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: 811-04782
HSBC FUNDS
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
452 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10018
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
CITI FUND SERVICES
3435 STELZER ROAD
COLUMBUS, OH 43219
(Name and address of agent for service)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 1-800-782-8183
| Date of fiscal year end: October 31 |
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| Date of reporting period: April 30, 2013 |
Item 1. Reports to Stockholders.
HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc.
HSBC Funds
Semi-Annual Report
April 30, 2013
MONEY MARKET FUNDS | | Class A | | Class B | | Class C | | Class D | | Class E | | Class I | | Class Y |
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund | | REAXX | | HSMXX | | HMMXX | | HIMXX | | HMEXX | | HSIXX | | RMYXX |
HSBC U.S. Government Money Market Fund | | FTRXX | | HUBXX | | HUMXX | | HGDXX | | HGEXX | | HGIXX | | RGYXX |
HSBC U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund | | HWAXX | | HTBXX | | HUCXX | | HTDXX | | HTEXX | | HBIXX | | HTYXX |

| Table of Contents |
HSBC Family of Funds | |
Semi-Annual Report - April 30, 2013 | |
Glossary of Terms | |
Chairman’s Message | 4 |
President’s Message | 5 |
Commentary From the Investment Manager | 6 |
Portfolio Reviews | 7 |
Portfolio Composition | 10 |
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Schedules of Portfolio Investments | |
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund | 11 |
HSBC U.S. Government Money Market Fund | 14 |
HSBC U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund | 16 |
Statements of Assets and Liabilities | 17 |
Statements of Operations | 18 |
Statements of Changes in Net Assets | 19 |
Financial Highlights | 23 |
Notes to Financial Statements | 29 |
Investment Adviser Contract Approval | 37 |
Table of Shareholder Expenses | 40 |
Other Information | 42 |
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index generally representative of investment-grade, fixed-rate debt issues, including government, corporate, asset-backed, and mortgage-backed securities, with maturities of at least one year.
Barclays U.S. High-Yield Corporate Bond Index is an unmanaged index that measures the non-investment grade, USD-denominated, fixed-rate, taxable corporate bond market. Securities are classified as high-yield if the middle rating of Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P is Ba1/BB+/BB+ or below. The index excludes emerging markets debt.
Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) measures the market value of the goods and services produced by labor and property in the United States.
Lipper Money Market Funds Average is an equally weighted average of mutual funds that invest in high-quality financial instruments rated in the top two grades with dollar-weighted average maturities of less than 90 days. These funds intend to keep a constant net asset value.
Lipper U.S. Government Money Market Funds Average is an equally weighted average of mutual funds that invest principally in financial instruments issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, its agencies, or its instrumentalities, with dollar-weighted average maturities of less than 90 days. These funds intend to keep a constant net asset value.
Lipper U.S. Treasury Money Market Funds Average is an equally weighted average of mutual funds that invest principally in U.S. Treasury obligations with dollar-weighted average maturities of less than 90 days. These funds intend to keep a constant net asset value.
Morgan Stanley Capital International Europe Australasia and Far East (“MSCI EAFE”) Index is an unmanaged free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets, excluding the U.S. & Canada. The MSCI EAFE Index consists of the following 22 developed market countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
Morgan Stanley Capital International Emerging Market (“MSCI EM”) Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure equity market performance of emerging markets. The MSCI EM Index consists of the following 21 emerging market countries: Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey.
Standard & Poor’s MidCap 400 Index is an unmanaged index that is the most widely used index for mid-sized companies. The S&P MidCap 400 covers 7% of the U.S. equities market, and is part of a series of S&P U.S. indices that can be used as building blocks for portfolio composition.
Standard & Poor’s 500 (“S&P 500”) Index is an unmanaged index that is widely regarded as a gauge of the U.S. equities market. This index includes 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy. The S&P 500 Index focuses on the large-cap segment of the market, with approximately 75% coverage of U.S. equities.
Russell 2000® Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the small-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe. The Russell 2000® Index is a subset of the Russell 3000® Index representing approximately 10% of the total market capitalization of that index. It includes approximately 2000 of the smallest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership.
Lipper is an independent mutual fund performance monitor whose results are based on total return and do not reflect a sales charge.
Securities indices assume reinvestment of all distributions and interest payments and do not take in account brokerage fees or expenses. Securities in the Funds do not match those in the indices and performance of the Funds will differ. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
June 24, 2013
Fellow Shareholders:
During the recently-concluded semi-annual period, the HSBC Money Market Funds delivered performance that was consistent with each Fund’s benchmark for the six months ended April 30, 2013.
More specific information about each fund’s performance appears in their respective Portfolio Reviews in the following pages of this report. These investment results were achieved in an environment marked by uncertainty about the economic and market outlook, including speculation about future Federal Reserve policy and its market effects. We have no crystal ball, but our portfolio managers generally view the outlook as mildly positive. Several factors contributed to this outlook, including:
- The slowly improving U.S. economic growth, with little signs of inflation, provides a positive backdrop for stocks.
- Any normalization of Federal Reserve policy, and an end to so-called “quantitative easing,” should boost interest rates and improve returns in our money market offerings.
- A global economic recovery carries positive implications for emerging and frontier debt and equity markets, which is important for our roster of emerging market products.
That said, past performance is no guarantee of future results. To that end, the board and HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. constantly monitor the funds’ investment results, meeting regularly with portfolio managers and effect management change when we think it to be in our shareholders’ best interests. When managers consistently under-perform, we monitor their performance more closely and add additional oversight and scrutiny.
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently released for comment a number of proposals relating to money market fund reform. These included a floating net asset value and/or liquidity fees and redemption gates for certain types of money market funds. We will continue to monitor these developments as we work to provide the best money market fund structures and products to meet the needs of our shareholders.
The HSBC Funds lost a great friend and major contributor on April 28, 2013, when Larry Robbins, a trustee for 23 years and our chairman for eight years, succumbed to cancer, which he had fought with his usual grace and courage for almost five years. Larry resigned from the Board in December 2010, but remained an insightful counselor to me and a cheerleader to all of us. There’s no replacing a person like Larry.
His resignation did, however, open a vacancy on the Board, and this month we appointed Susan Gause to the board. The search was exhaustive and choosing among many attractive candidates wasn’t easy, we’re delighted to welcome Susan to the board. Susan has broad asset management experience having served as the CEO and CFO of a major asset management company and we believe that experience will serve HSBC Funds’ shareholders well.
Sincerely, |
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Michael Seely |
Chairman, HSBC Funds |
This literature must be preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus for the HSBC Funds. Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses of the investment company carefully before investing. The prospectus contains this and other important information about the investment company. To obtain more information, for clients of HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., please call 1-888-525-5757 or visit www.investorfunds.us.hsbc.com. For other investors and prospective investors, please call the Funds directly at 1-888-936-4722. Investors should read the prospectus carefully before investing or sending money.
4 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Dear Shareholder,
We are pleased to send to you the HSBC Funds semi-annual report, covering the six-month fiscal period ended April 30, 2013. This report contains detailed information about your Funds’ investments and results. We encourage you to review it carefully.
Inside these pages you will find a letter from the Funds’ Chairman, Michael Seely, in which he comments on recent market developments. The report also includes commentary from the Funds’ portfolio managers in which they discuss the investment markets and their respective Fund’s performance. Each commentary is accompanied by the Fund’s return for the period, listed alongside the returns of its benchmark index and peer group average for comparative purposes.
In closing, we would like to thank you for investing in the HSBC Funds. We continue to focus the HSBC Fund Family on investment solutions to assist our shareholders in reaching their financial goals. We appreciate the trust you place in us, and will continue working to earn it. Please contact us at any time with questions or concerns.
Sincerely, |
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Richard A. Fabietti |
President |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 5
Commentary From the Investment Manager |
HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. |
U.S. Economic Review
The global economy experienced moderate growth during the six-month period between November 1, 2012 and April 30, 2013. Many major economies produced disappointing economic data during much of the period. Consumer spending weakened and fiscal problems continued to plague the eurozone. However, U.S. equity markets made strong gains as the housing market showed significant improvement and consumer spending increased. Markets continued to benefit from the Federal Reserve Board’s decision to maintain the federal funds rate—a key factor in lending rates—at a historically low target range between 0.00% and 0.25% through 2014.
The period began with equities in the U.S. retreating somewhat from gains made in the previous quarter. This pullback was caused in part by renewed concerns about the eurozone debt crisis and the looming threat in the U.S. of the “fiscal cliff”—a collection of spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to take effect in January 2013. Markets both in the U.S. and abroad performed much stronger during the first quarter of 2013 due to improving circumstances in the eurozone and positive domestic economic data. Still, new signs of slowing economic growth—and concerns about political crises in Italy and Cyprus—contributed to higher volatility in the equity markets during the spring. Despite these issues, in addition to lingering weakness in the labor market, equity U.S. markets ended the period significantly higher than six months earlier.
The housing market was the area of the U.S. economy that showed the clearest signs of improvement. Data indicated that home prices were rising and sales were increasing. Home prices in February made their largest year-over-year gain since May 2006. These positive developments produced optimism that the market could finally be headed towards a full recovery from its 2008 collapse.
Another development that supported recent market gains was the European Central Bank’s efforts to reduce borrowing costs for peripheral European countries. These efforts included an aggressive government bond-buying program known as Outright Monetary Transactions. The formation of a governing political coalition in Italy also helped alleviate concerns about a political crisis in that country. Nonetheless, lingering sovereign debt and fiscal problems persist in Europe, and the continent remains in recession.
The unemployment rate continued to edge downward, but remained well above pre-recession levels. Real income and the consumer savings rate remained weak during the period, while consumer confidence declined slightly. Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded during each of the last five months of the period, though the rate of growth slowed.
Emerging markets as a whole performed poorly during the period, as the dollar gained strength and commodity prices fell. Economic data from China were mixed, though there were no signs that its economy was about to suffer the “hard landing” that some analyst had feared.
U.S. Gross Domestic Product1 (GDP) grew at a rate of 0.4% during the fourth quarter of 2012—the slowest rate since the first quarter of 2011. A preliminary estimate puts GDP growth during the first quarter of 2013 at 2.5%.
Market Review
The period began with a steep sell-off in U.S. markets that bottomed out in mid-November. Equities then reversed direction and began a strong rally that persisted through the duration of the period with only a few brief interruptions. Equities performed well despite investors’ concerns that the political deadlock over the fiscal cliff and the subsequent onset of automatic budget cuts—known as the sequester—would undermine economic growth. A political compromise that avoided the most dire consequences of the fiscal cliff, along with improvement in the housing market, helped buoy investor confidence and fuel gains in the equity markets.
During the period, small- and mid-cap stocks outperformed large-cap stocks, and emerging markets generally underperformed developed economies. The Russell 2000® Index1 of small-company stocks returned 16.58% and the MSCI Emerging Market Index1 returned 5.40%.
Stocks in developed economies rose. Japanese equities performed especially well due to optimism regarding its central bank’s efforts to revive its economy. European stocks made gains, but lagged well behind U.S. markets. The S&P 500 Index1 of large-company stocks returned 14.42% for the six months through April 2013. That compared to a 17.18% return for the MSCI EAFE Index1 of international stocks in developed markets.
Among fixed-income securities, yields on U.S. Treasury bonds increased during the period, sending prices lower. Investment-grade corporate bonds also declined. Investors sought the higher yields offered by high-yield corporate bonds and high-yield municipal bonds, which were the best-performing fixed-income sectors during the quarter. The Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index1, which tracks the broad investment-grade fixed-income market, returned 0.90% for the six months through April, while the Barclays U.S. High-Yield Corporate Bond Index1 returned 7.26%. Fixed-income markets in Europe generated modest returns, while fixed-income in emerging markets ended the period higher, though it performed poorly during the first quarter of 2013 following strong gains throughout 2012.
1 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
6 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
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HSBC Prime Money Market Fund (Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares, Class D Shares, Class I Shares and Class Y Shares) by John Chiodi Senior Portfolio Manager | Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s have assigned an “Aaa” and “AAAm” rating to the HSBC Prime Money Market Fund.1 |
Investment Concerns
An investment in the Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government agency. Although the Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at $1.00 per share, it is possible to lose money by investing in the Fund.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Portfolio Performance
Money market yields fell during the six-month period ended April 30, 2013.
The Federal Reserve Board (the “Fed”) during the period ended Operation Twist, a program that was designed to lower long-term bond yields and stimulate economic growth by simultaneously selling short-dated Treasuries and buying long-dated Treasuries. The end of that program reduced the supply of short-term securities in the market, which in turn led to higher prices and lower yields for these securities. In addition, supply fell during the period because broker/dealers issued fewer money market securities due to regulations that incentivized those broker/dealers to extend the duration of their balance sheets through longer-term securities.
Rates stayed low during the period in view of the fact that the Fed indicated that it would not consider raising short-term interest rates in the near future in order to continue to support economic growth.
We positioned the Fund with a relatively long weighted average maturity during the period, which helped the Fund capture the additional yield offered by longer-term securities. We continued to favor high-quality issues. Most of the longer-term issues in the Fund were Treasury securities and high-quality floating rate notes issued by banks.†
† | | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
| | | | | | | | Average Annual | | | | | | Expense | |
Fund Performance | | | | | | | | Total Return (%) | | | | Yield (%)2 | | Ratio (%)3 | |
| | Inception | | Six | | 1 | | 5 | | 10 | | Since | | 7-Day | | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | | Date | | Months* | | Year | | Year | | Year | | Inception | | Average | | Gross | | Net | |
Class A | | 11/13/98 | | 0.01 | | 0.01 | | 0.27 | | 1.49 | | 2.15 | | 0.01 | | 0.69 | | 0.69 | |
Class B4 | | 4/4/01 | | -3.99 | | -3.99 | | 0.18 | | 1.19 | | 1.21 | | 0.01 | | 1.29 | | 1.29 | |
Class C5 | | 3/23/01 | | -0.99 | | -0.96 | | 0.19 | | 1.19 | | 1.20 | | 0.00 | | 1.29 | | 1.29 | |
Class D | | 4/1/99 | | 0.01 | | 0.01 | | 0.30 | | 1.58 | | 2.19 | | 0.01 | | 0.54 | | 0.54 | |
Class I | | 1/9/02 | | 0.05 | | 0.13 | | 0.47 | | 1.86 | | 1.84 | | 0.08 | | 0.19 | | 0.19 | |
Class Y | | 11/12/98 | | 0.01 | | 0.03 | | 0.37 | | 1.75 | | 2.45 | | 0.01 | | 0.29 | | 0.29 | |
Lipper Money Market | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Funds Average6 | | — | | 0.01 | | 0.02 | | 0.02 | | 0.28 | | 2.097 | | N/A | | N/A | | N/A | |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower.
Certain returns shown include monies received by the Fund in respect of a one-time payment in respect of a class action settlement and a one-time reimbursement from HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. related to past marketing arrangements. As a result, the Fund’s total returns for those periods were higher than they would have been had the Fund not received the payments.
* | | Aggregate total return. |
1 | | The “Aaa” and “AAAm” money market fund rating is historical and reflects Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s opinion as to the quality of the Fund’s investments, liquidity management, and operations and trading support. Periodic reviews are conducted to ensure a secure operations environment. Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s ratings represent an opinion only, not a recommendation to buy or sell. Obligations rated A-1+, A-1 or P-1 are rated in the highest short-term rating category by Standard & Poor’s (A-1+ or A-1) or Moody’s Investor Service (P-1). The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitments on these obligations is regarded to be “extremely strong” (A-1+), “strong” (A-1) or “superior” (P-1). |
2 | | The seven-day yield quotation more closely reflects the current earnings of the money market fund than the total return quotation. The seven-day yield reflects voluntary fee waivers/expense reimbursements. Without the voluntary fee waivers/expense reimbursements, the yields would have been -0.43%, -1.03%, -1.03%, -0.28%, 0.07% and -0.03% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares, Class D Shares, Class I Shares and Class Y Shares, respectively. |
3 | | Reflects the expense ratio as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. |
4 | | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 4.00%. Class B Shares were operational during a portion of the periods presented. Amounts reflect performance for the period of time the Class had operations, which was 147 and 211 days for the years ended October 31, 2002 and 2001, respectively. The Class was operational during the entire years ended October 31, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively and for the entire six-months ended April 30, 2013. |
5 | | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 1.00%. Class C Shares were operational during a portion of the periods presented. Amounts reflect performance for the period of time the Class had operations, which was 201 days for the year ended October 31, 2001. The Class was operational during the entire years ended October 31, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively and for the entire six-months ended April 30, 2013. |
6 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
7 | | Return for the period October 31, 1998 to April 30, 2013. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 7
Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
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HSBC U.S. Government Money Market Fund (Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares, Class D Shares, Class I Shares and Class Y Shares) by John Chiodi Senior Portfolio Manager | Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s have assigned an “Aaa” and “AAAm” rating to the HSBC U.S. Government Money Market Fund.1 |
Investment Concerns
An investment in the Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government agency. Although the Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at $1.00 per share, it is possible to lose money by investing in the Fund.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Portfolio Performance
Yields on U.S. government money market securities fell during the six-month period ended April 30, 2013. The federal funds rate (a key short-term interest rate) remained within a range of 0.00% to 0.25% throughout the period.
The Federal Reserve Board during the period completed its Operation Twist program, which was designed to lower long-term bond yields and stimulate economic growth by simultaneously selling short-dated Treasuries and buying long-dated Treasuries. Once that program ended, the supply of available collateral for repurchase agreements (“repos”) on dealer’s balance sheets subsided from its record peak of $76.9 billion in July of 2012. The result was lower yields on short-term repos.
The Fund maintained a relative long weighted average maturity, which enabled the Fund to capture the additional yield available from longer-term issues. The majority of the longer-term securities in the Fund were Treasury securities and agency floaters. Despite their low yields on an absolute basis, these securities offered attractive yields relative to agency coupons and discount notes.†
† | | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
| | | | | | | | Average Annual | | | | | | Expense | |
Fund Performance | | | | | | | | Total Return (%) | | | | Yield (%)2 | | Ratio (%)3 | |
| | Inception | | Six | | 1 | | 5 | | 10 | | Since | | 7-Day | | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | | Date | | Months* | | Year | | Year | | Year | | Inception | | Average | | Gross | | Net | |
Class A | | 5/3/90 | | 0.01 | | 0.01 | | 0.18 | | 1.39 | | 3.00 | | 0.01 | | 0.69 | | 0.69 | |
Class B4 | | 9/11/98 | | -4.00 | | -3.99 | | 0.11 | | 1.28 | | 1.82 | | 0.01 | | 1.29 | | 1.29 | |
Class C5 | | 11/20/06 | | — | | — | | — | | — | | 1.39 | | — | | 1.29 | | 1.29 | |
Class D | | 4/1/99 | | 0.01 | | 0.01 | | 0.21 | | 1.48 | | 2.05 | | 0.01 | | 0.54 | | 0.54 | |
Class I6 | | 12/24/03 | | 0.01 | | 0.02 | | 0.31 | | — | | 1.48 | | 0.01 | | 0.19 | | 0.19 | |
Class Y | | 7/1/96 | | 0.01 | | 0.01 | | 0.26 | | 1.63 | | 2.69 | | 0.01 | | 0.29 | | 0.29 | |
Lipper U.S. Government | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Money Market Funds Average7 | | — | | 0.01 | | 0.01 | | 0.01 | | 0.21 | | 3.028 | | N/A | | N/A | | N/A | |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower.
Certain returns shown include monies received by the Fund in respect of a one-time payment in respect of a class action settlement and a one-time reimbursement from HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. related to past marketing arrangements. As a result, the Fund’s total returns for those periods were higher than they would have been had the Fund not received the payments.
* | | Aggregate total return. |
1 | | The “Aaa” and “AAAm” money market fund rating is historical and reflects Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s opinion as to the quality of the Fund’s investments, liquidity management, and operations and trading support. Periodic reviews are conducted to ensure a secure operations environment. Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s ratings represent an opinion only, not a recommendation to buy or sell. Obligations rated A-1+, A-1 or P-1 are rated in the highest short-term rating category by Standard & Poor’s (A-1+ or A-1) or Moody’s Investor Service (P-1). The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitments on these obligations is regarded to be “extremely strong” (A-1+), “strong” (A-1) or “superior” (P-1). |
2 | | The seven-day yield quotation more closely reflects the current earnings of the money market fund than the total return quotation. The seven-day yield reflects voluntary fee waivers/expense reimbursements. Without the voluntary fee waivers/expense reimbursements, the yields would have been -0.54%, -1.14%, -0.39%, -0.04% and -0.14% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class D Shares, Class I Shares and Class Y Shares, respectively. |
3 | | Reflects the expense ratio as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. |
4 | | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 4.00%. |
5 | | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 1.00%. Class C Shares were operational during a portion of the periods presented. Amounts reflect performance for the period of time the Class had operations, which was 346, 362 and 351 days during the years end October 31, 2006, 2009 and 2010, respectively. The Class was not operational during the entire years ended October 31, 2007, 2008, 2011, and 2012, respectively and for the entire six-months ended April 30, 2013. |
6 | | Class I Shares were operational during a portion of the periods presented. Amounts reflect performance for the period of time the Class had operations, which was 10, 89, 136 and 357 days during the years ended October 31, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, respectively. The Class was operational during the entire years ended October 31, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012, respectively and for the entire six-months ended April 30, 2013. |
7 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
8 | | Return for the period April 30, 1990 to April 30, 2013. |
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Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
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HSBC U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund (Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares, Class D Shares, Class I Shares and Class Y Shares) | | Standard & Poor’s has assigned an “AAA” rating to the HSBC U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund.1 |
by John Chiodi
Senior Portfolio Manager
Investment Concerns
An investment in the Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government agency. Although the Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at $1.00 per share, it is possible to lose money by investing in the fund. The Fund’s income may be subject to the federal alternative minimum tax and to certain state and local taxes.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Portfolio Performance
Treasury bill yields remained low during the six-month period ended April 30, 2013.
The Federal Reserve Board (the “Fed”) kept the federal funds rate (a key short-term interest rate) between 0.00% and 0.25% during the period. Additionally, the Fed set new thresholds for when it would consider raising rates, including unemployment falling to 6.5% and the rate of inflation rising above 2%. Given the current state of high unemployment and low inflation, we believe investors were confident that the Fed would not raise rates in the near future.
Supply and demand factors also affected money market yields. Demand for Treasuries rose near the end of 2012, as it generally does at the end of each calendar year as institutional investors shift assets into short-term, liquid securities to improve the quality of their balance sheets. That increase in demand caused Treasury yields to fall at year-end and into early 2013. The Fed later increased the supply of Treasury bills by issuing cash management bills, and Treasury yields rose due to that increase in supply.
Early in the period, we positioned the Fund with a relatively long weighted average maturity, which enabled the Fund to lock in the relatively high yields offered by longer-term securities. The Fund’s yield fell somewhat early in 2013, when the Fund had to reinvest at relatively low yields. As we reinvested, we strategically positioned the Fund with a relatively short weighted average maturity in anticipation of the Treasury’s upcoming new issuance. That allowed the Fund to take advantage of the added supply of Treasury bills starting in February.
The Fund also continued to implement a barbell strategy that concentrates holdings among very short-term securities and longer-term issues. This approach enabled the Fund to take advantage of the rise in short-term rates when the supply of Treasury bills increased, while still capturing the additional yield on longer-term money market securities.†
† | | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Average Annual | | | | | | | | | | | Expense |
Fund Performance | | | | | | | | | | | | Total Return (%) | | | | | | | Yield (%)2 | | Ratio (%)3 |
| | Inception | | Six | | 1 | | 5 | | 10 | | Since | | 7-Day | | | | | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | | Date | | Months* | | Year | | Year | | Year | | Inception | | Average | | Gross | | Net |
Class A | | 5/24/01 | | | 0.00 | | | | 0.00 | | | | 0.09 | | | | 1.17 | | | | 1.17 | | | | | 0.00 | | | | 0.69 | | | | 0.69 | |
Class B4 | | 8/12/04 | | | -4.00 | | | | -4.00 | | | | 0.05 | | | | — | | | | 1.02 | | | | | 0.00 | | | | 1.29 | | | | 1.29 | |
Class C5 | | 12/24/03 | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 0.04 | | | | | — | | | | 1.29 | | | | 1.29 | |
Class D | | 5/14/01 | | | 0.00 | | | | 0.00 | | | | 0.11 | | | | 1.25 | | | | 1.27 | | | | | 0.00 | | | | 0.54 | | | | 0.54 | |
Class I6 | | 12/30/03 | | | 0.00 | | | | 0.00 | | | | 0.16 | | | | — | | | | 1.57 | | | | | 0.00 | | | | 0.19 | | | | 0.19 | |
Class Y | | 5/11/01 | | | 0.00 | | | | 0.00 | | | | 0.13 | | | | 1.39 | | | | 1.43 | | | | | 0.00 | | | | 0.29 | | | | 0.29 | |
Lipper U.S. Treasury | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Money Market Funds Average7 | | — | | | 0.00 | | | | 0.01 | | | | 0.01 | | | | 0.11 | | | | 1.29 | 8 | | | | N/A | | | | N/A | | | | N/A | |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower.
Certain returns shown include monies received by the Fund in respect of a one-time payment in respect of a class action settlement and a one-time reimbursement from HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. related to past marketing arrangements. As a result, the Fund’s total returns for those periods were higher than they would have been had the Fund not received the payments.
* | Aggregate total return. |
1 | The “AAA” money market fund rating is historical and reflects Standard & Poor’s opinion as to the quality of the Fund’s investments, liquidity management, and operations and trading support. Periodic reviews are conducted to ensure a secure operations environment. Standard & Poor’s rating represent an opinion only, not a recommendation to buy or sell. Obligations rated A-1+, A-1 or P-1 are rated in the highest short-term rating category by Standard & Poor’s (A-1+ or A-1) or Moody’s Investor Service (P-1). The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitments on these obligations is regarded to be “extremely strong” (A-1+), “strong” (A-1) or “superior” (P-1). |
2 | The seven-day yield quotation typically more closely reflects the current earnings of the money market fund than the total return quotation. The seven-day yield reflects voluntary fee waivers/expense reimbursements. Without the voluntary fee waivers/expense reimbursements, the yields would have been -0.60%, -1.20%, -0.45%, -0.10% and -0.20% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class D Shares, Class I Shares and Class Y Shares, respectively. |
3 | Reflects the expense ratio as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. |
4 | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 4.00%. |
5 | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 1.00%. Class C Shares were operational during a portion of the periods presented. |
| Amounts reflect performance for the period of time the Class had operations, which was 26 and 351 days during the years ended October 31, 2008 and 2010, respectively. The Class was operational during the entire years ended October 31, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009. The Class was not operational during the entire years ended October 31, 2011 and 2012 and for the entire six-months ended April 30, 2013. |
6 | Class I Shares were operational during a portion of the periods presented. Amounts reflect performance for the period of time the Class had operations, which was 13 and 280 days during the years ended October 31, 2004 and 2005, respectively. The Class was operational during the entire years ended October 31, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012, respectively and for the entire six-months ended April 30, 2013. |
7 | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
8 | Return for the period April 30, 2001 to April 30, 2013. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 9
Portfolio Composition*
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund | |
Investment Allocation | Percentage of Investments at Value (%) |
Commercial Paper and | | | |
Notes | | 39.8 | |
Certificates of Deposit | | 36.0 | |
Time Deposits | | 9.9 | |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | 7.9 | |
Yankee Dollars | | 2.5 | |
Variable Rate | | | |
Demand Notes | | 1.5 | |
Corporate Obligations | | 1.3 | |
U.S. Government and | | | |
Government Agency | | | |
Obligations | | 0.6 | |
Repurchase Agreements | | 0.5 | |
Total | | 100.0 | |
| |
HSBC U.S. Government Money Market Fund | |
Investment Allocation | Percentage of Investments at Value (%) |
Repurchase Agreements | | 55.4 | |
U.S. Government and | | | |
Government Agency | | | |
Obligations | | 22.7 | |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | 21.9 | |
Total | | 100.0 | |
| |
HSBC U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund | |
Investment Allocation | Percentage of Investments at Value (%) |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | 100.0 | |
Total | | 100.0 | |
____________________
* Portfolio composition is subject to change.
10 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
HSBC PRIME MONEY MARKET FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
Certificates of Deposit – 36.0% | | | | |
| | | | |
| | Principal | | Amortized |
| | Amount ($) | | Cost ($) |
Banking – 36.0% | | | | |
Bank of Montreal Chicago, | | | | |
0.25%, 9/25/13 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,000,000 |
Bank of Nova Scotia Houston, | | | | |
0.18%, 6/4/13 | | 80,000,000 | | 80,000,000 |
Bank of Nova Scotia Houston, | | | | |
0.27%, 10/16/13 (a) | | 50,000,000 | | 50,000,000 |
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, | | | | |
N.Y., 0.20%, 6/14/13 | | 75,000,000 | | 75,000,000 |
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, | | | | |
N.Y., 0.62%, 8/16/13 (a) | | 44,000,000 | | 44,000,000 |
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, | | | | |
N.Y., 0.42%, 2/12/14 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,000,000 |
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, | | | | |
N.Y., 0.88%, 3/7/14 (a) | | 5,800,000 | | 5,820,143 |
Canadian Imperial Bank of | | | | |
Commerce, 0.23%, 6/6/13 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,000,000 |
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, | | | | |
1.03%, 6/14/13 (a) | | 8,000,000 | | 8,007,033 |
Credit Industriel et Commercial, | | | | |
N.Y., 0.27%, 7/12/13 | | 60,000,000 | | 60,000,000 |
Credit Suisse, N.Y., | | | | |
0.98%, 8/12/13 (a) | | 18,000,000 | | 18,033,711 |
Credit Suisse, N.Y., | | | | |
0.38%, 12/6/13 (a) | | 50,000,000 | | 50,000,000 |
Deutsche Bank, N.Y., | | | | |
0.44%, 5/9/13 | | 6,000,000 | | 6,000,239 |
Deutsche Bank, N.Y., | | | | |
0.25%, 4/30/14 (a) | | 100,000,000 | | 100,000,000 |
DnB NOR Bank ASA, N.Y., | | | | |
0.21%, 5/29/13 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,000,000 |
DnB NOR Bank ASA, N.Y., | | | | |
0.29%, 6/7/13 | | 25,000,000 | | 25,000,000 |
Mizuho Corporate Bank, N.Y., | | | | |
0.24%, 7/1/13 | | 39,250,000 | | 39,249,996 |
Nordea Bank Finland, N.Y., | | | | |
0.30%, 6/18/13 | | 90,000,000 | | 90,000,000 |
Norinchukin Bank, N.Y., | | | | |
0.16%, 5/7/13 | | 140,000,000 | | 140,000,000 |
Norinchukin Bank, N.Y., | | | | |
0.25%, 7/8/13 | | 100,000,000 | | 100,000,000 |
Royal Bank of Canada, N.Y., | | | | |
0.38%, 2/3/14 (a) | | 65,000,000 | | 65,000,000 |
Royal Bank of Canada, N.Y., Series | | | | |
YCD, 0.35%, 2/19/14 (a) | | 35,000,000 | | 35,000,000 |
Societe Generale, N.Y., | | | | |
0.29%, 5/13/13 | | 45,000,000 | | 45,000,000 |
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., | | | | |
N.Y., 0.16%, 5/6/13 | | 150,000,000 | | 150,000,000 |
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., | | | | |
N.Y., 0.23%, 7/10/13 | | 90,000,000 | | 90,000,000 |
Svenska Handelsbanken, N.Y., | | | | |
0.22%, 5/7/13 | | 75,000,000 | | 75,000,061 |
Svenska Handelsbanken, N.Y., | | | | |
0.20%, 7/17/13 | | 23,000,000 | | 23,000,000 |
Swedbank, N.Y., | | | | |
0.18%, 5/15/13 | | 11,000,000 | | 11,000,000 |
Toronto Dominion Bank, N.Y., | | | | |
0.27%, 5/13/13 (a) | | 65,000,000 | | 65,000,000 |
Toronto Dominion Bank, N.Y., | | | | |
0.28%, 7/26/13 (a) | | 40,000,000 | | 40,000,000 |
Toronto Dominion Bank, N.Y., | | | | |
0.25%, 11/15/13 (a) | | 65,000,000 | | 65,000,000 |
TOTAL CERTIFICATES | | | | |
OF DEPOSIT | | | | |
(COST $1,755,111,183) | | | | 1,755,111,183 |
|
Commercial Paper and Notes – 39.7% | | |
|
Banking – 17.8% | | | | |
ANZ New Zealand International | | | | |
Ltd., 0.32%, 4/15/14 (a)(b) | | 25,000,000 | | 25,000,000 |
Australia & New Zealand | | | | |
Banking Group Ltd., | | | | |
0.34%, 5/12/14 (a)(b) | | 25,000,000 | | 25,000,000 |
Bank of Nova Scotia, N.Y., | | | | |
0.19%, 6/20/13 (c) | | 60,000,000 | | 59,984,167 |
Banque et Caisse d’Epargne de | | | | |
I'Etat, 0.24%, 5/29/13 (c) | | 24,750,000 | | 24,745,380 |
Banque et Caisse d’Epargne de | | | | |
I'Etat, 0.21%, 7/24/13 (c) | | 25,000,000 | | 24,987,750 |
BPCE, 0.25%, 5/14/13 (b)(c) | | 20,000,000 | | 19,998,194 |
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, | | | | |
N.Y., 0.32%, 9/5/13 (a) | | 65,000,000 | | 65,000,000 |
Credit Agricole North America, | | | | |
Inc., 0.31%, 5/2/13 (c) | | 50,000,000 | | 49,999,569 |
DBS Bank Ltd., | | | | |
0.19%, 7/10/13 (b)(c) | | 25,000,000 | | 24,990,764 |
Kookmin Bank, N.Y., | | | | |
0.27%, 5/21/13 (b)(c) | | 13,700,000 | | 13,697,945 |
Lloyds TSB Bank plc, | | | | |
0.16%, 5/28/13 (c) | | 75,000,000 | | 74,991,001 |
National Australia Bank, N.Y., | | | | |
0.41%, 8/21/13 (a) | | 50,000,000 | | 50,000,000 |
Shinhan Bank, N.Y., | | | | |
0.33%, 5/29/13 (b)(c) | | 20,000,000 | | 19,994,867 |
Skandinaviska Enskilda | | | | |
Banken AB, Series GLOB, | | | | |
0.21%, 7/3/13 (b)(c) | | 50,000,000 | | 49,981,625 |
Societe Generale N.A., | | | | |
0.15%, 5/1/13 (c) | | 25,000,000 | | 25,000,000 |
Societe Generale N.A., | | | | |
0.33%, 5/2/13 (c) | | 50,000,000 | | 49,999,542 |
Societe Generale N.A., | | | | |
0.33%, 7/31/13 (c) | | 55,000,000 | | 54,954,816 |
Swedbank, 0.22%, 5/6/13 (c) | | 40,000,000 | | 39,998,778 |
UBS Finance Delaware LLC, | | | | |
0.20%, 5/17/13 (c) | | 60,500,000 | | 60,494,622 |
Westpac Banking Corp., | | | | |
0.34%, 1/8/14 (a) | | 15,000,000 | | 15,000,000 |
Westpac Securities NZ Ltd., | | | | |
0.21%, 5/30/13 (b)(c) | | 19,400,000 | | 19,396,718 |
Westpac Securities NZ Ltd., | | | | |
0.52%, 7/5/13 (a) | | 45,000,000 | | 45,000,000 |
Westpac Securities NZ Ltd., | | | | |
0.32%, 4/11/14 (a)(b) | | 29,000,000 | | 29,001,026 |
| | | | 867,216,764 |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 11 |
HSBC PRIME MONEY MARKET FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued)
Commercial Paper and Notes, continued | | |
|
| | Principal | | Amortized |
| | Amount ($) | | Cost ($) |
Diversified – 4.0% | | | | |
Caisse des Depots et | | | | |
Consignations, | | | | |
0.21%, 7/30/13 (b)(c) | | 75,000,000 | | 74,960,625 |
Erste Abwicklungsanstalt, | | | | |
0.18%, 5/8/13 (b)(c) | | 19,000,000 | | 18,999,335 |
Erste Abwicklungsanstalt, | | | | |
0.37%, 5/28/13 (c) | | 35,000,000 | | 34,990,287 |
Erste Abwicklungsanstalt, | | | | |
0.71%, 6/27/13 (c) | | 25,000,000 | | 24,972,292 |
Erste Abwicklungsanstalt, | | | | |
0.30%, 7/15/13 (c) | | 25,000,000 | | 24,984,375 |
Erste Abwicklungsanstalt, | | | | |
0.35%, 2/12/14 (b)(c) | | 15,000,000 | | 14,958,146 |
| | | | 193,865,060 |
|
Finance – 17.9% | | | | |
Antalis US Funding Corp., | | | | |
0.32%, 5/2/13 (b)(c) | | 20,000,000 | | 19,999,822 |
ASB Finance Ltd., Series GB, | | | | |
0.20%, 5/28/13 (b)(c) | | 55,000,000 | | 54,991,750 |
BNP Paribas Finance, Inc., | | | | |
0.17%, 5/3/13 (c) | | 50,000,000 | | 49,999,528 |
BNP Paribas Finance, Inc., | | | | |
0.21%, 6/3/13 (c) | | 75,000,000 | | 74,985,563 |
Caisse Centrale Desjardins | | | | |
du Quebec, | | | | |
0.18%, 5/22/13 (b)(c) | | 35,000,000 | | 34,996,325 |
Caisse Centrale Desjardins | | | | |
du Quebec, | | | | |
0.18%, 5/24/13 (b)(c) | | 30,000,000 | | 29,996,550 |
Collateralized CP Co. LLC, | | | | |
0.22%, 6/20/13 (c) | | 100,000,000 | | 99,969,445 |
Collateralized CP II Co. LLC, | | | | |
0.20%, 7/11/13 (b)(c) | | 50,000,000 | | 49,980,278 |
Deutsche Bank Financial LLC, | | | | |
0.43%, 8/22/13 (c) | | 55,000,000 | | 54,925,765 |
LMA Americas LLC, | | | | |
0.32%, 5/2/13 (b)(c) | | 14,000,000 | | 13,999,876 |
Mizuho Funding LLC, | | | | |
0.23%, 7/9/13 (b)(c) | | 30,000,000 | | 29,986,775 |
Mizuho Funding LLC, | | | | |
0.24%, 7/15/13 (b)(c) | | 30,000,000 | | 29,985,313 |
Natixis US Finance Co. LLC, | | | | |
0.18%, 5/1/13 (c) | | 63,250,000 | | 63,250,000 |
Natixis US Finance Co. LLC, | | | | |
0.20%, 5/20/13 (c) | | 70,000,000 | | 69,992,612 |
Nieuw Amsterdam Receivables | | | | |
Corp., 0.19%, 7/22/13 (b)(c) | | 20,000,000 | | 19,991,344 |
Rabobank USA Financial Corp., | | | | |
0.25%, 10/8/13 (c) | | 70,000,000 | | 69,922,222 |
Toyota Motor Credit Corp., | | | | |
0.27%, 11/8/13 (c) | | 50,000,000 | | 49,928,375 |
UOB Funding LLC, | | | | |
0.20%, 6/19/13 (c) | | 60,000,000 | | 59,983,667 |
| | | | 876,885,210 |
|
TOTAL COMMERCIAL | | | | |
PAPER AND NOTES | | | | |
(COST $1,937,967,034) | | | | 1,937,967,034 |
| | | | |
Corporate Obligations – 1.3% | | | | |
| | | | |
Banking – 0.5% | | | | |
JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., | | | | |
Series BKNT, 0.35%, 4/17/14, | | | | |
Callable 6/6/13 @ 100 (a) | | 25,000,000 | | 25,000,000 |
| | | | |
Finance – 0.8% | | | | |
General Electric Capital Corp., | | | | |
1.88%, 9/16/13, MTN | | 26,300,000 | | 26,446,937 |
General Electric Capital | | | | |
Corp., Series A, | | | | |
5.40%, 9/20/13, MTN | | 13,090,000 | | 13,343,312 |
| | | | 39,790,249 |
|
TOTAL CORPORATE | | | | |
OBLIGATIONS | | | | |
(COST $64,790,249) | | | | 64,790,249 |
|
Yankee Dollars – 2.5% | | | | |
| | | | |
Banking – 1.9% | | | | |
KfW, 0.21%, 6/17/13 (a) | | 25,000,000 | | 24,999,397 |
Westpac Banking Corp., | | | | |
0.70%, 6/14/13 (a) | | 15,000,000 | | 15,007,185 |
Westpac Banking Corp., | | | | |
0.39%, 10/1/13, MTN (d) | | 35,000,000 | | 35,000,000 |
Westpac Banking Corp., | | | | |
1.01%, 3/31/14 (a) | | 15,750,000 | | 15,851,359 |
| | | | 90,857,941 |
Commercial Banks – 0.6% | | | | |
ANZ National International Ltd., | | | | |
6.20%, 7/19/13 | | 18,625,000 | | 18,858,584 |
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, | | | | |
1.01%, 3/17/14 (a) | | 12,500,000 | | 12,579,845 |
| | | | 31,438,429 |
|
TOTAL YANKEE DOLLARS | | | | |
(COST $122,296,370) | | | | 122,296,370 |
|
Variable Rate Demand Notes – 1.5% | | |
| | | | |
Idaho – 0.3% | | | | |
Power County Industrial | | | | |
Development Corp. | | | | |
Exempt Facilities Revenue, | | | | |
0.26%, 4/1/14, AMT, (LOC | | | | |
Wells Fargo Bank N.A.) (a) | | 16,000,000 | | 16,000,000 |
Illinois – 0.5% | | | | |
Illinois Development Finance | | | | |
Authority Solid Waste | | | | |
Disposal Revenue, | | | | |
0.26%, 9/1/27, AMT, (LOC | | | | |
Wells Fargo Bank N.A.) (a) | | 24,900,000 | | 24,900,000 |
Ohio – 0.4% | | | | |
Cleveland Ohio Economic & | | | | |
Community Development | | | | |
Revenue, 0.19%, 12/1/33, | | | | |
(LOC PNC Bank N.A.) (a) | | 8,455,000 | | 8,455,000 |
Warren County Ohio Health | | | | |
Care Facilities Revenue, | | | | |
0.21%, 7/1/31, | | | | |
(LOC U.S. Bank N.A.) (a) | | 8,900,000 | | 8,900,000 |
| | | | 17,355,000 |
12 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC PRIME MONEY MARKET FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued)
Variable Rate Demand Notes, continued | | |
|
| | Principal | | Amortized |
| | Amount ($) | | Cost ($) |
South Carolina – 0.3% | | | | |
South Carolina State Housing | | | | |
Finance & Development | | | | |
Authority Multi-family Rental | | | | |
Housing Improvement | | | | |
Revenue, 0.26%, 7/15/39, | | | | |
AMT, (LOC Wells Fargo | | | | |
Bank N.A.) (a) | | 17,250,000 | | 17,250,000 |
|
TOTAL VARIABLE RATE | | | | |
DEMAND NOTES | | | | |
(COST $75,505,000) | | | | 75,505,000 |
|
U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations – 0.6% |
|
Federal Farm Credit Bank – 0.6% | | | | |
0.19%, 12/20/13(a), Series 2 | | 30,000,000 | | 30,000,000 |
|
TOTAL U.S. GOVERNMENT | | | | |
AND GOVERNMENT | | | | |
AGENCY OBLIGATIONS | | | | |
(COST $30,000,000) | | | | 30,000,000 |
|
U.S. Treasury Obligations – 7.9% | | |
| | | | |
U.S. Treasury Notes – 7.9% | | | | |
1.13%, 6/15/13 | | 95,000,000 | | 95,102,421 |
0.75%, 9/15/13 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,101,018 |
0.13%, 9/30/13 | | 50,000,000 | | 49,983,409 |
4.25%, 11/15/13 | | 50,000,000 | | 51,084,896 |
1.50%, 12/31/13 | | 35,000,000 | | 35,301,837 |
1.88%, 2/28/14 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,697,566 |
1.75%, 3/31/14 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,713,594 |
|
TOTAL U.S. TREASURY | | | | |
OBLIGATIONS | | | | |
(COST $382,984,741) | | | | 382,984,741 |
|
Repurchase Agreements – 0.5% | | | | |
| | | | |
BNP Paribas, purchased on | | | | |
4/24/13, 0.09%, due on | | | | |
5/1/13 with a maturity value of | | | | |
$25,000,438, collateralized by | | | | |
Various U.S. Government and | | | | |
Government Agency Obligations, | | | | |
2.43%-6.00%, 8/1/19-7/1/42, | | | | |
fair value $25,500,000 | | 25,000,000 | | 25,000,000 |
TOTAL REPURCHASE | | | | |
AGREEMENT | | | | |
(COST $25,000,000) | | | | 25,000,000 |
| | | | |
Time Deposits – 9.9% | | | | |
|
Abbey National Treasury | | | | |
Services plc, 0.17%, 5/1/13 | | 100,000,000 | | 100,000,000 |
ABN AMRO Bank NV, | | | | |
0.18%, 5/7/13 | | 150,000,000 | | 150,000,000 |
Barclays Capital Group, | | | | |
0.12%, 5/1/13 | | 119,000,000 | | 119,000,000 |
Credit Agricole CIB, N.Y., | | | | |
0.17%, 5/1/13 | | 114,000,000 | | 114,000,000 |
TOTAL TIME DEPOSITS | | | | |
(COST $483,000,000) | | | | 483,000,000 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT | | | | |
SECURITIES (COST | | | | |
$4,876,654,577) — 99.9% | | | | 4,876,654,577 |
____________________
Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $4,879,237,164. |
(a) | Variable rate security. The interest rates on these securities are adjusted periodically to reflect then-current short-term interest rates. The rates presented represent the rates in effect on April 30, 2013. The maturity dates presented reflect the final maturity dates. However, some of these securities may contain put or demand features that allow the Fund to require the issuer to repurchase the security from the fund within various time periods, including daily, weekly, monthly, or semi-annually. |
(b) | Rule 144A security or other security which is restricted as to resale to institutional investors. This security has been deemed liquid by the Investment Adviser based on procedures approved by the Board of Trustees. |
(c) | Rate presented represents the effective yield at time of purchase. |
(d) | Step Bond. Income recognition is on the effective yield method for Step Bonds. |
AMT — Interest on security is subject to federal alternative minimum tax
LLC — Limited Liability Company
LOC — Letter of Credit
MTN — Medium Term Note
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 13 |
HSBC U.S. GOVERNMENT MONEY MARKET FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
U.S. Government and Government Agency Obligations – 22.6% |
|
| | Principal | | Amortized |
| | Amount ($) | | Cost ($) |
Federal Farm Credit Bank – 12.5% | | |
�� 0.19%, 5/3/13(a) | | 150,000,000 | | 150,000,000 |
0.33%, 6/19/13(a) | | 75,000,000 | | 75,014,280 |
0.20%, 7/2/13(a), Series 1 | | 85,000,000 | | 85,000,000 |
0.19%, 10/16/13(a) | | 50,000,000 | | 50,000,000 |
0.19%, 12/13/13 | | 25,000,000 | | 25,001,152 |
0.19%, 12/20/13(a), Series 2 | | 20,000,000 | | 20,000,000 |
0.23%, 12/30/13(a) | | 26,000,000 | | 26,006,982 |
0.18%, 1/14/14(a) | | 25,000,000 | | 24,998,233 |
0.10%, 2/10/14(a) | | 60,000,000 | | 59,959,159 |
| | | | 515,979,806 |
Federal Home Loan Bank – 9.8% | | | | |
0.17%, 6/13/13(a) | | 50,000,000 | | 50,002,251 |
0.10%, 6/25/13(b) | | 50,000,000 | | 49,992,361 |
0.13%, 9/18/13(b) | | 38,000,000 | | 37,981,528 |
0.13%, 11/8/13 | | 6,850,000 | | 6,847,557 |
0.13%, 12/6/13 | | 38,550,000 | | 38,534,385 |
0.13%, 12/10/13 | | 7,000,000 | | 6,997,538 |
0.34%, 12/18/13 | | 4,300,000 | | 4,303,458 |
0.23%, 12/20/13(a) | | 100,000,000 | | 100,025,843 |
0.13%, 3/27/14 | | 60,000,000 | | 59,980,025 |
0.14%, 4/25/14(a), Series 3 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,000,000 |
| | | | 404,664,946 |
Federal National Mortgage Association – 0.3% | | |
0.38%, 8/9/13(a) | | 10,000,000 | | 10,006,633 |
TOTAL U.S. GOVERNMENT | | | | |
AND GOVERNMENT | | | | |
AGENCY OBLIGATIONS | | | | |
(COST $930,651,385) | | | | 930,651,385 |
|
U.S. Treasury Obligations – 21.7% | | |
| | |
U.S. Treasury Notes – 21.7% | | | | |
1.13%, 6/15/13 | | 49,000,000 | | 49,052,526 |
1.00%, 7/15/13 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,077,438 |
4.25%, 8/15/13 | | 65,000,000 | | 65,759,528 |
0.13%, 9/30/13 | | 50,000,000 | | 49,983,453 |
3.13%, 9/30/13 | | 125,000,000 | | 126,517,275 |
2.75%, 10/31/13 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,636,362 |
0.50%, 11/15/13 | | 125,000,000 | | 125,216,208 |
4.25%, 11/15/13 | | 100,000,000 | | 102,187,543 |
2.00%, 11/30/13 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,535,060 |
0.75%, 12/15/13 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,167,400 |
1.25%, 2/15/14 | | 75,000,000 | | 75,629,100 |
1.75%, 3/31/14 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,713,449 |
1.25%, 4/15/14 | | 50,000,000 | | 50,517,905 |
TOTAL U.S. TREASURY | | | | |
OBLIGATIONS | | | | |
(COST $896,993,247) | | | | 896,993,247 |
| | | | |
Repurchase Agreements – 55.2% | | |
|
Bank of America Corp., purchased | | | | |
on 4/30/13, 0.17%, due on | | | | |
5/1/13 with a maturity value of | | | | |
$200,000,944, collateralized | | | | |
by various U.S. Government | | | | |
and Government Agency | | | | |
Obligations, 3.00%-4.00%, | | | | |
11/1/40-1/1/43, fair value | | | | |
$204,000,001 | | 200,000,000 | | 200,000,000 |
Barclays Capital Group, purchased | | | | |
on 4/30/13, 0.14%, due on | | | | |
5/7/13 with a maturity value of | | | | |
$175,004,764, collateralized | | | | |
by various U.S. Government | | | | |
and Government Agency | | | | |
Obligations, 4.50%-6.00%, | | | | |
9/20/38-10/20/62, fair value | | | | |
$178,500,000 | | 175,000,000 | | 175,000,000 |
Barclays Capital Group, purchased | | | | |
on 4/30/13, 0.16%, due on | | | | |
5/1/13 with a maturity value of | | | | |
$200,000,889, collateralized | | | | |
by various U.S. Government | | | | |
and Government Agency | | | | |
Obligations, 0.00%-4.52%, | | | | |
1/15/26-12/20/62, fair value | | | | |
$204,000,001 | | 200,000,000 | | 200,000,000 |
BNP Paribas, purchased on | | | | |
4/24/13, 0.09%, due on | | | | |
5/1/13 with a maturity value of | | | | |
$135,002,363, collateralized | | | | |
by various U.S. Government | | | | |
and Government Agency | | | | |
Obligations, 2.04%-6.06%, | | | | |
7/1/18-5/1/43, fair value | | | | |
$137,700,000 | | 135,000,000 | | 135,000,000 |
Citigroup Global Markets, | | | | |
purchased on 4/30/13, 0.14%, | | | | |
due on 5/1/13 with a maturity | | | | |
value of $250,000,972, | | | | |
collateralized by various U.S. | | | | |
Treasury Obligations, 0.00%- | | | | |
5.25%, 7/15/14-2/15/29, fair | | | | |
value $255,000,010 | | 250,000,000 | | 250,000,000 |
Citigroup Global Markets, | | | | |
purchased on 4/30/13, 0.17%, | | | | |
due on 5/1/13 with a maturity | | | | |
value of $300,001,417, | | | | |
collateralized by various U.S. | | | | |
Government and Government | | | | |
Agency Obligations, 0.70%- | | | | |
5.50%, 5/31/15-4/15/43, fair | | | | |
value $306,000,056 | | 300,000,000 | | 300,000,000 |
Deutsche Bank, purchased | | | | |
on 4/30/13, 0.16%, due on | | | | |
5/1/13 with a maturity value of | | | | |
$400,001,778, collateralized | | | | |
by various U.S. Government | | | | |
and Government Agency | | | | |
Obligations, 2.50%-6.50%, | | | | |
3/1/15-5/1/43, fair value | | | | |
$408,573,867 | | 400,000,000 | | 400,000,000 |
14 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC U.S. GOVERNMENT MONEY MARKET FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued)
Repurchase Agreements, continued | | |
|
| | Principal | | Amortized |
| | Amount ($) | | Cost ($) |
Goldman Sachs, purchased | | | | |
on 4/29/13, 0.08%, due on | | | | |
5/6/13 with a maturity value | | | | |
of $175,002,722, collateralized | | | | |
by various U.S. Government | | | | |
and Government Agency | | | | |
Obligations, 1.13%-2.38%, | | | | |
4/27/17-1/13/22, fair value | | | | |
$178,500,897 | | 175,000,000 | | 175,000,000 |
Goldman Sachs, purchased | | | | |
on 4/30/13, 0.16%, due on | | | | |
5/1/13 with a maturity value of | | | | |
$140,000,622, collateralized | | | | |
by various U.S. Government | | | | |
and Government Agency | | | | |
Obligations, 2.50%-7.00%, | | | | |
10/15/23-4/15/43, fair value | | | | |
$142,800,000 | | 140,000,000 | | 140,000,000 |
Greenwich Capital Markets, | | | | |
Inc., purchased on 4/30/13, | | | | |
0.15%, due on 5/1/13 with a | | | | |
maturity value of $300,001,250, | | | | |
collateralized by various U.S. | | | | |
Government and Government | | | | |
Agency Obligations, 0.38%- | | | | |
6.75%, 2/27/14-3/15/31, fair | | | | |
value $306,005,825 | | 300,000,000 | | 300,000,000 |
TOTAL REPURCHASE | | | | |
AGREEMENTS | | | | |
(COST $2,275,000,000) | | | | 2,275,000,000 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT | | | | |
SECURITIES (COST | | | | |
$4,102,644,632) — 99.5% | | | | 4,102,644,632 |
____________________
Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $4,123,462,373.
(a) | Variable rate security. The rate presented represents the rate in effect at April 30, 2013. These securities are deemed to have a maturity remaining until the next adjustment of the interest rate or the longer of the demand period or time to the next readjustment. |
(b) | Discount note. Rate presented represents the effective yield at time of purchase. |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 15 |
HSBC U.S. TREASURY MONEY MARKET FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
U.S. Treasury Obligations – 105.7% | | | | |
| | | | |
| | Principal | | Amortized |
| | Amount ($) | | Cost ($) |
U.S. Treasury Bills – 79.9% | | | | |
0.07%, 5/2/13(a) | | 184,000,000 | | 183,999,633 |
0.06%, 5/9/13(a) | | 415,000,000 | | 414,994,401 |
0.06%, 5/16/13(a) | | 321,500,000 | | 321,492,726 |
0.05%, 5/23/13(a) | | 200,000,000 | | 199,993,890 |
0.13%, 5/30/13(a) | | 200,000,000 | | 199,979,862 |
0.09%, 6/13/13(a) | | 235,000,000 | | 234,974,040 |
0.08%, 6/20/13(a) | | 146,000,000 | | 145,983,156 |
0.08%, 6/27/13(a) | | 125,000,000 | | 124,984,959 |
0.06%, 7/18/13(a) | | 150,000,000 | | 149,980,825 |
| | | | 1,976,383,492 |
U.S. Treasury Notes – 25.8% | | | | |
3.50%, 5/31/13 | | 25,000,000 | | 25,068,256 |
1.13%, 6/15/13 | | 195,000,000 | | 195,240,360 |
0.38%, 7/31/13 | | 25,000,000 | | 25,015,389 |
4.25%, 8/15/13 | | 75,000,000 | | 75,886,515 |
0.75%, 9/15/13 | | 160,000,000 | | 160,395,650 |
0.50%, 11/15/13 | | 25,000,000 | | 25,045,913 |
2.00%, 11/30/13 | | 75,000,000 | | 75,793,608 |
0.75%, 12/15/13 | | 15,000,000 | | 15,050,165 |
0.25%, 2/28/14 | | 40,000,000 | | 40,031,785 |
| | | | 637,527,641 |
|
TOTAL U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS (COST $2,613,911,133) | | | | 2,613,911,133 |
|
TOTAL INVESTMENT SECURITIES—105.7% | | | | 2,613,911,133 |
____________________
Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $2,473,026,005.
(a) | Discount note. Rate presented represents the effective yield at time of purchase. |
16 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Assets and Liabilities—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
| | | | | | | U.S. | | | | | | |
| | Prime | | | | Government | | | | U.S. Treasury | |
| | Money Market | | | | Money Market | | | | Money Market | |
| | Fund | | | | Fund | | | | Fund | |
Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investments, at value and amortized cost | | $ | 4,851,654,577 | | | | $ | 1,827,644,632 | | | | $ | 2,613,911,133 | |
Repurchase agreements, at value and cost | | | 25,000,000 | | | | | 2,275,000,000 | | | | | — | |
Total Investments | | | 4,876,654,577 | | | | | 4,102,644,632 | | | | | 2,613,911,133 | |
Cash | | | 471,218 | | | | | 16,819,768 | | | | | 6,364,424 | |
Interest receivable | | | 3,158,483 | | | | | 4,627,815 | | | | | 2,771,246 | |
Receivable for capital shares issued | | | 118,977 | | | | | 35,828 | | | | | — | |
Receivable from Investment Adviser | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | 278,726 | |
Prepaid expenses and other assets | | | 37,117 | | | | | 47,516 | | | | | 40,218 | |
Total Assets | | | 4,880,440,372 | | | | | 4,124,175,559 | | | | | 2,623,365,747 | |
Liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Dividends payable | | | 215,682 | | | | | 42,984 | | | | | — | |
Payable for investments purchased | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | 149,996,384 | |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Management | | | 362,634 | | | | | 22,343 | | | | | — | |
Administration | | | 197,872 | | | | | 150,852 | | | | | 76,720 | |
Shareholder Servicing | | | 930 | | | | | — | | | | | — | |
Accounting | | | 8,089 | | | | | 5,306 | | | | | 5,135 | |
Custodian | | | 76,841 | | | | | 76,525 | | | | | 24,111 | |
Transfer Agent | | | 4,790 | | | | | 3,040 | | | | | 3,055 | |
Trustee | | | 10,612 | | | | | 4,761 | | | | | 9,610 | |
Other | | | 325,758 | | | | | 407,375 | | | | | 224,727 | |
Total Liabilities | | | 1,203,208 | | | | | 713,186 | | | | | 150,339,742 | |
Net Assets | | $ | 4,879,237,164 | | | | $ | 4,123,462,373 | | | | $ | 2,473,026,005 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Composition of Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Capital | | | 4,879,234,746 | | | | | 4,123,392,266 | | | | | 2,473,001,782 | |
Undistributed (distributions in excess of) net investment income | | | 365 | | | | | 5,929 | | | | | 9 | |
Accumulated net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | 2,053 | | | | | 64,178 | | | | | 24,214 | |
Net Assets | | $ | 4,879,237,164 | | | | $ | 4,123,462,373 | | | | $ | 2,473,026,005 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | $ | 41,351,566 | | | | $ | 635,891 | | | | $ | 5,099 | |
Class B Shares | | | 33,225 | | | | | 48,741 | | | | | 1,030 | |
Class C Shares | | | 23 | | | | | — | | | | | — | |
Class D Shares | | | 1,267,253,752 | | | | | 617,033,445 | | | | | 558,659,448 | |
Class I Shares | | | 2,948,531,003 | | | | | 1,238,969,734 | | | | | 489,813,172 | |
Class Y Shares | | | 622,067,595 | | | | | 2,266,774,562 | | | | | 1,424,547,256 | |
| | $ | 4,879,237,164 | | | | $ | 4,123,462,373 | | | | $ | 2,473,026,005 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
($0.001 par value, unlimited number of shares authorized): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | 41,352,161 | | | | | 635,889 | | | | | 5,091 | |
Class B Shares | | | 33,255 | | | | | 48,727 | | | | | 1,031 | |
Class C Shares | | | 23 | | | | | — | | | | | — | |
Class D Shares | | | 1,267,193,078 | | | | | 616,842,737 | | | | | 558,649,516 | |
Class I Shares | | | 2,948,607,702 | | | | | 1,239,062,976 | | | | | 489,838,843 | |
Class Y Shares | | | 622,062,753 | | | | | 2,266,802,298 | | | | | 1,424,512,279 | |
Net Asset Value, Offering Price and Redemption Price per share: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | $ | 1.00 | | | | $ | 1.00 | | | | $ | 1.00 | |
Class B Shares(a) | | $ | 1.00 | | | | $ | 1.00 | | | | $ | 1.00 | |
Class C Shares(a) | | $ | 1.00 | | | | $ | — | | | | $ | — | |
Class D Shares | | $ | 1.00 | | | | $ | 1.00 | | | | $ | 1.00 | |
Class I Shares | | $ | 1.00 | | | | $ | 1.00 | | | | $ | 1.00 | |
Class Y Shares | | $ | 1.00 | | | | $ | 1.00 | | | | $ | 1.00 | |
____________________
(a) Redemption Price per share varies by length of time shares are held.
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | 17 |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Operations—For the six months ended April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
| | | | | | | U.S. | | | | | |
| | Prime | | | Government | | | U.S. Treasury |
| | Money Market | | | Money Market | | | Money Market |
| | Fund | | | Fund | | | Fund |
Investment Income: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Interest | | $ | 7,228,820 | | | | $ | 4,406,249 | | | | $ | 1,447,909 | |
Total Investment Income (Loss) | | | 7,228,820 | | | | | 4,406,249 | | | | | 1,447,909 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Management | | | 2,627,029 | | | | | 2,467,462 | | | | | 1,328,395 | |
Advisory Services: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Operational Support - Class A Shares | | | 18,903 | | | | | 18,715 | | | | | 2 | |
Operational Support - Class B Shares | | | 17 | | | | | 37 | | | | | — | |
Operational Support - Class C Shares | | | 2 | | | | | — | | | | | — | |
Operational Support - Class D Shares | | | 677,330 | | | | | 294,561 | | | | | 375,043 | |
Operational Support - Class Y Shares | | | 309,834 | | | | | 1,304,155 | | | | | 693,114 | |
Administration: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | 9,293 | | | | | 9,193 | | | | | 1 | |
Class B Shares | | | 8 | | | | | 18 | | | | | — | |
Class D Shares | | | 332,698 | | | | | 144,676 | | | | | 184,088 | |
Class I Shares | | | 796,245 | | | | | 417,518 | | | | | 128,087 | |
Class Y Shares | | | 152,309 | | | | | 639,810 | | | | | 340,638 | |
Distribution: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class B Shares | | | 128 | | | | | 275 | | | | | 4 | |
Class C Shares | | | 10 | | | | | — | | | | | — | |
Shareholder Servicing: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | 75,495 | | | | | 74,862 | | | | | 11 | |
Class B Shares | | | 43 | | | | | 91 | | | | | 2 | |
Class C Shares | | | 3 | | | | | — | | | | | — | |
Class D Shares | | | 1,691,636 | | | | | 736,411 | | | | | 937,616 | |
Accounting | | | 40,041 | | | | | 33,563 | | | | | 32,842 | |
Compliance Service | | | 43,204 | | | | | 40,384 | | | | | 20,258 | |
Custodian | | | 170,018 | | | | | 152,414 | | | | | 62,618 | |
Printing | | | 55,050 | | | | | 47,729 | | | | | 24,747 | |
Professional | | | 220,546 | | | | | 206,109 | | | | | 114,403 | |
Transfer Agent | | | 25,962 | | | | | 18,343 | | | | | 18,390 | |
Trustee | | | 146,976 | | | | | 140,286 | | | | | 73,814 | |
Registration fees | | | 46,080 | | | | | 38,976 | | | | | 36,784 | |
Other | | | 187,720 | | | | | 152,126 | | | | | 90,028 | |
Total expenses before fee reductions | | | 7,626,580 | | | | | 6,937,714 | | | | | 4,460,885 | |
Fees voluntarily reduced/reimbursed by Investment Adviser | | | (463,724 | ) | | | | (1,848,431 | ) | | | | (1,901,018 | ) |
Fees voluntarily reduced by Administrator | | | — | | | | | (204,162 | ) | | | | (171,533 | ) |
Fees voluntarily reduced by Distributor | | | (138 | ) | | | | (275 | ) | | | | (4 | ) |
Fees voluntarily reduced by Shareholder Servicing Agent | | | (1,758,538 | ) | | | | (811,364 | ) | | | | (937,628 | ) |
Fees paid indirectly | | | — | | | | | (13,135 | ) | | | | (2,793 | ) |
Net Expenses | | | 5,404,180 | | | | | 4,060,347 | | | | | 1,447,909 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Investment Income (Loss) | | | 1,824,640 | | | | | 345,902 | | | | | — | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | 2,053 | | | | | 67,744 | | | | | 35,624 | |
Change In Net Assets Resulting From Operations | | $ | 1,826,693 | | | | $ | 413,646 | | | | $ | 35,624 | |
18 | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| Prime | | U.S. Government |
| Money Market Fund | | Money Market Fund |
| For the | For the | | For the | For the |
| six months ended | year ended | | six months ended | year ended |
| April 30, 2013 | October 31, 2012 | | April 30, 2013 | October 31, 2012 |
| (Unaudited) | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | |
Investment Activities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Operations: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | $ | 1,824,640 | | | $ | 5,657,344 | | | | $ | 345,902 | | | $ | 589,074 | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | 2,053 | | | | 24,826 | | | | | 67,744 | | | | 2,240 | |
Change in net assets resulting from operations | | | 1,826,693 | | | | 5,682,170 | | | | | 413,646 | | | | 591,314 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Dividends: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | (2,253 | ) | | | (2,958 | ) | | | | (1,860 | ) | | | (169 | ) |
Class B Shares | | | (2 | ) | | | (7 | ) | | | | (4 | ) | | | (8 | ) |
Class C Shares | | | (1 | ) | | | (4 | ) | | | | — | | | | — | |
Class D Shares | | | (79,562 | ) | | | (143,373 | ) | | | | (30,070 | ) | | | (64,809 | ) |
Class I Shares | | | (1,700,951 | ) | | | (5,344,845 | ) | | | | (175,237 | ) | | | (290,312 | ) |
Class Y Shares | | | (41,506 | ) | | | (166,157 | ) | | | | (132,804 | ) | | | (233,776 | ) |
Net realized gains: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | (78 | ) | | | — | | | | | — | | | | (35 | ) |
Class B Shares | | | — | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | (1 | ) |
Class D Shares | | | (2,967 | ) | | | — | | | | | — | | | | (7,445 | ) |
Class I Shares | | | (7,143 | ) | | | — | | | | | — | | | | (19,650 | ) |
Class Y Shares | | | (1,258 | ) | | | — | | | | | — | | | | (18,416 | ) |
Change in net assets resulting from | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
shareholder dividends | | | (1,835,721 | ) | | | (5,657,344 | ) | | | | (339,975 | ) | | | (634,621 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Change in net assets resulting from | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
capital transactions | | | (101,170,039 | ) | | | (1,590,758,408 | ) | | | | (870,039,556 | ) | | | 885,763,811 | |
Change in net assets | | | (101,179,067 | ) | | | (1,590,733,582 | ) | | | | (869,965,885 | ) | | | 885,720,504 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | | 4,980,416,231 | | | | 6,571,149,813 | | | | | 4,993,428,258 | | | | 4,107,707,754 | |
End of period | | $ | 4,879,237,164 | | | $ | 4,980,416,231 | | | | $ | 4,123,462,373 | | | $ | 4,993,428,258 | |
Accumulated net investment income (loss) | | $ | 365 | | | $ | — | | | | $ | 5,929 | | | $ | 2 | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | 19 |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| Prime | | U.S. Government |
| Money Market Fund | | Money Market Fund |
| For the | For the | | For the | For the |
| six months ended | year ended | | six months ended | year ended |
| April 30, 2013 | October 31, 2012 | | April 30, 2013 | October 31, 2012 |
| (Unaudited) | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | |
CAPITAL TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | $ | 8,279,110 | | | $ | 11,405,354 | | | | $ | 100,507,328 | | | $ | 12,635,616 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | 72 | | | | 102 | | | | | 360 | | | | 18 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | (473,645 | ) | | | (5,622,050 | ) | | | | (100,110,355 | ) | | | (16,391,097 | ) |
Class A Shares capital transactions | | | 7,805,537 | | | | 5,783,406 | | | | | 397,333 | | | | (3,755,463 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class B Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | — | | | | 19,430 | | | | | — | | | | — | |
Dividends reinvested | | | 2 | | | | 6 | | | | | 3 | | | | 9 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | (8,072 | ) | | | (110,006 | ) | | | | (27,646 | ) | | | (17,135 | ) |
Class B Shares capital transactions | | | (8,070 | ) | | | (90,570 | ) | | | | (27,643 | ) | | | (17,126 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class C Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | 373 | | | | 745 | | | | | — | | | | — | |
Dividends reinvested | | | 1 | | | | 4 | | | | | — | | | | — | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | (6,109 | ) | | | (777 | ) | | | | — | | | | — | |
Class C Shares capital transactions | | | (5,735 | ) | | | (28 | ) | | | | — | | | | — | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class D Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | 2,515,251,256 | | | | 5,747,496,581 | | | | | 1,077,866,836 | | | | 2,112,895,877 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | 60,178 | | | | 112,060 | | | | | 14,646 | | | | 41,463 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | (2,551,882,595 | ) | | | (6,035,401,728 | ) | | | | (1,075,356,543 | ) | | | (2,244,889,380 | ) |
Class D Shares capital transactions | | | (36,571,161 | ) | | | (287,793,087 | ) | | | | 2,524,939 | | | | (131,952,040 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | 14,865,577,969 | | | | 37,580,221,468 | | | | | 5,327,378,593 | | | | 15,350,488,166 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | 801,233 | | | | 2,814,430 | | | | | 95,010 | | | | 206,034 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | (14,943,530,985 | ) | | | (38,866,710,107 | ) | | | | (5,961,698,655 | ) | | | (15,123,273,533 | ) |
Class I Shares capital transactions | | | (77,151,783 | ) | | | (1,283,674,209 | ) | | | | (634,225,052 | ) | | | 227,420,667 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class Y Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | 910,454,101 | | | | 2,112,812,015 | | | | | 11,552,776,720 | | | | 16,530,799,457 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | 38,166 | | | | 146,189 | | | | | 131,613 | | | | 250,271 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | (905,731,094 | ) | | | (2,137,942,124 | ) | | | | (11,791,617,466 | ) | | | (15,736,981,955 | ) |
Class Y Shares capital transactions | | | 4,761,173 | | | | (24,983,920 | ) | | | | (238,709,133 | ) | | | 794,067,773 | |
Change in net assets resulting from | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
capital transactions | | $ | (101,170,039 | ) | | $ | (1,590,758,408 | ) | | | $ | (870,039,556 | ) | | $ | 885,763,811 | |
20 | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| | U.S. Treasury |
| | Money Market Fund |
| For the | | | For the |
| six months ended | | | year ended |
| April 30, 2012 | | | October 31, 2012 |
| (Unaudited) | | | | | |
Investment Activities: | | | | | | | | | |
Operations: | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | $ | — | | | | $ | 9 | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | 35,624 | | | | | 8,482 | |
Change in net assets resulting from operations | | | 35,624 | | | | | 8,491 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Dividends: | | | | | | | | | |
Net realized gains: | | | | | | | | | |
Class D Shares | | | — | | | | | (6,485 | ) |
Class I Shares | | | — | | | | | (6,826 | ) |
Class Y Shares | | | — | | | | | (10,955 | ) |
Change in net assets resulting from shareholder dividends | | | — | | | | | (24,266 | ) |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | 99,004,200 | | | | | (229,081,790 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | |
Change in net assets | | | 99,039,824 | | | | | (229,097,565 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | | 2,373,986,181 | | | | | 2,603,083,746 | |
End of period | | $ | 2,473,026,005 | | | | $ | 2,373,986,181 | |
Accumulated net investment income (loss) | | $ | 9 | | | | $ | 9 | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | 21 |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| U.S. Treasury |
| Money Market Fund |
| For the | | For the |
| six months ended | | year ended |
| April 30, 2012 | | October 31, 2012 |
| (Unaudited) | | | | | |
CAPITAL TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | — | | | | | (607,887 | ) |
Class A Shares capital transactions | | | — | | | | | (607,887 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | |
Class B Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | — | | | | | (34,382 | ) |
Class B Shares capital transactions | | | — | | | | | (34,382 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | |
Class C Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | — | | | | | 114,177 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | — | | | | | (114,177 | ) |
Class C Shares capital transactions | | | — | | | | | — | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Class D Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | 1,380,093,108 | | | | | 1,836,487,946 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | — | | | | | 2,757 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | (1,483,505,912 | ) | | | | (1,794,363,660 | ) |
Class D Shares capital transactions | | | (103,412,804 | ) | | | | 42,127,043 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | 1,942,512,593 | | | | | 2,342,393,162 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | — | | | | | 3,734 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | (2,007,993,449 | ) | | | | (2,770,079,317 | ) |
Class I Shares capital transactions | | | (65,480,856 | ) | | | | (427,682,421 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | |
Class Y Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | 1,227,175,888 | | | | | 1,844,352,806 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | — | | | | | 10,587 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | (959,278,028 | ) | | | | (1,687,247,536 | ) |
Class Y Shares capital transactions | | | 267,897,860 | | | | | 157,115,857 | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | $ | 99,004,200 | | | | $ | (229,081,790 | ) |
22 | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC PRIME MONEY MARKET FUND |
Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.
| | | | | | Investment Activities | | | Dividends | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratios of |
| | | | | | | | | Net | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratio of | | | | | Expenses |
| | | | | | | | | Realized and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Expenses | | | | | to Average |
| | | | | | | | | Unrealized | | | | | | | | | | | | Net | | | | | Net | | | | | | | | | | | to Average | | Ratio of Net | | Net Assets |
| | Net Asset | | Net | | Gains | | | | | | | | | | | | Realized | | | | | Asset | | | | | | | | | Ratio of Net | | Net Assets | | Investment | | (Excluding |
| | Value, | | Investment | | (Losses) | | Total from | | Net | | Gains from | | | | | Value, | | | | | Net Assets at | | Expenses to | | (Excluding | | Income to | | Fee |
| | Beginning | | Income | | from | | Investment | | Investment | | Investment | | Total | | End of | | Total | | End of Period | | Average Net | | Fees Paid | | Average Net | | Reductions) |
| | of Period | | (Loss) | | Investments | | Activities | | Income | | Transactions | | Dividends | | Period | | Return(a) | | (000’s) | | Assets(b) | | Indirectly)(b) | | Assets(b) | | (b) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | $ | 1.00 | | | 0.03 | | | —(c) | | | 0.03 | | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | — | | | | (0.03 | ) | | $ | 1.00 | | 2.71 | %(d) | | $ | 308,499 | | | 0.67% | | 0.67 | % | | 2.73 | % | | 0.67 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.32 | %(e) | | | 343,265 | | | 0.55% | | 0.55 | %(e) | | 0.31 | %(e) | | 0.69 | %(e) |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c)(f) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | %(g) | | | 32,943 | | | 0.29% | | 0.29 | % | | 0.01 | %(g) | | 0.67 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c)(f) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | % | | | 27,763 | | | 0.26% | | 0.26 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 0.68 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | % | | | 33,546 | | | 0.30% | | 0.30 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 0.69 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | % | | | 41,352 | | | 0.26% | | 0.26 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 0.68 | % |
CLASS B SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | $ | 1.00 | | | 0.02 | | | —(c) | | | 0.02 | | | | | (0.02 | ) | | | | — | | | | (0.02 | ) | | $ | 1.00 | | 2.10 | %(d) | | $ | 199 | | | 1.27% | | 1.27 | % | | 2.08 | % | | 1.27 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 1.00 | | 0.17 | %(e) | | | 312 | | | 0.68% | | 0.68 | %(e) | | 0.13 | %(e) | | 1.30 | %(e) |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c)(f) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | %(g) | | | 226 | | | 0.29% | | 0.29 | % | | 0.01 | %(g) | | 1.27 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c)(f) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | % | | | 132 | | | 0.26% | | 0.26 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 1.28 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | % | | | 41 | | | 0.29% | | 0.29 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 1.29 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | % | | | 33 | | | 0.26% | | 0.26 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 1.27 | % |
CLASS C SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | $ | 1.00 | | | 0.02 | | | —(c) | | | 0.02 | | | | | (0.02 | ) | | | | — | | | | (0.02 | ) | | $ | 1.00 | | 2.10 | %(d) | | $ | 316,779 | | | 1.27% | | 1.27 | % | | 2.04 | % | | 1.27 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.17 | %(e) | | | 259,364 | | | 0.74% | | 0.74 | %(e) | | 0.19 | %(e) | | 1.29 | %(e) |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c)(f) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | %(g) | | | 44 | | | 0.29% | | 0.29 | % | | 0.01 | %(g) | | 1.27 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c)(f) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | % | | | 6 | | | 0.25% | | 0.25 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 1.28 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.06 | % | | | 6 | | | 0.25% | | 0.25 | % | | 0.06 | % | | 1.29 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | % | | | — | (h) | | 0.24% | | 0.24 | % | | 0.07 | % | | 1.32 | % |
CLASS D SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | $ | 1.00 | | | 0.03 | | | —(c) | | | 0.03 | | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | — | | | | (0.03 | ) | | $ | 1.00 | | 2.86 | %(d) | | $ | 2,720,592 | | | 0.52% | | 0.52 | % | | 2.89 | % | | 0.52 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.40 | %(e) | | | 1,994,448 | | | 0.49% | | 0.49 | %(e) | | 0.42 | %(e) | | 0.54 | %(e) |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c)(f) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | %(g) | | | 1,695,222 | | | 0.29% | | 0.29 | % | | 0.01 | %(g) | | 0.52 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c)(f) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | % | | | 1,591,614 | | | 0.26% | | 0.26 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 0.53 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | % | | | 1,303,827 | | | 0.30% | | 0.30 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 0.54 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | % | | | 1,267,254 | | | 0.26% | | 0.26 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 0.53 | % |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | 23 |
HSBC PRIME MONEY MARKET FUND |
Financial Highlights (continued) |
| | | | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratios of |
| | | | | | | | | Net | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratio of | | | | | Expenses |
| | | | | | | | | Realized and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Expenses | | | | | to Average |
| | | | | | | | | Unrealized | | | | | | | | Net | | | | | Net | | | | | | | | | | | to Average | | Ratio of Net | | Net Assets |
| | Net Asset | | Net | | Gains | | | | | | | | Realized | | | | | Asset | | | | | | | | | Ratio of Net | | Net Assets | | Investment | | (Excluding |
| | Value, | | Investment | | (Losses) | | Total from | | Net | | Gains from | | | | | Value, | | | | | Net Assets at | | Expenses to | | (Excluding | | Income to | | Fee |
| | Beginning | | Income | | from | | Investment | | Investment | | Investment | | Total | | End of | | Total | | End of Period | | Average Net | | Fees Paid | | Average Net | | Reductions) |
| | of Period | | (Loss) | | Investments | | Activities | | Income | | Transactions | | Dividends | | Period | | Return(a) | | (000’s) | | Assets(b) | | Indirectly)(b) | | Assets(b) | | (b) |
CLASS I SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | $ | 1.00 | | | 0.03 | | | —(c) | | 0.03 | | | (0.03 | ) | | | — | | | | (0.03 | ) | | $ | 1.00 | | 3.23 | %(d) | | $ | 2,954,253 | | | 0.16% | | 0.16 | % | | 3.14 | % | | 0.17 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | | | —(c) | | 0.01 | | | (0.01 | ) | | | — | | | | (0.01 | ) | | | 1.00 | | 0.69 | %(e) | | | 7,189,613 | | | 0.18% | | 0.18 | %(e) | | 0.55 | %(e) | | 0.19 | %(e) |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c)(f) | | —(c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.14 | %(g) | | | 4,679,632 | | | 0.17% | | 0.17 | % | | 0.14 | %(g) | | 0.17 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c)(f) | | —(c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.10 | % | | | 4,309,346 | | | 0.17% | | 0.17 | % | | 0.10 | % | | 0.18 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.14 | % | | | 3,025,688 | | | 0.17% | | 0.17 | % | | 0.14 | % | | 0.19 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | — | (c) | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.05 | % | | | 2,948,531 | | | 0.17% | | 0.17 | % | | 0.10 | % | | 0.18 | % |
CLASS Y SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | $ | 1.00 | | | 0.03 | | | —(c) | | 0.03 | | | (0.03 | ) | | | — | | | | (0.03 | ) | | $ | 1.00 | | 3.12 | %(d) | | $ | 2,236,927 | | | 0.27% | | 0.27 | % | | 2.96 | % | | 0.27 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | | | —(c) | | 0.01 | | | (0.01 | ) | | | — | | | | (0.01 | ) | | | 1.00 | | 0.58 | %(e) | | | 1,194,680 | | | 0.29% | | 0.29 | %(e) | | 0.68 | %(e) | | 0.29 | %(e) |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c)(f) | | —(c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.05 | %(g) | | | 1,107,571 | | | 0.26% | | 0.26 | % | | 0.04 | %(g) | | 0.27 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c)(f) | | —(c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | % | | | 642,290 | | | 0.26% | | 0.26 | % | | 0.02 | % | | 0.28 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | — | | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.03 | % | | | 617,308 | | | 0.28% | | 0.28 | % | | 0.03 | % | | 0.29 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | —(c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | — | (c) | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | 0.01 | % | | | 622,068 | | | 0.26% | | 0.26 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 0.28 | % |
(a) | | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any redemption charges. |
(b) | | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(c) | | Represents less than $0.005 or $(0.005). |
(d) | | During the year ended October 31, 2008, an affiliate of the Fund’s investment adviser purchased certain defaulted securities at $16, 746,382, in excess of their fair value on the purchase date. The corresponding impact of this excess amount to the total returns were 0.20%, 0.20%, 0.20%, 0.20%, 0.20% and 0.20% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares, Class D Shares, Class I Shares and Class Y Shares, respectively. |
(e) | | Included in the ratios is the Treasury Guarantee Program fees incurred by the Fund during the period. Without these fees, the gross and net expense ratios would have been decreased by 0.03% and the total return and net investment income ratio would have increased by 0.03%. |
(f) | | Calculated based on average shares outstanding. |
(g) | | During the year ended October 31, 2010, the Fund received a distribution from a “fair fund” established by the SEC in connection with a consent order against BISYS Fund Services, Inc. (See Note 7 in Notes to Financial Statements). The corresponding impact to the net income ratio and the total return was less than 0.005%. |
(h) | | Less than $500. |
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HSBC U.S. GOVERNMENT MONEY MARKET FUND |
Financial Highlights (continued) |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.
| | | | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratios of |
| | | | | | | | | Net | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratio of | | | | | Expenses |
| | | | | | | | | Realized and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Expenses | | | | | to Average |
| | | | | | | | | Unrealized | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | to Average | | Ratio of Net | | Net Assets |
| | Net Asset | | Net | | Gains | | | | | | | | Net Realized | | | | | Net Asset | | | | | | | | | Ratio of Net | | Net Assets | | Investment | | (Excluding |
| | Value, | | Investment | | (Losses) | | Total from | | Net | | Gains from | | | | | Value, | | | | | Net Assets | | Expenses to | | (Excluding | | Income to | | Fee |
| | Beginning | | Income | | from | | Investment | | Investment | | Investment | | Total | | End of | | Total | | at End of | | Average Net | | Fees Paid | | Average Net | | Reductions) |
| | of Period | | (Loss) | | Investments | | Activities | | Income | | Transactions | | Dividends | | Period | | Return(a) | | Period (000’s) | | Assets (b) | | Indirectly)(b) | | Assets(b) | | (b) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | $ | 1.00 | | | 0.02 | | | — | | | 0.02 | | | (0.02 | ) | | — | | | (0.02 | ) | | $ | 1.00 | | | 2.20 | % | | $ | 703,712 | | | 0.67 | % | | 0.67 | % | | 2.29 | % | | 0.67 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.14 | %(d) | | | 574,577 | | | 0.52 | % | | 0.52 | %(d) | | 0.14 | %(d) | | 0.72 | %(d) |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | 1.00 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.02 | %(e) | | | 25,926 | | | 0.23 | % | | 0.23 | % | | 0.01 | %(e) | | 0.67 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | 3,995 | | | 0.16 | % | | 0.16 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 0.68 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | 238 | | | 0.14 | % | | 0.15 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 0.69 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | 636 | | | 0.17 | % | | 0.17 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 0.68 | % |
CLASS B SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | $ | 1.00 | | | 0.02 | | | — | | | 0.02 | | | (0.02 | ) | | — | | | (0.02 | ) | | $ | 1.00 | | | 1.67 | % | | $ | 54 | | | 1.29 | % | | 1.29 | % | | 1.24 | % | | 1.29 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.08 | %(d) | | | 84 | | | 0.54 | % | | 0.54 | %(d) | | 0.08 | %(d) | | 1.30 | %(d) |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.02 | %(e) | | | 88 | | | 0.22 | % | | 0.22 | % | | 0.01 | %(e) | | 1.27 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | 94 | | | 0.17 | % | | 0.17 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 1.28 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | 76 | | | 0.16 | % | | 0.16 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 1.29 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | 49 | | | 0.17 | % | | 0.17 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 1.28 | % |
CLASS C SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | $ | 1.00 | | | 0.02 | | | — | | | 0.02 | | | (0.02 | ) | | — | | | (0.02 | ) | | $ | 1.00 | | | 1.59 | % | | $ | 101 | | | 1.27 | % | | 1.27 | % | | 1.28 | % | | 1.27 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009(f) | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.08 | %(d) | | | 229 | | | 0.50 | % | | 0.50 | %(d) | | 0.04 | %(d) | | 1.32 | %(d) |
Year Ended October 31, 2010(g) | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.02 | %(e) | | | — | (h) | | 0.23 | % | | 0.23 | % | | 0.01 | %(e) | | 1.27 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011(i) | | | 1.00 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | — | | | — | % | | — | % | | — | % | | — | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012(i) | | | 1.00 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | — | | | — | % | | — | % | | — | % | | — | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)(i) | | | 1.00 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | — | | | — | % | | — | % | | — | % | | — | % |
CLASS D SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | $ | 1.00 | | | 0.02 | | | — | | | 0.02 | | | (0.02 | ) | | — | | | (0.02 | ) | | $ | 1.00 | | | 2.36 | % | | $ | 1,438,199 | | | 0.52 | % | | 0.52 | % | | 1.92 | % | | 0.52 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.18 | %(d) | | | 767,551 | | | 0.48 | % | | 0.48 | %(d) | | 0.21 | %(d) | | 0.58 | %(d) |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.02 | %(e) | | | 922,510 | | | 0.22 | % | | 0.22 | % | | 0.02 | %(e) | | 0.52 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | 746,458 | | | 0.17 | % | | 0.17 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 0.53 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | 614,499 | | | 0.16 | % | | 0.16 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 0.54 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | 1.00 | | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | (c) | | — | | | — | (c) | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | 617,033 | | | 0.17 | % | | 0.17 | % | | 0.01 | % | | 0.53 | % |
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HSBC U.S. GOVERNMENT MONEY MARKET FUND |
Financial Highlights (continued) |
| | | | | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratios of |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Net | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratio of | | | | | | | Expenses |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Realized and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Expenses | | | | | | | to Average |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Unrealized | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | to Average | | Ratio of Net | | Net Assets |
| | Net Asset | | Net | | Gains | | | | | | | | | | Net Realized | | | | | | Net Asset | | | | | | | | Ratio of Net | | Net Assets | | Investment | | (Excluding |
| | Value, | | Investment | | (Losses) | | Total from | | Net | | Gains from | | | | | | Value, | | | | Net Assets | | Expenses to | | (Excluding | | Income to | | Fee |
| | Beginning | | Income | | from | | Investment | | Investment | | Investment | | Total | | End of | | Total | | at End of | | Average Net | | Fees Paid | | Average Net | | Reductions) |
| | of Period | | (Loss) | | Investments | | Activities | | Income | | Transactions | | Dividends | | Period | | Return(a) | | Period (000’s) | | Assets (b) | | Indirectly)(b) | | Assets(b) | | (b) |
CLASS I SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 1.00 | | | | 0.03 | | | | | — | | | | | 0.03 | | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | $ | 1.00 | | | 2.72 | % | | | $ | 4,908,887 | | | | 0.17 | % | | | | 0.17 | % | | | | 2.23 | % | | | | 0.18 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.43 | %(d) | | | | 8,176,980 | | | | 0.22 | % | | | | 0.22 | %(d) | | | | 0.38 | %(d) | | | | 0.22 | %(d) | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.08 | %(e) | | | | 5,100,891 | | | | 0.16 | % | | | | 0.16 | % | | | | 0.07 | %(e) | | | | 0.17 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.03 | % | | | | 1,645,764 | | | | 0.16 | % | | | | 0.16 | % | | | | 0.03 | % | | | | 0.18 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.02 | % | | | | 1,873,166 | | | | 0.16 | % | | | | 0.16 | % | | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 0.19 | % | |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 1,238,970 | | | | 0.16 | % | | | | 0.16 | % | | | | 0.02 | % | | | | 0.18 | % | |
CLASS Y SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 1.00 | | | | 0.03 | | | | | — | | | | | 0.03 | | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | $ | 1.00 | | | 2.61 | % | | | $ | 6,747,758 | | | | 0.27 | % | | | | 0.27 | % | | | | 2.53 | % | | | | 0.27 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.32 | %(d) | | | | 3,370,299 | | | | 0.33 | % | | | | 0.33 | %(d) | | | | 0.38 | %(d) | | | | 0.33 | %(d) | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.02 | %(e) | | | | 2,918,347 | | | | 0.22 | % | | | | 0.22 | % | | | | 0.02 | %(e) | | | | 0.27 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 1,711,397 | | | | 0.17 | % | | | | 0.17 | % | | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 0.28 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 2,505,448 | | | | 0.17 | % | | | | 0.17 | % | | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 0.29 | % | |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 2,266,775 | | | | 0.17 | % | | | | 0.17 | % | | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 0.28 | % | |
(a) | | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any redemption charges. |
(b) | | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(c) | | Represents less than $0.005 or $(0.005). |
(d) | | Included in the ratios is the Treasury Guarantee Program fees incurred by the Fund during the period. Without these fees, the gross and net expense ratios would have been decreased by 0.06% and the total return and net investment income ratio would have increased by 0.06%. |
(e) | | During the year ended October 31, 2010, the Fund received a distribution from a “fair fund” established by the SEC in connection with a consent order against BISYS Fund Services, Inc. (See Note 7 in Notes to Financial Statements). The corresponding impact to the net income ratio and the total return was less than 0.005%. |
(f) | | Class C Shares were operational during a portion of the year only. Amounts reflect performance for the period of time the class had operations, which was 362 days during the period. |
(g) | | Class C Shares were operational during a portion of the year only. Amounts reflect performance for the period of time the class had operations, which was 351 days during the period. |
(h) | | Less than $500. |
(i) | | During the period the class had no operations. The net asset values reflected represent the last day the class had shareholders. |
26 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC U.S. TREASURY MONEY MARKET FUND |
Financial Highlights (continued) |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.
| | | | | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratios of |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Net | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratio of | | | | | | | Expenses |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Realized and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Expenses | | | | | | | to Average |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Unrealized | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | to Average | | Ratio of Net | | Net Assets |
| | Net Asset | | Net | | Gains | | | | | | | | | | Net Realized | | | | | | Net Asset | | | | | | | | Ratio of Net | | Net Assets | | Investment | | (Excluding |
| | Value, | | Investment | | (Losses) | | Total from | | Net | | Gains from | | | | | | Value, | | | | Net Assets | | Expenses to | | (Excluding | | Income to | | Fee |
| | Beginning | | Income | | from | | Investment | | Investment | | Investment | | Total | | End of | | Total | | at End of | | Average Net | | Fees Paid | | Average Net | | Reductions) |
| | of Period | | (Loss) | | Investments | | Activities | | Income | | Transactions | | Dividends | �� | Period | | Return(a) | | Period (000’s) | | Assets (b) | | Indirectly)(b) | | Assets(b) | | (b) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 1.00 | | | | 0.01 | | | | | — | | | | | 0.01 | | | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | $ | 1.00 | | | 1.38 | % | | | $ | 580,458 | | | | 0.67 | % | | | | 0.67 | % | | | | 1.06 | % | | | | 0.67 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.07 | % | | | | 385,994 | | | | 0.24 | % | | | | 0.24 | % | | | | 0.07 | % | | | | 0.66 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c)(d) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | %(e) | | | | 32,973 | | | | 0.14 | % | | | | 0.14 | % | | | | 0.01 | %(e) | | | | 0.67 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c)(d) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 613 | | | | 0.11 | % | | | | 0.12 | % | | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 0.68 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | | 5 | | | | 0.05 | % | | | | 0.06 | % | | | | — | % | | | | 0.70 | % | |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | | 5 | | | | 0.13 | % | | | | 0.13 | % | | | | — | % | | | | 0.71 | % | |
CLASS B SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 1.00 | | | | 0.01 | | | | | — | | | | | 0.01 | | | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | $ | 1.00 | | | 0.86 | % | | | $ | 131 | | | | 1.11 | % | | | | 1.11 | % | | | | 1.01 | % | | | | 1.28 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.07 | % | | | | 60 | | | | 0.24 | % | | | | 0.24 | % | | | | 0.07 | % | | | | 1.26 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c)(d) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | %(e) | | | | 50 | | | | 0.14 | % | | | | 0.14 | % | | | | 0.01 | %(e) | | | | 1.27 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c)(d) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 35 | | | | 0.10 | % | | | | 0.10 | % | | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 1.28 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | | 1 | | | | 0.06 | % | | | | 0.06 | % | | | | — | % | | | | 1.29 | % | |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | | 1 | | | | 0.04 | % | | | | 0.04 | % | | | | — | % | | | | 1.06 | % | |
CLASS C SHARES(f) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008(f) | | | $ | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | $ | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | $ | 1,103 | | | | 0.64 | % | | | | 0.64 | % | | | | 0.20 | % | | | | 1.26 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.07 | % | | | | 7,138 | | | | 0.22 | % | | | | 0.22 | % | | | | 0.04 | % | | | | 1.26 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010(g) | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c)(d) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | %(e) | | | | — | (h) | | | 0.13 | % | | | | 0.13 | % | | | | — | %(e) | | | | 1.27 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011(i) | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (d) | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | | — | | | | — | % | | | | — | % | | | | — | % | | | | — | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012(i) | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | | — | | | | — | % | | | | — | % | | | | — | % | | | | — | % | |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)(i) | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | | — | | | | — | % | | | | — | % | | | | — | % | | | | — | % | |
CLASS D SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 1.00 | | | | 0.02 | | | | | — | | | | | 0.02 | | | | | (0.02 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.02 | ) | | | | $ | 1.00 | | | 1.53 | % | | | $ | 937,905 | | | | 0.52 | % | | | | 0.52 | % | | | | 1.33 | % | | | | 0.59 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.07 | % | | | | 955,652 | | | | 0.23 | % | | | | 0.23 | % | | | | 0.06 | % | | | | 0.51 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c)(d) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | %(e) | | | | 726,244 | | | | 0.14 | % | | | | 0.14 | % | | | | 0.01 | %(e) | | | | 0.52 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c)(d) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 619,940 | | | | 0.10 | % | | | | 0.10 | % | | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 0.53 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | | 662,063 | | | | 0.08 | % | | | | 0.09 | % | | | | — | % | | | | 0.54 | % | |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | | 558,659 | | | | 0.11 | % | | | | 0.11 | % | | | | — | % | | | | 0.53 | % | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 27 |
HSBC U.S. TREASURY MONEY MARKET FUND |
Financial Highlights (continued) |
| | | | | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratios of |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Net | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratio of | | | | | | | Expenses |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Realized and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Expenses | | | | | | | to Average |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Unrealized | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | to Average | | Ratio of Net | | Net Assets |
| | Net Asset | | Net | | Gains | | | | | | | | | | Net Realized | | | | | | Net Asset | | | | | | | | Ratio of Net | | Net Assets | | Investment | | (Excluding |
| | Value, | | Investment | | (Losses) | | Total from | | Net | | Gains from | | | | | | Value, | | | | Net Assets | | Expenses to | | (Excluding | | Income to | | Fee |
| | Beginning | | Income | | from | | Investment | | Investment | | Investment | | Total | | End of | | Total | | at End of | | Average Net | | Fees Paid | | Average Net | | Reductions) |
| | of Period | | (Loss) | | Investments | | Activities | | Income | | Transactions | | Dividends | | Period | | Return(a) | | Period (000’s) | | Assets (b) | | Indirectly)(b) | | Assets(b) | | (b) |
CLASS I SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 1.00 | | | | 0.02 | | | | | — | | | | | 0.02 | | | | | (0.02 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.02 | ) | | | | $ | 1.00 | | | 1.90 | % | | | $ | 3,771,262 | | | | 0.16 | % | | | | 0.16 | % | | | | 1.26 | % | | | | 0.16 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.14 | % | | | | 3,322,962 | | | | 0.16 | % | | | | 0.16 | % | | | | 0.14 | % | | | | 0.16 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c)(d) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | %(e) | | | | 1,379,042 | | | | 0.13 | % | | | | 0.13 | % | | | | 0.01 | %(e) | | | | 0.17 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c)(d) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 982,974 | | | | 0.10 | % | | | | 0.10 | % | | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 0.18 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | | 555,287 | | | | 0.08 | % | | | | 0.08 | % | | | | — | % | | | | 0.19 | % | |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | | 489,813 | | | | 0.11 | % | | | | 0.11 | % | | | | — | % | | | | 0.18 | % | |
CLASS Y SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 1.00 | | | | 0.02 | | | | | — | | | | | 0.02 | | | | | (0.02 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.02 | ) | | | | $ | 1.00 | | | 1.78 | % | | | $ | 1,364,310 | | | | 0.27 | % | | | | 0.27 | % | | | | 1.34 | % | | | | 0.27 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.08 | % | | | | 996,309 | | | | 0.22 | % | | | | 0.22 | % | | | | 0.08 | % | | | | 0.26 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c)(d) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | %(e) | | | | 1,147,150 | | | | 0.14 | % | | | | 0.14 | % | | | | 0.01 | %(e) | | | | 0.27 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c)(d) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 999,521 | | | | 0.09 | % | | | | 0.10 | % | | | | 0.01 | % | | | | 0.28 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | | 1,156,631 | | | | 0.09 | % | | | | 0.09 | % | | | | — | % | | | | 0.29 | % | |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 1.00 | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | (c) | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 1.00 | | | — | % | | | | 1,424,547 | | | | 0.11 | % | | | | 0.11 | % | | | | — | % | | | | 0.28 | % | |
(a) | | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any redemption charges. |
(b) | | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(c) | | Represents less than $0.005 or $(0.005). |
(d) | | Calculated based on average shares outstanding. |
(e) | | During the year ended October 31, 2010, the Fund received a distribution from a “fair fund” established by the SEC in connection with a consent order against BISYS Fund Services, Inc. (See Note 7 in Notes to Financial Statements). The corresponding impact to the net income ratio and the total return was less than 0.005%. |
(f) | | Class C Shares were operational during a portion of the year only. Amounts reflect performance for the period of time the class had operations, which was 26 days during the period. |
(g) | | Class C Shares were operational during a portion of the year only. Amounts reflect performance for the period of time the class had operations, which was 351 days during the period. |
(h) | | Less than $500. |
(i) | | During the period the class had no operations. The net asset values reflected represent the last day the class had shareholders. |
28 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS |
Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
1. Organization:
The HSBC Funds (the “Trust’’), a Massachusetts business trust organized on April 22, 1987, is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Act’’), as an open-end management investment company. As of April 30, 2013, the Trust is comprised of 15 separate operational funds, each a series of the HSBC Family of Funds, which also includes the HSBC Advisor Funds Trust and the HSBC Portfolios (the “Trusts’’). The accompanying financial statements are presented for the following 3 funds (individually a “Fund,’’ collectively the “Funds’’):
Fund | | | Short Name | |
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund | | Prime Money Market Fund |
| | |
HSBC U.S. Government Money Market Fund | | U.S. Government Money Market Fund |
| | |
HSBC U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund | | U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund |
All the Funds are diversified funds. Financial statements for all other funds of the Trusts are published separately.
The Funds are authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares of beneficial interest with a par value of $ 0.001 per share. The Funds are authorized to issue seven classes of shares: Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares, Class D Shares, Class E Shares, Class I Shares and Class Y Shares. The Class B Shares of the Funds are offered without any front-end sales charge but will be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (“CDSC’’) ranging from a maximum of 4.00% if redeemed less than one year after purchase to 0.00% if redeemed more than four years after purchase. Class C Shares of the Funds are offered without any front-end sales charge but will be subject to a maximum CDSC of 1.00% if redeemed less than one year after purchase. No sales charges are assessed with respect to Class A, Class D, Class E, Class I or Class Y Shares of the Funds. Each class of shares in each Fund has identical rights and privileges, except with respect to arrangements pertaining to shareholder servicing and/or distribution, class-related expenses, voting rights on matters affecting a single class of shares, and exchange privileges. As of April 30, 2013, Class E Shares were not operational.
Under the Trust’s organizational documents, the Funds’ officers and Trustees are indemnified against certain liabilities arising out of the performance of their duties to the Funds. In addition, in the normal course of business, the Trust may enter into contracts with its service providers, which also provide for indemnifications by the Funds. The Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Funds. However, based on experience, the Trust expects that risk of loss to be remote.
2. Significant Accounting Policies:
The following is a summary of the significant accounting policies followed by the Funds in the preparation of their financial statements. The policies are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP’’). The preparation of financial statements requires management to make certain 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 increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Securities Valuation:
Investments of the Funds are valued using the amortized cost method pursuant to Rule 2a-7 under the Act, which approximates fair value. Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The valuation techniques used to determine fair value are further described below.
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Investment Transactions and Related Income:
Investment transactions are accounted for not later than on the business day after trade date. However, for financial reporting purposes, investment transactions are accounted for on trade date. Investment gains and losses are calculated on the identified cost basis. Interest income is recognized on the accrual basis and includes, where applicable, the amortization or accretion of premium or discount. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date.
Restricted and Illiquid Securities:
A restricted security is a security which has been purchased through a private offering and cannot be resold to the general public without prior registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “1933 Act’’) or pursuant to the resale limitations provided by Rule 144 under the 1933 Act, or another exemption from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act. Certain restricted securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers, and may be deemed liquid by the Investment Adviser (as defined in Note 4) based on procedures established by the Board of Trustees (the “Board’’). Therefore, not all restricted securities are considered illiquid. At April 30, 2013, the Funds did not hold any restricted securities that were deemed illiquid.
Repurchase Agreements:
The Funds (except U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund) may enter into repurchase agreements with an entity which is a member of the Federal Reserve System or which is a “primary dealer’’ (as designated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York) in U.S. government obligations. The U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund may temporarily invest in repurchase agreements collaterized by U.S. Treasury Obligations. The repurchase price generally equals the price paid by a Fund plus interest negotiated on the basis of current short-term rates, which may be more or less than the rate on the underlying portfolio securities. The seller, under a repurchase agreement, is required to maintain the collateral held pursuant to the agreement, with a fair value equal to or greater than the repurchase price (including accrued interest). Collateral subject to repurchase agreements is held by the Funds’ custodian or another qualified custodian or in the Federal Reserve/Treasury book-entry system. In the event of counterparty default, the Fund has the right to use the collateral to offset losses incurred. There is potential for loss to a Fund in the event the Fund is delayed or prevented from exercising its rights to dispose of the collateral securities, including the risk of a possible decline in the fair value of the underlying securities during the period while the Fund seeks to assert its rights.
Allocations:
Expenses directly attributable to a Fund are charged to that Fund. Expenses not directly attributable to a Fund are allocated proportionately among the applicable series within the Trusts in relation to the net assets of each fund or on another reasonable basis. Class specific expenses are charged directly to the class incurring the expense. In addition, income, expenses (other than class specific expenses), and unrealized and realized gains and losses are allocated to each class based on relative net assets on a daily basis.
Dividends to Shareholders:
Dividends to shareholders from net investment income, if any, are declared daily and paid monthly from each Fund. Dividends from net realized gains, if any, are declared and paid at least annually by the Funds. Additional distributions are also made to the Funds’ shareholders to the extent necessary to avoid the federal excise tax on certain undistributed income and net realized gains of regulated investment companies.
The character of net investment income and net realized gains distributed are determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP. These “book/tax’’ differences are either considered temporary or permanent in nature. To the extent these differences are permanent in nature (e.g., reclassification of market discounts, certain gain/loss, paydowns, and distributions), such amounts are reclassified within the composition of net assets based on their federal tax-basis treatment; temporary differences (e.g., wash losses and post-October loss deferrals) do not require reclassification. To the extent distributions to shareholders from net investment income and net realized gains exceed net investment income and net realized gains for tax purposes, they are reported as distributions of capital.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Federal Income Taxes:
Each Fund is a separate taxable entity for federal income tax purposes. Each Fund has qualified and intends to continue to qualify each year as a “regulated investment company’’ under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and to distribute substantially all of its taxable net investment income and net realized gains, if any, to its shareholders. Accordingly, no provision for federal income or excise tax is required.
Management of the Funds has reviewed tax positions taken in tax years that remain subject to examination by all major tax jurisdictions, including federal (i.e., the last four tax year ends and the interim tax period since then, as applicable). Management believes that there is no tax liability resulting from unrecognized tax benefits related to uncertain tax positions taken.
3. Investment Valuation Summary:
The valuation techniques employed by the Funds, as described below, maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs in determining fair value. The inputs used for valuing the Funds’ investments are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
- Level 1: quoted prices in active markets for identical assets
- 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 a Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The Funds determine transfers between fair value hierarchy levels at the reporting period end. The inputs or methodology used for valuing investments is not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those investments.
Investments of the Funds are valued using the amortized cost method pursuant to Rule 2a-7 under the Act, which approximates fair value and are typically categorized as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy. The amortized cost method involves valuing an instrument at its cost initially and thereafter assuming a constant amortization to maturity of any discounts or premium, regardless of the impact of fluctuating interest rates on the market value of the instrument. The amortized cost method may result in periods during which value, as determined by amortized cost, is higher or lower than the price a Fund holding the instrument would receive if it sold the instrument. The fair value of securities in the Funds can be expected to vary with changes in prevailing interest rates.
Investments in other money market funds are priced at net asset value as reported by such companies and are typically categorized as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy.
Repurchase agreements are valued at original cost and are typically categorized as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.
For the period ended April 30, 2013, there were no Level 3 investments for which significant unobservable inputs were used to determine fair value.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
The following is a summary of the valuation inputs used as of April 30, 2013 in valuing the Funds’ investments based upon the three levels defined above:
| | LEVEL 1($) | | LEVEL 2($) | | LEVEL 3($) | | Total($) |
Prime Money Market Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities(a): | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Certificates of Deposit | | | — | | | 1,755,111,183 | | | — | | | 1,755,111,183 |
Commercial Paper and Notes | | | — | | | 1,937,967,034 | | | — | | | 1,937,967,034 |
Corporate Obligations | | | — | | | 64,790,249 | | | — | | | 64,790,249 |
Yankee Dollars | | | — | | | 122,296,370 | | | — | | | 122,296,370 |
Variable Rate Demand Notes | | | — | | | 75,505,000 | | | — | | | 75,505,000 |
U.S. Government and Government | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Agency Obligations | | | — | | | 30,000,000 | | | — | | | 30,000,000 |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | | — | | | 382,984,741 | | | — | | | 382,984,741 |
Repurchase Agreements | | | — | | | 25,000,000 | | | — | | | 25,000,000 |
Time Deposits | | | — | | | 483,000,000 | | | — | | | 483,000,000 |
Total Investment Securities | | | — | | | 4,876,654,577 | | | — | | | 4,876,654,577 |
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U.S. Government Money Market Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities(a): | | | | | | | | | | | | |
U.S. Government and Government | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Agency Obligations | | | — | | | 930,651,385 | | | — | | | 930,651,385 |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | | — | | | 896,993,247 | | | — | | | 896,993,247 |
Repurchase Agreements | | | — | | | 2,275,000,000 | | | — | | | 2,275,000,000 |
Total Investment Securities | | | — | | | 4,102,644,632 | | | — | | | 4,102,644,632 |
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U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities(a): | | | | | | | | | | | | |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | | — | | | 2,613,911,133 | | | — | | | 2,613,911,133 |
Total Investment Securities | | | — | | | 2,613,911,133 | | | — | | | 2,613,911,133 |
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(a) | | For detailed investment categorizations, see the accompanying Schedules of Portfolio Investments. |
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In January 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2013-01 “Clarifying the Scope of Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities (“ASU 2013-01”) which amended Accounting Standards Codification Subtopic 210-20, Balance Sheet Offsetting. ASU 2013-01 clarified the scope of ASU No. 2011-11 “Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities” (“ASU 2011-11”). ASU 2011-11 requires an entity to disclose information about offsetting and related arrangements to enable users of the financial statements to understand the effect of those arrangements on the entity’s financial position. ASU 2013-01 clarifies the scope of ASU 2011-11 as applying to derivatives accounted for in accordance with Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, including bifurcated embedded derivatives, repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements, and securities borrowing and securities lending transactions that are offset either in accordance with other requirements of U.S. GAAP or subject to an enforceable master netting arrangement or similar agreement. The guidance in ASU 2013-01 and ASU 2011-11 is effective for interim and annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013. Management is evaluating any impact ASU 2013-01 and ASU 2011-11 may have on the Funds’ financial statements.
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4. Related Party Transactions and Other Agreements and Plans:
Investment Management:
HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (“HSBC’’ or the “Investment Adviser’’), a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank USA, N.A., a national bank organized under the laws of the United States, acts as Investment Adviser to the Funds. As Investment Adviser, HSBC manages the investments of the Funds and continuously reviews, supervises and administers the Funds’ investments pursuant to an Investment Advisory Agreement. For its services as investment adviser, HSBC receives a fee from each Fund, accrued daily and paid monthly, based on the average daily net assets of each respective Fund, at an annual rate of 0.10%.
HSBC also provides operational support services to the Funds pursuant to an Operational Support Services Agreement. For its services in this capacity, HSBC receives a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly, based on the average daily net assets of Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares, Class D Shares and Class Y Shares, at an annual rate of:
Fund | | | Fee Rate(%) |
Prime Money Market Fund | | 0.10 |
U.S. Government Money Market Fund | | 0.10 |
U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund | | 0.10 |
The Bank of New York Mellon (the “Servicer”) provides recordkeeping, reporting and processing services to the Prime Money Market Fund, U.S. Government Money Market Fund and U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund, Class I Shares. The Servicer is paid by the Investment Adviser from its profits and not by the Funds, for these services.
Administration:
HSBC also serves as Administrator to the Trusts. Under the terms of the Administration Agreement, HSBC received from the Trusts a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate of:
Based on Average Daily Net Assets of | | | Fee Rate(%) |
Up to $10 billion | | 0.0550 |
In excess of $10 billion but not exceeding $20 billion | | 0.0350 |
In excess of $20 billion but not exceeding $50 billion | | 0.0275 |
In excess of $50 billion | | 0.0250 |
The fee breakpoints are determined on the basis of the aggregate average daily net assets of the Trusts. The fee is allocated to each series based upon its proportionate share of the aggregate net assets of the Trusts, subject to certain allocations in cases where one fund invests some or all of its assets in another fund. An amount equal to 50% of the administration fees is deemed to be class specific.
Pursuant to a Sub-Administration Agreement with HSBC, Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc. (“Citi’’), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citigroup, Inc., serves as the Trusts’ Sub-Administrator, subject to the general supervision by the Board and HSBC. For these services, Citi is entitled to a fee, payable by HSBC, at an annual rate equivalent to the fee rates set forth above subject to certain reductions associated with services provided to new funds, minus 0.02% which is retained by HSBC. During the period ended April 30, 2013, Citi voluntarily reduced its sub-administration fees by $110,800.
Under a Compliance Services Agreement between the Trusts and Citi (the “CCO Agreement’’), Citi makes an employee available to serve as the Trusts’ Chief Compliance Officer (the “CCO’’). Under the CCO Agreement, Citi also provides infrastructure and support in implementing the written policies and procedures comprising the Trusts’ compliance program, including support services to the CCO. For the services provided under the CCO Agreement, the Trusts paid Citi $143,262 for the period ended April 30, 2013, plus reimbursement of certain out of pocket expenses. Expenses incurred by each Fund are reflected on the Statements of Operations as “Compliance Services.’’ Citi pays the salary and other compensation earned by individuals performing these services, as employees of Citi.
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Distribution Arrangements:
Foreside Distribution Services, L.P. (“Foreside’’), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Foreside Financial Group LLC, serves the Trust as Distributor (the “Distributor’’). The Trust has adopted a non-compensatory Distribution Plan and Agreement (the “Distribution Plan’’) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Act. The Distribution Plan provides for reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Distributor related to distribution and marketing, at a rate not to exceed 0.25%, 1.00%, 1.00% and 0.25% of the average daily net assets of Class A Shares (currently not being charged), Class B Shares (currently charging 0.75%), Class C Shares (currently charging 0.75%) and Class D Shares (currently not being charged) of the Funds, respectively. For the period ended April 30, 2013, Foreside, as Distributor, also received $126,262, $85,049 and $21,867 in commissions from sales of the Trusts, for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively, of which $0, $0 and $0 were reallocated to HSBC-affiliated brokers and dealers for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. Expenses reduced during the period ended April 30, 2013 are reflected on the Statements of Operations as “Fees voluntarily reduced by Distributor.’’
Shareholder Servicing:
The Trust has adopted a Shareholder Services Plan, which provides for payments to shareholder servicing agents (which primarily consist of HSBC and its affiliates) for providing various shareholder services. For performing these services, the shareholder servicing agents receive a fee that is computed daily and paid monthly up to 0.60%, 0.25%, 0.25%, 0.25% and 0.10% of the average daily net assets of Class A Shares (currently charging 0.40%), Class B Shares, Class C Shares, Class D Shares and Class E Shares (expected to charge 0.05%) of the Funds, respectively. The fees paid to the Distributor pursuant to the Distribution Plan and to shareholder servicing agents pursuant to the Shareholder Services Plan may not exceed, in the aggregate, 0.85%, 1.00%, 1.00%, 0.50% and 0.10% annually of each Fund’s average daily net assets of Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares, Class D Shares and Class E Shares, respectively. Expenses reduced during the period ended April 30, 2013 are reflected on the Statements of Operations as “Fees voluntarily reduced by Shareholder Servicing Agent.’’
Fund Accounting and Transfer Agency:
Citi provides fund accounting and transfer agency services for each Fund. As transfer agent, Citi receives a fee based on the number of funds and shareholder accounts, subject to certain minimums, reductions associated with services provided to new funds and reimbursement of certain expenses. As fund accountant, Citi receives an annual fee per fund and share class, subject to certain minimums and reimbursement of certain expenses. Citi receives additional fees paid by the Trust for blue sky exemption services and money market fund reporting services.
Independent Trustees:
The Trusts pay each Independent Trustee an annual retainer of $100,000. The Trusts pay a fee of $10,000 for each regular meeting of the Board of Trustees attended and a fee of $ 3,000 for each special meeting attended. The Trusts pay each Committee Chair an annual retainer of $ 3,000, with the exception of the Chair of the Audit Committee, who receives a retainer of $ 6,000. The Trusts also pay the Chairman of the Board, an additional annual retainer of $24,000. In addition, for time expended on Board duties outside normal meetings, which is authorized by the Board, a Trustee is compensated at the rate of $ 500 per hour, up to a maximum of $ 3,000 per day.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Fee Reductions:
The Investment Adviser has agreed to contractually limit through March 1, 2014 the annual total expenses, exclusive of interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, and extraordinary expenses, of certain classes of the Funds. Each Fund Class has its own expense limitations based on the average daily net assets for any full fiscal year as follows:
| | | | Contractual |
| | | | Expense |
Fund | | | Class | | Limitations(%) |
Prime Money Market Fund | | E | | | 0.25 | * | |
Prime Money Market Fund | | I | | | 0.20 | | |
U.S. Government Money Market Fund | | E | | | 0.25 | * | |
U.S. Government Money Market Fund | | I | | | 0.20 | | |
U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund | | E | | | 0.25 | * | |
U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund | | I | | | 0.20 | | |
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* As of April 30, 2013, Class E Shares were not operational.
Any amounts contractually waived or reimbursed by the Investment Adviser will be subject to repayment by the respective Fund to the Investment Adviser within three years to the extent that the repayment will not cause the Fund’s operating expenses to exceed the contractual expense limit that was in effect at the time of such waiver or reimbursement. At April 30, 2013, there were no remaining contractual reimbursements that are subject to repayment by the Funds in subsequent years.
The Administrator and Citi may voluntarily waive/reimburse fees to help support the expense limits of the Funds. In addition, the Administrator and Investment Adviser, may waive/reimburse additional fees at their discretion. Any voluntary fee waivers/reimbursements are not subject to recoupment in subsequent fiscal periods. Voluntary waivers/reimbursements may be stopped at any time. Amounts waived/reimbursed by the Investment Adviser, Administrator and Citi are reported separately on the Statements of Operations, as applicable.
The Funds have entered into an arrangement with their custodian whereby credits realized as a result of uninvested cash balances are used to reduce a portion of the Funds’ custodian expenses. Expenses reduced during the period ended April 30, 2013 are reflected on the Statements of Operations as “Fees paid indirectly,” as applicable.
5. Federal Income Tax Information:
At April 30, 2013, the cost basis of securities for federal income tax purposes, gross unrealized appreciation, gross unrealized depreciation and net unrealized appreciation/depreciation were as follows:
| | | | | | | | Net Unrealized |
| | | | Tax Unrealized | | Tax Unrealized | | Appreciation/ |
Fund | | | Tax Cost($) | | Appreciation($) | | Depreciation($) | | (Depreciation)($)* |
Prime Money Market Fund | | 4,876,654,577 | | — | | — | | — |
U.S. Government Money Market Fund | | 4,102,644,632 | | — | | — | | — |
U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund | | 2,613,911,133 | | — | | — | | — |
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* The difference between book-basis unrealized appreciation (depreciation) is attributable primarily to tax deferral of losses on wash sales.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
The tax character of dividends paid by the Funds as of the latest tax year ended October 31, 2012 was as follows:
| | Dividends paid from |
| | | | Net | | | | | | |
| | | | Long Term | | Total | | Tax | | Total |
| | Ordinary | | Capital | | Taxable | | Exempt | | Dividends |
| | Income($) | | Gains($) | | Dividends($) | | Distributions($) | | Paid($)(1) |
Prime Money Market Fund | | 5,507,290 | | — | | 5,507,290 | | — | | 5,507,290 |
U.S. Government Money Market Fund | | 584,227 | | — | | 584,227 | | — | | 584,227 |
U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund | | 24,266 | | — | | 24,266 | | — | | 24,266 |
As of latest tax year ended October 31, 2012, the components of accumulated earnings/(deficit) on a tax basis for the Funds were as follows:
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Accumulated | | | | Total |
| | Undistributed | | Undistributed | | Undistributed | | | | | | | | | Capital | | Unrealized | | Accumulated |
| | Ordinary | | Tax Exempt | | Long Term | | Accumulated | | Dividends | | and Other | | Appreciation/ | | Earnings/ |
| | Income($) | | Income($) | | Capital Gains($) | | Earnings($) | | Payable($) | | Losses($) | | (Depreciation)$ | | (Deficit)($) |
Prime Money Market Fund | | | 457,002 | | | — | | | 148 | | | | 457,150 | | | (445,704 | ) | | | — | | | | — | | | 11,446 | | |
U.S. Government Money | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Market Fund | | | 84,169 | | | — | | | — | | | | 84,169 | | | (84,167 | ) | | | (3,566 | ) | | | — | | | (3,564 | ) | |
U.S. Treasury Money | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
�� Market Fund | | | 9 | | | — | | | — | | | | 9 | | | — | | | | (11,410 | ) | | | — | | | (11,401 | ) | |
As of the end of the latest tax year ended October 31, 2012, the Funds have net capital loss carryforwards (“CLCFs”) as summarized in the tables below. CLCFs subjects to expiration are applied as short-term capital loss regardless of whether the originating capital loss was short-term or long-term. CLCFs that are not subject to expiration must be utilized before those that are subject to expiration. The Board does not intend to authorize a distribution of any realized gain for the Funds until any applicable CLCF has been offset or expires.
CLCFs not subject to expiration:
| | Short Term | | Long Term | | |
Fund | | | Amount($) | | Amount($) | | Total($) |
U.S. Government Money Market Fund | | | 3,566 | | | | — | | | 3,566 |
U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund | | | — | | | | 11,410 | | | 11,410 |
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For the latest tax year ended October 31, 2012, the following Funds utilized capital loss carryforwards to offset capital gains realized: |
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Fund | | | Amount($) | | | | | | |
Prime Money Market Fund | | | 13,380 | | | | | | | |
6. Legal and Regulatory Matters:
On September 26, 2006 BISYS Fund Services, Inc. (“BISYS’’), an affiliate of BISYS Fund Services Ohio, Inc. which provided various services to the Funds, reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC’’) regarding the SEC’s investigation related to BISYS’ past payment of certain marketing and other expenses with respect to certain of its mutual fund clients. The related settlement monies were received by the Funds during the year ended October 31, 2010. The corresponding impact to the net income ratio and total return for the year ended October 31, 2010 are disclosed in the Funds’ Financial Highlights.
7. Subsequent Events:
Management has evaluated events and transactions through the date the financial statements were issued, for purposes of recognition or disclosure in these financial statements and there are no additional subsequent events to report.
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Investment Adviser Contract Approval |
Section 15(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), generally requires that a majority of the trustees of a mutual fund who are not parties to an investment advisory agreement for the fund or “interested persons” of the investment adviser, as defined in the 1940 Act (the “Independent Trustees”), review and approve the investment advisory agreement at an in person meeting for an initial period of up to two years and thereafter on an annual basis. A summary of the material factors considered by the Independent Trustees and the Boards of Trustees (the “Board”) of HSBC Funds, HSBC Advisor Funds Trust and HSBC Portfolios (each, a “Trust”) in connection with approving investment advisory and sub-advisory agreements for the series of the Trusts (each, a “Fund”) during the semi-annual period ended April 30, 2013 and the conclusions the Independent Trustees and Board made as a result of those considerations are set forth below.
Annual Continuation of Advisory and Sub-Advisory Agreements
The Board met in person and the Contracts and Expense Committee thereof, which consists of the Independent Trustees of the Trusts (the “Contracts Committee”), met separately to consider, among other matters:
- the approval of the continuation of the: (i) Investment Advisory Contracts and related Supplements (“Advisory Contracts”) between the Trusts and HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”) and (ii) Sub-Advisory Agreements (“Sub-Advisory Contracts”) between the Adviser and each investment sub-adviser (“Sub-Adviser”) to one or more Funds; and
- the approval of the continuation of certain other ancillary agreements to which the Adviser is a party that obligate the Adviser to provide the Funds with administrative services, such as the Administration Agreement, Support Services Agreement and Operational Support Services Agreement (each, an “Ancillary Agreement”).
Prior to the meetings, the Independent Trustees received and reviewed the information they thought reasonably necessary to evaluate the terms of the Advisory Contracts, Sub-Advisory Contracts and Ancillary Agreements (collectively, the “Agreements”). This information included, among other things, information about: (i) the services that the Adviser and Sub-Advisers provide; (ii) the personnel who provide such services; (iii) investment performance, including comparative data provided by Lipper Inc. (“Lipper”); (iv) trading practices of the Adviser and Sub-Advisers; (v) fees received or to be received by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers, including in comparison with the advisory fees paid by other similar funds based on materials provided by Lipper; (vi) total expense ratios, including in comparison with the total expense ratios of other similar funds based on Lipper data; (vii) the profitability of the Adviser and certain of the Sub-Advisers; and (viii) compliance-related matters pertaining to the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. Counsel to the Trusts and to the Independent Trustees were present at each Contracts Committee meeting and the Board meeting.
When it met, the Contracts Committee and its members reviewed the information provided in advance of the meeting and discussed, among other things: (i) the Funds’ investment advisory arrangements and expense limitation agreements with the Adviser; (ii) the Trusts’ arrangements with the unaffiliated investment sub-advisers to the Trusts, Westfield Capital Management Company, LP (“Westfield”) and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (“Winslow”); (iii) the Trusts’ Administration Agreement with the Adviser; and (iv) regulatory considerations. The Contracts Committee also convened to consider, among other things: (i) the Support Services Agreement and Operational Support Services Agreement with the Adviser; (ii) the Adviser’s Multimanager function; (iii) the Adviser’s advisory services with respect to the Funds that are money market funds (“Money Market Funds”); (iv) the Adviser’s profitability; and (v) additional information provided by the Adviser at the request of the Board. Following the December 5, 2012 and December 17-18, 2012 Contracts Committee meetings, the members of the Contracts Committee determined to recommend to the Board that the Agreements be continued for an additional one-year period.
At the in-person meeting, held on December 17-18, 2012, the Board, including the Independent Trustees, reviewed and discussed the materials and other information provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers and considered the previous deliberations and recommendation of the Contracts Committee. As a result of this process, the Board and Independent Trustees determined to approve the continuation of the Agreements with respect to each Fund.
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The Board and the Independent Trustees made these determinations on the basis of the following considerations, among others:
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided by Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees examined the nature, quality and extent of the investment advisory and administrative support services provided by the Adviser to the Funds, as well as the quality and experience of the Adviser’s personnel. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s Multimanager unit with respect to the World Selection Funds and the Equity Funds, the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s Emerging Markets Debt Team with respect to the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the capabilities of the Adviser’s oversight with respect to the Frontier Markets Fund, as well as the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s portfolio management and credit review teams with respect to the Money Market Funds. The Independent Trustees also considered the nature, quality and extent of the administrative support services that the Adviser provides to the Funds, including the Adviser’s oversight and management of the Funds’ other service providers.
The Independent Trustees also took note of: (i) the long-term relationship between the Adviser and the Funds; (ii) the Adviser’s reputation and financial condition; (iii) the reduction during the period in the HSBC Family of Fund’s net assets, and its effect on economies of scale; (iv) the recent liquidation of certain Funds; and (v) the efforts undertaken by the Adviser to foster the growth and development of the Funds since the inception of each of the Funds, including the recent development and launch of the HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund and HSBC Total Return Fund, and an increased entrepreneurial commitment to the success of the Funds with new classes of shareholders. With respect to the Money Market Funds, the Independent Trustees considered the financial support the Adviser and its affiliates have afforded the Money Market Funds, such as the voluntary fee waivers and reimbursements made to maintain a non-negative yield for the Money Market Funds more recently, and noted the material increase in these waivers and reimbursements due to the economic environment for money market funds over the previous year. In addition, the Independent Trustees considered the Adviser’s performance in fulfilling its responsibilities for overseeing its own and the Sub-Advisers’ compliance with the Funds’ compliance policies and procedures and investment objectives. In assessing the Adviser’s reputation, the Independent Trustees considered a recent regulatory matter affecting the parent of the Adviser which did not relate to the Funds.
The Independent Trustees also examined the nature, quality and extent of the services that the Sub-Advisers provide to their respective Funds. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the investment performance and the portfolio risk characteristics achieved by the Sub-Advisers and the Sub-Advisers’ portfolio management teams, their experience, and the quality of their compliance programs, among other factors.
Based on these considerations, the Independent Trustees concluded that they were satisfied with the nature, quality and extent of the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers, and that the services provided supported continuance of the Agreements.
Investment Performance of the Funds, Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees considered the investment performance of each Fund over various periods of time, as compared to one another as well as to comparable funds and one or more benchmark indices. In the context of the World Selection Funds, the Independent Trustees took note of the expenses of underlying funds and considered the performance of the World Selection Funds, and particularly the Aggressive Strategy Fund, in light of the World Selection Funds’ relative positioning and peers. In the context of the HSBC Growth Portfolio, although the Independent Trustees noted the recent underperformance of the Portfolio in light of data provided by Lipper, it favorably noted the consistent performance record of the Portfolio and the strong compliance culture at the Portfolio’s Sub-Adviser. In the context of the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio, the Independent Trustees considered that the Portfolio was relatively expensive as compared to its peers, yet was also characterized by relatively high return as well as higher volatility. With respect to the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio, the Independent Trustees also considered the compliance efforts of the Portfolio’s Sub-Adviser.
In the context of the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the Independent Trustees found the expenses of the HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund to be reasonable and its performance to be acceptable, but the Independent Trustees noted that the HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund had performed less competitively. With respect to the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the Independent Trustees also requested and received information regarding the Funds’ integration into the overall structure of the HSBC Family of Funds. In the context of the HSBC Frontier Markets Fund, the Independent Trustees noted the Fund’s fees and expenses as compared to its peers, and
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Investment Adviser Contract Approval (continued) |
requested and received information regarding the advisory fee split between the Adviser and the Fund’s Sub-Adviser. In the context of the Money Market Funds, the Independent Trustees considered the yield support that the Adviser had provided in order for the Money Market Funds to maintain positive yield and performance. The Independent Trustees determined that the Funds’ investment performance and the Adviser’s actions to improve investment performance, where applicable, supported continuance of the Agreements, although they would continue to monitor performance closely, particularly for those Funds that had weaker performance compared to peers during the past year.
Costs of Services and Profits Realized by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees considered the costs of the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers and the expense ratios of the Funds more generally. The Independent Trustees considered the Adviser’s profitability and costs, including by means of an analysis provided by the Adviser of its estimated profitability. The Independent Trustees also considered the contractual advisory fees under the Advisory Contracts and compared those fees to the fees of similar funds, which had been compiled and provided by Lipper. The Independent Trustees determined that the Funds had advisory fees competitive with those of similar funds, noting the resources, expertise and experience provided to the Funds.
The Independent Trustees also compared the advisory fees under the Advisory Contracts with those of other accounts managed by the Adviser, and evaluated information provided as to why advisory fees may differ between mutual funds and other advisory relationships, including increased shareholder activity. In this regard, the Independent Trustees concluded that differences in advisory fees assessed between the Funds and other accounts managed by the Adviser did not preclude approval of the Advisory Contracts.
With respect to the administrative support services provided by the Adviser, the Independent Trustees considered the fees charged for such services and evaluated the fees payable to the Adviser and those payable to other providers of administrative services to the Funds. At the request of the Independent Trustees, the Adviser provided information regarding the pricing differential between the retail and institutional shares’ respective Operational Support Services Agreements. The Independent Trustees determined that the differences are inline with industry standards and recognize the different services provided to retail as compared to institutional shareholders. The Independent Trustees also considered the relative split of the administration fee between the Adviser and Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc., as sub-administrator and other factors relevant to their consideration of these arrangements.
The Independent Trustees also considered the costs of the services provided by the Sub-Advisers, as applicable; the relative portions of the total advisory fees paid to the Sub-Advisers and retained by the Adviser in its capacity as the Funds’ investment adviser; and the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. In the context of the HSBC Growth Portfolio, the Independent Trustees considered the sub-advisory fee breakpoint structure. The Independent Trustees also considered information on profitability where provided by the Sub-Advisers.
The Independent Trustees concluded that the advisory fees payable to the Adviser and the Funds’ Sub-Advisers were fair and reasonable in light of the factors set forth above.
Other Relevant Considerations. The Independent Trustees also considered the extent to which the Adviser and Sub-Advisers had achieved economies of scale, whether the Funds’ expense structure permits economies of scale to be shared with the Funds’ shareholders and, if so, the extent to which the Funds’ shareholders may benefit from these economies of scale. The Independent Trustees also noted the contractual caps on certain Fund expenses provided by the Adviser with respect to many of the Funds in order to reduce or control the overall operating expenses of those Funds. The Independent Trustees also considered certain information provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers with respect to the benefits they may derive from their relationships with the Funds, including the fact that certain Sub-Advisers have “soft dollar” arrangements with respect to Fund brokerage and therefore may have access to research and other permissible services.
In light of the above considerations and such other factors and information it considered relevant, the Board by a unanimous vote of those present in person at the meeting (including a separate unanimous vote of the Independent Trustees present in person at the meeting) approved the continuation of each Agreement.
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Table of Shareholder Expenses—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
As a shareholder of the Funds, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchases, redemption fees and exchange fees; and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution fees and other Fund expenses. These examples are intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Funds and to compare the cost with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
These examples are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period from November 1, 2012 through April 30, 2013.
Actual Example
The table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information below, 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 table under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
| | | | | | | | | | Annualized |
| | | | Beginning | | Ending | | Expenses Paid | | Expense Ratio |
| | | | Account Value | | Account Value | | During Period* | | During Period |
| | | | 11/1/12 | | 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 |
Prime Money Market Fund | | Class A Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.10 | | 1.29 | | 0.26% |
| | Class B Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.10 | | 1.29 | | 0.26% |
| | Class C Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.10 | | 1.19 | | 0.24% |
| | Class D Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.10 | | 1.29 | | 0.26% |
| | Class I Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.50 | | 0.84 | | 0.17% |
| | Class Y Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.10 | | 1.29 | | 0.26% |
U.S. Government Money Market Fund | | Class A Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.10 | | 0.84 | | 0.17% |
| | Class B Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.00 | | 0.84 | | 0.17% |
| | Class D Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.10 | | 0.84 | | 0.17% |
| | Class I Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.10 | | 0.79 | | 0.16% |
| | Class Y Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.10 | | 0.84 | | 0.17% |
U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund | | Class A Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.00 | | 0.64 | | 0.13% |
| | Class B Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.00 | | 0.20 | | 0.04% |
| | Class D Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.00 | | 0.55 | | 0.11% |
| | Class I Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.00 | | 0.55 | | 0.11% |
| | Class Y Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,000.00 | | 0.55 | | 0.11% |
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* | | Expenses are equal to the average account value over the period, multiplied by the Fund’s annualized expense ratio, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one half year period). |
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Table of Shareholder Expenses—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on each 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 this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of 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 sales charges (loads), redemption fees, or exchange fees. Therefore, the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | | | | | | | Annualized |
| | | | Beginning | | Ending | | Expenses Paid | | Expense Ratio |
| | | | Account Value | | Account Value | | During Period* | | During Period |
| | | | 11/1/12 | | 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 |
Prime Money Market Fund | | Class A Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,023.51 | | 1.30 | | 0.26% |
| | Class B Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,023.51 | | 1.30 | | 0.26% |
| | Class C Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,023.60 | | 1.20 | | 0.24% |
| | Class D Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,023.51 | | 1.30 | | 0.26% |
| | Class I Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,023.95 | | 0.85 | | 0.17% |
| | Class Y Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,023.51 | | 1.30 | | 0.26% |
U.S. Government Money Market Fund | | Class A Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,023.95 | | 0.85 | | 0.17% |
| | Class B Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,023.95 | | 0.85 | | 0.17% |
| | Class D Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,023.95 | | 0.85 | | 0.17% |
| | Class I Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,024.00 | | 0.80 | | 0.16% |
| | Class Y Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,023.95 | | 0.85 | | 0.17% |
U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund | | Class A Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,024.15 | | 0.65 | | 0.13% |
| | Class B Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,024.60 | | 0.20 | | 0.04% |
| | Class D Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,024.25 | | 0.55 | | 0.11% |
| | Class I Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,024.25 | | 0.55 | | 0.11% |
| | Class Y Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,024.25 | | 0.55 | | 0.11% |
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* | | Expenses are equal to the average account value over the period, multiplied by the Fund’s annualized expense ratio, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one half year period). |
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Other Information (Unaudited):
Information regarding how the Funds voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30th is available (i) without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-525-5757 for HSBC Bank USA and HSBC Brokerage (USA) Inc. clients and 1-800-782-8183 for all other shareholders; (ii) on the Funds’ website at www.investorfunds.us.hsbc.com; and (iii) on the Security and Exchange Commission’s (“Commission”) website at http://www.sec.gov.
The Funds file their complete schedules of portfolio holdings with the Commission for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Funds’ Forms N-Q are available on the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov. The Funds’ Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the Commission’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. and information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. The Funds’ Schedules of Investments will be available no later than 60 days after each period end, without charge, on the Funds’ website at www.investorfunds.us.hsbc.com.
Each Fund will disclose on its website at www.investorfunds.us.hsbc.com, within five business days after the end of each month, a complete schedule of portfolio holdings and information regarding the weighted average maturity of the Fund. In addition, each Fund will file with the Commission on Form N-MFP, within five business days after the end of each month, more detailed portfolio holdings information. The Funds’ Forms N-MFP will be available on the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov, on a delayed basis, and the Funds’ website will also contain a link to these filings.
An investment in a Fund is not a deposit of HSBC Bank USA, National Association, and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
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HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS: INVESTMENT ADVISER AND ADMINISTRATOR HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. 452 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10018 SHAREHOLDER SERVICING AGENTS For HSBC Bank USA, N.A. and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. Clients: HSBC Bank USA, N.A. 452 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10018 1-888-525-5757 For All Other Shareholders: HSBC Funds P.O. Box 182845 Columbus, OH 43218 1-800-782-8183 TRANSFER AGENT Citi Fund Services 3435 Stelzer Road Columbus, OH 43219 DISTRIBUTOR Foreside Distribution Services, L.P. 690 Taylor Road, Suite 150 Gahanna, Ohio 43230 | CUSTODIAN The Northern Trust Company 50 South LaSalle Street Chicago, IL 60603 INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM KPMG LLP 191 West Nationwide Blvd., Suite 500 Columbus, OH 43215 LEGAL COUNSEL Dechert LLP 1900 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 |
The HSBC Family of Funds are distributed by Foreside Distribution Services, L.P. This document must be preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus for the HSBC Funds, which you should read carefully before you invest or send money.
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HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc.
HSBC Funds
Semi-Annual Report
April 30, 2013
EMERGING MARKET FUNDS | Class A | | Class I | | Class S |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund | HCGAX | | HCGIX | | HBESX |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | HBMAX | | HBMIX | | HBMSX |
HSBC Frontier Markets Fund | HSFAX | | HSFIX | | — |
HSBC Total Return Fund | HTRAX | | HTRIX | | HTRSX |
HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund | HRMBX | | HRMRX | | HRMSX |

Table of Contents |
HSBC Family of Funds |
Semi-Annual Report - April 30, 2013 |
Glossary of Terms | |
Chairman’s Message | 4 |
President’s Message | 5 |
Commentary From the Investment Manager | 6 |
Portfolio Reviews | 8 |
Portfolio Composition | 18 |
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Schedules of Portfolio Investments | |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund | 20 |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | 24 |
HSBC Frontier Markets Fund | 28 |
HSBC Total Return Fund | 31 |
HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund | 37 |
Statements of Assets and Liabilities | 39 |
Statements of Operations | 41 |
Statements of Changes in Net Assets | 42 |
Financial Highlights | 48 |
Notes to Financial Statements | 53 |
Investment Adviser Contract Approval | 70 |
Table of Shareholder Expenses | 73 |
Other Information | 75 |
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index generally representative of investment-grade, fixed-rate debt issues, including government, corporate, asset-backed, and mortgage-backed securities, with maturities of at least one year.
Barclays U.S. High-Yield Corporate Bond Index is an unmanaged index that measures the non-investment grade, USD-denominated, fixed-rate, taxable corporate bond market. Securities are classified as high-yield if the middle rating of Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P is Ba1/BB+/BB+ or below. The index excludes emerging markets debt.
BofA Merrill Lynch 3-Month LIBOR Constant Maturity Index tracks the performance of a synthetic asset paying LIBOR to a stated maturity. The index is based on the assumed purchase at par of a synthetic instrument having exactly its stated maturity and with a coupon equal to that day’s fixing rate. That issue is assumed to be sold the following business day (priced at a yield equal to the current day fixing rate) and rolled into a new instrument.
Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) measures the market value of the goods and services produced by labor and property in the United States.
HSBC Offshore Renminbi Bond Index tracks total return performance of renminbi-denominated and renminbi-settled bonds and certificates of deposit issued outside the People’s Republic of China.
J.P. Morgan Emerging Local Markets Index Plus is an unmanaged index that tracks total returns for local-currency-denominated money market instruments in 22 emerging markets countries with at least US$10 billion of external trade.
J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global is an unmanaged index that tracks returns for USD-denominated debt instruments issued by emerging market sovereign and quasi-sovereign entities; Brady bonds, loans, Eurobonds and local market instruments.
J.P. Morgan Government Bond Index – Emerging Markets Global Diversified is an unmanaged comprehensive global emerging markets fixed income index, and consists of regularly traded, liquid fixed-rate, domestic currency government bonds to which international investors can gain exposure.
Morgan Stanley Capital International Europe Australasia and Far East (“MSCI EAFE”) Index is an unmanaged free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets, excluding the U.S. & Canada. The MSCI EAFE Index consists of the following 22 developed market countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
Morgan Stanley Capital International Emerging Market (“MSCI EM”) Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure equity market performance of emerging markets. The MSCI EM Index consists of the following 21 emerging market countries: Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey.
Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) Frontier Markets Index is an unmanaged index which captures large- and mid-cap representation across 25 Frontier Markets (FM) countries. The index includes 140 securities, covering about 85% of the free float-adjusted market capitalization in each country.
Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) Frontier Emerging Markets Capped Index is an unmanaged index and was developed for MSCI by HSBC and is a customized capped version of the MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets (FME) Index. The MSCI FME index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index designed to measure equity market performance in all countries from the MSCI Frontier Markets Index and the lower size spectrum of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The Index consists of 25 frontier markets and five emerging markets.
Russell 2000® Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the small-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe. The Russell 2000® Index is a subset of the Russell 3000® Index representing approximately 10% of the total market capitalization of that index. It includes approximately 2000 of the smallest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership.
Standard & Poor’s 500 (“S&P 500”) Index is an unmanaged index that is widely regarded as a gauge of the U.S. equities market. This index includes 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy. The S&P 500 Index focuses on the large-cap segment of the market, with approximately 75% coverage of U.S. equities.
Securities indices assume reinvestment of all distributions and interest payments and do not take in account brokerage fees or expenses. Securities in the Funds do not match those in the indices and performance of the Funds will differ. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
June 24, 2013
Fellow Shareholders:
The recently-concluded semi-annual period was a good one for the HSBC Funds, with the emerging markets funds providing returns that were generally in-line or above their respective benchmarks during the six months ended April 30, 2013.
More specific information about each fund’s performance appears in their respective Portfolio Reviews in the following pages of this report. These investment results were achieved in an environment marked by uncertainty about the economic and market outlook, including speculation about future Federal Reserve policy and its market effects. We have no crystal ball, but our portfolio managers generally view the outlook as mildly positive. Several factors contributed to this outlook, including:
- The slowly improving U.S. economic growth, with little signs of inflation, provides a positive backdrop for stocks.
- Any normalization of Federal Reserve policy, and an end to so-called “quantitative easing,” should boost interest rates and improve returns in our money market offerings.
- A global economic recovery carries positive implications for emerging and frontier debt and equity markets, which is important for our roster of emerging market products.
That said, past performance is no guarantee of future results. To that end, the board and HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. constantly monitor the funds’ investment results, meeting regularly with portfolio managers and effect management change when we think it to be in our shareholders’ best interests. When managers consistently under-perform, we monitor their performance more closely and add additional oversight and scrutiny.
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently released for comment a number of proposals relating to money market fund reform. These included a floating net asset value and/or liquidity fees and redemption gates for certain types of money market funds. We will continue to monitor these developments as we work to provide the best money market fund structures and products to meet the needs of our shareholders.
The HSBC Funds lost a great friend and major contributor on April 28, 2013, when Larry Robbins, a trustee for 23 years and our chairman for eight years, succumbed to cancer, which he had fought with his usual grace and courage for almost five years. Larry resigned from the Board in December 2010, but remained an insightful counselor to me and a cheerleader to all of us. There’s no replacing a person like Larry.
His resignation did, however, open a vacancy on the Board, and this month we appointed Susan Gause to the board. The search was exhaustive and choosing among many attractive candidates wasn’t easy, we’re delighted to welcome Susan to the board. Susan has broad asset management experience having served as the CEO and CFO of a major asset management company and we believe that experience will serve HSBC Funds’ shareholders well.
Sincerely,
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Michael Seely |
Chairman, HSBC Funds |
This literature must be preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus for the HSBC Funds. Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses of the investment company carefully before investing. The prospectus contains this and other important information about the investment company. To obtain more information, for clients of HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., please call 1-888-525-5757 or visit www.investorfunds.us.hsbc.com. For other investors and prospective investors, please call the Funds directly at 1-888-936-4722. Investors should read the prospectus carefully before investing or sending money.
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Dear Shareholder,
We are pleased to send to you the HSBC Funds semi-annual report, covering the six-month fiscal period ended April 30, 2013. This report contains detailed information about your Funds’ investments and results. We encourage you to review it carefully.
Inside these pages you will find a letter from the Funds’ Chairman, Michael Seely, in which he comments on recent market developments. The report also includes commentary from the Funds’ portfolio managers in which they discuss the investment markets and their respective Fund’s performance. Each commentary is accompanied by the Fund’s return for the period, listed alongside the returns of its benchmark index and peer group average for comparative purposes.
In closing, we would like to thank you for investing in the HSBC Funds. We continue to focus the HSBC Fund Family on investment solutions to assist our shareholders in reaching their financial goals. We appreciate the trust you place in us, and will continue working to earn it. Please contact us at any time with questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
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Richard A. Fabietti |
President |
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Commentary From the Investment Manager |
HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. |
U.S. Economic Review
The global economy experienced moderate growth during the six-month period between November 1, 2012 and April 30, 2013. Many major economies produced disappointing economic data during much of the period. Consumer spending weakened and fiscal problems continued to plague the eurozone. However, U.S. equity markets made strong gains as the housing market showed significant improvement and consumer spending increased. Markets continued to benefit from the Federal Reserve Board’s decision to maintain the federal funds rate—a key factor in lending rates—at a historically low target range between 0.00% and 0.25% through 2014.
The period began with equities in the U.S. retreating somewhat from gains made in the previous quarter. This pullback was caused in part by renewed concerns about the eurozone debt crisis and the looming threat in the U.S. of the “fiscal cliff”—a collection of spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to take effect in January 2013. Markets both in the U.S. and abroad performed much stronger during the first quarter of 2013 due to improving circumstances in the eurozone and positive domestic economic data. Still, new signs of slowing economic growth—and concerns about political crises in Italy and Cyprus—contributed to higher volatility in the equity markets during the spring. Despite these issues, in addition to lingering weakness in the labor market, equity U.S. markets ended the period significantly higher than six months earlier.
The housing market was the area of the U.S. economy that showed the clearest signs of improvement. Data indicated that home prices were rising and sales were increasing. Home prices in February made their largest year-over-year gain since May 2006. These positive developments produced optimism that the market could finally be headed towards a full recovery from its 2008 collapse.
Another development that supported recent market gains was the European Central Bank’s efforts to reduce borrowing costs for peripheral European countries. These efforts included an aggressive government bond-buying program known as Outright Monetary Transactions. The formation of a governing political coalition in Italy also helped alleviate concerns about a political crisis in that country. Nonetheless, lingering sovereign debt and fiscal problems persist in Europe, and the continent remains in recession.
The unemployment rate continued to edge downward, but remained well above pre-recession levels. Real income and the consumer savings rate remained weak during the period, while consumer confidence declined slightly. Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded during each of the last five months of the period, though the rate of growth slowed.
Emerging markets as a whole performed poorly during the period, as the dollar gained strength and commodity prices fell. Economic data from China were mixed, though there were no signs that its economy was about to suffer the “hard landing” that some analyst had feared.
U.S. Gross Domestic Product1 (GDP) grew at a rate of 0.4% during the fourth quarter of 2012—the slowest rate since the first quarter of 2011. A preliminary estimate puts GDP growth during the first quarter of 2013 at 2.5%.
Market Review
The period began with a steep sell-off in U.S. markets that bottomed out in mid-November. Equities then reversed direction and began a strong rally that persisted through the duration of the period with only a few brief interruptions. Equities performed well despite investors’ concerns that the political deadlock over the fiscal cliff and the subsequent onset of automatic budget cuts—known as the sequester—would undermine economic growth. A political compromise that avoided the most dire consequences of the fiscal cliff, along with improvement in the housing market, helped buoy investor confidence and fuel gains in the equity markets.
During the period, small- and mid-cap stocks outperformed large-cap stocks, and emerging markets generally underperformed developed economies. The Russell 2000® Index1 of small-company stocks returned 16.58% and the MSCI Emerging Market Index1 returned 5.40%.
Stocks in developed economies rose. Japanese equities performed especially well due to optimism regarding its central bank’s efforts to revive its economy. European stocks made gains, but lagged well behind U.S. markets. The S&P 500 Index1 of large-company stocks returned 14.42% for the six months through April 2013. That compared to a 17.18% return for the MSCI EAFE Index1 of international stocks in developed markets.
Among fixed-income securities, yields on U.S. Treasury bonds increased during the period, sending prices lower. Investment-grade corporate bonds also declined. Investors sought the higher yields offered by high-yield corporate bonds and high-yield municipal bonds, which were the best-performing fixed-income sectors during the quarter. The Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index1, which tracks the broad investment-grade fixed-income market, returned 0.90% for the six months through April, while the Barclays U.S. High-Yield Corporate Bond Index1 returned 7.26%. Fixed-income markets in Europe generated modest returns, while fixed-income in emerging markets ended the period higher, though it performed poorly during the first quarter of 2013 following strong gains throughout 2012.
1 For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms.
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Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund |
(Class A Shares, Class I Shares and Class S Shares) |
by Guillermo Ossés, Managing Director, Head of Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio Management
Lisa Chua, CFA, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager
Binqi Liu, Vice President, Portfolio Manager
Phil Yuhn, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Engineer
The HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund (the “Fund”) seeks to maximize total return (comprised of capital appreciation and income). Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in fixed income instruments of issuers that economically are tied to emerging markets. The Fund will invest in instruments issued by foreign governments and corporations. Investments will generally be made in U.S. dollar denominated instruments, but the Fund will also seek to invest in emerging market local currency denominated instruments.
Investment Concerns
Equity securities (stocks) are more volatile and carry more risk than other forms of investments, including investments in high-grade fixed income securities.
Bond funds will tend to experience smaller fluctuations in value than stock funds. However, investors in any bond fund should anticipate fluctuations in price, especially for longer term issues and in environments of rising interest rates. Investments in a bond fund are subject to possible loss due to the financial failure of underlying securities and their inability to meet their client obligations.
High yield, lower rated securities involve greater price volatility and present greater risk than higher rated fixed income securities. At times, due to market conditions, the Fund may be unable to sell certain of its portfolio securities without a substantial drop in price. Prices of fixed income securities are generally inversely correlated to interest rates. Investments in the Fund are subject to possible loss due to the financial failure of underlying securities and their inability to meet their debt obligations. These risks may increase the Fund’s share price volatility.
International investing involves increased risk and volatility. An investment in international funds entails the special risks of international investing, including currency exchange fluctuation, government regulations, and the potential for political and economic instability.
Prices of securities in emerging markets can fluctuate more significantly than the prices of companies in more developed countries. Securities of emerging market issuers generally have more risk than securities issued by issuers in more developed markets. The less developed the country, the greater affect the risks may have on an investment, and as a result, an investment may exhibit a higher degree of volatility than either the general domestic securities market or the securities markets of developed foreign countries.
Derivatives may be riskier than other types of investments and could result in losses that significantly exceed the Fund’s original investment.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Market Commentary
The Fund returned 2.85% (without sales charge) for the Class A Shares, 3.10% for the Class I Shares and 3.15% for the Class S Shares for the six-month period ended April 30, 2013. That compared to a 2.97% total return for the J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global1.
Portfolio Performance
The Fund benefitted from the overall positive performance of emerging markets debt assets. However, emerging markets were volatile during the period, in response to global economic and political trends. Markets rallied early in the period in part due to investors’ continued interest in the higher yields offered by emerging markets debt. But demand for these securities fell in January when yields rose on the 10-year U.S. Treasury. Hardest hit were investment-grade sovereign emerging debt assets, which are more closely correlated to U.S. Treasuries than other sectors of emerging market debt.†
Emerging markets debt further suffered in February and March due to factors such as China’s tightening monetary policy and political and economic uncertainty in Europe. In April, however, these assets rallied again when the Bank of Japan announced a quantitative easing program that will provide increased liquidity to support external emerging markets and local debt assets.†
We positioned the Fund defensively early in the period due to what we believed were high asset valuations in emerging markets debt. An underweight position to investment-grade sovereign debt detracted from the Fund’s relative performance late in the period when the market rally supported these high-quality bonds. An underweight position in Venezuela also detracted from the Fund’s relative performance when that country’s bonds rose due to strong investor demand for higher yielding assets. Similarly, the fund’s underweight position to B-rated countries was a drag on performance, as those bonds also benefitted from investors’ continued search for yield.†
However, the Fund’s defensive strategy also boosted its relative performance during the period. In particular, the underweight position to investment-grade sovereign bonds—particularly in Latin America—contributed to the Fund’s performance when those assets fell in response to rising U.S. Treasury yields.†
At the same time, the Fund’s off-benchmark exposure to emerging market corporate debt contributed to relative performance over the period. Emerging market corporate debt assets benefitted from their lower sensitivity to moves in U.S. Treasury yields, as well as from continued demand among investors for higher yielding assets.†
The Fund also focused on select Eastern European sovereign debt that offered attractive valuations and stood to benefit from stabilization in eurozone growth. This positioning, particularly in Lithuania and Romania, contributed to performance as investor confidence in these markets continued to improve.†
† | | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
1 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
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Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund |
| | | | | | | | Average Annual Total | | Expense |
Fund Performance | | | | | | | | Return (%) | | Ratio (%)2 |
| | Inception | | Six | | 1 | | Since | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | | Date | | Months* | | Year | | Inception | | Gross | | Net |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund Class A1 | | 4/7/11 | | | -2.04 | | | 6.72 | | | 9.34 | | | 1.63 | | 1.20 |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund Class I | | 4/7/11 | | | 3.10 | | | 12.49 | | | 12.38 | | | 1.28 | | 0.85 |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund Class S | | 4/7/11 | | | 3.15 | | | 12.60 | | | 12.49 | | | 1.18 | | 0.75 |
J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global | | — | | | 2.97 | | | 11.60 | | | 12.35 | | | N/A | | N/A |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect the taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower. Currently, contractual fee waivers are in effect for the Fund through March 1, 2014.
* | | Aggregate total return. |
1 | | Reflects the maximum sales charge of 4.75%. |
2 | | Reflects the expense ratio as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. has entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement with the Fund under which it will limit total expenses of the Fund (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses and estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investments in investment companies) to an annual rate of 1.20%, 0.85% and 0.75% for Class A Shares, Class I Shares and Class S Shares, respectively. The expense limitation shall be in effect until March 1, 2014. Additional information pertaining to the April 30, 2013 expense ratios can be found in the financial highlights. |
The Fund’s performance is measured against the J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global, an unmanaged index that tracks returns for USD-denominated debt instruments issued by emerging market and sovereign quasi-sovereign entities; Brady bonds, loans, Eurobonds and local market markets. The performance of the index does not reflect the deduction of expenses associated with a mutual fund, such as investment management and fund accounting fees. The Fund’s performance reflects the deduction of fees for these value-added services. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
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Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund |
(Class A Shares, Class I Shares and Class S Shares) |
by Guillermo Ossés, Managing Director, Head of Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio Management
Lisa Chua, CFA, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager
Binqi Liu, Vice President, Portfolio Manager
Phil Yuhn, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Engineer
The HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund (the “Fund”) seeks maximum total return (comprised of capital appreciation and income). Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in debt instruments issued by foreign governments, government agencies or corporations and denominated in local currencies of countries with emerging securities markets. The Fund may also invest in instruments denominated in U.S. dollars.
Investment Concerns
Equity securities (stocks) are more volatile and carry more risk than other forms of investments, including investments in high-grade fixed income securities.
Bond funds will tend to experience smaller fluctuations in value than stock funds. However, investors in any bond fund should anticipate fluctuations in price, especially for longer term issues and in environments of rising interest rates. Investments in a bond fund are subject to possible loss due to the financial failure of underlying securities and their inability to meet their client obligations.
High yield, lower rated securities involve greater price volatility and present greater risk than higher rated fixed income securities. At times, due to market conditions, the Fund may be unable to sell certain of its portfolio securities without a substantial drop in price. Prices of fixed income securities are generally inversely correlated to interest rates. Investments in the Fund are subject to possible loss due to the financial failure of underlying securities and their inability to meet their debt obligations. These risks may increase the Fund’s share price volatility.
International investing involves increased risk and volatility. An investment in international funds entails the special risks of international investing, including currency exchange fluctuation, government regulations, and the potential for political and economic instability.
Prices of securities in emerging markets can fluctuate more significantly than the prices of companies in more developed countries. Securities of emerging market issuers generally have more risk than securities issued by issuers in more developed markets. The less developed the country, the greater affect the risks may have on an investment, and as a result, an investment may exhibit a higher degree of volatility than either the general domestic securities market or the securities markets of developed foreign countries.
Derivatives may be riskier than other types of investments and could result in losses that significantly exceed the Fund’s original investment.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Market Commentary
The Fund returned 4.56% (without sales charge) for the Class A Shares, 4.74% for the Class I Shares and 4.79% for the Class S Shares for the six-month period ended April 30, 2013. That compared to a 7.02% total return for the Fund’s primary performance benchmark, the J.P. Morgan Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets Global Diversified1, for the same period.
Portfolio Performance
Emerging markets were volatile during the period in response to global economic and political trends. Markets rallied early in the period in part due to investors’ continued interest in the higher yields offered by emerging markets hard currency assets. Nevertheless, demand for these securities fell in January when yields rose on the 10-year U.S. Treasury. Hardest hit were investment-grade sovereign emerging debt assets, which are more closely correlated to U.S. Treasuries than other sectors of emerging market debt.†
Emerging markets debt further suffered in February and March due to factors such as tightening monetary policy in China and political and economic uncertainty in Europe. In April, however, these assets rallied again when the Bank of Japan announced a quantitative easing program that is expected to provide increased liquidity to support external emerging markets and local debt assets.
During the period, the Fund changed its benchmark from an equally weighted blend of the JP Morgan GBI-EM Global Diversified Index and the JP Morgan Emerging Local Markets Index Plus to only the JP Morgan GBI-EM Global Diversified Index. Transaction costs related to rebalancing the portfolio in response to this change detracted from the Fund’s relative performance.
We also positioned the Fund conservatively during the period due to what we believed were high valuations and a crowded market for local currencies. For example, we moved to an underweight position in Hungarian local bonds in the beginning of the period because of concerns about Hungary’s ability to reach a deal with the International Monetary Fund over a potential credit line. This position detracted from the Fund’s relative performance, as Hungarian local bonds outperformed the benchmarks during the period.†
An underweight exposure to longer dated locally denominated bonds also detracted from the Fund’s relative performance, as those assets performed well during the period. This underweight position detracted the most in April when longer dated bonds rallied in response to the Bank of Japan quantitative easing announcement.†
However, select underweight currency positions, which we achieved by holding forward foreign currency exchange contracts, benefitted the Fund’s relative performance during the period. For example, an underweight position in the Brazilian real boosted the Fund’s performance when the currency underperformed the benchmarks. An underweight exposure to the Hungarian forint also contributed to the Fund’s relative performance, as weak European growth data and concerns over the Italian election and Cyprus bailout weakened Eastern European currencies.†
† | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
1 | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
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Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund |
| | | | | | | | | Average Annual Total | | Expense |
Fund Performance | | | | | | | | | Return (%) | | Ratio (%)3 |
| Inception | | Six | | 1 | | Since | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | Date | | Months* | | Year | | Inception | | Gross | | Net |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund Class A1 | | 4/7/11 | | | | -0.39 | | | 1.15 | | | 0.22 | | | 2.11 | | 1.34 |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund Class I | | 4/7/11 | | | | 4.74 | | | 6.59 | | | 2.97 | | | 1.76 | | 0.99 |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund Class S | | 4/7/11 | | | | 4.79 | | | 6.70 | | | 3.07 | | | 1.66 | | 0.89 |
Emerging Markets Debt Blend Portfolio Index2 | | — | | | | 4.75 | | | 10.32 | | | 2.79 | | | N/A | | N/A |
J.P. Morgan Government Bond Index–Emerging Markets Global Diversified2 | | — | | | | 7.02 | | | 10.32 | | | 6.15 | | | N/A | | N/A |
J.P. Morgan Emerging Local Markets Index Plus2 | | — | | | | 2.50 | | | 2.77 | | | -0.52 | | | N/A | | N/A |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect the taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower. Currently, contractual fee waivers are in effect for the Fund through March 1, 2014.
* | | Aggregate total return. |
1 | | Reflects the maximum sales charge of 4.75%. |
2 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
3 | | Reflects the expense ratio as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. has entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement with the Fund under which it will limit total expenses of the Fund (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses and estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investments in investment companies) to an annual rate of 1.20%, 0.85% and 0.75% for Class A Shares, Class I Shares and Class S Shares, respectively. The expense limitation shall be in effect until March 1, 2014. The expense ratios reflected include Acquired Fund fees and expenses. Additional information pertaining to the April 30, 2013 expense ratios can be found in the financial highlights. |
Effective December 26, 2012, the Fund no longer compares its performance to the Emerging Markets Debt Blend Portfolio Index. The Fund’s performance is now compared to the J.P. Morgan Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets Global Diversified Index. The Emerging Markets Debt Blend Portfolio Index consisted of a 50%/50% blend of the J.P. Morgan Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets Global Diversified Index and the J.P. Morgan Emerging Local Markets Index Plus. The Fund’s current benchmark, the J.P. Morgan Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets Global Diversified Index, is a comprehensive global emerging markets fixed income index consisting of regularly traded, liquid fixed-rate, domestic currency government bonds to which international investors can gain exposure. These indices are unmanaged and do not reflect the fees and expenses associated with a mutual fund, and investors cannot directly invest in an index.
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Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
HSBC Frontier Markets Fund |
(Class A Shares and Class I Shares) |
by Andrew Brudenell, Senior Portfolio Manager
Chris Turner, Portfolio Manager
The HSBC Frontier Markets Fund (the “Fund”) seeks long-term capital appreciation. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in issuers located in “frontier market countries”. The term “frontier market countries” encompasses those countries that are at an earlier stage of economic, political or financial development, even by emerging markets standards.
Investment Concerns
Equity securities (stocks) are more volatile and carry more risk than other forms of investments, including investments in high-grade fixed income securities.
Foreign securities can be subject to greater risks than U.S. investments, including currency fluctuations, less liquid trading markets, greater price volatility, political and economic instability, less publicly available information, and changes in tax or currency laws or monetary policy. These risks are likely to be greater for emerging markets than in developed markets.
Frontier market countries generally have smaller economies and even less developed capital markets or legal and political systems than traditional emerging market countries. As a result, the risks of investing in emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries. The magnification of risks are the result of: the potential for extreme price volatility and illiquidity in frontier markets; government ownership or control of parts of private sector and of certain companies; trade barriers, exchange controls, managed adjustments in relative currency values and other protectionist measures imposed or negotiated by the countries with which frontier market countries trade; and the relatively new and unsettled securities laws in many frontier market countries.
Prices of securities in emerging markets can fluctuate more significantly than the prices of companies in more developed countries. Securities of emerging market issuers generally have more risk than securities issued by issuers in more developed markets. The less developed the country, the greater affect the risks may have on an investment, and as a result, an investment may exhibit a higher degree of volatility than either the general domestic securities market or the securities markets of developed foreign countries.
Derivatives may be riskier than other types of investments and could result in losses that significantly exceed the Fund’s original investment.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Market Commentary
The Fund returned 18.26% (without sales charge) for the Class A Shares and 18.39% for the Class I Shares for the six-month period ended April 30, 2013. That compared to a 17.18% total return for the MSCI Frontier Markets Index1 and a 13.93% total return for the MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets Capped Index1 for the same period, respectively.
Portfolio Performance
Frontier markets performed well during the six months through April. That performance was due in large part to improving investor sentiment across broader markets. Positive Chinese economic data in the early part of the period boosted market sentiments, as did the resolution of U.S. budget issues—including the “fiscal cliff” negotiations—early in 2013. Improving investor attitudes led to renewed interest in the perceived riskier asset classes. Moreover, developing investor awareness of the diversification benefits of frontier markets also helped drive interest in this asset class, which helped boost performance.
The Fund’s performance relative to its benchmark was due primarily to individual stock selection, as well as from exposure to stocks that were not held by the benchmark. For example, the Fund benefitted from its off-benchmark investment in a health care company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The market realized the company’s shares were priced attractively compared to its industry peers, and the stock rose as investors looked to take advantage. The Fund also benefited from other UAE holdings, including a property development company and a large bank. Both companies beat market expectations due to a recovering real estate market and strong credit growth.†
The Fund’s relative performance was also helped by an underweight position in Colombia. We believed that despite a positive macroeconomic environment and strong fundamentals, valuations in that country were too high relative to other frontier market countries. And after years of strong market returns, Colombian companies struggled during the six-month period.†
Certain stock selections hurt the Fund’s relative performance, however. An off-benchmark investment in a Ukrainian mining company was one such detractor. Investor uncertainty about the company’s plans for capital it raised early in the period contributed to a decline in share prices.†
An underweight position in the Philippines also dragged on the Fund’s relative returns. We positioned the Fund with an underweight exposure because we believed valuations were relatively high in that market. However, the country’s shares continued to appreciate during the period due to positive economic and political news.†
† | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
1 | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
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Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
HSBC Frontier Markets Fund |
| | | | | | | | | Average Annual Total | | Expense |
Fund Performance | | | | | | | | | Return (%) | | Ratio (%)3 |
| Inception | | Six | | | | Since | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | Date | | Months* | | 1 Year | | Inception | | Gross | | Net |
HSBC Frontier Markets Fund Class A1 | | 9/6/11 | | | | 12.30 | | | 16.76 | | | 13.22 | | | 3.17 | | 2.23 |
HSBC Frontier Markets Fund Class I | | 9/6/11 | | | | 18.39 | | | 23.34 | | | 17.20 | | | 2.82 | | 1.88 |
MSCI Frontier Markets Index2 | | — | | | | 17.18 | | | 19.96 | | | 18.44 | | | N/A | | N/A |
MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets Capped Index2 | | — | | | | 13.93 | | | 15.51 | | | 10.33 | | | N/A | | N/A |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect the taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower. Currently, contractual fee waivers are in effect for the Fund through March 1, 2014.
* | | Aggregate total return. |
1 | | Reflects the maximum sales charge of 5.00%. |
2 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
3 | | Reflects the expense ratio as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. has entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement with the Fund under which it will limit total expenses of the Fund (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses and estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investments in investment companies) to an annual rate of 2.20% and 1.85% for Class A Shares and Class I Shares, respectively. The expense limitation shall be in effect until March 1, 2014. Additional information pertaining to the April 30, 2013 expense ratios can be found in the financial highlights. |
The performance of the Fund is measured against the MSCI Frontier Markets Index and the MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets Capped Index. The Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) Frontier Markets Index captures large- and mid-cap representation across 25 Frontier Markets (FM) countries. The index includes 140 securities, covering about 85% of the free float-adjusted market capitalization in each country. The MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets Capped Index was developed for MSCI by HSBC and is a customized capped version of the MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets (FEM) Index. The MSCI FEM Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index designed to measure equity market performance in all countries from the MSCI Frontier Markets Index and the lower size spectrum of the MSCI EM Index. The Index consists of 25 frontier markets and five emerging markets. The indexes are unmanaged and the performance of the indexes does not reflect the deduction of expenses associated with a mutual fund, such as investment management and fund accounting fees. The Fund’s performance reflects the deduction of fees for these value-added services. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
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Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
HSBC Total Return Fund |
(Class A Shares, Class I Shares and Class S Shares) |
by Guillermo Ossés, Managing Director, Head of Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio Management
Lisa Chua, CFA, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager
Binqi Liu, Vice President, Portfolio Manager
Phil Yuhn, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Engineer
The HSBC Total Fund (the “Fund”) seeks maximum total return (comprised of capital appreciation and income). Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests its assets (excluding U.S. cash and U.S. cash equivalents) primarily in instruments of issuers that are economically tied to emerging market countries, including in derivative instruments such as futures (including interest rate futures), forwards (including non-deliverable forwards), swaps (including interest rate and total return swaps), options (including interest rate options), swaptions and credit default swaps.
Investment Concerns
Equity securities (stocks) are more volatile and carry more risk than other forms of investments, including investments in high-grade fixed income securities.
Bond funds will tend to experience smaller fluctuations in value than stock funds. However, investors in any bond fund should anticipate fluctuations in price, especially for longer term issues and in environments of rising interest rates. Investments in a bond fund are subject to possible loss due to the financial failure of underlying securities and their inability to meet their client obligations.
High yield, lower rated securities involve greater price volatility and present greater risk than higher rated fixed income securities. At times, due to market conditions, the Fund may be unable to sell certain of its portfolio securities without a substantial drop in price. Prices of fixed income securities are generally inversely correlated to interest rates. Investments in the Fund are subject to possible loss due to the financial failure of underlying securities and their inability to meet their debt obligations. These risks may increase the Fund’s share price volatility.
International investing involves increased risk and volatility. An investment in international funds entails the special risks of international investing, including currency exchange fluctuation, government regulations, and the potential for political and economic instability.
Prices of securities in emerging markets can fluctuate more significantly than the prices of companies in more developed countries. Securities of emerging market issuers generally have more risk than securities issued by issuers in more developed markets. The less developed the country, the greater affect the risks may have on an investment, and as a result, an investment may exhibit a higher degree of volatility than either the general domestic securities market or the securities markets of developed foreign countries.
Derivatives may be riskier than other types of investments and could result in losses that significantly exceed the Fund’s original investment.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Market Commentary
The Fund returned -0.08% (without sales charge) for the Class A Shares, 0.05% for the Class I Shares and 0.01% for the Class S Shares for the six-month period ended April 30, 2013. That compared to the 0.16% total return for the BofA Merrill Lynch 3-Month LIBOR Constant Maturity Index1.
Portfolio Performance
The Fund seeks to maximize total return, composed of capital appreciation and income, primarily by investing in debt instruments issued by governments of emerging markets countries, or by corporations that are economically tied to emerging markets. Despite volatility caused by global economic and political trends, emerging markets had a positive overall performance during the period, as investors continued to seek the higher yields offered by these debt assets.
During the period, the Fund used forward foreign currency exchange contracts to gain short exposure to select currencies we felt were vulnerable to a sell-off. However, that short currency position detracted from the Fund’s performance when local currencies were strong performers during the period. For example, a 5% short position to the Mexican peso was the single largest drag on the Fund’s performance when that currency experienced increased investor demand based on appreciation expectations.†
The Fund also held a short euro position as a hedge to its overall external debt exposure, because there is a positive correlation between the euro and riskier assets such as emerging markets debt. This short position detracted from the Fund’s performance when the euro appreciated 1.6% as investors became more comfortable with Europe’s political and economic situation.†
We chose to focus the Fund’s investments during the period on high-quality quasi-sovereign and corporate bonds, which we believed offered more attractive valuations than their respective sovereign bonds. This positioning boosted the Fund’s performance, thanks to strong investor demand for the higher yields offered by these assets compared to their respective sovereign debt assets. For example, the Fund’s holdings of quasi-sovereign debt in Brazil and Russia were strong performers during the period.†
The Fund also held derivatives such as credit default swaps and U.S. Treasury futures as a hedge against risk in the portfolio. The use of these derivatives did not have a meaningful impact on performance during the period.†
† | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
1 | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.14 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
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HSBC Total Return Fund |
| | | | | | | | | Average Annual Total | | Expense |
Fund Performance | | | | | | | | | Return (%) | | Ratio (%)3 |
| Inception | | Six | | | | Since | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | Date | | Months* | | 1 Year | | Inception | | Gross | | Net |
HSBC Total Return Fund Class A1 | | 3/30/12 | | | | -4.78 | | | -1.48 | | | -1.28 | | | 1.57 | | 1.57 |
HSBC Total Return Fund Class I | | 3/30/12 | | | | 0.05 | | | 3.76 | | | 3.56 | | | 1.22 | | 1.22 |
HSBC Total Return Fund Class S | | 3/30/12 | | | | 0.10 | | | 3.85 | | | 3.65 | | | 1.12 | | 1.12 |
BofA Merrill Lynch 3 Month LIBOR Constant Maturity Index2 | | — | | | | 0.16 | | | 0.41 | | | 16.27 | | | N/A | | N/A |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect the taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower.
* | | Aggregate total return. |
1 | | Reflects the maximum sales charge of 4.75%. |
2 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
3 | | Reflects the expense ratio as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. has entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement with the Fund under which it will limit total expenses of the Fund (excluding interest, tax, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses and estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investment in investment companies) to an annual rate of 1.60%, 1.25% and 1.15% for the Class A Shares, Class I Shares and Class S Shares, respectively. The expense limitation agreement shall be in effect until March 1, 2014. Additional information pertaining to the April 30, 2013 expense ratios can be found in the financial highlights. |
The performance of the Fund is measured against the BofA Merrill Lynch 3-Month LIBOR Constant Maturity Index which tracks the performance of a synthetic asset paying LIBOR to a stated maturity. The index is based on the assumed purchase at par of a synthetic instrument having exactly its stated maturity and with a coupon equal to that day’s fixing rate. That issue is assumed to be sold the following business day (priced at a yield equal to the current day fixing rate) and rolled into a new instrument. The index is unmanaged and the performance of the index does not reflect the deduction of expenses associated with a mutual fund, such as investment management and fund accounting fees. The Fund’s performance reflects the deduction of fees for these value-added services. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
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Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund |
(Class A Shares, Class I Shares and Class S Shares) |
by Cecilia Chan, Fixed Income CIO, Asia-Pacific
Jim Veneau, Investment Director, Asian Fixed Income
Alfred Mui, Investment Director, Asian Fixed Income
Gregory Suen, Associate Director, Fixed Income
The HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund (the “Fund”) seeks to maximize total return by investing principally in debt instruments that provide exposure to Renminbi (“RMB”), the official currency of the People’s Republic of China (“China”). The Fund’s portfolio management team follows a top-down approach in which country credits, currencies, and local rate curves are analyzed based on their fundamental attractiveness. The team seeks to identify risk differentiation across issuers while attempting to manage credit, liquidity and interest rate risks. This investment process allows the team to capture potential opportunities in the growing offshore RMB fixed income market and take advantage of the currency’s potential appreciation. In order to gain such exposure, the Fund may invest in RMB-denominated debt instruments, including RMB-denominated deposits in Hong Kong or US dollar-denominated instruments, as well as derivative instruments, with underlying currency exposure to RMB.
Investment Concerns
Bond funds will tend to experience smaller fluctuations in value than stock funds. However, investors in any bond fund should anticipate fluctuations in price, especially for longer term issues and in environments of rising interest rates. Investments in a bond fund are subject to possible loss due to the financial failure of underlying securities and their inability to meet their client obligations.
High yield, lower rated securities involve greater price volatility and present greater risk than higher rated fixed income securities. At times, due to market conditions, the Fund may be unable to sell certain of its portfolio securities without a substantial drop in price. Prices of fixed income securities are generally inversely correlated to interest rates. Investments in the Fund are subject to possible loss due to the financial failure of underlying securities and their inability to meet their debt obligations. These risks may increase the Fund’s share price volatility.
International investing involves increased risk and volatility. An investment in international funds entails the special risks of international investing, including currency exchange fluctuation, government regulations, and the potential for political and economic instability.
Prices of securities in emerging markets can fluctuate more significantly than the prices of companies in more developed countries. Securities of emerging market issuers generally have more risk than securities issued by issuers in more developed markets. The less developed the country, the greater affect the risks may have on an investment, and as a result, an investment may exhibit a higher degree of volatility than either the general domestic securities market or the securities markets of developed foreign countries.
Derivatives may be riskier than other types of investments and could result in losses that significantly exceed the Fund’s original investment.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Market Commentary
The Fund returned 3.95% (without sales charge) for Class A Shares, 4.12% for the Class I Shares and 4.17% for the Class S Shares for the six-month period ended April 30, 2013. That compared to the 5.00% return for the Fund’s benchmark, the HSBC Offshore Renminbi Bond Index1, during the same period.
Portfolio Performance
Demand for offshore debt instruments denominated in RMB continued to be strong during the period. The offshore RMB market, known as the “Dim Sum” bond market, offered higher yield carry than other markets, which attracted investors in search of higher yields. The market also featured shorter average duration than other bond markets, which attracted investors seeking less exposure to interest rate risk.
Dim Sum bonds also benefitted from the continued appreciation of the RMB against the U.S. dollar (USD). The RMB rose 1.27% during the period, causing the USD value of RMB-denominated investments to increase.
The Fund’s investment strategy featured a broad mix of higher-quality credits from the investment-grade, high-yield and non-rated universes. We chose to hold bonds from across the spectrum of investment options because the Dim Sum bond market is still relatively new and does not lend itself well to sector analysis, as sectors are not yet well defined or correlated.†
We chose to underweight the highest yielding bonds in the market, because we did not believe that exposure to these assets this would produce the best risk-adjusted returns. That position detracted from the Fund’s relative returns when these bonds were among the strongest performers during the period.†
The Fund’s broad investment mix contributed to its performance, as the market experienced a nearly across-the-board rally during the period.†
† | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
1 | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
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Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund |
| | | | | Aggregate Total | | Expense |
Fund Performance | | | | | Return (%) | | Ratio (%)3 |
| Inception | | 6 | | Since | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | Date | | Month | | Inception | | Gross | | Net |
HSBC RMB Fixed Income Class A1 | | 6/8/12 | | | | -0.98 | | | | 2.21 | | | 2.54 | | 1.45 |
HSBC RMB Fixed Income Class I | | 6/8/12 | | | | 4.12 | | | | 7.66 | | | 2.19 | | 1.10 |
HSBC RMB Fixed Income Class S | | 6/8/12 | | | | 4.17 | | | | 7.75 | | | 2.09 | | 1.00 |
HSBC Offshore Renminbi Bond Index2 | | — | | | | 5.00 | | | | 9.23 | | | N/A | | N/A |
J.P. Morgan Emerging Local Markets Index Plus2 | | — | | | | 2.50 | | | | 7.59 | | | N/A | | N/A |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect the taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower. Currently, contractual fee waivers are in effect for the Fund through March 1, 2014.
* | | Aggregate total return. |
1 | | Reflects the maximum sales charge of 4.75%. |
2 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
3 | | Reflects the expense ratio as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. HSBC Global Asset management (USA) Inc. has entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement with the Fund under which it will limit total expenses of the Fund (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses and estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investments in investment company companies) to an annual rate of 1.45%, 1.10% and 1.00% for Class A Shares, Class I Shares and Class S Shares. The expense limitation shall be in effect until March 1, 2014. |
The performance of the Fund is measured against the HSBC Offshore Renminbi Bond Index and the J.P. Morgan Emerging Local Markets Index Plus. The HSBC Offshore Renminbi Bond Index tracks total return performance of renminbi-denominated and renminbi-settled bonds and certificates of deposit issued outside the People’s Republic of China. The J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Plus tracks total returns for local-currency-denominated money market instruments in 22 emerging markets countries with at least US$10 billion of external trade. The indexes are unmanaged and the performance of the indexes do not reflect the deduction of expenses associated with a mutual fund, such as investment management and fund accounting fees. The Fund’s performance reflects the deduction of fees for these value-added services. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
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Portfolio Reviews |
Portfolio Composition* |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund† |
Country | | Percentage of Investments at Value(%) |
Russian Federation | | | 13.0 | |
Mexico | | | 10.6 | |
Turkey | | | 10.4 | |
United States | | | 9.7 | |
Venezuela | | | 8.6 | |
Indonesia | | | 8.3 | |
Brazil | | | 6.0 | |
Colombia | | | 4.0 | |
Panama | | | 2.9 | |
Philippines | | | 2.7 | |
South Africa | | | 2.7 | |
Poland | | | 2.6 | |
Croatia | | | 2.2 | |
Kazakhstan | | | 1.6 | |
Lithuania | | | 1.6 | |
Ukraine | | | 1.2 | |
Hungary | | | 1.1 | |
Slovak Republic | | | 1.1 | |
Chile | | | 1.1 | |
Peru | | | 1.0 | |
Uruguay | | | 1.0 | |
Malaysia | | | 0.8 | |
Romania | | | 0.8 | |
El Salvador | | | 0.7 | |
Republic of Serbia | | | 0.6 | |
Iraq | | | 0.6 | |
Namibia | | | 0.5 | |
Ireland (Republic of) | | | 0.5 | |
Sri Lanka | | | 0.5 | |
Paraguay | | | 0.5 | |
British Virgin Islands | | | 0.5 | |
Dominican Republic | | | 0.3 | |
Lebanon | | | 0.3 | |
| | | 100.0 | |
|
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund† |
Country | | Percentage of Investments at Value(%) |
United States | | | 33.1 | |
Russian Federation | | | 16.1 | |
Thailand | | | 9.5 | |
Indonesia | | | 8.9 | |
Turkey | | | 5.5 | |
Poland | | | 5.1 | |
Malaysia | | | 4.8 | |
Mexico | | | 4.8 | |
South Africa | | | 4.8 | |
Peru | | | 2.2 | |
Kazakhstan | | | 2.1 | |
Colombia | | | 1.6 | |
Luxembourg | | | 0.9 | |
United Arab Emirates | | | 0.6 | |
| | | 100.0 | |
HSBC Frontier Markets Fund† |
Country | | Percentage of Investments at Value(%) |
United Arab Emirates | | | 15.6 | |
Nigeria | | | 13.0 | |
Qatar | | | 11.1 | |
Pakistan | | | 8.7 | |
Philippines | | | 5.2 | |
Saudi Arabia | | | 5.0 | |
Colombia | | | 5.0 | |
Kuwait | | | 4.9 | |
Kazakhstan | | | 3.4 | |
Kenya | | | 3.2 | |
Oman | | | 3.1 | |
Peru | | | 3.0 | |
Vietnam | | | 2.6 | |
United States | | | 2.2 | |
Egypt | | | 2.0 | |
Georgia | | | 1.9 | |
Sri Lanka | | | 1.6 | |
Panama | | | 1.6 | |
Cambodia | | | 1.4 | |
Estonia | | | 1.1 | |
Lebanon | | | 0.9 | |
Romania | | | 0.8 | |
Croatia | | | 0.8 | |
Slovenia | | | 0.7 | |
Bangladesh | | | 0.7 | |
Australia | | | 0.3 | |
Ukraine | | | 0.2 | |
| | | 100.0 | |
|
HSBC Total Return Fund† |
Country | | Percentage of Investments at Value(%) |
United States | | | 41.4 | |
Turkey | | | 11.4 | |
Brazil | | | 11.3 | |
Russian Federation | | | 7.6 | |
Mexico | | | 7.1 | |
Colombia | | | 4.0 | |
Kazakhstan | | | 3.9 | |
Indonesia | | | 2.5 | |
South Africa | | | 2.5 | |
Peru | | | 1.6 | |
Croatia | | | 1.3 | |
Slovak Republic | | | 1.1 | |
Chile | | | 1.0 | |
China | | | 0.8 | |
Namibia | | | 0.7 | |
Iraq | | | 0.5 | |
Luxembourg | | | 0.3 | |
United Kingdom | | | 0.3 | |
Costa Rica | | | 0.2 | |
Panama | | | 0.2 | |
Uruguay | | | 0.2 | |
Dominican Republic | | | 0.1 | |
| | | 100.0 | |
Portfolio Reviews |
Portfolio Composition*(continued) |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund† |
Country | | Percentage of Investments at Value(%) |
Hong Kong | | | 35.5 | |
China | | | 33.1 | |
United States | | | 7.4 | |
Singapore | | | 6.2 | |
Japan | | | 5.1 | |
France | | | 3.9 | |
Australia | | | 2.5 | |
Brazil | | | 2.5 | |
South Korea | | | 2.5 | |
Germany | | | 1.3 | |
| | | 100.0 | |
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* | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
† | Excludes any instruments used for cash management. |
HSBC EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Yankee Dollars – 89.4% |
| | | | |
| | Principal | | |
| | Amount ($) | | Value ($) |
Brazil – 6.1% | | | | |
Banco ABC Brasil SA, | | | | |
7.88%, 4/8/20 | | 100,000 | | 112,350 |
Banco do Brasil SA, Registered, | | | | |
5.88%, 1/26/22 | | 450,000 | | 489,375 |
Banco Votorantim, Registered, | | | | |
5.25%, 2/11/16, MTN | | 200,000 | | 212,750 |
Federal Republic of Brazil, | | | | |
8.75%, 2/4/25 | | 450,000 | | 715,500 |
Oi SA, Registered, | | | | |
5.75%, 2/10/22 | | 200,000 | | 211,000 |
Petrobras International Finance Co., | | | | |
5.75%, 1/20/20 | | 400,000 | | 451,498 |
Vale Overseas Ltd., | | | | |
6.88%, 11/21/36 | | 100,000 | | 118,743 |
Votorantim Cimentos SA, Registered, | | | | |
7.25%, 4/5/41 | | 200,000 | | 227,500 |
| | | | 2,538,716 |
British Virgin Islands – 0.5% | | | | |
Sinopec Capital (2013) Ltd., | | | | |
3.13%, 4/24/23 (a) | | 200,000 | | 196,961 |
Chile – 1.0% | | | | |
CorpBanca SA, 3.13%, 1/15/18 | | 200,000 | | 200,402 |
Empresa Nacional de Petroleo, | | | | |
Registered, 4.75%, 12/6/21 | | 220,000 | | 233,451 |
| | | | 433,853 |
Colombia – 3.9% | | | | |
Bancolombia SA, 6.13%, 7/26/20 | | 100,000 | | 109,500 |
Bancolombia SA, 5.95%, 6/3/21 | | 100,000 | | 112,750 |
Grupo Aval Ltd., Registered, | | | | |
5.25%, 2/1/17 | | 200,000 | | 215,240 |
Republic of Colombia, | | | | |
4.38%, 7/12/21 | | 490,000 | | 560,315 |
Republic of Colombia, | | | | |
8.13%, 5/21/24 | | 300,000 | | 442,200 |
Republic of Colombia, | | | | |
6.13%, 1/18/41 | | 150,000 | | 201,750 |
| | | | 1,641,755 |
Croatia – 2.2% | | | | |
Croatia, Registered, | | | | |
6.75%, 11/5/19 | | 400,000 | | 457,336 |
Croatia, Registered, | | | | |
6.38%, 3/24/21 | | 400,000 | | 452,000 |
| | | | 909,336 |
Dominican Republic – 0.3% | | | | |
Dominican Republic, | | | | |
7.50%, 5/6/21 | | 100,000 | | 114,850 |
El Salvador – 0.7% | | | | |
Republic of El Salvador, | | | | |
7.75%, 1/24/23 | | 225,000 | | 273,375 |
Hungary – 1.0% | | | | |
Republic of Hungary, | | | | |
6.25%, 1/29/20 | | 180,000 | | 200,025 |
Republic of Hungary, | | | | |
6.38%, 3/29/21 | | 130,000 | | 145,444 |
Republic of Hungary, | | | | |
7.63%, 3/29/41 | | 80,000 | | 93,900 |
| | | | 439,369 |
Indonesia – 8.3% | | | | |
Majapahit Holding BV, | | | | |
8.00%, 8/7/19 | | 125,000 | | 156,563 |
PT Pertamina Tbk, Registered, | | | | |
4.88%, 5/3/22 | | 400,000 | | 426,000 |
Republic of Indonesia, | | | | |
6.88%, 1/17/18 | | 575,000 | | 693,594 |
Republic of Indonesia, | | | | |
3.38%, 4/15/23 (a) | | 350,000 | | 357,437 |
Republic of Indonesia, Registered, | | | | |
5.88%, 3/13/20 | | 1,350,000 | | 1,603,125 |
Republic of Indonesia, Registered, | | | | |
6.63%, 2/17/37 | | 175,000 | | 229,687 |
| | | | 3,466,406 |
Iraq – 0.5% | | | | |
Republic of Iraq, Registered, | | | | |
5.80%, 1/15/28, | | | | |
Callable 6/20/13 @ 100.00 | | 250,000 | | 228,125 |
Ireland (Republic of) – 0.5% | | | | |
Vnesheconombank, Registered, | | | | |
5.38%, 2/13/17 | | 200,000 | | 217,620 |
Kazakhstan – 1.5% | | | | |
Development Bank of Kazakhstan, | | | | |
5.50%, 12/20/15 | | 200,000 | | 214,000 |
Development Bank of Kazakhstan, | | | | |
4.13%, 12/10/22 (a) | | 200,000 | | 197,100 |
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, Registered, | | | | |
6.95%, 7/10/42 | | 200,000 | | 237,000 |
| | | | 648,100 |
Lebanon – 0.3% | | | | |
Republic of Lebanon, Registered, | | | | |
Series 42, 8.25%, 4/12/21, MTN | | 100,000 | | 113,500 |
Lithuania – 1.5% | | | | |
Republic of Lithuania, Registered, | | | | |
7.38%, 2/11/20 | | 100,000 | | 129,348 |
Republic of Lithuania, Registered, | | | | |
6.63%, 2/1/22 | | 400,000 | | 510,600 |
| | | | 639,948 |
Malaysia – 0.8% | | | | |
Petronas Capital Ltd., | | | | |
5.25%, 8/12/19 | | 275,000 | | 324,289 |
20 | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Yankee Dollars, continued |
| | | | |
| | Principal | | |
| | Amount ($) | | Value ($) |
Mexico – 10.6% | | | | |
Banco Santander SA, | | | | |
4.13%, 11/9/22 (a) | | 150,000 | | 151,125 |
Petroleos Mexicanos, | | | | |
5.50%, 1/21/21 | | 1,000,000 | | 1,172,500 |
United Mexican States, Series A, | | | | |
5.13%, 1/15/20, MTN | | 1,370,000 | | 1,637,150 |
United Mexican States, | | | | |
3.63%, 3/15/22 | | 150,000 | | 163,500 |
United Mexican States, Series A, | | | | |
7.50%, 4/8/33, MTN | | 100,000 | | 149,500 |
United Mexican States, Series A, | | | | |
6.05%, 1/11/40 | | 866,000 | | 1,138,790 |
| | | | 4,412,565 |
Namibia – 0.5% | | | | |
Namibia International Bond, | | | | |
Registered, 5.50%, 11/3/21 | | 200,000 | | 223,500 |
Panama – 2.8% | | | | |
Republic of Panama, | | | | |
5.20%, 1/30/20 | | 875,000 | | 1,039,500 |
Republic of Panama, | | | | |
7.13%, 1/29/26 | | 100,000 | | 139,000 |
| | | | 1,178,500 |
Paraguay – 0.5% | | | | |
Republic of Paraguay, | | | | |
4.63%, 1/25/23 (a) | | 200,000 | | 204,000 |
Peru – 1.0% | | | | |
Republic of Peru, | | | | |
8.75%, 11/21/33 | | 110,000 | | 188,100 |
Republic of Peru, | | | | |
6.55%, 3/14/37 | | 150,000 | | 214,125 |
| | | | 402,225 |
Philippines – 2.7% | | | | |
Republic of Philippines, | | | | |
6.50%, 1/20/20 | | 175,000 | | 221,594 |
Republic of Philippines, | | | | |
4.00%, 1/15/21 | | 800,000 | | 902,000 |
| | | | 1,123,594 |
Poland – 2.6% | | | | |
Republic of Poland, | | | | |
6.38%, 7/15/19 | | 150,000 | | 185,940 |
Republic of Poland, | | | | |
5.13%, 4/21/21 | | 465,000 | | 546,389 |
Republic of Poland, | | | | |
5.00%, 3/23/22 | | 290,000 | | 338,589 |
| | | | 1,070,918 |
Republic of Serbia – 0.6% | | | | |
Republic of Serbia, Registered, | | | | |
7.25%, 9/28/21 | | 200,000 | | 233,500 |
Romania – 0.8% | | | | |
Romania, Registered, | | | | |
6.75%, 2/7/22, MTN | | 260,000 | | 318,656 |
Russian Federation – 13.0% | | | | |
Alfa Issuance Ltd., Series E, | | | | |
8.00%, 3/18/15, MTN | | 100,000 | | 108,250 |
Gazprom OAO, Registered, | | | | |
8.13%, 7/31/14 | | 300,000 | | 325,050 |
Gazprom OAO, Registered, | | | | |
9.25%, 4/23/19 | | 125,000 | | 162,812 |
RSHB Capital SA, | | | | |
6.30%, 5/15/17 | | 475,000 | | 523,094 |
Russia Foreign Bond, Registered, | | | | |
7.50%, 3/31/30 | | 2,804,925 | | 3,528,596 |
RZD Capital Ltd., Series E, | | | | |
5.74%, 4/3/17, MTN | | 500,000 | | 552,500 |
Sberbank, Registered, | | | | |
5.18%, 6/28/19 | | 200,000 | | 219,940 |
| | | | 5,420,242 |
Slovak Republic – 1.0% | | | | |
Slovak Republic, Registered, | | | | |
4.38%, 5/21/22 | | 400,000 | | 438,584 |
South Africa – 2.7% | | | | |
Republic of South Africa, | | | | |
6.88%, 5/27/19 | | 350,000 | | 436,625 |
Republic of South Africa, | | | | |
5.50%, 3/9/20 | | 175,000 | | 206,063 |
Republic of South Africa, | | | | |
5.88%, 5/30/22 | | 200,000 | | 243,750 |
Republic of South Africa, | | | | |
4.67%, 1/17/24 | | 200,000 | | 223,500 |
| | | | 1,109,938 |
Sri Lanka – 0.5% | | | | |
Bank of Ceylon, Registered, | | | | |
6.88%, 5/3/17 | | 200,000 | | 212,700 |
Turkey – 10.4% | | | | |
Republic of Turkey, | | | | |
5.63%, 3/30/21 | | 1,975,000 | | 2,315,688 |
Republic of Turkey, | | | | |
5.13%, 3/25/22 | | 850,000 | | 971,125 |
Republic of Turkey, | | | | |
6.25%, 9/26/22 | | 300,000 | | 369,750 |
Republic of Turkey, | | | | |
7.38%, 2/5/25 | | 200,000 | | 267,000 |
Republic of Turkey, | | | | |
4.88%, 4/16/43 | | 200,000 | | 205,050 |
Turkiye Is Bankasi AS, | | | | |
3.88%, 11/7/17 (a) | | 200,000 | | 206,000 |
| | | | 4,334,613 |
Ukraine – 1.1% | | | | |
Ukraine Government, | | | | |
6.88%, 9/23/15 | | 475,000 | | 474,525 |
Uruguay – 0.9% | | | | |
Republic of Uruguay, PIK, | | | | |
7.88%, 1/15/33 | | 260,000 | | 393,770 |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | 21 |
HSBC EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Yankee Dollars, continued |
| | | | |
| | Shares or | | |
| | Principal | | |
| | Amount ($) | | Value ($) |
Venezuela – 8.6% | | | | |
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, | | | | |
9.25%, 5/7/28 | | 750,000 | | 717,375 |
Petroleos de Venezuela SA, | | | | |
8.50%, 11/2/17 | | 920,000 | | 890,100 |
Republic of Venezuela, | | | | |
7.00%, 12/1/18 | | 100,000 | | 93,000 |
Republic of Venezuela, | | | | |
7.75%, 10/13/19 | | 1,600,000 | | 1,504,000 |
Republic of Venezuela, | | | | |
9.25%, 9/15/27 | | 150,000 | | 147,375 |
Republic of Venezuela, Registered, | | | | |
8.25%, 10/13/24 | | 200,000 | | 180,300 |
Republic of Venezuela, Registered, | | | | |
7.00%, 3/31/38 | | 100,000 | | 79,500 |
| | | | 3,611,650 |
TOTAL YANKEE DOLLARS | | | | |
(COST $33,751,621) | | | | 37,349,683 |
|
U.S. Treasury Obligations – 4.8% | | | | |
|
U.S. Treasury Bonds – 4.8% |
2.75%, 8/15/42 | | 660,000 | | 640,922 |
3.13%, 2/15/43 | | 1,315,000 | | 1,377,668 |
TOTAL U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS | | | | |
(COST $2,007,477) | | | | 2,018,590 |
|
Investment Company – 4.8% |
| | | | |
Northern Institutional Diversified | | | | |
Assets Portfolio, | | | | |
Institutional Shares, 0.01% (b) | | 2,028,177 | | 2,028,177 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT COMPANY | | | | |
(COST $2,028,177) | | | | 2,028,177 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT SECURITIES | | | | |
(COST $37,787,275) — 99.0% | | | | 41,396,450 |
____________________
Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $41,805,651. |
(a) | Rule 144A security or other security which is restricted as to resale to institutional investors. This security has been deemed liquid by the Investment Adviser based on procedures approved by the Board of Trustees. |
(b) | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
MTN — Medium Term Note PIK — Payment-in-Kind |
The Fund invested, as a percentage of net assets at value, in the following industries, as of April 30, 2013:
Industry | | Percentage of Net Assets |
Sovereign Bonds | | | 68.0% | |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | | | 8.9% | |
Commercial Banks | | | 5.9% | |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | | 4.8% | |
Investment Companies | | | 4.8% | |
Diversified Financial Services | | | 4.0% | |
Road & Rail | | | 1.3% | |
Commercial Banks | | | 0.5% | |
Diversified Telecommunication Services | | | 0.5% | |
Metals & Mining | | | 0.3% | |
Total Investments | | | 99.0% | |
22 | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Credit Default Swap Agreements - Sell Protection(a)
At April 30, 2013, the Fund’s open credit default swap agreements were as follows:
| | | | | | Implied Credit | | | | | | | | Upfront | | | | |
| | | | | | Spread at | | Notional | | | | | | Premiums | | Unrealized |
Underlying | | | | Expiration | | April 30, 2013 | | Amount | | Fixed | | | | Paid/ | | Appreciation/ |
Instrument | | Counterparty | | Date | | (%) (b) | | ($)(c) | | Rate (%) | | Value ($) | | (Received) ($) | | (Depreciation) ($) |
Federative | | Barclays | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Republic of Brazil | | Bank PLC | | 09/20/16 | | 1.02 | | 550,000 | | 1.00 | | 4,655 | | (11,666 | ) | | | 16,321 | |
| |
Peoples Republic | | JPMorgan | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
of China | | Chase | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Bank N.A. | | 09/20/16 | | 0.39 | | 500,000 | | 1.00 | | 10,150 | | | (3,227 | ) | | | 13,377 | |
| |
Peoples Republic | | JPMorgan | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
of China | | Chase | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Bank N.A. | | 09/20/16 | | 0.47 | | 500,000 | | 1.00 | | 10,150 | | | (4,641 | ) | | | 14,791 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | 24,955 | | | (19,534 | ) | | | 44,489 | |
(a) | | When a credit event occurs as defined under the terms of the swap agreement, the Fund as a seller of credit protection will either (i) pay to the buyer of protection an amount equal to the par value of the defaulted reference entity and take delivery of the reference entity or (ii) pay a net amount equal to the par value of the defaulted reference entity less its recovery value. |
(b) | | Implied credit spread, represented in absolute terms, utilized in determining the fair value of the credit default swap agreements as of period end serve as an indicator of the current status of the payment/performance risk and represent the likelihood or risk of default for the credit derivative. The implied credit spread of a referenced entity reflects the cost of buying/selling protection and may include upfront payments required to be made to enter into the agreement. Generally, wider credit spreads represent a perceived deterioration of the referenced entity’s credit soundness and a greater likelihood or risk of default or other credit event occurring as defined under the terms of the swap agreement. |
(c) | | The notional amount represents the maximum potential amount the Fund could be required to make as a seller of credit protection if a credit event occurs, as defined under the terms of the swap agreement. |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | 23 |
HSBC EMERGING MARKETS LOCAL DEBT FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Foreign Bonds – 57.9%† |
| | | | |
| | Principal | | |
| | Amount ($) | | Value ($) |
Colombia – 1.6% | | | | |
Republic of Colombia, | | | | |
9.85%, 6/28/27 | | 650,000,000 | | 552,851 |
Indonesia – 8.7% | | | | |
Indonesia Government, | | | | |
Series FR28, 10.00%, 7/15/17 | | 9,100,000,000 | | 1,117,855 |
Indonesia Government, | | | | |
Series FR56, 8.38%, 9/15/26 | | 9,605,000,000 | | 1,191,246 |
Indonesia Government, | | | | |
Series FR65, 6.63%, 5/15/33 | | 6,890,000,000 | | 724,978 |
| | | | 3,034,079 |
Malaysia – 4.8% | | | | |
Malaysian Government, | | | | |
Series 0111, 4.16%, 7/15/21 | | 780,000 | | 270,781 |
Malaysian Government, | | | | |
Series 0112, 3.42%, 8/15/22 | | 3,850,000 | | 1,267,324 |
Malaysian Government, | | | | |
Series 0412, 4.13%, 4/15/32 | | 340,000 | | 116,366 |
| | | | 1,654,471 |
Mexico – 4.7% | | | | |
Mexican Bonos Desarr, | | | | |
Series M, 6.50%, 6/9/22 (a) | | 11,700,000 | | 1,107,808 |
Mexican Bonos Desarr, | | | | |
Series M30, 8.50%, 11/18/38 (a) | | 2,600,000 | | 309,459 |
Mexican Bonos Desarr, | | | | |
Series M, 7.75%, 11/13/42 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 223,704 |
| | | | 1,640,971 |
Peru – 2.1% | | | | |
Peru Bono Soberano, | | | | |
9.91%, 5/5/15 | | 515,000 | | 224,791 |
Republic of Peru, Registered, | | | | |
6.95%, 8/12/31 | | 1,100,000 | | 518,607 |
| | | | 743,398 |
Poland – 5.0% | | | | |
Poland Government Bond, | | | | |
Series 1020, 5.25%, 10/25/20 | | 150,000 | | 54,603 |
Poland Government Bond, | | | | |
Series 1021, 5.75%, 10/25/21 | | 1,340,000 | | 505,997 |
Poland Government Bond, | | | | |
Series 0922, 5.75%, 9/23/22 | | 660,000 | | 252,181 |
Poland Government Bond, | | | | |
Series 0429, 5.75%, 4/25/29 | | 2,350,000 | | 944,332 |
| | | | 1,757,113 |
Russian Federation – 12.5% | | | | |
Russia Foreign Bond, | | | | |
7.85%, 3/10/18 | | 120,000,000 | | 4,162,131 |
Russia Government Bond, | | | | |
Series 6206, 7.40%, 6/14/17 (a) | | 6,000,000 | | 203,209 |
| | | | 4,365,340 |
South Africa – 4.7% | | | | |
Republic of South Africa, | | | | |
Series R203, 8.25%, 9/15/17 | | 2,477,000 | | 304,337 |
Republic of South Africa, | | | | |
Series R186, 10.50%, 12/21/26 | | 2,050,000 | | 304,041 |
Republic of South Africa, | | | | |
Series R213, 7.00%, 2/28/31 | | 2,400,000 | | 259,749 |
Republic of South Africa, | | | | |
Series R209, 6.25%, 3/31/36 | | 8,000,000 | | 765,515 |
| | | | 1,633,642 |
Thailand – 9.3% | | | | |
Thailand Government Bond, | | | | |
4.13%, 11/18/16 | | 91,500,000 | | 3,245,231 |
Turkey – 4.5% | | | | |
Turkey Government Bond, | | | | |
Series CPI, 3.00%, 1/6/21 | | 240,000 | | 184,501 |
Turkey Government Bond, | | | | |
9.50%, 1/12/22 (a) | | 590,000 | | 398,787 |
Turkey Government Bond, | | | | |
Series CPI, 3.00%, 2/23/22 | | 1,400,000 | | 994,370 |
| | | | 1,577,658 |
TOTAL FOREIGN BONDS | | | | |
(COST $19,582,580) | | | | 20,204,754 |
|
Yankee Dollars – 7.8% | | | | |
|
Kazakhstan – 2.1% | | | | |
KazMunayGas National Co., | | | | |
Registered, Series 1, | | | | |
8.38%, 7/2/13, MTN | | 725,000 | | 731,235 |
Luxembourg – 1.0% | | | | |
VTB Bank OJSC (VTB Capital SA), | | | | |
Registered, 6.47%, 3/4/15 | | 300,000 | | 322,980 |
Russian Federation – 3.2% | | | | |
AK Transneft OJSC, | | | | |
7.70%, 8/7/13 | | 225,000 | | 228,600 |
Alfa Invest Ltd., | | | | |
9.25%, 6/24/13, MTN | | 100,000 | | 100,970 |
Alfa Issuance Ltd., Series E, | | | | |
8.00%, 3/18/15, MTN | | 300,000 | | 324,750 |
Sberbank, Series E, | | | | |
6.48%, 5/15/13, MTN | | 200,000 | | 200,280 |
Sberbank of Russia (SB Capital SA), | | | | |
5.50%, 7/7/15 | | 250,000 | | 268,363 |
| | | | 1,122,963 |
Turkey – 0.9% | | | | |
Republic of Turkey, | | | | |
7.00%, 9/26/16 | | 275,000 | | 318,656 |
United Arab Emirates – 0.6% | | | | |
The Abu Dhabi National Energy Co. | | | | |
(TAQA), 6.60%, 8/1/13 | | 200,000 | | 202,800 |
TOTAL YANKEE DOLLARS | | | | |
(COST $2,698,810) | | | | 2,698,634 |
24 | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC EMERGING MARKETS LOCAL DEBT FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
U.S. Treasury Obligation – 1.2% | | | | |
| | | | |
| | Shares or | | |
| | Principal | | |
| | Amount ($) | | Value ($) |
U.S. Treasury Bonds – 1.2% | | | | |
3.13%, 2/15/43 | | 400,000 | | 419,063 |
TOTAL U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATION | | | | |
(COST $419,799) | | | | 419,063 |
|
Investment Company – 31.2% | | | | |
|
Northern Institutional Diversified | | | | |
Assets Portfolio, Institutional | | | | |
Shares, 0.01% (b) | | 10,882,362 | | 10,882,362 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT COMPANY | | | | |
(COST $10,882,362) | | | | 10,882,362 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT SECURITIES | | | | |
(COST $33,583,551) — 98.1% | | | | 34,204,813 |
____________________
Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $34,881,552. |
† | | The principal amount is disclosed in local currency and the value is disclosed in U.S. Dollars. |
(a) | | Variable rate security. The interest rates on these securities are adjusted periodically to reflect then-current short-term interest rates. The rates presented represent the rates in effect on April 30, 2013. The maturity dates presented reflect the final maturity dates. However, some of these securities may contain put or demand features that allow the Fund to require the issuer to repurchase the security from the fund within various time periods, including daily, weekly, monthly, or semi-annually. |
(b) | | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
MTN — Medium Term Note |
The Fund invested, as a percentage of net assets at value, in the following industries, as of April 30, 2013:
Industry | | Percentage of Net Assets |
Sovereign Bonds | | | 58.8% | |
Investment Companies | | | 31.2% | |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | | | 2.8% | |
Commercial Banks | | | 1.5% | |
Diversified Financial Services | | | 1.2% | |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | | 1.2% | |
Commercial Banks | | | 0.8% | |
Electric Utilities | | | 0.6% | |
Total Investments | | | 98.1% | |
Interest Rate Swap Agreements
At April 30, 2013, the Fund’s open interest rate swap agreements were as follows:
Pay/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unrealized |
Receive | | | | Fixed | | | | | | Notional | | Notional | | | | | Appreciation/ |
Floating | | | | | Rate | | Expiration | | | | Amount | | Amount | | Value | | (Depreciation) |
Rate | | | Floating Rate Index | | (%) | | Date | | Counterparty | | (Local) | | ($) | | ($) | | ($) |
| | | | | | | | | | JPMorgan | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Chase | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Pay | | 1-Year BRL CDI | | | 10.44 | | | 1/2/14 | | Bank N.A. | | 2,200,000 | | BRL | | 1,100,000 | | 45,329 | | | | 45,329 | |
| | | | | | | | | | Barclays Bank | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Pay | | 1-Year BRL CDI | | | 10.02 | | | 1/4/21 | | PLC | | 2,400,000 | | BRL | | 1,200,000 | | 48,441 | | | | 48,441 | |
| | 1-Month | | | | | | | | Barclays Bank | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Pay | | MXN-TIIE-Banxico | | | 6.69 | | | 12/23/21 | | PLC | | 6,250,000 | | MXN | | 514,806 | | 61,461 | | | | 61,461 | |
| | | | | | | | | | Barclays Bank | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Receive | | 1-Year BRL CDI | | | 7.68 | | | 1/2/15 | | PLC | | 9,400,000 | | BRL | | 4,700,000 | | (31,568 | ) | | | (31,568 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | Barclays Bank | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Pay | | 1-Year ZAR CDI | | | 5.98 | | | 1/24/18 | | PLC | | 20,000,000 | | ZAR | | 2,231,271 | | 40,726 | | | | 40,726 | |
| | | | | | | | | | Standard | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Pay | | 1-Year MYR CDI | | | 3.52 | | | 1/25/18 | | Charter Bank | | 2,200,000 | | MYR | | 723,327 | | 9,012 | | | | 9,012 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 173,401 | | | | 173,401 | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | 25 |
HSBC EMERGING MARKETS LOCAL DEBT FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
At April 30, 2013, the Fund’s open forward foreign currency exchange contracts were as follows:
| | | | | | Contract | | | | | | Unrealized |
| | | | | | Amount | | Contract | | | | Appreciation/ |
| | | | Delivery | | (Local | | Value | | | | (Depreciation) |
Short Contracts | | | Counterparty | | Date | | Currency) | | ($) | | Value($) | | ($) |
Brazilian Real | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 5/3/13 | | 8,250 | | 4,077 | | 4,124 | | | (47 | ) | |
Brazilian Real | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 5/3/13 | | 4,635,051 | | 2,303,703 | | 2,316,740 | | | (13,037 | ) | |
Brazilian Real | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 8/2/13 | | 672,840 | | 330,959 | | 331,888 | | | (929 | ) | |
Chilean Peso | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 7/31/13 | | 451,264,500 | | 938,473 | | 946,888 | | | (8,415 | ) | |
Indonesian Rupiah | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 5/30/13 | | 2,010,000,000 | | 206,366 | | 206,027 | | | 339 | | |
Indonesian Rupiah | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | 5/30/13 | | 6,240,000,000 | | 640,000 | | 639,606 | | | 394 | | |
Korean Won | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 5/22/13 | | 710,556,000 | | 660,000 | | 645,192 | | | 14,808 | | |
Malaysian Ringgit | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 5/30/13 | | 5,131,756 | | 1,689,745 | | 1,683,481 | | | 6,264 | | |
Mexican Peso | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 5/28/13 | | 12,719,001 | | 1,047,909 | | 1,045,248 | | | 2,661 | | |
Peruvian Nuevo Sol | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 6/27/13 | | 286,336 | | 110,448 | | 108,022 | | | 2,426 | | |
Philippine Peso | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 6/3/13 | | 8,118,880 | | 197,204 | | 197,138 | | | 66 | | |
Polish Zloty | | Barclays Bank PLC | | 5/8/13 | | 1,477,934 | | 460,000 | | 467,911 | | | (7,911 | ) | |
Polish Zloty | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 5/8/13 | | 608,730 | | 190,410 | | 192,723 | | | (2,313 | ) | |
Polish Zloty | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 9/3/13 | | 1,894,670 | | 594,220 | | 595,468 | | | (1,248 | ) | |
Russian Ruble | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 7/29/13 | | 29,433,295 | | 933,368 | | 931,489 | | | 1,879 | | |
Russian Ruble | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 7/29/13 | | 6,543,600 | | 205,000 | | 207,088 | | | (2,088 | ) | |
South African Rand | | Barclays Bank PLC | | 5/28/13 | | 4,393,977 | | 490,000 | | 488,332 | | | 1,668 | | |
South African Rand | | Barclays Bank PLC | | 5/28/13 | | 6,337,788 | | 690,000 | | 704,361 | | | (14,361 | ) | |
South African Rand | | Barclays Bank PLC | | 5/28/13 | | 2,724,898 | | 294,947 | | 302,836 | | | (7,889 | ) | |
Taiwan Dollar | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 6/3/13 | | 19,895,650 | | 670,000 | | 674,610 | | | (4,610 | ) | |
Thai Baht | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 6/14/13 | | 48,528,700 | | 1,570,000 | | 1,649,741 | | | (79,741 | ) | |
| | | | | | | | 14,226,829 | | 14,338,913 | | | (112,084 | ) | |
26 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC EMERGING MARKETS LOCAL DEBT FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
| | | | | | Contract | | | | | | Unrealized |
| | | | | | Amount | | Contract | | | | Appreciation/ |
| | | | Delivery | | (Local | | Value | | Value | | (Depreciation) |
Long Contracts | | | Counterparty | | Date | | Currency) | | ($) | | ($) | | ($) |
Brazilian Real | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 5/3/13 | | 4,643,301 | | 2,323,974 | | 2,320,864 | | | (3,110 | ) | |
Brazilian Real | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 8/2/13 | | 4,635,051 | | 2,276,100 | | 2,286,303 | | | 10,203 | | |
Chinese Yuan | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 6/19/13 | | 4,199,925 | | 667,555 | | 679,614 | | | 12,059 | | |
Colombian Peso | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 7/2/13 | | 2,402,133,345 | | 1,301,934 | | 1,311,262 | | | 9,328 | | |
Hungarian Forint | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | 6/28/13 | | 358,385,238 | | 1,495,796 | | 1,568,486 | | | 72,690 | | |
Hungarian Forint | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | 6/28/13 | | 23,257,860 | | 100,000 | | 101,789 | | | 1,789 | | |
Indonesian Rupiah | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 5/30/13 | | 322,000,000 | | 32,394 | | 33,005 | | | 611 | | |
Indonesian Rupiah | | Barclays Bank PLC | | 5/30/13 | | 6,643,600,000 | | 680,000 | | 680,976 | | | 976 | | |
Korean Won | | Barclays Bank PLC | | 5/22/13 | | 713,700,000 | | 650,000 | | 648,047 | | | (1,953 | ) | |
Malaysian Ringgit | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 5/30/13 | | 3,850,506 | | 1,241,098 | | 1,263,165 | | | 22,067 | | |
Malaysian Ringgit | | Barclays Bank PLC | | 5/30/13 | | 1,281,250 | | 410,000 | | 420,316 | | | 10,316 | | |
Malaysian Ringgit | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 8/30/13 | | 5,131,756 | | 1,681,275 | | 1,672,653 | | | (8,622 | ) | |
Mexican Peso | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 5/28/13 | | 14,826,599 | | 1,150,740 | | 1,218,451 | | | 67,711 | | |
Mexican Peso | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | 5/28/13 | | 8,598,090 | | 701,155 | | 706,592 | | | 5,437 | | |
Philippine Peso | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 6/3/13 | | 8,118,880 | | 200,268 | | 197,138 | | | (3,130 | ) | |
Philippine Peso | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 8/30/13 | | 8,118,880 | | 197,396 | | 196,787 | | | (609 | ) | |
Polish Zloty | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | 5/8/13 | | 191,994 | | 60,000 | | 60,785 | | | 785 | | |
Polish Zloty | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 6/11/13 | | 5,282,436 | | 1,653,966 | | 1,668,262 | | | 14,296 | | |
Polish Zloty | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 5/8/13 | | 1,894,670 | | 598,727 | | 599,849 | | | 1,122 | | |
Romanian Leu | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | 6/17/13 | | 334,690 | | 97,421 | | 101,413 | | | 3,992 | | |
Romanian Leu | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | 6/17/13 | | 367,930 | | 110,000 | | 111,485 | | | 1,485 | | |
Russian Ruble | | Barclays Bank PLC | | 7/29/13 | | 3,214,500 | | 100,000 | | 101,731 | | | 1,731 | | |
South African Rand | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 5/28/13 | | 24,175,819 | | 2,687,606 | | 2,686,820 | | | (786 | ) | |
South African Rand | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | 6/10/13 | | 1,036,829 | | 112,745 | | 115,028 | | | 2,283 | | |
Taiwan Dollar | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 6/3/13 | | 19,652,000 | | 668,095 | | 666,349 | | | (1,746 | ) | |
Thai Baht | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 6/14/13 | | 11,248,263 | | 363,904 | | 382,386 | | | 18,482 | | |
Thai Baht | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 6/14/13 | | 10,797,500 | | 350,000 | | 367,062 | | | 17,062 | | |
Thai Baht | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 6/14/13 | | 2,934,130 | | 100,000 | | 99,746 | | | (254 | ) | |
Turkish Lira | | Standard Chartered Bank | | 7/29/13 | | 1,237,671 | | 669,391 | | 684,201 | | | 14,810 | | |
Turkish Lira | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | 7/29/13 | | 2,554,805 | | 1,406,108 | | 1,412,329 | | | 6,221 | | |
Turkish Lira | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | 7/29/13 | | 236,262 | | 130,000 | | 130,609 | | | 609 | | |
| | | | | | | | 24,217,648 | | 24,493,503 | | | 275,855 | | |
See notes to financial statements. | | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 27 |
HSBC FRONTIER MARKETS FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Common Stocks – 87.1% | | | |
| | | |
| Shares | | Value ($) |
Australia – 0.3% | | | |
Centamin plc * | 104,401 | | 67,015 |
Bangladesh – 0.6% | | | |
Prime Bank Ltd. | 430,355 | | 167,879 |
Cambodia – 1.4% | | | |
NagaCorp Ltd. | 450,000 | | 357,221 |
Colombia – 2.9% | | | |
Banco Davivienda SA | 29,924 | | 400,519 |
Ecopetrol SA | 140,925 | | 339,087 |
| | | 739,606 |
Croatia – 0.8% | | | |
Hrvatski Telekom dd | 5,230 | | 194,680 |
Egypt – 2.0% | | | |
Commercial International Bank | 60,008 | | 264,731 |
Orascom Telecom Holding SAE | | | |
GDR, Registered * | 74,954 | | 252,393 |
| | | 517,124 |
Estonia – 1.1% | | | |
Tallink Group Ltd. * | 210,638 | | 288,462 |
Georgia – 1.9% | | | |
Bank of Georgia Holdings plc | 19,359 | | 484,373 |
Kazakhstan – 3.4% | | | |
KazMunaiGas Exploration | | | |
Production GDR (a) | 48,111 | | 863,592 |
Kenya – 3.2% | | | |
Kenya Commercial Bank Ltd. | 819,400 | | 410,923 |
Safaricom Ltd. | 4,864,700 | | 397,889 |
| | | 808,812 |
Kuwait – 4.9% | | | |
Kuwait Projects Co. (Holding) KSC | 236,875 | | 359,662 |
Mabanee Co. SAKC | 87,550 | | 364,792 |
Mobile Telecommunications Co. | 95,000 | | 251,589 |
National Bank of Kuwait | 80,350 | | 266,698 |
| | | 1,242,741 |
Lebanon – 0.9% | | | |
Banque Audi SAL - Audi Saradar Group | 12,866 | | 86,845 |
Solidere, Class B | 198 | | 2,586 |
Solidere, Class A | 10,233 | | 134,155 |
| | | 223,586 |
Nigeria – 13.0% | | | |
Dangote Cement plc | 363,928 | | 373,378 |
Diamond Bank plc * | 8,632,639 | | 311,628 |
FBN Holdings plc * | 3,713,079 | | 438,562 |
Guaranty Trust Bank plc | 3,986,326 | | 651,344 |
Nestle Foods Nigeria plc | 61,848 | | 348,605 |
Nigerian Breweries plc | 586,520 | | 612,521 |
Zenith Bank plc | 4,500,642 | | 574,338 |
| | | 3,310,376 |
Oman – 2.9% | | | |
Bank Muscat SAOG | 358,354 | | 576,159 |
Renaissance Services SAOG * | 126,200 | | 170,124 |
| | | 746,283 |
Pakistan – 8.6% | | | |
D.G. Khan Cement Co. Ltd. | 460,500 | | 318,030 |
Engro Corp. Ltd. * | 285,000 | | 388,844 |
MCB Bank Ltd. | 182,745 | | 404,717 |
Pakistan Petroleum Ltd. | 155,575 | | 286,341 |
The Hub Power Co. Ltd. | 697,192 | | 382,219 |
United Bank Ltd. | 466,100 | | 423,370 |
| | | 2,203,521 |
Panama – 1.6% | | | |
Copa Holdings SA, Class A | 3,199 | | 401,730 |
Peru – 3.0% | | | |
Cia de Minas Buenaventura SA ADR | 5,537 | | 110,851 |
Credicorp Ltd. | 4,300 | | 647,537 |
| | | 758,388 |
Philippines – 5.2% | | | |
Cebu Air, Inc. | 178,530 | | 353,372 |
Security Bank Corp. | 77,770 | | 372,691 |
SM Investments Corp. | 21,795 | | 606,447 |
| | | 1,332,510 |
Qatar – 11.0% | | | |
Gulf International Services QSC | 24,809 | | 277,685 |
Industries Qatar QSC | 14,462 | | 683,238 |
Qatar Electricity & Water Co. | 6,924 | | 271,962 |
Qatar Islamic Bank | 5,035 | | 95,425 |
Qatar National Bank | 17,877 | | 662,893 |
Qatar Telecom (QTEL) QSC | 21,699 | | 685,414 |
The Commercial Bank of Qatar QSC | 8,112 | | 144,829 |
| | | 2,821,446 |
Romania – 0.8% | | | |
SIF 5 Oltenia Craiova P-Note | 499,000 | | 205,753 |
Slovenia – 0.7% | | | |
KrKa dd Novo Mesto | 2,813 | | 184,466 |
Sri Lanka – 1.6% | | | |
John Keells Holdings plc | 205,925 | | 406,324 |
Ukraine – 0.2% | | | |
EastCoal, Inc. * | 360,500 | | 25,054 |
EastCoal, Inc. * | 491,955 | | 21,967 |
| | | 47,021 |
28 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC FRONTIER MARKETS FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Common Stocks, continued | | | |
| | | |
| Shares or | | |
| Principal | | |
| Amount ($) | | Value ($) |
United Arab Emirates – 15.1% | | | |
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC | 134,571 | | 168,539 |
DP World Ltd. | 15,556 | | 238,629 |
Dragon Oil plc | 34,564 | | 339,805 |
Emaar Properties PJSC | 675,173 | | 1,031,261 |
First Gulf Bank PJSC | 202,444 | | 821,263 |
National Bank of Abu Dhabi | 201,420 | | 663,558 |
NMC Health plc * | 85,935 | | 413,746 |
Union National Bank PJSC | 162,614 | | 194,363 |
| | | 3,871,164 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | | | |
(COST $18,516,972) | | | 22,244,073 |
| | | |
Preferred Stock – 2.1% | | | |
| | | |
Colombia – 2.1% | | | |
Bancolombia SA, Preferred Shares | 32,300 | | 529,337 |
TOTAL PREFERRED STOCK | | | |
(COST $513,116) | | | 529,337 |
| | | |
Convertible Corporate Bonds – 0.2% | | | |
| | | |
Oman – 0.2% | | | |
Bank Muscat SAOG, 4.50%, 3/20/16 | 45,141 | | 13,015 |
Renaissance Services SAOG, | | | |
3.75%, 7/25/17 | 142,800 | | 38,203 |
TOTAL CONVERTIBLE CORPORATE | | | |
BONDS (COST $48,889) | | | 51,218 |
| | | |
Warrant – 0.0% | | | |
| | | |
Ukraine – 0.0% | | | |
EastCoal, Inc. *(b)(c) | 360,500 | | — |
TOTAL WARRANT | | | |
(COST $—) | | | — |
| | | |
Participatory Notes – 8.0% | | | |
| | | |
Saudi Arabia – 5.0% | | | |
Etihad Etisalat Co., 9/27/16, | | | |
(Deutsche Bank AG) | 17,621 | | 375,856 |
Samba Financial Group, 9/27/16, | | | |
(Deutsche Bank AG) | 23,917 | | 289,635 |
United Electronics Co., 2/13/15, | | | |
(Citigroup Global Markets | | | |
Holding, Inc.)* | 11,066 | | 299,521 |
Yanbu National Petrochemicals Co., | | | |
9/27/16, (Deutsche Bank AG)* | 23,135 | | 314,636 |
| | | 1,279,648 |
United Arab Emirates – 0.4% | | | |
Union National Bank of Abu Dhabi, | | | |
9/27/13, (Citigroup Global Markets | | | |
Holding, Inc.)* | 97,125 | | 114,996 |
Vietnam – 2.6% | | | |
PetroVietnam Drilling & Well Services | | | |
JSC, 9/6/16, (JPMorgan Chase) | 129,474 | | 247,295 |
Vietnam Dairy Products JSC, 1/20/15, | | | |
(Citigroup Global | | | |
Markets Holding, Inc.)* | 69,327 | | 411,317 |
| | | 658,612 |
TOTAL PARTICIPATORY NOTES | | | |
(COST $1,745,946) | | | 2,053,256 |
| | | |
Investment Company – 2.2% | | | |
| | | |
Northern Institutional Diversified | | | |
Assets Portfolio, Institutional | | | |
Shares, 0.01% (d) | 568,366 | | 568,366 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT COMPANY | | | |
(COST $568,366) | | | 568,366 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT SECURITIES | | | |
(COST $21,393,289) — 99.6% | | | 25,446,250 |
____________________
Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $25,539,094.
* | | Represents non-income producing security. |
(a) | | Rule 144A security or other security which is restricted as to resale to institutional investors. This security has been deemed liquid by the Investment Adviser based on procedures approved by the Board of Trustees. |
(b) | | Security was valued in good faith pursuant to procedures approved by the Board of Trustees as of April 30, 2013. The total of all such securities represent 0.00% of net assets of the fund. |
(c) | | Illiquid security, representing 0.00% of net assets of the fund. |
(d) | | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
ADR — American Depositary Receipt
GDR — Global Depositary Receipt
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 29 |
HSBC FRONTIER MARKETS FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
The Fund invested, as a percentage of net assets at value, in the following industries, as of April 30, 2013:
Industry | Percentage of Net Assets |
Commercial Banks | 40.9 | % |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | 10.2 | % |
Diversified Financial Services | 4.6 | % |
Diversified Telecommunication | | |
Services | 4.3 | % |
Industrial Conglomerates | 4.0 | % |
Real Estate Management & | | |
Development | 3.7 | % |
Energy Equipment & Services | 3.6 | % |
Wireless Telecommunication Services | 3.4 | % |
Airlines | 3.0 | % |
Food Products | 3.0 | % |
Construction Materials | 2.7 | % |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure | 2.5 | % |
Beverages | 2.4 | % |
Investment Companies | 2.2 | % |
Health Care Providers & Services | 1.6 | % |
Chemicals | 1.5 | % |
Independent Power Producers & | | |
Energy Traders | 1.5 | % |
Marine | 1.1 | % |
Multi-Utilities | 1.1 | % |
Capital Markets | 0.8 | % |
Metals & Mining | 0.8 | % |
Pharmaceuticals | 0.7 | % |
Total Investments | 99.6 | % |
30 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC TOTAL RETURN FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Foreign Bonds – 12.3%† | | | |
| | | |
| Principal | | |
| Amount ($) | | Value ($) |
Mexico – 5.5% | | | |
Mexican Bonos Desarr, Series M, | | | |
9.00%, 6/20/13 (a) | 171,385,000 | | 14,208,417 |
Mexican Bonos Desarr, Series M, | | | |
6.50%, 6/10/21 (a) | 1,000,000 | | 93,923 |
Mexican Bonos Desarr, Series M30, | | | |
10.00%, 11/20/36 (a) | 711,800 | | 95,787 |
Mexican Cetes, Series BI, | | | |
0.00%, 5/23/13 (b) | 1,700,000,000 | | 13,969,252 |
| | | 28,367,379 |
South Africa – 0.9% | | | |
Republic of South Africa, | | | |
Series R203, 8.25%, 9/15/17 | 35,115,000 | | 4,314,403 |
Turkey – 5.9% | | | |
Turkey Government Bond, | | | |
5.57%, 5/15/13 (c) | 55,000,000 | | 30,625,893 |
TOTAL FOREIGN BONDS | | | |
(COST $62,739,732) | | | 63,307,675 |
| | | |
Yankee Dollars – 45.7% | | | |
| | | |
Brazil – 11.2% | | | |
Banco Bradesco SA, Registered, | | | |
4.10%, 3/23/15 | 9,000,000 | | 9,360,000 |
Banco do Brasil SA, Registered, | | | |
5.38%, 1/15/21 | 1,800,000 | | 1,917,000 |
Banco do Brasil SA, Registered, | | | |
5.88%, 1/26/22 | 200,000 | | 217,500 |
Banco do Estado do Rio Grande | | | |
do Sul SA, Registered, | | | |
7.38%, 2/2/22 | 1,900,000 | | 2,090,000 |
Banco Votorantim, Registered, | | | |
5.25%, 2/11/16, MTN | 200,000 | | 212,750 |
Caixa Economica Federal, Registered, | | | |
2.38%, 11/6/17 | 3,750,000 | | 3,661,875 |
Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA, | | | |
Registered, 6.88%, 7/30/19 | 2,160,000 | | 2,473,200 |
Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA, | | | |
Registered, 5.75%, 10/27/21 | 2,775,000 | | 3,026,137 |
Federal Republic of Brazil, | | | |
2.63%, 1/5/23 | 4,025,000 | | 4,012,925 |
Oi SA, Registered, | | | |
5.75%, 2/10/22 | 2,100,000 | | 2,215,500 |
Petrobras International Finance Co., | | | |
6.13%, 10/6/16 | 15,014,000 | | 16,837,826 |
Petrobras International Finance Co., | | | |
7.88%, 3/15/19 | 2,400,000 | | 2,984,342 |
Petrobras International Finance Co., | | | |
5.75%, 1/20/20 | 4,500,000 | | 5,079,357 |
Voto-Votorantim Overseas Trading | | | |
Operations NV, Registered, | | | |
6.63%, 9/25/19 | 3,101,000 | | 3,628,170 |
| | | 57,716,582 |
Chile – 1.0% | | | |
Codelco, Inc., Registered, | | | |
7.50%, 1/15/19 | 1,300,000 | | 1,652,122 |
CorpBanca SA, | | | |
3.13%, 1/15/18 | 2,400,000 | | 2,404,831 |
Empresa Nacional de Petroleo, | | | |
Registered, 4.75%, 12/6/21 | 1,100,000 | | 1,167,254 |
| | | 5,224,207 |
China – 0.8% | | | |
CNPC General Capital Ltd., | | | |
1.45%, 4/16/16 (d) | 800,000 | | 799,813 |
Sinopec Capital (2013) Ltd., | | | |
1.25%, 4/24/16 (d) | 3,300,000 | | 3,298,941 |
| | | 4,098,754 |
Colombia – 3.9% | | | |
Banco de Bogota SA, Registered, | | | |
5.00%, 1/15/17 | 2,200,000 | | 2,378,200 |
Bancolombia SA, 6.13%, 7/26/20 | 2,050,000 | | 2,244,750 |
Grupo Aval Ltd., Registered, | | | |
5.25%, 2/1/17 | 5,410,000 | | 5,822,242 |
Republic of Colombia, | | | |
7.38%, 3/18/19 | 3,120,000 | | 4,052,880 |
Republic of Colombia, | | | |
4.38%, 7/12/21 | 4,450,000 | | 5,088,575 |
Republic of Colombia, | | | |
2.63%, 3/15/23, | | | |
Callable 12/15/22 @ 100.00 | 750,000 | | 743,625 |
| | | 20,330,272 |
Costa Rica – 0.2% | | | |
Republic of Costa Rica, | | | |
4.25%, 1/26/23 (d) | 1,200,000 | | 1,218,000 |
Croatia – 1.3% | | | |
Croatia, Registered, | | | |
6.25%, 4/27/17 | 400,000 | | 440,136 |
Croatia, Registered, | | | |
6.75%, 11/5/19 | 2,640,000 | | 3,018,418 |
Croatia, Registered, | | | |
6.63%, 7/14/20 | 400,000 | | 455,800 |
Croatia, Registered, | | | |
6.38%, 3/24/21 | 2,260,000 | | 2,553,800 |
| | | 6,468,154 |
Dominican Republic – 0.1% | | | |
Dominican Republic, | | | |
7.50%, 5/6/21 | 600,000 | | 689,100 |
Indonesia – 2.5% | | | |
PT Pertamina Tbk, Registered, | | | |
4.88%, 5/3/22 | 1,300,000 | | 1,384,500 |
Republic of Indonesia, | | | |
3.38%, 4/15/23 (d) | 1,800,000 | | 1,838,250 |
Republic of Indonesia, Registered, | | | |
7.25%, 4/20/15 | 1,580,000 | | 1,753,800 |
Republic of Indonesia, Registered, | | | |
7.50%, 1/15/16 | 2,320,000 | | 2,668,000 |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 31 |
HSBC TOTAL RETURN FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Yankee Dollars, continued | | | |
| | | |
| Principal | | |
| Amount ($) | | Value ($) |
Dominican Republic, continued | | | |
Republic of Indonesia, Registered, | | | |
5.88%, 3/13/20 | 2,990,000 | | 3,550,625 |
Republic of Indonesia, Registered, | | | |
4.88%, 5/5/21 | 1,300,000 | | 1,473,875 |
| | | 12,669,050 |
Iraq – 0.5% | | | |
Republic of Iraq, Registered, | | | |
5.80%, 1/15/28, | | | |
Callable 6/20/13 @ 100.00 | 2,675,000 | | 2,440,937 |
Kazakhstan – 3.8% | | | |
Development Bank of Kazakhstan, | | | |
4.13%, 12/10/22 (d) | 1,750,000 | | 1,724,625 |
KazMunaiGaz Finance Sub B.V., | | | |
Registered, 11.75%, 1/23/15 | 5,600,000 | | 6,482,000 |
KazMunayGas National Co., | | | |
Registered, Series 1, | | | |
8.38%, 7/2/13, MTN | 11,525,000 | | 11,624,115 |
| | | 19,830,740 |
Luxembourg – 0.3% | | | |
VTB Bank OJSC (VTB Capital SA), | | | |
Registered, 6.47%, 3/4/15 | 1,150,000 | | 1,238,090 |
VTB Bank OJSC (VTB Capital SA), | | | |
Registered, 6.00%, 4/12/17 | 200,000 | | 217,250 |
| | | 1,455,340 |
Mexico – 1.6% | | | |
Banco Santander SA, | | | |
4.13%, 11/9/22 (d) | 1,100,000 | | 1,108,250 |
Mexichem SAB de CV, Registered, | | | |
4.88%, 9/19/22 | 250,000 | | 271,875 |
Petroleos Mexicanos, | | | |
4.88%, 3/15/15 | 2,000,000 | | 2,140,640 |
United Mexican States, Series A, | | | |
6.05%, 1/11/40 | 2,700,000 | | 3,550,500 |
United Mexican States, | | | |
4.75%, 3/8/44, MTN | 930,000 | | 1,029,045 |
| | | 8,100,310 |
Namibia – 0.7% | | | |
Namibia International Bond, | | | |
Registered, 5.50%, 11/3/21 | 3,400,000 | | 3,799,500 |
Panama – 0.2% | | | |
Republic of Panama, | | | |
5.20%, 1/30/20 | 700,000 | | 831,600 |
Peru – 1.6% | | | |
Banco de Credito del Peru, | | | |
Registered, 5.38%, 9/16/20 | 780,000 | | 858,000 |
BBVA Banco Continental SA, | | | |
Registered, 2.25%, 7/29/16 | 5,000,000 | | 4,925,000 |
Continental Senior Trust, | | | |
Registered, 5.75%, 1/18/17 | 2,150,000 | | 2,358,980 |
Corp. Financiera de Desarrollo SA, | | | |
Registered, 4.75%, 2/8/22 | 200,000 | | 216,300 |
| | | 8,358,280 |
Russian Federation – 7.5% | | | |
AK Transneft OAO, Registered, | | | |
5.67%, 3/5/14 | 400,000 | | 414,200 |
Alfa Bank OJSC, Registered, | | | |
7.88%, 9/25/17 | 1,200,000 | | 1,356,120 |
Alfa Bank OJSC, Registered, | | | |
7.75%, 4/28/21 | 500,000 | | 566,350 |
Alfa Issuance Ltd., Series E, | | | |
8.00%, 3/18/15, MTN | 450,000 | | 487,125 |
Gazprom OAO, Registered, | | | |
Series 2009/2, | | | |
10.50%, 3/25/14, MTN | 10,000,000 | | 10,805,100 |
Gazprom OAO, Registered, | | | |
8.13%, 7/31/14 | 2,200,000 | | 2,383,700 |
Gazprom OAO, Registered, Series 7, | | | |
6.21%, 11/22/16, MTN | 4,600,000 | | 5,166,260 |
Gazprom OAO, Registered, | | | |
9.25%, 4/23/19 | 2,050,000 | | 2,670,125 |
Gazprom OAO, Registered, | | | |
6.51%, 3/7/22, MTN | 3,100,000 | | 3,615,375 |
Russian Federation, Registered, | | | |
3.25%, 4/4/17 | 1,600,000 | | 1,692,000 |
RZD Capital Ltd., Registered, | | | |
5.70%, 4/5/22 | 300,000 | | 333,375 |
Sberbank of Russia (SB Capital SA), | | | |
Registered, 4.95%, 2/7/17 | 5,600,000 | | 6,022,800 |
Sibur Securities Ltd., | | | |
3.91%, 1/31/18 (d) | 3,100,000 | | 3,046,525 |
| | | 38,559,055 |
Slovak Republic – 1.1% | | | |
Slovak Republic, Registered, | | | |
4.38%, 5/21/22 | 5,150,000 | | 5,646,769 |
South Africa – 1.6% | | | |
Republic of South Africa, | | | |
6.88%, 5/27/19 | 6,100,000 | | 7,609,750 |
Transnet SOC Ltd., Registered, | | | |
4.50%, 2/10/16 | 800,000 | | 847,865 |
| | | 8,457,615 |
Turkey – 5.3% | | | |
Akbank TAS, Registered, | | | |
5.13%, 7/22/15 | 7,880,000 | | 8,322,305 |
Republic of Turkey, | | | |
7.25%, 3/15/15 | 5,400,000 | | 5,953,500 |
Republic of Turkey, | | | |
7.00%, 9/26/16 | 2,600,000 | | 3,012,750 |
Republic of Turkey, | | | |
7.50%, 11/7/19 | 100,000 | | 127,500 |
Republic of Turkey, | | | |
5.13%, 3/25/22 | 2,200,000 | | 2,513,500 |
Republic of Turkey, | | | |
4.88%, 4/16/43 | 2,500,000 | | 2,563,130 |
Turkiye Halk Bankasi AS, | | | |
3.88%, 2/5/20 (d) | 2,500,000 | | 2,512,500 |
Turkiye Is Bankasi AS, | | | |
3.88%, 11/7/17 (d) | 1,000,000 | | 1,030,000 |
Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi TAO, | | | |
6.00%, 11/1/22 (d) | 1,400,000 | | 1,476,309 |
| | | 27,511,494 |
32 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC TOTAL RETURN FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Yankee Dollars, continued | | | |
| | | |
| Shares or | | |
| Principal | | |
| Amount ($) | | Value ($) |
United Kingdom – 0.3% | | | |
Vedanta Resources plc, Registered, | | | |
6.75%, 6/7/16 | 1,400,000 | | 1,464,680 |
Uruguay – 0.2% | | | |
Republica Oriental del Uruguay, | | | |
6.88%, 9/28/25 | 700,000 | | 950,950 |
TOTAL YANKEE DOLLARS | | | |
(COST $233,431,594) | | | 235,821,389 |
| | | |
U.S. Treasury Obligations – 4.3% | | | |
| | | |
U.S. Treasury Bills – 1.9% | | | |
0.07%, 5/9/13(c) | 10,000,000 | | 9,999,920 |
U.S. Treasury Bonds – 2.4% | | | |
3.13%, 2/15/43 | 11,830,000 | | 12,393,771 |
TOTAL U.S. TREASURY | | | |
OBLIGATIONS | | | |
(COST $22,181,540) | | | 22,393,691 |
| | | |
Investment Company – 36.6% | | | |
| | | |
Northern Institutional Diversified | | | |
Assets Portfolio, Institutional | | | |
Shares, 0.01% (e) | 189,119,564 | | 189,119,564 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT COMPANY | | | |
(COST $189,119,564) | | | 189,119,564 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT SECURITIES | | | |
(COST $507,472,430) — 98.9% | | | 510,642,319 |
____________________
Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $516,571,060.
† | | The principal amount is disclosed in local currency and the value is disclosed in U.S. Dollars. |
(a) | | Variable rate security. The interest rates on these securities are adjusted periodically to reflect then-current short-term interest rates. The rates presented represent the rates in effect on April 30, 2013. The maturity dates presented reflect the final maturity dates. However, some of these securities may contain put or demand features that allow the Fund to require the issuer to repurchase the security from the fund within various time periods, including daily, weekly, monthly, or semi-annually. |
(b) | | Zero-Coupon Security. |
(c) | | Discount note. Rate presented represents the effective yield at time of purchase. |
(d) | | Rule 144A security or other security which is restricted as to resale to institutional investors. This security has been deemed liquid by the Investment Adviser based on procedures approved by the Board of Trustees. |
(e) | | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
LIBOR — Represents the London InterBank Offered Rate
MTN — Medium Term Note
The Fund invested, as a percentage of net assets at value, in the following industries, as of April 30, 2013:
Industry | Percentage of Net Assets |
Investment Companies | 36.6 | % |
Sovereign Bonds | 26.7 | % |
Commercial Banks | 9.5 | % |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | 9.2 | % |
Diversified Financial Services | 8.4 | % |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | 4.3 | % |
Electric Utilities | 1.1 | % |
Commercial Banks | 1.0 | % |
Construction Materials | 0.7 | % |
Metals & Mining | 0.6 | % |
Diversified Telecommunication | | |
Services | 0.4 | % |
Air Freight & Logistics | 0.2 | % |
Chemicals | 0.1 | % |
Road & Rail | 0.1 | % |
Total Investments | 98.9 | % |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 33 |
HSBC TOTAL RETURN FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Futures Contracts
At April 30, 2013, cash of $890,000 was segregated to cover margin requirements for the following open contracts:
| | | | | | | | | | | Unrealized |
| | | | Expiration | | Number of | | Notional | | Appreciation/ |
Description | | | Type | | Date | | Contracts | | Value | | (Depreciation) |
10-Year U.S. Treasury Note June Future | | Short | | 6/19/13 | | 379 | | $ | 50,543,203 | | | $ | (360,553 | ) | |
| | | | | | | | $ | 50,543,203 | | | $ | (360,553 | ) | |
Interest Rate Swap Agreements
At April 30, 2013, $1,370,000 of cash was segregated for forward foreign currency exchange contracts and swap agreements. At April 30, 2013, the Fund’s open interest rate swap agreements were as follows:
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unrealized |
Pay/Receive | | | | Fixed | | | | | | Notional | | Notional | | | | | Appreciation/ |
Floating | | | | Rate | | Expiration | | | | Amount | | Amount | | Value | | (Depreciation) |
Rate | | Floating Rate Index | | (%) | | Date | | Counterparty | | (Local) | | ($) | | ($) | | ($) |
| | 3-Month | | | | | | | Standard | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Pay | | LIBOR BBA | | 1.96 | % | | 5/17/22 | | Charter Bank | | 1,200,000 | USD | | 1,200,000 | | (37,347 | ) | | | (37,347 | ) | |
| | 3-Month | | | | | | | Barclays | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Pay | | LIBOR BBA | | 1.77 | % | | 8/10/22 | | Capital Group | | 13,000,000 | USD | | 13,000,000 | | (79,826 | ) | | | (79,826 | ) | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (117,173 | ) | | | (117,173 | ) | |
Credit Default Swap Agreements - Sell Protection(a)
At April 30, 2013, the Fund’s open credit default swap agreements were as follows:
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Upfront | | | | |
| | | | | Implied Credit | | | | | | | | | Premiums | | Unrealized |
| | | | | Spread at | | Notional | | Fixed | | | | | Paid/ | | Appreciation/ |
| | | Expiration | | April 30, 2013 | | Amount | | Rate | | Value | | (Received) | | (Depreciation) |
Underlying Instrument | | Counterparty | | Date | | (%) (b) | | ($)(c) | | (%) | | ($) | | ($) | | ($) |
| JPMorgan | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Republic of China | Chase Bank N.A. | | 06/20/18 | | 0.73 | | 5,500,000 | | 1.00 | | 84,906 | | | 71,224 | | | | 13,682 | |
Republic of Brazil | Barclays Bank PLC | | 06/20/18 | | 1.10 | | 2,500,000 | | 1.00 | | (8,273 | ) | | (39,915 | ) | | | 31,642 | |
| JPMorgan | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Republic of Brazil | Chase Bank N.A. | | 06/20/18 | | 1.07 | | 2,500,000 | | 1.00 | | (8,203 | ) | | (46,715 | ) | | | 38,512 | |
| JPMorgan | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
People’s Republic of China | Chase Bank N.A. | | 06/20/18 | | 0.73 | | 6,000,000 | | 1.00 | | 92,624 | | | 83,678 | | | | 8,946 | |
| JPMorgan | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Republic of Peru | Chase Bank N.A. | | 06/20/17 | | 0.73 | | 100,000 | | 1.00 | | 1,627 | | | (3,224 | ) | | | 4,851 | |
Republic of Turkey | Barclays Bank PLC | | 12/20/17 | | 1.48 | | 3,500,000 | | 1.00 | | (66,773 | ) | | (88,148 | ) | | | 21,375 | |
| JPMorgan | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Republic of South Africa | Chase Bank N.A. | | 12/20/17 | | 1.48 | | 3,500,000 | | 1.00 | | (66,773 | ) | | (99,898 | ) | | | 33,125 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | 29,135 | | | (122,998 | ) | | | 152,133 | |
34 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC TOTAL RETURN FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Credit Default Swap Agreements - Buy Protection(a)
At April 30, 2013, the Fund’s open credit default swap agreements were as follows:
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Upfront | | | | |
| | | | | Implied Credit | | | | | | | | | Premiums | | Unrealized |
| | | | | Spread at | | Notional | | Fixed | | | | | Paid/ | | Appreciation/ |
| | | Expiration | | January 31, | | Amount | | Rate | | Value | | (Received) | | (Depreciation) |
Underlying Instrument | | Counterparty | | Date | | 2013 (%) (b) | | ($)(c) | | (%) | | ($) | | ($) | | ($) |
| JPMorgan Chase | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Republic of Korea | Bank N.A. | | 06/20/18 | | 0.73 | | 5,500,000 | | 1.00 | | (84,686 | ) | | (65,689 | ) | | | (18,997 | ) |
| JPMorgan Chase | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Republic of Korea | Bank N.A. | | 06/20/18 | | 0.73 | | 7,000,000 | | 1.00 | | (107,782 | ) | | (45,513 | ) | | | (62,269 | ) |
| JPMorgan Chase | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Republic of Korea | Bank N.A. | | 06/20/18 | | 0.73 | | 7,000,000 | | 1.00 | | (107,782 | ) | | (59,599 | ) | | | (48,183 | ) |
| JPMorgan Chase | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Republic of Korea | Bank N.A. | | 06/20/18 | | 0.73 | | 6,000,000 | | 1.00 | | (92,385 | ) | | (77,634 | ) | | | (14,751 | ) |
| JPMorgan Chase | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Republic of Korea | Bank N.A. | | 09/20/17 | | 0.66 | | 5,000,000 | | 1.00 | | (93,191 | ) | | 12,067 | | | | (105,258 | ) |
| JPMorgan Chase | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Republic of Korea | Bank N.A. | | 06/20/17 | | 0.61 | | 100,000 | | 1.00 | | (1,864 | ) | | 1,211 | | | | (3,075 | ) |
| JPMorgan Chase | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Republic of the Philippines | Bank N.A. | | 09/20/17 | | 0.74 | | 1,700,000 | | 1.00 | | (21,854 | ) | | 38,756 | | | | (60,610 | ) |
Republic of Turkey | Barclays Bank PLC | | 12/20/17 | | 1.10 | | 3,500,000 | | 1.00 | | 5,979 | | | 93,237 | | | | (87,258 | ) |
| JPMorgan Chase | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Republic of Turkey | Bank N.A. | | 12/20/17 | | 1.10 | | 3,500,000 | | 1.00 | | 5,979 | | | 89,748 | | | | (83,769 | ) |
State of Qatar | Barclays Bank PLC | | 09/20/17 | | 0.56 | | 6,250,000 | | 1.00 | | (130,114 | ) | | 74,259 | | | | (204,373 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | (627,700 | ) | | 60,843 | | | | (688,543 | ) |
(a) | | When a credit event occurs as defined under the terms of the swap agreement, the Fund as a seller of credit protection will either (i) pay to the buyer of protection an amount equal to the par value of the defaulted reference entity and take delivery of the reference entity or (ii) pay a net amount equal to the par value of the defaulted reference entity less its recovery value. Alternatively, the Fund as a buyer of credit protection will either (i) receive from the seller of protection an amount equal to the par value of the defaulted reference entity and deliver the reference entity to the seller or (ii) receive a net amount equal to the par value of the defaulted reference entity less its recovery value. |
(b) | | Implied credit spread, represented in absolute terms, utilized in determining the fair value of the credit default swap agreements as of period end serve as an indicator of the current status of the payment/performance risk and represent the likelihood or risk of default for the credit derivative. The implied credit spread of a referenced entity reflects the cost of buying/selling protection and may include upfront payments required to be made to enter into the agreement. Generally, wider credit spreads represent a perceived deterioration of the referenced entity’s credit soundness and a greater likelihood or risk of default or other credit event occurring as defined under the terms of the swap agreement. |
(c) | | The notional amount represents the maximum potential amount the Fund could be required to make as a seller of credit protection if a credit event occurs, as defined under the terms of the swap agreement. |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 35 |
HSBC TOTAL RETURN FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
At April 30, 2013, the Fund’s open forward foreign currency exchange contracts were as follows:
| | | | | | | | Contract | | | | | | Unrealized |
| | | | | | | | Amount | | Contract | | | | Appreciation/ |
| | | | Delivery | | (Local | | Value | | Value | | (Depreciation) |
Short Contracts | | | Counterparty | | Date | | Currency) | | ($) | | ($) | | ($) |
Brazilian Real | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 5/3/13 | | | 4,981,750 | | 2,500,000 | | 2,490,031 | | | 9,969 | | |
Brazilian Real | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 5/3/13 | | | 5,964,300 | | 2,947,153 | | 2,981,140 | | | (33,987 | ) | |
Brazilian Real | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 5/3/13 | | | 49,485,980 | | 24,721,976 | | 24,734,606 | | | (12,630 | ) | |
Brazilian Real | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 5/3/13 | | | 38,539,930 | | 19,289,254 | | 19,263,435 | | | 25,819 | | |
Brazilian Real | | Credit Suisse | | | 8/2/13 | | | 49,485,980 | | 24,306,685 | | 24,409,665 | | | (102,980 | ) | |
European Euro | | Credit Suisse | | | 7/15/13 | | | 18,145,065 | | 23,825,923 | | 23,905,933 | | | (80,010 | ) | |
Korean Won | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 5/22/13 | | | 11,169,725,000 | | 10,375,000 | | 10,142,222 | | | 232,778 | | |
Mexican Peso | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | | 5/23/13 | | | 170,000,000 | | 13,301,514 | | 13,976,344 | | | (674,830 | ) | |
Mexican Peso | | Barclays Bank PLC | | | 5/28/13 | | | 30,616,018 | | 2,500,000 | | 2,516,026 | | | (16,026 | ) | |
Mexican Peso | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 5/28/13 | | | 33,780,829 | | 2,700,000 | | 2,776,110 | | | (76,110 | ) | |
Mexican Peso | | Barclays Bank PLC | | | 5/28/13 | | | 87,475,550 | | 7,100,000 | | 7,188,746 | | | (88,746 | ) | |
Mexican Peso | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 5/28/13 | | | 250,227,325 | | 19,420,952 | | 20,563,696 | | | (1,142,744 | ) | |
Mexican Peso | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 6/20/13 | | | 177,760,522 | | 14,307,833 | | 14,581,249 | | | (273,416 | ) | |
Russian Ruble | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | | 7/29/13 | | | 143,690,500 | | 4,450,000 | | 4,547,441 | | | (97,441 | ) | |
Russian Ruble | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 7/29/13 | | | 295,722,350 | | 9,377,740 | | 9,358,865 | | | 18,875 | | |
South African Rand | | Barclays Bank PLC | | | 5/28/13 | | | 38,629,443 | | 4,181,309 | | 4,293,148 | | | (111,839 | ) | |
Turkish Lira | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 5/15/13 | | | 25,000,000 | | 13,805,290 | | 13,924,899 | | | (119,609 | ) | |
Turkish Lira | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 5/15/13 | | | 30,000,000 | | 16,800,134 | | 16,709,879 | | | 90,255 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | 215,910,763 | | 218,363,435 | | | (2,452,672 | ) | |
| |
| | | | | | | | Contract | | | | | | Unrealized |
| | | | | | | | Amount | | Contract | | | | Appreciation/ |
| | | | Delivery | | (Local | | Value | | Value | | (Depreciation) |
Long Contracts | | | Counterparty | | Date | | Currency) | | ($) | | ($) | | ($) |
Brazilian Real | | Credit Suisse | | | 5/3/13 | | | 49,485,980 | | 24,601,531 | | 24,734,606 | | | 133,075 | | |
Brazilian Real | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 5/3/13 | | | 49,485,980 | | 24,721,976 | | 24,734,606 | | | 12,630 | | |
Chinese Yuan | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | | 6/19/13 | | | 31,410,000 | | 5,000,000 | | 5,082,636 | | | 82,636 | | |
Chinese Yuan | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 6/19/13 | | | 118,057,470 | | 18,764,598 | | 19,103,570 | | | 338,972 | | |
Korean Won | | Barclays Bank PLC | | | 5/22/13 | | | 11,221,560,000 | | 10,220,000 | | 10,189,289 | | | (30,711 | ) | |
Russian Ruble | | Barclays Bank PLC | | | 7/29/13 | | | 96,435,000 | | 3,000,000 | | 3,051,924 | | | 51,924 | | |
Russian Ruble | | JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. | | | 7/29/13 | | | 346,977,000 | | 10,800,000 | | 10,980,945 | | | 180,945 | | |
Turkish Lira | | Standard Chartered Bank | | | 7/29/13 | | | 1,665,510 | | 900,787 | | 920,715 | | | 19,928 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | 98,008,892 | | 98,798,291 | | | 789,399 | | |
36 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC RMB FIXED INCOME FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Foreign Bonds – 84.1%† | | | | |
| | | | |
| | Principal | | |
| | Amount ($) | | Value ($) |
Australia – 2.5% | | | | |
Australia & New Zealand Banking | | | | |
Group Ltd., Series E, 2.90%, | | | | |
8/14/15, MTN (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 329,405 |
Brazil – 2.5% | | | | |
Banco BTG Pactual SA, Series G, | | | | |
4.10%, 3/26/16, MTN (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 324,203 |
China – 30.1% | | | | |
Baosteel Group Corp. Ltd., Registered, | | | | |
4.15%, 3/1/17 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 336,698 |
Beijing Enterprises Water Group Ltd., | | | | |
3.75%, 6/30/14 (a) | | 3,000,000 | | 488,891 |
Big Will Investments Ltd., Registered, | | | | |
7.00%, 4/29/14 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 331,342 |
Bitronic Ltd., 4.00%, 12/12/15 (a) | | 3,000,000 | | 492,920 |
China Guangdong Nuclear Power | | | | |
Holding Co. Ltd., Registered, | | | | |
3.75%, 11/1/15 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 329,485 |
China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd., | | | | |
6.50%, 7/22/14 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 331,969 |
Huaneng Power International, Inc., | | | | |
3.85%, 2/5/16 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 328,665 |
Intime Department Store (Group) Co. | | | | |
Ltd., Registered, 4.65%, 7/21/14 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 324,973 |
New World China Land Ltd., | | | | |
8.50%, 4/11/15 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 349,433 |
Right Century Ltd., | | | | |
1.85%, 6/3/14 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 319,313 |
The Export-Import Bank of China, | | | | |
2.70%, 4/7/14 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 324,681 |
| | | | 3,958,370 |
France – 3.8% | | | | |
Veolia Environnement SA, Series E, | | | | |
4.50%, 6/28/17, MTN (a) | | 3,000,000 | | 502,774 |
Germany – 1.3% | | | | |
BSH Bosch und Siemens | | | | |
Hausgerate GmbH, Registered, | | | | |
3.80%, 7/24/17 (a) | | 1,000,000 | | 167,740 |
Hong Kong – 31.3% | | | | |
BECL Investment Holding Ltd., | | | | |
4.75%, 2/21/14 (a) | | 3,000,000 | | 489,078 |
China Construction Bank Corp., | | | | |
2.75%, 3/11/14 | | 2,000,000 | | 324,135 |
China Resources Power Holdings Co. | | | | |
Ltd., Series A, 2.90%, 11/12/13 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 324,526 |
Dorsett Hospitality International Ltd., | | | | |
Series E, 6.00%, 4/3/18, MTN (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 323,334 |
Eastern Air Overseas (Hong Kong) | | | | |
Corp. Ltd., 4.00%, 8/8/14 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 325,463 |
Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd., | | | | |
4.63%, 12/16/13 (a) | | 3,000,000 | | 489,294 |
| | | | |
| | Shares or | | |
| | Principal | | |
| | Amount ($) | | |
Gemdale International Holdings Ltd., | | | | |
9.15%, 7/26/15 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 353,469 |
Lafarge Shui On Cement Ltd., | | | | |
Registered, 9.00%, 11/14/14 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 349,041 |
Noble Group Ltd., Series E, 4.00%, | | | | |
1/30/16, MTN | | 1,000,000 | | 163,971 |
Rainbow Days Ltd., Registered, | | | | |
3.00%, 6/30/16 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 321,678 |
Silvery Castle Ltd., 2.75%, 7/14/14 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 321,852 |
Singamas Container Holdings Ltd., | | | | |
Registered, 4.75%, 4/14/14 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 323,453 |
| | | | 4,109,294 |
Japan – 2.6% | | | | |
Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Series E, | | | | |
4.25%, 3/1/17, MTN (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 338,100 |
Singapore – 2.5% | | | | |
Global Logistic Properites Ltd., | | | | |
Registered, 3.38%, 5/11/16 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 326,898 |
South Korea – 2.5% | | | | |
The Korea Development Bank, Series E, | | | | |
2.75%, 11/14/13, MTN (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 324,668 |
United States – 5.0% | | | | |
Caterpillar Financial Services Corp., | | | | |
Registered, 3.35%, 11/26/14 | | 2,000,000 | | 328,382 |
Yum! Brands, Inc., Registered, | | | | |
2.38%, 9/29/14 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 323,565 |
| | | | 651,947 |
TOTAL FOREIGN BONDS | | | | |
(COST $10,561,021) | | | | 11,033,399 |
|
Certificates of Deposit – 12.2% | | | | |
| | | | |
China – 2.5% | | | | |
China Development Bank Corp., | | | | |
2.90%, 6/25/14 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 325,371 |
Hong Kong – 3.7% | | | | |
ICBC Asia Ltd., 1.05%, 5/13/13 (a) | | 3,000,000 | | 486,592 |
Japan – 2.4% | | | | |
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., | | | | |
1.10%, 4/22/14 (a) | | 2,000,000 | | 317,936 |
Singapore – 3.6% | | | | |
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd., | | | | |
1.10%, 3/28/14 (a) | | 3,000,000 | | 476,013 |
TOTAL CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT | | | | |
(COST $1,554,378 ) | | | | 1,605,912 |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 37 |
HSBC RMB FIXED INCOME FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Investment Company – 2.3% | | | |
|
| Shares or | | |
| Principal | | |
| Amount ($) | | Value ($) |
Northern Institutional Diversified | | | |
Assets Portfolio, Institutional | | | |
Shares, 0.01% (b) | 307,512 | | 307,512 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT COMPANY | | | |
(COST $307,512) | | | 307,512 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT SECURITIES | | | |
(COST $12,422,911) — 98.6% | | | 12,946,823 |
____________________
Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $13,124,609. |
† | | The principal amount is disclosed in local currency and the value is disclosed in U.S. Dollars. |
(a) | | Variable rate security. The interest rates on these securities are adjusted periodically to reflect then-current short-term interest rates. The rates presented represent the rates in effect on April 30, 2013. The maturity dates presented reflect the final maturity dates. However, some of these securities may contain put or demand features that allow the Fund to require the issuer to repurchase the security from the fund within various time periods, including daily, weekly, monthly, or semi-annually. |
(b) | | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
MTN — Medium Term Note |
The Fund invested, as a percentage of net assets at value, in the following industries, as of April 30, 2013:
Industry | Percentage of Net Assets |
Commercial Banks | 24.5 | % |
Real Estate Management & | | |
Development | 11.5 | % |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure | 8.6 | % |
Water Utilities | 7.6 | % |
Diversified Financial Services | 7.5 | % |
Electric Utilities | 7.5 | % |
Construction Materials | 5.2 | % |
Diversified Telecommunication Services | 3.8 | % |
Industrial Conglomerates | 3.7 | % |
Energy Equipment & Services | 2.6 | % |
Metals & Mining | 2.6 | % |
Airlines | 2.5 | % |
Diversified Consumer Services | 2.5 | % |
Multiline Retail | 2.5 | % |
Food Products | 2.4 | % |
Investment Companies | 2.3 | % |
Household Durables | 1.3 | % |
Total Investments | 98.6 | % |
38 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Assets and Liabilities – as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
| | Emerging | | Emerging | | Frontier | | Total | | RMB Fixed |
| | Markets | | Markets Local | | Markets | | Return | | Income |
| | Debt Fund | | Debt Fund | | Fund | | Fund | | Fund |
Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment securities, at value | | | $ | 41,396,450 | | | | $ | 34,204,813 | | | | $ | 25,446,250 | | | | $ | 510,642,319 | | | | $ | 12,946,823 | |
Segregated cash for collateral | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | 2,260,000 | | | | | — | |
Foreign currency, at value | | | | 14,494 | | | | | 356,930 | | | | | 300,496 | | | | | 70,223 | | | | | 44,053 | |
Unrealized appreciation on forward foreign currency | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
exchange contracts | | | | — | | | | | 326,570 | | | | | — | | | | | 1,197,806 | | | | | — | |
Unrealized appreciation on swap agreements | | | | 44,489 | | | | | 204,969 | | | | | — | | | | | 152,133 | | | | | — | |
Interest and dividends receivable | | | | 475,228 | | | | | 336,174 | | | | | 81,397 | | | | | 3,498,090 | | | | | 127,156 | |
Premiums paid on swap agreements | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | 464,180 | | | | | — | |
Receivable for capital shares issued | | | | 195,789 | | | | | 34,649 | | | | | 550,799 | | | | | 3,306,402 | | | | | — | |
Receivable for investments sold | | | | 111,465 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | 77,634 | | | | | — | |
Reclaims receivable | | | | — | | | | | 52,403 | | | | | 854 | | | | | — | | | | | 120 | |
Receivable from Investment Adviser | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | 1,180 | |
Net receivable for variation margin on futures contracts | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | 35,531 | | | | | — | |
Prepaid expenses and other assets | | | | 20,727 | | | | | 19,659 | | | | | 14,972 | | | | | 167,626 | | | | | 60,902 | |
Total Assets | | | | 42,258,642 | | | | | 35,536,167 | | | | | 26,394,768 | | | | | 521,871,944 | | | | | 13,180,234 | |
Liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Cash overdraft | | | | — | | | | | 280,000 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | |
Dividends payable | | | | 152,312 | | | | | 33,693 | | | | | — | | | | | 250,161 | | | | | 37,123 | |
Unrealized depreciation on forward foreign currency | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
exchange contracts | | | | — | | | | | 162,799 | | | | | — | | | | | 2,861,079 | | | | | — | |
Unrealized depreciation on swap agreements | | | | — | | | | | 31,568 | | | | | — | | | | | 805,716 | | | | | — | |
Payable for investments purchased | | | | 230,398 | | | | | 107,600 | | | | | 812,063 | | | | | 83,678 | | | | | — | |
Premiums received on swap agreements | | | | 19,534 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | 526,335 | | | | | — | |
Payable for capital shares redeemed | | | | 15,365 | | | | | 755 | | | | | — | | | | | 328,928 | | | | | — | |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Management | | | | 11,581 | | | | | 4,671 | | | | | 14,638 | | | | | 389,023 | | | | | — | |
Administration | | | | 1,672 | | | | | 1,390 | | | | | 943 | | | | | 20,227 | | | | | 525 | |
Shareholder Servicing | | | | 229 | | | | | 494 | | | | | 1,847 | | | | | 259 | | | | | 608 | |
Compliance Service | | | | 3 | | | | | 14 | | | | | 77 | | | | | 493 | | | | | 18 | |
Accounting | | | | 1,877 | | | | | 1,644 | | | | | 258 | | | | | 4,925 | | | | | 3,235 | |
Custodian | | | | 6,373 | | | | | 19,641 | | | | | 14,666 | | | | | 11,488 | | | | | 13,657 | |
Transfer Agent | | | | 3,604 | | | | | 4,535 | | | | | 2,303 | | | | | 14,709 | | | | | 412 | |
Trustee | | | | 144 | | | | | 116 | | | | | 65 | | | | | 3,863 | | | | | 47 | |
Other | | | | 9,899 | | | | | 5,695 | | | | | 8,814 | | | | | — | | | | | — | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 452,991 | | | | | 654,615 | | | | | 855,674 | | | | | 5,300,884 | | | | | 55,625 | |
Net Assets | | | $ | 41,805,651 | | | | $ | 34,881,552 | | | | $ | 25,539,094 | | | | $ | 516,571,060 | | | | $ | 13,124,609 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 39 |
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Statements of Assets and Liabilities – as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued)
| Emerging | | Emerging | | Frontier | | Total | | RMB Fixed |
| Markets | | Markets Local | | Markets | | Return | | Income |
| Debt Fund | | Debt Fund | | Fund | | Fund | | Fund |
Composition of Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Capital | | | 37,596,768 | | | | | 33,607,441 | | | | | 21,378,282 | | | | | 514,948,842 | | | | | 12,552,523 | |
Accumulated net investment income (loss) | | | (19,232 | ) | | | | 46,038 | | | | | 235,459 | | | | | 186,425 | | | | | 7,875 | |
Accumulated net realized gains (losses) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
from investments | | | 573,585 | | | | | 271,378 | | | | | (126,265 | ) | | | | 936,149 | | | | | 39,304 | |
Unrealized appreciation/depreciation on investments | | | 3,654,530 | | | | | 956,695 | | | | | 4,051,618 | | | | | 499,644 | | | | | 524,907 | |
Net Assets | | $ | 41,805,651 | | | | $ | 34,881,552 | | | | $ | 25,539,094 | | | | $ | 516,571,060 | | | | $ | 13,124,609 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | $ | 508,098 | | | | $ | 1,643,449 | | | | $ | 4,914,540 | | | | $ | 231,416 | | | | $ | 2,418,774 | |
Class I Shares | | | 41,170,060 | | | | | 33,131,624 | | | | | 20,624,554 | | | | | 516,338,643 | | | | | 10,598,417 | |
Class S Shares | | | 127,493 | | | | | 106,479 | | | | | — | | | | | 1,001 | | | | | 107,418 | |
| | $ | 41,805,651 | | | | $ | 34,881,552 | | | | $ | 25,539,094 | | | | $ | 516,571,060 | | | | $ | 13,124,609 | |
Shares Outstanding | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
($0.001 par value, unlimited number of | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
shares authorized): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | 45,124 | | | | | 161,445 | | | | | 394,033 | | | | | 22,583 | | | | | 230,812 | |
Class I Shares | | | 3,647,704 | | | | | 3,250,629 | | | | | 1,645,917 | | | | | 50,309,004 | | | | | 1,010,521 | |
Class S Shares | | | 11,295 | | | | | 10,446 | | | | | — | | | | | 98 | | | | | 10,241 | |
Net Asset Value, Offering Price and Redemption Price | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
per share: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | $ | 11.26 | | | | $ | 10.18 | | | | $ | 12.47 | | | | $ | 10.25 | | | | $ | 10.48 | |
Class I Shares | | $ | 11.29 | | | | $ | 10.19 | | | | $ | 12.53 | | | | $ | 10.26 | | | | $ | 10.49 | |
Class S Shares | | $ | 11.29 | | | | $ | 10.19 | | | | $ | — | | | | $ | 10.26 | | | | $ | 10.49 | |
Maximum Sales Charge - Class A Shares | | | 4.75% | | | | | 4.75% | | | | | 5.00% | | | | | 4.75% | | | | | 4.75% | |
Maximum Offering Price per share (Net Asset Value/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(100%-maximum sales charge)) - Class A Shares | | $ | 11.82 | | | | $ | 10.69 | | | | $ | 13.13 | | | | $ | 10.76 | | | | $ | 11.00 | |
Total Investments, at cost | | $ | 37,787,275 | | | | $ | 33,583,551 | | | | $ | 21,393,289 | | | | $ | 507,472,430 | | | | $ | 12,422,911 | |
Foreign currency, at cost | | $ | 13,627 | | | | $ | 357,214 | | | | $ | 301,894 | | | | $ | 69,552 | | | | $ | 43,912 | |
40 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
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Statements of Operations—For the six months ended April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
| | | | | | Emerging | | | | | | | | | | | | RMB |
| Emerging | | Markets | | Frontier | | Total | | Fixed |
| Markets | | Local Debt | | Markets | | Return | | Income |
| Debt Fund | | Fund | | Fund | | Fund | | Fund |
Investment Income: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Interest | | $ | 991,081 | | | | $ | 610,868 | | | | $ | 15,330 | | | | $ | 4,229,279 | | | | $ | 267,928 | |
Dividends | | | 80 | | | | | 628 | | | | | 510,404 | | | | | 9,901 | | | | | 16 | |
Foreign tax withholding | | | — | | | | | (24,343 | ) | | | | (23,297 | ) | | | | — | | | | | — | |
Total Investment Income | | | 991,161 | | | | | 587,153 | | | | | 502,437 | | | | | 4,239,180 | | | | | 267,944 | |
Expenses: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Management | | | 101,020 | | | | | 82,420 | | | | | 123,014 | | | | | 1,757,396 | | | | | 34,319 | |
Advisory Services: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Operational Support - Class A Shares | | | 465 | | | | | 1,847 | | | | | 1,909 | | | | | 262 | | | | | 2,129 | |
Operational Support - Class I Shares | | | 19,909 | | | | | 15,509 | | | | | 8,886 | | | | | 206,570 | | | | | 5,123 | |
Administration: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | 114 | | | | | 453 | | | | | 474 | | | | | 64 | | | | | 532 | |
Class I Shares | | | 9,787 | | | | | 7,625 | | | | | 4,365 | | | | | 101,315 | | | | | 2,566 | |
Class S Shares | | | 31 | | | | | 26 | | | | | — | | | | | 24 | | | | | 26 | |
Shareholder Servicing: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | 515 | | | | | 2,233 | | | | | 1,970 | | | | | 203 | | | | | 2,548 | |
Accounting | | | 28,363 | | | | | 25,416 | | | | | 25,583 | | | | | 31,715 | | | | | 19,408 | |
Audit | | | 9,290 | | | | | 9,290 | | | | | 9,262 | | | | | 9,434 | | | | | 9,402 | |
Compliance Service | | | 362 | | | | | 294 | | | | | 218 | | | | | 2,958 | | | | | 94 | |
Custodian | | | 11,831 | | | | | 33,930 | | | | | 37,418 | | | | | 43,980 | | | | | 4,733 | |
Printing | | | 2,129 | | | | | 2,003 | | | | | 480 | | | | | 29,863 | | | | | 470 | |
Transfer Agent | | | 16,474 | | | | | 16,233 | | | | | 12,507 | | | | | 88,251 | | | | | 13,212 | |
Trustee | | | 861 | | | | | 696 | | | | | 388 | | | | | 11,060 | | | | | 281 | |
Registration fees | | | 17,932 | | | | | 19,031 | | | | | 13,790 | | | | | 8,654 | | | | | 12,858 | |
Other | | | 3,536 | | | | | 2,852 | | | | | 1,550 | | | | | 37,486 | | | | | 1,256 | |
Total expenses before fee reductions | | | 222,619 | | | | | 219,858 | | | | | 241,814 | | | | | 2,329,235 | | | | | 108,957 | |
Fees contractually reduced/reimbursed by | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Adviser | | | (49,939 | ) | | | | (76,386 | ) | | | | (55,834 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (36,530 | ) |
Net Expenses | | | 172,680 | | | | | 143,472 | | | | | 185,980 | | | | | 2,329,235 | | | | | 72,427 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Investment Income (Loss) | | | 818,481 | | | | | 443,681 | | | | | 316,457 | | | | | 1,909,945 | | | | | 195,517 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Realized/Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investment securities and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
foreign currency transactions | | | 509,215 | | | | | (163,773 | ) | | | | 441,053 | | | | | 2,851,054 | | | | | 39,305 | |
Net realized gains (losses) from swap agreements | | | 28,331 | | | | | 10,579 | | | | | — | | | | | 77,916 | | | | | — | |
Net realized gains (losses) from futures transactions | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | 75,926 | | | | | — | |
Net realized gains (losses) from options transactions | | | — | | | | | (21,251 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (12,985 | ) | | | | — | |
Net realized gains (losses) from forward foreign currency | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
exchange contracts | | | (434 | ) | | | | 421,279 | | | | | (6,224 | ) | | | | (2,288,250 | ) | | | | — | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on investments | | | (119,743 | ) | | | | 881,402 | | | | | 2,589,123 | | | | | (2,465,243 | ) | | | | 266,307 | |
Net realized/unrealized gains from investments | | | 417,369 | | | | | 1,128,236 | | | | | 3,023,952 | | | | | (1,761,582 | ) | | | | 305,612 | |
Change In Net Assets Resulting From Operations | | $ | 1,235,850 | | | | $ | 1,571,917 | | | | $ | 3,340,409 | | | | $ | 148,363 | | | | $ | 501,129 | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 41 |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund |
| | For the six | | For the | | For the six | | For the |
| | months ended | | year ended | | months ended | | year ended |
| | April 30, | | October 31, | | April 30, | | October 31, |
| | 2013 | | 2012 | | 2013 | | 2012 |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | | | |
Investment Activities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Operations: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | | $ | 818,481 | | | | | $ | 1,753,907 | | | | | $ | 443,681 | | | | | $ | 696,005 | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | | 537,112 | | | | | | 990,534 | | | | | | 246,834 | | | | | | (19,291 | ) | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
on investments | | | | (119,743 | ) | | | | | 3,109,845 | | | | | | 881,402 | | | | | | 986,694 | | |
Change in net assets resulting from operations | | | | 1,235,850 | | | | | | 5,854,286 | | | | | | 1,571,917 | | | | | | 1,663,408 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Dividends: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | (10,854 | ) | | | | | (18,843 | ) | | | | | (13,948 | ) | | | | | (19,827 | ) | |
Class I Shares | | | | (980,117 | ) | | | | | (1,790,370 | ) | | | | | (283,911 | ) | | | | | (364,422 | ) | |
Class S Shares | | | | (3,123 | ) | | | | | (5,580 | ) | | | | | (990 | ) | | | | | (1,447 | ) | |
Net realized gains: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | (9,441 | ) | | | | | (82 | ) | | | | | (10,809 | ) | | | | | — | | |
Class I Shares | | | | (772,828 | ) | | | | | (7,859 | ) | | | | | (163,734 | ) | | | | | — | | |
Class S Shares | | | | (2,419 | ) | | | | | (24 | ) | | | | | (546 | ) | | | | | — | | |
Change in net assets resulting from shareholder dividends | | | | (1,778,782 | ) | | | | | (1,822,758 | ) | | | | | (473,938 | ) | | | | | (385,696 | ) | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | | 1,992,502 | | | | | | 1,607,083 | | | | | | 1,026,805 | | | | | | 5,488,843 | | |
Change in net assets | | | | 1,449,570 | | | | | | 5,638,611 | | | | | | 2,124,784 | | | | | | 6,766,555 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | | | 40,356,081 | | | | | | 34,717,470 | | | | | | 32,756,768 | | | | | | 25,990,213 | | |
End of period | | | $ | 41,805,651 | | | | | $ | 40,356,081 | | | | | $ | 34,881,552 | | | | | $ | 32,756,768 | | |
Accumulated net investment income (loss) | | | $ | (19,232 | ) | | | | $ | 156,381 | | | | | $ | 46,038 | | | | | $ | (98,794 | ) | |
42 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
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Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| | Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund |
| | For the six | | For the | | For the six | | For the |
| | months ended | | year ended | | months ended | | year ended |
| | April 30, | | October 31, | | April 30, | | October 31, |
| | 2013 | | 2012 | | 2013 | | 2012 |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | | | |
CAPITAL TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | $ | 240,940 | | | | | $ | 114,676 | | | | | $ | 65,381 | | | | | $ | 317,157 | | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 19,607 | | | | | | 18,862 | | | | | | 24,757 | | | | | | 19,823 | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (225,405 | ) | | | | | (53,069 | ) | | | | | (557,082 | ) | | | | | (165,752 | ) | |
Class A Shares capital transactions | | | | 35,142 | | | | | | 80,469 | | | | | | (466,944 | ) | | | | | 171,228 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | 1,722,405 | | | | | | 4,722,544 | | | | | | 1,577,249 | | | | | | 5,310,513 | | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 1,744,764 | | | | | | 1,789,564 | | | | | | 444,573 | | | | | | 363,845 | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (1,515,351 | ) | | | | | (4,991,098 | ) | | | | | (529,609 | ) | | | | | (358,190 | ) | |
Class I Shares capital transactions | | | | 1,951,818 | | | | | | 1,521,010 | | | | | | 1,492,213 | | | | | | 5,316,168 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class S Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | 39 | | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 5,542 | | | | | | 5,604 | | | | | | 1,536 | | | | | | 1,447 | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | (39 | ) | |
Class S Shares capital transactions | | | | 5,542 | | | | | | 5,604 | | | | | | 1,536 | | | | | | 1,447 | | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | $ | 1,992,502 | | | | | $ | 1,607,083 | | | | | $ | 1,026,805 | | | | | $ | 5,488,843 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
SHARE TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 21,361 | | | | | | 10,704 | | | | | | 6,498 | | | | | | 34,067 | | |
Reinvested | | | | 1,732 | | | | | | 1,763 | | | | | | 2,489 | | | | | | 2,080 | | |
Redeemed | | | | (20,153 | ) | | | | | (4,945 | ) | | | | | (55,770 | ) | | | | | (17,278 | ) | |
Change in Class A Shares | | | | 2,940 | | | | | | 7,522 | | | | | | (46,783 | ) | | | | | 18,869 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 152,376 | | | | | | 439,010 | | | | | | 158,930 | | | | | | 577,774 | | |
Reinvested | | | | 153,948 | | | | | | 167,373 | | | | | | 44,637 | | | | | | 38,045 | | |
Redeemed | | | | (133,154 | ) | | | | | (475,609 | ) | | | | | (53,055 | ) | | | | | (37,005 | ) | |
Change in Class I Shares | | | | 173,170 | | | | | | 130,774 | | | | | | 150,512 | | | | | | 578,814 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class S Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | 4 | | |
Reinvested | | | | 489 | | | | | | 524 | | | | | | 154 | | | | | | 151 | | |
Redeemed | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | (4 | ) | |
Change in Class S Shares | | | | 489 | | | | | | 524 | | | | | | 154 | | | | | | 151 | | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 43 |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| | Frontier Markets Fund | | Total Return Fund |
| | For the six | | For the | | For the six | | For the |
| | months ended | | year ended | | months ended | | period ended |
| | April 30, | | October 31, | | April 30, | | October 31, |
| | 2013 | | 2012 | | 2013 | | 2012(a) |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | | | |
Investment Activities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Operations: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | | $ | 316,457 | | | | | $ | 430,206 | | | | | $ | 1,909,945 | | | | | $ | 897,423 | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | | 434,829 | | | | | | (304,677 | ) | | | | | 703,661 | | | | | | 1,650,456 | | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on investments | | | | 2,589,123 | | | | | | 1,859,842 | | | | | | (2,465,243 | ) | | | | | 2,964,887 | | |
Change in net assets resulting from operations | | | | 3,340,409 | | | | | | 1,985,371 | | | | | | 148,363 | | | | | | 5,512,766 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Dividends: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | (55,553 | ) | | | | | (102 | ) | | | | | (892 | ) | | | | | (872 | ) | |
Class I Shares | | | | (594,074 | ) | | | | | (28,979 | ) | | | | | (1,931,158 | ) | | | | | (1,117,289 | ) | |
Class S Shares | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | (477 | ) | | | | | (566 | ) | |
Net realized gains: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | (687 | ) | | | | | — | | |
Class I Shares | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | (994,712 | ) | | | | | — | | |
Class S Shares | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | (272 | ) | | | | | — | | |
Change in net assets resulting from shareholder dividends | | | | (649,627 | ) | | | | | (29,081 | ) | | | | | (2,928,198 | ) | | | | | (1,118,727 | ) | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | | 5,063,767 | | | | | | 1,324,387 | | | | | | 170,547,976 | | | | | | 344,408,880 | | |
Change in net assets | | | | 7,754,549 | | | | | | 3,280,677 | | | | | | 167,768,141 | | | | | | 348,802,919 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | | | 17,784,545 | | | | | | 14,503,868 | | | | | | 348,802,919 | | | | | | — | | |
End of period | | | $ | 25,539,094 | | | | | $ | 17,784,545 | | | | | $ | 516,571,060 | | | | | $ | 348,802,919 | | |
Accumulated net investment income (loss) | | | $ | 235,459 | | | | | $ | 568,629 | | | | | $ | 186,425 | | | | | $ | 209,007 | | |
____________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(a) Commenced operations on March 30, 2012. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
44 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| | Frontier Markets Fund | | Total Return Fund |
| | For the six | | For the | | For the six | | For the |
| | months ended | | year ended | | months ended | | period ended |
| | April 30, | | October 31, | | April 30, | | October 31, |
| | 2013 | | 2012 | | 2013 | | 2012(a) |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | | | |
CAPITAL TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | $ | 4,532,426 | | | | | $ | 1,295,654 | | | | | $ | 78,699 | | | | | $ | 251,147 | | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 54,520 | | | | | | 102 | | | | | | 1,463 | | | | | | 858 | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (1,333,244 | ) | | | | | (348 | ) | | | | | (103,440 | ) | | | | | — | | |
Class A Shares capital transactions | | | | 3,253,702 | | | | | | 1,295,408 | | | | | | (23,278 | ) | | | | | 252,005 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | 1,215,991 | | | | | | — | | | | | | 297,499,409 | | | | | | 355,170,152 | | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 594,074 | | | | | | 28,979 | | | | | | 121,473 | | | | | | 53,217 | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | (126,947,464 | ) | | | | | (11,167,060 | ) | |
Class I Shares capital transactions | | | | 1,810,065 | | | | | | 28,979 | | | | | | 170,673,418 | | | | | | 344,056,309 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class S Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | 1,000 | | | | | | 100,000 | | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | 750 | | | | | | 566 | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | (103,914 | ) | | | | | — | | |
Class S Shares capital transactions | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | (102,164 | ) | | | | | 100,566 | | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | $ | 5,063,767 | | | | | $ | 1,324,387 | | | | | $ | 170,547,976 | | | | | $ | 344,408,880 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
SHARE TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 375,688 | | | | | | 118,945 | | | | | | 7,682 | | | | | | 24,776 | | |
Reinvested | | | | 5,020 | | | | | | 11 | | | | | | 142 | | | | | | 84 | | |
Redeemed | | | | (115,596 | ) | | | | | (35 | ) | | | | | (10,101 | ) | | | | | — | | |
Change in Class A Shares | | | | 265,112 | | | | | | 118,921 | | | | | | (2,277 | ) | | | | | 24,860 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 98,265 | | | | | | — | | | | | | 28,959,326 | | | | | | 34,798,480 | | |
Reinvested | | | | 54,502 | | | | | | 3,150 | | | | | | 11,799 | | | | | | 5,198 | | |
Redeemed | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | (12,379,290 | ) | | | | | (1,086,509 | ) | |
Change in Class I Shares | | | | 152,767 | | | | | | 3,150 | | | | | | 16,591,835 | | | | | | 33,717,169 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class S Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | 98 | | | | | | 10,000 | | |
Reinvested | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | 73 | | | | | | 55 | | |
Redeemed | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | (10,128 | ) | | | | | — | | |
Change in Class S Shares | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | (9,957 | ) | | | | | 10,055 | | |
____________________ | |
(a) Commenced operations on March 30, 2012. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 45 |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| | RMB Fixed Income Fund |
| | For the six | | For the |
| | months ended | | period ended |
| | April 30, | | October 31, |
| | 2013 | | 2012(b) |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | | |
Investment Activities: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Operations: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | | $ | 195,517 | | | | | $ | 104,312 | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | | 39,305 | | | | | | 9,607 | | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on investments | | | | 266,307 | | | | | | 258,600 | | |
Change in net assets resulting from operations | | | | 501,129 | | | | | | 372,519 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Dividends: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | (33,986 | ) | | | | | (9,438 | ) | |
Class I Shares | | | | (178,391 | ) | | | | | (87,437 | ) | |
Class S Shares | | | | (1,871 | ) | | | | | (926 | ) | |
Net realized gains: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | (1 | ) | | | | | — | | |
Class I Shares | | | | (6 | ) | | | | | — | | |
Change in net assets resulting from shareholder dividends | | | | (214,255 | ) | | | | | (97,801 | ) | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | | 1,070,368 | | | | | | 11,492,649 | | |
Change in net assets | | | | 1,357,242 | | | | | | 11,767,367 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | | | 11,767,367 | | | | | | — | | |
End of period | | | $ | 13,124,609 | | | | | $ | 11,767,367 | | |
Accumulated net investment income (loss) | | | $ | 7,875 | | | | | $ | 26,606 | | |
____________________ | |
(b) Commenced operations on June 8, 2012. | | | | | | | | | | | | |
46 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| | RMB Fixed Income Fund |
| | For the six | | For the |
| | months ended | | period ended |
| | April 30, | | October 31, |
| | 2013 | | 2012(b) |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | |
CAPITAL TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | $ | 818,207 | | | | $ | 1,496,245 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 22,807 | | | | | 8,041 | |
Class A Shares capital transactions | | | | 841,014 | | | | | 1,504,286 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares: | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | 80,000 | | | | | 9,800,000 | |
�� Dividends reinvested | | | | 147,803 | | | | | 87,437 | |
Class I Shares capital transactions | | | | 227,803 | | | | | 9,887,437 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Class S Shares: | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | — | | | | | 100,000 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 1,551 | | | | | 926 | |
Class S Shares capital transactions | | | | 1,551 | | | | | 100,926 | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | $ | 1,070,368 | | | | $ | 11,492,649 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
SHARE TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 79,224 | | | | | 148,592 | |
Reinvested | | | | 2,204 | | | | | 792 | |
Change in Class A Shares | | | | 81,428 | | | | | 149,384 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares: | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 7,625 | | | | | 980,000 | |
Reinvested | | | | 14,277 | | | | | 8,619 | |
Change in Class I Shares | | | | 21,902 | | | | | 985,619 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Class S Shares: | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | — | | | | | 10,000 | |
Reinvested | | | | 150 | | | | | 91 | |
Change in Class S Shares | | | | 150 | | | | | 10,091 | |
____________________ |
(b) Commenced operations on June 8, 2012. | | | | | | | | | | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 47 |
HSBC EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND |
Financial Highlights
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.
| | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | | Net Investment Income (Loss) | | Net Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments | | Total from Investment Activities | | Net Investment Income | | Net Realized Gains from Investment Transactions | | Total Dividends | | Net Asset Value, End of Period | | Total Return(a) | | Net Assets at End of Period (000’s) | | Ratio of Net Expenses to Average Net Assets(b) | | Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets(b) | | Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Fee Reductions)(b) | | Portfolio Turnover (a)(c) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2011(d) | | | | $ | 10.00 | | | | | 0.25 | | | | 0.25 | | | | 0.50 | | | | (0.27 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.27 | ) | | | | $ | 10.23 | | | | 5.02 | % | | | | $355 | | | | 1.20 | % | | | | 4.81 | % | | | | 1.38 | % | | | | 10 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | $ | 10.23 | | | | | 0.47 | | | | 1.21 | | | | 1.68 | | | | (0.49 | ) | | | | — | (e) | | | | (0.49 | ) | | | | $ | 11.42 | | | | 16.90 | % | | | | $482 | | | | 1.20 | % | | | | 4.32 | % | | | | 1.55 | % | | | | 54 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | $ | 11.42 | | | | | 0.21 | | | | 0.11 | | | | 0.32 | | | | (0.26 | ) | | | | (0.22 | ) | | | | (0.48 | ) | | | | $ | 11.26 | | | | 2.85 | % | | | | $508 | | | | 1.20 | % | | | | 3.71 | % | | | | 1.42 | % | | | | 24 | % | |
CLASS I SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2011(d) | | | | $ | 10.00 | | | | | 0.29 | | | | 0.24 | | | | 0.53 | | | | (0.28 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.28 | ) | | | | $ | 10.25 | | | | 5.34 | % | | | | $34,257 | | | | 0.85 | % | | | | 5.07 | % | | | | 1.12 | % | | | | 10 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | $ | 10.25 | | | | | 0.51 | | | | 1.20 | | | | 1.71 | | | | (0.52 | ) | | | | — | (e) | | | | (0.52 | ) | | | | $ | 11.44 | | | | 17.19 | % | | | | $39,751 | | | | 0.85 | % | | | | 4.68 | % | | | | 1.28 | % | | | | 54 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | $ | 11.44 | | | | | 0.23 | | | | 0.12 | | | | 0.35 | | | | (0.28 | ) | | | | (0.22 | ) | | | | (0.50 | ) | | | | $ | 11.29 | | | | 3.10 | % | | | | $41,170 | | | | 0.85 | % | | | | 4.05 | % | | | | 1.10 | % | | | | 24 | % | |
CLASS S SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2011(d) | | | | $ | 10.00 | | | | | 0.30 | | | | 0.23 | | | | 0.53 | | | | (0.28 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.28 | ) | | | | $ | 10.25 | | | | 5.39 | % | | | | $105 | | | | 0.75 | % | | | | 5.14 | % | | | | 1.02 | % | | | | 10 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | $ | 10.25 | | | | | 0.52 | | | | 1.20 | | | | 1.72 | | | | (0.53 | ) | | | | — | (e) | | | | (0.53 | ) | | | | $ | 11.44 | | | | 17.30 | % | | | | $124 | | | | 0.75 | % | | | | 4.78 | % | | | | 1.18 | % | | | | 54 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | $ | 11.44 | | | | | 0.24 | | | | 0.11 | | | | 0.35 | | | | (0.28 | ) | | | | (0.22 | ) | | | | (0.50 | ) | | | | $ | 11.29 | | | | 3.15 | % | | | | $127 | | | | 0.75 | % | | | | 4.15 | % | | | | 1.00 | % | | | | 24 | % | |
(a) | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any sales or redemption charges. |
(b) | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(c) | Portfolio turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Fund as a whole without the distinguishing between the classes of shares issued. |
(d) | Commenced operations on April 7, 2011. |
(e) | Represents less than $0.005 or $(0.005). |
48 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC EMERGING MARKETS LOCAL DEBT FUND |
Financial Highlights
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.
| | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | | Net Investment Income (Loss) | | Net Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments and Foreign Currencies | | Total from Investment Activities | | Net Investment Income | | Net Realized Gains from Investment Transactions | | Return of Capital | | Total Dividends | | Net Asset Value, End of Period | | Total Return (a) | | Net Assets at End of Period (000’s) | | Ratio of Net Expenses to Average Net Assets(b) | | Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets(b) | | Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Fee Reductions) (b) | | Portfolio Turnover (a)(c) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2011(d) | | | | $10.00 | | | | | 0.12 | | | | (0.46 | ) | | | (0.34 | ) | | | | (0.09 | ) | | | | | — | | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | | (0.12 | ) | | | | $9.54 | | | | (3.43 | )% | | | | $1,807 | | | | 1.20 | % | | | | 2.29 | % | | | | 1.66 | % | | | | 66 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | $9.54 | | | | | 0.21 | | | | 0.21 | | | | 0.42 | | | | | (0.10 | ) | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | (0.10 | ) | | | | $9.86 | | | | 4.47 | % | | | | $2,053 | | | | 1.20 | % | | | | 2.13 | % | | | | 1.94 | % | | | | 43 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | $9.86 | | | | | 0.11 | | | | 0.33 | | | | 0.44 | | | | | (0.07 | ) | | | | | (0.05 | ) | | | | — | | | | | | (0.12 | ) | | | | $10.18 | | | | 4.56 | % | | | | $1,643 | | | | 1.20 | % | | | | 2.34 | % | | | | 1.66 | % | | | | 61 | % | |
CLASS I SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2011(d) | | | | $10.00 | | | | | 0.13 | | | | (0.45 | ) | | | (0.32 | ) | | | | (0.10 | ) | | | | | — | | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | | (0.13 | ) | | | | $9.55 | | | | (3.21 | )% | | | | $24,086 | | | | 0.85 | % | | | | 2.46 | % | | | | 1.32 | % | | | | 66 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | $9.55 | | | | | 0.24 | | | | 0.21 | | | | 0.45 | | | | | (0.13 | ) | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | (0.13 | ) | | | | $9.87 | | | | 4.80 | % | | | | $30,602 | | | | 0.85 | % | | | | 2.47 | % | | | | 1.62 | % | | | | 43 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | $9.87 | | | | | 0.13 | | | | 0.33 | | | | 0.46 | | | | | (0.09 | ) | | | | | (0.05 | ) | | | | — | | | | | | (0.14 | ) | | | | $10.19 | | | | 4.74 | % | | | | $33,132 | | | | 0.85 | % | | | | 2.71 | % | | | | 1.31 | % | | | | 61 | % | |
CLASS S SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2011(d) | | | | $10.00 | | | | | 0.14 | | | | (0.45 | ) | | | (0.31 | ) | | | | (0.11 | ) | | | | | — | | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | | (0.14 | ) | | | | $9.55 | | | | (3.16 | )% | | | | $97 | | | | 0.75 | % | | | | 2.58 | % | | | | 1.22 | % | | | | 66 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | $9.55 | | | | | 0.25 | | | | 0.21 | | | | 0.46 | | | | | (0.14 | ) | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | (0.14 | ) | | | | $9.87 | | | | 4.89 | % | | | | $102 | | | | 0.75 | % | | | | 2.59 | % | | | | 1.51 | % | | | | 43 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | $9.87 | | | | | 0.14 | | | | 0.33 | | | | 0.47 | | | | | (0.10 | ) | | | | | (0.05 | ) | | | | — | | | | | | (0.15 | ) | | | | $10.19 | | | | 4.79 | % | | | | $106 | | | | 0.75 | % | | | | 2.81 | % | | | | 1.21 | % | | | | 61 | % | |
(a) | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any sales or redemption charges. |
(b) | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(c) | Portfolio turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Fund as a whole without the distinguishing between the classes of shares issued. |
(d) | Commenced operations on April 7, 2011. |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 49 |
HSBC FRONTIER MARKETS FUND |
Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.
| | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | | Net Investment Income (Loss) | | Net Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments | | Total from Investment Activities | | Net Investment Income | | Total Dividends | | Net Asset Value, End of Period | | Total Return(a) | | Net Assets at End of Period (000's) | | Ratio of Net Expenses to Average Net Assets(b) | | Ratio of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(b) | | Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Fee Reductions)(b) | | Portfolio Turnover (a)(c) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2011(d) | | | $10.00 | | | | — | (e) | | | | (0.34 | ) | | | | (0.34 | ) | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | $9.66 | | | | (3.40 | )% | | | | | $97 | | | | 2.30% | | | | (0.26 | )% | | | | 2.57% | | | | 6 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | $9.66 | | | | 0.16 | (f) | | | | 1.12 | | | | | 1.28 | | | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | $10.93 | | | | 13.27 | % | | | | | $1,409 | | | | 2.20% | | | | 1.51 | % | | | | 3.79% | | | | 26 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | $10.93 | | | | 0.12 | | | | | 1.82 | | | | | 1.94 | | | | | (0.40 | ) | | | | (0.40 | ) | | | | $12.47 | | | | 18.26 | % | | | | | $4,915 | | | | 2.20% | | | | 4.09 | % | | | | 2.73% | | | | 23 | % | |
CLASS I SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2011(d) | | | $10.00 | | | | — | (e) | | | | (0.33 | ) | | | | (0.33 | ) | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | $9.67 | | | | (3.30 | )% | | | | | $14,407 | | | | 1.96% | | | | 0.09 | % | | | | 2.23% | | | | 6 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | $9.67 | | | | 0.29 | (f) | | | | 1.03 | | | | | 1.32 | | | | | (0.02 | ) | | | | (0.02 | ) | | | | $10.97 | | | | 13.68 | % | | | | | $16,375 | | | | 1.85% | | | | 2.83 | % | | | | 2.79% | | | | 26 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | $10.97 | | | | 0.18 | | | | | 1.78 | | | | | 1.96 | | | | | (0.40 | ) | | | | (0.40 | ) | | | | $12.53 | | | | 18.39 | % | | | | | $20,625 | | | | 1.85% | | | | 3.11 | % | | | | 2.42% | | | | 23 | % | |
(a) | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any sales or redemption charges. |
(b) | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(c) | Portfolio turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Fund as a whole without the distinguishing between the classes of shares issued. |
(d) | Commenced operations on September 6, 2011. |
(e) | Represents less than $0.005 or $(0.005). |
(f) | Calculated based on average shares outstanding. |
50 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC TOTAL RETURN FUND |
Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.
| | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | | Net Investment Income (Loss)(a) | | Net Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments | | Total from Investment Activities | | Net Investment Income | | Net Realized Gains from Investment Transactions | | Total Dividends | | Net Asset Value, End of Period | | Total Return(b) | | Net Assets at End of Period (000's) | | Ratio of Net Expenses to Average Net Assets(c) | | Ratio of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c) | | Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Fee Reductions) (c) | | Portfolio Turnover (b)(d) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2012(e) | | | $10.00 | | | | 0.03 | | | | 0.33 | | | | | 0.36 | | | | (0.04 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.04 | ) | | | | $10.32 | | | | 3.62 | % | | | | $256 | | | | 1.60% | | | | 0.56% | | | | 1.61% | | | | 83% | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | $10.32 | | | | 0.03 | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | — | | | | (0.04 | ) | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | (0.07 | ) | | | | $10.25 | | | | (0.08 | )% | | | | $231 | | | | 1.38% | | | | 0.68% | | | | 1.38% | | | | 59% | |
CLASS I SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2012(e) | | | $10.00 | | | | 0.07 | | | | 0.31 | | | | | 0.38 | | | | (0.05 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.05 | ) | | | | $10.33 | | | | 3.82 | % | | | | $348,443 | | | | 1.18% | | | | 1.08% | | | | 1.18% | | | | 83% | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | $10.33 | | | | 0.05 | | | | (0.04 | ) | | | | 0.01 | | | | (0.05 | ) | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | (0.08 | ) | | | | $10.26 | | | | 0.05 | % | | | | $516,339 | | | | 1.12% | | | | 0.92% | | | | 1.12% | | | | 59% | |
CLASS S SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2012(e) | | | $10.00 | | | | 0.05 | | | | 0.34 | | | | | 0.39 | | | | (0.06 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.06 | ) | | | | $10.33 | | | | 3.87 | % | | | | $104 | | | | 1.15% | | | | 0.91% | | | | 1.48% | | | | 83% | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | $10.33 | | | | 0.05 | | | | (0.04 | ) | | | | 0.01 | | | | (0.05 | ) | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | (0.08 | ) | | | | $10.26 | | | | 0.10 | % | | | | $1 | | | | 1.00% | | | | 0.95% | | | | 1.00% | | | | 59% | |
(a) | Calculated using average share method. |
(b) | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any sales or redemption charges. |
(c) | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(d) | Portfolio turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Fund as a whole without the distinguishing between the classes of shares issued. |
(e) | Commenced operations on March 30, 2012. |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 51 |
HSBC RMB FIXED INCOME FUND |
Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.
| | | | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | | Net Investment Income (Loss) | | Net Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments | | Total from Investment Activities | | Net Investment Income | | Total Dividends | | Net Asset Value, End of Period | | Total Return(a) | | Net Assets at End of Period (000's) | | Ratio of Net Expenses to Average Net Assets(b) | | Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets(b) | | Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Fee Reductions)(b) | | Portfolio Turnover (a)(c) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2012(d) | | | $10.00 | | | | 0.10 | (e) | | | | 0.22 | | | | 0.32 | | | | (0.08 | ) | | | | (0.08 | ) | | | | $10.24 | | | | 3.24% | | | | $1,530 | | | | 1.45% | | | | 2.54% | | | | 3.26% | | | | —% | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | $10.24 | | | | 0.14 | | | | | 0.26 | | | | 0.40 | | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | $10.48 | | | | 3.95% | | | | $2,419 | | | | 1.45% | | | | 2.85% | | | | 2.04% | | | | —% | |
CLASS B SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2012(d) | | | $10.00 | | | | 0.10 | (e) | | | | 0.24 | | | | 0.34 | | | | (0.09 | ) | | | | (0.09 | ) | | | | $10.25 | | | | 3.44% | | | | $103 | | | | 1.00% | | | | 2.53% | | | | 2.16% | | | | —% | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | $10.25 | | | | 0.17 | | | | | 0.25 | | | | 0.42 | | | | (0.18 | ) | | | | (0.18 | ) | | | | $10.49 | | | | 4.17% | | | | $107 | | | | 1.00% | | | | 3.29% | | | | 1.58% | | | | —% | |
CLASS I SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2012(d) | | | $10.00 | | | | 0.10 | (e) | | | | 0.24 | | | | 0.34 | | | | (0.09 | ) | | | | (0.09 | ) | | | | $10.25 | | | | 3.40% | | | | $10,134 | | | | 1.10% | | | | 2.43% | | | | 2.26% | | | | —% | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | $10.25 | | | | 0.17 | | | | | 0.25 | | | | 0.42 | | | | (0.18 | ) | | | | (0.18 | ) | | | | $10.49 | | | | 4.12% | | | | $10,598 | | | | 1.10% | | | | 3.19% | | | | 1.68% | | | | —% | |
(a) | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any sales or redemption charges. |
(b) | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(c) | Portfolio turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Fund as a whole without distinguishing between the classes of shares issued. |
(d) | Commenced operations on June 8, 2012. |
(e) | Calculated based on average shares outstanding. |
52 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS |
Notes to Financial Statements — as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
1. Organization:
The HSBC Funds (the “Trust’’), a Massachusetts business trust organized on April 22, 1987, is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Act’’), as an open-end management investment company. As of April 30, 2013, the Trust is comprised of 15 separate operational funds, each a series of the HSBC Family of Funds, which also includes the HSBC Advisor Funds Trust and the HSBC Portfolios (the “Trusts’’). The accompanying financial statements are presented for the following 5 funds (individually a “Fund,’’ collectively the “Funds’’ or the “Emerging Markets Funds’’):
Fund | | | Short Name | |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | Emerging Markets Debt Fund |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund |
HSBC Frontier Markets Fund | | Frontier Markets Fund |
HSBC Total Return Fund | | Total Return Fund |
HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund | | RMB Fixed Income Fund |
Each of the Funds is a non-diversified fund. Financial statements for all other funds of the Trusts are published separately.
The Funds are authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares of beneficial interest with a par value of $0.001 per share. The Emerging Markets Debt Fund, the Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund, the Total Return Fund and the RMB Fixed Income Fund (“Debt Funds’’) are authorized to issue three classes of shares: Class A Shares, Class I Shares, and Class S Shares. Class A Shares of the Debt Funds have a maximum sales charge of 4.75% as a percentage of the original purchase price. The Frontier Markets Fund is authorized to issue two classes of shares: Class A Shares and Class I Shares. Class A Shares of the Frontier Markets Fund has a maximum sales charge of 5.00% as a percentage of the original purchase price. Each class of shares in each Fund has identical rights and privileges, except with respect to arrangements pertaining to shareholder servicing and/or distribution, class-related expenses, voting rights on matters affecting a single class of shares, and exchange privileges of each class of shares.
Under the Trust’s organizational documents, the Funds’ officers and Trustees are indemnified against certain liabilities arising out of the performance of their duties to the Funds. In addition, in the normal course of business, the Trust may enter into contracts with its service providers, which also provide for indemnifications by the Funds. The Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Funds. However, based on experience, the Trust expects the risk of loss to be remote.
2. Significant Accounting Policies:
The following is a summary of the significant accounting policies followed by the Funds in the preparation of their financial statements. The policies are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP’’). The preparation of financial statements requires management to make certain 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 increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Securities Valuation:
The Funds record their investments at fair value. Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The valuation techniques used to determine fair value are further described in Note 3 below.
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS |
Notes to Financial Statements — as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Investment Transactions and Related Income:
Investment transactions are accounted for not later than on the business day after trade date. However, for financial reporting purposes, investment transactions are accounted for on trade date. Investment gains and losses are calculated on the identified cost basis. Interest income is recognized on the accrual basis and includes, where applicable, the amortization or accretion of premium or discount. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date except in the case of foreign securities, in which case dividends are recorded as soon as such information becomes available.
Foreign Currency Translation:
The accounting records of the Funds are maintained in U.S. dollars. Foreign currency amounts are translated into U.S. dollars at the current rate of exchange to determine the value of investments, assets and liabilities. Purchases and sales of securities, and income and expenses are translated at the prevailing rate of exchange on the respective dates of such transactions. The Funds do not isolate the portion of the results of operations resulting from changes in foreign exchange rates on investments from fluctuations arising from changes in market prices of securities held. Such fluctuations are included with the net realized and unrealized gain or loss from investments and foreign currencies.
Income received by the Funds from sources within foreign countries may be subject to withholding and other income or similar taxes imposed by such countries. The Funds accrue such taxes, as applicable, based on their current interpretation of tax rules in the foreign markets in which they invest.
Restricted and Illiquid Securities:
A restricted security is a security which has been purchased through a private offering and cannot be resold to the general public without prior registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “1933 Act’’) or pursuant to the resale limitations provided by Rule 144 under the 1933 Act, or another exemption from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act. Certain restricted securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers, and may be deemed liquid by the Investment Adviser (as defined in Note 4) based on procedures established by the Board of Trustees (the “Board’’). Therefore, not all restricted securities are considered illiquid. At April 30, 2013, the Funds did not hold any restricted securities that were deemed illiquid.
Participation Notes and Participatory Notes:
The Frontier Markets Fund may invest in participation notes or participatory notes (“P-notes”). P-notes are participation interest notes that are issued by banks or broker-dealers and are designed to offer a return linked to a particular underlying equity, debt, currency or market. If the P-note were held to maturity, the issuer would pay to, or receive from, the purchaser the difference between the nominal value of the underlying instrument at the time of purchase and that instrument’s value at maturity. The holder of a P-note that is linked to a particular underlying security or instrument may be entitled to receive any dividends paid in connection with that underlying security or instrument, but typically does not receive voting rights as it would if it directly owned the underlying security or instrument. P-notes involve transaction costs. Investments in P-notes involve the same risks associated with a direct investment in the underlying securities, instruments or markets that they seek to replicate. In addition, there can be no assurance that there will be a trading market for a P-note or that the trading price of a P-note will equal the underlying value of the security, instrument or market that it seeks to replicate. Due to liquidity and transfer restrictions, the secondary markets on which a P-note is traded may be less liquid than the market for other securities, or may be completely illiquid, which may also affect the ability of a fund to accurately value a P-note. P-notes typically constitute general unsecured contractual obligations of the banks or broker- dealers that issue them, which subjects the Fund that holds them to counterparty risk (and this risk may be amplified if the Fund purchases P-notes from only a small number of issuers).
Derivative Instruments:
All open derivative positions at period end are reflected on the Funds’ Schedule of Portfolio Investments. The following is a description of the derivative instruments utilized by the Funds, including the primary underlying risk exposure related to each instrument type.
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS |
Notes to Financial Statements — as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts:
Each Fund may enter into forward foreign currency exchange contracts. The Funds may enter into forward foreign currency exchange contracts in connection with planned purchases or sales of securities, to hedge the U.S. dollar value of securities denominated in a particular currency or to enhance return. The forward foreign currency exchange contracts are adjusted by the daily exchange rate of the underlying currency and any gains or losses are recorded for financial statement purposes as unrealized gains or losses until the contract settlement date.
The Funds could be exposed to risks if the counterparties to the contracts are unable to meet the terms of their contracts and from unanticipated movements in the value of a foreign currency relative to the U.S. dollar.
The Funds remain subject to credit risk with respect to the amount they expect to receive from counterparties. However, the Funds have sought to mitigate these risks by generally requiring the posting of collateral to a Fund at prearranged exposure levels to cover a Fund’s exposure to the counterparty.
During the period ended April 30, 2013, the Funds entered into forward foreign currency exchange contracts to gain exposure to certain markets and for hedging purposes. The notional amount of forward foreign currency exchange contracts outstanding as of April 30, 2013 and the monthly average notional amount for these contracts during the period ended April 30, 2013 were as follows:
| | Outstanding Notional Amount ($) | | Monthly Average Notional Amount ($) |
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts: | | | | | | | | |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | | — | | | | 2,793 | |
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | | 38,444,477 | | | | 51,816,399 | |
Frontier Markets Fund | | | — | | | | 94,045 | |
Total Return Fund | | | 313,919,655 | | | | 207,811,310 | |
Options Contracts:
The Funds may purchase or write put and call options on securities, indices, foreign currencies and derivative instruments. When purchasing options, the Funds pay a premium which is recorded as the cost basis in the investment and which is subsequently marked to market to reflect the current value of the option. Premiums paid for purchasing options that expire are treated as realized losses. When an option is exercised or closed, premiums paid for purchasing options are offset against proceeds to determine the realized gain or loss on the transaction. When writing options, the Funds receive a premium which is recorded as a liability and which is subsequently marked to market to reflect the current value of the option written. Premiums received from writing options that expire are treated as realized gains. Premiums received from writing options that are either exercised or closed are offset against the proceeds received or the amount paid on the transaction to determine the realized gains or losses.
The Funds may purchase or write put and call options on foreign currencies for the purpose of protecting against declines in the dollar value of foreign portfolio securities and against increases in the U.S. dollar cost of foreign securities to be acquired. The Funds could be exposed to risks if the counterparties to the contracts are unable to meet the terms of their contracts and from unanticipated movements in the value of a foreign currency relative to the U.S. dollar.
The Funds may enter into interest rate swaption agreements for hedging purposes. A swaption is an option to enter into a pre-defined swap agreement by some specified date in the future. The writer of the swaption becomes the counterparty to the swap if the buyer exercises their option. The interest rate swaption agreement will specify whether the buyer of the swaption will be a fixed rate receiver or a fixed rate buyer. The Funds could be exposed to risks if the counterparties to the contracts are unable to meet the terms of their contracts and from unanticipated movements in interest rates.
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS |
Notes to Financial Statements — as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
The Funds remain subject to credit risk with respect to the amount they expect to receive from counterparties. However, the Funds have sought to mitigate these risks by generally requiring the posting of collateral to an Emerging Markets Fund at prearranged exposure levels to cover an Emerging Markets Fund’s exposure to the counterparty.
During the period ended April 30, 2013, the Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund and the Total Return Fund invested in options on foreign currencies for the purpose of protecting against declines in the dollar value of foreign portfolio securities and against increases in the U.S. dollar cost of foreign securities to be acquired. The Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund and Total Return Fund entered into interest rate swaption agreements for hedging purposes.
The Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund and the Total Return Fund had the following transactions in purchased call and put options during the period ended April 30, 2013:
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | Number of Contracts | | Cost |
Options outstanding at October 31, 2012 | | | 3,270,000 | | | | | $ | 35,411 | | |
Options expired | | | (3,270,000 | ) | | | | | (35,411 | ) | |
Options outstanding at April 30, 2013 | | | — | | | | | $ | — | | |
| |
Total Return Fund | | Number of Contracts | | Cost |
Options outstanding at October 31, 2012 | | | 500,000 | | | | | $ | 12,985 | | |
Options expired | | | (500,000 | ) | | | | | (12,985 | ) | |
Options outstanding at April 30, 2013 | | | — | | | | | $ | — | | |
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The Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund had the following transactions in written call and put options during the period ended April 30, 2013: | |
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Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | Number of Contracts | | Premiums Received |
Options outstanding at October 31, 2012 | | | — | | | | | $ | — | | |
Options written | | | (3,000,000 | ) | | | | | (14,160 | ) | |
Options closed | | | 3,000,000 | | | | | | 14,160 | | |
Options outstanding at April 30, 2013 | | | — | | | | | $ | — | | |
Futures Contracts:
The Funds may invest in futures contracts for the purpose of hedging existing portfolio securities or securities they intend to purchase against fluctuations in fair value caused by changes in prevailing market interest conditions. Upon entering into futures contracts, the Funds are required to pledge to the broker an amount of cash and/or other assets equal to a certain percentage of the contract amount (initial margin deposit). Subsequent payments, known as “variation margin”, are made or received each day, depending on the daily fluctuations in the fair value of the underlying security. The Funds recognize a gain or loss equal to the daily variation margin. Should market conditions move unexpectedly, the Funds may not achieve the anticipated benefits of the futures contracts and may realize a loss. Futures contracts involve, to varying degrees, elements of market risk (generally equity price risk related to stock futures, interest rate risk related to bond futures, and foreign currency risk related to currency futures) and exposure to loss in excess of the variation margin. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are the imperfect correlation between the change in market value of the securities held by the Funds and the prices of futures contracts, the possibility of an
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illiquid market, and the inability of the counterparty to meet the terms of the contract. During the period ended April 30, 2013, the Total Return Fund invested in futures contracts to gain exposure to certain markets and for hedging purposes. The gross notional amount of futures contracts outstanding was $50.5 million as of April 30, 2013. The monthly average notional amount for these contracts was $23.9 million for the period ended April 30, 2013.
Swap Agreements:
The Funds may enter into swap contracts and other similar instruments in accordance with their investment objectives and policies. A swap is an agreement to exchange the return generated by one instrument for the return generated by another instrument. The payment streams are calculated by reference to a specified index and agreed upon notional amount. The term specified index includes currencies, fixed interest rates, prices and total return on interest rate indices, fixed income indices, stock indices and commodity indices.
The Funds will usually enter into swaps on a net basis, which means that the two return streams are netted out in a cash settlement on the payment date or dates specified in the instrument, with a Fund receiving or paying only the net amount of the two returns. Upfront receipts and payments are recorded as deferred income (liability) or deferred expense (asset), as the case may be. These upfront receipts and payments are amortized to income or expense over the life of the swap agreement. Until a swap agreement is settled in cash, the gain or loss on the notional amount plus income on the instruments, less the interest paid by the Fund on the notional amount, is recorded as “unrealized appreciation or depreciation on swap agreements” and, when cash is exchanged, the gain or loss realized is recorded as “realized gains or losses on swap agreements”. A Fund’s obligations under a swap agreement will be accrued daily (offset against any amounts owing to the Fund) and any accrued but unpaid net amounts owed to a swap counterparty will be covered by the maintenance of a segregated account consisting of cash, U.S. government securities, or other liquid securities or by pledging such securities as collateral.
Interest rate swaps involve the exchange of commitments to pay and receive interest based on a notional amount and are subject to interest rate risk exposure. Interest rate swaps do not involve the delivery of securities, other underlying assets or principal. Accordingly, the risk of loss with respect to interest rate swaps is limited to the net amount of interest payments that a Fund is contractually obligated to make. If the other party to an interest rate swap defaults, a Fund’s risk of loss consists of the net amount of interest payments that the Fund is contractually entitled to receive.
Credit default swap agreements involve one party making a stream of payments (referred to as the buyer of protection) to another party (the seller of protection) in exchange for the right to receive a specified return in the event of a default or other credit event for the referenced entity, obligation or index and are subject to credit risk exposure. The maximum potential amount of future payments that a Fund as a seller of protection could be required to make under a credit default swap agreement would be an amount equal to the notional amount of the agreement. Notional amounts of each individual credit default swap agreement outstanding as of April 30, 2013 for which a Fund is the seller of protection are disclosed in the Schedules of Portfolio Investments. These potential amounts would be partially offset by any recovery values of the respective referenced obligations, upfront payments received upon entering into the agreement, or net amounts received from the settlement of buy protection credit default swap agreements entered into by a Fund for the same referenced entity or entities.
The Funds remain subject to credit risk with respect to the amount they expect to receive from counterparties. However, the Funds have sought to mitigate these risks by generally requiring the posting of collateral to a Fund at pre-arranged exposure levels to cover a Fund’s exposure to the counterparty.
The use of swaps is a highly specialized activity that involves investment techniques and risks different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions. If the Investment Adviser is incorrect in its forecasts of market values, interest rates and currency exchange rates, the investment performance of a Fund would be less favorable than it would have been if this investment technique were not used.
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During the period ended April 30, 2013, the Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund and the Total Return Fund entered into interest rate swap agreements to manage their exposure to interest rates and as a substitute for investing directly in securities. The Emerging Markets Debt Fund and Total Return Fund also entered into credit default swap agreements primarily to manage and/or gain exposure to credit risk. The notional amount of swap agreements outstanding as of April 30, 2013 and the monthly average notional amount for these agreements during the period ended April 30, 2013 were as follows:
| | Outstanding Notional Amount ($) | | Monthly Average Notional Amount ($) |
Interest Rate Swap Agreements: | | | | | | | | |
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | | 10,469,404 | | | | 8,620,244 | |
Total Return Fund | | | 14,200,000 | | | | 14,200,000 | |
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Credit Default Swap Agreements: | | | | | | | | |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | | 1,550,000 | | | | 1,545,833 | |
Total Return Fund | | | 69,150,000 | | | | 39,833,333 | |
Summary of Derivative Instruments:
Fair Values of Derivative Instruments on the Statements of Assets and Liabilities as of April 30, 2013:
| | Assets | | Liabilities |
Fund | | Unrealized Appreciation on Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts ($) | | Unrealized Appreciation on Swap Agreements ($) | | Unrealized Depreciation on Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts ($) | | Variation Margin on Futures Contracts ($)^ | | Unrealized Depreciation on Swap Agreements ($) |
Foreign Exchange Rate Risk Exposure: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Emerging Market Local Debt Fund | | | 326,570 | | | | — | | | | 162,799 | | | | — | | | | — | |
Total Return Fund | | | 1,197,806 | | | | — | | | | 2,861,079 | | | | — | | | | — | |
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Credit Contracts Risk Exposure: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | | — | | | | 44,489 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | |
Total Return Fund | | | — | | | | 152,133 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 688,543 | |
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Interest Rate Risk Exposure: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Emerging Market Local Debt Fund | | | — | | | | 204,969 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 31,568 | |
Total Return Fund | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 360,553 | | | | 117,173 | |
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^ | Includes cumulative appreciation/depreciation on futures contracts as reported in the Schedule of Portfolio Investments. Only current day’s variation margin is reported on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as variation margin on futures contracts. |
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The Effect of Derivative Instruments on the Statements of Operations for the period ended April 30, 2013:
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Net Change in Unrealized |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Appreciation/Depreciation |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | on Derivatives Recognized |
| | Realized Gain (Loss) on Derivatives | | as a Result from Operations |
| | Net Realized | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Gains (Losses) | | Net Realized | | Net Realized | | Net Realized | | Change in |
| | from Forward | | Gains (Losses) | | Gains (Losses) | | Gains (Losses) | | Unrealized |
| | Foreign Currency | | from Futures | | from Swap | | from Options | | Appreciation/Depreciation |
Fund | | Exchange Contracts ($) | | Transactions ($) | | Agreements ($) | | Transactions ($) | | on Investments ($) |
Foreign Exchange Rate Risk Exposure: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | | (434 | ) | | | | — | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | 154 | | |
Emerging Market Local Debt Fund | | | 421,279 | | | | | — | | | | — | | | | | (21,251 | ) | | | | (33,835 | ) | |
Frontier Markets Fund | | | (6,244 | ) | | | | — | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | |
Total Return Fund | | | (2,288,250 | ) | | | | — | | | | — | | | | | (12,985 | ) | | | | (1,226,600 | ) | |
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Credit Contracts Risk Exposure: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | | — | | | | | — | | | | 28,331 | | | | | — | | | | | (25,097 | ) | |
Total Return Fund | | | — | | | | | — | | | | 177,633 | | | | | — | | | | | (561,298 | ) | |
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Interest Rate Risk Exposure: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Emerging Market Local Debt Fund | | | — | | | | | — | | | | 10,579 | | | | | — | | | | | 43,995 | | |
Total Return Fund | | | — | | | | | 75,926 | | | | (99,717 | ) | | | | — | | | | | 48,246 | | |
Allocations:
Expenses directly attributable to a Fund are charged to that Fund. Expenses not directly attributable to a Fund are allocated proportionately among the applicable series within the Trusts in relation to the net assets of each fund or on another reasonable basis. Class specific expenses are charged directly to the class incurring the expense. In addition, income, expenses (other than class specific expenses), and unrealized and realized gains and losses are allocated to each class based on relative net assets on a daily basis.
Dividends to Shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income, if any, are declared and distributed monthly in the case of the Emerging Markets Debt Fund, Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund, Total Return Fund and the RMB Fixed Income Fund, and annually in the case of Frontier Markets Fund. Distributions from net realized gains, if any, are declared and paid at least annually by the Funds. Additional distributions are also made to the Funds’ shareholders to the extent necessary to avoid the federal excise tax on certain undistributed income and net realized gains of regulated investment companies.
The amount and character of net investment income and net realized gains distributions are determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations which may differ from GAAP. These “book/tax’’ differences are either considered temporary or permanent in nature. To the extent these differences are permanent in nature (e.g., certain gain/loss, differing treatment on certain swap agreements, and certain distributions), such amounts are reclassified within the composition of net assets; temporary differences (e.g., wash losses and the realization for tax purposes of unrealized gains/losses on investments in passive foreign investment companies) do not require reclassification. The Funds may utilize equalization accounting for tax purposes and
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designate earnings and profits, including net realized gains distributed to shareholders on redemption of shares, as a part of the dividends paid deduction for income tax purposes. To the extent distributions to shareholders from net investment income and net realized gains exceed net investment income and net realized gains for tax purposes, they are reported as distributions of capital.
Federal Income Taxes:
Each Fund is a separate taxable entity for federal income tax purposes. Each Fund has qualified and intends to continue to qualify each year as a “regulated investment company’’ under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and to distribute substantially all of its taxable net investment income and net realized gains, if any, to its shareholders. Accordingly, no provision for federal income or excise tax is required.
Management of the Funds has reviewed tax positions taken in tax years that remain subject to examination by all major tax jurisdictions, including federal (i.e., the last four tax year ends and the interim tax period since then, as applicable). Management believes that there is no tax liability resulting from unrecognized tax benefits related to uncertain tax positions taken.
3. Investment Valuation Summary:
The valuation techniques employed by the Funds, as described below, maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs in determining fair value. The inputs used for valuing the Funds’ investments are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
- Level 1: quoted prices in active markets for identical assets
- 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 a Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The Funds determine transfers between fair value hierarchy levels at the reporting period end. The inputs or methodology used for valuing investments is not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those investments.
Bonds and other fixed income securities (other than short-term obligations but including listed issues) are valued at the bid price as of the time net asset value is determined on the basis of valuations furnished by a pricing service, the use of which has been approved by the Funds’ Board of Trustees. In making such valuations, the pricing service utilizes both dealer-supplied valuations and matrix techniques which take into account appropriate factors such as the institutional-size trading in similar groups of securities, yield, quality, coupon rate, maturity, type of issue, trading characteristics other than market data and without exclusive reliance upon quoted prices or exchanges or over-the-counter prices, since such valuations are believed to reflect more accurately the fair value of such securities and are typically categorized as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.
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Exchange traded, domestic equity securities are valued at the last sale price on a national securities exchange, or in the absence of recorded sales, at the readily available closing bid price on such exchanges, or at the quoted bid price in the over-the-counter market and are typically categorized as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy.
Exchange traded, foreign equity securities are valued in the appropriate currency on the last quoted sale price and are typically categorized as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy. Foreign equity securities that are not exchange traded are valued in the appropriate currency at the average of the quoted bid and asked prices in the over-the-counter market and are typically categorized as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.
Mutual funds are valued at their net asset values, as reported by such companies and are typically categorized as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy.
Exchange traded futures contracts are valued at their settlement price on the exchange on which they are traded and are typically categorized as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy.
Forward foreign currency exchange contracts are valued at the current day’s interpolated foreign exchange rate, as calculated using the current day’s spot rate, and the 30 to 720 day forward rates and converted to U.S. dollars at the exchange rate of such currencies against the U.S. dollar, as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange, as provided by an approved pricing service, and are typically categorized as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy. Non-exchange traded derivatives, such as swaps and options, are generally valued by using a valuation provided by an approved independent pricing service and are typically categorized as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.
Securities or other assets for which market quotations are not readily available, or are deemed unreliable due to a significant event, are valued pursuant to procedures adopted by the Trusts’ Board (“Procedures”). Depending on the source and relative significance of valuation inputs, these instruments may be classified as Level 2 or Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy. Examples of potentially significant events that could affect the value of an individual security and thus require pricing under the Procedures include corporate actions by the issuer, announcements by the issuer relating to its earnings or products, regulatory news, natural disasters, and litigation. Examples of potentially significant events that could affect multiple securities held by a Fund include governmental actions, natural disasters, and armed conflicts.
In addition, if events materially affecting the value of foreign securities occur between the time when the exchange on which they are traded closes and the time when the Funds’ net assets are calculated, such securities may be valued using fair value pricing in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board. Management identifies possible fluctuations in foreign securities by monitoring the rise or fall in the value of a designated benchmark index. In the event of a rise or fall greater than predetermined levels, the Funds may use a systematic valuation model provided by an independent third party to value its foreign securities, rather than local market closing prices. When a Fund uses such a valuation model, the value assigned to the Fund’s foreign securities may not be the quoted or published prices of the investment on their primary markets or exchanges and are typically categorized as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy. The valuation of these securities may represent a transfer between Levels 1 and 2. The number of days on which fair value prices will be used will depend on market activity and it is possible that fair value prices will be used by the Funds to a significant extent.
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The following is a summary of the valuation inputs used as of April 30, 2013 in valuing the Funds’ investments based upon the three levels defined above:
| | LEVEL 1($) | | LEVEL 2($) | | LEVEL 3($) | | Total($) |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | |
Yankee Dollars(a) | | — | | 37,349,683 | | — | | 37,349,683 |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | — | | 2,018,590 | | — | | 2,018,590 |
Investment Company | | 2,028,177 | | — | | — | | 2,028,177 |
Total Investment Securities | | 2,028,177 | | 39,368,273 | | — | | 41,396,450 |
Other Financial Instruments:(b) | | | | | | | | |
Credit Default Swap Agreements | | — | | 44,489 | | — | | 44,489 |
Total Investments | | 2,028,177 | | 39,412,762 | | — | | 41,440,939 |
Emerging Markets Local Debt | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | |
Foreign Bonds(a) | | — | | 20,204,754 | | — | | 20,204,754 |
Yankee Dollars(a) | | — | | 2,698,634 | | — | | 2,698,634 |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | — | | 419,063 | | — | | 419,063 |
Investment Company | | 10,882,362 | | — | | — | | 10,882,362 |
Total Investment Securities | | 10,882,362 | | 23,322,451 | | — | | 34,204,813 |
Other Financial Instruments:(b) | | | | | | | | |
Interest Rate Swap Agreements | | — | | 173,401 | | — | | 173,401 |
Forward Foreign Currency Contracts | | — | | 163,771 | | — | | 163,771 |
Total Investment Securities | | 10,882,362 | | 23,659,623 | | — | | 34,541,985 |
Frontier Markets Fund | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | |
Common Stocks(a) | | 21,991,680 | | 252,393 | | — | | 22,244,073 |
Preferred Stocks(a) | | 529,337 | | — | | — | | 529,337 |
Convertible Corporate Bond(a) | | — | | 51,218 | | — | | 51,218 |
Warrant | | — | | — | | — | (c) | — |
Participatory Notes(a) | | — | | 2,053,256 | | — | | 2,053,256 |
Investment Company | | 568,366 | | — | | — | | 568,366 |
Total Investment Securities | | 23,089,383 | | 2,356,867 | | — | | 25,446,250 |
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| | LEVEL 1($) | | LEVEL 2($) | | LEVEL 3($) | | Total($) |
Total Return Fund | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Foreign Bonds(a) | | — | | | 63,307,675 | | | — | | 63,307,675 | |
Yankee Dollars(a) | | — | | | 235,821,389 | | | — | | 235,821,389 | |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | — | | | 22,393,691 | | | — | | 22,393,691 | |
Investment Company | | 189,119,564 | | | — | | | — | | 189,119,564 | |
Total Investment Securities | | 189,119,564 | | | 321,522,755 | | | — | | 510,642,319 | |
Other Financial Instruments:(b) | | | | | | | | | | | |
Interest Rate Swap Agreements | | — | | | (117,173 | ) | | — | | (117,173 | ) |
Credit Default Swap Agreements | | — | | | (536,410 | ) | | — | | (536,410 | ) |
Forward Foreign Currency Contracts | | — | | | (1,663,273 | ) | | — | | (1,663,273 | ) |
Futures Contracts | | (360,553 | ) | | — | | | — | | (360,553 | ) |
Total Investment Securities | | 188,759,011 | | | 319,205,899 | | | — | | 507,964,910 | |
HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Foreign Bonds(a) | | — | | | 11,033,399 | | | — | | 11,033,399 | |
Certificates of Deposit(a) | | — | | | 1,605,912 | | | — | | 1,605,912 | |
Investment Company | | 307,512 | | | — | | | — | | 307,512 | |
Total Investment Companies | | 307,512 | | | 12,639,311 | | | — | | 12,946,823 | |
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(a) | | For detailed country descriptions, see the accompanying Schedules of Portfolio Investments. |
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(b) | | Other financial instruments would include any derivative instruments, such as forward foreign currency exchange contracts and swap agreements. These investments are generally recorded in the financial statements at the unrealized gain or loss on the investment. |
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(c) | | Security was received as part of a private placement offering. The underlying stock price is trading significantly below the strike price of the warrants and the warrants are non-transferable. Security valued at $0 in good faith pursuant to procedures approved by the Board of Trustees as of April 30, 2013. |
The only transfers between levels as of April 30, 2013 are related to the use of the systematic valuation model to value foreign securities in the Frontier Markets Fund.
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In January 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2013-01 “Clarifying the Scope of Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities (“ASU 2013-01”), which amended Accounting Standards Codification Subtopic 210-20, Balance Sheet Offsetting. ASU 2013-01 clarified the scope of ASU No. 2011-11 “Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities” (“ASU 2011-11”). ASU 2011-11 requires an entity to disclose information about offsetting and related arrangements to enable users of the financial statements to understand the effect of those arrangements on the entity’s financial position. ASU 2013-01 clarifies the scope of ASU 2011-11 as applying to derivatives accounted for in accordance with Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, including bifurcated embedded derivatives, repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements, and securities borrowing and securities lending transactions that are offset either in accordance with other requirements of U.S. GAAP or subject to an enforceable master netting arrangement or similar agreement. The guidance in ASU 2013-01 and ASU 2011-11 is effective for interim and annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013. Management is evaluating any impact ASU 2013-01 and ASU 2011-11 may have on the Funds’ financial statements.
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4. Related Party Transactions and Other Agreements and Plans: Investment Management:
HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (“HSBC’’ or the “Investment Adviser’’), a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank USA, N.A., a national bank organized under the laws of the United States, acts as Investment Adviser to the Funds. As Investment Adviser, HSBC manages the investments of the Funds and continuously reviews, supervises and administers the Funds’ investments pursuant to an Investment Advisory Contract. For its services in this capacity, HSBC receives a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly, based on the average daily net assets of Class A Shares, Class I Shares and Class S Shares, at annual rate of:
Fund | | | Fee Rate(%) |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | 0.50 |
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | 0.50 |
Frontier Markets Fund | | 1.25 |
Total Return Fund | | 0.85 |
RMB Fixed Income Fund | | 0.55 |
HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited (“AMEU”) acts as sub-adviser to the Frontier Markets Fund. AMEU receives a fee from the Frontier Markets Fund, accrued daily and paid monthly, based on average daily net assets of the Fund at an annual rate of 0.70% from the fees paid to the Investment Adviser.
HSBC Global Asset Management (Hong Kong) Limited (“AMHK”) acts as sub-adviser to the RMB Fixed Income Fund. AMHK receives a fee from the RMB Fixed Income Fund, accrued daily and paid monthly, based on average daily net assets of the Fund at an annual rate of 0.275% from the fees paid to the Investment Adviser.
HSBC also provides support services to the Funds pursuant to a Support Services Agreement. For its services in this capacity, HSBC receives a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly, based on the average daily net assets of Class A Shares and Class I Shares, at an annual rate of 0.20% and 0.10%, respectively.
Administration:
HSBC serves the Funds as Administrator. Under the terms of the Administration Agreement, HSBC receives from the Funds (as well as other funds in the Trusts) a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate of:
Based on Average Daily Net Assets of | | | Fee Rate(%) |
Up to $10 billion | | 0.0550 |
In excess of $10 billion but not exceeding $20 billion | | 0.0350 |
In excess of $20 billion but not exceeding $50 billion | | 0.0275 |
In excess of $50 billion | | 0.0250 |
The fee breakpoints are determined on the basis of the aggregate average daily net assets of the Trusts. The fee is allocated to each series based upon its proportionate share of the aggregate net assets of the Trusts, subject to certain allocations in cases where one fund invests some or all of its assets in another fund. An amount equal to 50% of the administration fee is deemed to be class specific.
Pursuant to a Sub-Administration Agreement with HSBC, Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc. (“Citi’’), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citigroup, Inc., serves as Sub-Administrator for the Trusts, subject to the general supervision by the Trusts’ Board and HSBC. For these services, Citi is entitled to a fee, payable by HSBC, at an annual rate equivalent to the fee rates set forth above subject to certain reductions associated with services provided to new funds, minus 0.02%, which is retained by HSBC.
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Under a Compliance Services Agreement between the Trusts and Citi (the “CCO Agreement’’), Citi makes an employee available to serve as the Funds’ Chief Compliance Officer (the “CCO’’). Under the CCO Agreement, Citi also provides infrastructure and support in implementing the written policies and procedures comprising the Trusts’ compliance program, including support services to the CCO. For the services provided under the CCO Agreement, the Trusts paid Citi $143,262 for the period ended April 30, 2013, plus reimbursement of certain out of pocket expenses. Expenses incurred by each Fund are reflected on the Statements of Operations as “Compliance Services.’’ Citi pays the salary and other compensation earned by individuals performing these services, as employees of Citi.
Distribution Arrangements:
Foreside Distribution Services, L.P. (“Foreside”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Foreside Financial Group LLC, serves the Trust as Distributor (the “Distributor’’). The Trust has adopted a non-compensatory Distribution Plan and Agreement (the “Distribution Plan’’) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Act. The Distribution Plan provides for reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Distributor related to distribution and marketing, at a rate not to exceed 0.25% of the average daily net assets of Class A Shares (currently not being charged). For the period ended April 30, 2013, Foreside, as Distributor, also received $126,262 in commissions from sales of HSBC Family of Funds for Class A Shares, of which $0 were reallocated to HSBC-affiliated brokers and dealers for Class A Shares.
Shareholder Servicing:
The Trust has adopted a Shareholder Services Plan, which provides for payments to shareholder servicing agents (which primarily consist of HSBC and its affiliates) for providing various shareholder services. For performing these services, the shareholder servicing agents receive a fee that is computed daily and paid monthly up to 0.25% of the average daily net assets of Class A Shares. The fees paid to the Distributor pursuant to the Distribution Plan and to shareholder servicing agents pursuant to the Shareholder Services Plan may not exceed, in the aggregate, 0.50% annually of each Fund’s average daily net assets of Class A Shares.
Fund Accounting and Transfer Agency:
Citi provides fund accounting and transfer agency services for each Fund. As transfer agent, Citi receives a fee based on the number of funds and shareholder accounts, subject to certain minimums, reductions associated with services provided to new funds and reimbursement of certain expenses. As fund accountant, Citi receives an annual fee per Fund and share class, subject to minimums, reductions associated with services provided to new funds and reimbursement of certain expenses. Citi receives additional fees paid by the Trust for blue sky exemption services.
Independent Trustees:
The Trusts pay each Independent Trustee an annual retainer of $100,000. The Trusts pay a fee of $10,000 for each regular meeting of the Board of Trustees attended and a fee of $ 3,000 for each special meeting attended. The Trusts pay each Committee Chair an annual retainer of $ 3,000, with the exception of the Chair of the Audit Committee, who receives a retainer of $ 6,000. The Trusts also pay the Chairman of the Board, an additional annual retainer of $24,000. In addition, for time expended on Board duties outside normal meetings, which is authorized by the Board, a Trustee is compensated at the rate of $ 500 per hour, up to a maximum of $ 3,000 per day.
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Notes to Financial Statements — as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Fee Reductions:
The Investment Adviser has agreed to contractually limit, through March 1, 2014 for the Funds, the total expenses, exclusive of interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses, and indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investments in investment companies, of the Funds. Each Fund Class has its own expense limitations based on the average daily net assets for any full fiscal year as follows:
| | | | Current |
| | | | Contractual |
Fund | | | Class | | Expense Limitation(%) |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | A | | 1.20 |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | I | | 0.85 |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | S | | 0.75 |
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | A | | 1.20 |
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | I | | 0.85 |
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | S | | 0.75 |
Frontier Markets Fund | | A | | 2.20 |
Frontier Markets Fund | | I | | 1.85 |
Total Return Fund | | A | | 1.60 |
Total Return Fund | | I | | 1.25 |
Total Return Fund | | S | | 1.15 |
RMB Fixed Income Fund | | A | | 1.45 |
RMB Fixed Income Fund | | I | | 1.10 |
RMB Fixed Income Fund | | S | | 1.00 |
Any amounts contractually waived or reimbursed by the Investment Adviser will be subject to repayment by the Fund to the Investment Adviser within three years to the extent that the repayment will not cause the Fund’s operating expenses to exceed the contractual expense limit that was in effect at the time of such waiver or reimbursement. During the period ended April 30, 2013, the Investment Adviser did not recapture any of its prior contractual waivers or reimbursements. As of April 30, 2013, the repayments that may potentially be made by the Funds are as follows:
Fund | | | | 2016($)* | | 2015($)* | | 2014($)* | | Total($)* |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | 49,939 | | 159,226 | | 31,279 | | 240,444 |
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | 76,386 | | 218,089 | | 41,089 | | 335,564 |
Frontier Markets Fund | | 55,834 | | 145,285 | | 5,922 | | 207,041 |
Total Return Fund | | — | | 207 | | N/A | | 207 |
RMB Fixed Income Fund | | 36,530 | | 51,659 | | N/A | | 88,189 |
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* The year listed above the amounts is the fiscal year ending in which the amounts will no longer be able to be recoupable. |
The Administrator and Citi may voluntarily waive/reimburse fees to help support the expense limits of each Fund. In addition, HSBC, in its role as Investment Adviser and Administrator, may waive/reimburse additional fees at its discretion. Any voluntary fee waivers/reimbursements are not subject to recoupment in subsequent fiscal periods. Voluntary waivers/reimbursements may be stopped at any time. Amounts waived/reimbursed by the Investment Adviser, Administrator, and Citi are reported separately on the Statements of Operations, as applicable.
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Notes to Financial Statements — as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
5. Investment Transactions:
Cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of securities (excluding securities maturing less than one year from acquisition) for the period ended April 30, 2013 were as follows:
| | Purchases($) | | Sales($) |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | 5,086,774 | | 4,545,801 |
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | 16,738,940 | | 12,363,705 |
Frontier Markets Fund | | 9,393,027 | | 4,554,349 |
Total Return Fund | | 144,158,126 | | 71,276,178 |
RMB Fixed Income Fund | | 2,760,655 | | — |
For the period ended April 30, 2013, purchases and sales on long-term U.S. government securities were as follows:
| | Purchases($) | | Sales($) |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | 4,190,705 | | 4,993,053 |
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | 1,722,047 | | 1,312,797 |
Total Return Fund | | 28,006,163 | | 23,109,929 |
6. Investment Risks:
Foreign Securities Risk: Investments in foreign securities are generally considered riskier than investments in U.S. securities. Foreign securities, including those of emerging and frontier market issuers, are subject to additional risks, including international trade, political and regulatory risks.
Emerging Markets Risk: The prices of securities in emerging markets can fluctuate more significantly than the prices of companies in more developed countries. Securities of emerging market issuers generally have more risk than securities issued by issuers in more developed markets. The less developed the country, the greater affect the risks may have in an investment, and as a result, an investment may exhibit a higher degree of volatility than either the general domestic securities market or the securities markets of developed foreign countries.
Frontier Market Countries Risk: Frontier market countries generally have smaller economies and even less developed capital markets or legal and political systems than traditional emerging market countries. As a result, the risks of investing in emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries. The magnification of risks are the result of: the potential for extreme price volatility and illiquidity in frontier markets; government ownership or control of parts of private sector and of certain companies; trade barriers, exchange controls, managed adjustments in relative currency values and other protectionist measures imposed or negotiated by the countries with which frontier market countries trade; and the relatively new and unsettled securities laws in many frontier market countries.
Concentration of Credit Risk: The RMB Fixed Income Fund is likely to be more volatile than the performance of other mutual funds due to its focused investment in instruments having exposure to China. Because the Fund concentrates its investments in China, the Fund’s performance is expected to be closely tied to social, political, and economic conditions within China and to be more volatile than the performance of more geographically diversified funds.
Derivatives Risk: The term “derivatives” covers a broad range of investments, including futures and currency forwards. In general, a derivative refers to any financial instrument whose value is derived, at least in part, from the price of another security or a specified index, asset or rate. The use of derivatives presents risks different from, and possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in traditional securities. The use of derivatives can lead to losses because of adverse movements in the price or value of the underlying asset, index or rate, which may be magnified by certain features of the derivatives. These risks are heightened when derivatives are used to enhance a Fund’s return or as a substitute for a position or security, rather than solely to hedge (or offset) the risk of a position or security held by a Fund. The success of the fund’s derivatives strategies will also be affected by its ability to assess and predict the impact of market or economic
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Notes to Financial Statements — as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
developments on the underlying asset, index or rate and the derivative itself, without the benefit of observing the performance of the derivative under all possible market conditions. Derivatives involve the risk of mispricing or improper valuation and the risk that changes in the value of the derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, index or rate. Certain derivative positions may be difficult to close out when a Fund’s portfolio manager may believe it would be appropriate to do so. Also, suitable derivative transactions may not be available in all circumstances and there can be no assurance that a Fund will engage in these transactions to reduce exposure to other risks when that would be beneficial.
Swap Risk: The use of swap agreements, which are agreements to exchange the return generated by one instrument for the return generated by another instrument (or index), and similar instruments involves risks that are different from those associated with ordinary portfolio securities transactions. For example, a Fund bears the risk of loss of the amount expected to be received under a swap agreement in the event of the default or bankruptcy of a swap agreement counterparty. Swap agreements may also subject a Fund to the risk that the counterparty to the transaction may not meet its obligations, causing the Fund’s value to decrease. Swap agreements may also be considered illiquid.
7. Federal Income Tax Information:
At April 30, 2013, the cost basis of securities for federal income tax purposes, gross unrealized appreciation, gross unrealized depreciation and net unrealized appreciation/depreciation were as follows:
Fund | | | Tax Cost($) | | Tax Unrealized Appreciation($) | | Tax Unrealized Depreciation($) | | Net Unrealized Appreciation/ (Depreciation)($)* |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | 37,786,193 | | | 3,635,489 | | | | (25,232 | ) | | | | 3,610,257 | |
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | 33,600,889 | | | 716,584 | | | | (112,660 | ) | | | | 603,924 | |
Frontier Markets Fund | | 21,582,428 | | | 4,716,544 | | | | (852,722 | ) | | | | 3,863,822 | |
Total Return Fund | | 507,477,286 | | | 3,867,202 | | | | (702,169 | ) | | | | 3,165,033 | |
RMB Fixed Income Fund | | 12,422,911 | | | 523,912 | | | | — | | | | | 523,912 | |
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* | The difference between book-basis unrealized appreciation (depreciation) is attributable primarily to tax deferral of losses on wash sales and the realization for tax purposes of unrealized gains/losses on investments in passive foreign investment companies. |
The tax character of dividends paid by the Funds as of the latest tax year ended October 31, 2012 was as follows:
| | Dividends paid from |
| | Ordinary Income($) | | Total Taxable Dividends($) | | Return of Capital($) | | Total Dividends Paid($)(1) |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | | 1,823,427 | | | | 1,823,427 | | | | — | | | | 1,823,427 | |
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | | 379,720 | | | | 379,720 | | | | — | | | | 379,720 | |
Frontier Markets Fund | | | 29,081 | | | | 29,081 | | | | — | | | | 29,081 | |
Total Return Fund | | | 783,622 | | | | 783,622 | | | | — | | | | 783,622 | |
RMB Fixed Income Fund | | | 62,740 | | | | 62,740 | | | | — | | | | 62,740 | |
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Notes to Financial Statements — as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
As of latest tax year ended October 31, 2012, the components of accumulated earnings/(deficit) on a tax basis for the Funds were as follows:
| | Undistributed Ordinary Income($) | | Undistributed Tax Exempt Income($) | | Undistributed Long Term Capital Gains($) | | Accumulated Earnings($) | | Dividends Payable($) | | Accumulated Capital and Other Losses($) | | Unrealized Appreciation/ (Depreciation)($) | | Total Accumulated Earnings/ (Deficit)($) |
Emerging Markets | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Debt Fund | | | 520,630 | | | | — | | | | 608,591 | | | | 1,129,221 | | | | (148,725 | ) | | | | — | | | | | 3,771,319 | | | | | 4,751,815 | |
Emerging Markets | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Local Debt Fund | | | 223,635 | | | | — | | | | 1,154 | | | | 224,789 | | | | (33,156 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (15,501 | ) | | | | 176,132 | |
Frontier Markets | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Fund | | | 649,626 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 649,626 | | | | — | | | | | (553,182 | ) | | | | 1,373,586 | | | | | 1,470,030 | |
Total Return Fund | | | 1,701,929 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 1,701,929 | | | | (335,105 | ) | | | | — | | | | | 3,035,229 | | | | | 4,402,053 | |
RMB Fixed | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Income Fund | | | 61,673 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 61,673 | | | | (35,061 | ) | | | | — | | | | | 258,600 | | | | | 285,212 | |
As of the latest tax year ended October 31, 2012, the Funds have net capital loss carryforwards (“CLCFs”) as summarized in the tables below. CLCFs subjects to expiration are applied as short-term capital loss regardless of whether the originating capital loss was short-term or long-term. CLCFs that are not subject to expiration must be utilized before those that are subject to expiration. The Board does not intend to authorize a distribution of any realized gain for the Funds until any applicable CLCF has been offset or expires.
CLCFs not subject to expiration:
Fund | | | Short Term Amount($) | | Long Term Amount($) | | Total($) |
Frontier Markets Fund | | 553,182 | | — | | 553,182 |
8. Ownership and Principal Holders
The beneficial ownership, either directly or indirectly, of more than 25% of the voting securities of a Fund creates presumptions of control of the Fund, under section 2 (a)(9) of the 1940 Act. As of April 30, 2013, the Emerging Markets Debt Fund, Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund, Frontier Markets and RMB Fixed Income Fund had individual shareholder accounts and/or omnibus shareholder accounts (comprised of a group of individual shareholders), each of which is affiliated with the Investment Adviser, and representing ownership in excess of 75% of each Fund, respectively.
9. Subsequent Events:
Management has evaluated events and transactions through the date the financial statements were issued, for purposes of recognition or disclosure in these financial statements and there are no subsequent events to report.
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Investment Adviser Contract Approval |
Section 15(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), generally requires that a majority of the trustees of a mutual fund who are not parties to an investment advisory agreement for the fund or “interested persons” of the investment adviser, as defined in the 1940 Act (the “Independent Trustees”), review and approve the investment advisory agreement at an in person meeting for an initial period of up to two years and thereafter on an annual basis. A summary of the material factors considered by the Independent Trustees and the Boards of Trustees (the “Board”) of HSBC Funds, HSBC Advisor Funds Trust and HSBC Portfolios (each, a “Trust”) in connection with approving investment advisory and sub-advisory agreements for the series of the Trusts (each, a “Fund”) during the semi-annual period ended April 30, 2013 and the conclusions the Independent Trustees and Board made as a result of those considerations are set forth below.
Annual Continuation of Advisory and Sub-Advisory Agreements
The Board met in person and the Contracts and Expense Committee thereof, which consists of the Independent Trustees of the Trusts (the “Contracts Committee”), met separately to consider, among other matters:
- the approval of the continuation of the: (i) Investment Advisory Contracts and related Supplements (“Advisory Contracts”) between the Trusts and HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”) and (ii) Sub-Advisory Agreements (“Sub-Advisory Contracts”) between the Adviser and each investment sub-adviser (“Sub-Adviser”) to one or more Funds; and
- the approval of the continuation of certain other ancillary agreements to which the Adviser is a party that obligate the Adviser to provide the Funds with administrative services, such as the Administration Agreement, Support Services Agreement and Operational Support Services Agreement (each, an “Ancillary Agreement”).
Prior to the meetings, the Independent Trustees received and reviewed the information they thought reasonably necessary to evaluate the terms of the Advisory Contracts, Sub-Advisory Contracts and Ancillary Agreements (collectively, the “Agreements”). This information included, among other things, information about: (i) the services that the Adviser and Sub-Advisers provide; (ii) the personnel who provide such services; (iii) investment performance, including comparative data provided by Lipper Inc. (“Lipper”); (iv) trading practices of the Adviser and Sub-Advisers; (v) fees received or to be received by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers, including in comparison with the advisory fees paid by other similar funds based on materials provided by Lipper; (vi) total expense ratios, including in comparison with the total expense ratios of other similar funds based on Lipper data; (vii) the profitability of the Adviser and certain of the Sub-Advisers; and (viii) compliance-related matters pertaining to the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. Counsel to the Trusts and to the Independent Trustees were present at each Contracts Committee meeting and the Board meeting.
When it met, the Contracts Committee and its members reviewed the information provided in advance of the meeting and discussed, among other things: (i) the Funds’ investment advisory arrangements and expense limitation agreements with the Adviser; (ii) the Trusts’ arrangements with the unaffiliated investment sub-advisers to the Trusts, Westfield Capital Management Company, LP (“Westfield”) and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (“Winslow”); (iii) the Trusts’ Administration Agreement with the Adviser; and (iv) regulatory considerations. The Contracts Committee also convened to consider, among other things: (i) the Support Services Agreement and Operational Support Services Agreement with the Adviser; (ii) the Adviser’s Multimanager function; (iii) the Adviser’s advisory services with respect to the Funds that are money market funds (“Money Market Funds”); (iv) the Adviser’s profitability; and (v) additional information provided by the Adviser at the request of the Board. Following the December 5, 2012 and December 17-18, 2012 Contracts Committee meetings, the members of the Contracts Committee determined to recommend to the Board that the Agreements be continued for an additional one-year period.
At the in-person meeting, held on December 17-18, 2012, the Board, including the Independent Trustees, reviewed and discussed the materials and other information provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers and considered the previous deliberations and recommendation of the Contracts Committee. As a result of this process, the Board and Independent Trustees determined to approve the continuation of the Agreements with respect to each Fund.
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The Board and the Independent Trustees made these determinations on the basis of the following considerations, among others:
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided by Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees examined the nature, quality and extent of the investment advisory and administrative support services provided by the Adviser to the Funds, as well as the quality and experience of the Adviser’s personnel. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s Multimanager unit with respect to the World Selection Funds and the Equity Funds, the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s Emerging Markets Debt Team with respect to the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the capabilities of the Adviser’s oversight with respect to the Frontier Markets Fund, as well as the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s portfolio management and credit review teams with respect to the Money Market Funds. The Independent Trustees also considered the nature, quality and extent of the administrative support services that the Adviser provides to the Funds, including the Adviser’s oversight and management of the Funds’ other service providers.
The Independent Trustees also took note of: (i) the long-term relationship between the Adviser and the Funds; (ii) the Adviser’s reputation and financial condition; (iii) the reduction during the period in the HSBC Family of Fund’s net assets, and its effect on economies of scale; (iv) the recent liquidation of certain Funds; and (v) the efforts undertaken by the Adviser to foster the growth and development of the Funds since the inception of each of the Funds, including the recent development and launch of the HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund and HSBC Total Return Fund, and an increased entrepreneurial commitment to the success of the Funds with new classes of shareholders. With respect to the Money Market Funds, the Independent Trustees considered the financial support the Adviser and its affiliates have afforded the Money Market Funds, such as the voluntary fee waivers and reimbursements made to maintain a non-negative yield for the Money Market Funds more recently, and noted the material increase in these waivers and reimbursements due to the economic environment for money market funds over the previous year. In addition, the Independent Trustees considered the Adviser’s performance in fulfilling its responsibilities for overseeing its own and the Sub-Advisers’ compliance with the Funds’ compliance policies and procedures and investment objectives. In assessing the Adviser’s reputation, the Independent Trustees considered a recent regulatory matter affecting the parent of the Adviser which did not relate to the Funds.
The Independent Trustees also examined the nature, quality and extent of the services that the Sub-Advisers provide to their respective Funds. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the investment performance and the portfolio risk characteristics achieved by the Sub-Advisers and the Sub-Advisers’ portfolio management teams, their experience, and the quality of their compliance programs, among other factors.
Based on these considerations, the Independent Trustees concluded that they were satisfied with the nature, quality and extent of the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers, and that the services provided supported continuance of the Agreements.
Investment Performance of the Funds, Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees considered the investment performance of each Fund over various periods of time, as compared to one another as well as to comparable funds and one or more benchmark indices. In the context of the World Selection Funds, the Independent Trustees took note of the expenses of underlying funds and considered the performance of the World Selection Funds, and particularly the Aggressive Strategy Fund, in light of the World Selection Funds’ relative positioning and peers. In the context of the HSBC Growth Portfolio, although the Independent Trustees noted the recent underperformance of the Portfolio in light of data provided by Lipper, it favorably noted the consistent performance record of the Portfolio and the strong compliance culture at the Portfolio’s Sub-Adviser. In the context of the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio, the Independent Trustees considered that the Portfolio was relatively expensive as compared to its peers, yet was also characterized by relatively high return as well as higher volatility. With respect to the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio, the Independent Trustees also considered the compliance efforts of the Portfolio’s Sub-Adviser.
In the context of the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the Independent Trustees found the expenses of the HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund to be reasonable and its performance to be acceptable, but the Independent Trustees noted that the HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund had performed less competitively. With respect to the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the Independent Trustees also requested and received information regarding the Funds’ integration into the overall structure of the HSBC Family of Funds. In the context of the HSBC Frontier
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Markets Fund, the Independent Trustees noted the Fund’s fees and expenses as compared to its peers, and requested and received information regarding the advisory fee split between the Adviser and the Fund’s Sub-Adviser. In the context of the Money Market Funds, the Independent Trustees considered the yield support that the Adviser had provided in order for the Money Market Funds to maintain positive yield and performance. The Independent Trustees determined that the Funds’ investment performance and the Adviser’s actions to improve investment performance, where applicable, supported continuance of the Agreements, although they would continue to monitor performance closely, particularly for those Funds that had weaker performance compared to peers during the past year.
Costs of Services and Profits Realized by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees considered the costs of the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers and the expense ratios of the Funds more generally. The Independent Trustees considered the Adviser’s profitability and costs, including by means of an analysis provided by the Adviser of its estimated profitability. The Independent Trustees also considered the contractual advisory fees under the Advisory Contracts and compared those fees to the fees of similar funds, which had been compiled and provided by Lipper. The Independent Trustees determined that the Funds had advisory fees competitive with those of similar funds, noting the resources, expertise and experience provided to the Funds.
The Independent Trustees also compared the advisory fees under the Advisory Contracts with those of other accounts managed by the Adviser, and evaluated information provided as to why advisory fees may differ between mutual funds and other advisory relationships, including increased shareholder activity. In this regard, the Independent Trustees concluded that differences in advisory fees assessed between the Funds and other accounts managed by the Adviser did not preclude approval of the Advisory Contracts.
With respect to the administrative support services provided by the Adviser, the Independent Trustees considered the fees charged for such services and evaluated the fees payable to the Adviser and those payable to other providers of administrative services to the Funds. At the request of the Independent Trustees, the Adviser provided information regarding the pricing differential between the retail and institutional shares’ respective Operational Support Services Agreements. The Independent Trustees determined that the differences are inline with industry standards and recognize the different services provided to retail as compared to institutional shareholders. The Independent Trustees also considered the relative split of the administration fee between the Adviser and Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc., as sub-administrator and other factors relevant to their consideration of these arrangements.
The Independent Trustees also considered the costs of the services provided by the Sub-Advisers, as applicable; the relative portions of the total advisory fees paid to the Sub-Advisers and retained by the Adviser in its capacity as the Funds’ investment adviser; and the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. In the context of the HSBC Growth Portfolio, the Independent Trustees considered the sub-advisory fee breakpoint structure. The Independent Trustees also considered information on profitability where provided by the Sub-Advisers.
The Independent Trustees concluded that the advisory fees payable to the Adviser and the Funds’ Sub-Advisers were fair and reasonable in light of the factors set forth above.
Other Relevant Considerations. The Independent Trustees also considered the extent to which the Adviser and Sub-Advisers had achieved economies of scale, whether the Funds’ expense structure permits economies of scale to be shared with the Funds’ shareholders and, if so, the extent to which the Funds’ shareholders may benefit from these economies of scale. The Independent Trustees also noted the contractual caps on certain Fund expenses provided by the Adviser with respect to many of the Funds in order to reduce or control the overall operating expenses of those Funds. The Independent Trustees also considered certain information provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers with respect to the benefits they may derive from their relationships with the Funds, including the fact that certain Sub-Advisers have “soft dollar” arrangements with respect to Fund brokerage and therefore may have access to research and other permissible services.
In light of the above considerations and such other factors and information it considered relevant, the Board by a unanimous vote of those present in person at the meeting (including a separate unanimous vote of the Independent Trustees present in person at the meeting) approved the continuation of each Agreement.
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Table of Shareholder Expenses—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
As a shareholder of the Funds, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchases, redemption fees and exchange fees; and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution fees and other Fund expenses. These examples are intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Funds and to compare the costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
These examples are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period from November 1, 2012 through April 30, 2013.
Actual Example
The table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information below, 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 table under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
| | | | Beginning Account Value 11/1/12 | | Ending Account Value 4/30/13 | | Expenses Paid During Period* 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 | | Annualized Expense Ratio During Period 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | Class A | | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | | $ | 1,028.50 | | | | $ | 6.04 | | | | 1.20 | % | |
| | Class I | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,031.00 | | | | | 4.28 | | | | 0.85 | % | |
| | Class S | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,031.50 | | | | | 3.78 | | | | 0.75 | % | |
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | Class A | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,045.60 | | | | | 6.09 | | | | 1.20 | % | |
| | Class I | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,047.40 | | | | | 4.31 | | | | 0.85 | % | |
| | Class S | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,047.90 | | | | | 3.81 | | | | 0.75 | % | |
Frontier Markets Fund | | Class A | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,182.60 | | | | | 11.91 | | | | 2.20 | % | |
| | Class I | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,183.90 | | | | | 10.02 | | | | 1.85 | % | |
Total Return Fund | | Class A | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 999.20 | | | | | 6.84 | | | | 1.38 | % | |
| | Class I | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,000.50 | | | | | 5.56 | | | | 1.12 | % | |
| | Class S | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,001.00 | | | | | 4.96 | | | | 1.00 | % | |
RMB Fixed Income Fund | | Class A | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,039.50 | | | | | 7.33 | | | | 1.45 | % | |
| | Class I | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,041.20 | | | | | 5.57 | | | | 1.10 | % | |
| | Class S | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,041.70 | | | | | 5.06 | | | | 1.00 | % | |
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* | Expenses are equal to the average account value over the period, multiplied by the Fund’s annualized expense ratio, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one half year period). |
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Table of Shareholder Expenses—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on each 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 this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of 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 sales charges (loads), redemption fees, or exchange fees. Therefore, the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | Beginning Account Value 11/1/12 | | Ending Account Value 4/30/13 | | Expenses Paid During Period* 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 | | Annualized Expense Ratio During Period 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 |
Emerging Markets Debt Fund | | Class A | | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | | $ | 1,018.84 | | | | $ | 6.01 | | | | 1.20 | % | |
| | Class I | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,020.58 | | | | | 4.26 | | | | 0.85 | % | |
| | Class S | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,021.08 | | | | | 3.76 | | | | 0.75 | % | |
Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund | | Class A | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,018.84 | | | | | 6.01 | | | | 1.20 | % | |
| | Class I | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,020.58 | | | | | 4.26 | | | | 0.85 | % | |
| | Class S | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,021.08 | | | | | 3.76 | | | | 0.75 | % | |
Frontier Markets Fund | | Class A | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,013.88 | | | | | 10.99 | | | | 2.20 | % | |
| | Class I | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,015.62 | | | | | 9.25 | | | | 1.85 | % | |
Total Return Fund | | Class A | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,017.95 | | | | | 6.90 | | | | 1.38 | % | |
| | Class I | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,019.24 | | | | | 5.61 | | | | 1.12 | % | |
| | Class S | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,019.84 | | | | | 5.01 | | | | 1.00 | % | |
RMB Fixed Income Fund | | Class A | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,017.60 | | | | | 7.25 | | | | 1.45 | % | |
| | Class I | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,019.34 | | | | | 5.51 | | | | 1.10 | % | |
| | Class S | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,019.84 | | | | | 5.01 | | | | 1.00 | % | |
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* | Expenses are equal to the average account value over the period, multiplied by the Fund’s annualized expense ratio, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one half year period). |
Other Information (Unaudited):
A description of the policies and procedures the Funds use to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities of each Fund, and information regarding how the Funds voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30th is available (i) without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-525-5757 for HSBC Bank USA and HSBC Brokerage (USA) Inc. clients and 1-800-782-8183 for all other shareholders; (ii) on the Funds’ website at ww.emfunds.us.hsbc.com or at www.investorfunds.us.hsbc.com; and (iii) on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“Commission”) website at http://www.sec.gov.
The Funds file their complete schedules of portfolio holdings with the Commission for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Funds’ Forms N-Q are available on the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov. The Funds’ Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the Commission’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. and information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. The Funds’ Schedules of Investments will be available no later than 60 days after each period end, without charge, on the Funds’ website at www.emfunds.us.hsbc.com or at www.investorfunds.us.hsbc.com.
An investment in a Fund is not a deposit of HSBC Bank USA, N.A., and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS: INVESTMENT ADVISER AND ADMINISTRATOR HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. 452 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10018 SHAREHOLDER SERVICING AGENTS For HSBC Bank USA, N.A. and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. Clients: HSBC Bank USA, N.A. 452 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10018 1-888-525-5757 For All Other Shareholders: HSBC Funds P.O. Box 182845 Columbus, OH 43218 1-800-782-8183 TRANSFER AGENT Citi Fund Services 3435 Stelzer Road Columbus, OH 43219 DISTRIBUTOR Foreside Distribution Services, L.P. 690 Taylor Road, Suite 150 Gahanna, Ohio 43230 | CUSTODIAN The Northern Trust Company 50 South LaSalle Street Chicago, IL 60603 INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM KPMG LLP 191 West Nationwide Blvd., Suite 500 Columbus, OH 43215 LEGAL COUNSEL Dechert LLP 1900 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 |

The HSBC Family of Funds are distributed by Foreside Distribution Services, L.P. This document must be preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus for the HSBC Funds, which you should read carefully before you invest or send money.
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HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc.
HSBC World Selection™ Funds
Semi-Annual Report
April 30, 2013
WORLD SELECTION FUNDS | Class A | | Class B | | Class C |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | HAAGX | | HBAGX | | HCAGX |
Balanced Strategy Fund | HAGRX | | HSBGX | | HCGRX |
Moderate Strategy Fund | HSAMX | | HSBMX | | HSCMX |
Conservative Strategy Fund | HACGX | | HBCGX | | HCCGX |
Income Strategy Fund | HINAX | | HINBX | | HINCX |

Table of Contents |
HSBC World Selection Funds Semi-Annual Report - April 30, 2013 |
Glossary of Terms | | |
Chairman’s Message | | 4 |
President’s Message | | 5 |
Commentary From the Investment Manager | | 6 |
Portfolio Reviews | | 8 |
Portfolio Composition | | 18 |
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Schedules of Portfolio Investments | | |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | | 20 |
Balanced Strategy Fund | | 21 |
Moderate Strategy Fund | | 22 |
Conservative Strategy Fund | | 23 |
Income Strategy Fund | | 24 |
Statements of Assets and Liabilities | | 25 |
Statements of Operations | | 26 |
Statements of Changes in Net Assets | | 27 |
Financial Highlights | | 33 |
Notes to Financial Statements | | 38 |
Investment Adviser Contract Approval | | 48 |
Table of Shareholder Expenses | | 51 |
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HSBC Portfolios | | |
Schedules of Portfolio Investments | | |
HSBC Growth Portfolio | | 53 |
HSBC Opportunity Portfolio | | 55 |
Statements of Assets and Liabilities | | 57 |
Statements of Operations | | 58 |
Statements of Changes in Net Assets | | 59 |
Financial Highlights | | 60 |
Notes to Financial Statements | | 61 |
Investment Adviser Contract Approval | | 66 |
Table of Shareholder Expenses | | 69 |
Other Information | | 70 |
The World Selection Funds (the “Funds”) are “fund of funds” which aim to provide superior risk adjusted returns relative to a single asset class investment over the long term by investing primarily in underlying funds. The underlying funds may include mutual funds managed by HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”), mutual funds managed by investment advisers that are not associated with the Adviser and exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) (collectively, “Underlying Funds”). The Funds may also purchase or hold exchange traded notes (“ETNs”). The Funds’ broadly diversified investment approach across various asset classes and investment styles aims to contribute to achieving their objectives. Each World Selection Fund has a strategic asset allocation which represents a carefully constructed blend of asset classes, regions and currencies to meet longer term investment goals.
BofA Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index is an unmanaged index that tracks the performance of USD-denominated, below investment grade corporate debt publicly issued in the U.S. domestic market.
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index generally representative of investment-grade, fixed-rate debt issues, including government, corporate, asset-backed, and mortgage-backed securities, with maturities of at least one year.
Barclays U.S. High-Yield Corporate Bond Index is an unmanaged index that measures the non-investment grade, USD-denominated, fixed-rate, taxable corporate bond market. Securities are classified as high-yield if the middle rating of Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P is Ba1/BB+/BB+ or below. The index excludes emerging markets debt.
Citigroup U.S. Domestic 3-Month Treasury Bill Index is an unmanaged market value-weighted index of public obligations of the U.S. Treasury with maturities of three months.
Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) measures the market value of the goods and services produced by labor and property in the United States.
Morgan Stanley Capital International Europe Australasia and Far East (“MSCI EAFE”) Index is an unmanaged free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets, excluding the U.S. & Canada. The MSCI EAFE Index consists of the following 22 developed market countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
Morgan Stanley Capital International Emerging Market (“MSCI EM”) Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure equity market performance of emerging markets. The MSCI EM Index consists of the following 21 emerging market countries: Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey.
Russell 2000® Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the small-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe. The Russell 2000® Index is a subset of the Russell 3000® Index representing approximately 10% of the total market capitalization of that index. It includes approximately 2000 of the smallest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership.
Standard & Poor’s 500 (“S&P 500”) Index is an unmanaged index that is widely regarded as a gauge of the U.S. equities market. This index includes 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy. The S&P 500 Index focuses on the large-cap segment of the market, with approximately 75% coverage of U.S. equities.
Securities indices assume reinvestment of all distributions and interest payments and do not take in account brokerage fees or expenses. Securities in the Funds do not match those in the indices and performance of the Funds will differ. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
June 24, 2013
Fellow Shareholders:
The recently-concluded semi-annual period was a good one for the HSBC World Selection Funds, with all five of the Strategies delivering positive performance during the six months ended April 30, 2013.
More specific information about each fund’s performance appears in their respective Portfolio Reviews in the following pages of this report. These investment results were achieved in an environment marked by uncertainty about the economic and market outlook, including speculation about future Federal Reserve policy and its market effects. We have no crystal ball, but our portfolio managers generally view the outlook as mildly positive. Several factors contributed to this outlook, including:
- The slowly improving U.S. economic growth, with little signs of inflation, provides a positive backdrop for stocks.
- Any normalization of Federal Reserve policy, and an end to so-called “quantitative easing,” should boost interest rates and improve returns in our money market offerings.
- A global economic recovery carries positive implications for emerging and frontier debt and equity markets, which is important for our roster of emerging market products.
That said, past performance is no guarantee of future results. To that end, the board and HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. constantly monitor the funds’ investment results, meeting regularly with portfolio managers and effect management change when we think it to be in our shareholders’ best interests. When managers consistently under-perform, we monitor their performance more closely and add additional oversight and scrutiny.
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently released for comment a number of proposals relating to money market fund reform. These included a floating net asset value and/or liquidity fees and redemption gates for certain types of money market funds. We will continue to monitor these developments as we work to provide the best money market fund structures and products to meet the needs of our shareholders.
The HSBC Funds lost a great friend and major contributor on April 28, 2013, when Larry Robbins, a trustee for 23 years and our chairman for eight years, succumbed to cancer, which he had fought with his usual grace and courage for almost five years. Larry resigned from the Board in December 2010, but remained an insightful counselor to me and a cheerleader to all of us. There’s no replacing a person like Larry.
His resignation did, however, open a vacancy on the Board, and this month we appointed Susan Gause to the board. The search was exhaustive and choosing among many attractive candidates wasn’t easy, we’re delighted to welcome Susan to the board. Susan has broad asset management experience having served as the CEO and CFO of a major asset management company and we believe that experience will serve HSBC Funds’ shareholders well.
Sincerely,

Michael Seely |
Chairman, HSBC Funds |
This literature must be preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus for the HSBC Funds. Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses of the investment company carefully before investing. The prospectus contains this and other important information about the investment company. To obtain more information, for clients of HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., please call 1-888-525-5757 or visit www.investorfunds.us.hsbc.com. For other investors and prospective investors, please call the Funds directly at 1-888-936-4722. Investors should read the prospectus carefully before investing or sending money.
Dear Shareholder,
We are pleased to send to you the HSBC Funds semi-annual report, covering the six-month fiscal period ended April 30, 2013. This report contains detailed information about your Funds’ investments and results. We encourage you to review it carefully.
Inside these pages you will find a letter from the Funds’ Chairman, Michael Seely, in which he comments on recent market developments. The report also includes commentary from the Funds’ portfolio managers in which they discuss the investment markets and their respective Fund’s performance. Each commentary is accompanied by the Fund’s return for the period, listed alongside the returns of its benchmark index and peer group average for comparative purposes.
In closing, we would like to thank you for investing in the HSBC Funds. We continue to focus the HSBC Fund Family on investment solutions to assist our shareholders in reaching their financial goals. We appreciate the trust you place in us, and will continue working to earn it. Please contact us at any time with questions or concerns.
Sincerely,

Richard A. Fabietti |
President |
Commentary From the Investment Manager |
HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. |
U.S. Economic Review
The global economy experienced moderate growth during the six-month period between November 1, 2012 and April 30, 2013. Many major economies produced disappointing economic data during much of the period. Consumer spending weakened and fiscal problems continued to plague the eurozone. However, U.S. equity markets made strong gains as the housing market showed significant improvement and consumer spending increased. Markets continued to benefit from the Federal Reserve Board’s decision to maintain the federal funds rate—a key factor in lending rates—at a historically low target range between 0.00% and 0.25% through 2014.
The period began with equities in the U.S. retreating somewhat from gains made in the previous quarter. This pullback was caused in part by renewed concerns about the eurozone debt crisis and the looming threat in the U.S. of the “fiscal cliff”—a collection of spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to take effect in January 2013. Markets both in the U.S. and abroad performed much stronger during the first quarter of 2013 due to improving circumstances in the eurozone and positive domestic economic data. Still, new signs of slowing economic growth—and concerns about political crises in Italy and Cyprus—contributed to higher volatility in the equity markets during the spring. Despite these issues, in addition to lingering weakness in the labor market, equity U.S. markets ended the period significantly higher than six months earlier.
The housing market was the area of the U.S. economy that showed the clearest signs of improvement. Data indicated that home prices were rising and sales were increasing. Home prices in February made their largest year-over-year gain since May 2006. These positive developments produced optimism that the market could finally be headed towards a full recovery from its 2008 collapse.
Another development that supported recent market gains was the European Central Bank’s efforts to reduce borrowing costs for peripheral European countries. These efforts included an aggressive government bond-buying program known as Outright Monetary Transactions. The formation of a governing political coalition in Italy also helped alleviate concerns about a political crisis in that country. Nonetheless, lingering sovereign debt and fiscal problems persist in Europe, and the continent remains in recession.
The unemployment rate continued to edge downward, but remained well above pre-recession levels. Real income and the consumer savings rate remained weak during the period, while consumer confidence declined slightly. Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded during each of the last five months of the period, though the rate of growth slowed.
Emerging markets as a whole performed poorly during the period, as the dollar gained strength and commodity prices fell. Economic data from China were mixed, though there were no signs that its economy was about to suffer the “hard landing” that some analyst had feared.
U.S. Gross Domestic Product1 (GDP) grew at a rate of 0.4% during the fourth quarter of 2012—the slowest rate since the first quarter of 2011. A preliminary estimate puts GDP growth during the first quarter of 2013 at 2.5%.
Market Review
The period began with a steep sell-off in U.S. markets that bottomed out in mid-November. Equities then reversed direction and began a strong rally that persisted through the duration of the period with only a few brief interruptions. Equities performed well despite investors’ concerns that the political deadlock over the fiscal cliff and the subsequent onset of automatic budget cuts—known as the sequester—would undermine economic growth. A political compromise that avoided the most dire consequences of the fiscal cliff, along with improvement in the housing market, helped buoy investor confidence and fuel gains in the equity markets.
During the period, small- and mid-cap stocks outperformed large-cap stocks, and emerging markets generally underperformed developed economies. The Russell 2000® Index1 of small-company stocks returned 16.58% and the MSCI Emerging Market Index1 returned 5.40%.
Stocks in developed economies rose. Japanese equities performed especially well due to optimism regarding its central bank’s efforts to revive its economy. European stocks made gains, but lagged well behind U.S. markets. The S&P 500 Index1 of large-company stocks returned 14.42% for the six months through April 2013. That compared to a 17.18% return for the MSCI EAFE Index1 of international stocks in developed markets.
Among fixed-income securities, yields on U.S. Treasury bonds increased during the period, sending prices lower. Investment-grade corporate bonds also declined. Investors sought the higher yields offered by high-yield corporate bonds and high-yield municipal bonds, which were the best-performing fixed-income sectors during the quarter. The Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index1, which tracks the broad investment-grade fixed-income market, returned 0.90% for the six months through April, while the Barclays U.S. High-Yield Corporate Bond Index1 returned 7.26%. Fixed-income markets in Europe generated modest returns, while fixed-income in emerging markets ended the period higher, though it performed poorly during the first quarter of 2013 following strong gains throughout 2012.
1 For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms.
Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
Aggressive Strategy Fund |
(Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares)
by Randeep Brar, CFA, Senior Vice President/Portfolio Manager
Caroline Hitch, Senior Portfolio Manager
The Aggressive Strategy Fund (the “Fund”) is a “fund of funds” which seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in underlying funds. The underlying funds may include mutual funds managed by HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”), mutual funds managed by investment advisers that are not associated with the Adviser and exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) (collectively, “Underlying Funds”). The Fund may also purchase or hold exchange traded notes (“ETNs”).
Investment Concerns
Allocation Risk: The risk that the Adviser’s target asset and sector allocations and changes in target asset and sector allocations cause the Fund to underperform other similar funds or cause you to lose money, and that the Fund may not achieve its target asset and sector allocations.
Underlying Fund Selection Risk: The risk that the Fund may invest in Underlying Funds that underperform other similar funds or the markets more generally, due to poor investment decisions by the investment adviser(s) for the Underlying Funds or otherwise. Underlying Funds also have their own expenses, which the Fund bears in addition to its own expenses.
Equity Securities Risk: A portion of the assets of the Fund is allocated to Underlying Funds investing primarily in equity securities. Therefore, the value of the Fund may increase or decrease as a result of its indirect interest in equity securities.
Fixed Income Securities Risk: A portion of the assets of the Fund is allocated to Underlying Funds investing primarily in fixed income securities. Therefore, the value of the Fund may increase or decrease as a result of its indirect interest in fixed income securities.
Foreign Securities/Emerging Markets Risk: Foreign securities, including those of emerging market issuers, are subject to additional risks including international trade, currency, political, and regulatory risks. Securities of emerging market issuers generally have more risk than securities issued by issuers in more developed foreign markets.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Market Commentary
The Fund returned 12.64% (without sales charge) for the Class A Shares for the six-month period ended April 30, 2013. That compared to a 14.42% total return for the Fund’s primary benchmark, the S&P 500 Index1.
The Fund measures performance against several additional reference indices: the MSCI EAFE Index1 (17.18% return for the 6 months through April 30, 2013), Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index1 (0.90% return), Bank of America/Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index1 (7.26% return) and Citigroup U.S. Domestic 3-Month Treasury Bill Index1 (0.04% return).
Portfolio Performance
During the six-month period, central banks such as the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of Japan continued to utilize extraordinary measures to encourage global economic activity. In the U.S., President Obama was re-elected and led attempts to avoid the “fiscal cliff”, which was resolved through an agreement on January 1, 2013. Economic data in the U.S. related to labor and housing data continued to be generally positive, despite the payroll tax increase at the beginning of 2013 and “sequestration”, or automatic spending cuts, which took effect in the U.S. on March 1, 2013. The ECB’s announcement of Outright Monetary Transactions and its commitment, in the words of ECB President Mario Draghi, “to do whatever it takes” to preserve the euro has generally reduced volatility in Europe, despite some potentially unnerving events such as the messy bailout of Cyprus.
Given the positive macroeconomic backdrop, “risky” asset classes such as equities and high-yield bonds performed well during the period. In that environment, the Fund benefited from its exposure to these asset classes, including overweight positions in small-, mid- and large-cap U.S. equities and international equities, which performed well in absolute terms during the period. That said, the Fund generated lower absolute returns than its primary reference index due primarily to its exposure to less-risky asset classes such as bonds and cash investments, which did not perform as well as stocks.†
Within the Fund’s fixed-income segment, we retained our preference for corporate bonds such as U.S. high-yield bonds over government bonds throughout the period. That strategy added value to the portfolio. Government bonds remained our least-preferred asset class during the period, as we felt there was limited value to be found in this bond segment due to extremely low yields, which were often in negative territory after taking inflation into account.†
Within alternative asset classes, our preference for property was retained during the period and contributed to performance. Due to the underlying real assets, listed property is a relatively defensive investment and can provide a high-quality income stream which is appealing to investors in the current low-interest-rate environment. Private equity performed very well during the period, rewarding investors.†
† | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
1 | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
| Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
Aggressive Strategy Fund |
| | | | | | | | | | Average Annual | | Expense |
Fund Performance | | | | | | | | | | Total Return (%) | | Ratio(%)4 |
| | Inception | | Six | | 1 | | 5 | | Since | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | | Date | | Months* | | Year | | Year | | Inception | | Gross | | Net |
Aggressive Strategy Fund Class A1 | | | 2/14/05 | | | | 7.02 | | | 6.95 | | 0.62 | | | 4.96 | | | 2.26 | | 2.10 |
Aggressive Strategy Fund Class B2 | | | 2/9/05 | | | | 8.19 | | | 7.74 | | 0.90 | | | 5.07 | | | 3.01 | | 2.85 |
Aggressive Strategy Fund Class C3 | | | 6/9/05 | | | | 11.24 | | | 10.78 | | 0.91 | | | 5.34 | | | 3.01 | | 2.85 |
S&P 500 Index5 | | | — | | | | 14.42 | | | 16.89 | | 5.21 | | | 5.82 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
MSCI EAFE Index5 | | | — | | | | 17.18 | | | 19.96 | | -0.44 | | | 5.43 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index5 | | | — | | | | 0.90 | | | 3.68 | | 5.72 | | | 5.22 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
BofA Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index5 | | | — | | | | 7.26 | | | 14.04 | | 10.83 | | | 8.56 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
Citigroup U.S. Domestic 3-Month Treasury Bill Index5 | | | — | | | | 0.04 | | | 0.08 | | 0.28 | | | 1.76 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect the taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower.
Certain returns shown include monies received by series of HSBC Portfolios (the “Portfolios”), in which the Fund invests, in respect of one-time class action settlements. As a result, the Fund’s total returns for those periods were higher than they would have been had the Portfolios not received the payments.
* | Aggregate total return. |
1 | Reflects the maximum sales charge of 5.00%. |
2 | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 4.00%. |
3 | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 1.00%. |
4 | Reflects the expense ratios as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. The Adviser has entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement with the Fund under which it will limit total expenses of the Fund (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses and estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investments in investment companies other than the HSBC Growth Portfolio and the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio) to an annual rate of 1.50%, 2.25%, and 2.25% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. The expense limitation shall be in effect until March 1, 2014. The expense ratios reflected include Acquired Fund fees and expenses. Additional information pertaining to the April 30, 2013 expense ratios can be found in the financial highlights. |
5 | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
6 | Return for the period February 9, 2005 to April 30, 2013. |
The Fund’s performance is primarily measured against the S&P 500 Index, an unmanaged index that is widely regarded as a gauge of the U.S. equities market. This index includes 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy. Although the S&P 500 Index focuses on the large-cap segment of the market, with approximately 75% coverage of U.S. equities, it is also an ideal proxy for the total market. The performance of the index does not reflect the deduction of expenses associated with a mutual fund, such as investment management and fund accounting fees. The Fund’s performance reflects the deduction of fees for these value-added services. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
Balanced Strategy Fund (Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares) |
by Randeep Brar, CFA, Senior Vice President/Portfolio Manager
Caroline Hitch, Senior Portfolio Manager
The Balanced Strategy Fund (the “Fund”) is a “fund of funds” which seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in underlying funds. The underlying funds may include mutual funds managed by HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”), mutual funds managed by investment advisers that are not associated with the Adviser and exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) (collectively, “Underlying Funds”). The Fund may also purchase or hold exchange traded notes (“ETNs”).
Investment Concerns
Allocation Risk: The risk that the Adviser’s target asset and sector allocations and changes in target asset and sector allocations cause the Fund to underperform other similar funds or cause you to lose money, and that the Fund may not achieve its target asset and sector allocations.
Underlying Fund Selection Risk: The risk that the Fund may invest in Underlying Funds that underperform other similar funds or the markets more generally, due to poor investment decisions by the investment adviser(s) for the Underlying Funds or otherwise. Underlying Funds also have their own expenses, which the Fund bears in addition to its own expenses.
Equity Securities Risk: A portion of the assets of the Fund is allocated to Underlying Funds investing primarily in equity securities. Therefore, the value of the Fund may increase or decrease as a result of its indirect interest in equity securities.
Fixed Income Securities Risk: A portion of the assets of the Fund is allocated to Underlying Funds investing primarily in fixed income securities. Therefore, the value of the Fund may increase or decrease as a result of its indirect interest in fixed income securities.
Foreign Securities/Emerging Markets Risk: Foreign securities, including those of emerging market issuers, are subject to additional risks including international trade, currency, political, and regulatory risks. Securities of emerging market issuers generally have more risk than securities issued by issuers in more developed foreign markets.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Market Commentary
The Fund returned 10.12% (without sales charge) for the Class A Shares for the six-month period ended April 30, 2013. That compared to a 14.42% total return for the Fund’s primary benchmark, the S&P 500 Index1.
The Fund measures performance against several additional reference indices: the MSCI EAFE Index1 (17.18% return for the six months through April 30, 2013), Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index1 (0.90% return), Bank of America/Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index1 (7.26% return) and Citigroup U.S. Domestic 3-Month Treasury Bill Index1 (0.04% return).
Portfolio Performance
During the six-month period, central banks such as the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of Japan continued to utilize extraordinary measures to encourage global economic activity. In the U.S., President Obama was re-elected and led attempts to avoid the “fiscal cliff”, which was resolved through an agreement on January 1, 2013. Economic data in the U.S. related to labor and housing data continued to be generally positive, despite the payroll tax increase at the beginning of 2013 and “sequestration”, or automatic spending cuts, which took effect in the U.S. on March 1, 2013. The ECB’s announcement of Outright Monetary Transactions and its commitment, in the words of ECB President Mario Draghi, “to do whatever it takes” to preserve the euro has generally reduced volatility in Europe, despite some potentially unnerving events such as the messy bailout of Cyprus.
Given the positive macroeconomic backdrop, “risky” asset classes such as equities and high-yield bonds performed well during the period. In that environment, the Fund benefited from its exposure to these asset classes, including overweight positions in small-, mid- and large-cap U.S. equities and international equities, which performed well in absolute terms during the period. That said, the Fund generated lower absolute returns than its primary reference index due primarily to its exposure to less-risky asset classes such as bonds and cash investments, which did not perform as well as stocks.†
Within the Fund’s fixed-income segment, we retained our preference for corporate bonds such as U.S. high-yield bonds over government bonds throughout the period. That strategy added value to the portfolio. Government bonds remained our least-preferred asset class during the period, as we felt there was limited value to be found in this bond segment due to extremely low yields, which were often in negative territory after taking inflation into account.†
Within alternative asset classes, our preference for property was retained during the period and contributed to performance. Due to the underlying real assets, listed property is a relatively defensive investment and can provide a high-quality income stream which is appealing to investors in the current low-interest-rate environment. Private equity performed very well during the period, rewarding investors.†
† | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
1 | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
| Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
Balanced Strategy Fund | |
| | | | | | | | | | Average Annual | | Expense |
Fund Performance | | | | | | | | | | Total Return (%) | | Ratio(%)4 |
| | Inception | | Six | | 1 | | 5 | | Since | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | | Date | | Months* | | Year | | Year | | Inception | | Gross | | Net |
Balanced Strategy Fund Class A1 | | | 2/8/05 | | | | 4.59 | | | 6.34 | | 2.07 | | | 5.39 | | | 1.77 | | 1.77 |
Balanced Strategy Fund Class B2 | | | 2/1/05 | | | | 5.68 | | | 7.09 | | 2.35 | | | 5.60 | | | 2.52 | | 2.52 |
Balanced Strategy Fund Class C3 | | | 4/27/05 | | | | 8.67 | | | 10.07 | | 2.35 | | | 5.91 | | | 2.52 | | 2.52 |
S&P 500 Index5 | | | — | | | | 14.42 | | | 16.89 | | 5.21 | | | 5.85 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
MSCI EAFE Index5 | | | — | | | | 17.18 | | | 19.96 | | -0.44 | | | 5.41 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index5 | | | — | | | | 0.90 | | | 3.68 | | 5.72 | | | 5.30 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
BofA Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index5 | | | — | | | | 7.26 | | | 14.04 | | 10.83 | | | 8.65 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
Citigroup U.S. Domestic 3-Month Treasury Bill Index5 | | | — | | | | 0.04 | | | 0.08 | | 0.28 | | | 1.75 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect the taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower.
Certain returns shown include monies received by series of HSBC Portfolios (the “Portfolios”), in which the Fund invests, in respect of one-time class action settlements. As a result, the Fund’s total returns for those periods were higher than they would have been had the Portfolios not received the payments.
* | Aggregate total return. |
1 | Reflects the maximum sales charge of 5.00%. |
2 | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 4.00%. |
3 | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 1.00%. |
4 | Reflects the expense ratios as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. The expense ratios reflected include Acquired Fund fees and expenses. Additional information pertaining to the April 30, 2013 expense ratios can be found in the financial highlights. |
5 | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
6 | Return for the period February 1, 2005 to April 30, 2013. |
The Fund’s performance is primarily measured against the S&P 500 Index, an unmanaged index that is widely regarded as a gauge of the U.S. equities market. This index includes 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy. Although the S&P 500 focuses on the large-cap segment of the market, with approximately 75% coverage of U.S. equities, it is also an ideal proxy for the total market. The performance of the index does not reflect the deduction of expenses associated with a mutual fund, such as investment management and fund accounting fees. The Fund’s performance reflects the deduction of fees for these value-added services. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
Moderate Strategy Fund (Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares) |
by Randeep Brar, CFA, Senior Vice President/Portfolio Manager
Caroline Hitch, Senior Portfolio Manager
The Moderate Strategy Fund (the “Fund”) is a “fund of funds” which seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in underlying funds. The underlying funds may include mutual funds managed by HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”), mutual funds managed by investment advisers that are not associated with the Adviser and exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) (collectively, “Underlying Funds”). The Fund may also purchase or hold exchange traded notes (“ETNs”).
Investment Concerns
Allocation Risk: The risk that the Adviser’s target asset and sector allocations and changes in target asset and sector allocations cause the Fund to underperform other similar funds or cause you to lose money, and that the Fund may not achieve its target asset and sector allocations.
Underlying Fund Selection Risk: The risk that the Fund may invest in Underlying Funds that underperform other similar funds or the markets more generally, due to poor investment decisions by the investment adviser(s) for the Underlying Funds or otherwise. Underlying Funds also have their own expenses, which the Fund bears in addition to its own expenses.
Equity Securities Risk: A portion of the assets of the Fund is allocated to Underlying Funds investing primarily in equity securities. Therefore, the value of the Fund may increase or decrease as a result of its indirect interest in equity securities.
Fixed Income Securities Risk: A portion of the assets of the Fund is allocated to Underlying Funds investing primarily in fixed income securities. Therefore, the value of the Fund may increase or decrease as a result of its indirect interest in fixed income securities.
Foreign Securities/Emerging Markets Risk: Foreign securities, including those of emerging market issuers, are subject to additional risks including international trade, currency, political, and regulatory risks. Securities of emerging market issuers generally have more risk than securities issued by issuers in more developed foreign markets.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Market Commentary
The Fund returned 7.94% (without sales charge) for the Class A Shares for the six-month period ended April 30, 2013. That compared to a 0.90% total return for the Fund’s primary benchmark, the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index1.
The Fund measures performance against several additional reference indices: the S&P 500 Index1 (14.42% return for the six-months through April 30, 2013), MSCI EAFE Index1 (17.18% return for the six months through April 30, 2013), Bank of America/Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index1 (7.26% return) and Citigroup U.S. Domestic 3-Month Treasury Bill Index1 (0.04% return).
Portfolio Performance
During the six-month period, central banks such as the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of Japan continued to utilize extraordinary measures to encourage global economic activity. In the U.S., President Obama was re-elected and led attempts to avoid the “fiscal cliff”, which was resolved through an agreement on January 1, 2013. Economic data in the U.S. related to labor and housing data continued to be generally positive, despite the payroll tax increase at the beginning of 2013 and “sequestration”, or automatic spending cuts, which took effect in the U.S. on March 1, 2013. The ECB’s announcement of Outright Monetary Transactions and its commitment, in the words of ECB President Mario Draghi, “to do whatever it takes” to preserve the euro has generally reduced volatility in Europe, despite some potentially unnerving events such as the messy bailout of Cyprus.
Given the positive macroeconomic backdrop, “risky” asset classes such as equities and high-yield bonds performed well during the period. In that environment, the Fund benefited from its exposure to these asset classes, including overweight positions in small-, mid- and large-cap U.S. equities and international equities, which performed well in absolute terms during the period.†
Within the Fund’s fixed-income segment, we retained our preference for corporate bonds such as U.S. high-yield bonds over government bonds throughout the period. That strategy added value to the portfolio. Government bonds remained our least-preferred asset class during the period, as we felt there was limited value to be found in this bond segment due to extremely low yields, which were often in negative territory after taking inflation into account.†
Within alternative asset classes, our preference for property was retained during the period and contributed to performance. Due to the underlying real assets, listed property is a relatively defensive investment and can provide a high-quality income stream which is appealing to investors in the current low-interest-rate environment. Private equity performed very well during the period, rewarding investors.†
† | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
1 | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
| Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
Moderate Strategy Fund | |
| | | | | | | | | | Average Annual | | | Expense |
Fund Performance | | | | | | | | | | Total Return (%) | | | Ratio(%)4 |
| | Inception | | Six | | 1 | | 5 | | Since | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | | Date | | Months* | | Year | | Year | | Inception | | Gross | | Net |
Moderate Strategy Fund Class A1 | | | 2/3/05 | | | | 2.50 | | | 4.86 | | 2.74 | | | 4.95 | | | 1.79 | | 1.79 |
Moderate Strategy Fund Class B2 | | | 2/1/05 | | | | 3.54 | | | 5.67 | | 3.03 | | | 5.11 | | | 2.54 | | 2.54 |
Moderate Strategy Fund Class C3 | | | 6/9/05 | | | | 6.50 | | | 8.62 | | 3.03 | | | 5.12 | | | 2.54 | | 2.54 |
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index5 | | | — | | | | 0.90 | | | 3.68 | | 5.72 | | | 5.30 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
S&P 500 Index5 | | | — | | | | 14.42 | | | 16.89 | | 5.21 | | | 5.85 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
MSCI EAFE Index5 | | | — | | | | 17.18 | | | 19.96 | | -0.44 | | | 5.41 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
BofA Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index5 | | | — | | | | 7.26 | | | 14.04 | | 10.83 | | | 8.65 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
Citigroup U.S. Domestic 3-Month Treasury Bill Index5 | | | — | | | | 0.04 | | | 0.08 | | 0.28 | | | 1.75 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect the taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower.
Certain returns shown include monies received by series of HSBC Portfolios (the “Portfolios”), in which the Fund invests, in respect of one-time class action settlements. As a result, the Fund’s total returns for those periods were higher than they would have been had the Portfolios not received the payments.
* | Aggregate total return. |
1 | Reflects the maximum sales charge of 5.00%. |
2 | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 4.00%. |
3 | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 1.00%. |
4 | Reflects the expense ratios as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. The expense ratios reflected include Acquired Fund fees and expenses. Additional information pertaining to the April 30, 2013 expense ratios can be found in the financial highlights. |
5 | For additional information, please refer to Glossary of Terms. |
6 | Return for the period February 1, 2005 to April 30, 2013. |
The Fund’s performance is primarily measured against the S&P 500 Index, an unmanaged index that is widely regarded as a gauge of the U.S. equities market. This index includes 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy. Although the S&P 500 focuses on the large-cap segment of the market, with approximately 75% coverage of U.S. equities, it is also an ideal proxy for the total market. The performance of the index does not reflect the deduction of expenses associated with a mutual fund, such as investment management and fund accounting fees. The Fund’s performance reflects the deduction of fees for these value-added services. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
Conservative Strategy Fund (Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares) |
by Randeep Brar, CFA, Senior Vice President/Portfolio Manager
Caroline Hitch, Senior Portfolio Manager
The Conservative Strategy Fund (the “Fund”) is a “fund of funds” which seeks long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in underlying funds. The underlying funds may include mutual funds managed by HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”), mutual funds managed by investment advisers that are not associated with the Adviser and exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) (collectively, “Underlying Funds”). The Fund may also purchase or hold exchange traded notes (“ETNs”).
Investment Concerns
Allocation Risk: The risk that the Adviser’s target asset and sector allocations and changes in target asset and sector allocations cause the Fund to underperform other similar funds or cause you to lose money, and that the Fund may not achieve its target asset and sector allocations.
Underlying Fund Selection Risk: The risk that the Fund may invest in Underlying Funds that underperform other similar funds or the markets more generally, due to poor investment decisions by the investment adviser(s) for the Underlying Funds or otherwise. Underlying Funds also have their own expenses, which the Fund bears in addition to its own expenses.
Equity Securities Risk: A portion of the assets of the Fund is allocated to Underlying Funds investing primarily in equity securities. Therefore, the value of the Fund may increase or decrease as a result of its indirect interest in equity securities.
Fixed Income Securities Risk: A portion of the assets of the Fund is allocated to Underlying Funds investing primarily in fixed income securities. Therefore, the value of the Fund may increase or decrease as a result of its indirect interest in fixed income securities.
Foreign Securities/Emerging Markets Risk: Foreign securities, including those of emerging market issuers, are subject to additional risks including international trade, currency, political, and regulatory risks. Securities of emerging market issuers generally have more risk than securities issued by issuers in more developed foreign markets.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Market Commentary
The Fund returned 5.80% (without sales charge) for the Class A Shares for the six-month period ended April 30, 2013. That compared to a 0.90% total return for the Fund’s primary benchmark, the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index1.
The Fund measures performance against several additional reference indices: the S&P 500 Index1 (14.42% return for the six-months through April 30, 2013), MSCI EAFE Index1 (17.18% return for the six months through April 30, 2013), Bank of America/Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index1 (7.26% return) and Citigroup U.S. Domestic 3-Month Treasury Bill Index1 (0.04% return).
Portfolio Performance
During the six-month period, central banks such as the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of Japan continued to utilize extraordinary measures to encourage global economic activity. In the U.S., President Obama was re-elected and led attempts to avoid the “fiscal cliff”, which was resolved through an agreement on January 1, 2013. Economic data in the U.S. related to labor and housing data continued to be generally positive, despite the payroll tax increase at the beginning of 2013 and “sequestration”, or automatic spending cuts, which took effect in the U.S. on March 1, 2013. The ECB’s announcement of Outright Monetary Transactions and its commitment, in the words of ECB President Mario Draghi, “to do whatever it takes” to preserve the euro has generally reduced volatility in Europe, despite some potentially unnerving events such as the messy bailout of Cyprus.
Given the positive macroeconomic backdrop, “risky” asset classes such as equities and high-yield bonds performed well during the period. In that environment, the Fund benefited from its exposure to these asset classes, including overweight positions in U.S. and international equities, which performed well in absolute terms during the period.†
Within the Fund’s fixed-income segment, we retained our preference for corporate bonds such as U.S. high-yield bonds over government bonds throughout the period. That strategy added value to the portfolio. Government bonds remained our least-preferred asset class during the period, as we felt there was limited value to be found in this bond segment due to extremely low yields, which were often in negative territory after taking inflation into account.†
Within alternative asset classes, our preference for property was retained during the period and contributed to performance. Due to the underlying real assets, listed property is a relatively defensive investment and can provide a high-quality income stream which is appealing to investors in the current low-interest-rate environment. The Fund benefited from its modest allocation to private equity, which performed very well during the period.†
† | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
1 | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
| Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
Conservative Strategy Fund | |
| | | | | | | | | | Average Annual | | Expense |
Fund Performance | | | | | | | | | | Total Return (%) | | Ratio(%)4 |
| | Inception | | Six | | 1 | | 5 | | Since | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | | Date | | Months* | | Year | | Year | | Inception | | Gross | | Net |
Conservative Strategy Fund Class A1 | | | 2/23/05 | | | | 0.54 | | | 3.50 | | 3.12 | | | 4.43 | | | 1.97 | | 1.97 |
Conservative Strategy Fund Class B2 | | | 2/17/05 | | | | 1.34 | | | 4.09 | | 3.40 | | | 4.46 | | | 2.72 | | 2.72 |
Conservative Strategy Fund Class C3 | | | 4/19/05 | | | | 4.35 | | | 7.13 | | 3.39 | | | 4.98 | | | 2.72 | | 2.72 |
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index5 | | | — | | | | 0.90 | | | 3.68 | | 5.72 | | | 5.32 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
S&P 500 Index5 | | | — | | | | 14.42 | | | 16.89 | | 5.21 | | | 5.74 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
MSCI EAFE Index5 | | | — | | | | 17.18 | | | 19.96 | | -0.44 | | | 5.12 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
BofA Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index5 | | | — | | | | 7.26 | | | 14.04 | | 10.83 | | | 8.55 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
Citigroup U.S. Domestic 3-Month Treasury Bill Index5 | | | — | | | | 0.04 | | | 0.08 | | 0.28 | | | 1.76 | 6 | | N/A | | N/A |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect the taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower.
Certain returns shown include monies received by aeries of HSBC Portfolios (the “Portfolios”), in which the Fund invests, in respect of one-time class action settlements. As a result, the Fund’s total returns for those periods were higher than they would have been had the Portfolios not received the payments.
* | Aggregate total return. |
1 | Reflects the maximum sales charge of 5.00%. |
2 | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 4.00%. |
3 | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 1.00%. |
4 | Reflects the expense ratios as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. The expense ratios reflected include Acquired Fund fees and expenses. Additional information pertaining to the April 30, 2013 expense ratios can be found in the financial highlights. |
5 | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
6 | Return for the period February 17, 2005 to April 30, 2013. |
The Fund’s performance is primarily measured against the S&P 500 Index, an unmanaged index that is widely regarded as a gauge of the U.S. equities market. This index includes 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy. Although the S&P 500 focuses on the large-cap segment of the market, with approximately 75% coverage of U.S. equities, it is also an ideal proxy for the total market. The performance of the index does not reflect the deduction of expenses associated with a mutual fund, such as investment management and fund accounting fees. The Fund’s performance reflects the deduction of fees for these value-added services. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
Income Strategy Fund |
(Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares) |
Randeep Brar, CFA, Senior Vice President/Portfolio Manager
Caroline Hitch, Senior Portfolio Manager
The Income Strategy Fund (the “Fund”) is a “fund of funds” which primarily seeks current income and secondarily seeks to provide long-term growth of capital by investing primarily in underlying funds. The underlying funds may include mutual funds managed by HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”), mutual funds managed by investment advisers that are not associated with the Adviser and exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) (collectively, “Underlying Funds”). The Fund may also purchase or hold exchange traded notes (“ETNs”).
Investment Concerns
Allocation Risk: The risk that the Adviser’s target asset and sector allocations and changes in target asset and sector allocations cause the Fund to underperform other similar funds or cause you to lose money, and that the Fund may not achieve its target asset and sector allocations.
Underlying Fund Selection Risk: The risk that the Fund may invest in Underlying Funds that underperform other similar funds or the markets more generally, due to poor investment decisions by the investment adviser(s) for the Underlying Funds or otherwise. Underlying Funds also have their own expenses, which the Fund bears in addition to its own expenses.
Equity Securities Risk: A portion of the assets of the Fund is allocated to Underlying Funds investing primarily in equity securities. Therefore, the value of the Fund may increase or decrease as a result of its indirect interest in equity securities.
Fixed Income Securities Risk: A portion of the assets of the Fund is allocated to Underlying Funds investing primarily in fixed income securities. Therefore, the value of the Fund may increase or decrease as a result of its indirect interest in fixed income securities.
Foreign Securities/Emerging Markets Risk: Foreign securities, including those of emerging market issuers, are subject to additional risks including international trade, currency, political, and regulatory risks. Securities of emerging market issuers generally have more risk than securities issued by issuers in more developed foreign markets.
The net asset value per share of this Fund will fluctuate as the value of the securities in the portfolio changes.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Market Commentary
The Fund returned 4.10% (without sales charge) for the Class A Shares for the six-month period ended April 30, 2013. That compared to a 0.90% total return for the Fund’s primary benchmark, Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index1, during the same period.
The Fund measures performance against several additional reference indices: the S&P 500 Index1 (14.42% return for the six-months through April 30, 2013), MSCI EAFE Index1 (17.18% return), Bank of America/Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index1 (7.26% return) and Citigroup U.S. Domestic 3-Month Treasury Bill Index1 (0.04% return).
Portfolio Performance
During the six-month period, central banks such as the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of Japan continued to utilize extraordinary measures to encourage global economic activity. In the U.S., President Obama was re-elected and led attempts to avoid the “fiscal cliff”, which was resolved through an agreement on January 1, 2013. Economic data in the U.S. related to labor and housing data continued to be generally positive, despite the payroll tax increase at the beginning of 2013 and “sequestration”, or automatic spending cuts, which took effect in the U.S. on March 1, 2013. The ECB’s announcement of Outright Monetary Transactions and its commitment, in the words of ECB President Mario Draghi, “to do whatever it takes” to preserve the euro has generally reduced volatility in Europe, despite some potentially unnerving events such as the messy bailout of Cyprus.
Given the positive macroeconomic backdrop, “risky” asset classes such as equities and high-yield bonds performed well during the period. In that environment, the Fund benefited from its overweight exposure to U.S. and international equities, which performed well in absolute terms during the period. The Fund’s overweight allocation to U.S. high-yield bonds also contributed positively to performance.†
Within the Fund’s fixed-income segment, which made up between 75% and 85% of the portfolio during the period, we retained our preference for corporate bonds such as U.S. high-yield bonds over government bonds. That strategy added value to the portfolio. Government bonds remained our least-preferred asset class during the period, as there was limited value to be found in this bond segment due to extremely low yields, which were often in negative territory after taking inflation into account.†
Within alternative asset classes, our preference for property was retained during the period and contributed modestly to performance. Due to the underlying real assets, listed property is a relatively defensive investment and provides a high-quality income stream which is appealing to investors in the current low-interest-rate environment.†
† | | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
1 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
Income Strategy Fund |
Fund Performance | | | | | | | | Average Annual Total Return (%) | | Expense Ratio (%)4 |
As of April 30, 2013 | | Inception Date | | Six Months* | | 1 Year | | Since Inception | | Gross | | Net |
Income Strategy Fund Class A1 | | 3/20/12 | | | -0.85 | | | 2.87 | | | 3.68 | | | | 26.49 | | 1.90 |
Income Strategy Fund Class B2 | | 3/20/12 | | | -0.28 | | | 3.20 | | | 4.84 | | | | 27.24 | | 2.65 |
Income Strategy Fund Class C3 | | 3/20/12 | | | 2.74 | | | 6.17 | | | 7.47 | | | | 27.24 | | 2.65 |
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index5 | | — | | | 0.90 | | | 3.68 | | | 4.90 | 6 | | | N/A | | N/A |
S&P 500 Index5 | | — | | | 14.42 | | | 16.89 | | | 14.69 | 6 | | | N/A | | N/A |
MSCI EAFE Index5 | | — | | | 17.18 | | | 19.96 | | | 15.13 | 6 | | | N/A | | N/A |
BofA Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index5 | | — | | | 7.26 | | | 14.04 | | | 13.65 | 6 | | | N/A | | N/A |
Citigroup U.S. Domestic 3-Month Treasury Bill Index5 | | — | | | 0.04 | | | 0.08 | | | 0.08 | 6 | | | N/A | | N/A |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect the taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower. Currently, contractual fee waivers are in effect for the Fund through March 1, 2014.
Certain returns shown include monies received by series of HSBC Portfolios (the “Portfolios”), in which the Fund invests, in respect of one-time class action settlements. As a result, the Fund’s total returns for those periods were higher than they would have been had the Portfolios not received the payments.
* | | Aggregate total return. |
1 | | Reflects the maximum sales charge of 4.75%. |
2 | | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 4.00%. |
3 | | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 1.00%. |
4 | | Reflects the expense ratios as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. has entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement with the Fund under which it will limit total expenses of the Fund (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses and estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investments in investment companies other then the HSBC Growth Portfolio and HSBC Opportunity Portfolio) to an annual rate of 1.50%, 2.25% and 2.25% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. The expense limitation shall be in effect until March 1, 2014. The expense ratios reflected include Acquired Fund fees and expenses. Additional information pertaining to the April 30, 2013 expense ratios can be found in the financial highlights. |
5 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
6 | | Return for the period March 21, 2012 to April 30, 2013. |
The Fund’s performance is primarily measured against the S&P 500 Index, an unmanaged index that is widely regarded as a gauge of the U.S. equities market. This index includes 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy. Although the S&P 500 focuses on the large-cap segment of the market, with approximately 75% coverage of U.S. equities, it is also an ideal proxy for the total market. The performance of the index does not reflect the deduction of expenses associated with a mutual fund, such as investment management and fund accounting fees. The Fund’s performance reflects the deduction of fees for these value-added services. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
Portfolio Reviews |
Portfolio Composition* |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Aggressive Strategy Fund |
Investment Allocation | | Percentage of Investments at Value (%) |
Domestic Equities | | | 60.4 | |
International Equities | | | 27.5 | |
Fixed Income | | | 6.9 | |
Alternatives | | | 5.1 | |
Cash | | | 0.1 | |
Total | | | 100.0 | |
Balanced Strategy Fund |
Investment Allocation | | Percentage of Investments at Value (%) |
Domestic Equities | | | 45.0 | |
International Equities | | | 26.6 | |
Fixed Income | | | 19.0 | |
Alternatives | | | 8.4 | |
Cash | | | 1.0 | |
Total | | | 100.0 | |
Moderate Strategy Fund |
Investment Allocation | | Percentage of Investments at Value (%) |
Fixed Income | | | 33.1 | |
Domestic Equities | | | 31.1 | |
International Equities | | | 25.9 | |
Alternatives | | | 8.2 | |
Cash | | | 1.7 | |
Total | | | 100.0 | |
Conservative Strategy Fund |
Investment Allocation | | Percentage of Investments at Value (%) |
Fixed Income | | | 50.4 | |
International Equities | | | 20.3 | |
Domestic Equities | | | 19.5 | |
Alternatives | | | 7.3 | |
Cash | | | 2.5 | |
Total | | | 100.0 | |
Income Strategy Fund |
Investment Allocation | | Percentage of Investments at Value (%) |
Fixed Income | | | 68.3 | |
International Equities | | | 17.2 | |
Domestic Equities | | | 10.8 | |
Alternatives | | | 2.2 | |
Cash | | | 1.5 | |
Total | | | 100.0 | |
HSBC Growth Portfolio |
Investment Allocation | | Percentage of Investments at Value (%) |
Biotechnology | | | 9.4 | |
Internet Software & Services | | | 8.2 | |
Specialty Retail | | | 6.4 | |
Internet & Catalog Retail | | | 5.3 | |
IT Services | | | 5.2 | |
Pharmaceuticals | | | 5.0 | |
Chemicals | | | 4.6 | |
Media | | | 4.6 | |
Road & Rail | | | 4.2 | |
Computers & Peripherals | | | 4.1 | |
Aerospace & Defense | | | 3.3 | |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure | | | 3.2 | |
Machinery | | | 3.1 | |
Food & Staples Retailing | | | 2.9 | |
Health Care Providers & Services | | | 2.8 | |
Capital Markets | | | 2.8 | |
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods | | | 2.1 | |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | | | 2.0 | |
Software | | | 2.0 | |
Communications Equipment | | | 1.8 | |
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) | | | 1.5 | |
Wireless Telecommunication Services | | | 1.4 | |
Investment Companies | | | 1.4 | |
Business Services | | | 1.4 | |
Auto Components | | | 1.2 | |
Trading Companies & Distributors | | | 1.2 | |
Health Care Technology | | | 1.1 | |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment | | | 1.1 | |
Commercial Banks | | | 1.0 | |
Energy Equipment & Services | | | 1.0 | |
Personal Products | | | 1.0 | |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies | | | 1.0 | |
Air Freight & Logistics | | | 1.0 | |
Household Durables | | | 0.9 | |
Airlines | | | 0.8 | |
Total | | | 100.0 | |
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* | | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
Portfolio Reviews |
Portfolio Composition* (continued) |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
HSBC Opportunity Portfolio |
Investment Allocation | | Percentage of Investments at Value (%) |
Specialty Retail | | | 10.8 | |
Software | | | 7.6 | |
IT Services | | | 6.7 | |
Chemicals | | | 6.7 | |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | | | 6.1 | |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment | | | 4.6 | |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies | | | 4.1 | |
Trading Companies & | | | | |
Distributors | | | 3.7 | |
Biotechnology | | | 3.4 | |
Capital Markets | | | 3.4 | |
Aerospace & Defense | | | 3.4 | |
Household Durables | | | 3.2 | |
Life Sciences Tools & Services | | | 3.2 | |
Containers & Packaging | | | 3.1 | |
Commercial Banks | | | 3.0 | |
Investment Companies | | | 2.9 | |
Machinery | | | 2.8 | |
Energy Equipment & Services | | | 2.7 | |
Insurance | | | 2.5 | |
Road & Rail | | | 2.3 | |
Electrical Equipment | | | 2.0 | |
Diversified Consumer Services | | | 1.6 | |
Commercial Services & Supplies | | | 1.6 | |
Real Estate Management & | | | | |
Development | | | 1.5 | |
Professional Services | | | 1.4 | |
Health Care Providers & Services | | | 1.0 | |
Media | | | 0.8 | |
Construction Materials | | | 0.8 | |
Distributors | | | 0.7 | |
Communications Equipment | | | 0.7 | |
Building Products | | | 0.6 | |
Wireless Telecommunication Services | | | 0.6 | |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure | | | 0.5 | |
Total | | | 100.0 | |
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* | | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
HSBC AGGRESSIVE STRATEGY FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Affiliated Investment Companies—1.8% |
| | | | |
| | Shares | | Value ($) |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund, | | | | |
Class I Shares | | 11,687 | | 131,943 |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt | | | | |
Fund, Class I Shares | | 18,351 | | 187,000 |
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund, | | | | |
Class I Shares, 0.08%(a) | | 7,407 | | 7,407 |
TOTAL AFFILIATED INVESTMENT | | | | |
COMPANIES (COST $304,734) | | | | 326,350 |
|
Affiliated Portfolios—14.4% |
|
HSBC Growth Portfolio | | | | 1,863,664 |
HSBC Opportunity Portfolio | | | | 784,702 |
TOTAL AFFILIATED PORTFOLIOS | | | | 2,648,366 |
|
Unaffiliated Investment Companies—47.9% |
|
Artisan Value Fund, Investor Shares | | 98,926 | | 1,247,455 |
Brown Advisory Growth Equity Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 78,477 | | 1,248,563 |
Columbia High Yield Bond Fund, | | | | |
Class Z Shares | | 210,830 | | 643,031 |
CRM Small/Mid Cap Value Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 46,078 | | 781,490 |
Delaware Emerging Markets Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 67,748 | | 1,014,188 |
Dreyfus Global Real Estate Securities | | | | |
Fund, Institutional Shares | | 5,392 | | 48,957 |
EII Global Property Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 3,872 | | 71,745 |
JPMorgan Equity Income Fund, | | | | |
Select Shares | | 159,952 | | 1,863,440 |
JPMorgan High Yield Fund, | | | | |
Select Shares | | 76,077 | | 636,001 |
Northern Institutional | | | | |
Diversified Assets Portfolio, | | | | |
Institutional Shares, 0.01%(a) | | 16,810 | | 16,810 |
Trilogy Emerging Markets Equity Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 142,388 | | 1,253,017 |
TOTAL UNAFFILIATED INVESTMENT | | | | |
COMPANIES (COST $8,042,845) | | | | 8,824,697 |
| | | | |
Exchange Traded Funds—36.0% | | | | |
| | | | |
iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund | | 35,159 | | 2,177,748 |
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets | | | | |
Index Fund | | 5,708 | | 247,099 |
PowerShares Global Listed Private | | | | |
Equity Portfolio ETF | | 74,473 | | 874,313 |
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust | | 20,826 | | 3,325,496 |
TOTAL EXCHANGE TRADED | | | | |
FUNDS (COST $5,720,673) | | | | 6,624,656 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT | | | | |
SECURITIES—100.1% | | | | 18,424,069 |
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Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $18,399,627. |
(a) | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
ETF | Exchange Traded Fund |
SPDR | Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipt |
20 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC BALANCED STRATEGY FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Affiliated Investment Companies—10.5% |
| | | | |
| | Shares | | Value ($) |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund, | | | | |
Class I Shares | | 275,417 | | 3,109,455 |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt | | | | |
Fund, Class I Shares | | 180,859 | | 1,842,953 |
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund, | | | | |
Class I Shares, 0.08%(a) | | 514,078 | | 514,078 |
TOTAL AFFILIATED INVESTMENT | | | | |
COMPANIES (COST $5,150,799) | | | | 5,466,486 |
|
Affiliated Portfolios—10.8% |
|
HSBC Growth Portfolio | | | | 3,950,341 |
HSBC Opportunity Portfolio | | | | 1,653,241 |
TOTAL AFFILIATED PORTFOLIOS | | | | 5,603,582 |
|
Unaffiliated Investment Companies—50.9% |
|
Artisan Value Fund, Investor Shares | | 210,183 | | 2,650,404 |
Brown Advisory Growth Equity Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 164,986 | | 2,624,926 |
Columbia High Yield Bond Fund, | | | | |
Class Z Shares | | 1,095,993 | | 3,342,780 |
CRM Small/Mid Cap Value Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 97,919 | | 1,660,710 |
Delaware Emerging Markets Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 94,923 | | 1,420,990 |
Dreyfus Global Real Estate Securities | | | | |
Fund, Institutional Shares | | 69,404 | | 630,193 |
EII Global Property Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 51,148 | | 947,771 |
Janus Flexible Bond Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 34,565 | | 375,371 |
JPMorgan Equity Income Fund, | | | | |
Select Shares | | 338,802 | | 3,947,043 |
JPMorgan High Yield Fund, | | | | |
Select Shares | | 400,475 | | 3,347,974 |
Lord Abbett Core Fixed Income Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 49,479 | | 555,652 |
Metropolitan West Total Return Bond | | | | |
Fund, Institutional Shares | | 34,481 | | 379,980 |
Northern Institutional | | | | |
Diversified Assets Portfolio, | | | | |
Institutional Shares, 0.01%(a) | | 17,545 | | 17,545 |
PIMCO Commodity RealReturn | | | | |
Strategy Fund, Institutional Shares | | 254,192 | | 1,629,368 |
PIMCO Total Return Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 63,288 | | 717,685 |
T. Rowe Price New Income Fund, | | | | |
Retail Shares | | 56,027 | | 553,546 |
Trilogy Emerging Markets Equity Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 197,665 | | 1,739,449 |
TOTAL UNAFFILIATED INVESTMENT | | | | |
COMPANIES (COST $24,977,644) | | | | 26,541,387 |
| | | | |
Exchange Traded Funds—28.2% |
|
iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade | | | | |
Corporate Bond Fund | | 5,220 | | 637,519 |
iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund | | 74,708 | | 4,627,414 |
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets | | | | |
Index Fund | | 13,015 | | 563,419 |
PowerShares Global Listed Private | | | | |
Equity Portfolio ETF | | 154,514 | | 1,813,994 |
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust | | 44,106 | | 7,042,846 |
TOTAL EXCHANGE TRADED | | | | |
FUNDS (COST $12,718,863) | | | | 14,685,192 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT | | | | |
SECURITIES—100.4% | | | | 52,296,647 |
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Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $52,103,928. |
(a) | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
ETF | Exchange Traded Fund |
SPDR | Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipt |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 21 |
HSBC MODERATE STRATEGY FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Affiliated Investment Companies—12.5% |
|
| | Shares | | Value ($) |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund, | | | | |
Class I Shares | | 260,187 | | 2,937,506 |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt | | | | |
Fund, Class I Shares | | 206,910 | | 2,108,414 |
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund, | | | | |
Class I Shares, 0.08%(a) | | 773,674 | | 773,674 |
TOTAL AFFILIATED INVESTMENT | | | | |
COMPANIES (COST $5,426,508) | | | | 5,819,594 |
|
Affiliated Portfolios—7.5% |
|
HSBC Growth Portfolio | | | | 2,434,349 |
HSBC Opportunity Portfolio | | | | 1,030,987 |
TOTAL AFFILIATED PORTFOLIOS | | | | 3,465,336 |
|
Unaffiliated Investment Companies—58.4% |
|
Artisan Value Fund, Investor Shares | | 128,303 | | 1,617,896 |
ASG Global Alternatives Fund, | | | | |
Class Y Shares | | 32,231 | | 361,308 |
Brown Advisory Growth Equity Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 101,774 | | 1,619,230 |
Columbia High Yield Bond Fund, | | | | |
Class Z Shares | | 946,298 | | 2,886,208 |
CRM Small/Mid Cap Value Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 60,346 | | 1,023,474 |
Delaware Emerging Markets Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 63,266 | | 947,087 |
Dreyfus Global Real Estate Securities | | | | |
Fund, Institutional Shares | | 58,193 | | 528,391 |
EII Global Property Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 42,833 | | 793,700 |
Janus Flexible Bond Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 126,072 | | 1,369,142 |
JPMorgan Equity Income Fund, | | | | |
Select Shares | | 209,628 | | 2,442,171 |
JPMorgan High Yield Fund, | | | | |
Select Shares | | 346,134 | | 2,893,681 |
Lord Abbett Core Fixed Income Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 172,932 | | 1,942,028 |
Metropolitan West Total Return Bond | | | | |
Fund, Institutional Shares | | 124,850 | | 1,375,852 |
Northern Institutional | | | | |
Diversified Assets Portfolio, | | | | |
Institutional Shares, 0.01%(a) | | 7,515 | | 7,515 |
PIMCO Commodity RealReturn | | | | |
Strategy Fund, Institutional Shares | | 263,686 | | 1,690,228 |
PIMCO Total Return Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 226,697 | | 2,570,744 |
T. Rowe Price New Income Fund, | | | | |
Retail Shares | | 193,375 | | 1,910,541 |
Trilogy Emerging Markets Equity Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 132,023 | | 1,161,800 |
TOTAL UNAFFILIATED INVESTMENT | | | | |
COMPANIES (COST $25,997,536) | | | | 27,140,996 |
| | | | |
Exchange Traded Funds—21.9% |
| | | | |
iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade | | | | |
Corporate Bond Fund | | 3,676 | | 448,950 |
iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund | | 65,439 | | 4,053,292 |
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets | | | | |
Index Fund | | 7,637 | | 330,606 |
PowerShares Global Listed Private | | | | |
Equity Portfolio ETF | | 85,010 | | 998,017 |
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust | | 27,106 | | 4,328,286 |
TOTAL EXCHANGE TRADED | | | | |
FUNDS (COST $8,786,125) | | | | 10,159,151 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT | | | | |
SECURITIES—100.3% | | | | 46,585,077 |
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Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $46,455,495. |
(a) | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
ETF | Exchange Traded Fund |
SPDR | Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipt |
22 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Affiliated Investment Companies—13.2% | | |
| | | | |
| | Shares | | Value ($) |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund, | | | | |
Class I Shares | | 117,529 | | 1,326,899 |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt | | | | |
Fund, Class I Shares | | 113,031 | | 1,151,784 |
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund, | | | | |
Class I Shares, 0.08%(a) | | 570,007 | | 570,007 |
TOTAL AFFILIATED INVESTMENT | | | | |
COMPANIES (COST $2,862,209) | | | | 3,048,690 |
|
Affiliated Portfolios—4.7% | | | | |
|
HSBC Growth Portfolio | | | | 757,688 |
HSBC Opportunity Portfolio | | | | 317,739 |
TOTAL AFFILIATED PORTFOLIOS | | | | 1,075,427 |
|
Unaffiliated Investment Companies—67.1% | | |
|
Artisan Value Fund, Investor Shares | | 39,458 | | 497,569 |
ASG Global Alternatives Fund, | | | | |
Class Y Shares | | 43,280 | | 485,172 |
Brown Advisory Growth Equity Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 31,152 | | 495,627 |
Columbia High Yield Bond Fund, | | | | |
Class Z Shares | | 428,073 | | 1,305,621 |
CRM Small/Mid Cap Value Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 18,703 | | 317,207 |
Delaware Emerging Markets Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 7,952 | | 119,034 |
Dreyfus Global Real Estate Securities | | | | |
Fund, Institutional Shares | | 24,470 | | 222,190 |
EII Global Property Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 21,275 | | 394,218 |
Janus Flexible Bond Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 122,006 | | 1,324,985 |
JPMorgan Equity Income Fund, | | | | |
Select Shares | | 67,375 | | 784,915 |
JPMorgan High Yield Fund, | | | | |
Select Shares | | 156,575 | | 1,308,964 |
Lord Abbett Core Fixed Income Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 165,001 | | 1,852,964 |
Metropolitan West Total Return Bond | | | | |
Fund, Institutional Shares | | 118,073 | | 1,301,169 |
Northern Institutional | | | | |
Diversified Assets Portfolio, | | | | |
Institutional Shares, 0.01%(a) | | 14,106 | | 14,106 |
PIMCO Commodity RealReturn | | | | |
Strategy Fund, Institutional Shares | | 110,264 | | 706,790 |
PIMCO Total Return Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 215,210 | | 2,440,484 |
T. Rowe Price New Income Fund, | | | | |
Retail Shares | | 185,610 | | 1,833,831 |
Trilogy Emerging Markets Equity Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 14,664 | | 129,042 |
TOTAL UNAFFILIATED INVESTMENT | | | | |
COMPANIES (COST $14,719,434) | | | | 15,533,888 |
| | | | |
Exchange Traded Funds—15.3% | | | | |
| | | | |
| | Shares | | Value ($) |
iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade | | | | |
Corporate Bond Fund | | 2,797 | | 341,598 |
iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund | | 28,266 | | 1,750,796 |
PowerShares Global Listed Private | | | | |
Equity Portfolio ETF | | 8,606 | | 101,035 |
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust | | 8,405 | | 1,342,110 |
TOTAL EXCHANGE TRADED | | | | |
FUNDS (COST $3,053,053) | | | | 3,535,539 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT | | | | |
SECURITIES—100.3% | | | | 23,193,544 |
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Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $23,119,687. |
(a) | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
ETF | Exchange Traded Fund |
SPDR | Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipt |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 23 |
HSBC INCOME STRATEGY FUND |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Affiliated Investment Companies—10.1% | | |
| | | | |
| | Shares | | Value ($) |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund, | | | | |
Class I Shares | | 3,535 | | 39,905 |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt | | | | |
Fund, Class I Shares | | 5,522 | | 56,272 |
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund, | | | | |
Class I Shares, 0.08%(a) | | 15,517 | | 15,517 |
TOTAL AFFILIATED INVESTMENT | | | | |
COMPANIES (COST $108,831) | | | | 111,694 |
|
Unaffiliated Investment Companies—86.6% | | |
|
Columbia High Yield Bond Fund, | | | | |
Class Z Shares | | 15,249 | | 46,508 |
Dreyfus Global Real Estate Securities | | | | |
Fund, Institutional Shares | | 1,713 | | 15,555 |
Eaton Vance Floating - Rate Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 4,662 | | 43,027 |
EII Global Property Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 1,263 | | 23,396 |
Federated Strategic Value Dividend Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 20,550 | | 116,723 |
Janus Flexible Bond Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 8,135 | | 88,350 |
JPMorgan High Yield Fund, | | | | |
Select Shares | | 5,632 | | 47,086 |
Lord Abbett Core Fixed Income Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 11,010 | | 123,642 |
Metropolitan West Total Return Bond | | | | |
Fund, Institutional Shares | | 8,038 | | 88,575 |
Northern Institutional | | | | |
Diversified Assets Portfolio, | | | | |
Institutional Shares, 0.01%(a) | | 210 | | 210 |
PIMCO Total Return Fund, | | | | |
Institutional Shares | | 14,555 | | 165,055 |
T. Rowe Price International | | | | |
Growth & Income Fund | | 5,279 | | 74,385 |
T. Rowe Price New Income Fund, | | | | |
Retail Shares | | 12,515 | | 123,645 |
TOTAL UNAFFILIATED INVESTMENT | | | | |
COMPANIES (COST $930,441) | | | | 956,157 |
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Exchange Traded Fund – 1.5% | | | | |
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iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade | | | | |
Corporate Bond Fund | | 131 | | 15,999 |
TOTAL EXCHANGE TRADED FUND | | | | |
(COST $15,705) | | | | 15,999 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT SECURITIES | | | | |
(COST $1,054,977)—98.2% | | | | 1,083,850 |
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Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $1,104,172. |
(a) | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
24 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS
Statements of Assets and Liabilities—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
| | Aggressive | | Balanced | | Moderate | | Conservative | | Income |
| | Strategy | | Strategy | | Strategy | | Strategy | | Strategy |
| | Fund | | Fund | | Fund | | Fund | | Fund |
Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investments in Affiliated Portfolios | | | $ | 2,648,366 | | | | | $ | 5,603,582 | | | | | $ | 3,465,336 | | | | $ | 1,075,427 | | | | | $ | — | | |
Investments in Affiliated Investment Companies, at value(a) | | | | 326,350 | | | | | | 5,466,486 | | | | | | 5,819,594 | | | | | 3,048,690 | | | | | | 111,694 | | |
Investments in non-affiliates, at value | | | | 15,449,353 | | | | | | 41,226,579 | | | | | | 37,300,147 | | | | | 19,069,427 | | | | | | 972,156 | | |
Total Investments | | | | 18,424,069 | | | | | | 52,296,647 | | | | | | 46,585,077 | | | | | 23,193,544 | | | | | | 1,083,850 | | |
Interest and dividends receivable | | | | 14,664 | | | | | | 31,387 | | | | | | 19,136 | | | | | 6,089 | | | | | | 2,437 | | |
Receivable for capital shares issued | | | | 1,014 | | | | | | 15,500 | | | | | | 17,846 | | | | | 6,535 | | | | | | 8,369 | | |
Receivable for investments sold | | | | 11,160 | | | | | | 17,650 | | | | | | 12,148 | | | | | 10,735 | | | | | | — | | |
Reclaims receivable | | | | 454 | | | | | | 850 | | | | | | 762 | | | | | 260 | | | | | | — | | |
Receivable from Investment Adviser | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 15,788 | | |
Prepaid expenses and other assets | | | | 10,036 | | | | | | 8,834 | | | | | | 11,519 | | | | | 9,090 | | | | | | 28,909 | | |
Total Assets | | | | 18,461,397 | | | | | | 52,370,868 | | | | | | 46,646,488 | | | | | 23,226,253 | | | | | | 1,139,353 | | |
Liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Cash overdraft | | | | 14,839 | | | | | | 44,480 | | | | | | 31,896 | | | | | 12,047 | | | | | | 85 | | |
Income payable | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 282 | | |
Payable for investments purchased | | | | 13,072 | | | | | | 3,144 | | | | | | — | | | | | 18,181 | | | | | | — | | |
Payable for capital shares redeemed | | | | 70 | | | | | | 140,838 | | | | | | 87,889 | | | | | 32,279 | | | | | | — | | |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Management | | | | 3,715 | | | | | | 10,600 | | | | | | 9,431 | | | | | 4,697 | | | | | | — | | |
Administration | | | | 366 | | | | | | 1,045 | | | | | | 929 | | | | | 463 | | | | | | 46 | | |
Distribution | | | | 4,578 | | | | | | 13,996 | | | | | | 13,075 | | | | | 8,170 | | | | | | 615 | | |
Shareholder Servicing | | | | 4,168 | | | | | | 12,192 | | | | | | 10,462 | | | | | 5,261 | | | | | | 604 | | |
Compliance Service | | | | 100 | | | | | | 80 | | | | | | 85 | | | | | 95 | | | | | | 160 | | |
Accounting | | | | 1,393 | | | | | | 1,400 | | | | | | 1,414 | | | | | 1,399 | | | | | | 3,860 | | |
Custodian | | | | 8,004 | | | | | | 9,505 | | | | | | 10,883 | | | | | 9,000 | | | | | | 17,002 | | |
Transfer Agent | | | | 2,089 | | | | | | 539 | | | | | | 335 | | | | | 4,330 | | | | | | 2,387 | | |
Trustee | | | | 12 | | | | | | 27 | | | | | | 23 | | | | | 13 | | | | | | 269 | | |
Other | | | | 9,364 | | | | | | 29,094 | | | | | | 24,571 | | | | | 10,631 | | | | | | 9,871 | | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 61,770 | | | | | | 266,940 | | | | | | 190,993 | | | | | 106,566 | | | | | | 35,181 | | |
Net Assets | | | $ | 18,399,627 | | | | | $ | 52,103,928 | | | | | $ | 46,455,495 | | | | $ | 23,119,687 | | | | | $ | 1,104,172 | | |
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Composition of Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Capital | | | | 15,825,475 | | | | | | 45,901,207 | | | | | | 42,333,566 | | | | | 21,366,833 | | | | | | 1,059,929 | | |
Accumulated net investment income (loss) | | | | (45,493 | ) | | | | | (33,353 | ) | | | | | (99,724 | ) | | | | (81,817 | ) | | | | | (5,869 | ) | |
Accumulated net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | | 162,269 | | | | | | 754,809 | | | | | | 277,575 | | | | | 49,269 | | | | | | 21,239 | | |
Unrealized appreciation/depreciation on investments | | | | 2,457,376 | | | | | | 5,481,265 | | | | | | 3,944,078 | | | | | 1,785,402 | | | | | | 28,873 | | |
Net Assets | | | $ | 18,399,627 | | | | | $ | 52,103,928 | | | | | $ | 46,455,495 | | | | $ | 23,119,687 | | | | | $ | 1,104,172 | | |
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Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | $ | 10,993,299 | | | | | $ | 29,598,123 | | | | | $ | 25,518,134 | | | | $ | 9,970,294 | | | | | $ | 301,326 | | |
Class B Shares | | | | 5,739,635 | | | | | | 16,651,191 | | | | | | 17,353,525 | | | | | 10,239,406 | | | | | | 384,109 | | |
Class C Shares | | | | 1,666,693 | | | | | | 5,854,614 | | | | | | 3,583,836 | | | | | 2,909,987 | | | | | | 418,737 | | |
| | | $ | 18,399,627 | | | | | $ | 52,103,928 | | | | | $ | 46,455,495 | | | | $ | 23,119,687 | | | | | $ | 1,104,172 | | |
Shares Outstanding | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
($0.001 par value, unlimited number of shares authorized): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | 766,433 | | | | | | 2,162,520 | | | | | | 2,015,706 | | | | | 833,233 | | | | | | 28,532 | | |
Class B Shares | | | | 418,534 | | | | | | 1,217,006 | | | | | | 1,373,090 | | | | | 867,404 | | | | | | 36,445 | | |
Class C Shares | | | | 122,008 | | | | | | 427,306 | | | | | | 291,583 | | | | | 239,474 | | | | | | 39,731 | | |
Net Asset Value, Offering Price and Redemption | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Price per share: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | $ | 14.34 | | | | | $ | 13.69 | | | | | $ | 12.66 | | | | $ | 11.97 | | | | | $ | 10.56 | | |
Class B Shares(b) | | | $ | 13.71 | | | | | $ | 13.68 | | | | | $ | 12.64 | | | | $ | 11.80 | | | | | $ | 10.54 | | |
Class C Shares(b) | | | $ | 13.66 | | | | | $ | 13.70 | | | | | $ | 12.29 | | | | $ | 12.15 | | | | | $ | 10.54 | | |
Maximum Sales Charge—Class A Shares | | | | 5.00 | % | | | | | 5.00 | % | | | | | 5.00 | % | | | | 5.00 | % | | | | | 4.75 | % | |
Maximum Offering Price per share (Net Asset Value/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(100%-maximum sales charge))—Class A Shares | | | $ | 15.09 | | | | | $ | 14.41 | | | | | $ | 13.33 | | | | $ | 12.60 | | | | | $ | 11.09 | | |
Investments in Affiliated Investment Companies, at cost(a) | | | $ | 304,734 | | | | | $ | 5,150,799 | | | | | $ | 5,426,508 | | | | $ | 2,862,209 | | | | | $ | 108,831 | | |
Investments in non-affiliates, at cost | | | $ | 13,763,518 | | | | | $ | 37,696,507 | | | | | $ | 34,783,661 | | | | $ | 17,772,487 | | | | | $ | 946,146 | | |
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(a) | The investment in the affiliated investment companies includes the HSBC Prime Money Market Fund, Class I Shares, HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund, Class I Shares and HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt, Class I Shares (See Note 1). |
(b) | Redemption Price per share varies by length of time shares are held. |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS 25 |
HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS
Statements of Operations—For the six months ended April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
| | Aggressive | | Balanced | | Moderate | | Conservative | | Income |
| | Strategy | | Strategy | | Strategy | | Strategy | | Strategy |
| | Fund | | Fund | | Fund | | Fund | | Fund |
Investment Income: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment income from non-affiliates | | | $ | 188,773 | | | | | $ | 619,841 | | | | | $ | 584,995 | | | | $ | 312,373 | | | | $ | 17,097 | |
Investment Income from Affiliated Portfolios(a) | | | | 16,530 | | | | | | 35,168 | | | | | | 21,422 | | | | | 6,594 | | | | | — | |
Investment Income from Affiliated Investment Companies | | | | 4,796 | | | | | | 94,419 | | | | | | 91,297 | | | | | 43,327 | | | | | 1,473 | |
Tax reclaims from Affiliated Portfolios(a) | | | | 22 | | | | | | 52 | | | | | | 38 | | | | | 10 | | | | | — | |
Expenses from Affiliated Portfolios(a) | | | | (9,944 | ) | | | | | (21,093 | ) | | | | | (12,819 | ) | | | | (3,992 | ) | | | | — | |
Total Investment Income (Loss) | | | | 200,177 | | | | | | 728,387 | | | | | | 684,933 | | | | | 358,312 | | | | | 18,570 | |
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Expenses: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Management | | | | 22,319 | | | | | | 64,383 | | | | | | 56,910 | | | | | 28,081 | | | | | 1,284 | |
Administration: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | 1,285 | | | | | | 3,577 | | | | | | 3,074 | | | | | 1,212 | | | | | 87 | |
Class B Shares | | | | 699 | | | | | | 2,030 | | | | | | 2,117 | | | | | 1,204 | | | | | 93 | |
Class C Shares | | | | 210 | | | | | | 722 | | | | | | 405 | | | | | 345 | | | | | 73 | |
Distribution: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class B Shares | | | | 21,313 | | | | | | 61,872 | | | | | | 64,498 | | | | | 36,674 | | | | | 1,378 | |
Class C Shares | | | | 6,392 | | | | | | 21,948 | | | | | | 12,274 | | | | | 10,448 | | | | | 1,080 | |
Shareholder Servicing: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | 12,847 | | | | | | 35,516 | | | | | | 30,732 | | | | | 12,113 | | | | | 325 | |
Class B Shares | | | | 7,107 | | | | | | 20,644 | | | | | | 21,522 | | | | | 12,245 | | | | | 408 | |
Class C Shares | | | | 2,133 | | | | | | 7,339 | | | | | | 4,111 | | | | | 3,507 | | | | | 360 | |
Accounting | | | | 11,098 | | | | | | 11,128 | | | | | | 11,144 | | | | | 11,126 | | | | | 24,379 | |
Audit | | | | 6,991 | | | | | | 6,741 | | | | | | 7,221 | | | | | 7,028 | | | | | 6,792 | |
Compliance Service | | | | 122 | | | | | | 238 | | | | | | 218 | | | | | 136 | | | | | 72 | |
Custodian | | | | 14,547 | | | | | | 20,279 | | | | | | 20,539 | | | | | 17,151 | | | | | 8,196 | |
Printing | | | | 3,040 | | | | | | 7,993 | | | | | | 7,062 | | | | | 3,671 | | | | | 127 | |
Transfer Agent | | | | 28,958 | | | | | | 49,938 | | | | | | 48,625 | | | | | 25,981 | | | | | 13,897 | |
Trustee | | | | 199 | | | | | | 572 | | | | | | 505 | | | | | 247 | | | | | 20 | |
Registration fees | | | | 9,490 | | | | | | 8,629 | | | | | | 9,701 | | | | | 6,493 | | | | | 5,984 | |
Other | | | | 1,278 | | | | | | 3,728 | | | | | | 3,344 | | | | | 1,473 | | | | | 245 | |
Total expenses before fee reductions | | | | 150,028 | | | | | | 327,277 | | | | | | 304,002 | | | | | 179,135 | | | | | 64,800 | |
Fees contractually reduced/reimbursed by Investment Adviser | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | (54,563 | ) |
Net Expenses | | | | 150,028 | | | | | | 327,277 | | | | | | 304,002 | | | | | 179,135 | | | | | 10,237 | |
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Net Investment Income (Loss) | | | | 50,149 | | | | | | 401,110 | | | | | | 380,931 | | | | | 179,177 | | | | | 8,333 | |
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Net Realized/Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from affiliated investment securities(a) | | | | 240,913 | | | | | | 619,308 | | | | | | 408,340 | | | | | 132,628 | | | | | 2,254 | |
Net realized gains (losses) from non-affiliated investment securities | | | | 203,218 | | | | | | 242,155 | | | | | | 77,592 | | | | | (67,578 | ) | | | | 19,230 | |
Net realized gains distributions from affiliated underlying funds | | | | 3,414 | | | | | | 73,038 | | | | | | 70,669 | | | | | 33,240 | | | | | — | |
Net realized gains distributions from non-affiliated underlying funds | | | | 29,131 | | | | | | 149,021 | | | | | | 246,850 | | | | | 193,143 | | | | | — | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on affiliated investments(a) | | | | 121,160 | | | | | | 156,571 | | | | | | 79,642 | | | | | 29,743 | | | | | 64 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on investments | | | | 1,473,075 | | | | | | 3,267,281 | | | | | | 2,157,624 | | | | | 723,484 | | | | | 10,758 | |
Net realized/unrealized gains from investments | | | | 2,070,911 | | | | | | 4,507,374 | | | | | | 3,040,717 | | | | | 1,044,660 | | | | | 32,306 | |
Change In Net Assets Resulting From Operations | | | $ | 2,121,060 | | | | | $ | 4,908,484 | | | | | $ | 3,421,648 | | | | $ | 1,223,837 | | | | $ | 40,639 | |
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(a) | Represents amounts allocated from Affiliated Investment Companies and Affiliated Portfolios. |
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26 HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Aggressive Strategy Fund | | Balanced Strategy Fund |
| | For the six | For the | | For the six | For the |
| | months ended | year ended | | months ended | year ended |
| | April 30, | October 31, | | April 30, | October 31, |
| | 2013 | 2012 | | 2013 | 2012 |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | | |
Investment Activities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Operations: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | | $ | 50,149 | | | | $ | (30,313 | ) | | | | $ | 401,110 | | | | $ | 829,128 | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | | 476,676 | | | | | 435,511 | | | | | | 1,083,522 | | | | | 1,339,315 | | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on investments | | | | 1,594,235 | | | | | 869,238 | | | | | | 3,423,852 | | | | | 2,007,609 | | |
Change in net assets resulting from operations | | | | 2,121,060 | | | | | 1,274,436 | | | | | | 4,908,484 | | | | | 4,176,052 | | |
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Dividends: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | (31,802 | ) | | | | (77,670 | ) | | | | | (526,976 | ) | | | | (912,343 | ) | |
Class B Shares | | | | — | | | | | (8,596 | ) | | | | | (168,352 | ) | | | | (454,511 | ) | |
Class C Shares | | | | — | | | | | (6,139 | ) | | | | | (59,678 | ) | | | | (174,260 | ) | |
Change in net assets resulting from shareholder dividends | | | | (31,802 | ) | | | | (92,405 | ) | | | | | (755,006 | ) | | | | (1,541,114 | ) | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | | (1,409,110 | ) | | | | (1,313,685 | ) | | | | | (4,252,037 | ) | | | | (3,920,082 | ) | |
Change in net assets | | | | 680,148 | | | | | (131,654 | ) | | | | | (98,559 | ) | | | | (1,285,144 | ) | |
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Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | | | 17,719,479 | | | | | 17,851,133 | | | | | | 52,202,487 | | | | | 53,487,631 | | |
End of period | | | $ | 18,399,627 | | | | $ | 17,719,479 | | | | | $ | 52,103,928 | | | | $ | 52,202,487 | | |
Accumulated net investment income (loss) | | | $ | (45,493 | ) | | | $ | (63,840 | ) | | | | $ | (33,353 | ) | | | $ | 320,543 | | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS 27 |
HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| | Aggressive Strategy Fund | | Balanced Strategy Fund |
| | For the six | For the | | For the six | For the |
| | months ended | year ended | | months ended | year ended |
| | April 30, | October 31, | | April 30, | October 31, |
| | 2013 | 2012 | | 2013 | 2012 |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | | |
CAPITAL TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | $ | 661,318 | | | | $ | 2,113,457 | | | | | $ | 1,978,419 | | | | $ | 5,462,023 | | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 31,467 | | | | | 76,522 | | | | | | 512,520 | | | | | 896,978 | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (1,064,627 | ) | | | | (1,916,446 | ) | | | | | (4,674,208 | ) | | | | (6,605,601 | ) | |
Class A Shares capital transactions | | | | (371,842 | ) | | | | 273,533 | | | | | | (2,183,269 | ) | | | | (246,600 | ) | |
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Class B Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | 175,377 | | | | | 692,637 | | | | | | 582,140 | | | | | 2,081,326 | | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | — | | | | | 8,454 | | | | | | 166,080 | | | | | 449,537 | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (965,594 | ) | | | | (2,003,556 | ) | | | | | (2,277,871 | ) | | | | (5,369,321 | ) | |
Class B Shares capital transactions | | | | (790,217 | ) | | | | (1,302,465 | ) | | | | | (1,529,651 | ) | | | | (2,838,458 | ) | |
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Class C Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | 96,066 | | | | | 280,202 | | | | | | 605,050 | | | | | 980,626 | | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | — | | | | | 6,111 | | | | | | 58,220 | | | | | 170,621 | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (343,117 | ) | | | | (571,066 | ) | | | | | (1,202,387 | ) | | | | (1,986,271 | ) | |
Class C Shares capital transactions | | | | (247,051 | ) | | | | (284,753 | ) | | | | | (539,117 | ) | | | | (835,024 | ) | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | $ | (1,409,110 | ) | | | $ | (1,313,685 | ) | | | | $ | (4,252,037 | ) | | | $ | (3,920,082 | ) | |
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SHARE TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 48,626 | | | | | 170,638 | | | | | | 150,675 | | | | | 449,415 | | |
Reinvested | | | | 2,391 | | | | | 6,672 | | | | | | 40,135 | | | | | 78,890 | | |
Redeemed | | | | (78,206 | ) | | | | (154,093 | ) | | | | | (357,581 | ) | | | | (540,992 | ) | |
Change in Class A Shares | | | | (27,189 | ) | | | | 23,217 | | | | | | (166,771 | ) | | | | (12,687 | ) | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class B Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 13,212 | | | | | 58,381 | | | | | | 44,120 | | | | | 170,500 | | |
Reinvested | | | | — | | | | | 765 | | | | | | 12,975 | | | | | 39,468 | | |
Redeemed | | | | (75,078 | ) | | | | (168,348 | ) | | | | | (173,753 | ) | | | | (442,138 | ) | |
Change in Class B Shares | | | | (61,866 | ) | | | | (109,202 | ) | | | | | (116,658 | ) | | | | (232,170 | ) | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class C Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 7,331 | | | | | 23,588 | | | | | | 46,043 | | | | | 80,512 | | |
Reinvested | | | | — | | | | | 556 | | | | | | 4,545 | | | | | 14,967 | | |
Redeemed | | | | (26,035 | ) | | | | (48,318 | ) | | | | | (91,454 | ) | | | | (160,924 | ) | |
Change in Class C Shares | | | | (18,704 | ) | | | | (24,174 | ) | | | | | (40,866 | ) | | | | (65,445 | ) | |
28 HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| | Moderate Strategy Fund | | Conservative Strategy Fund |
| | For the six | For the | | For the six | For the |
| | months ended | year ended | | months ended | year ended |
| | April 30, | October 31, | | April 30, | October 31, |
| | 2013 | 2012 | | 2013 | 2012 |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | | |
Investment Activities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Operations: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | | $ | 380,931 | | | | $ | 927,899 | | | | | $ | 179,177 | | | | $ | 436,646 | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | | 803,451 | | | | | 1,043,026 | | | | | | 291,433 | | | | | 130,546 | | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on investments | | | | 2,237,266 | | | | | 1,583,173 | | | | | | 753,227 | | | | | 1,028,581 | | |
Change in net assets resulting from operations | | | | 3,421,648 | | | | | 3,554,098 | | | | | | 1,223,837 | | | | | 1,595,773 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Dividends: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | (319,656 | ) | | | | (657,742 | ) | | | | | (136,091 | ) | | | | (283,394 | ) | |
Class B Shares | | | | (171,165 | ) | | | | (398,779 | ) | | | | | (111,154 | ) | | | | (215,487 | ) | |
Class C Shares | | | | (33,140 | ) | | | | (78,368 | ) | | | | | (30,530 | ) | | | | (57,748 | ) | |
Change in net assets resulting from shareholder dividends | | | | (523,961 | ) | | | | (1,134,889 | ) | | | | | (277,775 | ) | | | | (556,629 | ) | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | | (2,560,572 | ) | | | | (4,201,200 | ) | | | | | (466,757 | ) | | | | 1,174,324 | | |
Change in net assets | | | | 337,115 | | | | | (1,781,991 | ) | | | | | 479,305 | | | | | 2,213,468 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | | | 46,118,380 | | | | | 47,900,371 | | | | | | 22,640,382 | | | | | 20,426,914 | | |
End of period | | | $ | 46,455,495 | | | | $ | 46,118,380 | | | | | $ | 23,119,687 | | | | $ | 22,640,382 | | |
Accumulated net investment income (loss) | | | $ | (99,724 | ) | | | $ | 43,306 | | | | | $ | (81,817 | ) | | | $ | 16,781 | | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS 29 |
HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| | Moderate Strategy Fund | | Conservative Strategy Fund |
| | For the six | For the | | For the six | For the |
| | months ended | year ended | | months ended | year ended |
| | April 30, | October 31, | | April 30, | October 31, |
| | 2013 | 2012 | | 2013 | 2012 |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | |
CAPITAL TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | $ | 2,043,892 | | | $ | 5,814,895 | | | | $ | 888,264 | | | $ | 2,466,524 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 312,169 | | | | 648,574 | | | | | 127,433 | | | | 267,600 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (3,612,898 | ) | | | (6,285,101 | ) | | | | (1,399,103 | ) | | | (2,212,701 | ) |
Class A Shares capital transactions | | | | (1,256,837 | ) | | | 178,368 | | | | | (383,406 | ) | | | 521,423 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class B Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | 703,302 | | | | 1,837,722 | | | | | 814,709 | | | | 1,972,436 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 168,030 | | | | 392,486 | | | | | 106,246 | | | | 204,146 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (2,223,126 | ) | | | (5,898,444 | ) | | | | (900,753 | ) | | | (1,807,237 | ) |
Class B Shares capital transactions | | | | (1,351,794 | ) | | | (3,668,236 | ) | | | | 20,202 | | | | 369,345 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class C Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | 635,914 | | | | 682,092 | | | | | 445,659 | | | | 1,056,887 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 31,954 | | | | 77,318 | | | | | 29,488 | | | | 54,627 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (619,809 | ) | | | (1,470,742 | ) | | | | (578,700 | ) | | | (827,958 | ) |
Class C Shares capital transactions | | | | 48,059 | | | | (711,332 | ) | | | | (103,553 | ) | | | 283,556 | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | $ | (2,560,572 | ) | | $ | (4,201,200 | ) | | | $ | (466,757 | ) | | $ | 1,174,324 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
SHARE TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 166,844 | | | | 505,703 | | | | | 76,279 | | | | 223,077 | |
Reinvested | | | | 25,917 | | | | 58,105 | | | | | 11,069 | | | | 24,607 | |
Redeemed | | | | (295,634 | ) | | | (546,616 | ) | | | | (120,127 | ) | | | (198,821 | ) |
Change in Class A Shares | | | | (102,873 | ) | | | 17,192 | | | | | (32,779 | ) | | | 48,863 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class B Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 57,198 | | | | 160,345 | | | | | 70,784 | | | | 180,184 | |
Reinvested | | | | 13,991 | | | | 35,603 | | | | | 9,344 | | | | 19,128 | |
Redeemed | | | | (181,872 | ) | | | (514,301 | ) | | | | (78,451 | ) | | | (164,720 | ) |
Change in Class B Shares | | | | (110,683 | ) | | | (318,353 | ) | | | | 1,677 | | | | 34,592 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class C Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 52,769 | | | | 61,003 | | | | | 37,428 | | | | 93,307 | |
Reinvested | | | | 2,736 | | | | 7,205 | | | | | 2,520 | | | | 4,973 | |
Redeemed | | | | (52,130 | ) | | | (131,493 | ) | | | | (48,981 | ) | | | (73,251 | ) |
Change in Class C Shares | | | | 3,375 | | | | (63,285 | ) | | | | (9,033 | ) | | | 25,029 | |
30 HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| | Income Strategy Fund |
| | For the six | For the |
| | months ended | period ended |
| | April 30, | October 31, |
| | 2013 | 2012(a) |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | |
Investment Activities: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Operations: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | | $ | 8,333 | | | | $ | 3,609 | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investment transactions | | | | 21,484 | | | | | 2,837 | | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation from investments and foreign currencies | | | | 10,822 | | | | | 18,051 | | |
Change in net assets resulting from operations | | | | 40,639 | | | | | 24,497 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Dividends: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | (8,449 | ) | | | | (1,852 | ) | |
Class B Shares | | | | (7,939 | ) | | | | (687 | ) | |
Class C Shares | | | | (5,735 | ) | | | | (536 | ) | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Net realized gains: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | (1,059 | ) | | | | — | | |
Class B Shares | | | | (1,181 | ) | | | | — | | |
Class C Shares | | | | (842 | ) | | | | — | | |
Change in net assets resulting from shareholder dividends | | | | (25,205 | ) | | | | (3,075 | ) | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | | 171,854 | | | | | 895,462 | | |
Change in net assets | | | | 187,288 | | | | | 916,884 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | | | 916,884 | | | | | — | | |
End of period | | | $ | 1,104,172 | | | | $ | 916,884 | | |
Accumulated net investment income (loss) | | | $ | (5,869 | ) | | | $ | 7,921 | | |
____________________
(a) | | Commenced operations on March 20, 2012. |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS 31 |
HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| Income Strategy Fund |
| For the six | For the |
| months ended | period ended |
| April 30, | October 31, |
| 2013 | 2012(a) |
| (Unaudited) | | | | | |
CAPITAL TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | $ | 71,314 | | | | $ | 429,058 | | |
Dividends reinvested | | | 9,484 | | | | | 1,851 | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | (121,359 | ) | | | | (103,668 | ) | |
Class A Shares capital transactions | | | (40,561 | ) | | | | 327,241 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Class B Shares: | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | 38,920 | | | | | 349,020 | | |
Dividends reinvested | | | 8,332 | | | | | 644 | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | (16,068 | ) | | | | (7,223 | ) | |
Class B Shares capital transactions | | | 31,184 | | | | | 342,441 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Class C Shares: | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | 204,976 | | | | | 226,393 | | |
Dividends reinvested | | | 6,454 | | | | | 536 | | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | (30,199 | ) | | | | (1,149 | ) | |
Class C Shares capital transactions | | | 181,231 | | | | | 225,780 | | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | $ | 171,854 | | | | $ | 895,462 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
SHARE TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | 6,900 | | | | | 42,276 | | |
Reinvested | | | 920 | | | | | 179 | | |
Redeemed | | | (11,605 | ) | | | | (10,138 | ) | |
Change in Class A Shares | | | (3,785 | ) | | | | 32,317 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Class B Shares: | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | 3,743 | | | | | 34,074 | | |
Reinvested | | | 811 | | | | | 62 | | |
Redeemed | | | (1,544 | ) | | | | (701 | ) | |
Change in Class B Shares | | | 3,010 | | | | | 33,435 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Class C Shares: | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | 19,772 | | | | | 22,294 | | |
Reinvested | | | 628 | | | | | 52 | | |
Redeemed | | | (2,901 | ) | | | | (114 | ) | |
Change in Class C Shares | | | 17,499 | | | | | 22,232 | | |
____________________
(a) | | Commenced operations on March 20, 2012. |
32 HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
AGGRESSIVE STRATEGY FUND |
Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.*
| | | | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplemental Data |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratio of Net | | Expenses | | |
| | | | | | | | Net | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Investment | | to Average | | |
| | | | | | | | Realized and | | | | | | Net | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratio of Net | | Income | | Net Assets | | |
| | Net Asset | | Net | | Unrealized | | | | | | Realized | | | | | | | | | | Net Assets | | Expenses | | (Loss) to | | (Excluding | | |
| | Value, | | Investment | | Gains | | Total from | | Net | | Gains from | | | | Net Asset | | | | at End | | to Average | | Average | | Fee | | Portfolio |
| | Beginning | | Income | | (Losses) from | | Investment | | Investment | | Investment | | Total | | Value, End | | Total | | of Period | | Net Assets | | Net Assets | | Reductions) | | Turnover |
| | of Period | | (Loss)(a) | | Investments | | Activities | | Income | | Transactions | | Dividends | | of Period | | Return(b) | | (000's) | | (c) | | (c) | | (c) | | (b)(d) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 15.55 | | | 0.02 | | | (6.05 | ) | | (6.03 | ) | | — | | | (0.90 | ) | | (0.90 | ) | | | $ | 8.62 | | | (40.92 | )%(e) | | | $ | 4,572 | | | 1.50 | % | | 0.13 | % | | 1.98 | % | | 72 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 8.62 | | | 0.01 | | | 1.57 | | | 1.58 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | | 10.20 | | | 18.33 | %(f) | | | | 5,426 | | | 1.50 | % | | 0.09 | % | | 2.16 | % | | 53 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 10.20 | | | 0.03 | | | 1.80 | | | 1.83 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | | 12.03 | | | 17.94 | %(g) | | | | 7,886 | | | 1.50 | % | | 0.24 | % | | 2.00 | % | | 50 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 12.03 | | | 0.10 | | | (0.07 | ) | | 0.03 | | | (0.10 | ) | | — | | | (0.10 | ) | | | | 11.96 | | | 0.20 | %(h) | | | | 9,217 | | | 1.50 | % | | 0.77 | % | | 1.61 | % | | 71 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 11.96 | | | 0.02 | | | 0.89 | | | 0.91 | | | (0.10 | ) | | — | | | (0.10 | ) | | | | 12.77 | | | 7.72 | % | | | | 10,136 | | | 1.50 | % | | 0.16 | % | | 1.66 | % | | 71 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 12.77 | | | 0.06 | | | 1.55 | | | 1.61 | | | (0.04 | ) | | — | | | (0.04 | ) | | | | 14.34 | | | 12.64 | % | | | | 10,993 | | | 1.48 | % | | 0.87 | % | | 1.48 | % | | 13 | %(k) |
CLASS B SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 15.27 | | | (0.08 | ) | | (5.90 | ) | | (5.98 | ) | | — | | | (0.90 | ) | | (0.90 | ) | | | $ | 8.39 | | | (41.36 | )%(e) | | | $ | 3,166 | | | 2.25 | % | | (0.62 | )% | | 2.73 | % | | 72 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 8.39 | | | (0.06 | ) | | 1.53 | | | 1.47 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | | 9.86 | | | 17.52 | %(f) | | | | 3,767 | | | 2.25 | % | | (0.66 | )% | | 2.91 | % | | 53 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 9.86 | | | (0.05 | ) | | 1.73 | | | 1.68 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | | 11.54 | | | 17.04 | %(g) | | | | 5,519 | | | 2.25 | % | | (0.51 | )% | | 2.75 | % | | 50 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 11.54 | | | — | (i) | | (0.06 | ) | | (0.06 | ) | | (0.03 | ) | | — | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | 11.45 | | | (0.53 | )%(h) | | | | 6,750 | | | 2.25 | % | | 0.02 | % | | 2.36 | % | | 71 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 11.45 | | | (0.07 | ) | | 0.85 | | | 0.78 | | | (0.01 | ) | | — | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | 12.22 | | | 6.87 | % | | | | 5,870 | | | 2.25 | % | | (0.57 | )% | | 2.40 | % | | 71 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 12.22 | | | 0.01 | | | 1.48 | | | 1.49 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | | 13.71 | | | 12.19 | % | | | | 5,740 | | | 2.23 | % | | 0.11 | % | | 2.23 | % | | 13 | %(k) |
CLASS C SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 15.26 | | | (0.08 | ) | | (5.89 | ) | | (5.97 | ) | | — | | | (0.90 | ) | | (0.90 | ) | | | $ | 8.39 | | | (41.32 | )%(e) | | | $ | 319 | | | 2.25 | % | | (0.64 | )% | | 2.73 | % | | 72 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 8.39 | | | (0.05 | ) | | 1.51 | | | 1.46 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | | 9.85 | | | 17.40 | %(f) | | | | 289 | | | 2.25 | % | | (0.59 | )% | | 2.93 | % | | 53 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 9.85 | | | (0.05 | ) | | 1.73 | | | 1.68 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | | 11.53 | | | 17.06 | %(g) | | | | 698 | | | 2.25 | % | | (0.47 | )% | | 2.76 | % | | 50 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 11.53 | | | — | (i) | | (0.05 | ) | | (0.05 | ) | | (0.05 | ) | | — | | | (0.05 | ) | | | | 11.43 | | | (0.46 | )%(h) | | | | 1,884 | | | 2.25 | % | | — | %(j) | | 2.35 | % | | 71 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 11.43 | | | (0.07 | ) | | 0.85 | | | 0.78 | | | (0.04 | ) | | — | | | (0.04 | ) | | | | 12.17 | | | 6.83 | % | | | | 1,713 | | | 2.25 | % | | (0.56 | )% | | 2.40 | % | | 71 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 12.17 | | | 0.01 | | | 1.48 | | | 1.49 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | | 13.66 | | | 12.24 | % | | | | 1,667 | | | 2.23 | % | | 0.16 | % | | 2.23 | % | | 13 | %(k) |
* | | The per share amounts and percentages reflected include the income and expense allocations from the applicable HSBC Portfolios but do not include the estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investments in investment companies other than the HSBC Portfolios. |
(a) | | Calculated based on average shares outstanding. |
(b) | | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any sales or redemption charges. |
(c) | | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(d) | | Portfolio turnover rate is calculated by aggregating the results of multiplying the Fund’s investment percentage in the respective Portfolios, affiliated and unaffiliated investment companies by their corresponding portfolio turnover rates. Portfolio turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Fund as a whole without distinguishing between classes of shares issued. |
(e) | | During the year ended October 31, 2008, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The responding impact to the total return was 0.11%, 0.11% and 0.11% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(f) | | During the year ended October 31, 2009, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.11%, 0.11% and 0.11% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(g) | | During the year ended October 31, 2010, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.09%, 0.09% and 0.09% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(h) | | During the year ended October 31, 2011, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.08%, 0.08% and 0.08% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(i) | | Rounds to less than $0.01 or $(0.01). |
(j) | | Rounds to less than 0.005% or (0.005)%. |
(k) | | During the six months ended April 30, 2013, the Fund’s investment strategy of investing in HSBC Portfolios and other investment companies was stabilized as compared to prior periods resulting in a lower portfolio turnover rate. |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS 33 |
BALANCED STRATEGY FUND |
Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.*
| | | | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplemental Data |
| | Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | | Net Investment Income (Loss)(a) | | Net Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments | | Total from Investment Activities | | Net Investment Income | | Net Realized Gains from Investment Transactions | | Total Dividends | | Net Asset Value, End of Period | | Total Return(b) | | Net Assets at End of Period (000's) | | Ratio of Net Expenses to Average Net Assets (c) | | Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets (c) | | Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Fee Reductions) (c) | | Portfolio Turnover (b)(d) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 14.73 | | | 0.12 | | (5.21 | ) | | (5.09 | ) | | (0.09 | ) | | (0.74 | ) | | (0.83 | ) | | | $ | 8.81 | | | (36.43 | )%(e) | | | $ | 13,908 | | | 1.50 | % | | 0.98 | % | | 1.53 | % | | 79 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 8.81 | | | 0.07 | | 1.55 | | | 1.62 | | | (0.09 | ) | | — | | | (0.09 | ) | | | | 10.34 | | | 18.66 | %(f) | | | | 15,304 | | | 1.50 | % | | 0.84 | % | | 1.57 | % | | 48 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 10.34 | | | 0.19 | | 1.64 | | | 1.83 | | | (0.08 | ) | | — | | | (0.08 | ) | | | | 12.09 | | | 17.79 | %(g) | | | | 21,642 | | | 1.25 | % | | 1.72 | % | | 1.30 | % | | 53 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 12.09 | | | 0.32 | | (0.06 | ) | | 0.26 | | | (0.28 | ) | | — | | | (0.28 | ) | | | | 12.07 | | | 2.08 | %(h) | | | | 28,262 | | | 1.12 | % | | 2.60 | % | | 1.14 | % | | 74 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 12.07 | | | 0.23 | | 0.75 | | | 0.98 | | | (0.39 | ) | | — | | | (0.39 | ) | | | | 12.66 | | | 8.51 | % | | | | 29,490 | | | 1.15 | % | | 1.89 | % | | 1.15 | % | | 62 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 12.66 | | | 0.12 | | 1.14 | | | 1.26 | | | (0.23 | ) | | — | | | (0.23 | ) | | | | 13.69 | | | 10.12 | % | | | | 29,598 | | | 1.02 | % | | 1.88 | % | | 1.02 | % | | 12 | %(j) |
CLASS B SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 14.67 | | | 0.03 | | (5.20 | ) | | (5.17 | ) | | — | (i) | | (0.74 | ) | | (0.74 | ) | | | $ | 8.76 | | | (36.95 | )%(e) | | | $ | 9,516 | | | 2.25 | % | | 0.24 | % | | 2.28 | % | | 79 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 8.76 | | | 0.01 | | 1.55 | | | 1.56 | | | (0.01 | ) | | — | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | 10.31 | | | 17.80 | %(f) | | | | 11,196 | | | 2.25 | % | | 0.07 | % | | 2.31 | % | | 48 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 10.31 | | | 0.11 | | 1.64 | | | 1.75 | | | (0.01 | ) | | — | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | 12.05 | | | 17.01 | %(g) | | | | 15,593 | | | 2.00 | % | | 0.97 | % | | 2.05 | % | | 53 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 12.05 | | | 0.23 | | (0.07 | ) | | 0.16 | | | (0.20 | ) | | — | | | (0.20 | ) | | | | 12.01 | | | 1.30 | %(h) | | | | 18,799 | | | 1.87 | % | | 1.85 | % | | 1.90 | % | | 74 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 12.01 | | | 0.14 | | 0.75 | | | 0.89 | | | (0.30 | ) | | — | | | (0.30 | ) | | | | 12.60 | | | 7.66 | % | | | | 16,805 | | | 1.91 | % | | 1.18 | % | | 1.91 | % | | 62 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 12.60 | | | 0.07 | | 1.14 | | | 1.21 | | | (0.13 | ) | | — | | | (0.13 | ) | | | | 13.68 | | | 9.68 | % | | | | 16,651 | | | 1.78 | % | | 1.13 | % | | 1.78 | % | | 12 | %(j) |
CLASS C SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 14.74 | | | 0.03 | | (5.22 | ) | | (5.19 | ) | | (0.01 | ) | | (0.74 | ) | | (0.75 | ) | | | $ | 8.80 | | | (36.94 | )%(e) | | | $ | 937 | | | 2.25 | % | | 0.25 | % | | 2.29 | % | | 79 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 8.80 | | | 0.01 | | 1.55 | | | 1.56 | | | (0.01 | ) | | — | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | 10.35 | | | 17.81 | %(f) | | | | 1,507 | | | 2.25 | % | | 0.06 | % | | 2.30 | % | | 48 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 10.35 | | | 0.12 | | 1.63 | | | 1.75 | | | (0.01 | ) | | — | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | 12.09 | | | 16.96 | %(g) | | | | 3,497 | | | 2.01 | % | | 1.04 | % | | 2.06 | % | | 53 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 12.09 | | | 0.23 | | (0.07 | ) | | 0.16 | | | (0.21 | ) | | — | | | (0.21 | ) | | | | 12.04 | | | 1.25 | %(h) | | | | 6,427 | | | 1.87 | % | | 1.85 | % | | 1.90 | % | | 74 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 12.04 | | | 0.14 | | 0.76 | | | 0.90 | | | (0.32 | ) | | — | | | (0.32 | ) | | | | 12.62 | | | 7.77 | % | | | | 5,908 | | | 1.91 | % | | 1.18 | % | | 1.91 | % | | 62 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 12.62 | | | 0.07 | | 1.14 | | | 1.21 | | | (0.13 | ) | | — | | | (0.13 | ) | | | | 13.70 | | | 9.67 | % | | | | 5,855 | | | 1.78 | % | | 1.13 | % | | 1.78 | % | | 12 | %(j) |
* | | The per share amounts and percentages reflected include the income and expense allocations from the applicable HSBC Portfolios but do not include the estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investments in investment companies other than the HSBC Portfolios. |
(a) | | Calculated based on average shares outstanding. |
(b) | | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any sales or redemption charges. |
(c) | | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(d) | | Portfolio turnover rate is calculated by aggregating the results of multiplying the Fund’s investment percentage in the respective Portfolios, affiliated and unaffiliated investment companies by their corresponding portfolio turnover rates. Portfolio turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Fund as a whole without distinguishing between classes of shares issued. |
(e) | | During the year ended October 31, 2008, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.15%, 0.15% and 0.15% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(f) | | During the year ended October 31, 2009, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.11%, 0.11% and 0.11% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(g) | | During the year ended October 31, 2010, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.07%, 0.07% and 0.07% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(h) | | During the year ended October 31, 2011, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.06%, 0.06% and 0.06% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(i) | | Rounds to less than $0.01 or $(0.01). |
(j) | | During the six months ended April 30, 2013, the Fund’s investment strategy of investing in HSBC Portfolios and other investment companies was stabilized as compared to prior periods resulting in a lower portfolio turnover rate. |
34 HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
MODERATE STRATEGY FUND |
Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.*
| | | | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratios of | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Expenses | | |
| | | | | | | | Net | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratio of Net | | to Average | | |
| | | | | | | | Realized and | | | | | | Net | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratio of Net | | Investment | | Net Assets | | |
| | Net Asset | | Net | | Unrealized | | | | | | Realized | | | | | | | | | | | | Net Assets | | Expenses | | Income to | | (Excluding | | |
| | Value, | | Investment | | Gains | | Total from | | Net | | Gains from | | Return | | | | Net Asset | | | | at End of | | to Average | | Average | | Fee | | Portfolio |
| | Beginning | | Income | | (Losses) from | | Investment | | Investment | | Investment | | of | | Total | | Value, End | | Total | | Period | | Net Assets | | Net Assets | | Reductions) | | Turnover |
| | of Period | | (Loss)(a) | | Investments | | Activities | | Income | | Transactions | | Capital | | Dividends | | of Period | | Return(b) | | (000’s) | | (c) | | (c) | | (c) | | (b)(d) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 13.27 | | | 0.20 | | (4.08 | ) | | (3.88 | ) | | (0.19 | ) | | (0.50 | ) | | (0.01 | ) | | (0.70 | ) | | | $ | 8.69 | | | (30.65 | )%(e) | | | $ | 14,226 | | | 1.48 | % | | 1.75 | % | | 1.48 | % | | 80 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 8.69 | | | 0.13 | | 1.39 | | | 1.52 | | | (0.12 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.12 | ) | | | | 10.09 | | | 17.75 | %(f) | | | | 15,909 | | | 1.44 | % | | 1.47 | % | | 1.49 | % | | 41 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 10.09 | | | 0.25 | | 1.38 | | | 1.63 | | | (0.24 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.24 | ) | | | | 11.48 | | | 16.39 | %(g) | | | | 18,921 | | | 1.14 | % | | 2.33 | % | | 1.19 | % | | 67 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 11.48 | | | 0.37 | | (0.12 | ) | | 0.25 | | | (0.44 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.44 | ) | | | | 11.29 | | | 2.19 | %(h) | | | | 23,719 | | | 1.06 | % | | 3.16 | % | | 1.09 | % | | 63 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 11.29 | | | 0.26 | | 0.65 | | | 0.91 | | | (0.32 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.32 | ) | | | | 11.88 | | | 8.24 | % | | | | 25,175 | | | 1.16 | % | | 2.30 | % | | 1.16 | % | | 61 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 11.88 | | | 0.12 | | 0.82 | | | 0.94 | | | (0.16 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | 12.66 | | | 7.94 | % | | | | 25,518 | | | 1.05 | % | | 2.01 | % | | 1.05 | % | | 10 | %(i) |
CLASS B SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 13.27 | | | 0.11 | | (4.08 | ) | | (3.97 | ) | | (0.10 | ) | | (0.50 | ) | | (0.01 | ) | | (0.61 | ) | | | $ | 8.69 | | | (31.17 | )%(e) | | | $ | 12,354 | | | 2.23 | % | | 1.00 | % | | 2.23 | % | | 80 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 8.69 | | | 0.06 | | 1.39 | | | 1.45 | | | (0.06 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.06 | ) | | | | 10.08 | | | 16.82 | %(f) | | | | 14,230 | | | 2.19 | % | | 0.71 | % | | 2.24 | % | | 41 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 10.08 | | | 0.17 | | 1.38 | | | 1.55 | | | (0.17 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.17 | ) | | | | 11.46 | | | 15.61 | %(g) | | | | 18,362 | | | 1.89 | % | | 1.59 | % | | 1.94 | % | | 67 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 11.46 | | | 0.28 | | (0.10 | ) | | 0.18 | | | (0.36 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.36 | ) | | | | 11.28 | | | 1.51 | %(h) | | | | 20,323 | | | 1.81 | % | | 2.40 | % | | 1.84 | % | | 63 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 11.28 | | | 0.19 | | 0.63 | | | 0.82 | | | (0.23 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.23 | ) | | | | 11.87 | | | 7.43 | % | | | | 17,615 | | | 1.92 | % | | 1.64 | % | | 1.92 | % | | 61 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 11.87 | | | 0.08 | | 0.81 | | | 0.89 | | | (0.12 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.12 | ) | | | | 12.64 | | | 7.54 | % | | | | 17,354 | | | 1.80 | % | | 1.27 | % | | 1.80 | % | | 10 | %(i) |
CLASS C SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 12.97 | | | 0.11 | | (3.97 | ) | | (3.86 | ) | | (0.11 | ) | | (0.50 | ) | | (0.01 | ) | | (0.62 | ) | | | $ | 8.49 | | | (31.09 | )%(e) | | | $ | 1,408 | | | 2.23 | % | | 1.00 | % | | 2.23 | % | | 80 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 8.49 | | | 0.06 | | 1.35 | | | 1.41 | | | (0.06 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.06 | ) | | | | 9.84 | | | 16.75 | %(f) | | | | 1,488 | | | 2.19 | % | | 0.72 | % | | 2.24 | % | | 41 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 9.84 | | | 0.17 | | 1.35 | | | 1.52 | | | (0.18 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.18 | ) | | | | 11.18 | | | 15.55 | %(g) | | | | 2,544 | | | 1.90 | % | | 1.59 | % | | 1.95 | % | | 67 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 11.18 | | | 0.27 | | (0.11 | ) | | 0.16 | | | (0.36 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.36 | ) | | | | 10.98 | | | 1.42 | %(h) | | | | 3,859 | | | 1.81 | % | | 2.40 | % | | 1.84 | % | | 63 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 10.98 | | | 0.18 | | 0.62 | | | 0.80 | | | (0.23 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.23 | ) | | | | 11.55 | | | 7.49 | % | | | | 3,329 | | | 1.91 | % | | 1.64 | % | | 1.91 | % | | 61 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 11.55 | | | 0.07 | | 0.79 | | | 0.86 | | | (0.12 | ) | | — | | | — | | | (0.12 | ) | | | | 12.29 | | | 7.50 | % | | | | 3,584 | | | 1.80 | % | | 1.25 | % | | 1.80 | % | | 10 | %(i) |
* | | The per share amounts and percentages reflected include the income and expense allocations from the applicable HSBC Portfolios but do not include the estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investments in investment companies other than the HSBC Portfolios. |
(a) | | Calculated based on average shares outstanding. |
(b) | | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any sales or redemption charges. |
(c) | | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(d) | | Portfolio turnover rate is calculated by aggregating the results of multiplying the Fund’s investment percentage in the respective Portfolios, affiliated and unaffiliated investment companies by their corresponding portfolio turnover rates. Portfolio turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Fund as a whole without distinguishing between classes of shares issued. |
(e) | | During the year ended October 31, 2008, certain HSBC Portfolios in which the Fund invests received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.19%, 0.19% and 0.19% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(f) | | During the year ended October 31, 2009, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.09%, 0.09% and 0.09% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(g) | | During the year ended October 31, 2010, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.06%, 0.06% and 0.06% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(h) | | During the year ended October 31, 2011, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.04%, 0.04% and 0.04% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(i) | | During the six months ended April 30, 2013, the Fund’s investment strategy of investing in HSBC Portfolios and other investment companies was stabilized as compared to prior periods resulting in a lower portfolio turnover rate. |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS 35 |
CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY FUND |
Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.*
| | | | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplemental Data |
| | Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | | Net Investment Income (Loss)(a) | | Net Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments | | Total from Investment Activities | | Net Investment Income | | Net Realized Gains from Investment Transactions | | Total Dividends | | Net Asset Value, End of Period | | Total Return(b) | | Net Assets at End of Period (000's) | | Ratio of Net Expenses to Average Net Assets (c) | | Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets (c) | | Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Fee Reductions) (c) | | Portfolio Turnover (b)(d) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 12.04 | | | 0.24 | | (2.93 | ) | | (2.69 | ) | | (0.25 | ) | | (0.26 | ) | | (0.51 | ) | | | $ | 8.84 | | | (23.17 | )%(e) | | | $ | 4,747 | | | 1.50 | % | | 2.24 | % | | 1.72 | % | | 69 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 8.84 | | | 0.14 | | 1.16 | | | 1.30 | | | (0.13 | ) | | — | | | (0.13 | ) | | | | 10.01 | | | 14.95 | %(f) | | | | 5,059 | | | 1.50 | % | | 1.53 | % | | 1.62 | % | | 34 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 10.01 | | | 0.26 | | 1.11 | | | 1.37 | | | (0.23 | ) | | — | | | (0.23 | ) | | | | 11.15 | | | 13.86 | %(g) | | | | 7,139 | | | 1.38 | % | | 2.42 | % | | 1.43 | % | | 78 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 11.15 | | | 0.36 | | (0.10 | ) | | 0.26 | | | (0.46 | ) | | — | | | (0.46 | ) | | | | 10.95 | | | 2.40 | %(h) | | | | 8,946 | | | 1.19 | % | | 3.21 | % | | 1.22 | % | | 54 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 10.95 | | | 0.27 | | 0.58 | | | 0.85 | | | (0.33 | ) | | — | | | (0.33 | ) | | | | 11.47 | | | 8.00 | % | | | | 9,933 | | | 1.34 | % | | 2.40 | % | | 1.34 | % | | 59 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 11.47 | | | 0.12 | | 0.54 | | | 0.66 | | | (0.16 | ) | | — | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | 11.97 | | | 5.80 | % | | | | 9,970 | | | 1.21 | % | | 2.02 | % | | 1.21 | % | | 14 | %(i) |
CLASS B SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 11.94 | | | 0.16 | | (2.91 | ) | | (2.75 | ) | | (0.17 | ) | | (0.26 | ) | | (0.43 | ) | | | $ | 8.76 | | | (23.76) | %(e) | | | $ | 4,348 | | | 2.25 | % | | 1.48 | % | | 2.48 | % | | 69 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 8.76 | | | 0.07 | | 1.15 | | | 1.22 | | | (0.07 | ) | | — | | | (0.07 | ) | | | | 9.91 | | | 14.05 | %(f) | | | | 4,907 | | | 2.25 | % | | 0.77 | % | | 2.38 | % | | 34 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 9.91 | | | 0.17 | | 1.10 | | | 1.27 | | | (0.16 | ) | | — | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | 11.02 | | | 12.94 | %(g) | | | | 7,411 | | | 2.14 | % | | 1.68 | % | | 2.19 | % | | 78 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 11.02 | | | 0.27 | | (0.09 | ) | | 0.18 | | | (0.38 | ) | | — | | | (0.38 | ) | | | | 10.82 | | | 1.68 | %(h) | | | | 8,995 | | | 1.94 | % | | 2.46 | % | | 1.97 | % | | 54 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 10.82 | | | 0.18 | | 0.58 | | | 0.76 | | | (0.25 | ) | | — | | | (0.25 | ) | | | | 11.33 | | | 7.21 | % | | | | 9,810 | | | 2.10 | % | | 1.67 | % | | 2.10 | % | | 59 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 11.33 | | | 0.07 | | 0.53 | | | 0.60 | | | (0.13 | ) | | — | | | (0.13 | ) | | | | 11.80 | | | 5.34 | % | | | | 10,239 | | | 1.96 | % | | 1.27 | % | | 1.96 | % | | 14 | %(i) |
CLASS C SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 12.25 | | | 0.16 | | (2.98 | ) | | (2.82 | ) | | (0.17 | ) | | (0.26 | ) | | (0.43 | ) | | | $ | 9.00 | | | (23.73 | )%(e) | | | $ | 430 | | | 2.25 | % | | 1.46 | % | | 2.48 | % | | 69 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 9.00 | | | 0.07 | | 1.18 | | | 1.25 | | | (0.07 | ) | | — | | | (0.07 | ) | | | | 10.18 | | | 13.97 | %(f) | | | | 485 | | | 2.25 | % | | 0.78 | % | | 2.37 | % | | 34 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 10.18 | | | 0.18 | | 1.14 | | | 1.32 | | | (0.17 | ) | | — | | | (0.17 | ) | | | | 11.33 | | | 13.07 | %(g) | | | | 1,323 | | | 2.16 | % | | 1.71 | % | | 2.21 | % | | 78 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 11.33 | | | 0.28 | | (0.10 | ) | | 0.18 | | | (0.39 | ) | | — | | | (0.39 | ) | | | | 11.12 | | | 1.57 | %(h) | | | | 2,486 | | | 1.94 | % | | 2.49 | % | | 1.96 | % | | 54 | % |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 11.12 | | | 0.19 | | 0.60 | | | 0.79 | | | (0.25 | ) | | — | | | (0.25 | ) | | | | 11.66 | | | 7.28 | % | | | | 2,897 | | | 2.08 | % | | 1.69 | % | | 2.08 | % | | 59 | % |
Six Months Ended | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | | | 11.66 | | | 0.07 | | 0.55 | | | 0.62 | | | (0.13 | ) | | — | | | (0.13 | ) | | | | 12.15 | | | 5.35 | % | | | | 2,910 | | | 1.96 | % | | 1.26 | % | | 1.96 | % | | 14 | %(i) |
* | | The per share amounts and percentages reflected include the income and expense allocations from the applicable HSBC Portfolios but do not include the estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investments in investment companies other than the HSBC Portfolios. |
(a) | | Calculated based on average shares outstanding. |
(b) | | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any sales or redemption charges. |
(c) | | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(d) | | Portfolio turnover rate is calculated by aggregating the results of multiplying the Fund’s investment percentage in the respective Portfolios, affiliated and unaffiliated investment companies by their corresponding portfolio turnover rates. Portfolio turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Fund as a whole without distinguishing between classes of shares issued. |
(e) | | During the year ended October 31, 2008, certain HSBC Portfolios in which the Fund invests received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.19%, 0.19% and 0.19% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(f) | | During the year ended October 31, 2009, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.08%, 0.08% and 0.08% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(g) | | During the year ended October 31, 2010, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.05%, 0.05% and 0.05% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(h) | | During the year ended October 31, 2011, certain HSBC Portfolios, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.02%, 0.02% and 0.02% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(i) | | During the six months ended April 30, 2013, the Fund’s investment strategy of investing in HSBC Portfolios and other investment companies was stabilized as compared to prior periods resulting in a lower portfolio turnover rate. |
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INCOME STRATEGY FUND |
Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.*
| | | | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplemental Data |
| | Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | | Net Investment Income (Loss)(a) | | Net Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments | | Total from Investment Activities | | Net Investment Income | | Net Realized Gains from Investment Transactions | | Total Dividends | | Net Asset Value, End of Period | | Total Return (b)(c) | | Net Assets at End of Period (000's) | | Ratio of Net Expenses to Average Net Assets (d) | | Ratio of Net Investment to Average Net Assets (d) | | Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Fee Reductions) (d) | | Portfolio Turnover (c)(e) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2012(f) | | | $ | 10.00 | | | 0.10 | | 0.40 | | 0.50 | | (0.07 | ) | | — | | | (0.07 | ) | | | $ | 10.43 | | | 5.02 | % | | | $ | 337 | | | 1.50 | % | | 1.58 | % | | 29.67 | % | | 31 | % |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | 10.43 | | | 0.11 | | 0.31 | | 0.42 | | (0.26 | ) | | (0.03 | ) | | (0.29 | ) | | | | 10.56 | | | 4.10 | % | | | | 301 | | | 1.50 | % | | 2.08 | % | | 12.13 | % | | 26 | % |
CLASS B SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2012(f) | | | $ | 10.00 | | | 0.06 | | 0.39 | | 0.45 | | (0.04 | ) | | — | | | (0.04 | ) | | | $ | 10.41 | | | 4.52 | % | | | $ | 348 | | | 2.25 | % | | 0.89 | % | | 26.84 | % | | 31 | % |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | 10.41 | | | 0.07 | | 0.31 | | 0.38 | | (0.22 | ) | | (0.03 | ) | | (0.25 | ) | | | | 10.54 | | | 3.72 | % | | | | 384 | | | 2.25 | % | | 1.40 | % | | 12.95 | % | | 26 | % |
CLASS C SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Period Ended October 31, 2012(f) | | | $ | 10.00 | | | 0.06 | | 0.39 | | 0.45 | | (0.04 | ) | | — | | | (0.04 | ) | | | $ | 10.41 | | | 4.47 | % | | | $ | 232 | | | 2.25 | % | | 0.90 | % | | 27.00 | % | | 31 | % |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | 10.41 | | | 0.07 | | 0.31 | | 0.38 | | (0.22 | ) | | (0.03 | ) | | (0.25 | ) | | | | 10.54 | | | 3.74 | % | | | | 419 | | | 2.25 | % | | 1.34 | % | | 12.70 | % | | 26 | % |
* | | The expense ratios reflected do not include the estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investments in investment companies. |
(a) | | Calculated based on average shares outstanding. |
(b) | | Total return calculations do not include any sales or redemption charges. |
(c) | | Not annualized for periods less than one year. |
(d) | | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(e) | | Portfolio turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Fund as a whole without the distinguishing between the classes of shares issued. |
(f) | | Commenced operations on March 20, 2012. |
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
1. Organization:
The HSBC Funds (the “Trust”), a Massachusetts business trust organized on April 22, 1987, is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Act”), as an open-end management investment company. As of April 30, 2013, the Trust is comprised of 15 separate operational funds, each a series of the HSBC Family of Funds, which also includes the HSBC Advisor Fund Trust and the HSBC Portfolios (collectively the “Trusts”). The accompanying financial statements are presented for the following 5 funds (individually a “Fund”, collectively the “World Selection Funds”):
Fund | |
Aggressive Strategy Fund |
Balanced Strategy Fund |
Moderate Strategy Fund |
Conservative Strategy Fund |
Income Strategy Fund |
All of the World Selection Funds are diversified funds. Financial statements for all other funds of the Trusts are published separately.
The World Selection Funds, excluding the Income Strategy Fund, (collectively the “World Selection Feeder Funds”), currently invest in the HSBC Growth Portfolio and HSBC Opportunity Portfolio (individually a “Portfolio,” collectively the “Portfolios”), each of which is a diversified series of the HSBC Portfolios (the “Portfolio Trust”). The Portfolios operate as master funds in master-feeder arrangements in addition to receiving investments from the World Selection Feeder Funds.
The financial statements of the Portfolios, including the Schedules of Portfolio Investments, are included elsewhere in this report. The financial statements of the Portfolios should be read in conjunction with the financial statements of the World Selection Feeder Funds.
| Proportionate | | Proportionate |
| Ownership | | Ownership |
| Interest in Growth Portfolio | | Interest in Opportunity Portfolio |
Fund | | on April 30, 2013(%) | | on April 30, 2013(%) |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | 2.2 | | 0.4 |
Balanced Strategy Fund | 4.6 | | 0.9 |
Moderate Strategy Fund | 2.8 | | 0.6 |
Conservative Strategy Fund | 0.9 | | 0.2 |
Each of the World Selection Funds is a “fund of funds,” meaning that it seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in a combination of mutual funds managed by HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”) (the “Affiliated Underlying Funds”), as well as mutual funds managed by other investment advisers and exchange-traded funds (“Unaffiliated Underlying Funds” and, together with the Affiliated Underlying Funds, the “Underlying Funds”). Each World Selection Fund may also purchase and hold Exchange Traded Notes (“ETNs”), which are debt securities issued by financial institutions that pay returns based on the performance of a market index or other reference asset. The Underlying Funds may include private equity funds and real estate funds that are organized as mutual funds or Exchange Traded Funds (“ETFs”). Each World Selection Fund invests according to the investment objectives and strategies described in its Prospectus.
The World Selection Funds are authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares of beneficial interest with a par value of $ 0.001 per share. Each Fund offers three classes of shares: Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares. Class A Shares of the World Selection Funds (except, the Income Strategy Fund) have a maximum sales charge of 5.00% as a percentage of the original purchase price. The Income Strategy Fund has a maximum sales charge of 4.75% as a percentage of the original purchase price. Class B Shares of the World
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Selection Funds are offered without any front-end sales charge, but will be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (“CDSC”) ranging from a maximum of 4.00% if redeemed less than one year after purchase to 0.00% if redeemed more than four years after purchase. Class C Shares of the World Selection Funds are offered without any front-end sales charge, but will be subject to a maximum CDSC of 1.00% if redeemed less than one year after purchase. Each class of shares in the World Selection Funds has identical rights and privileges except with respect to arrangements pertaining to shareholder servicing and/or distribution, class-related expenses, voting rights on matters affecting a single class of shares, and exchange privileges of each class of shares.
Under the Trust’s organizational documents, the World Selection Funds’ officers and Trustees are indemnified against certain liabilities arising out of the performance of their duties to the World Selection Funds. In addition, in the normal course of business, the Trust enters into contracts with its service providers, which also provide for indemnifications by the World Selection Funds. The World Selection Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve any future claims that may be made against the World Selection Funds. However, based on experience, the Trust expects the risk of loss to be remote.
2. Significant Accounting Policies:
The following is a summary of the significant accounting policies followed by the World Selection Funds in the preparation of their financial statements. The policies are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). The preparation of financial statements requires management to make certain 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 increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Securities Valuation:
The World Selection Funds record their investments in the Underlying Funds at the net asset value reported by those funds. The World Selection Feeder Funds record their investments in the Portfolios at fair value. The underlying securities of the Portfolios are recorded at fair value, as more fully discussed in the notes to those financial statements. Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The valuation techniques used to determine fair value in funds or Portfolios in which the World Selection Funds are invested are described in their respective notes to financial statements.
Investment Transactions and Related Income:
The World Selection Feeder Funds record daily their proportionate income, expenses and unrealized/ realized gains and losses derived from their respective Portfolios. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date for the Underlying Funds. Changes in holdings of the Underlying Funds for each World Selection Fund are reflected not later than one business day after trade date. However, for financial reporting purposes, changes in holdings of the Underlying Funds are accounted for on trade date. In addition, the World Selection Funds accrue their own expenses daily.
Allocations:
Expenses directly attributable to a Fund are charged to that Fund. Expenses not directly attributable to a Fund are allocated proportionately among the applicable series within the Trusts in relation to the net assets of each fund or on another reasonable basis. Class specific expenses are charged directly to the class incurring the expense. In addition, income, expenses (other than class specific expenses), and unrealized and realized gains and losses are allocated to each class based on relative net assets on a daily basis.
Dividends to Shareholders:
Dividends to shareholders from net investment income, if any, are declared and distributed monthly in the case of the Income Strategy Fund, quarterly in the case of the Moderate Strategy Fund and Conservative Strategy Fund, and annually in the case of the Aggressive Strategy Fund and Balanced Strategy Fund.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
The World Selection Funds’ net realized gains, if any, are distributed to shareholders at least annually. Additional distributions are also made to the World Selection Funds’ shareholders to the extent necessary to avoid the federal excise tax on certain undistributed income and net capital gains of regulated investment companies.
The amount and character of net investment income and net realized gains distributions are determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations which may differ from GAAP. These “book/tax” differences are either considered temporary or permanent in nature. To the extent these differences are permanent in nature (e.g., reclassification of market discounts, certain gain/loss, paydowns, and certain distributions), such amounts are reclassified within the composition of net assets; temporary differences (e.g., wash losses and post-October loss deferrals) do not require reclassification. The World Selection Funds may utilize equalization accounting for tax purposes and designate earnings and profits, including net realized gains distributed to shareholders on redemption of shares, as a part of the dividends paid deduction for income tax purposes. To the extent distributions to shareholders from net investment income and net realized gains exceed net investment income and net realized gains for tax purposes, they are reported as distributions of capital.
Federal Income Taxes:
Each Fund is a separate taxable entity for federal income tax purposes. Each Fund has qualified and intends to continue to qualify each year as a “regulated investment company” under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and to distribute substantially all of its taxable net investment income and net realized gains, if any, to its shareholders. Accordingly, no provision for federal income or excise tax is required.
Management of the Funds has reviewed tax positions taken in tax years that remain subject to examination by all major tax jurisdictions, including federal (i.e., the last four tax year ends and the interim tax period since then, as applicable). Management believes that there is no tax liability resulting from unrecognized tax benefits related to uncertain tax positions taken.
3. Investment Valuation Summary:
The valuation techniques employed by the World Selection Funds, as described below, maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs in determining fair value. The inputs used for valuing the World Selection Funds’ investments are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
- Level 1: quoted prices in active markets for identical assets
- 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 a Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The Funds determine transfers between fair value hierarchy levels at the reporting period end. The inputs or methodology used for valuing investments is not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those investments.
The World Selection Funds record their investments in the Underlying Funds at the net asset value reported by those funds and are typically categorized as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy. The World Selection Feeder Funds record their investments in their respective Portfolios at fair value and are typically categorized as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy. The underlying securities of the Portfolios are recorded at fair value, as more fully discussed in the Notes to Financial Statements of the Portfolios included in this report.
For the period ended April 30, 2013, there were no Level 3 investments for which significant unobservable inputs were used to determine fair value.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
The following is a summary of the valuation inputs used as of April 30, 2013 in valuing the World Selection Funds’ investments based upon the three levels defined above:
| | LEVEL 1($) | | LEVEL 2($) | | LEVEL 3($) | | Total($) |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | |
Affiliated Investment Companies | | 326,350 | | — | | — | | 326,350 |
Affiliated Portfolios(a) | | — | | 2,648,366 | | — | | 2,648,366 |
Unaffiliated Investment Companies | | 8,824,697 | | — | | — | | 8,824,697 |
Exchange Traded Funds | | 6,624,656 | | — | | — | | 6,624,656 |
Total Investment Companies | | 15,775,703 | | 2,648,366 | | — | | 18,424,069 |
| | | | | | | | |
Balanced Strategy Fund | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | |
Affiliated Investment Companies | | 5,466,486 | | — | | — | | 5,466,486 |
Affiliated Portfolios(a) | | — | | 5,603,582 | | — | | 5,603,582 |
Unaffiliated Investment Companies | | 26,541,387 | | — | | — | | 26,541,387 |
Exchange Traded Funds | | 14,685,192 | | — | | — | | 14,685,192 |
Total Investment Companies | | 46,693,065 | | 5,603,582 | | — | | 52,296,647 |
| | | | | | | | |
Moderate Strategy Fund | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | |
Affiliated Investment Companies | | 5,819,594 | | — | | — | | 5,819,594 |
Affiliated Portfolios(a) | | — | | 3,465,336 | | — | | 3,465,336 |
Unaffiliated Investment Companies | | 27,140,996 | | — | | — | | 27,140,996 |
Exchange Traded Funds | | 10,159,151 | | — | | — | | 10,159,151 |
Total Investment Companies | | 43,119,741 | | 3,465,336 | | — | | 46,585,077 |
| | | | | | | | |
Conservative Strategy Fund | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | |
Affiliated Investment Companies | | 3,048,690 | | | | | | 3,048,690 |
Affiliated Portfolios(a) | | — | | 1,075,427 | | — | | 1,075,427 |
Unaffiliated Investment Companies | | 15,533,888 | | | | — | | 15,533,888 |
Exchange Traded Funds | | 3,535,539 | | | | — | | 3,535,539 |
Total Investment Companies | | 22,118,117 | | 1,075,427 | | — | | 23,193,544 |
| | | | | | | | |
Income Strategy Fund | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | |
Affiliated Investment Companies | | 111,694 | | — | | — | | 111,694 |
Unaffiliated Investment Companies | | 956,157 | | — | | — | | 956,157 |
Exchange Traded Funds | | 15,999 | | — | | — | | 15,999 |
Total Investment Companies | | 1,083,850 | | — | | — | | 1,083,850 |
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(a) | | Investments in Affiliated Portfolios represent ownership interests in the Portfolios. Due to the Funds’ master-feeder structure, the inputs used for valuing these instruments are categorized as Level 2. |
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In January 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2013-01 “Clarifying the Scope of Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities (“ASU 2013-01”), which amended Accounting Standards Codification Subtopic 210-20, Balance Sheet Offsetting. ASU 2013-01 clarified the scope of ASU No. 2011-11 “Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities” (“ASU 2011-11”). ASU 2011-11 requires an entity to disclose information about offsetting and related arrangements to enable users of the financial statements to understand the effect of those arrangements on the entity’s financial position. ASU 2013-01 clarifies the scope of ASU 2011-11 as applying to derivatives accounted for in accordance with Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, including bifurcated embedded derivatives, repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements, and securities borrowing and securities lending transactions that are offset either in accordance with other requirements of U.S. GAAP or subject to an enforceable master netting arrangement or similar agreement. The guidance in ASU 2013-01 and ASU 2011-11 is effective for interim and annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013. Management is evaluating any impact ASU 2013-01 and ASU 2011-11 may have on the Funds’ financial statements.
4. Related Party Transactions and Other Agreements and Plans:
Investment Management:
HSBC Global Asset Management (USA), Inc. (“HSBC” or the “Investment Adviser”), a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank USA, N.A., a national bank organized under the laws of the United States, acts as Investment Adviser to the World Selection Funds. As Investment Adviser, HSBC manages the investments of the World Selection Funds and continuously reviews, supervises and administers the World Selection Funds’ investments pursuant to an Investment Advisory Contract. For its services as Investment Adviser, HSBC is entitled to receive a fee, computed daily and paid monthly, based on average daily net assets, at an annual rate of 0.25% for each Fund.
Administration:
HSBC serves the Trusts as Administrator. Under the terms of the Administration Agreement, HSBC receives from the Trusts a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate of:
Based on Average Daily Net Assets of | | Fee Rate(%) |
Up to $10 billion | 0.0550 |
In excess of $10 billion but not exceeding $20 billion | 0.0350 |
In excess of $20 billion but not exceeding $50 billion | 0.0275 |
In excess of $ 50 billion | 0.0250 |
The fee breakpoints are determined on the basis of the aggregate average daily net assets of the Trusts. The fee is allocated to each series of the Trusts based upon its proportionate share of the aggregate net assets. For assets invested in the Portfolios by World Selection Feeder Funds, the Portfolios pay half of the administration fee and the World Selection Feeder Funds pay half, for a combination of the total fee rate above. Certain administration fees of the Portfolios also may be reduced by treating them as apportioned in part to other funds making investments in the Portfolios in master-feeder structures. An amount equal to 50% of the administration fee is deemed to be class-specific.
Pursuant to a Sub-Administration Agreement with HSBC, Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc. (“Citi”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citigroup, Inc., serves as the Sub-Administrator for the Trusts subject to the general supervision by the Trusts’ Board of Trustees (the “Board”) and HSBC. For these services, Citi is entitled to a fee, payable by HSBC, at an annual rate equivalent to the fee rates set forth above subject to certain reductions associated with services provided to new funds minus 0.02%, which is retained by HSBC.
Under a Compliance Services Agreement between the Trusts and Citi (the “CCO Agreement”), Citi makes an employee available to serve as the Trusts’ Chief Compliance Officer (the “CCO”). Under the CCO Agreement, Citi also provides infrastructure and support in implementing the written policies and procedures comprising the Trusts’ compliance program, including support services to the CCO. For the services provided under the
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
CCO Agreement, the Trusts paid Citi $143,262 for the period ended April 30, 2013, plus reimbursement of certain out of pocket expenses. Expenses incurred by each Fund are reflected on the Statements of Operations as “Compliance Service.” Citi pays the salary and other compensation earned by individuals performing these services, as employees of Citi.
Distribution Arrangements:
Foreside Distribution Services, L.P. (“Foreside”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Foreside Financial Group LLC, serves the Trusts as Distributor (the “Distributor”). The Trust has adopted a non-compensatory Distribution Plan and Agreement (the “Distribution Plan”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Act. The Distribution Plan provides for reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Distributor related to distribution and marketing, at a rate not to exceed 0.25%, 1.00%, and 1.00% of the average daily net assets of Class A Shares (currently not being charged), Class B Shares (currently charging 0.75%), and Class C Shares (currently charging 0.75%) of the World Selection Funds, respectively. For the period ended April 30, 2013, Foreside, as Distributor, also received $126,262, $85,049, and $21,867 in commissions from sales of the Trusts, for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, and Class C Shares, respectively of which $0, $0, and $ 0 were reallocated to HSBC-affiliated brokers and dealers, for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, and Class C Shares, respectively.
Shareholder Servicing:
The Trust has adopted a Shareholder Services Plan which provides for payments to shareholder servicing agents (which currently consist of HSBC and its affiliates) for providing various shareholder services. For performing these services, the shareholder servicing agents receive a fee that is computed daily and paid monthly up to 0.25% of the average daily net assets of each of the Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares of the World Selection Funds. The fees paid to the Distributor pursuant to the Distribution Plan and to shareholder servicing agents pursuant to the Shareholder Services Plan currently are not intended to exceed, in the aggregate, 0.25% of the average daily net assets of Class A Shares and 1.00% of the average daily net assets of Class B Shares and Class C Shares.
Fund Accounting and Transfer Agency:
Citi provides fund accounting and transfer agency services for each Fund. As transfer agent, Citi receives a fee based on the number of funds and shareholder accounts, subject to certain minimums, reductions associated with services provided to new funds and reimbursement of certain expenses. As fund accountant, Citi receives an annual fee per Fund and share class, subject to minimums, reductions associated with services provided to new funds and reimbursement of certain expenses. Citi receives additional fees paid by the Trust for blue sky exemption services.
Independent Trustees:
The Trusts pay each Independent Trustee an annual retainer of $100,000. The Trusts pay a fee of $10,000 for each regular meeting of the Board of Trustees attended and a fee of $ 3,000 for each special meeting attended. The Trusts pay each Committee Chair an annual retainer of $ 3,000, with the exception of the Chair of the Audit Committee, who receives a retainer of $ 6,000. The Trusts also pay the Chairman of the Board, an additional annual retainer of $24,000. In addition, for time expended on Board duties outside normal meetings, which is authorized by the Board, a Trustee is compensated at the rate of $ 500 per hour, up to a maximum of $ 3,000 per day.
Fee Reductions:
The Investment Adviser has agreed to contractually limit through March 1, 2014 the total expenses, exclusive of interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expense and estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Funds’ investments in investment companies other than the HSBC Growth Portfolio and the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio. Each Fund Class has its own expense limitations based on the average daily net assets for any full fiscal year as follows: Class A Shares 1.50%, Class B Shares 2.25%, Class C Shares 2.25%.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Any amounts contractually waived or reimbursed by the Investment Adviser will be subject to repayment by the respective Fund to the Investment Adviser within three years to the extent that the repayment will not cause the Fund’s operating expenses to exceed the contractual expense limit that was in effect at the time of such waiver or reimbursement. During the period ended April 30, 2013, the Investment Adviser did not recapture any of its prior contractual waivers or reimbursements. As of April 30, 2013, the repayments that may potentially be made by the Funds are as follows:
Fund | | 2016($)* | | 2015($)* | | 2014($)* | | 2013($)* | | Total($) |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | — | | 27,768 | | 19,298 | | 56,869 | | 103,935 |
Income Strategy Fund | 54,563 | | 77,417 | | N/A | | N/A | | 131,980 |
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* The year listed above the amounts is the fiscal year ending in which the amounts will no longer be recoupable.
The Administrator and Citi may voluntarily waive/reimburse fees to help support the expense limits of each Fund. In addition, HSBC, in its role as Investment Adviser and Administrator, may waive/reimburse additional fees at its discretion. Any voluntary fee waivers/reimbursements are not subject to recoupment in subsequent fiscal periods. Voluntary waivers/reimbursements may be stopped at any time. Amounts waived/reimbursed by the Investment Adviser, Administrator, and Citi are reported separately on the Statements of Operations, as applicable.
Affiliated Transactions:
A summary of each Fund’s investment in affiliated investment companies (excluding investments in the Affiliated Portfolios) for the period ended April 30, 2013 is as follows:
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change in | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Net Capital | | Unrealized | | | | | | | | |
| | Market Value | | Purchases | | Proceeds | | and Realized | | Appreciation | | Market Value | | Dividend |
| | 10/31/2012 | | at Cost | | from Sales | | Gain (Loss) | | (Depreciation) | | 4/30/2013 | | Income |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund - Class I | | $ | 13,222 | | | $ | 257,709 | | | $ | (263,524 | ) | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 7,407 | | | $ | 8 | |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund - Class I | | | 126,737 | | | | 5,551 | | | | (4,308 | ) | | | 75 | | | | 3,888 | | | | 131,943 | | | | 3,156 | |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund - Class I | | | 177,882 | | | | 9,116 | | | | (8,436 | ) | | | 714 | | | | 7,724 | | | | 187,000 | | | | 1,632 | |
Balanced Strategy Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund - Class I | | | 7,556 | | | | 1,094,959 | | | | (588,437 | ) | | | — | | | | — | | | | 514,078 | | | | 154 | |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund - Class I | | | 3,360,039 | | | | 296,359 | | | | (645,092 | ) | | | 70,157 | | | | 27,992 | | | | 3,109,455 | | | | 77,735 | |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund - Class I | | | 1,855,546 | | | | 105,364 | | | | (192,867 | ) | | | 16,310 | | | | 58,600 | | | | 1,842,953 | | | | 16,530 | |
Moderate Strategy Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund - Class I | | | 444,668 | | | | 986,206 | | | | (657,200 | ) | | | — | | | | — | | | | 773,674 | | | | 321 | |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund - Class I | | | 3,137,780 | | | | 167,295 | | | | (459,910 | ) | | | 95,810 | | | | (3,469 | ) | | | 2,937,506 | | | | 72,419 | |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund - Class I | | | 2,064,417 | | | | 153,846 | | | | (195,742 | ) | | | 17,041 | | | | 68,852 | | | | 2,108,414 | | | | 18,556 | |
Conservative Strategy Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund - Class I | | | 251,847 | | | | 754,947 | | | | (436,787 | ) | | | — | | | | — | | | | 570,007 | | | | 153 | |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund - Class I | | | 1,427,385 | | | | 107,987 | | | | (251,612 | ) | | | 28,089 | | | | 15,050 | | | | 1,326,899 | | | | 32,891 | |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund - Class I | | | 1,138,041 | | | | 56,059 | | | | (94,650 | ) | | | 7,890 | | | | 44,444 | | | | 1,151,784 | | | | 10,283 | |
Income Strategy Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
HSBC Prime Money Market Fund - Class I | | | 13,077 | | | | 145,320 | | | | (142,880 | ) | | | — | | | | — | | | | 15,517 | | | | 10 | |
HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund - Class I | | | 37,955 | | | | 11,614 | | | | (9,122 | ) | | | 492 | | | | (1,034 | ) | | | 39,905 | | | | 984 | |
HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund - Class I | | | 47,112 | | | | 17,648 | | | | (10,277 | ) | | | 693 | | | | 1,096 | | | | 56,272 | | | | 479 | |
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
5. Investment Transactions:
Cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of securities (excluding securities maturing less than one year from acquisition) for the period ended April 30, 2013 were as follows:
Fund | | Purchases($) | | Sales($) |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | 1,356,079 | | | 2,444,004 |
Balanced Strategy Fund | 4,148,176 | | | 8,379,688 |
Moderate Strategy Fund | 3,471,715 | | | 5,913,399 |
Conservative Strategy Fund | 2,717,151 | | | 3,114,425 |
Income Strategy Fund | 452,822 | | | 253,939 |
Contributions and withdrawals of the respective Portfolios for the period ended April 30, 2013 totaled:
Fund | | Contributions($) | | Withdrawals($) |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | 730,426 | | | 2,328,590 |
Balanced Strategy Fund | 2,206,096 | | | 7,548,195 |
Moderate Strategy Fund | 1,621,841 | | | 5,045,372 |
Conservative Strategy Fund | 1,812,019 | | | 2,824,444 |
6. Federal Income Tax Information:
At April 30, 2013, the cost basis of securities (which excludes investments in the Affiliated Portfolios) for federal income tax purposes, gross unrealized appreciation, gross unrealized depreciation and net unrealized appreciation/depreciation were as follows:
| | | | | | | | | Net Unrealized |
| | | Tax Unrealized | | Tax Unrealized | | Appreciation/ |
Fund | | Tax Cost($) | | Appreciation($) | | Depreciation($) | | (Depreciation)($) |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | 14,073,979 | | 1,772,813 | | | (71,089 | ) | | 1,701,724 | |
Balanced Strategy Fund | 42,928,051 | | 4,541,882 | | | (776,868 | ) | | 3,765,014 | |
Moderate Strategy Fund | 40,283,891 | | 3,537,698 | | | (701,848 | ) | | 2,835,850 | |
Conservative Strategy Fund | 20,835,564 | | 1,516,884 | | | (234,331 | ) | | 1,282,553 | |
Income Strategy Fund | 1,055,212 | | 30,901 | | | (2,263 | ) | | 28,638 | |
The tax character of dividends paid by the World Selection Funds as of the latest tax year ended October 31, 2012, was as follows:
| Dividends paid from |
| | | | Net Long Term | | Total Taxable | | Total Dividends |
| Ordinary Income($) | | Capital Gains($) | | Dividends($) | | Paid($)(1) |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | 92,405 | | | — | | 92,405 | | | 92,405 | |
Balanced Strategy Fund | 1,541,114 | | | — | | 1,541,114 | | | 1,541,114 | |
Moderate Strategy Fund | 1,134,889 | | | — | | 1,134,889 | | | 1,134,889 | |
Conservative Strategy Fund | 556,629 | | | — | | 556,629 | | | 556,629 | |
Income Strategy Fund | 2,407 | | | — | | 2,407 | | | 2,407 | |
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Notes to Financial Statements — as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
As of the latest tax year ended October 31, 2012, the components of accumulated earnings/(deficit) on a tax basis for the World Selection Funds were as follows:
| | Undistributed Ordinary Income($) | | Undistributed Tax Exempt Income($) | | Undistributed Long Term Capital Gains($) | | Accumulated Earnings($) | | Distributions Payable($) | | Accumulated Capital and Other Losses($) | | Unrealized Appreciation/ (Depreciation)($)(2) | | Total Accumulated Earnings/ (Deficit)($) |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | — | | | | | (354,485 | ) | | | | 839,379 | | | | 484,894 | |
Balanced Strategy Fund | | | 320,044 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 320,044 | | | | — | | | | | (265,735 | ) | | | | 1,994,934 | | | | 2,049,243 | |
Moderate Strategy Fund | | | 43,008 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 43,008 | | | | — | | | | | (472,739 | ) | | | | 1,653,973 | | | | 1,224,242 | |
Conservative Strategy Fund | | | 16,694 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 16,694 | | | | — | | | | | (126,294 | ) | | | | 916,392 | | | | 806,792 | |
Income Strategy Fund | | | 11,671 | | | | — | | | | — | | | | 11,671 | | | | (668 | ) | | | | — | | | | | 17,806 | | | | 28,809 | |
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(2) | | The differences between book-basis and tax-basis unrealized appreciation/depreciation are attributable primarily to: tax deferral of losses on wash sales, the realization for tax purposes of unrealized gains/losses on certain derivative instruments, the difference between book and tax amortization methods for premium and market discount, the realization for tax purposes of unrealized gains/losses on investments in passive foreign investment companies, and the return of capital adjustments from real estate investment trusts. |
As of the latest tax year ended October 31, 2012, the Funds have net capital loss carryforwards (“CLCFs”) as summarized in the tables below. CLCFs subjects to expiration are applied as short-term capital loss regardless of whether the originating capital loss was short-term or long-term. CLCFs that are not subject to expiration must be utilized before those that are subject to expiration. As a result of the Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2010 (the “RIC Modernization Act”) ordering rule, capital loss carryforwards incurred in taxable years beginning prior to the effective date of the RIC Modernization Act have an increased likelihood to expire unused. The Board does not intend to authorize a distribution of any realized gain for the Funds until any applicable CLCF has been offset or expires.
CLCFs subject to expiration:
Fund | | | Short Term Amount($) | | Expires |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | | | 290,416 | | | 2017 |
Balanced Strategy Fund | | | 265,735 | | | 2017 |
Moderate Strategy Fund | | | 472,739 | | | 2017 |
Conservative Strategy Fund | | | 18,849 | | | 2017 |
CLCFs not subject to expiration:
Fund | | | Short Term Amount($) | | Long Term Amount($) | | Total($) |
Conservative Strategy Fund | | 32,459 | | 74,986 | | 107,445 |
During the latest tax year ended October 31, 2012, the following Funds utilized capital loss carryforwards to offset capital gains realized:
Fund | | | Amount($) |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | | | 88,538 | |
Balanced Strategy Fund | | | 641,948 | |
Moderate Strategy Fund | | | 236,751 | |
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Under current law, capital losses and specified ordinary losses realized after October 31st and non-specified ordinary losses incurred after December 31st (ordinary losses collectively known as “late year ordinary loss”) may be deferred and treated as occurring on the first business day of the following fiscal year. The following Fund had deferred losses, which will be treated as arising on the first day of the fiscal year to end October 31, 2013.
| | Late Year Ordinary Losses |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | | | $ | 64,069 | |
7. Subsequent Events:
Management has evaluated events and transactions through the date the financial statements were issued, for purposes of recognition or disclosure in these financial statements and there are no subsequent events to report.
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Investment Adviser Contract Approval |
Section 15(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), generally requires that a majority of the trustees of a mutual fund who are not parties to an investment advisory agreement for the fund or “interested persons” of the investment adviser, as defined in the 1940 Act (the “Independent Trustees”), review and approve the investment advisory agreement at an in person meeting for an initial period of up to two years and thereafter on an annual basis. A summary of the material factors considered by the Independent Trustees and the Boards of Trustees (the “Board”) of HSBC Funds, HSBC Advisor Funds Trust and HSBC Portfolios (each, a “Trust”) in connection with approving investment advisory and sub-advisory agreements for the series of the Trusts (each, a “Fund”) during the semi-annual period ended April 30, 2013 and the conclusions the Independent Trustees and Board made as a result of those considerations are set forth below.
Annual Continuation of Advisory and Sub-Advisory Agreements
The Board met in person and the Contracts and Expense Committee thereof, which consists of the Independent Trustees of the Trusts (the “Contracts Committee”), met separately to consider, among other matters:
- the approval of the continuation of the: (i) Investment Advisory Contracts and related Supplements (“Advisory Contracts”) between the Trusts and HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”) and (ii) Sub-Advisory Agreements (“Sub-Advisory Contracts”) between the Adviser and each investment sub-adviser (“Sub-Adviser”) to one or more Funds; and
- the approval of the continuation of certain other ancillary agreements to which the Adviser is a party that obligate the Adviser to provide the Funds with administrative services, such as the Administration Agreement, Support Services Agreement and Operational Support Services Agreement (each, an “Ancillary Agreement”).
Prior to the meetings, the Independent Trustees received and reviewed the information they thought reasonably necessary to evaluate the terms of the Advisory Contracts, Sub-Advisory Contracts and Ancillary Agreements (collectively, the “Agreements”). This information included, among other things, information about: (i) the services that the Adviser and Sub-Advisers provide; (ii) the personnel who provide such services; (iii) investment performance, including comparative data provided by Lipper Inc. (“Lipper”); (iv) trading practices of the Adviser and Sub-Advisers; (v) fees received or to be received by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers, including in comparison with the advisory fees paid by other similar funds based on materials provided by Lipper; (vi) total expense ratios, including in comparison with the total expense ratios of other similar funds based on Lipper data; (vii) the profitability of the Adviser and certain of the Sub-Advisers; and (viii) compliance-related matters pertaining to the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. Counsel to the Trusts and to the Independent Trustees were present at each Contracts Committee meeting and the Board meeting.
When it met, the Contracts Committee and its members reviewed the information provided in advance of the meeting and discussed, among other things: (i) the Funds’ investment advisory arrangements and expense limitation agreements with the Adviser; (ii) the Trusts’ arrangements with the unaffiliated investment sub-advisers to the Trusts, Westfield Capital Management Company, LP (“Westfield”) and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (“Winslow”); (iii) the Trusts’ Administration Agreement with the Adviser; and (iv) regulatory considerations. The Contracts Committee also convened to consider, among other things: (i) the Support Services Agreement and Operational Support Services Agreement with the Adviser; (ii) the Adviser’s Multimanager function; (iii) the Adviser’s advisory services with respect to the Funds that are money market funds (“Money Market Funds”); (iv) the Adviser’s profitability; and (v) additional information provided by the Adviser at the request of the Board. Following the December 5, 2012 and December 17-18, 2012 Contracts Committee meetings, the members of the Contracts Committee determined to recommend to the Board that the Agreements be continued for an additional one-year period.
At the in-person meeting, held on December 17-18, 2012, the Board, including the Independent Trustees, reviewed and discussed the materials and other information provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers and considered the previous deliberations and recommendation of the Contracts Committee. As a result of this process, the Board and Independent Trustees determined to approve the continuation of the Agreements with respect to each Fund.
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The Board and the Independent Trustees made these determinations on the basis of the following considerations, among others:
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided by Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees examined the nature, quality and extent of the investment advisory and administrative support services provided by the Adviser to the Funds, as well as the quality and experience of the Adviser’s personnel. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s Multimanager unit with respect to the World Selection Funds and the Equity Funds, the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s Emerging Markets Debt Team with respect to the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the capabilities of the Adviser’s oversight with respect to the Frontier Markets Fund, as well as the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s portfolio management and credit review teams with respect to the Money Market Funds. The Independent Trustees also considered the nature, quality and extent of the administrative support services that the Adviser provides to the Funds, including the Adviser’s oversight and management of the Funds’ other service providers.
The Independent Trustees also took note of: (i) the long-term relationship between the Adviser and the Funds; (ii) the Adviser’s reputation and financial condition; (iii) the reduction during the period in the HSBC Family of Fund’s net assets, and its effect on economies of scale; (iv) the recent liquidation of certain Funds; and (v) the efforts undertaken by the Adviser to foster the growth and development of the Funds since the inception of each of the Funds, including the recent development and launch of the HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund and HSBC Total Return Fund, and an increased entrepreneurial commitment to the success of the Funds with new classes of shareholders. With respect to the Money Market Funds, the Independent Trustees considered the financial support the Adviser and its affiliates have afforded the Money Market Funds, such as the voluntary fee waivers and reimbursements made to maintain a non-negative yield for the Money Market Funds more recently, and noted the material increase in these waivers and reimbursements due to the economic environment for money market funds over the previous year. In addition, the Independent Trustees considered the Adviser’s performance in fulfilling its responsibilities for overseeing its own and the Sub-Advisers’ compliance with the Funds’ compliance policies and procedures and investment objectives. In assessing the Adviser’s reputation, the Independent Trustees considered a recent regulatory matter affecting the parent of the Adviser which did not relate to the Funds.
The Independent Trustees also examined the nature, quality and extent of the services that the Sub-Advisers provide to their respective Funds. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the investment performance and the portfolio risk characteristics achieved by the Sub-Advisers and the Sub-Advisers’ portfolio management teams, their experience, and the quality of their compliance programs, among other factors.
Based on these considerations, the Independent Trustees concluded that they were satisfied with the nature, quality and extent of the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers, and that the services provided supported continuance of the Agreements.
Investment Performance of the Funds, Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees considered the investment performance of each Fund over various periods of time, as compared to one another as well as to comparable funds and one or more benchmark indices. In the context of the World Selection Funds, the Independent Trustees took note of the expenses of underlying funds and considered the performance of the World Selection Funds, and particularly the Aggressive Strategy Fund, in light of the World Selection Funds’ relative positioning and peers. In the context of the HSBC Growth Portfolio, although the Independent Trustees noted the recent underperformance of the Portfolio in light of data provided by Lipper, it favorably noted the consistent performance record of the Portfolio and the strong compliance culture at the Portfolio’s Sub-Adviser. In the context of the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio, the Independent Trustees considered that the Portfolio was relatively expensive as compared to its peers, yet was also characterized by relatively high return as well as higher volatility. With respect to the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio, the Independent Trustees also considered the compliance efforts of the Portfolio’s Sub-Adviser.
In the context of the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the Independent Trustees found the expenses of the HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund to be reasonable and its performance to be acceptable, but the Independent Trustees noted that the HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund had performed less competitively. With respect to the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the Independent Trustees also requested and received information regarding the Funds’ integration into the overall structure of the HSBC Family of Funds. In the context of the HSBC Frontier Markets Fund, the Independent Trustees noted the Fund’s fees and expenses as compared to its peers, and
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requested and received information regarding the advisory fee split between the Adviser and the Fund’s Sub-Adviser. In the context of the Money Market Funds, the Independent Trustees considered the yield support that the Adviser had provided in order for the Money Market Funds to maintain positive yield and performance. The Independent Trustees determined that the Funds’ investment performance and the Adviser’s actions to improve investment performance, where applicable, supported continuance of the Agreements, although they would continue to monitor performance closely, particularly for those Funds that had weaker performance compared to peers during the past year.
Costs of Services and Profits Realized by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees considered the costs of the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers and the expense ratios of the Funds more generally. The Independent Trustees considered the Adviser’s profitability and costs, including by means of an analysis provided by the Adviser of its estimated profitability. The Independent Trustees also considered the contractual advisory fees under the Advisory Contracts and compared those fees to the fees of similar funds, which had been compiled and provided by Lipper. The Independent Trustees determined that the Funds had advisory fees competitive with those of similar funds, noting the resources, expertise and experience provided to the Funds.
The Independent Trustees also compared the advisory fees under the Advisory Contracts with those of other accounts managed by the Adviser, and evaluated information provided as to why advisory fees may differ between mutual funds and other advisory relationships, including increased shareholder activity. In this regard, the Independent Trustees concluded that differences in advisory fees assessed between the Funds and other accounts managed by the Adviser did not preclude approval of the Advisory Contracts.
With respect to the administrative support services provided by the Adviser, the Independent Trustees considered the fees charged for such services and evaluated the fees payable to the Adviser and those payable to other providers of administrative services to the Funds. At the request of the Independent Trustees, the Adviser provided information regarding the pricing differential between the retail and institutional shares’ respective Operational Support Services Agreements. The Independent Trustees determined that the differences are in-line with industry standards and recognize the different services provided to retail as compared to institutional shareholders. The Independent Trustees also considered the relative split of the administration fee between the Adviser and Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc., as sub-administrator and other factors relevant to their consideration of these arrangements.
The Independent Trustees also considered the costs of the services provided by the Sub-Advisers, as applicable; the relative portions of the total advisory fees paid to the Sub-Advisers and retained by the Adviser in its capacity as the Funds’ investment adviser; and the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. In the context of the HSBC Growth Portfolio, the Independent Trustees considered the sub-advisory fee breakpoint structure. The Independent Trustees also considered information on profitability where provided by the Sub-Advisers.
The Independent Trustees concluded that the advisory fees payable to the Adviser and the Funds’ Sub-Advisers were fair and reasonable in light of the factors set forth above.
Other Relevant Considerations. The Independent Trustees also considered the extent to which the Adviser and Sub-Advisers had achieved economies of scale, whether the Funds’ expense structure permits economies of scale to be shared with the Funds’ shareholders and, if so, the extent to which the Funds’ shareholders may benefit from these economies of scale. The Independent Trustees also noted the contractual caps on certain Fund expenses provided by the Adviser with respect to many of the Funds in order to reduce or control the overall operating expenses of those Funds. The Independent Trustees also considered certain information provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers with respect to the benefits they may derive from their relationships with the Funds, including the fact that certain Sub-Advisers have “soft dollar” arrangements with respect to Fund brokerage and therefore may have access to research and other permissible services.
In light of the above considerations and such other factors and information it considered relevant, the Board by a unanimous vote of those present in person at the meeting (including a separate unanimous vote of the Independent Trustees present in person at the meeting) approved the continuation of each Agreement.
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Table of Shareholder Expenses—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
As a shareholder of the World Selection Funds, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchases, redemption fees and exchange fees; and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and/or shareholder servicing fees and other Fund expenses (including expenses allocated from the Portfolios). These examples are intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the World Selection Funds and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
These examples are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period from November 1, 2012 through April 30, 2013.
Actual Example
The table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information below, 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 table under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
| | | | Beginning Account Value 11/1/12 | | Ending Account Value 4/30/13 | | Expenses Paid During Period* 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 | | Annualized Expense Ratio During Period 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | | Class A Shares | | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | | $ | 1,126.40 | | | | $ | 7.80 | | | | 1.48% | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,121.90 | | | | | 11.73 | | | | 2.23% | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,122.40 | | | | | 11.74 | | | | 2.23% | |
Balanced Strategy Fund | | Class A Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,101.20 | | | | | 5.31 | | | | 1.02% | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,096.80 | | | | | 9.25 | | | | 1.78% | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,096.70 | | | | | 9.25 | | | | 1.78% | |
Moderate Strategy Fund | | Class A Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,079.40 | | | | | 5.41 | | | | 1.05% | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,075.40 | | | | | 9.26 | | | | 1.80% | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,075.00 | | | | | 9.26 | | | | 1.80% | |
Conservative Strategy Fund | | Class A Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,058.00 | | | | | 6.17 | | | | 1.21% | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,053.40 | | | | | 9.98 | | | | 1.96% | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,053.50 | | | | | 9.98 | | | | 1.96% | |
Income Strategy Fund | | Class A Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,041.00 | | | | | 7.59 | | | | 1.50% | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,037.20 | | | | | 11.37 | | | | 2.25% | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,037.40 | | | | | 11.37 | | | | 2.25% | |
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* | Expenses are equal to the average account value over the period multiplied by the Fund’s annualized expense ratio, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one half year period). |
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HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS |
Table of Shareholder Expenses—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on each 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 this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of 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 sales charges (loads), redemption fees, or exchange fees. Therefore, the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | Beginning Account Value 11/1/12 | | Ending Account Value 4/30/13 | | Expenses Paid During Period* 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 | | Annualized Expense Ratio During Period 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 |
Aggressive Strategy Fund | | Class A Shares | | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | | $ | 1,017.46 | | | | $ | 7.40 | | | | 1.48% | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,013.74 | | | | | 11.13 | | | | 2.23% | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,013.74 | | | | | 11.13 | | | | 2.23% | |
Balanced Strategy Fund | | Class A Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,019.74 | | | | | 5.11 | | | | 1.02% | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,015.97 | | | | | 8.90 | | | | 1.78% | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,015.97 | | | | | 8.90 | | | | 1.78% | |
Moderate Strategy Fund | | Class A Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,019.59 | | | | | 5.26 | | | | 1.05% | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,015.87 | | | | | 9.00 | | | | 1.80% | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,015.87 | | | | | 9.00 | | | | 1.80% | |
Conservative Strategy Fund | | Class A Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,018.79 | | | | | 6.06 | | | | 1.21% | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,015.08 | | | | | 9.79 | | | | 1.96% | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,015.08 | | | | | 9.79 | | | | 1.96% | |
Income Strategy Fund | | Class A Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,017.36 | | | | | 7.50 | | | | 1.50% | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,013.64 | | | | | 11.23 | | | | 2.25% | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,013.64 | | | | | 11.23 | | | | 2.25% | |
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* | Expenses are equal to the average account value over the period multiplied by the Fund’s annualized expense ratio, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one half year period). |
52 HSBC WORLD SELECTION FUNDS |
HSBC GROWTH PORTFOLIO |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Common Stocks – 97.6% |
| | | | |
| | Shares | | Value ($) |
Aerospace & Defense – 3.2% | | | | |
Precision Castparts Corp. | | 7,200 | | 1,377,288 |
United Technologies Corp. | | 15,400 | | 1,405,866 |
| | | | 2,783,154 |
Air Freight & Logistics – 1.0% | | | | |
FedEx Corp. | | 8,700 | | 817,887 |
Airlines – 0.8% | | | | |
Delta Air Lines, Inc. (a) | | 40,700 | | 697,598 |
Auto Components – 1.2% | | | | |
BorgWarner, Inc. (a) | | 13,100 | | 1,024,027 |
Biotechnology – 9.4% | | | | |
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | | 8,800 | | 862,400 |
Amgen, Inc. | | 13,200 | | 1,375,572 |
Biogen Idec, Inc. (a) | | 10,200 | | 2,233,086 |
Celgene Corp. (a) | | 15,900 | | 1,877,313 |
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (a) | | 33,700 | | 1,706,568 |
| | | | 8,054,939 |
Capital Markets – 2.7% | | | | |
BlackRock, Inc. | | 3,500 | | 932,750 |
Franklin Resources, Inc. | | 9,200 | | 1,422,872 |
| | | | 2,355,622 |
Chemicals – 4.6% | | | | |
Ecolab, Inc. | | 15,200 | | 1,286,224 |
Monsanto Co. | | 24,599 | | 2,627,665 |
| | | | 3,913,889 |
Commercial Banks – 1.0% | | | | |
Wells Fargo & Co. | | 22,900 | | 869,742 |
Communications Equipment – 1.8% | | | | |
Qualcomm, Inc. | | 24,700 | | 1,522,014 |
Computers & Peripherals – 4.1% | | | | |
Apple, Inc. | | 7,850 | | 3,475,587 |
Energy Equipment & Services – 1.0% | | | | |
FMC Technologies, Inc. (a) | | 15,600 | | 847,080 |
Food & Staples Retailing – 2.8% | | | | |
Costco Wholesale Corp. | | 7,800 | | 845,754 |
CVS Caremark Corp. | | 20,700 | | 1,204,326 |
Whole Foods Market, Inc. | | 4,400 | | 388,608 |
| | | | 2,438,688 |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies – 1.0% | | |
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (a) | | 1,690 | | 831,970 |
Health Care Providers & Services – 2.8% | | | | |
Express Scripts Holding Co. (a) | | 18,350 | | 1,089,440 |
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. | | 22,100 | | 1,324,453 |
| | | | 2,413,893 |
Health Care Technology – 1.1% | | | | |
Cerner Corp. (a) | | 9,800 | | 948,346 |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure – 3.2% | | | | |
Las Vegas Sands Corp. | | 15,300 | | 860,625 |
Starbucks Corp. | | 22,100 | | 1,344,564 |
Yum! Brands, Inc. | | 7,900 | | 538,148 |
| | | | 2,743,337 |
Household Durables – 0.9% | | | | |
Lennar Corp., Class A | | 18,600 | | 766,692 |
Internet & Catalog Retail – 5.3% | | | | |
Amazon.com, Inc. (a) | | 8,975 | | 2,277,945 |
Priceline.com, Inc. (a) | | 3,220 | | 2,241,088 |
| | | | 4,519,033 |
Internet Software & Services – 8.2% | | | | |
eBay, Inc. (a) | | 28,900 | | 1,514,071 |
Equinix, Inc. (a) | | 2,695 | | 577,000 |
Facebook, Inc., Class A(a) | | 47,100 | | 1,307,496 |
Google, Inc., Class A(a) | | 4,055 | | 3,343,631 |
LinkedIn Corp., Class A(a) | | 1,300 | | 249,717 |
| | | | 6,991,915 |
IT Services – 6.5% | | | | |
International Business Machines Corp. | | 6,600 | | 1,336,764 |
MasterCard, Inc., Class A | | 2,095 | | 1,158,388 |
Visa, Inc., Class A | | 18,100 | | 3,049,126 |
| | | | 5,544,278 |
Machinery – 3.0% | | | | |
Danaher Corp. | | 42,700 | | 2,602,138 |
Media – 4.6% | | | | |
CBS Corp., Class B | | 22,100 | | 1,011,738 |
News Corp., Class A | | 33,000 | | 1,022,010 |
Sirius XM Radio, Inc. | | 314,800 | | 1,023,100 |
The Walt Disney Co. | | 13,600 | | 854,624 |
| | | | 3,911,472 |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels – 2.0% | | | | |
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. | | 11,900 | | 809,795 |
Range Resources Corp. | | 2,200 | | 161,744 |
Valero Energy Corp. | | 18,100 | | 729,792 |
| | | | 1,701,331 |
Personal Products – 1.0% | | | | |
The Estee Lauder Cos., Inc., Class A | | 12,200 | | 846,070 |
Pharmaceuticals – 4.9% | | | | |
Abbott Laboratories | | 23,000 | | 849,160 |
Allergan, Inc. | | 7,200 | | 817,560 |
GlaxoSmithKline plc ADR | | 17,600 | | 908,864 |
Sanofi ADR | | 16,900 | | 901,615 |
Zoetis, Inc. | | 22,200 | | 733,044 |
| | | | 4,210,243 |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC PORTFOLIOS 53 |
HSBC GROWTH PORTFOLIO |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Common Stocks, continued | | | |
| | | |
| Shares | | Value ($) |
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) – 1.5% | | | |
American Tower Corp. | 14,900 | | 1,251,451 |
Road & Rail – 4.1% | | | |
Union Pacific Corp. | 24,000 | | 3,551,040 |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment – 1.0% | | | |
NXP Semiconductors NV (a) | 32,700 | | 900,885 |
Software – 2.0% | | | |
Salesforce.com, Inc. (a) | 40,800 | | 1,677,288 |
Specialty Retail – 6.3% | | | |
Best Buy Co., Inc. | 33,400 | | 868,066 |
Dollar General Corp. (a) | 25,500 | | 1,328,295 |
Ross Stores, Inc. | 14,200 | | 938,194 |
The Home Depot, Inc. | 18,100 | | 1,327,635 |
Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, | | | |
Inc. (a) | 10,800 | | 946,620 |
| | | 5,408,810 |
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods – 2.0% | | | |
Lululemon Athletica, Inc. (a) | 6,900 | | 525,297 |
Ralph Lauren Corp. | 6,700 | | 1,216,586 |
| | | 1,741,883 |
Trading Companies & Distributors – 1.2% | | | |
W. W. Grainger, Inc. | 4,100 | | 1,010,527 |
Wireless Telecommunication Services – 1.4% | | | |
SBA Communications Corp., Class A(a) | 15,200 | | 1,200,648 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | | | |
(COST $64,674,511) | | | 83,573,477 |
| | | |
Investment Company – 1.4% | | | |
| | | |
Northern Institutional Diversified Assets | | | |
Portfolio, Institutional Shares, | | | |
0.01% (b) | 1,191,636 | | 1,191,636 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT COMPANY | | | |
(COST $1,191,636) | | | 1,191,636 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT SECURITIES | | | |
(COST $65,866,147) — 99.0% | | | 84,765,113 |
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Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $85,638,195.
(a) | | Represents non-income producing security. |
(b) | | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
ADR American Depositary Receipt
54 HSBC PORTFOLIOS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC OPPORTUNITY PORTFOLIO |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Common Stocks – 96.8% | | | |
| | | |
| Shares | | Value ($) |
Aerospace & Defense – 3.4% | | | |
BE Aerospace, Inc. (a) | 42,850 | | 2,688,409 |
TransDigm Group, Inc. | 23,290 | | 3,418,972 |
| | | 6,107,381 |
Biotechnology – 3.4% | | | |
Alkermes plc (a) | 113,930 | | 3,487,397 |
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | 58,150 | | 2,670,248 |
| | | 6,157,645 |
Building Products – 0.6% | | | |
Owens Corning, Inc. (a) | 25,900 | | 1,089,354 |
Capital Markets – 3.4% | | | |
Lazard Ltd., Class A | 93,600 | | 3,173,040 |
Raymond James Financial, Inc. | 70,890 | | 2,936,264 |
| | | 6,109,304 |
Chemicals – 6.6% | | | |
Axiall Corp. | 34,580 | | 1,813,721 |
Celanese Corp., Series A | 36,730 | | 1,814,829 |
Cytec Industries, Inc. | 32,320 | | 2,354,835 |
Huntsman Corp. | 70,580 | | 1,331,139 |
Rockwood Holdings, Inc. | 31,310 | | 2,031,706 |
The Scotts Mircale-Gro Co. | 58,470 | | 2,651,615 |
| | | 11,997,845 |
Commercial Banks – 3.0% | | | |
Comerica, Inc. | 77,110 | | 2,795,238 |
First Horizon National Corp. | 1 | | 10 |
First Republic Bank | 68,050 | | 2,584,539 |
| | | 5,379,787 |
Commercial Services & Supplies – 1.6% | | | |
Waste Connections, Inc. | 75,775 | | 2,875,661 |
Communications Equipment – 0.7% | | | |
Riverbed Technology, Inc. (a) | 84,180 | | 1,250,915 |
Construction Materials – 0.8% | | | |
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. | 13,675 | | 1,381,038 |
Containers & Packaging – 3.1% | | | |
Crown Holdings, Inc. (a) | 77,150 | | 3,292,762 |
Packaging Corp. of America | 49,240 | | 2,341,854 |
| | | 5,634,616 |
Distributors – 0.7% | | | |
LKQ Corp. (a) | 55,750 | | 1,342,460 |
Diversified Consumer Services – 1.6% | | | |
Service Corp. International | 171,810 | | 2,900,153 |
Electrical Equipment – 2.0% | | | |
Hubbell, Inc., Class B | 38,130 | | 3,658,955 |
Energy Equipment & Services – 2.6% | | | |
McDermott International, Inc. (a) | 167,820 | | 1,792,318 |
Rowan Cos. plc, Class A(a) | 91,680 | | 2,982,350 |
| | | 4,774,668 |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies – 4.1% | | |
ArthroCare Corp. (a) | 36,600 | | 1,268,190 |
Conceptus, Inc. (a) | 61,060 | | 1,893,471 |
DENTSPLY International, Inc. | 63,130 | | 2,673,555 |
Volcano Corp. (a) | 80,760 | | 1,638,620 |
| | | 7,473,836 |
Health Care Providers & Services – 1.0% | | | |
Community Health Systems, Inc. | 40,050 | | 1,825,079 |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure – 0.5% | | | |
Arcos Dorados Holdings, Inc., Class A | 61,940 | | 843,623 |
Household Durables – 3.2% | | | |
Harman International Industries, Inc. | 31,450 | | 1,406,130 |
Jarden Corp. (a) | 63,945 | | 2,878,164 |
NVR, Inc. (a) | 1,458 | | 1,501,740 |
| | | 5,786,034 |
Insurance – 2.5% | | | |
Everest Re Group Ltd. | 23,325 | | 3,148,642 |
Genworth Financial, Inc., Class A(a) | 138,380 | | 1,387,951 |
| | | 4,536,593 |
IT Services – 6.7% | | | |
Alliance Data Systems Corp. (a) | 29,350 | | 5,041,450 |
FleetCor Technologies, Inc. (a) | 43,050 | | 3,310,545 |
Genpact Ltd. | 104,510 | | 1,943,886 |
Total System Services, Inc. | 73,260 | | 1,730,401 |
| | | 12,026,282 |
Life Sciences Tools & Services – 3.2% | | | |
Covance, Inc. (a) | 26,050 | | 1,942,288 |
Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. (a) | 18,290 | | 3,821,878 |
| | | 5,764,166 |
Machinery – 2.8% | | | |
IDEX Corp. | 54,860 | | 2,854,366 |
The Timken Co. | 40,650 | | 2,136,970 |
| | | 4,991,336 |
Media – 0.8% | | | |
Manchester United plc, Class A(a) | 77,370 | | 1,391,113 |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels – 6.1% | | | |
CONSOL Energy, Inc. | 52,100 | | 1,752,644 |
Denbury Resources, Inc. (a) | 154,010 | | 2,755,239 |
Tesoro Corp. | 121,220 | | 6,473,148 |
| | | 10,981,031 |
Professional Services – 1.4% | | | |
IHS, Inc., Class A(a) | 26,215 | | 2,554,127 |
Real Estate Management & Development – 1.5% | | |
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. | 27,380 | | 2,711,168 |
Road & Rail – 2.3% | | | |
Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (a) | 66,270 | | 1,595,782 |
Landstar System, Inc. | 48,170 | | 2,632,972 |
| | | 4,228,754 |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC PORTFOLIOS 55 |
HSBC OPPORTUNITY PORTFOLIO |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Common Stocks, continued | | | |
| | | |
| Shares | | Value ($) |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment – 4.6% | | | |
Avago Technologies Ltd. | 49,870 | | 1,593,845 |
Lam Research Corp. (a) | 42,430 | | 1,961,115 |
NXP Semiconductors NV (a) | 81,090 | | 2,234,030 |
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (a) | 111,520 | | 2,461,246 |
| | | 8,250,236 |
Software – 7.6% | | | |
Autodesk, Inc. (a) | 69,870 | | 2,751,481 |
Concur Technologies, Inc. (a) | 26,720 | | 1,953,499 |
Fortinet, Inc. (a) | 121,710 | | 2,185,912 |
Informatica Corp. (a) | 53,360 | | 1,757,145 |
Nuance Communications, Inc. (a) | 167,040 | | 3,180,441 |
QLIK Technologies, Inc. (a) | 72,230 | | 1,878,702 |
| | | 13,707,180 |
Specialty Retail – 10.8% | | | |
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. | 58,890 | | 1,145,410 |
Best Buy Co., Inc. | 108,110 | | 2,809,779 |
Foot Locker, Inc. | 85,810 | | 2,992,195 |
GNC Holdings, Inc., Class A | 27,930 | | 1,266,067 |
Signet Jewelers Ltd. | 41,120 | | 2,826,178 |
Tractor Supply Co. | 16,090 | | 1,724,365 |
Urban Outfitters, Inc. (a) | 75,990 | | 3,149,025 |
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. | 66,444 | | 3,566,714 |
| | | 19,479,733 |
Trading Companies & Distributors – 3.7% | | |
Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. (a) | 55,250 | | 2,106,683 |
United Rentals, Inc. (a) | 34,760 | | 1,828,724 |
WESCO International, Inc. (a) | 37,760 | | 2,707,014 |
| | | 6,642,421 |
Wireless Telecommunication Services – 0.5% | | |
SBA Communications Corp., Class A(a) | 12,680 | | 1,001,593 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | | | |
(COST $138,214,772) | | | 174,854,087 |
| | | |
Investment Company – 2.9% | | | |
| | | |
Northern Institutional Government | | | |
Select Portfolio, Institutional Shares, | | | |
0.01% (b) | 5,261,791 | | 5,261,791 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT COMPANY | | | |
(COST $5,261,791) | | | 5,261,791 |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS SECURITIES | | | |
(COST $143,476,563) — 99.7% | | | 180,115,878 |
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Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $180,574,563.
(a) | | Represents non-income producing security. |
(b) | | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
56 HSBC PORTFOLIOS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC PORTFOLIOS
Statements of Assets and Liabilities—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
| | | Growth | | | | Opportunity | |
| | | Portfolio | | | | Portfolio | |
Assets: | | | | | | | | | | |
Investments in non-affiliates, at value | | | $ | 84,765,113 | | | | $ | 180,115,878 | |
Dividends receivable | | | | 17,013 | | | | | 45,964 | |
Receivable for investments sold | | | | 1,449,764 | | | | | 707,535 | |
Prepaid expenses and other assets | | | | — | | | | | 21 | |
Total Assets | | | | 86,231,890 | | | | | 180,869,398 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | |
Payable for investments purchased | | | | 504,437 | | | | | 140,734 | |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Management | | | | 40,095 | | | | | 116,352 | |
Administration | | | | 2,206 | | | | | 4,601 | |
Compliance Service | | | | 26 | | | | | — | |
Accounting | | | | 3,532 | | | | | 3,441 | |
Custodian | | | | 4,908 | | | | | 13,819 | |
Trustee | | | | 29 | | | | | 246 | |
Other | | | | 38,462 | | | | | 15,642 | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 593,695 | | | | | 294,835 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Applicable to investors’ beneficial interest | | | $ | 85,638,195 | | | | $ | 180,574,563 | |
Total Investments, at cost | | | $ | 65,866,147 | | | | $ | 143,476,563 | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC PORTFOLIOS 57 |
HSBC PORTFOLIOS
Statements of Operations—For the six months ended April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
| | | Growth | | | | Opportunity | |
| | | Portfolio | | | | Portfolio | |
Investment Income: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Dividends | | | $ | 593,342 | | | | $ | 732,883 | | |
Total Investment Income | | | | 593,342 | | | | | 732,883 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Management | | | | 234,683 | | | | | 666,664 | | |
Administration | | | | 13,029 | | | | | 26,586 | | |
Accounting | | | | 22,007 | | | | | 21,982 | | |
Compliance Service | | | | 342 | | | | | 454 | | |
Custodian | | | | 9,316 | | | | | 8,086 | | |
Printing | | | | 901 | | | | | 1,825 | | |
Professional | | | | 9,667 | | | | | 11,243 | | |
Trustee | | | | 889 | | | | | 1,476 | | |
Other | | | | 3,962 | | | | | 5,261 | | |
Total Expenses | | | | 294,796 | | | | | 743,577 | | |
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Net Investment Income (Loss) | | | | 298,546 | | | | | (10,694 | ) | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Realized/Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investment securities | | | | 4,562,447 | | | | | 12,783,167 | | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on investments | | | | 5,585,551 | | | | | 15,451,443 | | |
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Net realized/unrealized gains from investments | | | | 10,147,998 | | | | | 28,234,610 | | |
Change In Net Assets Resulting From Operations | | | $ | 10,446,544 | | | | $ | 28,223,916 | | |
58 HSBC PORTFOLIOS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC PORTFOLIOS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Growth | | Opportunity |
| | Portfolio | | Portfolio |
| | For the | | For the | | For the | | For the |
| | six months ended | | year ended | | six months ended | | year ended |
| | April 30, 2013 | | October 31, 2012 | | April 30, 2013 | | October 31, 2012 |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | |
Investment Activities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Operations: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | | $ | 298,546 | | | | | $ | 116,496 | | | | | $ | (10,694 | ) | | | | $ | 224,890 | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | | 4,562,447 | | | | | | 12,654,581 | | | | | | 12,783,167 | | | | | | 8,826,465 | | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
from investments | | | | 5,585,551 | | | | | | (6,525,872 | ) | | | | | 15,451,443 | | | | | | 8,291,618 | | |
Change in net assets resulting from operations | | | | 10,446,544 | | | | | | 6,245,205 | | | | | | 28,223,916 | | | | | | 17,342,973 | | |
Proceeds from contributions | | | | 3,212,686 | | | | | | 10,142,030 | | | | | | 13,052,219 | | | | | | 15,884,698 | | |
Value of withdrawals | | | | (7,039,369 | ) | | | | | (42,657,788 | ) | | | | | (10,760,097 | ) | | | | | (24,493,548 | ) | |
Change in net assets resulting from transactions | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
in investors’ beneficial interest | | | | (3,826,683 | ) | | | | | (32,515,758 | ) | | | | | 2,292,122 | | | | | | (8,608,850 | ) | |
Change in net assets | | | | 6,619,861 | | | | | | (26,270,553 | ) | | | | | 30,516,038 | | | | | | 8,734,123 | | |
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Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | | | 79,018,334 | | | | | | 105,288,887 | | | | | | 150,058,525 | | | | | | 141,324,402 | | |
End of period | | | $ | 85,638,195 | | | | | $ | 79,018,334 | | | | | $ | 180,574,563 | | | | | $ | 150,058,525 | | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC PORTFOLIOS 59 |
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Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.
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| | | | Net Assets at | | Expenses to | | Income (Loss) | | Net Assets | | | | | |
| | Total | | End of Period | | Average Net | | to Average Net | | (Excluding Fee | | Portfolio |
| | Return(a) | | (000’s) | | Assets(b) | | Assets(b) | | Reductions)(b) | | Turnover(a) |
GROWTH PORTFOLIO | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | (37.75 | )%(c) | | | $ | 81,942 | | | 0.62% | | | 0.19 | % | | | 0.62% | | | 158 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | 19.31 | % | | | | 88,163 | | | 0.69% | | | 0.17 | % | | | 0.69% | | | 66 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | 20.34 | % | | | | 98,751 | | | 0.68% | | | (0.04 | )% | | | 0.68% | | | 89 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | 11.07 | % | | | | 105,289 | | | 0.66% | | | 0.07 | % | | | 0.66% | | | 56 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | 7.18 | % | | | | 79,018 | | | 0.71% | | | 0.13 | % | | | 0.71% | | | 53 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | 13.51 | % | | | | 85,638 | | | 0.72% | | | 0.73 | % | | | 0.72% | | | 37 | % | |
OPPORTUNITY PORTFOLIO | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | (35.30 | )% | | | $ | 127,970 | | | 0.87% | | | (0.46 | )% | | | 0.87% | | | 80 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | 15.41 | % | | | | 129,748 | | | 0.90% | | | (0.37 | )% | | | 0.90% | | | 65 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | 28.74 | % | | | | 139,402 | | | 0.89% | | | (0.35 | )% | | | 0.89% | | | 68 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | 12.40 | % | | | | 141,324 | | | 0.88% | | | 0.05 | % | | | 0.88% | | | 69 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | 12.71 | % | | | | 150,059 | | | 0.91% | | | 0.15 | % | | | 0.91% | | | 59 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | 18.33 | % | | | | 180,575 | | | 0.89% | | | (0.01 | )% | | | 0.89% | | | 38 | % | |
(a) | | Not annualized for periods less than one year. |
(b) | | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(c) | | During the year ended October 31, 2008, Winslow Capital Management, LLC (formerly Winslow Capital Management, Inc.) reimbursed $64,658 to the Growth Portfolio related to violations of certain investment policies and limitations. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.08%. |
60 HSBC PORTFOLIOS | See notes to financial statements. |
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
1. Organization:
�� The HSBC Portfolios (the “Portfolio Trust”), is an open-end management investment company organized as a New York trust under the laws of the State of New York on November 1, 1994. The Portfolio Trust contains the following master funds (individually a “Portfolio,” collectively the “Portfolios”):
| Portfolio | | | Short Name | |
| HSBC Growth Portfolio | | Growth Portfolio |
| HSBC Opportunity Portfolio | | Opportunity Portfolio |
The Portfolios operate as master funds in master-feeder arrangements, in which other funds invest all or part of their investable assets in the Portfolios. The Portfolios also receive investments from funds of funds. The Declaration of Trust permits the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) to issue an unlimited number of beneficial interests in the Portfolios.
The Portfolios are diversified series of the Portfolio Trust and are part of the HSBC Family of Funds, which also includes HSBC Advisor Funds Trust and HSBC Funds (collectively, the “Trusts”). Financial statements for all other funds of the Trusts are published separately.
Under the Portfolio Trust’s organizational documents, the Portfolio Trust’s officers and Trustees are indemnified against certain liabilities arising out of the performance of their duties to the Portfolios. In addition, in the normal course of business, the Portfolio Trust may enter into contracts with its service providers, which also provide for indemnifications by the Portfolios. The Portfolios’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve any future claims that may be made against the Portfolios. However, based on experience, the Portfolio Trust expects that risk of loss to be remote.
2. Significant Accounting Policies:
The following is a summary of the significant accounting policies followed by the Portfolios in the preparation of their financial statements. The policies are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). The preparation of financial statements requires management to make certain 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 increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Securities Valuation:
The Portfolios record their investments at fair value. Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The valuation techniques used to determine fair value are further described in Note 3 below.
Investment Transactions and Related Income:
Investment transactions are accounted for not later than on the business day after trade date. However, for financial reporting purposes, investment transactions are accounted for on trade date. Investment gains and losses are calculated on the identified cost basis. Interest income is recognized on the accrual basis and includes, where applicable, the amortization or accretion of premium or discount. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date.
Expense Allocations:
Expenses directly attributable to a Portfolio are charged to that Portfolio. Expenses not directly attributable to a Portfolio are allocated proportionally among the applicable portfolios or funds within the HSBC Family of Funds in relation to net assets or on another reasonable basis.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Federal Income Taxes:
Each Portfolio will be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Accordingly, each Portfolio passes through all of its net investment income and gains and losses to its feeder funds, and is therefore not subject to U.S. federal income tax. As such, investors in the Portfolios will be taxed on their respective share of the Portfolios’ ordinary income and realized gains. It is intended that the Portfolios will be managed in such a way that an investor will be able to satisfy the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, applicable to regulated investment companies.
Management of the Portfolios has reviewed tax positions taken in tax years that remain subject to examination by all major tax jurisdictions, including federal (i.e., the last four tax year ends and the interim tax period since then, as applicable). Management believes that there is no tax liability resulting from unrecognized tax benefits related to uncertain tax positions taken.
3. Investment Valuation Summary:
The valuation techniques employed by the Portfolios, as described below, maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs in determining fair value. The inputs used for valuing the Portfolios’ investments are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
- Level 1: quoted prices in active markets for identical assets
- Level 2: other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
- Level 3: significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The Funds determine transfers between fair value hierarchy levels at the reporting period end. The inputs or methodology used for valuing investments is not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those investments.
Exchange traded, domestic equity securities are valued at the last sale price on a national securities exchange, or in the absence of recorded sales, at the readily available closing bid price on such exchanges, or at the quoted bid price in the over-the-counter market and are typically categorized as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy.
Shares of exchange traded and closed-end registered investment companies are valued in the same manner as other equity securities and are typically categorized as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy. Mutual funds are valued at their net asset values, as reported by such companies and are typically categorized as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy.
Repurchase agreements are valued at original cost and are typically categorized as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.
Securities or other assets for which market quotations are not readily available, or are deemed unreliable due to a significant event, are valued pursuant to procedures adopted by the Trusts’ Board (“Procedures”). Depending on the source and relative significance of valuation inputs, these instruments may be classified as Level 2 or Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy. Examples of potentially significant events that could affect the value of an individual security and thus require pricing under the procedures include corporate actions by the issuer, announcements by the issuer relating to its earnings or products, regulatory news, natural disasters, and litigation. Examples of potentially significant events that could affect multiple securities held by a Portfolio include governmental actions, natural disasters, and armed conflicts.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
For the year period April 30, 2013, there were no Level 3 investments for which significant unobservable inputs were used to determine fair value.
The following is a summary of the valuation inputs used as of April 30, 2013 in valuing the Portfolios’ investments based upon the three levels defined above:
| | LEVEL 1 ($) | | LEVEL 2 ($) | | LEVEL 3 ($) | | Total ($) |
Growth Portfolio | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | |
Common Stocks (a) | | 83,573,477 | | — | | — | | 83,573,477 |
Investment Company | | 1,191,636 | | — | | — | | 1,191,636 |
Total Investment Securities | | 84,765,113 | | — | | — | | 84,765,113 |
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Opportunity Portfolio | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | |
Common Stocks (a) | | 174,854,087 | | — | | — | | 174,854,087 |
Investment Company | | 5,261,791 | | — | | — | | 5,261,791 |
Total Investment Securities | | 180,115,878 | | — | | — | | 180,115,878 |
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(a) | For detailed investment categorizations, see the accompanying Schedules of Portfolio Investments. |
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In January 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2013-01 “Clarifying the Scope of Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities (“ASU 2013-01”), which amended Accounting Standards Codification Subtopic 210-20, Balance Sheet Offsetting. ASU 2013-01 clarified the scope of ASU No. 2011-11 “Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities” (“ASU 2011-11”). ASU 2011-11 requires an entity to disclose information about offsetting and related arrangements to enable users of the financial statements to understand the effect of those arrangements on the entity’s financial position. ASU 2013-01 clarifies the scope of ASU 2011-11 as applying to derivatives accounted for in accordance with Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, including bifurcated embedded derivatives, repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements, and securities borrowing and securities lending transactions that are offset either in accordance with other requirements of U.S. GAAP or subject to an enforceable master netting arrangement or similar agreement. The guidance in ASU 2013-01 and ASU 2011-11 is effective for interim and annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013. Management is evaluating any impact ASU 2013-01 and ASU 2011-11 may have on the Portfolios’ financial statements.
4. Related Party Transactions and Other Agreements:
Investment Management:
HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (“HSBC” or the “Investment Adviser”), a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank USA, N.A., a national bank organized under the laws of the United States, acts as the Investment Adviser to the Portfolios pursuant to an investment management contract with the Portfolio Trust. As Investment Adviser, HSBC manages the investments of the Portfolios and continuously reviews, supervises, and administers the Portfolios’ investments. Winslow Capital Management, LLC (“Winslow”) and Westfield Capital Management Company, L.P. (“Westfield”) serve as subadvisers for the Growth Portfolio and Opportunity Portfolio, respectively, and are paid for their services directly by the respective Portfolios.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
For their services, the Investment Adviser and Winslow receive in aggregate, from the Growth Portfolio, a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate of:
Based on Average Daily Net Assets of all Sub-Adviser serviced funds and separate accounts affiliated | | |
with HSBC: | | Fee Rate(%)* |
Up to $250 million | | 0.575 |
In excess of $250 million but not exceeding $500 million | | 0.525 |
In excess of $500 million but not exceeding $750 million | | 0.475 |
In excess of $750 million but not exceeding $1 billion | | 0.425 |
In excess of $1 billion | | 0.375 |
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* | | The Growth Portfolio may pay the Investment Adviser and Winslow an aggregate maximum fee of up to 0.68%. Currently, the Investment Adviser’s contractual fee is 0.175% and Winslow’s maximum contractual fee is 0.40%. Accordingly, the current aggregate maximum fee rate is 0.575%. |
For their services, the Investment Adviser and Westfield receive in aggregate, a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate of 0.80% of the Opportunity Portfolio’s average daily net assets.
Administration:
HSBC serves the Trusts as Administrator. Under the terms of the Administration Agreement, HSBC receives from the Trusts a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly at an annual rate of:
Based on Average Daily Net Assets of | | | Fee Rate(%) |
Up to $10 billion | | 0.0550 |
In excess of $10 billion but not exceeding $20 billion | | 0.0350 |
In excess of $20 billion but not exceeding $50 billion | | 0.0275 |
In excess of $50 billion | | 0.0250 |
The fee rates and breakpoints are determined on the basis of the aggregate average daily net assets of the Trusts, however, the assets of the Portfolios and HSBC Funds and HSBC Advisor Fund that invest in the Portfolios are not double-counted. The total administration fee paid to HSBC is allocated to each series based upon its proportionate share of the aggregate net assets of the Trusts. For assets invested in the Portfolios by the HSBC Funds and HSBC Advisor Fund, the Portfolios pay half of the administration fee and the other funds pay half of the administration fee, for a combination of the total fee rate set forth above.
Pursuant to a Sub-Administration Agreement with HSBC, Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc. (“Citi”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citigroup, Inc., serves as the Trusts’ Sub-Administrator subject to the general supervision by the Trusts’ Board and HSBC. For these services, Citi is entitled to a fee, payable by HSBC, at an annual rate equivalent to the fee rates set forth above subject to certain reductions associated with services provided to new portfolios, minus 0.02% which is retained by HSBC.
Under a Compliance Services Agreement between the Trusts and Citi (the “CCO Agreement”), Citi makes an employee available to serve as the Trusts’ Chief Compliance Officer (the “CCO”). Under the CCO Agreement, Citi also provides infrastructure and support in implementing the written policies and procedures comprising the Trusts’ compliance program, including support services to the CCO. For the services provided under the CCO Agreement, the Trusts paid Citi $143,262 for the period ended April 30, 2013, plus reimbursement of certain expenses. Expenses incurred by each Portfolio are reflected on the Statements of Operations as “Compliance Services.” Citi pays the salary and other compensation earned by individuals as employees of Citi.
Fund Accounting:
Citi provides fund accounting services for the Portfolio Trust. For its services to the Portfolios, Citi receives an annual fee per portfolio, including reimbursement of certain expenses, that is accrued daily and paid monthly.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Independent Trustees:
The Trusts pay each Independent Trustee an annual retainer of $100,000. The Trusts pay a fee of $10,000 for each regular meeting of the Board of Trustees attended and a fee of $ 3,000 for each special meeting attended. The Trusts pay each Committee Chair an annual retainer of $ 3,000, with the exception of the Chair of the Audit Committee, who receives a retainer of $ 6,000. The Trusts also pay the Chairman of the Board, an additional annual retainer of $24,000. In addition, for time expended on Board duties outside normal meetings, which is authorized by the Board, a Trustee is compensated at the rate of $ 500 per hour, up to a maximum of $ 3,000 per day.
5. Investment Transactions:
Cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of securities (excluding securities maturing less than one year from acquisition) for the period ended April 30, 2013 were as follows:
Portfolio Name | | | Purchases ($) | | Sales ($) |
Growth Portfolio | | 29,565,645 | | 32,051,024 |
Opportunity Portfolio | | 63,244,033 | | 61,647,653 |
For the period ended April 30, 2013, there were no long-term U.S. government securities held by the Portfolio Trust.
6. Federal Income Tax Information:
At April 30, 2013, the cost basis of securities for federal income tax purposes, gross unrealized appreciation, gross unrealized depreciation and net unrealized appreciation/depreciation were as follows:
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Net Unrealized |
| | | | Tax Unrealized | | Tax Unrealized | | Appreciation |
Fund | | | Tax Cost($) | | Appreciation($) | | Depreciation($) | | (Depreciation)($)* |
Growth Portfolio | | 62,465,363 | | | 22,618,866 | | | | (319,116 | ) | | | 22,299,750 |
Opportunity Portfolio | | 143,728,751 | | | 39,548,076 | | | | (3,160,949 | ) | | | 36,387,127 |
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* | | The difference between book-basis unrealized appreciation (depreciation) is attributable primarily to tax deferral of losses on wash sales. |
7. Subsequent Events:
Management has evaluated events and transactions through the date the financial statements were issued, for purposes of recognition or disclosure in these financial statements and there are no subsequent events to report.
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Investment Adviser Contract Approval |
Section 15(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), generally requires that a majority of the trustees of a mutual fund who are not parties to an investment advisory agreement for the fund or “interested persons” of the investment adviser, as defined in the 1940 Act (the “Independent Trustees”), review and approve the investment advisory agreement at an in person meeting for an initial period of up to two years and thereafter on an annual basis. A summary of the material factors considered by the Independent Trustees and the Boards of Trustees (the “Board”) of HSBC Funds, HSBC Advisor Funds Trust and HSBC Portfolios (each, a “Trust”) in connection with approving investment advisory and sub-advisory agreements for the series of the Trusts (each, a “Fund”) during the semi-annual period ended April 30, 2013 and the conclusions the Independent Trustees and Board made as a result of those considerations are set forth below.
Annual Continuation of Advisory and Sub-Advisory Agreements
The Board met in person and the Contracts and Expense Committee thereof, which consists of the Independent Trustees of the Trusts (the “Contracts Committee”), met separately to consider, among other matters:
- the approval of the continuation of the: (i) Investment Advisory Contracts and related Supplements (“Advisory Contracts”) between the Trusts and HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”) and (ii) Sub- Advisory Agreements (“Sub-Advisory Contracts”) between the Adviser and each investment sub-adviser (“Sub-Adviser”) to one or more Funds; and
- the approval of the continuation of certain other ancillary agreements to which the Adviser is a party that obligate the Adviser to provide the Funds with administrative services, such as the Administration Agreement, Support Services Agreement and Operational Support Services Agreement (each, an “Ancillary Agreement”).
Prior to the meetings, the Independent Trustees received and reviewed the information they thought reasonably necessary to evaluate the terms of the Advisory Contracts, Sub-Advisory Contracts and Ancillary Agreements (collectively, the “Agreements”). This information included, among other things, information about: (i) the services that the Adviser and Sub-Advisers provide; (ii) the personnel who provide such services; (iii) investment performance, including comparative data provided by Lipper Inc. (“Lipper”); (iv) trading practices of the Adviser and Sub-Advisers; (v) fees received or to be received by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers, including in comparison with the advisory fees paid by other similar funds based on materials provided by Lipper; (vi) total expense ratios, including in comparison with the total expense ratios of other similar funds based on Lipper data; (vii) the profitability of the Adviser and certain of the Sub-Advisers; and (viii) compliance-related matters pertaining to the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. Counsel to the Trusts and to the Independent Trustees were present at each Contracts Committee meeting and the Board meeting.
When it met, the Contracts Committee and its members reviewed the information provided in advance of the meeting and discussed, among other things: (i) the Funds’ investment advisory arrangements and expense limitation agreements with the Adviser; (ii) the Trusts’ arrangements with the unaffiliated investment sub-advisers to the Trusts, Westfield Capital Management Company, LP (“Westfield”) and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (“Winslow”); (iii) the Trusts’ Administration Agreement with the Adviser; and (iv) regulatory considerations. The Contracts Committee also convened to consider, among other things: (i) the Support Services Agreement and Operational Support Services Agreement with the Adviser; (ii) the Adviser’s Multimanager function; (iii) the Adviser’s advisory services with respect to the Funds that are money market funds (“Money Market Funds”); (iv) the Adviser’s profitability; and (v) additional information provided by the Adviser at the request of the Board. Following the December 5, 2012 and December 17-18, 2012 Contracts Committee meetings, the members of the Contracts Committee determined to recommend to the Board that the Agreements be continued for an additional one-year period.
At the in-person meeting, held on December 17-18, 2012, the Board, including the Independent Trustees, reviewed and discussed the materials and other information provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers and considered the previous deliberations and recommendation of the Contracts Committee. As a result of this process, the Board and Independent Trustees determined to approve the continuation of the Agreements with respect to each Fund.
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Investment Adviser Contract Approval (continued) |
The Board and the Independent Trustees made these determinations on the basis of the following considerations, among others:
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided by Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees examined the nature, quality and extent of the investment advisory and administrative support services provided by the Adviser to the Funds, as well as the quality and experience of the Adviser’s personnel. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s Multimanager unit with respect to the World Selection Funds and the Equity Funds, the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s Emerging Markets Debt Team with respect to the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the capabilities of the Adviser’s oversight with respect to the Frontier Markets Fund, as well as the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s portfolio management and credit review teams with respect to the Money Market Funds. The Independent Trustees also considered the nature, quality and extent of the administrative support services that the Adviser provides to the Funds, including the Adviser’s oversight and management of the Funds’ other service providers.
The Independent Trustees also took note of: (i) the long-term relationship between the Adviser and the Funds; (ii) the Adviser’s reputation and financial condition; (iii) the reduction during the period in the HSBC Family of Fund’s net assets, and its effect on economies of scale; (iv) the recent liquidation of certain Funds; and (v) the efforts undertaken by the Adviser to foster the growth and development of the Funds since the inception of each of the Funds, including the recent development and launch of the HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund and HSBC Total Return Fund, and an increased entrepreneurial commitment to the success of the Funds with new classes of shareholders. With respect to the Money Market Funds, the Independent Trustees considered the financial support the Adviser and its affiliates have afforded the Money Market Funds, such as the voluntary fee waivers and reimbursements made to maintain a non-negative yield for the Money Market Funds more recently, and noted the material increase in these waivers and reimbursements due to the economic environment for money market funds over the previous year. In addition, the Independent Trustees considered the Adviser’s performance in fulfilling its responsibilities for overseeing its own and the Sub-Advisers’ compliance with the Funds’ compliance policies and procedures and investment objectives. In assessing the Adviser’s reputation, the Independent Trustees considered a recent regulatory matter affecting the parent of the Adviser which did not relate to the Funds.
The Independent Trustees also examined the nature, quality and extent of the services that the Sub-Advisers provide to their respective Funds. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the investment performance and the portfolio risk characteristics achieved by the Sub-Advisers and the Sub-Advisers’ portfolio management teams, their experience, and the quality of their compliance programs, among other factors.
Based on these considerations, the Independent Trustees concluded that they were satisfied with the nature, quality and extent of the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers, and that the services provided supported continuance of the Agreements.
Investment Performance of the Funds, Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees considered the investment performance of each Fund over various periods of time, as compared to one another as well as to comparable funds and one or more benchmark indices. In the context of the World Selection Funds, the Independent Trustees took note of the expenses of underlying funds and considered the performance of the World Selection Funds, and particularly the Aggressive Strategy Fund, in light of the World Selection Funds’ relative positioning and peers. In the context of the HSBC Growth Portfolio, although the Independent Trustees noted the recent underperformance of the Portfolio in light of data provided by Lipper, it favorably noted the consistent performance record of the Portfolio and the strong compliance culture at the Portfolio’s Sub-Adviser. In the context of the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio, the Independent Trustees considered that the Portfolio was relatively expensive as compared to its peers, yet was also characterized by relatively high return as well as higher volatility. With respect to the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio, the Independent Trustees also considered the compliance efforts of the Portfolio’s Sub-Adviser.
In the context of the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the Independent Trustees found the expenses of the HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund to be reasonable and its performance to be acceptable, but the Independent Trustees noted that the HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund had performed less competitively. With respect to the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the Independent Trustees also requested and received information regarding the Funds’ integration into the overall structure of the HSBC Family of Funds. In the context of the HSBC Frontier Markets Fund, the Independent Trustees noted the Fund’s fees and expenses as compared to its peers, and
HSBC PORTFOLIOS |
Investment Adviser Contract Approval (continued) |
requested and received information regarding the advisory fee split between the Adviser and the Fund’s Sub-Adviser. In the context of the Money Market Funds, the Independent Trustees considered the yield support that the Adviser had provided in order for the Money Market Funds to maintain positive yield and performance. The Independent Trustees determined that the Funds’ investment performance and the Adviser’s actions to improve investment performance, where applicable, supported continuance of the Agreements, although they would continue to monitor performance closely, particularly for those Funds that had weaker performance compared to peers during the past year.
Costs of Services and Profits Realized by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees considered the costs of the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers and the expense ratios of the Funds more generally. The Independent Trustees considered the Adviser’s profitability and costs, including by means of an analysis provided by the Adviser of its estimated profitability. The Independent Trustees also considered the contractual advisory fees under the Advisory Contracts and compared those fees to the fees of similar funds, which had been compiled and provided by Lipper. The Independent Trustees determined that the Funds had advisory fees competitive with those of similar funds, noting the resources, expertise and experience provided to the Funds.
The Independent Trustees also compared the advisory fees under the Advisory Contracts with those of other accounts managed by the Adviser, and evaluated information provided as to why advisory fees may differ between mutual funds and other advisory relationships, including increased shareholder activity. In this regard, the Independent Trustees concluded that differences in advisory fees assessed between the Funds and other accounts managed by the Adviser did not preclude approval of the Advisory Contracts.
With respect to the administrative support services provided by the Adviser, the Independent Trustees considered the fees charged for such services and evaluated the fees payable to the Adviser and those payable to other providers of administrative services to the Funds. At the request of the Independent Trustees, the Adviser provided information regarding the pricing differential between the retail and institutional shares’ respective Operational Support Services Agreements. The Independent Trustees determined that the differences are in-line with industry standards and recognize the different services provided to retail as compared to institutional shareholders. The Independent Trustees also considered the relative split of the administration fee between the Adviser and Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc., as sub-administrator and other factors relevant to their consideration of these arrangements.
The Independent Trustees also considered the costs of the services provided by the Sub-Advisers, as applicable; the relative portions of the total advisory fees paid to the Sub-Advisers and retained by the Adviser in its capacity as the Funds’ investment adviser; and the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. In the context of the HSBC Growth Portfolio, the Independent Trustees considered the sub-advisory fee breakpoint structure. The Independent Trustees also considered information on profitability where provided by the Sub-Advisers.
The Independent Trustees concluded that the advisory fees payable to the Adviser and the Funds’ Sub-Advisers were fair and reasonable in light of the factors set forth above.
Other Relevant Considerations. The Independent Trustees also considered the extent to which the Adviser and Sub-Advisers had achieved economies of scale, whether the Funds’ expense structure permits economies of scale to be shared with the Funds’ shareholders and, if so, the extent to which the Funds’ shareholders may benefit from these economies of scale. The Independent Trustees also noted the contractual caps on certain Fund expenses provided by the Adviser with respect to many of the Funds in order to reduce or control the overall operating expenses of those Funds. The Independent Trustees also considered certain information provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers with respect to the benefits they may derive from their relationships with the Funds, including the fact that certain Sub-Advisers have “soft dollar” arrangements with respect to Fund brokerage and therefore may have access to research and other permissible services.
In light of the above considerations and such other factors and information it considered relevant, the Board by a unanimous vote of those present in person at the meeting (including a separate unanimous vote of the Independent Trustees present in person at the meeting) approved the continuation of each Agreement.
HSBC PORTFOLIOS |
Table of Shareholder Expenses—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
As a shareholder of the Portfolios, you incur ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses.
These examples are intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Portfolios and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
These examples are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period from November 1, 2012 through April 30, 2013.
Actual Example
The table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information below, 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 table under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
| | | | | | | | Annualized |
| | Beginning | | Ending | | Expenses Paid | | Expense Ratio |
| | Account Value | | Account Value | | During Period* | | During Period |
| | 11/1/12 | | 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 |
Growth Portfolio | | $1,000.00 | | $1,135.10 | | $3.81 | | 0.72% |
Opportunity Portfolio | | 1,000.00 | | 1,183.30 | | 4.82 | | 0.89% |
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* | Expenses are equal to the average account value over the period, multiplied by the Portfolio’s annualized expense ratio, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one half year period). |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on each Portfolio’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Portfolio’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 this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of 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 sales charges (loads), redemption fees, or exchange fees. Therefore, the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | | | | | Annualized |
| | Beginning | | Ending | | Expenses Paid | | Expense Ratio |
| | Account Value | | Account Value | | During Period* | | During Period |
| | 11/1/12 | | 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12-4/30/13 | | 11/1/12-4/30/13 |
Growth Portfolio | | $1,000.00 | | $1,021.58 | | $3.67 | | 0.72% |
Opportunity Portfolio | | 1,000.00 | | 1,020.72 | | 4.53 | | 0.89% |
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* | Expenses are equal to the average account value over the period, multiplied by the Portfolio’s annualized expense ratio, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one half year period). |
Other Information (Unaudited):
Information regarding how the Funds voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30th is available (i) without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-525-5757 for HSBC Bank USA and HSBC Brokerage (USA) Inc. clients and 1-800-782-8183 for all other shareholders; (ii) on the Funds’ website at www.investorfunds.us.hsbc.com; and (iii) on the Security and Exchange Commission’s (“Commission”) website at http://www.sec.gov.
The Funds file their complete schedules of portfolio holdings with the Commission for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Funds’ Forms N-Q are available on the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov. The Funds’ Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the Commission’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. and information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. The Funds’ Schedules of Investments will be available no later than 60 days after each period end, without charge, on the Funds’ website at www.investorfunds.us.hsbc.com.
An investment in a Fund is not a deposit of HSBC Bank USA, National Association, and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS: INVESTMENT ADVISER AND ADMINISTRATOR HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. 452 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10018 SUB-ADVISERS HSBC Growth Portfolio Winslow Capital Management, LLC 4720 IDS Tower 80 South Eighth Street Minneapolis, MN 55402 HSBC Opportunity Portfolio Westfield Capital Management Company, L.P. One Financial Center Boston, MA 02111 | SHAREHOLDER SERVICING AGENTS For HSBC Bank USA, N.A. and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. Clients HSBC Bank USA, N.A. 452 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10018 1-888-525-5757 For All Other Shareholders HSBC Funds P.O. Box 182845 Columbus, OH 43218 1-800-782-8183 TRANSFER AGENT Citi Fund Services 3435 Stelzer Road Columbus, OH 43219 DISTRIBUTOR Foreside Distribution Services, L.P. 690 Taylor Road, Suite 150 Gahanna, OH 43230 CUSTODIAN The Northern Trust Company 50 South LaSalle Street Chicago, IL 60603 INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM KPMG LLP 191 West Nationwide Blvd., Suite 500 Columbus, OH 43215 LEGAL COUNSEL Dechert LLP 1900 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 |

The HSBC Family of Funds are distributed by Foreside Distribution Services, L.P. This document must be preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus for the HSBC Funds, which you should read carefully before you invest or send money.
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HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc.
HSBC Funds
Semi-Annual Report
April 30, 2013
EQUITY FUNDS | | Class A | | Class B | | Class C | | Class I |
HSBC Growth Fund | | HOTAX | | HOTBX | | HOTCX | | HOTYX |
HSBC Opportunity Fund | | HSOAX | | HOPBX | | HOPCX | | RESCX |

| Table of Contents |
HSBC Family of Funds |
Semi-Annual Report - April 30, 2013 |
Glossary of Terms | | |
Chairman’s Message | | 4 |
President’s Message | | 5 |
Commentary From the Investment Manager | | 6 |
Portfolio Reviews | | 8 |
Portfolio Composition | | 12 |
Statements of Assets and Liabilities | | 13 |
Statements of Operations | | 14 |
Statements of Changes in Net Assets | | 15 |
Financial Highlights | | 19 |
Notes to Financial Statements | | 23 |
Investment Adviser Contract Approval | | 31 |
Table of Shareholder Expenses | | 34 |
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HSBC Portfolios | | |
Schedules of Portfolio Investments | | |
HSBC Growth Portfolio | | 36 |
HSBC Opportunity Portfolio | | 38 |
Statements of Assets and Liabilities | | 40 |
Statements of Operations | | 41 |
Statements of Changes in Net Assets | | 42 |
Financial Highlights | | 43 |
Notes to Financial Statements | | 44 |
Investment Adviser Contract Approval | | 49 |
Table of Shareholder Expenses | | 52 |
Other Information | | 53 |
Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index generally representative of investment-grade, fixed-rate debt issues, including government, corporate, asset-backed, and mortgage-backed securities, with maturities of at least one year.
Barclays U.S. High-Yield Corporate Bond Index is an unmanaged index that measures the non-investment grade, USD-denominated, fixed-rate, taxable corporate bond market. Securities are classified as high-yield if the middle rating of Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P is Ba1/BB+/BB+ or below. The index excludes emerging markets debt.
Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) measures the market value of the goods and services produced by labor and property in the United States.
Lipper Large-Cap Growth Funds Average is an equally weighted average of mutual funds that, by portfolio practice, invest at least 75% of their equity assets in companies with market capitalizations (on a three-year weighted basis) above Lipper’s U.S. Diversified Equity large-cap floor. Large-cap growth funds typically have an above-average price-to-earnings ratio, price-to-book ratio, and three-year sales-per-share growth value, compared to the S&P 500 Index.
Lipper Mid-Cap Growth Funds Average is an equally weighted average of mutual funds that, by portfolio practice, invest at least 75% of their equity assets in companies with market capitalizations (on a three-year weighted basis) below Lipper’s U.S. Diversified Equity large-cap floor. Mid-cap growth funds typically have an above-average price-to-earnings ratio, price-to-book ratio, and three-year sales-per-share growth value, compared to the S&P MidCap 400 Index.
Morgan Stanley Capital International Europe Australasia and Far East (“MSCI EAFE”) Index is an unmanaged free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets, excluding the U.S. & Canada. The MSCI EAFE Index consists of the following 22 developed market countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
Morgan Stanley Capital International Emerging Market (“MSCI EM”) Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure equity market performance of emerging markets. The MSCI EM Index consists of the following 21 emerging market countries: Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey.
Russell 1000® Growth Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the large-cap growth segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 1000 companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values.
Russell 2000® Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the small-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe. The Russell 2000® Index is a subset of the Russell 3000® Index representing approximately 10% of the total market capitalization of that index. It includes approximately 2000 of the smallest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership.
Russell 2500™ Growth Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the small- to mid-cap growth segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 2500 companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values.
Standard & Poor’s 500 (“S&P 500”) Index is an unmanaged index that is widely regarded as a gauge of the U.S. equities market. This index includes 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy. The S&P 500 Index focuses on the large-cap segment of the market, with approximately 75% coverage of U.S. equities.
Lipper is an independent mutual fund performance monitor whose results are based on total return and do not reflect a sales charge.
Securities indices assume reinvestment of all distributions and interest payments and do not take in account brokerage fees or expenses. Securities in the Funds do not match those in the indices and performance of the Funds will differ. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
June 24, 2013
Fellow Shareholders:
The recently-concluded semi-annual period was a good one for the HSBC Equity Funds. The HSBC Opportunity Fund and HSBC Growth Fund outperformed the Lipper Mid-Cap Growth Funds Average and the Lipper Large-Cap Growth Funds Average, respectively, during the six months ended April 30, 2013.
More specific information about each fund’s performance appears in their respective Portfolio Reviews in the following pages of this report. These investment results were achieved in an environment marked by uncertainty about the economic and market outlook, including speculation about future Federal Reserve policy and its market effects. We have no crystal ball, but our portfolio managers generally view the outlook as mildly positive. Several factors contributed to this outlook, including:
- The slowly improving U.S. economic growth, with little signs of inflation, provides a positive backdrop for stocks.
- Any normalization of Federal Reserve policy, and an end to so-called “quantitative easing,” should boost interest rates and improve returns in our money market offerings.
- A global economic recovery carries positive implications for emerging and frontier debt and equity markets, which is important for our roster of emerging market products.
That said, past performance is no guarantee of future results. To that end, the board and HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. constantly monitor the funds’ investment results, meeting regularly with portfolio managers and effect management change when we think it to be in our shareholders’ best interests. When managers consistently under-perform, we monitor their performance more closely and add additional oversight and scrutiny.
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently released for comment a number of proposals relating to money market fund reform. These included a floating net asset value and/or liquidity fees and redemption gates for certain types of money market funds. We will continue to monitor these developments as we work to provide the best money market fund structures and products to meet the needs of our shareholders.
The HSBC Funds lost a great friend and major contributor on April 28, 2013, when Larry Robbins, a trustee for 23 years and our chairman for eight years, succumbed to cancer, which he had fought with his usual grace and courage for almost five years. Larry resigned from the Board in December 2010, but remained an insightful counselor to me and a cheerleader to all of us. There’s no replacing a person like Larry.
His resignation did, however, open a vacancy on the Board, and this month we appointed Susan Gause to the board. The search was exhaustive and choosing among many attractive candidates wasn’t easy, we’re delighted to welcome Susan to the board. Susan has broad asset management experience having served as the CEO and CFO of a major asset management company and we believe that experience will serve HSBC Funds’ shareholders well.
Sincerely,

Michael Seely
Chairman, HSBC Funds
This literature must be preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus for the HSBC Funds. Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses of the investment company carefully before investing. The prospectus contains this and other important information about the investment company. To obtain more information, for clients of HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., please call 1-888-525-5757 or visit www.investorfunds.us.hsbc.com. For other investors and prospective investors, please call the Funds directly at 1-888-936-4722. Investors should read the prospectus carefully before investing or sending money.
Dear Shareholder,
We are pleased to send to you the HSBC Funds semi-annual report, covering the six-month fiscal period ended April 30, 2013. This report contains detailed information about your Funds’ investments and results. We encourage you to review it carefully.
Inside these pages you will find a letter from the Funds’ Chairman, Michael Seely, in which he comments on recent market developments. The report also includes commentary from the Funds’ portfolio managers in which they discuss the investment markets and their respective Fund’s performance. Each commentary is accompanied by the Fund’s return for the period, listed alongside the returns of its benchmark index and peer group average for comparative purposes.
In closing, we would like to thank you for investing in the HSBC Funds. We continue to focus the HSBC Fund Family on investment solutions to assist our shareholders in reaching their financial goals. We appreciate the trust you place in us, and will continue working to earn it. Please contact us at any time with questions or concerns.
Sincerely,

Richard A. Fabietti
President
Commentary From the Investment Manager |
HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. |
U.S. Economic Review
The global economy experienced moderate growth during the six-month period between November 1, 2012 and April 30, 2013. Many major economies produced disappointing economic data during much of the period. Consumer spending weakened and fiscal problems continued to plague the eurozone. However, U.S. equity markets made strong gains as the housing market showed significant improvement and consumer spending increased. Markets continued to benefit from the Federal Reserve Board’s decision to maintain the federal funds rate—a key factor in lending rates—at a historically low target range between 0.00% and 0.25% through 2014.
The period began with equities in the U.S. retreating somewhat from gains made in the previous quarter. This pullback was caused in part by renewed concerns about the eurozone debt crisis and the looming threat in the U.S. of the “fiscal cliff”—a collection of spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to take effect in January 2013. Markets both in the U.S. and abroad performed much stronger during the first quarter of 2013 due to improving circumstances in the eurozone and positive domestic economic data. Still, new signs of slowing economic growth—and concerns about political crises in Italy and Cyprus—contributed to higher volatility in the equity markets during the spring. Despite these issues, in addition to lingering weakness in the labor market, equity U.S. markets ended the period significantly higher than six months earlier.
The housing market was the area of the U.S. economy that showed the clearest signs of improvement. Data indicated that home prices were rising and sales were increasing. Home prices in February made their largest year-over-year gain since May 2006. These positive developments produced optimism that the market could finally be headed towards a full recovery from its 2008 collapse.
Another development that supported recent market gains was the European Central Bank’s efforts to reduce borrowing costs for peripheral European countries. These efforts included an aggressive government bond-buying program known as Outright Monetary Transactions. The formation of a governing political coalition in Italy also helped alleviate concerns about a political crisis in that country. Nonetheless, lingering sovereign debt and fiscal problems persist in Europe, and the continent remains in recession.
The unemployment rate continued to edge downward, but remained well above pre-recession levels. Real income and the consumer savings rate remained weak during the period, while consumer confidence declined slightly. Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded during each of the last five months of the period, though the rate of growth slowed.
Emerging markets as a whole performed poorly during the period, as the dollar gained strength and commodity prices fell. Economic data from China were mixed, though there were no signs that its economy was about to suffer the “hard landing” that some analyst had feared.
U.S. Gross Domestic Product1 (GDP) grew at a rate of 0.4% during the fourth quarter of 2012—the slowest rate since the first quarter of 2011. A preliminary estimate puts GDP growth during the first quarter of 2013 at 2.5%.
Market Review
The period began with a steep sell-off in U.S. markets that bottomed out in mid-November. Equities then reversed direction and began a strong rally that persisted through the duration of the period with only a few brief interruptions. Equities performed well despite investors’ concerns that the political deadlock over the fiscal cliff and the subsequent onset of automatic budget cuts—known as the sequester—would undermine economic growth. A political compromise that avoided the most dire consequences of the fiscal cliff, along with improvement in the housing market, helped buoy investor confidence and fuel gains in the equity markets.
During the period, small- and mid-cap stocks outperformed large-cap stocks, and emerging markets generally underperformed developed economies. The Russell 2000® Index1 of small-company stocks returned 16.58% and the MSCI Emerging Market Index1 returned 5.40%.
Stocks in developed economies rose. Japanese equities performed especially well due to optimism regarding its central bank’s efforts to revive its economy. European stocks made gains, but lagged well behind U.S. markets. The S&P 500 Index1 of large-company stocks returned 14.42% for the six months through April 2013. That compared to a 17.18% return for the MSCI EAFE Index1 of international stocks in developed markets.
Among fixed-income securities, yields on U.S. Treasury bonds increased during the period, sending prices lower. Investment-grade corporate bonds also declined. Investors sought the higher yields offered by high-yield corporate bonds and high-yield municipal bonds, which were the best-performing fixed-income sectors during the quarter. The Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index1, which tracks the broad investment-grade fixed-income market, returned 0.90% for the six months through April, while the Barclays U.S. High-Yield Corporate Bond Index1 returned 7.26%. Fixed-income markets in Europe generated modest returns, while fixed-income in emerging markets ended the period higher, though it performed poorly during the first quarter of 2013 following strong gains throughout 2012.
1 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
HSBC Growth Fund |
(Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares and Class I Shares) |
by Clark J. Winslow, CEO and CIO/Portfolio Manager
Justin H. Kelly, CFA, Senior Managing Director/Portfolio Manager
R. Bartlett Wear, CFA, Senior Managing Director/Portfolio Manager
Winslow Capital Management, LLC
The HSBC Growth Fund (the “Fund”) seeks long-term growth of capital. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests primarily in U.S. and foreign equity securities of high-quality companies with market capitalization generally in excess of $2 billion, which the subadviser believes have the potential to generate superior levels of long-term profitability and growth. The Fund utilizes a two-tier structure, commonly known as a “master-feeder” structure, in which the Fund invests all of its investable assets in the HSBC Growth Portfolio (the “Portfolio”). The Portfolio employs Winslow Capital Management, LLC as its subadviser.
Investment Concerns
Equity securities (stocks) are more volatile and carry more risk than other forms of investments, including investments in high-grade fixed income securities.
The growth investment style may fall out of favor in the marketplace and result in significant declines in the value of the Portfolio’s securities. Securities of companies considered to be growth investments may have rapid price swings in the event of earnings disappointments or during periods of market, political, regulatory and economic uncertainty.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Market Commentary
The Fund returned 13.19% (without sales charge) for the Class A Shares and 13.41% for the Class I Shares for the six-month period ended April 30, 2013. That compared to a 13.71% total return for the Russell 1000® Growth Index1, the Fund’s primary performance benchmark, and a 12.45% total return for the Lipper Large-Cap Growth Funds Average1.
Portfolio Performance
The U.S. economy continued to expand throughout the six-month period. A round of budget cuts early in 2013 did not derail this expansion, and corporate profits continued to grow despite the slow nature of the economic recovery.
Equities performed well in that environment, which contributed to the Fund’s strong absolute return during the period. However, investors remained largely cautious about the state of the economic recovery, leading them to be more risk averse. As a result, growth stocks lagged both value stocks—which were among the period’s strongest performers—and the broader equity market as measured by the S&P 500 Index.1
The Fund benefited from an overweight position relative to its benchmark in the health care sector, which posted strong gains thanks to a strong pipeline of new biotechnology products and an improving job market that led to higher demand for health care services. Additionally, the Fund benefited from its exposure to two biopharmaceutical companies, which benefited from new drug approvals and the launch of two new HIV drugs, respectively.†
In addtion, stock selection in the materials and energy sectors helped the Fund’s relative performance. Among the Fund’s holdings in these sectors were an agricultural biotechnology company, which benefited from strong earnings growth, and an oil and natural gas producer, which benefited from strong production and low operating costs.†
The Fund’s relative returns suffered from an underweight position in the consumer staples sector, which performed well as investors favored more defensive stocks due to the slow economic recovery. Stock selection in both the consumer discretionary and telecommunications services sectors also hurt the Fund. In particular, shares of a large clothing retailer performed relatively poorly after earnings growth slowed during the period.†
† | | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
1 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
HSBC Growth Fund |
| | | | | | Average Annual | | Expense |
Fund Performance | | | | | | Total Return (%) | | Ratio (%)6 |
| | | | Six | | | | | | Since | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | | Inception Date | | Months* | | 1 Year | | 5 Year | | Inception | | Gross | | Net |
HSBC Growth Fund Class A1 | | 5/7/045 | | 7.54 | | 1.96 | | 4.06 | | | 6.47 | | | 1.40 | | 1.20 |
HSBC Growth Fund Class B2 | | 5/7/045 | | 8.80 | | 2.62 | | 4.36 | | | 6.53 | | | 2.15 | | 1.95 |
HSBC Growth Fund Class C3 | | 5/7/045 | | 11.78 | | 5.52 | | 4.36 | | | 6.28 | | | 2.15 | | 1.95 |
HSBC Growth Fund Class I | | 5/7/045 | | 13.41 | | 7.61 | | 5.41 | | | 7.34 | | | 1.15 | | 0.95 |
Russell 1000® Growth Index4 | | — | | 13.71 | | 12.60 | | 6.66 | | | 6.79 | 7 | | N/A | | N/A |
Lipper Large-Cap Growth Funds Average4 | | — | | 12.45 | | 9.28 | | 4.32 | | | 5.72 | 8 | | N/A | | N/A |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect the taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower. Currently, contractual fee waivers are in effect for the Fund through March 1, 2014.
Certain returns shown include monies received by the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, in respect of one-time class action settlements and a one-time reimbursement from HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”) to the Fund related to past marketing arrangements. As a result, the Fund’s total returns for those periods were higher than they would have been had the Portfolio and the Fund not received the payments.
* | | Aggregate total return. |
1 | | Reflects the maximum sales charge of 5.00%. |
2 | | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge maximum of 4.00%. |
3 | | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge maximum of 1.00%. |
4 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
5 | | The HSBC Growth Fund was initially offered for purchase effective May 7, 2004; however, no shareholder activity occurred until May 10, 2004. |
6 | | Reflects the expense ratios as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. The Adviser has entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement with the Fund under which it will limit total expenses of the Fund (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses) to an annual rate of 1.20%, 1.95%, 1.95% and 0.95% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares and Class I Shares, respectively. The expense limitation shall be in effect until March 1, 2014. Additional information pertaining to the April 30, 2013 expense ratios can be found in the financial highlights. |
7 | | Return for the period May 10, 2004 to April 30, 2013. |
8 | | Return for the period April 30, 2004 to April 30, 2013. |
The Fund’s performance is measured against the Russell 1000® Growth Index, an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the large-cap growth segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 1000 companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values. The performance of the index does not reflect the deduction of expenses associated with a mutual fund, such as investment management and fund accounting fees. The Fund’s performance reflects the deduction of fees for these value-added services. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
HSBC Opportunity Fund (Advisor) |
(Class I Shares) |
HSBC Opportunity Fund |
(Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares) |
by William A. Muggia, Committee Lead/Portfolio Manager
Ethan J. Myers, CFA, Portfolio Manager
John M. Montgomery, Portfolio Manager
Hamlen Thompson, Portfolio Manager
Bruce N. Jacobs, CFA, Portfolio Manager
Westfield Capital Management Company, L.P.
The HSBC Opportunity Fund and HSBC Opportunity Fund (Advisor) (collectively the “Fund”) seek long-term growth of capital by investing in equity securities of small- and mid-cap companies. Small- and mid-cap companies generally are defined as those that have market capitalizations within the range of market capitalizations represented in the Russell 2500™ Growth Index. The Fund may also invest in equity securities of larger, more established companies and may invest up to 20% of its assets in securities of foreign companies. The Fund employs a two-tier structure, commonly referred to as a “master-feeder” structure, in which the Fund invests all of its investable assets in the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio (the “Portfolio”). The Portfolio employs Westfield Capital Management Company, L.P. as its subadviser.
Investment Concerns
Equity securities (stocks) are more volatile and carry more risk than other forms of investments, including investments in high-grade fixed income securities.
Small- to mid-capitalization funds typically carry additional risks since smaller companies generally have a higher risk of failure, and historically, their stocks have experienced a greater degree of market volatility than stocks on average.
The growth investment style may fall out of favor in the marketplace and result in significant declines in the value of the Portfolio’s securities. Securities of companies considered to be growth investments may have rapid price swings in the event of earnings disappointments or during periods of market, political, regulatory and economic uncertainty.
There are risks associated with investing in foreign companies, such as erratic market conditions, economic and political instability and fluctuations in currency and exchange rates.
For a complete description of these and other risks associated with investment in a mutual fund, please refer to the Fund’s prospectus.
Market Commentary
For the six-month period ended April 30, 2013, the Class I Shares of the HSBC Opportunity Fund (Advisor) produced a 18.32% total return, and the Class A Shares of the Fund produced a 17.97% total return (without sales charge). The Russell 2500™ Growth Index1, the Fund’s primary performance benchmark, and the Lipper Mid-Cap Growth Funds Average1 returned 16.79% and 14.80%, respectively.
Portfolio Performance
Investors remained cautious about the slow pace of the economic recovery during the six-month period. Uncertainty about U.S. budget issues—including the fiscal cliff negotiations and the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester—weighed on investors’ willingness to take on risk. Nevertheless, those concerns did not prevent a strong, value-based rally in U.S. equities, which posted double-digit gains for the period as investors still found attractive opportunities in the markets.
The Fund benefited from this strong performance in the stock market. The Fund’s best performing sectors included materials, industrials, energy and consumer staples sectors. Even the Fund’s weakest performing sector, telecommunications services, generated double-digit gains during the period.†
The Fund’s outperformance of its benchmark was primarily driven by strong stock selection across five economic sectors—materials, industrials, energy, information technology and consumer staples. Among these holdings was a chemicals and building products manufacturer, which performed well after beating analysts’ earnings estimates. Meanwhile, the Fund benefited from its exposure to an oil and gas refiner that increased its dividend and engaged in an aggressive share repurchase effort following strong fourth quarter earnings.†
Additionally, the Fund benefited from an underweight position in gold mining companies as the precious metal experienced a significant price decline during the period.†
Individual holdings in the health care and consumer discretionary sectors hurt the Fund’s performance relative to its benchmark. In health care, the Fund did not have exposure to two biotechnology companies—a pharmaceutical products manufacturer and an antisense drug developer—that provided the benchmark with strong returns. In the consumer discretionary sector, the Fund missed out on strong performances by two online retailers, one offering travel-related reservations, and the other providing online movie subscriptions. In addition, the Fund was hurt by its exposure to retailers that specialize in women’s and children’s apparel, both of which performed poorly during the period.†
† | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
1 | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
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| Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
HSBC Opportunity Fund | |
| | | | | | | | Average Annual | | | Expense |
Fund Performance | | | | | | | | Total Return (%) | | | Ratio (%)5 |
| | | | | | Six | | | | | | | | | | | | |
As of April 30, 2013 | | Inception Date | | Months* | | 1 Year | | 5 Year | | 10 Year | | Gross | | Net |
HSBC Opportunity Fund Class A1 | | | 9/23/96 | | | 12.11 | | 10.76 | | 6.38 | | | 12.19 | | | 2.20 | | 1.65 |
HSBC Opportunity Fund Class B2 | | | 1/6/98 | | | 13.59 | | 11.71 | | 6.65 | | | 12.25 | | | 2.95 | | 2.40 |
HSBC Opportunity Fund Class C3 | | | 11/4/98 | | | 16.65 | | 14.82 | | 6.68 | | | 11.94 | | | 2.95 | | 2.40 |
HSBC Opportunity Fund Class I† | | | 9/3/96 | | | 18.32 | | 17.18 | | 8.06 | | | 13.26 | | | 1.08 | | 1.08 |
Russell 2500™ Growth Index4 | | | — | | | 16.79 | | 15.08 | | 7.83 | | | 11.30 | | | N/A | | N/A |
Lipper Mid-Cap Growth Funds Average4 | | | — | | | 14.80 | | 10.51 | | 5.39 | | | 9.63 | | | N/A | | N/A |
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. Total return figures include change in share price, reinvestment of dividends and capital gains and do not reflect the taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please call 1-800-782-8183.
The performance above reflects any fee waivers that have been in effect during the applicable periods, as well as any expense reimbursements that have periodically been made. Absent such waivers and reimbursements, returns would have been lower. Currently, contractual fee waivers are in effect for the Fund through March 1, 2014 for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares.
Certain returns shown include monies received by the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, in respect of one-time class action settlements and a one-time reimbursement from HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”) to the Fund related to past marketing arrangements. As a result, the Fund’s total returns for those periods were higher than they would have been had the Portfolio and the Fund not received the payments.
* | | Aggregate total return. |
† | | The Class I Shares are issued by a series of HSBC Advisor Funds Trust, also named the HSBC Opportunity Fund. |
1 | | Reflects the maximum sales charge of 5.00%. |
2 | | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 4.00%. |
3 | | Reflects the applicable contingent deferred sales charge, maximum of 1.00%. |
4 | | For additional information, please refer to the Glossary of Terms. |
5 | | Reflects the expense ratios as reported in the prospectus dated February 28, 2013. The Adviser has entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement with the Fund under which it will limit total expenses of the Fund (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, extraordinary expenses and estimated indirect expenses attributable to the Fund’s investments in investment companies other than the Portfolio) to an annual rate of 1.65%, 2.40%, and 2.40% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, and Class C Shares, respectively. The expense limitation shall be in effect until March 1, 2014. Additional information pertaining to the April 30, 2013 expense ratios can be found in the financial highlights. |
The Fund’s performance is measured against the Russell 2500™ Growth Index, an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the small- to mid-cap growth segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 2500 companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values. The performance for the index does not reflect the deduction of expenses associated with a mutual fund, such as investment management and fund accounting fees. The Fund’s performance reflects the deduction of fees for these value-added services. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
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Portfolio Reviews (Unaudited) |
Portfolio Composition* |
April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
HSBC Growth Portfolio | | | | |
| | Percentage of |
Investment Allocation | | Investments at Value (%) |
Biotechnology | | | 9.4 | |
Internet Software & Services | | | 8.2 | |
Specialty Retail | | | 6.4 | |
Internet & Catalog Retail | | | 5.3 | |
IT Services | | | 5.2 | |
Pharmaceuticals | | | 5.0 | |
Chemicals | | | 4.6 | |
Media | | | 4.6 | |
Road & Rail | | | 4.2 | |
Computers & Peripherals | | | 4.1 | |
Aerospace & Defense | | | 3.3 | |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure | | | 3.2 | |
Machinery | | | 3.1 | |
Food & Staples Retailing | | | 2.9 | |
Health Care Providers & Services | | | 2.8 | |
Capital Markets | | | 2.8 | |
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods | | | 2.1 | |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | | | 2.0 | |
Software | | | 2.0 | |
Communications Equipment | | | 1.8 | |
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) | | | 1.5 | |
Wireless Telecommunication Services | | | 1.4 | |
Investment Companies | | | 1.4 | |
Business Services | | | 1.4 | |
Auto Components | | | 1.2 | |
Trading Companies & Distributors | | | 1.2 | |
Health Care Technology | | | 1.1 | |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment | | | 1.1 | |
Commercial Banks | | | 1.0 | |
Energy Equipment & Services | | | 1.0 | |
Personal Products | | | 1.0 | |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies | | | 1.0 | |
Air Freight & Logistics | | | 1.0 | |
Household Durables | | | 0.9 | |
Airlines | | | 0.8 | |
Total | | | 100.0 | |
HSBC Opportunity Portfolio | | | | |
| | Percentage of |
Investment Allocation | | Investments at Value (%) |
Specialty Retail | | | 10.8 | |
Software | | | 7.6 | |
IT Services | | | 6.7 | |
Chemicals | | | 6.7 | |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels | | | 6.1 | |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment | | | 4.6 | |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies | | | 4.1 | |
Trading Companies & Distributors | | | 3.7 | |
Biotechnology | | | 3.4 | |
Capital Markets | | | 3.4 | |
Aerospace & Defense | | | 3.4 | |
Household Durables | | | 3.2 | |
Life Sciences Tools & Services | | | 3.2 | |
Containers & Packaging | | | 3.1 | |
Commercial Banks | | | 3.0 | |
Investment Companies | | | 2.9 | |
Machinery | | | 2.8 | |
Energy Equipment & Services | | | 2.7 | |
Insurance | | | 2.5 | |
Road & Rail | | | 2.3 | |
Electrical Equipment | | | 2.0 | |
Diversified Consumer Services | | | 1.6 | |
Commercial Services & Supplies | | | 1.6 | |
Real Estate Management & Development | | | 1.5 | |
Professional Services | | | 1.4 | |
Health Care Providers & Services | | | 1.0 | |
Media | | | 0.8 | |
Construction Materials | | | 0.8 | |
Distributors | | | 0.7 | |
Communications Equipment | | | 0.7 | |
Building Products | | | 0.6 | |
Wireless Telecommunication Services | | | 0.6 | |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure | | | 0.5 | |
Total | | | 100.0 | |
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* | | Portfolio composition is subject to change. |
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HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Assets and Liabilities—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Opportunity |
| | Growth | | Opportunity | | Fund |
| | Fund | | Fund | | (Advisor) |
Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investments in Affiliated Portfolios | | | $ | 76,632,152 | | | | $ | 12,787,122 | | | | $ | 164,000,774 | |
Receivable for capital shares issued | | | | 921,778 | | | | | 2,782 | | | | | 753,752 | |
Receivable from Investment Adviser | | | | 3,093 | | | | | 9,483 | | | | | — | |
Prepaid expenses and other assets | | | | 17,023 | | | | | 8,644 | | | | | 10,854 | |
Total Assets | | | | 77,574,046 | | | | | 12,808,031 | | | | | 164,765,380 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Payable for capital shares redeemed | | | | 610,151 | | | | | 26,401 | | | | | 255,330 | |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Administration | | | | 1,536 | | | | | 255 | | | | | 3,253 | |
Distribution | | | | 676 | | | | | 771 | | | | | — | |
Shareholder Servicing | | | | 3,142 | | | | | 4,133 | | | | | — | |
Compliance Service | | | | 34 | | | | | — | | | | | — | |
Accounting | | | | 1,913 | | | | | 1,525 | | | | | 701 | |
Transfer Agent | | | | — | | | | | 4,413 | | | | | — | |
Trustee | | | | 28 | | | | | 18 | | | | | 221 | |
Other | | | | 26,506 | | | | | 8,242 | | | | | 51,032 | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 643,986 | | | | | 45,758 | | | | | 310,537 | |
Net Assets | | | $ | 76,930,060 | | | | $ | 12,762,273 | | | | $ | 164,454,843 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Composition of Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Capital | | | | 54,644,579 | | | | | 9,248,545 | | | | | 120,704,714 | |
Accumulated net investment loss | | | | (17,058 | ) | | | | (93,042 | ) | | | | (56,906 | ) |
Accumulated net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | | 6,798,533 | | | | | 876,321 | | | | | 10,861,304 | |
Unrealized appreciation/depreciation on investments | | | | 15,504,006 | | | | | 2,730,449 | | | | | 32,945,731 | |
Net Assets | | | $ | 76,930,060 | | | | $ | 12,762,273 | | | | $ | 164,454,843 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | $ | 11,596,683 | | | | $ | 11,467,631 | | | | $ | — | |
Class B Shares | | | | 524,338 | | | | | 480,060 | | | | | — | |
Class C Shares | | | | 571,801 | | | | | 814,582 | | | | | — | |
Class I Shares | | | | 64,237,238 | | | | | — | | | | | 164,454,843 | |
| | | $ | 76,930,060 | | | | $ | 12,762,273 | | | | $ | 164,454,843 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Shares Outstanding | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
($0.001 par value, unlimited number of shares authorized): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | 623,037 | | | | | 1,019,193 | | | | | — | |
Class B Shares | | | | 31,492 | | | | | 55,028 | | | | | — | |
Class C Shares | | | | 34,112 | | | | | 90,938 | | | | | — | |
Class I Shares | | | | 3,388,711 | | | | | — | | | | | 10,844,529 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Asset Value, Offering Price and Redemption Price per share: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | $ | 18.61 | | | | $ | 11.25 | | | | $ | — | |
Class B Shares(a) | | | $ | 16.65 | | | | $ | 8.72 | | | | $ | — | |
Class C Shares(a) | | | $ | 16.76 | | | | $ | 8.96 | | | | $ | — | |
Class I Shares | | | $ | 18.96 | | | | $ | — | | | | $ | 15.16 | |
Maximum Sales Charge - Class A Shares | | | | 5.00 | % | | | | 5.00 | % | | | | — | % |
Maximum Offering Price per share | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Net Asset Value/(100%-maximum sales charge)) - Class A Shares | | | $ | 19.59 | | | | $ | 11.84 | | | | $ | — | |
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(a) | | Redemption Price per share varies by length of time shares are held. |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | 13 |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Operations—For the six months ended April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Opportunity |
| | Growth | | Opportunity | | Fund |
| | Fund | | Fund | | (Advisor) |
Investment Income: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Income from Affiliated Portfolios (a) | | | $ | 529,915 | | | | $ | 52,871 | | | | $ | 663,685 | |
Expenses from Affiliated Portfolios (a) | | | | (263,234 | ) | | | | (53,332 | ) | | | | (673,959 | ) |
Total Investment Income (Loss) | | | | 266,681 | | | | | (461 | ) | | | | (10,274 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Administration: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | 1,387 | | | | | 1,323 | | | | | — | |
Class B Shares | | | | 71 | | | | | 59 | | | | | — | |
Class C Shares | | | | 63 | | | | | 83 | | | | | — | |
Class I Shares | | | | 7,420 | | | | | — | | | | | 18,541 | |
Distribution: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class B Shares | | | | 2,172 | | | | | 1,820 | | | | | — | |
Class C Shares | | | | 1,930 | | | | | 2,509 | | | | | — | |
Shareholder Servicing: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | 13,930 | | | | | 12,851 | | | | | — | |
Class B Shares | | | | 724 | | | | | 607 | | | | | — | |
Class C Shares | | | | 643 | | | | | 829 | | | | | — | |
Accounting | | | | 11,862 | | | | | 9,392 | | | | | 4,451 | |
Compliance Service | | | | 318 | | | | | 42 | | | | | 552 | |
Printing | | | | 2,000 | | | | | 216 | | | | | 6,433 | |
Professional | | | | 9,257 | | | | | 8,217 | | | | | 10,542 | |
Transfer Agent | | | | 44,490 | | | | | 26,578 | | | | | 29,213 | |
Trustee | | | | 787 | | | | | 108 | | | | | 1,328 | |
Registration fees | | | | 18,218 | | | | | 8,715 | | | | | 6,290 | |
Other | | | | 1,635 | | | | | 776 | | | | | 7,713 | |
Total expenses before fee reductions | | | | 116,907 | | | | | 74,125 | | | | | 85,063 | |
Fees voluntarily reduced by Investment Adviser | | | | — | | | | | (5,972 | ) | | | | — | |
Fees contractually reduced by Investment Adviser | | | | (14,505 | ) | | | | (24,578 | ) | | | | — | |
Net Expenses | | | | 102,402 | | | | | 43,575 | | | | | 85,063 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Investment Income (Loss) | | | | 164,279 | | | | | (44,036 | ) | | | | (95,337 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Realized/Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments: (a) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investment securities | | | | 3,426,350 | | | | | 980,809 | | | | | 11,422,797 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on investments | | | | 5,627,016 | | | | | 1,022,714 | | | | | 14,180,526 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net realized/unrealized gains from investments | | | | 9,053,366 | | | | | 2,003,523 | | | | | 25,603,323 | |
Change In Net Assets Resulting From Operations | | | $ | 9,217,645 | | | | $ | 1,959,487 | | | | $ | 25,507,986 | |
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(a) | | Represents amounts allocated from the respective Affiliated Portfolios. |
14 | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Growth Fund | | Opportunity Fund |
| | For the | For the | | For the | For the |
| | six months ended | year ended | | six months ended | year ended |
| | April 30, 2013 | October 31, 2012 | | April 30, 2013 | October 31, 2012 |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | |
Investment Activities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Operations: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | | $ | 164,279 | | | $ | (133,004 | ) | | | $ | (44,036 | ) | | $ | (67,015 | ) |
Net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | | 3,426,350 | | | | 8,364,394 | | | | | 980,809 | | | | 786,559 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
on investments | | | | 5,627,016 | | | | (3,332,031 | ) | | | | 1,022,714 | | | | 610,433 | |
Change in net assets resulting from operations | | | | 9,217,645 | | | | 4,899,359 | | | | | 1,959,487 | | | | 1,329,977 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Dividends: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares | | | | (48,333 | ) | | | — | | | | | — | | | | — | |
Net realized gains: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares | | | | (789,480 | ) | | | — | | | | | (613,652 | ) | | | (1,598,939 | ) |
Class B Shares | | | | (47,389 | ) | | | — | | | | | (37,922 | ) | | | (93,318 | ) |
Class C Shares | | | | (38,688 | ) | | | — | | | | | (41,508 | ) | | | (76,609 | ) |
Class I Shares | | | | (4,180,730 | ) | | | — | | | | | — | | | | — | |
Change in net assets resulting from shareholder dividends | | | | (5,104,620 | ) | | | — | | | | | (693,082 | ) | | | (1,768,866 | ) |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | | 2,471,314 | | | | (8,338,642 | ) | | | | 247,222 | | | | (429,918 | ) |
Change in net assets | | | | 6,584,339 | | | | (3,439,283 | ) | | | | 1,513,627 | | | | (868,807 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | | | 70,345,721 | | | | 73,785,004 | | | | | 11,248,646 | | | | 12,117,453 | |
End of period | | | $ | 76,930,060 | | | $ | 70,345,721 | | | | $ | 12,762,273 | | | $ | 11,248,646 | |
Accumulated net investment income (loss) | | | $ | (17,058 | ) | | $ | (133,004 | ) | | | $ | (93,042 | ) | | $ | (49,006 | ) |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | 15 |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| | Growth Fund | | Opportunity Fund |
| | For the | For the | | For the | For the |
| | six months ended | year ended | | six months ended | year ended |
| | April 30, 2013 | October 31, 2012 | | April 30, 2013 | October 31, 2012 |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | |
CAPITAL TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | $ | 280,777 | | | $ | 871,476 | | | | $ | 824,811 | | | $ | 772,149 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 760,894 | | | | — | | | | | 601,275 | | | | 1,562,653 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (1,397,247 | ) | | | (5,909,138 | ) | | | | (1,324,944 | ) | | | (2,900,653 | ) |
Class A Shares capital transactions | | | | (355,576 | ) | | | (5,037,662 | ) | | | | 101,142 | | | | (565,851 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class B Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | 18,251 | | | | 111,305 | | | | | 13,115 | | | | 69,230 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 47,204 | | | | — | | | | | 37,922 | | | | 93,292 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (185,404 | ) | | | (516,256 | ) | | | | (113,890 | ) | | | (160,269 | ) |
Class B Shares capital transactions | | | | (119,949 | ) | | | (404,951 | ) | | | | (62,853 | ) | | | 2,253 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class C Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | 44,139 | | | | 261,486 | | | | | 189,961 | | | | 112,981 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 38,495 | | | | — | | | | | 41,448 | | | | 76,317 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (16,738 | ) | | | (42,587 | ) | | | | (22,476 | ) | | | (55,618 | ) |
Class C Shares capital transactions | | | | 65,896 | | | | 218,899 | | | | | 208,933 | | | | 133,680 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | 6,825,834 | | | | 17,658,774 | | | | | — | | | | — | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 4,217,358 | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | — | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (8,162,249 | ) | | | (20,773,702 | ) | | | | — | | | | — | |
Class I Shares capital transactions | | | | 2,880,943 | | | | (3,114,928 | ) | | | | — | | | | — | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | $ | 2,471,314 | | | $ | (8,338,642 | ) | | | $ | 247,222 | | | $ | (429,918 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
SHARE TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class A Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 15,793 | | | | 49,445 | | | | | 75,978 | | | | 77,300 | |
Reinvested | | | | 45,103 | | | | — | | | | | 59,888 | | | | 175,974 | |
Redeemed | | | | (78,025 | ) | | | (334,366 | ) | | | | (124,310 | ) | | | (293,635 | ) |
Change in Class A Shares | | | | (17,129 | ) | | | (284,921 | ) | | | | 11,556 | | | | (40,361 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class B Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 1,127 | | | | 6,924 | | | | | 1,569 | | | | 8,496 | |
Reinvested | | | | 3,120 | | | | — | | | | | 4,862 | | | | 13,196 | |
Redeemed | | | | (11,519 | ) | | | (31,749 | ) | | | | (13,693 | ) | | | (20,335 | ) |
Change in Class B Shares | | | | (7,272 | ) | | | (24,825 | ) | | | | (7,262 | ) | | | 1,357 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class C Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 2,724 | | | | 16,065 | | | | | 22,048 | | | | 14,173 | |
Reinvested | | | | 2,526 | | | | — | | | | | 5,175 | | | | 10,526 | |
Redeemed | | | | (1,062 | ) | | | (2,629 | ) | | | | (2,676 | ) | | | (6,916 | ) |
Change in Class C Shares | | | | 4,188 | | | | 13,436 | | | | | 24,547 | | | | 17,783 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 373,667 | | | | 981,882 | | | | | — | | | | — | |
Reinvested | | | | 245,624 | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | — | |
Redeemed | | | | (450,114 | ) | | | (1,163,041 | ) | | | | — | | | | — | |
Change in Class I Shares | | | | 169,177 | | | | (181,159 | ) | | | | — | | | | — | |
16 | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| | Opportunity Fund (Advisor) |
| | For the | For the |
| | six months ended | year ended |
| | April 30, 2013 | October 31, 2012 |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | |
Investment Activities: | | | | | | | | | |
Operations: | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | | $ | (95,337 | ) | | $ | (19,624 | ) |
Net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | | 11,422,797 | | | | 7,509,207 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on investments | | | | 14,180,526 | | | | 7,623,444 | |
Change in net assets resulting from operations | | | | 25,507,986 | | | | 15,113,027 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Dividends: | | | | | | | | | |
Net realized gains: | | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares | | | | (6,472,825 | ) | | | (18,686,312 | ) |
Change in net assets resulting from shareholder dividends | | | | (6,472,825 | ) | | | (18,686,312 | ) |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | | 10,322,052 | | | | 16,653,597 | |
Change in net assets | | | | 29,357,213 | | | | 13,080,312 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | | | 135,097,630 | | | | 122,017,318 | |
End of period | | | $ | 164,454,843 | | | $ | 135,097,630 | |
Accumulated net investment income (loss) | | | $ | (56,906 | ) | | $ | 38,431 | |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | 17 |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
| | Opportunity Fund (Advisor) |
| | For the | For the |
| | six months ended | year ended |
| | April 30, 2013 | October 31, 2012 |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | |
CAPITAL TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Proceeds from shares issued | | | | 16,822,329 | | | | 20,813,526 | |
Dividends reinvested | | | | 6,463,988 | | | | 17,155,964 | |
Value of shares redeemed | | | | (12,964,265 | ) | | | (21,315,893 | ) |
Class I Shares capital transactions | | | | 10,322,052 | | | | 16,653,597 | |
Change in net assets resulting from capital transactions | | | $ | 10,322,052 | | | $ | 16,653,597 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
SHARE TRANSACTIONS: | | | | | | | | | |
Class I Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Issued | | | | 1,196,673 | | | | 1,554,122 | |
Reinvested | | | | 478,814 | | | | 1,465,070 | |
Redeemed | | | | (912,712 | ) | | | (1,642,101 | ) |
Change in Class I Shares | | | | 762,775 | | | | 1,377,091 | |
18 | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC GROWTH FUND |
Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.*
| | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | | Net Investment Income (Loss)(a) | | Net Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments | | Total from Investment Activities | | Net Investment Income | | Net Realized Gains from Investment Transactions | | Total Dividends | | Net Asset Value, End of Period | | Total Return(b) | | Net Assets at End of Period (000’s) | | Ratio of Net Expenses to Average Net Assets(c) | | Ratio of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c) | | Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Fee Reductions)(c) | | Portfolio Turnover (b)(d) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 17.95 | | | | (0.05 | ) | | | | (6.51 | ) | | | | (6.56 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.84 | ) | | | | (0.84 | ) | | | | $ | 10.55 | | | | (38.23 | )%(e) | | | | $ | 17,180 | | | | 1.20 | % | | | | (0.36 | )% | | | | 1.22 | % | | | | 158 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 10.55 | | | | (0.04 | ) | | | | 2.03 | | | | | 1.99 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 12.54 | | | | 18.86 | %(f) | | | | | 15,896 | | | | 1.20 | % | | | | (0.33 | )% | | | | 1.31 | % | | | | 66 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 12.54 | | | | (0.07 | ) | | | | 2.55 | | | | | 2.48 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 15.02 | | | | 19.78 | %(g)(h) | | | | | 16,452 | | | | 1.20 | % | | | | (0.54 | )%(h) | | | | 1.23 | % | | | | 89 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 15.02 | | | | (0.07 | ) | | | | 1.64 | | | | | 1.57 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 16.59 | | | | 10.45 | %(i) | | | | | 15,349 | | | | 1.18 | % | | | | (0.45 | )% | | | | 1.18 | % | | | | 56 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 16.59 | | | | (0.06 | ) | | | | 1.16 | | | | | 1.10 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 17.69 | | | | 6.63 | %(j) | | | | | 11,327 | | | | 1.20 | % | | | | (0.36 | )% | | | | 1.27 | % | | | | 53 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | 17.69 | | | | 0.02 | | | | | 2.19 | | | | | 2.21 | | | | | — | | | | | (1.29 | ) | | | | (1.29 | ) | | | | | 18.61 | | | | 13.19 | %(k) | | | | | 11,597 | | | | 1.20 | % | | | | 0.26 | % | | | | 1.24 | % | | | | 37 | % | |
CLASS B SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 16.92 | | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | (6.07 | ) | | | | (6.23 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.84 | ) | | | | (0.84 | ) | | | | $ | 9.85 | | | | (38.62 | )%(e) | | | | $ | 2,839 | | | | 1.95 | % | | | | (1.20 | )% | | | | 1.96 | % | | | | 158 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 9.85 | | | | (0.10 | ) | | | | 1.85 | | | | | 1.75 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 11.60 | | | | 17.87 | %(f) | | | | | 2,059 | | | | 1.95 | % | | | | (1.06 | )% | | | | 2.06 | % | | | | 66 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 11.60 | | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | 2.36 | | | | | 2.20 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 13.80 | | | | 18.97 | %(g)(h) | | | | | 1,213 | | | | 1.95 | % | | | | (1.28 | )%(h) | | | | 1.98 | % | | | | 89 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 13.80 | | | | (0.18 | ) | | | | 1.51 | | | | | 1.33 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 15.13 | | | | 9.64 | %(i) | | | | | 962 | | | | 1.93 | % | | | | (1.19 | )% | | | | 1.93 | % | | | | 56 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 15.13 | | | | (0.17 | ) | | | | 1.06 | | | | | 0.89 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 16.02 | | | | 5.88 | %(j) | | | | | 621 | | | | 1.95 | % | | | | (1.10 | )% | | | | 2.03 | % | | | | 53 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | 16.02 | | | | (0.03 | ) | | | | 1.95 | | | | | 1.92 | | | | | — | | | | | (1.29 | ) | | | | (1.29 | ) | | | | | 16.65 | | | | 12.80 | %(k) | | | | | 524 | | | | 1.95 | % | | | | (0.43 | )% | | | | 1.99 | % | | | | 37 | % | |
CLASS C SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 17.02 | | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | (6.11 | ) | | | | (6.27 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.84 | ) | | | | (0.84 | ) | | | | $ | 9.91 | | | | (38.63 | )%(e) | | | | $ | 72 | | | | 1.95 | % | | | | (1.13 | )% | | | | 1.97 | % | | | | 158 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 9.91 | | | | (0.12 | ) | | | | 1.89 | | | | | 1.77 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 11.68 | | | | 17.86 | %(f) | | | | | 120 | | | | 1.95 | % | | | | (1.12 | )% | | | | 2.05 | % | | | | 66 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 11.68 | | | | (0.17 | ) | | | | 2.38 | | | | | 2.21 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 13.89 | | | | 18.92 | %(g)(h) | | | | | 184 | | | | 1.95 | % | | | | (1.30 | )%(h) | | | | 1.99 | % | | | | 89 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 13.89 | | | | (0.18 | ) | | | | 1.52 | | | | | 1.34 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 15.23 | | | | 9.65 | %(i) | | | | | 251 | | | | 1.94 | % | | | | (1.21 | )% | | | | 1.94 | % | | | | 56 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 15.23 | | | | (0.18 | ) | | | | 1.07 | | | | | 0.89 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 16.12 | | | | 5.84 | %(j) | | | | | 482 | | | | 1.95 | % | | | | (1.14 | )% | | | | 2.03 | % | | | | 53 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | 16.12 | | | | (0.04 | ) | | | | 1.97 | | | | | 1.93 | | | | | — | | | | | (1.29 | ) | | | | (1.29 | ) | | | | | 16.76 | | | | 12.78 | %(k) | | | | | 572 | | | | 1.95 | % | | | | (0.52 | )% | | | | 1.99 | % | | | | 37 | % | |
CLASS I SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 18.02 | | | | (0.02 | ) | | | | (6.54 | ) | | | | (6.56 | ) | | | | — | | | | | (0.84 | ) | | | | (0.84 | ) | | | | $ | 10.62 | | | | (38.07 | )%(e) | | | | $ | 38,868 | | | | 0.95 | % | | | | (0.16 | )% | | | | 0.97 | % | | | | 158 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 10.62 | | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | 2.04 | | | | | 2.03 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 12.65 | | | | 19.11 | %(f) | | | | | 39,400 | | | | 0.95 | % | | | | (0.08 | )% | | | | 1.06 | % | | | | 66 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 12.65 | | | | (0.04 | ) | | | | 2.58 | | | | | 2.54 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 15.19 | | | | 20.08 | %(g)(h) | | | | | 49,474 | | | | 0.95 | % | | | | (0.30 | )%(h) | | | | 0.99 | % | | | | 89 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 15.19 | | | | (0.04 | ) | | | | 1.68 | | | | | 1.64 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 16.83 | | | | 10.80 | %(i) | | | | | 57,222 | | | | 0.94 | % | | | | (0.22 | )% | | | | 0.94 | % | | | | 56 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 16.83 | | | | (0.02 | ) | | | | 1.18 | | | | | 1.16 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 17.99 | | | | 6.89 | %(j) | | | | | 57,916 | | | | 0.95 | % | | | | (0.12 | )% | | | | 1.04 | % | | | | 53 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | 17.99 | | | | 0.05 | | | | | 2.22 | | | | | 2.27 | | | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | (1.29 | ) | | | | (1.30 | ) | | | | | 18.96 | | | | 13.41 | %(k) | | | | | 64,237 | | | | 0.95 | % | | | | 0.50 | % | | | | 0.99 | % | | | | 37 | % | |
* | | The per share amounts and percentages reflect income and expenses assuming inclusion of the Fund’s proportionate share of the income and expenses of the HSBC Growth Portfolio. |
(a) | | Calculated based on average shares outstanding. |
(b) | | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any sales or redemption charges. |
(c) | | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(d) | | Portfolio Turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Portfolio in which the Fund invests all of its investable assets. Portfolio turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Fund as a whole without distinguishing between the classes of shares issued. |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 19 |
(e) | | During the year ended October 31, 2008, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.19%, 0.19%, 0.19% and 0.19% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares and Class I Shares, respectively. |
(f) | | During the year ended October 31, 2009, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.50%, 0.54%, 0.53% and 0.49% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares and Class I Shares, respectively. |
(g) | | During the year ended October 31, 2010, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.17%, 0.17%, 0.17% and 0.17% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares and Class I Shares, respectively. |
(h) | | During the year ended October 31, 2010, the Fund received a distribution from a “fair fund” established by the SEC in connection with a consent order against BISYS Fund Services, Inc. (See Note 7 in the Notes to Financial Statements). The corresponding impact to the net income ratio and the total return was 0.02%, 0.02%, 0.02% and 0.02% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares and Class I Shares, respectively. |
(i) | | During the year ended October 31, 2011, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.28%, 0.28%, 0.28% and 0.28% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares and Class I Shares, respectively. |
(j) | | During the year ended October 31, 2012, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.12%, 0.12%, 0.12% and 0.12% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares and Class I Shares, respectively. |
(k) | | During the period ended April 30, 2013, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.23%, 0.23%, 0.23% and 0.23% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares and Class I Shares, respectively. |
20 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC OPPORTUNITY FUND |
Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.*
| | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | | Net Investment Income (Loss)(a) | | Net Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments | | Total from Investment Activities | | Net Realized Gains from Investment Transactions | | Total Dividends | | Net Asset Value, End of Period | | Total Return(b) | | Net Assets at End of Period (000’s) | | Ratio of Net Expenses to Average Net Assets(c) | | Ratio of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c) | | Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Fee Reductions)(c) | | Portfolio Turnover (b)(d) |
CLASS A SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 16.41 | | | | (0.12 | ) | | | | (4.04 | ) | | | | (4.16 | ) | | | | (5.16 | ) | | | | (5.16 | ) | | | | $ | 7.09 | | | | (35.84 | )% | | | | $ | 9,600 | | | | 1.55 | % | | | | (1.13 | )% | | | | 1.82 | % | | | | 80 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 7.09 | | | | (0.07 | ) | | | | 0.97 | | | | | 0.90 | | | | | (0.43 | ) | | | | (0.43 | ) | | | | | 7.56 | | | | 14.85 | % | | | | | 9,687 | | | | 1.55 | % | | | | (1.02 | )% | | | | 2.30 | % | | | | 65 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 7.56 | | | | (0.09 | ) | | | | 2.20 | | | | | 2.11 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 9.67 | | | | 27.91 | %(e)(f) | | | | | 11,282 | | | | 1.55 | % | | | | (1.00 | )%(f) | | | | 2.07 | % | | | | 68 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 9.67 | | | | (0.07 | ) | | | | 1.19 | | | | | 1.12 | | | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | | 10.63 | | | | 11.59 | %(g) | | | | | 11,145 | | | | 1.55 | % | | | | (0.62 | )% | | | | 1.85 | % | | | | 69 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 10.63 | | | | (0.05 | ) | | | | 1.11 | | | | | 1.06 | | | | | (1.56 | ) | | | | (1.56 | ) | | | | | 10.13 | | | | 12.08 | %(h) | | | | | 10,204 | | | | 1.55 | % | | | | (0.51 | )% | | | | 2.20 | % | | | | 59 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | 10.13 | | | | (0.04 | ) | | | | 1.79 | | | | | 1.75 | | | | | (0.63 | ) | | | | (0.63 | ) | | | | | 11.25 | | | | 17.97 | %(i) | | | | | 11,468 | | | | 1.55 | % | | | | (0.66 | )% | | | | 2.06 | % | | | | 38 | % | |
CLASS B SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 14.94 | | | | (0.18 | ) | | | | (3.50 | ) | | | | (3.68 | ) | | | | (5.16 | ) | | | | (5.16 | ) | | | | $ | 6.10 | | | | (36.30 | )% | | | | $ | 1,578 | | | | 2.29 | % | | | | (1.88 | )% | | | | 2.58 | % | | | | 80 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 6.10 | | | | (0.10 | ) | | | | 0.80 | | | | | 0.70 | | | | | (0.43 | ) | | | | (0.43 | ) | | | | | 6.37 | | | | 13.92 | % | | | | | 1,082 | | | | 2.30 | % | | | | (1.77 | )% | | | | 3.10 | % | | | | 65 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 6.37 | | | | (0.13 | ) | | | | 1.85 | | | | | 1.72 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 8.09 | | | | 27.00 | %(e)(f) | | | | | 658 | | | | 2.30 | % | | | | (1.78 | )%(f) | | | | 2.86 | % | | | | 68 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 8.09 | | | | (0.12 | ) | | | | 0.99 | | | | | 0.87 | | | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | | 8.80 | | | | 10.75 | %(g) | | | | | 536 | | | | 2.30 | % | | | | (1.36 | )% | | | | 2.64 | % | | | | 69 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 8.80 | | | | (0.10 | ) | | | | 0.87 | | | | | 0.77 | | | | | (1.56 | ) | | | | (1.56 | ) | | | | | 8.01 | | | | 11.15 | %(h) | | | | | 499 | | | | 2.30 | % | | | | (1.25 | )% | | | | 2.99 | % | | | | 59 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | 8.01 | | | | (0.06 | ) | | | | 1.40 | | | | | 1.34 | | | | | (0.63 | ) | | | | (0.63 | ) | | | | | 8.72 | | | | 17.59 | %(i) | | | | | 480 | | | | 2.30 | % | | | | (1.39 | )% | | | | 2.83 | % | | | | 38 | % | |
CLASS C SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 15.11 | | | | (0.17 | ) | | | | (3.57 | ) | | | | (3.74 | ) | | | | (5.16 | ) | | | | (5.16 | ) | | | | $ | 6.21 | | | | (36.27 | )% | | | | $ | 189 | | | | 2.30 | % | | | | (1.88 | )% | | | | 2.58 | % | | | | 80 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 6.21 | | | | (0.10 | ) | | | | 0.81 | | | | | 0.71 | | | | | (0.43 | ) | | | | (0.43 | ) | | | | | 6.49 | | | | 13.83 | % | | | | | 267 | | | | 2.30 | % | | | | (1.78 | )% | | | | 3.08 | % | | | | 65 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 6.49 | | | | (0.13 | ) | | | | 1.89 | | | | | 1.76 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 8.25 | | | | 27.12 | %(e)(f) | | | | | 341 | | | | 2.30 | % | | | | (1.75 | )%(f) | | | | 2.86 | % | | | | 68 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 8.25 | | | | (0.13 | ) | | | | 1.02 | | | | | 0.89 | | | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | (0.16 | ) | | | | | 8.98 | | | | 10.79 | %(g) | | | | | 437 | | | | 2.30 | % | | | | (1.38 | )% | | | | 2.64 | % | | | | 69 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 8.98 | | | | (0.10 | ) | | | | 0.89 | | | | | 0.79 | | | | | (1.56 | ) | | | | (1.56 | ) | | | | | 8.21 | | | | 11.14 | %(h) | | | | | 545 | | | | 2.30 | % | | | | (1.19 | )% | | | | 3.03 | % | | | | 59 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | 8.21 | | | | (0.06 | ) | | | | 1.44 | | | | | 1.38 | | | | | (0.63 | ) | | | | (0.63 | ) | | | | | 8.96 | | | | 17.65 | %(i) | | | | | 815 | | | | 2.30 | % | | | | (1.45 | )% | | | | 2.81 | % | | | | 38 | % | |
* | | The per share amounts and percentages reflect income and expenses assuming inclusion of the Fund’s proportionate share of the income and expenses of the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio. |
(a) | | Calculated based on average shares outstanding. |
(b) | | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any sales or redemption charges. |
(c) | | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(d) | | Portfolio Turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Portfolio in which the Fund invests all of its investable assets. Portfolio turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Fund as a whole without distinguishing between the classes of shares issued. |
(e) | | During the year ended October 31, 2010, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.15%, 0.15% and 0.15% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(f) | | During the year ended October 31, 2010, the Fund received a distribution from a “fair fund” established by the SEC in connection with a consent order against BISYS Fund Services, Inc. (See Note 7 in the Notes to Financial Statements). Corresponding impact to the net income ratio and the total return was 0.01%, 0.01% and 0.01% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(g) | | During the year ended October 31, 2011, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.10%, 0.10% and 0.10% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(h) | | During the year ended October 31, 2012, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.10%, 0.10% and 0.10% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
(i) | | During the period year ended April 30, 2013, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.05%, 0.05% and 0.05% for Class A Shares, Class B Shares and Class C Shares, respectively. |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS 21 |
HSBC OPPORTUNITY FUND (ADVISOR) |
Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.*
| | | | Investment Activities | | Dividends | | | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | | Net Investment Income (Loss)(a) | | Net Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments | | Total from Investment Activities | | Net Realized Gains from Investment Transactions | | Total Dividends | | Net Asset Value, End of Period | | Total Return(b) | | Net Assets at End of Period (000’s) | | Ratio of Net Expenses to Average Net Assets(c) | | Ratio of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets(c) | | Ratios of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Fee Reductions)(c) | | Portfolio Turnover (b)(d) |
CLASS I SHARES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | | $ | 18.94 | | | | (0.07 | ) | | | | (4.99 | ) | | | | (5.06 | ) | | | | (4.97 | ) | | | | (4.97 | ) | | | | $ | 8.91 | | | | (35.39 | )% | | | | $ | 97,841 | | | | 0.97 | % | | | | (0.55 | )% | | | | 0.97 | % | | | | 80 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | | | 8.91 | | | | (0.04 | ) | | | | 1.32 | | | | | 1.28 | | | | | (0.26 | ) | | | | (0.26 | ) | | | | | 9.93 | | | | 15.47 | % | | | | | 100,285 | | | | 1.02 | % | | | | (0.50 | )% | | | | 1.02 | % | | | | 65 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | | | 9.93 | | | | (0.06 | ) | | | | 2.90 | | | | | 2.84 | | | | | — | | | | | — | | | | | | 12.77 | | | | 28.60 | %(e)(f) | | | | | 117,064 | | | | 1.01 | % | | | | (0.46 | )%(f) | | | | 1.01 | % | | | | 68 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | | | 12.77 | | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | 1.57 | | | | | 1.56 | | | | | (0.31 | ) | | | | (0.31 | ) | | | | | 14.02 | | | | 12.25 | %(g) | | | | | 122,017 | | | | 1.01 | % | | | | (0.07 | )% | | | | 1.01 | % | | | | 69 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | | | 14.02 | | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | 1.46 | | | | | 1.45 | | | | | (2.07 | ) | | | | (2.07 | ) | | | | | 13.40 | | | | 12.50 | %(h) | | | | | 135,098 | | | | 1.08 | % | | | | (0.01 | )% | | | | 1.08 | % | | | | 59 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Unaudited) | | | | 13.40 | | | | (0.01 | ) | | | | 2.38 | | | | | 2.37 | | | | | (0.61 | ) | | | | (0.61 | ) | | | | | 15.16 | | | | 18.32 | %(i) | | | | | 164,455 | | | | 1.00 | % | | | | (0.13 | )% | | | | 1.00 | % | | | | 38 | % | |
* | | The per share amounts and percentages reflect income and expense assuming inclusion of the Fund’s proportionate share of the income and expenses of the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio. |
(a) | | Calculated based on average shares outstanding. |
(b) | | Not annualized for periods less than one year. Total return calculations do not include any sales or redemption charges. |
(c) | | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(d) | | Portfolio Turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Portfolio in which the Fund invests all of its investable assets. Portfolio turnover rate is calculated on the basis of the Fund as a whole without distinguishing between the classes of shares issued. |
(e) | | During the year ended October 31, 2010, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.15% for Class I Shares. |
(f) | | During the year ended October 31, 2010, the Fund received a distribution from a “fair fund” established by the SEC in connection with a consent order against BISYS Fund Services, Inc. (See Note 7 in the Notes to Financial Statements). The corresponding impact to the net income ratio and the total return was 0.01% for the Class I Shares. |
(g) | | During the year ended October 31, 2011, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.10% for Class I Shares. |
(h) | | During the year ended October 31, 2012, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.10% for Class I Shares. |
(i) | | During the period ended April 30, 2013, the Portfolio, in which the Fund invests, received monies related to certain nonrecurring litigation settlements. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.05% for Class I Shares. |
22 HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS |
Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
1. Organization:
The HSBC Funds (the “Trust”), a Massachusetts business trust organized on April 22, 1987, and the HSBC Advisor Fund Trust (the “Advisor Trust”), a Massachusetts business trust organized on April 5, 1996, are registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Act”), as open-end management investment companies. As of April 30, 2013, the Trust is comprised of 15 separate operational funds and the Advisor Trust is comprised of 1 operational fund, each a series of the HSBC Family of Funds, which also includes the HSBC Portfolios (the “Portfolio Trust”) (collectively the “Trusts”). The accompanying financial statements are presented for the following 3 funds (individually a “Fund”, collectively the “Funds”) of the Trust and Advisor Trust:
Fund | | | Short Name | | | Trust | |
HSBC Growth Fund | | Growth Fund | | Trust |
HSBC Opportunity Fund | | Opportunity Fund | | Trust |
HSBC Opportunity Fund (Advisor) | | Opportunity Fund (Advisor) | | Advisor Trust |
All the Funds are diversified funds. Financial statements for all other funds of the Trusts are published separately.
Each Fund utilizes a master-feeder fund structure and seeks to achieve its investment objectives by investing all of its investable assets in its respective Portfolio (as defined below).
| | | | | Proportionate | |
| | | | | Ownership | |
| | | | | Interest on | |
Fund | | | Respective Portfolio | | | | April 30, 2013(%) | |
Growth Fund | | HSBC Growth Portfolio | | | 89.5 | |
Opportunity Fund | | HSBC Opportunity Portfolio | | | 7.1 | |
Opportunity Fund (Advisor) | | HSBC Opportunity Portfolio | | | 90.8 | |
The HSBC Growth Portfolio and HSBC Opportunity Portfolio (individually a “Portfolio”, collectively the “Portfolios”) are diversified series of the Portfolio Trust. The Portfolios operate as master funds in master-feeder arrangements and also may receive investments from certain fund of funds.
The financial statements of the Portfolios, including the Schedules of Portfolio Investments, are included elsewhere in this report. The financial statements of the Portfolios should be read in conjunction with the financial statements of the Funds.
The Funds are authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares of beneficial interest with a par value of $ 0.001 per share. The Growth Fund offers four classes of shares: Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Class C Shares, and Class I Shares. The Opportunity Fund offers three classes of shares: Class A Shares, Class B Shares, and Class C Shares. Class A Shares of the Funds have a maximum sales charge of 5.00% as a percentage of the original purchase price. Class B Shares of the Funds are offered without any front-end sales charge but will be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (“CDSC”) ranging from a maximum of 4.00% if redeemed less than one year after purchase to 0.00% if redeemed more than four years after purchase. Class C Shares of the Funds are offered without any front-end sales charge but will be subject to a maximum CDSC of 1.00% if redeemed less than one year after purchase. No sales charges are assessed with respect to Class I Shares of the Funds. Each class of shares in the Funds has identical rights and privileges except with respect to arrangements pertaining to shareholder servicing and/or distribution, class-related expenses, voting rights on matters affecting a single class of shares, and exchange privileges of each class of shares.
Under the Trusts’ organizational documents, the Trusts’ officers and Trustees are indemnified against certain liabilities arising out of the performance of their duties to the Funds. In addition, in the normal course of business, the Trusts enter into contracts with service providers, which also provide for indemnifications by the Funds. The Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve any future claims that may be made against the Funds. However, based on experience, the Trusts expect that risk of loss to be remote.
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS |
Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
2. Significant Accounting Policies:
The following is a summary of the significant accounting policies followed by the Funds in the preparation of their financial statements. The policies are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). The preparation of financial statements requires management to make certain 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 increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Securities Valuation:
The Funds record their investments at fair value. Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The valuation techniques used to determine fair value are further described in Note 3 below.
Investment Transactions and Related Income:
The Funds record investments into the Portfolios on a trade date basis. The Funds record daily their proportionate share of income, expenses, changes in unrealized appreciation and depreciation and realized gains and losses derived from their respective Portfolios. In addition, the Funds accrue their own expenses daily as incurred.
Allocations:
Expenses directly attributable to a Fund are charged to that Fund. Expenses not directly attributable to a Fund are allocated proportionately among the applicable series within the Trusts in relation to the net assets of each fund or on another reasonable basis. Class specific expenses are charged directly to the class incurring the expense. In addition, income, expenses (other than class specific expenses), and unrealized and realized gains and losses are allocated to each class based on relative net assets on a daily basis.
Dividends to Shareholders:
Dividends to shareholders from net investment income, if any, are declared and distributed semi-annually in the case of the Growth Fund, Opportunity Fund and Opportunity (Advisor) Fund.
The Funds’ net realized gains, if any, are distributed to shareholders at least annually. Additional distributions are also made to the Funds’ shareholders to the extent necessary to avoid the federal excise tax on certain undistributed income and net capital gains of regulated investment companies.
The amount and character of net investment income and net realized gains distributions are determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations which may differ from GAAP. These “book/tax” differences are either considered temporary or permanent in nature. To the extent these differences are permanent in nature (e.g., reclassification of market discounts, certain gain/loss, paydowns, and certain distributions), such amounts are reclassified within the composition of net assets; temporary differences (e.g., wash losses and post-October loss deferrals) do not require reclassification. The Funds may utilize equalization accounting for tax purposes and designate earnings and profits, including net realized gains distributed to shareholders on redemption of shares, as a part of the dividends paid deduction for income tax purposes. To the extent distributions to shareholders from net investment income and net realized gains exceed net investment income and net realized gains for tax purposes, they are reported as distributions of capital.
Federal Income Taxes:
Each Fund is a separate taxable entity for federal income tax purposes. Each Fund has qualified and intends to continue to qualify each year as a “regulated investment company” under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and to distribute substantially all of its taxable net investment income and net realized gains, if any, to its shareholders. Accordingly, no provision for federal income or excise tax is required.
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS |
Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Management of the Funds has reviewed tax positions taken in tax years that remain subject to examination by all major tax jurisdictions, including federal (i.e., the last four tax year ends and the interim tax period since then, as applicable). Management believes that there is no tax liability resulting from unrecognized tax benefits related to uncertain tax positions taken.
3. Investment Valuation Summary:
The valuation techniques employed by the Funds, as described below, maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs in determining fair value. The inputs used for valuing the Funds’ investments are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
- Level 1: quoted prices in active markets for identical assets
- 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 a Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The Funds determine transfers between fair value hierarchy levels at the reporting period end. The inputs or methodology used for valuing investments is not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those investments.
The Funds record their investments in their respective Portfolios at fair value, which is typically categorized as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy. The underlying securities of the Portfolios are recorded at fair value, as more fully discussed in the Notes to Financial Statements of the Portfolios included in this report.
For the period ended April 30, 2013, there were no Level 3 investments for which significant unobservable inputs were used to determine fair value.
The following is a summary of the valuation inputs used as of April 30, 2013 in valuing the Funds’ investments based upon the three levels defined above:
| LEVEL 1 ($) | | LEVEL 2 ($) | | LEVEL 3 ($) | | Total ($) |
Growth Fund | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | |
Affiliated Portfolio(a) | — | | 76,632,152 | | — | | 76,632,152 |
Total Investment Companies | — | | 76,632,152 | | — | | 76,632,152 |
|
Opportunity Fund | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | |
Affiliated Portfolio(a) | — | | 12,787,122 | | — | | 12,787,122 |
Total Investment Companies | — | | 12,787,122 | | — | | 12,787,122 |
|
Opportunity Fund (Advisor) | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | |
Affiliated Portfolio(a) | — | | 164,000,774 | | — | | 164,000,774 |
Total Investment Companies | — | | 164,000,774 | | — | | 164,000,774 |
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(a) | | Investments in Affiliated Portfolios represent ownership interests in the Portfolios. Due to the Funds’ master-feeder structure, the inputs used for valuing these instruments are categorized as Level 2. |
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS |
Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In January 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2013-01 “Clarifying the Scope of Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities (“ASU 2013-01”), which amended Accounting Standards Codification Subtopic 210-20, Balance Sheet Offsetting. ASU 2013-01 clarified the scope of ASU No. 2011-11 “Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities” (“ASU 2011-11”). ASU 2011-11 requires an entity to disclose information about offsetting and related arrangements to enable users of the financial statements to understand the effect of those arrangements on the entity’s financial position. ASU 2013-01 clarifies the scope of ASU 2011-11 as applying to derivatives accounted for in accordance with Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, including bifurcated embedded derivatives, repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements, and securities borrowing and securities lending transactions that are offset either in accordance with other requirements of U.S. GAAP or subject to an enforceable master netting arrangement or similar agreement. The guidance in ASU 2013-01 and ASU 2011-11 is effective for interim and annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013. Management is evaluating any impact ASU 2013-01 and ASU 2011-11 may have on the Funds’ financial statements.
4. Related Party Transactions and Other Agreements and Plans:
Investment Management:
HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (“HSBC” or the “Investment Adviser”), a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank USA, N.A., a national bank organized under the laws of the United States, acts as Investment Adviser to the Portfolios. As Investment Adviser, HSBC manages the investments of the Portfolios and continuously reviews, supervises, and administers the Portfolios’ investments. The Funds are not directly charged any investment management fees.
Administration:
HSBC serves the Funds as Administrator. Under the terms of the Administration Agreement, HSBC receives from the Funds of the Trusts a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate of:
Based on Average Daily Net Assets of | | Fee Rate(%) |
Up to $10 billion | 0.0550 |
In excess of $10 billion but not exceeding $20 billion | 0.0350 |
In excess of $20 billion but not exceeding $ 50 billion | 0.0275 |
In excess of $50 billion | 0.0250 |
The fee breakpoints are determined on the basis of the aggregate average daily net assets of the Trusts. The fee is allocated to each series based upon its proportionate share of the aggregate net assets of the Trusts. For assets invested in the Portfolios by the Funds, the Portfolios pay half of the administration fee and the Funds pay half, for a combination of the total fee rate above subject to certain reductions associated with services provided to new funds. Certain administration fees of the Portfolios also may be reduced by treating them as apportioned in part to other funds making investments in the Portfolios. An amount equal to 50% of the administration fee is deemed to be class specific.
Pursuant to a Sub-Administration Agreement with HSBC, Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc. (“Citi”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citigroup, Inc., serves as the Trusts’ Sub-Administrator, subject to the general supervision by the Trusts’ Board of Trustees (the “Board”) and HSBC. For these services, Citi is entitled to a fee, payable by HSBC, at an annual rate equivalent to the fee rates set forth above subject to certain reductions associated with services provided to new funds, minus 0.02% which is retained by HSBC.
Under a Compliance Services Agreement between the Trust and Citi (the “CCO Agreement”), Citi makes an employee available to serve as the Trusts’ Chief Compliance Officer (the “CCO”). Under the CCO Agreement, Citi also provides infrastructure and support in implementing the written policies and procedures comprising the Trusts’ compliance program, including support services to the CCO. For the services provided under the CCO Agreement, the Trusts paid Citi $143,262 for the period ended April 30, 2013, plus reimbursement of
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
certain out of pocket expenses. Expenses incurred by each Fund are reflected on the Statements of Operations as “Compliance Service.” Citi pays the salary and other compensation earned by individuals performing these services, as employees of Citi.
Distribution Arrangements:
Foreside Distribution Services, L.P. (“Foreside”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Foreside Financial Group LLC, serves the Trust as Distributor (the “Distributor”). The Trust has adopted a non-compensatory Distribution Plan and Agreement (the “Distribution Plan”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Act. The Distribution Plan provides for reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Distributor related to distribution and marketing, at a rate not to exceed 0.25%, 1.00%, and 1.00% of the average daily net assets of Class A Shares (currently not being charged), Class B Shares (currently charging 0.75%), and Class C Shares (currently charging 0.75%) of the Funds, respectively. For the period ended April 30, 2013, Foreside, as Distributor, also received $126,262, $85,049 and $21,867 in commissions from sales of the Trusts, for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, and Class C Shares, respectively of which $0, $0 and $0 were reallocated to HSBC-affiliated brokers and dealers, for Class A Shares, Class B Shares, and Class C Shares, respectively.
Shareholder Servicing:
The Trust has adopted a Shareholder Services Plan, which provides for payments to shareholder servicing agents (which primarily consist of HSBC and its affiliates) for providing various shareholder services. For performing these services, the shareholder servicing agents receive a fee that is computed daily and paid monthly up to 0.25%, 0.25%, and 0.25% of the average daily net assets of Class A Shares, Class B Shares, and Class C Shares of the Funds, respectively. The aggregate fees paid to the Distributor pursuant to the Distribution Plan and to shareholder servicing agents pursuant to the Shareholder Services Plan currently are not intended to exceed 0.25% of the average daily net assets of Class A Shares, and 1.00% of the average daily net assets of Class B Shares and Class C Shares.
Fund Accounting and Transfer Agency:
Citi provides fund accounting and transfer agency services for each Fund. As transfer agent, Citi receives a fee based on the number of funds and shareholder accounts, subject to certain minimums, reductions associated with services provided to new funds and reimbursement of certain expenses. As fund accountant, Citi receives an annual fee per Fund and share class, subject to minimums, reductions associated with services provided to new funds and reimbursement of certain expenses. Citi receives additional fees paid by the Trust and the Advisor Trust for blue sky exemption services.
Independent Trustees:
The Trusts pay each Independent Trustee an annual retainer of $100,000. The Trusts pay a fee of $10,000 for each regular meeting of the Board of Trustees attended and a fee of $ 3,000 for each special meeting attended. The Trusts pay each Committee Chair an annual retainer of $ 3,000, with the exception of the Chair of the Audit Committee, who receives a retainer of $ 6,000. The Trusts also pay the Chairman of the Board, an additional annual retainer of $24,000. In addition, for time expended on Board duties outside normal meetings, which is authorized by the Board, a Trustee is compensated at the rate of $ 500 per hour, up to a maximum of $ 3,000 per day.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Fee Reductions:
The Investment Adviser has agreed to contractually limit, through March 1, 2014, the total expenses, exclusive of interest, taxes, brokerage commissions and extraordinary expenses, of certain Funds. Each affected Fund Class has its own expense limitations based on the average daily net assets for any full fiscal year as follows:
| | | | Current Contractual |
| | | | Expense |
Fund | | | Class | | Limitation(%) |
Growth Fund | | A | | 1.20 |
Growth Fund | | B | | 1.95 |
Growth Fund | | C | | 1.95 |
Growth Fund | | I | | 0.95 |
Opportunity Fund | | A | | 1.65 |
Opportunity Fund | | B | | 2.40 |
Opportunity Fund | | C | | 2.40 |
Opportunity Fund (Advisor) | | I | | 1.10 |
Any amounts contractually waived or reimbursed by the Investment Adviser will be subject to repayment by the respective Fund to the Investment Adviser within three years to the extent that the repayment will not cause the Fund’s operating expenses to exceed the contractual expense limit that was in effect at the time of such waiver or reimbursement. During the period ended April 30, 2013, the Investment Adviser did not recapture any of its prior contractual waivers or reimbursements. As of April 30, 2013, the repayments that may potentially be made by the Funds are as follows:
Fund | | | 2016($) | | 2015($) | | 2014($) | | 2013($)* | | Total($) |
Growth Fund | | 14,505 | | 65,181 | | — | | 22,001 | | 101,687 |
Opportunity Fund | | 24,578 | | 65,241 | | 27,228 | | 49,041 | | 166,088 |
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* | The year listed above the amounts is the fiscal year ending in which the amounts will no longer be able to be recouped. |
The Administrator and Citi may voluntarily waive/reimburse fees to help support the expense limits of the Funds. In addition, HSBC, in its role as Investment Adviser and Administrator, may waive/reimburse additional fees at its discretion. Any voluntary fee waivers/reimbursements are not subject to recoupment in subsequent fiscal periods. Voluntary waivers/reimbursements may be stopped at any time. Amounts waived/reimbursed by the Investment Adviser, Administrator and Citi are reported separately on the Statements of Operations, as applicable.
5. Investment Transactions:
Contributions and withdrawals of the respective Portfolios for the period ended April 30, 2013 totaled:
Fund | | | Contributions($) | | Withdrawals($) |
Growth Fund | | | 2,554,862 | | | 5,662,594 |
Opportunity Fund | | | 737,557 | | | 1,197,853 |
Opportunity Fund (Advisor) | | | 12,019,872 | | | 8,802,696 |
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
6. Federal Income Tax Information:
The tax character of dividends paid by the Funds for the latest tax year ended October 31, 2012 was as follows:
| | Dividends paid from |
| | | | | | Net Long Term | | Total |
| | Ordinary Income($) | | Capital Gains($) | | Dividends Paid($)* |
Opportunity Fund | | | 122,612 | | | | 1,646,254 | | | | 1,768,866 | |
Opportunity Fund (Advisor) | | | 2,322,165 | | | | 16,364,147 | | | | 18,686,312 | |
As of the latest tax year October 31, 2012, the components of accumulated earnings/(deficit) on a tax basis for the Funds were as follows:
| | | | | | Undistributed | | | | | | | | Accumulated | | Unrealized | | Total |
| | Undistributed | | Undistributed | | Long Term | | | | | | | | Capital and | | Appreciation/ | | Accumulated |
| | Ordinary | | Tax Exempt | | Capital | | Accumulated | | Dividends | | Other | | (Depreciation) | | Earnings/ |
| | Income($) | | Income($) | | Gains($) | | Earnings($) | | Payable($) | | Losses($) | | ($)(1) | | (Deficit)($) |
Growth Fund | | — | | — | | | 5,056,284 | | | | 5,056,284 | | | — | | | (133,004 | ) | | | | 9,832,284 | | | 14,755,564 |
Opportunity Fund | | — | | — | | | 693,082 | | | | 693,082 | | | — | | | (52,380 | ) | | | | 1,606,621 | | | 2,247,323 |
Opportunity Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(Advisor) | | — | | — | | | 6,472,823 | | | | 6,472,823 | | | — | | | — | | | | | 18,242,145 | | | 24,714,968 |
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(1) | | The differences between book-basis and tax-basis unrealized appreciation/depreciation are attributable primarily to: tax deferral of losses on wash sales, the realization for tax purposes of unrealized gains/losses on certain derivative instruments, the difference between book and tax amortization methods for premium and market discount, the realization for tax purposes of unrealized gains/losses on investments in passive foreign investment companies, and the return of capital adjustments from real estate investment trusts. |
Under current law, capital losses and specified ordinary losses realized after October 31st and non-specified ordinary losses incurred after December 31st (ordinary losses collectively known as “late year ordinary loss”) may be deferred and treated as occurring on the first business day of the following fiscal year. As of the latest tax year ended October 31, 2012, the following Funds had deferred losses, which will be treated as arising on the first day of the fiscal year ending October 31, 2013.
| | Late Year |
Fund | | | Ordinary Losses($) |
Growth Fund | | | 133,004 | |
Opportunity Fund | | | 52,380 | |
For the latest tax year ended October 31, 2012, the following Fund utilized capital loss carryforwards to offset capital gains realized:
Fund | | | Amount($) |
Growth Fund | | 3,269,773 |
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
7. Legal and Regulatory Matters:
On September 26, 2006 BISYS Fund Services, Inc. (“BISYS”), an affiliate of BISYS Fund Services Ohio, Inc. which provided various services to the Funds, reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) regarding the SEC’s investigation related to BISYS’ past payment of certain marketing and other expenses with respect to certain of its mutual fund clients. The related settlement monies were received by the Funds during the year ended October 31, 2010. The corresponding impact to the net income ratio and total return for the year ended October 31, 2010 are disclosed in the Funds’ Financial Highlights.
8. Subsequent Events:
Management has evaluated events and transactions through the date the financial statements were issued, for purposes of recognition or disclosure in these financial statements and there are no subsequent events to report.
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Investment Adviser Contract Approval |
Section 15(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), generally requires that a majority of the trustees of a mutual fund who are not parties to an investment advisory agreement for the fund or “interested persons” of the investment adviser, as defined in the 1940 Act (the “Independent Trustees”), review and approve the investment advisory agreement at an in person meeting for an initial period of up to two years and thereafter on an annual basis. A summary of the material factors considered by the Independent Trustees and the Boards of Trustees (the “Board”) of HSBC Funds, HSBC Advisor Funds Trust and HSBC Portfolios (each, a “Trust”) in connection with approving investment advisory and sub-advisory agreements for the series of the Trusts (each, a “Fund”) during the semi-annual period ended April 30, 2013 and the conclusions the Independent Trustees and Board made as a result of those considerations are set forth below.
Annual Continuation of Advisory and Sub-Advisory Agreements
The Board met in person and the Contracts and Expense Committee thereof, which consists of the Independent Trustees of the Trusts (the “Contracts Committee”), met separately to consider, among other matters:
- the approval of the continuation of the: (i) Investment Advisory Contracts and related Supplements (“Advisory Contracts”) between the Trusts and HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”) and (ii) Sub- Advisory Agreements (“Sub-Advisory Contracts”) between the Adviser and each investment sub-adviser (“Sub-Adviser”) to one or more Funds; and
- the approval of the continuation of certain other ancillary agreements to which the Adviser is a party that obligate the Adviser to provide the Funds with administrative services, such as the Administration Agreement, Support Services Agreement and Operational Support Services Agreement (each, an “Ancillary Agreement”).
Prior to the meetings, the Independent Trustees received and reviewed the information they thought reasonably necessary to evaluate the terms of the Advisory Contracts, Sub-Advisory Contracts and Ancillary Agreements (collectively, the “Agreements”). This information included, among other things, information about: (i) the services that the Adviser and Sub-Advisers provide; (ii) the personnel who provide such services; (iii) investment performance, including comparative data provided by Lipper Inc. (“Lipper”); (iv) trading practices of the Adviser and Sub-Advisers; (v) fees received or to be received by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers, including in comparison with the advisory fees paid by other similar funds based on materials provided by Lipper; (vi) total expense ratios, including in comparison with the total expense ratios of other similar funds based on Lipper data; (vii) the profitability of the Adviser and certain of the Sub-Advisers; and (viii) compliance-related matters pertaining to the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. Counsel to the Trusts and to the Independent Trustees were present at each Contracts Committee meeting and the Board meeting.
When it met, the Contracts Committee and its members reviewed the information provided in advance of the meeting and discussed, among other things: (i) the Funds’ investment advisory arrangements and expense limitation agreements with the Adviser; (ii) the Trusts’ arrangements with the unaffiliated investment sub-advisers to the Trusts, Westfield Capital Management Company, LP (“Westfield”) and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (“Winslow”); (iii) the Trusts’ Administration Agreement with the Adviser; and (iv) regulatory considerations. The Contracts Committee also convened to consider, among other things: (i) the Support Services Agreement and Operational Support Services Agreement with the Adviser; (ii) the Adviser’s Multimanager function; (iii) the Adviser’s advisory services with respect to the Funds that are money market funds (“Money Market Funds”); (iv) the Adviser’s profitability; and (v) additional information provided by the Adviser at the request of the Board. Following the December 5, 2012 and December 17-18, 2012 Contracts Committee meetings, the members of the Contracts Committee determined to recommend to the Board that the Agreements be continued for an additional one-year period.
At the in-person meeting, held on December 17-18, 2012, the Board, including the Independent Trustees, reviewed and discussed the materials and other information provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers and considered the previous deliberations and recommendation of the Contracts Committee. As a result of this process, the Board and Independent Trustees determined to approve the continuation of the Agreements with respect to each Fund.
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The Board and the Independent Trustees made these determinations on the basis of the following considerations, among others:
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided by Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees examined the nature, quality and extent of the investment advisory and administrative support services provided by the Adviser to the Funds, as well as the quality and experience of the Adviser’s personnel. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s Multimanager unit with respect to the World Selection Funds and the Equity Funds, the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s Emerging Markets Debt Team with respect to the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the capabilities of the Adviser’s oversight with respect to the Frontier Markets Fund, as well as the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s portfolio management and credit review teams with respect to the Money Market Funds. The Independent Trustees also considered the nature, quality and extent of the administrative support services that the Adviser provides to the Funds, including the Adviser’s oversight and management of the Funds’ other service providers.
The Independent Trustees also took note of: (i) the long-term relationship between the Adviser and the Funds; (ii) the Adviser’s reputation and financial condition; (iii) the reduction during the period in the HSBC Family of Fund’s net assets, and its effect on economies of scale; (iv) the recent liquidation of certain Funds; and (v) the efforts undertaken by the Adviser to foster the growth and development of the Funds since the inception of each of the Funds, including the recent development and launch of the HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund and HSBC Total Return Fund, and an increased entrepreneurial commitment to the success of the Funds with new classes of shareholders. With respect to the Money Market Funds, the Independent Trustees considered the financial support the Adviser and its affiliates have afforded the Money Market Funds, such as the voluntary fee waivers and reimbursements made to maintain a non-negative yield for the Money Market Funds more recently, and noted the material increase in these waivers and reimbursements due to the economic environment for money market funds over the previous year. In addition, the Independent Trustees considered the Adviser’s performance in fulfilling its responsibilities for overseeing its own and the Sub-Advisers’ compliance with the Funds’ compliance policies and procedures and investment objectives. In assessing the Adviser’s reputation, the Independent Trustees considered a recent regulatory matter affecting the parent of the Adviser which did not relate to the Funds.
The Independent Trustees also examined the nature, quality and extent of the services that the Sub-Advisers provide to their respective Funds. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the investment performance and the portfolio risk characteristics achieved by the Sub-Advisers and the Sub-Advisers’ portfolio management teams, their experience, and the quality of their compliance programs, among other factors.
Based on these considerations, the Independent Trustees concluded that they were satisfied with the nature, quality and extent of the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers, and that the services provided supported continuance of the Agreements.
Investment Performance of the Funds, Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees considered the investment performance of each Fund over various periods of time, as compared to one another as well as to comparable funds and one or more benchmark indices. In the context of the World Selection Funds, the Independent Trustees took note of the expenses of underlying funds and considered the performance of the World Selection Funds, and particularly the Aggressive Strategy Fund, in light of the World Selection Funds’ relative positioning and peers. In the context of the HSBC Growth Portfolio, although the Independent Trustees noted the recent underperformance of the Portfolio in light of data provided by Lipper, it favorably noted the consistent performance record of the Portfolio and the strong compliance culture at the Portfolio’s Sub-Adviser. In the context of the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio, the Independent Trustees considered that the Portfolio was relatively expensive as compared to its peers, yet was also characterized by relatively high return as well as higher volatility. With respect to the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio, the Independent Trustees also considered the compliance efforts of the Portfolio’s Sub-Adviser.
In the context of the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the Independent Trustees found the expenses of the HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund to be reasonable and its performance to be acceptable, but the Independent Trustees noted that the HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund had performed less competitively. With respect to the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the Independent Trustees also requested and received information regarding the Funds’ integration into the overall structure of the HSBC Family of Funds. In the context of the HSBC Frontier Markets Fund, the Independent Trustees noted the Fund’s fees and expenses as compared to its peers, and
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requested and received information regarding the advisory fee split between the Adviser and the Fund’s Sub-Adviser. In the context of the Money Market Funds, the Independent Trustees considered the yield support that the Adviser had provided in order for the Money Market Funds to maintain positive yield and performance. The Independent Trustees determined that the Funds’ investment performance and the Adviser’s actions to improve investment performance, where applicable, supported continuance of the Agreements, although they would continue to monitor performance closely, particularly for those Funds that had weaker performance compared to peers during the past year.
Costs of Services and Profits Realized by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees considered the costs of the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers and the expense ratios of the Funds more generally. The Independent Trustees considered the Adviser’s profitability and costs, including by means of an analysis provided by the Adviser of its estimated profitability. The Independent Trustees also considered the contractual advisory fees under the Advisory Contracts and compared those fees to the fees of similar funds, which had been compiled and provided by Lipper. The Independent Trustees determined that the Funds had advisory fees competitive with those of similar funds, noting the resources, expertise and experience provided to the Funds.
The Independent Trustees also compared the advisory fees under the Advisory Contracts with those of other accounts managed by the Adviser, and evaluated information provided as to why advisory fees may differ between mutual funds and other advisory relationships, including increased shareholder activity. In this regard, the Independent Trustees concluded that differences in advisory fees assessed between the Funds and other accounts managed by the Adviser did not preclude approval of the Advisory Contracts.
With respect to the administrative support services provided by the Adviser, the Independent Trustees considered the fees charged for such services and evaluated the fees payable to the Adviser and those payable to other providers of administrative services to the Funds. At the request of the Independent Trustees, the Adviser provided information regarding the pricing differential between the retail and institutional shares’ respective Operational Support Services Agreements. The Independent Trustees determined that the differences are inline with industry standards and recognize the different services provided to retail as compared to institutional shareholders. The Independent Trustees also considered the relative split of the administration fee between the Adviser and Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc., as sub-administrator and other factors relevant to their consideration of these arrangements.
The Independent Trustees also considered the costs of the services provided by the Sub-Advisers, as applicable; the relative portions of the total advisory fees paid to the Sub-Advisers and retained by the Adviser in its capacity as the Funds’ investment adviser; and the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. In the context of the HSBC Growth Portfolio, the Independent Trustees considered the sub-advisory fee breakpoint structure. The Independent Trustees also considered information on profitability where provided by the Sub-Advisers.
The Independent Trustees concluded that the advisory fees payable to the Adviser and the Funds’ Sub-Advisers were fair and reasonable in light of the factors set forth above.
Other Relevant Considerations. The Independent Trustees also considered the extent to which the Adviser and Sub-Advisers had achieved economies of scale, whether the Funds’ expense structure permits economies of scale to be shared with the Funds’ shareholders and, if so, the extent to which the Funds’ shareholders may benefit from these economies of scale. The Independent Trustees also noted the contractual caps on certain Fund expenses provided by the Adviser with respect to many of the Funds in order to reduce or control the overall operating expenses of those Funds. The Independent Trustees also considered certain information provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers with respect to the benefits they may derive from their relationships with the Funds, including the fact that certain Sub-Advisers have “soft dollar” arrangements with respect to Fund brokerage and therefore may have access to research and other permissible services.
In light of the above considerations and such other factors and information it considered relevant, the Board by a unanimous vote of those present in person at the meeting (including a separate unanimous vote of the Independent Trustees present in person at the meeting) approved the continuation of each Agreement.
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Table of Shareholder Expenses—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
As a shareholder of the Funds, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchases, redemption fees and exchange fees; and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution fees and /or shareholder servicing fees and other Fund expenses (including expenses allocated from the Portfolios). These examples are intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Funds and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
These examples are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period from November 1, 2012 through April 30, 2013.
Actual Example
The table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information below, 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 table under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Annualized |
| | | | Beginning | | Ending | | Expenses Paid | | Expense Ratio |
| | | | Account Value | | Account Value | | During Period* | | During Period |
| | | | 11/1/12 | | 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 |
Growth Fund | | Class A Shares | | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | | $ | 1,131.90 | | | | $ | 6.34 | | | | 1.20 | % | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,128.00 | | | | | 10.29 | | | | 1.95 | % | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,127.80 | | | | | 10.29 | | | | 1.95 | % | |
| | Class I Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,134.10 | | | | | 5.03 | | | | 0.95 | % | |
Opportunity Fund | | Class A Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,179.70 | | | | | 8.38 | | | | 1.55 | % | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,175.90 | | | | | 12.41 | | | | 2.30 | % | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,176.50 | | | | | 12.41 | | | | 2.30 | % | |
Opportunity Fund (I Shares) | | Class I Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,183.20 | | | | | 5.41 | | | | 1.00 | % | |
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* | | Expenses are equal to the average account value over the period, multiplied by the Fund’s annualized expense ratio, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one half year period). |
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Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on each 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 this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of 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 sales charges (loads), redemption fees, or exchange fees. Therefore, the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Annualized |
| | | | Beginning | | Ending | | Expenses Paid | | Expense Ratio |
| | | | Account Value | | Account Value | | During Period* | | During Period |
| | | | 11/1/12 | | 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 |
Growth Fund | | Class A Shares | | | $ | 1,000.00 | | | | $ | 1,018.84 | | | | $ | 6.01 | | | | 1.20 | % | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,015.12 | | | | | 9.74 | | | | 1.95 | % | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,015.12 | | | | | 9.74 | | | | 1.95 | % | |
| | Class I Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,020.08 | | | | | 4.76 | | | | 0.95 | % | |
Opportunity Fund | | Class A Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,017.11 | | | | | 7.75 | | | | 1.55 | % | |
| | Class B Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,013.39 | | | | | 11.48 | | | | 2.30 | % | |
| | Class C Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,013.39 | | | | | 11.48 | | | | 2.30 | % | |
Opportunity Fund (I Shares) | | Class I Shares | | | | 1,000.00 | | | | | 1,019.84 | | | | | 5.01 | | | | 1.00 | % | |
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* | | Expenses are equal to the average account value over the period, multiplied by the Fund's annualized expense ratio, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one half year period). |
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Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Common Stocks – 97.6% |
| | | | |
| | Shares | | Value ($) |
Aerospace & Defense – 3.2% | | | | |
Precision Castparts Corp. | | 7,200 | | 1,377,288 |
United Technologies Corp. | | 15,400 | | 1,405,866 |
| | | | 2,783,154 |
Air Freight & Logistics – 1.0% | | | | |
FedEx Corp. | | 8,700 | | 817,887 |
Airlines – 0.8% | | | | |
Delta Air Lines, Inc. (a) | | 40,700 | | 697,598 |
Auto Components – 1.2% | | | | |
BorgWarner, Inc. (a) | | 13,100 | | 1,024,027 |
Biotechnology – 9.4% | | | | |
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | | 8,800 | | 862,400 |
Amgen, Inc. | | 13,200 | | 1,375,572 |
Biogen Idec, Inc. (a) | | 10,200 | | 2,233,086 |
Celgene Corp. (a) | | 15,900 | | 1,877,313 |
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (a) | | 33,700 | | 1,706,568 |
| | | | 8,054,939 |
Capital Markets – 2.7% | | | | |
BlackRock, Inc. | | 3,500 | | 932,750 |
Franklin Resources, Inc. | | 9,200 | | 1,422,872 |
| | | | 2,355,622 |
Chemicals – 4.6% | | | | |
Ecolab, Inc. | | 15,200 | | 1,286,224 |
Monsanto Co. | | 24,599 | | 2,627,665 |
| | | | 3,913,889 |
Commercial Banks – 1.0% | | | | |
Wells Fargo & Co. | | 22,900 | | 869,742 |
Communications Equipment – 1.8% | | | | |
Qualcomm, Inc. | | 24,700 | | 1,522,014 |
Computers & Peripherals – 4.1% | | | | |
Apple, Inc. | | 7,850 | | 3,475,587 |
Energy Equipment & Services – 1.0% | | | | |
FMC Technologies, Inc. (a) | | 15,600 | | 847,080 |
Food & Staples Retailing – 2.8% | | | | |
Costco Wholesale Corp. | | 7,800 | | 845,754 |
CVS Caremark Corp. | | 20,700 | | 1,204,326 |
Whole Foods Market, Inc. | | 4,400 | | 388,608 |
| | | | 2,438,688 |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies – 1.0% | | |
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (a) | | 1,690 | | 831,970 |
Health Care Providers & Services – 2.8% | | | | |
Express Scripts Holding Co. (a) | | 18,350 | | 1,089,440 |
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. | | 22,100 | | 1,324,453 |
| | | | 2,413,893 |
Health Care Technology – 1.1% | | | | |
Cerner Corp. (a) | | 9,800 | | 948,346 |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure – 3.2% | | | | |
Las Vegas Sands Corp. | | 15,300 | | 860,625 |
Starbucks Corp. | | 22,100 | | 1,344,564 |
Yum! Brands, Inc. | | 7,900 | | 538,148 |
| | | | 2,743,337 |
Household Durables – 0.9% | | | | |
Lennar Corp., Class A | | 18,600 | | 766,692 |
Internet & Catalog Retail – 5.3% | | | | |
Amazon.com, Inc. (a) | | 8,975 | | 2,277,945 |
Priceline.com, Inc. (a) | | 3,220 | | 2,241,088 |
| | | | 4,519,033 |
Internet Software & Services – 8.2% | | | | |
eBay, Inc. (a) | | 28,900 | | 1,514,071 |
Equinix, Inc. (a) | | 2,695 | | 577,000 |
Facebook, Inc., Class A(a) | | 47,100 | | 1,307,496 |
Google, Inc., Class A(a) | | 4,055 | | 3,343,631 |
LinkedIn Corp., Class A(a) | | 1,300 | | 249,717 |
| | | | 6,991,915 |
IT Services – 6.5% | | | | |
International Business Machines Corp. | | 6,600 | | 1,336,764 |
MasterCard, Inc., Class A | | 2,095 | | 1,158,388 |
Visa, Inc., Class A | | 18,100 | | 3,049,126 |
| | | | 5,544,278 |
Machinery – 3.0% | | | | |
Danaher Corp. | | 42,700 | | 2,602,138 |
Media – 4.6% | | | | |
CBS Corp., Class B | | 22,100 | | 1,011,738 |
News Corp., Class A | | 33,000 | | 1,022,010 |
Sirius XM Radio, Inc. | | 314,800 | | 1,023,100 |
The Walt Disney Co. | | 13,600 | | 854,624 |
| | | | 3,911,472 |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels – 2.0% | | | | |
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. | | 11,900 | | 809,795 |
Range Resources Corp. | | 2,200 | | 161,744 |
Valero Energy Corp. | | 18,100 | | 729,792 |
| | | | 1,701,331 |
Personal Products – 1.0% | | | | |
The Estee Lauder Cos., Inc., Class A | | 12,200 | | 846,070 |
Pharmaceuticals – 4.9% | | | | |
Abbott Laboratories | | 23,000 | | 849,160 |
Allergan, Inc. | | 7,200 | | 817,560 |
GlaxoSmithKline plc ADR | | 17,600 | | 908,864 |
Sanofi ADR | | 16,900 | | 901,615 |
Zoetis, Inc. | | 22,200 | | 733,044 |
| | | | 4,210,243 |
36 HSBC PORTFOLIOS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC GROWTH PORTFOLIO |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Common Stocks, continued | | | |
| | | |
| Shares | | Value ($) |
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) – 1.5% | | | |
American Tower Corp. | 14,900 | | 1,251,451 |
Road & Rail – 4.1% | | | |
Union Pacific Corp. | 24,000 | | 3,551,040 |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment – 1.0% | | | |
NXP Semiconductors NV (a) | 32,700 | | 900,885 |
Software – 2.0% | | | |
Salesforce.com, Inc. (a) | 40,800 | | 1,677,288 |
Specialty Retail – 6.3% | | | |
Best Buy Co., Inc. | 33,400 | | 868,066 |
Dollar General Corp. (a) | 25,500 | | 1,328,295 |
Ross Stores, Inc. | 14,200 | | 938,194 |
The Home Depot, Inc. | 18,100 | | 1,327,635 |
Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, | | | |
Inc. (a) | 10,800 | | 946,620 |
| | | 5,408,810 |
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods – 2.0% | | | |
Lululemon Athletica, Inc. (a) | 6,900 | | 525,297 |
Ralph Lauren Corp. | 6,700 | | 1,216,586 |
| | | 1,741,883 |
Trading Companies & Distributors – 1.2% | | | |
W. W. Grainger, Inc. | 4,100 | | 1,010,527 |
Wireless Telecommunication Services – 1.4% | | | |
SBA Communications Corp., Class A(a) | 15,200 | | 1,200,648 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | | | |
(COST $64,674,511) | | | 83,573,477 |
| | | |
Investment Company – 1.4% | | | |
| | | |
Northern Institutional Diversified Assets | | | |
Portfolio, Institutional Shares, | | | |
0.01% (b) | 1,191,636 | | 1,191,636 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT COMPANY | | | |
(COST $1,191,636) | | | 1,191,636 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT SECURITIES | | | |
(COST $65,866,147) — 99.0% | | | 84,765,113 |
____________________
Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $85,638,195.
(a) | | Represents non-income producing security. |
(b) | | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
ADR American Depositary Receipt
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC PORTFOLIOS 37 |
HSBC OPPORTUNITY PORTFOLIO |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
Common Stocks – 96.8% | | | |
| | | |
| Shares | | Value ($) |
Aerospace & Defense – 3.4% | | | |
BE Aerospace, Inc. (a) | 42,850 | | 2,688,409 |
TransDigm Group, Inc. | 23,290 | | 3,418,972 |
| | | 6,107,381 |
Biotechnology – 3.4% | | | |
Alkermes plc (a) | 113,930 | | 3,487,397 |
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a) | 58,150 | | 2,670,248 |
| | | 6,157,645 |
Building Products – 0.6% | | | |
Owens Corning, Inc. (a) | 25,900 | | 1,089,354 |
Capital Markets – 3.4% | | | |
Lazard Ltd., Class A | 93,600 | | 3,173,040 |
Raymond James Financial, Inc. | 70,890 | | 2,936,264 |
| | | 6,109,304 |
Chemicals – 6.6% | | | |
Axiall Corp. | 34,580 | | 1,813,721 |
Celanese Corp., Series A | 36,730 | | 1,814,829 |
Cytec Industries, Inc. | 32,320 | | 2,354,835 |
Huntsman Corp. | 70,580 | | 1,331,139 |
Rockwood Holdings, Inc. | 31,310 | | 2,031,706 |
The Scotts Mircale-Gro Co. | 58,470 | | 2,651,615 |
| | | 11,997,845 |
Commercial Banks – 3.0% | | | |
Comerica, Inc. | 77,110 | | 2,795,238 |
First Horizon National Corp. | 1 | | 10 |
First Republic Bank | 68,050 | | 2,584,539 |
| | | 5,379,787 |
Commercial Services & Supplies – 1.6% | | | |
Waste Connections, Inc. | 75,775 | | 2,875,661 |
Communications Equipment – 0.7% | | | |
Riverbed Technology, Inc. (a) | 84,180 | | 1,250,915 |
Construction Materials – 0.8% | | | |
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. | 13,675 | | 1,381,038 |
Containers & Packaging – 3.1% | | | |
Crown Holdings, Inc. (a) | 77,150 | | 3,292,762 |
Packaging Corp. of America | 49,240 | | 2,341,854 |
| | | 5,634,616 |
Distributors – 0.7% | | | |
LKQ Corp. (a) | 55,750 | | 1,342,460 |
Diversified Consumer Services – 1.6% | | | |
Service Corp. International | 171,810 | | 2,900,153 |
Electrical Equipment – 2.0% | | | |
Hubbell, Inc., Class B | 38,130 | | 3,658,955 |
Energy Equipment & Services – 2.6% | | | |
McDermott International, Inc. (a) | 167,820 | | 1,792,318 |
Rowan Cos. plc, Class A(a) | 91,680 | | 2,982,350 |
| | | 4,774,668 |
Health Care Equipment & Supplies – 4.1% | | |
ArthroCare Corp. (a) | 36,600 | | 1,268,190 |
Conceptus, Inc. (a) | 61,060 | | 1,893,471 |
DENTSPLY International, Inc. | 63,130 | | 2,673,555 |
Volcano Corp. (a) | 80,760 | | 1,638,620 |
| | | 7,473,836 |
Health Care Providers & Services – 1.0% | | | |
Community Health Systems, Inc. | 40,050 | | 1,825,079 |
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure – 0.5% | | | |
Arcos Dorados Holdings, Inc., Class A | 61,940 | | 843,623 |
Household Durables – 3.2% | | | |
Harman International Industries, Inc. | 31,450 | | 1,406,130 |
Jarden Corp. (a) | 63,945 | | 2,878,164 |
NVR, Inc. (a) | 1,458 | | 1,501,740 |
| | | 5,786,034 |
Insurance – 2.5% | | | |
Everest Re Group Ltd. | 23,325 | | 3,148,642 |
Genworth Financial, Inc., Class A(a) | 138,380 | | 1,387,951 |
| | | 4,536,593 |
IT Services – 6.7% | | | |
Alliance Data Systems Corp. (a) | 29,350 | | 5,041,450 |
FleetCor Technologies, Inc. (a) | 43,050 | | 3,310,545 |
Genpact Ltd. | 104,510 | | 1,943,886 |
Total System Services, Inc. | 73,260 | | 1,730,401 |
| | | 12,026,282 |
Life Sciences Tools & Services – 3.2% | | | |
Covance, Inc. (a) | 26,050 | | 1,942,288 |
Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. (a) | 18,290 | | 3,821,878 |
| | | 5,764,166 |
Machinery – 2.8% | | | |
IDEX Corp. | 54,860 | | 2,854,366 |
The Timken Co. | 40,650 | | 2,136,970 |
| | | 4,991,336 |
Media – 0.8% | | | |
Manchester United plc, Class A(a) | 77,370 | | 1,391,113 |
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels – 6.1% | | | |
CONSOL Energy, Inc. | 52,100 | | 1,752,644 |
Denbury Resources, Inc. (a) | 154,010 | | 2,755,239 |
Tesoro Corp. | 121,220 | | 6,473,148 |
| | | 10,981,031 |
Professional Services – 1.4% | | | |
IHS, Inc., Class A(a) | 26,215 | | 2,554,127 |
Real Estate Management & Development – 1.5% | | |
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. | 27,380 | | 2,711,168 |
Road & Rail – 2.3% | | | |
Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (a) | 66,270 | | 1,595,782 |
Landstar System, Inc. | 48,170 | | 2,632,972 |
| | | 4,228,754 |
38 HSBC PORTFOLIOS | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC OPPORTUNITY PORTFOLIO |
Schedule of Portfolio Investments—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Common Stocks, continued | | | |
| | | |
| Shares | | Value ($) |
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment – 4.6% | | | |
Avago Technologies Ltd. | 49,870 | | 1,593,845 |
Lam Research Corp. (a) | 42,430 | | 1,961,115 |
NXP Semiconductors NV (a) | 81,090 | | 2,234,030 |
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (a) | 111,520 | | 2,461,246 |
| | | 8,250,236 |
Software – 7.6% | | | |
Autodesk, Inc. (a) | 69,870 | | 2,751,481 |
Concur Technologies, Inc. (a) | 26,720 | | 1,953,499 |
Fortinet, Inc. (a) | 121,710 | | 2,185,912 |
Informatica Corp. (a) | 53,360 | | 1,757,145 |
Nuance Communications, Inc. (a) | 167,040 | | 3,180,441 |
QLIK Technologies, Inc. (a) | 72,230 | | 1,878,702 |
| | | 13,707,180 |
Specialty Retail – 10.8% | | | |
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. | 58,890 | | 1,145,410 |
Best Buy Co., Inc. | 108,110 | | 2,809,779 |
Foot Locker, Inc. | 85,810 | | 2,992,195 |
GNC Holdings, Inc., Class A | 27,930 | | 1,266,067 |
Signet Jewelers Ltd. | 41,120 | | 2,826,178 |
Tractor Supply Co. | 16,090 | | 1,724,365 |
Urban Outfitters, Inc. (a) | 75,990 | | 3,149,025 |
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. | 66,444 | | 3,566,714 |
| | | 19,479,733 |
Trading Companies & Distributors – 3.7% | | |
Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. (a) | 55,250 | | 2,106,683 |
United Rentals, Inc. (a) | 34,760 | | 1,828,724 |
WESCO International, Inc. (a) | 37,760 | | 2,707,014 |
| | | 6,642,421 |
Wireless Telecommunication Services – 0.5% | | |
SBA Communications Corp., Class A(a) | 12,680 | | 1,001,593 |
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS | | | |
(COST $138,214,772) | | | 174,854,087 |
| | | |
Investment Company – 2.9% | | | |
| | | |
Northern Institutional Government | | | |
Select Portfolio, Institutional Shares, | | | |
0.01% (b) | 5,261,791 | | 5,261,791 |
TOTAL INVESTMENT COMPANY | | | |
(COST $5,261,791) | | | 5,261,791 |
TOTAL INVESTMENTS SECURITIES | | | |
(COST $143,476,563) — 99.7% | | | 180,115,878 |
____________________
Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $180,574,563.
(a) | | Represents non-income producing security. |
(b) | | The rate represents the annualized one-day yield that was in effect on April 30, 2013. |
See notes to financial statements. | HSBC PORTFOLIOS 39 |
HSBC PORTFOLIOS
Statements of Assets and Liabilities—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
| | | Growth | | | | Opportunity | |
| | | Portfolio | | | | Portfolio | |
Assets: | | | | | | | | | | |
Investments in non-affiliates, at value | | | $ | 84,765,113 | | | | $ | 180,115,878 | |
Dividends receivable | | | | 17,013 | | | | | 45,964 | |
Receivable for investments sold | | | | 1,449,764 | | | | | 707,535 | |
Prepaid expenses and other assets | | | | — | | | | | 21 | |
Total Assets | | | | 86,231,890 | | | | | 180,869,398 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | |
Payable for investments purchased | | | | 504,437 | | | | | 140,734 | |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Management | | | | 40,095 | | | | | 116,352 | |
Administration | | | | 2,206 | | | | | 4,601 | |
Compliance Service | | | | 26 | | | | | — | |
Accounting | | | | 3,532 | | | | | 3,441 | |
Custodian | | | | 4,908 | | | | | 13,819 | |
Trustee | | | | 29 | | | | | 246 | |
Other | | | | 38,462 | | | | | 15,642 | |
Total Liabilities | | | | 593,695 | | | | | 294,835 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Applicable to investors’ beneficial interest | | | $ | 85,638,195 | | | | $ | 180,574,563 | |
Total Investments, at cost | | | $ | 65,866,147 | | | | $ | 143,476,563 | |
40 HSBC PORTFOLIOS | | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC PORTFOLIOS
Statements of Operations—For the six months ended April 30, 2013 (Unaudited)
| | | Growth | | | | Opportunity | |
| | | Portfolio | | | | Portfolio | |
Investment Income: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Dividends | | | $ | 593,342 | | | | $ | 732,883 | | |
Total Investment Income | | | | 593,342 | | | | | 732,883 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Expenses: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Management | | | | 234,683 | | | | | 666,664 | | |
Administration | | | | 13,029 | | | | | 26,586 | | |
Accounting | | | | 22,007 | | | | | 21,982 | | |
Compliance Service | | | | 342 | | | | | 454 | | |
Custodian | | | | 9,316 | | | | | 8,086 | | |
Printing | | | | 901 | | | | | 1,825 | | |
Professional | | | | 9,667 | | | | | 11,243 | | |
Trustee | | | | 889 | | | | | 1,476 | | |
Other | | | | 3,962 | | | | | 5,261 | | |
Total Expenses | | | | 294,796 | | | | | 743,577 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Investment Income (Loss) | | | | 298,546 | | | | | (10,694 | ) | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Realized/Unrealized Gains (Losses) from Investments: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investment securities | | | | 4,562,447 | | | | | 12,783,167 | | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on investments | | | | 5,585,551 | | | | | 15,451,443 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Net realized/unrealized gains from investments | | | | 10,147,998 | | | | | 28,234,610 | | |
Change In Net Assets Resulting From Operations | | | $ | 10,446,544 | | | | $ | 28,223,916 | | |
See notes to financial statements. | | HSBC PORTFOLIOS 41 |
HSBC PORTFOLIOS
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
| | Growth | | Opportunity |
| | Portfolio | | Portfolio |
| | For the | | For the | | For the | | For the |
| | six months ended | | year ended | | six months ended | | year ended |
| | April 30, 2013 | | October 31, 2012 | | April 30, 2013 | | October 31, 2012 |
| | (Unaudited) | | | | | | (Unaudited) | | | | |
Investment Activities: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Operations: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | | $ | 298,546 | | | | | $ | 116,496 | | | | | $ | (10,694 | ) | | | | $ | 224,890 | | |
Net realized gains (losses) from investments | | | | 4,562,447 | | | | | | 12,654,581 | | | | | | 12,783,167 | | | | | | 8,826,465 | | |
Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
from investments | | | | 5,585,551 | | | | | | (6,525,872 | ) | | | | | 15,451,443 | | | | | | 8,291,618 | | |
Change in net assets resulting from operations | | | | 10,446,544 | | | | | | 6,245,205 | | | | | | 28,223,916 | | | | | | 17,342,973 | | |
Proceeds from contributions | | | | 3,212,686 | | | | | | 10,142,030 | | | | | | 13,052,219 | | | | | | 15,884,698 | | |
Value of withdrawals | | | | (7,039,369 | ) | | | | | (42,657,788 | ) | | | | | (10,760,097 | ) | | | | | (24,493,548 | ) | |
Change in net assets resulting from transactions | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
in investors’ beneficial interest | | | | (3,826,683 | ) | | | | | (32,515,758 | ) | | | | | 2,292,122 | | | | | | (8,608,850 | ) | |
Change in net assets | | | | 6,619,861 | | | | | | (26,270,553 | ) | | | | | 30,516,038 | | | | | | 8,734,123 | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | | | 79,018,334 | | | | | | 105,288,887 | | | | | | 150,058,525 | | | | | | 141,324,402 | | |
End of period | | | $ | 85,638,195 | | | | | $ | 79,018,334 | | | | | $ | 180,574,563 | | | | | $ | 150,058,525 | | |
42 HSBC PORTFOLIOS | | See notes to financial statements. |
HSBC PORTFOLIOS |
Financial Highlights |
Selected data for a share outstanding throughout the periods indicated.
| | | | | Ratios/Supplementary Data |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ratios of | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Ratio of Net | | Expenses | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Ratio of Net | | Investment | | to Average | | | | | |
| | | | Net Assets at | | Expenses to | | Income (Loss) | | Net Assets | | | | | |
| | Total | | End of Period | | Average Net | | to Average Net | | (Excluding Fee | | Portfolio |
| | Return(a) | | (000’s) | | Assets(b) | | Assets(b) | | Reductions)(b) | | Turnover(a) |
GROWTH PORTFOLIO | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | (37.75 | )%(c) | | | $ | 81,942 | | | 0.62% | | | 0.19 | % | | | 0.62% | | | 158 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | 19.31 | % | | | | 88,163 | | | 0.69% | | | 0.17 | % | | | 0.69% | | | 66 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | 20.34 | % | | | | 98,751 | | | 0.68% | | | (0.04 | )% | | | 0.68% | | | 89 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | 11.07 | % | | | | 105,289 | | | 0.66% | | | 0.07 | % | | | 0.66% | | | 56 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | 7.18 | % | | | | 79,018 | | | 0.71% | | | 0.13 | % | | | 0.71% | | | 53 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | 13.51 | % | | | | 85,638 | | | 0.72% | | | 0.73 | % | | | 0.72% | | | 37 | % | |
OPPORTUNITY PORTFOLIO | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year Ended October 31, 2008 | | (35.30 | )% | | | $ | 127,970 | | | 0.87% | | | (0.46 | )% | | | 0.87% | | | 80 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2009 | | 15.41 | % | | | | 129,748 | | | 0.90% | | | (0.37 | )% | | | 0.90% | | | 65 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2010 | | 28.74 | % | | | | 139,402 | | | 0.89% | | | (0.35 | )% | | | 0.89% | | | 68 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | 12.40 | % | | | | 141,324 | | | 0.88% | | | 0.05 | % | | | 0.88% | | | 69 | % | |
Year Ended October 31, 2012 | | 12.71 | % | | | | 150,059 | | | 0.91% | | | 0.15 | % | | | 0.91% | | | 59 | % | |
Six Months Ended April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) | | 18.33 | % | | | | 180,575 | | | 0.89% | | | (0.01 | )% | | | 0.89% | | | 38 | % | |
(a) | | Not annualized for periods less than one year. |
(b) | | Annualized for periods less than one year. |
(c) | | During the year ended October 31, 2008, Winslow Capital Management, LLC (formerly Winslow Capital Management, Inc.) reimbursed $64,658 to the Growth Portfolio related to violations of certain investment policies and limitations. The corresponding impact to the total return was 0.08%. |
See notes to financial statements. | | HSBC PORTFOLIOS 43 |
HSBC PORTFOLIOS |
Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
1. Organization:
The HSBC Portfolios (the “Portfolio Trust”), is an open-end management investment company organized as a New York trust under the laws of the State of New York on November 1, 1994. The Portfolio Trust contains the following master funds (individually a “Portfolio,” collectively the “Portfolios”):
| Portfolio | | | Short Name | |
| HSBC Growth Portfolio | | Growth Portfolio |
| HSBC Opportunity Portfolio | | Opportunity Portfolio |
The Portfolios operate as master funds in master-feeder arrangements, in which other funds invest all or part of their investable assets in the Portfolios. The Portfolios also receive investments from funds of funds. The Declaration of Trust permits the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) to issue an unlimited number of beneficial interests in the Portfolios.
The Portfolios are diversified series of the Portfolio Trust and are part of the HSBC Family of Funds, which also includes HSBC Advisor Funds Trust and HSBC Funds (collectively, the “Trusts”). Financial statements for all other funds of the Trusts are published separately.
Under the Portfolio Trust’s organizational documents, the Portfolio Trust’s officers and Trustees are indemnified against certain liabilities arising out of the performance of their duties to the Portfolios. In addition, in the normal course of business, the Portfolio Trust may enter into contracts with its service providers, which also provide for indemnifications by the Portfolios. The Portfolios’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve any future claims that may be made against the Portfolios. However, based on experience, the Portfolio Trust expects that risk of loss to be remote.
2. Significant Accounting Policies:
The following is a summary of the significant accounting policies followed by the Portfolios in the preparation of their financial statements. The policies are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). The preparation of financial statements requires management to make certain 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 increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Securities Valuation:
The Portfolios record their investments at fair value. Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The valuation techniques used to determine fair value are further described in Note 3 below.
Investment Transactions and Related Income:
Investment transactions are accounted for not later than on the business day after trade date. However, for financial reporting purposes, investment transactions are accounted for on trade date. Investment gains and losses are calculated on the identified cost basis. Interest income is recognized on the accrual basis and includes, where applicable, the amortization or accretion of premium or discount. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date.
Expense Allocations:
Expenses directly attributable to a Portfolio are charged to that Portfolio. Expenses not directly attributable to a Portfolio are allocated proportionally among the applicable portfolios or funds within the HSBC Family of Funds in relation to net assets or on another reasonable basis.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Federal Income Taxes:
Each Portfolio will be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Accordingly, each Portfolio passes through all of its net investment income and gains and losses to its feeder funds, and is therefore not subject to U.S. federal income tax. As such, investors in the Portfolios will be taxed on their respective share of the Portfolios’ ordinary income and realized gains. It is intended that the Portfolios will be managed in such a way that an investor will be able to satisfy the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, applicable to regulated investment companies.
Management of the Portfolios has reviewed tax positions taken in tax years that remain subject to examination by all major tax jurisdictions, including federal (i.e., the last four tax year ends and the interim tax period since then, as applicable). Management believes that there is no tax liability resulting from unrecognized tax benefits related to uncertain tax positions taken.
3. Investment Valuation Summary:
The valuation techniques employed by the Portfolios, as described below, maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs in determining fair value. The inputs used for valuing the Portfolios’ investments are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
- Level 1: quoted prices in active markets for identical assets
- Level 2: other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
- Level 3: significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
Changes in valuation techniques may result in transfers in or out of an assigned level within the disclosure hierarchy. The Funds determine transfers between fair value hierarchy levels at the reporting period end. The inputs or methodology used for valuing investments is not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those investments.
Exchange traded, domestic equity securities are valued at the last sale price on a national securities exchange, or in the absence of recorded sales, at the readily available closing bid price on such exchanges, or at the quoted bid price in the over-the-counter market and are typically categorized as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy.
Shares of exchange traded and closed-end registered investment companies are valued in the same manner as other equity securities and are typically categorized as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy. Mutual funds are valued at their net asset values, as reported by such companies and are typically categorized as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy.
Repurchase agreements are valued at original cost and are typically categorized as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.
Securities or other assets for which market quotations are not readily available, or are deemed unreliable due to a significant event, are valued pursuant to procedures adopted by the Trusts’ Board (“Procedures”). Depending on the source and relative significance of valuation inputs, these instruments may be classified as Level 2 or Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy. Examples of potentially significant events that could affect the value of an individual security and thus require pricing under the procedures include corporate actions by the issuer, announcements by the issuer relating to its earnings or products, regulatory news, natural disasters, and litigation. Examples of potentially significant events that could affect multiple securities held by a Portfolio include governmental actions, natural disasters, and armed conflicts.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
For the year period April 30, 2013, there were no Level 3 investments for which significant unobservable inputs were used to determine fair value.
The following is a summary of the valuation inputs used as of April 30, 2013 in valuing the Portfolios’ investments based upon the three levels defined above:
| | LEVEL 1 ($) | | LEVEL 2 ($) | | LEVEL 3 ($) | | Total ($) |
Growth Portfolio | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | |
Common Stocks (a) | | 83,573,477 | | — | | — | | 83,573,477 |
Investment Company | | 1,191,636 | | — | | — | | 1,191,636 |
Total Investment Securities | | 84,765,113 | | — | | — | | 84,765,113 |
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Opportunity Portfolio | | | | | | | | |
Investment Securities: | | | | | | | | |
Common Stocks (a) | | 174,854,087 | | — | | — | | 174,854,087 |
Investment Company | | 5,261,791 | | — | | — | | 5,261,791 |
Total Investment Securities | | 180,115,878 | | — | | — | | 180,115,878 |
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(a) | For detailed investment categorizations, see the accompanying Schedules of Portfolio Investments. |
New Accounting Pronouncements:
In January 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2013-01 “Clarifying the Scope of Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities (“ASU 2013-01”), which amended Accounting Standards Codification Subtopic 210-20, Balance Sheet Offsetting. ASU 2013-01 clarified the scope of ASU No. 2011-11 “Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities” (“ASU 2011-11”). ASU 2011-11 requires an entity to disclose information about offsetting and related arrangements to enable users of the financial statements to understand the effect of those arrangements on the entity’s financial position. ASU 2013-01 clarifies the scope of ASU 2011-11 as applying to derivatives accounted for in accordance with Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, including bifurcated embedded derivatives, repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements, and securities borrowing and securities lending transactions that are offset either in accordance with other requirements of U.S. GAAP or subject to an enforceable master netting arrangement or similar agreement. The guidance in ASU 2013-01 and ASU 2011-11 is effective for interim and annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013. Management is evaluating any impact ASU 2013-01 and ASU 2011-11 may have on the Portfolios’ financial statements.
4. Related Party Transactions and Other Agreements:
Investment Management:
HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (“HSBC” or the “Investment Adviser”), a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank USA, N.A., a national bank organized under the laws of the United States, acts as the Investment Adviser to the Portfolios pursuant to an investment management contract with the Portfolio Trust. As Investment Adviser, HSBC manages the investments of the Portfolios and continuously reviews, supervises, and administers the Portfolios’ investments. Winslow Capital Management, LLC (“Winslow”) and Westfield Capital Management Company, L.P. (“Westfield”) serve as subadvisers for the Growth Portfolio and Opportunity Portfolio, respectively, and are paid for their services directly by the respective Portfolios.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
For their services, the Investment Adviser and Winslow receive in aggregate, from the Growth Portfolio, a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate of:
Based on Average Daily Net Assets of all Sub-Adviser serviced funds and separate accounts affiliated | | |
with HSBC: | | Fee Rate(%)* |
Up to $250 million | | 0.575 |
In excess of $250 million but not exceeding $500 million | | 0.525 |
In excess of $500 million but not exceeding $750 million | | 0.475 |
In excess of $750 million but not exceeding $1 billion | | 0.425 |
In excess of $1 billion | | 0.375 |
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* | | The Growth Portfolio may pay the Investment Adviser and Winslow an aggregate maximum fee of up to 0.68%. Currently, the Investment Adviser’s contractual fee is 0.175% and Winslow’s maximum contractual fee is 0.40%. Accordingly, the current aggregate maximum fee rate is 0.575%. |
For their services, the Investment Adviser and Westfield receive in aggregate, a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate of 0.80% of the Opportunity Portfolio’s average daily net assets.
Administration:
HSBC serves the Trusts as Administrator. Under the terms of the Administration Agreement, HSBC receives from the Trusts a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly at an annual rate of:
Based on Average Daily Net Assets of | | | Fee Rate(%) |
Up to $10 billion | | 0.0550 |
In excess of $10 billion but not exceeding $20 billion | | 0.0350 |
In excess of $20 billion but not exceeding $50 billion | | 0.0275 |
In excess of $50 billion | | 0.0250 |
The fee rates and breakpoints are determined on the basis of the aggregate average daily net assets of the Trusts, however, the assets of the Portfolios and HSBC Funds and HSBC Advisor Fund that invest in the Portfolios are not double-counted. The total administration fee paid to HSBC is allocated to each series based upon its proportionate share of the aggregate net assets of the Trusts. For assets invested in the Portfolios by the HSBC Funds and HSBC Advisor Fund, the Portfolios pay half of the administration fee and the other funds pay half of the administration fee, for a combination of the total fee rate set forth above.
Pursuant to a Sub-Administration Agreement with HSBC, Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc. (“Citi”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citigroup, Inc., serves as the Trusts’ Sub-Administrator subject to the general supervision by the Trusts’ Board and HSBC. For these services, Citi is entitled to a fee, payable by HSBC, at an annual rate equivalent to the fee rates set forth above subject to certain reductions associated with services provided to new portfolios, minus 0.02% which is retained by HSBC.
Under a Compliance Services Agreement between the Trusts and Citi (the “CCO Agreement”), Citi makes an employee available to serve as the Trusts’ Chief Compliance Officer (the “CCO”). Under the CCO Agreement, Citi also provides infrastructure and support in implementing the written policies and procedures comprising the Trusts’ compliance program, including support services to the CCO. For the services provided under the CCO Agreement, the Trusts paid Citi $143,262 for the period ended April 30, 2013, plus reimbursement of certain expenses. Expenses incurred by each Portfolio are reflected on the Statements of Operations as “Compliance Services.” Citi pays the salary and other compensation earned by individuals as employees of Citi.
Fund Accounting:
Citi provides fund accounting services for the Portfolio Trust. For its services to the Portfolios, Citi receives an annual fee per portfolio, including reimbursement of certain expenses, that is accrued daily and paid monthly.
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Notes to Financial Statements—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) (continued) |
Independent Trustees:
The Trusts pay each Independent Trustee an annual retainer of $100,000. The Trusts pay a fee of $10,000 for each regular meeting of the Board of Trustees attended and a fee of $ 3,000 for each special meeting attended. The Trusts pay each Committee Chair an annual retainer of $ 3,000, with the exception of the Chair of the Audit Committee, who receives a retainer of $ 6,000. The Trusts also pay the Chairman of the Board, an additional annual retainer of $24,000. In addition, for time expended on Board duties outside normal meetings, which is authorized by the Board, a Trustee is compensated at the rate of $ 500 per hour, up to a maximum of $ 3,000 per day.
5. Investment Transactions:
Cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of securities (excluding securities maturing less than one year from acquisition) for the period ended April 30, 2013 were as follows:
Portfolio Name | | | Purchases ($) | | Sales ($) |
Growth Portfolio | | 29,565,645 | | 32,051,024 |
Opportunity Portfolio | | 63,244,033 | | 61,647,653 |
For the period ended April 30, 2013, there were no long-term U.S. government securities held by the Portfolio Trust.
6. Federal Income Tax Information:
At April 30, 2013, the cost basis of securities for federal income tax purposes, gross unrealized appreciation, gross unrealized depreciation and net unrealized appreciation/depreciation were as follows:
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Net Unrealized |
| | | | Tax Unrealized | | Tax Unrealized | | Appreciation |
Fund | | | Tax Cost($) | | Appreciation($) | | Depreciation($) | | (Depreciation)($)* |
Growth Portfolio | | 62,465,363 | | | 22,618,866 | | | | (319,116 | ) | | | 22,299,750 |
Opportunity Portfolio | | 143,728,751 | | | 39,548,076 | | | | (3,160,949 | ) | | | 36,387,127 |
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* | | The difference between book-basis unrealized appreciation (depreciation) is attributable primarily to tax deferral of losses on wash sales. |
7. Subsequent Events:
Management has evaluated events and transactions through the date the financial statements were issued, for purposes of recognition or disclosure in these financial statements and there are no subsequent events to report.
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Investment Adviser Contract Approval |
Section 15(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), generally requires that a majority of the trustees of a mutual fund who are not parties to an investment advisory agreement for the fund or “interested persons” of the investment adviser, as defined in the 1940 Act (the “Independent Trustees”), review and approve the investment advisory agreement at an in person meeting for an initial period of up to two years and thereafter on an annual basis. A summary of the material factors considered by the Independent Trustees and the Boards of Trustees (the “Board”) of HSBC Funds, HSBC Advisor Funds Trust and HSBC Portfolios (each, a “Trust”) in connection with approving investment advisory and sub-advisory agreements for the series of the Trusts (each, a “Fund”) during the semi-annual period ended April 30, 2013 and the conclusions the Independent Trustees and Board made as a result of those considerations are set forth below.
Annual Continuation of Advisory and Sub-Advisory Agreements
The Board met in person and the Contracts and Expense Committee thereof, which consists of the Independent Trustees of the Trusts (the “Contracts Committee”), met separately to consider, among other matters:
- the approval of the continuation of the: (i) Investment Advisory Contracts and related Supplements (“Advisory Contracts”) between the Trusts and HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. (the “Adviser”) and (ii) Sub- Advisory Agreements (“Sub-Advisory Contracts”) between the Adviser and each investment sub-adviser (“Sub-Adviser”) to one or more Funds; and
- the approval of the continuation of certain other ancillary agreements to which the Adviser is a party that obligate the Adviser to provide the Funds with administrative services, such as the Administration Agreement, Support Services Agreement and Operational Support Services Agreement (each, an “Ancillary Agreement”).
Prior to the meetings, the Independent Trustees received and reviewed the information they thought reasonably necessary to evaluate the terms of the Advisory Contracts, Sub-Advisory Contracts and Ancillary Agreements (collectively, the “Agreements”). This information included, among other things, information about: (i) the services that the Adviser and Sub-Advisers provide; (ii) the personnel who provide such services; (iii) investment performance, including comparative data provided by Lipper Inc. (“Lipper”); (iv) trading practices of the Adviser and Sub-Advisers; (v) fees received or to be received by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers, including in comparison with the advisory fees paid by other similar funds based on materials provided by Lipper; (vi) total expense ratios, including in comparison with the total expense ratios of other similar funds based on Lipper data; (vii) the profitability of the Adviser and certain of the Sub-Advisers; and (viii) compliance-related matters pertaining to the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. Counsel to the Trusts and to the Independent Trustees were present at each Contracts Committee meeting and the Board meeting.
When it met, the Contracts Committee and its members reviewed the information provided in advance of the meeting and discussed, among other things: (i) the Funds’ investment advisory arrangements and expense limitation agreements with the Adviser; (ii) the Trusts’ arrangements with the unaffiliated investment sub-advisers to the Trusts, Westfield Capital Management Company, LP (“Westfield”) and Winslow Capital Management, LLC (“Winslow”); (iii) the Trusts’ Administration Agreement with the Adviser; and (iv) regulatory considerations. The Contracts Committee also convened to consider, among other things: (i) the Support Services Agreement and Operational Support Services Agreement with the Adviser; (ii) the Adviser’s Multimanager function; (iii) the Adviser’s advisory services with respect to the Funds that are money market funds (“Money Market Funds”); (iv) the Adviser’s profitability; and (v) additional information provided by the Adviser at the request of the Board. Following the December 5, 2012 and December 17-18, 2012 Contracts Committee meetings, the members of the Contracts Committee determined to recommend to the Board that the Agreements be continued for an additional one-year period.
At the in-person meeting, held on December 17-18, 2012, the Board, including the Independent Trustees, reviewed and discussed the materials and other information provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers and considered the previous deliberations and recommendation of the Contracts Committee. As a result of this process, the Board and Independent Trustees determined to approve the continuation of the Agreements with respect to each Fund.
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Investment Adviser Contract Approval (continued) |
The Board and the Independent Trustees made these determinations on the basis of the following considerations, among others:
Nature, Extent, and Quality of Services Provided by Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees examined the nature, quality and extent of the investment advisory and administrative support services provided by the Adviser to the Funds, as well as the quality and experience of the Adviser’s personnel. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s Multimanager unit with respect to the World Selection Funds and the Equity Funds, the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s Emerging Markets Debt Team with respect to the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the capabilities of the Adviser’s oversight with respect to the Frontier Markets Fund, as well as the capabilities and performance of the Adviser’s portfolio management and credit review teams with respect to the Money Market Funds. The Independent Trustees also considered the nature, quality and extent of the administrative support services that the Adviser provides to the Funds, including the Adviser’s oversight and management of the Funds’ other service providers.
The Independent Trustees also took note of: (i) the long-term relationship between the Adviser and the Funds; (ii) the Adviser’s reputation and financial condition; (iii) the reduction during the period in the HSBC Family of Fund’s net assets, and its effect on economies of scale; (iv) the recent liquidation of certain Funds; and (v) the efforts undertaken by the Adviser to foster the growth and development of the Funds since the inception of each of the Funds, including the recent development and launch of the HSBC RMB Fixed Income Fund and HSBC Total Return Fund, and an increased entrepreneurial commitment to the success of the Funds with new classes of shareholders. With respect to the Money Market Funds, the Independent Trustees considered the financial support the Adviser and its affiliates have afforded the Money Market Funds, such as the voluntary fee waivers and reimbursements made to maintain a non-negative yield for the Money Market Funds more recently, and noted the material increase in these waivers and reimbursements due to the economic environment for money market funds over the previous year. In addition, the Independent Trustees considered the Adviser’s performance in fulfilling its responsibilities for overseeing its own and the Sub-Advisers’ compliance with the Funds’ compliance policies and procedures and investment objectives. In assessing the Adviser’s reputation, the Independent Trustees considered a recent regulatory matter affecting the parent of the Adviser which did not relate to the Funds.
The Independent Trustees also examined the nature, quality and extent of the services that the Sub-Advisers provide to their respective Funds. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the investment performance and the portfolio risk characteristics achieved by the Sub-Advisers and the Sub-Advisers’ portfolio management teams, their experience, and the quality of their compliance programs, among other factors.
Based on these considerations, the Independent Trustees concluded that they were satisfied with the nature, quality and extent of the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers, and that the services provided supported continuance of the Agreements.
Investment Performance of the Funds, Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees considered the investment performance of each Fund over various periods of time, as compared to one another as well as to comparable funds and one or more benchmark indices. In the context of the World Selection Funds, the Independent Trustees took note of the expenses of underlying funds and considered the performance of the World Selection Funds, and particularly the Aggressive Strategy Fund, in light of the World Selection Funds’ relative positioning and peers. In the context of the HSBC Growth Portfolio, although the Independent Trustees noted the recent underperformance of the Portfolio in light of data provided by Lipper, it favorably noted the consistent performance record of the Portfolio and the strong compliance culture at the Portfolio’s Sub-Adviser. In the context of the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio, the Independent Trustees considered that the Portfolio was relatively expensive as compared to its peers, yet was also characterized by relatively high return as well as higher volatility. With respect to the HSBC Opportunity Portfolio, the Independent Trustees also considered the compliance efforts of the Portfolio’s Sub-Adviser.
In the context of the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the Independent Trustees found the expenses of the HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund to be reasonable and its performance to be acceptable, but the Independent Trustees noted that the HSBC Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund had performed less competitively. With respect to the Emerging Markets Debt Funds, the Independent Trustees also requested and received information regarding the Funds’ integration into the overall structure of the HSBC Family of Funds. In the context of the HSBC Frontier Markets Fund, the Independent Trustees noted the Fund’s fees and expenses as compared to its peers, and
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Investment Adviser Contract Approval (continued) |
requested and received information regarding the advisory fee split between the Adviser and the Fund’s Sub-Adviser. In the context of the Money Market Funds, the Independent Trustees considered the yield support that the Adviser had provided in order for the Money Market Funds to maintain positive yield and performance. The Independent Trustees determined that the Funds’ investment performance and the Adviser’s actions to improve investment performance, where applicable, supported continuance of the Agreements, although they would continue to monitor performance closely, particularly for those Funds that had weaker performance compared to peers during the past year.
Costs of Services and Profits Realized by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. The Independent Trustees considered the costs of the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers and the expense ratios of the Funds more generally. The Independent Trustees considered the Adviser’s profitability and costs, including by means of an analysis provided by the Adviser of its estimated profitability. The Independent Trustees also considered the contractual advisory fees under the Advisory Contracts and compared those fees to the fees of similar funds, which had been compiled and provided by Lipper. The Independent Trustees determined that the Funds had advisory fees competitive with those of similar funds, noting the resources, expertise and experience provided to the Funds.
The Independent Trustees also compared the advisory fees under the Advisory Contracts with those of other accounts managed by the Adviser, and evaluated information provided as to why advisory fees may differ between mutual funds and other advisory relationships, including increased shareholder activity. In this regard, the Independent Trustees concluded that differences in advisory fees assessed between the Funds and other accounts managed by the Adviser did not preclude approval of the Advisory Contracts.
With respect to the administrative support services provided by the Adviser, the Independent Trustees considered the fees charged for such services and evaluated the fees payable to the Adviser and those payable to other providers of administrative services to the Funds. At the request of the Independent Trustees, the Adviser provided information regarding the pricing differential between the retail and institutional shares’ respective Operational Support Services Agreements. The Independent Trustees determined that the differences are in-line with industry standards and recognize the different services provided to retail as compared to institutional shareholders. The Independent Trustees also considered the relative split of the administration fee between the Adviser and Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc., as sub-administrator and other factors relevant to their consideration of these arrangements.
The Independent Trustees also considered the costs of the services provided by the Sub-Advisers, as applicable; the relative portions of the total advisory fees paid to the Sub-Advisers and retained by the Adviser in its capacity as the Funds’ investment adviser; and the services provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers. In the context of the HSBC Growth Portfolio, the Independent Trustees considered the sub-advisory fee breakpoint structure. The Independent Trustees also considered information on profitability where provided by the Sub-Advisers.
The Independent Trustees concluded that the advisory fees payable to the Adviser and the Funds’ Sub-Advisers were fair and reasonable in light of the factors set forth above.
Other Relevant Considerations. The Independent Trustees also considered the extent to which the Adviser and Sub-Advisers had achieved economies of scale, whether the Funds’ expense structure permits economies of scale to be shared with the Funds’ shareholders and, if so, the extent to which the Funds’ shareholders may benefit from these economies of scale. The Independent Trustees also noted the contractual caps on certain Fund expenses provided by the Adviser with respect to many of the Funds in order to reduce or control the overall operating expenses of those Funds. The Independent Trustees also considered certain information provided by the Adviser and Sub-Advisers with respect to the benefits they may derive from their relationships with the Funds, including the fact that certain Sub-Advisers have “soft dollar” arrangements with respect to Fund brokerage and therefore may have access to research and other permissible services.
In light of the above considerations and such other factors and information it considered relevant, the Board by a unanimous vote of those present in person at the meeting (including a separate unanimous vote of the Independent Trustees present in person at the meeting) approved the continuation of each Agreement.
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Table of Shareholder Expenses—as of April 30, 2013 (Unaudited) |
As a shareholder of the Portfolios, you incur ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses.
These examples are intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Portfolios and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.
These examples are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period from November 1, 2012 through April 30, 2013.
Actual Example
The table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information below, 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 table under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
| | | | | | | | Annualized |
| | Beginning | | Ending | | Expenses Paid | | Expense Ratio |
| | Account Value | | Account Value | | During Period* | | During Period |
| | 11/1/12 | | 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12 - 4/30/13 |
Growth Portfolio | | $1,000.00 | | $1,135.10 | | $3.81 | | 0.72% |
Opportunity Portfolio | | 1,000.00 | | 1,183.30 | | 4.82 | | 0.89% |
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* | Expenses are equal to the average account value over the period, multiplied by the Portfolio’s annualized expense ratio, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one half year period). |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
The table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on each Portfolio’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Portfolio’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 this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of 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 sales charges (loads), redemption fees, or exchange fees. Therefore, the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
| | | | | | | | Annualized |
| | Beginning | | Ending | | Expenses Paid | | Expense Ratio |
| | Account Value | | Account Value | | During Period* | | During Period |
| | 11/1/12 | | 4/30/13 | | 11/1/12-4/30/13 | | 11/1/12-4/30/13 |
Growth Portfolio | | $1,000.00 | | $1,021.58 | | $3.67 | | 0.72% |
Opportunity Portfolio | | 1,000.00 | | 1,020.72 | | 4.53 | | 0.89% |
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* | Expenses are equal to the average account value over the period, multiplied by the Portfolio’s annualized expense ratio, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one half year period). |
Other Information (Unaudited):
Information regarding how the Funds voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30th is available (i) without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-525-5757 for HSBC Bank USA and HSBC Brokerage (USA) Inc. clients and 1-800-782-8183 for all other shareholders; (ii) on the Funds’ website at www.investorfunds.us.hsbc.com; and (iii) on the Security and Exchange Commission’s (“Commission”) website at http://www.sec.gov.
The Funds file their complete schedules of portfolio holdings with the Commission for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Funds’ Forms N-Q are available on the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov. The Funds’ Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the Commission’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. and information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. The Funds’ Schedules of Investments will be available no later than 60 days after each period end, without charge, on the Funds’ website at www.investorfunds.us.hsbc.com.
An investment in a Fund is not a deposit of HSBC Bank USA, National Association, and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
HSBC FAMILY OF FUNDS: INVESTMENT ADVISER AND ADMINISTRATOR HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc. 452 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10018 SUB-ADVISERS HSBC Growth Portfolio Winslow Capital Management, LLC 4720 IDS Tower 80 South Eighth Street Minneapolis, MN 55402 HSBC Opportunity Portfolio Westfield Capital Management Company, L.P. One Financial Center Boston, MA 02111 | | SHAREHOLDER SERVICING AGENTS For HSBC Bank USA, N.A. and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. Clients HSBC Bank USA, N.A. 452 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10018 1-888-525-5757 For All Other Shareholders HSBC Funds P.O. Box 182845 Columbus, OH 43218 1-800-782-8183 TRANSFER AGENT Citi Fund Services 3435 Stelzer Road Columbus, OH 43219 DISTRIBUTOR Foreside Distribution Services, L.P. 690 Taylor Road, Suite 150 Gahanna, OH 43230 CUSTODIAN The Northern Trust Company 50 South LaSalle Street Chicago, IL 60603 INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM KPMG LLP 191 West Nationwide Blvd., Suite 500 Columbus, OH 43215 LEGAL COUNSEL Dechert LLP 1900 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 |

The HSBC Family of Funds are distributed by Foreside Distribution Services, L.P. This document must be preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus for the HSBC Funds, which you should read carefully before you invest or send money.
— NOT FDIC INSURED — NO BANK GUARANTEE — MAY LOSE VALUE
Item 2. Code of Ethics.
Not applicable – only for annual reports.
Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert.
Not applicable – only for annual reports.
Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.
Not applicable – only for annual reports.
Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Investments.
(a) Included as a part of the report to shareholders filed under Item 1.
(b) Not applicable.
Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable.
Item 9. Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers.
Not applicable.
Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
Not applicable.
Item 11. Controls and Procedures.
(a) The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded, based on their evaluation of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures as conducted within 90 days of the filing date of this report, that these disclosure controls and procedures are adequately designed and are operating effectively to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the registrant on Form N-Q is (i) accumulated and communicated to the investment company’s management, including its certifying officers, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure; and (ii) recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms.
(b) There were no changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the 1940 Act (17 CFR 270.30a-3(d)) that occurred during the registrant’s first fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
Item 12. Exhibits.
(a)(1) Not applicable – Only effective for annual reports.
(a)(2) Certifications pursuant to Rule 30a-2(a) are attached hereto.
(a)(3) Not applicable.
(b) Certifications pursuant to Rule 30a-2(b) are furnished herewith.
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.
By (Signature and Title) | /s/ Richard A. Fabietti | |
| Richard A. Fabietti |
| 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 and on the dates indicated.
By (Signature and Title) | /s/ Richard A. Fabietti | |
| Richard A. Fabietti |
| President |
By (Signature and Title) | /s/ Ty Edwards | |
| Ty Edwards |
| Treasurer |