examples of subsector swaps include: in defensive names, Johnson and Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline proceeds were added to Walgreens, Covidien, and Unilever; in utilities, Comcast proceeds were added to AT&T and Verizon; in consumer durables, Wal-Mart and Honda Motor proceeds were used to purchase Nokia and Time Warner; and in Health Care, United Healthcare was sold and WellPoint was purchased.
The end of the year continued to be marked by these types of trades, where we reduced our positions in companies that had held their value through the market turmoil and bought other comparable subsector holdings. Financial institutions that were deemed survivors and potential thrivers in the difficult economic times were added, such as Goldman Sachs and Berkshire Hathaway.
Outlook
Going forward, the economic and market outlook for 2009 is marked by uncertainty and conflicting cross-currents. The government, which initially had denied the extent of the financial problems, has now declared a national emergency to "fix it" through financial bailouts and government spending. Surprisingly, and fortunately in one sense, government interest rates are at historic lows even though the fiscal policies are highly stimulative and potentially inflationary. With a new President and positive media reinforcement, it is expected that the new government's economic policies will try to be friendly to the weakened corporate sector and that taxes will not be raised as some might have feared.
Also, certain corporations and sectors are likely to benefit from the much-hyped "infrastructure" spending on roads, alternative energy, etc. There is adequate cash on the sidelines to lead to a market rally, though there is also much investor pessimism. There is still major fear of job losses in the face of truly negative economic growth--and until consumers are more assured of keeping their jobs, they might want to keep their investable cash handy. Low employee and investor confidence are likely to lead to volatile markets (fear of the downside versus fear of missing a big rally.) In conclusion, for investors with a long-term time horizon, low equity valuations and Treasury bill rates near zero may offset near-term bleak economic news and spur some investment.
We are pleased to announce that the members of the portfolio management team are now employees of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. There will be no change in the Portfolio's investment objective or strategy or management team, but we are excited to have access to Calvert's additional resources in managing the Portfolio.
January 2009
We welcome investors from Calvert Variable Series Inc. Ameritas Income & Growth Portfolio which merged into Summit Zenith Portfolio in December 2008. |
As of December 31, 2008, the following companies represented the following percentages of Portfolio net assets: Nabors 0%, Royal Dutch 2.54%, Devon 2.02%, ConocoPhillips 2.37%, Spectra Energy 1.62%, Marathon 2.36%, British Petroleum 2.95%, Anadarko 2.62%, JPMorgan Chase 1.54%, General Electric 2.15%, Microsoft 2.02%, Boeing 1.17%, Wells Fargo 0.90%, Bank of New York 1.63%, Travelers Insurance 2.08%, MetLife 1.69%, American Express 0.92%, Citigroup 0.94%, Fannie Mae 0%, Newmont Mining 1.90%, Cisco 2.23%, Johnson and Johnson 1.48%, GlaxoSmithKline 1.83%, Walgreens 1.45%, Covidien 1.44%, Comcast 1.56%, AT&T 3.27%, Wal-Mart 1.48%, Honda Motor 1.09%, Nokia 1.44%, Time Warner 1.78%, United Healthcare 0%, WellPoint 2.69%, Goldman Sachs 0.53%, and Berkshire Hathaway 1.04%.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008).
Note: Expenses do not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare the 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Beginning Account Value 7/1/08 | Ending Account Value 12/31/08 | Expenses Paid During Period* 7/1/08 - 12/31/08 |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $699.30 | $3.81 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,020.65 | $4.53 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio of 0.89%, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/366.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and
Shareholders of Summit Zenith Portfolio:
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of the Summit Zenith Portfolio (the Portfolio), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., including the schedule of investments, as of December 31, 2008, and the related statement of operations, statement of changes in net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audit. The accompanying financial statements and financial highlights of the Portfolio for the periods presented through December 31, 2007 were audited by other auditors whose report thereon dated February 22, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2008, by correspondence with custodians and brokers. As to securities purchased or sold but not yet received or delivered, we performed other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Summit Zenith Portfolio as of December 31, 2008, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
KPMG LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2009
Summit Zenith Portfolio
Schedule of Investments
December 31, 2008
Equity Securities - 94.9% | | Shares | Value | |
Aerospace & Defense - 1.2% | | | | |
Boeing Co. | | 39,600 | $1,689,732 | |
| | | | |
Automobiles - 1.1% | | | | |
Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (ADR) | | 74,000 | 1,579,160 | |
| | | | |
Capital Markets - 4.7% | | | | |
AllianceBernstein Holding LP | | 59,300 | 1,232,847 | |
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. | | 82,858 | 2,347,367 | |
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | | 9,100 | 767,949 | |
Legg Mason, Inc. | | 70,000 | 1,533,700 | |
Morgan Stanley | | 57,100 | 915,884 | |
| | | 6,797,747 | |
| | | | |
Chemicals - 1.3% | | | | |
Dow Chemical Co. | | 122,600 | 1,850,034 | |
| | | | |
Commercial Banks - 0.9% | | | | |
Wells Fargo & Co. | | 44,300 | 1,305,964 | |
| | | | |
Communications Equipment - 4.8% | | | | |
Cisco Systems, Inc.* | | 197,900 | 3,225,770 | |
Motorola, Inc. | | 359,800 | 1,593,914 | |
Nokia Oyj (ADR) | | 133,300 | 2,079,480 | |
| | | 6,899,164 | |
| | | | |
Computers & Peripherals - 2.0% | | | | |
International Business Machines Corp. | | 34,000 | 2,861,440 | |
| | | | |
Consumer Finance - 2.3% | | | | |
American Express Co. | | 71,200 | 1,320,760 | |
Capital One Financial Corp. | | 34,500 | 1,100,205 | |
Discover Financial Services | | 89,000 | 848,170 | |
| | | 3,269,135 | |
| | | | |
Diversified Financial Services - 3.5% | | | | |
Bank of America Corp. | | 102,684 | 1,445,791 | |
Citigroup, Inc. | | 202,300 | 1,357,433 | |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | | 70,404 | 2,219,838 | |
| | | 5,023,062 | |
| | | | |
Diversified Telecommunication Services - 6.7% | | | | |
AT&T, Inc. | | 165,500 | 4,716,750 | |
Frontier Communications Corp. | | 209,600 | 1,831,904 | |
Verizon Communications, Inc. | | 90,900 | 3,081,510 | |
| | | 9,630,164 | |
| | | | |
Electric Utilities - 4.9% | | | | |
Duke Energy Corp. | | 273,244 | 4,101,393 | |
Southern Co. | | 80,300 | 2,971,100 | |
| | | 7,072,493 | |
| | | | |
Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 1.2% | | | | |
Tyco Electronics Ltd. | | 103,325 | 1,674,898 | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Food & Staples Retailing - 5.7% | | | | |
CVS Caremark Corp. | | 74,800 | $2,149,752 | |
Kroger Co. | | 67,500 | 1,782,675 | |
Walgreen Co. | | 85,100 | 2,099,417 | |
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | | 38,100 | 2,135,886 | |
| | | 8,167,730 | |
| | | | |
Food Products - 3.9% | | | | |
Kraft Foods, Inc. | | 86,972 | 2,335,198 | |
Unilever NV | | 135,800 | 3,333,890 | |
| | | 5,669,088 | |
| | | | |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 1.4% | | | | |
Covidien Ltd. | | 57,425 | 2,081,082 | |
| | | | |
Health Care Providers & Services - 2.7% | | | | |
WellPoint, Inc.* | | 92,100 | 3,880,173 | |
| | | | |
Household Durables - 0.9% | | | | |
Sony Corp. (ADR) | | 57,600 | 1,259,712 | |
| | | | |
Industrial Conglomerates - 5.9% | | | | |
3M Co. | | 67,100 | 3,860,934 | |
General Electric Co. | | 191,200 | 3,097,440 | |
Tyco International Ltd. | | 75,425 | 1,629,180 | |
| | | 8,587,554 | |
| | | | |
Insurance - 6.1% | | | | |
Allstate Corp. | | 45,700 | 1,497,132 | |
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. Class B* | | 465 | 1,494,510 | |
Genworth Financial, Inc. | | 137,700 | 389,691 | |
MetLife, Inc. | | 70,200 | 2,447,172 | |
Travelers Co.'s, Inc. | | 66,300 | 2,996,760 | |
| | | 8,825,265 | |
| | | | |
Machinery - 2.0% | | | | |
Caterpillar, Inc. | | 46,000 | 2,054,820 | |
Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd. | | 52,900 | 917,815 | |
| | | 2,972,635 | |
| | | | |
Media - 5.3% | | | | |
CBS Corp., Class B | | 114,274 | 935,904 | |
Comcast Corp. | | 133,100 | 2,246,728 | |
Gannett Co., Inc. | | 86,200 | 689,600 | |
News Corp., Class B | | 132,700 | 1,271,266 | |
Time Warner, Inc. | | 255,500 | 2,570,330 | |
| | | 7,713,828 | |
| | | | |
Metals & Mining - 1.9% | | | | |
Newmont Mining Corp. | | 67,300 | 2,739,110 | |
| | | | |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 16.5% | | | | |
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | | 98,000 | 3,777,900 | |
BP plc (ADR) | | 91,100 | 4,258,014 | |
ConocoPhillips | | 66,142 | 3,426,156 | |
Devon Energy Corp. | | 44,400 | 2,917,524 | |
Marathon Oil Corp. | | 124,500 | 3,406,320 | |
Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) | | 69,300 | 3,668,742 | |
Spectra Energy Corp. | | 148,172 | 2,332,227 | |
| | | 23,786,883 | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Pharmaceuticals - 5.7% | | | | |
GlaxoSmithKline plc (ADR) | | 70,900 | $2,642,443 | |
Johnson & Johnson | | 29,300 | 1,753,019 | |
Pfizer, Inc. | | 218,200 | 3,864,322 | |
| | | 8,259,784 | |
| | | | |
Software - 2.0% | | | | |
Microsoft Corp. | | 150,000 | 2,916,000 | |
| | | | |
Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.3% | | | | |
Sprint Nextel Corp.* | | 263,700 | 482,571 | |
| | | | |
Total Equity Securities (Cost $226,743,184) | | | 136,994,408 | |
| | | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (Cost $226,743,184) - 94.9% | | | 136,994,408 | |
Other assets and liabilities, net - 5.1% | | | 7,430,949 | |
Net Assets - 100% | | | $144,425,357 | |
* Non-income producing security.
Abbreviations:
ADR: American Depositary Receipt
LP: Limited Partnership
See notes to financial statements.
Summit Zenith Portfolio
Statement Of Assets and Liabilities
December 31, 2008
Assets | | |
Investments in securities, at value (Cost $226,743,184) - see accompanying schedule | | $136,994,408 |
Cash | | 7,147,129 |
Receivable for shares sold | | 87,093 |
Interest and dividends receivable | | 345,604 |
Other assets | | 2,414 |
Total assets | | 144,576,648 |
| | |
Liabilities | | |
Payable for shares redeemed | | 5,618 |
Payable to Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. | | 72,926 |
Payable to Calvert Administrative Services Company, Inc. | | 8,557 |
Payable to Summit Investment Partners, Inc. | | 9,043 |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities | | 55,147 |
Total liabilities | | 151,291 |
Net Assets | | $144,425,357 |
| | |
Net Assets Consist of: | | |
Paid-in capital applicable to 2,920,593 shares of common stock outstanding | | |
$0.10 par value, 40,000,000 shares authorized | | $236,075,573 |
Undistributed net investment income | | 241,869 |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | | (2,143,309) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | (89,748,776) |
| | |
Net Assets | | $144,425,357 |
| | |
Net Asset Value per Share | | $49.45 |
See notes to financial statements.
Summit Zenith Portfolio
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2008
Net Investment Income | | |
Investment Income: | | |
Dividend income (net or foreign taxes withheld of $15,857) | | $1,491,899 |
Interest income | | 59,864 |
Total investment income | | 1,551,763 |
| | |
Expenses: | | |
Investment advisory fee | | 326,770 |
Transfer agency fees and expenses | | 15,345 |
Accounting fees | | 20,884 |
Directors' fees and expenses | | 2,826 |
Administrative fees | | 51,058 |
Custodian fees | | 4,247 |
Reports to shareholders | | 6,986 |
Professional fees | | 24,402 |
Miscellaneous | | 7,662 |
Total expenses | | 460,180 |
Reimbursement from Advisor | | (2,890) |
Net expenses | | 457,290 |
| | |
Net Investment Income | | 1,094,473 |
| | |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | | |
Net realized gain (loss) | | 649,111 |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | | (20,707,578) |
| | |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain | | |
(Loss) on Investments | | (20,058,467) |
| | |
�� Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Resulting From Operations | | ($18,963,994) |
See notes to financial statements.
Summit Zenith Portfolio
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Year Ended | Year Ended |
| | December 31, | December 31, |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2008 | 2007 |
Operations: | | | |
Net investment income | | $1,094,473 | $1,023,442 |
Net realized gain (loss) | | 649,111 | 4,836,335 |
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) | | (20,707,578) | (4,908,004) |
| | | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | |
Resulting From Operations | | (18,963,994) | 951,773 |
| | | |
Distributions to shareholders from: | | | |
Net investment income | | (1,753,024) | (876,279) |
Net realized gain | | (5,154,085) | (5,128,119) |
Total distributions | | (6,907,109) | (6,004,398) |
| | | |
Capital share transactions: | | | |
Shares sold | | 6,549,955 | 4,039,840 |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 6,907,105 | 6,004,398 |
Shares issued from merger (See Note A) | | 107,884,520 | -- |
Shares redeemed | | (9,202,613) | (9,262,372) |
Total capital share transactions | | 112,138,967 | 781,866 |
| | | |
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 86,267,864 | (4,270,759) |
| | | |
Net Assets | | | |
Beginning of year | | 58,157,493 | 62,428,252 |
End of year (including undistributed net investment income | | | |
of $241,869 and $891,597, respectively) | | $144,425,357 | $58,157,493 |
| | | |
| | | |
Capital Share Activity | | | |
Shares sold | | 99,232 | 41,780 |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 99,493 | 63,592 |
Shares issued from merger (See Note A) | | 2,227,178 | -- |
Shares redeemed | | (130,949) | (97,071) |
Total capital share activity | | 2,294,954 | 8,301 |
See notes to financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE A --- SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
General: The Summit Zenith Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. (the "Fund") is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company. The Fund is comprised of thirteen separate portfolios. The operations of each series of the Fund are accounted for separately. The shares of the Portfolio are sold to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for allocation to certain of their variable separate accounts.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), an affiliated entity, whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business and became investment advisor for the portfolios of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
On December 12, 2008, the net assets of the Ameritas Income & Growth Portfolio, a series of Calvert Variable Series, Inc. merged into Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., Zenith Portfolio. The merger was accomplished by a tax-free exchange of 13,716,124 shares of Ameritas Income & Growth Portfolio (valued at $107,884,520) for 2,227,178 shares of the Summit Zenith Portfolio outstanding at December 12, 2008. The Ameritas Income & Growth Portfolio's net assets as of December 12, 2008, including $74,101,129 of unrealized depreciation, were combined with those of Summit Zenith Portfolio.
Security Valuation: Net asset value per share is determined every business day as of the close of the regular session of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Portfolio uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Directors to value its investments wherever possible. Securities for which market quotations are available are valued at last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange in which they trade. Foreign securities are valued based on quotations from the principal market in which such securities are normally traded. If events occur after the close of the principal market in which foreign securities are traded, and before the close of business of the Portfolio, that are expected to materially affect the value of those securities, then they are valued at their fair value taking these events into account. Short-term notes are stated at amortized cost, which approximates fair value. Investments for which market quotations are not avai lable or deemed not reliable are fair valued in good faith under the direction of the Board of Directors.
In determining fair value, the Board considers all relevant qualitative and quantitative information available. These factors are subject to change over time and are reviewed periodically. The values assigned to fair value investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized. Further, because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, those estimated values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed, and the differences could be material. At December 31, 2008, no securities were fair valued under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Effective January 1, 2008, the Portfolio adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Portfolio's investments and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 -- quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 -- other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 -- significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy during the period. For additional information on the Portfolio's policy regarding valuation of investments, please refer to the Portfolio's most recent prospectus.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Portfolio's net assets as of December 31, 2008:
Valuation Inputs | Investments in Securities |
Level 1 - Quoted Prices | $136,994,408 |
Level 2 - Other Significant Observable Inputs | -- |
Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs | -- |
Total | $136,994,408 |
Security Transactions and Investment Income: Security transactions are accounted for on trade date. Realized gains and losses are recorded on an identified cost basis and may include proceeds from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date or, in the case of dividends on certain foreign securities, as soon as the Portfolio is informed of the ex-dividend date. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Interest income, which includes amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities, is accrued as earned. Withholding taxes on foreign dividends have been provided for in accordance with the Portfolio's understanding of the applicable country's tax rules and rates.
Foreign Currency Transactions: The Portfolio's accounting records are maintained in U.S. dollars. For valuation of assets and liabilities on each date of net asset value determination, foreign denominations are converted into U.S. dollars using the current exchange rate. Security transactions, income and expenses are translated at the prevailing rate of exchange on the date of the event. The effect of changes in foreign exchange rates on securities is included with the net realized and unrealized gain or loss on investments.
Distributions to Shareholders: Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Portfolio on ex-dividend date. Dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains, if any, are paid at least annually. Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles; accordingly, periodic reclassifications are made within the Portfolio's capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution under income tax regulations.
Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Expense Offset Arrangements: The Portfolio has an arrangement with its custodian bank whereby the custodian's fees may be paid indirectly by credits earned on the Portfolio's cash on deposit with the bank. These credits are used to reduce the Portfolio's expenses. Such a deposit arrangement may be an alternative to overnight investments.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision for federal income or excise tax is required since the Portfolio intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code and to distribute substantially all of its taxable earnings.
The Portfolio is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The implementation of FIN 48 did not result in any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements or in any of the open tax years; thus, no provision for income tax is required. Each of the Portfolio's federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
Portfolio Securities Lending: During the year, the Portfolio lent its securities to approved borrowers to earn additional income and received cash and/or securities as collateral to secure the loans. The Securities Lending program ended in November 2008.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 161, "Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." The new standard is intended to improve financial reporting about derivative instruments and hedging activities by requiring enhanced disclosures to enable investors to better understand the effect on the Fund's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS No. 161 will have on the Fund's financial statements and related disclosures.
NOTE B -- RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") is wholly-owned by Calvert Group, Ltd. ("Calvert"), which is indirectly wholly owned by UNIFI Holding Company. The Advisor provides investment advisory services and pays the salaries and fees of officers and Directors of the Fund who are employees of the Advisor or its affiliates. For its services, the Advisor receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.64% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit Investment Partners, Inc., ("Summit") served as the Advisor. Summit is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Central Life Insurance Company, an indirect subsidiary of UNIFI Holding Company. Summit received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.64% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets.
Effective December 15, 2008, the Advisor has contractually agreed to limit net annual portfolio operating expenses through December 12, 2010. The contractual expense cap is 0.74%. For the purpose of this expense limit, operating expenses do not include interest expense, brokerage commissions, taxes, and extraordinary expenses. To the extent any expense credits are earned, the Advisor's obligation under the contractual limitation may be reduced and the Advisor may benefit from the expense offset arrangement.
Calvert Administrative Services Company ("CASC"), an affiliate of the Advisor, provides administrative services for the Portfolio. For its services, CASC receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit provided administrative services for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets.
Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. ("CSSI"), a subsidiary of Calvert, acts as shareholder servicing agent for the Portfolio. For its services, CSSI received a fee of $5 for the year ended December 31, 2008. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. is the transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Prior to December 12, 2008, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC served as the transfer and dividend disbursing agent.
Each Director of the Fund who is not an employee of the Advisor or its affiliates receives a fee of $1,500 for each Board and Committee meeting attended plus an annual fee of $20,000 for Directors not serving on other Calvert Fund Boards, $8,000 for those serving on other Calvert Fund Boards. Director's fees are allocated to each of the portfolios served. Prior to December 12, 2008, each Director of the Fund who was not an employee of Summit or its affiliates received a fee of $2,500 for each Board meeting attended ($600 for Committee meetings) plus an annual fee of $17,000. Committee chairs and the Lead Director received additional fees for their service.
NOTE C -- INVESTMENT ACTIVITY
During the year, the cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investments, other than short-term securities were $18,080,725 and $18,879,967, respectively.
The cost of investments owned at December 31, 2008 for federal income tax purposes was $226,977,856. Net unrealized depreciation aggregated $89,983,448, of which $430,805 related to appreciated securities and $90,414,253 related to depreciated securities. Net realized capital loss carryforwards for federal income tax purposes of $2,277,664 at December 31, 2008 may be utilized to offset future capital gains until expiration in December 2015. The Portfolio's use of net capital loss carryforwards acquired from Ameritas Income & Growth Portfolio may be limited under certain tax provisions.
The tax character of dividends and distributions paid during the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 was as follows:
Distributions paid from: | 2008 | 2007 |
Ordinary income | $3,179,457 | $2,319,583 |
Long term capital gain | 3,727,652 | 3,684,815 |
Total | $6,907,109 | $6,004,398 |
As of December 31, 2008 the components of distributable earnings / (accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
Undistributed ordinary income | $241,869 |
Undistributed long term capital gain | 369,027 |
Capital loss carryforward | (2,277,664) |
Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) | (89,983,448) |
| ($91,650,216) |
The differences between the components of distributable earnings on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the statement of net assets are primarily due to temporary book-tax differences that will reverse in a subsequent period. These differences are due to wash sales, partnerships and capital loss carryovers subject to limitations under the Internal Revenue Code section 382.
Reclassifications, as shown in the table below, have been made to the Portfolio's components of net assets to reflect income and gains available for distribution (or available capital loss carryovers, as applicable) under income tax law and regulations. These reclassifications are due to permanent book-tax differences and have no impact on net assets. The primary permanent differences causing such reclassifications for the Portfolio are due to partnerships and the tax-free merger with Ameritas Income & Growth Portfolio.
Undistributed net investment income | ($12,616) |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) | (2,430,907) |
Paid-in capital | 2,443,523 |
NOTE D - OTHER (Unaudited)
Change in Independent Accountant
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. ("Fund"). KPMG LLP was selected as the Fund's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the Fund's financial statements. The Funds' selection of KPMG as its independent accountant was recommended by the Fund's Audit Committee and was approved by the Fund's Board of Directors.
The reports on the financial statements audited by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2007 and prior for the Funds did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There were no disagreements between the Funds and Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused Deloitte to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements of such years. There were no reportable events as described in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of Item 304(a) of SEC Regulation S-K.
Tax Information (Unaudited)
The Portfolio designates $3,727,652 as capital gain dividends for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008.
For corporate shareholders, the Portfolio designates 61.6% of its ordinary dividends paid during the calendar year ended December 31, 2008, as qualifying for the corporate dividends received deduction.
Financial Highlights
| | | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | December 31, | |
Summit Zenith Portfolio | | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $92.96 | $101.12 | $91.78 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .61 | 1.64 | 1.42 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (34.05) | (.06) | 18.02 | |
Total from investment operations | | (33.44) | 1.58 | 19.44 | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (1.95) | (1.42) | (1.42) | |
Net realized gain | | (8.12) | (8.32) | (8.68) | |
Total distributions | | (10.07) | (9.74) | (10.10) | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (43.51) | (8.16) | 9.34 | |
Net asset value, ending | | $49.45 | $92.96 | $101.12 | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | (39.49%) | 1.40% | 23.12% | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.14% | 1.61% | 1.57% | |
Total expenses | | .90% | .87% | .88% | |
Expenses before offsets | | .90% | .87% | .88% | |
Net expenses | | .90% | .87% | .88% | |
Portfolio turnover | | 34% | 42% | 61% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $144,425 | $58,157 | $62,428 | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | | |
Summit Zenith Portfolio | | 2005 | 2004 | | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $91.30 | $80.76 | | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.35 | 1.47 | | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 4.57 | 10.33 | | |
Total from investment operations | | 5.92 | 11.80 | | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (1.43) | (1.26) | | |
Net realized gain | | (4.01) | -- | | |
Total distributions | | (5.44) | (1.26) | | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | 0.48 | 10.54 | | |
Net asset value, ending | | $91.78 | $91.30 | | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | 6.92% | 14.77% | | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.49% | 1.74% | | |
Total expenses | | .89% | .91% | | |
Expenses before offsets | | .89% | .91% | | |
Net expenses | | .89% | .91% | | |
Portfolio turnover | | 57% | 69% | | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $52,795 | $51,864 | | |
A Total expenses do not reflect amounts reimbursed and/or waived by the Advisor or reductions from expense offset arrangements. Expenses before offsets reflect expenses after reimbursement and/or waiver by the Advisor but prior to reductions from expense offset arrangements. Net expenses are net of all reductions and represent the net expenses paid by the portfolio.
* Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year.
See notes to financial statements.
Explanation of Financial Tables
Schedule of Investments
The Schedule of Investments is a snapshot of all securities held in the fund at their market value, on the last day of the reporting period. Securities are listed by asset type (e.g., common stock, corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations) and may be further broken down into sub-groups and by industry classification.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities is often referred to as the fund's balance sheet. It lists the value of what the fund owns, is due and owes on the last day of the reporting period. The fund's assets include the market value of securities owned, cash, receivables for securities sold and shareholder subscriptions, and receivables for dividends and interest payments that have been earned, but not yet received. The fund's liabilities typically include payables for securities purchased and shareholder redemptions, and expenses owed but not yet paid. The statement also reports the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share on the last day of the reporting period. The NAV is calculated by dividing the fund's net assets (assets minus liabilities) by the number of shares outstanding. This statement is accompanied by a Schedule of Investments. Alternatively, if certain conditions are met, a Statement of Net Assets may be presented in lieu of this statement and the Schedule of Investments.
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets provides a detailed list of the fund's holdings, including each security's market value on the last day of the reporting period. The Statement of Net Assets includes a Schedule of Investments. Other assets are added and other liabilities subtracted from the investments total to calculate the fund's net assets. Finally, net assets are divided by the outstanding shares of the fund to arrive at its share price, or Net Asset Value (NAV) per share.
At the end of the Statement of Net Assets is a table displaying the composition of the fund's net assets. Paid in Capital is the money invested by shareholders and represents the bulk of net assets. Undistributed Net Investment Income and Accumulated Net Realized Gains usually approximate the amounts the fund had available to distribute to shareholders as of the statement date. Accumulated Realized Losses will appear as negative balances. Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) is the difference between the market value of the fund's investments and their cost, and reflects the gains (losses) that would be realized if the fund were to sell all of its investments at their statement-date values.
Statement of Operations
The Statement of Operations summarizes the fund's investment income earned and expenses incurred in operating the fund. Investment income includes dividends earned from stocks and interest earned from interest-bearing securities in the fund. Expenses incurred in operating the fund include the advisory fee paid to the investment advisor, administrative services fees, distribution plan expenses (if applicable), transfer agent fees, shareholder servicing expenses, custodial, legal, and audit fees, and the printing and postage expenses related to shareholder reports. Expense offsets (fees paid indirectly) are also shown. Credits earned from offset arrangements are used to reduce the fund's expenses. This statement also shows net gains (losses) realized on the sale of investments and the increase or decrease in the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments held during the period.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
The Statement of Changes in Net Assets shows how the fund's total net assets changed during the two most recent reporting periods. Changes in the fund's net assets are attributable to investment operations, distributions and capital share transactions.
The Operations section of the report summarizes information detailed in the Statement of Operations. The Distribution section shows the dividend and capital gain distributions made to shareholders. The amounts shown as distributions in this section may not match the net investment income and realized gains amounts shown in the Operations section because distributions are determined on a tax basis and certain investments or transactions may be treated differently for financial statement and tax purposes. The Capital Share Transactions section shows the amount shareholders invested in the fund, either by purchasing shares or by reinvesting distributions, and the amounts redeemed. The corresponding numbers of shares issued, reinvested and redeemed are shown at the end of the report.
Financial Highlights
The Financial Highlights table provides a per-share breakdown by class of the components that affect the fund's net asset value for current and past reporting periods. The table provides total return, total distributions, expense ratios, portfolio turnover and net assets for the applicable period. Total return is a measure of a fund's performance that encompasses all elements of return: dividends, capital gain distributions and changes in net asset value. Total return is the change in value of an investment over a given period, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and capital gain distributions, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment. Total distributions include distributions from net investment income and net realized gains. Long-term gains are earned on securities held in the fund more than one year. Short-term gains, on the sale of securities held less than one year, are treated as ordinary dividend income for tax purposes. The expense ratio is a fund's cost of doing business, expres sed as a percentage of net assets. These expenses directly reduce returns to shareholders. Portfolio turnover measures the trading activity in a fund's investment portfolio -- how often securities are bought and sold by a fund. Portfolio turnover is affected by market conditions, changes in the size of the fund, the nature of the fund's investments and the investment style of the portfolio manager.
Proxy Voting
The Proxy Voting Guidelines that the Portfolio uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities are provided as an Appendix to the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. The Statement of Additional Information can be obtained free of charge by calling the Fund at 1-800-368-2745 or by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available by calling the Fund or visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Form N-Q is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's Form N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC; information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
This report is intended to provide fund information to shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.쇓
Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract
At a meeting held on December 4, 2008, the Board of Directors, and by a separate vote, the disinterested Directors, initially approved the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Portfolio and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") with respect to the Portfolio.
At the December 4, 2008 meeting, and in connection with the Advisor's impending purchase of the mutual fund business of Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), the Board, effective as of December 12, 2008, terminated the Portfolio's current investment advisory agreement with Summit and approved the selection of the Advisor as investment advisor to the Portfolio. In evaluating the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered a variety of information relating to the Portfolio and the Advisor. The disinterested Directors reviewed a report prepared by the Advisor regarding various services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and its affiliates.
The disinterested Directors were separately represented by independent legal counsel with respect to their consideration of the approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement. Prior to voting, the disinterested Directors reviewed the proposed approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement with management and also met in private sessions with their counsel at which no representatives of management were present.
In the course of its deliberations regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered the following factors, among others: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor, including the personnel who would be providing such services; the Advisor's financial condition; the level and method of computing the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee; performance, fee and expense information for the Portfolio; the profitability of the Calvert Group of Funds to the Advisor; the Advisor's process for monitoring "best execution"; the direct and indirect benefits, if any, to be derived by the Advisor from its relationship with the Portfolio; the effect of the Portfolio's growth and size on the Portfolio's performance and expenses; the Advisor's compliance programs and policies; the Advisor's performance of substantially similar duties for other funds; and any possible conflicts of interest.
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board reviewed information provided by the Advisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Advisor's operations and personnel, including, among other information, biographical information on the Advisor's investment, supervisory and professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. The Board also took into account similar information provided periodically throughout the previous year by the Advisor as well as the Board's familiarity with the Advisor's management through Board of Directors' meetings, discussions and other reports. The Board considered the Advisor's management style and its performance in employing its investment strategies for other funds, as well as its current level of staffing and overall resources. The Advisor's administrative capabilities, including its a bility to supervise the other service providers for the Portfolio, were also considered. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement.
In considering the Portfolio's performance, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board noted that year to date through December 2, 2008, the Portfolio had underperformed the Russell 1000 Value Index and S&P 500 Index. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor became investment advisor. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Portfolio's performance was satisfactory.
In considering the Portfolio's fees and expenses, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's fees and expenses. The Board noted that the Portfolio would pay the same advisory fee to the Advisor as it currently paid to Summit. The Board took into account that the Advisor had agreed to limit the Portfolio's net annual operating expenses through December 12, 2010 to the level in effect for the Portfolio on November 30, 2008. The Board also considered the impact of the size of the Portfolio on its expenses. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed advisory fee was reasonable in view of the quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and the other factors considered.
The Board reviewed the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio. In reviewing the anticipated profitability of the advisory fee to the Advisor, the Board also considered the fact that affiliates would provide shareholder servicing and administrative services to the Portfolio for which they would receive compensation. The Board also considered whether the Advisor had the financial wherewithal to provide a high level of services to the Portfolio. The Board also considered that the Advisor would likely derive benefits to its reputation and other indirect benefits from its relationship with the Portfolio. The Board noted that the Advisor had agreed to reimburse expenses of the Portfolio above a certain level. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was reasonable.
The Board considered the effect of the Portfolio's current size and potential growth on its performance and expenses. The Board noted that if the Portfolio's assets increased over time, the Portfolio might realize other economies of scale if assets increased proportionately more than certain other expenses. The Board took into account that the Portfolio might achieve operational efficiencies by joining the Calvert Group of Funds. The Board concluded that adding breakpoints to the advisory fee at specified asset levels was not appropriate given the Portfolio's current size.
In approving the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
Conclusions
The Board reached the following conclusions regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, among others: (a) the Advisor has demonstrated that it possesses the capability and resources to perform the duties required of it under the Investment Advisory Agreement; (b) the Advisor maintains an appropriate compliance program; (c) performance of the Portfolio is satisfactory in relation to relevant indices; (d) the Advisor is likely to execute its investment strategies consistently over time; and (e) the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee is reasonable in relation to the services to be provided by the Advisor. Based on its conclusions, the Board determined that approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement would be in the interests of the Portfolio and its shareholders.
Director and Officer Information Table
Name & Age | Position with Fund
| Position Start Date
| Principal Occupation During Last 5 Years | (Not Applicable to Officers) |
# of Calvert Portfolios Overseen | Other Directorships |
Independent Directors |
FRANK H. BLATZ, JR., Esq. AGE: 73 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Of counsel to firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. Mr. Blatz was an attorney in private practice in Fanwood, NJ from 1999 to 2004. | 27 | |
ALICE GRESHAM AGE: 58 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean and Professor at Howard University School of Law. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. | 28 | - Council on Legal Education Opportunity
- North Country School
|
M. CHARITO KRUVANT AGE: 63 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | President and CEO of Creative Associates International, Inc., a firm that specializes in human resources development, information management, public affairs and private enterprise development. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Foundation
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
|
CYNTHIA MILLIGAN AGE: 62 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Formerly, she was the President and Chief Executive Officer for CMA, a consulting firm for financial institutions. | 28 | - Wells Fargo Company- NYSE
- Gallup, Inc.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Raven Industries - NASDAQ
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Non-Profit)
- Prison Fellowship Ministries (Non-Profit)
|
ARTHUR J. PUGH AGE: 71 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Retired executive. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
|
Interested Directors |
BARBARA J. KRUMSIEK AGE: 56 | Director & Chair-person | 1997 CVS 2008 Summit | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Calvert Group, Ltd. | 58 | - Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Acacia Life Insurance Company (Chair)
- UNIFI Mutual Holding Company
- Ameritas Holding Company
|
WILLIAM LESTER AGE: 51 | Director & President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | President, CEO and Treasurer of Summit Investment Advisors, Inc. | 27 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Investment Advisors, Inc.
- Ameritas Investment Corp.
|
Officers |
KAREN BECKER AGE: 56 | Chief Compliance Officer | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Chief Compliance Officer for the Calvert Funds. Prior to 2005, Ms. Becker was Senior Vice President of Calvert Group, Ltd. and Head of Calvert Client Services. |
SUSAN WALKER BENDER, Esq. AGE: 50 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1988 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
THOMAS DAILEY AGE: 44 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
IVY WAFFORD DUKE, Esq. AGE: 40 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd., and since 2004, Chief Compliance Officer for Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
TRACI L. GOLDT AGE: 35 | Assistant Secretary | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Executive Assistant to General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
GREGORY B. HABEEB AGE: 59 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
DANIEL K. HAYES AGE: 58 | Vice President | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
HUI PING HO, CPA Age: 44 | Assistant Treasurer | 2000 CVS 2008 Summit | Tax Compliance Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
LANCELOT A. KING, Esq. AGE: 38 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2002 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
EDITH LILLIE AGE: 52 | Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Secretary and Regulatory Matters Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
AUGUSTO DIVO MACEDO, Esq. AGE: 46 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, and Associate Counsel Compliance Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Mr. Macedo served as 2nd Vice President at Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Advisors Group, Acacia's broker-dealer and federally registered investment adviser. |
JANE B. MAXWELL Esq. AGE: 56 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Maxwell was an associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP. |
ANDREW K. NIEBLER, Esq. AGE: 41 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2006 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Niebler was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. |
CATHERINE P. ROY AGE: 53 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Roy was Senior Vice President of US Fixed Income for Baring Asset Management, and SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager of Scudder Insurance Asset Management. |
WILLIAM M. TARTIKOFF, Esq. AGE: 61 | Vice President & Secretary | 1990 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
NATALIE TRUNOW AGE: 41 | Vice President | 2008 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc., Head of Equities. Prior to joining Calvert in August 2008, Ms. Trunow was the Section Head (2005-2008) and Portfolio Manager (2001-2008) for the Global Public Markets Group of General Motors Asset Management. |
RONALD M. WOLFSHEIMER, CPA AGE: 56 | Treasurer | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
MICHAEL V. YUHAS JR., CPA AGE: 47 | Fund Controller | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Fund Administration of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
The address of Directors and Officers is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 1000N, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Ms. Krumsiek is an interested person of the Fund since she is an officer and director of the Fund's Advisor and its affiliates. Mr. Lester is an interested person of the Fund since he is an officer and director of the parent company of the Fund's Advisor.
Additional information about the Fund's Directors can be found in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). You can get a free copy of the SAI by contacting your broker, or the Fund at 1-800-368-2745.
Shareholder Meeting Results
A special shareholder meeting was held on December 5, 2008, by the Summit Zenith Portfolio of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. for the purpose of considering and voting on the issues below. The voting results were as follows:
- To approve an Investment Advisory Agreement with Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
534,206.846 | 38,369.530 | 102,041.624 |
- To elect the Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Name of Director | For | Withhold |
Frank H. Blatz, Jr. | 631,461.415 | 43,156.585 |
Alice Gresham | 631,941.742 | 42,676.258 |
Barbara J. Krumsiek | 631,941.742 | 42,676.258 |
M. Charito Kruvant | 631,461.415 | 43,156.585 |
William Lester | 631,461.415 | 43,156.585 |
Cynthia Milligan | 631,941.742 | 42,676.258 |
Arthur J. Pugh | 631,461.415 | 43,156.585 |
- To ratify the selection of auditors, KPMG, LLP for the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
642,724.917 | 13,288.004 | 18,605.079 |
4. To authorize the Board of Directors of the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. to enter into and materially amend agreements with investment subadvisors on behalf of the Funds without obtaining shareholder approval.
For | Against | Abstain |
601,549.014 | 54,090.493 | 18,978.493 |
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Summit S&P 500 Index Portfolio
Annual Report
December 31, 2008
Summit Mutual Funds
Calvert
Investments That Make A Difference
A UNIFI Company
Summit S&P 500 Index Portfolio
Annual Report, DECEMBER 31, 2008
Table Of Contents
3 | | Portfolio Manager Remarks |
5 | | Shareholder Expense Example |
6 | | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
7 | | Statement of Net Assets |
20 | | Statement of Operations |
21 | | Statements of Changes in Net Assets |
22 | | Notes to Financial Statements |
27 | | Financial Highlights |
28 | | Explanation of Financial Tables |
29 | | Proxy Voting and Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings |
30 | | Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract |
33 | | Director and Officer Information Table |
Summit S&P 500 Index Portfolio
Managed by Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
Performance
For the 12 months ended December 31, 2008, the Summit S&P 500 Index Portfolio returned -37.10% compared to a -37.00% return for the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 Index. As an index fund, the Portfolio uses a passive management approach and seeks, as closely as possible, to replicate the holdings and match the performance of the S&P 500 Index, before fees and expenses. The slight difference of -0.10% is largely attributable to the Portfolio's fees and operating expenses, including advisory, administration, and accounting costs.
Summit S&P 500 Index Portfolio*
Comparison of change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment.
Average Annual Total Return (period ended 12.31.08) | |
One year | (37.10%) |
Five year | (2.52%) |
Ten year | (4.43%) |
*Performance information is for the Portfolio only and does not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Past performance does not indicate future results.
Investment Climate
It is now official: the U.S. is in a recession and has been since December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the standard arbiter of the U.S. business cycle. The U.S. economy is embroiled in a severe downturn, made much worse by the credit crunch and dramatic decline in economic activity that has spread around the globe. The financial markets had a tough year, with the large-cap S&P 500 Index down 37%, its worst year since 1931. It did rally 20% after reaching its low for the period on November 20, but the financial markets continued to be rocked by company and industry declines and financial scandals.
Extraordinary volatility characterized the investment climate, especially toward year-end. On 18 occasions during the fourth quarter, the S&P 500 Index fell or rose more than 5% in a single day. That was more than during the previous 53 years combined. For the 12-month period, all sectors in the S&P 500 Index declined and large-capitalization stocks fell more than small-capitalization stocks--a trend that reversed in the fourth quarter. We would expect the more recent trend to continue, as investors are likely to favor the perceived greater stability of large-cap stocks over small- and mid-capitalization stocks.
Portfolio Strategy
The Portfolio invests in stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, representing 500 of the largest U.S. companies, and closely tracks the Index's sector allocations. The S&P 500 Index is a widely used proxy for the overall U.S. stock market. In terms of sector allocations, as of year-end, the S&P 500 Index was most heavily weighted in the Information Technology sector (at 15.27%) and Health Care (at 14.79%), followed by Energy (at 13.34%) and Financials (at 13.29%).
Looking at performance contribution, in 2008, all sectors in the S&P 500 Index declined by 15% or more, reflecting the severe U.S. economic and market malaise. The three best-performing sectors of the Index were Consumer Staples (at -15.3%), Health Care (at -22.83%), and Utilities (at -29.02%). Each of these sectors is considered defensive as they are less exposed to the deteriorating economy. Financials (at -55.23%) was by far the worst-performing S&P 500 Index sector, followed by Materials (at -45.68%) and Information Technology (at -43.01%). Financials turned down sharply in the last quarter as the expected financial cost of the recession surged. Materials bore the brunt of the impact from the quick slide in emerging market economies.
Economic Sectors | | % of Total Investments |
Consumer Discretionary | | 8.4% |
Consumer Staples | | 12.8% |
Energy | | 13.3% |
Financials | | 13.3% |
Health Care | | 14.8% |
Industrials | | 11.1% |
Information Technology | | 15.3% |
Materials | | 3.0% |
Telecommunications Services | | 3.8% |
Utilities | | 4.2% |
Total | | 100% |
Outlook
At the end of December, markets had a "relief" rally despite the bad economic news, with higher-beta (riskier) markets and sectors rebounding the most. This positive trend may emerge when markets shrug off negative news and trend higher. December certainly qualifies since markets closed higher at month-end, despite negative job, earnings, and housing reports. If the trend continues, we may see more of a relief rally in the short-term. However, judging by Wall Street analyst consensus earnings forecasts for 2009, earnings expectations are still too positive and too optimistic for the year and in disconnect with a decelerating real economy.
We believe earnings expectations will have to come down further, especially since firms' capital expenditures on equipment and property (i.e., Capex) continued to decelerate and manufacturing activity contracted at a faster pace at year-end--all of which are likely to negatively impact business investment in 2009. This means that, if the markets pay attention to earnings in 2009, we may see additional volatility in the equity markets.
Looking ahead, we are in uncharted territory when we consider the economic data, fiscal and monetary government stimulus, and the response of the financial markets. While the near-term outlook for the markets and economy is likely to remain volatile and unpredictable, there are longer-term measures in place that may help move eventual recovery ahead. For example, the U.S. stimulus package already in place, combined with the Obama administration's economic recovery program, may set the stage for an eventual recovery in the U.S. economy. In addition, governments in Europe and Asia are taking concerted action to bolster their economies, along with the U.S. Patience will be required, however, as this recession may be deep and long.
January 2009
We welcome our investors from Calvert Variable Series, Inc. Ameritas Index 500 Portfolio, which merged into Summit S&P 500 Index Portfolio in December 2008. |
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008).
Note: Expenses do not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare the 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Beginning Account Value 7/1/08 | Ending Account Value 12/31/08 | Expenses Paid During Period* 7/1/08 - 12/31/08 |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $715.30 | $1.68 |
Hypothetical | $1,000.00 | $1,023.18 | $1.98 |
(5% return per year before expenses) |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio of 0.39%, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/366.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Shareholders of Summit S&P 500 Index Portfolio:
We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets of the Summit S&P 500 Index Portfolio (the Portfolio), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., as of December 31, 2008, and the related statements of operations, changes in net assets and the financial highlights for the year then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audit. The accompanying financial statements and financial highlights of the Portfolio for the periods presented through December 31, 2007 were audited by other auditors whose report thereon dated February 22, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2008, by correspondence with custodians and brokers. As to securities purchased or sold but not yet received or delivered, we performed other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Summit S&P 500 Index Portfolio as of December 31, 2008, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
KPMG LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2009
S&P 500 Index Portfolio
Statement of Net Assets
December 31, 2008
Equity Securities - 99.6% | | Shares | Value |
Aerospace & Defense - 2.8% | | | |
Boeing Co. | | 19,814 | $845,463 |
General Dynamics Corp. | | 10,541 | 607,056 |
Goodrich Corp. | | 3,343 | 123,758 |
Honeywell International, Inc. | | 19,637 | 644,683 |
L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. | | 3,242 | 239,195 |
Lockheed Martin Corp. | | 9,002 | 756,888 |
Northrop Grumman Corp. | | 8,840 | 398,153 |
Precision Castparts Corp. | | 3,770 | 224,240 |
Raytheon Co. | | 11,196 | 571,444 |
Rockwell Collins, Inc. | | 4,299 | 168,048 |
United Technologies Corp. | | 25,702 | 1,377,627 |
| | | 5,956,555 |
| | | |
Air Freight & Logistics - 1.2% | | | |
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. | | 4,575 | 251,762 |
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. | | 5,758 | 191,569 |
FedEx Corp. | | 8,415 | 539,822 |
United Parcel Service, Inc., Class B | | 26,907 | 1,484,190 |
| | | 2,467,343 |
| | | |
Airlines - 0.1% | | | |
Southwest Airlines Co. | | 20,000 | 172,400 |
| | | |
Auto Components - 0.2% | | | |
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.* | | 6,606 | 39,438 |
Johnson Controls, Inc. | | 16,065 | 291,740 |
| | | 331,178 |
| | | |
Automobiles - 0.1% | | | |
Ford Motor Co.* | | 64,871 | 148,555 |
General Motors Corp. | | 16,488 | 52,761 |
Harley-Davidson, Inc. | | 6,295 | 106,826 |
| | | 308,142 |
| | | |
Beverages - 2.6% | | | |
Brown-Forman Corp., Class B | | 2,652 | 136,551 |
Coca-Cola Co. | | 53,794 | 2,435,254 |
Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. | | 8,524 | 102,544 |
Constellation Brands, Inc.* | | 5,263 | 82,998 |
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.* | | 6,893 | 112,011 |
Molson Coors Brewing Co., Class B | | 4,025 | 196,903 |
Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. | | 3,670 | 82,612 |
PepsiCo, Inc. | | 41,992 | 2,299,902 |
| | | 5,448,775 |
| | | |
Biotechnology - 2.2% | | | |
Amgen, Inc.* | | 28,646 | 1,654,306 |
Biogen Idec, Inc.* | | 7,901 | 376,325 |
Celgene Corp.* | | 12,388 | 684,809 |
Cephalon, Inc.* | | 1,851 | 142,601 |
Genzyme Corp.* | | 7,314 | 485,430 |
Gilead Sciences, Inc.* | | 24,872 | 1,271,954 |
| | | 4,615,425 |
| | | |
Building Products - 0.1% | | | |
Masco Corp. | | 9,731 | 108,306 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Capital Markets - 2.4% | | | |
American Capital Ltd. | | 5,709 | $18,497 |
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. | | 5,857 | 136,820 |
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. | | 31,027 | 878,995 |
Charles Schwab Corp. | | 25,299 | 409,085 |
E*Trade Financial Corp.* | | 14,304 | 16,450 |
Federated Investors, Inc., Class B | | 2,401 | 40,721 |
Franklin Resources, Inc. | | 4,090 | 260,860 |
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | | 11,956 | 1,008,967 |
Invesco Ltd. | | 10,454 | 150,956 |
Janus Capital Group, Inc. | | 4,375 | 35,131 |
Legg Mason, Inc. | | 3,885 | 85,120 |
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. | | 43,291 | 503,907 |
Morgan Stanley | | 28,713 | 460,557 |
Northern Trust Corp. | | 6,024 | 314,091 |
State Street Corp. | | 11,679 | 459,335 |
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. | | 6,987 | 247,619 |
| | | 5,027,111 |
| | | |
Chemicals - 1.7% | | | |
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. | | 5,667 | 284,880 |
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. | | 1,550 | 76,198 |
Dow Chemical Co. | | 24,976 | 376,888 |
Eastman Chemical Co. | | 1,983 | 62,881 |
Ecolab, Inc. | | 4,553 | 160,038 |
EI Du Pont de Nemours & Co. | | 24,397 | 617,244 |
International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. | | 2,127 | 63,214 |
Monsanto Co. | | 14,815 | 1,042,235 |
PPG Industries, Inc. | | 4,440 | 188,389 |
Praxair, Inc. | | 8,339 | 495,003 |
Rohm & Haas Co. | | 3,371 | 208,294 |
Sigma-Aldrich Corp. | | 3,390 | 143,194 |
| | | 3,718,458 |
| | | |
Commercial Banks - 3.1% | | | |
BB&T Corp. | | 14,967 | 410,994 |
Comerica, Inc. | | 4,069 | 80,770 |
Fifth Third Bancorp | | 15,614 | 128,972 |
First Horizon National Corp. | | 5,622 | 59,424 |
Huntington Bancshares, Inc. | | 9,897 | 75,811 |
KeyCorp | | 13,502 | 115,037 |
M&T Bank Corp. | | 2,088 | 119,872 |
Marshall & Ilsley Corp. | | 7,038 | 95,998 |
National City Corp. | | 55,291 | 100,077 |
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. | | 9,413 | 461,237 |
Regions Financial Corp. | | 18,709 | 148,923 |
SunTrust Banks, Inc. | | 9,574 | 282,816 |
US Bancorp | | 47,439 | 1,186,449 |
Wachovia Corp. | | 58,428 | 323,691 |
Wells Fargo & Co. | | 102,462 | 3,020,580 |
Zions Bancorp | | 3,149 | 77,182 |
| | | 6,687,833 |
| | | |
Commercial Services & Supplies - 0.5% | | | |
Avery Dennison Corp. | | 2,886 | 94,459 |
Cintas Corp. | | 3,553 | 82,536 |
Pitney Bowes, Inc. | | 5,598 | 142,637 |
Republic Services, Inc. | | 8,718 | 216,119 |
RR Donnelley & Sons Co. | | 5,567 | 75,600 |
Stericycle, Inc.* | | 2,314 | 120,513 |
Waste Management, Inc.* | | 13,264 | 439,569 |
| | | 1,171,433 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Communications Equipment - 2.5% | | | |
Ciena Corp.* | | 2,464 | $16,509 |
Cisco Systems, Inc.* | | 158,303 | 2,580,339 |
Corning, Inc. | | 42,024 | 400,489 |
Harris Corp. | | 3,639 | 138,464 |
JDS Uniphase Corp.* | | 5,972 | 21,798 |
Juniper Networks, Inc.* | | 14,275 | 249,955 |
Motorola, Inc. | | 61,275 | 271,448 |
QUALCOMM, Inc. | | 44,759 | 1,603,715 |
Tellabs, Inc.* | | 11,001 | 45,324 |
| | | 5,328,041 |
| | | |
Computers & Peripherals - 4.2% | | | |
Apple, Inc.* | | 24,034 | 2,051,302 |
Dell, Inc.* | | 46,789 | 479,119 |
EMC Corp.* | | 55,176 | 577,693 |
Hewlett-Packard Co. | | 66,216 | 2,402,979 |
International Business Machines Corp. | | 36,323 | 3,056,944 |
Lexmark International, Inc.* | | 2,129 | 57,270 |
NetApp, Inc.* | | 8,916 | 124,556 |
QLogic Corp.* | | 3,459 | 46,489 |
SanDisk Corp.* | | 6,112 | 58,675 |
Sun Microsystems, Inc.* | | 19,969 | 76,282 |
Teradata Corp.* | | 4,779 | 70,872 |
| | | 9,002,181 |
| | | |
Construction & Engineering - 0.2% | | | |
Fluor Corp. | | 4,906 | 220,132 |
Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.* | | 3,322 | 159,788 |
| | | 379,920 |
| | | |
Construction Materials - 0.1% | | | |
Vulcan Materials Co. | | 2,978 | 207,209 |
| | | |
Consumer Finance - 0.5% | | | |
American Express Co. | | 31,360 | 581,728 |
Capital One Financial Corp. | | 10,590 | 337,715 |
Discover Financial Services | | 13,032 | 124,195 |
SLM Corp.* | | 12,689 | 112,932 |
| | | 1,156,570 |
| | | |
Containers & Packaging - 0.2% | | | |
Ball Corp. | | 2,569 | 106,845 |
Bemis Co., Inc. | | 2,695 | 63,817 |
Owens-Illinois, Inc.* | | 4,674 | 127,740 |
Pactiv Corp.* | | 3,568 | 88,772 |
Sealed Air Corp. | | 4,269 | 63,779 |
| | | 450,953 |
| | | |
Distributors - 0.1% | | | |
Genuine Parts Co. | | 4,330 | 163,934 |
| | | |
Diversified Consumer Services - 0.2% | | | |
Apollo Group, Inc.* | | 2,893 | 221,662 |
H&R Block, Inc. | | 9,204 | 209,115 |
| | | 430,777 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Diversified Financial Services - 3.3% | | | |
Bank of America Corp. | | 135,659 | $1,910,079 |
CIT Group, Inc. | | 10,120 | 45,945 |
Citigroup, Inc. | | 147,338 | 988,638 |
CME Group, Inc. | | 1,812 | 377,095 |
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc.* | | 1,962 | 161,747 |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | | 100,911 | 3,181,724 |
Leucadia National Corp. | | 4,786 | 94,763 |
Moody's Corp. | | 5,275 | 105,975 |
NYSE Euronext | | 7,196 | 197,026 |
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.* | | 3,697 | 91,353 |
| | | 7,154,345 |
| | | |
Diversified Telecommunication Services - 3.6% | | | |
AT&T, Inc. | | 159,328 | 4,540,848 |
CenturyTel, Inc. | | 2,719 | 74,310 |
Embarq Corp. | | 3,843 | 138,194 |
Frontier Communications Corp. | | 8,454 | 73,888 |
Qwest Communications International, Inc. | | 39,782 | 144,807 |
Verizon Communications, Inc. | | 76,798 | 2,603,452 |
Windstream Corp. | | 11,881 | 109,305 |
| | | 7,684,804 |
| | | |
Electric Utilities - 2.5% | | | |
Allegheny Energy, Inc. | | 4,571 | 154,774 |
American Electric Power Co., Inc. | | 10,911 | 363,118 |
Duke Energy Corp. | | 34,210 | 513,492 |
Edison International | | 8,809 | 282,945 |
Entergy Corp. | | 5,119 | 425,543 |
Exelon Corp. | | 17,789 | 989,246 |
FirstEnergy Corp. | | 8,242 | 400,396 |
FPL Group, Inc. | | 11,051 | 556,197 |
Pepco Holdings, Inc. | | 5,894 | 104,678 |
Pinnacle West Capital Corp. | | 2,726 | 87,586 |
PPL Corp. | | 10,139 | 311,166 |
Progress Energy, Inc. | | 7,136 | 284,370 |
Southern Co. | | 20,943 | 774,891 |
| | | 5,248,402 |
| | | |
Electrical Equipment - 0.5% | | | |
Cooper Industries Ltd. | | 4,706 | 137,556 |
Emerson Electric Co. | | 20,739 | 759,255 |
Rockwell Automation, Inc. | | 3,843 | 123,898 |
| | | 1,020,709 |
| | | |
Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 0.3% | | | |
Agilent Technologies, Inc.* | | 9,505 | 148,563 |
Amphenol Corp. | | 4,753 | 113,977 |
FLIR Systems, Inc.* | | 3,888 | 119,284 |
Jabil Circuit, Inc. | | 5,852 | 39,501 |
Molex, Inc. | | 3,857 | 55,888 |
Tyco Electronics Ltd. | | 12,427 | 201,442 |
| | | 678,655 |
| | | |
Energy Equipment & Services - 1.5% | | | |
Baker Hughes, Inc. | | 8,315 | 266,662 |
BJ Services Co. | | 7,928 | 92,520 |
Cameron International Corp.* | | 5,936 | 121,688 |
ENSCO International, Inc. | | 3,835 | 108,876 |
Halliburton Co. | | 24,165 | 439,320 |
Nabors Industries Ltd.* | | 7,691 | 92,061 |
National Oilwell Varco, Inc.* | | 11,284 | 275,781 |
Noble Corp. | | 7,167 | 158,319 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Energy Equipment & Services - Cont'd | | | |
Rowan Co's, Inc. | | 3,056 | $48,590 |
Schlumberger Ltd. | | 32,341 | 1,368,995 |
Smith International, Inc. | | 5,880 | 134,593 |
Weatherford International Ltd.* | | 18,415 | 199,250 |
| | | 3,306,655 |
| | | |
Food & Staples Retailing - 3.3% | | | |
Costco Wholesale Corp. | | 11,672 | 612,780 |
CVS Caremark Corp. | | 38,831 | 1,116,003 |
Kroger Co. | | 17,641 | 465,899 |
Safeway, Inc. | | 11,591 | 275,518 |
SUPERVALU, Inc. | | 5,726 | 83,600 |
SYSCO Corp. | | 16,199 | 371,605 |
Walgreen Co. | | 26,764 | 660,268 |
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | | 60,451 | 3,388,883 |
Whole Foods Market, Inc. | | 3,794 | 35,815 |
| | | 7,010,371 |
| | | |
Food Products - 1.8% | | | |
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. | | 17,344 | 500,028 |
Campbell Soup Co. | | 5,587 | 167,666 |
ConAgra Foods, Inc. | | 12,141 | 200,326 |
Dean Foods Co.* | | 4,207 | 75,600 |
General Mills, Inc. | | 9,034 | 548,815 |
H.J. Heinz Co. | | 8,503 | 319,713 |
Hershey Co. | | 4,512 | 156,747 |
J.M. Smucker Co. | | 3,216 | 139,446 |
Kellogg Co. | | 6,816 | 298,882 |
Kraft Foods, Inc. | | 39,721 | 1,066,509 |
McCormick & Co., Inc. | | 3,534 | 112,593 |
Sara Lee Corp. | | 19,113 | 187,116 |
Tyson Foods, Inc. | | 8,278 | 72,515 |
| | | 3,845,956 |
| | | |
Gas Utilities - 0.1% | | | |
Equitable Resources, Inc. | | 3,553 | 119,203 |
Nicor, Inc. | | 1,239 | 43,043 |
Questar Corp. | | 4,710 | 153,970 |
| | | 316,216 |
| | | |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 2.2% | | | |
Baxter International, Inc. | | 16,768 | 898,597 |
Becton Dickinson & Co. | | 6,574 | 449,596 |
Boston Scientific Corp.* | | 40,597 | 314,221 |
C.R. Bard, Inc. | | 2,694 | 226,997 |
Covidien Ltd. | | 13,616 | 493,444 |
DENTSPLY International, Inc. | | 4,045 | 114,231 |
Hospira, Inc.* | | 4,315 | 115,728 |
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.* | | 1,058 | 134,355 |
Medtronic, Inc. | | 30,234 | 949,952 |
St. Jude Medical, Inc.* | | 9,304 | 306,660 |
Stryker Corp. | | 6,550 | 261,673 |
Varian Medical Systems, Inc.* | | 3,360 | 117,734 |
Zimmer Holdings, Inc.* | | 6,072 | 245,430 |
| | | 4,628,618 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Health Care Providers & Services - 2.1% | | | |
Aetna, Inc. | | 12,467 | $355,309 |
AmerisourceBergen Corp. | | 4,242 | 151,270 |
Cardinal Health, Inc. | | 9,723 | 335,152 |
Cigna Corp. | | 7,481 | 126,055 |
Coventry Health Care, Inc.* | | 4,084 | 60,770 |
DaVita, Inc.* | | 2,819 | 139,738 |
Express Scripts, Inc.* | | 6,691 | 367,871 |
Humana, Inc.* | | 4,581 | 170,780 |
Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings* | | 2,933 | 188,914 |
McKesson Corp. | | 7,460 | 288,926 |
Medco Health Solutions, Inc.* | | 13,465 | 564,318 |
Patterson Co's, Inc.* | | 2,515 | 47,156 |
Quest Diagnostics, Inc. | | 4,303 | 223,369 |
Tenet Healthcare Corp.* | | 11,466 | 13,186 |
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. | | 32,656 | 868,650 |
WellPoint, Inc.* | | 13,763 | 579,835 |
| | | 4,481,299 |
| | | |
Health Care Technology - 0.0% | | | |
IMS Health, Inc. | | 4,985 | 75,573 |
| | | |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.5% | | | |
Carnival Corp. | | 11,816 | 287,365 |
Darden Restaurants, Inc. | | 3,767 | 106,154 |
International Game Technology | | 8,003 | 95,156 |
Marriott International, Inc. | | 7,929 | 154,219 |
McDonald's Corp. | | 30,134 | 1,874,033 |
Starbucks Corp.* | | 19,886 | 188,122 |
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. | | 4,970 | 88,963 |
Wyndham Worldwide Corp. | | 4,795 | 31,407 |
Wynn Resorts Ltd.* | | 1,673 | 70,701 |
Yum! Brands, Inc. | | 12,507 | 393,971 |
| | | 3,290,091 |
| | | |
Household Durables - 0.4% | | | |
Black & Decker Corp. | | 1,625 | 67,941 |
Centex Corp. | | 3,392 | 36,091 |
D.R. Horton, Inc. | | 7,449 | 52,664 |
Fortune Brands, Inc. | | 4,053 | 167,308 |
Harman International Industries, Inc. | | 1,637 | 27,387 |
KB Home* | | 2,036 | 27,730 |
Leggett & Platt, Inc. | | 4,242 | 64,436 |
Lennar Corp. | | 3,912 | 33,917 |
Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. | | 7,495 | 73,301 |
Pulte Homes, Inc. | | 5,779 | 63,165 |
Snap-on, Inc. | | 1,577 | 62,102 |
Stanley Works | | 2,131 | 72,667 |
Whirlpool Corp. | | 1,996 | 82,535 |
| | | 831,244 |
| | | |
Household Products - 3.2% | | | |
Clorox Co. | | 3,767 | 209,294 |
Colgate-Palmolive Co. | | 13,646 | 935,297 |
Kimberly-Clark Corp. | | 11,187 | 590,002 |
Procter & Gamble Co. | | 80,724 | 4,990,358 |
| | | 6,724,951 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders - 0.1% | | | |
AES Corp.* | | 18,269 | $150,537 |
Constellation Energy Group, Inc. | | 4,845 | 121,561 |
Dynegy, Inc.* | | 14,109 | 28,218 |
| | | 300,316 |
| | | |
Industrial Conglomerates - 2.8% | | | |
3M Co. | | 18,736 | 1,078,069 |
General Electric Co. | | 283,975 | 4,600,395 |
Textron, Inc. | | 6,547 | 90,807 |
Tyco International Ltd. | | 12,787 | 276,199 |
| | | 6,045,470 |
| | | |
Insurance - 2.7% | | | |
Aflac, Inc. | | 12,603 | 577,721 |
Allstate Corp. | | 14,491 | 474,725 |
American International Group, Inc. | | 73,208 | 114,937 |
AON Corp. | | 7,295 | 333,236 |
Assurant, Inc. | | 3,180 | 95,400 |
Chubb Corp. | | 9,618 | 490,518 |
Cincinnati Financial Corp. | | 4,410 | 128,199 |
Genworth Financial, Inc. | | 11,982 | 33,909 |
Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. | | 8,205 | 134,726 |
Lincoln National Corp. | | 6,919 | 130,354 |
Loews Corp. | | 9,787 | 276,483 |
Marsh & McLennan Co.'s, Inc. | | 13,900 | 337,353 |
MBIA, Inc. | | 5,116 | 20,822 |
MetLife, Inc. | | 21,457 | 747,991 |
Principal Financial Group, Inc. | | 7,063 | 159,412 |
Progressive Corp. | | 18,267 | 270,534 |
Prudential Financial, Inc. | | 11,464 | 346,901 |
Torchmark Corp. | | 2,309 | 103,212 |
Travelers Co.'s, Inc. | | 15,804 | 714,341 |
Unum Group | | 8,992 | 167,251 |
XL Capital Ltd. | | 8,897 | 32,919 |
| | | 5,690,944 |
| | | |
Internet & Catalog Retail - 0.2% | | | |
Amazon.com, Inc.* | | 8,699 | 446,085 |
Expedia, Inc.* | | 5,664 | 46,671 |
| | | 492,756 |
| | | |
Internet Software & Services - 1.4% | | | |
Akamai Technologies, Inc.* | | 4,573 | 69,006 |
eBay, Inc.* | | 29,001 | 404,854 |
Google, Inc.* | | 6,468 | 1,989,880 |
VeriSign, Inc.* | | 5,247 | 100,113 |
Yahoo!, Inc.* | | 37,520 | 457,744 |
| | | 3,021,597 |
| | | |
IT Services - 1.0% | | | |
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.* | | 2,638 | 121,216 |
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | | 13,732 | 540,217 |
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.* | | 7,873 | 142,186 |
Computer Sciences Corp.* | | 4,096 | 143,934 |
Convergys Corp.* | | 3,301 | 21,159 |
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. | | 5,171 | 84,132 |
Fiserv, Inc.* | | 4,349 | 158,173 |
MasterCard, Inc. | | 1,957 | 279,714 |
Paychex, Inc. | | 8,682 | 228,163 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
IT Services - Cont'd | | | |
Total System Services, Inc. | | 5,322 | $74,508 |
Western Union Co. | | 19,347 | 277,436 |
| | | 2,070,838 |
| | | |
Leisure Equipment & Products - 0.1% | | | |
Eastman Kodak Co. | | 7,363 | 48,448 |
Hasbro, Inc. | | 3,364 | 98,128 |
Mattel, Inc. | | 9,733 | 155,728 |
| | | 302,304 |
| | | |
Life Sciences - Tools & Services - 0.3% | | | |
Life Technologies Corp.* | | 4,687 | 109,257 |
Millipore Corp.* | | 1,494 | 76,971 |
PerkinElmer, Inc. | | 3,194 | 44,429 |
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.* | | 11,362 | 387,103 |
Waters Corp.* | | 2,659 | 97,452 |
| | | 715,212 |
| | | |
Machinery - 1.6% | | | |
Caterpillar, Inc. | | 16,310 | 728,568 |
Cummins, Inc. | | 5,445 | 145,545 |
Danaher Corp. | | 6,913 | 391,345 |
Deere & Co. | | 11,545 | 442,404 |
Dover Corp. | | 5,050 | 166,246 |
Eaton Corp. | | 4,478 | 222,601 |
Flowserve Corp. | | 1,529 | 78,743 |
Illinois Tool Works, Inc. | | 10,642 | 373,002 |
Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd. | | 8,619 | 149,540 |
ITT Corp.* | | 4,910 | 225,811 |
Manitowoc Co., Inc. | | 3,601 | 31,185 |
PACCAR, Inc. | | 9,806 | 280,452 |
Pall Corp. | | 3,207 | 91,175 |
Parker Hannifin Corp. | | 4,376 | 186,155 |
| | | 3,512,772 |
| | | |
Media - 2.6% | | | |
CBS Corp., Class B | | 18,383 | 150,557 |
Comcast Corp. | | 77,860 | 1,314,277 |
DIRECTV Group, Inc.* | | 14,767 | 338,312 |
Gannett Co., Inc. | | 6,259 | 50,072 |
Interpublic Group of Co.'s, Inc.* | | 13,066 | 51,741 |
McGraw-Hill Co.'s, Inc. | | 8,540 | 198,043 |
Meredith Corp. | | 978 | 16,743 |
New York Times Co. | | 3,216 | 23,573 |
News Corp. | | 62,527 | 568,370 |
Omnicom Group, Inc. | | 8,440 | 227,205 |
Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. | | 2,435 | 53,570 |
Time Warner, Inc. | | 96,994 | 975,760 |
Viacom, Inc., Class B* | | 16,588 | 316,167 |
Walt Disney Co. | | 50,046 | 1,135,544 |
Washington Post Co., Class B | | 164 | 64,001 |
| | | 5,483,935 |
| | | |
Metals & Mining - 0.8% | | | |
AK Steel Holding Corp. | | 3,101 | 28,901 |
Alcoa, Inc. | | 21,733 | 244,714 |
Allegheny Technologies, Inc. | | 2,615 | 66,761 |
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. | | 10,255 | 250,632 |
Newmont Mining Corp. | | 12,283 | 499,918 |
Nucor Corp. | | 8,489 | 392,192 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Metals & Mining - Cont'd | | | |
Titanium Metals Corp. | | 2,405 | $21,188 |
United States Steel Corp. | | 3,144 | 116,957 |
| | | 1,621,263 |
| | | |
Multiline Retail - 0.7% | | | |
Big Lots, Inc.* | | 2,250 | 32,603 |
Family Dollar Stores, Inc. | | 3,778 | 98,492 |
J.C. Penney Co., Inc. | | 6,034 | 118,870 |
Kohl's Corp.* | | 8,239 | 298,252 |
Macy's, Inc. | | 11,421 | 118,207 |
Nordstrom, Inc. | | 4,310 | 57,366 |
Sears Holdings Corp.* | | 1,511 | 58,733 |
Target Corp. | | 20,353 | 702,789 |
| | | 1,485,312 |
| | | |
Multi-Utilities - 1.5% | | | |
Ameren Corp. | | 5,717 | 190,147 |
Centerpoint Energy, Inc. | | 9,305 | 117,429 |
CMS Energy Corp. | | 6,116 | 61,833 |
Consolidated Edison, Inc. | | 7,399 | 288,043 |
Dominion Resources, Inc. | | 15,718 | 563,333 |
DTE Energy Co. | | 4,427 | 157,911 |
Integrys Energy Group, Inc. | | 2,067 | 88,840 |
NiSource, Inc. | | 7,415 | 81,342 |
PG&E Corp. | | 9,763 | 377,926 |
Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc. | | 13,684 | 399,162 |
SCANA Corp. | | 3,289 | 117,088 |
Sempra Energy | | 6,587 | 280,804 |
TECO Energy, Inc. | | 5,753 | 71,050 |
Wisconsin Energy Corp. | | 3,146 | 132,069 |
Xcel Energy, Inc. | | 12,141 | 225,216 |
| | | 3,152,193 |
| | | |
Office Electronics - 0.1% | | | |
Xerox Corp. | | 23,403 | 186,522 |
| | | |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 11.7% | | | |
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | | 12,411 | 478,444 |
Apache Corp. | | 9,049 | 674,422 |
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. | | 2,830 | 73,580 |
Chesapeake Energy Corp. | | 14,687 | 237,489 |
Chevron Corp. | | 54,934 | 4,063,468 |
ConocoPhillips | | 40,307 | 2,087,903 |
Consol Energy, Inc. | | 4,920 | 140,614 |
Devon Energy Corp. | | 11,945 | 784,906 |
El Paso Corp. | | 19,081 | 149,404 |
EOG Resources, Inc. | | 6,748 | 449,282 |
Exxon Mobil Corp. | | 137,527 | 10,978,780 |
Hess Corp. | | 7,670 | 411,419 |
Marathon Oil Corp. | | 19,077 | 521,947 |
Massey Energy Co. | | 2,336 | 32,213 |
Murphy Oil Corp. | | 5,151 | 228,447 |
Noble Energy, Inc. | | 4,691 | 230,891 |
Occidental Petroleum Corp. | | 21,897 | 1,313,601 |
Peabody Energy Corp. | | 7,241 | 164,733 |
Pioneer Natural Resources Co. | | 3,162 | 51,161 |
Range Resources Corp. | | 4,218 | 145,057 |
Southwestern Energy Co.* | | 9,283 | 268,928 |
Spectra Energy Corp. | | 16,521 | 260,040 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - Cont'd | | | |
Sunoco, Inc. | | 3,173 | $137,899 |
Tesoro Corp. | | 3,782 | 49,809 |
Valero Energy Corp. | | 13,952 | 301,921 |
Williams Co.'s, Inc. | | 15,690 | 227,191 |
XTO Energy, Inc. | | 15,596 | 550,071 |
| | | 25,013,620 |
| | | |
Paper & Forest Products - 0.2% | | | |
International Paper Co. | | 11,627 | 137,199 |
MeadWestvaco Corp. | | 4,706 | 52,660 |
Weyerhaeuser Co. | | 5,713 | 174,875 |
| | | 364,734 |
| | | |
Personal Products - 0.2% | | | |
Avon Products, Inc. | | 11,526 | 276,970 |
Estee Lauder Co.'s, Inc. | | 3,149 | 97,493 |
| | | 374,463 |
| | | |
Pharmaceuticals - 7.9% | | | |
Abbott Laboratories, Inc. | | 41,950 | 2,238,871 |
Allergan, Inc. | | 8,315 | 335,261 |
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. | | 53,523 | 1,244,410 |
Eli Lilly & Co. | | 27,051 | 1,089,344 |
Forest Laboratories, Inc.* | | 8,184 | 208,446 |
Johnson & Johnson | | 75,016 | 4,488,207 |
King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | | 6,664 | 70,772 |
Merck & Co., Inc. | | 57,161 | 1,737,694 |
Mylan, Inc.* | | 8,427 | 83,343 |
Pfizer, Inc. | | 182,307 | 3,228,657 |
Schering-Plough Corp. | | 43,951 | 748,495 |
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | | 2,867 | 76,176 |
Wyeth | | 36,000 | 1,350,360 |
| | | 16,900,036 |
| | | |
Professional Services - 0.2% | | | |
Dun & Bradstreet Corp. | | 1,458 | 112,557 |
Equifax, Inc. | | 3,430 | 90,964 |
Monster Worldwide, Inc.* | | 3,346 | 40,453 |
Robert Half International, Inc. | | 4,195 | 87,340 |
| | | 331,314 |
| | | |
Real Estate Investment Trusts - 1.0% | | | |
Apartment Investment & Management Co. | | 2,750 | 31,762 |
AvalonBay Communities, Inc. | | 2,094 | 126,855 |
Boston Properties, Inc. | | 3,260 | 179,300 |
Developers Diversified Realty Corp. | | 3,356 | 16,377 |
Equity Residential | | 7,375 | 219,923 |
HCP, Inc. | | 6,831 | 189,697 |
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. | | 14,129 | 106,957 |
Kimco Realty Corp. | | 6,181 | 112,989 |
Plum Creek Timber Co, Inc. | | 4,529 | 157,337 |
ProLogis | | 7,146 | 99,258 |
Public Storage | | 3,390 | 269,505 |
Simon Property Group, Inc. | | 6,125 | 325,421 |
Vornado Realty Trust | | 3,715 | 224,200 |
| | | 2,059,581 |
| | | |
Real Estate Management & Development - 0.0% | | | |
CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc.* | | 5,641 | 24,369 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Road & Rail - 1.0% | | | |
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. | | 7,590 | $574,639 |
CSX Corp. | | 10,666 | 346,325 |
Norfolk Southern Corp. | | 10,012 | 471,065 |
Ryder System, Inc. | | 1,510 | 58,558 |
Union Pacific Corp. | | 13,693 | 654,525 |
| | | 2,105,112 |
| | | |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 2.1% | | | |
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.* | | 16,647 | 35,958 |
Altera Corp. | | 8,075 | 134,933 |
Analog Devices, Inc. | | 7,908 | 150,410 |
Applied Materials, Inc. | | 36,275 | 367,466 |
Broadcom Corp.* | | 12,014 | 203,878 |
Intel Corp. | | 150,379 | 2,204,556 |
KLA-Tencor Corp. | | 4,585 | 99,907 |
Linear Technology Corp. | | 5,995 | 132,609 |
LSI Corp.* | | 17,442 | 57,384 |
MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.* | | 6,069 | 86,665 |
Microchip Technology, Inc. | | 4,939 | 96,459 |
Micron Technology, Inc.* | | 21,093 | 55,686 |
National Semiconductor Corp. | | 5,275 | 53,119 |
Novellus Systems, Inc.* | | 2,641 | 32,590 |
NVIDIA Corp.* | | 14,584 | 117,693 |
Teradyne, Inc.* | | 4,653 | 19,636 |
Texas Instruments, Inc. | | 35,052 | 544,007 |
Xilinx, Inc. | | 7,438 | 132,545 |
| | | 4,525,501 |
| | | |
Software - 3.6% | | | |
Adobe Systems, Inc.* | | 14,356 | 305,639 |
Autodesk, Inc.* | | 6,119 | 120,238 |
BMC Software, Inc.* | | 5,092 | 137,026 |
CA, Inc. | | 10,650 | 197,345 |
Citrix Systems, Inc.* | | 4,933 | 116,271 |
Compuware Corp.* | | 6,694 | 45,185 |
Electronic Arts, Inc.* | | 8,682 | 139,259 |
Intuit, Inc.* | | 8,654 | 205,879 |
McAfee, Inc.* | | 3,998 | 138,211 |
Microsoft Corp. | | 206,837 | 4,020,911 |
Novell, Inc.* | | 9,533 | 37,083 |
Oracle Corp.* | | 105,914 | 1,877,855 |
Salesforce.com, Inc.* | | 2,866 | 91,741 |
Symantec Corp.* | | 22,604 | 305,606 |
| | | 7,738,249 |
| | | |
Specialty Retail - 1.8% | | | |
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. | | 2,354 | 54,307 |
AutoNation, Inc.* | | 2,979 | 29,433 |
Autozone, Inc.* | | 1,039 | 144,909 |
Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc.* | | 7,052 | 179,262 |
Best Buy Co., Inc. | | 9,133 | 256,729 |
GameStop Corp.* | | 4,428 | 95,910 |
Gap, Inc. | | 12,607 | 168,808 |
Home Depot, Inc. | | 45,840 | 1,055,237 |
Limited Brands, Inc. | | 7,348 | 73,774 |
Lowe's Co.'s, Inc. | | 39,628 | 852,795 |
Office Depot, Inc.* | | 7,671 | 22,860 |
RadioShack Corp. | | 3,396 | 40,548 |
Sherwin-Williams Co. | | 2,667 | 159,353 |
Staples, Inc. | | 19,288 | 345,641 |
Tiffany & Co. | | 3,329 | 78,664 |
TJX Co.'s, Inc. | | 11,306 | 232,564 |
| | | 3,790,794 |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 0.4% | | | |
Coach, Inc.* | | 8,878 | $184,396 |
Jones Apparel Group, Inc. | | 2,310 | 13,537 |
Nike, Inc., Class B | | 10,608 | 541,008 |
Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. | | 1,522 | 69,114 |
VF Corp. | | 2,390 | 130,900 |
| | | 938,955 |
| | | |
Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 0.2% | | | |
Hudson City Bancorp, Inc. | | 14,093 | 224,924 |
People's United Financial, Inc. | | 9,444 | 168,387 |
Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. | | 15,014 | 44,742 |
| | | 438,053 |
| | | |
Tobacco - 1.8% | | | |
Altria Group, Inc. | | 55,707 | 838,947 |
Lorillard, Inc. | | 4,545 | 256,111 |
Philip Morris International, Inc. | | 54,697 | 2,379,867 |
Reynolds American, Inc. | | 4,571 | 184,257 |
UST, Inc. | | 4,016 | 278,630 |
| | | 3,937,812 |
| | | |
Trading Companies & Distributors - 0.1% | | | |
Fastenal Co. | | 3,518 | 122,602 |
W.W. Grainger, Inc. | | 1,756 | 138,443 |
| | | 261,045 |
| | | |
Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.2% | | | |
American Tower Corp.* | | 10,729 | 314,574 |
Sprint Nextel Corp.* | | 77,769 | 142,317 |
| | | 456,891 |
| | | |
Total Equity Securities (Cost $241,689,030) | | | 212,772,396 |
| | | |
| | | |
| | Principal | |
U.S. Treasury - 0.0% | | Amount | |
United States Treasury Bill, 3/26/09 # | | $60,000 | 59,999 |
| | | |
Total U.S. Treasury (Cost $59,999) | | | 59,999 |
| | | |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (Cost $241,749,029) - 99.6% | | | 212,832,395 |
Other assets and liabilities, net - 0.4% | | | 791,346 |
Net Assets - 100% | | | $213,623,741 |
| | | |
| | | |
Net Assets Consist Of: | | | |
Paid-in capital applicable to 3,655,255 shares of common stock outstanding; $0.10 par value, | | | |
30,000,000 shares authorized | | | $270,794,646 |
Undistributed net investment income | | | 431,245 |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | | | (28,701,008) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | | (28,901,142) |
| | | |
Net Assets | | | $213,623,741 |
| | | |
Net Asset Value Per Share | | | $58,44 |
| | | Underlying | Unrealized |
| Number of | Expiration | Face Amount | Appreciation |
Futures | Contracts | Date | at Value | (Depreciation) |
Purchased: | | | | |
E-mini S&P 500# | 8 | 3/09 | $360,040 | $15,492 |
* Non-income producing security
# Futures collateralized by 60,000 units of U.S. Treasury Bills.
See notes to financial statements.
S&P 500 Index Portfolio
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2008
Net Investment Income | | |
Investment Income: | | |
Dividend income (net of foreign taxes withheld of $159) | | $5,579,832 |
Interest income | | 191,565 |
Total investment income | | 5,771,397 |
| | |
Expenses: | | |
Investment advisory fee | | 603,226 |
Transfer agency fees and expenses | | 18,255 |
Accounting fees | | 60,928 |
Directors' fees and expenses | | 37,689 |
Administrative fees | | 241,290 |
Custodian fees | | 43,127 |
Reports to shareholders | | 32,532 |
Professional fees | | 45,800 |
Miscellaneous | | 63,145 |
Total expenses | | 1,145,992 |
Reimbursement from Advisor | | (205,930) |
Net expenses | | 940,062 |
| | |
Net Investment Income | | 4,831,335 |
| | |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | |
Investments | | (2,159,424) |
Foreign Currency Transactions | | 17 |
Futures | | (1,721,040) |
| | (3,880,447) |
| | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | |
Investments | | (104,360,907) |
Futures | | 58,004 |
| | (104,302,903) |
| | |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain | | |
(Loss) | | (108,183,350) |
| | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Resulting From Operations | | ($103,352,015) |
See notes to financial statements.
S&P 500 Index Portfolio
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| Year Ended | Year Ended |
| December 31, | December 31, |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | 2008 | 2007 |
Operations: | | |
Net investment income | $4,831,335 | $4,994,230 |
Net realized gain (loss) | (3,880,447) | 6,398,127 |
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) | (104,302,903) | 4,451,818 |
| | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Resulting From Operations | (103,352,015) | 15,844,175 |
| | |
Distributions to shareholders from: | | |
Net investment income | (8,361,638) | (4,633,890) |
Net realized gain | (3,225,031) | (512,279) |
Total distributions | (11,586,669) | (5,146,169) |
| | |
Capital share transactions: | | |
Shares sold | 21,151,535 | 20,116,509 |
Shares issued from merger (See Note A) | 45,246,467 | -- |
Reinvestment of distributions | 11,586,669 | 5,146,169 |
Shares redeemed | (52,242,981) | (42,159,091) |
Total capital share transactions | 25,741,690 | (16,896,413) |
| | |
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | (89,196,994) | (6,198,407) |
| | |
Net Assets | | |
Beginning of year | 302,820,735 | 309,019,142 |
End of year (including undistributed net investment | | |
income of $431,245 and $4,029,732, respectively) | $213,623,741 | $302,820,735 |
| | |
Capital Share Activity | | |
Shares sold | 263,983 | 207,233 |
Shares issued from merger (See Note A) | 782,946 | -- |
Shares reinvested | 154,659 | 54,216 |
Shares redeemed | (654,209) | (434,349) |
Total capital share activity | 547,379 | (172,900) |
See notes to financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE A --- SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
General: The Summit S&P 500 Index Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. (the "Fund") is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company. The Fund is comprised of thirteen separate portfolios. The operations of each series of the Fund are accounted for separately. The shares of the Portfolio are sold to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for allocation to certain of their variable separate accounts.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), an affiliated entity, whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business and became investment advisor for the portfolios of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
On December 12, 2008, the net assets of the Ameritas Index 500 Portfolio, a series of Calvert Variable Series, Inc. merged into Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., S&P 500 Index Portfolio. The merger was accomplished by a tax-free exchange of 782,946 shares of the Summit S&P 500 Index Portfolio (valued at $45,246,467) for 483,294 shares of the Ameritas Index 500 Portfolio outstanding at December 12, 2008. The Ameritas Index 500 Portfolio's net assets as of December 12, 2008, including $17,423,864 of unrealized depreciation, were combined with those of the Summit S&P 500 Index Portfolio.
Security Valuation: Net asset value per share is determined every business day as of the close of the regular session of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Portfolio uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Directors to value its investments wherever possible. Securities for which market quotations are available are valued at last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange in which they trade. Foreign securities are valued based on quotations from the principal market in which such securities are normally traded. If events occur after the close of the principal market in which foreign securities are traded, and before the close of business of the Portfolio, that are expected to materially affect the value of those securities, then they are valued at their fair value taking these events into account. Short-term notes are stated at amortized cost, which approximates fair value. Investments for which market quotations are not avai lable or deemed not reliable are fair valued in good faith under the direction of the Board of Directors.
In determining fair value, the Board considers all relevant qualitative and quantitative information available. These factors are subject to change over time and are reviewed periodically. The values assigned to fair value investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized. Further, because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, those estimated values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed, and the differences could be material. At December 31, 2008, no securities were fair valued under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Effective January 1, 2008, the Portfolio adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Portfolio's investments and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 -- quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 -- other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 -- significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy during the period. For additional information on the Portfolio's policy regarding valuation of investments, please refer to the Portfolio's most recent prospectus.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Portfolio's net assets as of December 31, 2008:
Valuation Inputs | Investments in Securities | Other Financial Instruments* |
Level 1 - Quoted Prices | $212,772,396 | $15,492 |
Level 2 - Other Significant Observable Inputs | 59,999 | -- |
Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs | -- | -- |
Total | $212,832,395 | $15,492 |
* Other financial instruments are derivative instruments not reflected in the Portfolio of Investments, such as futures, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/ depreciation on the instrument.
Futures Contracts: The Portfolio may enter into futures contracts agreeing to buy or sell a financial instrument for a set price at a future date. Initial margin deposits of either cash or securities as required by the broker are made upon entering into the contract. While the contract is open, daily variation margin payments are made to or received from the broker reflecting the daily change in market value of the contract and are recorded for financial reporting purposes as unrealized gains or losses by the Portfolio. When a futures contract is closed, a realized gain or loss is recorded equal to the difference between the opening and closing value of the contract. The risks associated with entering into futures contracts may include the possible illiquidity of the secondary market which would limit the Portfolio's ability to close out a futures contract prior to the settlement date, an imperfect correlation between the value of the contracts and the underlying financial instruments, or that the counter party will fail to perform its obligations under the contracts' terms.
Security Transactions and Investment Income: Security transactions are accounted for on trade date. Realized gains and losses are recorded on an identified cost basis and may include proceeds from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date or, in the case of dividends on certain foreign securities, as soon as the Portfolio is informed of the ex-dividend date. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Interest income, which includes amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities, is accrued as earned.
Foreign Currency Transactions: The Portfolio's accounting records are maintained in U.S. dollars. For valuation of assets and liabilities on each date of net asset value determination, foreign denominations are translated into U.S. dollars using the current exchange rate. Security transactions, income and expenses are translated at the prevailing rate of exchange on the date of the event. The effect of changes in foreign exchange rates on securities and foreign currencies is included with the net realized and unrealized gain or loss on investments and foreign currencies.
Distributions to Shareholders: Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Portfolio on ex-dividend date. Dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains, if any, are paid at least annually. Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles; accordingly, periodic reclassifications are made within the Portfolio's capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution under income tax regulations.
Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Expense Offset Arrangements: The Portfolio has an arrangement with its custodian bank whereby the custodian's fees may be paid indirectly by credits earned on the Portfolio's cash on deposit with the bank. These credits are used to reduce the Portfolio's expenses. Such a deposit arrangement may be an alternative to overnight investments.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision for federal income or excise tax is required since the Portfolio intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code and to distribute substantially all of its taxable earnings.
The Portfolio is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The implementation of FIN 48 did not result in any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements or in any of the open tax years; thus, no provision for income tax is required. Each of the Portfolio's federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
Portfolio Securities Lending: During the year, the Portfolio lent its securities to approved borrowers to earn additional income and received cash and/or securities as collateral to secure the loans. The Securities Lending program ended in November 2008.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 161, "Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." The new standard is intended to improve financial reporting about derivative instruments and hedging activities by requiring enhanced disclosures to enable investors to better understand the effect on the Fund's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS No. 161 will have on the Fund's financial statements and related disclosures.
NOTE B -- RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("the Advisor") is wholly-owned by Calvert Group, Ltd. ("Calvert"), which is indirectly wholly owned by UNIFI Holding Company. The Advisor provides investment advisory services and pays the salaries and fees of officers and Directors of the Fund who are employees of the Advisor or its affiliates. For its services, the Advisor receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .25% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $28,347 was payable at year end. In addition, $11,630 was receivable from the Advisor for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit Investment Partners, Inc., ("Summit") served as the Advisor. Summit is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Central Life Insurance Company, an indirect subsidiary of UNIFI Holding Company. Summit received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.25% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agre ement, $15,683 was payable at year end. In addition, $8,969 was receivable from Summit for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008.
Effective December 15, 2008, the Advisor has contractually agreed to limit net annual portfolio operating expenses through December 12, 2010. The contractual expense cap is .38%. Prior to December 15, 2008, the contractual expense cap was .39%. For the purpose of this expense limit, operating expenses do not include interest expense, brokerage commissions, taxes, and extraordinary expenses. To the extent any expense credits are earned, the Advisor's obligation under the contractual limitation may be reduced and the Advisor may benefit from the expense offset arrangement.
Calvert Administrative Services Company ("CASC"), an affiliate of the Advisor, provides administrative services for the Portfolio. For its services, CASC receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $10,554 was payable at year end. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit provided administrative services for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $6,273 was payable at year end.
Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. ("CSSI"), an affiliate of the Advisor, acts as shareholder servicing agent for the Portfolio. For its services, CSSI received a fee of $10 for year ended December 31, 2008. Under the terms of the agreement, $10 was payable at year end. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. is the transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Prior to December 12, 2008, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC served as the transfer and dividend disbursing agent.
Each Director of the Fund who is not an employee of the Advisor or its affiliates receives a fee of $1,500 for each Board and Committee meeting attended plus an annual fee of $20,000 for Directors not serving on other Calvert Fund Boards, $8,000 for those serving on other Calvert Fund Boards. Director's fees are allocated to each of the portfolios served. Prior to December 12, 2008, each Director of the Fund who was not an employee of Summit or its affiliates received a fee of $2,500 for each Board meeting attended ($600 for Committee meetings) plus an annual fee of $17,000. Committee chairs and the Lead Director received additional fees for their service.
NOTE C -- INVESTMENT ACTIVITY
During the year, the cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investments, other than short-term securities were $17,088,707 and $35,566,463, respectively.
The cost of investments owned at December 31, 2008 for federal income tax purposes was $249,998,608. Net unrealized depreciation aggregated $37,166,213, of which $40,161,922 related to appreciated securities and $77,328,135 related to depreciated securities.
Net realized capital loss carryforwards of $7,499,593, $2,110,080, $960,576, $2,529,937, $1,687,669, $2,331,380, and $3,316,701 at December 31, 2008 may be utilized to offset future capital gains until expiration in December 2009, December 2010, December 2011, December 2012, December 2013, December 2015, and December 2016, respectively. The Portfolio's use of net capital loss carryforwards acquired from Ameritas Index 500 Portfolio may be limited under certain tax provisions.
The tax character of dividends and distributions paid during the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 was as follows:
| 2008 | 2007 |
Distributions paid from: | | |
Ordinary income | $8,361,637 | $4,804,301 |
Long term capital gain | 3,225,032 | 341,868 |
Total | $11,586,669 | $5,146,169 |
As of December 31, 2008 the components of distributable earnings/(accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
Undistributed ordinary income | $431,245 |
Capital loss carryforward | (20,435,936) |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (37,166,213) |
Total | ($57,170,904) |
The differences between the components of distributable earnings on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the statement of net assets are primarily due to temporary book-tax differences that will reverse in a subsequent period. These differences are due to real estate investment trusts, Section 1256 contracts, and wash sales.
Reclassifications, as shown in the table below, have been made to the Portfolio's components of net assets to reflect income and gains available for distributions (or available capital loss carryforwards, as applicable) under income tax law and regulations. These reclassifications are due to permanent book-tax differences and have no impact on net assets. The primary permanent differences causing such reclassifications for the Portfolio are due to real estate investment trusts, foreign currency transactions, and the tax-free merger with Ameritas Index 500 Portfolio.
Undistributed net investment income | ($64,188) |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) | (24,254,838) |
Paid-in capital | 24,319,026 |
NOTE D --Other (Unaudited)
Change in Independent Accountant
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. ("Fund"). KPMG LLP was selected as the Fund's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the Fund's financial statements. The Fund's selection of KPMG as its independent accountant was recommended by the Fund's Audit Committee and was approved by the Fund's Board of Directors.
The reports on the financial statements audited by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2007 and prior for the Funds did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There were no disagreements between the Funds and Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused Deloitte to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements of such years. There were no reportable events as described in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of Item 304(a) of SEC Regulation S-K.
Tax Information (Unaudited)
The Portfolio designates $3,225,032 as capital gain dividends for the calendar year ended December 31, 2008.
For corporate shareholders, the Portfolio designates 100% of its ordinary dividends paid during the calendar year ended December 31, 2008, as qualifying for the corporate dividends received deduction.
Financial Highlights
| | | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | December 31, | |
S&P 500 Index Portfolio | | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $97.44 | $94.19 | $82.85 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.44 | 1.52 | 1.40 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (36.76) | 3.31 | 11.19 | |
Total from investment operations | | (35.32) | 4.83 | 12.59 | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (2.60) | (1.42) | (1.25) | |
Net realized gain | | (1.08) | (.16) | -- | |
Total distributions | | (3.68) | (1.58) | (1.25) | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (39.00) | 3.25 | 11.34 | |
Net asset value, ending | | $58.44 | $97.44 | $94.19 | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | (37.10%) | 5.16% | 15.36% | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.00% | 1.59% | 1.56% | |
Total expenses | | .47% | .45% | .43% | |
Expenses before offsets | | .39% | .39% | .39% | |
Net expenses | | .39% | .39% | .39% | |
Portfolio turnover | | 7% | 3% | 3% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $213,624 | $302,821 | $309,019 | |
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| | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | | |
S&P 500 Index Portfolio | | 2005 | 2004(z) | | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $80.48 | $73.21 | | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.17 | 1.16 | | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 2.39 | 6.41 | | |
Total from investment operations | | 3.56 | 7.57 | | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (1.19) | (.30) | | |
Net realized gain | | -- | -- | | |
Total distributions | | (1.19) | (.30) | | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | 2.37 | 7.27 | | |
Net asset value, ending | | $82.85 | $80.48 | | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | 4.52% | 10.37% | | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.49% | 1.69% | | |
Total expenses | | .49% | .51% | | |
Expenses before offsets | | .39% | .40% | | |
Net expenses | | .39% | .40% | | |
Portfolio turnover | | 6% | 2% | | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $290,666 | $279,875 | | |
A Total expenses do not reflect amounts reimbursed and/or waived by the Advisor or reductions from expense offset arrangements. Expenses before offsets reflect expenses after reimbursement and/or waiver by the Advisor but prior to reductions from expense offset arrangements. Net expenses are net of all reductions and represent the net expenses paid by the portfolio.
(z) Per share figures are calculated using the Average Shares Method.
* Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year.
See notes to financial statements.
Explanation of Financial Tables
Schedule of Investments
The Schedule of Investments is a snapshot of all securities held in the fund at their market value, on the last day of the reporting period. Securities are listed by asset type (e.g., common stock, corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations) and may be further broken down into sub-groups and by industry classification.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities is often referred to as the fund's balance sheet. It lists the value of what the fund owns, is due and owes on the last day of the reporting period. The fund's assets include the market value of securities owned, cash, receivables for securities sold and shareholder subscriptions, and receivables for dividends and interest payments that have been earned, but not yet received. The fund's liabilities typically include payables for securities purchased and shareholder redemptions, and expenses owed but not yet paid. The statement also reports the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share on the last day of the reporting period. The NAV is calculated by dividing the fund's net assets (assets minus liabilities) by the number of shares outstanding. This statement is accompanied by a Schedule of Investments. Alternatively, if certain conditions are met, a Statement of Net Assets may be presented in lieu of this statement and the Schedule of Investments.
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets provides a detailed list of the fund's holdings, including each security's market value on the last day of the reporting period. The Statement of Net Assets includes a Schedule of Investments. Other assets are added and other liabilities subtracted from the investments total to calculate the fund's net assets. Finally, net assets are divided by the outstanding shares of the fund to arrive at its share price, or Net Asset Value (NAV) per share.
At the end of the Statement of Net Assets is a table displaying the composition of the fund's net assets. Paid in Capital is the money invested by shareholders and represents the bulk of net assets. Undistributed Net Investment Income and Accumulated Net Realized Gains usually approximate the amounts the fund had available to distribute to shareholders as of the statement date. Accumulated Realized Losses will appear as negative balances. Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) is the difference between the market value of the fund's investments and their cost, and reflects the gains (losses) that would be realized if the fund were to sell all of its investments at their statement-date values.
Statement of Operations
The Statement of Operations summarizes the fund's investment income earned and expenses incurred in operating the fund. Investment income includes dividends earned from stocks and interest earned from interest-bearing securities in the fund. Expenses incurred in operating the fund include the advisory fee paid to the investment advisor, administrative services fees, distribution plan expenses (if applicable), transfer agent fees, shareholder servicing expenses, custodial, legal, and audit fees, and the printing and postage expenses related to shareholder reports. Expense offsets (fees paid indirectly) are also shown. Credits earned from offset arrangements are used to reduce the fund's expenses. This statement also shows net gains (losses) realized on the sale of investments and the increase or decrease in the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments held during the period.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
The Statement of Changes in Net Assets shows how the fund's total net assets changed during the two most recent reporting periods. Changes in the fund's net assets are attributable to investment operations, distributions and capital share transactions.
The Operations section of the report summarizes information detailed in the Statement of Operations. The Distribution section shows the dividend and capital gain distributions made to shareholders. The amounts shown as distributions in this section may not match the net investment income and realized gains amounts shown in the Operations section because distributions are determined on a tax basis and certain investments or transactions may be treated differently for financial statement and tax purposes. The Capital Share Transactions section shows the amount shareholders invested in the fund, either by purchasing shares or by reinvesting distributions, and the amounts redeemed. The corresponding numbers of shares issued, reinvested and redeemed are shown at the end of the report.
Financial Highlights
The Financial Highlights table provides a per-share breakdown by class of the components that affect the fund's net asset value for current and past reporting periods. The table provides total return, total distributions, expense ratios, portfolio turnover and net assets for the applicable period. Total return is a measure of a fund's performance that encompasses all elements of return: dividends, capital gain distributions and changes in net asset value. Total return is the change in value of an investment over a given period, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and capital gain distributions, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment. Total distributions include distributions from net investment income and net realized gains. Long-term gains are earned on securities held in the fund more than one year. Short-term gains, on the sale of securities held less than one year, are treated as ordinary dividend income for tax purposes. The expense ratio is a fund's cost of doing business, expres sed as a percentage of net assets. These expenses directly reduce returns to shareholders. Portfolio turnover measures the trading activity in a fund's investment portfolio -- how often securities are bought and sold by a fund. Portfolio turnover is affected by market conditions, changes in the size of the fund, the nature of the fund's investments and the investment style of the portfolio manager.
Proxy Voting
The Proxy Voting Guidelines that the Portfolio uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities are provided as an Appendix to the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. The Statement of Additional Information can be obtained free of charge by calling the Fund at 1-800-368-2745 or by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available by calling the Fund or visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Form N-Q is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's Form N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC; information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
This report is intended to provide fund information to shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.
Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract
At a meeting held on December 4, 2008, the Board of Directors, and by a separate vote, the disinterested Directors, initially approved the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Portfolio and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Advisor and Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit" or the "Subadvisor") with respect to the Portfolio.
At the December 4, 2008 meeting, and in connection with the Advisor's impending purchase of the mutual fund business of Summit, the Board, effective as of December 12, 2008, terminated the Portfolio's current investment advisory agreement with Summit and approved the selection of the Advisor and Summit as investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively, to the Portfolio. In evaluating the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered a variety of information relating to the Portfolio and the Advisor. The disinterested Directors reviewed a report prepared by the Advisor regarding various services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and its affiliates.
The disinterested Directors were separately represented by independent legal counsel with respect to their consideration of the approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. Prior to voting, the disinterested Directors reviewed the proposed approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and Investment Subadvisory Agreement with management and also met in private sessions with their counsel at which no representatives of management were present.
In the course of its deliberations regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered the following factors, among others: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor, including the personnel who would be providing such services; the Advisor's financial condition; the level and method of computing the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee; performance, fee and expense information for the Portfolio; the profitability of the Calvert Group of Funds to the Advisor; the Advisor's process for monitoring "best execution"; the direct and indirect benefits, if any, to be derived by the Advisor from its relationship with the Portfolio; the effect of the Portfolio's growth and size on the Portfolio's performance and expenses; the Advisor's compliance programs and policies; the Advisor's performance of substantially similar duties for other funds; and any possible conflicts of interest.
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board reviewed information provided by the Advisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Advisor's operations and personnel, including, among other information, biographical information on the Advisor's supervisory and professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. The Board also took into account similar information provided periodically throughout the previous year by the Advisor as well as the Board's familiarity with the Advisor's management through Board of Directors' meetings, discussions and other reports. The Board considered the Advisor's current level of staffing and overall resources. The Advisor's administrative capabilities, including its ability to supervise the other service providers for the Portfolio, were also considered. The Board discussed the Advisor 's effectiveness in monitoring the performance of other funds' subadvisors and the Advisor's timeliness in responding to performance issues with respect to those funds. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement.
In considering the Portfolio's performance, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board noted that year to date through December 2, 2008, the Portfolio had underperformed the S&P 500 Index and that the Portfolio's performance generally was in line with the S&P 500 Index when the Portfolio's expenses were excluded. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Subadvisor became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Portfolio's performance was satisfactory.
In considering the Portfolio's fees and expenses, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's fees and expenses. The Board noted that the Portfolio would pay the same advisory fee to the Advisor as it currently paid to Summit. The Board took into account that the Advisor had agreed to limit the Portfolio's net annual operating expenses through December 12, 2010 to the level in effect for the Portfolio on November 30, 2008. The Board also considered the impact of the size of the Portfolio on its expenses. The Board noted that the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee with respect to the Portfolio. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed advisory fee was reasonable in view of the quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and the other factors considered.
The Board reviewed the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio. In reviewing the anticipated profitability of the advisory fee to the Advisor, the Board also considered the fact that affiliates would provide shareholder servicing and administrative services to the Portfolio for which they would receive compensation. The Board also considered whether the Advisor had the financial wherewithal to provide a high level of services to the Portfolio. The Board also considered that the Advisor would likely derive benefits to its reputation and other indirect benefits from its relationship with the Portfolio. The Board noted that the Advisor had agreed to reimburse expenses of the Portfolio above a certain level and also would pay the subadvisory fee to the Subadvisor. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was reasonable.
The Board considered the effect of the Portfolio's current size and potential growth on its performance and expenses. The Board noted that if the Portfolio's assets increased over time, the Portfolio might realize other economies of scale if assets increased proportionately more than certain other expenses. The Board took into account that the Portfolio might achieve operational efficiencies by joining the Calvert Group of Funds. The Board concluded that adding breakpoints to the advisory fee at specified asset levels was not appropriate given the Portfolio's current size.
In approving the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
In evaluating the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the disinterested Directors considered information provided by the Subadvisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Subadvisor's operations, personnel, investment philosophy, strategies and techniques. Among other information, the Subadvisor provided biographical information on portfolio management and other professional staff, performance information for itself, and descriptions of its investment philosophies, strategies and techniques, organizational and management structures and brokerage policies and practices.
The Board approved the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Subadvisor and the Advisor based on a number of factors relating to the Subadvisor's ability to perform under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. In the course of its deliberations, the Board evaluated, among other factors: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Subadvisor; the Subadvisor's management style and long-term performance record; the Portfolio's performance record and the Subadvisor's performance in employing its investment strategies; the Subadvisor's current level of staffing and its overall resources; the qualifications and experience of the Subadvisor's personnel; the Subadvisor's financial condition with respect to its ability to perform the services required under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement; the Subadvisor's compliance systems, including those related to personal investing; and any disciplinary history. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that it was satisfied with the natu re, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Subadvisor under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement.
As noted above, the Board considered the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team that was currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Summit became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. The Board also took into account the expertise and resources the Advisor would devote to monitoring the performance, investment style and risk adjusted performance of the Subadvisor.
In considering the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor of its relationship with the Portfolio, the Board noted that the Advisor and Subadvisor were affiliated and the proposed subadvisory fee under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be paid by the Advisor out of the advisory fee that the Advisor would receive under the Investment Advisory Agreement. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed subadvisory fee was reasonable. Because the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee, the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor from its relationship with the Portfolio were not material factors in the Board's deliberations. For similar reasons, the Board did not consider the potential economies of scale in the Subadvisor's management of the Portfolio to be a material factor in its consideration.
In approving the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
Conclusions
The Board reached the following conclusions regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, among others: (a) the Advisor has demonstrated that it possesses the capability and resources to perform the duties required of it under the Investment Advisory Agreement; (b) the Subadvisor is qualified to manage the Portfolio's assets in accordance with the Portfolio's investment objective and policies; (c) the Advisor and Subadvisor maintain appropriate compliance programs; (d) the Subadvisor is likely to execute its investment strategies consistently over time; (e) performance of the Portfolio is satisfactory in relation to relevant indices; and (f) the Portfolio's proposed advisory and subadvisory fees are reasonable in relation to the services to be provided by the Advisor and the Subadvisor. Based on its conclusions, the Board determined that approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be in the interests of the Portfo lio and its shareholders and that the Subadvisor's service as subadvisor to the Portfolio did not involve a conflict of interest from which the Advisor or Subadvisor would derive an inappropriate advantage.
Director and Officer Information Table
Name & Age | Position with Fund
| Position Start Date
| Principal Occupation During Last 5 Years | (Not Applicable to Officers) |
# of Calvert Portfolios Overseen | Other Directorships |
Independent Directors |
FRANK H. BLATZ, JR., Esq. AGE: 73 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Of counsel to firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. Mr. Blatz was an attorney in private practice in Fanwood, NJ from 1999 to 2004. | 27 | |
ALICE GRESHAM AGE: 58 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean and Professor at Howard University School of Law. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. | 28 | - Council on Legal Education Opportunity
- North Country School
|
M. CHARITO KRUVANT AGE: 63 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | President and CEO of Creative Associates International, Inc., a firm that specializes in human resources development, information management, public affairs and private enterprise development. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Foundation
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
|
CYNTHIA MILLIGAN AGE: 62 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Formerly, she was the President and Chief Executive Officer for CMA, a consulting firm for financial institutions. | 28 | - Wells Fargo Company- NYSE
- Gallup, Inc.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Raven Industries - NASDAQ
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Non-Profit)
- Prison Fellowship Ministries (Non-Profit)
|
ARTHUR J. PUGH AGE: 71 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Retired executive. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
|
Interested Directors |
BARBARA J. KRUMSIEK AGE: 56 | Director & Chair-person | 1997 CVS 2008 Summit | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Calvert Group, Ltd. | 58 | - Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Acacia Life Insurance Company (Chair)
- UNIFI Mutual Holding Company
- Ameritas Holding Company
|
WILLIAM LESTER AGE: 51 | Director & President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | President, CEO and Treasurer of Summit Investment Advisors, Inc. | 27 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Investment Advisors, Inc.
- Ameritas Investment Corp.
|
Officers |
KAREN BECKER AGE: 56 | Chief Compliance Officer | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Chief Compliance Officer for the Calvert Funds. Prior to 2005, Ms. Becker was Senior Vice President of Calvert Group, Ltd. and Head of Calvert Client Services. |
SUSAN WALKER BENDER, Esq. AGE: 50 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1988 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
THOMAS DAILEY AGE: 44 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
IVY WAFFORD DUKE, Esq. AGE: 40 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd., and since 2004, Chief Compliance Officer for Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
TRACI L. GOLDT AGE: 35 | Assistant Secretary | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Executive Assistant to General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
GREGORY B. HABEEB AGE: 59 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
DANIEL K. HAYES AGE: 58 | Vice President | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
HUI PING HO, CPA Age: 44 | Assistant Treasurer | 2000 CVS 2008 Summit | Tax Compliance Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
LANCELOT A. KING, Esq. AGE: 38 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2002 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
EDITH LILLIE AGE: 52 | Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Secretary and Regulatory Matters Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
AUGUSTO DIVO MACEDO, Esq. AGE: 46 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, and Associate Counsel Compliance Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Mr. Macedo served as 2nd Vice President at Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Advisors Group, Acacia's broker-dealer and federally registered investment adviser. |
JANE B. MAXWELL Esq. AGE: 56 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Maxwell was an associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP. |
ANDREW K. NIEBLER, Esq. AGE: 41 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2006 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Niebler was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. |
CATHERINE P. ROY AGE: 53 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Roy was Senior Vice President of US Fixed Income for Baring Asset Management, and SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager of Scudder Insurance Asset Management. |
WILLIAM M. TARTIKOFF, Esq. AGE: 61 | Vice President & Secretary | 1990 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
NATALIE TRUNOW AGE: 41 | Vice President | 2008 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc., Head of Equities. Prior to joining Calvert in August 2008, Ms. Trunow was the Section Head (2005-2008) and Portfolio Manager (2001-2008) for the Global Public Markets Group of General Motors Asset Management. |
RONALD M. WOLFSHEIMER, CPA AGE: 56 | Treasurer | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
MICHAEL V. YUHAS JR., CPA AGE: 47 | Fund Controller | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Fund Administration of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
The address of Directors and Officers is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 1000N, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Ms. Krumsiek is an interested person of the Fund since she is an officer and director of the Fund's Advisor and its affiliates. Mr. Lester is an interested person of the Fund since he is an officer and director of the parent company of the Fund's Advisor.
Additional information about the Fund's Directors can be found in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). You can get a free copy of the SAI by contacting your broker, or the Fund at 1-800-368-2745.
Shareholder Meeting Results
A special shareholder meeting was held on December 5, 2008, by the Summit S&P 500 Index Portfolio of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. for the purpose of considering and voting on the issues below. The voting results were as follows:
- To approve an Investment Advisory Agreement with Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
2,625,014.244 | 51,486.687 | 92,414.979 |
- To approve an Investment Subadvisory Agreement with Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
2,621,879.446 | 55,660.659 | 91,375.805 |
- To elect the Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Name of Director | For | Withhold |
Frank H. Blatz, Jr. | 2,689,325.200 | 79,590.710 |
Alice Gresham | 2,695,027.981 | 73,887.929 |
Barbara J. Krumsiek | 2,694,688.785 | 74,227.125 |
M. Charito Kruvant | 2,693,755.676 | 75,160.234 |
William Lester | 2,694,414.035 | 74,501.875 |
Cynthia Milligan | 2,690,289.552 | 78,626.358 |
Arthur J. Pugh | 2,689,285.087 | 79,630.823 |
- To ratify the selection of auditors, KPMG, LLP for the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
2,715,155.178 | 26,387.543 | 27,373.189 |
5. To authorize the Board of Directors of the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. to enter into and materially amend agreements with investment subadvisors on behalf of the Funds without obtaining shareholder approval.
For | Against | Abstain |
2,652,637.752 | 97,761.512 | 18,516.646 |
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Summit S&P Midcap 400 Index Portfolio
Annual Report
December 31, 2008
Summit Mutual Funds
Calvert
Investments That Make A Difference
A UNIFI Company
Summit S&P Midcap 400 Index Portfolio
Annual Report, December 31, 2008
Table Of Contents
3 | Portfolio Manager Remarks |
5 | Shareholder Expense Example |
6 | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
7 | Statement of Net Assets |
18 | Statement of Operations |
19 | Statements of Changes in Net Assets |
20 | Notes to Financial Statements |
25 | Financial Highlights |
27 | Explanation of Financial Tables |
28 | Proxy Voting and Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings |
29 | Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract |
32 | Director and Officer Information Table |
Summit S&P Midcap 400 Index Portfolio
Managed by Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
Performance
For the 12 months ended December 31, 2008, Summit S&P MidCap 400 Index Portfolio, Class I shares returned -36.63% compared to a return of -36.23% for the benchmark Standard & Poor's MidCap 400 Index. As an index fund, the Portfolio uses a passive management approach and seeks, as closely as possible, to replicate the holdings and match the performance of the S&P MidCap 400 Index, before fees and expenses. The difference in return of -0.40% is largely attributable to the Portfolio's fees and operating expenses, including advisory, administration, and accounting costs.
Summit S&P MidCap 400 Index Portfolio*
Comparison of change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment.
Average Annual Total Return
(period ended 12.31.08)
| Class I | Class F** |
One year | (36.63%) | (36.76%) |
Five year | (0.66%) | (0.84%) |
Since inception (5.31.99) | 3.60% | 3.36% |
* Performance information is for the Portfolio only and does not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
** Prior to October 1, 2007, Class F share performance is based on Class I performance. Absent limitation of expenses during certain of the periods shown, performance would have been lower.
Past performance does not indicate future results.
Investment Climate
It is now official: the U.S. is in a recession and has been since December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the standard arbiter of the U.S. business cycle. The U.S. economy is embroiled in a severe downturn, made much worse by the credit crunch and dramatic decline in economic activity that has spread around the globe.
The financial markets had a tough year, with the large-cap Standard & Poor's 500 Index down 37.00%, its worst year since 1931. It did rally 20% after reaching its low for the reporting period on November 20, but the financial markets continued to be rocked by company and industry declines and financial scandals. The year ended on a gloomy note--with a slowing economy, rising jobless claims and unemployment, falling industrial orders, weakening consumer confidence--and a deepening credit crunch and recessionary pressures worldwide. The positive news was that inflation began to fall, largely due to the sharp decline in commodity prices. Oil, which hit $146 per barrel over the summer, ended the year at $43.
Portfolio Strategy
As a passively managed index fund, the Portfolio invests in stocks in the S&P MidCap 400 Index, comprised of 400 common stocks of mid-sized U.S. companies as of December 31, 2008, with market capitalizations that ranged from $750 million to $3.3 billion.1 The Index is a widely used proxy for the U.S. mid-cap stock market. This passive strategy also seeks to limit transaction costs and portfolio turnover.
In terms of sector allocations, as of year-end, the Index was most heavily weighted in the Financials sector (at 20.38%), followed by Industrials (at 14.35%), Consumer Discretionary (at 13.95%), and Information Technology (at 13.07%).
Looking at performance contribution, all Index sectors declined 20% or more in 2008, reflecting the general malaise of the overall market. The three best-performing sectors of the Index were Utilities (at -20.02%), Consumer Staples (at -23.75%), and, perhaps surprisingly, Financials (at -27.42%). Utilities and Consumer Staples are traditionally defensive sectors as they are less exposed to the deteriorating economy. The Financials sector did relatively well as investors shifted their allocations from the troubled, large-cap financial firms to less problematic mid-cap and small-cap financial companies. The three worst-performing sectors of the Index were Energy (at -57.42%), Telecommunication Services (at -50.23%), and Materials (at -43.98%).
Economic Sectors | | % of Total Investments |
Consumer Discretionary | | 14.0% |
Consumer Staples | | 4.5% |
Energy | | 6.4% |
Financials | | 21.2% |
Health Care | | 11.4% |
Industrials | | 14.4% |
Information Technology | | 12.5% |
Materials | | 6.8% |
Telecommunication Services | | 0.6% |
Utilities | | 8.2% |
Total | | 100% |
Outlook
At the end of December, markets had a "relief" rally despite the bad economic news, with higher-beta (riskier) markets and sectors rebounding the most. This positive trend may emerge when markets shrug off negative news and trend higher. December certainly qualifies since markets closed higher on the month, despite negative job, earnings, and housing reports. If the trend continues, we may see more of a relief rally in the short-term. However, judging by Wall Street analyst consensus earnings forecasts for 2009, earnings expectations are still too positive and too optimistic for the year and in disconnect with a decelerating real economy.
We believe earnings expectations will have to come down further, especially as corporate Capex (capital expenditures used to upgrade or acquire physical assets such as equipment or property, creating future value) continued to decelerate and manufacturing activity contracted at a faster pace at year-end--all of which are likely to negatively impact business investment in 2009. This means that, if the market pays attention to earnings in 2009, we may see additional volatility in the equity markets.
Looking ahead, we are in uncharted territory when we consider the worldwide recessionary environment and global credit crunch, incoming economic data, fiscal and monetary government stimulus, and the response of the global financial markets. While the near-term outlook for the markets and economy is likely to remain volatile and unpredictable, there are longer-term measures in place that may help move eventual recovery ahead. For example, the U.S. stimulus package already in place and that which will follow from the new Obama administration may set the stage for an eventual recovery in the economy. Patience will be required, however, as this recession seems destined to be deep and long.
January 2009
1. Source: Standardandpoors.com
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008).
Note: Expenses do not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare the 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Beginning Account Value 7/1/08 | Ending Account Value 12/31/08 | Expenses Paid During Period* 7/1/08 - 12/31/08 |
Class I | | | |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $660.80 | $2.35 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,022.31 | $2.86 |
Class F | | | |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $660.10 | $3.37 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,021.08 | $4.10 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio of 0.56% and 0.81%, respectively, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/366.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Shareholders of Summit S&P MidCap 400 Index Portfolio:
We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets of the Summit S&P MidCap 400 Index Portfolio (the Portfolio), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., as of December 31, 2008, and the related statements of operations, changes in net assets and the financial highlights for the year then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audit. The accompanying financial statements and financial highlights of the Portfolio for the periods presented through December 31, 2007 were audited by other auditors whose report thereon dated February 22, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2008, by correspondence with custodians and brokers. As to securities purchased or sold but not yet received or delivered, we performed other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Summit S&P MidCap 400 Index Portfolio as of December 31, 2008, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
KPMG LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2009
S&P Midcap 400 Index Portfolio
Statement of Net Assets
December 31, 2008
Equity Securities - 96.7% | | Shares | Value |
Aerospace & Defense - 0.5% | | | |
Alliant Techsystems, Inc.* | | 4,045 | $346,899 |
BE Aerospace, Inc.* | | 12,222 | 93,987 |
| | | 440,886 |
| | | |
Airlines - 0.4% | | | |
Airtran Holdings, Inc.* | | 14,436 | 64,096 |
Alaska Air Group, Inc.* | | 4,477 | 130,952 |
JetBlue Airways Corp.* | | 22,546 | 160,077 |
| | | 355,125 |
| | | |
Auto Components - 0.6% | | | |
ArvinMeritor, Inc. | | 9,095 | 25,921 |
BorgWarner, Inc. | | 14,330 | 311,964 |
Gentex Corp. | | 17,270 | 152,494 |
Modine Manufacturing Co. | | 3,980 | 19,383 |
| | | 509,762 |
| | | |
Automobiles - 0.1% | | | |
Thor Industries, Inc. | | 4,375 | 57,662 |
TravelCenters of America LLC* | | 60,000 | 10 |
| | | 57,672 |
| | | |
Beverages - 0.5% | | | |
Hansen Natural Corp.* | | 9,142 | 306,531 |
PepsiAmericas, Inc. | | 7,063 | 143,803 |
| | | 450,334 |
| | | |
Biotechnology - 0.9% | | | |
United Therapeutics Corp.* | | 2,872 | 179,643 |
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | | 18,602 | 565,129 |
| | | 744,772 |
| | | |
Capital Markets - 1.8% | | | |
Affiliated Managers Group, Inc.* | | 5,078 | 212,870 |
Apollo Investment Corp. | | 17,535 | 163,251 |
Eaton Vance Corp. | | 14,306 | 300,569 |
Jefferies Group, Inc. | | 14,956 | 210,281 |
Raymond James Financial, Inc. | | 11,925 | 204,275 |
SEI Investments Co. | | 16,531 | 259,702 |
Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. | | 10,483 | 162,067 |
| | | 1,513,015 |
| | | |
Chemicals - 3.5% | | | |
Airgas, Inc. | | 10,008 | 390,212 |
Albemarle Corp. | | 11,271 | 251,343 |
Ashland, Inc. | | 8,155 | 85,709 |
Cabot Corp. | | 8,088 | 123,746 |
Chemtura Corp. | | 29,882 | 41,835 |
Cytec Industries, Inc. | | 5,866 | 124,477 |
Ferro Corp. | | 5,391 | 38,007 |
FMC Corp. | | 9,151 | 409,324 |
Lubrizol Corp. | | 8,315 | 302,583 |
Minerals Technologies, Inc. | | 2,332 | 95,379 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Chemicals - Cont'd | | | |
Olin Corp. | | 9,505 | $171,850 |
RPM International, Inc. | | 15,914 | 211,497 |
Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. | | 5,415 | 160,934 |
Sensient Technologies Corp. | | 5,955 | 142,205 |
Terra Industries, Inc. | | 12,592 | 209,909 |
Valspar Corp. | | 12,303 | 222,561 |
| | | 2,981,571 |
| | | |
Commercial Banks - 4.6% | | | |
Associated Banc-Corp. | | 15,789 | 330,464 |
BancorpSouth, Inc. | | 8,939 | 208,815 |
Bank of Hawaii Corp. | | 5,890 | 266,051 |
Cathay General Bancorp | | 6,100 | 144,875 |
City National Corp. | | 5,003 | 243,646 |
Colonial BancGroup, Inc. | | 24,920 | 51,584 |
Commerce Bancshares, Inc. | | 8,155 | 358,412 |
Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. | | 7,334 | 371,687 |
FirstMerit Corp. | | 9,969 | 205,262 |
Fulton Financial Corp. | | 21,633 | 208,109 |
PacWest Bancorp | | 3,018 | 81,184 |
SVB Financial Group* | | 4,054 | 106,336 |
Synovus Financial Corp. | | 34,599 | 287,172 |
TCF Financial Corp. | | 14,219 | 194,232 |
Valley National Bancorp | | 17,399 | 352,330 |
Webster Financial Corp. | | 6,479 | 89,281 |
Westamerica Bancorporation | | 3,571 | 182,657 |
Wilmington Trust Corp. | | 8,417 | 187,194 |
| | | 3,869,291 |
| | | |
Commercial Services & Supplies - 1.8% | | | |
Brink's Co. | | 5,036 | 135,368 |
Clean Harbors, Inc.* | | 2,493 | 158,156 |
Copart, Inc.* | | 7,831 | 212,925 |
Corrections Corp. of America* | | 15,541 | 254,251 |
Deluxe Corp. | | 6,353 | 95,041 |
Herman Miller, Inc. | | 6,631 | 86,402 |
HNI Corp. | | 5,451 | 86,344 |
Mine Safety Appliances Co. | | 3,662 | 87,558 |
Rollins, Inc. | | 5,099 | 92,190 |
Waste Connections, Inc.* | | 9,855 | 311,122 |
| | | 1,519,357 |
| | | |
Communications Equipment - 1.1% | | | |
3Com Corp.* | | 49,968 | 113,927 |
ADC Telecommunications, Inc.* | | 14,517 | 79,408 |
Adtran, Inc. | | 6,773 | 100,782 |
Avocent Corp.* | | 5,523 | 98,917 |
CommScope, Inc.* | | 8,658 | 134,545 |
F5 Networks, Inc.* | | 9,847 | 225,102 |
Plantronics, Inc. | | 6,032 | 79,622 |
Polycom, Inc.* | | 10,289 | 139,004 |
| | | 971,307 |
| | | |
Computers & Peripherals - 1.1% | | | |
Diebold, Inc. | | 8,172 | 229,552 |
Imation Corp. | | 3,713 | 50,385 |
NCR Corp.* | | 19,509 | 275,857 |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Computers & Peripherals - Cont'd | | | |
Palm, Inc.* | | 13,389 | $ 41,104 |
Western Digital Corp.* | | 27,307 | 312,665 |
| | | 909,563 |
| | | |
Construction & Engineering - 1.9% | | | |
Dycom Industries, Inc.* | | 4,852 | 39,883 |
Granite Construction, Inc. | | 4,059 | 178,312 |
KBR, Inc. | | 19,972 | 303,574 |
Quanta Services, Inc.* | | 24,393 | 482,981 |
Shaw Group, Inc.* | | 10,291 | 210,657 |
URS Corp.* | | 10,323 | 420,869 |
| | | 1,636,276 |
| | | |
Construction Materials - 0.6% | | | |
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. | | 5,121 | 497,147 |
| | | |
Consumer Finance - 0.1% | | | |
AmeriCredit Corp.* | | 14,341 | 109,565 |
| | | |
Containers & Packaging - 1.1% | | | |
AptarGroup, Inc. | | 8,367 | 294,853 |
Greif, Inc. | | 4,201 | 140,439 |
Packaging Corp of America | | 12,659 | 170,390 |
Sonoco Products Co. | | 12,329 | 285,540 |
Temple-Inland, Inc. | | 13,097 | 62,866 |
| | | 954,088 |
| | | |
Distributors - 0.2% | | | |
LKQ Corp.* | | 17,002 | 198,243 |
| | | |
Diversified Consumer Services - 2.4% | | | |
Brink's Home Security Holdings, Inc.* | | 5,036 | 110,389 |
Career Education Corp.* | | 9,062 | 162,572 |
Corinthian Colleges, Inc.* | | 10,529 | 172,360 |
DeVry, Inc. | | 7,616 | 437,235 |
ITT Educational Services, Inc.* | | 3,879 | 368,427 |
Matthews International Corp. | | 3,779 | 138,614 |
Regis Corp. | | 5,312 | 77,183 |
Service Corp.International/US | | 31,706 | 157,579 |
Sotheby's | | 8,298 | 73,769 |
Strayer Education, Inc. | | 1,760 | 377,362 |
| | | 2,075,490 |
| | | |
Diversified Telecommunication Services - 0.1% | | | |
Cincinnati Bell, Inc.* | | 28,485 | 54,976 |
| | | |
Electric Utilities - 2.4% | | | |
DPL, Inc. | | 14,336 | 327,434 |
Great Plains Energy, Inc. | | 14,702 | 284,190 |
Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. | | 11,143 | 246,706 |
IDACORP, Inc. | | 5,633 | 165,892 |
Northeast Utilities | | 19,249 | 463,131 |
NV Energy, Inc. | | 28,861 | 285,435 |
Westar Energy, Inc. | | 13,388 | 274,588 |
| | | 2,047,376 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Electrical Equipment - 1.7% | | | |
AMETEK, Inc. | | 13,158 | $397,503 |
Hubbell, Inc., Class B | | 6,928 | 226,407 |
Roper Industries, Inc. | | 11,091 | 481,460 |
Thomas & Betts Corp.* | | 6,912 | 166,026 |
Woodward Governor Co. | | 6,743 | 155,224 |
| | | 1,426,620 |
| | | |
Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 2.2% | | | |
Arrow Electronics, Inc.* | | 14,751 | 277,909 |
Avnet, Inc.* | | 18,625 | 339,161 |
Ingram Micro, Inc.* | | 20,452 | 273,852 |
Mettler-Toledo International, Inc.* | | 4,144 | 279,306 |
National Instruments Corp. | | 7,049 | 171,714 |
Tech Data Corp.* | | 6,226 | 111,072 |
Trimble Navigation Ltd.* | | 14,780 | 319,396 |
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.* | | 22,984 | 78,605 |
| | | 1,851,015 |
| | | |
Energy Equipment & Services - 2.6% | | | |
Exterran Holdings, Inc.* | | 8,000 | 170,400 |
FMC Technologies, Inc.* | | 15,459 | 368,388 |
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc.* | | 11,325 | 81,993 |
Helmerich & Payne, Inc. | | 12,972 | 295,113 |
Oceaneering International, Inc.* | | 6,735 | 196,258 |
Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. | | 19,115 | 220,014 |
Pride International, Inc.* | | 21,337 | 340,965 |
Superior Energy Services, Inc.* | | 9,585 | 152,689 |
Tidewater, Inc. | | 6,355 | 255,916 |
Unit Corp.* | | 5,825 | 155,644 |
| | | 2,237,380 |
| | | |
Food & Staples Retailing - 0.5% | | | |
BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.* | | 7,270 | 249,070 |
Ruddick Corp. | | 4,822 | 133,328 |
| | | 382,398 |
| | | |
Food Products - 1.8% | | | |
Corn Products International, Inc. | | 9,181 | 264,872 |
Flowers Foods, Inc. | | 9,746 | 237,413 |
Hormel Foods Corp. | | 8,644 | 268,655 |
Lancaster Colony Corp. | | 2,473 | 84,824 |
Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.* | | 6,965 | 406,756 |
Smithfield Foods, Inc.* | | 14,690 | 206,688 |
Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. | | 3,191 | 81,722 |
| | | 1,550,930 |
| | | |
Gas Utilities - 2.1% | | | |
AGL Resources, Inc. | | 9,492 | 297,574 |
Energen Corp. | | 8,840 | 259,277 |
National Fuel Gas Co. | | 9,782 | 306,470 |
Oneok, Inc. | | 12,919 | 376,201 |
UGI Corp. | | 13,338 | 325,714 |
WGL Holdings, Inc. | | 6,154 | 201,174 |
| | | 1,766,410 |
| | | |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 3.7% | | | |
Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.* | | 6,420 | 42,436 |
Beckman Coulter, Inc. | | 7,748 | 340,447 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - Cont'd | | | |
Edwards Lifesciences Corp.* | | 6,882 | $378,166 |
Gen-Probe, Inc.* | | 6,722 | 287,970 |
Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. | | 7,705 | 126,824 |
Hologic, Inc.* | | 31,677 | 414,018 |
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.* | | 7,363 | 265,657 |
Kinetic Concepts, Inc.* | | 6,977 | 133,819 |
Masimo Corp.* | | 5,921 | 176,623 |
ResMed, Inc.* | | 9,357 | 350,700 |
STERIS Corp. | | 7,284 | 174,015 |
Teleflex, Inc. | | 4,892 | 245,089 |
Thoratec Corp.* | | 6,932 | 225,221 |
| | | 3,160,985 |
| | | |
Health Care Providers & Services - 2.7% | | | |
Community Health Systems, Inc.* | | 11,531 | 168,122 |
Health Management Associates, Inc.* | | 30,128 | 53,929 |
Health Net, Inc.* | | 12,819 | 139,599 |
Henry Schein, Inc.* | | 11,019 | 404,287 |
Kindred Healthcare, Inc.* | | 3,687 | 48,005 |
LifePoint Hospitals, Inc.* | | 6,565 | 149,945 |
Lincare Holdings, Inc.* | | 9,195 | 247,621 |
Omnicare, Inc. | | 12,876 | 357,438 |
Psychiatric Solutions, Inc.* | | 6,915 | 192,583 |
Universal Health Services, Inc., Class B | | 6,273 | 235,677 |
VCA Antech, Inc.* | | 10,463 | 208,004 |
WellCare Health Plans, Inc.* | | 5,142 | 66,126 |
| | | 2,271,336 |
| | | |
Health Care Technology - 0.4% | | | |
Cerner Corp.* | | 8,412 | 323,441 |
| | | |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.3% | | | |
Bob Evans Farms, Inc. | | 3,814 | 77,920 |
Boyd Gaming Corp. | | 7,036 | 33,280 |
Brinker International, Inc. | | 12,500 | 131,750 |
Cheesecake Factory* | | 7,363 | 74,366 |
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.* | | 4,066 | 252,011 |
International Speedway Corp. | | 3,434 | 98,659 |
Life Time Fitness, Inc.* | | 4,297 | 55,646 |
Scientific Games Corp.* | | 8,012 | 140,530 |
Wendy's/Arby's Group, Inc. | | 51,689 | 255,344 |
| | | 1,119,506 |
| | | |
Household Durables - 1.7% | | | |
American Greetings Corp. | | 5,599 | 42,384 |
Blyth, Inc. | | 2,982 | 23,379 |
Furniture Brands International, Inc. | | 5,113 | 11,300 |
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc.* | | 6,245 | 10,741 |
MDC Holdings, Inc. | | 4,515 | 136,805 |
Mohawk Industries, Inc.* | | 6,917 | 297,223 |
NVR, Inc.* | | 674 | 307,513 |
Ryland Group, Inc. | | 5,254 | 92,838 |
Toll Brothers, Inc.* | | 16,063 | 344,230 |
Tupperware Brands Corp. | | 7,660 | 173,882 |
| | | 1,440,295 |
| | | |
Household Products - 1.0% | | | |
Church & Dwight Co., Inc. | | 8,658 | 485,887 |
Energizer Holdings, Inc.* | | 7,209 | 390,295 |
| | | 876,182 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Industrial Conglomerates - 0.2% | | | |
Carlisle Co's, Inc. | | 7,523 | $155,726 |
| | | |
| | | |
Insurance - 5.7% | | | |
American Financial Group, Inc. | | 9,284 | 212,418 |
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. | | 11,745 | 304,313 |
Brown & Brown, Inc. | | 14,344 | 299,790 |
Everest Re Group Ltd. | | 7,593 | 578,131 |
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. | | 26,186 | 464,802 |
First American Corp. | | 11,481 | 331,686 |
Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. | | 6,315 | 271,356 |
HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. | | 14,142 | 378,299 |
Horace Mann Educators Corp. | | 4,816 | 44,259 |
Mercury General Corp. | | 4,388 | 201,804 |
Old Republic International Corp. | | 28,446 | 339,076 |
Protective Life Corp. | | 8,616 | 123,640 |
Reinsurance Group of America, Inc. | | 8,971 | 384,138 |
StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. | | 6,028 | 251,790 |
Unitrin, Inc. | | 6,114 | 97,457 |
WR Berkley Corp. | | 17,144 | 531,464 |
| | | 4,814,423 |
| | | |
Internet & Catalog Retail - 0.6% | | | |
NetFlix, Inc.* | | 5,150 | 153,934 |
priceline.com, Inc.* | | 5,018 | 369,576 |
| | | 523,510 |
| | | |
Internet Software & Services - 0.2% | | | |
Digital River, Inc.* | | 4,563 | 113,162 |
ValueClick, Inc.* | | 10,677 | 73,031 |
| | | 186,193 |
| | | |
IT Services - 3.2% | | | |
Acxiom Corp. | | 8,332 | 67,573 |
Alliance Data Systems Corp.* | | 7,979 | 371,263 |
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. | | 17,481 | 219,212 |
DST Systems, Inc.* | | 5,030 | 191,039 |
Gartner, Inc.* | | 7,295 | 130,070 |
Global Payments, Inc. | | 9,915 | 325,113 |
Lender Processing Services, Inc. | | 10,365 | 305,249 |
Mantech International Corp.* | | 2,583 | 139,973 |
Metavante Technologies, Inc.* | | 11,061 | 178,193 |
NeuStar, Inc.* | | 9,711 | 185,771 |
SAIC, Inc.* | | 25,063 | 488,227 |
SRA International, Inc.* | | 5,245 | 90,476 |
| | | 2,692,159 |
| | | |
Leisure Equipment & Products - 0.1% | | | |
Callaway Golf Co. | | 7,990 | 74,227 |
| | | |
Life Sciences - Tools & Services - 1.9% | | | |
Affymetrix, Inc.* | | 8,661 | 25,896 |
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.* | | 2,356 | 177,430 |
Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.* | | 8,364 | 219,137 |
Covance, Inc.* | | 7,824 | 360,139 |
Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. | | 14,576 | 422,850 |
Techne Corp. | | 4,701 | 303,309 |
Varian, Inc.* | | 3,580 | 119,966 |
| | | 1,628,727 |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Machinery - 4.7% | | | |
AGCO Corp.* | | 11,311 | $266,826 |
Bucyrus International, Inc. | | 9,231 | 170,958 |
Crane Co. | | 5,973 | 102,975 |
Donaldson Co., Inc. | | 9,511 | 320,045 |
Federal Signal Corp. | | 5,857 | 48,086 |
Graco, Inc. | | 7,358 | 174,605 |
Harsco Corp. | | 10,325 | 285,796 |
IDEX Corp. | | 10,179 | 245,823 |
Joy Global, Inc. | | 13,289 | 304,185 |
Kennametal, Inc. | | 9,039 | 200,575 |
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. | | 5,283 | 269,063 |
Nordson Corp. | | 4,205 | 135,779 |
Oshkosh Corp. | | 9,190 | 81,699 |
Pentair, Inc. | | 12,196 | 288,679 |
SPX Corp. | | 6,728 | 272,820 |
Terex Corp.* | | 11,733 | 203,216 |
Timken Co. | | 10,471 | 205,546 |
Trinity Industries, Inc. | | 9,833 | 154,968 |
Wabtec Corp. | | 5,972 | 237,387 |
| | | 3,969,031 |
| | | |
Marine - 0.2% | | | |
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. | | 5,099 | 127,781 |
| | | |
Media - 1.0% | | | |
Belo Corp. | | 10,837 | 16,906 |
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.* | | 9,527 | 240,652 |
Harte-Hanks, Inc. | | 4,679 | 29,197 |
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | | 5,293 | 188,325 |
Lamar Advertising Co.* | | 9,348 | 117,411 |
Marvel Entertainment, Inc.* | | 6,047 | 185,945 |
Scholastic Corp. | | 3,269 | 44,393 |
| | | 822,829 |
| | | |
Metals & Mining - 1.3% | | | |
Carpenter Technology Corp. | | 5,472 | 112,395 |
Cliffs Natural Resources, Inc. | | 13,994 | 358,386 |
Commercial Metals Co. | | 14,119 | 167,593 |
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. | | 7,856 | 156,649 |
Steel Dynamics, Inc. | | 19,937 | 222,896 |
Worthington Industries, Inc. | | 7,381 | 81,339 |
| | | 1,099,258 |
| | | |
Multiline Retail - 0.7% | | | |
99 Cents Only Stores* | | 5,788 | 63,263 |
Dollar Tree, Inc.* | | 11,203 | 468,285 |
Saks, Inc.* | | 17,495 | 76,628 |
| | | 608,176 |
| | | |
Multi-Utilities - 3.1% | | | |
Alliant Energy Corp. | | 13,655 | 398,453 |
Black Hills Corp. | | 4,735 | 127,656 |
MDU Resources Group, Inc. | | 22,706 | 489,995 |
Nstar | | 13,205 | 481,850 |
OGE Energy Corp. | | 11,471 | 295,722 |
PNM Resources, Inc. | | 10,653 | 107,382 |
Puget Energy, Inc. | | 16,032 | 437,193 |
Vectren Corp. | | 9,984 | 249,700 |
| | | 2,587,951 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Office Electronics - 0.2% | | | |
Zebra Technologies Corp.* | | 7,837 | $158,778 |
| | | |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 3.5% | | | |
Arch Coal, Inc. | | 17,662 | 287,714 |
Bill Barrett Corp.* | | 4,556 | 96,268 |
Cimarex Energy Co. | | 10,295 | 275,700 |
Comstock Resources, Inc.* | | 5,674 | 268,097 |
Denbury Resources, Inc.* | | 30,442 | 332,427 |
Encore Acquisition Co.* | | 6,523 | 166,467 |
Forest Oil Corp.* | | 11,974 | 197,451 |
Frontier Oil Corp. | | 12,807 | 161,752 |
Mariner Energy, Inc.* | | 10,955 | 111,741 |
Newfield Exploration Co.* | | 16,299 | 321,905 |
Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. | | 3,115 | 131,173 |
Patriot Coal Corp.* | | 7,817 | 48,856 |
Plains Exploration & Production Co.* | | 13,266 | 308,302 |
Quicksilver Resources, Inc.* | | 13,962 | 77,768 |
Southern Union Co. | | 15,292 | 199,408 |
| | | 2,985,029 |
| | | |
Paper & Forest Products - 0.0% | | | |
Louisiana-Pacific Corp. | | 11,207 | 17,483 |
| | | |
Personal Products - 0.4% | | | |
Alberto-Culver Co. | | 10,537 | 258,262 |
NBTY, Inc.* | | 6,778 | 106,076 |
| | | 364,338 |
| | | |
Pharmaceuticals - 1.4% | | | |
Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc.* | | 14,474 | 374,587 |
Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp. | | 6,993 | 97,203 |
Perrigo Co. | | 9,573 | 309,304 |
Sepracor, Inc.* | | 13,420 | 147,352 |
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International* | | 10,048 | 230,099 |
| | | 1,158,545 |
| | | |
Professional Services - 1.2% | | | |
Corporate Executive Board Co. | | 4,195 | 92,542 |
FTI Consulting, Inc.* | | 6,283 | 280,724 |
Kelly Services, Inc. | | 3,386 | 44,052 |
Korn/Ferry International* | | 5,532 | 63,175 |
Manpower, Inc. | | 9,639 | 327,630 |
MPS Group, Inc.* | | 11,467 | 86,347 |
Navigant Consulting, Inc.* | | 5,721 | 90,792 |
| | | 985,262 |
| | | |
Real Estate Investment Trusts - 6.8% | | | |
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. | | 3,984 | 240,395 |
AMB Property Corp. | | 12,176 | 285,162 |
BRE Properties, Inc. | | 6,294 | 176,106 |
Camden Property Trust | | 6,554 | 205,402 |
Cousins Properties, Inc. | | 5,380 | 74,513 |
Duke Realty Corp. | | 18,219 | 199,680 |
Equity One, Inc. | | 4,076 | 72,145 |
Essex Property Trust, Inc. | | 3,313 | 254,273 |
Federal Realty Investment Trust | | 7,291 | 452,625 |
Health Care REIT, Inc. | | 12,790 | 539,738 |
Highwoods Properties, Inc. | | 7,859 | 215,022 |
Hospitality Properties Trust | | 11,584 | 172,254 |
Liberty Property Trust | | 12,092 | 276,060 |
Macerich Co. | | 9,410 | 170,886 |
Mack-Cali Realty Corp. | | 8,108 | 198,646 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Real Estate Investment Trusts - Cont'd | | | |
Nationwide Health Properties, Inc. | | 12,283 | $352,768 |
Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. | | 10,614 | 169,506 |
Potlatch Corp. | | 4,871 | 126,695 |
Rayonier, Inc. | | 9,745 | 305,506 |
Realty Income Corp. | | 12,891 | 298,427 |
Regency Centers Corp. | | 8,654 | 404,142 |
SL Green Realty Corp. | | 6,936 | 179,642 |
UDR, Inc. | | 16,772 | 231,286 |
Weingarten Realty Investors | | 9,580 | 198,210 |
| | | 5,799,089 |
| | | |
Real Estate Management & Development - 0.1% | | | |
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. | | 4,266 | 118,168 |
| | | |
Road & Rail - 0.9% | | | |
Con-way, Inc. | | 5,635 | 149,891 |
JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc. | | 10,126 | 266,010 |
Kansas City Southern* | | 11,287 | 215,017 |
Werner Enterprises, Inc. | | 5,249 | 91,018 |
YRC Worldwide, Inc.* | | 7,063 | 20,271 |
| | | 742,207 |
| | | |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 1.6% | | | |
Atmel Corp.* | | 55,382 | 173,346 |
Cree, Inc.* | | 10,862 | 172,380 |
Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc.* | | 15,412 | 75,365 |
Integrated Device Technology, Inc.* | | 20,947 | 117,513 |
International Rectifier Corp.* | | 8,979 | 121,216 |
Intersil Corp. | | 15,251 | 140,157 |
Lam Research Corp.* | | 15,465 | 329,095 |
RF Micro Devices, Inc.* | | 32,261 | 25,164 |
Semtech Corp.* | | 7,469 | 84,176 |
Silicon Laboratories, Inc.* | | 5,719 | 141,717 |
| | | 1,380,129 |
| | | |
Software - 2.5% | | | |
ACI Worldwide, Inc.* | | 4,316 | 68,624 |
Advent Software, Inc.* | | 2,050 | 40,938 |
ANSYS, Inc.* | | 11,090 | 309,300 |
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.* | | 32,087 | 117,438 |
FactSet Research Systems, Inc. | | 5,212 | 230,579 |
Fair Isaac Corp. | | 5,975 | 100,739 |
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. | | 10,449 | 202,815 |
Macrovision Solutions Corp.* | | 10,281 | 130,055 |
Mentor Graphics Corp.* | | 11,387 | 58,871 |
Parametric Technology Corp.* | | 14,366 | 181,730 |
Sybase, Inc.* | | 10,021 | 248,220 |
Synopsys, Inc.* | | 17,765 | 329,008 |
Wind River Systems, Inc.* | | 8,389 | 75,753 |
| | | 2,094,070 |
| | | |
Specialty Retail - 4.1% | | | |
Advance Auto Parts, Inc. | | 11,707 | 393,940 |
Aeropostale, Inc.* | | 8,246 | 132,761 |
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. | | 25,385 | 237,604 |
AnnTaylor Stores Corp.* | | 7,035 | 40,592 |
Barnes & Noble, Inc. | | 4,536 | 68,040 |
Carmax, Inc.* | | 27,170 | 214,100 |
Chico's FAS, Inc.* | | 21,762 | 90,965 |
| | | |
| | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value |
Specialty Retail - Cont'd | | | |
Coldwater Creek, Inc.* | | 5,829 | $16,613 |
Collective Brands, Inc.* | | 7,869 | 92,225 |
Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.* | | 10,464 | 147,647 |
Foot Locker, Inc. | | 19,107 | 140,245 |
Guess ?, Inc. | | 7,426 | 113,989 |
J Crew Group, Inc.* | | 6,389 | 77,946 |
O'Reilly Automotive, Inc.* | | 16,631 | 511,237 |
Pacific Sunwear Of California* | | 8,101 | 12,881 |
PetSmart, Inc. | | 15,716 | 289,960 |
Rent-A-Center, Inc.* | | 8,222 | 145,118 |
Ross Stores, Inc. | | 15,995 | 475,531 |
Urban Outfitters, Inc.* | | 14,099 | 211,203 |
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. | | 10,673 | 83,890 |
| | | 3,496,487 |
| | | |
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 0.7% | | | |
Hanesbrands, Inc.* | | 11,561 | 147,403 |
Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. | | 6,338 | 127,584 |
Timberland Co.* | | 5,689 | 65,708 |
Under Armour, Inc.* | | 4,492 | 107,089 |
Warnaco Group, Inc.* | | 5,764 | 113,147 |
| | | 560,931 |
| | | |
Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 1.3% | | | |
Astoria Financial Corp. | | 9,925 | 163,564 |
First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. | | 14,655 | 236,971 |
New York Community Bancorp, Inc. | | 42,552 | 508,922 |
PMI Group, Inc. | | 8,554 | 16,680 |
Washington Federal, Inc. | | 10,833 | 162,062 |
| | | 1,088,199 |
| | | |
Tobacco - 0.1% | | | |
Universal Corp. | | 3,089 | 92,268 |
| | | |
Trading Companies & Distributors - 0.5% | | | |
GATX Corp. | | 6,005 | 185,975 |
MSC Industrial Direct Co. | | 5,541 | 204,075 |
United Rentals, Inc.* | | 7,311 | 66,676 |
| | | 456,726 |
| | | |
Water Utilities - 0.4% | | | |
Aqua America, Inc. | | 16,710 | 344,059 |
| | | |
Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.5% | | | |
Telephone & Data Systems, Inc. | | 13,161 | 417,862 |
| | | |
Total Equity Securities (Cost $109,507,974) | | | 81,851,935 |
| | | |
| | | |
| | Principal | |
U.S. Treasury - 0.2% | | Amount | Value |
United States Treasury Bill, 3/26/09 # | | $140,000 | $139,997 |
| | | |
Total U.S. Treasury (Cost $139,997) | | | 139,997 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (Cost $109,647,971) - 96.7% | | | 81,991,932 |
Other assets and liabilities, net - 3.3% | | | 2,777,518 |
Net Assets - 100% | | | $84,769,450 |
| | | |
| | | |
Net Assets Consist Of: | | | |
Paid-in capital applicable to the following shares of common stock outstanding | | | |
$0.10 par value, 20,000,000 shares authorized: | | | |
Class I: 2,096,142 | | | $124,668,741 |
Class F: 2,560.50 | | | 162,427 |
Undistributed net investment income | | | 131,531 |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | | | (12,674,964) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | | (27,518,285) |
| | | |
Net Assets | | | $84,769,450 |
| | | |
| | | |
Net Asset Value Per Share: | | | |
Class I (based on net assets of $84,665,361) | | | $40.39 |
Class F (based on net assets of $104,089) | | | $40.65 |
| | | Underlying | Unrealized |
| Number of | Expiration | Face Amount | Appreciation |
Futures | Contracts | Date | at Value | (Depreciation) |
Purchased: | | | | |
S&P MidCap 400 Index Mini # | 51 | 3/09 | $2,739,720 | $137,754 |
* Non-income producing security
# Futures collateralized by 140,000 units of U.S. Treasury Bills.
See notes to financial statements.
S&P Midcap 400 Index Portfolio
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2008
Net Investment Income | |
Investment Income: | |
Dividend income | $2,364,334 |
Interest income | 244,439 |
Total investment income | 2,608,773 |
| |
Expenses: | |
Investment advisory fee | 430,691 |
Transfer agency fees and expenses | 25,703 |
Accounting fees | 45,440 |
Distribution Plan expenses: | |
Class F | 156 |
Trustees' fees and expenses | 25,219 |
Administrative fees | 143,564 |
Custodian fees | 38,689 |
Reports to shareholders | 23,030 |
Professional fees | 27,279 |
Miscellaneous | 35,912 |
Total expenses | 795,683 |
Reimbursement from Advisor: | |
Class I | (5,897) |
Class F | (1) |
Net expenses | 789,785 |
| |
Net Investment Income | 1,818,988 |
| |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | |
Investments | (11,244,597) |
Futures | (883,636) |
| (12,128,233) |
| |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | |
Investments | (50,349,322) |
Futures | 112,860 |
| (50,236,462) |
| |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain | |
(Loss) | (62,364,695) |
| |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | |
Resulting From Operations | ($60,545,707) |
See notes to financial statements.
S&P Midcap 400 Index Portfolio
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Year Ended | Year Ended | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2008 | 2007 | |
Operations: | | | | |
Net investment income | | $1,818,988 | $1,744,152 | |
Net realized gain (loss) | | (12,128,233) | 11,638,715 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) | | (50,236,462) | (2,909,832) | |
| | | | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Resulting From Operations | | (60,545,707) | 10,473,035 | |
| | | | |
Distributions to shareholders from: | | | | |
Net investment income: | | | | |
Class I shares | | (2,853,958) | (1,394,203) | |
Class F shares | | (739) | -- | |
| | | | |
Net realized gain: | | | | |
Class I shares | | (11,824,562) | (6,306,003) | |
Class F shares | | (1,281) | -- | |
Total distributions | | (14,680,540) | (7,700,206) | |
| | | | |
Capital share transactions: | | | | |
Shares sold: | | | | |
Class I shares | | 18,892,154 | 45,386,539 | |
Class F shares | | 212,505 | 1,000 | |
Reinvestment of distributions: | | | | |
Class I shares | | 14,678,521 | 7,700,206 | |
Class F shares | | 2,020 | -- | |
Shares redeemed: | | | | |
Class I shares | | (45,958,150) | (27,774,480) | |
Class F shares | | (53,098) | -- | |
Total capital share transactions | | (12,226,048) | 25,313,265 | |
| | | | |
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | (87,452,295) | 28,086,094 | |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of year | | 172,221,745 | 144,135,651 | |
End of year (including undistributed net investment | | | | |
income of $131,531 and $1,390,505 respectively) | | $84,769,450 | $172,221,745 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Capital Share Activity | | | | |
Shares sold: | | | | |
Class I shares | | 322,460 | 634,589 | |
Class F shares | | 3,807 | 14 | |
Reinvestment of distributions: | | | | |
Class I shares | | 256,407 | 108,791 | |
Class F shares | | 38 | -- | |
Shares redeemed: | | | | |
Class I shares | | (919,042) | (388,957) | |
Class F shares | | (1,299) | -- | |
Total capital share transactions | | (337,629) | 354,437 | |
See notes to financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE A --- SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
General: The Summit MidCap 400 Index Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. (the "Fund") is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company. The Fund is comprised of thirteen separate portfolios. The operations of each series of the Fund are accounted for separately. The shares of the Portfolio are sold to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for allocation to certain of their variable separate accounts. The Portfolio offers Class I and Class F shares. Class F shares are subject to Distribution Plan Expenses. Each class has different: (a) dividend rates, due to differences in Distribution Plan expenses and other class-specific expenses, (b) exchange privileges; and (c) class-specific voting rights.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), an affiliated entity, whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business and became investment advisor for the portfolios of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Security Valuation: Net asset value per share is determined every business day as of the close of the regular session of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Portfolio uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Directors to value its investments wherever possible. Securities for which market quotations are available are valued at last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange in which they trade. Short-term notes are stated at amortized cost, which approximates fair value. The Portfolio may invest in securities whose resale is subject to restrictions. Investments for which market quotations are not available or deemed not reliable are fair valued in good faith under the direction of the Board of Directors.
In determining fair value, the Board considers all relevant qualitative and quantitative information available. These factors are subject to change over time and are reviewed periodically. The values assigned to fair value investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized. Further, because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, those estimated values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed, and the differences could be material. At December 31, 2008, no securities were fair valued under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Effective January 1, 2008, the Portfolio adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Portfolio's investments and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 -- quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 -- other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 -- significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy during the period. For additional information on the Portfolio's policy regarding valuation of investments, please refer to the Portfolio's most recent prospectus.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Portfolio's net assets as of December 31, 2008:
Valuation Inputs | Investments in Securities | Other Financial Instruments* |
Level 1 - Quoted Prices | $81,851,935 | $137,754 |
Level 2 - Other Significant Observable Inputs | 139,997 | -- |
Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs | -- | -- |
Total | $81,991,932 | $137,754 |
*Other financial instruments are derivative instruments not reflected in the Portfolio of Investments, such as futures, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument
Futures Contracts: The Portfolio may enter into futures contracts agreeing to buy or sell a financial instrument for a set price at a future date. Initial margin deposits of either cash or securities as required by the broker are made upon entering into the contract. While the contract is open, daily variation margin payments are made to or received from the broker reflecting the daily change in market value of the contract and are recorded for financial reporting purposes as unrealized gains or losses by the Portfolio. When a futures contract is closed, a realized gain or loss is recorded equal to the difference between the opening and closing value of the contract. The risks associated with entering into futures contracts may include the possible illiquidity of the secondary market which would limit the Portfolio's ability to close out a futures contract prior to the settlement date, an imperfect correlation between the value of the contracts and the underlying financial instruments, or that the counter party will fail to perform its obligations under the contracts' terms.
Security Transactions and Investment Income: Security transactions are accounted for on trade date. Realized gains and losses are recorded on an identified cost basis and may include proceeds from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Interest income, which includes amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities, is accrued as earned. Investment income and realized and unrealized gains and losses are allocated to separate classes of shares based upon the relative net assets of each class. Expenses arising in connection with a class are charged directly to that class. Expenses common to the classes are allocated to each class in proportion to their relative net assets. Withholding taxes on foreign dividends have been provided for in accordance with the Portfolio's understanding of the applicable country's tax rules and rates.
Distributions to Shareholders: Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Portfolio on ex-dividend date. Dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains, if any, are paid at least annually. Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles; accordingly, periodic reclassifications are made within the Portfolio's capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution under income tax regulations.
Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Expense Offset Arrangements: The Portfolio has an arrangement with its custodian bank whereby the custodian's fees may be paid indirectly by credits earned on the Portfolio's cash on deposit with the bank. These credits are used to reduce the Portfolio's expenses. Such a deposit arrangement may be an alternative to overnight investments.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision for federal income or excise tax is required since the Portfolio intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code and to distribute substantially all of its taxable earnings.
The Portfolio is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The implementation of FIN 48 did not result in any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements or in any of the open tax years; thus, no provision for income tax is required. Each of the Portfolio's federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
Portfolio Securities Lending: During the year, the Portfolio lent its securities to approved borrowers to earn additional income and received cash and/or securities as collateral to secure the loans. The Securities Lending program ended in November 2008.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 161, "Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." The new standard is intended to improve financial reporting about derivative instruments and hedging activities by requiring enhanced disclosures to enable investors to better understand the effect on the Fund's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS No. 161 will have on the Fund's financial statements and related disclosures.
NOTE B -- RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") is wholly-owned by Calvert Group, Ltd. ("Calvert"), which is indirectly wholly owned by UNIFI Mutual Holding Company. The Advisor provides investment advisory services and pays the salaries and fees of officers and Directors of the Fund who are employees of the Advisor or its affiliates. For its services, the Advisor receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .30% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $11,315 was payable at year end. In addition, $274 was receivable from the advisor for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit Investment Partners, Inc., ("Summit") served as the Advisor. Summit is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Central Life Insurance Company, an indirect subsidiary of UNIFI Mutual Holding Company. Summit received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.30% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $9,064 was payable at year end. In addition, $5,624 was receivable from Summit for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008.
The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit net annual portfolio operating expenses through December 12, 2010. The contractual expense cap is .55% and .79% for Class I and Class F, respectively. For the purpose of this expense limit, operating expenses do not include interest expense, brokerage commissions, taxes and extraordinary expenses. To the extent any expense credits are earned, the Advisor's obligation under the contractual limitation may be reduced and the Advisor may benefit from the expense offset arrangement.
Calvert Administrative Services Company ("CASC"), an affiliate of the Advisor, provides administrative services for the Portfolio. For its services, CASC receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $3,772 was payable at year end. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit provided administrative services for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $3,021 was payable at year end.
Calvert Distributors, Inc., an affiliate of the Advisor, is the distributor and principal underwriter for the Portfolio. Distribution plans, adopted by Class F shares, allow the Portfolio to pay the distributor for expenses and services associated with the distribution of shares. The expenses paid may not exceed 0.20% annually of average daily net assets of Class F. Under the terms of the agreement, $9 was payable at year end. Prior to December 12, 2008, Ameritas Investment Corp. was the distributor and principal underwriter for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.20% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $101 was payable at year end.
Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. ("CSSI"), an affiliate of the Advisor, acts as shareholder servicing agent for the Portfolio. For its services, CSSI received a fee of $17 for the year ended December 31, 2008. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. is the transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Under the terms of the agreement, $17 was payable at year end. Prior to December 12, 2008, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC served as the transfer and dividend disbursing agent.
Each Director of the Fund who is not an employee of the Advisor or its affiliates receives a fee of $1,500 for each Board and Committee meeting attended plus an annual fee of $20,000 for Directors not serving on other Calvert Fund Boards, $8,000 for those serving on other Calvert Fund Boards. Director's fees are allocated to each of the portfolios served. Prior to December 12, 2008, each Director of the Fund who was not an employee of Summit or its affiliates received a fee of $2,500 for each Board meeting attended ($600 for Committee meetings) plus an annual fee of $17,000. Committee chairs and the Lead Director received additional fees for their service.
NOTE C -- INVESTMENT ACTIVITY
During the year, the cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investments, other than short-term securities were $31,972,496 and $55,061,380.
The cost of investments owned at December 31, 2008 for federal income tax purposes was $110,280,479. Net unrealized depreciation aggregated $28,288,547 of which $6,320,862 related to appreciated securities and $34,609,409 related to depreciated securities.
Net realized capital loss carryforwards for federal income tax purposes of $11,904,703, at December 31, 2008 may be utilized to offset future capital gains until expiration in December 2016.
The tax character of dividends and distributions paid during the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 was as follows:
Distributions paid from: | 2008 | 2007 |
Ordinary income | $3,307,172 | $1,689,413 |
Long term capital gain | 11,373,368 | 6,010,793 |
Total | $14,680,540 | $7,700,206 |
As of December 31, 2008 the components of distributable earnings / (accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
Undistributed ordinary income | $131,531 |
Capital loss carryforward | (11,904,703) |
Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) | (28,288,547) |
| ($40,061,719) |
The differences between the components of distributable earnings on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the statement of net assets are primarily due to temporary book-tax differences that will reverse in a subsequent period. These differences are due to wash sales, real estate investment trusts, return of capital distributions and Section 1256 contracts.
Reclassifications, as shown in the table below, have been made to the Portfolio's components of net assets to reflect income and gains available for distribution (or available capital loss carryovers, as applicable) under income tax law and regulations. These reclassifications are due to permanent book-tax differences and have no impact on net assets. The primary permanent differences causing such reclassifications for the Portfolio are due to real estate investment trusts.
Undistributed net investment income | ($200,747) |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) | 200,747 |
NOTE D - OTHER (Unaudited)
Change in Independent Accountant
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. ("Fund"). KPMG LLP was selected as the Fund's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the Fund's financial statements. The Fund's selection of KPMG as its independent accountant was recommended by the Fund's Audit Committee and was approved by the Fund's Board of Directors.
The reports on the financial statements audited by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2007 and prior for the Funds did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There were no disagreements between the Funds and Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused Deloitte to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements of such years. There were no reportable events as described in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of Item 304(a) of SEC Regulation S-K.
Tax Information (Unaudited)
The Portfolio designates $11,373,368 as capital gain dividends for the calendar year ended December 31, 2008.
For corporate shareholders, the Portfolio designates 99.6% of its ordinary dividends paid during the calendar year ended December 31, 2008, as qualifying for the corporate dividends received deduction.
Financial Highlights
| | | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | December 31, | |
Class I | | 2008 (z) | 2007 | 2006 | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $70.69 | $69.23 | $66.08 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .72 | .67 | .67 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (24.89) | 4.44 | 5.64 | |
Total from investment operations | | (24.17) | 5.11 | 6.31 | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (1.26) | (.66) | (.59) | |
Net realized gain | | (4.87) | (2.99) | (2.57) | |
Total distributions | | (6.13) | (3.65) | (3.16) | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (30.30) | 1.46 | 3.15 | |
Net asset value, ending | | $40.39 | $70.69 | $69.23 | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | (36.63%) | 7.38% | 9.72% | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.27% | 1.11% | 1.15% | |
Total expenses | | .55% | .52% | .52% | |
Expenses before offsets | | .55% | .52% | .52% | |
Net expenses | | .55% | .52% | .52% | |
Portfolio turnover | | 22% | 23% | 14% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $84,665 | $172,221 | $144,136 | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | | |
Class I | | 2005 | 2004(z) | | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $60.76 | $52.62 | | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .52 | .35 | | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 6.50 | 7.93 | | |
Total from investment operations | | 7.02 | 8.28 | | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (.33) | (.14) | | |
Net realized gain | | (1.37) | -- | | |
Total distributions | | (1.70) | (.14) | | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | 5.32 | 8.14 | | |
Net asset value, ending | | $66.08 | $60.76 | | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | 11.94% | 15.76% | | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .91% | .68% | | |
Total expenses | | .54% | .56% | | |
Expenses before offsets | | .54% | .56% | | |
Net expenses | | .54% | .56% | | |
Portfolio turnover | | 19% | 15% | | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $127,372 | $99,775 | | |
See notes to financial highlights.
Financial Highlights
| | Periods Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | | |
Class F | | 2008 (z) | 2007^ | | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $70.66 | $73.77 | | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .66 | .16 | | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (24.90) | (3.27) | | |
Total from investment operations | | (24.24) | (3.11) | | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (.90) | -- | | |
Net realized gain | | (4.87) | -- | | |
Total distributions | | (5.77) | -- | | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (30.01) | (3.11) | | |
Net asset value, ending | | $40.65 | $70.66 | | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | (36.76%) | (4.21%) | | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.26% | .89% (a) | | |
Total expenses | | .79% | .71% (a) | | |
Expenses before offsets | | .78% | .71% (a) | | |
Net expenses | | .78% | .71% (a) | | |
Portfolio turnover | | 22% | 23% | | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $104 | $1 | | |
| | | | | |
A Total expenses do not reflect amounts reimbursed and/or waived by the Advisor or reductions from expense offset arrangements. Expenses before offsets reflect expenses after reimbursement and/or waiver by the Advisor but prior to reductions from expense offset arrangements. Net expenses are net of all reductions and represent the net expenses paid by the portfolio.
(a) Annualized.
* Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year.
^ From October 1, 2007 inception.
(z) Per share figures calculated using the Average Share Method.
See notes to financial statements.
Explanation of Financial Tables
Schedule of Investments
The Schedule of Investments is a snapshot of all securities held in the fund at their market value, on the last day of the reporting period. Securities are listed by asset type (e.g., common stock, corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations) and may be further broken down into sub-groups and by industry classification.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities is often referred to as the fund's balance sheet. It lists the value of what the fund owns, is due and owes on the last day of the reporting period. The fund's assets include the market value of securities owned, cash, receivables for securities sold and shareholder subscriptions, and receivables for dividends and interest payments that have been earned, but not yet received. The fund's liabilities typically include payables for securities purchased and shareholder redemptions, and expenses owed but not yet paid. The statement also reports the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share on the last day of the reporting period. The NAV is calculated by dividing the fund's net assets (assets minus liabilities) by the number of shares outstanding. This statement is accompanied by a Schedule of Investments. Alternatively, if certain conditions are met, a Statement of Net Assets may be presented in lieu of this statement and the Schedule of Investments.
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets provides a detailed list of the fund's holdings, including each security's market value on the last day of the reporting period. The Statement of Net Assets includes a Schedule of Investments. Other assets are added and other liabilities subtracted from the investments total to calculate the fund's net assets. Finally, net assets are divided by the outstanding shares of the fund to arrive at its share price, or Net Asset Value (NAV) per share.
At the end of the Statement of Net Assets is a table displaying the composition of the fund's net assets. Paid in Capital is the money invested by shareholders and represents the bulk of net assets. Undistributed Net Investment Income and Accumulated Net Realized Gains usually approximate the amounts the fund had available to distribute to shareholders as of the statement date. Accumulated Realized Losses will appear as negative balances. Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) is the difference between the market value of the fund's investments and their cost, and reflects the gains (losses) that would be realized if the fund were to sell all of its investments at their statement-date values.
Statement of Operations
The Statement of Operations summarizes the fund's investment income earned and expenses incurred in operating the fund. Investment income includes dividends earned from stocks and interest earned from interest-bearing securities in the fund. Expenses incurred in operating the fund include the advisory fee paid to the investment advisor, administrative services fees, distribution plan expenses (if applicable), transfer agent fees, shareholder servicing expenses, custodial, legal, and audit fees, and the printing and postage expenses related to shareholder reports. Expense offsets (fees paid indirectly) are also shown. Credits earned from offset arrangements are used to reduce the fund's expenses. This statement also shows net gains (losses) realized on the sale of investments and the increase or decrease in the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments held during the period.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
The Statement of Changes in Net Assets shows how the fund's total net assets changed during the two most recent reporting periods. Changes in the fund's net assets are attributable to investment operations, distributions and capital share transactions.
The Operations section of the report summarizes information detailed in the Statement of Operations. The Distribution section shows the dividend and capital gain distributions made to shareholders. The amounts shown as distributions in this section may not match the net investment income and realized gains amounts shown in the Operations section because distributions are determined on a tax basis and certain investments or transactions may be treated differently for financial statement and tax purposes. The Capital Share Transactions section shows the amount shareholders invested in the fund, either by purchasing shares or by reinvesting distributions, and the amounts redeemed. The corresponding numbers of shares issued, reinvested and redeemed are shown at the end of the report.
Financial Highlights
The Financial Highlights table provides a per-share breakdown by class of the components that affect the fund's net asset value for current and past reporting periods. The table provides total return, total distributions, expense ratios, portfolio turnover and net assets for the applicable period. Total return is a measure of a fund's performance that encompasses all elements of return: dividends, capital gain distributions and changes in net asset value. Total return is the change in value of an investment over a given period, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and capital gain distributions, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment. Total distributions include distributions from net investment income and net realized gains. Long-term gains are earned on securities held in the fund more than one year. Short-term gains, on the sale of securities held less than one year, are treated as ordinary dividend income for tax purposes. The expense ratio is a fund's cost of doing business, expres sed as a percentage of net assets. These expenses directly reduce returns to shareholders. Portfolio turnover measures the trading activity in a fund's investment portfolio -- how often securities are bought and sold by a fund. Portfolio turnover is affected by market conditions, changes in the size of the fund, the nature of the fund's investments and the investment style of the portfolio manager.
Proxy Voting
The Proxy Voting Guidelines that the Portfolio uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities are provided as an Appendix to the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. The Statement of Additional Information can be obtained free of charge by calling the Fund at 1-800-368-2745 or by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available by calling the Fund or visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Form N-Q is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's Form N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC; information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
This report is intended to provide fund information to shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.
Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract
At a meeting held on December 4, 2008, the Board of Directors, and by a separate vote, the disinterested Directors, initially approved the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Portfolio and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Advisor and Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit" or the "Subadvisor") with respect to the Portfolio.
At the December 4, 2008 meeting, and in connection with the Advisor's impending purchase of the mutual fund business of Summit, the Board, effective as of December 12, 2008, terminated the Portfolio's current investment advisory agreement with Summit and approved the selection of the Advisor and Summit as investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively, to the Portfolio. In evaluating the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered a variety of information relating to the Portfolio and the Advisor. The disinterested Directors reviewed a report prepared by the Advisor regarding various services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and its affiliates.
The disinterested Directors were separately represented by independent legal counsel with respect to their consideration of the approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. Prior to voting, the disinterested Directors reviewed the proposed approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and Investment Subadvisory Agreement with management and also met in private sessions with their counsel at which no representatives of management were present.
In the course of its deliberations regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered the following factors, among others: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor, including the personnel who would be providing such services; the Advisor's financial condition; the level and method of computing the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee; performance, fee and expense information for the Portfolio; the profitability of the Calvert Group of Funds to the Advisor; the Advisor's process for monitoring "best execution"; the direct and indirect benefits, if any, to be derived by the Advisor from its relationship with the Portfolio; the effect of the Portfolio's growth and size on the Portfolio's performance and expenses; the Advisor's compliance programs and policies; the Advisor's performance of substantially similar duties for other funds; and any possible conflicts of interest.
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board reviewed information provided by the Advisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Advisor's operations and personnel, including, among other information, biographical information on the Advisor's supervisory and professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. The Board also took into account similar information provided periodically throughout the previous year by the Advisor as well as the Board's familiarity with the Advisor's management through Board of Directors' meetings, discussions and other reports. The Board considered the Advisor's current level of staffing and overall resources. The Advisor's administrative capabilities, including its ability to supervise the other service providers for the Portfolio, were also considered. The Board discussed the Advisor 's effectiveness in monitoring the performance of other funds' subadvisors and the Advisor's timeliness in responding to performance issues with respect to those funds. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement.
In considering the Portfolio's performance, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board noted that year to date through December 2, 2008, the Portfolio had underperformed the S&P MidCap 400 Index and that the Portfolio's performance was generally in line with the S&P MidCap 400 Index when the Portfolio's expenses were excluded. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Subadvisor became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Portfolio's performance was satisfactory.
In considering the Portfolio's fees and expenses, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's fees and expenses. The Board noted that the Portfolio would pay the same advisory fee to the Advisor as it currently paid to Summit. The Board took into account that the Advisor had agreed to limit the Portfolio's net annual operating expenses through December 12, 2010 to the level in effect for the Portfolio on November 30, 2008. The Board also considered the impact of the size of the Portfolio on its expenses. The Board noted that the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee with respect to the Portfolio. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed advisory fee was reasonable in view of the quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and the other factors considered.
The Board reviewed the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio. In reviewing the anticipated profitability of the advisory fee to the Advisor, the Board also considered the fact that affiliates would provide shareholder servicing and administrative services to the Portfolio for which they would receive compensation. The Board also considered whether the Advisor had the financial wherewithal to provide a high level of services to the Portfolio. The Board also considered that the Advisor would likely derive benefits to its reputation and other indirect benefits from its relationship with the Portfolio. The Board noted that the Advisor had agreed to reimburse expenses of the Portfolio above a certain level and also would pay the subadvisory fee to the Subadvisor. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was reasonable.
The Board considered the effect of the Portfolio's current size and potential growth on its performance and expenses. The Board noted that if the Portfolio's assets increased over time, the Portfolio might realize other economies of scale if assets increased proportionately more than certain other expenses. The Board took into account that the Portfolio might achieve operational efficiencies by joining the Calvert Group of Funds. The Board concluded that adding breakpoints to the advisory fee at specified asset levels was not appropriate given the Portfolio's current size.
In approving the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
In evaluating the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the disinterested Directors considered information provided by the Subadvisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Subadvisor's operations, personnel, investment philosophy, strategies and techniques. Among other information, the Subadvisor provided biographical information on portfolio management and other professional staff, performance information for itself, and descriptions of its investment philosophies, strategies and techniques, organizational and management structures and brokerage policies and practices.
The Board approved the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Subadvisor and the Advisor based on a number of factors relating to the Subadvisor's ability to perform under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. In the course of its deliberations, the Board evaluated, among other factors: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Subadvisor; the Subadvisor's management style and long-term performance record; the Portfolio's performance record and the Subadvisor's performance in employing its investment strategies; the Subadvisor's current level of staffing and its overall resources; the qualifications and experience of the Subadvisor's personnel; the Subadvisor's financial condition with respect to its ability to perform the services required under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement; the Subadvisor's compliance systems, including those related to personal investing; and any disciplinary history. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that it was satisfied with the natu re, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Subadvisor under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement.
As noted above, the Board considered the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team that was currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Summit became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. The Board also took into account the expertise and resources the Advisor would devote to monitoring the performance, investment style and risk adjusted performance of the Subadvisor.
In considering the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor of its relationship with the Portfolio, the Board noted that the Advisor and Subadvisor were affiliated and the proposed subadvisory fee under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be paid by the Advisor out of the advisory fee that the Advisor would receive under the Investment Advisory Agreement. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed subadvisory fee was reasonable. Because the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee, the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor from its relationship with the Portfolio were not material factors in the Board's deliberations. For similar reasons, the Board did not consider the potential economies of scale in the Subadvisor's management of the Portfolio to be a material factor in its consideration.
In approving the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
Conclusions
The Board reached the following conclusions regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, among others: (a) the Advisor has demonstrated that it possesses the capability and resources to perform the duties required of it under the Investment Advisory Agreement; (b) the Subadvisor is qualified to manage the Portfolio's assets in accordance with the Portfolio's investment objective and policies; (c) the Advisor and Subadvisor maintain appropriate compliance programs; (d) the Subadvisor is likely to execute its investment strategies consistently over time; (e) performance of the Portfolio is satisfactory in relation to relevant indices; and (f) the Portfolio's proposed advisory and subadvisory fees are reasonable in relation to the services to be provided by the Advisor and the Subadvisor. Based on its conclusions, the Board determined that approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be in the interests of the Portfo lio and its shareholders and that the Subadvisor's service as subadvisor to the Portfolio did not involve a conflict of interest from which the Advisor or Subadvisor would derive an inappropriate advantage.
Director and Officer Information Table
Name & Age | Position with Fund
| Position Start Date
| Principal Occupation During Last 5 Years | (Not Applicable to Officers) |
# of Calvert Portfolios Overseen | Other Directorships |
Independent Directors |
FRANK H. BLATZ, JR., Esq. AGE: 73 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Of counsel to firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. Mr. Blatz was an attorney in private practice in Fanwood, NJ from 1999 to 2004. | 27 | |
ALICE GRESHAM AGE: 58 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean and Professor at Howard University School of Law. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. | 28 | - Council on Legal Education Opportunity
- North Country School
|
M. CHARITO KRUVANT AGE: 63 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | President and CEO of Creative Associates International, Inc., a firm that specializes in human resources development, information management, public affairs and private enterprise development. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Foundation
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
|
CYNTHIA MILLIGAN AGE: 62 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Formerly, she was the President and Chief Executive Officer for CMA, a consulting firm for financial institutions. | 28 | - Wells Fargo Company- NYSE
- Gallup, Inc.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Raven Industries - NASDAQ
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Non-Profit)
- Prison Fellowship Ministries (Non-Profit)
|
ARTHUR J. PUGH AGE: 71 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Retired executive. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
|
Interested Directors |
BARBARA J. KRUMSIEK AGE: 56 | Director & Chair-person | 1997 CVS 2008 Summit | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Calvert Group, Ltd. | 58 | - Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Acacia Life Insurance Company (Chair)
- UNIFI Mutual Holding Company
- Ameritas Holding Company
|
WILLIAM LESTER AGE: 51 | Director & President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | President, CEO and Treasurer of Summit Investment Advisors, Inc. | 27 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Investment Advisors, Inc.
- Ameritas Investment Corp.
|
Officers |
KAREN BECKER AGE: 56 | Chief Compliance Officer | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Chief Compliance Officer for the Calvert Funds. Prior to 2005, Ms. Becker was Senior Vice President of Calvert Group, Ltd. and Head of Calvert Client Services. |
SUSAN WALKER BENDER, Esq. AGE: 50 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1988 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
THOMAS DAILEY AGE: 44 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
IVY WAFFORD DUKE, Esq. AGE: 40 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd., and since 2004, Chief Compliance Officer for Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
TRACI L. GOLDT AGE: 35 | Assistant Secretary | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Executive Assistant to General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
GREGORY B. HABEEB AGE: 59 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
DANIEL K. HAYES AGE: 58 | Vice President | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
HUI PING HO, CPA Age: 44 | Assistant Treasurer | 2000 CVS 2008 Summit | Tax Compliance Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
LANCELOT A. KING, Esq. AGE: 38 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2002 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
EDITH LILLIE AGE: 52 | Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Secretary and Regulatory Matters Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
AUGUSTO DIVO MACEDO, Esq. AGE: 46 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, and Associate Counsel Compliance Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Mr. Macedo served as 2nd Vice President at Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Advisors Group, Acacia's broker-dealer and federally registered investment adviser. |
JANE B. MAXWELL Esq. AGE: 56 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Maxwell was an associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP. |
ANDREW K. NIEBLER, Esq. AGE: 41 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2006 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Niebler was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. |
CATHERINE P. ROY AGE: 53 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Roy was Senior Vice President of US Fixed Income for Baring Asset Management, and SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager of Scudder Insurance Asset Management. |
WILLIAM M. TARTIKOFF, Esq. AGE: 61 | Vice President & Secretary | 1990 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
NATALIE TRUNOW AGE: 41 | Vice President | 2008 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc., Head of Equities. Prior to joining Calvert in August 2008, Ms. Trunow was the Section Head (2005-2008) and Portfolio Manager (2001-2008) for the Global Public Markets Group of General Motors Asset Management. |
RONALD M. WOLFSHEIMER, CPA AGE: 56 | Treasurer | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
MICHAEL V. YUHAS JR., CPA AGE: 47 | Fund Controller | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Fund Administration of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
The address of Directors and Officers is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 1000N, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Ms. Krumsiek is an interested person of the Fund since she is an officer and director of the Fund's Advisor and its affiliates. Mr. Lester is an interested person of the Fund since he is an officer and director of the parent company of the Fund's Advisor.
Additional information about the Fund's Directors can be found in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). You can get a free copy of the SAI by contacting your broker, or the Fund at 1-800-368-2745.
Shareholder Meeting Results
A special shareholder meeting was held on December 5, 2008, by the Summit S&P MidCap 400 Index Portfolio of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. for the purpose of considering and voting on the issues below. The voting results were as follows:
- To approve an Investment Advisory Agreement with Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
2,035,578.941 | 88,387.568 | 128,054.092 |
- To approve an Investment Subadvisory Agreement with Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
2,024,107.184 | 91,299.337 | 136,614.080 |
- To elect the Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Name of Director | For | Withhold |
Frank H. Blatz, Jr. | 2,134,223.492 | 117,797.109 |
Alice Gresham | 2,150,613.792 | 101,406.809 |
Barbara J. Krumsiek | 2,136,547.849 | 115,472.752 |
M. Charito Kruvant | 2,136,230.163 | 115,790.438 |
William Lester | 2,150,613.792 | 101,406.809 |
Cynthia Milligan | 2,150,549.845 | 101,470.756 |
Arthur J. Pugh | 2,150,464.161 | 101,556.440 |
- To ratify the selection of auditors, KPMG, LLP for the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
2,191,416.385 | 32,209.935 | 28,394.281 |
5. To authorize the Board of Directors of the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. to enter into and materially amend agreements with investment subadvisors on behalf of the Funds without obtaining shareholder approval.
For | Against | Abstain |
2,116,870.465 | 121,670.119 | 13,480.017 |
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Summit Balanced Index Portfolio
Annual Report
December 31, 2008
Summit Mutual Funds
Calvert
Investments That Make A Difference
A UNIFI Company
Summit Balanced Index Portfolio
Annual Report, December 31, 2008
Table Of Contents
3 | | Portfolio Manager Remarks |
5 | | Shareholder Expense Example |
6 | | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
7 | | Schedule of Investments |
21 | | Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
22 | | Statement of Operations |
23 | | Statements of Changes in Net Assets |
24 | | Notes to Financial Statements |
28 | | Financial Highlights |
29 | | Explanation of Financial Tables |
30 | | Proxy Voting and Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings |
31 | | Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract |
34 | | Director and Officer Information Table |
Summit Balanced Index Portfolio
Managed by Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For the year ended December 31, 2008, the Summit Balanced Index Portfolio provided a return of -21.55% compared to a -20.10% return for the benchmark composite index. The benchmark is composed of 60% Standard & Poor's 500 Index and 40% Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index, which had total returns of -37.00% and 5.24%, respectively. The Portfolio's investment objective is to have the stock and bond portions of the Portfolio closely track the S&P 500 and Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index, respectively. The difference of -1.45% between the return of the Portfolio and the return of the composite benchmark is largely attributed to the Portfolio's operating expenses and transaction costs.
Summit Balanced Index Portfolio*
Comparison of change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment.
Average Annual Total Return
(period ended 12.31.08)
One year | (21.55%) |
Five year | 0.66% |
Since inception (5.3.99) | 0.73% |
*Performance information is for the Portfolio only and does not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
** 60% S&P 500 Index and 40% Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index.
Past performance does not indicate future results
Investment Climate
In 2008, the slowdown in housing markets and upticks in mortgage delinquencies that began the previous year spread to problems in credit markets and expanded to wreak havoc in virtually all corners of stock and bond markets around the globe. The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve (Fed) struggled throughout the year to find solutions to ever-expanding problems--pushing the target federal funds rate down to near zero percent. In the meantime, stock and bond markets suffered as it became apparent that problems in global financial markets were affecting the global real economy. Indeed, the U.S. government's sweeping action to shore up capital in a broad array of financial institutions coincided with the worst performance of the year in the markets. At the same time, policymakers and investors grew increasingly concerned about the risk of prolonged recession in 2009.
With the Russell 1000 Index down 37.60%, last year was one of the worst on record for stocks and there was no place to hide. Small-cap value stocks were the best-performing part of the market, but the Russell 2000 Value Index still sank 28.92% for the year. And there were no sector stars either, as all 10 economic sectors in the Russell 1000 Index turned in double-digit losses. Reflecting investors' concerns about the scope of a global recession, the typically defensive Consumer Staples and Health Care sectors declined the least, down 16.58% and 22.83%, respectively. Financials posted the worst return with a 52.17% loss--which isn't surprising given that the problems with banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms, and mortgage lenders sparked the market and economic turmoil.
Huge losses by financial institutions also froze the markets for municipal bonds, commercial paper, corporate debt, and government agency securities and even crippled bond insurers. Overall, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell 1.79 percentage points to 2.25%1 in 2008. The rush to safety caused the three-month Treasury bill yield to plunge 3.36 percentage points to 0.11%--the lowest level since the beginning of World War II. Inflation, as represented by the consumer price index, rose at a 0.1% annualized pace2 and the economy is expected to post flat growth for all of 2008.3
Portfolio Strategy
The Portfolio's strategy is purely passive. Its goal is to have its stock allocation mirror the performance of the S&P 500 Index as closely as possible and to have its fixed-income allocation track the performance of the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index as closely as possible. Market moves can cause the Portfolio to hold slightly different security positions from the weightings in the Index, or to maintain stock and bond portfolio holdings in a ratio slightly different from the 60%/40% default ratio, for a brief period of time. However, the Portfolio's managers will rebalance its holdings back into line with the Indexes as quickly as possible.
Asset Allocation (at 12.31.08) | % of Total Investments |
Equity Investments | 55% |
Fixed Income Investments | 45% |
Total | 100% |
Outlook
Despite bad economic news, the stock market had a relief rally at the end of December with higher-risk markets and sectors rebounding the most. The question remains whether this is the beginning of a positive trend, with more of a relief rally in the short-term. However, judging by Wall Street analyst consensus earnings forecasts for 2009, earnings expectations are still too optimistic for the year ahead and out of line with the decelerating real economy. Therefore, unless the market shrugs off the likely decline in earnings expectations, we may see additional volatility in the equity market.
The federal government will be center stage in 2009 as it tries to kick-start the economy with a fiscal stimulus package of at least $750 billion. We expect the credit markets to slowly recover over the next 12 months, but they remain dependent on some government support due to low consumer spending and business confidence. Banks that must rebuild capital will continue to restrict lending, so the credit crunch may last throughout 2009.
Overall, we expect the economy to contract for much of the year and the federal funds rate to remain near zero percent. At this point, we are not concerned about inflation, but we will be on alert if the economy recovers faster than expected.
January 2009
1. Source for all interest rates: Federal Reserve
2. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index (CPI-U) for December 2008
3. Source: Commerce Dept. and Wall Street Journal December 2008 Survey of Professional Forecasters
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008).
Note: Expenses do not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare the 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Beginning Account Value 7/1/08 | Ending Account Value 12/31/08 | Expenses Paid During Period* 7/1/08 - 12/31/08 |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $840.10 | $2.78 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,022.12 | $3.05 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio of 0.60%, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/366.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Shareholders of Summit Balanced Index Portfolio:
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of the Summit Balanced Index Portfolio (the Portfolio), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., including the schedule of investments, as of December 31, 2008, and the related statement of operations, statement of changes in net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audit. The accompanying financial statements and financial highlights of the Portfolio for the periods presented through December 31, 2007 were audited by other auditors whose report thereon dated February 22, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2008, by correspondence with custodians and brokers. As to securities purchased or sold but not yet received or delivered, we performed other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Summit Balanced Index Portfolio as of December 31, 2008, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
KPMG LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2009
Balanced Index Portfolio
Schedule of Investments
December 31, 2008
Equity Securities - 52.1% | Shares | Value |
Aerospace & Defense - 1.5% | | |
Boeing Co. | 759 | $32,387 |
General Dynamics Corp. | 403 | 23,209 |
Goodrich Corp. | 146 | 5,405 |
Honeywell International, Inc. | 750 | 24,622 |
L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. | 134 | 9,887 |
Lockheed Martin Corp. | 342 | 28,755 |
Northrop Grumman Corp. | 360 | 16,214 |
Precision Castparts Corp. | 147 | 8,744 |
Raytheon Co. | 428 | 21,845 |
Rockwell Collins, Inc. | 174 | 6,802 |
United Technologies Corp. | 984 | 52,742 |
| | 230,612 |
| | |
Air Freight & Logistics - 0.6% | | |
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. | 173 | 9,520 |
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. | 227 | 7,552 |
FedEx Corp. | 329 | 21,106 |
United Parcel Service, Inc., Class B | 1,032 | 56,925 |
| | 95,103 |
| | |
Airlines - 0.0% | | |
Southwest Airlines Co. | 781 | 6,732 |
| | |
Auto Components - 0.1% | | |
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.* | 263 | 1,570 |
Johnson Controls, Inc. | 632 | 11,477 |
| | 13,047 |
| | |
Automobiles - 0.1% | | |
Ford Motor Co.* | 2,236 | 5,121 |
General Motors Corp. | 602 | 1,926 |
Harley-Davidson, Inc. | 257 | 4,361 |
| | 11,408 |
| | |
Beverages - 1.3% | | |
Brown-Forman Corp., Class B | 115 | 5,921 |
Coca-Cola Co. | 2,079 | 94,116 |
Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. | 324 | 3,898 |
Constellation Brands, Inc.* | 225 | 3,548 |
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.* | 263 | 4,274 |
Molson Coors Brewing Co., Class B | 160 | 7,827 |
Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. | 148 | 3,332 |
PepsiCo, Inc. | 1,623 | 88,892 |
| | 211,808 |
| | |
Biotechnology - 1.1% | | |
Amgen, Inc.* | 1,100 | 63,525 |
Biogen Idec, Inc.* | 312 | 14,860 |
Celgene Corp.* | 479 | 26,479 |
Cephalon, Inc.* | 72 | 5,547 |
Genzyme Corp.* | 283 | 18,783 |
Gilead Sciences, Inc.* | 961 | 49,146 |
| | 178,340 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Building Products - 0.0% | | |
Masco Corp. | 393 | $4,374 |
| | |
Capital Markets - 1.2% | | |
American Capital Ltd. | 230 | 745 |
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. | 247 | 5,770 |
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. | 1,199 | 33,968 |
Charles Schwab Corp. | 939 | 15,184 |
E*Trade Financial Corp.* | 566 | 651 |
Federated Investors, Inc., Class B | 103 | 1,747 |
Franklin Resources, Inc. | 158 | 10,077 |
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | 462 | 38,988 |
Invesco Ltd. | 374 | 5,400 |
Janus Capital Group, Inc. | 163 | 1,309 |
Legg Mason, Inc. | 153 | 3,352 |
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. | 1,673 | 19,474 |
Morgan Stanley | 1,119 | 17,949 |
Northern Trust Corp. | 233 | 12,148 |
State Street Corp. | 431 | 16,951 |
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. | 281 | 9,959 |
| | 193,672 |
| | |
Chemicals - 0.9% | | |
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. | 213 | 10,707 |
Ashland, Inc. | 1 | 7 |
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. | 58 | 2,851 |
Dow Chemical Co. | 941 | 14,200 |
Eastman Chemical Co. | 78 | 2,473 |
Ecolab, Inc. | 186 | 6,538 |
EI Du Pont de Nemours & Co. | 910 | 23,023 |
International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. | 91 | 2,705 |
Monsanto Co. | 573 | 40,311 |
PPG Industries, Inc. | 174 | 7,383 |
Praxair, Inc. | 317 | 18,817 |
Rohm & Haas Co. | 134 | 8,280 |
Sigma-Aldrich Corp. | 139 | 5,871 |
| | 143,166 |
| | |
Commercial Banks - 1.6% | | |
BB&T Corp. | 584 | 16,037 |
Comerica, Inc. | 161 | 3,196 |
Fifth Third Bancorp | 567 | 4,683 |
First Horizon National Corp. | 165 | 1,742 |
Huntington Bancshares, Inc. | 388 | 2,972 |
KeyCorp | 414 | 3,527 |
M&T Bank Corp. | 88 | 5,052 |
Marshall & Ilsley Corp. | 300 | 4,092 |
National City Corp. | 2,180 | 3,946 |
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. | 350 | 17,150 |
Regions Financial Corp. | 739 | 5,883 |
SunTrust Banks, Inc. | 372 | 10,989 |
US Bancorp | 1,834 | 45,868 |
Wachovia Corp. | 2,165 | 11,994 |
Wells Fargo & Co. | 3,961 | 116,770 |
Zions Bancorp | 115 | 2,819 |
| | 256,720 |
| | |
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Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Commercial Services & Supplies - 0.3% | | |
Avery Dennison Corp. | 125 | $4,091 |
Cintas Corp. | 144 | 3,345 |
Pitney Bowes, Inc. | 231 | 5,886 |
Republic Services, Inc. | 357 | 8,850 |
RR Donnelley & Sons Co. | 256 | 3,477 |
Stericycle, Inc.* | 98 | 5,104 |
Waste Management, Inc.* | 496 | 16,437 |
| | 47,190 |
| | |
Communications Equipment - 1.3% | | |
Ciena Corp.* | 123 | 824 |
Cisco Systems, Inc.* | 6,085 | 99,185 |
Corning, Inc. | 1,592 | 15,172 |
Harris Corp. | 140 | 5,327 |
JDS Uniphase Corp.* | 278 | 1,015 |
Juniper Networks, Inc.* | 554 | 9,700 |
Motorola, Inc. | 2,281 | 10,105 |
QUALCOMM, Inc. | 1,730 | 61,986 |
Tellabs, Inc.* | 509 | 2,097 |
| | 205,411 |
| | |
Computers & Peripherals - 2.2% | | |
Apple, Inc.* | 929 | 79,290 |
Dell, Inc.* | 1,809 | 18,524 |
EMC Corp.* | 2,088 | 21,861 |
Hewlett-Packard Co. | 2,560 | 92,902 |
International Business Machines Corp. | 1,416 | 119,171 |
Lexmark International, Inc.* | 101 | 2,717 |
NetApp, Inc.* | 366 | 5,113 |
QLogic Corp.* | 185 | 2,486 |
SanDisk Corp.* | 243 | 2,333 |
Sun Microsystems, Inc.* | 881 | 3,366 |
Teradata Corp.* | 223 | 3,307 |
| | 351,070 |
| | |
Construction & Engineering - 0.1% | | |
Fluor Corp. | 180 | 8,077 |
Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.* | 124 | 5,964 |
| | 14,041 |
| | |
Construction Materials - 0.1% | | |
Vulcan Materials Co. | 119 | 8,280 |
| | |
Consumer Finance - 0.3% | | |
American Express Co. | 1,171 | 21,722 |
Capital One Financial Corp. | 379 | 12,086 |
Discover Financial Services | 508 | 4,841 |
SLM Corp.* | 473 | 4,210 |
| | 42,859 |
| | |
Containers & Packaging - 0.1% | | |
Ball Corp. | 99 | 4,117 |
Bemis Co., Inc. | 122 | 2,889 |
Owens-Illinois, Inc.* | 181 | 4,947 |
Pactiv Corp.* | 139 | 3,458 |
Sealed Air Corp. | 202 | 3,018 |
| | 18,429 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Distributors - 0.0% | | |
Genuine Parts Co. | 166 | $6,285 |
| | |
Diversified Consumer Services - 0.1% | | |
Apollo Group, Inc.* | 111 | 8,505 |
H&R Block, Inc. | 375 | 8,520 |
| | 17,025 |
| | |
Diversified Financial Services - 1.7% | | |
Bank of America Corp. | 5,244 | 73,836 |
CIT Group, Inc. | 202 | 917 |
Citigroup, Inc. | 5,655 | 37,945 |
CME Group, Inc. | 69 | 14,360 |
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc.* | 80 | 6,595 |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 3,901 | 122,999 |
Leucadia National Corp. | 195 | 3,861 |
Moody's Corp. | 228 | 4,580 |
NYSE Euronext | 282 | 7,721 |
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.* | 147 | 3,632 |
| | 276,446 |
| | |
Diversified Telecommunication Services - 1.9% | | |
AT&T, Inc. | 6,159 | 175,531 |
CenturyTel, Inc. | 118 | 3,225 |
Embarq Corp. | 176 | 6,329 |
Frontier Communications Corp. | 424 | 3,706 |
Qwest Communications International, Inc. | 1,802 | 6,559 |
Verizon Communications, Inc. | 2,969 | 100,649 |
Windstream Corp. | 453 | 4,168 |
| | 300,167 |
| | |
Electric Utilities - 1.3% | | |
Allegheny Energy, Inc. | 193 | 6,535 |
American Electric Power Co., Inc. | 426 | 14,177 |
Duke Energy Corp. | 1,341 | 20,128 |
Edison International | 347 | 11,146 |
Entergy Corp. | 194 | 16,127 |
Exelon Corp. | 688 | 38,260 |
FirstEnergy Corp. | 308 | 14,963 |
FPL Group, Inc. | 413 | 20,786 |
Pepco Holdings, Inc. | 220 | 3,907 |
Pinnacle West Capital Corp. | 117 | 3,759 |
PPL Corp. | 396 | 12,153 |
Progress Energy, Inc. | 276 | 10,999 |
Southern Co. | 807 | 29,859 |
| | 202,799 |
| | |
Electrical Equipment - 0.3% | | |
Cooper Industries Ltd. | 176 | 5,145 |
Emerson Electric Co. | 789 | 28,885 |
Rockwell Automation, Inc. | 159 | 5,126 |
| | 39,156 |
| | |
Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 0.2% | | |
Agilent Technologies, Inc.* | 364 | 5,689 |
Amphenol Corp. | 183 | 4,388 |
FLIR Systems, Inc.* | 151 | 4,633 |
Jabil Circuit, Inc. | 208 | 1,404 |
Molex, Inc. | 187 | 2,710 |
Tyco Electronics Ltd. | 483 | 7,829 |
| | 26,653 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Energy Equipment & Services - 0.8% | | |
Baker Hughes, Inc. | 312 | $10,006 |
BJ Services Co. | 297 | 3,466 |
Cameron International Corp.* | 233 | 4,776 |
ENSCO International, Inc. | 146 | 4,145 |
Halliburton Co. | 882 | 16,035 |
Nabors Industries Ltd.* | 301 | 3,603 |
National Oilwell Varco, Inc.* | 420 | 10,265 |
Noble Corp. | 285 | 6,296 |
Rowan Co's, Inc. | 129 | 2,051 |
Schlumberger Ltd. | 1,250 | 52,912 |
Smith International, Inc. | 213 | 4,875 |
Weatherford International Ltd.* | 718 | 7,769 |
| | 126,199 |
| | |
Food & Staples Retailing - 1.7% | | |
Costco Wholesale Corp. | 438 | 22,995 |
CVS Caremark Corp. | 1,501 | 43,139 |
Kroger Co. | 669 | 17,668 |
Safeway, Inc. | 471 | 11,196 |
SUPERVALU, Inc. | 225 | 3,285 |
SYSCO Corp. | 647 | 14,842 |
Walgreen Co. | 1,001 | 24,695 |
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | 2,337 | 131,012 |
Whole Foods Market, Inc. | 164 | 1,548 |
| | 270,380 |
| | |
Food Products - 0.9% | | |
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. | 684 | 19,720 |
Campbell Soup Co. | 237 | 7,112 |
ConAgra Foods, Inc. | 460 | 7,590 |
Dean Foods Co.* | 151 | 2,714 |
General Mills, Inc. | 339 | 20,594 |
H.J. Heinz Co. | 337 | 12,671 |
Hershey Co. | 179 | 6,219 |
J.M. Smucker Co. | 142 | 6,157 |
Kellogg Co. | 257 | 11,270 |
Kraft Foods, Inc. | 1,513 | 40,624 |
McCormick & Co., Inc. | 130 | 4,142 |
Sara Lee Corp. | 770 | 7,538 |
Tyson Foods, Inc. | 315 | 2,759 |
| | 149,110 |
| | |
Gas Utilities - 0.1% | | |
Equitable Resources, Inc. | 141 | 4,731 |
Nicor, Inc. | 48 | 1,668 |
Questar Corp. | 176 | 5,753 |
| | 12,152 |
| | |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 1.1% | | |
Baxter International, Inc. | 634 | 33,976 |
Becton Dickinson & Co. | 260 | 17,781 |
Boston Scientific Corp.* | 1,569 | 12,144 |
C.R. Bard, Inc. | 109 | 9,184 |
Covidien Ltd. | 529 | 19,171 |
DENTSPLY International, Inc. | 144 | 4,067 |
Hospira, Inc.* | 168 | 4,506 |
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.* | 41 | 5,207 |
Medtronic, Inc. | 1,169 | 36,730 |
St. Jude Medical, Inc.* | 364 | 11,998 |
Stryker Corp. | 253 | 10,107 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - Cont'd | | |
Varian Medical Systems, Inc.* | 133 | $4,660 |
Zimmer Holdings, Inc.* | 250 | 10,105 |
| | 179,636 |
| | |
Health Care Providers & Services - 1.1% | | |
Aetna, Inc. | 490 | 13,965 |
AmerisourceBergen Corp. | 179 | 6,383 |
Cardinal Health, Inc. | 361 | 12,444 |
Cigna Corp. | 297 | 5,005 |
Coventry Health Care, Inc.* | 165 | 2,455 |
DaVita, Inc.* | 112 | 5,552 |
Express Scripts, Inc.* | 268 | 14,735 |
Humana, Inc.* | 180 | 6,710 |
Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings* | 123 | 7,922 |
McKesson Corp. | 281 | 10,883 |
Medco Health Solutions, Inc.* | 513 | 21,500 |
Patterson Co's, Inc.* | 123 | 2,306 |
Quest Diagnostics, Inc. | 167 | 8,669 |
Tenet Healthcare Corp.* | 549 | 631 |
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. | 1,241 | 33,011 |
WellPoint, Inc.* | 532 | 22,413 |
| | 174,584 |
| | |
Health Care Technology - 0.0% | | |
IMS Health, Inc. | 228 | 3,456 |
| | |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 0.8% | | |
Carnival Corp. | 465 | 11,309 |
Darden Restaurants, Inc. | 165 | 4,650 |
International Game Technology | 336 | 3,995 |
Marriott International, Inc. | 333 | 6,477 |
McDonald's Corp. | 1,165 | 72,451 |
Starbucks Corp.* | 777 | 7,350 |
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. | 212 | 3,795 |
Wyndham Worldwide Corp. | 189 | 1,238 |
Wynn Resorts Ltd.* | 55 | 2,324 |
Yum! Brands, Inc. | 479 | 15,089 |
| | 128,678 |
| | |
Household Durables - 0.2% | | |
Black & Decker Corp. | 67 | 2,801 |
Centex Corp. | 157 | 1,670 |
D.R. Horton, Inc. | 341 | 2,411 |
Fortune Brands, Inc. | 163 | 6,729 |
Harman International Industries, Inc. | 77 | 1,288 |
KB Home* | 90 | 1,226 |
Leggett & Platt, Inc. | 221 | 3,357 |
Lennar Corp. | 162 | 1,404 |
Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. | 297 | 2,905 |
Pulte Homes, Inc. | 265 | 2,896 |
Snap-on, Inc. | 62 | 2,442 |
Stanley Works | 88 | 3,001 |
Whirlpool Corp. | 76 | 3,143 |
| | 35,273 |
| | |
Household Products - 1.6% | | |
Clorox Co. | 140 | 7,778 |
Colgate-Palmolive Co. | 514 | 35,230 |
Kimberly-Clark Corp. | 423 | 22,309 |
Procter & Gamble Co. | 3,114 | 192,507 |
| | 257,824 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders - 0.1% | | |
AES Corp.* | 712 | $5,867 |
Constellation Energy Group, Inc. | 193 | 4,842 |
Dynegy, Inc.* | 500 | 1,000 |
| | 11,709 |
| | |
Industrial Conglomerates - 1.5% | | |
3M Co. | 712 | 40,968 |
General Electric Co. | 10,977 | 177,827 |
Textron, Inc. | 265 | 3,676 |
Tyco International Ltd. | 488 | 10,541 |
| | 233,012 |
| | |
Insurance - 1.4% | | |
Aflac, Inc. | 481 | 22,049 |
Allstate Corp. | 557 | 18,247 |
American International Group, Inc. | 2,718 | 4,267 |
AON Corp. | 282 | 12,882 |
Assurant, Inc. | 102 | 3,060 |
Chubb Corp. | 370 | 18,870 |
Cincinnati Financial Corp. | 200 | 5,814 |
Genworth Financial, Inc. | 486 | 1,375 |
Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. | 334 | 5,484 |
Lincoln National Corp. | 262 | 4,936 |
Loews Corp. | 391 | 11,046 |
Marsh & McLennan Co.'s, Inc. | 553 | 13,421 |
MBIA, Inc. | 168 | 684 |
MetLife, Inc. | 829 | 28,899 |
Principal Financial Group, Inc. | 278 | 6,275 |
Progressive Corp. | 742 | 10,989 |
Prudential Financial, Inc. | 441 | 13,345 |
Torchmark Corp. | 99 | 4,425 |
Travelers Co.'s, Inc. | 611 | 27,617 |
Unum Group | 399 | 7,422 |
XL Capital Ltd. | 307 | 1,136 |
| | 222,243 |
| | |
Internet & Catalog Retail - 0.1% | | |
Amazon.Com, Inc.* | 328 | 16,820 |
Expedia, Inc.* | 240 | 1,977 |
| | 18,797 |
| | |
Internet Software & Services - 0.7% | | |
Akamai Technologies, Inc.* | 200 | 3,018 |
eBay, Inc.* | 1,117 | 15,593 |
Google, Inc.* | 248 | 76,297 |
VeriSign, Inc.* | 197 | 3,759 |
Yahoo!, Inc.* | 1,420 | 17,324 |
| | 115,991 |
| | |
IT Services - 0.5% | | |
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.* | 116 | 5,330 |
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | 524 | 20,614 |
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.* | 309 | 5,581 |
Computer Sciences Corp.* | 174 | 6,114 |
Convergys Corp.* | 184 | 1,180 |
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. | 182 | 2,961 |
Fiserv, Inc.* | 175 | 6,365 |
MasterCard, Inc. | 79 | 11,292 |
Paychex, Inc. | 355 | 9,329 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
IT Services - Cont'd | | |
Total System Services, Inc. | 230 | $3,220 |
Western Union Co. | 748 | 10,726 |
| | 82,712 |
| | |
Leisure Equipment & Products - 0.1% | | |
Eastman Kodak Co. | 338 | 2,224 |
Hasbro, Inc. | 157 | 4,580 |
Mattel, Inc. | 390 | 6,240 |
| | 13,044 |
| | |
Life Sciences - Tools & Services - 0.2% | | |
Life Technologies Corp.* | 215 | 5,017 |
Millipore Corp.* | 59 | 3,040 |
PerkinElmer, Inc. | 126 | 1,753 |
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.* | 423 | 14,412 |
Waters Corp.* | 107 | 3,921 |
| | 28,143 |
| | |
Machinery - 0.9% | | |
Caterpillar, Inc. | 621 | 27,740 |
Cummins, Inc. | 217 | 5,800 |
Danaher Corp. | 270 | 15,285 |
Deere & Co. | 436 | 16,708 |
Dover Corp. | 212 | 6,979 |
Eaton Corp. | 156 | 7,755 |
Flowserve Corp. | 59 | 3,038 |
Illinois Tool Works, Inc. | 402 | 14,090 |
Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd. | 290 | 5,032 |
ITT Corp.* | 193 | 8,876 |
Manitowoc Co., Inc. | 150 | 1,299 |
PACCAR, Inc. | 392 | 11,211 |
Pall Corp. | 122 | 3,468 |
Parker Hannifin Corp. | 179 | 7,615 |
| | 134,896 |
| | |
Media - 1.3% | | |
CBS Corp., Class B | 729 | 5,971 |
Comcast Corp. | 2,991 | 50,488 |
DIRECTV Group, Inc.* | 571 | 13,082 |
Gannett Co., Inc. | 273 | 2,184 |
Interpublic Group of Co.'s, Inc.* | 544 | 2,154 |
McGraw-Hill Co.'s, Inc. | 350 | 8,116 |
Meredith Corp. | 41 | 702 |
New York Times Co. | 191 | 1,400 |
News Corp. | 2,328 | 21,162 |
Omnicom Group, Inc. | 348 | 9,368 |
Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. | 96 | 2,112 |
Time Warner, Inc. | 3,749 | 37,715 |
Viacom, Inc., Class B* | 640 | 12,198 |
Walt Disney Co. | 1,925 | 43,678 |
Washington Post Co., Class B | 6 | 2,342 |
| | 212,672 |
| | |
Metals & Mining - 0.4% | | |
AK Steel Holding Corp. | 120 | 1,118 |
Alcoa, Inc. | 824 | 9,278 |
Allegheny Technologies, Inc. | 109 | 2,783 |
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. | 388 | 9,483 |
Newmont Mining Corp. | 480 | 19,536 |
Nucor Corp. | 332 | 15,339 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Metals & Mining - Cont'd | | |
Titanium Metals Corp. | 100 | $881 |
United States Steel Corp. | 126 | 4,687 |
| | 63,105 |
| | |
Multiline Retail - 0.4% | | |
Big Lots, Inc.* | 83 | 1,203 |
Family Dollar Stores, Inc. | 175 | 4,562 |
J.C. Penney Co., Inc. | 236 | 4,649 |
Kohl's Corp.* | 334 | 12,091 |
Macy's, Inc. | 461 | 4,771 |
Nordstrom, Inc. | 200 | 2,662 |
Sears Holdings Corp.* | 78 | 3,032 |
Target Corp. | 787 | 27,175 |
| | 60,145 |
| | |
Multi-Utilities - 0.8% | | |
Ameren Corp. | 240 | 7,982 |
Centerpoint Energy, Inc. | 399 | 5,035 |
CMS Energy Corp. | 261 | 2,639 |
Consolidated Edison, Inc. | 289 | 11,251 |
Dominion Resources, Inc. | 584 | 20,931 |
DTE Energy Co. | 174 | 6,207 |
Integrys Energy Group, Inc. | 82 | 3,524 |
NiSource, Inc. | 342 | 3,752 |
PG&E Corp. | 377 | 14,594 |
Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc. | 541 | 15,781 |
SCANA Corp. | 128 | 4,557 |
Sempra Energy | 253 | 10,785 |
TECO Energy, Inc. | 244 | 3,013 |
Wisconsin Energy Corp. | 120 | 5,038 |
Xcel Energy, Inc. | 475 | 8,811 |
| | 123,900 |
| | |
Office Electronics - 0.1% | | |
Xerox Corp. | 982 | 7,827 |
| | |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 6.1% | | |
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | 473 | 18,234 |
Apache Corp. | 337 | 25,117 |
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. | 105 | 2,730 |
Chesapeake Energy Corp. | 521 | 8,425 |
Chevron Corp. | 2,133 | 157,778 |
ConocoPhillips | 1,558 | 80,704 |
Consol Energy, Inc. | 194 | 5,545 |
Devon Energy Corp. | 451 | 29,635 |
El Paso Corp. | 745 | 5,833 |
EOG Resources, Inc. | 262 | 17,444 |
Exxon Mobil Corp. | 5,316 | 424,376 |
Hess Corp. | 296 | 15,877 |
Marathon Oil Corp. | 716 | 19,590 |
Massey Energy Co. | 87 | 1,200 |
Murphy Oil Corp. | 200 | 8,870 |
Noble Energy, Inc. | 183 | 9,007 |
Occidental Petroleum Corp. | 830 | 49,792 |
Peabody Energy Corp. | 282 | 6,415 |
Pioneer Natural Resources Co. | 119 | 1,925 |
Range Resources Corp. | 159 | 5,468 |
Southwestern Energy Co.* | 368 | 10,661 |
Spectra Energy Corp. | 671 | 10,562 |
Sunoco, Inc. | 125 | 5,432 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - Cont'd | | |
Tesoro Corp. | 160 | $2,107 |
Valero Energy Corp. | 534 | 11,556 |
Williams Co.'s, Inc. | 591 | 8,558 |
XTO Energy, Inc. | 603 | 21,268 |
| | 964,109 |
| | |
Paper & Forest Products - 0.1% | | |
International Paper Co. | 455 | 5,369 |
MeadWestvaco Corp. | 214 | 2,395 |
Weyerhaeuser Co. | 223 | 6,826 |
| | 14,590 |
| | |
Personal Products - 0.1% | | |
Avon Products, Inc. | 456 | 10,958 |
Estee Lauder Co.'s, Inc. | 137 | 4,241 |
| | 15,199 |
| | |
Pharmaceuticals - 4.1% | | |
Abbott Laboratories, Inc. | 1,622 | 86,566 |
Allergan, Inc. | 327 | 13,185 |
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. | 2,069 | 48,104 |
Eli Lilly & Co. | 1,046 | 42,122 |
Forest Laboratories, Inc.* | 332 | 8,456 |
Johnson & Johnson | 2,902 | 173,627 |
King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 304 | 3,229 |
Merck & Co., Inc. | 2,210 | 67,184 |
Mylan, Inc.* | 289 | 2,858 |
Pfizer, Inc. | 7,047 | 124,802 |
Schering-Plough Corp. | 1,699 | 28,939 |
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 119 | 3,162 |
Wyeth | 1,392 | 52,214 |
| | 654,448 |
| | |
Professional Services - 0.1% | | |
Dun & Bradstreet Corp. | 63 | 4,864 |
Equifax, Inc. | 131 | 3,474 |
Monster Worldwide, Inc.* | 152 | 1,838 |
Robert Half International, Inc. | 193 | 4,018 |
| | 14,194 |
| | |
Real Estate Investment Trusts - 0.5% | | |
Apartment Investment & Management Co. | 141 | 1,625 |
AvalonBay Communities, Inc. | 84 | 5,089 |
Boston Properties, Inc. | 127 | 6,985 |
Developers Diversified Realty Corp. | 131 | 639 |
Equity Residential | 289 | 8,618 |
HCP, Inc. | 268 | 7,442 |
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. | 606 | 4,588 |
Kimco Realty Corp. | 264 | 4,826 |
Plum Creek Timber Co, Inc. | 184 | 6,392 |
ProLogis | 274 | 3,806 |
Public Storage | 138 | 10,971 |
Simon Property Group, Inc. | 237 | 12,592 |
Vornado Realty Trust | 137 | 8,268 |
| | 81,841 |
| | |
Real Estate Management & Development - 0.0% | | |
CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc.* | 250 | 1,080 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Road & Rail - 0.5% | | |
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. | 297 | $22,486 |
CSX Corp. | 410 | 13,313 |
Norfolk Southern Corp. | 380 | 17,879 |
Ryder System, Inc. | 71 | 2,753 |
Union Pacific Corp. | 523 | 24,999 |
| | 81,430 |
| | |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 1.1% | | |
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.* | 642 | 1,387 |
Altera Corp. | 303 | 5,063 |
Analog Devices, Inc. | 323 | 6,144 |
Applied Materials, Inc. | 1,369 | 13,868 |
Broadcom Corp.* | 452 | 7,670 |
Intel Corp. | 5,813 | 85,219 |
KLA-Tencor Corp. | 194 | 4,227 |
Linear Technology Corp. | 238 | 5,265 |
LSI Corp.* | 645 | 2,122 |
MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.* | 244 | 3,484 |
Microchip Technology, Inc. | 204 | 3,984 |
Micron Technology, Inc.* | 878 | 2,318 |
National Semiconductor Corp. | 250 | 2,518 |
Novellus Systems, Inc.* | 101 | 1,246 |
NVIDIA Corp.* | 591 | 4,769 |
Teradyne, Inc.* | 237 | 1,000 |
Texas Instruments, Inc. | 1,337 | 20,750 |
Xilinx, Inc. | 283 | 5,043 |
| | 176,077 |
| | |
Software - 1.9% | | |
Adobe Systems, Inc.* | 538 | 11,454 |
Autodesk, Inc.* | 246 | 4,834 |
BMC Software, Inc.* | 209 | 5,624 |
CA, Inc. | 417 | 7,727 |
Citrix Systems, Inc.* | 210 | 4,950 |
Compuware Corp.* | 350 | 2,363 |
Electronic Arts, Inc.* | 335 | 5,373 |
Intuit, Inc.* | 354 | 8,422 |
McAfee, Inc.* | 157 | 5,427 |
Microsoft Corp. | 7,995 | 155,423 |
Novell, Inc.* | 404 | 1,572 |
Oracle Corp.* | 4,094 | 72,587 |
Salesforce.com, Inc.* | 110 | 3,521 |
Symantec Corp.* | 849 | 11,478 |
| | 300,755 |
| | |
Specialty Retail - 1.0% | | |
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. | 92 | 2,123 |
AutoNation, Inc.* | 203 | 2,006 |
Autozone, Inc.* | 47 | 6,555 |
Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc.* | 282 | 7,168 |
Best Buy Co., Inc. | 373 | 10,485 |
GameStop Corp.* | 180 | 3,899 |
Gap, Inc. | 496 | 6,641 |
Home Depot, Inc. | 1,772 | 40,791 |
Limited Brands, Inc. | 331 | 3,323 |
Lowe's Co.'s, Inc. | 1,532 | 32,969 |
Office Depot, Inc.* | 321 | 957 |
RadioShack Corp. | 170 | 2,030 |
Sherwin-Williams Co. | 111 | 6,632 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Specialty Retail - Cont'd | | |
Staples, Inc. | 752 | $13,476 |
Tiffany & Co. | 145 | 3,426 |
TJX Co.'s, Inc. | 465 | 9,565 |
| | 152,046 |
| | |
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 0.2% | | |
Coach, Inc.* | 345 | 7,166 |
Jones Apparel Group, Inc. | 136 | 797 |
Nike, Inc., Class B | 410 | 20,910 |
Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. | 63 | 2,861 |
VF Corp. | 104 | 5,696 |
| | 37,430 |
| | |
Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 0.1% | | |
Hudson City Bancorp, Inc. | 563 | 8,985 |
People's United Financial, Inc. | 348 | 6,205 |
Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. | 420 | 1,252 |
| | 16,442 |
| | |
Tobacco - 1.0% | | |
Altria Group, Inc. | 2,117 | 31,882 |
Lorillard, Inc. | 177 | 9,974 |
Philip Morris International, Inc. | 2,114 | 91,980 |
Reynolds American, Inc. | 182 | 7,336 |
UST, Inc. | 167 | 11,587 |
| | 152,759 |
| | |
Trading Companies & Distributors - 0.1% | | |
Fastenal Co. | 136 | 4,740 |
W.W. Grainger, Inc. | 66 | 5,203 |
| | 9,943 |
| | |
Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.1% | | |
American Tower Corp.* | 401 | 11,757 |
Sprint Nextel Corp.* | 3,024 | 5,534 |
| | 17,291 |
| | |
Total Equity Securities (Cost $9,428,937) | | 8,255,915 |
| | |
| Principal | |
Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities - 1.5% | Amount | |
Wachovia Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust, 4.964%, 11/15/35 | $285,000 | 243,201 |
| | |
Total Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (Cost $200,163) | | 243,201 |
| | |
Corporate Bonds - 8.5% | | |
Apache Corp., 5.625%, 1/15/17 | 100,000 | 100,672 |
Colonial Pipeline Co., 7.75%, 11/1/10 (e) | 125,000 | 132,277 |
Conoco Funding Co., 6.35%, 10/15/11 | 50,000 | 52,602 |
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 5.35%, 1/15/16 | 100,000 | 91,323 |
Honeywell International, Inc., 7.50%, 3/1/10 | 125,000 | 130,520 |
Masco Corp., 5.875%, 7/15/12 | 125,000 | 101,961 |
Morgan Stanley, 6.625%, 4/1/18 | 150,000 | 134,905 |
Public Service Co. of North Carolina, Inc., 6.625%, 2/15/11 | 150,000 | 150,651 |
| | |
| Principal | |
Corporate Bonds - Cont'd | Amount | Value |
Union Planters Corp., 4.375%, 12/1/10 | $190,000 | $177,355 |
US Bank NA, 4.95%, 10/30/14 | 100,000 | 99,360 |
Wells Fargo & Co., 4.375%, 1/31/13 | 125,000 | 123,207 |
XTO Energy, Inc., 4.625%, 6/15/13 | 50,000 | 46,710 |
| | |
Total Corporate Bonds (Cost $1,413,723) | | 1,341,543 |
| | |
U.S. Government Agencies And Instrumentalities - 7.5% | | |
Fannie Mae, 5.05%, 2/7/11 | 1,100,000 | 1,185,384 |
| | |
Total U.S. Government Agencies And Instrumentalities (Cost $1,103,550) | | 1,185,384 |
| | |
U.S. Government Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities - 17.2% | | |
Fannie Mae: | | |
7.00%, 7/1/29 | 119,568 | 125,838 |
6.50%, 8/1/32 | 61,502 | 64,148 |
5.50%, 7/1/33 | 211,061 | 216,874 |
6.00%, 8/1/33 | 127,516 | 131,685 |
5.50%, 11/1/33 | 395,137 | 406,020 |
7.50%, 11/1/36 | 230,329 | 237,141 |
Freddie Mac: | | |
5.00%, 5/1/18 | 432,407 | 446,383 |
4.50%, 9/1/18 | 90,968 | 93,596 |
6.00%, 8/1/36 | 524,857 | 541,281 |
Ginnie Mae, 5.50%, 7/20/34 | 448,885 | 462,358 |
| | |
Total U.S. Government Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities (Cost $2,690,770) | | 2,725,324 |
| | |
U.S. Treasury - 7.7% | | |
United States Treasury Bills, 3/26/09# | 110,000 | 109,997 |
United States Treasury Bonds, 5.25%, 11/15/28 | 200,000 | 264,469 |
United States Treasury Notes: | | |
5.75%, 8/15/10 | 80,000 | 86,869 |
4.25%, 1/15/11 | 200,000 | 215,125 |
4.75%, 5/15/14 | 150,000 | 176,484 |
5.125%, 5/15/16 | 300,000 | 363,375 |
| | |
Total U.S. Treasury (Cost $1,051,919) | | 1,216,319 |
| | |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (Cost $15,889,062) - 94.5% | | 14,967,686 |
Other assets and liabilities, net - 5.5% | | 876,348 |
Net Assets - 100% | | $15,844,034 |
Futures | Number of Contracts | Expiration Date | Underlying Face Amount at Value | Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
Purchased: | | | | |
S&P 500 E-Mini | 25 | 3/09 | $1,125,125 | $34,600 |
* Non-income producing security
# Futures collateralized by 110,000 units of U.S. Treasury Bills.
(e) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.
See notes to financial statements.
Balanced Index Portfolio
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
December 31, 2008
Assets | | |
Investments in securities, at value (Cost $15,889,062) - see accompanying schedule | | $14,967,686 |
Cash | | 818,761 |
Receivable for securities sold | | 2,994 |
Receivable for futures variation margin | | 11,520 |
Receivable for shares sold | | 3,992 |
Receivable from Summit Investment Partners, Inc. | | 7,818 |
Receivable from Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. | | 229 |
Interest and dividends receivable | | 89,783 |
Total assets | | 15,902,783 |
| | |
Liabilities | | |
Payable for securities purchased | | 14,150 |
Payable for shares redeemed | | 4,407 |
Payable to Calvert Administrative Services Company, Inc. | | 726 |
Payable to Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. | | 4 |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities | | 39,462 |
Total liabilities | | 58,749 |
Net Assets | | $15,844,034 |
| | |
Net Assets Consist of: | | |
Paid-in capital applicable to 404,117 shares of common stock outstanding; $0.10 par value, 20,000,000 shares authorized | | $17,352,224 |
Undistributed net investment income | | 66,235 |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | | (687,649) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | (886,776) |
| | |
Net Assets | | $15,844,034 |
| | |
Net Asset Value per Share | | $39.21 |
See notes to financial statements.
Balanced Index Portfolio
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2008
Net Investment Income | | |
Investment Income: | | |
Dividend income (net of foreign taxes withheld of $8) | | $279,963 |
Interest income | | 464,728 |
Total investment income | | 744,691 |
| | |
Expenses: | | |
Investment advisory fee | | 60,694 |
Transfer agency fees and expenses | | 16,056 |
Accounting fees | | 27,230 |
Directors' fees and expenses | | 3,459 |
Administrative fees | | 20,231 |
Custodian fees | | 14,854 |
Reports to shareholders | | 3,025 |
Professional fees | | 21,404 |
Miscellaneous | | 6,220 |
Total expenses | | 173,173 |
Reimbursement from Advisor | | (51,785) |
Net expenses | | 121,388 |
| | |
Net Investment Income | | 623,303 |
| | |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | |
Investments | | 306,475 |
Futures | | (352,044) |
| | (45,569) |
| | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | |
Investments | | (5,367,845) |
Futures | | 31,486 |
| | (5,336,359) |
| | |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain | | |
(Loss) | | (5,381,928) |
| | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Resulting From Operations | | ($4,758,625) |
See notes to financial statements.
Balanced Index Portfolio
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| Year Ended | Year Ended |
| December 31, | December 31, |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | 2008 | 2007 |
Operations: | | |
Net investment income | $623,303 | $687,935 |
Net realized gain (loss) | (45,569) | 938,866 |
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) | (5,336,359) | 269,166 |
| | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Resulting From Operations | (4,758,625) | 1,895,967 |
| | |
Distributions to shareholders from: | | |
Net investment income | (619,228) | (763,686) |
| | |
Capital share transactions: | | |
Shares sold | 1,422,473 | 2,970,792 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 619,228 | 763,686 |
Shares redeemed | (6,813,199) | (7,657,161) |
Total capital share transactions | (4,771,498) | (3,922,683) |
| | |
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | (10,149,351) | (2,790,402) |
| | |
Net Assets | | |
Beginning of year | 25,993,385 | 28,783,787 |
End of year (including undistributed net investment income of $66,235 and $62,818, respectively) | $15,844,034 | $25,993,385 |
| | |
| | |
Capital Share Activity | | |
Shares sold | 29,832 | 57,932 |
Reinvestment of distributions | 14,516 | 15,006 |
Shares redeemed | (143,741) | (149,994) |
Total capital share activity | (99,393) | (77,056) |
See notes to financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE A --- SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
General: The Summit Balanced Index Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. (the "Fund") is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company. The Fund is comprised of thirteen separate portfolios. The operations of each series of the Fund are accounted for separately. The shares of the Portfolio are sold to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for allocation to certain of their variable separate accounts.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), an affiliated entity, whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business and became investment advisor for the portfolios of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Security Valuation: Net asset value per share is determined every business day as of the close of the regular session of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Portfolio uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Directors to value its investments wherever possible. Securities for which market quotations are available are valued at last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange in which they trade. Municipal securities are valued utilizing the average bid prices or at bid prices based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities and ratings) furnished by dealers through an independent pricing service. Foreign securities are valued based on quotations from the principal market in which such securities are normally traded. If events occur after the close of the principal market in which foreign securities are traded, and before the close of business of the Portfolio, that are expected to mate rially affect the value of those securities, then they are valued at their fair value taking these events into account. Short-term notes are stated at amortized cost, which approximates fair value. The Portfolio may invest in securities whose resale is subject to restrictions. Investments for which market quotations are not available or deemed not reliable are fair valued in good faith under the direction of the Board of Directors.
In determining fair value, the Board considers all relevant qualitative and quantitative information available. These factors are subject to change over time and are reviewed periodically. The values assigned to fair value investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized. Further, because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, those estimated values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed, and the differences could be material.
At December 31, 2008, no securities were fair valued under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Effective January 1, 2008, the Portfolio adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Portfolio's investments and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 -- quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 -- other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 -- significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy during the period. For additional information on the Portfolio's policy regarding valuation of investments, please refer to the Portfolio's most recent prospectus.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Portfolio's net assets as of December 31, 2008:
Valuation Inputs | Investments in Securities | Other Financial Instruments* |
Level 1 - Quoted Prices | $10,547,621 | $34,600 |
Level 2 - Other Significant Observable Inputs | 4,420,065 | -- |
Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs | -- | -- |
Total | $14,967,686 | $34,600 |
*Other financial instruments are derivative instruments not reflected in the Portfolio of Investments, such as futures, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
Security Transactions and Investment Income: Security transactions are accounted for on trade date. Realized gains and losses are recorded on an identified cost basis and may include proceeds from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date or, in the case of dividends on certain foreign securities, as soon as the Portfolio is informed of the ex-dividend date. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Interest income, which includes amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities, is accrued as earned. Withholding taxes on foreign dividends have been provided for in accordance with the Portfolio's understanding of the applicable country's tax rules and rates.
Foreign Currency Transactions: The Portfolio's accounting records are maintained in U.S. dollars. For valuation of assets and liabilities on each date of net asset value determination, foreign denominations are converted into U.S. dollars using the current exchange rate. Security transactions, income and expenses are translated at the prevailing rate of exchange on the date of the event. The effect of changes in foreign exchange rates on securities is included with the net realized and unrealized gain or loss on investments.
Distributions to Shareholders: Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Portfolio on ex-dividend date. Dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains, if any, are paid at least annually. Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles; accordingly, periodic reclassifications are made within the Portfolio's capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution under income tax regulations.
Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Expense Offset Arrangements: The Portfolio has an arrangement with its custodian bank whereby the custodian's fees may be paid indirectly by credits earned on the Portfolio's cash on deposit with the bank. These credits are used to reduce the Portfolio's expenses. Such a deposit arrangement may be an alternative to overnight investments.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision for federal income or excise tax is required since the Portfolio intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code and to distribute substantially all of its taxable earnings.
The Portfolio is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The implementation of FIN 48 did not result in any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements or in any of the open tax years; thus, no provision for income tax is required. Each of the Portfolio's federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
Portfolio Securities Lending: During the year, the Portfolio lent its securities to approved borrowers to earn additional income and received cash and/or securities as collateral to secure the loans. The Securities Lending program ended in November 2008.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 161, "Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." The new standard is intended to improve financial reporting about derivative instruments and hedging activities by requiring enhanced disclosures to enable investors to better understand the effect on the Fund's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS No. 161 will have on the Fund's financial statements and related disclosures.
NOTE B -- RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") is wholly-owned by Calvert Group, Ltd. ("Calvert"), which is indirectly wholly owned by UNIFI Holding Company ("UNIFI"). The Advisor provides investment advisory services and pays the salaries and fees of officers and Directors of the Fund who are employees of the Advisor or its affiliates. For its services, the Advisor receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .30% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit Investment Partners, Inc., ("Summit") served as the Advisor. Summit is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Central Life Insurance Company, an indirect subsidiary of UNIFI Holding Company. Summit received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.30% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets.
The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit net annual portfolio operating expenses through December 12, 2010. The contractual expense cap is .60%. For the purpose of this expense limit, operating expenses do not include interest expense, brokerage commissions, taxes and extraordinary expenses. To the extent any expense credits are earned, the Advisor's obligation under the contractual limitation may be reduced and the Advisor may benefit from the expense offset arrangement.
Calvert Administrative Services Company ("CASC"), an affiliate of the Advisor, provides administrative services for the Portfolio. For its services, CASC receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit provided administrative services for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets.
Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. ("CSSI"), an affiliate of the Advisor, acts as shareholder servicing agent for the Portfolio. For its services, CSSI received a fee of $4 for the year ended December 31, 2008. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. is the transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Prior to December 12, 2008, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC served as the transfer and dividend disbursing agent.
Each Director of the Fund who is not an employee of the Advisor or its affiliates receives a fee of $1,500 for each Board and Committee meeting attended plus an annual fee of $20,000 for Directors not serving on other Calvert Fund Boards, $8,000 for those serving on other Calvert Fund Boards. Director's fees are allocated to each of the portfolios served. Prior to December 12, 2008, each Director of the Fund who was not an employee of Summit or its affiliates received a fee of $2,500 for each Board meeting attended ($600 for Committee meetings) plus an annual fee of $17,000. Committee chairs and the Lead Director received additional fees for their service.
NOTE C -- INVESTMENT ACTIVITY
During the year, the cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investments, other than short-term and U.S. Government securities, were $4,731,419 and $5,948,683, respectively. U.S. Government security purchases and sales were $425,477 and $3,517,067, respectively.
The cost of investments owned at December 31, 2008 for federal income tax purposes was $15,934,862. Net unrealized depreciation aggregated $967,176, of which $1,936,954 related to appreciated securities and $2,904,130 related to depreciated securities.
Net realized capital loss carryforwards for federal income tax purposes of $30,018, $576,478 and $752 at December 31, 2008 may be utilized to offset future capital gains until expiration in December 2012, December 2013 and December 2016, respectively.
The tax character of dividends and distributions paid during the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 was as follows:
Distributions paid from: | 2008 | 2007 |
Ordinary income | $619,228 | $763,686 |
Total | $619,228 | $763,686 |
As of December 31, 2008 the components of distributable earnings / (accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
Undistributed ordinary income | $66,235 |
Capital loss carryforward | (607,248) |
Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) | (967,176) |
| ($1,508,189) |
The differences between the components of distributable earnings on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the statement of net assets are primarily due to temporary book-tax differences that will reverse in a subsequent period. These differences are due to wash sales, real estate investment trusts, and Section 1256 contracts.
Reclassifications, as shown in the table below, have been made to the Portfolio's components of net assets to reflect income and gains available for distribution (or available capital loss carryovers, as applicable) under income tax law and regulations. These reclassifications are due to permanent book-tax differences and have no impact on net assets. The primary permanent differences causing such reclassifications for the Portfolio are due to asset-backed securities and real estate investment trusts.
Undistributed net investment income | ($411) |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) | 411 |
NOTE D -- OTHER (Unaudited)
Change in Independent Accountant
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. ("Fund"). KPMG LLP was selected as the Fund's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the Fund's financial statements. The Fund's selection of KPMG as its independent accountant was recommended by the Fund's Audit Committee and was approved by the Fund's Board of Directors.
The reports on the financial statements audited by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2007 and prior for the Funds did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There were no disagreements between the Funds and Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused Deloitte to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements of such years. There were no reportable events as described in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of Item 304(a) of SEC Regulation S-K.
Tax Information (Unaudited)
For corporate shareholders, the Portfolio designates 41.9% of its ordinary dividends paid during the calendar year ended December 31, 2008, as qualifying for the corporate dividends received deduction.
Financial Highlights
| | | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | December 31, | |
Balanced Index Portfolio | | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $51.62 | $49.58 | $45.74 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.48 | 1.33 | 1.16 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (12.45) | 2.12 | 3.80 | |
Total from investment operations | | (10.97) | 3.45 | 4.96 | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (1.44) | (1.41) | (1.12) | |
Total distributions | | (1.44) | (1.41) | (1.12) | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (12.41) | 2.04 | 3.84 | |
Net asset value, ending | | $39.21 | $51.62 | $49.58 | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | (21.55%) | 7.02% | 11.02% | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 3.08% | 2.47% | 2.36% | |
Total expenses | | .86% | .69% | .69% | |
Expenses before offsets | | .60% | .60% | .60% | |
Net expenses | | .60% | .60% | .60% | |
Portfolio turnover | | 26% | 15% | 21% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $15,844 | $25,993 | $28,784 | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | | |
Balanced Index Portfolio | | 2005 | 2004 (z) | | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $45.55 | $43.05 | | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.07 | .95 | | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | .28 | 2.27 | | |
Total from investment operations | | 1.35 | 3.22 | | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (1.16) | (.72) | | |
Total distributions | | (1.16) | (.72) | | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | .19 | 2.50 | | |
Net asset value, ending | | $45.74 | $45.55 | | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | 3.04% | 7.59% | | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.25% | 2.23% | | |
Total expenses | | .70% | .71% | | |
Expenses before offsets | | .60% | .60% | | |
Net expenses | | .60% | .60% | | |
Portfolio turnover | | 4% | 21% | | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $29,316 | $33,356 | | |
A Total expenses do not reflect amounts reimbursed and/or waived by the Advisor or reductions from expense offset arrangements. Expenses before offsets reflect expenses after reimbursement and/or waiver by the Advisor but prior to reductions from expense offset arrangements. Net expenses are net of all reductions and represent the net expenses paid by the portfolio.
(z) Per share figures are calculated using the Average Shares Method.
* Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year.
See notes to financial statements.
Explanation of Financial Tables
Schedule of Investments
The Schedule of Investments is a snapshot of all securities held in the fund at their market value, on the last day of the reporting period. Securities are listed by asset type (e.g., common stock, corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations) and may be further broken down into sub-groups and by industry classification.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities is often referred to as the fund's balance sheet. It lists the value of what the fund owns, is due and owes on the last day of the reporting period. The fund's assets include the market value of securities owned, cash, receivables for securities sold and shareholder subscriptions, and receivables for dividends and interest payments that have been earned, but not yet received. The fund's liabilities typically include payables for securities purchased and shareholder redemptions, and expenses owed but not yet paid. The statement also reports the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share on the last day of the reporting period. The NAV is calculated by dividing the fund's net assets (assets minus liabilities) by the number of shares outstanding. This statement is accompanied by a Schedule of Investments. Alternatively, if certain conditions are met, a Statement of Net Assets may be presented in lieu of this statement and the Schedule of Investments.
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets provides a detailed list of the fund's holdings, including each security's market value on the last day of the reporting period. The Statement of Net Assets includes a Schedule of Investments. Other assets are added and other liabilities subtracted from the investments total to calculate the fund's net assets. Finally, net assets are divided by the outstanding shares of the fund to arrive at its share price, or Net Asset Value (NAV) per share.
At the end of the Statement of Net Assets is a table displaying the composition of the fund's net assets. Paid in Capital is the money invested by shareholders and represents the bulk of net assets. Undistributed Net Investment Income and Accumulated Net Realized Gains usually approximate the amounts the fund had available to distribute to shareholders as of the statement date. Accumulated Realized Losses will appear as negative balances. Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) is the difference between the market value of the fund's investments and their cost, and reflects the gains (losses) that would be realized if the fund were to sell all of its investments at their statement-date values.
Statement of Operations
The Statement of Operations summarizes the fund's investment income earned and expenses incurred in operating the fund. Investment income includes dividends earned from stocks and interest earned from interest-bearing securities in the fund. Expenses incurred in operating the fund include the advisory fee paid to the investment advisor, administrative services fees, distribution plan expenses (if applicable), transfer agent fees, shareholder servicing expenses, custodial, legal, and audit fees, and the printing and postage expenses related to shareholder reports. Expense offsets (fees paid indirectly) are also shown. Credits earned from offset arrangements are used to reduce the fund's expenses. This statement also shows net gains (losses) realized on the sale of investments and the increase or decrease in the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments held during the period.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
The Statement of Changes in Net Assets shows how the fund's total net assets changed during the two most recent reporting periods. Changes in the fund's net assets are attributable to investment operations, distributions and capital share transactions.
The Operations section of the report summarizes information detailed in the Statement of Operations. The Distribution section shows the dividend and capital gain distributions made to shareholders. The amounts shown as distributions in this section may not match the net investment income and realized gains amounts shown in the Operations section because distributions are determined on a tax basis and certain investments or transactions may be treated differently for financial statement and tax purposes. The Capital Share Transactions section shows the amount shareholders invested in the fund, either by purchasing shares or by reinvesting distributions, and the amounts redeemed. The corresponding numbers of shares issued, reinvested and redeemed are shown at the end of the report.
Financial Highlights
The Financial Highlights table provides a per-share breakdown by class of the components that affect the fund's net asset value for current and past reporting periods. The table provides total return, total distributions, expense ratios, portfolio turnover and net assets for the applicable period. Total return is a measure of a fund's performance that encompasses all elements of return: dividends, capital gain distributions and changes in net asset value. Total return is the change in value of an investment over a given period, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and capital gain distributions, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment. Total distributions include distributions from net investment income and net realized gains. Long-term gains are earned on securities held in the fund more than one year. Short-term gains, on the sale of securities held less than one year, are treated as ordinary dividend income for tax purposes. The expense ratio is a fund's cost of doing business, expres sed as a percentage of net assets. These expenses directly reduce returns to shareholders. Portfolio turnover measures the trading activity in a fund's investment portfolio -- how often securities are bought and sold by a fund. Portfolio turnover is affected by market conditions, changes in the size of the fund, the nature of the fund's investments and the investment style of the portfolio manager.
Proxy Voting
The Proxy Voting Guidelines that the Portfolio uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities are provided as an Appendix to the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. The Statement of Additional Information can be obtained free of charge by calling the Fund at 1-800-368-2745 or by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available by calling the Fund or visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Form N-Q is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's Form N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC; information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
This report is intended to provide fund information to shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.
Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract
At a meeting held on December 4, 2008, the Board of Directors, and by a separate vote, the disinterested Directors, initially approved the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Portfolio and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Advisor and Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit" or the "Subadvisor") with respect to the Portfolio.
At the December 4, 2008 meeting, and in connection with the Advisor's impending purchase of the mutual fund business of Summit, the Board, effective as of December 12, 2008, terminated the Portfolio's current investment advisory agreement with Summit and approved the selection of the Advisor and Summit as investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively, to the Portfolio. In evaluating the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered a variety of information relating to the Portfolio and the Advisor. The disinterested Directors reviewed a report prepared by the Advisor regarding various services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and its affiliates.
The disinterested Directors were separately represented by independent legal counsel with respect to their consideration of the approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. Prior to voting, the disinterested Directors reviewed the proposed approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and Investment Subadvisory Agreement with management and also met in private sessions with their counsel at which no representatives of management were present.
In the course of its deliberations regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered the following factors, among others: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor, including the personnel who would be providing such services; the Advisor's financial condition; the level and method of computing the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee; performance, fee and expense information for the Portfolio; the profitability of the Calvert Group of Funds to the Advisor; the Advisor's process for monitoring "best execution"; the direct and indirect benefits, if any, to be derived by the Advisor from its relationship with the Portfolio; the effect of the Portfolio's growth and size on the Portfolio's performance and expenses; the Advisor's compliance programs and policies; the Advisor's performance of substantially similar duties for other funds; and any possible conflicts of interest.
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board reviewed information provided by the Advisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Advisor's operations and personnel, including, among other information, biographical information on the Advisor's supervisory and professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. The Board also took into account similar information provided periodically throughout the previous year by the Advisor as well as the Board's familiarity with the Advisor's management through Board of Directors' meetings, discussions and other reports. The Board considered the Advisor's current level of staffing and overall resources. The Advisor's administrative capabilities, including its ability to supervise the other service providers for the Portfolio, were also considered. The Board discussed the Advisor 's effectiveness in monitoring the performance of other funds' subadvisors and the Advisor's timeliness in responding to performance issues with respect to those funds. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement.
In considering the Portfolio's performance, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board noted that year to date through December 2, 2008, the Portfolio had outperformed the blended benchmark. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Subadvisor became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Portfolio's performance was satisfactory.
In considering the Portfolio's fees and expenses, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's fees and expenses. The Board noted that the Portfolio would pay the same advisory fee to the Advisor as it currently paid to Summit. The Board took into account that the Advisor had agreed to limit the Portfolio's net annual operating expenses through December 12, 2010 to the level in effect for the Portfolio on November 30, 2008. The Board also considered the impact of the size of the Portfolio on its expenses. The Board noted that the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee with respect to the Portfolio. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed advisory fee was reasonable in view of the quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and the other factors considered.
The Board reviewed the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio. In reviewing the anticipated profitability of the advisory fee to the Advisor, the Board also considered the fact that affiliates would provide shareholder servicing and administrative services to the Portfolio for which they would receive compensation. The Board also considered whether the Advisor had the financial wherewithal to provide a high level of services to the Portfolio. The Board also considered that the Advisor would likely derive benefits to its reputation and other indirect benefits from its relationship with the Portfolio. The Board noted that the Advisor had agreed to reimburse expenses of the Portfolio above a certain level and also would pay the subadvisory fee to the Subadvisor. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was reasonable.
The Board considered the effect of the Portfolio's current size and potential growth on its performance and expenses. The Board noted that if the Portfolio's assets increased over time, the Portfolio might realize other economies of scale if assets increased proportionately more than certain other expenses. The Board took into account that the Portfolio might achieve operational efficiencies by joining the Calvert Group of Funds. The Board concluded that adding breakpoints to the advisory fee at specified asset levels was not appropriate given the Portfolio's current size.
In approving the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
In evaluating the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the disinterested Directors considered information provided by the Subadvisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Subadvisor's operations, personnel, investment philosophy, strategies and techniques. Among other information, the Subadvisor provided biographical information on portfolio management and other professional staff, performance information for itself, and descriptions of its investment philosophies, strategies and techniques, organizational and management structures and brokerage policies and practices.
The Board approved the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Subadvisor and the Advisor based on a number of factors relating to the Subadvisor's ability to perform under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. In the course of its deliberations, the Board evaluated, among other factors: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Subadvisor; the Subadvisor's management style and long-term performance record; the Portfolio's performance record and the Subadvisor's performance in employing its investment strategies; the Subadvisor's current level of staffing and its overall resources; the qualifications and experience of the Subadvisor's personnel; the Subadvisor's financial condition with respect to its ability to perform the services required under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement; the Subadvisor's compliance systems, including those related to personal investing; and any disciplinary history. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that it was satisfied with the natu re, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Subadvisor under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement.
As noted above, the Board considered the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team that was currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Summit became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. The Board also took into account the expertise and resources the Advisor would devote to monitoring the performance, investment style and risk adjusted performance of the Subadvisor.
In considering the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor of its relationship with the Portfolio, the Board noted that the Advisor and Subadvisor were affiliated and the proposed subadvisory fee under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be paid by the Advisor out of the advisory fee that the Advisor would receive under the Investment Advisory Agreement. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed subadvisory fee was reasonable. Because the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee, the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor from its relationship with the Portfolio were not material factors in the Board's deliberations. For similar reasons, the Board did not consider the potential economies of scale in the Subadvisor's management of the Portfolio to be a material factor in its consideration.
In approving the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
Conclusions
The Board reached the following conclusions regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, among others: (a) the Advisor has demonstrated that it possesses the capability and resources to perform the duties required of it under the Investment Advisory Agreement; (b) the Subadvisor is qualified to manage the Portfolio's assets in accordance with the Portfolio's investment objective and policies; (c) the Advisor and Subadvisor maintain appropriate compliance programs; (d) the Subadvisor is likely to execute its investment strategies consistently over time; (e) performance of the Portfolio is satisfactory in relation to relevant indices; and (f) the Portfolio's proposed advisory and subadvisory fees are reasonable in relation to the services to be provided by the Advisor and the Subadvisor. Based on its conclusions, the Board determined that approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be in the interests of the Portfo lio and its shareholders and that the Subadvisor's service as subadvisor to the Portfolio did not involve a conflict of interest from which the Advisor or Subadvisor would derive an inappropriate advantage.
Director and Officer Information Table
Name & Age | Position with Fund
| Position Start Date
| Principal Occupation During Last 5 Years | (Not Applicable to Officers) |
# of Calvert Portfolios Overseen | Other Directorships |
Independent Directors |
FRANK H. BLATZ, JR., Esq. AGE: 73 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Of counsel to firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. Mr. Blatz was an attorney in private practice in Fanwood, NJ from 1999 to 2004. | 27 | |
ALICE GRESHAM AGE: 58 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean and Professor at Howard University School of Law. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. | 28 | - Council on Legal Education Opportunity
- North Country School
|
M. CHARITO KRUVANT AGE: 63 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | President and CEO of Creative Associates International, Inc., a firm that specializes in human resources development, information management, public affairs and private enterprise development. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Foundation
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
|
CYNTHIA MILLIGAN AGE: 62 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Formerly, she was the President and Chief Executive Officer for CMA, a consulting firm for financial institutions. | 28 | - Wells Fargo Company- NYSE
- Gallup, Inc.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Raven Industries - NASDAQ
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Non-Profit)
- Prison Fellowship Ministries (Non-Profit)
|
ARTHUR J. PUGH AGE: 71 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Retired executive. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
|
Interested Directors |
BARBARA J. KRUMSIEK AGE: 56 | Director & Chair-person | 1997 CVS 2008 Summit | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Calvert Group, Ltd. | 58 | - Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Acacia Life Insurance Company (Chair)
- UNIFI Mutual Holding Company
- Ameritas Holding Company
|
WILLIAM LESTER AGE: 51 | Director & President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | President, CEO and Treasurer of Summit Investment Advisors, Inc. | 27 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Investment Advisors, Inc.
- Ameritas Investment Corp.
|
Officers |
KAREN BECKER AGE: 56 | Chief Compliance Officer | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Chief Compliance Officer for the Calvert Funds. Prior to 2005, Ms. Becker was Senior Vice President of Calvert Group, Ltd. and Head of Calvert Client Services. |
SUSAN WALKER BENDER, Esq. AGE: 50 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1988 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
THOMAS DAILEY AGE: 44 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
IVY WAFFORD DUKE, Esq. AGE: 40 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd., and since 2004, Chief Compliance Officer for Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
TRACI L. GOLDT AGE: 35 | Assistant Secretary | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Executive Assistant to General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
GREGORY B. HABEEB AGE: 59 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
DANIEL K. HAYES AGE: 58 | Vice President | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
HUI PING HO, CPA Age: 44 | Assistant Treasurer | 2000 CVS 2008 Summit | Tax Compliance Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
LANCELOT A. KING, Esq. AGE: 38 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2002 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
EDITH LILLIE AGE: 52 | Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Secretary and Regulatory Matters Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
AUGUSTO DIVO MACEDO, Esq. AGE: 46 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, and Associate Counsel Compliance Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Mr. Macedo served as 2nd Vice President at Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Advisors Group, Acacia's broker-dealer and federally registered investment adviser. |
JANE B. MAXWELL Esq. AGE: 56 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Maxwell was an associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP. |
ANDREW K. NIEBLER, Esq. AGE: 41 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2006 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Niebler was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. |
CATHERINE P. ROY AGE: 53 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Roy was Senior Vice President of US Fixed Income for Baring Asset Management, and SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager of Scudder Insurance Asset Management. |
WILLIAM M. TARTIKOFF, Esq. AGE: 61 | Vice President & Secretary | 1990 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
NATALIE TRUNOW AGE: 41 | Vice President | 2008 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc., Head of Equities. Prior to joining Calvert in August 2008, Ms. Trunow was the Section Head (2005-2008) and Portfolio Manager (2001-2008) for the Global Public Markets Group of General Motors Asset Management. |
RONALD M. WOLFSHEIMER, CPA AGE: 56 | Treasurer | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
MICHAEL V. YUHAS JR., CPA AGE: 47 | Fund Controller | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Fund Administration of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
The address of Directors and Officers is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 1000N, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Ms. Krumsiek is an interested person of the Fund since she is an officer and director of the Fund's Advisor and its affiliates. Mr. Lester is an interested person of the Fund since he is an officer and director of the parent company of the Fund's Advisor.
Additional information about the Fund's Directors can be found in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). You can get a free copy of the SAI by contacting your broker, or the Fund at 1-800-368-2745.
Shareholder Meeting Results
A special shareholder meeting was held on December 5, 2008, by the Summit Balanced Index Portfolio of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. for the purpose of considering and voting on the issues below. The voting results were as follows:
- To approve an Investment Advisory Agreement with Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
389,829.738 | 3,729.588 | 15,154.854 |
- To approve an Investment Subadvisory Agreement with Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
390,403.822 | 3,729.588 | 14,580.770 |
- To elect the Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Name of Director | For | Withhold |
Frank H. Blatz, Jr. | 405,850.836 | 2,863.344 |
Alice Gresham | 405,850.836 | 2,863.344 |
Barbara J. Krumsiek | 405,850.836 | 2,863.344 |
M. Charito Kruvant | 405,850.836 | 2,863.344 |
William Lester | 405,850.836 | 2,863.344 |
Cynthia Milligan | 405,850.836 | 2,863.344 |
Arthur J. Pugh | 405,850.836 | 2,863.344 |
- To ratify the selection of auditors, KPMG, LLP for the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
401,979.078 | 2,863.344 | 3,871.758 |
5. To authorize the Board of Directors of the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. to enter into and materially amend agreements with investment subadvisors on behalf of the Funds without obtaining shareholder approval.
For | Against | Abstain |
400,058.834 | 4,783.588 | 3,871.758 |
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Summit Nasdaq-100 Index Portfolio
Annual Report
December 31, 2008
Summit Mutual Funds
Calvert
Investments That Make A Difference
A UNIFI Company
Summit Nasdaq-100 Index Portfolio
Annual Report, December 31, 2008
Table Of Contents
3 | Portfolio Manager Remarks |
5 | Shareholder Expense Example |
6 | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
7 | Statement of Net Assets |
12 | Statement of Operations |
13 | Statements of Changes in Net Assets |
14 | Notes to Financial Statements |
19 | Financial Highlights |
20 | Explanation of Financial Tables |
21 | Proxy Voting and Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings |
22 | Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract |
25 | Director and Officer Information Table |
Summit Nasdaq-100 Index Portfolio
Managed by Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For the 12 months ended December 31, 2008, the Summit Nasdaq-100 Index Portfolio returned -41.81%, compared to a return of -41.46% for the benchmark Nasdaq-100 Index. As an index fund, the Portfolio uses a passive management approach and seeks, as closely as possible, to replicate the holdings and match the performance of the Nasdaq-100 Index, before fees and expenses. The difference in return of -0.35% is largely attributable to the Portfolio's fees and operating expenses, including advisory, administration, and accounting costs.
Investment Climate
Not surprising to investors or the markets, the U.S. was officially declared to have been in a recession since December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the standard arbiter of the U.S. business cycle. The U.S. economy is embroiled in a severe downturn, made much worse by the credit crunch and dramatic decline in economic activity that has spread around the globe.
Summit NASDAQ-100 Index Portfolio*
Comparison of change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment.
Average Annual Total Return
(period ended 12.31.08)
One year | (41.81%) |
Five year | (3.89%) |
Since inception (4.27.00) | (11.68%) |
*Performance information is for the Portfolio only and does not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Past performance does not indicate future results.
The financial markets had a tough year, increasingly rocked by company and industry declines and financial scandals. The overall benchmark for U.S. stocks, the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 Index, was down 37.00%, its worst year since 1931. Small-cap stocks fared best in this abysmally negative environment, down 33.79%, with large-cap stocks trailing 37.60% and mid-caps doing the worst, plunging 41.46%.1 The tech-heavy, multi-cap Nasdaq-100 Index does not contain financial companies but was still volatile.
The year ended bleakly with a slowing economy, rising unemployment, falling industrial orders, weakening consumer confidence--and a deepening credit crunch and recessionary pressures worldwide. The positive news was that inflation began to fall, largely due to the sharp decline in commodity prices. Oil, which hit $146 per barrel over the summer, ended the year at $43.
Portfolio Strategy
The Portfolio invests in stocks in the Nasdaq-100 Index, which includes 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial securities listed on the Nasdaq stock market based on market capitalization. The Index includes companies across major industry groups, such as computer hardware and software, telecommunications, retail and wholesale trade, and biotechnology.
In terms of sector allocations, as of year-end, the Index was most heavily weighted in the Information Technology sector (at 58.31%) followed by Health Care (at 20.08%). The Index had no exposure to the Energy, Financials, and Utilities sectors.
Looking at performance contribution, all sectors in the Index declined 20% or more in 2008, with the exception of Health Care, reflecting the general malaise of the overall market. The three best-performing sectors of the Index, on a relative basis, were Health Care (at -9.31%), Consumer Staples (at -24.01%), and Industrials (at -36.81%). Consumer Staples is a traditionally defensive sector as companies in this area are less exposed to the deteriorating economy. The three worst-performing sectors of the Nasdaq-100 Index were Telecommunication Services (at -61.62%), Information Technology (at -46.17%), and Consumer Discretionary (at -41.10%).
Economic Sectors | % of Total Investments |
Consumer Discretionary | 12.0% |
Consumer Staples | 1.4% |
Health Care | 20.2% |
Industrials | 5.9% |
Information Technology | 58.6% |
Materials | 0.7% |
Telecommunications Services | 0.7% |
U.S. Treasury | 0.5% |
Total | 100% |
Outlook
At the end of December, markets had a "relief" rally despite the bad economic news, with higher-beta (riskier) markets and sectors rebounding the most. This positive trend may emerge when markets shrug off negative news and trend higher. December certainly qualifies since markets closed higher on the month, despite negative job, earnings, and housing reports. If the trend continues, we may see more of a relief rally in the short-term. However, judging by Wall Street analyst consensus earnings forecasts for 2009, earnings expectations are still too positive and too optimistic for the year and in disconnect with a decelerating real economy.
We believe earnings expectations will have to come down further, especially since firms' capital expenditures on equipment and property has continued to decelerate and manufacturing activity further slowed at year-end--all of which are likely to negatively impact business investment in 2009. This means that, if the markets pay attention to earnings in 2009, we may see additional volatility in the equity markets.
Looking ahead, we are in uncharted territory when we consider incoming economic data, fiscal and monetary government stimulus, and the response of global financial markets. While the near-term outlook for the markets and economy is likely to remain volatile as the housing and credit crisis further unwinds, there are longer-term measures in place that may help move eventual recovery forward. The U.S. stimulus package already in place, combined with the Obama administration's economic recovery program, may set the stage for gradual U.S. economic recovery. In addition, governments in Europe and Asia are taking concerted action to bolster their economies and combat recession, along with the U.S. Patience will be required, however, as this recession seems destined to be deep and long.
January 2009
1. Performance is represented by the Russell Midcap Index for mid-cap stocks, Russell 1000 Index for large-cap stocks, and Russell 2000 Index for small-cap stocks.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008).
Note: Expenses do not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare the 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Beginning Account Value 7/1/08 | Ending Account Value 12/31/08 | Expenses Paid During Period* 7/1/08 - 12/31/08 |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $660.80 | $2.71 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,021.87 | $3.30 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio of 0.65%, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/366.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Shareholders of Summit Nasdaq-100 Index Portfolio:
We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets of the Summit Nasdaq-100 Index Portfolio (the Portfolio), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., as of December 31, 2008, and the related statements of operations, changes in net assets and the financial highlights for the year then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audit. The accompanying financial statements and financial highlights of the Portfolio for the periods presented through December 31, 2007 were audited by other auditors whose report thereon dated February 22, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2008, by correspondence with custodians and brokers. As to securities purchased or sold but not yet received or delivered, we performed other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Summit Nasdaq-100 Index Portfolio as of December 31, 2008, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
KPMG LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2009
NASDAQ-100 Index Portfolio
Statement of Net Assets
December 31, 2008
Equity Securities - 96.8% | | Shares | Value | |
Air Freight & Logistics - 1.5% | | | | |
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. | | 2,585 | $142,253 | |
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. | | 3,219 | 107,096 | |
| | | 249,349 | |
| | | | |
Airlines - 0.3% | | | | |
Ryanair Holdings plc (ADR)* | | 1,797 | 52,257 | |
| | | | |
Beverages - 0.3% | | | | |
Hansen Natural Corp.* | | 1,413 | 47,378 | |
| | | | |
Biotechnology - 13.2% | | | | |
Amgen, Inc.* | | 7,626 | 440,401 | |
Biogen Idec, Inc.* | | 4,897 | 233,244 | |
Celgene Corp.* | | 7,020 | 388,066 | |
Cephalon, Inc.* | | 1,029 | 79,274 | |
Genzyme Corp.* | | 5,235 | 347,447 | |
Gilead Sciences, Inc.* | | 13,847 | 708,136 | |
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | | 2,433 | 73,914 | |
| | | 2,270,482 | |
| | | | |
Chemicals - 0.5% | | | | |
Sigma-Aldrich Corp. | | 1,857 | 78,440 | |
| | | | |
Commercial Services & Supplies - 0.8% | | | | |
Cintas Corp. | | 2,832 | 65,787 | |
Stericycle, Inc.* | | 1,389 | 72,339 | |
| | | 138,126 | |
| | | | |
Communications Equipment - 12.1% | | | | |
Cisco Systems, Inc.* | | 32,315 | 526,734 | |
Juniper Networks, Inc.* | | 5,361 | 93,871 | |
QUALCOMM, Inc. | | 30,834 | 1,104,782 | |
Research In Motion Ltd.* | | 8,744 | 354,832 | |
| | | 2,080,219 | |
| | | | |
Computers & Peripherals - 11.1% | | | | |
Apple, Inc.* | | 19,145 | 1,634,026 | |
Dell, Inc.* | | 11,044 | 113,090 | |
Logitech International SA* | | 2,691 | 41,926 | |
NetApp, Inc.* | | 5,334 | 74,516 | |
Seagate Technology LLC | | 7,534 | 33,376 | |
Sun Microsystems, Inc.* | | 4,961 | 18,951 | |
| | | 1,915,885 | |
| | | | |
Construction & Engineering - 0.3% | | | | |
Foster Wheeler Ltd.* | | 2,158 | 50,454 | |
| | | | |
Diversified Consumer Services - 1.1% | | | | |
Apollo Group, Inc.* | | 2,483 | 190,247 | |
| | | | |
Electrical Equipment - 0.9% | | | | |
First Solar, Inc.* | | 1,097 | 151,342 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 0.6% | | | | |
Flextronics International Ltd.* | | 13,559 | $34,711 | |
FLIR Systems, Inc.* | | 2,247 | 68,938 | |
| | | 103,649 | |
| | | | |
Food & Staples Retailing - 1.1% | | | | |
Costco Wholesale Corp. | | 3,511 | 184,328 | |
| | | | |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 1.1% | | | | |
DENTSPLY International, Inc. | | 2,209 | 62,382 | |
Hologic, Inc.* | | 4,160 | 54,371 | |
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.* | | 605 | 76,829 | |
| | | 193,582 | |
| | | | |
Health Care Providers & Services - 1.6% | | | | |
Express Scripts, Inc.* | | 3,410 | 187,482 | |
Henry Schein, Inc.* | | 1,377 | 50,522 | |
Patterson Co's, Inc.* | | 1,801 | 33,769 | |
| | | 271,773 | |
| | | | |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.3% | | | | |
Starbucks Corp.* | | 15,741 | 148,910 | |
Wynn Resorts Ltd.* | | 1,884 | 79,618 | |
| | | 228,528 | |
| | | | |
Household Durables - 0.3% | | | | |
Garmin Ltd. | | 2,902 | 55,631 | |
| | | | |
Internet & Catalog Retail - 1.7% | | | | |
Amazon.com, Inc.* | | 4,398 | 225,529 | |
Expedia, Inc.* | | 4,357 | 35,902 | |
Liberty Media Corp. - Interactive* | | 8,429 | 26,299 | |
| | | 287,730 | |
| | | | |
Internet Software & Services - 7.0% | | | | |
Akamai Technologies, Inc.* | | 2,502 | 37,755 | |
Baidu, Inc.(ADR)* | | 408 | 53,273 | |
eBay, Inc.* | | 14,714 | 205,407 | |
Google, Inc.* | | 2,252 | 692,828 | |
IAC/InterActiveCorp* | | 2,251 | 35,408 | |
VeriSign, Inc.* | | 2,826 | 53,920 | |
Yahoo!, Inc.* | | 10,299 | 125,648 | |
| | | 1,204,239 | |
| | | | |
IT Services - 3.4% | | | | |
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | | 5,544 | 218,101 | |
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.* | | 4,384 | 79,175 | |
Fiserv, Inc.* | | 3,092 | 112,456 | |
Infosys Technologies Ltd. (ADR) | | 1,736 | 42,654 | |
Paychex, Inc. | | 5,287 | 138,942 | |
| | | 591,328 | |
| | | | |
Life Sciences - Tools & Services - 0.9% | | | | |
Illumina, Inc.* | | 1,875 | 48,844 | |
Life Technologies Corp.* | | 2,710 | 63,170 | |
Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. | | 1,771 | 51,377 | |
| | | 163,391 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Machinery - 1.3% | | | | |
Joy Global, Inc. | | 1,633 | $37,379 | |
PACCAR, Inc. | | 6,274 | 179,437 | |
| | | 216,816 | |
| | | | |
Media - 4.3% | | | | |
Comcast Corp. | | 22,273 | 375,968 | |
DIRECTV Group, Inc.* | | 11,813 | 270,636 | |
DISH Network Corp.* | | 3,325 | 36,874 | |
Focus Media Holding Ltd. (ADR)* | | 1,767 | 16,062 | |
Liberty Global, Inc.* | | 2,348 | 37,380 | |
| | | 736,920 | |
| | | | |
Metals & Mining - 0.2% | | | | |
Steel Dynamics, Inc. | | 2,893 | 32,344 | |
| | | | |
Multiline Retail - 0.5 | | | | |
Sears Holdings Corp.* | | 1,997 | 77,623 | |
| | | | |
Pharmaceuticals - 2.8% | | | | |
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (ADR) | | 9,854 | 419,485 | |
Warner Chilcott Ltd.* | | 3,857 | 55,926 | |
| | | 475,411 | |
| | | | |
Road & Rail - 0.3% | | | | |
JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc. | | 1,945 | 51,095 | |
| | | | |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 7.6% | | | | |
Altera Corp. | | 6,462 | 107,980 | |
Applied Materials, Inc. | | 10,723 | 108,624 | |
Broadcom Corp.* | | 6,292 | 106,775 | |
Intel Corp. | | 30,070 | 440,826 | |
KLA-Tencor Corp. | | 3,164 | 68,944 | |
Lam Research Corp.* | | 1,993 | 42,411 | |
Linear Technology Corp. | | 4,578 | 101,265 | |
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.* | | 9,001 | 60,037 | |
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. | | 4,806 | 54,885 | |
Microchip Technology, Inc. | | 2,336 | 45,622 | |
NVIDIA Corp.* | | 8,152 | 65,787 | |
Xilinx, Inc. | | 5,614 | 100,041 | |
| | | 1,303,197 | |
| | | | |
Software - 15.1% | | | | |
Activision Blizzard, Inc.* | | 18,278 | 157,922 | |
Adobe Systems, Inc.* | | 8,023 | 170,810 | |
Autodesk, Inc.* | | 3,639 | 71,506 | |
CA, Inc. | | 7,690 | 142,496 | |
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.* | | 3,272 | 62,135 | |
Citrix Systems, Inc.* | | 3,334 | 78,582 | |
Electronic Arts, Inc.* | | 4,998 | 80,168 | |
Intuit, Inc.* | | 6,225 | 148,093 | |
Microsoft Corp. | | 47,266 | 918,851 | |
Oracle Corp.* | | 33,201 | 588,654 | |
Symantec Corp.* | | 13,507 | 182,614 | |
| | | 2,601,831 | |
| | | | |
Specialty Retail - 2.5% | | | | |
Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc.* | | 5,399 | 137,243 | |
O'Reilly Automotive, Inc.* | | 2,069 | 63,601 | |
Ross Stores, Inc. | | 2,054 | 61,065 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Specialty Retail - Cont'd | | | | |
Staples, Inc. | | 7,399 | $132,590 | |
Urban Outfitters, Inc.* | | 2,561 | 38,364 | |
| | | 432,863 | |
| | | | |
Trading Companies & Distributors - 0.4% | | | | |
Fastenal Co. | | 2,197 | 76,565 | |
| | | | |
Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.7% | | | | |
Millicom International Cellular SA | | 1,623 | 72,889 | |
NII Holdings, Inc., Class B* | | 2,493 | 45,323 | |
| | | 118,212 | |
| | | | |
Total Equity Securities (Cost $16,302,777) | | | 16,631,235 | |
| | | | |
| | Principal | | |
U.S. Treasury - 0.5% | | Amount | | |
United States Treasury Bills, 3/26/09 # | | $90,000 | 89,998 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Total U.S. Treasury (Cost $89,998) | | | 89,998 | |
| | | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (Cost $16,392,775) - 97.3% | | | 16,721,233 | |
Other assets and liabilities, net - 2.7% | | | 468,032 | |
Net Assets - 100% | | | $17,189,265 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Net Assets Consist Of: | | | | |
Paid-in capital applicable to 1,033,937 shares outstanding; $0.10 par value, 20,000,000 shares authorized | | | $28,257,621 | |
Undistributed net investment income | | | 3,165 | |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | | | (11,417,970) | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | | 346,449 | |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | $17,189,265 | |
| | | | |
Net Asset Value Per Share | | | $16.63 | |
Futures
| Number of Contracts | Expiration Date | Underlying Face Amount At Value | Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
Purchased: | | | | |
E-Mini NASDAQ 100# | 24 | 03/09 | $582,000 | $17,991 |
* Non-income producing security
# Futures collateralized by 90,000 units of U.S. Treasury Bills.
Abbreviations:
ADR: American Depositary Receipt
LP: Limited Partnership
See notes to financial statements.
NASDAQ-100 Index Portfolio
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2008
Net Investment Income | | |
Investment Income: | | |
Dividend income (net of foreign taxes withheld of $1,613) | | $135,798 |
Interest income | | 46,430 |
Total investment income | | 182,228 |
| | |
Expenses: | | |
Investment advisory fee | | 90,176 |
Transfer agency fees and expenses | | 16,605 |
Accounting fees | | 19,488 |
Directors' fees and expenses | | 4,408 |
Administrative fees | | 25,765 |
Custodian fees | | 13,433 |
Reports to shareholders | | 4,848 |
Professional fees | | 21,727 |
Miscellaneous | | 10,171 |
Total expenses | | 206,621 |
Reimbursement from advisor | | (39,150) |
Net expenses | | 167,471 |
| | |
Net Investment Income | | 14,757 |
| | |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | |
Investments | | (2,004,722) |
Futures | | (186,759) |
| | (2,191,481) |
| | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | |
Investments | | (10,857,442) |
Futures | | (4,500) |
| | (10,861,942) |
| | |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain | | |
(Loss) | | (13,053,423) |
| | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Resulting From Operations | | ($13,038,666) |
See notes to financial statements.
NASDAQ-100 Index Portfolio
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Year Ended | Year Ended | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2008 | 2007 | |
Operations: | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | $14,757 | ($1,925) | |
Net realized gain (loss) | | (2,191,481) | (450,352) | |
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) | | (10,861,942) | 5,372,837 | |
| | | | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Resulting From Operations | | (13,038,666) | 4,920,560 | |
| | | | |
Distributions to shareholders from: | | | | |
Net investment income | | (11,592) | (4,349) | |
Return of capital | | -- | (333,534) | |
Total distributions | | (11,592) | (337,883) | |
| | | | |
Capital share transactions: | | | | |
Shares sold | | 4,815,827 | 7,916,212 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 11,590 | 337,883 | |
Shares redeemed | | (7,409,885) | (6,123,115) | |
Total capital share transactions | | (2,582,468) | 2,130,980 | |
| | | | |
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | (15,632,726) | 6,713,657 | |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of year | | 32,821,991 | 26,108,334 | |
End of year (including undistributed net investment | | | | |
income of $3,165 and $0, respectively) | | $17,189,265 | $32,821,991 | |
| | | | |
Capital Share Activity | | | | |
Shares sold | | 217,395 | 293,096 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 703 | 13,419 | |
Shares redeemed | | (330,016) | (227,805) | |
Total capital share activity | | (111,918) | 78,710 | |
See notes to financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE A --- SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
General: The Summit NASDAQ-100 Index Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. (the "Fund") is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company. The Fund is comprised of thirteen separate portfolios. The operations of each series of the Fund are accounted for separately. The shares of the Portfolio are sold to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for allocation to certain of their variable separate accounts.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), an affiliated entity, whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business and became investment advisor for the portfolios of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Security Valuation: Net asset value per share is determined every business day as of the close of the regular session of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Portfolio uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Directors to value its investments wherever possible. Securities for which market quotations are available are valued at last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange in which they trade. Foreign securities are valued based on quotations from the principal market in which such securities are normally traded. If events occur after the close of the principal market in which foreign securities are traded, and before the close of business of the Portfolio, that are expected to materially affect the value of those securities, then they are valued at their fair value taking these events into account. Short-term notes are stated at amortized cost, which approximates fair value. The Portfolio may invest in securities whose resale is subject to restrictions. Investments for which market quotations are not available or deemed not reliable are fair valued in good faith under the direction of the Board of Directors.
In determining fair value, the Board considers all relevant qualitative and quantitative information available. These factors are subject to change over time and are reviewed periodically. The values assigned to fair value investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized. Further, because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, those estimated values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed, and the differences could be material. At December 31, 2008, no securities were fair valued under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Effective January 1, 2008, the Portfolio adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Portfolio's investments and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 -- quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 -- other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 -- significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy during the period. For additional information on the Portfolio's policy regarding valuation of investments, please refer to the Portfolio's most recent prospectus.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Portfolio's net assets as of December 31, 2008:
Valuation Inputs | Investments in Securities | Other Financial Instruments* |
Level 1 - Quoted Prices | $16,631,235 | $17,991 |
Level 2 - Other Significant Observable Inputs | 89,998 | -- |
Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs | -- | -- |
Total | $16,721,233 | $17,991 |
*Other financial instruments are derivative instruments not reflected in the Portfolio of Investments, such as futures, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
Security Transactions and Investment Income: Security transactions are accounted for on trade date. Realized gains and losses are recorded on an identified cost basis and may include proceeds from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date or, in the case of dividends on certain foreign securities, as soon as the Portfolio is informed of the ex-dividend date. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Interest income, which includes amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities, is accrued as earned. Withholding taxes on foreign dividends have been provided for in accordance with the Portfolio's understanding of the applicable country's tax rules and rates.
Futures Contracts: The Portfolio may enter into futures contracts agreeing to buy or sell a financial instrument for a set price at a future date. Initial margin deposits of either cash or securities as required by the broker are made upon entering into the contract. While the contract is open, daily variation margin payments are made to or received from the broker reflecting the daily change in market value of the contract and are recorded for financial reporting purposes as unrealized gains or losses by the Portfolio. When a futures contract is closed, a realized gain or loss is recorded equal to the difference between the opening and closing value of the contract. The risks associated with entering into futures contracts may include the possible illiquidity of the secondary market which would limit the Portfolio's ability to close out a futures contract prior to the settlement date, an imperfect correlation between the value of the contracts and the underlying financial instruments, or that the counter party will fail to perform its obligations under the contracts' terms.
Foreign Currency Transactions: The Portfolio's accounting records are maintained in U.S. dollars. For valuation of assets and liabilities on each date of net asset value determination, foreign denominations are converted into U.S. dollars using the current exchange rate. Security transactions, income and expenses are translated at the prevailing rate of exchange on the date of the event. The effect of changes in foreign exchange rates on securities is included with the net realized and unrealized gain or loss on investments.
Distributions to Shareholders: Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Portfolio on ex-dividend date. Dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains, if any, are paid at least annually. Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles; accordingly, periodic reclassifications are made within the Portfolio's capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution under income tax regulations.
Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Expense Offset Arrangements: The Portfolio has an arrangement with its custodian bank whereby the custodian's fees may be paid indirectly by credits earned on the Portfolio's cash on deposit with the bank. These credits are used to reduce the Portfolio's expenses. Such a deposit arrangement may be an alternative to overnight investments.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision for federal income or excise tax is required since the Portfolio intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code and to distribute substantially all of its taxable earnings.
The Portfolio is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The implementation of FIN 48 did not result in any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements or in any of the open tax years; thus, no provision for income tax is required. Each of the Portfolio's federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
Portfolio Securities Lending: During the year, the Portfolio lent its securities to approved borrowers to earn additional income and received cash and/or securities as collateral to secure the loans. The Securities Lending program ended in November 2008.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 161, "Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." The new standard is intended to improve financial reporting about derivative instruments and hedging activities by requiring enhanced disclosures to enable investors to better understand the effect on the Fund's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS No. 161 will have on the Fund's financial statements and related disclosures.
NOTE B -- RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") is wholly-owned by Calvert Group, Ltd. ("Calvert"), which is indirectly wholly owned by UNIFI Mutual Holding Company ("UNIFI"). The Advisor provides investment advisory services and pays the salaries and fees of officers and Directors of the Fund who are employees of the Advisor or its affiliates. For its services, the Advisor receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .35% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $2,774 was payable at year end. In addition, $1,818 was receivable from the advisor for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit Investment Partners, Inc., ("Summit") served as the Advisor. Summit is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Central Life Insurance Company, an indirect subsidiary of UNIFI Mutual Holding Company. Summit received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.35% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $2,247 was payable at year end. In addition, $10,353 was receivable from Summit for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008.
The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit net annual portfolio operating expenses through December 12, 2010. The contractual expense cap is .65%. For the purpose of this expense limit, operating expenses do not include interest expense, brokerage commissions, taxes and extraordinary expenses. To the extent any expense credits are earned, the Advisor's obligation under the contractual limitation may be reduced and the Advisor may benefit from the expense offset arrangement.
Calvert Administrative Services Company ("CASC"), an affiliate of the Advisor, provides administrative services for the Portfolio. For its services, CASC receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $793 was payable at year end. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit provided administrative services for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $642 was payable at year end.
Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. ("CSSI"), an affiliate of the Advisor, acts as shareholder servicing agent for the Portfolio. For its services, CSSI received a fee of $6 for the year ended December 31, 2008. Under the terms of the agreement, $6 was payable at year end. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. is the transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Prior to December 12, 2008, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC served as the transfer and dividend disbursing agent.
Each Director of the Fund who is not an employee of the Advisor or its affiliates receives a fee of $1,500 for each Board and Committee meeting attended plus an annual fee of $20,000 for Directors not serving on other Calvert Fund Boards, $8,000 for those serving on other Calvert Fund Boards. Director's fees are allocated to each of the portfolios served. Prior to December 12, 2008, each Director of the Fund who was not an employee of Summit or its affiliates received a fee of $2,500 for each Board meeting attended ($600 for Committee meetings) plus an annual fee of $17,000. Committee chairs and the Lead Director received additional fees for their service.
NOTE C -- INVESTMENT ACTIVITY
During the year, the cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investments, other than short-term securities were $2,987,793 and $5,621,688, respectively.
The cost of investments owned at December 31, 2008 for federal income tax purposes was $17,102,056. Net unrealized depreciation aggregated $380,823, of which $3,979,168 related to appreciated securities and $4,359,991 related to depreciated securities.
Net realized capital loss carryforwards for federal income tax purposes of $1,618,824, $3,618,754, $231,064, $139,726, $1,358,042, $708,047, $697,707, and $2,318,532 at December 31, 2008 may be utilized to offset future capital gains until expiration in December 2009, December 2010, December 2011, December 2012, December 2013, December 2014, December 2015 and December 2016, respectively.
The tax character of dividends and distributions paid during the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 was as follows:
Distributions paid from: | 2008 | 2007 |
Ordinary income | $11,592 | $4,349 |
Return of capital | -- | 333,534 |
Total | $11,592 | $337,883 |
As of December 31, 2008 the components of distributable earnings / (accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
Undistributed ordinary income | $3,165 |
Capital loss carryforward | (10,690,696) |
Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) | (380,823) |
| ($11,068,354) |
The differences between the components of distributable earnings on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the statement of net assets are primarily due to temporary book-tax differences that will reverse in a subsequent period. These differences are due to wash sales and Section 1256 contracts.
Reclassifications, as shown in the table below, have been made to the Portfolio's components of net assets to reflect income and gains available for distribution (or available capital loss carryovers, as applicable) under income tax law and regulations. These reclassifications are due to permanent book-tax differences and have no impact on net assets. The primary permanent differences causing such reclassifications for the Portfolio are due to expired capital losses.
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) | $905,274 |
Paid-in capital | (905,274) |
NOTE D - OTHER (Unaudited)
Change in Independent Accountant
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. ("Fund"). KPMG LLP was selected as the Fund's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the Fund's financial statements. The Fund's selection of KPMG as its independent accountant was recommended by the Fund's Audit Committee and was approved by the Fund's Board of Directors.
The reports on the financial statements audited by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2007 and prior for the Funds did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There were no disagreements between the Funds and Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused Deloitte to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements of such years. There were no reportable events as described in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of Item 304(a) of SEC Regulation S-K.
Tax Information (Unaudited)
For corporate shareholders, the Portfolio designates 100% of its ordinary dividends paid during the calendar year ended December 31, 2008, as qualifying for the corporate dividends received deduction.
Financial Highlights
| | | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | December 31, | |
NASDAQ-100 Index Portfolio | | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $28.64 | $24.47 | $22.97 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .03 | (.01) | .02 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (12.01) | 4.49 | 1.51 | |
Total from investment operations | | (11.98) | 4.48 | 1.53 | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (.03) | *** | (.03) | |
Return of capital | | -- | (.31) | -- | |
Total distributions | | (.03) | (.31) | (.03) | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (12.01) | 4.17 | 1.50 | |
Net asset value, ending | | $16.63 | $28.64 | $24.47 | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | (41.81%) | 18.50% | 6.67% | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .06% | (.01%) | .05% | |
Total expenses | | .80% | .71% | .76% | |
Expenses before offsets | | .65% | .65% | .65% | |
Net expenses | | .65% | .65% | .65% | |
Portfolio turnover | | 12% | 13% | 8% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $17,189 | $32,822 | $26,108 | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | | |
NASDAQ-100 Index Portfolio | | 2005 | 2004 | | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $22.81 | $20.72 | | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .02 | .12 | | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | .26 | 1.97 | | |
Total from investment operations | | .28 | 2.09 | | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (.12) | -- | | |
Total distributions | | (.12) | -- | | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | 0.16 | 2.09 | | |
Net asset value, ending | | $22.97 | $22.81 | | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | 1.30% | 10.09% | | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .09% | .61% | | |
Total expenses | | .76% | .79% | | |
Expenses before offsets | | .65% | .65% | | |
Net expenses | | .65% | .65% | | |
Portfolio turnover | | 14% | 4% | | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $26,330 | $27,607 | | |
A Total expenses do not reflect amounts reimbursed and/or waived by the Advisor or reductions from expense offset arrangements. Expenses before offsets reflect expenses after reimbursement and/or waiver by the Advisor but prior to reductions from expense offset arrangements. Net expenses are net of all reductions and represent the net expenses paid by the portfolio.
* Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year.
*** Amount is less than $0.005.
See notes to financial statements.
Explanation of Financial Tables
Schedule of Investments
The Schedule of Investments is a snapshot of all securities held in the fund at their market value, on the last day of the reporting period. Securities are listed by asset type (e.g., common stock, corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations) and may be further broken down into sub-groups and by industry classification.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities is often referred to as the fund's balance sheet. It lists the value of what the fund owns, is due and owes on the last day of the reporting period. The fund's assets include the market value of securities owned, cash, receivables for securities sold and shareholder subscriptions, and receivables for dividends and interest payments that have been earned, but not yet received. The fund's liabilities typically include payables for securities purchased and shareholder redemptions, and expenses owed but not yet paid. The statement also reports the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share on the last day of the reporting period. The NAV is calculated by dividing the fund's net assets (assets minus liabilities) by the number of shares outstanding. This statement is accompanied by a Schedule of Investments. Alternatively, if certain conditions are met, a Statement of Net Assets may be presented in lieu of this statement and the Schedule of Investments.
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets provides a detailed list of the fund's holdings, including each security's market value on the last day of the reporting period. The Statement of Net Assets includes a Schedule of Investments. Other assets are added and other liabilities subtracted from the investments total to calculate the fund's net assets. Finally, net assets are divided by the outstanding shares of the fund to arrive at its share price, or Net Asset Value (NAV) per share.
At the end of the Statement of Net Assets is a table displaying the composition of the fund's net assets. Paid in Capital is the money invested by shareholders and represents the bulk of net assets. Undistributed Net Investment Income and Accumulated Net Realized Gains usually approximate the amounts the fund had available to distribute to shareholders as of the statement date. Accumulated Realized Losses will appear as negative balances. Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) is the difference between the market value of the fund's investments and their cost, and reflects the gains (losses) that would be realized if the fund were to sell all of its investments at their statement-date values.
Statement of Operations
The Statement of Operations summarizes the fund's investment income earned and expenses incurred in operating the fund. Investment income includes dividends earned from stocks and interest earned from interest-bearing securities in the fund. Expenses incurred in operating the fund include the advisory fee paid to the investment advisor, administrative services fees, distribution plan expenses (if applicable), transfer agent fees, shareholder servicing expenses, custodial, legal, and audit fees, and the printing and postage expenses related to shareholder reports. Expense offsets (fees paid indirectly) are also shown. Credits earned from offset arrangements are used to reduce the fund's expenses. This statement also shows net gains (losses) realized on the sale of investments and the increase or decrease in the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments held during the period.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
The Statement of Changes in Net Assets shows how the fund's total net assets changed during the two most recent reporting periods. Changes in the fund's net assets are attributable to investment operations, distributions and capital share transactions.
The Operations section of the report summarizes information detailed in the Statement of Operations. The Distribution section shows the dividend and capital gain distributions made to shareholders. The amounts shown as distributions in this section may not match the net investment income and realized gains amounts shown in the Operations section because distributions are determined on a tax basis and certain investments or transactions may be treated differently for financial statement and tax purposes. The Capital Share Transactions section shows the amount shareholders invested in the fund, either by purchasing shares or by reinvesting distributions, and the amounts redeemed. The corresponding numbers of shares issued, reinvested and redeemed are shown at the end of the report.
Financial Highlights
The Financial Highlights table provides a per-share breakdown by class of the components that affect the fund's net asset value for current and past reporting periods. The table provides total return, total distributions, expense ratios, portfolio turnover and net assets for the applicable period. Total return is a measure of a fund's performance that encompasses all elements of return: dividends, capital gain distributions and changes in net asset value. Total return is the change in value of an investment over a given period, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and capital gain distributions, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment. Total distributions include distributions from net investment income and net realized gains. Long-term gains are earned on securities held in the fund more than one year. Short-term gains, on the sale of securities held less than one year, are treated as ordinary dividend income for tax purposes. The expense ratio is a fund's cost of doing business, expres sed as a percentage of net assets. These expenses directly reduce returns to shareholders. Portfolio turnover measures the trading activity in a fund's investment portfolio -- how often securities are bought and sold by a fund. Portfolio turnover is affected by market conditions, changes in the size of the fund, the nature of the fund's investments and the investment style of the portfolio manager.
Proxy Voting
The Proxy Voting Guidelines that the Portfolio uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities are provided as an Appendix to the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. The Statement of Additional Information can be obtained free of charge by calling the Fund at 1-800-368-2745 or by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available by calling the Fund or visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Form N-Q is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's Form N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC; information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
This report is intended to provide fund information to shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.
Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract
At a meeting held on December 4, 2008, the Board of Directors, and by a separate vote, the disinterested Directors, initially approved the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Portfolio and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Advisor and Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit" or the "Subadvisor") with respect to the Portfolio.
At the December 4, 2008 meeting, and in connection with the Advisor's impending purchase of the mutual fund business of Summit, the Board, effective as of December 12, 2008, terminated the Portfolio's current investment advisory agreement with Summit and approved the selection of the Advisor and Summit as investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively, to the Portfolio. In evaluating the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered a variety of information relating to the Portfolio and the Advisor. The disinterested Directors reviewed a report prepared by the Advisor regarding various services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and its affiliates.
The disinterested Directors were separately represented by independent legal counsel with respect to their consideration of the approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. Prior to voting, the disinterested Directors reviewed the proposed approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and Investment Subadvisory Agreement with management and also met in private sessions with their counsel at which no representatives of management were present.
In the course of its deliberations regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered the following factors, among others: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor, including the personnel who would be providing such services; the Advisor's financial condition; the level and method of computing the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee; performance, fee and expense information for the Portfolio; the profitability of the Calvert Group of Funds to the Advisor; the Advisor's process for monitoring "best execution"; the direct and indirect benefits, if any, to be derived by the Advisor from its relationship with the Portfolio; the effect of the Portfolio's growth and size on the Portfolio's performance and expenses; the Advisor's compliance programs and policies; the Advisor's performance of substantially similar duties for other funds; and any possible conflicts of interest.
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board reviewed information provided by the Advisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Advisor's operations and personnel, including, among other information, biographical information on the Advisor's supervisory and professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. The Board also took into account similar information provided periodically throughout the previous year by the Advisor as well as the Board's familiarity with the Advisor's management through Board of Directors' meetings, discussions and other reports. The Board considered the Advisor's current level of staffing and overall resources. The Advisor's administrative capabilities, including its ability to supervise the other service providers for the Portfolio, were also considered. The Board discussed the Advisor 's effectiveness in monitoring the performance of other funds' subadvisors and the Advisor's timeliness in responding to performance issues with respect to those funds. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement.
In considering the Portfolio's performance, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board noted the Portfolio's performance year to date through December 2, 2008. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Subadvisor became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Portfolio's performance was satisfactory.
In considering the Portfolio's fees and expenses, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's fees and expenses. The Board noted that the Portfolio would pay the same advisory fee to the Advisor as it currently paid to Summit. The Board took into account that the Advisor had agreed to limit the Portfolio's net annual operating expenses through December 12, 2010 to the level in effect for the Portfolio on November 30, 2008. The Board also considered the impact of the size of the Portfolio on its expenses. The Board noted that the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee with respect to the Portfolio. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed advisory fee was reasonable in view of the quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and the other factors considered.
The Board reviewed the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio. In reviewing the anticipated profitability of the advisory fee to the Advisor, the Board also considered the fact that affiliates would provide shareholder servicing and administrative services to the Portfolio for which they would receive compensation. The Board also considered whether the Advisor had the financial wherewithal to provide a high level of services to the Portfolio. The Board also considered that the Advisor would likely derive benefits to its reputation and other indirect benefits from its relationship with the Portfolio. The Board noted that the Advisor had agreed to reimburse expenses of the Portfolio above a certain level and also would pay the subadvisory fee to the Subadvisor. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was reasonable.
The Board considered the effect of the Portfolio's current size and potential growth on its performance and expenses. The Board noted that if the Portfolio's assets increased over time, the Portfolio might realize other economies of scale if assets increased proportionately more than certain other expenses. The Board took into account that the Portfolio might achieve operational efficiencies by joining the Calvert Group of Funds. The Board concluded that adding breakpoints to the advisory fee at specified asset levels was not appropriate given the Portfolio's current size.
In approving the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
In evaluating the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the disinterested Directors considered information provided by the Subadvisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Subadvisor's operations, personnel, investment philosophy, strategies and techniques. Among other information, the Subadvisor provided biographical information on portfolio management and other professional staff, performance information for itself, and descriptions of its investment philosophies, strategies and techniques, organizational and management structures and brokerage policies and practices.
The Board approved the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Subadvisor and the Advisor based on a number of factors relating to the Subadvisor's ability to perform under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. In the course of its deliberations, the Board evaluated, among other factors: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Subadvisor; the Subadvisor's management style and long-term performance record; the Portfolio's performance record and the Subadvisor's performance in employing its investment strategies; the Subadvisor's current level of staffing and its overall resources; the qualifications and experience of the Subadvisor's personnel; the Subadvisor's financial condition with respect to its ability to perform the services required under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement; the Subadvisor's compliance systems, including those related to personal investing; and any disciplinary history. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that it was satisfied with the natu re, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Subadvisor under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement.
As noted above, the Board considered the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team that was currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Summit became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. The Board also took into account the expertise and resources the Advisor would devote to monitoring the performance, investment style and risk adjusted performance of the Subadvisor.
In considering the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor of its relationship with the Portfolio, the Board noted that the Advisor and Subadvisor were affiliated and the proposed subadvisory fee under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be paid by the Advisor out of the advisory fee that the Advisor would receive under the Investment Advisory Agreement. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed subadvisory fee was reasonable. Because the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee, the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor from its relationship with the Portfolio were not material factors in the Board's deliberations. For similar reasons, the Board did not consider the potential economies of scale in the Subadvisor's management of the Portfolio to be a material factor in its consideration.
In approving the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
Conclusions
The Board reached the following conclusions regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, among others: (a) the Advisor has demonstrated that it possesses the capability and resources to perform the duties required of it under the Investment Advisory Agreement; (b) the Subadvisor is qualified to manage the Portfolio's assets in accordance with the Portfolio's investment objective and policies; (c) the Advisor and Subadvisor maintain appropriate compliance programs; (d) the Subadvisor is likely to execute its investment strategies consistently over time; (e) performance of the Portfolio is satisfactory in relation to relevant indices; and (f) the Portfolio's proposed advisory and subadvisory fees are reasonable in relation to the services to be provided by the Advisor and the Subadvisor. Based on its conclusions, the Board determined that approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be in the interests of the Portfo lio and its shareholders and that the Subadvisor's service as subadvisor to the Portfolio did not involve a conflict of interest from which the Advisor or Subadvisor would derive an inappropriate advantage.
Director and Officer Information Table
Name & Age | Position with Fund
| Position Start Date
| Principal Occupation During Last 5 Years | (Not Applicable to Officers) |
# of Calvert Portfolios Overseen | Other Directorships |
Independent Directors |
FRANK H. BLATZ, JR., Esq. AGE: 73 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Of counsel to firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. Mr. Blatz was an attorney in private practice in Fanwood, NJ from 1999 to 2004. | 27 | |
ALICE GRESHAM AGE: 58 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean and Professor at Howard University School of Law. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. | 28 | - Council on Legal Education Opportunity
- North Country School
|
M. CHARITO KRUVANT AGE: 63 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | President and CEO of Creative Associates International, Inc., a firm that specializes in human resources development, information management, public affairs and private enterprise development. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Foundation
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
|
CYNTHIA MILLIGAN AGE: 62 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Formerly, she was the President and Chief Executive Officer for CMA, a consulting firm for financial institutions. | 28 | - Wells Fargo Company- NYSE
- Gallup, Inc.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Raven Industries - NASDAQ
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Non-Profit)
- Prison Fellowship Ministries (Non-Profit)
|
ARTHUR J. PUGH AGE: 71 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Retired executive. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
|
Interested Directors |
BARBARA J. KRUMSIEK AGE: 56 | Director & Chair-person | 1997 CVS 2008 Summit | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Calvert Group, Ltd. | 58 | - Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Acacia Life Insurance Company (Chair)
- UNIFI Mutual Holding Company
- Ameritas Holding Company
|
WILLIAM LESTER AGE: 51 | Director & President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | President, CEO and Treasurer of Summit Investment Advisors, Inc. | 27 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Investment Advisors, Inc.
- Ameritas Investment Corp.
|
Officers |
KAREN BECKER AGE: 56 | Chief Compliance Officer | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Chief Compliance Officer for the Calvert Funds. Prior to 2005, Ms. Becker was Senior Vice President of Calvert Group, Ltd. and Head of Calvert Client Services. |
SUSAN WALKER BENDER, Esq. AGE: 50 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1988 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
THOMAS DAILEY AGE: 44 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
IVY WAFFORD DUKE, Esq. AGE: 40 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd., and since 2004, Chief Compliance Officer for Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
TRACI L. GOLDT AGE: 35 | Assistant Secretary | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Executive Assistant to General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
GREGORY B. HABEEB AGE: 59 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
DANIEL K. HAYES AGE: 58 | Vice President | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
HUI PING HO, CPA Age: 44 | Assistant Treasurer | 2000 CVS 2008 Summit | Tax Compliance Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
LANCELOT A. KING, Esq. AGE: 38 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2002 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
EDITH LILLIE AGE: 52 | Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Secretary and Regulatory Matters Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
AUGUSTO DIVO MACEDO, Esq. AGE: 46 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, and Associate Counsel Compliance Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Mr. Macedo served as 2nd Vice President at Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Advisors Group, Acacia's broker-dealer and federally registered investment adviser. |
JANE B. MAXWELL Esq. AGE: 56 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Maxwell was an associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP. |
ANDREW K. NIEBLER, Esq. AGE: 41 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2006 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Niebler was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. |
CATHERINE P. ROY AGE: 53 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Roy was Senior Vice President of US Fixed Income for Baring Asset Management, and SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager of Scudder Insurance Asset Management. |
WILLIAM M. TARTIKOFF, Esq. AGE: 61 | Vice President & Secretary | 1990 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
NATALIE TRUNOW AGE: 41 | Vice President | 2008 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc., Head of Equities. Prior to joining Calvert in August 2008, Ms. Trunow was the Section Head (2005-2008) and Portfolio Manager (2001-2008) for the Global Public Markets Group of General Motors Asset Management. |
RONALD M. WOLFSHEIMER, CPA AGE: 56 | Treasurer | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
MICHAEL V. YUHAS JR., CPA AGE: 47 | Fund Controller | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Fund Administration of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
The address of Directors and Officers is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 1000N, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Ms. Krumsiek is an interested person of the Fund since she is an officer and director of the Fund's Advisor and its affiliates. Mr. Lester is an interested person of the Fund since he is an officer and director of the parent company of the Fund's Advisor.
Additional information about the Fund's Directors can be found in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). You can get a free copy of the SAI by contacting your broker, or the Fund at 1-800-368-2745.
Shareholder Meeting Results
A special shareholder meeting was held on December 5, 2008, by the Summit Nasdaq-100 Index Portfolio of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. for the purpose of considering and voting on the issues below. The voting results were as follows:
- To approve an Investment Advisory Agreement with Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
815,325.918 | 58,369.568 | 171,069.814 |
- To approve an Investment Subadvisory Agreement with Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
755,433.079 | 62,837.163 | 226,495.058 |
- To elect the Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Name of Director | For | Withhold |
Frank H. Blatz, Jr. | 961,328.719 | 83,436.581 |
Alice Gresham | 961,512.143 | 83,253.157 |
Barbara J. Krumsiek | 961,512.143 | 83,253.157 |
M. Charito Kruvant | 961,886.428 | 82,878.872 |
William Lester | 957,956.369 | 86,808.931 |
Cynthia Milligan | 961,512.143 | 83,253.157 |
Arthur J. Pugh | 961,886.428 | 82,878.872 |
- To ratify the selection of auditors, KPMG, LLP for the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
969,331.884 | 54,023.079 | 21,410.337 |
5. To authorize the Board of Directors of the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. to enter into and materially amend agreements with investment subadvisors on behalf of the Funds without obtaining shareholder approval.
For | Against | Abstain |
925,652.835 | 103,320.257 | 15,792.208 |
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Summit Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Portfolio
Annual Report
December 31, 2008
Summit Mutual Funds
Calvert
Investments That Make A Difference
A UNIFI Company
Summit Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Portfolio
Annual Report, December 31, 2008
Table Of Contents
3 | Portfolio Manager Remarks |
5 | Shareholder Expense Example |
6 | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
7 | Statement of Net Assets |
45 | Statement of Operations |
46 | Statements of Changes in Net Assets |
47 | Notes to Financial Statements |
52 | Financial Highlights |
54 | Explanation of Financial Tables |
55 | Proxy Voting and Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings |
56 | Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract |
59 | Director and Officer Information Table |
Summit Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Portfolio
Managed by Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
Performance
For the 12 months ended December 31, 2008, the Summit Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Portfolio Class I shares returned -33.95% compared to a return of -33.79% for the benchmark Russell 2000® Total Return Index. As an index fund, the Portfolio uses a passive management approach and seeks, as closely as possible, to replicate the holdings and match the performance of the Index, before fees and expenses. The difference in return of -0.16% is largely attributable to the Portfolio's fees and operating expenses, including advisory, administration, custody, and accounting costs.
Summit Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Portfolio*
Comparison of change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment.
Average Annual Total Return
(period ended 12.31.08)
| Class I | Class F** |
One year | (33.95%) | (34.05%) |
Five year | (1.44%) | (1.63%) |
Since inception (4.27.00) | 1.04% | 0.60% |
*Performance information is for the Portfolio only and does not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
** Prior to October 4, 2005, Class F share performance is based on Class I performance, adjusted to reflect Class F expenses.
Past performance does not indicate future results.
Investment Climate
Not surprising to investors or the markets, the U.S. was officially declared to have been in a recession since December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the standard arbiter of the U.S. business cycle. The U.S. economy is embroiled in a severe downturn, made much worse by the credit crunch and dramatic decline in economic activity that has spread around the globe.
The financial markets had a tough year, with the overall benchmark for U.S. stocks, the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 Index, down 37.00%, its worst year since 1931. It did rally 20% after reaching its low for the reporting period on November 20, but the financial markets continued to be rocked by company and industry declines and financial scandals. Small-cap stocks fared best in this abysmally negative environment (at -33.79%), with large-cap stocks trailing (at -37.60%) and mid-caps doing the worst (at -41.46%).1
The year ended bleakly with a slowing economy, rising unemployment, falling industrial orders, weakening consumer confidence--and a deepening credit crunch and recessionary pressures worldwide. The positive news was that inflation began to fall, largely due to the sharp decline in commodity prices. Oil, which hit $146 per barrel over the summer, ended the year at $43.
Portfolio Strategy
As a passively managed index fund, the Portfolio largely invests in stocks in the Russell 2000 Index, which is composed of approximately 2,000 stocks of smaller U.S. companies. This passive strategy also seeks to limit transaction costs and portfolio turnover.
In terms of sector allocations, as of year-end, the Russell 2000 Index was most heavily weighted in the Financials sector (at 23.67%), followed by Industrials (at 17.13%), and Information Technology (at 15.36%).
Looking at performance contribution, all sectors declined 10% or more in 2008, reflecting the general malaise of the overall market. The three best-performing sectors of the Russell 2000 Index were Utilities (at -11.24%), Consumer Staples (at -19.36%), and, perhaps surprisingly, Financials (at -23.80%). Utilities and Consumer Staples are traditionally defensive sectors as they are less exposed to the deteriorating economy. The Financials sector did relatively well as investors shifted their allocations from the troubled, large-cap financial firms to less problematic mid-cap and small-cap financial companies. The three worst-performing sectors of the Russell 2000 Index were Energy (at -49.19%), Telecommunication Services (at -49.19%), and Consumer Discretionary (at -47.31%).
Economic Sectors | % of Total Investments |
| |
Consumer Discretionary | 11.0% |
Consumer Staples | 3.9% |
Energy | 4.4% |
Financials | 23.2% |
Healthcare | 15.2% |
Industrials | 16.8% |
Information Technology | 15.8% |
Materials | 3.7% |
Telecommunications Services | 1.2% |
Utilities | 4.4% |
U.S. Treasury | 0.4% |
Total | 100% |
Outlook
At the end of December, markets had a "relief" rally despite the bad economic news, with higher-beta (riskier) markets and sectors rebounding the most. This positive trend may emerge when markets shrug off negative news and trend higher. December certainly qualifies since markets closed higher on the month, despite negative job, earnings, and housing reports. If the trend continues, we may see more of a relief rally in the short-term. However, judging by Wall Street analyst consensus earnings forecasts for 2009, earnings expectations are still too positive and too optimistic for the year and in disconnect with a decelerating real economy.
We believe earnings expectations will have to come down further, especially since firms' capital expenditures on equipment and property (i.e., Capex) continued to decelerate and manufacturing activity contracted at a faster pace at year-end--all of which are likely to negatively impact business investment in 2009. This means that, if the markets pay attention to earnings in 2009, we may see additional volatility in the equity markets.
Looking ahead, we are in uncharted territory when we consider incoming economic data, fiscal and monetary government stimulus, and the response of global financial markets. While the near-term outlook for the markets and economy is likely to remain volatile and unpredictable as the housing and credit crisis further unwinds, there are longer-term measures in place that may help move eventual recovery forward. For example, the U.S. stimulus package already in place, combined with the Obama administration's economic recovery program, may set the stage for an eventual recovery in the U.S. economy. In addition, along with the U.S., governments in Europe and Asia are taking concerted action to bolster their economies. Patience will be required, however, as this recession seems destined to be deep and long.
January 2009
1. Performance is represented by the Russell Midcap Index for mid-cap stocks, Russell 1000 Index for large-cap stocks, and Russell 2000 Index for small-cap stocks.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008).
Note: Expenses do not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare the 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Beginning Account Value 7/1/08 | Ending Account Value 12/31/08 | Expenses Paid During Period* 7/1/08 - 12/31/08 |
| | | |
Class I | | | |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $729.60 | $3.30 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,021.32 | $3.86 |
| | | |
Class F | | | |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $728.90 | $4.14 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,020.35 | $4.83 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio of 0.76% and 0.95%,respectively, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/366.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Shareholders of Summit Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Portfolio:
We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets of the Summit Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Portfolio (the Portfolio), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., as of December 31, 2008, and the related statements of operations, changes in net assets and the financial highlights for the year then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audit. The accompanying financial statements and financial highlights of the Portfolio for the periods presented through December 31, 2007 were audited by other auditors whose report thereon dated February 22, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2008, by correspondence with custodians and brokers. As to securities purchased or sold but not yet received or delivered, we performed other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Summit Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Portfolio as of December 31, 2008, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
KPMG LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2009
Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Portfolio
Statement of Net Assets
December 31, 2008
Equity Securities - 96.2% | Shares | Value |
Aerospace & Defense - 2.0% | | |
AAR Corp.* | 2,939 | $54,107 |
Aerovironment, Inc.* | 817 | 30,074 |
American Science & Engineering, Inc. | 688 | 50,885 |
Applied Signal Technology, Inc. | 1,004 | 18,012 |
Argon ST, Inc.* | 1,043 | 19,671 |
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.* | 595 | 2,237 |
Axsys Technologies, Inc.* | 662 | 36,317 |
Ceradyne, Inc.* | 1,989 | 40,397 |
Cubic Corp. | 1,242 | 33,782 |
Curtiss-Wright Corp. | 3,382 | 112,925 |
Ducommun, Inc. | 842 | 14,061 |
DynCorp International, Inc.* | 1,972 | 29,915 |
Esterline Technologies Corp.* | 2,212 | 83,813 |
GenCorp, Inc.* | 4,542 | 16,715 |
HEICO Corp. | 1,674 | 65,001 |
Herley Industries, Inc.* | 1,076 | 13,213 |
Hexcel Corp.* | 7,265 | 53,688 |
Ladish Co., Inc.* | 1,161 | 16,080 |
LMI Aerospace, Inc.* | 692 | 7,868 |
Moog, Inc.* | 3,219 | 117,719 |
Orbital Sciences Corp.* | 4,429 | 86,498 |
Stanley, Inc.* | 704 | 25,499 |
Taser International, Inc.* | 4,987 | 26,331 |
Teledyne Technologies, Inc.* | 2,670 | 118,949 |
TransDigm Group, Inc.* | 2,517 | 84,496 |
Triumph Group, Inc. | 1,247 | 52,948 |
| | 1,211,201 |
| | |
Air Freight & Logistics - 0.3% | | |
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc.* | 1,005 | 18,995 |
Dynamex, Inc.* | 725 | 10,694 |
Forward Air Corp. | 2,184 | 53,006 |
HUB Group, Inc.* | 2,796 | 74,178 |
Pacer International, Inc. | 2,628 | 27,410 |
Park-Ohio Holdings Corp.* | 651 | 4,017 |
| | 188,300 |
| | |
Airlines - 1.0% | | |
Airtran Holdings, Inc.* | 9,320 | 41,381 |
Alaska Air Group, Inc.* | 2,713 | 79,355 |
Allegiant Travel Co.* | 1,028 | 49,930 |
Hawaiian Holdings, Inc.* | 3,167 | 20,205 |
JetBlue Airways Corp.* | 13,078 | 92,854 |
Republic Airways Holdings, Inc.* | 2,785 | 29,716 |
Skywest, Inc. | 4,416 | 82,138 |
UAL Corp. | 9,503 | 104,723 |
US Airways Group, Inc.* | 8,629 | 66,702 |
| | 567,004 |
| | |
Auto Components - 0.4% | | |
American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. | 3,670 | 10,606 |
Amerigon, Inc.* | 1,764 | 5,751 |
ArvinMeritor, Inc. | 5,568 | 15,869 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Auto Components - Cont'd | | |
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. | 4,451 | $27,418 |
Dana Holding Corp.* | 7,887 | 5,836 |
Dorman Products, Inc.* | 875 | 11,550 |
Drew Industries, Inc.* | 1,570 | 18,840 |
Exide Technologies* | 5,697 | 30,137 |
Fuel Systems Solutions, Inc.* | 914 | 29,943 |
Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc.* | 7,710 | 3,470 |
Lear Corp.* | 5,107 | 7,201 |
Modine Manufacturing Co. | 2,571 | 12,521 |
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc.* | 5,527 | 4,698 |
Raser Technologies, Inc.* | 3,590 | 13,606 |
Spartan Motors, Inc. | 2,476 | 11,711 |
Stoneridge, Inc.* | 1,166 | 5,317 |
Superior Industries International, Inc. | 1,837 | 19,325 |
Tenneco, Inc.* | 3,714 | 10,956 |
Visteon Corp.* | 10,425 | 3,649 |
Wonder Auto Technology, Inc.* | 1,171 | 4,590 |
| | 252,994 |
| | |
Automobiles - 0.0% | | |
Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc.* | 9,766 | 977 |
Winnebago Industries | 2,287 | 13,790 |
| | 14,767 |
| | |
Beverages - 0.1% | | |
Boston Beer Co., Inc.* | 659 | 18,716 |
Coca Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated | 327 | 15,029 |
National Beverage Corp.* | 857 | 7,713 |
| | 41,458 |
| | |
Biotechnology - 4.4% | | |
Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 2,404 | 2,164 |
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc.* | 2,801 | 57,448 |
Affymax, Inc.* | 836 | 8,352 |
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 5,893 | 213,268 |
Alkermes, Inc.* | 7,227 | 76,968 |
Allos Therapeutics, Inc.* | 4,221 | 25,833 |
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 2,695 | 66,647 |
Amicus Therapeutics, Inc.* | 333 | 2,657 |
Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 5,884 | 24,536 |
Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 5,295 | 4,501 |
Arqule, Inc.* | 2,994 | 12,635 |
Array Biopharma, Inc.* | 3,610 | 14,621 |
Celera Corp.* | 6,049 | 67,325 |
Cell Genesys, Inc.* | 6,842 | 1,505 |
Celldex Therapeutics, Inc.* | 1,190 | 9,425 |
Cepheid, Inc.* | 4,294 | 44,572 |
Cougar Biotechnology, Inc.* | 1,128 | 29,328 |
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 4,263 | 102,994 |
CV Therapeutics, Inc.* | 4,578 | 42,163 |
Cytokinetics, Inc.* | 2,652 | 7,558 |
Cytori Therapeutics, Inc.* | 1,587 | 5,729 |
Dendreon Corp.* | 7,042 | 32,252 |
Dyax Corp.* | 4,431 | 16,129 |
Emergent Biosolutions, Inc.* | 1,079 | 28,173 |
Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 3,565 | 20,784 |
Facet Biotech Corp.* | 1,805 | 17,310 |
Genomic Health, Inc.* | 1,110 | 21,623 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Biotechnology - Cont'd | | |
Geron Corp.* | 6,208 | $28,991 |
GTx, Inc.* | 1,485 | 25,007 |
Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc.* | 4,606 | 25,794 |
Human Genome Sciences, Inc.* | 10,234 | 21,696 |
Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 1,994 | 11,545 |
Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 1,638 | 12,580 |
Immunogen, Inc.* | 3,843 | 16,486 |
Immunomedics, Inc.* | 5,207 | 8,852 |
Incyte Corp Ltd.* | 5,745 | 21,774 |
Indevus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 6,176 | 19,393 |
InterMune, Inc.* | 2,388 | 25,265 |
Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 6,829 | 96,835 |
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 6,399 | 8,959 |
Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Class B* | 6,547 | 17,939 |
MannKind Corp.* | 4,069 | 13,957 |
Marshall Edwards, Inc.* | 1,542 | 1,079 |
Martek Biosciences Corp.* | 2,488 | 75,411 |
Maxygen, Inc.* | 2,071 | 18,473 |
Medarex, Inc.* | 9,644 | 53,814 |
Metabolix, Inc.* | 1,513 | 19,245 |
Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 1,409 | 6,059 |
Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 1,956 | 22,690 |
Myriad Genetics, Inc.* | 3,424 | 226,874 |
Nabi Biopharmaceuticals* | 4,129 | 13,832 |
Nanosphere, Inc.* | 1,028 | 4,893 |
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.* | 2,921 | 9,347 |
Novavax, Inc.* | 4,156 | 7,855 |
NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 3,762 | 23,362 |
Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 4,201 | 143,506 |
Opko Health, Inc.* | 3,824 | 6,195 |
Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc.* | 1,597 | 8,911 |
OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 4,322 | 168,774 |
Osiris Therapeutics, Inc.* | 1,190 | 22,800 |
PDL BioPharma, Inc. | 9,026 | 55,781 |
Pharmasset, Inc.* | 1,247 | 16,348 |
Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 2,122 | 21,878 |
Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc.* | 859 | 1,581 |
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 4,687 | 86,053 |
Repligen Corp.* | 2,475 | 9,355 |
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 2,327 | 2,071 |
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 2,762 | 22,096 |
Sangamo Biosciences, Inc.* | 2,918 | 10,155 |
Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 4,105 | 23,768 |
Seattle Genetics, Inc.* | 4,582 | 40,963 |
Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp.* | 1,334 | 8,164 |
Targacept, Inc.* | 1,445 | 5,144 |
Theravance, Inc.* | 3,910 | 48,445 |
United Therapeutics Corp.* | 1,703 | 106,523 |
XOMA Ltd.* | 10,163 | 6,301 |
Zymogenetics, Inc.* | 2,991 | 8,973 |
| | 2,618,292 |
| | |
Building Products - 0.6% | | |
AAON, Inc. | 1,069 | 22,321 |
American Woodmark Corp. | 839 | 15,295 |
Ameron International Corp. | 695 | 43,729 |
Apogee Enterprises, Inc. | 2,305 | 23,880 |
Builders FirstSource, Inc.* | 1,267 | 1,938 |
China Architectural Engineering, Inc.* | 1,486 | 3,655 |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Building Products - Cont'd | | |
Gibraltar Industries, Inc. | 2,143 | $25,587 |
Griffon Corp.* | 3,464 | 32,319 |
INSTEEL INDUSTRIES, Inc. | 1,409 | 15,908 |
NCI Building Systems, Inc.* | 1,492 | 24,319 |
Quanex Building Products Corp. | 2,818 | 26,405 |
Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc. | 2,818 | 78,228 |
Trex Co., Inc.* | 1,210 | 19,917 |
Universal Forest Products, Inc. | 1,258 | 33,853 |
| | 367,354 |
| | |
Capital Markets - 1.8% | | |
Apollo Investment Corp. | 10,776 | 100,325 |
Ares Capital Corp. | 7,352 | 46,538 |
BGC Partners, Inc. | 2,668 | 7,364 |
BlackRock Kelso Capital Corp. | 1,036 | 10,215 |
BROADPOINT SECS GROUP, Inc.* | 1,926 | 5,720 |
Calamos Asset Management, Inc. | 1,628 | 12,047 |
Capital Southwest Corp. | 243 | 26,283 |
Cohen & Steers, Inc. | 1,346 | 14,793 |
Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. | 164 | 10,660 |
Epoch Holding Corp. | 804 | 6,102 |
Evercore Partners, Inc. | 786 | 9,817 |
FBR Capital Markets Corp.* | 2,395 | 11,640 |
FCStone Group, Inc.* | 1,809 | 8,014 |
GAMCO Investors, Inc. | 604 | 16,501 |
GFI Group, Inc. | 5,267 | 18,645 |
Gladstone Capital Corp. | 1,681 | 13,599 |
Gladstone Investment Corp. | 1,760 | 8,642 |
Greenhill & Co., Inc. | 1,310 | 91,399 |
Harris & Harris Group, Inc.* | 1,858 | 7,339 |
Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. | 2,554 | 20,228 |
International Assets Holding Corp.* | 337 | 2,891 |
Kayne Anderson Energy Development Co. | 801 | 6,016 |
KBW, Inc.* | 1,975 | 45,425 |
Knight Capital Group, Inc.* | 7,105 | 114,746 |
Kohlberg Capital Corp. | 1,379 | 5,020 |
LaBranche & Co., Inc.* | 4,089 | 19,586 |
Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, Inc.* | 7,786 | 5,606 |
MCG Capital Corp. | 6,026 | 4,278 |
MVC Capital, Inc. | 1,867 | 20,481 |
NGP Capital Resources Co. | 1,724 | 14,430 |
optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. | 3,204 | 42,805 |
Patriot Capital Funding, Inc. | 1,602 | 5,831 |
PennantPark Investment Corp. | 1,679 | 6,061 |
Penson Worldwide, Inc.* | 1,340 | 10,211 |
Piper Jaffray Cos* | 1,413 | 56,181 |
Prospect Capital Corp. | 2,094 | 25,065 |
Pzena Investment Management, Inc. | 491 | 2,072 |
Riskmetrics Group, Inc.* | 1,617 | 24,077 |
SANDERS MORRIS HARRIS GROUP, Inc. | 1,551 | 9,290 |
Stifel Financial Corp.* | 1,966 | 90,141 |
SWS Group, Inc. | 1,940 | 36,763 |
thinkorswim Group, Inc.* | 4,030 | 22,649 |
Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc.* | 1,424 | 6,721 |
TradeStation Group, Inc.* | 2,561 | 16,518 |
US Global Investors, Inc. | 1,009 | 4,934 |
Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. | 428 | 12,160 |
| | 1,055,829 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Chemicals - 1.6% | | |
American Vanguard Corp. | 1,505 | $17,609 |
Arch Chemicals, Inc. | 1,882 | 49,064 |
Balchem Corp. | 1,369 | 34,102 |
Calgon Carbon Corp.* | 3,083 | 47,355 |
Ferro Corp. | 3,303 | 23,286 |
Flotek Industries, Inc.* | 1,806 | 4,551 |
GenTek, Inc.* | 715 | 10,761 |
H.B. Fuller Co. | 3,667 | 59,075 |
ICO, Inc.* | 2,207 | 6,974 |
Innophos Holdings, Inc. | 833 | 16,502 |
Innospec, Inc. | 1,864 | 10,979 |
Koppers Holdings, Inc. | 1,580 | 34,160 |
Landec Corp.* | 1,849 | 12,166 |
LSB Industries, Inc.* | 1,385 | 11,523 |
Minerals Technologies, Inc. | 1,426 | 58,323 |
NewMarket Corp. | 1,015 | 35,434 |
NL Industries, Inc. | 532 | 7,129 |
Olin Corp. | 5,645 | 102,062 |
OM Group, Inc.* | 2,309 | 48,743 |
Penford Corp. | 895 | 9,057 |
PolyOne Corp.* | 7,063 | 22,248 |
Quaker Chemical Corp. | 819 | 13,473 |
Rockwood Holdings, Inc.* | 3,154 | 34,063 |
Schulman A, Inc. | 2,048 | 34,816 |
Sensient Technologies Corp. | 3,633 | 86,756 |
ShengdaTech, Inc.* | 2,402 | 8,455 |
Solutia, Inc.* | 7,148 | 32,166 |
Spartech Corp. | 2,435 | 15,243 |
Stepan Co. | 506 | 23,777 |
Westlake Chemical Corp. | 1,528 | 24,891 |
WR Grace & Co.* | 5,455 | 32,566 |
Zep, Inc. | 1,666 | 32,170 |
Zoltek Cos, Inc.* | 2,193 | 19,715 |
| | 979,194 |
| | |
Commercial Banks - 7.8% | | |
1st Source Corp. | 1,189 | 28,096 |
Amcore Financial, Inc. | 1,582 | 5,727 |
Ameris Bancorp | 1,081 | 12,810 |
Ames National Corp. | 514 | 13,642 |
Arrow Financial Corp. | 728 | 18,302 |
Bancfirst Corp. | 557 | 29,476 |
Banco Latinoamericano de Exportaciones SA | 2,174 | 31,219 |
BancTrust Financial Group, Inc. | 1,398 | 20,634 |
Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. | 986 | 29,225 |
Banner Corp. | 1,191 | 11,207 |
Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. | 4,124 | 28,208 |
Bryn Mawr Bank Corp. | 548 | 11,015 |
Camden National Corp. | 614 | 16,566 |
Capital City Bank Group, Inc. | 939 | 25,578 |
Capitol Bancorp Ltd. | 1,147 | 8,947 |
Cardinal Financial Corp. | 1,926 | 10,959 |
Cascade Bancorp | 1,768 | 11,934 |
Cathay General Bancorp | 3,762 | 89,347 |
Centerstate Banks of Florida, Inc. | 736 | 12,505 |
Central Pacific Financial Corp. | 2,178 | 21,867 |
Chemical Financial Corp. | 1,801 | 50,212 |
Citizens & Northern Corp. | 715 | 14,121 |
Citizens Republic Bancorp, Inc. | 9,665 | 28,802 |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Commercial Banks - Cont'd | | |
City Bank | 1,091 | $5,673 |
City Holding Co. | 1,220 | 42,432 |
CoBiz Financial, Inc. | 1,421 | 13,841 |
Colonial BancGroup, Inc. | 15,251 | 31,570 |
Columbia Banking System, Inc. | 1,442 | 17,203 |
Community Bank System, Inc. | 2,502 | 61,024 |
Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. | 1,136 | 41,748 |
CVB Financial Corp. | 5,027 | 59,821 |
East West Bancorp, Inc. | 4,820 | 76,975 |
Enterprise Financial Services Corp. | 881 | 13,426 |
Farmers Capital Bank Corp. | 495 | 12,088 |
Financial Institutions, Inc. | 874 | 12,542 |
First Bancorp | 1,145 | 21,011 |
First Bancorp | 5,394 | 60,089 |
First Bancorp, Inc. | 691 | 13,744 |
First Busey Corp. | 1,922 | 35,057 |
First Commonwealth Financial Corp. | 5,552 | 68,734 |
First Community Bancshares, Inc. | 723 | 25,211 |
First Financial Bancorp | 2,841 | 35,200 |
First Financial Bankshares, Inc. | 1,573 | 86,845 |
First Financial Corp. | 866 | 35,497 |
First Merchants Corp. | 1,451 | 32,227 |
First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. | 3,678 | 73,450 |
First South Bancorp, Inc. | 641 | 8,051 |
FirstMerit Corp. | 6,125 | 126,114 |
FNB Corp. | 6,504 | 85,853 |
Frontier Financial Corp. | 3,578 | 15,600 |
Glacier Bancorp, Inc. | 4,081 | 77,621 |
Green Bankshares, Inc. | 1,046 | 14,157 |
Guaranty Bancorp* | 4,153 | 8,306 |
Hancock Holding Co. | 1,947 | 88,511 |
Hanmi Financial Corp. | 3,128 | 6,444 |
Harleysville National Corp. | 3,271 | 47,233 |
Heartland Financial USA, Inc. | 1,017 | 20,940 |
Heritage Commerce Corp. | 834 | 9,374 |
Home Bancshares, Inc. | 1,056 | 28,459 |
IBERIABANK Corp. | 976 | 46,848 |
Independent Bank Corp. | 1,230 | 32,177 |
Integra Bank Corp. | 1,602 | 2,195 |
International Bancshares Corp. | 3,847 | 83,980 |
Investors Bancorp, Inc.* | 3,330 | 44,722 |
Lakeland Bancorp, Inc. | 1,608 | 18,106 |
Lakeland Financial Corp. | 975 | 23,224 |
MainSource Financial Group, Inc. | 1,480 | 22,940 |
MB Financial, Inc. | 2,625 | 73,369 |
Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. | 1,707 | 2,390 |
Nara Bancorp, Inc. | 1,816 | 17,851 |
NBT Bancorp, Inc. | 2,430 | 67,943 |
Northfield Bancorp, Inc. | 1,568 | 17,640 |
Old National Bancorp | 5,003 | 90,854 |
Old Second Bancorp, Inc. | 1,095 | 12,702 |
Oriental Financial Group, Inc. | 1,831 | 11,078 |
Pacific Capital Bancorp | 3,497 | 59,029 |
Pacific Continental Corp. | 850 | 12,724 |
PacWest Bancorp | 1,907 | 51,298 |
Park National Corp. | 840 | 60,270 |
Peapack Gladstone Financial Corp. | 662 | 17,636 |
Pennsylvania Commerce Bancorp, Inc.* | 413 | 11,011 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Commercial Banks - Cont'd | | |
Peoples Bancorp, Inc. | 821 | $15,706 |
Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc.* | 1,707 | 50,886 |
PremierWest Bancorp | 1,543 | 10,323 |
PrivateBancorp, Inc. | 1,627 | 52,812 |
Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. | 2,966 | 87,764 |
Provident Bankshares Corp. | 2,642 | 25,522 |
Renasant Corp. | 1,633 | 27,810 |
Republic Bancorp, Inc. | 737 | 20,046 |
S&T Bancorp, Inc. | 1,803 | 64,007 |
Sandy Spring Bancorp, Inc. | 1,309 | 28,575 |
Santander BanCorp | 295 | 3,685 |
SCBT Financial Corp. | 813 | 28,048 |
Seacoast Banking Corp of Florida | 1,181 | 7,795 |
Shore Bancshares, Inc. | 669 | 16,049 |
Sierra Bancorp | 592 | 12,432 |
Signature Bank* | 2,698 | 77,406 |
Simmons First National Corp. | 1,041 | 30,678 |
Smithtown Bancorp, Inc. | 784 | 12,567 |
South Financial Group, Inc. | 5,707 | 24,654 |
Southside Bancshares, Inc. | 967 | 22,725 |
Southwest Bancorp, Inc. | 1,158 | 15,008 |
State Bancorp, Inc. | 1,141 | 11,113 |
StellarOne Corp. | 1,700 | 28,730 |
Sterling BanCorp. | 1,434 | 20,119 |
Sterling Bancshares, Inc. | 5,538 | 33,671 |
Sterling Financial Corp. | 3,940 | 34,672 |
Suffolk Bancorp | 763 | 27,415 |
Sun Bancorp, Inc.* | 1,116 | 8,359 |
Susquehanna Bancshares, Inc. | 6,509 | 103,558 |
SVB Financial Group* | 2,266 | 59,437 |
SY Bancorp, Inc. | 1,009 | 27,748 |
Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc.* | 2,090 | 27,922 |
Tompkins Financial Corp. | 466 | 27,005 |
TowneBank | 1,583 | 39,243 |
Trico Bancshares | 1,106 | 27,617 |
Trustmark Corp. | 3,741 | 80,768 |
UCBH Holdings, Inc. | 8,361 | 57,524 |
UMB Financial Corp. | 2,357 | 115,823 |
Umpqua Holdings Corp. | 4,549 | 65,824 |
Union Bankshares Corp. | 1,075 | 26,660 |
United Bankshares, Inc. | 2,868 | 95,275 |
United Community Banks, Inc. | 3,084 | 41,874 |
United Security Bancshares | 674 | 7,805 |
Univest Corp of Pennsylvania | 1,024 | 32,911 |
W Holding Co., Inc. | 153 | 1,579 |
Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc. | 909 | 17,953 |
WesBanco, Inc. | 2,007 | 54,610 |
West Bancorporation, Inc. | 1,387 | 16,991 |
West Coast Bancorp | 1,251 | 8,244 |
Westamerica Bancorporation | 2,201 | 112,581 |
Western Alliance Bancorp* | 1,441 | 14,540 |
Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. | 1,534 | 13,929 |
Wintrust Financial Corp. | 1,785 | 36,717 |
Yadkin Valley Financial Corp. | 913 | 13,010 |
| | 4,648,182 |
| | |
Commercial Services & Supplies - 2.7% | | |
ABM Industries, Inc. | 3,302 | 62,903 |
ACCO Brands Corp.* | 4,316 | 14,890 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Commercial Services & Supplies - Cont'd | | |
American Ecology Corp. | 1,232 | $24,923 |
American Reprographics Co.* | 2,901 | 20,017 |
Amrep Corp.* | 138 | 4,317 |
ATC Technology Corp.* | 1,606 | 23,496 |
Bowne & Co., Inc. | 2,143 | 12,601 |
Casella Waste Systems, Inc.* | 1,794 | 7,320 |
Cenveo, Inc.* | 3,827 | 17,030 |
Clean Harbors, Inc.* | 1,498 | 95,033 |
Comfort Systems USA, Inc. | 3,152 | 33,600 |
Consolidated Graphics, Inc.* | 794 | 17,976 |
Cornell Cos, Inc.* | 886 | 16,471 |
Courier Corp. | 832 | 14,893 |
Deluxe Corp. | 3,904 | 58,404 |
EnergySolutions, Inc. | 2,646 | 14,950 |
EnerNOC, Inc.* | 771 | 5,736 |
Ennis, Inc. | 2,050 | 24,826 |
Fuel Tech, Inc.* | 1,411 | 14,942 |
G&K Services, Inc. | 1,500 | 30,330 |
GEO Group, Inc.: | | |
Common | 3,853 | 69,470 |
Escrow (b) | 100,000 | 12 |
GeoEye, Inc.* | 1,363 | 26,210 |
Healthcare Services Group | 3,276 | 52,187 |
Herman Miller, Inc. | 4,245 | 55,312 |
HNI Corp. | 3,375 | 53,460 |
ICT Group, Inc.* | 698 | 3,197 |
Innerworkings, Inc.* | 2,519 | 16,499 |
Interface, Inc. | 4,032 | 18,708 |
Kimball International, Inc., Class B | 2,544 | 21,904 |
Knoll, Inc. | 3,659 | 33,004 |
M&F Worldwide Corp.* | 907 | 14,013 |
Mcgrath RentCorp | 1,845 | 39,409 |
Metalico, Inc.* | 1,927 | 2,987 |
Mine Safety Appliances Co. | 2,344 | 56,045 |
Mobile Mini, Inc.* | 2,621 | 37,795 |
Multi-Color Corp. | 757 | 11,976 |
PRG-Schultz International, Inc.* | 1,195 | 4,876 |
Protection One, Inc.* | 430 | 2,055 |
Rollins, Inc. | 3,157 | 57,079 |
Schawk, Inc. | 1,200 | 13,752 |
Standard Parking Corp.* | 664 | 12,842 |
Standard Register Co. | 1,196 | 10,680 |
SYKES Enterprises, Inc.* | 2,499 | 47,781 |
Team, Inc.* | 1,399 | 38,752 |
Tetra Tech, Inc.* | 4,454 | 107,564 |
United Stationers, Inc.* | 1,769 | 59,244 |
Viad Corp. | 1,568 | 38,792 |
Waste Connections, Inc.* | 6,110 | 192,893 |
Waste Services, Inc.* | 1,892 | 12,449 |
| | 1,625,605 |
| | |
Communications Equipment - 2.5% | | |
3Com Corp.* | 30,599 | 69,766 |
Acme Packet, Inc.* | 2,165 | 11,388 |
Adtran, Inc. | 4,247 | 63,195 |
Airvana, Inc.* | 1,921 | 11,757 |
Anaren, Inc.* | 1,154 | 13,790 |
Arris Group, Inc.* | 9,262 | 73,633 |
Aruba Networks, Inc.* | 4,167 | 10,626 |
Avanex Corp.* | 1,071 | 1,125 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Communications Equipment - Cont'd | | |
Avocent Corp.* | 3,368 | $60,321 |
Bel Fuse, Inc., Class B | 945 | 20,034 |
BigBand Networks, Inc.* | 2,619 | 14,457 |
Black Box Corp. | 1,325 | 34,609 |
Blue Coat Systems, Inc.* | 2,507 | 21,059 |
Bookham, Inc.* | 8,027 | 3,612 |
Cogo Group, Inc.* | 2,053 | 9,978 |
Comtech Telecommunications Corp.* | 1,831 | 83,896 |
DG FastChannel, Inc.* | 1,217 | 15,188 |
Digi International, Inc.* | 2,054 | 16,658 |
EMS Technologies, Inc.* | 1,243 | 32,156 |
Emulex Corp.* | 6,377 | 44,511 |
Extreme Networks* | 6,916 | 16,183 |
Finisar Corp.* | 31,447 | 11,950 |
Globecomm Systems, Inc.* | 1,607 | 8,822 |
Harmonic, Inc.* | 7,112 | 39,898 |
Harris Stratex Networks, Inc.* | 1,952 | 10,072 |
Hughes Communications, Inc.* | 572 | 9,118 |
Infinera Corp.* | 7,002 | 62,738 |
InterDigital, Inc.* | 3,427 | 94,242 |
Ixia* | 3,370 | 19,479 |
Loral Space & Communications, Inc.* | 930 | 13,513 |
MRV Communications, Inc.* | 12,231 | 9,418 |
Netgear, Inc.* | 2,671 | 30,476 |
Neutral Tandem, Inc.* | 1,327 | 21,524 |
Nextwave Wireless, Inc.* | 3,861 | 347 |
Oplink Communications, Inc.* | 1,714 | 14,740 |
Opnext, Inc.* | 1,520 | 2,660 |
Orbcomm, Inc.* | 2,519 | 5,441 |
Parkervision, Inc.* | 1,832 | 4,525 |
PC-Tel, Inc. | 1,456 | 9,566 |
Plantronics, Inc. | 3,698 | 48,814 |
Polycom, Inc.* | 6,618 | 89,409 |
Powerwave Technologies, Inc.* | 10,470 | 5,235 |
Riverbed Technology, Inc.* | 4,237 | 48,259 |
Seachange International, Inc.* | 2,460 | 17,737 |
ShoreTel, Inc.* | 3,451 | 15,495 |
Sonus Networks, Inc.* | 15,482 | 24,462 |
Starent Networks Corp.* | 2,370 | 28,274 |
Sycamore Networks, Inc.* | 14,503 | 39,013 |
Symmetricom, Inc.* | 3,578 | 14,133 |
Tekelec* | 4,932 | 65,793 |
Utstarcom, Inc.* | 8,802 | 16,284 |
Viasat, Inc.* | 1,919 | 46,210 |
| | 1,455,589 |
| | |
Computers & Peripherals - 0.8% | | |
3PAR, Inc.* | 2,170 | 16,644 |
Adaptec, Inc.* | 9,636 | 31,799 |
Avid Technology, Inc.* | 2,279 | 24,864 |
Compellent Technologies, Inc.* | 1,125 | 10,946 |
Cray, Inc.* | 2,516 | 5,233 |
Data Domain, Inc.* | 2,501 | 47,019 |
Electronics for Imaging, Inc.* | 4,022 | 38,450 |
Hutchinson Technology, Inc.* | 1,879 | 6,539 |
Hypercom Corp.* | 4,135 | 4,466 |
Imation Corp. | 2,260 | 30,668 |
Immersion Corp.* | 2,323 | 13,683 |
Intermec, Inc.* | 4,658 | 61,858 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Computers & Peripherals - Cont'd | | |
Intevac, Inc.* | 1,729 | $8,766 |
Isilon Systems, Inc.* | 1,962 | 6,455 |
Netezza Corp.* | 2,983 | 19,807 |
Novatel Wireless, Inc.* | 2,483 | 11,521 |
Palm, Inc.* | 8,118 | 24,922 |
Presstek, Inc.* | 2,198 | 7,056 |
Quantum Corp.* | 16,021 | 5,768 |
Rackable Systems, Inc.* | 2,362 | 9,306 |
Rimage Corp.* | 769 | 10,312 |
STEC, Inc.* | 2,486 | 10,590 |
Stratasys, Inc.* | 1,645 | 17,684 |
Super Micro Computer, Inc.* | 1,763 | 11,160 |
Synaptics, Inc.* | 2,570 | 42,559 |
| | 478,075 |
| | |
Construction & Engineering - 1.0% | | |
Dycom Industries, Inc.* | 3,143 | 25,835 |
EMCOR Group, Inc.* | 5,128 | 115,021 |
Furmanite Corp.* | 2,902 | 15,642 |
Granite Construction, Inc. | 2,503 | 109,957 |
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. | 3,173 | 13,168 |
Insituform Technologies, Inc.* | 2,213 | 43,574 |
Integrated Electrical Services, Inc.* | 617 | 5,405 |
Layne Christensen Co.* | 1,451 | 34,839 |
MasTec, Inc.* | 3,252 | 37,658 |
Michael Baker Corp.* | 583 | 21,519 |
Northwest Pipe Co.* | 689 | 29,358 |
Orion Marine Group, Inc.* | 1,719 | 16,606 |
Perini Corp.* | 3,788 | 88,563 |
Pike Electric Corp.* | 1,368 | 16,826 |
Sterling Construction Co., Inc.* | 919 | 17,038 |
| | 591,009 |
| | |
Construction Materials - 0.2% | | |
Headwaters, Inc.* | 3,177 | 21,445 |
Texas Industries, Inc. | 1,765 | 60,892 |
United States Lime & Minerals, Inc.* | 143 | 3,425 |
US Concrete, Inc.* | 3,167 | 10,641 |
| | 96,403 |
| | |
Consumer Finance - 0.4% | | |
Advance America Cash Advance Centers, Inc. | 3,524 | 6,660 |
Advanta Corp., Class B | 3,051 | 6,377 |
Cardtronics, Inc.* | 1,000 | 1,290 |
Cash America International, Inc. | 2,196 | 60,061 |
CompuCredit Corp.* | 1,284 | 7,100 |
Credit Acceptance Corp.* | 474 | 6,494 |
Dollar Financial Corp.* | 1,931 | 19,889 |
Ezcorp, Inc.* | 2,912 | 44,291 |
First Cash Financial Services, Inc.* | 1,582 | 30,153 |
First Marblehead Corp.* | 5,507 | 7,104 |
Nelnet, Inc. | 1,394 | 19,976 |
World Acceptance Corp.* | 1,289 | 25,471 |
| | 234,866 |
| | |
Containers & Packaging - 0.4% | | |
AEP Industries, Inc.* | 466 | 8,192 |
Boise, Inc.* | 2,845 | 1,223 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Containers & Packaging - Cont'd | | |
Bway Holding Co.* | 596 | $4,744 |
Graphic Packaging Holding Co.* | 11,515 | 13,127 |
Myers Industries, Inc. | 2,159 | 17,272 |
Rock-Tenn Co. | 2,881 | 98,473 |
Silgan Holdings, Inc. | 1,908 | 91,222 |
| | 234,253 |
| | |
Distributors - 0.0% | | |
Aristotle Corp.* | 90 | 327 |
Audiovox Corp.* | 1,390 | 6,964 |
Core-Mark Holding Co., Inc.* | 750 | 16,140 |
| | 23,431 |
| | |
Diversified Consumer Services - 1.0% | | |
American Public Education, Inc.* | 832 | 30,942 |
Capella Education Co.* | 1,077 | 63,284 |
Coinstar, Inc.* | 2,111 | 41,186 |
Corinthian Colleges, Inc.* | 6,434 | 105,325 |
Grand Canyon Education, Inc.* | 800 | 15,024 |
Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, Inc. | 2,266 | 35,553 |
K12, Inc.* | 500 | 9,535 |
Learning Tree International, Inc.* | 713 | 6,075 |
Lincoln Educational Services Corp.* | 319 | 4,227 |
Matthews International Corp. | 2,361 | 86,601 |
Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc.* | 602 | 22,449 |
Princeton Review, Inc.* | 1,065 | 5,250 |
Regis Corp. | 3,252 | 47,251 |
Sotheby's | 5,094 | 45,286 |
Steiner Leisure Ltd.* | 1,232 | 36,369 |
Stewart Enterprises, Inc. | 6,319 | 19,020 |
Universal Technical Institute, Inc.* | 1,716 | 29,464 |
| | 602,841 |
| | |
Diversified Financial Services - 0.7% | | |
Ampal American Israel* | 1,584 | 919 |
Asset Acceptance Capital Corp.* | 1,189 | 6,076 |
Compass Diversified Holdings | 1,899 | 21,364 |
Encore Capital Group, Inc.* | 1,065 | 7,668 |
Fifth Street Finance Corp. | 804 | 6,070 |
Financial Federal Corp. | 1,924 | 44,771 |
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.* | 3,071 | 54,940 |
Life Partners Holdings, Inc. | 473 | 20,642 |
MarketAxess Holdings, Inc.* | 2,470 | 20,155 |
Medallion Financial Corp. | 1,184 | 9,034 |
National Penn Bancshares, Inc.: | | |
Common | 6,022 | 87,379 |
Fractional Shares* (b) | 25,000 | 5 |
NewStar Financial, Inc.* | 1,906 | 7,605 |
PHH Corp.* | 4,082 | 51,964 |
Pico Holdings, Inc.* | 1,225 | 32,560 |
Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc.* | 1,145 | 38,747 |
Primus Guaranty Ltd.* | 1,856 | 2,116 |
Resource America, Inc. | 783 | 3,132 |
| | 415,147 |
| | |
Diversified Telecommunication Services - 0.9% | | |
Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. | 3,276 | 30,729 |
Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. | 726 | 19,275 |
Cbeyond, Inc.* | 1,909 | 30,506 |
Cincinnati Bell, Inc.* | 18,446 | 35,601 |
Cogent Communications Group, Inc.* | 3,576 | 23,351 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Diversified Telecommunication Services - Cont'd | | |
Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. | 1,846 | $21,931 |
Fairpoint Communications, Inc. | 6,727 | 22,065 |
General Communication, Inc.* | 3,603 | 29,148 |
Global Crossing Ltd.* | 2,084 | 16,547 |
Globalstar, Inc.* | 3,342 | 668 |
Hungarian Telephone & Cable Corp.* | 384 | 3,302 |
Ibasis, Inc.* | 2,561 | 3,611 |
IDT Corp., Class B* | 4,308 | 1,723 |
Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc. | 2,424 | 34,615 |
NTELOS Holdings Corp. | 2,257 | 55,658 |
PAETEC Holding Corp.* | 9,846 | 14,178 |
Premiere Global Services, Inc.* | 4,678 | 40,278 |
Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. | 1,784 | 50,041 |
tw telecom, Inc.* | 11,115 | 94,144 |
Vonage Holdings Corp.* | 4,093 | 2,701 |
| | 530,072 |
| | |
Electric Utilities - 1.7% | | |
Allete, Inc. | 1,972 | 63,636 |
Central Vermont Public Service Corp. | 824 | 19,661 |
Cleco Corp. | 4,547 | 103,808 |
El Paso Electric Co.* | 3,389 | 61,307 |
Empire District Electric Co. | 2,555 | 44,968 |
IDACORP, Inc. | 3,421 | 100,748 |
ITC Holdings Corp. | 3,738 | 163,276 |
MGE Energy, Inc. | 1,669 | 55,077 |
Portland General Electric Co. | 4,725 | 91,996 |
UIL Holdings Corp. | 1,916 | 57,537 |
Unisource Energy Corp. | 2,605 | 76,483 |
Westar Energy, Inc. | 7,925 | 162,542 |
| | 1,001,039 |
| | |
Electrical Equipment - 2.0% | | |
A.O. Smith Corp. | 1,512 | 44,634 |
Acuity Brands, Inc. | 3,071 | 107,209 |
Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc.* | 3,310 | 8,805 |
Akeena Solar, Inc.* | 1,665 | 2,864 |
American Superconductor Corp.* | 3,180 | 51,866 |
AZZ, Inc.* | 919 | 23,067 |
Baldor Electric Co. | 3,465 | 61,850 |
Beacon Power Corp.* | 7,067 | 3,745 |
Belden, Inc. | 3,294 | 68,779 |
Brady Corp. | 3,801 | 91,034 |
Capstone Turbine Corp.* | 11,601 | 9,745 |
China BAK Battery, Inc.* | 2,409 | 3,903 |
Coleman Cable, Inc.* | 552 | 2,501 |
Encore Wire Corp. | 1,453 | 27,549 |
Ener1, Inc.* | 2,863 | 20,470 |
Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.* | 3,411 | 85,991 |
EnerSys* | 2,077 | 22,847 |
Evergreen Solar, Inc.* | 10,549 | 33,651 |
Franklin Electric Co., Inc. | 1,732 | 48,686 |
FuelCell Energy, Inc.* | 5,465 | 21,204 |
Fushi Copperweld, Inc.* | 1,149 | 6,055 |
GrafTech International Ltd.* | 9,055 | 75,338 |
GT Solar International, Inc.* | 2,291 | 6,621 |
Harbin Electric, Inc.* | 500 | 3,995 |
II-VI, Inc.* | 1,848 | 35,278 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Electrical Equipment - Cont'd | | |
LaBarge, Inc.* | 972 | $13,948 |
LSI Industries, Inc. | 1,507 | 10,353 |
Medis Technologies Ltd.* | 2,122 | 955 |
Microvision, Inc.* | 4,522 | 7,597 |
Orion Energy Systems, Inc.* | 723 | 3,911 |
Plug Power, Inc.* | 6,384 | 6,512 |
Polypore International, Inc.* | 1,270 | 9,601 |
Powell Industries, Inc.* | 590 | 17,122 |
Power-One, Inc.* | 5,945 | 7,075 |
PowerSecure International, Inc.* | 1,349 | 4,438 |
Preformed Line Products Co. | 216 | 9,945 |
Regal-Beloit Corp. | 2,433 | 92,430 |
Ultralife Corp.* | 1,001 | 13,423 |
Valence Technology, Inc.* | 4,040 | 7,353 |
Vicor Corp. | 1,546 | 10,219 |
Woodward Governor Co. | 4,441 | 102,232 |
| | 1,184,801 |
| | |
Electronic Equipment & Instruments - 1.8% | | |
Agilysys, Inc. | 1,809 | 7,761 |
Anixter International, Inc.* | 2,255 | 67,921 |
Benchmark Electronics, Inc.* | 5,098 | 65,101 |
Brightpoint, Inc.* | 3,914 | 17,026 |
Checkpoint Systems, Inc.* | 2,991 | 29,431 |
China Security & Surveillance Technology, Inc.* | 2,142 | 9,489 |
Cogent, Inc.* | 3,104 | 42,121 |
Cognex Corp. | 3,166 | 46,857 |
Coherent, Inc.* | 1,786 | 38,328 |
Comverge, Inc.* | 1,739 | 8,521 |
CPI International, Inc.* | 758 | 6,564 |
CTS Corp. | 2,681 | 14,772 |
Daktronics, Inc. | 2,468 | 23,100 |
DTS, Inc.* | 1,420 | 26,057 |
Echelon Corp.* | 2,363 | 19,258 |
Electro Rent Corp. | 1,716 | 19,151 |
Electro Scientific Industries, Inc.* | 2,161 | 14,673 |
Elixir Gaming Technologies, Inc.* | 5,396 | 701 |
FARO Technologies, Inc.* | 1,329 | 22,407 |
Gerber Scientific, Inc.* | 1,886 | 9,637 |
ICx Technologies, Inc.* | 1,092 | 8,638 |
Insight Enterprises, Inc.* | 3,549 | 24,488 |
IPG Photonics Corp.* | 1,532 | 20,192 |
Kemet Corp.* | 6,457 | 1,743 |
L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc.* | 4,904 | 33,053 |
Littelfuse, Inc.* | 1,644 | 27,290 |
Maxwell Technologies, Inc.* | 1,454 | 7,372 |
Measurement Specialties, Inc.* | 1,150 | 7,993 |
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.* | 1,813 | 11,440 |
Methode Electronics, Inc. | 3,028 | 20,409 |
MTS Systems Corp. | 1,326 | 35,325 |
Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc.* | 692 | 8,089 |
Newport Corp.* | 2,855 | 19,357 |
OSI Systems, Inc.* | 1,254 | 17,368 |
Park Electrochemical Corp. | 1,540 | 29,198 |
PC Connection, Inc.* | 756 | 3,871 |
PC Mall, Inc.* | 882 | 3,537 |
Plexus Corp.* | 3,022 | 51,223 |
Radisys Corp.* | 1,788 | 9,888 |
Rofin-Sinar Technologies, Inc.* | 2,246 | 46,223 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Electronic Equipment & Instruments - Cont'd | | |
Rogers Corp.* | 1,359 | $37,739 |
Sanmina-SCI Corp.* | 40,506 | 19,038 |
Scansource, Inc.* | 1,992 | 38,386 |
Smart Modular Technologies WWH, Inc.* | 3,531 | 5,438 |
SYNNEX Corp.* | 1,387 | 15,715 |
Technitrol, Inc. | 3,261 | 11,348 |
TTM Technologies, Inc.* | 3,401 | 17,719 |
Universal Display Corp.* | 2,305 | 21,782 |
Zygo Corp.* | 1,269 | 8,769 |
| | 1,051,507 |
| | |
Energy Equipment & Services - 1.2% | | |
Allis-Chalmers Energy, Inc.* | 2,233 | 12,282 |
Basic Energy Services, Inc.* | 3,128 | 40,789 |
Bolt Technology Corp.* | 687 | 4,782 |
Bristow Group, Inc.* | 1,831 | 49,053 |
BronCo Drilling Co., Inc.* | 2,094 | 13,527 |
Cal Dive International, Inc.* | 3,522 | 22,928 |
CARBO Ceramics, Inc. | 1,555 | 55,249 |
Complete Production Services, Inc.* | 3,628 | 29,568 |
Dawson Geophysical Co.* | 616 | 10,971 |
Dril-Quip, Inc.* | 2,341 | 48,014 |
ENGlobal Corp.* | 2,157 | 7,010 |
Geokinetics, Inc.* | 381 | 941 |
Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. | 970 | 13,978 |
Gulfmark Offshore, Inc.* | 1,707 | 40,610 |
Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc.* | 1,756 | 28,693 |
ION Geophysical Corp.* | 6,405 | 21,969 |
Lufkin Industries, Inc. | 1,119 | 38,606 |
Matrix Service Co.* | 2,042 | 15,662 |
Mitcham Industries, Inc.* | 781 | 3,101 |
NATCO Group, Inc.* | 1,518 | 23,043 |
Natural Gas Services Group, Inc.* | 964 | 9,765 |
Newpark Resources* | 6,789 | 25,119 |
OYO Geospace Corp.* | 325 | 5,678 |
Parker Drilling Co.* | 8,555 | 24,810 |
PHI, Inc.* | 1,087 | 15,229 |
Pioneer Drilling Co.* | 3,725 | 20,748 |
Precision Drilling Trust | 2,319 | 19,459 |
RPC, Inc. | 2,311 | 22,555 |
Sulphco, Inc.* | 4,243 | 3,988 |
Superior Well Services, Inc.* | 1,316 | 13,160 |
T-3 Energy Services, Inc.* | 994 | 9,383 |
Trico Marine Services, Inc.* | 1,011 | 4,519 |
Union Drilling, Inc.* | 1,119 | 5,808 |
Willbros Group, Inc.* | 2,941 | 24,910 |
| | 685,907 |
| | |
Food & Staples Retailing - 0.9% | | |
Andersons, Inc. | 1,371 | 22,594 |
Arden Group, Inc. | 92 | 11,592 |
Casey's General Stores, Inc. | 3,835 | 87,323 |
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.* | 2,811 | 17,625 |
Ingles Markets, Inc. | 1,002 | 17,625 |
Nash Finch Co. | 963 | 43,229 |
Pantry, Inc.* | 1,681 | 36,058 |
Pricesmart, Inc. | 1,150 | 23,759 |
Ruddick Corp. | 3,182 | 87,982 |
Spartan Stores, Inc. | 1,655 | 38,479 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Food & Staples Retailing - Cont'd | | |
Susser Holdings Corp.* | 620 | $8,240 |
United Natural Foods, Inc.* | 3,239 | 57,719 |
Village Super Market, Inc. | 255 | 14,634 |
Weis Markets, Inc. | 879 | 29,561 |
Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.* | 4,092 | 65,881 |
| | 562,301 |
| | |
Food Products - 2.0% | | |
AgFeed Industries, Inc.* | 1,582 | 2,547 |
Alico, Inc. | 267 | 10,944 |
American Dairy, Inc.* | 566 | 8,513 |
B&G Foods, Inc. | 1,602 | 8,651 |
Calavo Growers, Inc. | 827 | 9,510 |
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. | 1,034 | 29,676 |
Chiquita Brands International, Inc.* | 3,274 | 48,390 |
Darling International, Inc.* | 6,173 | 33,890 |
Diamond Foods, Inc. | 1,210 | 24,381 |
Farmer Bros Co. | 538 | 13,418 |
Flowers Foods, Inc. | 5,835 | 142,141 |
Fresh Del Monte Produce, Inc.* | 3,171 | 71,094 |
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.* | 1,302 | 50,387 |
Griffin Land & Nurseries, Inc. | 267 | 9,842 |
Hain Celestial Group, Inc.* | 3,061 | 58,434 |
HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc.* | 532 | 4,166 |
Imperial Sugar Co. | 949 | 13,609 |
J&J Snack Foods Corp. | 1,068 | 38,320 |
Lancaster Colony Corp. | 1,521 | 52,170 |
Lance, Inc. | 2,043 | 46,866 |
Lifeway Foods, Inc.* | 385 | 3,457 |
Omega Protein Corp.* | 1,463 | 5,867 |
Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.* | 4,311 | 251,762 |
Reddy Ice Holdings, Inc. | 1,424 | 2,051 |
Sanderson Farms, Inc. | 1,533 | 52,980 |
Smart Balance, Inc.* | 4,991 | 33,939 |
Synutra International, Inc.* | 827 | 9,114 |
Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. | 1,799 | 46,072 |
TreeHouse Foods, Inc.* | 2,360 | 64,286 |
Zhongpin, Inc.* | 1,470 | 17,640 |
| | 1,164,117 |
| | |
Gas Utilities - 1.5% | | |
Chesapeake Utilities Corp. | 543 | 17,094 |
Laclede Group, Inc. | 1,651 | 77,333 |
New Jersey Resources Corp. | 3,173 | 124,858 |
Nicor, Inc. | 3,411 | 118,498 |
Northwest Natural Gas Co. | 1,999 | 88,416 |
Piedmont Natural Gas Co., Inc. | 5,630 | 178,302 |
South Jersey Industries, Inc. | 2,246 | 89,503 |
Southwest Gas Corp. | 3,275 | 82,595 |
WGL Holdings, Inc. | 3,747 | 122,489 |
| | 899,088 |
| | |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 3.8% | | |
Abaxis, Inc.* | 1,727 | 27,684 |
Abiomed, Inc.* | 2,571 | 42,216 |
Accuray, Inc.* | 2,876 | 14,840 |
Align Technology, Inc.* | 4,684 | 40,985 |
Alphatec Holdings, Inc.* | 1,987 | 4,669 |
American Medical Systems Holdings, Inc.* | 5,502 | 49,463 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - Cont'd | | |
Analogic Corp. | 1,015 | $27,689 |
Angiodynamics, Inc.* | 1,927 | 26,381 |
Arthrocare Corp.* | 2,012 | 9,597 |
Atrion Corp. | 120 | 11,652 |
Cantel Medical Corp.* | 995 | 14,597 |
Cardiac Science Corp.* | 1,550 | 11,625 |
Conceptus, Inc.* | 2,281 | 34,717 |
Conmed Corp.* | 2,169 | 51,926 |
CryoLife, Inc.* | 2,218 | 21,537 |
Cyberonics, Inc.* | 1,892 | 31,350 |
Cynosure, Inc.* | 762 | 6,957 |
Datascope Corp. | 1,000 | 52,240 |
DexCom, Inc.* | 2,091 | 5,771 |
ev3, Inc.* | 5,317 | 32,434 |
Exactech, Inc.* | 562 | 9,464 |
Greatbatch, Inc.* | 1,733 | 45,855 |
Haemonetics Corp.* | 1,944 | 109,836 |
Hansen Medical, Inc.* | 1,359 | 9,812 |
ICU Medical, Inc.* | 880 | 29,163 |
I-Flow Corp.* | 1,642 | 7,882 |
Immucor, Inc.* | 5,297 | 140,794 |
Insulet Corp.* | 1,462 | 11,287 |
Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corp.* | 1,346 | 47,877 |
Invacare Corp. | 2,424 | 37,620 |
IRIS International, Inc.* | 1,467 | 20,450 |
Kensey Nash Corp.* | 576 | 11,180 |
Masimo Corp.* | 3,479 | 103,779 |
Medical Action Industries, Inc.* | 1,125 | 11,250 |
Mentor Corp. | 2,553 | 78,964 |
Meridian Bioscience, Inc. | 3,042 | 77,480 |
Merit Medical Systems, Inc.* | 2,087 | 37,420 |
Micrus Endovascular Corp.* | 1,240 | 14,396 |
Natus Medical, Inc.* | 2,084 | 26,988 |
Neogen Corp.* | 1,148 | 28,677 |
NuVasive, Inc.* | 2,690 | 93,209 |
NxStage Medical, Inc.* | 1,958 | 5,228 |
OraSure Technologies, Inc.* | 3,551 | 13,068 |
Orthofix International NV* | 1,362 | 20,879 |
Orthovita, Inc.* | 5,276 | 17,886 |
Palomar Medical Technologies, Inc.* | 1,454 | 16,765 |
Quidel Corp.* | 2,123 | 27,748 |
RTI Biologics, Inc.* | 4,061 | 11,208 |
Sirona Dental Systems, Inc.* | 1,345 | 14,123 |
Somanetics Corp.* | 910 | 15,024 |
SonoSite, Inc.* | 1,339 | 25,548 |
Spectranetics Corp.* | 2,522 | 6,582 |
Stereotaxis, Inc.* | 2,011 | 8,848 |
STERIS Corp. | 4,423 | 105,665 |
SurModics, Inc.* | 1,167 | 29,490 |
Symmetry Medical, Inc.* | 2,680 | 21,360 |
Synovis Life Technologies, Inc.* | 993 | 18,609 |
Thoratec Corp.* | 4,117 | 133,761 |
TomoTherapy, Inc.* | 3,263 | 7,766 |
TranS1, Inc.* | 973 | 7,015 |
Vision-Sciences, Inc.* | 1,341 | 2,052 |
Vnus Medical Technologies, Inc.* | 1,037 | 16,820 |
Volcano Corp.* | 3,564 | 53,460 |
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. | 2,447 | 92,423 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - Cont'd | | |
Wright Medical Group, Inc.* | 2,809 | $57,388 |
Zoll Medical Corp.* | 1,579 | 29,827 |
| | 2,230,256 |
| | |
Health Care Providers & Services - 3.4% | | |
Air Methods Corp.* | 855 | 13,672 |
Alliance Imaging, Inc.* | 1,964 | 15,653 |
Almost Family, Inc.* | 508 | 22,850 |
Amedisys, Inc.* | 2,003 | 82,804 |
AMERIGROUP Corp.* | 4,052 | 119,615 |
AMN Healthcare Services, Inc.* | 2,673 | 22,614 |
AmSurg Corp.* | 2,383 | 55,619 |
Assisted Living Concepts, Inc.* | 4,372 | 18,144 |
ATHENAHEALTH, Inc.* | 1,562 | 58,763 |
Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc.* | 920 | 24,132 |
BMP Sunstone Corp.* | 1,844 | 10,271 |
Capital Senior Living Corp.* | 1,797 | 5,355 |
CardioNet, Inc.* | 359 | 8,849 |
Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc.* | 2,499 | 60,851 |
Centene Corp.* | 3,288 | 64,807 |
Chemed Corp. | 1,716 | 68,245 |
Chindex International, Inc.* | 880 | 6,996 |
Corvel Corp.* | 639 | 14,045 |
Cross Country Healthcare, Inc.* | 2,311 | 20,314 |
Emergency Medical Services Corp.* | 743 | 27,201 |
Emeritus Corp.* | 1,569 | 15,737 |
Ensign Group, Inc. | 663 | 11,099 |
Five Star Quality Care, Inc.* | 2,536 | 3,880 |
Genoptix, Inc.* | 663 | 22,595 |
Gentiva Health Services, Inc.* | 1,922 | 56,238 |
Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc.* | 2,361 | 34,258 |
Healthsouth Corp.* | 6,653 | 72,917 |
Healthspring, Inc.* | 3,744 | 74,768 |
Healthways, Inc.* | 2,656 | 30,491 |
HMS Holdings Corp.* | 1,891 | 59,604 |
inVentiv Health, Inc.* | 2,633 | 30,385 |
IPC The Hospitalist Co., Inc.* | 486 | 8,179 |
Kindred Healthcare, Inc.* | 2,119 | 27,589 |
Landauer, Inc. | 704 | 51,603 |
LHC Group, Inc.* | 1,107 | 39,852 |
Magellan Health Services, Inc.* | 3,061 | 119,869 |
Medcath Corp.* | 1,268 | 13,238 |
Molina Healthcare, Inc.* | 1,158 | 20,392 |
MWI Veterinary Supply, Inc.* | 818 | 22,053 |
National Healthcare Corp. | 641 | 32,460 |
National Research Corp. | 137 | 3,968 |
Nighthawk Radiology Holdings, Inc.* | 1,999 | 9,715 |
Odyssey HealthCare, Inc.* | 2,610 | 24,143 |
Owens & Minor, Inc. | 3,107 | 116,979 |
PharMerica Corp.* | 2,299 | 36,025 |
Providence Service Corp.* | 972 | 1,409 |
PSS World Medical, Inc.* | 4,689 | 88,247 |
Psychiatric Solutions, Inc.* | 4,192 | 116,747 |
RadNet, Inc.* | 1,700 | 5,695 |
RehabCare Group, Inc.* | 1,438 | 21,800 |
Res-Care, Inc.* | 1,872 | 28,117 |
Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc.* | 1,394 | 11,765 |
Sun Healthcare Group, Inc.* | 3,246 | 28,727 |
Sunrise Senior Living, Inc.* | 3,577 | 6,009 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Health Care Providers & Services - Cont'd | | |
Triple-S Management Corp., Class B* | 1,100 | $12,650 |
U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc.* | 946 | 12,610 |
Universal American Corp.* | 2,972 | 26,213 |
Virtual Radiologic Corp.* | 557 | 4,723 |
| | 2,023,549 |
| | |
Health Care Technology - 0.5% | | |
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 11,147 | 110,578 |
Computer Programs & Systems, Inc. | 736 | 19,725 |
Eclipsys Corp.* | 4,111 | 58,335 |
MedAssets, Inc.* | 1,371 | 20,016 |
Omnicell, Inc.* | 2,427 | 29,634 |
Phase Forward, Inc.* | 3,233 | 40,477 |
Vital Images, Inc.* | 1,237 | 17,207 |
| | 295,972 |
| | |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 2.3% | | |
AFC Enterprises, Inc.* | 2,011 | 9,432 |
Ambassadors Group, Inc. | 1,521 | 13,993 |
Ameristar Casinos, Inc. | 2,025 | 17,496 |
Bally Technologies, Inc.* | 4,138 | 99,436 |
BJ's Restaurants, Inc.* | 1,387 | 14,938 |
Bluegreen Corp.* | 1,023 | 3,202 |
Bob Evans Farms, Inc. | 2,341 | 47,827 |
Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc.* | 1,347 | 34,551 |
California Pizza Kitchen, Inc.* | 1,678 | 17,988 |
CEC Entertainment, Inc.* | 1,524 | 36,957 |
Cheesecake Factory* | 4,581 | 46,268 |
Churchill Downs, Inc. | 763 | 30,840 |
CKE Restaurants, Inc. | 3,962 | 34,390 |
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. | 1,675 | 34,488 |
Denny's Corp.* | 7,569 | 15,062 |
DineEquity, Inc. | 1,387 | 16,034 |
Domino's Pizza, Inc.* | 3,125 | 14,719 |
Dover Downs Gaming & Entertainment, Inc. | 975 | 3,101 |
Dover Motorsports, Inc. | 1,208 | 1,570 |
Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc.* | 351 | 2,018 |
Gaylord Entertainment Co.* | 3,087 | 33,463 |
Great Wolf Resorts, Inc.* | 2,359 | 3,633 |
Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc.* | 1,259 | 4,029 |
Jack in the Box, Inc.* | 4,450 | 98,301 |
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc.* | 4,485 | 7,535 |
Landry's Restaurants, Inc. | 929 | 10,776 |
Life Time Fitness, Inc.* | 2,632 | 34,084 |
Lodgian, Inc.* | 1,293 | 2,754 |
Luby's, Inc.* | 1,719 | 7,203 |
Marcus Corp. | 1,614 | 26,195 |
Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc.* | 1,004 | 11,697 |
Morgans Hotel Group Co.* | 2,151 | 10,024 |
O'Charleys, Inc. | 1,444 | 2,888 |
Papa John's International, Inc.* | 1,711 | 31,534 |
Peet's Coffee & Tea, Inc.* | 1,113 | 25,877 |
PF Chang's China Bistro, Inc.* | 1,829 | 38,299 |
Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc.* | 4,778 | 36,695 |
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc.* | 1,342 | 22,586 |
Rick's Cabaret International, Inc.* | 481 | 1,919 |
Riviera Holdings Corp.* | 735 | 2,205 |
Ruby Tuesday, Inc.* | 4,183 | 6,525 |
Ruth's Hospitality Group, Inc.* | 1,602 | 2,211 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - Cont'd | | |
Shuffle Master, Inc.* | 4,203 | $20,847 |
Six Flags, Inc.* | 5,454 | 1,691 |
Sonic Corp.* | 4,532 | 55,154 |
Speedway Motorsports, Inc. | 1,075 | 17,318 |
Steak N Shake Co.* | 2,288 | 13,614 |
Texas Roadhouse, Inc.* | 3,962 | 30,706 |
Town Sports International Holdings, Inc.* | 1,394 | 4,447 |
Vail Resorts, Inc.* | 2,367 | 62,962 |
Wendy's/Arby's Group, Inc. | 30,043 | 148,412 |
WMS Industries, Inc.* | 3,317 | 89,227 |
| | 1,359,121 |
| | |
Household Durables - 0.9% | | |
American Greetings Corp. | 3,697 | 27,986 |
Beazer Homes USA, Inc.* | 3,012 | 4,759 |
Blyth, Inc. | 1,947 | 15,264 |
Brookfield Homes Corp. | 809 | 3,495 |
Cavco Industries, Inc.* | 516 | 13,875 |
Champion Enterprises, Inc.* | 6,189 | 3,466 |
CSS Industries, Inc. | 624 | 11,070 |
Ethan Allen Interiors, Inc. | 1,863 | 26,771 |
Furniture Brands International, Inc. | 3,311 | 7,317 |
Helen of Troy Ltd.* | 2,285 | 39,668 |
Hooker Furniture Corp. | 751 | 5,753 |
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc.* | 3,696 | 6,357 |
iRobot Corp.* | 1,426 | 12,877 |
La-Z-Boy, Inc. | 4,097 | 8,890 |
Libbey, Inc. | 1,164 | 1,455 |
M/I Homes, Inc. | 1,117 | 11,773 |
Meritage Homes Corp.* | 2,327 | 28,320 |
National Presto Industries, Inc. | 358 | 27,566 |
Palm Harbor Homes, Inc.* | 644 | 3,207 |
Russ Berrie & Co., Inc.* | 1,277 | 3,793 |
Ryland Group, Inc. | 3,204 | 56,615 |
Sealy Corp. | 3,443 | 8,642 |
Skyline Corp. | 544 | 10,874 |
Standard Pacific Corp.* | 9,850 | 17,533 |
Tempur-Pedic International, Inc. | 5,643 | 40,009 |
Tupperware Brands Corp. | 4,684 | 106,327 |
Universal Electronics, Inc.* | 1,127 | 18,280 |
| | 521,942 |
| | |
Household Products - 0.1% | | |
Central Garden and Pet Co.* | 5,129 | 30,261 |
WD-40 Co. | 1,247 | 35,278 |
| | 65,539 |
| | |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 0.1% | | |
Ormat Technologies, Inc. | 1,353 | 43,120 |
Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc.* | 1,536 | 1,044 |
US Geothermal, Inc.* | 4,942 | 4,102 |
| | 48,266 |
| | |
Industrial Conglomerates - 0.3% | | |
Otter Tail Corp. | 2,668 | 62,244 |
Raven Industries, Inc. | 1,208 | 29,113 |
Seaboard Corp. | 27 | 32,238 |
Standex International Corp. | 996 | 19,761 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Industrial Conglomerates - Cont'd | | |
Tredegar Corp. | 1,919 | $34,887 |
United Capital Corp.* | 143 | 2,594 |
| | 180,837 |
| | |
Insurance - 4.3% | | |
AMBAC Financial Group, Inc. | 21,674 | 28,176 |
American Equity Investment Life Holding Co. | 4,383 | 30,681 |
American Physicians Capital, Inc. | 636 | 30,592 |
American Safety Insurance Holdings Ltd.* | 845 | 11,162 |
Amerisafe, Inc.* | 1,500 | 30,795 |
Amtrust Financial Services, Inc. | 1,262 | 14,639 |
Argo Group International Holdings Ltd.* | 2,331 | 79,068 |
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. | 6,450 | 156,412 |
Assured Guaranty Ltd. | 4,219 | 48,097 |
Baldwin & Lyons, Inc., Class B | 684 | 12,442 |
Castlepoint Holdings Ltd. | 2,665 | 36,137 |
Citizens, Inc.* | 2,842 | 27,567 |
CNA Surety Corp.* | 1,333 | 25,594 |
Crawford & Co., Class B* | 1,827 | 26,565 |
Delphi Financial Group, Inc. | 3,129 | 57,699 |
Donegal Group, Inc. | 916 | 15,361 |
eHealth, Inc.* | 1,986 | 26,374 |
EMC Insurance Group, Inc. | 467 | 11,979 |
Employers Holdings, Inc. | 3,729 | 61,528 |
Enstar Group Ltd.* | 424 | 25,075 |
FBL Financial Group, Inc. | 1,022 | 15,790 |
First Acceptance Corp.* | 1,175 | 3,408 |
First Mercury Financial Corp.* | 1,158 | 16,513 |
Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings Ltd. | 2,400 | 23,448 |
Fpic Insurance Group, Inc.* | 645 | 28,238 |
Greenlight Capital Re Ltd.* | 2,296 | 29,825 |
Hallmark Financial Services* | 470 | 4,122 |
Harleysville Group, Inc. | 987 | 34,279 |
Hilltop Holdings, Inc.* | 3,404 | 33,155 |
Horace Mann Educators Corp. | 3,237 | 29,748 |
Independence Holding Co. | 517 | 1,866 |
Infinity Property & Casualty Corp. | 1,196 | 55,889 |
IPC Holdings Ltd. | 3,785 | 113,171 |
Kansas City Life Insurance Co. | 365 | 15,823 |
Maiden Holdings Ltd. | 3,915 | 12,254 |
Max Capital Group Ltd. | 4,275 | 75,668 |
Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. | 4,186 | 26,958 |
Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. | 7,055 | 118,453 |
National Financial Partners Corp. | 3,148 | 9,570 |
National Interstate Corp. | 490 | 8,756 |
National Western Life Insurance Co. | 181 | 30,620 |
Navigators Group, Inc.* | 999 | 54,855 |
NYMAGIC, Inc. | 377 | 7,182 |
Odyssey Re Holdings Corp. | 1,835 | 95,071 |
Phoenix Cos, Inc. | 8,682 | 28,390 |
Platinum Underwriters Holdings Ltd. | 3,693 | 133,243 |
PMA Capital Corp.* | 2,532 | 17,927 |
Presidential Life Corp. | 1,727 | 17,080 |
ProAssurance Corp.* | 2,424 | 127,939 |
RLI Corp. | 1,411 | 86,297 |
Safety Insurance Group, Inc. | 1,234 | 46,966 |
SeaBright Insurance Holdings, Inc.* | 1,690 | 19,841 |
Selective Insurance Group | 4,042 | 92,683 |
State Auto Financial Corp. | 1,129 | 33,938 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Insurance - Cont'd | | |
Stewart Information Services Corp. | 1,361 | $ 31,970 |
Tower Group, Inc. | 1,529 | 43,133 |
United America Indemnity Ltd.* | 1,435 | 18,382 |
United Fire & Casualty Co. | 1,726 | 53,627 |
Validus Holdings Ltd. | 4,888 | 127,870 |
Zenith National Insurance Corp. | 2,814 | 88,838 |
| | 2,568,729 |
| | |
Internet & Catalog Retail - 0.4% | | |
1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc.* | 2,081 | 7,950 |
Bidz.com, Inc.* | 462 | 2,125 |
Blue Nile, Inc.* | 1,014 | 24,833 |
Drugstore.Com* | 6,658 | 8,256 |
Gaiam, Inc.* | 1,432 | 6,616 |
NetFlix, Inc.* | 3,061 | 91,493 |
NutriSystem, Inc. | 2,434 | 35,512 |
Orbitz Worldwide, Inc.* | 2,917 | 11,318 |
Overstock.com, Inc.* | 1,229 | 13,249 |
PetMed Express, Inc.* | 1,891 | 33,338 |
Shutterfly, Inc.* | 1,568 | 10,960 |
Stamps.com, Inc.* | 1,160 | 11,403 |
| | 257,053 |
| | |
Internet Software & Services - 1.9% | | |
Ariba, Inc.* | 6,466 | 46,620 |
Art Technology Group, Inc.* | 10,262 | 19,806 |
AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc.* | 2,760 | 32,678 |
Bankrate, Inc.* | 1,015 | 38,570 |
Chordiant Software, Inc.* | 2,524 | 6,714 |
comScore, Inc.* | 1,433 | 18,271 |
Constant Contact, Inc.* | 1,620 | 21,465 |
DealerTrack Holdings, Inc.* | 3,221 | 38,298 |
Dice Holdings, Inc.* | 1,136 | 4,635 |
Digital River, Inc.* | 2,812 | 69,738 |
DivX, Inc.* | 2,147 | 11,229 |
Earthlink, Inc.* | 8,304 | 56,135 |
GSI Commerce, Inc.* | 1,871 | 19,683 |
HSW International, Inc.* | 2,222 | 844 |
Infospace, Inc. | 2,741 | 20,694 |
Internap Network Services Corp.* | 4,018 | 10,045 |
Internet Brands, Inc.* | 1,767 | 10,284 |
Internet Capital Group, Inc.* | 3,084 | 16,808 |
Interwoven, Inc.* | 3,444 | 43,394 |
j2 Global Communications, Inc.* | 3,362 | 67,374 |
Keynote Systems, Inc.* | 1,035 | 7,980 |
Knot, Inc.* | 2,250 | 18,720 |
Limelight Networks, Inc.* | 2,297 | 5,628 |
Liquidity Services, Inc.* | 1,166 | 9,713 |
LoopNet, Inc.* | 2,332 | 15,904 |
Marchex, Inc., Class B | 1,895 | 11,048 |
MercadoLibre, Inc.* | 1,928 | 31,638 |
ModusLink Global Solutions, Inc.* | 3,905 | 11,285 |
Move, Inc.* | 10,225 | 16,360 |
NIC, Inc. | 3,178 | 14,619 |
Omniture, Inc.* | 4,722 | 50,242 |
Perficient, Inc.* | 2,548 | 12,179 |
Rackspace Hosting, Inc.* | 1,320 | 7,101 |
RealNetworks, Inc.* | 7,208 | 25,444 |
S1 Corp.* | 3,991 | 31,489 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Internet Software & Services - Cont'd | | |
SAVVIS, Inc.* | 2,994 | $20,629 |
SonicWALL, Inc.* | 4,163 | 16,569 |
SupportSoft, Inc.* | 3,687 | 8,222 |
Switch & Data Facilities Co., Inc.* | 1,635 | 12,083 |
TechTarget, Inc.* | 1,109 | 4,791 |
Terremark Worldwide, Inc.* | 4,212 | 16,385 |
TheStreet.com, Inc. | 1,451 | 4,208 |
United Online, Inc. | 5,827 | 35,370 |
ValueClick, Inc.* | 6,544 | 44,761 |
Vignette Corp.* | 1,970 | 18,538 |
VistaPrint Ltd.* | 3,329 | 61,953 |
Vocus, Inc.* | 1,280 | 23,309 |
Web.com Group, Inc.* | 2,202 | 8,059 |
Websense, Inc.* | 3,413 | 51,092 |
| | 1,148,604 |
| | |
IT Services - 1.8% | | |
Acxiom Corp. | 4,625 | 37,509 |
CACI International, Inc.* | 2,282 | 102,895 |
Cass Information Systems, Inc. | 540 | 16,448 |
China Information Security Technology, Inc.* | 1,826 | 6,574 |
Ciber, Inc.* | 4,183 | 20,120 |
CSG Systems International, Inc.* | 2,639 | 46,103 |
Cybersource Corp.* | 5,217 | 62,552 |
Euronet Worldwide, Inc.* | 3,561 | 41,343 |
ExlService Holdings, Inc.* | 1,131 | 9,693 |
Forrester Research, Inc.* | 1,175 | 33,147 |
Gartner, Inc.* | 4,473 | 79,754 |
Gevity HR, Inc. | 1,842 | 2,781 |
Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc.* | 3,197 | 7,097 |
Hackett Group, Inc.* | 3,281 | 9,581 |
Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. | 1,837 | 32,148 |
iGate Corp.* | 1,744 | 11,353 |
infoGROUP, Inc. | 2,634 | 12,485 |
Integral Systems, Inc.* | 1,350 | 16,268 |
Mantech International Corp.* | 1,552 | 84,103 |
MAXIMUS, Inc. | 1,411 | 49,540 |
NCI, Inc.* | 519 | 15,638 |
Ness Technologies, Inc.* | 3,125 | 13,375 |
Online Resources Corp.* | 2,219 | 10,518 |
Perot Systems Corp.* | 6,539 | 89,388 |
RightNow Technologies, Inc.* | 2,216 | 17,130 |
Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.* | 10,941 | 7,549 |
Sapient Corp.* | 6,646 | 29,508 |
SRA International, Inc.* | 3,217 | 55,493 |
Syntel, Inc. | 1,028 | 23,767 |
TeleTech Holdings, Inc.* | 2,958 | 24,699 |
TNS, Inc.* | 1,843 | 17,306 |
VeriFone Holdings, Inc.* | 5,171 | 25,338 |
Virtusa Corp.* | 703 | 3,965 |
Wright Express Corp.* | 2,936 | 36,994 |
| | 1,052,162 |
| | |
Leisure Equipment & Products - 0.5% | | |
Brunswick Corp. | 6,637 | 27,942 |
Callaway Golf Co. | 5,023 | 46,664 |
Jakks Pacific, Inc.* | 2,081 | 42,931 |
Leapfrog Enterprises, Inc.* | 2,658 | 9,303 |
Marine Products Corp. | 813 | 4,569 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Leisure Equipment & Products - Cont'd | | |
Nautilus, Inc.* | 1,816 | $4,013 |
Polaris Industries, Inc. | 2,492 | 71,396 |
Pool Corp. | 3,611 | 64,890 |
RC2 Corp.* | 1,387 | 14,799 |
Smith & Wesson Holding Corp.* | 2,993 | 6,794 |
Steinway Musical Instruments* | 547 | 9,578 |
| | 302,879 |
| | |
Life Sciences - Tools & Services - 1.3% | | |
Accelrys, Inc.* | 2,135 | 9,309 |
Affymetrix, Inc.* | 5,532 | 16,541 |
Albany Molecular Research, Inc.* | 1,866 | 18,175 |
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 1,286 | 46,103 |
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.* | 1,443 | 108,672 |
Bruker Corp.* | 3,826 | 15,457 |
Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.* | 3,808 | 3,694 |
Cambrex Corp.* | 2,197 | 10,150 |
Clinical Data, Inc.* | 826 | 7,351 |
Dionex Corp.* | 1,385 | 62,117 |
Enzo Biochem, Inc.* | 2,561 | 12,523 |
eResearchTechnology, Inc.* | 3,444 | 22,834 |
Exelixis, Inc.* | 7,943 | 39,874 |
Kendle International, Inc.* | 983 | 25,283 |
Life Sciences Research, Inc.* | 696 | 6,542 |
Luminex Corp.* | 3,118 | 66,601 |
Medivation, Inc.* | 1,931 | 28,135 |
Nektar Therapeutics* | 7,363 | 40,938 |
Parexel International Corp.* | 4,278 | 41,539 |
PharmaNet Development Group, Inc.* | 1,540 | 1,401 |
Sequenom, Inc.* | 4,285 | 85,015 |
Varian, Inc.* | 2,223 | 74,493 |
| | 742,747 |
| | |
Machinery - 3.0% | | |
3D Systems Corp.* | 1,362 | 10,814 |
Actuant Corp. | 4,221 | 80,283 |
Alamo Group, Inc. | 494 | 7,385 |
Albany International Corp. | 2,243 | 28,800 |
Altra Holdings, Inc.* | 2,105 | 16,651 |
American Railcar Industries, Inc. | 744 | 7,834 |
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp. | 660 | 14,322 |
Astec Industries, Inc.* | 1,365 | 42,765 |
Badger Meter, Inc. | 1,104 | 32,038 |
Barnes Group, Inc. | 3,614 | 52,403 |
Blount International, Inc.* | 3,040 | 28,819 |
Briggs & Stratton Corp. | 3,751 | 65,980 |
Cascade Corp. | 723 | 21,589 |
Chart Industries, Inc.* | 2,150 | 22,855 |
China Fire & Security Group, Inc.* | 1,116 | 7,600 |
CIRCOR International, Inc. | 1,274 | 35,035 |
CLARCOR, Inc. | 3,816 | 126,615 |
Colfax Corp.* | 1,719 | 17,860 |
Columbus McKinnon Corp.* | 1,514 | 20,666 |
Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc.* | 1,717 | 1,597 |
Dynamic Materials Corp. | 1,005 | 19,407 |
Energy Recovery, Inc.* | 1,123 | 8,512 |
EnPro Industries, Inc.* | 1,532 | 32,999 |
ESCO Technologies, Inc.* | 1,963 | 80,385 |
Federal Signal Corp. | 3,631 | 29,811 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Machinery - Cont'd | | |
Flanders Corp.* | 1,282 | $6,013 |
Flow International Corp.* | 2,995 | 7,248 |
Force Protection, Inc.* | 5,262 | 31,467 |
FreightCar America, Inc. | 945 | 17,265 |
Gorman-Rupp Co. | 1,085 | 33,765 |
Graham Corp. | 792 | 8,569 |
Greenbrier Cos, Inc. | 1,305 | 8,965 |
Hurco Cos, Inc.* | 512 | 6,144 |
Kadant, Inc.* | 1,111 | 14,976 |
Kaydon Corp. | 2,091 | 71,826 |
Key Technology, Inc.* | 449 | 8,482 |
K-Tron International, Inc.* | 193 | 15,421 |
LB Foster Co.* | 880 | 27,526 |
Lindsay Corp. | 902 | 28,675 |
Lydall, Inc.* | 1,322 | 7,602 |
Met-Pro Corp. | 1,199 | 15,971 |
Middleby Corp.* | 1,282 | 34,960 |
Mueller Industries, Inc. | 2,808 | 70,425 |
Mueller Water Products, Inc. | 8,700 | 73,080 |
NACCO Industries, Inc. | 452 | 16,909 |
NN, Inc. | 1,264 | 2,895 |
Nordson Corp. | 2,539 | 81,984 |
Omega Flex, Inc. | 248 | 5,193 |
PMFG, Inc.* | 1,034 | 9,885 |
RBC Bearings, Inc.* | 1,644 | 33,340 |
Robbins & Myers, Inc. | 2,120 | 34,280 |
Sauer-Danfoss, Inc. | 885 | 7,744 |
Sun Hydraulics Corp. | 929 | 17,502 |
Tecumseh Products Co.* | 1,299 | 12,444 |
Tennant Co. | 1,256 | 19,342 |
Thermadyne Holdings Corp.* | 1,066 | 7,323 |
Titan International, Inc. | 2,604 | 21,483 |
Titan Machinery, Inc.* | 583 | 8,197 |
Trimas Corp.* | 1,166 | 1,609 |
TurboChef Technologies, Inc.* | 1,881 | 9,236 |
Twin Disc, Inc. | 694 | 4,782 |
Wabash National Corp. | 2,447 | 11,012 |
Wabtec Corp. | 3,661 | 145,525 |
Watts Water Technologies, Inc. | 2,211 | 55,209 |
Xerium Technologies, Inc. | 1,653 | 1,091 |
| | 1,808,390 |
| | |
Marine - 0.2% | | |
American Commercial Lines, Inc.* | 2,846 | 13,945 |
Eagle Bulk Shipping, Inc. | 3,538 | 24,129 |
Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd. | 1,771 | 26,211 |
Horizon Lines, Inc. | 2,384 | 8,320 |
International Shipholding Corp. | 483 | 12,234 |
TBS International Ltd.* | 835 | 8,375 |
Ultrapetrol (Bahamas) Ltd.* | 1,992 | 6,355 |
| | 99,569 |
| | |
Media - 1.0% | | |
AH Belo Corp. | 1,632 | 3,558 |
Arbitron, Inc. | 2,061 | 27,370 |
Belo Corp. | 7,101 | 11,078 |
Charter Communications, Inc.* | 31,707 | 2,594 |
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. | 2,379 | 17,676 |
Citadel Broadcasting Corp.* | 14,107 | 2,257 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Media - Cont'd | | |
CKX, Inc.* | 4,193 | $15,388 |
Cox Radio, Inc.* | 2,043 | 12,278 |
Crown Media Holdings, Inc.* | 1,039 | 2,961 |
Cumulus Media, Inc.* | 2,102 | 5,234 |
Dolan Media Co.* | 1,747 | 11,513 |
Entercom Communications Corp. | 2,046 | 2,517 |
Entravision Communications Corp.* | 4,741 | 7,396 |
Fisher Communications, Inc. | 510 | 10,526 |
Global Sources Ltd.* | 1,135 | 6,186 |
Global Traffic Network, Inc.* | 944 | 5,513 |
Gray Television, Inc. | 3,403 | 1,361 |
Harte-Hanks, Inc. | 2,925 | 18,252 |
Interactive Data Corp. | 2,759 | 68,037 |
Journal Communications, Inc. | 3,369 | 8,254 |
Knology, Inc.* | 2,261 | 11,667 |
Lee Enterprises, Inc. | 3,545 | 1,453 |
LIN TV Corp.* | 2,131 | 2,323 |
Live Nation, Inc.* | 5,735 | 32,919 |
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia* | 2,043 | 5,312 |
Marvel Entertainment, Inc.* | 3,700 | 113,775 |
McClatchy Co. | 4,533 | 3,626 |
Media General, Inc. | 1,822 | 3,189 |
Mediacom Communications Corp.* | 3,136 | 13,485 |
National CineMedia, Inc. | 3,352 | 33,989 |
Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc.* | 1,282 | 9,602 |
Playboy Enterprises, Inc., Class B* | 1,700 | 3,672 |
Primedia, Inc. | 2,008 | 4,357 |
RCN Corp.* | 3,000 | 17,700 |
RH Donnelley Corp.* | 5,482 | 2,028 |
RHI Entertainment, Inc.* | 1,020 | 8,282 |
Scholastic Corp. | 1,820 | 24,716 |
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. | 4,175 | 12,943 |
Valassis Communications, Inc.* | 3,829 | 5,054 |
Value Line, Inc. | 108 | 3,728 |
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. | 1,691 | 18,736 |
| | 572,505 |
| | |
Metals & Mining - 1.0% | | |
Allied Nevada Gold Corp.* | 3,588 | 18,155 |
AM Castle & Co. | 1,315 | 14,241 |
AMCOL International Corp. | 1,950 | 40,853 |
Apex Silver Mines Ltd.* | 4,538 | 4,447 |
Brush Engineered Materials, Inc.* | 1,625 | 20,670 |
China Precision Steel, Inc.* | 1,368 | 1,710 |
Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp.* | 41,624 | 36,629 |
Compass Minerals International, Inc. | 2,455 | 144,010 |
General Moly, Inc.* | 4,998 | 5,898 |
General Steel Holdings, Inc.* | 858 | 3,381 |
Haynes International, Inc.* | 949 | 23,364 |
Hecla Mining Co.* | 9,651 | 27,023 |
Horsehead Holding Corp.* | 2,783 | 13,080 |
Kaiser Aluminum Corp. | 1,192 | 26,844 |
Olympic Steel, Inc. | 720 | 14,666 |
Royal Gold, Inc. | 2,213 | 108,902 |
RTI International Metals, Inc.* | 1,832 | 26,216 |
Stillwater Mining Co.* | 3,229 | 15,951 |
Sutor Technology Group Ltd.* | 608 | 1,405 |
Universal Stainless & Alloy* | 534 | 7,738 |
Worthington Industries, Inc. | 4,865 | 53,612 |
| | 608,795 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Multiline Retail - 0.2% | | |
99 Cents Only Stores* | 3,606 | $39,414 |
Dillard's, Inc. | 4,322 | 17,158 |
Fred's, Inc. | 3,020 | 32,495 |
Retail Ventures, Inc.* | 2,127 | 7,381 |
Tuesday Morning Corp.* | 2,412 | 3,931 |
| | 100,379 |
| | |
Multi-Utilities - 0.6% | | |
Avista Corp. | 3,985 | 77,230 |
Black Hills Corp. | 2,906 | 78,346 |
CH Energy Group, Inc. | 1,195 | 61,411 |
NorthWestern Corp. | 2,945 | 69,119 |
PNM Resources, Inc. | 6,528 | 65,802 |
| | 351,908 |
| | |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 3.1% | | |
Abraxas Petroleum Corp.* | 3,345 | 2,408 |
Alon USA Energy, Inc. | 803 | 7,347 |
American Oil & Gas, Inc.* | 2,923 | 2,338 |
APCO Argentina, Inc. | 305 | 8,122 |
Approach Resources, Inc.* | 716 | 5,234 |
Arena Resources, Inc.* | 2,863 | 80,422 |
Atlas America, Inc. | 2,613 | 38,803 |
ATP Oil & Gas Corp.* | 2,214 | 12,952 |
Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc.* | 2,126 | 1,382 |
Berry Petroleum Co. | 3,224 | 24,373 |
Bill Barrett Corp.* | 2,775 | 58,636 |
BMB Munai, Inc.* | 2,974 | 4,134 |
BPZ Resources, Inc.* | 4,601 | 29,446 |
Brigham Exploration Co.* | 3,682 | 11,782 |
Callon Petroleum Co.* | 1,670 | 4,342 |
Cano Petroleum, Inc.* | 3,083 | 1,357 |
Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.* | 2,073 | 33,375 |
Cheniere Energy, Inc.* | 3,868 | 11,024 |
Clayton Williams Energy, Inc.* | 431 | 19,585 |
Clean Energy Fuels Corp.* | 1,737 | 10,491 |
Comstock Resources, Inc.* | 3,449 | 162,965 |
Concho Resources, Inc.* | 4,187 | 95,547 |
Contango Oil & Gas Co.* | 996 | 56,075 |
Crosstex Energy, Inc. | 3,047 | 11,883 |
CVR Energy, Inc.* | 1,833 | 7,332 |
Delek US Holdings, Inc. | 1,057 | 5,592 |
Delta Petroleum Corp.* | 4,696 | 22,353 |
DHT Maritime, Inc. | 3,126 | 17,318 |
Double Eagle Petroleum Co.* | 651 | 4,570 |
Endeavour International Corp.* | 9,060 | 4,530 |
Energy Partners Ltd.* | 2,543 | 3,433 |
Energy XXI Bermuda Ltd. | 9,524 | 7,524 |
Evergreen Energy, Inc.* | 6,516 | 1,890 |
EXCO Resources, Inc.* | 11,268 | 102,088 |
FX Energy, Inc.* | 3,212 | 8,961 |
Gasco Energy, Inc.* | 7,468 | 2,913 |
General Maritime Corp. | 4,488 | 48,470 |
GeoGlobal Resources, Inc.* | 3,027 | 4,843 |
GeoMet, Inc.* | 1,400 | 2,408 |
Georesources, Inc.* | 439 | 3,815 |
GMX Resources, Inc.* | 1,260 | 31,903 |
Golar LNG Ltd. | 2,815 | 19,029 |
Goodrich Petroleum Corp.* | 1,708 | 51,155 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - Cont'd | | |
Gran Tierra Energy, Inc.* | 16,762 | $46,934 |
GreenHunter Energy, Inc.: | | |
Common | 343 | 1,688 |
Warrants (strike price $27.50/share, expire 9/14/11) (b) | 34 | - |
Gulfport Energy Corp.* | 2,090 | 8,255 |
Harvest Natural Resources, Inc.* | 2,811 | 12,087 |
Houston American Energy Corp. | 1,188 | 4,015 |
International Coal Group, Inc.* | 9,632 | 22,154 |
James River Coal Co.* | 2,101 | 32,208 |
Knightsbridge Tankers Ltd. | 1,363 | 19,968 |
McMoRan Exploration Co.* | 4,540 | 44,492 |
Meridian Resource Corp.* | 6,181 | 3,523 |
National Coal Corp.* | 2,046 | 2,598 |
Nordic American Tanker Shipping | 2,598 | 87,682 |
Northern Oil And Gas, Inc.* | 1,563 | 4,064 |
Oilsands Quest, Inc.* | 13,143 | 9,594 |
Pacific Ethanol, Inc.* | 3,524 | 1,551 |
Panhandle Oil and Gas, Inc. | 584 | 10,512 |
Parallel Petroleum Corp.* | 3,297 | 6,627 |
Penn Virginia Corp. | 3,149 | 81,811 |
Petroleum Development Corp.* | 1,184 | 28,499 |
Petroquest Energy, Inc.* | 3,456 | 23,363 |
PrimeEnergy Corp.* | 74 | 3,844 |
Quest Resource Corp.* | 2,188 | 963 |
RAM Energy Resources, Inc.* | 2,872 | 2,527 |
Rentech, Inc.* | 13,209 | 8,982 |
Rex Energy Corp.* | 1,336 | 3,928 |
Rosetta Resources, Inc.* | 3,883 | 27,492 |
Ship Finance International Ltd. | 3,176 | 35,095 |
Stone Energy Corp.* | 2,388 | 26,316 |
Swift Energy Co.* | 2,312 | 38,865 |
Teekay Tankers Ltd. | 1,100 | 13,970 |
Toreador Resources Corp.* | 1,348 | 7,401 |
Tri-Valley Corp.* | 1,787 | 3,217 |
TXCO Resources, Inc.* | 2,793 | 4,162 |
Uranium Resources, Inc.* | 3,689 | 2,841 |
USEC, Inc.* | 8,400 | 37,716 |
Vaalco Energy, Inc.* | 4,710 | 35,042 |
Venoco, Inc.* | 1,614 | 4,374 |
Warren Resources, Inc.* | 4,644 | 9,242 |
Western Refining, Inc. | 2,379 | 18,461 |
Westmoreland Coal Co.* | 757 | 8,403 |
World Fuel Services Corp. | 2,178 | 80,586 |
| | 1,869,202 |
| | |
Paper & Forest Products - 0.3% | | |
AbitibiBowater, Inc.* | 4,143 | 1,947 |
Buckeye Technologies, Inc.* | 3,124 | 11,371 |
Clearwater Paper Corp.* | 852 | 7,148 |
Deltic Timber Corp. | 796 | 36,417 |
Glatfelter | 3,415 | 31,760 |
KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp.* | 1,429 | 3,401 |
Louisiana-Pacific Corp. | 7,822 | 12,202 |
Mercer International, Inc.* | 2,460 | 4,723 |
Neenah Paper, Inc. | 1,163 | 10,281 |
Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. | 1,249 | 25,005 |
Verso Paper Corp. | 1,116 | 1,150 |
Wausau Paper Corp. | 3,423 | 39,159 |
| | 184,564 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Personal Products - 0.4% | | |
American Oriental Bioengineering, Inc.* | 4,918 | $33,393 |
Chattem, Inc.* | 1,299 | 92,917 |
China Sky One Medical, Inc.* | 592 | 9,466 |
Elizabeth Arden, Inc.* | 1,846 | 23,278 |
Inter Parfums, Inc. | 1,120 | 8,602 |
Mannatech, Inc. | 1,100 | 2,695 |
Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. | 3,742 | 39,029 |
Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc.* | 2,690 | 28,379 |
Schiff Nutrition International, Inc.* | 744 | 4,442 |
USANA Health Sciences, Inc.* | 557 | 19,072 |
| | 261,273 |
| | |
Pharmaceuticals - 1.4% | | |
Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 651 | 4,778 |
Adolor Corp.* | 3,668 | 6,089 |
Akorn, Inc.* | 4,543 | 10,449 |
Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 1,900 | 6,023 |
Ardea Biosciences, Inc.* | 861 | 10,306 |
Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 3,113 | 88,534 |
Biodel, Inc.* | 856 | 4,126 |
BioForm Medical, Inc.* | 1,743 | 1,586 |
BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc.* | 1,057 | 9,746 |
Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 1,611 | 11,648 |
Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd.* | 813 | 4,813 |
Columbia Laboratories, Inc.* | 3,731 | 4,738 |
Cypress Bioscience, Inc.* | 2,991 | 20,458 |
Depomed, Inc.* | 3,827 | 6,315 |
Discovery Laboratories, Inc.* | 7,429 | 8,320 |
Durect Corp.* | 6,499 | 22,032 |
Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 3,364 | 12,110 |
Javelin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 3,921 | 4,901 |
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 401 | 774 |
KV Pharmaceutical Co.* | 2,490 | 7,171 |
MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 623 | 4,349 |
Medicines Co.* | 3,930 | 57,889 |
Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp. | 4,279 | 59,478 |
MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 2,857 | 4,286 |
Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 1,978 | 21,758 |
Obagi Medical Products, Inc.* | 1,414 | 10,548 |
Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 1,927 | 23,336 |
Pain Therapeutics, Inc.* | 2,773 | 16,416 |
Par Pharmaceutical Cos, Inc.* | 2,752 | 36,904 |
Pozen, Inc.* | 2,076 | 10,463 |
Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 4,075 | 37,938 |
Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd.* | 3,805 | 33,598 |
Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc.* | 729 | 4,192 |
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International* | 5,270 | 120,683 |
Viropharma, Inc.* | 5,291 | 68,889 |
Vivus, Inc.* | 5,225 | 27,797 |
XenoPort, Inc.* | 1,902 | 47,702 |
| | 831,143 |
| | |
Professional Services - 1.6% | | |
Administaff,.Inc. | 1,629 | 35,317 |
Advisory Board Co.* | 1,307 | 29,146 |
CBIZ, Inc.* | 3,566 | 30,846 |
CDI Corp. | 1,062 | 13,742 |
China Direct, Inc.* | 544 | 789 |
COMSYS IT Partners, Inc.* | 1,102 | 2,468 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Professional Services - Cont'd | | |
CoStar Group, Inc.* | 1,479 | $48,718 |
CRA International, Inc.* | 878 | 23,644 |
Duff & Phelps Corp.* | 845 | 16,156 |
Exponent, Inc.* | 1,115 | 33,539 |
First Advantage Corp.* | 820 | 11,603 |
Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. | 1,302 | 28,045 |
Hill International, Inc.* | 1,866 | 13,137 |
Hudson Highland Group, Inc.* | 1,996 | 6,687 |
Huron Consulting Group, Inc.* | 1,568 | 89,799 |
ICF International, Inc.* | 530 | 13,022 |
Kelly Services, Inc. | 1,988 | 25,864 |
Kforce, Inc.* | 2,497 | 19,177 |
Korn/Ferry International* | 3,508 | 40,061 |
LECG Corp.* | 2,037 | 13,668 |
MPS Group, Inc.* | 7,135 | 53,727 |
Navigant Consulting, Inc.* | 3,661 | 58,100 |
Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc.* | 3,831 | 12,336 |
On Assignment, Inc.* | 2,712 | 15,377 |
Resources Connection, Inc.* | 3,449 | 56,495 |
School Specialty, Inc.* | 1,468 | 28,068 |
Spherion Corp.* | 4,344 | 9,600 |
TrueBlue, Inc.* | 3,359 | 32,146 |
Volt Information Sciences, Inc.* | 1,008 | 7,288 |
VSE Corp. | 320 | 12,554 |
Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. | 3,229 | 154,411 |
| | 935,530 |
| | |
Real Estate Investment Trusts - 5.5% | | |
Acadia Realty Trust | 2,440 | 34,819 |
Agree Realty Corp. | 622 | 11,277 |
Alexander's, Inc. | 153 | 39,000 |
American Campus Communities, Inc. | 3,177 | 65,065 |
AMERICAN CAPITAL AGENCY Corp.* | 797 | 17,024 |
Anthracite Capital, Inc. | 4,367 | 9,738 |
Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp. | 6,232 | 40,072 |
Arbor Realty Trust, Inc. | 1,131 | 3,336 |
Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. | 9,540 | 10,971 |
Associated Estates Realty Corp. | 1,155 | 10,545 |
BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. | 6,162 | 72,219 |
Capital Trust, Inc. | 1,306 | 4,702 |
CAPLEASE, Inc. | 3,566 | 6,169 |
Capstead Mortgage Corp. | 4,271 | 45,999 |
Care Investment Trust, Inc. | 1,058 | 8,242 |
Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. | 2,890 | 20,461 |
Chimera Investment Corp. | 2,688 | 9,274 |
Cogdell Spencer, Inc. | 841 | 7,872 |
Colonial Properties Trust | 3,589 | 29,896 |
Corporate Office Properties Trust | 3,219 | 98,823 |
Cousins Properties, Inc. | 3,291 | 45,580 |
DCT Industrial Trust, Inc. | 12,974 | 65,648 |
DiamondRock Hospitality Co. | 7,195 | 36,479 |
DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. | 950 | 1,966 |
EastGroup Properties, Inc. | 1,882 | 66,962 |
Education Realty Trust, Inc. | 2,272 | 11,860 |
Entertainment Properties Trust | 2,520 | 75,096 |
Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. | 1,536 | 58,921 |
Equity One, Inc. | 2,432 | 43,046 |
Extra Space Storage, Inc. | 6,017 | 62,095 |
FelCor Lodging Trust, Inc. | 5,012 | 9,222 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Real Estate Investment Trusts - Cont'd | | |
First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. | 3,355 | $25,330 |
First Potomac Realty Trust | 1,949 | 18,126 |
Franklin Street Properties Corp. | 4,467 | 65,888 |
Friedman Billings Ramsey Group, Inc.* | 11,500 | 1,955 |
Getty Realty Corp. | 1,382 | 29,105 |
Glimcher Realty Trust | 3,012 | 8,464 |
Gramercy Capital Corp. | 3,318 | 4,247 |
Hatteras Financial Corp. | 916 | 24,366 |
Healthcare Realty Trust, Inc. | 4,447 | 104,416 |
Hersha Hospitality Trust | 3,645 | 10,935 |
Highwoods Properties, Inc. | 4,807 | 131,520 |
Home Properties, Inc. | 2,392 | 97,115 |
Inland Real Estate Corp. | 4,336 | 56,281 |
Investors Real Estate Trust | 4,339 | 46,471 |
JER Investors Trust, Inc. | 1,804 | 1,678 |
Kite Realty Group Trust | 1,614 | 8,974 |
LaSalle Hotel Properties | 3,034 | 33,526 |
Lexington Realty Trust | 3,853 | 19,265 |
LTC Properties, Inc. | 1,742 | 35,328 |
Maguire Properties, Inc.* | 3,047 | 4,449 |
Medical Properties Trust, Inc. | 5,021 | 31,682 |
MFA Mortgage Investments, Inc. | 14,945 | 88,026 |
Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. | 1,984 | 73,725 |
Mission West Properties, Inc. | 1,570 | 12,010 |
Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp. | 1,576 | 11,032 |
National Health Investors, Inc. | 1,685 | 46,220 |
National Retail Properties, Inc. | 6,006 | 103,243 |
Newcastle Investment Corp. | 4,206 | 3,533 |
NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. | 4,429 | 17,317 |
Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. | 6,192 | 98,886 |
One Liberty Properties, Inc. | 637 | 5,606 |
Parkway Properties, Inc. | 1,218 | 21,924 |
Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust | 2,669 | 19,884 |
Post Properties, Inc. | 3,336 | 55,044 |
Potlatch Corp. | 2,985 | 77,640 |
PS Business Parks, Inc. | 1,138 | 50,823 |
RAIT Financial Trust | 4,875 | 12,675 |
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust | 1,254 | 7,750 |
Realty Income Corp. | 7,660 | 177,329 |
Redwood Trust, Inc. | 2,482 | 37,007 |
Resource Capital Corp. | 1,695 | 6,492 |
Saul Centers, Inc. | 757 | 29,901 |
Senior Housing Properties Trust | 8,646 | 154,936 |
Sovran Self Storage, Inc. | 1,652 | 59,472 |
Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc. | 5,929 | 9,961 |
Sun Communities, Inc. | 1,309 | 18,326 |
Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. | 3,879 | 24,011 |
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers | 2,387 | 89,799 |
Universal Health Realty Income Trust | 945 | 31,100 |
Urstadt Biddle Properties, Inc. | 1,651 | 26,300 |
U-Store-It Trust | 3,742 | 16,652 |
Washington Real Estate Investment Trust | 4,015 | 113,624 |
Winthrop Realty Trust | 833 | 9,025 |
| | 3,290,773 |
| | |
Real Estate Management & Development - 0.2% | | |
Avatar Holdings, Inc.* | 486 | 12,889 |
Consolidated-Tomoka Land Co. | 432 | 16,498 |
Forestar Group, Inc.* | 2,692 | 25,628 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Real Estate Management & Development - Cont'd | | |
FX Real Estate and Entertainment, Inc.* | 500 | $75 |
Grubb & Ellis Co. | 2,863 | 3,550 |
Maui Land & Pineapple Co., Inc.* | 373 | 5,009 |
Meruelo Maddux Properties, Inc.* | 3,525 | 4,371 |
Stratus Properties, Inc.* | 495 | 6,168 |
Tejon Ranch Co.* | 887 | 21,944 |
Thomas Properties Group, Inc. | 1,901 | 4,924 |
| | 101,056 |
| | |
Road & Rail - 0.8% | | |
Amerco, Inc.* | 748 | 25,828 |
Arkansas Best Corp. | 1,715 | 51,639 |
Celadon Group, Inc.* | 1,741 | 14,851 |
Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc.* | 1,732 | 1,888 |
Genesee & Wyoming, Inc.* | 2,321 | 70,790 |
Heartland Express, Inc. | 4,222 | 66,539 |
Knight Transportation, Inc. | 4,320 | 69,638 |
Marten Transport Ltd.* | 1,218 | 23,093 |
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.* | 2,093 | 59,567 |
Patriot Transportation Holding, Inc.* | 127 | 8,899 |
Saia, Inc.* | 1,029 | 11,175 |
Universal Truckload Services, Inc.* | 475 | 6,726 |
Werner Enterprises, Inc. | 3,211 | 55,679 |
YRC Worldwide, Inc.* | 4,550 | 13,058 |
| | 479,370 |
| | |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 2.6% | | |
Actel Corp.* | 2,015 | 23,616 |
Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc.* | 3,637 | 10,984 |
Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.* | 2,611 | 25,979 |
Amkor Technology, Inc.* | 8,256 | 17,998 |
Anadigics, Inc.* | 4,987 | 7,381 |
Applied Micro Circuits Corp.* | 5,163 | 20,291 |
Asyst Technologies, Inc.* | 3,801 | 950 |
Atheros Communications, Inc.* | 4,486 | 64,195 |
ATMI, Inc.* | 2,427 | 37,449 |
AuthenTec, Inc.* | 1,996 | 3,333 |
Axcelis Technologies, Inc.* | 8,163 | 4,163 |
Brooks Automation, Inc.* | 4,798 | 27,876 |
Cabot Microelectronics Corp.* | 1,773 | 46,222 |
Cavium Networks, Inc.* | 2,413 | 25,361 |
Ceva, Inc.* | 1,605 | 11,235 |
Cirrus Logic, Inc.* | 5,171 | 13,858 |
Cohu, Inc. | 1,838 | 22,332 |
Cymer, Inc.* | 2,296 | 50,305 |
Diodes, Inc.* | 2,306 | 13,974 |
DSP Group, Inc.* | 1,937 | 15,535 |
Emcore Corp.* | 5,846 | 7,600 |
Entegris, Inc.* | 8,630 | 18,900 |
Entropic Communications, Inc.* | 700 | 350 |
Exar Corp.* | 2,976 | 19,850 |
FEI Co.* | 2,761 | 52,072 |
Formfactor, Inc.* | 3,696 | 53,962 |
Hittite Microwave Corp.* | 1,480 | 43,601 |
IXYS Corp. | 1,911 | 15,785 |
Kopin Corp.* | 5,497 | 11,214 |
Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc.* | 4,265 | 7,250 |
Lattice Semiconductor Corp.* | 9,176 | 13,856 |
LTX-Credence Corp.* | 9,466 | 2,556 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - Cont'd | | |
Mattson Technology, Inc.* | 4,052 | $5,713 |
Micrel, Inc. | 3,957 | 28,926 |
Microsemi Corp.* | 5,950 | 75,208 |
Microtune, Inc.* | 4,122 | 8,409 |
MIPS Technologies, Inc.* | 3,345 | 3,713 |
MKS Instruments, Inc.* | 3,767 | 55,714 |
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.* | 1,973 | 24,880 |
Netlogic Microsystems, Inc.* | 1,296 | 28,525 |
NVE Corp.* | 370 | 9,668 |
Omnivision Technologies, Inc.* | 3,862 | 20,275 |
Pericom Semiconductor Corp.* | 1,758 | 9,634 |
Photronics, Inc.* | 3,214 | 6,267 |
PLX Technology, Inc.* | 2,208 | 3,798 |
PMC - Sierra, Inc.* | 16,525 | 80,311 |
Power Integrations, Inc. | 2,296 | 45,644 |
RF Micro Devices, Inc.* | 19,973 | 15,579 |
Rubicon Technology, Inc.* | 1,056 | 4,499 |
Rudolph Technologies, Inc.* | 2,436 | 8,599 |
Semitool, Inc.* | 1,797 | 5,481 |
Semtech Corp.* | 4,674 | 52,676 |
Sigma Designs, Inc.* | 2,115 | 20,092 |
Silicon Image, Inc.* | 5,780 | 24,276 |
Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.* | 6,318 | 14,468 |
SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc.* | 4,621 | 5,915 |
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.* | 12,336 | 68,341 |
Spansion, Inc.* | 10,163 | 1,924 |
Standard Microsystems Corp.* | 1,697 | 27,729 |
Supertex, Inc.* | 843 | 20,240 |
Techwell, Inc.* | 1,223 | 7,950 |
Tessera Technologies, Inc.* | 3,659 | 43,469 |
Transmeta Corp.* | 969 | 17,636 |
Trident Microsystems, Inc.* | 4,861 | 9,187 |
TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.* | 10,858 | 37,352 |
Ultra Clean Holdings* | 1,549 | 3,113 |
Ultratech, Inc.* | 1,863 | 22,281 |
Veeco Instruments, Inc.* | 2,540 | 16,104 |
Volterra Semiconductor Corp.* | 2,020 | 14,443 |
Zoran Corp.* | 4,128 | 28,194 |
| | 1,566,266 |
| | |
Software - 3.9% | | |
ACI Worldwide, Inc.* | 2,590 | 41,181 |
Actuate Corp.* | 796 | 2,356 |
Advent Software, Inc.* | 1,263 | 25,222 |
American Software, Inc. | 1,795 | 8,437 |
ArcSight, Inc.* | 564 | 4,518 |
Blackbaud, Inc. | 3,388 | 45,738 |
Blackboard, Inc.* | 2,341 | 61,404 |
Bottomline Technologies, Inc.* | 1,750 | 12,425 |
Callidus Software, Inc.* | 2,401 | 7,179 |
Commvault Systems, Inc.* | 3,234 | 43,368 |
Concur Technologies, Inc.* | 3,258 | 106,928 |
Deltek, Inc.* | 1,003 | 4,654 |
DemandTec, Inc.* | 1,564 | 12,621 |
Digimarc Corp.* | 460 | 4,609 |
Double-Take Software, Inc.* | 1,377 | 12,352 |
Ebix, Inc.* | 486 | 11,615 |
Entrust, Inc.* | 4,882 | 7,714 |
Epicor Software Corp.* | 4,470 | 21,456 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Software - Cont'd | | |
EPIQ Systems, Inc.* | 2,674 | $44,683 |
Fair Isaac Corp. | 3,681 | 62,062 |
FalconStor Software, Inc.* | 3,042 | 8,457 |
Guidance Software, Inc.* | 743 | 3,031 |
i2 Technologies, Inc.* | 1,248 | 7,975 |
Informatica Corp.* | 6,699 | 91,977 |
Interactive Intelligence, Inc.* | 1,107 | 7,096 |
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. | 5,659 | 109,841 |
JDA Software Group, Inc.* | 2,049 | 26,903 |
Kenexa Corp.* | 1,796 | 14,332 |
Lawson Software, Inc.* | 8,935 | 42,352 |
Macrovision Solutions Corp.* | 6,230 | 78,809 |
Magma Design Automation, Inc.* | 3,340 | 3,407 |
Manhattan Associates, Inc.* | 1,932 | 30,545 |
Mentor Graphics Corp.* | 6,858 | 35,456 |
MICROS Systems, Inc.* | 6,160 | 100,531 |
MicroStrategy, Inc.* | 684 | 25,397 |
Midway Games, Inc.* | 916 | 174 |
Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc.* | 1,201 | 6,966 |
MSC.Software Corp.* | 3,392 | 22,659 |
Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc.* | 3,408 | 46,690 |
NetScout Systems, Inc.* | 2,347 | 20,231 |
NetSuite, Inc.* | 586 | 4,946 |
OpenTV Corp.* | 7,261 | 8,931 |
Opnet Technologies, Inc.* | 1,050 | 10,353 |
Parametric Technology Corp.* | 8,707 | 110,144 |
Pegasystems, Inc. | 1,149 | 14,202 |
Phoenix Technologies Ltd.* | 2,193 | 7,676 |
Progress Software Corp.* | 3,141 | 60,496 |
PROS Holdings, Inc.* | 1,025 | 5,894 |
QAD, Inc. | 1,023 | 4,286 |
Quality Systems, Inc. | 1,323 | 57,709 |
Quest Software, Inc.* | 4,871 | 61,326 |
Radiant Systems, Inc.* | 2,204 | 7,427 |
Renaissance Learning, Inc. | 765 | 6,877 |
Smith Micro Software, Inc.* | 2,282 | 12,688 |
Solera Holdings, Inc.* | 3,903 | 94,062 |
Sonic Solutions, Inc.* | 1,805 | 3,177 |
Sourcefire, Inc.* | 1,595 | 8,932 |
SPSS, Inc.* | 1,351 | 36,423 |
SuccessFactors, Inc.* | 1,822 | 10,458 |
Sybase, Inc.* | 5,997 | 148,546 |
Symyx Technologies* | 2,680 | 15,919 |
Synchronoss Technologies, Inc.* | 1,749 | 18,644 |
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.* | 5,808 | 43,908 |
Taleo Corp.* | 1,970 | 15,425 |
TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.* | 2,682 | 23,038 |
THQ, Inc.* | 5,026 | 21,059 |
TIBCO Software, Inc.* | 14,088 | 73,117 |
TiVo, Inc.* | 7,700 | 55,132 |
Tyler Technologies, Inc.* | 2,877 | 34,466 |
Ultimate Software Group, Inc.* | 1,862 | 27,185 |
Unica Corp.* | 1,113 | 6,099 |
VASCO Data Security International, Inc.* | 2,141 | 22,117 |
Wind River Systems, Inc.* | 5,441 | 49,132 |
| | 2,303,145 |
| | |
Specialty Retail - 2.5% | | |
Aaron Rents, Inc. | 3,411 | 90,801 |
Aeropostale, Inc.* | 5,053 | 81,353 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Specialty Retail - Cont'd | | |
America's Car-Mart, Inc.* | 800 | $11,048 |
Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. | 2,544 | 11,626 |
Bebe Stores, Inc. | 3,059 | 22,851 |
Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. | 1,740 | 9,065 |
Blockbuster, Inc.* | 14,099 | 17,765 |
Borders Group, Inc.* | 4,821 | 1,928 |
Brown Shoe Co., Inc. | 3,198 | 27,087 |
Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.* | 1,323 | 6,430 |
Cabela's, Inc.* | 2,968 | 17,303 |
Cache, Inc.* | 862 | 1,741 |
Casual Male Retail Group, Inc.* | 2,778 | 1,445 |
Cato Corp. | 2,148 | 32,435 |
Charlotte Russe Holding, Inc.* | 1,662 | 10,786 |
Charming Shoppes, Inc.* | 8,975 | 21,899 |
Chico's FAS, Inc.* | 13,369 | 55,882 |
Christopher & Banks Corp. | 2,810 | 15,736 |
Citi Trends, Inc.* | 1,137 | 16,737 |
Coldwater Creek, Inc.* | 4,535 | 12,925 |
Collective Brands, Inc.* | 4,854 | 56,889 |
Conn's, Inc.* | 780 | 6,614 |
Dress Barn, Inc.* | 3,400 | 36,516 |
DSW, Inc.* | 1,139 | 14,192 |
Finish Line | 3,397 | 19,023 |
Genesco, Inc.* | 1,455 | 24,619 |
Group 1 Automotive, Inc. | 1,848 | 19,903 |
Gymboree Corp.* | 2,155 | 56,224 |
Haverty Furniture Co.'s, Inc. | 1,412 | 13,174 |
hhgregg, Inc.* | 995 | 8,637 |
Hibbett Sports, Inc.* | 2,153 | 33,824 |
HOT Topic, Inc.* | 3,403 | 31,546 |
J Crew Group, Inc.* | 3,205 | 39,101 |
Jo-Ann Stores, Inc.* | 1,923 | 29,787 |
JOS A Bank Clothiers, Inc.* | 1,366 | 35,721 |
Lumber Liquidators, Inc.* | 749 | 7,909 |
MarineMax, Inc.* | 1,303 | 4,417 |
Men's Wearhouse, Inc. | 3,909 | 52,928 |
Midas, Inc.* | 1,091 | 11,445 |
Monro Muffler, Inc. | 1,298 | 33,099 |
New York & Co., Inc.* | 1,850 | 4,292 |
Pacific Sunwear Of California* | 5,137 | 8,168 |
PEP Boys-Manny Moe & Jack | 3,362 | 13,885 |
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.* | 4,710 | 1,743 |
Rent-A-Center, Inc.* | 5,042 | 88,991 |
Rex Stores Corp.* | 709 | 5,722 |
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.* | 7,127 | 40,553 |
Shoe Carnival, Inc.* | 707 | 6,752 |
Sonic Automotive, Inc. | 2,078 | 8,270 |
Stage Stores, Inc. | 3,054 | 25,195 |
Stein Mart, Inc.* | 1,842 | 2,081 |
Syms Corp.* | 529 | 4,698 |
Systemax, Inc. | 879 | 9,467 |
Talbots, Inc. | 1,948 | 4,656 |
The Buckle, Inc. | 1,753 | 38,250 |
The Childrens Place Retail Stores, Inc.* | 1,768 | 38,330 |
Tractor Supply Co.* | 2,517 | 90,964 |
Tween Brands, Inc.* | 1,977 | 8,541 |
Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc.* | 1,618 | 13,397 |
Wet Seal, Inc.* | 7,336 | 21,788 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Specialty Retail - Cont'd | | |
Zale Corp.* | 2,429 | $8,089 |
Zumiez, Inc.* | 1,565 | 11,659 |
| | 1,457,902 |
| | |
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 1.4% | | |
American Apparel, Inc.* | 2,699 | 5,371 |
Carter's, Inc.* | 4,274 | 82,317 |
Cherokee, Inc. | 601 | 10,427 |
Columbia Sportswear Co. | 940 | 33,248 |
CROCS, Inc.* | 6,631 | 8,223 |
Deckers Outdoor Corp.* | 987 | 78,832 |
FGX International Holdings Ltd.* | 1,095 | 15,045 |
Fossil, Inc.* | 3,432 | 57,314 |
Fuqi International, Inc.* | 777 | 4,864 |
G-III Apparel Group Ltd.* | 1,054 | 6,735 |
Iconix Brand Group, Inc.* | 4,366 | 42,699 |
Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. | 718 | 5,084 |
K-Swiss, Inc. | 1,958 | 22,321 |
Lululemon Athletica, Inc.* | 1,435 | 11,380 |
Maidenform Brands, Inc.* | 1,772 | 17,986 |
Movado Group, Inc. | 1,243 | 11,672 |
Oxford Industries, Inc. | 1,134 | 9,945 |
Perry Ellis International, Inc.* | 911 | 5,776 |
Quiksilver, Inc.* | 9,552 | 17,576 |
Skechers U.S.A., Inc.* | 2,493 | 31,960 |
Steven Madden Ltd.* | 1,407 | 29,997 |
Timberland Co.* | 3,615 | 41,753 |
True Religion Apparel, Inc.* | 1,360 | 16,918 |
Under Armour, Inc.* | 2,493 | 59,433 |
Unifi, Inc.* | 3,597 | 10,144 |
Unifirst Corp. | 1,087 | 32,273 |
Volcom, Inc.* | 1,448 | 15,783 |
Warnaco Group, Inc.* | 3,444 | 67,606 |
Weyco Group, Inc. | 578 | 19,103 |
Wolverine World Wide, Inc. | 3,768 | 79,279 |
| | 851,064 |
| | |
Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 1.7% | | |
Abington Bancorp, Inc. | 1,949 | 18,028 |
Anchor Bancorp Wisconsin, Inc. | 1,473 | 4,066 |
Bank Mutual Corp. | 3,649 | 42,109 |
BankFinancial Corp. | 1,569 | 15,988 |
Beneficial Mutual Bancorp, Inc.* | 2,609 | 29,351 |
Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. | 835 | 25,768 |
Brookline Bancorp, Inc. | 4,403 | 46,892 |
Brooklyn Federal Bancorp, Inc. | 270 | 3,794 |
Clifton Savings Bancorp, Inc. | 836 | 9,915 |
Corus Bankshares, Inc. | 3,004 | 3,334 |
Danvers Bancorp, Inc. | 1,422 | 19,012 |
Dime Community Bancshares | 1,774 | 23,594 |
Doral Financial Corp.* | 429 | 3,218 |
Encore Bancshares, Inc.* | 513 | 5,643 |
ESSA Bancorp, Inc. | 1,354 | 19,132 |
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp. | 779 | 2,727 |
First Financial Holdings, Inc. | 930 | 18,823 |
First Financial Northwest, Inc. | 1,821 | 17,008 |
First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. | 9,089 | 146,969 |
First Place Financial Corp. | 1,444 | 5,531 |
FirstFed Financial Corp.* | 1,167 | 2,042 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - Cont'd | | |
Flagstar Bancorp, Inc.* | 3,427 | $2,433 |
Flushing Financial Corp. | 1,707 | 20,416 |
Fox Chase Bancorp, Inc.* | 492 | 5,412 |
Guaranty Financial Group, Inc.* | 2,968 | 7,746 |
Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. | 524 | 5,617 |
Kearny Financial Corp. | 1,413 | 18,086 |
Meridian Interstate Bancorp, Inc.* | 838 | 7,752 |
NASB Financial, Inc. | 278 | 7,506 |
NewAlliance Bancshares, Inc. | 8,217 | 108,218 |
Northwest Bancorp, Inc. | 1,292 | 27,623 |
OceanFirst Financial Corp. | 705 | 11,703 |
Ocwen Financial Corp.* | 2,727 | 25,034 |
Oritani Financial Corp.* | 1,034 | 17,423 |
PMI Group, Inc. | 6,472 | 12,620 |
Provident Financial Services, Inc. | 4,526 | 69,248 |
Provident New York Bancorp | 3,046 | 37,770 |
Radian Group, Inc. | 6,409 | 23,585 |
Rockville Financial, Inc. | 708 | 9,891 |
Roma Financial Corp. | 676 | 8,511 |
Trustco Bank Corp. NY | 5,713 | 54,331 |
United Community Financial Corp. | 1,959 | 1,763 |
United Financial Bancorp, Inc. | 1,416 | 21,438 |
ViewPoint Financial Group | 881 | 14,140 |
Waterstone Financial, Inc.* | 553 | 1,853 |
Westfield Financial, Inc. | 2,525 | 26,058 |
WSFS Financial Corp. | 490 | 23,515 |
| | 1,032,636 |
| | |
Tobacco - 0.2% | | |
Alliance One International, Inc.* | 6,939 | 20,401 |
Star Scientific, Inc.* | 5,250 | 20,108 |
Universal Corp. | 1,922 | 57,410 |
Vector Group Ltd. | 2,499 | 34,036 |
| | 131,955 |
| | |
Trading Companies & Distributors - 0.7% | | |
Aceto Corp. | 1,948 | 19,500 |
Aircastle Ltd. | 3,719 | 17,777 |
Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. | 3,189 | 60,336 |
Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc.* | 3,346 | 46,443 |
DXP Enterprises, Inc.* | 572 | 8,357 |
H&E Equipment Services, Inc.* | 1,303 | 10,046 |
Houston Wire & Cable Co. | 1,418 | 13,202 |
Interline Brands, Inc.* | 2,442 | 25,958 |
Kaman Corp. | 1,918 | 34,773 |
Lawson Products | 334 | 7,632 |
RSC Holdings, Inc.* | 3,595 | 30,629 |
Rush Enterprises, Inc.* | 2,677 | 22,942 |
TAL International Group, Inc. | 1,136 | 16,018 |
Textainer Group Holdings Ltd. | 769 | 8,151 |
Watsco, Inc. | 1,761 | 67,622 |
| | 389,386 |
| | |
Transportation Infrastructure - 0.0% | | |
CAI International, Inc.* | 587 | 1,861 |
| | |
Water Utilities - 0.4% | | |
American States Water Co. | 1,309 | 43,171 |
Cadiz, Inc.* | 953 | 11,922 |
California Water Service Group | 1,486 | 68,995 |
| | |
| | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | Shares | Value |
Water Utilities - Cont'd | | |
Connecticut Water Service, Inc. | 671 | $15,842 |
Consolidated Water Co., Inc. | 1,157 | 14,463 |
Middlesex Water Co. | 1,058 | 18,229 |
SJW Corp. | 992 | 29,700 |
Southwest Water Co. | 1,950 | 6,279 |
| | 208,601 |
| | |
Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.2% | | |
Centennial Communications Corp.* | 5,367 | 43,258 |
FiberTower Corp.* | 9,586 | 1,534 |
ICO Global Communications Holdings Ltd.* | 7,989 | 9,027 |
iPCS, Inc.* | 1,367 | 9,378 |
Syniverse Holdings, Inc.* | 3,884 | 46,375 |
TerreStar Corp.* | 4,633 | 1,853 |
USA Mobility, Inc.* | 1,858 | 21,497 |
Virgin Mobile USA, Inc.* | 2,125 | 1,785 |
| | 134,707 |
| | |
Total Equity Securities (Cost $82,500,771) | | 57,150,262 |
| | |
| Principal | |
U.S. Treasury - 0.4% | Amount | Value |
United States Treasury Bill, 3/26/09 # | $220,000 | 219,995 |
| | |
Total U.S. Treasury (Cost $219,995) | | 219,995 |
| | |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (Cost $82,720,766) - 96.6% | | 57,370,257 |
Other assets and liabilities, net - 3.4% | | 2,021,106 |
Net Assets - 100% | | $59,391,363 |
| | |
| | |
Net Assets Consist Of: | | |
Paid-in capital applicable to the following shares of common stock outstanding, $0.10 par value, 20,000,000 shares authorized: | | |
Class I: 1,445,229 shares outstanding | | $82,546,278 |
Class F: 24,101 shares outstanding | | 1,466,744 |
Undistributed net investment income | | 81,759 |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | | 462,536 |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | (25,165,954) |
| | |
Net Assets | | $59,391,363 |
| | |
Net Asset Value Per Share: | | |
Class I (based on net assets of $58,413,980) | | $40.42 |
Class F (based on net assets of $977,383) | | $40.55 |
Futures | Number of Contracts | Expiration Date | Underlying Face Amount at Value | Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
Purchased: | | | | |
Russell 2000 Index Mini # | 42 | 03/09 | $2,091,180 | $184,558 |
(b) The security was valued by the Board of Directors. See Note A.
* Non-income producing security.
# Futures collateralized by 220,000 units of U.S. Treasury Bills.
Abbreviations:
ADR: American Depositary Receipt
LP: Limited Partnership
See notes to financial statements.
Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Portfolio
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2008
Net Investment Income | | |
Investment Income: | | |
Dividend income (net foreign taxes withheld of $104) | | $1,275,910 |
Interest income | | 205,999 |
Total investment income | | 1,481,909 |
| | |
Expenses: | | |
Investment advisory fee | | 282,630 |
Transfer agency fees and expenses | | 25,000 |
Accounting fees | | 53,799 |
Distribution plan expenses: | | |
Class F | | 1,796 |
Directors' fees and expenses | | 14,087 |
Administrative fees | | 80,752 |
Custodian fees | | 51,539 |
Reports to shareholders | | 15,273 |
Professional fees | | 24,660 |
Contract services | | 9,465 |
Miscellaneous | | 10,943 |
Total expenses | | 569,944 |
Reimbursement from Advisor: | | |
Class F | | (1) |
Class I | | (2,819) |
Net expenses | | 567,124 |
| | |
Net Investment Income | | 914,785 |
| | |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | |
Investments | | 1,807,253 |
Futures | | (675,406) |
| | 1,131,847 |
| | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | |
Investments | | (33,580,255) |
Futures | | 104,238 |
| | (33,476,017) |
| | |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain | | |
(Loss) | | (32,344,170) |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Resulting From Operations | | ($31,429,385) |
See notes to financial statements.
Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Portfolio
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Year Ended | Year Ended | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2008 | 2007 | |
Operations: | | | | |
Net investment income | | $914,785 | $1,024,277 | |
Net realized gain (loss) | | 1,131,847 | 4,430,676 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) | | (33,476,017) | (7,603,496) | |
| | | | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Resulting From Operations | | (31,429,385) | (2,148,543) | |
| | | | |
Distributions to shareholders from: | | | | |
Net investment income | | | | |
Class I shares | | (1,591,208) | (602,763) | |
Class F shares | | (10,834) | (2,328) | |
Net realized gain | | | | |
Class I shares | | (5,230,091) | (7,077,549) | |
Class F shares | | (48,980) | (33,991) | |
Total distributions | | (6,881,113) | (7,716,631) | |
| | | | |
Capital share transactions: | | | | |
Shares sold | | | | |
Class I shares | | 17,263,850 | 14,888,385 | |
Class F shares | | 1,086,448 | 516,472 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | | | |
Class I shares | | 6,821,298 | 7,680,312 | |
Class F shares | | 59,815 | 36,319 | |
Shares redeemed | | | | |
Class I shares | | (19,484,061) | (16,784,215) | |
Class F shares | | (420,084) | (63,698) | |
Total capital share transactions | | 5,327,266 | 6,273,575 | |
| | | | |
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | (32,983,232) | (3,591,599) | |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of year | | 92,374,595 | 95,966,194 | |
End of year (including undistributed net investment income of $81,759 and $885,513, respectively) | | $59,391,363 | $92,374,595 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Capital Share Activity | | | | |
Shares sold | | | | |
Class I shares | | 301,083 | 210,290 | |
Class F shares | | 20,691 | 7,193 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | | | |
Class I shares | | 132,013 | 107,162 | |
Class F shares | | 1,189 | 508 | |
Shares redeemed | | | | |
Class I shares | | (356,259) | (238,974) | |
Class F shares | | (8,241) | (910) | |
Total capital share transactions | | 90,476 | 85,269 | |
See notes to financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE A --- SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
General: The Summit Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. (the "Fund") is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company. The Fund is comprised of thirteen separate portfolios. The operations of each series of the Fund are accounted for separately. The shares of the Portfolio are sold to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for allocation to certain of their variable separate accounts. The Portfolio offers Class I and Class F shares. Class F shares are subject to Distribution Plan Expenses. Each class has different: (a) dividend rates, due to differences in Distribution Plan expenses and other class-specific expenses, (b) exchange privileges; and (c) class-specific voting rights.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), an affiliated entity, whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business and became investment advisor for the portfolios of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Security Valuation: Net asset value per share is determined every business day as of the close of the regular session of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Portfolio uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Directors to value its investments wherever possible. Securities for which market quotations are available are valued at last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange in which they trade. Foreign securities are valued based on quotations from the principal market in which such securities are normally traded. If events occur after the close of the principal market in which foreign securities are traded, and before the close of business of the Portfolio, that are expected to materially affect the value of those securities, then they are valued at their fair value taking these events into account. Short-term notes are stated at amortized cost, which approximates fair value. The Portfolio may invest in securities whose resale is subject to restrictions. Investments for which market quotations are not available or deemed not reliable are fair valued in good faith under the direction of the Board of Directors.
In determining fair value, the Board considers all relevant qualitative and quantitative information available. These factors are subject to change over time and are reviewed periodically. The values assigned to fair value investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized. Further, because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, those estimated values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed, and the differences could be material. At December 31, 2008, securities valued at $17 or 0.0% of net assets were fair valued under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Effective January 1, 2008, the Portfolio adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Portfolio's investments and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 -- quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 -- other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 -- significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy during the period. For additional information on the Portfolio's policy regarding valuation of investments, please refer to the Portfolio's most recent prospectus.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Portfolio's net assets as of December 31, 2008:
Valuation Inputs | Investments in Securities | Other Financial Instruments** |
Level 1 - Quoted Prices | $57,150,245 | $184,558 |
Level 2 - Other Significant Observable Inputs | 219,995 | -- |
Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs | 17* | -- |
Total | $57,370,257 | $184,558 |
*Level 3 securities represent 0.0% of net assets.
** Other financial instruments are derivative instruments not reflected in the Portfolio of Investments, such as futures, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/ depreciation on the instrument.
Security Transactions and Investment Income: Security transactions are accounted for on trade date. Realized gains and losses are recorded on an identified cost basis and may include proceeds from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date or, in the case of dividends on certain foreign securities, as soon as the Portfolio is informed of the ex-dividend date. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Interest income, which includes amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities, is accrued as earned. Investment income and realized and unrealized gains and losses are allocated to separate classes of shares based upon the relative net assets of each class. Expenses arising in connection with a class are charged directly to that class. Expenses common to the classes are allocated to each class in proportion to their relative net assets. Withhol ding taxes on foreign dividends have been provided for in accordance with the Portfolio's understanding of the applicable country's tax rules and rates.
Futures Contracts: The Portfolio may enter into futures contracts agreeing to buy or sell a financial instrument for a set price at a future date. Initial margin deposits of either cash or securities as required by the broker are made upon entering into the contract. While the contract is open, daily variation margin payments are made to or received from the broker reflecting the daily change in market value of the contract and are recorded for financial reporting purposes as unrealized gains or losses by the Portfolio. When a futures contract is closed, a realized gain or loss is recorded equal to the difference between the opening and closing value of the contract. The risks associated with entering into futures contracts may include the possible illiquidity of the secondary market which would limit the Portfolio's ability to close out a futures contract prior to the settlement date, an imperfect correlation between the value of the contracts and the underlying financial instruments, or that the counter party will fail to perform its obligations under the contracts' terms.
Foreign Currency Transactions: The Portfolio's accounting records are maintained in U.S. dollars. For valuation of assets and liabilities on each date of net asset value determination, foreign denominations are converted into U.S. dollars using the current exchange rate. Security transactions, income and expenses are translated at the prevailing rate of exchange on the date of the event. The effect of changes in foreign exchange rates on securities is included with the net realized and unrealized gain or loss on investments.
Distributions to Shareholders: Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Portfolio on ex-dividend date. Dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains, if any, are paid at least annually. Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles; accordingly, periodic reclassifications are made within the Portfolio's capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution under income tax regulations.
Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Expense Offset Arrangements: The Portfolio has an arrangement with its custodian bank whereby the custodian's fees may be paid indirectly by credits earned on the Portfolio's cash on deposit with the bank. These credits are used to reduce the Portfolio's expenses. Such a deposit arrangement may be an alternative to overnight investments.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision for federal income or excise tax is required since the Portfolio intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code and to distribute substantially all of its taxable earnings.
The Portfolio is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The implementation of FIN 48 did not result in any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements or in any of the open tax years; thus, no provision for income tax is required. Each of the Portfolio's federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
Portfolio Securities Lending: During the year, the Portfolio lent its securities to approved borrowers to earn additional income and received cash and/or securities as collateral to secure the loans. The Securities Lending program ended in November 2008.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 161, "Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." The new standard is intended to improve financial reporting about derivative instruments and hedging activities by requiring enhanced disclosures to enable investors to better understand the effect on the Fund's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS No. 161 will have on the Fund's financial statements and related disclosures.
NOTE B -- RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") is wholly-owned by Calvert Group, Ltd. ("Calvert"), which is indirectly wholly owned by UNIFI Mutual Holding Company ("UNIFI"). The Advisor provides investment advisory services and pays the salaries and fees of officers and Directors of the Fund who are employees of the Advisor or its affiliates. For its services, the Advisor receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .35% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $9,222 was payable at year end. In addition, $131 was receivable from the advisor for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit Investment Partners, Inc., ("Summit") served as the Advisor. Summit is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Central Life Insurance Company, an indirect subsidiary of UNIFI Mutual Holding Company. Summit received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.35% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under t he terms of the agreement, $7,292 was payable at year end. In addition, $2,688 was receivable from Summit for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008.
The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit net annual portfolio operating expenses through December 12, 2010. The contractual expense caps are .70% and .91% for Class I and Class F, respectively. For the purpose of this expense limit, operating expenses do not include interest expense, brokerage commissions, taxes and extraordinary expenses. To the extent any expense credits are earned, the Advisor's obligation under the contractual limitation may be reduced and the Advisor may benefit from the expense offset arrangement.
Calvert Administrative Services Company ("CASC"), an affiliate of the Advisor, provides administrative services for the Portfolio. For its services, CASC receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $2,635 was payable at year end. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit provided administrative services for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $2,083 was payable at year end.
Calvert Distributors, Inc., an affiliate of the Advisor, is the distributor and principal underwriter for the Portfolio. Distribution plans, adopted by Class F shares, allow the Portfolio to pay the distributor for expenses and services associated with the distribution of shares. The expenses paid may not exceed 0.20% annually of average daily net assets of Class F. Under the terms of the agreement, $79 was payable at year end. Prior to December 12, 2008, Ameritas Investment Corp. was the distributor and principal underwriter for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .20% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $941 was payable at year end.
Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. ("CSSI"), an affiliate of the Advisor, acts as shareholder servicing agent for the Portfolio. For its services, CSSI received a fee of $16 for the year ended December 31, 2008. Under the terms of the agreement, $16 was payable at year end. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. is the transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Prior to December 12, 2008, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC served as the transfer and dividend disbursing agent.
Each Director of the Fund who is not an employee of the Advisor or its affiliates receives a fee of $1,500 for each Board and Committee meeting attended plus an annual fee of $20,000 for Directors not serving on other Calvert Fund Boards, $8,000 for those serving on other Calvert Fund Boards. Director's fees are allocated to each of the portfolios served. Prior to December 12, 2008, each Director of the Fund who was not an employee of Summit or its affiliates received a fee of $2,500 for each Board meeting attended ($600 for Committee meetings) plus an annual fee of $17,000. Committee chairs and the Lead Director received additional fees for their service.
NOTE C -- INVESTMENT ACTIVITY
During the year, the cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investments, other than short-term securities were $29,011,651 and $24,566,783.
The cost of investments owned at December 31, 2008 for federal income tax purposes was $82,789,791. Net unrealized depreciation aggregated $25,419,534 of which $6,059,467 related to appreciated securities and $31,479,001 related to depreciated securities.
The tax character of dividends and distributions paid during the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 was as follows:
Distributions paid from: | 2008 | 2007 |
Ordinary income | $1,976,868 | $1,533,172 |
Long term capital gain | 4,904,245 | 6,183,459 |
Total | $6,881,113 | $7,716,631 |
As of December 31, 2008 the components of distributable earnings / (accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
Undistributed ordinary income | $81,759 |
Undistributed long term capital gain | 716,120 |
Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) | (25,419,534) |
| ($24,621,655) |
The differences between the components of distributable earnings on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the statement of net assets are primarily due to temporary book-tax differences that will reverse in a subsequent period. These differences are due to wash sales, real estate investment trusts, return of capital distributions and Section 1256 contracts.
Reclassifications, as shown in the table below, have been made to the Portfolio's components of net assets to reflect income and gains available for distribution (or available capital loss carryovers, as applicable) under income tax law and regulations. These reclassifications are due to permanent book-tax differences and have no impact on net assets. The primary permanent differences causing such reclassifications for the Portfolio are due to real estate investment trusts and return of capital distributions.
Undistributed net investment income | ($101,425) |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) | 101,425 |
NOTE D - OTHER (Unaudited)
Change in Independent Accountant
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. ("Fund"). KPMG LLP was selected as the Fund's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the Fund's financial statements. The Fund's selection of KPMG as its independent accountant was recommended by the Fund's Audit Committee and was approved by the Fund's Board of Directors.
The reports on the financial statements audited by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2007 and prior for the Funds did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There were no disagreements between the Funds and Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused Deloitte to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements of such years. There were no reportable events as described in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of Item 304(a) of SEC Regulation S-K.
Tax Information (Unaudited)
The Portfolio designates $4,904,245 as capital gain dividends for the calendar year ended December 31, 2008.
For corporate shareholders, the Portfolio designates 69.1% of its ordinary dividends paid during the calendar year ended December 31, 2008, as qualifying for the corporate dividends received deduction.
Financial Highlights
| | | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | December 31, | |
Class I | | 2008 (z) | 2007 (z) | 2006 | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $67.00 | $74.19 | $65.46 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .62 | .74 | .46 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (22.38) | (1.98) | 10.88 | |
Total from investment operations | | (21.76) | (1.24) | 11.34 | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (1.13) | (.47) | (.44) | |
Net realized gain | | (3.69) | (5.48) | (2.17) | |
Total distributions | | (4.82) | (5.95) | (2.61) | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (26.58) | (7.19) | 8.73 | |
Net asset value, ending | | $40.42 | $67.00 | $74.19 | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | (33.95%) | (2.20%) | 17.60% | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.13% | 1.04% | .84% | |
Total expenses | | .70% | .64% | .65% | |
Expenses before offsets | | .70% | .64% | .65% | |
Net expenses | | .70% | .64% | .65% | |
Portfolio turnover | | 30% | 19% | 24% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $58,414 | $91,676 | $95,694 | |
| | | | | |
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| | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | | |
Class I | | 2005 | 2004(z) | | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $63.92 | $54.40 | | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .41 | .31 | | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 2.07 | 9.32 | | |
Total from investment operations | | 2.48 | 9.63 | | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (.31) | (.11) | | |
Net realized gain | | (.63) | -- | | |
Total distributions | | (.94) | (.11) | | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | 1.54 | 9.52 | | |
Net asset value, ending | | $65.46 | $63.92 | | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | 4.01% | 17.72% | | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .70% | .60% | | |
Total expenses | | .69% | .76% | | |
Expenses before offsets | | .69% | .75% | | |
Net expenses | | .69% | .75% | | |
Portfolio turnover | | 25% | 27% | | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $75,815 | $68,770 | | |
See notes to financial highlights.
Financial Highlights
| | Years Ended | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | |
Class F | | 2008 (z) | 2007 (z) | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $66.78 | $74.02 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .58 | .59 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (22.36) | (1.97) | |
Total from investment operations | | (21.78) | (1.38) | |
Distributions from | | | | |
Net investment income | | (.76) | (.38) | |
Net realized gain | | (3.69) | (5.48) | |
Total distributions | | (4.45) | (5.86) | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (26.23) | (7.24) | |
Net asset value, ending | | $40.55 | $66.78 | |
| | | | |
Total return* | | (34.05%) | (2.40%) | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.09% | .84% | |
Total expenses | | .91% | .84% | |
Expenses before offsets | | .91% | .84% | |
Net expenses | | .91% | .84% | |
Portfolio turnover | | 30% | 19% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $977 | $699 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | Periods Ended | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | |
Class F | | 2006 | 2005# | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $65.43 | $64.41 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .31 | .12 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 10.87 | .90 | |
Total from investment operations | | 11.18 | 1.02 | |
Distributions from | | | | |
Net investment income | | (.42) | -- | |
Net realized gain | | (2.17) | -- | |
Total distributions | | (2.59) | -- | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | 8.59 | 1.02 | |
Net asset value, ending | | $74.02 | $65.43 | |
| | | | |
Total return* | | 17.35% | 1.58% | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .64% | .74% (a) | |
Total expenses | | .85% | .84% (a) | |
Expenses before offsets | | .85% | .84% (a) | |
Net expenses | | .85% | .84% (a) | |
Portfolio turnover | | 24% | 25% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $272 | $5 | |
A Total expenses do not reflect amounts reimbursed and/or waived by the Advisor or reductions from expense offset arrangements. Expenses before offsets reflect expenses after reimbursement and/or waiver by the Advisor but prior to reductions from expense offset arrangements. Net expenses are net of all reductions and represent the net expenses paid by the portfolio.
(a) Annualized.
(z) Per share figures are calculated using the Average Shares Method.
# From October 4, 2005, inception.
* Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year.
See notes to financial statements.
Explanation of Financial Tables
Schedule of Investments
The Schedule of Investments is a snapshot of all securities held in the fund at their market value, on the last day of the reporting period. Securities are listed by asset type (e.g., common stock, corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations) and may be further broken down into sub-groups and by industry classification.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities is often referred to as the fund's balance sheet. It lists the value of what the fund owns, is due and owes on the last day of the reporting period. The fund's assets include the market value of securities owned, cash, receivables for securities sold and shareholder subscriptions, and receivables for dividends and interest payments that have been earned, but not yet received. The fund's liabilities typically include payables for securities purchased and shareholder redemptions, and expenses owed but not yet paid. The statement also reports the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share on the last day of the reporting period. The NAV is calculated by dividing the fund's net assets (assets minus liabilities) by the number of shares outstanding. This statement is accompanied by a Schedule of Investments. Alternatively, if certain conditions are met, a Statement of Net Assets may be presented in lieu of this statement and the Schedule of Investments.
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets provides a detailed list of the fund's holdings, including each security's market value on the last day of the reporting period. The Statement of Net Assets includes a Schedule of Investments. Other assets are added and other liabilities subtracted from the investments total to calculate the fund's net assets. Finally, net assets are divided by the outstanding shares of the fund to arrive at its share price, or Net Asset Value (NAV) per share.
At the end of the Statement of Net Assets is a table displaying the composition of the fund's net assets. Paid in Capital is the money invested by shareholders and represents the bulk of net assets. Undistributed Net Investment Income and Accumulated Net Realized Gains usually approximate the amounts the fund had available to distribute to shareholders as of the statement date. Accumulated Realized Losses will appear as negative balances. Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) is the difference between the market value of the fund's investments and their cost, and reflects the gains (losses) that would be realized if the fund were to sell all of its investments at their statement-date values.
Statement of Operations
The Statement of Operations summarizes the fund's investment income earned and expenses incurred in operating the fund. Investment income includes dividends earned from stocks and interest earned from interest-bearing securities in the fund. Expenses incurred in operating the fund include the advisory fee paid to the investment advisor, administrative services fees, distribution plan expenses (if applicable), transfer agent fees, shareholder servicing expenses, custodial, legal, and audit fees, and the printing and postage expenses related to shareholder reports. Expense offsets (fees paid indirectly) are also shown. Credits earned from offset arrangements are used to reduce the fund's expenses. This statement also shows net gains (losses) realized on the sale of investments and the increase or decrease in the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments held during the period.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
The Statement of Changes in Net Assets shows how the fund's total net assets changed during the two most recent reporting periods. Changes in the fund's net assets are attributable to investment operations, distributions and capital share transactions.
The Operations section of the report summarizes information detailed in the Statement of Operations. The Distribution section shows the dividend and capital gain distributions made to shareholders. The amounts shown as distributions in this section may not match the net investment income and realized gains amounts shown in the Operations section because distributions are determined on a tax basis and certain investments or transactions may be treated differently for financial statement and tax purposes. The Capital Share Transactions section shows the amount shareholders invested in the fund, either by purchasing shares or by reinvesting distributions, and the amounts redeemed. The corresponding numbers of shares issued, reinvested and redeemed are shown at the end of the report.
Financial Highlights
The Financial Highlights table provides a per-share breakdown by class of the components that affect the fund's net asset value for current and past reporting periods. The table provides total return, total distributions, expense ratios, portfolio turnover and net assets for the applicable period. Total return is a measure of a fund's performance that encompasses all elements of return: dividends, capital gain distributions and changes in net asset value. Total return is the change in value of an investment over a given period, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and capital gain distributions, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment. Total distributions include distributions from net investment income and net realized gains. Long-term gains are earned on securities held in the fund more than one year. Short-term gains, on the sale of securities held less than one year, are treated as ordinary dividend income for tax purposes. The expense ratio is a fund's cost of doing business, expres sed as a percentage of net assets. These expenses directly reduce returns to shareholders. Portfolio turnover measures the trading activity in a fund's investment portfolio -- how often securities are bought and sold by a fund. Portfolio turnover is affected by market conditions, changes in the size of the fund, the nature of the fund's investments and the investment style of the portfolio manager.
Proxy Voting
The Proxy Voting Guidelines that the Portfolio uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities are provided as an Appendix to the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. The Statement of Additional Information can be obtained free of charge by calling the Fund at 1-800-368-2745 or by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available by calling the Fund or visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Form N-Q is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's Form N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC; information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
This report is intended to provide fund information to shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.
Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract
At a meeting held on December 4, 2008, the Board of Directors, and by a separate vote, the disinterested Directors, initially approved the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Portfolio and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Advisor and Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit" or the "Subadvisor") with respect to the Portfolio.
At the December 4, 2008 meeting, and in connection with the Advisor's impending purchase of the mutual fund business of Summit, the Board, effective as of December 12, 2008, terminated the Portfolio's current investment advisory agreement with Summit and approved the selection of the Advisor and Summit as investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively, to the Portfolio. In evaluating the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered a variety of information relating to the Portfolio and the Advisor. The disinterested Directors reviewed a report prepared by the Advisor regarding various services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and its affiliates.
The disinterested Directors were separately represented by independent legal counsel with respect to their consideration of the approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. Prior to voting, the disinterested Directors reviewed the proposed approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and Investment Subadvisory Agreement with management and also met in private sessions with their counsel at which no representatives of management were present.
In the course of its deliberations regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered the following factors, among others: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor, including the personnel who would be providing such services; the Advisor's financial condition; the level and method of computing the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee; performance, fee and expense information for the Portfolio; the profitability of the Calvert Group of Funds to the Advisor; the Advisor's process for monitoring "best execution"; the direct and indirect benefits, if any, to be derived by the Advisor from its relationship with the Portfolio; the effect of the Portfolio's growth and size on the Portfolio's performance and expenses; the Advisor's compliance programs and policies; the Advisor's performance of substantially similar duties for other funds; and any possible conflicts of interest.
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board reviewed information provided by the Advisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Advisor's operations and personnel, including, among other information, biographical information on the Advisor's supervisory and professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. The Board also took into account similar information provided periodically throughout the previous year by the Advisor as well as the Board's familiarity with the Advisor's management through Board of Directors' meetings, discussions and other reports. The Board considered the Advisor's current level of staffing and overall resources. The Advisor's administrative capabilities, including its ability to supervise the other service providers for the Portfolio, were also considered. The Board discussed the Advisor 's effectiveness in monitoring the performance of other funds' subadvisors and the Advisor's timeliness in responding to performance issues with respect to those funds. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement.
In considering the Portfolio's performance, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board noted that year to date through December 2, 2008, the Portfolio had underperformed the Russell 2000 Total Return Index. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Subadvisor became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Portfolio's performance was satisfactory.
In considering the Portfolio's fees and expenses, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's fees and expenses. The Board noted that the Portfolio would pay the same advisory fee to the Advisor as it currently paid to Summit. The Board took into account that the Advisor had agreed to limit the Portfolio's net annual operating expenses through December 12, 2010 to the level in effect for the Portfolio on November 30, 2008. The Board also considered the impact of the size of the Portfolio on its expenses. The Board noted that the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee with respect to the Portfolio. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed advisory fee was reasonable in view of the quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and the other factors considered.
The Board reviewed the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio. In reviewing the anticipated profitability of the advisory fee to the Advisor, the Board also considered the fact that affiliates would provide shareholder servicing and administrative services to the Portfolio for which they would receive compensation. The Board also considered whether the Advisor had the financial wherewithal to provide a high level of services to the Portfolio. The Board also considered that the Advisor would likely derive benefits to its reputation and other indirect benefits from its relationship with the Portfolio. The Board noted that the Advisor had agreed to reimburse expenses of the Portfolio above a certain level and also would pay the subadvisory fee to the Subadvisor. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was reasonable.
The Board considered the effect of the Portfolio's current size and potential growth on its performance and expenses. The Board noted that if the Portfolio's assets increased over time, the Portfolio might realize other economies of scale if assets increased proportionately more than certain other expenses. The Board took into account that the Portfolio might achieve operational efficiencies by joining the Calvert Group of Funds. The Board concluded that adding breakpoints to the advisory fee at specified asset levels was not appropriate given the Portfolio's current size.
In approving the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
In evaluating the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the disinterested Directors considered information provided by the Subadvisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Subadvisor's operations, personnel, investment philosophy, strategies and techniques. Among other information, the Subadvisor provided biographical information on portfolio management and other professional staff, performance information for itself, and descriptions of its investment philosophies, strategies and techniques, organizational and management structures and brokerage policies and practices.
The Board approved the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Subadvisor and the Advisor based on a number of factors relating to the Subadvisor's ability to perform under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. In the course of its deliberations, the Board evaluated, among other factors: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Subadvisor; the Subadvisor's management style and long-term performance record; the Portfolio's performance record and the Subadvisor's performance in employing its investment strategies; the Subadvisor's current level of staffing and its overall resources; the qualifications and experience of the Subadvisor's personnel; the Subadvisor's financial condition with respect to its ability to perform the services required under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement; the Subadvisor's compliance systems, including those related to personal investing; and any disciplinary history. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that it was satisfied with the natu re, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Subadvisor under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement.
As noted above, the Board considered the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team that was currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Summit became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. The Board also took into account the expertise and resources the Advisor would devote to monitoring the performance, investment style and risk adjusted performance of the Subadvisor
In considering the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor of its relationship with the Portfolio, the Board noted that the Advisor and Subadvisor were affiliated and the proposed subadvisory fee under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be paid by the Advisor out of the advisory fee that the Advisor would receive under the Investment Advisory Agreement. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed subadvisory fee was reasonable. Because the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee, the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor from its relationship with the Portfolio were not material factors in the Board's deliberations. For similar reasons, the Board did not consider the potential economies of scale in the Subadvisor's management of the Portfolio to be a material factor in its consideration.
In approving the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
Conclusions
The Board reached the following conclusions regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, among others: (a) the Advisor has demonstrated that it possesses the capability and resources to perform the duties required of it under the Investment Advisory Agreement; (b) the Subadvisor is qualified to manage the Portfolio's assets in accordance with the Portfolio's investment objective and policies; (c) the Advisor and Subadvisor maintain appropriate compliance programs; (d) the Subadvisor is likely to execute its investment strategies consistently over time; (e) performance of the Portfolio is satisfactory in relation to relevant indices; and (f) the Portfolio's proposed advisory and subadvisory fees are reasonable in relation to the services to be provided by the Advisor and the Subadvisor. Based on its conclusions, the Board determined that approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be in the interests of the Portfo lio and its shareholders and that the Subadvisor's service as subadvisor to the Portfolio did not involve a conflict of interest from which the Advisor or Subadvisor would derive an inappropriate advantage.
Director and Officer Information Table
Name & Age | Position with Fund
| Position Start Date
| Principal Occupation During Last 5 Years | (Not Applicable to Officers) |
# of Calvert Portfolios Overseen | Other Directorships |
Independent Directors |
FRANK H. BLATZ, JR., Esq. AGE: 73 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Of counsel to firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. Mr. Blatz was an attorney in private practice in Fanwood, NJ from 1999 to 2004. | 27 | |
ALICE GRESHAM AGE: 58 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean and Professor at Howard University School of Law. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. | 28 | - Council on Legal Education Opportunity
- North Country School
|
M. CHARITO KRUVANT AGE: 63 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | President and CEO of Creative Associates International, Inc., a firm that specializes in human resources development, information management, public affairs and private enterprise development. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Foundation
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
|
CYNTHIA MILLIGAN AGE: 62 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Formerly, she was the President and Chief Executive Officer for CMA, a consulting firm for financial institutions. | 28 | - Wells Fargo Company- NYSE
- Gallup, Inc.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Raven Industries - NASDAQ
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Non-Profit)
- Prison Fellowship Ministries (Non-Profit)
|
ARTHUR J. PUGH AGE: 71 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Retired executive. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
|
Interested Directors |
BARBARA J. KRUMSIEK AGE: 56 | Director & Chair-person | 1997 CVS 2008 Summit | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Calvert Group, Ltd. | 58 | - Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Acacia Life Insurance Company (Chair)
- UNIFI Mutual Holding Company
- Ameritas Holding Company
|
WILLIAM LESTER AGE: 51 | Director & President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | President, CEO and Treasurer of Summit Investment Advisors, Inc. | 27 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Investment Advisors, Inc.
- Ameritas Investment Corp.
|
Officers |
KAREN BECKER AGE: 56 | Chief Compliance Officer | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Chief Compliance Officer for the Calvert Funds. Prior to 2005, Ms. Becker was Senior Vice President of Calvert Group, Ltd. and Head of Calvert Client Services. |
SUSAN WALKER BENDER, Esq. AGE: 50 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1988 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
THOMAS DAILEY AGE: 44 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
IVY WAFFORD DUKE, Esq. AGE: 40 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd., and since 2004, Chief Compliance Officer for Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
TRACI L. GOLDT AGE: 35 | Assistant Secretary | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Executive Assistant to General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
GREGORY B. HABEEB AGE: 59 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
DANIEL K. HAYES AGE: 58 | Vice President | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
HUI PING HO, CPA Age: 44 | Assistant Treasurer | 2000 CVS 2008 Summit | Tax Compliance Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
LANCELOT A. KING, Esq. AGE: 38 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2002 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
EDITH LILLIE AGE: 52 | Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Secretary and Regulatory Matters Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
AUGUSTO DIVO MACEDO, Esq. AGE: 46 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, and Associate Counsel Compliance Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Mr. Macedo served as 2nd Vice President at Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Advisors Group, Acacia's broker-dealer and federally registered investment adviser. |
JANE B. MAXWELL Esq. AGE: 56 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Maxwell was an associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP. |
ANDREW K. NIEBLER, Esq. AGE: 41 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2006 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Niebler was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. |
CATHERINE P. ROY AGE: 53 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Roy was Senior Vice President of US Fixed Income for Baring Asset Management, and SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager of Scudder Insurance Asset Management. |
WILLIAM M. TARTIKOFF, Esq. AGE: 61 | Vice President & Secretary | 1990 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
NATALIE TRUNOW AGE: 41 | Vice President | 2008 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc., Head of Equities. Prior to joining Calvert in August 2008, Ms. Trunow was the Section Head (2005-2008) and Portfolio Manager (2001-2008) for the Global Public Markets Group of General Motors Asset Management. |
RONALD M. WOLFSHEIMER, CPA AGE: 56 | Treasurer | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
MICHAEL V. YUHAS JR., CPA AGE: 47 | Fund Controller | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Fund Administration of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
The address of Directors and Officers is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 1000N, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Ms. Krumsiek is an interested person of the Fund since she is an officer and director of the Fund's Advisor and its affiliates. Mr. Lester is an interested person of the Fund since he is an officer and director of the parent company of the Fund's Advisor.
Additional information about the Fund's Directors can be found in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). You can get a free copy of the SAI by contacting your broker, or the Fund at 1-800-368-2745.
Shareholder Meeting Results
A special shareholder meeting was held on December 5, 2008, by the Summit Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Portfolio of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. for the purpose of considering and voting on the issues below. The voting results were as follows:
- To approve an Investment Advisory Agreement with Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
1,194,895.939 | 52,771.935 | 94,081.925 |
- To approve an Investment Subadvisory Agreement with Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
1,199,080.169 | 53,377.176 | 89,292.454 |
- To elect the Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Name of Director | For | Withhold |
Frank H. Blatz, Jr. | 1,272,198.684 | 69,551.115 |
Alice Gresham | 1,287,913.291 | 53,836.508 |
Barbara J. Krumsiek | 1,270,840.273 | 70,909.526 |
M. Charito Kruvant | 1,272,198.684 | 69,551.115 |
William Lester | 1,286,928.706 | 54,821.093 |
Cynthia Milligan | 1,287,577.453 | 54,172.346 |
Arthur J. Pugh | 1,286,735.647 | 55,014.152 |
- To ratify the selection of auditors, KPMG, LLP for the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
1,308,923.236 | 19,129.694 | 13,696.869 |
5. To authorize the Board of Directors of the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. to enter into and materially amend agreements with investment subadvisors on behalf of the Funds without obtaining shareholder approval.
For | Against | Abstain |
1,255,867.867 | 73,467.469 | 12,414.463 |
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Summit EAFE International Index Portfolio
Annual Report
December 31, 2008
Summit Mutual Funds
Calvert
Investments That Make A Difference
A UNIFI Company
Summit EAFE International Index Portfolio
Annual Report, December 31, 2008
Table Of Contents
3 | Portfolio Manager Remarks |
5 | Shareholder Expense Example |
6 | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
7 | Statement of Net Assets |
25 | Statement of Operations |
26 | Statements of Changes in Net Assets |
27 | Notes to Financial Statements |
32 | Financial Highlights |
34 | Explanation of Financial Tables |
35 | Proxy Voting and Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings |
36 | Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract |
39 | Director and Officer Information Table |
Summit EAFE International Index Portfolio
Managed by World Asset Management, Inc.
Performance
For the 12-month period ended December 31, 2008, the Summit EAFE International Index Portfolio ("Fund") Class I shares returned -42.68% versus -43.06% for its benchmark, the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Europe, Australasia, Far East (EAFE) Index ("MSCI EAFE Index"). As an index fund, the Fund uses a passive management approach and seeks, as closely as possible, to replicate the holdings and match the performance of the MSCI EAFE Index, before fees and expenses. The unmanaged MSCI EAFE Index is made up of a wide range of foreign securities trading in developed foreign markets, such as Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore and countries in the Far East.
Summit EAFE International Index Portfolio*
Comparison of change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment.
Average Annual Total Return
(period ended 12.31.08)
| Class I | Class F** |
One year | (42.68%) | (42.81%) |
Five year | 1.03% | 0.81% |
Since inception (11.12.02) | 5.47% | 5.24% |
*Performance information is for the Portfolio only and does not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
** Prior to December 17, 2007, Class F share performance is based on Class I performance. Absent limitation of expenses during certain of the periods shown, performance would have been lower.
Past performance does not indicate future results.
Investment Climate
Foreign stock markets had historically weak returns for the year, both in absolute terms and when compared to the -37.00% return for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index versus a -43.06% decline for the MSCI EAFE Index. There were 21 countries in the MSCI EAFE universe as of December 31, 2008. Japan and the U.K. were the most heavily weighted, with allocations of 25.3% and 19.9% respectively, accounting for 45.2% of the MSCI EAFE Index.
The less-weak returns during 2008 came from Japan and Switzerland, the only countries in the Index to post returns better than -30% for the year. Ireland (at -71.7%) and Austria (at -68.2%) were the poorest-performing countries in the MSCI EAFE Index universe. Given that it had both the heaviest weight in the Index and strong relative performance, Japan made a significant positive relative contribution to the MSCI EAFE Index's return for the year.
Portfolio Strategy
The Fund continued to meet its investment objective of closely tracking the total return of the MSCI EAFE Index. Cash flows are invested promptly to minimize their impact on total return. Since the MSCI EAFE Index itself is not an actual mutual fund, direct investment in it is not possible and there are no expenses charged against its return--as there are against the Fund's returns. Investors should keep in mind that there are special risks inherent with an investment in this Fund. Investment in foreign securities involves greater risks than U.S. investments, including political and economic risks and the risk of currency fluctuations.
In terms of sector allocations, as of year-end, the MSCI EAFE Index was most heavily weighted in the Financials sector (at 22.63%), followed by Industrials (at 11.55%), Consumer Discretionary (at 10.25%), and Materials (at 9.76%).
Looking at performance contribution, all sectors in the MSCI EAFE Index declined 15% or more in 2008, and the relatively strong performance of the U.S. dollar hurt the performance of non-U.S. stocks, as local currencies were converted into U.S. dollars at a discount. The more-defensive sectors, such as Health Care (at -18.67%) and Utilities (at -28.21%), held up the best while the global spread of the credit crisis impacted performance in the hard-hit Financials sector (at -54.93%). Materials (at -52.54%) was the second-worst performing sector, dragged down by the global credit crunch and contraction in business activity.
| % of Total |
Economic Sectors | Investments |
Consumer Discretionary | 9.1% |
Consumer Staples | 9.9% |
Energy | 8.8% |
Exchange Traded Funds | 2.9% |
Financials | 22.0% |
Healthcare | 9.3% |
Industrials | 11.1% |
Information Technology | 4.9% |
Materials | 7.7% |
Telecommunications Services | 6.7% |
Utilities | 7.6% |
| |
Total | 100% |
Outlook
As recession spreads throughout international economies, we expect global markets to remain volatile in the near term. Valuations for many foreign companies are at their lowest point in two decades, which makes foreign equities relatively attractive. However, the financial crisis is far from over, and it is unclear how prolonged or deep the global credit crunch and recession will be. Governments in Europe and other countries are taking concerted action to bolster their economies and combat recessionary forces, along with the U.S. Although the specific timing of an eventual recovery in the financial markets is impossible to gauge, for investors with long-term investment horizons, we believe that an allocation to foreign stocks is an essential part of portfolio diversification and has proven a sound strategy over the long term.
January 2009
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008).
Note: Expenses do not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare the 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Beginning Account Value 7/1/08 | Ending Account Value 12/31/08 | Expenses Paid During Period* 7/1/08 - 12/31/08 |
Class I | | | |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $646.10 | $3.93 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,020.36 | $4.82 |
| | | |
Class F | | | |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $645.40 | $4.76 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,019.35 | $5.84 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio of 0.95% and 1.15%, respectively, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/366.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Shareholders of Summit EAFE International Index Portfolio:
We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets of the Summit EAFE International Index Portfolio (the Portfolio), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., as of December 31, 2008, and the related statements of operations, changes in net assets and the financial highlights for the year then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audit. The accompanying financial statements and financial highlights of the Portfolio for the periods presented through December 31, 2007 were audited by other auditors whose report thereon dated February 22, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2008, by correspondence with custodians and brokers. As to securities purchased or sold but not yet received or delivered, we performed other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Summit EAFE International Index Portfolio as of December 31, 2008, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
KPMG LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2009
EAFE International Index Portfolio
Statement of Net Assets
December 31, 2008
Equity Securities - 96.1% | | Shares | Value | |
Australia - 5.5% | | | | |
AGL Energy Ltd. | | 3,424 | $36,543 | |
Alumina Ltd. | | 15,042 | 14,725 | |
Amcor Ltd. | | 6,174 | 25,093 | |
AMP Ltd. | | 15,156 | 57,617 | |
Aristocrat Leisure Ltd. | | 2,329 | 6,435 | |
ASX Ltd. | | 1,460 | 34,092 | |
Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. | | 16,046 | 172,230 | |
AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd. | | 8,432 | 29,236 | |
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Ltd. | | 2,467 | 19,100 | |
BHP Billiton Ltd. | | 27,307 | 575,121 | |
Billabong International Ltd. | | 1,761 | 9,848 | |
BlueScope Steel Ltd. | | 6,354 | 15,606 | |
Boral Ltd. | | 4,448 | 14,408 | |
Brambles Ltd. | | 11,921 | 61,943 | |
CFS Retail Property Trust | | 12,326 | 16,168 | |
Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd. | | 4,034 | 26,073 | |
Cochlear Ltd. | | 483 | 19,015 | |
Commonwealth Bank of Australia | | 11,295 | 229,006 | |
Computershare Ltd. | | 4,065 | 22,229 | |
Crown Ltd. | | 3,892 | 16,292 | |
CSL Ltd. | | 4,700 | 110,984 | |
CSR Ltd. | | 13,446 | 16,598 | |
DEXUS Property Group | | 20,639 | 11,994 | |
Fairfax Media Ltd. | | 12,456 | 14,291 | |
Fortescue Metals Group Ltd.* | | 7,100 | 9,702 | |
Foster's Group Ltd. | | 14,470 | 55,669 | |
Goodman Fielder Ltd. | | 13,446 | 12,514 | |
Goodman Group | | 17,929 | 9,507 | |
GPT Group | | 38,586 | 24,954 | |
Incitec Pivot Ltd. | | 13,148 | 23,258 | |
Insurance Australia Group Ltd. | | 14,709 | 40,129 | |
Leighton Holdings Ltd. | | 1,181 | 22,970 | |
Lend Lease Corp Ltd. | | 3,667 | 18,543 | |
Lion Nathan Ltd. | | 3,096 | 17,814 | |
Macquarie Airports | | 4,128 | 6,952 | |
Macquarie Group Ltd. | | 2,063 | 41,931 | |
Macquarie Infrastructure Group | | 20,056 | 24,055 | |
Metcash Ltd. | | 6,656 | 20,401 | |
Mirvac Group | | 13,396 | 12,073 | |
National Australia Bank Ltd. | | 15,530 | 227,675 | |
Newcrest Mining Ltd. | | 3,434 | 81,445 | |
OneSteel Ltd. | | 6,623 | 11,464 | |
Orica Ltd. | | 2,839 | 27,874 | |
Origin Energy Ltd. | | 7,372 | 83,152 | |
OZ Minerals Ltd. (b) | | 22,983 | - | |
Qantas Airways Ltd. | | 7,553 | 13,927 | |
QBE Insurance Group Ltd. | | 6,673 | 121,299 | |
Rio Tinto Ltd. | | 2,494 | 66,802 | |
Santos Ltd. | | 4,934 | 51,566 | |
Sims Group Ltd. | | 1,286 | 15,640 | |
Sonic Healthcare Ltd. | | 2,671 | 27,190 | |
Stockland | | 12,269 | 35,500 | |
Suncorp-Metway Ltd. | | 7,914 | 46,721 | |
TABCORP Holdings Ltd. | | 3,793 | 18,567 | |
Tatts Group Ltd. | | 10,565 | 20,639 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Australia - Cont'd | | | | |
Telstra Corp Ltd. | | 35,060 | $93,877 | |
Toll Holdings Ltd. | | 4,754 | 20,555 | |
Transurban Group | | 9,342 | 35,873 | |
Wesfarmers Ltd.-PPS | | 937 | 11,838 | |
Wesfarmers Ltd. | | 5,154 | 65,083 | |
Westfield Group | | 13,608 | 125,380 | |
Westpac Banking Corp. | | 26,858 | 319,842 | |
Woodside Petroleum Ltd. | | 3,923 | 101,242 | |
Woolworths Ltd. | | 9,427 | 175,888 | |
WorleyParsons Ltd. | | 1,368 | 13,628 | |
| | | 3,707,786 | |
| | | | |
Austria - 0.3% | | | | |
Erste Bank der Oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG | | 1,651 | 38,703 | |
OMV AG | | 1,419 | 37,829 | |
Raiffeisen International Bank Holding AG | | 473 | 13,238 | |
STRABAG SE | | 362 | 8,340 | |
Telekom Austria AG | | 2,631 | 38,029 | |
Verbund - Oesterreichische Elektrizitaetswirtschafts AG | | 699 | 32,075 | |
Voestalpine AG | | 954 | 20,455 | |
Wienerberger AG | | 881 | 14,713 | |
| | | 203,382 | |
| | | | |
Belgium - 0.7% | | | | |
Anheuser-Busch InBev NV | | 4,073 | 94,430 | |
Belgacom SA | | 1,282 | 48,901 | |
Colruyt SA | | 152 | 32,552 | |
Delhaize Group | | 784 | 48,376 | |
Dexia SA* | | 4,140 | 18,415 | |
Fortis | | | | |
Common | | 20,665 | 27,427 | |
Rights (expiration 7/4/14) (b) | | 14,430 | - | |
Groupe Bruxelles Lambert SA | | 660 | 52,522 | |
KBC Groep NV | | 1,207 | 36,457 | |
Mobistar SA | | 255 | 18,366 | |
Nationale A Portefeuille | | 352 | 17,116 | |
Solvay SA | | 504 | 37,471 | |
UCB SA | | 802 | 26,124 | |
Umicore | | 1,086 | 21,429 | |
| | | 479,586 | |
| | | | |
Bermuda - 0.1% | | | | |
Frontline Ltd. | | 448 | 13,065 | |
Seadrill Ltd. | | 2,540 | 20,703 | |
| | | 33,768 | |
| | | | |
Denmark - 0.8% | | | | |
A P Moller - Maersk A/S, Series B | | 13 | 69,654 | |
Carlsberg A/S, Series B | | 607 | 19,928 | |
Coloplast A/S, Series B | | 198 | 13,647 | |
Danisco A/S | | 380 | 15,488 | |
Danske Bank A/S | | 3,494 | 35,329 | |
DSV A/S | | 1,698 | 18,490 | |
FLSmidth & Co. A/S | | 379 | 13,189 | |
Jyske Bank A/S* | | 515 | 12,130 | |
Novo Nordisk A/S, Series B | | 3,439 | 175,009 | |
Novozymes A/S, Series B | | 338 | 26,928 | |
Topdanmark A/S* | | 153 | 19,864 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Denmark - Cont'd | | | | |
TrygVesta A/S | | 199 | $12,347 | |
Vestas Wind Systems A/S* | | 1,515 | 90,042 | |
| | | 522,045 | |
| | | | |
Finland - 1.4% | | | | |
Elisa Oyj | | 1,226 | 21,221 | |
Fortum Oyj | | 3,757 | 80,698 | |
Kesko Oyj, Series B | | 482 | 12,079 | |
Kone Oyj | | 1,262 | 27,671 | |
Metso Oyj | | 1,014 | 12,260 | |
Neste Oil Oyj | | 1,288 | 19,234 | |
Nokia Oyj | | 32,240 | 499,814 | |
Nokian Renkaat Oyj | | 1,029 | 11,537 | |
Orion Oyj, Series B | | 806 | 13,645 | |
Outokumpu Oyj | | 1,256 | 14,758 | |
Pohjola Bank plc | | 970 | 13,433 | |
Rautaruukki Oyj | | 845 | 14,563 | |
Sampo Oyj | | 3,800 | 70,977 | |
Stora Enso Oyj, Series R | | 5,432 | 42,404 | |
UPM-Kymmene Oyj | | 4,390 | 55,663 | |
Wartsila Oyj | | 786 | 23,389 | |
| | | 933,346 | |
| | | | |
France - 10.3% | | | | |
Accor SA | | 1,585 | 77,998 | |
Aeroports de Paris | | 213 | 14,415 | |
Air France-KLM | | 1,454 | 18,692 | |
Air Liquide SA | | 2,041 | 186,741 | |
Alcatel-Lucent | | 20,474 | 44,208 | |
Alstom SA | | 1,747 | 103,165 | |
Atos Origin SA | | 552 | 13,854 | |
AXA SA | | 12,832 | 286,086 | |
BNP Paribas | | 7,373 | 311,335 | |
Bouygues | | 1,993 | 84,359 | |
Bureau Veritas SA | | 343 | 13,774 | |
Cap Gemini SA | | 1,106 | 42,629 | |
Carrefour SA | | 5,130 | 197,008 | |
Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA | | 410 | 31,177 | |
Christian Dior SA | | 511 | 28,823 | |
Cie de Saint-Gobain | | 2,446 | 115,366 | |
Cie Generale de Geophysique-Veritas* | | 1,224 | 18,277 | |
Cie Generale d'Optique Essilor International SA | | 1,632 | 76,574 | |
CNP Assurances SA | | 284 | 20,550 | |
Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, Series B | | 1,146 | 60,090 | |
Credit Agricole SA | | 7,322 | 83,269 | |
Dassault Systemes SA | | 618 | 27,926 | |
EDF Energies Nouvelles SA | | 1,689 | 98,166 | |
Eiffage SA | | 261 | 13,653 | |
Eramet | | 35 | 6,778 | |
Eutelsat Communications | | 836 | 19,742 | |
France Telecom SA | | 15,597 | 436,266 | |
GDF Suez* | | 9,575 | 474,221 | |
Groupe Danone | | 3,733 | 225,305 | |
Hermes International | | 565 | 78,925 | |
Icade SA | | 190 | 15,815 | |
Iliad SA | | 157 | 13,598 | |
Klepierre | | 593 | 14,534 | |
Lafarge SA | | 1,096 | 66,637 | |
Lagardere SCA | | 1,027 | 41,685 | |
L'Oreal SA | | 1,922 | 167,015 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
France - Cont'd | | | | |
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA | | 1,991 | $133,768 | |
Natixis | | 9,079 | 15,958 | |
Neopost SA | | 255 | 23,081 | |
PagesJaunes Groupe | | 1,295 | 12,729 | |
Pernod-Ricard SA | | 1,347 | 99,887 | |
PPR SA | | 627 | 40,959 | |
PSA Peugeot Citroen SA | | 1,345 | 22,933 | |
Publicis Groupe | | 1,036 | 26,668 | |
Renault SA | | 1,704 | 44,447 | |
Safran SA | | 1,407 | 18,970 | |
Sanofi-Aventis SA | | 8,643 | 548,951 | |
Schneider Electric SA | | 1,874 | 139,981 | |
SCOR SE | | 1,494 | 34,348 | |
Societe BIC SA | | 227 | 13,043 | |
Societe Des Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone | | 182 | 12,644 | |
Societe Generale Groupe | | 3,891 | 197,070 | |
Societe Television Francaise 1 | | 1,294 | 18,920 | |
Sodexo | | 847 | 46,873 | |
Suez Environnement SA* | | 4,276 | 72,101 | |
Technip SA | | 873 | 26,745 | |
Thales SA | | 773 | 32,258 | |
Total SA | | 19,374 | 1,056,225 | |
Unibail-Rodamco | | 672 | 100,088 | |
Valeo SA | | 913 | 13,574 | |
Vallourec SA | | 465 | 52,887 | |
Veolia Environnement | | 3,225 | 101,216 | |
Vinci SA | | 3,457 | 145,584 | |
Vivendi | | 9,760 | 317,763 | |
Wendel | | 278 | 13,811 | |
Zodiac SA | | 332 | 12,083 | |
| | | 6,924,221 | |
| | | | |
Germany - 8.7% | | | | |
Adidas AG | | 1,725 | 66,344 | |
Allianz SE | | 3,880 | 416,161 | |
BASF SE | | 7,995 | 315,919 | |
Bayer AG | | 6,552 | 384,896 | |
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG | | 3,121 | 95,936 | |
Beiersdorf AG | | 751 | 44,678 | |
Celesio AG | | 716 | 19,555 | |
Commerzbank AG | | 5,604 | 53,419 | |
Daimler AG | | 7,549 | 286,834 | |
Deutsche Bank AG | | 4,560 | 181,845 | |
Deutsche Boerse AG | | 1,628 | 118,571 | |
Deutsche Lufthansa AG | | 1,847 | 29,242 | |
Deutsche Post AG | | 6,937 | 117,360 | |
Deutsche Postbank AG | | 613 | 13,556 | |
Deutsche Telekom AG | | 24,134 | 366,681 | |
E.ON AG | | 16,004 | 647,156 | |
Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide | | 349 | 15,241 | |
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA | | 1,631 | 76,483 | |
Fresenius SE, Preferred | | 863 | 50,570 | |
GEA Group AG | | 1,209 | 20,730 | |
Hannover Rueckversicherung AG | | 513 | 16,320 | |
HeidelbergCement AG | | 252 | 11,224 | |
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Preferred | | 2,326 | 74,574 | |
Hochtief AG | | 314 | 15,930 | |
Infineon Technologies AG* | | 5,388 | 7,416 | |
K+S AG | | 1,286 | 73,829 | |
Linde AG | | 1,108 | 93,763 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Germany - Cont'd | | | | |
MAN AG | | 968 | $53,388 | |
Merck KGaA | | 503 | 45,732 | |
Metro AG | | 979 | 39,682 | |
Muenchener Rueckversicherungs AG | | 1,662 | 261,178 | |
Porsche Automobil Holding SE, Preferred | | 778 | 60,610 | |
Puma AG Rudolf Dassler Sport | | 71 | 14,107 | |
Q-Cells AG* | | 636 | 23,081 | |
RWE AG | | 4,096 | 368,217 | |
Salzgitter AG | | 392 | 30,961 | |
SAP AG | | 7,182 | 257,397 | |
Siemens AG | | 7,506 | 562,203 | |
SolarWorld AG | | 742 | 16,147 | |
ThyssenKrupp AG | | 3,075 | 83,156 | |
TUI AG | | 1,609 | 18,349 | |
Volkswagen AG: | | | | |
Common | | 955 | 334,544 | |
Preferred | | 909 | 48,507 | |
Wacker Chemie AG | | 122 | 12,974 | |
| | | 5,844,466 | |
| | | | |
Greece - 0.4% | | | | |
Alpha Bank AE | | 2,948 | 27,689 | |
Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Co. SA | | 1,565 | 22,829 | |
EFG Eurobank Ergasias SA | | 2,793 | 22,163 | |
Hellenic Petroleum SA | | 805 | 5,958 | |
Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA | | 2,063 | 34,319 | |
Marfin Investment Group SA | | 4,745 | 19,068 | |
National Bank of Greece SA | | 4,221 | 78,174 | |
OPAP SA | | 1,685 | 48,475 | |
Piraeus Bank SA | | 2,340 | 21,072 | |
Public Power Corp SA | | 791 | 12,701 | |
| | | 292,448 | |
| | | | |
Hong Kong - 1.9% | | | | |
Bank of East Asia Ltd. | | 10,822 | 22,828 | |
BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd. | | 30,217 | 34,492 | |
Cheung Kong Holdings Ltd. | | 10,537 | 100,459 | |
Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd. | | 3,051 | 11,512 | |
Chinese Estates Holdings Ltd. | | 7,325 | 8,364 | |
CLP Holdings Ltd. | | 16,145 | 109,772 | |
Esprit Holdings Ltd. | | 8,499 | 48,445 | |
Genting International plc* | | 22,163 | 6,955 | |
Hang Lung Group Ltd. | | 6,871 | 20,972 | |
Hang Lung Properties Ltd. | | 15,884 | 34,843 | |
Hang Seng Bank Ltd. | | 5,615 | 74,160 | |
Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd. | | 8,330 | 31,118 | |
Hong Kong & China Gas Co. Ltd. | | 33,727 | 51,131 | |
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. | | 7,617 | 73,027 | |
HongKong Electric Holdings | | 11,311 | 63,628 | |
Hopewell Holdings | | 4,345 | 14,372 | |
Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. | | 17,471 | 88,129 | |
Kerry Properties Ltd. | | 5,263 | 14,166 | |
Kingboard Chemical Holdings Ltd. | | 3,663 | 6,628 | |
Li & Fung Ltd. | | 18,859 | 32,538 | |
Link REIT | | 18,859 | 31,349 | |
Mongolia Energy Co. Ltd.* | | 20,423 | 6,368 | |
MTR Corp. | | 10,247 | 23,893 | |
New World Development Ltd. | | 20,806 | 21,256 | |
Noble Group Ltd. | | 18,726 | 13,412 | |
NWS Holdings Ltd. | | 5,053 | 7,561 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Hong Kong - Cont'd | | | | |
Pacific Basin Shipping Ltd. | | 12,662 | $5,821 | |
PCCW Ltd. | | 37,557 | 18,019 | |
Shangri-La Asia Ltd. | | 9,214 | 10,650 | |
Sino Land Co. | | 14,436 | 15,088 | |
Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. | | 10,679 | 89,793 | |
Swire Pacific Ltd. | | 6,734 | 46,692 | |
Television Broadcasts Ltd. | | 3,442 | 11,277 | |
Wharf Holdings Ltd. | | 11,850 | 32,743 | |
Wheelock & Co. Ltd. | | 8,589 | 19,027 | |
Wing Hang Bank Ltd. | | 1,129 | 6,541 | |
Wing Lung Bank (b) | | 1,870 | 37,640 | |
Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings Ltd. | | 6,207 | 12,300 | |
| | | 1,256,969 | |
| | | | |
Ireland - 0.4% | | | | |
Allied Irish Banks plc | | 8,831 | 21,476 | |
CRH plc | | 4,308 | 108,724 | |
Elan Corp plc* | | 3,728 | 21,963 | |
Experian plc | | 8,247 | 51,646 | |
Governor & Co. of the Bank of Ireland | | 9,590 | 11,300 | |
Kerry Group plc | | 1,105 | 20,151 | |
Ryanair Holdings plc* | | 3,254 | 13,510 | |
| | | 248,770 | |
| | | | |
Italy - 3.6% | | | | |
A2A SpA | | 10,395 | 18,631 | |
Alleanza Assicurazioni SpA | | 3,526 | 28,733 | |
Assicurazioni Generali SpA | | 9,069 | 248,613 | |
Atlantia SpA | | 2,196 | 40,382 | |
Banca Carige SpA | | 5,502 | 13,221 | |
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA | | 19,221 | 41,432 | |
Banca Popolare di Milano Scarl | | 3,321 | 19,669 | |
Banco Popolare SC | | 6,047 | 42,361 | |
Enel SpA | | 37,849 | 242,048 | |
ENI SpA | | 23,441 | 555,455 | |
Fiat SpA | | 5,777 | 37,666 | |
Finmeccanica SpA | | 3,458 | 52,972 | |
Fondiaria-SAI SpA | | 650 | 11,763 | |
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA | | 73,639 | 265,243 | |
Italcementi SpA | | 1,150 | 14,560 | |
Lottomatica SpA | | 499 | 12,320 | |
Luxottica Group SpA | | 1,220 | 21,809 | |
Mediaset SpA | | 6,839 | 39,056 | |
Mediobanca SpA | | 4,035 | 40,979 | |
Parmalat SpA | | 14,422 | 23,636 | |
Prysmian SpA | | 1,121 | 17,606 | |
Saipem SpA | | 2,412 | 40,501 | |
Saras SpA | | 3,131 | 10,605 | |
Snam Rete Gas SpA | | 6,818 | 37,659 | |
Telecom Italia SpA - RSP | | 47,497 | 53,000 | |
Telecom Italia SpA | | 81,059 | 131,847 | |
Terna Rete Elettrica Nazionale SpA | | 10,364 | 33,935 | |
UniCredit SpA | | 100,272 | 249,632 | |
Unione di Banche Italiane ScpA | | 5,007 | 72,466 | |
Unipol Gruppo Finanziario SpA, Preferred | | 18,085 | 19,691 | |
| | | 2,437,491 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Japan - 22.9% | | | | |
77 Bank Ltd. | | 2,395 | $13,003 | |
ABC-Mart, Inc. | | 166 | 6,080 | |
Acom Co. Ltd. | | 436 | 18,293 | |
Advantest Corp. | | 1,337 | 21,645 | |
Aeon Co. Ltd. | | 5,085 | 50,933 | |
Aeon Credit Service Co. Ltd. | | 473 | 5,004 | |
AEON Mall Co. Ltd. | | 553 | 10,676 | |
Aioi Insurance Co. Ltd. | | 4,269 | 22,257 | |
Aisin Seiki Co. Ltd. | | 1,699 | 24,112 | |
Ajinomoto Co., Inc. | | 5,548 | 60,438 | |
Alfresa Holdings Corp. | | 256 | 12,227 | |
All Nippon Airways Co. Ltd. | | 4,762 | 18,817 | |
Amada Co. Ltd. | | 3,823 | 18,506 | |
Asahi Breweries Ltd. | | 2,941 | 50,613 | |
Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. | | 7,978 | 45,312 | |
Asahi Kasei Corp. | | 9,342 | 41,059 | |
Asics Corp. | | 990 | 7,983 | |
Astellas Pharma, Inc. | | 3,623 | 147,425 | |
Bank of Kyoto Ltd. | | 2,231 | 25,007 | |
Bank of Yokohama Ltd. | | 9,834 | 58,169 | |
Benesse Corp. | | 516 | 22,552 | |
Bridgestone Corp. | | 4,365 | 65,557 | |
Brother Industries Ltd. | | 1,682 | 10,034 | |
Canon, Inc. | | 8,767 | 275,210 | |
Casio Computer Co. Ltd. | | 2,006 | 12,603 | |
Central Japan Railway Co. | | 11 | 95,072 | |
Chiba Bank Ltd. | | 5,857 | 36,595 | |
Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. | | 4,613 | 140,201 | |
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. | | 1,648 | 31,900 | |
Chugoku Bank Ltd. | | 1,222 | 18,818 | |
Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc. | | 2,025 | 53,346 | |
Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. | | 7,134 | 34,865 | |
Citizen Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 2,525 | 9,170 | |
Coca-Cola West Co. Ltd. | | 531 | 11,481 | |
Cosmo Oil Co. Ltd. | | 4,508 | 13,897 | |
Credit Saison Co. Ltd. | | 1,324 | 18,280 | |
Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. | | 4,200 | 46,299 | |
Daicel Chemical Industries Ltd. | | 2,611 | 12,389 | |
Daido Steel Co. Ltd. | | 1,813 | 5,485 | |
Daihatsu Motor Co. Ltd. | | 1,562 | 13,944 | |
Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. | | 5,343 | 127,001 | |
Daikin Industries Ltd. | | 2,016 | 53,168 | |
Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co. Ltd. | | 1,336 | 12,452 | |
Daito Trust Co.nstruction Co. Ltd. | | 656 | 34,349 | |
Daiwa House Industry Co. Ltd. | | 4,143 | 40,538 | |
Daiwa Securities Group, Inc. | | 9,715 | 57,896 | |
DeNa Co. Ltd. | | 2 | 6,430 | |
Denki Kagaku Kogyo K K | | 5,061 | 12,381 | |
Denso Corp. | | 3,924 | 65,279 | |
Dentsu, Inc. (b) | | 16 | 35,829 | |
DIC Corp. | | 6,834 | 14,337 | |
DOWA HOLDINGS Co. Ltd. | | 1,720 | 6,327 | |
East Japan Railway Co. (b) | | 27 | 224,290 | |
Eisai Co. Ltd. | | 2,006 | 83,128 | |
Electric Power Development Co. Ltd. | | 950 | 37,315 | |
FamilyMart Co. Ltd. | | 413 | 17,941 | |
Fanuc Ltd. | | 1,488 | 105,825 | |
Fast Retailing Co. Ltd. | | 345 | 50,280 | |
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. | | 5,687 | 15,440 | |
FUJIFILM Holdings Corp. | | 3,732 | 82,134 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Japan - Cont'd | | | | |
Fujitsu Ltd. | | 14,572 | $70,433 | |
Fukuoka Financial Group, Inc. | | 6,813 | 29,676 | |
Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. | | 4,327 | 21,062 | |
Gunma Bank Ltd. | | 2,942 | 18,753 | |
Hachijuni Bank Ltd. | | 3,403 | 19,576 | |
Hakuhodo DY Holdings, Inc. | | 231 | 12,597 | |
Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc. | | 9,074 | 52,214 | |
Haseko Corp. | | 12,774 | 13,571 | |
Hirose Electric Co. Ltd. | | 260 | 26,250 | |
Hiroshima Bank Ltd. | | 4,692 | 20,567 | |
Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co., Inc. | | 562 | 22,945 | |
Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd. | | 574 | 5,936 | |
Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. | | 1,022 | 12,063 | |
Hitachi High-Technologies Corp. | | 634 | 10,112 | |
Hitachi Ltd. | | 24,954 | 96,774 | |
Hitachi Metals Ltd. | | 958 | 4,518 | |
Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc. | | 1,412 | 35,740 | |
Hokuhoku Financial Group, Inc. | | 8,048 | 19,053 | |
Hokuriku Electric Power Co. | | 1,333 | 37,731 | |
Honda Motor Co. Ltd. | | 11,392 | 247,062 | |
HOYA Corp. | | 3,154 | 54,791 | |
Ibiden Co. Ltd. | | 1,136 | 23,418 | |
Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd. | | 182 | 11,658 | |
IHI Corp. | | 9,667 | 12,273 | |
INPEX Corp. | | 6 | 47,403 | |
Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. | | 2,267 | 19,529 | |
Isuzu Motors Ltd. | | 9,171 | 11,771 | |
ITO EN Ltd. | | 752 | 11,090 | |
ITOCHU Corp. | | 11,295 | 56,669 | |
Iyo Bank Ltd. | | 2,046 | 25,394 | |
J Front Retailing Co. Ltd. | | 4,281 | 17,659 | |
JAFCO Co. Ltd. | | 214 | 5,471 | |
Japan Airlines Corp. | | 7,417 | 17,557 | |
Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. | | 298 | 13,067 | |
Japan Prime Realty Investment Corp. | | 6 | 14,304 | |
Japan Real Estate Investment Corp. | | 3 | 26,962 | |
Japan Retail Fund Investment Corp. | | 3 | 13,007 | |
Japan Steel Works Ltd. | | 2,824 | 39,407 | |
Japan Tobacco, Inc. | | 35 | 115,899 | |
JFE Holdings, Inc. | | 3,700 | 97,865 | |
JGC Corp. | | 2,063 | 31,039 | |
Joyo Bank Ltd. | | 5,647 | 32,172 | |
JS Group Corp. | | 2,149 | 33,267 | |
JSR Corp. | | 1,622 | 18,255 | |
JTEKT Corp. | | 1,557 | 12,012 | |
Jupiter Telecommunications Co. Ltd. | | 22 | 22,928 | |
Kajima Corp. | | 6,051 | 21,181 | |
Kamigumi Co. Ltd. | | 2,257 | 20,213 | |
Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. | | 5,845 | 169,372 | |
Kao Corp. | | 3,945 | 119,466 | |
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. | | 10,730 | 21,761 | |
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. | | 5,517 | 25,742 | |
KDDI Corp. | | 22 | 156,693 | |
Keihin Electric Express Railway Co. Ltd. | | 3,413 | 30,142 | |
Keio Corp. | | 4,275 | 25,670 | |
Keisei Electric Railway Co. Ltd. | | 2,208 | 13,760 | |
Keyence Corp. | | 271 | 55,489 | |
Kikkoman Corp. | | 1,563 | 18,451 | |
Kintetsu Corp. | | 12,808 | 58,847 | |
Kirin Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 6,134 | 80,857 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Japan - Cont'd | | | | |
Kobe Steel Ltd. | | 19,870 | $36,592 | |
Komatsu Ltd. | | 7,166 | 90,772 | |
Konami Corp. | | 776 | 19,978 | |
Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. | | 3,928 | 30,437 | |
Kubota Corp. | | 8,700 | 62,537 | |
Kuraray Co. Ltd. | | 2,839 | 22,101 | |
Kurita Water Industries Ltd. | | 978 | 26,347 | |
Kyocera Corp. | | 1,190 | 85,847 | |
kyowa Hakko Kirin Co. Ltd. | | 1,977 | 20,638 | |
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. | | 2,787 | 74,130 | |
Lawson, Inc. | | 547 | 31,547 | |
Leopalace21 Corp. | | 1,184 | 12,005 | |
Mabuchi Motor Co. Ltd. | | 266 | 11,048 | |
Makita Corp. | | 885 | 19,738 | |
Marubeni Corp. | | 12,967 | 49,423 | |
Marui Group Co. Ltd. | | 2,075 | 12,046 | |
Matsui Securities Co. Ltd. | | 854 | 7,148 | |
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. | | 14,008 | 175,525 | |
Mazda Motor Corp. | | 6,923 | 11,699 | |
Mediceo Paltac Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 1,059 | 12,762 | |
Meiji Dairies Corp. | | 2,222 | 11,921 | |
Minebea Co. Ltd. | | 3,860 | 13,264 | |
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp. | | 9,436 | 41,643 | |
Mitsubishi Corp. | | 9,894 | 138,896 | |
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. | | 15,174 | 94,954 | |
Mitsubishi Estate Co. Ltd. | | 9,202 | 151,752 | |
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co., Inc. | | 3,031 | 12,387 | |
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. | | 24,192 | 107,939 | |
Mitsubishi Logistics Corp. | | 1,021 | 12,850 | |
Mitsubishi Materials Corp. | | 8,339 | 21,024 | |
Mitsubishi Motors Corp.* | | 29,806 | 40,917 | |
Mitsubishi Rayon Co. Ltd. | | 4,490 | 13,541 | |
Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. | | 1,794 | 27,124 | |
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | | 81,161 | 503,598 | |
Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Co. Ltd. | | 337 | 8,562 | |
Mitsui & Co. Ltd. | | 12,594 | 128,828 | |
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. | | 5,662 | 20,929 | |
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | | 4,095 | 6,879 | |
Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd. | | 6,519 | 108,332 | |
Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd. | | 8,482 | 52,089 | |
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group Holdings, Inc. | | 3,013 | 96,098 | |
Mitsumi Electric Co. Ltd. | | 905 | 15,996 | |
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (b) | | 78 | 249,232 | |
Mizuho Trust & Banking Co. Ltd. | | 9,755 | 12,356 | |
Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | | 1,671 | 65,503 | |
Namco Bandai Holdings, Inc. | | 1,677 | 18,381 | |
NEC Corp. | | 13,858 | 46,512 | |
NGK Insulators Ltd. | | 2,174 | 24,467 | |
NGK Spark Plug Co. Ltd. | | 1,433 | 11,485 | |
Nidec Corp. | | 827 | 32,160 | |
Nikon Corp. | | 2,612 | 31,294 | |
Nintendo Co. Ltd. | | 749 | 287,762 | |
Nippon Building Fund, Inc. | | 4 | 43,904 | |
Nippon Electric Glass Co. Ltd. | | 2,926 | 15,369 | |
Nippon Express Co. Ltd. | | 6,448 | 27,132 | |
Nippon Meat Packers, Inc. | | 1,347 | 20,356 | |
Nippon Mining Holdings, Inc. | | 7,719 | 33,168 | |
Nippon Oil Corp. | | 10,639 | 53,582 | |
Nippon Paper Group, Inc. (b) | | 7 | 30,555 | |
Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd. | | 5,917 | 19,432 | |
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| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Japan - Cont'd | | | | |
Nippon Steel Corp. | | 38,985 | $128,020 | |
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (b) | | 38 | 219,578 | |
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha | | 8,449 | 52,107 | |
Nipponkoa Insurance Co. Ltd. | | 5,383 | 41,847 | |
Nishi-Nippon City Bank Ltd. | | 5,184 | 15,028 | |
Nissan Chemical Industries Ltd. | | 1,343 | 13,004 | |
Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. | | 17,419 | 63,092 | |
Nisshin Seifun Group, Inc. | | 1,536 | 20,154 | |
Nisshin Steel Co. Ltd. | | 7,664 | 15,764 | |
NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS Co. Ltd. | | 635 | 22,271 | |
Nitori Co. Ltd. | | 318 | 24,680 | |
Nitto Denko Corp. | | 1,359 | 26,110 | |
NOK Corp. | | 755 | 5,331 | |
Nomura Holdings, Inc. | | 13,452 | 110,929 | |
Nomura Real Estate Office Fund, Inc. | | 2 | 13,076 | |
Nomura Research Institute Ltd. | | 919 | 17,441 | |
NSK Ltd. | | 3,119 | 11,712 | |
NTN Corp. | | 3,778 | 11,405 | |
NTT Data Corp. | | 9 | 36,128 | |
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. | | 121 | 238,526 | |
NTT Urban Development Corp. | | 11 | 11,868 | |
Obayashi Corp. | | 5,071 | 30,236 | |
OBIC Co. Ltd. | | 74 | 12,108 | |
Odakyu Electric Railway Co. Ltd. | | 4,502 | 39,551 | |
OJI Paper Co. Ltd. | | 7,075 | 41,592 | |
Olympus Corp. | | 1,945 | 39,057 | |
Omron Corp. | | 1,706 | 22,898 | |
Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. | | 791 | 41,129 | |
Oracle Corp. Japan | | 282 | 12,237 | |
Oriental Land Co. Ltd. | | 378 | 31,088 | |
ORIX Corp. | | 698 | 39,660 | |
Osaka Gas Co. Ltd. | | 14,269 | 65,905 | |
Panasonic Electric Works Co. Ltd. | | 2,783 | 24,745 | |
Promise Co. Ltd. | | 552 | 13,991 | |
Rakuten, Inc.* | | 51 | 32,470 | |
Resona Holdings, Inc. (b) | | 40 | 69,832 | |
Ricoh Co. Ltd. | | 4,829 | 61,499 | |
Rohm Co. Ltd. | | 857 | 43,275 | |
Sankyo Co. Ltd. | | 422 | 21,314 | |
Santen Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. | | 626 | 18,853 | |
SANYO Electric Co. Ltd.* | | 13,085 | 24,502 | |
Sapporo Hokuyo Holdings, Inc. | | 1 | 4,396 | |
Sapporo Holdings Ltd. (b) | | 1,976 | 12,443 | |
SBI Holdings, Inc. | | 154 | 23,803 | |
Secom Co. Ltd. | | 1,611 | 82,980 | |
Sega Sammy Holdings, Inc. | | 1,755 | 20,365 | |
Seiko Epson Corp. | | 1,141 | 18,175 | |
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. | | 3,048 | 19,038 | |
Sekisui House Ltd. | | 3,539 | 30,977 | |
Seven & I Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 6,171 | 211,417 | |
Seven Bank Ltd. | | 3 | 11,476 | |
Sharp Corp. | | 7,509 | 53,831 | |
Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc. | | 1,450 | 48,902 | |
Shimadzu Corp. | | 1,782 | 11,277 | |
Shimamura Co. Ltd. | | 148 | 11,450 | |
Shimano, Inc. | | 593 | 23,759 | |
Shimizu Corp. | | 4,425 | 25,810 | |
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. | | 2,916 | 133,745 | |
Shinko Securities Co. Ltd. | | 5,863 | 12,848 | |
Shinsei Bank Ltd. | | 10,451 | 16,519 | |
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| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Japan - Cont'd | | | | |
Shionogi & Co. Ltd. | | 2,333 | $59,923 | |
Shiseido Co. Ltd. | | 2,497 | 51,116 | |
Shizuoka Bank Ltd. | | 4,615 | 53,459 | |
Showa Denko KK | | 11,835 | 17,138 | |
Showa Shell Sekiyu KK | | 1,386 | 13,675 | |
SMC Corp. | | 452 | 46,244 | |
Softbank Corp. | | 5,193 | 94,043 | |
Sojitz Corp. | | 11,177 | 18,742 | |
Sompo Japan Insurance, Inc. | | 6,791 | 49,731 | |
Sony Corp. | | 7,598 | 165,173 | |
Sony Financial Holdings, Inc. | | 8 | 30,722 | |
SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS Co. Ltd. | | 597 | 19,273 | |
Stanley Electric Co. Ltd. | | 1,471 | 15,527 | |
Sumco Corp. | | 1,165 | 14,879 | |
Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. | | 11,520 | 39,317 | |
Sumitomo Corp. | | 8,244 | 72,656 | |
Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. | | 6,062 | 46,609 | |
Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd. | | 4,458 | 17,747 | |
Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. | | 28,820 | 71,027 | |
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. | | 4,215 | 44,799 | |
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (b) | | 49 | 227,441 | |
Sumitomo Realty & Development Co. Ltd. | | 3,186 | 47,468 | |
Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Inc. | | 1,297 | 11,304 | |
Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. Ltd. | | 10,900 | 64,510 | |
Suruga Bank Ltd. | | 1,621 | 16,054 | |
Suzuken Co. Ltd. | | 494 | 14,885 | |
Suzuki Motor Corp. | | 3,175 | 43,895 | |
T&D Holdings, Inc. | | 1,551 | 65,034 | |
Taiheiyo Cement Corp. | | 8,584 | 16,543 | |
Taisei Corp. | | 8,653 | 23,837 | |
Taisho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. | | 951 | 20,204 | |
Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. | | 2,424 | 18,685 | |
Takashimaya Co. Ltd. | | 2,336 | 17,693 | |
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. | | 6,489 | 336,600 | |
Takefuji Corp. | | 833 | 6,807 | |
TDK Corp. | | 1,015 | 37,276 | |
Teijin Ltd. | | 6,263 | 17,704 | |
Terumo Corp. | | 1,376 | 64,440 | |
THK Co. Ltd. | | 1,115 | 11,717 | |
Tobu Railway Co. Ltd. | | 6,214 | 36,992 | |
Toho Co. Ltd. | | 857 | 18,387 | |
Toho Gas Co. Ltd. | | 3,825 | 25,208 | |
Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. | | 2,968 | 80,333 | |
Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. | | 5,077 | 148,767 | |
Tokuyama Corp. | | 1,429 | 12,062 | |
Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. | | 9,330 | 311,521 | |
Tokyo Electron Ltd. | | 1,255 | 44,073 | |
Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd. | | 17,188 | 87,100 | |
Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co. Ltd. | | 598 | 6,269 | |
Tokyo Tatemono Co. Ltd. | | 1,794 | 8,205 | |
Tokyu Corp. | | 8,471 | 42,634 | |
Tokyu Land Corp. | | 3,989 | 15,192 | |
TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK | | 2,387 | 23,894 | |
Toppan Printing Co. Ltd. | | 3,778 | 29,095 | |
Toray Industries, Inc. | | 10,659 | 54,279 | |
Toshiba Corp. | | 24,461 | 100,719 | |
Tosoh Corp. | | 5,647 | 13,849 | |
TOTO Ltd. | | 1,860 | 11,668 | |
Toyo Seikan Kaisha Ltd. | | 1,218 | 20,984 | |
Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd. | | 681 | 19,574 | |
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| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Japan - Cont'd | | | | |
Toyota Industries Corp. | | 1,497 | $32,074 | |
Toyota Motor Corp. | | 22,772 | 745,392 | |
Toyota Tsusho Corp. | | 1,823 | 19,481 | |
Trend Micro, Inc.* | | 775 | 27,060 | |
Tsumura & Co. | | 533 | 19,771 | |
Ube Industries Ltd. | | 8,747 | 24,551 | |
Unicharm Corp. | | 326 | 24,641 | |
UNY Co. Ltd. | | 1,248 | 13,745 | |
Ushio, Inc. | | 972 | 12,815 | |
USS Co. Ltd. | | 182 | 9,630 | |
West Japan Railway Co. | | 13 | 59,149 | |
Yahoo! Japan Corp. | | 124 | 50,729 | |
Yakult Honsha Co. Ltd. | | 599 | 12,809 | |
Yamada Denki Co. Ltd. | | 649 | 45,055 | |
Yamaguchi Financial Group, Inc. | | 1,819 | 20,441 | |
Yamaha Corp. | | 1,239 | 11,488 | |
Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd. | | 1,815 | 19,045 | |
Yamato Holdings Co. Ltd. | | 3,114 | 40,604 | |
Yamato Kogyo Co. Ltd. | | 250 | 6,745 | |
Yamazaki Baking Co. Ltd. | | 824 | 12,679 | |
Yaskawa Electric Corp. | | 2,513 | 10,112 | |
Yokogawa Electric Corp. | | 2,125 | 13,938 | |
| | | 15,415,114 | |
| | | | |
Luxembourg - 0.4% | | | | |
ArcelorMittal | | 7,696 | 185,498 | |
Millicom International Cellular SA | | 660 | 30,538 | |
SES SA | | 2,343 | 46,095 | |
Tenaris SA | | 4,105 | 42,449 | |
| | | 304,580 | |
| | | | |
Netherlands - 4.6% | | | | |
Aegon NV | | 12,098 | 77,203 | |
Akzo Nobel NV | | 1,975 | 81,444 | |
ASML Holding NV | | 3,684 | 65,741 | |
Corio NV | | 408 | 18,707 | |
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. NV | | 2,629 | 44,385 | |
Fugro NV (CVA) | | 600 | 17,226 | |
Heineken NV | | 2,662 | 81,786 | |
ING Groep NV (CVA) | | 17,071 | 178,446 | |
James Hardie Industries NV | | 4,863 | 15,928 | |
Koninklijke Ahold NV | | 9,654 | 118,653 | |
Koninklijke Boskalis Westminster NV | | 438 | 10,174 | |
Koninklijke DSM NV | | 1,100 | 28,197 | |
Koninklijke KPN NV | | 15,067 | 218,484 | |
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV | | 7,875 | 153,161 | |
Randstad Holding NV | | 1,012 | 20,545 | |
Reed Elsevier NV | | 5,185 | 61,090 | |
Royal Dutch Shell plc: | | | | |
Series A | | 31,599 | 826,008 | |
Series B | | 23,270 | 585,649 | |
SBM Offshore NV | | 1,218 | 15,961 | |
TNT NV | | 3,166 | 60,807 | |
Unilever NV (CVA) | | 14,120 | 342,129 | |
Wolters Kluwer NV | | 2,549 | 48,140 | |
| | | 3,069,864 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
New Zealand - 0.1% | | | | |
Auckland International Airport Ltd. | | 12,431 | $11,809 | |
Fletcher Building Ltd. | | 5,779 | 19,500 | |
Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd. | | 18,354 | 24,496 | |
| | | 55,805 | |
| | | | |
Norway - 0.6% | | | | |
Aker Solutions ASA | | 1,098 | 7,259 | |
DnB NOR ASA | | 6,425 | 25,665 | |
Norsk Hydro ASA | | 7,225 | 29,179 | |
Orkla ASA | | 6,764 | 44,981 | |
Renewable Energy Corp. AS* | | 1,472 | 13,842 | |
StatoilHydro ASA | | 11,206 | 184,566 | |
Telenor ASA | | 6,680 | 44,702 | |
Yara International ASA | | 1,578 | 34,490 | |
| | | 384,684 | |
| | | | |
Portugal - 0.3% | | | | |
Banco Comercial Portugues SA | | 22,416 | 25,693 | |
Banco Espirito Santo SA | | 2,372 | 22,296 | |
Brisa-Auto Estradas de Portugal SA | | 2,305 | 17,223 | |
Energias de Portugal SA | | 14,027 | 52,867 | |
Galp Energia SGPS SA | | 1,681 | 16,923 | |
Jeronimo Martins SGPS SA | | 2,270 | 12,610 | |
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA | | 5,526 | 46,893 | |
| | | 194,505 | |
| | | | |
Singapore - 0.9% | | | | |
CapitaLand Ltd. | | 13,520 | 29,703 | |
CapitaMall Trust | | 10,422 | 11,604 | |
City Developments Ltd. | | 4,882 | 21,784 | |
ComfortDelGro Corp. Ltd. | | 13,066 | 13,227 | |
DBS Group Holdings Ltd.: | | | | |
Common | | 9,641 | 57,193 | |
Rights expires 1/23/09 | | 4,820 | 10,036 | |
Fraser and Neave Ltd. | | 9,380 | 19,335 | |
Golden Agri-Resources Ltd. | | 40,718 | 6,780 | |
Jardine Cycle & Carriage Ltd. | | 1,770 | 11,756 | |
Keppel Corp Ltd. | | 11,138 | 33,758 | |
Olam International Ltd. | | 9,727 | 7,838 | |
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd. | | 20,969 | 73,059 | |
SembCorp Industries Ltd. | | 8,711 | 14,153 | |
SembCorp Marine Ltd. | | 5,875 | 6,924 | |
Singapore Airlines Ltd. | | 4,153 | 32,601 | |
Singapore Exchange Ltd. | | 7,220 | 25,869 | |
Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. | | 12,365 | 26,774 | |
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. | | 11,469 | 18,969 | |
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. | | 63,031 | 112,228 | |
United Overseas Bank Ltd. | | 9,650 | 87,111 | |
Wilmar International Ltd. | | 6,485 | 12,695 | |
| | | 633,397 | |
| | | | |
Spain - 4.5% | | | | |
Abertis Infraestructuras SA | | 2,145 | 38,170 | |
Acciona SA | | 275 | 34,783 | |
Acerinox SA | | 1,325 | 21,270 | |
ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA | | 1,500 | 68,954 | |
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA | | 30,381 | 372,791 | |
Banco de Sabadell SA | | 7,177 | 48,872 | |
Banco de Valencia SA | | 1,757 | 18,536 | |
Banco Popular Espanol SA | | 6,155 | 53,441 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Spain - Cont'd | | | | |
Banco Santander SA | | 65,064 | $627,941 | |
Bankinter SA | | 2,042 | 18,349 | |
Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte SA | | 2,266 | 17,049 | |
Criteria CaixaCorp SA | | 6,930 | 27,265 | |
EDP Renovaveis SA* | | 1,857 | 13,004 | |
Enagas SA | | 1,628 | 35,714 | |
Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas SA | | 500 | 16,455 | |
Gamesa Corp. Tecnologica SA | | 1,488 | 26,990 | |
Gas Natural SDG SA | | 910 | 24,820 | |
Grifols SA | | 1,044 | 18,133 | |
Grupo Ferrovial SA | | 483 | 13,305 | |
Iberdrola Renovables SA* | | 7,121 | 30,787 | |
Iberdrola SA | | 30,431 | 282,558 | |
Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana SA | | 4,778 | 13,382 | |
Inditex SA | | 1,767 | 78,104 | |
Indra Sistemas SA | | 872 | 19,814 | |
Mapfre SA | | 6,026 | 20,429 | |
Red Electrica de Espana SA | | 936 | 47,420 | |
Repsol YPF SA | | 6,031 | 128,452 | |
Telefonica SA | | 35,121 | 787,254 | |
Union Fenosa SA | | 2,908 | 71,872 | |
Zardoya Otis SA | | 1,041 | 18,533 | |
| | | 2,994,447 | |
| | | | |
Sweden - 1.9% | | | | |
Alfa Laval AB | | 3,175 | 27,567 | |
Assa Abloy AB | | 2,523 | 28,627 | |
Atlas Copco AB | | 8,902 | 76,630 | |
Electrolux AB, Series B | | 2,165 | 18,621 | |
Getinge AB, Series B | | 1,553 | 18,611 | |
Hennes & Mauritz AB | | 4,017 | 156,968 | |
Husqvarna AB, Series B | | 2,117 | 11,217 | |
Investor AB, Series B | | 3,978 | 59,863 | |
Loomis AB, Series B* | | 521 | 3,228 | |
Lundin Petroleum AB* | | 1,319 | 7,017 | |
Modern Times Group AB, Series B | | 354 | 7,690 | |
Nordea Bank AB | | 17,509 | 123,249 | |
OMX AB* (b) | | 588 | 19,704 | |
Sandvik AB | | 8,600 | 54,636 | |
Scania AB, Series B | | 3,229 | 32,319 | |
Securitas AB, Series B | | 2,609 | 21,415 | |
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB | | 3,677 | 29,536 | |
Skanska AB, Series B | | 3,464 | 34,528 | |
SKF AB, Series B | | 3,188 | 31,737 | |
SSAB Svenskt Stal AB | | 2,496 | 21,985 | |
Svenska Cellulosa AB, Series B | | 4,665 | 39,893 | |
Svenska Handelsbanken AB | | 3,663 | 59,622 | |
Swedbank AB | | 3,681 | 21,112 | |
Swedish Match AB | | 2,035 | 29,131 | |
Tele2 AB, Series B | | 2,215 | 19,688 | |
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Series B | | 25,814 | 197,981 | |
TeliaSonera AB | | 17,945 | 89,317 | |
Volvo AB, Series B | | 12,833 | 70,908 | |
| | | 1,312,800 | |
| | | | |
Switzerland - 8.2% | | | | |
ABB Ltd. | | 18,364 | 276,823 | |
Actelion Ltd.* | | 758 | 42,692 | |
Adecco SA | | 993 | 33,704 | |
Aryzta AG* | | 617 | 20,031 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
Switzerland - Cont'd | | | | |
Baloise Holding AG | | 430 | $32,319 | |
BKW FMB Energie AG | | 123 | 11,958 | |
Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA | | 4,521 | 87,773 | |
Credit Suisse Group AG | | 9,725 | 266,555 | |
EFG International AG | | 372 | 6,662 | |
Geberit AG | | 327 | 35,228 | |
Givaudan SA | | 54 | 42,539 | |
Holcim Ltd. | | 1,656 | 95,351 | |
Julius Baer Holding AG | | 1,661 | 63,895 | |
Kuehne & Nagel International AG | | 505 | 32,742 | |
Lindt & Spruengli AG | | 1 | 21,321 | |
Logitech International SA* | | 1,432 | 22,356 | |
Lonza Group AG | | 368 | 34,020 | |
Nestle SA | | 31,970 | 1,260,020 | |
Nobel Biocare Holding AG | | 790 | 16,182 | |
Novartis AG | | 19,397 | 971,877 | |
Pargesa Holding SA | | 234 | 15,645 | |
Roche Holding AG | | 5,704 | 878,038 | |
Schindler Holding AG | | 429 | 19,607 | |
SGS SA | | 38 | 39,784 | |
Sonova Holding AG | | 340 | 20,512 | |
STMicroelectronics NV | | 5,594 | 37,464 | |
Straumann Holding AG | | 44 | 7,750 | |
Sulzer AG | | 229 | 13,203 | |
Swatch Group AG | | 360 | 50,287 | |
Swiss Life Holding AG | | 288 | 19,978 | |
Swiss Reinsurance | | 2,916 | 141,663 | |
Swisscom AG | | 186 | 60,047 | |
Syngenta AG | | 810 | 156,922 | |
UBS AG* | | 26,577 | 370,557 | |
Xstrata plc | | 6,153 | 57,362 | |
Zurich Financial Services AG | | 1,195 | 254,864 | |
| | | 5,517,731 | |
| | | | |
United Kingdom - 17.5% | | | | |
3i Group plc | | 2,930 | 11,543 | |
Admiral Group plc | | 1,633 | 21,569 | |
AMEC plc | | 3,217 | 22,961 | |
Anglo American plc | | 12,287 | 280,654 | |
Antofagasta plc | | 3,836 | 23,694 | |
Associated British Foods plc | | 2,973 | 31,374 | |
AstraZeneca plc | | 11,940 | 483,793 | |
Aviva plc | | 20,574 | 116,458 | |
BAE Systems plc | | 27,236 | 148,443 | |
Balfour Beatty plc | | 3,975 | 18,937 | |
Barclays plc | | 70,715 | 159,422 | |
Berkeley Group Holdings plc | | 945 | 11,949 | |
BG Group plc | | 30,315 | 420,886 | |
BHP Billiton plc | | 20,653 | 389,038 | |
BP plc | | 160,791 | 1,232,027 | |
British Airways plc | | 5,516 | 14,384 | |
British American Tobacco plc | | 17,578 | 456,736 | |
British Energy Group plc | | 8,286 | 92,285 | |
British Land Co. plc | | 3,964 | 31,776 | |
British Sky Broadcasting Group plc | | 10,249 | 71,309 | |
BT Group plc | | 60,560 | 118,987 | |
Bunzl plc | | 2,628 | 22,431 | |
Burberry Group plc | | 3,853 | 12,357 | |
Cable & Wireless plc | | 21,169 | 47,885 | |
Cadbury plc | | 11,697 | 102,396 | |
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| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
United Kingdom - Cont'd | | | | |
Cairn Energy plc* | | 1,225 | $35,846 | |
Capita Group plc | | 5,262 | 56,067 | |
Carnival plc | | 1,486 | 32,376 | |
Centrica plc | | 44,295 | 170,212 | |
Cobham plc | | 9,184 | 27,307 | |
Compass Group plc | | 16,165 | 80,217 | |
Daily Mail & General Trust | | 2,650 | 10,341 | |
Diageo plc | | 20,461 | 284,623 | |
Drax Group plc | | 2,659 | 21,555 | |
Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. | | 3,224 | 15,441 | |
FirstGroup plc | | 4,423 | 27,670 | |
Friends Provident plc | | 22,270 | 27,931 | |
G4S plc | | 9,981 | 29,622 | |
GKN plc | | 4,757 | 6,735 | |
GlaxoSmithKline plc | | 44,421 | 824,649 | |
Hammerson plc | | 2,370 | 18,359 | |
Hays plc | | 10,930 | 11,019 | |
HBOS plc: | | | | |
Common | | 44,285 | 44,944 | |
Rights (b) | | 61,286 | - | |
Home Retail Group plc | | 7,975 | 24,461 | |
HSBC Holdings plc | | 91,916 | 879,749 | |
ICAP plc | | 4,132 | 17,232 | |
IMI plc | | 3,067 | 12,052 | |
Imperial Tobacco Group plc | | 8,784 | 234,648 | |
Intercontinental Hotels Group plc | | 2,333 | 18,983 | |
International Power plc | | 13,144 | 45,637 | |
Invensys plc* | | 7,604 | 19,157 | |
Investec plc | | 2,815 | 11,722 | |
ITV plc | | 35,564 | 20,391 | |
J Sainsbury plc | | 8,278 | 39,363 | |
Johnson Matthey plc | | 1,911 | 30,332 | |
Kazakhmys plc | | 1,775 | 5,963 | |
Kingfisher plc | | 20,901 | 40,877 | |
Ladbrokes plc | | 6,503 | 17,392 | |
Land Securities Group plc | | 3,861 | 51,462 | |
Legal & General Group plc | | 47,419 | 52,892 | |
Liberty International plc | | 2,227 | 15,432 | |
Lloyds TSB Group plc: | | | | |
Common | | 49,268 | 90,176 | |
Rights (expiration 1/12/09) | | 21,416 | - | |
Logica plc | | 11,501 | 11,486 | |
London Stock Exchange Group plc | | 1,306 | 9,722 | |
Lonmin plc | | 1,106 | 14,601 | |
Man Group plc | | 14,930 | 51,532 | |
Marks & Spencer Group plc | | 12,217 | 38,024 | |
Meggitt plc | | 5,554 | 12,884 | |
National Express Group plc | | 1,440 | 10,273 | |
National Grid plc | | 22,534 | 222,696 | |
Next plc | | 1,921 | 30,075 | |
Old Mutual plc | | 42,416 | 33,887 | |
Pearson plc | | 7,153 | 66,384 | |
Prudential plc | | 21,335 | 129,892 | |
Reckitt Benckiser Group plc | | 5,306 | 197,672 | |
Reed Elsevier plc | | 9,678 | 70,541 | |
Rexam plc | | 5,905 | 30,160 | |
Rio Tinto plc | | 9,463 | 205,033 | |
Rolls-Royce Group plc: | | | | |
Common | | 16,165 | 79,191 | |
Rights (expires 1/09) (b) | | 692,349 | 995 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Equity Securities - Cont'd | | Shares | Value | |
United Kingdom - Cont'd | | | | |
Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc | | 133,582 | $96,568 | |
RSA Insurance Group plc | | 29,845 | 59,656 | |
SABMiller plc | | 7,599 | 127,947 | |
Sage Group plc | | 11,619 | 28,572 | |
Schroders plc | | 988 | 12,338 | |
Scottish & Southern Energy plc | | 7,256 | 127,762 | |
Segro plc | | 3,643 | 13,032 | |
Serco Group plc | | 4,021 | 26,171 | |
Severn Trent plc | | 2,119 | 36,693 | |
Shire plc | | 4,302 | 62,912 | |
Smith & Nephew plc | | 7,425 | 47,109 | |
Smiths Group plc | | 3,293 | 42,398 | |
Stagecoach Group plc | | 4,795 | 9,727 | |
Standard Chartered plc | | 18,574 | 237,437 | |
Standard Life plc | | 18,493 | 54,226 | |
Tate & Lyle plc | | 4,003 | 23,253 | |
Tesco plc | | 62,875 | 327,573 | |
Thomas Cook Group plc | | 4,751 | 12,165 | |
Thomson Reuters plc | | 1,539 | 34,039 | |
Tomkins plc | | 7,252 | 12,993 | |
TUI Travel plc | | 5,604 | 18,944 | |
Tullow Oil plc | | 6,455 | 61,770 | |
Unilever plc | | 10,800 | 245,435 | |
United Business Media Ltd. | | 1,886 | 13,885 | |
United Utilities Group plc | | 6,094 | 55,150 | |
Vedanta Resources plc | | 1,493 | 13,256 | |
Vodafone Group plc | | 445,407 | 896,655 | |
Whitbread plc | | 1,489 | 19,697 | |
William Morrison Supermarkets plc | | 19,446 | 78,869 | |
Wolseley plc | | 5,384 | 30,019 | |
WPP plc | | 9,173 | 53,472 | |
| | | 11,790,900 | |
United States - 0.1% | | | | |
Synthes, Inc. | | 456 | 57,641 | |
| | | | |
Total Equity Securities (Cost $84,430,891) | | | 64,615,746 | |
| | | | |
Exchange Traded Funds - 2.8% | | | | |
iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund | | 42,706 | 1,916,218 | |
| | | | |
Total Exchange Traded Funds (Cost $1,708,633) | | | 1,916,218 | |
| | | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (Cost $86,139,524) - 98.9% | | | 66,531,964 | |
Other assets and liabilities, net - 1.1% | | | 764,897 | |
Net Assets - 100% | | | $67,296,861 | |
| | | | |
Net Assets Consist Of: | | | | |
Paid-in capital applicable to the following shares of common stock with 20,000,000 shares of $.10 par value shares authorized: | | | | |
Class I: 1,166,598 | | | $100,046,846 | |
Class F: 22,861 | | | 1,606,518 | |
Undistributed net investment income | | | 350,231 | |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | | | (15,089,936) | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | | (19,616,798) | |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | $67,296,861 | |
| | | | |
Net Asset Value Per Share | | | | |
Class I (based on net assets of $65,972,981) | | | $56.55 | |
Class F (based on net assets of $1,323,880) | | | $57.91 | |
(b) This security was valued by the Board of Directors. See Note A.
* Non-income producing security
Abbreviations:
ADR: American Depositary Receipt
See notes to financial statements.
EAFE International Index Portfolio
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2008
Net Investment Income | | |
Investment Income: | | |
Dividend income (net of foreign taxes withheld of $334,277) | | $3,420,327 |
Interest income | | 6,915 |
Total investment income | | 3,427,242 |
| | |
Expenses: | | |
Investment advisory fee | | 554,712 |
Transfer agency fees and expenses | | 25,124 |
Accounting fees | | 140,118 |
Distribution Plan expenses: | | |
Class F | | 723 |
Directors' fees and expenses | | 17,290 |
Administrative fees | | 99,056 |
Custodian fees | | 264,756 |
Reports to shareholders | | 15,441 |
Professional fees | | 29,867 |
Contract services | | 49,201 |
Miscellaneous | | 11,852 |
Total expenses | | 1,208,140 |
Reimbursement from Advisor: | | |
Class I | | (265,405) |
Class F | | (983) |
Net expenses | | 941,752 |
| | |
Net Investment Income | | 2,485,490 |
| | |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on: | | |
Investments | | (14,629,613) |
Foreign currency transactions | | 13,392 |
| | (14,616,221) |
| | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | | |
Investments and foreign currencies | | (40,497,547) |
Assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies | | (11,325) |
| | (40,508,872) |
| | |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain | | |
(Loss) | | (55,125,093) |
| | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | |
Resulting From Operations | | ($52,639,603) |
See notes to financial statements.
EAFE International Index Portfolio
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Year Ended | Year Ended | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2008 | 2007 | |
Operations: | | | | |
Net investment income | | $2,485,490 | $1,079,434 | |
Net realized gain (loss) | | (14,616,221) | 2,131,638 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) | | (40,508,872) | (475,273) | |
| | | | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Resulting From Operations | | (52,639,603) | 2,735,799 | |
| | | | |
Distributions to shareholders from: | | | | |
Net investment income | | | | |
Class I shares | | (3,151,804) | (895,891) | |
Class F shares | | (4,508) | -- | |
Net realized gain | | | | |
Class I shares | | (2,054,260) | (1,341,924) | |
Class F shares | | (18) | -- | |
Total distributions | | (5,210,590) | (2,237,815) | |
| | | | |
Capital share transactions: | | | | |
Shares sold | | | | |
Class I shares | | 28,840,408 | 78,722,812 | |
Class F shares | | 1,720,729 | 1,000 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | | | |
Class I shares | | 5,206,064 | 2,237,815 | |
Class F shares | | 4,526 | -- | |
Shares redeemed | | | | |
Class I shares | | (29,136,738) | (21,581,983) | |
Class F shares | | (119,737) | -- | |
Total capital share transactions | | 6,515,252 | 59,379,644 | |
| | | | |
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | (51,334,941) | 59,877,628 | |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of year | | 118,631,802 | 58,754,174 | |
End of year (including undistributed net investment income of $350,231 and $1,007,403, respectively) | | $67,296,861 | $118,631,802 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Capital Share Activity | | | | |
Shares sold | | | | |
Class I shares | | 328,264 | 723,184 | |
Class F shares | | 24,311 | 10 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | | | |
Class I shares | | 69,512 | 22,385 | |
Class F shares | | 78 | -- | |
Shares redeemed | | | | |
Class I shares | | (363,522) | (208,760) | |
Class F shares | | (1,538) | -- | |
Total capital share transactions | | 57,105 | 536,819 | |
See notes to financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements
Note A -- Significant Accounting Policies
General: Summit EAFE International Index Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. (the "Fund"), is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company. The Fund is comprised of thirteen separate portfolios. The operations of each series of the Fund are accounted for separately. The shares of the Portfolio are sold to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for allocation to certain of their variable separate accounts. The Portfolio offers Class I and Class F shares. Class F shares are subject to Distribution Plan Expenses. Each class has different: (a) dividend rates, due to differences in Distribution Plan expenses and other class-specific expenses, (b) exchange privileges; and (c) class-specific voting rights.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), an affiliated entity, whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business and became investment advisor for the portfolios of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Security Valuation: Net asset value per share is determined every business day as of the close of the regular session of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Portfolio uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Directors to value its investments wherever possible. Securities for which market quotations are available are valued at last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange in which they trade. Foreign securities are valued based on quotations from the principal market in which such securities are normally traded. If events occur after the close of the principal market in which foreign securities are traded, and before the close of business of the fund, that are expected to materially affect the value of those securities, then they are valued at their fair value taking these events into account. Investments for which market quotations are not available or deemed not reliable are fair valued in good faith under the direction of t he Board of Directors.
The Portfolio has retained a third party fair value pricing service to quantitatively analyze the price movement of its holdings on foreign exchanges and to automatically fair value if the variation from the prior day's closing price exceeds specified parameters. On December 31, 2008, price movements exceeded specified parameters and the third party fair value pricing service quantitatively fair valued the affected securities.
In determining fair value, the Board considers all relevant qualitative and quantitative information available. These factors are subject to change over time and are reviewed periodically. The values assigned to fair value investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized. Further, because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, those estimated values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed, and the differences could be material. At December 31, 2008, securities valued at $1,127,539 or 1.7% of net assets were fair valued under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Effective January 1, 2008, the Portfolio adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Portfolio's investments and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 -- quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 -- other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 -- significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy during the period. For additional information on the Portfolio's policy regarding valuation of investments, please refer to the Portfolio's most recent prospectus.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Portfolio's net assets as of December 31, 2008:
Valuation Inputs | Investments in Securities |
Level 1 - Quoted Prices | $2,573,320 |
Level 2 - Other Significant Observable Inputs | 62,831,105* |
Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs | 1,127,539** |
Total | $66,531,964 |
*Includes certain securities trading primarily outside the U.S. whose value was adjusted as a result of significant market movements following the close of local trading.
**Level 3 securities represent 1.7% of net assets.
Foreign Currency Transactions: The Portfolio's accounting records are maintained in U.S. dollars. For valuation of assets and liabilities on each date of net asset value determination, foreign denominations are translated into U.S. dollars using the current exchange rate. Security transactions, income and expenses are translated at the prevailing rate of exchange on the date of the event. The effect of changes in foreign exchange rates on securities and foreign currencies is included with the net realized and unrealized gain or loss on investments and foreign currencies.
Security Transactions and Investment Income: Security transactions are accounted for on trade date. Realized gains and losses are recorded on an identified cost basis and may include proceeds from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date or, in the case of dividends on certain foreign securities, as soon as the Portfolio is informed of the ex-dividend date. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Interest income, which includes amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities, is accrued as earned. Investment income and realized and unrealized gains and losses are allocated to separate classes of shares based upon the relative net assets of each class. Expenses arising in connection with a class are charged directly to that class. Expenses common to the classes are allocated to each class in proportion to their relative net assets. Withhol ding taxes on foreign dividends have been provided for in accordance with the Portfolio's understanding of the applicable country's tax rules and rates.
Distributions to Shareholders: Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Portfolio on ex-dividend date. Dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains, if any, are paid at least annually. Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles; accordingly, periodic reclassifications are made within the Portfolio's capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution under income tax regulations.
Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Expense Offset Arrangements: The Portfolio has an arrangement with its custodian bank whereby the custodian's fees may be paid indirectly by credits earned on the Portfolio's cash on deposit with the bank. These credits are used to reduce the Portfolio's expenses. Such a deposit arrangement may be an alternative to overnight investments.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision for federal income or excise tax is required since the Portfolio intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code and to distribute substantially all of its taxable earnings.
The Portfolio is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The implementation of FIN 48 did not result in any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements or in any of the open tax years; thus, no provision for income tax is required. Each of the Portfolio's federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
Portfolio Securities Lending: During the year, the Portfolio lent its securities to approved borrowers to earn additional income and received cash and/or securities as collateral to secure the loans. The Securities Lending program ended in November 2008.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 161, "Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." The new standard is intended to improve financial reporting about derivative instruments and hedging activities by requiring enhanced disclosures to enable investors to better understand the effect on the Fund's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS No. 161 will have on the Fund's financial statements and related disclosures.
Note B -- Related Party Transactions
Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") is wholly-owned by Calvert Group, Ltd. ("Calvert"), which is indirectly wholly-owned by UNIFI Mutual Holding Company. The Advisor provides investment advisory services and pays the salaries and fees of officers and Directors of the Fund who are employees of the Advisor or its affiliates. For its services, the Advisor receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.56% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $17,301 was payable at year end. In addition, $12,318 was receivable from Advisor for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit Investment Partners, Inc., ("Summit") served as the Advisor. Summit is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Central Life Insurance Company, an indirect subsidiary of UNIFI Holding Company. Summit received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.56% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $14,828 was payable at year end. In addition, $37,550 was receivable from Summit for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008.
The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit net annual portfolio operating expenses through December 12, 2010. The contractual expense cap is .95% and 1.15% for Class I and Class F, respectively. For the purpose of this expense limit, operating expenses do not include interest expense, brokerage commissions, taxes and extraordinary expenses. To the extent any expense credits are earned, the Advisor's obligation under the contractual limitation may be reduced and the Advisor may benefit from the expense offset arrangement.
Calvert Administrative Services Company ("CASC"), an affiliate of the Advisor, provides administrative services to the Portfolio for an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% based on the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $3,090 was payable at year end. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit provided administrative services for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $2,648 was payable at year end.
Calvert Distributors, Inc., an affiliate of the Advisor, is the distributor and principal underwriter for the Portfolio. Distribution plans, adopted by Class F shares, allow the Portfolio to pay the distributor for expenses and services associated with the distribution of shares. The expenses paid may not exceed 0.20% annually of average daily net assets of Class F. Under the terms of the agreement, $110 was payable at year end. Prior to December 12, 2008, Ameritas Investment Corp. was the distributor and principal underwriter for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .20% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $613 was payable at year end.
Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. ("CSSI"), an affiliate of the Advisor, acts as shareholder servicing agent for the Portfolio. For its services, CSSI received a fee of $14 for the year ended December 31, 2008. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. is the transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Under the terms of the agreement, $14 was payable at year end. Prior to December 12, 2008, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC served as the transfer and dividend disbursing agent.
Each Director of the Fund who is not an employee of the Advisor or its affiliates receives a fee of $1,500 for each Board and Committee and Committee meeting attended plus an annual fee of $20,000 for Directors not serving on other Calvert Fund Boards, $8,000 for those serving on other Calvert Fund Boards. Director's fees are allocated to each of the portfolios served. Prior to December 12, 2008, each Director of the Fund who was not an employee of Summit or its affiliates received a fee of $2,500 for each Board meeting attended ($600 for Committee meetings) plus an annual fee of $17,000. Committee chairs and the Lead Director received additional fees for their service.
Note C -- Investment Activity
During the year, the cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investments, other than short-term securities, were $50,328,528 and $47,175,375, respectively.
The cost of investments owned at December 31, 2008 for federal income tax purposes was $86,583,159. Net unrealized depreciation aggregated $20,051,195, of which $3,188,267 related to appreciated securities and $23,239,462 related to depreciated securities.
Net realized capital loss carryforwards for federal income tax purposes of $14,661,353, at December 31, 2008 may be utilized to offset future capital gains until expiration in December 2016.
The tax character of dividends and distributions paid during the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 was as follows:
| 2008 | 2007 |
Distributions paid from: | | |
Ordinary income | $3,309,051 | $1,672,255 |
Long-term capital gain | 1,901,539 | 565,560 |
Total | $5,210,590 | $2,237,815 |
As of December 31, 2008 the components of distributable earnings/(accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
Undistributed ordinary income | $365,283 |
Capital loss carryforward | (14,661,353) |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (20,051,195) |
Total | ($34,347,265) |
The differences between components of distributable earnings on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the statement of net assets are primarily due to temporary book-tax differences that will reverse in a subsequent period. These book-tax differences are due to wash sales and passive foreign investment companies.
Reclassifications, as shown in the table below, have been made to the Portfolio's components of net assets to reflect income and gains available for distributions (or available capital loss carryforwards, as applicable) under income tax law and regulations. These reclassifications are due to permanent book-tax differences and have no impact on net assets. The primary permanent differences causing such reclassifications for the Portfolio are due to foreign currency transactions and passive foreign investment companies.
Undistributed net investment income | $13,650 |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) | (13,650) |
NOTE D - OTHER (Unaudited)
Change in Independent Accountant
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. ("Fund"). KPMG LLP was selected as the Fund's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the Fund's financial statements. The Fund's selection of KPMG as its independent accountant was recommended by the Fund's Audit Committee and was approved by the Fund's Board of Directors.
The reports on the financial statements audited by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2007 and prior for the Funds did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There were no disagreements between the Funds and Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused Deloitte to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements of such years. There were no reportable events as described in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of Item 304(a) of SEC Regulation S-K.
Tax Information (Unaudited)
The Portfolio designates $1,901,539 as capital gain dividends for the calendar year ended December 31, 2008.
The Portfolio designates $3.12 per share as income derived from foreign sources and $.28 per share as foreign taxes paid for the calendar year ending December 31, 2008.
Financial Highlights
| | | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | December 31, | |
Class I | | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $104.77 | $98.66 | $81.98 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.17 | 1.00 | 1.46 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (45.83) | 8.00 | 18.83 | |
Total from investment operations | | (43.66) | 9.80 | 20.29 | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (2.77) | (1.48) | (1.63) | |
Net realized gain | | (1.79) | (2.21) | (1.98) | |
Total distributions | | (4.56) | (3.69) | (3.61) | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (48.22) | 6.11 | 16.68 | |
Net asset value, ending | | $56.55 | $104.77 | $98.66 | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | (42.68%) | 10.10% | 25.56% | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.51% | 1.48% | 1.66% | |
Total expenses | | 1.22% | 1.26% | 1.29% | |
Expenses before offsets | | .95% | .95% | .95% | |
Net expenses | | .95% | .95% | .95% | |
Portfolio turnover | | 47% | 48% | 44% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $65,973 | $118,631 | $58,754 | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | | |
Class I | | 2005 | 2004(z) | | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $74.34 | $64.41 | | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.59 | 1.00 | | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 7.59 | 10.42 | | |
Total from investment operations | | 9.18 | 11.42 | | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (.72) | (.69) | | |
Net realized gain | | (.82) | (.80) | | |
Total distributions | | (1.54) | (1.49) | | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | 7.64 | 9.93 | | |
Net asset value, ending | | $81.98 | $74.34 | | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | 12.57% | 18.02% | | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.75% | 1.70% | | |
Total expenses | | 1.50% | 1.69% | | |
Expenses before offsets | | .95% | .95% | | |
Net expenses | | .95% | .95% | | |
Portfolio turnover | | 77% | 55% | | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $44,084 | $50,938 | | |
See notes to financial highlights.
Financial Highlights
| | Periods Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | | |
Class F | | 2008 | 2007^ | | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $104.76 | $102.10 | | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.25 | .01 | | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (45.05) | 2.65 | | |
Total from investment operations | | (43.80) | 2.66 | | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (1.26) | -- | | |
Net realized gain | | (1.79) | -- | | |
Total distributions | | (3.05) | -- | | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (46.85) | 2.66 | | |
Net asset value, ending | | $57.91 | $104.76 | | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | (42.81%) | 2.61% | | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.33% | .25% (a) | | |
Total expenses | | 1.42% | 1.46% (a) | | |
Expenses before offsets | | 1.15% | 1.15% (a) | | |
Net expenses | | 1.15% | 1.15% (a) | | |
Portfolio turnover | | 47% | 48% | | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $1,324 | $1 | | |
A Total expenses do not reflect amounts reimbursed and/or waived by the Advisor or reductions from expense offset arrangements. Expenses before offsets reflect expenses after reimbursement and/or waiver by the Advisor but prior to reductions from expense offset arrangements. Net expenses are net of all reductions and represent the net expenses paid by the portfolio.
(a) Annualized.
(z) Per share figures are calculated using the Average Shares Method.
* Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year.
^ From December 17, 2007 inception.
See notes to financial statements.
Explanation of Financial Tables
Schedule of Investments
The Schedule of Investments is a snapshot of all securities held in the fund at their market value, on the last day of the reporting period. Securities are listed by asset type (e.g., common stock, corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations) and may be further broken down into sub-groups and by industry classification.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities is often referred to as the fund's balance sheet. It lists the value of what the fund owns, is due and owes on the last day of the reporting period. The fund's assets include the market value of securities owned, cash, receivables for securities sold and shareholder subscriptions, and receivables for dividends and interest payments that have been earned, but not yet received. The fund's liabilities typically include payables for securities purchased and shareholder redemptions, and expenses owed but not yet paid. The statement also reports the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share on the last day of the reporting period. The NAV is calculated by dividing the fund's net assets (assets minus liabilities) by the number of shares outstanding. This statement is accompanied by a Schedule of Investments. Alternatively, if certain conditions are met, a Statement of Net Assets may be presented in lieu of this statement and the Schedule of Investments.
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets provides a detailed list of the fund's holdings, including each security's market value on the last day of the reporting period. The Statement of Net Assets includes a Schedule of Investments. Other assets are added and other liabilities subtracted from the investments total to calculate the fund's net assets. Finally, net assets are divided by the outstanding shares of the fund to arrive at its share price, or Net Asset Value (NAV) per share.
At the end of the Statement of Net Assets is a table displaying the composition of the fund's net assets. Paid in Capital is the money invested by shareholders and represents the bulk of net assets. Undistributed Net Investment Income and Accumulated Net Realized Gains usually approximate the amounts the fund had available to distribute to shareholders as of the statement date. Accumulated Realized Losses will appear as negative balances. Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) is the difference between the market value of the fund's investments and their cost, and reflects the gains (losses) that would be realized if the fund were to sell all of its investments at their statement-date values.
Statement of Operations
The Statement of Operations summarizes the fund's investment income earned and expenses incurred in operating the fund. Investment income includes dividends earned from stocks and interest earned from interest-bearing securities in the fund. Expenses incurred in operating the fund include the advisory fee paid to the investment advisor, administrative services fees, distribution plan expenses (if applicable), transfer agent fees, shareholder servicing expenses, custodial, legal, and audit fees, and the printing and postage expenses related to shareholder reports. Expense offsets (fees paid indirectly) are also shown. Credits earned from offset arrangements are used to reduce the fund's expenses. This statement also shows net gains (losses) realized on the sale of investments and the increase or decrease in the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments held during the period.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
The Statement of Changes in Net Assets shows how the fund's total net assets changed during the two most recent reporting periods. Changes in the fund's net assets are attributable to investment operations, distributions and capital share transactions.
The Operations section of the report summarizes information detailed in the Statement of Operations. The Distribution section shows the dividend and capital gain distributions made to shareholders. The amounts shown as distributions in this section may not match the net investment income and realized gains amounts shown in the Operations section because distributions are determined on a tax basis and certain investments or transactions may be treated differently for financial statement and tax purposes. The Capital Share Transactions section shows the amount shareholders invested in the fund, either by purchasing shares or by reinvesting distributions, and the amounts redeemed. The corresponding numbers of shares issued, reinvested and redeemed are shown at the end of the report.
Financial Highlights
The Financial Highlights table provides a per-share breakdown by class of the components that affect the fund's net asset value for current and past reporting periods. The table provides total return, total distributions, expense ratios, portfolio turnover and net assets for the applicable period. Total return is a measure of a fund's performance that encompasses all elements of return: dividends, capital gain distributions and changes in net asset value. Total return is the change in value of an investment over a given period, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and capital gain distributions, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment. Total distributions include distributions from net investment income and net realized gains. Long-term gains are earned on securities held in the fund more than one year. Short-term gains, on the sale of securities held less than one year, are treated as ordinary dividend income for tax purposes. The expense ratio is a fund's cost of doing business, expres sed as a percentage of net assets. These expenses directly reduce returns to shareholders. Portfolio turnover measures the trading activity in a fund's investment portfolio -- how often securities are bought and sold by a fund. Portfolio turnover is affected by market conditions, changes in the size of the fund, the nature of the fund's investments and the investment style of the portfolio manager.
Proxy Voting
The Proxy Voting Guidelines that the Portfolio uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities are provided as an Appendix to the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. The Statement of Additional Information can be obtained free of charge by calling the Fund at 1-800-368-2745 or by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available by calling the Fund or visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Form N-Q is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's Form N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC; information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
This report is intended to provide fund information to shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.
Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract
At a meeting held on December 4, 2008, the Board of Directors, and by a separate vote, the disinterested Directors, initially approved the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Portfolio and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Advisor and World Asset Management, Inc. (the "Subadvisor") with respect to the Portfolio.
At the December 4, 2008 meeting, and in connection with the Advisor's impending purchase of the mutual fund business of Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), the Board, effective as of December 12, 2008, terminated the Portfolio's current investment advisory agreement with Summit and investment subadvisory agreement with the Subadvisor and approved the selection of the Advisor and Subadvisor as investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively, to the Portfolio. In evaluating the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered a variety of information relating to the Portfolio and the Advisor. The disinterested Directors reviewed a report prepared by the Advisor regarding various services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and its affiliates.
The disinterested Directors were separately represented by independent legal counsel with respect to their consideration of the approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. Prior to voting, the disinterested Directors reviewed the proposed approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and Investment Subadvisory Agreement with management and also met in private sessions with their counsel at which no representatives of management were present.
In the course of its deliberations regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered the following factors, among others: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor, including the personnel who would be providing such services; the Advisor's financial condition; the level and method of computing the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee; performance, fee and expense information for the Portfolio; the profitability of the Calvert Group of Funds to the Advisor; the Advisor's process for monitoring "best execution"; the direct and indirect benefits, if any, to be derived by the Advisor from its relationship with the Portfolio; the effect of the Portfolio's growth and size on the Portfolio's performance and expenses; the Advisor's compliance programs and policies; the Advisor's performance of substantially similar duties for other funds; and any possible conflicts of interest.
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board reviewed information provided by the Advisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Advisor's operations and personnel, including, among other information, biographical information on the Advisor's supervisory and professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. The Board also took into account similar information provided periodically throughout the previous year by the Advisor as well as the Board's familiarity with the Advisor's management through Board of Directors' meetings, discussions and other reports. The Board considered the Advisor's current level of staffing and overall resources. The Advisor's administrative capabilities, including its ability to supervise the other service providers for the Portfolio, were also considered. The Board discussed the Advisor 's effectiveness in monitoring the performance of other funds' subadvisors and the Advisor's timeliness in responding to performance issues with respect to those funds. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement.
In considering the Portfolio's performance, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's performance under Summit's and the Subadvisor's management. The Board noted that year to date through December 2, 2008, the Portfolio had outperformed the MSCI EAFE Index. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Subadvisor became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Portfolio's performance was satisfactory.
In considering the Portfolio's fees and expenses, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's fees and expenses. The Board noted that the Portfolio would pay the same advisory fee to the Advisor as it currently paid to Summit. The Board took into account that the Advisor had agreed to limit the Portfolio's net annual operating expenses through December 12, 2010 to the level in effect for the Portfolio on November 30, 2008. The Board also considered the impact of the size of the Portfolio on its expenses. The Board noted that the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee with respect to the Portfolio. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed advisory fee was reasonable in view of the quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and the other factors considered.
The Board reviewed the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio. In reviewing the anticipated profitability of the advisory fee to the Advisor, the Board also considered the fact that affiliates would provide shareholder servicing and administrative services to the Portfolio for which they would receive compensation. The Board also considered whether the Advisor had the financial wherewithal to provide a high level of services to the Portfolio. The Board also considered that the Advisor would likely derive benefits to its reputation and other indirect benefits from its relationship with the Portfolio. The Board noted that the Advisor had agreed to reimburse expenses of the Portfolio above a certain level and also would pay the subadvisory fee to the Subadvisor. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was reasonable.
The Board considered the effect of the Portfolio's current size and potential growth on its performance and expenses. The Board noted that if the Portfolio's assets increased over time, the Portfolio might realize other economies of scale if assets increased proportionately more than certain other expenses. The Board took into account that the Portfolio might achieve operational efficiencies by joining the Calvert Group of Funds. The Board concluded that adding breakpoints to the advisory fee at specified asset levels was not appropriate given the Portfolio's current size.
In approving the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
In evaluating the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the disinterested Directors reviewed information provided by the Advisor relating to the Subadvisor. The Board approved the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Subadvisor and the Advisor based on a number of factors relating to the Subadvisor's ability to perform under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. In the course of its deliberations, the Board evaluated, among other factors: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the Portfolio's performance record, the Subadvisor's performance in employing its investment strategies and the Subadvisor's compliance systems, including those related to personal investing. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Subadvisor under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement.
As noted above, the Board considered the Portfolio's performance under Summit's and the Subadvisor's management. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team that was currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and the Subadvisor became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. The Board also took into account the expertise and resources the Advisor would devote to monitoring the performance, investment style and risk adjusted performance of the Subadvisor.
In considering the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor of its relationship with the Portfolio, the Board noted that the proposed subadvisory fee under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be paid by the Advisor out of the advisory fee that the Advisor would receive under the Investment Advisory Agreement. The Board also relied on the ability of the Advisor to negotiate the Investment Subadvisory Agreement and the corresponding subadvisory fee at arm's length. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed subadvisory fee was reasonable. For each of the above reasons, the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor from its relationship with the Portfolio were not material factors in the Board's deliberations. For similar reasons, the Board did not consider the potential economies of scale in the Subadvisor's management of the Portfolio to be a m aterial factor in its consideration, although the Board noted that the subadvisory fee included breakpoints that would reduce the subadvisory fee on assets above certain specified asset levels.
In approving the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
Conclusions
The Board reached the following conclusions regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, among others: (a) the Advisor has demonstrated that it possesses the capability and resources to perform the duties required of it under the Investment Advisory Agreement; (b) the Subadvisor is qualified to manage the Portfolio's assets in accordance with the Portfolio's investment objective and policies; (c) the Advisor and Subadvisor maintain appropriate compliance programs; (d) the Subadvisor is likely to execute its investment strategies consistently over time; (e) performance of the Portfolio is satisfactory in relation to relevant indices; and (f) the Portfolio's proposed advisory and subadvisory fees are reasonable in relation to the services to be provided by the Advisor and the Subadvisor. Based on its conclusions, the Board determined that approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be in the interests of the Portfo lio and its shareholders.
Director and Officer Information Table
Name & Age | Position with Fund
| Position Start Date
| Principal Occupation During Last 5 Years | (Not Applicable to Officers) |
# of Calvert Portfolios Overseen | Other Directorships |
Independent Directors |
FRANK H. BLATZ, JR., Esq. AGE: 73 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Of counsel to firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. Mr. Blatz was an attorney in private practice in Fanwood, NJ from 1999 to 2004. | 27 | |
ALICE GRESHAM AGE: 58 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean and Professor at Howard University School of Law. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. | 28 | - Council on Legal Education Opportunity
- North Country School
|
M. CHARITO KRUVANT AGE: 63 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | President and CEO of Creative Associates International, Inc., a firm that specializes in human resources development, information management, public affairs and private enterprise development. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Foundation
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
|
CYNTHIA MILLIGAN AGE: 62 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Formerly, she was the President and Chief Executive Officer for CMA, a consulting firm for financial institutions. | 28 | - Wells Fargo Company- NYSE
- Gallup, Inc.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Raven Industries - NASDAQ
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Non-Profit)
- Prison Fellowship Ministries (Non-Profit)
|
ARTHUR J. PUGH AGE: 71 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Retired executive. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
|
Interested Directors |
BARBARA J. KRUMSIEK AGE: 56 | Director & Chair-person | 1997 CVS 2008 Summit | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Calvert Group, Ltd. | 58 | - Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Acacia Life Insurance Company (Chair)
- UNIFI Mutual Holding Company
- Ameritas Holding Company
|
WILLIAM LESTER AGE: 51 | Director & President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | President, CEO and Treasurer of Summit Investment Advisors, Inc. | 27 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Investment Advisors, Inc.
- Ameritas Investment Corp.
|
Officers |
KAREN BECKER AGE: 56 | Chief Compliance Officer | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Chief Compliance Officer for the Calvert Funds. Prior to 2005, Ms. Becker was Senior Vice President of Calvert Group, Ltd. and Head of Calvert Client Services. |
SUSAN WALKER BENDER, Esq. AGE: 50 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1988 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
THOMAS DAILEY AGE: 44 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
IVY WAFFORD DUKE, Esq. AGE: 40 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd., and since 2004, Chief Compliance Officer for Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
TRACI L. GOLDT AGE: 35 | Assistant Secretary | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Executive Assistant to General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
GREGORY B. HABEEB AGE: 59 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
DANIEL K. HAYES AGE: 58 | Vice President | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
HUI PING HO, CPA Age: 44 | Assistant Treasurer | 2000 CVS 2008 Summit | Tax Compliance Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
LANCELOT A. KING, Esq. AGE: 38 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2002 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
EDITH LILLIE AGE: 52 | Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Secretary and Regulatory Matters Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
AUGUSTO DIVO MACEDO, Esq. AGE: 46 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, and Associate Counsel Compliance Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Mr. Macedo served as 2nd Vice President at Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Advisors Group, Acacia's broker-dealer and federally registered investment adviser. |
JANE B. MAXWELL Esq. AGE: 56 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Maxwell was an associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP. |
ANDREW K. NIEBLER, Esq. AGE: 41 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2006 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Niebler was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. |
CATHERINE P. ROY AGE: 53 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Roy was Senior Vice President of US Fixed Income for Baring Asset Management, and SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager of Scudder Insurance Asset Management. |
WILLIAM M. TARTIKOFF, Esq. AGE: 61 | Vice President & Secretary | 1990 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
NATALIE TRUNOW AGE: 41 | Vice President | 2008 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc., Head of Equities. Prior to joining Calvert in August 2008, Ms. Trunow was the Section Head (2005-2008) and Portfolio Manager (2001-2008) for the Global Public Markets Group of General Motors Asset Management. |
RONALD M. WOLFSHEIMER, CPA AGE: 56 | Treasurer | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
MICHAEL V. YUHAS JR., CPA AGE: 47 | Fund Controller | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Fund Administration of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
The address of Directors and Officers is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 1000N, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Ms. Krumsiek is an interested person of the Fund since she is an officer and director of the Fund's Advisor and its affiliates. Mr. Lester is an interested person of the Fund since he is an officer and director of the parent company of the Fund's Advisor.
Additional information about the Fund's Directors can be found in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). You can get a free copy of the SAI by contacting your broker, or the Fund at 1-800-368-2745.
Shareholder Meeting Results
A special shareholder meeting was held on December 5, 2008, by the Summit EAFE International Index Portfolio of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. for the purpose of considering and voting on the issues below. The voting results were as follows:
- To approve an Investment Advisory Agreement with Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
882,779.878 | 6,908.241 | 24,378.827 |
- To approve an Investment Subadvisory Agreement with World Asset Management, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
892,128.227 | 6,908.241 | 15,030.478 |
- To elect the Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Name of Director | For | Withhold |
Frank H. Blatz, Jr. | 893,881.901 | 20,185.045 |
Alice Gresham | 893,110.827 | 20,956.119 |
Barbara J. Krumsiek | 893,110.827 | 20,956.119 |
M. Charito Kruvant | 893,110.827 | 20,956.119 |
William Lester | 893,110.827 | 20,956.119 |
Cynthia Milligan | 893,110.827 | 20,956.119 |
Arthur J. Pugh | 892.847.258 | 21,219.688 |
- To ratify the selection of auditors, KPMG, LLP for the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
888,658.410 | 20,683.037 | 4,725.499 |
5. To authorize the Board of Directors of the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. to enter into and materially amend agreements with investment subadvisors on behalf of the Funds without obtaining shareholder approval.
For | Against | Abstain |
879,832.438 | 27,219.804 | 7,014.704 |
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Summit Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio
(Formerly Lehman Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio)
Annual Report
December 31, 2008
Summit Mutual Funds
Calvert
Investments That Make A Difference
A UNIFI Company
Summit Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio
Annual Report, December 31, 2008
Table Of Contents
3 | Portfolio Manager Remarks |
5 | Shareholder Expense Example |
6 | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
7 | Statement of Net Assets |
11 | Statement of Operations |
12 | Statements of Changes in Net Assets |
13 | Notes to Financial Statements |
17 | Financial Highlights |
18 | Explanation of Financial Tables |
19 | Proxy Voting and Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings |
20 | Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract |
23 | Director and Officer Information Table |
Summit Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio
Managed by Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For the year ended December 31, 2008, the Summit Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio provided a return of 6.56%. This compares to a 5.24% return for the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index.
Investment Climate
In 2008, the slowdown in housing markets and upticks in mortgage delinquencies that began the previous year spread to problems in credit markets and expanded to wreak havoc in virtually all corners of stock and bond markets around the globe. The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve (Fed) struggled throughout the year to find solutions to ever-expanding problems--pushing the target federal funds rate down to near zero percent. In the meantime, stock and bond markets suffered as it became apparent that problems in global financial markets were affecting the global real economy. Indeed, the U.S. government's sweeping action to shore up capital in a broad array of financial institutions coincided with the worst performance of the year in the markets. At the same time, policymakers and investors grew increasingly concerned about the risk of prolonged recession in 2009.
Huge losses by financial institutions also froze the markets for municipal bonds, commercial paper, corporate debt, and government agency securities and even crippled bond insurers. Overall, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell 1.79 percentage points to 2.25%1 in 2008. The rush to safety caused the three-month Treasury bill yield to plunge 3.36 percentage points to 0.11%--the lowest level since the beginning of World War II. Inflation, as represented by the consumer price index, rose at a 0.1% annualized pace2 and the economy is expected to post flat growth for all of 2008.3
Summit Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio*
Comparison of change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment.
Average Annual Total Return
(period ended 12.31.08)
One year | 6.56% |
Five year | 4.53% |
Since inception (3.31.03) | 4.22% |
*Performance information is for the Portfolio only and does not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Past performance does not indicate future results.
Portfolio Strategy
The Portfolio's strategy is purely passive. Its goal is to mirror the performance of the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index as closely as possible. It is not practical to fully replicate the Index because there are more than 9,000 different securities in the Index. Therefore, the Portfolio's strategy is to use stratified sampling where the portfolio manager selects securities in various sectors of the marketplace to represent an entire sector of the Index.
During 2008, the positive tracking variance was primarily caused by a slight overweight to Treasury securities relative to the Index. Treasury securities are often used to manage cash coming into the portfolio. In 2008, Treasuries outperformed all other asset classes in the Index. In addition, a slight underweight to commercial-mortgage-backed securities aided performance as well. While the portfolio has expenses, such as the costs for advisory, administration, accounting, custody, and other services, that the Index does not have, the Portfolio's outperformance more than offset those costs.
| % of Total |
Economic Sectors | Investments |
| |
Asset Backed Securities | 0.1% |
Basic Materials | 0.6% |
Communications | 1.6% |
Consumer, Cyclical | 1.4% |
Consumer, Non-cyclical | 2.1% |
Energy | 2.6% |
Exchange Traded Funds | 5.8% |
Financial | 5.0% |
Government | 36.3% |
Industrial | 3.7% |
Mortgage Backed Securities | 38.7% |
Technology | 0.9% |
Utilities | 1.2% |
| |
Total | 100% |
Outlook
The federal government will be center stage in 2009 as it tries to kick-start the economy with a fiscal stimulus package of at least $750 billion. We expect the credit markets to slowly recover over the next 12 months, but they remain dependent on some government support due to low consumer spending and business confidence. Banks that must rebuild capital will continue to restrict lending, so the credit crunch may last throughout 2009.
We expect the economy to contract for much of the year and the federal funds rate to remain near zero percent. At this point, we are not concerned about inflation, but we will be on alert if the economy recovers faster than expected.
January 2009
1. Source for all interest rates: Federal Reserve
2. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index (CPI-U) for December 2008
3. Source: Commerce Dept. and Wall Street Journal December 2008 Survey of Professional Forecasters
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008).
Note: Expenses do not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare the 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Beginning Account Value 7/1/08 | Ending Account Value 12/31/08 | Expenses Paid During Period* 7/1/08 - 12/31/08 |
| | | |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $1,051.50 | $3.18 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,022.04 | $3.13 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio of 0.62%, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/366.
Report of Independent Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Shareholders of Summit Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio:
We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets of the Summit Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio (the Portfolio), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., as of December 31, 2008, and the related statements of operations, changes in net assets and the financial highlights for the year then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audit. The accompanying financial statements and financial highlights of the Portfolio for the periods presented through December 31, 2007 were audited by other auditors whose report thereon dated February 22, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2008, by correspondence with custodians and brokers. As to securities purchased or sold but not yet received or delivered, we performed other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Summit Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio as of December 31, 2008, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
KPMG LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2009
Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio
Statement of Net Assets
December 31, 2008
| | Principal | | |
Asset-Backed Securities - 0.1% | | Amount | Value | |
Residential Asset Securities Corp., STEP, 4.61% to 4/25/13, 5.11% thereafter to 5/25/33 (r) | | $113,317 | $59,155 | |
| | | | |
Total Asset-Backed Securities (Cost $111,997) | | | 59,155 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities - 4.4% | | | | |
Banc of America Commercial Mortgage, Inc.: | | | | |
5.39%, 2/10/14 | | 690,000 | 478,232 | |
6.186%, 6/11/35 | | 500,000 | 444,453 | |
5.688%, 4/10/49 (r) | | 550,000 | 417,857 | |
Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities: | | | | |
4.24%, 8/13/39 (r) | | 350,000 | 340,424 | |
4.254%, 7/11/42 | | 513,661 | 493,310 | |
JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Corp., 5.464%, 10/12/35 | | 82,127 | 77,790 | |
| | | | |
Total Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (Cost $2,626,575) | | | 2,252,066 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Corporate Bonds - 18.8% | | | | |
Alcoa, Inc., 5.72%, 2/23/19 | | 149,000 | 111,893 | |
American General Finance Corp., 5.375%, 9/1/09 | | 210,000 | 150,185 | |
Apache Corp., 5.625%, 1/15/17 | | 100,000 | 100,672 | |
AstraZeneca plc, 6.45%, 9/15/37 | | 350,000 | 397,838 | |
Bank of America Corp., 5.75%, 12/1/17 | | 100,000 | 99,844 | |
Camden Property Trust, 5.875%, 11/30/12 | | 100,000 | 71,818 | |
Cargill, Inc., 5.00%, 11/15/13 (e) | | 250,000 | 223,509 | |
Caterpillar Financial Services Corp., 4.85%, 12/7/12 | | 100,000 | 94,879 | |
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC, 7.00%, 3/15/11 | | 200,000 | 199,014 | |
Cisco Systems, Inc., 5.25%, 2/22/11 | | 250,000 | 259,925 | |
Citigroup, Inc.: | | | | |
6.50%, 8/19/13 | | 125,000 | 126,136 | |
6.125%, 5/15/18 | | 200,000 | 202,224 | |
Coca-Cola Co., 5.35%, 11/15/17 | | 100,000 | 107,818 | |
Colonial Pipeline Co.: | | | | |
7.75%, 11/1/10 (e) | | 375,000 | 396,832 | |
6.58%, 8/28/32 (e) | | 100,000 | 90,514 | |
Connecticut Light & Power Co., 5.65%, 5/1/18 | | 200,000 | 199,266 | |
Conoco Funding Co., 6.35%, 10/15/11 | | 80,000 | 84,163 | |
CR Bard, Inc., 6.70%, 12/1/26 | | 250,000 | 250,518 | |
CSX Corp., 4.875%, 11/1/09 | | 180,000 | 175,162 | |
Deere & Co., 6.55%, 10/1/28 | | 250,000 | 247,783 | |
Deutsche Bank AG, 4.875%, 5/20/13 | | 150,000 | 147,269 | |
Devon Financing Corp. ULC, 6.875%, 9/30/11 | | 280,000 | 282,565 | |
Eaton Corp., 5.75%, 7/15/12 | | 439,000 | 434,079 | |
Emerson Electric Co., 4.75%, 10/15/15 | | 200,000 | 202,136 | |
Exelon Generation Co. LLC, 5.35%, 1/15/14 | | 230,000 | 210,080 | |
General Electric Capital Corp., 6.125%, 2/22/11 | | 250,000 | 259,784 | |
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 5.35%, 1/15/16 | | 200,000 | 182,645 | |
GTE Corp.: | | | | |
7.51%, 4/1/09 | | 180,000 | 180,663 | |
6.94%, 4/15/28 | | 80,000 | 76,079 | |
Honeywell International, Inc.: | | | | |
7.50%, 3/1/10 | | 108,000 | 112,769 | |
4.25%, 3/1/13 | | 100,000 | 99,496 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | Principal | | |
Corporate Bonds - Cont'd | | Amount | Value | |
Johnson Controls, Inc., 5.25%, 1/15/11 | | $200,000 | $180,674 | |
JPMorgan Chase & Co., 4.75%, 5/1/13 | | 250,000 | 246,692 | |
Lockheed Martin Corp., 7.20%, 5/1/36 | | 150,000 | 170,914 | |
Masco Corp., 5.875%, 7/15/12 | | 180,000 | 146,824 | |
McDonald's Corp., 4.30%, 3/1/13 | | 100,000 | 102,105 | |
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., 6.875%, 11/15/18 | | 123,000 | 128,885 | |
Metropolitan Life Global Funding I, 5.125%, 4/10/13 (e) | | 100,000 | 95,131 | |
Morgan Stanley, 6.625%, 4/1/18 | | 250,000 | 224,842 | |
Northern Trust Corp., 5.50%, 8/15/13 | | 100,000 | 103,255 | |
Oracle Corp., 5.25%, 1/15/16 | | 250,000 | 254,528 | |
Pitney Bowes, Inc., 5.75%, 9/15/17 | | 180,000 | 174,954 | |
Procter & Gamble Co., 4.60%, 1/15/14 | | 100,000 | 103,450 | |
Progressive Corp., 6.375%, 1/15/12 | | 165,000 | 168,070 | |
Public Service Co. of North Carolina, Inc., 6.625%, 2/15/11 | | 180,000 | 180,782 | |
Suncor Energy, Inc., 6.50%, 6/15/38 | | 250,000 | 189,051 | |
TCI Communications, Inc., 8.75%, 8/1/15 | | 100,000 | 105,183 | |
Thomson Reuters Corp., 6.20%, 1/5/12 | | 100,000 | 95,803 | |
United Parcel Service, Inc., 6.20%, 1/15/38 | | 250,000 | 275,614 | |
US Bank NA, 4.95%, 10/30/14 | | 100,000 | 99,360 | |
Verizon Communications, Inc., 4.35%, 2/15/13 | | 100,000 | 95,383 | |
Walgreen Co., 4.875%, 8/1/13 | | 100,000 | 103,756 | |
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 6.50%, 8/15/37 | | 250,000 | 299,340 | |
Wells Fargo & Co., 4.375%, 1/31/13 | | 125,000 | 123,207 | |
XTO Energy, Inc., 4.625%, 6/15/13 | | 200,000 | 186,840 | |
| | | | |
Total Corporate Bonds (Cost $10,054,265) | | | 9,632,201 | |
| | | | |
Exchange Traded Funds - 5.7% | | Shares | | |
iShares Barclays Aggregate Bond Fund | | 28,400 | 2,950,192 | |
| | | | |
Total Exchange Traded Funds (Cost $2,916,475) | | | 2,950,192 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | Principal | | |
Sovereign Government Bonds - 0.2% | | Amount | | |
Province of New Brunswick Canada, 6.75%, 8/15/13 | | $100,000 | 115,805 | |
| | | | |
Total Sovereign Government Bonds (Cost $109,086) | | | 115,805 | |
| | | | |
U.S. Government Agencies And Instrumentalities - 11.3% | | | | |
Fannie Mae: | | | | |
5.05%, 2/7/11 | | 1,300,000 | 1,400,909 | |
6.00%, 5/15/11 | | 300,000 | 330,755 | |
6.125%, 3/15/12 | | 550,000 | 623,332 | |
4.625%, 10/15/14 | | 100,000 | 110,514 | |
Federal Farm Credit Bank, 4.25%, 2/1/12 | | 750,000 | 807,585 | |
Freddie Mac: | | | | |
5.75%, 3/15/09 | | 200,000 | 202,203 | |
7.00%, 3/15/10 | | 1,300,000 | 1,391,622 | |
3.25%, 2/25/11 | | 300,000 | 311,215 | |
4.125%, 12/21/12 | | 250,000 | 264,796 | |
5.00%, 2/16/17 | | 200,000 | 227,139 | |
4.875%, 6/13/18 | | 100,000 | 114,729 | |
| | | | |
Total U.S. Government Agencies And Instrumentalities (Cost $5,465,639) | | | 5,784,799 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | Principal | | |
U.S. Government Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities - 33.9% | | Amount | Value | |
Fannie Mae: | | | | |
5.00%, 12/1/16 | | $752,382 | $780,462 | |
5.00%, 11/1/17 | | 136,297 | 141,129 | |
5.50%, 8/1/18 | | 384,345 | 397,674 | |
5.00%, 6/1/20 | | 347,386 | 357,529 | |
6.50%, 4/1/23 | | 64,761 | 67,813 | |
6.50%, 8/1/32 | | 334,747 | 349,148 | |
5.50%, 7/1/33 | | 596,831 | 613,269 | |
5.50%, 7/1/33 | | 764,960 | 786,029 | |
6.00%, 8/1/33 | | 104,331 | 107,742 | |
5.50%, 11/1/33 | | 691,490 | 710,535 | |
5.50%, 3/1/34 | | 924,607 | 949,495 | |
6.00%, 6/1/34 | | 580,608 | 600,500 | |
5.00%, 10/1/34 | | 867,719 | 887,686 | |
5.50%, 6/1/35 | | 1,243,438 | 1,276,132 | |
5.50%, 2/1/36 | | 582,136 | 597,442 | |
5.50%, 11/1/36 | | 896,830 | 921,493 | |
7.50%, 11/1/36 | | 677,542 | 697,579 | |
Freddie Mac: | | | | |
5.00%, 5/1/18 | | 936,881 | 967,163 | |
4.50%, 9/1/18 | | 363,873 | 374,383 | |
5.00%, 11/1/20 | | 615,564 | 633,536 | |
5.00%, 2/1/33 | | 1,083,287 | 1,109,738 | |
5.00%, 4/1/35 | | 651,010 | 666,194 | |
6.00%, 8/1/36 | | 787,286 | 811,922 | |
6.00%, 10/1/37 | | 1,755,228 | 1,810,055 | |
Ginnie Mae, 5.50%, 7/20/34 | | 727,986 | 749,835 | |
| | | | |
Total U.S. Government Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities (Cost $16,975,615) | | | 17,364,483 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
U.S. Treasury - 24.4% | | | | |
United States Treasury Bonds: | | | | |
6.25%, 8/15/23 | | 400,000 | 546,875 | |
5.50%, 8/15/28 | | 500,000 | 677,031 | |
5.25%, 11/15/28 | | 600,000 | 793,406 | |
6.125%, 8/15/29 | | 200,000 | 294,063 | |
United States Treasury Notes: | | | | |
5.50%, 5/15/09 | | 200,000 | 203,906 | |
6.00%, 8/15/09 | | 750,000 | 776,016 | |
6.50%, 2/15/10 | | 600,000 | 639,938 | |
4.00%, 4/15/10 | | 400,000 | 419,359 | |
5.75%, 8/15/10 | | 300,000 | 325,758 | |
4.25%, 1/15/11 | | 800,000 | 860,500 | |
4.50%, 9/30/11 | | 200,000 | 219,438 | |
4.50%, 4/30/12 | | 630,000 | 698,020 | |
3.875%, 2/15/13 | | 550,000 | 612,648 | |
3.50%, 5/31/13 | | 425,000 | 465,508 | |
3.375%, 6/30/13 | | 95,000 | 103,565 | |
3.375%, 7/31/13 | | 300,000 | 327,656 | |
3.125%, 9/30/13 | | 200,000 | 215,750 | |
4.25%, 11/15/13 | | 725,000 | 827,293 | |
4.00%, 2/15/14 | | 750,000 | 850,079 | |
4.00%, 2/15/15 | | 700,000 | 797,562 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | Principal | | |
U.S. Treasury - Cont'd | | Amount | Value | |
4.125%, 5/15/15 | | $350,000 | $401,406 | |
4.875%, 8/15/16 | | 550,000 | 657,250 | |
4.625%, 2/15/17 | | 575,000 | 681,195 | |
4.00%, 8/15/18 | | 100,000 | 115,719 | |
| | | | |
Total U.S. Treasury (Cost $11,271,448) | | | 12,509,941 | |
| | | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (Cost $49,531,100) - 98.8% | | | 50,668,642 | |
Other assets and liabilities, net - 1.2% | | | 618,491 | |
Net Assets - 100% | | | $51,287,133 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Net Assets Consist Of: | | | | |
Paid-in capital applicable to 1,002,293 shares of common stock outstanding; $0.10 par value, 20,000,000 shares authorized | | | $50,212,928 | |
Undistributed net investment income | | | 165,268 | |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | | | (228,605) | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | | 1,137,542 | |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | $51,287,133 | |
| | | | |
Net Asset Value Per Share | | | $51.17 | |
(e) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.
(r) The coupon rate shown on floating or adjustable rate securities represents the rate at period end.
Abbreviations:
LLC: Limited Liability Corporation
STEP: Stepped coupon bond for which the coupon rate of interest will adjust on specified future date(s)
ULC: Unlimited Liability Corporation
See notes to financial statements.
Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2008
Net Investment Income | |
Investment Income: | |
Dividend income | $131,866 |
Interest income | 2,322,452 |
Total investment income | 2,454,318 |
| |
Expenses: | |
Investment advisory fee | 150,644 |
Transfer agency fees and expenses | 17,611 |
Accounting fees | 33,964 |
Directors' fees and expenses | 9,080 |
Administrative fees | 50,214 |
Custodian fees | 5,942 |
Reports to shareholders | 9,439 |
Professional fees | 22,736 |
Miscellaneous | 6,527 |
Total expenses | 306,157 |
Reimbursement from Advisor | (4,870) |
Net expenses | 301,287 |
| |
Net Investment Income | 2,153,031 |
| |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | |
Net realized gain (loss) | 164,365 |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | 731,034 |
| |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain | |
(Loss) on Investments | 895,399 |
| |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | |
Resulting From Operations | $3,048,430 |
See notes to financial statements.
Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Year Ended | Year Ended | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2008 | 2007 | |
Operations: | | | | |
Net investment income | | $2,153,031 | $1,765,409 | |
Net realized gain (loss) | | 164,365 | 120,051 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) | | 731,034 | 1,151,263 | |
| | | | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Resulting From Operations | | 3,048,430 | 3,036,723 | |
| | | | |
Distributions to shareholders from: | | | | |
Net investment income | | (2,284,162) | (1,780,425) | |
| | | | |
Capital share transactions: | | | | |
Shares sold | | 23,271,552 | 11,062,969 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 2,284,157 | 1,780,425 | |
Shares redeemed | | (19,528,466) | (8,764,517) | |
Total capital share transactions | | 6,027,243 | 4,078,877 | |
| | | | |
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 6,791,511 | 5,335,175 | |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of year | | 44,495,622 | 39,160,447 | |
End of year (including undistributed net investment income of $165,268 and $281,959, respectively) | | $51,287,133 | $44,495,622 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Capital Share Activity | | | | |
Shares sold | | 460,877 | 225,418 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 45,892 | 36,450 | |
Shares redeemed | | (389,612) | (178,351) | |
Total capital share activity | | 117,157 | 83,517 | |
See notes to financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE A --- SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
General: The Summit Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index (formerly Lehman Aggregate Bond Index) Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), a series of Summit Mutal Funds, Inc. (or the "Fund") is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company. The Fund is comprised of thirteen separate portfolios. The operations of each series of the Fund are accounted for separately. The shares of the Portfolio are sold to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for allocation to certain of their variable separate accounts.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), an affiliated entity, whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business and became investment advisor for the portfolios of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Security Valuation: Net asset value per share is determined every business day as of the close of the regular session of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Portfolio uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Directors to value its investments wherever possible. Securities for which market quotations are available are valued at last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange in which they trade. Municipal securities are valued utilizing the average of bid prices or at bid prices based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities and ratings) furnished by dealers through an independent pricing service. Short-term notes are stated at amortized cost, which approximates fair value. Investments for which market quotations are not available or deemed not reliable are fair valued in good faith under the direction of the Board of Directors.
In determining fair value, the Board considers all relevant qualitative and quantitative information available. These factors are subject to change over time and are reviewed periodically. The values assigned to fair value investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized. Further, because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, those estimated values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed, and the differences could be material. At December 31, 2008, no securities were fair valued under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Effective January 1, 2008, the Portfolio adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Portfolio's investments and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 -- quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 -- other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 -- significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy during the period. For additional information on the Portfolio's policy regarding valuation of investments, please refer to the Portfolio's most recent prospectus.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Portfolio's net assets as of December 31, 2008:
Valuation Inputs | Investments in Securities |
Level 1 - Quoted Prices | $21,360,736 |
Level 2 - Other Significant Observable Inputs | 29,307,906 |
Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs | -- |
Total | $50,668,642 |
Futures Contracts: The Portfolio may enter into futures contracts agreeing to buy or sell a financial instrument for a set price at a future date. Initial margin deposits of either cash or securities as required by the broker are made upon entering into the contract. While the contract is open, daily variation margin payments are made to or received from the broker reflecting the daily change in market value of the contract and are recorded for financial reporting purposes as unrealized gains or losses by the Portfolio. When a futures contract is closed, a realized gain or loss is recorded equal to the difference between the opening and closing value of the contract. The risks associated with entering into futures contracts may include the possible illiquidity of the secondary market which would limit the Portfolio's ability to close out a futures contract prior to the settlement date, an imperfect correlation between the value of the contracts and the underlying financial instruments, or that the counter party will fail to perform its obligations under the contracts' terms.
Security Transactions and Investment Income: Security transactions are accounted for on trade date. Realized gains and losses are recorded on an identified cost basis and may include proceeds from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date or, in the case of dividends on certain foreign securities, as soon as the Portfolio is informed of the ex-dividend date. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain. Interest income, which includes amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities, is accrued as earned.
Distributions to Shareholders: Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Portfolio on ex-dividend date. Dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains, if any, are paid at least annually. Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles; accordingly, periodic reclassifications are made within the Portfolio's capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution under income tax regulations.
Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Expense Offset Arrangements: The Portfolio has an arrangement with its custodian bank whereby the custodian's fees may be paid indirectly by credits earned on the Portfolio's cash on deposit with the bank. These credits are used to reduce the Portfolio's expenses. Such a deposit arrangement may be an alternative to overnight investments.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision for federal income or excise tax is required since the Portfolio intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code and to distribute substantially all of its taxable earnings.
The Portfolio is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The implementation of FIN 48 did not result in any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements or in any of the open tax years; thus, no provision for income tax is required. Each of the Portfolio's federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
Portfolio Securities Lending: During the year, the Portfolio lent its securities to approved borrowers to earn additional income and received cash and/or securities as collateral to secure the loans. The Securities Lending program ended in November 2008.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 161, "Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." The new standard is intended to improve financial reporting about derivative instruments and hedging activities by requiring enhanced disclosures to enable investors to better understand the effect on the Fund's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS No. 161 will have on the Fund's financial statements and related disclosures.
NOTE B -- RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("the Advisor") is wholly-owned by Calvert Group, Ltd. ("Calvert"), which is indirectly wholly owned by UNIFI Holding Company. The Advisor provides investment advisory services and pays the salaries and fees of officers and Directors of the Fund who are employees of the Advisor or its affiliates. For its services, the Advisor receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .30% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $7,170 was payable at year end. In addition, $226 was receivable at year end from the Advisor for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit Investment Partners, Inc., ("Summit") served as the Advisor. Summit is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Central Life Insurance Company, an indirect subsidiary of UNIFI Holding Company. Summit received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.30% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $5,793 was payable at year end. In addition, $4,644 was receivable from Summit for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008.
The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit net annual portfolio operating expenses through December 12, 2010. The contractual expense cap is .60%. For the purpose of this expense limit, operating expenses do not include interest expense, brokerage commissions, taxes, and extraordinary expenses. To the extent any expense credits are earned, the Advisor's obligation under the contractual limitation may be reduced and the Advisor may benefit from the expense offset arrangement.
Calvert Administrative Services Company ("CASC"), an affiliate of the Advisor, provides administrative services for the Portfolio. For its services, CASC receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $2,390 was payable at year end. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit provided administrative services for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $1,931 was payable at year end.
Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. ("CSSI"), an affiliate of the Advisor, acts as shareholder servicing agent for the Portfolio. For its services, CSSI received a fee of $7 for year ended December 31, 2008. Under the terms of the agreement, $7 was payable at year end. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. is the transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Prior to December 12, 2008, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC served as the transfer and dividend disbursing agent.
Each Director of the Fund who is not an employee of the Advisor or its affiliates receives a fee of $1,500 for each Board and Committee meeting attended plus an annual fee of $20,000 for Directors not serving on other Calvert Fund Boards, $8,000 for those serving on other Calvert Fund Boards. Director's fees are allocated to each of the portfolios served. Prior to December 12, 2008, each Director of the Fund who was not an employee of Summit or its affiliates received a fee of $2,500 for each Board meeting attended ($600 for Committee meetings) plus an annual fee of $17,000. Committee chairs and the Lead Director received additional fees for their service.
NOTE C -- INVESTMENT ACTIVITY
During the year, the cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investments, other than U.S. Government and short-term securities, were $12,800,206 and $1,943,257, respectively. U.S. Government security purchases and sales were $12,348,952 and $12,656,844, respectively.
The cost of investments owned at December 31, 2008 for federal income tax purposes was $49,560,874. Net unrealized appreciated aggregated $1,107,768, of which $2,107,009 related to appreciated securities and $999,241 related to depreciated securities.
Net realized capital loss carryforwards of $198,831 at December 31, 2008 may be utilized to offset future capital gains until expiration in December 2014.
The tax character of dividends and distributions paid during the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 was as follows:
| 2008 | 2007 |
Distributions paid from: | | |
Ordinary income | $2,284,162 | $1,780,425 |
Total | $2,284,162 | $1,780,425 |
As of December 31, 2008 the components of distributable earnings/(accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
Undistributed ordinary income | $165,268 |
Capital loss carryforward | (198,831) |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | 1,107,768 |
Total | $1,074,205 |
The differences between the components of distributable earnings on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the statement of net assets are primarily due to temporary book-tax differences that will reverse in a subsequent period. These differences are due to wash sales.
Reclassifications, as shown in the table below, have been made to the Portfolio's components of net assets to reflect income and gains available for distributions (or available capital loss carryforwards, as applicable) under income tax law and regulations. These reclassifications are due to permanent book-tax differences and have no impact on net assets. The primary permanent differences causing such reclassifications for the Portfolio are due to asset-backed securities.
Undistributed net investment income | $14,440 |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) | (14,440) |
NOTE D -- OTHER (Unaudited)
Change in Independent Accountant
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. ("Fund"). KPMG LLP was selected as the Fund's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the Fund's financial statements. The Fund's selection of KPMG as its independent accountant was recommended by the Fund's Audit Committee and was approved by the Fund's Board of Directors.
The reports on the financial statements audited by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2007 and prior for the Funds did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There were no disagreements between the Funds and Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused Deloitte to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements of such years. There were no reportable events as described in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of Item 304(a) of SEC Regulation S-K.
Financial Highlights
| | | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | December 31, | |
Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio | | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $50.27 | $48.85 | $49.06 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.13 | 2.13 | 1.97 | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | 1.07 | 1.40 | (.24) | |
Total from investment operations | | 3.20 | 3.53 | 1.73 | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (2.30) | (2.11) | (1.94) | |
Total distributions | | (2.30) | (2.11) | (1.94) | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | .90 | 1.42 | (.21) | |
Net asset value, ending | | $51.17 | $50.27 | $48.85 | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | 6.56% | 7.43% | 3.64% | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 4.29% | 4.24% | 3.96% | |
Total expenses | | .61% | .59% | .59% | |
Expenses before offsets | | .60% | .59% | .59% | |
Net expenses | | .60% | .59% | .59% | |
Portfolio turnover | | 30% | 24% | 28% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $51,287 | $44,496 | $39,160 | |
| | | | | |
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| | Years Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | | |
Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio | | 2005 | 2004(z) | | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $50.13 | $49.78 | | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.83 | 1.71 | | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (1.06) | .03 | | |
Total from investment operations | | .77 | 1.74 | | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (1.84) | (1.39) | | |
Total distributions | | (1.84) | (1.39) | | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (1.07) | .35 | | |
Net asset value, ending | | $49.06 | $50.13 | | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | 1.57% | 3.55% | | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 3.54% | 3.26% | | |
Total expenses | | .63% | .71% | | |
Expenses before offsets | | .60% | .60% | | |
Net expenses | | .60% | .60% | | |
Portfolio turnover | | 16% | 43% | | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $37,657 | $32,786 | | |
A Total expenses do not reflect amounts reimbursed and/or waived by the Advisor or reductions from expense offset arrangements. Expenses before offsets reflect expenses after reimbursement and/or waiver by the Advisor but prior to reductions from expense offset arrangements. Net expenses are net of all reductions and represent the net expenses paid by the portfolio.
(z) Per share figures calculated using the average shares method.
* Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year.
See notes to financial statements.
Explanation of Financial Tables
Schedule of Investments
The Schedule of Investments is a snapshot of all securities held in the fund at their market value, on the last day of the reporting period. Securities are listed by asset type (e.g., common stock, corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations) and may be further broken down into sub-groups and by industry classification.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities is often referred to as the fund's balance sheet. It lists the value of what the fund owns, is due and owes on the last day of the reporting period. The fund's assets include the market value of securities owned, cash, receivables for securities sold and shareholder subscriptions, and receivables for dividends and interest payments that have been earned, but not yet received. The fund's liabilities typically include payables for securities purchased and shareholder redemptions, and expenses owed but not yet paid. The statement also reports the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share on the last day of the reporting period. The NAV is calculated by dividing the fund's net assets (assets minus liabilities) by the number of shares outstanding. This statement is accompanied by a Schedule of Investments. Alternatively, if certain conditions are met, a Statement of Net Assets may be presented in lieu of this statement and the Schedule of Investments.
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets provides a detailed list of the fund's holdings, including each security's market value on the last day of the reporting period. The Statement of Net Assets includes a Schedule of Investments. Other assets are added and other liabilities subtracted from the investments total to calculate the fund's net assets. Finally, net assets are divided by the outstanding shares of the fund to arrive at its share price, or Net Asset Value (NAV) per share.
At the end of the Statement of Net Assets is a table displaying the composition of the fund's net assets. Paid in Capital is the money invested by shareholders and represents the bulk of net assets. Undistributed Net Investment Income and Accumulated Net Realized Gains usually approximate the amounts the fund had available to distribute to shareholders as of the statement date. Accumulated Realized Losses will appear as negative balances. Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) is the difference between the market value of the fund's investments and their cost, and reflects the gains (losses) that would be realized if the fund were to sell all of its investments at their statement-date values.
Statement of Operations
The Statement of Operations summarizes the fund's investment income earned and expenses incurred in operating the fund. Investment income includes dividends earned from stocks and interest earned from interest-bearing securities in the fund. Expenses incurred in operating the fund include the advisory fee paid to the investment advisor, administrative services fees, distribution plan expenses (if applicable), transfer agent fees, shareholder servicing expenses, custodial, legal, and audit fees, and the printing and postage expenses related to shareholder reports. Expense offsets (fees paid indirectly) are also shown. Credits earned from offset arrangements are used to reduce the fund's expenses. This statement also shows net gains (losses) realized on the sale of investments and the increase or decrease in the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments held during the period.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
The Statement of Changes in Net Assets shows how the fund's total net assets changed during the two most recent reporting periods. Changes in the fund's net assets are attributable to investment operations, distributions and capital share transactions.
The Operations section of the report summarizes information detailed in the Statement of Operations. The Distribution section shows the dividend and capital gain distributions made to shareholders. The amounts shown as distributions in this section may not match the net investment income and realized gains amounts shown in the Operations section because distributions are determined on a tax basis and certain investments or transactions may be treated differently for financial statement and tax purposes. The Capital Share Transactions section shows the amount shareholders invested in the fund, either by purchasing shares or by reinvesting distributions, and the amounts redeemed. The corresponding numbers of shares issued, reinvested and redeemed are shown at the end of the report.
Financial Highlights
The Financial Highlights table provides a per-share breakdown by class of the components that affect the fund's net asset value for current and past reporting periods. The table provides total return, total distributions, expense ratios, portfolio turnover and net assets for the applicable period. Total return is a measure of a fund's performance that encompasses all elements of return: dividends, capital gain distributions and changes in net asset value. Total return is the change in value of an investment over a given period, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and capital gain distributions, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment. Total distributions include distributions from net investment income and net realized gains. Long-term gains are earned on securities held in the fund more than one year. Short-term gains, on the sale of securities held less than one year, are treated as ordinary dividend income for tax purposes. The expense ratio is a fund's cost of doing business, expres sed as a percentage of net assets. These expenses directly reduce returns to shareholders. Portfolio turnover measures the trading activity in a fund's investment portfolio -- how often securities are bought and sold by a fund. Portfolio turnover is affected by market conditions, changes in the size of the fund, the nature of the fund's investments and the investment style of the portfolio manager.
Proxy Voting
The Proxy Voting Guidelines that the Portfolio uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities are provided as an Appendix to the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. The Statement of Additional Information can be obtained free of charge by calling the Fund at 1-800-368-2745 or by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available by calling the Fund or visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Form N-Q is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's Form N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC; information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
This report is intended to provide fund information to shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.
Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract
At a meeting held on December 4, 2008, the Board of Directors, and by a separate vote, the disinterested Directors, initially approved the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Portfolio and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Advisor and Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit" or the "Subadvisor") with respect to the Portfolio.
At the December 4, 2008 meeting, and in connection with the Advisor's impending purchase of the mutual fund business of Summit, the Board, effective as of December 12, 2008, terminated the Portfolio's current investment advisory agreement with Summit and approved the selection of the Advisor and Summit as investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively, to the Portfolio. In evaluating the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered a variety of information relating to the Portfolio and the Advisor. The disinterested Directors reviewed a report prepared by the Advisor regarding various services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and its affiliates.
The disinterested Directors were separately represented by independent legal counsel with respect to their consideration of the approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. Prior to voting, the disinterested Directors reviewed the proposed approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and Investment Subadvisory Agreement with management and also met in private sessions with their counsel at which no representatives of management were present.
In the course of its deliberations regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered the following factors, among others: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor, including the personnel who would be providing such services; the Advisor's financial condition; the level and method of computing the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee; performance, fee and expense information for the Portfolio; the profitability of the Calvert Group of Funds to the Advisor; the Advisor's process for monitoring "best execution"; the direct and indirect benefits, if any, to be derived by the Advisor from its relationship with the Portfolio; the effect of the Portfolio's growth and size on the Portfolio's performance and expenses; the Advisor's compliance programs and policies; the Advisor's performance of substantially similar duties for other funds; and any possible conflicts of interest.
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board reviewed information provided by the Advisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Advisor's operations and personnel, including, among other information, biographical information on the Advisor's supervisory and professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. The Board also took into account similar information provided periodically throughout the previous year by the Advisor as well as the Board's familiarity with the Advisor's management through Board of Directors' meetings, discussions and other reports. The Board considered the Advisor's current level of staffing and overall resources. The Advisor's administrative capabilities, including its ability to supervise the other service providers for the Portfolio, were also considered. The Board discussed the Advisor 's effectiveness in monitoring the performance of other funds' subadvisors and the Advisor's timeliness in responding to performance issues with respect to those funds. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement.
In considering the Portfolio's performance, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board noted that year to date through December 2, 2008, the Portfolio had outperformed the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index (formerly the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index). The Board took into account that the portfolio management team currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Subadvisor became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Portfolio's performance was satisfactory.
In considering the Portfolio's fees and expenses, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's fees and expenses. The Board noted that the Portfolio would pay the same advisory fee to the Advisor as it currently paid to Summit. The Board took into account that the Advisor had agreed to limit the Portfolio's net annual operating expenses through December 12, 2010 to the level in effect for the Portfolio on November 30, 2008. The Board also considered the impact of the size of the Portfolio on its expenses. The Board noted that the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee with respect to the Portfolio. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed advisory fee was reasonable in view of the quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and the other factors considered.
The Board reviewed the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio. In reviewing the anticipated profitability of the advisory fee to the Advisor, the Board also considered the fact that affiliates would provide shareholder servicing and administrative services to the Portfolio for which they would receive compensation. The Board also considered whether the Advisor had the financial wherewithal to provide a high level of services to the Portfolio. The Board also considered that the Advisor would likely derive benefits to its reputation and other indirect benefits from its relationship with the Portfolio. The Board noted that the Advisor had agreed to reimburse expenses of the Portfolio above a certain level and also would pay the subadvisory fee to the Subadvisor. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was reasonable.
The Board considered the effect of the Portfolio's current size and potential growth on its performance and expenses. The Board noted that if the Portfolio's assets increased over time, the Portfolio might realize other economies of scale if assets increased proportionately more than certain other expenses. The Board took into account that the Portfolio might achieve operational efficiencies by joining the Calvert Group of Funds. The Board concluded that adding breakpoints to the advisory fee at specified asset levels was not appropriate given the Portfolio's current size.
In approving the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
In evaluating the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the disinterested Directors considered information provided by the Subadvisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Subadvisor's operations, personnel, investment philosophy, strategies and techniques. Among other information, the Subadvisor provided biographical information on portfolio management and other professional staff, performance information for itself, and descriptions of its investment philosophies, strategies and techniques, organizational and management structures and brokerage policies and practices.
The Board approved the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Subadvisor and the Advisor based on a number of factors relating to the Subadvisor's ability to perform under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. In the course of its deliberations, the Board evaluated, among other factors: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Subadvisor; the Subadvisor's management style and long-term performance record; the Portfolio's performance record and the Subadvisor's performance in employing its investment strategies; the Subadvisor's current level of staffing and its overall resources; the qualifications and experience of the Subadvisor's personnel; the Subadvisor's financial condition with respect to its ability to perform the services required under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement; the Subadvisor's compliance systems, including those related to personal investing; and any disciplinary history. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that it was satisfied with the natu re, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Subadvisor under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement.
As noted above, the Board considered the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team that was currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Summit became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. The Board also took into account the expertise and resources the Advisor would devote to monitoring the performance, investment style and risk adjusted performance of the Subadvisor.
In considering the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor of its relationship with the Portfolio, the Board noted that the Advisor and Subadvisor were affiliated and the proposed subadvisory fee under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be paid by the Advisor out of the advisory fee that the Advisor would receive under the Investment Advisory Agreement. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed subadvisory fee was reasonable. Because the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee, the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor from its relationship with the Portfolio were not material factors in the Board's deliberations. For similar reasons, the Board did not consider the potential economies of scale in the Subadvisor's management of the Portfolio to be a material factor in its consideration.
In approving the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
Conclusions
The Board reached the following conclusions regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, among others: (a) the Advisor has demonstrated that it possesses the capability and resources to perform the duties required of it under the Investment Advisory Agreement; (b) the Subadvisor is qualified to manage the Portfolio's assets in accordance with the Portfolio's investment objective and policies; (c) the Advisor and Subadvisor maintain appropriate compliance programs; (d) the Subadvisor is likely to execute its investment strategies consistently over time; (e) performance of the Portfolio is satisfactory in relation to relevant indices; and (f) the Portfolio's proposed advisory and subadvisory fees are reasonable in relation to the services to be provided by the Advisor and the Subadvisor. Based on its conclusions, the Board determined that approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be in the interests of the Portfo lio and its shareholders and that the Subadvisor's service as subadvisor to the Portfolio did not involve a conflict of interest from which the Advisor or Subadvisor would derive an inappropriate advantage.
Director and Officer Information Table
Name & Age | Position with Fund
| Position Start Date
| Principal Occupation During Last 5 Years | (Not Applicable to Officers) |
# of Calvert Portfolios Overseen | Other Directorships |
Independent Directors |
FRANK H. BLATZ, JR., Esq. AGE: 73 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Of counsel to firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. Mr. Blatz was an attorney in private practice in Fanwood, NJ from 1999 to 2004. | 27 | |
ALICE GRESHAM AGE: 58 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean and Professor at Howard University School of Law. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. | 28 | - Council on Legal Education Opportunity
- North Country School
|
M. CHARITO KRUVANT AGE: 63 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | President and CEO of Creative Associates International, Inc., a firm that specializes in human resources development, information management, public affairs and private enterprise development. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Foundation
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
|
CYNTHIA MILLIGAN AGE: 62 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Formerly, she was the President and Chief Executive Officer for CMA, a consulting firm for financial institutions. | 28 | - Wells Fargo Company- NYSE
- Gallup, Inc.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Raven Industries - NASDAQ
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Non-Profit)
- Prison Fellowship Ministries (Non-Profit)
|
ARTHUR J. PUGH AGE: 71 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Retired executive. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
|
Interested Directors |
BARBARA J. KRUMSIEK AGE: 56 | Director & Chair-person | 1997 CVS 2008 Summit | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Calvert Group, Ltd. | 58 | - Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Acacia Life Insurance Company (Chair)
- UNIFI Mutual Holding Company
- Ameritas Holding Company
|
WILLIAM LESTER AGE: 51 | Director & President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | President, CEO and Treasurer of Summit Investment Advisors, Inc. | 27 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Investment Advisors, Inc.
- Ameritas Investment Corp.
|
Officers |
KAREN BECKER AGE: 56 | Chief Compliance Officer | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Chief Compliance Officer for the Calvert Funds. Prior to 2005, Ms. Becker was Senior Vice President of Calvert Group, Ltd. and Head of Calvert Client Services. |
SUSAN WALKER BENDER, Esq. AGE: 50 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1988 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
THOMAS DAILEY AGE: 44 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
IVY WAFFORD DUKE, Esq. AGE: 40 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd., and since 2004, Chief Compliance Officer for Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
TRACI L. GOLDT AGE: 35 | Assistant Secretary | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Executive Assistant to General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
GREGORY B. HABEEB AGE: 59 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
DANIEL K. HAYES AGE: 58 | Vice President | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
HUI PING HO, CPA Age: 44 | Assistant Treasurer | 2000 CVS 2008 Summit | Tax Compliance Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
LANCELOT A. KING, Esq. AGE: 38 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2002 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
EDITH LILLIE AGE: 52 | Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Secretary and Regulatory Matters Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
AUGUSTO DIVO MACEDO, Esq. AGE: 46 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, and Associate Counsel Compliance Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Mr. Macedo served as 2nd Vice President at Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Advisors Group, Acacia's broker-dealer and federally registered investment adviser. |
JANE B. MAXWELL Esq. AGE: 56 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Maxwell was an associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP. |
ANDREW K. NIEBLER, Esq. AGE: 41 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2006 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Niebler was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. |
CATHERINE P. ROY AGE: 53 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Roy was Senior Vice President of US Fixed Income for Baring Asset Management, and SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager of Scudder Insurance Asset Management. |
WILLIAM M. TARTIKOFF, Esq. AGE: 61 | Vice President & Secretary | 1990 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
NATALIE TRUNOW AGE: 41 | Vice President | 2008 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc., Head of Equities. Prior to joining Calvert in August 2008, Ms. Trunow was the Section Head (2005-2008) and Portfolio Manager (2001-2008) for the Global Public Markets Group of General Motors Asset Management. |
RONALD M. WOLFSHEIMER, CPA AGE: 56 | Treasurer | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
MICHAEL V. YUHAS JR., CPA AGE: 47 | Fund Controller | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Fund Administration of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
The address of Directors and Officers is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 1000N, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Ms. Krumsiek is an interested person of the Fund since she is an officer and director of the Fund's Advisor and its affiliates. Mr. Lester is an interested person of the Fund since he is an officer and director of the parent company of the Fund's Advisor.
Additional information about the Fund's Directors can be found in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). You can get a free copy of the SAI by contacting your broker, or the Fund at 1-800-368-2745.
Shareholder Meeting Results
A special shareholder meeting was held on December 5, 2008, by the Summit Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index Portfolio of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. for the purpose of considering and voting on the issues below. The voting results were as follows:
- To approve an Investment Advisory Agreement with Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
954,413.632 | 15,221.215 | 25,250.653 |
- To approve an Investment Subadvisory Agreement with Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
955,690.677 | 14,046.068 | 25,148.755 |
- To elect the Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Name of Director | For | Withhold |
Frank H. Blatz, Jr. | 977,734.208 | 17,151.292 |
Alice Gresham | 977,734.208 | 17,151.292 |
Barbara J. Krumsiek | 977,734.208 | 17,151.292 |
M. Charito Kruvant | 977,734.208 | 17,151.292 |
William Lester | 977,734.208 | 17,151.292 |
Cynthia Milligan | 977,734.208 | 17,151.292 |
Arthur J. Pugh | 977,665.306 | 17,220.194 |
- To ratify the selection of auditors, KPMG, LLP for the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
971,412.414 | 1,175.146 | 22,297.940 |
5. To authorize the Board of Directors of the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. to enter into and materially amend agreements with investment subadvisors on behalf of the Funds without obtaining shareholder approval.
For | Against | Abstain |
952,708.681 | 25,978.422 | 16,198.397 |
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Summit Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio
Annual Report
December 31, 2008
Summit Mutual Funds
Calvert
Investments That Make A Difference
A UNIFI Company
Summit Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio
Annual Report, December 31, 2008
Table Of Contents
3 | Portfolio Manager Remarks |
5 | Shareholder Expense Example |
6 | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
7 | Statement of Net Assets |
8 | Statement of Operations |
9 | Statements of Changes in Net Assets |
10 | Notes to Financial Statements |
14 | Financial Highlights |
15 | Explanation of Financial Tables |
16 | Proxy Voting and Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings |
17 | Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract |
20 | Director and Officer Information Table |
Summit Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio
Managed by Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
Performance
The Summit Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio had a total return of -2.33% for the 12-month period ended December 31, 2008, compared to a total return of -2.35% for the Barclays Capital U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities ("TIPs") Index. The Portfolio performed in line with the index even though it has expenses and trading costs that the Index does not. The primary reason for this is that the Portfolio was positioned slightly differently than the Index, in terms of duration. In addition, the Portfolio maintains a small cash position to manage cash inflows and outflows of the fund, and cash provided a small positive return for the year.
Summit Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio*
Comparison of change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment.
Average Annual Total Return
(period ended 12.31.08)
One year | (2.33%) |
Since inception (12.28.06) | 4.10% |
*Performance information is for the Portfolio only and does not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Past performance does not indicate future results.
Investment Climate
Treasury rates declined in 2008, as the prospect of a slower economy prompted the Federal Reserve to cut short-term interest rates. In addition, the ongoing credit crunch created a flight to quality during all of 2008, which drove Treasury rates down further. For the year, 10-year Treasury rates declined from 4.02% to 2.21%, while two-year Treasury rates declined from 3.05% to 0.76%.
The inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers, was 0.1% for 2008. This compares to a rate of 4.1% for 2007. The decrease in the rate of inflation has largely been driven by lower commodity and energy prices. Core inflation, which excludes food and energy, advanced at a rate of 1.8% in 2008.
The difference between the yield on a 10-year Treasury bond and the yield on a 10-year TIPs bond was about 0.10% at year-end in 2008. This compares to a difference of about 2.35% at year-end 2007. The implication is that investors are less concerned about inflation in both the near term and over the next 10 years.
Portfolio Strategy
The Portfolio is comprised primarily of U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities and maintained an intermediate duration throughout the year. Duration is a measure of a Portfolio's sensitivity to changes in interest rates. Generally, the longer the duration, the greater the price change relative to interest-rate movements. The combination of lower actual inflation and a materially lower expectation for inflation in the future combined to provide a lower return for TIPs than for U.S. Treasury securities of a similar duration.
Sector Allocations | % of Total Investments |
Long Term | 30% |
Intermediate Term | 35% |
Short Term | 35% |
| |
Total | 100% |
Outlook
The federal government will be center stage in 2009 as it tries to kick-start the economy with a fiscal stimulus package of more than $750 billion. We expect the credit markets to slowly recover over the next 12 months, but they remain dependent on some government support due to low consumer spending and receding business confidence. Banks that must rebuild capital will continue to restrict lending, so the credit crunch may last throughout 2009.
We expect the economy to contract for much of the year and the federal funds rate to remain near zero percent. In the near term, we are not concerned about inflation, but we have significantly more concern over the intermediate and long term.
January 2009
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008).
Note: Expenses do not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare the 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Beginning Account Value 7/1/08 | Ending Account Value 12/31/08 | Expenses Paid During Period* 7/1/08 - 12/31/08 |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $934.00 | $3.65 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,021.37 | $3.81 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio of 0.75%, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/366.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Shareholders of Summit Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio:
We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets of the Summit Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio (the Portfolio), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., as of December 31, 2008, and the related statements of operations, changes in net assets and the financial highlights for the year then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audit. The accompanying financial statements and financial highlights of the Portfolio for the periods presented through December 31, 2007 were audited by other auditors whose report thereon dated February 22, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2008, by correspondence with custodians and brokers. As to securities purchased or sold but not yet received or delivered, we performed other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Summit Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio as of December 31, 2008, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
KPMG LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2009
Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio
Statement of Net Assets
December 31, 2008
| | Principal | |
U.S. Treasury (i) - 98.8% | | Amount | Value |
United States Treasury Bonds: | | | |
2.375%, 1/15/25 | | $1,114,850 | $1,079,488 |
2.00%, 1/15/26 | | 742,240 | 687,384 |
2.375%, 1/15/27 | | 612,340 | 607,269 |
1.75%, 1/15/28 | | 537,742 | 488,589 |
3.625%, 4/15/28 | | 790,281 | 931,174 |
3.875%, 4/15/29 | | 876,364 | 1,071,218 |
3.375%, 4/15/32 | | 207,490 | 255,278 |
United States Treasury Notes: | | | |
3.875%, 1/15/09 | | 693,525 | 687,998 |
4.25%, 1/15/10 | | 502,191 | 492,932 |
0.875%, 4/15/10 | | 1,103,545 | 1,036,643 |
3.50%, 1/15/11 | | 460,561 | 451,854 |
2.375%, 4/15/11 | | 747,664 | 730,841 |
3.375%, 1/15/12 | | 286,721 | 283,048 |
2.00%, 4/15/12 | | 725,988 | 705,683 |
3.00%, 7/15/12 | | 988,034 | 965,495 |
0.625%, 4/15/13 | | 17 | 16 |
1.875%, 7/15/13 | | 808,005 | 760,030 |
2.00%, 1/15/14 | | 785,562 | 743,092 |
2.00%, 7/15/14 | | 827,518 | 781,875 |
1.625%, 1/15/15 | | 550,295 | 508,851 |
1.875%, 7/15/15 | | 607,021 | 571,738 |
2.00%, 1/15/16 | | 463,900 | 443,677 |
2.50%, 7/15/16 | | 922,565 | 913,772 |
2.375%, 1/15/17 | | 794,967 | 786,893 |
2.625%, 7/15/17 | | 391,988 | 400,195 |
1.625%, 1/15/18 | | 522,231 | 494,650 |
1.375%, 7/15/18 | | 432,004 | 403,924 |
| | | |
Total U.S. Treasury (Cost $18,457,800) | | | 17,283,607 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (Cost $18,457,800) - 98.8% | | | 17,283,607 |
Other assets and liabilities, net - 1.2% | | | 208,497 |
Net Assets - 100% | | | $17,492,104 |
| | | |
| | | |
Net Assets Consist of: | | | |
Paid-in capital applicable to 352,048 shares of common stock outstanding; $0.10 par value, 20,000,000 shares authorized | | | $18,919,518 |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | | | (253,221) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | | (1,174,193) |
| | | |
Net Assets | | | $17,492,104 |
| | | |
Net Asset Value per Share | | | $49.69 |
(i) Inflation protected security.
See notes to financial statements.
Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2008
Net Investment Income | |
Investment Income: | |
Interest income | $337,978 |
| |
Expenses: | |
Investment advisory fee | 50,527 |
Transfer agency fees and expenses | 16,236 |
Accounting fees | 18,250 |
Directors' fees and expenses | 2,279 |
Administrative fees | 10,105 |
Custodian fees | 3,549 |
Reports to shareholders | 3,063 |
Professional fees | 19,690 |
Miscellaneous | 2,643 |
Total expenses | 126,342 |
Reimbursement from Advisor | (50,553) |
Net expenses | 75,789 |
| |
Net Investment Income | 262,189 |
| |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | |
Net realized gain (loss) | (252,456) |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (1,231,292) |
| |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain | |
(Loss) on Investments | (1,483,748) |
| |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | |
Resulting From Operations | ($1,221,559) |
See notes to financial statements.
Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Year Ended | Year Ended | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2008 | 2007 | |
Operations: | | | | |
Net investment income | | $262,189 | $54,122 | |
Net realized gain (loss) | | (252,456) | (765) | |
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) | | (1,231,292) | 55,056 | |
| | | | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Resulting From Operations | | (1,221,559) | 108,413 | |
| | | | |
Distributions to shareholders from: | | | | |
Net investment income | | (269,196) | (47,115) | |
Return of capital | | (159,940) | -- | |
Total distributions | | (429,136) | (47,115) | |
| | | | |
Capital share transactions: | | | | |
Shares sold | | 23,796,424 | 47,188 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 429,136 | 47,115 | |
Shares redeemed | | (6,240,110) | (107) | |
Total capital share transactions | | 17,985,450 | 94,196 | |
| | | | |
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 16,334,755 | 155,494 | |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of year | | 1,157,349 | 1,001,855 | |
End of year (including undistributed net investment income of $0 and $7,007, respectively) | | $17,492,104 | $1,157,349 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Capital Share Activity | | | | |
Shares sold | | 442,165 | 898 | |
Shares reinvested | | 8,714 | 942 | |
Shares redeemed | | (120,669) | (2) | |
Total capital share activity | | 330,210 | 1,838 | |
See notes to financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements
Note A -- Significant Accounting Policies
General: Summit Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. (the "Fund"), is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company. The Fund is comprised of thirteen separate portfolios. The operations of each series of the Fund are accounted for separately. The shares of the Portfolio are sold to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for allocation to certain of their variable separate accounts.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), an affiliated entity, whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business and became investment advisor for the portfolios of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Security Valuation: Net asset value per share is determined every business day as of the close of the regular session of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Portfolio uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Directors to value its investments wherever possible. Securities for which market quotations are available are valued at last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange in which they trade. Municipal securities are valued utilizing the average of bid prices or at bid prices based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities and ratings) furnished by dealers through an independent pricing service. Short-term notes are stated at amortized cost, which approximates fair value. Investments for which market quotations are not available or deemed not reliable are fair valued in good faith under the direction of the Board of Directors.
In determining fair value, the Board considers all relevant qualitative and quantitative information available. These factors are subject to change over time and are reviewed periodically. The values assigned to fair value investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized. Further, because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, those estimated values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed, and the differences could be material. At December 31, 2008, no securities were fair valued under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Effective January 1, 2008, the Portfolio adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Portfolio's investments and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 -- quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 -- other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 -- significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy during the period. For additional information on the Portfolio's policy regarding valuation of investments, please refer to the Portfolio's most recent prospectus.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Portfolio's net assets as of December 31, 2008:
Valuation Inputs | Investments in Securities |
Level 1 - Quoted Prices | $17,283,607 |
Level 2 - Other Significant Observable Inputs | -- |
Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs | -- |
Total | $17,283,607 |
Repurchase Agreements: The Portfolio may enter into repurchase agreements with recognized financial institutions or registered broker/dealers and, in all instances, holds underlying securities with a value exceeding the total repurchase price, including accrued interest. Although risk is mitigated by the collateral, the Portfolio could experience a delay in recovering its value and a possible loss of income or value if the counterparty fails to perform in accordance with the terms of the agreement.
Futures Contracts: The Portfolio may enter into futures contracts agreeing to buy or sell a financial instrument for a set price at a future date. Initial margin deposits of either cash or securities as required by the broker are made upon entering into the contract. While the contract is open, daily variation margin payments are made to or received from the broker reflecting the daily change in market value of the contract and are recorded for financial reporting purposes as unrealized gains or losses by the Portfolio. When a futures contract is closed, a realized gain or loss is recorded equal to the difference between the opening and closing value of the contract. The risks associated with entering into futures contracts may include the possible illiquidity of the secondary market which would limit the Portfolio's ability to close out a futures contract prior to the settlement date, an imperfect correlation between the value of the contracts and the underlying financial instruments, or that the counter party will fail to perform its obligations under the contracts' terms.
Security Transactions and Investment Income: Security transactions are accounted for on trade date. Realized gains and losses are recorded on an identified cost basis and may include proceeds from litigation. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income, which includes amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities is accrued as earned. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gain are recorded as a reduction of cost of investments and/or as a realized gain.
Distributions to Shareholders: Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Portfolio on ex-dividend date. Dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains, if any, are paid at least annually. Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles; accordingly, periodic reclassifications are made within the Portfolio's capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution under income tax regulations.
Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Expense Offset Arrangements: The Portfolio has an arrangement with its custodian bank whereby the custodian's fees may be paid indirectly by credits earned on the Portfolio's cash on deposit with the bank. These credits are used to reduce the Portfolio's expenses. Such a deposit arrangement may be an alternative to overnight investments.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision for federal income or excise tax is required since the Portfolio intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code and to distribute substantially all of its taxable earnings.
The Portfolio is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The implementation of FIN 48 did not result in any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements or in any of the open tax years; thus, no provision for income tax is required. Each of the Portfolio's federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 161, "Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." The new standard is intended to improve financial reporting about derivative instruments and hedging activities by requiring enhanced disclosures to enable investors to better understand the effect on the Fund's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS No. 161 will have on the Fund's financial statements and related disclosures.
Note B -- Related Party Transactions
Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") is wholly-owned by Calvert Group, Ltd. ("Calvert"), which is indirectly wholly-owned by UNIFI Mutual Holding Company. The Advisor provides investment advisory services and pays the salaries and fees of officers and Directors of the Fund who are employees of the Advisor or its affiliates. For its services, the Advisor receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .50%, of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $4,112 was payable at year end. In addition, $4,124 was receivable from the Advisor for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit Investment Partners, Inc., ("Summit") served as the Advisor. Summit is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Central Life Insurance Company, an indirect subsidiary of UNIFI Holding Company. Summit received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.50% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the ag reement, $3,328 was payable at year end. In addition, $12,659 was receivable from Summit for reimbursement of operating expenses paid by the Portfolio during December 2008.
The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit net annual portfolio operating expenses through December 12, 2010. The contractual expense cap is 0.75%. For the purpose of this expense limit, operating expenses do not include interest expense, brokerage commissions, taxes, and extraordinary expenses. To the extent any expense credits are earned, the Advisor's obligation under the contractual limitation may be reduced and the Advisor may benefit from the expense offset arrangement.
Calvert Administrative Services Company ("CASC"), an affiliate of the Advisor, provides administrative services to the Portfolio for an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% based on the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $822 was payable at year end. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit provided administrative services for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Under the terms of the agreement, $666 was payable at year end.
Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. ("CSSI"), an affiliate of the Advisor, acts as shareholder servicing agent for the Portfolio. For its services, CSSI received a fee of $5 for the year ended December 31, 2008. Under the terms of the agreement, $5 was payable at year end. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. is the transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Prior to December 12, 2008, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC served as the transfer and dividend disbursing agent.
Each Director of the Fund who is not an employee of the Advisor or its affiliates receives a fee of $1,500 for each Board and Committee meeting attended plus an annual fee of $20,000 for Directors not serving on other Calvert Fund Boards, $8,000 for those serving on other Calvert Fund Boards. Director's fees are allocated to each of the portfolios served. Prior to December 12, 2008, each Director of the Fund who was not an employee of Summit or its affiliates received a fee of $2,500 for each Board meeting attended ($600 for Committee meetings) plus an annual fee of $17,000. Committee chairs and the Lead Director received additional fees for their service.
Note C -- Investment Activity
During the year, cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of U.S. Government securities were $22,156,490 and $5,492,973, respectively.
The cost of investments owned at December 31, 2008 for federal income tax purposes was $18,600,642. Net unrealized depreciation aggregated $1,317,035, of which $4,949 related to appreciated securities and $1,321,984 related to depreciated securities.
Net realized capital loss carryfowards for federal income tax purposes of $765 and $109,614 at December 31, 2008 may be utilized to offset future capital gains until expiration in December 2015 and December 2016, respectively.
The tax character of dividends and distributions paid during the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 was as follows:
| 2008 | 2007 |
Distributions paid from: | | |
Ordinary income | $269,196 | $47,115 |
Return of capital | 159,940 | -- |
Total | $429,136 | $47,115 |
As of December 31, 2008, the components of distributable earnings/(accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
Capital loss carryforward | ($110,379) |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (1,317,035) |
Total | ($1,427,414) |
The differences between components of distributable earnings on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the Statement of Net Assets are primarily due to temporary book-tax differences that will reverse in a subsequent period. These differences are due to wash sales.
Reclassifications, as shown in the table below, have been made to the Portfolio's components of net assets to reflect income and gains available for distributions (or available capital loss carryforwards, as applicable) under income tax law and regulations. These reclassifications are due to permanent book-tax differences and have no impact on net assets. The primary permanent differences causing such reclassifications for the Portfolio are distributions in excess of earnings and profits.
Undistributed net investment income | $159,940 |
Paid-in capital | (159,940) |
NOTE D - OTHER (Unaudited)
Change in Independent Accountant
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. ("Fund"). KPMG LLP was selected as the Fund's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the Fund's financial statements. The Fund's selection of KPMG as its independent accountant was recommended by the Fund's Audit Committee and was approved by the Fund's Board of Directors.
The reports on the financial statements audited by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2007 and prior for the Funds did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There were no disagreements between the Funds and Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused Deloitte to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements of such years. There were no reportable events as described in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of Item 304(a) of SEC Regulation S-K.
Financial Highlights
| | | Periods Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | December 31, | |
Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio | | 2008 (z) | 2007 | 2006^ | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $53.00 | $50.09 | $50.00 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.35 | 2.64 | -- | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (2.47) | 2.59 | .09 | |
Total from investment operations | | (1.12) | 5.23 | .09 | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (1.37) | (2.32) | -- | |
Return of capital | | (.82) | -- | -- | |
Total distributions | | (2.19) | (2.32) | -- | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (3.31) | 2.91 | .09 | |
Net asset value, ending | | $49.69 | $53.00 | $50.09 | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | (2.33%) | 10.80% | .18% | |
Ratios to average net assets: A | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.59% | 5.19% | (2.28%) (a) | |
Total expenses | | 1.25% | 5.27% | 33.70% (a) | |
Expenses before offsets | | .75% | .75% | .75% (a) | |
Net expenses | | .75% | .75% | .75% (a) | |
Portfolio turnover | | 56% | 8% | 0% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $17,492 | $1,157 | $1,002 | |
A Total expenses do not reflect amounts reimbursed and/or waived by the Advisor or reductions from expense offset arrangements. Expenses before offsets reflect expenses after reimbursement and/or waiver by the Advisor but prior to reductions from expense offset arrangements. Net expenses are net of all reductions and represent the net expenses paid by the portfolio.
(a) Annualized.
(z) Per share figures are calculated using Average Shares Method.
* Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year.
^ From December 28, 2006 inception.
See notes to financial statements.
Explanation of Financial Tables
Schedule of Investments
The Schedule of Investments is a snapshot of all securities held in the fund at their market value, on the last day of the reporting period. Securities are listed by asset type (e.g., common stock, corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations) and may be further broken down into sub-groups and by industry classification.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities is often referred to as the fund's balance sheet. It lists the value of what the fund owns, is due and owes on the last day of the reporting period. The fund's assets include the market value of securities owned, cash, receivables for securities sold and shareholder subscriptions, and receivables for dividends and interest payments that have been earned, but not yet received. The fund's liabilities typically include payables for securities purchased and shareholder redemptions, and expenses owed but not yet paid. The statement also reports the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share on the last day of the reporting period. The NAV is calculated by dividing the fund's net assets (assets minus liabilities) by the number of shares outstanding. This statement is accompanied by a Schedule of Investments. Alternatively, if certain conditions are met, a Statement of Net Assets may be presented in lieu of this statement and the Schedule of Investments.
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets provides a detailed list of the fund's holdings, including each security's market value on the last day of the reporting period. The Statement of Net Assets includes a Schedule of Investments. Other assets are added and other liabilities subtracted from the investments total to calculate the fund's net assets. Finally, net assets are divided by the outstanding shares of the fund to arrive at its share price, or Net Asset Value (NAV) per share.
At the end of the Statement of Net Assets is a table displaying the composition of the fund's net assets. Paid in Capital is the money invested by shareholders and represents the bulk of net assets. Undistributed Net Investment Income and Accumulated Net Realized Gains usually approximate the amounts the fund had available to distribute to shareholders as of the statement date. Accumulated Realized Losses will appear as negative balances. Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) is the difference between the market value of the fund's investments and their cost, and reflects the gains (losses) that would be realized if the fund were to sell all of its investments at their statement-date values.
Statement of Operations
The Statement of Operations summarizes the fund's investment income earned and expenses incurred in operating the fund. Investment income includes dividends earned from stocks and interest earned from interest-bearing securities in the fund. Expenses incurred in operating the fund include the advisory fee paid to the investment advisor, administrative services fees, distribution plan expenses (if applicable), transfer agent fees, shareholder servicing expenses, custodial, legal, and audit fees, and the printing and postage expenses related to shareholder reports. Expense offsets (fees paid indirectly) are also shown. Credits earned from offset arrangements are used to reduce the fund's expenses. This statement also shows net gains (losses) realized on the sale of investments and the increase or decrease in the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments held during the period.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
The Statement of Changes in Net Assets shows how the fund's total net assets changed during the two most recent reporting periods. Changes in the fund's net assets are attributable to investment operations, distributions and capital share transactions.
The Operations section of the report summarizes information detailed in the Statement of Operations. The Distribution section shows the dividend and capital gain distributions made to shareholders. The amounts shown as distributions in this section may not match the net investment income and realized gains amounts shown in the Operations section because distributions are determined on a tax basis and certain investments or transactions may be treated differently for financial statement and tax purposes. The Capital Share Transactions section shows the amount shareholders invested in the fund, either by purchasing shares or by reinvesting distributions, and the amounts redeemed. The corresponding numbers of shares issued, reinvested and redeemed are shown at the end of the report.
Financial Highlights
The Financial Highlights table provides a per-share breakdown by class of the components that affect the fund's net asset value for current and past reporting periods. The table provides total return, total distributions, expense ratios, portfolio turnover and net assets for the applicable period. Total return is a measure of a fund's performance that encompasses all elements of return: dividends, capital gain distributions and changes in net asset value. Total return is the change in value of an investment over a given period, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and capital gain distributions, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment. Total distributions include distributions from net investment income and net realized gains. Long-term gains are earned on securities held in the fund more than one year. Short-term gains, on the sale of securities held less than one year, are treated as ordinary dividend income for tax purposes. The expense ratio is a fund's cost of doing business, expres sed as a percentage of net assets. These expenses directly reduce returns to shareholders. Portfolio turnover measures the trading activity in a fund's investment portfolio -- how often securities are bought and sold by a fund. Portfolio turnover is affected by market conditions, changes in the size of the fund, the nature of the fund's investments and the investment style of the portfolio manager.
Proxy Voting
The Proxy Voting Guidelines that the Portfolio uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities are provided as an Appendix to the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. The Statement of Additional Information can be obtained free of charge by calling the Fund at 1-800-368-2745 or by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available by calling the Fund or visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Form N-Q is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's Form N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC; information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
This report is intended to provide fund information to shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.
Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract
At a meeting held on December 4, 2008, the Board of Directors, and by a separate vote, the disinterested Directors, initially approved the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Portfolio and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Advisor and Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit" or the "Subadvisor") with respect to the Portfolio.
At the December 4, 2008 meeting, and in connection with the Advisor's impending purchase of the mutual fund business of Summit, the Board, effective as of December 12, 2008, terminated the Portfolio's current investment advisory agreement with Summit and approved the selection of the Advisor and Summit as investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively, to the Portfolio. In evaluating the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered a variety of information relating to the Portfolio and the Advisor. The disinterested Directors reviewed a report prepared by the Advisor regarding various services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and its affiliates.
The disinterested Directors were separately represented by independent legal counsel with respect to their consideration of the approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. Prior to voting, the disinterested Directors reviewed the proposed approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and Investment Subadvisory Agreement with management and also met in private sessions with their counsel at which no representatives of management were present.
In the course of its deliberations regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered the following factors, among others: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor, including the personnel who would be providing such services; the Advisor's financial condition; the level and method of computing the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee; performance, fee and expense information for the Portfolio; the profitability of the Calvert Group of Funds to the Advisor; the Advisor's process for monitoring "best execution"; the direct and indirect benefits, if any, to be derived by the Advisor from its relationship with the Portfolio; the effect of the Portfolio's growth and size on the Portfolio's performance and expenses; the Advisor's compliance programs and policies; the Advisor's performance of substantially similar duties for other funds; and any possible conflicts of interest.
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board reviewed information provided by the Advisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Advisor's operations and personnel, including, among other information, biographical information on the Advisor's supervisory and professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. The Board also took into account similar information provided periodically throughout the previous year by the Advisor as well as the Board's familiarity with the Advisor's management through Board of Directors' meetings, discussions and other reports. The Board considered the Advisor's current level of staffing and overall resources. The Advisor's administrative capabilities, including its ability to supervise the other service providers for the Portfolio, were also considered. The Board discussed the Advisor 's effectiveness in monitoring the performance of other funds' subadvisors and the Advisor's timeliness in responding to performance issues with respect to those funds. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement.
In considering the Portfolio's performance, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board noted that year to date through December 2, 2008, the Portfolio had outperformed the Barclays Capital U.S. TIPS Index (formerly the Lehman U.S. TIPS Index). The Board took into account that the portfolio management team currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Subadvisor became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Portfolio's performance was satisfactory.
In considering the Portfolio's fees and expenses, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's fees and expenses. The Board noted that the Portfolio would pay the same advisory fee to the Advisor as it currently paid to Summit. The Board took into account that the Advisor had agreed to limit the Portfolio's net annual operating expenses through December 12, 2010 to the level in effect for the Portfolio on November 30, 2008. The Board also considered the impact of the size of the Portfolio on its expenses. The Board noted that the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee with respect to the Portfolio. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed advisory fee was reasonable in view of the quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and the other factors considered.
The Board reviewed the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio. In reviewing the anticipated profitability of the advisory fee to the Advisor, the Board also considered the fact that affiliates would provide shareholder servicing and administrative services to the Portfolio for which they would receive compensation. The Board also considered whether the Advisor had the financial wherewithal to provide a high level of services to the Portfolio. The Board also considered that the Advisor would likely derive benefits to its reputation and other indirect benefits from its relationship with the Portfolio. The Board noted that the Advisor had agreed to reimburse expenses of the Portfolio above a certain level and also would pay the subadvisory fee to the Subadvisor. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was reasonable.
The Board considered the effect of the Portfolio's current size and potential growth on its performance and expenses. The Board noted that if the Portfolio's assets increased over time, the Portfolio might realize other economies of scale if assets increased proportionately more than certain other expenses. The Board took into account that the Portfolio might achieve operational efficiencies by joining the Calvert Group of Funds. The Board concluded that adding breakpoints to the advisory fee at specified asset levels was not appropriate given the Portfolio's current size.
In approving the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
In evaluating the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the disinterested Directors considered information provided by the Subadvisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Subadvisor's operations, personnel, investment philosophy, strategies and techniques. Among other information, the Subadvisor provided biographical information on portfolio management and other professional staff, performance information for itself, and descriptions of its investment philosophies, strategies and techniques, organizational and management structures and brokerage policies and practices.
The Board approved the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Subadvisor and the Advisor based on a number of factors relating to the Subadvisor's ability to perform under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. In the course of its deliberations, the Board evaluated, among other factors: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Subadvisor; the Subadvisor's management style and long-term performance record; the Portfolio's performance record and the Subadvisor's performance in employing its investment strategies; the Subadvisor's current level of staffing and its overall resources; the qualifications and experience of the Subadvisor's personnel; the Subadvisor's financial condition with respect to its ability to perform the services required under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement; the Subadvisor's compliance systems, including those related to personal investing; and any disciplinary history. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that it was satisfied with the natu re, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Subadvisor under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement.
As noted above, the Board considered the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team that was currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Summit became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. The Board also took into account the expertise and resources the Advisor would devote to monitoring the performance, investment style and risk adjusted performance of the Subadvisor.
In considering the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor of its relationship with the Portfolio, the Board noted that the Advisor and Subadvisor were affiliated and the proposed subadvisory fee under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be paid by the Advisor out of the advisory fee that the Advisor would receive under the Investment Advisory Agreement. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed subadvisory fee was reasonable. Because the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee, the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor from its relationship with the Portfolio were not material factors in the Board's deliberations. For similar reasons, the Board did not consider the potential economies of scale in the Subadvisor's management of the Portfolio to be a material factor in its consideration.
In approving the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
Conclusions
The Board reached the following conclusions regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, among others: (a) the Advisor has demonstrated that it possesses the capability and resources to perform the duties required of it under the Investment Advisory Agreement; (b) the Subadvisor is qualified to manage the Portfolio's assets in accordance with the Portfolio's investment objective and policies; (c) the Advisor and Subadvisor maintain appropriate compliance programs; (d) the Subadvisor is likely to execute its investment strategies consistently over time; (e) performance of the Portfolio is satisfactory in relation to relevant indices; and (f) the Portfolio's proposed advisory and subadvisory fees are reasonable in relation to the services to be provided by the Advisor and the Subadvisor. Based on its conclusions, the Board determined that approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be in the interests of the Portfo lio and its shareholders and that the Subadvisor's service as subadvisor to the Portfolio did not involve a conflict of interest from which the Advisor or Subadvisor would derive an inappropriate advantage.
Director and Officer Information Table
Name & Age | Position with Fund
| Position Start Date
| Principal Occupation During Last 5 Years | (Not Applicable to Officers) |
# of Calvert Portfolios Overseen | Other Directorships |
Independent Directors |
FRANK H. BLATZ, JR., Esq. AGE: 73 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Of counsel to firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. Mr. Blatz was an attorney in private practice in Fanwood, NJ from 1999 to 2004. | 27 | |
ALICE GRESHAM AGE: 58 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean and Professor at Howard University School of Law. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. | 28 | - Council on Legal Education Opportunity
- North Country School
|
M. CHARITO KRUVANT AGE: 63 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | President and CEO of Creative Associates International, Inc., a firm that specializes in human resources development, information management, public affairs and private enterprise development. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Foundation
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
|
CYNTHIA MILLIGAN AGE: 62 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Formerly, she was the President and Chief Executive Officer for CMA, a consulting firm for financial institutions. | 28 | - Wells Fargo Company- NYSE
- Gallup, Inc.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Raven Industries - NASDAQ
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Non-Profit)
- Prison Fellowship Ministries (Non-Profit)
|
ARTHUR J. PUGH AGE: 71 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Retired executive. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
|
Interested Directors |
BARBARA J. KRUMSIEK AGE: 56 | Director & Chair-person | 1997 CVS 2008 Summit | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Calvert Group, Ltd. | 58 | - Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Acacia Life Insurance Company (Chair)
- UNIFI Mutual Holding Company
- Ameritas Holding Company
|
WILLIAM LESTER AGE: 51 | Director & President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | President, CEO and Treasurer of Summit Investment Advisors, Inc. | 27 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Investment Advisors, Inc.
- Ameritas Investment Corp.
|
Officers |
KAREN BECKER AGE: 56 | Chief Compliance Officer | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Chief Compliance Officer for the Calvert Funds. Prior to 2005, Ms. Becker was Senior Vice President of Calvert Group, Ltd. and Head of Calvert Client Services. |
SUSAN WALKER BENDER, Esq. AGE: 50 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1988 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
THOMAS DAILEY AGE: 44 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
IVY WAFFORD DUKE, Esq. AGE: 40 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd., and since 2004, Chief Compliance Officer for Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
TRACI L. GOLDT AGE: 35 | Assistant Secretary | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Executive Assistant to General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
GREGORY B. HABEEB AGE: 59 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
DANIEL K. HAYES AGE: 58 | Vice President | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
HUI PING HO, CPA Age: 44 | Assistant Treasurer | 2000 CVS 2008 Summit | Tax Compliance Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
LANCELOT A. KING, Esq. AGE: 38 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2002 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
EDITH LILLIE AGE: 52 | Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Secretary and Regulatory Matters Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
AUGUSTO DIVO MACEDO, Esq. AGE: 46 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, and Associate Counsel Compliance Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Mr. Macedo served as 2nd Vice President at Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Advisors Group, Acacia's broker-dealer and federally registered investment adviser. |
JANE B. MAXWELL Esq. AGE: 56 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Maxwell was an associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP. |
ANDREW K. NIEBLER, Esq. AGE: 41 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2006 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Niebler was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. |
CATHERINE P. ROY AGE: 53 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Roy was Senior Vice President of US Fixed Income for Baring Asset Management, and SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager of Scudder Insurance Asset Management. |
WILLIAM M. TARTIKOFF, Esq. AGE: 61 | Vice President & Secretary | 1990 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
NATALIE TRUNOW AGE: 41 | Vice President | 2008 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc., Head of Equities. Prior to joining Calvert in August 2008, Ms. Trunow was the Section Head (2005-2008) and Portfolio Manager (2001-2008) for the Global Public Markets Group of General Motors Asset Management. |
RONALD M. WOLFSHEIMER, CPA AGE: 56 | Treasurer | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
MICHAEL V. YUHAS JR., CPA AGE: 47 | Fund Controller | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Fund Administration of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
The address of Directors and Officers is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 1000N, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Ms. Krumsiek is an interested person of the Fund since she is an officer and director of the Fund's Advisor and its affiliates. Mr. Lester is an interested person of the Fund since he is an officer and director of the parent company of the Fund's Advisor.
Additional information about the Fund's Directors can be found in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). You can get a free copy of the SAI by contacting your broker, or the Fund at 1-800-368-2745.
Shareholder Meeting Results
A special shareholder meeting was held on December 5, 2008, by the Summit Inflation Protected Plus Portfolio of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. for the purpose of considering and voting on the issues below. The voting results were as follows:
- To approve an Investment Advisory Agreement with Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
293,191.242 | 6,420.716 | 36,512.121 |
- To approve an Investment Subadvisory Agreement with Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
299,757.950 | 6,886.303 | 29,479.826 |
- To elect the Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Name of Director | For | Withhold |
Frank H. Blatz, Jr. | 325,113.112 | 11,010.967 |
Alice Gresham | 326,645.535 | 9,478.544 |
Barbara J. Krumsiek | 326,909.646 | 9,214.433 |
M. Charito Kruvant | 325,930.975 | 10,193.104 |
William Lester | 326,178.025 | 9,946.054 |
Cynthia Milligan | 326,308.776 | 9,815.303 |
Arthur J. Pugh | 325,333.683 | 10,790.396 |
- To ratify the selection of auditors, KPMG, LLP for the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
311,277.171 | 7,215.118 | 17,631.790 |
5. To authorize the Board of Directors of the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. to enter into and materially amend agreements with investment subadvisors on behalf of the Funds without obtaining shareholder approval.
For | Against | Abstain |
313,382.632 | 13,129.094 | 9,612.353 |
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Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio
Annual Report
December 31, 2008
Summit Mutual Funds
Calvert
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Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio
Annual Report, December 31, 2008
Table Of Contents
3 | Portfolio Manager Remarks |
5 | Shareholder Expense Example |
6 | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
7 | Schedule of Investments |
8 | Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
9 | Statement of Operations |
10 | Statements of Changes in Net Assets |
11 | Notes to Financial Statements |
15 | Financial Highlights |
16 | Explanation of Financial Tables |
17 | Proxy Voting and Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings |
18 | Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract |
21 | Director and Officer Information Table |
Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio
Managed by Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
Performance
For the year ended December 31, 2008, the Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio returned -24.72% compared to -20.10% for its benchmark composite index. The benchmark is comprised of 60% of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (S&P 500) and 40% Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index. For context, the S&P 500 returned -37.00% for the period and Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index returned 5.24%. The Lifestyle portfolio underperformed the benchmark primarily because its percentage of equity holdings was slightly above that of the benchmark for most of the year.
Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio*
Comparison of change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment.
Average Annual Total Return
(period ended 12.31.08)
One year | (24.72%) |
Since inception (12.28.06) | (10.93%) |
*Performance information is for the Portfolio only and does not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
** 60% S&P 500 Index and 40% Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index.
Past performance does not indicate future results.
Investment Climate
It's now official: the U.S. is in a recession and has been since December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the standard arbiter of the U.S. business cycle. The U.S. economy is embroiled in a severe downturn, made much worse by the credit crunch and dramatic decline in economic activity that has spread around the globe. The financial markets had a tough year, with the overall benchmark for U.S. stocks, the S&P 500 Index, down 37.00%, its worst year since 1931. It did rally 20% after reaching its low for the reporting period on November 20, but the financial markets continued to be rocked by company and industry declines and financial scandals. Small-cap stocks fared best in this abysmally negative environment (at -33.79%), with large-cap stocks trailing (at -37.60%) and mid-caps doing the worst (at -41.46%).1
For the fixed-income markets, last year was one of the most memorable and difficult in the history of the U.S. credit market. Turmoil that began with subprime mortgages spread to the top of the credit-quality ladder. Major losses by financial institutions froze the markets for municipal bonds, commercial paper, corporate debt, and government agency securities and even crippled bond insurers. Former financial behemoths were either sold, rescued by the federal government, converted into bank holding companies, or failed.
Throughout the year, the Federal Reserve (Fed) intervened to thaw frozen money markets and combat the liquidity crunch--growing its assets by $1.3 trillion and pushing the target federal funds rate down to near zero percent. The U.S. Treasury introduced money market fund insurance and issued special Treasury bills to increase the Fed's assets. The positive news was that inflation began to fall, largely due to the sharp decline in commodity prices. Oil, which hit $146 per barrel over the summer, ended the year at $43. But despite all efforts, the economy sank into a recession and policymakers remain concerned about risk of prolonged recession and deflation in 2009.
Portfolio Strategy
In terms of the mix of equities, the large-cap growth and small-cap ETFs (exchange-traded funds) added to the relative performance of equities in the portfolio, while international ETFs detracted from the relative performance. The fixed- income ETFs in the portfolio provided mixed returns. The ETF that tracks the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index provided returns in line with the fixed-income portion of the benchmark. However, the high yield ETF and the Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPs) ETF lagged the fixed-income benchmark, on a relative basis. Fortunately, the high-yield and TIPs ETFs were only a small part of the portfolio throughout the year.
The worst performer in the Portfolio was the emerging-market ETF, which declined 52% as emerging-market economies have been particularly hard hit in the current worldwide recession. The EAFE International ETF also performed poorly in 2008, providing a return of -41%. The Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index ETF provided the best return, up just under 8%.
Because there were 10 ETFs representing different asset classes in the Portfolio, there were multiple re-allocations throughout the year. As equities underperformed during the fourth quarter of '08, the equity exposure was slightly increased in the portfolio to rebalance toward the Portfolio's target mix.
Asset Allocation | % of Total Investments |
Domestic Equity Exchange Traded Funds | 56% |
International and Global Equity Exchange Traded Funds | 10% |
Fixed Income Exchange Traded Funds | 34% |
Total | 100% |
Outlook
At the end of December, markets had a "relief" rally despite the bad economic news, with higher-beta (riskier) markets and sectors rebounding the most. This positive trend may emerge when markets shrug off negative news and trend higher. December certainly qualifies since markets closed higher on the month, despite negative job, earnings, and housing reports. If the trend continues, we may see more of a relief rally in the short-term. However, judging by Wall Street analyst consensus earnings forecasts for 2009, earnings expectations are still too positive and too optimistic for the year and in disconnect with a decelerating real economy.
We believe earnings expectations will have to come down further, especially since firms' capital expenditures on equipment and property (i.e., Capex) continued to decelerate and manufacturing activity contracted at a faster pace at year-end--all of which are likely to negatively impact business investment in 2009. This means that, if market pays attention to earnings in 2009, we may see additional volatility in the equity markets.
Looking ahead, we are in uncharted territory when we consider incoming economic data, fiscal and monetary government stimulus, and the response of global financial markets. While the near-term outlook for the markets and economy is likely to remain volatile and unpredictable as the housing and credit crisis further unwinds, there are longer-term measures in place that may help move eventual recovery forward. For example, the U.S. stimulus package already in place, combined with the Obama administration's economic recovery program, may set the stage for an eventual recovery in the U.S. economy. In addition, along with the U.S., governments in Europe and Asia are taking concerted action to bolster their economies. Patience will be required, however, as this recession seems destined to be deep and long.
January 2009
1. Performance is represented by the Russell Midcap Index for mid-cap stocks, Russell 1000 Index for large-cap stocks, and Russell 2000 Index for small-cap stocks.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008).
Note: Expenses do not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare the 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Beginning Account Value 7/1/08 | Ending Account Value 12/31/08 | Expenses Paid During Period* 7/1/08 - 12/31/08 |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $807.00 | $3.41 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,021.37 | $3.81 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio of 0.75%, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/366. The fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds in which the Portfolio invests are not included in the annualized expense ratios.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Shareholders of Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio:
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of the Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio (the Portfolio), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., including the schedule of investments, as of December 31, 2008, and the related statement of operations, statement of changes in net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audit. The accompanying financial statements and financial highlights of the Portfolio for the periods presented through December 31, 2007 were audited by other auditors whose report thereon dated February 22, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2008, by correspondence with custodians and brokers. As to securities purchased or sold but not yet received or delivered, we performed other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio as of December 31, 2008, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
KPMG LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2009
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio
Schedule of Investments
December 31, 2008
Exchange Traded Funds - 98.7% | | Shares | Value |
iShares Barclays Aggregate Bond Fund | | 30,571 | $3,175,715 |
iShares Barclays U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Fund | | 1,035 | 102,713 |
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund | | 4,207 | 320,069 |
iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund | | 21,042 | 944,155 |
iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund | | 6,499 | 320,206 |
iShares S&P 500 Growth Index Fund | | 54,383 | 2,443,428 |
iShares S&P 500 Value Index Fund | | 59,217 | 2,675,424 |
Midcap SPDR Trust Series 1 | | 3,287 | 319,365 |
Vanguard Emerging Markets | | 4,501 | 106,674 |
Vanguard REIT | | 3,331 | 121,415 |
| | | |
Total Exchange Traded Funds (Cost $13,167,491) | | | 10,529,164 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (Cost $13,167,491) - 98.7% | | | 10,529,164 |
Other assets and liabilities, net - 1.3% | | | 142,371 |
Net Assets - 100% | | | $10,671,535 |
See notes to financial statements.
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
December 31, 2008
Assets | | |
Investments in securities, at value (Cost $13,167,491) - see accompanying schedule | | $10,529,164 |
Cash | | 267,795 |
Receivable for securities sold | | 363,310 |
Receivable for shares sold | | 48,777 |
Receivable from Summit Investment Partners, Inc. | | 5,379 |
Interest and dividends receivable | | 15,974 |
Total assets | | 11,230,399 |
| | |
Liabilities | | |
Payable for securities purchased | | 529,228 |
Payable for shares redeemed | | 2,355 |
Payable to Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. | | 414 |
Payable to Calvert Administrative Services Company, Inc. | | 479 |
Payable to Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. | | 5 |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities | | 26,383 |
Total liabilities | | 558,864 |
Net Assets | | $10,671,535 |
| | |
Net Assets Consist of: | | |
Paid-in capital applicable to 277,107 shares of common stock outstanding; $0.10 par value, 20,000,000 shares authorized | | $14,455,196 |
Undistributed net investment income | | 73,109 |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | | (1,218,443) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | (2,638,327) |
| | |
Net Assets | | $10,671,535 |
| | |
Net Asset Value per Share | | $38.51 |
See notes to financial statements.
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2008
Net Investment Income | |
Investment Income: | |
Dividend income | $405,478 |
Interest income | 12,934 |
Total investment income | 418,412 |
| |
Expenses: | |
Investment advisory fee | 69,169 |
Transfer agency fees and expenses | 16,381 |
Accounting fees | 16,525 |
Directors' fees and expenses | 2,265 |
Administrative fees | 12,576 |
Custodian fees | 1,098 |
Reports to shareholders | 1,820 |
Professional fees | 19,297 |
Miscellaneous | 3,013 |
Total expenses | 142,144 |
Reimbursement from Advisor | (47,823) |
Net expenses | 94,321 |
| |
Net Investment Income | 324,091 |
| |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | |
Net realized gain (loss) | (1,212,625) |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (2,471,324) |
| |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain | |
(Loss) on Investments | (3,683,949) |
| |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | |
Resulting From Operations | ($3,359,858) |
See notes to financial statements.
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Year Ended | Year Ended | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2008 | 2007 | |
Operations: | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | $324,091 | $59,203 | |
Net realized gain (loss) | | (1,212,625) | (3,754) | |
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) | | (2,471,324) | (166,525) | |
| | | | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Resulting From Operations | | (3,359,858) | (111,076) | |
| | | | |
Distributions to shareholders from: | | | | |
Net investment income | | (310,151) | -- | |
Net realized gain | | (2,098) | -- | |
Total distributions | | (312,249) | -- | |
| | | | |
Capital share transactions: | | | | |
Shares sold | | 12,266,373 | 6,002,427 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 312,250 | -- | |
Shares redeemed | | (2,921,273) | (1,354,574) | |
Total capital share transactions | | 9,657,350 | 4,647,853 | |
| | | | |
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 5,985,243 | 4,536,777 | |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of year | | 4,686,292 | 149,515 | |
End of year (including undistributed net investment income of $73,109 and $59,200, respectively) | | $10,671,535 | $4,686,292 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Capital Share Activity | | | | |
Shares sold | | 235,845 | 111,189 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 8,273 | -- | |
Shares redeemed | | (56,064) | (25,136) | |
Total capital share activity | | 188,054 | 86,053 | |
See notes to financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE A --- SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
General: The Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. (the "Fund") is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company. The Fund is comprised of thirteen separate portfolios. The operations of each series of the Fund are accounted for separately. The shares of the Portfolio are sold to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for allocation to certain of their variable separate accounts. The Portfolio invests primarily in various exchange traded funds (the "Underlying Funds"), representing different market exposure.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), an affiliated entity, whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business and became investment advisor for the portfolios of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Security Valuation: Net asset value per share is determined every business day as of the close of the regular session of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Portfolio uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Directors to value its investments wherever possible. Securities for which market quotations are available are valued at last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange in which they trade. Investments for which market quotations are not available or deemed not reliable are fair valued in good faith under the direction of the Board of Directors.
In determining fair value, the Board considers all relevant qualitative and quantitative information available. These factors are subject to change over time and are reviewed periodically. The values assigned to fair value investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized. Further, because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, those estimated values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed, and the differences could be material. At December 31, 2008, no securities were fair valued under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Effective January 1, 2008, the Portfolio adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Portfolio's investments and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 -- quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 -- other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 -- significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy during the period. For additional information on the Portfolio's policy regarding valuation of investments, please refer to the Portfolio's most recent prospectus.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Portfolio's net assets as of December 31, 2008:
Valuation Inputs | Investments in Securities |
Level 1 - Quoted Prices | $10,529,164 |
Level 2 - Other Significant Observable Inputs | -- |
Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs | -- |
Total | $10,529,164 |
Security Transactions and Investment Income: Security transactions, normally shares of the Underlying Funds, are accounted for on trade date. Realized gains and losses are recorded on an identified cost basis. Income and capital gain distributions from the Underlying Funds, if any, are recorded on ex-dividend date. Interest income, which includes amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities, is accrued as earned. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of the Portfolio and do not include any expenses associated with the Underlying Funds.
Distributions to Shareholders: Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Portfolio on ex-dividend date. Dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains, if any, are paid at least annually. Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles; accordingly, periodic reclassifications are made within the Portfolio's capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution under income tax regulations.
Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Expense Offset Arrangements: The Portfolio has an arrangement with its custodian bank whereby the custodian's fees may be paid indirectly by credits earned on the Portfolio's cash on deposit with the bank. These credits are used to reduce the Portfolio's expenses. Such a deposit arrangement may be an alternative to overnight investments.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision for federal income or excise tax is required since the Portfolio intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code and to distribute substantially all of its taxable earnings.
The Portfolio is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The implementation of FIN 48 did not result in any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements or in any of the open tax years; thus, no provision for income tax is required. Each of the Portfolio's federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 161, "Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." The new standard is intended to improve financial reporting about derivative instruments and hedging activities by requiring enhanced disclosures to enable investors to better understand the effect on the Fund's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS No. 161 will have on the Fund's financial statements and related disclosures.
NOTE B -- RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") is wholly-owned by Calvert Group, Ltd. ("Calvert"), which is indirectly wholly owned by UNIFI Holding Company. The Advisor provides investment advisory services and pays the salaries and fees of officers and Directors of the Fund who are employees of the Advisor or its affiliates. For its services, the Advisor receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.55% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit Investment Partners, Inc., ("Summit") served as the Advisor. Summit is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Central Life Insurance Company, an indirect subsidiary of UNIFI Holding Company. Summit received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.55% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets.
The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit net annual portfolio operating expenses through December 12, 2010. The contractual expense cap is 0.75%. For the purpose of this expense limit, operating expenses do not include interest expense, brokerage commissions, taxes, and extraordinary expenses. To the extent any expense credits are earned, the Advisor's obligation under the contractual limitation may be reduced and the Advisor may benefit from the expense offset arrangement.
Calvert Administrative Services Company ("CASC"), an affiliate of the Advisor, provides administrative services for the Portfolio. For its services, CASC receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit provided administrative services for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets.
Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. ("CSSI"), an affiliate of the Advisor, acts as shareholder servicing agent for the Portfolio. For its services, CSSI received a fee of $5 for the year ended December 31, 2008. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. is the transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Prior to December 12, 2008, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC served as the transfer and dividend disbursing agent.
Each Director of the Fund who is not an employee of the Advisor or its affiliates receives a fee of $1,500 for each Board and Committee meeting attended plus an annual fee of $20,000 for Directors not serving on other Calvert Fund Boards, $8,000 for those serving on other Calvert Fund Boards. Director's fees are allocated to each of the portfolios served. Prior to December 12, 2008, each Director of the Fund who was not an employee of Summit or its affiliates received a fee of $2,500 for each Board meeting attended ($600 for Committee meetings) plus an annual fee of $17,000. Committee chairs and the Lead Director received additional fees for their service.
NOTE C -- INVESTMENT ACTIVITY
During the year, the cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investments, other than short-term securities were $18,781,835 and $9,351,961, respectively.
The cost of investments owned at December 31, 2008 for federal income tax purposes was $13,558,150. Net unrealized depreciation aggregated $3,028,986, of which $81,165 related to appreciated securities and $3,110,151 related to depreciated securities.
Net realized capital loss carryforwards of $827,784 at December 31, 2008 may be utilized to offset future capital gains until expiration in December 2016.
The tax character of dividends and distributions paid during the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 was as follows:
Distributions paid from: | 2008 | 2007 |
Ordinary income | $312,249 | $-- |
Total | $312,249 | $-- |
As of December 31, 2008 the components of distributable earnings / (accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
Undistributed ordinary income | $73,109 |
Capital loss carryforward | (827,784) |
Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) | (3,028,986) |
| ($3,783,661) |
The differences between the components of distributable earnings on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the statement of assets and liabilities are primarily due to temporary book-tax differences that will reverse in a subsequent period. These differences are due to wash sales.
Reclassifications, as shown in the table below, have been made to the Portfolio's components of net assets to reflect income and gains available for distribution (or available capital loss carryovers, as applicable) under income tax law and regulations. These reclassifications are due to permanent book-tax differences and have no impact on net assets. The primary permanent differences causing such reclassifications for the Portfolio are due to prior year return of capital dividends.
Undistributed net investment income | ($31) |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) | 31 |
NOTE D -- OTHER (Unaudited)
Change in Independent Accountant
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. ("Fund"). KPMG LLP was selected as the Fund's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the Fund's financial statements. The Fund's selection of KPMG as its independent accountant was recommended by the Fund's Audit Committee and was approved by the Fund's Board of Directors.
The reports on the financial statements audited by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2007 and prior for the Funds did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There were no disagreements between the Funds and Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused Deloitte to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements of such years. There were no reportable events as described in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of Item 304(a) of SEC Regulation S-K.
Financial Highlights
| | | Periods Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | December 31, | |
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Target Portfolio | | 2008 | 2007 (z) | 2006^ | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $52.62 | $49.84 | $50.00 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .74 | 2.33 | -- | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (13.70) | .45 | (.16) | |
Total from investment operations | | (12.96) | 2.78 | (.16) | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (1.14) | -- | -- | |
Net realized gain | | (.01) | -- | -- | |
Total distributions | | (1.15) | -- | -- | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (14.11) | 2.78 | (.16) | |
Net asset value, ending | | $38.51 | $52.62 | $49.84 | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | (24.72%) | 5.58% | (.32%) | |
Ratios to average net assets: A,B | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.58% | 4.46% | (.59%) (a) | |
Total expenses | | 1.13% | 4.09% | 220.56% (a) | |
Expenses before offsets | | .75% | .75% | .75% (a) | |
Net expenses | | .75% | .75% | .75% (a) | |
Portfolio turnover | | 79% | 17% | 0% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $10,672 | $4,686 | $150 | |
A Total expenses do not reflect amounts reimbursed and/or waived by the Advisor or reductions from expense offset arrangements. Expenses before offsets reflect expenses after reimbursement and/or waiver by the Advisor but prior to reductions from expense offset arrangements. Net expenses are net of all reductions and represent the net expenses paid by the portfolio.
B Amounts do not include the activity of the underlying funds.
(a) Annualized.
(z) Per share figures calculated using the average shares method.
* Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year.
^ From December 28, 2006 inception.
See notes to financial statements.
Explanation of Financial Tables
Schedule of Investments
The Schedule of Investments is a snapshot of all securities held in the fund at their market value, on the last day of the reporting period. Securities are listed by asset type (e.g., common stock, corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations) and may be further broken down into sub-groups and by industry classification.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities is often referred to as the fund's balance sheet. It lists the value of what the fund owns, is due and owes on the last day of the reporting period. The fund's assets include the market value of securities owned, cash, receivables for securities sold and shareholder subscriptions, and receivables for dividends and interest payments that have been earned, but not yet received. The fund's liabilities typically include payables for securities purchased and shareholder redemptions, and expenses owed but not yet paid. The statement also reports the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share on the last day of the reporting period. The NAV is calculated by dividing the fund's net assets (assets minus liabilities) by the number of shares outstanding. This statement is accompanied by a Schedule of Investments. Alternatively, if certain conditions are met, a Statement of Net Assets may be presented in lieu of this statement and the Schedule of Investments.
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets provides a detailed list of the fund's holdings, including each security's market value on the last day of the reporting period. The Statement of Net Assets includes a Schedule of Investments. Other assets are added and other liabilities subtracted from the investments total to calculate the fund's net assets. Finally, net assets are divided by the outstanding shares of the fund to arrive at its share price, or Net Asset Value (NAV) per share.
At the end of the Statement of Net Assets is a table displaying the composition of the fund's net assets. Paid in Capital is the money invested by shareholders and represents the bulk of net assets. Undistributed Net Investment Income and Accumulated Net Realized Gains usually approximate the amounts the fund had available to distribute to shareholders as of the statement date. Accumulated Realized Losses will appear as negative balances. Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) is the difference between the market value of the fund's investments and their cost, and reflects the gains (losses) that would be realized if the fund were to sell all of its investments at their statement-date values.
Statement of Operations
The Statement of Operations summarizes the fund's investment income earned and expenses incurred in operating the fund. Investment income includes dividends earned from stocks and interest earned from interest-bearing securities in the fund. Expenses incurred in operating the fund include the advisory fee paid to the investment advisor, administrative services fees, distribution plan expenses (if applicable), transfer agent fees, shareholder servicing expenses, custodial, legal, and audit fees, and the printing and postage expenses related to shareholder reports. Expense offsets (fees paid indirectly) are also shown. Credits earned from offset arrangements are used to reduce the fund's expenses. This statement also shows net gains (losses) realized on the sale of investments and the increase or decrease in the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments held during the period.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
The Statement of Changes in Net Assets shows how the fund's total net assets changed during the two most recent reporting periods. Changes in the fund's net assets are attributable to investment operations, distributions and capital share transactions.
The Operations section of the report summarizes information detailed in the Statement of Operations. The Distribution section shows the dividend and capital gain distributions made to shareholders. The amounts shown as distributions in this section may not match the net investment income and realized gains amounts shown in the Operations section because distributions are determined on a tax basis and certain investments or transactions may be treated differently for financial statement and tax purposes. The Capital Share Transactions section shows the amount shareholders invested in the fund, either by purchasing shares or by reinvesting distributions, and the amounts redeemed. The corresponding numbers of shares issued, reinvested and redeemed are shown at the end of the report.
Financial Highlights
The Financial Highlights table provides a per-share breakdown by class of the components that affect the fund's net asset value for current and past reporting periods. The table provides total return, total distributions, expense ratios, portfolio turnover and net assets for the applicable period. Total return is a measure of a fund's performance that encompasses all elements of return: dividends, capital gain distributions and changes in net asset value. Total return is the change in value of an investment over a given period, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and capital gain distributions, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment. Total distributions include distributions from net investment income and net realized gains. Long-term gains are earned on securities held in the fund more than one year. Short-term gains, on the sale of securities held less than one year, are treated as ordinary dividend income for tax purposes. The expense ratio is a fund's cost of doing business, expres sed as a percentage of net assets. These expenses directly reduce returns to shareholders. Portfolio turnover measures the trading activity in a fund's investment portfolio -- how often securities are bought and sold by a fund. Portfolio turnover is affected by market conditions, changes in the size of the fund, the nature of the fund's investments and the investment style of the portfolio manager.
Proxy Voting
The Proxy Voting Guidelines that the Portfolio uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities are provided as an Appendix to the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. The Statement of Additional Information can be obtained free of charge by calling the Fund at 1-800-368-2745 or by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available by calling the Fund or visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Form N-Q is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's Form N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC; information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
This report is intended to provide fund information to shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.
Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract
At a meeting held on December 4, 2008, the Board of Directors, and by a separate vote, the disinterested Directors, initially approved the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Portfolio and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Advisor and Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit" or the "Subadvisor") with respect to the Portfolio.
At the December 4, 2008 meeting, and in connection with the Advisor's impending purchase of the mutual fund business of Summit, the Board, effective as of December 12, 2008, terminated the Portfolio's current investment advisory agreement with Summit and approved the selection of the Advisor and Summit as investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively, to the Portfolio. In evaluating the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered a variety of information relating to the Portfolio and the Advisor. The disinterested Directors reviewed a report prepared by the Advisor regarding various services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and its affiliates.
The disinterested Directors were separately represented by independent legal counsel with respect to their consideration of the approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. Prior to voting, the disinterested Directors reviewed the proposed approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and Investment Subadvisory Agreement with management and also met in private sessions with their counsel at which no representatives of management were present.
In the course of its deliberations regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered the following factors, among others: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor, including the personnel who would be providing such services; the Advisor's financial condition; the level and method of computing the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee; performance, fee and expense information for the Portfolio; the profitability of the Calvert Group of Funds to the Advisor; the Advisor's process for monitoring "best execution"; the direct and indirect benefits, if any, to be derived by the Advisor from its relationship with the Portfolio; the effect of the Portfolio's growth and size on the Portfolio's performance and expenses; the Advisor's compliance programs and policies; the Advisor's performance of substantially similar duties for other funds; and any possible conflicts of interest.
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board reviewed information provided by the Advisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Advisor's operations and personnel, including, among other information, biographical information on the Advisor's supervisory and professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. The Board also took into account similar information provided periodically throughout the previous year by the Advisor as well as the Board's familiarity with the Advisor's management through Board of Directors' meetings, discussions and other reports. The Board considered the Advisor's current level of staffing and overall resources. The Advisor's administrative capabilities, including its ability to supervise the other service providers for the Portfolio, were also considered. The Board discussed the Advisor 's effectiveness in monitoring the performance of other funds' subadvisors and the Advisor's timeliness in responding to performance issues with respect to those funds. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement.
In considering the Portfolio's performance, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board noted that year to date through December 2, 2008, the Portfolio had outperformed the S&P 500 Index and had underperformed its blended benchmark. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Subadvisor became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Portfolio's performance was satisfactory.
In considering the Portfolio's fees and expenses, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's fees and expenses. The Board noted that the Portfolio would pay the same advisory fee to the Advisor as it currently paid to Summit. The Board took into account that the Advisor had agreed to limit the Portfolio's net annual operating expenses through December 12, 2010 to the level in effect for the Portfolio on November 30, 2008. The Board also considered the impact of the size of the Portfolio on its expenses. The Board noted that the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee with respect to the Portfolio. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed advisory fee was reasonable in view of the quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and the other factors to be considered.
The Board reviewed the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio. In reviewing the anticipated profitability of the advisory fee to the Advisor, the Board also considered the fact that affiliates would provide shareholder servicing and administrative services to the Portfolio for which they would receive compensation. The Board also considered whether the Advisor had the financial wherewithal to provide a high level of services to the Portfolio. The Board also considered that the Advisor would likely derive benefits to its reputation and other indirect benefits from its relationship with the Portfolio. The Board noted that the Advisor had agreed to reimburse expenses of the Portfolio above a certain level and also would pay the subadvisory fee to the Subadvisor. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was reasonable.
The Board considered the effect of the Portfolio's current size and potential growth on its performance and expenses. The Board noted that if the Portfolio's assets increased over time, the Portfolio might realize other economies of scale if assets increased proportionately more than certain other expenses. The Board took into account that the Portfolio might achieve operational efficiencies by joining the Calvert Group of Funds. The Board concluded that adding breakpoints to the advisory fee at specified asset levels was not appropriate given the Portfolio's current size.
In approving the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
In evaluating the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the disinterested Directors considered information provided by the Subadvisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Subadvisor's operations, personnel, investment philosophy, strategies and techniques. Among other information, the Subadvisor provided biographical information on portfolio management and other professional staff, performance information for itself, and descriptions of its investment philosophies, strategies and techniques, organizational and management structures and brokerage policies and practices.
The Board approved the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Subadvisor and the Advisor based on a number of factors relating to the Subadvisor's ability to perform under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. In the course of its deliberations, the Board evaluated, among other factors: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Subadvisor; the Subadvisor's management style and long-term performance record; the Portfolio's performance record and the Subadvisor's performance in employing its investment strategies; the Subadvisor's current level of staffing and its overall resources; the qualifications and experience of the Subadvisor's personnel; the Subadvisor's financial condition with respect to its ability to perform the services required under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement; the Subadvisor's compliance systems, including those related to personal investing; and any disciplinary history. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that it was satisfied with the natu re, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Subadvisor under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement.
As noted above, the Board considered the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team that was currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Summit became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. The Board also took into account the expertise and resources the Advisor would devote to monitoring the performance, investment style and risk adjusted performance of the Subadvisor.
In considering the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor of its relationship with the Portfolio, the Board noted that the Advisor and Subadvisor were affiliated and the proposed subadvisory fee under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be paid by the Advisor out of the advisory fee that the Advisor would receive under the Investment Advisory Agreement. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed subadvisory fee was reasonable. Because the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee, the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor from its relationship with the Portfolio were not material factors in the Board's deliberations. For similar reasons, the Board did not consider the potential economies of scale in the Subadvisor's management of the Portfolio to be a material factor in its consideration.
In approving the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
Conclusions
The Board reached the following conclusions regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, among others: (a) the Advisor has demonstrated that it possesses the capability and resources to perform the duties required of it under the Investment Advisory Agreement; (b) the Subadvisor is qualified to manage the Portfolio's assets in accordance with the Portfolio's investment objective and policies; (c) the Advisor and Subadvisor maintain appropriate compliance programs; (d) the Subadvisor is likely to execute its investment strategies consistently over time; (e) performance of the Portfolio is satisfactory in relation to relevant indices; and (f) the Portfolio's proposed advisory and subadvisory fees are reasonable in relation to the services to be provided by the Advisor and the Subadvisor. Based on its conclusions, the Board determined that approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be in the interests of the Portfo lio and its shareholders and that the Subadvisor's service as subadvisor to the Portfolio did not involve a conflict of interest from which the Advisor or Subadvisor would derive an inappropriate advantage.
Director and Officer Information Table
Name & Age | Position with Fund
| Position Start Date
| Principal Occupation During Last 5 Years | (Not Applicable to Officers) |
# of Calvert Portfolios Overseen | Other Directorships |
Independent Directors |
FRANK H. BLATZ, JR., Esq. AGE: 73 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Of counsel to firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. Mr. Blatz was an attorney in private practice in Fanwood, NJ from 1999 to 2004. | 27 | |
ALICE GRESHAM AGE: 58 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean and Professor at Howard University School of Law. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. | 28 | - Council on Legal Education Opportunity
- North Country School
|
M. CHARITO KRUVANT AGE: 63 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | President and CEO of Creative Associates International, Inc., a firm that specializes in human resources development, information management, public affairs and private enterprise development. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Foundation
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
|
CYNTHIA MILLIGAN AGE: 62 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Formerly, she was the President and Chief Executive Officer for CMA, a consulting firm for financial institutions. | 28 | - Wells Fargo Company- NYSE
- Gallup, Inc.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Raven Industries - NASDAQ
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Non-Profit)
- Prison Fellowship Ministries (Non-Profit)
|
ARTHUR J. PUGH AGE: 71 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Retired executive. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
|
Interested Directors |
BARBARA J. KRUMSIEK AGE: 56 | Director & Chair-person | 1997 CVS 2008 Summit | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Calvert Group, Ltd. | 58 | - Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Acacia Life Insurance Company (Chair)
- UNIFI Mutual Holding Company
- Ameritas Holding Company
|
WILLIAM LESTER AGE: 51 | Director & President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | President, CEO and Treasurer of Summit Investment Advisors, Inc. | 27 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Investment Advisors, Inc.
- Ameritas Investment Corp.
|
Officers |
KAREN BECKER AGE: 56 | Chief Compliance Officer | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Chief Compliance Officer for the Calvert Funds. Prior to 2005, Ms. Becker was Senior Vice President of Calvert Group, Ltd. and Head of Calvert Client Services. |
SUSAN WALKER BENDER, Esq. AGE: 50 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1988 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
THOMAS DAILEY AGE: 44 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
IVY WAFFORD DUKE, Esq. AGE: 40 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd., and since 2004, Chief Compliance Officer for Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
TRACI L. GOLDT AGE: 35 | Assistant Secretary | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Executive Assistant to General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
GREGORY B. HABEEB AGE: 59 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
DANIEL K. HAYES AGE: 58 | Vice President | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
HUI PING HO, CPA Age: 44 | Assistant Treasurer | 2000 CVS 2008 Summit | Tax Compliance Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
LANCELOT A. KING, Esq. AGE: 38 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2002 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
EDITH LILLIE AGE: 52 | Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Secretary and Regulatory Matters Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
AUGUSTO DIVO MACEDO, Esq. AGE: 46 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, and Associate Counsel Compliance Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Mr. Macedo served as 2nd Vice President at Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Advisors Group, Acacia's broker-dealer and federally registered investment adviser. |
JANE B. MAXWELL Esq. AGE: 56 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Maxwell was an associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP. |
ANDREW K. NIEBLER, Esq. AGE: 41 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2006 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Niebler was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. |
CATHERINE P. ROY AGE: 53 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Roy was Senior Vice President of US Fixed Income for Baring Asset Management, and SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager of Scudder Insurance Asset Management. |
WILLIAM M. TARTIKOFF, Esq. AGE: 61 | Vice President & Secretary | 1990 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
NATALIE TRUNOW AGE: 41 | Vice President | 2008 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc., Head of Equities. Prior to joining Calvert in August 2008, Ms. Trunow was the Section Head (2005-2008) and Portfolio Manager (2001-2008) for the Global Public Markets Group of General Motors Asset Management. |
RONALD M. WOLFSHEIMER, CPA AGE: 56 | Treasurer | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
MICHAEL V. YUHAS JR., CPA AGE: 47 | Fund Controller | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Fund Administration of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
The address of Directors and Officers is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 1000N, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Ms. Krumsiek is an interested person of the Fund since she is an officer and director of the Fund's Advisor and its affiliates. Mr. Lester is an interested person of the Fund since he is an officer and director of the parent company of the Fund's Advisor.
Additional information about the Fund's Directors can be found in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). You can get a free copy of the SAI by contacting your broker, or the Fund at 1-800-368-2745.
Shareholder Meeting Results
A special shareholder meeting was held on December 5, 2008, by the Summit Lifestyle Market Strategy Target Portfolio of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. for the purpose of considering and voting on the issues below. The voting results were as follows:
- To approve an Investment Advisory Agreement with Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
266,756.417 | 2,099.543 | 3,213.665 |
- To approve an Investment Subadvisory Agreement with Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
266,756.417 | 2,099.543 | 3,213.665 |
- To elect the Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Name of Director | For | Withhold |
Frank H. Blatz, Jr. | 269,970.082 | 2,099.543 |
Alice Gresham | 269,970.082 | 2,099.543 |
Barbara J. Krumsiek | 269,970.082 | 2,099.543 |
M. Charito Kruvant | 269,970.082 | 2,099.543 |
William Lester | 269,970.082 | 2,099.543 |
Cynthia Milligan | 269,970.082 | 2,099.543 |
Arthur J. Pugh | 269,970.082 | 2,099.543 |
- To ratify the selection of auditors, KPMG, LLP for the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
266,756.417 | 2,099.543 | 3,213.665 |
5. To authorize the Board of Directors of the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. to enter into and materially amend agreements with investment subadvisors on behalf of the Funds without obtaining shareholder approval.
For | Against | Abstain |
266,756.417 | 2,099.543 | 3,213.665 |
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Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio
Annual Report
December 31, 2008
Summit Mutual Funds
Calvert
Investments That Make A Difference
A UNIFI Company
Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio
Annual Report, December 31, 2008
Table Of Contents
3 | Portfolio Manager Remarks |
5 | Shareholder Expense Example |
6 | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
7 | Schedule of Investments |
8 | Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
9 | Statement of Operations |
10 | Statements of Changes in Net Assets |
11 | Notes to Financial Statements |
15 | Financial Highlights |
16 | Explanation of Financial Tables |
17 | Proxy Voting and Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings |
18 | Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract |
21 | Director and Officer Information Table |
Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio
Managed by Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
Performance
For the year ended December 31, 2008, the Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio returned -13.12%, compared to a -11.66% return for its benchmark composite index. The benchmark is comprised of 40% Standard & Poor's 500 Index (S&P 500) and 60% Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index. For context, the S&P 500 returned -37.00% for the period, while the Barclays Capital Aggregate Index returned 5.24%. The Lifestyle Portfolio underperformed the benchmark primarily because its percentage of equity holdings was slightly above that of the benchmark for most of the year.
Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio*
Comparison of change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment.
Average Annual Total Return
(period ended 12.31.08)
One year | (13.12%) |
Since inception (12.28.06) | (4.13%) |
*Performance information is for the Portfolio only and does not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
**40% S&P 500 Index and 60% Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index.
Past performance does not indicate future results.
Investment Climate
It's now official: the U.S. is in a recession and has been since December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the standard arbiter of the U.S. business cycle. The U.S. economy is embroiled in a severe downturn, made much worse by the credit crunch and dramatic decline in economic activity that has spread around the globe. The financial markets had a tough year, with the overall benchmark for U.S. stocks, the S&P 500, down 37.00%, its worst year since 1931. It did rally 20% after reaching its low for the reporting period on November 20, but the financial markets continued to be rocked by company and industry declines and financial scandals. Small-cap stocks fared best in this abysmally negative environment (at -33.79%), with large-cap stocks trailing (at -37.60%) and mid-caps doing the worst (at -41.46%).1
For the fixed-income markets, last year was one of the most memorable and difficult in the history of the U.S. credit market. Turmoil that began with subprime mortgages spread to the top of the credit-quality ladder. Major losses by financial institutions froze the markets for municipal bonds, commercial paper, corporate debt, and government agency securities and even crippled bond insurers. Former financial behemoths were either sold, rescued by the federal government, converted into bank holding companies, or failed.
Throughout the year, the Federal Reserve (Fed) intervened to thaw frozen money markets and combat the liquidity crunch--growing its assets by $1.3 trillion and pushing the target federal funds rate down to near zero percent. The U.S. Treasury introduced money market fund insurance and issued special Treasury bills to increase the Fed's assets. The positive news was that inflation began to fall, largely due to the sharp decline in commodity prices. Oil, which hit $146 per barrel over the summer, ended the year at $43. But despite all efforts, the economy sank into a recession and policymakers remain concerned about risk of prolonged recession and deflation in 2009.
Portfolio Strategy
In terms of the Lifestyle Portfolio's mix of equities, the large-cap growth and small-cap ETFs (exchange-traded funds) added to the relative performance of equities in the portfolio, while international ETFs detracted from the relative performance. The fixed-income ETFs in the portfolio provided mixed returns. The ETF that tracks the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index provided returns in line with the fixed- income portion of the benchmark. However, the high-yield ETF and the Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPs) ETF lagged the fixed-income benchmark, on a relative basis. Fortunately, the high-yield and TIPs ETFs were only a small part of the Portfolio throughout the year.
The worst performer in the Portfolio was the emerging-market ETF, which declined 52% as emerging-market economies have been particularly hard hit in the current worldwide recession. The EAFE International ETF also performed poorly in the Portfolio in 2008, providing a return of -41%. The Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index ETF provided the best return, up just under 8%.
Because there were 10 ETFs representing different asset classes in the Portfolio, there were multiple re-allocations throughout the year. As equities underperformed during the fourth quarter of 2008, the equity exposure was slightly increased in the Portfolio to rebalance toward the Portfolio's target mix.
Asset Allocation | % of Total Investments |
Domestic Equity Exchange Traded Funds | 34% |
International and Global Equity Exchange Traded Funds | 6% |
Fixed Income Exchange Traded Funds | 60% |
| |
Total | 100% |
Outlook
At the end of December, markets had a "relief" rally despite the bad economic news, with higher-beta (riskier) markets and sectors rebounding the most. This positive trend may emerge when markets shrug off negative news and trend higher. December certainly qualifies since markets closed higher on the month, despite negative job, earnings, and housing reports. If the trend continues, we may see more of a relief rally in the short-term. However, judging by Wall Street analyst consensus earnings forecasts for 2009, earnings expectations are still too positive and too optimistic for the year and in disconnect with a decelerating real economy.
We believe earnings expectations will have to come down further, especially since firms' capital expenditures on equipment and property (i.e., Capex) continued to decelerate and manufacturing activity contracted at a faster pace at year-end--all of which are likely to negatively impact business investment in 2009. This means that, if the market pays attention to earnings in 2009, we may see additional volatility in the equity markets.
Looking ahead, we are in uncharted territory when we consider incoming economic data, fiscal and monetary government stimulus, and the response of global financial markets. While the near-term outlook for the markets and economy is likely to remain volatile and unpredictable as the housing and credit crisis further unwinds, there are longer-term measures in place that may help move eventual recovery forward. For example, the U.S. stimulus package already in place, combined with the Obama administration's economic recovery program, may set the stage for an eventual recovery in the U.S. economy. In addition, along with the U.S., governments in Europe and Asia are taking concerted action to bolster their economies. Patience will be required, however, as this recession seems destined to be deep and long.
January 2009
1. Performance is represented by the Russell Midcap Index for mid-cap stocks, Russell 1000 Index for large-cap stocks, and Russell 2000 Index for small-cap stocks.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008).
Note: Expenses do not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare the 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Beginning Account Value 7/1/08 | Ending Account Value 12/31/08 | Expenses Paid During Period* 7/1/08 - 12/31/08 |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $905.20 | $3.59 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,021.37 | $3.81 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio of 0.75%, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/366. The fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds in which the Portfolio invests are not included in the annualized expense ratios.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Shareholders of Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio:
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of the Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio (the Portfolio), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., including the schedule of investments, as of December 31, 2008, and the related statement of operations, statement of changes in net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audit. The accompanying financial statements and financial highlights of the Portfolio for the periods presented through December 31, 2007 were audited by other auditors whose report thereon dated February 22, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2008, by correspondence with custodians and brokers. As to securities purchased or sold but not yet received or delivered, we performed other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio as of December 31, 2008, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
KPMG LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2009
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio
Schedule of Investments
December 31, 2008
Exchange Traded Funds - 99.5% | | Shares | Value |
iShares Barclays Aggregate Bond Fund | | 11,206 | $1,164,079 |
iShares Barclays U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Fund | | 394 | 39,101 |
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund | | 1,543 | 117,391 |
iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund | | 2,605 | 116,886 |
iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund | | 798 | 39,318 |
iShares S&P 500 Growth Index Fund | | 6,896 | 309,837 |
iShares S&P 500 Value Index Fund | | 7,263 | 328,142 |
Midcap SPDR Trust Series 1 | | 403 | 39,156 |
Vanguard Emerging Markets | | 583 | 13,817 |
Vanguard REIT | | 432 | 15,746 |
| | | |
Total Exchange Traded Funds (Cost $2,315,228) | | | 2,183,473 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (Cost $2,315,228) - 99.5% | | | 2,183,473 |
Other assets and liabilities, net - 0.5% | | | 11,867 |
Net Assets - 100% | | | $2,195,340 |
See notes to financial statements.
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
December 31, 2008
Assets | | |
Investments in securities, at value (Cost $2,315,228) - see accompanying schedule | | $2,183,473 |
Cash | | 77,733 |
Receivable for securities sold | | 62,767 |
Receivable from Summit Investment Partners, Inc. | | 6,045 |
Receivable from Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. | | 1,810 |
Interest and dividends receivable | | 5,132 |
Total assets | | 2,336,960 |
| | |
Liabilities | | |
Payable for securities purchased | | 114,332 |
Payable for shares redeemed | | 2,092 |
Payable to Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. | | 5 |
Payable to Calvert Administrative Services Company, Inc. | | 99 |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities | | 25,092 |
Total liabilities | | 141,620 |
Net Assets | | $2,195,340 |
| | |
Net Assets Consist of: | | |
Paid-in capital applicable to 50,348 shares of common stock outstanding; $0.10 per value, 20,000,000 shares authorized | | $2,434,581 |
Undistributed net investment income | | 926 |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | | (108,412) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | (131,755) |
| | |
Net Assets | | $2,195,340 |
| | |
Net Asset Value per Share | | $43.60 |
See notes to financial statements.
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2008
Net Investment Income | |
Investment Income: | |
Dividend income | $56,286 |
Interest income | 1,592 |
Total investment income | 57,878 |
| |
Expenses: | |
Investment advisory fee | 7,494 |
Transfer agency fees and expenses | 15,894 |
Accounting fees | 14,275 |
Directors' fees and expenses | 277 |
Administrative fees | 1,363 |
Custodian fees | 456 |
Reports to shareholders | 305 |
Professional fees | 18,445 |
Miscellaneous | 2,469 |
Total expenses | 60,978 |
Reimbursement from Advisor | (50,759) |
Net expenses | 10,219 |
| |
Net Investment Income | 47,659 |
| |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | |
Net realized gain (loss) | (108,357) |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (134,151) |
| |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain | |
(Loss) on Investments | (242,508) |
| |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | |
Resulting From Operations | ($194,849) |
See notes to financial statements.
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Year Ended | Year Ended | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2008 | 2007 | |
Operations: | | | | |
Net investment income | | $47,659 | $23,728 | |
Net realized gain (loss) | | (108,357) | 692 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) | | (134,151) | 2,721 | |
| | | | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Resulting From Operations | | (194,849) | 27,141 | |
| | | | |
Distributions to shareholders from: | | | | |
Net investment income | | (70,432) | -- | |
Net realized gain | | (776) | -- | |
Total distributions | | (71,208) | -- | |
| | | | |
Capital share transactions: | | | | |
Shares sold | | 1,830,907 | 882,001 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 71,207 | -- | |
Shares redeemed | | (351,647) | (147,881) | |
Total capital share transactions | | 1,550,467 | 734,120 | |
| | | | |
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 1,284,410 | 761,261 | |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of year | | 910,930 | 149,669 | |
End of year (including undistributed net investment income of $926 and $23,728, respectively) | | $2,195,340 | $910,930 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Capital Share Activity | | | | |
Shares sold | | 38,698 | 17,009 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 1,672 | -- | |
Shares redeemed | | (7,256) | (2,775) | |
Total capital share activity | | 33,114 | 14,234 | |
See notes to financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE A --- SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
General: The Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. (the "Fund") is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company. The Fund is comprised of thirteen separate portfolios. The operations of each series of the Fund are accounted for separately. The shares of the Portfolio are sold to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for allocation to certain of their variable separate accounts. The Portfolio invests primarily in various exchange traded funds (the "Underlying Funds"), representing different market exposure.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), an affiliated entity, whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business and became investment advisor for the portfolios of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Security Valuation: Net asset value per share is determined every business day as of the close of the regular session of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Portfolio uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Directors to value its investments wherever possible. Securities for which market quotations are available are valued at last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange in which they trade. Investments for which market quotations are not available or deemed not reliable are fair valued in good faith under the direction of the Board of Directors.
In determining fair value, the Board considers all relevant qualitative and quantitative information available. These factors are subject to change over time and are reviewed periodically. The values assigned to fair value investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized. Further, because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, those estimated values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed, and the differences could be material. At December 31, 2008, no securities were fair valued under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Effective January 1, 2008, the Portfolio adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Portfolio's investments and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 -- quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 -- other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 -- significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy during the period. For additional information on the Portfolio's policy regarding valuation of investments, please refer to the Portfolio's most recent prospectus.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Portfolio's net assets as of December 31, 2008:
Valuation Inputs | Investments in Securities |
Level 1 - Quoted Prices | $2,183,473 |
Level 2 - Other Significant Observable Inputs | -- |
Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs | -- |
Total | $2,183,473 |
Security Transactions and Investment Income: Security transactions, normally shares of the Underlying Funds, are accounted for on trade date. Realized gains and losses are recorded on an identified cost basis. Income and capital gain distributions from the Underlying Funds, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income, which includes amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities, is accrued as earned. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of the Portfolio and do not include any expenses associated with the Underlying Funds.
Distributions to Shareholders: Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Portfolio on ex-dividend date. Dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains, if any, are paid at least annually. Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles; accordingly, periodic reclassifications are made within the Portfolio's capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution under income tax regulations.
Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Expense Offset Arrangements: The Portfolio has an arrangement with its custodian bank whereby the custodian's fees may be paid indirectly by credits earned on the Portfolio's cash on deposit with the bank. These credits are used to reduce the Portfolio's expenses. Such a deposit arrangement may be an alternative to overnight investments.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision for federal income or excise tax is required since the Portfolio intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code and to distribute substantially all of its taxable earnings.
The Portfolio is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The implementation of FIN 48 did not result in any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements or in any of the open tax years; thus, no provision for income tax is required. Each of the Portfolio's federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 161, "Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." The new standard is intended to improve financial reporting about derivative instruments and hedging activities by requiring enhanced disclosures to enable investors to better understand the effect on the Fund's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS No. 161 will have on the Fund's financial statements and related disclosures.
NOTE B -- RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("the Advisor") is wholly-owned by Calvert Group, Ltd. ("Calvert"), which is indirectly wholly owned by UNIFI Holding Company. The Advisor provides investment advisory services and pays the salaries and fees of officers and Directors of the Fund who are employees of the Advisor or its affiliates. For its services, the Advisor receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.55% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit Investment Partners, Inc., ("Summit") served as the Advisor. Summit is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Central Life Insurance Company, an indirect subsidiary of UNIFI Holding Company. Summit received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.55% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets.
The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit net annual portfolio operating expenses through December 12, 2010. The contractual expense cap is 0.75%. For the purpose of this expense limit, operating expenses do not include interest expense, brokerage commissions, taxes, and extraordinary expenses. To the extent any expense credits are earned, the Advisor's obligation under the contractual limitation may be reduced and the Advisor may benefit from the expense offset arrangement.
Calvert Administrative Services Company ("CASC"), an affiliate of the Advisor, provides administrative services for the Portfolio. For its services, CASC receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit provided administrative services for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets.
Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. ("CSSI"), an affiliate of the Advisor, acts as shareholder servicing agent for the Portfolio. For its services, CSSI received a fee of $5 for the year ended December 31, 2008. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. is the transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Prior to December 12, 2008, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC served as the transfer and dividend disbursing agent.
Each Director of the Fund who is not an employee of the Advisor or its affiliates receives a fee of $1,500 for each Board and Committee meeting attended plus an annual fee of $20,000 for Directors not serving on other Calvert Fund Boards, $8,000 for those serving on other Calvert Fund Boards. Director's fees are allocated to each of the portfolios served. Prior to December 12, 2008, each Director of the Fund who was not an employee of Summit or its affiliates received a fee of $2,500 for each Board meeting attended ($600 for Committee meetings) plus an annual fee of $17,000. Committee chairs and the Lead Director received additional fees for their service.
NOTE C -- INVESTMENT ACTIVITY
During the year, the cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investments, other than short-term securities were $2,381,375 and $870,984, respectively.
The cost of investments owned at December 31, 2008 for federal income tax purposes was $2,366,929. Net unrealized depreciation aggregated $183,456, of which $45,378 related to appreciated securities and $228,834 related to depreciated securities.
Net realized capital loss carryforwards of $56,711 at December 31, 2008 may be utilized to offset future capital gains until expiration in December 2016.
The tax character of dividends and distributions paid during the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 was as follows:
| 2008 | 2007 |
Distributions paid from: | | |
Ordinary income | $71,208 | $ -- |
Total | $71,208 | $ -- |
As of December 31, 2008 the components of distributable earnings/(accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
Undistributed ordinary income | $926 |
Capital loss carryforward | (56,711) |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (183,456) |
Total | ($239,241) |
The differences between components of distributable earnings on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities are primarily due to temporary book-tax differences that will reverse in a subsequent period. These differences are due to wash sales.
Reclassifications, as shown in the table below, have been made to the Portfolio's components of net assets to reflect income and gains available for distribution (or available capital loss carryovers, as applicable) under income tax law and regulations. These reclassifications are due to permanent book-tax differences and have no impact on net assets. The primary permanent differences causing such reclassifications for the Portfolio are due to prior year return of capital dividends.
Undistributed net investment income | ($29) |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) | 29 |
NOTE D -- Other (Unaudited)
Change in Independent Accountant
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. ("Fund"). KPMG LLP was selected as the Fund's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the Fund's financial statements. The Fund's selection of KPMG as its independent accountant was recommended by the Fund's Audit Committee and was approved by the Fund's Board of Directors.
The reports on the financial statements audited by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2007 and prior for the Funds did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There were no disagreements between the Funds and Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused Deloitte to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements of such years. There were no reportable events as described in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of Item 304(a) of SEC Regulation S-K.
Financial Highlights
| | | Periods Ended | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | December 31, |
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio | | 2008 | 2007 (z) | 2006^ |
Net asset value, beginning | | $52.86 | $49.89 | $50.00 |
Income from investment operations | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 1.09 | 1.80 | -- |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (7.85) | 1.17 | (.11) |
Total from investment operations | | (6.76) | 2.97 | (.11) |
Distributions from | | | | |
Net investment income | | (2.45) | -- | -- |
Net realized gain | | (.05) | -- | -- |
Total distributions | | (2.50) | -- | -- |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (9.26) | 2.97 | (.11) |
Net asset value, ending | | $43.60 | $52.86 | $49.89 |
| | | | |
Total return* | | (13.12%) | 5.95% | (.22%) |
Ratios to average net assets: A,B | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 3.50% | 3.47% | (.52%) (a) |
Total expenses | | 4.48% | 7.28% | 220.34% (a) |
Expenses before offsets | | .75% | .75% | .75% (a) |
Net expenses | | .75% | .75% | .75% (a) |
Portfolio turnover | | 66% | 15% | 0% |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $2,195 | $911 | $150 |
A Total expenses do not reflect amounts reimbursed and/or waived by the Advisor or reductions from expense offset arrangements. Expenses before offsets reflect expenses after reimbursement and/or waiver by the Advisor but prior to reductions from expense offset arrangements. Net expenses are net of all reductions and represent the net expenses paid by the portfolio.
B Amounts do not include the activity of the underlying funds.
(a) Annualized.
(z) Per share figures calculated using the average shares method.
* Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year.
^ From December 28, 2006 inception.
See notes to financial statements.
Explanation of Financial Tables
Schedule of Investments
The Schedule of Investments is a snapshot of all securities held in the fund at their market value, on the last day of the reporting period. Securities are listed by asset type (e.g., common stock, corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations) and may be further broken down into sub-groups and by industry classification.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities is often referred to as the fund's balance sheet. It lists the value of what the fund owns, is due and owes on the last day of the reporting period. The fund's assets include the market value of securities owned, cash, receivables for securities sold and shareholder subscriptions, and receivables for dividends and interest payments that have been earned, but not yet received. The fund's liabilities typically include payables for securities purchased and shareholder redemptions, and expenses owed but not yet paid. The statement also reports the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share on the last day of the reporting period. The NAV is calculated by dividing the fund's net assets (assets minus liabilities) by the number of shares outstanding. This statement is accompanied by a Schedule of Investments. Alternatively, if certain conditions are met, a Statement of Net Assets may be presented in lieu of this statement and the Schedule of Investments.
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets provides a detailed list of the fund's holdings, including each security's market value on the last day of the reporting period. The Statement of Net Assets includes a Schedule of Investments. Other assets are added and other liabilities subtracted from the investments total to calculate the fund's net assets. Finally, net assets are divided by the outstanding shares of the fund to arrive at its share price, or Net Asset Value (NAV) per share.
At the end of the Statement of Net Assets is a table displaying the composition of the fund's net assets. Paid in Capital is the money invested by shareholders and represents the bulk of net assets. Undistributed Net Investment Income and Accumulated Net Realized Gains usually approximate the amounts the fund had available to distribute to shareholders as of the statement date. Accumulated Realized Losses will appear as negative balances. Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) is the difference between the market value of the fund's investments and their cost, and reflects the gains (losses) that would be realized if the fund were to sell all of its investments at their statement-date values.
Statement of Operations
The Statement of Operations summarizes the fund's investment income earned and expenses incurred in operating the fund. Investment income includes dividends earned from stocks and interest earned from interest-bearing securities in the fund. Expenses incurred in operating the fund include the advisory fee paid to the investment advisor, administrative services fees, distribution plan expenses (if applicable), transfer agent fees, shareholder servicing expenses, custodial, legal, and audit fees, and the printing and postage expenses related to shareholder reports. Expense offsets (fees paid indirectly) are also shown. Credits earned from offset arrangements are used to reduce the fund's expenses. This statement also shows net gains (losses) realized on the sale of investments and the increase or decrease in the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments held during the period.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
The Statement of Changes in Net Assets shows how the fund's total net assets changed during the two most recent reporting periods. Changes in the fund's net assets are attributable to investment operations, distributions and capital share transactions.
The Operations section of the report summarizes information detailed in the Statement of Operations. The Distribution section shows the dividend and capital gain distributions made to shareholders. The amounts shown as distributions in this section may not match the net investment income and realized gains amounts shown in the Operations section because distributions are determined on a tax basis and certain investments or transactions may be treated differently for financial statement and tax purposes. The Capital Share Transactions section shows the amount shareholders invested in the fund, either by purchasing shares or by reinvesting distributions, and the amounts redeemed. The corresponding numbers of shares issued, reinvested and redeemed are shown at the end of the report.
Financial Highlights
The Financial Highlights table provides a per-share breakdown by class of the components that affect the fund's net asset value for current and past reporting periods. The table provides total return, total distributions, expense ratios, portfolio turnover and net assets for the applicable period. Total return is a measure of a fund's performance that encompasses all elements of return: dividends, capital gain distributions and changes in net asset value. Total return is the change in value of an investment over a given period, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and capital gain distributions, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment. Total distributions include distributions from net investment income and net realized gains. Long-term gains are earned on securities held in the fund more than one year. Short-term gains, on the sale of securities held less than one year, are treated as ordinary dividend income for tax purposes. The expense ratio is a fund's cost of doing business, expres sed as a percentage of net assets. These expenses directly reduce returns to shareholders. Portfolio turnover measures the trading activity in a fund's investment portfolio -- how often securities are bought and sold by a fund. Portfolio turnover is affected by market conditions, changes in the size of the fund, the nature of the fund's investments and the investment style of the portfolio manager.
Proxy Voting
The Proxy Voting Guidelines that the Portfolio uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities are provided as an Appendix to the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. The Statement of Additional Information can be obtained free of charge by calling the Fund at 1-800-368-2745 or by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available by calling the Fund or visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Form N-Q is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's Form N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC; information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
This report is intended to provide fund information to shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.
Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract
At a meeting held on December 4, 2008, the Board of Directors, and by a separate vote, the disinterested Directors, initially approved the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Portfolio and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Advisor and Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit" or the "Subadvisor") with respect to the Portfolio.
At the December 4, 2008 meeting, and in connection with the Advisor's impending purchase of the mutual fund business of Summit, the Board, effective as of December 12, 2008, terminated the Portfolio's current investment advisory agreement with Summit and approved the selection of the Advisor and Summit as investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively, to the Portfolio. In evaluating the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered a variety of information relating to the Portfolio and the Advisor. The disinterested Directors reviewed a report prepared by the Advisor regarding various services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and its affiliates.
The disinterested Directors were separately represented by independent legal counsel with respect to their consideration of the approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. Prior to voting, the disinterested Directors reviewed the proposed approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and Investment Subadvisory Agreement with management and also met in private sessions with their counsel at which no representatives of management were present.
In the course of its deliberations regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered the following factors, among others: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor, including the personnel who would be providing such services; the Advisor's financial condition; the level and method of computing the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee; performance, fee and expense information for the Portfolio; the profitability of the Calvert Group of Funds to the Advisor; the Advisor's process for monitoring "best execution"; the direct and indirect benefits, if any, to be derived by the Advisor from its relationship with the Portfolio; the effect of the Portfolio's growth and size on the Portfolio's performance and expenses; the Advisor's compliance programs and policies; the Advisor's performance of substantially similar duties for other funds; and any possible conflicts of interest.
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board reviewed information provided by the Advisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Advisor's operations and personnel, including, among other information, biographical information on the Advisor's supervisory and professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. The Board also took into account similar information provided periodically throughout the previous year by the Advisor as well as the Board's familiarity with the Advisor's management through Board of Directors' meetings, discussions and other reports. The Board considered the Advisor's current level of staffing and overall resources. The Advisor's administrative capabilities, including its ability to supervise the other service providers for the Portfolio, were also considered. The Board discussed the Advisor 's effectiveness in monitoring the performance of other funds' subadvisors and the Advisor's timeliness in responding to performance issues with respect to those funds. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement.
In considering the Portfolio's performance, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board noted that year to date through December 2, 2008, the Portfolio had outperformed the S&P 500 Index and had underperformed its blended benchmark. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Subadvisor became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Portfolio's performance was satisfactory.
In considering the Portfolio's fees and expenses, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's fees and expenses. The Board noted that the Portfolio would pay the same advisory fee to the Advisor as it currently paid to Summit. The Board took into account that the Advisor had agreed to limit the Portfolio's net annual operating expenses through December 12, 2010 to the level in effect for the Portfolio on November 30, 2008. The Board also considered the impact of the size of the Portfolio on its expenses. The Board noted that the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee with respect to the Portfolio. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed advisory fee was reasonable in view of the quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and the other factors considered.
The Board reviewed the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio. In reviewing the anticipated profitability of the advisory fee to the Advisor, the Board also considered the fact that affiliates would provide shareholder servicing and administrative services to the Portfolio for which they would receive compensation. The Board also considered whether the Advisor had the financial wherewithal to provide a high level of services to the Portfolio. The Board also considered that the Advisor would likely derive benefits to its reputation and other indirect benefits from its relationship with the Portfolio. The Board noted that the Advisor had agreed to reimburse expenses of the Portfolio above a certain level and also would pay the subadvisory fee to the Subadvisor. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was reasonable.
The Board considered the effect of the Portfolio's current size and potential growth on its performance and expenses. The Board noted that if the Portfolio's assets increased over time, the Portfolio might realize other economies of scale if assets increased proportionately more than certain other expenses. The Board took into account that the Portfolio might achieve operational efficiencies by joining the Calvert Group of Funds. The Board concluded that adding breakpoints to the advisory fee at specified asset levels was not appropriate given the Portfolio's current size.
In approving the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
In evaluating the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the disinterested Directors considered information provided by the Subadvisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Subadvisor's operations, personnel, investment philosophy, strategies and techniques. Among other information, the Subadvisor provided biographical information on portfolio management and other professional staff, performance information for itself, and descriptions of its investment philosophies, strategies and techniques, organizational and management structures and brokerage policies and practices.
The Board approved the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Subadvisor and the Advisor based on a number of factors relating to the Subadvisor's ability to perform under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. In the course of its deliberations, the Board evaluated, among other factors: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Subadvisor; the Subadvisor's management style and long-term performance record; the Portfolio's performance record and the Subadvisor's performance in employing its investment strategies; the Subadvisor's current level of staffing and its overall resources; the qualifications and experience of the Subadvisor's personnel; the Subadvisor's financial condition with respect to its ability to perform the services required under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement; the Subadvisor's compliance systems, including those related to personal investing; and any disciplinary history. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that it was satisfied with the natu re, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Subadvisor under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement.
As noted above, the Board considered the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team that was currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Summit became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. The Board also took into account the expertise and resources the Advisor would devote to monitoring the performance, investment style and risk adjusted performance of the Subadvisor.
In considering the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor of its relationship with the Portfolio, the Board noted that the Advisor and Subadvisor were affiliated and the proposed subadvisory fee under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be paid by the Advisor out of the advisory fee that the Advisor would receive under the Investment Advisory Agreement. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed subadvisory fee was reasonable. Because the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee, the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor from its relationship with the Portfolio were not material factors in the Board's deliberations. For similar reasons, the Board did not consider the potential economies of scale in the Subadvisor's management of the Portfolio to be a material factor in its consideration.
In approving the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
Conclusions
The Board reached the following conclusions regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, among others: (a) the Advisor has demonstrated that it possesses the capability and resources to perform the duties required of it under the Investment Advisory Agreement; (b) the Subadvisor is qualified to manage the Portfolio's assets in accordance with the Portfolio's investment objective and policies; (c) the Advisor and Subadvisor maintain appropriate compliance programs; (d) the Subadvisor is likely to execute its investment strategies consistently over time; (e) performance of the Portfolio is satisfactory in relation to relevant indices; and (f) the Portfolio's proposed advisory and subadvisory fees are reasonable in relation to the services to be provided by the Advisor and the Subadvisor. Based on its conclusions, the Board determined that approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be in the interests of the Portfo lio and its shareholders and that the Subadvisor's service as subadvisor to the Portfolio did not involve a conflict of interest from which the Advisor or Subadvisor would derive an inappropriate advantage.
Director and Officer Information Table
Name & Age | Position with Fund
| Position Start Date
| Principal Occupation During Last 5 Years | (Not Applicable to Officers) |
# of Calvert Portfolios Overseen | Other Directorships |
Independent Directors |
FRANK H. BLATZ, JR., Esq. AGE: 73 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Of counsel to firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. Mr. Blatz was an attorney in private practice in Fanwood, NJ from 1999 to 2004. | 27 | |
ALICE GRESHAM AGE: 58 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean and Professor at Howard University School of Law. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. | 28 | - Council on Legal Education Opportunity
- North Country School
|
M. CHARITO KRUVANT AGE: 63 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | President and CEO of Creative Associates International, Inc., a firm that specializes in human resources development, information management, public affairs and private enterprise development. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Foundation
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
|
CYNTHIA MILLIGAN AGE: 62 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Formerly, she was the President and Chief Executive Officer for CMA, a consulting firm for financial institutions. | 28 | - Wells Fargo Company- NYSE
- Gallup, Inc.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Raven Industries - NASDAQ
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Non-Profit)
- Prison Fellowship Ministries (Non-Profit)
|
ARTHUR J. PUGH AGE: 71 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Retired executive. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
|
Interested Directors |
BARBARA J. KRUMSIEK AGE: 56 | Director & Chair-person | 1997 CVS 2008 Summit | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Calvert Group, Ltd. | 58 | - Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Acacia Life Insurance Company (Chair)
- UNIFI Mutual Holding Company
- Ameritas Holding Company
|
WILLIAM LESTER AGE: 51 | Director & President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | President, CEO and Treasurer of Summit Investment Advisors, Inc. | 27 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Investment Advisors, Inc.
- Ameritas Investment Corp.
|
Officers |
KAREN BECKER AGE: 56 | Chief Compliance Officer | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Chief Compliance Officer for the Calvert Funds. Prior to 2005, Ms. Becker was Senior Vice President of Calvert Group, Ltd. and Head of Calvert Client Services. |
SUSAN WALKER BENDER, Esq. AGE: 50 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1988 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
THOMAS DAILEY AGE: 44 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
IVY WAFFORD DUKE, Esq. AGE: 40 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd., and since 2004, Chief Compliance Officer for Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
TRACI L. GOLDT AGE: 35 | Assistant Secretary | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Executive Assistant to General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
GREGORY B. HABEEB AGE: 59 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
DANIEL K. HAYES AGE: 58 | Vice President | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
HUI PING HO, CPA Age: 44 | Assistant Treasurer | 2000 CVS 2008 Summit | Tax Compliance Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
LANCELOT A. KING, Esq. AGE: 38 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2002 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
EDITH LILLIE AGE: 52 | Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Secretary and Regulatory Matters Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
AUGUSTO DIVO MACEDO, Esq. AGE: 46 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, and Associate Counsel Compliance Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Mr. Macedo served as 2nd Vice President at Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Advisors Group, Acacia's broker-dealer and federally registered investment adviser. |
JANE B. MAXWELL Esq. AGE: 56 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Maxwell was an associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP. |
ANDREW K. NIEBLER, Esq. AGE: 41 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2006 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Niebler was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. |
CATHERINE P. ROY AGE: 53 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Roy was Senior Vice President of US Fixed Income for Baring Asset Management, and SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager of Scudder Insurance Asset Management. |
WILLIAM M. TARTIKOFF, Esq. AGE: 61 | Vice President & Secretary | 1990 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
NATALIE TRUNOW AGE: 41 | Vice President | 2008 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc., Head of Equities. Prior to joining Calvert in August 2008, Ms. Trunow was the Section Head (2005-2008) and Portfolio Manager (2001-2008) for the Global Public Markets Group of General Motors Asset Management. |
RONALD M. WOLFSHEIMER, CPA AGE: 56 | Treasurer | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
MICHAEL V. YUHAS JR., CPA AGE: 47 | Fund Controller | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Fund Administration of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
The address of Directors and Officers is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 1000N, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Ms. Krumsiek is an interested person of the Fund since she is an officer and director of the Fund's Advisor and its affiliates. Mr. Lester is an interested person of the Fund since he is an officer and director of the parent company of the Fund's Advisor.
Additional information about the Fund's Directors can be found in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). You can get a free copy of the SAI by contacting your broker, or the Fund at 1-800-368-2745.
Shareholder Meeting Results
A special shareholder meeting was held on December 5, 2008, by the Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Conservative Portfolio of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. for the purpose of considering and voting on the issues below. The voting results were as follows:
- To approve an Investment Advisory Agreement with Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
26,072.403 | 963.928 | 11,365.475 |
- To approve an Investment Subadvisory Agreement with Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
26,072.403 | 963.928 | 11,365.475 |
- To elect the Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Name of Director | For | Withhold |
Frank H. Blatz, Jr. | 37,437.878 | 963.928 |
Alice Gresham | 37,437.878 | 963.928 |
Barbara J. Krumsiek | 37,437.878 | 963.928 |
M. Charito Kruvant | 37,437.878 | 963.928 |
William Lester | 37,437.878 | 963.928 |
Cynthia Milligan | 37,437.878 | 963.928 |
Arthur J. Pugh | 37,437.878 | 963.928 |
- To ratify the selection of auditors, KPMG, LLP for the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
26,278.994 | 963.928 | 11,158.884 |
5. To authorize the Board of Directors of the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. to enter into and materially amend agreements with investment subadvisors on behalf of the Funds without obtaining shareholder approval.
For | Against | Abstain |
26,278.994 | 963.928 | 11,158.884 |
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Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio
Annual Report
December 31, 2008
Summit Mutual Funds
Calvert
Investments That Make A Difference
A UNIFI Company
Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio
Annual Report, December 31, 2008
Table Of Contents
3 | Portfolio Manager Remarks |
5 | Shareholder Expense Example |
6 | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
7 | Schedule of Investments |
8 | Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
9 | Statement of Operations |
10 | Statements of Changes in Net Assets |
11 | Notes to Financial Statements |
15 | Financial Highlights |
16 | Explanation of Financial Tables |
17 | Proxy Voting and Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings |
18 | Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract |
21 | Director and Officer Information Table |
Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio
Managed by Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
Performance
For the year ended December 31, 2008, the Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio returned -27.72% compared to its benchmark composite which returned -28.55%. The benchmark is comprised of 80% Standard & Poor's 500 Index and 20% Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index. For context, the S&P 500 Index returned -37.00% and Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index returned 5.24%. The Lifestyle Portfolio outperformed the benchmark primarily because its percentage of equity holdings was below that of the benchmark for most of the year.
Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio*
Comparison of change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment.
Average Annual Total Return
(period ended 12.31.08)
One year | (27.72%) |
Since inception (12.28.06) | (12.99%) |
*Performance information is for the Portfolio only and does not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
** 80% S&P 500 and 20% Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index.
Past performance does not indicate future results.
Investment Climate
It's now official: the U.S. is in a recession and has been since December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the standard arbiter of the U.S. business cycle. The U.S. economy is embroiled in a severe downturn, made much worse by the credit crunch and dramatic decline in economic activity that has spread around the globe. The financial markets had a tough year, with the overall benchmark for U.S. stocks, the S&P 500 Index, down 37.60%, its worst year since 1931. It did rally 20% after reaching its low for the reporting period on November 20, but the financial markets continued to be rocked by company and industry declines and financial scandals. Small-cap stocks fared best in this abysmally negative environment (at -33.79%), with large-cap stocks trailing (at -37.60%) and mid-caps doing the worst (at -41.46%).1
For the fixed-income markets, last year was one of the most memorable and difficult in the history of the U.S. credit market. Turmoil that began with subprime mortgages spread to the top of the credit-quality ladder. Major losses by financial institutions froze the markets for municipal bonds, commercial paper, corporate debt, and government agency securities and even crippled bond insurers. Former financial behemoths were either sold, rescued by the federal government, converted into bank holding companies, or failed.
Throughout the year, the Federal Reserve (Fed) intervened to thaw frozen money markets and combat the liquidity crunch--growing its assets by $1.3 trillion and pushing the target federal funds rate down to near zero percent. The U.S. Treasury introduced money market fund insurance and issued special Treasury bills to increase the Fed's assets. The positive news was that inflation began to fall, largely due to the sharp decline in commodity prices. Oil, which hit $146 per barrel over the summer, ended the year at $43. But despite all efforts, the economy sank into a recession and policymakers remain concerned about risk of prolonged recession and deflation in 2009.
Portfolio Strategy
In terms of the mix of equities, the large-cap growth and small-cap ETFs (exchange-traded funds) added to the relative performance of the equities in the portfolio, while international ETFs detracted from the relative performance. The fixed-income ETFs in the portfolio provided mixed returns. The ETF that tracks the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index provided returns in line with the fixed-income portion of the benchmark. However, the high-yield ETF and the Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPs) ETF lagged the fixed-income benchmark, on a relative basis. Fortunately, the high-yield and TIPs ETFs were only a small part of the portfolio throughout the year.
The worst performer in the portfolio was the emerging-market ETF, which declined 52% as emerging-market economies have been particularly hard hit in the current worldwide recession. The EAFE International ETF also performed poorly in the Portfolio in 2008, providing a return to the portfolio of -41%. The Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index ETF provided the best return to the portfolio, up just under 8%.
Because there were 10 ETFs representing different asset classes in the Portfolio, there were multiple re-allocations throughout the year. As equities underperformed during the fourth quarter of 2008, the equity exposure was slightly increased in the portfolio to rebalance toward the Portfolio's target mix.
Asset Allocation | % of Total Investments |
Domestic Equity Exchange Traded Funds | 63% |
International and Global Equity Exchange Traded Funds | 11% |
Fixed Income Exchange Traded Funds | 26% |
| |
Total | 100% |
Outlook
At the end of December, markets had a "relief" rally despite the bad economic news, with higher-beta (riskier) markets and sectors rebounding the most. This positive trend may emerge when markets shrug off negative news and trend higher. December certainly qualifies since markets closed higher on the month, despite negative job, earnings, and housing reports. If the trend continues, we may see more of a relief rally in the short-term. However, judging by Wall Street analyst consensus earnings forecasts for 2009, earnings expectations are still too positive and too optimistic for the year and in disconnect with a decelerating real economy.
We believe earnings expectations will have to come down further, especially since firms' capital expenditures on equipment and property (i.e., Capex) continued to decelerate and manufacturing activity contracted at a faster pace at year-end--all of which are likely to negatively impact business investment in 2009. This means that, if the market pays attention to earnings in 2009, we may see additional volatility in the equity markets.
Looking ahead, we are in uncharted territory when we consider incoming economic data, fiscal and monetary government stimulus, and the response of global financial markets. While the near-term outlook for the markets and economy is likely to remain volatile and unpredictable as the housing and credit crisis further unwinds, there are longer-term measures in place that may help move eventual recovery forward. For example, the U.S. stimulus package already in place, combined with the Obama administration's economic recovery program, may set the stage for an eventual recovery in the U.S. economy. In addition, along with the U.S., governments in Europe and Asia are taking concerted action to bolster their economies. Patience will be required, however, as this recession seems destined to be deep and long.
January 2009
1. Performance is represented by the Russell Midcap Index for mid-cap stocks, Russell 1000 Index for large-cap stocks, and Russell 2000 Index for small-cap stocks.
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008).
Note: Expenses do not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare the 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Beginning Account Value 7/1/08 | Ending Account Value 12/31/08 | Expenses Paid During Period* 7/1/08 - 12/31/08 |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $788.10 | $3.37 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,021.37 | $3.81 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio of 0.75%, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/366. The fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds in which the Portfolio invests are not included in the annualized expense ratios.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Shareholders of Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio:
We have audited the accompanying Statement of Assets and Liabilities of the Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio (the Portfolio), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., including the Schedule of Investments, as of December 31, 2008, and the related statement of operations, statement of changes in net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audit. The accompanying financial statements and financial highlights of the Portfolio for the periods presented through December 31, 2007 were audited by other auditors whose report thereon dated February 22, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2008, by correspondence with custodians and brokers. As to securities purchased or sold but not yet received or delivered, we performed other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio as of December 31, 2008, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
KPMG LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2009
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio
Schedule of Investments
December 31, 2008
Exchange Traded Funds - 100.2% | | Shares | Value |
iShares Barclays Aggregate Bond Fund | | 2,682 | $278,606 |
iShares Barclays U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Fund | | 88 | 8,733 |
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund | | 385 | 29,291 |
iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund | | 2,741 | 122,989 |
iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund | | 843 | 41,535 |
iShares S&P 500 Growth Index Fund | | 6,987 | 313,926 |
iShares S&P 500 Value Index Fund | | 7,692 | 347,524 |
Midcap SPDR Trust Series 1 | | 426 | 41,390 |
Vanguard Emerging Markets | | 590 | 13,983 |
Vanguard REIT | | 437 | 15,929 |
| | | |
| | | |
Total Exchange Traded Funds (Cost $1,485,116) | | | 1,213,906 |
| | | |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS (Cost $1,485,116) - 100.2% | | | 1,213,906 |
Other assets and liabilities, net - (0.2%) | | | (2,347) |
Net Assets - 100% | | | $1,211,559 |
See notes to financial statements.
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
December 31, 2008
Assets | | |
Investments in securities, at value (Cost $1,485,116) - see accompanying schedule | | $1,213,906 |
Cash | | 23,418 |
Receivable for securities sold | | 45,507 |
Receivable for shares sold | | 540 |
Receivable from Summit Investment Partners, Inc. | | 6,986 |
Receivable from Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. | | 2,050 |
Interest and dividends receivable | | 1,485 |
Total assets | | 1,293,892 |
| | |
Liabilities | | |
Payable for securities purchased | | 57,145 |
Payable for shares redeemed | | 106 |
Payable to Calvert Administrative Services Company, Inc. | | 55 |
Payable to Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. | | 5 |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities | | 25,022 |
Total liabilities | | 82,333 |
Net Assets | | $1,211,559 |
| | |
Net Assets Consist of: | | |
Paid-in capital applicable to 33,346 shares of common stock outstanding; $0.10 par value, 20,000,000 shares authorized | | $1,589,573 |
Undistributed net investment income | | 531 |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | | (107,335) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | (271,210) |
| | |
Net Assets | | $1,211,559 |
| | |
Net Asset Value per Share | | $36.33 |
See notes to financial statements.
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2008
Net Investment Income | |
Investment Income: | |
Dividend income | $33,466 |
Interest income | 797 |
Total investment income | 34,263 |
| |
Expenses: | |
Investment advisory fee | 5,800 |
Transfer agency fees and expenses | 15,794 |
Accounting fees | 14,229 |
Directors' fees and expenses | 201 |
Administrative fees | 1,054 |
Custodian fees | 361 |
Reports to shareholders | 224 |
Professional fees | 18,424 |
Miscellaneous | 2,441 |
Total expenses | 58,528 |
Reimbursement from Advisor | (50,619) |
Net expenses | 7,909 |
| |
Net Investment Income | 26,354 |
| |
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | |
Net realized gain (loss) | (107,257) |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (264,832) |
| |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain | |
(Loss) on Investments | (372,089) |
| |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | |
Resulting From Operations | ($345,735) |
See notes to financial statements.
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Year Ended | Year Ended | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2008 | 2007 | |
Operations: | | | | |
Net investment income | | $26,354 | $16,425 | |
Net realized gain (loss) | | (107,257) | 34 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) | | (264,832) | (5,759) | |
| | | | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Resulting From Operations | | (345,735) | 10,700 | |
| | | | |
Distributions to shareholders from: | | | | |
Net investment income | | (42,235) | -- | |
Net realized gain | | (125) | -- | |
Total distributions | | (42,360) | -- | |
| | | | |
Capital share transactions: | | | | |
Shares sold | | 640,683 | 2,332,014 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 42,360 | -- | |
Shares redeemed | | (61,545) | (1,513,931) | |
Total capital share transactions | | 621,498 | 818,083 | |
| | | | |
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 233,403 | 828,783 | |
| | | | |
Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of year | | 978,156 | 149,373 | |
End of year (including undistributed net investment income of $531 and $16,422, respectively) | | $1,211,559 | $978,156 | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
Capital Share Activity | | | | |
Shares sold | | 14,956 | 44,010 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 1,201 | -- | |
Shares redeemed | | (1,520) | (28, 301) | |
Total capital share activity | | 14,637 | 15,709 | |
See notes to financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements
NOTE A --- SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
General: The Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. (the "Fund") is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company. The Fund is comprised of thirteen separate portfolios. The operations of each series of the Fund are accounted for separately. The shares of the Portfolio are sold to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for allocation to certain of their variable separate accounts. The Portfolio invests primarily in various exchange traded funds (the "Underlying Funds"), representing different market exposure.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), an affiliated entity, whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business and became investment advisor for the portfolios of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Security Valuation: Net asset value per share is determined every business day as of the close of the regular session of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Portfolio uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Directors to value its investments wherever possible. Securities for which market quotations are available are valued at last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange in which they trade. Investments for which market quotations are not available or deemed not reliable are fair valued in good faith under the direction of the Board of Directors.
In determining fair value, the Board considers all relevant qualitative and quantitative information available. These factors are subject to change over time and are reviewed periodically. The values assigned to fair value investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized. Further, because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, those estimated values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed, and the differences could be material. At December 31, 2008, no securities were fair valued under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Effective January 1, 2008, the Portfolio adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Portfolio's investments and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 -- quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 -- other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 -- significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy during the period. For additional information on the Portfolio's policy regarding valuation of investments, please refer to the Portfolio's most recent prospectus.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Portfolio's net assets as of December 31, 2008:
Valuation Inputs | Investments in Securities |
Level 1 - Quoted Prices | $1,213,906 |
Level 2 - Other Significant Observable Inputs | -- |
Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs | -- |
Total | $1,213,906 |
Security Transactions and Investment Income: Security transactions, normally shares of the Underlying Funds, are accounted for on trade date. Realized gains and losses are recorded on an identified cost basis. Income and capital gain distributions from the Underlying Funds, if any, are recorded on ex-dividend date. Interest income, which includes amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities, is accrued as earned. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of the Portfolio and do not include any expenses associated with the Underlying Funds.
Distributions to Shareholders: Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Portfolio on ex-dividend date. Dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains, if any, are paid at least annually. Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles; accordingly, periodic reclassifications are made within the Portfolio's capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution under income tax regulations.
Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Expense Offset Arrangements: The Portfolio has an arrangement with its custodian bank whereby the custodian's fees may be paid indirectly by credits earned on the Portfolio's cash on deposit with the bank. These credits are used to reduce the Portfolio's expenses. Such a deposit arrangement may be an alternative to overnight investments.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision for federal income or excise tax is required since the Portfolio intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code and to distribute substantially all of its taxable earnings.
The Portfolio is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The implementation of FIN 48 did not result in any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements or in any of the open tax years; thus, no provision for income tax is required. Each of the Portfolio's federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 161, "Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." The new standard is intended to improve financial reporting about derivative instruments and hedging activities by requiring enhanced disclosures to enable investors to better understand the effect on the Fund's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS No. 161 will have on the Fund's financial statements and related disclosures.
NOTE B -- RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("the Advisor") is wholly-owned by Calvert Group, Ltd. ("Calvert"), which is indirectly wholly owned by UNIFI Holding Company. The Advisor provides investment advisory services and pays the salaries and fees of officers and Directors of the Fund who are employees of the Advisor or its affiliates. For its services, the Advisor receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.55% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit Investment Partners, Inc., ("Summit") served as the Advisor. Summit is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Central Life Insurance Company, an indirect subsidiary of UNIFI Holding Company. Summit received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.55% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets.
The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit net annual portfolio operating expenses through December 12, 2010. The contractual expense cap is 0.75%. For the purpose of this expense limit, operating expenses do not include interest expense, brokerage commissions, taxes, and extraordinary expenses. To the extent any expense credits are earned, the Advisor's obligation under the contractual limitation may be reduced and the Advisor may benefit from the expense offset arrangement.
Calvert Administrative Services Company ("CASC"), an affiliate of the Advisor, provides administrative services for the Portfolio. For its services, CASC receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit provided administrative services for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets.
Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. ("CSSI"), an affiliate of the Advisor, acts as shareholder servicing agent for the Portfolio. For its services, CSSI received a fee of $5 for the year ended December 31, 2008. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. is the transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Prior to December 12, 2008, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC served as the transfer and dividend disbursing agent.
Each Director of the Fund who is not an employee of the Advisor or its affiliates receives a fee of $1,500 for each Board and Committee meeting attended plus an annual fee of $20,000 for Directors not serving on other Calvert Fund Boards, $8,000 for those serving on other Calvert Fund Boards. Director's fees are allocated to each of the portfolios served. Prior to December 12, 2008, each Director of the Fund who was not an employee of Summit or its affiliates received a fee of $2,500 for each Board meeting attended ($600 for Committee meetings) plus an annual fee of $17,000. Committee chairs and the Lead Director received additional fees for their service.
NOTE C -- INVESTMENT ACTIVITY
During the year, the cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investments, other than short-term securities were $1,343,009 and $705,470, respectively.
The cost of investments owned at December 31, 2008 for federal income tax purposes was $1,543,824. Net unrealized depreciation aggregated $329,918, of which $9,108 related to appreciated securities and $339,026 related to depreciated securities.
Net realized capital loss carryforwards of $48,627 at December 31, 2008 may be utilized to offset future capital gains until expiration in December 2016.
The tax character of dividends and distributions paid during the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 was as follows:
| 2008 | 2007 |
Distributions paid from: | | |
Ordinary income | $42,360 | $ -- |
Total | $42,360 | $ -- |
As of December 31, 2008 the components of distributable earnings/(accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
Undistributed ordinary income | $531 |
Capital loss carryforward | (48,627) |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (329,918) |
Total | ($378,014) |
The differences between components of distributable earnings on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities are primarily due to temporary book-tax differences that will reverse in a subsequent period. These differences are due to wash sales.
Reclassifications, as shown in the table below, have been made to the Portfolio's components of net assets to reflect income and gains available for distribution (or available capital loss carryovers, as applicable) under income tax law and regulations. These reclassifications are due to permanent book-tax differences and have no impact on net assets. The primary permanent differences causing such reclassifications for the Portfolio are due to prior year return of capital distributions.
Undistributed net investment income | ($10) |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) | 10 |
NOTE D -- OTHER (Unaudited)
Change in Independent Accountant
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. ("Fund"). KPMG LLP was selected as the Fund's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the Fund's financial statements. The Fund's selection of KPMG as its independent accountant was recommended by the Fund's Audit Committee and was approved by the Fund's Board of Directors.
The reports on the financial statements audited by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2007 and prior for the Funds did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There were no disagreements between the Funds and Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused Deloitte to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements of such years. There were no reportable events as described in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of Item 304(a) of SEC Regulation S-K.
Financial Highlights
| | | Periods Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | December 31, | |
Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio | | 2008 | 2007 (z) | 2006^ | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $52.28 | $49.79 | $50.00 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .78 | 1.23 | -- | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (15.08) | 1.26 | (.21) | |
Total from investment operations | | (14.30) | 2.49 | (.21) | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (1.64) | -- | -- | |
Net realized gain | | (.01) | -- | -- | |
Total distributions | | (1.65) | -- | -- | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (15.95) | 2.49 | (.21) | |
Net asset value, ending | | $36.33 | $52.28 | $49.79 | |
| | | | | |
Total return* | | (27.72%) | 5.00% | (.42%) | |
Ratios to average net assets: A,B | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | 2.50% | 2.35% | (.72%) (a) | |
Total expenses | | 5.55% | 7.14% | 220.77% (a) | |
Expenses before offsets | | .75% | .75% | .75% (a) | |
Net expenses | | .75% | .75% | .75% (a) | |
Portfolio turnover | | 69% | 27% | 0% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $1,212 | $978 | $149 | |
A Total expenses do not reflect amounts reimbursed and/or waived by the Advisor or reductions from expense offset arrangements. Expenses before offsets reflect expenses after reimbursement and/or waiver by the Advisor but prior to reductions from expense offset arrangements. Net expenses are net of all reductions and represent the net expenses paid by the portfolio.
B Amounts do not include the activity of the underlying funds.
(a) Annualized.
(z) Per share figures calculated using the Average Shares Method.
* Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year.
^ From December 28, 2006, inception.
See notes to financial statements.
Explanation of Financial Tables
Schedule of Investments
The Schedule of Investments is a snapshot of all securities held in the fund at their market value, on the last day of the reporting period. Securities are listed by asset type (e.g., common stock, corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations) and may be further broken down into sub-groups and by industry classification.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities is often referred to as the fund's balance sheet. It lists the value of what the fund owns, is due and owes on the last day of the reporting period. The fund's assets include the market value of securities owned, cash, receivables for securities sold and shareholder subscriptions, and receivables for dividends and interest payments that have been earned, but not yet received. The fund's liabilities typically include payables for securities purchased and shareholder redemptions, and expenses owed but not yet paid. The statement also reports the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share on the last day of the reporting period. The NAV is calculated by dividing the fund's net assets (assets minus liabilities) by the number of shares outstanding. This statement is accompanied by a Schedule of Investments. Alternatively, if certain conditions are met, a Statement of Net Assets may be presented in lieu of this statement and the Schedule of Investments.
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets provides a detailed list of the fund's holdings, including each security's market value on the last day of the reporting period. The Statement of Net Assets includes a Schedule of Investments. Other assets are added and other liabilities subtracted from the investments total to calculate the fund's net assets. Finally, net assets are divided by the outstanding shares of the fund to arrive at its share price, or Net Asset Value (NAV) per share.
At the end of the Statement of Net Assets is a table displaying the composition of the fund's net assets. Paid in Capital is the money invested by shareholders and represents the bulk of net assets. Undistributed Net Investment Income and Accumulated Net Realized Gains usually approximate the amounts the fund had available to distribute to shareholders as of the statement date. Accumulated Realized Losses will appear as negative balances. Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) is the difference between the market value of the fund's investments and their cost, and reflects the gains (losses) that would be realized if the fund were to sell all of its investments at their statement-date values.
Statement of Operations
The Statement of Operations summarizes the fund's investment income earned and expenses incurred in operating the fund. Investment income includes dividends earned from stocks and interest earned from interest-bearing securities in the fund. Expenses incurred in operating the fund include the advisory fee paid to the investment advisor, administrative services fees, distribution plan expenses (if applicable), transfer agent fees, shareholder servicing expenses, custodial, legal, and audit fees, and the printing and postage expenses related to shareholder reports. Expense offsets (fees paid indirectly) are also shown. Credits earned from offset arrangements are used to reduce the fund's expenses. This statement also shows net gains (losses) realized on the sale of investments and the increase or decrease in the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments held during the period.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
The Statement of Changes in Net Assets shows how the fund's total net assets changed during the two most recent reporting periods. Changes in the fund's net assets are attributable to investment operations, distributions and capital share transactions.
The Operations section of the report summarizes information detailed in the Statement of Operations. The Distribution section shows the dividend and capital gain distributions made to shareholders. The amounts shown as distributions in this section may not match the net investment income and realized gains amounts shown in the Operations section because distributions are determined on a tax basis and certain investments or transactions may be treated differently for financial statement and tax purposes. The Capital Share Transactions section shows the amount shareholders invested in the fund, either by purchasing shares or by reinvesting distributions, and the amounts redeemed. The corresponding numbers of shares issued, reinvested and redeemed are shown at the end of the report.
Financial Highlights
The Financial Highlights table provides a per-share breakdown by class of the components that affect the fund's net asset value for current and past reporting periods. The table provides total return, total distributions, expense ratios, portfolio turnover and net assets for the applicable period. Total return is a measure of a fund's performance that encompasses all elements of return: dividends, capital gain distributions and changes in net asset value. Total return is the change in value of an investment over a given period, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and capital gain distributions, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment. Total distributions include distributions from net investment income and net realized gains. Long-term gains are earned on securities held in the fund more than one year. Short-term gains, on the sale of securities held less than one year, are treated as ordinary dividend income for tax purposes. The expense ratio is a fund's cost of doing business, expres sed as a percentage of net assets. These expenses directly reduce returns to shareholders. Portfolio turnover measures the trading activity in a fund's investment portfolio -- how often securities are bought and sold by a fund. Portfolio turnover is affected by market conditions, changes in the size of the fund, the nature of the fund's investments and the investment style of the portfolio manager.
Proxy Voting
The Proxy Voting Guidelines that the Portfolio uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities are provided as an Appendix to the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. The Statement of Additional Information can be obtained free of charge by calling the Fund at 1-800-368-2745 or by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available by calling the Fund or visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Form N-Q is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's Form N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC; information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
This report is intended to provide fund information to shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.
Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract
At a meeting held on December 4, 2008, the Board of Directors, and by a separate vote, the disinterested Directors, initially approved the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Portfolio and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Advisor and Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit" or the "Subadvisor") with respect to the Portfolio.
At the December 4, 2008 meeting, and in connection with the Advisor's impending purchase of the mutual fund business of Summit, the Board, effective as of December 12, 2008, terminated the Portfolio's current investment advisory agreement with Summit and approved the selection of the Advisor and Summit as investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively, to the Portfolio. In evaluating the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered a variety of information relating to the Portfolio and the Advisor. The disinterested Directors reviewed a report prepared by the Advisor regarding various services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and its affiliates.
The disinterested Directors were separately represented by independent legal counsel with respect to their consideration of the approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. Prior to voting, the disinterested Directors reviewed the proposed approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and Investment Subadvisory Agreement with management and also met in private sessions with their counsel at which no representatives of management were present.
In the course of its deliberations regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered the following factors, among others: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor, including the personnel who would be providing such services; the Advisor's financial condition; the level and method of computing the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee; performance, fee and expense information for the Portfolio; the profitability of the Calvert Group of Funds to the Advisor; the Advisor's process for monitoring "best execution"; the direct and indirect benefits, if any, to be derived by the Advisor from its relationship with the Portfolio; the effect of the Portfolio's growth and size on the Portfolio's performance and expenses; the Advisor's compliance programs and policies; the Advisor's performance of substantially similar duties for other funds; and any possible conflicts of interest.
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board reviewed information provided by the Advisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Advisor's operations and personnel, including, among other information, biographical information on the Advisor's supervisory and professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. The Board also took into account similar information provided periodically throughout the previous year by the Advisor as well as the Board's familiarity with the Advisor's management through Board of Directors' meetings, discussions and other reports. The Board considered the Advisor's current level of staffing and overall resources. The Advisor's administrative capabilities, including its ability to supervise the other service providers for the Portfolio, were also considered. The Board discussed the Advisor 's effectiveness in monitoring the performance of other funds' subadvisors and the Advisor's timeliness in responding to performance issues with respect to those funds. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement.
In considering the Portfolio's performance, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board noted that year to date through December 2, 2008, the Portfolio had outperformed the S&P 500 Index and its blended benchmark. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Subadvisor became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Portfolio's performance was satisfactory.
In considering the Portfolio's fees and expenses, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's fees and expenses. The Board noted that the Portfolio would pay the same advisory fee to the Advisor as it currently paid to Summit. The Board took into account that the Advisor had agreed to limit the Portfolio's net annual operating expenses through December 12, 2010 to the level in effect for the Portfolio on November 30, 2008. The Board also considered the impact of the size of the Portfolio on its expenses. The Board noted that the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee with respect to the Portfolio. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed advisory fee was reasonable in view of the quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and the other factors considered.
The Board reviewed the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio. In reviewing the anticipated profitability of the advisory fee to the Advisor, the Board also considered the fact that affiliates would provide shareholder servicing and administrative services to the Portfolio for which they would receive compensation. The Board also considered whether the Advisor had the financial wherewithal to provide a high level of services to the Portfolio. The Board also considered that the Advisor would likely derive benefits to its reputation and other indirect benefits from its relationship with the Portfolio. The Board noted that the Advisor had agreed to reimburse expenses of the Portfolio above a certain level and also would pay the subadvisory fee to the Subadvisor. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was reasonable.
The Board considered the effect of the Portfolio's current size and potential growth on its performance and expenses. The Board noted that if the Portfolio's assets increased over time, the Portfolio might realize other economies of scale if assets increased proportionately more than certain other expenses. The Board took into account that the Portfolio might achieve operational efficiencies by joining the Calvert Group of Funds. The Board concluded that adding breakpoints to the advisory fee at specified asset levels was not appropriate given the Portfolio's current size.
In approving the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
In evaluating the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the disinterested Directors considered information provided by the Subadvisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Subadvisor's operations, personnel, investment philosophy, strategies and techniques. Among other information, the Subadvisor provided biographical information on portfolio management and other professional staff, performance information for itself, and descriptions of its investment philosophies, strategies and techniques, organizational and management structures and brokerage policies and practices.
The Board approved the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Subadvisor and the Advisor based on a number of factors relating to the Subadvisor's ability to perform under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. In the course of its deliberations, the Board evaluated, among other factors: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Subadvisor; the Subadvisor's management style and long-term performance record; the Portfolio's performance record and the Subadvisor's performance in employing its investment strategies; the Subadvisor's current level of staffing and its overall resources; the qualifications and experience of the Subadvisor's personnel; the Subadvisor's financial condition with respect to its ability to perform the services required under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement; the Subadvisor's compliance systems, including those related to personal investing; and any disciplinary history. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that it was satisfied with the natu re, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Subadvisor under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement.
As noted above, the Board considered the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team that was currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Summit became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. The Board also took into account the expertise and resources the Advisor would devote to monitoring the performance, investment style and risk adjusted performance of the Subadvisor.
In considering the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor of its relationship with the Portfolio, the Board noted that the Advisor and Subadvisor were affiliated and the proposed subadvisory fee under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be paid by the Advisor out of the advisory fee that the Advisor would receive under the Investment Advisory Agreement. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed subadvisory fee was reasonable. Because the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee, the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor from its relationship with the Portfolio were not material factors in the Board's deliberations. For similar reasons, the Board did not consider the potential economies of scale in the Subadvisor's management of the Portfolio to be a material factor in its consideration.
In approving the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
Conclusions
The Board reached the following conclusions regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, among others: (a) the Advisor has demonstrated that it possesses the capability and resources to perform the duties required of it under the Investment Advisory Agreement; (b) the Subadvisor is qualified to manage the Portfolio's assets in accordance with the Portfolio's investment objective and policies; (c) the Advisor and Subadvisor maintain appropriate compliance programs; (d) the Subadvisor is likely to execute its investment strategies consistently over time; (e) performance of the Portfolio is satisfactory in relation to relevant indices; and (f) the Portfolio's proposed advisory and subadvisory fees are reasonable in relation to the services to be provided by the Advisor and the Subadvisor. Based on its conclusions, the Board determined that approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be in the interests of the Portfo lio and its shareholders and that the Subadvisor's service as subadvisor to the Portfolio did not involve a conflict of interest from which the Advisor or Subadvisor would derive an inappropriate advantage.
Director and Officer Information Table
Name & Age | Position with Fund
| Position Start Date
| Principal Occupation During Last 5 Years | (Not Applicable to Officers) |
# of Calvert Portfolios Overseen | Other Directorships |
Independent Directors |
FRANK H. BLATZ, JR., Esq. AGE: 73 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Of counsel to firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. Mr. Blatz was an attorney in private practice in Fanwood, NJ from 1999 to 2004. | 27 | |
ALICE GRESHAM AGE: 58 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean and Professor at Howard University School of Law. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. | 28 | - Council on Legal Education Opportunity
- North Country School
|
M. CHARITO KRUVANT AGE: 63 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | President and CEO of Creative Associates International, Inc., a firm that specializes in human resources development, information management, public affairs and private enterprise development. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Foundation
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
|
CYNTHIA MILLIGAN AGE: 62 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Formerly, she was the President and Chief Executive Officer for CMA, a consulting firm for financial institutions. | 28 | - Wells Fargo Company- NYSE
- Gallup, Inc.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Raven Industries - NASDAQ
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Non-Profit)
- Prison Fellowship Ministries (Non-Profit)
|
ARTHUR J. PUGH AGE: 71 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Retired executive. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
|
Interested Directors |
BARBARA J. KRUMSIEK AGE: 56 | Director & Chair-person | 1997 CVS 2008 Summit | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Calvert Group, Ltd. | 58 | - Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Acacia Life Insurance Company (Chair)
- UNIFI Mutual Holding Company
- Ameritas Holding Company
|
WILLIAM LESTER AGE: 51 | Director & President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | President, CEO and Treasurer of Summit Investment Advisors, Inc. | 27 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Investment Advisors, Inc.
- Ameritas Investment Corp.
|
Officers |
KAREN BECKER AGE: 56 | Chief Compliance Officer | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Chief Compliance Officer for the Calvert Funds. Prior to 2005, Ms. Becker was Senior Vice President of Calvert Group, Ltd. and Head of Calvert Client Services. |
SUSAN WALKER BENDER, Esq. AGE: 50 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1988 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
THOMAS DAILEY AGE: 44 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
IVY WAFFORD DUKE, Esq. AGE: 40 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd., and since 2004, Chief Compliance Officer for Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
TRACI L. GOLDT AGE: 35 | Assistant Secretary | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Executive Assistant to General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
GREGORY B. HABEEB AGE: 59 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
DANIEL K. HAYES AGE: 58 | Vice President | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
HUI PING HO, CPA Age: 44 | Assistant Treasurer | 2000 CVS 2008 Summit | Tax Compliance Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
LANCELOT A. KING, Esq. AGE: 38 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2002 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
EDITH LILLIE AGE: 52 | Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Secretary and Regulatory Matters Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
AUGUSTO DIVO MACEDO, Esq. AGE: 46 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, and Associate Counsel Compliance Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Mr. Macedo served as 2nd Vice President at Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Advisors Group, Acacia's broker-dealer and federally registered investment adviser. |
JANE B. MAXWELL Esq. AGE: 56 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Maxwell was an associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP. |
ANDREW K. NIEBLER, Esq. AGE: 41 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2006 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Niebler was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. |
CATHERINE P. ROY AGE: 53 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Roy was Senior Vice President of US Fixed Income for Baring Asset Management, and SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager of Scudder Insurance Asset Management. |
WILLIAM M. TARTIKOFF, Esq. AGE: 61 | Vice President & Secretary | 1990 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
NATALIE TRUNOW AGE: 41 | Vice President | 2008 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc., Head of Equities. Prior to joining Calvert in August 2008, Ms. Trunow was the Section Head (2005-2008) and Portfolio Manager (2001-2008) for the Global Public Markets Group of General Motors Asset Management. |
RONALD M. WOLFSHEIMER, CPA AGE: 56 | Treasurer | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
MICHAEL V. YUHAS JR., CPA AGE: 47 | Fund Controller | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Fund Administration of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
The address of Directors and Officers is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 1000N, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Ms. Krumsiek is an interested person of the Fund since she is an officer and director of the Fund's Advisor and its affiliates. Mr. Lester is an interested person of the Fund since he is an officer and director of the parent company of the Fund's Advisor.
Additional information about the Fund's Directors can be found in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). You can get a free copy of the SAI by contacting your broker, or the Fund at 1-800-368-2745.
Shareholder Meeting Results
A special shareholder meeting was held on December 5, 2008, by the Summit Lifestyle ETF Market Strategy Aggressive Portfolio of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. for the purpose of considering and voting on the issues below. The voting results were as follows:
- To approve an Investment Advisory Agreement with Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
27,477.336 | 1,613.134 | 0 |
- To approve an Investment Subadvisory Agreement with Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
27,477.336 | 1,613.134 | 0 |
- To elect the Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Name of Director | For | Withhold |
Frank H. Blatz, Jr. | 27,477.336 | 1,613.134 |
Alice Gresham | 27,477.336 | 1,613.134 |
Barbara J. Krumsiek | 27,477.336 | 1,613.134 |
M. Charito Kruvant | 27,477.336 | 1,613.134 |
William Lester | 27,477.336 | 1,613.134 |
Cynthia Milligan | 27,477.336 | 1,613.134 |
Arthur J. Pugh | 27,477.336 | 1,613.134 |
- To ratify the selection of auditors, KPMG, LLP for the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
27,477.336 | 1,613.134 | 0 |
5. To authorize the Board of Directors of the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. to enter into and materially amend agreements with investment subadvisors on behalf of the Funds without obtaining shareholder approval.
For | Against | Abstain |
27,477.336 | 1,613.134 | 0 |
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Summit Natural Resources Portfolio
Annual Report
December 31, 2008
Summit Mutual Funds
Calvert
Investments That Make A Difference
A UNIFI Company
Summit Natural Resources Portfolio
Annual Report, December 31, 2008
Table Of Contents
3 | Portfolio Manager Remarks |
5 | Shareholder Expense Example |
6 | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
7 | Schedule of Investments |
8 | Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
9 | Statement of Operations |
10 | Statements of Changes in Net Assets |
11 | Notes to Financial Statements |
15 | Financial Highlights |
16 | Explanation of Financial Tables |
17 | Proxy Voting and Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings |
18 | Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract |
21 | Director and Officer Information Table |
Summit Natural Resources Portfolio
Managed by Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
Performance
For the year ended December 31, 2008, the Summit Natural Resources Portfolio returned -40.03% compared to a return of -37.00% for the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 Index. The difference in return was primarily due to the Portfolio's concentration in the energy sector compared to the S&P 500 Index's more diversified allocation of holdings across sectors.
Summit Natural Resources Portfolio*
Comparison of change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment.

Average Annual Total Return
(period ended 12.31.08)
One year | (40.03%) |
Since inception (12.28.06) | (14.47%) |
*Performance information is for the Portfolio only and does not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Past performance does not indicate future results.
Investment Climate
Investor sentiment was positive toward both commodities and natural resources during the first half of 2008, as crude oil prices reached nearly $150 per barrel on strong global demand. However, as the year progressed it became evident that a worldwide recession was unfolding, and prices for most commodities and natural resources tumbled. The collapse in crude oil prices was most noticeable to the consumer, as the price of crude oil dropped to under $40 per barrel. Weakening global demand in virtually every market became the theme that drove most commodity and natural resource prices lower by the end of 2008. The Portfolio invests in a basket of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and notes (ETNs) that track various commodity, natural resources, raw materials, real estate, and utility indexes.
Portfolio Strategy
The Portfolio's positions in the iPath Dow Jones AIG Commodity Index Fund ETN and the Powershares DB Commodity Index Fund provided some of the best returns to the Portfolio during the year. In addition, exposure to the Powershares Water Resources ETF provided a positive relative return versus other ETFs in the Portfolio. Each of these ETFs provided a return in the -31% to -38% range. The most negative returns came from the Claymore Clear Global Timber ETF, the iShare S&P Materials ETF and the Vanguard Materials ETF. Each of these ETFs, provided a return in the -46% to -49% range.
The Portfolio reduced its exposure to U.S. and global utilities during the year and maintained a substantial weighting in commodity index ETFs and natural resource ETFs. The commodity and natural resource ETFs have a reasonable amount of energy-related exposure, which was more positive during the first half of 2008 than it was during the last half of 2008.
Sector Allocations | % of Total Investments |
Material Stocks | 26.0% |
Energy Stocks | 24.3% |
Water Stocks | 1.1% |
Forestry Stocks | 1.1% |
Energy Commodities | 18.0% |
Grain Commodities | 11.9% |
Industrial Metals Commodities | 5.9% |
Precious Metals Commodities | 6.6% |
Soft Commodities | 2.6% |
Livestock Commodities | 2.5% |
| |
Total | 100% |
Outlook
The worldwide recession depressed commodity and natural resource prices in 2008 and we expect that trend to continue during the first half of 2009. However, the massive amount of fiscal and monetary stimulus that is being injected into the system will impact the price of commodities and natural resources at some point in the future. When the world economies stabilize and begin to expand again, we believe prices will increase quickly.
January 2009
Shareholder Expense Example
As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period (July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008).
Note: Expenses do not reflect charges and expenses of the variable annuity or variable universal life contract.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The second line of the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund's actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund's actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare the 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| Beginning Account Value 7/1/08 | Ending Account Value 12/31/08 | Expenses Paid During Period* 7/1/08 - 12/31/08 |
Actual | $1,000.00 | $505.20 | $2.84 |
Hypothetical (5% return per year before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,021.37 | $3.81 |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund's annualized expense ratio of 0.75%, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/366. The fees and expenses of the Underlying Funds in which the Portfolio invests are not included in the annualized expense ratios.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Shareholders of Summit Natural Resources Portfolio:
We have audited the accompanying Statement of Assets and Liabilities of the Summit Natural Resources Portfolio (the Portfolio), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc., including the Schedule of Investments, as of December 31, 2008, and the related statement of operations, statement of changes in net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Portfolio's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audit. The accompanying financial statements and financial highlights of the Portfolio for the periods presented through December 31, 2007 were audited by other auditors whose report thereon dated February 22, 2008, expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2008, by correspondence with custodians and brokers. As to securities purchased or sold but not yet received or delivered, we performed other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Summit Natural Resources Portfolio as of December 31, 2008, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
KPMG LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 20, 2009
Natural Resources Portfolio
Schedule of Investments
December 31, 2008
Investment Companies - 96.6% | | Shares | Value |
Claymore/Clear Global Timber Index ETF | | 6,499 | $77,923 |
iPath Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index Total Return ETN* | | 49,425 | 1,742,726 |
iShares S&P Global Materials Index ETF | | 11,447 | 447,921 |
iShares S&P North American Natural Resources Sector Index ETF | | 71,039 | 1,798,707 |
PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund | | 83,164 | 1,762,245 |
PowerShares Water Resources Portfolio ETF | | 5,693 | 81,922 |
Vanguard Materials ETF | | 33,092 | 1,502,377 |
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Total Investment Companies (Cost $11,959,456) | | | 7,413,821 |
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TOTAL INVESTMENTS (Cost $11,959,456) - 96.6% | | | 7,413,821 |
Other assets and liabilities, net - 3.4% | | | 260,185 |
Net Assets - 100% | | | $7,674,006 |
Abbreviations:
ETF: Exchange-traded fund.
ETN: Exchange-traded note.
* Non-income producing security.
See notes to financial statements.
Natural Resources Portfolio
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
December 31, 2008
Assets | | |
Investments in securities, at value (Cost $11,959,456) - see accompanying schedule | | $7,413,821 |
Cash | | 391,302 |
Receivable for shares sold | | 133,680 |
Receivable from Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. | | 496 |
Receivable from Summit Investment Partners, Inc. | | 5,939 |
Interest and dividends receivable | | 20 |
Other assets | | 785 |
Total assets | | 7,946,043 |
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Liabilities | | |
Payable for securities purchased | | 240,077 |
Payable for shares redeemed | | 5,062 |
Payable to Calvert Administrative Services Company, Inc. | | 338 |
Payable to Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. | | 6 |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities | | 26,554 |
Total liabilities | | 272,037 |
Net Assets | | $7,674,006 |
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Net Assets Consist of: | | |
Paid-in capital applicable to 210,714 shares of common stock outstanding; $0.10 par value, 20,000,000 shares authorized | | $14,438,922 |
Undistributed net investment income | | 16,370 |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | | (2,235,651) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | (4,545,635) |
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Net Assets | | $7,674,006 |
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Net Asset Value per Share | | $36.42 |
See notes to financial statements.
Natural Resources Portfolio
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2008
Net Investment Income | |
Investment Income: | |
Dividend income | $88,209 |
Interest income | 5,338 |
Total investment income | 93,547 |
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Expenses: | |
Investment advisory fee | 44,574 |
Transfer agency fees and expenses | 16,545 |
Accounting fees | 15,482 |
Directors' fees and expenses | 1,583 |
Administrative fees | 8,104 |
Custodian fees | 2,330 |
Reports to shareholders | 1,618 |
Professional fees | 18,554 |
Miscellaneous | 2,708 |
Total expenses | 111,498 |
Reimbursement from Advisor | (50,715) |
Net expenses | 60,783 |
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Net Investment Income | 32,764 |
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Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments | |
Net realized gain (loss) | (2,232,758) |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (4,718,312) |
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Net Realized and Unrealized Gain | |
(Loss) on Investments | (6,951,070) |
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Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | |
Resulting From Operations | ($6,918,306) |
See notes to financial statements.
Natural Resources Portfolio
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Year Ended | Year Ended | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 2008 | 2007 | |
Operations: | | | | |
Net investment income | | $32,764 | $1,976 | |
Net realized gain (loss) | | (2,232,758) | (2,894) | |
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) | | (4,718,312) | 172,737 | |
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Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | | | |
Resulting From Operations | | (6,918,306) | 171,819 | |
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Distributions to shareholders from: | | | | |
Net investment income | | (18,369) | -- | |
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Capital share transactions: | | | | |
Shares sold | | 21,854,364 | 1,539,880 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 18,369 | -- | |
Shares redeemed | | (8,516,773) | (706,902) | |
Total capital share transactions | | 13,355,960 | 832,978 | |
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Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | | 6,419,285 | 1,004,797 | |
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Net Assets | | | | |
Beginning of year | | 1,254,721 | 249,924 | |
End of year (including undistributed net investment income of $16,370 and $1,976, respectively) | | $7,674,006 | $1,254,721 | |
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Capital Share Activity | | | | |
Shares sold | | 342,208 | 28,057 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 516 | -- | |
Shares redeemed | | (152,612) | (12,455) | |
Total capital share activity | | 190,112 | 15,602 | |
See notes to financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements
Note A -- Significant Accounting Policies
General: Summit Natural Resources Portfolio (the "Portfolio"), a series of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. (the "Fund"), is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end management investment company. The Fund is comprised of thirteen separate portfolios. The operations of each series of the Fund are accounted for separately. The shares of the Portfolio are sold to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies for allocation to certain of their variable separate accounts. The Portfolio invests primarily in exchange traded funds and exchange traded notes (the "Underlying Funds") representing different natural resources exposures.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit"), an affiliated entity, whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business and became investment advisor for the portfolios of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Security Valuation: Net asset value per share is determined every business day as of the close of the regular session of the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Portfolio uses independent pricing services approved by the Board of Directors to value its investments wherever possible. Securities for which market quotations are available are valued at last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange in which they trade. Investments for which market quotations are not available or deemed not reliable are fair valued in good faith under the direction of the Board of Directors.
In determining fair value, the Board considers all relevant qualitative and quantitative information available. These factors are subject to change over time and are reviewed periodically. The values assigned to fair value investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized. Further, because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, those estimated values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed, and the differences could be material. At December 31, 2008, no securities were fair valued under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Effective January 1, 2008, the Portfolio adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Portfolio's investments and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Portfolio's investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 -- quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
Level 2 -- other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
Level 3 -- significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio's own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an investment's assigned level within the hierarchy during the period. For additional information on the Portfolio's policy regarding valuation of investments, please refer to the Portfolio's most recent prospectus.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Portfolio's net assets as of December 31, 2008:
Valuation Inputs | Investments in Securities |
Level 1 - Quoted Prices | $7,413,821 |
Level 2 - Other Significant Observable Inputs | -- |
Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs | -- |
Total | $7,413,821 |
Security Transactions and Investment Income: Security transactions, normally shares of the Underlying Funds, are accounted for on trade date. Realized gains and losses are recorded on an identified cost basis. Income and capital gain distributions from the Underlying Funds, if any, are recorded on ex-dividend date. Interest income, which includes amortization of premium and accretion of discount on debt securities is accrued as earned. Expenses included in the accompanying financial statements reflect the expenses of the Portfolio and do not include any expenses associated with the Underlying Funds.
Distributions to Shareholders: Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Portfolio on ex-dividend date. Dividends from net investment income and distributions from net realized capital gains, if any, are paid at least annually. Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles; accordingly, periodic reclassifications are made within the Portfolio's capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution under income tax regulations.
Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Expense Offset Arrangements: The Portfolio has an arrangement with its custodian bank whereby the custodian's fees may be paid indirectly by credits earned on the Portfolio's cash on deposit with the bank. These credits are used to reduce the Portfolio's expenses. Such a deposit arrangement may be an alternative to overnight investments.
Federal Income Taxes: No provision for federal income or excise tax is required since the Portfolio intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code and to distribute substantially all of its taxable earnings.
The Portfolio is subject to the provisions of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainties in Income Taxes (FIN 48). FIN 48 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition, measurement and disclosure of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The implementation of FIN 48 did not result in any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements or in any of the open tax years; thus, no provision for income tax is required. Each of the Portfolio's federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 161, "Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities." The new standard is intended to improve financial reporting about derivative instruments and hedging activities by requiring enhanced disclosures to enable investors to better understand the effect on the Fund's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS No. 161 will have on the Fund's financial statements and related disclosures.
Note B -- Related Party Transactions
Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") is wholly-owned by Calvert Group, Ltd. ("Calvert"), which is indirectly wholly-owned by UNIFI Mutual Holding Company. The Advisor provides investment advisory services and pays the salaries and fees of officers and Directors of the Fund who are employees of the Advisor or its affiliates. For its services, the Advisor receives an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.55%, of the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit Investment Partners, Inc., ("Summit") served as the Advisor. Summit is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union Central Life Insurance Company, an indirect subsidiary of UNIFI Holding Company. Summit received an annual fee, payable monthly, of 0.55% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets.
The Advisor has contractually agreed to limit net annual portfolio operating expenses through December 12, 2010. The contractual expense cap is 0.75%. For the purpose of this expense limit, operating expenses do not include interest expense, brokerage commissions, taxes, and extraordinary expenses. To the extent any expense credits are earned, the Advisor's obligation under the contractual limitation may be reduced and the Advisor may benefit from the expense offset arrangement.
Calvert Administrative Services Company ("CASC"), an affiliate of the Advisor, provides administrative services to the Portfolio for an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% based on the Portfolio's average daily net assets. Prior to December 12, 2008, Summit provided administrative services for the Portfolio and received an annual fee, payable monthly, of .10% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets.
Calvert Shareholder Services, Inc. ("CSSI"), an affiliate of the Advisor, acts as shareholder servicing agent for the Portfolio. For its services, CSSI received a fee of $6 for the year ended December 31, 2008. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. is the transfer and dividend disbursing agent. Prior to December 12, 2008, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC served as the transfer and dividend disbursing agent.
Each Director of the Fund who is not an employee of the Advisor or its affiliates receives a fee of $1,500 for each Board and Committee meeting attended plus an annual fee of $20,000 for Directors not serving on other Calvert Fund Boards, $8,000 for those serving on other Calvert Fund Boards. Director's fees are allocated to each of the portfolios served. Prior to December 12, 2008, each Director of the Fund who was not an employee of Summit or its affiliates received a fee of $2,500 for each Board meeting attended ($600 for Committee meetings) plus an annual fee of $17,000. Committee chairs and the Lead Director received additional fees for their service.
Note C -- Investment Activity
During the year, the cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investments, other than short-term securities were $20,957,682 and $7,872,365, respectively.
The cost of investments owned at December 31, 2008 for federal income tax purposes was $13,030,477. Net unrealized depreciation aggregated $5,616,656, all related to depreciated securities.
Net realized capital loss carryforwards for federal income tax purposes of $394 and $1,164,237 at December 31, 2008 may be utilized to offset future capital gains until expiration in December 2015 and December 2016, respectively.
The tax character of dividends and distributions paid during the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 was as follows:
| 2008 | 2007 |
Distributions paid from: | | |
Ordinary income | $18,369 | $ -- |
Total | $18,369 | -- |
As of December 31, 2008 the components of distributable earnings/(accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
Undistributed ordinary income | $16,370 |
Capital loss carryforward | (1,164,631) |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | (5,616,656) |
Total | ($6,764,917) |
The differences between components of distributable earnings on a tax basis and the amounts reflected in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities are primarily due to temporary book-tax differences that will reverse in a subsequent period. These differences are due to wash sales.
Note D -- OTHER (Unaudited)
Change in Independent Accountant
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. ("Fund"). KPMG LLP was selected as the Fund's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the Fund's financial statements. The Fund's selection of KPMG as its independent accountant was recommended by the Fund's Audit Committee and was approved by the Fund's Board of Directors.
The reports on the financial statements audited by Deloitte for the years ended December 31, 2007 and prior for the Funds did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There were no disagreements between the Funds and Deloitte on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused Deloitte to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements of such years. There were no reportable events as described in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of Item 304(a) of SEC Regulation S-K.
Financial Highlights
| | | Periods Ended | | |
| | December 31, | December 31, | December 31, | |
Natural Resources Portfolio | | 2008 | 2007 | 2006^ | |
Net asset value, beginning | | $60.90 | $49.98 | $50.00 | |
Income from investment operations | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .10 | .10 | -- | |
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) | | (24.46) | 10.82 | (.02) | |
Total from investment operations | | (24.36) | 10.92 | (.02) | |
Distributions from | | | | | |
Net investment income | | (.12) | -- | -- | |
Total distributions | | (.12) | -- | -- | |
Total increase (decrease) in net asset value | | (24.48) | 10.92 | (.02) | |
Net asset value, ending | | $36.42 | $60.90 | $49.98 | |
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Total return* | | (40.03%) | 21.85% | (.04%) | |
Ratios to average net assets: A,B | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | .40% | .23% | (.75%) (a) | |
Total expenses | | 1.38% | 6.33% | 133.46% (a) | |
Expenses before offsets | | .75% | .75% | .75% (a) | |
Net expenses | | .75% | .75% | .75% (a) | |
Portfolio turnover | | 101% | 28% | 0% | |
Net assets, ending (in thousands) | | $7,674 | $1,255 | $250 | |
A Total expenses do not reflect amounts reimbursed and/or waived by the Advisor or reductions from expense offset arrangements. Expenses before offsets reflect expenses after reimbursement and/or waiver by the Advisor but prior to reductions from expense offset arrangements. Net expenses are net of all reductions and represent the net expenses paid by the portfolio.
B Amounts do not include the activity of the underlying funds.
(a) Annualized.
* Total return is not annualized for periods less than one year.
^ From December 28, 2006, inception.
See notes to financial statements.
Explanation of Financial Tables
Schedule of Investments
The Schedule of Investments is a snapshot of all securities held in the fund at their market value, on the last day of the reporting period. Securities are listed by asset type (e.g., common stock, corporate bonds, U.S. government obligations) and may be further broken down into sub-groups and by industry classification.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities is often referred to as the fund's balance sheet. It lists the value of what the fund owns, is due and owes on the last day of the reporting period. The fund's assets include the market value of securities owned, cash, receivables for securities sold and shareholder subscriptions, and receivables for dividends and interest payments that have been earned, but not yet received. The fund's liabilities typically include payables for securities purchased and shareholder redemptions, and expenses owed but not yet paid. The statement also reports the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share on the last day of the reporting period. The NAV is calculated by dividing the fund's net assets (assets minus liabilities) by the number of shares outstanding. This statement is accompanied by a Schedule of Investments. Alternatively, if certain conditions are met, a Statement of Net Assets may be presented in lieu of this statement and the Schedule of Investments.
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets provides a detailed list of the fund's holdings, including each security's market value on the last day of the reporting period. The Statement of Net Assets includes a Schedule of Investments. Other assets are added and other liabilities subtracted from the investments total to calculate the fund's net assets. Finally, net assets are divided by the outstanding shares of the fund to arrive at its share price, or Net Asset Value (NAV) per share.
At the end of the Statement of Net Assets is a table displaying the composition of the fund's net assets. Paid in Capital is the money invested by shareholders and represents the bulk of net assets. Undistributed Net Investment Income and Accumulated Net Realized Gains usually approximate the amounts the fund had available to distribute to shareholders as of the statement date. Accumulated Realized Losses will appear as negative balances. Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) is the difference between the market value of the fund's investments and their cost, and reflects the gains (losses) that would be realized if the fund were to sell all of its investments at their statement-date values.
Statement of Operations
The Statement of Operations summarizes the fund's investment income earned and expenses incurred in operating the fund. Investment income includes dividends earned from stocks and interest earned from interest-bearing securities in the fund. Expenses incurred in operating the fund include the advisory fee paid to the investment advisor, administrative services fees, distribution plan expenses (if applicable), transfer agent fees, shareholder servicing expenses, custodial, legal, and audit fees, and the printing and postage expenses related to shareholder reports. Expense offsets (fees paid indirectly) are also shown. Credits earned from offset arrangements are used to reduce the fund's expenses. This statement also shows net gains (losses) realized on the sale of investments and the increase or decrease in the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments held during the period.
Statement of Changes in Net Assets
The Statement of Changes in Net Assets shows how the fund's total net assets changed during the two most recent reporting periods. Changes in the fund's net assets are attributable to investment operations, distributions and capital share transactions.
The Operations section of the report summarizes information detailed in the Statement of Operations. The Distribution section shows the dividend and capital gain distributions made to shareholders. The amounts shown as distributions in this section may not match the net investment income and realized gains amounts shown in the Operations section because distributions are determined on a tax basis and certain investments or transactions may be treated differently for financial statement and tax purposes. The Capital Share Transactions section shows the amount shareholders invested in the fund, either by purchasing shares or by reinvesting distributions, and the amounts redeemed. The corresponding numbers of shares issued, reinvested and redeemed are shown at the end of the report.
Financial Highlights
The Financial Highlights table provides a per-share breakdown by class of the components that affect the fund's net asset value for current and past reporting periods. The table provides total return, total distributions, expense ratios, portfolio turnover and net assets for the applicable period. Total return is a measure of a fund's performance that encompasses all elements of return: dividends, capital gain distributions and changes in net asset value. Total return is the change in value of an investment over a given period, assuming reinvestment of any dividends and capital gain distributions, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment. Total distributions include distributions from net investment income and net realized gains. Long-term gains are earned on securities held in the fund more than one year. Short-term gains, on the sale of securities held less than one year, are treated as ordinary dividend income for tax purposes. The expense ratio is a fund's cost of doing business, expres sed as a percentage of net assets. These expenses directly reduce returns to shareholders. Portfolio turnover measures the trading activity in a fund's investment portfolio -- how often securities are bought and sold by a fund. Portfolio turnover is affected by market conditions, changes in the size of the fund, the nature of the fund's investments and the investment style of the portfolio manager.
Proxy Voting
The Proxy Voting Guidelines that the Portfolio uses to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities are provided as an Appendix to the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. The Statement of Additional Information can be obtained free of charge by calling the Fund at 1-800-368-2745 or by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Information regarding how the Fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available by calling the Fund or visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Availability of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings
The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund's Form N-Q is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Fund's Form N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC; information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
This report is intended to provide fund information to shareholders. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a prospectus.
Basis for Board's Approval of Investment Advisory Contract
At a meeting held on December 4, 2008, the Board of Directors, and by a separate vote, the disinterested Directors, initially approved the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Portfolio and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. (the "Advisor") and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Advisor and Summit Investment Partners, Inc. ("Summit" or the "Subadvisor") with respect to the Portfolio.
At the December 4, 2008 meeting, and in connection with the Advisor's impending purchase of the mutual fund business of Summit, the Board, effective as of December 12, 2008, terminated the Portfolio's current investment advisory agreement with Summit and approved the selection of the Advisor and Summit as investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively, to the Portfolio. In evaluating the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered a variety of information relating to the Portfolio and the Advisor. The disinterested Directors reviewed a report prepared by the Advisor regarding various services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and its affiliates.
The disinterested Directors were separately represented by independent legal counsel with respect to their consideration of the approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. Prior to voting, the disinterested Directors reviewed the proposed approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and Investment Subadvisory Agreement with management and also met in private sessions with their counsel at which no representatives of management were present.
In the course of its deliberations regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board considered the following factors, among others: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor, including the personnel who would be providing such services; the Advisor's financial condition; the level and method of computing the Portfolio's proposed advisory fee; performance, fee and expense information for the Portfolio; the profitability of the Calvert Group of Funds to the Advisor; the Advisor's process for monitoring "best execution"; the direct and indirect benefits, if any, to be derived by the Advisor from its relationship with the Portfolio; the effect of the Portfolio's growth and size on the Portfolio's performance and expenses; the Advisor's compliance programs and policies; the Advisor's performance of substantially similar duties for other funds; and any possible conflicts of interest.
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board reviewed information provided by the Advisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Advisor's operations and personnel, including, among other information, biographical information on the Advisor's supervisory and professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. The Board also took into account similar information provided periodically throughout the previous year by the Advisor as well as the Board's familiarity with the Advisor's management through Board of Directors' meetings, discussions and other reports. The Board considered the Advisor's current level of staffing and overall resources. The Advisor's administrative capabilities, including its ability to supervise the other service providers for the Portfolio, were also considered. The Board discussed the Advisor 's effectiveness in monitoring the performance of other funds' subadvisors and the Advisor's timeliness in responding to performance issues with respect to those funds. The Board concluded that it was satisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor under the Investment Advisory Agreement.
In considering the Portfolio's performance, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board noted that year to date through December 2, 2008, the Portfolio had underperformed the S&P 500 Index. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Subadvisor became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Portfolio's performance was satisfactory.
In considering the Portfolio's fees and expenses, the Board considered the Advisor's discussion of the Portfolio's fees and expenses. The Board noted that the Portfolio would pay the same advisory fee to the Advisor as it currently paid to Summit. The Board took into account that the Advisor had agreed to limit the Portfolio's net annual operating expenses through December 12, 2010 to the level in effect for the Portfolio on November 30, 2008. The Board also considered the impact of the size of the Portfolio on its expenses. The Board noted that the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee with respect to the Portfolio. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed advisory fee was reasonable in view of the quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Advisor and the other factors considered.
The Board reviewed the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio. In reviewing the anticipated profitability of the advisory fee to the Advisor, the Board also considered the fact that affiliates would provide shareholder servicing and administrative services to the Portfolio for which they would receive compensation. The Board also considered whether the Advisor had the financial wherewithal to provide a high level of services to the Portfolio. The Board also considered that the Advisor would likely derive benefits to its reputation and other indirect benefits from its relationship with the Portfolio. The Board noted that the Advisor had agreed to reimburse expenses of the Portfolio above a certain level and also would pay the subadvisory fee to the Subadvisor. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that the Advisor's anticipated level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was reasonable.
The Board considered the effect of the Portfolio's current size and potential growth on its performance and expenses. The Board noted that if the Portfolio's assets increased over time, the Portfolio might realize other economies of scale if assets increased proportionately more than certain other expenses. The Board took into account that the Portfolio might achieve operational efficiencies by joining the Calvert Group of Funds. The Board concluded that adding breakpoints to the advisory fee at specified asset levels was not appropriate given the Portfolio's current size.
In approving the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
In evaluating the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the disinterested Directors considered information provided by the Subadvisor in connection with the Calvert Group of Funds' annual contract review in December 2008 relating to the Subadvisor's operations, personnel, investment philosophy, strategies and techniques. Among other information, the Subadvisor provided biographical information on portfolio management and other professional staff, performance information for itself, and descriptions of its investment philosophies, strategies and techniques, organizational and management structures and brokerage policies and practices.
The Board approved the Investment Subadvisory Agreement between the Subadvisor and the Advisor based on a number of factors relating to the Subadvisor's ability to perform under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement. In the course of its deliberations, the Board evaluated, among other factors: the nature, extent and quality of the services to be provided by the Subadvisor; the Subadvisor's management style and long-term performance record; the Portfolio's performance record and the Subadvisor's performance in employing its investment strategies; the Subadvisor's current level of staffing and its overall resources; the qualifications and experience of the Subadvisor's personnel; the Subadvisor's financial condition with respect to its ability to perform the services required under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement; the Subadvisor's compliance systems, including those related to personal investing; and any disciplinary history. Based upon its review, the Board concluded that it was satisfied with the natu re, extent and quality of services to be provided to the Portfolio by the Subadvisor under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement.
As noted above, the Board considered the Portfolio's performance under Summit's management. The Board took into account that the portfolio management team that was currently managing the Portfolio would continue to manage the Portfolio after the Advisor and Summit became investment advisor and subadvisor, respectively. The Board also took into account the expertise and resources the Advisor would devote to monitoring the performance, investment style and risk adjusted performance of the Subadvisor.
In considering the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor of its relationship with the Portfolio, the Board noted that the Advisor and Subadvisor were affiliated and the proposed subadvisory fee under the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be paid by the Advisor out of the advisory fee that the Advisor would receive under the Investment Advisory Agreement. Based upon its review, the Board determined that the proposed subadvisory fee was reasonable. Because the Advisor would pay the Subadvisor's subadvisory fee, the cost of services to be provided by the Subadvisor and the anticipated level of profitability to the Subadvisor from its relationship with the Portfolio were not material factors in the Board's deliberations. For similar reasons, the Board did not consider the potential economies of scale in the Subadvisor's management of the Portfolio to be a material factor in its consideration.
In approving the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, the Board, including the disinterested Directors, did not identify any single factor as controlling, and each Director attributed different weight to various factors.
Conclusions
The Board reached the following conclusions regarding the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement, among others: (a) the Advisor has demonstrated that it possesses the capability and resources to perform the duties required of it under the Investment Advisory Agreement; (b) the Subadvisor is qualified to manage the Portfolio's assets in accordance with the Portfolio's investment objective and policies; (c) the Advisor and Subadvisor maintain appropriate compliance programs; (d) the Subadvisor is likely to execute its investment strategies consistently over time; (e) performance of the Portfolio is satisfactory in relation to relevant indices; and (f) the Portfolio's proposed advisory and subadvisory fees are reasonable in relation to the services to be provided by the Advisor and the Subadvisor. Based on its conclusions, the Board determined that approval of the Investment Advisory Agreement and the Investment Subadvisory Agreement would be in the interests of the Portfo lio and its shareholders and that the Subadvisor's service as subadvisor to the Portfolio did not involve a conflict of interest from which the Advisor or Subadvisor would derive an inappropriate advantage.
Director and Officer Information Table
Name & Age | Position with Fund
| Position Start Date
| Principal Occupation During Last 5 Years | (Not Applicable to Officers) |
# of Calvert Portfolios Overseen | Other Directorships |
Independent Directors |
FRANK H. BLATZ, JR., Esq. AGE: 73 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Of counsel to firm of Schiller & Pittenger, P.C. Mr. Blatz was an attorney in private practice in Fanwood, NJ from 1999 to 2004. | 27 | |
ALICE GRESHAM AGE: 58 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean and Professor at Howard University School of Law. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools. | 28 | - Council on Legal Education Opportunity
- North Country School
|
M. CHARITO KRUVANT AGE: 63 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | President and CEO of Creative Associates International, Inc., a firm that specializes in human resources development, information management, public affairs and private enterprise development. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Foundation
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
|
CYNTHIA MILLIGAN AGE: 62 | Director | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Formerly, she was the President and Chief Executive Officer for CMA, a consulting firm for financial institutions. | 28 | - Wells Fargo Company- NYSE
- Gallup, Inc.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Raven Industries - NASDAQ
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Non-Profit)
- Prison Fellowship Ministries (Non-Profit)
|
ARTHUR J. PUGH AGE: 71 | Director | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Retired executive. | 41 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
|
Interested Directors |
BARBARA J. KRUMSIEK AGE: 56 | Director & Chair-person | 1997 CVS 2008 Summit | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Calvert Group, Ltd. | 58 | - Calvert Social Investment Foundation
- Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Acacia Life Insurance Company (Chair)
- UNIFI Mutual Holding Company
- Ameritas Holding Company
|
WILLIAM LESTER AGE: 51 | Director & President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | President, CEO and Treasurer of Summit Investment Advisors, Inc. | 27 | - Acacia Federal Savings Bank
- Summit Investment Advisors, Inc.
- Ameritas Investment Corp.
|
Officers |
KAREN BECKER AGE: 56 | Chief Compliance Officer | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Chief Compliance Officer for the Calvert Funds. Prior to 2005, Ms. Becker was Senior Vice President of Calvert Group, Ltd. and Head of Calvert Client Services. |
SUSAN WALKER BENDER, Esq. AGE: 50 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1988 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
THOMAS DAILEY AGE: 44 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
IVY WAFFORD DUKE, Esq. AGE: 40 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd., and since 2004, Chief Compliance Officer for Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
TRACI L. GOLDT AGE: 35 | Assistant Secretary | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Executive Assistant to General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
GREGORY B. HABEEB AGE: 59 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
DANIEL K. HAYES AGE: 58 | Vice President | 1996 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. |
HUI PING HO, CPA Age: 44 | Assistant Treasurer | 2000 CVS 2008 Summit | Tax Compliance Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
LANCELOT A. KING, Esq. AGE: 38 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2002 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
EDITH LILLIE AGE: 52 | Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Secretary and Regulatory Matters Manager of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
AUGUSTO DIVO MACEDO, Esq. AGE: 46 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2007 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary, and Associate Counsel Compliance Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Mr. Macedo served as 2nd Vice President at Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Advisors Group, Acacia's broker-dealer and federally registered investment adviser. |
JANE B. MAXWELL Esq. AGE: 56 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2005 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Maxwell was an associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP. |
ANDREW K. NIEBLER, Esq. AGE: 41 | Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary | 2006 CVS 2008 Summit | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Assistant General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Niebler was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP. |
CATHERINE P. ROY AGE: 53 | Vice President | 2004 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. Prior to joining Calvert in 2004, Ms. Roy was Senior Vice President of US Fixed Income for Baring Asset Management, and SVP and Senior Portfolio Manager of Scudder Insurance Asset Management. |
WILLIAM M. TARTIKOFF, Esq. AGE: 61 | Vice President & Secretary | 1990 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
NATALIE TRUNOW AGE: 41 | Vice President | 2008 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc., Head of Equities. Prior to joining Calvert in August 2008, Ms. Trunow was the Section Head (2005-2008) and Portfolio Manager (2001-2008) for the Global Public Markets Group of General Motors Asset Management. |
RONALD M. WOLFSHEIMER, CPA AGE: 56 | Treasurer | 1982 CVS 2008 Summit | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
MICHAEL V. YUHAS JR., CPA AGE: 47 | Fund Controller | 1999 CVS 2008 Summit | Vice President of Fund Administration of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
The address of Directors and Officers is 4550 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 1000N, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Ms. Krumsiek is an interested person of the Fund since she is an officer and director of the Fund's Advisor and its affiliates. Mr. Lester is an interested person of the Fund since he is an officer and director of the parent company of the Fund's Advisor.
Additional information about the Fund's Directors can be found in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI). You can get a free copy of the SAI by contacting your broker, or the Fund at 1-800-368-2745.
Shareholder Meeting Results
A special shareholder meeting was held on December 5, 2008, by the Summit Natural Resources Portfolio of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. for the purpose of considering and voting on the issues below. The voting results were as follows:
- To approve an Investment Advisory Agreement with Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
190,218.894 | 5,930.443 | 9,384.770 |
- To approve an Investment Subadvisory Agreement with Summit Investment Partners, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
187,441.163 | 9,405.265 | 8,687.679 |
- To elect the Board of Directors of Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
Name of Director | For | Withhold |
Frank H. Blatz, Jr. | 184,991.741 | 20,542.366 |
Alice Gresham | 185,130.932 | 20,403.175 |
Barbara J. Krumsiek | 185,130.932 | 20,403.175 |
M. Charito Kruvant | 184,991.741 | 20,542.366 |
William Lester | 185,130.932 | 20,403.175 |
Cynthia Milligan | 184,991.741 | 20,542.366 |
Arthur J. Pugh | 185,130.932 | 20,403.175 |
- To ratify the selection of auditors, KPMG, LLP for the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc.
For | Against | Abstain |
193,568.674 | 10,004.139 | 1,961.294 |
5. To authorize the Board of Directors of the Summit Mutual Funds, Inc. and Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. to enter into and materially amend agreements with investment subadvisors on behalf of the Funds without obtaining shareholder approval.
For | Against | Abstain |
187,349.299 | 17,248.102 | 936.706 |
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Item 2. Code of Ethics.
(a) The registrant has adopted a code of ethics (the "Code of Ethics") that applies to its principal executive officer and principal financial officer (also referred to as "principal accounting officer").
(b) No information need be disclosed under this paragraph.
(c) The registrant has not amended its Code of Ethics during the period covered by the shareholder report presented in Item 1 hereto.
(d) The registrant has not granted a waiver or implicit waiver from a provision of its Code of Ethics during the period covered by the shareholder report presented in Item 1 hereto.
(e) Not applicable.
(f) The registrant's Code of Ethics is attached as an Exhibit hereto.
Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert.
The registrant's Board of Trustees/Directors has determined that M. Charito Kruvant, an "independent" Trustee/Director serving on the registrant's audit committee, is an "audit committee financial expert," as defined in Item 3 of Form N-CSR. Under applicable securities laws, a person who is determined to be an audit committee financial expert will not be deemed an "expert" for any purpose, including without limitation for the purposes of Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933, as a result of being designated or identified as an audit committee financial expert. The designation or identification of a person as an audit committee financial expert does not impose on such person any duties, obligations, or liabilities that are greater than the duties, obligations, and liabilities imposed on such person as a member of the audit committee and Board of Trustees in the absence of such designation or identification.
Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.
Services fees paid to auditing firm:
| Fiscal Year ended 12/31/08 | Fiscal Year ended 12/31/07 |
| $ | %* | $ | % * |
| | | | |
(a) Audit Fees | $211,750 | 0% | $236,474 | 0% |
(b) Audit-Related Fees | $0 | 0% | $0 | 0% |
(c) Tax Fees (tax return preparation and filing for the registrant) | $38,967 | 0% | $0 | 0% |
(d) All Other Fees | $0 | 0% | $0 | 0% |
| | | | |
Total | $250,717 | 0% | $236,474 | 0% |
* Percentage of fees approved by the Audit Committee pursuant to (c)(7)(i)(C) of Rule 2-01 of Reg. S-X (statutory de minimis waiver of Committee's requirement to pre-approve)
(e) Audit Committee pre-approval policies and procedures:
The Audit Committee is required to pre-approve all audit and non-audit services provided to the registrant by the auditors, and to the registrant's investment advisor, and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the advisor that provides ongoing services to the registrant. In determining whether to pre-approve non-audit services, the Audit Committee considers whether the services are consistent with maintaining the independence of the auditors. The Committee may delegate its authority to pre-approve certain matters to one or more of its members. In this regard, the Committee has delegated authority jointly to the Audit Committee Chair together with another Committee member with respect to non-audit services not exceeding $25,000 in each instance. In addition, the Committee has pre-approved the retention of the auditors to provide tax-related services related to the tax treatment and tax accounting of newly acquired securities, upon request by the investment advisor in each inst ance.
On December 12, 2008, Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc ("CAMCO") consummated a transaction with Summit Investment Partners, Inc.("Summit") whereby CAMCO acquired Summit's mutual fund business. In connection with this transaction, Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") resigned in the normal course of business as independent accountant to the registrant. KPMG LLP was selected as the registrant's independent accountant and principal accountant to audit the registrant's financial statements. Prior to December 2008, the registrant followed a different pre-approval policy for non-audit services, as disclosed in registrant's last report in response to this Item.
(f) Not applicable.
(g) Aggregate non-audit fees billed by the registrant's accountant for services rendered to the registrant, and rendered to the registrant's investment advisor, and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the advisor that provides ongoing services to the registrant for each of the last two fiscal years of the registrant:
| Fiscal Year ended 12/31/08 | Fiscal Year ended 12/31/07 |
| $ | %* | $ | % * |
| | | | |
| $25,500 | 0%* | $249,281 | 0%* |
* Percentage of fees approved by the Audit Committee pursuant to (c)(7)(i)(C) of Rule 2-01 of Reg. S-X (statutory de minimis waiver of Committee's requirement to pre-approve)
(h) The registrant's Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees has considered whether the provision of non-audit services that were rendered to the registrant's investment advisor, and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the investment advisor that provides ongoing services to the registrant that were not pre-approved pursuant to paragraph (c) (7)(ii) of Rule 2-01 of Reg. S-X is compatible with maintaining the principal accountant's independence and found that the provision of such services is compatible with maintaining the principal accountant's independence.
Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Schedule of Investments.
- This Schedule is included as part of the report to shareholders filed under Item 1 of this Form.
- Not applicable.
Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable.
Item 9. Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers.
Not applicable.
Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
There have been no changes to the procedures by which shareholders may recommend nominees to the registrant's Board of Directors since registrant last provided disclosure in response to this Item.
Item 11. Controls and Procedures.
(a) The principal executive and financial officers concluded that the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the 1940 Act) are effective, based on the evaluation of these controls and procedures required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the 1940 Act and Rules 13a-15(b) or 15d-15(b) under the Exchange Act, as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report.
(b) There was no change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the 1940 Act) that occurred during the second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting. In connection with the December 2008 transaction referenced in Item 4(e) above, the registrant adopted Calvert's internal control over financial reporting.
Item 12. Exhibits.
(a)(1) A copy of the Registrant's Code of Ethics.
Attached hereto.
(a)(2) A separate certification for each principal executive officer and principal financial officer of the registrant as required by Rule 30a-2 under the Act (17 CFR 270.30a-2).
Attached hereto.
(a)(3) Not applicable.
(b) A certification for the registrant's Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer, as required by Rule 30a-2(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, is attached hereto. The certification furnished pursuant to this paragraph is not deemed to be "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section. Such certification is not deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except to the extent that the registrant specifically incorporates it by reference.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
SUMMIT MUTUAL FUNDS, INC.
By: ___/s/ Barbara J. Krumsiek_
Barbara J. Krumsiek
Chairman -- Principal Executive Officer
Date: February 26, 2009
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
/s/ Barbara J. Krumsiek___________
Barbara J. Krumsiek
Chairman -- Principal Executive Officer
Date: February 26, 2009
/s/ Ronald M. Wolfsheimer_________
Ronald M. Wolfsheimer
Treasurer -- Principal Financial Officer
Date: February 26, 2009