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 811-4946
THOMPSON IM FUNDS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
918 Deming Way
Madison, Wisconsin 53717
(Address of principal executive offices)--(Zip code)
John W. Thompson
Chief Executive Officer and President
Thompson IM Funds, Inc.
918 Deming Way
Madison, Wisconsin 53717
(Name and address of agent for service)
With a copy to:
Fredrick G. Lautz, Esq.
Quarles & Brady LLP
411 East Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (608) 827-5700
Date of fiscal year end: November 30, 2012
Date of reporting period: November 30, 2012
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Item 1. Report to Stockholders.
THOMPSON IM FUNDS, INC.
ANNUAL REPORT TO SHAREHOLDERS
NOTE ON FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
The matters discussed in this report may constitute forward-looking statements. These include any Advisor or portfolio manager predictions, assessments, analyses or outlooks for individual securities, industries, investment styles, market sectors, interest rates, economic trends and/or markets. These statements involve risks and uncertainties. In addition to the general risks described for each Fund in its current Prospectus, other factors bearing on these reports include the accuracy of the Advisor’s or portfolio manager’s forecasts and predictions, the appropriateness of the investment strategies designed by the Advisor or portfolio manager and the ability of the Advisor or portfolio manager to implement its strategies efficiently and successfully. Any one or more of these factors, as well as other risks affecting the securities markets generally, could cause the actual results of any Fund to differ materially as compared to its benchmarks.
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THOMPSON IM FUNDS, INC.
ANNUAL REPORT TO SHAREHOLDERS
November 30, 2012
CONTENTS
Page(s) | ||
LARGECAP FUND | ||
Investment review | 3-5 | |
Schedule of investments | 6-8 | |
MIDCAP FUND | ||
Investment review | 9-11 | |
Schedule of investments | 12-13 | |
BOND FUND | ||
Investment review | 14-16 | |
Schedule of investments | 17-29 | |
FUND EXPENSE EXAMPLES | 30 | |
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS | ||
Statements of assets and liabilities | 31 | |
Statements of operations | 32 | |
Statements of changes in net assets | 33 | |
Notes to financial statements | 34-39 | |
Financial highlights | 40-42 | |
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM | 43 | |
DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS | 44-45 | |
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION | 46-49 |
This report contains information for existing shareholders of Thompson IM Funds, Inc. It
does not constitute an offer to sell. This Annual Report is authorized for distribution to prospective investors
only when preceded or accompanied by a Fund Prospectus, which contains information about
the Funds’ objectives and policies, risks, management, expenses and other information.
A Prospectus can be obtained by calling 1-800-999-0887.
Please read your Prospectus carefully.
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LARGECAP FUND INVESTMENT REVIEW (Unaudited) |
November 30, 2012 |
Portfolio Managers
James T. Evans, CFA
Jason L. Stephens, CFA
John W. Thompson, CFA
Performance
The LargeCap Fund produced a total return of 14.37% for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2012, as compared to its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index, which returned 16.13%.
Comparison of Change in Value of a Hypothetical $10,000 Investment
Average Annual Total Returns | |||||||||
Through 11/30/12 | |||||||||
1 Year | 3 Year | 5 Year | 10 Year | ||||||
Thompson LargeCap Fund | 14.37% | 8.42% | -2.14% | 1.90% | |||||
S&P 500 Index | 16.13% | 11.25% | 1.34% | 6.36% |
Gross Expense Ratio as of 03/31/12 was 1.31%.
Performance data quoted represents past performance; past performance does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance of the Fund may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Performance data current to the most recent month-end may be obtained by calling 1-800-999-0887 or visiting www.thompsonim.com.
Results include the reinvestment of all dividends and capital gains distributions. Investment performance reflects all fee waivers that may be in effect. In the absence of such waivers, total return would be reduced. The performance information reflected in the graph and the table above does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares, nor does it imply future performance. The S&P 500 Index is an unmanaged index commonly used to measure the performance of U.S. stocks. You cannot directly invest in an index.
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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LARGECAP FUND INVESTMENT REVIEW (Unaudited) (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Management Commentary
The lag in the relative performance of the Fund during the fiscal period was driven primarily by two decisions. The first was to overweight energy stocks, especially natural gas stocks such as Forest Oil. While the economy showed the gathering strength that we expected during the fiscal time period, this did not translate into higher commodity prices as an unusually warm winter drove natural gas to multi-year lows. Commodity prices recovered to their starting point by fiscal year-end, but this was not enough to bolster stock prices as investors remained cautious. Our view that the economy would recover paid off in other sectors, such as Industrials and Financials, but not enough to offset losses in Energy.
The second key decision was to not have a holding in Apple. Apple is the largest component of our benchmark at over 4%. With a fiscal-year return of roughly 55%, not owning the firm’s stock has hurt our shareholders. During the fiscal-year period, consensus earnings estimates for Apple were revised upwards by 28% for both the company’s 2012 fiscal year that ended on 9/30, and for fiscal 2013. If the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of the stock based on 2013 estimates was constant, the price of the stock would have been up a similar amount. But with the performance of the stock clearly outpacing earnings, it implies investors are expecting dramatic upward profit revisions for Apple going forward too. In addition to the stock outpacing earnings revisions, the actual rate of growth for the company appears to be slowing too. The published consensus expectation at the end of the fiscal period is for Apple to grow its earnings by 13% in 2013. This is a sharp slowdown from the 41% growth rate in fiscal 2012. Given the sharp increase in Apple’s stock price we believe investors are expecting a much faster growth rate than the current published estimates, which may or may not happen.
More ominously, the history of past market capitalization champions in the S&P 500 that experience a deceleration in their earnings growth rate does not in our view support such a bullish outlook for Apple’s stock. These examples include the performance of Microsoft, General Electric, Cisco Systems and Exxon Mobil, who were all at the top of the S&P 500’s market capitalization chart at various points since the year 2000. In addition, the history of firms that lose their iconic leader, from Jack Welch at General Electric to Hank Greenberg at AIG, do not set a positive precedent for a post Steve Jobs Apple. It may be that Apple can continue to be the exception, but our strategy is generally predicated on the belief that great companies do not make great stocks if all the good news is priced into the stock.
Even though the Fund has no weight in Apple, it is very overweight the collective companies whose growth is being driven by the explosion of mobile devices. We just prefer to participate in the trends towards smartphones and tablets through other investments that do not require picking a winner in the iOS, Android and Windows format wars. Among the stocks in which the Fund is invested as of the end of the fiscal year: Qualcomm maintains its monopoly on CDMA royalty payments, and benefits from each additional smartphone sold regardless of the manufacturer; Broadcom, Linear Technology, Maxim Integrated Products and Altera are all semiconductor suppliers to the industry who we expect to gain market share regardless of the Apple/Google/Microsoft market winner; and Cisco Systems, JDS Uniphase and EMC are all direct beneficiaries of the massive surge in data generated by the growth of smartphones, among other devices.
The key point is that the market has thus far rewarded Apple’s stock for these trends but has not yet rewarded the equities of all these other firms. While nominally cheap, Apple’s stock trades at a clear premium to other mega capitalization technology stocks that generally have P/E ratios in the single digits. This is despite an industry history of the market share leader eventually being out-innovated by an upstart competitor. Investors who buy Apple’s stock need to be sure that Samsung won’t do to Apple what Apple did to Nokia. Or what Nokia did to Motorola before that.
Many funds that share our viewpoint might be willing to simply market weight Apple and attempt to add value elsewhere. We resist the temptation to closet index and believe shareholders have more to gain by being fully exposed to our thesis. While it can be frustrating to have one poor decision outweigh so many other correct decisions, in the long run we need to be true to our investment strategy as portfolio managers. If we are correct in our analysis, then either Apple’s share price will underperform in the future or the other stocks held by the Fund at fiscal year-end that benefit from the same trends should begin to outperform to better match what Apple has already done.
Opinions expressed are subject to change, are not guaranteed and should not be considered investment advice.
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. Investments in smaller companies involve additional risks such as limited liquidity and greater volatility.
Please refer to the Schedule of Investments on page 6 of this report for holdings information. The management commentary above as well as Fund holdings and asset/sector allocations should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. In addition, please note that Fund holdings and asset/sector allocations are subject to change.
Earnings Growth is a measure of growth in a company’s net income over a specific period, often one year. It is not a prediction of the fund’s future returns.
P/E Ratio is a valuation ratio of a company’s current share price compared to its per-share earnings. Divide market value of a share by the earnings per share.
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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LARGECAP FUND INVESTMENT REVIEW (Unaudited) (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Sector Weightings at 11/30/12
% of Total Investments
Top 10 Equity Holdings at 11/30/12 | ||
% of Fund’s | ||
Company | Industry | Net Assets |
Exxon Mobil Corp. | Oil & Gas Producers | 2.96% |
Microsoft Corp. | Software & Computer Services | 2.79% |
Bank of America Corp. | Banks | 2.75% |
General Electric Co. | General Industrials | 2.23% |
JDS Uniphase Corp. | Technology Hardware & Equipment | 2.20% |
Walgreen Co. | Food & Drug Retailers | 2.15% |
EnergySolutions | Support Services | 2.07% |
Cisco Systems, Inc. | Technology Hardware & Equipment | 2.04% |
Qualcomm, Inc. | Technology Hardware & Equipment | 2.01% |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Banks | 1.98% |
As of November 30, 2012, 99.9% of the Fund’s net assets were in equity, cash and short-term instruments.
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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LARGECAP FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS |
November 30, 2012 |
Shares | Value | ||||
COMMON STOCKS - 99.9% | |||||
Consumer Discretionary - 11.0% | |||||
Automobiles & Parts - 2.1% | |||||
Johnson Controls, Inc. | 58,450 | $ | 1,609,713 | ||
LKQ Corp. (a) | 23,000 | 504,160 | |||
2,113,873 | |||||
General Retailers - 3.6% | |||||
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (a) | 16,075 | 943,924 | |||
Best Buy Co., Inc. | 67,690 | 887,416 | |||
Kohl’s Corp. | 18,360 | 819,774 | |||
Target Corp. | 15,360 | 969,677 | |||
3,620,791 | |||||
Household Products - 1.2% | |||||
D.R. Horton, Inc. | 25,550 | 497,203 | |||
Jarden Corp. (a) | 13,915 | 736,243 | |||
1,233,446 | |||||
Leisure Goods - 0.5% | |||||
Brunswick Corp. | 19,075 | 491,563 | |||
Media - 2.8% | |||||
The Walt Disney Co. | 20,950 | 1,040,377 | |||
Time Warner Inc. | 21,050 | 995,665 | |||
Viacom Inc. Class B | 13,975 | 721,250 | |||
2,757,292 | |||||
Personal Goods - 0.8% | |||||
Hanesbrands, Inc. (a) | 21,850 | 788,785 | |||
Consumer Staples - 6.3% | |||||
Beverages - 1.0% | |||||
PepsiCo, Inc. | 13,975 | 981,185 | |||
Food & Drug Retailers - 4.1% | |||||
Sysco Corp. | 23,570 | 745,991 | |||
Walgreen Co. | 63,200 | 2,143,112 | |||
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | 16,875 | 1,215,337 | |||
4,104,440 | |||||
Household Goods & | |||||
Home Construction - 1.2% | |||||
The Procter & Gamble Co. | 17,725 | 1,237,737 | |||
Energy - 14.1% | |||||
Oil & Gas Producers - 11.2% | |||||
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | 13,710 | 1,003,435 | |||
Apache Corp. | 8,875 | 684,174 | |||
Chevron Corp. | 15,545 | 1,642,951 | |||
Devon Energy Corp. | 12,975 | 670,418 | |||
Encana Corp. | 35,050 | 763,739 | |||
Exxon Mobil Corp. | 33,470 | 2,950,046 | |||
Forest Oil Corp. (a) | 122,825 | 782,395 | |||
Goodrich Petroleum Corp. (a) | 56,025 | 504,785 | |||
Hess Corp. | 18,720 | 928,699 | |||
Noble Energy, Inc. | 5,250 | 513,188 | |||
Southwestern Energy Co. (a) | 20,325 | 705,481 | |||
11,149,311 | |||||
Oil Equipment, Services & | |||||
Distribution - 2.9% | |||||
Helmerich & Payne, Inc. | 15,650 | 816,930 | |||
Schlumberger Ltd. | 21,244 | 1,521,495 | |||
Seadrill Ltd. | 12,965 | 499,541 | |||
2,837,966 | |||||
Financials - 16.0% | |||||
Banks - 9.8% | |||||
Associated Banc-Corp | 100,140 | 1,286,799 | |||
Bank of America Corp. | 277,900 | 2,740,094 | |||
Citigroup Inc. | 43,000 | 1,486,510 | |||
First Horizon National Corp. | 104,910 | 992,449 | |||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 48,125 | 1,976,975 | |||
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. | 12,530 | 703,434 | |||
Zions Bancorporation | 26,300 | 527,841 | |||
9,714,102 | |||||
Financial Services - 4.3% | |||||
Discover Financial Services | 11,895 | 494,951 | |||
MSCI Inc. (a) | 45,875 | 1,330,375 | |||
Northern Trust Corp. | 20,470 | 982,969 | |||
State Street Corp. | 32,400 | 1,439,856 | |||
4,248,151 | |||||
Insurance - 1.0% | |||||
Aflac, Inc. | 18,835 | 998,067 | |||
Real Estate Investment | |||||
Trusts - 0.9% | |||||
DiamondRock Hospitality Co. | 52,450 | 458,413 | |||
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. | 31,525 | 463,102 | |||
921,515 | |||||
Health Care - 9.3% | |||||
Health Care Equipment & | |||||
Services - 5.5% | |||||
Baxter International Inc. | 10,910 | 723,006 | |||
Express Scripts Holding Co. (a) | 34,325 | 1,848,401 | |||
Henry Schein, Inc. (a) | 6,215 | 501,986 | |||
Medtronic, Inc. | 17,090 | 719,660 | |||
Patterson Cos., Inc. | 13,680 | 466,488 | |||
ResMed Inc. | 12,000 | 493,080 | |||
Zimmer Holdings, Inc. | 11,120 | 733,586 | |||
5,486,207 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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LARGECAP FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Shares | Value | ||||
COMMON STOCKS (continued) | |||||
Health Care (continued) | |||||
Health Care Services - 1.3% | |||||
McKesson Corp. | 13,425 | $ | 1,268,260 | ||
Pharmaceuticals & | |||||
Biotechnology - 2.5% | |||||
Amgen Inc. | 8,415 | 747,252 | |||
Johnson & Johnson | 13,985 | 975,174 | |||
Novartis AG ADR | 12,467 | 773,577 | |||
2,496,003 | |||||
Industrials - 16.1% | |||||
Aerospace & Defense - 0.5% | |||||
Lockheed Martin Corp. | 5,300 | 494,490 | |||
Construction & Materials - 1.4% | |||||
Masco Corp. | 82,000 | 1,390,720 | |||
Electrical Equipment - 1.3% | |||||
Emerson Electric Co. | 24,875 | 1,249,471 | |||
General Industrials - 3.8% | |||||
General Electric Co. | 105,325 | 2,225,517 | |||
3M Co. | 17,045 | 1,550,243 | |||
3,775,760 | |||||
Industrial Engineering - 4.9% | |||||
ABB Ltd. ADR | 94,825 | 1,841,501 | |||
Illinois Tool Works Inc. | 16,125 | 992,816 | |||
Ingersoll-Rand PLC | 10,650 | 519,507 | |||
Rockwell Automation, Inc. | 18,825 | 1,491,693 | |||
4,845,517 | |||||
Industrial Transportation - 1.2% | |||||
FedEx Corp. | 13,550 | 1,213,131 | |||
Support Services - 3.0% | |||||
EnergySolutions (a) | 631,900 | 2,066,313 | |||
Mobile Mini, Inc. (a) | 46,950 | 937,122 | |||
3,003,435 | |||||
Information Technology - 25.6% | |||||
Computer Programs - 2.9% | |||||
Electronic Arts Inc. (a) | 121,410 | 1,798,082 | |||
Take-Two Interactive | |||||
Software, Inc. (a) | 89,500 | 1,107,115 | |||
2,905,197 | |||||
Electronic & Electrical | |||||
Equipment - 0.8% | |||||
Maxwell Technologies, Inc. (a) | 103,250 | 748,563 | |||
Internet Programs & | |||||
Services - 1.0% | |||||
eBay Inc. (a) | 19,645 | 1,037,649 | |||
IT Services - 1.7% | |||||
Alliance Data Systems Corp. (a) | 5,175 | 737,386 | |||
Visa Inc. Class A | 6,695 | 1,002,308 | |||
1,739,694 | |||||
Software & Computer | |||||
Services - 6.3% | |||||
Adobe Systems Inc. (a) | 29,700 | 1,027,917 | |||
Google Inc. Class A (a) | 2,100 | 1,466,577 | |||
Microsoft Corp. | 104,451 | 2,780,486 | |||
Oracle Corp. | 32,550 | 1,044,855 | |||
6,319,835 | |||||
Technology Hardware & | |||||
Equipment - 12.9% | |||||
Altera Corp. | 30,075 | 974,129 | |||
Broadcom Corp. Class A (a) | 38,090 | 1,233,354 | |||
Cisco Systems, Inc. | 107,310 | 2,029,232 | |||
EMC Corp. (a) | 39,300 | 975,426 | |||
Hewlett-Packard Co. | 45,000 | 584,550 | |||
Intel Corp. | 69,400 | 1,358,158 | |||
JDS Uniphase Corp. (a) | 180,260 | 2,186,554 | |||
Linear Technology Corp. | 22,920 | 760,715 | |||
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. | 25,980 | 758,356 | |||
Qualcomm, Inc. | 31,430 | 1,999,577 | |||
12,860,051 | |||||
Materials - 1.5% | |||||
Industrial Metals & Mining - 1.5% | |||||
Freeport-McMoRan Copper | |||||
& Gold Inc. | 37,625 | 1,467,751 | |||
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | |||||
(COST $96,933,829) | 99,499,958 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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LARGECAP FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Shares | Value | ||||
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.0% | |||||
Money Market Funds - 0.0% | |||||
Fidelity Money Market Portfolio | |||||
Class I, 0.140% (b) | 205 | $ | 205 | ||
Total Money Market Funds | 205 | ||||
TOTAL SHORT-TERM | |||||
INVESTMENTS (COST $205) | 205 | ||||
TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 99.9% | |||||
(COST $96,934,034) | 99,500,163 | ||||
NET OTHER ASSETS AND | |||||
LIABILITIES - 0.1% | 110,276 | ||||
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | $ | 99,610,439 |
(a) | Non-income producing security. | |
(b) | Interest rate shown represents the current coupon rate at November 30, 2012. | |
ADR: American Depositary Receipt |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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MIDCAP FUND INVESTMENT REVIEW (Unaudited) |
November 30, 2012 |
Portfolio Managers
James T. Evans, CFA
Jason L. Stephens, CFA
John W. Thompson, CFA
Performance
The MidCap Fund produced a total return of 14.41% for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2012, as compared to its benchmark, the Russell Midcap Index, which returned 14.56%.
Comparison of Change in Value of a Hypothetical $10,000 Investment
Average Annual Total Returns | |||||||
Through 11/30/12 | |||||||
Since | |||||||
Inception | |||||||
1 Year | 3 Year | (03/31/08) | |||||
Thompson MidCap Fund | 14.41% | 13.02% | 6.90% | ||||
Russell Midcap Index | 14.56% | 14.41% | 5.68% |
Gross Expense Ratio as of 03/31/12 was 1.96%.
Net Expense Ratio after reimbursement was 1.30%.*
* The Advisor has contractually agreed to waive management fees and/or reimburse expenses incurred by the MidCap Fund through March 31, 2013 so that the annual operating expenses of the Fund do not exceed 1.30% of its average daily net assets.
Performance data quoted represents past performance; past performance does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance of the Fund may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Performance data current to the most recent month-end may be obtained by calling 1-800-999-0887 or visiting www.thompsonim.com.
Results include the reinvestment of all dividends and capital gains distributions. Investment performance reflects all fee waivers that may be in effect. In the absence of such waivers, total return would be reduced. The performance information reflected in the graph and the table above does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares, nor does it imply future performance. The Russell Midcap Index measures the performance of the 800 smallest companies in the Russell 1000 Index based on total market capitalization. You cannot directly invest in an index.
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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MIDCAP FUND INVESTMENT REVIEW (Unaudited) (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Management Commentary
During its fiscal year, the Fund benefited from strong stock selection in most sectors, including Health Care, Materials, Information Technology, Industrials, Financials and Consumer Discretionary. The strongest individual contributors were Jarden Corp., MedAssets Inc. and Masco Corp, adding a combined 3% to the Fund’s performance.
Though stock selection underperformed in the Utilities and Consumer Staples sectors, the biggest offset to the positive contributors during the year was our dual decision to both overweight the Energy sector and maintain our allocation to natural gas producers within that sector in what became a low-price environment for that commodity. As we noted in the Semi-Annual Report, most of this impact was experienced in the first half of the year, as natural gas prices fell from over $3 to under $2 per mcf (1000 cubic feet). Overweighting that sector at a time when it was by far the worst-performing area of the Fund’s benchmark hurt relative performance by about 1%. While the commodity managed to rebound back to over $3.50 per mcf by the end of the fiscal year, the prices of the natural gas stocks held by the Fund remained depressed as investors exercised caution. If oil and gas prices continue to appreciate, we would of course anticipate better performance from these stocks. They tend to track their respective commodities. Therefore, in the long run, we expect to typically follow the pattern of purchasing these types of securities when we believe their underlying commodity prices are depressed, and selling them when commodity prices are significantly higher than historic norms.
As we’ve mentioned in prior commentaries, we believe that security selection will generally be a more important driver of relative return for the Fund than sector allocation, due to the nature of the strategy we employ. We focus much more on discerning the fundamental value of individual company stocks than we do on sector trends. In other words, we don’t simply decide to overweight or underweight a particular sector. Rather, weighting deviations happen because we’ve either identified or failed to identify a disproportionate number of attractive ideas for individual securities in a particular sector. For example, our underweighting of the Telecommunication Services sector at the end of the fiscal period was not a decision based on the sector’s history as an underperforming area. After all, the factors that drove that history could change. Rather, it indicated that we couldn’t find any companies therein that we believed offered an attractive opportunity for Fund shareholders.
We virtually always look to company fundamentals (such as earnings growth potential, valuation, and balance sheet) when assessing the attractiveness of individual securities. This not only applies to our initial decision to purchase a stock, but also to our analysis of that stock throughout the Fund’s holding period. If a stock performs poorly, we have to ask ourselves if holding the security still makes sense, or if we should eliminate the position from the portfolio. We analyze each situation uniquely rather than follow a strict guideline of automatically dumping a holding if it lags beyond a certain threshold. Are the fundamentals intact? Do these companies operate the way we thought they did, or has something materially changed? Do they still have a competitive advantage? Is there still secular growth potential for their products or services? Has there been malfeasance? Have their balance sheets deteriorated? If the answers to these questions suggest the return potential of the stock are no longer attractive, we will usually sell the holding. Otherwise we are usually inclined to take advantage of the price decline and purchase additional shares.
In the case of our Energy sector holdings, we are expecting to maintain our current allocation for now. We believe that commodity prices will continue to recover, and that the potential return for these companies is therefore attractive. Sentiment can randomly change dramatically in the short run in unpredictable ways. In the long run, we believe that stock prices are eventually driven by the actual ability of a company to grow its earnings. We are not always right, but by paying close attention to fundamental details we gain confidence that the decisions we make will allow us to outlast this short term “noise.” We therefore expect that it is our ability to accurately assess the potential of individual securities over the long run that will determine the performance success of the Fund.
Opinions expressed are subject to change, are not guaranteed and should not be considered investment advice.
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. Midcap companies tend to have limited liquidity and greater volatility than large-capitalization companies.
Please refer to the Schedule of Investments on page 12 of this report for holdings information. The management commentary above as well as Fund holdings and asset/sector allocations should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. In addition, please note that Fund holdings and asset/sector allocations are subject to change.
Earnings Growth is a measure of growth in a company’s net income over a specific period, often one year. It is not a prediction of the fund’s future returns.
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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MIDCAP FUND INVESTMENT REVIEW (Unaudited) (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Sector Weightings at 11/30/12
% of Total Investments
Top 10 Equity Holdings at 11/30/12 | ||||
% of Fund’s | ||||
Company | Industry | Net Assets | ||
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. | Computer Programs | 2.70% | ||
EnergySolutions | Support Services | 2.67% | ||
JDS Uniphase Corp. | Technology Hardware & Equipment | 2.33% | ||
Electronic Arts Inc. | Computer Programs | 2.23% | ||
First Horizon National Corp. | Banks | 2.05% | ||
Broadcom Corp. Class A | Technology Hardware & Equipment | 2.02% | ||
Associated Banc-Corp | Banks | 1.96% | ||
Mobile Mini, Inc. | Support Services | 1.89% | ||
Jarden Corp. | Household Products | 1.88% | ||
MSCI Inc. | Financial Services | 1.88% |
As of November 30, 2012, 99.9% of the Fund’s net assets were in equity, cash and short-term instruments.
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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MIDCAP FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS |
November 30, 2012 |
Shares | Value | ||||
COMMON STOCKS - 99.9% | |||||
Consumer Discretionary - 14.7% | |||||
Automobiles & Parts - 1.0% | |||||
LKQ Corp. (a) | 11,620 | $ | 254,710 | ||
General Retailers - 5.5% | |||||
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (a) | 6,165 | 362,009 | |||
Best Buy Co., Inc. | 8,700 | 114,057 | |||
Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. (a) | 7,110 | 306,441 | |||
Kohl’s Corp. | 6,020 | 268,793 | |||
Nordstrom, Inc. | 5,520 | 298,577 | |||
1,349,877 | |||||
Household Products - 2.4% | |||||
D.R. Horton, Inc. | 6,525 | 126,977 | |||
Jarden Corp. (a) | 8,725 | 461,640 | |||
588,617 | |||||
Leisure Goods - 1.1% | |||||
Brunswick Corp. | 10,200 | 262,854 | |||
Personal Goods - 3.0% | |||||
Coach, Inc. | 5,303 | 306,726 | |||
Hanesbrands, Inc. (a) | 12,203 | 440,528 | |||
747,254 | |||||
Travel & Leisure - 1.7% | |||||
Darden Restaurants, Inc. | 7,906 | 418,069 | |||
Consumer Staples - 1.9% | |||||
Food Producers - 1.9% | |||||
Diamond Foods, Inc. (a) | 2,750 | 39,160 | |||
McCormick & Co., Inc. | 2,748 | 177,411 | |||
The J. M. Smucker Co. | 2,762 | 244,327 | |||
460,898 | |||||
Energy - 11.3% | |||||
Oil & Gas Producers - 8.8% | |||||
Bill Barrett Corp. (a) | 11,690 | 203,172 | |||
Denbury Resources Inc. (a) | 3,585 | 55,317 | |||
Encana Corp. | 6,050 | 131,830 | |||
Forest Oil Corp. (a) | 31,875 | 203,044 | |||
Goodrich Petroleum Corp. (a) | 27,650 | 249,126 | |||
Lone Pine Resources Inc. (a) | 19,942 | 21,139 | |||
Murphy Oil Corp. | 3,476 | 197,228 | |||
Noble Energy, Inc. | 4,533 | 443,101 | |||
Oasis Petroleum Inc. (a) | 4,250 | 128,435 | |||
Quicksilver Resources Inc. (a) | 25,430 | 80,613 | |||
Range Resources Corp. | 5,615 | 359,472 | |||
Swift Energy Co. (a) | 2,600 | 40,248 | |||
Ultra Petroleum Corp. (a) | 2,700 | 54,135 | |||
2,166,860 | |||||
Oil Equipment, Services & | |||||
Distribution - 2.5% | |||||
Dresser-Rand Group, Inc. (a) | 3,600 | 190,116 | |||
Helmerich & Payne, Inc. | 4,970 | 259,434 | |||
Seadrill Ltd. | 4,460 | 171,844 | |||
621,394 | |||||
Financials - 16.8% | |||||
Banks - 5.8% | |||||
Associated Banc-Corp | 37,384 | 480,384 | |||
First Horizon National Corp. | 53,095 | 502,279 | |||
Regions Financial Corp. | 18,985 | 126,630 | |||
SunTrust Banks, Inc. | 4,970 | 134,936 | |||
Zions Bancorporation | 9,260 | 185,848 | |||
1,430,077 | |||||
Financial Services - 6.0% | |||||
Discover Financial Services | 7,754 | 322,644 | |||
Eaton Vance Corp. | 8,020 | 255,678 | |||
MSCI Inc. (a) | 15,910 | 461,390 | |||
Northern Trust Corp. | 8,875 | 426,177 | |||
1,465,889 | |||||
Insurance - 2.0% | |||||
Cincinnati Financial Corp. | 4,420 | 179,098 | |||
Unum Group | 14,810 | 301,976 | |||
481,074 | |||||
Real Estate Investment | |||||
Trusts - 3.0% | |||||
DiamondRock Hospitality Co. | 28,175 | 246,250 | |||
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. | 16,660 | 244,735 | |||
LaSalle Hotel Properties | 10,075 | 242,908 | |||
733,893 | |||||
Health Care - 10.9% | |||||
Health Care Equipment & | |||||
Services - 9.4% | |||||
Henry Schein, Inc. (a) | 4,169 | 336,730 | |||
Masimo Corp. (a) | 5,500 | 113,960 | |||
MedAssets Inc. (a) | 24,390 | 392,679 | |||
Natus Medical Inc. (a) | 26,850 | 303,942 | |||
Patterson Cos., Inc. | 9,580 | 326,678 | |||
ResMed Inc. | 9,775 | 401,655 | |||
Waters Corp. (a) | 2,224 | 188,039 | |||
Zimmer Holdings, Inc. | 3,675 | 242,440 | |||
2,306,123 | |||||
Health Care Services - 0.9% | |||||
McKesson Corp. | 2,445 | 230,979 | |||
Pharmaceuticals & | |||||
Biotechnology - 0.6% | |||||
Illumina, Inc. (a) | 2,675 | 143,674 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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MIDCAP FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Shares | Value | |||||
COMMON STOCKS (continued) | ||||||
Industrials - 16.6% | ||||||
Aerospace & Defense - 1.0% | ||||||
Alliant Techsystems Inc. | 4,209 | $ | 252,540 | |||
Construction & Materials - 3.4% | ||||||
Masco Corp. | 24,500 | 415,520 | ||||
Mueller Water Products, Inc. | ||||||
Class A | 33,900 | 189,162 | ||||
USG Corp. (a) | 8,875 | 238,116 | ||||
842,798 | ||||||
Electrical Equipment - 1.0% | ||||||
Regal-Beloit Corp. | 3,555 | 247,961 | ||||
Industrial Engineering - 4.9% | ||||||
Ingersoll-Rand PLC | 8,075 | 393,898 | ||||
Rockwell Automation, Inc. | 5,495 | 435,424 | ||||
SPX Corp. | 5,550 | 378,066 | ||||
1,207,388 | ||||||
Support Services - 6.3% | ||||||
Cintas Corp. | 5,720 | 237,037 | ||||
EnergySolutions (a) | 200,760 | 656,485 | ||||
Mobile Mini, Inc. (a) | 23,245 | 463,970 | ||||
W.W. Grainger, Inc. | 948 | 183,931 | ||||
1,541,423 | ||||||
Information Technology - 20.8% | ||||||
Computer Programs - 4.9% | ||||||
Electronic Arts Inc. (a) | 36,915 | 546,711 | ||||
Take-Two Interactive Software, | ||||||
Inc. (a) | 53,685 | 664,083 | ||||
1,210,794 | ||||||
Electronic & Electrical | ||||||
Equipment - 3.6% | ||||||
Celestica Inc. (a) | 16,381 | 120,892 | ||||
Flextronics International Ltd. (a) | 31,542 | 182,628 | ||||
Maxwell Technologies, Inc. (a) | 55,950 | 405,637 | ||||
Molex Inc. Class A | 8,560 | 185,838 | ||||
894,995 | ||||||
IT Services - 2.5% | ||||||
Alliance Data Systems Corp. (a) | 2,540 | 361,925 | ||||
Fiserv, Inc. (a) | 3,322 | 255,761 | ||||
617,686 | ||||||
Technology Hardware & | ||||||
Equipment - 9.8% | ||||||
Altera Corp. | 7,550 | 244,545 | ||||
Broadcom Corp. Class A (a) | 15,305 | 495,576 | ||||
Cavium Inc. (a) | 11,475 | 404,264 | ||||
JDS Uniphase Corp. (a) | 47,231 | 572,912 | ||||
Linear Technology Corp. | 9,060 | 300,701 | ||||
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. | 13,051 | 380,959 | ||||
2,398,957 | ||||||
Materials - 4.5% | ||||||
Chemicals - 3.5% | ||||||
Ecolab Inc. | 5,706 | 411,288 | ||||
International Flavors & | ||||||
Fragrances Inc. | 6,770 | 440,253 | ||||
851,541 | ||||||
Household Materials - 1.0% | ||||||
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. Class A | 5,746 | 238,229 | ||||
Utilities - 2.4% | ||||||
Electricity - 0.5% | ||||||
Pepco Holdings, Inc. | 5,660 | 111,728 | ||||
Gas, Water & Multiutilities - 1.9% | ||||||
MDU Resources Group, Inc. | 14,297 | 296,234 | ||||
SCANA Corp. | 3,389 | 157,046 | ||||
453,280 | ||||||
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | ||||||
(COST $22,869,999) | 24,531,562 | |||||
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.0% | ||||||
Money Market Funds - 0.0% | ||||||
Fidelity Money Market Portfolio | ||||||
Class I, 0.140% (b) | 964 | 964 | ||||
Total Money Market Funds | 964 | |||||
TOTAL SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS | ||||||
(COST $964) | 964 | |||||
TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 99.9% | ||||||
(COST $22,870,963) | 24,532,526 | |||||
NET OTHER ASSETS AND | ||||||
LIABILITIES - 0.1% | 22,735 | |||||
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | $ | 24,555,261 |
(a) | Non-income producing security. | |
(b) | Interest rate shown represents the current coupon rate at November 30, 2012. | |
PLC: Public Limited Company |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND INVESTMENT REVIEW (Unaudited) |
November 30, 2012 |
Portfolio Managers
James T. Evans, CFA
Jason L. Stephens, CFA
John W. Thompson, CFA
Performance
The Bond Fund produced a total return of 9.70% for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2012, as compared to its benchmark, the Barclays U.S. Government/Credit 1-5 Year Index, which returned 2.53%.
Comparison of Change in Value of a Hypothetical $10,000 Investment
Average Annual Total Returns | ||||||||
Through 11/30/12 | ||||||||
1 Year | 3 Year | 5 Year | 10 Year | |||||
Thompson Bond Fund | 9.70% | 6.35% | 8.10% | 6.92% | ||||
Barclays U.S. Gov’t./Credit 1-5 Year Index | 2.53% | 2.81% | 3.89% | 3.88% |
Gross Expense Ratio as of 03/31/12 was 0.84%. | 30-Day SEC Yield as of 11/30/12 was 2.43%. |
Net Expense Ratio after reimbursement was 0.80%.* | 30-Day SEC Yield (without reimbursement) as of 11/30/12 was 2.43%. |
* | The Advisor has contractually agreed to waive management fees and/or reimburse expenses incurred by the Bond Fund through March 31, 2013 so that the annual operating expenses of the Fund do not exceed 0.80% of its average daily net assets. |
Performance data quoted represents past performance; past performance does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance of the Fund may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Performance data current to the most recent month-end may be obtained by calling 1-800-999-0887 or visiting www.thompsonim.com.
Results include the reinvestment of all dividends and capital gains distributions. Investment performance reflects all fee waivers that may be in effect. In the absence of such waivers, total return would be reduced. The performance information reflected in the graph and the table above does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares, nor does it imply future performance. The Barclays U.S. Government/Credit 1-5 Year Index is a market-value-weighted index of all investment-grade bonds with maturities of more than one year and less than 5 years. You cannot directly invest in an index.
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND INVESTMENT REVIEW (Unaudited) (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Management Commentary
The positive relative performance of the Fund over the annual period far exceeded our initial expectations. It benefited from a combination of declining interest rates, narrowing corporate spreads and a yield advantage over its benchmark driven by our current allocation to higher yielding corporate bonds. Each factor in isolation, assuming all else equal, would have been enough to allow the Fund to outperform its benchmark. Together they combined for an outstanding fiscal year.
This trifecta of positive influences is rare. Short and intermediate term changes in interest rates and spreads are typically random in nature. To have both work so strongly in favor of shareholders during the annual period was a fortuitous outcome that is unlikely to be repeated going forward. Corporate spreads at the BBB credit level are near the middle of their historical normal range, suggesting a balanced possibility of widening or narrowing during the next fiscal year. Overall, interest rates are near record lows, suggesting that further declines are unlikely. However, with the traditional relationship between the yield curve and inflation expectations distorted by quantitative easing and other manipulation of the yield curve by the Federal Reserve, no outcome can be completely ruled out. Regardless, we do not expect the same tailwinds from changes in rates and spreads to continue into the new year.
We remain prepared for the possibility that interest rates could start to meaningfully increase from current levels, and we believe that the current structure of the Fund’s portfolio, with duration of only 2.85 years at fiscal year-end, would mitigate the impact of such an increase to some degree. Within the ladder, we have increased the proportion of the securities in the Fund having expected maturities of one year or less. If rates do rise and longer maturity bonds become more attractive, our current plan is to reallocate from these securities into higher yielding securities. For now though, we believe our larger than benchmark allocation to corporate bonds should continue to provide an attractive option for fixed income investors due to their current higher yields.
Opinions expressed are subject to change, are not guaranteed and should not be considered investment advice.
Mutual fund investing involves risk, principal loss is possible. Investments in debt securities typically decrease in value when interest rates rise. The risk is usually greater for longer-term debt securities. Investments in bonds of foreign issuers involve greater volatility, political and economic risks, and differences in accounting methods. Investment by the Fund in lower-rated and non-rated securities presents a greater risk of loss to principal and interest than higher-rated securities.
Please refer to the Schedule of Investments on page 17 of this report for holdings information. The management commentary above as well as Fund holdings should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. In addition, please note that Fund holdings are subject to change.
The federal government guarantees interest payments from government securities while dividend payments carry no such guarantee. Government securities, if held to maturity, guarantee the timely payment of principal and interest.
Duration is a commonly used measure of the potential volatility of the price of a debt security, or the aggregate market value of a portfolio of debt securities, prior to maturity. Securities with a longer duration generally have more volatile prices than securities of comparable quality with a shorter duration.
SEC Yield is a standardized yield computed by dividing the net investment income per share earned during the 30-day period prior to quarter-end and was created to allow for fairer comparisons among bond funds.
Yield is the income earned from a bond, which takes into account the sum of the interest payment, the redemption value at the bond’s maturity, and the initial purchase price of the bond.
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND INVESTMENT REVIEW (Unaudited) (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Portfolio Concentration at 11/30/12 | ||
(Includes cash and cash equivalents) | ||
% Total Investments | ||
Quality | ||
U.S. Government & Agency Issues | 0.13% | |
AAA | 0.23% | |
AA | 3.00% | |
A | 12.01% | |
BBB | 82.08% | |
BB and Below | 2.41% | |
Not Rated | 0.02% | |
Money Market Funds | 0.12% | |
100.00% | ||
Effective Maturity | ||
Under 1 year | 23.09% | |
1 to 3 years | 21.66% | |
3 to 5 years | 26.03% | |
5 to 10 years | 29.22% | |
100.00% | ||
Asset Allocation | ||
Corporate Bonds | 90.01% | |
Convertible Bonds | 4.96% | |
Asset-Backed Securities | 4.55% | |
Taxable Municipal Bonds | 0.23% | |
Federal Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities | 0.13% | |
Money Market Funds | 0.12% | |
100.00% | ||
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS |
November 30, 2012 |
Principal | |||||||
Amount | Value | ||||||
BONDS - 98.8% | |||||||
Asset-Backed Securities - 4.5% | |||||||
Beaver Valley II Funding | |||||||
9.000% due 6/1/2017 | $ | 10,000 | $ | 10,209 | |||
Continental Airlines | |||||||
2009-2 Class B | |||||||
9.250% due 5/10/2017 | 750,485 | 819,905 | |||||
Continental Airlines | |||||||
2010-1 Class B | |||||||
6.000% due 1/12/2019 | 88,787 | 90,785 | |||||
Delta Air Lines 2007-1 A | |||||||
6.821% due 8/10/2022 | 10,905,882 | 12,220,041 | |||||
Delta Air Lines 2009-1 B | |||||||
9.750% due 12/17/2016 | 533,425 | 597,436 | |||||
General American | |||||||
Railcar 1997-1 | |||||||
6.690% due 9/20/2016 (d) | 361,643 | 373,380 | |||||
General American Railcar II | |||||||
6.210% due 9/20/2017 | 6,280,118 | 6,571,105 | |||||
General American Railcar III | |||||||
7.760% due 8/20/2018 (d) | 1,220,034 | 1,287,746 | |||||
Maritimes & Northeast | |||||||
Pipeline LLC | |||||||
7.500% due 5/31/2014 (d) | 24,882,000 | 26,268,176 | |||||
Northwest Airlines | |||||||
2001-1 Class A-1 | |||||||
7.041% due 4/1/2022 | 470,605 | 524,724 | |||||
Northwest Airlines | |||||||
2002-1 Class G-2 Trust | |||||||
6.264% due 11/20/2021 | 1,067,851 | 1,131,922 | |||||
Northwest Airlines | |||||||
2007-1 Class A Trust | |||||||
7.027% due 11/1/2019 | 4,212,358 | 4,638,649 | |||||
Prologis, Inc. | |||||||
7.810% due 2/1/2015 | 3,351,000 | 3,430,117 | |||||
World Financial Properties | |||||||
Tower B Corp. | |||||||
6.910% due 9/1/2013 (d) | 174,423 | 176,875 | |||||
Total Asset-Backed Securities | 58,141,070 | ||||||
Convertible Bonds - 4.9% | |||||||
Amgen Inc. | |||||||
0.375% due 2/1/2013 | 782,000 | 900,766 | |||||
EMC Corp. | |||||||
1.750% due 12/1/2013 | 1,000,000 | 1,570,000 | |||||
Hospitality Properties Trust | |||||||
3.800% due 3/15/2027 | 7,309,000 | 7,162,820 | |||||
Medtronic, Inc. | |||||||
1.625% due 4/15/2013 | 4,073,000 | 4,065,363 | |||||
NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. | |||||||
2.500% due 8/15/2013 | 15,000 | 15,038 | |||||
Prologis, Inc. | |||||||
1.875% due 11/15/2037 | 43,000 | 43,000 | |||||
2.625% due 5/15/2038 | 20,921,000 | 21,025,605 | |||||
2.625% due 5/15/2038 | 60,000 | 60,300 | |||||
Transocean Inc. | |||||||
1.500% due 12/15/2037 | 28,500,000 | 28,535,625 | |||||
Total Convertible Bonds | 63,378,517 | ||||||
Corporate Bonds - 89.1% | |||||||
Advance Auto Parts, Inc. | |||||||
5.750% due 5/1/2020 | 21,826,000 | 23,447,497 | |||||
Aetna Inc. | |||||||
6.750% due 9/15/2013 | 45,000 | 46,878 | |||||
Altria Group, Inc. | |||||||
7.000% due 11/4/2013 | 35,000 | 36,826 | |||||
8.500% due 11/10/2013 | 33,000 | 35,357 | |||||
American Express | |||||||
6.650% due 9/15/2015 | 90,000 | 101,589 | |||||
6.900% due 9/15/2015 | 277,000 | 313,867 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Principal | |||||||
Amount | Value | ||||||
BONDS (continued) | |||||||
Corporate Bonds (continued) | |||||||
American Financial Group, Inc. | |||||||
9.875% due 6/15/2019 | $ | 1,751,000 | $ | 2,294,918 | |||
American General Finance | |||||||
6.000% due 10/15/2014 | 1,000,000 | 961,232 | |||||
6.000% due 12/15/2014 | 1,000,000 | 964,185 | |||||
American Standard Inc. | |||||||
5.500% due 4/1/2015 | 25,000 | 26,932 | |||||
Amphenol Corp. | |||||||
4.750% due 11/15/2014 | 1,698,000 | 1,811,802 | |||||
Anheuser-Busch Cos. LLC | |||||||
4.375% due 1/15/2013 | 6,000 | 6,022 | |||||
Arden Realty LP | |||||||
5.250% due 3/1/2015 | 3,019,000 | 3,255,364 | |||||
Arrow Electronics, Inc. | |||||||
6.875% due 7/1/2013 | 10,000 | 10,337 | |||||
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. | |||||||
6.000% due 8/15/2014 | 4,116,000 | 4,397,378 | |||||
Associated Banc-Corp | |||||||
9.250% due 10/15/2018 | 74,000 | 75,433 | |||||
Associates Corp. N.A. | |||||||
6.950% due 11/1/2018 | 691,000 | 837,146 | |||||
Astoria Financial Corp. | |||||||
5.000% due 6/19/2017 | 26,825,000 | 28,264,832 | |||||
AutoZone, Inc. | |||||||
4.375% due 6/1/2013 | 150,000 | 152,742 | |||||
Avnet, Inc. | |||||||
6.000% due 9/1/2015 | 90,000 | 97,980 | |||||
6.625% due 9/15/2016 | 551,000 | 623,425 | |||||
Avon Products, Inc. | |||||||
4.800% due 3/1/2013 | 350,000 | 352,649 | |||||
6.500% due 3/1/2019 | 23,278,000 | 25,314,429 | |||||
Axis Capital Holdings | |||||||
5.750% due 12/1/2014 | 5,622,000 | 6,025,356 | |||||
Bank of America Corp. | |||||||
5.000% due 12/15/2012 | 20,000 | 20,019 | |||||
4.750% due 8/15/2013 | 485,000 | 496,443 | |||||
4.750% due 8/15/2013 | 20,000 | 20,333 | |||||
7.375% due 5/15/2014 | 866,000 | 940,377 | |||||
5.375% due 6/15/2014 | 50,000 | 52,954 | |||||
5.350% due 9/15/2015 | 549,000 | 594,531 | |||||
5.250% due 12/1/2015 | 333,000 | 358,995 | |||||
5.625% due 10/14/2016 | 935,000 | 1,063,847 | |||||
6.000% due 8/15/2017 | 115,000 | 129,070 | |||||
6.050% due 8/15/2017 | 948,000 | 1,071,374 | |||||
5.750% due 12/1/2017 | 555,000 | 641,841 | |||||
5.350% due 3/15/2018 | 81,000 | 87,904 | |||||
5.800% due 2/15/2019 | 10,000 | 10,958 | |||||
7.625% due 6/1/2019 | 730,000 | 933,379 | |||||
6.400% due 8/15/2019 | 141,000 | 162,298 | |||||
6.750% due 8/15/2019 | 671,000 | 783,537 | |||||
4.625% due 3/30/2020 (b) | 130,000 | 131,278 | |||||
4.250% due 5/6/2020 (b) | 698,000 | 702,857 | |||||
5.560% due 11/23/2020 (b) | 25,000 | 24,999 | |||||
4.250% due 5/31/2022 (b) | 588,000 | 589,907 | |||||
6.125% due 12/15/2037 | 50,000 | 49,999 | |||||
6.150% due 12/15/2037 | 71,000 | 70,995 | |||||
Bear Stearns Cos. LLC | |||||||
5.300% due 9/15/2013 | 20,000 | 20,532 | |||||
3.440% due 3/10/2014 (a) | 270,000 | 269,166 | |||||
3.390% due 4/10/2014 (a) | 100,000 | 102,126 | |||||
Best Buy Co., Inc. | |||||||
7.250% due 7/15/2013 (a) | 570,000 | 574,275 | |||||
3.750% due 3/15/2016 | 17,902,000 | 16,067,045 | |||||
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. | |||||||
8.000% due 9/15/2016 | 18,794,000 | 20,344,336 | |||||
Black Hills Corp. | |||||||
9.000% due 5/15/2014 | 2,452,000 | 2,713,766 | |||||
Boston Properties LP | |||||||
5.625% due 4/15/2015 | 331,000 | 364,812 | |||||
Boston Scientific Corp. | |||||||
5.450% due 6/15/2014 | 1,392,000 | 1,481,288 | |||||
6.250% due 11/15/2015 (a) | 3,358,000 | 3,792,676 | |||||
Brinker International | |||||||
5.750% due 6/1/2014 | 8,362,000 | 8,870,543 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Principal | |||||||
Amount | Value | ||||||
BONDS (continued) | |||||||
Corporate Bonds (continued) | |||||||
Brocade Communications | |||||||
Systems, Inc. | |||||||
6.625% due 1/15/2018 | $ | 19,781,000 | $ | 20,522,787 | |||
6.875% due 1/15/2020 | 1,853,000 | 2,010,505 | |||||
CA, Inc. | |||||||
6.125% due 12/1/2014 | 1,614,000 | 1,758,732 | |||||
Capital One Financial | |||||||
6.500% due 6/13/2013 | 524,000 | 539,739 | |||||
6.150% due 9/1/2016 | 300,000 | 345,175 | |||||
Carpenter Technology Corp. | |||||||
7.060% due 5/21/2018 | 500,000 | 552,874 | |||||
7.030% due 5/22/2018 | 8,000 | 8,835 | |||||
Caterpillar Financial | |||||||
Services Corp. | |||||||
5.050% due 2/15/2013 | 90,000 | 90,360 | |||||
4.250% due 4/15/2013 | 10,000 | 10,094 | |||||
Centel Capital Corp. | |||||||
9.000% due 10/15/2019 | 10,000 | 11,973 | |||||
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. | |||||||
6.850% due 6/1/2015 | 192,000 | 217,396 | |||||
Chesapeake & Potomac | |||||||
Telephone Co. | |||||||
7.150% due 5/1/2023 | 2,871,000 | 2,930,206 | |||||
7.150% due 5/1/2023 | 9,000 | 9,176 | |||||
Citigroup Funding, Inc. | |||||||
4.250% due 12/15/2018 (b) | 10,000 | 10,057 | |||||
Citigroup Global Markets | |||||||
Holdings Inc. | |||||||
5.000% due 3/15/2024 | 13,000 | 13,000 | |||||
5.600% due 9/15/2029 | 41,000 | 40,998 | |||||
Citigroup, Inc. | |||||||
5.500% due 4/11/2013 | 2,305,000 | 2,343,729 | |||||
5.850% due 7/2/2013 | 1,765,000 | 1,816,602 | |||||
6.500% due 8/19/2013 | 2,025,000 | 2,105,131 | |||||
6.000% due 12/13/2013 | 5,448,000 | 5,732,892 | |||||
5.125% due 5/5/2014 | 168,000 | 177,282 | |||||
5.000% due 9/15/2014 | 3,085,000 | 3,248,533 | |||||
6.010% due 1/15/2015 | 274,000 | 300,176 | |||||
4.875% due 5/7/2015 | 115,000 | 122,772 | |||||
5.500% due 2/15/2017 | 180,000 | 199,755 | |||||
6.125% due 11/21/2017 | 1,269,000 | 1,508,243 | |||||
6.125% due 5/15/2018 | 176,000 | 210,631 | |||||
Cleveland Electric | |||||||
Illuminating Co. | |||||||
5.650% due 12/15/2013 | 189,000 | 197,846 | |||||
CNA Financial Corp. | |||||||
5.850% due 12/15/2014 | 1,552,000 | 1,687,311 | |||||
6.500% due 8/15/2016 | 1,250,000 | 1,446,268 | |||||
6.950% due 1/15/2018 | 605,000 | 705,175 | |||||
Colonial Realty LP | |||||||
6.150% due 4/15/2013 | 700,000 | 710,758 | |||||
Commercial Net | |||||||
Lease Realty, Inc. | |||||||
6.250% due 6/15/2014 | 1,060,000 | 1,136,923 | |||||
6.150% due 12/15/2015 | 443,000 | 502,031 | |||||
Computer Sciences Corp. | |||||||
6.500% due 3/15/2018 | 19,477,000 | 22,418,105 | |||||
Con-way Inc. | |||||||
7.250% due 1/15/2018 | 13,089,000 | 15,265,308 | |||||
Countrywide Financial Corp. | |||||||
5.000% due 5/11/2015 | 30,000 | 29,334 | |||||
5.750% due 6/24/2015 (b) | 560,000 | 560,137 | |||||
6.500% due 7/28/2015 (b) | 138,000 | 137,797 | |||||
6.250% due 5/15/2016 | 952,000 | 1,050,774 | |||||
5.250% due 5/27/2020 | 173,000 | 171,186 | |||||
6.000% due 8/26/2020 (b) | 92,000 | 90,487 | |||||
Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. | |||||||
6.730% due 4/17/2013 | 93,000 | 94,621 | |||||
6.000% due 1/24/2018 | 1,069,000 | 1,068,133 | |||||
5.500% due 5/16/2018 | 240,000 | 237,843 | |||||
Coventry Health Care, Inc. | |||||||
6.300% due 8/15/2014 | 8,184,000 | 8,870,277 | |||||
6.125% due 1/15/2015 | 1,136,000 | 1,245,455 | |||||
5.950% due 3/15/2017 | 854,000 | 999,148 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Principal | ||||||
Amount | Value | |||||
BONDS (continued) | ||||||
Corporate Bonds (continued) | ||||||
Crane Co. | ||||||
5.500% due 9/15/2013 | $ | 45,000 | $ | 46,208 | ||
Cytec Industries Inc. | ||||||
4.600% due 7/1/2013 | 265,000 | 268,943 | ||||
Darden Restaurants | ||||||
7.125% due 2/1/2016 | 75,000 | 85,525 | ||||
Dean Witter Discover & Co. | ||||||
6.750% due 10/15/2013 | 92,000 | 96,367 | ||||
Dexia Credit Local | ||||||
2.000% due 3/5/2013 (d) | 17,000,000 | 17,019,975 | ||||
2.750% due 1/10/2014 (d) | 5,000,000 | 5,050,685 | ||||
Discover Financial Services | ||||||
6.450% due 6/12/2017 | 590,000 | 693,059 | ||||
10.250% due 7/15/2019 | 7,664,000 | 10,022,803 | ||||
Domtar Corp. | ||||||
10.750% due 6/1/2017 | 4,987,000 | 6,510,015 | ||||
Dow Chemical Co. | ||||||
4.300% due 6/15/2013 | 30,000 | 30,488 | ||||
6.850% due 8/15/2013 | 250,000 | 260,175 | ||||
7.600% due 5/15/2014 | 1,688,000 | 1,849,928 | ||||
5.900% due 2/15/2015 | 650,000 | 720,122 | ||||
5.050% due 9/15/2020 | 105,000 | 105,501 | ||||
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. | ||||||
6.120% due 5/1/2013 | 5,000 | 5,113 | ||||
Duquesne Light Holdings Inc. | ||||||
5.500% due 8/15/2015 | 6,799,000 | 7,387,834 | ||||
Eaton Corp. | ||||||
4.900% due 5/15/2013 | 15,000 | 15,294 | ||||
Electronic Data Systems | ||||||
6.000% due 8/1/2013 | 638,000 | 653,811 | ||||
Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. | ||||||
4.750% due 6/1/2013 | 25,000 | 25,409 | ||||
Endurance Specialty | ||||||
Holdings Ltd. | ||||||
6.150% due 10/15/2015 | 5,990,000 | 6,603,466 | ||||
Enel Finance Int’l. N.V. | ||||||
6.250% due 9/15/2017 (d) | 1,706,000 | 1,890,060 | ||||
5.125% due 10/7/2019 (d) | 5,000,000 | 5,206,500 | ||||
5.125% due 10/7/2019 | 500,000 | 520,650 | ||||
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. | ||||||
6.000% due 7/1/2013 | 272,000 | 279,279 | ||||
Entergy Corp. | ||||||
5.250% due 8/1/2013 | 17,000 | 17,409 | ||||
Expedia, Inc. | ||||||
7.456% due 8/15/2018 | 17,549,000 | 20,980,777 | ||||
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. | ||||||
8.250% due 10/1/2015 | 1,904,000 | 2,173,993 | ||||
7.750% due 6/15/2017 | 397,000 | 410,716 | ||||
7.375% due 4/15/2018 | 11,333,000 | 13,100,517 | ||||
5.800% due 5/15/2021 (d) | 12,040,000 | 12,531,581 | ||||
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. | ||||||
6.600% due 5/15/2017 | 15,861,000 | 17,970,751 | ||||
Fifth Third Bancorp | ||||||
6.250% due 5/1/2013 | 1,356,000 | 1,386,650 | ||||
First Horizon National Corp. | ||||||
5.375% due 12/15/2015 | 895,000 | 977,734 | ||||
First Tennessee Bank | ||||||
4.500% due 5/15/2013 | 1,780,000 | 1,803,115 | ||||
4.625% due 5/15/2013 | 7,703,000 | 7,820,640 | ||||
5.050% due 1/15/2015 | 2,672,000 | 2,793,098 | ||||
5.650% due 4/1/2016 | 5,247,000 | 5,738,445 | ||||
Florida Power & Light Co. | ||||||
4.850% due 2/1/2013 | 5,000 | 5,035 | ||||
Fortune Brands, Inc. | ||||||
4.875% due 12/1/2013 | 10,000 | 10,365 | ||||
6.375% due 6/15/2014 | 370,000 | 400,372 | ||||
5.375% due 1/15/2016 | 10,000 | 11,237 | ||||
Gazprom OAO Via Gaz | ||||||
Capital S.A. | ||||||
9.250% due 4/23/2019 (d) | 1,500,000 | 1,968,585 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Principal | ||||||
Amount | Value | |||||
BONDS (continued) | ||||||
Corporate Bonds (continued) | ||||||
General Electric Capital Corp. | ||||||
5.000% due 12/15/2012 | $ | 41,000 | $ | 41,042 | ||
5.000% due 12/15/2012 | 160,000 | 160,189 | ||||
5.100% due 12/15/2012 | 108,000 | 108,000 | ||||
4.150% due 6/15/2013 | 10,000 | 10,106 | ||||
6.500% due 10/15/2013 | 118,000 | 118,337 | ||||
5.900% due 5/13/2014 | 450,000 | 483,373 | ||||
5.600% due 7/15/2014 | 500,000 | 533,746 | ||||
4.250% due 5/15/2015 | 40,000 | 39,998 | ||||
4.500% due 5/15/2015 | 81,000 | 80,627 | ||||
4.750% due 5/15/2015 | 11,000 | 10,995 | ||||
4.750% due 5/15/2015 | 80,000 | 79,994 | ||||
4.125% due 6/15/2015 | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||
4.125% due 6/15/2015 | 180,000 | 179,991 | ||||
4.300% due 6/15/2015 | 130,000 | 129,993 | ||||
5.250% due 6/15/2015 | 25,000 | 27,151 | ||||
5.400% due 6/15/2015 | 59,000 | 64,299 | ||||
5.500% due 8/15/2015 | 30,000 | 32,954 | ||||
5.600% due 12/15/2015 | 211,000 | 210,994 | ||||
5.250% due 1/15/2016 | 473,000 | 472,984 | ||||
5.450% due 1/15/2016 | 49,000 | 48,471 | ||||
5.250% due 2/15/2016 | 38,000 | 38,208 | ||||
5.375% due 2/15/2016 | 158,000 | 159,418 | ||||
5.000% due 4/15/2016 | 271,000 | 270,963 | ||||
5.000% due 4/15/2016 | 45,000 | 47,778 | ||||
5.000% due 5/15/2016 | 93,000 | 93,770 | ||||
5.625% due 10/15/2016 | 30,000 | 30,336 | ||||
5.700% due 10/15/2016 | 15,000 | 15,002 | ||||
6.750% due 12/15/2016 | 55,000 | 54,994 | ||||
5.125% due 2/15/2017 | 10,000 | 10,057 | ||||
4.750% due 3/15/2017 | 395,000 | 396,955 | ||||
4.500% due 5/15/2017 | 59,000 | 59,029 | ||||
4.500% due 7/15/2017 | 217,000 | 216,700 | ||||
5.375% due 8/15/2017 | 38,000 | 38,117 | ||||
5.450% due 8/15/2017 | 10,000 | 10,068 | ||||
5.625% due 12/15/2017 | 659,000 | 658,958 | ||||
5.625% due 12/15/2017 | 222,000 | 222,123 | ||||
5.000% due 3/15/2018 | 170,000 | 170,364 | ||||
5.000% due 3/15/2018 | 120,000 | 120,240 | ||||
5.000% due 3/15/2018 | 40,000 | 39,999 | ||||
5.100% due 4/15/2018 | 83,000 | 83,001 | ||||
5.250% due 4/15/2018 | 124,000 | 124,638 | ||||
6.750% due 4/15/2018 | 373,000 | 444,157 | ||||
4.750% due 5/15/2018 | 70,000 | 70,001 | ||||
5.000% due 5/15/2018 | 115,000 | 114,009 | ||||
5.000% due 5/15/2018 | 30,000 | 30,109 | ||||
6.300% due 5/15/2018 | 1,790,000 | 2,107,958 | ||||
4.500% due 6/15/2018 | 307,000 | 306,994 | ||||
4.500% due 6/15/2018 | 132,000 | 131,990 | ||||
4.650% due 6/15/2018 | 151,000 | 150,996 | ||||
6.000% due 7/15/2018 | 57,000 | 66,270 | ||||
6.000% due 7/15/2018 | 39,000 | 45,475 | ||||
5.250% due 1/15/2019 | 37,000 | 37,003 | ||||
5.250% due 4/15/2019 | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||
5.750% due 5/15/2019 | 86,000 | 88,063 | ||||
5.450% due 7/15/2019 | 50,000 | 50,137 | ||||
5.500% due 7/15/2019 | 11,000 | 11,001 | ||||
6.150% due 7/15/2019 | 75,000 | 74,998 | ||||
5.250% due 8/15/2019 | 16,000 | 16,032 | ||||
5.250% due 8/15/2019 | 65,000 | 65,002 | ||||
5.375% due 8/15/2019 | 16,000 | 16,001 | ||||
5.600% due 8/15/2019 | 27,000 | 27,111 | ||||
5.650% due 8/15/2019 | 76,000 | 75,999 | ||||
6.000% due 8/15/2019 | 20,000 | 19,996 | ||||
6.000% due 8/15/2019 | 56,000 | 56,113 | ||||
5.000% due 9/15/2019 | 60,000 | 59,998 | ||||
5.125% due 9/15/2019 | 52,000 | 51,999 | ||||
5.250% due 9/15/2019 | 42,000 | 42,151 | ||||
5.750% due 9/15/2019 | 15,000 | 15,053 | ||||
5.750% due 9/15/2019 | 10,000 | 9,999 | ||||
5.750% due 9/15/2019 | 5,000 | 5,001 | ||||
5.800% due 9/15/2019 | 40,000 | 40,395 | ||||
5.000% due 10/15/2019 | 50,000 | 49,962 | ||||
5.100% due 10/15/2019 | 33,000 | 33,018 | ||||
5.125% due 10/15/2019 | 70,000 | 70,015 | ||||
5.250% due 10/15/2019 | 115,000 | 115,004 | ||||
5.450% due 10/15/2019 | 32,000 | 31,976 | ||||
5.500% due 10/15/2019 | 163,000 | 163,456 | ||||
5.000% due 11/15/2019 | 125,000 | 124,322 | ||||
5.500% due 11/15/2019 | 136,000 | 136,002 | ||||
5.500% due 11/15/2019 | 115,000 | 115,000 | ||||
5.550% due 11/15/2019 | 50,000 | 49,999 | ||||
5.100% due 12/15/2019 | 51,000 | 51,000 | ||||
5.150% due 12/15/2019 | 50,000 | 49,999 | ||||
5.350% due 12/15/2019 | 80,000 | 80,032 | ||||
5.375% due 12/15/2019 | 8,000 | 8,001 | ||||
5.500% due 12/15/2019 | 57,000 | 56,995 | ||||
5.800% due 12/15/2019 | 68,000 | 68,058 | ||||
5.300% due 1/15/2020 | 65,000 | 64,999 | ||||
5.500% due 1/15/2020 | 39,000 | 39,008 | ||||
5.750% due 1/15/2020 | 60,000 | 59,940 | ||||
5.000% due 2/15/2020 | 100,000 | 100,699 | ||||
5.000% due 2/15/2020 | 53,000 | 52,997 | ||||
5.375% due 2/15/2020 | 37,000 | 36,999 | ||||
5.500% due 2/15/2020 | 33,000 | 32,831 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Principal | ||||||
Amount | Value | |||||
BONDS (continued) | ||||||
Corporate Bonds (continued) | ||||||
General Electric Capital Corp. (continued) | ||||||
5.625% due 2/15/2020 | $ | 21,000 | $ | 20,998 | ||
5.125% due 3/15/2020 | 34,000 | 34,115 | ||||
5.150% due 3/15/2020 | 78,000 | 78,026 | ||||
5.200% due 3/15/2020 | 21,000 | 20,966 | ||||
5.350% due 3/15/2020 | 35,000 | 35,028 | ||||
5.375% due 3/15/2020 | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||
5.400% due 3/15/2020 | 143,000 | 142,596 | ||||
5.000% due 5/15/2020 | 20,000 | 19,710 | ||||
5.250% due 12/15/2021 | 31,000 | 30,999 | ||||
5.500% due 3/15/2023 | 158,000 | 158,114 | ||||
5.750% due 12/15/2024 | 90,000 | 90,011 | ||||
5.000% due 7/15/2028 | 124,000 | 124,043 | ||||
6.000% due 11/15/2037 | 62,000 | 62,000 | ||||
Genworth Financial Inc. | ||||||
8.625% due 12/15/2016 | 8,264,000 | 9,447,082 | ||||
6.515% due 5/22/2018 | 17,309,000 | 18,418,836 | ||||
7.700% due 6/15/2020 | 1,105,000 | 1,189,317 | ||||
Genworth Global Funding Trusts | ||||||
5.750% due 5/15/2013 | 60,000 | 61,177 | ||||
5.500% due 6/15/2013 | 260,000 | 264,137 | ||||
5.350% due 7/15/2013 | 15,000 | 15,216 | ||||
Genworth Life Insurance Co. | ||||||
5.875% due 5/3/2013 (d) | 4,615,000 | 4,700,941 | ||||
Georgia Power Co. | ||||||
6.050% due 12/1/2038 | 61,000 | 61,000 | ||||
Georgia-Pacific LLC | ||||||
8.250% due 5/1/2016 (d) | 3,055,000 | 3,272,247 | ||||
GFI Group Inc. | ||||||
8.625% due 7/19/2018 (a) | 551,000 | 486,258 | ||||
GlobalSantaFe Corp. | ||||||
5.000% due 2/15/2013 | 20,000 | 20,165 | ||||
GMAC LLC | ||||||
7.100% due 1/15/2013 | 32,000 | 31,980 | ||||
6.000% due 7/15/2013 | 60,000 | 59,746 | ||||
0.000% due 6/15/2015 (c) | 1,250,000 | 1,135,938 | ||||
6.350% due 2/15/2016 (b) | 75,000 | 74,231 | ||||
6.500% due 2/15/2016 (b) | 100,000 | 99,742 | ||||
6.500% due 9/15/2016 (b) | 87,000 | 85,992 | ||||
7.250% due 9/15/2017 | 259,000 | 258,674 | ||||
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | ||||||
8.000% due 3/1/2013 (d) | 975,000 | 989,628 | ||||
4.750% due 7/15/2013 | 170,000 | 174,084 | ||||
5.625% due 1/15/2017 | 565,000 | 619,124 | ||||
5.950% due 1/18/2018 | 9,647,000 | 11,164,869 | ||||
Great Plains Energy Inc. | ||||||
6.875% due 9/15/2017 | 30,000 | 36,780 | ||||
Harley-Davidson | ||||||
5.250% due 12/15/2012 (d) | 1,675,000 | 1,677,104 | ||||
15.000% due 2/1/2014 | 500,000 | 565,836 | ||||
5.750% due 12/15/2014 (d) | 3,800,000 | 4,163,839 | ||||
Harsco Corp. | ||||||
5.125% due 9/15/2013 | 123,000 | 126,238 | ||||
Hartford Financial Services | ||||||
4.625% due 7/15/2013 | 2,114,000 | 2,160,356 | ||||
4.750% due 3/1/2014 | 825,000 | 858,602 | ||||
6.300% due 3/15/2018 | 12,311,000 | 14,675,204 | ||||
Hartford Life Insurance Co. | ||||||
5.050% due 7/15/2013 | 35,000 | 35,378 | ||||
Hasbro, Inc. | ||||||
6.125% due 5/15/2014 | 1,000,000 | 1,074,208 | ||||
HCP, Inc. | ||||||
5.650% due 12/15/2013 | 1,455,000 | 1,524,003 | ||||
6.000% due 3/1/2015 | 5,879,000 | 6,415,271 | ||||
7.072% due 6/8/2015 | 703,000 | 790,322 | ||||
Hewlett-Packard Co. | ||||||
1.250% due 9/13/2013 | 1,784,000 | 1,777,176 | ||||
2.600% due 9/15/2017 | 4,673,000 | 4,449,042 | ||||
5.500% due 3/1/2018 | 11,266,000 | 11,951,345 | ||||
Horace Mann Educators Corp. | ||||||
6.850% due 4/15/2016 | 8,242,000 | 9,054,760 | ||||
Hospitality Properties Trust | ||||||
7.875% due 8/15/2014 | 7,500,000 | 8,026,433 | ||||
5.125% due 2/15/2015 | 2,114,000 | 2,211,825 | ||||
6.300% due 6/15/2016 | 271,000 | 300,404 | ||||
5.625% due 3/15/2017 | 2,651,000 | 2,933,570 | ||||
6.700% due 1/15/2018 | 1,047,000 | 1,207,602 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Principal | ||||||
Amount | Value | |||||
BONDS (continued) | ||||||
Corporate Bonds (continued) | ||||||
HRPT Properties Trust | ||||||
5.750% due 2/15/2014 | $ | 1,250,000 | $ | 1,279,931 | ||
5.750% due 11/1/2015 | 3,318,000 | 3,538,328 | ||||
6.250% due 8/15/2016 | 2,520,000 | 2,763,301 | ||||
6.250% due 6/15/2017 | 1,860,000 | 2,043,031 | ||||
6.650% due 1/15/2018 | 17,049,000 | 19,241,314 | ||||
HSBC Finance Corp. | ||||||
5.250% due 12/15/2012 | 10,000 | 10,011 | ||||
5.350% due 12/15/2012 | 78,000 | 77,999 | ||||
5.050% due 1/15/2013 | 1,045,000 | 1,048,153 | ||||
5.150% due 1/15/2013 | 140,000 | 140,327 | ||||
5.500% due 1/15/2013 | 20,000 | 20,075 | ||||
5.000% due 2/15/2013 | 608,000 | 611,120 | ||||
5.250% due 2/15/2013 | 10,000 | 10,041 | ||||
5.500% due 2/15/2013 | 180,000 | 180,762 | ||||
5.500% due 2/15/2013 | 236,000 | 237,364 | ||||
5.650% due 3/15/2013 | 71,000 | 71,828 | ||||
6.000% due 4/15/2013 | 835,000 | 848,459 | ||||
5.350% due 7/15/2013 | 39,000 | 39,820 | ||||
5.750% due 7/15/2013 | 494,000 | 504,750 | ||||
4.710% due 9/15/2013 (a) | 366,000 | 368,584 | ||||
4.330% due 10/10/2013 (a) | 331,000 | 333,588 | ||||
1.850% due 12/15/2013 | 33,000 | 32,581 | ||||
4.110% due 1/10/2014 (a) | 335,000 | 339,998 | ||||
5.600% due 4/15/2014 | 75,000 | 78,783 | ||||
5.500% due 7/15/2014 | 30,000 | 31,324 | ||||
6.000% due 8/15/2014 | 553,000 | 589,260 | ||||
6.000% due 8/15/2014 | 67,000 | 70,909 | ||||
5.800% due 9/15/2014 | 153,000 | 162,828 | ||||
5.850% due 9/15/2014 | 325,000 | 342,229 | ||||
5.650% due 10/15/2014 | 30,000 | 31,417 | ||||
5.750% due 10/15/2014 | 274,000 | 288,657 | ||||
5.350% due 11/15/2014 | 30,000 | 31,802 | ||||
5.600% due 2/15/2018 | 250,000 | 274,264 | ||||
HSBC Holdings PLC | ||||||
5.250% due 12/12/2012 | 3,156,000 | 3,158,888 | ||||
Hyatt Hotels Corp. | ||||||
5.750% due 8/15/2015 (d) | 100,000 | 109,587 | ||||
Iberdrola Finance Ireland Ltd. | ||||||
3.800% due 9/11/2014 (d) | 6,000,000 | 6,169,860 | ||||
5.000% due 9/11/2019 (d) | 12,453,000 | 12,987,732 | ||||
Ingersoll-Rand | ||||||
9.500% due 4/15/2014 | 1,026,000 | 1,142,387 | ||||
Ingram Micro Inc. | ||||||
5.250% due 9/1/2017 | 1,000,000 | 1,082,428 | ||||
International Paper Co. | ||||||
5.500% due 1/15/2014 | 35,000 | 36,552 | ||||
7.400% due 6/15/2014 | 25,000 | 27,188 | ||||
ITT Corp. | ||||||
7.375% due 11/15/2015 | 32,000 | 37,252 | ||||
ITT Hartford Group | ||||||
7.300% due 11/1/2015 | 910,000 | 1,039,300 | ||||
Jefferson-Pilot Corp. | ||||||
4.750% due 1/30/2014 | 3,739,000 | 3,895,735 | ||||
John Hancock Life Ins. Co. | ||||||
4.800% due 10/15/2013 | 5,000 | 5,127 | ||||
5.000% due 12/15/2013 | 5,000 | 5,161 | ||||
5.450% due 9/15/2015 | 201,000 | 218,976 | ||||
5.450% due 10/15/2015 | 29,000 | 31,782 | ||||
5.500% due 11/15/2015 | 75,000 | 82,240 | ||||
5.250% due 12/15/2015 | 25,000 | 27,284 | ||||
5.500% due 12/15/2015 | 25,000 | 27,467 | ||||
5.000% due 4/15/2016 | 60,000 | 65,410 | ||||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | ||||||
5.750% due 1/2/2013 | 950,000 | 953,703 | ||||
5.250% due 5/15/2018 | 65,000 | 64,991 | ||||
5.250% due 3/15/2019 | 20,000 | 20,003 | ||||
Korea Development Bank | ||||||
5.750% due 9/10/2013 | 30,000 | 31,051 | ||||
Korea Electric Power Corp. | ||||||
7.750% due 4/1/2013 | 33,000 | 33,670 | ||||
Lexmark International, Inc. | ||||||
5.900% due 6/1/2013 | 16,341,000 | 16,647,835 | ||||
6.650% due 6/1/2018 | 3,370,000 | 3,709,804 | ||||
Liberty Property LP | ||||||
5.650% due 8/15/2014 | 36,000 | 38,710 | ||||
Lincoln National Corp. | ||||||
4.750% due 2/15/2014 | 1,638,000 | 1,711,530 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Principal | ||||||
Amount | Value | |||||
BONDS (continued) | ||||||
Corporate Bonds (continued) | ||||||
Macy’s Retail Holdings, Inc. | ||||||
5.875% due 1/15/2013 | $ | 95,000 | $ | 95,495 | ||
Manufacturers & | ||||||
Traders Trust Co. | ||||||
5.585% due 12/28/2020 (a) | 347,000 | 346,041 | ||||
Markel Corp. | ||||||
6.800% due 2/15/2013 | 110,000 | 111,159 | ||||
Marriott International, Inc. | ||||||
5.810% due 11/10/2015 | 373,000 | 419,812 | ||||
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. | ||||||
4.850% due 2/15/2013 | 1,295,000 | 1,304,757 | ||||
Masco Corp. | ||||||
7.125% due 8/15/2013 | 4,258,000 | 4,396,338 | ||||
4.800% due 6/15/2015 | 1,456,000 | 1,528,321 | ||||
6.125% due 10/3/2016 | 4,502,000 | 5,001,272 | ||||
5.850% due 3/15/2017 | 2,764,000 | 3,025,220 | ||||
6.625% due 4/15/2018 | 9,013,000 | 9,497,566 | ||||
Maytag Corp. | ||||||
5.000% due 5/15/2015 | 50,000 | 52,554 | ||||
MBNA Corp. | ||||||
5.000% due 6/15/2015 | 800,000 | 861,496 | ||||
Merrill Lynch & Co. | ||||||
5.450% due 2/5/2013 | 1,479,000 | 1,491,307 | ||||
6.150% due 4/25/2013 | 840,000 | 857,615 | ||||
0.000% due 8/30/2013 (c) | 224,000 | 221,652 | ||||
5.000% due 2/3/2014 | 138,000 | 143,781 | ||||
5.450% due 7/15/2014 | 1,082,000 | 1,154,244 | ||||
5.000% due 1/15/2015 | 343,000 | 366,575 | ||||
5.300% due 9/30/2015 | 1,712,000 | 1,881,820 | ||||
6.050% due 5/16/2016 | 3,000,000 | 3,316,170 | ||||
6.400% due 8/28/2017 | 3,048,000 | 3,570,473 | ||||
6.875% due 4/25/2018 | 233,000 | 280,268 | ||||
6.500% due 7/15/2018 | 2,668,000 | 3,134,340 | ||||
6.875% due 11/15/2018 | 2,316,000 | 2,800,824 | ||||
8.400% due 11/1/2019 | 310,000 | 390,505 | ||||
Morgan Stanley | ||||||
4.750% due 4/1/2014 | 4,268,000 | 4,417,448 | ||||
6.000% due 5/13/2014 | 695,000 | 736,781 | ||||
6.000% due 4/28/2015 | 3,753,000 | 4,089,483 | ||||
4.000% due 7/24/2015 | 200,000 | 209,209 | ||||
5.375% due 10/15/2015 | 1,000,000 | 1,083,142 | ||||
5.750% due 10/18/2016 | 2,178,000 | 2,407,524 | ||||
6.250% due 8/28/2017 | 2,800,000 | 3,153,424 | ||||
5.950% due 12/28/2017 | 2,933,000 | 3,321,449 | ||||
6.625% due 4/1/2018 | 10,152,000 | 11,822,765 | ||||
7.300% due 5/13/2019 | 4,020,000 | 4,879,251 | ||||
6.250% due 7/8/2019 (b) | 20,000 | 20,741 | ||||
5.625% due 9/23/2019 | 400,000 | 451,122 | ||||
5.500% due 1/26/2020 | 10,000 | 11,149 | ||||
4.000% due 7/30/2020 (b) | 4,739,000 | 4,787,470 | ||||
4.000% due 8/19/2020 (b) | 444,000 | 444,267 | ||||
MS Structured Step Up | ||||||
Callable Trust 2010-02 | ||||||
4.000% due 7/1/2020 (b) | 35,000 | 34,960 | ||||
Nabisco, Inc. | ||||||
7.550% due 6/15/2015 | 50,000 | 57,920 | ||||
NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. | ||||||
4.000% due 1/15/2015 | 250,000 | 262,126 | ||||
National City Bank of Indiana | ||||||
4.250% due 7/1/2018 | 200,000 | 224,708 | ||||
National City Preferred | ||||||
Capital Trust I | ||||||
12.000% due 12/31/2049 (a) | 15,043,000 | 15,067,520 | ||||
National Retail Properties Inc. | ||||||
6.875% due 10/15/2017 | 2,273,000 | 2,748,252 | ||||
National Rural Utilities | ||||||
4.250% due 8/15/2013 | 35,000 | 35,726 | ||||
7.200% due 10/1/2015 | 30,000 | 34,195 | ||||
NationsBank Corp. | ||||||
0.000% due 8/15/2013 (c) | 248,000 | 245,304 | ||||
7.750% due 8/15/2015 | 2,251,000 | 2,546,129 | ||||
Navigators Group, Inc. | ||||||
7.000% due 5/1/2016 | 12,199,000 | 13,233,012 | ||||
NIPSCO Capital Markets, Inc. | ||||||
7.860% due 3/27/2017 | 38,000 | 44,140 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Principal | ||||||
Amount | Value | |||||
BONDS (continued) | ||||||
Corporate Bonds (continued) | ||||||
NiSource Finance Corp. | ||||||
5.400% due 7/15/2014 | $ | 215,000 | $ | 229,972 | ||
Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. | ||||||
3.250% due 1/30/2013 (d) | 25,000 | 25,096 | ||||
Northern Indiana | ||||||
Public Service Co. | ||||||
7.590% due 6/12/2017 | 182,000 | 215,261 | ||||
Northern Rock Asset | ||||||
Management PLC | ||||||
5.625% due 6/22/2017 (d) | 2,500,000 | 2,944,250 | ||||
Odyssey Re Holdings Corp. | ||||||
7.650% due 11/1/2013 | 174,000 | 183,536 | ||||
Ohio Casualty Corp. | ||||||
7.300% due 6/15/2014 | 437,000 | 470,918 | ||||
OneBeacon U.S. Holdings, Inc. | ||||||
5.875% due 5/15/2013 | 3,086,000 | 3,156,024 | ||||
Owens Corning | ||||||
6.500% due 12/1/2016 | 2,708,000 | 3,061,489 | ||||
Paine Webber Group Inc. | ||||||
7.625% due 2/15/2014 | 50,000 | 52,969 | ||||
Petrobras Argentina S.A. | ||||||
5.875% due 5/15/2017 (d) | 6,750,000 | 7,188,750 | ||||
5.875% due 5/15/2017 | 5,371,000 | 5,720,115 | ||||
Petrohawk Energy Corp. | ||||||
7.875% due 6/1/2015 | 208,000 | 216,442 | ||||
Pitney Bowes Inc. | ||||||
6.250% due 3/15/2019 | 918,000 | 996,786 | ||||
5.250% due 1/15/2037 | 27,441,000 | 28,058,203 | ||||
Platinum Underwriters | ||||||
Finance, Inc. | ||||||
7.500% due 6/1/2017 | 12,271,000 | 13,697,847 | ||||
PNC Funding Corp. | ||||||
5.250% due 11/15/2015 | 352,000 | 393,967 | ||||
PPL Energy Supply, LLC | ||||||
5.400% due 8/15/2014 | 15,000 | 16,040 | ||||
6.500% due 5/1/2018 | 1,000,000 | 1,209,316 | ||||
Principal Financial Group | ||||||
7.875% due 5/15/2014 | 2,750,000 | 3,022,951 | ||||
Principal Life Income | ||||||
Funding Trusts | ||||||
5.300% due 12/14/2012 | 57,000 | 57,071 | ||||
3.572% due 4/1/2016 (a) | 50,000 | 50,883 | ||||
Progressive Corp. | ||||||
7.000% due 10/1/2013 | 25,000 | 26,298 | ||||
Prologis, Inc. | ||||||
7.375% due 10/30/2019 | 5,000 | 5,828 | ||||
6.875% due 3/15/2020 | 10,000 | 12,183 | ||||
Protective Life Corp. | ||||||
4.300% due 6/1/2013 | 402,000 | 409,008 | ||||
4.875% due 11/1/2014 | 820,000 | 867,012 | ||||
Protective Life Secured Trusts | ||||||
4.250% due 3/15/2013 | 18,000 | 18,100 | ||||
5.000% due 5/15/2013 | 5,000 | 5,081 | ||||
Provident Cos., Inc. | ||||||
7.000% due 7/15/2018 | 1,057,000 | 1,211,877 | ||||
Prudential Financial, Inc. | ||||||
4.650% due 2/15/2013 | 69,000 | 69,431 | ||||
5.000% due 6/15/2013 | 75,000 | 75,097 | ||||
4.750% due 4/1/2014 | 5,000 | 5,247 | ||||
5.100% due 9/20/2014 | 225,000 | 241,212 | ||||
6.200% due 1/15/2015 | 1,100,000 | 1,216,735 | ||||
5.000% due 3/16/2015 | 140,000 | 147,292 | ||||
5.250% due 12/15/2016 | 118,000 | 118,009 | ||||
6.000% due 6/15/2018 | 134,000 | 134,204 | ||||
6.000% due 10/15/2018 | 49,000 | 49,339 | ||||
6.000% due 10/15/2018 | 124,000 | 123,608 | ||||
6.050% due 10/15/2018 | 101,000 | 101,320 | ||||
5.350% due 4/15/2019 | 6,000 | 5,999 | ||||
5.300% due 6/15/2020 | 40,000 | 40,038 | ||||
6.250% due 12/15/2022 | 101,000 | 101,003 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Principal | ||||||
Amount | Value | |||||
BONDS (continued) | ||||||
Corporate Bonds (continued) | ||||||
Public Service Electric & Gas Co. | ||||||
5.000% due 1/1/2013 | $ | 7,000 | $ | 7,023 | ||
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. | ||||||
5.500% due 5/15/2015 | 3,314,000 | 3,413,420 | ||||
8.600% due 8/15/2016 | 327,000 | 349,890 | ||||
6.125% due 1/15/2017 | 2,791,000 | 2,686,338 | ||||
Regions Bank / Birmingham AL | ||||||
7.500% due 5/15/2018 | 15,723,000 | 18,867,600 | ||||
Regions Financial Corp. | ||||||
4.875% due 4/26/2013 | 5,139,000 | 5,209,661 | ||||
7.750% due 11/10/2014 | 1,170,000 | 1,289,925 | ||||
Retail Property Trust | ||||||
7.180% due 9/1/2013 (d) | 25,000 | 26,056 | ||||
RJ Reynolds Tobacco | ||||||
Holdings, Inc. | ||||||
9.250% due 8/15/2013 | 1,316,000 | 1,370,856 | ||||
Rohm & Haas Co. | ||||||
5.600% due 3/15/2013 | 12,000 | 12,157 | ||||
RPM Int’l., Inc. | ||||||
6.250% due 12/15/2013 | 15,080,000 | 15,867,101 | ||||
Ryder System, Inc. | ||||||
6.000% due 3/1/2013 | 85,000 | 85,958 | ||||
Security Benefit Life Insurance | ||||||
8.750% due 5/15/2016 (d) | 7,000,000 | 7,353,500 | ||||
Simon Property Group, LP | ||||||
5.450% due 3/15/2013 | 1,005,000 | 1,018,227 | ||||
5.750% due 12/1/2015 | 1,089,000 | 1,231,669 | ||||
6.100% due 5/1/2016 | 1,000,000 | 1,162,380 | ||||
SL Green Realty Corp. | ||||||
5.000% due 8/15/2018 | 16,015,000 | 17,335,677 | ||||
SLM Corp. | ||||||
3.541% due 12/15/2012 (a) | 140,000 | 139,922 | ||||
4.500% due 12/15/2012 | 25,000 | 25,000 | ||||
4.500% due 12/15/2012 | 87,000 | 86,999 | ||||
4.500% due 3/15/2013 | 54,000 | 53,990 | ||||
4.700% due 6/15/2013 | 20,000 | 20,014 | ||||
4.750% due 6/15/2013 | 24,000 | 24,023 | ||||
4.800% due 6/15/2013 | 25,000 | 25,030 | ||||
4.142% due 9/15/2013 (a) | 91,000 | 90,573 | ||||
5.000% due 10/1/2013 | 2,444,000 | 2,505,100 | ||||
4.300% due 12/15/2013 | 2,000 | 1,993 | ||||
5.150% due 12/15/2013 | 60,000 | 60,256 | ||||
5.250% due 12/15/2013 | 30,000 | 30,179 | ||||
3.812% due 1/31/2014 (a) | 127,000 | 128,633 | ||||
4.700% due 3/15/2014 | 25,000 | 25,000 | ||||
4.950% due 3/15/2014 | 15,000 | 15,046 | ||||
5.150% due 3/15/2014 | 10,000 | 10,055 | ||||
3.492% due 4/1/2014 (a) | 155,000 | 155,302 | ||||
5.375% due 5/15/2014 | 1,043,000 | 1,094,671 | ||||
4.072% due 6/2/2014 (a) | 70,000 | 70,478 | ||||
5.050% due 11/14/2014 | 142,000 | 148,763 | ||||
3.442% due 12/15/2014 (a) | 444,000 | 436,279 | ||||
5.000% due 4/15/2015 | 425,000 | 450,041 | ||||
3.642% due 9/15/2015 (a) | 90,000 | 86,366 | ||||
5.000% due 9/15/2015 | 55,000 | 54,985 | ||||
5.000% due 9/15/2015 | 140,000 | 139,969 | ||||
5.000% due 9/15/2015 | 46,000 | 45,990 | ||||
5.250% due 9/15/2015 | 75,000 | 75,008 | ||||
3.742% due 12/15/2015 (a) | 128,000 | 125,039 | ||||
6.250% due 1/25/2016 | 2,919,000 | 3,167,115 | ||||
5.150% due 3/15/2017 | 2,950,000 | 2,935,250 | ||||
4.800% due 6/15/2017 (b) | 59,000 | 57,606 | ||||
5.100% due 6/15/2017 (b) | 17,000 | 16,801 | ||||
5.250% due 3/15/2018 | 5,000 | 4,913 | ||||
5.450% due 3/15/2018 | 74,000 | 73,379 | ||||
5.600% due 3/15/2018 | 30,000 | 29,941 | ||||
5.000% due 6/15/2018 | 122,000 | 121,541 | ||||
5.600% due 6/15/2018 | 29,000 | 28,680 | ||||
6.000% due 6/15/2018 (b) | 35,000 | 35,089 | ||||
8.450% due 6/15/2018 | 9,790,000 | 11,380,875 | ||||
5.450% due 12/15/2018 (b) | 35,000 | 34,030 | ||||
5.500% due 3/15/2019 (b) | 304,000 | 302,936 | ||||
6.000% due 3/15/2019 (b) | 54,000 | 53,012 | ||||
6.200% due 3/15/2019 (b) | 35,000 | 34,708 | ||||
5.190% due 4/24/2019 | 561,000 | 551,243 | ||||
3.942% due 5/3/2019 (a) | 217,000 | 205,968 | ||||
5.000% due 6/15/2019 | 30,000 | 27,792 | ||||
5.000% due 6/15/2019 | 10,000 | 9,264 | ||||
5.150% due 6/15/2019 | 10,000 | 9,344 | ||||
6.000% due 6/15/2019 | 65,000 | 63,690 | ||||
6.000% due 9/15/2019 | 18,000 | 17,581 | ||||
8.000% due 3/25/2020 | 3,181,000 | 3,634,293 | ||||
5.500% due 12/15/2020 (b) | 21,000 | 21,000 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Principal | ||||||
Amount | Value | |||||
BONDS (continued) | ||||||
Corporate Bonds (continued) | ||||||
SLM Corp. (continued) | ||||||
6.750% due 12/15/2020 (b) | $ | 10,000 | $ | 10,004 | ||
5.000% due 6/15/2021 (b) | 12,000 | 11,864 | ||||
6.000% due 6/15/2021 | 25,000 | 23,931 | ||||
7.000% due 6/15/2021 (b) | 90,000 | 90,047 | ||||
6.100% due 9/15/2021 | 20,000 | 19,227 | ||||
5.400% due 4/25/2023 (b) | 70,000 | 63,097 | ||||
Sonoco Products Co. | ||||||
6.500% due 11/15/2013 | 10,000 | 10,390 | ||||
Springleaf Finance Corp. | ||||||
6.900% due 12/15/2017 | 1,000,000 | 887,500 | ||||
Staples, Inc. | ||||||
9.750% due 1/15/2014 | 810,000 | 885,906 | ||||
Starwood Hotels & Resorts | ||||||
Worldwide, Inc. | ||||||
7.875% due 10/15/2014 | 247,000 | 276,663 | ||||
State Bank of India/London | ||||||
4.125% due 8/1/2017 (d) | 8,000,000 | 8,236,024 | ||||
Steelcase Inc. | ||||||
6.375% due 2/15/2021 | 785,000 | 844,066 | ||||
Sunoco, Inc. | ||||||
4.875% due 10/15/2014 | 2,147,000 | 2,271,318 | ||||
9.625% due 4/15/2015 | 6,369,000 | 7,487,785 | ||||
SunTrust Bank | ||||||
5.000% due 9/1/2015 | 690,000 | 756,268 | ||||
5.450% due 12/1/2017 | 51,000 | 56,220 | ||||
Susa Partnership L.P. | ||||||
8.200% due 6/1/2017 | 16,000 | 19,498 | ||||
7.450% due 7/1/2018 | 130,000 | 160,432 | ||||
Tech Data Corp. | ||||||
3.750% due 9/21/2017 | 4,301,000 | 4,381,618 | ||||
Telecom Italia | ||||||
5.250% due 11/15/2013 | 2,578,000 | 2,645,673 | ||||
6.175% due 6/18/2014 | 819,000 | 859,950 | ||||
4.950% due 9/30/2014 | 1,334,000 | 1,384,025 | ||||
5.250% due 10/1/2015 | 5,523,000 | 5,847,476 | ||||
6.999% due 6/4/2018 | 15,425,000 | 17,372,406 | ||||
7.175% due 6/18/2019 | 735,000 | 837,900 | ||||
Textron Financial Corp. | ||||||
5.400% due 4/28/2013 | 1,971,000 | 2,004,870 | ||||
6.200% due 3/15/2015 | 14,000 | 15,401 | ||||
Torchmark Corp. | ||||||
7.375% due 8/1/2013 | 1,415,000 | 1,473,103 | ||||
6.375% due 6/15/2016 | 1,056,000 | 1,187,524 | ||||
Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. | ||||||
5.750% due 12/14/2015 | 2,590,000 | 2,866,299 | ||||
Tyco Electronics Group | ||||||
5.950% due 1/15/2014 | 792,000 | 837,477 | ||||
UDR, Inc. | ||||||
6.050% due 6/1/2013 | 10,000 | 10,247 | ||||
5.500% due 4/1/2014 | 2,386,000 | 2,516,901 | ||||
5.250% due 1/15/2015 | 690,000 | 743,979 | ||||
United Telephone of Florida | ||||||
6.875% due 7/15/2013 | 15,000 | 15,387 | ||||
Unitrin, Inc. | ||||||
6.000% due 11/30/2015 | 9,753,000 | 10,547,333 | ||||
6.000% due 5/15/2017 | 8,737,000 | 9,627,493 | ||||
Universal Corp. | ||||||
5.200% due 10/15/2013 | 30,000 | 30,969 | ||||
Unum Group | ||||||
7.125% due 9/30/2016 | 3,200,000 | 3,785,408 | ||||
UnumProvident Group | ||||||
6.850% due 11/15/2015 (d) | 1,900,000 | 2,129,037 | ||||
Wachovia Bank | ||||||
4.800% due 11/1/2014 | 1,550,000 | 1,662,719 | ||||
4.875% due 2/1/2015 | 500,000 | 541,522 | ||||
5.000% due 8/15/2015 | 1,750,000 | 1,917,837 | ||||
5.600% due 3/15/2016 | 50,000 | 56,147 | ||||
5.625% due 10/15/2016 | 200,000 | 230,321 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Principal | ||||||
Amount | Value | |||||
BONDS (continued) | ||||||
Corporate Bonds (continued) | ||||||
Weatherford International Ltd. | ||||||
5.150% due 3/15/2013 | $ | 169,000 | $ | 170,837 | ||
4.950% due 10/15/2013 | 10,026,000 | 10,341,709 | ||||
Wells Fargo & Co. | ||||||
5.750% due 5/16/2016 | 200,000 | 229,397 | ||||
Westinghouse Credit | ||||||
8.875% due 6/14/2014 | 47,000 | 52,017 | ||||
Weyerhaeuser Co. | ||||||
7.500% due 3/1/2013 | 16,000 | 16,219 | ||||
6.950% due 8/1/2017 | 195,000 | 231,931 | ||||
White Mountains | ||||||
Re Group, Ltd. | ||||||
6.375% due 3/20/2017 (d) | 15,135,000 | 16,624,269 | ||||
Willamette Industries, Inc. | ||||||
7.125% due 7/22/2013 | 280,000 | 285,724 | ||||
Willis N.A. Inc. | ||||||
6.200% due 3/28/2017 | 1,801,000 | 2,061,272 | ||||
Wilmington Trust Corp. | ||||||
4.875% due 4/15/2013 | 608,000 | 613,866 | ||||
Wyndham Worldwide | ||||||
6.000% due 12/1/2016 | 2,615,000 | 2,976,077 | ||||
5.750% due 2/1/2018 | 2,020,000 | 2,267,727 | ||||
Wynn Las Vegas LLC | ||||||
7.875% due 11/1/2017 | 19,936,000 | 21,680,400 | ||||
7.875% due 5/1/2020 | 1,492,000 | 1,712,070 | ||||
7.750% due 8/15/2020 | 5,044,000 | 5,787,990 | ||||
XL Capital | ||||||
5.250% due 9/15/2014 | 4,220,000 | 4,493,275 | ||||
Yum! Brands, Inc. | ||||||
6.250% due 4/15/2016 | 791,000 | 908,549 | ||||
Zions Bancorporation | ||||||
4.250% due 2/1/2013 | 59,000 | 59,086 | ||||
2.000% due 3/5/2013 | 16,000 | 15,955 | ||||
7.750% due 9/23/2014 | 10,272,000 | 11,281,809 | ||||
3.500% due 9/15/2015 | 4,422,000 | 4,435,836 | ||||
5.500% due 5/10/2016 | 2,828,000 | 2,831,985 | ||||
5.000% due 8/1/2016 | 2,595,000 | 2,608,333 | ||||
5.250% due 11/7/2016 | 1,042,000 | 1,059,560 | ||||
4.500% due 3/27/2017 | 1,125,000 | 1,181,421 | ||||
Total Corporate Bonds | 1,150,279,898 | |||||
Federal Agency Mortgage- | ||||||
Backed Securities - 0.1% | ||||||
Fannie Mae | ||||||
6.000% due 8/1/2014, | ||||||
Pool #25-5434F | 9,494 | 9,799 | ||||
7.000% due 7/1/2015, | ||||||
Pool #53-5461F | 5,857 | 6,192 | ||||
8.000% due 9/1/2015, | ||||||
Pool #53-5460F | 14,444 | 15,352 | ||||
6.000% due 10/1/2037, | ||||||
Pool #88-8736F | 585,123 | 635,721 | ||||
6.000% due 3/1/2038, | ||||||
Pool #25-7134F | 404,077 | 439,019 | ||||
Freddie Mac | ||||||
4.500% due 5/1/2018, | ||||||
Pool #P1-0032 | 57,885 | 60,235 | ||||
6.500% due 12/1/2018, | ||||||
Pool #C9-0241 | 49,217 | 55,121 | ||||
6.000% due 11/1/2021, | ||||||
Pool #G1-2449 | 101,516 | 111,676 | ||||
6.000% due 2/1/2022, | ||||||
Pool #G1-2758 | 152,114 | 168,685 | ||||
Ginnie Mae | ||||||
5.500% due 6/15/2017, | ||||||
Pool #58-4476X | 3,491 | 3,749 | ||||
5.500% due 7/20/2018, | ||||||
Pool #00-3411M | 14,633 | 15,848 | ||||
7.000% due 5/15/2033, | ||||||
Pool #78-2071X | 59,638 | 71,764 | ||||
5.500% due 6/20/2038, | ||||||
Pool #00-4163M | 100,527 | 106,461 | ||||
Total Federal Agency Mortgage- | ||||||
Backed Securities | 1,699,622 | |||||
Taxable Municipal Bonds - 0.2% | ||||||
Casino Reinvestment | ||||||
Development Authority | ||||||
5.340% due 6/1/2020 | 2,915,000 | 2,900,017 | ||||
Total Taxable Municipal Bonds | 2,900,017 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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BOND FUND SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Principal | ||||||
Amount | Value | |||||
BONDS (continued) | ||||||
United States Government & | ||||||
Agency Issues - 0.0% | ||||||
Tennessee Valley Authority | ||||||
0.000% due 11/1/2013 (c) | $ | 15,000 | $ | 14,874 | ||
Total United States Government | ||||||
& Agency Issues | 14,874 | |||||
TOTAL BONDS | ||||||
(COST $1,235,022,787) | 1,276,413,998 | |||||
Shares | ||||||
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.1% | ||||||
Money Market Funds - 0.1% | ||||||
Fidelity Money Market Portfolio | ||||||
Class I, 0.140% (a) | 1,547,490 | 1,547,490 | ||||
Total Money Market Funds | 1,547,490 | |||||
TOTAL SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS | ||||||
(COST $1,547,490) | 1,547,490 | |||||
TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 98.9% | ||||||
(COST $1,236,570,277) | 1,277,961,488 | |||||
NET OTHER ASSETS AND | ||||||
LIABILITIES - 1.1% | 14,321,058 | |||||
NET ASSETS - 100.0% | $ | 1,292,282,546 |
(a) | Interest rate shown represents the current coupon rate at November 30, 2012. | |
(b) | Security is a “step-up” bond where the coupon increases or steps up at a predetermined date. | |
(c) | Zero-coupon security. | |
(d) | Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. This security may be resold in transactions that are exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. | |
PLC: Public Limited Company |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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FUND EXPENSE EXAMPLES (Unaudited) |
November 30, 2012 |
Example
A Fund shareholder may incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs such as redemption fees; 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 a Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period from June 1, 2012 to November 30, 2012.
Actual Expenses
The first line of the table below under each Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses for such Fund. 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 under each Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on such 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 each 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, such as redemption fees. Therefore, the second line of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
Beginning | Ending | Expenses Paid During | ||||
Account Value | Account Value | Period* | ||||
06/01/12 | 11/30/12 | 06/01/12-11/30/12 | ||||
Thompson LargeCap Fund | ||||||
Actual | $1,000.00 | $1,102.15 | $6.88 | |||
Hypothetical (5% return before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,018.45 | $6.61 | |||
Thompson MidCap Fund | ||||||
Actual | $1,000.00 | $1,102.60 | $6.83 | |||
Hypothetical (5% return before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,018.50 | $6.56 | |||
Thompson Bond Fund | ||||||
Actual | $1,000.00 | $1,045.85 | $3.94 | |||
Hypothetical (5% return before expenses) | $1,000.00 | $1,021.15 | $3.89 |
* Expenses are equal to the annualized [net] expense ratio for each Fund (LargeCap Fund: 1.31%; MidCap Fund: 1.30%; and Bond Fund: 0.77%), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period).
For more information, please refer to the Funds’ Prospectus.
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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STATEMENTS OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES |
November 30, 2012 (In thousands, except per share amounts) |
LARGECAP | MIDCAP | BOND | |||||||||||||
FUND | FUND | FUND | |||||||||||||
ASSETS | |||||||||||||||
Total investments in securities, at value (Cost $96,934, $22,871 and | |||||||||||||||
$1,236,570, respectively) | $ | 99,500 | $ | 24,533 | $ | 1,277,961 | |||||||||
Due from sale of securities | 161 | – | – | ||||||||||||
Receivable from fund shares sold | 16 | 50 | 15,367 | ||||||||||||
Dividends and interest receivable | 209 | 42 | 17,488 | ||||||||||||
Prepaid expenses | 11 | 4 | 64 | ||||||||||||
Total Assets | 99,897 | 24,629 | 1,310,880 | ||||||||||||
LIABILITIES | |||||||||||||||
Due on purchase of securities | – | 32 | 13,818 | ||||||||||||
Payable for fund shares redeemed | 102 | – | 1,544 | ||||||||||||
Line of credit | 64 | 3 | 2,469 | ||||||||||||
Accrued expenses payable | 32 | 25 | 70 | ||||||||||||
Due to Advisor | 89 | 14 | 696 | ||||||||||||
Total Liabilities | 287 | 74 | 18,597 | ||||||||||||
NET ASSETS | $ | 99,610 | $ | 24,555 | $ | 1,292,283 | |||||||||
Net Assets consist of: | |||||||||||||||
Capital stock ($.001 par value) | $ | 180,056 | $ | 21,190 | $ | 1,237,643 | |||||||||
Undistributed net investment income (loss) | 396 | (6 | ) | 10,999 | |||||||||||
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments | (83,408 | ) | 1,709 | 2,250 | |||||||||||
Net unrealized appreciation on investments | 2,566 | 1,662 | 41,391 | ||||||||||||
Net Assets | $ | 99,610 | $ | 24,555 | $ | 1,292,283 | |||||||||
Shares of capital stock outstanding (unlimited shares authorized) | 2,907 | 2,177 | 108,184 | ||||||||||||
Offering and redemption price/Net asset value per share | $ | 34.27 | $ | 11.28 | $ | 11.95 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS |
Year Ended November 30, 2012 (In thousands) |
LARGECAP | MIDCAP | BOND | ||||||||||||||
FUND | FUND | FUND | ||||||||||||||
Investment income | ||||||||||||||||
Dividends(1) | $ | 1,914 | $ | 274 | $ | – | ||||||||||
Interest | 1 | – | 43,018 | |||||||||||||
1,915 | 274 | 43,018 | ||||||||||||||
Expenses | ||||||||||||||||
Investment advisory fees | 1,015 | 216 | 5,531 | |||||||||||||
Shareholder servicing costs | 129 | 37 | 665 | |||||||||||||
Administrative and accounting services fees | 117 | 33 | 319 | |||||||||||||
Federal & state registration | 9 | 34 | 134 | |||||||||||||
Custody fees | 17 | 6 | 107 | |||||||||||||
Directors fees | 31 | 23 | 90 | |||||||||||||
Professional fees | 39 | 36 | 67 | |||||||||||||
Other expenses | 49 | 10 | 277 | |||||||||||||
Total expenses | 1,406 | 395 | 7,190 | |||||||||||||
Less expenses reimbursed by Advisor | – | (115 | ) | – | ||||||||||||
Net expenses | 1,406 | 280 | 7,190 | |||||||||||||
Net investment income (loss) | 509 | (6 | ) | 35,828 | ||||||||||||
Net realized gain on investments | 12,001 | 2,194 | 2,478 | |||||||||||||
Net unrealized appreciation on investments | 756 | 314 | 44,436 | |||||||||||||
Net gain on investments | 12,757 | 2,508 | 46,914 | |||||||||||||
Net increase in net assets resulting from operations | $ | 13,266 | $ | 2,502 | $ | 82,742 | ||||||||||
(1)Net of foreign withholding taxes | $ | 9 | $ | 1 | $ | – |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS |
(In thousands) |
LARGECAP | MIDCAP | BOND | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FUND | FUND | FUND | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Year Ended | Year Ended | Year Ended | Year Ended | Year Ended | Year Ended | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
November 30, | November 30, | November 30, | November 30, | November 30, | November 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012 | 2011 | 2012 | 2011 | 2012 | 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net investment income (loss) | $ | 509 | $ | 287 | $ | (6 | ) | $ | (34 | ) | $ | 35,828 | $ | 21,257 | ||||||||||||||||
Net realized gain on investments and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
options | 12,001 | 20,124 | 2,194 | 2,142 | 2,478 | 1,619 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
on investments and options | 756 | (15,456 | ) | 314 | (1,576 | ) | 44,436 | (14,257 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Net increase in net assets resulting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
from operations | 13,266 | 4,955 | 2,502 | 532 | 82,742 | 8,619 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributions to Shareholders | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributions from net investment income | (359 | ) | (47 | ) | – | – | (31,675 | ) | (18,237 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Distributions from net realized gains on | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
securities transactions | – | – | (1,957 | ) | (903 | ) | (1,596 | ) | (2,180 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Total distributions to shareholders | (359 | ) | (47 | ) | (1,957 | ) | (903 | ) | (33,271 | ) | (20,417 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
Fund Share Transactions (See Note 4) | (17,383 | ) | (26,651 | ) | 6,390 | 2,320 | 586,782 | 230,354 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets | (4,476 | ) | (21,743 | ) | 6,935 | 1,949 | 636,253 | 218,556 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Net Assets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beginning of period | 104,086 | 125,829 | 17,620 | 15,671 | 656,030 | 437,474 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of period | $ | 99,610 | $ | 104,086 | $ | 24,555 | $ | 17,620 | $ | 1,292,283 | $ | 656,030 | ||||||||||||||||||
Undistributed net investment income (loss) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
included in net assets at end of period | $ | 396 | $ | 246 | $ | (6 | ) | $ | – | $ | 10,999 | $ | 6,689 |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS |
November 30, 2012 |
NOTE 1 - ORGANIZATION
Thompson IM Funds, Inc. (the “Company”) is a Wisconsin corporation registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as an open-end, diversified management investment company. Prior to September 6, 2012, the name of the Company was Thompson Plumb Funds, Inc.
The Company consists of separate mutual funds series (each, a “Fund,” and collectively, the “Funds”): Thompson LargeCap Fund (the “LargeCap Fund”), Thompson MidCap Fund (the “MidCap Fund”) and Thompson Bond Fund (the “Bond Fund”). Prior to September 6, 2012, the LargeCap Fund, MidCap Fund, and Bond Fund were known as the Thompson Plumb Growth Fund, Thompson Plumb MidCap Fund, and Thompson Plumb Bond Fund, respectively. The assets and liabilities of each Fund are segregated and a shareholder’s interest is limited to the Fund in which the shareholder owns shares. The objectives and strategies of each Fund are described in the Funds’ Prospectus.
NOTE 2 - SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed by the Funds in the preparation of their financial statements.
SECURITY VALUATION - Each Fund’s investments are valued at their market prices (generally the last reported sales price on the exchange where the securities are primarily traded or, for Nasdaq-listed securities, at their Nasdaq Official Closing Prices) or, where market quotations are not readily available or are unreliable, at fair value as determined in good faith pursuant to procedures established by the Funds’ Board of Directors (the “Funds’ Board”). Market quotations for the common stocks in which the Funds invest are nearly always readily available; however, market quotations for debt securities are often not readily available. Fair values of debt securities are typically based on valuations published by an independent pricing service, which uses various valuation methodologies such as matrix pricing and other analytical pricing models as well as market transactions and dealer quotations. Debt securities with remaining maturities of 60 days or less are generally valued at amortized cost basis. Exchange-traded options are valued at the last reported sale price on an exchange on which the option is traded. If no sales are reported on a particular day, the mean between the highest bid and lowest asked quotations at the close of the exchanges will be used. Investments in money market mutual funds are generally priced at the ending NAV provided by the service agent of the funds.
When a security is “fair valued,” consideration is given to the facts and circumstances relevant to the particular situation, including a review of various factors set forth in the Pricing Policies and Procedures adopted by the Funds’ Board, which includes factors such as fundamental analytical data relating to the investment, which may include consideration of yields or prices of securities of comparable quality, coupon rate, maturity and type of issue, nature and duration of any restrictions on disposition of the security and an evaluation of forces that influence the market in which the securities are purchased or sold. Fair value pricing is an inherently subjective process, and no single standard exists for determining fair value. Different funds could reasonably arrive at different values for the same security. No securities in any of the Funds were fair valued as of November 30, 2012.
In accordance with generally accepted accounting principles accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), fair value is defined as the price that the Fund would receive to sell an investment or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction with an independent buyer in the principal market, or in the absence of a principal market the most advantageous market for the investment or liability. GAAP established a three-tier hierarchy to maximize the use of observable market data and minimize the use of unobservable inputs and to establish classification of fair value measurements for disclosure purposes.
Various inputs are used in determining the value of each Fund’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 Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments).
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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Inputs may include price information, specific and broad credit data, liquidity statistics, and other factors. The Fund considers observable data to be that market data which is readily available, regularly distributed or updated, reliable and verifiable, not proprietary, and provided by independent sources that are actively involved in the relevant market. The determination of what constitutes “observable” requires significant judgment by the Fund. The categorization of a financial instrument within the hierarchy is based upon the pricing transparency of the instrument and does not necessarily correspond to the Fund’s perceived risk of that instrument. Investments whose values are based on quoted market prices in active markets, and which are therefore classified as level-1 securities, include active listed equities and certain U.S. government obligations.
Investments that trade in markets that are not considered to be active, but are valued based on quoted market prices, dealer quotations or alternative pricing sources supported by observable inputs, are classified as level-2 securities. These include certain U.S. government obligations, most government agency securities, investment-grade corporate bonds, municipal bonds, and less liquid listed equities. Level-2 investments include positions that are not traded in active markets.
Investments classified as level-3 securities have significant unobservable inputs, as they trade infrequently or not at all. Level-3 instruments include private-placement and less liquid corporate and municipal debt securities. When observable prices are not available for these securities, the Fund uses one or more valuation techniques (e.g., the market approach, the income approach, or the cost approach) for which sufficient and reliable data is available. Within level 3, the use of the market approach generally consists of using comparable market transactions, while the use of the income approach generally consists of using the net present value of estimated future cash flows, adjusted as appropriate for liquidity, credit, market and/or other risk factors. The inputs used by the Fund in estimating the value of level-3 investments include the original transaction price and recent transactions in the same or similar instruments.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Funds’ investments as of November 30, 2012:
LargeCap Fund | ||||||||||||
Assets | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Total | ||||||||
Investment Securities: | ||||||||||||
Common Stocks | $ | 99,499,958 | $ | – | $ | – | $ | 99,499,958 | ||||
Short-term securities | 205 | – | – | 205 | ||||||||
Total Assets | $ | 99,500,163 | $ | – | $ | – | $ | 99,500,163 | ||||
MidCap Fund | ||||||||||||
Assets | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Total | ||||||||
Investment Securities: | ||||||||||||
Common Stocks | $ | 24,531,562 | $ | – | $ | – | $ | 24,531,562 | ||||
Short-term securities | 964 | – | – | 964 | ||||||||
Total Assets | $ | 24,532,526 | $ | – | $ | – | $ | 24,532,526 | ||||
Bond Fund | ||||||||||||
Assets | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Total | ||||||||
Investment Securities: | ||||||||||||
Bonds | $ | – | $ | 1,276,413,998 | $ | – | $ | 1,276,413,998 | ||||
Short-term securities | 1,547,490 | – | – | 1,547,490 | ||||||||
Total Assets | $ | 1,547,490 | $ | 1,276,413,998 | $ | – | $ | 1,277,961,488 |
There were no transfers between level-1 and level-2 securities and the Funds did not invest in any level-3 investments as of and during the fiscal year ended November 30, 2012. It is the Funds’ policy to record transfers at the end of the reporting period. Refer to each Fund’s Schedule of Investments for additional information regarding security types and industry classifications.
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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
SECURITIES TRANSACTIONS AND INVESTMENT INCOME - Investment securities transactions are accounted for on the trade date. Gains or losses realized on sales of securities are determined by comparing the identified cost of the security lot sold with the net sales proceeds. Discounts/premiums on debt securities purchased are accreted/amortized over the life of the respective securities on the same basis for book and tax purposes. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is recorded as earned. Income and capital gains on some foreign securities may be subject to foreign withholding taxes, which are accrued as applicable, and have been provided for in accordance with the Funds’ understanding of the applicable country’s tax rules and rates.
OPTIONS - Each Fund may enter into options transactions for hedging purposes and will not use these instruments for speculation. Each Fund may use options to hedge against anticipated declines in the market value of portfolio securities and increases in the market value of securities it intends to purchase and protect against exposure to interest rate changes. Each Fund may also use options to enhance total return or invest in eligible asset classes with greater efficiency and lower cost than is believed to be possible through direct investment. The use of options for hedging purposes involves certain risks and may result in a loss if changes in the value of the option move in a direction different than anticipated, rendering the hedging strategy unsuccessful.
Each Fund may write covered call/put options for which premiums received are recorded as liabilities and are subsequently adjusted to the current fair value of the options written. Premiums received from writing options that expire unexercised are treated as realized gains. Premiums received from writing options which are either exercised or closed are offset against the proceeds received or amount paid on the transaction to determine realized gains or losses.
SECURITIES PURCHASED ON A WHEN-ISSUED OR DELAYED-DELIVERY BASIS - Each Fund may purchase securities on a when-issued or delayed-delivery basis. When-issued securities are securities purchased with delivery to occur at a later date at a stated price and/or yield, thereby involving the risk that the price and/or yield obtained may be more or less than those available in the market when delivery takes place. At the time a Fund makes a commitment to purchase a security on a when-issued basis, the Fund records the transaction and reflects the value of the security in determining net asset value. Each Fund designates and maintains cash and marketable securities at least equal in value to commitments for when-issued securities.
VARIABLE-RATE DEMAND NOTES - The Funds invest in short-term variable-rate demand notes, which are unsecured instruments. The Funds may be susceptible to credit risk with respect to these instruments to the extent the issuer defaults on its payment obligation.
PERMANENT BOOK AND TAX DIFFERENCES - Generally accepted accounting principles require that permanent financial reporting and tax differences relating to shareholder distributions be reclassified in the capital accounts.
EXPENSES - Each Fund is charged for those expenses that are directly attributed to it. Expenses that are not readily identifiable to a specific Fund are generally allocated among the Funds in proportion to the relative sizes of the Funds.
USE OF ESTIMATES - The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP 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 revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from these estimates.
DISTRIBUTIONS TO SHAREHOLDERS - Distributions to shareholders from net investment income and realized gains on securities for the LargeCap Fund and MidCap Fund normally are declared at least annually. Bond Fund distributions to shareholders from net investment income normally are declared on a quarterly basis, and distributions to shareholders from realized gains on securities normally are declared at least annually. Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date.
FEDERAL INCOME TAXES - No provision has been made for federal income taxes since the Funds have elected to be taxed as regulated investment companies and intend to distribute substantially all income to shareholders and otherwise comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies.
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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
LINE OF CREDIT - The Funds have established an unsecured line of credit (“LOC”) with U.S. Bank N.A. which expires November 15, 2013 used primarily to finance redemption payments. Each individual Fund’s borrowing under the LOC is limited to either 5% of the value of that Fund’s total assets or any explicit borrowing limits imposed by the Funds’ Board, whatever is less. As of November 30, 2012, the limits established by the Funds’ Board are: LargeCap Fund - $5,250,000, MidCap Fund - $1,200,000 and Bond Fund - $55,000,000. The following table shows the average balance, average interest rate and interest expense incurred by the Funds on borrowings under the LOC for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2012.
Average | Average | Interest | |||||||||||
Fund | Balance | Interest Rate | Expense | ||||||||||
LargeCap Fund | $ | 275,502 | 3.250% | $ | 9,103 | ||||||||
MidCap Fund | $ | 12,579 | 3.250% | $ | 417 | ||||||||
Bond Fund | $ | 480,870 | 3.250% | $ | 15,889 |
GUARANTEES AND INDEMNIFICATIONS - Under the Funds’ organizational documents, each Director, officer, employee or other agent of the Funds (including the Funds’ investment manager) is indemnified, to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, against certain liabilities that may arise out of performance of their duties to the Funds. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the Funds enter into contracts that contain a variety of indemnification clauses. The Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Funds that have not yet occurred. However, the Funds have not had prior claims or losses pursuant to these contracts and believe the risk of loss to be remote.
ACCOUNTING FOR UNCERTAINTY IN INCOME TAXES - As of and during the fiscal year ended November 30, 2012, the Funds did not have a liability for unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. The Funds recognize interest and penalties, if any, related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense in the Statements of Operations. During the fiscal year ended November 30, 2012, the Funds did not incur any interest or penalties. Generally, each of the tax years in the four-year period ended November 30, 2012 remains subject to examination by taxing authorities. The Funds are also not aware of any tax positions for which it is reasonably possible that the total amounts of unrecognized tax benefits will significantly change in the next twelve months.
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS - The Funds have evaluated subsequent events through the issuance of the Funds’ financial statements and have determined that such subsequent events do not have an impact on the Funds’ financial statements.
The Advisor is contractually bound to waive management fees and/or reimburse expenses incurred by the Funds through March 31, 2013 so that the annual operating expenses of the Funds do not exceed the following percentages of their respective average daily net assets: LargeCap Fund-1.40%, MidCap Fund-1.30% and Bond Fund-0.80%. For the fiscal year ended November 30, 2012, the Advisor reimbursed expenses incurred by the MidCap Fund in the amount of $114,884. The Funds are not obligated to reimburse the Advisor for any fees or expenses waived in previous fiscal years.
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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued) |
November 30, 2012 |
Pursuant to an Administrative and Accounting Services Agreement, TIM maintains the Funds’ financial records in accordance with the 1940 Act, prepares all necessary financial statements of the Funds and calculates the net asset value per share of the Funds on a daily basis. As compensation for its services, each Fund pays TIM a fee computed daily and payable monthly at the annual rate of 0.15% of average daily net assets up to $30 million, 0.10% of the next $70 million of average daily net assets and 0.025% of average daily net assets in excess of $100 million, with an annual minimum fee of $30,000 per Fund. The calculations of daily net asset value are subcontracted to U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, resulting in fees paid by TIM for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2012 in the amounts of $33,288, $32,356 and $143,273 for the LargeCap Fund, MidCap Fund and Bond Fund, respectively.
The Funds reimburse the Advisor for a portion of amounts paid by the Advisor out of the Advisor’s own resources under various shareholder, account maintenance, networking and other services provided to the Funds by broker-dealers and other intermediaries. The amount reimbursed by the Funds is equal to (1) for those accounts maintained through a shareholder servicing arrangement, an annual rate of no more than 0.10% of the average daily net assets of the omnibus accounts in the Funds for which all broker-dealers and other intermediaries, in the aggregate, are responsible, and (2) for those accounts maintained through a networking arrangement, no more than $6 per year per account in the Funds for which the broker-dealers and other intermediaries are responsible; provided however, in all cases only one of these fees shall be applicable to the assets in an account. This amount has been determined by the Funds’ Board to approximate the transfer agency fees that would otherwise have been payable by the Funds if such broker-dealers and intermediaries did not maintain these accounts. For the fiscal year ended November 30, 2012, the amounts reimbursed by the Funds to the Advisor were $28,532, $3,627 and $371,500 for the LargeCap Fund, MidCap Fund and Bond Fund, respectively.
NOTE 4 - FUND SHARE TRANSACTIONS (in thousands)
Transactions in shares of the Funds were as follows:
Year Ended | Year Ended | |||||||||||||
November 30, 2012 | November 30, 2011 | |||||||||||||
Shares | Dollars | Shares | Dollars | |||||||||||
LargeCap Fund | ||||||||||||||
Shares sold | 447 | $ | 14,978 | 133 | $ | 4,195 | ||||||||
Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends | 12 | 343 | 2 | 44 | ||||||||||
Shares issued in reinvestment of realized gains | – | – | – | – | ||||||||||
Shares redeemed | (1,014 | ) | (32,704 | ) | (982 | ) | (30,890 | ) | ||||||
Net decrease | (555 | ) | $ | (17,383 | ) | (847 | ) | $ | (26,651 | ) | ||||
MidCap Fund | ||||||||||||||
Shares sold | 549 | $ | 6,096 | 261 | $ | 3,089 | ||||||||
Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends | – | – | – | – | ||||||||||
Shares issued in reinvestment of realized gains | 205 | 1,953 | 79 | 902 | ||||||||||
Shares redeemed | (157 | ) | (1,659 | ) | (139 | ) | (1,671 | ) | ||||||
Net increase | 597 | $ | 6,390 | 201 | $ | 2,320 | ||||||||
Bond Fund | ||||||||||||||
Shares sold | 69,563 | $ | 810,480 | 41,159 | $ | 473,454 | ||||||||
Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends | 2,562 | 29,525 | 1,531 | 17,428 | ||||||||||
Shares issued in reinvestment of realized gains | 136 | 1,521 | 189 | 2,127 | ||||||||||
Shares redeemed | (21,964 | ) | (254,744 | ) | (22,894 | ) | (262,655 | ) | ||||||
Net increase | 50,297 | $ | 586,782 | 19,985 | $ | 230,354 |
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November 30, 2012 |
NOTE 5 - PURCHASE AND SALE OF SECURITIES
Investment transactions for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2012 were as follows:
Securities other than U.S. | |||||||||||||
Government and Short-term | |||||||||||||
Investments | U.S. Government Securities | ||||||||||||
Purchases | Sales | Purchases | Sales | ||||||||||
LargeCap Fund | $ | 31,573,210 | $ | 48,591,681 | $ | – | $– | ||||||
MidCap Fund | $ | 13,962,813 | $ | 9,559,423 | $ | – | $– | ||||||
Bond Fund | $ | 674,035,296 | $ | 9,945,686 | $ | 3,910,876 | $– |
NOTE 6 - INCOME TAX INFORMATION
At November 30, 2012, the investment cost and aggregate unrealized appreciation and depreciation on investments for federal income tax purposes were as follows:
Net unrealized | Distributable | Distributable | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Unrealized | Unrealized | appreciation | ordinary | long-term | ||||||||||||||||||||
Federal tax cost | appreciation | depreciation | (depreciation) | income | capital gains | |||||||||||||||||||
LargeCap Fund | $ | 97,797,297 | $ | 12,283,850 | $ | (10,580,984 | ) | $ | 1,702,866 | $ | 396,460 | $ | – | |||||||||||
MidCap Fund | $ | 23,221,495 | $ | 3,409,406 | $ | (2,098,375 | ) | $ | 1,311,031 | $ | – | $ | 2,062,420 | |||||||||||
Bond Fund | $ | 1,236,570,277 | $ | 46,155,297 | $ | (4,764,086 | ) | $ | 41,391,211 | $ | 10,999,273 | $ | 2,306,569 |
The tax basis of investments for tax and financial reporting purposes differ principally due to wash sales and straddles.
The tax components of distributions paid during the fiscal year ended November 30, 2012, capital loss carryforward as of November 30, 2012 and tax basis post-October losses and late-year ordinary losses as of November 30, 2012, which are not being recognized for tax purposes until the first day of the following fiscal year are:
Ordinary | Long-term | Net capital | ||||||||||||||||||
income | capital gains | loss | Post-October | Late-year | ||||||||||||||||
distributions | distributions | carryforward* | losses | ordinary losses | ||||||||||||||||
LargeCap Fund | $ | 358,796 | $ | – | $ | 82,544,592 | $ | – | $ | – | ||||||||||
MidCap Fund | $ | 165,439 | $ | 1,791,599 | $ | – | $ | 3,138 | $ | 5,943 | ||||||||||
Bond Fund | $ | 31,793,469 | $ | 1,478,148 | $ | – | $ | 57,021 | $ | – |
* The LargeCap Fund has capital losses in the amount of $34,789,309 and $47,755,283 which expire on November 30, 2016 and November 30, 2017, respectively.
The tax components of distributions paid during the fiscal year ended November 30, 2011 are:
Ordinary | Long-term | |||||||
income | capital gains | |||||||
distributions | distributions | |||||||
LargeCap Fund | $ | 46,532 | $ | – | ||||
MidCap Fund | $ | 313,728 | $ | 589,640 | ||||
Bond Fund | $ | 18,537,863 | $ | 1,879,115 |
The following distributions were declared on December 19, 2012, payable to shareholders on December 20, 2012 (Unaudited):
Ordinary income | Long-term capital gains | |||||||||||||
distributions | distributions | |||||||||||||
Amount | Per share | Amount | Per share | |||||||||||
LargeCap Fund | $ | 538,254 | $ | 0.19 | $ | – | $ | – | ||||||
MidCap Fund | $ | – | $ | – | $ | 2,062,420 | $ | 0.95 | ||||||
Bond Fund | $ | 13,112,607 | $ | 0.12 | $ | 2,353,544 | $ | 0.02 |
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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS |
The following table presents information relating to a share of capital stock outstanding for the entire period.
Year Ended November 30, | |||||||||||||||
2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | |||||||||||
LARGECAP FUND | |||||||||||||||
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $30.07 | $29.20 | $27.04 | $19.75 | $45.86 | ||||||||||
Income from Investment Operations | |||||||||||||||
Net investment income | 0.18 | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.29 | ||||||||||
Net realized and unrealized gains (losses) | |||||||||||||||
on investments and options | 4.13 | 0.80 | 2.20 | 7.51 | (19.59 | ) | |||||||||
Total from Investment Operations | 4.31 | 0.88 | 2.21 | 7.58 | (19.30 | ) | |||||||||
Less Distributions | |||||||||||||||
Distributions from net investment income | (0.11 | ) | (0.01 | ) | (0.05 | ) | (0.29 | ) | (0.41 | ) | |||||
Distributions from net realized gains | – | – | – | – | (6.40 | ) | |||||||||
Total Distributions | (0.11 | ) | (0.01 | ) | (0.05 | ) | (0.29 | ) | (6.81 | ) | |||||
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $34.27 | $30.07 | $29.20 | $27.04 | $19.75 | ||||||||||
Total Return | 14.37% | 3.02% | 8.17% | 38.88% | (49.29% | ) | |||||||||
Ratios/Supplemental Data | |||||||||||||||
Net assets, end of period (millions) | $99.6 | $104.1 | $125.8 | $144.1 | $133.9 | ||||||||||
Ratios to average net assets: | |||||||||||||||
Ratio of expenses | 1.31% | 1.31% | 1.36% | 1.54% | 1.27% | ||||||||||
Ratio of net investment income | 0.47% | 0.24% | 0.05% | 0.32% | 0.56% | ||||||||||
Portfolio turnover rate | 30% | 40% | 37% | 63% | 43% |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS (Continued) |
The following table presents information relating to a share of capital stock outstanding for the entire period.
March 31, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||
(inception) | |||||||||||||||||
Year Ended November 30, | through | ||||||||||||||||
November 30, | |||||||||||||||||
2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | |||||||||||||
MIDCAP FUND | |||||||||||||||||
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $11.15 | $11.36 | $9.39 | $6.18 | $10.00 | ||||||||||||
Income from Investment Operations | |||||||||||||||||
Net investment income | – | – | – | 0.01 | 0.04 | ||||||||||||
Net realized and unrealized gains (losses) | |||||||||||||||||
on investments | 1.38 | 0.44 | 2.02 | 3.25 | (3.86 | ) | |||||||||||
Total from Investment Operations | 1.38 | 0.44 | 2.02 | 3.26 | (3.82 | ) | |||||||||||
Less Distributions | |||||||||||||||||
Distributions from net investment income | – | – | – | (c) | (0.05 | ) | – | ||||||||||
Distributions from net realized gains | (1.25 | ) | (0.65 | ) | (0.05 | ) | – | – | |||||||||
Total Distributions | (1.25 | ) | (0.65 | ) | (0.05 | ) | (0.05 | ) | – | ||||||||
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $11.28 | $11.15 | $11.36 | $9.39 | $6.18 | ||||||||||||
Total Return | 14.41% | 3.69% | 21.71% | 53.04% | (38.20% | )(a) | |||||||||||
Ratios/Supplemental Data | |||||||||||||||||
Net assets, end of period (millions) | $24.6 | $17.6 | $15.7 | $9.6 | $2.3 | ||||||||||||
Ratios to average net assets: | |||||||||||||||||
Ratio of expenses | 1.30% | 1.30% | 1.30% | 1.30% | 1.30% | (b) | |||||||||||
Ratio of expenses without reimbursement | 1.83% | 1.96% | 2.34% | 4.21% | 8.40% | (b) | |||||||||||
Ratio of net investment income (loss) | (0.03% | ) | (0.19% | ) | (0.09% | ) | 0.12% | 0.79% | (b) | ||||||||
Ratio of net investment loss | |||||||||||||||||
without reimbursement | (0.56% | ) | (0.85% | ) | (1.14% | ) | (2.79% | ) | (6.30% | )(b) | |||||||
Portfolio turnover rate | 44% | 47% | 39% | 61% | 50% | (a) |
(a) | Calculated on a non-annualized basis. |
(b) | Calculated on an annualized basis. |
(c) | Less than .005 per share. |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS (Continued) |
The following table presents information relating to a share of capital stock outstanding for the entire period.
Year Ended November 30, | |||||||||||||||
2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | |||||||||||
BOND FUND | |||||||||||||||
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $11.33 | $11.54 | $11.16 | $9.24 | $10.34 | ||||||||||
Income from Investment Operations | |||||||||||||||
Net investment income | 0.41 | 0.42 | 0.34 | 0.63 | 0.62 | ||||||||||
Net realized and unrealized gains (losses) | |||||||||||||||
on investments | 0.67 | (a) | (0.17 | )(a) | 0.46 | (a) | 2.01 | (1.17 | ) | ||||||
Total from Investment Operations | 1.08 | 0.25 | 0.80 | 2.64 | (0.55 | ) | |||||||||
Less Distributions | |||||||||||||||
Distributions from net investment income | (0.43 | ) | (0.40 | ) | (0.34 | ) | (0.72 | ) | (0.55 | ) | |||||
Distributions from net realized gains | (0.03 | ) | (0.06 | ) | (0.08 | ) | – | – | |||||||
Total Distributions | (0.46 | ) | (0.46 | ) | (0.42 | ) | (0.72 | ) | (0.55 | ) | |||||
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $11.95 | $11.33 | $11.54 | $11.16 | $9.24 | ||||||||||
Total Return | 9.70% | 2.16% | 7.33% | 30.05% | (5.63% | ) | |||||||||
Ratios/Supplemental Data | |||||||||||||||
Net assets, end of period (millions) | $1,292.3 | $656.0 | $437.5 | $134.2 | $44.0 | ||||||||||
Ratios to average net assets: | |||||||||||||||
Ratio of expenses | 0.78% | 0.80% | 0.80% | 0.75% | 0.59% | ||||||||||
Ratio of expenses without reimbursement | 0.78% | 0.84% | 0.87% | 1.20% | 1.18% | ||||||||||
Ratio of net investment income | 3.90% | 3.89% | 3.52% | 6.40% | 6.38% | ||||||||||
Ratio of net investment income | |||||||||||||||
without reimbursement | 3.90% | 3.86% | 3.44% | 5.95% | 5.78% | ||||||||||
Portfolio turnover rate | 16% | 14% | 10% | 85% | 110% |
(a) | Realized and unrealized gains and losses per share are balancing amounts necessary to reconcile the change in net asset value per share in the period. It does not agree to the aggregate gains and losses in the Statement of Operations due to the fluctuation in share transactions. |
See Notes to Financial Statements.
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of
Thompson IM Funds, Inc.
We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities, of Thompson IM Funds, Inc., comprising Thompson LargeCap Fund, Thompson MidCap Fund, and Thompson Bond Fund (the “Funds”) (formerly known as Thompson Plumb Funds, Inc., comprising Thompson Plumb Growth Fund, Thompson Plumb MidCap Fund, and Thompson Plumb Bond Fund, respectively), including the schedules of investments, as of November 30, 2012, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the three years in the period then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Funds’ management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits. The financial highlights for the periods indicated prior to the year ended November 30, 2010 were audited by other auditors whose report dated January 22, 2010, expressed an unqualified opinion on those highlights.
We conducted our audits 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 November 30, 2012, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers. 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 audits provide 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 each of the funds constituting Thompson IM Funds, Inc. as of November 30, 2012, the results of their operations for the year then ended, the changes in their net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the three years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
COHEN FUND AUDIT SERVICES, LTD.
Cleveland, Ohio
January 18, 2013
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DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS (Unaudited) |
(Information as of 12/31/12) |
Position(s) | ||||||||
Held with | Number of | Other | ||||||
Thompson IM | Thompson IM | Directorships | ||||||
Name, | Funds, Inc. and | Principal Occupation(s) | Funds Overseen | Held | ||||
and Age | Length of Time Served(1) | During Past Five Years | by Director | by Director | ||||
Independent Directors: | ||||||||
John W. Feldt Birth date: 5/2/42 | Chairman since Director since 1987 |
| 3 | Baird Funds, | ||||
George E. Austin Birth date: 9/15/52 | Director since 2011 |
| 3 | None | ||||
Patricia Lipton Birth date: 12/9/42 | Director since 2007 |
| 3 | None | ||||
Donald A. Nichols Birth date: 12/20/40 | Chairman from |
| 3 | None | ||||
Interested Directors and Officers: | ||||||||
John W. Thompson(2) | Director since 1987 Chairman from 1987 to Chief Executive Officer President since |
| 3 | None |
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DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS (Unaudited) (Continued) |
(Information as of 12/31/12) |
Position(s) | ||||||||
Held with | Number of | Other | ||||||
Thompson IM | Thompson IM | Directorships | ||||||
Name, | Funds, Inc. and | Principal Occupation(s) | Funds Overseen | Held | ||||
and Age | Length of Time Served(1) | During Past Five Years | by Director | by Director | ||||
Jason L. Stephens(2) Birth date: 10/15/74 | Director since 2011 Vice President since March 2009 Secretary from 2005 to 2010 |
| 3 | None | ||||
James T. Evans Birth date: 6/6/75 | Vice President since |
| N/A | N/A | ||||
Penny M. Hubbard Birth date: 6/2/61 | Chief Financial Officer |
| N/A | N/A | ||||
Nedra S. Pierce Birth date: 10/2/61 | Chief Compliance |
| N/A | N/A | ||||
Lesley T. Bailey Birth date: 9/30/78 | Secretary since 2010 |
| N/A | N/A | ||||
Sarah M. Baumgartner Birth date: 2/21/84 | Assistant Secretary |
| N/A | N/A |
The address of each Director and officer as it relates to the Company’s business is 918 Deming Way, Madison WI 53717.
(1) Officers of the Investment Company serve one-year terms, subject to annual reappointment by the Board of Directors. Directors of the Investment Company serve a term of indefinite length until their resignation or removal, and stand for re-election by shareholders as and when required under the 1940 Act.
(2) John W. Thompson and Jason L. Stephens are “interested persons” of the Investment Company by virtue of their position with the Investment Company and TIM.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (Unaudited) |
THOMPSON IM FUNDS
INVESTMENT ADVISOR
Thompson Investment Management, Inc.
918 Deming Way
Madison, Wisconsin 53717
DISTRIBUTOR
Quasar Distributors, LLC
615 East Michigan Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
TRANSFER AGENT
U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC
615 East Michigan Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED
PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
Cohen Fund Audit Services, Ltd.
1350 Euclid Avenue, Suite 800
Cleveland, OH 44115
LEGAL COUNSEL
Quarles & Brady LLP
411 East Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
The Statement of Additional Information contains additional information about the directors and officers of Thompson IM Funds, Inc. and is available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-999-0887.
Proxy Voting Policy
A description of the policies and procedures that the Funds use to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities and information regarding how the Funds actually voted proxies during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 are available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-999-0887, through the Funds’ website at www.thompsonim.com and on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
Information About Portfolio Securities
The Funds file complete schedules of their portfolio holdings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the Funds’ first and third quarters of its fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Funds’ Forms N-Q are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov. You may also review and copy those documents by visiting the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling the Securities and Exchange Commission at 1-800-SEC-0330. The Funds’ Forms N-Q are also available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-999-0887.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (Unaudited) (Continued) |
Board Approval of Investment Advisory Agreement
The Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Act”) requires that the Investment Advisory Agreement (the “Agreement”) for Thompson IM Funds, Inc. (the “Funds”) be approved annually by a vote of a majority of the Board of Directors, including a majority of the Directors who are not parties to the Agreement or “interested persons” of the Funds as that term is defined in the Act (the “Independent Directors”). At its meeting on November 8, 2012, the Board of Directors of the Funds, including all of the Independent Directors, voted unanimously to renew the existing Agreement between the Funds and Thompson Investment Management, Inc. (the “Advisor”) for each of the LargeCap Fund, the MidCap Fund and the Bond Fund (each of these series of the Funds is sometimes referred to as a “Fund” in this section).
The Board’s approval was based on its consideration and evaluation of a variety of factors, including: (1) the nature, extent, and quality of the services provided by the Advisor; (2) the performance of each of the Funds in comparison to its benchmark index and to a peer group of mutual funds; (3) the management fees and total operating expenses of each Fund, including comparative information with respect to a peer group of mutual funds and with fees charged by the Advisor to other clients whose assets are managed under similar objectives and strategies; (4) the extent to which economies of scale may be realized as a Fund grows; and (5) whether fee levels reflect any potential economies of scale for the benefit of shareholders.
In connection with the renewal process, both the Independent Directors as well as the full Board met separately on November 8, 2012, to consider information relevant to the renewal process. The Independent Directors and the full Board are referred to collectively as the “Board” in this section.
To facilitate evaluation of the Agreement, the Board received and reviewed information prepared or compiled by the Advisor as well as an independent analysis of each Fund’s performance, expenses, and profitability prepared by Lipper Inc. (“Lipper”). Information reviewed included a memorandum from Fund counsel discussing the fiduciary duty of Directors under Section 15(c) of the Act; a memorandum from Fund management providing its recommendation for renewal of the Agreement; the Advisor’s analysis of profitability of the Agreement to the Advisor and the profitability of related service contracts with the Advisor; a separate profitability comparison prepared by Lipper; a detailed statistical report from Lipper comparing each Fund’s respective performance and expenses with both a comparison “group” and a comparison “universe” of other funds; information regarding the composition of and fees charged for standardized investment products offered to separately managed account clients of the Advisor; the Advisor’s Form ADV which, among other things, showed fees charged by the Advisor to manage the investments of other clients with objectives and programs similar to the Funds; the Agreement and other service agreements with the Advisor; and background information on the Funds’ portfolio managers and reports from the Funds’ Chief Compliance Officer. In addition, the Board had received and considered detailed information on the Funds’ investment performance and expenses at each of its quarterly meetings during the year as well as in-person reports from the Fund’s portfolio managers and reports from the Funds’ Chief Compliance Officer. Throughout the review and approval process, the Independent Directors were represented by independent legal counsel.
The Board considered the nature, extent, and quality of services provided by the Advisor, including services required to be provided under the Agreement, services required to be provided under other agreements with the Advisor and with affiliates of the Advisor, and additional services provided by the Advisor that were not required under any of those agreements. The Board considered the background and experience of the Funds’ portfolio managers, other advisory personnel, compliance personnel, and other support personnel. It noted that in addition to considering these factors at this meeting, it had also considered many of these factors during the course of its quarterly meetings over the past year. The Board noted that, in addition to investment management and broker-selection services, the Advisor prepares compliance and other materials for each of the Board’s meetings; provides office space, equipment, information technology and administrative services necessary for operation of the Funds; and performs regular compliance and risk analysis functions for the Funds. The Board believed that the nature, extent, and quality of services provided by the Advisor were comparable to those provided by advisors to comparable funds and that such services were adequate for the Funds’ needs.
In reviewing the investment performance of each of the Funds, the Board reviewed the one-, two-, three-, four-, five- and ten-year and life-of-fund performances of the Bond Fund and LargeCap Fund and the one-, two-, three-, and four-year and life-of-fund performances of the MidCap Fund. The MidCap Fund commenced operations on March 31, 2008, so only approximately four years of performance information was available for that Fund.
The Board noted that while the Bond Fund had underperformed its comparison universe over the one-year period, it ranked in the top 40 percent of its comparison universe for the two-and-three-year periods, and in the top 20 percent of that universe for the four-, five- and ten-year periods. Within its Lipper comparison group, the Bond Fund ranked in the top 20 percent for the four-, five-, and ten-year periods and above the median for each period except the one-year period. The Board further noted that the Bond Fund had outperformed its benchmark index for the one-, three-, five-, and ten-year periods, as well as the life-of-fund period.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (Unaudited) (Continued) |
The Board observed that the investment performance of the LargeCap Fund during the periods being compared lagged the median performance of its comparison group and comparison universe. The Board also observed that the LargeCap Fund had underperformed its benchmark index for each of the comparison periods. The Board noted that notwithstanding this underperformance, the Fund had outperformed its comparison group during two of the past three one-year periods, and that adjustments to the security and sector weightings in the Fund taken over the past several years to align the Fund more closely with its benchmark were continuing to achieve their intended effect of reducing volatility and thereby reducing the risk of significantly underperforming the Fund’s benchmark. The Board observed that based on the Fund’s above-median performance during two of the past three one-year periods, it appeared that the effort to improve the LargeCap Fund’s relative performance was trending in a positive direction.
The performance of the MidCap Fund ranked in the top 40 percent of the Fund’s Lipper comparison group for the three- and four-year and life-of-fund periods, in the top 20 percent of the Fund’s Lipper comparison universe for the four-year and life-of-fund periods, and in the top 40 percent of the comparison universe for the three-year period. The Fund ranked below the median of its comparison group and comparison universe for the one- and two-year periods. The Board further noted that the MidCap Fund had outperformed its benchmark index for the life-of-fund period.
After considering the performances of the Bond Fund, LargeCap Fund and MidCap Fund, the Board determined that relative to the performances of comparable funds and to each Fund’s benchmark index, the performance of the Bond Fund was exceptional and that the performance of the MidCap Fund and LargeCap Fund was acceptable.
In reviewing the cost of services provided to the Funds and profits realized by the Advisor from these relationships, the Board compared information relating to the various management fees charged to separately managed accounts of the Advisor that have relatively analogous investment objectives as those of a Fund. Among the information reviewed by the Board was information relating to standardized investment products offered to separately managed account clients of the Advisor. The Board determined that these standardized products in most instances had investment objectives and styles that were sufficiently different from the investment objectives and styles of any of the Funds so as to make the comparison inapt. With respect to those standardized products available to separately managed account clients of the Advisor that the Board determined to be sufficiently similar in investment objective and strategy to a Fund to be relevant for comparative purposes, the Board determined that in light of the significantly different level of services and resources required for the management of these products and the Funds, the management fees charged by the Advisor with respect to each of the Funds were reasonable relative to the management fees charged by the Advisor with respect to the relevant standardized separately managed account product.
The Board noted that the Bond Fund’s contractual management fee was the highest of its Lipper comparison group and comparison universe. The Board also noted, however, that the Fund’s total expense ratio, after a waiver of certain fees by the Advisor, was at the median of its Lipper comparison group and in the top 60 percent of its comparison universe, which the Board determined was reasonable.
The information provided by Lipper indicated that the advisory fees and total expense ratio of the LargeCap Fund were above the median in the Fund’s Lipper comparison group and one of the highest of its comparison universe. The Board, however, observed that this was tempered to some degree by the fact that the Fund’s total expense ratio had decreased in recent years and that a fee waiver agreed to by the Advisor had created a ceiling on the maximum total expense ratio that the Fund could incur. The Board discussed why the LargeCap Fund’s total expense ratio, though trending down over the past several years, and advisory fees continued to appear relatively high in comparison to the total expense ratios of its Lipper peer group and its Lipper universe, and considered whether an even lower expense cap might be appropriate for the Fund. The Board noted that the non-management expense ratio for the Fund was materially higher than those ratios for many of the funds in the Fund’s comparison group. The Board observed that most of the funds in the Lipper peer expense group were part of very large fund families or complexes which had much greater leverage to negotiate more favorable non-management fees with third-party providers. The Board considered that the recent growth in total assets invested across the Funds could have the effect of reducing these non-management expenses even without a lower expense waiver in place. The Board also considered that unlike some of the funds in the Fund’s comparison group, the Fund does not have a Rule 12b-1 fee, which it believed mitigated to some degree the difference in the total expense ratio for the LargeCap Fund relative to that ratio for other funds in its comparison group that did charge a Rule 12b-1 fee. After taking into account all of these considerations, the Board determined that the management fee and total expense ratio of the LargeCap Fund were reasonable.
The Board noted that the MidCap Fund’s contractual management fee, after waiver of a portion thereof by the Advisor, ranked in the top 40 percent of lowest management fees of funds in the MidCap Fund’s Lipper comparison group and near the median of its comparison universe. The Board considered the reasons why the non-management expense ratio of the Fund continued to be one of the highest in the Fund’s Lipper comparison group and comparison universe. The Board observed that, consistent with its expectations, the non-management expense ratio had declined during the previous fiscal year as the MidCap Fund had attracted additional assets, but that the rate of this decline had slowed to some degree as the Fund’s rate of growth in assets stagnated over the past year. The Board expected
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that this trend toward declining non-management expenses was likely to continue so long as the MidCap Fund continued to grow in assets, and that as a result these non-management expenses were likely to have a decreasing impact on the Fund’s total expenses. The Board observed that the actual total expense ratio of the Fund, despite the Fund’s relatively high non-management expenses, was lower than the median actual total expense ratio for funds in the Fund’s comparison group and only slightly higher than the median actual total expense ratio for funds in the Fund’s comparison universe, which the Board believed was reasonable.
With regard to profitability, the Board noted that the Advisor’s pre-tax profitability, before accounting for marketing fees borne by the Advisor, ranked below the median for comparable firms, and that it ranked near the median for comparable firms after accounting for such fees. The Board further determined that the operating margins of the Advisor were reasonable. After reviewing information provided by Lipper and reviewing the Advisor’s own analysis, the Board concluded that the cost of services provided by the Advisor and its affiliates to the Funds and the profits realized with respect thereto were reasonable.
The Board also considered whether economies of scale might be realized as the Funds’ assets increase. It noted that the Agreement provides for a fee breakpoint at $50 million of assets. This breakpoint is equal to ten basis points for the LargeCap Fund and MidCap Fund and five basis points for the Bond Fund. The Board considered that an increase in assets could provide economies of scale in the Funds’ operations. However, it noted that the level of assets of the LargeCap Fund presented no opportunity for such economies. The Board noted that assets of the MidCap Fund had grown over the past year but that the Fund continued to lack scale in comparison to other funds having similar investment objectives. Therefore the Board concluded that the MidCap Fund was unlikely to realize material economies of scale until its assets grew significantly. The Board noted that the Bond Fund had continued to grow significantly over the past year and that opportunities for economies of scale were becoming more likely, although the Board determined that the Bond Fund had not yet reached a point where the Fund was realizing any material economies of scale. The Board observed that it would like in the near future to further explore at what higher asset levels material economies would be likely to be realized, and thus at what higher asset levels additional breakpoints would be appropriate.
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Item 2. Code of Ethics.
As of the end of the period covered by this report on Form N-CSR, the Registrant has adopted a Code of Ethics (as defined in Item 2(b) of Form N-CSR) that applies to the Registrant’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer and principal accounting officer. The Registrant’s Code of Ethics (as defined in Item 2(b) of Form N-CSR) and any amendments or waivers thereto are available on the Registrant’s website at www.thompsonim.com.
Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert.
The Registrant’s Board of Directors has determined that the Registrant has at least one audit committee financial expert serving on its audit committee. John Feldt, a director of the Registrant since 1987, has been determined to be an audit committee financial expert and is “independent” within the meaning of Item 3(a)(2) of Form N-CSR. Mr. Feldt, currently retired, was the Senior Vice President-Finance for the University of Wisconsin Foundation from 1984 through 2006. In such capacity, he oversaw the investment and accounting functions for the Foundation. These duties required Mr. Feldt to supervise the Foundation’s controller and approve the Foundation’s accounting and audit information.
Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.
The following table sets forth information as to the fees billed to the Registrant for each of the last two fiscal years for audit-related, tax and other services and products provided by Cohen Fund Audit Services, Ltd, the Registrant’s principal accountant.
Fiscal Year Ended November 30, | |||||||||
2011 | 2012 | ||||||||
Audit Fees(1) | $ | 34,500.00 | $ | 34,500.00 | |||||
Audit-Related Fees(2) | $ | 0.00 | $ | 0.00 | |||||
Tax Fees(3) | $ | 9,000.00 | $ | 9,000.00 | |||||
All Other Fees(4) | $ | 0.00 | $ | 0.00 | |||||
TOTAL | $ | 43,500.00 | $ | 43,500.00 |
(1) | This category relates to professional services rendered by the principal accountant for the audit of the Registrant's annual financial statements or services that are normally provided by the accountant in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements for those fiscal years. | |
(2) | This category relates to assurance and related services by the principal accountant that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit of the Registrant's financial statements and are not reported under "Audit Fees" above. | |
(3) | This category relates to professional services rendered by the principal accountant for tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning. For 2011 and 2012, the tax services provided by the Registrant’s principal accountant specifically related to the preparation of the Registrant’s federal and state income and excise tax returns and a review of the Registrant’s distributions of capital gains and dividend and interest income. | |
(4) | This category relates to products and services provided by the principal accountant other than those reported under "Audit Fees," "Audit-Related Fees," and "Tax Fees" above. |
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Cohen Fund Audit Services, Ltd. did not bill any amounts over the last two fiscal years for services or products provided to Thompson Investment Management, Inc., the Registrant's investment advisor, or any entity controlling, controlled by or under common control with such advisor that provides ongoing services for the Registrant.
The audit committee of the Registrant’s Board of Directors has not adopted any pre-approval policies and procedures (as described in paragraph (c)(7) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X) regarding the provision of audit or non-audit services to the Registrant.
No services described in paragraphs (b)-(d) of this Item were approved by the audit committee pursuant to paragraph (c)(7)(i)(C) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X.
Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.
Not applicable to this Registrant because it is not a “listed issuer” within the meaning of Rule 10A-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Item 6. Schedule of Investments.
The required Schedules of Investments in securities of unaffiliated issuers is included as part of the Registrant’s Annual Report to shareholders dated as of November 30, 2012 provided under Item 1 of this Form N-CSR.
Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies
Not applicable to this Registrant because it is not a closed-end management investment company.
Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable to this Registrant because it is not a closed-end management investment company.
Item 9. Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Companies and Affiliated Purchasers.
Not applicable to this Registrant because it is not a closed-end management investment company.
Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Securities Holders.
The Registrant has not made any material changes to the procedures by which shareholders may recommend nominees to the Registrant's Board of Directors after the Registrant last provided disclosure in response to the requirements of Item 407(c)(2)(iv) of Regulation S-K or this Item.
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Item 11. Controls and Procedures.
(a) | Disclosure Controls and Procedures. Based on an evaluation of the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) carried out under the supervision and with the participation of the Registrant’s management, including its principal executive and financial officers, within 90 days prior to the filing date of this report on Form N-CSR, the Registrant’s principal executive and financial officers have concluded that the design and operation of the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective in providing reasonable assurance that the information required to be disclosed on Form N-CSR is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the applicable time periods. | ||
(b) | Change in Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting. There were no changes in the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) that occurred during the Registrant’s second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this Form N-CSR that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting. |
Item 12. Exhibits
The following exhibits are attached to this Form N-CSR:
Exhibit No. | Description of Exhibit | |||
12(a)(1) | The Code of Ethics for the Registrant’s Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer referred to in Item 2 was filed as Exhibit 12(a)(1) to the Registrant’s Certified Shareholder Report on Form N-CSR filed on January 28, 2005, and is incorporated herein by reference | |||
12(a)(2)-1 | Certification of Principal Executive Officer Required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | |||
12(a)(2)-2 | Certification of Principal Financial Officer Required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | |||
12(b) | Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Required by Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, on this 18th day of January, 2013.
THOMPSON IM FUNDS, INC. | |||
By: | /s/ John W. Thompson | ||
John W. Thompson, Chief Executive | |||
Officer and President |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities indicated on this 18th day of January, 2013.
By: | /s/ John W. Thompson | ||
John W. Thompson, Chief Executive | |||
Officer and President (Principal | |||
Executive Officer) | |||
By: | /s/ Penny Hubbard | ||
Penny Hubbard, Chief Financial | |||
Officer (Principal Financial Officer) |
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