UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-CSRS
CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES
Investment Company Act file number | 811-07840 |
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Schroder Series Trust |
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter) |
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875 Third Avenue, 22nd Floor New York, NY | | 10022 |
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Schroder Series Trust P.O. Box 8507 Boston, MA 02266 |
(Name and address of agent for service) |
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Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: | 1-800-464-3108 | |
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Date of fiscal year end: | October 31, 2012 | |
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Date of reporting period: | April 30, 2012 | |
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Item 1. Reports to Stockholders.
April 30, 2012 Semi-Annual Report
Schroder North American Equity Fund
Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund
Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund
Schroder International Alpha Fund
Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund
Schroder Global Quality Fund
Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund
Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund
Schroder Mutual Funds
Table of Contents
Letter to Shareholders | 1 |
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Management Discussion and Analysis | 3 |
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Schedules of Investments | |
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North American Equity Fund | 24 |
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U.S. Opportunities Fund | 33 |
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U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | 36 |
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Emerging Market Equity Fund | 39 |
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International Alpha Fund | 43 |
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International Multi-Cap Value Fund | 46 |
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Global Quality Fund | 61 |
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Total Return Fixed Income Fund | 70 |
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Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | 78 |
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Statements of Assets and Liabilites | 82 |
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Statements of Operations | 84 |
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Statements of Changes in Net Assets | 86 |
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Financial Highlights | 90 |
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Notes to Financial Statements | 94 |
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Disclosure of Fund Expenses | 110 |
Proxy Voting (Unaudited)
A description of the Funds’ proxy voting policies and procedures is available upon request, without charge, by visiting the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) website at http://www.sec.gov, or by calling 1-800-464-3108 and requesting a copy of the applicable Fund’s Statement of Additional Information or on the Schroder Funds website at http://www.schroderfunds.com, by downloading the Funds’ Statement of Additional Information. Information regarding how the Funds voted proxies related to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available without charge, upon request by calling 1-800-464-3108 and on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
Form N-Q (Unaudited)
The Funds file their complete schedules of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Funds’ Form N-Q is available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov, and may be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
Schroder Mutual Funds
June 11, 2012
Dear Shareholder:
The beginning of the reporting period for the US equity market was relatively volatile, but proved the best performing region overall. Moderately positive economic indicators, better-than-expected employment and manufacturing data and some good corporate earnings buoyed investor sentiment as the fourth quarter of 2011 progressed. The coordinated action taken by the Fed and five other major central banks to ease the dollar funding pressure, coupled with further encouraging data in December (a rebound in US consumer confidence and continued growth in the US services sector), boosted US stocks and saw equity markets end the year as a whole in positive territory.
Throughout Europe, the news through the end of 2011 triggered vast swings in sentiment and was borne out in equity markets during the fourth quarter. November saw a decent pick up in sentiment that drove share price gains, pulling equity markets firmly into positive territory over the fourth quarter as a whole. The European Central Bank (ECB) cut interest rates by 25 basis points (bps) at the beginning of November, with a further quarter percentage point cut in December. Stronger composite Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) data in December from the previous month offered some indication that the slowdown in Europe had been less severe than feared, while inflation showed signs of subsiding. As European politicians struggled to reach an agreement on a credible, long-term solution to the ballooning sovereign debt crisis, banks welcomed the ECB’s liquidity boost (designed to help ease funding pressures) with its sale of three-year loans attracting strong demand. While the move averted an interbank lending freeze, much of the money has been parked back at the ECB’s overnight deposit facility (a record high of €452 billion in December).
At the same time, Japanese equities struggled to find momentum over the beginning of the reporting period. The end of 2011 saw the yen hit record high levels against the US dollar, prompting the Japanese government to intervene to push the currency lower. Japanese exporters struggled with the persistently strong yen, which was driven higher as risk-averse investors sought safe havens amid the continued turmoil in the eurozone and concerns about the global economic outlook.
Robust consumer data from the US and an easing of panic over eurozone debt lifted Asian equities in the fourth quarter but failed to rescue them from their first annual decline in three years. Signs of a slowdown in growth across the region were underscored by China’s decision to lift the reserve requirement ratio on banks, marking the end of a two-year tightening cycle. Meanwhile, manufacturing activity expanded in India and China in December. Emerging market equities, as measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, produced positive returns over the fourth quarter of 2011; however, they underperformed developed equities, reflecting the ‘risk off’ environment in equity markets as a result of macroeconomic problems in the eurozone.
Equity markets made a very strong start to 2012, ending the first quarter with the S&P 500 recording a return of more than 12%, the seventh best start to a year since 1928 according to Bloomberg figures. High beta cyclical sectors led the way with technology and financial stocks outperforming strongly while the more defensive telecoms, consumer staples and utilities lagged. Such a mix helped account for the strong performance of the German and Japanese markets with the DAX and Topix up around 20%.
Despite the rally in equity markets, government bond yields remained low. Yields rose following the US Federal Reserve’s policy statement on March 13th, when the Fed indicated it was slightly less wary about the outlook for growth but remained well below the levels of a year ago.
The end of the reporting period saw US markets falling slightly, as concerns over the European debt crisis, a focus on Spain and weak US economic news over the month of April as a whole, affected investor sentiment. Towards the end of April, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) kept its monetary policy settings unchanged in order to support a stronger economic recovery and ensure that inflation stays at a consistent rate. Longer-term inflation expectations have remained stable. The FOMC stated that Operation Twist—designed to put downward pressure on longer-term interest rates to stimulate the economy while keeping short-term rates high to prevent an outflow of reserves — is still on schedule to run through to mid-year.
Growing risk aversion was reflected in eurozone equity markets as we closed the reporting period. Positive sentiment following the ECB’s €1 trillion liquidity injection was swiftly replaced with growing unease about political and economic stability in the region, while concerns about global growth prospects added to the gloom. We saw a change in ‘sector leadership’, with those more economically sensitive stocks that led the first-quarter rally in 2012 pulling back and defensive areas of the market benefiting from the retrenchment by investors.
The north-south divergence continued with northern and core European countries outperforming while Spanish and Italian equities were among the weakest performers. As peripheral country concerns escalated, with particular focus on Spain’s fiscal issues, Italian and Spanish bond yields rose significantly. The euro softened against the US dollar by the end of April, although a relatively hawkish monetary policy stance from the ECB provided some support. Interest rates remained on hold as we closed out April.
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Looking forward, the improvement in US economic activity over the past six months has led many to argue that we are now in a self sustaining recovery. Better payroll figures have raised the prospect of stronger employment feeding into stronger income and spending figures. In response, investors are questioning the sustainability of the low level of bond yields in the US government bond market. While recognizing that rates will eventually rise, we believe it is too early to see an acceleration in US growth and a subsequent sell off in the Treasury market. Despite the better than expected start to the year, we continue to expect a year of subdued activity with growth around 2% in 2012.
Another issue which has dominated market sentiment lately has been the Euro crisis and the plight of Spain, which has been struggling to implement an austerity program and structural reform. In our view this is not over, as can be seen from our baseline forecast where we believe there is a high probability of a Greek exit from the eurozone in 2013. Investors are nervous again. We believe the rally in European risk assets at the start of the year is well and truly over. To make matters worse, it seems that the pick up in economic activity around the same time may also have been a temporary blip. We see the risk of recession intensifying which is making a further drive for austerity very difficult. This has been a battle ground in European politics for the last couple of years, though the beginning of the next reporting period may see even more debate, and possibly even some consequential change. Consensus growth forecasts for the current calendar year for the world economy are one percentage point lower than they were this time last year.
In conclusion, the world economy still faces a challenging 2012 with growth at subdued levels, but recent data points to stabilization in the manufacturing sector and policy makers have been more aggressive than expected in loosening monetary policy. As a result, we see a smaller recession than before in the Eurozone. Although tighter fiscal policy and banking sector de-leveraging remains a feature, Germany has proved to be more resilient than forecast while the ECB’s long-term repo operations liquidity measures are expected to have headed off the worse effects of the credit crunch.
Nonetheless, 2012 could prove to be a more difficult year. As it becomes apparent that Greece is missing it targets, the European and international authorities are likely to demand more austerity, which could force a Greek exit from the eurozone. The eurozone survives based on the view that much of the private sector exposure has been written off so far and firewalls are likely to be in place to prevent contagion to the rest of the periphery. However, the risk, of course, is that we are too optimistic and that a Greek exit would be a forerunner to a wider eurozone break up.
As we stated in the Funds’ Annual Report, in this type of environment, we believe that the investor who maintains a diversified portfolio — both across asset classes and geographic borders — should be able to weather the bumpy periods better than those who have high concentrations in one or two sectors or regions. We encourage you to consult with your financial advisor to ascertain whether your current mix of investments is suitable for your long-term objectives.
Again, we thank you for including Schroders in your financial plan and we look forward to our continued relationship.
| Sincerely, |
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| /s/ Mark A. Hemenetz |
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| Mark A. Hemenetz, CFA |
| President |
The views expressed in the following report were those of each respective Fund’s portfolio management team as of the date specified, and may not reflect the views of the portfolio managers on the date this Annual Report is published or any time thereafter. These views are intended to assist shareholders of the Funds in understanding their investment in the Funds and do not constitute investment advice; investors should consult their own investment professionals as to their individual investment programs. Certain securities described in these reports may no longer be held by the Funds and therefore may no longer appear in the Schedules of Investments as of April 30, 2012.
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Schroder North American Equity Fund
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS (As of May 31, 2012)
Performance
In the six months ended April 30, 2012, the Schroder North American Equity Fund (the “Fund”) rose 11.62% (Investor Shares) and 11.37% (Advisor Shares). For the same six-month period, the S&P 500 Index (the “Index”) rose 12.77%.
Market Background
Despite getting off to a rocky start in November after the downward revision of third-quarter GDP growth to an annual rate of 2% (from an earlier estimate of 2.5%) hit investor confidence, moderately positive economic indicators, better-than-expected employment and manufacturing data and some good corporate earnings buoyed sentiment through December. A rebound in US consumer confidence and continued growth in the US services sector added to investor confidence.
As we entered 2012, investors were seeing more reasons to be hopeful than pessimistic — on the back of improving economic data, and as concerns about eurozone sovereign debt began to ease following the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) liquidity boost to the European banking system. The renewed optimism saw US equities continue to rally in the first three months of 2012, recording its strongest first quarter gains since 1998.
The US labor market added nearly three quarters of a million jobs in the first quarter 2012, boosting hopes for the global economic growth outlook. Indeed, figures towards the end of March showed the lowest number of initial jobless claims for nearly four years — highlighting the resilience of the economy.
The US Federal Reserve’s Open Markets Committee also extended its commitment to a near-zero benchmark interest rate through late 2014 (previously stating through mid-2013), further boosting risk appetite.
However, confidence began to deteriorate once more in April as concerns about economic and fiscal stability in peripheral European countries re-emerged. Despite losing steam towards the end of the period, positive sentiment drove US equity market gains overall.
Cyclical sectors benefited from growing risk appetite over the period. House-builders and building-related companies outperformed, along with banking stocks, retailers and oil-services names. Pockets of risk aversion also supported traditionally defensive stocks, such as tobacco companies.
Portfolio Review
Both the Fund and Index registered absolute gains over the period, although Fund returns lagged the benchmark.
Weaker stock selection among retailers, media and software names, along with the Fund’s larger relative exposure to minerals and mining stocks, accounted for the majority of the performance gap. Leading contributors included utilities and technology hardware stocks.
Outlook
The Fund remains well diversified, seeking a broad range of opportunities across the market. Multiple investment strategies are spread across a large number of small stock positions to capture broad themes and limit stock-specific risk while top down risks (such as those arising from region and sector positions) are carefully managed.
Within cyclical parts of the market, we prefer technology stocks, specifically semiconductors and hardware. Consumer discretionary remains an underweight within the Fund’s portfolio.
Within defensives, the Fund is overweight healthcare favoring service providers. The Fund continues to hold an underweight allocation to utilities.
Within resources, the Fund retains a preference for energy; we anticipate selectively favoring mining stocks that demonstrate very high levels of profitability.
In addition, the Fund’s strategy within financials remains focused on high quality companies.
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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
| | | | | | Annualized | |
| | One Year Ended | | Five Years Ended | | Since | |
| | April 30, 2012 | | April 30, 2012 (a) | | Inception | |
Schroder North American Equity Fund — | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | 3.75 | % | 1.33 | % | 6.19 | %(b) |
Advisor Shares | | 3.40 | % | 0.97 | % | 5.84 | %(c) |
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 Index | | 4.76 | % | 1.01 | % | 5.76 | % |
(a) Average annual total return.
(b) The Investor Shares commenced operations on September 17, 2003.
(c) The Advisor Shares commenced operations on March 31, 2006. The performance information provided in the above table for periods prior to March 31, 2006 reflects the performance of the Investor Shares of the Fund, adjusted to reflect the distribution fees paid by Advisor Shares.
“Total Return” is calculated including reinvestment of all dividends and distributions. Results do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. Returns for certain periods reflect fee waivers and/or reimbursements in effect for that period; absent fee waivers and reimbursements, performance would have been lower. Results represent past performance and do not indicate future results. The value of an investment in the Fund and the return on investment both will fluctuate and redemption proceeds may be higher or lower than an investor’s original cost.
Top 5 Holdings
Security* | | % of Investments | |
Apple | | 4.0 | % |
ExxonMobil | | 3.1 | |
Microsoft | | 1.9 | |
International Business Machines | | 1.9 | |
Chevron | | 1.7 | |
* Excludes Short-Term Investment.
Sector Allocation
Sector | | % of Investments | |
Information Technology | | 18.2 | % |
Financials | | 13.5 | |
Healthcare | | 11.2 | |
Energy | | 10.8 | |
Consumer Staples | | 9.8 | |
Industrials | | 9.8 | |
Consumer Discretionary | | 8.6 | |
Utilities | | 3.2 | |
Materials | | 3.2 | |
Telecommunication Services | | 2.6 | |
Short-Term Investment | | 9.1 | |
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Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS (As of May 31, 2012)
Performance
In the six months ended April 30, 2012, the Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund (the “Fund”) rose 9.55% (Investor Shares) and 9.44% (Advisor Shares) compared to the Russell 2000 Index (the “Index”), a broad-based basket of stocks with characteristics similar to the Fund’s portfolio, which rose 11.02%.
Market Background
The six month period had divergent sub-periods which could be characterized as “risk on/risk off”. The period began rather quietly (i.e., “risk off”) as returns for November and December were both close to flat. Once the calendar turned, the market rose sharply for the first three months of the year (“risk on”) with a return for the Index of 12.44%. Optimism about the US economy abounded until April, when concerns rose about the slow pace of recovery in the jobs market in tandem with renewed worrisome headlines from Europe. As a result, the market returned to a “risk off” posture and began to pull back in April -1.54%. This has been typical of the overall equity market for some time now, as macroeconomic news has played a powerful role in setting market tone and direction.
Portfolio Review
The Fund underperformed the Index during the six months ending April 30, 2012. The underperformance can be analyzed in two ways: a) market factors and b) sector and stock positions.
From the viewpoint of market factors, several factors hurt the Fund’s portfolio. Over the six-month reporting period, higher beta stocks outperformed lower beta issues. Our investment style leads us to overweight the lower beta segments of the Index and underweight high beta. Interestingly, capitalization was much less of a factor than it has been in some other periods. There was no clear pattern of returns across the capitalization deciles.
From a sector/stock perspective, the Fund suffered from poor stock selection in financials. Additionally, the Fund was hurt by its underweight of the sector (which is normal given our disinclination to invest in Real Estate Investment Trusts or REITs) as financials were one of the strongest performing sectors during this period. In fact, the underweight in REITs was a key part of the Fund’s performance lag as this sector outperformed the Index by over 525 basis points. The Fund’s underweight in banks also detracted as this sector outperformed the Index by over 650 basis points. At the stock level, a holding in Cash America International, a specialty finance company, detracted from relative returns. The company operates payday loan and pawnshop businesses, and higher than expected expenses hurt the stock. The other main source of performance lag was the Fund’s cash holding, which averaged almost 9% over the six months. While cash helped in April, it certainly detracted during the strong months of January through March. The Fund also underperformed in the energy sector with SM Energy its largest detractor. The company is an oil and gas exploration and production company, and the low price of natural gas hurt their overall earnings.
On the positive side, the Fund saw significant value from stocks in the technology (AboveNet), materials and processing (Cabot) and healthcare (Cooper) sectors. AboveNet announced that they were being acquired by a private company (Zayo Group); Cabot saw good demand for their products (particularly carbon black used in tires) and expanding margins; and Cooper benefitted from growing demand for contact lens and an approval of a new lens designed for individuals with astigmatism.
Outlook
We have expressed concerns over the past year about excessive optimism from Wall Street on earnings forecasts for companies in our space. While analysts have slowly lowered their 2012 earnings estimates, we continue to feel that the Street is overly optimistic about the pace of the recovery. Additionally, we worry that the artificially low interest rates, which are a result of current Federal Reserve policy, are having an impact on valuations. The environment as we see it is now driven by low rates (which artificially lower valuations) and too-high expectations for earnings. This creates a difficult market for stock pickers looking for under-valued and under-appreciated companies. On the economic forefront, we believe that the US is in the midst of a long, slow recovery; we are not in the “double dip” recession camp. We also see signs that the housing market is beginning to recover, although there still remains significant unsold inventory which needs to clear the market. We are concerned about slowdowns overseas, specifically in China and Germany, which is the driver of the European economy. The sovereign debt problems plaguing what some refer to as ‘peripheral Europe’ remain a significant overhang to markets globally.
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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
| | One Year Ended April 30, 2012 | | Five Years Ended April 30, 2012 (a) | | Ten Years Ended April 30, 2012 (a) | |
Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund (b) (c) — | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | (4.36 | )% | 3.32 | % | 8.28 | % |
Advisor Shares | | (4.60 | )% | 3.07 | % | 8.02 | %(d) |
Russell 2000 Index | | (4.25 | )% | 1.45 | % | 6.19 | % |
(a) Average annual total return.
(b) Effective May 1, 2006, the combined advisory and administrative fees of the Fund increased to 1.00% per annum. If the Fund had paid such higher fees during prior periods, the returns of the Fund would have been lower.
(c) The portfolio manager primarily responsible for making investment decisions for the Fund assumed this responsibility effective January 2, 2003. The performance results for periods prior to January 2, 2003 were achieved by the Fund under a different portfolio manager.
(d) The Advisor Shares commenced operations on May 15, 2006. The performance information provided in the above table for periods prior to May 15, 2006 reflects the performance of the Investor Shares of the Fund, adjusted to reflect the distribution fees paid by Advisor Shares.
“Total Return” is calculated including reinvestment of all dividends and distributions. Results do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. Returns for certain periods reflect fee waivers and/or reimbursements in effect for that period; absent fee waivers and reimbursements, performance would have been lower. Results represent past performance and do not indicate future results. The value of an investment in the Fund and the return on investment both will fluctuate and redemption proceeds may be higher or lower than an investor’s original cost.
Top 5 Holdings
Security* | | % of Investments | |
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NorthWestern | | 1.4 | % |
Brown & Brown | | 1.4 | |
Waste Connections | | 1.4 | |
Alterra Capital Holdings | | 1.3 | |
Cleco | | 1.3 | |
* Excludes Short-Term Investment.
Sector Allocation
Sector | | % of Investments | |
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Consumer Discretionary | | 18.1 | % |
Financial Services | | 15.8 | |
Producer Durables | | 14.8 | |
Technology | | 11.4 | |
Healthcare | | 10.5 | |
Materials & Processing | | 7.8 | |
Other Energy | | 6.0 | |
Utilities | | 4.6 | |
Consumer Staples | | 0.9 | |
Short-Term Investment | | 10.1 | |
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Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS (As of May 31, 2012)
Performance
In the six months ended April 30, 2012, the Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund (the “Fund”) rose 10.69% (Investor Shares) and 10.56% (Advisor Shares) compared to the Russell 2500 Index (the “Index”), a broad-based basket of stocks with characteristics similar to the Fund’s portfolio, which rose 12.03%.
Market Background
The six month period had divergent sub-periods which could be characterized as “risk on/risk off”. The period began rather quietly (i.e., “risk off”) as returns for November and December were both close to flat. Once the calendar turned, the market rose sharply for the first three months of the year (“risk on”) with the Russell 2500 returning 12.99%. Optimism about the US economy abounded until April, when concerns rose about the slow pace of recovery in the jobs market in tandem with renewed worrisome headlines from Europe. As a result, the market returned to a “risk off” posture and began to pull back in April -0.73%. This has been typical of the overall equity market for some time now, as macroeconomic news has played a powerful role in setting market tone and direction.
Portfolio Review
From a market factor point of view, beta was a driver of returns during this period and capitalization was much less so. During the flat months of November and December, the lower beta quintiles outperformed high beta. That changed in January when investors returned from their year-end holidays in a decidedly “risk on” mood. Higher beta stocks led in January and February and began to fade in March and April. As indicated above, there was no clear pattern to capitalization returns over the six-month period, with the 7th decile being the weakest and the 6th and the 9th being the strongest.
From an asset allocation viewpoint, the Fund’s biggest detractor was cash, which averaged 9.9% during the six-month reporting period. Clearly in the “risk off” months, cash was not a detractor, but strong equity returns during the “risk on” months handicapped performance. Two other allocation positions are noteworthy: the Fund’s overweight in technology detracted modestly as the sector lagged and the underweight in financials hurt as financials were the second strongest sector for the six-month reporting period.
Within the sectors, the Fund had negative contributions to relative return from stock selection on producer durables, healthcare and utilities. In the producer durables group, the Fund’s biggest detractors were Waste Connections and Republic Services. Both companies are in the trash hauling business and are encountering a deterioration in pricing stability across the industry. A stock that detracted in healthcare was CareFusion, which was hurt by disappointing margins and pricing pressure. In the telecommunication services sector, the Fund’s major detractor was NII Holdings, a telecommunications company with wireless business in Latin America. Execution difficulties in their 3G network and competition dragged down the stock.
We did add value through stock selection overall, driven by the Fund’s holdings in technology, materials and processing and consumer staples. AboveNet was a big contributor in the technology area as they announced an agreement to be acquired by a private company (Zayo Group). The materials and processing sector returns were led by Airgas and Cabot. Airgas has had a series of strong earnings reports; and Cabot saw good demand for their products (particularly carbon black used in tires) and expanding margins. Consumer staples sector returns were led by Viterra, as the Canadian firm reached higher export levels of grain from its South Australian ports.
Outlook
We have expressed concerns over the past year about over-optimism from Wall Street on earnings forecasts for companies in our space. While analysts have slowly lowered 2012 earnings estimates, we continue to feel that the Street is overly optimistic about the pace of the recovery. Additionally we worry that the artificially low interest rates which are a result of current Federal Reserve policy are having an impact on valuations. The environment as we see it is now driven by low rates (which artificially lower valuations) and too-high expectations for earnings. This creates a difficult market for stock pickers looking for under-valued and under-appreciated companies. On the economic forefront, we believe that the US is in the midst of a long, slow recovery; we are not in the “double dip” recession camp. We also see signs that the housing market is beginning to recover, although there still remains significant unsold inventory which needs to clear the market. We are concerned about slowdowns overseas, specifically in China and Germany, which is the driver of the European economy. The sovereign debt problems plaguing what some refer to as ‘peripheral Europe’ remain a significant overhang to markets globally.
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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
| | | | | | Annualized | |
| | One Year Ended | | Five Years Ended | | Since | |
| | April 30, 2012 | | April 30, 2012 (a) | | Inception (b) | |
Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund — | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | (1.95 | )% | 4.22 | % | 5.66 | % |
Advisor Shares | | (2.15 | )% | 3.93 | % | 5.39 | % |
Russell 2500 Index | | (2.23 | )% | 2.35 | % | 3.69 | % |
(a) Average annual total return.
(b) From commencement of fund operations on March 31, 2006.
“Total Return” shown above is calculated including reinvestment of all dividends and distributions. Results do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. Returns for certain periods reflect fee waivers and/or reimbursements in effect for that period; absent fee waivers and reimbursements, performance would have been lower. Results represent past performance and do not indicate future results. The value of an investment in the Fund and the return on investment both will fluctuate and redemption proceeds may be higher or lower than an investor’s original cost.
Top 5 Holdings
Security* | | % of Investments | |
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Crown Holdings | | 2.1 | % |
Amdocs | | 2.0 | |
Energen | | 1.8 | |
PartnerRe | | 1.7 | |
Waste Connections | | 1.6 | |
* Excludes Short-Term Investment.
Sector Allocation
Sector | | % of Investments | |
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Consumer Discretionary | | 15.4 | % |
Financial Services | | 14.9 | |
Technology | | 14.3 | |
Healthcare | | 11.4 | |
Materials & Processing | | 9.8 | |
Producer Durables | | 7.7 | |
Utilities | | 6.5 | |
Other Energy | | 4.0 | |
Consumer Staples | | 2.1 | |
Auto & Transportation | | 1.7 | |
Telecommunication Services | | 0.5 | |
Short-Term Investment | | 11.7 | |
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Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS (As of May 31, 2012)
Performance
In the six months ended April 30, 2012, the Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund (the “Fund”) gained 7.60% (Investor Shares) and 7.56% (Advisor Shares), compared to the Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) Emerging Markets Index (the “Index”), a broad-based basket of international stocks, which rose 3.93% during the same period.
Market Background
Global equity markets rose during the six-month reporting period, reflecting a strong improvement in global risk appetite in January and February 2012. The rally at the beginning of 2012 was supported by some encouraging US macro data releases and the avoidance of an immediate Greek sovereign debt default as the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a second bail out for the country. The European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) Long Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO) also boosted sentiment in early 2012 as it helped to ease liquidity pressures faced by the European banking sector. However, global equity markets returned to worry mode in mid-March, reflecting some disappointing data releases in the eurozone and Asia and renewed concerns of a potential hard economic landing for China. The MSCI World Index produced a positive return over the period and outperformed the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, driven by strong returns from US equities.
The EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) emerging markets outperformed broader emerging markets over the period, benefiting from strength in a number of the local currencies. Egypt outperformed its emerging market peers, aided by a very strong rally in January and February following the conclusion of largely peaceful parliamentary elections. However, concerns over the currency provided a headwind for the market, with Egypt’s foreign reserves reaching low levels in March. South Africa outperformed, aided by strength in some of the consumer-related names and rand appreciation versus the US dollar. However, a number of mining-related names performed poorly as gold prices weakened. Hungary outperformed, benefiting from the increased risk appetite environment (‘risk on’) in January and February and hopes that the government should be able to reach agreement with the IMF on the terms of a standby facility. Turkey outperformed, as market sentiment was boosted by the ‘risk on’ environment in early 2012, which helped to ease pressure on the currency. Turkish current account deficits narrowed in November and continued to moderate since then, having reached record highs earlier in 2011. However, inflation concerns provided a headwind for the Turkish market as the local Consumer Price Index (CPI) reached 10.6% year on year in January. Russia underperformed, largely reflecting a heavy sell-off in December following domestic unrest amid allegations of electoral fraud in parliamentary elections. However, market sentiment was supported by strength in Brent crude oil prices and a rally in the ruble. The Czech Republic underperformed, reflecting the defensive nature of the market and a weak growth environment. Poland underperformed, reflecting the market’s relatively low beta in an emerging markets context and stubbornly high inflation, which resulted in a hawkish policy stance at the central bank. Ongoing privatizations and the associated supply of new shares also provided a headwind for the Polish market.
Asian emerging markets performed broadly in line with wider emerging markets. Thailand outperformed, benefiting from strength in a number of the energy and banking names, and expectations that the impact of last year’s heavy flooding should be short-lived. On the policy front, the Thai central bank cut interest rates to 3.0% in January to support growth. The Philippines outperformed, aided by policy easing from its central bank. Inflation concerns also eased as the consumer price index fell to 2.6% year on year in March from 4.7% year on year in November. Malaysia outperformed, benefiting from its perceived lack of sensitivity to the problems in the eurozone and stronger-than-expected fourth quarter GDP growth of 5.2% year on year. China outperformed; fears of a hard landing eased as fourth quarter GDP growth increased to 8.9% year on year, while the central bank cut reserve requirement ratios in order to release liquidity to the banking system. South Korea outperformed, with some large-cap electronics names performing very strongly following market share gains. Interest rates remained on hold at 3.25%, as widely expected. Taiwan underperformed, reflecting some political uncertainty ahead of the parliamentary and presidential elections in January, while in April sentiment was hit by news that the government is considering the re-imposition of capital gains tax on some local share transactions. Indonesia underperformed, having outperformed strongly in 2011. Turning to policy, the central bank surprised the market by cutting interest rates to 5.75% in early February, despite the inflation risks posed by rising fuel prices. The growth environment also remained strong, with GDP up 6.5% year on year in the fourth quarter. India underperformed, reflecting weakness in the rupee while inflation, fiscal and political concerns also provided a headwind for the market. On the policy front, the central bank cut interest rates in April but indicated that the scope for further easing was likely to be very limited.
Latin American emerging markets underperformed their emerging market peers over the reporting period due to weakness in the Brazilian Real. However, Colombia outperformed, aided by strength in the peso. At the stock level, energy-related names ranked among the best performers as Brent crude oil prices rose. On the policy front Colombia’s central bank continued to raise interest rates, as widely expected, with the overnight rate reaching 5.25% in late February. Peru outperformed, aided by strength in some financial stocks. However, some mining names struggled to make headway following protests against high-profile projects. Mexico outperformed, benefiting from some encouraging US macroeconomic data releases and the market’s perceived lack of sensitivity to the fiscal problems in the eurozone. Hopes of monetary policy easing also supported sentiment, although interest rates remained on hold at 4.5%. Chile outperformed, aided by a rally in copper prices and strength in the peso. On the policy front, the central bank reduced interest rates to 5.0% in early January. Brazil underperformed due to weakness in the Real as the carry trade reversed while the central
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bank cut interest rates aggressively (from 11.5% at the start of the period to 9% in April). In other developments, the government introduced further policy measures to deter short-term speculative inflows of foreign capital.
Portfolio Review
Fund performance was ahead of the Index for both Investor Shares and Advisor Shares over the six-month period. Emerging markets rose during the six months to end April 2012, although returns were behind those of developed markets. Both country allocation and stock selection added value over the period.
In terms of our country positioning, the main positive impacts came from our overweight position in Thailand, which outperformed, and the underweight position in India, which underperformed. Recent data releases from Thailand continue to indicate that the economy is recovering quickly from last year’s flooding and consequently the central bank has been upgrading its growth forecasts for 2012. Indian equities performed poorly due to a combination of currency, inflation and fiscal deficit concerns, while strong oil prices provided a further headwind due to India’s reliance on energy imports. More recently, March’s state elections saw the governing Congress Party perform poorly, reducing the likelihood of meaningful corporate reform. The positive impact of our Thai overweight and Indian underweight more than offset the unfavourable impact of our underweight positions in Mexico and South Africa. Mexico outperformed due to easing inflation concerns, hopes of domestic policy easing and the better tone of US economic data at the start of 2012, while the South African market benefited from strong performance from some of the consumer and banking sector names in the local index and its perceived lack of sensitivity to the debt and fiscal crisis in the eurozone.
Stock selection was favourable over the period and provided the main driver of the Fund’s outperformance versus the benchmark. Selection was particularly strong in Korea (overweight Samsung Electronics, overweight Hyundai Motor), Brazil (overweight Cemig, overweight Ultrapar Participacoes), Taiwan (overweight Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing), Thailand (overweight CP ALL), Indonesia (overweight Semen Gresik Persero) and China (overweight Tencent Holdings). These positive stock selection effects more than offset the negative impact of our selection decisions in Egypt (overweight Centamin) and Poland (overweight KGHM Polska Miedz earlier in the period).
Outlook
Global stock markets continued to consolidate and fall recently following renewed concerns over the sustainability of the recovery in the developed world. The deterioration of the situation in the eurozone has resulted in elevated political uncertainty in several countries and the US has offered little respite to investors with growth momentum showing signs of decelerating. The more positive medium-to longer-term outlook for global emerging markets (GEMs) continues to be tempered in the short term by challenges stemming chiefly from the developed world.
The positive effects of LTRO on investor sentiment have dissipated and a combination of austerity fatigue and disappointing data releases has resurrected sovereign debt concerns in the eurozone. The result has been political upheaval in many countries. Greek elections have been inconclusive and threatened to disqualify Greece for additional bailout funding, although the immediate risks of a default have been somewhat diminished by additional support from the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). Elevated political uncertainty has not been confined to the eurozone periphery. Francois Hollande became the first socialist President in France for 17 years; his pro-growth campaign has raised question marks over policy coordination with Angela Merkel in Germany, who continues to maintain a pro-austerity stance. The Dutch similarly succumbed to popular anti-austerity sentiment and the government collapsed. The vulnerable position of Spain continues to be apparent with 10-year sovereign bond yields rising to around 6% and news that the economy has fallen back into recession. Recent data releases from the US have been largely disappointing, although it remains subject to debate whether the recovery is sufficiently fragile to warrant further quantitative easing. The Schroders Economics team’s growth forecasts remain unchanged with global, US and eurozone GDP growth over 2012 of 2.3%, 2.1% and -0.8% respectively.
We see signs that the positive market impact of ‘sticking plasters’ or quantitative easing measures in the developed world look to be diminishing and, we believe, until a coordinated, credible policy response is forthcoming, the short-term outlook for GEMs remains vulnerable to swings in investor risk sentiment. Robust economic fundamentals continue to support a two-speed world with consensus emerging economic GDP growth estimated to be 5.1% over 2012. Valuations continue to look attractive, with GEMs trading on a price-to-earnings ratio of 10 times, and forecast earnings growth is 13%. With commodity price and inflationary pressure typically moderating, several GEMs continue to pursue expansionary monetary policy which historically has boosted stock market returns. Concerns over a ‘hard landing’ in China have not abated with first quarter GDP slowing to 8.1% year on year, although more recent data releases point to some stabilization in growth. However, while the outlook for GEMs is supported by robust growth and attractive valuation levels, GEMs will likely continue to be hampered in the near term by negative sentiment from the developed world.
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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
| | | | | | Annualized | |
| | One Year Ended | | Five Years Ended | | Since | |
| | April 30, 2012 | | April 30, 2012 (a) | | Inception (b) | |
| | | | | | | |
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund — | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | (11.19 | )% | 4.39 | % | 7.43 | % |
Advisor Shares | | (11.36 | )% | 4.21 | % | 7.22 | % |
MSCI Emerging Markets Index | | (12.61 | )% | 3.48 | % | 6.86 | % |
(a) Average annual total return.
(b) From commencement of fund operations on March 31, 2006.
“Total Return” shown above is calculated including reinvestment of all dividends and distributions. Results do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. Returns for certain periods reflect fee waivers and/or reimbursements in effect for that period absent fee waivers and reimbursements, performance would have been lower. Results represent past performance and do not indicate future results. The value of an investment in the Fund and the return on investment both will fluctuate and redemption proceeds may be higher or lower than an investor’s original cost.
Top 5 Holdings
Security* | | % of Investments | |
| | | |
Samsung Electronics | | 6.4 | % |
Hyundai Motor | | 3.4 | |
China Mobile | | 3.1 | |
Gazprom ADR | | 2.7 | |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing | | 2.5 | |
* Excludes Short-Term Investment.
Geographic Allocation
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Schroder International Alpha Fund
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS (As of May 31, 2012)
Performance
In the six months ended April 30, 2012, the Schroder International Alpha Fund (the “Fund”) gained 6.23% (Investor Shares) and 6.00% (Advisor Shares) compared to the Morgan Stanley Capital International EAFE Index (the “Index”), a broad-based basket of international stocks, which rose 2.44%.
Market Background
Markets regained their risk appetite over much of the last six months, however, this appetite stalled in April. Events in the eurozone have dominated throughout the period. While sentiment was momentarily improved by events such as the European Union (EU) summit in December and a second bailout for Greece, this did not last long, as investors became skeptical. Doubt arose over the efficacy of the summit and fears resurfaced that Greece would default. A resurgence of fragile data in the “post- Long-Term Refinancing Operations (LTRO)” environment, and uncertain outcomes in French and Greek elections, put pressure on investors to take profits in stocks after the strong rally that started in November last year. The successful presidential bid by Mr. Hollande raised fears that progress in Europe may be jeopardized Focus turned to Spain in the first quarter of 2012 as the country re-entered recession and the risk of contagion seemed more likely. At the end of the six-month period, the argument of “austerity versus growth” was at the forefront of the European discussion. Jitters about the impact of rising oil price surfaced sporadically throughout the beginning of the year, but failed to seriously hurt the positive rally seen up until April. Emerging markets mostly had a strong run as data from China generally pointed to the avoidance of a hard landing. Moderate but steadily improving US data towards the end of the period remained a bright spot in the developed world and although we think a short-term set back in momentum is still possible, markets remain cautiously optimistic.
Portfolio Review
By region, the main drivers of outperformance were Continental Europe and the UK, while Pacific ex Japan was the only significant detractor. In Continental Europe, the Fund’s underweight position to telecoms drove performance. The region’s industrials (GEA Group and Safran) also contributed strongly. The top performing stock in Continental Europe was Anheuser-Busch InBev. The world’s largest brewer reported strong results throughout the period with strong fourth quarter revenue growth, continued margin expansion and a 4.6% growth in annual revenue. Favorable weather conditions and the roll out of its Bud Light Platinum product helped performance throughout March.
In the UK, energy led relative returns. AMEC shares have had a strong run, benefitting from February’s surge in oil prices on the back of renewed hopes for global growth and political tension in the Middle East. AMEC raised its dividend, launched a £400 million share buyback scheme and announced that it expects to deliver double-digit underlying revenue growth this year.
Pacific ex-Japan materials weighed heavily on performance. Mining stocks have had a particularly tough six months, with production affected by adverse weather conditions in the region. Both stocks (Newcrest Mining, Atlas Iron) in the region’s materials underperformed. Newcrest Mining announced shortfalls in production over the period due to heavy rainfall at key sites. The company also suffered from weakness in the gold price towards the end of the first quarter this year. We believe April’s poor production numbers will be the last major production disappointment and continue to see good upside.
From the Fund’s total portfolio sector perspective, financials (Sberbank, Kasikornbank) and information technology (Samsung Electronics) contributed the most to performance. Sberbank has continued to do well since rebounding on the back of returning risk appetite in October. Annual net income was up 75% in January compared to the equivalent profit the year before. Samsung Electronics has enjoyed continued strong performance thanks to its impressive smartphone sales, becoming the largest seller of smartphones in the world. In April, the company’s earnings surprised on the upside, driven by strong handset sales and reduced seasonal marketing costs.
Outlook
The new-year rally ended in April as focus returned to Europe’s sovereign woes. Peripheral European countries’ bond yields have risen again and the regional debate on austerity versus growth has come under increasing pressure. Spain is a center of attention, with yields on its 10-year bonds once again breaching 6% — the point generally seen as the threshold for what is sustainable. While the Spanish government is stable and has the ability to reform, the market doubts the underlying political support for austerity measures. Indeed, with Spain officially back in recession and civil unrest brewing on the streets, the difficulty of fiscal tightening is starkly illustrated.
The “austerity versus growth” debate is at the heart of Europe at this point. In Holland, the prime minister offered to resign over disagreements with coalition partners on the austerity mandate. In France, the win for Mr. Hollande, who wants to amend the European fiscal pact to incorporate higher growth bias, could undermine the country’s drive for austerity and upset the political progress made in Europe in the past six months. His plans for spending increases of 20 billion euros and tax increases of 44.7 billion euros contrast with the tone for addressing structural issues and imbalances in the region via sharp austerity programs. The French parliamentary elections in June lead us to believe that he will not tone down his message until after June, in an effort to continue to win support from left wing parties. On-going elections in Greece, where public opposition to spending cuts is fierce, and a political stalemate are another source of volatility. Developments could lead to the country breaching the terms of its bailout and an exit from
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the eurozone is possible. If this were to happen, we believe containing the fallout is now more manageable than if such an event had occurred six months ago but the risk of contagion remains real.
Previously, the two waves of European Central Bank LTRO funding have given Europe breathing space but they do not solve the underlying problems— as recent developments have shown. We believe extensive restructuring is needed which will be a very challenging task. We therefore see potential for further volatility in the short-term, although we believe the worst of outcomes for the region now looks unlikely. Ultimately, we believe the region will need to move towards closer fiscal union in order to truly address its problems.
Although China GDP for the first quarter of 2012 disappointed some in the market at 8.1%, we believe this level of growth is healthy and its slowdown in growth is coming to an end. Economic data from China has broadly been encouraging and continues to support our view that the world’s second largest economy is on track for a soft landing. Official Chinese manufacturing PMI rose to 53.3 and industrial production, retail sales, new loans and export growth also picked up in March. The growth rate remains healthy and efforts to continue to promote domestic growth and selected capital spending while maintaining a cautious approach to the property sector are still on target. As expected in a political transitional year some “last minute” political positioning is taking place as evidenced by the Bo Xi Lai scandal.
We are cognizant of the risk of “mini cycles” — short-term deviations from long-term global trends which may impact economic growth. Rising oil prices currently represent one of the biggest sources of risk. The impact of sanctions and the risk of a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities might support higher prices, although fear of a slowdown in China might counterbalance this trend to some extent.
Given the improvement that we are seeing in parts of the US economy and our belief that growth in China will be stable to up during the rest of the year, in our view the two largest world economies will help support growth globally. The current “air pocket” and potential for volatility in the near term we feel should therefore be used to accumulate equities globally as they come under short-term pressure linked to fear and lack of political visibility.
We continue to pursue reasonably valued growth in companies which, irrespective of these short-term market uncertainties, are benefiting from much longer-term global trends. With a good portfolio balance between growth defensives and more cyclical industries, the Fund’s trading activity is likely to focus on stock-specific situations where we feel there is expectation for growth and valuation upside.
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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
| | One Year Ended April 30, 2012 | | Five Years Ended April 30, 2012 (a) | | Ten Years Ended April 30, 2012 (a) | |
Schroder International Alpha Fund (b) — | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | (14.35 | )% | (2.10 | )% | 5.54 | % |
Advisor Shares | | (14.58 | )% | (2.35 | )% | 5.29 | %(c) |
MSCI EAFE Index | | (12.82 | )% | (4.72 | )% | 5.42 | % |
(a) Average annual total return.
(b) Effective March 21, 2012, the advisory fee of the Fund decreased to 0.80% per annum. If the Fund had paid such lower fees during prior periods, the returns of the Fund would have been higher.
(c) The Advisor Shares commenced operations on May 15, 2006. The performance information provided in the above table for periods prior to May 15, 2006 reflects the performance of the Investor Shares of the Fund, adjusted to reflect the distribution fees paid by Advisor Shares.
“Total Return” shown above is calculated including reinvestment of all dividends and distributions. Results do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. Returns for certain periods reflect fee waivers and/or reimbursements in effect for that period; absent fee waivers and reimbursements, performance would have been lower. Results represent past performance and do not indicate future results. The value of an investment in the Fund and the return on investment both will fluctuate and redemption proceeds may be higher or lower than an investor’s original cost.
Top 5 Holdings
Security* | | % of Investments | |
| | | |
Nestle | | 2.9 | % |
Roche Holding | | 2.8 | |
HSBC Holdings | | 2.4 | |
Safran | | 2.3 | |
Anheuser-Busch InBev | | 2.2 | |
* Excludes Short-Term Investment.
Geographic Allocation
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Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS (As of May 31, 2012)
Performance
In the six months ended April 30, 2012, the Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund (the “Fund”) gained 3.98% (Investor Shares) and 4.02% (Advisor Shares) compared to the Morgan Stanley Capital International EAFE Index (the “Index”), a broad-based basket of international stocks, which rose 2.44% during this same period.
Market Background
International equities rallied strongly towards the end of 2011 driven by economically sensitive industries as expectations for global growth continued to improve following a mid-year pause. The late flurry capped a year characterised more by marked sharp swings in sentiment as investors assessed the significance of economic data and the sovereign debt crises in Europe. The dominance of top-down themes was manifested in the relatively high level of correlation between stocks and the often significant rotation in the performance of cyclical and defensive sectors depending upon market direction.
By the end of the year, however, cyclical industries were in the ascendency, driven by resources and industrials in particular, while more defensive areas of the market, such as utilities and healthcare, were the clear laggards. This was driven by a positive reception to the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank’s announcement of a further round of Quantitative Easing (dubbed “QE2”) prior to the beginning of the reporting period as well as an unexpected fiscal stimulus and generally supportive economic data. Weakness in the U.S. dollar on the back of QE2 helped to buoy the U.S. equity market, while renewed concerns about European sovereign debt weighed on European stocks, banks in particular.
International equity markets entered 2012 on an equally positive note, buoyed by expectations of strengthening economic growth, ample liquidity and receding concerns about sovereign debt risk in Europe. The six-month period as a whole was characterised by some reasonably significant swings in investor focus, with higher risk, deep value stocks — predominantly low-quality European banks — performing particularly well in early January, only to give much of this performance back in March. This echoed a more general preference for market sensitivity (beta) at the beginning of the year, which was replaced by a focus on higher-quality stocks towards the end of the period.
Macro-economic events strongly influenced sentiment during the period, when investors were forced to confront a raft of bad news. Continuing political tensions across the Middle East led to persistently high oil prices. Meanwhile, the threat of rising global inflation — fuelled by rising food and energy prices — resulted in expectations of earlier-than-anticipated tightening of monetary policy in the US and Europe (a process which is already underway in parts of Asia). This was borne out in Europe, after the European Central Bank (ECB) chose to raise interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, to 1.25%, in April.
Portfolio Review
The Fund ended the period ahead of the market. Performance was chiefly driven by positive stock selection in the energy and materials sectors, as well as among defensive names in the utilities, consumer staples and healthcare sectors. The Fund’s holdings within the telecoms and industrials sectors detracted from relative gains over the period.
Despite ongoing turmoil in Japan, regional stock selection was, by far, the leading contributor to the Fund’s performance. Avoiding underperforming Japanese utilities stocks (which continue to underperform in the wake of the Tohoku earthquake) boosted relative gains. Elsewhere, the Fund’s emerging markets allocation added value, despite weaker performance by emerging Asian stocks.
Outlook
Looking forward, we expect the Fund’s largest sector overweight to remain in telecoms, where we continue to be attracted to their high dividend yields and relative stability. Within the cyclical parts of the market, we expect technology stocks provide more value compared to consumer discretionary and industrials.
In the short term, we remain broadly neutral with respect to the resources sector as we expect continued strong performance to be matched by perceived improvements in fundamentals as demonstrated by strong earnings during end of this reporting season.
Within financials, we continue to retain a preference for insurers over banks. Given our expectations of continued high level of intrasector volatility within financials globally, we still believe that this sector will provide plenty of opportunities to benefit from stock selection during 2012.
The Fund’s regional allocations will remain broadly unchanged, but we expect to increase the Fund’s exposure to Japan — with valuations looking increasingly attractive. Within emerging markets, we expect to increase our allocation to Asian economies.
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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
| | | | | | Annualized | |
| | One Year Ended | | Five Years Ended | | Since | |
| | April 30, 2012 | | April 30, 2012 (a) | | Inception (b) | |
Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund (c) — | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | (12.22 | )% | (1.28 | )% | 3.12 | % |
Advisor Shares | | (12.30 | )% | (1.47 | )% | 2.93 | % |
MSCI EAFE Index | | (12.82 | )% | (4.72 | )% | (1.02 | )% |
(a) Average annual total return.
(b) From commencement of fund operations on August 30, 2006.
(c) Effective March 21, 2012, the advisory fee of the Fund decreased to 0.80% per annum. If the Fund had paid such lower fees during prior periods, the returns would have been higher.
“Total Return” shown above is calculated including reinvestment of all dividends and distributions. Results do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. Returns for certain periods reflect fee waivers and/or reimbursements in effect for that period; absent fee waivers and reimbursements, performance would have been lower. Results represent past performance and do not indicate future results. The value of an investment in the Fund and the return on investment both will fluctuate and redemption proceeds may be higher or lower than an investor’s original cost.
Top 5 Holdings
Security* | | % of Investments | |
| | | |
Sanofi | | 0.8 | % |
AstraZeneca | | 0.8 | |
Roche Holding | | 0.7 | |
GlaxoSmithKline | | 0.7 | |
Reckitt Benckiser Group | | 0.7 | |
* Excludes Short-Term Investment.
Geographic Allocation
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Schroder Global Quality Fund
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS (As of May 31, 2012)
Performance
For the six months ended April 30, 2012, the Schroder Global Quality Fund (the “Fund”) returned 7.93% compared to the Morgan Stanley Capital International World Index (the “Index”), a broad-based basket of global stocks, which returned 7.54% during this same period.
Market Background
Following a particularly volatile third quarter in 2011 — driven by escalating concerns about the eurozone debt crisis and fears of a double-dip recession — global equity markets were calmer in the final months of 2011.
As we entered the New Year, optimism prevailed, with investors encouraged by the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) provision of liquidity to the European banking system via two long-term funding operations, along with more supportive US economic data. However, confidence deteriorated again in April, and equity markets lost ground as risk appetite waned. Concerns about Spain’s lack of progress in reducing its budget deficit provided a reminder that Europe’s sovereign debt issues are far from resolved.
Spain’s woes dominated headlines — officially re-entering recession, suffering an S&P downgrade, and seeing 10-year government bonds yields breach the all-important 6% threshold — while uncertainty surrounding the French presidential elections did little to improve sentiment. Despite losing steam towards the end of the reporting period, positive sentiment drove equity market gains overall.
Sector performance was mixed over the period; information technology was the standout performer, while defensive healthcare and consumer staples stocks benefited from risk aversion at the beginning and end of the period. Bouts of optimism also supported more cyclical areas of the market including consumer discretionary and industrials. From a regional perspective, the UK, Asia Pacific and Japan led the gains while continued turmoil in Europe saw continental European stocks lose ground.
Portfolio Review
The Fund outperformed the wider market over the period. Strong stock selection across a broad range of sectors drove the relative gains. Leading contributions came from the Fund’s holdings in the financials, industrials and energy sectors.
Within the more defensive areas, the Fund’s holdings in utilities and consumer staples added value. Detractors included healthcare stocks, while not owning outperforming consumer discretionary names dragged on Fund performance. Information technology also impacted relative returns, largely due to the continued success of Apple.
Regionally, UK and Pacific ex Japan holdings contributed to Fund performance, while its exposure to emerging markets stocks also boosted returns. In addition, the Fund benefited from its underweight allocation to continental European stocks. The US was the weakest performer on a relative basis.
Within defensives, the largest sector overweight remains healthcare. After increasing exposure to consumer staples following underperformance in the first quarter of 2012, we are now trimming and taking profits in some of the stronger performing holdings in the Fund’s portfolio (Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive and Philip Morris International).
The Fund remains overweight resources, which the market continues to de-rate on the back of perceived concerns about weaker demand and the potential impact on prices for companies in this sector.
Technology remains the favored ‘cyclical’ sector, where the Fund has exposure to both software and semi-conductors. Industrials remain an underweight and need to continue to grow into their ratings.
Within financials, the Fund retains a preference for US financials, including the investment banks, and also the higher quality UK financials (HSBC Holdings and Prudential).
Outlook
Within defensives, we expect the Fund to remain overweight healthcare, as we look to continue trimming consumer staples in the early part of the next reporting period as investors focus on the “lose less money” trade.
We expect the Fund to remain overweight resources stocks, which continue to de-rate on concerns about weaker demand and over- investment. Fertilizer stocks look attractive and should have different demand drivers to mining and oil companies as we move into the second half of 2012. In the short term, the Fund’s regional allocations should remain broadly unchanged: we expect that the Fund will continue to be underweight Continental Europe in order to increase positions in emerging markets, predominantly in Asia.
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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
| | | | Annualized | |
| | One Year Ended | | Since | |
| | April 30, 2012 | | Inception (a) | |
Schroder Global Quality Fund — | | | | | |
Institutional Class Shares | | (3.43 | )% | 5.97 | % |
MSCI World Index | | (4.63 | )% | 4.15 | % |
(a) From commencement of fund operations on November 9, 2010.
“Total Return” shown above is calculated including reinvestment of all dividends and distributions. Results do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. Returns for the period reflect fee waivers and/or reimbursements in effect; absent fee waivers and reimbursements, performance would have been lower. Results represent past performance and do not indicate future results. The value of an investment in the Fund and the return on investment both will fluctuate and redemption proceeds may be higher or lower than an investor’s original cost.
Top 5 Holdings
Security* | | % of Investments | |
| | | |
AstraZeneca | | 0.7 | % |
Eli Lilly | | 0.7 | |
Unilever | | 0.7 | |
Apple | | 0.7 | |
Roche Holding | | 0.7 | |
* Excludes Short-Term Investment.
Geographic Allocation
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Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS (As of May 31, 2012)
Performance
During the six months ended April 30, 2012, the Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund (the “Fund”) returned 3.20% (Investor Shares) and 3.07% (Advisor Shares), compared to the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (the “Index”), a broad-based basket of U.S. debt securities, which rose 2.44%.
Market Background
The bond market registered a positive return over the six-month reporting period, overcoming the severe market volatility of third quarter 2011. Economic data surprised to the upside as consumer sentiment and spending were supported by better job creation, pushing the unemployment rate down to 8.2% and GDP to 2.2%. Moreover, the massive infusion of liquidity from the European Central Bank’s Long Term Repo Operation (LTRO) effectively removed the near term risk of bank funding difficulties in Europe, and provided increased demand for higher yielding European sovereign bonds. While uncertain fiscal policy clouded the optimism in the market, monetary policy in the US remained highly supportive. Despite some discussion of being flexible in the event of much stronger growth, short term rates remained close to zero. First quarter 2012 corporate earnings were also better than expected and proved to be a catalyst for investors to take on a slightly higher risk tolerance than late 2011. Overall, the combination of punitive yields on cash and the removal of near term economic and financial risks propelled equity and bond prices higher.
Treasury yields were little changed during the reporting period, with 10 year Treasuries declining only 0.20%, to 1.91%. After initially moving higher in the beginning of the six-month period, on the optimism of better prospects for the US, yields trended lower in April on the back of concerns about Greece. The persistent low level of interest rates reflected a combination of the Federal Reserve accommodation, higher oil prices not yet threatening inflation, and the Fed’s policy commitment anchoring the entire yield curve.
The 2.44% return for the Index during the reporting period was primarily due to the dramatic narrowing of bond spreads relative to US Treasury yields. Returns on investment grade corporate bonds were much higher than government bonds as investors were compensated for taking on more credit risk in the market. Within corporates, financials produced the best performance, followed by utility bonds then industrials. Lower rated bonds outperformed higher rated securities. The triple-B rated sector was the top performing credit quality tier, returning 4.56%, or more than 2% higher than comparable Treasury securities during this period. High yield corporate bonds did even better, returning 6.90%, with a similar pattern of the lowest quality tiers providing the best performance. Although corporate fundamentals remained strong, they are starting to show signs of peaking. Default risk remains benign and is expected to stay reasonably low over the next 12 months. Supply demand conditions remained firm, especially in high yield, as new issuances were easily absorbed by investors.
The securitized sectors also did well with agency residential mortgage-backed securities (MBS) returning 4.3% and the smaller commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), sector returning 5.7%. Asset-backed securities (ABS) likewise outperformed Treasuries, with auto and credit card receivable securities providing added income versus cash alternatives.
Portfolio Review
The Fund outperformed the Index primarily due to the overweighting of corporate bonds, both investment grade and high yield, and MBS in lieu of US Treasury and agency securities. Credit exposure was concentrated in triple-B and double-B rated issuers, allowing the Fund to have a positive sensitivity to narrowing credit spreads. Fund strategy emphasized industrial securities, especially consumer cyclicals, basic industries and transportation securities. Duration strategy also positively contributed to performance.
Fund positioning followed the template put in place during the third quarter of 2011. Recognizing that regulatory changes and government intervention would keep markets volatile, we were cautious in our risk budgeting and flexible with sector rotation. We maintained a relatively low risk profile in the Fund while continuing to express our long term positive views for corporate and MBS based on our fundamental economic and credit research. The Fund began the period with a substantial overweight to investment grade corporate and high yield credit. This was gradually reduced on the back of good performance into March and our concerns about potential risk flares in Europe. In late March, the Fund again slightly increased the allocation to corporate credit. High yield exposure was reduced from 8% to 5%.
The Fund’s MBS allocation followed a similar trajectory, although the overweight was more modest than the corporate allocation. We preferred overweighting Ginnie Mae lower coupon MBS to minimize volatility from potential regulatory changes in government mortgage programs as well as possibly higher prepayment rates. Collateralized Mortgage Obligations and agency hybrid adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) holdings also added to returns. The Fund also invested in a selection of Canadian covered bonds. These AAA rated securities provided high income and performed well as alternatives to low yielding cash investments. ABS and CMBS exposures were in line with the benchmark.
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The Fund’s duration was longer than the Index until the very end of April. Despite low overall interest rates, Treasury yields and credit risk have had a very high and robust negative correlation with each other since mid-2011. Having a duration longer than the Index effectively acted as a partial hedge to dampen overall portfolio volatility. The long duration was further supported by the Fed’s articulation of extended zero-percent interest rate policy and inflation having peaked on a year-over-year basis.
Outlook
The similarities between this year, 2012, so far, and 2011 are notable. Both began with sizable narrowing of non-Treasury spreads that followed significant liquidity provisions (LTRO in Europe and quantitative easing (QE) by the Fed), better than expected economic data and an easing of investor concerns. Returns across all fixed income sectors have subsequently been fairly strong; with the best returns coming from those sectors that experienced the most volatility the prior year—lower quality investment grade and high yield corporates.
We believe the balance of the year and perhaps the early stages of 2013 are likely to remain volatile as investors continue to grapple with the fragile economic condition and potentially disruptive fiscal budget negotiations. Europe remains a long way from being settled and is another source of pronounced uncertainty. However, market positions do not appear to be as extreme on the risk front as they were in August and May 2011. Most important is wider recognition of the low growth state of the US economy, tame inflation and the structural impediments to swifter expansion. In this respect, while we expect continued bouts of risk on/risk off market volatility; this should create ample opportunities to generate return.
We expect to continue to overweight bond sectors which present the best combination of strong fundamental underpinnings and higher spreads as compensation for uncertainty and price volatility. In particular, MBS and covered bonds should continue to offer good risk/return characteristics. Corporate bonds appear to be fairly valued and we expect to use periods of market strength to reduce credit exposure, but will look to a period of more pronounced weakness, as a possible opportunity to add to credit exposure. Duration exposure will likely remain fairly close to the Index. As always, we continue to be very cognizant of the need to be nimble in our investment strategy, consistent with the Fund’s objective of seeking a high level of total return.
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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
| | One Year Ended April 30, 2012 | | Five Years Ended April 30, 2012 (a) | | Annualized Since Inception (b) | |
Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund — | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | 7.36 | % | 7.05 | % | 6.06 | % |
Advisor Shares | | 7.09 | % | 6.78 | % | 5.78 | % |
Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index | | 7.54 | % | 6.37 | % | 5.54 | % |
(a) Average annual total return.
(b) From commencement of fund operations on December 31, 2004.
“Total Return” is calculated including reinvestment of all dividends and distributions. Results do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. Returns for certain periods reflect fee waivers and/or reimbursements in effect for that period; absent fee waivers and reimbursements, performance would have been lower. Results represent past performance and do not indicate future results. The value of an investment in the Fund and the return on investment both will fluctuate and redemption proceeds may be higher or lower than an investor’s original cost.
Top 5 Holdings
Security* | | % of Investments | |
United States Treasury Bills 0.090%, 5/17/12 | | 6.0 | % |
GNMA TBA 4.000%, 5/15/42 | | 4.5 | |
FHLMC TBA 3.000%, 5/15/27 | | 3.3 | |
GNMA TBA 4.000%, 5/20/42 | | 2.5 | |
Bank of Nova Scotia 1.050%, 3/20/15 | | 2.5 | |
* Excludes Short-Term Investment.
Sector Allocation
Sector | | % of Investments | |
Corporate Obligations | | 40.1 | % |
U.S. Government Mortgage-Backed Obligations | | 35.2 | |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | 11.8 | |
Asset-Backed Securities | | 5.3 | |
Collateralized Mortgage Obligations | | 3.3 | |
Commercial Mortgage-Backed Obligations | | 2.2 | |
Sovereign Government | | 1.0 | |
Municipal Bonds | | 0.6 | |
Short-Term Investment | | 0.5 | |
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Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS (As of May 31, 2012)
Performance
The Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund (the “Fund”) commenced activities on December 15, 2011. During the period from inception through April 30, 2012, the Investor Shares of the Fund declined by -0.70% and Advisor Shares -0.80% compared to the 3-Month USD Fixed LIBOR Index (the “Index”), a widely used measure of short-term corporate returns, which rose 0.19%.
Market Background
During the end of the reporting period, business conditions were significantly more stable, after the extreme market volatility which characterized the second half of 2011. Financial markets recovered across the world, against a backdrop of more encouraging news from the US economy, and clear signals of determination on the part of European policymakers and central bankers to tackle the sovereign debt situation in some eurozone states. Measures to mitigate stresses in the banking system, including the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) long-term refinancing operations, also contributed significantly to more positive market conditions. Equity markets rallied and credit spreads tightened during the quarter. Nevertheless, investors, particularly private investors, remained wary after the market turmoil of last year, and this cautious sentiment affected business volumes. Furthermore, conditions in the global economy remain challenging. In the US, employment figures showed signs of improvement, but real estate markets remain subdued. In Germany, the economy proved its resilience, but levels of sovereign indebtedness in some eurozone countries remained very high while the pace of economic recovery was modest. Conditions in the world’s mature economies inevitably affected the outlook for export-driven growth in Asia and other emerging markets.
Portfolio Review
The Fund ended the reporting period with a negative return. This was mainly due to small positions added during early March, which are described below. Overall, the Fund maintained a cautious position during the reporting period, as was reflected in the Fund’s minimal exposure to sovereign and corporate credits, as well as low positions in both non-US dollar currencies and in duration. For this reason, the Fund was not positioned to benefit from what we believed to be yet another short-term policy-induced rally during the beginning of 2012. We refrained from chasing this rally because of the ultra-low yields on offer, which appeared to represent an extremely poor risk reward. Towards the end of April, emerging market debt and non-US dollar currency markets started to see mixed performances. Countries with deteriorating fundamentals in particular started to see their assets perform poorly.
During the period, we did identify some pockets of value in South Africa and in Hungary, where the Fund built a small exposure to local government bonds. The Fund also initiated a small exposure to the newly restructured Greek debt. This position was implemented following the announcement of the restructuring of the debt held by the private sector, which has taken the debt burden of the country to a more sustainable level. These smaller investment opportunities taken during the reporting period produced negative returns overall.
Outlook
Following last year’s financial dislocations and the negative sentiment that had prevailed among market participants, global financial assets rallied in response to yet another tidal wave of liquidity, in this instance courtesy of the ECB. As policymakers continue to respond to the intermittent pressures on asset prices with ever increasing monetary activism, large swings in asset prices may continue for a while. However, to invest with confidence the key question is whether progress has been achieved in tackling the structural problems which continue to affect the growth trajectory of key economies. Unfortunately, we see limited positive achievements on these issues.
Yet more worrying is perceived belief among market participants that asset prices have limited downside under the existing expansionary monetary regime. We see two potential reasons why such a regime could soon be questioned: (i) resurgent inflationary pressures, which could particularly result from high energy prices; and (ii) a more pronounced slowdown in global economic activity, which could expose the impotency of recent pump priming.
There was already some evidence during the fourth quarter of 2011 that rebounds in global economic activity may be running out of steam. Western economies are clearly still suffering from deficient savings and from a large debt overhang. Meanwhile, key emerging market economies such as China are starting to be affected by their overdependence on investment and on exports, which are now both flattening. While these observations are being more widely recognized, the valuations of asset prices have yet to adjust accordingly.
Therefore, caution towards the widely owned emerging market assets remains warranted. Despite the good credit metrics exhibited by the majority of emerging market sovereign bonds, the yields on offer are too low, making the risk reward appear rather poor. There are some exceptions (notably in Europe) which may already offer some pockets of value. An example is Greece, where a large debt restructuring has already occurred and where a more realistic reform program is at last being implemented. The newly restructured Greek bonds may provide an opportunity for appreciation in the next 12-18 months.
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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
| | Cumulative Since | |
| | Inception (a) | |
Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund — | | | |
Investor Shares | | (0.70 | )% |
Advisor Shares | | (0.80 | )% |
3-month USD Fixed LIBOR | | 0.19 | % |
(a) From commencement of fund operations on December 15, 2011.
“Total Return” is calculated including reinvestment of all dividends and distributions. Results do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. Returns reflect fee waivers and/or reimbursements in effect for the period; absent fee waivers and reimbursements, performance would have been lower. Results represent past performance and do not indicate future results. The value of an investment in the Fund and the return on investment both will fluctuate and redemption proceeds may be higher or lower than an investor’s original cost.
Top 5 Holdings
Security* | | % of Investments | |
United States Treasury Bills 0.131%, 9/27/12 | | 7.9 | % |
Mexico Cetes 4.525%, 12/13/12 | | 6.5 | |
Czech Republic Government Bond 2.800%, 9/16/13 | | 5.5 | |
Singapore Government Bond 2.250%, 7/01/13 | | 5.2 | |
Singapore Government Bond 3.625%, 7/01/14 | | 5.2 | |
* Excludes Short-Term Investment.
Sector Allocation
Sector | | % of Investments | |
Foreign Government Bonds | | 63.1 | % |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | 35.1 | |
Short-Term Investment | | 1.8 | |
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Schroder North American Equity Fund
Schedule of Investments
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
| | COMMON STOCK — 90.4% | | | |
| | Bahamas — 0.0% | | | |
3,100 | | Steiner Leisure (1) | | 145,576 | |
| | | | | |
| | Bermuda — 0.7% | | | |
37,652 | | Accenture Class A | | 2,445,497 | |
18,900 | | Assured Guaranty | | 268,002 | |
9,100 | | Axis Capital Holdings | | 309,582 | |
4,900 | | Endurance Specialty Holdings | | 196,882 | |
1,900 | | PartnerRe | | 132,278 | |
3,200 | | SeaCube Container Leasing | | 59,360 | |
9,200 | | Textainer Group Holdings | | 322,644 | |
3,800 | | Xyratex | | 55,176 | |
| | | | 3,789,421 | |
| | Canada — 2.5% | | | |
3,900 | | Aecon Group | | 52,745 | |
1,600 | | AG Growth International | | 66,018 | |
6,900 | | Agrium | | 607,823 | |
7,100 | | Alimentation Couche Tard Class B | | 307,977 | |
4,100 | | ARC Resources | | 84,420 | |
8,600 | | Atco Class I | | 636,392 | |
15,500 | | Barrick Gold | | 626,998 | |
5,700 | | Baytex Energy Trust | | 301,257 | |
9,100 | | BCE | | 368,661 | |
20,700 | | Bird Construction | | 307,404 | |
2,800 | | Canaccord Financial | | 22,109 | |
7,900 | | Canadian Utilities Class A | | 556,523 | |
16,300 | | Canexus | | 136,129 | |
4,300 | | Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund | | 71,300 | |
1,900 | | Cominar REIT | | 46,353 | |
2,600 | | Domtar | | 227,448 | |
2,600 | | Empire | | 153,023 | |
12,400 | | First Capital Realty | | 230,715 | |
12,700 | | Freehold Royalties Trust | | 242,982 | |
3,300 | | Genivar | | 88,793 | |
9,900 | | Great-West Lifeco | | 250,544 | |
7,800 | | Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services | | 248,722 | |
4,300 | | Inmet Mining | | 236,536 | |
46,200 | | Manulife Financial | | 631,839 | |
8,200 | | Metro Class A | | 452,397 | |
29,300 | | Migao (1) | | 83,642 | |
1,300 | | National Bank of Canada | | 101,463 | |
21,600 | | Neo Material Technologies (1) | | 238,117 | |
3,300 | | North West | | 74,295 | |
1,100 | | Northern Property REIT | | 36,557 | |
12,200 | | Pan American Silver | | 237,244 | |
12,500 | | Parkland Fuel | | 176,899 | |
2,400 | | Pason Systems | | 31,268 | |
14,900 | | Petrominerales | | 217,953 | |
1,800 | | PHX Energy Services | | 17,438 | |
8,500 | | Power Corp. of Canada | | 235,334 | |
10,100 | | Power Financial | | 302,637 | |
20,696 | | Research In Motion (1) | | 296,031 | |
6,500 | | RioCan | | 178,580 | |
14,900 | | Rogers Communications Class B | | 556,120 | |
4,500 | | Royal Bank of Canada | | 260,065 | |
14,300 | | Saputo | | 668,351 | |
11,100 | | Shaw Communications Class B | | 228,776 | |
7,200 | | Shoppers Drug Mart | | 310,201 | |
3,400 | | Silver Wheaton | | 103,805 | |
11,400 | | Silvercorp Metals | | 78,589 | |
64,300 | | Sino-Forest (1) (2) (3) | | — | |
7,200 | | Sprott | | 32,726 | |
26,500 | | Suncor Energy | | 875,330 | |
11,700 | | Teck Resources Class B | | 436,566 | |
5,900 | | TMX Group | | 269,363 | |
7,200 | | TransForce | | 130,246 | |
15,800 | | Trican Well Service | | 228,559 | |
10,100 | | Trinidad Drilling | | 65,435 | |
4,879 | | Vermilion Energy | | 236,579 | |
3,900 | | Wajax | | 196,925 | |
14,200 | | Yamana Gold | | 208,289 | |
1,700 | | Zargon Oil & Gas Trust | | 22,286 | |
| | | | 14,090,777 | |
| | Cayman Islands — 0.1% | | | |
4,500 | | Herbalife | | 316,440 | |
| | | | | |
| | China — 0.1% | | | |
10,000 | | China Automotive Systems (1) | | 53,500 | |
10,100 | | China Information Technology (1) | | 12,827 | |
11,700 | | China-Biotics (1) | | 16,380 | |
6,800 | | Cogo Group (1) | | 16,728 | |
17,800 | | Fushi Copperweld (1) | | 121,396 | |
6,800 | | Zhongpin (1) | | 64,192 | |
| | | | 285,023 | |
| | Ireland — 0.2% | | | |
400 | | Covidien | | 22,092 | |
14,900 | | Seagate Technology | | 458,324 | |
16,300 | | XL Group | | 350,613 | |
| | | | 831,029 | |
| | Netherlands — 0.0% | | | |
3,400 | | VistaPrint (1) | | 126,786 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
| | Puerto Rico — 0.0% | | | |
20,500 | | Doral Financial (1) | | 37,515 | |
8,400 | | Triple-S Management Class B (1) | | 176,904 | |
| | | | 214,419 | |
| | Russia — 0.0% | | | |
10,100 | | CTC Media | | 109,383 | |
| | | | | |
| | Switzerland — 0.4% | | | |
21,000 | | ACE | | 1,595,370 | |
6,000 | | Allied World Assurance Holdings | | 431,760 | |
| | | | 2,027,130 | |
| | United Kingdom — 0.0% | | | |
3,152 | | Ensco International ADR | | 172,257 | |
| | | | | |
| | United States — 86.4% | | | |
| | Consumer Discretionary — 8.4% | | | |
3,700 | | Advance Auto Parts | | 339,660 | |
10,106 | | Amazon.com (1) | | 2,343,581 | |
12,800 | | Apollo Group Class A (1) | | 450,816 | |
8,400 | | Ascena Retail Group (1) | | 172,032 | |
5,600 | | Autoliv | | 351,344 | |
800 | | AutoZone (1) | | 316,928 | |
2,500 | | Bally Technologies (1) | | 121,375 | |
15,400 | | Bed Bath & Beyond (1) | | 1,084,006 | |
28,400 | | Best Buy | | 626,788 | |
8,800 | | Big Lots (1) | | 322,432 | |
15,300 | | Bridgepoint Education (1) | | 329,868 | |
4,100 | | Capella Education (1) | | 134,111 | |
18,500 | | Career Education (1) | | 131,905 | |
6,400 | | Cato | | 178,112 | |
4,800 | | CEC Entertainment | | 183,456 | |
800 | | Coach | | 58,528 | |
4,300 | | Coinstar (1) | | 269,997 | |
81,200 | | Comcast Class A | | 2,462,796 | |
10,900 | | Cooper Tire & Rubber | | 162,955 | |
2,300 | | Cracker Barrel Old Country Store | | 132,296 | |
9,700 | | Dana Holding | | 141,814 | |
12,300 | | Darden Restaurants | | 615,984 | |
1,600 | | Destination Maternity | | 31,744 | |
10,900 | | DeVry | | 350,435 | |
13,956 | | DIRECTV (1) | | 687,612 | |
17,500 | | Discovery Communications Class A (1) | | 952,350 | |
1,750 | | Dollar Tree (1) | | 177,905 | |
4,000 | | Dorman Products (1) | | 191,120 | |
3,500 | | DSW | | 196,910 | |
20,400 | | Exide Technologies (1) | | 58,752 | |
8,900 | | Express (1) | | 210,218 | |
7,700 | | Finish Line | | 171,402 | |
12,000 | | Foot Locker | | 367,080 | |
75,700 | | Ford Motor | | 853,896 | |
500 | | Fossil (1) | | 65,335 | |
12,100 | | GameStop Class A | | 275,396 | |
12,800 | | Genuine Parts | | 829,184 | |
8,400 | | Guess? | | 245,952 | |
24,600 | | H&R Block | | 361,620 | |
8,600 | | Hillenbrand | | 180,084 | |
49,293 | | Home Depot | | 2,552,885 | |
12,200 | | Iconix Brand Group (1) | | 187,148 | |
4,000 | | ITT Educational Services (1) | | 264,080 | |
1,100 | | Johnson Controls | | 35,167 | |
4,100 | | Jos A Bank Clothiers (1) | | 194,955 | |
21,300 | | Kohl’s | | 1,067,769 | |
2,700 | | Lear | | 112,050 | |
14,500 | | Limited Brands | | 720,650 | |
17,300 | | Lincoln Educational Services | | 126,982 | |
34,200 | | Lowe’s | | 1,076,274 | |
31,600 | | Mattel | | 1,061,760 | |
44,981 | | McDonald’s | | 4,383,398 | |
20,500 | | McGraw-Hill | | 1,007,985 | |
1,300 | | National Presto Industries | | 95,836 | |
41,100 | | News Class A | | 805,560 | |
9,700 | | Nike Class B | | 1,085,139 | |
10,878 | | Nordstrom | | 607,645 | |
2,200 | | Penske Automotive Group | | 58,168 | |
6,700 | | PetMed Express | | 90,249 | |
8,100 | | PetSmart | | 471,906 | |
2,900 | | Polaris Industries | | 230,376 | |
1,700 | | priceline.com (1) | | 1,293,394 | |
3,078 | | Ralph Lauren | | 530,247 | |
6,700 | | Rent-A-Center | | 229,207 | |
12,752 | | Ross Stores | | 785,396 | |
9,400 | | Ruth’s Hospitality Group (1) | | 65,048 | |
12,200 | | Scripps Networks Interactive Class A | | 612,684 | |
5,300 | | Sohu.com (1) | | 273,321 | |
5,500 | | Standard Motor Products | | 82,885 | |
14,900 | | Starbucks | | 854,962 | |
2,800 | | Strayer Education | | 276,304 | |
14,700 | | Target | | 851,718 | |
4,400 | | Tiffany | | 301,224 | |
26,145 | | Time Warner | | 979,392 | |
14,500 | | Time Warner Cable | | 1,166,525 | |
1,700 | | Tractor Supply | | 167,297 | |
2,900 | | True Religion Apparel | | 78,764 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
2,100 | | TRW Automotive Holdings (1) | | 95,991 | |
7,400 | | Tupperware Brands | | 460,946 | |
26,900 | | United Online | | 127,506 | |
10,200 | | Universal Technical Institute | | 122,400 | |
16,600 | | Universal Travel Group (1) (2) (3) | | — | |
9,100 | | Viacom Class B | | 422,149 | |
50,272 | | Walt Disney | | 2,167,226 | |
5,300 | | Warnaco Group (1) | | 280,688 | |
17,700 | | Wet Seal (1) | | 58,233 | |
5,100 | | Williams-Sonoma | | 197,319 | |
7,000 | | Wolverine World Wide | | 293,650 | |
7,200 | | Yum! Brands | | 523,656 | |
3,500 | | Zumiez (1) | | 128,310 | |
| | | | 46,800,203 | |
| | Consumer Staples — 9.3% | | | |
75,300 | | Altria Group | | 2,425,413 | |
12,900 | | Archer-Daniels-Midland | | 397,707 | |
8,100 | | Brown-Forman Class B | | 699,435 | |
97,358 | | Coca-Cola | | 7,430,363 | |
25,491 | | Colgate-Palmolive | | 2,522,080 | |
11,973 | | Costco Wholesale | | 1,055,659 | |
36,517 | | CVS Caremark | | 1,629,388 | |
17,600 | | Dr. Pepper Snapple Group | | 714,208 | |
44,000 | | General Mills | | 1,711,160 | |
27,465 | | HJ Heinz | | 1,464,159 | |
24,826 | | Hormel Foods | | 721,444 | |
21,200 | | Kimberly-Clark | | 1,663,564 | |
39,500 | | Kraft Foods Class A | | 1,574,865 | |
32,100 | | Kroger | | 746,967 | |
20,212 | | McCormick | | 1,130,053 | |
2,000 | | National Beverage (1) | | 29,720 | |
5,000 | | Omega Protein (1) | | 35,800 | |
76,024 | | PepsiCo | | 5,017,584 | |
76,691 | | Philip Morris International | | 6,864,611 | |
102,011 | | Procter & Gamble | | 6,491,980 | |
8,000 | | Spartan Stores | | 145,840 | |
6,100 | | Universal | | 279,563 | |
9,000 | | USANA Health Sciences (1) | | 375,300 | |
57,041 | | Walgreen | | 1,999,857 | |
77,423 | | Wal-Mart Stores | | 4,560,989 | |
| | | | 51,687,709 | |
| | Energy — 10.3% | | | |
5,300 | | Alliance Resource Partners LP | | 342,274 | |
7,400 | | Anadarko Petroleum | | 541,754 | |
22,400 | | Apache | | 2,149,056 | |
6,200 | | Arch Coal | | 60,512 | |
800 | | Atlas Pipeline Partners | | 27,968 | |
2,400 | | Atwood Oceanics (1) | | 106,392 | |
6,100 | | Baker Hughes | | 269,071 | |
2,900 | | Berry Petroleum Class A | | 132,095 | |
3,700 | | BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust | | 460,502 | |
1,300 | | Bristow Group | | 63,505 | |
2,600 | | Buckeye Partners LP | | 146,770 | |
1,200 | | CARBO Ceramics | | 100,908 | |
18,600 | | Chesapeake Energy | | 342,984 | |
86,420 | | Chevron | | 9,208,915 | |
10,200 | | Cloud Peak Energy (1) | | 156,978 | |
59,359 | | ConocoPhillips | | 4,251,885 | |
15,700 | | CONSOL Energy | | 521,868 | |
5,000 | | Contango Oil & Gas (1) | | 271,300 | |
8,200 | | Crosstex Energy | | 122,180 | |
23,400 | | Denbury Resources (1) | | 445,536 | |
21,000 | | Devon Energy | | 1,466,850 | |
9,200 | | Diamond Offshore Drilling | | 630,660 | |
1,200 | | EOG Resources | | 131,772 | |
196,790 | | ExxonMobil | | 16,990,849 | |
5,100 | | Global Geophysical Services (1) | | 48,807 | |
55,537 | | Halliburton | | 1,900,476 | |
11,200 | | Helmerich & Payne | | 575,568 | |
14,300 | | James River Coal (1) | | 70,928 | |
8,500 | | Linn Energy LLC | | 342,125 | |
28,500 | | Marathon Oil | | 836,190 | |
14,400 | | Marathon Petroleum | | 599,184 | |
4,800 | | Matrix Service (1) | | 65,520 | |
20,620 | | Murphy Oil | | 1,133,482 | |
12,900 | | National Oilwell Varco | | 977,304 | |
9,600 | | Natural Resource Partners LP | | 239,520 | |
4,100 | | Newfield Exploration (1) | | 147,190 | |
12,800 | | Newpark Resources (1) | | 81,408 | |
6,800 | | Noble Energy | | 675,376 | |
1,800 | | NuStar Energy LP | | 98,982 | |
40,133 | | Occidental Petroleum | | 3,660,932 | |
3,300 | | Oil States International (1) | | 262,614 | |
3,900 | | ONEOK Partners LP | | 217,464 | |
16,800 | | Parker Drilling (1) | | 86,856 | |
16,000 | | Patterson-UTI Energy | | 258,720 | |
11,800 | | Peabody Energy | | 367,098 | |
4,740 | | Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP | | 120,822 | |
5,900 | | Plains All American Pipeline | | 483,387 | |
8,100 | | RPC | | 83,754 | |
44,572 | | Schlumberger | | 3,304,568 | |
3,300 | | Southwestern Energy (1) | | 104,214 | |
300 | | Spectra Energy | | 9,222 | |
7,500 | | Sunoco Logistics Partners LP | | 305,175 | |
5,200 | | TC Pipelines LP | | 228,124 | |
2,300 | | Unit (1) | | 97,175 | |
18,600 | | Vaalco Energy (1) | | 168,702 | |
11,200 | | Valero Energy | | 276,640 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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9,200 | | W&T Offshore | | 181,884 | |
| | | | 56,951,995 | |
| | Financials — 12.3% | | | |
34,800 | | Aflac | | 1,567,392 | |
2,300 | | Agree Realty | | 52,440 | |
24,000 | | Allstate | | 799,920 | |
19,300 | | American Capital Agency REIT | | 602,932 | |
7,100 | | American Equity Investment Life Holding | | 87,046 | |
26,527 | | American Express | | 1,597,191 | |
8,100 | | American Financial Group | | 315,252 | |
4,900 | | Amtrust Financial Services | | 133,476 | |
32,600 | | Annaly Capital Management REIT | | 532,032 | |
14,600 | | Anworth Mortgage Asset REIT | | 98,404 | |
4,700 | | Arlington Asset Investment | | 110,497 | |
2,100 | | Arrow Financial | | 50,274 | |
7,700 | | Assurant | | 310,618 | |
421,550 | | Bank of America | | 3,418,770 | |
30,400 | | Bank of New York Mellon | | 718,960 | |
1,100 | | BB&T | | 35,244 | |
60,700 | | Berkshire Hathaway Class B (1) | | 4,883,315 | |
19,200 | | BGC Partners Class A | | 133,824 | |
20,900 | | Brookfield Office Properties | | 378,500 | |
13,500 | | Calamos Asset Management Class A | | 174,420 | |
26,000 | | Capital One Financial | | 1,442,480 | |
12,600 | | Capstead Mortgage REIT | | 172,998 | |
3,100 | | Cash America International | | 144,925 | |
6,700 | | CBOE Holdings | | 177,148 | |
66,800 | | Chimera Investment REIT | | 193,052 | |
126,142 | | Citigroup | | 4,167,732 | |
15,100 | | CNA Financial | | 462,362 | |
32,200 | | CNO Financial Group (1) | | 234,094 | |
3,200 | | Cohen & Steers | | 112,768 | |
7,000 | | CommonWealth REIT | | 131,250 | |
1,900 | | Credit Acceptance (1) | | 178,467 | |
20,300 | | CVB Financial | | 234,871 | |
44,118 | | Discover Financial Services | | 1,495,600 | |
17,400 | | Dynex Capital REIT | | 164,082 | |
6,400 | | Entertainment Properties Trust | | 307,136 | |
5,200 | | Ezcorp (1) | | 139,308 | |
5,500 | | FBL Financial Group Class A | | 160,160 | |
13,900 | | Federated Investors Class B | | 306,912 | |
60,500 | | Fifth Third Bancorp | | 860,915 | |
4,800 | | First Financial Holdings | | 55,392 | |
10,900 | | FirstMerit | | 183,120 | |
4,300 | | Flushing Financial | | 56,029 | |
500 | | Franklin Resources | | 62,755 | |
9,300 | | Getty Realty REIT | | 147,126 | |
6,400 | | Global Payments | | 297,152 | |
21,723 | | Goldman Sachs Group | | 2,501,403 | |
22,900 | | Hartford Financial Services Group | | 470,595 | |
11,600 | | Hatteras Financial REIT | | 337,908 | |
34,100 | | HCP | | 1,413,445 | |
7,900 | | Horace Mann Educators | | 138,645 | |
76,000 | | Huntington Bancshares | | 508,440 | |
18,800 | | Invesco Mortgage Capital REIT | | 331,632 | |
162,163 | | JPMorgan Chase | | 6,969,766 | |
77,600 | | KeyCorp | | 623,904 | |
12,000 | | Liberty Property Trust | | 437,400 | |
22,100 | | Lincoln National | | 547,417 | |
6,300 | | LTC Properties REIT | | 209,664 | |
6,000 | | Main Street Capital | | 153,660 | |
4,300 | | Marsh & McLennan | | 143,835 | |
8,200 | | Meadowbrook Insurance Group | | 72,406 | |
57,500 | | MetLife | | 2,071,725 | |
81,300 | | Morgan Stanley | | 1,404,864 | |
4,700 | | National Health Investors REIT | | 232,509 | |
4,200 | | Nelnet Class A | | 108,444 | |
3,600 | | Northern Trust | | 171,324 | |
20,500 | | NorthStar Realty Finance REIT | | 116,850 | |
15,900 | | Omega Healthcare Investors | | 340,419 | |
8,500 | | PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust REIT | | 172,465 | |
29,900 | | PNC Financial Services Group | | 1,982,968 | |
2,700 | | Portfolio Recovery Associates (1) | | 185,814 | |
29,000 | | Principal Financial Group | | 802,430 | |
10,300 | | Protective Life | | 301,378 | |
27,000 | | Prudential Financial | | 1,634,580 | |
400 | | Public Storage REIT | | 57,304 | |
15,700 | | RAIT Financial Trust | | 75,988 | |
5,900 | | Renasant | | 94,400 | |
1,900 | | Republic Bancorp Class A | | 44,707 | |
9,000 | | Selective Insurance Group | | 157,410 | |
5,700 | | Senior Housing Properties Trust | | 125,856 | |
7,563 | | Simon Property Group REIT | | 1,176,803 | |
1,323 | | Southside Bancshares | | 26,989 | |
7,100 | | StanCorp Financial Group | | 272,498 | |
2,100 | | State Auto Financial | | 30,093 | |
3,400 | | State Street | | 157,148 | |
23,300 | | Symetra Financial | | 283,328 | |
14,700 | | T. Rowe Price Group | | 927,791 | |
1,200 | | Tompkins Financial | | 45,420 | |
7,950 | | Torchmark | | 387,244 | |
1,800 | | TowneBank | | 23,436 | |
8,081 | | Travelers | | 519,770 | |
30,600 | | Trustco Bank | | 167,382 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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40,751 | | U.S. Bancorp | | 1,310,960 | |
6,300 | | Universal Insurance Holdings | | 26,082 | |
22,700 | | Unum Group | | 538,898 | |
4,200 | | Urstadt Biddle Properties | | 80,808 | |
21,000 | | Yentas REIT | | 1,234,590 | |
7,400 | | Waddell & Reed Financial Class A | | 236,652 | |
232,472 | | Wells Fargo | | 7,771,539 | |
6,200 | | WesBanco | | 126,976 | |
4,800 | | Westamerica Bancorporation | | 220,176 | |
| | | | 68,394,479 | |
| | Healthcare — 11.1% | | | |
77,333 | | Abbott Laboratories | | 4,799,286 | |
23,913 | | Aetna | | 1,053,129 | |
1,200 | | Agilent Technologies | | 50,616 | |
3,300 | | Almost Family (1) | | 80,454 | |
20,400 | | AmerisourceBergen | | 759,084 | |
38,626 | | Amgen | | 2,746,695 | |
13,800 | | Amsurg (1) | | 396,888 | |
2,900 | | Assisted Living Concepts | | 51,939 | |
36,872 | | Baxter International | | 2,043,077 | |
20,800 | | Becton Dickinson | | 1,631,760 | |
10,900 | | Biogen Idec (1) | | 1,460,709 | |
55,571 | | Bristol-Myers Squibb | | 1,854,404 | |
24,100 | | Cardinal Health | | 1,018,707 | |
18,200 | | Celgene (1) | | 1,327,144 | |
1,500 | | Centene (1) | | 59,385 | |
4,700 | | Computer Programs & Systems | | 280,073 | |
1,200 | | Corvel (1) | | 52,188 | |
9,600 | | CR Bard | | 950,016 | |
12,300 | | DaVita (1) | | 1,089,534 | |
10,800 | | Depomed (1) | | 65,772 | |
64,361 | | Eli Lilly | | 2,663,902 | |
4,200 | | Ensign Group | | 112,182 | |
11,624 | | Express Scripts Holding (1) | | 648,503 | |
17,500 | | Five Star Quality Care (1) | | 60,025 | |
25,800 | | Forest Laboratories (1) | | 898,614 | |
39,302 | | Gilead Sciences (1) | | 2,044,097 | |
10,000 | | Hi-Tech Pharmacal (1) | | 325,900 | |
11,900 | | Humana | | 960,092 | |
3,000 | | ICU Medical (1) | | 157,470 | |
200 | | Intuitive Surgical (1) | | 115,640 | |
113,784 | | Johnson & Johnson | | 7,406,200 | |
2,200 | | Kensey Nash | | 62,546 | |
10,900 | | Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings (1) | | 958,001 | |
1,400 | | Landauer | | 73,808 | |
15,100 | | Lincare Holdings | | 368,440 | |
700 | | McKesson | | 63,987 | |
4,600 | | Medicines (1) | | 101,614 | |
6,300 | | Medicis Pharmaceutical Class A | | 242,361 | |
3,800 | | Medidata Solutions (1) | | 98,458 | |
2,300 | | MEDNAX (1) | | 161,552 | |
64,403 | | Medtronic | | 2,460,195 | |
107,407 | | Merck | | 4,214,651 | |
17,800 | | Meridian Bioscience | | 365,790 | |
13,315 | | Metropolitan Health Networks (1) | | 99,596 | |
4,600 | | MModal (1) | | 58,696 | |
7,900 | | Momenta Pharmaceuticals (1) | | 125,452 | |
1,400 | | National Healthcare | | 63,840 | |
27,100 | | PDL BioPharma | | 170,459 | |
304,747 | | Pfizer | | 6,987,849 | |
7,700 | | Pozen (1) | | 51,282 | |
2,700 | | Quest Diagnostics | | 155,763 | |
18,200 | | Sciclone Pharmaceuticals (1) | | 109,018 | |
32,700 | | St. Jude Medical | | 1,266,144 | |
22,699 | | Stryker | | 1,238,684 | |
2,100 | | Techne | | 140,574 | |
4,000 | | Thermo Fisher Scientific | | 222,600 | |
2,600 | | U.S. Physical Therapy | | 63,388 | |
53,500 | | UnitedHealth Group | | 3,004,025 | |
8,900 | | Universal Health Services Class B | | 380,119 | |
6,308 | | Waters (1) | | 530,566 | |
6,000 | | WellPoint | | 406,920 | |
| | | | 61,409,863 | |
| | Industrials — 9.5% | | | |
35,935 | | 3M | | 3,211,151 | |
8,400 | | Alaska Air Group (1) | | 283,920 | |
3,700 | | Allegiant Travel (1) | | 217,412 | |
2,200 | | Amerco | | 220,968 | |
6,800 | | Ameresco (1) | | 82,892 | |
2,200 | | American Science & Engineering | | 143,682 | |
8,600 | | Applied Industrial Technologies | | 337,980 | |
71,700 | | Applied Materials | | 859,683 | |
3,400 | | AZZ | | 175,814 | |
20,300 | | Boeing | | 1,559,040 | |
27,108 | | Caterpillar | | 2,785,889 | |
4,500 | | Celadon Group | | 70,335 | |
7,700 | | CH Robinson Worldwide | | 459,998 | |
75,398 | | CSX | | 1,682,129 | |
13,200 | | Cummins | | 1,528,956 | |
4,900 | | Danaher | | 265,678 | |
22,700 | | Deere | | 1,869,572 | |
18,700 | | Dover | | 1,171,742 | |
3,300 | | DXP Enterprises (1) | | 143,121 | |
2,800 | | Eaton | | 134,904 | |
13,100 | | Exelis | | 151,043 | |
2,500 | | FedEx | | 220,600 | |
5,600 | | Flowserve | | 643,608 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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22,047 | | General Dynamics | | 1,488,173 | |
388,089 | | General Electric | | 7,598,783 | |
17,891 | | Honeywell International | | 1,085,268 | |
366 | | Huntington Ingalls Industries (1) | | 14,439 | |
29,500 | | Illinois Tool Works | | 1,692,710 | |
4,700 | | Insperity | | 128,169 | |
2,800 | | Intersections | | 33,684 | |
9,100 | | John Bean Technologies | | 145,509 | |
10,600 | | Joy Global | | 750,162 | |
3,700 | | Kaman | | 127,206 | |
15,800 | | Kla-Tencor | | 823,970 | |
4,900 | | Lincoln Electric Holdings | | 240,149 | |
19,000 | | Lockheed Martin | | 1,720,260 | |
5,600 | | Marten Transport | | 117,992 | |
5,800 | | McGrath RentCorp | | 170,636 | |
5,700 | | Miller Industries | | 93,480 | |
1,800 | | Multi-Color | | 38,376 | |
1,100 | | NACCO Industries | | 124,817 | |
4,300 | | Nordson | | 231,770 | |
17,693 | | Norfolk Southern | | 1,290,351 | |
9,800 | | Northrop Grumman | | 620,144 | |
4,400 | | Pall | | 262,284 | |
9,200 | | Parker Hannifin | | 806,748 | |
500 | | Precision Castparts | | 88,185 | |
15,400 | | Primoris Services | | 222,068 | |
28,000 | | Raytheon | | 1,515,920 | |
8,700 | | Rockwell Automation | | 672,858 | |
9,200 | | Rockwell Collins | | 514,188 | |
98 | | Seaboard (1) | | 195,061 | |
2,200 | | Standex International | | 96,932 | |
2,500 | | TAL International Group | | 103,275 | |
3,600 | | Teledyne Technologies (1) | | 232,632 | |
3,800 | | Twin Disc | | 83,334 | |
26,000 | | Union Pacific | | 2,923,440 | |
43,564 | | United Parcel Service Class B | | 3,404,091 | |
44,895 | | United Technologies | | 3,665,228 | |
6,000 | | US Ecology | | 130,080 | |
1,700 | | WABCO Holdings (1) | | 107,151 | �� |
2,332 | | WW Grainger | | 484,636 | |
13,100 | | Xylem | | 365,228 | |
| | | | 52,629,504 | |
| | Information Technology — 17.5% | | | |
6,400 | | Adobe Systems (1) | | 214,784 | |
12,700 | | American Software | | 105,156 | |
24,700 | | Analog Devices | | 962,806 | |
9,900 | | Ancestry.com (1) | | 264,330 | |
1,000 | | Anixter International (1) | | 68,580 | |
37,339 | | Apple (1) | | 21,814,937 | |
15,200 | | Automatic Data Processing | | 845,424 | |
23,000 | | AVX | | 292,100 | |
4,900 | | Blackbaud | | 151,802 | |
19,500 | | BMC Software (1) | | 804,570 | |
15,200 | | Booz Allen Hamilton Holding | | 259,920 | |
13,100 | | Brooks Automation | | 154,056 | |
46,100 | | CA | | 1,217,962 | |
2,800 | | Cabot Microelectronics | | 96,264 | |
6,400 | | CACI International Class A (1) | | 391,232 | |
225,885 | | Cisco Systems | | 4,551,583 | |
1,100 | | Cognizant Technology Solutions Class A (1) | | 80,652 | |
2,700 | | Comtech Telecommunications | | 83,484 | |
8,200 | | Convergys (1) | | 109,634 | |
80,900 | | Corning | | 1,160,915 | |
4,700 | | DDi | | 61,006 | |
97,999 | | Dell (1) | | 1,604,244 | |
14,000 | | eBay (1) | | 574,700 | |
8,900 | | Ebix | | 182,005 | |
1,800 | | Electro Rent | | 28,044 | |
45,400 | | EMC (1) | | 1,280,734 | |
4,200 | | Globecomm Systems (1) | | 59,556 | |
9,349 | | Google Class A (1) | | 5,658,295 | |
9,100 | | GT Advanced Technologies (1) | | 59,241 | |
11,000 | | Hackett Group (1) | | 62,810 | |
15,167 | | Harris | | 690,705 | |
101,733 | | Hewlett-Packard | | 2,518,909 | |
5,500 | | Integrated Silicon Solution (1) | | 58,410 | |
224,674 | | Intel | | 6,380,741 | |
49,894 | | International Business Machines | | 10,332,050 | |
3,900 | | IXYS (1) | | 48,594 | |
13,900 | | j2 Global | | 359,037 | |
22,500 | | Jabil Circuit | | 527,625 | |
7,500 | | Jack Henry & Associates | | 254,700 | |
9,800 | | JDA Software Group (1) | | 283,024 | |
12,600 | | Kemet (1) | | 107,226 | |
6,900 | | Keynote Systems | | 126,960 | |
21,300 | | Kulicke & Soffa Industries (1) | | 279,030 | |
8,700 | | Lender Processing Services | | 230,985 | |
6,000 | | Lexmark International Class A | | 180,600 | |
7,400 | | Linear Technology | | 242,054 | |
1,300 | | Littelfuse | | 81,471 | |
6,600 | | Mantech International Class A | | 207,372 | |
3,200 | | Mastercard Class A | | 1,447,264 | |
19,000 | | Maxim Integrated Products | | 562,020 | |
14,400 | | Microchip Technology | | 508,896 | |
323,850 | | Microsoft | | 10,369,677 | |
2,900 | | MKS Instruments | | 80,185 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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20,100 | | Molex | | 554,559 | |
4,600 | | MTS Systems | | 220,662 | |
5,700 | | Nanometrics (1) | | 88,407 | |
1,100 | | NCI (1) | | 5,456 | |
9,300 | | Net 1 UEPS Technologies (1) | | 81,840 | |
8,400 | | Newport (1) | | 143,388 | |
2,800 | | Opnet Technologies | | 64,848 | |
179,681 | | Oracle | | 5,280,825 | |
4,800 | | Plantronics | | 183,936 | |
28,900 | | Power-One (1) | | 123,692 | |
14,200 | | QLogic (1) | | 244,950 | |
59,977 | | QUALCOMM | | 3,828,932 | |
7,700 | | Rudolph Technologies (1) | | 83,160 | |
200 | | SanDisk (1) | | 7,402 | |
53,400 | | Symantec (1) | | 882,168 | |
3,900 | | Synaptics (1) | | 119,769 | |
6,700 | | SYNNEX (1) | | 255,203 | |
19,100 | | TeleNav (1) | | 129,307 | |
3,800 | | Telular | | 34,276 | |
2,800 | | Tessco Technologies | | 56,000 | |
56,822 | | Texas Instruments | | 1,814,895 | |
17,700 | | Total System Services | | 416,304 | |
7,300 | | ValueClick (1) | | 154,614 | |
17,100 | | Visa Class A | | 2,102,958 | |
100 | | Vishay Intertechnology (1) | | 1,122 | |
18,300 | | Western Digital (1) | | 710,223 | |
10,400 | | Xilinx | | 378,352 | |
4,200 | | Zygo (1) | | 83,118 | |
| | | | 97,128,727 | |
| | Materials — 2.6% | | | |
7,100 | | Albemarle | | 463,630 | |
16,300 | | Bemis | | 527,957 | |
5,682 | | CF Industries Holdings | | 1,096,967 | |
11,800 | | Cliffs Natural Resources | | 734,668 | |
18,800 | | Dow Chemical | | 636,944 | |
25,900 | | E.I. du Pont de Nemours | | 1,384,614 | |
11,400 | | Eastman Chemical | | 615,258 | |
49,500 | | Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold | | 1,895,850 | |
4,000 | | Innophos Holdings | | 196,680 | |
3,600 | | Koppers Holdings | | 139,968 | |
13,500 | | Kronos Worldwide | | 320,490 | |
15,640 | | Monsanto | | 1,191,455 | |
19,900 | | Mosaic | | 1,051,118 | |
1,100 | | NewMarket | | 245,542 | |
26,000 | | Newmont Mining | | 1,238,900 | |
12,600 | | PPG Industries | | 1,326,024 | |
4,200 | | Praxair | | 485,940 | |
4,100 | | Schnitzer Steel Industries Class A | | 163,467 | |
6,400 | | Sensient Technologies | | 237,760 | |
1,200 | | Terra Nitrogen LP | | 321,600 | |
| | | | 14,274,832 | |
| | Telecommunication Services — 2.4% | | | |
235,839 | | AT&T | | 7,761,462 | |
10,300 | | CenturyLink | | 397,168 | |
2,250 | | Lumos Networks | | 20,340 | |
2,250 | | NTELOS Holdings | | 45,495 | |
116,330 | | Verizon Communications | | 4,697,405 | |
27,600 | | Windstream | | 310,224 | |
| | | | 13,232,094 | |
| | Utilities — 3.0% | | | |
23,700 | | American Electric Power | | 920,508 | |
10,200 | | American States Water | | 371,688 | |
15,200 | | Aqua America | | 345,192 | |
3,200 | | Atmos Energy | | 104,256 | |
10,400 | | California Water Service Group | | 188,344 | |
7,100 | | Chesapeake Utilities | | 298,342 | |
14,700 | | CMS Energy | | 337,953 | |
4,000 | | Consolidated Communications Holdings | | 77,400 | |
18,760 | | Consolidated Edison | | 1,115,282 | |
4,300 | | Dominion Resources | | 224,417 | |
5,200 | | Duke Energy | | 111,436 | |
8,500 | | El Paso Electric | | 260,440 | |
39,871 | | Emerson Electric | | 2,094,822 | |
11,600 | | Energen | | 607,608 | |
6,300 | | Entergy | | 413,028 | |
35,200 | | Exelon | | 1,373,152 | |
6,200 | | FirstEnergy | | 290,284 | |
7,900 | | MGE Energy | | 361,346 | |
2,000 | | Middlesex Water | | 37,120 | |
6,900 | | NeuStar Class A (1) | | 250,815 | |
18,400 | | NextEra Energy | | 1,184,040 | |
3,300 | | Northeast Utilities | | 121,341 | |
6,437 | | PG&E | | 284,387 | |
8,700 | | Piedmont Natural Gas | | 265,176 | |
7,200 | | Portland General Electric | | 185,976 | |
25,600 | | PPL | | 700,160 | |
6,800 | | SCANA | | 313,616 | |
46,608 | | Southern | | 2,141,171 | |
2,900 | | Suburban Propane Partners LP | | 123,337 | |
4,400 | | UGI | | 128,392 | |
9,400 | | Unitil | | 248,724 | |
100 | | USA Mobility | | 1,292 | |
12,000 | | Vectren | | 353,400 | |
9,900 | | Westar Energy | | 284,031 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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19,600 | | Xcel Energy | | 530,376 | |
| | | | 16,648,852 | |
| | Total United States | | 479,158,258 | |
| | TOTAL COMMON STOCK (Cost $440,315,892) | | 501,266,499 | |
| | | | | |
| | SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT (4) — 9.1% | | | |
50,557,208 | | JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund, 0.120% (Cost $50,557,208) | | 50,557,208 | |
| | TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 99.5% (Cost $490,873,100) | | 551,823,707 | |
| | OTHER ASSETS LESS LIABILITIES — 0.5% | | 2,650,887 | |
| | NET ASSETS — 100% | | $ | 554,474.594 | |
| | | | | | |
(1) | Denotes non-income producing security. |
(2) | Security considered illiquid. On April 30, 2012 the value of these securities amounted to $0, representing 0.0% of the net assets of the Fund. |
(3) | Security is fair valued. (See Note 2 in Notes to Financial Statements.) |
(4) | The rate shown represents the 7-day current yield as of April 30, 2012. |
A summary of the open futures contracts held by the Fund at April 30, 2012, is as follows:
| | Number of | | | | Unrealized | |
Type of Contract | | Contracts Long (Short) | | Expiration Date | | Appreciation (Depreciation) | |
S&P 500 Index E-MINI | | 698 | | Jun-12 | | $ | 926,714 | |
| | | | | | | | |
A summary of the outstanding forward foreign currency contracts held by the Fund at April 30, 2012, is as follows:
Counterparty | | Settlement Date | | Currency to Deliver | | Currency to Receive | | Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | |
Barclays Capital | | 5/3/12 | | CAD | 14,390,335 | | USD | 14,405,937 | | $ | (160,434 | ) |
UBS Securities | | 5/3/12 | | USD | 14,553,332 | | CAD | 14,390,335 | | 13,038 | |
UBS Securities | | 5/31/12 | | CAD | 14,390,335 | | USD | 14,544,360 | | (13,031 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | $ | (160,427 | ) |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schedule of Investments (concluded)
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
ADR — American Depositary Receipt
CAD — Canadian Dollar
LLC — Limited Liability Company
LP — Limited Partnership
REIT — Real Estate Investment Trust
S&P — Standard & Poor’s
USD— United States Dollar
The following is a summary of the inputs used as of April 30, 2012, in valuing the Fund’s investments carried at value:
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
Investments in Securities (1) | | | | | | | | | |
Common Stock (2) | | $ | 501,266,499 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 501,266,499 | |
Short-Term Investment | | 50,557,208 | | — | | — | | 50,557,208 | |
Total Investments in Securities | | $ | 551,823,707 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 551,823,707 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
Other Financial Instruments | | | | | | | | | |
Futures—Unrealized Appreciation | | $ | 926,714 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 926,714 | |
Forwards—Unrealized Appreciation | | — | | 13,038 | | — | | 13,038 | |
Forwards—Unrealized Depreciation | | — | | (173,465 | ) | — | | (173,465 | ) |
Total Other Financial Instruments | | $ | 926,714 | | $ | (160,427 | ) | $ | — | | $ | 766,287 | |
(1) There were no transfers between levels during the reporting period, based on the input levels assigned under the hierarchy at the beginning and end of the reporting period.
(2) All securities in this category are Level 1 securities with the exception of two securities which were fair valued at zero. For a detailed break- out by classification, please refer to the Schedule of Investments.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund
Schedule of Investments
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
| | COMMON STOCK — 90.3% | | | |
| | Consumer Discretionary — 18.2% | | | |
32,300 | | Asbury Automotive Group (1) | | 901,816 | |
33,100 | | Bally Technologies (1) | | 1,607,005 | |
32,000 | | Big Lots (1) | | 1,172,480 | |
34,900 | | CEC Entertainment | | 1,333,878 | |
66,900 | | Chico’s FAS | | 1,027,584 | |
23,000 | | Children’s Place (1) | | 1,057,540 | |
29,700 | | Citi Trends (1) | | 330,858 | |
53,000 | | Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Class A | | 401,210 | |
27,300 | | Collective Brands (1) | | 567,021 | |
10,900 | | DeVry | | 350,435 | |
37,500 | | Domino’s Pizza | | 1,417,875 | |
10,700 | | Elizabeth Arden (1) | | 417,086 | |
17,900 | | Express (1) | | 422,798 | |
63,300 | | Finish Line | | 1,409,058 | |
19,100 | | Group 1 Automotive | | 1,105,508 | |
19,300 | | Harman International Industries | | 956,894 | |
29,400 | | Healthcare Services Group | | 623,868 | |
14,900 | | Home Inns & Hoels Management ADR (1) | | 354,024 | |
19,100 | | Lamar Advertising Class A (1) | | 607,762 | |
19,300 | | LKQ (1) | | 645,585 | |
12,300 | | Madison Square Garden (1) | | 442,431 | |
16,000 | | Men’s Wearhouse | | 592,640 | |
32,900 | | Monster Worldwide (1) | | 283,927 | |
32,800 | | Pinnacle Entertainment (1) | | 364,080 | |
44,700 | | Progressive Waste Solutions | | 968,202 | |
49,900 | | Rent-A-Center | | 1,707,079 | |
26,300 | | Six Flags Entertainment | | 1,260,033 | |
67,234 | | Standard Parking (1) | | 1,281,480 | |
63,600 | | Waste Connections | | 2,049,828 | |
202,600 | | Wendy’s | | 986,662 | |
13,000 | | Wolverine World Wide | | 545,350 | |
| | | | 27,191,997 | |
| | Consumer Staples — 0.9% | | | |
11,200 | | Casey’s General Stores | | 631,120 | |
17,500 | | Harris Teeter Supermarkets | | 664,475 | |
1,200 | | Nash Finch | | 30,120 | |
| | | | 1,325,715 | |
| | Financial Services — 15.8% | | | |
83,876 | | Alterra Capital Holdings | | 2,007,153 | |
8,700 | | Altisource Portfolio Solutions (1) | | 520,521 | |
41,100 | | Apollo Global Management LLC Class A | | 527,724 | |
10,400 | | Bank of Hawaii | | 508,456 | |
79,400 | | Brown & Brown | | 2,141,418 | |
1,600 | | Bryn Mawr Bank | | 34,384 | |
19,000 | | Cash America International | | 888,250 | |
64,094 | | Colonial Properties Trust REIT | | 1,433,783 | |
27,220 | | CVB Financial | | 314,935 | |
34,400 | | Delphi Financial Group Class A | | 1,562,448 | |
11,440 | | Equity Lifestyle Properties REIT | | 800,113 | |
51,100 | | FirstMerit | | 858,480 | |
40,200 | | Genpact (1) | | 670,536 | |
7,100 | | Health Care REIT | | 402,286 | |
9,700 | | Infinity Property & Casualty | | 518,077 | |
20,100 | | Lakeland Financial | | 523,404 | |
38,215 | | LaSalle Hotel Properties REIT | | 1,123,903 | |
28,000 | | Lazard LP Class A | | 770,280 | |
33,700 | | MB Financial | | 696,579 | |
109,900 | | MFA Financial | | 811,062 | |
59,700 | | Ocwen Financial (1) | | 890,127 | |
60,100 | | Old National Bancorp | | 770,482 | |
29,300 | | Primerica (1) | | 768,539 | |
25,844 | | Redwood Trust REIT | | 301,858 | |
26,500 | | Reinsurance Group of America | | 1,540,710 | |
22,300 | | Simmons First National Class A | | 542,782 | |
11,500 | | SVB Financial Group (1) | | 737,035 | |
21,800 | | Westamerica Bancorporation | | 999,966 | |
| | | | 23,665,291 | |
| | Healthcare — 10.6% | | | |
51,700 | | Brookdale Senior Living (1) | | 982,817 | |
11,800 | | Centene (1) | | 467,162 | |
14,200 | | Cepheid (1) | | 545,422 | |
17,000 | | Cooper | | 1,498,890 | |
21,500 | | Fluidigm (1) | | 335,615 | |
21,900 | | Haemonetics (1) | | 1,567,383 | |
44,600 | | HealthSouth (1) | | 998,594 | |
11,800 | | HMS Holdings (1) | | 283,908 | |
219,200 | | Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (1) | | 355,104 | |
19,700 | | LifePoint Hospitals (1) | | 768,694 | |
50,300 | | Masimo (1) | | 1,113,139 | |
29,300 | | MedAssets (1) | | 369,473 | |
20,000 | | Medicis Pharmaceutical Class A | | 769,400 | |
6,200 | | Myriad Genetics (1) | | 161,262 | |
9,600 | | Onyx Pharmaceuticals (1) | | 436,896 | |
9,400 | | Orthofix International (1) | | 387,468 | |
58,800 | | Parexel International (1) | | 1,584,072 | |
17,100 | | Salix Pharmaceuticals (1) | | 844,740 | |
21,900 | | Sirona Dental Systems (1) | | 1,106,169 | |
5,600 | | Techne | | 374,864 | |
900 | | Vocera Communications (1) | | 19,935 | |
16,200 | | Volcano (1) | | 439,830 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
9,500 | | West Pharmaceutical Services | | 426,550 | |
| | | | 15,837,387 | |
| | Materials & Processing — 7.8% | | | |
38,300 | | Cabot | | 1,651,879 | |
35,400 | | Innophos Holdings | | 1,740,618 | |
25,600 | | Kaiser Aluminum | | 1,345,792 | |
37,200 | | KapStone Paper and Packaging (1) | | 671,832 | |
12,500 | | Minerals Technologies | | 838,750 | |
49,300 | | Packaging Corp of America | | 1,439,067 | |
53,330 | | Pretium Resources (1) | | 901,277 | |
9,700 | | Quaker Chemical | | 420,980 | |
35,500 | | Silgan Holdings | | 1,557,385 | |
22,900 | | Sonoco Products | | 758,677 | |
166,300 | | Timmins Gold (1) | | 407,396 | |
| | | | 11,733,653 | |
| | Other Energy — 6.0% | | | |
31,400 | | Carrizo Oil & Gas (1) | | 880,456 | |
42,000 | | Helix Energy Solutions Group (1) | | 857,220 | |
18,100 | | Oil States International (1) | | 1,440,398 | |
12,400 | | Petroleum Development (1) | | 426,436 | |
133,000 | | Petroquest Energy (1) | | 803,320 | |
15,700 | | SM Energy | | 1,037,927 | |
44,300 | | SunCoke Energy (1) | | 674,246 | |
58,400 | | Swift Energy (1) | | 1,766,600 | |
34,400 | | Thermon Group Holdings (1) | | 764,368 | |
59,000 | | Tsakos Energy Navigation | | 374,650 | |
| | | | 9,025,621 | |
| | Producer Durables — 14.9% | | | |
31,600 | | ABM Industries | | 735,648 | |
8,300 | | Allegiant Travel (1) | | 487,708 | |
42,100 | | Applied Industrial Technologies | | 1,654,530 | |
3,100 | | AZZ | | 160,301 | |
63,500 | | Compass Diversified Holdings | | 932,180 | |
36,400 | | Dycom Industries (1) | | 851,396 | |
35,900 | | Edgen Group (1) | | 323,100 | |
22,200 | | Electro Rent | | 345,876 | |
44,700 | | EnerSys (1) | | 1,562,265 | |
40,900 | | EnPro Industries (1) | | 1,693,669 | |
16,700 | | Forrester Research | | 592,015 | |
31,900 | | FTI Consulting (1) | | 1,159,246 | |
11,300 | | Genesee & Wyoming Class A (1) | | 609,183 | |
108,700 | | GrafTech International (1) | | 1,276,138 | |
114,800 | | Hawaiian Holdings (1) | | 649,768 | |
25,850 | | IDEX | | 1,119,564 | |
3,100 | | Michael Baker (1) | | 69,843 | |
63,400 | | MRC Global (1) | | 1,242,640 | |
61,500 | | MYR Group (1) | | 1,028,280 | |
52,900 | | Orion Marine Group (1) | | 366,068 | |
6,400 | | Regal-Beloit | | 432,896 | |
11,800 | | Rofin-Sinar Technologies (1) | | 297,360 | |
42,200 | | Spirit Airlines (1) | | 1,013,644 | |
31,363 | | Stantec (2) | | 1,024,532 | |
69,900 | | Steelcase Class A | | 603,936 | |
51,000 | | Swift Transportation (1) | | 534,990 | |
14,000 | | Towers Watson | | 915,600 | |
15,400 | | Zebra Technologies Class A (1) | | 597,366 | |
| | | | 22,279,742 | |
| | Technology — 11.5% | | | |
21,400 | | AboveNet (1) | | 1,779,838 | |
293,600 | | Anadigics (1) | | 648,856 | |
12,700 | | Ariba (1) | | 485,140 | |
124,000 | | Atmel (1) | | 1,099,880 | |
84,800 | | Cadence Design Systems (1) | | 989,616 | |
14,700 | | comScore (1) | | 292,824 | |
19,355 | | EXFO (1) | | 138,001 | |
38,300 | | Fairchild Semiconductor International (1) | | 542,711 | |
11,000 | | Gartner (1) | | 481,800 | |
12,800 | | Hittite Microwave (1) | | 685,312 | |
124,000 | | Integrated Device Technology (1) | | 839,480 | |
40,900 | | Kenexa (1) | | 1,336,203 | |
15,000 | | M/A-Com Technology Solutions Holdings (1) | | 297,450 | |
17,000 | | Monolithic Power Systems (1) | | 352,240 | |
31,300 | | Nanometrics (1) | | 485,463 | |
18,700 | | Netscout Systems (1) | | 386,903 | |
65,260 | | Parametric Technology (1) | | 1,408,311 | |
49,500 | | QLogic (1) | | 853,875 | |
95,300 | | Sapient | | 1,140,741 | |
26,500 | | Scansource (1) | | 873,440 | |
36,200 | | Standard Microsystems (1) | | 958,576 | |
28,747 | | TNS (1) | | 586,439 | |
22,100 | | Websense (1) | | 458,354 | |
| | | | 17,121,453 | |
| | Utilities — 4.6% | | | |
46,700 | | Cleco | | 1,905,360 | |
38,900 | | IDACORP | | 1,584,786 | |
60,422 | | NorthWestern | | 2,146,189 | |
33,800 | | Unisource Energy | | 1,230,320 | |
| | | | 6,866,655 | |
| | TOTAL COMMON STOCK (Cost $111,633,606) | | 135,047,514 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schedule of Investments (concluded)
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
| | SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT (3) — 10.2% | | | |
15,194,682 | | JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund, 0.120% (Cost $15,194,682) | | 15,194,682 | |
| | | | | |
| | TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 100.5% (Cost $126,828,288) | | 150,242,196 | |
| | OTHER LIABILITIES IN EXCESS OF OTHER ASSETS — (0.5)% | | (736,160 | ) |
| | NET ASSETS — 100% | | $ | 149,506,036 | |
| | | | | | |
(1) Denotes non-income producing security.
(2) Canadian-domiciled company
(3) The rate shown represents the 7-day current yield as of April 30, 2012.
ADR — American Depositary Receipt
LLC — Limited Liability Corporation
LP — Limited Partnership
REIT — Real Estate Investment Trust
The following is a summary of the inputs used as of April 30, 2012, in valuing the Fund’s investments carried at value:
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
Investments in Securities (1) | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Common Stock (2) | | $ | 135,047,514 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 135,047,514 | |
Short-Term Investment | | 15,194,682 | | — | | — | | 15,194,682 | |
Total Investments in Securities | | $ | 150,242,196 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 150,242,196 | |
(1) There were no transfers between levels during the reporting period, based on the input levels assigned under the hierarchy at the beginning and end of the reporting period.
(2) All securities in this category are Level 1 securities. For a detailed break-out by classification, please refer to the Schedule of Investments.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund
Schedule of Investments
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
| | COMMON STOCK — 89.1% | | | |
| | Auto & Transportation — 1.7% | | | |
22,500 | | Kansas City Southern | | 1,732,950 | |
45,200 | | Ryder System | | 2,202,144 | |
| | | | 3,935,094 | |
| | Consumer Discretionary — 15.5% | | | |
40,100 | | Asbury Automotive Group (1) | | 1,119,592 | |
11,800 | | Autoliv | | 740,332 | |
46,500 | | Bally Technologies (1) | | 2,257,575 | |
48,100 | | Big Lots (1) | | 1,762,384 | |
37,000 | | Children’s Place (1) | | 1,701,260 | |
18,100 | | DeVry | | 581,915 | |
16,300 | | Dick’s Sporting Goods | | 824,780 | |
13,100 | | Elizabeth Arden (1) | | 510,638 | |
32,500 | | Gentex | | 714,025 | |
25,800 | | Harman International Industries | | 1,279,164 | |
13,900 | | Home Inns & Hotels Management ADR (1) | | 330,264 | |
67,300 | | Interpublic Group of Cos. | | 794,813 | |
34,200 | | Lamar Advertising Class A (1) | | 1,088,244 | |
36,000 | | Lear | | 1,494,000 | |
9,024 | | Liberty Media - Liberty Capital (1) | | 789,059 | |
23,500 | | Men’s Wearhouse | | 870,440 | |
73,200 | | Pep Boys-Manny Moe & Jack | | 1,092,876 | |
64,700 | | Rent-A-Center | | 2,213,387 | |
93,700 | | Republic Services | | 2,564,569 | |
57,600 | | Ross Stores | | 3,547,584 | |
24,200 | | Snap-on | | 1,513,468 | |
80,700 | | VeriSign | | 3,317,577 | |
116,000 | | Waste Connections | | 3,738,680 | |
| | | | 34,846,626 | |
| | Consumer Staples — 2.1% | | | |
23,700 | | Casey’s General Stores | | 1,335,495 | |
13,200 | | Harris Teeter Supermarkets | | 501,204 | |
29,100 | | McCormick | | 1,626,981 | |
85,000 | | Viterra | | 1,368,983 | |
| | | | 4,832,663 | |
| | Financial Services — 15.1% | | | |
22,700 | | Bank of Hawaii | | 1,109,803 | |
28,300 | | CIT Group (1) | | 1,071,155 | |
100,900 | | Comerica | | 3,230,818 | |
29,100 | | Cullen/Frost Bankers | | 1,715,736 | |
22,220 | | Digital Realty Trust REIT | | 1,668,500 | |
37,600 | | HCC Insurance Holdings | | 1,201,696 | |
13,300 | | Health Care REIT | | 753,578 | |
134,400 | | Huntington Bancshares | | 899,136 | |
27,300 | | Invesco Mortgage Capital REIT | | 481,572 | |
38,200 | | KKR | | 539,384 | |
29,300 | | Lazard LP Class A | | 806,043 | |
40,700 | | MSCI Class A (1) | | 1,489,213 | |
55,800 | | PartnerRe | | 3,884,796 | |
169,300 | | People’s United Financial | | 2,089,162 | |
25,000 | | Raymond James Financial | | 915,500 | |
53,400 | | Reinsurance Group of America | | 3,104,676 | |
55,000 | | Tanger Factory Outlet Centers REIT | | 1,722,600 | |
29,900 | | UMB Financial | | 1,436,695 | |
92,400 | | Willis Group Holdings | | 3,368,904 | |
64,300 | | WR Berkley | | 2,421,538 | |
| | | | 33,910,505 | |
| | Healthcare — 11.5% | | | |
55,400 | | Brookdale Senior Living (1) | | 1,053,154 | |
115,700 | | CareFusion (1) | | 2,997,787 | |
15,900 | | Centene (1) | | 629,481 | |
21,800 | | DaVita (1) | | 1,931,044 | |
76,700 | | DENTSPLY International | | 3,149,302 | |
25,600 | | Henry Schein (1) | | 1,964,544 | |
66,100 | | Life Technologies (1) | | 3,064,396 | |
27,400 | | LifePoint Hospitals (1) | | 1,069,148 | |
55,400 | | Lincare Holdings | | 1,351,760 | |
37,600 | | Masimo (1) | | 832,088 | |
28,500 | | Merit Medical Systems (1) | | 376,770 | |
9,300 | | Myriad Genetics (1) | | 241,893 | |
9,100 | | Onyx Pharmaceuticals (1) | | 414,141 | |
25,600 | | Parexel International (1) | | 689,664 | |
29,800 | | Salix Pharmaceuticals (1) | | 1,472,120 | |
17,000 | | Sirona Dental Systems (1) | | 858,670 | |
61,500 | | Universal Health Services Class B | | 2,626,665 | |
22,800 | | West Pharmaceutical Services | | 1,023,720 | |
| | | | 25,746,347 | |
| | Materials & Processing — 9.9% | | | |
37,200 | | Airgas | | 3,409,008 | |
51,500 | | Cabot | | 2,221,195 | |
128,200 | | Crown Holdings (1) | | 4,740,836 | |
12,500 | | Martin Marietta Materials | | 1,036,000 | |
45,400 | | Reliance Steel & Aluminum | | 2,537,406 | |
41,700 | | Rock-Tenn Class A | | 2,599,161 | |
17,500 | | Royal Gold | | 1,084,300 | |
64,400 | | Silgan Holdings | | 2,825,228 | |
122,970 | | Yamana Gold | | 1,807,659 | |
| | | | 22,260,793 | |
| | Other Energy — 4.0% | | | |
28,200 | | Cimarex Energy | | 1,948,902 | |
12,500 | | Concho Resources (1) | | 1,339,750 | |
25,400 | | Dresser-Rand Group (1) | | 1,236,472 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
9,143 | | Oil States International (1) | | 727,600 | |
32,200 | | SM Energy | | 2,128,742 | |
52,200 | | Swift Energy (1) | | 1,579,050 | |
| | | | 8,960,516 | |
| | Producer Durables — 7.7% | | | |
18,400 | | Alaska Air Group (1) | | 621,920 | |
17,599 | | AMETEK | | 885,758 | |
46,200 | | Applied Industrial Technologies | | 1,815,660 | |
25,900 | | Dover | | 1,622,894 | |
54,650 | | IDEX | | 2,366,891 | |
23,200 | | Itron (1) | | 946,560 | |
12,300 | | Kennametal | | 519,429 | |
13,400 | | Manpower | | 570,840 | |
86,800 | | Quanta Services (1) | | 1,920,016 | |
42,900 | | Rollins | | 911,625 | |
52,500 | | Spirit Airlines (1) | | 1,261,050 | |
106,000 | | Steelcase Class A | | 915,840 | |
18,200 | | Towers Watson | | 1,190,280 | |
38,100 | | Verisk Analytics Class A (1) | | 1,864,995 | |
| | | | 17,413,758 | |
| | Technology — 14.5% | | | |
25,100 | | AboveNet (1) | | 2,087,567 | |
153,200 | | Advanced Micro Devices (1) | | 1,127,552 | |
144,800 | | Amdocs | | 4,633,600 | |
74,700 | | Arrow Electronics (1) | | 3,141,135 | |
166,700 | | Atmel (1) | | 1,478,629 | |
16,400 | | Autodesk (1) | | 645,668 | |
50,500 | | Avnet (1) | | 1,822,040 | |
37,900 | | Gartner (1) | | 1,660,020 | |
220,000 | | Integrated Device Technology (1) | | 1,489,400 | |
53,400 | | Molex | | 1,473,306 | |
107,100 | | Parametric Technology (1) | | 2,311,218 | |
191,200 | | PMC - Sierra (1) | | 1,351,784 | |
57,900 | | QLogic (1) | | 998,775 | |
37,054 | | Rovi (1) | | 1,059,745 | |
45,600 | | SBA Communications Class A (1) | | 2,450,544 | |
41,700 | | Skyworks Solutions (1) | | 1,131,738 | |
51,600 | | Synopsys (1) | | 1,548,516 | |
47,100 | | Teradyne (1) | | 810,591 | |
56,193 | | Vantiv (1) | | 1,265,466 | |
| | | | 32,487,294 | |
| | Telecommunication Services — 0.5% | | | |
81,900 | | NII Holdings (1) | | 1,146,190 | |
| | | | | |
| | Utilities — 6.6% | | | |
77,300 | | Cleco | | 3,153,840 | |
77,400 | | Energen | | 4,054,212 | |
21,800 | | ITC Holdings | | 1,688,628 | |
72,600 | | MetroPCS Communications (1) | | 529,980 | |
15,300 | | NeuStar Class A (1) | | 556,155 | |
42,800 | | Portland General Electric | | 1,105,524 | |
186,900 | | Questar | | 3,691,275 | |
| | | | 14,779,614 | |
| | TOTAL COMMON STOCK (Cost $178,220,276) | | 200,319,400 | |
| | | | | |
| | SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT (2) — 11.8% | | | |
26,505,117 | | JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund, 0.120% (Cost $26,505,117) | | 26,505,117 | |
| | TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 100.9% (Cost $204,725,393) | | 226,824,517 | |
| | OTHER LIABILITIES IN EXCESS OF OTHER ASSETS — (0.9)% | | (2,075,685 | ) |
| | NET ASSETS — 100% | | $ | 224,748,832 | |
| | | | | | |
(1) Denotes non-income producing security.
(2) The rate shown represents the 7-day current yield as of April 30, 2012.
ADR — American Depositary Receipt
LP — Limited Partnership
REIT — Real Estate Investment Trust
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schedule of Investments (concluded)
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
The following is a summary of the inputs used as of April 30, 2012, in valuing the Fund’s investments carried at value:
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
Investments in Securities (1) | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Common Stock (2) | | $ | 200,319,400 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 200,319,400 | |
Short-Term Investment | | 26,505,117 | | — | | — | | 26,505,117 | |
Total Investments in Securities | | $ | 226,824,517 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 226,824,517 | |
(1) There were no transfers between levels during the reporting period, based on the input levels assigned under the hierarchy at the beginning and end of the reporting period.
(2) All securities in this category are Level 1 securities. For a detailed break-out by classification, please refer to the Schedule of Investments.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund
Schedule of Investments
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
| | COMMON STOCK — 84.9% | | | |
| | Brazil — 7.0% | | | |
255,600 | | BR Malls Participacoes | | 3,159,214 | |
191,429 | | BR Properties | | 2,390,164 | |
563,856 | | Cia de Concessoes Rodoviarias | | 4,372,054 | |
82,368 | | Cia Hering | | 2,045,210 | |
267,300 | | Gerdau ADR | | 2,509,947 | |
116,600 | | Iochpe-Maxion | | 2,018,624 | |
104,200 | | Lojas Renner | | 3,311,069 | |
118,378 | | Petroleo Brasileiro ADR | | 2,786,618 | |
114,405 | | Telefonica Brasil ADR | | 3,257,110 | |
119,700 | | Ultrapar Participacoes | | 2,714,075 | |
74,193 | | Ultrapar Participacoes ADR | | 1,679,730 | |
249,300 | | Vale ADR | | 5,534,460 | |
| | | | 35,778,275 | |
| | China — 11.5% | | | |
451,000 | | Anhui Conch Cement Class H | | 1,511,345 | |
39,700 | | Baidu ADR (1) | | 5,268,190 | |
13,610,320 | | China Construction Bank Class H | | 10,595,443 | |
1,460,600 | | China Pacific Insurance Group Class H | | 4,772,249 | |
6,008,000 | | China Petroleum & Chemical Class H | | 6,473,662 | |
3,040,000 | | Dongfeng Motor Group Class H | | 5,994,857 | |
235,500 | | Hengan International Group | | 2,493,517 | |
12,200,565 | | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Class H | | 8,145,609 | |
11,296 | | Mindray Medical International ADR | | 370,057 | |
627,500 | | Parkson Retail Group | | 702,017 | |
285,100 | | Tencent Holdings | | 8,958,695 | |
624,000 | | Weichai Power Class H (1) | | 2,939,584 | |
| | | | 58,225,225 | |
| | Colombia — 1.0% | | | |
56,729 | | Almacenes Exito | | 920,601 | |
60,700 | | Ecopetrol ADR | | 3,927,290 | |
| | | | 4,847,891 | |
| | Egypt — 0.9% | | | |
442,239 | | Centamin (1) | | 492,349 | |
317,255 | | Commercial International Bank | | 1,342,965 | |
309,619 | | Egyptian Financial Group-Hermes Holding (1) | | 694,501 | |
43,000 | | Orascom Construction Industries GDR | | 1,896,300 | |
| | | | 4,426,115 | |
| | Hong Kong — 8.2% | | | |
1,174,000 | | Belle International Holdings | | 2,303,014 | |
1,379,000 | | China Mobile | | 15,276,504 | |
2,394,000 | | China Overseas Land & Investment | | 5,189,960 | |
2,464,000 | | China Resources Power Holdings | | 4,496,947 | |
5,000,000 | | CNOOC | | 10,659,071 | |
873,000 | | Dah Chong Hong Holdings | | 929,412 | |
2,702,000 | | Lenovo Group | | 2,597,993 | |
| | | | 41,452,901 | |
| | Hungary (2) — 0.2% | | | |
39,729 | | Magyar Telekom Telecommunications | | 99,939 | |
6,505 | | Richter Gedeon | | 1,124,159 | |
| | | | 1,224,098 | |
| | India — 3.2% | | | |
78,056 | | Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories ADR | | 2,640,634 | |
187,600 | | HDFC Bank ADR | | 6,440,308 | |
83,028 | | ICICI Bank ADR | | 2,813,819 | |
69,200 | | Infosys Limited ADR | | 3,276,620 | |
85,418 | | Mahindra & Mahindra GDR | | 1,150,871 | |
| | | | 16,322,252 | |
| | Indonesia — 2.6% | | | |
377,000 | | Astra International | | 2,912,464 | |
5,309,000 | | Bank Mandiri | | 4,274,697 | |
4,879,500 | | Perusahaan Perkebunan London Sumatra Indonesia | | 1,552,966 | |
2,529,500 | | Semen Gresik Persero | | 3,344,043 | |
1,728,500 | | XL Axiata | | 1,015,603 | |
| | | | 13,099,773 | |
| | Malaysia — 3.2% | | | |
2,248,400 | | Axiata Group | | 3,945,474 | |
1,253,300 | | Genting | | 4,282,591 | |
852,300 | | Public Bank | | 3,858,728 | |
1,270,000 | | Sime Darby | | 4,087,839 | |
| | | | 16,174,632 | |
| | Mexico — 2.5% | | | |
16,973 | | Alfa Class A | | 242,817 | |
361,400 | | Alpek (1) | | 797,103 | |
138,832 | | America Movil, Series L ADR | | 3,699,873 | |
635,397 | | Grupo Bimbo, Series A | | 1,516,061 | |
574,924 | | Grupo Financiero Banorte | | 2,772,675 | |
398,100 | | Mexichem | | 1,483,788 | |
724,040 | | Wal-Mart de Mexico | | 2,070,520 | |
| | | | 12,582,837 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
| | Peru — 0.7% | | | |
37,100 | | Cia de Minas Buenaventura ADR | | 1,531,117 | |
14,092 | | Credicorp | | 1,844,784 | |
| | | | 3,375,901 | |
| | Philippines — 0.6% | | | |
2,818,400 | | Ayala Land | | 1,431,897 | |
109,100 | | SM Investments | | 1,806,274 | |
| | | | 3,238,171 | |
| | Poland — 0.3% | | | |
356,109 | | Cyfrowy Polsat | | 1,570,886 | |
| | | | | |
| | Qatar — 0.6% | | | |
72,575 | | Industries Qatar | | 2,910,296 | |
| | | | | |
| | Russia — 8.2% | | | |
1,160,102 | | Gazprom ADR | | 13,306,370 | |
97,076 | | Globaltrans Investment GDR | | 1,900,748 | |
164,500 | | LUKOIL ADR | | 10,092,075 | |
34,500 | | Magnit GDR | | 1,010,160 | |
41,221 | | Mail.ru Group GDR (1) | | 1,782,808 | |
196,900 | | Mobile Telesystems ADR | | 3,851,364 | |
17,350 | | NovaTek GDR | | 2,205,185 | |
112,661 | | Polymetal International (1) | | 1,672,966 | |
176,900 | | Rosneft Oil GDR | | 1,262,182 | |
364,965 | | Sberbank Savings Bank of the Russian Federation ADR | | 4,711,698 | |
| | | | 41,795,556 | |
| | South Africa — 3.5% | | | |
69,464 | | AngloGold Ashanti | | 2,364,333 | |
709,946 | | FirstRand | | 2,307,928 | |
91,107 | | Foschini Group | | 1,509,357 | |
28,607 | | Impala Platinum Holdings | | 556,805 | |
88,791 | | Imperial Holdings | | 1,928,344 | |
121,369 | | Mr Price Group | | 1,642,538 | |
62,421 | | Naspers Class N | | 3,761,714 | |
51,400 | | Sasol | | 2,442,531 | |
74,528 | | Shoprite Holdings | | 1,288,577 | |
| | | | 17,802,127 | |
| | South Korea — 16.6% | | | |
152,950 | | Cheil Worldwide | | 2,666,179 | |
15,156 | | Daum Communications | | 1,421,556 | |
147,670 | | DGB Financial Group | | 1,731,337 | |
16,596 | | GS Engineering & Construction | | 1,237,954 | |
40,680 | | Hana Financial Group | | 1,398,445 | |
410 | | Hyundai Department Store | | 57,865 | |
5,850 | | Hyundai Heavy Industries | | 1,464,926 | |
12,470 | | Hyundai Mobis | | 3,393,010 | |
71,028 | | Hyundai Motor | | 16,875,140 | |
51,370 | | KB Financial Group | | 1,750,023 | |
22,149 | | LG Chem | | 5,575,835 | |
12,494 | | LG Household & Health Care | | 6,555,861 | |
25,671 | | Samsung Electronics | | 31,574,109 | |
57,685 | | Shinhan Financial Group | | 2,016,200 | |
8,149 | | Shinsegae | | 1,788,255 | |
72,850 | | SK Hynix | | 1,808,156 | |
22,932 | | SK Innovation | | 3,206,067 | |
| | | | 84,520,918 | |
| | Taiwan — 6.9% | | | |
335,011 | | Asustek Computer | | 3,383,544 | |
4,881,023 | | Chinatrust Financial Holding | | 3,116,596 | |
2,139,340 | | Hon Hai Precision Industry | | 6,767,722 | |
115,000 | | Largan Precision | | 1,826,865 | |
2,269,337 | | Taiwan Cement | | 2,707,650 | |
801,700 | | Taiwan Mobile | | 2,585,554 | |
4,127,139 | | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing | | 12,264,774 | |
1,681,770 | | WPG Holdings | | 2,297,366 | |
| | | | 34,950,071 | |
| | Thailand — 5.5% | | | |
1,089,000 | | Bangkok Bank | | 6,870,439 | |
2,330,700 | | CP ALL | | 5,798,327 | |
1,235,900 | | Kasikornbank | | 6,551,275 | |
94,900 | | Kasikornbank NVDR | | 504,590 | |
646,200 | | PTT | | 7,376,137 | |
12,600 | | PTT NVDR | | 143,824 | |
287,700 | | Thai Oil | | 631,536 | |
| | | | 27,876,128 | |
| | Turkey — 1.7% | | | |
377,902 | | TAV Havalimanlari Holding (1) | | 1,988,222 | |
313,782 | | Turk Telekomunikasyon | | 1,375,728 | |
214,680 | | Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri | | 1,073,247 | |
704,019 | | Turkiye Garanti Bankasi | | 2,589,587 | |
236,358 | | Turkiye Halk Bankasi | | 1,655,347 | |
| | | | 8,682,131 | |
| | TOTAL COMMON STOCK (Cost $393,903,406) | | 430,856,184 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
| | PREFERRED STOCK — 6.8% | | | |
| | Brazil — 6.8% | | | |
457,638 | | Banco Bradesco ADR | | 7,335,937 | |
154,204 | | Cia de Bebidas das Americas ADR | | 6,473,484 | |
202,977 | | Cia Energetica de Minas Gerais ADR | | 5,007,443 | |
417,151 | | Itau Unibanco Holding ADR | | 6,545,099 | |
180,839 | | Petroleo Brasileiro ADR | | 4,007,392 | |
229,800 | | Vale ADR | | 4,970,574 | |
500 | | Vale Class A | | 10,820 | |
| | TOTAL PREFERRED STOCK (Cost $36,082,289) | | 34,350,749 | |
| | | | | |
| | EQUITY-LINKED WARRANTS (1) (3) (4) — 1.1% | | | |
| | Russia — 1.1% | | | |
275,066 | | Sberbank Savings Bank of the Russian Federation, Expires 11/05/12 | | 860,957 | |
1,407,771 | | Sberbank Savings Bank of the Russian Federation, Expires 02/28/18 | | 4,504,867 | |
| | TOTAL EQUITY-LINKED WARRANTS (Cost $4,596,134) | | 5,365,824 | |
| | | | | |
| | SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT (5) — 3.8% | | | |
19,498,376 | | JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund, 0.120% (Cost $19,498,376) | | 19,498,376 | |
| | TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 96.6% (Cost $454,080,205) | | 490,071,133 | |
| | OTHER ASSETS LESS LIABILITIES — 3.4% | | 17,405,711 | |
| | NET ASSETS — 100% | | $ | 507,476,844 | |
| | | | | | |
(1) | | Denotes non-income producing security. |
(2) | | Security is fair valued. (See Note 2 in Notes to Financial Statements.) |
(3) | | Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration normally to qualified institutions. On April 30, 2012, the value of these securities amounted to $5,365,824, representing 1.1% of the net assets of the Fund. |
(4) | | Securities are not readily marketable. |
(5) | | The rate shown represents the 7-day current yield as of April 30, 2012. |
ADR — American Depositary Receipt
GDR — Global Depositary Receipt
NVDR — Non Voting Depository Receipt
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schedule of Investments (concluded)
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
The following is a summary of the inputs used as of April 30, 2012, in valuing the Fund’s investments carried at value:
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
Investments in Securities | | | | | | | | | |
Common Stock (1) | | | | | | | | | |
Brazil | | $ | 35,778,275 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 35,778,275 | |
China | | 58,225,225 | | — | | — | | 58,225,225 | |
Colombia | | 4,847,891 | | — | | — | | 4,847,891 | |
Egypt | | 4,426,115 | | — | | — | | 4,426,115 | |
Hong Kong | | 41,452,901 | | — | | — | | 41,452,901 | |
Hungary | | — | | 1,224,098 | | — | | 1,224,098 | |
India | | 16,322,252 | | — | | — | | 16,322,252 | |
Indonesia | | 13,099,773 | | — | | — | | 13,099,773 | |
Malaysia | | 16,174,632 | | — | | — | | 16,174,632 | |
Mexico | | 12,582,837 | | — | | — | | 12,582,837 | |
Peru | | 3,375,901 | | — | | — | | 3,375,901 | |
Philippines | | 3,238,171 | | — | | — | | 3,238,171 | |
Poland | | 1,570,886 | | — | | — | | 1,570,886 | |
Qatar | | 2,910,296 | | — | | — | | 2,910,296 | |
Russia | | 41,795,556 | | — | | — | | 41,795,556 | |
South Africa | | 17,802,127 | | — | | — | | 17,802,127 | |
South Korea | | 84,520,918 | | — | | — | | 84,520,918 | |
Taiwan | | 34,950,071 | | — | | — | | 34,950,071 | |
Thailand | | 27,876,128 | | — | | — | | 27,876,128 | |
Turkey | | 8,682,131 | | — | | — | | 8,682,131 | |
Total Common Stock | | 429,632,086 | | 1,224,098 | | — | | 430,856,184 | |
Preferred Stock Brazil | | 34,350,749 | | — | | — | | 34,350,749 | |
Equity-Linked Warrants Russia | | — | | 5,365,824 | | — | | 5,365,824 | |
Short-Term Investment | | 19,498,376 | | — | | — | | 19,498,376 | |
Total Investments in Securities | | $ | 483,481,211 | | $ | 6,589,922 | | $ | — | | $ | 490,071,133 | |
(1) Transfers between investment levels may occur as markets fluctuate and/or the availability of data used in an investment’s valuation changes. The Fund generally recognizes transfers between the levels as of the beginning of the period. As of April 30, 2012, the Fund had securities with a total value of $1,224,098 transfer from Level 1 to Level 2. The change in level occurred due to developments that occurred between the time of closing of the foreign markets on which those securities trade and the close of business on the New York Stock Exchange.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder International Alpha Fund
Schedule of Investments
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
| | COMMON STOCK — 96.8% | | | |
| | Australia — 4.4% | | | |
351,392 | | Atlas Iron | | 1,025,171 | |
41,784 | | Australia & New Zealand Banking Group | | 1,040,964 | |
31,441 | | Newcrest Mining | | 861,586 | |
| | | | 2,927,721 | |
| | Belgium — 2.2% | | | |
20,172 | | Anheuser-Busch InBev | | 1,453,903 | |
| | | | | |
| | Brazil — 2.8% | | | |
58,232 | | BRF - Brasil Foods | | 1,057,014 | |
33,309 | | Petroleo Brasileiro ADR | | 784,094 | |
| | | | 1,841,108 | |
| | Canada — 4.3% | | | |
22,777 | | Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan | | 968,400 | |
33,483 | | Suncor Energy | | 1,105,988 | |
9,539 | | Toronto-Dominion Bank | | 806,207 | |
| | | | 2,880,595 | |
| | China — 2.8% | | | |
216,000 | | China Shenhua Energy Class H | | 959,085 | |
1,396,000 | | Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Class H | | 932,028 | |
| | | | 1,891,113 | |
| | France — 9.4% | | | |
15,666 | | BNP Paribas | | 629,369 | |
11,780 | | Cie Generale des Etablissements Michelin | | 879,765 | |
14,883 | | Cie Generale d’Optique Essilor International | | 1,310,877 | |
5,998 | | LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton | | 993,633 | |
41,507 | | Safran | | 1,538,395 | |
14,144 | | Schneider Electric | | 868,905 | |
| | | | 6,220,944 | |
| | Germany — 8.0% | | | |
17,262 | | Daimler | | 954,316 | |
31,223 | | GEA Group | | 1,030,352 | |
19,479 | | Kabel Deutschland Holding (1) | | 1,227,332 | |
16,308 | | SAP | | 1,081,285 | |
35,791 | | Symrise | | 1,037,544 | |
| | | | 5,330,829 | |
| | Hong Kong — 6.4% | | | |
264,400 | | AIA Group | | 940,555 | |
106,000 | | China Mobile | | 1,174,263 | |
39,072 | | Jardine Strategic Holdings | | 1,257,337 | |
75,000 | | Sun Hung Kai Properties | | 904,797 | |
| | | | 4,276,952 | |
| | India — 1.1% | | | |
472,634 | | Idea Cellular (1) | | 704,018 | |
| | | | | |
| | Israel — 1.7% | | | |
19,274 | | Check Point Software Technologies (1) | | 1,120,398 | |
| | | | | |
| | Japan (2) — 13.6% | | | |
7,300 | | FANUC | | 1,240,088 | |
28,400 | | Honda Motor | | 1,028,080 | |
43,100 | | Mitsubishi | | 939,041 | |
24,300 | | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone | | 1,101,094 | |
134,000 | | Sekisui Chemical | | 1,206,000 | |
47,800 | | Seven & I Holdings | | 1,447,742 | |
35,300 | | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group | | 1,140,190 | |
105,000 | | Yaskawa Electric | | 917,438 | |
| | | | 9,019,673 | |
| | Netherlands — 1.3% | | | |
121,393 | | ING Groep (1) | | 855,982 | |
| | | | | |
| | Norway — 1.5% | | | |
89,723 | | DnB NOR | | 967,317 | |
| | | | | |
| | Russia — 1.4% | | | |
70,822 | | Sberbank Savings Bank of the Russian Federation ADR | | 914,312 | |
| | | | | |
| | South Korea — 3.0% | | | |
3,031 | | Hyundai Mobis | | 824,716 | |
936 | | Samsung Electronics | | 1,151,236 | |
| | | | 1,975,952 | |
| | Switzerland — 8.5% | | | |
21,249 | | Julius Baer Group | | 813,533 | |
30,870 | | Nestle | | 1,891,006 | |
10,237 | | Roche Holding | | 1,869,988 | |
4,398 | | Zurich Insurance Group | | 1,075,697 | |
| | | | 5,650,224 | |
| | Thailand — 1.8% | | | |
225,100 | | Kasikornbank NVDR | | 1,196,873 | |
| | | | | |
| | United Kingdom — 22.6% | | | |
70,743 | | AMEC | | 1,303,082 | |
51,076 | | BG Group | | 1,202,339 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
10,928 | | BHP Billiton | | 350,179 | |
105,739 | | Capita Group | | 1,137,735 | |
249,286 | | Centrica | | 1,241,616 | |
43,748 | | Diageo | | 1,101,190 | |
54,440 | | GlaxoSmithKline | | 1,258,999 | |
176,055 | | HSBC Holdings | | 1,586,032 | |
223,724 | | Kingfisher | | 1,054,754 | |
141,506 | | Premier Oil (1) | | 858,893 | |
85,593 | | Prudential | | 1,048,069 | |
19,565 | | Rio Tinto | | 1,089,890 | |
110,270 | | United Utilities Group | | 1,106,852 | |
36,035 | | Xstrata | | 688,617 | |
| | | | 15,028,247 | |
| | TOTAL COMMON STOCK (Cost $60,807,436) | | 64,256,161 | |
| | | | | |
| | SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT (3) — 2.6% | | | |
1,727,084 | | JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund, 0.120% (Cost $1,727,084) | | 1,727,084 | |
| | TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 99.4% (Cost $62,534,520) | | 65,983,245 | |
| | OTHER ASSETS LESS LIABILITIES — 0.6% | | 409,334 | |
| | NET ASSETS — 100% | | $ | 66,392,579 | |
| | | | | | |
(1) | | Denotes non-income producing security. |
(2) | | Security is fair valued. (See Note 2 in Notes to Financial Statements.) |
(3) | | The rate shown represents the 7-day current yield as of April 30, 2012. |
ADR — American Depositary Receipt
NVDR — Non Voting Depository Receipt
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schedule of Investments (concluded)
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
The following is a summary of the inputs used as of April 30, 2012, in valuing the Fund’s investments carried at value:
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
Investments in Securities | | | | | | | | | |
Common Stock (1) | | | | | | | | | |
Australia | | $ | 2,927,721 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 2,927,721 | |
Belgium | | 1,453,903 | | — | | — | | 1,453,903 | |
Brazil | | 1,841,108 | | — | | — | | 1,841,108 | |
Canada | | 2,880,595 | | — | | — | | 2,880,595 | |
China | | 1,891,113 | | — | | — | | 1,891,113 | |
France | | 6,220,944 | | — | | — | | 6,220,944 | |
Germany | | 5,330,829 | | — | | — | | 5,330,829 | |
Hong Kong | | 4,276,952 | | — | | — | | 4,276,952 | |
India | | 704,018 | | — | | — | | 704,018 | |
Israel | | 1,120,398 | | — | | — | | 1,120,398 | |
Japan | | — | | 9,019,673 | | — | | 9,019,673 | |
Netherlands | | 855,982 | | — | | — | | 855,982 | |
Norway | | 967,317 | | — | | — | | 967,317 | |
Russia | | 914,312 | | — | | — | | 914,312 | |
South Korea | | 1,975,952 | | — | | — | | 1,975,952 | |
Switzerland | | 5,650,224 | | — | | — | | 5,650,224 | |
Thailand | | 1,196,873 | | — | | — | | 1,196,873 | |
United Kingdom | | 15,028,247 | | — | | — | | 15,028,247 | |
Total Common Stock | | 55,236,488 | | 9,019,673 | | — | | 64,256,161 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Short-Term Investment | | 1,727,084 | | — | | — | | 1,727,084 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Total Investments in Securities | | $ | 56,963,572 | | $ | 9,019,673 | | $ | — | | $ | 65,983,245 | |
(1) Transfers between investment levels may occur as markets fluctuate and/or the availability of data used in an investment’s valuation changes. The Fund generally recognizes transfers between the levels as of the beginning of the period. As of April 30, 2012, the Fund had securities with a total value of $9,019,673 transfer from Level 1 to Level 2. The change in level occurred due to developments that occurred between the time of closing of the foreign markets on which those securities trade and the close of business on the New York Stock Exchange.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund
Schedule of Investments
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | COMMON STOCK — 97.9% | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Australia — 5.3% | | | |
4,874 | | Aditya Birla Minerals | | 3,326 | |
1,866 | | AGL Energy | | 29,125 | |
16,391 | | AMP | | 72,926 | |
10,774 | | ASG Group | | 9,935 | |
7,417 | | Aspen Group REIT | | 3,710 | |
1,106 | | Australia & New Zealand Banking Group | | 27,554 | |
898 | | BHP Billiton | | 33,263 | |
4,367 | | Breville Group | | 20,066 | |
2,797 | | Cabcharge Australia | | 18,652 | |
3,322 | | Cardno | | 24,229 | |
17,440 | | CFS Retail Property Trust | | 34,980 | |
1,312 | | Credit Group | | 8,202 | |
42,295 | | Cue Energy Resources (1) | | 11,899 | |
7,292 | | David Jones | | 18,919 | |
1,920 | | Fleetwood | | 26,267 | |
4,226 | | GrainCorp | | 40,642 | |
26,187 | | Grange Resources | | 16,371 | |
4,498 | | iiNET | | 14,763 | |
3,177 | | Incitec Pivot | | 10,825 | |
7,046 | | Investa Office Fund REIT | | 20,042 | |
6,141 | | IOOF Holdings | | 39,863 | |
4,114 | | Iress Market Technology | | 28,849 | |
2,136 | | JB Hi-Fi | | 21,499 | |
5,794 | | M2 Telecommunications Group | | 18,836 | |
755 | | Macquarie Group | | 22,979 | |
2,953 | | Melbourne IT | | 5,723 | |
8,820 | | Metcash | | 36,392 | |
3,562 | | Mineral Resources | | 44,389 | |
4,280 | | Mortgage Choice | | 5,998 | |
17,035 | | Mount Gibson Iron | | 19,613 | |
1,255 | | OrotonGroup | | 11,102 | |
3,560 | | OZ Minerals | | 34,608 | |
23,916 | | Perilya (1) | | 9,719 | |
9,816 | | Platinum Asset Management | | 45,002 | |
1,761 | | Premier Investments | | 9,853 | |
5,784 | | Qantas Airways (1) | | 9,854 | |
9,351 | | Ramelius Resources (1) | | 7,502 | |
539 | | Rio Tinto | | 37,263 | |
10,664 | | Rubicon America Trust REIT (1) (2) (3) | | — | |
4,885 | | Sedgman | | 10,943 | |
1,329 | | SMS Management & Technology | | 8,392 | |
3,209 | | Sonic Healthcare | | 42,163 | |
6,391 | | Stockland REIT | | 20,643 | |
4,185 | | TABCORP Holdings | | 12,515 | |
30,778 | | Telstra | | 113,525 | |
2,806 | | Woolworths | | 75,841 | |
4,511 | | Wotif.com Holdings | | 20,775 | |
| | | | 1,159,537 | |
| | Austria — 0.8% | | | |
448 | | Erste Group Bank | | 10,316 | |
1,505 | | Oesterreichische Post | | 53,390 | |
1,760 | | OMV | | 59,582 | |
341 | | Raiffeisen Bank International | | 11,323 | |
393 | | Semperit Holding | | 16,910 | |
802 | | Vienna Insurance Group | | 32,697 | |
| | | | 184,218 | |
| | Belgium — 1.2% | | | |
6,486 | | Ageas | | 11,805 | |
1,167 | | Arseus | | 19,773 | |
196 | | Befimmo Sicafi REIT | | 11,914 | |
1,092 | | Bekaert | | 32,350 | |
1,525 | | Belgacom | | 43,320 | |
290 | | Compagnie Maritime Belge | | 6,760 | |
505 | | Delhaize Group | | 24,583 | |
1,480 | | KBC Groep | | 28,622 | |
1,224 | | Mobistar | | 46,289 | |
989 | | Nyrstar | | 8,103 | |
307 | | Sipef | | 28,385 | |
| | | | 261,904 | |
| | Bermuda — 1.1% | | | |
4,213 | | Catlin Group | | 28,853 | |
13,000 | | Dickson Concepts International | | 7,205 | |
62,000 | | Emperor International Holdings | | 11,188 | |
50,000 | | First Pacific | | 54,326 | |
2,477 | | Lancashire Holdings | | 32,360 | |
12,000 | | Midland Holdings | | 6,063 | |
2,328 | | Seadrill | | 90,103 | |
| | | | 230,098 | |
| | Brazil — 0.6% | | | |
1,900 | | Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras | | 16,258 | |
300 | | Cia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo ADR | | 23,748 | |
700 | | Cia de Saneamento de Minas Gerais-COPASA | | 16,397 | |
2,400 | | Energias do Brasil | | 16,733 | |
1,100 | | Eternit | | 5,771 | |
1,400 | | Fertilizantes Heringer (1) | | 10,319 | |
1,200 | | Grendene | | 6,182 | |
3,000 | | Helbor Empreendimentos | | 14,574 | |
1,100 | | Tractebel Energia | | 18,899 | |
| | | | 128,881 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | British Virgin Islands — 0.0% | | | |
151,608 | | Polo Resources | | 7,800 | |
| | | | | |
| | Canada — 7.5% | | | |
1,000 | | Agrium | | 88,090 | |
6,500 | | Amerigo Resources | | 5,330 | |
900 | | Bank of Montreal | | 53,452 | |
400 | | Barrick Gold | | 16,181 | |
700 | | BCE | | 28,359 | |
900 | | Calfrac Well Services | | 24,690 | |
4,800 | | Canadian Oil Sands Trust | | 106,073 | |
1,400 | | Cascades | | 6,009 | |
600 | | Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund | | 9,949 | |
2,500 | | Chorus Aviation Class B | | 7,820 | |
1,300 | | CML HealthCare | | 14,068 | |
1,300 | | Davis & Henderson | | 24,925 | |
1,400 | | Enerplus | | 25,907 | |
1,800 | | Ensign Energy Services | | 26,020 | |
900 | | Freehold Royalties Trust | | 17,219 | |
600 | | Genivar | | 16,144 | |
1,000 | | Genworth MI Canada | | 20,783 | |
2,600 | | Great-West Lifeco | | 65,799 | |
10,900 | | High River Gold Mines (1) | | 12,800 | |
3,800 | | Husky Energy | | 99,130 | |
1,300 | | IGM Financial | | 60,996 | |
1,200 | | Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services | | 38,265 | |
400 | | Liquor Stores North America | | 7,199 | |
800 | | Magna International Class A | | 35,058 | |
6,000 | | Manulife Financial | | 82,057 | |
700 | | Medical Facilities | | 9,120 | |
1,300 | | Morguard REIT | | 22,227 | |
800 | | Mullen Group | | 17,331 | |
2,700 | | Nevsun Resources | | 9,949 | |
900 | | North West | | 20,262 | |
1,400 | | Petrominerales | | 20,479 | |
3,200 | | Power Corp. of Canada | | 88,596 | |
2,700 | | Power Financial | | 80,903 | |
2,500 | | Research In Motion (1) | | 35,759 | |
2,000 | | Rogers Communications Class B | | 74,647 | |
2,400 | | Rogers Sugar | | 13,508 | |
1,400 | | Royal Bank of Canada | | 80,909 | |
2,600 | | Shaw Communications Class B | | 53,587 | |
2,100 | | Sino-Forest (1) (2) (3) | | — | |
700 | | Sun Life Financial | | 17,163 | |
2,400 | | Suncor Energy | | 79,275 | |
900 | | TMX Group | | 41,089 | |
1,100 | | Transglobe Energy (1) | | 15,099 | |
1,700 | | Trican Well Service | | 24,592 | |
1,200 | | Valener | | 18,270 | |
600 | | Wajax | | 30,296 | |
2,500 | | Yellow Media | | 152 | |
| | | | 1,645,536 | |
| | Chile — 0.2% | | | |
18,715 | | Sigdo Koppers | | 44,752 | |
| | | | | |
| | China — 1.9% | | | |
8,000 | | Anta Sports Products | | 7,909 | |
45,000 | | Asia Cement China Holdings | | 22,214 | |
60,000 | | Chaoda Modern Agriculture Holdings (1) (2) (3) | | — | |
32,000 | | China Communications Services Class H | | 16,456 | |
68,000 | | China Petroleum & Chemical Class H | | 73,270 | |
16,000 | | China Yurun Food Group | | 20,478 | |
30,000 | | China Zhongwang Holdings | | 12,373 | |
10,000 | | Dongfeng Motor Group Class H | | 19,720 | |
10,000 | | Great Wall Technology Class H | | 2,320 | |
27,000 | | Haitian International Holdings | | 31,076 | |
5,400 | | Inner Mongolia Yitai Coal (3) | | 30,726 | |
24,000 | | Kingsoft | | 11,074 | |
9,000 | | Pacific Textile Holdings | | 5,974 | |
42,000 | | Sateri Holdings (1) | | 11,747 | |
24,000 | | Shenzhou International Group Holdings | | 45,163 | |
38,000 | | Tiangong International | | 9,404 | |
49,000 | | Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings | | 46,723 | |
24,000 | | Yanzhou Coal Mining (1) | | 50,174 | |
| | | | 416,801 | |
| | Cyprus — 0.1% | | | |
5,607 | | Songa Offshore (1) | | 19,301 | |
| | | | | |
| | Czech Republic — 0.1% | | | |
1,215 | | Telefonica Czech Republic | | 24,502 | |
| | | | | |
| | Denmark — 0.9% | | | |
9 | | AP Moller - Maersk | | 70,396 | |
728 | | Danske Bank (1) | | 11,820 | |
4,573 | | H Lundbeck | | 91,538 | |
181 | | Royal UNIBREW | | 12,898 | |
| | | | 186,652 | |
| | Finland — 1.4% | | | |
3,253 | | Elisa | | 73,374 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
3,575 | | Fortum | | 76,899 | |
3,703 | | Orion Class B | | 75,534 | |
875 | | PKC Group | | 19,400 | |
1,680 | | Sampo Class A | | 44,699 | |
1,515 | | Stora Enso Class R | | 10,328 | |
813 | | Tieto | | 14,324 | |
| | | | 314,558 | |
| | France — 4.7% | | | |
556 | | Akka Technologies | | 17,928 | |
883 | | Alten | | 25,632 | |
756 | | April | | 14,210 | |
617 | | Arkema | | 54,647 | |
2,350 | | AXA | | 33,284 | |
823 | | BNP Paribas | | 33,064 | |
246 | | Boiron | | 7,597 | |
629 | | Bouygues | | 17,085 | |
202 | | Cegid Group | | 4,043 | |
624 | | Christian Dior | | 94,039 | |
4,386 | | CNP Assurances | | 61,541 | |
1,379 | | Credit Agricole | | 7,088 | |
180 | | Credit Agricole Nord de France | | 3,193 | |
140 | | Esso Francaise | | 11,597 | |
433 | | Euler Hermes | | 30,670 | |
398 | | FFP | | 15,539 | |
337 | | Gecina REIT | | 31,240 | |
190 | | Generale de Sante | | 2,296 | |
2,109 | | Ipsen | | 56,224 | |
1,389 | | Metropole Television | | 21,328 | |
3,052 | | Natixis | | 9,300 | |
309 | | Neopost | | 17,766 | |
484 | | Nexity | | 13,800 | |
3,854 | | PagesJaunes Groupe | | 11,070 | |
478 | | Peugeot | | 5,739 | |
789 | | Plastic Omnium | | 20,637 | |
238 | | Renault | | 10,814 | |
2,162 | | Sanofi | | 165,013 | |
1,368 | | SCOR | | 36,171 | |
2,279 | | Societe Generale | | 53,878 | |
63 | | Tessi | | 6,546 | |
1,568 | | Total | | 74,865 | |
457 | | Valeo | | 22,443 | |
200 | | Vinci | | 9,266 | |
1,884 | | Vivendi | | 34,827 | |
| | | | 1,034,380 | |
| | Gabon — 0.2% | | | |
108 | | Total Gabon | | 50,036 | |
| | | | | |
| | Germany — 3.3% | | | |
488 | | Allianz | | 54,377 | |
698 | | Aurubis | | 38,736 | |
914 | | Axel Springer | | 41,680 | |
1,049 | | BASF | | 86,354 | |
571 | | Bayer | | 40,218 | |
645 | | Bayerische Motoren Werke | | 61,310 | |
593 | | Bechtle | | 26,704 | |
318 | | Bertrandt | | 24,094 | |
359 | | Cewe Color Holding | | 15,820 | |
4,150 | | Commerzbank | | 8,982 | |
311 | | Continental | | 30,142 | |
230 | | Deutsche Bank | | 10,007 | |
104 | | Draegerwerk | | 11,701 | |
429 | | Elmos Semiconductor | | 4,816 | |
204 | | Generali Deutschland Holding | | 17,258 | |
1,056 | | Hannover Rueckversicherung | | 63,832 | |
386 | | Indus Holding | | 12,025 | |
860 | | K+S | | 42,980 | |
1,629 | | Kontron | | 11,793 | |
276 | | Lanxess | | 21,975 | |
490 | | RWE | | 21,064 | |
305 | | SMA Solar Technology | | 12,778 | |
1,197 | | SQS Software Quality Systems | | 4,079 | |
212 | | Tipp24 (1) | | 12,039 | |
266 | | Wacker Chemie | | 21,440 | |
432 | | Wincor Nixdorf | | 16,749 | |
| | | | 712,953 | |
| | Greece — 0.3% | | | |
1,045 | | Hellenic Petroleum | | 7,677 | |
3,382 | | JUMBO | | 16,430 | |
963 | | Metka | | 10,555 | |
1,578 | | Motor Oil Hellas Corinth Refineries | | 12,950 | |
1,342 | | OPAP | | 11,991 | |
| | | | 59,603 | |
| | Guernsey — 0.2% | | | |
10,527 | | Resolution | | 38,235 | |
| | | | | |
| | Hong Kong — 5.4% | | | |
346,000 | | Apollo Solar Energy Technology Holdings (1) | | 9,633 | |
38,000 | | Centron Telecom International Holdings (1) | | 5,192 | |
97,000 | | Champion REIT | | 42,382 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
199,774 | | Champion Technology Holdings | | 2,626 | |
27,000 | | China Green Holdings | | 7,900 | |
8,500 | | China Mobile | | 94,163 | |
17,000 | | China Overseas Grand Oceans Group | | 22,875 | |
22,000 | | China Pharmaceutical Group | | 4,537 | |
16,000 | | China Ting Group Holdings | | 1,134 | |
24,000 | | CIMC Enric Holdings (1) | | 13,301 | |
21,000 | | City Telecom HK | | 12,396 | |
40,000 | | CNOOC | | 85,273 | |
190,000 | | CSI Properties | | 7,714 | |
33,200 | | Dah Sing Banking Group | | 34,447 | |
5,200 | | Dah Sing Financial Holdings | | 18,666 | |
370 | | Digitalhongkong.com (1) | | 39 | |
12,000 | | Dongyue Group | | 8,986 | |
34,000 | | Giordano International | | 29,667 | |
23,000 | | Goldlion Holdings | | 9,931 | |
14,000 | | Great Eagle Holdings | | 41,322 | |
28,000 | | HKR International | | 10,646 | |
6,000 | | Hongkong Land Holdings | | 37,260 | |
20,000 | | Hopson Development Holdings | | 12,038 | |
62,000 | | Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings | | 27,569 | |
800 | | Jardine Matheson Holdings | | 39,720 | |
5,000 | | Kingboard Chemical Holdings | | 14,017 | |
28,000 | | Lee & Man Chemical | | 22,339 | |
22,000 | | Lerado Group Holdings | | 2,127 | |
85,000 | | Lonking Holdings | | 30,894 | |
20,000 | | Luen Thai Holdings | | 2,707 | |
64,000 | | Minmetals Land | | 8,084 | |
74,000 | | New World China Land | | 22,795 | |
31,602 | | New World Development | | 39,387 | |
28,000 | | Norstar Founders Group (1) (2) (3) | | — | |
14,680 | | NWS Holdings | | 22,175 | |
9,500 | | Orient Overseas International | | 64,895 | |
38,000 | | Pico Far East Holdings | | 9,159 | |
17,000 | | Poly Hong Kong Investments | | 8,896 | |
28,000 | | Regent Manner International | | 6,135 | |
40,000 | | Royale Furniture Holdings | | 12,889 | |
20,000 | | SinoMedia Holding | | 11,780 | |
24,000 | | SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings | | 45,162 | |
45,000 | | Stelux Holdings International | | 10,904 | |
104,000 | | SUNeVision Holdings | | 14,879 | |
46,000 | | Sunlight REIT | | 14,822 | |
2,500 | | Swire Pacific Class A | | 29,532 | |
1,400 | | Swire Properties | | 3,834 | |
15,000 | | TAI Cheung Holdings | | 10,653 | |
16,000 | | TCL Communication Technology Holdings | | 6,393 | |
34,000 | | Texwinca Holdings | | 41,631 | |
24,000 | | Tianneng Power International | | 11,878 | |
2,800 | | VTech Holdings | | 31,397 | |
12,000 | | Wheelock | | 40,522 | |
38,000 | | Xinyi Glass Holdings | | 24,587 | |
36,500 | | XTEP International Holdings | | 16,607 | |
17,000 | | Yuexiu REIT | | 8,764 | |
26,000 | | Yuexiu Transport Infrastructure | | 12,567 | |
| | | | 1,181,828 | |
| | Indonesia — 0.7% | | | |
78,000 | | Aneka Tambang | | 14,598 | |
4,000 | | Indo Tambangraya Megah | | 17,300 | |
75,500 | | International Nickel Indonesia | | 25,467 | |
97,500 | | Perusahaan Gas Negara | | 35,539 | |
64,000 | | Sampoerna Agro | | 22,806 | |
32,000 | | Telekomunikasi Indonesia | | 29,596 | |
| | | | 145,306 | |
| | Ireland — 0.2% | | | |
675 | | DCC | | 17,066 | |
928 | | FBD Holdings | | 10,687 | |
3,548 | | Irish Bank Resolution (1) (2) (3) | | — | |
17,066 | | Total Produce | | 10,165 | |
5,407 | | United Drug | | 16,569 | |
| | | | 54,487 | |
| | Israel — 1.2% | | | |
12,341 | | Bank Hapoalim | | 45,893 | |
7,639 | | Bank Leumi Le-Israel | | 23,943 | |
13,232 | | Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication | | 22,143 | |
1,458 | | Cellcom Israel | | 18,337 | |
1,922 | | First International Bank of Israel (1) | | 21,810 | |
7,446 | | Israel Chemicals | | 85,422 | |
18,205 | | Israel Discount Bank Class A (1) | | 23,646 | |
1,536 | | Partner Communications | | 11,509 | |
1,894 | | Super-Sol | | 6,656 | |
| | | | 259,359 | |
| | Italy — 2.2% | | | |
1,049 | | Assicurazioni Generali | | 14,288 | |
2,205 | | Atlantia | | 33,420 | |
1,000 | | Autostrada Torino-Milano | | 5,414 | |
1,279 | | Banca Generali | | 15,635 | |
2,606 | | Banca Piccolo Credito Valtellinese | | 3,908 | |
3,093 | | Banca Popolare di Milano | | 1,519 | |
4,478 | | Banco Popolare | | 6,651 | |
13,974 | | Beni Stabili | | 7,750 | |
444 | | Beni Stabili REIT | | 241 | |
1,315 | | Brembo | | 14,900 | |
4,453 | | Cairo Communication | | 18,732 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
495 | | Danieli & C Officine Meccaniche | | 14,042 | |
1,310 | | DiaSorin | | 34,525 | |
4,511 | | Enel | | 14,809 | |
2,852 | | ENI | | 63,310 | |
883 | | Exor | | 20,536 | |
14,327 | | Intesa Sanpaolo | | 21,676 | |
22,246 | | KME Group | | 9,070 | |
1,211 | | MARR | | 13,104 | |
5,556 | | Mediaset | | 13,216 | |
4,606 | | Mediobanca | | 22,498 | |
8,717 | | Recordati | | 60,636 | |
4,075 | | Snam Rete Gas | | 19,386 | |
556 | | Societa Cattolica di Assicurazioni | | 10,429 | |
1,635 | | Societa Iniziative Autostradali e Servizi | | 10,237 | |
3,605 | | UniCredit | | 14,344 | |
1,566 | | Unione di Banche Italiane | | 5,817 | |
1,770 | | Zignago Vetro | | 12,347 | |
| | | | 482,440 | |
| | Japan (3) — 17.2% | | | |
2,000 | | 77 Bank | | 8,000 | |
1,000 | | ADEKA | | 9,200 | |
900 | | Aeon Delight | | 20,914 | |
3,100 | | Ai Holdings | | 19,530 | |
2,000 | | Aica Kogyo | | 29,350 | |
500 | | Ain Pharmaciez | | 26,813 | |
900 | | Alpen | | 18,326 | |
1,700 | | AOC Holdings | | 9,478 | |
700 | | AOKI Holdings | | 13,738 | |
500 | | Aoyama Trading | | 10,338 | |
22,000 | | Aozora Bank | | 56,650 | |
500 | | Arcs | | 10,737 | |
1,100 | | Arnest One | | 12,512 | |
1,000 | | Asahi Diamond Industrial | | 11,125 | |
4,000 | | Asahi Glass | | 31,650 | |
6,000 | | Asahi Kasei | | 37,200 | |
6 | | Asax | | 6,638 | |
300 | | Autobacs Seven | | 14,381 | |
7,000 | | Bank of Yokohama | | 34,037 | |
400 | | Belc | | 5,960 | |
900 | | BML | | 22,624 | |
3,000 | | Calsonic Kansei | | 16,950 | |
700 | | Canon Electronics | | 17,299 | |
500 | | Century Tokyo Leasing | | 10,031 | |
1,300 | | Charle | | 8,759 | |
5,000 | | Chiba Bank | | 30,438 | |
1,000 | | CMIC | | 16,875 | |
3,000 | | Cosmo Oil | | 8,325 | |
400 | | Cosmos Pharmaceutical | | 22,475 | |
1,000 | | Create SD Holdings | | 27,788 | |
1,000 | | Dai Nippon Printing | | 8,913 | |
2,000 | | Daihatsu Diesel Manufacturing | | 8,200 | |
2,000 | | Daihatsu Motor | | 37,950 | |
2,000 | | Daiichi Jitsugyo | | 10,275 | |
2,000 | | Dai-Ichi Kogyo Seiyaku | | 6,050 | |
1,100 | | Daiichikosho | | 22,137 | |
5,000 | | Daishi Bank | | 15,563 | |
3,000 | | Daiwa House Industry | | 38,775 | |
2,000 | | Daiwa Industries | | 10,125 | |
2,400 | | DCM Holdings | | 18,150 | |
500 | | Doshisha | | 14,569 | |
600 | | Doutor Nichires Holdings | | 8,153 | |
7 | | Dr. Ci:Labo | | 32,462 | |
1,000 | | Eagle Industry | | 9,650 | |
600 | | Earth Chemical | | 21,713 | |
1,900 | | EDION | | 11,923 | |
3,000 | | Eighteenth Bank | | 8,437 | |
700 | | Exedy | | 19,758 | |
800 | | Ferrotec | | 7,890 | |
800 | | First Juken | | 7,330 | |
600 | | Fuji | | 3,322 | |
500 | | Fuji Machine Manufacturing | | 10,281 | |
1,000 | | Fujikura Kasei | | 5,837 | |
6 | | Fujishoji | | 6,698 | |
800 | | Fukuda Denshi | | 23,930 | |
400 | | Growell Holdings | | 12,850 | |
6,000 | | Gunma Bank | | 30,450 | |
4,000 | | Hachijuni Bank | | 21,800 | |
1,400 | | Happinet | | 14,700 | |
1,300 | | Hard Off | | 9,912 | |
1,000 | | Heiwa | | 20,800 | |
18 | | Heiwa Real Estate REIT | | 10,856 | |
700 | | Heiwado | | 9,949 | |
900 | | Hiday Hidaka | | 14,231 | |
3,000 | | Higashi-Nippon Bank | | 6,450 | |
4,000 | | Higo Bank | | 22,350 | |
1,000 | | Hitachi Medical | | 14,437 | |
600 | | Hogy Medical | | 27,600 | |
700 | | Hokkaido Electric Power | | 9,835 | |
800 | | Hokuto | | 17,230 | |
12 | | Ichigo REIT | | 5,438 | |
1,800 | | Ichinen Holdings | | 9,832 | |
200 | | Idemitsu Kosan | | 18,450 | |
200 | | Inaba Denki Sangyo | | 5,902 | |
9 | | Infocom | | 10,294 | |
1,100 | | Innotech | | 6,600 | |
10 | | Inpex | | 66,250 | |
8,000 | | Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha (1) | | 7,700 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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2,000 | | ITC Networks | | 13,000 | |
1,600 | | Itochu Enex | | 9,180 | |
3,000 | | Iyo Bank | | 24,900 | |
400 | | J Trust | | 8,845 | |
5 | | Japan Prime Realty Investment REIT Class A | | 14,369 | |
1,000 | | Jidosha Buhin Kogyo | | 6,875 | |
4,000 | | Juroku Bank | | 12,600 | |
2,400 | | Justsystems (1) | | 7,260 | |
4,000 | | Kaken Pharmaceutical | | 49,400 | |
1,300 | | Kato Sangyo | | 26,731 | |
10 | | KDDI | | 65,625 | |
3,000 | | Keiyo Bank | | 13,950 | |
2,000 | | Kinki Sharyo | | 7,150 | |
600 | | Kintetsu World Express | | 21,532 | |
600 | | Kohnan Shoji | | 8,700 | |
1,100 | | Kojima | | 5,225 | |
700 | | K’s Holdings | | 21,000 | |
2,000 | | Kuraray | | 28,600 | |
300 | | Kusuri No. Aoki | | 8,111 | |
3,000 | | KYB | | 17,063 | |
2,000 | | KYORIN Holdings | | 38,450 | |
400 | | Lasertec | | 8,150 | |
800 | | Lawson | | 52,900 | |
900 | | Lintec | | 17,539 | |
300 | | Macnica | | 7,005 | |
2,000 | | Maeda Road Construction | | 24,200 | |
1,000 | | Marubeni | | 6,975 | |
2,000 | | Marudai Food | | 7,725 | |
35 | | Marvelous AQL | | 7,000 | |
600 | | Matsumotokiyoshi Holdings | | 13,313 | |
3,100 | | MCJ | | 6,006 | |
800 | | Meitec | | 16,460 | |
200 | | Melco Holdings | | 4,690 | |
4 | | MID REIT | | 11,095 | |
700 | | Ministop | | 12,346 | |
400 | | Mitani | | 5,725 | |
1,000 | | Mitsubishi | | 21,787 | |
2,500 | | Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings | | 13,188 | |
4,600 | | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group | | 22,252 | |
1,000 | | Mitsuboshi Belting | | 5,400 | |
4,000 | | Mitsui | | 62,700 | |
3,000 | | Mitsui Chemicals | | 8,662 | |
5,000 | | Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding | | 7,375 | |
1,000 | | Mitsui Home | | 5,250 | |
44 | | Mitsui Knowledge Industry | | 7,623 | |
11,200 | | Mizuho Financial Group | | 17,780 | |
1,600 | | Moshi Moshi Hotline | | 15,840 | |
600 | | Nagaileben | | 9,225 | |
2,000 | | Nakayo Telecommunications | | 8,675 | |
1,000 | | Namura Shipbuilding | | 3,975 | |
500 | | NEC Capital Solutions | | 7,000 | |
600 | | NEC Mobiling | | 21,870 | |
1,300 | | Neturen | | 11,537 | |
1,000 | | Nichireki | | 4,987 | |
15 | | NIFTY | | 20,344 | |
260 | | Nihon Chouzai | | 8,288 | |
300 | | Nihon Trim | | 7,826 | |
1,000 | | Nippo | | 10,300 | |
2,000 | | Nippon Densetsu Kogyo | | 18,225 | |
1,000 | | Nippon Pillar Packing | | 8,575 | |
1,000 | | Nippon Seiki | | 12,637 | |
2,000 | | Nippon Seisen | | 10,000 | |
2,000 | | Nippon Steel Trading | | 5,800 | |
600 | | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone | | 27,187 | |
9,000 | | Nishi-Nippon City Bank | | 23,737 | |
900 | | Nisshin Fudosan | | 5,737 | |
200 | | Nisshin Sugar Holdings (1) | | 4,135 | |
800 | | Nitto Denko | | 33,100 | |
2 | | Nomura Real Estate Office Fund REIT | | 11,612 | |
3,000 | | Noritake | | 8,737 | |
7 | | NTT Data | | 24,351 | |
78 | | NTT DoCoMo | | 132,795 | |
500 | | Obara Group | | 6,675 | |
4,000 | | Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank | | 13,700 | |
3,000 | | Oita Bank | | 8,550 | |
500 | | Parco | | 4,944 | |
660 | | Point | | 24,329 | |
1 | | Premier Investment REIT | | 3,781 | |
2,000 | | Press Kogyo | | 11,925 | |
400 | | Proto | | 13,800 | |
18 | | Riberesute | | 13,387 | |
1,500 | | Riken Keiki | | 10,519 | |
188 | | Riso Kyoiku | | 12,267 | |
1,600 | | Round One | | 10,460 | |
500 | | San-A | | 20,281 | |
2,000 | | San-Ai Oil | | 9,725 | |
2,000 | | San-In Godo Bank | | 14,400 | |
300 | | Sawai Pharmaceutical | | 31,575 | |
900 | | SBS Holdings | | 8,437 | |
2,000 | | Seino Holdings | | 13,875 | |
2 | | Sekisui House SI Investment REIT | | 8,025 | |
1,000 | | Sekisui Jushi | | 9,813 | |
1,200 | | Seria | | 18,075 | |
700 | | Shimachu | | 15,750 | |
100 | | Shimamura | | 11,338 | |
2,000 | | Shinagawa Refractories | | 5,125 | |
4,000 | | Shinsho | | 9,100 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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4,000 | | Shiroki | | 12,850 | |
2,000 | | Shizuoka Gas | | 14,475 | |
1,200 | | Skymark Airlines | | 9,360 | |
1,300 | | SNT | | 8,028 | |
300 | | Softbank | | 8,985 | |
400 | | Sogo Medical | | 14,665 | |
5,600 | | Sojitz | | 9,450 | |
1,100 | | SRA Holdings | | 12,513 | |
900 | | Studio Alice | | 15,019 | |
1,100 | | Sumitomo Forestry | | 9,584 | |
2,000 | | Sumitomo Metal Mining | | 26,400 | |
1,000 | | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group | | 32,300 | |
5,000 | | Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings | | 14,750 | |
1,300 | | Sumitomo Pipe & Tube | | 12,480 | |
1,000 | | Sumitomo Precision Products | | 5,463 | |
1,100 | | Sundrug | | 33,715 | |
700 | | Tachi-S | | 13,423 | |
2,000 | | Taihei Kogyo | | 10,500 | |
1,800 | | Takeda Pharmaceutical | | 78,413 | |
1,000 | | TBK | | 6,500 | |
9 | | T-Gaia | | 15,773 | |
5,000 | | Toagosei | | 21,687 | |
500 | | Tocalo | | 9,075 | |
2,000 | | Toei | | 10,375 | |
800 | | Tokai | | 17,700 | |
800 | | Tokai Rika | | 14,940 | |
310 | | Token | | 11,261 | |
5,000 | | Tokuyama | | 15,687 | |
2 | | Tokyu REIT | | 10,300 | |
500 | | Tomen Electronics | | 7,388 | |
2,200 | | TOMONY Holdings | | 10,065 | |
6,000 | | TonenGeneral Sekiyu | | 56,250 | |
2,100 | | Toppan Forms | | 18,874 | |
1,800 | | Topre | | 16,965 | |
1,000 | | Toridoll.corp | | 12,738 | |
3,000 | | Toshiba Machine | | 16,387 | |
7,000 | | Tosoh | | 19,512 | |
700 | | Touei Housing | | 7,009 | |
3,000 | | Toyo Ink SC Holdings | | 11,963 | |
400 | | Tsuruha Holdings | | 24,000 | |
1,100 | | Unipres | | 34,732 | |
1,300 | | United Arrows | | 29,640 | |
3,100 | | Utoc | | 10,850 | |
1,100 | | Valor | | 19,277 | |
1,300 | | VT Holdings | | 11,944 | |
200 | | Yachiyo Bank | | 4,535 | |
460 | | Yamada Denki | | 29,900 | |
2,000 | | Yamanashi Chuo Bank | | 8,325 | |
2,300 | | Yamazen | | 20,729 | |
600 | | Yaoko | | 21,127 | |
500 | | Yonekyu | | 4,794 | |
600 | | Yorozu | | 12,135 | |
6 | | Zappallas | | 6,383 | |
3,000 | | Zojirushi | | 10,500 | |
| | | | 3,759,904 | |
| | Luxembourg — 0.2% | | | |
1,352 | | Oriflame Cosmetics | | 48,598 | |
| | | | | |
| | Malaysia — 0.8% | | | |
15,400 | | Affin Holdings | | 15,624 | |
7,300 | | APM Automotive Holdings | | 11,338 | |
22,200 | | Coastal Contracts | | 14,379 | |
23,000 | | HAP Seng Consolidated | | 12,541 | |
20,700 | | Hap Seng Plantations Holdings | | 20,454 | |
17,800 | | Kumpulan Fima | | 10,824 | |
6,900 | | Mudajaya Group | | 5,883 | |
6,900 | | Ta Ann Holdings | | 14,867 | |
4,500 | | Tradewinds Malaysia | | 14,544 | |
6,600 | | Tradewinds Plantation | | 12,672 | |
13,500 | | UMW Holdings | | 35,111 | |
| | | | 168,237 | |
| | Malta — 0.0% | | | |
22,416 | | BGP Holdings (1) (2) (3) | | — | |
| | | | | |
| | Mexico — 0.4% | | | |
3,000 | | Alfa Class A | | 42,918 | |
11,128 | | Grupo Mexico | | 34,300 | |
| | | | 77,218 | |
| | | | | |
| | Netherlands — 3.1% | | | |
2,049 | | Aegon (1) | | 9,463 | |
1,221 | | ASM International | | 43,162 | |
792 | | ASML Holding | | 40,299 | |
1,333 | | BE Semiconductor Industries | | 10,652 | |
663 | | Beter Bed Holding | | 13,515 | |
1,299 | | BinckBank | | 12,294 | |
1,136 | | ING Groep (1) | | 8,010 | |
3,046 | | Koninklijke Ahold | | 38,635 | |
1,686 | | Koninklijke Boskalis Westminster | | 61,507 | |
1,155 | | Koninklijke DSM | | 66,223 | |
1,451 | | Koninklijke KPN | | 13,024 | |
892 | | Mediq | | 11,831 | |
400 | | Nieuwe Steen Investments Funds REIT | | 4,400 | |
3,995 | | Royal Dutch Shell | | 142,093 | |
4,002 | | Royal Dutch Shell Class A | | 142,432 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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1,155 | | Sligro Food Group | | 35,164 | |
2,906 | | SNS Reaal (1) | | 5,736 | |
105 | | Wereldhave REIT | | 7,387 | |
| | | | 665,827 | |
| | New Zealand — 0.1% | | | |
7,005 | | Nuplex Industries | | 15,352 | |
| | | | | |
| | Norway — 3.0% | | | |
9,933 | | ABG Sundal Collier Holding | | 7,724 | |
2,038 | | Aker Solutions | | 34,632 | |
2,671 | | Atea | | 28,470 | |
3,650 | | Austevoll Seafood | | 13,393 | |
2,219 | | Cermaq | | 30,302 | |
1,197 | | DnB NOR | | 12,905 | |
530 | | Farstad Shipping | | 15,744 | |
1,561 | | Fred Olsen Energy | | 64,726 | |
12,472 | | Kvaerner | | 36,830 | |
1,043 | | Leroy Seafood Group | | 16,402 | |
35,624 | | Marine Harvest | | 18,276 | |
1,215 | | SpareBank 1 SMN | | 7,516 | |
1,148 | | SpareBank 1 SR Bank | | 7,823 | |
262 | | Sparebanken More | | 7,233 | |
5,119 | | Statoil | | 136,675 | |
4,157 | | Storebrand | | 18,682 | |
5,132 | | Telenor | | 94,337 | |
1,694 | | TGS Nopec Geophysical | | 48,959 | |
924 | | Yara International | | 45,320 | |
| | | | 645,949 | |
| | Philippines — 0.7% | | | |
18,900 | | Aboitiz Power | | 15,220 | |
46,000 | | Manila Water | | 26,912 | |
600 | | Philippine Long Distance Telephone ADR | | 36,432 | |
8,700,000 | | Philodrill | | 12,364 | |
15,100 | | Rizal Commercial Banking | | 15,701 | |
6,770 | | Semirara Mining | | 40,408 | |
| | | | 147,037 | |
| | Poland — 0.5% | | | |
1,408 | | Asseco Poland | | 20,910 | |
458 | | Budimex | | 11,518 | |
842 | | Grupa Lotos (1) | | 7,570 | |
1,264 | | KGHM Polska Miedz | | 55,638 | |
271 | | Zaklady Azotowe Pulawy | | 8,251 | |
548 | | Zaklady Azotowe w Tarnowie-Moscicach (1) | | 5,865 | |
| | | | 109,752 | |
| | Portugal — 0.2% | | | |
10,239 | | Banco BPI (1) | | 5,448 | |
21,110 | | Banco Comercial Portugues (1) | | 2,962 | |
5,516 | | Banco Espirito Santo (1) | | 4,673 | |
8,605 | | Portucel Empresa Produtora de Pasta e Papel | | 21,824 | |
2,407 | | Portugal Telecom | | 12,955 | |
| | | | 47,862 | |
| | Russia — 0.1% | | | |
215 | | LUKOIL ADR | | 13,190 | |
| | | | | |
| | Singapore — 2.7% | | | |
24,000 | | Boustead Singapore | | 16,873 | |
21,000 | | CapitaCommercial Trust REIT | | 21,891 | |
45,000 | | ComfortDelGro | | 55,636 | |
105,000 | | Golden Agri-Resources | | 62,364 | |
9,000 | | Hong Leong Asia | | 13,346 | |
13,000 | | HTL International Holdings | | 3,834 | |
2,000 | | Jardine Cycle & Carriage | | 76,234 | |
18,000 | | Jurong Technologies Industrial (1) (2) (3) | | — | |
11,000 | | Keppel | | 98,222 | |
8,800 | | M1 | | 17,351 | |
10,000 | | SembCorp Industries | | 40,808 | |
25,000 | | Singapore Telecommunications | | 63,030 | |
18,000 | | Straits Asia Resources | | 28,655 | |
16,000 | | UMS Holdings | | 5,366 | |
11,000 | | United Engineers | | 22,311 | |
10,000 | | UOL Group | | 36,525 | |
1,000 | | Venture | | 6,950 | |
18,000 | | Wing Tai Holdings | | 17,236 | |
| | | | 586,632 | |
| | South Africa — 1.4% | | | |
3,067 | | Allied Electronics | | 9,860 | |
1,753 | | Allied Technologies | | 12,333 | |
989 | | Astral Foods | | 15,649 | |
8,047 | | Capital Property Fund | | 9,596 | |
7,501 | | Coronation Fund Managers | | 28,177 | |
1,545 | | Gold Fields | | 19,657 | |
2,627 | | Kagiso Media | | 6,556 | |
1,186 | | Kumba Iron Ore | | 83,839 | |
2,794 | | Lewis Group | | 27,141 | |
1,607 | | MTN Group | | 28,093 | |
1,080 | | Palabora Mining | | 21,535 | |
3,283 | | Raubex Group | | 6,065 | |
1,550 | | Reunert | | 14,357 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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360 | | Sasol | | 17,107 | |
| | | | 299,965 | |
| | South Korea — 1.8% | | | |
151 | | AMOREPACIFIC Group | | 38,013 | |
940 | | Bookook Steel | | 1,639 | |
680 | | Chong Kun Dang Pharm | | 9,567 | |
470 | | Daegu Department Store (1) | | 5,573 | |
740 | | Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering | | 20,757 | |
410 | | Daishin Securities | | 3,563 | |
840 | | Daou Technology | | 8,399 | |
610 | | Dong Ah Tire & Rubber | | 6,045 | |
37 | | Dongwon Industries | | 6,008 | |
290 | | Global & Yuasa Battery | | 11,663 | |
410 | | Halla Engineering & Construction | | 4,226 | |
1,530 | | Hanil E-Wha | | 12,888 | |
490 | | Hanyang Securities (1) | | 2,896 | |
1,110 | | Hwa Shin | | 10,559 | |
68 | | Hyundai Heavy Industries | | 17,028 | |
169 | | Hyundai Motor | | 40,152 | |
530 | | Jinheung Mutual Savings Bank | | 1,100 | |
1,230 | | KT&G | | 84,458 | |
1,970 | | Kwang Dong Pharmaceutical | | 7,016 | |
190 | | Kyeryong Construction Industrial | | 2,219 | |
1,300 | | Kyung Nong | | 3,485 | |
624 | | Kyungdong Pharm | | 5,853 | |
100 | | Mi Chang Oil Industrial | | 4,190 | |
860 | | Motonic | | 5,837 | |
60 | | Nexen | | 2,862 | |
86 | | Nong Shim Holdings | | 3,904 | |
58 | | Ottogi | | 8,519 | |
110 | | Pusan City Gas | | 1,781 | |
520 | | Sebang | | 6,971 | |
470 | | Sejong Industrial | | 5,386 | |
39 | | Shinsegae Food | | 2,685 | |
187 | | Sindoh | | 9,101 | |
1,500 | | SK Telecom ADR | | 20,280 | |
1,260 | | Taeyoung Engineering & Construction | | 5,563 | |
990 | | Whanin Pharmaceutical | | 5,422 | |
650 | | Woongjin Thinkbig | | 6,413 | |
| | | | 392,021 | |
| | Spain — 1.3% | | | |
2,281 | | Antena 3 de Television | | 12,077 | |
998 | | Banco Espanol de Credito | | 3,756 | |
1,861 | | Banco Popular Espanol | | 5,949 | |
1,152 | | Banco Santander Central Hispano | | 7,198 | |
3,522 | | CaixaBank | | 12,140 | |
825 | | Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo (1) (2) (3) | | — | |
4,717 | | Duro Felguera | | 29,096 | |
2,592 | | Enagas | | 45,547 | |
1,450 | | Grupo Catalana Occidente | | 20,422 | |
5,580 | | Iberdrola | | 25,977 | |
3,333 | | Indra Sistemas | | 34,580 | |
12,568 | | Mapfre | | 36,317 | |
395 | | Red Electrica | | 17,197 | |
1,465 | | Repsol | | 28,022 | |
1,875 | | Sacyr Vallehermoso | | 3,378 | |
766 | | Vueling Airlines (1) | | 4,857 | |
| | | | 286,513 | |
| | Sweden — 2.1% | | | |
232 | | AddTech | | 6,386 | |
703 | | Avanza Bank Holding | | 16,839 | |
1,675 | | Axfood | | 60,906 | |
587 | | Bilia Class A | | 11,266 | |
2,330 | | Billerud | | 22,533 | |
1,920 | | Boliden | | 30,737 | |
1,000 | | D Carnegie (1) (2) (3) | | — | |
468 | | Hoganas Class B | | 18,138 | |
1,952 | | Intrum Justitia | | 29,623 | |
533 | | NCC Class B | | 10,475 | |
1,390 | | Nolato | | 14,063 | |
3,074 | | Peab | | 16,030 | |
2,002 | | Scania | | 40,926 | |
1,521 | | Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken | | 10,265 | |
2,024 | | SKF Class B | | 48,031 | |
2,615 | | Tele2 Class B | | 49,839 | |
12,352 | | TeliaSonera | | 82,570 | |
| | | | 468,627 | |
| | Switzerland — 2.9% | | | |
3,057 | | ABB | | 55,707 | |
323 | | Baloise Holding | | 24,999 | |
66 | | Emmi | | 14,099 | |
3,953 | | Ferrexpo | | 18,746 | |
73 | | Helvetia Holding | | 26,139 | |
117 | | Komax Holding | | 11,891 | |
1,890 | | Novartis | | 104,219 | |
223 | | Pargesa Holding | | 14,926 | |
871 | | Roche Holding | | 159,105 | |
111 | | Swisscom | | 41,348 | |
3,358 | | UBS (1) | | 41,917 | |
48 | | Valora Holding | | 10,048 | |
55 | | Vaudoise Assurances Holding | | 17,240 | |
391 | | Zurich Insurance Group | | 95,634 | |
| | | | 636,018 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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| | Taiwan — 2.7% | | | |
9,000 | | Ability Enterprise | | 8,273 | |
7,000 | | ACES Electronic | | 10,785 | |
8,799 | | Asia Vital Components | | 5,287 | |
7,000 | | Audix | | 6,231 | |
5,000 | | Aurora Systems (1) | | 6,787 | |
2,000 | | AV Tech (1) | | 6,683 | |
15,000 | | Avermedia Technologies | | 11,991 | |
11,105 | | Chicony Electronics | | 21,671 | |
4,040 | | Chong Hong Construction | | 8,299 | |
14,394 | | Compal Electronics | | 16,558 | |
7,000 | | Coretronic | | 5,908 | |
20,000 | | CTCI | | 38,619 | |
5,000 | | E Ink Holdings | | 5,478 | |
14,000 | | Feng TAY Enterprise | | 13,349 | |
24,000 | | Formosan Rubber Group | | 15,406 | |
7,069 | | FSP Technology | | 6,583 | |
9,000 | | Gigabyte Technology | | 7,796 | |
7,000 | | Grape King Industrial | | 11,539 | |
6,000 | | Holiday Entertainment (1) | | 10,107 | |
1,000 | | HTC | | 15,167 | |
10,000 | | ICP Electronics | | 13,900 | |
3,000 | | I-Sheng Electric Wire & Cable | | 4,704 | |
16,044 | | Lite-On IT | | 16,259 | |
18,090 | | Lite-On Technology | | 22,079 | |
4,000 | | MPI | | 8,806 | |
12,000 | | Phihong Technology | | 14,297 | |
10,000 | | Powertech Technology | | 16,999 | |
3,150 | | Promate Electronic | | 2,551 | |
7,150 | | Radiant Opto-Electronics | | 30,109 | |
11,000 | | Sigurd Microelectronics | | 8,549 | |
7,020 | | Silitech Technology | | 16,463 | |
3,000 | | Sincere Navigation | | 2,984 | |
6,000 | | Sino-American Silicon Products | | 10,435 | |
4,000 | | Sirtec International | | 5,738 | |
4,000 | | Skymedi | | 7,436 | |
3,015 | | Soft-World International | | 6,555 | |
3,000 | | Sporton International (1) | | 7,282 | |
4,000 | | Taiwan Navigation | | 3,985 | |
4,000 | | Taiwan Prosperity Chemical | | 9,586 | |
10,000 | | Taiwan Sogo Shin Kong SEC | | 9,860 | |
6,600 | | Taiwan Surface Mounting Technology | | 13,784 | |
6,000 | | Thye Ming Industrial | | 5,670 | |
10,000 | | Topco Scientific | | 17,803 | |
2,000 | | Tripod Technology | | 5,889 | |
11,000 | | TSRC | | 26,626 | |
6,000 | | Ttet Union | | 10,271 | |
8,400 | | Weikeng Industrial | | 7,233 | |
11,080 | | Wistron | | 16,634 | |
7,000 | | Wistron NeWeb | | 13,157 | |
3,000 | | Zeng Hsing Industrial | | 10,425 | |
| | | | 578,586 | |
| | Thailand — 1.1% | | | |
18,400 | | Bangchak Petroleum | | 15,259 | |
5,300 | | Bangkok Expressway | | 4,033 | |
2,450 | | Banpu | | 44,618 | |
13,300 | | Delta Electronics Thai | | 10,683 | |
2,100 | | Electricity Generating | | 6,761 | |
12,400 | | Hana Microelectronics | | 9,033 | |
27,700 | | Khon Kaen Sugar Industry | | 12,431 | |
25,300 | | Lanna Resources | | 23,860 | |
13,700 | | MCOT | | 13,032 | |
42,100 | | MCS Steel | | 10,200 | |
110,400 | | Property Perfect | | 4,560 | |
3,300 | | PTT | | 37,668 | |
5,500 | | PTT Exploration & Production | | 31,748 | |
19,100 | | SC Asset | | 9,193 | |
74,800 | | Thai Tap Water Supply | | 15,811 | |
| | | | 248,890 | |
| | Turkey — 0.7% | | | |
154 | | Bagfas Bandirma Gubre Fabrik | | 17,362 | |
2,766 | | Ford Otomotiv Sanayi | | 25,435 | |
1,234 | | Gubre Fabrikalari (1) | | 8,642 | |
4,198 | | Koza Anadolu Metal Madencilik Isletmeleri (1) | | 8,223 | |
3,903 | | Park Elektrik Uretim Madencilik Sanayi ve Ticaret (1) | | 12,045 | |
1,239 | | Pinar SUT Mamulleri Sanayii | | 12,910 | |
4,852 | | Soda Sanayii | | 9,310 | |
3,204 | | Tofas Turk Otomobil Fabrikasi | | 14,193 | |
6,180 | | Trakya Cam Sanayi | | 8,903 | |
4,432 | | Turk Telekomunikasyon | | 19,432 | |
816 | | Turk Traktor ve Ziraat Makineleri | | 14,311 | |
| | | | 150,766 | |
| | United Kingdom — 15.4% | | | |
12,060 | | Aberdeen Asset Management | | 55,487 | |
2,065 | | Anglo American | | 79,359 | |
776 | | Anglo American (South African Shares) | | 29,949 | |
4,420 | | Ashmore Group | | 27,445 | |
3,745 | | AstraZeneca | | 164,069 | |
1,783 | | Aviva | | 8,915 | |
18,944 | | BAE Systems | | 90,757 | |
4,077 | | Balfour Beatty | | 17,269 | |
11,433 | | Barclays | | 40,496 | |
16,258 | | Beazley | | 37,388 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
2,109 | | BHP Billiton | | 67,581 | |
16,692 | | BP | | 120,548 | |
6,370 | | Brewin Dolphin Holdings | | 16,902 | |
21,666 | | Cable & Wireless Communications | | 11,600 | |
4,159 | | Carillion | | 19,689 | |
12,704 | | Centrica | | 63,275 | |
3,250 | | Chemring Group | | 17,221 | |
11,807 | | Cobham | | 43,401 | |
2,433 | | Computacenter | | 16,382 | |
1,948 | | Cranswick | | 25,449 | |
1,884 | | Diploma | | 14,022 | |
1,614 | | Domino Printing Sciences | | 15,690 | |
4,038 | | Drax Group | | 35,584 | |
5,585 | | easyJet | | 44,950 | |
10,764 | | Electrocomponents | | 39,777 | |
18,696 | | EnQuest (1) | | 38,443 | |
4,221 | | Eurasian Natural Resources | | 38,327 | |
3,357 | | Firstgroup | | 10,613 | |
11,966 | | GKN | | 39,558 | |
6,665 | | GlaxoSmithKline | | 154,137 | |
4,379 | | Greggs | | 35,640 | |
3,507 | | Gulfsands Petroleum (1) | | 7,171 | |
5,022 | | Halfords Group | | 22,421 | |
16,345 | | Hays | | 23,688 | |
8,044 | | Highland Gold Mining | | 16,188 | |
8,057 | | Home Retail Group | | 13,939 | |
11,662 | | HSBC Holdings | | 105,060 | |
12,000 | | HSBC Holdings (Hong Kong Shares) | | 109,349 | |
7,063 | | ICAP | | 43,523 | |
5,611 | | IG Group Holdings | | 42,161 | |
2,030 | | IMI | | 32,599 | |
1,349 | | Immunodiagnostic Systems Holdings | | 7,367 | |
1,893 | | Imperial Tobacco Group | | 75,698 | |
6,434 | | Inmarsat | | 45,923 | |
1,649 | | Interior Services Group | | 3,666 | |
4,356 | | Intermediate Capital Group | | 18,154 | |
2,521 | | Interserve | | 11,709 | |
2,968 | | Investec | | 17,109 | |
1,009 | | John Menzies | | 10,677 | |
1,280 | | Kazakhmys | | 17,886 | |
1,407 | | Keller Group | | 10,275 | |
563 | | Kier Group | | 10,654 | |
36,054 | | Legal & General Group | | 68,810 | |
38,645 | | Lloyds Banking Group (1) | | 19,449 | |
7,183 | | Marks & Spencer Group | | 41,617 | |
3,856 | | Micro Focus International | | 29,137 | |
9,740 | | Mitie Group | | 46,109 | |
3,313 | | Mondi | | 30,728 | |
6,367 | | Morgan Crucible | | 33,582 | |
7,640 | | N Brown Group | | 28,418 | |
1,372 | | Next | | 65,218 | |
3,803 | | Pace | | 4,490 | |
9,114 | | Premier Farnell | | 31,757 | |
7,901 | | Prudential | | 96,746 | |
2,482 | | Reckitt Benckiser Group | | 144,486 | |
2,281 | | Restaurant Group | | 10,399 | |
1,465 | | Rio Tinto | | 81,610 | |
35,601 | | Royal Bank of Scotland Group (1) | | 14,022 | |
2,642 | | RPC Group | | 15,835 | |
15,584 | | RSA Insurance Group | | 26,556 | |
3,686 | | Scottish & Southern Energy | | 79,023 | |
843 | | Standard Chartered | | 20,604 | |
25,562 | | Standard Life | | 92,760 | |
14,081 | | Tesco | | 72,521 | |
2,409 | | Tullett Prebon | | 13,429 | |
1,262 | | Valiant Petroleum (1) | | 11,981 | |
994 | | Vedanta Resources | | 19,632 | |
23,127 | | Vodafone Group | | 63,994 | |
3,965 | | WH Smith | | 33,911 | |
12,388 | | WM Morrison Supermarkets | | 56,413 | |
1,140 | | WSP Group | | 4,648 | |
2,471 | | Xstrata | | 47,220 | |
| | | | 3,370,245 | |
| | TOTAL COMMON STOCK (Cost $21,744,133) | | 21,360,356 | |
| | | | | |
| | PREFERRED STOCK — 0.7% | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Brazil — 0.4% | | | |
1,500 | | Bradespar | | 27,165 | |
1,040 | | Cia Energetica de Minas Gerais ADR | | 25,657 | |
800 | | Cia Energetica do Ceara Class A | | 14,274 | |
3,700 | | Marcopolo | | 19,915 | |
| | | | 87,011 | |
| | Germany — 0.3% | | | |
16 | | KSB | | 9,317 | |
191 | | ProSiebenSat.1 Media | | 4,849 | |
209 | | Volkswagen | | 39,589 | |
| | | | 53,755 | |
| | TOTAL PREFERRED STOCK (Cost $124,525) | | 140,766 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | INVESTMENT COMPANY — 0.0% | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Guernsey — 0.0% | | | |
3,969 | | IRP Property Investments Limited (Cost $10,788) | | 4,412 | |
| | | | | |
| | RIGHTS (1) — 0.0% | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Australia — 0.0% | | | |
1,449 | | M2 Telecom Group Expires 05/12 (Cost $—) | | 604 | |
| | | | | |
| | WARRANT (1) (2) (3) — 0.0% | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Netherlands — 0.0% | | | |
446 | | Nieuwe Steen Investments, Expires 04/01/13 (Cost $—) | | — | |
| | | | | |
| | SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT (4) — 0.9% | | | |
| | | | | |
203,630 | | JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund, 0.120% (Cost $203,630) | | 203,630 | |
| | | | | |
| | TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 99.5% (Cost $22,083,076) | | 21,709,768 | |
| | OTHER ASSETS LESS LIABILITIES — 0.5% | | 109,943 | |
| | NET ASSETS — 100% | | $ | 21,819,711 | |
| | | | | | |
(1) | Denotes non-income producing security. |
(2) | Security considered illiquid. On April 30, 2012 the value of these securities amounted to $0, representing 0.0% of the net assets of the Fund. |
(3) | Security is fair valued. (See Note 2 in Notes to Financial Statements.) |
(4) | The rate shown represents the 7-day current yield as of April 30, 2012. |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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A summary of the outstanding forward foreign currency contracts held by the Fund at April 30, 2012, is as follows:
| | | | | | | | | | | | Unrealized | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Appreciation | |
Counterparty | | Settlement Date | | Currency to Deliver | | Currency to Receive | | (Depreciation) | |
JPMorgan | | 5/2/12 | | USD | | 687,762 | | GBP | | 435,300 | | $ | 18,688 | |
UBS Securities | | 5/2/12 | | GBP | | 435,300 | | USD | | 700,570 | | (5,880 | ) |
UBS Securities | | 5/2/12 | | USD | | 141,366 | | TRY | | 250,500 | | 1,268 | |
UBS Securities | | 5/2/12 | | USD | | 323,899 | | ZAR | | 2,515,400 | | (306 | ) |
UBS Securities | | 5/2/12-5/24/12 | | TRY | | 501,000 | | USD | | 277,842 | | (6,680 | ) |
UBS Securities | | 5/2/12-5/24/12 | | ZAR | | 5,030,800 | | USD | | 645,906 | | (172 | ) |
UBS Securities | | 5/24/12 | | USD | | 528,992 | | GBP | | 328,100 | | 3,400 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | $ | 10,318 | |
ADR — American Depositary Receipt
GBP — British Pound
REIT — Real Estate Investment Trust
TRY — Turkish Lira
USD — United States Dollar
ZAR — South African Rand
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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The following is a summary of the inputs used as of April 30, 2012, in valuing the Fund’s investments carried at value:
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Investments in Securities | | | | | | | | | |
Common Stock (1) | | | | | | | | | |
Australia | | $ | 1,159,537 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 1,159,537 | |
Austria | | 184,218 | | — | | — | | 184,218 | |
Belgium | | 261,904 | | — | | — | | 261,904 | |
Bermuda | | 230,098 | | — | | — | | 230,098 | |
Brazil | | 128,881 | | — | | — | | 128,881 | |
British Virgin Islands | | 7,800 | | — | | — | | 7,800 | |
Canada | | 1,645,536 | | — | | — | | 1,645,536 | |
Chile | | 44,752 | | — | | — | | 44,752 | |
China | | 386,075 | | 30,726 | | — | | 416,801 | |
Cyprus | | 19,301 | | — | | — | | 19,301 | |
Czech Republic | | 24,502 | | — | | — | | 24,502 | |
Denmark | | 186,652 | | — | | — | | 186,652 | |
Finland | | 314,558 | | — | | — | | 314,558 | |
France | | 1,034,380 | | — | | — | | 1,034,380 | |
Gabon | | 50,036 | | — | | — | | 50,036 | |
Germany | | 712,953 | | — | | — | | 712,953 | |
Greece | | 59,603 | | — | | — | | 59,603 | |
Guernsey | | 38,235 | | — | | — | | 38,235 | |
Hong Kong | | 1,181,828 | | — | | — | | 1,181,828 | |
Indonesia | | 145,306 | | — | | — | | 145,306 | |
Ireland | | 54,487 | | — | | — | | 54,487 | |
Israel | | 259,359 | | — | | — | | 259,359 | |
Italy | | 482,440 | | — | | — | | 482,440 | |
Japan | | — | | 3,759,904 | | — | | 3,759,904 | |
Luxembourg | | 48,598 | | — | | — | | 48,598 | |
Malaysia | | 168,237 | | — | | — | | 168,237 | |
Mexico | | 77,218 | | — | | — | | 77,218 | |
Netherlands | | 665,827 | | — | | — | | 665,827 | |
New Zealand | | 15,352 | | — | | — | | 15,352 | |
Norway | | 645,949 | | — | | — | | 645,949 | |
Philippines | | 147,037 | | — | | — | | 147,037 | |
Poland | | 109,752 | | — | | — | | 109,752 | |
Portugal | | 47,862 | | — | | — | | 47,862 | |
Russia | | 13,190 | | — | | — | | 13,190 | |
Singapore | | 586,632 | | — | | — | | 586,632 | |
South Africa | | 299,965 | | — | | — | | 299,965 | |
South Korea | | 392,021 | | — | | — | | 392,021 | |
Spain | | 286,513 | | — | | — | | 286,513 | |
Sweden | | 468,627 | | — | | — | | 468,627 | |
Switzerland | | 636,018 | | — | | — | | 636,018 | |
Taiwan | | 578,586 | | — | | — | | 578,586 | |
Thailand | | 248,890 | | — | | — | | 248,890 | |
Turkey | | 150,766 | | — | | — | | 150,766 | |
United Kingdom | | 3,370,245 | | — | | — | | 3,370,245 | |
Total Common Stock | | 17,569,726 | | 3,790,630 | | — | | 21,360,356 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Preferred Stock | | | | | | | | | |
Brazil | | 87,011 | | — | | — | | 87,011 | |
Germany | | 53,755 | | — | | — | | 53,755 | |
Total Preferred Stock | | 140,766 | | — | | — | | 140,766 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schedule of Investments (concluded)
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Investments in Securities (concluded) | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Company | | | | | | | | | |
Guernsey | | $ | 4,412 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 4,412 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Rights | | | | | | | | | |
Australia | | 604 | | — | | — | | 604 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Short-Term Investment | | 203,630 | | — | | — | | 203,630 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Total Investments in Securities | | $ | 17,919,138 | | $ | 3,790,630 | | $ | — | | $ | 21,709,768 | |
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Other Financial Instruments | | | | | | | | | |
Forwards—Unrealized Appreciation | | $ | — | | $ | 23,356 | | $ | — | | $ | 23,356 | |
Forwards—Unrealized Depreciation | | — | | (13,038 | ) | — | | (13,038 | ) |
Total Other Financial Instruments | | $ | — | | $ | 10,318 | | $ | — | | $ | 10,318 | |
(1) Transfers between investment levels may occur as markets fluctuate and/or the availability of data used in an investment’s valuation changes. The Fund generally recognizes transfers between the levels as of the beginning of the period. As of April 30, 2012, the Fund had securities with a total value of $3,790,630 transfer from Level 1 to Level 2. The change in level occurred due to developments that occurred between the time of closing of the foreign markets on which those securities trade and the close of business on the New York Stock Exchange.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder Global Quality Fund
Schedule of Investments
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
Shares | | | | Value $ | |
| | COMMON STOCK — 94.7% | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Australia — 2.2% | | | |
6,722 | | BHP Billiton | | 248,991 | |
626 | | Campbell Brothers | | 44,725 | |
2,501 | | CSL | | 95,533 | |
10,889 | | Iress Market Technology | | 76,357 | |
9,657 | | Mineral Resources | | 120,343 | |
4,896 | | Monadelphous Group | | 118,556 | |
24,079 | | Mount Gibson Iron | | 27,723 | |
9,418 | | Navitas | | 38,762 | |
14,981 | | NRW Holdings | | 63,843 | |
30,596 | | Platinum Asset Management | | 140,270 | |
3,185 | | Rio Tinto | | 220,190 | |
7,448 | | Woolworths | | 201,306 | |
11,778 | | Wotif.com Holdings | | 54,242 | |
| | | | 1,450,841 | |
| | Belgium — 0.5% | | | |
1,263 | | Bekaert | | 37,416 | |
3,298 | | Colruyt | | 135,114 | |
3,569 | | Mobistar | | 134,972 | |
| | | | 307,502 | |
| | Bermuda — 1.1% | | | |
5,400 | | Arch Capital Group (1) | | 212,112 | |
6,500 | | Assured Guaranty | | 92,170 | |
38,000 | | Giordano International | | 33,158 | |
9,654 | | Lancashire Holdings | | 126,123 | |
7,022 | | Seadrill | | 271,778 | |
| | | | 735,341 | |
| | Brazil — 0.6% | | | |
2,344 | | Cielo | | 70,401 | |
5,000 | | CPFL Energia | | 69,879 | |
11,100 | | Energias do Brasil | | 77,391 | |
7,400 | | JHSF Participacoes | | 23,215 | |
2,200 | | Natura Cosmeticos | | 49,710 | |
4,200 | | Tractebel Energia | | 72,161 | |
2,100 | | Valid Solucoes e Servicos | | 32,269 | |
| | | | 395,026 | |
| | Canada — 3.8% | | | |
2,600 | | Agrium | | 229,035 | |
2,200 | | Alimentation Couche Tard Class B | | 95,429 | |
3,400 | | Canadian National Railway | | 290,145 | |
12,100 | | Canadian Oil Sands Trust | | 267,392 | |
4,500 | | Centerra Gold | | 58,263 | |
6,900 | | CGI Group Class A (1) | | 154,854 | |
27,000 | | High River Gold Mines (1) | | 31,705 | |
5,300 | | IAMGOLD | | 65,724 | |
4,500 | | Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services | | 143,493 | |
5,100 | | Neo Material Technologies (1) | | 56,222 | |
3,900 | | Pacific Rubiales Energy | | 111,885 | |
1,400 | | Pan American Silver | | 27,225 | |
6,000 | | Pason Systems | | 78,170 | |
5,500 | | Petrominerales | | 80,453 | |
3,700 | | Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan | | 157,311 | |
9,600 | | Research In Motion (1) | | 137,316 | |
4,800 | | Suncor Energy | | 158,550 | |
900 | | Teck Resources Class B | | 33,582 | |
3,300 | | TMX Group | | 150,661 | |
2,000 | | Transglobe Energy (1) | | 27,454 | |
9,000 | | Trican Well Service | | 130,192 | |
1,300 | | Wajax | | 65,642 | |
| | | | 2,550,703 | |
| | Chile — 0.4% | | | |
15,432 | | Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida | | 82,393 | |
400 | | Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida ADR | | 32,000 | |
163,906 | | Aguas Andinas | | 108,426 | |
3,375 | | ENTEL Chile | | 66,999 | |
| | | | 289,818 | |
| | China — 1.8% | | | |
92,000 | | Anta Sports Products | | 90,949 | |
57,500 | | China Shenhua Energy Class H | | 255,312 | |
64,000 | | Dongfeng Motor Group Class H | | 126,207 | |
33,000 | | Great Wall Motor Class H | | 71,286 | |
104,000 | | Haitian International Holdings | | 119,701 | |
15,000 | | Pacific Textile Holdings | | 9,957 | |
83,000 | | Shenzhou International Group Holdings | | 156,187 | |
14,000 | | Weichai Power Class H (1) | | 65,952 | |
133,000 | | Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings | | 126,820 | |
82,000 | | Yanzhou Coal Mining (1) | | 171,427 | |
160,000 | | Zijin Mining Group (1) | | 52,174 | |
| | | | 1,245,972 | |
| | Czech Republic — 0.1% | | | |
100 | | Philip Morris CR | | 58,085 | |
| | | | | |
| | Denmark — 0.3% | | | |
10,912 | | H Lundbeck | | 218,426 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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| | Finland — 0.3% | | | |
536 | | Kone Class B | | 33,169 | |
8,556 | | Orion Class B | | 174,527 | |
| | | | 207,696 | |
| | France — 0.9% | | | |
1,017 | | April | | 19,116 | |
807 | | BioMerieux | | 66,187 | |
428 | | Christian Dior | | 64,501 | |
8,104 | | CNP Assurances | | 113,709 | |
1,901 | | Ipsen | | 50,679 | |
4,538 | | Metropole Television | | 69,681 | |
165 | | Sartorius Stedim Biotech | | 11,630 | |
1,685 | | Societe BIC | | 185,594 | |
93 | | Virbac | | 15,640 | |
| | | | 596,737 | |
| | Gabon — 0.2% | | | |
322 | | Total Gabon | | 149,181 | |
| | | | | |
| | Germany — 0.5% | | | |
1,798 | | Gerry Weber International | | 76,350 | |
4,252 | | K+S | | 212,499 | |
1,088 | | SMA Solar Technology | | 45,582 | |
385 | | Wacker Chemie | | 31,031 | |
| | | | 365,462 | |
| | Greece — 0.1% | | | |
6,348 | | OPAP | | 56,719 | |
| | | | | |
| | Guernsey — 0.1% | | | |
19,268 | | Resolution | | 69,982 | |
| | | | | |
| | Hong Kong — 1.9% | | | |
28,000 | | China BlueChemical | | 20,029 | |
24,000 | | China Mobile | | 265,871 | |
127,000 | | CNOOC | | 270,741 | |
19,600 | | Dah Sing Banking Group | | 20,336 | |
12,400 | | Dah Sing Financial Holdings | | 44,510 | |
32,000 | | Dongyue Group | | 23,963 | |
26,000 | | First Pacific | | 28,250 | |
30,000 | | Great Eagle Holdings | | 88,546 | |
108,000 | | Guangdong Investment | | 79,483 | |
6,000 | | Hongkong Land Holdings | | 37,260 | |
69,000 | | Lonking Holdings | | 25,079 | |
15,600 | | Sands China | | 61,325 | |
106,000 | | SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings | | 199,468 | |
4,200 | | Swire Properties | | 11,503 | |
88,000 | | Xinyi Glass Holdings | | 56,938 | |
58,500 | | XTEP International Holdings | | 26,616 | |
| | | | 1,259,918 | |
| | Indonesia — 1.3% | | | |
57,500 | | Astra Agro Lestari | | 133,888 | |
28,000 | | Indo Tambangraya Megah | | 121,104 | |
60,000 | | International Nickel Indonesia | | 20,238 | |
605,500 | | Perusahaan Gas Negara | | 220,709 | |
308,000 | | Perusahaan Perkebunan London Sumatra Indonesia | | 98,025 | |
14,500 | | Surya Citra Media | | 13,411 | |
42,500 | | Tambang Batubara Bukit Asam | | 85,319 | |
192,500 | | Telekomunikasi Indonesia | | 178,037 | |
| | | | 870,731 | |
| | Ireland — 0.5% | | | |
4,000 | | Accenture Class A | | 259,800 | |
3,300 | | Seagate Technology | | 101,508 | |
| | | | 361,308 | |
| | Israel — 0.6% | | | |
22,586 | | Israel Chemicals | | 259,111 | |
7,518 | | Osem Investments | | 115,024 | |
| | | | 374,135 | |
| | Italy — 0.4% | | | |
3,717 | | DiaSorin | | 97,961 | |
20,698 | | Recordati | | 143,976 | |
| | | | 241,937 | |
| | Japan (2) — 8.4% | | | |
1,700 | | ABC-Mart | | 61,774 | |
2,500 | | Aeon Delight | | 58,094 | |
2,400 | | Aeon Mall | | 53,430 | |
800 | | Ain Pharmaciez | | 42,900 | |
13,000 | | Aozora Bank | | 33,475 | |
2,200 | | Cosmos Pharmaceutical | | 123,613 | |
19 | | CyberAgent | | 58,377 | |
4,900 | | Daiichikosho | | 98,612 | |
9,000 | | Daiwa House Industry | | 116,325 | |
2,468 | | Dena | | 77,218 | |
21 | | Dr. Ci:Labo | | 97,387 | |
6,500 | | Gree | | 174,769 | |
11,000 | | Hachijuni Bank | | 59,950 | |
5,000 | | Higo Bank | | 27,937 | |
1,100 | | Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical | | 48,950 | |
11 | | Inpex | | 72,875 | |
10,000 | | Iyo Bank | | 83,000 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Shares | | | | Value $ | |
4,000 | | JGC | | 115,600 | |
92 | | Jupiter Telecommunications | | 97,290 | |
12,000 | | Kaken Pharmaceutical | | 148,200 | |
50 | | KDDI | | 328,125 | |
6,000 | | KYORIN Holdings | | 115,350 | |
2,900 | | Lawson | | 191,763 | |
4,400 | | Miraca Holdings | | 173,525 | |
8,100 | | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group | | 39,184 | |
8,000 | | Nabtesco | | 172,200 | |
5,000 | | NET One Systems | | 68,500 | |
1,550 | | Nitori Holdings | | 142,406 | |
7,700 | | Nomura Research Institute | | 177,581 | |
168 | | NTT DoCoMo | | 286,020 | |
8,500 | | Otsuka Holdings | | 256,062 | |
1,530 | | Point | | 56,400 | |
1,300 | | Ryohin Keikaku | | 70,525 | |
9,000 | | San-In Godo Bank | | 64,800 | |
4,900 | | Santen Pharmaceutical | | 204,269 | |
900 | | Sawai Pharmaceutical | | 94,725 | |
11,000 | | Softbank | | 329,450 | |
8 | | So-net Entertainment | | 33,450 | |
4,300 | | Sony Financial Holdings | | 70,305 | |
3,100 | | Sugi Holdings | | 100,285 | |
3,100 | | Sundrug | | 95,015 | |
1,700 | | Tokyo Seimitsu | | 35,041 | |
5,000 | | Trend Micro | | 152,125 | |
2,400 | | Tsumura | | 63,990 | |
1,600 | | Tsuruha Holdings | | 96,000 | |
3,900 | | Unipres | | 123,142 | |
4,200 | | Universal Entertainment | | 96,338 | |
1,910 | | USS | | 194,104 | |
490 | | Yahoo Japan | | 147,061 | |
| | | | 5,627,517 | |
| | Malaysia — 1.0% | | | |
48,200 | | AMMB Holdings | | 99,713 | |
60,800 | | BIMB Holdings | | 51,035 | |
6,900 | | Carlsberg Brewery Malaysia | | 26,360 | |
93,700 | | DiGi.com | | 125,098 | |
2,500 | | Fraser & Neave Holdings | | 15,714 | |
30,300 | | KLCC Property Holdings | | 33,945 | |
83,100 | | Maxis | | 168,067 | |
17,000 | | Petronas Chemicals Group | | 36,685 | |
15,700 | | Petronas Gas | | 87,061 | |
23,400 | | Sarawak Oil Palms | | 52,430 | |
| | | | 696,108 | |
| | Mexico — 0.8% | | | |
1,800 | | America Movil ADR | | 47,970 | |
600 | | Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste ADR | | 49,146 | |
31,200 | | Grupo Herdez | | 68,982 | |
86,851 | | Grupo Mexico | | 267,702 | |
63,900 | | Kimberly-Clark de Mexico | | 130,243 | |
| | | | 564,043 | |
| | Netherlands — 1.1% | | | |
2,289 | | ASM International | | 80,915 | |
4,943 | | ASML Holding | | 251,514 | |
7,573 | | Royal Dutch Shell Class A | | 269,525 | |
3,900 | | Unilever | | 133,552 | |
| | | | 735,506 | |
| | Norway — 1.3% | | | |
5,295 | | Kongsberg Gruppen | | 102,237 | |
15,569 | | Statoil | | 415,685 | |
3,798 | | TGS Nopec Geophysical | | 109,766 | |
4,755 | | Yara International | | 233,224 | |
| | | | 860,912 | |
| | Philippines — 0.9% | | | |
70,900 | | Aboitiz Equity Ventures | | 85,644 | |
92,500 | | Aboitiz Power | | 74,491 | |
69,860 | | DMCI Holdings | | 98,784 | |
158,200 | | Manila Water | | 92,552 | |
1,500 | | Philippine Long Distance Telephone ADR | | 91,080 | |
41,600 | | Rizal Commercial Banking | | 43,255 | |
23,850 | | Semirara Mining | | 142,354 | |
| | | | 628,160 | |
| | Poland — 0.6% | | | |
2,049 | | Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa (1) | | 60,139 | |
4,612 | | KGHM Polska Miedz | | 203,008 | |
14,132 | | PGE | | 84,614 | |
17,579 | | Synthos | | 34,006 | |
| | | | 381,767 | |
| | Russia — 0.3% | | | |
4,800 | | CTC Media | | 51,984 | |
2,115 | | LUKOIL ADR | | 129,755 | |
| | | | 181,739 | |
| | Singapore — 1.3% | | | |
75,000 | | First Resources | | 113,940 | |
7,000 | | Jardine Cycle & Carriage | | 266,820 | |
79,000 | | M1 | | 155,766 | |
2,000 | | Singapore Land | | 9,632 | |
40,000 | | StarHub | | 103,111 | |
70,000 | | Straits Asia Resources | | 111,434 | |
36,000 | | UOL Group | | 131,491 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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7,000 | | Wheelock Properties Singapore | �� | 9,786 | |
| | | | 901,980 | |
| | South Africa — 1.8% | | | |
8,114 | | AVI | | 50,312 | |
815 | | Bidvest Group | | 19,276 | |
61,822 | | Capital Property Fund | | 73,725 | |
18,772 | | Coronation Fund Managers | | 70,516 | |
30,464 | | FirstRand | | 99,034 | |
2,940 | | Kumba Iron Ore | | 207,829 | |
6,725 | | Lewis Group | | 65,326 | |
9,030 | | MTN Group | | 157,858 | |
1,298 | | Palabora Mining | | 25,882 | |
8,626 | | Reunert | | 79,898 | |
20,228 | | Sanlam | | 87,018 | |
2,849 | | Sasol | | 135,385 | |
10,287 | | Vodacom Group | | 143,056 | |
| | | | 1,215,115 | |
| | South Korea — 1.0% | | | |
371 | | AMOREPACIFIC Group | | 93,396 | |
1,360 | | Dongbu Insurance | | 54,394 | |
5,840 | | Halla Climate Control | | 118,854 | |
1,350 | | Kangwon Land | | 28,968 | |
2,112 | | Kia Motors | | 155,860 | |
3,093 | | KT&G | | 212,381 | |
| | | | 663,853 | |
| | Spain — 0.3% | | | |
5,230 | | Antena 3 de Television | | 27,692 | |
4,891 | | Duro Felguera | | 30,170 | |
31,673 | | Mapfre | | 91,523 | |
940 | | Red Electrica | | 40,924 | |
3,226 | | Zardoya Otis | | 39,500 | |
| | | | 229,809 | |
| | Sweden — 0.6% | | | |
4,108 | | Axfood | | 149,375 | |
1,113 | | Betsson | | 36,513 | |
4,335 | | Billerud | | 41,923 | |
1,166 | | Hennes & Mauritz | | 40,056 | |
1,898 | | Hexpol | | 70,596 | |
2,907 | | SKF Class B | | 68,985 | |
| | | | 407,448 | |
| | Switzerland — 1.4% | | | |
3,500 | | ACE | | 265,895 | |
28 | | Belimo Holding | | 55,466 | |
16,635 | | Ferrexpo | | 78,885 | |
1,193 | | Meyer Burger Technology (1) | | 19,716 | |
324 | | Partners Group Holding | | 61,648 | |
2,532 | | Roche Holding | | 462,519 | |
836 | | Schweizerische National-Versicherungs-Gesellschaft (1) | | 32,514 | |
| | | | 976,643 | |
| | Taiwan — 0.7% | | | |
39,000 | | E Ink Holdings | | 42,727 | |
7,100 | | HTC | | 107,684 | |
1,000 | | Largan Precision | | 15,886 | |
13,000 | | MStar Semiconductor (1) | | 77,221 | |
6,000 | | Simplo Technology | | 46,219 | |
33,000 | | Taiwan Secom (1) | | 67,789 | |
39,500 | | TSRC | | 95,611 | |
| | | | 453,137 | |
| | Thailand — 1.0% | | | |
44,400 | | Advanced Info Service | | 264,234 | |
3,600 | | Banpu | | 65,561 | |
46,900 | | PTT Exploration & Production | | 270,724 | |
5,500 | | Siam Makro | | 68,504 | |
| | | | 669,023 | |
| | Turkey — 0.3% | | | |
7,173 | | Ford Otomotiv Sanayi | | 65,961 | |
12,695 | | Trakya Cam Sanayi | | 18,288 | |
13,869 | | Turk Telekomunikasyon | | 60,807 | |
2,894 | | Turk Traktor ve Ziraat Makineleri | | 50,753 | |
| | | | 195,809 | |
| | United Kingdom — 11.7% | | | |
44,368 | | Aberdeen Asset Management | | 204,134 | |
4,464 | | African Barrick Gold | | 26,030 | |
7,633 | | AMEC | | 140,599 | |
2,720 | | Anglo American | | 104,531 | |
9,360 | | Antofagasta | | 179,398 | |
1,900 | | Aon | | 98,420 | |
26,513 | | Ashmore Group | | 164,625 | |
10,960 | | AstraZeneca | | 480,160 | |
40,831 | | Beazley | | 93,897 | |
8,262 | | BHP Billiton | | 264,749 | |
5,642 | | British American Tobacco | | 289,251 | |
5,878 | | Capita Group | | 63,246 | |
5,488 | | Close Brothers Group | | 65,685 | |
12,089 | | Cobham | | 44,438 | |
22,618 | | Compass Group | | 236,392 | |
921 | | Croda International | | 33,362 | |
4,591 | | Diploma | | 34,169 | |
8,219 | | Domino Printing Sciences | | 79,898 | |
12,451 | | Drax Group | | 109,723 | |
43,018 | | EnQuest (1) | | 88,454 | |
8,501 | | Eurasian Natural Resources | | 77,190 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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3,886 | | Fidessa Group | | 97,752 | |
549 | | Greggs | | 4,468 | |
21,716 | | Halma | | 142,769 | |
12,856 | | Hargreaves Lansdown | | 109,849 | |
18,168 | | Highland Gold Mining | | 36,561 | |
31,117 | | HSBC Holdings | | 280,325 | |
4,400 | | HSBC Holdings (Hong Kong Shares) | | 40,095 | |
19,218 | | IG Group Holdings | | 144,405 | |
12,847 | | IMI | | 206,305 | |
10,647 | | Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group | | 121,472 | |
130,883 | | Legal & General Group | | 249,795 | |
9,081 | | Micro Focus International | | 68,618 | |
34,960 | | Mitie Group | | 165,501 | |
11,651 | | N Brown Group | | 43,338 | |
5,643 | | Next | | 268,239 | |
4,767 | | Petrofac | | 134,226 | |
9,250 | | Playtech | | 55,844 | |
16,442 | | Premier Farnell | | 57,290 | |
24,171 | | Prudential | | 295,969 | |
2,537 | | PZ Cussons | | 13,682 | |
7,076 | | Reckitt Benckiser Group | | 411,919 | |
15,340 | | Restaurant Group | | 69,931 | |
4,543 | | Rio Tinto | | 253,073 | |
12,602 | | Sage Group | | 58,513 | |
10,827 | | Smith & Nephew | | 106,569 | |
5,063 | | Spectris | | 154,968 | |
1,859 | | Spirax-Sarco Engineering | | 69,571 | |
71,739 | | Standard Life | | 260,327 | |
38,164 | | Tesco | | 196,555 | |
4,372 | | Ultra Electronics Holdings | | 119,485 | |
13,828 | | Unilever | | 471,945 | |
1,209 | | Victrex | | 28,490 | |
11,879 | | WH Smith | | 101,598 | |
26,060 | | WM Morrison Supermarkets | | 118,674 | |
3,361 | | Xstrata | | 64,228 | |
| | | | 7,900,700 | |
| | United States — 42.6% | | | |
| | Consumer Discretionary — 3.9% | | | |
1,700 | | Advance Auto Parts | | 156,060 | |
3,200 | | Apollo Group Class A (1) | | 112,704 | |
5,300 | | Avon Products | | 114,480 | |
600 | | Bed Bath & Beyond (1) | | 42,234 | |
2,200 | | Bridgepoint Education (1) | | 47,432 | |
2,200 | | Buckle | | 101,596 | |
2,900 | | Career Education (1) | | 20,677 | |
1,100 | | Coinstar (1) | | 69,069 | |
3,200 | | DeVry | | 102,880 | |
2,500 | | DIRECTV (1) | | 123,175 | |
1,200 | | DSW | | 67,512 | |
2,400 | | GameStop Class A | | 54,624 | |
4,400 | | Guess? | | 128,832 | |
2,100 | | Healthcare Services Group | | 44,562 | |
1,300 | | ITT Educational Services (1) | | 85,826 | |
800 | | Jos A Bank Clothiers (1) | | 38,040 | |
4,300 | | Limited Brands | | 213,710 | |
10,000 | | Mattel | | 336,000 | |
1,000 | | McDonald’s | | 97,450 | |
4,200 | | McGraw-Hill | | 206,514 | |
2,000 | | PetSmart | | 116,520 | |
1,000 | | Ross Stores | | 61,590 | |
1,400 | | Sohu.com (1) | | 72,198 | |
900 | | Strayer Education | | 88,812 | |
1,600 | | Tupperware Brands | | 99,664 | |
| | | | 2,602,161 | |
| | Consumer Staples — 5.2% | | | |
600 | | Brown-Forman Class B | | 51,810 | |
6,600 | | Campbell Soup | | 223,278 | |
4,500 | | Coca-Cola | | 343,440 | |
3,800 | | Colgate-Palmolive | | 375,972 | |
7,000 | | Darling International (1) | | 114,660 | |
5,600 | | HJ Heinz | | 298,536 | |
9,200 | | Hormel Foods | | 267,352 | |
3,300 | | Lorillard | | 446,457 | |
4,000 | | McCormick | | 223,640 | |
500 | | Nu Skin Enterprises Class A | | 26,650 | |
5,800 | | PepsiCo | | 382,800 | |
2,600 | | Philip Morris International | | 232,726 | |
8,400 | | Walgreen | | 294,504 | |
3,800 | | Wal-Mart Stores | | 223,858 | |
| | | | 3,505,683 | |
| | Energy — 4.1% | | | |
2,400 | | Alliance Resource Partners LP | | 154,992 | |
3,700 | | Apache | | 354,978 | |
1,700 | | Atwood Oceanics (1) | | 75,361 | |
900 | | BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust | | 112,014 | |
1,500 | | C&J Energy Services (1) | | 28,275 | |
4,000 | | Chevron | | 426,240 | |
1,200 | | Contango Oil & Gas (1) | | 65,112 | |
1,900 | | Diamond Offshore Drilling | | 130,245 | |
1,700 | | Energen | | 89,046 | |
4,900 | | ExxonMobil | | 423,066 | |
3,400 | | Halliburton | | 116,348 | |
400 | | Helmerich & Payne | | 20,556 | |
7,400 | | HollyFrontier | | 228,068 | |
4,700 | | Occidental Petroleum | | 428,734 | |
12,000 | | RPC | | 124,080 | |
| | | | 2,777,115 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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| | Financials — 8.1% | | | |
7,300 | | Aflac | | 328,792 | |
2,900 | | Amtrust Financial Services | | 78,996 | |
3,300 | | Arthur J Gallagher | | 123,948 | |
600 | | BOK Financial | | 34,218 | |
1,500 | | Cash America International | | 70,125 | |
2,400 | | CBOE Holdings | | 63,456 | |
6,930 | | Citigroup | | 228,967 | |
6,900 | | CNA Financial | | 211,278 | |
6,800 | | CNO Financial Group (1) | | 49,436 | |
4,337 | | Commerce Bancshares | | 173,914 | |
3,500 | | Community Bank System | | 98,420 | |
6,400 | | CreXus Investment | | 67,136 | |
3,500 | | Cullen/Frost Bankers | | 206,360 | |
5,500 | | CVB Financial | | 63,635 | |
9,800 | | Discover Financial Services | | 332,220 | |
2,100 | | Erie Indemnity | | 161,490 | |
2,400 | | Ezcorp (1) | | 64,296 | |
1,300 | | FBL Financial Group Class A | | 37,856 | |
4,900 | | Fifth Third Bancorp | | 69,727 | |
1,500 | | Franklin Resources | | 188,265 | |
2,200 | | Goldman Sachs Group | | 253,330 | |
13,300 | | Hudson City Bancorp | | 93,898 | |
23,300 | | Huntington Bancshares | | 155,877 | |
5,400 | | JPMorgan Chase | | 232,092 | |
19,700 | | KeyCorp | | 158,388 | |
2,200 | | Marsh & McLennan | | 73,590 | |
12,400 | | Morgan Stanley | | 214,272 | |
4,100 | | Northern Trust | | 195,119 | |
3,900 | | PNC Financial Services Group | | 258,648 | |
800 | | Portfolio Recovery Associates (1) | | 55,056 | |
4,400 | | Primerica (1) | | 115,412 | |
1,500 | | ProAssurance | | 132,135 | |
900 | | PS Business Parks REIT | | 61,425 | |
600 | | StanCorp Financial Group | | 23,028 | |
4,700 | | State Street | | 217,234 | |
8,700 | | Symetra Financial | | 105,792 | |
2,300 | | T. Rowe Price Group | | 145,165 | |
2,900 | | Trustmark | | 73,805 | |
5,100 | | Waddell & Reed Financial Class A | | 163,098 | |
3,200 | | Zions Bancorporation | | 65,248 | |
| | | | 5,445,147 | |
| | Healthcare — 9.3% | | | |
4,800 | | Abbott Laboratories | | 297,888 | |
4,700 | | Aetna | | 206,988 | |
6,800 | | AmerisourceBergen | | 253,028 | |
8,200 | | Baxter International | | 454,362 | |
5,800 | | Becton Dickinson | | 455,010 | |
11,200 | | Bristol-Myers Squibb | | 373,744 | |
2,400 | | Chemed | | 144,816 | |
11,600 | | Eli Lilly | | 480,124 | |
3,300 | | Express Scripts Holding (1) | | 184,107 | |
9,100 | | Forest Laboratories (1) | | 316,953 | |
4,200 | | Gilead Sciences (1) | | 218,442 | |
2,300 | | Humana | | 185,564 | |
7,100 | | Johnson & Johnson | | 462,139 | |
3,800 | | Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings (1) | | 333,982 | |
11,500 | | Medtronic | | 439,300 | |
9,700 | | Merck | | 380,628 | |
2,900 | | Momenta Pharmaceuticals (1) | | 46,052 | |
5,500 | | Patterson | | 187,495 | |
8,200 | | PDL BioPharma | | 51,578 | |
400 | | Quality Systems | | 14,960 | |
5,100 | | St. Jude Medical | | 197,472 | |
3,800 | | STERIS | | 119,358 | |
2,900 | | Stryker | | 158,253 | |
1,600 | | United Therapeutics (1) | | 70,000 | |
4,000 | | UnitedHealth Group | | 224,600 | |
300 | | Waters (1) | | 25,233 | |
| | | | 6,282,076 | |
| | Industrials — 5.0% | | | |
3,200 | | 3M | | 285,952 | |
12,900 | | CSX | | 287,799 | |
800 | | Cubic | | 36,984 | |
2,400 | | Cummins | | 277,992 | |
2,300 | | Dover | | 144,118 | |
3,600 | | Emerson Electric | | 189,144 | |
4,300 | | General Dynamics | | 290,250 | |
1,500 | | Joy Global | | 106,155 | |
4,100 | | Kla-Tencor | | 213,815 | |
2,200 | | Lockheed Martin | | 199,188 | |
1,700 | | Parker Hannifin | | 149,073 | |
2,100 | | Rockwell Automation | | 162,414 | |
2,200 | | Rockwell Collins | | 122,958 | |
2,300 | | Spirit Airlines (1) | | 55,246 | |
1,700 | | Teledyne Technologies (1) | | 109,854 | |
2,600 | | Union Pacific | | 292,344 | |
1,700 | | United Parcel Service Class B | | 132,838 | |
3,400 | | United Technologies | | 277,576 | |
| | | | 3,333,700 | |
| | Information Technology — 5.1% | | | |
1,000 | | Adtran | | 30,520 | |
6,600 | | Analog Devices | | 257,268 | |
1,200 | | Ancestry.com (1) | | 32,040 | |
800 | | Apple (1) | | 467,392 | |
3,700 | | Atmel (1) | | 32,819 | |
4,800 | | BMC Software (1) | | 198,048 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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2,000 | | CACI International Class A (1) | | 122,260 | |
12,000 | | Dell (1) | | 196,440 | |
700 | | Global Payments | | 32,501 | |
5,100 | | GT Advanced Technologies (1) | | 33,201 | |
10,500 | | Intel | | 298,200 | |
1,700 | | International Business Machines | | 352,036 | |
400 | | Intuit | | 23,188 | |
3,300 | | j2 Global | | 85,239 | |
400 | | Jack Henry & Associates | | 13,584 | |
1,100 | | Littelfuse | | 68,937 | |
4,000 | | Maxim Integrated Products | | 118,320 | |
700 | | MAXIMUS | | 30,975 | |
2,600 | | Microchip Technology | | 91,884 | |
13,200 | | Microsoft | | 422,664 | |
2,700 | | NeuStar Class A (1) | | 98,145 | |
10,200 | | Oracle | | 299,778 | |
700 | | Paychex | | 21,686 | |
5,000 | | QLogic (1) | | 86,250 | |
300 | | Syntel | | 17,967 | |
| | | | 3,431,342 | |
| | Materials — 1.9% | | | |
1,300 | | CF Industries Holdings | | 250,978 | |
2,900 | | Cliffs Natural Resources | | 180,554 | |
6,000 | | Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold | | 229,800 | |
2,000 | | Intrepid Potash (1) | | 49,700 | |
4,500 | | Kronos Worldwide | | 106,830 | |
3,400 | | Mosaic | | 179,588 | |
400 | | NewMarket | | 89,288 | |
1,313 | | Southern Copper | | 43,171 | |
600 | | Terra Nitrogen LP | | 160,800 | |
| | | | 1,290,709 | |
| | Total United States | | 28,667,933 | |
| | TOTAL COMMON STOCK (Cost $60,485,814) | | 63,762,722 | |
| | | | | |
| | PREFERRED STOCK — 0.4% | | | |
| | | | | |
| | Brazil — 0.2% | | | |
4,800 | | AES Tiete | | 66,731 | |
900 | | Cia de Bebidas das Americas ADR | | 37,782 | |
3,000 | | Cia Energetica de Minas Gerais ADR | | 74,010 | |
| | | | 178,523 | |
| | Germany — 0.2% | | | |
1,878 | | Fuchs Petrolub | | 111,866 | |
| | | | | |
| | TOTAL PREFERRED STOCK (Cost $222,108) | | 290,389 | |
| | | | | |
| | SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT (3) — 5.4% | | | |
3,635,050 | | JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund, 0.120% (Cost $3,635,050) | | 3,635,050 | |
| | | | | |
| | TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 100.5% (Cost $64,342,972) | | 67,688,161 | |
| | OTHER LIABILITIES IN EXCESS OF OTHER ASSETS — (0.5)% | | (305,668 | ) |
| | NET ASSETS — 100% | | $ | 67,382,493 | |
| | | | | | |
(1) Denotes non-income producing security.
(2) Security is fair valued. (See Note 2 in Notes to Financial Statements.)
(3) The rate shown represents the 7-day current yield as of April 30, 2012.
A summary of the open futures contracts held by the Fund at April 30, 2012, is as follows:
| | Number of | | | | Unrealized | |
| | Contracts | | Expiration | | Appreciation | |
Type of Contract | | Long (Short) | | Date | | (Depreciation) | |
S&P 500 Index E-MINI | | 37 | | Jun-12 | | $ | 5,786 | |
| | | | | | | | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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A summary of the outstanding forward foreign currency contracts held by the Fund at April 30, 2012, is as follows:
Counterparty | | Settlement Date | | Currency to Deliver | | Currency to Receive | | Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | |
Barclays Capital | | 5/2/12 | | USD | 653,650 | | GBP | 409,200 | | $ | 10,441 | |
HSBC | | 5/2/12 | | GBP | 409,200 | | USD | 651,230 | | (12,862 | ) |
UBS Securities | | 5/2/12 | | USD | 207,111 | | TRY | 367,000 | | 1,857 | |
UBS Securities | | 5/2/12 | | USD | 569,341 | | ZAR | 4,421,500 | | (538 | ) |
UBS Securities | | 5/2/12-5/24/12 | | TRY | 734,000 | | USD | 407,059 | | (9,786 | ) |
UBS Securities | | 5/2/12-5/24/12 | | ZAR | 8,843,000 | | USD | 1,136,309 | | 652 | |
| | | | | | | | $ | (10,236 | ) |
ADR — American Depositary Receipt
GBP — British Pound
LP — Limited Partnership
REIT — Real Estate Investment Trust
S&P — Standard & Poor’s
TRY — Turkish Lira
USD — United States Dollar
ZAR — South African Rand
The following is a summary of the inputs used as of April 30, 2012, in valuing the Fund’s investments carried at value:
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
Investments in Securities | | | | | | | | | |
Common Stock (1) | | | | | | | | | |
Australia | | $ | 1,450,841 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 1,450,841 | |
Belgium | | 307,502 | | — | | — | | 307,502 | |
Bermuda | | 735,341 | | — | | — | | 735,341 | |
Brazil | | 395,026 | | — | | — | | 395,026 | |
Canada | | 2,550,703 | | — | | — | | 2,550,703 | |
Chile | | 289,818 | | — | | — | | 289,818 | |
China | | 1,245,972 | | — | | — | | 1,245,972 | |
Czech Republic | | 58,085 | | — | | — | | 58,085 | |
Denmark | | 218,426 | | — | | — | | 218,426 | |
Finland | | 207,696 | | — | | — | | 207,696 | |
France | | 596,737 | | — | | — | | 596,737 | |
Gabon | | 149,181 | | — | | — | | 149,181 | |
Germany | | 365,462 | | — | | — | | 365,462 | |
Greece | | 56,719 | | — | | — | | 56,719 | |
Guernsey | | 69,982 | | — | | — | | 69,982 | |
Hong Kong | | 1,259,918 | | — | | — | | 1,259,918 | |
Indonesia | | 870,731 | | — | | — | | 870,731 | |
Ireland | | 361,308 | | — | | — | | 361,308 | |
Israel | | 374,135 | | — | | — | | 374,135 | |
Italy | | 241,937 | | — | | — | | 241,937 | |
Japan | | — | | 5,627,517 | | — | | 5,627,517 | |
Malaysia | | 696,108 | | — | | — | | 696,108 | |
Mexico | | 564,043 | | — | | — | | 564,043 | |
Netherlands | | 735,506 | | — | | — | | 735,506 | |
Norway | | 860,912 | | — | | — | | 860,912 | |
Philippines | | 628,160 | | — | | — | | 628,160 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schedule of Investments (concluded)
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
Investments in Securities (concluded) | | | | | | | | | |
Poland | | $ | 381,767 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 381,767 | |
Russia | | 181,739 | | — | | — | | 181,739 | |
Singapore | | 901,980 | | — | | — | | 901,980 | |
South Africa | | 1,215,115 | | — | | — | | 1,215,115 | |
South Korea | | 663,853 | | — | | — | | 663,853 | |
Spain | | 229,809 | | — | | — | | 229,809 | |
Sweden | | 407,448 | | — | | — | | 407,448 | |
Switzerland | | 976,643 | | — | | — | | 976,643 | |
Taiwan | | 453,137 | | — | | — | | 453,137 | |
Thailand | | 669,023 | | — | | — | | 669,023 | |
Turkey | | 195,809 | | — | | — | | 195,809 | |
United Kingdom | | 7,900,700 | | — | | — | | 7,900,700 | |
United States | | | | | | | | | |
Consumer Discretionary | | 2,602,161 | | — | | — | | 2,602,161 | |
Consumer Staples | | 3,505,683 | | — | | — | | 3,505,683 | |
Energy | | 2,777,115 | | — | | — | | 2,777,115 | |
Financials | | 5,445,147 | | — | | — | | 5,445,147 | |
Healthcare | | 6,282,076 | | — | | — | | 6,282,076 | |
Industrials | | 3,333,700 | | — | | — | | 3,333,700 | |
Information Technology | | 3,431,342 | | — | | — | | 3,431,342 | |
Materials | | 1,290,709 | | — | | — | | 1,290,709 | |
Total Common Stock | | 58,135,205 | | 5,627,517 | | — | | 63,762,722 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Preferred Stock | | | | | | | | | |
Brazil | | 178,523 | | — | | — | | 178,523 | |
Germany | | 111,866 | | — | | — | | 111,866 | |
Total Preferred Stock | | 290,389 | | — | | — | | 290,389 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Short-Term Investment | | 3,635,050 | | — | | — | | 3,635,050 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Total Investments in Securities | | $ | 62,060,644 | | $ | 5,627,517 | | $ | — | | $ | 67,688,161 | |
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
Other Financial Instruments | | | | | | | | | |
Futures—Unrealized Appreciation | | $ | 5,786 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 5,786 | |
Forwards—Unrealized Appreciation | | — | | 12,950 | | — | | 12,950 | |
Forwards—Unrealized Depreciation | | — | | (23,186 | ) | — | | (23,186 | ) |
Total Other Financial Instruments | | $ | 5,786 | | $ | (10,236 | ) | $ | — | | $ | (4,450 | ) |
(1) Transfers between investment levels may occur as markets fluctuate and/or the availability of data used in an investment’s valuation changes. The Fund generally recognizes transfers between the levels as of the beginning of the period. As of April 30, 2012, the Fund had securities with a total value of $5,627,517 transfer from Level 1 to Level 2. The change in level occurred due to developments that occurred between the time of closing of the foreign markets on which those securities trade and the close of business on the New York Stock Exchange.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund
Schedule of Investments
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
Principal Amount ($) | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
| | CORPORATE OBLIGATIONS — 45.9% | | | |
| | Abbott Laboratories | | | |
75,000 | | 4.125%, 05/27/20 | | 84,788 | |
| | Agrium | | | |
105,000 | | 6.125%, 01/15/41 | | 124,991 | |
| | Air Canada (1) | | | |
190,000 | | 9.250%, 08/01/15 | | 185,725 | |
| | Alliance One International | | | |
200,000 | | 10.000%, 07/15/16 | | 203,000 | |
| | Altria Group | | | |
90,000 | | 9.950%, 11/10/38 | | 142,617 | |
| | America Movil | | | |
205,000 | | 2.375%, 09/08/16 | | 210,231 | |
| | American Axle & Manufacturing | | | |
220,000 | | 7.750%, 11/15/19 | | 237,050 | |
| | American Express Bank | | | |
250,000 | | 6.000%, 09/13/17 | | 295,621 | |
| | Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide | | | |
280,000 | | 5.375%, 11/15/14 | | 311,186 | |
| | Apache | | | |
235,000 | | 4.750%, 04/15/43 | | 251,435 | |
| | Atmos Energy | | | |
65,000 | | 8.500%, 03/15/19 | | 86,224 | |
| | Avis Budget Car Rental LLC | | | |
195,000 | | 8.250%, 01/15/19 | | 205,237 | |
| | Banco Bradesco (1) | | | |
200,000 | | 5.750%, 03/01/22 | | 203,800 | |
| | Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (1) | | | |
500,000 | | 1.375%, 03/23/15 | | 499,673 | |
| | Bank of America | | | |
200,000 | | 5.875%, 02/07/42 | | 198,339 | |
445,000 | | 5.650%, 05/01/18 | | 471,243 | |
325,000 | | 3.875%, 03/22/17 | | 324,545 | |
| | Bank of Montreal (1) | | | |
1,335,000 | | 2.850%, 06/09/15 | | 1,413,159 | |
520,000 | | 1.950%, 01/30/17 | | 531,484 | |
| | Bank of Nova Scotia (1) | | | |
245,000 | | 2.550%, 01/12/17 | | 254,845 | |
2,665,000 | | 1.050%, 03/20/15 | | 2,678,735 | |
| | Boston Properties | | | |
135,000 | | 3.700%, 11/15/18 | | 140,682 | |
| | Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC | | | |
500,000 | | 4.400%, 03/15/42 | | 493,088 | |
| | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (1) | | | |
330,000 | | 2.750%, 01/27/16 | | 349,744 | |
935,000 | | 2.600%, 07/02/15 | | 983,584 | |
1,100,000 | | 0.900%, 09/19/14 | | 1,104,174 | |
| | Case New Holland | | | |
140,000 | | 7.750%, 09/01/13 | | 150,150 | |
| | Caterpillar Financial Services | | | |
185,000 | | 1.375%, 05/20/14 | | 187,962 | |
| | CenturyLink | | | |
125,000 | | 6.450%, 06/15/21 | | 130,321 | |
| | Chesapeake Oilfield Operating LLC (1) | | | |
260,000 | | 6.625%, 11/15/19 | | 245,700 | |
| | Citigroup | | | |
340,000 | | 3.953%, 06/15/16 | | 347,603 | |
| | CNA Financial | | | |
140,000 | | 7.350%, 11/15/19 | | 166,334 | |
| | Coca-Cola | | | |
220,000 | | 1.800%, 09/01/16 | | 226,151 | |
| | Consolidated Edison of New York | | | |
45,000 | | 4.450%, 06/15/20 | | 51,694 | |
| | Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank BA | | | |
120,000 | | 3.875%, 02/08/22 | | 118,792 | |
| | Credit Suisse (1) | | | |
410,000 | | 1.625%, 03/06/15 | | 411,498 | |
| | CSX | | | |
55,000 | | 6.150%, 05/01/37 | | 65,887 | |
20,000 | | 4.750%, 05/30/42 | | 20,145 | |
270,000 | | 3.700%, 10/30/20 | | 285,321 | |
| | CVS Caremark | | | |
160,000 | | 6.125%, 09/15/39 | | 193,376 | |
165,000 | | 5.750%, 06/01/17 | | 195,205 | |
| | Danske Bank (1) | | | |
315,000 | | 3.875%, 04/14/16 | | 307,768 | |
| | Deutsche Telekom International Finance | | | |
90,000 | | 8.750%, 06/15/30 | | 124,119 | |
| | Digital Realty Trust LP | | | |
230,000 | | 5.875%, 02/01/20 | | 253,789 | |
140,000 | | 5.250%, 03/15/21 | | 148,546 | |
| | DIRECTV Holdings LLC (1) | | | |
105,000 | | 6.375%, 03/01/41 | | 118,132 | |
245,000 | | 5.150%, 03/15/42 | | 240,436 | |
| | Dow Chemical | | | |
75,000 | | 4.250%, 11/15/20 | | 79,887 | |
| | Dr. Pepper Snapple Group | | | |
340,000 | | 3.200%, 11/15/21 | | 344,928 | |
| | DuPont Fabros Technology LP | | | |
200,000 | | 8.500%, 12/15/17 | | 221,500 | |
| | Eksportfinans | | | |
410,000 | | 3.000%, 11/17/14 | | 390,697 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Principal Amount ($) | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
| | El Paso Pipeline Partners Operating LLC | | | |
165,000 | | 6.500%, 04/01/20 | | 190,360 | |
| | Ensco | | | |
95,000 | | 4.700%, 03/15/21 | | 103,849 | |
| | Enterprise Products Operating LLC | | | |
60,000 | | 6.125%, 10/15/39 | | 69,383 | |
| | FMG Resources (1) | | | |
225,000 | | 6.000%, 04/01/17 | | 229,500 | |
| | Ford Motor Credit LLC | | | |
135,000 | | 6.625%, 08/15/17 | | 155,348 | |
| | Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold | | | |
170,000 | | 3.550%, 03/01/22 | | 168,320 | |
110,000 | | 2.150%, 03/01/17 | | 109,068 | |
| | General Electric Capital | | | |
190,000 | | 4.650%, 10/17/21 | | 206,979 | |
| | George Washington University | | | |
205,000 | | 3.485%, 09/15/22 | | 213,518 | |
| | Gilead Sciences | | | |
165,000 | | 4.500%, 04/01/21 | | 180,976 | |
| | Goldman Sachs Group | | | |
330,000 | | 5.750%, 01/24/22 | | 345,226 | |
| | Hartford Financial Services Group | | | |
215,000 | | 5.500%, 03/30/20 | | 225,373 | |
185,000 | | 5.125%, 04/15/22 | | 187,219 | |
| | Health Care REIT | | | |
235,000 | | 4.125%, 04/01/19 | | 237,130 | |
| | Hess | | | |
135,000 | | 6.000%, 01/15/40 | | 152,167 | |
| | HJ Heinz | | | |
60,000 | | 2.850%, 03/01/22 | | 59,541 | |
290,000 | | 1.500%, 03/01/17 | | 289,514 | |
| | HSBC Holdings | | | |
265,000 | | 4.875%, 01/14/22 | | 286,334 | |
480,000 | | 4.000%, 03/30/22 | | 488,646 | |
| | IFC (2) | | | |
810,000 | | 0.130%, 05/22/12 | | 809,958 | |
2,045,000 | | 0.130%, 05/25/12 | | 2,044,880 | |
| | Jabil Circuit | | | |
200,000 | | 5.625%, 12/15/20 | | 211,000 | |
| | JPMorgan Chase Bank | | | |
475,000 | | 6.000%, 10/01/17 | | 546,031 | |
| | Kraft Foods | | | |
45,000 | | 6.875%, 02/01/38 | | 58,440 | |
175,000 | | 6.875%, 01/26/39 | | 226,996 | |
| | Lincoln National | | | |
155,000 | | 4.200%, 03/15/22 | | 155,744 | |
| | Lloyds TSB Bank | | | |
415,000 | | 6.375%, 01/21/21 | | 449,393 | |
| | Lockheed Martin | | | |
130,000 | | 3.350%, 09/15/21 | | 133,903 | |
| | Lowe’s | | | |
55,000 | | 3.800%, 11/15/21 | | 58,132 | |
| | Macy’s Retail Holdings | | | |
140,000 | | 6.700%, 07/15/34 | | 162,682 | |
| | McKesson | | | |
120,000 | | 7.500%, 02/15/19 | | 154,274 | |
| | MetLife | | | |
185,000 | | 6.817%, 08/15/18 | | 228,905 | |
| | Midamerican Energy Holdings | | | |
185,000 | | 5.750%, 04/01/18 | | 218,669 | |
| | Molson Coors Brewing | | | |
125,000 | | 5.000%, 05/01/42 | | 128,068 | |
| | Mosaic | | | |
50,000 | | 4.875%, 11/15/41 | | 52,341 | |
| | National Bank of Canada (1) | | | |
1,745,000 | | 2.200%, 10/19/16 | | 1,811,340 | |
| | NBCUniversal Media LLC | | | |
385,000 | | 5.150%, 04/30/20 | | 443,726 | |
| | Nederlandse Waterschapsbank (1) | | | |
950,000 | | 1.375%, 05/16/14 | | 954,867 | |
| | Nevada Power, Series L | | | |
45,000 | | 5.875%, 01/15/15 | | 50,632 | |
| | Newmont Mining | | | |
35,000 | | 6.250%, 10/01/39 | | 40,425 | |
310,000 | | 4.875%, 03/15/42 | | 302,403 | |
| | Nextel Communications, Series E | | | |
215,000 | | 6.875%, 10/31/13 | | 216,075 | |
| | Noble Energy | | | |
95,000 | | 6.000%, 03/01/41 | | 109,352 | |
235,000 | | 4.150%, 12/15/21 | | 246,343 | |
| | Nordstrom | | | |
125,000 | | 6.750%, 06/01/14 | | 140,469 | |
| | Norfolk Southern | | | |
100,000 | | 5.900%, 06/15/19 | | 121,528 | |
| | Occidental Petroleum | | | |
95,000 | | 1.750%, 02/15/17 | | 96,506 | |
| | Peabody Energy (1) | | | |
220,000 | | 6.250%, 11/15/21 | | 223,850 | |
| | Petrohawk Energy | | | |
125,000 | | 7.250%, 08/15/18 | | 142,656 | |
| | Petroleos Mexicanos (1) | | | |
270,000 | | 4.875%, 01/24/22 | | 288,530 | |
| | PNC Funding | | | |
120,000 | | 3.300%, 03/08/22 | | 121,602 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Principal | | | | | |
Amount ($) | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
| | Precision Drilling | | | |
240,000 | | 6.500%, 12/15/21 | | 250,800 | |
| | Prudential Financial | | | |
140,000 | | 4.750%, 09/17/15 | | 152,238 | |
| | Quest Diagnostics | | | |
85,000 | | 4.700%, 04/01/21 | | 93,982 | |
| | Rent-A-Center | | | |
200,000 | | 6.625%, 11/15/20 | | 210,000 | |
| | Republic Services | | | |
30,000 | | 5.250%, 11/15/21 | | 34,992 | |
| | Reynolds American | | | |
170,000 | | 7.625%, 06/01/16 | | 205,142 | |
65,000 | | 7.250%, 06/15/37 | | 78,520 | �� |
| | Reynolds Group Issuer LLC (1) | | | |
200,000 | | 7.125%, 04/15/19 | | 210,000 | |
| | Rio Tinto Finance USA | | | |
230,000 | | 3.500%, 03/22/22 | | 239,970 | |
| | Sabra Health Care | | | |
200,000 | | 8.125%, 11/01/18 | | 213,750 | |
| | Sberbank of Russia Via SB Capital (1) | | | |
440,000 | | 4.950%, 02/07/17 | | 451,000 | |
| | SLM | | | |
90,000 | | 6.000%, 01/25/17 | | 92,025 | |
| | Southern Copper | | | |
120,000 | | 6.750%, 04/16/40 | | 133,688 | |
| | Sparebank 1 Boligkreditt (1) | | | |
1,570,000 | | 2.300%, 06/30/17 | | 1,573,771 | |
| | Sparebanken 1 Boligkreditt (1) | | | |
195,000 | | 1.250%, 10/25/13 | | 196,484 | |
| | Swedbank Hypotek (1) (3) | | | |
440,000 | | 0.923%, 03/28/14 | | 439,340 | |
| | Teck Resources | | | |
35,000 | | 10.750%, 05/15/19 | | 43,368 | |
| | Telecom Italia Capital | | | |
270,000 | | 6.175%, 06/18/14 | | 279,396 | |
| | Teva Pharmaceutical Finance | | | |
480,000 | | 2.400%, 11/10/16 | | 498,680 | |
| | Texas Instruments | | | |
190,000 | | 2.375%, 05/16/16 | | 200,031 | |
| | Time Warner Cable | | | |
100,000 | | 6.550%, 05/01/37 | | 116,834 | |
| | Toronto-Dominion Bank (1) | | | |
1,755,000 | | 1.500%, 03/13/17 | | 1,755,797 | |
| | UBS (1) | | | |
700,000 | | 2.250%, 03/30/17 | | 706,608 | |
| | United Business Media (1) | | | |
220,000 | | 5.750%, 11/03/20 | | 222,356 | |
| | Univision Communications (1) | | | |
180,000 | | 7.875%, 11/01/20 | | 188,550 | |
| | Vale Overseas | | | |
350,000 | | 4.375%, 01/11/22 | | 360,350 | |
| | Valero Energy | | | |
50,000 | | 4.500%, 02/01/15 | | 53,761 | |
| | Ventas Realty | | | |
255,000 | | 4.250%, 03/01/22 | | 253,158 | |
| | Verizon Communications | | | |
315,000 | | 3.500%, 11/01/21 | | 330,321 | |
| | Vivendi (1) | | | |
115,000 | | 4.750%, 04/12/22 | | 111,105 | |
| | Wachovia Bank (3) | | | |
365,000 | | 0.846%, 11/03/14 | | 358,525 | |
| | Wal-Mart Stores | | | |
140,000 | | 3.625%, 07/08/20 | | 153,102 | |
| | Wells Fargo Bank | | | |
250,000 | | 5.750%, 05/16/16 | | 284,240 | |
| | Wells Fargo Bank MTN | | | |
345,000 | | 3.500%, 03/08/22 | | 350,169 | |
| | Willis Group Holdings | | | |
170,000 | | 5.750%, 03/15/21 | | 185,256 | |
| | Wind Acquisition Finance (1) | | | |
200,000 | | 7.250%, 02/15/18 | | 190,500 | |
| | WPP Finance UK | | | |
160,000 | | 8.000%, 09/15/14 | | 183,817 | |
| | WPX Energy (1) | | | |
240,000 | | 6.000%, 01/15/22 | | 234,600 | |
| | XL Group | | | |
225,000 | | 5.750%, 10/01/21 | | 249,288 | |
| | Yum! Brands | | | |
65,000 | | 6.875%, 11/15/37 | | 84,912 | |
| | TOTAL CORPORATE OBLIGATIONS (Cost $42,376,712) | | 43,829,738 | |
| | | | | |
| | U.S. GOVERNMENT MORTGAGE-BACKED OBLIGATIONS — 40.3% | | | |
| | FHLMC | | | |
339,683 | | 3.790%, 07/01/41 (3) | | 359,351 | |
24,193 | | 3.500%, 09/01/26 | | 25,635 | |
| | FHLMC Gold | | | |
3,961 | | 6.000%, 12/01/28 | | 4,437 | |
84,721 | | 5.500%, 05/01/38 | | 92,336 | |
103,360 | | 5.000%, 05/01/18 | | 111,314 | |
309,760 | | 5.000%, 07/01/39 | | 335,188 | |
994,190 | | 5.000%, 08/01/40 | | 1,075,803 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Principal Amount ($) | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
337,873 | | 4.500%, 10/01/24 | | 363,227 | |
1,332,693 | | 4.500%, 12/01/39 | | 1,422,312 | |
680,330 | | 4.500%, 12/01/40 | | 734,796 | |
443,652 | | 3.500%, 09/01/26 | | 470,110 | |
| | FHLMC IO REMIC (3) (4) | | | |
11 | | 1169.001%, 01/15/22 | | 276 | |
| | FHLMC REMIC | | | |
605,269 | | 8.420%, 02/15/41 (3) | | 618,235 | |
76,953 | | 5.000%, 07/15/31 | | 77,172 | |
| | FHLMC TBA | | | |
185,000 | | 4.500%, 05/15/42 | | 197,314 | |
3,460,000 | | 3.000%, 05/15/27 | | 3,609,212 | |
| | FNMA | | | |
24,226 | | 7.500%, 12/01/29 | | 28,359 | |
464,607 | | 6.218%, 09/01/36 (3) | | 506,593 | |
24,102 | | 6.000%, 12/01/28 | | 26,667 | |
47,777 | | 6.000%, 10/01/29 | | 52,862 | |
645,645 | | 6.000%, 05/01/36 | | 714,371 | |
1,038,458 | | 6.000%, 03/01/37 | | 1,151,593 | |
324,787 | | 5.500%, 11/01/34 | | 356,568 | |
1,046,910 | | 5.500%, 10/01/35 | | 1,149,352 | |
1,006,459 | | 5.500%, 07/01/38 | | 1,104,943 | |
213,781 | | 5.000%, 10/01/29 | | 232,366 | |
89,590 | | 5.000%, 03/01/36 | | 97,420 | |
227,345 | | 4.500%, 07/01/41 | | 244,161 | |
348,639 | | 4.500%, 09/01/41 | | 374,426 | |
371,864 | | 4.500%, 10/01/41 | | 399,369 | |
594,512 | | 4.000%, 10/01/41 | | 622,484 | |
1,072,009 | | 4.000%, 01/01/42 | | 1,135,345 | |
759,057 | | 3.410%, 01/01/42 (3) | | 797,031 | |
486,680 | | 3.405%, 01/01/42 (3) | | 510,679 | |
| | FNMA IO (4) | | | |
423,682 | | 5.000%, 07/01/18 | | 38,109 | |
476,350 | | 5.000%, 07/01/18 | | 41,962 | |
306,950 | | 5.000%, 07/01/18 | | 27,271 | |
| | FNMA IO REMIC (4) | | | |
2,867,422 | | 6.360%, 11/15/40 (3) | | 460,447 | |
674,825 | | 5.500%, 01/25/19 | | 56,567 | |
694,211 | | 5.500%, 12/25/26 | | 57,309 | |
900,804 | | 5.000%, 06/15/34 | | 172,302 | |
1,743,153 | | 2.123%, 06/15/15 (3) | | 38,675 | |
| | FNMA REMIC | | | |
116,369 | | 5.000%, 07/25/37 | | 129,090 | |
382,450 | | 4.000%, 02/25/42 | | 383,531 | |
| | FNMA TBA | | | |
815,000 | | 4.000%, 05/25/42 | | 862,244 | |
| | GNMA | | | |
84,154 | | 24.974%, 10/16/35 (3) | | 108,414 | |
4,132 | | 8.000%, 11/15/17 | | 4,760 | |
4,183 | | 8.000%, 06/15/26 | | 4,819 | |
27,810 | | 7.000%, 09/15/23 | | 32,504 | |
36,540 | | 6.000%, 10/20/32 | | 41,383 | |
103,775 | | 6.000%, 06/20/35 | | 117,529 | |
363,926 | | 5.000%, 05/20/30 | | 407,157 | |
339,941 | | 5.000%, 12/20/33 | | 355,365 | |
257,000 | | 4.000%, 09/20/38 | | 286,616 | |
485,000 | | 4.000%, 08/20/39 | | 540,962 | |
305,049 | | 4.000%, 04/20/41 (3) | | 326,420 | |
167,942 | | 4.000%, 05/20/41 (3) | | 179,708 | |
548,766 | | 4.000%, 06/20/41 (3) | | 587,212 | |
1,978,058 | | 4.000%, 07/20/41 (3) | | 2,116,173 | |
| | GNMA IO (4) | | | |
96,600 | | 4.500%, 11/20/32 | | 5,397 | |
370,376 | | 4.500%, 06/20/33 | | 23,502 | |
1,024,423 | | 4.500%, 12/16/37 | | 118,536 | |
1,780,571 | | 4.500%, 06/20/39 | | 266,473 | |
| | GNMA TBA | | | |
4,555,000 | | 4.000%, 05/15/42 | | 4,927,941 | |
2,485,000 | | 4.000%, 05/20/42 | | 2,688,459 | |
2,450,000 | | 3.500%, 05/15/42 | | 2,581,305 | |
| | NCUA Guaranteed Notes, Series R1 | | | |
144,380 | | 1.840%, 10/07/20 | | 146,207 | |
106,865 | | 0.691%, 10/07/20 (3) | | 107,062 | |
| | NCUA Guaranteed Notes, Series R2 | | | |
523,145 | | 0.711%, 11/05/20 (3) | | 523,145 | |
659,542 | | 0.611%, 11/06/17 (3) | | 659,647 | |
| | TOTAL U.S. GOVERNMENT MORTGAGE-BACKED OBLIGATIONS (Cost $37,829,051) | | 38,425,510 | |
| | | | | |
| | U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS — 13.5% | | | |
| | United States Treasury Bills (2) (7) | | | |
6,500,000 | | 0.090%, 05/17/12 | | 6,499,824 | |
1,500,000 | | 0.070%, 07/26/12 | | 1,499,678 | |
| | United States Treasury Notes (7) | | | |
475,000 | | 4.375%, 05/15/41 | | 595,828 | |
480,000 | | 3.125%, 11/15/41 | | 481,575 | |
885,000 | | 2.000%, 02/15/22 | | 891,776 | |
535,000 | | 1.000%, 03/31/17 | | 540,433 | |
1,190,000 | | 0.875%, 04/30/17 | | 1,193,904 | |
655,000 | | 0.250%, 01/31/14 | | 655,128 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Principal Amount ($) | | | | Value $ | |
| | | | | |
490,000 | | 0.250%, 02/15/15 | | 488,431 | |
| | TOTAL U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS (Cost $12,770,774) | | 12,846,577 | |
| | | | | |
| | ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES — 6.1% | | | |
| | Accredited Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 4 (3) | | | |
143,850 | | 0.449%, 12/25/35 | | 143,114 | |
| | AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust, Series 2 | | | |
375,000 | | 0.760%, 10/08/15 | | 375,202 | |
| | AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust, Series 2012-1, Class A2 | | | |
435,000 | | 0.910%, 10/08/15 | | 435,622 | |
| | BA Credit Card Trust, Series 2010-Al, Class A1 (3) | | | |
335,000 | | 0.540%, 09/15/15 | | 335,846 | |
| | CarMax Auto Owner Trust, Series 1 | | | |
400,000 | | 0.890%, 09/15/16 | | 400,339 | |
| | Carrington Mortgage Loan Trust, Series FRE1 (3) | | | |
166,845 | | 0.489%, 12/25/35 | | 166,199 | |
| | Chase Issuance Trust, Series 2008-A13, Class A13 (3) | | | |
335,000 | | 1.974%, 09/15/15 | | 341,992 | |
| | Citibank Omni Master Trust, Series 2009-A8, Class A8 (1) (3) | | | |
455,000 | | 2.340%, 05/16/16 | | 455,368 | |
| | Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Series HE4 (3) | | | |
118,458 | | 0.509%, 10/25/35 | | 116,895 | |
| | CNH Equipment Trust, Series A | | | |
420,000 | | 1.380%, 02/15/18 | | 423,646 | |
| | Discover Card Master Trust, Series 2009-A1, Class A1 (3) | | | |
335,000 | | 1.540%, 12/15/14 | | 335,539 | |
| | DT Auto Owner Trust, Series lA (1) | | | |
310,000 | | 1.060%, 01/15/15 | | 310,054 | |
| | Golden Credit Card Trust, Series 2A (1) | | | |
405,000 | | 1.770%, 01/15/19 | | 407,294 | |
| | Honda Auto Receivables Owner Trust, Series 1 | | | |
155,000 | | 0.970%, 04/16/18 | | 155,503 | |
| | MBNA Credit Card Master Note Trust, Series 2005-A10, Class A10 (3) | | | |
165,000 | | 0.300%, 11/16/15 | | 165,021 | |
| | Nissan Auto Receivables Owner Trust, Series A | | | |
340,000 | | 1.000%, 07/16/18 | | 340,448 | |
| | Saxon Asset Securities Trust, Series 4 (3) | | | |
175,637 | | 0.489%, 11/25/37 | | 172,280 | |
| | Volvo Financial Equipment LLC, Series 1A (1) | | | |
365,000 | | 0.910%, 08/17/15 | | 365,718 | |
| | Wachovia Auto Owner Trust, Series 2008-A, Class A4B (3) | | | |
123,674 | | 1.390%, 03/20/14 | | 123,836 | |
| | Wheels SPV LLC, Series 1 (1) | | | |
205,000 | | 1.190%, 03/20/21 | | 205,084 | |
| | TOTAL ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES (Cost $5,768,583) | | 5,775,000 | |
| | | | | |
| | COLLATERALIZED MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS — 3.7% | | | |
| | BCAP LLC Trust, Series 2010-RR7, Class 4A2 (1) | | | |
71,264 | | 5.000%, 04/26/20 | | 73,780 | |
| | BCAP LLC Trust, Series 2012-RR4 (1) (3) (5) | | | |
500,000 | | 0.319%, 11/26/36 | | 467,500 | |
| | BCAP LLC Trust, Series 2010-RR9 (1) (3) | | | |
76,250 | | 6.165%, 09/26/35 | | 76,841 | |
| | Impac CMB Trust, Series 2004-10, Class 4A1 (3) | | | |
78,699 | | 0.609%, 03/25/35 | | 75,619 | |
| | Impac CMB Trust, Series 2005-4, Class 2A2 (3) | | | |
200,117 | | 0.619%, 05/25/35 | | 167,471 | |
| | Impac CMB Trust, Series 2005-6, Class 2A2 (3) | | | |
167,870 | | 0.639%, 10/25/35 | | 147,702 | |
| | Impac Secured Assets CMN Owner Trust, Series 2 (3) | | | |
44,693 | | 0.669%, 08/25/36 | | 37,217 | |
182,079 | | 0.589%, 08/25/36 | | 163,286 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Principal Amount ($) | | | | Value $ | |
| | Master Adjustable Rate Mortgages Trust, Series 14 (3) | | | |
185,276 | | 0.839%, 01/25/35 | | 167,591 | |
| | Mortgage-Linked Amortizing Notes, Series 2012-1, Class A10 | | | |
1,133,822 | | 2.060%, 01/15/22 | | 1,155,137 | |
| | Residential Accredit Loans, Series 1999-QS4, Class A1 | | | |
4,339 | | 6.250%, 03/25/14 | | 4,416 | |
| | Sequoia Mortgage Trust, Series 2012-1, Class 1A1 (3) | | | |
508,040 | | 2.865%, 01/25/42 | | 513,370 | |
| | Wells Fargo Mortgage-Backed Securities Trust, Series 16 | | | |
209,909 | | 5.000%, 11/25/36 | | 217,349 | |
| | Wells Fargo Mortgage-Backed Securities Trust, Series 2004-1, Class 1A2 | | | |
292,806 | | 5.500%, 02/25/34 | | 298,088 | |
| | TOTAL COLLATERALIZED MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (Cost $3,537,428) | | 3,565,367 | |
| | | | | |
| | COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE-BACKED OBLIGATIONS — 2.5% | | | |
| | Americold LLC Trust, Series 2010-ARTA, Class A2FX (1) | | | |
410,000 | | 4.954%, 01/14/29 | | 460,811 | |
| | Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities, Series 2002-CKN2, Class A3 | | | |
15,609 | | 6.133%, 04/15/37 | | 15,596 | |
| | Extended Stay America Trust, Series 2010-ESHA, Class A (1) | | | |
949,328 | | 2.951%, 11/05/27 | | 963,905 | |
| | LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust, Series 2002-C7, Class A4 | | | |
168,054 | | 4.960%, 12/15/31 | | 171,139 | |
| | LSTAR Commercial Mortgage Trust, Series 2001-1, Class B (1) (3) | | | |
110,000 | | 5.646%, 06/25/43 | | 119,434 | |
| | Morgan Stanley Capital I, Series 2003-T11, Class A4 | | | |
642,460 | | 5.150%, 06/13/41 | | 666,762 | |
| | TOTAL COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE-BACKED OBLIGATIONS (Cost $2,302,321) | | 2,397,647 | |
| | | | | |
Principal Amount ($)/Shares | | | | | |
| | SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENT — 1.2% | | | |
| | Province of Manitoba Canada | | | |
725,000 | | 1.300%, 04/03/17 | | 729,971 | |
| | Province of New Brunswick Canada | | | |
370,000 | | 2.750%, 06/15/18 | | 393,547 | |
| | TOTAL SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENT (Cost $1,092,601) | | 1,123,518 | |
| | | | | |
| | MUNICIPAL BONDS — 0.6% | | | |
| | California — 0.1% | | | |
70,000 | | State of California, GO | | | |
| | 7.550%, 04/01/39 | | 91,706 | |
| | | | | |
| | Georgia — 0.2% | | | |
210,000 | | Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia, RB | | | |
| | 6.637%, 04/01/57 | | 238,535 | |
| | | | | |
| | New York — 0.1% | | | |
75,000 | | Metropolitan Transportation Authority, RB | | | |
| | 6.814%, 11/15/40 | | 95,851 | |
| | | | | |
| | Utah — 0.2% | | | |
170,000 | | State of Utah, GO | | | |
| | 3.539%, 07/01/25 | | 182,509 | |
| | | | | |
| | TOTAL MUNICIPAL BONDS (Cost $559,687) | | 608,601 | |
| | | | | |
| | SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT (6) — 0.6% | | | |
596,780 | | JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund, 0.120% (Cost $596,780) | | 596,780 | |
| | | | | |
| | TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 114.4% (Cost $106,833,937) | | 109,168,738 | |
| | | | | |
| | OTHER LIABILITIES IN EXCESS OF OTHER ASSETS — (14.4)% | | (13,760,710 | ) |
| | | | | |
| | NET ASSETS — 100% | | $ | 95,408,028 | |
| | | | | | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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(1) | Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration normally to qualified institutions. On April 30, 2012, the value of these securities amounted to $23,222,444, representing 24.3% of the net assets of the Fund. |
(2) | Zero Coupon Security — Rate disclosed is the effective yield at time of purchase. |
(3) | Variable Rate Security — Rate disclosed is as of April 30, 2012 |
(4) | Security considered illiquid. On April 30, 2012 the value of these securities amounted to $1,306,826, representing 1.4% of the net assets of the Fund. |
(5) | Security is fair valued. (See Note 2 in Notes to Financial Statements.) |
(6) | The rate shown represents the 7-day current yield as of April 30, 2012. |
(7) | Security, or a portion of this security, has been pledged as collateral on open derivative positions and mortgage dollar rolls. |
FHLMC — Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
FNMA �� Federal National Mortgage Association
GNMA — Government National Mortgage Association
GO — General Obligation
IO — Interest Only
LLC — Limited Liability Corporation
LP — Limited Partnership
MTN — Medium Term Note
NCUA — National Credit Union Administration
RB — Revenue Bond
REMIC — Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit
REIT — Real Estate Investment Trust
TBA — To Be Announced
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schedule of Investments (concluded)
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
A summary of the open futures contracts held by the Fund at April 30, 2012, is as follows:
Type of Contract | | Number of Contracts Long (Short) | | Expiration Date | | Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | |
90-Day Eurodollar | | (145) | | Dec-12 | | $ | (13,939 | ) |
Australian 10-Year Bond | | 12 | | Jun-12 | | 49,482 | |
Canadian 10-Year Bond | | 19 | | Jun-12 | | 2,953 | |
Euro-Bund | | (8) | | Jun-12 | | (27,694 | ) |
Long Gilt 10-Year Bond | | 6 | | Jun-12 | | 771 | |
U.S. 2-Year Treasury Note | | 152 | | Jun-12 | | 58,987 | |
U.S. 5-Year Treasury Note | | (137) | | Jun-12 | | (50,529 | ) |
U.S. 10-Year Treasury Note | | (15) | | Jun-12 | | (31,556 | ) |
U.S. Long Treasury Bond | | (1) | | Jun-12 | | (1,033 | ) |
U.S. Ultra Long Treasury Bond | | 19 | | Jun-12 | | (19,180 | ) |
| | | | | | $ | (31,738 | ) |
The following is a summary of the inputs used as of April 30, 2012, in valuing the Fund’s investments carried at value:
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
Investments in Securities (1) | | | | | | | | | |
Corporate Obligations | | $ | — | | $ | 43,829,738 | | $ | — | | $ | 43,829,738 | |
U.S. Government Mortgage-Backed | | | | | | | | | |
Obligations | | — | | 38,425,510 | | — | | 38,425,510 | |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | — | | 12,846,577 | | — | | 12,846,577 | |
Asset-Backed Securities | | — | | 5,775,000 | | — | | 5,775,000 | |
Collateralized Mortgage Obligations | | — | | 3,565,367 | | — | | 3,565,367 | |
Commercial Mortgage-Backed Obligations | | — | | 2,397,647 | | — | | 2,397,647 | |
Sovereign Government | | — | | 1,123,518 | | — | | 1,123,518 | |
Municipal Bonds | | — | | 608,601 | | — | | 608,601 | |
Short-Term Investment | | 596,780 | | — | | — | | 596,780 | |
Total Investments in Securities | | $ | 596,780 | | $ | 108,571,958 | | $ | | | $ | 109,168,738 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
Other Financial Instruments | | | | | | | | | |
Futures—Unrealized Appreciation | | $ | — | | $ | 112,193 | | $ | — | | $ | 112,193 | |
Futures—Unrealized Depreciation | | — | | (143,931 | ) | — | | (143,931 | ) |
Total Other Financial Instruments | | $ | — | | $ | (31,738 | ) | $ | — | | $ | (31,738 | ) |
(1) There were no transfers between levels during the reporting period, based on the input levels assigned under the hierarchy at the beginning and end of the reporting period.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund
Schedule of Investments
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
Principal Amount† | | | | Value $ | |
| | FOREIGN GOVERNMENT BONDS — 62.4% | | | |
| | Czech Republic Government Bond | | | |
41,950,000 | | 3.700%, 06/16/13 | | 2,289,122 | |
48,100,000 | | 2.800%, 09/16/13 | | 2,607,979 | |
| | | | 4,897,101 | |
| | Hellenic Republic Government Bond | | | |
400,000 | | 2.000%, 02/24/23 | | 132,615 | |
698,000 | | 2.000%, 02/24/24 | | 211,289 | |
543,200 | | 2.000%, 02/24/25 | | 157,104 | |
668,200 | | 2.000%, 02/24/26 | | 181,715 | |
909,000 | | 2.000%, 02/24/27 | | 237,829 | |
149,000 | | 2.000%, 02/24/28 | | 38,392 | |
569,000 | | 2.000%, 02/24/29 | | 143,359 | |
79,000 | | 2.000%, 02/24/30 | | 19,643 | |
329,000 | | 2.000%, 02/24/31 | | 81,723 | |
110,000 | | 2.000%, 02/24/33 | | 27,310 | |
110,000 | | 2.000%, 02/24/41 | | 27,221 | |
| | | | 1,258,200 | |
| | Government of Hungary Bond | | | |
132,870,000 | | 7.000%, 06/24/22 | | 573,588 | |
67,300,000 | | 6.750%, 02/24/17 | | 296,824 | |
| | | | 870,412 | |
| | Indonesia Treasury Bond | | | |
7,800,000,000 | | 12.500%, 03/15/13 | | 909,773 | |
| | Malaysia Government Bond | | | |
5,125,000 | | 3.702%, 02/25/13 | | 1,702,642 | |
| | Mexico Cetes | | | |
416,000,000 | | 4.525%, 12/13/12 (1) | | 3,105,136 | |
297,500,000 | | 4.523%, 10/18/12 (1) | | 2,237,882 | |
128,000,000 | | 4.487%, 08/23/12 (1) | | 969,251 | |
297,000,000 | | 4.290%, 09/20/12 (1) | | 2,241,508 | |
| | | | 8,553,777 | |
| | Poland Government Bond | | | |
3,370,000 | | 5.250%, 04/25/13 | | 1,074,997 | |
3,590,000 | | 5.000%, 10/24/13 | | 1,143,845 | |
| | | | 2,218,842 | |
| | Singapore Government Bond | | | |
2,870,000 | | 3.625%, 07/01/14 | | 2,490,545 | |
600,000 | | 2.500%, 10/01/12 | | 489,380 | |
3,010,000 | | 2.250%, 07/01/13 | | 2,490,641 | |
2,080,000 | | 1.625%, 04/01/13 | | 1,702,220 | |
| | | | 7,172,786 | |
Principal Amount†/Shares | | | | | |
| | South Africa Government Bond | | | |
5,250,000 | | 10.500%, 12/21/26 | | 808,427 | |
10,580,000 | | 7.500%, 01/15/14 | | 1,402,437 | |
| | | | 2,210,864 | |
| | Thailand Government Bond | | | |
1,500,000 | | 3.497%, 01/29/14 (2) | | 48,663 | |
5,284,000 | | 3.319%, 11/26/14 (2) | | 171,625 | |
| | Thailand Government Index Linked Bond | | | |
5,318,355 | | 1.200%, 07/14/21 | | 176,397 | |
| | | | 396,685 | |
| | TOTAL FOREIGN GOVERNMENT BONDS (Cost $30,130,177) | | 30,191,082 | |
| | | | | |
| | U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS — 34.6% | | | |
| | United States Treasury Bills (1) | | | |
2,250,000 | | 0.151%, 09/13/12 | | 2,248,967 | |
2,250,000 | | 0.141%, 09/06/12 | | 2,249,060 | |
3,800,000 | | 0.131%, 09/27/12 | | 3,798,035 | |
1,700,000 | | 0.113%, 08/30/12 | | 1,699,386 | |
1,600,000 | | 0.106%, 08/23/12 | | 1,599,456 | |
1,300,000 | | 0.093%, 08/02/12 | | 1,299,689 | |
220,000 | | 0.066%, 07/19/12 | | 219,959 | |
300,000 | | 0.058%, 07/12/12 | | 299,951 | |
250,000 | | 0.041%, 06/28/12 | | 249,970 | |
900,000 | | 0.036%, 06/14/12 | | 899,920 | |
900,000 | | 0.031%, 06/07/12 | | 899,938 | |
900,000 | | 0.026%, 05/31/12 | | 899,942 | |
400,000 | | 0.020%, 05/24/12 | | 399,984 | |
| | TOTAL U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS (Cost $16,763,886) | | 16,764,257 | |
| | | | | |
| | SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT (3) — 1.8% | | | |
865,083 | | JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund, 0.120% (Cost $865,083) | | 865,083 | |
| | TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 98.8% (Cost $47,759,146) | | 47,820,422 | |
| | OTHER ASSETS LESS LIABILITIES — 1.2% | | 557,754 | |
| | | | | |
| | NET ASSETS — 100% | | $ | 48,378,176 | |
| | | | | | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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† In local currency
(1) | Zero Coupon Security — Rate disclosed is the effective yield at time of purchase. |
(2) | Variable Rate Security — Rate disclosed is as of April 30, 2012 |
(3) | The rate shown represents the 7-day current yield as of April 30, 2012. |
A summary of the outstanding forward foreign currency contracts held by the Fund at April 30, 2012, is as follows:
Counterparty | | Settlement Date | | Currency to Deliver | | Currency to Receive | | Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | |
Barclays Capital | | 5/3/12-6/13/12 | | USD | | 774,304 | | CNY | | 4,880,000 | | $ | (1,843 | ) |
Barclays Capital | | 6/6/12-6/15/12 | | IDR | | 4,300,000,000 | | USD | | 465,611 | | (136 | ) |
Barclays Capital | | 6/6/12-6/15/12 | | MYR | | 1,317,000 | | USD | | 428,029 | | (5,728 | ) |
Barclays Capital | | 6/6/12-7/10/12 | | ZAR | | 5,860,000 | | USD | | 748,281 | | 645 | |
Barclays Capital | | 6/14/12 | | EUR | | 37,955 | | USD | | 49,776 | | (475 | ) |
Barclays Capital | | 7/13/12 | | MXP | | 7,270,000 | | USD | | 548,453 | | (5,823 | ) |
Citigroup Global Markets | | 5/3/12-6/13/12 | | CZK | | 23,870,000 | | USD | | 1,276,509 | | 9,854 | |
Citigroup Global Markets | | 6/14/12 | | EUR | | 45,000 | | USD | | 59,267 | | (312 | ) |
HSBC | | 5/3/12-6/6/12 | | CNY | | 4,540,000 | | USD | | 717,236 | | (1,733 | ) |
HSBC | | 6/6/12-6/15/12 | | MYR | | 1,210,000 | | USD | | 391,653 | | (7,039 | ) |
HSBC | | 6/13/12 | | USD | | 203,062 | | CNY | | 1,280,000 | | (467 | ) |
HSBC | | 6/15/12 | | IDR | | 2,100,000,000 | | USD | | 226,880 | | (529 | ) |
HSBC | | 7/10/12 | | THB | | 12,400,000 | | USD | | 396,961 | | (4,438 | ) |
HSBC | | 7/26/12 | | ZAR | | 1,690,800 | | USD | | 214,975 | | 255 | |
JPMorgan | | 5/3/12-6/13/12 | | CZK | | 57,600,000 | | USD | | 3,070,253 | | 14,316 | |
JPMorgan | | 5/14/12 | | USD | | 203,614 | | CNY | | 1,280,000 | | (857 | ) |
JPMorgan | | 6/6/12-7/9/12 | | MXP | | 102,770,000 | | USD | | 7,997,332 | | 144,332 | |
JPMorgan | | 6/6/12-7/10/12 | | ZAR | | 8,210,000 | | USD | | 1,055,853 | | 6,701 | |
JPMorgan | | 6/6/12-7/12/12 | | SGD | | 8,335,000 | | USD | | 6,612,695 | | (123,215 | ) |
JPMorgan | | 6/6/12-7/13/12 | | PLN | | 5,751,000 | | USD | | 1,811,796 | | (3,103 | ) |
JPMorgan | | 6/14/12-6/27/12 | | EUR | | 821,708 | | USD | | 1,082,670 | | (5,264 | ) |
Morgan Stanley | | 6/13/12 | | CZK | | 8,800,000 | | USD | | 464,889 | | (1,986 | ) |
Royal Bank of Scotland | | 7/26/12 | | ZAR | | 1,429,200 | | USD | | 181,610 | | 111 | |
State Street Bank | | 5/3/12-7/6/12 | | USD | | 397,458 | | CNY | | 2,505,000 | | (949 | ) |
State Street Bank | | 6/14/12 | | USD | | 106,824 | | EUR | | 80,000 | | (907 | ) |
State Street Bank | | 7/25/12 | | MYR | | 1,400,000 | | USD | | 453,662 | | (6,211 | ) |
Standard Bank | | 6/6/12 | | MYR | | 1,100,000 | | USD | | 357,840 | | (4,645 | ) |
Standard Bank | | 6/6/12 | | USD | | 540,283 | | CNY | | 3,400,000 | | (2,061 | ) |
Standard Bank | | 6/13/12 | | IDR | | 2,050,000,000 | | USD | | 221,622 | | (414 | ) |
UBS Securities | | 5/3/12 | | CZK | | 2,800,000 | | USD | | 147,025 | | (1,568 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | $ | (3,489 | ) |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schedule of Investments (concluded)
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
CNY — Chinese Yuan
CZK — Czech Koruna
EUR — Euro
IDR — Indonesian Rupiah
MXP — Mexican Peso
MYR — Malaysian Ringgit
PLN — Polish Zloty
SGD — Singapore Dollar
THB — Thailand Baht
USD — United States Dollar
ZAR — South African Rand
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
Investments in Securities (1) | | | | | | | | | |
Foreign Government Bonds (2) | | $ | — | | $ | 30,191,082 | | $ | — | | $ | 30,191,082 | |
U.S. Treasury Obligations | | — | | 16,764,257 | | — | | 16,764,257 | |
Short-Term Investment | | 865,083 | | — | | — | | 865,083 | |
Total Investments in Securities | | $ | 865,083 | | $ | 46,955,339 | | $ | — | | $ | 47,820,422 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | Total | |
Other Financial Instruments | | | | | | | | | |
Forwards—Unrealized Appreciation | | $ | — | | $ | 176,214 | | $ | — | | $ | 176,214 | |
Forwards—Unrealized Depreciation | | — | | (179,703 | ) | — | | (179,703 | ) |
Total Other Financial Instruments | | $ | — | | $ | (3,489 | ) | $ | — | | $ | (3,489 | ) |
(1) There were no transfers between levels during the reporting period, based on the input levels assigned under the hierarchy at the beginning and end of the reporting period.
(2) All securities in this category are Level 2. For a detailed break-out by classification, please refer to the Schedule of Investments.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder Mutual Funds
Statements of Assets and Liabilities
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
| | North American Equity Fund | | U.S. Opportunities Fund | | U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | |
ASSETS | | | | | | | |
Investments in securities, at value — Note 2 | | $ | 551,823,707 | | $ | 150,242,196 | | $ | 226,824,517 | |
Foreign currency | | — | | — | | — | |
Receivable for securities sold | | 2,724,942 | | 1,743,559 | | 1,113,795 | |
Receivable for Fund shares sold | | 1,020,870 | | 30,638 | | 133,650 | |
Dividends and tax reclaims receivable | | 558,902 | | 28,691 | | 52,344 | |
Prepaid expenses | | 55,081 | | 33,650 | | 40,231 | |
Due from Investment Advisor — Note 3 | | — | | — | | 34,737 | |
Unrealized appreciation on spot foreign currency contracts | | 673 | | — | | — | |
Unrealized appreciation on forward foreign currency contracts | | 13,038 | | — | | — | |
Initial margin for futures contracts | | 2,443,000 | | — | | — | |
Variation margin receivable | | — | | — | | — | |
TOTAL ASSETS | | 558,640,213 | | 152,078,734 | | 228,199,274 | |
LIABILITIES | | | | | | | |
Payable for securities purchased | | 3,482,875 | | 2,241,584 | | 3,068,931 | |
Unrealized depreciation on spot foreign currency contracts | | — | | — | | — | |
Foreign currency payable | | 764 | | — | | — | |
Variation margin payable | | 171,010 | | — | | — | |
Income distributions payable | | — | | — | | — | |
Accrued foreign capital gains tax | | — | | — | | — | |
Unrealized depreciation on forward foreign currency contracts | | 173,465 | | — | | — | |
Payable for Fund shares redeemed | | 77,046 | | 108,597 | | 89,067 | |
Investment Advisory fees payable — Note 3 | | 112,715 | | 122,759 | | 183,015 | |
Sub-administration fees payable — Note 3 | | 5,861 | | 10,741 | | 16,014 | |
Trustees’ fees payable — Note 6 | | — | | — | | — | |
Distribution fees payable, Advisor Shares — Note 3 | | 69 | | 887 | | 1,322 | |
Shareholder Service fees payable, Advisor Shares — Note 3 | | — | | — | | — | |
Audit fees payable | | 14,963 | | 14,517 | | 14,517 | |
Legal fees payable | | 55,851 | | 25,952 | | 31,210 | |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities | | 71,000 | | 47,661 | | 46,366 | |
TOTAL LIABILITIES | | 4,165,619 | | 2,572,698 | | 3,450,442 | |
NET ASSETS | | $ | 554,474,594 | | $ | 149,506,036 | | $ | 224,748,832 | |
NET ASSETS | | | | | | | |
Capital paid-in | | $ | 542,641,229 | | $ | 116,055,232 | | $ | 194,691,940 | |
Undistributed (accumulated net investment loss/distributions in excess of) net investment income | | 3,331,238 | | (114,053 | ) | (103,768 | ) |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments, futures and foreign currency transactions | | (53,213,373 | ) | 10,150,949 | | 8,061,536 | |
Accumulated foreign capital gains tax on appreciated securities | | — | | — | | — | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | 60,950,607 | | 23,413,908 | | 22,099,124 | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on futures | | 926,714 | | — | | — | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on forward foreign currency contracts and foreign currency translations | | (161,821 | ) | — | | — | |
NET ASSETS | | $ | 554,474,594 | | $ | 149,506,036 | | $ | 224,748,832 | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 554,228,322 | | $ | 146,729,782 | | $ | 217,966,231 | |
Advisor Shares | | 246,272 | | 2,776,254 | | 6,782,601 | |
Institutional Class Shares | | — | | — | | — | |
Total shares outstanding end of year: | | | | | | | |
Investor | | 51,640,521 | | 6,088,269 | | 17,317,670 | |
Advisor | | 22,997 | | 116,818 | | 545,871 | |
Institutional Class Shares | | — | | — | | — | |
Net asset value, offering and redemption price per share (net assets + shares outstanding) | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 10.73 | | $ | 24.10 | | $ | 12.59 | |
Advisor Shares | | 10.71 | | 23.77 | | 12.43 | |
Institutional Class Shares | | — | | — | | — | |
Cost of securities | | $ | 490,873,100 | | $ | 126,828,288 | | $ | 204,725,393 | |
Cost (Proceeds) of foreign currency | | $ | (764 | ) | $ | — | | $ | — | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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| | Emerging Market Equity Fund | | International Alpha Fund | | International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | Global Quality Fund | | Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | |
ASSETS | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investments in securities, at value — Note 2 | | $ | 490,071,133 | | $ | 65,983,245 | | $ | 21,709,768 | | $ | 67,688,161 | | $ | 109,168,738 | | $ | 47,820,422 | |
Foreign currency | | 25,394 | | 13,190 | | 7,298 | | 61,315 | | — | | 89,512 | |
Receivable for securities sold | | 933,061 | | 322,382 | | 219,811 | | 542,980 | | 1,559,818 | | — | |
Receivable for Fund shares sold | | 28,355,012 | | 43,169 | | 79,723 | | 6,524 | | 129,474 | | 392,058 | |
Dividends and tax reclaims receivable | | 1,281,734 | | 481,046 | | 137,197 | | 212,615 | | 548,538 | | 319,028 | |
Prepaid expenses | | 58,648 | | 24,660 | | 20,588 | | 12,027 | | 27,018 | | 33,022 | |
Due from Investment Advisor — Note 3 | | — | | 20,105 | | 32,994 | | 22,121 | | 22,847 | | 17,426 | |
Unrealized appreciation on spot foreign currency contracts | | 17,654 | | 96 | | 1,032 | | 4,591 | | — | | — | |
Unrealized appreciation on forward foreign currency contracts | | — | | — | | 23,356 | | 12,950 | | — | | 176,214 | |
Initial margin for futures contracts | | — | | — | | — | | 168,000 | | 233,517 | | — | |
Variation margin receivable | | — | | — | | — | | 2,695 | | 15,045 | | — | |
TOTAL ASSETS | | 520,742,636 | | 66,887,893 | | 22,231,767 | | 68,733,979 | | 111,704,995 | | 48,847,682 | |
LIABILITIES | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Payable for securities purchased | | 11,549,269 | | 352,574 | | 239,622 | | 1,154,511 | | 16,136,693 | | 184,723 | |
Unrealized depreciation on spot foreign currency contracts | | 1,499 | | 104 | | 993 | | 1,149 | | — | | 51 | |
Foreign currency payable | | — | | — | | — | | — | | 10 | | — | |
Variation margin payable | | — | | — | | — | | 14,673 | | 17,006 | | — | |
Income distributions payable | | — | | — | | — | | — | | 28,294 | | — | |
Accrued foreign capital gains tax | | 768,539 | | 16,520 | | 5,715 | | 25,998 | | — | | — | |
Unrealized depreciation on forward foreign currency contracts | | — | | — | | 13,038 | | 23,186 | | — | | 179,703 | |
Payable for Fund shares redeemed | | 283,234 | | 3,984 | | 13,226 | | 7,351 | | 6,715 | | — | |
Investment Advisory fees payable — Note 3 | | 382,415 | | 43,117 | | 14,039 | | 29,545 | | 19,624 | | 33,965 | |
Sub-administration fees payable — Note 3 | | 33,461 | | 4,716 | | 1,536 | | 4,700 | | 6,868 | | 3,302 | |
Trustees’ fees payable — Note 6 | | — | | — | | — | | — | | — | | 81 | |
Distribution fees payable, Advisor Shares — Note 3 | | 22,271 | | 1,150 | | 1,260 | | — | | 557 | | 509 | |
Shareholder Service fees payable, Advisor Shares — Note 3 | | — | | 481 | | 1,032 | | — | | — | | — | |
Audit fees payable | | 17,951 | | 16,393 | | 18,882 | | 16,599 | | 11,810 | | 11,351 | |
Legal fees payable | | 42,573 | | 17,889 | | 15,048 | | 18,891 | | 20,794 | | 14,471 | |
Accrued expenses and other liabilities | | 164,580 | | 38,386 | | 87,665 | | 54,883 | | 48,596 | | 41,350 | |
TOTAL LIABILITIES | | 13,265,792 | | 495,314 | | 412,056 | | 1,351,486 | | 16,296,967 | | 469,506 | |
NET ASSETS | | $ | 507,476,844 | | $ | 66,392,579 | | $ | 21,819,711 | | $ | 67,382,493 | | $ | 95,408,028 | | $ | 48,378,176 | |
NET ASSETS | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Capital paid-in | | $ | 486,578,841 | | $ | 72,797,197 | | $ | 25,004,301 | | $ | 64,416,417 | | $ | 91,829,073 | | $ | 48,614,103 | |
Undistributed (accumulated net investment loss/distributions in excess of) net investment income | | 531,393 | | 507,480 | | 133,171 | | 517,571 | | (199,510 | ) | 33,134 | |
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on investments, futures and foreign currency transactions | | (14,856,754 | ) | (10,363,756 | ) | (2,950,780 | ) | (869,060 | ) | 1,474,814 | | (328,556 | ) |
Accumulated foreign capital gains tax on appreciated securities | | (768,539 | ) | (16,520 | ) | (5,715 | ) | (25,998 | ) | — | | — | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments | | 35,990,928 | | 3,448,725 | | (373,308 | ) | 3,345,189 | | 2,334,801 | | 61,276 | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on futures | | — | | — | | — | | 5,786 | | (31,738 | ) | — | |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on forward foreign currency contracts and foreign currency translations | | 975 | | 19,453 | | 12,042 | | (7,412 | ) | 588 | | (1,781 | ) |
NET ASSETS | | $ | 507,476,844 | | $ | 66,392,579 | | $ | 21,819,711 | | $ | 67,382,493 | | $ | 95,408,028 | | $ | 48,378,176 | |
Net Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 391,035,046 | | $ | 62,959,538 | | $ | 15,440,570 | | $ | — | | $ | 92,725,057 | | $ | 44,944,499 | |
Advisor Shares | | 116,441,798 | | 3,433,041 | | 6,379,141 | | — | | 2,682,971 | | 3,433,677 | |
Institutional Class Shares | | — | | — | | — | | 67,382,493 | | — | | — | |
Total shares outstanding end of year: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor | | 30,068,008 | | 6,404,247 | | 1,846,222 | | — | | 8,916,316 | | 4,524,648 | |
Advisor | | 8,980,973 | | 346,659 | | 762,198 | | — | | 257,787 | | 345,984 | |
Institutional Class Shares | | — | | — | | — | | 632,528 | | — | | — | |
Net asset value, offering and redemption price per share (net assets + shares outstanding) | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 13.01 | | $ | 9.83 | | $ | 8.36 | | $ | — | | $ | 10.40 | | $ | 9.93 | |
Advisor Shares | | 12.97 | | 9.90 | | 8.37 | | — | | 10.41 | | 9.92 | |
Institutional Class Shares | | — | | — | | — | | 106.53 | | — | | — | |
Cost of securities | | $ | 454,080,205 | | $ | 62,534,520 | | $ | 22,083,076 | | $ | 64,342,972 | | $ | 106,833,937 | | $ | 47,759,146 | |
Cost (Proceeds) of foreign currency | | $ | 25,388 | | $ | 13,172 | | $ | 7,217 | | $ | 61,041 | | $ | (9 | ) | $ | 89,198 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder Mutual Funds
Statements of Operations
For the Sixth Months Ended April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
| | | | | | U.S. Small | |
| | North | | U.S. | | and Mid Cap | |
| | American | | Opportunities | | Opportunities | |
| | Equity Fund | | Fund | | Fund | |
| | | | | | | |
INVESTMENT INCOME | | | | | | | |
Dividend income | | $ | 5,529,149 | | $ | 876,666 | | $ | 1,150,204 | |
Interest income | | — | | 14 | | 152 | |
Foreign taxes withheld | | (32,074 | ) | (2,659 | ) | (2,910 | ) |
TOTAL INCOME | | 5,497,075 | | 874,021 | | 1,147,446 | |
EXPENSES | | | | | | | |
Investment Advisory fees — Note 3 | | 659,372 | | 751,975 | | 1,077,487 | |
Sub-administration fees — Note 3 | | 34,289 | | 65,798 | | 94,280 | |
Trustees fees — Note 6 | | 15,065 | | 6,901 | | 8,289 | |
Distribution fees, Advisor Shares — Note 3 | | 349 | | 3,461 | | 8,563 | |
Shareholder Service fees, Advisor Shares — Note 3 | | — | | — | | — | |
Legal fees | | 65,898 | | 29,888 | | 35,796 | |
Transfer agent fees | | 55,446 | | 47,536 | | 48,951 | |
Insurance | | 26,333 | | 12,832 | | 12,863 | |
Custodian fees | | 22,787 | | 14,302 | | 9,856 | |
Registration fees | | 18,560 | | 15,312 | | 13,754 | |
Audit fees | | 16,852 | | 16,840 | | 16,840 | |
Printing | | 15,913 | | 14,686 | | 11,184 | |
Pricing fees | | 5,953 | | 1,817 | | 1,483 | |
Offering costs | | — | | — | | — | |
Other | | 14,739 | | 6,726 | | 7,869 | |
TOTAL EXPENSES | | 951,556 | | 988,074 | | 1,347,215 | |
Expenses waived by Investment Advisor — Note 3 | | — | | — | | (207,291 | ) |
Reimbursement from Investment Advisor | | — | | — | | — | |
NET EXPENSES | | 951,556 | | 988,074 | | 1,139,924 | |
NET INVESTMENT INCOME (LOSS) | | 4,545,519 | | (114,053 | ) | 7,522 | |
REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS, OPTION CONTRACTS, FUTURES AND FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS | | | | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on investments and option contracts sold | | 7,276,406 | | 10,301,848 | | 9,299,373 | |
Net realized gain (loss) on futures | | 10,186,198 | | — | | — | |
Net realized loss on foreign currency transactions | | (684,602 | ) | (180 | ) | (1,455 | ) |
Net realized gain (loss) on investments, futures, and foreign currency transactions | | 16,778,002 | | 10,301,668 | | 9,297,918 | |
| | | | | | | |
Change in unrealized appreciation on investments | | 40,365,358 | | 3,685,924 | | 12,367,314 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on futures | | (3,493,637 | ) | — | | — | |
Change in accrued foreign capital gains tax on appreciated securities | | — | | — | | — | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on forward foreign currency contracts and foreign currency translations | | 467,735 | | — | | — | |
Net change in unrealized appreciation on investments, futures, and forward foreign currency contracts and foreign currency translations | | 37,339,456 | | 3,685,924 | | 12,367,314 | |
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) | | 54,117,458 | | 13,987,592 | | 21,665,232 | |
NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS RESULTING FROM OPERATIONS | | $ | 58,662,977 | | $ | 13,873,539 | | $ | 21,672,754 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Absolute | |
| | Emerging | | | | International | | | | Total Return | | Return EMD | |
| | Market Equity | | International | | Multi-Cap | | Global | | Fixed Income | | and Currency | |
| | Fund | | Alpha Fund | | Value Fund | | Quality Fund | | Fund | | Fund* | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
INVESTMENT INCOME | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Dividend income | | $ | 3,292,653 | | $ | 928,924 | | $ | 394,626 | | $ | 959,595 | | $ | 1,310 | | $ | 856 | |
Interest income | | 260 | | — | | — | | — | | 1,257,933 | | 167,408 | |
Foreign taxes withheld | | (246,032 | ) | (87,363 | ) | (39,922 | ) | (38,209 | ) | (18 | ) | (30,302 | ) |
TOTAL INCOME | | 3,046,881 | | 841,561 | | 354,704 | | 921,386 | | 1,259,225 | | 137,962 | |
EXPENSES | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investment Advisory fees — Note 3 | | 1,864,833 | | 252,925 | | 89,851 | | 179,020 | | 114,014 | | 80,667 | |
Sub-administration fees — Note 3 | | 163,173 | | 24,063 | | 8,353 | | 28,481 | | 39,905 | | 7,843 | |
Trustees fees — Note 6 | | 10,984 | | 4,632 | | 3,980 | | 5,042 | | 5,509 | | 2,566 | |
Distribution fees, Advisor Shares — Note 3 | | 128,654 | | 3,585 | | 7,160 | | — | | 2,861 | | 1,393 | |
Shareholder Service fees, Advisor Shares — Note 3 | | — | | 481 | | 1,032 | | — | | — | | — | |
Legal fees | | 48,847 | | 20,217 | | 17,376 | | 21,881 | | 24,043 | | 14,471 | |
Transfer agent fees | | 52,525 | | 44,450 | | 43,857 | | 25,193 | | 45,324 | | 34,117 | |
Insurance | | 17,458 | | 8,643 | | 6,835 | | 7,644 | | 10,572 | | 4,835 | |
Custodian fees | | 152,199 | | 12,022 | | 33,838 | | 34,542 | | 10,716 | | 7,054 | |
Registration fees | | 18,362 | | 14,093 | | 16,960 | | 1,617 | | 14,317 | | 13,733 | |
Audit fees | | 17,833 | | 19,920 | | 18,906 | | 16,322 | | 18,693 | | 15,151 | |
Printing | | 22,525 | | 7,624 | | 6,034 | | 8,079 | | 7,409 | | 4,939 | |
Pricing fees | | 10,545 | | 4,713 | | 50,235 | | 31,514 | | 22,862 | | 6,846 | |
Offering costs | | — | | — | | — | | 250 | | — | | 98,743 | |
Other | | 11,978 | | 5,347 | | 10,780 | | 8,199 | | 5,468 | | 3,183 | |
TOTAL EXPENSES | | 2,519,916 | | 422,715 | | 315,197 | | 367,784 | | 321,693 | | 295,541 | |
Expenses waived by Investment Advisor — Note 3 | | (60,729 | ) | (124,428 | ) | (89,851 | ) | (137,236 | ) | (114,014 | ) | (80,667 | ) |
Reimbursement from Investment Advisor | | — | | — | | (114,445 | ) | — | | (22,351 | ) | (110,046 | ) |
NET EXPENSES | | 2,459,187 | | 298,287 | | 110,901 | | 230,548 | | 185,328 | | 104,828 | |
NET INVESTMENT INCOME (LOSS) | | 587,694 | | 543,274 | | 243,803 | | 690,838 | | 1,073,897 | | 33,134 | |
REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS, OPTION CONTRACTS, FUTURES AND FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net realized gain (loss) on investments and option contracts sold | | (10,424,002 | ) | (938,731 | ) | (344,384 | ) | 242,963 | | 1,450,404 | | 21,835 | |
Net realized gain (loss) on futures | | — | | — | | (2,811 | ) | 15,068 | | 296,882 | | — | |
Net realized loss on foreign currency transactions | | (101,880 | ) | (24,224 | ) | (27,404 | ) | (87,048 | ) | (29,259 | ) | (350,391 | ) |
Net realized gain (loss) on investments, futures, and foreign currency transactions | | (10,525,882 | ) | (962,955 | ) | (374,599 | ) | 170,983 | | 1,718,027 | | (328,556 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Change in unrealized appreciation on investments | | 36,659,884 | | 3,398,292 | | 868,936 | | 4,453,557 | | 249,623 | | 61,276 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on futures | | — | | — | | — | | 5,786 | | (205,671 | ) | — | |
Change in accrued foreign capital gains tax on appreciated securities | | (535,463 | ) | (16,520 | ) | 100 | | (15,088 | ) | — | | — | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on forward foreign currency contracts and foreign currency translations | | 5,242 | | (1,883 | ) | 20,676 | | 29,100 | | 516 | | (1,781 | ) |
Net change in unrealized appreciation on investments, futures, and forward foreign currency contracts and foreign currency translations | | 36,129,663 | | 3,379,889 | | 889,712 | | 4,473,355 | | 44,468 | | 59,495 | |
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) | | 25,603,781 | | 2,416,934 | | 515,113 | | 4,644,338 | | 1,762,495 | | (269,061 | ) |
NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS RESULTING FROM OPERATIONS | | $ | 26,191,475 | | $ | 2,960,208 | | $ | 758,916 | | $ | 5,335,176 | | $ | 2,836,392 | | $ | (235,927 | ) |
* Fund commenced investment activities on December 15, 2011.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder Mutual Funds
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
For the Six Months Ended April 30, 2012 (unaudited) and the Year Ended October 31, 2011
| | North American Equity Fund | | U.S. Opportunities Fund | |
| | Six Months Ended | | Year Ended | | Six Months Ended | | Year Ended | |
| | April 30, 2012 | | October 31, 2011 | | April 30, 2012 | | October 31, 2011 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS | | | | | | | | | |
From Operations: | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | $ | 4,545,519 | | $ | 7,890,888 | | $ | (114,053 | ) | $ | (690,596 | ) |
Net realized gain (loss) on investments, option contracts, futures and foreign currency transactions | | 16,778,002 | | 40,452,951 | | 10,301,668 | | 16,564,700 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments, futures, foreign capital gains tax on appreciated securities, forward foreign currency contracts and foreign currency translations | | 37,339,456 | | (8,908,300 | ) | 3,685,924 | | (8,316,914 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | 58,662,977 | | 39,435,539 | | 13,873,539 | | 7,557,190 | |
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders: | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income: | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | (7,774,987 | ) | (6,799,964 | ) | — | | — | |
Advisor Shares | | (1,980 | ) | (2,261 | ) | — | | — | |
Net realized gains: | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | — | | — | | (5,028,199 | ) | — | |
Advisor Shares | | — | | — | | (95,362 | ) | — | |
Total dividends and distributions | | (7,776,967 | ) | (6,802,225 | ) | (5,123,561 | ) | — | |
Share Transactions: | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | 8,315,166 | | 75,162,899 | | 3,136,441 | | 10,258,639 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 6,630,602 | | 5,772,543 | | 4,843,033 | | — | |
Redemption of shares | | (25,172,983 | ) | (89,102,201 | ) | (19,788,374 | ) | (41,381,887 | ) |
Redemption fees - Note 5 | | — | | — | | 277 | | 973 | |
Total increase (decrease) from Investor Share transactions | | (10,227,215 | ) | (8,166,759 | ) | (11,808,623 | ) | (31,122,275 | ) |
Advisor Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | 56,434 | | 47,350 | | 108,065 | | 487,051 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 1,980 | | 2,261 | | 93,518 | | — | |
Redemption of shares | | — | | (61,414 | ) | (309,501 | ) | (831,946 | ) |
Redemption fees - Note 5 | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Total increase (decrease) from Advisor Share transactions | | 58,414 | | (11,803 | ) | (107,918 | ) | (344,895 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from share transactions | | (10,168,801 | ) | (8,178,562 | ) | (11,916,541 | ) | (31,467,170 | ) |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | 40,717,209 | | 24,454,752 | | (3,166,563 | ) | (23,909,980 | ) |
Net Assets | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 513,757,385 | | 489,302,633 | | 152,672,599 | | 176,582,579 | |
End of period | | $ | 554,474,594 | | $ | 513,757,385 | | $ | 149,506,036 | | $ | 152,672,599 | |
Undistributed (accumulated net investment loss/distributions in excess of) net investment income | | $ | 3,331,238 | | $ | 6,562,686 | | $ | (114,053 | ) | $ | — | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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| | U.S. Small and Mid Cap | | | | | |
| | Opportunities Fund | | Emerging Market Equity Fund | |
| | Six Months Ended | | Year Ended | | Six Months Ended | | Year Ended | |
| | April 30, 2012 | | October 31, 2011 | | April 30, 2012 | | October 31, 2011 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS | | | | | | | | | |
From Operations: | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income (loss) | | $ | 7,522 | | $ | 429,018 | | $ | 587,694 | | $ | 3,563,865 | |
Net realized gain (loss) on investments, option contracts, futures and foreign currency transactions | | 9,297,918 | | 2,118,685 | | (10,525,882 | ) | 67,031 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments, futures, foreign capital gains tax on appreciated securities, forward foreign currency contracts and foreign currency translations | | 12,367,314 | | (2,799,251 | ) | 36,129,663 | | (29,808,716 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | 21,672,754 | | (251,548 | ) | 26,191,475 | | (26,177,820 | ) |
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders: | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income: | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | (516,952 | ) | — | | (2,385,242 | ) | (771,689 | ) |
Advisor Shares | | — | | — | | (760,916 | ) | (241,589 | ) |
Net realized gains: | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | (2,772,904 | ) | (2,600,911 | ) | (1,371,661 | ) | (446,768 | ) |
Advisor Shares | | (93,681 | ) | (231,110 | ) | (557,952 | ) | (242,237 | ) |
Total dividends and distributions | | (3,383,537 | ) | (2,832,021 | ) | (5,075,771 | ) | (1,702,283 | ) |
Share Transactions: | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | 27,020,592 | | 191,062,391 | | 165,230,604 | | 142,886,662 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 1,396,484 | | 1,879,721 | | 3,205,307 | | 1,034,252 | |
Redemption of shares | | (37,345,917 | ) | (91,994,172 | ) | (26,632,061 | ) | (42,068,431 | ) |
Redemption fees - Note 5 | | 5,857 | | 1,026 | | 3,550 | | 1,264 | |
Total increase (decrease) from Investor Share transactions | | (8,922,984 | ) | 100,948,966 | | 141,807,400 | | 101,853,747 | |
Advisor Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | 233,285 | | 2,391,383 | | 29,046,287 | | 51,007,570 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 90,763 | | 220,154 | | 1,249,411 | | 467,446 | |
Redemption of shares | | (1,115,235 | ) | (6,036,011 | ) | (15,642,093 | ) | (35,867,056 | ) |
Redemption fees - Note 5 | | 4 | | 772 | | 40,419 | | 20,945 | |
Total increase (decrease) from Advisor Share transactions | | (791,183 | ) | (3,423,702 | ) | 14,694,024 | | 15,628,905 | |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from share transactions | | (9,714,167 | ) | 97,525,264 | | 156,501,424 | | 117,482,652 | |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | 8,575,050 | | 94,441,695 | | 177,617,128 | | 89,602,549 | |
Net Assets | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 216,173,782 | | 121,732,087 | | 329,859,716 | | 240,257,167 | |
End of period | | $ | 224,748,832 | | $ | 216,173,782 | | $ | 507,476,844 | | $ | 329,859,716 | |
Undistributed (accumulated net investment loss/distributions in excess of) net investment income | | $ | (103,768 | ) | $ | 405,662 | | $ | 531,393 | | $ | 3,089,857 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder Mutual Funds
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
For the Six Months Ended April 30, 2012 (unaudited) and the Year Ended October 31, 2011
| | International Alpha Fund | | International Multi-Cap Value Fund | |
| | Six Months Ended April 30, 2012 | | Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | Six Months Ended April 30, 2012 | | Year Ended October 31, 2011 | |
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS | | | | | | | | | |
From Operations: | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income | | $ | 543,274 | | $ | 682,428 | | $ | 243,803 | | $ | 492,619 | |
Net realized gain (loss) on investments, futures and foreign currency transactions | | (962,955 | ) | 5,013,766 | | (374,599 | ) | 586,850 | |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments, futures, foreign capital gains tax on appreciated securities, forward foreign currency contracts and foreign currency translations | | 3,379,889 | | (12,250,095 | ) | 889,712 | | (2,246,632 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | 2,960,208 | | (6,553,901 | ) | 758,916 | | (1,167,163 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | |
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders: | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income: | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | (502,503 | ) | (1,070,345 | ) | (429,032 | ) | (358,944 | ) |
Advisor Shares | | — | | (564,691 | ) | (180,214 | ) | (69,630 | ) |
Institutional Class Shares | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Net realized gains: | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Advisor Shares | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Total dividends and distributions | | (502,503 | ) | (1,635,036 | ) | (609,246 | ) | (428,574 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | |
Share Transactions: | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | 25,828,018 | | 13,034,938 | | 3,650,310 | | 2,652,229 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 247,423 | | 495,645 | | 77,042 | | 31,043 | |
Redemption of shares | | (9,563,385 | ) | (10,509,252 | ) | (687,828 | ) | (550,068 | ) |
Redemption of shares in-kind | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Redemption fees - Note 5 | | — | | 6 | | 334 | | — | |
Total increase (decrease) from Investor Share transactions | | 16,512,056 | | 3,021,337 | | 3,039,858 | | 2,133,204 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Advisor Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | 1,126,124 | | 5,872,858 | | 1,706,900 | | 6,487,477 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | — | | 520,745 | | 133,224 | | 32,922 | |
Redemption of shares | | (2,153,319 | ) | (27,076,776 | ) | (2,228,752 | ) | (1,269,137 | ) |
Redemption fees - Note 5 | | 140 | | 1,212 | | 6,751 | | 6,544 | |
Total increase (decrease) from Advisor Share transactions | | (1,027,055 | ) | (20,681,961 | ) | (381,877 | ) | 5,257,806 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Institutional Class Shares: | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Redemption of shares | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Redemption fees - Note 5 | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Total increase (decrease) from Institutional Class Share transactions | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from share transactions | | 15,485,001 | | (17,660,624 | ) | 2,657,981 | | 7,391,010 | |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | 17,942,706 | | (25,849,561 | ) | 2,807,651 | | 5,795,273 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 48,449,873 | | 74,299,434 | | 19,012,060 | | 13,216,787 | |
End of period | | $ | 66,392,579 | | $ | 48,449,873 | | $ | 21,819,711 | | $ | 19,012,060 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Undistributed (distributions in excess of) net investment income | | $ | 507,480 | | $ | 466,709 | | $ | 133,171 | | $ | 498,614 | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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| | Global Quality Fund | | Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | |
| | Six Months Ended April 30, 2012 | | 2011(a) | | Six Months Ended April 30, 2012 | | Year Ended October 31, 2011 | | Period Ended April 30, 2012(b) | |
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS | | | | | | | | | | | |
From Operations: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income | | $ | 690,838 | | $ | 1,021,745 | | $ | 1,073,897 | | $ | 2,939,710 | | $ | 33,134 | |
Net realized gain (loss) on investments, futures and foreign currency transactions | | 170,983 | | (847,877 | ) | 1,718,027 | | 2,039,062 | † | (328,556 | ) |
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments, futures, foreign capital gains tax on appreciated securities, forward foreign currency contracts and foreign currency translations | | 4,473,355 | | (1,155,790 | ) | 44,468 | | (1,388,100 | ) | 59,495 | |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations | | 5,335,176 | | (981,922 | ) | 2,836,392 | | 3,590,672 | | (235,927 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net investment income: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | — | | — | | (1,196,417 | ) | (3,068,016 | ) | — | |
Advisor Shares | | — | | — | | (27,950 | ) | (81,495 | ) | — | |
Institutional Class Shares | | (1,329,536 | ) | (57,642 | ) | — | | — | | — | |
Net realized gains: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | — | | — | | (961,116 | ) | (3,551,562 | ) | — | |
Advisor Shares | | — | | — | | (23,702 | ) | (109,017 | ) | — | |
Total dividends and distributions | | (1,329,536 | ) | (57,642 | ) | (2,209,185 | ) | (6,810,090 | ) | — | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Share Transactions: | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | — | | — | | 12,987,963 | | 39,023,730 | | 45,283,351 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | — | | — | | 1,841,418 | | 5,723,308 | | — | |
Redemption of shares | | — | | — | | (6,754,409 | ) | (17,135,071 | ) | (113,770 | ) |
Redemption of shares in-kind | | — | | — | | — | | (63,327,140 | ) | — | |
Redemption fees - Note 5 | | — | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Total increase (decrease) from Investor Share transactions | | — | | — | | 8,074,972 | | (35,715,173 | ) | 45,169,581 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Advisor Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | — | | — | | 889,002 | | 1,078,832 | | 3,535,000 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | — | | — | | 41,086 | | 164,998 | | — | |
Redemption of shares | | — | | — | | (780,986 | ) | (2,732,306 | ) | (90,478 | ) |
Redemption fees - Note 5 | | — | | — | | — | | — | | — | |
Total increase (decrease) from Advisor Share transactions | | — | | — | | 149,102 | | (1,488,476 | ) | 3,444,522 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Institutional Class Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | 14,536,411 | | 70,851,958 | | — | | — | | — | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 945,352 | | 55,906 | | — | | — | | — | |
Redemption of shares | | (18,739,762 | ) | (3,239,888 | ) | — | | — | | — | |
Redemption fees - Note 5 | | 253 | | 6,187 | | — | | — | | — | |
Total increase (decrease) from Institutional Class Share transactions | | (3,257,746 | ) | 67,674,163 | | — | | — | | — | |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from share transactions | | (3,257,746 | ) | 67,674,163 | | 8,224,074 | | (37,203,649 | ) | 48,614,103 | |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets | | 747,894 | | 66,634,599 | | 8,851,281 | | (40,423,067 | ) | 48,378,176 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Net Assets | | | | | | | | | | | |
Beginning of period | | 66,634,599 | | — | | 86,556,747 | | 126,979,814 | | — | |
End of period | | $ | 67,382,493 | | $ | 66,634,599 | | $ | 95,408,028 | | $ | 86,556,747 | | $ | 48,378,176 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Undistributed (distributions in excess of) net investment income | | $ | 517,571 | | $ | 1,156,269 | | $ | (199,510 | ) | $ | (49,040 | ) | $ | 33,134 | |
(a) Fund commenced investment activities on November 9, 2010.
(b) Fund commenced investment activities on December 15, 2011.
† Includes realized gains or losses from in-kind transactions (see Note 7 in Notes to Financial Statements).
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder Mutual Funds
Financial Highlights
For the Six Months Ended April 30, 2012 (unaudited) and the Years or Period Ended October 31,
Selected Per Share Data and Ratios for a Share Outstanding Throughout each Year or Period
| | Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | | Net Investment Income (Loss) | | Net Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) | | Total from Investment Operations | | Dividends from Net Investment Income | | Distributions from Net Realized Gain | | Total Distributions | |
North American Equity Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 9.76 | | $ | 0.09 | | $ | 1.03 | | $ | 1.12 | | $ | (0.15 | ) | $ | — | | $ | (0.15 | ) |
2011 | | 9.20 | | 0.18 | | 0.53 | | 0.71 | | (0.15 | ) | — | | (0.15 | ) |
2010 | | 8.09 | | 0.13 | | 1.13 | | 1.26 | | (0.15 | ) | — | | (0.15 | ) |
2009 | | 7.58 | | 0.18 | | 0.57 | | 0.75 | | (0.24 | ) | — | | (0.24 | ) |
2008 | | 13.52 | | 0.22 | | (4.37 | ) | (4.15 | ) | (0.28 | ) | (1.51 | ) | (1.79 | ) |
2007 | | 12.63 | | 0.31 | | 1.49 | | 1.80 | | (0.28 | ) | (0.63 | ) | (0.91 | ) |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 9.73 | | $ | 0.03 | | $ | 1.06 | | $ | 1.09 | | $ | (0.11 | ) | $ | — | | $ | (0.11 | ) |
2011 | | 9.17 | | 0.17 | | 0.51 | | 0.68 | | (0.12 | ) | — | | (0.12 | ) |
2010 | | 8.07 | | 0.11 | | 1.11 | | 1.22 | | (0.12 | ) | — | | (0.12 | ) |
2009 | | 7.55 | | 0.16 | | 0.57 | | 0.73 | | (0.21 | ) | — | | (0.21 | ) |
2008 | | 13.48 | | 0.22 | | (4.40 | ) | (4.18 | ) | (0.24 | ) | (1.51 | ) | (1.75 | ) |
2007 | | 12.61 | | 0.19 | | 1.56 | | 1.75 | | (0.25 | ) | (0.63 | ) | (0.88 | ) |
U.S. Opportunities Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 22.77 | | $ | (0.02 | )(1) | $ | 2.13 | † | $ | 2.11 | | $ | — | | $ | (0.78 | ) | $ | (0.78 | ) |
2011 | | 21.94 | | (0.09 | )(1) | 0.92 | † | 0.83 | | — | | — | | — | |
2010 | | 18.15 | | (0.11 | )(1) | 3.90 | † | 3.79 | | — | | — | | — | |
2009 | | 15.79 | | (0.07 | )(1) | 2.43 | † | 2.36 | | — | | — | | — | |
2008 | | 25.40 | | (0.06 | )(1) | (7.22 | )† | (7.28 | ) | (0.03 | ) | (2.30 | ) | (2.33 | ) |
2007 | | 23.06 | | 0.02 | (1) | 4.30 | † | 4.32 | | — | | (1.98 | ) | (1.98 | ) |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 22.49 | | $ | (0.05 | )(1) | $ | 2.11 | | $ | 2.06 | | $ | — | | $ | (0.78 | ) | $ | (0.78 | ) |
2011 | | 21.73 | | (0.15 | )(1) | 0.91 | | 0.76 | | — | | — | | — | |
2010 | | 18.01 | | (0.15 | )(1) | 3.87 | | 3.72 | | — | | — | | — | |
2009 | | 15.71 | | (0.11 | )(1) | 2.41 | | 2.30 | | — | | — | | — | |
2008 | | 25.32 | | (0.11 | )(1) | (7.20 | ) | (7.31 | ) | — | | (2.30 | ) | (2.30 | ) |
2007 | | 23.04 | | (0.04 | )(1) | 4.30 | †† | 4.26 | | — | | (1.98 | ) | (1.98 | ) |
U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 11.56 | | $ | — | (1)(b) | $ | 1.22 | † | $ | 1.22 | | $ | (0.03 | ) | $ | (0.16 | ) | $ | (0.19 | ) |
2011 | | 11.23 | | 0.03 | (1) | 0.56 | † | 0.59 | | — | | (0.26 | ) | (0.26 | ) |
2010 | | 9.37 | | (0.01 | )(1) | 1.87 | † | 1.86 | | — | | — | | — | |
2009 | | 7.96 | | — | (1)(b) | 1.41 | † | 1.41 | | — | | — | | — | |
2008 | | 12.56 | | (0.04 | )(1) | (3.81 | )† | (3.85 | ) | — | | (0.75 | ) | (0.75 | ) |
2007 | | 10.25 | | (0.03 | )(1) | 2.35 | † | 2.32 | | (0.01 | ) | — | | (0.01 | ) |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 11.40 | | $ | (0.01 | )(1) | $ | 1.20 | † | $ | 1.19 | | $ | — | | $ | (0.16 | ) | $ | (0.16 | ) |
2011 | | 11.11 | | — | (1)(b) | 0.55 | † | 0.55 | | — | | (0.26 | ) | (0.26 | ) |
2010 | | 9.29 | | (0.04 | )(1) | 1.86 | † | 1.82 | | — | | — | | — | |
2009 | | 7.91 | | (0.04 | )(1) | 1.42 | † | 1.38 | | — | | — | | — | |
2008 | | 12.53 | | (0.06 | )(1) | (3.81 | )† | (3.87 | ) | — | | (0.75 | ) | (0.75 | ) |
2007 | | 10.23 | | (0.05 | )(1) | 2.35 | † | 2.30 | | — | | — | | — | |
Emerging Market Equity Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 12.29 | | $ | 0.03 | (1) | $ | 0.88 | † | $ | 0.91 | | $ | (0.12 | ) | $ | (0.07 | ) | $ | (0.19 | ) |
2011 | | 13.42 | | 0.18 | (1) | (1.21 | )† | (1.03 | ) | (0.06 | ) | (0.04 | ) | (0.10 | ) |
2010 | | 11.34 | | 0.10 | (1) | 2.04 | † | 2.14 | | (0.06 | ) | — | | (0.06 | ) |
2009 | | 6.99 | | 0.12 | (1) | 4.24 | †† | 4.36 | | (0.01 | ) | — | | (0.01 | ) |
2008 | | 17.91 | | 0.11 | | (8.94 | ) | (8.83 | ) | (0.14 | ) | (1.95 | ) | (2.09 | ) |
2007 | | 10.55 | | 0.04 | | 7.37 | | 7.41 | | (0.05 | ) | — | | (0.05 | ) |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 12.23 | | $ | — | (1)(b) | $ | 0.91 | † | $ | 0.91 | | $ | (0.10 | ) | $ | (0.07 | ) | $ | (0.17 | ) |
2011 | | 13.36 | | 0.14 | (1) | (1.19 | )† | (1.05 | ) | (0.04 | ) | (0.04 | ) | (0.08 | ) |
2010 | | 11.32 | | 0.08 | (1) | 2.02 | † | 2.10 | | (0.06 | ) | — | | (0.06 | ) |
2009 | | 6.97 | | 0.05 | (1) | 4.30 | ††† | 4.35 | | — | | — | | — | |
2008 | | 17.86 | | 0.08 | | (8.91 | ) | (8.83 | ) | (0.11 | ) | (1.95 | ) | (2.06 | ) |
2007 | | 10.53 | | 0.02 | | 7.34 | | 7.36 | | (0.03 | ) | — | | (0.03 | ) |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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| | Net Asset Value, End of Period | | Total Return(a) | | Net Assets, End of Period (000) | | Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Including Waivers and Reimbursements, Excluding Offsets) | | Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Waivers, Reimbursements and Offsets) | | Ratio of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets (Including Waivers, Reimbursements and Offsets) | | Portfolio Turnover Rate | |
North American Equity Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 10.73 | | 11.62 | % | $ | 554,228 | | 0.36 | % | 0.36 | % | 1.73 | % | 19 | % |
2011 | | 9.76 | | 7.70 | | 513,589 | | 0.37 | | 0.37 | | 1.63 | | 72 | |
2010 | | 9.20 | | 15.68 | | 489,133 | | 0.39 | | 0.39 | | 1.76 | | 88 | |
2009 | | 8.09 | | 10.59 | | 375,315 | | 0.43 | | 0.43 | | 2.09 | | 85 | |
2008 | | 7.58 | | (34.81 | ) | 486,931 | | 0.35 | | 0.35 | | 1.94 | | 131 | |
2007 | | 13.52 | | 15.08 | | 809,998 | | 0.33 | | 0.33 | | 1.82 | | 38 | |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 10.71 | | 11.37 | % | $ | 246 | | 0.71 | % | 0.71 | % | 1.35 | % | 19 | % |
2011 | | 9.73 | | 7.43 | | 169 | | 0.72 | | 0.72 | | 1.27 | | 72 | |
2010 | | 9.17 | | 15.27 | | 170 | | 0.74 | | 0.74 | | 1.41 | | 88 | |
2009 | | 8.07 | | 10.28 | | 116 | | 0.78 | | 0.78 | | 1.69 | | 85 | |
2008 | | 7.55 | | (35.08 | ) | 102 | | 0.70 | | 0.70 | | 1.57 | | 131 | |
2007 | | 13.48 | | 14.66 | | 133 | | 0.68 | | 0.68 | | 1.41 | | 38 | |
U.S. Opportunities Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 24.10 | | 9.55 | % | $ | 146,730 | | 1.31 | % | 1.31 | % | (0.15 | )% | 37 | % |
2011 | | 22.77 | | 3.78 | | 149,941 | | 1.29 | | 1.29 | | (0.39 | ) | 91 | |
2010 | | 21.94 | | 20.88 | | 173,625 | | 1.33 | | 1.33 | | (0.52 | ) | 57 | |
2009 | | 18.15 | | 14.95 | | 162,694 | | 1.40 | | 1.40 | | (0.45 | ) | 64 | |
2008 | | 15.79 | | (31.08 | ) | 178,772 | | 1.25 | | 1.25 | | (0.29 | ) | 74 | |
2007 | | 25.40 | | 20.02 | | 302,351 | | 1.25 | | 1.25 | | 0.10 | | 77 | |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 23.77 | | 9.44 | % | $ | 2,776 | | 1.56 | % | 1.56 | % | (0.40 | )% | 37 | % |
2011 | | 22.49 | | 3.50 | | 2,732 | | 1.54 | | 1.54 | | (0.65 | ) | 91 | |
2010 | | 21.73 | | 20.66 | | 2,957 | | 1.58 | | 1.58 | | (0.77 | ) | 57 | |
2009 | | 18.01 | | 14.64 | | 2,800 | | 1.65 | | 1.65 | | (0.71 | ) | 64 | |
2008 | | 15.71 | | (31.28 | ) | 3,337 | | 1.50 | | 1.50 | | (0.54 | ) | 74 | |
2007 | | 25.32 | | 19.76 | | 5,910 | | 1.50 | | 1.50 | | (0.17 | ) | 77 | |
U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 12.59 | | 10.69 | % | $ | 217,966 | | 1.05 | % | 1.24 | % | 0.01 | % | 39 | % |
2011 | | 11.56 | | 5.21 | | 209,199 | | 1.05 | | 1.25 | | 0.21 | | 100 | |
2010 | | 11.23 | | 19.85 | | 111,939 | | 1.05 | | 1.52 | | (0.13 | ) | 122 | |
2009 | | 9.37 | | 17.71 | | 36,103 | | 1.05 | | 2.32 | | (0.04 | ) | 75 | |
2008 | | 7.96 | | (32.31 | ) | 11,999 | | 1.37 | | 2.74 | | (0.38 | ) | 92 | |
2007 | | 12.56 | | 22.60 | | 10,197 | | 1.40 | | 3.13 | | (0.23 | ) | 93 | |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 12.43 | | 10.56 | % | $ | 6,783 | | 1.30 | % | 1.49 | % | (0.23 | )% | 39 | % |
2011 | | 11.40 | | 4.90 | | 6,974 | | 1.30 | | 1.52 | | 0.00 | | 100 | |
2010 | | 11.11 | | 19.59 | | 9,793 | | 1.30 | | 1.77 | | (0.38 | ) | 122 | |
2009 | | 9.29 | | 17.45 | | 3,584 | | 1.30 | | 2.33 | | (0.40 | ) | 75 | |
2008 | | 7.91 | | (32.56 | ) | 230 | | 1.64 | | 3.01 | | (0.55 | ) | 92 | |
2007 | | 12.53 | | 22.48 | | 1,420 | | 1.65 | | 3.37 | | (0.45 | ) | 93 | |
Emerging Market Equity Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 13.01 | | 7.60 | % | $ | 391,035 | | 1.25 | % | 1.28 | % | 0.40 | % | 23 | % |
2011 | | 12.29 | | (7.73 | ) | 234,258 | | 1.25 | | 1.34 | | 1.34 | | 69 | |
2010 | | 13.42 | | 18.97 | | 152,681 | | 1.25 | | 1.53 | | 0.82 | | 75 | |
2009 | | 11.34 | | 62.38 | | 33,479 | | 1.25 | | 2.61 | | 1.34 | | 91 | |
2008 | | 6.99 | | (55.18 | ) | 16,312 | | 1.72 | | 2.51 | | 0.53 | | 123 | |
2007 | | 17.91 | | 70.50 | | 27,774 | | 1.75 | | 2.68 | | 0.37 | | 107 | |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 12.97 | | 7.56 | % | $ | 116,442 | | 1.50 | % | 1.53 | % | 0.08 | % | 23 | % |
2011 | | 12.23 | | (7.95 | ) | 95,602 | | 1.50 | | 1.59 | | 1.05 | | 69 | |
2010 | | 13.36 | | 18.60 | | 87,577 | | 1.50 | | 1.81 | | 0.64 | | 75 | |
2009 | | 11.32 | | 62.41 | | 14,021 | | 1.50 | | 2.47 | | 0.55 | | 91 | |
2008 | | 6.97 | | (55.25 | ) | 1,061 | | 1.98 | | 2.73 | | 0.20 | | 123 | |
2007 | | 17.86 | | 70.09 | | 2,594 | | 2.00 | | 2.95 | | 0.08 | | 107 | |
* | | For the six months ended April 30, 2012 (unaudited). All ratios for the period have been annualized, except for the Portfolio Turnover Rate. |
† | | Includes redemption fees. Amount was less than $0.01 per share. |
†† | | Includes redemption fees of $0.01 per share. |
††† | | Includes redemption fees of $0.02 per share. |
(1) | | Per share net investment income (loss) calculated using average shares. |
(a) | | Total returns would have been lower had certain Fund expenses not been waived or reimbursed, as applicable, during the periods shown (See Note 3). Total return calculations for a period of less than one year are not annualized. |
(b) | | Amount was less than $0.01 per share. |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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| | Net Asset | | | | Net Realized | | | | Dividends | | | | | |
| | Value, | | Net | | and | | Total from | | from Net | | Distributions | | | |
| | Beginning of | | Investment | | Unrealized | | Investment | | Investment | | from Net | | Total | |
| | Period | | Income | | Gains (Losses) | | Operations | | Income | | Realized Gain | | Distributions | |
International Alpha Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012*. | | $ | 9.36 | | $ | 0.09 | (1) | $ | 0.48 | | $ | 0.57 | | $ | (0.10 | ) | $ | — | | $ | (0.10 | ) |
2011 | | 10.51 | | 0.10 | (1) | (1.01 | )† | (0.91 | ) | (0.24 | ) | — | | (0.24 | ) |
2010 | | 9.00 | | 0.08 | (1) | 1.60 | † | 1.68 | | (0.17 | ) | — | | (0.17 | ) |
2009 | | 6.73 | | 0.13 | (1) | 2.21 | † | 2.34 | | (0.07 | ) | — | | (0.07 | ) |
2008 | | 13.44 | | 0.14 | (1) | (6.61 | )† | (6.47 | ) | (0.24 | ) | — | | (0.24 | ) |
2007 | | 10.64 | | 0.11 | (1) | 2.78 | † | 2.89 | | (0.09 | ) | — | | (0.09 | ) |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 9.34 | | $ | 0.07 | (1) | $ | 0.49 | † | $ | 0.56 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | — | |
2011 | | 10.47 | | 0.10 | (1) | (1.02 | )† | (0.92 | ) | (0.21 | ) | — | | (0.21 | ) |
2010 | | 8.97 | | 0.06 | (1) | 1.59 | † | 1.65 | | (0.15 | ) | — | | (0.15 | ) |
2009 | | 6.71 | | 0.11 | (1) | 2.20 | † | 2.31 | | (0.05 | ) | — | | (0.05 | ) |
2008 | | 13.40 | | 0.11 | (1) | (6.59 | )† | (6.48 | ) | (0.21 | ) | — | | (0.21 | ) |
2007 | | 10.64 | | 0.07 | (1) | 2.77 | † | 2.84 | | (0.08 | ) | — | | (0.08 | ) |
International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 8.34 | | $ | 0.11 | (1) | $ | 0.20 | † | $ | 0.31 | | $ | (0.29 | ) | $ | — | | $ | (0.29 | ) |
2011 | | 8.95 | | 0.28 | (1) | (0.60 | ) | (0.32 | ) | (0.29 | ) | — | | (0.29 | ) |
2010 | | 7.91 | | 0.26 | (1) | 1.05 | | 1.31 | | (0.27 | ) | — | | (0.27 | ) |
2009 | | 5.61 | | 0.20 | (1) | 2.37 | | 2.57 | | (0.27 | ) | — | | (0.27 | ) |
2008 | | 13.65 | | 0.37 | (1) | (6.34 | )† | (5.97 | ) | (0.59 | ) | (1.48 | ) | (2.07 | ) |
2007 | | 10.54 | | 0.48 | | 2.80 | | 3.28 | | (0.11 | ) | (0.06 | ) | (0.17 | ) |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 8.33 | | $ | 0.09 | (1) | $ | 0.22 | † | $ | 0.31 | | $ | (0.27 | ) | $ | — | | $ | (0.27 | ) |
2011 | | 8.94 | | 0.24 | (1) | (0.58 | )† | (0.34 | ) | (0.27 | ) | — | | (0.27 | ) |
2010 | | 7.91 | | 0.24 | (1) | 1.04 | † | 1.28 | | (0.25 | ) | — | | (0.25 | ) |
2009 | | 5.59 | | 0.19 | (1) | 2.38 | †† | 2.57 | | (0.25 | ) | — | | (0.25 | ) |
2008 | | 13.62 | | 0.34 | (1) | (6.33 | )† | (5.99 | ) | (0.56 | ) | (1.48 | ) | (2.04 | ) |
2007 | | 10.53 | | 0.43 | | 2.83 | | 3.26 | | (0.11 | ) | (0.06 | ) | (0.17 | ) |
Global Quality Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Institutional Class Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 100.70 | | $ | 1.07 | (1) | $ | 6.71 | † | $ | 7.78 | | $ | (1.95 | ) | $ | — | | $ | (1.95 | ) |
2011(b) | | 100.00 | | 2.36 | (1) | (1.43 | )† | 0.93 | | (0.23 | ) | — | | (0.23 | ) |
Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 10.33 | | $ | 0.12 | | $ | 0.21 | | $ | 0.33 | | $ | (0.14 | ) | $ | (0.12 | ) | $ | (0.26 | ) |
2011 | | 10.50 | | 0.32 | | 0.13 | | 0.45 | | (0.32 | ) | (0.30 | ) | (0.62 | ) |
2010 | | 10.33 | | 0.40 | | 0.51 | | 0.91 | | (0.40 | ) | (0.34 | ) | (0.74 | ) |
2009 | | 9.57 | | 0.37 | | 1.01 | | 1.38 | | (0.38 | ) | (0.24 | ) | (0.62 | ) |
2008 | | 9.79 | | 0.41 | | (0.22 | ) | 0.19 | | (0.40 | ) | (0.01 | ) | (0.41 | ) |
2007 | | 9.81 | | 0.50 | | (0.03 | ) | 0.47 | | (0.49 | ) | — | | (0.49 | ) |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 10.34 | | $ | 0.12 | | $ | 0.20 | | $ | 0.32 | | $ | (0.13 | ) | $ | (0.12 | ) | $ | (0.25 | ) |
2011 | | 10.51 | | 0.29 | | 0.13 | | 0.42 | | (0.29 | ) | (0.30 | ) | (0.59 | ) |
2010 | | 10.34 | | 0.37 | | 0.51 | | 0.88 | | (0.37 | ) | (0.34 | ) | (0.71 | ) |
2009 | | 9.57 | | 0.35 | | 1.02 | | 1.37 | | (0.36 | ) | (0.24 | ) | (0.60 | ) |
2008 | | 9.79 | | 0.39 | | (0.22 | ) | 0.17 | | (0.38 | ) | (0.01 | ) | (0.39 | ) |
2007 | | 9.82 | | 0.47 | | (0.04 | ) | 0.43 | | (0.46 | ) | — | | (0.46 | ) |
Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012(c) | | $ | 10.00 | | $ | 0.01 | (1) | $ | (0.08 | ) | $ | (0.07 | ) | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | — | |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012(c) | | $ | 10.00 | | $ | — | (e) (1) | $ | (0.08 | ) | $ | (0.08 | ) | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | — | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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| | | | | | | | Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets | | Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets | | Ratio of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average | | | |
| | Net Asset | | | | Net Assets, | | (Including Waivers and | | (Excluding Waivers, | | Net Assets (Including | | Portfolio | |
| | Value, End | | Total | | End of Period | | Reimbursements, | | Reimbursements and | | Waivers, Reimbursements | | Turnover | |
| | of Period | | Return(a) | | (000) | | Excluding Offsets) | | Offsets) | | and Offsets) | | Rate | |
International Alpha Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012*. | | $ | 9.83 | | 6.23 | % | $ | 62,960 | | 1.07 | % | 1.52 | % | 2.00 | % | 28 | % |
2011 | | 9.36 | | (8.87 | ) | 44,038 | | 1.15 | | 1.49 | | 0.97 | | 96 | |
2010 | | 10.51 | | 18.90 | | 46,392 | | 1.15 | | 1.63 | | 0.82 | | 101 | |
2009 | | 9.00 | | 35.28 | | 15,878 | | 1.15 | | 1.75 | | 1.82 | | 109 | |
2008 | | 6.73 | | (48.95 | ) | 15,876 | | 1.25 | | 1.61 | | 1.26 | | 88 | |
2007 | | 13.44 | | 27.38 | | 28,483 | | 1.25 | | 1.54 | | 0.92 | | 112 | |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 9.90 | | 6.00 | % | $ | 3,433 | | 1.36 | % | 1.83 | % | 1.52 | % | 28 | % |
2011 | | 9.34 | | (8.97 | ) | 4,411 | | 1.40 | | 1.72 | | 0.91 | | 96 | |
2010 | | 10.47 | | 18.61 | | 27,908 | | 1.40 | | 1.89 | | 0.69 | | 101 | |
2009 | | 8.97 | | 34.84 | | 39,418 | | 1.40 | | 1.99 | | 1.49 | | 109 | |
2008 | | 6.71 | | (49.04 | ) | 15,430 | | 1.50 | | 1.86 | | 1.04 | | 88 | |
2007 | | 13.40 | | 26.92 | | 28,308 | | 1.50 | | 1.77 | | 0.60 | | 112 | |
International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 8.36 | | 3.98 | % | $ | 15,441 | | 1.08 | % | 3.22 | % | 2.66 | % | 33 | % |
2011 | | 8.34 | | (3.72 | ) | 12,245 | | 1.15 | | 3.60 | | 3.14 | | 91 | |
2010 | | 8.95 | | 16.96 | | 11,049 | | 1.15 | | 4.56 | | 3.20 | | 90 | |
2009 | | 7.91 | | 48.45 | | 9,230 | | 1.15 | | 5.49 | | 3.23 | | 140 | |
2008 | | 5.61 | | (50.61 | ) | 7,274 | | 1.25 | | 3.65 | | 3.92 | | 50 | |
2007 | | 13.65 | | 31.56 | | 12,479 | | 1.25 | | 3.85 | | 2.97 | | 58 | |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 8.37 | | 4.02 | % | $ | 6,379 | | 1.36 | % | 3.51 | % | 2.31 | % | 33 | % |
2011 | | 8.33 | | (3.90 | ) | 6,767 | | 1.40 | | 3.89 | | 2.73 | | 91 | |
2010 | | 8.94 | | 16.64 | | 2,168 | | 1.40 | | 4.83 | | 2.94 | | 90 | |
2009 | | 7.91 | | 48.42 | | 1,342 | | 1.40 | | 5.71 | | 3.01 | | 140 | |
2008 | | 5.59 | | (50.78 | ) | 771 | | 1.50 | | 3.89 | | 3.58 | | 50 | |
2007 | | 13.62 | | 31.31 | | 1,660 | | 1.50 | | 4.12 | | 2.76 | | 58 | |
Global Quality Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Institutional Class Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 106.53 | | 7.93 | % | $ | 67,382 | | 0.70 | % | 1.12 | % | 2.12 | % | 48 | % |
2011(b) | | 100.70 | | 0.93 | | 66,635 | | 0.70 | | 1.40 | | 2.35 | | 90 | (d) |
Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 10.40 | | 3.20 | % | $ | 92,725 | | 0.40 | % | 0.70 | % | 2.36 | % | 197 | % |
2011 | | 10.33 | | 4.60 | | 84,038 | | 0.40 | | 0.68 | | 2.96 | | 473 | |
2010 | | 10.50 | | 9.09 | | 122,861 | | 0.40 | | 0.61 | | 3.69 | | 452 | |
2009 | | 10.33 | | 14.79 | | 158,900 | | 0.40 | | 0.72 | | 3.68 | | 590 | |
2008 | | 9.57 | | 1.93 | | 72,310 | | 0.40 | | 0.70 | | 4.03 | | 555 | |
2007 | | 9.79 | | 4.90 | | 71,259 | | 0.40 | | 0.96 | | 4.97 | | 464 | |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012* | | $ | 10.41 | | 3.07 | % | $ | 2,683 | | 0.65 | % | 0.98 | % | 2.18 | % | 197 | % |
2011 | | 10.34 | | 4.34 | | 2,519 | | 0.65 | | 0.94 | | 2.71 | | 473 | |
2010 | | 10.51 | | 8.82 | | 4,118 | | 0.65 | | 0.87 | | 3.47 | | 452 | |
2009 | | 10.34 | | 14.61 | | 6,952 | | 0.65 | | 0.98 | | 3.39 | | 590 | |
2008 | | 9.57 | | 1.67 | | 996 | | 0.65 | | 0.95 | | 3.78 | | 555 | |
2007 | | 9.79 | | 4.53 | | 852 | | 0.65 | | 1.48 | | 4.73 | | 464 | |
Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012(c) | | $ | 9.93 | | (0.70 | )% | $ | 44,944 | | 1.15 | % | 3.26 | % | 0.39 | % | 2 | %(d) |
Advisor Shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2012(c) | | $ | 9.92 | | (0.80 | )% | $ | 3,434 | | 1.40 | % | 3.88 | % | 0.07 | % | 2 | %(d) |
* | | For the six months ended April 30, 2012 (unaudited). All ratios for the period have been annualized, except for the Portfolio Turnover Rate. |
† | | Includes redemption fees. Amount was less than $0.01 per share. |
†† | | Includes redemption fees of $0.01 per share. |
(1) | | Per share net investment income (loss) calculated using average shares. |
(a) | | Total returns would have been lower had certain Fund expenses not been waived or reimbursed, as applicable, during the periods shown (See Note 3). Total return calculations for a period of less than one year are not annualized. |
(b) | | Fund commenced investment activities on November 9, 2010. |
(c) | | Fund commenced investment activities on December 15, 2011. |
(d) | | Not annualized |
(e) | | Amount represents less than $0.01 per share. |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Schroder Mutual Funds
Notes to Financial Statements
April 30, 2012 (unaudited)
NOTE 1 — ORGANIZATION
Schroder Global Series Trust (“SGST”) is an open-end series management investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). SGST was organized as a business trust under the laws of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts on May 27, 2003. SGST has an unlimited number of authorized shares, which are divided into three separate diversified series: Schroder North American Equity Fund, Schroder Global Value Fund and Schroder Global Quality Fund (collectively, the “SGST Funds”).
Schroder Capital Funds (Delaware) (“SCFD”) is an open-end series management investment company registered under the Investment Company Act. SCFD was organized as a Maryland corporation on July 30, 1969; reorganized as Schroder Capital Funds, Inc., a series company, on February 29, 1988; and reorganized on January 9, 1996, as a Delaware business trust. SCFD has an unlimited number of authorized shares, which are divided into two separate diversified series: Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund and Schroder International Alpha Fund (collectively, the “SCFD Funds”). On April 18, 2007, Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund closed to new investors.
Schroder Series Trust (“SST”) is an open-end series management investment company registered under the Investment Company Act. SST was organized as a business trust under the laws of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts on May 6, 1993. SST has an unlimited number of authorized shares, which are divided into five separate series, four of which are diversified: Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund, Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund, Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund and Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund (collectively, the “SST Funds,” and together with the SCFD Funds and the SGST Funds, the “Funds”), and one of which is non-diversified: Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund. On April 1, 2011, Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund closed to new investors, but was reopened fully for investment on May 1, 2012.
As of the date of these financial statements, Schroder Global Value Fund has not yet commenced operations.
NOTE 2 — SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures 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.
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed by the Funds, which are in conformity with U.S. GAAP:
VALUATION OF INVESTMENTS: Each Fund calculates the net asset value of its classes of shares by dividing the total value of its assets attributable to that class, less its liabilities attributable to that class, by the number of shares of that class that are outstanding. Each Fund values its shares as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (the “Exchange”) each day the Exchange is open. Portfolio securities, including exchange traded fund (“ETF”) shares, listed on recognized stock exchanges are valued at the last reported sale price on the exchange on which the securities are principally traded, except that NASDAQ official closing prices for all NASDAQ National Market and NASDAQ Small Cap Market Securities are used, where applicable. Listed securities traded on recognized stock exchanges where last sale prices are not available are valued at the mean of the closing bid and asked prices (“mid- market price”). Securities traded in over-the-counter markets are valued at the most recent reported mid-market price. Options on indices are valued at the closing mid-market price. Prices used for valuations generally are provided by independent pricing services. Investments in registered investment companies are priced at each Fund’s daily net asset value. Except as noted below with regard to below investment grade and emerging markets debt instruments, fixed income securities with remaining maturities of more than 60 days are valued on the basis of valuations provided by pricing services that determine valuations for normal institutional size trading units of fixed income securities, or through obtaining independent quotes from market makers. Such valuations may use a matrix, formula or other objective method that takes into consideration market indices, matrices, yield curves and other specific adjustments. Below investment grade and emerging markets debt instruments (“high yield debt”) will ordinarily be valued at prices supplied by a Fund’s pricing service based on the mean of bid and asked prices supplied by brokers or dealers. Short-term investments, having a maturity of 60 days or less, are valued at amortized cost, a form of fair valuation that approximates market value, pursuant to procedures adopted by the Funds’ Board of Trustees (“Trustees”). Other securities and assets for which market quotations are not readily available are valued in accordance with Fair Value Procedures established by the Funds’ Trustees. The Funds’ Fair Value Procedures are implemented through a Fair Value Committee (the “Committee”) designated by the Funds’ Trustees. Some of the
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more common reasons that may necessitate that a security be valued using Fair Value Procedures include: the security’s trading has been halted or suspended; the security has been de-listed from a national exchange; the security’s primary trading market is temporarily closed at a time when under normal conditions it would be open; or the security’s primary pricing source is not able or willing to provide a price. When a security is valued in accordance with the Fair Value Procedures, the Committee will determine the value after taking into consideration relevant information reasonably available to the Committee.
For securities that principally trade on a foreign market or exchange, a significant gap in time can exist between the time of a particular security’s last trade and the time at which a Fund calculates its net asset value. The closing prices of such securities may no longer reflect their market values at the time the Fund calculates its net asset value if an event that could materially affect the value of those securities (a “Significant Event”) has occurred between the time of the security’s last trade and the time that the Fund calculates its net asset value. A Significant Event may relate to a single issuer or to an entire market sector. If a Fund becomes aware of a Significant Event that has occurred with respect to a security or group of securities after the closing of the exchange or market on which the security or securities principally trade, but before the time at which the Fund calculates its net asset value, a Committee meeting may be called.
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund, Schroder International Alpha Fund, Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund and Schroder Global Quality Fund use a third-party fair valuation vendor, which provides a fair value for securities of companies located in countries outside the Western Hemisphere held by the Funds based on certain factors and methodologies applied by the vendor in the event that there is movement in the U.S. market that exceeds a specific threshold established by the Committee in consultation with the Trustees. Such methodologies generally involve tracking valuation correlations between the U.S. market and each non-U.S. security. The Committee also determines a “confidence interval” that will be used, when the threshold is exceeded, to determine the level of correlation between the value of a foreign security and movements in the U.S. market before a particular security will be fair valued. In the event that the threshold established by the Committee is exceeded on a specific day, the Funds will typically value such securities in their portfolios that exceed the applicable confidence interval based upon the fair values provided by the vendor.
In accordance with the authoritative guidance under U.S. GAAP, “Fair Value Measurements” defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair value measurements and requires disclosure surrounding the various inputs that are used in determining the fair value of the Funds’ investments. These inputs are summarized into the three broad levels listed below.
· Level 1 — quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
· Level 2 — other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
· Level 3 — significant unobservable inputs (including the Funds’ own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)
For the purpose of this Fair Value Measurement summary, securities that have been fair valued by a third-party vendor as discussed above for Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund, Schroder International Alpha Fund, Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund and Schroder Global Quality Fund, are considered Level 2 instruments. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. For the six months ended April 30, 2012, there have been no significant changes to the Funds’ fair valuation methodologies. Fair value measurement classifications are summarized in each Fund’s Schedule of Investments.
FEDERAL INCOME TAXES: It is the intention of the Funds for each Fund to qualify, or continue to qualify, as a “regulated investment company” by complying with the requirements of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. By so qualifying, the Funds would not be subject to Federal income taxes to the extent that, among other things, they distribute substantially all of their taxable income, including realized capital gains, for the fiscal year. In addition, as a result of distributing substantially all of their net investment income during each calendar year, capital gains and certain other amounts, if any, the Funds would not be subject to a Federal excise tax. The Funds evaluate tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing the Funds’ tax returns to determine whether it is “more-likely than-not” (i.e., greater than 50-percent) that each tax position will be sustained upon examination by a taxing authority based on the technical merits of the position. Tax positions not deemed to meet the more-likely- than-not threshold are recorded as a tax benefit or expense in the current year. The Funds did not record any tax provision in the
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current period. However, management’s conclusions regarding tax positions taken may be subject to review and adjustment at a later date based on factors including, but not limited to, examination by tax authorities (i.e., the last 3 tax year ends, as applicable), on-going analysis of and changes to tax laws, regulations and interpretations thereof.
As of, and during the six months ended April 30, 2012, the Funds did not have a liability for any unrecognized tax benefits. The Funds recognize interest and penalties, if any, related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense in the Statement of Operations. During the period, the Funds did not incur any interest or penalties.
INVESTMENT TRANSACTIONS: Investment security transactions are recorded as of trade date. Realized gains and losses on sales of investments are determined on the basis of identified cost. Capital gain taxes on securities in certain foreign countries are accrued on unrealized appreciation and are due when realized.
INVESTMENT INCOME: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Dividend income is recorded net of unrecoverable withholding tax. Interest income and expense is recorded on an accrual basis. Discounts and premiums on fixed income securities are accreted and amortized using the effective interest method. Foreign dividend and interest income amounts and realized capital gains or losses are converted to U.S. dollar equivalents using foreign exchange rates in effect at the date of the transactions. Distributions received on securities that represent a return of capital or capital gains are recorded as a reduction of costs of investments and/or as a realized gain. The Funds estimate the components of distributions received that may be considered non-taxable distributions or capital gain distributions.
EXPENSES: Expenses are recorded on an accrual basis. Many of the expenses of the Funds can be directly attributable to a specific Fund. Expenses not directly attributable to a specific Fund are allocated among the Funds based on relative average net assets or another appropriate methodology. Class specific expenses are borne by that class. Fund expenses are pro-rated to the respective classes based on relative net assets.
CLASSES OF SHARES: Income, realized and unrealized gains and losses of a Fund are prorated to the respective classes of shares based on relative net assets.
DIVIDENDS AND DISTRIBUTIONS TO SHAREHOLDERS: Dividends and distributions to shareholders from net investment income and from net realized capital gains, if any, are declared and distributed at least annually for each of the Funds, except Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund, which declares dividends to shareholders from net investment income daily and distributes these dividends monthly and for which distributions to shareholders from net realized capital gains, if any, are declared and distributed at least annually.
OFFERING COSTS: During the period ended October 31, 2011, the Schroder Global Quality Fund incurred offering costs of $68,218 and as of April 30, 2012, the Fund has fully amortized its offering costs. During the period ended April 30, 2012, the Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund commenced operations and incurred offering costs of $98,743. Schroder Investment Management North America, Inc. (“SIMNA”) absorbed $93,510 of the offering costs for Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund. The amortized portion of the offering costs and the amount absorbed by SIMNA are included in “Offering Costs” and “Reimbursement from Investment Advisor” on the Statement of Operations.
FOREIGN CURRENCY: Foreign currency amounts are translated into U.S. dollars at the mean of the bid and asked prices of such currencies against U.S. dollars as follows: (i) assets and liabilities at the rate of exchange at the end of the respective period; and (ii) purchases and sales of securities and income and expenses at the rate of exchange prevailing on the dates of such transactions. The portion of the results of operations arising from changes in the exchange rates and the portion due to fluctuations arising from changes in the market prices of securities are not isolated. Such fluctuations are included with the net realized and unrealized gain or loss on investments. Certain Funds may enter into forward foreign currency contracts to protect the U.S. dollar value of the underlying portfolio of securities against the effect of possible adverse movements in foreign exchange rates. Principal risks associated with such transactions include the movement in value of the foreign currency relative to the U.S. dollar and the ability of the counterparty to perform. Fluctuations in the value of such forward foreign currency transactions are recorded daily as unrealized gain or loss; realized gain or loss includes net gain or loss on transactions that have terminated by settlement or by the Funds entering into offsetting commitments.
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WHEN-ISSUED SECURITIES: Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund purchases securities on a when-issued, delayed delivery, or forward commitment basis during the period covered by this report. These transactions involve a commitment by the Fund to purchase a security for a predetermined price or yield, with payments and delivery taking place more than seven days in the future, or after a period longer than the customary settlement period for that type of security. These transactions may increase the overall investment exposure for a Fund and involve a risk of loss if the value of the securities declines prior to the settlement date.
FUTURES: Financial futures contracts are valued based upon their quoted daily settlement prices; changes in initial settlement value (represented by cash paid to or received from brokers as “variation margin”) are accounted for as unrealized appreciation (depreciation). When futures contracts are closed, the difference between the opening value at the date of purchase and the value at closing is recorded as realized gain or loss in the Statements of Operations.
Futures contracts are generally utilized in order to hedge against unfavorable changes in the value of securities or otherwise to attempt to increase a Fund’s total return. Futures contracts involve leverage and are subject to market risk that may exceed the amounts recognized in the Statements of Assets and Liabilities. Risks arise from the possible significant movements in prices. The change in value of futures contracts primarily corresponds to the value of the securities or other index or amount underlying the contracts, but may not precisely correlate with the change in value of such securities or other index or amount. In addition, there is the risk that a Fund may not be able to enter into a closing transaction because of an illiquid secondary market.
OPTION TRANSACTIONS: Certain Funds may purchase and write call and put options on securities and securities indices, provided such options are traded on a national securities exchange or an over-the-counter market. The Funds may also purchase and sell call and put options on foreign currencies. When any of the Funds writes or purchases a covered call or put option, an amount equal to the premium received is included in that Fund’s statement of assets and liabilities as a liability. The amount of the liability is subsequently marked-to-market to reflect the current market value of the option. If an option expires on its stipulated expiration date or if the Fund enters into a closing purchase transaction, a gain or loss is realized. If a written call option is exercised, a gain or loss is realized for the sale of the underlying security and the proceeds from the sale are increased by the premium originally received. If a written put option is exercised, the cost of the security acquired is decreased by the premium originally received. As writer of an option, the Fund has no control over whether the underlying securities are subsequently sold (call) or purchased (put) and, as a result, bears the market risk of an unfavorable change in the price of the security or index underlying the written option. When any of the Funds purchases a call or put option, an amount equal to the premium paid is included in that Fund’s statement of assets and liabilities as an investment, and is subsequently marked-to-market to reflect the current market value of the option. If an option expires on the stipulated expiration date or if a Fund enters into a closing sale transaction, a gain or loss is realized. If a Fund exercises a call, the cost of the security acquired is increased by the premium paid for the call. If a Fund exercises a put option, a gain or loss is realized from the sale of the underlying security, and the proceeds from such sale are decreased by the premium originally paid. Written and purchased options are non-income producing securities. The option techniques utilized are generally to hedge against changes in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates or securities prices in order to establish more definitely the effective return on securities or currencies held or intended to be acquired by a Fund, to reduce the volatility of the currency exposure associated with an investment in non-U.S. securities, or as an efficient means of adjusting exposure to the bond, equity and currency markets and not for speculation.
EQUITY-LINKED AND INDEX-LINKED WARRANTS: Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund invests in equity-linked and index-linked warrants. Equity-linked warrants provide a way for investors to access markets where entry is difficult and time consuming due to regulation. A Fund purchases the equity-linked and index-linked warrants from a broker, who in turn is expected to purchase shares in the local market and issue a call warrant hedged on the underlying holdings. If the Fund exercises its call and closes its position, the shares are expected to be sold and the warrant redeemed with the proceeds. Each warrant typically represents one share of the underlying stock or basket of stocks representing the index. Therefore, the price, performance and liquidity of the warrant are all linked to the underlying stock or index, less transaction costs. Equity-linked warrants are generally valued at the closing price of the underlying securities, then adjusted for stock dividends declared by the underlying securities. In addition to the market risk related to the underlying holdings, the Fund bears additional counterparty risk with respect to the issuing broker. Moreover, there is currently no active trading market for either equity-linked or index-linked warrants. A Fund may also purchase warrants, issued by banks and other financial institutions, whose values are based on the values from time to time of one or more securities indices.
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MORTGAGE DOLLAR ROLLS: Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund enters into mortgage dollar rolls (principally using TBAs) in which the Fund sells mortgage securities for delivery in the current month and simultaneously contracts to repurchase substantially similar securities in a subsequent month at an agreed-upon price on a fixed date. The Fund accounts for such dollar rolls under the purchases and sales method and may receive compensation as consideration for entering into the commitment to repurchase. Mortgage dollar rolls have the effect of creating investment leverage. The market value of the securities that the Fund is required to purchase may decline below the agreed upon purchase price of those securities. The counterparty receives all principal and interest payments, including repayments, made in respect of a security subject to such a contract while it is the holder. Mortgage dollar rolls may be renewed with a new purchase and repurchase price and a cash settlement made on settlement date without physical delivery of the securities subject to the contract.
NOTE 3 — INVESTMENT ADVISORY FEES, ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENTS AND DISTRIBUTION PLANS
The Funds have entered into investment advisory agreements with SIMNA. Under these agreements, SIMNA provides investment management services and is entitled to receive for its services compensation, payable monthly, at the following annual rates based on average daily net assets of each Fund taken separately. In order to limit the expenses of the Investor Shares, Advisor Shares and Institutional Shares of certain Funds, SIMNA has contractually agreed to pay or reimburse the applicable Fund for expenses through February 28, 2013, to the extent that the total annual fund operating expenses of a Fund (other than acquired fund fees and expenses, other indirect acquired fund expenses, interest, taxes, and extraordinary expenses) allocable to each share class exceed the following annual rates (based on the average daily net assets attributable to each share class):
| | | | Expense Limitation | |
| | | | Investor | | Advisor | | Institutional | |
| | Management fee | | Shares | | Shares | | Shares | |
Schroder North American Equity Fund | | 0.25 | % | N/A | | N/A | | N/A | |
Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund | | 1.00 | % | 1.70 | % | 1.95 | % | N/A | |
Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | | 1.00 | % | 1.05 | % | 1.30 | % | N/A | |
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund | | 1.00 | % | 1.25 | % | 1.50 | % | N/A | |
Schroder International Alpha Fund | | 0.80 | %* | 0.95 | %** | 1.30 | %** | N/A | |
Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | 0.80 | %* | 0.95 | %** | 1.30 | %** | N/A | |
Schroder Global Quality Fund | | 0.55 | % | N/A | | N/A | | 0.70 | % |
Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | 0.25 | % | 0.40 | % | 0.65 | % | N/A | |
Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | | 0.90 | % | 1.15 | % | 1.40 | % | N/A | |
* | Prior to March 21, 2012, the management fee was 0.975% and 1.00% for the Schroder International Alpha Fund and the Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund, respectively. |
** | Prior to March 21, 2012, the expense limitation was 1.15% for the Investor Shares and 1.40% for Advisor Shares for the Schroder International Alpha Fund and the Schroder International Multi-Cap Fund. |
SIMNA has retained its affiliate Schroder Investment Management North America Limited (“SIMNA Ltd.”) to serve as sub-advisor responsible for the portfolio management of Schroder North American Equity Fund, Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund, Schroder International Alpha Fund, Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund, Schroder Global Quality Fund and Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund. SIMNA pays SIMNA Ltd. 50% of the investment advisory fees it receives from these Funds, after waivers.
The administrator of SGST is Schroder Fund Advisors LLC (“Schroder Advisors”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SIMNA. Schroder Advisors receives no compensation for its services for Schroder North American Equity Fund and Schroder Global Quality Fund. SIMNA provides certain administration services to Schroder International Alpha Fund and Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund. SIMNA’s compensation for these services is included in Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund’s and Schroder International Alpha Fund’s advisory fees.
Effective November 1, 2010, under (i) amended sub-administration and accounting agreements with SEI Investments Global Funds Services (“SEI”), the SCFD Funds and the SGST Funds, other than Schroder North American Equity Fund, and (ii) an amended administration and accounting agreement with SEI, the SST Funds, pay fees to SEI based on the aggregate average daily net assets of all the SCFD Funds, the SST Funds and the SGST Funds, other than Schroder North American Equity Fund, according to the
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following annual rates: 0.0875% on the first $2 billion of such assets; 0.0700% on the next $1 billion of such assets; 0.0600% on the next $2 billion of such assets; and 0.0500% on assets in excess of $5 billion. Each Fund pays its pro rata portion of such fees.
Effective January 29, 2005, as amended November 1, 2010, Schroder North American Equity Fund pays SEI a fee, computed and paid monthly, at an annual rate of 0.013% of the Schroder North American Equity Fund’s average daily net assets up to $1 billion and 0.005% of Schroder North American Equity Fund’s average daily net assets over $1 billion.
The Funds have adopted a Distribution Plan (the “Plan”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act that allows each Fund to pay distribution and other fees with respect to its Advisor Shares. Under the Plan, a Fund may make payments at an annual rates of up to 0.25% of the average daily net assets attributable to their Advisor Shares to compensate Schroder Advisors for distribution services and certain shareholder services with respect to the Funds’ Advisor Shares, except for Schroder North American Equity Fund, which may make payments at an annual rate of up to 0.35% of the average daily net assets attributable to its Advisor Shares.
The Funds, with respect to their Advisor Shares, pay a fee up to 0.10% of their Advisor Shares average daily net assets for services related to sub-administration, sub-transfer agency or other shareholder services. This fee is in addition to payments made under such Funds’ 12b-1 plans.
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NOTE 4 — DERIVATIVE CONTRACTS
The period-end fair values on the Schedules of Investments and the amounts of realized and changes in unrealized gains and losses as disclosed on the Statements of Operations are generally indicative of the volume of the Fund’s derivative activity for the period.
The fair value of derivative instruments as of April 30, 2012, was as follows:
| | Statement of Assets | | Asset | | Liability | |
Fund | | and Liabilities Location | | Derivatives | | Derivatives | |
| | | | | | | |
Schroder North American Equity Fund | | | | | | | |
Equity contracts | | Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on futures contracts | | $ | 926,714 | | $ | — | |
Foreign exchange contracts | | Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on forward foreign currency contracts | | 13,038 | | (173,465 | ) |
| | | | $ | 939,752 | | $ | (173,465 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | |
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund | | | | | | | |
Equity Contracts | | Investments in securities, at value | | $ | 5,365,824 | | $ | — | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | | | | | | |
Foreign exchange contracts | | Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on forward foreign currency contracts | | $ | 23,356 | | $ | (13,038 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | |
Schroder Global Quality Fund | | | | | | | |
Equity contracts | | Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on futures contracts | | $ | 5,786 | | $ | — | |
Foreign exchange contracts | | Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on forward foreign currency contracts | | 12,950 | | (23,186 | ) |
| | | | $ | 18,736 | | $ | (23,186 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | |
Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | | | | | | |
Interest rate contracts | | Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on futures contracts | | $ | 112,193 | | $ | (143,931 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | |
Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | | | | | | | |
Foreign exchange contracts | | Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on forward foreign currency contracts | | $ | 176,214 | | $ | (179,703 | ) |
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The effect of derivative instruments on the Statement of Operations for the six months ended April 30, 2012, was as follows:
The amount of realized and unrealized gain (loss) on derivatives recognized in income:
Fund | | Realized Gain (Loss) | | Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | | Total | |
| | | | | | | |
Schroder North American Equity Fund | | | | | | | |
Equity contracts | | | | | | | |
Futures contracts | | $ | 10,186,198 | | $ | (3,493,637 | ) | $ | 6,692,561 | |
Foreign exchange contracts | | | | | | | |
Forward contracts | | (693,166 | ) | 469,200 | | (223,966 | ) |
| | $ | 9,493,032 | | $ | (3,024,437 | ) | $ | 6,468,595 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund | | | | | | | |
Equity contracts | | | | | | | |
Equity-linked warrants | | $ | — | | $ | 810,837 | | $ | 810,837 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | | | | | | |
Equity contracts | | | | | | | |
Futures contracts | | $ | (2,811 | ) | $ | — | | $ | (2,811 | ) |
Foreign exchange contracts | | | | | | | |
Forward contracts | | (30,147 | ) | 20,259 | | (9,888 | ) |
| | $ | (32,958 | ) | $ | 20,259 | | $ | (12,699 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Schroder Global Quality Fund | | | | | | | |
Equity contracts | | | | | | | |
Futures contracts | | $ | 15,068 | | $ | 5,786 | | $ | 20,854 | |
Foreign exchange contracts | | | | | | | |
Forward contracts | | (76,713 | ) | 26,086 | | (50,627 | ) |
| | $ | (61,645 | ) | $ | 31,872 | | $ | (29,773 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | | | | | | |
Interest rate contracts | | | | | | | |
Futures contracts | | $ | 296,882 | | $ | (205,671 | ) | $ | 91,211 | |
Options | | (6,588 | ) | — | | (6,588 | ) |
| | $ | 290,294 | | $ | (205,671 | ) | $ | 84,623 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | | | | | | | |
Foreign exchange contracts | | | | | | | |
Forward contracts | | $ | (372,135 | ) | $ | (3,489 | ) | $ | (375,624 | ) |
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NOTE 5 — REDEMPTION FEES
Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund, Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund, Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund, Schroder International Alpha Fund, Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund, and Schroder Global Quality Fund generally impose a 2.00% redemption fee on shares redeemed (including in connection with an exchange) two months or less from their date of purchase. These fees, which are not sales charges, are retained by the Funds and not paid to Schroder Advisors or any other entity. The redemption fees are included in the Statements of Changes in Net Assets under “Redemption fees,” and are included as part of “Capital paid-in” on the Statements of Assets and Liabilities. The redemption fees retained for the six months ended April 30, 2012 were as follows:
Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund | | $ | 277 | |
Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | | 5,681 | |
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund | | 43,969 | |
Schroder International Alpha Fund | | 140 | |
Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | 7,085 | |
Schroder Global Quality Fund | | 253 | |
NOTE 6 — TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES
TRUSTEES’ FEES: The Funds pay no compensation to Trustees who are interested persons of the Trusts, SIMNA or Schroder Advisors. For their services as Trustees of all open-end investment companies distributed by Schroder Advisors for the period ended April 30, 2012, Trustees who are not interested persons of the Funds, SIMNA or Schroder Advisors received an annual retainer of $25,000 and $2,500 per meeting attended in person or $1,000 per meeting attended by telephone. Members of an Audit Committee for one or more of such Funds received an additional $1,000 per meeting, with the Audit Committee chair receiving a $5,000 retainer. If a meeting relates to a single Fund or group of Funds, payments of such meeting fees are allocated only among those Funds to which the meeting relates.
Officers of the Funds are also officers of SIMNA and Schroder Advisors. Such officers are paid no fees by the Funds for serving as officers of the Funds.
NOTE 7 — INVESTMENT TRANSACTIONS
Purchases and proceeds from sales and maturities of investments, excluding short-term and U.S. Government securities for each Fund, for the six months ended April 30, 2012 were as follows:
| | Purchases | | Sales and Maturities | |
Schroder North American Equity Fund | | $ | 96,816,859 | | $ | 88,708,828 | |
Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund | | 51,196,625 | | 69,630,079 | |
Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | | 76,998,963 | | 90,922,695 | |
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund | | 210,437,224 | | 87,671,005 | |
Schroder International Alpha Fund | | 29,379,363 | | 15,365,303 | |
Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | 8,548,062 | | 6,453,556 | |
Schroder Global Quality Fund | | 31,036,882 | | 37,438,325 | |
Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | 37,880,438 | | 32,302,257 | |
Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | | 18,795,966 | | 217,499 | |
| | | | | | | |
Purchases and proceeds from sales and maturities of U.S. Government securities for the six months ended April 30, 2012 were as follows:
| | Purchases | | Sales and Maturities | |
Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | $ | 139,356,185 | | $ | 135,506,830 | |
| | | | | | | |
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Both redemptions and subscriptions in-kind reflect the valuation of the underlying securities in accordance with the Funds’ valuation policy. The asset price used to effect the redemption is the respective asset price used to calculate the net asset value of the shares redeemed. For the year ended October 31, 2011, Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund realized gains from in-kind redemptions of $963,090.
NOTE 8 — FEDERAL INCOME TAXES
Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These book/tax differences are either temporary or permanent in nature. Any permanent differences, which may result in distribution reclassifications, are primarily due to differing treatments for gains resulting from redemptions in-kind, paydown gains and losses, distributions in excess, investments in passive foreign investment companies, reclassifications of long-term capital gain distributions on real estate investment trust securities, partnership investments, net operating losses and foreign currency transactions. Distributions from short-term gains and from gains on foreign currency transactions are treated as distributions from ordinary income for tax purposes.
At October 31, 2011, the Funds reclassified the following permanent amounts between capital paid-in, undistributed net investment income and accumulated realized gain (loss):
| | Increase (Decrease) Undistributed Net Investment Income | | Increase (Decrease) Accumulated Realized Gain (Loss) | | Increase (Decrease) Capital Paid-in | |
Schroder North American Equity Fund | | $ | 474,388 | | $ | (481,030 | ) | $ | 6,642 | |
Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund | | 690,596 | | 42,497 | | (732,893 | ) |
Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | | (11,282 | ) | (16,699 | ) | 27,981 | |
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund | | (126,530 | ) | 126,530 | | — | |
Schroder International Alpha Fund | | 1,139,569 | | (1,139,569 | ) | — | |
Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | 130,116 | | (130,116 | ) | — | |
Schroder Global Quality Fund | | 192,166 | | (192,166 | ) | — | |
Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | 266,617 | | (1,231,815 | ) | 965,198 | |
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The tax character of dividends and distributions declared during the years or periods ended October 31, 2011 and October 31, 2010, was as follows:
| | Ordinary Income | | Long-Term Capital Gain | | Total | |
Schroder North American Equity Fund | | | | | | | |
2011 | | $ | 6,802,225 | | $ | — | | $ | 6,802,225 | |
2010 | | 6,698,938 | | — | | 6,698,938 | |
Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | | | | | | | |
2011 | | — | | 2,832,021 | | 2,832,021 | |
2010 | | — | | — | | — | |
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund | | | | | | | |
2011 | | 1,702,283 | | — | | 1,702,283 | |
2010 | | 392,694 | | — | | 392,694 | |
Schroder International Alpha Fund | | | | | | | |
2011 | | 1,635,036 | | — | | 1,635,036 | |
2010 | | 921,312 | | — | | 921,312 | |
Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | | | | | | |
2011 | | 428,574 | | — | | 428,574 | |
2010 | | 355,291 | | — | | 355,291 | |
Schroder Global Quality Fund | | | | | | | |
2011 | | 57,642 | | — | | 57,642 | |
Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | | | | | | |
2011 | | 6,087,969 | | 722,121 | | 6,810,090 | |
2010 | | 11,879,530 | | 884,954 | | 12,764,484 | |
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As of October 31, 2011, the components of distributable earnings (accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
| | Undistributed Ordinary Income | | Undistributed Long-Term Capital Gain | | Capital Loss Carryforward | | Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | | Other Temporary Differences | | Total Distributable Earnings (Accumulated Losses) | |
Schroder North American Equity Fund | | $ | 5,987,153 | | $ | — | | $ | (61,744,503 | ) | $ | 16,704,707 | | $ | (2 | ) | $ | (39,052,645 | ) |
Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund | | — | | 5,123,091 | | — | | 19,577,722 | | 13 | | 24,700,826 | |
Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | | 416,576 | | 2,865,685 | | — | | 8,496,330 | | (10,916 | ) | 11,767,675 | |
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund | | 3,104,956 | | 1,928,376 | | — | | (5,237,548 | ) | (13,485 | ) | (217,701 | ) |
Schroder International Alpha Fund | | 463,284 | | — | | (8,934,666 | ) | (390,939 | ) | (2 | ) | (8,862,323 | ) |
Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | 569,678 | | — | | (2,440,646 | ) | (1,439,005 | ) | (24,287 | ) | (3,334,260 | ) |
Schroder Global Quality Fund | | 1,150,356 | | — | | (458,255 | ) | (1,723,572 | ) | (8,093 | ) | (1,039,564 | ) |
Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | 1,132,211 | | — | | — | | 2,016,023 | | (196,486 | ) | 2,951,748 | |
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As of October 31, 2011, the Funds listed below had net tax basis capital loss carryforwards, for Federal income tax purposes, that may be applied against future taxable gains until their expiration date as follows, except for Schroder International Alpha Fund, which may be subject to annual limitations:
| | October 31, | |
| | 2017 | | 2019 | |
| | | | | |
Schroder North American Equity Fund | | $ | 61,744,503 | | $ | — | |
Schroder International Alpha Fund | | 8,934,666 | | — | |
Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | 2,440,646 | | — | |
Schroder Global Quality Fund | | — | | 458,255 | |
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During the year ended October 31, 2011, the Funds listed below utilized capital loss carryforwards to offset capital gains:
ScSchroder North American Equity Fund | | $ | 39,074,769 | |
ScSchroder U.S. Opportunities Fund | | 11,578,862 | |
ScSchroder Emerging Market Equity Fund | | 836,401 | |
ScSchroder International Alpha Fund | | 3,916,824 | |
ScSchroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | 546,396 | |
Under the recently enacted Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2010, the Funds will be permitted to carry forward capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning after December 22, 2010 for an unlimited period. However, any losses incurred during those future taxable years will be required to be utilized prior to the losses incurred in pre-enactment taxable years. As a result of this ordering rule, preenactment capital loss carryforwards may be more likely to expire unused. Additionally, post-enactment capital losses that are carried forward will retain their character as either short-term or long-term capital losses rather than being considered all short-term as under previous law.
At April 30, 2012, the identified cost for Federal income tax purposes of investments owned by each Fund and their respective gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation were as follows:
| | Identified Tax Cost | | Gross Unrealized Appreciation | | Gross Unrealized (Depreciation) | | Net Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | |
ScSchroder North American Equity Fund | | $ | 493,481,035 | | $ | 80,335,914 | | $ | (21,993,242 | ) | $ | 58,342,672 | |
ScSchroder U.S. Opportunities Fund | | 126,909,673 | | 25,727,085 | | (2,394,562 | ) | 23,332,523 | |
Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | | 204,725,393 | | 25,144,409 | | (3,045,285 | ) | 22,099,124 | |
ScSchroder Emerging Market Equity Fund | | 454,080,205 | | 54,111,128 | | (18,120,200 | ) | 35,990,928 | |
ScSchroder International Alpha Fund | | 62,534,520 | | 5,907,829 | | (2,459,104 | ) | 3,448,725 | |
ScSchroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | 22,083,076 | | 1,682,353 | | (2,055,661 | ) | (373,308 | ) |
ScSchroder Global Quality Fund | | 64,342,972 | | 5,842,989 | | (2,497,800 | ) | 3,345,189 | |
ScSchroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | 106,833,937 | | 2,452,437 | | (117,636 | ) | 2,334,801 | |
Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | | 47,759,146 | | 354,347 | | (293,071 | ) | 61,276 | |
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NOTE 9 — PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT RISKS
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund, Schroder International Alpha Fund, Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund, Schroder Global Quality Fund and Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund have a relatively large portion of their assets invested in companies or issuers domiciled in particular foreign countries, including emerging markets. The Funds may be more susceptible to political, social and economic events adversely affecting those countries and such issuers.
Each of Schroder International Alpha Fund, Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund and Schroder Global Quality Fund may invest more than 25% of its total assets in issuers located in any one country or group of countries. Under normal market conditions, Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund invests in emerging markets debt securities and will have exposure to currencies around the world, including currencies of emerging market countries. The values of foreign currencies relative to the U.S. dollar may be extremely volatile and may fluctuate in response to, among other factors, interest rate changes, intervention (or failure to intervene) by the U.S. or foreign governments, central banks, or supranational entities such as the International Monetary Fund; the imposition of currency controls; and political and regulatory developments in the United States or abroad. Officials in foreign countries may from time to time take actions in respect of their currencies which could adversely affect the values of a Fund’s assets denominated in those currencies or the liquidity of such investments. Foreign-currency values can decrease significantly both in the short term and over the long term in response to these and other developments. If the Fund purchases securities denominated in foreign currencies, a change in the value of any such currency against the U.S. dollar will result in a change in the U.S. dollar value of the Fund’s assets and potentially the Fund’s income available for distribution. To the extent that it does so, a Fund is susceptible to a range of factors that could adversely affect its holdings in issuers of that country, including political and economic developments and foreign exchange-rate fluctuations. As a result of investing substantially in a single country, the value of the Fund’s assets may fluctuate more widely than the
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value of shares of a comparable fund with a lesser degree of geographic concentration. The Funds may invest in countries with limited or developing capital markets. Investments in these markets may involve greater risk than investments in more developed markets.
Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund invests a portion of its assets in securities of issuers that hold mortgage securities, including subprime mortgage securities. The value of these securities is sensitive to changes in economic conditions, including delinquencies and/or defaults, and may be adversely affected by shifts in the market’s perception of the issuers and changes in interest rates.
NOTE 10 — BENEFICIAL INTEREST
The following table shows the number of shareholders each owning of record, or to the knowledge of the Funds beneficially, 5% or more of shares of a Fund outstanding as of April 30, 2012 and the total percentage of shares of the Fund held by such shareholders. The table includes omnibus accounts that hold shares on behalf of several shareholders.
| | 5% or Greater Shareholders | |
| | Number | | % of Fund Held | |
Schroder North American Equity Fund | | 3 | | 93.08 | % |
Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund | | 3 | | 74.91 | |
Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | | 3 | | 80.96 | |
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund | | 8 | | 63.09 | |
Schroder International Alpha Fund | | 3 | | 76.55 | |
Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | 4 | | 63.25 | |
Schroder Global Quality Fund | | 1 | | 9.53 | |
Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | 5 | | 72.10 | |
Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | | 3 | | 74.78 | |
Some of the accounts shown above for Schroder North American Equity Fund, Schroder International Alpha Fund and Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund are owned by an affiliate of SIMNA.
NOTE 11 — LINE OF CREDIT
The Funds entered into a credit agreement on October 6, 2008, as amended from time to time, that enables them to participate in a $25 million committed revolving line of credit with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Any advance under the line of credit is contemplated primarily for temporary or emergency purposes, or to finance the redemption of the shares of a shareholder of the borrower. Interest is charged to the Funds based on its borrowings at the current reference rate. The Funds pay their pro rata portion of an annual commitment fee of 0.15% on the total amount of the credit facility. For the six months ended April 30, 2012, Schroder Global Quality Fund utilized the line of credit for varying amounts up to $13,407,224 for a period of 7 days paying interest of $2,701, which is included in the Statement of Operations as custody expense.
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NOTE 12 — CAPITAL SHARE TRANSACTIONS
Capital share transactions for the six months ended April 30, 2012 (unaudited) and the year ended October 31, 2011, were as follows:
| | North American Equity Fund | | U.S. Opportunities Fund | | U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | |
| | 2012 | | 2011 | | 2012 | | 2011 | | 2012 | | 2011 | |
Investor Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | 846,044 | | 8,123,797 | | 135,047 | | 430,858 | | 2,217,690 | | 15,742,261 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 687,109 | | 605,088 | | 217,958 | | — | | 122,070 | | 161,627 | |
Redemption of shares | | (2,491,084 | ) | (9,292,092 | ) | (849,882 | ) | (1,757,970 | ) | (3,124,014 | ) | (7,767,722 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in Investor Shares | | (957,931 | ) | (563,207 | ) | (496,877 | ) | (1,327,112 | ) | (784,254 | ) | 8,136,166 | |
Advisor Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | 5,443 | | 4,849 | | 4,618 | | 19,918 | | 19,111 | | 200,650 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 205 | | 237 | | 4,262 | | — | | 8,025 | | 19,144 | |
Redemption of shares | | — | | (6,285 | ) | (13,528 | ) | (34,550 | ) | (93,241 | ) | (489,354 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in Advisor Shares | | 5,648 | | (1,199 | ) | (4,648 | ) | (14,632 | ) | (66,105 | ) | (269,560 | ) |
| | Emerging Market Equity Fund | | International Alpha Fund | | International Multi-Cap Value Fund | |
| | 2012 | | 2011 | | 2012 | | 2011 | | 2012 | | 2011 | |
Investor Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | 12,914,255 | | 10,777,360 | | 2,697,571 | | 1,243,461 | | 451,989 | | 293,828 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 274,662 | | 76,839 | | 27,491 | | 47,340 | | 9,992 | | 3,560 | |
Redemption of shares | | (2,186,593 | ) | (3,168,303 | ) | (1,023,561 | ) | (1,003,487 | ) | (84,085 | ) | (64,097 | ) |
Net increase in Investor Shares | | 11,002,324 | | 7,675,896 | | 1,701,501 | | 287,314 | | 377,896 | | 233,291 | |
Advisor Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | 2,344,260 | | 3,916,396 | | 114,845 | | 560,766 | | 209,677 | | 717,925 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 107,338 | | 34,806 | | — | | 49,737 | | 17,257 | | 3,775 | |
Redemption of shares | | (1,284,925 | ) | (2,690,491 | ) | (240,656 | ) | (2,802,736 | ) | (277,020 | ) | (151,989 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in Advisor Shares | | 1,166,673 | | 1,260,711 | | (125,811 | ) | (2,192,233 | ) | (50,086 | ) | 569,711 | |
| | Global Quality Fund | | Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | |
| | 2012 | | 2011(a) | | 2012 | | 2011 | | 2012(b) | |
Investor Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | — | | — | | 1,254,628 | | 3,872,772 | | 4,536,111 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | — | | — | | 179,153 | | 570,983 | | — | |
Redemption of shares | | — | | — | | (652,853 | ) | (1,712,566 | ) | (11,463 | ) |
Redemption of shares in-kind | | — | | — | | — | | (6,301,208 | ) | — | |
Net increase (decrease) in Investor Shares | | — | | — | | 780,928 | | (3,570,019 | ) | 4,524,648 | |
Advisor Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | — | | — | | 85,871 | | 104,834 | | 355,096 | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | — | | — | | 3,995 | | 16,447 | | — | |
Redemption of shares | | — | | — | | (75,732 | ) | (269,637 | ) | (9,112 | ) |
Net increase (decrease) in Advisor Shares | | — | | — | | 14,134 | | (148,356 | ) | 345,984 | |
Institutional Class Shares: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Sales of shares | | 141,031 | | 692,526 | | — | | — | | — | |
Reinvestment of distributions | | 9,802 | | 547 | | — | | — | | — | |
Redemption of shares | | (179,996 | ) | (31,382 | ) | — | | — | | — | |
Net increase (decrease) in Institutional Class Shares | | (29,163 | ) | 661,691 | | — | | — | | — | |
(a) Fund commenced investment activities on November 9, 2010.
(b) Fund commenced investment activities on December 15, 2011.
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NOTE 13 — LITIGATION
In May 2011, “Schroders US Mutual Funds” was served with a summons and complaint in an action brought by Edward S. Weisfelner, as Litigation Trustee of the LB Litigation Trust, in the case captioned Weisfelner v. A. Holmes & H. Holmes TTEE, et al. (Adv. Pro. No. 10-5525) (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) (the “Litigation Trust Action”). In January 2012, “Schroders US Mutual Funds” was served with a summons and complaint in an action brought by Edward S. Weisfelner, as trustee of the LB Creditors Trust, in the case captioned Weisfelner v. Fund 1 et al. (Adv. Pro. No. 10-04609) (the “Creditors Trust Action”). Both litigations seek to recover all payments made to shareholders in the December 2007 leveraged buyout of Lyondell Chemical Company as alleged fraudulent transfers. The Litigation Trust Action asserted intentional and constructive fraudulent transfer actions under the Bankruptcy Code, and the Creditors Trust Action asserted intentional and constructive fraudulent transfer actions under state law. Both litigations allege that Schroders US Mutual Funds received $2,045,424 in payments in the leveraged buyout. The Funds’ records indicate that Schroder North American Equity Fund received payment in that amount related to the buyout, and that Fund is the only Schroder U.S. mutual fund that received such a payment. Schroder North American Equity Fund has joined in motions to dismiss that were previously filed by other defendants. By order dated October 6, 2011, the motions to dismiss were granted with respect to the constructive fraudulent transfer claims brought under the Bankruptcy Code in the Litigation Trust Action. The motions to dismiss remain pending with respect to the constructive fraudulent transfer claims brought under state law and the intentional fraudulent transfer claims. The possible outcome of the actions is currently uncertain.
NOTE 14 — RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
In April 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2011-03 “Reconsideration of Effective Control of Repurchase Agreements”. ASU 2011-03 is an amendment to Topic 860 “Transfers and Servicing”. These amendments simplify the accounting for repurchase agreements by eliminating the requirement that the transferor demonstrate it has adequate collateral to fund substantially all the cost of purchasing replacement assets. As a result, more arrangements could be accounted for as secured borrowings rather than sales. The guidance applies to public and nonpublic companies and is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning on or after December 15, 2011. The guidance should be applied prospectively to transactions or modifications of existing transactions that occur on or after the effective date. Early adoption is not allowed. At this time, management is evaluating the implications of ASU 2011-03 and its impact on the financial statements.
In May 2011, the FASB issued ASU No. 2011-04 “Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”)”. ASU 2011-04 includes common requirements for measurement of and disclosure about fair value between U.S. GAAP and IFRS. ASU 2011-04 will require reporting entities to disclose the following information for fair value measurements categorized within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy: quantitative information about the unobservable inputs used in the fair value measurement, the valuation processes used by the reporting entity, and a narrative description of the sensitivity of the fair value measurement to changes in unobservable inputs and the interrelationships between those unobservable inputs. In addition, ASU 2011-04 will require reporting entities to make disclosures about amounts and reasons for all transfers in and out of Level 1 and Level 2 fair value measurements. The new and revised disclosures are effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2011. At this time, management is evaluating the implications of ASU 2011-04 and its impact on the financial statements.
In December 2011, the FASB issued ASU No. 2011-11, a further update to the guidance “Balance Sheet — Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities”. The amendments in this update require an entity to disclose information about offsetting of assets and liabilities and facilitate comparison between U.S. GAAP and those entities that prepare their financial statements on the basis of IFRS. The amended guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after January 1, 2013. At this time, management is evaluating the implications of this update and its impact on the financial statements has not been determined.
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NOTE 15 — SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
The Funds have evaluated the need for disclosures and/or adjustments resulting from subsequent events through the date the financial statements were available to be issued. Based on this evaluation, no adjustments were required to the financial statements as of April 30, 2012.
On May 1, 2012, Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund was re-opened to new investors.
Effective June 30, 2012, SIMNA will pay SIMNA Ltd. the following percentage of the investment advisory fees it receives from Schroder North American Equity Fund, Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund, Schroder International Alpha Fund, Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund, Schroder Global Quality Fund and Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund, after waivers, as set forth below.
Fund | | Percentage of Fees Paid to SIMNA Ltd. | |
Schroder North American Equity Fund | | 53 | % |
Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund | | 41 | % |
Schroder International Alpha Fund | | 51 | % |
Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | 51 | % |
Schroder Global Quality Fund | | 53 | % |
Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | | 51 | % |
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Disclosure of Fund Expenses (unaudited)
We believe it is important for you to understand the impact of fees regarding your investment. All mutual funds have operating expenses. As a shareholder of a Schroder Mutual Fund, you incur ongoing costs, which include, among others, costs for portfolio management, administrative services, and shareholder reports (like this one), and in the case of Advisor Shares, distribution (12b-1) fees. Operating expenses, which are deducted from a fund’s gross income, directly reduce the investment return of the fund. A fund’s expenses are expressed as a percentage of its average net assets. This figure is known as the expense ratio. The following examples are intended to help you understand the ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in your Fund and to compare these costs with those of other mutual funds. The examples are based on an investment of $1,000 made at the beginning of the period shown and held for the entire period.
The table below illustrates your Fund’s costs in two ways.
· Actual expenses. This section helps you to estimate the actual expenses after fee waivers, if applicable, that you paid over the period. The “Ending Account Value” shown is derived from the Fund’s actual return, and the fourth column shows the dollar amount that would have been paid by an investor who started with $1,000 in the Fund. You may use the information here, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period.
To do so, 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 given for your Fund under the heading “Expenses Paid During Period.”
· Hypothetical example for comparison purposes. This section is intended to help you compare your Fund’s costs with those of other mutual funds. It assumes that the Fund had a return of 5% before expenses during the year, and that it incurred expenses at the rate of which it in the past did incur expenses. In this case, because the return used is not the Fund’s actual return, the results may not be used to estimate the actual ending balance of an account in the Fund over the period or expenses you actually paid. The example is useful in making comparisons because the Securities and Exchange Commission requires all mutual funds to calculate expenses in this table based on a 5% return. You can assess your Fund’s costs by comparing this hypothetical example with the hypothetical examples that appear in shareholder reports of other funds.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight and help you compare ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs such as redemption fees, which are described in the Prospectus. If this fee were applied to your account, your costs would be higher.
| | Beginning Account Value 11/1/11 | | Ending Account Value 4/30/12 | | Net Annualized Expense Ratios | | Expenses Paid During Period* | |
Schroder North American Equity Fund | | | | | | | | | |
Actual Expenses | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,116.20 | | 0.36 | % | $ | 1.89 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,113.70 | | 0.71 | | 3.73 | |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,023.07 | | 0.36 | % | $ | 1.81 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,021.33 | | 0.71 | | 3.57 | |
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Schroder U.S. Opportunities Fund | | | | | | | | | |
Actual Expenses | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,095.50 | | 1.31 | % | $ | 6.83 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,094.40 | | 1.56 | | 8.12 | |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,018.34 | | 1.31 | | $ | 6.57 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,017.11 | | 1.56 | | 7.82 | |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized expense ratio multiplied by the average account value over the account period, multiplied by 182/366 (to reflect the one-half year period).
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| | Beginning Account Value 11/1/11 | | Ending Account Value 4/30/12 | | Net Annualized Expense Ratios | | Expenses Paid During Period* | |
Schroder U.S. Small and Mid Cap Opportunities Fund | | | | | | | | | |
Actual Expenses | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,106.90 | | 1.05 | % | $ | 5.50 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,105.60 | | 1.30 | | 6.81 | |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,019.64 | | 1.05 | % | $ | 5.27 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,018.40 | | 1.30 | | 6.52 | |
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Schroder Emerging Market Equity Fund | | | | | | | | | |
Actual Expenses | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,076.00 | | 1.25 | % | $ | 6.45 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,075.60 | | 1.50 | | 7.74 | |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,018.65 | | 1.25 | | $ | 6.27 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,017.40 | | 1.50 | | 7.52 | |
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Schroder International Alpha Fund | | | | | | | | | |
Actual Expenses | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,062.30 | | 1.07 | % | $ | 5.49 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,060.00 | | 1.36 | | 6.97 | |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,019.54 | | 1.07 | | $ | 5.37 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,018.10 | | 1.36 | | 6.82 | |
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Schroder International Multi-Cap Value Fund | | | | | | | | | |
Actual Expenses | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,039.80 | | 1.08 | % | $ | 5.48 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,040.20 | | 1.36 | | 6.90 | |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,019.49 | | 1.08 | | $ | 5.42 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,018.10 | | 1.36 | | 6.82 | |
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Schroder Global Quality Fund | | | | | | | | | |
Actual Expenses | | | | | | | | | |
Institutional Class Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,079.30 | | 0.70 | % | $ | 3.62 | |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes | | | | | | | | | |
Institutional Class Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,021.38 | | 0.70 | | $ | 3.52 | |
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Schroder Total Return Fixed Income Fund | | | | | | | | | |
Actual Expenses | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,032.00 | | 0.40 | % | $ | 2.02 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,030.70 | | 0.65 | | 3.28 | |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,022.87 | | 0.40 | | $ | 2.01 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,021.53 | | 0.65 | | 3.27 | |
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Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund | | | | | | | | | |
Actual Expenses | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 993.00 | | 1.15 | % | $ | 4.29 | ** |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 992.00 | | 1.40 | | 5.22 | ** |
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes | | | | | | | | | |
Investor Shares | | $ | 1,000.00 | | $ | 1,019.14 | | 1.15 | | $ | 5.77 | |
Advisor Shares | | 1,000.00 | | 1,017.85 | | 1.40 | | 7.02 | |
* Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized expense ratio multiplied by the average account value over the account period, multiplied by 182/366 (to reflect the one-half year period).
** Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized expense ratio multiplied by the average account value over the account period, multiplied by 137/366 (to reflect the period).
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Privacy Statement
FACTS
WHAT DOES SCHRODERS DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Why?
Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
What?
The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:
· Social Security number and income
· account balances and account transactions
· assets and investment experience
When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.
How?
All financial companies need to share clients’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their clients’ personal information; the reasons Schroders chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.
Reasons we can share your personal information | | Does Schroders share? | | Can you limit this sharing? |
For our everyday business purposes — such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), or respond to court orders and legal investigations | | Yes | | No |
For our marketing purposes — to offer our products and services to you | | Yes | | No |
For joint marketing with other financial companies | | No | | We Don’t Share |
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes — information about your transactions and experiences | | Yes | | No |
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes — information about your creditworthiness | | No | | We Don’t Share |
For nonaffiliates to market to you | | No | | We Don’t Share |
Questions?
For Schroder Mutual Funds, call BFDS at (800) 464-3108.
For other inquiries, call Institutional Client Service at (212) 641-3800 or email clientserviceny@us.schroders.com
Who we are
Who is providing this notice?
· Schroder Investment Management North America Inc.
· Schroder Mutual Funds
· Schroder Fund Advisors LLC
What we do
How does Schroders protect my personal information?
To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings.
Access to personal information is limited to employees who need it to perform their jobs. Our policies restrict employee use of customer information; requiring it be held in strict confidence.
How does Schroders collect my personal information?
We collect your personal information, for example, when you
· open an account and provide account information
· give us your contact information
· show your driver’s license or government issued ID
· enter into an investment advisory contract
· make a wire transfer
Why can’t I limit all sharing?
Federal law gives you the right to limit only
· sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes—information about your creditworthiness
· affiliates from using your information to market to you
· sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you
State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.
Definitions
Affiliates
Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
· Our affiliates include companies with the Schroder name; financial companies such as Schroder Investment Management North America Limited and Schroder Investment Management Limited; and others, such as the parent, holding company, Schroders plc.
Nonaffiliates
Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
· Nonaffiliates we share with can include companies that help us maintain, process or service your transactions or account(s) or financial products, including companies that perform administrative, accounting, transfer agency, custodial, brokerage or proxy solicitation services, or that assist us in marketing.
Joint marketing
A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.
· Schroders doesn’t jointly market.
Investment Advisor | | Schroder Investment Management North America, Inc. |
| | 875 Third Avenue, 22nd Floor |
| | New York, NY |
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Trustees | | Catherine A. Mazza (Chairman) |
| | Jay S. Calhoun |
| | Margaret M. Cannella |
| | Mark Gersten |
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Distributor | | Schroder Fund Advisors LLC |
| | 875 Third Avenue, 22nd Floor |
| | New York, NY 10022 |
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Transfer & Shareholder | | Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. |
Servicing Agent | | |
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Custodian | | JPMorgan Chase Bank |
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Counsel | | Ropes & Gray LLP |
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Independent Registered Public | | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
Accounting Firm | | |
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| | The information contained in this report is intended for the general information of the shareholders of the Trusts. This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus which contains important information concerning the Trusts. |
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| | Schroder Capital Funds (Delaware) |
| | Schroder Series Trust |
| | Schroder Global Series Trust |
| | P.O. Box 8507 |
| | Boston, MA 02266 |
| | (800) 464-3108 |
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| | 55895 |
Item 2. Code of Ethics.
Not applicable for semi-annual report.
Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert.
Not applicable for semi-annual report.
Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.
Not applicable for semi-annual report.
Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.
Not applicable to open-end management investment companies.
Item 6. Schedule of Investments.
Not applicable.
Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable to open-end management investment companies.
Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable.
Item 9. Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Company and Affiliated Purchasers.
Not applicable to open-end management investment companies.
Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
None.
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 of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report on Form N-CSR, that the design and operation of such procedures are effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by the investment company on Form N-CSR is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms.
(b) There have been no changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting during the period from February 1, 2012 through April 30, 2012 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 for semi-annual report.
(a)(2) A separate certification for the principal executive officer and the principal financial officer of the registrant as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (17 CFR 270.30a-2(a)), are filed herewith.
(b) Officer certifications as required by Rule 30a-2(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (17 CFR 270.30a-2(b)) also accompany this filing as an Exhibit.
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.
(Registrant) | Schroder Series Trust |
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By (Signature and Title)* | /s/ Mark A. Hemenetz |
| Mark A. Hemenetz, |
| Principal Executive Officer |
Date: July 6, 2012 | |
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/ Mark A. Hemenetz |
| Mark A. Hemenetz, |
| Principal Executive Officer |
Date: July 6, 2012 | |
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By (Signature and Title)* | /s/ Alan M. Mandel |
| Alan M. Mandel, |
| Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer |
Date: July 6, 2012 | |
* Print the name and title of each signing officer under his or her signature.