N-CSR 1 d793224dncsr.htm UBS SERIES FUNDS UBS Series Funds

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-CSR

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Investment Company Act file number: 811-08767

_____________________________________________

UBS Series Funds

 

 

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019-6028

 

 

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

Keith A. Weller, Esq.

UBS Asset Management

One North Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606

(Name and address of agent for service)

Copy to:

Stephen H. Bier, Esq.

Dechert LLP

1095 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10036-6797

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 212-821 3000

Date of fiscal year end: April 30

Date of reporting period: April 30, 2021

 


Item 1. Reports to Stockholders.

  (a)

Copy of the report transmitted to shareholders:

 


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UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

Annual Report  |  April 30, 2021

 


UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

 

June 10, 2021

Dear Shareholder,

We present you with the annual report for UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund (the “Fund”) for the 12 months ended April 30, 2021 (the “reporting period”).

Performance

The US Federal Reserve maintained the federal funds rate in a range between 0.00% and 0.25% during the 12-months ended April 30, 2021. The federal funds rate or the “fed funds rate,” is the rate US banks charge one another for funds they borrow on an overnight basis. (For more details on the Fed’s actions, see below.) As a result, the yields on a number of short-term investments remained low. Against this backdrop, the Fund’s yield declined during the reporting period.

The seven-day current yield for the Fund as of April 30, 2021 was 0.06% compared to 0.39% on April 30, 2020 (after fee waivers.). (For more information on the Fund’s performance, refer to “Yields and characteristics at a glance” on pages 4.)

An interview with Portfolio Manager Robert Sabatino

Q.

How would you describe the economic environment during the reporting period?

A.

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a severe economic contraction, followed by a rebound as the reporting period progressed. In the US, the US Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product (“GDP”) declined at a 31.4% seasonally adjusted annualized rate during the second quarter of 2020—the steepest quarterly decline on record. With parts of the economy reopening, third quarter annualized GDP growth was 33.4%, the largest quarterly increase on record. The economy continued to expand, as fourth quarter annualized GDP growth was 4.3%. Finally, according to the Commerce Department’s initial estimate, first quarter 2021 annualized GDP growth was 6.4%.

 

Q.

How did the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) react to the economic environment?

A.

The Fed maintained its highly accommodative monetary policy, as the central bank kept the federal funds rate in a range between 0.00% and 0.25%. At its meeting in September 2020, the Fed indicated that rates could stay anchored near zero through 2023. While inflation edged higher later in the period, in March 2021 Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said, “Long term, we think that the inflation dynamics we’ve seen around the world for a quarter of a century are essentially intact… and we think those dynamics haven’t gone away overnight and won’t.” At a press conference after the Fed’s April 2021 meeting, Chair Powell said, “Readings on inflation have increased and are likely to rise somewhat further before moderating… we are also likely to see upward pressure on prices from the rebound in spending as the economy continues to reopen, particularly if supply bottlenecks limit how quickly production can respond in the near term. However, these one-time increases in prices are likely to have only transitory effects on inflation.”

 

Q.

How did you position the Fund over the fiscal year?

A.

We tactically adjusted the Fund’s weighted average maturity (WAM)—which is the weighted average maturity of the securities in the portfolio—throughout the 12-month review period. When the reporting period began, the Fund had a WAM of 48 days. At the end of the period on April 30, 2021, the Fund’s WAM was 47 days.

 

Q.

What level of portfolio diversification did you maintain during the reporting period?

A.

At the issuer level, we maintained a high level of diversification over the period, investing in smaller positions with the goal of reducing risk and keeping the Fund highly liquid.

 

UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

Investment goal:

Provide as high a level of current interest income as is consistent with maintaining liquidity and principal stability

Portfolio Managers:

Robert Sabatino

David J. Walczak

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

Commencement:

February 14, 2000

Dividend payments:

Monthly

 

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UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

 

Q.

What types of securities did you emphasize over the period?

A.

Several adjustments were made to the Fund’s sector positioning during the 12-month period. We decreased the Fund’s exposures to US government agency obligations and repurchase agreements backed by those securities. (Repurchase agreements are transactions in which the seller of a security agrees to buy it back at a predetermined time and price or upon demand.). In contrast, we meaningfully increased the Fund’s exposure to direct US Treasury obligations.

 

Q.

What factors do you believe will affect the Funds over the coming months?

A.

With the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, we anticipate a return to more normal economic activity as the year progresses. However, the path could be uneven due to new virus strains. We expect the Fed to remain highly accommodative and, while inflation could edge higher, it should be generally well contained overall. In this environment, we anticipate continuing to manage the Fund focusing on risk and liquidity.

We thank you for your continued support and welcome any comments or questions you may have. For additional information on the UBS family of funds,* please contact your financial advisor, or visit us at www.ubs.com/am-us.

Sincerely,

 

LOGO

Igor Lasun

President—UBS Series Funds

UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

LOGO

David J. Walczak

Portfolio Manager—UBS Series Fund

UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

Executive Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

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Robert Sabatino

Portfolio Manager—UBS Series Fund

UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

This letter is intended to assist shareholders in understanding how the Fund performed during the 12-month period ended April 30, 2021. The views and opinions in the letter were current as of June 10, 2021. They are not guarantees of future performance or investment results and should not be taken as investment advice. Investment decisions reflect a variety of factors, and we reserve the right to change our views about individual securities, sectors and markets at any time. As a result, the views expressed should not be relied upon as a forecast of the Fund’s future investment intent. We encourage you to consult your financial advisor regarding your personal investment program.

 

*

Mutual funds are sold by prospectus only. You should read it carefully and consider a fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other important information contained in the prospectus before investing. Prospectuses for most of our funds can be obtained from your financial advisor, by calling UBS Funds at 800-647 1568 or by visiting our Website at www.ubs.com/am-us.

 

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UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

 

Understanding your Fund’s expenses (unaudited)

 

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur ongoing costs, including management fees (unless waived) and other Fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The example below is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period, November 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021.

Actual expenses

The first line in the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over a period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading “Expenses paid during period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical example for comparison purposes

The second line in the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate your actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs. Therefore, the second line in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds, if those other funds impose transactional costs—for example, exchange fees. In addition, if those transactional costs were included, your costs for those other funds would have been higher.

The example does not reflect any program fees (e.g., ACCESSSM program fees, Resource Management Account® (RMA®) program fees) as these are external to the Fund and relate to the particular program chosen by the investor.

 

        Beginning
account value
November 1, 2020
     Ending
account value
1
April 30, 2021
    

Expenses paid

during period2
11/01/20 to 04/30/21

     Expense
ratio during
the period
                   
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.30        $ 0.15          0.03
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.65          0.15          0.03  

 

1

“Actual—Ending account value” may or may not be reflective of a shareholder’s actual investment experience during periods of very low interest rates. While the Fund declares dividends daily and pays them monthly, the amounts are rounded to the nearest $0.01 on a daily basis with respect to each investor’s account. As a result, investors whose Fund account balances earn daily dividends that total less than one half a cent on any given day will not accrue any dividends on that day.

2

Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized net expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181 divided by 365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

 

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UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

 

Yields and characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited)

 

Yields and Characteristics      
Seven-Day current yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.06
Seven-Day effective yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.06  
Seven-Day current yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.03  
Seven-Day effective yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.03  
Weighted average maturity2      47 days  
  
Portfolio composition3      
U.S. Treasury obligations      48.1
U.S. government agency obligations      36.3  
Repurchase agreements      16.5  
Liabilities in excess of other assets      (0.9
Total      100.0

 

1 

Yields will fluctuate and reflect fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements, if any, unless otherwise noted. Performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted.

2 

The Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

3 

Weightings represent percentages of the Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund. Although the fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at $1.00 per share, the fund cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. government agency obligations—36.3%

 

Federal Farm Credit Bank

 

SOFR + 0.035%,
0.045%, due 05/01/211

  $ 5,000,000     $ 5,000,000  

SOFR + 0.040%,
0.050%, due 05/01/211

    4,000,000       4,000,000  

0.060%, due 02/10/22

    5,000,000       4,999,599  

SOFR + 0.050%,
0.060%, due 05/01/211

    2,500,000       2,500,000  

SOFR + 0.055%,
0.065%, due 05/01/211

    1,500,000       1,500,000  

SOFR + 0.060%,
0.070%, due 05/01/211

    1,000,000       1,000,000  

0.090%, due 08/18/212

    11,000,000       10,997,058  

0.100%, due 10/08/21

    5,000,000       4,999,423  

0.110%, due 06/30/212

    12,000,000       11,997,873  

0.120%, due 05/20/212

    9,000,000       8,999,490  

SOFR + 0.110%,
0.120%, due 05/01/211

    4,000,000       4,000,000  

0.150%, due 05/26/21

    4,438,000       4,437,980  

Federal Home Loan Bank
0.014%, due 06/23/212

    15,000,000       14,999,702  

0.015%, due 06/16/212

    5,000,000       4,999,908  

0.016%, due 06/18/212

    10,000,000       9,999,796  

0.018%, due 07/09/212

    10,000,000       9,999,665  

0.018%, due 07/16/212

    10,000,000       9,999,630  

0.020%, due 06/22/21

    10,000,000       9,999,994  

0.020%, due 06/28/21

    15,000,000       14,999,932  

0.020%, due 07/12/212

    10,000,000       9,999,611  

0.020%, due 07/28/212

    10,000,000       9,999,522  

SOFR + 0.010%,
0.020%, due 05/03/211

    30,000,000       30,000,000  

0.025%, due 06/16/212

    12,000,000       11,999,633  

0.025%, due 08/19/21

    11,000,000       10,999,904  

SOFR + 0.015%,
0.025%, due 05/03/211

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

SOFR + 0.020%,
0.030%, due 05/03/211

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

0.034%, due 05/21/212

    5,000,000       4,999,915  

0.039%, due 05/12/212

    15,000,000       14,999,854  

0.040%, due 09/29/21

    10,000,000       9,999,860  

0.050%, due 06/28/21

    2,000,000       2,000,008  

0.059%, due 05/05/212

    15,000,000       14,999,951  

0.060%, due 09/08/212

    12,000,000       11,997,440  

SOFR + 0.050%,
0.060%, due 05/03/211

    7,000,000       7,000,000  

SOFR + 0.060%,
0.070%, due 05/03/211

    3,000,000       3,000,000  

0.090%, due 06/18/212

    3,000,000       2,999,655  

SOFR + 0.090%,
0.100%, due 05/03/211

    3,000,000       3,000,000  

0.104%, due 05/14/212

    5,000,000       4,999,841  

0.115%, due 07/16/21

    7,000,000       6,999,912  

0.125%, due 08/16/21

    10,000,000       9,999,666  

SOFR + 0.150%,
0.160%, due 05/03/211

    6,500,000       6,500,000  

0.185%, due 05/26/212

    5,000,000       4,999,409  

0.185%, due 06/24/212

    5,000,000       4,998,664  
     Face
amount
  Value
US government and agency obligations—(concluded)

 

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

   

SOFR + 0.095%,
0.105%, due 05/01/211

  $ 5,000,000     $ 5,000,000  

SOFR + 0.100%,
0.110%, due 05/01/211

    13,000,000       13,000,000  

SOFR + 0.190%,
0.200%, due 05/01/211

    6,000,000       6,000,000  

Federal National Mortgage Association

   

SOFR + 0.130%,
0.140%, due 05/01/211

    6,000,000       6,000,032  

SOFR + 0.180%,
0.190%, due 05/01/211

    6,000,000       6,000,000  

SOFR + 0.200%,
0.210%, due 05/01/211

    7,500,000       7,500,000  

Total U.S. government agency obligations
(cost—$399,422,927)

      399,422,927  
U.S. Treasury obligations—48.1%    

U.S. Cash Management Bills
0.021%, due 08/31/212

    10,000,000       9,999,306  

0.025%, due 08/17/212

    8,000,000       7,999,411  

0.029%, due 07/27/212

    10,000,000       9,999,320  

0.030%, due 08/03/212

    9,000,000       8,999,310  

0.054%, due 07/13/212

    19,000,000       18,998,038  

0.061%, due 06/29/212

    20,250,000       20,247,858  

0.069%, due 06/22/212

    18,000,000       17,998,444  

0.081%, due 07/06/212

    12,000,000       11,998,293  

U.S. Treasury Bills
0.034%, due 06/10/212

    30,000,000       29,999,034  

0.034%, due 10/07/212

    9,000,000       8,998,685  

0.036%, due 10/28/212

    12,000,000       11,997,923  

0.041%, due 10/14/212

    9,000,000       8,998,360  

0.041%, due 10/21/212

    13,000,000       12,997,530  

0.050%, due 05/27/212

    27,000,000       26,999,263  

0.052%, due 06/03/212

    23,000,000       22,999,019  

0.053%, due 09/16/212

    10,000,000       9,998,017  

0.058%, due 09/09/212

    10,000,000       9,997,957  

0.062%, due 05/11/212

    16,000,000       15,999,791  

0.066%, due 06/08/212

    14,000,000       13,999,100  

0.068%, due 07/15/212

    17,000,000       16,998,167  

0.071%, due 07/22/212

    19,000,000       18,997,433  

0.071%, due 07/29/212

    25,000,000       24,995,927  

0.072%, due 05/25/212

    19,000,000       18,999,392  

0.072%, due 06/17/212

    19,000,000       18,998,419  

0.079%, due 05/18/212

    17,000,000       16,999,630  

0.083%, due 05/20/212

    30,000,000       29,998,931  

0.087%, due 05/13/212

    26,000,000       25,999,464  

0.089%, due 06/15/212

    8,000,000       7,999,159  

0.089%, due 07/08/212

    8,000,000       7,998,709  

0.090%, due 05/04/212

    16,000,000       15,999,961  

0.092%, due 05/06/212

    26,000,000       25,999,818  

0.096%, due 06/01/212

    10,000,000       9,999,235  

U.S. Treasury Notes

   

3 mo. Treasury money market yield + 0.300%,
0.320%, due 05/01/211

    2,500,000       2,500,724  

1.875%, due 01/31/22

    5,000,000       5,068,014  
 

 

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UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. Treasury obligations—(concluded)

 

1.875%, due 02/28/22

  $     2,000,000     $ 2,030,128  

Total U.S. Treasury obligations
(cost—$528,807,770)

 

    528,807,770  
Repurchase agreements—16.5%

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Fixed Income Clearing Corp., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $126,800 U.S. Treasury Note, 2.250% due 08/15/27; (value—$135,704); proceeds: $133,000

    133,000       133,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Goldman Sachs & Co., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $10,824,362 U.S. Treasury Bond Principal STRIPS, zero coupon due 11/15/31 to 05/15/43; (value—$6,630,000); proceeds: $6,500,005

    6,500,000       6,500,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with MUFG Securities Americas Inc., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $82,449,172 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.000% to 3.500% due 08/25/31 to 01/15/55, $24,064,600 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 3.500% to 4.500% due 01/25/41 to 02/25/49 and $57,877,334 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 1.500% to 3.500% due 05/20/39 to 03/20/51; (value—$178,500,000); proceeds: $175,000,073

  $ 175,000,000     $ 175,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$181,633,000)

            181,633,000  

Total investments
(cost—$1,109,863,697 which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)—100.9%

      1,109,863,697  
   

Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.9)%

            (10,014,792

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 1,099,848,905  
 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Fund’s investments. In the event a Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments.

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
U.S. government agency obligations      $        $ 399,422,927        $        $ 399,422,927  
U.S. Treasury obligations                 528,807,770                   528,807,770  
Repurchase agreements                 181,633,000                   181,633,000  
Total      $        $ 1,109,863,697        $        $ 1,109,863,697  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects earlier of reset date or stated maturity date.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

Portfolio acronyms

 

SOFR    Secured Overnight Financing Rate
STRIP    Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

 

 

Statement of assets and liabilities

April 30, 2021

 

Assets:

 

Investments, at value (cost—$928,230,697)        $928,230,697  
Repurchase agreements, at value (cost—$181,633,000)        181,633,000  
Total investments in securities, at value (cost—$1,109,863,697)        1,109,863,697  
Cash        307,328  
Receivable for interest        58,576  
Other assets        30,042  
Total assets        1,110,259,643  
    
Liabilities:

 

Payable for investments purchased        10,249,302  
Dividends payable to shareholders        43,117  
Accrued expenses and other liabilities        118,319  
Total liabilities        10,410,738  
    
Net assets consist of:     
Beneficial interest shares of $0.001 par value (unlimited amount authorized)        $1,099,850,647  
Distributable earnings (losses)        (1,742
Net assets        $1,099,848,905  
Shares outstanding        1,099,847,085  
Net asset value per share        $1.00  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statement of operations

 

       

For the

year ended
April 30, 2021

Investment income:

 

Interest        1,821,357  
Expenses:

 

Investment advisory and administration fees        316,171  
Transfer agency fees        70,436  
Custody and fund accounting fees        61,358  
Trustees fees        20,401  
Professional services fees        62,588  
Printing and shareholder report fees        42,965  
Federal and state registration fees        61,366  
Insurance expense        13,769  
Other expenses        60,700  
Total expenses        709,754  
Fee waivers by investment advisor and administrator        (316,171
Net expenses        393,583  
Net investment income (loss)        1,427,774  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        $1,427,774  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:        
       
Net investment income (loss)        $1,427,774        $30,954,423  
Net realized gain (loss)               32,620  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        1,427,774        30,987,043  
Total distributions        (1,460,394      (30,958,829
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        86,901,359        (1,221,689,145
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        86,868,739        (1,221,660,931
Net assets:        
       
Beginning of year        1,012,980,166        2,234,641,097  
End of year        $1,099,848,905        $1,012,980,166  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Net asset value, beginning of year      $ 1.00      $ 1.00      $ 1.00      $ 1.00      $ 1.00  
Net investment income (loss)        0.001        0.017        0.022        0.011        0.004  
Net realized gain (loss)               0.000 1       0.000 1       0.000 1       0.000 1 
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.001        0.017        0.022        0.011        0.004  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.001      (0.017      (0.022      (0.011      (0.004
Net asset value, end of year      $ 1.00      $ 1.00      $ 1.00      $ 1.00      $ 1.00  
Total investment return2        0.15      1.75      2.16      1.14      0.42
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.07      0.07      0.08      0.10      0.11
Expenses after fee waivers        0.04      0.04      0.03      0.05      0.05
Net investment income (loss)        0.14      1.90      2.20      1.13      0.45
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 1,099,849      $ 1,012,980      $ 2,234,641      $ 1,099,902      $ 1,275,587  

 

1

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

2

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each year reported. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Organization and significant accounting policies

UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund (the “Fund”) is registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), as a diversified series of UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust on April 29, 1998. The Trust is a series mutual fund with twenty-two series. The financial statements for the other series of the Trust are not included herein.

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”) is the investment advisor and administrator for the Fund. UBS AM is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Group AG. UBS Group AG is an internationally diversified organization with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. UBS Group AG operates in many areas of the financial services industry.

The Trust accounts separately for the assets, liabilities and operations of each series. Expenses directly attributable to each series are charged to that series’ operations; expenses which are applicable to all series are allocated among them on a pro rata basis.

In the normal course of business, the Fund may enter into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide indemnification for certain liabilities. The Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Fund that have not yet occurred. However, the Fund has not had any prior claims or losses pursuant to these contracts and expects the risk of loss to be remote.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) is the exclusive reference of authoritative US generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal laws are also sources of authoritative US GAAP for SEC registrants. The Fund’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with US GAAP, which may require the use of management estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

In March 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2020-04 (“ASU 2020-04”), “Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848)”. In response to concerns about structural risks of interbank offered rates, and particularly the risk of cessation of LIBOR, regulators have undertaken reference rate reform initiatives to identify alternative reference rates that are more observable or transaction based and less susceptible to manipulation. ASU 2020-04 provides optional guidance for a limited period of time to ease the potential burden in accounting for (or recognizing the effects of) reference rate reform on financial reporting. ASU 2020-04 is elective and applies to all entities, subject to meeting certain criteria, that have contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that reference LIBOR or another reference rate expected to be discontinued because of reference rate reform. The amendments are effective as of March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is currently evaluating the implications, if any, of the additional requirements and the impact on the Fund’s financial statements.

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies:

Valuation of investmentsUnder Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act, as amended (“Rule 2a-7”), the Fund has adopted a policy to operate as a “government money market fund”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “government money market fund” invests 99.5% or more of its total assets in cash, government securities, and/or repurchase agreements that are collateralized fully (i.e., collateralized by cash and/or government securities). As a “government money market fund”, the Fund values its investments at amortized cost unless the Fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) determines that this does not represent fair value. Periodic review and monitoring of the valuation of the securities held by the Fund is performed in an effort to ensure that amortized cost approximates market value.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

US GAAP requires disclosure regarding the various inputs that are used in determining the value of the Fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized into the three broad levels listed below:

Level 1—Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments.

Level 2—Other significant observable inputs, including but not limited to, quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds and credit risks.

Level 3—Unobservable inputs inclusive of the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments.

A fair value hierarchy table has been included near the end of the Fund’s Portfolio of investments.

Constant net asset value per shareThe Fund attempts to maintain a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. There is no assurance, however, that the Fund will be able to maintain a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. The Fund has adopted certain investment, portfolio valuation and dividend/distribution policies in an attempt to enable it to do so. The Fund has adopted a policy to operate as a “government money market fund” and as such the Fund is permitted to seek to maintain a stable price per share.

Liquidity fee and/or redemption gatesBy operating as a “government money market fund”, the Fund is exempt from requirements that permit the imposition of a liquidity fee and/or temporary redemption gates. While the Board may elect to subject the Fund to liquidity fee and gate requirements in the future, the Board has not elected to do so at this time.

Repurchase agreements—The Fund may purchase securities or other obligations from a bank or securities dealer (or its affiliate), subject to the seller’s agreement to repurchase them at an agreed upon date (or upon demand) and price. The Fund maintains custody of the underlying obligations prior to their repurchase, either through its regular custodian or through a special “tri-party” custodian or sub-custodian that maintains a separate account for both the Fund and its counterparty. The underlying collateral is valued daily in an effort to ensure that the value, including accrued interest, is at least equal to the repurchase price.

Repurchase agreements carry certain risks not associated with direct investments in securities, including a possible decline in the market value of the underlying obligations. If their value becomes less than the repurchase price, plus any agreed-upon additional amount, the counterparty must provide additional collateral so that the collateral is at least equal to the repurchase price plus any agreed-upon additional amount. The difference between the total amount to be received upon repurchase of the obligations and the price that was paid by the Fund upon acquisition is accrued as interest and included in its net investment income. In the event of default of the obligation to repurchase, the Fund generally has the right to liquidate the collateral and apply the proceeds in satisfaction of the obligation. Repurchase agreements secured by obligations that are not eligible for direct investment under Rule 2a-7 or the Fund’s investment strategies and limitations may require the Fund to promptly dispose of such collateral if the seller or guarantor becomes insolvent. If the seller (or seller’s guarantor, if any) becomes insolvent, the Fund may suffer delays, costs and possible losses in connection with the disposition or retention of the collateral. Under certain circumstances, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, realization and/or retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings. The Fund intends to enter into repurchase agreements only in transactions with counterparties believed by UBS AM to present minimal credit risks.

The Fund may participate in joint repurchase agreement transactions with other funds managed or advised by UBS AM. Under certain circumstances, the Fund may engage in a repurchase agreement transaction with a yield of zero in order to invest cash amounts remaining in its portfolio at the end of the day in order to avoid having the Fund potentially exposed to a fee for uninvested cash held in a business account at a bank.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Investment transactions and investment income—Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Realized gains and losses from investment transactions are calculated using the identified cost method. Interest income is recorded on an accrual basis. Discounts are accreted and premiums are amortized as adjustments to interest income and the identified cost of investments.

Dividends and distributions—Dividends and distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. The amount of dividends and distributions is determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations, which may differ from US GAAP. These “book/tax” differences are either considered temporary or permanent in nature. To the extent these differences are permanent in nature, such amounts are reclassified within the capital accounts based on their federal tax-basis treatment; temporary differences do not require reclassification.

Concentration of risk—The ability of the issuers of the debt securities held by the Fund to meet their obligations may be affected by economic and political developments particular to a specific industry, country, state or region.

Many financial instruments, financings or other transactions to which a Fund may be a party use or may use a floating rate based on the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”). LIBOR is widely used in financial markets. In July 2017, the United Kingdom’s financial regulatory body announced that after 2021 it will cease its active encouragement of banks to provide the quotations needed to sustain LIBOR. That announcement suggests that LIBOR may cease to be published or utilized after that time. Various financial industry groups have begun planning for that transition, but the effect of the transition process and its ultimate success cannot yet be determined. The transition process may lead to increased volatility and illiquidity in markets for instruments the terms of which are based on LIBOR. It could also lead to a reduction in the value of some LIBOR-based investments and reduce the effectiveness of new hedges placed against existing LIBOR-based investments. Since the usefulness of LIBOR as a benchmark could deteriorate during the transition period, these effects could occur prior to the end of 2021. The willingness and ability of issuers to include enhanced provisions in new and existing contracts or instruments also remains uncertain. Any of these factors may adversely affect the Fund’s performance or NAV. On November 30, 2020, the administrator of LIBOR announced a delay in the phase out of a majority of the U.S. dollar LIBOR publications until June 30 , 2023, with the remainder of LIBOR publications to still end at the end of 2021.

Certain impacts to public health conditions particular to the coronavirus “COVID-19” outbreak that occurred may have a significant negative impact on the operations and profitability of the issuers of the Fund’s investments. The extent of the impact to the financial performance of the Fund will depend on future developments, including (i) the duration and spread of the outbreak, (ii) the restrictions and advisories, (iii) the effects on the financial markets, and (iv) the effects on the economy overall, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.

Investment advisor and administrator and other transactions with affiliates

The Fund’s Board of Trustees has approved an investment advisory and administration contract (the “Advisory Contract”) with UBS AM, under which UBS AM serves as investment advisor and administrator of the Fund. In accordance with the Advisory Contract, the Fund pays UBS AM an investment advisory and administration fee, which is accrued daily and paid monthly. Where the services are provided directly by UBS AM or an affiliate, the fee will be limited to reimbursement of UBS AM’s direct advisory/administrative costs and expenses and will exclude any profit or overhead charges. Where UBS AM arranges for an unaffiliated person to provide services, the Fund will reimburse UBS AM for the cost of the services provided by the unaffiliated person, but no additional profit or overhead charge will be included or the Fund will pay the service provider directly. UBS AM has advised the Fund that for the period ended April 30, 2021 its direct advisory/administrative costs and expenses approximate an annual rate of 0.03% of the average daily net assets of the Fund. These expenses are estimated amounts in addition to other expenses of the Fund. To the extent such fees are not waived, UBS AM periodically will review Fund expenses in an effort to confirm that only direct costs and expenses are paid to UBS AM by the Fund.

For the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM waived its entire fee for its direct advisory/administrative costs and expenses; such amount is not subject to future recoupment.

 

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UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

Notes to financial statements

 

Additional information regarding compensation to affiliate of a board member

Professor Meyer Feldberg serves as a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Fund may conduct transactions, resulting in him being deemed an interested trustee of the Fund. The Fund has been informed that Professor Feldberg’s role at Morgan Stanley does not involve matters directly affecting any UBS funds. Portfolio transactions are executed through Morgan Stanley based on that firm’s ability to provide best execution of the transactions.

During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Fund purchased and sold certain securities (e.g., fixed income securities) in principal trades with Morgan Stanley, having an aggregate value of $11,990,597. Morgan Stanley received compensation in connection with these trades, which may have been in the form of a “mark-up” or “mark-down” of the price of the securities, a fee from the issuer, or some other form of compensation. Although the precise amount of this compensation is not generally known by the Fund’s investment advisor, it is believed that under normal circumstances it represents a small portion of the total value of the transactions.

Shares of beneficial interest

There is an unlimited amount of $0.001 par value shares of beneficial interest authorized. Transactions in shares of beneficial interest, at $1.00 per share, were as follows:

 

        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        5,318,400,802        11,478,352,668  
Shares repurchased        (5,233,319,145      (12,732,775,243
Dividends reinvested        1,819,702        32,733,430  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        86,901,359        (1,221,689,145

Federal tax status

The Fund intends to distribute substantially all of its income and to comply with the other requirements of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required. In addition, by distributing during each calendar year substantially all of its net investment income, net realized capital gains and certain other amounts, if any, the Fund intends not to be subject to a federal excise tax.

The tax character of distributions paid to shareholders by the Fund during the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 was ordinary income in the amount of $1,460,394 and $30,958,829, respectively.

At April 30, 2021, the components of accumulated earnings (deficit) on a tax basis were as follows:

 

Undistributed
ordinary
income
     Undistributed
long-term
capital gains
     Accumulated
capital and
other losses
     Unrealized
appreciation
(depreciation)
     Other
temporary
differences
   Total
$41,375      $        $        $        $ (43,117    $ (1,742

Net capital losses recognized by a Fund may be carried forward indefinitely, and retain their character as short-term and/or long-term losses. These carryforwards are available as a reduction, to the extent provided in the regulations, of future realized capital gains. To the extent that such losses are used to offset future net realized capital gains, it is probable these gains will not be distributed. At April 30, 2021, the Fund had no capital loss carryforwards.

ASC 740-10 “Income Taxes—Overall” sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken. The Fund has conducted an analysis and concluded as of April 30, 2021, that there are no significant uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken that would require recognition in the financial statements. It is the Fund’s policy to record any significant foreign tax exposures on the financial statements. The Fund recognizes interest and penalties, if any, related to uncertain tax positions as income tax expense in the Statement of operations. During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Fund did not incur any interest or penalties.

Each of the tax years in the four year period ended April 30, 2021, remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities.

 

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Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund (the “Fund”) (one of the funds constituting UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”)), including the portfolio of investments, as of April 30, 2021, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund (one of the funds constituting UBS Series Funds) at April 30, 2021, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and its financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of April 30, 2021, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

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New York, New York

June 28, 2021

 

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UBS Liquid Assets Government Fund

General information (unaudited)

 

Monthly and quarterly portfolio holdings disclosure

The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) each month on Form N-MFP. These reports on Form N-MFP are available on the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov. The Fund makes portfolio holdings information available to shareholders on UBS’s Web site at the following internet address: www.ubs.com/usmoneymarketfunds. Investors also may find additional information about the Fund at the above referenced UBS Web site internet address.

Proxy voting policies, procedures and record

You may obtain a description of the Fund’s (1) proxy voting policies, (2) proxy voting procedures and (3) information regarding how the Fund voted any proxies related to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 for which an SEC filing has been made, without charge, upon request by contacting the Fund directly at 1-800-647 1568, online on the Fund’s Web site: www.ubs.com/ubsam-proxy, or on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Web site (http://www.sec.gov).

Other tax information

Pursuant to Sections 871(k)(1)(C)(i) and 871(k)(2)(C)(i) of the Internal Revenue Code, the Fund designates $1,427,420 of ordinary income distributions paid as qualified interest income for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2021.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Board of Trustees & Officers

The Fund is governed by a Board of Trustees which oversees the Fund’s operations. Each trustee serves an indefinite term of office. Officers are appointed by the trustees and serve at the pleasure of the Board. The table below shows, for each trustee and officer, his or her name, address and age, the position held with the Trust, the length of time served as a trustee or officer of the Trust, the trustee’s or officer’s principal occupations during the last five years, the number of funds in the UBS fund complex overseen by the trustee or for which a person served as an officer, and other directorships held by the trustee.

The Fund’s Statement of Additional Information contains additional information about the trustees and is available, without charge, upon request by calling 1-800-647 1568.

 

Interested Trustee
         
Name,
address,
and age
  Position(s)
held with
Trust
  Term of office1
and length of
time served
 

Principal occupation(s)
during past

5 years

  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
 

Other directorships

held by

trustee

Meyer Feldberg2;
79

Morgan Stanley
1585 Broadway
36th Floor
New York, NY 10036

  Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees   Since 1998 (Trustee); Since 2017 (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)   Professor Feldberg is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, although on an extended leave of absence. He is also a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley (financial services) (since 2005). Professor Feldberg also served as President of New York City Global Partners (an organization located in part of the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York that promoted interaction with other cities around the world (2007 to 2014). Prior to 2004, he was Dean and Professor of Management and Ethics of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University (since 1989). From 1992 to 2016, Professor Feldberg was a director of Macy’s, Inc. (operator of department stores). From 1997 to 2017, Professor Feldberg was a director of Revlon, Inc. (cosmetics).   Professor Feldberg is a director or trustee of 8 investment companies (consisting of 48 portfolios) for which UBS AM or one of its affiliates serves as investment advisor or manager.   Professor Feldberg is also a director of the New York City Ballet.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Independent Trustees
         
Name,
address,
and age
  Position(s)
held with
Trust
  Term of office1
and length of
time served
 

Principal occupation(s)
during past

5 years

  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
 

Other directorships

held by

trustee

Alan S. Bernikow;
80
K2 Integrity 845 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10022

  Trustee   Since 2005   Mr. Bernikow is retired. Previously, he was deputy chief executive officer at Deloitte & Touche (international accounting and consulting firm). From 2003 to 2017, Mr. Bernikow was also a director of Destination XL Group, Inc. (menswear) (and served as a member of its nominating and corporate governance committee).   Mr. Bernikow is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Bernikow is also a director of Revlon, Inc. (cosmetics) (and serves as the chair of its audit committee and as the chair of its compensation committee) and the lead director of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation (real estate investment trust) (and serves as the chair of its audit committee).
Richard R. Burt;
74
McLarty Associates
900 17th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006
  Trustee   Since 1998   Mr. Burt is a managing partner of McLarty Associates (a consulting firm) (since 2007). He was chairman of IEP Advisors (international investments and consulting firm) until 2009.   Mr. Burt is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Burt is also a director of The Central Europe, Russia and Turkey Fund, Inc., The European Equity Fund, Inc., and The New Germany Fund, Inc. (and serves as a member of each such fund’s audit, nominating and governance committees).
Bernard H. Garil;
81
6754 Casa Grande Way
Delray Beach, FL 33446
  Trustee   Since 2005   Mr. Garil is retired (since 2001). He was a managing director at PIMCO Advisory Services (from 1999 to 2001) where he served as president of closed-end funds and vice- president of the variable insurance product funds advised by OpCap Advisors (until 2001).   Mr. Garil is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Garil is also a trustee for the Brooklyn College Foundation, Inc. (charitable foundation).
Heather R. Higgins;
61
c/o Keith A. Weller,
Fund Secretary
UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.
One North Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
  Trustee   Since 2005   Ms. Higgins is the president and director of The Randolph Foundation (charitable foundation) (since 1991). Ms. Higgins also serves (or has served) on the boards of several non-profit charitable groups, including the Independent Women’s Forum (chairman) and the Philanthropy Roundtable (vice chairman). She also serves on the board of the Hoover Institution (from 2001 to 2007 and since 2009).   Ms. Higgins is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   None

 

1 

Each trustee holds office for an indefinite term.

2 

Professor Feldberg is deemed an “interested person” of the Trust as defined in the Investment Company Act because he is a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Trust may conduct transactions.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers
        

Name, address,

and age

   Position(s) held
with Trust
  

Term of office1
and length

of time served

   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years
Rose Ann Bubloski2;
53
   Vice President and Assistant Treasurer    Since 2011    Ms. Bubloski is a director (since 2012) (prior to which she was an associate director (from 2008 to 2012)) and a senior manager of fund accounting—US (previously named product control and investment support) at UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. and/or UBS Asset Management (US) Inc. (“UBS AM— Americas region”). Ms. Bubloski is a vice president and assistant treasurer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.
Franklin P. Dickson2;
42
   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Dickson is an associate director (since 2015) and tax compliance manager (since 2017) (prior to which he was a product controller (from 2015 to 2017) of fund accounting—US (previously named product control and investment support) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Dickson is a vice president of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.
Lisa N. DiPaolo2;
43
   Vice President    Since 2015    Ms. DiPaolo is an executive director (since 2020) (prior to which she was a director from 2008 until March 2020), and portfolio manager (since 2015) at UBS AM— Americas region. Ms. DiPaolo joined UBS AM—Americas region in 2000 and has been a municipal securities analyst on the tax-free fixed income team. Ms. DiPaolo is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.
Elbridge T. Gerry III2;
64
   Vice President    Since 1999    Mr. Gerry is a managing director and head of municipal strategy of UBS AM—Americas region (prior to which he was co-head of municipal investments (from 2017 until June 2020; head from 2001 to 2017)). Mr. Gerry is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.
Charles W. Grande2;
57
   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Grande is a managing director, head of municipal fixed income team (since June 2020; formerly co-head from 2017 until June 2020) and head of municipal credit research (since 2009) with UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Grande is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.
Mark F. Kemper3;
63
   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2004 and 2019, respectively    Mr. Kemper is a managing director (since 2006) and senior legal counsel (since 2019) (prior to which he was Interim Head of Asia Pacific Legal (March 2020-March 2021), Interim Head of Compliance and Operational Risk Control (from June 2019 through September 2019) and general counsel of UBS AM—Americas region (from 2004-March 2019)). He has been secretary of UBS AM— Americas region (since 2004) and assistant secretary of UBS Asset Management Trust Company (since 1993). Mr. Kemper is vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager. Mr. Kemper is employed by UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017).
Joanne M. Kilkeary2;
53
   Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer    Since 1999 (Vice President) and since 2017 (Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer)    Ms. Kilkeary is an executive director (since 2013) (prior to which she was a director (from 2008 to 2013)) and head of fund accounting—US (since November 2020) (prior to which she was head of regulatory, tax, audit and board governance for product control and investment support (from 2017 through October 2020) (prior to which she was a senior manager (from 2004 to 2017) of registered fund product control of UBS AM— Americas region). Ms. Kilkeary is a vice president, treasurer and principal accounting officer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers (concluded)          
        

Name, address,

and age

   Position(s) held
with Trust
  

Term of office1
and length

of time served

   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years
Igor Lasun2;
42
   President    Since 2018    Mr. Lasun is a managing director (since March 2021) (prior to which he was an executive director (from 2018 until February 2021)) and head of fund development and management for UBS AM—Americas region (since 2018) (prior to which he was a senior fixed income product specialist from 2007 to 2018, and had joined the firm in 2005). In this role, he oversees development and management for both wholesale and institutional businesses. Mr. Lasun serves as president of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.
Ryan Nugent2;
43
   Vice President    Since 2009    Mr. Nugent is an executive director (since 2017) (prior to which he was director (from 2010 to 2017)), and portfolio manager (since 2005) and head of municipal trading (since 2013) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Nugent is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.
Frank Pluchino4;
61
   Chief Compliance Officer    Since 2017    Mr. Pluchino is an executive director with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and is also the chief compliance officer of UBS Hedge Fund Solutions LLC (since 2010). Mr. Pluchino is the chief compliance officer of 10 investment companies (consisting of 62 portfolios) for which UBS AM or one of its affiliates serves as investment advisor or manager.
Robert Sabatino3;
47
   Vice President    Since 2001    Mr. Sabatino is a managing director (since 2010) (prior to which he was an executive director (since 2007)), head of global liquidity portfolio management (since 2015), head of US taxable money markets (from 2009 to 2015), and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region in the short duration fixed income group (since 2000). Mr. Sabatino is a vice president of three investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.
Eric Sanders3;
55
   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2005    Mr. Sanders is a director and associate general counsel with UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017) and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005). Mr. Sanders is a vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.
Philip Stacey3;
36
   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2018    Mr. Stacey is an executive director (since 2019) and associate general counsel (since 2017) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017) and also with UBS AM— Americas region since 2015. Mr. Stacey is a vice president and assistant secretary of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.
David Walczak3;
37
   Vice President    Since 2016    Mr. Walczak is an executive director (since 2016), head of US money markets (since 2015) and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Walczak is a vice president of three investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.
Keith A. Weller3;
59
   Vice President and Secretary    Since 1998 (Vice President) and since 2019 (Secretary)    Mr. Weller is an executive director (since 2005) and deputy general counsel (since 2019) (prior to which he was senior associate general counsel) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005) and has been an attorney with affiliated entities since 1995. Mr. Weller is a vice president and secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

1 

Officers of the Trust are appointed by the trustees and serve at the pleasure of the board.

2 

This person’s business address is 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019-6028.

3 

This person’s business address is One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

4 

This person’s business address is 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019.

 

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Trustees

Meyer Feldberg

Chairman

Alan S. Bernikow

Richard R. Burt

Bernard H. Garil

Heather R. Higgins

Investment Advisor and Administrator

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

Principal Underwriter

UBS Asset Management (US) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

 

 

This report is not to be used in connection with the offering of shares of the Fund unless accompanied or preceded by an effective prospectus.

© UBS 2021. All rights reserved.


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UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Annual Report  |  April 30, 2021


Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

 

June 10, 2021

Dear Shareholder,

We present you with the annual report for Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund (the “Fund”) for the 12 months ended April 30, 2021 (the “reporting period”).

Performance

The US Federal Reserve maintained the federal funds rate in a range between 0.00% and 0.25% during the 12-months ended April 30, 2021. The federal funds rate or the “fed funds rate,” is the rate US banks charge one another for funds they borrow on an overnight basis. (For more details on the Fed’s actions, see below.) As a result, the yields on a number of short-term investments remained low. Against this backdrop, the Fund’s yield declined during the reporting period.

The seven-day current yield for the Fund as of April 30, 2021 was 0.01%, versus 0.50% on April 30, 2020 (after fee waivers/expense reimbursements).

(For more information on the Fund’s performance, refer to “Yields and characteristics at a glance” on page 4.)

An interview with Portfolio Manager Robert Sabatino

Q.

How would you describe the economic environment during the reporting period?

A.

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a severe economic contraction, followed by a rebound as the reporting period progressed. In the US, the US Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product (“GDP”) declined at a 31.4% seasonally adjusted annualized rate during the second quarter of 2020—the steepest quarterly decline on record. With parts of the economy reopening, third quarter annualized GDP growth was 33.4%, the largest quarterly increase on record. The economy continued to expand, as fourth quarter annualized GDP growth was 4.3%. Finally, according to the Commerce Department’s initial estimate, first quarter 2021 annualized GDP growth was 6.4%.

 

Q.

How did the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) react to the economic environment?

A.

The Fed maintained its highly accommodative monetary policy, as the central bank kept the federal funds rate in a range between 0.00% and 0.25%. At its meeting in September 2020, the Fed indicated that rates could stay anchored near zero through 2023. While inflation edged higher later in the period, in March 2021 Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said, “Long term, we think that the inflation dynamics we’ve seen around the world for a quarter of a century are essentially intact…and we think those dynamics haven’t gone away overnight and won’t.” At a press conference after the Fed’s April 2021 meeting, Chair Powell said, “Readings on inflation have increased and are likely to rise somewhat further before moderating…we are also likely to see upward pressure on prices from the rebound in spending as the economy continues to reopen, particularly if supply bottlenecks limit how quickly production can respond in the near term. However, these one-time increases in prices are likely to have only transitory effects on inflation.”

 

Q.

How did you position the Fund over the reporting period?

A.

We tactically adjusted the Fund’s weighted average maturity (WAM)—which is the weighted average maturity of the securities in its portfolio—during the reporting period. The Fund’s weighted average maturity (WAM) was 52 days when the reporting period began. At period end on April 30, 2021, it was 45 days.

 

Q.

What level of portfolio diversification did you maintain during the reporting period?

A.

At the issuer level, we continued to invest heavily in US government securities and agency securities.

 

Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Investment goal:

Maximum current income consistent with liquidity and the preservation of capital

Portfolio Managers:

Robert Sabatino

David J. Walczak

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

Commencement:

April 11, 2017

Dividend payments:

Monthly

 

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Q.

What types of securities did the Fund emphasize?

A.

At the security level, we increased the Fund’s exposure to direct US Treasury obligations and modestly added to its allocation to US government agency obligations. In contrast, we reduced the Fund’s exposure to repurchase agreements backed by those securities. (Repurchase agreements are transactions in which the seller of a security agrees to buy it back at a predetermined time and price or upon demand.)

 

Q.

What factors do you believe will affect the Funds over the coming months?

A.

With the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, we anticipate a return to more normal economic activity as the year progresses. However, the path could be uneven due to new virus strains. We expect the Fed to remain highly accommodative and, while inflation could edge higher, it should be generally well contained overall. In this environment, we anticipate continuing to manage the Fund focusing on risk and liquidity.

We thank you for your continued support and welcome any comments or questions you may have. For additional information on the UBS family of funds,* please contact your financial advisor, or visit us at www.ubs.com/am-us.

Sincerely,

 

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Igor Lasun

President—UBS Series Funds

Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

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Robert Sabatino

Portfolio Manager—UBS Series Funds

Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

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David J. Walczak

Portfolio Manager—UBS Series Funds

Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Executive Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

 

This letter is intended to assist shareholders in understanding how the Fund performed during the 12-month period ended April 30, 2021. The views and opinions in the letter were current as of June 10, 2021. They are not guarantees of future performance or investment results and should not be taken as investment advice. Investment decisions reflect a variety of factors, and we reserve the right to change our views about individual securities, sectors and markets at any time. As a result, the views expressed should not be relied upon as a forecast of the Fund’s future investment intent. We encourage you to consult your financial advisor regarding your personal investment program.

 

*

Mutual funds are sold by prospectus only. You should read it carefully and consider a fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other important information contained in the prospectus before investing. Prospectuses for most of our funds can be obtained from your financial advisor, by calling UBS Funds at 800-647 1568, or by visiting our Website at www.ubs.com/am-us.

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

 

Understanding your Fund’s expenses (unaudited)

 

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The example below is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period, November 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021.

Actual expenses

The first line in the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over a period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading “Expenses paid during period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical example for comparison purposes

The second line in the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate your actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs. Therefore, the second line in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds, if those other funds impose transactional costs—for example, exchange fees. In addition, if those transactional costs were included, your costs for those other funds would have been higher.

 

        Beginning
account value
November 1, 2020
     Ending
account value
April 30, 2021
1
     Expenses paid
during period
11/01/20 to 04/30/21
2
     Expense
ratio during
the period
                   
Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund                    
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.20        $ 0.25          0.05
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.55          0.25          0.05  

 

1

“Actual—Ending account value” may or may not be reflective of a shareholder’s actual investment experience during periods of very low interest rates. While the Fund declares dividends daily and pays them monthly, the amounts are rounded to the nearest $0.01 on a daily basis with respect to each investor’s account. As a result, investors whose Fund account balances earn daily dividends that total less than one half a cent on any given day will not accrue any dividends on that day.

2

Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized net expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181 divided by 365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

 

Yields and characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited)

 

Yields and Characteristics  
Seven-Day current yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01
Seven-Day effective yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01  
Seven-Day current yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.08
Seven-Day effective yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.08
Weighted average maturity2      45 days  
Portfolio composition3      
U.S. Treasury obligations      61.5
Repurchase agreements      30.9  
U.S. government agency obligations      8.5  
Liabilities in excess of other assets      (0.9
Total      100.0

You could lose money by investing in Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund. Because the price of shares of Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund will fluctuate, when you sell your shares in the fund, your shares may be worth more or less than what you originally paid for them. Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares if Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

1 

Yields will fluctuate and reflect fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements, if any, unless otherwise noted. Performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted.

2 

The Fund’s Portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

3 

Weightings represent percentages of the Portfolio’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. government agency obligations—8.5%

 

Federal Home Loan Bank
0.015%, due 08/09/211

  $ 50,000,000     $ 49,997,014  

0.018%, due 07/09/211

    30,000,000       29,999,442  

0.020%, due 06/22/211

    30,000,000       29,996,909  

0.020%, due 06/28/211

    30,000,000       29,997,018  

0.034%, due 05/21/211

    30,000,000       30,000,000  

0.039%, due 05/12/211

    30,000,000       30,000,000  

0.050%, due 06/28/211

    22,000,000       21,997,193  

0.086%, due 06/30/211

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

0.094%, due 06/30/211

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

Total U.S. government agency obligations
(cost—$271,990,153)

 

    271,987,576  
U.S. Treasury obligations—61.5%

 

U.S. Cash Management Bill
0.021%, due 08/31/211

    29,000,000       28,996,166  

0.023%, due 08/10/211

    30,000,000       29,999,340  

0.025%, due 08/17/211

    22,000,000       21,999,255  

0.025%, due 08/24/211

    26,000,000       25,997,960  

0.029%, due 07/27/211

    28,000,000       27,999,008  

0.030%, due 08/03/211

    23,000,000       22,999,530  

0.048%, due 07/20/211

    53,000,000       52,999,082  

0.050%, due 07/13/211

    121,000,000       120,998,091  

0.060%, due 07/06/211

    99,000,000       98,998,592  

0.072%, due 06/17/211

    56,000,000       55,999,300  

U.S. Treasury Bills
0.020%, due 07/01/211

    28,000,000       27,999,312  

0.034%, due 06/10/211

    87,000,000       86,999,081  

0.034%, due 10/07/211

    25,000,000       24,997,820  

0.036%, due 10/28/211

    34,000,000       33,994,957  

0.041%, due 09/30/211

    28,000,000       27,997,667  

0.041%, due 10/14/211

    23,000,000       22,997,643  

0.041%, due 10/21/211

    37,000,000       36,996,046  

0.050%, due 05/27/211

    82,000,000       81,999,727  

0.052%, due 06/03/211

    61,000,000       60,999,737  

0.053%, due 09/16/211

    30,000,000       29,998,432  

0.056%, due 06/08/211

    59,000,000       58,999,410  

0.058%, due 09/09/211

    28,000,000       27,997,993  

0.059%, due 05/20/211

    58,000,000       57,999,726  

0.061%, due 06/29/211

    61,750,000       61,748,533  

0.062%, due 05/11/211

    49,000,000       48,999,905  

0.063%, due 05/18/211

    76,000,000       75,999,763  

0.063%, due 07/22/211

    59,000,000       58,998,033  

0.064%, due 06/01/211

    84,000,000       83,999,322  

0.068%, due 07/15/211

    49,000,000       48,998,758  

0.069%, due 06/22/211

    53,000,000       52,999,264  

0.071%, due 07/29/211

    71,000,000       70,997,426  

0.072%, due 05/25/211

    55,000,000       54,999,831  

0.087%, due 05/13/211

    82,000,000       81,999,943  

0.089%, due 05/06/211

    75,080,000       75,079,969  

0.089%, due 06/15/211

    26,000,000       25,999,767  

0.089%, due 07/08/211

    27,000,000       26,999,258  

0.090%, due 05/04/211

    53,000,000       52,999,996  

U.S. Treasury Notes
1.375%, due 05/31/21

    35,000,000       35,035,935  

1.625%, due 06/30/21

    35,000,000       35,088,299  

1.875%, due 01/31/22

    14,000,000       14,190,313  
     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. Treasury obligations—(concluded)    

1.875%, due 02/28/22

  $ 7,000,000     $ 7,104,727  

Total U.S. Treasury obligations
(cost—$1,979,099,661)

 

    1,979,202,917  
Repurchase agreements—30.9%

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Fixed Income Clearing Corp., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $428,163,200 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Note, 0.125% due 01/15/22; (value—$507,960,100); proceeds: $498,000,208

    498,000,000       498,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $89,047,000 Federal Farm Credit Bank obligations, 2.710% to 5.250% due 04/21/28 to 04/06/45, $49,777,000 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, zero coupon to 2.220% due 12/11/25 to 07/13/40, $7,250,000 Federal National Mortgage Association obligation, zero coupon due 03/17/31 and $575,397,052 U.S. Treasury Bonds STRIPs, zero coupon due 05/15/38 to 11/15/46; (value—$505,920,370); proceeds: $496,000,413

    496,000,000       496,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$994,000,000)

 

    994,000,000  

Total investments
(cost—$3,245,089,814 which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)—100.9%

      3,245,190,493  
   

Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.9)%

 

    (28,641,637

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 3,216,548,856  
 

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Fund’s investments. In the event a Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments.

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
U.S. government agency obligations      $        $ 271,987,576        $        $ 271,987,576  
U.S. Treasury obligations                 1,979,202,917                   1,979,202,917  
Repurchase agreements                 994,000,000                   994,000,000  
Total      $        $ 3,245,190,493        $        $ 3,245,190,493  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnote

1 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

Portfolio acronyms:

STRIP        Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

 

 

Statement of assets and liabilities

April 30, 2021

 

Assets:

 

Investments, at value (cost—$2,251,089,814)        $2,251,190,493  
Repurchase agreements, at value (cost —$994,000,000)        994,000,000  
Total investments in securities, at value (cost—$3,245,089,814)        3,245,190,493  
Cash        712,839  
Receivable for interest        490,994  
Total assets        3,246,394,326  
    
Liabilities:

 

Payable for investments purchased        29,747,975  
Dividends payable to shareholders        26,852  
Payable to affiliate        70,643  
Total liabilities        29,845,470  
Net assets        $3,216,548,856  
    
Net assets consist of:     
Beneficial interest shares of $0.001 par value (unlimited amount authorized)        $3,216,439,130  
Distributable earnings (losses)        109,726  
Net assets        $3,216,548,856  
Shares outstanding        3,217,663,162  
Net asset value per share        $0.9997  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

 

 

Statement of operations

 

       

For the

year ended
April 30, 2021

Investment income:

 

Interest        $5,937,130  
Expenses:

 

Investment management and administration fees        3,680,595  
Trustees fees        44,950  
Total expenses        3,725,545  
Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements by investment manager and administrator        (1,973,051
Net expenses        1,752,494  
Net investment income (loss)        4,184,636  
Net realized gain (loss)        9,047  
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)        (3,109,073
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)        (3,100,026
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        $1,084,610  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

 

 

Statement of changes in net assets

 

     For the years ended April 30,
      2021   2020
From operations:

 

    
Net investment income (loss)    $ 4,184,636     $ 77,504,765  
Net realized gain (loss)      9,047       461,517  
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      (3,109,073     3,170,505  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations      1,084,610       81,136,787  
Total distributions      (4,646,194     (77,504,765
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions      (89,517,864     (623,525,497
Net increase (decrease) in net assets      (93,079,448     (619,893,475
Net assets:

 

    
Beginning of year      3,309,628,304       3,929,521,779  
End of year    $ 3,216,548,856     $ 3,309,628,304  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each period is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,   

For the period from

April 11, 20171 to

April 30, 2017

 

        2021    2020    2019    2018
Net asset value, beginning of period      $ 1.0008      $ 0.9999      $ 0.9998      $ 1.0000      $ 1.0000  
Net investment income (loss)        0.0014        0.0179        0.0209        0.0109        0.0004  
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)        (0.0010      0.0009        0.0001        (0.0002      0.0000 2 
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.0004        0.0188        0.0210        0.0107        0.0004  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.0014      (0.0179      (0.0209      (0.0109      (0.0004
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.0001                            
Total dividends, distributions and return of capital        (0.0015      (0.0179      (0.0209      (0.0109      (0.0004
Net asset value, end of period      $ 0.9997      $ 1.0008      $ 0.9999      $ 0.9998      $ 1.0000  
Total investment return3        0.04      1.89      2.12      1.07      0.04
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements        0.12      0.12      0.12      0.12      0.12 %4 
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements        0.06      0.06      0.06      0.06      0.06 %4 
Net investment income (loss)        0.13      1.84      2.04      1.13      0.72 %4 
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of period (000’s)      $ 3,216,549      $ 3,309,628      $ 3,929,522      $ 7,090,380      $ 1,969,964  

 

1

Commencement of operations.

2

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

3

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each period reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each period reported. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

4

Annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Organization and significant accounting policies

Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund (the “Fund”) is registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), as a diversified series of UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust on April 29, 1998. The Trust is a series mutual fund with twenty-two series. The financial statements for the other series of the Trust are not included herein. The Fund commenced operations on April 11, 2017.

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”) is the investment advisor and administrator for the Fund. UBS AM is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Group AG. UBS Group AG is an internationally diversified organization with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. UBS Group AG operates in many areas of the financial services industry.

The Trust accounts separately for the assets, liabilities and operations of each series. Expenses directly attributable to each series are charged to that series’ operations; expenses which are applicable to all series are allocated among them on a pro rata basis.

In the normal course of business, the Fund may enter into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide indemnification for certain liabilities. The Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Fund that have not yet occurred. However, the Fund has not had any prior claims or losses pursuant to these contracts and expects the risk of loss to be remote.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) is the exclusive reference of authoritative US generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal laws are also sources of authoritative US GAAP for SEC registrants. The Fund’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with US GAAP, which may require the use of management estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies:

Valuation of investments—Consistent with Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act, as amended (“Rule 2a-7”), the net asset value of the Fund is calculated using market-based values, and the price of its shares fluctuate.

US GAAP requires disclosure regarding the various inputs that are used in determining the value of the Fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized into the three broad levels listed below:

Level 1—Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments.

Level 2—Other significant observable inputs, including but not limited to, quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds and credit risks.

Level 3—Unobservable inputs inclusive of the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments.

A fair value hierarchy table has been included near the end of the Fund’s Portfolio of investments.

Floating net asset value per share fund—Consistent with Rule 2a-7, the Fund calculates its net asset value to four decimals (e.g., $1.0000) using market-based pricing and expects that its share price will fluctuate.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

On occasion, it is possible that the end of day accounting net asset value (“NAV”) per share of a floating NAV fund (“FNAV”), as reported in a shareholder report, for example, may differ from the transactional NAV per share (used for purposes of processing purchases and redemptions); while this is not expected to occur with great frequency, it may happen should certain factors align on a given business day. The final end-of-day NAV per share for accounting and financial statement reporting purposes is designed to reflect all end-of-day accounting activities, which may include, but are not limited to, income and expense accruals, dividend and distribution reinvestments as well as final share activity; such items are factored into the Fund after the last transactional NAV per share is calculated on a given day (normally, the transactional NAV per share is calculated as of 3 pm, Eastern time, as explained in the fund’s offering document).

Liquidity fee and/or redemption gates—Consistent with Rule 2a-7, the Board is permitted to impose a liquidity fee on redemptions from the Fund or a redemption gate to temporarily restrict redemptions in the event that the Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. If the Fund’s weekly liquid assets fall below 30% of the Fund’s total assets, the board is permitted, but not required, to: (i) impose a liquidity fee of no more than 2% of the amount redeemed; and/or (ii) impose a redemption gate to temporarily suspend the right of redemption. If the Fund’s weekly liquid assets falls below 10% of the Fund’s total assets, the Fund must impose, generally as of the beginning of the next business day, a liquidity fee of 1% of the amount redeemed unless the Board determines that such a fee would not be in the best interest of the Fund or determines that a lower or higher fee (subject to the 2% limit) would be in the best interest of the Fund. Liquidity fees would reduce the amount a shareholder receives upon redemption of its shares. The Fund retains the liquidity fees for the benefit of remaining shareholders. For the period ended April 30, 2021, the Board of the Fund did not impose any liquidity fees and/or redemption gates.

Repurchase agreements—The Fund may purchase securities or other obligations from a bank or securities dealer (or its affiliate), subject to the seller’s agreement to repurchase them at an agreed upon date (or upon demand) and price. The Fund maintains custody of the underlying obligations prior to their repurchase, either through its regular custodian or through a special “tri-party” custodian or sub-custodian that maintains a separate account for both the Fund and its counterparty. The underlying collateral is valued daily in an effort to ensure that the value, including accrued interest, is at least equal to the repurchase price.

Repurchase agreements carry certain risks not associated with direct investments in securities, including a possible decline in the market value of the underlying obligations. If their value becomes less than the repurchase price, plus any agreed-upon additional amount, the counterparty must provide additional collateral so that the collateral is at least equal to the repurchase price plus any agreed-upon additional amount. The difference between the total amount to be received upon repurchase of the obligations and the price that was paid by the Fund upon acquisition is accrued as interest and included in its net investment income. In the event of default of the obligation to repurchase, the Fund generally has the right to liquidate the collateral and apply the proceeds in satisfaction of the obligation. Repurchase agreements involving obligations other than US government securities (such as commercial paper, corporate bonds, equities and mortgage loans) may be subject to special risks and may not have the benefit of certain protections in the event of counterparty insolvency. Moreover, repurchase agreements secured by obligations that are not eligible for direct investment under Rule 2a-7 or a Fund’s investment strategies and limitations, may require the Fund to promptly dispose of such collateral if the seller or guarantor becomes insolvent. If the seller (or seller’s guarantor, if any) becomes insolvent, the Fund may suffer delays, costs and possible losses in connection with the disposition or retention of the collateral. Under certain circumstances, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, realization and/or retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings. The Fund intends to enter into repurchase agreements only in transactions with counterparties believed by UBS AM to present minimal credit risks .

The Fund may participate in joint repurchase agreement transactions with other funds managed, advised or sub-advised by UBS AM. Under certain circumstances, the Fund may engage in a repurchase agreement transaction

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

with a yield of zero in order to invest cash amounts remaining in its Fund at the end of the day in order to avoid having the Fund potentially exposed to a fee for uninvested cash held in a business account at a bank.

Investment transactions and investment income—Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Realized gains and losses from investment transactions are calculated using the identified cost method. Interest income is recorded on an accrual basis. Discounts are accreted and premiums are amortized as adjustments to interest income and the identified cost of investments.

Dividends and distributions—Dividends and distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. The amount of dividends from investment income and distributions from realized capital gains and/or return of capital are determined in accordance with US federal income tax regulations, which may differ from US GAAP. These “book/tax” differences are either considered temporary or permanent in nature. To the extent these differences are permanent in nature, such amounts are reclassified within the capital accounts based on their federal tax-basis treatment; temporary differences do not require reclassification.

Concentration of risk—The ability of the issuers of debt securities held by the Fund to meet their obligations may be affected by economic and political developments particular to a specific industry, country, state or region.

Certain impacts to public health conditions particular to the coronavirus “COVID-19” outbreak that occurred may have a significant negative impact on the operations and profitability of the issuers of the Fund’s investments. The extent of the impact to the financial performance of the Fund will depend on future developments, including (i) the duration and spread of the outbreak, (ii) the restrictions and advisories, (iii) the effects on the financial markets, and (iv) the effects on the economy overall, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.

Investment advisor and administrator and other transactions with affiliates

The Fund’s Board of Trustees has approved an investment advisory and administration contract (the “Advisory Contract”) with UBS AM, under which UBS AM serves as investment advisor and administrator of the Fund. In accordance with the Advisory Contract, the Fund pays UBS AM an investment advisory and administration fee, which is accrued daily and paid monthly. UBS AM’s contract fee for the advisory and administration services it provides to the Fund is 0.12% of the Fund’s average daily net assets. At April 30, 2021, UBS AM is owed $308,630 by the Fund, representing investment advisory and administration fees.

The Fund and UBS AM have entered into a written fee waiver agreement pursuant to which UBS AM is contractually obligated to waive its management fees so that the total ordinary operating expenses of the Fund through August 31, 2021, do not exceed 0.06%. The fee waiver agreement may be terminated by the Fund’s board at any time and also will terminate automatically upon the expiration or termination of the Fund’s contract with UBS AM. For the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM waived $1,973,051 in investment advisory and administration fees; such amount is not subject to future recoupment. At April 30, 2021, UBS AM owed the Fund $237,987 in fee waivers.

In exchange for these fees, UBS AM has agreed to bear all of the Fund’s expenses other than interest, taxes, extraordinary costs and the cost of securities purchased and sold by the Fund, including any transaction costs. Although UBS AM is not obligated to pay the fees and expenses of the Fund’s independent trustees, it is contractually obligated to reduce its management fee in an amount equal to those fees and expenses. UBS AM estimates that these fees and expenses will be less than 0.01% of the Fund’s average daily net assets. At April 30, 2021, UBS AM did not owe the Fund any additional reductions in management fees for independent trustees’ fees and expenses.

Additional information regarding compensation to affiliate of a board member

Professor Meyer Feldberg serves as a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Fund may conduct transactions, resulting in him being deemed an interested trustee of the Fund. The Fund has been

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Notes to financial statements

 

informed that Professor Feldberg’s role at Morgan Stanley does not involve matters directly affecting any UBS funds. Portfolio transactions are executed through Morgan Stanley based on that firm’s ability to provide best execution of the transactions. During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Fund purchased and sold certain securities (e.g., fixed income securities) in principal trades with Morgan Stanley, having an aggregate value of $29,975,905. Morgan Stanley received compensation in connection with these trades, which may have been in the form of a “mark-up” or “mark-down” of the price of the securities, a fee from the issuer for maintaining a commercial paper program, or some other form of compensation. Although the precise amount of this compensation is not generally known by the Fund’s investment manager, it is believed that under normal circumstances it represents a small portion of the total value of the transactions.

Shares of beneficial interest

There is an unlimited amount of $0.001 par value shares of beneficial interest authorized. Transactions in shares of beneficial interest, for which the NAV per share has fluctuated, were as follows:

 

       For the year ended April 30, 2021           For the year ended April 30, 2020
        Shares    Amount           Shares    Amount
Shares sold        18,106,168,778      $ 18,104,088,596             24,509,522,057      $ 24,516,493,262  
Shares repurchased        (18,196,970,116      (18,195,189,832           (25,165,844,997      (25,173,433,672
Dividends reinvested        1,582,954        1,583,372             33,410,264        33,414,913  
Net increase (decrease)        (89,218,384    $ (89,517,864                 (622,912,676    $ (623,525,497

Federal tax status

The Fund intends to distribute substantially all of its income and to comply with the other requirements of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required. In addition, by distributing during each calendar year substantially all of its net investment income, net realized capital gains and certain other amounts, if any, the Fund intends not to be subject to a federal excise tax.

The tax character of distributions paid to shareholders by the Fund during the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020, was ordinary income in the amount of $4,646,194 and $77,504,765, respectively.

Aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes was substantially the same for book purposes; and net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) consisted of:

 

Gross unrealized appreciation      $ 114,425  
Gross unrealized depreciation        (13,746
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)        100,679  

At April 30, 2021, the components of accumulated earnings (deficit) on a tax basis were as follows:

 

Undistributed
ordinary
income 
     Undistributed
long-term
capital gains
     Accumulated
capital and
other losses
     Unrealized
appreciation
(depreciation)
    

Other
temporary

differences

   Total
$35,899      $        $        $ 100,679        $ (26,852    $ 109,726  

Net capital losses recognized by a Fund may be carried forward indefinitely, and retain their character as short-term and/or long-term losses. These carryforwards are available as a reduction, to the extent provided in the regulations, of future realized capital gains. To the extent that such losses are used to offset future net realized capital gains, it is probable these gains will not be distributed. At April 30, 2021, the Fund had no capital loss carryforwards.

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Notes to financial statements

 

ASC 740-10 “Income Taxes—Overall” sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken. The Fund has conducted an analysis and concluded as of April 30, 2021, that there are no significant uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken that would require recognition in the financial statements. It is the Fund’s policy to record any significant foreign tax exposures on the financial statements. The Fund recognizes interest and penalties, if any, related to uncertain tax positions as income tax expense in the Statement of operations. During the period ended April 30, 2021 the Fund did not incur any interest or penalties.

Each of the tax years in the four year period ended April 30, 2021, remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities.

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund (the “Fund”) (one of the funds constituting UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”)), including the portfolio of investments, as of April 30 2021, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the four years in the period then ended and for the period from April 11, 2017 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2017, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund (one of the funds constituting UBS Series Funds) at April 30, 2021, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and its financial highlights for each of the four years in the period then ended and for the period from April 11, 2017 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2017, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audit we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of April 30, 2021, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers or by other appropriate auditing procedures where replies from brokers were not received. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

LOGO

We have served as the auditor of one or more UBS investment companies since 1978.

New York, New York

June 28, 2021

 

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General information (unaudited)

 

Monthly portfolio holdings disclosure

The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) each month on Form N-MFP. These reports on Form N-MFP are available on the SEC’s Web site at http:// www.sec.gov. The Fund makes portfolio holdings information available to shareholders at the following internet address: www.lpcif.com. Investors also may find additional information about the Fund at www.lpcif.com.

Proxy voting policies, procedures and record

You may obtain a description of the Fund’s (1) proxy voting policies, (2) proxy voting procedures and (3) information regarding how the Fund voted any proxies related to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 for which an SEC filing has been made, without charge, upon request by contacting the Fund directly at 1-800-647 1568, online on the Fund’s Web site: www.ubs.com/ubsam-proxy, or on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Web site (http://www.sec.gov).

Other tax information

Pursuant to Sections 871(k)(1)(C)(i) and 871(k)(2)(C)(i) of the Internal Revenue Code, the Fund designates $4,184,628 of ordinary income distributions paid as qualified interest income for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2021.

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Board of Trustees & Officers

The Fund is governed by a Board of Trustees which oversees the Fund’s operations. Each trustee serves an indefinite term of office. Officers are appointed by the trustees and serve at the pleasure of the Board. The table below shows, for each trustee and officer, his or her name, address and age, the position held with the Trust, the length of time served as a trustee or officer of the Trust, the trustee’s or officer’s principal occupations during the last five years, the number of funds in the UBS fund complex overseen by the trustee or for which a person served as an officer, and other directorships held by the trustee.

The Fund’s SEC Registration Statement—Part B, as amended, contains additional information about the trustees and is available, without charge, upon request by calling 1-800-647 1568.

 

Interested Trustee        
         

Name,

address,

and age

  Position(s)
held with
Trust
  Term of office1
and length of
time served
 

Principal occupation(s)
during past

5 years

  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
 

Other directorships

held by

trustee

Meyer Feldberg2;

79

Morgan Stanley

1585 Broadway

36th Floor

New York, NY 10036

  Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees   Since 1998 (Trustee); Since 2017 (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)   Professor Feldberg is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, although on an extended leave of absence. He is also a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley (financial services) (since 2005). Professor Feldberg also served as President of New York City Global Partners (an organization located in part of the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York that promoted interaction with other cities around the world (2007 to 2014). Prior to 2004, he was Dean and Professor of Management and Ethics of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University (since 1989). From 1992 to 2016, Professor Feldberg was a director of Macy’s, Inc. (operator of department stores). From 1997 to 2017, Professor Feldberg was a director of Revlon, Inc. (cosmetics).   Professor Feldberg is a director or trustee of 8 investment companies (consisting of 48 portfolios) for which UBS AM or one of its affiliates serves as investment advisor or manager.   Professor Feldberg is also a director of the New York City Ballet.

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Independent Trustees        
         

Name,

address,

and age

  Position(s)
held with
Trust
  Term of office1
and length of
time served
 

Principal occupation(s)
during past

5 years

  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
 

Other directorships

held by

trustee

Alan S. Bernikow;

80

K2 Integrity
845 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10022

  Trustee   Since 2005   Mr. Bernikow is retired. Previously, he was deputy chief executive officer at Deloitte & Touche (international accounting and consulting firm). From 2003 to 2017, Mr. Bernikow was also a director of Destination XL Group, Inc. (menswear) (and served as a member of its nominating and corporate governance committee).   Mr. Bernikow is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Bernikow is also a director of Revlon, Inc. (cosmetics) (and serves as the chair of its audit committee and as the chair of its compensation committee) and the lead director of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation (real estate investment trust) (and serves as the chair of its audit committee).

Richard R. Burt;

74

McLarty Associates

900 17th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20006

  Trustee   Since 1998   Mr. Burt is a managing partner of McLarty Associates (a consulting firm) (since 2007). He was chairman of IEP Advisors (international investments and consulting firm) until 2009.   Mr. Burt is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Burt is also a director of The Central Europe, Russia and Turkey Fund, Inc., The European Equity Fund, Inc., and The New Germany Fund, Inc. (and serves as a member of each such fund’s audit, nominating and governance committees).

Bernard H. Garil;

81

6754 Casa Grande Way Delray Beach, FL 33446

  Trustee   Since 2005   Mr. Garil is retired (since 2001). He was a managing director at PIMCO Advisory Services (from 1999 to 2001) where he served as president of closed-end funds and vice- president of the variable insurance product funds advised by OpCap Advisors (until 2001).   Mr. Garil is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Garil is also a trustee for the Brooklyn College Foundation, Inc. (charitable foundation).

Heather R. Higgins;

61

c/o Keith A. Weller,

Fund Secretary

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

One North Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606

  Trustee   Since 2005   Ms. Higgins is the president and director of The Randolph Foundation (charitable foundation) (since 1991). Ms. Higgins also serves (or has served) on the boards of several non-profit charitable groups, including the Independent Women’s Forum (chairman) and the Philanthropy Roundtable (vice chairman). She also serves on the board of the Hoover Institution (from 2001 to 2007 and since 2009).   Ms. Higgins is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   None

 

1 

Each trustee holds office for an indefinite term.

2 

Professor Feldberg is deemed an “interested person” of the Trust as defined in the Investment Company Act because he is a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Trust may conduct transactions.

 

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Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund

Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers
        

Name, address,

and age

  

Position(s) held

with Trust

  

Term of office1

and length

of time served

   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years

Rose Ann Bubloski2;

53

   Vice President and Assistant Treasurer    Since 2011    Ms. Bubloski is a director (since 2012) (prior to which she was an associate director (from 2008 to 2012)) and a senior manager of fund accounting—US (previously named product control and investment support) at UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. and/or UBS Asset Management (US) Inc. (“UBS AM— Americas region”). Ms. Bubloski is a vice president and assistant treasurer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Franklin P. Dickson2;

42

   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Dickson is an associate director (since 2015) and tax compliance manager (since 2017) (prior to which he was a product controller (from 2015 to 2017) of fund accounting—US (previously named product control and investment support) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Dickson is a vice president of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Lisa N. DiPaolo2;

43

   Vice President    Since 2015    Ms. DiPaolo is an executive director (since 2020) (prior to which she was a director from 2008 until March 2020), and portfolio manager (since 2015) at UBS AM— Americas region. Ms. DiPaolo joined UBS AM—Americas region in 2000 and has been a municipal securities analyst on the tax-free fixed income team. Ms. DiPaolo is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Elbridge T. Gerry III2;

64

   Vice President    Since 1999    Mr. Gerry is a managing director and head of municipal strategy of UBS AM—Americas region (prior to which he was co-head of municipal investments (from 2017 until June 2020; head from 2001 to 2017)). Mr. Gerry is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Charles W. Grande2;

57

   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Grande is a managing director, head of municipal fixed income team (since June 2020; formerly co-head from 2017 until June 2020) and head of municipal credit research (since 2009) with UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Grande is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Mark F. Kemper3;

63

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2004 and 2019, respectively    Mr. Kemper is a managing director (since 2006) and senior legal counsel (since 2019 to present) (prior to which he was Interim Head of Asia Pacific Legal (March 2020-March 2021), Interim Head of Compliance and Operational Risk Control (from June 2019 through September 2019) and general counsel of UBS AM—Americas region (from 2004-2019)). He has been secretary of UBS AM— Americas region (since 2004) and assistant secretary of UBS Asset Management Trust Company (since 1993). Mr. Kemper is vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager. Mr. Kemper is employed by UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017).

Joanne M. Kilkeary2;

53

   Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer    Since 1999 (Vice President) and since 2017 (Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer)    Ms. Kilkeary is an executive director (since 2013) (prior to which she was a director (from 2008 to 2013)) and head of fund accounting—US (since November 2020) (prior to which she was head of regulatory, tax, audit and board governance for product control and investment support (from 2017 through October 2020) (prior to which she was a senior manager (from 2004 to 2017) of registered fund product control of UBS AM— Americas region). Ms. Kilkeary is a vice president, treasurer and principal accounting officer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers (concluded)
        

Name, address,

and age

  

Position(s) held

with Trust

  

Term of office1

and length

of time served

   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years

Igor Lasun2;

42

   President    Since 2018    Mr. Lasun is a managing director (since March 2021) (prior to which he was an executive director (from 2018 until February 2021)) and head of fund development and management for UBS AM—Americas region (since 2018) (prior to which he was a senior fixed income product specialist from 2007 to 2018, and had joined the firm in 2005). In this role, he oversees development and management for both wholesale and institutional businesses. Mr. Lasun serves as president of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Ryan Nugent2;

43

   Vice President    Since 2009    Mr. Nugent is an executive director (since 2017) (prior to which he was director (from 2010 to 2017)), and portfolio manager (since 2005) and head of municipal trading (since 2013) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Nugent is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Frank Pluchino4;

61

   Chief Compliance Officer    Since 2017    Mr. Pluchino is an executive director with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and is also the chief compliance officer of UBS Hedge Fund Solutions LLC (since 2010). Mr. Pluchino is the chief compliance officer of 10 investment companies (consisting of 62 portfolios) for which UBS AM or one of its affiliates serves as investment advisor or manager.

Robert Sabatino3;

47

   Vice President    Since 2001    Mr. Sabatino is a managing director (since 2010) (prior to which he was an executive director (since 2007)), head of global liquidity portfolio management (since 2015), head of US taxable money markets (from 2009 to 2015), and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region in the short duration fixed income group (since 2000). Mr. Sabatino is a vice president of three investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Eric Sanders3;

55

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2005    Mr. Sanders is a director and associate general counsel with UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017) and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005). Mr. Sanders is a vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Philip Stacey3;

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   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2018    Mr. Stacey is an executive director (since 2019) and associate general counsel (since 2017) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017) and also with UBS AM— Americas region since 2015. Mr. Stacey is a vice president and assistant secretary of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

David Walczak3;

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   Vice President    Since 2016    Mr. Walczak is an executive director (since 2016), head of US money markets (since 2015) and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Walczak is a vice president of three investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Keith A. Weller3;

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   Vice President and Secretary    Since 1998 (Vice President) and since 2019 (Secretary)    Mr. Weller is an executive director (since 2005) and deputy general counsel (since 2019) (prior to which he was senior associate general counsel) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005) and has been an attorney with affiliated entities since 1995. Mr. Weller is a vice president and secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

1 

Officers of the Trust are appointed by the trustees and serve at the pleasure of the board.

2 

This person’s business address is 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019-6028.

3 

This person’s business address is One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

4

This person’s business address is 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019.

 

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Trustees

Meyer Feldberg

CHAIRMAN

Alan S. Bernikow

Richard R. Burt

Bernard H. Garil

Heather R. Higgins

Investment Advisor and Administrator

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

Placement Agent

UBS Asset Management (US) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

 

 

This report is not to be used in connection with the offering of shares of the Fund unless accompanied or preceded by an offering document.

© UBS 2021. All rights reserved.


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UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund

Annual Report  |  April 30, 2021

 


UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund

 

June 10, 2021

Dear Shareholder,

We present you with the annual report for UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund for the 12 months ended April 30, 2021 (the “reporting period”).

Performance

The US Federal Reserve maintained the federal funds rate in a range between 0.00% and 0.25% during the 12-months ended April 30, 2021. The federal funds rate or the “fed funds rate,” is the rate US banks charge one another for funds they borrow on an overnight basis. (For more details on the Fed’s actions, see below.) As a result, the yields on a number of short-term investments remained low. Against this backdrop, the Fund’s yield declined during the reporting period.

The seven-day current yield for the Fund as of April 30, 2021 was 0.02%, versus 0.01% on April 30, 2020 (in both cases, after fee waivers/expense reimbursements). (For more information on the Fund’s performance, refer to “Yields and characteristics at a glance” on pages 4.)

 

An interview with Portfolio Manager Robert Sabatino

Q.

How would you describe the economic environment during the reporting period?

A.

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a severe economic contraction, followed by a rebound as the reporting period progressed. In the US, the US Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product (“GDP”) declined at a 31.4% seasonally adjusted annualized rate during the second quarter of 2020—the steepest quarterly decline on record. With parts of the economy reopening, third quarter annualized GDP growth was 33.4%, the largest quarterly increase on record. The economy continued to expand, as fourth quarter annualized GDP growth was 4.3%. Finally, according to the Commerce Department’s initial estimate, first quarter 2021 annualized GDP growth was 6.4%.

 

Q.

How did the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) react to the economic environment?

A.

The Fed maintained its highly accommodative monetary policy, as the central bank kept the federal funds rate in a range between 0.00% and 0.25%. At its meeting in September 2020, the Fed indicated that rates could stay anchored near zero through 2023. While inflation edged higher later in the period, in March 2021 Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said, “Long term, we think that the inflation dynamics we’ve seen around the world for a quarter of a century are essentially intact…and we think those dynamics haven’t gone away overnight and won’t.” At a press conference after the Fed’s April 2021 meeting, Chair Powell said, “Readings on inflation have increased and are likely to rise somewhat further before moderating…we are also likely to see upward pressure on prices from the rebound in spending as the economy continues to reopen, particularly if supply bottlenecks limit how quickly production can respond in the near term. However, these one-time increases in prices are likely to have only transitory effects on inflation.”

 

Q.

How did you position the Fund over the reporting period?

A.

The Fund is a “feeder fund,” investing all of its assets in a “master fund,” namely Government Master Fund. We tactically adjusted Government Master Fund’s weighted average maturity (WAM)—which is the weighted average maturity of the securities in its portfolio—throughout the reporting period. The Fund’s WAM was 48 days when the reporting period began. At period end on April 30, 2021, it was 34 days.

 

Q.

What level of portfolio diversification did you maintain during the reporting period?

A.

At the issuer level, we continued to invest in US government securities, investing in numerous smaller positions with the goal of reducing risk and keeping the Fund highly liquid.

 

Q.

What types of securities did the Government Master Fund emphasize?

A.

Over the review period, we significantly increased the Master Fund’s exposure to direct US Treasury obligations. Conversely, we decreased its exposures to US government agency obligations and repurchase agreements backed

 

UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund

Investment goal:

Maximum current income consistent with liquidity and the preservation of capital.

Portfolio Managers:

Robert Sabatino

David J. Walczak

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

Commencement:

June 24, 2016

Dividend payments:

Monthly

 

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  by government obligations. (Repurchase agreements are transactions in which the seller of a security agrees to buy it back at a predetermined time and price or upon demand.)

 

Q.

What factors do you believe will affect the Fund over the coming months?

A.

With the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, we anticipate a return to more normal economic activity as the year progresses. However, the path could be uneven due to new virus strains. We expect the Fed to remain highly accommodative and, while inflation could edge higher, it should be generally well contained overall. In this environment, we anticipate continuing to manage the Fund focusing on risk and liquidity.

We thank you for your continued support and welcome any comments or questions you may have. For additional information on the UBS family of funds,* please contact your financial advisor, or visit us at www.ubs.com/am-us.

Sincerely,

 

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Igor Lasun

President—UBS Series Funds

UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

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Robert Sabatino

Portfolio Manager—UBS Series Funds

UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

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David J. Walczak

Portfolio Manager—UBS Series Funds

UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund

Executive Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

This letter is intended to assist shareholders in understanding how the Fund performed during the 12-month period ended April 30, 2021. The views and opinions in the letter were current as of June 10, 2021. They are not guarantees of future performance or investment results and should not be taken as investment advice. Investment decisions reflect a variety of factors, and we reserve the right to change our views about individual securities, sectors and markets at any time. As a result, the views expressed should not be relied upon as a forecast of the Fund’s future investment intent. We encourage you to consult your financial advisor regarding your personal investment program.

 

*

Mutual funds are sold by prospectus only. You should read it carefully and consider a fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other important information contained in the prospectus before investing. Prospectuses for most of our funds can be obtained from your financial advisor, by calling UBS Funds at 800-647 1568, or by visiting our Website at www.ubs.com/am-us.

 

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Understanding your Fund’s expenses1 (unaudited)

 

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur ongoing costs, including management fees, service fees (non-12b-1 fees) and other Fund expenses. These examples are intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds. Since the Fund is a “feeder fund” that invests in a corresponding “master fund,” the expense information below reflects the combined effect of the two levels of expenses and not just those imposed directly at the feeder fund level.

The examples below are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period, November 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021.

Actual expenses

The first line in the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over a period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses paid during period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical example for comparison purposes

The second line in the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate your actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs. Therefore, the second line in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds, if those other funds impose transactional costs—for example, exchange fees. In addition, if those transactional costs were included, your costs for those other funds would have been higher.

The examples do not reflect Resource Management Account® (RMA®) Program, Business Services Account BSA® Program or other program fees as these are external to the Fund and relate to those programs.

 

        Beginning
account value
November 1, 2020
     Ending
account value
April 30, 2021
2
     Expenses paid
during period
11/01/20 to 04/30/21
3
     Expense
ratio during
the period
                   
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.55          0.11
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.25          0.55          0.11  

 

 

1 

The expenses for the Fund reflect the expenses of the corresponding master fund in which it invests in addition to its own direct expenses.

2 

“Actual—Ending account value” may or may not be reflective of a shareholder’s actual investment experience during periods of very low interest rates. While the Fund declares dividends daily and pays them monthly, the amounts are rounded to the nearest $0.01 on a daily basis with respect to each investor’s account. As a result, investors whose Fund account balances earn daily dividends that total less than one half a cent on any given day will not accrue any dividends on that day.

3 

Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized net expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181 divided by 365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

 

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Yields and characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited)

 

UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.02
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.02  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.08
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.11
Weighted average maturity2      34 days  

 

1 

Yields will fluctuate and reflect fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements, if any, unless otherwise noted. Performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted.

2

Weighted average maturity provided is that of the related master fund, which is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

You could lose money by investing in UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund. Although the related money market master fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund are at $1.00 per share, the related money market master fund cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Statement of assets and liabilities

April 30, 2021

 

Assets:

 

Investment in Government Master Fund (“Master Fund”), at value (cost—$1,282,141,064, which approximates
cost for federal income tax purposes)
       $1,282,141,064  
Other assets        70,254  
Total assets        1,282,211,318  
    
Liabilities:

 

Dividends payable to shareholders        23,891  
Payable to affiliate        91,781  
Accrued expenses and other liabilities        319,325  
Total liabilities        434,997  
    
Net assets:

 

Shares of beneficial interest—$0.001 par value per share, unlimited amount authorized;
1,281,804,967 outstanding
       $1,281,804,967  
Distributable earnings (losses)        (28,646
Net assets        $1,281,776,321  
Net asset value per share        $1.00  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund

 

 

Statement of operations

 

        For the
year ended
April 30, 2021
Investment income:

 

Interest income allocated from Master Fund        $1,483,009  
Expenses allocated from Master Fund        (885,699
Expense waiver allocated from Master Fund        13,595  
Net investment income allocated from Master Fund        610,905  
Expenses:

 

Administration fees        879,833  
Service fees        2,214,178  
Transfer agency and related services fees        969,875  
Accounting fees        5,067  
Trustees’ fees        21,802  
Professional fees        42,238  
Reports and notices to shareholders        14,081  
State registration fees        112,029  
Insurance fees        26,339  
Other expenses        19,181  
Total expenses        4,304,623  
Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements by administrator and distributor        (3,796,186
Net expenses        508,437  
Net investment income (loss)        102,468  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        18,193  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        $120,661  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $102,468        $47,648,491  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        18,193        127,569  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        120,661        47,776,060  
Total distributions        (155,297      (47,788,292
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        586,870,861        (4,214,421,961
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        586,836,225        (4,214,434,193
Net assets:

 

       
Beginning of year        694,940,096        4,909,374,289  
End of year        $1,281,776,321        $694,940,096  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each period is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,    For the period from
June
 24, 20161 to
April 30, 2017
        2021    2020    2019    2018
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Net investment income (loss)        0.000 2       0.013        0.017        0.007        0.001  
Net realized gain (loss)        0.000 2       0.000 2       0.000 2       (0.000 )2       0.000 2 
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.000 2       0.013        0.017        0.007        0.001  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.000 )2       (0.013      (0.017      (0.007      (0.001
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.000 )2       (0.000 )2              (0.000 )2       (0.000 )2 
Total dividends, distributions and return of capital        (0.000 )2       (0.013      (0.017      (0.007      (0.001
Net asset value, end of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Total investment return3        0.02      1.30      1.70      0.69      0.07
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements4        0.59      0.51      0.49      0.49      0.48 %5 
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements4        0.16      0.50      0.49      0.49      0.41 %5 
Net investment income (loss)4        0.01      1.65      1.68      0.67      0.08 %5 
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of year (000’s)        $1,281,776        $694,940        $4,909,374        $5,762,262        $8,216,903  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

2 

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

3 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each period reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each period reported. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

4 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

5 

Annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Organization and significant accounting policies

UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund (“RMA Government Fund” or the “Fund”) is registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), as a diversified series of UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust on April 29, 1998. The Trust is a series mutual fund with twenty-two series. The financial statements for the other series of the Trust are not included herein.

RMA Government Fund is a “feeder fund” that invests substantially all of its assets in a “master fund”—Government Master Fund (the “Master Fund”, a diversified series of Master Trust, an open-end investment company registered with the SEC under the 1940 Act). The feeder fund and its respective Master Fund have the same investment objectives. RMA Government Fund commenced operations on June 24, 2016.

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”) is the investment advisor and administrator for the Master Fund and the administrator for the Fund. UBS Asset Management (US) Inc. (“UBS AM—US”) serves as principal underwriter for the Fund. UBS AM and UBS AM—US are indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of UBS Group AG. UBS Group AG is an internationally diversified organization with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. UBS Group AG operates in many areas of the financial services industry.

The performance of the Fund is directly affected by the performance of the Master Fund. The value of such investment reflects the Fund’s proportionate interest in the net assets of the Master Fund (14.53% at April 30, 2021).

All of the net investment income and realized and unrealized gains and losses from investment activities of the Master Fund are allocated pro rata, based on respective ownership interests, among the Fund and other investors in the Master Fund (e.g., other feeder funds) at the time of such determination. The financial statements of the Master Fund, including the Portfolio of investments, are included elsewhere in this report and should be read in connection with the Fund’s financial statements. The Trust accounts separately for the assets, liabilities and operations of each series. Expenses directly attributable to each series are charged to that series’ operations; expenses which are applicable to all series are allocated among them on a pro rata basis.

In the normal course of business, the Fund may enter into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide indemnification for certain liabilities. The Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Fund that have not yet occurred. However, the Fund has not had any prior claims or losses pursuant to these contracts and expects the risk of loss to be remote.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) is the exclusive reference of authoritative US generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal laws are also sources of authoritative US GAAP for SEC registrants. The Fund’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with US GAAP, which may require the use of management estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies:

Valuation of investments—The Fund records its investment in the Master Fund at fair value. Securities held by the Master Fund are valued as indicated in the Master Fund’s Notes to financial statements, which are included elsewhere in this report.

Constant net asset value per share—RMA Government Fund attempts to maintain a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. There is no assurance, however, that the Fund will be able to maintain a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. The Fund and the Master Fund have adopted certain investment, portfolio valuation and dividend/

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

distribution policies in an attempt to enable the Fund to do so. RMA Government Fund and the Master Fund have each adopted a policy to operate as a “government money market fund”. Under Rule 2a-7 of the 1940 Act, a “government money market fund” invests 99.5% or more of its total assets in cash, government securities, and/or repurchase agreements that are collateralized fully (i.e., collateralized by cash and/or government securities) (either directly or through a related master portfolio). As a “government money market fund”, RMA Government Fund is permitted to seek to maintain a stable price per share.

Liquidity fee and/or redemption gates—By operating as a “government money market fund”, RMA Government Fund is exempt from requirements that permit the imposition of a liquidity fee and/or temporary redemption gates. While the Fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) may elect to subject RMA Government Fund to liquidity fee and gate requirements in the future, the Board has not elected to do so at this time.

Dividends and distributions—Dividends and distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. The amount of dividends and distributions is determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations, which may differ from US GAAP. These “book/tax” differences are either considered temporary or permanent in nature. To the extent these differences are permanent in nature, such amounts are reclassified within the capital accounts based on their federal tax-basis treatment; temporary differences do not require reclassification.

Concentration of risk—The ability of the issuers of the debt securities held by the Master Fund to meet their obligations may be affected by economic and political developments particular to a specific industry, country, state or region.

Certain impacts to public health conditions particular to the coronavirus “COVID-19” outbreak that occurred may have a significant negative impact on the operations and profitability of the Fund’s investments. The extent of the impact to the financial performance of the Fund will depend on future developments, including (i) the duration and spread of the outbreak, (ii) the restrictions and advisories, (iii) the effects on the financial markets, and (iv) the effects on the economy overall, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.

Administrator

UBS AM serves as administrator to the Fund pursuant to an Administration Agreement approved by the Trust’s board. In accordance with the Administration Agreement, the Fund pays UBS AM an administration fee, which is accrued daily and paid monthly, at the below annual rate, as a percentage of the Fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Fund      Administration fee
RMA Government Fund        0.10

At April 30, 2021, the Fund owed UBS AM for administrative services as follows:

 

Fund      Amount owed to UBS AM
RMA Government Fund      $ 94,469  

Shareholder services plan

UBS AM—US is the principal underwriter and distributor of the Fund’s shares. Under the shareholder services plan, UBS AM—US is entitled to a monthly shareholder servicing fee, payable by the Fund, at the below annual rate, as a percentage of the Fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Fund      Shareholder servicing fee
RMA Government Fund        0.25

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

At April 30, 2021, the Fund owed UBS AM—US for shareholder servicing fees as follows:

 

Fund      Amount owed to UBS AM—US
RMA Government Fund      $ 236,177  

In addition, UBS AM—US may voluntarily undertake to waive fees in the event that Fund yields drop below a certain level. This additional undertaking is voluntary and not contractual and may be terminated at any time. At April 30, 2021, and for the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM—US owed and voluntarily waived, the below amounts, which are not subject to future recoupment:

 

Fund      Amount owed by UBS AM—US      Amount waived by UBS AM—US
RMA Government Fund      $ 238,865        $ 3,796,186  

Transfer agency and related services fees

UBS Financial Services Inc. provides certain services pursuant to a delegation of authority from BNY Mellon Investment Servicing (US) Inc. (“BNY Mellon”), the Fund’s transfer agent, and was compensated for these services by BNY Mellon, not the Fund. For the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS Financial Services Inc. received from BNY Mellon, not the Fund, total delegated services fees as follows:

 

RMA Government Fund      $ 478,016  

Shares of beneficial interest

There is an unlimited amount of $0.001 par value shares of beneficial interest authorized. Transactions in shares of beneficial interest, at $1.00 per share, were as follows:

 

RMA Government Money Market Fund                    
       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        22,002,365,227        42,606,715,503  
Shares repurchased        (21,415,619,452      (46,870,396,622
Dividends reinvested        125,086        49,259,158  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        586,870,861        (4,214,421,961

Federal tax status

The Fund intends to distribute substantially all of its income and to comply with the other requirements of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required. In addition, by distributing during each calendar year substantially all of its net investment income, net realized capital gains and certain other amounts, if any, the Fund intends not to be subject to a federal excise tax.

The tax character of distributions paid to shareholders by the Fund during the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 was ordinary income in the amount of $155,297 and $47,788,292 respectively.

At April 30, 2021, the components of accumulated earnings (deficit) on a tax basis were as follows:

 

        Undistributed
ordinary
income
     Undistributed
long-term
capital gains
     Accumulated
capital and
other losses
     Unrealized
appreciation
(depreciation)
     Other
temporary
differences
   Total
       $ 34,486        $        $        $        $ (63,132    $ (28,646

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Net capital losses recognized by the Fund may be carried forward indefinitely, and retain their character as short-term and/or long-term losses. These carryforwards are available as a reduction, to the extent provided in the regulations, of future realized capital gains. To the extent that such losses are used to offset future net realized capital gains, it is probable these gains will not be distributed. As of April 30, 2021, the Fund had no net capital loss carryforward.

ASC 740-10 “Income Taxes—Overall” sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken. The Fund has conducted an analysis and concluded as of April 30, 2021, that there are no significant uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken that would require recognition in the financial statements. The Fund recognizes interest and penalties, if any, related to uncertain tax positions as income tax expense in the Statement of operations. During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Fund did not incur any interest or penalties.

Each of the tax years in the four year period ended April 30, 2021, remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities.

 

12


UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund

Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund (the “Fund”) (one of the funds constituting UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”)), as of April 30, 2021, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the four years in the period then ended and for the period from June 24, 2016 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2017, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund (one of the funds constituting UBS Series Funds) at April 30, 2021, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and its financial highlights for each of the four years in the period then ended and for the period from June 24, 2016 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2017, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

LOGO

We have served as the auditor of one or more UBS investment companies since 1978.

New York, New York

June 28, 2021

 

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UBS RMA Government Money Market Fund

General information (unaudited)

 

Monthly portfolio holdings disclosure

The Fund and Master Fund file their complete schedules of portfolio holdings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) each month on Form N-MFP. These reports on Form N-MFP are available on the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov. The Fund and Master Fund make portfolio holdings information available to shareholders on UBS’s Web site at the following internet address: www.ubs.com/usmoneymarketfunds. Investors also may find additional information about the Fund at the above referenced UBS Web site internet address.

Proxy voting policies, procedures and record

You may obtain a description of the Fund’s (and corresponding Master Fund’s) (1) proxy voting policies, (2) proxy voting procedures and (3) information regarding how a fund voted any proxies related to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 for which an SEC filing has been made, without charge, upon request by contacting the Fund directly at 1-800-647 1568, online on the Fund’s Web site: www.ubs.com/ubsam-proxy, or on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Web site (http://www.sec.gov).

Other tax information

Pursuant to Sections 871(k)(1)(C)(i) and 871(k)(2)(C)(i) of the Internal Revenue Code, the Fund designates $102,468 of ordinary income distributions paid as qualified interest income and $52,829 as qualified short term capital gains for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2021.

 

14


Master Trust

Annual Report  |  April 30, 2021

Includes:

 

Government Master Fund

 


Government Master Fund

 

Understanding Master Fund’s expenses (unaudited)

 

(Note: The expense information provided in this section is relevant for direct investors in the Master Fund. Investors in the related “feeder fund” should instead focus on separate expense examples relevant to the feeder fund; the expense examples for the feeder fund will reflect its proportionate share of the corresponding Master Fund’s expenses.)

As an owner of a Master Fund, an investor such as a feeder fund incurs ongoing costs, including management fees and other Master Fund expenses. These examples are intended to help you understand a Master Fund investor’s ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a Master Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The examples below are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period, November 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021.

Actual expenses

The first line in the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over a period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses paid during period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical example for comparison purposes

The second line in the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Master Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Master Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate your actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Master Fund and other funds. To do so, compare these 5% hypothetical examples with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs. Therefore, the second line in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds, if those other funds impose transactional costs—for example, exchange fees. In addition, if those transactional costs were included, your costs for those other funds would have been higher.

 

        Beginning
account value
November 1, 2020
     Ending
account value
April 30, 2021
     Expenses paid
during period
1
11/01/20 to 04/30/21
     Expense
ratio during
the period
                   
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.50          0.10
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.30          0.50          0.10  

 

1

Expenses are equal to the Master Fund’s annualized net expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181 divided by 365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

 

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Government Master Fund

 

Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited)

 

Government Master Fund

 

    
Characteristics        
Weighted average maturity1        34 days  
Portfolio composition2        
U.S. Treasury obligations        43.9
U.S. government agency obligations        34.1  
Repurchase agreements        22.9  
Liabilities in excess of other assets        (0.9
Total        100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although Government Master Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of each related feeder fund are at $1.00 per share, Government Master Fund cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

17


Government Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. government agency obligations—34.1%

 

Federal Farm Credit Bank

 

SOFR + 0.035%,
0.045%, due 05/01/211

  $ 27,000,000     $ 27,000,000  

SOFR + 0.050%,
0.060%, due 05/01/211

    23,000,000       23,000,000  

0.060%, due 02/10/22

    45,000,000       44,996,392  

SOFR + 0.055%,
0.065%, due 05/01/211

    5,500,000       5,500,000  

SOFR + 0.060%,
0.070%, due 05/01/211

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

0.100%, due 10/08/21

    67,500,000       67,492,207  

SOFR + 0.110%,
0.120%, due 05/01/211

    78,000,000       78,000,000  

0.120%, due 05/20/212

    125,000,000       124,992,917  

0.130%, due 05/06/212

    25,000,000       24,999,729  

0.150%, due 05/26/21

    55,000,000       54,999,758  

SOFR + 0.160%,
0.170%, due 05/01/211

    35,000,000       35,000,000  

Federal Home Loan Bank
0.009%, due 05/12/212

    150,000,000       149,999,662  

0.010%, due 05/28/212

    77,000,000       76,999,465  

0.018%, due 07/09/212

    172,000,000       171,994,238  

0.018%, due 07/16/212

    79,000,000       78,997,077  

SOFR + 0.010%,
0.020%, due 05/03/211

    231,000,000       231,000,000  

0.020%, due 07/28/212

    60,000,000       59,997,133  

SOFR + 0.015%,
0.025%, due 05/03/211

    186,000,000       186,000,000  

0.025%, due 08/19/21

    78,000,000       77,999,317  

0.025%, due 08/25/212

    28,600,000       28,597,736  

0.034%, due 05/21/212

    89,000,000       88,998,487  

0.039%, due 05/12/212

    45,000,000       44,999,561  

0.040%, due 05/17/212

    90,000,000       89,998,600  

0.050%, due 06/28/21

    66,000,000       66,000,257  

0.059%, due 05/05/212

    45,000,000       44,999,853  

SOFR + 0.050%,
0.060%, due 05/03/211

    100,000,000       100,000,000  

SOFR + 0.055%,
0.065%, due 05/03/211

    100,000,000       100,000,000  

SOFR + 0.060%,
0.070%, due 05/03/211

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

0.090%, due 06/18/212

    13,000,000       12,998,505  

SOFR + 0.090%,
0.100%, due 05/03/211

    46,000,000       46,000,000  

0.104%, due 05/14/212

    53,500,000       53,498,300  

SOFR + 0.150%,
0.160%, due 05/03/211

    116,000,000       116,000,000  

0.185%, due 06/24/212

    52,000,000       51,986,104  

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

 

SOFR + 0.095%,
0.105%, due 05/01/211

    67,000,000       67,000,000  

SOFR + 0.100%,
0.110%, due 05/01/211

    181,000,000       181,000,000  

SOFR + 0.190%,
0.200%, due 05/01/211

    115,000,000       115,000,000  

Federal National Mortgage Association

 

SOFR + 0.130%,
0.140%, due 05/01/211

    90,000,000       90,000,482  
     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. government agency obligations—(concluded)

 

SOFR + 0.180%,
0.190%, due 05/01/211

  $ 115,000,000     $ 115,000,000  

2.750%, due 06/22/21

    51,775,000       51,958,639  

Total U.S. government agency obligations
(cost—$3,010,004,419)

      3,010,004,419  
U.S. Treasury obligations—43.9%

 

U.S. Cash Management Bill
0.021%, due 08/31/212

    77,000,000       76,994,655  

0.022%, due 08/10/212

    75,000,000       74,995,566  

0.025%, due 08/17/212

    57,000,000       56,995,804  

0.030%, due 08/03/212

    65,000,000       64,995,017  

0.034%, due 06/29/212

    85,000,000       84,994,055  

0.053%, due 07/13/212

    155,000,000       154,984,025  

0.056%, due 07/20/212

    74,000,000       73,991,182  

0.069%, due 06/22/212

    150,000,000       149,986,806  

0.081%, due 07/06/212

    97,000,000       96,986,204  

U.S. Treasury Bills
0.025%, due 07/22/212

    64,000,000       63,996,445  

0.033%, due 06/10/212

    157,000,000       156,995,317  

0.036%, due 10/28/212

    89,000,000       88,984,598  

0.041%, due 10/14/212

    62,000,000       61,988,702  

0.041%, due 10/21/212

    97,000,000       96,981,570  

0.044%, due 06/01/212

    86,000,000       85,997,021  

0.050%, due 05/27/212

    216,000,000       215,993,997  

0.061%, due 06/03/212

    80,000,000       79,995,867  

0.062%, due 05/11/212

    136,000,000       135,998,224  

0.066%, due 06/08/212

    125,000,000       124,991,750  

0.069%, due 07/29/212

    207,000,000       206,965,110  

0.072%, due 06/17/212

    170,000,000       169,985,482  

0.079%, due 05/18/212

    150,000,000       149,996,308  

0.081%, due 05/20/212

    174,000,000       173,994,078  

0.087%, due 05/13/212

    244,000,000       243,994,665  

0.089%, due 06/15/212

    73,000,000       72,992,327  

0.089%, due 07/08/212

    76,000,000       75,987,739  

0.090%, due 05/04/212

    70,000,000       69,999,830  

0.091%, due 05/25/212

    87,000,000       86,995,215  

0.092%, due 05/06/212

    244,000,000       243,998,233  

0.097%, due 07/15/212

    62,000,000       61,997,485  

U.S. Treasury Notes

 

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.114%,
0.134%, due 05/01/211

    70,000,000       70,007,723  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.220%,
0.240%, due 05/01/211

    143,000,000       142,984,892  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.300%,
0.320%, due 05/01/211

    97,000,000       97,029,059  

1.875%, due 01/31/22

    38,000,000       38,516,903  

1.875%, due 02/28/22

    19,000,000       19,286,221  

Total U.S. Treasury obligations
(cost—$3,871,578,075)

 

    3,871,578,075  
 

 

18


Government Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—22.9%

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.22%, 0.270% due 07/29/21, collateralized by $429,390,899 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 3.000% to 4.500% due 02/25/35 to 11/25/50 and $91,399,130 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 4.634% to 5.984% due 05/20/37 to 12/20/48; (value—$103,000,000); proceeds: $100,021,7503

  $ 100,000,000     $ 100,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/20/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, SOFR + 0.01%, 0.020% due 05/07/21, collateralized by $45,381,312 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.500% to 5.500% due 12/01/26 to 05/01/51 and $302,703,628 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 5.000% due 03/01/28 to 05/01/51; (value—$306,000,000); proceeds: $300,001,6673

    300,000,000       300,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $214,040,981 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 3.000% due 06/01/50 to 04/01/51 (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,000,167

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Toronto-Dominion Bank, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $2,503,419 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligation, 2.000% due 02/25/51, $260,977,854 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 1.500% to 9.000% due 10/01/21 to 02/25/51 and $26,110,898 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.500% to 3.000% due 05/20/45 to 03/20/51; (value—$102,000,000); proceeds: $100,000,083

    100,000,000       100,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/27/21 with MUFG Securities Americas Inc., OBFR - 0.01%, 0.040% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $177,593,402 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 1.250% to 4.500% due 08/25/31 to 03/25/51 and $98,768,506 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 3.000% to 4.000% due 07/01/32 to 12/01/50 and $24,417,388 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 1.000% to 4.000% due 05/20/39 to 02/20/51; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,001,6673

    200,000,000       200,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Fixed Income Clearing Corp., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $915,871,900 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.125% to 2.000% due 06/15/22 to 07/31/22; (value—$937,380,082); proceeds: $919,000,383

  $ 919,000,000     $ 919,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $201,499,136 Federal National Mortgage Association obligation, 2.000% due 05/01/51; (value—$204,000,166); proceeds: $200,000,167

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$2,019,000,000)

            2,019,000,000  

Total investments
(cost — $8,900,582,494 which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes) — 100.9%

      8,900,582,494  
   

Liabilities in excess of other assets — (0.9)%

            (77,889,638

Net assets — 100.0%

    $ 8,822,692,856  
 

 

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Government Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments.

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
U.S. government agency obligations      $        $ 3,010,004,419        $        $ 3,010,004,419  
U.S. Treasury obligations                 3,871,578,075                   3,871,578,075  
Repurchase agreements                 2,019,000,000                   2,019,000,000  
Total      $        $ 8,900,582,494        $        $ 8,900,582,494  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

3 

Investment has a put feature, which allows the Fund to accelerate the maturity, and a variable or floating rate. The interest rate shown is the current rate as of April 30, 2021 and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects the earliest put date and the proceeds represent the receivable of the Fund if the put feature was exercised as of April 30, 2021.

Portfolio acronyms

 

SOFR    Secured Overnight Financing Rate
OBFR    Overnight Bank Funding Rate

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

20


Government Master Trust

 

 

Statement of assets and liabilities

April 30, 2021

 

Assets:     
Investments, at value (cost—$6,881,582,494)        $6,881,582,494  
Repurchase agreements (cost—$2,019,000,000)        2,019,000,000  
Total investments in securities, at value (cost—$8,900,582,494)        8,900,582,494  
Cash        584,512  
Receivable for interest        1,146,466  
Total assets        8,902,313,472  
    
Liabilities:     
Payable for investments purchased        78,994,624  
Payable to affiliate        625,992  
Total liabilities        79,620,616  
Net assets, at value        $8,822,692,856  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

21


Government Master Trust

 

 

Statement of operations

 

        For the
year ended
April 30, 2021
Investment income:     
Interest        $22,936,144  
Expenses:     
Investment advisory and administration fees        11,774,671  
Trustees’ fees        54,292  
Total expenses        11,828,963  
Less: Fee waivers and/or Trustees’ fees reimbursement by administrator        (101,870
Net expenses        11,727,093  
Net investment income (loss)        11,209,051  
Net realized gain (loss)        256,465  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        $11,465,516  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

22


Government Master Trust

 

 

Statement of changes in net assets

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $11,209,051        $240,863,481  
Net realized gain (loss)        256,465        481,629  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        11,465,516        241,345,110  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (8,951,448,030      3,242,842,988  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (8,939,982,514      3,484,188,098  
Net assets:

 

       
Beginning of year        17,762,675,370        14,278,487,272  
End of year        $8,822,692,856        $17,762,675,370  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Government Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each period is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,    For the period from
June
 24, 20161 to
April
 30, 2017
        2021    2020    2019    2018
Ratios to average net assets:                 
Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10 %2 
Expenses after fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.08 %2 
Net investment income (loss)        0.09      1.75      2.07      1.07      0.43 %2 
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return3        0.08      1.74      2.10      1.08      0.35
Net assets, end of period (000’s)      $ 8,822,693      $ 17,762,675      $ 14,278,487      $ 15,676,931      $ 17,380,098  

 

1

Commencement of operations.

2

Annualized.

3

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

24


Government Master Fund

Notes to financial statements

 

Organization and significant accounting policies

Government Master Fund (the “Master Fund”) is registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), as a diversified series of Master Trust, an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust on June 12, 2007. Government Master Fund commenced operations on June 24, 2016.

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”) is the investment advisor and administrator for the Master Fund. UBS AM is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Group AG. UBS Group AG is an internationally diversified organization with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. UBS Group AG operates in many areas of the financial services industry.

Master Trust accounts separately for the assets, liabilities and operations of each series. Expenses directly attributable to each series are charged to that series’ operations; expenses which are applicable to all series are allocated among them on a pro rata basis.

In the normal course of business, the Master Fund may enter into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide indemnification for certain liabilities. The Master Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Master Fund that have not yet occurred. However, the Master Fund has not had any prior claims or losses pursuant to these contracts and expects the risk of loss to be remote.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) is the exclusive reference of authoritative US generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal laws are also sources of authoritative US GAAP for SEC registrants. The Fund’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with US GAAP, which may require the use of management estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

In March 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2020-04 (“ASU 2020-04”), “Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848)”. In response to concerns about structural risks of interbank offered rates, and particularly the risk of cessation of LIBOR, regulators have undertaken reference rate reform initiatives to identify alternative reference rates that are more observable or transaction based and less susceptible to manipulation. ASU 2020-04 provides optional guidance for a limited period of time to ease the potential burden in accounting for (or recognizing the effects of) reference rate reform on financial reporting. ASU 2020-04 is elective and applies to all entities, subject to meeting certain criteria, that have contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that reference LIBOR or another reference rate expected to be discontinued because of reference rate reform. The amendments are effective as of March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is currently evaluating the implications, if any, of the additional requirements and the impact on the Portfolio’s financial statements.

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies:

Valuation of investments—Under Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act, as amended (“Rule 2a-7”), Government Master Fund has adopted a policy to operate as a “government money market fund”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “government money market fund” invests 99.5% or more of its total assets in cash, government securities, and/or repurchase agreements that are collateralized fully (i.e., collateralized by cash and/or government securities). As a “government money market fund”, Government Master Fund values its investments at amortized cost unless the Master Trust’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) determines that this does not represent fair value. Periodic review and monitoring of the valuation of securities held by Government Master Fund is performed in an effort to ensure that amortized cost approximates market value.

 

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The Board has delegated to the Equities, Fixed Income, and Multi-Asset Valuation Committee (“VC”) the responsibility for making fair value determinations with respect to the Master Fund’s portfolio investments. The types of investments for which such fair value pricing may be necessary include, but are not limited to: investments of an issuer that has entered into a restructuring; fixed-income investments that have gone into default and for which there is no current market value quotation; Section 4(a)(2) commercial paper; investments that are restricted as to transfer or resale; illiquid investments; and investments for which the prices or values available do not, in the judgment of the VC, represent current market value. The need to fair value the Master Fund’s portfolio investments may also result from low trading volume in foreign markets or thinly traded investments. Various factors may be reviewed in order to make a good faith determination of an investment’s fair value. These factors include, but are not limited to, fundamental analytical data relating to the investment; the nature and duration of restrictions on disposition of the investment; and the evaluation of forces which influence the market in which the investments are purchased and sold.

The Master Fund’s portfolio holdings may also consist of shares of other investment companies in which the Master Fund invests. The value of each such open-end investment company will generally be its net asset value at the time the Master Fund’s beneficial interests are priced. Pursuant to the Master Fund’s use of the practical expedient within ASC Topic 820, investments in non-registered investment companies and/or investments in investment companies without publicly published prices are also valued at the daily net asset value. Each investment company generally values investments in a manner as described in that investment company’s prospectus or similar documents.

US GAAP requires disclosure regarding the various inputs that are used in determining the value of the Master Fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized into the three broad levels listed below:

Level 1—Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments.

Level 2—Other significant observable inputs, including but not limited to, quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds and credit risks.

Level 3—Unobservable inputs inclusive of the Master Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments.

A fair value hierarchy table has been included near the end of the Master Fund’s Portfolio of investments.

Liquidity fee and/or redemption gates—By operating as a “government money market fund”, Government Master Fund is exempt from requirements that permit the imposition of a liquidity fee and/or temporary redemption gates. While the Board may elect to subject Government Master Fund to liquidity fee and gate requirements in the future, the Board has not elected to do so at this time.

Repurchase agreements—The Master Fund may purchase securities or other obligations from a bank or securities dealer (or its affiliate), subject to the seller’s agreement to repurchase them at an agreed upon date (or upon demand) and price. The Master Fund maintains custody of the underlying obligations prior to their repurchase, either through its regular custodian or through a special “tri-party” custodian or sub-custodian that maintains a separate account for both the Master Fund and its counterparty. The underlying collateral is valued daily in an effort to ensure that the value, including accrued interest, is at least equal to the repurchase price.

Repurchase agreements carry certain risks not associated with direct investments in securities, including a possible decline in the market value of the underlying obligations. If their value becomes less than the repurchase price, plus any agreed-upon additional amount, the counterparty must provide additional collateral so that the collateral is at least equal to the repurchase price plus any agreed-upon additional amount. The difference between the total amount to be received upon repurchase of the obligations and the price that was paid by a fund upon acquisition is

 

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accrued as interest and included in its net investment income. In the event of default of the obligation to repurchase, the Master Fund generally has the right to liquidate the collateral and apply the proceeds in satisfaction of the obligation. Repurchase agreements secured by obligations that are not eligible for direct investment under Rule 2a-7 of the 1940 Act or a fund’s investment strategies and limitations may require the Master Fund to promptly dispose of such collateral if the seller or guarantor becomes insolvent. If the seller (or seller’s guarantor, if any) becomes insolvent, the Master Fund may suffer delays, costs and possible losses in connection with the disposition or retention of the collateral. Under certain circumstances, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, realization and/or retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings. The Master Fund intends to enter into repurchase agreements only in transactions with counterparties believed by UBS AM to present minimal credit risk.

The Master Fund may participate in joint repurchase agreement transactions with other funds managed or advised by UBS AM. The Master Fund may engage in repurchase agreements as part of normal investing strategies.

Under certain circumstances, the Master Fund may engage in a repurchase agreement transaction with a yield of zero in order to invest cash amounts remaining in its portfolio at the end of the day in order to avoid having the Master Fund potentially exposed to a fee for uninvested cash held in a business account at a bank.

Investment transactions and investment income—Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Realized gains and losses from investment transactions are calculated using the identified cost method. Interest income is recorded on an accrual basis. Discounts are accreted and premiums are amortized as adjustments to interest income and the identified cost of investments.

Concentration of risk—The ability of the issuers of the debt securities held by the Master Fund to meet their obligations may be affected by economic and political developments particular to a specific industry, country, state or region.

Many financial instruments, financings or other transactions to which a Master Fund may be a party use or may use a floating rate based on the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”). LIBOR is widely used in financial markets. In July 2017, the United Kingdom’s financial regulatory body announced that after 2021 it will cease its active encouragement of banks to provide the quotations needed to sustain LIBOR. That announcement suggests that LIBOR may cease to be published or utilized after that time. Various financial industry groups have begun planning for that transition, but the effect of the transition process and its ultimate success cannot yet be determined. The transition process may lead to increased volatility and illiquidity in markets for instruments the terms of which are based on LIBOR. It could also lead to a reduction in the value of some LIBOR-based investments and reduce the effectiveness of new hedges placed against existing LIBOR-based investments. Since the usefulness of LIBOR as a benchmark could deteriorate during the transition period, these effects could occur prior to the end of 2021. The willingness and ability of issuers to include enhanced provisions in new and existing contracts or instruments also remains uncertain. Any of these factors may adversely affect the Master Fund’s performance or NAV. On November 30, 2020, the administrator of LIBOR announced a delay in the phase out of a majority of the U.S. dollar LIBOR publications until June 30, 2023, with the remainder of LIBOR publications to still end at the end of 2021.

Certain impacts to public health conditions particular to the coronavirus “COVID-19” outbreak that occurred may have a significant negative impact on the operations and profitability of the issuers of the Fund’s investments. The extent of the impact to the financial performance of the Fund will depend on future developments, including (i) the duration and spread of the outbreak, (ii) the restrictions and advisories, (iii) the effects on the financial markets, and (iv) the effects on the economy overall, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.

Investment advisor and administrator

UBS AM serves as the investment advisor and administrator to the Master Fund pursuant to an investment advisory and administration contract (“Management Contract”) approved by the Board. In accordance with the Management Contract, the Master Fund pays UBS AM an investment advisory and administration fee (“management fee”), which

 

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is accrued daily and paid monthly, at the below annual rates, as a percentage of the Master Fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Average daily net assets      Annual rate
Up to $30 billion        0.1000
In excess of $30 billion up to $40 billion        0.0975  
In excess of $40 billion up to $50 billion        0.0950  
In excess of $50 billion up to $60 billion        0.0925  
Over $60 billion        0.0900  

At April 30, 2021, the Master Fund owed UBS AM for investment advisory and administration services as follows:

 

Fund      Amount owed to UBS AM
Government Master Fund      $ 625,992  

In exchange for these fees, UBS AM has agreed to bear all of the Master Fund’s expenses other than taxes, extraordinary costs and the cost of securities purchased and sold by the Master Fund, including any transaction costs. Although UBS AM is not obligated to pay the fees and expenses of the Master Fund’s independent trustees, it is contractually obligated to reduce its management fee in an amount equal to those fees and expenses. UBS AM estimates that these fees and expenses will be 0.01% or less of the Master Fund’s average daily net assets. At April 30, 2021, UBS AM did not owe the Master Fund any additional reductions in management fees for independent trustees’ fees and expenses.

In addition, UBS AM may voluntarily undertake to waive fees in the event that Master Fund yields drop below a certain level. This additional undertaking is voluntary and not contractual and may be terminated at any time. During the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM voluntarily waived $101,870, which is not subject to future recoupment.

Additional information regarding compensation to affiliate of a board member

Professor Meyer Feldberg serves as a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Master Fund may conduct transactions, resulting in him being an interested trustee of the Master Fund. The Master Fund has been informed that Professor Feldberg’s role at Morgan Stanley does not involve matters directly affecting any UBS funds. Portfolio transactions are executed through Morgan Stanley based on that firm’s ability to provide best execution of the transactions.

During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Master Fund purchased and sold certain securities (e.g., fixed income securities) in principal trades with Morgan Stanley, having aggregate value as follows:

 

Government Master Fund      $ 0  

Morgan Stanley would have received compensation in connection with trades referenced above (if any), which would have been in the form of a “mark-up” or “mark-down” of the price of the securities or some other form of compensation. Although the precise amount of this compensation is not generally known by the Master Fund’s investment manager, it is believed that under normal circumstances it represents a small portion of the total value of the transactions.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Beneficial interest transactions

 

Government Master Fund

 

       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021     2020 
Contributions      $ 47,491,220,565      $ 46,835,779,003  
Withdrawals        (56,442,668,595      (43,592,936,015
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ (8,951,448,030    $ 3,242,842,988  

Federal tax status

Government Master Fund is considered a non-publicly traded partnership for federal income tax purposes under the Internal Revenue Code; therefore, no federal tax provision is necessary. As such, each investor in the Master Fund is treated as owning its proportionate share of the net assets, income, expenses, and realized and unrealized gains and losses of the Master Fund. UBS AM intends that the Master Fund’s assets, income and distributions will be managed in such a way that an investor in the Master Fund will be able to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company by investing its net assets through the Master Fund.

ASC 740-10 “Income Taxes—Overall” sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken. The Master Fund has conducted an analysis and concluded, as of April 30, 2021, that there are no significant uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken that would require recognition in the financial statements. The Master Fund recognizes interest and penalties, if any, related to uncertain tax positions as income tax expense in the Statement of operations. During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Fund did not incur any interest or penalties.

Each of the tax years in the four year period ended April 30, 2021, remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities.

 

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Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of Government Master Fund

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Government Master Fund (the “Fund”), (one of the funds constituting Master Trust (the “Trust”)), including the portfolio of investments, as of April 30, 2021, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the four years in the period then ended and for the period from June 24, 2016 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2017, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund (one of the funds constituting Master Trust) at April 30, 2021, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and its financial highlights for each of the four years in the period then ended and for the period from June 24, 2016 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2017, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of April 30, 2021, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

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General information (unaudited)

 

Monthly portfolio holdings disclosure

The Master Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) each month on Form N-MFP. The Master Fund’s reports on Form N-MFP are available on the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov. The Master Fund makes portfolio holdings information available to interestholders (and investors in the related feeder fund) on UBS’s Web site at the following internet address: www.ubs.com/usmoneymarketfunds. Investors also may find additional information about the Master Fund at the above referenced UBS Website internet address.

Proxy voting policies, procedures and record

You may obtain a description of the Master Fund’s (1) proxy voting policies, (2) proxy voting procedures and (3) information regarding how the Master Fund voted any proxies related to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 for which an SEC filing has been made, without charge, upon request by contacting the Master Fund directly at 1-800-647 1568, online on the Fund’s Web site: www.ubs.com/ubsam-proxy, or on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Web site (http://www.sec.gov).

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Board of Trustees & Officers

The Fund is governed by a Board of Trustees which oversees the Fund’s operations. Each trustee serves an indefinite term of office. Officers are appointed by the trustees and serve at the pleasure of the Board. The table below shows, for each trustee and officer, his or her name, address and age, the position held with the Trust, the length of time served as a trustee or officer of the Trust, the trustee’s or officer’s principal occupations during the last five years, the number of funds in the UBS fund complex overseen by the trustee or for which a person served as an officer, and other directorships held by the trustee.

The Fund’s Statement of Additional Information contains additional information about the trustees and is available, without charge, upon request by calling 1-800-647 1568.

 

Interested Trustee    
         
Name,
address,
and age
  Position(s)
held with
Trust
  Term of office1
and length of
time served
  Principal occupation(s)
during past
5 years
  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
  Other directorships
held by
trustee

Meyer Feldberg2;
79
Morgan Stanley
1585 Broadway
36th Floor
New York, NY

10036

  Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees   Since 2007 (Trustee); Since 2017 (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)   Professor Feldberg is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, although on an extended leave of absence. He is also a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley (financial services) (since 2005). Professor Feldberg also served as President of New York City Global Partners (an organization located in part of the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York that promoted interaction with other cities around the world (2007 to 2014). Prior to 2004, he was Dean and Professor of Management and Ethics of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University (since 1989). From 1992 to 2016, Professor Feldberg was a director of Macy’s, Inc. (operator of department stores). From 1997 to 2017, Professor Feldberg was a director of Revlon, Inc. (cosmetics).   Professor Feldberg is a director or trustee of 8 investment companies (consisting of 48 portfolios) for which UBS AM or one of its affiliates serves as investment advisor or manager.   Professor Feldberg is also a director of the New York City Ballet.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Independent Trustees                
         
Name,
address,
and age
  Position(s)
held with
Trust
  Term of office1
and length of
time served
  Principal occupation(s)
during past
5 years
  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
  Other directorships
held by
trustee

Alan S. Bernikow;
80
K2 Integrity

845 Third Avenue

New York, NY

10022

  Trustee   Since 2007   Mr. Bernikow is retired. Previously, he was deputy chief executive officer at Deloitte & Touche (international accounting and consulting firm). From 2003 to 2017, Mr. Bernikow was also a director of Destination XL Group, Inc. (menswear) (and served as a member of its nominating and corporate governance committee).   Mr. Bernikow is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Bernikow is also a director of Revlon, Inc. (cosmetics) (and serves as the chair of its audit committee and as the chair of its compensation committee) and the lead director of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation (real estate investment trust) (and serves as the chair of its audit committee).

Richard R. Burt;
74
McLarty Associates 900 17th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.

20006

  Trustee   Since 2007   Mr. Burt is a managing partner of McLarty Associates (a consulting firm) (since 2007). He was chairman of IEP Advisors (international investments and consulting firm) until 2009.   Mr. Burt is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Burt is also a director of The Central Europe, Russia and Turkey Fund, Inc., The European Equity Fund, Inc., and The New Germany Fund, Inc. (and serves as a member of each such fund’s audit, nominating and governance committees).

Bernard H. Garil;
81
6754 Casa Grande Way Delray Beach, FL

33446

  Trustee   Since 2007   Mr. Garil is retired (since 2001). He was a managing director at PIMCO Advisory Services (from 1999 to 2001) where he served as president of closed-end funds and vice- president of the variable insurance product funds advised by OpCap Advisors (until 2001).   Mr. Garil is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Garil is also a trustee for the Brooklyn College Foundation, Inc. (charitable foundation).

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Independent Trustees (concluded)            
         
Name,
address,
and age
  Position(s)
held with
Trust
  Term of office1
and length of
time served
  Principal occupation(s)
during past
5 years
  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
  Other directorships
held by
trustee

Heather R. Higgins;
61
c/o Keith A. Weller,
Fund Secretary
UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.
One North Wacker Drive Chicago, IL

60606

  Trustee   Since 2007   Ms. Higgins is the president and director of The Randolph Foundation (charitable foundation) (since 1991). Ms. Higgins also serves (or has served) on the boards of several non-profit charitable groups, including the Independent Women’s Forum (chairman) and the Philanthropy Roundtable (vice chairman). She also serves on the board of the Hoover Institution (from 2001 to 2007 and since 2009).   Ms. Higgins is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   None

 

1 

Each trustee holds office for an indefinite term.

2 

Professor Feldberg is deemed an “interested person” of the Trust as defined in the Investment Company Act because he is a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Trust may conduct transactions.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers               
Name, address,
and age
   Position(s) held
with Trust
   Term of office1
and length
of time served
   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years

Rose Ann Bubloski2;

53

   Vice President and Assistant Treasurer    Since 2011    Ms. Bubloski is a director (since 2012) (prior to which she was an associate director (from 2008 to 2012)) and a senior manager of fund accounting—US (previously named product control and investment support) at UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. and/or UBS Asset Management (US) Inc. (“UBS AM— Americas region”). Ms. Bubloski is a vice president and assistant treasurer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Franklin P. Dickson2;

42

   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Dickson is an associate director (since 2015) and tax compliance manager (since 2017) (prior to which he was a product controller (from 2015 to 2017) of fund accounting—US (product control and investment support) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Dickson is a vice president of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Lisa N. DiPaolo2;

43

   Vice President    Since 2015    Ms. DiPaolo is an executive director (since 2020) (prior to which she was a director from 2008 until March 2020), and portfolio manager (since 2015) at UBS AM— Americas region. Ms. DiPaolo joined UBS AM—Americas region in 2000 and has been a municipal securities analyst on the tax-free fixed income team. Ms. DiPaolo is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Elbridge T. Gerry III2;

64

   Vice President    Since 2007    Mr. Gerry is a managing director and head of municipal strategy of UBS AM—Americas region (prior to which he was co-head of municipal investments (from 2017 until June 2020; head from 2001 to 2017)). Mr. Gerry is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Charles W. Grande2;

57

   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Grande is a managing director, head of municipal fixed income team (since June 2020; formerly co-head of municipal fixed income investments from 2017 until June 2020) and head of municipal credit research (since 2009) with UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Grande is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Mark F. Kemper3;

63

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2007 and 2019, respectively    Mr. Kemper is a managing director (since 2006) and senior legal counsel (since 2019) (prior to which he was Interim Head of Asia Pacific Legal (March 2020-March 2021), Interim Head of Compliance and Operational Risk Control (from June 2019 through September 2019) and general counsel of UBS AM—Americas region (from 2004-2019)). He has been secretary of UBS AM— Americas region (since 2004) and assistant secretary of UBS Asset Management Trust Company (since 1993). Mr. Kemper is vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager. Mr. Kemper is employed by UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017).

Joanne M. Kilkeary2;

53

   Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer    Since 2007 (Vice President) and since 2017 (Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer)    Ms. Kilkeary is an executive director (since 2013) (prior to which she was a director (from 2008 to 2013)) and head of fund accounting—US (since November 2020) (prior to which she was head of regulatory, tax, audit and board governance for product control and investment support (from 2017 through October 2020) (prior to which she was a senior manager (from 2004 to 2017) of registered fund product control of UBS AM— Americas region). Ms. Kilkeary is a vice president, treasurer and principal accounting officer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Igor Lasun2;

42

   President    Since 2018    Mr. Lasun is a managing director (since March 2021) (prior to which he was an executive director (from 2018 until February 2021) and head of fund development and management for UBS AM—Americas region (since 2018) (prior to which he was a senior fixed income product specialist from 2007 to 2018, and had joined the firm in 2005). In this role, he oversees development and management for both wholesale and institutional businesses. Mr. Lasun serves as president of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers (concluded)
        
Name, address,
and age
   Position(s) held
with Trust
   Term of office1
and length
of time served
   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years

Ryan Nugent2;

43

   Vice President    Since 2009    Mr. Nugent is an executive director (since 2017) (prior to which he was director (from 2010 to 2017)), and portfolio manager (since 2005) and head of municipal trading (since 2013) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Nugent is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Frank Pluchino4;

61

   Chief Compliance Officer    Since 2017    Mr. Pluchino is an executive director with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and is also the chief compliance officer of UBS Hedge Fund Solutions LLC (since 2010). Mr. Pluchino is the chief compliance officer of 10 investment companies (consisting of 62 portfolios) for which UBS AM or one of its affiliates serves as investment advisor or manager.

Robert Sabatino3;

47

   Vice President    Since 2007    Mr. Sabatino is a managing director (since 2010) (prior to which he was an executive director (since 2007)), head of global liquidity portfolio management (since 2015), head of US taxable money markets (from 2009 to 2015), and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region in the short duration fixed income group (since 2000). Mr. Sabatino is a vice president of three investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Eric Sanders3;

55

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2007    Mr. Sanders is a director and associate general counsel with UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017) and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005). Mr. Sanders is a vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Philip Stacey3;

36

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2018    Mr. Stacey is an executive director (since 2019) and associate general counsel (since 2017) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017) and also with UBS AM— Americas region since 2015. Mr. Stacey is a vice president and assistant secretary of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

David Walczak3;

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   Vice President    Since 2016    Mr. Walczak is an executive director (since 2016), head of US money markets (since 2015) and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Walczak is a vice president of three investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Keith A. Weller3;

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   Vice President and Secretary   

Since 2007

(Vice President) and since 2019 (Secretary)

   Mr. Weller is an executive director (since 2005) and deputy general counsel (since 2019) (prior to which he was senior associate general counsel) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005) and has been an attorney with affiliated entities since 1995. Mr. Weller is a vice president and secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

1 

Officers of the Trust are appointed by the trustees and serve at the pleasure of the board.

2 

This person’s business address is 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019-6028.

3 

This person’s business address is One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

4 

This person’s business address is 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019-6018.

 

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Trustees

Meyer Feldberg

Chairman

Alan S. Bernikow

Richard R. Burt

Bernard H. Garil

Heather R. Higgins

Administrator (and Manager for Government Master Fund)

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

Principal Underwriter (for the feeder fund)

UBS Asset Management (US) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

 

 

This report is not to be used in connection with the offering of shares of the Fund unless accompanied or preceded by an effective prospectus.

© UBS 2021. All rights reserved.


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UBS Institutional/Reserves Funds

Annual Report  |  April 30, 2021

Includes:

 

UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund

 

UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund

 

UBS Select Government Institutional Fund

 

UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund

 

UBS Prime Reserves Fund

 

UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund


UBS Institutional/Reserves Funds

 

June 10, 2021

Dear Shareholder,

We present you with the annual report for the UBS Institutional/Reserves Series of Funds, namely UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund, UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund, UBS Select Government Institutional Fund, UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund, UBS Prime Reserves Fund and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund (the “Funds”) for the 12 months ended April 30, 2021 (the “reporting period”).

Performance

The US Federal Reserve maintained the federal funds rate in a range between 0.00% and 0.25% during the 12-months ended April 30, 2021. The federal funds rate or the “fed funds rate,” is the rate US banks charge one another for funds they borrow on an overnight basis. (For more details on the Fed’s actions, see below.) As a result, the yields on a number of short-term investments remained low. Against this backdrop, the Funds’ yield declined during the reporting period.

The seven-day current yields for the Funds (after fee waivers/expense reimbursements, if any) were as follows:

 

  UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund: 0.01% on April 30, 2021, versus 0.64% as of April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund: 0.04% on April 30, 2021, versus 0.69% as of April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Select Government Institutional Fund: 0.01% as of April 30, 2021, versus 0.19% as of April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund: 0.01% on April 30, 2021, versus 0.17% as of April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Prime Reserves Fund: 0.01% on April 30, 2021, versus 0.63% as of April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund: 0.01% on April 30, 2021, versus 0.03% as of April 30, 2020.

For detailed information on the Funds’ performance, refer to “Yields and characteristics at a glance” on pages 7 to 9.

An interview with the Portfolio Managers

Q.

How would you describe the economic environment during the reporting period?

A.

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a severe economic contraction, followed by a rebound as the reporting period progressed. In the US, the US Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product

 

UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund

UBS Select Government Institutional Fund

UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund

UBS Prime Reserves Fund

Investment goals (all four Funds):

Maximum current income consistent with liquidity and capital preservation

Portfolio Managers:

Robert Sabatino

David J. Walczak

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

Commencement:

UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund—August 10, 1998;

UBS Select Government Institutional Fund—July 26, 2016; UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund—March 23, 2004;

UBS Prime Reserves Fund—January 19, 2016

Dividend payments:

Monthly

UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund

Investment goal:

Maximum current income as is consistent with liquidity and preservation of capital while incorporating select environmental, social, and governance criteria (“ESG”) into the investment process.

Portfolio Managers:

Robert Sabatino

David J. Walczak

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

Commencement:

January 15, 2020

Dividend payments:

Monthly

 

 

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  (“GDP”) declined at a 31.4% seasonally adjusted annualized rate during the second quarter of 2020—the steepest quarterly decline on record. With parts of the economy reopening, third quarter annualized GDP growth was 33.4%, the largest quarterly increase on record. The economy continued to expand, as fourth quarter annualized GDP growth was 4.3%. Finally, according to the Commerce Department’s initial estimate, first quarter 2021 annualized GDP growth was 6.4%.

 

Q.

How did the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) react to the economic environment?

A.

The Fed maintained its highly accommodative monetary policy, as the central bank kept the federal funds rate in a range between 0.00% and 0.25%. At its meeting in September 2020, the Fed indicated that rates could stay anchored near zero through 2023. While inflation edged higher later in the period, in March 2021 Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said, “Long term, we think that the inflation dynamics we’ve seen around the world for a quarter of a century are essentially intact…and we think those dynamics haven’t gone away overnight and

  won’t.” At a press conference after the Fed’s April 2021 meeting, Chair Powell said, “Readings on inflation have increased and are likely to rise somewhat further before moderating…we are also likely to see upward pressure on prices from the rebound in spending as the economy continues to reopen, particularly if supply bottlenecks limit how quickly production can respond in the near term. However, these one-time increases in prices are likely to have only transitory effects on inflation.”

 

Q.

Given that the Funds are “feeder funds,” how were the portfolios in which they invest managed during the reporting period?

A.

Each fund is a “feeder fund,” investing all of its assets in “Master Funds”—the Prime Master Fund, the ESG Prime Master Fund, the Government Master Fund, the Treasury Master Fund, the Prime CNAV Master Fund and the Tax-Free Master Fund, respectively. As always, quality and liquidity remained paramount in our management process for the Master Funds.

 

 

For the Prime Master Fund in which UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund invests, we tactically adjusted its weighted average maturity (WAM)—which is the weighted average maturity of the securities in the portfolio—throughout the 12-month review period. When the reporting period began, the Master Fund had a WAM of 27 days. By the end of the period on April 30, 2021, the Master Fund’s WAM was 49 days.

At the issuer level, we maintained a high level of diversification. To that end, for maturities past overnight, we typically purchased up to 3% in single nongovernment issuers throughout the reporting period. (The Master Fund is generally able to hold up to 5% in any one issuer, subject to certain exceptions.)

At the security level, we increased the Master Fund’s exposure to commercial paper. Conversely, we decreased its allocations to certificates of deposit, repurchase agreements and time deposits. (Repurchase agreements are transactions that require the seller of a security to buy it back at a predetermined time and price, or upon demand.) Finally, we eliminated its small exposure to US Treasury obligations.

 

 

The WAM for the Master Fund in which UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund invests was 41 days when the reporting period began. By the end of the review period on April 30, 2021, the Master Fund had a WAM of 51 days. At the security level, we increased the Master Fund’s exposures to time deposits and certificates of deposit. In contrast, we decreased its exposures to commercial paper and repurchase agreements.

 

UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund

Investment goal:

Maximum current income exempt from federal income tax consistent with liquidity and the preservation of capital

Portfolio Managers:

Elbridge T. Gerry III

Lisa M. DiPaolo

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

Commencement:

August 28, 2007

Dividend payments:

Monthly

 

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The WAM for the Master Fund in which UBS Select Government Institutional Fund invests was 48 days when the reporting period began. Over the review period, the WAM was adjusted, and at period-end on April 30, 2021, it was 34 days. At the security level, we increased the Master Fund’s exposure to US Treasury obligations and reduced its allocations to repurchase agreements and US government agency obligations.

 

 

The WAM for the Master Fund in which UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund invests was 51 days when the reporting period began. Over the review period, the WAM was adjusted, and at period-end it was 43 days. At the security level, we increased the Master Fund’s exposure to direct US Treasury obligations and reduced its exposure to repurchase agreements backed by Treasury obligations.

 

 

The WAM for the Prime CNAV Master Fund in which UBS Prime Reserves Fund invests was 33 days when the reporting period began. We tactically adjusted its WAM, and at the end of the reporting period the Master Fund’s WAM was 53 days. Over the review period, we increased the Master Fund’s exposure to commercial paper, Conversely, we decreased its exposures to repurchase agreements and, to lesser extents, certificates of deposit and time deposits. Finally, we eliminated its small positions in US Treasury obligations and US government agency obligations.

 

 

The WAM for the Master Fund in which UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund invests was nine days when the reporting period began. We tactically adjusted the Master Fund’s WAM based on market conditions and seasonality factors within the tax-exempt market. At the end of the reporting period its WAM was 10 days. Over the review period, we increased the Master Fund’s allocation to tax-exempt commercial paper and reduced its exposure to municipal bonds.

 

Q.

What factors do you believe will affect the Funds over the coming months?

A.

With the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, we anticipate a return to more normal economic activity as the year progresses. However, the path could be uneven due to new virus strains. We expect the Fed to remain highly accommodative and, while inflation could edge higher, it should be generally well contained overall. In this environment, we anticipate continuing to manage the Funds focusing on risk and liquidity.

We thank you for your continued support and welcome any comments or questions you may have. For additional information on the UBS family of funds,* please contact your financial advisor, or visit us at www.ubs.com/am-us.

 

*

Mutual funds are sold by prospectus only. You should read it carefully and consider a fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other important information contained in the prospectus before investing. Prospectuses for most of our funds can be obtained from your financial advisor, by calling UBS Funds at 800-647 1568 or by visiting our Web site at www.ubs.com/am-us.

 

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Sincerely,

 

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Igor Lasun

President—UBS Series Funds

UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund

UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund

UBS Select Government Institutional Fund

UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund

UBS Prime Reserves Fund

UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

Robert Sabatino

Portfolio Manager—

UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund

UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund

UBS Select Government Institutional Fund

UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund

UBS Prime Reserves Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

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David J. Walczak

Portfolio Manager—

UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund

UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund

UBS Select Government Institutional Fund

UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund

UBS Prime Reserves Fund

Executive Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

Lisa DiPaolo

Portfolio Manager—

UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund

Executive Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

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Elbridge T. Gerry III

Portfolio Manager—

UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

 

This letter is intended to assist shareholders in understanding how the Funds performed during the 12-month period ended April 30, 2021. The views and opinions in the letter were current as of June 10, 2021. They are not guarantees of future performance or investment results and should not be taken as investment advice. Investment decisions reflect a variety of factors, and we reserve the right to change our views about individual securities, sectors and markets at any time. As a result, the views expressed should not be relied upon as a forecast of the Fund’s future investment intent. We encourage you to consult your financial advisor regarding your personal investment program.

 

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Understanding your Fund’s expenses1 (unaudited)

 

As a shareholder of a Fund, you incur ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. These examples are intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds. Since each Fund is a “feeder fund” that invests in a corresponding “master fund,” the expense information below reflects the combined effect of the two levels of expenses and not just those imposed directly at the feeder fund level.

The examples below are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period, November 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021.

Actual expenses

The first line in the table below for each Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over a period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses paid during period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical example for comparison purposes

The second line in the table below for each Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate your actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare these 5% hypothetical examples with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs. Therefore, the second line in the table for each Fund is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds, if those other funds impose transactional costs—for example, exchange fees. In addition, if those transactional costs were included, your costs for those other funds would have been higher.

 

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Understanding your Fund’s expenses1 (unaudited) (concluded)

 

        Beginning
account value
November 1, 2020
     Ending
account value
2
April 30, 2021
     Expenses paid
during period
3
11/01/20 to 04/30/21
     Expense
ratio during
the period
                   
UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.90          0.18
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,023.90          0.90          0.18  
                                             
                   
UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.30        $ 0.40          0.08
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.40          0.40          0.08  
                                             
                   
UBS Select Government Institutional Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.55          0.11
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.25          0.55          0.11  
                                             
                   
UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.00        $ 0.40          0.08
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.40          0.40          0.08  
                                             
                   
UBS Prime Reserves Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.85          0.17
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,023.95          0.85          0.17  
                                             
                   
UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.00        $ 0.35          0.07
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.45          0.35          0.07  

 

1 

The expenses for the Funds reflect the expenses of the corresponding master funds in which they invest in addition to their own direct expenses.

2 

“Actual—Ending account value” may or may not be reflective of a shareholder’s actual investment experience during periods of very low interest rates. While the Fund declares dividends daily and pays them monthly, the amounts are rounded to the nearest $0.01 on a daily basis with respect to each investor’s account. As a result, investors whose Fund account balances earn daily dividends that total less than one half a cent on any given day will not accrue any dividends on that day.

3 

Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized net expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181 divided by 365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

 

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Yields and characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited)

 

UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers1      (0.01
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers1      0.00  
Weighted average maturity2      49 days  
  
UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers1      0.04
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers1      0.04  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers1      (0.06
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers1      (0.06
Weighted average maturity2      51 days  

Table footnotes are on page 9.

You could lose money by investing in UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund. Because the price of interests in the related money market master funds will fluctuate, when you sell your shares of UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund, your shares of UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund may be worth more or less than what you originally paid for them. The related money market master funds may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund if the related money market master fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund’s and UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Yields and characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

UBS Select Government Institutional Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers1      (0.11
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers1      (0.11
Weighted average maturity2      34 days  
  
UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers1      (0.13
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers1      (0.13
Weighted average maturity2      43 days  

Table footnotes are on page 9.

You could lose money by investing in UBS Select Government Institutional Fund and UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund. Although the related money market master funds seek to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of UBS Select Government Institutional Fund and UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund are at $1.00 per share, the related money market master funds cannot guarantee they will do so. An investment in UBS Select Government Institutional Fund and UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. UBS Select Government Institutional Fund’s sponsor and UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to UBS Select Government Institutional Fund and UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund, and you should not expect that the funds’ sponsor will provide financial support to UBS Select Government Institutional Fund and UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Yields and characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (concluded)

 

UBS Prime Reserves Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers1      (0.02
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers1      (0.02
Weighted average maturity2      53 days  
  
UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers1      (0.11
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers1      (0.11
Weighted average maturity2      10 days  

Investments in UBS Prime Reserves Fund and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund are intended to be limited to accounts beneficially owned by natural persons. UBS Prime Reserves Fund and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund reserve the right to repurchase shares in any account that are not beneficially owned by natural persons.

You could lose money by investing in UBS Prime Reserves Fund and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund. Although the related money market master funds seek to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of UBS Prime Reserves Fund and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund are at $1.00 per share, the related money market master funds cannot guarantee they will do so. The related money market master funds may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of UBS Prime Reserves Fund and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of UBS Prime Reserves Fund and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund if the related money market master fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in UBS Prime Reserves Fund and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. UBS Prime Reserves Fund’s sponsor and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to UBS Prime Reserves Fund and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund, and you should not expect that the funds’ sponsor will provide financial support to UBS Prime Reserves Fund and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

1 

Yields will fluctuate and reflect fee waivers, if any, unless otherwise noted. Performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted.

2 

Weighted average maturity provided is that of the related master fund, which is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

 

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Statement of assets and liabilities

April 30, 2021

 

      UBS Select
Prime
Institutional
Fund
   UBS Select
ESG Prime
Institutional
Fund
Assets:      
Investments in Master Fund, at cost (which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)      $5,193,678,586        $202,607,749  
     
Investments in Master Fund, at value      5,193,826,181        202,624,423  
Receivable from affiliate              
Total assets      5,193,826,181        202,624,423  
     
Liabilities:      
Dividends payable to shareholders      45,725        8,154  
Payable to affiliate      288,930        6,531  
Total liabilities      334,655        14,685  
Net assets      $5,193,491,526        $202,609,738  
Shares of beneficial interest—$0.001 par value per share, unlimited amount authorized;
5,192,154,850; 202,502,563; 2,825,921,314; 10,472,327,043; 2,021,448,064 and 673,845,845 outstanding, respectively
     $5,193,344,640        $202,592,768  
Distributable earnings (losses)      146,886        16,970  
Net assets      $5,193,491,526        $202,609,738  
Net asset value per share      $1.0003        $1.0005  

 

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UBS Select
Government
Institutional
Fund
   UBS Select
Treasury
Institutional
Fund
   UBS Prime
Reserves
Fund
   UBS
Tax-Free
Reserves
Fund
        
  $2,825,921,468        $10,472,391,329        $2,021,552,103        $673,844,484  
        
  2,825,921,468        10,472,391,329        2,021,552,103        673,844,484  
  54,680        26,341               7,574  
  2,825,976,148        10,472,417,670        2,021,552,103        673,852,058  
        
        
  21,877        90,630        17,982        5,969  
                77,989         
  21,877        90,630        95,971        5,969  
  $2,825,954,271        $10,472,327,040        $2,021,456,132        $673,846,089  
        
  $2,825,921,314        $10,472,327,043        $2,021,448,063        $673,845,845  
  32,957        (3      8,069        244  
  $2,825,954,271        $10,472,327,040        $2,021,456,132        $673,846,089  
  $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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Statement of operations

For the year ended April 30, 2021

 

      UBS Select
Prime
Institutional
Fund
   UBS Select
ESG Prime
Institutional
Fund
Investment income:      
Interest income allocated from Master Fund      $23,359,955        $317,441  
Expenses allocated from Master Fund      (8,088,479      (174,338
Expense waiver allocated from Master Fund             174,338  
Net investment income allocated from Master Fund      15,271,476        317,441  
Expenses:      
Administration fees      6,428,790        125,305  
Trustees’ fees      41,041        13,520  
       6,469,831        138,825  
Fee waivers and/or Trustees’ fees reimbursement by administrator      (146,632       
Net expenses      6,323,199        138,825  
Net investment income (loss)      8,948,277        178,616  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund      (699      880  
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) allocated from Master Fund      (2,005,912      (13,036
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations      $6,941,666        $166,460  

 

12


UBS Institutional/Reserves Funds

 

 

 

UBS Select
Government
Institutional
Fund
   UBS Select
Treasury
Institutional
Fund
   UBS Prime
Reserves
Fund
   UBS
Tax-Free
Reserves
Fund
        
  $6,857,117        $22,172,871        $10,278,873        $1,362,276  
  (3,517,775      (12,017,189      (3,510,501      (1,048,494
  31,701        1,088,407               145,487  
  3,371,043        11,244,089        6,768,372        459,269  
        
  2,789,357        9,574,316        2,782,899        822,235  
  24,420        55,948        25,066        16,507  
  2,813,777        9,630,264        2,807,965        838,742  
  (970,472      (4,362,808      (113,298      (524,578
  1,843,305        5,267,456        2,694,667        314,164  
  1,527,738        5,976,633        4,073,705        145,105  
  85,883               8,069         
                        
  $1,613,621        $5,976,633        $4,081,774        $145,105  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

13


UBS Institutional/Reserves Funds

 

 

Statement of changes in net assets

 

       UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:        
       
Net investment income (loss)        $8,948,277        $195,954,030  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        (699      61,668  
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) allocated from Master Fund        (2,005,912      1,713,906  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        6,941,666        197,729,604  
Total distributions        (9,009,944      (195,963,990
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (4,138,602,412      (448,237,331
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (4,140,670,690      (446,471,717
Net assets:        
       
Beginning of year        9,334,162,216        9,780,633,933  
End of year        $5,193,491,526        $9,334,162,216  

 

       UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund
        For the year ended
April 30, 2021
  

For the period from

January 15, 20201 to

April 30, 2020

From operations:        
       
Net investment income (loss)        $178,616        $82,215  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        880         
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) allocated from Master Fund        (13,036      29,710  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        166,460        111,925  
Total distributions        (179,200      (82,215
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        156,213,627        46,379,141  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        156,200,887        46,408,851  
Net assets:        
       
Beginning of period        46,408,851         
End of period        $202,609,738        $46,408,851  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Institutional/Reserves Funds

 

 

Statement of changes in net assets

 

       UBS Select Government Institutional Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:        
       
Net investment income (loss)        $1,527,738        $44,150,833  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        85,883        86,916  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        1,613,621        44,237,749  
Total distributions        (1,612,020      (44,228,130
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (2,991,192,678      3,693,806,479  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (2,991,191,077      3,693,816,098  
Net assets:        
       
Beginning of year        5,817,145,348        2,123,329,250  
End of year        $2,825,954,271        $5,817,145,348  

 

       UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:        
       
Net investment income (loss)        $5,976,633        $116,853,239  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund               7,622  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        5,976,633        116,860,861  
Total distributions        (5,976,636      (116,861,036
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (2,882,151,628      6,419,942,054  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (2,882,151,631      6,419,941,879  
Net assets:        
       
Beginning of year        13,354,478,671        6,934,536,792  
End of year        $10,472,327,040        $13,354,478,671  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

15


UBS Institutional/Reserves Funds

 

 

Statement of changes in net assets

 

       UBS Prime Reserves Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:        
       
Net investment income (loss)        $4,073,705        $60,684,686  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        8,069        35,284  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        4,081,774        60,719,970  
Total distributions        (4,108,989      (60,684,686
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (1,808,560,330      1,030,049,418  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (1,808,587,545      1,030,084,702  
Net assets:        
       
Beginning of year        3,830,043,677        2,799,958,975  
End of year        $2,021,456,132        $3,830,043,677  

 

       UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $145,105        $19,554,244  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        145,105        19,554,244  
Total distributions        (145,104      (19,554,244
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (1,299,221,434      295,192,304  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (1,299,221,433      295,192,304  
Net assets:        
       
Beginning of year        1,973,067,522        1,677,875,218  
End of year        $673,846,089        $1,973,067,522  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

16


UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.0005        $1.0001        $1.0001        $1.0002        $1.0000  
Net investment income (loss)        0.0009        0.0182        0.0222        0.0133        0.0057  
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)        (0.0002      0.0004        0.0000 1       (0.0001      0.0004  
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.0007        0.0186        0.0222        0.0132        0.0061  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.0009      (0.0182      (0.0222      (0.0133      (0.0057
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.0000 )1       (0.0000 )1       (0.0000 )1       (0.0000 )1       (0.0002
Total dividends and distributions        (0.0009      (0.0182      (0.0222      (0.0133      (0.0059
Net asset value, end of year        $1.0003        $1.0005        $1.0001        $1.0001        $1.0002  
Total investment return2        0.07      1.88      2.24      1.33      0.61
Ratios to average net assets:                 
Expenses before fee waivers/Trustees’ fees reimbursement3        0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18
Expenses after fee waivers/Trustees’ fees reimbursement3        0.18      0.18      0.16      0.12      0.15
Net investment income (loss)3        0.11      1.83      2.26      1.37      0.51
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of year (000’s)        $5,193,492        $9,334,162        $9,780,634        $5,226,567        $2,307,192  

 

1 

Amount represents less than $0.00005 or $(0.00005) per share.

2 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each year reported. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

3 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

17


UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each period is presented below:

 

        Year ended
April 30, 2021
  

For the period from

January 15, 20201 to

April 30, 2020

Net asset value, beginning of period        $1.0008        $1.0000  
Net investment income (loss)        0.0014        0.0036  
Net realized gain (loss)        (0.0003      0.0008  
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.0011        0.0044  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.0014      (0.0036
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.0000 )2        
Total dividends and distributions        (0.0014      (0.0036
Net asset value, end of period        $1.0005        $1.0008  
Total investment return3        0.11      0.44
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements4        0.18      0.18 %5 
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements4        0.08      0.08 %5 
Net investment income (loss)4        0.10      1.17 %5 
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of period (000’s)        $202,610        $46,409  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

2 

Amount represents less than $0.00005 or $(0.00005) per share.

3

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each period reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each period reported. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

4 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

5 

Annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

18


UBS Select Government Institutional Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each period is presented below:

 

     Years ended April 30,   For the period from
July 26, 2016
1 to
April
 30, 2017
      2021   2020   2019   2018
Net asset value, beginning of period      $1.00       $1.00       $1.00       $1.00       $1.00  
Net investment income (loss)      0.000 2      0.016       0.020       0.010       0.003  
Net realized gain (loss)      0.000 2      0.000 2      0.000 2      (0.000 )2      0.000 2 
Net increase (decrease) from operations      0.000 2      0.016       0.020       0.010       0.003  
Dividends from net investment income      (0.000 )2      (0.016     (0.020     (0.010     (0.003
Distributions from net realized gains      (0.000 )2      (0.000 )2            (0.000 )2      (0.000 )2 
Total dividends and distributions      (0.000 )2      (0.016     (0.020     (0.010     (0.003
Net asset value, end of period      $1.00       $1.00       $1.00       $1.00       $1.00  
Total investment return3      0.04     1.66     2.01     1.00     0.29
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements4      0.18     0.18     0.18     0.18     0.18 %5 
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements4      0.15     0.18     0.18     0.18     0.13 %5 
Net investment income (loss)4      0.04     1.46     2.03     1.01     0.44 %5 
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of period (000’s)      $2,825,954       $5,817,145       $2,123,329       $1,406,858       $1,104,473  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

2 

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

3 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each period reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each period reported. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

4 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

5 

Annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

19


UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Net investment income (loss)        0.000 1       0.016        0.020        0.010        0.003  
Net realized gain (loss)               0.000 1       0.000 1       0.000 1       0.000 1 
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.000 1       0.016        0.020        0.010        0.003  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.000 )1       (0.016      (0.020      (0.010      (0.003
Distributions from net realized gains               (0.000 )1       (0.000 )1       (0.000 )1       (0.000 )1 
Total dividends and distributions        (0.000 )1       (0.016      (0.020      (0.010      (0.003
Net asset value, end of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Total investment return2        0.04      1.62      2.02      1.00      0.30
Ratios to average net assets:                 
Expenses before fee waivers/Trustees’ fees reimbursement3        0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18
Expenses after fee waivers/Trustees’ fees reimbursement3        0.13      0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18
Net investment income (loss)3        0.05      1.47      2.02      0.98      0.30
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of year (000’s)        $10,472,327        $13,354,479        $6,934,537        $4,331,846        $4,272,835  

 

1 

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

2 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each year reported. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

3 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

20


UBS Prime Reserves Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Net investment income (loss)        0.001        0.018        0.022        0.012        0.005  
Net realized gain (loss)        0.000 1       0.000 1              0.000 1       0.000 1 
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.001        0.018        0.022        0.012        0.005  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.001      (0.018      (0.022      (0.012      (0.005
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.000 )1              (0.000 )1       (0.000 )1       (0.000 )1 
Total dividends and distributions        (0.001      (0.018      (0.022      (0.012      (0.005
Net asset value, end of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Total investment return2        0.10      1.82      2.19      1.24      0.54
Ratios to average net assets:                 
Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18
Net investment income (loss)3        0.12      1.77      2.20      1.28      0.58
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of year (000’s)        $2,021,456        $3,830,044        $2,799,959        $1,594,687        $742,674  

 

1 

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

2 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each year reported. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

3 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

21


UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Net investment income (loss)        0.000 1       0.011        0.013        0.008        0.004  
Net realized gain (loss)                                    0.000 1 
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.000 1       0.011        0.013        0.008        0.004  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.000 )1       (0.011      (0.013      (0.008      (0.004
Distributions from net realized gains                                    (0.000 )1 
Total dividends and distributions        (0.000 )1       (0.011      (0.013      (0.008      (0.004
Net asset value, end of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Total investment return2        0.01      1.15      1.30      0.83      0.38
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers/Trustees’ fees reimbursement3        0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18
Expenses after fee waivers/Trustees’ fees reimbursement3        0.12      0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18
Net investment income (loss)3        0.01      1.13      1.29      0.84      0.44
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 673,846      $ 1,973,068      $ 1,677,875      $ 1,936,271      $ 1,369,824  

 

1 

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

2 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each year reported. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder could pay on Fund distributions.

3 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Organization and significant accounting policies

UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund (“Prime Institutional Fund”), UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund (“ESG Prime Institutional Fund”), UBS Select Government Institutional Fund (“Government Institutional Fund”), UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund (“Treasury Institutional Fund”), UBS Prime Reserves Fund (“Prime Reserves Fund), and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund (“Tax-Free Reserves Fund”) (each a “Fund”, collectively, the “Funds”) are each registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), as a diversified series of UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust on April 29, 1998. The Trust is a series mutual fund with twenty-two series. The financial statements for the other series of the Trust are not included herein.

Prime Institutional Fund, ESG Prime Institutional Fund, Government Institutional Fund, Treasury Institutional Fund, Prime Reserves Fund, and Tax-Free Reserves Fund are “feeder funds” that invest all of their investable assets in “master funds”—Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund, respectively (each a “Master Fund”, collectively, the “Master Funds” and each a diversified series of Master Trust, an open-end investment company registered with the SEC under the 1940 Act). The feeder funds and their respective Master Funds have the same investment objectives.

Prior to August 28, 2007, Prime Institutional Fund and Treasury Institutional Fund invested in securities directly. Effective August 28, 2007, Prime Institutional Fund and Treasury Institutional Fund invest substantially all of their assets in Prime Master Fund and Treasury Master Fund, respectively. ESG Prime Institutional fund commenced operations on January 15, 2020. Tax-Free Reserves Fund commenced operations on August 28, 2007. Prime Reserves fund commenced operations on January 19, 2016, and Government Institutional Fund commenced operations on July 26, 2016.

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”) is the investment advisor and administrator for the Master Funds and the administrator for the feeder funds. UBS AM is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Group AG. UBS Group AG is an internationally diversified organization with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. UBS Group AG operates in many areas of the financial services industry.

The performance of each Fund is directly affected by the performance of the corresponding Master Fund. The value of such investment reflects each Fund’s proportionate interest in the net assets of its corresponding Master Fund (58.86% for Prime Institutional Fund, 33.19% for ESG Prime Institutional Fund, 32.03% for Government Institutional Fund, 32.05% for Treasury Institutional Fund, 45.43% for Prime Reserves Fund, and 82.76% for Tax-Free Reserves Fund at April 30, 2021.)

All of the net investment income and realized and unrealized gains and losses from investment activities of each Master Fund are allocated pro rata, based on respective ownership interests, among the corresponding Fund and other investors in the Master Fund (e.g., other feeder funds) at the time of such determination. The financial statements of the Master Funds, including the Portfolio of investments, are included elsewhere in this report and should be read in connection with the Funds’ financial statements. The Trust accounts separately for the assets, liabilities and operations of each series. Expenses directly attributable to each series are charged to that series’ operations; expenses which are applicable to all series are allocated among them on a pro rata basis.

In the normal course of business, the Funds may enter into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide indemnification for certain liabilities. The Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Funds that have not yet occurred. However, the Funds have not had any prior claims or losses pursuant to these contracts and expect the risk of loss to be remote.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) is the exclusive reference of authoritative US generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) recognized by the FASB to be

 

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UBS Institutional/Reserves Funds

Notes to financial statements

 

applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal laws are also sources of authoritative US GAAP for SEC registrants. The Funds’ financial statements are prepared in accordance with US GAAP, which may require the use of management estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies:

Valuation of investments—Each Fund records its investment in its corresponding Master Fund at fair value. Securities held by the Master Funds are valued as indicated in the Master Funds’ Notes to financial statements, which are included elsewhere in this report.

Floating net asset value per share funds—Consistent with Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act, as amended (“Rule 2a-7”), Prime Institutional Fund and ESG Prime Institutional Fund each calculate its net asset value to four decimals (e.g., $1.0000) using market-based pricing and expect that its share price will fluctuate.

On occasion, it is possible that the end of day accounting net asset value (“NAV”) per share of a floating NAV fund, such as Prime Institutional Fund and ESG Prime Institutional Fund, as reported in a shareholder report, for example, may differ from the transactional NAV per share (used for purposes of processing purchases and redemptions); while this is not expected to occur with great frequency, it may happen should certain factors align on a given business day. The final end-of-day NAV per share for accounting and financial statement reporting purposes is designed to reflect all end-of-day accounting activities, which may include, but are not limited to, income and expense accruals, dividend and distribution reinvestments as well as final share activity; such items are factored into the Fund after the last transactional NAV per share is calculated on a given day (normally, the last transactional NAV per share is calculated as of 3 pm, Eastern time, as explained in the Fund’s prospectus).

Constant net asset value per share funds—Government Institutional Fund, Treasury Institutional Fund, Prime Reserves Fund, and Tax-Free Reserves Fund (collectively the “Constant NAV Funds”) attempt to maintain a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. There is no assurance, however, that the Constant NAV Funds will be able to maintain a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. The Constant NAV Funds have adopted certain investment, portfolio valuation and dividend/distribution policies in an attempt to enable each to do so. Government Institutional Fund and Treasury Institutional Fund have adopted a policy to operate as “government money market funds”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “government money market fund” invests 99.5% or more of its total assets in cash, government securities, and/or repurchase agreements that are collateralized fully (i.e., collateralized by cash and/or government securities). As “government money market funds”, Government Institutional Fund and Treasury Institutional Fund are permitted to seek to maintain a stable price per share. Prime Reserves Fund and Tax-Free Reserves Fund operate as “retail money market funds”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “retail money market fund” is a money market fund that has policies and procedures reasonably designed to limit all beneficial owners of the fund to natural persons. As “retail money market funds”, Prime Reserves Fund and Tax-Free Reserves Fund are permitted to seek to maintain a stable price per share.

Liquidity fee and/or redemption gates—Consistent with Rule 2a-7, Prime Institutional Fund, ESG Prime Institutional Fund, Prime Reserves Fund and Tax-Free Reserves Fund may be subject to the possible imposition of a liquidity fee and/or temporary redemption gate. Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund may impose a fee upon the sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if Prime Master Fund’s liquidity, ESG Prime Master Fund’s liquidity, Prime CNAV Master Fund’s liquidity and/or Tax-Free Master Fund’s liquidity, respectively, falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. For the period ended April 30, 2021, Prime Institutional Fund, ESG Prime Institutional Fund, Prime Reserves Fund and Tax-Free Reserves Fund were not subject to any liquidity fees and/or redemption gates.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

By operating as “government money market funds”, Government Institutional Fund and Treasury Institutional Fund are exempt from requirements that permit the imposition of a liquidity fee and/or temporary redemption gates. While the Funds’ Board of Trustees (the “Board”) may elect to subject Government Institutional Fund and Treasury Institutional Fund to liquidity fee and gate requirements in the future, the Board has not elected to do so at this time.

Dividends and distributions—Dividends and distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. The amount of dividends and distributions is determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations, which may differ from US GAAP. These “book/tax” differences are either considered temporary or permanent in nature. To the extent these differences are permanent in nature, such amounts are reclassified within the capital accounts based on their federal tax-basis treatment; temporary differences do not require reclassification.

Concentration of risk—The ability of the issuers of the debt securities held by the Master Funds to meet their obligations may be affected by economic and political developments particular to a specific industry, country, state or region.

Certain impacts to public health conditions particular to the coronavirus “COVID-19” outbreak that occurred may have a significant negative impact on the operations and profitability of the Funds’ investments. The extent of the impact to the financial performance of a Fund will depend on future developments, including (i) the duration and spread of the outbreak, (ii) the restrictions and advisories, (iii) the effects on the financial markets, and (iv) the effects on the economy overall, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.

Administrator

UBS AM serves as the administrator to each Fund pursuant to an Administration Agreement approved by the Trust’s board. In accordance with the Administration Agreement, each Fund pays UBS AM an administration fee, which is accrued daily and paid monthly, at the below annual rate as a percentage of each Fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Fund      Administration fee
Prime Institutional Fund        0.08
ESG Prime Institutional Fund        0.08  
Government Institutional Fund        0.08  
Treasury Institutional Fund        0.08  
Prime Reserves Fund        0.08  
Tax-Free Reserves Fund        0.08  

At April 30, 2021, each Fund owed UBS AM for administrative services as follows:

 

Fund      Amounts owed to UBS AM
Prime Institutional Fund      $ 354,380  
ESG Prime Institutional Fund        6,531  
Government Institutional Fund        166,429  
Treasury Institutional Fund        709,485  
Prime Reserves Fund        135,568  
Tax-Free Reserves Fund        40,702  

In exchange for these fees, UBS AM has agreed to bear all of the Funds’ expenses other than interest, taxes, extraordinary costs and the cost of securities purchased and sold by the Funds, including any transaction costs. Although UBS AM is not obligated to pay the fees and expenses of the Funds’ independent trustees, it is contractually obligated to reduce its fee in an amount equal to those fees and expenses. UBS AM estimates that these fees and

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

expenses will be 0.01% or less of each Fund’s average daily net assets. At April 30, 2021, UBS AM did not owe the Funds any additional reductions in administration fees for independent trustees’ fees and expenses.

In addition, UBS AM may voluntarily undertake to waive fees in the event that Funds’ yields drop below a certain level. This additional undertaking is voluntary and not contractual and may be terminated at any time. At April 30, 2021, UBS AM owed the Funds, and for the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM voluntarily waived, the below amounts, which are not subject to future recoupment:

 

Fund      Amount owed by UBS AM      Amount waived by UBS AM
Prime Institutional Fund      $ 65,450        $ 146,632  
Government Institutional Fund        221,109          970,472  
Treasury Institutional Fund        735,826          4,362,808  
Prime Reserves Fund        57,579          113,298  
Tax-Free Reserves Fund        48,276          524,578  

These amounts owed by or owed to UBS AM are shown at a net level on the statement of assets and liabilities.

Shares of beneficial interest

There is an unlimited amount of $0.001 par value shares of beneficial interest authorized. Transactions in shares of beneficial interest for each of the Funds for the periods ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 were as follows:

 

Prime Institutional Fund                                      
             
       For the years ended April 30,
       2021    2020
        Shares    Amount    Shares    Amount
Shares sold        10,471,650,584      $ 10,476,209,039        23,398,033,376      $ 23,401,722,695  
Shares repurchased        (14,621,886,768      (14,627,555,622      (24,043,600,778      (24,045,871,074
Dividends reinvested        12,738,060        12,744,171        195,882,382        195,911,048  
Net increase (decrease)        (4,137,498,124    $ (4,138,602,412      (449,685,020    $ (448,237,331
             
ESG Prime Institutional Fund                                      
             
        For the year ended April 30, 2021    For the period from
January 15, 2020
1 to April 30, 2020
        Shares    Amount    Shares    Amount
Shares sold        681,124,625      $ 681,489,682        64,167,828      $ 64,177,616  
Shares repurchased        (525,151,229      (525,431,537      (17,794,250      (17,798,664
Dividends reinvested        155,400        155,482        189        189  
Net increase (decrease)        156,128,796      $ 156,213,627        46,373,767      $ 46,379,141  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

 

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UBS Institutional/Reserves Funds

Notes to financial statements

 

Transactions in shares of beneficial interest, at $1.00 per share, were as follows:

 

Government Institutional Fund                    
       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        9,529,172,221        11,255,374,202  
Shares repurchased        (12,522,824,858      (7,606,028,028
Dividends reinvested        2,459,959        44,460,305  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        (2,991,192,678      3,693,806,479  
       
Treasury Institutional Fund                    
       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        25,476,034,208        32,868,045,694  
Shares repurchased        (28,365,437,833      (26,566,990,942
Dividends reinvested        7,251,997        118,887,302  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        (2,882,151,628      6,419,942,054  
       
Prime Reserves Fund                    
       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        4,332,932,464        7,982,730,635  
Shares repurchased        (6,147,092,828      (7,012,530,723
Dividends reinvested        5,600,034        59,849,506  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        (1,808,560,330      1,030,049,418  
       
Tax-Free Reserves Fund                    
       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        660,252,134        3,779,117,048  
Shares repurchased        (1,959,872,759      (3,502,867,553
Dividends reinvested        399,191        18,942,809  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        (1,299,221,434      295,192,304  

Federal tax status

Each Fund intends to distribute substantially all of its income and to comply with the other requirements of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required. In addition, by distributing during each calendar year substantially all of their net investment income, net realized capital gains and certain other amounts, if any, each Fund intends not to be subject to a federal excise tax.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

The tax character of distributions paid to shareholders by the Funds during the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 were as follows:

 

       2021             2020
Fund      Tax-exempt
income
     Ordinary
income
     Long-term
realized
capital gains
            Tax-exempt
income
     Ordinary
income
     Long-term
realized
capital gains
UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund      $        $ 9,009,944        $             $        $ 195,963,990        $  
UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund                 179,200                                 82,215           
UBS Select Government Institutional Fund                 1,612,020                                 44,228,130           
UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund                 5,976,636                                 116,861,036           
UBS Prime Reserves Fund                 4,108,989                                 60,684,685           
UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund        145,104                                       19,554,244                    

At April 30, 2021, components of accumulated earnings (deficit) on a tax basis were as follows:

 

Fund    Undistributed
tax-exempt
income
   Undistributed
ordinary
income
   Undistributed
long-term
capital gains
   Accumulated
realized
capital and
other losses
   Unrealized
appreciation
(depreciation)
  

Other

temporary

differences

   Total
UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund    $      $ 45,713      $      $ (698    $ 147,595      $ (45,724    $ 146,886  
UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund             8,450                      16,674        (8,154      16,970  
UBS Select Government Institutional Fund             54,835                             (21,878      32,957  
UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund             90,632                             (90,635      (3
UBS Prime Reserves Fund             26,050                             (17,982      8,068  
UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund      6,213                                    (5,969      244  

Net capital losses recognized by the Funds may be carried forward indefinitely, and retain their character as short-term and/or long-term losses. These carryforwards are available as a reduction, to the extent provided in the regulations, of future realized capital gains. To the extent that such losses are used to offset future net realized capital gains, it is probable these gains will not be distributed. As of April 30, 2021, UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund had capital loss carryforwards of $698 in short-term capital losses.

ASC 740-10 “Income Taxes—Overall” sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken. The Funds have conducted an analysis and concluded as of April 30, 2021, that there are no significant uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken that would require recognition in the financial statements. The Funds recognize interest and penalties, if any, related to uncertain tax positions as income tax expense in the Statement of operations. During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Funds did not incur any interest or penalties.

Each of the tax years in the four year period ended April 30, 2021, and since inception for the ESG Prime Institutional Fund, remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities.

 

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UBS Institutional/Reserves Funds

Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

To the Shareholders of UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund, UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund, UBS Select Government Institutional Fund, UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund, UBS Prime Reserves Fund and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund and the Board of Trustees of UBS Series Funds

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities of UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund, UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund, UBS Select Government Institutional Fund, UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund, UBS Prime Reserves Fund and UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund (collectively referred to as the “Funds”) (six of the funds constituting UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”)), as of April 30, 2021, and the related statements of operations and changes in net assets, and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the Funds (six of the funds constituting UBS Series Funds) at April 30, 2021, and the results of their operations, the changes in net assets and financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

 

Individual fund constituting
UBS Series Funds
   Statement of operations    Statements of changes in net assets    Financial highlights

UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund

UBS Select Treasury Institutional Fund

UBS Tax-Free Reserves Fund

UBS Prime Reserves Fund

   For the year ended April 30, 2021    For each of the two years in the period ended April 30, 2021    For each of the five years in the period ended April 30, 2021
UBS Select Government Institutional Fund    For the year ended April 30, 2021    For each of the two years in the period ended April 30, 2021    For each of the four years in the period ended April 30, 2021 and the period from July 26, 2016 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2017
UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund    For the year ended April 30, 2021    For the year ended April 30, 2021 and the period from January 15, 2020 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2020    For the year ended April 30, 2021 and the period from January 15, 2020 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2020

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on each of the Funds’ financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as

 

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Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

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New York, New York

June 28, 2021

 

 

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General information (unaudited)

 

Monthly portfolio holdings disclosure

The Funds and Master Funds file their complete schedules of portfolio holdings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) each month on Form N-MFP. These reports on Form N-MFP are available on the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov. The Funds and Master Funds make portfolio holdings information available to shareholders on UBS’s Web site at the following internet address: www.ubs.com/usmoneymarketfunds. A more limited portfolio holdings report for each of Master Trust—Prime Master Fund (the master fund in which UBS Select Prime Institutional Fund invests), Master Trust—ESG Prime Master Fund (the master fund in which UBS Select ESG Prime Institutional Fund invests) and Master Trust—Prime CNAV Master Fund (the master fund in which UBS Prime Reserves Fund invests) is available on a weekly basis at the same UBS Web address. Investors also may find additional information about the Funds at the above referenced UBS Web site internet address.

Proxy voting policies, procedures and record

You may obtain a description of each Fund’s (and corresponding Master Fund’s) (1) proxy voting policies, (2) proxy voting procedures and (3) information regarding how a fund voted any proxies related to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 for which an SEC filing has been made, without charge, upon request by contacting a fund directly at 1-800-647 1568, online on UBS’s Web site: www.ubs.com/ubsam-proxy, or on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Web site (http://www.sec.gov).

Other tax information

Pursuant to Sections 871(k)(1)(C)(i) and 871(k)(2)(C)(i) of the Internal Revenue Code, the Funds designate the following ordinary income distributions paid as qualified interest income and qualified short term capital gains for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2021:

 

Fund      Qualified interest
income
     Qualified short term
capital gains
Prime Institutional Fund      $ 4,379,772        $ 30,183  
ESG Prime Institutional Fund        95,744          313  
Government Institutional Fund        1,527,738          84,282  
Treasury Institutional Fund        5,791,264           
Prime Reserves Fund        2,306,921          19,982  

 

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Master Trust

Annual Report  |  April 30, 2021

Includes:

 

Prime Master Fund

 

ESG Prime Master Fund

 

Government Master Fund

 

Treasury Master Fund

 

Prime CNAV Master Fund

 

Tax-Free Master Fund

 


Master Trust

 

Understanding a Master Fund’s expenses (unaudited)

 

(Note: The expense information provided in this section is relevant for direct investors in the Master Funds. Investors in the related “feeder funds” should instead focus on separate expense examples relevant to the particular feeder funds; the expense examples for the feeder funds will reflect their proportionate share of the corresponding Master Funds’ expenses.)

As an owner of a Master Fund, an investor such as a feeder fund incurs ongoing costs, including management fees and other Master Fund expenses. These examples are intended to help you understand a Master Fund investor’s ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a Master Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The examples below are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period, November 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021.

Actual expenses

The first line in the table below for each Master Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over a period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses paid during period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical example for comparison purposes

The second line in the table below for each Master Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Master Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Master Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate your actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Master Fund and other funds. To do so, compare these 5% hypothetical examples with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs. Therefore, the second line in the table for each Master Fund is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds, if those other funds impose transactional costs—for example, exchange fees. In addition, if those transactional costs were included, your costs for those other funds would have been higher.

 

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Master Trust

 

Understanding a Master Fund’s expenses (unaudited) (concluded)

 

        Beginning
account value
November 1, 2020
     Ending
account value
April 30, 2021
     Expenses paid
during period
11/01/20 to 04/30/21
1
     Expense
ratio during
the period
                   
Prime Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.40        $ 0.50          0.10
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.30          0.50          0.10  
                                             
                   
ESG Prime Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.70        $ 0.00          0.00
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.79          0.00          0.00  
                                             
                   
Government Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.50          0.10
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.30          0.50          0.10  
                                             
                   
Treasury Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.40          0.08
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.40          0.40          0.08  
                                             
                   
Prime CNAV Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.40        $ 0.50          0.10
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.30          0.50          0.10  
                                             
                   
Tax-Free Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.35          0.07
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.45          0.35          0.07  

 

1 

Expenses are equal to the Master Fund’s annualized net expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181 divided by 365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

 

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Master Trust

 

Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited)

 

Prime Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics      
Weighted average maturity1      49 days  

 

Top five issuer breakdown by country or territory of origin2    Percentage of net assets
United States      20.3
Japan      11.9  
Canada      11.2  
France      9.3  
New Zealand      6.4  
Total      59.1
Portfolio composition2    Percentage of net assets
Commercial paper      64.5
Repurchase agreements      17.4  
Certificates of deposit      9.7  
Time deposits      8.4  
Other assets in excess of liabilities       0.0  
Total      100.0

 

 

Amount represents less than 0.05% or (0.05%).

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Because the price of interests in Prime Master Fund will fluctuate, when you sell your shares of each related feeder fund, your shares of the related feeder fund may be worth more or less than what you originally paid for them. Prime Master Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if Prime Master Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Master Trust

 

Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

ESG Prime Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics  
Weighted average maturity1      51 days  

 

Top five issuer breakdown by country or territory of origin2    Percentage of net assets
United States      23.9
Japan      10.6  
France      8.8  
Sweden      7.3  
Canada      6.9  
Total      57.5
Portfolio composition2      
Commercial paper      64.8
Repurchase agreements      22.6  
Time deposits      9.0  
Certificates of deposit      3.5  
Other assets in excess of liabilities      0.1  
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Because the price of interests in ESG Prime Master Fund will fluctuate, when you sell your shares of each related feeder fund, your shares of the related feeder fund may be worth more or less than what you originally paid for them. ESG Prime Master Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if ESG Prime Master Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

Government Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics      
Weighted average maturity1      34 days  

 

Portfolio composition2      
U.S. Treasury obligations      43.9
U.S. government agency obligations      34.1  
Repurchase agreements      22.9  
Liabilities in excess of other assets      (0.9
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although Government Master Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of each related feeder fund are at $1.00 per share, Government Master Fund cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

37


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Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

Treasury Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics  
Weighted average maturity1      43 days  

 

Portfolio composition2      
U.S. Treasury obligations      73.2
Repurchase agreements      27.6  
Liabilities in excess of other assets      (0.8
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although Treasury Master Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of each related feeder fund are at $1.00 per share, Treasury Master Fund cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

38


Master Trust

 

Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

Prime CNAV Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics      
Weighted average maturity1      53 days  
  

 

Top five issuer breakdown by country or territory of origin2    Percentage of net assets
United States      22.5
Japan      12.6  
Canada      12.6  
France      9.4  
New Zealand      6.0  
Total      63.1
Portfolio composition2      
Commercial paper      69.7
Repurchase agreements      14.6  
Certificates of deposit      9.3  
Time deposits      6.7  
Liabilities in excess of other assets      (0.3
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

Investments in the fund are intended to be limited to feeder funds with accounts beneficially owned by natural persons. Each feeder fund reserves the right to repurchase shares in any account that are not beneficially owned by natural persons.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although Prime CNAV Master Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of each related feeder fund are at $1.00 per share, Prime CNAV Master Fund cannot guarantee it will do so. Prime CNAV Master Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if Prime CNAV Master Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

39


Master Trust

 

Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (concluded)

 

Tax-Free Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics      
Weighted average maturity1      10 days  

 

Portfolio composition2      
Municipal bonds      90.1
Tax-exempt commercial paper      9.8  
Other assets in excess of liabilities      0.1  
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

Investments in the fund are intended to be limited to feeder funds with accounts beneficially owned by natural persons. Each feeder fund reserves the right to repurchase shares in any account that are not beneficially owned by natural persons.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although Tax-Free Master Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of each related feeder fund are at $1.00 per share, Tax-Free Master Fund cannot guarantee it will do so. Tax-Free Master Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if Tax-Free Master Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

40


Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Certificates of deposit—9.7%

 

Banking-non-U.S.—7.8%

 

MUFG Bank Ltd.
0.190%, due 10/05/21

  $ 45,000,000     $ 45,002,956  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.290%, due 06/21/21

    44,000,000       44,011,620  

Royal Bank of Canada

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.300%, due 06/16/211

    32,000,000       32,017,745  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.250%, due 05/13/21

    63,000,000       63,003,865  

0.250%, due 06/01/21

    63,000,000       63,009,402  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.170%, due 08/24/21

    50,000,000       50,000,636  

0.180%, due 07/26/21

    54,000,000       54,005,471  

0.270%, due 05/18/21

    63,000,000       63,006,013  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.260%, due 05/11/21

    66,000,000       66,003,891  

0.270%, due 05/12/21

    40,000,000       40,002,679  

0.270%, due 05/18/21

    50,000,000       50,004,773  

Svenska Handelsbanken

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.240%, due 05/28/211

    35,000,000       35,005,684  

Toronto-Dominion Bank

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.100%,
0.282%, due 05/20/211

    85,000,000       85,028,038  
   

 

 

 

      690,102,773  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—1.9%

 

Cooperatieve Centrale

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.200%, due 06/21/211

    50,000,000       49,999,998  

0.250%, due 08/16/21

    64,000,000       64,019,158  

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.243%, due 05/06/211

    52,000,000       52,009,299  
   

 

 

 

              166,028,455  

Total certificates of deposit
(cost—$856,000,000)

      856,131,228  
Commercial paper2—64.5%    
Asset backed-miscellaneous—15.7%    

Barton Capital SA
0.080%, due 05/03/21

    5,000,000       4,999,969  

Chariot Funding LLC
0.220%, due 07/09/21

    59,000,000       58,982,447  

Fairway Finance Co. LLC
0.170%, due 09/03/21

    60,000,000       59,965,140  

0.180%, due 10/08/21

    22,000,000       21,983,274  

0.180%, due 11/05/21

    44,000,000       43,960,037  

0.220%, due 05/13/21

    33,000,000       32,998,868  

0.250%, due 06/03/21

    60,000,000       59,991,784  

Liberty Street Funding LLC
0.010%, due 05/03/21

    90,000,000       89,999,595  

0.150%, due 08/05/21

    35,000,000       34,984,817  

0.155%, due 08/03/21

    25,000,000       24,989,379  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)    
Asset backed-miscellaneous—(concluded)

 

LMA Americas LLC
0.170%, due 08/05/21

  $ 30,000,000     $ 29,986,986  

0.180%, due 10/07/21

    42,000,000       41,968,266  

0.190%, due 10/08/21

    19,000,000       18,985,555  

0.200%, due 05/11/21

    6,000,000       5,999,835  

0.250%, due 05/17/21

    63,000,000       62,996,817  

0.260%, due 05/20/21

    50,000,000       49,996,750  

0.270%, due 06/02/21

    21,100,000       21,097,602  

Nieuw Amsterdam Receivables Corp.
0.040%, due 05/04/21

    80,372,000       80,371,500  

Old Line Funding LLC
0.180%, due 09/01/21

    39,000,000       38,979,044  

0.190%, due 09/10/21

    30,000,000       29,982,599  

0.230%, due 10/26/21

    50,000,000       49,960,222  

0.240%, due 10/15/21

    82,000,000       81,938,773  

0.270%, due 08/16/21

    50,000,000       49,977,050  

0.290%, due 07/09/21

    45,000,000       44,987,487  

Starbird Funding Corp.
0.070%, due 05/03/21

    29,400,000       29,399,819  

0.150%, due 07/09/21

    20,000,000       19,994,050  

Thunder Bay Funding LLC
0.180%, due 08/16/21

    30,000,000       29,986,050  

0.190%, due 10/04/21

    50,000,000       49,962,930  

Versailles Commercial Paper LLC

   

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.090%,
0.205%, due 05/04/211,3

    43,000,000       43,000,000  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.221%, due 05/06/211,3

    44,000,000       44,000,000  

Victory Receivables Corp.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    71,006,000       71,005,680  

0.200%, due 05/03/21

    59,000,000       58,999,734  
   

 

 

 

      1,386,432,059  
   

 

 

 

Banking-non-U.S.—46.1%

 

ANZ New Zealand International Ltd.
0.190%, due 11/29/21

    31,000,000       30,973,588  

0.200%, due 12/21/21

    31,000,000       30,968,836  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.213%, due 05/10/211,3

    22,000,000       22,000,000  

0.260%, due 08/18/21

    40,000,000       39,984,478  

ASB Finance Ltd.
0.220%, due 11/24/21

    67,000,000       66,938,449  

0.230%, due 05/17/21

    33,000,000       32,999,205  

0.240%, due 05/12/21

    64,000,000       63,999,019  

0.250%, due 06/11/21

    63,000,000       62,994,708  

0.250%, due 07/07/21

    60,000,000       59,989,460  

Bank of Nova Scotia
0.230%, due 04/07/22

    24,750,000       24,702,270  

BNZ International Funding Ltd.
0.220%, due 08/06/21

    46,000,000       45,986,852  

BPCE SA
0.180%, due 09/01/21

    50,000,000       49,975,200  

Caisse des Depots et Consignations
0.180%, due 01/14/22

    25,000,000       24,968,345  
 

 

41


Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)    
Banking-non-U.S.—(continued)

 

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
0.200%, due 07/07/21

  $ 46,000,000     $ 45,990,616  

0.230%, due 04/04/22

    37,000,000       36,922,652  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.243%, due 05/06/211,3

    79,000,000       79,010,090  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.070%,
0.272%, due 05/04/211,3

    79,000,000       79,013,819  

Credit Industriel et Commercial
0.240%, due 05/24/21

    62,000,000       61,997,230  

DBS Bank Ltd.
0.140%, due 05/03/21

    25,000,000       24,999,875  

0.170%, due 08/23/21

    51,000,000       50,974,422  

0.180%, due 10/01/21

    40,000,000       39,971,253  

0.250%, due 05/19/21

    85,000,000       84,996,456  

Dexia Credit Local SA
0.210%, due 05/06/21

    48,000,000       47,999,520  

0.250%, due 06/08/21

    60,000,000       59,994,215  

Erste Abwicklungsanstalt
0.150%, due 06/04/21

    50,000,000       49,995,868  

Erste Finance LLC
0.070%, due 05/04/21

    180,000,000       179,996,999  

0.070%, due 05/06/21

    115,000,000       114,997,125  

Federation des Caisses Desjardins du Quebec 0.050%, due 05/03/21

    220,000,000       219,998,900  

0.050%, due 05/04/21

    121,000,000       120,999,193  

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp.
0.170%, due 07/01/21

    50,000,000       49,989,580  

0.180%, due 09/01/21

    30,000,000       29,982,123  

0.185%, due 09/01/21

    50,000,000       49,970,206  

0.190%, due 08/02/21

    50,000,000       49,981,200  

0.210%, due 07/12/21

    40,000,000       39,989,537  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.165%, due 08/10/21

    40,000,000       39,979,147  

0.175%, due 07/06/21

    40,000,000       39,988,908  

0.190%, due 05/25/21

    64,000,000       63,994,978  

0.190%, due 06/01/21

    101,000,000       100,990,752  

National Australia Bank Ltd.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.000%,
0.198%, due 05/14/211,3

    70,000,000       70,000,777  

National Bank of Canada
0.170%, due 08/16/21

    43,750,000       43,732,675  

0.170%, due 09/01/21

    50,000,000       49,975,372  

0.220%, due 07/06/21

    78,000,000       77,983,742  

Natixis SA
0.260%, due 05/17/21

    62,000,000       61,997,540  

NRW Bank
0.035%, due 05/05/21

    100,000,000       99,999,306  

0.040%, due 05/04/21

    235,000,000       234,998,693  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.180%, due 10/01/21

    51,000,000       50,960,512  

0.270%, due 08/17/21

    63,000,000       62,971,578  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.180%, due 10/05/21

    45,000,000       44,967,807  

0.180%, due 11/18/21

    45,000,000       44,956,570  

0.190%, due 08/19/21

    43,000,000       42,981,836  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(concluded)    
Banking-non-U.S.—(concluded)

 

Societe Generale SA
0.020%, due 05/06/21

  $ 117,000,000     $ 116,998,830  

0.050%, due 05/03/21

    15,000,000       14,999,925  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.160%, due 08/13/21

    20,050,000       20,041,520  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.190%, due 05/25/21

    80,000,000       79,995,500  

0.190%, due 08/23/21

    30,000,000       29,985,146  

Svenska Handelsbanken
0.160%, due 08/23/21

    50,000,000       49,979,555  

0.210%, due 12/16/21

    35,000,000       34,960,421  

0.230%, due 06/01/21

    36,750,000       36,747,354  

0.250%, due 08/12/21

    64,000,000       63,976,889  

Toronto-Dominion Bank
0.060%, due 05/04/21

    90,000,000       89,999,200  

United Overseas Bank Ltd.
0.250%, due 05/28/21

    60,000,000       59,996,314  

0.280%, due 09/27/21

    65,000,000       64,952,604  

Westpac Banking Corp.
0.180%, due 12/01/21

    45,000,000       44,946,788  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.020%,
0.210%, due 11/24/211,3

    45,000,000       44,999,999  

Westpac Securities NZ Ltd.
0.200%, due 07/08/21

    46,000,000       45,988,009  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.205%, due 05/05/211,3

    58,000,000       58,000,097  
   

 

 

 

      4,061,299,633  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—2.7%

 

Bedford Row Funding Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.186%, due 07/26/211,3

    40,000,000       40,000,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.215%, due 05/03/211,3

    42,000,000       42,000,000  

Collateralized Commercial Paper FLEX Co. LLC 0.190%, due 10/19/21

    35,000,000       34,969,064  

0.250%, due 07/09/21

    25,000,000       24,992,562  

0.270%, due 06/08/21

    6,000,000       5,999,142  

Collateralized Commercial Paper V Co. LLC 0.200%, due 10/04/21

    13,000,000       12,990,078  

0.220%, due 10/29/21

    79,000,000       78,924,116  
   

 

 

 

              239,874,962  

Total commercial paper
(cost—$5,687,160,781)

 

    5,687,606,654  
Time deposits—8.4%

 

Banking-non-U.S.—8.4%

 

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    360,000,000       360,000,000  

Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank 0.030%, due 05/03/21

    118,000,000       118,000,000  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    85,000,000       85,000,000  

Natixis SA
0.020%, due 05/03/21

    180,000,000       180,000,000  

Total time deposits
(cost—$743,000,000)

 

    743,000,000  
 

 

42


Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—17.4%

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Barclays Bank PLC, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $97,065,829 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.500% to 3.500% due 06/01/47 to 03/01/51 and $371,669,956 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.500% to 4.500% due 05/01/35 to 03/01/40; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,000,167

  $ 200,000,000     $ 200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.140% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $56,269,186 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 2.436% to 6.580% due 03/15/22 to 04/22/52; (value—$53,496,135); proceeds: $50,000,583

    50,000,000       50,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.180% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $189,908,361 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 0.586% to 6.750% due 07/01/21 to 03/25/36; (value—$32,191,636); proceeds: $30,000,4505

    30,000,000       30,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $76,812,096 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.834% to 4.000% due 12/01/37 to 10/15/47 and $369,902,082 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.112% to 4.000% due 12/01/33 to 02/01/51; (value—$306,000,000); proceeds: $300,000,250

    300,000,000       300,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/20/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, SOFR + 0.01%, 0.020% due 05/07/21, collateralized by $172,429,417 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.000% to 4.500% due 05/01/35 to 04/01/51 and $160,064,348 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 6.000% due 09/01/25 to 11/01/56; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,001,1114

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/27/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 0.250% due 05/04/21, collateralized by $65,080,000 asset-backed convertible bond, 2.000% due 08/15/22; (value—$77,000,487); proceeds: $70,003,403

    70,000,000       70,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/28/20 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.23%, 0.280% due 05/07/21, collateralized by $78,598,066 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 4.000% to 10.000% due 10/15/21 to 10/01/40; (value—$81,000,001); proceeds: $75,214,0834

    75,000,000       75,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.33%, 0.380% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $67,298,000 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 4.000% due 06/15/24 to 12/15/25; (value—$82,500,545); proceeds: $75,022,9584

  $ 75,000,000     $ 75,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $425,089,324 Government National Mortgage Association obligation, 3.000% due 08/20/49; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,000,167

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/20/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., OBFR + 0.25%, 0.300% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $39,020,456 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 0.486% to 6.500% due 05/15/28 to 09/20/45; (value—$26,750,000); proceeds: $25,002,0834

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., OBFR + 0.65%, 0.700% due 08/03/21, collateralized by $52,226,000 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 2.000% due 08/15/23 to 06/15/27; (value—$80,250,338); proceeds: $75,042,2924

    75,000,000       75,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., OBFR + 0.65%, 0.700% due 08/03/21, collateralized by $165,392,000 shares of various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 6.750% due 03/15/23 to 09/30/46; (value—$251,450,117); proceeds: $235,132,5144

    235,000,000       235,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$1,535,000,000)

 

    1,535,000,000  

Total investments
(cost—$8,821,160,781 which approximates
cost for federal income tax
purposes)—100.0%

 

    8,821,737,882  
   

Other assets in excess of liabilities—0.00%

 

    1,371,247  

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 8,823,109,129  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

43


Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments:

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
Certificates of deposit      $        $ 856,131,228        $        $ 856,131,228  
Commercial paper                 5,687,606,654                   5,687,606,654  
Time deposits                 743,000,000                   743,000,000  
Repurchase agreements                 1,535,000,000                   1,535,000,000  
Total      $        $ 8,821,737,882        $        $ 8,821,737,882  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

 

Amount represents less than 0.05% or (0.05)%.

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects earlier of reset date or stated maturity date.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

3 

Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid, unless noted otherwise, and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. Securities exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A, in the amount of $ 522,024,782, represented 5.9% of the Fund’s net assets at period end.

4 

Investment has a put feature, which allows the Fund to accelerate the maturity, and a variable or floating rate. The interest rate shown is the current rate as of April 30, 2021 and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects the earliest put date and the proceeds represent the receivable of the Fund if the put feature was exercised as of April 30, 2021.

5 

Collateral includes perpetual investments, maturity dates shown reflect the next call date for the perpetual investments.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

44


ESG Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Certificates of deposit—3.5%

 

Banking-non-U.S.—2.7%

 

MUFG Bank Ltd.
0.190%, due 10/05/21

  $ 2,500,000     $ 2,500,164  

Royal Bank of Canada

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.300%, due 06/16/211

    2,000,000       2,001,109  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.250%, due 05/13/21

    2,000,000       2,000,123  

0.250%, due 06/01/21

    2,000,000       2,000,298  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.180%, due 07/26/21

    2,000,000       2,000,203  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.212%, due 07/01/211

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

Svenska Handelsbanken

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.202%, due 05/17/211

    2,000,000       1,999,893  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.240%, due 05/28/211

    1,500,000       1,500,243  
   

 

 

 

      16,002,033  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—0.8%

 

Cooperatieve Centrale

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.200%, due 06/21/211

    3,000,000       3,000,000  

0.250%, due 08/16/21

    2,000,000       2,000,599  
   

 

 

 

              5,000,599  

Total certificates of deposit
(cost—$21,000,000)

 

    21,002,632  
Commercial paper2—64.8%

 

Asset backed-miscellaneous—20.9%

 

Atlantic Asset Securitization LLC
0.040%, due 05/03/21

    1,500,000       1,499,991  

0.158%, due 07/22/21

    6,000,000       5,997,814  

0.161%, due 08/05/21

    2,500,000       2,498,915  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.080%,
0.195%, due 05/18/211,3

    2,000,000       2,000,175  

Barton Capital SA
0.081%, due 05/03/21

    1,000,000       999,994  

Chariot Funding LLC
0.106%, due 05/10/21

    4,000,000       3,999,882  

0.153%, due 07/09/21

    2,000,000       1,999,405  

Fairway Finance Co. LLC
0.095%, due 05/13/21

    1,000,000       999,966  

0.145%, due 06/03/21

    1,500,000       1,499,795  

0.170%, due 10/08/21

    1,000,000       999,240  

0.173%, due 11/05/21

    3,000,000       2,997,275  

0.183%, due 11/15/21

    2,750,000       2,747,325  

Gotham Funding Corp.
0.050%, due 05/07/21

    4,000,000       3,999,961  

Liberty Street Funding LLC
0.161%, due 08/04/21

    5,000,000       4,997,853  

LMA Americas LLC
0.074%, due 05/03/21

    1,000,000       999,994  

0.090%, due 05/11/21

    1,750,000       1,749,952  

0.107%, due 05/17/21

    1,500,000       1,499,924  

0.132%, due 06/08/21

    2,000,000       1,999,714  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Asset backed-miscellaneous—(concluded)

 

0.155%, due 07/15/21

  $ 5,000,000     $ 4,998,364  

0.162%, due 08/09/21

    2,000,000       1,999,091  

0.167%, due 09/08/21

    2,000,000       1,998,785  

Manhattan Asset Funding Co. LLC
0.153%, due 07/08/21

    5,500,000       5,498,387  

Nieuw Amsterdam Receivables Corp.
0.100%, due 05/28/21

    7,000,000       6,999,456  

0.127%, due 07/27/21

    3,000,000       2,998,907  

0.137%, due 06/25/21

    7,000,000       6,998,508  

Old Line Funding LLC
0.142%, due 07/06/21

    2,500,000       2,499,339  

0.143%, due 07/09/21

    2,000,000       1,999,444  

0.156%, due 09/01/21

    2,000,000       1,998,925  

0.160%, due 10/15/21

    2,000,000       1,998,507  

0.162%, due 11/01/21

    2,500,000       2,497,919  

Thunder Bay Funding LLC
0.113%, due 06/09/21

    5,000,000       4,999,372  

0.135%, due 07/14/21

    2,000,000       1,999,437  

0.137%, due 07/19/21

    1,000,000       999,696  

0.155%, due 08/16/21

    2,000,000       1,999,070  

0.170%, due 10/04/21

    2,000,000       1,998,517  

0.172%, due 11/01/21

    2,000,000       1,998,232  

Versailles Commercial Paper LLC
0.063%, due 05/05/21

    3,000,000       2,999,974  

0.125%, due 06/03/21

    2,250,000       2,249,734  

0.152%, due 07/06/21

    5,000,000       4,998,586  

0.161%, due 08/02/21

    5,000,000       4,997,898  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.221%, due 05/06/211,3

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

Victory Receivables Corp.
0.054%, due 05/03/21

    2,000,000       1,999,991  

0.140%, due 07/21/21

    5,500,000       5,498,246  

0.140%, due 07/27/21

    3,000,000       2,998,973  
   

 

 

 

      127,710,533  
   

 

 

 

Banking-non-U.S.—41.7%

 

ANZ New Zealand International Ltd.
0.127%, due 08/18/21

    1,000,000       999,612  

0.144%, due 11/29/21

    2,000,000       1,998,296  

0.154%, due 12/21/21

    2,000,000       1,997,989  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.213%, due 05/10/211,3

    1,000,000       1,000,000  

ASB Finance Ltd.
0.046%, due 05/12/21

    2,000,000       1,999,969  

0.093%, due 07/07/21

    3,100,000       3,099,455  

0.122%, due 09/01/21

    2,000,000       1,999,160  

0.148%, due 10/22/21

    2,000,000       1,998,561  

Banque et Caisse d Epargne de l Etat
0.108%, due 08/16/21

    6,000,000       5,998,056  

0.137%, due 10/01/21

    2,000,000       1,998,828  

BNZ International Funding Ltd.
0.105%, due 08/06/21

    2,000,000       1,999,428  

BPCE SA
0.144%, due 09/01/21

    2,500,000       2,498,760  

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
0.108%, due 07/07/21

    2,000,000       1,999,592  

0.145%, due 09/13/21

    2,000,000       1,998,904  

0.222%, due 04/04/22

    2,500,000       2,494,774  
 

 

45


ESG Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Banking-non-U.S.—(continued)

 

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.070%,
0.272%, due 05/04/211,3

  $ 1,000,000     $ 1,000,175  

DBS Bank Ltd.
0.079%, due 05/19/21

    1,000,000       999,958  

0.157%, due 08/23/21

    2,000,000       1,998,997  

0.168%, due 10/01/21

    2,500,000       2,498,203  

Dexia Credit Local SA
0.060%, due 05/06/21

    1,000,000       999,990  

0.089%, due 06/08/21

    2,000,000       1,999,807  

Erste Abwicklungsanstalt
0.085%, due 06/04/21

    5,000,000       4,999,587  

Erste Finance LLC
0.150%, due 05/06/21

    14,000,000       13,999,650  

Federation des Caisses Desjardins du Quebec

   

0.060%, due 05/03/21

    7,500,000       7,499,963  

0.060%, due 05/04/21

    7,000,000       6,999,953  

0.090%, due 06/09/21

    7,500,000       7,499,250  

Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau
0.180%, due 01/26/22

    2,000,000       1,997,290  

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp.
0.100%, due 05/25/21

    2,250,000       2,249,844  

0.121%, due 07/01/21

    3,000,000       2,999,375  

0.129%, due 07/12/21

    1,500,000       1,499,608  

0.147%, due 08/05/21

    2,000,000       1,999,208  

0.173%, due 09/01/21

    2,500,000       2,498,510  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.103%, due 06/01/21

    2,000,000       1,999,817  

0.124%, due 05/21/21

    2,750,000       2,749,801  

National Australia Bank Ltd.
0.091%, due 06/02/21

    5,000,000       4,999,583  

National Bank of Canada
0.111%, due 07/02/21

    2,500,000       2,499,514  

0.112%, due 07/06/21

    3,000,000       2,999,375  

0.123%, due 08/02/21

    2,000,000       1,999,358  

0.128%, due 08/10/21

    2,500,000       2,499,093  

Nationwide Building Society
0.089%, due 05/10/21

    11,500,000       11,499,716  

0.124%, due 05/25/21

    5,000,000       4,999,569  

Natixis SA
0.084%, due 05/17/21

    2,000,000       1,999,921  

Nordea Bank Abp
0.106%, due 07/15/21

    2,000,000       1,999,552  

0.126%, due 08/17/21

    2,250,000       2,249,142  

0.129%, due 08/26/21

    11,000,000       10,995,349  

NRW Bank
0.059%, due 05/14/21

    5,000,000       4,999,885  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.095%, due 06/14/21

    6,000,000       5,999,288  

0.173%, due 09/16/21

    2,000,000       1,998,664  

0.181%, due 10/01/21

    2,000,000       1,998,451  

0.194%, due 12/08/21

    2,000,000       1,997,607  

Royal Bank of Canada
0.083%, due 06/22/21

    1,240,000       1,239,849  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.080%, due 05/19/21

    4,500,000       4,499,810  

0.080%, due 05/21/21

    1,000,000       999,953  

0.115%, due 07/06/21

    2,500,000       2,499,465  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Banking-non-U.S.—(concluded)

 

0.175%, due 12/10/21

  $ 2,500,000     $ 2,497,278  

0.178%, due 01/05/22

    2,000,000       1,997,528  

Societe Generale SA
0.060%, due 05/06/21

    10,000,000       9,999,900  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.092%, due 06/02/21

    6,000,000       5,999,494  

0.141%, due 08/09/21

    5,500,000       5,497,824  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.067%, due 05/17/21

    2,000,000       1,999,937  

0.067%, due 05/17/21

    4,000,000       3,999,873  

0.074%, due 05/21/21

    4,000,000       3,999,827  

0.085%, due 05/27/21

    3,000,000       2,999,809  

0.102%, due 06/17/21

    2,000,000       1,999,728  

0.119%, due 07/12/21

    2,000,000       1,999,517  

Svenska Handelsbanken
0.075%, due 05/19/21

    1,000,000       999,960  

0.125%, due 08/12/21

    2,000,000       1,999,278  

0.127%, due 08/19/21

    2,000,000       1,999,217  

0.139%, due 10/06/21

    2,500,000       2,498,465  

0.172%, due 11/19/21

    1,800,000       1,798,295  

0.177%, due 12/16/21

    2,000,000       1,997,738  

Toronto-Dominion Bank
0.083%, due 05/10/21

    1,750,000       1,749,960  

0.153%, due 10/07/21

    3,000,000       2,997,960  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.030%,
0.220%, due 06/16/211,3

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

United Overseas Bank Ltd.
0.079%, due 05/28/21

    1,000,000       999,939  

0.083%, due 06/02/21

    3,000,000       2,999,772  

0.105%, due 06/24/21

    2,000,000       1,999,679  

0.175%, due 09/27/21

    1,000,000       999,271  

Westpac Banking Corp.
0.194%, due 11/15/21

    2,000,000       1,997,855  

0.195%, due 11/18/21

    2,000,000       1,997,812  

Westpac Securities NZ Ltd.
0.136%, due 07/08/21

    2,000,000       1,999,479  

0.194%, due 11/15/21

    2,000,000       1,997,855  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.205%, due 05/05/211,3

    1,000,000       1,000,002  
   

 

 

 

      254,566,766  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—2.2%    

Bedford Row Funding Corp.
0.176%, due 01/03/22

    1,500,000       1,498,182  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.215%, due 05/03/211,3

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.237%, due 06/21/211,3

    1,000,000       1,000,077  

Collateralized Commercial Paper FLEX Co. LLC
0.110%, due 05/18/21

    1,000,000       999,945  

0.132%, due 06/08/21

    1,000,000       999,857  

0.181%, due 10/13/21

    2,000,000       1,998,331  

Collateralized Commercial Paper V Co. LLC 0.175%, due 10/04/21

    2,500,000       2,498,092  
 

 

46


ESG Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(concluded)

 

Banking-U.S.—(concluded)

 

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA
0.169%, due 11/29/21

  $ 2,500,000     $ 2,497,500  
   

 

 

 

              13,491,984  

Total commercial paper
(cost—$395,749,303)

      395,769,283  
Time deposits—9.0%    
Banking-non-U.S.—9.0%    

Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank
0.030%, due 05/03/21

    15,000,000       15,000,000  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Natixis
0.020%, due 05/03/21

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Total time deposits
(cost—$55,000,000)

      55,000,000  
Repurchase agreements—22.6%    

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.33%, 0.380% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $783,811 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 8.00% due 09/15/21 to 12/01/50; (value—$1,135,198); proceeds: $1,000,3064,5

    1,000,000       1,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $138,871,800 U.S. Treasury Note, 0.500% due 03/15/23; (value—$139,740,088); proceeds: $137,000,114

  $ 137,000,000     $ 137,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$138,000,000)

            138,000,000  

Total investments
(cost—$609,749,303 which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)—99.9%

      609,771,915  
   

Other assets in excess of liabilities—0.1%

            736,175  

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 610,508,090  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments:

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
Certificates of deposit      $        $ 21,002,632        $        $ 21,002,632  
Commercial paper                 395,769,283                   395,769,283  
Time deposits                 55,000,000                   55,000,000  
Repurchase agreements                 138,000,000                   138,000,000  
Total      $        $ 609,771,915        $        $ 609,771,915  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects earlier of reset date or stated maturity date.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

3 

Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid, unless noted otherwise, and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. Securities exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A, in the amount of $12,000,429, represented 2.0% of the Fund’s net assets at period end.

4 

Investment has a put feature, which allows the Fund to accelerate the maturity, and a variable or floating rate. The interest rate shown is the current rate as of April 30, 2021 and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects the earliest put date and the proceeds represent the receivable of the Fund if the put feature was exercised as of April 30, 2021.

5 

Collateral includes perpetual investments, maturity dates shown reflect the next call date for the perpetual investments.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

47


Government Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. government agency obligations—34.1%

 

Federal Farm Credit Bank

 

SOFR + 0.035%,
0.045%, due 05/01/211

  $ 27,000,000     $ 27,000,000  

SOFR + 0.050%,
0.060%, due 05/01/211

    23,000,000       23,000,000  

0.060%, due 02/10/22

    45,000,000       44,996,392  

SOFR + 0.055%,
0.065%, due 05/01/211

    5,500,000       5,500,000  

SOFR + 0.060%,
0.070%, due 05/01/211

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

0.100%, due 10/08/21

    67,500,000       67,492,207  

SOFR + 0.110%,
0.120%, due 05/01/211

    78,000,000       78,000,000  

0.120%, due 05/20/212

    125,000,000       124,992,917  

0.130%, due 05/06/212

    25,000,000       24,999,729  

0.150%, due 05/26/21

    55,000,000       54,999,758  

SOFR + 0.160%,
0.170%, due 05/01/211

    35,000,000       35,000,000  

Federal Home Loan Bank
0.009%, due 05/12/212

    150,000,000       149,999,662  

0.010%, due 05/28/212

    77,000,000       76,999,465  

0.018%, due 07/09/212

    172,000,000       171,994,238  

0.018%, due 07/16/212

    79,000,000       78,997,077  

SOFR + 0.010%,
0.020%, due 05/03/211

    231,000,000       231,000,000  

0.020%, due 07/28/212

    60,000,000       59,997,133  

SOFR + 0.015%,
0.025%, due 05/03/211

    186,000,000       186,000,000  

0.025%, due 08/19/21

    78,000,000       77,999,317  

0.025%, due 08/25/212

    28,600,000       28,597,736  

0.034%, due 05/21/212

    89,000,000       88,998,487  

0.039%, due 05/12/212

    45,000,000       44,999,561  

0.040%, due 05/17/212

    90,000,000       89,998,600  

0.050%, due 06/28/21

    66,000,000       66,000,257  

0.059%, due 05/05/212

    45,000,000       44,999,853  

SOFR + 0.050%,
0.060%, due 05/03/211

    100,000,000       100,000,000  

SOFR + 0.055%,
0.065%, due 05/03/211

    100,000,000       100,000,000  

SOFR + 0.060%,
0.070%, due 05/03/211

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

0.090%, due 06/18/212

    13,000,000       12,998,505  

SOFR + 0.090%,
0.100%, due 05/03/211

    46,000,000       46,000,000  

0.104%, due 05/14/212

    53,500,000       53,498,300  

SOFR + 0.150%,
0.160%, due 05/03/211

    116,000,000       116,000,000  

0.185%, due 06/24/212

    52,000,000       51,986,104  

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

   

SOFR + 0.095%,
0.105%, due 05/01/211

    67,000,000       67,000,000  

SOFR + 0.100%,
0.110%, due 05/01/211

    181,000,000       181,000,000  

SOFR + 0.190%,
0.200%, due 05/01/211

    115,000,000       115,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. government agency obligations—(concluded)

 

Federal National Mortgage Association

   

SOFR + 0.130%,
0.140%, due 05/01/211

  $ 90,000,000     $ 90,000,482  

SOFR + 0.180%,
0.190%, due 05/01/211

    115,000,000       115,000,000  

2.750%, due 06/22/21

    51,775,000       51,958,639  

Total U.S. government agency obligations
(cost—$3,010,004,419)

      3,010,004,419  
U.S. Treasury obligations—43.9%

 

U.S. Cash Management Bill
0.021%, due 08/31/212

    77,000,000       76,994,655  

0.022%, due 08/10/212

    75,000,000       74,995,566  

0.025%, due 08/17/212

    57,000,000       56,995,804  

0.030%, due 08/03/212

    65,000,000       64,995,017  

0.034%, due 06/29/212

    85,000,000       84,994,055  

0.053%, due 07/13/212

    155,000,000       154,984,025  

0.056%, due 07/20/212

    74,000,000       73,991,182  

0.069%, due 06/22/212

    150,000,000       149,986,806  

0.081%, due 07/06/212

    97,000,000       96,986,204  

U.S. Treasury Bills
0.025%, due 07/22/212

    64,000,000       63,996,445  

0.033%, due 06/10/212

    157,000,000       156,995,317  

0.036%, due 10/28/212

    89,000,000       88,984,598  

0.041%, due 10/14/212

    62,000,000       61,988,702  

0.041%, due 10/21/212

    97,000,000       96,981,570  

0.044%, due 06/01/212

    86,000,000       85,997,021  

0.050%, due 05/27/212

    216,000,000       215,993,997  

0.061%, due 06/03/212

    80,000,000       79,995,867  

0.062%, due 05/11/212

    136,000,000       135,998,224  

0.066%, due 06/08/212

    125,000,000       124,991,750  

0.069%, due 07/29/212

    207,000,000       206,965,110  

0.072%, due 06/17/212

    170,000,000       169,985,482  

0.079%, due 05/18/212

    150,000,000       149,996,308  

0.081%, due 05/20/212

    174,000,000       173,994,078  

0.087%, due 05/13/212

    244,000,000       243,994,665  

0.089%, due 06/15/212

    73,000,000       72,992,327  

0.089%, due 07/08/212

    76,000,000       75,987,739  

0.090%, due 05/04/212

    70,000,000       69,999,830  

0.091%, due 05/25/212

    87,000,000       86,995,215  

0.092%, due 05/06/212

    244,000,000       243,998,233  

0.097%, due 07/15/212

    62,000,000       61,997,485  

U.S. Treasury Notes

   

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.114%,
0.134%, due 05/01/211

    70,000,000       70,007,723  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.220%,
0.240%, due 05/01/211

    143,000,000       142,984,892  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.300%,
0.320%, due 05/01/211

    97,000,000       97,029,059  

1.875%, due 01/31/22

    38,000,000       38,516,903  

1.875%, due 02/28/22

    19,000,000       19,286,221  

Total U.S. Treasury obligations
(cost—$3,871,578,075)

      3,871,578,075  
 

 

48


Government Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—22.9%

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.22%, 0.270% due 07/29/21, collateralized by $429,390,899 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 3.000% to 4.500% due 02/25/35 to 11/25/50 and $91,399,130 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 4.634% to 5.984% due 05/20/37 to 12/20/48; (value—$103,000,000); proceeds: $100,021,7503

  $ 100,000,000     $ 100,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/20/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, SOFR + 0.01%, 0.020% due 05/07/21, collateralized by $45,381,312 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.500% to 5.500% due 12/01/26 to 05/01/51 and $302,703,628 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 5.000% due 03/01/28 to 05/01/51; (value—$306,000,000); proceeds: $300,001,6673

    300,000,000       300,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $214,040,981 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 3.000% due 06/01/50 to 04/01/51 (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,000,167

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Toronto-Dominion Bank, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $2,503,419 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligation, 2.000% due 02/25/51, $260,977,854 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 1.500% to 9.000% due 10/01/21 to 02/25/51 and $26,110,898 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.500% to 3.000% due 05/20/45 to 03/20/51; (value—$102,000,000); proceeds: $100,000,083

    100,000,000       100,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/27/21 with MUFG Securities Americas Inc., OBFR 0.01%, 0.040% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $177,593,402 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 1.250% to 4.500% due 08/25/31 to 03/25/51 and $98,768,506 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 3.000% to 4.000% due 07/01/32 to 12/01/50 and $24,417,388 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 1.000% to 4.000% due 05/20/39 to 02/20/51; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,001,6673

  $ 200,000,000     $ 200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Fixed Income Clearing Corp., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $915,871,900 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.125% to 2.000% due 06/15/22 to 07/31/22; (value—$937,380,082); proceeds: $919,000,383

    919,000,000       919,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $201,499,136 Federal National Mortgage Association obligation, 2.000% due 05/01/51; (value—$204,000,166); proceeds: $200,000,167

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$2,019,000,000)

            2,019,000,000  

Total investments
(cost—$8,900,582,494 which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)—100.9%

      8,900,582,494  
   

Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.9)%

 

    (77,889,638

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 8,822,692,856  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments.

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
U.S. government agency obligations      $        $ 3,010,004,419        $        $ 3,010,004,419  
U.S. Treasury obligations                 3,871,578,075                   3,871,578,075  
Repurchase agreements                 2,019,000,000                   2,019,000,000  
Total      $        $ 8,900,582,494        $        $ 8,900,582,494  

 

49


Government Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

3 

Investment has a put feature, which allows the Fund to accelerate the maturity, and a variable or floating rate. The interest rate shown is the current rate as of April 30, 2021 and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects the earliest put date and the proceeds represent the receivable of the Fund if the put feature was exercised as of April 30, 2021.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

50


Treasury Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. Treasury obligations—73.2%

 

U.S. Cash Management Bill
0.030%, due 08/03/211

  $ 250,000,000     $ 249,980,833  

0.023%, due 08/10/211

    320,000,000       319,979,760  

0.025%, due 08/17/211

    226,655,000       226,638,316  

0.0292%, due 07/27/211

    306,000,000       305,979,192  

0.025%, due 08/24/211

    266,000,000       265,979,126  

0.040%, due 07/20/211

    764,000,000       763,941,313  

0.021%, due 08/31/211

    281,000,000       280,980,494  

0.046%, due 07/13/211

    931,000,000       930,919,869  

0.091%, due 06/29/211

    474,325,000       474,274,227  

0.067%, due 07/06/211

    507,000,000       506,942,560  

0.069%, due 06/22/211

    404,000,000       403,964,778  

U.S. Treasury Bills
0.089%, due 06/15/211

    181,000,000       180,980,975  

0.012%, due 08/12/211

    250,000,000       249,964,229  

0.014%, due 06/24/211

    307,510,000       307,504,421  

0.053%, due 09/16/211

    255,000,000       254,949,424  

0.020%, due 07/01/211

    322,000,000       321,989,445  

0.039%, due 09/23/211

    300,000,000       299,954,121  

0.058%, due 09/09/211

    249,000,000       248,949,141  

0.041%, due 09/30/211

    522,000,000       521,913,001  

0.034%, due 10/07/211

    262,000,000       261,961,723  

0.041%, due 10/14/211

    252,000,000       251,954,080  

0.041%, due 10/21/211

    379,275,000       379,202,938  

0.036%, due 10/28/211

    354,105,000       354,043,722  

0.034%, due 06/10/211

    747,070,000       747,046,909  

0.050%, due 05/27/211

    656,000,000       655,983,523  

0.052%, due 06/03/211

    507,000,000       506,978,782  

0.056%, due 06/08/211

    504,000,000       503,977,559  

0.062%, due 05/11/211

    376,000,000       375,995,103  

0.063%, due 05/18/211

    1,060,485,000       1,060,473,347  

0.064%, due 06/01/211

    754,100,000       754,069,693  

0.066%, due 07/08/211

    485,000,000       484,960,253  

0.071%, due 07/29/211

    601,895,000       601,800,442  

0.071%, due 07/22/211

    488,000,000       487,936,774  

0.072%, due 05/25/211

    521,000,000       520,984,803  

0.072%, due 06/17/211

    429,000,000       428,963,956  

0.077%, due 05/20/211

    1,001,000,000       1,000,973,131  

0.083%, due 05/04/211

    730,000,000       729,998,887  

0.084%, due 05/06/211

    841,000,000       840,995,413  

0.087%, due 05/13/211

    625,000,000       624,986,737  

0.097%, due 07/15/211

    736,000,000       735,882,708  

U.S. Treasury Notes

 

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.034%,
0.054%, due 05/04/21 2

    250,000,000       250,005,047  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.049%,
0.069%, due 05/01/21 2

    852,950,000       853,078,669  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.055%,
0.075%, due 05/01/21 2

    250,000,000       249,996,846  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.114%,
0.134%, due 05/01/21 2

    1,030,000,000       1,030,220,082  
     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. Treasury obligations—(concluded)

 

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.154%,
0.174%, due 05/01/212

  $ 250,000,000     $ 249,936,391  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.220%,
0.240%, due 05/01/212

    605,000,000       605,068,510  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.300%,
0.320%, due 05/01/212

    486,784,000       486,894,274  

1.750%, due 07/31/21

    245,000,000       245,999,066  

1.875%, due 01/31/22

    142,000,000       143,931,585  

1.875%, due 02/28/22

    71,000,000       72,069,561  

2.000%, due 11/15/21

    200,000,000       202,036,035  

2.625%, due 07/15/21

    100,000,000       100,501,184  

Total U.S. Treasury obligations
(cost—$23,914,692,958)

      23,914,692,958  
Repurchase agreements—27.6%

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Barclays Capital, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $466,757,300 U.S. Treasury Bonds, 3.000% to 4.250% due 11/15/40 to 11/15/45, $866,317,800 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Notes, 0.125% due 01/15/22 to 04/15/26 and $2,438,404,400 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.125% to 2.875% due 06/15/21 to 05/15/29; (value—$4,080,000,093); proceeds: $4,000,003,333

    4,000,000,000       4,000,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $73,497,700 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Bond, 1.000% due 02/15/48, $141,800, U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Note, 0.125% due 01/15/23 and $2,171,500 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.069% to 2.000% due 09/30/21 to 01/31/23; (value—$102,000,088); proceeds: $100,000,042

    100,000,000       100,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 0.000% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $481,972,300 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.500% to 2.500% due 08/15/23 to 02/15/30; (value—$500,000,014); proceeds: $500,000,000

    500,000,000       500,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Fixed Income Clearing Corp., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $100,000,000 U.S Treasury Bill, Zero Coupon due 03/24/22, $1,012,141,500 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Notes, 0.125% due 01/15/22 to 04/15/22 and $926,295,300 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.125% to 2.500% due 02/15/22 to 06/15/22; (value—$2,198,100,100); proceeds: $2,155,000,898

    2,155,000,000       2,155,000,000  
 

 

51


Treasury Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(continued)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/27/21 with Goldman Sachs & Co., 0.010% due 05/04/21, collateralized by $4,000 U.S. Treasury Bill, zero coupon due 05/20/21 and $205,025,600 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.250% to 2.000% due 12/31/21 to 04/30/28; (value—$204,000,001); proceeds: $200,000,389

  $ 200,000,000     $ 200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with JP Morgan Securities LLC, 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $586,566,400 U.S. Treasury Bill, Zero Coupon due 04/21/22 and $126,485,400 U.S. Treasury Note, 2.000% due 05/31/21; (value—$714,000,117); proceeds: $700,000,292

    700,000,000       700,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/29/21 with JP Morgan Securities LLC, 0.005% due 05/06/21, collateralized by $20,974,000 U.S. Treasury Bill, Zero Coupon due 07/27/21, $23,561,830 U.S. Treasury Bonds STRIPs, zero coupon due 11/15/25 and $402,594,300 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.750% to 2.625% due 01/15/22 to 12/31/23; (value—$459,000,032); proceeds: $450,000,438

    450,000,000       450,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $21,993,900 U.S. Treasury Note, 1.250% due 03/31/28; (value—$21,930,043); proceeds: $21,500,018

    21,500,000       21,500,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Mizuho Securities USA LLC, 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $100,669,800 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.625% to 2.250% due 01/31/22 to 11/30/27; (value—$102,000,052); proceeds: $100,000,042

    100,000,000       100,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with MUFG Securities Americas Inc., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $9,257,300 U.S. Treasury Bonds Principal STRIPs, zero coupon due 08/15/22, $38,665,000 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Notes, 0.125% due 01/15/23 to 07/15/30 and $237,336,800 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.625% to 3.125% due to 05/15/21 to 05/15/28; (value—$306,000,084); proceeds: $300,000,125

  $ 300,000,000     $ 300,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with MUFG Securities Americas Inc., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $146,181,200 U.S. Treasury Bonds, 1.875% to 6.375% due 08/15/27 to 02/15/51, $73,727,300 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Bonds, 0.125% to 3.375% due 04/15/32 to 02/15/51, $36,932,400 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Notes, 0.125% to 0.750% due 04/15/23 to 07/15/28 and $176,263,900 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.125% to 3.125% due 05/15/21 to 08/15/30; (value—$510,000,046); proceeds: $500,000,208

    500,000,000       500,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$9,026,500,000)

 

    9,026,500,000  

Total investments
(cost—$32,941,192,958 which approximates
cost for federal income tax purposes)—100.8%

 

    32,941,192,958  
   

Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.8)%

 

    (266,001,995

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 32,675,190,963  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments:

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
U.S. Treasury obligations      $        $ 23,914,692,958        $        $ 23,914,692,958  
Repurchase agreements                 9,026,500,000                   9,026,500,000  
Total      $        $ 32,941,192,958        $        $ 32,941,192,958  

 

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Treasury Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

2 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects earlier of reset date or stated maturity date.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

53


Prime CNAV Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Certificates of deposit—9.3%

 

Banking-non-U.S.—7.6%

 

KBC Bank N.V.
0.060%, due 05/04/21

  $ 20,000,000     $ 20,000,000  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.230%, due 05/04/21

    50,000,000       50,000,000  

MUFG Bank Ltd.
0.190%, due 10/05/21

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.290%, due 06/21/21

    22,000,000       22,000,000  

Royal Bank of Canada

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.300%, due 06/16/211

    31,000,000       31,000,000  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.250%, due 05/13/21

    32,000,000       32,000,000  

0.250%, due 06/01/21

    31,000,000       31,000,000  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.180%, due 07/26/21

    23,000,000       23,000,000  

0.180%, due 10/20/21

    13,000,000       13,000,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.212%, due 07/01/211

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.260%, due 05/11/21

    32,000,000       32,000,000  

Svenska Handelsbanken

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.240%, due 05/28/211

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Toronto-Dominion Bank

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.100%,
0.282%, due 05/20/211

    35,000,000       35,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      339,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—1.7%

 

Cooperatieve Centrale

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.200%, due 06/21/211

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

0.250%, due 08/16/21

    32,000,000       32,000,000  

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.243%, due 05/06/211

    25,000,000       25,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      77,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Total certificates of deposit
(cost—$416,000,000)

 

    416,000,000  
Commercial paper2—69.7%

 

Asset backed-miscellaneous—17.9%

 

Albion Capital Corp.
0.160%, due 07/20/21

    53,750,000       53,731,367  

Atlantic Asset Securitization LLC
0.170%, due 10/06/21

    20,000,000       19,984,833  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.080%,
0.195%, due 05/18/21 1,3

    18,000,000       18,000,000  

Chariot Funding LLC
0.153%, due 07/09/21

    26,000,000       25,989,354  

0.163%, due 08/18/21

    26,000,000       25,988,022  

Fairway Finance Co. LLC
0.095%, due 05/13/21

    16,000,000       15,999,022  

0.145%, due 06/03/21

    30,000,000       29,993,542  

0.168%, due 09/13/21

    20,000,000       19,988,178  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Asset backed-miscellaneous—(concluded)

 

0.170%, due 10/08/21

  $ 10,000,000     $ 9,992,100  

0.173%, due 11/05/21

    23,000,000       22,978,610  

Liberty Street Funding LLC
0.010%, due 05/03/21

    60,000,000       60,000,000  

0.161%, due 08/05/21

    15,000,000       14,994,125  

LMA Americas LLC
0.090%, due 05/11/21

    23,000,000       22,999,029  

0.090%, due 05/11/21

    50,000,000       49,997,778  

0.167%, due 09/08/21

    10,000,000       9,993,244  

0.170%, due 10/07/21

    18,000,000       17,985,870  

0.170%, due 10/08/21

    8,200,000       8,193,162  

0.170%, due 10/18/21

    15,000,000       14,987,050  

Nieuw Amsterdam Receivables Corp.
0.041%, due 05/04/21

    30,000,000       29,999,967  

Old Line Funding LLC
0.143%, due 07/09/21

    20,000,000       19,989,206  

0.157%, due 09/10/21

    20,000,000       19,986,278  

0.158%, due 09/15/21

    30,000,000       29,978,625  

0.160%, due 10/15/21

    16,000,000       15,982,400  

0.162%, due 11/01/21

    15,500,000       15,484,328  

Starbird Funding Corp.
0.153%, due 07/09/21

    15,000,000       14,995,812  

Thunder Bay Funding LLC
0.137%, due 07/19/21

    22,000,000       21,992,471  

0.155%, due 08/16/21

    35,000,000       34,981,625  

0.170%, due 10/04/21

    20,000,000       19,983,744  

0.172%, due 11/01/21

    20,000,000       19,979,778  

Versailles Commercial Paper LLC
0.161%, due 08/02/21

    45,000,000       44,982,937  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.090%,
0.205%, due 05/04/211,3

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.221%, due 05/06/211,3

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Victory Receivables Corp.
0.054%, due 05/03/21

    26,000,000       26,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      796,132,457  
   

 

 

 

Banking-non-U.S.—48.9%

 

ANZ New Zealand International Ltd.
0.127%, due 08/18/21

    20,000,000       19,984,544  

0.144%, due 11/29/21

    17,000,000       16,981,158  

0.154%, due 12/21/21

    17,000,000       16,978,089  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.213%, due 05/10/211,3

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

ASB Finance Ltd.
0.046%, due 05/12/21

    32,000,000       31,998,080  

0.051%, due 05/17/21

    16,275,000       16,273,544  

0.072%, due 06/11/21

    32,000,000       31,991,333  

0.093%, due 07/07/21

    30,000,000       29,986,458  

0.122%, due 09/01/21

    24,000,000       23,984,270  

Bank of Nova Scotia
0.203%, due 04/07/22

    11,000,000       10,976,176  

BNZ International Funding Ltd.
0.105%, due 08/06/21

    21,000,000       20,987,808  

BPCE SA
0.176%, due 10/06/21

    20,000,000       19,984,400  
 

 

54


Prime CNAV Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Banking-non-U.S.—(continued)

 

Caisse des Depots et Consignations
0.180%, due 01/26/22

  $ 20,000,000     $ 19,971,711  

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
0.108%, due 07/07/21

    20,000,000       19,992,778  

0.222%, due 04/04/22

    16,000,000       15,965,653  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.243%, due 05/06/211,3

    38,000,000       38,000,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.070%,
0.272%, due 05/04/211,3

    38,000,000       38,000,000  

Credit Industriel et Commercial
0.067%, due 05/24/21

    2,000,000       1,999,720  

DBS Bank Ltd.
0.157%, due 08/23/21

    23,000,000       22,987,836  

0.168%, due 10/01/21

    18,000,000       17,986,410  

Dexia Credit Local SA
0.060%, due 05/06/21

    27,000,000       26,999,527  

0.089%, due 06/08/21

    30,000,000       29,992,500  

0.150%, due 08/03/21

    15,000,000       14,995,017  

Erste Finance LLC
0.150%, due 05/04/21

    120,000,000       119,999,767  

0.150%, due 05/06/21

    70,000,000       69,999,592  

Federation des Caisses Desjardins du Quebec
0.060%, due 05/03/21

    112,500,000       112,500,000  

0.060%, due 05/04/21

    76,000,000       75,999,894  

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp.
0.121%, due 07/01/21

    22,000,000       21,993,871  

0.135%, due 07/22/21

    40,000,000       39,984,889  

0.173%, due 09/01/21

    20,000,000       19,987,900  

MITSUBISHI UFJ,
0.155%, due 08/13/21

    30,000,000       29,986,400  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.103%, due 06/01/21

    49,000,000       48,992,500  

0.113%, due 05/25/21

    29,000,000       28,996,633  

National Australia Bank Ltd.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.000%,
0.198%, due 05/14/211,3

    33,000,000       33,000,000  

National Bank of Canada
0.112%, due 07/06/21

    10,000,000       9,997,511  

0.112%, due 07/06/21

    34,000,000       33,986,702  

0.132%, due 08/16/21

    22,000,000       21,989,092  

0.143%, due 09/01/21

    20,000,000       19,988,572  

Natixis SA
0.084%, due 05/17/21

    31,000,000       30,996,865  

0.181%, due 10/14/21

    20,000,000       19,981,778  

NRW Bank
0.050%, due 05/04/21

    80,000,000       79,999,911  

0.050%, due 05/05/21

    50,000,000       49,999,903  

0.083%, due 06/04/21

    43,000,000       42,996,178  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.149%, due 08/17/21

    31,000,000       30,975,355  

0.181%, due 10/01/21

    22,000,000       21,983,390  

0.194%, due 12/08/21

    19,100,000       19,076,762  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.137%, due 08/19/21

    19,000,000       18,989,170  

0.163%, due 10/05/21

    19,000,000       18,985,275  

0.175%, due 12/10/21

    22,500,000       22,472,375  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(concluded)

 

Banking-non-U.S.—(concluded)

 

Societe Generale SA
0.060%, due 05/03/21

  $ 15,000,000     $ 15,000,000  

0.060%, due 05/06/21

    158,000,000       157,999,737  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.141%, due 08/09/21

    40,000,000       39,982,578  

0.143%, due 08/11/21

    46,820,000       46,798,541  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.081%, due 05/25/21

    12,000,000       11,998,607  

0.085%, due 05/27/21

    24,000,000       23,996,960  

0.109%, due 06/28/21

    30,000,000       29,991,133  

0.155%, due 08/23/21

    22,000,000       21,986,996  

Svenska Handelsbanken
0.125%, due 08/12/21

    32,000,000       31,977,555  

0.128%, due 08/23/21

    22,000,000       21,989,049  

0.139%, due 10/06/21

    20,000,000       19,984,400  

0.164%, due 11/09/21

    20,000,000       19,981,000  

Toronto-Dominion Bank
0.080%, due 05/04/21

    75,000,000       74,999,875  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.030%,
0.220%, due 06/16/211,3

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

United Overseas Bank Ltd.
0.175%, due 09/27/21

    31,000,000       30,964,557  

Westpac Banking Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.020%,
0.210%, due 11/24/211,3

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Westpac Securities NZ Ltd.
0.136%, due 07/08/21

    20,000,000       19,992,667  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.205%, due 05/05/211,3

    27,000,000       27,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      2,175,520,952  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—2.9%

 

Bedford Row Funding Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.215%, due 05/03/211,3

    18,000,000       18,000,000  

Collateralized Commercial Paper FLEX Co. LLC
0.110%, due 05/18/21

    29,000,000       28,996,617  

0.132%, due 06/08/21

    4,000,000       3,998,920  

0.153%, due 07/09/21

    15,000,000       14,993,021  

0.181%, due 10/13/21

    23,000,000       22,979,172  

0.185%, due 10/19/21

    30,000,000       29,973,242  

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA
0.169%, due 11/29/21

    12,550,000       12,537,554  
   

 

 

 

              131,478,526  

Total commercial paper
(cost—$3,103,131,935)

      3,103,131,935  
Time deposits—6.7%    
Banking-non-U.S.—6.7%    

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    165,000,000       165,000,000  

Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank
0.030%, due 05/03/21

    81,000,000       81,000,000  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    50,000,000       50,000,000  

Total time deposits
(cost—$296,000,000)

      296,000,000  
 

 

55


Prime CNAV Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—14.6%    

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $8,000 Federal Farm Credit Bank obligations, 2.830% to 2.990% due 07/18/34 to 12/19/36, $315,000 Federal Home Loan Bank obligations, 4.100% to 5.250% due 12/09/22 to 10/24/33, $2,342,500 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, zero Coupon to 2.150% due 12/11/25 to 07/13/40, $20,853,000 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, zero Coupon to 2.625% due 01/11/22 to 01/15/33, $100 U.S. Treasury Bill, Zero Coupon due 05/20/21, $7,116,500 U.S. Treasury Bonds, 3.875% to 8.125% due 05/15/21 to 08/15/40, $12,380,100 U.S. Treasury Bonds Principal STRIPs, zero coupon due 11/15/39 to 02/15/48, $33,568,807 U.S. Treasury Bonds STRIPs, zero coupon due 08/15/25 to 05/15/49, $36,038,700 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.054% to 2.750% due 08/15/21 to 11/15/26 and $661,000 various asset, 1.875% to 2.750% due 07/23/21 to 10/07/22; (value—$102,006,548); proceeds: $100,000,042

  $ 100,000,000     $ 100,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.180% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $17,106,644 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 0.646% to 7.926% due 04/16/26 to 06/15/40; (value—$16,200,001); proceeds: $15,000,225

    15,000,000       15,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Goldman Sachs & Co., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $28,007,535 U.S. Treasury Bonds STRIPs, zero coupon due 08/15/31 to 05/15/41, $81,432,200 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Note, 0.375% due 07/15/23 and $65,620,000 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.125% to 1.250% due 11/30/22 to 04/30/28; (value—$181,968,000); proceeds: $178,400,149

    178,400,000       178,400,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/20/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, SOFR + 0.01%, 0.020% due 05/07/21, collateralized by $75,358,896 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 1.500% to 2.000% due 04/01/36 to 05/01/46, $100,447,292 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 3.000% due 08/01/47 to 05/01/51 and $24,700,160 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 3.000% due 08/20/43; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,001,1114

    200,000,000       200,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)    

Repurchase agreement dated 04/27/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 0.250% due 05/04/21, collateralized by $25,949,000 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 2.000% due to 08/15/23 to 06/15/26; (value—$33,000,395); proceeds: $30,001,458

  $ 30,000,000     $ 30,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.33%, 0.380% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $33,536,000 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 5.000% due to 03/15/24 to 11/01/26; (value—$38,500,246); proceeds: $35,010,7144

    35,000,000       35,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., SOFR + 0.65%, 0.700% due 08/03/21, collateralized by 20,681 shares of various equity securities; (value—$26,750,823); proceeds: $25,014,097

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., SOFR + 0.65%, 0.700% due 08/03/21, collateralized by 6,440,000 convertible bond zero coupon due 12/15/25 and $259,872 shares of various equity securities; (value—$69,550,639); proceeds: $65,036,6534

    65,000,000       65,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$648,400,000)

            648,400,000  

Total investments
(cost—$4,463,531,935 which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)—100.3%

      4,463,531,935  
   

Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.3)%

 

    (14,124,514

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 4,449,407,421  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

56


Prime CNAV Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments.

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
Certificates of deposit      $        $ 416,000,000        $        $ 416,000,000  
Commercial paper                 3,103,131,935                   3,103,131,935  
Time deposits                 296,000,000                   296,000,000  
Repurchase agreements                 648,400,000                   648,400,000  
Total      $        $ 4,463,531,935        $        $ 4,463,531,935  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects earlier of reset date or stated maturity date.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

3 

Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid, unless noted otherwise, and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. Securities exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A, in the amount of $262,000,000, represented 5.9% of the Fund’s net assets at period end.

4 

Investment has a put feature, which allows the Fund to accelerate the maturity, and a variable or floating rate. The interest rate shown is the current rate as of April 30, 2021 and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects the earliest put date and the proceeds represent the receivable of the Fund if the put feature was exercised as of April 30, 2021.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

57


Tax-Free Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—90.1%    
Alaska—2.5%    

Alaska International Airports, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.070%, VRD

  $ 7,345,000     $ 7,345,000  

City of Valdez, (Exxon Pipeline Co. Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    800,000       800,000  

Series B,
0.030%, VRD

    10,335,000       10,335,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    2,100,000       2,100,000  
   

 

 

 

      20,580,000  
   

 

 

 

Arizona—0.2%

 

Arizona Industrial Development Authority, (Phoenix Children’s), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.020%, VRD

    1,200,000       1,200,000  

Industrial Development Authority of the City of Phoenix, (Mayo Clinic), Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.020%, VRD

    400,000       400,000  
   

 

 

 

      1,600,000  
   

 

 

 

California—2.4%

 

California Municipal Finance Authority, (Chevron USA—Recovery Zone), Revenue Bonds
0.020%, VRD

    350,000       350,000  

City of Irvine, (Assessment District No.03-19),
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    200,000       200,000  

City of Irvine, (Reassessment District No. 85-7A)
0.030%, VRD

    7,494,000       7,494,000  

Irvine Ranch Water District,
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    1,300,000       1,300,000  

Los Angeles Department of Water & Power System, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Subseries A-3,
0.030%, VRD

    400,000       400,000  

Southern California Public Power Authority, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A-20,
0.030%, VRD

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

State of California, GO Bonds,
Series A-1,
0.020%, VRD

    6,645,000       6,645,000  

Series A3,
0.020%, VRD

    1,000,000       1,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      19,389,000  
   

 

 

 

Colorado—0.4%

 

City & County of Denver, Refunding, Certificates of Participation,
Series A1,
0.030%, VRD

    1,500,000       1,500,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Colorado—0.4%

 

Colorado Health Facilities Authority, (Children’s Hospital), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

  $ 2,000,000     $ 2,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      3,500,000  
   

 

 

 

District of Columbia—1.3%

 

District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority Subordinate Lien, Revenue Bonds,
Subseries B-2,
0.060%, VRD

    11,000,000       11,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Florida—0.3%    

Hillsborough County Industrial Development Authority, (BayCare Health System), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.040%, VRD

    1,800,000       1,800,000  

Series C,
0.060%, VRD

    400,000       400,000  
   

 

 

 

      2,200,000  
   

 

 

 

Illinois—14.9%    

Illinois Development Finance Authority, (Chicago Symphony Project), Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    12,500,000       12,500,000  

Illinois Development Finance Authority, (Francis W. Parker School Project), Revenue Bonds
0.080%, VRD

    19,700,000       19,700,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare), Revenue Bonds,
Series D,
0.070%, VRD

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (Gift of Hope Donor Project), Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    9,640,000       9,640,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (Hospital Sisters Services), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series G,
0.070%, VRD

    8,300,000       8,300,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (OSF Healthcare System), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.020%, VRD

    1,210,000       1,210,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    6,600,000       6,600,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (Steppenwolf Theatre), Revenue Bonds
0.090%, VRD

    6,815,000       6,815,000  

0.090%, VRD

    8,450,000       8,450,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (University of Chicago), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series C,
0.050%, VRD

    24,600,000       24,600,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (University of Chicago), Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.050%, VRD

    13,734,000       13,734,000  
   

 

 

 

      121,549,000  
   

 

 

 

 

 

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Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Indiana—7.0%    

Indiana Finance Authority, (Duke Energy Indiana Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A-5,
0.040%, VRD

  $ 29,520,000     $ 29,520,000  

Indiana Finance Authority, (Trinity Health), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series D-1,
0.060%, VRD

    27,700,000       27,700,000  
   

 

 

 

      57,220,000  
   

 

 

 

Maryland—0.1%    

Maryland Economic Development Corp., (Howard Hughes Medical), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.060%, VRD

    1,180,000       1,180,000  
   

 

 

 

Massachusetts—1.4%    

Massachusetts Health & Educational Facilities Authority, (Harvard University), Revenue Bonds
0.010%, VRD

    500,000       500,000  

Massachusetts Health & Educational Facilities Authority, (Partners Healthcare Systems), Revenue Bonds,
Series F3,
0.050%, VRD

    5,725,000       5,725,000  

Massachusetts Transportation Trust Fund Metropolitan Highway System, Revenue bonds,
Series A-1,
0.050%, VRD

    5,255,000       5,255,000  
   

 

 

 

      11,480,000  
   

 

 

 

Michigan—0.2%    

Green Lake Township Economic Development Corp., (Interlochen Center Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.020%, VRD

    1,700,000       1,700,000  
   

 

 

 

Mississippi—4.3%    

County of Jackson MS, (Chevron USA, Inc. Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.030%, VRD

    600,000       600,000  

Mississippi Business Finance Corp., (Chevron USA), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    775,000       775,000  

Series B,
0.030%, VRD

    4,905,000       4,905,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    2,630,000       2,630,000  

Series D,
0.030%, VRD

    550,000       550,000  

Series G,
0.030%, VRD

    1,990,000       1,990,000  

Mississippi Business Finance Corp., (Chevron USA, Inc. Project), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    1,135,000       1,135,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Mississippi—(concluded)    

Series B,
0.030%, VRD

  $ 950,000     $ 950,000  

Series B,
0.030%, VRD

    1,550,000       1,550,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    900,000       900,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    1,475,000       1,475,000  

Series E,
0.030%, VRD

    1,300,000       1,300,000  

Series E,
0.030%, VRD

    1,400,000       1,400,000  

Series F,
0.030%, VRD

    4,175,000       4,175,000  

Series G,
0.030%, VRD

    1,535,000       1,535,000  

Mississippi Business Finance Corp., (Chevron USA, Inc.), Revenue Bonds,
Series G,
0.030%, VRD

    2,795,000       2,795,000  

Series H,
0.030%, VRD

    1,425,000       1,425,000  

Series I,
0.030%, VRD

    2,100,000       2,100,000  

Series K,
0.030%, VRD

    2,155,000       2,155,000  

Series L,
0.030%, VRD

    400,000       400,000  

Mississippi Development Bank, (Jackson County Industrial Water System), Revenue Bonds
0.030%, VRD

    700,000       700,000  
   

 

 

 

      35,445,000  
   

 

 

 

Missouri—2.3%

 

Health & Educational Facilities Authority of the State of Missouri, (Ascension Health), Revenue Bonds,

   

Series C-3,
0.060%, VRD

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

Series C-5,
0.040%, VRD

    3,675,000       3,675,000  

Health & Educational Facilities Authority of the State of Missouri, (St. Louis University), Revenue Bonds,
Series B-1,
0.030%, VRD

    3,500,000       3,500,000  

Health & Educational Facilities Authority of the State of Missouri, (Washington University), Revenue Bonds,
Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    1,700,000       1,700,000  
   

 

 

 

      18,875,000  
   

 

 

 

Nebraska—1.4%

 

Douglas County Hospital Authority No. 2, (Health Facilities for Children), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.040%, VRD

    5,750,000       5,750,000  
 

 

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Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Nebraska—(concluded)

 

Hospital Authority No. 1 of Lancaster County, (Bryanlgh Medical Center), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B-1,
0.040%, VRD

  $ 5,305,000     $ 5,305,000  
   

 

 

 

      11,055,000  
   

 

 

 

New Hampshire—0.0%

 

New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority Act, (Dartmouth College), Revenue Bonds
0.060%, VRD

    275,000       275,000  
   

 

 

 

New Jersey—1.0%

 

Industrial Pollution Control Financing Authority of Union County, (Exxon Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.030%, VRD

    8,000,000       8,000,000  
   

 

 

 

New York—18.0%

 

City of New York, GO Bonds,

 

Subseries B-3,
0.060%, VRD

    8,300,000       8,300,000  

Subseries D-4,
0.040%, VRD

    10,305,000       10,305,000  

Subseries L-4,
0.040%, VRD

    3,870,000       3,870,000  

Dutchess County Industrial Development Agency, (Marist College), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.060%, VRD

    2,830,000       2,830,000  

New York City Housing Development Corp., Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.050%, VRD

    600,000       600,000  

New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured Revenue, Revenue Bonds,

   

Series A-4,
0.050%, VRD

    34,430,000       34,430,000  

Subseries C-6,
0.080%, VRD

    3,000,000       3,000,000  

New York City Water & Sewer System, Revenue Bonds,

   

Series BB-1,
0.050%, VRD

    2,400,000       2,400,000  

Series BB-5,
0.030%, VRD

    8,700,000       8,700,000  

Series DD-2,
0.020%, VRD

    2,950,000       2,950,000  

New York State Dormitory Authority, (Rockefeller University), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.050%, VRD

    34,745,000       34,745,000  

New York State Energy Research & Development Authority, (Consolidated Edison), Revenue Bonds,
Subseries A-1,
0.060%, VRD

    3,000,000       3,000,000  

New York State Urban Development Corp., Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A-5,
0.050%, VRD

    3,575,000       3,575,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
New York—(concluded)

 

Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,

   

Series 2005B-4C,
0.040%, VRD

  $ 11,900,000     $ 11,900,000  

Series F,
0.030%, VRD

    6,275,000       6,275,000  

Subseries B-3,
0.040%, VRD

    4,945,000       4,945,000  

Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.060%, VRD

    5,000,000       5,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      146,825,000  
   

 

 

 

North Carolina—0.1%

 

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, (Carolinas), Revenue Bonds, AGM,
Series E,
0.040%, VRD

    500,000       500,000  
   

 

 

 

Ohio—4.8%

 

Akron Bath Copley Joint Township Hospital District, (Summa Health Obligated Group), Revenue Bonds,

   

Series A-R,
0.060%, VRD

    9,800,000       9,800,000  

Series B-R,
0.060%, VRD

    840,000       840,000  

County of Montgomery OH, (Premier Health Partners Obligated), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series C,
0.040%, VRD

    2,150,000       2,150,000  

State of Ohio, (Cleveland Clinic Health System), Revenue Bonds,

   

Series D-1,
0.050%, VRD

    3,170,000       3,170,000  

Series F,
0.040%, VRD

    13,125,000       13,125,000  

State of Ohio, GO Bonds,
Series D,
0.050%, VRD

    9,690,000       9,690,000  
   

 

 

 

      38,775,000  
   

 

 

 

Oregon—1.8%

 

Oregon State Facilities Authority, (PeaceHealth), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.040%, VRD

    14,300,000       14,300,000  
   

 

 

 

Pennsylvania—5.3%

 

Allegheny County Higher Education Building Authority, (Carnegie Mellon University), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    11,175,000       11,175,000  

Allegheny County Industrial Development Authority, (Education Center Watson), Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    9,600,000       9,600,000  
 

 

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Tax-Free Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Pennsylvania—(concluded)

 

Allegheny County Industrial Development Authority, (Watson Institute Friendship), Revenue Bonds
0.090%, VRD

  $ 14,045,000     $ 14,045,000  

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.050%, VRD

    5,500,000       5,500,000  

Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B-2,
0.060%, VRD

    2,600,000       2,600,000  
   

 

 

 

      42,920,000  
   

 

 

 

Rhode Island—0.1%

 

Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corp., (New England Institute), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.100%, VRD

    840,000       840,000  
   

 

 

 

Tennessee—1.6%

 

Greeneville Health & Educational Facilities Board, (Ballad Health), Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.060%, VRD

    100,000       100,000  

Montgomery County Public Building Authority, Revenue Bonds
0.060%, VRD

    3,600,000       3,600,000  

0.060%, VRD

    9,300,000       9,300,000  
   

 

 

 

      13,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Texas—10.8%

 

City of Austin TX Water & Wastewater System, Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    9,785,000       9,785,000  

Harris County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp., (Methodist Hospital), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.020%, VRD

    23,350,000       23,350,000  

Harris County Health Facilities Development Corp., (Methodist Hospital System), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,

   

Series A-1,
0.020%, VRD

    5,200,000       5,200,000  

Series A-2,
0.020%, VRD

    510,000       510,000  

Harris County Hospital District Senior lien, Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    8,115,000       8,115,000  

Houston Utility System, Refunding First lien, Revenue Bonds,
Series B-4,
0.060%, VRD

    3,500,000       3,500,000  

Lower Neches Valley Authority Industrial Development Corp., (ExxonMobil Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds

   

0.030%, VRD

    5,630,000       5,630,000  

Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    4,400,000       4,400,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Texas—(continued)

 

Lower Neches Valley Authority Industrial Development Corp., (ExxonMobil), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Subseries A-3,
0.030%, VRD

  $ 100,000     $ 100,000  

Lower Neches Valley Authority Industrial Development Corp., (ExxonMobil), Revenue Bonds
0.030%, VRD

    6,850,000       6,850,000  

State of Texas, Revenue Notes
4.000%, due 08/26/21

    20,000,000       20,236,360  
   

 

 

 

      87,676,360  
   

 

 

 

Utah—2.4%

 

City of Murray UT, (IHC Health Services, Inc.), Revenue Bonds,

 

Series C,
0.020%, VRD

    19,055,000       19,055,000  

Series D,
0.020%, VRD

    165,000       165,000  
   

 

 

 

      19,220,000  
   

 

 

 

Virginia—2.4%

 

Loudoun County Economic Development Authority, (Howard Hughes Medical), Revenue Bonds,

 

Series D,
0.070%, VRD

    14,055,000       14,055,000  

Series F,
0.060%, VRD

    5,150,000       5,150,000  
   

 

 

 

      19,205,000  
   

 

 

 

Washington—1.1%

 

Port of Tacoma WA Subordinate Lien, Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.060%, VRD

    9,400,000       9,400,000  
   

 

 

 

Wisconsin—2.0%

 

Public Finance Authority, (WakeMed), Revenue Bonds,

 

Series B,
0.060%, VRD

    7,900,000       7,900,000  

Series C,
0.040%, VRD

    5,350,000       5,350,000  

Wisconsin Health & Educational Facilities Authority, (Marshfield Clinic Health), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.040%, VRD

    3,115,000       3,115,000  
   

 

 

 

              16,365,000  

Total municipal bonds
(cost—$734,074,360)

      734,074,360  
Tax-exempt commercial paper—9.8%

 

Maryland—0.7%

 

Montgomery County
0.130%, due 06/01/21

    5,500,000       5,500,000  
   

 

 

 

Minnesota—1.2%

 

Rochester Minnesota Health Care Facilities Revenue
0.120%, due 05/19/21

    10,000,000       10,000,000  
   

 

 

 

 

 

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Tax-Free Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Tax-exempt commercial paper—(concluded)

 

Ohio—2.5%

 

Ohio State Higher Education
0.090%, due 06/01/21

  $ 5,000,000     $ 5,000,000  

0.140%, due 06/17/21

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

0.140%, due 06/17/21

    5,000,000       5,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      20,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Texas—5.4%

 

Lower Colorado River Authority
0.160%, due 06/04/21

    17,659,000       17,659,000  

University of Texas
0.120%, due 05/17/21

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

0.120%, due 05/21/21

    1,350,000       1,350,000  
   

 

 

 

              44,009,000  

Total tax-exempt commercial paper
(cost—$79,509,000)

 

    79,509,000  

Total investments
(cost—$813,583,360 which approximates
cost for federal income tax purposes)—99.9%

 

    813,583,360  
   

Other assets in excess of liabilities—0.1%

 

    642,089  

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 814,225,449  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments:

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
Municipal bonds      $        $ 734,074,360        $        $ 734,074,360  
Tax-exempt commercial paper                 79,509,000                   79,509,000  
Total      $        $ 813,583,360        $        $ 813,583,360  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnote

 

Amount represents less than 0.05% or (0.05)%.

 

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Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments

 

Portfolio acronyms:

 

AGM    Assured Guaranty Municipal Corporation
GO    General Obligation
LIBOR    London Interbank Offered Rate
OBFR    Overnight Bank Funding Rate
SOFR    Secured Overnight Financing Rate
STRIP    Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities
VRD    Variable rate demand notes are payable on demand. The interest rates shown are the current rates as of April 30, 2021 and reset periodically.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

63


Master Trust

 

 

Statement of assets and liabilities

April 30, 2021

 

      Prime
Master Fund
   ESG Prime
Master Fund
   Government
Master Fund
   Treasury
Master Fund
   Prime CNAV
Master Fund
   Tax-Free
Master Fund
Assets:                  
Investments, at cost                  
Investments      $7,286,160,781        $471,749,303        $6,881,582,494        $23,914,692,958        $3,815,131,935        $813,583,360  
Repurchase agreements      1,535,000,000        138,000,000        2,019,000,000        9,026,500,000        648,400,000         
                 
Investments, at value                  
Investments      7,286,737,882        471,771,915        6,881,582,494        23,914,692,958        3,815,131,935        813,583,360  
Repurchase agreements      1,535,000,000        138,000,000        2,019,000,000        9,026,500,000        648,400,000         
Cash      939,689        702,852        584,512        18,794,976        764,689         
Receivable for investments sold                                         5,475,100  
Receivable for interest      1,198,537        16,497        1,146,466        4,701,713        479,506        585,640  
Receivable from affiliate             16,826                              
Total assets      8,823,876,108        610,508,090        8,902,313,472        32,964,689,647        4,464,776,130        819,644,100  
                 
Liabilities:                  
Payable for investments purchased                    78,994,624        288,305,380        14,995,017         
Payable to affiliate      766,979               625,992        1,193,304        373,692        31,412  
Payable to custodian                                         5,387,239  
Total liabilities      766,979               79,620,616        289,498,684        15,368,709        5,418,651  
Net assets, at value      $8,823,109,129        $610,508,090        $8,822,692,856        $32,675,190,963        $4,449,407,421        $814,225,449  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statement of operations

For the year ended April 30, 2021

 

      Prime
Master Fund
   ESG Prime
Master Fund
   Government
Master Fund
   Treasury
Master Fund
   Prime CNAV
Master Fund
   Tax-Free
Master Fund
Investment income:                  
Interest      $38,778,654        $575,115        $22,936,144        $57,010,752        $18,758,190        $1,759,465  
Expenses:                  
Investment advisory and administration fees      13,324,595        310,387        11,774,671        30,811,390        6,339,573        1,322,871  
Trustees’ fees and expenses      62,381        14,172        54,292        131,596        34,735        17,494  
Total expenses      13,386,976        324,559        11,828,963        30,942,986        6,374,308        1,340,365  
Less: Fee waivers and/or Trustees’ fees reimbursement by administrator             (324,559      (101,870      (3,072,061             (178,964
Net expenses      13,386,976               11,727,093        27,870,925        6,374,308        1,161,401  
Net investment income (loss)      25,391,678        575,115        11,209,051        29,139,827        12,383,882        598,064  
Net realized gain (loss)      (1,170      1,551        256,465        (2      13,975         
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      (3,287,110      (24,570                            
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations      $22,103,398        $552,096        $11,465,516        $29,139,825        $12,397,857        $598,064  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       Prime Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $25,391,678        $353,385,726  
Net realized gain (loss)        (1,170      112,142  
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)        (3,287,110      3,093,263  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        22,103,398        356,591,131  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (7,719,748,147      385,003,117  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (7,697,644,749      741,594,248  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        16,520,753,878        15,779,159,630  
End of year        $8,823,109,129        $16,520,753,878  

 

       ESG Prime Master Fund
        For the
year ended
April 30, 2021
  

For the period from
January 15, 2020
1 to

April 30, 2020

From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $575,115        $134,921  
Net realized gain (loss)        1,551         
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)        (24,570      47,182  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        552,096        182,103  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        536,344,294        73,429,597  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        536,896,390        73,611,700  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of period        73,611,700         
End of period        $610,508,090        $73,611,700  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

 

       Government Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $11,209,051        $240,863,481  
Net realized gain (loss)        256,465        481,629  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        11,465,516        241,345,110  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (8,951,448,030      3,242,842,988  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (8,939,982,514      3,484,188,098  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        17,762,675,370        14,278,487,272  
End of year        $8,822,692,856        $17,762,675,370  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       Treasury Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $29,139,827        $320,151,196  
Net realized gain (loss)        (2      19,268  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        29,139,825        320,170,464  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (2,157,669,635      17,260,860,340  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (2,128,529,810      17,581,030,804  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        34,803,720,773        17,222,689,969  
End of year        $32,675,190,963        $34,803,720,773  

 

       Prime CNAV Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $12,383,882        $119,652,912  
Net realized gain (loss)        13,975        73,339  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        12,397,857        119,726,251  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (3,058,221,326      2,493,874,372  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (3,045,823,469      2,613,600,623  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        7,495,230,890        4,881,630,267  
End of year        $4,449,407,421        $7,495,230,890  

 

       Tax-Free Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $598,064        $27,659,945  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        598,064        27,659,945  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (1,759,955,281      269,819,731  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (1,759,357,217      297,479,676  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        2,573,582,666        2,276,102,990  
End of year        $814,225,449        $2,573,582,666  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Prime Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Expenses after fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.08      0.09
Net investment income (loss)        0.19      1.90      2.32      1.41      0.52
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return1        0.15      1.92      2.31      1.38      0.64
Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 8,823,109      $ 16,520,754      $ 15,779,160      $ 7,775,651      $ 3,161,118  

 

1

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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ESG Prime Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each period is presented below:

 

        Year ended
April
 30, 2021
  

For the period from

January 15, 20201 to

April 30, 2020

Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10 %2 
Expenses after fee waivers             0.00 %2 
Net investment income (loss)        0.18      1.24 %2 
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return3        0.22      0.47
Net assets, end of period (000’s)      $ 610,508      $ 73,612  

 

1

Commencement of operations.

2

Annualized.

3

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Government Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each period is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,    For the period from
June 24, 20161 to
April 30, 2017
        2021    2020    2019    2018
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10 %2 
Expenses after fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.08 %2 
Net investment income (loss)        0.09      1.75      2.07      1.07      0.43 %2 
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return3        0.08      1.74      2.10      1.08      0.35
Net assets, end of period (000’s)      $ 8,822,693      $ 17,762,675      $ 14,278,487      $ 15,676,931      $ 17,380,098  

 

1

Commencement of operations.

2

Annualized.

3

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Treasury Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Expenses after fee waivers        0.09      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Net investment income (loss)        0.09      1.56      2.07      1.08      0.39
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return1        0.08      1.70      2.10      1.08      0.38
Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 32,675,191      $ 34,803,721      $ 17,222,690      $ 18,029,945      $ 18,194,995  

 

1

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Prime CNAV Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Expenses after fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Net investment income (loss)        0.19      1.83      2.29      1.34      0.66
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return1        0.17      1.90      2.27      1.32      0.62
Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 4,449,407      $ 7,495,231      $ 4,881,630      $ 2,370,336      $ 1,336,158  

 

1

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Tax-Free Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Expenses after fee waivers        0.09      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Net investment income (loss)        0.04      1.19      1.35      0.93      0.50
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return1        0.04      1.23      1.38      0.91      0.46
Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 814,225      $ 2,573,583      $ 2,276,103      $ 3,327,962      $ 2,317,734  

 

1

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Organization and significant accounting policies

Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund (each a “Master Fund”, collectively, the “Master Funds”) are each registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), as a diversified series of Master Trust, an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust on June 12, 2007. The Trust is a series mutual fund with six series.

Prime Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund commenced operations on August 28, 2007. Prime CNAV Master Fund commenced operations on January 19, 2016, Government Master Fund commenced operations on June 24, 2016 and ESG Prime Master Fund commenced operations on January 15, 2020.

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”) is the investment advisor and administrator for the Master Funds. UBS AM is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Group AG. UBS Group AG is an internationally diversified organization with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. UBS Group AG operates in many areas of the financial services industry.

Master Trust accounts separately for the assets, liabilities and operations of each series. Expenses directly attributable to each series are charged to that series’ operations; expenses which are applicable to all series are allocated among them on a pro rata basis.

In the normal course of business, the Master Funds may enter into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide indemnification for certain liabilities. The Master Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Master Funds that have not yet occurred. However, the Master Funds have not had any prior claims or losses pursuant to these contracts and expect the risk of loss to be remote.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) is the exclusive reference of authoritative US generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal laws are also sources of authoritative US GAAP for SEC registrants. The Master Funds’ financial statements are prepared in accordance with US GAAP, which may require the use of management estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

In March 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2020-04 (“ASU 2020-04”), “Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848)”. In response to concerns about structural risks of interbank offered rates, and particularly the risk of cessation of LIBOR, regulators have undertaken reference rate reform initiatives to identify alternative reference rates that are more observable or transaction based and less susceptible to manipulation. ASU 2020-04 provides optional guidance for a limited period of time to ease the potential burden in accounting for (or recognizing the effects of) reference rate reform on financial reporting. ASU 2020-04 is elective and applies to all entities, subject to meeting certain criteria, that have contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that reference LIBOR or another reference rate expected to be discontinued because of reference rate reform. The amendments are effective as of March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is currently evaluating the implications, if any, of the additional requirements and the impact on the Master Funds’ financial statements.

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies:

Valuation of investments

Consistent with Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act, as amended (“Rule 2a-7”), the net asset values of each of Prime Master Fund and ESG Prime Master Fund are calculated using market-based values, and the price of its beneficial interests fluctuate.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Under Rule 2a-7, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund have adopted certain policies that enable them to use the amortized cost method of valuation. Government Master Fund and Treasury Master Fund have adopted a policy to operate as “government money market funds”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “government money market fund” invests 99.5% or more of its total assets in cash, government securities, and/or repurchase agreements that are collateralized fully (i.e., collateralized by cash and/or government securities). Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund operate as “retail money market funds”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “retail money market fund” is a money market fund that has policies and procedures reasonably designed to limit all beneficial owners of the fund to natural persons. As “government money market funds” and as “retail money market funds”, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund value their investments at amortized cost unless the Master Trust’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) determines that this does not represent fair value. Periodic review and monitoring of the valuation of securities held by Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund is performed in an effort to ensure that amortized cost approximates market value.

The Board has delegated to the Equities, Fixed Income, and Multi-Asset Valuation Committee (“VC”) the responsibility for making fair value determinations with respect to the Master Funds’ portfolio investments. The types of investments for which such fair value pricing may be necessary include, but are not limited to: investments of an issuer that has entered into a restructuring; fixed-income investments that have gone into default and for which there is no current market value quotation; Section 4(a)(2) commercial paper; investments that are restricted as to transfer or resale; illiquid investments; and investments for which the prices or values available do not, in the judgment of the VC, represent current market value. The need to fair value a Master Fund’s portfolio investments may also result from low trading volume in foreign markets or thinly traded investments. Various factors may be reviewed in order to make a good faith determination of an investment’s fair value. These factors include, but are not limited to, fundamental analytical data relating to the investment; the nature and duration of restrictions on disposition of the investment; and the evaluation of forces which influence the market in which the investments are purchased and sold.

Each Master Fund’s portfolio holdings may also consist of shares of other investment companies in which the Master Fund invests. The value of each such open-end investment company will generally be its net asset value at the time a Master Fund’s beneficial interests are priced. Pursuant to each Master Fund’s use of the practical expedient within ASC Topic 820, investments in non-registered investment companies and/or investments in investment companies without publicly published prices are also valued at the daily net asset value. Each investment company generally values investments in a manner as described in that investment company’s prospectus or similar documents.

US GAAP requires disclosure regarding the various inputs that are used in determining the value of each of the Master Fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized into the three broad levels listed below:

Level 1—Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments.

Level 2—Other significant observable inputs, including but not limited to, quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds and credit risks.

Level 3—Unobservable inputs inclusive of each Master Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments.

A fair value hierarchy table has been included near the end of each Master Fund’s Portfolio of investments.

Liquidity fee and/or redemption gates—Consistent with Rule 2a-7, the Board is permitted to impose a liquidity fee on redemptions from each of Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund or a redemption gate to temporarily restrict redemptions from those Master Funds in the

 

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Master Trust

Notes to financial statements

 

event that any of Prime Master Fund’s liquidity, ESG Prime Master Fund’s liquidity, Prime CNAV Master Fund’s liquidity and/or Tax-Free Master Fund’s liquidity, respectively, falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. If Prime Master Fund’s, ESG Prime Master Fund’s, Prime CNAV Master Fund’s or Tax-Free Master Fund’s weekly liquid assets fall below 30% of the Fund’s total assets, the board is permitted, but not required, to: (i) impose a liquidity fee of no more than 2% of the amount redeemed; and/or (ii) impose a redemption gate to temporarily suspend the right of redemption. If any of Prime Master Fund’s, ESG Prime Master Fund’s, Prime CNAV Master Fund’s or Tax-Free Master Fund’s weekly liquid assets falls below 10% of the Fund’s total assets, the relevant Fund must impose, generally as of the beginning of the next business day, a liquidity fee of 1% of the amount redeemed unless the Board determines that such a fee would not be in the best interest of the Fund or determines that a lower or higher fee (subject to the 2% limit) would be in the best interest of the Fund. Liquidity fees would reduce the amount an interest holder receives upon redemption of its beneficial interests. Each of Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund, retains the liquidity fees for the benefit of remaining interest holders. For the period ended April 30, 2021, the Board of Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund did not impose any liquidity fees and/or redemption gates.

By operating as “government money market funds”, Government Master Fund and Treasury Master Fund are exempt from requirements that permit the imposition of a liquidity fee and/or temporary redemption gates. While the Board may elect to subject Government Master Fund and Treasury Master Fund to liquidity fee and gate requirements in the future, the Board has not elected to do so at this time.

Repurchase agreements—The Master Funds may purchase securities or other obligations from a bank or securities dealer (or its affiliate), subject to the seller’s agreement to repurchase them at an agreed upon date (or upon demand) and price. The Master Funds maintain custody of the underlying obligations prior to their repurchase, either through their regular custodian or through a special “tri-party” custodian or sub-custodian that maintains a separate account for both the Master Funds and their counterparty. The underlying collateral is valued daily in an effort to ensure that the value, including accrued interest, is at least equal to the repurchase price.

Repurchase agreements carry certain risks not associated with direct investments in securities, including a possible decline in the market value of the underlying obligations. If their value becomes less than the repurchase price, plus any agreed-upon additional amount, the counterparty must provide additional collateral so that the collateral is at least equal to the repurchase price plus any agreed-upon additional amount. The difference between the total amount to be received upon repurchase of the obligations and the price that was paid by a fund upon acquisition is accrued as interest and included in its net investment income. In the event of default of the obligation to repurchase, the Master Funds generally have the right to liquidate the collateral and apply the proceeds in satisfaction of the obligation. Repurchase agreements involving obligations other than US government securities (such as commercial paper, corporate bonds, equities and mortgage loans) may be subject to special risks and may not have the benefit of certain protections in the event of counterparty insolvency. Moreover, repurchase agreements secured by obligations that are not eligible for direct investment under Rule 2a-7 or a fund’s investment strategies and limitations may require the Master Fund to promptly dispose of such collateral if the seller or guarantor becomes insolvent. If the seller (or seller’s guarantor, if any) becomes insolvent, the Master Funds may suffer delays, costs and possible losses in connection with the disposition or retention of the collateral. Under certain circumstances, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, realization and/or retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings. Each Master Fund intends to enter into repurchase agreements only in transactions with counterparties believed by UBS AM to present minimal credit risk.

The Master Funds may participate in joint repurchase agreement transactions with other funds managed or advised by UBS AM. Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, and Prime CNAV Master Fund may engage in repurchase agreements as part of normal investing strategies; Tax-Free Master Fund generally would only engage in repurchase agreement transactions as temporary or defensive investments.

 

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Master Trust

Notes to financial statements

 

Under certain circumstances, a Master Fund may engage in a repurchase agreement transaction with a yield of zero in order to invest cash amounts remaining in its portfolio at the end of the day in order to avoid having the Master Fund potentially exposed to a fee for uninvested cash held in a business account at a bank.

Investment transactions and investment income—Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Realized gains and losses from investment transactions are calculated using the identified cost method. Interest income is recorded on an accrual basis. Discounts are accreted and premiums are amortized as adjustments to interest income and the identified cost of investments.

Concentration of risk—The ability of the issuers of the debt securities held by the Master Funds to meet their obligations may be affected by economic and political developments particular to a specific industry, country, state or region.

Many financial instruments, financings or other transactions to which a Fund may be a party use or may use a floating rate based on the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”). LIBOR is widely used in financial markets. In July 2017, the United Kingdom’s financial regulatory body announced that after 2021 it will cease its active encouragement of banks to provide the quotations needed to sustain LIBOR. That announcement suggests that LIBOR may cease to be published or utilized after that time. Various financial industry groups have begun planning for that transition, but the effect of the transition process and its ultimate success cannot yet be determined. The transition process may lead to increased volatility and illiquidity in markets for instruments the terms of which are based on LIBOR. It could also lead to a reduction in the value of some LIBOR-based investments and reduce the effectiveness of new hedges placed against existing LIBOR-based investments. Since the usefulness of LIBOR as a benchmark could deteriorate during the transition period, these effects could occur prior to the end of 2021. The willingness and ability of issuers to include enhanced provisions in new and existing contracts or instruments also remains uncertain. Any of these factors may adversely affect the Fund’s performance or NAV. On November 30, 2020, the administrator of LIBOR announced a delay in the phase out of a majority of the U.S. dollar LIBOR publications until June 30 , 2023, with the remainder of LIBOR publications to still end at the end of 2021.

Certain impacts to public health conditions particular to the coronavirus “COVID-19” outbreak that occurred may have a significant negative impact on the operations and profitability of the issuers of a Master Fund’s investments. The extent of the impact to the financial performance of a Fund will depend on future developments, including (i) the duration and spread of the outbreak, (ii) the restrictions and advisories, (iii) the effects on the financial markets, and (iv) the effects on the economy overall, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.

Investment advisor and administrator

UBS AM serves as the investment advisor and administrator to each Master Fund pursuant to an investment advisory and administration contract (“Management Contract”) approved by the Board. In accordance with the Management Contract, each Master Fund pays UBS AM an investment advisory and administration fee (“management fee”), which is accrued daily and paid monthly, at the below annual rates, as a percentage of each Master Fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Average daily net assets      Annual rate
Up to $30 billion        0.1000
In excess of $30 billion up to $40 billion        0.0975  
In excess of $40 billion up to $50 billion        0.0950  
In excess of $50 billion up to $60 billion        0.0925  
Over $60 billion        0.0900  

 

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Master Trust

Notes to financial statements

 

At April 30, 2021, each Master Fund owed to or was owed by UBS AM for investment advisory and administration services as follows:

 

Fund      Amounts owed to/(owed by) UBS AM
Prime Master Fund      $ 766,979  
ESG Prime Master Fund        (16,826
Government Master Fund        625,992  
Treasury Master Fund        1,193,304  
Prime CNAV Master Fund        373,692  
Tax-Free Master Fund        31,412  

In exchange for these fees, UBS AM has agreed to bear all of the Master Funds’ expenses other than taxes, extraordinary costs and the cost of securities purchased and sold by the Master Funds, including any transaction costs. Although UBS AM is not obligated to pay the fees and expenses of the Master Funds’ independent trustees, it is contractually obligated to reduce its management fee in an amount equal to those fees and expenses. UBS AM estimates that these fees and expenses will be 0.01% or less of each Master Fund’s average daily net assets.

In addition, UBS AM may voluntarily undertake to waive fees in the event that feeder fund yields drop below a certain level. This additional undertaking is voluntary and not contractual and may be terminated at any time. During the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM voluntarily waived the below amount, which is not subject to future recoupment:

 

Fund      Amount waived by UBS AM
Government Master Fund      $ 101,870  
Treasury Master Fund        3,072,061  
Tax-Free Master Fund        178,964  

UBS AM will voluntarily waive its 0.10% management fee in order to voluntarily reduce ESG Prime Master Fund’s expenses by 0.10% until July 31, 2021. For the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM voluntarily waived $324,559 for the ESG Prime Master Fund, and such amount is not subject to future recoupment.

Additional information regarding compensation to affiliate of a board member

Professor Meyer Feldberg serves as a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Master Funds may conduct transactions, resulting in him being deemed an interested trustee of the Master Funds. The Master Funds have been informed that Professor Feldberg’s role at Morgan Stanley does not involve matters directly affecting any UBS funds. Portfolio transactions are executed through Morgan Stanley based on that firm’s ability to provide best execution of the transactions.

During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Master Funds purchased and sold certain securities (e.g., fixed income securities) in principal trades with Morgan Stanley, having aggregate values as follows:

 

Prime Master Fund      $  
ESG Prime Master Fund         
Government Master Fund         
Treasury Master Fund         
Prime CNAV Master Fund         
Tax-Free Master Fund        47,300,000  

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Morgan Stanley received compensation in connection with these trades, which may have been in the form of a “mark-up” or “mark-down” of the price of the securities, a fee from the issuer for maintaining a commercial paper program, or some other form of compensation. Although the precise amount of this compensation is not generally known by the Master Fund’s investment manager, it is believed that under normal circumstances it represents a small portion of the total value of the transactions.

Beneficial interest transactions

 

Prime Master Fund

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Contributions      $ 9,072,253,790      $ 27,421,906,839  
Withdrawals        (16,792,001,937      (27,036,903,722
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ (7,719,748,147    $ 385,003,117  

 

ESG Prime Master Fund

 

        For the
year ended
April 30, 2021
  

For the period from

January 15, 20201 to
April 30, 2020

Contributions      $ 1,132,688,561      $ 120,503,658  
Withdrawals        (596,344,267      (47,074,061
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ 536,344,294      $ 73,429,597  

 

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Commencement of operations.

 

Government Master Fund

 

     For the years ended April 30,
      2021   2020
Contributions    $ 47,491,220,565     $ 46,835,779,003  
Withdrawals      (56,442,668,595     (43,592,936,015
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest    $ (8,951,448,030   $ 3,242,842,988  

 

Treasury Master Fund

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Contributions      $ 54,430,506,105      $ 57,434,681,322  
Withdrawals        (56,588,175,740      (40,173,820,982
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ (2,157,669,635    $ 17,260,860,340  

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Prime CNAV Master Fund

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Contributions      $ 5,114,679,407      $ 8,693,256,696  
Withdrawals        (8,172,900,733      (6,199,382,324
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ (3,058,221,326    $ 2,493,874,372  

 

Tax-Free Master Fund

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Contributions      $ 402,602,443      $ 3,125,085,366  
Withdrawals        (2,162,557,724      (2,855,265,635
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ (1,759,955,281    $ 269,819,731  

Federal tax status

Each Master Fund is considered a non-publicly traded partnership for federal income tax purposes under the Internal Revenue Code; therefore, no federal tax provision is necessary. As such, each investor in a Master Fund is treated as owning its proportionate share of the net assets, income, expenses, and realized and unrealized gains and losses of the Master Fund. UBS AM intends that each Master Fund’s assets, income and distributions will be managed in such a way that an investor in a Master Fund will be able to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company by investing its net assets through the Master Fund.

Aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes was substantially the same for book purposes; and net unrealized appreciation consisted of:

Prime Master Fund

 

Gross unrealized appreciation      $ 600,450  
Gross unrealized depreciation        (23,349
Net unrealized appreciation      $ 577,101  

ESG Prime Master Fund

 

Gross unrealized appreciation      $ 25,360  
Gross unrealized depreciation        (2,748
Net unrealized appreciation      $ 22,612  

ASC 740-10 “Income Taxes—Overall” sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken. The Master Funds have conducted an analysis and concluded, as of April 30, 2021, that there are no significant uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken that would require recognition in the financial statements. The Master Funds recognize interest and penalties, if any, related to uncertain tax positions as income tax expense in the Statement of operations. During the period April 30, 2021, the Funds did not incur any interest or penalties.

Each of the tax years in the four year period ended April 30, 2021, and since inception for ESG Prime Master Fund, remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities.

 

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Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of Master Trust

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities of Master Trust (the “Trust”), (comprising Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund (collectively referred to as the “Funds”)), including the portfolios of investments, as of April 30, 2021, and the related statements of operations and changes in net assets, and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the Funds comprising Master Trust at April 30, 2021, the results of their operations, changes in net assets and financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

 

Funds comprising the
Master Trust
   Statement of operations    Statement of changes in net assets    Financial highlights

Prime Master Fund

Treasury Master Fund

Tax-Free Master Fund

Prime CNAV Master Fund

   For the year ended April 30, 2021    For each of the two years in the period ended April 30, 2021    For each of the five years in the period ended April 30, 2021
Government Master Fund    For the year ended April 30, 2021    For each of the two years in the period ended April 30, 2021    For each of the four years in the period ended April 30, 2021 and the period from June 24, 2016 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2017
ESG Prime Master Fund    For the year ended April 30, 2021    For the year ended April 30, 2021 and the period from January 15, 2020 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2020    For the year ended April 30, 2021 and the period from January 15, 2020 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2020

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on each of the Funds’ financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of April 30, 2021, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers or by other appropriate auditing procedures where replies from brokers were not received. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as

 

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evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

 

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June 28, 2021

 

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General information (unaudited)

 

Monthly portfolio holdings disclosure

The Master Funds file their complete schedules of portfolio holdings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) each month on Form N-MFP. The Master Funds’ reports on Form N-MFP are available on the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov. The Master Funds make portfolio holdings information available to interest holders (and investors in the related feeder funds) on UBS’s Web site at the following internet address: www.ubs.com/usmoneymarketfunds. A more limited portfolio holdings report for Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund and Prime CNAV Master Fund is available on a weekly basis at the same Web address. Investors also may find additional information about the Master Funds at the above referenced UBS Website internet address.

Proxy voting policies, procedures and record

You may obtain a description of the Fund’s (1) proxy voting policies, (2) proxy voting procedures and (3) information regarding how the Fund voted any proxies related to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 for which an SEC filing has been made, without charge, upon request by contacting the Fund directly at 1-800-647 1568, online on the Fund’s Web site: www.ubs.com/ubsam-proxy, or on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Web site (http://www.sec.gov).

 

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UBS Institutional/Reserves Funds

Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Board of Trustees & Officers

The Funds are governed by a Board of Trustees which oversees the Funds’ operations. Each trustee serves an indefinite term of office. Officers are appointed by the trustees and serve at the pleasure of the Board. The table below shows, for each trustee and officer, his or her name, address and age, the position held with the Trust, the length of time served as a trustee or officer of the Trust, the trustee’s or officer’s principal occupations during the last five years, the number of funds in the UBS fund complex overseen by the trustee or for which a person served as an officer, and other directorships held by the trustee.

The Funds’ Statement of Additional Information contains additional information about the trustees and is available, without charge, upon request by calling 1-800-647 1568.

 

Interested Trustee        
         

Name,

address,

and age

  Position(s)
held with
Trust
  Term of office1
and length of
time served
 

Principal occupation(s)
during past

5 years

  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
 

Other directorships

held by

trustee

Meyer Feldberg2;

79

Morgan Stanley

1585 Broadway

36th Floor

New York, NY 10036

  Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees   Since 1998 (Trustee); Since 2017 (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)   Professor Feldberg is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, although on an extended leave of absence. He is also a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley (financial services) (since 2005). Professor Feldberg also served as President of New York City Global Partners (an organization located in part of the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York that promoted interaction with other cities around the world (2007 to 2014). Prior to 2004, he was Dean and Professor of Management and Ethics of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University (since 1989). From 1992 to 2016, Professor Feldberg was a director of Macy’s, Inc. (operator of department stores). From 1997 to 2017, Professor Feldberg was a director of Revlon, Inc. (cosmetics).   Professor Feldberg is a director or trustee of 8 investment companies (consisting of 48 portfolios) for which UBS AM or one of its affiliates serves as investment advisor or manager.   Professor Feldberg is also a director of the New York City Ballet.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Independent Trustees        
         

Name,

address,

and age

  Position(s)
held with
Trust
  Term of office1
and length of
time served
 

Principal occupation(s)
during past

5 years

  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
 

Other directorships

held by

trustee

Alan S. Bernikow;

80

K2 Integrity
845 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10022

  Trustee   Since 2005   Mr. Bernikow is retired. Previously, he was deputy chief executive officer at Deloitte & Touche (international accounting and consulting firm). From 2003 to 2017, Mr. Bernikow was also a director of Destination XL Group, Inc. (menswear) (and served as a member of its nominating and corporate governance committee).   Mr. Bernikow is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Bernikow is also a director of Revlon, Inc. (cosmetics) (and serves as the chair of its audit committee and as the chair of its compensation committee) and the lead director of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation (real estate investment trust) (and serves as the chair of its audit committee).

Richard R. Burt;

74

McLarty Associates

900 17th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20006

  Trustee   Since 1998   Mr. Burt is a managing partner of McLarty Associates (a consulting firm) (since 2007). He was chairman of IEP Advisors (international investments and consulting firm) until 2009.   Mr. Burt is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Burt is also a director of The Central Europe, Russia and Turkey Fund, Inc., The European Equity Fund, Inc., and The New Germany Fund, Inc. (and serves as a member of each such fund’s audit, nominating and governance committees).

Bernard H. Garil;

81

6754 Casa Grande Way Delray Beach, FL 33446

  Trustee   Since 2005   Mr. Garil is retired (since 2001). He was a managing director at PIMCO Advisory Services (from 1999 to 2001) where he served as president of closed-end funds and vice- president of the variable insurance product funds advised by OpCap Advisors (until 2001).   Mr. Garil is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Garil is also a trustee for the Brooklyn College Foundation, Inc. (charitable foundation).

Heather R. Higgins;

61

c/o Keith A. Weller,

Fund Secretary

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

One North Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606

  Trustee   Since 2005   Ms. Higgins is the president and director of The Randolph Foundation (charitable foundation) (since 1991). Ms. Higgins also serves (or has served) on the boards of several non-profit charitable groups, including the Independent Women’s Forum (chairman) and the Philanthropy Roundtable (vice chairman). She also serves on the board of the Hoover Institution (from 2001 to 2007 and since 2009).   Ms. Higgins is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   None

 

1 

Each trustee holds office for an indefinite term.

2 

Professor Feldberg is deemed an “interested person” of the Trust as defined in the Investment Company Act because he is a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Trust may conduct transactions.

 

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UBS Institutional/Reserves Funds

Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers
        

Name, address,

and age

  

Position(s) held

with Trust

  

Term of office1

and length

of time served

   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years

Rose Ann Bubloski2;

53

   Vice President and Assistant Treasurer    Since 2011    Ms. Bubloski is a director (since 2012) (prior to which she was an associate director (from 2008 to 2012)) and a senior manager of fund accounting—US (previously named product control and investment support) at UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. and/or UBS Asset Management (US) Inc. (“UBS AM— Americas region”). Ms. Bubloski is a vice president and assistant treasurer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Franklin P. Dickson2;

42

   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Dickson is an associate director (since 2015) and tax compliance manager (since 2017) (prior to which he was a product controller (from 2015 to 2017) of fund accounting—US (previously named product control and investment support) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Dickson is a vice president of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Lisa N. DiPaolo2;

43

   Vice President    Since 2015    Ms. DiPaolo is an executive director (since 2020) (prior to which she was a director from 2008 until March 2020), and portfolio manager (since 2015) at UBS AM— Americas region. Ms. DiPaolo joined UBS AM—Americas region in 2000 and has been a municipal securities analyst on the tax-free fixed income team. Ms. DiPaolo is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Elbridge T. Gerry III2;

64

   Vice President    Since 1999    Mr. Gerry is a managing director and head of municipal strategy of UBS AM—Americas region (prior to which he was co-head of municipal investments (from 2017 until June 2020; head from 2001 to 2017)). Mr. Gerry is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Charles W. Grande2;

57

   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Grande is a managing director, head of municipal fixed income team (since June 2020; formerly co-head from 2017 until June 2020) and head of municipal credit research (since 2009) with UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Grande is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Mark F. Kemper3;

63

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2004 and 2019, respectively    Mr. Kemper is a managing director (since 2006) and senior legal counsel (since 2019 to present) (prior to which he was Interim Head of Asia Pacific Legal (March 2020-March 2021), Interim Head of Compliance and Operational Risk Control (from June 2019 through September 2019) and general counsel of UBS AM—Americas region (from 2004-2019)). He has been secretary of UBS AM— Americas region (since 2004) and assistant secretary of UBS Asset Management Trust Company (since 1993). Mr. Kemper is vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager. Mr. Kemper is employed by UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017).

Joanne M. Kilkeary2;

53

   Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer    Since 1999 (Vice President) and since 2017 (Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer)    Ms. Kilkeary is an executive director (since 2013) (prior to which she was a director (from 2008 to 2013)) and head of fund accounting—US (since November 2020) (prior to which she was head of regulatory, tax, audit and board governance for product control and investment support (from 2017 through October 2020) (prior to which she was a senior manager (from 2004 to 2017) of registered fund product control of UBS AM— Americas region). Ms. Kilkeary is a vice president, treasurer and principal accounting officer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

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UBS Institutional/Reserves Funds

Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers (concluded)
        

Name, address,

and age

  

Position(s) held

with Trust

  

Term of office1

and length

of time served

   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years

Igor Lasun2;

42

   President    Since 2018    Mr. Lasun is a managing director (since March 2021) (prior to which he was an executive director (from 2018 until February 2021)) and head of fund development and management for UBS AM—Americas region (since 2018) (prior to which he was a senior fixed income product specialist from 2007 to 2018, and had joined the firm in 2005). In this role, he oversees development and management for both wholesale and institutional businesses. Mr. Lasun serves as president of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Ryan Nugent2;

43

   Vice President    Since 2009    Mr. Nugent is an executive director (since 2017) (prior to which he was director (from 2010 to 2017)), and portfolio manager (since 2005) and head of municipal trading (since 2013) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Nugent is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Frank Pluchino4;

61

   Chief Compliance Officer    Since 2017    Mr. Pluchino is an executive director with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and is also the chief compliance officer of UBS Hedge Fund Solutions LLC (since 2010). Mr. Pluchino is the chief compliance officer of 10 investment companies (consisting of 62 portfolios) for which UBS AM or one of its affiliates serves as investment advisor or manager.

Robert Sabatino3;

47

   Vice President    Since 2001    Mr. Sabatino is a managing director (since 2010) (prior to which he was an executive director (since 2007)), head of global liquidity portfolio management (since 2015), head of US taxable money markets (from 2009 to 2015), and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region in the short duration fixed income group (since 2000). Mr. Sabatino is a vice president of three investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Eric Sanders3;

55

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2005    Mr. Sanders is a director and associate general counsel with UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017) and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005). Mr. Sanders is a vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Philip Stacey3;

36

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2018    Mr. Stacey is an executive director (since 2019) and associate general counsel (since 2017) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017) and also with UBS AM— Americas region since 2015. Mr. Stacey is a vice president and assistant secretary of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

David Walczak3;

37

   Vice President    Since 2016    Mr. Walczak is an executive director (since 2016), head of US money markets (since 2015) and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Walczak is a vice president of three investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Keith A. Weller3;

59

   Vice President and Secretary    Since 1998 (Vice President) and since 2019 (Secretary)    Mr. Weller is an executive director (since 2005) and deputy general counsel (since 2019) (prior to which he was senior associate general counsel) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005) and has been an attorney with affiliated entities since 1995. Mr. Weller is a vice president and secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

1 

Officers of the Trust are appointed by the trustees and serve at the pleasure of the board.

2 

This person’s business address is 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019-6028.

3 

This person’s business address is One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

4

This person’s business address is 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019.

 

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Trustees

Meyer Feldberg

Chairman

Alan S. Bernikow

Richard R. Burt

Bernard H. Garil

Heather R. Higgins

Administrator (and Manager for the Master Funds)

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

Principal Underwriter (for the feeder funds)

UBS Asset Management (US) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

 

 

 

 

This report is not to be used in connection with the offering of shares of the Funds unless accompanied or preceded by an effective prospectus.

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UBS Investor Funds

Annual Report  |  April 30, 2021

Includes:

 

UBS Select Prime Investor Fund

 

UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund

 

UBS Select Government Investor Fund

 

UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund

 

UBS Prime Investor Fund

 

UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund

 


UBS Investor Funds

 

June 10, 2021

Dear Shareholder,

We present you with the annual report for the UBS Investor Series of Funds, namely UBS Select Prime Investor Fund, UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund, UBS Select Government Investor Fund, UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund, UBS Prime Investor Fund and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund, for the 12 months ended April 30, 2021 (the “reporting period”).

Performance

The US Federal Reserve maintained the federal funds rate in a range between 0.00% and 0.25% during the 12-months ended April 30, 2021. The federal funds rate or the “fed funds rate,” is the rate US banks charge one another for funds they borrow on an overnight basis. (For more details on the Fed’s actions, see below.) As a result, the yields on a number of short-term investments remained low. Against this backdrop, the Funds’ yields declined during the reporting period.

The seven-day current yields for the Funds (after fee waivers/expense reimbursements) were as follows:

 

  UBS Select Prime Investor Fund: 0.01% on April 30, 2021, versus 0.37% as of April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund: 0.01% on April 30, 2021, versus 0.42% on April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Select Government Investor Fund: 0.01% on both April 30, 2021, and April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund: 0.01% on both April 30, 2021, and April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Prime Investor Fund: 0.01% on April 30, 2021, versus 0.36% as of April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund: 0.01% on both April 30, 2021, and April 30, 2020.

For detailed information on the Funds’ performance, refer to “Yields and characteristics at a glance” on pages 7, 8 and 9.

An interview with the Portfolio Managers

Q.

How would you describe the economic environment during the reporting period?

A.

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a severe economic contraction, followed by a rebound as the reporting period progressed. In the US, the US Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product

 

UBS Select Prime Investor Fund

UBS Select Government Investor Fund

UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund

UBS Prime Investor Fund

Investment goals (all four Funds):

Maximum current income consistent with liquidity and the preservation of capital

Portfolio managers:

Robert Sabatino

David J. Walczak

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

Commencement:

UBS Select Prime Investor Fund—August 1, 2008;

UBS Select Government Investor Fund—August 17, 2016;

UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund—September 18, 2008;

UBS Prime Investor Fund—January 19, 2016

Dividend payments:

Monthly

UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund

Investment goal:

Maximum current income as is consistent with liquidity and preservation of capital while incorporating select environmental, social, and governance criteria (“ESG”) into the investment process.

Portfolio Managers:

Robert Sabatino

David J. Walczak

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

Commencement:

January 15, 2020

Dividend payments:

Monthly

UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund

Investment goal:

Maximum current income exempt from federal income tax consistent with liquidity and the preservation of capital

Portfolio managers:

Elbridge T. Gerry III

Lisa M. DiPaolo

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

Commencement:

September 22, 2008

Dividend payments:

Monthly

 

    

 

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  (“GDP”) declined at a 31.4% seasonally adjusted annualized rate during the second quarter of 2020—the steepest quarterly decline on record. With parts of the economy reopening, third quarter annualized GDP growth was 33.4%, the largest quarterly increase on record. The economy continued to expand, as fourth quarter annualized GDP growth was 4.3%. Finally, according to the Commerce Department’s initial estimate, first quarter 2021 annualized GDP growth was 6.4%.

 

Q.

How did the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) react to the economic environment?

A.

The Fed maintained its highly accommodative monetary policy, as the central bank kept the federal funds rate in a range between 0.00% and 0.25%. At its meeting in September 2020, the Fed indicated that rates could stay anchored near zero through 2023. While inflation edged higher later in the period, in March 2021 Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said, “Long term, we think that the inflation dynamics we’ve seen around the world for a quarter of a century are essentially intact…and we think those dynamics haven’t gone away overnight and won’t.” At a press conference after the Fed’s April 2021 meeting, Chair Powell said, “Readings on inflation have increased and are likely to rise somewhat further before moderating…we are also likely to see upward pressure on prices from the rebound in spending as the economy continues to reopen, particularly if supply bottlenecks limit how quickly production can respond in the near term. However, these one-time increases in prices are likely to have only transitory effects on inflation.”

 

Q.

Given that the Funds are “feeder funds,” how were the portfolios in which they invest managed during the reporting period?

A.

Each fund is a “feeder fund,” investing all of its assets in “Master Funds”—the Prime Master Fund, the ESG Prime Master Fund, the Government Master Fund, the Treasury Master Fund, the Prime CNAV Master Fund, and the Tax-Free Master Fund, respectively. As always, quality and liquidity remained paramount in our management process for the Master Funds.

 

 

For the Prime Master Fund in which UBS Select Prime Investor Fund invests, we tactically adjusted its weighted average maturity (WAM)—which is the weighted average maturity of the securities in the portfolio—throughout the 12-month review period. When the reporting period began, the Master Fund had a WAM of 27 days. By the end of the period on April 30, 2021, the Master Fund’s WAM was 49 days.

At the issuer level, we maintained a high level of diversification, with the goal of reducing risk and keeping the Master Fund highly liquid. To that end, we typically purchased up to 3% in single nongovernment issuers throughout the reporting period. (The Master Fund is generally able to hold up to 5% in any one issuer, subject to certain exceptions.)

At the security level, we increased the Master Fund’s exposure to commercial paper. Conversely, we decreased its allocations to certificates of deposit, repurchase agreements and time deposits. (Repurchase agreements are transactions that require the seller of a security to buy it back at a predetermined time and price, or upon demand.) Finally, we eliminated its small exposure to US Treasury obligations.

 

 

The WAM for the Master Fund in which UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund invests was 41 days when the reporting period began. At period-end on April 30, 2021, it was 51 days. At the security level, we increased the Master Fund’s exposures to time deposits and certificates of deposit. In contrast, we decreased its exposures to commercial paper and repurchase agreements.

 

 

The WAM for the Government Master Fund in which UBS Select Government Investor Fund invests was 48 days when the reporting period began. Over the review period, the WAM was adjusted, and at period-end on April 30, 2021, it was 34 days. At the security level, we increased the Master Fund’s exposure to US Treasury obligations and reduced its allocations to repurchase agreements and US government agency obligations.

 

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The WAM for the Treasury Master Fund in which UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund invests was 51 days when the reporting period began. Over the review period, the WAM was adjusted, and at period-end it was 43 days. At the security level, we increased the Master Fund’s exposure to direct US Treasury obligations and reduced its exposure to repurchase agreements backed by Treasury obligations.

 

 

The WAM for the Prime CNAV Master Fund in which UBS Prime Investor Fund invests was 33 days when the reporting period began. We tactically adjusted its WAM, and at the end of the reporting period the Master Fund’s WAM was 53 days. Over the review period, we increased the Master Fund’s exposure to commercial paper. Conversely, we decreased its exposures to repurchase agreements and, to lesser extents, certificates of deposit and time deposits. Finally, we eliminated its small positions in US Treasury obligations and US government agency obligations.

 

 

The WAM for the Tax-Free Master Fund in which UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund invests was nine days when the reporting period began. We tactically adjusted the Master Fund’s WAM based on market conditions and seasonality factors within the tax-exempt market. At the end of the reporting period its WAM was 10 days. Over the review period, we increased the Master Fund’s allocation to tax-exempt commercial paper and reduced its exposure to municipal bonds.

 

Q.

What factors do you believe will affect the Funds over the coming months?

A.

With the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, we anticipate a return to more normal economic activity as the year progresses. However, the path could be uneven due to new virus strains. We expect the Fed to remain highly accommodative and, while inflation could edge higher, it should be generally well contained overall. In this environment, we anticipate continuing to manage the Funds focusing on risk and liquidity.

We thank you for your continued support and welcome any comments or questions you may have. For additional information on the UBS family of funds,* please contact your financial advisor, or visit us at www.ubs.com/am-us.

Sincerely,

 

LOGO   LOGO

Igor Lasun

President—UBS Series Funds

UBS Select Prime Investor Fund

UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund

UBS Select Government Investor Fund

UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund

UBS Prime Investor Fund

UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

Robert Sabatino

Portfolio Manager—

UBS Select Prime Investor Fund

UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund

UBS Select Government Investor Fund

UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund

UBS Prime Investor Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

 

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LOGO   LOGO

Elbridge T. Gerry III

Portfolio Manager—

UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

David J. Walczak

Portfolio Manager—

UBS Select Prime Investor Fund

UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund

UBS Select Government Investor Fund

UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund

UBS Prime Investor Fund

Executive Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 
LOGO  

Lisa DiPaolo

Portfolio Manager—

UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund

Executive Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

 

 

This letter is intended to assist shareholders in understanding how the Funds performed during the 12-month period ended April 30, 2021. The views and opinions in the letter were current as of June 10, 2021. They are not guarantees of future performance or investment results and should not be taken as investment advice. Investment decisions reflect a variety of factors, and we reserve the right to change our views about individual securities, sectors and markets at any time. As a result, the views expressed should not be relied upon as a forecast of the Fund’s future investment intent. We encourage you to consult your financial advisor regarding your personal investment program.

 

*

Mutual funds are sold by prospectus only. You should read it carefully and consider a fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other important information contained in the prospectus before investing. Prospectuses for most of our funds can be obtained from your financial advisor, by calling UBS Funds at 800-647 1568 or by visiting our Website at www.ubs.com/am-us.

 

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Understanding your Fund’s expenses1 (unaudited)

 

As a shareholder of a Fund, you incur ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution (12b-1) fees, shareholder servicing fees and other Fund expenses. These examples are intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds. Since each Fund is a “feeder fund” that invests in a corresponding “master fund,” the expense information below reflects the combined effect of the two levels of expenses and not just those imposed directly at the feeder fund level.

The examples below are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period, November 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021.

Actual expenses

The first line in the table below for each Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over a period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses paid during period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical example for comparison purposes

The second line in the table below for each Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate your actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare these 5% hypothetical examples with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs. Therefore, the second line in the table for each Fund is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds, if those other funds impose transactional costs—for example, exchange fees. In addition, if those transactional costs were included, your costs for those other funds would have been higher.

 

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Understanding your Fund’s expenses1 (unaudited) (concluded)

 

        Beginning
account value
November 1, 2020
     Ending
account value
April 30, 2021
2
     Expenses paid
during period
11/01/20 to 04/30/21
3
     Expense
ratio during
the period
                   
UBS Select Prime Investor Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.00        $ 0.89          0.18
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,023.90          0.90          0.18  
                                             
                   
UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.00        $ 0.69          0.14
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.10          0.70          0.14  
                                             
                   
UBS Select Government Investor Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.60          0.12
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.20          0.60          0.12  
                                             
                   
UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.00        $ 0.45          0.09
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.35          0.45          0.09  
                                             
                   
UBS Prime Investor Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.00        $ 0.89          0.18
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,023.90          0.90          0.18  
                                             
                   
UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.00        $ 0.35          0.07
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.45          0.35          0.07  

 

1 

The expenses for the Funds reflect the expenses of the corresponding master funds in which they invest in addition to their own direct expenses.

2 

“Actual—Ending account value” may or may not be reflective of a shareholder’s actual investment experience during periods of very low interest rates. While the Fund declares dividends daily and pays them monthly, the amounts are rounded to the nearest $0.01 on a daily basis with respect to each investor’s account. As a result, investors whose Fund account balances earn daily dividends that total less than one half a cent on any given day will not accrue any dividends on that day.

3 

Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized net expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181 divided by 365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

 

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Yields and characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited)

 

UBS Select Prime Investor Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.37
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.36
Weighted average maturity2      49 days  

Table footnotes are on page 9

 

UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (6.03
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (5.94
Weighted average maturity2      51 days  

Table footnotes are on page 9

You could lose money by investing in UBS Select Prime Investor Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund. Because the price of interests in the related money market master fund will fluctuate, when you sell your shares of UBS Select Prime Investor Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund, your shares of UBS Select Prime Investor and UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund may be worth more or less than what you originally paid for them. The related money market master fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of UBS Select Prime Investor Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of UBS Select Prime Investor Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund if the related money market master fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in UBS Select Prime Investor Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. UBS Select Prime Investor Fund’s and UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to UBS Select Prime Investor Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to UBS Select Prime Investor Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Yields and characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

UBS Select Government Investor Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.46
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.46
Weighted average maturity2      34 days  

Table footnotes are on page 9

 

UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.51
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.50
Weighted average maturity2      43 days  

Table footnotes are on page 9

You could lose money by investing in UBS Select Government Investor Fund and UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund. Although the related money market master funds seek to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of UBS Select Government Investor Fund and UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund are at $1.00 per share, the related money market master funds cannot guarantee they will do so. An investment in UBS Select Government Investor Fund and UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. UBS Select Government Investor Fund’s sponsor and UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to UBS Select Government Investor Fund and UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund, and you should not expect that the funds’ sponsor will provide financial support to UBS Select Government Investor Fund and UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Yields and characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (concluded)

 

UBS Prime Investor Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.40
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.40
Weighted average maturity2      53 days  

 

UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.78
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements1      (0.62
Weighted average maturity2      10 days  

Investments in UBS Prime Investor Fund and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund are intended to be limited to accounts beneficially owned by natural persons. UBS Prime Investor Fund and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund reserve the right to repurchase shares in any account that are not beneficially owned by natural persons.

You could lose money by investing in UBS Prime Investor Fund and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund. Although the related money market master funds seek to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of UBS Prime Investor Fund and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund are at $1.00 per share, the related money market master funds cannot guarantee they will do so. The related money market master funds may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of UBS Prime Investor Fund and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of UBS Prime Investor Fund and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund if the related money market master fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in UBS Prime Investor Fund and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. UBS Prime Investor Fund’s sponsor and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to UBS Prime Investor Fund and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund, and you should not expect that the funds’ sponsor will provide financial support to UBS Prime Investor Fund and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

1 

Yields will fluctuate and reflect fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements, if any, unless otherwise noted. Performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted.

2 

Weighted average maturity provided is that of the related master fund, which is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

 

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Statement of assets and liabilities

April 30, 2021

 

      UBS Select
Prime Investor
Fund
   UBS Select ESG
Prime Investor
Fund
Assets:      
Investments in Master Fund, at cost (which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)      $1,551,894,638        $7,779,129  
     
Investments in Master Fund, at value      1,552,394,147        7,784,374  
Receivable from affiliate             2,017  
Other assets      59,975        16,607  
Total assets      1,552,454,122        7,802,998  
     
Liabilities:      
Dividends payable to shareholders      13,745        69  
Payable to affiliate      78,319         
Accrued expenses and other liabilities      391,025        34,189  
Total liabilities      483,089        34,258  
Net assets      $1,551,971,033        $7,768,740  
Shares of beneficial interest—$0.001 par value per share, unlimited amount authorized;
1,551,500,724; 7,771,488; 526,866,003; 1,295,809,556; 1,005,743,635 and 104,455,249 outstanding, respectively
     $1,551,472,142        $7,773,794  
Distributable earnings (losses)      498,891        (5,054
Net assets      $1,551,971,033        $7,768,740  
Net asset value per share      $1.0003        $0.9996  

 

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UBS Select
Government
Investor Fund
   UBS Select
Treasury
Investor Fund
   UBS Prime
Investor Fund
   UBS Tax-Free
Investor Fund
        
  $526,928,593        $1,296,030,063        $1,005,910,386        $104,498,478  
        
  526,928,593        1,296,030,063        1,005,910,386        104,498,478  
  12,250        23,764               7,990  
  48,620        43,481        43,635        19,189  
  526,989,463        1,296,097,308        1,005,954,021        104,525,657  
        
        
  4,627        11,278        8,902        937  
                22,210         
  117,987        276,474        175,586        69,471  
  122,614        287,752        206,698        70,408  
  $526,866,849        $1,295,809,556        $1,005,747,323        $104,455,249  
 

    
    
$526,866,003


 
     $1,295,809,556        $1,005,743,635        $104,455,249  
  846               3,688         
  $526,866,849        $1,295,809,556        $1,005,747,323        $104,455,249  
  $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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Statement of operations

For the year ended April 30, 2021

 

      UBS Select
Prime Investor
Fund
   UBS Select ESG
Prime Investor
Fund
Investment income:      
Interest income allocated from Master Fund      $7,784,357        $47,204  
Expenses allocated from Master Fund      (2,599,391      (19,676
Expense waiver allocated from Master Fund             19,676  
Net investment income allocated from Master Fund      5,184,966        47,204  
Expenses:      
Administration fees      2,598,696        19,726  
Service and distribution fees      9,095,436        69,046  
Transfer agency fees      179,124        1,104  
Accounting fees      5,155        7,603  
Trustees’ fees      27,258        17,522  
Professional fees      43,198        65,331  
Reports and notices to shareholders      53,279        2,636  
State registration fees      394,804        17,727  
Insurance fees      25,997        36  
Amortization of offering costs             56,888  
Other expenses      56,137        9,152  
       12,479,084        266,771  
Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements by administrator and distributor      (7,991,187      (225,012
Net expenses      4,487,897        41,759  
Net investment income (loss)      697,069        5,445  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund      (246      255  
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) allocated from Master Fund      (632,911      (6,536
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations      $63,912        $(836

 

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UBS Select
Government
Investor Fund
   UBS Select
Treasury
Investor Fund
   UBS Prime
Investor Fund
   UBS Tax-Free
Investor Fund
        
  $1,529,357        $3,362,498        $5,221,317        $215,435  
  (783,980      (1,753,456      (1,716,307      (164,822
  6,954        139,296               22,622  
  752,331        1,748,338        3,505,010        73,235  
        
  783,840        1,756,838        1,715,680        164,804  
  2,743,525        6,149,107        6,005,518        576,832  
  53,868        123,650        135,803        10,386  
  6,194        6,194        6,194        5,983  
  19,847        25,088        24,199        17,096  
  46,798        43,154        48,660        48,837  
  14,069        39,780        50,450        2,565  
  132,955        289,250        162,131        55,827  
  6,426        13,780        15,330        1,246  
                        
  29,865        46,367        23,203        9,475  
  3,837,387        8,493,208        8,187,168        893,051  
  (3,163,441      (6,920,710      (5,214,211      (836,384
  673,946        1,572,498        2,972,957        56,667  
  78,385        175,840        532,053        16,568  
  17,958               3,688         
                        
  $96,343        $175,840        $535,741        $16,568  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       UBS Select Prime Investor Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:        
       
Net investment income (loss)        $697,069        $56,251,668  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        (246      27,732  
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) allocated from Master Fund        (632,911      1,016,402  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        63,912        57,295,802  
Total distributions        (724,803      (56,254,843
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (2,245,734,378      856,004,766  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (2,246,395,269      857,045,725  
Net assets:        
       
Beginning of year        3,798,366,302        2,941,320,577  
End of year        $1,551,971,033        $3,798,366,302  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund
        For the year ended
April 30, 2021
  

For the period from

January 15, 20201 to
April 30, 2020

From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $5,445        $18,617  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        255         
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) allocated from Master Fund        (6,536      11,781  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        (836      30,398  
Total distributions        (19,841      (18,617
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (11,992,582      19,770,218  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (12,013,259      19,781,999  
Net assets:

 

       
Beginning of year        19,781,999         
End of year        $7,768,740        $19,781,999  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Investor Funds

 

 

Statement of changes in net assets

 

       UBS Select Government Investor Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $78,385        $10,603,089  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        17,958        25,152  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        96,343        10,628,241  
Total distributions        (97,079      (10,619,965
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (651,616,183      608,894,296  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (651,616,919      608,902,572  
Net assets:

 

       
Beginning of year        1,178,483,768        569,581,196  
End of year        $526,866,849        $1,178,483,768  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Investor Funds

 

 

Statement of changes in net assets

 

       UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $175,840        $22,195,515  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund               1,557  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        175,840        22,197,072  
Total distributions        (175,840      (22,197,097
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (1,360,406,136      1,416,680,666  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (1,360,406,136      1,416,680,641  
Net assets:

 

       
Beginning of year        2,656,215,692        1,239,535,051  
End of year        $1,295,809,556        $2,656,215,692  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Investor Funds

 

 

Statement of changes in net assets

 

       UBS Prime Investor Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $532,053        $30,715,151  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        3,688        22,277  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        535,741        30,737,428  
Total distributions        (554,330      (30,715,151
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (1,394,082,958      883,456,510  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (1,394,101,547      883,478,787  
Net assets:

 

       
Beginning of year        2,399,848,870        1,516,370,083  
End of year        $1,005,747,323        $2,399,848,870  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Investor Funds

 

 

Statement of changes in net assets

 

       UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $16,568        $1,658,831  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        16,568        1,658,831  
Total distributions        (16,568      (1,658,831
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (215,130,467      130,970,590  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (215,130,467      130,970,590  
Net assets:

 

       
Beginning of year        319,585,716        188,615,126  
End of year        $104,455,249        $319,585,716  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Select Prime Investor Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.0005        $1.0002        $1.0001        $1.0002        $1.0000  
Net investment income (loss)        0.0002        0.0155        0.0193        0.0099        0.0025  
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)        (0.0002      0.0003        0.0001        (0.0001      0.0004  
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.0000 1       0.0158        0.0194        0.0098        0.0029  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.0002      (0.0155      (0.0193      (0.0099      (0.0025
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.0000 )1       (0.0000 )1       (0.0000 )1       (0.0000 )1       (0.0002
Total dividends and distributions        (0.0002      (0.0155      (0.0193      (0.0099      (0.0027
Net asset value, end of period        $1.0003        $1.0005        $1.0002        $1.0001        $1.0002  
Total investment return2        0.00      1.59      1.96      0.99      0.29
Ratios to average net assets:                 
Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        0.58      0.57      0.57      0.63      0.64
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        0.27      0.45      0.45      0.45      0.45
Net investment income (loss)3        0.03      1.52      2.02      1.06      0.22
Supplemental data:                 
Net assets, end of period (000’s)        $1,551,971        $3,798,366        $2,941,321        $707,025        $248,749  

 

1 

Amount represents less than $0.00005 or $(0.00005) per share.

2 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each year reported. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

3 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each period is presented below:

 

        Year ended
April 30, 2021
   For the period from
January 15, 2020
1
to April
  30, 2020
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.0007        $1.0000  
Net investment income (loss)        0.0002        0.0029  
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)        (0.0002      0.0007  
Net increase (decrease) from operations               0.0036  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.0002      (0.0029
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.0009       
Total dividends and distributions        (0.0011      (0.0029
Net asset value, end of year        $0.9996        $1.0007  
Total investment return2        0.00      0.36
Ratios to average net assets:        
Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        1.45      3.58 %4 
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        0.21      0.35 %4 
Net investment income (loss)3        0.03      0.81 %4 
Supplemental data:        
Net assets, end of year (000’s)        $7,769        $19,782  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

2 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each period reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each period reported. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

3 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

4 

Annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Select Government Investor Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each period is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,    For the period from
August 17, 2016
1
to  April
 30, 2017
        2021    2020    2019    2018
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Net investment income (loss)        0.000 2       0.014        0.017        0.007        0.001  
Net realized gain (loss)        0.000 2       0.000 2       0.000 2       (0.000 )2       0.000 2 
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.000 2       0.014        0.017        0.007        0.001  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.000 )2       (0.014      (0.017      (0.007      (0.001
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.000 )2       (0.000 )2       (0.000 )2       (0.000 )2       (0.000 )2 
Total dividends and distributions        (0.000 )2       (0.014      (0.017      (0.007      (0.001
Net asset value, end of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Total investment return3        0.01      1.39      1.74      0.74      0.08
Ratios to average net assets:                 
Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements4        0.59      0.58      0.62      0.76      1.03 %5 
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements4        0.19      0.45      0.45      0.45      0.43 %5 
Net investment income (loss)4        0.01      1.27      1.81      0.77      0.13 %5 
Supplemental data:                 
Net assets, end of year (000’s)        $526,867        $1,178,484        $569,581        $134,423        $58,659  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

2 

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

3 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each period reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each period reported. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

4 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

5 

Annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

22


UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Net investment income (loss)        0.000 1       0.014        0.017        0.007        0.001  
Net realized gain (loss)        0.000 1       0.000 1       0.000 1       0.000 1       0.000 1 
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.000 1       0.014        0.017        0.007        0.001  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.000 )1       (0.014      (0.017      (0.007      (0.001
Distributions from net realized gains               (0.000 )1       (0.000 )1       (0.000 )1       (0.000 )1 
Total dividends and distributions        (0.000 )1       (0.014      (0.017      (0.007      (0.001
Net asset value, end of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Total investment return2        0.01      1.35      1.74      0.73      0.08
Ratios to average net assets:                 
Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        0.58      0.57      0.58      0.63      0.65
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        0.18      0.44      0.45      0.45      0.39
Net investment income (loss)3        0.01      1.21      1.81      0.78      0.07
Supplemental data:                 
Net assets, end of year (000’s)        $1,295,810        $2,656,216        $1,239,535        $435,888        $193,675  

 

1 

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

2 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each year reported. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

3 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

23


UBS Prime Investor Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Net investment income (loss)        0.000 1       0.015        0.019        0.010        0.003  
Net realized gain (loss)        0.000 1       0.000 1              0.000 1       0.000 1 
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.000 1       0.015        0.019        0.010        0.003  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.000 )1       (0.015      (0.019      (0.010      (0.003
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.000 )1              (0.000 )1       (0.000 )1       (0.000 )1 
Total dividends and distributions        (0.000 )1       (0.015      (0.019      (0.010      (0.003
Net asset value, end of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Total investment return2        0.03      1.54      1.91      0.97      0.27
Ratios to average net assets:                 
Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        0.58      0.57      0.58      0.64      1.26
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        0.27      0.45      0.45      0.45      0.45
Net investment income (loss)3        0.03      1.48      1.98      1.04      0.42
Supplemental data:                 
Net assets, end of year (000’s)        $1,005,747        $2,399,849        $1,516,370        $368,536        $89,533  

 

1 

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

2 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each year reported. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

3 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

24


UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Net investment income (loss)        0.000 1       0.009        0.010        0.006        0.001  
Net realized gain (loss)                                     
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.000 1       0.009        0.010        0.006        0.001  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.000 )1       (0.009      (0.010      (0.006      (0.001
Distributions from net realized gains                                    (0.000 )1 
Total dividends and distributions        (0.000 )1       (0.009      (0.010      (0.006      (0.001
Net asset value, end of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Total investment return2        0.01      0.89      1.03      0.56      0.14
Ratios to average net assets:                 
Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        0.64      0.64      0.63      0.80      1.11
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        0.12      0.43      0.45      0.45      0.42
Net investment income (loss)3        0.01      0.83      1.02      0.63      0.16
Supplemental data:                 
Net assets, end of year (000’s)        $104,455        $319,586        $188,615        $123,642        $46,649  

 

1 

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

2 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each year reported. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder could pay on Fund distributions.

3 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Investor Funds

Notes to financial statements

 

Organization and significant accounting policies

UBS Select Prime Investor Fund (“Prime Investor Fund”), UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund (“ESG Prime Investor Fund”), UBS Select Government Investor Fund (“Government Investor Fund”), UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund (“Treasury Investor Fund”), UBS Prime Investor Fund (“Prime CNAV Investor Fund”), and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund (“Tax-Free Investor Fund”) (each a “Fund”, collectively, the “Funds”) are each registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), as a diversified series of UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust on April 29, 1998. The Trust is a series mutual fund with twenty-two series. The financial statements for the other series of the Trust are not included herein.

Prime Investor Fund, ESG Prime Investor Fund, Government Investor Fund, Treasury Investor Fund, Prime CNAV Investor Fund, and Tax-Free Investor Fund are “feeder funds” that invest all of their investable assets in “master funds”—Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund, respectively (each a “Master Fund”, collectively, the “Master Funds” and each a diversified series of Master Trust, an open-end investment company registered with the SEC under the 1940 Act). The feeder funds and their respective Master Funds have the same investment objectives.

Prime Investor Fund, Treasury Investor Fund and Tax-Free Investor Fund commenced operations on August 1, 2008, September 18, 2008, and September 22, 2008, respectively. Prime CNAV Investor Fund commenced operations on January 19, 2016, Government Investor Fund commenced operations on August 17, 2016 and ESG Prime Investor Fund commenced operations on January 15, 2020.

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”) is the investment advisor and administrator for the Master Funds and the administrator for the feeder funds. UBS Asset Management (US) Inc. (“UBS AM—US”) serves as principal underwriter for the Funds. UBS AM and UBS AM—US are indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of UBS Group AG. UBS Group AG is an internationally diversified organization with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. UBS Group AG operates in many areas of the financial services industry.

The performance of each Fund is directly affected by the performance of the corresponding Master Fund. The value of such investment reflects each Fund’s proportionate interest in the net assets of its corresponding Master Fund (17.59% for Prime Investor Fund, 1.28% for ESG Prime Investor Fund, 5.97% for Government Investor Fund, 3.97% for Treasury Investor Fund, 22.61% for Prime CNAV Investor Fund and 12.83% for Tax-Free Investor Fund at April 30, 2021).

All of the net investment income and realized and unrealized gains and losses from investment activities of each Master Fund are allocated pro rata, based on respective ownership interests, among the corresponding Fund and other investors in the Master Fund (e.g., other feeder funds) at the time of such determination. The financial statements of the Master Funds, including the Portfolio of investments, are included elsewhere in this report and should be read in connection with the Funds’ financial statements. The Trust accounts separately for the assets, liabilities and operations of each series. Expenses directly attributable to each series are charged to that series’ operations; expenses which are applicable to all series are allocated among them on a pro rata basis.

In the normal course of business, the Funds may enter into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide indemnification for certain liabilities. The Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Funds that have not yet occurred. However, the Funds have not had any prior claims or losses pursuant to these contracts and expect the risk of loss to be remote.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) is the exclusive reference of authoritative US generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal laws are also sources of authoritative US GAAP for SEC registrants. The Funds’ financial statements are prepared in accordance with US GAAP, which may require the use of management estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

26


UBS Investor Funds

Notes to financial statements

 

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies:

Valuation of investments—Each Fund records its investment in its corresponding Master Fund at fair value. Securities held by the Master Funds are valued as indicated in the Master Funds’ notes to financial statements, which are included elsewhere in this report.

Floating net asset value per share funds—Consistent with Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act, as amended (“Rule 2a-7”), Prime Investor Fund and ESG Prime Investor Fund calculate their net asset values to four decimals (e.g., $1.0000) using market-based pricing and expect that their share prices will fluctuate.

On occasion, it is possible that the end of day accounting net asset value (“NAV”) per share of a floating NAV fund, such as Prime Investor Fund or ESG Prime Investor Fund, as reported in a shareholder report, for example, may differ from the transactional NAV per share (used for purposes of processing purchases and redemptions); while this is not expected to occur with great frequency, it may happen should certain factors align on a given business day. The final end-of-day NAV per share for accounting and financial statement reporting purposes is designed to reflect all end-of-day accounting activities, which may include, but are not limited to, income and expense accruals, dividend and distribution reinvestments as well as final share activity; such items are factored into the Fund after the last transactional NAV per share is calculated on a given day (normally, the last transactional NAV per share is calculated as of 3 pm, Eastern time, as explained in the Fund’s prospectus).

Constant net asset value per share funds—Government Investor Fund, Treasury Investor Fund, Prime CNAV Investor Fund, and Tax-Free Investor Fund (collectively the “Constant NAV Funds”) attempt to maintain a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. There is no assurance, however, that the Constant NAV Funds will be able to maintain a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. The Constant NAV Funds have adopted certain investment, portfolio valuation and dividend/distribution policies in an attempt to enable each to do so. Government Investor Fund and Treasury Investor Fund have adopted a policy to operate as “government money market funds”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “government money market fund” invests 99.5% or more of its total assets in cash, government securities, and/or repurchase agreements that are collateralized fully (i.e., collateralized by cash and/or government securities). As “government money market funds”, Government Investor Fund and Treasury Investor Fund are permitted to seek to maintain a stable price per share. Prime CNAV Investor Fund and Tax-Free Investor Fund operate as “retail money market funds”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “retail money market fund” is a money market fund that has policies and procedures reasonably designed to limit all beneficial owners of the fund to natural persons. As “retail money market funds”, Prime CNAV Investor Fund and Tax-Free Investor Fund are permitted to seek to maintain a stable price per share.

Liquidity fee and/or redemption gates—Consistent with Rule 2a-7, Prime Investor Fund, ESG Prime Investor Fund, Prime CNAV Investor Fund and Tax-Free Investor Fund may be subject to the possible imposition of a liquidity fee and/or temporary redemption gate. Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund may impose a fee upon the sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if Prime Master Fund’s liquidity, ESG Prime Master Fund’s liquidity, Prime CNAV Master Fund’s liquidity and/or Tax-Free Master Fund’s liquidity, respectively, falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. For the period ended April 30, 2021, Prime Investor Fund, ESG Prime Investor Fund, Prime CNAV Investor Fund and Tax-Free Investor Fund were not subject to any liquidity fees and/or redemption gates.

By operating as “government money market funds”, Government Investor Fund and Treasury Investor Fund are exempt from requirements that permit the imposition of a liquidity fee and/or temporary redemption gates. While the Funds’ Board of Trustees (the “Board”) may elect to subject Government Investor Fund and Treasury Investor Fund to liquidity fee and gate requirements in the future, the Board has not elected to do so at this time.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Offering costs are accounted for as deferred costs until operations begin and are then amortized to expense over twelve months on a straight-line basis.

Dividends and distributions—Dividends and distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. The amount of dividends and distributions is determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations, which may differ from US GAAP. These “book/tax” differences are either considered temporary or permanent in nature. To the extent these differences are permanent in nature, such amounts are reclassified within the capital accounts based on their federal tax-basis treatment; temporary differences do not require reclassification.

Concentration of risk—The ability of the issuers of the debt securities held by the Master Funds to meet their obligations may be affected by economic and political developments particular to a specific industry, country, state or region.

Certain impacts to public health conditions particular to the coronavirus “COVID-19” outbreak that occurred may have a significant negative impact on the operations and profitability of the Funds’ investments. The extent of the impact to the financial performance of a Fund will depend on future developments, including (i) the duration and spread of the outbreak, (ii) the restrictions and advisories, (iii) the effects on the financial markets, and (iv) the effects on the economy overall, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.

Administrator

UBS AM serves as administrator to each Fund pursuant to an Administration Agreement approved by the Trust’s board. In accordance with the Administration Agreement, each Fund pays UBS AM an administration fee, which is accrued daily and paid monthly, at the below annual rate, as a percentage of each Fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Fund      Administration fee
Prime Investor Fund        0.10
ESG Prime Investor Fund        0.10  
Government Investor Fund        0.10  
Treasury Investor Fund        0.10  
Prime CNAV Investor Fund        0.10  
Tax-Free Investor Fund        0.10  

At April 30, 2021, each Fund owed UBS AM for administrative services/expense reimbursements as follows:

 

Fund    Amounts owed to UBS AM
Prime Investor Fund    $ 140,581  
ESG Prime Investor Fund      730  
Government Investor Fund      49,173  
Treasury Investor Fund      114,800  
Prime CNAV Investor Fund      90,897  
Tax-Free Investor Fund      9,573  

The Funds and UBS AM have entered into a written fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement pursuant to which UBS AM is contractually obligated to waive its administration fees and/or reimburse the Funds so that the Funds’ operating expenses through August 31, 2021 (excluding interest expense, if any, and extraordinary items) would not exceed 0.50%.

 

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UBS Investor Funds

Notes to financial statements

 

At April 30, 2021, UBS AM owed the Funds, and for the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM was contractually obligated to waive fees and/or to reimburse certain operating expenses as follows:

 

Fund    Amounts owed by UBS AM    Amounts waived and/or
reimbursed by UBS AM
Prime Investor Fund    $ 78,686      $ 2,075,483  
ESG Prime Investor Fund      3,225        187,862  
Government Investor Fund      27,648        698,618  
Treasury Investor Fund      78,345        1,461,308  
Prime CNAV Investor Fund      62,257        1,317,930  
Tax-Free Investor Fund      15,672        237,911  

UBS AM may recoup from each fund any such waived fees/reimbursed expenses to the extent that it can do so over the three years following such waived fees/reimbursed expenses without causing each Fund’s expenses in any of those three years to exceed such expense cap. The fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement may be terminated by the Funds’ Board at any time and also will terminate automatically upon the expiration or termination of the Funds’ contract with UBS AM. Upon termination of the agreement, however, UBS AM’s three year recoupment rights will survive. At April 30, 2021, the following Funds had remaining fee waivers and expense reimbursements subject to repayment to UBS AM and respective dates of expiration as follows:

 

Fund     

Total fee

waivers/

expense
reimbursements
subject to
repayment

    

Expires

April 30,
2022

    

Expires

April 30,
2023

    

Expires

April 30,
2024

Prime Investor Fund      $ 5,837,818        $ 1,287,529        $ 2,474,806        $ 2,075,483  
ESG Prime Investor Fund        258,373                   70,511          187,862  
Government Investor Fund        1,721,412          371,929          650,865          698,618  
Treasury Investor Fund        3,336,862          626,529          1,249,025          1,461,308  
Prime CNAV Investor Fund        3,419,457          685,603          1,415,924          1,317,930  
Tax-Free Investor Fund        766,273          253,692          274,670          237,911  

Shareholder servicing and distribution plans

UBS AM—US is the principal underwriter and distributor of the Funds’ shares. During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Funds were contractually obligated to pay UBS AM—US monthly distribution (12b-1) and shareholder servicing fees at the below annual rates, as a percentage of each Fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Fund    Distribution (12b-1) fee   Shareholder servicing fee
Prime Investor Fund      0.25     0.10
ESG Prime Investor Fund      0.25       0.10  
Government Investor Fund      0.25       0.10  
Treasury Investor Fund      0.25       0.10  
Prime CNAV Investor Fund      0.25       0.10  
Tax-Free Investor Fund      0.25       0.10  

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

At April 30, 2021, each Fund owed UBS AM—US for distribution and shareholder servicing fees as follows:

 

Fund    Amounts owed to UBS AM—US
Prime Investor Fund    $ 492,036  
ESG Prime Investor Fund      2,555  
Government Investor Fund      163,482  
Treasury Investor Fund      401,801  
Prime CNAV Investor Fund      318,131  
Tax-Free Investor Fund      33,505  

In addition to UBS AM’s fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements noted in the Administrator section above, in connection with voluntary waivers by the financial intermediaries that are selling each Fund’s shares, UBS AM—US has agreed to voluntarily waive fees or reimburse fund expenses so that each Fund’s operating expenses (excluding interest expense, if any, and extraordinary items) do not exceed 0.45%. At April 30, 2021, UBS AM—US owed the Funds and for the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM—US voluntarily waived the below amounts, which are not subject to future recoupment:

 

Fund    Amounts owed by UBS AM—US    Amounts waived by UBS AM—US
Prime Investor Fund    $ 70,294      $ 1,299,348  
ESG Prime Investor Fund      362        9,864  
Government Investor Fund      23,354        391,932  
Treasury Investor Fund      57,409        878,444  
Prime CNAV Investor Fund      45,447        857,931  
Tax-Free Investor Fund      4,781        82,404  

UBS AM—US may also voluntarily undertake to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses in the event that Fund yields drop below a certain level. These additional undertakings are voluntary and not contractual and may be terminated at any time. At April 30, 2021, UBS AM—US owed the Funds and for the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM—US voluntarily waived the below amounts, which are not subject to future recoupment:

 

Fund    Amounts owed by UBS AM—US    Amounts waived by UBS AM—US
Prime Investor Fund    $ 405,318      $ 4,616,356  
ESG Prime Investor Fund      1,715        27,286  
Government Investor Fund      173,903        2,072,891  
Treasury Investor Fund      404,611        4,580,958  
Prime CNAV Investor Fund      279,114        3,038,350  
Tax-Free Investor Fund      30,615        516,069  

There is no guarantee that these additional voluntary amounts will continue to be waived and/or expenses reimbursed. To the extent that expenses are to be reimbursed, they will be reimbursed by UBS AM. These amounts owed by or owed to UBS AM—US or UBS AM are shown at a net level on the statement of assets and liabilities.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Shares of beneficial interest

There is an unlimited amount of $0.001 par value shares of beneficial interest authorized. Transactions in shares of beneficial interest, for each of the Funds for the periods ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 were as follows:

 

Prime Investor Fund                    
       
        For the year ended April 30, 2021:
        Shares    Amount
Shares sold        1,088,859,820      $ 1,089,390,127  
Shares repurchased        (3,335,552,933      (3,336,903,321
Dividends reinvested        1,777,934        1,778,816  
Net increase (decrease)        (2,244,915,179    $ (2,245,734,378

 

        For the year ended April 30, 2020:
        Shares    Amount
Shares sold        7,480,353,406      $ 7,481,741,026  
Shares repurchased        (6,680,852,392      (6,681,811,143
Dividends reinvested        56,063,406        56,074,883  
Net increase (decrease)        855,564,420      $ 856,004,766  

 

ESG Prime Investor Fund                    
       
        For the year ended April 30, 2021:
        Shares    Amount
Shares sold        27,797,264      $ 27,814,235  
Shares repurchased        (39,815,242      (39,829,053
Dividends reinvested        22,224        22,236  
Net increase (decrease)        (11,995,754    $ (11,992,582

 

        For the period from January 15, 20201, to April  30, 2020:
        Shares    Amount
Shares sold        21,853,655      $ 21,857,353  
Shares repurchased        (2,087,270      (2,087,991
Dividends reinvested        857        856  
Net increase (decrease)        19,767,242      $ 19,770,218  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

Transactions in shares of beneficial interest, at $1.00 per share, were as follows:

 

Government Investor Fund                    
       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        272,618,031        1,929,943,106  
Shares repurchased        (924,336,383      (1,331,688,597
Dividends reinvested        102,169        10,639,787  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        (651,616,183      608,894,296  

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Treasury Investor Fund                    
       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        1,390,351,119        4,444,838,401  
Shares repurchased        (2,750,929,236      (3,050,422,777
Dividends reinvested        171,981        22,265,042  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        (1,360,406,136      1,416,680,666  

 

Prime CNAV Investor Fund                    
       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        836,959,901        4,120,043,945  
Shares repurchased        (2,232,253,596      (3,266,977,826
Dividends reinvested        1,210,737        30,390,391  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        (1,394,082,958      883,456,510  

 

Tax-Free Investor Fund                    
       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        110,471,991        639,848,717  
Shares repurchased        (325,632,739      (510,545,307
Dividends reinvested        30,281        1,667,180  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        (215,130,467      130,970,590  

Federal tax status

Each Fund intends to distribute substantially all of its income and to comply with the other requirements of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required. In addition, by distributing during each calendar year substantially all of their net investment income, net realized capital gains and certain other amounts, if any, each Fund intends not to be subject to a federal excise tax.

The tax character of distributions paid to shareholders by the Funds during the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 were as follows:

 

     2021        2020
Fund    Tax-exempt
income
   Ordinary
income
   Long-term
realized
capital gains
       Tax-exempt
income
   Ordinary
income
   Long-term
realized
capital gains
UBS Select Prime Investor Fund    $      $ 724,803      $        $      $ 56,254,843      $  
UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund             19,841                        18,617         
UBS Select Government Investor Fund             97,079                        10,619,965         
UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund             175,840                        22,197,097         
UBS Prime Investor Fund             554,330                        30,715,151         
UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund      16,568                        1,658,831                

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

At April 30, 2021, the components of accumulated earnings (deficit) on a tax basis were as follows:

 

Portfolio    Undistributed
tax-exempt
income
   Undistributed
ordinary
income
   Undistributed
long-term
capital gains
   Accumulated
realized
capital and
other losses
  Unrealized
appreciation
(depreciation)
   Other
temporary
differences
  Total
UBS Select Prime Investor Fund    $      $ 13,374      $      $ (246   $ 499,509      $ (13,746   $ 498,891  
UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund             174                     5,245        (10,473     (5,054
UBS Select Government Investor Fund             16,071                            (15,225     846  
UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund             11,278                            (11,278    

 
UBS Prime Investor Fund             12,590                            (8,902     3,688  
UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund      937                                   (937    

 

Net capital losses recognized by the Funds may be carried forward indefinitely, and retain their character as short-term and/or long-term losses. These carryforwards are available as a reduction, to the extent provided in the regulations, of future realized capital gains. To the extent that such losses are used to offset future net realized capital gains, it is probable these gains will not be distributed. As of April 30, 2021, the UBS Select Prime Investor Fund has a short-term capital loss carryforward of $246.

ASC 740-10 “Income Taxes—Overall” sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken. The Funds have conducted an analysis and concluded as of April 30, 2021, that there are no significant uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken that would require recognition in the financial statements. The Funds recognize interest and penalties, if any, related to uncertain tax positions as income tax expense in the Statement of operations. During the year ended April 30, 2021, the Funds did not incur any interest or penalties.

Each of the tax years in the four year period ended April 30, 2021, and since inception for the ESG Prime Investor Fund, remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities.

 

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UBS Investor Funds

Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

To the Shareholders of UBS Select Prime Investor Fund, UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund, UBS Select Government Investor Fund, UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund, UBS Prime Investor Fund and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund and the Board of Trustees of UBS Series Funds

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities of UBS Select Prime Investor Fund, UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund , UBS Select Government Investor Fund, UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund, UBS Prime Investor Fund and UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund (collectively referred to as the “Funds”), (six of the funds constituting UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”)), as of April 30, 2021, and the related statements of operations and changes in net assets, and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the Funds (six of the funds constituting UBS Series Funds) at April 30, 2021, and the results of their operations, the changes in net assets and financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

 

Individual fund constituting UBS
Series Funds
  Statement of
operations
  Statements of changes
in net assets
  Financial highlights

UBS Select Prime Investor Fund

UBS Select Treasury Investor Fund

UBS Prime Investor Fund

UBS Tax-Free Investor Fund

  For the year ended April 30, 2021   For each of the two years in the period ended April 30, 2021   For each of the five years in the period ended April 30, 2021
UBS Select Government Investor Fund   For the year ended April 30, 2021   For each of the two years in the period ended April 30, 2021   For each of the four years in the period ended April 30, 2021 and the period from August 17, 2016 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2017
UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund   For the year ended April 30, 2021   For the year ended April 30, 2021 and the period from January 15, 2020 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2020   For the year ended April 30, 2021 and the period from January 15, 2020 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2020

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on each of the Funds’ financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

 

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UBS Investor Funds

Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

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June 28, 2021

 

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UBS Investor Funds

General information (unaudited)

 

Monthly portfolio holdings disclosure

The Funds and Master Funds file their complete schedules of portfolio holdings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) each month on Form N-MFP. These reports on Form N-MFP are available on the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov. The Funds and Master Funds make portfolio holdings information available to shareholders on UBS’s Web site at the following internet address: www.ubs.com/usmoneymarketfunds. A more limited portfolio holdings report for each of Master Trust—Prime Master Fund (the master fund in which UBS Select Prime Investor Fund invests), Master Trust—ESG Prime Master Fund (the master fund in which UBS Select ESG Prime Investor Fund invests) and for Master Trust—Prime CNAV Master Fund (the master fund in which UBS Prime Investor Fund invests) is available on a weekly basis at the same UBS Web address. Investors also may find additional information about the Funds at the above referenced UBS Web site internet address.

Proxy voting policies, procedures and record

You may obtain a description of each Fund’s (and corresponding Master Fund’s) (1) proxy voting policies, (2) proxy voting procedures and (3) information regarding how a fund voted any proxies related to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 for which an SEC filing has been made, without charge, upon request by contacting a fund directly at 1-800-647 1568, online on Fund’s Web site: www.ubs.com/ubsam-proxy, or on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Web site (http://www.sec.gov).

Other tax information

Pursuant to Sections 871(k)(1)(C)(i) and 871(k)(2)(C)(i) of the Internal Revenue Code, the Funds designate the following ordinary income distributions paid as qualified interest income and qualified short term capital gains:

 

Fund      Qualified interest
income
     Qualified short term
capital gains
Prime Investor Fund      $ 341,184        $ 13,574  
ESG Prime Investor Fund        2,919          7,717  
Government Investor Fund        78,385          18,694  
Treasury Investor Fund        170,386           
Prime CNAV Investor Fund        301,299          12,615  

 

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Master Trust

Annual Report  |  April 30, 2021

Includes:

 

Prime Master Fund

 

ESG Prime Master Fund

 

Government Master Fund

 

Treasury Master Fund

 

Prime CNAV Master Fund

 

Tax-Free Master Fund

 


Master Trust

 

Understanding a Master Fund’s expenses (unaudited)

 

(Note: The expense information provided in this section is relevant for direct investors in the Master Funds. Investors in the related “feeder funds” should instead focus on separate expense examples relevant to the particular feeder funds; the expense examples for the feeder funds will reflect their proportionate share of the corresponding Master Funds’ expenses.)

As an owner of a Master Fund, an investor such as a feeder fund incurs ongoing costs, including management fees and other Master Fund expenses. These examples are intended to help you understand a Master Fund investor’s ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a Master Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The examples below are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period, November 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021.

Actual expenses

The first line in the table below for each Master Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over a period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses paid during period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical example for comparison purposes

The second line in the table below for each Master Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Master Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Master Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate your actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Master Fund and other funds. To do so, compare these 5% hypothetical examples with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs. Therefore, the second line in the table for each Master Fund is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds, if those other funds impose transactional costs—for example, exchange fees. In addition, if those transactional costs were included, your costs for those other funds would have been higher.

 

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Master Trust

 

Understanding a Master Fund’s expenses (unaudited) (concluded)

 

        Beginning
account value
November 1, 2020
     Ending
account value
April 30, 2021
     Expenses paid
during period
11/01/20 to 04/30/21
1
     Expense
ratio during
the period
                   
Prime Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.40        $ 0.50          0.10
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.30          0.50          0.10  
                                             
                   
ESG Prime Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.70        $ 0.00          0.00
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.79          0.00          0.00  
                                             
                   
Government Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.50          0.10
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.30          0.50          0.10  
                                             
                   
Treasury Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.40          0.08
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.40          0.40          0.08  
                                             
                   
Prime CNAV Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.40        $ 0.50          0.10
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.30          0.50          0.10  
                                             
                   
Tax-Free Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.35          0.07
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.45          0.35          0.07  

 

1 

Expenses are equal to the Master Fund’s annualized net expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181 divided by 365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

 

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Master Trust

 

Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited)

 

Prime Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics      
Weighted average maturity1      49 days  

 

Top five issuer breakdown by country or territory of origin2    Percentage of net assets
United States      20.3
Japan      11.9  
Canada      11.2  
France      9.3  
New Zealand      6.4  
Total      59.1
Portfolio composition2    Percentage of net assets
Commercial paper      64.5
Repurchase agreements      17.4  
Certificates of deposit      9.7  
Time deposits      8.4  
Other assets in excess of liabilities       0.0  
Total      100.0

 

 

Amount represents less than 0.05% or (0.05%).

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Because the price of interests in Prime Master Fund will fluctuate, when you sell your shares of each related feeder fund, your shares of the related feeder fund may be worth more or less than what you originally paid for them. Prime Master Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if Prime Master Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

ESG Prime Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics  
Weighted average maturity1      51 days  

 

Top five issuer breakdown by country or territory of origin2    Percentage of net assets
United States      23.9
Japan      10.6  
France      8.8  
Sweden      7.3  
Canada      6.9  
Total      57.5
Portfolio composition2      
Commercial paper      64.8
Repurchase agreements      22.6  
Time deposits      9.0  
Certificates of deposit      3.5  
Other assets in excess of liabilities      0.1  
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Because the price of interests in ESG Prime Master Fund will fluctuate, when you sell your shares of each related feeder fund, your shares of the related feeder fund may be worth more or less than what you originally paid for them. ESG Prime Master Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if ESG Prime Master Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

Government Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics      
Weighted average maturity1      34 days  

 

Portfolio composition2      
U.S. Treasury obligations      43.9
U.S. government agency obligations      34.1  
Repurchase agreements      22.9  
Liabilities in excess of other assets      (0.9
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although Government Master Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of each related feeder fund are at $1.00 per share, Government Master Fund cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

Treasury Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics  
Weighted average maturity1      43 days  

 

Portfolio composition2      
U.S. Treasury obligations      73.2
Repurchase agreements      27.6  
Liabilities in excess of other assets      (0.8
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although Treasury Master Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of each related feeder fund are at $1.00 per share, Treasury Master Fund cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

Prime CNAV Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics      
Weighted average maturity1      53 days  
  

 

Top five issuer breakdown by country or territory of origin2    Percentage of net assets
United States      22.5
Japan      12.6  
Canada      12.6  
France      9.4  
New Zealand      6.0  
Total      63.1
Portfolio composition2      
Commercial paper      69.7
Repurchase agreements      14.6  
Certificates of deposit      9.3  
Time deposits      6.7  
Liabilities in excess of other assets      (0.3
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

Investments in the fund are intended to be limited to feeder funds with accounts beneficially owned by natural persons. Each feeder fund reserves the right to repurchase shares in any account that are not beneficially owned by natural persons.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although Prime CNAV Master Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of each related feeder fund are at $1.00 per share, Prime CNAV Master Fund cannot guarantee it will do so. Prime CNAV Master Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if Prime CNAV Master Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

44


Master Trust

 

Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (concluded)

 

Tax-Free Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics      
Weighted average maturity1      10 days  

 

Portfolio composition2      
Municipal bonds      90.1
Tax-exempt commercial paper      9.8  
Other assets in excess of liabilities      0.1  
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

Investments in the fund are intended to be limited to feeder funds with accounts beneficially owned by natural persons. Each feeder fund reserves the right to repurchase shares in any account that are not beneficially owned by natural persons.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although Tax-Free Master Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of each related feeder fund are at $1.00 per share, Tax-Free Master Fund cannot guarantee it will do so. Tax-Free Master Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if Tax-Free Master Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

45


Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Certificates of deposit—9.7%

 

Banking-non-U.S.—7.8%

 

MUFG Bank Ltd.
0.190%, due 10/05/21

  $ 45,000,000     $ 45,002,956  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.290%, due 06/21/21

    44,000,000       44,011,620  

Royal Bank of Canada

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.300%, due 06/16/211

    32,000,000       32,017,745  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.250%, due 05/13/21

    63,000,000       63,003,865  

0.250%, due 06/01/21

    63,000,000       63,009,402  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.170%, due 08/24/21

    50,000,000       50,000,636  

0.180%, due 07/26/21

    54,000,000       54,005,471  

0.270%, due 05/18/21

    63,000,000       63,006,013  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.260%, due 05/11/21

    66,000,000       66,003,891  

0.270%, due 05/12/21

    40,000,000       40,002,679  

0.270%, due 05/18/21

    50,000,000       50,004,773  

Svenska Handelsbanken

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.240%, due 05/28/211

    35,000,000       35,005,684  

Toronto-Dominion Bank

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.100%,
0.282%, due 05/20/211

    85,000,000       85,028,038  
   

 

 

 

      690,102,773  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—1.9%

 

Cooperatieve Centrale

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.200%, due 06/21/211

    50,000,000       49,999,998  

0.250%, due 08/16/21

    64,000,000       64,019,158  

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.243%, due 05/06/211

    52,000,000       52,009,299  
   

 

 

 

              166,028,455  

Total certificates of deposit
(cost—$856,000,000)

      856,131,228  
Commercial paper2—64.5%    
Asset backed-miscellaneous—15.7%    

Barton Capital SA
0.080%, due 05/03/21

    5,000,000       4,999,969  

Chariot Funding LLC
0.220%, due 07/09/21

    59,000,000       58,982,447  

Fairway Finance Co. LLC
0.170%, due 09/03/21

    60,000,000       59,965,140  

0.180%, due 10/08/21

    22,000,000       21,983,274  

0.180%, due 11/05/21

    44,000,000       43,960,037  

0.220%, due 05/13/21

    33,000,000       32,998,868  

0.250%, due 06/03/21

    60,000,000       59,991,784  

Liberty Street Funding LLC
0.010%, due 05/03/21

    90,000,000       89,999,595  

0.150%, due 08/05/21

    35,000,000       34,984,817  

0.155%, due 08/03/21

    25,000,000       24,989,379  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)    
Asset backed-miscellaneous—(concluded)

 

LMA Americas LLC
0.170%, due 08/05/21

  $ 30,000,000     $ 29,986,986  

0.180%, due 10/07/21

    42,000,000       41,968,266  

0.190%, due 10/08/21

    19,000,000       18,985,555  

0.200%, due 05/11/21

    6,000,000       5,999,835  

0.250%, due 05/17/21

    63,000,000       62,996,817  

0.260%, due 05/20/21

    50,000,000       49,996,750  

0.270%, due 06/02/21

    21,100,000       21,097,602  

Nieuw Amsterdam Receivables Corp.
0.040%, due 05/04/21

    80,372,000       80,371,500  

Old Line Funding LLC
0.180%, due 09/01/21

    39,000,000       38,979,044  

0.190%, due 09/10/21

    30,000,000       29,982,599  

0.230%, due 10/26/21

    50,000,000       49,960,222  

0.240%, due 10/15/21

    82,000,000       81,938,773  

0.270%, due 08/16/21

    50,000,000       49,977,050  

0.290%, due 07/09/21

    45,000,000       44,987,487  

Starbird Funding Corp.
0.070%, due 05/03/21

    29,400,000       29,399,819  

0.150%, due 07/09/21

    20,000,000       19,994,050  

Thunder Bay Funding LLC
0.180%, due 08/16/21

    30,000,000       29,986,050  

0.190%, due 10/04/21

    50,000,000       49,962,930  

Versailles Commercial Paper LLC

   

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.090%,
0.205%, due 05/04/211,3

    43,000,000       43,000,000  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.221%, due 05/06/211,3

    44,000,000       44,000,000  

Victory Receivables Corp.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    71,006,000       71,005,680  

0.200%, due 05/03/21

    59,000,000       58,999,734  
   

 

 

 

      1,386,432,059  
   

 

 

 

Banking-non-U.S.—46.1%

 

ANZ New Zealand International Ltd.
0.190%, due 11/29/21

    31,000,000       30,973,588  

0.200%, due 12/21/21

    31,000,000       30,968,836  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.213%, due 05/10/211,3

    22,000,000       22,000,000  

0.260%, due 08/18/21

    40,000,000       39,984,478  

ASB Finance Ltd.
0.220%, due 11/24/21

    67,000,000       66,938,449  

0.230%, due 05/17/21

    33,000,000       32,999,205  

0.240%, due 05/12/21

    64,000,000       63,999,019  

0.250%, due 06/11/21

    63,000,000       62,994,708  

0.250%, due 07/07/21

    60,000,000       59,989,460  

Bank of Nova Scotia
0.230%, due 04/07/22

    24,750,000       24,702,270  

BNZ International Funding Ltd.
0.220%, due 08/06/21

    46,000,000       45,986,852  

BPCE SA
0.180%, due 09/01/21

    50,000,000       49,975,200  

Caisse des Depots et Consignations
0.180%, due 01/14/22

    25,000,000       24,968,345  
 

 

46


Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)    
Banking-non-U.S.—(continued)

 

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
0.200%, due 07/07/21

  $ 46,000,000     $ 45,990,616  

0.230%, due 04/04/22

    37,000,000       36,922,652  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.243%, due 05/06/211,3

    79,000,000       79,010,090  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.070%,
0.272%, due 05/04/211,3

    79,000,000       79,013,819  

Credit Industriel et Commercial
0.240%, due 05/24/21

    62,000,000       61,997,230  

DBS Bank Ltd.
0.140%, due 05/03/21

    25,000,000       24,999,875  

0.170%, due 08/23/21

    51,000,000       50,974,422  

0.180%, due 10/01/21

    40,000,000       39,971,253  

0.250%, due 05/19/21

    85,000,000       84,996,456  

Dexia Credit Local SA
0.210%, due 05/06/21

    48,000,000       47,999,520  

0.250%, due 06/08/21

    60,000,000       59,994,215  

Erste Abwicklungsanstalt
0.150%, due 06/04/21

    50,000,000       49,995,868  

Erste Finance LLC
0.070%, due 05/04/21

    180,000,000       179,996,999  

0.070%, due 05/06/21

    115,000,000       114,997,125  

Federation des Caisses Desjardins du Quebec 0.050%, due 05/03/21

    220,000,000       219,998,900  

0.050%, due 05/04/21

    121,000,000       120,999,193  

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp.
0.170%, due 07/01/21

    50,000,000       49,989,580  

0.180%, due 09/01/21

    30,000,000       29,982,123  

0.185%, due 09/01/21

    50,000,000       49,970,206  

0.190%, due 08/02/21

    50,000,000       49,981,200  

0.210%, due 07/12/21

    40,000,000       39,989,537  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.165%, due 08/10/21

    40,000,000       39,979,147  

0.175%, due 07/06/21

    40,000,000       39,988,908  

0.190%, due 05/25/21

    64,000,000       63,994,978  

0.190%, due 06/01/21

    101,000,000       100,990,752  

National Australia Bank Ltd.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.000%,
0.198%, due 05/14/211,3

    70,000,000       70,000,777  

National Bank of Canada
0.170%, due 08/16/21

    43,750,000       43,732,675  

0.170%, due 09/01/21

    50,000,000       49,975,372  

0.220%, due 07/06/21

    78,000,000       77,983,742  

Natixis SA
0.260%, due 05/17/21

    62,000,000       61,997,540  

NRW Bank
0.035%, due 05/05/21

    100,000,000       99,999,306  

0.040%, due 05/04/21

    235,000,000       234,998,693  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.180%, due 10/01/21

    51,000,000       50,960,512  

0.270%, due 08/17/21

    63,000,000       62,971,578  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.180%, due 10/05/21

    45,000,000       44,967,807  

0.180%, due 11/18/21

    45,000,000       44,956,570  

0.190%, due 08/19/21

    43,000,000       42,981,836  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(concluded)    
Banking-non-U.S.—(concluded)

 

Societe Generale SA
0.020%, due 05/06/21

  $ 117,000,000     $ 116,998,830  

0.050%, due 05/03/21

    15,000,000       14,999,925  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.160%, due 08/13/21

    20,050,000       20,041,520  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.190%, due 05/25/21

    80,000,000       79,995,500  

0.190%, due 08/23/21

    30,000,000       29,985,146  

Svenska Handelsbanken
0.160%, due 08/23/21

    50,000,000       49,979,555  

0.210%, due 12/16/21

    35,000,000       34,960,421  

0.230%, due 06/01/21

    36,750,000       36,747,354  

0.250%, due 08/12/21

    64,000,000       63,976,889  

Toronto-Dominion Bank
0.060%, due 05/04/21

    90,000,000       89,999,200  

United Overseas Bank Ltd.
0.250%, due 05/28/21

    60,000,000       59,996,314  

0.280%, due 09/27/21

    65,000,000       64,952,604  

Westpac Banking Corp.
0.180%, due 12/01/21

    45,000,000       44,946,788  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.020%,
0.210%, due 11/24/211,3

    45,000,000       44,999,999  

Westpac Securities NZ Ltd.
0.200%, due 07/08/21

    46,000,000       45,988,009  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.205%, due 05/05/211,3

    58,000,000       58,000,097  
   

 

 

 

      4,061,299,633  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—2.7%

 

Bedford Row Funding Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.186%, due 07/26/211,3

    40,000,000       40,000,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.215%, due 05/03/211,3

    42,000,000       42,000,000  

Collateralized Commercial Paper FLEX Co. LLC 0.190%, due 10/19/21

    35,000,000       34,969,064  

0.250%, due 07/09/21

    25,000,000       24,992,562  

0.270%, due 06/08/21

    6,000,000       5,999,142  

Collateralized Commercial Paper V Co. LLC 0.200%, due 10/04/21

    13,000,000       12,990,078  

0.220%, due 10/29/21

    79,000,000       78,924,116  
   

 

 

 

              239,874,962  

Total commercial paper
(cost—$5,687,160,781)

 

    5,687,606,654  
Time deposits—8.4%

 

Banking-non-U.S.—8.4%

 

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    360,000,000       360,000,000  

Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank 0.030%, due 05/03/21

    118,000,000       118,000,000  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    85,000,000       85,000,000  

Natixis SA
0.020%, due 05/03/21

    180,000,000       180,000,000  

Total time deposits
(cost—$743,000,000)

 

    743,000,000  
 

 

47


Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—17.4%

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Barclays Bank PLC, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $97,065,829 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.500% to 3.500% due 06/01/47 to 03/01/51 and $371,669,956 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.500% to 4.500% due 05/01/35 to 03/01/40; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,000,167

  $ 200,000,000     $ 200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.140% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $56,269,186 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 2.436% to 6.580% due 03/15/22 to 04/22/52; (value—$53,496,135); proceeds: $50,000,583

    50,000,000       50,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.180% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $189,908,361 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 0.586% to 6.750% due 07/01/21 to 03/25/36; (value—$32,191,636); proceeds: $30,000,4505

    30,000,000       30,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $76,812,096 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.834% to 4.000% due 12/01/37 to 10/15/47 and $369,902,082 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.112% to 4.000% due 12/01/33 to 02/01/51; (value—$306,000,000); proceeds: $300,000,250

    300,000,000       300,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/20/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, SOFR + 0.01%, 0.020% due 05/07/21, collateralized by $172,429,417 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.000% to 4.500% due 05/01/35 to 04/01/51 and $160,064,348 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 6.000% due 09/01/25 to 11/01/56; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,001,1114

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/27/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 0.250% due 05/04/21, collateralized by $65,080,000 asset-backed convertible bond, 2.000% due 08/15/22; (value—$77,000,487); proceeds: $70,003,403

    70,000,000       70,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/28/20 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.23%, 0.280% due 05/07/21, collateralized by $78,598,066 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 4.000% to 10.000% due 10/15/21 to 10/01/40; (value—$81,000,001); proceeds: $75,214,0834

    75,000,000       75,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.33%, 0.380% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $67,298,000 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 4.000% due 06/15/24 to 12/15/25; (value—$82,500,545); proceeds: $75,022,9584

  $ 75,000,000     $ 75,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $425,089,324 Government National Mortgage Association obligation, 3.000% due 08/20/49; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,000,167

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/20/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., OBFR + 0.25%, 0.300% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $39,020,456 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 0.486% to 6.500% due 05/15/28 to 09/20/45; (value—$26,750,000); proceeds: $25,002,0834

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., OBFR + 0.65%, 0.700% due 08/03/21, collateralized by $52,226,000 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 2.000% due 08/15/23 to 06/15/27; (value—$80,250,338); proceeds: $75,042,2924

    75,000,000       75,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., OBFR + 0.65%, 0.700% due 08/03/21, collateralized by $165,392,000 shares of various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 6.750% due 03/15/23 to 09/30/46; (value—$251,450,117); proceeds: $235,132,5144

    235,000,000       235,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$1,535,000,000)

 

    1,535,000,000  

Total investments
(cost—$8,821,160,781 which approximates
cost for federal income tax
purposes)—100.0%

 

    8,821,737,882  
   

Other assets in excess of liabilities—0.00%

 

    1,371,247  

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 8,823,109,129  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

48


Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments:

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
Certificates of deposit      $        $ 856,131,228        $        $ 856,131,228  
Commercial paper                 5,687,606,654                   5,687,606,654  
Time deposits                 743,000,000                   743,000,000  
Repurchase agreements                 1,535,000,000                   1,535,000,000  
Total      $        $ 8,821,737,882        $        $ 8,821,737,882  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

 

Amount represents less than 0.05% or (0.05)%.

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects earlier of reset date or stated maturity date.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

3 

Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid, unless noted otherwise, and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. Securities exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A, in the amount of $ 522,024,782, represented 5.9% of the Fund’s net assets at period end.

4 

Investment has a put feature, which allows the Fund to accelerate the maturity, and a variable or floating rate. The interest rate shown is the current rate as of April 30, 2021 and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects the earliest put date and the proceeds represent the receivable of the Fund if the put feature was exercised as of April 30, 2021.

5 

Collateral includes perpetual investments, maturity dates shown reflect the next call date for the perpetual investments.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

49


ESG Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Certificates of deposit—3.5%

 

Banking-non-U.S.—2.7%

 

MUFG Bank Ltd.
0.190%, due 10/05/21

  $ 2,500,000     $ 2,500,164  

Royal Bank of Canada

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.300%, due 06/16/211

    2,000,000       2,001,109  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.250%, due 05/13/21

    2,000,000       2,000,123  

0.250%, due 06/01/21

    2,000,000       2,000,298  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.180%, due 07/26/21

    2,000,000       2,000,203  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.212%, due 07/01/211

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

Svenska Handelsbanken

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.202%, due 05/17/211

    2,000,000       1,999,893  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.240%, due 05/28/211

    1,500,000       1,500,243  
   

 

 

 

      16,002,033  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—0.8%

 

Cooperatieve Centrale

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.200%, due 06/21/211

    3,000,000       3,000,000  

0.250%, due 08/16/21

    2,000,000       2,000,599  
   

 

 

 

              5,000,599  

Total certificates of deposit
(cost—$21,000,000)

 

    21,002,632  
Commercial paper2—64.8%

 

Asset backed-miscellaneous—20.9%

 

Atlantic Asset Securitization LLC
0.040%, due 05/03/21

    1,500,000       1,499,991  

0.158%, due 07/22/21

    6,000,000       5,997,814  

0.161%, due 08/05/21

    2,500,000       2,498,915  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.080%,
0.195%, due 05/18/211,3

    2,000,000       2,000,175  

Barton Capital SA
0.081%, due 05/03/21

    1,000,000       999,994  

Chariot Funding LLC
0.106%, due 05/10/21

    4,000,000       3,999,882  

0.153%, due 07/09/21

    2,000,000       1,999,405  

Fairway Finance Co. LLC
0.095%, due 05/13/21

    1,000,000       999,966  

0.145%, due 06/03/21

    1,500,000       1,499,795  

0.170%, due 10/08/21

    1,000,000       999,240  

0.173%, due 11/05/21

    3,000,000       2,997,275  

0.183%, due 11/15/21

    2,750,000       2,747,325  

Gotham Funding Corp.
0.050%, due 05/07/21

    4,000,000       3,999,961  

Liberty Street Funding LLC
0.161%, due 08/04/21

    5,000,000       4,997,853  

LMA Americas LLC
0.074%, due 05/03/21

    1,000,000       999,994  

0.090%, due 05/11/21

    1,750,000       1,749,952  

0.107%, due 05/17/21

    1,500,000       1,499,924  

0.132%, due 06/08/21

    2,000,000       1,999,714  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Asset backed-miscellaneous—(concluded)

 

0.155%, due 07/15/21

  $ 5,000,000     $ 4,998,364  

0.162%, due 08/09/21

    2,000,000       1,999,091  

0.167%, due 09/08/21

    2,000,000       1,998,785  

Manhattan Asset Funding Co. LLC
0.153%, due 07/08/21

    5,500,000       5,498,387  

Nieuw Amsterdam Receivables Corp.
0.100%, due 05/28/21

    7,000,000       6,999,456  

0.127%, due 07/27/21

    3,000,000       2,998,907  

0.137%, due 06/25/21

    7,000,000       6,998,508  

Old Line Funding LLC
0.142%, due 07/06/21

    2,500,000       2,499,339  

0.143%, due 07/09/21

    2,000,000       1,999,444  

0.156%, due 09/01/21

    2,000,000       1,998,925  

0.160%, due 10/15/21

    2,000,000       1,998,507  

0.162%, due 11/01/21

    2,500,000       2,497,919  

Thunder Bay Funding LLC
0.113%, due 06/09/21

    5,000,000       4,999,372  

0.135%, due 07/14/21

    2,000,000       1,999,437  

0.137%, due 07/19/21

    1,000,000       999,696  

0.155%, due 08/16/21

    2,000,000       1,999,070  

0.170%, due 10/04/21

    2,000,000       1,998,517  

0.172%, due 11/01/21

    2,000,000       1,998,232  

Versailles Commercial Paper LLC
0.063%, due 05/05/21

    3,000,000       2,999,974  

0.125%, due 06/03/21

    2,250,000       2,249,734  

0.152%, due 07/06/21

    5,000,000       4,998,586  

0.161%, due 08/02/21

    5,000,000       4,997,898  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.221%, due 05/06/211,3

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

Victory Receivables Corp.
0.054%, due 05/03/21

    2,000,000       1,999,991  

0.140%, due 07/21/21

    5,500,000       5,498,246  

0.140%, due 07/27/21

    3,000,000       2,998,973  
   

 

 

 

      127,710,533  
   

 

 

 

Banking-non-U.S.—41.7%

 

ANZ New Zealand International Ltd.
0.127%, due 08/18/21

    1,000,000       999,612  

0.144%, due 11/29/21

    2,000,000       1,998,296  

0.154%, due 12/21/21

    2,000,000       1,997,989  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.213%, due 05/10/211,3

    1,000,000       1,000,000  

ASB Finance Ltd.
0.046%, due 05/12/21

    2,000,000       1,999,969  

0.093%, due 07/07/21

    3,100,000       3,099,455  

0.122%, due 09/01/21

    2,000,000       1,999,160  

0.148%, due 10/22/21

    2,000,000       1,998,561  

Banque et Caisse d Epargne de l Etat
0.108%, due 08/16/21

    6,000,000       5,998,056  

0.137%, due 10/01/21

    2,000,000       1,998,828  

BNZ International Funding Ltd.
0.105%, due 08/06/21

    2,000,000       1,999,428  

BPCE SA
0.144%, due 09/01/21

    2,500,000       2,498,760  

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
0.108%, due 07/07/21

    2,000,000       1,999,592  

0.145%, due 09/13/21

    2,000,000       1,998,904  

0.222%, due 04/04/22

    2,500,000       2,494,774  
 

 

50


ESG Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Banking-non-U.S.—(continued)

 

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.070%,
0.272%, due 05/04/211,3

  $ 1,000,000     $ 1,000,175  

DBS Bank Ltd.
0.079%, due 05/19/21

    1,000,000       999,958  

0.157%, due 08/23/21

    2,000,000       1,998,997  

0.168%, due 10/01/21

    2,500,000       2,498,203  

Dexia Credit Local SA
0.060%, due 05/06/21

    1,000,000       999,990  

0.089%, due 06/08/21

    2,000,000       1,999,807  

Erste Abwicklungsanstalt
0.085%, due 06/04/21

    5,000,000       4,999,587  

Erste Finance LLC
0.150%, due 05/06/21

    14,000,000       13,999,650  

Federation des Caisses Desjardins du Quebec

   

0.060%, due 05/03/21

    7,500,000       7,499,963  

0.060%, due 05/04/21

    7,000,000       6,999,953  

0.090%, due 06/09/21

    7,500,000       7,499,250  

Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau
0.180%, due 01/26/22

    2,000,000       1,997,290  

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp.
0.100%, due 05/25/21

    2,250,000       2,249,844  

0.121%, due 07/01/21

    3,000,000       2,999,375  

0.129%, due 07/12/21

    1,500,000       1,499,608  

0.147%, due 08/05/21

    2,000,000       1,999,208  

0.173%, due 09/01/21

    2,500,000       2,498,510  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.103%, due 06/01/21

    2,000,000       1,999,817  

0.124%, due 05/21/21

    2,750,000       2,749,801  

National Australia Bank Ltd.
0.091%, due 06/02/21

    5,000,000       4,999,583  

National Bank of Canada
0.111%, due 07/02/21

    2,500,000       2,499,514  

0.112%, due 07/06/21

    3,000,000       2,999,375  

0.123%, due 08/02/21

    2,000,000       1,999,358  

0.128%, due 08/10/21

    2,500,000       2,499,093  

Nationwide Building Society
0.089%, due 05/10/21

    11,500,000       11,499,716  

0.124%, due 05/25/21

    5,000,000       4,999,569  

Natixis SA
0.084%, due 05/17/21

    2,000,000       1,999,921  

Nordea Bank Abp
0.106%, due 07/15/21

    2,000,000       1,999,552  

0.126%, due 08/17/21

    2,250,000       2,249,142  

0.129%, due 08/26/21

    11,000,000       10,995,349  

NRW Bank
0.059%, due 05/14/21

    5,000,000       4,999,885  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.095%, due 06/14/21

    6,000,000       5,999,288  

0.173%, due 09/16/21

    2,000,000       1,998,664  

0.181%, due 10/01/21

    2,000,000       1,998,451  

0.194%, due 12/08/21

    2,000,000       1,997,607  

Royal Bank of Canada
0.083%, due 06/22/21

    1,240,000       1,239,849  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.080%, due 05/19/21

    4,500,000       4,499,810  

0.080%, due 05/21/21

    1,000,000       999,953  

0.115%, due 07/06/21

    2,500,000       2,499,465  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Banking-non-U.S.—(concluded)

 

0.175%, due 12/10/21

  $ 2,500,000     $ 2,497,278  

0.178%, due 01/05/22

    2,000,000       1,997,528  

Societe Generale SA
0.060%, due 05/06/21

    10,000,000       9,999,900  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.092%, due 06/02/21

    6,000,000       5,999,494  

0.141%, due 08/09/21

    5,500,000       5,497,824  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.067%, due 05/17/21

    2,000,000       1,999,937  

0.067%, due 05/17/21

    4,000,000       3,999,873  

0.074%, due 05/21/21

    4,000,000       3,999,827  

0.085%, due 05/27/21

    3,000,000       2,999,809  

0.102%, due 06/17/21

    2,000,000       1,999,728  

0.119%, due 07/12/21

    2,000,000       1,999,517  

Svenska Handelsbanken
0.075%, due 05/19/21

    1,000,000       999,960  

0.125%, due 08/12/21

    2,000,000       1,999,278  

0.127%, due 08/19/21

    2,000,000       1,999,217  

0.139%, due 10/06/21

    2,500,000       2,498,465  

0.172%, due 11/19/21

    1,800,000       1,798,295  

0.177%, due 12/16/21

    2,000,000       1,997,738  

Toronto-Dominion Bank
0.083%, due 05/10/21

    1,750,000       1,749,960  

0.153%, due 10/07/21

    3,000,000       2,997,960  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.030%,
0.220%, due 06/16/211,3

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

United Overseas Bank Ltd.
0.079%, due 05/28/21

    1,000,000       999,939  

0.083%, due 06/02/21

    3,000,000       2,999,772  

0.105%, due 06/24/21

    2,000,000       1,999,679  

0.175%, due 09/27/21

    1,000,000       999,271  

Westpac Banking Corp.
0.194%, due 11/15/21

    2,000,000       1,997,855  

0.195%, due 11/18/21

    2,000,000       1,997,812  

Westpac Securities NZ Ltd.
0.136%, due 07/08/21

    2,000,000       1,999,479  

0.194%, due 11/15/21

    2,000,000       1,997,855  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.205%, due 05/05/211,3

    1,000,000       1,000,002  
   

 

 

 

      254,566,766  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—2.2%    

Bedford Row Funding Corp.
0.176%, due 01/03/22

    1,500,000       1,498,182  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.215%, due 05/03/211,3

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.237%, due 06/21/211,3

    1,000,000       1,000,077  

Collateralized Commercial Paper FLEX Co. LLC
0.110%, due 05/18/21

    1,000,000       999,945  

0.132%, due 06/08/21

    1,000,000       999,857  

0.181%, due 10/13/21

    2,000,000       1,998,331  

Collateralized Commercial Paper V Co. LLC 0.175%, due 10/04/21

    2,500,000       2,498,092  
 

 

51


ESG Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(concluded)

 

Banking-U.S.—(concluded)

 

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA
0.169%, due 11/29/21

  $ 2,500,000     $ 2,497,500  
   

 

 

 

              13,491,984  

Total commercial paper
(cost—$395,749,303)

      395,769,283  
Time deposits—9.0%    
Banking-non-U.S.—9.0%    

Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank
0.030%, due 05/03/21

    15,000,000       15,000,000  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Natixis
0.020%, due 05/03/21

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Total time deposits
(cost—$55,000,000)

      55,000,000  
Repurchase agreements—22.6%    

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.33%, 0.380% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $783,811 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 8.00% due 09/15/21 to 12/01/50; (value—$1,135,198); proceeds: $1,000,3064,5

    1,000,000       1,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $138,871,800 U.S. Treasury Note, 0.500% due 03/15/23; (value—$139,740,088); proceeds: $137,000,114

  $ 137,000,000     $ 137,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$138,000,000)

            138,000,000  

Total investments
(cost—$609,749,303 which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)—99.9%

      609,771,915  
   

Other assets in excess of liabilities—0.1%

            736,175  

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 610,508,090  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments:

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
Certificates of deposit      $        $ 21,002,632        $        $ 21,002,632  
Commercial paper                 395,769,283                   395,769,283  
Time deposits                 55,000,000                   55,000,000  
Repurchase agreements                 138,000,000                   138,000,000  
Total      $        $ 609,771,915        $        $ 609,771,915  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects earlier of reset date or stated maturity date.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

3 

Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid, unless noted otherwise, and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. Securities exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A, in the amount of $12,000,429, represented 2.0% of the Fund’s net assets at period end.

4 

Investment has a put feature, which allows the Fund to accelerate the maturity, and a variable or floating rate. The interest rate shown is the current rate as of April 30, 2021 and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects the earliest put date and the proceeds represent the receivable of the Fund if the put feature was exercised as of April 30, 2021.

5 

Collateral includes perpetual investments, maturity dates shown reflect the next call date for the perpetual investments.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

52


Government Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. government agency obligations—34.1%

 

Federal Farm Credit Bank

 

SOFR + 0.035%,
0.045%, due 05/01/211

  $ 27,000,000     $ 27,000,000  

SOFR + 0.050%,
0.060%, due 05/01/211

    23,000,000       23,000,000  

0.060%, due 02/10/22

    45,000,000       44,996,392  

SOFR + 0.055%,
0.065%, due 05/01/211

    5,500,000       5,500,000  

SOFR + 0.060%,
0.070%, due 05/01/211

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

0.100%, due 10/08/21

    67,500,000       67,492,207  

SOFR + 0.110%,
0.120%, due 05/01/211

    78,000,000       78,000,000  

0.120%, due 05/20/212

    125,000,000       124,992,917  

0.130%, due 05/06/212

    25,000,000       24,999,729  

0.150%, due 05/26/21

    55,000,000       54,999,758  

SOFR + 0.160%,
0.170%, due 05/01/211

    35,000,000       35,000,000  

Federal Home Loan Bank
0.009%, due 05/12/212

    150,000,000       149,999,662  

0.010%, due 05/28/212

    77,000,000       76,999,465  

0.018%, due 07/09/212

    172,000,000       171,994,238  

0.018%, due 07/16/212

    79,000,000       78,997,077  

SOFR + 0.010%,
0.020%, due 05/03/211

    231,000,000       231,000,000  

0.020%, due 07/28/212

    60,000,000       59,997,133  

SOFR + 0.015%,
0.025%, due 05/03/211

    186,000,000       186,000,000  

0.025%, due 08/19/21

    78,000,000       77,999,317  

0.025%, due 08/25/212

    28,600,000       28,597,736  

0.034%, due 05/21/212

    89,000,000       88,998,487  

0.039%, due 05/12/212

    45,000,000       44,999,561  

0.040%, due 05/17/212

    90,000,000       89,998,600  

0.050%, due 06/28/21

    66,000,000       66,000,257  

0.059%, due 05/05/212

    45,000,000       44,999,853  

SOFR + 0.050%,
0.060%, due 05/03/211

    100,000,000       100,000,000  

SOFR + 0.055%,
0.065%, due 05/03/211

    100,000,000       100,000,000  

SOFR + 0.060%,
0.070%, due 05/03/211

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

0.090%, due 06/18/212

    13,000,000       12,998,505  

SOFR + 0.090%,
0.100%, due 05/03/211

    46,000,000       46,000,000  

0.104%, due 05/14/212

    53,500,000       53,498,300  

SOFR + 0.150%,
0.160%, due 05/03/211

    116,000,000       116,000,000  

0.185%, due 06/24/212

    52,000,000       51,986,104  

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

   

SOFR + 0.095%,
0.105%, due 05/01/211

    67,000,000       67,000,000  

SOFR + 0.100%,
0.110%, due 05/01/211

    181,000,000       181,000,000  

SOFR + 0.190%,
0.200%, due 05/01/211

    115,000,000       115,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. government agency obligations—(concluded)

 

Federal National Mortgage Association

   

SOFR + 0.130%,
0.140%, due 05/01/211

  $ 90,000,000     $ 90,000,482  

SOFR + 0.180%,
0.190%, due 05/01/211

    115,000,000       115,000,000  

2.750%, due 06/22/21

    51,775,000       51,958,639  

Total U.S. government agency obligations
(cost—$3,010,004,419)

      3,010,004,419  
U.S. Treasury obligations—43.9%

 

U.S. Cash Management Bill
0.021%, due 08/31/212

    77,000,000       76,994,655  

0.022%, due 08/10/212

    75,000,000       74,995,566  

0.025%, due 08/17/212

    57,000,000       56,995,804  

0.030%, due 08/03/212

    65,000,000       64,995,017  

0.034%, due 06/29/212

    85,000,000       84,994,055  

0.053%, due 07/13/212

    155,000,000       154,984,025  

0.056%, due 07/20/212

    74,000,000       73,991,182  

0.069%, due 06/22/212

    150,000,000       149,986,806  

0.081%, due 07/06/212

    97,000,000       96,986,204  

U.S. Treasury Bills
0.025%, due 07/22/212

    64,000,000       63,996,445  

0.033%, due 06/10/212

    157,000,000       156,995,317  

0.036%, due 10/28/212

    89,000,000       88,984,598  

0.041%, due 10/14/212

    62,000,000       61,988,702  

0.041%, due 10/21/212

    97,000,000       96,981,570  

0.044%, due 06/01/212

    86,000,000       85,997,021  

0.050%, due 05/27/212

    216,000,000       215,993,997  

0.061%, due 06/03/212

    80,000,000       79,995,867  

0.062%, due 05/11/212

    136,000,000       135,998,224  

0.066%, due 06/08/212

    125,000,000       124,991,750  

0.069%, due 07/29/212

    207,000,000       206,965,110  

0.072%, due 06/17/212

    170,000,000       169,985,482  

0.079%, due 05/18/212

    150,000,000       149,996,308  

0.081%, due 05/20/212

    174,000,000       173,994,078  

0.087%, due 05/13/212

    244,000,000       243,994,665  

0.089%, due 06/15/212

    73,000,000       72,992,327  

0.089%, due 07/08/212

    76,000,000       75,987,739  

0.090%, due 05/04/212

    70,000,000       69,999,830  

0.091%, due 05/25/212

    87,000,000       86,995,215  

0.092%, due 05/06/212

    244,000,000       243,998,233  

0.097%, due 07/15/212

    62,000,000       61,997,485  

U.S. Treasury Notes

   

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.114%,
0.134%, due 05/01/211

    70,000,000       70,007,723  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.220%,
0.240%, due 05/01/211

    143,000,000       142,984,892  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.300%,
0.320%, due 05/01/211

    97,000,000       97,029,059  

1.875%, due 01/31/22

    38,000,000       38,516,903  

1.875%, due 02/28/22

    19,000,000       19,286,221  

Total U.S. Treasury obligations
(cost—$3,871,578,075)

      3,871,578,075  
 

 

53


Government Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—22.9%

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.22%, 0.270% due 07/29/21, collateralized by $429,390,899 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 3.000% to 4.500% due 02/25/35 to 11/25/50 and $91,399,130 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 4.634% to 5.984% due 05/20/37 to 12/20/48; (value—$103,000,000); proceeds: $100,021,7503

  $ 100,000,000     $ 100,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/20/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, SOFR + 0.01%, 0.020% due 05/07/21, collateralized by $45,381,312 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.500% to 5.500% due 12/01/26 to 05/01/51 and $302,703,628 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 5.000% due 03/01/28 to 05/01/51; (value—$306,000,000); proceeds: $300,001,6673

    300,000,000       300,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $214,040,981 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 3.000% due 06/01/50 to 04/01/51 (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,000,167

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Toronto-Dominion Bank, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $2,503,419 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligation, 2.000% due 02/25/51, $260,977,854 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 1.500% to 9.000% due 10/01/21 to 02/25/51 and $26,110,898 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.500% to 3.000% due 05/20/45 to 03/20/51; (value—$102,000,000); proceeds: $100,000,083

    100,000,000       100,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/27/21 with MUFG Securities Americas Inc., OBFR 0.01%, 0.040% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $177,593,402 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 1.250% to 4.500% due 08/25/31 to 03/25/51 and $98,768,506 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 3.000% to 4.000% due 07/01/32 to 12/01/50 and $24,417,388 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 1.000% to 4.000% due 05/20/39 to 02/20/51; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,001,6673

  $ 200,000,000     $ 200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Fixed Income Clearing Corp., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $915,871,900 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.125% to 2.000% due 06/15/22 to 07/31/22; (value—$937,380,082); proceeds: $919,000,383

    919,000,000       919,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $201,499,136 Federal National Mortgage Association obligation, 2.000% due 05/01/51; (value—$204,000,166); proceeds: $200,000,167

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$2,019,000,000)

            2,019,000,000  

Total investments
(cost—$8,900,582,494 which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)—100.9%

      8,900,582,494  
   

Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.9)%

 

    (77,889,638

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 8,822,692,856  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments.

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
U.S. government agency obligations      $        $ 3,010,004,419        $        $ 3,010,004,419  
U.S. Treasury obligations                 3,871,578,075                   3,871,578,075  
Repurchase agreements                 2,019,000,000                   2,019,000,000  
Total      $        $ 8,900,582,494        $        $ 8,900,582,494  

 

54


Government Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

3 

Investment has a put feature, which allows the Fund to accelerate the maturity, and a variable or floating rate. The interest rate shown is the current rate as of April 30, 2021 and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects the earliest put date and the proceeds represent the receivable of the Fund if the put feature was exercised as of April 30, 2021.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

55


Treasury Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. Treasury obligations—73.2%

 

U.S. Cash Management Bill
0.030%, due 08/03/211

  $ 250,000,000     $ 249,980,833  

0.023%, due 08/10/211

    320,000,000       319,979,760  

0.025%, due 08/17/211

    226,655,000       226,638,316  

0.0292%, due 07/27/211

    306,000,000       305,979,192  

0.025%, due 08/24/211

    266,000,000       265,979,126  

0.040%, due 07/20/211

    764,000,000       763,941,313  

0.021%, due 08/31/211

    281,000,000       280,980,494  

0.046%, due 07/13/211

    931,000,000       930,919,869  

0.091%, due 06/29/211

    474,325,000       474,274,227  

0.067%, due 07/06/211

    507,000,000       506,942,560  

0.069%, due 06/22/211

    404,000,000       403,964,778  

U.S. Treasury Bills
0.089%, due 06/15/211

    181,000,000       180,980,975  

0.012%, due 08/12/211

    250,000,000       249,964,229  

0.014%, due 06/24/211

    307,510,000       307,504,421  

0.053%, due 09/16/211

    255,000,000       254,949,424  

0.020%, due 07/01/211

    322,000,000       321,989,445  

0.039%, due 09/23/211

    300,000,000       299,954,121  

0.058%, due 09/09/211

    249,000,000       248,949,141  

0.041%, due 09/30/211

    522,000,000       521,913,001  

0.034%, due 10/07/211

    262,000,000       261,961,723  

0.041%, due 10/14/211

    252,000,000       251,954,080  

0.041%, due 10/21/211

    379,275,000       379,202,938  

0.036%, due 10/28/211

    354,105,000       354,043,722  

0.034%, due 06/10/211

    747,070,000       747,046,909  

0.050%, due 05/27/211

    656,000,000       655,983,523  

0.052%, due 06/03/211

    507,000,000       506,978,782  

0.056%, due 06/08/211

    504,000,000       503,977,559  

0.062%, due 05/11/211

    376,000,000       375,995,103  

0.063%, due 05/18/211

    1,060,485,000       1,060,473,347  

0.064%, due 06/01/211

    754,100,000       754,069,693  

0.066%, due 07/08/211

    485,000,000       484,960,253  

0.071%, due 07/29/211

    601,895,000       601,800,442  

0.071%, due 07/22/211

    488,000,000       487,936,774  

0.072%, due 05/25/211

    521,000,000       520,984,803  

0.072%, due 06/17/211

    429,000,000       428,963,956  

0.077%, due 05/20/211

    1,001,000,000       1,000,973,131  

0.083%, due 05/04/211

    730,000,000       729,998,887  

0.084%, due 05/06/211

    841,000,000       840,995,413  

0.087%, due 05/13/211

    625,000,000       624,986,737  

0.097%, due 07/15/211

    736,000,000       735,882,708  

U.S. Treasury Notes

 

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.034%,
0.054%, due 05/04/21 2

    250,000,000       250,005,047  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.049%,
0.069%, due 05/01/21 2

    852,950,000       853,078,669  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.055%,
0.075%, due 05/01/21 2

    250,000,000       249,996,846  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.114%,
0.134%, due 05/01/21 2

    1,030,000,000       1,030,220,082  
     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. Treasury obligations—(concluded)

 

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.154%,
0.174%, due 05/01/212

  $ 250,000,000     $ 249,936,391  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.220%,
0.240%, due 05/01/212

    605,000,000       605,068,510  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.300%,
0.320%, due 05/01/212

    486,784,000       486,894,274  

1.750%, due 07/31/21

    245,000,000       245,999,066  

1.875%, due 01/31/22

    142,000,000       143,931,585  

1.875%, due 02/28/22

    71,000,000       72,069,561  

2.000%, due 11/15/21

    200,000,000       202,036,035  

2.625%, due 07/15/21

    100,000,000       100,501,184  

Total U.S. Treasury obligations
(cost—$23,914,692,958)

      23,914,692,958  
Repurchase agreements—27.6%

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Barclays Capital, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $466,757,300 U.S. Treasury Bonds, 3.000% to 4.250% due 11/15/40 to 11/15/45, $866,317,800 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Notes, 0.125% due 01/15/22 to 04/15/26 and $2,438,404,400 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.125% to 2.875% due 06/15/21 to 05/15/29; (value—$4,080,000,093); proceeds: $4,000,003,333

    4,000,000,000       4,000,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $73,497,700 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Bond, 1.000% due 02/15/48, $141,800, U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Note, 0.125% due 01/15/23 and $2,171,500 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.069% to 2.000% due 09/30/21 to 01/31/23; (value—$102,000,088); proceeds: $100,000,042

    100,000,000       100,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 0.000% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $481,972,300 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.500% to 2.500% due 08/15/23 to 02/15/30; (value—$500,000,014); proceeds: $500,000,000

    500,000,000       500,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Fixed Income Clearing Corp., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $100,000,000 U.S Treasury Bill, Zero Coupon due 03/24/22, $1,012,141,500 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Notes, 0.125% due 01/15/22 to 04/15/22 and $926,295,300 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.125% to 2.500% due 02/15/22 to 06/15/22; (value—$2,198,100,100); proceeds: $2,155,000,898

    2,155,000,000       2,155,000,000  
 

 

56


Treasury Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(continued)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/27/21 with Goldman Sachs & Co., 0.010% due 05/04/21, collateralized by $4,000 U.S. Treasury Bill, zero coupon due 05/20/21 and $205,025,600 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.250% to 2.000% due 12/31/21 to 04/30/28; (value—$204,000,001); proceeds: $200,000,389

  $ 200,000,000     $ 200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with JP Morgan Securities LLC, 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $586,566,400 U.S. Treasury Bill, Zero Coupon due 04/21/22 and $126,485,400 U.S. Treasury Note, 2.000% due 05/31/21; (value—$714,000,117); proceeds: $700,000,292

    700,000,000       700,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/29/21 with JP Morgan Securities LLC, 0.005% due 05/06/21, collateralized by $20,974,000 U.S. Treasury Bill, Zero Coupon due 07/27/21, $23,561,830 U.S. Treasury Bonds STRIPs, zero coupon due 11/15/25 and $402,594,300 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.750% to 2.625% due 01/15/22 to 12/31/23; (value—$459,000,032); proceeds: $450,000,438

    450,000,000       450,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $21,993,900 U.S. Treasury Note, 1.250% due 03/31/28; (value—$21,930,043); proceeds: $21,500,018

    21,500,000       21,500,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Mizuho Securities USA LLC, 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $100,669,800 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.625% to 2.250% due 01/31/22 to 11/30/27; (value—$102,000,052); proceeds: $100,000,042

    100,000,000       100,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with MUFG Securities Americas Inc., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $9,257,300 U.S. Treasury Bonds Principal STRIPs, zero coupon due 08/15/22, $38,665,000 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Notes, 0.125% due 01/15/23 to 07/15/30 and $237,336,800 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.625% to 3.125% due to 05/15/21 to 05/15/28; (value—$306,000,084); proceeds: $300,000,125

  $ 300,000,000     $ 300,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with MUFG Securities Americas Inc., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $146,181,200 U.S. Treasury Bonds, 1.875% to 6.375% due 08/15/27 to 02/15/51, $73,727,300 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Bonds, 0.125% to 3.375% due 04/15/32 to 02/15/51, $36,932,400 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Notes, 0.125% to 0.750% due 04/15/23 to 07/15/28 and $176,263,900 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.125% to 3.125% due 05/15/21 to 08/15/30; (value—$510,000,046); proceeds: $500,000,208

    500,000,000       500,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$9,026,500,000)

 

    9,026,500,000  

Total investments
(cost—$32,941,192,958 which approximates
cost for federal income tax purposes)—100.8%

 

    32,941,192,958  
   

Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.8)%

 

    (266,001,995

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 32,675,190,963  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments:

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
U.S. Treasury obligations      $        $ 23,914,692,958        $        $ 23,914,692,958  
Repurchase agreements                 9,026,500,000                   9,026,500,000  
Total      $        $ 32,941,192,958        $        $ 32,941,192,958  

 

57


Treasury Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

2 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects earlier of reset date or stated maturity date.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

58


Prime CNAV Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Certificates of deposit—9.3%

 

Banking-non-U.S.—7.6%

 

KBC Bank N.V.
0.060%, due 05/04/21

  $ 20,000,000     $ 20,000,000  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.230%, due 05/04/21

    50,000,000       50,000,000  

MUFG Bank Ltd.
0.190%, due 10/05/21

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.290%, due 06/21/21

    22,000,000       22,000,000  

Royal Bank of Canada

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.300%, due 06/16/211

    31,000,000       31,000,000  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.250%, due 05/13/21

    32,000,000       32,000,000  

0.250%, due 06/01/21

    31,000,000       31,000,000  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.180%, due 07/26/21

    23,000,000       23,000,000  

0.180%, due 10/20/21

    13,000,000       13,000,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.212%, due 07/01/211

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.260%, due 05/11/21

    32,000,000       32,000,000  

Svenska Handelsbanken

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.240%, due 05/28/211

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Toronto-Dominion Bank

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.100%,
0.282%, due 05/20/211

    35,000,000       35,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      339,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—1.7%

 

Cooperatieve Centrale

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.200%, due 06/21/211

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

0.250%, due 08/16/21

    32,000,000       32,000,000  

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.243%, due 05/06/211

    25,000,000       25,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      77,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Total certificates of deposit
(cost—$416,000,000)

 

    416,000,000  
Commercial paper2—69.7%

 

Asset backed-miscellaneous—17.9%

 

Albion Capital Corp.
0.160%, due 07/20/21

    53,750,000       53,731,367  

Atlantic Asset Securitization LLC
0.170%, due 10/06/21

    20,000,000       19,984,833  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.080%,
0.195%, due 05/18/21 1,3

    18,000,000       18,000,000  

Chariot Funding LLC
0.153%, due 07/09/21

    26,000,000       25,989,354  

0.163%, due 08/18/21

    26,000,000       25,988,022  

Fairway Finance Co. LLC
0.095%, due 05/13/21

    16,000,000       15,999,022  

0.145%, due 06/03/21

    30,000,000       29,993,542  

0.168%, due 09/13/21

    20,000,000       19,988,178  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Asset backed-miscellaneous—(concluded)

 

0.170%, due 10/08/21

  $ 10,000,000     $ 9,992,100  

0.173%, due 11/05/21

    23,000,000       22,978,610  

Liberty Street Funding LLC
0.010%, due 05/03/21

    60,000,000       60,000,000  

0.161%, due 08/05/21

    15,000,000       14,994,125  

LMA Americas LLC
0.090%, due 05/11/21

    23,000,000       22,999,029  

0.090%, due 05/11/21

    50,000,000       49,997,778  

0.167%, due 09/08/21

    10,000,000       9,993,244  

0.170%, due 10/07/21

    18,000,000       17,985,870  

0.170%, due 10/08/21

    8,200,000       8,193,162  

0.170%, due 10/18/21

    15,000,000       14,987,050  

Nieuw Amsterdam Receivables Corp.
0.041%, due 05/04/21

    30,000,000       29,999,967  

Old Line Funding LLC
0.143%, due 07/09/21

    20,000,000       19,989,206  

0.157%, due 09/10/21

    20,000,000       19,986,278  

0.158%, due 09/15/21

    30,000,000       29,978,625  

0.160%, due 10/15/21

    16,000,000       15,982,400  

0.162%, due 11/01/21

    15,500,000       15,484,328  

Starbird Funding Corp.
0.153%, due 07/09/21

    15,000,000       14,995,812  

Thunder Bay Funding LLC
0.137%, due 07/19/21

    22,000,000       21,992,471  

0.155%, due 08/16/21

    35,000,000       34,981,625  

0.170%, due 10/04/21

    20,000,000       19,983,744  

0.172%, due 11/01/21

    20,000,000       19,979,778  

Versailles Commercial Paper LLC
0.161%, due 08/02/21

    45,000,000       44,982,937  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.090%,
0.205%, due 05/04/211,3

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.221%, due 05/06/211,3

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Victory Receivables Corp.
0.054%, due 05/03/21

    26,000,000       26,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      796,132,457  
   

 

 

 

Banking-non-U.S.—48.9%

 

ANZ New Zealand International Ltd.
0.127%, due 08/18/21

    20,000,000       19,984,544  

0.144%, due 11/29/21

    17,000,000       16,981,158  

0.154%, due 12/21/21

    17,000,000       16,978,089  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.213%, due 05/10/211,3

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

ASB Finance Ltd.
0.046%, due 05/12/21

    32,000,000       31,998,080  

0.051%, due 05/17/21

    16,275,000       16,273,544  

0.072%, due 06/11/21

    32,000,000       31,991,333  

0.093%, due 07/07/21

    30,000,000       29,986,458  

0.122%, due 09/01/21

    24,000,000       23,984,270  

Bank of Nova Scotia
0.203%, due 04/07/22

    11,000,000       10,976,176  

BNZ International Funding Ltd.
0.105%, due 08/06/21

    21,000,000       20,987,808  

BPCE SA
0.176%, due 10/06/21

    20,000,000       19,984,400  
 

 

59


Prime CNAV Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Banking-non-U.S.—(continued)

 

Caisse des Depots et Consignations
0.180%, due 01/26/22

  $ 20,000,000     $ 19,971,711  

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
0.108%, due 07/07/21

    20,000,000       19,992,778  

0.222%, due 04/04/22

    16,000,000       15,965,653  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.243%, due 05/06/211,3

    38,000,000       38,000,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.070%,
0.272%, due 05/04/211,3

    38,000,000       38,000,000  

Credit Industriel et Commercial
0.067%, due 05/24/21

    2,000,000       1,999,720  

DBS Bank Ltd.
0.157%, due 08/23/21

    23,000,000       22,987,836  

0.168%, due 10/01/21

    18,000,000       17,986,410  

Dexia Credit Local SA
0.060%, due 05/06/21

    27,000,000       26,999,527  

0.089%, due 06/08/21

    30,000,000       29,992,500  

0.150%, due 08/03/21

    15,000,000       14,995,017  

Erste Finance LLC
0.150%, due 05/04/21

    120,000,000       119,999,767  

0.150%, due 05/06/21

    70,000,000       69,999,592  

Federation des Caisses Desjardins du Quebec
0.060%, due 05/03/21

    112,500,000       112,500,000  

0.060%, due 05/04/21

    76,000,000       75,999,894  

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp.
0.121%, due 07/01/21

    22,000,000       21,993,871  

0.135%, due 07/22/21

    40,000,000       39,984,889  

0.173%, due 09/01/21

    20,000,000       19,987,900  

MITSUBISHI UFJ,
0.155%, due 08/13/21

    30,000,000       29,986,400  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.103%, due 06/01/21

    49,000,000       48,992,500  

0.113%, due 05/25/21

    29,000,000       28,996,633  

National Australia Bank Ltd.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.000%,
0.198%, due 05/14/211,3

    33,000,000       33,000,000  

National Bank of Canada
0.112%, due 07/06/21

    10,000,000       9,997,511  

0.112%, due 07/06/21

    34,000,000       33,986,702  

0.132%, due 08/16/21

    22,000,000       21,989,092  

0.143%, due 09/01/21

    20,000,000       19,988,572  

Natixis SA
0.084%, due 05/17/21

    31,000,000       30,996,865  

0.181%, due 10/14/21

    20,000,000       19,981,778  

NRW Bank
0.050%, due 05/04/21

    80,000,000       79,999,911  

0.050%, due 05/05/21

    50,000,000       49,999,903  

0.083%, due 06/04/21

    43,000,000       42,996,178  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.149%, due 08/17/21

    31,000,000       30,975,355  

0.181%, due 10/01/21

    22,000,000       21,983,390  

0.194%, due 12/08/21

    19,100,000       19,076,762  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.137%, due 08/19/21

    19,000,000       18,989,170  

0.163%, due 10/05/21

    19,000,000       18,985,275  

0.175%, due 12/10/21

    22,500,000       22,472,375  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(concluded)

 

Banking-non-U.S.—(concluded)

 

Societe Generale SA
0.060%, due 05/03/21

  $ 15,000,000     $ 15,000,000  

0.060%, due 05/06/21

    158,000,000       157,999,737  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.141%, due 08/09/21

    40,000,000       39,982,578  

0.143%, due 08/11/21

    46,820,000       46,798,541  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.081%, due 05/25/21

    12,000,000       11,998,607  

0.085%, due 05/27/21

    24,000,000       23,996,960  

0.109%, due 06/28/21

    30,000,000       29,991,133  

0.155%, due 08/23/21

    22,000,000       21,986,996  

Svenska Handelsbanken
0.125%, due 08/12/21

    32,000,000       31,977,555  

0.128%, due 08/23/21

    22,000,000       21,989,049  

0.139%, due 10/06/21

    20,000,000       19,984,400  

0.164%, due 11/09/21

    20,000,000       19,981,000  

Toronto-Dominion Bank
0.080%, due 05/04/21

    75,000,000       74,999,875  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.030%,
0.220%, due 06/16/211,3

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

United Overseas Bank Ltd.
0.175%, due 09/27/21

    31,000,000       30,964,557  

Westpac Banking Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.020%,
0.210%, due 11/24/211,3

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Westpac Securities NZ Ltd.
0.136%, due 07/08/21

    20,000,000       19,992,667  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.205%, due 05/05/211,3

    27,000,000       27,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      2,175,520,952  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—2.9%

 

Bedford Row Funding Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.215%, due 05/03/211,3

    18,000,000       18,000,000  

Collateralized Commercial Paper FLEX Co. LLC
0.110%, due 05/18/21

    29,000,000       28,996,617  

0.132%, due 06/08/21

    4,000,000       3,998,920  

0.153%, due 07/09/21

    15,000,000       14,993,021  

0.181%, due 10/13/21

    23,000,000       22,979,172  

0.185%, due 10/19/21

    30,000,000       29,973,242  

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA
0.169%, due 11/29/21

    12,550,000       12,537,554  
   

 

 

 

              131,478,526  

Total commercial paper
(cost—$3,103,131,935)

      3,103,131,935  
Time deposits—6.7%    
Banking-non-U.S.—6.7%    

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    165,000,000       165,000,000  

Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank
0.030%, due 05/03/21

    81,000,000       81,000,000  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    50,000,000       50,000,000  

Total time deposits
(cost—$296,000,000)

      296,000,000  
 

 

60


Prime CNAV Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—14.6%    

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $8,000 Federal Farm Credit Bank obligations, 2.830% to 2.990% due 07/18/34 to 12/19/36, $315,000 Federal Home Loan Bank obligations, 4.100% to 5.250% due 12/09/22 to 10/24/33, $2,342,500 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, zero Coupon to 2.150% due 12/11/25 to 07/13/40, $20,853,000 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, zero Coupon to 2.625% due 01/11/22 to 01/15/33, $100 U.S. Treasury Bill, Zero Coupon due 05/20/21, $7,116,500 U.S. Treasury Bonds, 3.875% to 8.125% due 05/15/21 to 08/15/40, $12,380,100 U.S. Treasury Bonds Principal STRIPs, zero coupon due 11/15/39 to 02/15/48, $33,568,807 U.S. Treasury Bonds STRIPs, zero coupon due 08/15/25 to 05/15/49, $36,038,700 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.054% to 2.750% due 08/15/21 to 11/15/26 and $661,000 various asset, 1.875% to 2.750% due 07/23/21 to 10/07/22; (value—$102,006,548); proceeds: $100,000,042

  $ 100,000,000     $ 100,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.180% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $17,106,644 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 0.646% to 7.926% due 04/16/26 to 06/15/40; (value—$16,200,001); proceeds: $15,000,225

    15,000,000       15,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Goldman Sachs & Co., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $28,007,535 U.S. Treasury Bonds STRIPs, zero coupon due 08/15/31 to 05/15/41, $81,432,200 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Note, 0.375% due 07/15/23 and $65,620,000 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.125% to 1.250% due 11/30/22 to 04/30/28; (value—$181,968,000); proceeds: $178,400,149

    178,400,000       178,400,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/20/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, SOFR + 0.01%, 0.020% due 05/07/21, collateralized by $75,358,896 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 1.500% to 2.000% due 04/01/36 to 05/01/46, $100,447,292 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 3.000% due 08/01/47 to 05/01/51 and $24,700,160 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 3.000% due 08/20/43; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,001,1114

    200,000,000       200,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)    

Repurchase agreement dated 04/27/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 0.250% due 05/04/21, collateralized by $25,949,000 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 2.000% due to 08/15/23 to 06/15/26; (value—$33,000,395); proceeds: $30,001,458

  $ 30,000,000     $ 30,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.33%, 0.380% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $33,536,000 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 5.000% due to 03/15/24 to 11/01/26; (value—$38,500,246); proceeds: $35,010,7144

    35,000,000       35,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., SOFR + 0.65%, 0.700% due 08/03/21, collateralized by 20,681 shares of various equity securities; (value—$26,750,823); proceeds: $25,014,097

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., SOFR + 0.65%, 0.700% due 08/03/21, collateralized by 6,440,000 convertible bond zero coupon due 12/15/25 and $259,872 shares of various equity securities; (value—$69,550,639); proceeds: $65,036,6534

    65,000,000       65,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$648,400,000)

            648,400,000  

Total investments
(cost—$4,463,531,935 which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)—100.3%

      4,463,531,935  
   

Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.3)%

 

    (14,124,514

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 4,449,407,421  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

61


Prime CNAV Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments.

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
Certificates of deposit      $        $ 416,000,000        $        $ 416,000,000  
Commercial paper                 3,103,131,935                   3,103,131,935  
Time deposits                 296,000,000                   296,000,000  
Repurchase agreements                 648,400,000                   648,400,000  
Total      $        $ 4,463,531,935        $        $ 4,463,531,935  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects earlier of reset date or stated maturity date.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

3 

Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid, unless noted otherwise, and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. Securities exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A, in the amount of $262,000,000, represented 5.9% of the Fund’s net assets at period end.

4 

Investment has a put feature, which allows the Fund to accelerate the maturity, and a variable or floating rate. The interest rate shown is the current rate as of April 30, 2021 and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects the earliest put date and the proceeds represent the receivable of the Fund if the put feature was exercised as of April 30, 2021.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—90.1%    
Alaska—2.5%    

Alaska International Airports, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.070%, VRD

  $ 7,345,000     $ 7,345,000  

City of Valdez, (Exxon Pipeline Co. Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    800,000       800,000  

Series B,
0.030%, VRD

    10,335,000       10,335,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    2,100,000       2,100,000  
   

 

 

 

      20,580,000  
   

 

 

 

Arizona—0.2%

 

Arizona Industrial Development Authority, (Phoenix Children’s), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.020%, VRD

    1,200,000       1,200,000  

Industrial Development Authority of the City of Phoenix, (Mayo Clinic), Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.020%, VRD

    400,000       400,000  
   

 

 

 

      1,600,000  
   

 

 

 

California—2.4%

 

California Municipal Finance Authority, (Chevron USA—Recovery Zone), Revenue Bonds
0.020%, VRD

    350,000       350,000  

City of Irvine, (Assessment District No.03-19),
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    200,000       200,000  

City of Irvine, (Reassessment District No. 85-7A)
0.030%, VRD

    7,494,000       7,494,000  

Irvine Ranch Water District,
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    1,300,000       1,300,000  

Los Angeles Department of Water & Power System, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Subseries A-3,
0.030%, VRD

    400,000       400,000  

Southern California Public Power Authority, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A-20,
0.030%, VRD

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

State of California, GO Bonds,
Series A-1,
0.020%, VRD

    6,645,000       6,645,000  

Series A3,
0.020%, VRD

    1,000,000       1,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      19,389,000  
   

 

 

 

Colorado—0.4%

 

City & County of Denver, Refunding, Certificates of Participation,
Series A1,
0.030%, VRD

    1,500,000       1,500,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Colorado—0.4%

 

Colorado Health Facilities Authority, (Children’s Hospital), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

  $ 2,000,000     $ 2,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      3,500,000  
   

 

 

 

District of Columbia—1.3%

 

District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority Subordinate Lien, Revenue Bonds,
Subseries B-2,
0.060%, VRD

    11,000,000       11,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Florida—0.3%    

Hillsborough County Industrial Development Authority, (BayCare Health System), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.040%, VRD

    1,800,000       1,800,000  

Series C,
0.060%, VRD

    400,000       400,000  
   

 

 

 

      2,200,000  
   

 

 

 

Illinois—14.9%    

Illinois Development Finance Authority, (Chicago Symphony Project), Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    12,500,000       12,500,000  

Illinois Development Finance Authority, (Francis W. Parker School Project), Revenue Bonds
0.080%, VRD

    19,700,000       19,700,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare), Revenue Bonds,
Series D,
0.070%, VRD

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (Gift of Hope Donor Project), Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    9,640,000       9,640,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (Hospital Sisters Services), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series G,
0.070%, VRD

    8,300,000       8,300,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (OSF Healthcare System), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.020%, VRD

    1,210,000       1,210,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    6,600,000       6,600,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (Steppenwolf Theatre), Revenue Bonds
0.090%, VRD

    6,815,000       6,815,000  

0.090%, VRD

    8,450,000       8,450,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (University of Chicago), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series C,
0.050%, VRD

    24,600,000       24,600,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (University of Chicago), Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.050%, VRD

    13,734,000       13,734,000  
   

 

 

 

      121,549,000  
   

 

 

 

 

 

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Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Indiana—7.0%    

Indiana Finance Authority, (Duke Energy Indiana Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A-5,
0.040%, VRD

  $ 29,520,000     $ 29,520,000  

Indiana Finance Authority, (Trinity Health), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series D-1,
0.060%, VRD

    27,700,000       27,700,000  
   

 

 

 

      57,220,000  
   

 

 

 

Maryland—0.1%    

Maryland Economic Development Corp., (Howard Hughes Medical), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.060%, VRD

    1,180,000       1,180,000  
   

 

 

 

Massachusetts—1.4%    

Massachusetts Health & Educational Facilities Authority, (Harvard University), Revenue Bonds
0.010%, VRD

    500,000       500,000  

Massachusetts Health & Educational Facilities Authority, (Partners Healthcare Systems), Revenue Bonds,
Series F3,
0.050%, VRD

    5,725,000       5,725,000  

Massachusetts Transportation Trust Fund Metropolitan Highway System, Revenue bonds,
Series A-1,
0.050%, VRD

    5,255,000       5,255,000  
   

 

 

 

      11,480,000  
   

 

 

 

Michigan—0.2%    

Green Lake Township Economic Development Corp., (Interlochen Center Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.020%, VRD

    1,700,000       1,700,000  
   

 

 

 

Mississippi—4.3%    

County of Jackson MS, (Chevron USA, Inc. Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.030%, VRD

    600,000       600,000  

Mississippi Business Finance Corp., (Chevron USA), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    775,000       775,000  

Series B,
0.030%, VRD

    4,905,000       4,905,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    2,630,000       2,630,000  

Series D,
0.030%, VRD

    550,000       550,000  

Series G,
0.030%, VRD

    1,990,000       1,990,000  

Mississippi Business Finance Corp., (Chevron USA, Inc. Project), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    1,135,000       1,135,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Mississippi—(concluded)    

Series B,
0.030%, VRD

  $ 950,000     $ 950,000  

Series B,
0.030%, VRD

    1,550,000       1,550,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    900,000       900,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    1,475,000       1,475,000  

Series E,
0.030%, VRD

    1,300,000       1,300,000  

Series E,
0.030%, VRD

    1,400,000       1,400,000  

Series F,
0.030%, VRD

    4,175,000       4,175,000  

Series G,
0.030%, VRD

    1,535,000       1,535,000  

Mississippi Business Finance Corp., (Chevron USA, Inc.), Revenue Bonds,
Series G,
0.030%, VRD

    2,795,000       2,795,000  

Series H,
0.030%, VRD

    1,425,000       1,425,000  

Series I,
0.030%, VRD

    2,100,000       2,100,000  

Series K,
0.030%, VRD

    2,155,000       2,155,000  

Series L,
0.030%, VRD

    400,000       400,000  

Mississippi Development Bank, (Jackson County Industrial Water System), Revenue Bonds
0.030%, VRD

    700,000       700,000  
   

 

 

 

      35,445,000  
   

 

 

 

Missouri—2.3%

 

Health & Educational Facilities Authority of the State of Missouri, (Ascension Health), Revenue Bonds,

   

Series C-3,
0.060%, VRD

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

Series C-5,
0.040%, VRD

    3,675,000       3,675,000  

Health & Educational Facilities Authority of the State of Missouri, (St. Louis University), Revenue Bonds,
Series B-1,
0.030%, VRD

    3,500,000       3,500,000  

Health & Educational Facilities Authority of the State of Missouri, (Washington University), Revenue Bonds,
Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    1,700,000       1,700,000  
   

 

 

 

      18,875,000  
   

 

 

 

Nebraska—1.4%

 

Douglas County Hospital Authority No. 2, (Health Facilities for Children), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.040%, VRD

    5,750,000       5,750,000  
 

 

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Tax-Free Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Nebraska—(concluded)

 

Hospital Authority No. 1 of Lancaster County, (Bryanlgh Medical Center), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B-1,
0.040%, VRD

  $ 5,305,000     $ 5,305,000  
   

 

 

 

      11,055,000  
   

 

 

 

New Hampshire—0.0%

 

New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority Act, (Dartmouth College), Revenue Bonds
0.060%, VRD

    275,000       275,000  
   

 

 

 

New Jersey—1.0%

 

Industrial Pollution Control Financing Authority of Union County, (Exxon Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.030%, VRD

    8,000,000       8,000,000  
   

 

 

 

New York—18.0%

 

City of New York, GO Bonds,

 

Subseries B-3,
0.060%, VRD

    8,300,000       8,300,000  

Subseries D-4,
0.040%, VRD

    10,305,000       10,305,000  

Subseries L-4,
0.040%, VRD

    3,870,000       3,870,000  

Dutchess County Industrial Development Agency, (Marist College), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.060%, VRD

    2,830,000       2,830,000  

New York City Housing Development Corp., Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.050%, VRD

    600,000       600,000  

New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured Revenue, Revenue Bonds,

   

Series A-4,
0.050%, VRD

    34,430,000       34,430,000  

Subseries C-6,
0.080%, VRD

    3,000,000       3,000,000  

New York City Water & Sewer System, Revenue Bonds,

   

Series BB-1,
0.050%, VRD

    2,400,000       2,400,000  

Series BB-5,
0.030%, VRD

    8,700,000       8,700,000  

Series DD-2,
0.020%, VRD

    2,950,000       2,950,000  

New York State Dormitory Authority, (Rockefeller University), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.050%, VRD

    34,745,000       34,745,000  

New York State Energy Research & Development Authority, (Consolidated Edison), Revenue Bonds,
Subseries A-1,
0.060%, VRD

    3,000,000       3,000,000  

New York State Urban Development Corp., Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A-5,
0.050%, VRD

    3,575,000       3,575,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
New York—(concluded)

 

Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,

   

Series 2005B-4C,
0.040%, VRD

  $ 11,900,000     $ 11,900,000  

Series F,
0.030%, VRD

    6,275,000       6,275,000  

Subseries B-3,
0.040%, VRD

    4,945,000       4,945,000  

Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.060%, VRD

    5,000,000       5,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      146,825,000  
   

 

 

 

North Carolina—0.1%

 

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, (Carolinas), Revenue Bonds, AGM,
Series E,
0.040%, VRD

    500,000       500,000  
   

 

 

 

Ohio—4.8%

 

Akron Bath Copley Joint Township Hospital District, (Summa Health Obligated Group), Revenue Bonds,

   

Series A-R,
0.060%, VRD

    9,800,000       9,800,000  

Series B-R,
0.060%, VRD

    840,000       840,000  

County of Montgomery OH, (Premier Health Partners Obligated), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series C,
0.040%, VRD

    2,150,000       2,150,000  

State of Ohio, (Cleveland Clinic Health System), Revenue Bonds,

   

Series D-1,
0.050%, VRD

    3,170,000       3,170,000  

Series F,
0.040%, VRD

    13,125,000       13,125,000  

State of Ohio, GO Bonds,
Series D,
0.050%, VRD

    9,690,000       9,690,000  
   

 

 

 

      38,775,000  
   

 

 

 

Oregon—1.8%

 

Oregon State Facilities Authority, (PeaceHealth), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.040%, VRD

    14,300,000       14,300,000  
   

 

 

 

Pennsylvania—5.3%

 

Allegheny County Higher Education Building Authority, (Carnegie Mellon University), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    11,175,000       11,175,000  

Allegheny County Industrial Development Authority, (Education Center Watson), Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    9,600,000       9,600,000  
 

 

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Tax-Free Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Pennsylvania—(concluded)

 

Allegheny County Industrial Development Authority, (Watson Institute Friendship), Revenue Bonds
0.090%, VRD

  $ 14,045,000     $ 14,045,000  

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.050%, VRD

    5,500,000       5,500,000  

Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B-2,
0.060%, VRD

    2,600,000       2,600,000  
   

 

 

 

      42,920,000  
   

 

 

 

Rhode Island—0.1%

 

Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corp., (New England Institute), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.100%, VRD

    840,000       840,000  
   

 

 

 

Tennessee—1.6%

 

Greeneville Health & Educational Facilities Board, (Ballad Health), Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.060%, VRD

    100,000       100,000  

Montgomery County Public Building Authority, Revenue Bonds
0.060%, VRD

    3,600,000       3,600,000  

0.060%, VRD

    9,300,000       9,300,000  
   

 

 

 

      13,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Texas—10.8%

 

City of Austin TX Water & Wastewater System, Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    9,785,000       9,785,000  

Harris County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp., (Methodist Hospital), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.020%, VRD

    23,350,000       23,350,000  

Harris County Health Facilities Development Corp., (Methodist Hospital System), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,

   

Series A-1,
0.020%, VRD

    5,200,000       5,200,000  

Series A-2,
0.020%, VRD

    510,000       510,000  

Harris County Hospital District Senior lien, Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    8,115,000       8,115,000  

Houston Utility System, Refunding First lien, Revenue Bonds,
Series B-4,
0.060%, VRD

    3,500,000       3,500,000  

Lower Neches Valley Authority Industrial Development Corp., (ExxonMobil Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds

   

0.030%, VRD

    5,630,000       5,630,000  

Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    4,400,000       4,400,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Texas—(continued)

 

Lower Neches Valley Authority Industrial Development Corp., (ExxonMobil), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Subseries A-3,
0.030%, VRD

  $ 100,000     $ 100,000  

Lower Neches Valley Authority Industrial Development Corp., (ExxonMobil), Revenue Bonds
0.030%, VRD

    6,850,000       6,850,000  

State of Texas, Revenue Notes
4.000%, due 08/26/21

    20,000,000       20,236,360  
   

 

 

 

      87,676,360  
   

 

 

 

Utah—2.4%

 

City of Murray UT, (IHC Health Services, Inc.), Revenue Bonds,

 

Series C,
0.020%, VRD

    19,055,000       19,055,000  

Series D,
0.020%, VRD

    165,000       165,000  
   

 

 

 

      19,220,000  
   

 

 

 

Virginia—2.4%

 

Loudoun County Economic Development Authority, (Howard Hughes Medical), Revenue Bonds,

 

Series D,
0.070%, VRD

    14,055,000       14,055,000  

Series F,
0.060%, VRD

    5,150,000       5,150,000  
   

 

 

 

      19,205,000  
   

 

 

 

Washington—1.1%

 

Port of Tacoma WA Subordinate Lien, Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.060%, VRD

    9,400,000       9,400,000  
   

 

 

 

Wisconsin—2.0%

 

Public Finance Authority, (WakeMed), Revenue Bonds,

 

Series B,
0.060%, VRD

    7,900,000       7,900,000  

Series C,
0.040%, VRD

    5,350,000       5,350,000  

Wisconsin Health & Educational Facilities Authority, (Marshfield Clinic Health), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.040%, VRD

    3,115,000       3,115,000  
   

 

 

 

              16,365,000  

Total municipal bonds
(cost—$734,074,360)

      734,074,360  
Tax-exempt commercial paper—9.8%

 

Maryland—0.7%

 

Montgomery County
0.130%, due 06/01/21

    5,500,000       5,500,000  
   

 

 

 

Minnesota—1.2%

 

Rochester Minnesota Health Care Facilities Revenue
0.120%, due 05/19/21

    10,000,000       10,000,000  
   

 

 

 

 

 

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Tax-Free Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Tax-exempt commercial paper—(concluded)

 

Ohio—2.5%

 

Ohio State Higher Education
0.090%, due 06/01/21

  $ 5,000,000     $ 5,000,000  

0.140%, due 06/17/21

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

0.140%, due 06/17/21

    5,000,000       5,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      20,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Texas—5.4%

 

Lower Colorado River Authority
0.160%, due 06/04/21

    17,659,000       17,659,000  

University of Texas
0.120%, due 05/17/21

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

0.120%, due 05/21/21

    1,350,000       1,350,000  
   

 

 

 

              44,009,000  

Total tax-exempt commercial paper
(cost—$79,509,000)

 

    79,509,000  

Total investments
(cost—$813,583,360 which approximates
cost for federal income tax purposes)—99.9%

 

    813,583,360  
   

Other assets in excess of liabilities—0.1%

 

    642,089  

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 814,225,449  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments:

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
Municipal bonds      $        $ 734,074,360        $        $ 734,074,360  
Tax-exempt commercial paper                 79,509,000                   79,509,000  
Total      $        $ 813,583,360        $        $ 813,583,360  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnote

 

Amount represents less than 0.05% or (0.05)%.

 

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Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments

 

Portfolio acronyms:

 

AGM    Assured Guaranty Municipal Corporation
GO    General Obligation
LIBOR    London Interbank Offered Rate
OBFR    Overnight Bank Funding Rate
SOFR    Secured Overnight Financing Rate
STRIP    Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities
VRD    Variable rate demand notes are payable on demand. The interest rates shown are the current rates as of April 30, 2021 and reset periodically.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Master Trust

 

 

Statement of assets and liabilities

April 30, 2021

 

      Prime
Master Fund
   ESG Prime
Master Fund
   Government
Master Fund
   Treasury
Master Fund
   Prime CNAV
Master Fund
   Tax-Free
Master Fund
Assets:                  
Investments, at cost                  
Investments      $7,286,160,781        $471,749,303        $6,881,582,494        $23,914,692,958        $3,815,131,935        $813,583,360  
Repurchase agreements      1,535,000,000        138,000,000        2,019,000,000        9,026,500,000        648,400,000         
                 
Investments, at value                  
Investments      7,286,737,882        471,771,915        6,881,582,494        23,914,692,958        3,815,131,935        813,583,360  
Repurchase agreements      1,535,000,000        138,000,000        2,019,000,000        9,026,500,000        648,400,000         
Cash      939,689        702,852        584,512        18,794,976        764,689         
Receivable for investments sold                                         5,475,100  
Receivable for interest      1,198,537        16,497        1,146,466        4,701,713        479,506        585,640  
Receivable from affiliate             16,826                              
Total assets      8,823,876,108        610,508,090        8,902,313,472        32,964,689,647        4,464,776,130        819,644,100  
                 
Liabilities:                  
Payable for investments purchased                    78,994,624        288,305,380        14,995,017         
Payable to affiliate      766,979               625,992        1,193,304        373,692        31,412  
Payable to custodian                                         5,387,239  
Total liabilities      766,979               79,620,616        289,498,684        15,368,709        5,418,651  
Net assets, at value      $8,823,109,129        $610,508,090        $8,822,692,856        $32,675,190,963        $4,449,407,421        $814,225,449  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statement of operations

For the year ended April 30, 2021

 

      Prime
Master Fund
   ESG Prime
Master Fund
   Government
Master Fund
   Treasury
Master Fund
   Prime CNAV
Master Fund
   Tax-Free
Master Fund
Investment income:                  
Interest      $38,778,654        $575,115        $22,936,144        $57,010,752        $18,758,190        $1,759,465  
Expenses:                  
Investment advisory and administration fees      13,324,595        310,387        11,774,671        30,811,390        6,339,573        1,322,871  
Trustees’ fees and expenses      62,381        14,172        54,292        131,596        34,735        17,494  
Total expenses      13,386,976        324,559        11,828,963        30,942,986        6,374,308        1,340,365  
Less: Fee waivers and/or Trustees’ fees reimbursement by administrator             (324,559      (101,870      (3,072,061             (178,964
Net expenses      13,386,976               11,727,093        27,870,925        6,374,308        1,161,401  
Net investment income (loss)      25,391,678        575,115        11,209,051        29,139,827        12,383,882        598,064  
Net realized gain (loss)      (1,170      1,551        256,465        (2      13,975         
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      (3,287,110      (24,570                            
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations      $22,103,398        $552,096        $11,465,516        $29,139,825        $12,397,857        $598,064  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       Prime Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $25,391,678        $353,385,726  
Net realized gain (loss)        (1,170      112,142  
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)        (3,287,110      3,093,263  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        22,103,398        356,591,131  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (7,719,748,147      385,003,117  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (7,697,644,749      741,594,248  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        16,520,753,878        15,779,159,630  
End of year        $8,823,109,129        $16,520,753,878  

 

       ESG Prime Master Fund
        For the
year ended
April 30, 2021
  

For the period from
January 15, 2020
1 to

April 30, 2020

From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $575,115        $134,921  
Net realized gain (loss)        1,551         
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)        (24,570      47,182  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        552,096        182,103  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        536,344,294        73,429,597  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        536,896,390        73,611,700  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of period        73,611,700         
End of period        $610,508,090        $73,611,700  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

 

       Government Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $11,209,051        $240,863,481  
Net realized gain (loss)        256,465        481,629  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        11,465,516        241,345,110  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (8,951,448,030      3,242,842,988  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (8,939,982,514      3,484,188,098  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        17,762,675,370        14,278,487,272  
End of year        $8,822,692,856        $17,762,675,370  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       Treasury Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $29,139,827        $320,151,196  
Net realized gain (loss)        (2      19,268  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        29,139,825        320,170,464  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (2,157,669,635      17,260,860,340  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (2,128,529,810      17,581,030,804  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        34,803,720,773        17,222,689,969  
End of year        $32,675,190,963        $34,803,720,773  

 

       Prime CNAV Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $12,383,882        $119,652,912  
Net realized gain (loss)        13,975        73,339  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        12,397,857        119,726,251  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (3,058,221,326      2,493,874,372  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (3,045,823,469      2,613,600,623  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        7,495,230,890        4,881,630,267  
End of year        $4,449,407,421        $7,495,230,890  

 

       Tax-Free Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $598,064        $27,659,945  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        598,064        27,659,945  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (1,759,955,281      269,819,731  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (1,759,357,217      297,479,676  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        2,573,582,666        2,276,102,990  
End of year        $814,225,449        $2,573,582,666  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Prime Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Expenses after fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.08      0.09
Net investment income (loss)        0.19      1.90      2.32      1.41      0.52
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return1        0.15      1.92      2.31      1.38      0.64
Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 8,823,109      $ 16,520,754      $ 15,779,160      $ 7,775,651      $ 3,161,118  

 

1

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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ESG Prime Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each period is presented below:

 

        Year ended
April
 30, 2021
  

For the period from

January 15, 20201 to

April 30, 2020

Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10 %2 
Expenses after fee waivers             0.00 %2 
Net investment income (loss)        0.18      1.24 %2 
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return3        0.22      0.47
Net assets, end of period (000’s)      $ 610,508      $ 73,612  

 

1

Commencement of operations.

2

Annualized.

3

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Government Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each period is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,    For the period from
June 24, 20161 to
April 30, 2017
        2021    2020    2019    2018
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10 %2 
Expenses after fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.08 %2 
Net investment income (loss)        0.09      1.75      2.07      1.07      0.43 %2 
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return3        0.08      1.74      2.10      1.08      0.35
Net assets, end of period (000’s)      $ 8,822,693      $ 17,762,675      $ 14,278,487      $ 15,676,931      $ 17,380,098  

 

1

Commencement of operations.

2

Annualized.

3

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Treasury Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Expenses after fee waivers        0.09      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Net investment income (loss)        0.09      1.56      2.07      1.08      0.39
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return1        0.08      1.70      2.10      1.08      0.38
Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 32,675,191      $ 34,803,721      $ 17,222,690      $ 18,029,945      $ 18,194,995  

 

1

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Prime CNAV Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Expenses after fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Net investment income (loss)        0.19      1.83      2.29      1.34      0.66
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return1        0.17      1.90      2.27      1.32      0.62
Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 4,449,407      $ 7,495,231      $ 4,881,630      $ 2,370,336      $ 1,336,158  

 

1

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Tax-Free Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Expenses after fee waivers        0.09      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Net investment income (loss)        0.04      1.19      1.35      0.93      0.50
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return1        0.04      1.23      1.38      0.91      0.46
Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 814,225      $ 2,573,583      $ 2,276,103      $ 3,327,962      $ 2,317,734  

 

1

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Organization and significant accounting policies

Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund (each a “Master Fund”, collectively, the “Master Funds”) are each registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), as a diversified series of Master Trust, an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust on June 12, 2007. The Trust is a series mutual fund with six series.

Prime Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund commenced operations on August 28, 2007. Prime CNAV Master Fund commenced operations on January 19, 2016, Government Master Fund commenced operations on June 24, 2016 and ESG Prime Master Fund commenced operations on January 15, 2020.

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”) is the investment advisor and administrator for the Master Funds. UBS AM is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Group AG. UBS Group AG is an internationally diversified organization with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. UBS Group AG operates in many areas of the financial services industry.

Master Trust accounts separately for the assets, liabilities and operations of each series. Expenses directly attributable to each series are charged to that series’ operations; expenses which are applicable to all series are allocated among them on a pro rata basis.

In the normal course of business, the Master Funds may enter into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide indemnification for certain liabilities. The Master Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Master Funds that have not yet occurred. However, the Master Funds have not had any prior claims or losses pursuant to these contracts and expect the risk of loss to be remote.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) is the exclusive reference of authoritative US generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal laws are also sources of authoritative US GAAP for SEC registrants. The Master Funds’ financial statements are prepared in accordance with US GAAP, which may require the use of management estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

In March 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2020-04 (“ASU 2020-04”), “Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848)”. In response to concerns about structural risks of interbank offered rates, and particularly the risk of cessation of LIBOR, regulators have undertaken reference rate reform initiatives to identify alternative reference rates that are more observable or transaction based and less susceptible to manipulation. ASU 2020-04 provides optional guidance for a limited period of time to ease the potential burden in accounting for (or recognizing the effects of) reference rate reform on financial reporting. ASU 2020-04 is elective and applies to all entities, subject to meeting certain criteria, that have contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that reference LIBOR or another reference rate expected to be discontinued because of reference rate reform. The amendments are effective as of March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is currently evaluating the implications, if any, of the additional requirements and the impact on the Master Funds’ financial statements.

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies:

Valuation of investments

Consistent with Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act, as amended (“Rule 2a-7”), the net asset values of each of Prime Master Fund and ESG Prime Master Fund are calculated using market-based values, and the price of its beneficial interests fluctuate.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Under Rule 2a-7, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund have adopted certain policies that enable them to use the amortized cost method of valuation. Government Master Fund and Treasury Master Fund have adopted a policy to operate as “government money market funds”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “government money market fund” invests 99.5% or more of its total assets in cash, government securities, and/or repurchase agreements that are collateralized fully (i.e., collateralized by cash and/or government securities). Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund operate as “retail money market funds”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “retail money market fund” is a money market fund that has policies and procedures reasonably designed to limit all beneficial owners of the fund to natural persons. As “government money market funds” and as “retail money market funds”, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund value their investments at amortized cost unless the Master Trust’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) determines that this does not represent fair value. Periodic review and monitoring of the valuation of securities held by Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund is performed in an effort to ensure that amortized cost approximates market value.

The Board has delegated to the Equities, Fixed Income, and Multi-Asset Valuation Committee (“VC”) the responsibility for making fair value determinations with respect to the Master Funds’ portfolio investments. The types of investments for which such fair value pricing may be necessary include, but are not limited to: investments of an issuer that has entered into a restructuring; fixed-income investments that have gone into default and for which there is no current market value quotation; Section 4(a)(2) commercial paper; investments that are restricted as to transfer or resale; illiquid investments; and investments for which the prices or values available do not, in the judgment of the VC, represent current market value. The need to fair value a Master Fund’s portfolio investments may also result from low trading volume in foreign markets or thinly traded investments. Various factors may be reviewed in order to make a good faith determination of an investment’s fair value. These factors include, but are not limited to, fundamental analytical data relating to the investment; the nature and duration of restrictions on disposition of the investment; and the evaluation of forces which influence the market in which the investments are purchased and sold.

Each Master Fund’s portfolio holdings may also consist of shares of other investment companies in which the Master Fund invests. The value of each such open-end investment company will generally be its net asset value at the time a Master Fund’s beneficial interests are priced. Pursuant to each Master Fund’s use of the practical expedient within ASC Topic 820, investments in non-registered investment companies and/or investments in investment companies without publicly published prices are also valued at the daily net asset value. Each investment company generally values investments in a manner as described in that investment company’s prospectus or similar documents.

US GAAP requires disclosure regarding the various inputs that are used in determining the value of each of the Master Fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized into the three broad levels listed below:

Level 1—Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments.

Level 2—Other significant observable inputs, including but not limited to, quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds and credit risks.

Level 3—Unobservable inputs inclusive of each Master Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments.

A fair value hierarchy table has been included near the end of each Master Fund’s Portfolio of investments.

Liquidity fee and/or redemption gates—Consistent with Rule 2a-7, the Board is permitted to impose a liquidity fee on redemptions from each of Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund or a redemption gate to temporarily restrict redemptions from those Master Funds in the

 

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Master Trust

Notes to financial statements

 

event that any of Prime Master Fund’s liquidity, ESG Prime Master Fund’s liquidity, Prime CNAV Master Fund’s liquidity and/or Tax-Free Master Fund’s liquidity, respectively, falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. If Prime Master Fund’s, ESG Prime Master Fund’s, Prime CNAV Master Fund’s or Tax-Free Master Fund’s weekly liquid assets fall below 30% of the Fund’s total assets, the board is permitted, but not required, to: (i) impose a liquidity fee of no more than 2% of the amount redeemed; and/or (ii) impose a redemption gate to temporarily suspend the right of redemption. If any of Prime Master Fund’s, ESG Prime Master Fund’s, Prime CNAV Master Fund’s or Tax-Free Master Fund’s weekly liquid assets falls below 10% of the Fund’s total assets, the relevant Fund must impose, generally as of the beginning of the next business day, a liquidity fee of 1% of the amount redeemed unless the Board determines that such a fee would not be in the best interest of the Fund or determines that a lower or higher fee (subject to the 2% limit) would be in the best interest of the Fund. Liquidity fees would reduce the amount an interest holder receives upon redemption of its beneficial interests. Each of Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund, retains the liquidity fees for the benefit of remaining interest holders. For the period ended April 30, 2021, the Board of Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund did not impose any liquidity fees and/or redemption gates.

By operating as “government money market funds”, Government Master Fund and Treasury Master Fund are exempt from requirements that permit the imposition of a liquidity fee and/or temporary redemption gates. While the Board may elect to subject Government Master Fund and Treasury Master Fund to liquidity fee and gate requirements in the future, the Board has not elected to do so at this time.

Repurchase agreements—The Master Funds may purchase securities or other obligations from a bank or securities dealer (or its affiliate), subject to the seller’s agreement to repurchase them at an agreed upon date (or upon demand) and price. The Master Funds maintain custody of the underlying obligations prior to their repurchase, either through their regular custodian or through a special “tri-party” custodian or sub-custodian that maintains a separate account for both the Master Funds and their counterparty. The underlying collateral is valued daily in an effort to ensure that the value, including accrued interest, is at least equal to the repurchase price.

Repurchase agreements carry certain risks not associated with direct investments in securities, including a possible decline in the market value of the underlying obligations. If their value becomes less than the repurchase price, plus any agreed-upon additional amount, the counterparty must provide additional collateral so that the collateral is at least equal to the repurchase price plus any agreed-upon additional amount. The difference between the total amount to be received upon repurchase of the obligations and the price that was paid by a fund upon acquisition is accrued as interest and included in its net investment income. In the event of default of the obligation to repurchase, the Master Funds generally have the right to liquidate the collateral and apply the proceeds in satisfaction of the obligation. Repurchase agreements involving obligations other than US government securities (such as commercial paper, corporate bonds, equities and mortgage loans) may be subject to special risks and may not have the benefit of certain protections in the event of counterparty insolvency. Moreover, repurchase agreements secured by obligations that are not eligible for direct investment under Rule 2a-7 or a fund’s investment strategies and limitations may require the Master Fund to promptly dispose of such collateral if the seller or guarantor becomes insolvent. If the seller (or seller’s guarantor, if any) becomes insolvent, the Master Funds may suffer delays, costs and possible losses in connection with the disposition or retention of the collateral. Under certain circumstances, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, realization and/or retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings. Each Master Fund intends to enter into repurchase agreements only in transactions with counterparties believed by UBS AM to present minimal credit risk.

The Master Funds may participate in joint repurchase agreement transactions with other funds managed or advised by UBS AM. Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, and Prime CNAV Master Fund may engage in repurchase agreements as part of normal investing strategies; Tax-Free Master Fund generally would only engage in repurchase agreement transactions as temporary or defensive investments.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Under certain circumstances, a Master Fund may engage in a repurchase agreement transaction with a yield of zero in order to invest cash amounts remaining in its portfolio at the end of the day in order to avoid having the Master Fund potentially exposed to a fee for uninvested cash held in a business account at a bank.

Investment transactions and investment income—Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Realized gains and losses from investment transactions are calculated using the identified cost method. Interest income is recorded on an accrual basis. Discounts are accreted and premiums are amortized as adjustments to interest income and the identified cost of investments.

Concentration of risk—The ability of the issuers of the debt securities held by the Master Funds to meet their obligations may be affected by economic and political developments particular to a specific industry, country, state or region.

Many financial instruments, financings or other transactions to which a Fund may be a party use or may use a floating rate based on the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”). LIBOR is widely used in financial markets. In July 2017, the United Kingdom’s financial regulatory body announced that after 2021 it will cease its active encouragement of banks to provide the quotations needed to sustain LIBOR. That announcement suggests that LIBOR may cease to be published or utilized after that time. Various financial industry groups have begun planning for that transition, but the effect of the transition process and its ultimate success cannot yet be determined. The transition process may lead to increased volatility and illiquidity in markets for instruments the terms of which are based on LIBOR. It could also lead to a reduction in the value of some LIBOR-based investments and reduce the effectiveness of new hedges placed against existing LIBOR-based investments. Since the usefulness of LIBOR as a benchmark could deteriorate during the transition period, these effects could occur prior to the end of 2021. The willingness and ability of issuers to include enhanced provisions in new and existing contracts or instruments also remains uncertain. Any of these factors may adversely affect the Fund’s performance or NAV. On November 30, 2020, the administrator of LIBOR announced a delay in the phase out of a majority of the U.S. dollar LIBOR publications until June 30, 2023, with the remainder of LIBOR publications to still end at the end of 2021.

Certain impacts to public health conditions particular to the coronavirus “COVID-19” outbreak that occurred may have a significant negative impact on the operations and profitability of the issuers of a Master Fund’s investments. The extent of the impact to the financial performance of a Fund will depend on future developments, including (i) the duration and spread of the outbreak, (ii) the restrictions and advisories, (iii) the effects on the financial markets, and (iv) the effects on the economy overall, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.

Investment advisor and administrator

UBS AM serves as the investment advisor and administrator to each Master Fund pursuant to an investment advisory and administration contract (“Management Contract”) approved by the Board. In accordance with the Management Contract, each Master Fund pays UBS AM an investment advisory and administration fee (“management fee”), which is accrued daily and paid monthly, at the below annual rates, as a percentage of each Master Fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Average daily net assets      Annual rate
Up to $30 billion        0.1000
In excess of $30 billion up to $40 billion        0.0975  
In excess of $40 billion up to $50 billion        0.0950  
In excess of $50 billion up to $60 billion        0.0925  
Over $60 billion        0.0900  

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

At April 30, 2021, each Master Fund owed to or was owed by UBS AM for investment advisory and administration services as follows:

 

Fund      Amounts owed to/(owed by) UBS AM
Prime Master Fund      $ 766,979  
ESG Prime Master Fund        (16,826
Government Master Fund        625,992  
Treasury Master Fund        1,193,304  
Prime CNAV Master Fund        373,692  
Tax-Free Master Fund        31,412  

In exchange for these fees, UBS AM has agreed to bear all of the Master Funds’ expenses other than taxes, extraordinary costs and the cost of securities purchased and sold by the Master Funds, including any transaction costs. Although UBS AM is not obligated to pay the fees and expenses of the Master Funds’ independent trustees, it is contractually obligated to reduce its management fee in an amount equal to those fees and expenses. UBS AM estimates that these fees and expenses will be 0.01% or less of each Master Fund’s average daily net assets.

In addition, UBS AM may voluntarily undertake to waive fees in the event that feeder fund yields drop below a certain level. This additional undertaking is voluntary and not contractual and may be terminated at any time. During the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM voluntarily waived the below amount, which is not subject to future recoupment:

 

Fund      Amount waived by UBS AM
Government Master Fund      $ 101,870  
Treasury Master Fund        3,072,061  
Tax-Free Master Fund        178,964  

UBS AM will voluntarily waive its 0.10% management fee in order to voluntarily reduce ESG Prime Master Fund’s expenses by 0.10% until July 31, 2021. For the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM voluntarily waived $324,559 for the ESG Prime Master Fund, and such amount is not subject to future recoupment.

Additional information regarding compensation to affiliate of a board member

Professor Meyer Feldberg serves as a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Master Funds may conduct transactions, resulting in him being deemed an interested trustee of the Master Funds. The Master Funds have been informed that Professor Feldberg’s role at Morgan Stanley does not involve matters directly affecting any UBS funds. Portfolio transactions are executed through Morgan Stanley based on that firm’s ability to provide best execution of the transactions.

During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Master Funds purchased and sold certain securities (e.g., fixed income securities) in principal trades with Morgan Stanley, having aggregate values as follows:

 

Prime Master Fund      $  
ESG Prime Master Fund         
Government Master Fund         
Treasury Master Fund         
Prime CNAV Master Fund         
Tax-Free Master Fund        47,300,000  

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Morgan Stanley received compensation in connection with these trades, which may have been in the form of a “mark-up” or “mark-down” of the price of the securities, a fee from the issuer for maintaining a commercial paper program, or some other form of compensation. Although the precise amount of this compensation is not generally known by the Master Fund’s investment manager, it is believed that under normal circumstances it represents a small portion of the total value of the transactions.

Beneficial interest transactions

 

Prime Master Fund

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Contributions      $ 9,072,253,790      $ 27,421,906,839  
Withdrawals        (16,792,001,937      (27,036,903,722
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ (7,719,748,147    $ 385,003,117  

 

ESG Prime Master Fund

 

        For the
year ended
April 30, 2021
  

For the period from

January 15, 20201 to
April 30, 2020

Contributions      $ 1,132,688,561      $ 120,503,658  
Withdrawals        (596,344,267      (47,074,061
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ 536,344,294      $ 73,429,597  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

 

Government Master Fund

 

     For the years ended April 30,
      2021   2020
Contributions    $ 47,491,220,565     $ 46,835,779,003  
Withdrawals      (56,442,668,595     (43,592,936,015
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest    $ (8,951,448,030   $ 3,242,842,988  

 

Treasury Master Fund

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Contributions      $ 54,430,506,105      $ 57,434,681,322  
Withdrawals        (56,588,175,740      (40,173,820,982
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ (2,157,669,635    $ 17,260,860,340  

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Prime CNAV Master Fund

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Contributions      $ 5,114,679,407      $ 8,693,256,696  
Withdrawals        (8,172,900,733      (6,199,382,324
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ (3,058,221,326    $ 2,493,874,372  

 

Tax-Free Master Fund

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Contributions      $ 402,602,443      $ 3,125,085,366  
Withdrawals        (2,162,557,724      (2,855,265,635
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ (1,759,955,281    $ 269,819,731  

Federal tax status

Each Master Fund is considered a non-publicly traded partnership for federal income tax purposes under the Internal Revenue Code; therefore, no federal tax provision is necessary. As such, each investor in a Master Fund is treated as owning its proportionate share of the net assets, income, expenses, and realized and unrealized gains and losses of the Master Fund. UBS AM intends that each Master Fund’s assets, income and distributions will be managed in such a way that an investor in a Master Fund will be able to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company by investing its net assets through the Master Fund.

Aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes was substantially the same for book purposes; and net unrealized appreciation consisted of:

Prime Master Fund

 

Gross unrealized appreciation      $ 600,450  
Gross unrealized depreciation        (23,349
Net unrealized appreciation      $ 577,101  

ESG Prime Master Fund

 

Gross unrealized appreciation      $ 25,360  
Gross unrealized depreciation        (2,748
Net unrealized appreciation      $ 22,612  

ASC 740-10 “Income Taxes—Overall” sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken. The Master Funds have conducted an analysis and concluded, as of April 30, 2021, that there are no significant uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken that would require recognition in the financial statements. The Master Funds recognize interest and penalties, if any, related to uncertain tax positions as income tax expense in the Statement of operations. During the period April 30, 2021, the Funds did not incur any interest or penalties.

Each of the tax years in the four year period ended April 30, 2021, and since inception for ESG Prime Master Fund, remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities.

 

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Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of Master Trust

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities of Master Trust (the “Trust”), (comprising Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund (collectively referred to as the “Funds”)), including the portfolios of investments, as of April 30, 2021, and the related statements of operations and changes in net assets, and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the Funds comprising Master Trust at April 30, 2021, the results of their operations, changes in net assets and financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

 

Funds comprising the
Master Trust
   Statement of operations    Statement of changes in net assets    Financial highlights

Prime Master Fund

Treasury Master Fund

Tax-Free Master Fund

Prime CNAV Master Fund

   For the year ended April 30, 2021    For each of the two years in the period ended April 30, 2021    For each of the five years in the period ended April 30, 2021
Government Master Fund    For the year ended April 30, 2021    For each of the two years in the period ended April 30, 2021    For each of the four years in the period ended April 30, 2021 and the period from June 24, 2016 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2017
ESG Prime Master Fund    For the year ended April 30, 2021    For the year ended April 30, 2021 and the period from January 15, 2020 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2020    For the year ended April 30, 2021 and the period from January 15, 2020 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2020

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on each of the Funds’ financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of April 30, 2021, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers or by other appropriate auditing procedures where replies from brokers were not received. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as

 

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Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

 

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General information (unaudited)

 

Monthly portfolio holdings disclosure

The Master Funds file their complete schedules of portfolio holdings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) each month on Form N-MFP. The Master Funds’ reports on Form N-MFP are available on the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov. The Master Funds make portfolio holdings information available to interest holders (and investors in the related feeder funds) on UBS’s Web site at the following internet address: www.ubs.com/usmoneymarketfunds. A more limited portfolio holdings report for Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund and Prime CNAV Master Fund is available on a weekly basis at the same Web address. Investors also may find additional information about the Master Funds at the above referenced UBS Website internet address.

Proxy voting policies, procedures and record

You may obtain a description of the Fund’s (1) proxy voting policies, (2) proxy voting procedures and (3) information regarding how the Fund voted any proxies related to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 for which an SEC filing has been made, without charge, upon request by contacting the Fund directly at 1-800-647 1568, online on the Fund’s Web site: www.ubs.com/ubsam-proxy, or on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Web site (http://www.sec.gov).

 

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UBS Investor Funds

Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Board of Trustees & Officers

The Funds are governed by a Board of Trustees which oversees the Funds’ operations. Each trustee serves an indefinite term of office. Officers are appointed by the trustees and serve at the pleasure of the Board. The table below shows, for each trustee and officer, his or her name, address and age, the position held with the Trust, the length of time served as a trustee or officer of the Trust, the trustee’s or officer’s principal occupations during the last five years, the number of funds in the UBS fund complex overseen by the trustee or for which a person served as an officer, and other directorships held by the trustee.

The Funds’ Statement of Additional Information contains additional information about the trustees and is available, without charge, upon request by calling 1-800-647 1568.

 

Interested Trustee        
         

Name,

address,

and age

  Position(s)
held with
Trust
  Term of office1
and length of
time served
 

Principal occupation(s)
during past

5 years

  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
 

Other directorships

held by

trustee

Meyer Feldberg2;

79

Morgan Stanley

1585 Broadway

36th Floor

New York, NY 10036

  Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees   Since 1998 (Trustee); Since 2017 (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)   Professor Feldberg is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, although on an extended leave of absence. He is also a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley (financial services) (since 2005). Professor Feldberg also served as President of New York City Global Partners (an organization located in part of the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York that promoted interaction with other cities around the world (2007 to 2014). Prior to 2004, he was Dean and Professor of Management and Ethics of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University (since 1989). From 1992 to 2016, Professor Feldberg was a director of Macy’s, Inc. (operator of department stores). From 1997 to 2017, Professor Feldberg was a director of Revlon, Inc. (cosmetics).   Professor Feldberg is a director or trustee of 8 investment companies (consisting of 48 portfolios) for which UBS AM or one of its affiliates serves as investment advisor or manager.   Professor Feldberg is also a director of the New York City Ballet.

 

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UBS Investor Funds

Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Independent Trustees        
         

Name,

address,

and age

  Position(s)
held with
Trust
  Term of office1
and length of
time served
 

Principal occupation(s)
during past

5 years

  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
 

Other directorships

held by

trustee

Alan S. Bernikow;

80

K2 Integrity
845 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10022

  Trustee   Since 2005   Mr. Bernikow is retired. Previously, he was deputy chief executive officer at Deloitte & Touche (international accounting and consulting firm). From 2003 to 2017, Mr. Bernikow was also a director of Destination XL Group, Inc. (menswear) (and served as a member of its nominating and corporate governance committee).   Mr. Bernikow is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Bernikow is also a director of Revlon, Inc. (cosmetics) (and serves as the chair of its audit committee and as the chair of its compensation committee) and the lead director of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation (real estate investment trust) (and serves as the chair of its audit committee).

Richard R. Burt;

74

McLarty Associates

900 17th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20006

  Trustee   Since 1998   Mr. Burt is a managing partner of McLarty Associates (a consulting firm) (since 2007). He was chairman of IEP Advisors (international investments and consulting firm) until 2009.   Mr. Burt is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Burt is also a director of The Central Europe, Russia and Turkey Fund, Inc., The European Equity Fund, Inc., and The New Germany Fund, Inc. (and serves as a member of each such fund’s audit, nominating and governance committees).

Bernard H. Garil;

81

6754 Casa Grande Way Delray Beach, FL 33446

  Trustee   Since 2005   Mr. Garil is retired (since 2001). He was a managing director at PIMCO Advisory Services (from 1999 to 2001) where he served as president of closed-end funds and vice- president of the variable insurance product funds advised by OpCap Advisors (until 2001).   Mr. Garil is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Garil is also a trustee for the Brooklyn College Foundation, Inc. (charitable foundation).

Heather R. Higgins;

61

c/o Keith A. Weller,

Fund Secretary

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

One North Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606

  Trustee   Since 2005   Ms. Higgins is the president and director of The Randolph Foundation (charitable foundation) (since 1991). Ms. Higgins also serves (or has served) on the boards of several non-profit charitable groups, including the Independent Women’s Forum (chairman) and the Philanthropy Roundtable (vice chairman). She also serves on the board of the Hoover Institution (from 2001 to 2007 and since 2009).   Ms. Higgins is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   None

 

1 

Each trustee holds office for an indefinite term.

2 

Professor Feldberg is deemed an “interested person” of the Trust as defined in the Investment Company Act because he is a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Trust may conduct transactions.

 

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UBS Investor Funds

Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers
        

Name, address,

and age

  

Position(s) held

with Trust

  

Term of office1

and length

of time served

   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years

Rose Ann Bubloski2;

53

   Vice President and Assistant Treasurer    Since 2011    Ms. Bubloski is a director (since 2012) (prior to which she was an associate director (from 2008 to 2012)) and a senior manager of fund accounting—US (previously named product control and investment support) at UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. and/or UBS Asset Management (US) Inc. (“UBS AM— Americas region”). Ms. Bubloski is a vice president and assistant treasurer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Franklin P. Dickson2;

42

   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Dickson is an associate director (since 2015) and tax compliance manager (since 2017) (prior to which he was a product controller (from 2015 to 2017) of fund accounting—US (previously named product control and investment support) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Dickson is a vice president of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Lisa N. DiPaolo2;

43

   Vice President    Since 2015    Ms. DiPaolo is an executive director (since 2020) (prior to which she was a director from 2008 until March 2020), and portfolio manager (since 2015) at UBS AM— Americas region. Ms. DiPaolo joined UBS AM—Americas region in 2000 and has been a municipal securities analyst on the tax-free fixed income team. Ms. DiPaolo is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Elbridge T. Gerry III2;

64

   Vice President    Since 1999    Mr. Gerry is a managing director and head of municipal strategy of UBS AM—Americas region (prior to which he was co-head of municipal investments (from 2017 until June 2020; head from 2001 to 2017)). Mr. Gerry is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Charles W. Grande2;

57

   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Grande is a managing director, head of municipal fixed income team (since June 2020; formerly co-head from 2017 until June 2020) and head of municipal credit research (since 2009) with UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Grande is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Mark F. Kemper3;

63

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2004 and 2019, respectively    Mr. Kemper is a managing director (since 2006) and senior legal counsel (since 2019 to present) (prior to which he was Interim Head of Asia Pacific Legal (March 2020-March 2021), Interim Head of Compliance and Operational Risk Control (from June 2019 through September 2019) and general counsel of UBS AM—Americas region (from 2004-2019)). He has been secretary of UBS AM— Americas region (since 2004) and assistant secretary of UBS Asset Management Trust Company (since 1993). Mr. Kemper is vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager. Mr. Kemper is employed by UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017).

Joanne M. Kilkeary2;

53

   Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer    Since 1999 (Vice President) and since 2017 (Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer)    Ms. Kilkeary is an executive director (since 2013) (prior to which she was a director (from 2008 to 2013)) and head of fund accounting—US (since November 2020) (prior to which she was head of regulatory, tax, audit and board governance for product control and investment support (from 2017 through October 2020) (prior to which she was a senior manager (from 2004 to 2017) of registered fund product control of UBS AM— Americas region). Ms. Kilkeary is a vice president, treasurer and principal accounting officer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

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UBS Investor Funds

Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers (concluded)
        

Name, address,

and age

  

Position(s) held

with Trust

  

Term of office1

and length

of time served

   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years

Igor Lasun2;

42

   President    Since 2018    Mr. Lasun is a managing director (since March 2021) (prior to which he was an executive director (from 2018 until February 2021)) and head of fund development and management for UBS AM—Americas region (since 2018) (prior to which he was a senior fixed income product specialist from 2007 to 2018, and had joined the firm in 2005). In this role, he oversees development and management for both wholesale and institutional businesses. Mr. Lasun serves as president of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Ryan Nugent2;

43

   Vice President    Since 2009    Mr. Nugent is an executive director (since 2017) (prior to which he was director (from 2010 to 2017)), and portfolio manager (since 2005) and head of municipal trading (since 2013) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Nugent is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Frank Pluchino4;

61

   Chief Compliance Officer    Since 2017    Mr. Pluchino is an executive director with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and is also the chief compliance officer of UBS Hedge Fund Solutions LLC (since 2010). Mr. Pluchino is the chief compliance officer of 10 investment companies (consisting of 62 portfolios) for which UBS AM or one of its affiliates serves as investment advisor or manager.

Robert Sabatino3;

47

   Vice President    Since 2001    Mr. Sabatino is a managing director (since 2010) (prior to which he was an executive director (since 2007)), head of global liquidity portfolio management (since 2015), head of US taxable money markets (from 2009 to 2015), and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region in the short duration fixed income group (since 2000). Mr. Sabatino is a vice president of three investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Eric Sanders3;

55

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2005    Mr. Sanders is a director and associate general counsel with UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017) and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005). Mr. Sanders is a vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Philip Stacey3;

36

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2018    Mr. Stacey is an executive director (since 2019) and associate general counsel (since 2017) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017) and also with UBS AM— Americas region since 2015. Mr. Stacey is a vice president and assistant secretary of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

David Walczak3;

37

   Vice President    Since 2016    Mr. Walczak is an executive director (since 2016), head of US money markets (since 2015) and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Walczak is a vice president of three investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Keith A. Weller3;

59

   Vice President and Secretary    Since 1998 (Vice President) and since 2019 (Secretary)    Mr. Weller is an executive director (since 2005) and deputy general counsel (since 2019) (prior to which he was senior associate general counsel) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005) and has been an attorney with affiliated entities since 1995. Mr. Weller is a vice president and secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

1 

Officers of the Trust are appointed by the trustees and serve at the pleasure of the board.

2 

This person’s business address is 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019-6028.

3 

This person’s business address is One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

4

This person’s business address is 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019.

 

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Trustees

Meyer Feldberg

Chairman

Alan S. Bernikow

Richard R. Burt

Bernard H. Garil

Heather R. Higgins

Administrator (and Manager for the Master Funds)

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

Principal Underwriter (for the feeder funds)

UBS Asset Management (US) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

 

This report is not to be used in connection with the offering of shares of the Funds unless accompanied or preceded by an effective prospectus.

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UBS Preferred Funds

Annual Report  |  April 30, 2021

Includes:

 

UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund

 

UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund

 

UBS Select Government Preferred Fund

 

UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund

 

UBS Prime Preferred Fund

 

UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund


UBS Preferred Funds

 

June 10, 2021

Dear Shareholder,

We present you with the annual report for the UBS Preferred Series of Funds, namely UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund, UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund, UBS Select Government Preferred Fund, UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund, UBS Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund (the “Funds”) for the 12 months ended April 30, 2021 (the “reporting period”).

Performance

The US Federal Reserve maintained the federal funds rate in a range between 0.00% and 0.25% during the 12-months ended April 30, 2021. The federal funds rate or the “fed funds rate,” is the rate US banks charge one another for funds they borrow on an overnight basis. (For more details on the Fed’s actions, see below.) As a result, the yields on a number of short-term investments remained low. Against this backdrop, the Funds’ yields declined during the reporting period.

The seven-day current yields for the Funds (after fee waivers/expense reimbursements) were as follows:

 

  UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund: 0.03% on April 30, 2021, versus 0.68% as of April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund: 0.08% on April 30, 2021, versus 0.73% on April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Select Government Preferred Fund: 0.01% as of April 30, 2021, versus 0.23% as of April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund: 0.01% on April 30, 2021, versus 0.20% as of April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Prime Preferred Fund: 0.02% on April 30, 2021, versus 0.67% as of April 30, 2020.

 

  UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund: 0.01% on April 30, 2021, versus 0.07% as of April 30, 2020.

For detailed information on the Funds’ performance, refer to “Yields and characteristics at a glance” on pages 7-9.

An interview with the Portfolio Managers

Q.

How would you describe the economic environment during the reporting period?

A.

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a severe economic contraction, followed by a rebound as the reporting period progressed. In the US, the

 

UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund

UBS Select Government Preferred Fund

UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund

UBS Prime Preferred Fund

Investment goals

(all four Funds):

Maximum current income consistent with liquidity and the preservation of capital

Portfolio Managers:

Robert Sabatino

David J. Walczak

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

Commencement:

UBS Select Government Preferred Fund—June 28, 2016;

UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund—August 28, 2007;

UBS Prime Preferred Fund—January 19, 2016

Dividend Payments:

Monthly

UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund

Investment goal:

Maximum current income as is consistent with liquidity and preservation of capital while incorporating select environmental, social, and governance criteria (“ESG”) into the investment process.

Portfolio Managers:

Robert Sabatino

David J. Walczak

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

Commencement:

January 15, 2020

Dividend payments:

Monthly

 

 

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  US Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product (“GDP”) declined at a 31.4% seasonally adjusted annualized rate during the second quarter of 2020—the steepest quarterly decline on record. With parts of the economy reopening, third quarter annualized GDP growth was 33.4%, the largest quarterly increase on record. The economy continued to expand, as fourth quarter annualized GDP growth was 4.3%. Finally, according to the Commerce Department’s initial estimate, first quarter 2021 annualized GDP growth was 6.4%.

 

Q.

How did the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) react to the economic environment?

A.

The Fed maintained its highly accommodative monetary policy, as the central bank kept the federal funds rate in a range between 0.00% and 0.25%. At its meeting in September 2020, the Fed indicated that rates could stay anchored near zero through 2023. While inflation edged higher later in the period, in March 2021 Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said, “Long term, we think that the inflation dynamics we’ve seen around the world for a quarter of a century are essentially intact…and we think those dynamics haven’t gone away overnight and

  won’t.” At a press conference after the Fed’s April 2021 meeting, Chair Powell said, “Readings on inflation have increased and are likely to rise somewhat further before moderating…we are also likely to see upward pressure on prices from the rebound in spending as the economy continues to reopen, particularly if supply bottlenecks limit how quickly production can respond in the near term. However, these one-time increases in prices are likely to have only transitory effects on inflation.”

 

Q.

Given that the Funds are “feeder funds,” how were the portfolios in which they invest managed during the reporting period?

A.

Each fund is a “feeder fund,” investing all of its assets in “Master Funds”—the Prime Master Fund, the ESG Prime Master Fund, the Government Master Fund, the Treasury Master Fund, the Prime CNAV Master Fund and the Tax-Free Master Fund, respectively. As always, quality and liquidity remained paramount in our management process for the Master Funds.

 

 

For the Prime Master Fund in which UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund invests, we tactically adjusted its weighted average maturity (WAM)—which is the weighted average maturity of the securities in the portfolio—throughout the 12-month review period. When the reporting period began, the Master Fund had a WAM of 27 days. By the end of the period on April 30, 2021, the Master Fund’s WAM was 49 days.

At the issuer level, we maintained a high level of diversification. To that end, for maturities past overnight, we typically purchased up to 3% in single nongovernment issuers throughout the reporting period. (The Master Fund is generally able to hold up to 5% in any one issuer, subject to certain exceptions.)

At the security level, we increased the Master Fund’s exposure to commercial paper. Conversely, we decreased its allocations to certificates of deposit, repurchase agreements and time deposits. (Repurchase agreements are transactions that require the seller of a security to buy it back at a predetermined time and price, or upon demand.) Finally, we eliminated its small exposure to US Treasury obligations.

 

 

The WAM for the Master Fund in which UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund invests was 41 days when the reporting period began. It was 51 days at period-end on April 30, 2021. At the security level, we increased the Master Fund’s exposures to time deposits and certificates of deposit. In contrast, we decreased its exposures to commercial paper and repurchase agreements.

 

UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund

Investment goal:

Maximum current income exempt from federal income tax consistent with liquidity and the preservation of capital

Portfolio Managers:

Elbridge T. Gerry III

Lisa M. DiPaolo

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

Commencement:

August 28, 2007

Dividend Payments:

Monthly

 

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The WAM for the Master Fund in which UBS Select Government Preferred Fund invests was 48 days when the reporting period began. Over the review period, the WAM was adjusted, and at period-end on April 30, 2021, it was 34 days. At the security level, we increased the Master Fund’s exposure to US Treasury obligations and reduced its allocations to repurchase agreements and US government agency obligations.

 

 

The WAM for the Master Fund in which UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund invests was 51 days when the reporting period began. Over the review period, the WAM was adjusted, and at period-end it was 43 days. At the security level, we increased the Master Fund’s exposure to direct US Treasury obligations and reduced its exposure to repurchase agreements backed by Treasury obligations.

 

 

The WAM for the Prime CNAV Master Fund in which UBS Prime Preferred Fund invests was 33 days when the reporting period began. We tactically adjusted its WAM, and at the end of the reporting period the Master Fund’s WAM was 53 days. Over the review period, we increased the Master Fund’s exposure to commercial paper. Conversely, we decreased its exposures to repurchase agreements and, to lesser extents, certificates of deposit and time deposits. Finally, we eliminated its small positions in US Treasury obligations and US government agency obligations.

 

 

The WAM for the Master Fund in which UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund invests was nine days when the reporting period began. We tactically adjusted the Master Fund’s WAM based on market conditions and seasonality factors within the tax-exempt market. At the end of the reporting period its WAM was 10 days. Over the review period, we increased the Master Fund’s allocation to tax-exempt commercial paper and reduced its exposure to municipal bonds.

 

Q.

What factors do you believe will affect the Funds over the coming months?

A.

With the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, we anticipate a return to more normal economic activity as the year progresses. However, the path could be uneven due to new virus strains. We expect the Fed to remain highly accommodative and, while inflation could edge higher, it should be generally well contained overall. In this environment, we anticipate continuing to manage the Funds focusing on risk and liquidity.

 

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We thank you for your continued support and welcome any comments or questions you may have. For additional information on the UBS family of funds, please contact your financial advisor, or visit us at www.ubs.com/am-us.*

Sincerely,

 

LOGO

 

Igor Lasun

President—UBS Series Fund

UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund

UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund

UBS Select Government Preferred Fund

UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund

UBS Prime Preferred Fund

UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

LOGO

 

Robert Sabatino

Portfolio Manager—

UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund

UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund

UBS Select Government Preferred Fund

UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund

UBS Prime Preferred Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

LOGO

 

David J. Walczak

Portfolio Manager—

UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund

UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund

UBS Select Government Preferred Fund

UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund

UBS Prime Preferred Fund

Executive Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

LOGO

 

Lisa DiPaolo

Portfolio Manager—

UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund

Executive Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

LOGO

 

Elbridge T. Gerry III

Portfolio Manager—

UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

This letter is intended to assist shareholders in understanding how the Funds performed during the 12-month period ended April 30, 2021. The views and opinions in the letter were current as of June 10, 2021. They are not guarantees of future performance or investment results and should not be taken as investment advice. Investment decisions reflect a variety of factors, and we reserve the right to change our views about individual securities, sectors and markets at any time. As a result, the views expressed should not be relied upon as a forecast of the Fund’s future investment intent. We encourage you to consult your financial advisor regarding your personal investment program.

 

*

Mutual funds are sold by prospectus only. You should read it carefully and consider a fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other important information contained in the prospectus before investing. Prospectuses for most of our funds can be obtained from your financial advisor, by calling UBS Funds at 800-647 1568 or by visiting our Web site at www.ubs.com/am-us.

 

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Understanding your Fund’s expenses1 (unaudited)

 

As a shareholder of a Fund, you incur ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. These examples are intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds. Since each Fund is a “feeder fund” that invests in a corresponding “master fund,” the expense information below reflects the combined effect of the two levels of expenses and not just those imposed directly at the feeder fund level.

The examples below are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period, November 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021.

Actual expenses

The first line in the table below for each Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over a period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses paid during period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical example for comparison purposes

The second line in the table below for each Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate your actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs. Therefore, the second line in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds, if those other funds impose transactional costs—for example, exchange fees. In addition, if those transactional costs were included, your costs for those other funds would have been higher.

 

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Understanding your Fund’s expenses1 (unaudited) (concluded)

 

        Beginning
account value
November 1, 2020
     Ending
account value
2
April 30, 2021
     Expenses paid
during period
3
11/01/20 to 04/30/21
     Expense
ratio during
the period
                   
UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.20        $ 0.70          0.14
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.10          0.70          0.14  
                                             
                   
UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.50        $ 0.20          0.04
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.60          0.20          0.04  
                                             
                   
UBS Select Government Preferred Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.60          0.12
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.20          0.60          0.12  
                                             
                   
UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.00        $ 0.40          0.08
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.40          0.40          0.08  
                                             
                   
UBS Prime Preferred Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.20        $ 0.70          0.14
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.10          0.70          0.14  
                                             
                   
UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.00        $ 0.35          0.07
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.45          0.35          0.07  

 

1 

The expenses for the Funds reflect the expenses of the corresponding master funds in which they invest in addition to their own direct expenses.

2 

“Actual—Ending account value” may or may not be reflective of a shareholder’s actual investment experience during periods of very low interest rates. While the Fund declares dividends daily and pays them monthly, the amounts are rounded to the nearest $0.01 on a daily basis with respect to each investor’s account. As a result, investors whose Fund account balances earn daily dividends that total less than one half a cent on any given day will not accrue any dividends on that day.

3 

Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized net expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181 divided by 365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

 

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Yields and characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited)

 

UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers1      0.03
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers1      0.03  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers1      (0.01
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers1      0.00  
Weighted average maturity2      49 days  
  
UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers1      0.08
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers1      0.08  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers1      (0.06
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers1      (0.05
Weighted average maturity2      51 days  

Table footnotes are on page 9.

You could lose money by investing in UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund. Because the price of interests in the related money market master fund will fluctuate, when you sell your shares of UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund, your shares of UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund may be worth more or less than what you originally paid for them. The related money market master fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund if the related money market master fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund’s sponsor and UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Yields and characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

UBS Select Government Preferred Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers1      (0.11
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers1      (0.11
Weighted average maturity2      34 days  
  
UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers1      (0.13
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers1      (0.13
Weighted average maturity2      43 days  

Table footnotes are on page 9.

You could lose money by investing in UBS Select Government Preferred Fund and UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund. Although the related money market master funds seek to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of UBS Select Government Preferred Fund and UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund are at $1.00 per share, the related money market master funds cannot guarantee they will do so. An investment in UBS Select Government Preferred Fund and UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. UBS Select Government Preferred Fund’s sponsor and UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to UBS Select Government Preferred Fund and UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund, and you should not expect that the funds’ sponsor will provide financial support to UBS Select Government Preferred Fund and UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Yields and characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (concluded)

 

UBS Prime Preferred Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers1      0.02
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers1      0.02  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers1      (0.02
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers1      (0.02
Weighted average maturity2      53 days  
  
UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund         
  
Yields and characteristics      
Seven-day current yield after fee waivers1      0.01
Seven-day effective yield after fee waivers1      0.01  
Seven-day current yield before fee waivers1      (0.11
Seven-day effective yield before fee waivers1      (0.11
Weighted average maturity2      10 days  

Investments in UBS Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund are intended to be limited to accounts beneficially owned by natural persons. UBS Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund reserve the right to repurchase shares in any account that are not beneficially owned by natural persons.

You could lose money by investing in UBS Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund. Although the related money market master funds seek to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of UBS Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Tax- Free Preferred Fund are at $1.00 per share, the related money market master funds cannot guarantee they will do so. The related money market master funds may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of UBS Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of UBS Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund if the related money market master fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in UBS Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. UBS Prime Preferred Fund’s sponsor and UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to UBS Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund and you should not expect that the funds’ sponsor will provide financial support to UBS Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

1 

Yields will fluctuate and reflect fee waivers, if any, unless otherwise noted. Performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted.

2 

Weighted average maturity provided is that of the related master fund, which is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

 

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Statement of assets and liabilities

April 30, 2021

 

      UBS Select
Prime
Preferred Fund
   UBS Select
ESG Prime
Preferred Fund
Assets:      
Investments in Master Fund, at cost (which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)      $1,596,703,726        $400,098,600  
     
Investments in Master Fund, at value      1,596,633,859        400,099,293  
Receivable from affiliate              
Total assets      1,596,633,859        400,099,293  
     
Liabilities:      
Dividends payable to shareholders      52,475        26,788  
Payable to affiliate      49,185        575  
Total liabilities      101,660        27,363  
     
Net assets      $1,596,532,199        $400,071,930  
Shares of beneficial interest—$0.001 par value per share, unlimited amount authorized;
1,596,152,927; 399,868,421; 4,088,637,157; 18,934,965,707; 1,421,884,853 and 35,891,087 outstanding, respectively
     $1,596,602,259     

 

$400,071,044

 

Distributable earnings (losses)      (70,060      886  
Net assets      $1,596,532,199        $400,071,930  
Net asset value per share      $1.0002        $1.0005  

 

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UBS Select
Government
Preferred Fund
   UBS Select
Treasury
Preferred Fund
   UBS
Prime
Preferred Fund
   UBS
Tax-Free
Preferred Fund
        
  $4,088,644,878        $18,935,091,781        $1,421,944,932        $35,882,487  
        
  4,088,644,878        18,935,091,781        1,421,944,932        35,882,487  
  77,937        31,342               8,918  
  4,088,722,815        18,935,123,123        1,421,944,932        35,891,405  
        
        
  31,115        157,417        20,487        318  
                37,374         
  31,115        157,417        57,861        318  
        
  $4,088,691,700        $18,934,965,706        $1,421,887,071        $35,891,087  

 

$4,088,637,157

 

     $18,934,965,707        $1,421,884,853        $35,891,042  
  54,543        (1      2,218        45  
  $4,088,691,700        $18,934,965,706        $1,421,887,071        $35,891,087  
  $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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Statement of operations

For the year ended April 30, 2021

 

      UBS Select
Prime
Preferred Fund
   UBS Select
ESG Prime
Preferred Fund
Investment income:      
Interest income allocated from Master Fund      $6,274,875        $210,470  
Expenses allocated from Master Fund      (2,191,652      (130,545
Expense waiver allocated from Master Fund             130,545  
Net investment income allocated from Master Fund      4,083,223        210,470  
Expenses:      
Administration fees      1,731,723        90,916  
Trustees’ fees      21,402        13,411  
       1,753,125        104,327  
Fee waivers by administrator      (876,562      (52,162
Net expenses      876,563        52,165  
Net investment income (loss)      3,206,660        158,305  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund      (193      416  
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) allocated from Master Fund      (537,497      (4,998
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations      $2,668,970        $153,723  

 

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UBS Select
Government
Preferred Fund
   UBS Select
Treasury
Preferred Fund
   UBS
Prime
Preferred Fund
   UBS
Tax-Free
Preferred Fund
        
  $12,904,882        $27,617,555        $3,258,000        $181,754  
  (6,555,790      (15,117,316      (1,147,500      (127,049
  48,612        1,636,884               10,855  
  6,397,704        14,137,123        2,110,500        65,560  
        
  5,208,988        12,050,049        901,294        88,376  
  35,235        68,196        16,610        13,260  
  5,244,223        12,118,245        917,904        101,636  
  (3,145,961      (8,417,647      (459,833      (71,519
  2,098,262        3,700,598        458,071        30,117  
  4,299,442        10,436,525        1,652,429        35,443  
  132,423        (1      2,218         
                        
  $4,431,865        $10,436,524        $1,654,647        $35,443  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:        
       
Net investment income (loss)        $3,206,660        $65,936,771  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        (193      19,421  
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) allocated from Master Fund        (537,497      253,527  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        2,668,970        66,209,719  
Total distributions        (3,226,081      (65,953,438
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (1,322,203,233      167,668,911  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (1,322,760,344      167,925,192  
Net assets:        
       
Beginning of year        2,919,292,543        2,751,367,351  
End of year        $1,596,532,199        $2,919,292,543  

 

       UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund
        For the
year ended
April 30, 2021
   For the
period from
January 15, 2020
1
to April 30, 2020
From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $158,305        $19,889  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        416         
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) allocated from Master Fund        (4,998      5,691  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        153,723        25,580  
Total distributions        (158,528      (19,889
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        392,639,810        7,431,234  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        392,635,005        7,436,925  
Net assets:

 

       
Beginning of period        7,436,925         
End of period        $400,071,930        $7,436,925  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       UBS Select Government Preferred Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $4,299,442        $81,500,172  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        132,423        147,921  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        4,431,865        81,648,093  
Total distributions        (4,423,318      (81,641,587
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (5,865,094,589      6,344,014,191  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (5,865,086,042      6,344,020,697  
Net assets:

 

       
Beginning of year        9,953,777,742        3,609,757,045  
End of year        $4,088,691,700        $9,953,777,742  

 

       UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $10,436,525        $124,392,640  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        (1      6,676  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        10,436,524        124,399,316  
Total distributions        (10,436,525      (124,399,587
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        3,010,044,347        10,297,674,316  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        3,010,044,346        10,297,674,045  
Net assets:

 

       
Beginning of year        15,924,921,360        5,627,247,315  
End of year        $18,934,965,706        $15,924,921,360  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       UBS Prime Preferred Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $1,652,429        $17,849,682  
Net realized gain (loss) allocated from Master Fund        2,218        15,778  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        1,654,647        17,865,460  
Total distributions        (1,668,207      (17,849,682
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        160,657,155        706,519,146  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        160,643,595        706,534,924  
Net assets:

 

       
Beginning of year        1,261,243,476        554,708,552  
End of year        $1,421,887,071        $1,261,243,476  

 

       UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $35,443        $4,254,600  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        35,443        4,254,600  
Total distributions        (35,443      (4,254,600
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (244,351,518      (126,071,185
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (244,351,518      (126,071,185
Net assets:

 

       
Beginning of year        280,242,605        406,313,790  
End of year        $35,891,087        $280,242,605  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each year is presented below:

 

    Years ended April 30,
     2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Net asset value, beginning of year     $1.0005        $1.0001        $1.0001        $1.0002        $1.0000  
Net investment income (loss)     0.0013        0.0186        0.0226        0.0137        0.0061  
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)     (0.0003      0.0004        (0.0001 )1        (0.0001      0.0011  
Net increase (decrease) from operations     0.0010        0.0190        0.0226        0.0136        0.0072  
Dividends from net investment income     (0.0013      (0.0186      (0.0226      (0.0137      (0.0061
Distributions from net realized gains     (0.0000 )1        (0.0000 )1        (0.0000 )1        (0.0000 )1        (0.0009
Total dividends and distributions     (0.0013      (0.0186      (0.0226      (0.0137      (0.0070
Net asset value, end of year     $1.0002        $1.0005        $1.0001        $1.0001        $1.0002  
Total investment return2     0.10      1.92      2.28      1.37      0.72
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers3     0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18
Expenses after fee waivers3     0.14      0.14      0.12      0.08      0.13
Net investment income (loss)3     0.15      1.87      2.29      1.40      0.44
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of year (000’s)     $1,596,532        $2,919,293        $2,751,367        $1,732,540        $599,760  

 

1 

Amount represents less than $0.00005 or $(0.00005) per share.

2 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each year reported. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

3 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each period is presented below:

 

        For the year ended
April 30, 2021
  

For the period from

January 15, 20201 to

April 30, 2020

Net asset value, beginning of period        $1.0007        $1.0000  
Net investment income (loss)        0.0018        0.0038  
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)        (0.0002      0.0007  
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.0016        0.0045  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.0018      (0.0038
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.0000 )2        
Total dividends and distributions        (0.0018      (0.0038
Net asset value, end of period        $1.0005        $1.0007  
Total investment return3        0.16      0.45
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers4        0.18      0.18 %5 
Expenses after fee waivers4        0.04      0.04 %5 
Net investment income (loss)4        0.12      1.25 %5 
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of period (000’s)        $400,072        $7,437  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

2 

Amount represents less than $0.00005 or $(0.00005) per share.

3 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each period reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each period reported. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

4 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

5 

Annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Select Government Preferred Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each period is presented below:

 

    Years ended April 30,    For the period from
June 28, 2016
1 to
April 30, 2017
     2021    2020    2019    2018
Net asset value, beginning of period     $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Net investment income (loss)     0.001        0.017        0.020        0.010        0.003  
Net realized gain (loss)     0.000 2        0.000 2        0.000 2        (0.000 )2        0.000 2  
Net increase (decrease) from operations     0.001        0.017        0.020        0.010        0.003  
Dividends from net investment income     (0.001      (0.017      (0.020      (0.010      (0.003
Distributions from net realized gains     (0.000 )2        (0.000 )2               (0.000 )2        (0.000 )2 
Total dividends and distributions     (0.001      (0.017      (0.020      (0.010      (0.003
Net asset value, end of period     $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Total investment return3     0.06      1.70      2.05      1.04      0.34
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements4     0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18 %5  
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements4     0.13      0.14      0.14      0.14      0.09 %5  
Net investment income (loss)4     0.07      1.57      2.03      1.03      0.47 %5  
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of period (000’s)     $4,088,692        $9,953,778        $3,609,757        $3,913,629        $4,098,750  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

2 

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

3 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each period reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each period reported. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

4 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

5 

Annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Net investment income (loss)        0.001        0.017        0.020        0.010        0.003  
Net realized gain (loss)        (0.000 )1        0.000 1        0.000 1        0.000 1        0.000 1  
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.001        0.017        0.020        0.010        0.003  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.001      (0.017      (0.020      (0.010      (0.003
Distributions from net realized gains               (0.000 )1        (0.000 )1        (0.000 )1        (0.000 )1  
Total dividends and distributions        (0.001      (0.017      (0.020      (0.010      (0.003
Net asset value, end of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Total investment return2        0.06      1.66      2.06      1.04      0.34
Ratios to average net assets:                 
Expenses before fee waivers3        0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18
Expenses after fee waivers3        0.11      0.14      0.14      0.14      0.14
Net investment income (loss)3        0.07      1.50      2.00      1.04      0.36
Supplemental data:                 
Net assets, end of year (000’s)        $18,934,966        $15,924,921        $5,627,247        $9,248,153        $10,356,105  

 

1 

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

2 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each year reported. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

3 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Prime Preferred Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Net investment income (loss)        0.001        0.018        0.023        0.013        0.006  
Net realized gain (loss)        0.000 1        0.000 1               0.000 1        0.000 1  
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.001        0.018        0.023        0.013        0.006  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.001      (0.018      (0.023      (0.013      (0.006
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.000 )1               (0.000 )1        (0.000 )1        (0.000 )1  
Total dividends and distributions        (0.001      (0.018      (0.023      (0.013      (0.006
Net asset value, end of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Total investment return2        0.13      1.86      2.23      1.28      0.58
Ratios to average net assets:                 
Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements3        0.14      0.14      0.14      0.14      0.14
Net investment income (loss)3        0.14      1.72      2.21      1.25      0.62
Supplemental data:                 
Net assets, end of year (000’s)        $1,421,887        $1,261,243        $554,709        $403,597        $502,930  

 

1 

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

2 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each year reported. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

3 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Net asset value, beginning of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Net investment income (loss)        0.000 1        0.012        0.013        0.009        0.004  
Net realized gain (loss)                                     
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.000 1        0.012        0.013        0.009        0.004  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.000 )1       (0.012      (0.013      (0.009      (0.004
Distributions from net realized gains                                    (0.000 )1  
Total dividends and distributions        (0.000 )1       (0.012      (0.013      (0.009      (0.004
Net asset value, end of year        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00        $1.00  
Total investment return2        0.02      1.19      1.34      0.87      0.42
Ratios to average net assets:                 
Expenses before fee waivers3        0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18      0.18
Expenses after fee waivers3        0.12      0.14      0.14      0.14      0.14
Net investment income (loss)3        0.03      1.12      1.28      0.89      0.53
Supplemental data:                 
Net assets, end of year (000’s)        $35,891        $280,243        $406,314        $1,263,859        $899,845  

 

1 

Amount represents less than $0.0005 or $(0.0005) per share.

2 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of each year reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the payable dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of each year reported. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

3 

Ratios include the Fund’s share of income, expenses and expense waivers allocated from the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements and the attached Master Trust financial statements.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Organization and significant accounting policies

UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund (“Prime Preferred Fund”), UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund (“ESG Prime Preferred Fund”), UBS Select Government Preferred Fund (“Government Preferred Fund”), UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund (“Treasury Preferred Fund”), UBS Prime Preferred Fund (“Prime CNAV Preferred Fund”), and UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund (“Tax-Free Preferred Fund”) (each a “Fund”, collectively, the “Funds”) are each registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), as a diversified series of UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust on April 29, 1998. The Trust is a series mutual fund with twenty-two series. The financial statements for the other series of the Trust are not included herein.

Prime Preferred Fund, ESG Prime Preferred Fund, Government Preferred Fund, Treasury Preferred Fund, Prime CNAV Preferred Fund, and Tax-Free Preferred Fund are “feeder funds” that invest all of their investable assets in “master funds”—Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund, respectively (each a “Master Fund”, collectively, the “Master Funds” and each a diversified series of Master Trust, an open-end investment company registered with the SEC under the 1940 Act). The feeder funds and their respective Master Funds have the same investment objectives.

Prime Preferred Fund, Treasury Preferred Fund, and Tax-Free Preferred Fund commenced operations on August 28, 2007. Prime CNAV Preferred Fund commenced operations on January 19, 2016, Government Preferred Fund commenced operations on June 28, 2016 and ESG Prime Preferred Fund commenced operations on January 15, 2020.

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”) is the investment advisor and administrator for the Master Funds and the administrator for the feeder funds. UBS AM is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Group AG. UBS Group AG is an internationally diversified organization with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. UBS Group AG operates in many areas of the financial services industry.

The performance of each Fund is directly affected by the performance of the corresponding Master Fund. The value of such investment reflects each Fund’s proportionate interest in the net assets of its corresponding Master Fund (18.10% for Prime Preferred Fund, 65.53% for ESG Prime Preferred Fund, 46.34% for Government Preferred Fund, 57.95% for Treasury Preferred Fund, 31.96% for Prime CNAV Preferred Fund, and 4.41% for Tax-Free Preferred Fund at April 30, 2021).

All of the net investment income and realized and unrealized gains and losses from investment activities of each Master Fund are allocated pro rata, based on respective ownership interests, among the corresponding Fund and other investors in the Master Fund (e.g., other feeder funds) at the time of such determination. The financial statements of the Master Funds, including the Portfolio of investments, are included elsewhere in this report and should be read in connection with the Funds’ financial statements. The Trust accounts separately for the assets, liabilities and operations of each series. Expenses directly attributable to each series are charged to that series’ operations; expenses which are applicable to all series are allocated among them on a pro rata basis.

In the normal course of business, the Funds may enter into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide indemnification for certain liabilities. The Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Funds that have not yet occurred. However, the Funds have not had any prior claims or losses pursuant to these contracts and expect the risk of loss to be remote.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) is the exclusive reference of authoritative US generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal laws are also sources of authoritative US GAAP for SEC registrants. The Funds’ financial statements are prepared in accordance with US GAAP, which may require the use of management estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies:

Valuation of investmentsEach Fund records its investment in its corresponding Master Fund at fair value. Securities held by the Master Funds are valued as indicated in the Master Funds’ Notes to financial statements, which are included elsewhere in this report.

Floating net asset value per share funds—Consistent with Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act, as amended (“Rule 2a-7”), Prime Preferred Fund and ESG Prime Preferred Fund calculate their net asset value to four decimals (e.g., $1.0000) using market-based pricing and expect that their share price will fluctuate.

On occasion, it is possible that the end of day accounting net asset value (“NAV”) per share of a floating NAV Fund (“FNAV”), as reported in a shareholder report, for example, may differ from the last transactional NAV per share (used for purposes of processing purchases and redemptions); while this is not expected to occur with great frequency, it may happen should certain factors align on a given business day. The final end-of-day NAV per share for accounting and financial statement reporting purposes is designed to reflect all end-of-day accounting activities, which may include, but are not limited to, income and expense accruals, dividend and distribution reinvestments as well as final share activity; such items are factored into the Fund after the last transactional NAV per share is calculated on a given day (normally, the last transactional NAV per share is calculated as of 3 pm, Eastern time, as explained in the fund’s offering circular).

Constant net asset value per share funds—Government Preferred Fund, Treasury Preferred Fund, Prime CNAV Preferred Fund, and Tax-Free Preferred Fund (collectively the “Constant NAV Funds”) attempt to maintain a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. There is no assurance, however, that the Constant NAV Funds will be able to maintain a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. The Constant NAV Funds have adopted certain investment, portfolio valuation and dividend/distribution policies in an attempt to enable each to do so. Government Preferred Fund and Treasury Preferred Fund have adopted a policy to operate as “government money market funds”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “government money market fund” invests 99.5% or more of its total assets in cash, government securities, and/or repurchase agreements that are collateralized fully (i.e., collateralized by cash and/or government securities). As “government money market funds”, Government Preferred Fund and Treasury Preferred Fund are permitted to seek to maintain a stable price per share. Prime CNAV Preferred Fund and Tax-Free Preferred Fund operate as “retail money market funds”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “retail money market fund” is a money market fund that has policies and procedures reasonably designed to limit all beneficial owners of the fund to natural persons. As “retail money market funds”, Prime CNAV Preferred Fund and Tax-Free Preferred Fund are permitted to seek to maintain a stable price per share.

Liquidity fee and/or redemption gates—Consistent with Rule 2a-7, Prime Preferred Fund, ESG Prime Preferred Fund, Prime CNAV Preferred Fund and Tax-Free Preferred Fund may be subject to the possible imposition of a liquidity fee and/or temporary redemption gate. Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund may impose a fee upon the sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if Prime Master Fund’s liquidity, ESG Prime Master Fund’s liquidity, Prime CNAV Master Fund’s liquidity and/or Tax-Free Master Fund’s liquidity, respectively, falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. For the period ended April 30, 2021, Prime Preferred Fund, ESG Prime Preferred Fund, Prime CNAV Preferred Fund and Tax-Free Preferred Fund were not subject to any liquidity fees and/or redemption gates.

By operating as “government money market funds”, Government Preferred Fund and Treasury Preferred Fund are exempt from requirements that permit the imposition of a liquidity fee and/or temporary redemption gates. While the Funds’ Board of Trustees (the “Board”) may elect to subject Government Preferred Fund and Treasury Preferred Fund to liquidity fee and gate requirements in the future, the Board has not elected to do so at this time.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Dividends and distributions—Dividends and distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. The amount of dividends and distributions is determined in accordance with federal income tax regulations, which may differ from US GAAP. These “book/tax” differences are either considered temporary or permanent in nature. To the extent these differences are permanent in nature, such amounts are reclassified within the capital accounts based on their federal tax-basis treatment; temporary differences do not require reclassification.

Concentration of risk—The ability of the issuers of the debt securities held by the Master Funds to meet their obligations may be affected by economic and political developments particular to a specific industry, country, state or region.

Certain impacts to public health conditions particular to the coronavirus “COVID-19” outbreak that occurred may have a significant negative impact on the operations and profitability of the Funds’ investments. The extent of the impact to the financial performance of a Fund will depend on future developments, including (i) the duration and spread of the outbreak, (ii) the restrictions and advisories, (iii) the effects on the financial markets, and (iv) the effects on the economy overall, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.

Administrator

UBS AM serves as the administrator to each Fund pursuant to an Administration Agreement approved by the Trust’s board. In accordance with the Administration Agreement, each Fund pays UBS AM an administration fee, which is accrued daily and paid monthly, at the below annual rate, as a percentage of each Fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Fund      Administration fee
Prime Preferred Fund        0.08
ESG Prime Preferred Fund        0.08  
Government Preferred Fund        0.08  
Treasury Preferred Fund        0.08  
Prime CNAV Preferred Fund        0.08  
Tax-Free Preferred Fund        0.08  

At April 30, 2021, each Fund owed UBS AM for administrative services as follows:

 

Fund      Amounts owed to UBS AM
Prime Preferred Fund      $ 107,649  
ESG Prime Preferred Fund        15,580  
Government Preferred Fund        250,247  
Treasury Preferred Fund        1,240,045  
Prime CNAV Preferred Fund        84,100  
Tax-Free Preferred Fund        3,336  

In exchange for these fees, UBS AM has agreed to bear all of the Funds’ expenses other than interest, taxes, extraordinary costs and the cost of securities purchased and sold by the Funds, including any transaction costs. Although UBS AM is not obligated to pay the fees and expenses of the Funds’ independent trustees, it is contractually obligated to reduce its fee in an amount equal to those fees and expenses. UBS AM estimates that these fees and expenses will be 0.01% or less of each Fund’s average daily net assets. At April 30, 2021, UBS AM did not owe the Funds any additional reductions in administration fees for independent trustees’ fees and expenses.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

The Funds and UBS AM have entered into a written fee waiver agreement pursuant to which UBS AM is contractually obligated to waive its administration fees so that the total ordinary operating expenses of the Funds, including expenses allocated from Master Funds, do not exceed 0.14% through August 31, 2021 for each of the funds. The fee waiver agreement may be terminated by the Funds’ Board at any time and also will terminate automatically upon the expiration or termination of the Funds’ contract with UBS AM. At April 30, 2021, UBS AM owed the Funds and for the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS was contractually obligated to waive, as follows, and such waived amounts are not subject to future recoupment:

 

Fund      Amounts owed by UBS AM      Amounts waived by UBS AM
Prime Preferred Fund      $ 58,464        $ 876,562  
ESG Prime Preferred Fund        15,005          52,162  
Government Preferred Fund        132,154          2,622,133  
Treasury Preferred Fund        635,692          6,059,460  
Prime CNAV Preferred Fund        45,842          458,949  
Tax-Free Preferred Fund        6,122          50,819  

In addition, UBS AM may voluntarily undertake to waive fees in the event that Funds’ yields drop below a certain level. This additional undertaking is voluntary and not contractual and may be terminated at any time. At April 30, 2021 UBS AM owed the Funds, and for the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM voluntarily waived the below amounts, which are not subject to future recoupment:

 

Fund      Amounts owed by UBS AM      Amounts waived by UBS AM
Government Preferred Fund      $ 196,030        $ 523,828  
Treasury Preferred Fund        635,695          2,358,187  
Prime CNAV Preferred Fund        884          884  
Tax-Free Preferred Fund        6,132          20,700  

These amounts owed by or owed to UBS AM are shown at a net level on the statement of assets and liabilities.

Shares of beneficial interest

There is an unlimited amount of $0.001 par value shares of beneficial interest authorized. Transactions in shares of beneficial interest for each of the Funds for the periods ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 were as follows:

 

Prime Preferred Fund

 

       
        For the year ended April 30, 2021:
        Shares    Amount
Shares sold        4,833,018,729      $ 4,834,744,587  
Shares repurchased        (6,158,640,546      (6,160,769,475
Dividends reinvested        3,820,016        3,821,655  
Net increase (decrease)        (1,321,801,801    $ (1,322,203,233
       
        For the year ended April 30, 2020:
        Shares    Amount
Shares sold        22,562,395,590      $ 22,566,112,944  
Shares repurchased        (22,452,842,393      (22,455,854,678
Dividends reinvested        57,401,974        57,410,645  
Net increase (decrease)        166,955,171      $ 167,668,911  

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

ESG Prime Preferred Fund

 

       
        For the year ended April 30,
2021:
        Shares    Amount
Shares sold        569,523,852      $ 569,816,703  
Shares repurchased        (177,213,823      (177,303,716
Dividends reinvested        126,758        126,823  
Net increase (decrease)        392,436,787      $ 392,639,810  
       
        For the period from
January 15, 2020
1 to April 30,
2020:
       Shares    Amount
Shares sold        8,667,263      $ 8,667,264  
Shares repurchased        (1,235,629      (1,236,030
Net increase (decrease)        7,431,634      $ 7,431,234  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

Transactions in shares of beneficial interest, at $1.00 per share, were as follows:

 

Government Preferred Fund

 

       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        151,039,929,375        134,283,437,126  
Shares repurchased        (156,908,575,455      (127,991,490,582
Dividends reinvested        3,551,491        52,067,647  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        (5,865,094,589      6,344,014,191  
       
Treasury Preferred Fund

 

       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        87,847,403,994        60,309,685,095  
Shares repurchased        (84,848,189,244      (50,123,762,917
Dividends reinvested        10,829,597        111,752,138  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        3,010,044,347        10,297,674,316  
       
Prime CNAV Preferred Fund

 

       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        3,726,373,031        7,368,220,946  
Shares repurchased        (3,567,882,356      (6,677,904,123
Dividends reinvested        2,166,480        16,202,323  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        160,657,155        706,519,146  

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Tax-Free Preferred Fund

 

       
        For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Shares sold        60,676,979        1,139,548,621  
Shares repurchased        (305,167,663      (1,270,119,035
Dividends reinvested        139,166        4,499,229  
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding        (244,351,518      (126,071,185

Federal tax status

Each Fund intends to distribute substantially all of its taxable income and to comply with all the other requirements of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required. In addition, by distributing during each calendar year substantially all of net investment income, net realized capital gains and certain other amounts, if any, each Fund intends not to be subject to a federal excise tax.

The tax character of distributions paid to shareholders by the Funds during the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 were as follows:

 

     2021        2020
Fund    Tax-exempt
income
   Ordinary
income
   Long-term
realized
capital gains
       Tax-exampt
income
   Ordinary
income
   Long-term
realized
capital gains
UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund    $      $ 3,226,081      $        $      $ 65,953,438      $  
UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund             158,528                        19,888         
UBS Select Government Preferred Fund             4,423,318                        81,641,587         
UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund             10,436,525                        124,399,587         
UBS Prime CNAV Preferred Fund             1,668,207                        17,849,682         
UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund      35,443                              4,254,600                

At April 30, 2021, components of accumulated earnings (deficit) on a tax basis were as follows:

 

Fund    Undistributed
tax-exempt
income
   Undistributed
ordinary
income
   Undistributed
long-term
capital gains
   Accumulated
realized
capital and
other losses
  Unrealized
appreciation
(depreciation)
 

Other

temporary

differences

  Total
UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund    $      $ 52,474      $      $ (192   $ (69,867   $ (52,475   $ (70,060
UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund             26,981                     693       (26,788     886  
UBS Select Government Preferred Fund             85,658                           (31,115     54,543  
UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund             157,419               (1           (157,419     (1
UBS Prime CNAV Preferred Fund             22,704                           (20,486     2,218  
UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund      363                                  (318     45  

Net capital losses recognized by the Funds may be carried forward indefinitely, and retain their character as shortterm and/or long-term losses. These carryforwards are available as a reduction, to the extent provided in the regulations, of future realized capital gains. To the extent that such losses are used to offset future net realized capital gains, it is probable these gains will not be distributed. As of April 30, 2021, UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund had capital loss carryforwards of $192 in short-term capital losses and UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund had capital loss carryforwards of $1 in long-term capital losses.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

ASC 740-10 “Income Taxes—Overall” sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken. The Funds have conducted an analysis and concluded as of April 30, 2021, that there are no significant uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken that would require recognition in the financial statements. The Funds recognize interest and penalties, if any, related to uncertain tax positions as income tax expense in the Statement of operations. During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Funds did not incur any interest or penalties.

Each of the tax years in the four year period ended April 30, 2021, and since inception for the ESG Prime Preferred Fund, remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities.

 

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Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

To the Shareholders of UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund, UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund, UBS Select Government Preferred Fund, UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund, UBS Prime Preferred Fund, and UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund and the Board of Trustees of UBS Series Funds

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities of UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund, UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund, UBS Select Government Preferred Fund, UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund, UBS Prime Preferred Fund and UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund (collectively referred to as the “Funds”), (six of the funds comprising UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”)), as of April 30, 2021, and the related statements of operations and changes in net assets and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the Funds (six of the funds constituting UBS Series Funds) at April 30, 2021, and the results of their operations, changes in net assets and financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

 

Individual fund constituting UBS
Series Funds
   Statement of operations    Statements of changes in net assets    Financial highlights

UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund

UBS Select Treasury Preferred Fund

UBS Prime Preferred Fund

UBS Tax-Free Preferred Fund

   For the year ended April 30, 2021    For each of the two years in the period ended April 30, 2021    For each of the five years in the period ended April 30, 2021
UBS Select Government Preferred Fund    For the year ended April 30, 2021    For each of the two years in the period ended April 30, 2021    For each of the four years in the period ended April 30, 2021 and the period from June 28, 2016 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2017
UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund    For the year ended April 30, 2021    For the year ended April 30, 2021 and the period from January 15, 2020 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2020    For the year ended April 30, 2021 and the period from January 15, 2020 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2020

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on each of the Funds’ financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits

 

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Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

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General information (unaudited)

 

Monthly portfolio holdings disclosure

The Funds and Master Funds file their complete schedules of portfolio holdings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) each month on Form N-MFP. These reports on Form N-MFP are available on the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov. The Funds and Master Funds make portfolio holdings information available to shareholders on UBS’s Web site at the following internet address: www.ubs.com/usmoneymarketfunds. A more limited portfolio holdings report for each of Master Trust—Prime Master Fund (the master fund in which UBS Select Prime Preferred Fund invests), Master Trust—ESG Prime Master Fund (the master fund in which UBS Select ESG Prime Preferred Fund invests) and Master Trust—Prime CNAV Master Fund (the master fund in which UBS Prime Preferred Fund invests) is available on a weekly basis at the same UBS Web address. Investors also may find additional information about the Funds at the above referenced UBS Web site internet address.

Proxy voting policies, procedures and record

You may obtain a description of each Fund’s (and corresponding Master Fund’s) (1) proxy voting policies, (2) proxy voting procedures and (3) information regarding how a fund voted any proxies related to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 for which an SEC filing has been made, without charge, upon request by contacting a Fund directly at 1-800-647 1568, online on UBS’s Web site: www.ubs.com/ubsam-proxy, or on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Web site (http://www.sec.gov).

Other tax information

Pursuant to Sections 871(k)(1)(C)(i) and 871(k)(2)(C)(i) of the Internal Revenue Code, the Funds designate the following ordinary income distributions paid as qualified interest income and qualified short term capital gains for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2021:

 

Fund      Qualified interest
income
     Qualified short term
capital gains
Prime Preferred Fund      $ 1,569,513        $ 9,507  
ESG Prime Preferred Fund        84,857          120  
Government Preferred Fund        4,299,442          123,876  
Treasury Preferred Fund        10,112,825           
Prime CNAV Preferred Fund        935,763          8,935  

 

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Master Trust

Annual Report  |  April 30, 2021

Includes:

 

Prime Master Fund

 

ESG Prime Master Fund

 

Government Master Fund

 

Treasury Master Fund

 

Prime CNAV Master Fund

 

Tax-Free Master Fund

 


Master Trust

 

Understanding a Master Fund’s expenses (unaudited)

 

(Note: The expense information provided in this section is relevant for direct investors in the Master Funds. Investors in the related “feeder funds” should instead focus on separate expense examples relevant to the particular feeder funds; the expense examples for the feeder funds will reflect their proportionate share of the corresponding Master Funds’ expenses.)

As an owner of a Master Fund, an investor such as a feeder fund incurs ongoing costs, including management fees and other Master Fund expenses. These examples are intended to help you understand a Master Fund investor’s ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a Master Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The examples below are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period, November 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021.

Actual expenses

The first line in the table below for each Master Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over a period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses paid during period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical example for comparison purposes

The second line in the table below for each Master Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Master Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Master Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate your actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Master Fund and other funds. To do so, compare these 5% hypothetical examples with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs. Therefore, the second line in the table for each Master Fund is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds, if those other funds impose transactional costs—for example, exchange fees. In addition, if those transactional costs were included, your costs for those other funds would have been higher.

 

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Understanding a Master Fund’s expenses (unaudited) (concluded)

 

        Beginning
account value
November 1, 2020
     Ending
account value
April 30, 2021
     Expenses paid
during period
11/01/20 to 04/30/21
1
     Expense
ratio during
the period
                   
Prime Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.40        $ 0.50          0.10
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.30          0.50          0.10  
                                             
                   
ESG Prime Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.70        $ 0.00          0.00
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.79          0.00          0.00  
                                             
                   
Government Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.50          0.10
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.30          0.50          0.10  
                                             
                   
Treasury Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.40          0.08
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.40          0.40          0.08  
                                             
                   
Prime CNAV Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.40        $ 0.50          0.10
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.30          0.50          0.10  
                                             
                   
Tax-Free Master Fund

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 0.35          0.07
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,024.45          0.35          0.07  

 

1 

Expenses are equal to the Master Fund’s annualized net expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181 divided by 365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

 

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Master Trust

 

Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited)

 

Prime Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics      
Weighted average maturity1      49 days  

 

Top five issuer breakdown by country or territory of origin2    Percentage of net assets
United States      20.3
Japan      11.9  
Canada      11.2  
France      9.3  
New Zealand      6.4  
Total      59.1
Portfolio composition2    Percentage of net assets
Commercial paper      64.5
Repurchase agreements      17.4  
Certificates of deposit      9.7  
Time deposits      8.4  
Other assets in excess of liabilities       0.0  
Total      100.0

 

 

Amount represents less than 0.05% or (0.05%).

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Because the price of interests in Prime Master Fund will fluctuate, when you sell your shares of each related feeder fund, your shares of the related feeder fund may be worth more or less than what you originally paid for them. Prime Master Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if Prime Master Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

ESG Prime Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics  
Weighted average maturity1      51 days  

 

Top five issuer breakdown by country or territory of origin2    Percentage of net assets
United States      23.9
Japan      10.6  
France      8.8  
Sweden      7.3  
Canada      6.9  
Total      57.5
Portfolio composition2      
Commercial paper      64.8
Repurchase agreements      22.6  
Time deposits      9.0  
Certificates of deposit      3.5  
Other assets in excess of liabilities      0.1  
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Because the price of interests in ESG Prime Master Fund will fluctuate, when you sell your shares of each related feeder fund, your shares of the related feeder fund may be worth more or less than what you originally paid for them. ESG Prime Master Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if ESG Prime Master Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

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Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

Government Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics      
Weighted average maturity1      34 days  

 

Portfolio composition2      
U.S. Treasury obligations      43.9
U.S. government agency obligations      34.1  
Repurchase agreements      22.9  
Liabilities in excess of other assets      (0.9
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although Government Master Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of each related feeder fund are at $1.00 per share, Government Master Fund cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

38


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Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

Treasury Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics  
Weighted average maturity1      43 days  

 

Portfolio composition2      
U.S. Treasury obligations      73.2
Repurchase agreements      27.6  
Liabilities in excess of other assets      (0.8
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although Treasury Master Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of each related feeder fund are at $1.00 per share, Treasury Master Fund cannot guarantee it will do so. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

39


Master Trust

 

Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (continued)

 

Prime CNAV Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics      
Weighted average maturity1      53 days  
  

 

Top five issuer breakdown by country or territory of origin2    Percentage of net assets
United States      22.5
Japan      12.6  
Canada      12.6  
France      9.4  
New Zealand      6.0  
Total      63.1
Portfolio composition2      
Commercial paper      69.7
Repurchase agreements      14.6  
Certificates of deposit      9.3  
Time deposits      6.7  
Liabilities in excess of other assets      (0.3
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

Investments in the fund are intended to be limited to feeder funds with accounts beneficially owned by natural persons. Each feeder fund reserves the right to repurchase shares in any account that are not beneficially owned by natural persons.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although Prime CNAV Master Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of each related feeder fund are at $1.00 per share, Prime CNAV Master Fund cannot guarantee it will do so. Prime CNAV Master Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if Prime CNAV Master Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

40


Master Trust

 

Portfolio characteristics at a glance—April 30, 2021 (unaudited) (concluded)

 

Tax-Free Master Fund

  
  
Characteristics      
Weighted average maturity1      10 days  

 

Portfolio composition2      
Municipal bonds      90.1
Tax-exempt commercial paper      9.8  
Other assets in excess of liabilities      0.1  
Total      100.0

 

1 

The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its weighted average maturity will differ over time.

2 

Weightings represent percentages of the Master Fund’s net assets as of the date indicated. The Master Fund’s portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

Investments in the fund are intended to be limited to feeder funds with accounts beneficially owned by natural persons. Each feeder fund reserves the right to repurchase shares in any account that are not beneficially owned by natural persons.

You could lose money by investing in a money market fund. Although Tax-Free Master Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment so that the shares of each related feeder fund are at $1.00 per share, Tax-Free Master Fund cannot guarantee it will do so. Tax-Free Master Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares of each related feeder fund or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares of each related feeder fund if Tax-Free Master Fund’s liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in a money market fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or any other government agency. A money market fund’s sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to a money market fund, and you should not expect that the fund’s sponsor will provide financial support to a money market fund at any time.

Not FDIC insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

41


Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Certificates of deposit—9.7%

 

Banking-non-U.S.—7.8%

 

MUFG Bank Ltd.
0.190%, due 10/05/21

  $ 45,000,000     $ 45,002,956  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.290%, due 06/21/21

    44,000,000       44,011,620  

Royal Bank of Canada

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.300%, due 06/16/211

    32,000,000       32,017,745  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.250%, due 05/13/21

    63,000,000       63,003,865  

0.250%, due 06/01/21

    63,000,000       63,009,402  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.170%, due 08/24/21

    50,000,000       50,000,636  

0.180%, due 07/26/21

    54,000,000       54,005,471  

0.270%, due 05/18/21

    63,000,000       63,006,013  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.260%, due 05/11/21

    66,000,000       66,003,891  

0.270%, due 05/12/21

    40,000,000       40,002,679  

0.270%, due 05/18/21

    50,000,000       50,004,773  

Svenska Handelsbanken

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.240%, due 05/28/211

    35,000,000       35,005,684  

Toronto-Dominion Bank

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.100%,
0.282%, due 05/20/211

    85,000,000       85,028,038  
   

 

 

 

      690,102,773  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—1.9%

 

Cooperatieve Centrale

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.200%, due 06/21/211

    50,000,000       49,999,998  

0.250%, due 08/16/21

    64,000,000       64,019,158  

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.243%, due 05/06/211

    52,000,000       52,009,299  
   

 

 

 

              166,028,455  

Total certificates of deposit
(cost—$856,000,000)

      856,131,228  
Commercial paper2—64.5%    
Asset backed-miscellaneous—15.7%    

Barton Capital SA
0.080%, due 05/03/21

    5,000,000       4,999,969  

Chariot Funding LLC
0.220%, due 07/09/21

    59,000,000       58,982,447  

Fairway Finance Co. LLC
0.170%, due 09/03/21

    60,000,000       59,965,140  

0.180%, due 10/08/21

    22,000,000       21,983,274  

0.180%, due 11/05/21

    44,000,000       43,960,037  

0.220%, due 05/13/21

    33,000,000       32,998,868  

0.250%, due 06/03/21

    60,000,000       59,991,784  

Liberty Street Funding LLC
0.010%, due 05/03/21

    90,000,000       89,999,595  

0.150%, due 08/05/21

    35,000,000       34,984,817  

0.155%, due 08/03/21

    25,000,000       24,989,379  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)    
Asset backed-miscellaneous—(concluded)

 

LMA Americas LLC
0.170%, due 08/05/21

  $ 30,000,000     $ 29,986,986  

0.180%, due 10/07/21

    42,000,000       41,968,266  

0.190%, due 10/08/21

    19,000,000       18,985,555  

0.200%, due 05/11/21

    6,000,000       5,999,835  

0.250%, due 05/17/21

    63,000,000       62,996,817  

0.260%, due 05/20/21

    50,000,000       49,996,750  

0.270%, due 06/02/21

    21,100,000       21,097,602  

Nieuw Amsterdam Receivables Corp.
0.040%, due 05/04/21

    80,372,000       80,371,500  

Old Line Funding LLC
0.180%, due 09/01/21

    39,000,000       38,979,044  

0.190%, due 09/10/21

    30,000,000       29,982,599  

0.230%, due 10/26/21

    50,000,000       49,960,222  

0.240%, due 10/15/21

    82,000,000       81,938,773  

0.270%, due 08/16/21

    50,000,000       49,977,050  

0.290%, due 07/09/21

    45,000,000       44,987,487  

Starbird Funding Corp.
0.070%, due 05/03/21

    29,400,000       29,399,819  

0.150%, due 07/09/21

    20,000,000       19,994,050  

Thunder Bay Funding LLC
0.180%, due 08/16/21

    30,000,000       29,986,050  

0.190%, due 10/04/21

    50,000,000       49,962,930  

Versailles Commercial Paper LLC

   

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.090%,
0.205%, due 05/04/211,3

    43,000,000       43,000,000  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.221%, due 05/06/211,3

    44,000,000       44,000,000  

Victory Receivables Corp.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    71,006,000       71,005,680  

0.200%, due 05/03/21

    59,000,000       58,999,734  
   

 

 

 

      1,386,432,059  
   

 

 

 

Banking-non-U.S.—46.1%

 

ANZ New Zealand International Ltd.
0.190%, due 11/29/21

    31,000,000       30,973,588  

0.200%, due 12/21/21

    31,000,000       30,968,836  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.213%, due 05/10/211,3

    22,000,000       22,000,000  

0.260%, due 08/18/21

    40,000,000       39,984,478  

ASB Finance Ltd.
0.220%, due 11/24/21

    67,000,000       66,938,449  

0.230%, due 05/17/21

    33,000,000       32,999,205  

0.240%, due 05/12/21

    64,000,000       63,999,019  

0.250%, due 06/11/21

    63,000,000       62,994,708  

0.250%, due 07/07/21

    60,000,000       59,989,460  

Bank of Nova Scotia
0.230%, due 04/07/22

    24,750,000       24,702,270  

BNZ International Funding Ltd.
0.220%, due 08/06/21

    46,000,000       45,986,852  

BPCE SA
0.180%, due 09/01/21

    50,000,000       49,975,200  

Caisse des Depots et Consignations
0.180%, due 01/14/22

    25,000,000       24,968,345  
 

 

42


Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)    
Banking-non-U.S.—(continued)

 

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
0.200%, due 07/07/21

  $ 46,000,000     $ 45,990,616  

0.230%, due 04/04/22

    37,000,000       36,922,652  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.243%, due 05/06/211,3

    79,000,000       79,010,090  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.070%,
0.272%, due 05/04/211,3

    79,000,000       79,013,819  

Credit Industriel et Commercial
0.240%, due 05/24/21

    62,000,000       61,997,230  

DBS Bank Ltd.
0.140%, due 05/03/21

    25,000,000       24,999,875  

0.170%, due 08/23/21

    51,000,000       50,974,422  

0.180%, due 10/01/21

    40,000,000       39,971,253  

0.250%, due 05/19/21

    85,000,000       84,996,456  

Dexia Credit Local SA
0.210%, due 05/06/21

    48,000,000       47,999,520  

0.250%, due 06/08/21

    60,000,000       59,994,215  

Erste Abwicklungsanstalt
0.150%, due 06/04/21

    50,000,000       49,995,868  

Erste Finance LLC
0.070%, due 05/04/21

    180,000,000       179,996,999  

0.070%, due 05/06/21

    115,000,000       114,997,125  

Federation des Caisses Desjardins du Quebec 0.050%, due 05/03/21

    220,000,000       219,998,900  

0.050%, due 05/04/21

    121,000,000       120,999,193  

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp.
0.170%, due 07/01/21

    50,000,000       49,989,580  

0.180%, due 09/01/21

    30,000,000       29,982,123  

0.185%, due 09/01/21

    50,000,000       49,970,206  

0.190%, due 08/02/21

    50,000,000       49,981,200  

0.210%, due 07/12/21

    40,000,000       39,989,537  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.165%, due 08/10/21

    40,000,000       39,979,147  

0.175%, due 07/06/21

    40,000,000       39,988,908  

0.190%, due 05/25/21

    64,000,000       63,994,978  

0.190%, due 06/01/21

    101,000,000       100,990,752  

National Australia Bank Ltd.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.000%,
0.198%, due 05/14/211,3

    70,000,000       70,000,777  

National Bank of Canada
0.170%, due 08/16/21

    43,750,000       43,732,675  

0.170%, due 09/01/21

    50,000,000       49,975,372  

0.220%, due 07/06/21

    78,000,000       77,983,742  

Natixis SA
0.260%, due 05/17/21

    62,000,000       61,997,540  

NRW Bank
0.035%, due 05/05/21

    100,000,000       99,999,306  

0.040%, due 05/04/21

    235,000,000       234,998,693  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.180%, due 10/01/21

    51,000,000       50,960,512  

0.270%, due 08/17/21

    63,000,000       62,971,578  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.180%, due 10/05/21

    45,000,000       44,967,807  

0.180%, due 11/18/21

    45,000,000       44,956,570  

0.190%, due 08/19/21

    43,000,000       42,981,836  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(concluded)    
Banking-non-U.S.—(concluded)

 

Societe Generale SA
0.020%, due 05/06/21

  $ 117,000,000     $ 116,998,830  

0.050%, due 05/03/21

    15,000,000       14,999,925  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.160%, due 08/13/21

    20,050,000       20,041,520  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.190%, due 05/25/21

    80,000,000       79,995,500  

0.190%, due 08/23/21

    30,000,000       29,985,146  

Svenska Handelsbanken
0.160%, due 08/23/21

    50,000,000       49,979,555  

0.210%, due 12/16/21

    35,000,000       34,960,421  

0.230%, due 06/01/21

    36,750,000       36,747,354  

0.250%, due 08/12/21

    64,000,000       63,976,889  

Toronto-Dominion Bank
0.060%, due 05/04/21

    90,000,000       89,999,200  

United Overseas Bank Ltd.
0.250%, due 05/28/21

    60,000,000       59,996,314  

0.280%, due 09/27/21

    65,000,000       64,952,604  

Westpac Banking Corp.
0.180%, due 12/01/21

    45,000,000       44,946,788  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.020%,
0.210%, due 11/24/211,3

    45,000,000       44,999,999  

Westpac Securities NZ Ltd.
0.200%, due 07/08/21

    46,000,000       45,988,009  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.205%, due 05/05/211,3

    58,000,000       58,000,097  
   

 

 

 

      4,061,299,633  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—2.7%

 

Bedford Row Funding Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.186%, due 07/26/211,3

    40,000,000       40,000,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.215%, due 05/03/211,3

    42,000,000       42,000,000  

Collateralized Commercial Paper FLEX Co. LLC 0.190%, due 10/19/21

    35,000,000       34,969,064  

0.250%, due 07/09/21

    25,000,000       24,992,562  

0.270%, due 06/08/21

    6,000,000       5,999,142  

Collateralized Commercial Paper V Co. LLC 0.200%, due 10/04/21

    13,000,000       12,990,078  

0.220%, due 10/29/21

    79,000,000       78,924,116  
   

 

 

 

              239,874,962  

Total commercial paper
(cost—$5,687,160,781)

 

    5,687,606,654  
Time deposits—8.4%

 

Banking-non-U.S.—8.4%

 

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    360,000,000       360,000,000  

Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank 0.030%, due 05/03/21

    118,000,000       118,000,000  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    85,000,000       85,000,000  

Natixis SA
0.020%, due 05/03/21

    180,000,000       180,000,000  

Total time deposits
(cost—$743,000,000)

 

    743,000,000  
 

 

43


Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—17.4%

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Barclays Bank PLC, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $97,065,829 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.500% to 3.500% due 06/01/47 to 03/01/51 and $371,669,956 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.500% to 4.500% due 05/01/35 to 03/01/40; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,000,167

  $ 200,000,000     $ 200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.140% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $56,269,186 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 2.436% to 6.580% due 03/15/22 to 04/22/52; (value—$53,496,135); proceeds: $50,000,583

    50,000,000       50,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.180% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $189,908,361 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 0.586% to 6.750% due 07/01/21 to 03/25/36; (value—$32,191,636); proceeds: $30,000,4505

    30,000,000       30,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $76,812,096 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.834% to 4.000% due 12/01/37 to 10/15/47 and $369,902,082 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.112% to 4.000% due 12/01/33 to 02/01/51; (value—$306,000,000); proceeds: $300,000,250

    300,000,000       300,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/20/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, SOFR + 0.01%, 0.020% due 05/07/21, collateralized by $172,429,417 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.000% to 4.500% due 05/01/35 to 04/01/51 and $160,064,348 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 6.000% due 09/01/25 to 11/01/56; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,001,1114

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/27/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 0.250% due 05/04/21, collateralized by $65,080,000 asset-backed convertible bond, 2.000% due 08/15/22; (value—$77,000,487); proceeds: $70,003,403

    70,000,000       70,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/28/20 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.23%, 0.280% due 05/07/21, collateralized by $78,598,066 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 4.000% to 10.000% due 10/15/21 to 10/01/40; (value—$81,000,001); proceeds: $75,214,0834

    75,000,000       75,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.33%, 0.380% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $67,298,000 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 4.000% due 06/15/24 to 12/15/25; (value—$82,500,545); proceeds: $75,022,9584

  $ 75,000,000     $ 75,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $425,089,324 Government National Mortgage Association obligation, 3.000% due 08/20/49; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,000,167

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/20/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., OBFR + 0.25%, 0.300% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $39,020,456 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 0.486% to 6.500% due 05/15/28 to 09/20/45; (value—$26,750,000); proceeds: $25,002,0834

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., OBFR + 0.65%, 0.700% due 08/03/21, collateralized by $52,226,000 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 2.000% due 08/15/23 to 06/15/27; (value—$80,250,338); proceeds: $75,042,2924

    75,000,000       75,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., OBFR + 0.65%, 0.700% due 08/03/21, collateralized by $165,392,000 shares of various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 6.750% due 03/15/23 to 09/30/46; (value—$251,450,117); proceeds: $235,132,5144

    235,000,000       235,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$1,535,000,000)

 

    1,535,000,000  

Total investments
(cost—$8,821,160,781 which approximates
cost for federal income tax
purposes)—100.0%

 

    8,821,737,882  
   

Other assets in excess of liabilities—0.00%

 

    1,371,247  

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 8,823,109,129  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

44


Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments:

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
Certificates of deposit      $        $ 856,131,228        $        $ 856,131,228  
Commercial paper                 5,687,606,654                   5,687,606,654  
Time deposits                 743,000,000                   743,000,000  
Repurchase agreements                 1,535,000,000                   1,535,000,000  
Total      $        $ 8,821,737,882        $        $ 8,821,737,882  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

 

Amount represents less than 0.05% or (0.05)%.

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects earlier of reset date or stated maturity date.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

3 

Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid, unless noted otherwise, and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. Securities exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A, in the amount of $ 522,024,782, represented 5.9% of the Fund’s net assets at period end.

4 

Investment has a put feature, which allows the Fund to accelerate the maturity, and a variable or floating rate. The interest rate shown is the current rate as of April 30, 2021 and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects the earliest put date and the proceeds represent the receivable of the Fund if the put feature was exercised as of April 30, 2021.

5 

Collateral includes perpetual investments, maturity dates shown reflect the next call date for the perpetual investments.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

45


ESG Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Certificates of deposit—3.5%

 

Banking-non-U.S.—2.7%

 

MUFG Bank Ltd.
0.190%, due 10/05/21

  $ 2,500,000     $ 2,500,164  

Royal Bank of Canada

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.300%, due 06/16/211

    2,000,000       2,001,109  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.250%, due 05/13/21

    2,000,000       2,000,123  

0.250%, due 06/01/21

    2,000,000       2,000,298  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.180%, due 07/26/21

    2,000,000       2,000,203  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.212%, due 07/01/211

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

Svenska Handelsbanken

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.202%, due 05/17/211

    2,000,000       1,999,893  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.240%, due 05/28/211

    1,500,000       1,500,243  
   

 

 

 

      16,002,033  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—0.8%

 

Cooperatieve Centrale

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.200%, due 06/21/211

    3,000,000       3,000,000  

0.250%, due 08/16/21

    2,000,000       2,000,599  
   

 

 

 

              5,000,599  

Total certificates of deposit
(cost—$21,000,000)

 

    21,002,632  
Commercial paper2—64.8%

 

Asset backed-miscellaneous—20.9%

 

Atlantic Asset Securitization LLC
0.040%, due 05/03/21

    1,500,000       1,499,991  

0.158%, due 07/22/21

    6,000,000       5,997,814  

0.161%, due 08/05/21

    2,500,000       2,498,915  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.080%,
0.195%, due 05/18/211,3

    2,000,000       2,000,175  

Barton Capital SA
0.081%, due 05/03/21

    1,000,000       999,994  

Chariot Funding LLC
0.106%, due 05/10/21

    4,000,000       3,999,882  

0.153%, due 07/09/21

    2,000,000       1,999,405  

Fairway Finance Co. LLC
0.095%, due 05/13/21

    1,000,000       999,966  

0.145%, due 06/03/21

    1,500,000       1,499,795  

0.170%, due 10/08/21

    1,000,000       999,240  

0.173%, due 11/05/21

    3,000,000       2,997,275  

0.183%, due 11/15/21

    2,750,000       2,747,325  

Gotham Funding Corp.
0.050%, due 05/07/21

    4,000,000       3,999,961  

Liberty Street Funding LLC
0.161%, due 08/04/21

    5,000,000       4,997,853  

LMA Americas LLC
0.074%, due 05/03/21

    1,000,000       999,994  

0.090%, due 05/11/21

    1,750,000       1,749,952  

0.107%, due 05/17/21

    1,500,000       1,499,924  

0.132%, due 06/08/21

    2,000,000       1,999,714  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Asset backed-miscellaneous—(concluded)

 

0.155%, due 07/15/21

  $ 5,000,000     $ 4,998,364  

0.162%, due 08/09/21

    2,000,000       1,999,091  

0.167%, due 09/08/21

    2,000,000       1,998,785  

Manhattan Asset Funding Co. LLC
0.153%, due 07/08/21

    5,500,000       5,498,387  

Nieuw Amsterdam Receivables Corp.
0.100%, due 05/28/21

    7,000,000       6,999,456  

0.127%, due 07/27/21

    3,000,000       2,998,907  

0.137%, due 06/25/21

    7,000,000       6,998,508  

Old Line Funding LLC
0.142%, due 07/06/21

    2,500,000       2,499,339  

0.143%, due 07/09/21

    2,000,000       1,999,444  

0.156%, due 09/01/21

    2,000,000       1,998,925  

0.160%, due 10/15/21

    2,000,000       1,998,507  

0.162%, due 11/01/21

    2,500,000       2,497,919  

Thunder Bay Funding LLC
0.113%, due 06/09/21

    5,000,000       4,999,372  

0.135%, due 07/14/21

    2,000,000       1,999,437  

0.137%, due 07/19/21

    1,000,000       999,696  

0.155%, due 08/16/21

    2,000,000       1,999,070  

0.170%, due 10/04/21

    2,000,000       1,998,517  

0.172%, due 11/01/21

    2,000,000       1,998,232  

Versailles Commercial Paper LLC
0.063%, due 05/05/21

    3,000,000       2,999,974  

0.125%, due 06/03/21

    2,250,000       2,249,734  

0.152%, due 07/06/21

    5,000,000       4,998,586  

0.161%, due 08/02/21

    5,000,000       4,997,898  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.221%, due 05/06/211,3

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

Victory Receivables Corp.
0.054%, due 05/03/21

    2,000,000       1,999,991  

0.140%, due 07/21/21

    5,500,000       5,498,246  

0.140%, due 07/27/21

    3,000,000       2,998,973  
   

 

 

 

      127,710,533  
   

 

 

 

Banking-non-U.S.—41.7%

 

ANZ New Zealand International Ltd.
0.127%, due 08/18/21

    1,000,000       999,612  

0.144%, due 11/29/21

    2,000,000       1,998,296  

0.154%, due 12/21/21

    2,000,000       1,997,989  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.213%, due 05/10/211,3

    1,000,000       1,000,000  

ASB Finance Ltd.
0.046%, due 05/12/21

    2,000,000       1,999,969  

0.093%, due 07/07/21

    3,100,000       3,099,455  

0.122%, due 09/01/21

    2,000,000       1,999,160  

0.148%, due 10/22/21

    2,000,000       1,998,561  

Banque et Caisse d Epargne de l Etat
0.108%, due 08/16/21

    6,000,000       5,998,056  

0.137%, due 10/01/21

    2,000,000       1,998,828  

BNZ International Funding Ltd.
0.105%, due 08/06/21

    2,000,000       1,999,428  

BPCE SA
0.144%, due 09/01/21

    2,500,000       2,498,760  

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
0.108%, due 07/07/21

    2,000,000       1,999,592  

0.145%, due 09/13/21

    2,000,000       1,998,904  

0.222%, due 04/04/22

    2,500,000       2,494,774  
 

 

46


ESG Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Banking-non-U.S.—(continued)

 

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.070%,
0.272%, due 05/04/211,3

  $ 1,000,000     $ 1,000,175  

DBS Bank Ltd.
0.079%, due 05/19/21

    1,000,000       999,958  

0.157%, due 08/23/21

    2,000,000       1,998,997  

0.168%, due 10/01/21

    2,500,000       2,498,203  

Dexia Credit Local SA
0.060%, due 05/06/21

    1,000,000       999,990  

0.089%, due 06/08/21

    2,000,000       1,999,807  

Erste Abwicklungsanstalt
0.085%, due 06/04/21

    5,000,000       4,999,587  

Erste Finance LLC
0.150%, due 05/06/21

    14,000,000       13,999,650  

Federation des Caisses Desjardins du Quebec

   

0.060%, due 05/03/21

    7,500,000       7,499,963  

0.060%, due 05/04/21

    7,000,000       6,999,953  

0.090%, due 06/09/21

    7,500,000       7,499,250  

Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau
0.180%, due 01/26/22

    2,000,000       1,997,290  

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp.
0.100%, due 05/25/21

    2,250,000       2,249,844  

0.121%, due 07/01/21

    3,000,000       2,999,375  

0.129%, due 07/12/21

    1,500,000       1,499,608  

0.147%, due 08/05/21

    2,000,000       1,999,208  

0.173%, due 09/01/21

    2,500,000       2,498,510  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.103%, due 06/01/21

    2,000,000       1,999,817  

0.124%, due 05/21/21

    2,750,000       2,749,801  

National Australia Bank Ltd.
0.091%, due 06/02/21

    5,000,000       4,999,583  

National Bank of Canada
0.111%, due 07/02/21

    2,500,000       2,499,514  

0.112%, due 07/06/21

    3,000,000       2,999,375  

0.123%, due 08/02/21

    2,000,000       1,999,358  

0.128%, due 08/10/21

    2,500,000       2,499,093  

Nationwide Building Society
0.089%, due 05/10/21

    11,500,000       11,499,716  

0.124%, due 05/25/21

    5,000,000       4,999,569  

Natixis SA
0.084%, due 05/17/21

    2,000,000       1,999,921  

Nordea Bank Abp
0.106%, due 07/15/21

    2,000,000       1,999,552  

0.126%, due 08/17/21

    2,250,000       2,249,142  

0.129%, due 08/26/21

    11,000,000       10,995,349  

NRW Bank
0.059%, due 05/14/21

    5,000,000       4,999,885  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.095%, due 06/14/21

    6,000,000       5,999,288  

0.173%, due 09/16/21

    2,000,000       1,998,664  

0.181%, due 10/01/21

    2,000,000       1,998,451  

0.194%, due 12/08/21

    2,000,000       1,997,607  

Royal Bank of Canada
0.083%, due 06/22/21

    1,240,000       1,239,849  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.080%, due 05/19/21

    4,500,000       4,499,810  

0.080%, due 05/21/21

    1,000,000       999,953  

0.115%, due 07/06/21

    2,500,000       2,499,465  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Banking-non-U.S.—(concluded)

 

0.175%, due 12/10/21

  $ 2,500,000     $ 2,497,278  

0.178%, due 01/05/22

    2,000,000       1,997,528  

Societe Generale SA
0.060%, due 05/06/21

    10,000,000       9,999,900  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.092%, due 06/02/21

    6,000,000       5,999,494  

0.141%, due 08/09/21

    5,500,000       5,497,824  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.067%, due 05/17/21

    2,000,000       1,999,937  

0.067%, due 05/17/21

    4,000,000       3,999,873  

0.074%, due 05/21/21

    4,000,000       3,999,827  

0.085%, due 05/27/21

    3,000,000       2,999,809  

0.102%, due 06/17/21

    2,000,000       1,999,728  

0.119%, due 07/12/21

    2,000,000       1,999,517  

Svenska Handelsbanken
0.075%, due 05/19/21

    1,000,000       999,960  

0.125%, due 08/12/21

    2,000,000       1,999,278  

0.127%, due 08/19/21

    2,000,000       1,999,217  

0.139%, due 10/06/21

    2,500,000       2,498,465  

0.172%, due 11/19/21

    1,800,000       1,798,295  

0.177%, due 12/16/21

    2,000,000       1,997,738  

Toronto-Dominion Bank
0.083%, due 05/10/21

    1,750,000       1,749,960  

0.153%, due 10/07/21

    3,000,000       2,997,960  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.030%,
0.220%, due 06/16/211,3

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

United Overseas Bank Ltd.
0.079%, due 05/28/21

    1,000,000       999,939  

0.083%, due 06/02/21

    3,000,000       2,999,772  

0.105%, due 06/24/21

    2,000,000       1,999,679  

0.175%, due 09/27/21

    1,000,000       999,271  

Westpac Banking Corp.
0.194%, due 11/15/21

    2,000,000       1,997,855  

0.195%, due 11/18/21

    2,000,000       1,997,812  

Westpac Securities NZ Ltd.
0.136%, due 07/08/21

    2,000,000       1,999,479  

0.194%, due 11/15/21

    2,000,000       1,997,855  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.205%, due 05/05/211,3

    1,000,000       1,000,002  
   

 

 

 

      254,566,766  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—2.2%    

Bedford Row Funding Corp.
0.176%, due 01/03/22

    1,500,000       1,498,182  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.215%, due 05/03/211,3

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.237%, due 06/21/211,3

    1,000,000       1,000,077  

Collateralized Commercial Paper FLEX Co. LLC
0.110%, due 05/18/21

    1,000,000       999,945  

0.132%, due 06/08/21

    1,000,000       999,857  

0.181%, due 10/13/21

    2,000,000       1,998,331  

Collateralized Commercial Paper V Co. LLC 0.175%, due 10/04/21

    2,500,000       2,498,092  
 

 

47


ESG Prime Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(concluded)

 

Banking-U.S.—(concluded)

 

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA
0.169%, due 11/29/21

  $ 2,500,000     $ 2,497,500  
   

 

 

 

              13,491,984  

Total commercial paper
(cost—$395,749,303)

      395,769,283  
Time deposits—9.0%    
Banking-non-U.S.—9.0%    

Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank
0.030%, due 05/03/21

    15,000,000       15,000,000  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Natixis
0.020%, due 05/03/21

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Total time deposits
(cost—$55,000,000)

      55,000,000  
Repurchase agreements—22.6%    

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.33%, 0.380% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $783,811 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 8.00% due 09/15/21 to 12/01/50; (value—$1,135,198); proceeds: $1,000,3064,5

    1,000,000       1,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $138,871,800 U.S. Treasury Note, 0.500% due 03/15/23; (value—$139,740,088); proceeds: $137,000,114

  $ 137,000,000     $ 137,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$138,000,000)

            138,000,000  

Total investments
(cost—$609,749,303 which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)—99.9%

      609,771,915  
   

Other assets in excess of liabilities—0.1%

            736,175  

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 610,508,090  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments:

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
Certificates of deposit      $        $ 21,002,632        $        $ 21,002,632  
Commercial paper                 395,769,283                   395,769,283  
Time deposits                 55,000,000                   55,000,000  
Repurchase agreements                 138,000,000                   138,000,000  
Total      $        $ 609,771,915        $        $ 609,771,915  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects earlier of reset date or stated maturity date.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

3 

Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid, unless noted otherwise, and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. Securities exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A, in the amount of $12,000,429, represented 2.0% of the Fund’s net assets at period end.

4 

Investment has a put feature, which allows the Fund to accelerate the maturity, and a variable or floating rate. The interest rate shown is the current rate as of April 30, 2021 and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects the earliest put date and the proceeds represent the receivable of the Fund if the put feature was exercised as of April 30, 2021.

5 

Collateral includes perpetual investments, maturity dates shown reflect the next call date for the perpetual investments.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

48


Government Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. government agency obligations—34.1%

 

Federal Farm Credit Bank

 

SOFR + 0.035%,
0.045%, due 05/01/211

  $ 27,000,000     $ 27,000,000  

SOFR + 0.050%,
0.060%, due 05/01/211

    23,000,000       23,000,000  

0.060%, due 02/10/22

    45,000,000       44,996,392  

SOFR + 0.055%,
0.065%, due 05/01/211

    5,500,000       5,500,000  

SOFR + 0.060%,
0.070%, due 05/01/211

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

0.100%, due 10/08/21

    67,500,000       67,492,207  

SOFR + 0.110%,
0.120%, due 05/01/211

    78,000,000       78,000,000  

0.120%, due 05/20/212

    125,000,000       124,992,917  

0.130%, due 05/06/212

    25,000,000       24,999,729  

0.150%, due 05/26/21

    55,000,000       54,999,758  

SOFR + 0.160%,
0.170%, due 05/01/211

    35,000,000       35,000,000  

Federal Home Loan Bank
0.009%, due 05/12/212

    150,000,000       149,999,662  

0.010%, due 05/28/212

    77,000,000       76,999,465  

0.018%, due 07/09/212

    172,000,000       171,994,238  

0.018%, due 07/16/212

    79,000,000       78,997,077  

SOFR + 0.010%,
0.020%, due 05/03/211

    231,000,000       231,000,000  

0.020%, due 07/28/212

    60,000,000       59,997,133  

SOFR + 0.015%,
0.025%, due 05/03/211

    186,000,000       186,000,000  

0.025%, due 08/19/21

    78,000,000       77,999,317  

0.025%, due 08/25/212

    28,600,000       28,597,736  

0.034%, due 05/21/212

    89,000,000       88,998,487  

0.039%, due 05/12/212

    45,000,000       44,999,561  

0.040%, due 05/17/212

    90,000,000       89,998,600  

0.050%, due 06/28/21

    66,000,000       66,000,257  

0.059%, due 05/05/212

    45,000,000       44,999,853  

SOFR + 0.050%,
0.060%, due 05/03/211

    100,000,000       100,000,000  

SOFR + 0.055%,
0.065%, due 05/03/211

    100,000,000       100,000,000  

SOFR + 0.060%,
0.070%, due 05/03/211

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

0.090%, due 06/18/212

    13,000,000       12,998,505  

SOFR + 0.090%,
0.100%, due 05/03/211

    46,000,000       46,000,000  

0.104%, due 05/14/212

    53,500,000       53,498,300  

SOFR + 0.150%,
0.160%, due 05/03/211

    116,000,000       116,000,000  

0.185%, due 06/24/212

    52,000,000       51,986,104  

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

   

SOFR + 0.095%,
0.105%, due 05/01/211

    67,000,000       67,000,000  

SOFR + 0.100%,
0.110%, due 05/01/211

    181,000,000       181,000,000  

SOFR + 0.190%,
0.200%, due 05/01/211

    115,000,000       115,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. government agency obligations—(concluded)

 

Federal National Mortgage Association

   

SOFR + 0.130%,
0.140%, due 05/01/211

  $ 90,000,000     $ 90,000,482  

SOFR + 0.180%,
0.190%, due 05/01/211

    115,000,000       115,000,000  

2.750%, due 06/22/21

    51,775,000       51,958,639  

Total U.S. government agency obligations
(cost—$3,010,004,419)

      3,010,004,419  
U.S. Treasury obligations—43.9%

 

U.S. Cash Management Bill
0.021%, due 08/31/212

    77,000,000       76,994,655  

0.022%, due 08/10/212

    75,000,000       74,995,566  

0.025%, due 08/17/212

    57,000,000       56,995,804  

0.030%, due 08/03/212

    65,000,000       64,995,017  

0.034%, due 06/29/212

    85,000,000       84,994,055  

0.053%, due 07/13/212

    155,000,000       154,984,025  

0.056%, due 07/20/212

    74,000,000       73,991,182  

0.069%, due 06/22/212

    150,000,000       149,986,806  

0.081%, due 07/06/212

    97,000,000       96,986,204  

U.S. Treasury Bills
0.025%, due 07/22/212

    64,000,000       63,996,445  

0.033%, due 06/10/212

    157,000,000       156,995,317  

0.036%, due 10/28/212

    89,000,000       88,984,598  

0.041%, due 10/14/212

    62,000,000       61,988,702  

0.041%, due 10/21/212

    97,000,000       96,981,570  

0.044%, due 06/01/212

    86,000,000       85,997,021  

0.050%, due 05/27/212

    216,000,000       215,993,997  

0.061%, due 06/03/212

    80,000,000       79,995,867  

0.062%, due 05/11/212

    136,000,000       135,998,224  

0.066%, due 06/08/212

    125,000,000       124,991,750  

0.069%, due 07/29/212

    207,000,000       206,965,110  

0.072%, due 06/17/212

    170,000,000       169,985,482  

0.079%, due 05/18/212

    150,000,000       149,996,308  

0.081%, due 05/20/212

    174,000,000       173,994,078  

0.087%, due 05/13/212

    244,000,000       243,994,665  

0.089%, due 06/15/212

    73,000,000       72,992,327  

0.089%, due 07/08/212

    76,000,000       75,987,739  

0.090%, due 05/04/212

    70,000,000       69,999,830  

0.091%, due 05/25/212

    87,000,000       86,995,215  

0.092%, due 05/06/212

    244,000,000       243,998,233  

0.097%, due 07/15/212

    62,000,000       61,997,485  

U.S. Treasury Notes

   

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.114%,
0.134%, due 05/01/211

    70,000,000       70,007,723  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.220%,
0.240%, due 05/01/211

    143,000,000       142,984,892  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.300%,
0.320%, due 05/01/211

    97,000,000       97,029,059  

1.875%, due 01/31/22

    38,000,000       38,516,903  

1.875%, due 02/28/22

    19,000,000       19,286,221  

Total U.S. Treasury obligations
(cost—$3,871,578,075)

      3,871,578,075  
 

 

49


Government Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—22.9%

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.22%, 0.270% due 07/29/21, collateralized by $429,390,899 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 3.000% to 4.500% due 02/25/35 to 11/25/50 and $91,399,130 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 4.634% to 5.984% due 05/20/37 to 12/20/48; (value—$103,000,000); proceeds: $100,021,7503

  $ 100,000,000     $ 100,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/20/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, SOFR + 0.01%, 0.020% due 05/07/21, collateralized by $45,381,312 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 2.500% to 5.500% due 12/01/26 to 05/01/51 and $302,703,628 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 5.000% due 03/01/28 to 05/01/51; (value—$306,000,000); proceeds: $300,001,6673

    300,000,000       300,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $214,040,981 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 3.000% due 06/01/50 to 04/01/51 (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,000,167

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Toronto-Dominion Bank, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $2,503,419 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligation, 2.000% due 02/25/51, $260,977,854 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 1.500% to 9.000% due 10/01/21 to 02/25/51 and $26,110,898 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.500% to 3.000% due 05/20/45 to 03/20/51; (value—$102,000,000); proceeds: $100,000,083

    100,000,000       100,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/27/21 with MUFG Securities Americas Inc., OBFR 0.01%, 0.040% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $177,593,402 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 1.250% to 4.500% due 08/25/31 to 03/25/51 and $98,768,506 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 3.000% to 4.000% due 07/01/32 to 12/01/50 and $24,417,388 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 1.000% to 4.000% due 05/20/39 to 02/20/51; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,001,6673

  $ 200,000,000     $ 200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Fixed Income Clearing Corp., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $915,871,900 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.125% to 2.000% due 06/15/22 to 07/31/22; (value—$937,380,082); proceeds: $919,000,383

    919,000,000       919,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $201,499,136 Federal National Mortgage Association obligation, 2.000% due 05/01/51; (value—$204,000,166); proceeds: $200,000,167

    200,000,000       200,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$2,019,000,000)

            2,019,000,000  

Total investments
(cost—$8,900,582,494 which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)—100.9%

      8,900,582,494  
   

Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.9)%

 

    (77,889,638

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 8,822,692,856  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments.

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
U.S. government agency obligations      $        $ 3,010,004,419        $        $ 3,010,004,419  
U.S. Treasury obligations                 3,871,578,075                   3,871,578,075  
Repurchase agreements                 2,019,000,000                   2,019,000,000  
Total      $        $ 8,900,582,494        $        $ 8,900,582,494  

 

50


Government Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

3 

Investment has a put feature, which allows the Fund to accelerate the maturity, and a variable or floating rate. The interest rate shown is the current rate as of April 30, 2021 and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects the earliest put date and the proceeds represent the receivable of the Fund if the put feature was exercised as of April 30, 2021.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

51


Treasury Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. Treasury obligations—73.2%

 

U.S. Cash Management Bill
0.030%, due 08/03/211

  $ 250,000,000     $ 249,980,833  

0.023%, due 08/10/211

    320,000,000       319,979,760  

0.025%, due 08/17/211

    226,655,000       226,638,316  

0.0292%, due 07/27/211

    306,000,000       305,979,192  

0.025%, due 08/24/211

    266,000,000       265,979,126  

0.040%, due 07/20/211

    764,000,000       763,941,313  

0.021%, due 08/31/211

    281,000,000       280,980,494  

0.046%, due 07/13/211

    931,000,000       930,919,869  

0.091%, due 06/29/211

    474,325,000       474,274,227  

0.067%, due 07/06/211

    507,000,000       506,942,560  

0.069%, due 06/22/211

    404,000,000       403,964,778  

U.S. Treasury Bills
0.089%, due 06/15/211

    181,000,000       180,980,975  

0.012%, due 08/12/211

    250,000,000       249,964,229  

0.014%, due 06/24/211

    307,510,000       307,504,421  

0.053%, due 09/16/211

    255,000,000       254,949,424  

0.020%, due 07/01/211

    322,000,000       321,989,445  

0.039%, due 09/23/211

    300,000,000       299,954,121  

0.058%, due 09/09/211

    249,000,000       248,949,141  

0.041%, due 09/30/211

    522,000,000       521,913,001  

0.034%, due 10/07/211

    262,000,000       261,961,723  

0.041%, due 10/14/211

    252,000,000       251,954,080  

0.041%, due 10/21/211

    379,275,000       379,202,938  

0.036%, due 10/28/211

    354,105,000       354,043,722  

0.034%, due 06/10/211

    747,070,000       747,046,909  

0.050%, due 05/27/211

    656,000,000       655,983,523  

0.052%, due 06/03/211

    507,000,000       506,978,782  

0.056%, due 06/08/211

    504,000,000       503,977,559  

0.062%, due 05/11/211

    376,000,000       375,995,103  

0.063%, due 05/18/211

    1,060,485,000       1,060,473,347  

0.064%, due 06/01/211

    754,100,000       754,069,693  

0.066%, due 07/08/211

    485,000,000       484,960,253  

0.071%, due 07/29/211

    601,895,000       601,800,442  

0.071%, due 07/22/211

    488,000,000       487,936,774  

0.072%, due 05/25/211

    521,000,000       520,984,803  

0.072%, due 06/17/211

    429,000,000       428,963,956  

0.077%, due 05/20/211

    1,001,000,000       1,000,973,131  

0.083%, due 05/04/211

    730,000,000       729,998,887  

0.084%, due 05/06/211

    841,000,000       840,995,413  

0.087%, due 05/13/211

    625,000,000       624,986,737  

0.097%, due 07/15/211

    736,000,000       735,882,708  

U.S. Treasury Notes

 

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.034%,
0.054%, due 05/04/21 2

    250,000,000       250,005,047  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.049%,
0.069%, due 05/01/21 2

    852,950,000       853,078,669  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.055%,
0.075%, due 05/01/21 2

    250,000,000       249,996,846  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.114%,
0.134%, due 05/01/21 2

    1,030,000,000       1,030,220,082  
     Face
amount
  Value
U.S. Treasury obligations—(concluded)

 

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.154%,
0.174%, due 05/01/212

  $ 250,000,000     $ 249,936,391  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.220%,
0.240%, due 05/01/212

    605,000,000       605,068,510  

3 mo.Treasury money market yield + 0.300%,
0.320%, due 05/01/212

    486,784,000       486,894,274  

1.750%, due 07/31/21

    245,000,000       245,999,066  

1.875%, due 01/31/22

    142,000,000       143,931,585  

1.875%, due 02/28/22

    71,000,000       72,069,561  

2.000%, due 11/15/21

    200,000,000       202,036,035  

2.625%, due 07/15/21

    100,000,000       100,501,184  

Total U.S. Treasury obligations
(cost—$23,914,692,958)

      23,914,692,958  
Repurchase agreements—27.6%

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Barclays Capital, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $466,757,300 U.S. Treasury Bonds, 3.000% to 4.250% due 11/15/40 to 11/15/45, $866,317,800 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Notes, 0.125% due 01/15/22 to 04/15/26 and $2,438,404,400 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.125% to 2.875% due 06/15/21 to 05/15/29; (value—$4,080,000,093); proceeds: $4,000,003,333

    4,000,000,000       4,000,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $73,497,700 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Bond, 1.000% due 02/15/48, $141,800, U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Note, 0.125% due 01/15/23 and $2,171,500 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.069% to 2.000% due 09/30/21 to 01/31/23; (value—$102,000,088); proceeds: $100,000,042

    100,000,000       100,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 0.000% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $481,972,300 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.500% to 2.500% due 08/15/23 to 02/15/30; (value—$500,000,014); proceeds: $500,000,000

    500,000,000       500,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Fixed Income Clearing Corp., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $100,000,000 U.S Treasury Bill, Zero Coupon due 03/24/22, $1,012,141,500 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Notes, 0.125% due 01/15/22 to 04/15/22 and $926,295,300 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.125% to 2.500% due 02/15/22 to 06/15/22; (value—$2,198,100,100); proceeds: $2,155,000,898

    2,155,000,000       2,155,000,000  
 

 

52


Treasury Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(continued)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/27/21 with Goldman Sachs & Co., 0.010% due 05/04/21, collateralized by $4,000 U.S. Treasury Bill, zero coupon due 05/20/21 and $205,025,600 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.250% to 2.000% due 12/31/21 to 04/30/28; (value—$204,000,001); proceeds: $200,000,389

  $ 200,000,000     $ 200,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with JP Morgan Securities LLC, 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $586,566,400 U.S. Treasury Bill, Zero Coupon due 04/21/22 and $126,485,400 U.S. Treasury Note, 2.000% due 05/31/21; (value—$714,000,117); proceeds: $700,000,292

    700,000,000       700,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/29/21 with JP Morgan Securities LLC, 0.005% due 05/06/21, collateralized by $20,974,000 U.S. Treasury Bill, Zero Coupon due 07/27/21, $23,561,830 U.S. Treasury Bonds STRIPs, zero coupon due 11/15/25 and $402,594,300 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.750% to 2.625% due 01/15/22 to 12/31/23; (value—$459,000,032); proceeds: $450,000,438

    450,000,000       450,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $21,993,900 U.S. Treasury Note, 1.250% due 03/31/28; (value—$21,930,043); proceeds: $21,500,018

    21,500,000       21,500,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Mizuho Securities USA LLC, 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $100,669,800 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.625% to 2.250% due 01/31/22 to 11/30/27; (value—$102,000,052); proceeds: $100,000,042

    100,000,000       100,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)

 

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with MUFG Securities Americas Inc., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $9,257,300 U.S. Treasury Bonds Principal STRIPs, zero coupon due 08/15/22, $38,665,000 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Notes, 0.125% due 01/15/23 to 07/15/30 and $237,336,800 U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.625% to 3.125% due to 05/15/21 to 05/15/28; (value—$306,000,084); proceeds: $300,000,125

  $ 300,000,000     $ 300,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with MUFG Securities Americas Inc., 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $146,181,200 U.S. Treasury Bonds, 1.875% to 6.375% due 08/15/27 to 02/15/51, $73,727,300 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Bonds, 0.125% to 3.375% due 04/15/32 to 02/15/51, $36,932,400 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Notes, 0.125% to 0.750% due 04/15/23 to 07/15/28 and $176,263,900 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.125% to 3.125% due 05/15/21 to 08/15/30; (value—$510,000,046); proceeds: $500,000,208

    500,000,000       500,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$9,026,500,000)

 

    9,026,500,000  

Total investments
(cost—$32,941,192,958 which approximates
cost for federal income tax purposes)—100.8%

 

    32,941,192,958  
   

Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.8)%

 

    (266,001,995

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 32,675,190,963  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments:

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
U.S. Treasury obligations      $        $ 23,914,692,958        $        $ 23,914,692,958  
Repurchase agreements                 9,026,500,000                   9,026,500,000  
Total      $        $ 32,941,192,958        $        $ 32,941,192,958  

 

53


Treasury Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

2 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects earlier of reset date or stated maturity date.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

54


Prime CNAV Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Certificates of deposit—9.3%

 

Banking-non-U.S.—7.6%

 

KBC Bank N.V.
0.060%, due 05/04/21

  $ 20,000,000     $ 20,000,000  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.230%, due 05/04/21

    50,000,000       50,000,000  

MUFG Bank Ltd.
0.190%, due 10/05/21

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.290%, due 06/21/21

    22,000,000       22,000,000  

Royal Bank of Canada

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.300%, due 06/16/211

    31,000,000       31,000,000  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.250%, due 05/13/21

    32,000,000       32,000,000  

0.250%, due 06/01/21

    31,000,000       31,000,000  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.180%, due 07/26/21

    23,000,000       23,000,000  

0.180%, due 10/20/21

    13,000,000       13,000,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.212%, due 07/01/211

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.260%, due 05/11/21

    32,000,000       32,000,000  

Svenska Handelsbanken

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.240%, due 05/28/211

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Toronto-Dominion Bank

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.100%,
0.282%, due 05/20/211

    35,000,000       35,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      339,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—1.7%

 

Cooperatieve Centrale

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.200%, due 06/21/211

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

0.250%, due 08/16/21

    32,000,000       32,000,000  

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.243%, due 05/06/211

    25,000,000       25,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      77,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Total certificates of deposit
(cost—$416,000,000)

 

    416,000,000  
Commercial paper2—69.7%

 

Asset backed-miscellaneous—17.9%

 

Albion Capital Corp.
0.160%, due 07/20/21

    53,750,000       53,731,367  

Atlantic Asset Securitization LLC
0.170%, due 10/06/21

    20,000,000       19,984,833  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.080%,
0.195%, due 05/18/21 1,3

    18,000,000       18,000,000  

Chariot Funding LLC
0.153%, due 07/09/21

    26,000,000       25,989,354  

0.163%, due 08/18/21

    26,000,000       25,988,022  

Fairway Finance Co. LLC
0.095%, due 05/13/21

    16,000,000       15,999,022  

0.145%, due 06/03/21

    30,000,000       29,993,542  

0.168%, due 09/13/21

    20,000,000       19,988,178  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Asset backed-miscellaneous—(concluded)

 

0.170%, due 10/08/21

  $ 10,000,000     $ 9,992,100  

0.173%, due 11/05/21

    23,000,000       22,978,610  

Liberty Street Funding LLC
0.010%, due 05/03/21

    60,000,000       60,000,000  

0.161%, due 08/05/21

    15,000,000       14,994,125  

LMA Americas LLC
0.090%, due 05/11/21

    23,000,000       22,999,029  

0.090%, due 05/11/21

    50,000,000       49,997,778  

0.167%, due 09/08/21

    10,000,000       9,993,244  

0.170%, due 10/07/21

    18,000,000       17,985,870  

0.170%, due 10/08/21

    8,200,000       8,193,162  

0.170%, due 10/18/21

    15,000,000       14,987,050  

Nieuw Amsterdam Receivables Corp.
0.041%, due 05/04/21

    30,000,000       29,999,967  

Old Line Funding LLC
0.143%, due 07/09/21

    20,000,000       19,989,206  

0.157%, due 09/10/21

    20,000,000       19,986,278  

0.158%, due 09/15/21

    30,000,000       29,978,625  

0.160%, due 10/15/21

    16,000,000       15,982,400  

0.162%, due 11/01/21

    15,500,000       15,484,328  

Starbird Funding Corp.
0.153%, due 07/09/21

    15,000,000       14,995,812  

Thunder Bay Funding LLC
0.137%, due 07/19/21

    22,000,000       21,992,471  

0.155%, due 08/16/21

    35,000,000       34,981,625  

0.170%, due 10/04/21

    20,000,000       19,983,744  

0.172%, due 11/01/21

    20,000,000       19,979,778  

Versailles Commercial Paper LLC
0.161%, due 08/02/21

    45,000,000       44,982,937  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.090%,
0.205%, due 05/04/211,3

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

1 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.110%,
0.221%, due 05/06/211,3

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Victory Receivables Corp.
0.054%, due 05/03/21

    26,000,000       26,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      796,132,457  
   

 

 

 

Banking-non-U.S.—48.9%

 

ANZ New Zealand International Ltd.
0.127%, due 08/18/21

    20,000,000       19,984,544  

0.144%, due 11/29/21

    17,000,000       16,981,158  

0.154%, due 12/21/21

    17,000,000       16,978,089  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.213%, due 05/10/211,3

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

ASB Finance Ltd.
0.046%, due 05/12/21

    32,000,000       31,998,080  

0.051%, due 05/17/21

    16,275,000       16,273,544  

0.072%, due 06/11/21

    32,000,000       31,991,333  

0.093%, due 07/07/21

    30,000,000       29,986,458  

0.122%, due 09/01/21

    24,000,000       23,984,270  

Bank of Nova Scotia
0.203%, due 04/07/22

    11,000,000       10,976,176  

BNZ International Funding Ltd.
0.105%, due 08/06/21

    21,000,000       20,987,808  

BPCE SA
0.176%, due 10/06/21

    20,000,000       19,984,400  
 

 

55


Prime CNAV Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(continued)

 

Banking-non-U.S.—(continued)

 

Caisse des Depots et Consignations
0.180%, due 01/26/22

  $ 20,000,000     $ 19,971,711  

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
0.108%, due 07/07/21

    20,000,000       19,992,778  

0.222%, due 04/04/22

    16,000,000       15,965,653  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.050%,
0.243%, due 05/06/211,3

    38,000,000       38,000,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.070%,
0.272%, due 05/04/211,3

    38,000,000       38,000,000  

Credit Industriel et Commercial
0.067%, due 05/24/21

    2,000,000       1,999,720  

DBS Bank Ltd.
0.157%, due 08/23/21

    23,000,000       22,987,836  

0.168%, due 10/01/21

    18,000,000       17,986,410  

Dexia Credit Local SA
0.060%, due 05/06/21

    27,000,000       26,999,527  

0.089%, due 06/08/21

    30,000,000       29,992,500  

0.150%, due 08/03/21

    15,000,000       14,995,017  

Erste Finance LLC
0.150%, due 05/04/21

    120,000,000       119,999,767  

0.150%, due 05/06/21

    70,000,000       69,999,592  

Federation des Caisses Desjardins du Quebec
0.060%, due 05/03/21

    112,500,000       112,500,000  

0.060%, due 05/04/21

    76,000,000       75,999,894  

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp.
0.121%, due 07/01/21

    22,000,000       21,993,871  

0.135%, due 07/22/21

    40,000,000       39,984,889  

0.173%, due 09/01/21

    20,000,000       19,987,900  

MITSUBISHI UFJ,
0.155%, due 08/13/21

    30,000,000       29,986,400  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.103%, due 06/01/21

    49,000,000       48,992,500  

0.113%, due 05/25/21

    29,000,000       28,996,633  

National Australia Bank Ltd.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.000%,
0.198%, due 05/14/211,3

    33,000,000       33,000,000  

National Bank of Canada
0.112%, due 07/06/21

    10,000,000       9,997,511  

0.112%, due 07/06/21

    34,000,000       33,986,702  

0.132%, due 08/16/21

    22,000,000       21,989,092  

0.143%, due 09/01/21

    20,000,000       19,988,572  

Natixis SA
0.084%, due 05/17/21

    31,000,000       30,996,865  

0.181%, due 10/14/21

    20,000,000       19,981,778  

NRW Bank
0.050%, due 05/04/21

    80,000,000       79,999,911  

0.050%, due 05/05/21

    50,000,000       49,999,903  

0.083%, due 06/04/21

    43,000,000       42,996,178  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
0.149%, due 08/17/21

    31,000,000       30,975,355  

0.181%, due 10/01/21

    22,000,000       21,983,390  

0.194%, due 12/08/21

    19,100,000       19,076,762  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
0.137%, due 08/19/21

    19,000,000       18,989,170  

0.163%, due 10/05/21

    19,000,000       18,985,275  

0.175%, due 12/10/21

    22,500,000       22,472,375  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper2—(concluded)

 

Banking-non-U.S.—(concluded)

 

Societe Generale SA
0.060%, due 05/03/21

  $ 15,000,000     $ 15,000,000  

0.060%, due 05/06/21

    158,000,000       157,999,737  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
0.141%, due 08/09/21

    40,000,000       39,982,578  

0.143%, due 08/11/21

    46,820,000       46,798,541  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd.
0.081%, due 05/25/21

    12,000,000       11,998,607  

0.085%, due 05/27/21

    24,000,000       23,996,960  

0.109%, due 06/28/21

    30,000,000       29,991,133  

0.155%, due 08/23/21

    22,000,000       21,986,996  

Svenska Handelsbanken
0.125%, due 08/12/21

    32,000,000       31,977,555  

0.128%, due 08/23/21

    22,000,000       21,989,049  

0.139%, due 10/06/21

    20,000,000       19,984,400  

0.164%, due 11/09/21

    20,000,000       19,981,000  

Toronto-Dominion Bank
0.080%, due 05/04/21

    75,000,000       74,999,875  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.030%,
0.220%, due 06/16/211,3

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

United Overseas Bank Ltd.
0.175%, due 09/27/21

    31,000,000       30,964,557  

Westpac Banking Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.020%,
0.210%, due 11/24/211,3

    20,000,000       20,000,000  

Westpac Securities NZ Ltd.
0.136%, due 07/08/21

    20,000,000       19,992,667  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.205%, due 05/05/211,3

    27,000,000       27,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      2,175,520,952  
   

 

 

 

Banking-U.S.—2.9%

 

Bedford Row Funding Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.010%,
0.215%, due 05/03/211,3

    18,000,000       18,000,000  

Collateralized Commercial Paper FLEX Co. LLC
0.110%, due 05/18/21

    29,000,000       28,996,617  

0.132%, due 06/08/21

    4,000,000       3,998,920  

0.153%, due 07/09/21

    15,000,000       14,993,021  

0.181%, due 10/13/21

    23,000,000       22,979,172  

0.185%, due 10/19/21

    30,000,000       29,973,242  

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA
0.169%, due 11/29/21

    12,550,000       12,537,554  
   

 

 

 

              131,478,526  

Total commercial paper
(cost—$3,103,131,935)

      3,103,131,935  
Time deposits—6.7%    
Banking-non-U.S.—6.7%    

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    165,000,000       165,000,000  

Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank
0.030%, due 05/03/21

    81,000,000       81,000,000  

Mizuho Bank Ltd.
0.050%, due 05/03/21

    50,000,000       50,000,000  

Total time deposits
(cost—$296,000,000)

      296,000,000  
 

 

56


Prime CNAV Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—14.6%    

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.005% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $8,000 Federal Farm Credit Bank obligations, 2.830% to 2.990% due 07/18/34 to 12/19/36, $315,000 Federal Home Loan Bank obligations, 4.100% to 5.250% due 12/09/22 to 10/24/33, $2,342,500 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, zero Coupon to 2.150% due 12/11/25 to 07/13/40, $20,853,000 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, zero Coupon to 2.625% due 01/11/22 to 01/15/33, $100 U.S. Treasury Bill, Zero Coupon due 05/20/21, $7,116,500 U.S. Treasury Bonds, 3.875% to 8.125% due 05/15/21 to 08/15/40, $12,380,100 U.S. Treasury Bonds Principal STRIPs, zero coupon due 11/15/39 to 02/15/48, $33,568,807 U.S. Treasury Bonds STRIPs, zero coupon due 08/15/25 to 05/15/49, $36,038,700 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.054% to 2.750% due 08/15/21 to 11/15/26 and $661,000 various asset, 1.875% to 2.750% due 07/23/21 to 10/07/22; (value—$102,006,548); proceeds: $100,000,042

  $ 100,000,000     $ 100,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with BNP Paribas SA, 0.180% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $17,106,644 various asset-backed convertible bonds, 0.646% to 7.926% due 04/16/26 to 06/15/40; (value—$16,200,001); proceeds: $15,000,225

    15,000,000       15,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/30/21 with Goldman Sachs & Co., 0.010% due 05/03/21, collateralized by $28,007,535 U.S. Treasury Bonds STRIPs, zero coupon due 08/15/31 to 05/15/41, $81,432,200 U.S. Treasury Inflation Index Note, 0.375% due 07/15/23 and $65,620,000 U.S. Treasury Notes, 0.125% to 1.250% due 11/30/22 to 04/30/28; (value—$181,968,000); proceeds: $178,400,149

    178,400,000       178,400,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/20/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, SOFR + 0.01%, 0.020% due 05/07/21, collateralized by $75,358,896 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. obligations, 1.500% to 2.000% due 04/01/36 to 05/01/46, $100,447,292 Federal National Mortgage Association obligations, 2.000% to 3.000% due 08/01/47 to 05/01/51 and $24,700,160 Government National Mortgage Association obligations, 3.000% due 08/20/43; (value—$204,000,000); proceeds: $200,001,1114

    200,000,000       200,000,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Repurchase agreements—(concluded)    

Repurchase agreement dated 04/27/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 0.250% due 05/04/21, collateralized by $25,949,000 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 2.000% due to 08/15/23 to 06/15/26; (value—$33,000,395); proceeds: $30,001,458

  $ 30,000,000     $ 30,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, OBFR + 0.33%, 0.380% due 06/04/21, collateralized by $33,536,000 various asset-backed convertible bonds, zero coupon to 5.000% due to 03/15/24 to 11/01/26; (value—$38,500,246); proceeds: $35,010,7144

    35,000,000       35,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., SOFR + 0.65%, 0.700% due 08/03/21, collateralized by 20,681 shares of various equity securities; (value—$26,750,823); proceeds: $25,014,097

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

Repurchase agreement dated 04/01/21 with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc., SOFR + 0.65%, 0.700% due 08/03/21, collateralized by 6,440,000 convertible bond zero coupon due 12/15/25 and $259,872 shares of various equity securities; (value—$69,550,639); proceeds: $65,036,6534

    65,000,000       65,000,000  

Total repurchase agreements
(cost—$648,400,000)

            648,400,000  

Total investments
(cost—$4,463,531,935 which approximates cost for federal income tax purposes)—100.3%

      4,463,531,935  
   

Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.3)%

 

    (14,124,514

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 4,449,407,421  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

57


Prime CNAV Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments.

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
Certificates of deposit      $        $ 416,000,000        $        $ 416,000,000  
Commercial paper                 3,103,131,935                   3,103,131,935  
Time deposits                 296,000,000                   296,000,000  
Repurchase agreements                 648,400,000                   648,400,000  
Total      $        $ 4,463,531,935        $        $ 4,463,531,935  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

1 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects earlier of reset date or stated maturity date.

2 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

3 

Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid, unless noted otherwise, and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. Securities exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A, in the amount of $262,000,000, represented 5.9% of the Fund’s net assets at period end.

4 

Investment has a put feature, which allows the Fund to accelerate the maturity, and a variable or floating rate. The interest rate shown is the current rate as of April 30, 2021 and changes periodically. The maturity date reflects the earliest put date and the proceeds represent the receivable of the Fund if the put feature was exercised as of April 30, 2021.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

58


Tax-Free Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—90.1%    
Alaska—2.5%    

Alaska International Airports, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.070%, VRD

  $ 7,345,000     $ 7,345,000  

City of Valdez, (Exxon Pipeline Co. Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    800,000       800,000  

Series B,
0.030%, VRD

    10,335,000       10,335,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    2,100,000       2,100,000  
   

 

 

 

      20,580,000  
   

 

 

 

Arizona—0.2%

 

Arizona Industrial Development Authority, (Phoenix Children’s), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.020%, VRD

    1,200,000       1,200,000  

Industrial Development Authority of the City of Phoenix, (Mayo Clinic), Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.020%, VRD

    400,000       400,000  
   

 

 

 

      1,600,000  
   

 

 

 

California—2.4%

 

California Municipal Finance Authority, (Chevron USA—Recovery Zone), Revenue Bonds
0.020%, VRD

    350,000       350,000  

City of Irvine, (Assessment District No.03-19),
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    200,000       200,000  

City of Irvine, (Reassessment District No. 85-7A)
0.030%, VRD

    7,494,000       7,494,000  

Irvine Ranch Water District,
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    1,300,000       1,300,000  

Los Angeles Department of Water & Power System, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Subseries A-3,
0.030%, VRD

    400,000       400,000  

Southern California Public Power Authority, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A-20,
0.030%, VRD

    2,000,000       2,000,000  

State of California, GO Bonds,
Series A-1,
0.020%, VRD

    6,645,000       6,645,000  

Series A3,
0.020%, VRD

    1,000,000       1,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      19,389,000  
   

 

 

 

Colorado—0.4%

 

City & County of Denver, Refunding, Certificates of Participation,
Series A1,
0.030%, VRD

    1,500,000       1,500,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Colorado—0.4%

 

Colorado Health Facilities Authority, (Children’s Hospital), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

  $ 2,000,000     $ 2,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      3,500,000  
   

 

 

 

District of Columbia—1.3%

 

District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority Subordinate Lien, Revenue Bonds,
Subseries B-2,
0.060%, VRD

    11,000,000       11,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Florida—0.3%    

Hillsborough County Industrial Development Authority, (BayCare Health System), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.040%, VRD

    1,800,000       1,800,000  

Series C,
0.060%, VRD

    400,000       400,000  
   

 

 

 

      2,200,000  
   

 

 

 

Illinois—14.9%    

Illinois Development Finance Authority, (Chicago Symphony Project), Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    12,500,000       12,500,000  

Illinois Development Finance Authority, (Francis W. Parker School Project), Revenue Bonds
0.080%, VRD

    19,700,000       19,700,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare), Revenue Bonds,
Series D,
0.070%, VRD

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (Gift of Hope Donor Project), Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    9,640,000       9,640,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (Hospital Sisters Services), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series G,
0.070%, VRD

    8,300,000       8,300,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (OSF Healthcare System), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.020%, VRD

    1,210,000       1,210,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    6,600,000       6,600,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (Steppenwolf Theatre), Revenue Bonds
0.090%, VRD

    6,815,000       6,815,000  

0.090%, VRD

    8,450,000       8,450,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (University of Chicago), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series C,
0.050%, VRD

    24,600,000       24,600,000  

Illinois Finance Authority, (University of Chicago), Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.050%, VRD

    13,734,000       13,734,000  
   

 

 

 

      121,549,000  
   

 

 

 

 

 

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Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Indiana—7.0%    

Indiana Finance Authority, (Duke Energy Indiana Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A-5,
0.040%, VRD

  $ 29,520,000     $ 29,520,000  

Indiana Finance Authority, (Trinity Health), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series D-1,
0.060%, VRD

    27,700,000       27,700,000  
   

 

 

 

      57,220,000  
   

 

 

 

Maryland—0.1%    

Maryland Economic Development Corp., (Howard Hughes Medical), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.060%, VRD

    1,180,000       1,180,000  
   

 

 

 

Massachusetts—1.4%    

Massachusetts Health & Educational Facilities Authority, (Harvard University), Revenue Bonds
0.010%, VRD

    500,000       500,000  

Massachusetts Health & Educational Facilities Authority, (Partners Healthcare Systems), Revenue Bonds,
Series F3,
0.050%, VRD

    5,725,000       5,725,000  

Massachusetts Transportation Trust Fund Metropolitan Highway System, Revenue bonds,
Series A-1,
0.050%, VRD

    5,255,000       5,255,000  
   

 

 

 

      11,480,000  
   

 

 

 

Michigan—0.2%    

Green Lake Township Economic Development Corp., (Interlochen Center Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.020%, VRD

    1,700,000       1,700,000  
   

 

 

 

Mississippi—4.3%    

County of Jackson MS, (Chevron USA, Inc. Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.030%, VRD

    600,000       600,000  

Mississippi Business Finance Corp., (Chevron USA), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    775,000       775,000  

Series B,
0.030%, VRD

    4,905,000       4,905,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    2,630,000       2,630,000  

Series D,
0.030%, VRD

    550,000       550,000  

Series G,
0.030%, VRD

    1,990,000       1,990,000  

Mississippi Business Finance Corp., (Chevron USA, Inc. Project), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    1,135,000       1,135,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Mississippi—(concluded)    

Series B,
0.030%, VRD

  $ 950,000     $ 950,000  

Series B,
0.030%, VRD

    1,550,000       1,550,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    900,000       900,000  

Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    1,475,000       1,475,000  

Series E,
0.030%, VRD

    1,300,000       1,300,000  

Series E,
0.030%, VRD

    1,400,000       1,400,000  

Series F,
0.030%, VRD

    4,175,000       4,175,000  

Series G,
0.030%, VRD

    1,535,000       1,535,000  

Mississippi Business Finance Corp., (Chevron USA, Inc.), Revenue Bonds,
Series G,
0.030%, VRD

    2,795,000       2,795,000  

Series H,
0.030%, VRD

    1,425,000       1,425,000  

Series I,
0.030%, VRD

    2,100,000       2,100,000  

Series K,
0.030%, VRD

    2,155,000       2,155,000  

Series L,
0.030%, VRD

    400,000       400,000  

Mississippi Development Bank, (Jackson County Industrial Water System), Revenue Bonds
0.030%, VRD

    700,000       700,000  
   

 

 

 

      35,445,000  
   

 

 

 

Missouri—2.3%

 

Health & Educational Facilities Authority of the State of Missouri, (Ascension Health), Revenue Bonds,

   

Series C-3,
0.060%, VRD

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

Series C-5,
0.040%, VRD

    3,675,000       3,675,000  

Health & Educational Facilities Authority of the State of Missouri, (St. Louis University), Revenue Bonds,
Series B-1,
0.030%, VRD

    3,500,000       3,500,000  

Health & Educational Facilities Authority of the State of Missouri, (Washington University), Revenue Bonds,
Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    1,700,000       1,700,000  
   

 

 

 

      18,875,000  
   

 

 

 

Nebraska—1.4%

 

Douglas County Hospital Authority No. 2, (Health Facilities for Children), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.040%, VRD

    5,750,000       5,750,000  
 

 

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Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Nebraska—(concluded)

 

Hospital Authority No. 1 of Lancaster County, (Bryanlgh Medical Center), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B-1,
0.040%, VRD

  $ 5,305,000     $ 5,305,000  
   

 

 

 

      11,055,000  
   

 

 

 

New Hampshire—0.0%

 

New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority Act, (Dartmouth College), Revenue Bonds
0.060%, VRD

    275,000       275,000  
   

 

 

 

New Jersey—1.0%

 

Industrial Pollution Control Financing Authority of Union County, (Exxon Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.030%, VRD

    8,000,000       8,000,000  
   

 

 

 

New York—18.0%

 

City of New York, GO Bonds,

 

Subseries B-3,
0.060%, VRD

    8,300,000       8,300,000  

Subseries D-4,
0.040%, VRD

    10,305,000       10,305,000  

Subseries L-4,
0.040%, VRD

    3,870,000       3,870,000  

Dutchess County Industrial Development Agency, (Marist College), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.060%, VRD

    2,830,000       2,830,000  

New York City Housing Development Corp., Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.050%, VRD

    600,000       600,000  

New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured Revenue, Revenue Bonds,

   

Series A-4,
0.050%, VRD

    34,430,000       34,430,000  

Subseries C-6,
0.080%, VRD

    3,000,000       3,000,000  

New York City Water & Sewer System, Revenue Bonds,

   

Series BB-1,
0.050%, VRD

    2,400,000       2,400,000  

Series BB-5,
0.030%, VRD

    8,700,000       8,700,000  

Series DD-2,
0.020%, VRD

    2,950,000       2,950,000  

New York State Dormitory Authority, (Rockefeller University), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.050%, VRD

    34,745,000       34,745,000  

New York State Energy Research & Development Authority, (Consolidated Edison), Revenue Bonds,
Subseries A-1,
0.060%, VRD

    3,000,000       3,000,000  

New York State Urban Development Corp., Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A-5,
0.050%, VRD

    3,575,000       3,575,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
New York—(concluded)

 

Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,

   

Series 2005B-4C,
0.040%, VRD

  $ 11,900,000     $ 11,900,000  

Series F,
0.030%, VRD

    6,275,000       6,275,000  

Subseries B-3,
0.040%, VRD

    4,945,000       4,945,000  

Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.060%, VRD

    5,000,000       5,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      146,825,000  
   

 

 

 

North Carolina—0.1%

 

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, (Carolinas), Revenue Bonds, AGM,
Series E,
0.040%, VRD

    500,000       500,000  
   

 

 

 

Ohio—4.8%

 

Akron Bath Copley Joint Township Hospital District, (Summa Health Obligated Group), Revenue Bonds,

   

Series A-R,
0.060%, VRD

    9,800,000       9,800,000  

Series B-R,
0.060%, VRD

    840,000       840,000  

County of Montgomery OH, (Premier Health Partners Obligated), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series C,
0.040%, VRD

    2,150,000       2,150,000  

State of Ohio, (Cleveland Clinic Health System), Revenue Bonds,

   

Series D-1,
0.050%, VRD

    3,170,000       3,170,000  

Series F,
0.040%, VRD

    13,125,000       13,125,000  

State of Ohio, GO Bonds,
Series D,
0.050%, VRD

    9,690,000       9,690,000  
   

 

 

 

      38,775,000  
   

 

 

 

Oregon—1.8%

 

Oregon State Facilities Authority, (PeaceHealth), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.040%, VRD

    14,300,000       14,300,000  
   

 

 

 

Pennsylvania—5.3%

 

Allegheny County Higher Education Building Authority, (Carnegie Mellon University), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series C,
0.030%, VRD

    11,175,000       11,175,000  

Allegheny County Industrial Development Authority, (Education Center Watson), Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    9,600,000       9,600,000  
 

 

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Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Pennsylvania—(concluded)

 

Allegheny County Industrial Development Authority, (Watson Institute Friendship), Revenue Bonds
0.090%, VRD

  $ 14,045,000     $ 14,045,000  

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.050%, VRD

    5,500,000       5,500,000  

Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development, Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B-2,
0.060%, VRD

    2,600,000       2,600,000  
   

 

 

 

      42,920,000  
   

 

 

 

Rhode Island—0.1%

 

Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corp., (New England Institute), Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.100%, VRD

    840,000       840,000  
   

 

 

 

Tennessee—1.6%

 

Greeneville Health & Educational Facilities Board, (Ballad Health), Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.060%, VRD

    100,000       100,000  

Montgomery County Public Building Authority, Revenue Bonds
0.060%, VRD

    3,600,000       3,600,000  

0.060%, VRD

    9,300,000       9,300,000  
   

 

 

 

      13,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Texas—10.8%

 

City of Austin TX Water & Wastewater System, Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    9,785,000       9,785,000  

Harris County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp., (Methodist Hospital), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.020%, VRD

    23,350,000       23,350,000  

Harris County Health Facilities Development Corp., (Methodist Hospital System), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,

   

Series A-1,
0.020%, VRD

    5,200,000       5,200,000  

Series A-2,
0.020%, VRD

    510,000       510,000  

Harris County Hospital District Senior lien, Refunding, Revenue Bonds
0.070%, VRD

    8,115,000       8,115,000  

Houston Utility System, Refunding First lien, Revenue Bonds,
Series B-4,
0.060%, VRD

    3,500,000       3,500,000  

Lower Neches Valley Authority Industrial Development Corp., (ExxonMobil Project), Refunding, Revenue Bonds

   

0.030%, VRD

    5,630,000       5,630,000  

Series A,
0.030%, VRD

    4,400,000       4,400,000  
     Face
amount
  Value
Municipal bonds—(continued)    
Texas—(continued)

 

Lower Neches Valley Authority Industrial Development Corp., (ExxonMobil), Refunding, Revenue Bonds,
Subseries A-3,
0.030%, VRD

  $ 100,000     $ 100,000  

Lower Neches Valley Authority Industrial Development Corp., (ExxonMobil), Revenue Bonds
0.030%, VRD

    6,850,000       6,850,000  

State of Texas, Revenue Notes
4.000%, due 08/26/21

    20,000,000       20,236,360  
   

 

 

 

      87,676,360  
   

 

 

 

Utah—2.4%

 

City of Murray UT, (IHC Health Services, Inc.), Revenue Bonds,

 

Series C,
0.020%, VRD

    19,055,000       19,055,000  

Series D,
0.020%, VRD

    165,000       165,000  
   

 

 

 

      19,220,000  
   

 

 

 

Virginia—2.4%

 

Loudoun County Economic Development Authority, (Howard Hughes Medical), Revenue Bonds,

 

Series D,
0.070%, VRD

    14,055,000       14,055,000  

Series F,
0.060%, VRD

    5,150,000       5,150,000  
   

 

 

 

      19,205,000  
   

 

 

 

Washington—1.1%

 

Port of Tacoma WA Subordinate Lien, Revenue Bonds,
Series B,
0.060%, VRD

    9,400,000       9,400,000  
   

 

 

 

Wisconsin—2.0%

 

Public Finance Authority, (WakeMed), Revenue Bonds,

 

Series B,
0.060%, VRD

    7,900,000       7,900,000  

Series C,
0.040%, VRD

    5,350,000       5,350,000  

Wisconsin Health & Educational Facilities Authority, (Marshfield Clinic Health), Revenue Bonds,
Series A,
0.040%, VRD

    3,115,000       3,115,000  
   

 

 

 

              16,365,000  

Total municipal bonds
(cost—$734,074,360)

      734,074,360  
Tax-exempt commercial paper—9.8%

 

Maryland—0.7%

 

Montgomery County
0.130%, due 06/01/21

    5,500,000       5,500,000  
   

 

 

 

Minnesota—1.2%

 

Rochester Minnesota Health Care Facilities Revenue
0.120%, due 05/19/21

    10,000,000       10,000,000  
   

 

 

 

 

 

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Tax-Free Master Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Tax-exempt commercial paper—(concluded)

 

Ohio—2.5%

 

Ohio State Higher Education
0.090%, due 06/01/21

  $ 5,000,000     $ 5,000,000  

0.140%, due 06/17/21

    10,000,000       10,000,000  

0.140%, due 06/17/21

    5,000,000       5,000,000  
   

 

 

 

      20,000,000  
   

 

 

 

Texas—5.4%

 

Lower Colorado River Authority
0.160%, due 06/04/21

    17,659,000       17,659,000  

University of Texas
0.120%, due 05/17/21

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

0.120%, due 05/21/21

    1,350,000       1,350,000  
   

 

 

 

              44,009,000  

Total tax-exempt commercial paper
(cost—$79,509,000)

 

    79,509,000  

Total investments
(cost—$813,583,360 which approximates
cost for federal income tax purposes)—99.9%

 

    813,583,360  
   

Other assets in excess of liabilities—0.1%

 

    642,089  

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 814,225,449  

For a listing of defined portfolio acronyms that are used throughout the Portfolio of investments as well as the tables that follow, please refer to the Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments.

 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Master Fund’s investments. In the event a Master Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments:

 

Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
Municipal bonds      $        $ 734,074,360        $        $ 734,074,360  
Tax-exempt commercial paper                 79,509,000                   79,509,000  
Total      $        $ 813,583,360        $        $ 813,583,360  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnote

 

Amount represents less than 0.05% or (0.05)%.

 

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Glossary of terms used in the Portfolio of investments

 

Portfolio acronyms:

 

AGM    Assured Guaranty Municipal Corporation
GO    General Obligation
LIBOR    London Interbank Offered Rate
OBFR    Overnight Bank Funding Rate
SOFR    Secured Overnight Financing Rate
STRIP    Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities
VRD    Variable rate demand notes are payable on demand. The interest rates shown are the current rates as of April 30, 2021 and reset periodically.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

64


Master Trust

 

 

Statement of assets and liabilities

April 30, 2021

 

      Prime
Master Fund
   ESG Prime
Master Fund
   Government
Master Fund
   Treasury
Master Fund
   Prime CNAV
Master Fund
   Tax-Free
Master Fund
Assets:                  
Investments, at cost                  
Investments      $7,286,160,781        $471,749,303        $6,881,582,494        $23,914,692,958        $3,815,131,935        $813,583,360  
Repurchase agreements      1,535,000,000        138,000,000        2,019,000,000        9,026,500,000        648,400,000         
                 
Investments, at value                  
Investments      7,286,737,882        471,771,915        6,881,582,494        23,914,692,958        3,815,131,935        813,583,360  
Repurchase agreements      1,535,000,000        138,000,000        2,019,000,000        9,026,500,000        648,400,000         
Cash      939,689        702,852        584,512        18,794,976        764,689         
Receivable for investments sold                                         5,475,100  
Receivable for interest      1,198,537        16,497        1,146,466        4,701,713        479,506        585,640  
Receivable from affiliate             16,826                              
Total assets      8,823,876,108        610,508,090        8,902,313,472        32,964,689,647        4,464,776,130        819,644,100  
                 
Liabilities:                  
Payable for investments purchased                    78,994,624        288,305,380        14,995,017         
Payable to affiliate      766,979               625,992        1,193,304        373,692        31,412  
Payable to custodian                                         5,387,239  
Total liabilities      766,979               79,620,616        289,498,684        15,368,709        5,418,651  
Net assets, at value      $8,823,109,129        $610,508,090        $8,822,692,856        $32,675,190,963        $4,449,407,421        $814,225,449  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

65


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Statement of operations

For the year ended April 30, 2021

 

      Prime
Master Fund
   ESG Prime
Master Fund
   Government
Master Fund
   Treasury
Master Fund
   Prime CNAV
Master Fund
   Tax-Free
Master Fund
Investment income:                  
Interest      $38,778,654        $575,115        $22,936,144        $57,010,752        $18,758,190        $1,759,465  
Expenses:                  
Investment advisory and administration fees      13,324,595        310,387        11,774,671        30,811,390        6,339,573        1,322,871  
Trustees’ fees and expenses      62,381        14,172        54,292        131,596        34,735        17,494  
Total expenses      13,386,976        324,559        11,828,963        30,942,986        6,374,308        1,340,365  
Less: Fee waivers and/or Trustees’ fees reimbursement by administrator             (324,559      (101,870      (3,072,061             (178,964
Net expenses      13,386,976               11,727,093        27,870,925        6,374,308        1,161,401  
Net investment income (loss)      25,391,678        575,115        11,209,051        29,139,827        12,383,882        598,064  
Net realized gain (loss)      (1,170      1,551        256,465        (2      13,975         
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      (3,287,110      (24,570                            
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations      $22,103,398        $552,096        $11,465,516        $29,139,825        $12,397,857        $598,064  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       Prime Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $25,391,678        $353,385,726  
Net realized gain (loss)        (1,170      112,142  
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)        (3,287,110      3,093,263  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        22,103,398        356,591,131  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (7,719,748,147      385,003,117  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (7,697,644,749      741,594,248  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        16,520,753,878        15,779,159,630  
End of year        $8,823,109,129        $16,520,753,878  

 

       ESG Prime Master Fund
        For the
year ended
April 30, 2021
  

For the period from
January 15, 2020
1 to

April 30, 2020

From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $575,115        $134,921  
Net realized gain (loss)        1,551         
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)        (24,570      47,182  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        552,096        182,103  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        536,344,294        73,429,597  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        536,896,390        73,611,700  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of period        73,611,700         
End of period        $610,508,090        $73,611,700  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

 

       Government Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $11,209,051        $240,863,481  
Net realized gain (loss)        256,465        481,629  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        11,465,516        241,345,110  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (8,951,448,030      3,242,842,988  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (8,939,982,514      3,484,188,098  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        17,762,675,370        14,278,487,272  
End of year        $8,822,692,856        $17,762,675,370  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       Treasury Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $29,139,827        $320,151,196  
Net realized gain (loss)        (2      19,268  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        29,139,825        320,170,464  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (2,157,669,635      17,260,860,340  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (2,128,529,810      17,581,030,804  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        34,803,720,773        17,222,689,969  
End of year        $32,675,190,963        $34,803,720,773  

 

       Prime CNAV Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $12,383,882        $119,652,912  
Net realized gain (loss)        13,975        73,339  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        12,397,857        119,726,251  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (3,058,221,326      2,493,874,372  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (3,045,823,469      2,613,600,623  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        7,495,230,890        4,881,630,267  
End of year        $4,449,407,421        $7,495,230,890  

 

       Tax-Free Master Fund
       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

Net investment income (loss)        $598,064        $27,659,945  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        598,064        27,659,945  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        (1,759,955,281      269,819,731  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        (1,759,357,217      297,479,676  
Net assets:

 

Beginning of year        2,573,582,666        2,276,102,990  
End of year        $814,225,449        $2,573,582,666  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Prime Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Expenses after fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.08      0.09
Net investment income (loss)        0.19      1.90      2.32      1.41      0.52
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return1        0.15      1.92      2.31      1.38      0.64
Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 8,823,109      $ 16,520,754      $ 15,779,160      $ 7,775,651      $ 3,161,118  

 

1

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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ESG Prime Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each period is presented below:

 

        Year ended
April
 30, 2021
  

For the period from

January 15, 20201 to

April 30, 2020

Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10 %2 
Expenses after fee waivers             0.00 %2 
Net investment income (loss)        0.18      1.24 %2 
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return3        0.22      0.47
Net assets, end of period (000’s)      $ 610,508      $ 73,612  

 

1

Commencement of operations.

2

Annualized.

3

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Government Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each period is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,    For the period from
June 24, 20161 to
April 30, 2017
        2021    2020    2019    2018
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10 %2 
Expenses after fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.08 %2 
Net investment income (loss)        0.09      1.75      2.07      1.07      0.43 %2 
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return3        0.08      1.74      2.10      1.08      0.35
Net assets, end of period (000’s)      $ 8,822,693      $ 17,762,675      $ 14,278,487      $ 15,676,931      $ 17,380,098  

 

1

Commencement of operations.

2

Annualized.

3

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Treasury Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Expenses after fee waivers        0.09      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Net investment income (loss)        0.09      1.56      2.07      1.08      0.39
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return1        0.08      1.70      2.10      1.08      0.38
Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 32,675,191      $ 34,803,721      $ 17,222,690      $ 18,029,945      $ 18,194,995  

 

1

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Prime CNAV Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Expenses after fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Net investment income (loss)        0.19      1.83      2.29      1.34      0.66
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return1        0.17      1.90      2.27      1.32      0.62
Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 4,449,407      $ 7,495,231      $ 4,881,630      $ 2,370,336      $ 1,336,158  

 

1

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Tax-Free Master Fund

Financial highlights

 

Selected financial data throughout each year is presented below:

 

       Years ended April 30,
        2021    2020    2019    2018    2017
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers        0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Expenses after fee waivers        0.09      0.10      0.10      0.10      0.10
Net investment income (loss)        0.04      1.19      1.35      0.93      0.50
Supplemental data:

 

Total investment return1        0.04      1.23      1.38      0.91      0.46
Net assets, end of year (000’s)      $ 814,225      $ 2,573,583      $ 2,276,103      $ 3,327,962      $ 2,317,734  

 

1

The total investment return for the Master Funds is calculated using geometric average return. The Master Funds issue ownership interests, rather than shares, to the feeder funds. Individual investors invest only into the feeder funds. Feeder fund total investment return is calculated as described within the feeder fund financial highlights and may differ from geometric average return of the Master Fund.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Organization and significant accounting policies

Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund (each a “Master Fund”, collectively, the “Master Funds”) are each registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), as a diversified series of Master Trust, an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust on June 12, 2007. The Trust is a series mutual fund with six series.

Prime Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund commenced operations on August 28, 2007. Prime CNAV Master Fund commenced operations on January 19, 2016, Government Master Fund commenced operations on June 24, 2016 and ESG Prime Master Fund commenced operations on January 15, 2020.

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”) is the investment advisor and administrator for the Master Funds. UBS AM is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Group AG. UBS Group AG is an internationally diversified organization with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. UBS Group AG operates in many areas of the financial services industry.

Master Trust accounts separately for the assets, liabilities and operations of each series. Expenses directly attributable to each series are charged to that series’ operations; expenses which are applicable to all series are allocated among them on a pro rata basis.

In the normal course of business, the Master Funds may enter into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide indemnification for certain liabilities. The Master Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Master Funds that have not yet occurred. However, the Master Funds have not had any prior claims or losses pursuant to these contracts and expect the risk of loss to be remote.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) is the exclusive reference of authoritative US generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal laws are also sources of authoritative US GAAP for SEC registrants. The Master Funds’ financial statements are prepared in accordance with US GAAP, which may require the use of management estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

In March 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2020-04 (“ASU 2020-04”), “Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848)”. In response to concerns about structural risks of interbank offered rates, and particularly the risk of cessation of LIBOR, regulators have undertaken reference rate reform initiatives to identify alternative reference rates that are more observable or transaction based and less susceptible to manipulation. ASU 2020-04 provides optional guidance for a limited period of time to ease the potential burden in accounting for (or recognizing the effects of) reference rate reform on financial reporting. ASU 2020-04 is elective and applies to all entities, subject to meeting certain criteria, that have contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that reference LIBOR or another reference rate expected to be discontinued because of reference rate reform. The amendments are effective as of March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is currently evaluating the implications, if any, of the additional requirements and the impact on the Master Funds’ financial statements.

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies:

Valuation of investments

Consistent with Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act, as amended (“Rule 2a-7”), the net asset values of each of Prime Master Fund and ESG Prime Master Fund are calculated using market-based values, and the price of its beneficial interests fluctuate.

 

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Master Trust

Notes to financial statements

 

Under Rule 2a-7, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund have adopted certain policies that enable them to use the amortized cost method of valuation. Government Master Fund and Treasury Master Fund have adopted a policy to operate as “government money market funds”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “government money market fund” invests 99.5% or more of its total assets in cash, government securities, and/or repurchase agreements that are collateralized fully (i.e., collateralized by cash and/or government securities). Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund operate as “retail money market funds”. Under Rule 2a-7, a “retail money market fund” is a money market fund that has policies and procedures reasonably designed to limit all beneficial owners of the fund to natural persons. As “government money market funds” and as “retail money market funds”, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund value their investments at amortized cost unless the Master Trust’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) determines that this does not represent fair value. Periodic review and monitoring of the valuation of securities held by Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund, and Tax-Free Master Fund is performed in an effort to ensure that amortized cost approximates market value.

The Board has delegated to the Equities, Fixed Income, and Multi-Asset Valuation Committee (“VC”) the responsibility for making fair value determinations with respect to the Master Funds’ portfolio investments. The types of investments for which such fair value pricing may be necessary include, but are not limited to: investments of an issuer that has entered into a restructuring; fixed-income investments that have gone into default and for which there is no current market value quotation; Section 4(a)(2) commercial paper; investments that are restricted as to transfer or resale; illiquid investments; and investments for which the prices or values available do not, in the judgment of the VC, represent current market value. The need to fair value a Master Fund’s portfolio investments may also result from low trading volume in foreign markets or thinly traded investments. Various factors may be reviewed in order to make a good faith determination of an investment’s fair value. These factors include, but are not limited to, fundamental analytical data relating to the investment; the nature and duration of restrictions on disposition of the investment; and the evaluation of forces which influence the market in which the investments are purchased and sold.

Each Master Fund’s portfolio holdings may also consist of shares of other investment companies in which the Master Fund invests. The value of each such open-end investment company will generally be its net asset value at the time a Master Fund’s beneficial interests are priced. Pursuant to each Master Fund’s use of the practical expedient within ASC Topic 820, investments in non-registered investment companies and/or investments in investment companies without publicly published prices are also valued at the daily net asset value. Each investment company generally values investments in a manner as described in that investment company’s prospectus or similar documents.

US GAAP requires disclosure regarding the various inputs that are used in determining the value of each of the Master Fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized into the three broad levels listed below:

Level 1—Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments.

Level 2—Other significant observable inputs, including but not limited to, quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds and credit risks.

Level 3—Unobservable inputs inclusive of each Master Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments.

A fair value hierarchy table has been included near the end of each Master Fund’s Portfolio of investments.

Liquidity fee and/or redemption gates—Consistent with Rule 2a-7, the Board is permitted to impose a liquidity fee on redemptions from each of Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund or a redemption gate to temporarily restrict redemptions from those Master Funds in the

 

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Master Trust

Notes to financial statements

 

event that any of Prime Master Fund’s liquidity, ESG Prime Master Fund’s liquidity, Prime CNAV Master Fund’s liquidity and/or Tax-Free Master Fund’s liquidity, respectively, falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. If Prime Master Fund’s, ESG Prime Master Fund’s, Prime CNAV Master Fund’s or Tax-Free Master Fund’s weekly liquid assets fall below 30% of the Fund’s total assets, the board is permitted, but not required, to: (i) impose a liquidity fee of no more than 2% of the amount redeemed; and/or (ii) impose a redemption gate to temporarily suspend the right of redemption. If any of Prime Master Fund’s, ESG Prime Master Fund’s, Prime CNAV Master Fund’s or Tax-Free Master Fund’s weekly liquid assets falls below 10% of the Fund’s total assets, the relevant Fund must impose, generally as of the beginning of the next business day, a liquidity fee of 1% of the amount redeemed unless the Board determines that such a fee would not be in the best interest of the Fund or determines that a lower or higher fee (subject to the 2% limit) would be in the best interest of the Fund. Liquidity fees would reduce the amount an interest holder receives upon redemption of its beneficial interests. Each of Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund, retains the liquidity fees for the benefit of remaining interest holders. For the period ended April 30, 2021, the Board of Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund did not impose any liquidity fees and/or redemption gates.

By operating as “government money market funds”, Government Master Fund and Treasury Master Fund are exempt from requirements that permit the imposition of a liquidity fee and/or temporary redemption gates. While the Board may elect to subject Government Master Fund and Treasury Master Fund to liquidity fee and gate requirements in the future, the Board has not elected to do so at this time.

Repurchase agreements—The Master Funds may purchase securities or other obligations from a bank or securities dealer (or its affiliate), subject to the seller’s agreement to repurchase them at an agreed upon date (or upon demand) and price. The Master Funds maintain custody of the underlying obligations prior to their repurchase, either through their regular custodian or through a special “tri-party” custodian or sub-custodian that maintains a separate account for both the Master Funds and their counterparty. The underlying collateral is valued daily in an effort to ensure that the value, including accrued interest, is at least equal to the repurchase price.

Repurchase agreements carry certain risks not associated with direct investments in securities, including a possible decline in the market value of the underlying obligations. If their value becomes less than the repurchase price, plus any agreed-upon additional amount, the counterparty must provide additional collateral so that the collateral is at least equal to the repurchase price plus any agreed-upon additional amount. The difference between the total amount to be received upon repurchase of the obligations and the price that was paid by a fund upon acquisition is accrued as interest and included in its net investment income. In the event of default of the obligation to repurchase, the Master Funds generally have the right to liquidate the collateral and apply the proceeds in satisfaction of the obligation. Repurchase agreements involving obligations other than US government securities (such as commercial paper, corporate bonds, equities and mortgage loans) may be subject to special risks and may not have the benefit of certain protections in the event of counterparty insolvency. Moreover, repurchase agreements secured by obligations that are not eligible for direct investment under Rule 2a-7 or a fund’s investment strategies and limitations may require the Master Fund to promptly dispose of such collateral if the seller or guarantor becomes insolvent. If the seller (or seller’s guarantor, if any) becomes insolvent, the Master Funds may suffer delays, costs and possible losses in connection with the disposition or retention of the collateral. Under certain circumstances, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, realization and/or retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings. Each Master Fund intends to enter into repurchase agreements only in transactions with counterparties believed by UBS AM to present minimal credit risk.

The Master Funds may participate in joint repurchase agreement transactions with other funds managed or advised by UBS AM. Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, and Prime CNAV Master Fund may engage in repurchase agreements as part of normal investing strategies; Tax-Free Master Fund generally would only engage in repurchase agreement transactions as temporary or defensive investments.

 

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Master Trust

Notes to financial statements

 

Under certain circumstances, a Master Fund may engage in a repurchase agreement transaction with a yield of zero in order to invest cash amounts remaining in its portfolio at the end of the day in order to avoid having the Master Fund potentially exposed to a fee for uninvested cash held in a business account at a bank.

Investment transactions and investment income—Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Realized gains and losses from investment transactions are calculated using the identified cost method. Interest income is recorded on an accrual basis. Discounts are accreted and premiums are amortized as adjustments to interest income and the identified cost of investments.

Concentration of risk—The ability of the issuers of the debt securities held by the Master Funds to meet their obligations may be affected by economic and political developments particular to a specific industry, country, state or region.

Many financial instruments, financings or other transactions to which a Fund may be a party use or may use a floating rate based on the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”). LIBOR is widely used in financial markets. In July 2017, the United Kingdom’s financial regulatory body announced that after 2021 it will cease its active encouragement of banks to provide the quotations needed to sustain LIBOR. That announcement suggests that LIBOR may cease to be published or utilized after that time. Various financial industry groups have begun planning for that transition, but the effect of the transition process and its ultimate success cannot yet be determined. The transition process may lead to increased volatility and illiquidity in markets for instruments the terms of which are based on LIBOR. It could also lead to a reduction in the value of some LIBOR-based investments and reduce the effectiveness of new hedges placed against existing LIBOR-based investments. Since the usefulness of LIBOR as a benchmark could deteriorate during the transition period, these effects could occur prior to the end of 2021. The willingness and ability of issuers to include enhanced provisions in new and existing contracts or instruments also remains uncertain. Any of these factors may adversely affect the Fund’s performance or NAV. On November 30, 2020, the administrator of LIBOR announced a delay in the phase out of a majority of the U.S. Dollar LIBOR publications until June 30, 2023, with the remainder of LIBOR publications to still end at the end of 2021.

Certain impacts to public health conditions particular to the coronavirus “COVID-19” outbreak that occurred may have a significant negative impact on the operations and profitability of the issuers of a Master Fund’s investments. The extent of the impact to the financial performance of a Fund will depend on future developments, including (i) the duration and spread of the outbreak, (ii) the restrictions and advisories, (iii) the effects on the financial markets, and (iv) the effects on the economy overall, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.

Investment advisor and administrator

UBS AM serves as the investment advisor and administrator to each Master Fund pursuant to an investment advisory and administration contract (“Management Contract”) approved by the Board. In accordance with the Management Contract, each Master Fund pays UBS AM an investment advisory and administration fee (“management fee”), which is accrued daily and paid monthly, at the below annual rates, as a percentage of each Master Fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Average daily net assets      Annual rate
Up to $30 billion        0.1000
In excess of $30 billion up to $40 billion        0.0975  
In excess of $40 billion up to $50 billion        0.0950  
In excess of $50 billion up to $60 billion        0.0925  
Over $60 billion        0.0900  

 

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Master Trust

Notes to financial statements

 

At April 30, 2021, each Master Fund owed to or was owed by UBS AM for investment advisory and administration services as follows:

 

Fund      Amounts owed to/(owed by) UBS AM
Prime Master Fund      $ 766,979  
ESG Prime Master Fund        (16,826
Government Master Fund        625,992  
Treasury Master Fund        1,193,304  
Prime CNAV Master Fund        373,692  
Tax-Free Master Fund        31,412  

In exchange for these fees, UBS AM has agreed to bear all of the Master Funds’ expenses other than taxes, extraordinary costs and the cost of securities purchased and sold by the Master Funds, including any transaction costs. Although UBS AM is not obligated to pay the fees and expenses of the Master Funds’ independent trustees, it is contractually obligated to reduce its management fee in an amount equal to those fees and expenses. UBS AM estimates that these fees and expenses will be 0.01% or less of each Master Fund’s average daily net assets.

In addition, UBS AM may voluntarily undertake to waive fees in the event that feeder fund yields drop below a certain level. This additional undertaking is voluntary and not contractual and may be terminated at any time. During the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM voluntarily waived the below amount, which is not subject to future recoupment:

 

Fund      Amount waived by UBS AM
Government Master Fund      $ 101,870  
Treasury Master Fund        3,072,061  
Tax-Free Master Fund        178,964  

UBS AM will voluntarily waive its 0.10% management fee in order to voluntarily reduce ESG Prime Master Fund’s expenses by 0.10% until July 31, 2021. For the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM voluntarily waived $324,559 for the ESG Prime Master Fund, and such amount is not subject to future recoupment.

Additional information regarding compensation to affiliate of a board member

Professor Meyer Feldberg serves as a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Master Funds may conduct transactions, resulting in him being deemed an interested trustee of the Master Funds. The Master Funds have been informed that Professor Feldberg’s role at Morgan Stanley does not involve matters directly affecting any UBS funds. Portfolio transactions are executed through Morgan Stanley based on that firm’s ability to provide best execution of the transactions.

During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Master Funds purchased and sold certain securities (e.g., fixed income securities) in principal trades with Morgan Stanley, having aggregate values as follows:

 

Prime Master Fund      $  
ESG Prime Master Fund         
Government Master Fund         
Treasury Master Fund         
Prime CNAV Master Fund         
Tax-Free Master Fund        47,300,000  

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Morgan Stanley received compensation in connection with these trades, which may have been in the form of a “mark-up” or “mark-down” of the price of the securities, a fee from the issuer for maintaining a commercial paper program, or some other form of compensation. Although the precise amount of this compensation is not generally known by the Master Fund’s investment manager, it is believed that under normal circumstances it represents a small portion of the total value of the transactions.

Beneficial interest transactions

 

Prime Master Fund

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Contributions      $ 9,072,253,790      $ 27,421,906,839  
Withdrawals        (16,792,001,937      (27,036,903,722
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ (7,719,748,147    $ 385,003,117  

 

ESG Prime Master Fund

 

        For the
year ended
April 30, 2021
  

For the period from

January 15, 20201 to
April 30, 2020

Contributions      $ 1,132,688,561      $ 120,503,658  
Withdrawals        (596,344,267      (47,074,061
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ 536,344,294      $ 73,429,597  

 

1 

Commencement of operations.

 

Government Master Fund

 

     For the years ended April 30,
      2021   2020
Contributions    $ 47,491,220,565     $ 46,835,779,003  
Withdrawals      (56,442,668,595     (43,592,936,015
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest    $ (8,951,448,030   $ 3,242,842,988  

 

Treasury Master Fund

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Contributions      $ 54,430,506,105      $ 57,434,681,322  
Withdrawals        (56,588,175,740      (40,173,820,982
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ (2,157,669,635    $ 17,260,860,340  

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Prime CNAV Master Fund

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Contributions      $ 5,114,679,407      $ 8,693,256,696  
Withdrawals        (8,172,900,733      (6,199,382,324
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ (3,058,221,326    $ 2,493,874,372  

 

Tax-Free Master Fund

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
Contributions      $ 402,602,443      $ 3,125,085,366  
Withdrawals        (2,162,557,724      (2,855,265,635
Net increase (decrease) in beneficial interest      $ (1,759,955,281    $ 269,819,731  

Federal tax status

Each Master Fund is considered a non-publicly traded partnership for federal income tax purposes under the Internal Revenue Code; therefore, no federal tax provision is necessary. As such, each investor in a Master Fund is treated as owning its proportionate share of the net assets, income, expenses, and realized and unrealized gains and losses of the Master Fund. UBS AM intends that each Master Fund’s assets, income and distributions will be managed in such a way that an investor in a Master Fund will be able to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company by investing its net assets through the Master Fund.

Aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes was substantially the same for book purposes; and net unrealized appreciation consisted of:

Prime Master Fund

 

Gross unrealized appreciation      $ 600,450  
Gross unrealized depreciation        (23,349
Net unrealized appreciation      $ 577,101  

ESG Prime Master Fund

 

Gross unrealized appreciation      $ 25,360  
Gross unrealized depreciation        (2,748
Net unrealized appreciation      $ 22,612  

ASC 740-10 “Income Taxes—Overall” sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken. The Master Funds have conducted an analysis and concluded, as of April 30, 2021, that there are no significant uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken that would require recognition in the financial statements. The Master Funds recognize interest and penalties, if any, related to uncertain tax positions as income tax expense in the Statement of operations. During the period April 30, 2021, the Funds did not incur any interest or penalties.

Each of the tax years in the four year period ended April 30, 2021, and since inception for ESG Prime Master Fund, remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities.

 

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Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of Master Trust

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities of Master Trust (the “Trust”), (comprising Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund, Government Master Fund, Treasury Master Fund, Prime CNAV Master Fund and Tax-Free Master Fund (collectively referred to as the “Funds”)), including the portfolios of investments, as of April 30, 2021, and the related statements of operations and changes in net assets, and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the Funds comprising Master Trust at April 30, 2021, the results of their operations, changes in net assets and financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

 

Funds comprising the
Master Trust
   Statement of operations    Statement of changes in net assets    Financial highlights

Prime Master Fund

Treasury Master Fund

Tax-Free Master Fund

Prime CNAV Master Fund

   For the year ended April 30, 2021    For each of the two years in the period ended April 30, 2021    For each of the five years in the period ended April 30, 2021
Government Master Fund    For the year ended April 30, 2021    For each of the two years in the period ended April 30, 2021    For each of the four years in the period ended April 30, 2021 and the period from June 24, 2016 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2017
ESG Prime Master Fund    For the year ended April 30, 2021    For the year ended April 30, 2021 and the period from January 15, 2020 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2020    For the year ended April 30, 2021 and the period from January 15, 2020 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2020

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on each of the Funds’ financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of April 30, 2021, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers or by other appropriate auditing procedures where replies from brokers were not received. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as

 

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Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

 

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We have served as the auditor of one or more UBS investment companies since 1978.

New York, New York

June 28, 2021

 

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General information (unaudited)

 

Monthly portfolio holdings disclosure

The Master Funds file their complete schedules of portfolio holdings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) each month on Form N-MFP. The Master Funds’ reports on Form N-MFP are available on the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov. The Master Funds make portfolio holdings information available to interest holders (and investors in the related feeder funds) on UBS’s Web site at the following internet address: www.ubs.com/usmoneymarketfunds. A more limited portfolio holdings report for Prime Master Fund, ESG Prime Master Fund and Prime CNAV Master Fund is available on a weekly basis at the same Web address. Investors also may find additional information about the Master Funds at the above referenced UBS Website internet address.

Proxy voting policies, procedures and record

You may obtain a description of the Fund’s (1) proxy voting policies, (2) proxy voting procedures and (3) information regarding how the Fund voted any proxies related to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 for which an SEC filing has been made, without charge, upon request by contacting the Fund directly at 1-800-647 1568, online on the Fund’s Web site: www.ubs.com/ubsam-proxy, or on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Web site (http://www.sec.gov).

 

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UBS Preferred Funds

Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Board of Trustees & Officers

The Funds are governed by a Board of Trustees which oversees the Funds’ operations. Each trustee serves an indefinite term of office. Officers are appointed by the trustees and serve at the pleasure of the Board. The table below shows, for each trustee and officer, his or her name, address and age, the position held with the Trust, the length of time served as a trustee or officer of the Trust, the trustee’s or officer’s principal occupations during the last five years, the number of funds in the UBS fund complex overseen by the trustee or for which a person served as an officer, and other directorships held by the trustee.

The Funds’ Statement of Additional Information contains additional information about the trustees and is available, without charge, upon request by calling 1-800-647 1568.

 

Interested Trustee        
         

Name,

address,

and age

  Position(s)
held with
Trust
  Term of office1
and length of
time served
 

Principal occupation(s)
during past

5 years

  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
 

Other directorships

held by

trustee

Meyer Feldberg2;

79

Morgan Stanley

1585 Broadway

36th Floor

New York, NY 10036

  Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees   Since 1998 (Trustee); Since 2017 (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)   Professor Feldberg is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, although on an extended leave of absence. He is also a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley (financial services) (since 2005). Professor Feldberg also served as President of New York City Global Partners (an organization located in part of the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York that promoted interaction with other cities around the world (2007 to 2014). Prior to 2004, he was Dean and Professor of Management and Ethics of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University (since 1989). From 1992 to 2016, Professor Feldberg was a director of Macy’s, Inc. (operator of department stores). From 1997 to 2017, Professor Feldberg was a director of Revlon, Inc. (cosmetics).   Professor Feldberg is a director or trustee of 8 investment companies (consisting of 48 portfolios) for which UBS AM or one of its affiliates serves as investment advisor or manager.   Professor Feldberg is also a director of the New York City Ballet.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Independent Trustees        
         

Name,

address,

and age

  Position(s)
held with
Trust
  Term of office1
and length of
time served
 

Principal occupation(s)
during past

5 years

  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
 

Other directorships

held by

trustee

Alan S. Bernikow;

80

K2 Integrity
845 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10022

  Trustee   Since 2005   Mr. Bernikow is retired. Previously, he was deputy chief executive officer at Deloitte & Touche (international accounting and consulting firm). From 2003 to 2017, Mr. Bernikow was also a director of Destination XL Group, Inc. (menswear) (and served as a member of its nominating and corporate governance committee).   Mr. Bernikow is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Bernikow is also a director of Revlon, Inc. (cosmetics) (and serves as the chair of its audit committee and as the chair of its compensation committee) and the lead director of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation (real estate investment trust) (and serves as the chair of its audit committee).

Richard R. Burt;

74

McLarty Associates

900 17th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20006

  Trustee   Since 1998   Mr. Burt is a managing partner of McLarty Associates (a consulting firm) (since 2007). He was chairman of IEP Advisors (international investments and consulting firm) until 2009.   Mr. Burt is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Burt is also a director of The Central Europe, Russia and Turkey Fund, Inc., The European Equity Fund, Inc., and The New Germany Fund, Inc. (and serves as a member of each such fund’s audit, nominating and governance committees).

Bernard H. Garil;

81

6754 Casa Grande Way Delray Beach, FL 33446

  Trustee   Since 2005   Mr. Garil is retired (since 2001). He was a managing director at PIMCO Advisory Services (from 1999 to 2001) where he served as president of closed-end funds and vice- president of the variable insurance product funds advised by OpCap Advisors (until 2001).   Mr. Garil is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Garil is also a trustee for the Brooklyn College Foundation, Inc. (charitable foundation).

Heather R. Higgins;

61

c/o Keith A. Weller,

Fund Secretary

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

One North Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606

  Trustee   Since 2005   Ms. Higgins is the president and director of The Randolph Foundation (charitable foundation) (since 1991). Ms. Higgins also serves (or has served) on the boards of several non-profit charitable groups, including the Independent Women’s Forum (chairman) and the Philanthropy Roundtable (vice chairman). She also serves on the board of the Hoover Institution (from 2001 to 2007 and since 2009).   Ms. Higgins is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   None

 

1 

Each trustee holds office for an indefinite term.

2 

Professor Feldberg is deemed an “interested person” of the Trust as defined in the Investment Company Act because he is a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Trust may conduct transactions.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers
        

Name, address,

and age

  

Position(s) held

with Trust

  

Term of office1

and length

of time served

   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years

Rose Ann Bubloski2;

53

   Vice President and Assistant Treasurer    Since 2011    Ms. Bubloski is a director (since 2012) (prior to which she was an associate director (from 2008 to 2012)) and a senior manager of fund accounting—US (previously named product control and investment support) at UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. and/or UBS Asset Management (US) Inc. (“UBS AM— Americas region”). Ms. Bubloski is a vice president and assistant treasurer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Franklin P. Dickson2;

42

   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Dickson is an associate director (since 2015) and tax compliance manager (since 2017) (prior to which he was a product controller (from 2015 to 2017) of fund accounting—US (previously named product control and investment support) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Dickson is a vice president of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Lisa N. DiPaolo2;

43

   Vice President    Since 2015    Ms. DiPaolo is an executive director (since 2020) (prior to which she was a director from 2008 until March 2020), and portfolio manager (since 2015) at UBS AM— Americas region. Ms. DiPaolo joined UBS AM—Americas region in 2000 and has been a municipal securities analyst on the tax-free fixed income team. Ms. DiPaolo is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Elbridge T. Gerry III2;

64

   Vice President    Since 1999    Mr. Gerry is a managing director and head of municipal strategy of UBS AM—Americas region (prior to which he was co-head of municipal investments (from 2017 until June 2020; head from 2001 to 2017)). Mr. Gerry is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Charles W. Grande2;

57

   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Grande is a managing director, head of municipal fixed income team (since June 2020; formerly co-head from 2017 until June 2020) and head of municipal credit research (since 2009) with UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Grande is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Mark F. Kemper3;

63

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2004 and 2019, respectively    Mr. Kemper is a managing director (since 2006) and senior legal counsel (since 2019 to present) (prior to which he was Interim Head of Asia Pacific Legal (March 2020-March 2021), Interim Head of Compliance and Operational Risk Control (from June 2019 through September 2019) and general counsel of UBS AM—Americas region (from 2004-2019)). He has been secretary of UBS AM— Americas region (since 2004) and assistant secretary of UBS Asset Management Trust Company (since 1993). Mr. Kemper is vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager. Mr. Kemper is employed by UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017).

Joanne M. Kilkeary2;

53

   Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer    Since 1999 (Vice President) and since 2017 (Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer)    Ms. Kilkeary is an executive director (since 2013) (prior to which she was a director (from 2008 to 2013)) and head of fund accounting—US (since November 2020) (prior to which she was head of regulatory, tax, audit and board governance for product control and investment support (from 2017 through October 2020) (prior to which she was a senior manager (from 2004 to 2017) of registered fund product control of UBS AM— Americas region). Ms. Kilkeary is a vice president, treasurer and principal accounting officer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers (concluded)
        

Name, address,

and age

  

Position(s) held

with Trust

  

Term of office1

and length

of time served

   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years

Igor Lasun2;

42

   President    Since 2018    Mr. Lasun is a managing director (since March 2021) (prior to which he was an executive director (from 2018 until February 2021)) and head of fund development and management for UBS AM—Americas region (since 2018) (prior to which he was a senior fixed income product specialist from 2007 to 2018, and had joined the firm in 2005). In this role, he oversees development and management for both wholesale and institutional businesses. Mr. Lasun serves as president of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Ryan Nugent2;

43

   Vice President    Since 2009    Mr. Nugent is an executive director (since 2017) (prior to which he was director (from 2010 to 2017)), and portfolio manager (since 2005) and head of municipal trading (since 2013) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Nugent is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Frank Pluchino4;

61

   Chief Compliance Officer    Since 2017    Mr. Pluchino is an executive director with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and is also the chief compliance officer of UBS Hedge Fund Solutions LLC (since 2010). Mr. Pluchino is the chief compliance officer of 10 investment companies (consisting of 62 portfolios) for which UBS AM or one of its affiliates serves as investment advisor or manager.

Robert Sabatino3;

47

   Vice President    Since 2001    Mr. Sabatino is a managing director (since 2010) (prior to which he was an executive director (since 2007)), head of global liquidity portfolio management (since 2015), head of US taxable money markets (from 2009 to 2015), and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region in the short duration fixed income group (since 2000). Mr. Sabatino is a vice president of three investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Eric Sanders3;

55

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2005    Mr. Sanders is a director and associate general counsel with UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017) and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005). Mr. Sanders is a vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Philip Stacey3;

36

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2018    Mr. Stacey is an executive director (since 2019) and associate general counsel (since 2017) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017) and also with UBS AM— Americas region since 2015. Mr. Stacey is a vice president and assistant secretary of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

David Walczak3;

37

   Vice President    Since 2016    Mr. Walczak is an executive director (since 2016), head of US money markets (since 2015) and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Walczak is a vice president of three investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Keith A. Weller3;

59

   Vice President and Secretary    Since 1998 (Vice President) and since 2019 (Secretary)    Mr. Weller is an executive director (since 2005) and deputy general counsel (since 2019) (prior to which he was senior associate general counsel) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005) and has been an attorney with affiliated entities since 1995. Mr. Weller is a vice president and secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

1 

Officers of the Trust are appointed by the trustees and serve at the pleasure of the board.

2 

This person’s business address is 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019-6028.

3 

This person’s business address is One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

4

This person’s business address is 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019.

 

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Trustees

Meyer Feldberg

Chairman

Alan S. Bernikow

Richard R. Burt

Bernard H. Garil

Heather R. Higgins

Administrator (and Manager for the Master Funds)

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

Principal Underwriter (for the feeder funds)

UBS Asset Management (US) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

 

This report is not to be used in connection with the offering of shares in the Funds unless accompanied or preceded by an effective prospectus.

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Annual Report  |  April 30, 2021


UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

 

June 10, 2021

Dear Shareholder,

We present you with the annual report for UBS Ultra Short Income Fund (the “Fund”) for the twelve months ended April 30, 2021 (the “reporting period”).

Performance

For the 12 months ended April 30, 2021, Class A shares of UBS Ultra Short Income Fund returned 0.82%, while Class P shares returned 0.92% and Class I shares returned 0.84% (in each case after fee waivers/expense reimbursements). For comparison purposes, the ICE BofA US 3-Month Treasury Bill Index (the “Index”) returned 0.11%. (Returns for all share classes over various time periods are shown on page 3; please note that the Fund’s returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on portfolio distributions or the redemption of Fund shares, while index returns do not reflect the deduction of fees and expenses.)

An interview with the Portfolio Management Team

Q.

How would you describe the economic environment during the reporting period?

A.

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a severe economic contraction,

  followed by a rebound as the reporting period progressed. In the US, the US Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product (“GDP”) declined at a 31.4% seasonally adjusted annualized rate during the second quarter of 2020—the steepest quarterly decline on record. With parts of the economy reopening, third quarter annualized GDP growth was 33.4%, the largest quarterly increase on record. The economy continued to expand, as fourth quarter annualized GDP growth was 4.3%. Finally, according to the Commerce Department’s initial estimate, first quarter 2021 annualized GDP growth was 6.4%.

 

Q.

How did the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) react to the economic environment?

A.

The Fed maintained its highly accommodative monetary policy, as the central bank kept the federal funds rate in a range between 0.00% and 0.25%. At its meeting in September 2020, the median dot on the Fed’s dot plot indicated that rates could stay anchored near zero through 2023. While inflation edged higher later in the period, in March 2021 Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said, “Long term, we think that the inflation dynamics we’ve seen around the world for a quarter of a century are essentially intact... and we think those dynamics haven’t gone away overnight and won’t.” At a press conference after the Fed’s April 2021 meeting, Chair Powell said, “Readings on inflation have increased and are likely to rise somewhat further before moderating... we are also likely to see upward pressure on prices from the rebound in spending as the economy continues to reopen, particularly if supply bottlenecks limit how quickly production can respond in the near term. However, these one-time increases in prices are likely to have only transitory effects on inflation.”

 

Q.

What factors impacted the Fund’s performance during the reporting period?

A.

The Fund’s allocation to the credit-related sectors (i.e., corporate bonds, asset-backed securities and commercial paper) continued to be the main driver of performance versus the benchmark. Corporate credit spreads and asset-backed security spreads narrowed during the reporting period and also provided good incremental yield relative to the benchmark in the low interest rate environment. (The yield spread or credit spread is the difference between the quoted rates of return on two different investments, usually of different credit qualities but similar maturities.)

 

Q.

How was the Fund’s portfolio positioned at the end of the reporting period?

A.

The Fund’s largest exposures were in corporate bonds, commercial paper and asset-backed securities. It also had modest allocations to mortgage-backed securities and certificates of deposit.

 

UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Investment Objective:

To provide current income while seeking to maintain low volatility of principal

Portfolio Managers:

Scott Dolan

David G. Rothweiler

Robert Sabatino

David J. Walczak

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

Commencement:

Class A—May 29, 2018

Class P—May 29, 2018

Class I—May 29, 2018

Dividend payments:

Monthly

 

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

 

Q.

What factors do you believe will affect the Fund over the coming months?

A.

With the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, we anticipate a return to more normal economic activity as the year progresses. However, the path could be uneven due to new virus strains. We expect the Fed to remain accommodative. In this environment, we anticipate continuing to manage the Fund focusing on risk and liquidity.

We thank you for your continued support and welcome any comments or questions you may have. For additional information on the UBS family of funds,* please contact your financial advisor, or visit us at www.ubs.com/am-us.

Sincerely,

 

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Igor Lasun

President

UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 
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David G. Rothweiler

Portfolio Manager

UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Executive Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

Scott Dolan

Portfolio Manager

UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

 

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David J. Walczak

Portfolio Manager

UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Executive Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

Robert Sabatino

Portfolio Manager

UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Managing Director

UBS Asset Management

(Americas) Inc.

 

This letter is intended to assist shareholders in understanding how the Fund performed during the 12-month period ended April 30, 2021. The views and opinions in the letter were current as of June 10, 2021. They are not guarantees of future performance or investment results and should not be taken as investment advice. Investment decisions reflect a variety of factors, and we reserve the right to change our views about individual securities, sectors and markets at any time. As a result, the views expressed should not be relied upon as a forecast of the Fund’s future investment intent. We encourage you to consult your financial advisor regarding your personal investment program.

 

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Mutual funds are sold by prospectus only. You should read it carefully and consider a fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other important information contained in the prospectus before investing. Prospectuses for most of our funds can be obtained from your financial advisor, by calling UBS Funds at 800-647 1568 or by visiting our Website at www.ubs.com/am-us.

 

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

 

 

Average annual total returns for periods ended 04/30/21 (unaudited)

 

        1 year    Inception¹
Class A        0.82      1.58
Class P        0.92        1.65  
Class I        0.84        1.64  
ICE BofA US 3-Month Treasury Bill Index2        0.11        1.43  

The annualized gross and net expense ratios, respectively, for each class of shares as in the August 28, 2020 prospectuses were as follows: Class A—0.45% and 0.35%; Class P—0.36% and 0.25%; and Class I—0.35% and 0.23%. Net expenses reflect fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements, if any, pursuant to an agreement that is in effect to cap the expenses. The fund and UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”) have entered into a written fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement pursuant to which UBS AM is contractually obligated to waive its management fee and/or reimburse expenses so that the fund’s ordinary total operating expenses of each class through August 31, 2020 (excluding dividend expense, borrowing costs, and interest expense relating to short sales, and expenses attributable to investment in other investment companies, interest, taxes, brokerage commissions and extraordinary expenses) would not exceed 0.35% for Class A; 0.25% for Class P; and 0.23% for Class I. The fund has agreed to repay UBS AM for any waived fees/reimbursed expenses to the extent that it can do so over the following three fiscal years without causing the fund’s expenses in any of those three years to exceed these expense caps and that UBS AM has not waived the right to do so. The fee waiver/expense reimbursement agreement may be terminated by the fund’s board at any time and also will terminate automatically upon the expiration or termination of the fund’s advisory contract with UBS AM. Upon termination of the agreement, however, UBS AM’s three year recoupment rights will survive.

 

1 

Inception date of Class A, Class P and Class I shares of UBS Ultra Short Income Fund was May 29, 2018.

2 

ICE BofA US 3-Month Treasury Bill Index is comprised of a single issue purchased at the beginning of the month and held for a full month. At the end of the month that issue is sold and rolled into a newly selected issue. The issue selected at each month-end rebalancing is the outstanding Treasury Bill that matures closest to, but not beyond, three months from the rebalancing date. To qualify for selection, an issue must have settled on or before the month-end rebalancing date.

Past performance does not predict future performance, and the performance information provided does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares. The return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate, so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance results assume reinvestment of all dividends and capital gain distributions at net asset value on the ex-dividend dates. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted. For month-end performance figures, please visit www.ubs.com/us-mutualfundperformance.

 

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

 

Illustration of an assumed investment of $10,000 in Class A shares, $5,000,000 in Class P shares, and $10,000,000 in Class I shares (unaudited)

The following three graphs depict the performance of UBS Ultra Short Income Fund Class A, Class P, and Class I shares versus the ICE BofA US 3-Month Treasury Bill Index from May 29, 2018, which is the inception date of the three classes, through April 30, 2021. Class P shares held through advisory programs may be subject to a program fee, which if included, would have reduced performance. The performance provided does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder could pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Share price and returns will vary with market conditions; investors may realize a gain or loss upon redemption. It is important to note that the Fund is a professionally managed portfolio while the index is not available for investment and is unmanaged. The comparison is shown for illustration purposes only.

 

 

UBS Ultra Short Income Fund Class A vs. ICE BofA US 3-Month Treasury Bill Index

Wealth value with dividends reinvested. Initial investment for Class A Shares as of May 29, 2018 = $10,000

 

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund Class P vs. ICE BofA US 3-Month Treasury Bill Index

Wealth value with dividends reinvested. Initial investment for Class P Shares as of May 29, 2018 = $5,000,000

 

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

 

 

UBS Ultra Short Income Fund Class I vs. ICE BofA US 3-Month Treasury Bill Index

Wealth value with dividends reinvested. Initial investment for Class I Shares as of May 29, 2018 = $10,000,000

 

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Past performance does not predict future performance, and the performance information provided does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder could pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares. The return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate, so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance results assume reinvestment of all dividends and capital gain distributions at net asset value on the ex-dividend dates. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted. For month-end performance figures, please visit www.ubs.com/us-mutualfundperformance.

 

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

 

Understanding your Fund’s expenses (unaudited)

 

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur ongoing costs, including management fees, 12b-1 service fees (Class A shares only) and other Fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The example below is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period, November 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021.

Actual expenses

The first line for each class of shares in the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over a period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for each class of shares under the heading entitled “Expenses paid during period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical example for comparison purposes

The second line for each class of shares in the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratios for each class of shares and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return for each class of shares. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs. Therefore, the second line in the table for each class of shares is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds, if those other funds impose transactional costs—for example, sales charges (loads), redemption fees or exchange fees. In addition, if those transactional costs were included, your costs for those other funds would have been higher.

 

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

 

Understanding your Fund’s expenses (unaudited) (concluded)

 

        Beginning
account value
November 1, 2020
     Ending
account value
April 30, 2021
     Expenses paid
during period
11/01/20 to 04/30/21
1
     Expense
ratio during
the period
                   
Class A

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.10        $ 1.74          0.35
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,023.06          1.76          0.35  
                                             
                   
Class P

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 1,000.60        $ 1.24          0.25
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,023.56          1.25          0.25  
                                             
                   
Class I

 

         
Actual      $ 1,000.00        $ 999.70        $ 1.14          0.23
Hypothetical (5% annual return before expenses)        1,000.00          1,023.65          1.15          0.23  

 

1 

Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized net expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181 divided by 365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

 

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

 

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021 (unaudited)

 

Top ten holdings1    Percentage of
net assets

Energy Transfer Partners LP,
0.406% due 05/03/21

     2.4

General Motors Financial Co., Inc.,
0.360% due 05/10/21

     1.6  

BPCE SA,
3.000% due 05/22/22

     1.6  

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.,
5.750% due 01/24/22

     1.5  

AbbVie, Inc.,
3.450% due 03/15/22

     1.5  

Nissan Auto Lease Trust,
2.780% due 07/15/24

     1.3  

Wells Fargo & Co.,
2.100% due 07/26/21

     1.3  

Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust,
3.250% due 07/15/22

     1.1  

Credit Agricole SA,
3.375% due 01/10/22

     1.1  

Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust,
2.420% due 09/15/24

     1.1  
Total      14.5

 

Top five issuer breakdown by country or territory of origin1    Percentage of
net assets

United States

     77.0

France

     5.9  

Japan

     4.2  

Germany

     2.9  

Australia

     2.3  
Total      92.3

 

Asset allocation1    Percentage of
net assets

Corporate bonds

     41.1

Commercial paper

     29.9  

Asset-backed securities

     25.4  

Mortgage-backed securities

     2.7  

Certificates of deposit

     1.4  

Short-term investments

      0.0  

Cash equivalents and liabilities in excess of other assets

     (0.5
Total      100.0

 

 

Amount represents less than 0.05% or (0.05)%.

1 

The Portfolio is actively managed and its composition will vary over time.

 

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Asset-backed securities—25.4%

 

Ally Auto Receivables Trust,

 

Series 2017-5, Class A4, 2.220%, due 10/17/22

  $ 4,723,776     $ 4,734,294  

BMW Vehicle Lease Trust,

 

Series 2019-1, Class A4, 2.920%, due 08/22/22

    4,227,362       4,241,421  

BMW Vehicle Owner Trust,

 

Series 2018-A, Class A4, 2.510%, due 06/25/24

    3,366,486       3,400,218  

Canadian Pacer Auto Receivables Trust,

 

Series 2018-2A, Class A3, 3.270%, due 12/19/221

    795,619       802,961  

CCG Receivables Trust,

 

Series 2018-2, Class A2, 3.090%, due 12/15/251

    719,289       723,619  

Series 2019-1, Class A2, 2.800%, due 09/14/261

    1,707,621       1,728,432  

Chesapeake Funding II LLC,

 

Series 2018-1A, Class A1, 3.040%, due 04/15/301

    7,364,816       7,402,855  

Series 2018-2A, Class A1, 3.230%, due 08/15/301

    1,201,499       1,215,363  

Series 2019-1A, Class A1, 2.940%, due 04/15/311

    2,182,757       2,212,763  

Series 2019-2A, Class A1, 1.950%, due 09/15/311

    2,667,595       2,698,658  

CNH Equipment Trust,

 

Series 2017-B, Class A4, 2.170%, due 04/17/23

    8,221,452       8,237,989  

Daimler Trucks Retail Trust,

 

Series 2019-1, Class A3, 2.770%, due 08/15/221

    906,185       913,362  

Dell Equipment Finance Trust,

 

Series 2018-1, Class B, 3.340%, due 06/22/231

    797,638       799,040  

Series 2019-1, Class A3, 2.830%, due 03/22/241

    23,308,148       23,506,241  

Discover Card Execution Note Trust,

 

Series 2018-A5, Class A5, 3.320%, due 03/15/24

    10,820,000       10,945,814  

DLL LLC,

 

Series 2018-1, Class A4, 3.270%, due 04/17/261

    1,171,671       1,184,708  

Series 2018-ST2, Class A3, 3.460%, due 01/20/221

    177,598       177,846  

Series 2018-ST2, Class A4, 3.590%, due 06/20/241

    13,543,000       13,664,944  

Series 2019-DA1, Class A3, 2.890%, due 04/20/231

    3,985,631       4,028,394  

Series 2019-DA1, Class A4, 2.920%, due 04/20/271

    24,485,000       25,303,896  

Series 2019-MA2, Class A3, 2.340%, due 09/20/231

    14,707,383       14,867,751  

Series 2019-MT3, Class A2, 2.130%, due 01/20/221

    375,460       375,843  

Series 2019-MT3, Class A3, 2.080%, due 02/21/231

    29,045,000       29,310,175  
     Face
amount
  Value
Asset-backed securities—(continued)

 

Series 2019-MT3, Class A4, 2.150%, due 09/21/261

  $ 3,000,000     $ 3,069,156  

Enterprise Fleet Financing LLC,

 

Series 2018-1, Class A3, 3.100%, due 10/20/231

    1,961,411       1,969,572  

Series 2018-2, Class A2, 3.140%, due 02/20/241

    4,614,024       4,629,824  

Series 2018-2, Class A3, 3.340%, due 02/20/241

    2,135,000       2,184,369  

Series 2018-3, Class A2, 3.380%, due 05/20/241

    8,403,689       8,461,585  

Series 2018-3, Class A3, 3.550%, due 05/20/241

    16,520,000       17,051,443  

Series 2019-1, Class A2, 2.980%, due 10/20/241

    5,549,786       5,603,956  

Series 2019-2, Class A2, 2.290%, due 02/20/251

    9,896,709       10,056,758  

Series 2019-3, Class A2, 2.060%, due 05/20/251

    24,612,719       24,957,607  

Series 2020-1, Class A2, 1.780%, due 12/22/251

    15,878,306       16,095,998  

Series 2020-2, Class A2, 0.610%, due 07/20/261

    2,185,000       2,190,344  

Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust,

 

Series 2019-A, Class B, 3.250%, due 07/15/22

    38,180,000       38,451,506  

Series 2020-B, Class C, 1.700%, due 02/15/25

    8,750,000       8,927,943  

Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust,

 

Series 2016-2, Class A, 2.030%, due 12/15/271

    12,000,000       12,025,744  

Series 2017-1, Class A, 2.620%, due 08/15/281

    21,485,000       21,891,208  

Series 2017-2, Class A, 2.360%, due 03/15/291

    22,500,000       23,126,431  

Series 2017-2, Class B, 2.600%, due 03/15/291

    11,926,000       12,272,423  

Series 2019-A, Class A3, 2.780%, due 09/15/23

    9,201,574       9,321,246  

Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust,

 

Series 2018-1, Class A1, 2.950%, due 05/15/23

    10,670,000       10,680,741  

Series 2019-3, Class A1, 2.230%, due 09/15/24

    10,000,000       10,264,750  

Series 2019-3, Class B,
2.420%, due 09/15/24

    34,918,000       35,826,804  

GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust,

 

Series 2019-2, Class B,
2.890%, due 03/20/23

    3,000,000       3,030,986  

Series 2019-2, Class C, 3.120%, due 03/20/23

    2,000,000       2,026,958  

Series 2020-2, Class A2A, 0.710%, due 10/20/22

    2,607,888       2,613,710  

GM Financial Consumer Automobile Receivables Trust,

 

Series 2017-3A, Class A4, 2.130%, due 03/16/231

    5,431,088       5,450,060  

Series 2018-2, Class A3, 2.810%, due 12/16/22

    2,348,307       2,364,980  
 

 

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Asset-backed securities—(continued)

 

Series 2019-1, Class A3, 2.970%, due 11/16/23

  $ 1,482,745     $ 1,501,471  

Series 2020-2, Class A2A, 1.500%, due 03/16/23

    2,185,192       2,191,404  

GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust,

 

Series 2019-1, Class A, 2.700%, due 04/15/241

    22,200,000       22,714,736  

Series 2019-1, Class B, 2.860%, due 04/15/241

    1,000,000       1,024,733  

GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding LLC,

 

Series 2018-1, Class A4, 2.830%, due 06/17/241

    5,310,186       5,350,541  

Series 2019-1, Class A4, 3.210%, due 02/18/251

    1,667,000       1,728,796  

Honda Auto Receivables Owner Trust,

 

Series 2018-1I, Class A4, 2.830%, due 05/15/24

    2,629,000       2,642,899  

Series 2018-4, Class A3, 3.160%, due 01/17/23

    1,201,033       1,215,598  

Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust,

 

Series 2019-A, Class A4, 3.050%, due 12/15/221

    3,470,000       3,491,874  

Series 2019-B, Class A3, 2.040%, due 08/15/221

    1,875,851       1,884,710  

Series 2019-B, Class B, 2.130%, due 11/15/231

    11,884,000       12,032,580  

Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust,

 

Series 2019-A, Class A3, 2.660%, due 06/15/23

    10,783,743       10,915,644  

John Deere Owner Trust,

 

Series 2018-B, Class A3, 3.080%, due 11/15/22

    1,994,084       2,007,325  

Kubota Credit Owner Trust,

 

Series 2018-1A, Class A3, 3.100%, due 08/15/221

    1,656,276       1,666,941  

Series 2018-1A, Class A4, 3.210%, due 01/15/251

    9,100,000       9,272,353  

Series 2019-1A, Class A2, 2.490%, due 06/15/221

    513,299       514,546  

Series 2019-1A, Class A3, 2.460%, due 10/16/231

    2,870,000       2,926,775  

MMAF Equipment Finance LLC,

 

Series 2014-AA, Class A5, 2.330%, due 12/08/251

    2,986,963       3,016,077  

Series 2016-AA, Class A4, 1.760%, due 01/17/231

    507,397       509,122  

Series 2017-AA, Class A5, 2.680%, due 07/16/271

    3,000,000       3,074,944  

Series 2017-B, Class A3, 2.210%, due 10/17/221

    3,069,493       3,074,441  

Series 2017-B, Class A4, 2.410%, due 11/15/241

    3,595,000       3,642,627  

Series 2018-A, Class A3, 3.200%, due 09/12/221

    681,549       685,633  

Series 2019-B, Class A2, 2.070%, due 10/12/221

    3,315,112       3,335,589  
     Face
amount
  Value
Asset-backed securities—(continued)

 

Nissan Auto Lease Trust,

 

Series 2019-A, Class A3, 2.760%, due 03/15/22

  $ 648,699     $ 650,967  

Series 2019-A, Class A4, 2.780%, due 07/15/24

    43,000,000       43,318,187  

Series 2019-B, Class A3, 2.270%, due 07/15/22

    1,976,759       1,985,370  

Series 2020-A, Class A4, 1.880%, due 04/15/25

    4,500,000       4,579,612  

Nissan Auto Receivables Owner Trust,

 

Series 2017-C, Class A4, 2.280%, due 02/15/24

    1,624,392       1,636,767  

Series 2018-B, Class A3, 3.060%, due 03/15/23

    710,251       718,152  

Series 2018-C, Class A3, 3.220%, due 06/15/23

    2,770,692       2,811,871  

Series 2019-A, Class A3, 2.900%, due 10/16/23

    6,281,711       6,370,810  

Series 2019-C, Class A2A, 1.970%, due 09/15/22

    2,176,025       2,180,620  

Series 2020-A, Class A2, 1.450%, due 12/15/22

    1,784,809       1,790,666  

Santander Consumer Auto Receivables Trust,

 

Series 2020-AA, Class A, 1.370%, due 10/15/241

    3,209,080       3,233,957  

Santander Retail Auto Lease Trust,

 

Series 2019-A, Class A3, 2.770%, due 06/20/221

    3,324,969       3,348,654  

Series 2019-A, Class C, 3.300%, due 05/22/231

    10,890,000       11,116,598  

Series 2019-C, Class B, 2.170%, due 11/20/231

    7,995,000       8,174,385  

Series 2020-A, Class A3, 1.740%, due 07/20/231

    25,000,000       25,442,682  

Securitized Term Auto Receivables Trust,

 

Series 2019-1A, Class A3, 2.986%, due 02/27/231

    4,186,026       4,233,218  

Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust,

 

Series 2017-2, Class B,
2.820%, due 10/15/25

    14,917,808       15,420,032  

Tesla Auto Lease Trust,

 

Series 2018-B, Class B, 4.120%, due 10/20/211

    4,000,000       4,034,001  

Series 2020-A, Class A2, 0.550%, due 05/22/231

    9,443,628       9,458,106  

Toyota Auto Receivables Owner Trust,

 

Series 2018-B, Class A3, 2.960%, due 09/15/22

    1,615,874       1,625,435  

Series 2018-D, Class A3, 3.180%, due 03/15/23

    8,936,931       9,044,682  

Series 2019-A, Class A3, 2.910%, due 07/17/23

    2,908,765       2,951,481  

USAA Auto Owner Trust,

 

Series 2019-1, Class A3, 2.160%, due 07/17/23

    13,618,249       13,705,670  

Verizon Owner Trust,

 

Series 2018-1A, Class B, 3.050%, due 09/20/221

    9,235,000       9,268,519  
 

 

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Asset-backed securities—(concluded)

 

Series 2018-A, Class B, 3.380%, due 04/20/23

  $ 6,700,000     $ 6,845,677  

Series 2019-B, Class A1A, 2.330%, due 12/20/23

    1,556,000       1,577,985  

World Financial Network Credit Card Master Trust,

 

Series 2016-A, Class A, 2.030%, due 04/15/25

    10,039,000       10,060,035  

Series 2018-B, Class A, 3.460%, due 07/15/25

    4,452,000       4,504,928  

Series 2018-C, Class A, 3.550%, due 08/15/25

    12,549,000       12,726,486  

Series 2019-A, Class A, 3.140%, due 12/15/25

    20,800,000       21,263,827  

Series 2019-B, Class A, 2.490%, due 04/15/26

    21,500,000       22,030,517  

Series 2019-B, Class M, 3.040%, due 04/15/26

    3,705,000       3,795,252  

Series 2019-C, Class M, 2.710%, due 07/15/26

    16,180,000       16,611,360  

World Omni Auto Receivables Trust,

 

Series 2017-A, Class B, 2.380%, due 02/15/24

    5,635,000       5,648,215  

Series 2018-B, Class A3, 2.870%, due 07/17/23

    1,008,904       1,018,304  

Series 2018-C, Class A3, 3.130%, due 11/15/23

    1,563,987       1,584,065  

Series 2018-C, Class A4, 3.270%, due 09/16/24

    2,610,000       2,694,751  

Series 2018-D, Class A3, 3.330%, due 04/15/24

    914,733       930,518  

World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust,

 

Series 2018-B, Class A4,

3.300%, due 03/15/24

    1,901,042       1,903,511  

Total asset-backed securities
(cost—$855,962,668)

      857,739,921  
Certificates of deposit—1.4%

 

DNB Bank ASA

 

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.290%,
0.473%, due 12/10/212

    25,000,000       25,000,000  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.

 

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.345%,
0.539%, due 05/14/212

    15,000,000       15,000,021  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.380%,
0.568%, due 10/12/212

    6,500,000       6,500,516  

Total certificates of deposit
(cost—$46,500,537)

 

    46,500,537  
Commercial paper3—29.9%

 

American Honda Finance Corp. 0.243%, due 07/08/21

    23,491,000       23,480,351  

AT&T, Inc.

   

0.376%, due 10/20/21

    15,000,000       14,973,483  

0.387%, due 11/18/21

    25,000,000       24,946,958  

0.275%, due 06/15/21

    10,000,000       9,996,563  

0.300%, due 07/13/21

    5,000,000       4,996,958  

0.330%, due 08/17/21

    10,000,000       9,990,100  

0.340%, due 09/21/21

    8,000,000       7,989,196  
     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper3—(continued)

 

0.350%, due 09/21/21

  $ 4,000,000     $ 3,994,439  

0.380%, due 11/16/21

    15,000,000       14,968,492  

0.400%, due 12/14/21

    3,000,000       2,992,433  

Banco Santander SA
0.280%, due 07/06/21

    25,000,000       24,987,167  

Barton Capital SA
0.250%, due 07/06/21

    4,500,000       4,497,938  

BP Capital Markets PLC
0.295%, due 06/01/21

    25,000,000       24,993,757  

BPCE SA
0.300%, due 08/03/21

    9,500,000       9,492,558  

0.320%, due 06/21/21

    11,500,000       11,494,787  

Cigna Corp.
0.304%, due 07/13/21

    20,000,000       19,987,833  

Credit Suisse AG
0.260%, due 05/28/21

    15,000,000       14,997,075  

Dow Chemical Co.
0.183%, due 05/12/21

    17,000,000       16,999,080  

Ei Dupont
0.183%, due 12/01/21

    25,000,000       24,955,417  

Enel Finance America
0.407%, due 03/03/22

    15,000,000       14,949,000  

0.407%, due 03/09/22

    15,000,000       14,948,000  

0.407%, due 04/01/22

    15,000,000       14,944,167  

0.407%, due 04/13/22

    10,000,000       9,961,444  

0.350%, due 10/06/21

    17,050,000       17,023,809  

Energy Transfer Partners LP 0.406%, due 05/03/21

    80,000,000       79,998,222  

ENI Finance USA, Inc.

 

0.264%, due 05/11/21

    15,000,000       14,998,917  

0.264%, due 05/24/21

    5,000,000       4,999,169  

0.254%, due 05/26/21

    10,000,000       9,998,264  

0.325%, due 07/08/21

    10,000,000       9,993,956  

0.315%, due 07/12/21

    10,000,000       9,993,800  

0.264%, due 07/15/21

    15,000,000       14,991,875  

0.274%, due 08/23/21

    15,000,000       14,987,175  

General Motors Financial Co., Inc. 0.457%, due 07/06/21

    10,000,000       9,991,750  

0.360%, due 05/10/21

    55,000,000       54,995,050  

0.450%, due 07/26/21

    10,000,000       9,989,250  

Glencore Funding LLC
0.335%, due 06/21/21

    10,000,000       9,995,325  

0.356%, due 07/29/21

    10,000,000       9,991,347  

0.310%, due 06/28/21

    15,400,000       15,392,309  

0.320%, due 06/07/21

    10,000,000       9,996,711  

0.320%, due 06/28/21

    15,000,000       14,992,267  

0.350%, due 07/12/21

    15,000,000       14,989,500  

Humana, Inc.
0.304%, due 07/23/21

    24,000,000       23,983,400  

0.304%, due 07/26/21

    25,000,000       24,982,083  

Hyundai Capital America
0.264%, due 06/09/21

    5,000,000       4,998,592  

0.315%, due 06/21/21

    9,000,000       8,996,048  

0.294%, due 08/23/21

    20,000,000       19,981,633  

0.300%, due 04/06/22

    13,893,000       13,853,637  

0.310%, due 06/21/21

    20,000,000       19,991,217  

0.320%, due 02/03/22

    21,400,000       21,347,118  
 

 

11


UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Commercial paper3—(concluded)

 

Schlumberger Holdings Corp. 0.479%, due 08/02/21

  $ 15,000,000     $ 14,981,787  

Shell International Finance BV 0.519%, due 05/17/21

    15,000,000       14,996,600  

0.210%, due 07/08/21

    4,500,000       4,498,215  

0.400%, due 07/12/21

    15,000,000       14,988,000  

0.500%, due 05/25/21

    6,000,000       5,998,000  

Societe Generale SA
0.325%, due 08/18/21

    30,000,000       29,970,933  

0.285%, due 12/29/21

    25,000,000       24,952,944  

0.285%, due 01/11/22

    15,000,000       14,970,250  

Volkswagen Credit, Inc.
0.325%, due 01/10/22

    10,000,000       9,977,422  

0.336%, due 03/01/22

    10,000,000       9,972,133  

Volkswagen Group of America Finance LLC 0.420%, due 08/06/21

    15,000,000       14,983,025  

0.440%, due 08/06/21

    15,000,000       14,982,217  

0.500%, due 11/10/21

    4,000,000       3,989,278  

Walt Disney Co.
0.290%, due 08/16/21

    12,000,000       11,989,657  

0.310%, due 07/15/21

    15,000,000       14,990,312  

0.350%, due 05/17/21

    10,000,000       9,998,444  

Total commercial paper
(cost—$1,007,106,046)

      1,007,228,837  
Corporate bonds—41.1%

 

Auto manufacturers—5.0%

 

American Honda Finance Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.350%,
0.527%, due 06/11/212

    3,000,000       3,001,228  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.350%,
0.545%, due 11/05/212

    10,035,000       10,050,302  

3.375%, due 12/10/21

    20,000,000       20,377,797  

BMW US Capital LLC

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.500%,
0.698%, due 08/13/211,2

    8,080,000       8,091,163  

Daimler Finance North America LLC

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.550%,
0.742%, due 05/04/211,2

    350,000       350,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.670%,
0.865%, due 11/05/211,2

    4,500,000       4,512,697  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.880%,
1.062%, due 02/22/221,2

    9,750,000       9,814,935  

2.000%, due 07/06/211

    15,225,000       15,270,650  

2.200%, due 10/30/211

    25,000,000       25,231,612  

2.850%, due 01/06/221

    11,525,000       11,717,221  

3.400%, due 02/22/221

    14,682,000       15,037,588  

Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.630%,
0.817%, due 09/21/211,2

    2,500,000       2,502,408  

PACCAR Financial Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.260%,
0.455%, due 05/10/212

    500,000       500,025  

Toyota Motor Corp.
2.157%, due 07/02/22

    4,425,000       4,521,386  
     Face
amount
  Value
Corporate bonds—(continued)

 

Auto manufacturers—(concluded)

 

Toyota Motor Credit Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.125%,
0.319%, due 08/13/212

  $ 5,090,000     $ 5,091,160  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.690%,
0.878%, due 01/11/222

    4,000,000       4,017,164  

Volkswagen Group of America Finance LLC

 

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.860%,
1.051%, due 09/24/211,2

    7,000,000       7,021,716  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.940%,
1.141%, due 11/12/211,2

    7,000,000       7,030,089  

2.900%, due 05/13/221

    15,519,000       15,908,609  
   

 

 

 

    170,047,750  
   

 

 

 

Banks—23.2%

 

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.570%,
0.760%, due 08/27/211,2

    20,120,000       20,152,393  

3.400%, due 08/27/211

    5,909,000       5,967,822  

ANZ New Zealand International Ltd.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 1.010%,
1.194%, due 07/28/211,2

    14,175,000       14,206,829  

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.460%,
0.652%, due 05/17/211,2

    2,300,000       2,300,421  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.990%,
1.181%, due 06/01/211,2

    1,250,000       1,250,955  

Bank of Montreal MTN

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.790%,
0.980%, due 08/27/212

    6,013,000       6,027,861  

BNP Paribas SA
2.950%, due 05/23/221

    18,070,000       18,562,595  

BPCE SA
3.000%, due 05/22/221

    52,600,000       54,062,653  

Citigroup, Inc.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 1.070%,
1.246%, due 12/08/212

    16,099,000       16,184,147  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 1.190%,
1.392%, due 08/02/212

    2,000,000       2,005,598  

2.350%, due 08/02/21

    10,011,000       10,062,957  

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.700%,
0.883%, due 03/10/221,2

    14,800,000       14,876,460  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.830%,
1.006%, due 09/06/211,2

    6,250,000       6,267,581  

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.830%,
1.018%, due 01/10/222

    2,150,000       2,162,292  

Credit Agricole SA
2.375%, due 07/01/211

    8,000,000       8,027,076  

3.375%, due 01/10/221

    35,983,000       36,728,832  

Credit Suisse AG

 

SOFR + 0.450%,
0.470%, due 02/04/222

    4,750,000       4,747,911  

DNB Bank ASA

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 1.070%,
1.258%, due 06/02/211,2

    4,600,000       4,604,038  
 

 

12


UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Corporate bonds—(continued)

 

Banks—(continued)

 

Fifth Third Bank NA

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.440%,
0.616%, due 07/26/212

  $ 2,315,000     $ 2,316,481  

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
5.250%, due 07/27/21

    16,895,000       17,089,799  

5.750%, due 01/24/22

    49,820,000       51,782,533  

ING Groep N.V.
3.150%, due 03/29/22

    20,632,000       21,155,025  

Macquarie Bank Ltd.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.450%,
0.626%, due 11/24/211,2

    15,000,000       15,028,266  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.450%,
0.643%, due 08/06/211,2

    4,000,000       4,004,202  

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.650%,
0.826%, due 07/26/212

    8,571,000       8,582,422  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.920%,
1.102%, due 02/22/222

    10,285,000       10,352,518  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 1.060%,
1.244%, due 09/13/212

    6,769,000       6,792,461  

2.190%, due 09/13/21

    31,286,000       31,501,669  

2.665%, due 07/25/22

    20,000,000       20,547,246  

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.940%,
1.130%, due 02/28/222

    4,630,000       4,660,717  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 1.140%,
1.324%, due 09/13/212

    27,921,000       28,035,447  

2.953%, due 02/28/22

    8,382,000       8,566,020  

Morgan Stanley

 

SOFR + 0.700%,
0.710%, due 01/20/232

    8,515,000       8,531,866  

2.625%, due 11/17/21

    7,000,000       7,088,737  

2.750%, due 05/19/22

    21,000,000       21,540,863  

5.500%, due 07/28/21

    24,367,000       24,665,008  

National Australia Bank Ltd.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.580%,
0.767%, due 09/20/211,2

    3,850,000       3,857,824  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.710%,
0.902%, due 11/04/211,2

    8,350,000       8,378,246  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 1.000%,
1.188%, due 07/12/211,2

    4,800,000       4,809,033  

Nordea Bank Abp

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.990%,
1.180%, due 05/27/211,2

    3,450,000       3,452,240  

Royal Bank of Canada

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.350%,
0.547%, due 07/08/212

    20,000,000       20,011,194  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.730%,
0.935%, due 02/01/222

    7,143,000       7,177,760  

Santander UK Group Holdings PLC

   

2.875%, due 08/05/21

    3,180,000       3,200,988  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.430%,
0.622%, due 05/17/211,2

    11,450,000       11,451,698  

1.875%, due 09/13/21

    5,558,000       5,592,029  
     Face
amount
  Value
Corporate bonds—(continued)

 

Banks—(concluded)

 

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 1.140%,
1.330%, due 10/19/212

  $ 11,086,000     $ 11,139,960  

2.058%, due 07/14/21

    5,222,000       5,241,149  

Svenska Handelsbanken AB

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.470%,
0.646%, due 05/24/212

    14,520,000       14,523,840  

1.875%, due 09/07/21

    10,930,000       10,992,925  

Toronto-Dominion Bank

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.300%,
0.486%, due 07/30/212

    15,000,000       15,008,600  

SOFR + 0.480%,
0.490%, due 01/27/232

    9,475,000       9,518,585  

US Bancorp

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.640%,
0.816%, due 01/24/222

    18,216,000       18,294,117  

US Bank N.A.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.180%,
0.366%, due 01/21/222

    14,000,000       14,011,340  

Wells Fargo & Co.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 1.025%,
1.201%, due 07/26/212

    25,704,000       25,759,626  

2.100%, due 07/26/21

    42,266,000       42,450,280  

3.500%, due 03/08/22

    5,022,000       5,158,888  

Westpac Banking Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.850%,
1.031%, due 08/19/212

    15,599,000       15,636,401  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.850%,
1.038%, due 01/11/222

    6,000,000       6,033,094  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 1.000%,
1.194%, due 05/13/212

    100,000       100,026  
   

 

 

 

      782,239,544  
   

 

 

 

Computers—0.7%

 

International Business Machines Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.400%,
0.594%, due 05/13/212

    23,725,000       23,727,503  
   

 

 

 

Diversified financial services—2.0%

 

American Express Co.

   

2.750%, due 05/20/22

    19,795,000       20,272,835  

3.700%, due 11/05/21

    10,415,000       10,569,689  

Capital One Financial Corp.

   

3.050%, due 03/09/22

    20,000,000       20,419,858  

4.750%, due 07/15/21

    17,096,000       17,248,496  
   

 

 

 

      68,510,878  
   

 

 

 

Electric—1.6%

 

Duke Energy Corp.
3.550%, due 09/15/21

    5,335,000       5,355,028  

Duke Energy Florida LLC

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.250%,
0.440%, due 11/26/212

    5,000,000       5,003,604  

National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.375%,
0.574%, due 06/30/212

    5,925,000       5,928,408  
 

 

13


UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Corporate bonds—(continued)

 

Electric—(concluded)

 

NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Inc.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.480%,
0.672%, due 05/04/212

  $ 2,600,000     $ 2,600,000  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.720%,
0.908%, due 02/25/222

    5,000,000       5,021,972  

2.403%, due 09/01/21

    25,000,000       25,176,260  

2.900%, due 04/01/22

    6,398,000       6,550,085  
   

 

 

 

      55,635,357  
   

 

 

 

Gas—0.2%

 

CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp.
0.700%, due 03/02/23

    5,000,000       5,003,035  
   

 

 

 

Insurance—1.4%

 

Jackson National Life Global Funding

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.480%,
0.657%, due 06/11/211,2

    5,760,000       5,762,494  

Lincoln National Corp.
4.200%, due 03/15/22

    26,238,000       27,152,777  

New York Life Global Funding

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.280%,
0.466%, due 01/21/221,2

    15,425,000       15,450,448  
   

 

 

 

      48,365,719  
   

 

 

 

Machinery-construction & mining—0.7%

 

Caterpillar Financial Services Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.280%,
0.456%, due 09/07/212

    9,185,000       9,191,628  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.390%,
0.582%, due 05/17/212

    5,500,000       5,500,888  

2.650%, due 05/17/21

    7,500,000       7,506,841  
   

 

 

 

      22,199,357  
   

 

 

 

Machinery-diversified—0.2%

 

John Deere Capital Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.260%,
0.443%, due 09/10/212

    2,371,000       2,372,929  

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.400%,
0.576%, due 06/07/212

    4,000,000       4,001,539  
   

 

 

 

      6,374,468  
   

 

 

 

Miscellaneous manufacturers—0.1%

 

Siemens Financieringsmaatschappij N.V.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.610%,
0.800%, due 03/16/221,2

    2,300,000       2,312,013  
   

 

 

 

Oil & gas—0.6%

 

BP Capital Markets America, Inc.
3.245%, due 05/06/22

    10,000,000       10,303,597  

Phillips 66
4.300%, due 04/01/22

    9,306,000       9,635,756  
   

 

 

 

      19,939,353  
   

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals—2.5%

 

AbbVie, Inc.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.350%,
0.532%, due 05/21/212

    9,000,000       9,001,191  
     Face
amount
  Value
Corporate bonds—(concluded)

 

Pharmaceuticals—(concluded)

 

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.460%,
0.641%, due 11/19/212

  $ 11,287,000     $ 11,302,765  

3.450%, due 03/15/22

    48,997,000       50,045,005  

CVS Health Corp.
2.125%, due 06/01/21

    15,200,000       15,207,904  
   

 

 

 

      85,556,865  
   

 

 

 

Pipelines—0.6%

 

Enterprise Products Operating LLC
4.050%, due 02/15/22

    20,000,000       20,574,586  
   

 

 

 

Retail—0.9%

 

Home Depot, Inc.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.310%,
0.501%, due 03/01/222

    1,325,000       1,328,074  

McDonald’s Corp.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 0.430%,
0.614%, due 10/28/212

    13,600,000       13,623,934  

3.625%, due 05/20/21

    16,174,000       16,198,996  
   

 

 

 

      31,151,004  
   

 

 

 

Software—1.1%

 

Oracle Corp.
1.900%, due 09/15/21

    10,000,000       10,046,709  

2.500%, due 05/15/22

    26,300,000       26,800,702  
   

 

 

 

      36,847,411  
   

 

 

 

Telecommunications—0.3%

 

Verizon Communications, Inc.

   

3 mo. USD LIBOR + 1.000%,
1.190%, due 03/16/222

    9,300,000       9,371,691  

Total corporate bonds
(cost—$1,387,169,493)

      1,387,856,534  
   
Mortgage-backed securities—2.7%

 

Angel Oak Mortgage Trust,

   

Series 2020-R1, Class A1,
0.990%, due 04/25/531,2

    14,653,434       14,674,255  

Series 2021-1, Class A1,
0.909%, due 01/25/661,2

    11,520,529       11,487,962  

Angel Oak Mortgage Trust LLC,

   

Series 2020-5, Class A1,
1.373%, due 05/25/651,2

    8,559,228       8,599,065  

COLT Funding LLC,

   

Series 2021-3R, Class A1,
1.051%, due 12/25/641,2

    7,500,000       7,499,913  

COLT Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates,

   

Series 2021-1R, Class A1,
0.857%, due 05/25/651,2

    2,401,759       2,396,776  

Deephaven Residential Mortgage Trust,

   

Series 2021-1, Class A1,
0.715%, due 05/25/651,2

    3,290,170       3,289,825  

GS Mortgage Backed Securities,

   

Series 2021-NQM1, Class A1,
1.017%, due 07/25/611,2

    6,000,000       5,999,896  

MFA Trust,

   

Series 2020-NQM3, Class A1,
1.014%, due 01/26/651,2

    1,193,331       1,195,949  
 

 

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Portfolio of investments—April 30, 2021

 

     Face
amount
  Value
Mortgage-backed securities—(concluded)

 

Series 2021-NQM1, Class A1,
1.153%, due 04/25/651,2

  $ 3,298,079     $ 3,298,107  

Verus Securitization Trust,

   

Series 2019-2, Class A1,
3.211%, due 05/25/591,2

    8,386,936       8,402,915  

Series 2021-1, Class A1,
0.815%, due 01/25/661,2

    5,678,304       5,654,444  

Series 2021-2, Class A1,
1.031%, due 02/25/661,2

    2,000,000       2,003,867  

Series 2021-R1, Class A1,
0.820%, due 10/25/631,2

    13,375,617       13,328,429  

Series 2021-R2, Class A1,
0.918%, due 02/25/641,2

    3,989,679       4,000,401  

Total mortgage-backed securities
(cost—$91,961,378)

      91,831,804  
   
     Number of
shares
  Value
Short-term investments—0.0%

 

Investment companies—0.0%

 

State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund, 0.030%4
(cost—$975,901)

    975,901     $ 975,901  

Total investments
(cost—$3,389,676,023)—100.5%

 

    3,392,133,534  
   

Liabilities in excess of other assets—(0.5)%

 

    (15,929,586

Net assets—100.0%

 

  $ 3,376,203,948  
 

 

 

Fair valuation summary

The following is a summary of the fair valuations according to the inputs used as of April 30, 2021 in valuing the Fund’s investments. In the event a Fund holds investments for which fair value is measured using the NAV per share practical expedient (or its equivalent), a separate column will be added to the fair value hierarchy table; this is intended to permit reconciliation to the amounts presented in the Portfolio of investments:

 

Assets                    
                   
Description      Unadjusted
quoted prices in
active markets for
identical investments
(Level 1)
     Other significant
observable inputs
(Level 2)
    

Unobservable inputs

(Level 3)

     Total
Asset-backed securities      $        $ 857,739,921        $        $ 857,739,921  
Certificates of deposit                 46,500,537                   46,500,537  
Commercial paper                 1,007,228,837                   1,007,228,837  
Corporate bonds                 1,387,856,534                   1,387,856,534  
Mortgage-backed securities                 91,831,804                   91,831,804  
Short-term investments                 975,901                   975,901  
Total      $        $ 3,392,133,534        $        $ 3,392,133,534  

At April 30, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

Portfolio footnotes

 

Amount represents less than 0.05% or (0.05)%.

1 

Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid, unless noted otherwise, and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. Securities exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A, in the amount of $936,045,078, represented 27.7% of the Fund’s net assets at period end.

2 

Variable or floating rate security. The interest rate shown is the rate in effect as of period end and changes periodically.

3 

Rate shown is the discount rate at the date of purchase unless otherwise noted.

4 

Rates shown reflect yield at April 30, 2021.

Portfolio acronyms

 

SOFR    Secured Overnight Financing Rate
LIBOR    London Interbank Offered Rate

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statement of assets and liabilities

April 30, 2021

 

Assets:

 

Investments, at value (cost—$3,389,676,023)        $3,392,133,534  
Cash        4,573,967  
Receivable for fund shares sold        7,220,809  
Receivable for interest        8,674,100  
Other assets        52,159  
Total assets        3,412,654,569  
    
Liabilities:

 

Payable for investments purchased        18,064,812  
Payable for fund shares redeemed        17,243,841  
Dividends payable to shareholders        86,209  
Payable to affiliate        653,874  
Payable to custodian        182,831  
Accrued expenses and other liabilities        219,054  
Total liabilities        36,450,621  
Net assets        $3,376,203,948  
    
Net assets consist of:

 

Beneficial interest shares of $0.001 par value (unlimited amount authorized)        $3,385,710,330  
Distributable earnings (losses)        (9,506,382
Net assets        $3,376,203,948  
    
Class A

 

Net assets        $662,131,337  
Shares outstanding        66,255,894  
Net asset value and offering price per share        $9.99  
    
Class P

 

Net assets        $2,218,542,692  
Shares outstanding        222,230,265  
Net asset value and offering price per share        $9.98  
    
Class I

 

Net assets        $495,529,919  
Shares outstanding        49,698,973  
Net asset value and offering price per share        $9.97  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statement of operations

 

        For the
year ended
April 30, 2021
Investment income:

 

Interest        $20,165,767  
Securities lending        2,477  
Total income        20,168,244  
Expenses:

 

Investment advisory and administration fees        9,101,463  
Service fees—Class A        938,256  
Transfer agency and related services fees—Class A        73,135  
Transfer agency and related services fees—Class P        180,409  
Transfer agency and related services fees—Class I        44  
Custody and fund accounting fees        257,281  
Trustees fees        46,993  
Professional services fees        96,830  
Printing and shareholder report fees        62,980  
Federal and state registration fees        374,773  
Insurance expense        20,296  
Interest expense        407  
Other expenses        118,553  
Total expenses        11,271,420  
Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements by advisor and administrator        (2,786,601
Net expenses        8,484,819  
Net investment income (loss)        11,683,425  
Net realized gain (loss) on investments        195,182  
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments        11,560,189  
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) from investment activities        11,755,371  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        $23,438,796  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Statement of changes in net assets

 

       For the years ended April 30,
        2021    2020
From operations:

 

       
Net investment income (loss)        $11,683,425        $43,365,776  
Net realized gain (loss)        195,182        (10,115,540
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)        11,560,189        (9,791,987
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations        23,438,796        23,458,249  
Total distributions—Class A        (4,343,302      (32,191,295
Total distributions—Class P        (8,511,560      (11,408,220
Total distributions—Class I        (718,375      (14,876
Total distributions        (13,573,237      (43,614,391
From beneficial interest transactions:

 

       
Proceeds from shares sold        4,764,547,697        3,152,294,746  
Cost of shares redeemed        (3,551,556,042      (2,580,251,203
Shares issued on reinvestment of dividends and distributions        11,196,086        37,188,838  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from beneficial interest transactions        1,224,187,741        609,232,381  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets        1,234,053,300        589,076,239  
Net assets:

 

       
Beginning of year        2,142,150,648        1,553,074,409  
End of year        $3,376,203,948        $2,142,150,648  

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Financial highlights

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each period is presented below:

 

Class A                             
       Years ended April 30,    For the period from
May 29, 2018
1 to
April 30, 2019
        2021    2020
Net asset value, beginning of period        $9.95        $10.00        $10.00  
Net investment income (loss)2        0.04        0.20        0.23  
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)        0.04        (0.05      (0.01 )3 
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.08        0.15        0.22  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.04      (0.20      (0.22
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.00 )7               
Total dividends and distributions        (0.04      (0.20      (0.22
Net asset value, end of period        $9.99        $9.95        $10.00  
Total investment return4        0.82      1.46      2.35
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements        0.44 %6       0.45 %6       0.47 %5,6 
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements        0.35 %6       0.35 %6       0.31 %5,6 
Net investment income (loss)        0.41      2.01      2.48 %5 
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of period (000’s)        $662,131        $1,226,267        $1,193,910  
Portfolio turnover        64      53      12
          
Class P                             
       Years ended April 30,    For the period from
May 29,  2018
1 to
April 30, 2019
        2021    2020
Net asset value, beginning of period        $9.94        $9.99        $10.00  
Net investment income (loss)2        0.04        0.20        0.24  
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)        0.05        (0.04      (0.02 )3 
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.09        0.16        0.22  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.05      (0.21      (0.23
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.00 )7               
Total dividends and distributions        (0.05      (0.21      (0.23
Net asset value, end of period        $9.98        $9.94        $9.99  
Total investment return4        0.92      1.66      2.24
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements        0.34 %6       0.36 %6       0.39 %5,6 
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements        0.25 %6       0.25 %6       0.21 %5,6 
Net investment income (loss)        0.38      2.04      2.61 %5 
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of period (000’s)        $2,218,543        $915,463        $358,489  
Portfolio turnover        64      53      12

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Financial highlights (concluded)

 

Selected data for a share of beneficial interest outstanding throughout each period is presented below:

 

Class I                             
       Years ended April 30,    For the period from
May 29,  2018
1 to
April 30, 2019
        2021    2020
Net asset value, beginning of period        $9.94        $9.99        $10.00  
Net investment income (loss)2        0.03        0.22        0.22  
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)        0.05        (0.05      (0.00 )3,7 
Net increase (decrease) from operations        0.08        0.17        0.22  
Dividends from net investment income        (0.05      (0.22      (0.23
Distributions from net realized gains        (0.00 )7               
Total dividends and distributions        (0.05      (0.22      (0.23
Net asset value, end of period        $9.97        $9.94        $9.99  
Total investment return4        0.84      1.68      2.26
Ratios to average net assets:

 

Expenses before fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements        0.33 %6       0.35 %6       0.38 %5,6 
Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements        0.23 %6       0.23 %6       0.16 %5,6 
Net investment income (loss)        0.31      2.25      2.42 %5 
Supplemental data:

 

Net assets, end of period (000’s)        $495,530        $421        $675  
Portfolio turnover        64      53      12
1 

Commencement of operations.

2 

Calculated using the average shares method.

3 

The amount of net realized and unrealized loss per share does not correspond with the net realized and unrealized gain reported within the Statement of Changes due to the timing of purchases and redemptions of Fund shares and fluctuating market values.

4 

Total investment return is calculated assuming a $10,000 investment on the first day of the period reported, reinvestment of all dividends and other distributions, if any, at net asset value on the ex-dividend dates, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of the period reported. Total investment return for the period of less than one year has not been annualized. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

5 

Annualized.

6 

Includes interest expense representing less than 0.005%.

7 

Amount represents less than $0.005 or $(0.005) per share.

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Organization and significant accounting policies

UBS Ultra Short Income Fund (the “Fund”) is registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), as a diversified series of UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”), an open-end management investment company organized as a Delaware statutory trust on April 29, 1998. The Trust is a series mutual fund with twenty-two series. The financial statements for the other series of the Trust are not included herein.

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (“UBS AM”) is the investment advisor and administrator for the Fund. UBS AM is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Group AG. UBS Group AG is an internationally diversified organization with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. UBS Group AG operates in many areas of the financial services industry.

The Fund currently offers Class A, Class P and Class I shares. Each class represents interests in the same assets of the Fund, and the classes are identical except for differences in ongoing service fees and certain transfer agency and related services expenses and certain fee waiver/expense reimbursement/cap arrangements as discussed further below. All classes of shares have equal voting privileges except that Class A shares have exclusive voting rights with respect to its service plan.

In the normal course of business the Fund may enter into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide indemnification for certain liabilities. The Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Fund that have not yet occurred. However, the Fund has not had any prior claims or losses pursuant to these contracts and expects the risk of loss to be remote.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) is the exclusive reference of authoritative US generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal laws are also sources of authoritative US GAAP for SEC registrants. The Fund’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with US GAAP, which may require the use of management estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

In March 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2020-04 (“ASU 2020-04”), “Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848)”. In response to concerns about structural risks of interbank offered rates, and particularly the risk of cessation of LIBOR, regulators have undertaken reference rate reform initiatives to identify alternative reference rates that are more observable or transaction based and less susceptible to manipulation. ASU 2020-04 provides optional guidance for a limited period of time to ease the potential burden in accounting for (or recognizing the effects of) reference rate reform on financial reporting. ASU 2020-04 is elective and applies to all entities, subject to meeting certain criteria, that have contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that reference LIBOR or another reference rate expected to be discontinued because of reference rate reform. The amendments are effective as of March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is currently evaluating the implications, if any, of the additional requirements and the impact on the Portfolio’s financial statements.

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies:

Investment transactions, investment income and expenses—Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Realized gains and losses from investment transactions and foreign exchange transactions are calculated using the identified cost method. Dividend income and expense are recorded on the ex-dividend date (“ex-date”) except in the case of certain dividends from foreign securities which are recorded as soon after the ex-date as the Fund, using reasonable diligence, becomes aware of such dividends. Interest income is recorded on an accrual basis. Discounts are accreted and premiums are amortized as adjustments to interest income and the identified cost of investments.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Income, expenses (excluding class-specific expenses) and realized/unrealized gains/losses are allocated proportionately to each class of shares based upon the relative net asset value of outstanding shares (or the value of dividend eligible shares, as appropriate) of each class at the beginning of the day after adjusting for current capital share activity of the respective classes. Class specific expenses are charged directly to the applicable class of shares.

Dividends and distributions—Dividends and distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. The amount of dividends from investment income and distributions from realized capital gains and/or return of capital are determined in accordance with US federal income tax regulations, which may differ from US GAAP. These “book/tax” differences are either considered temporary or permanent in nature. To the extent these differences are permanent in nature, such amounts are reclassified within the capital accounts based on their federal tax-basis treatment; temporary differences do not require reclassification.

Concentration of risk—The ability of the issuers of the debt securities held by the Fund to meet their obligations may be affected by economic and political developments particular to a specific industry, country, state or region.

Many financial instruments, financings or other transactions to which a Fund may be a party use or may use a floating rate based on the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”). LIBOR is widely used in financial markets. In July 2017, the United Kingdom’s financial regulatory body announced that after 2021 it will cease its active encouragement of banks to provide the quotations needed to sustain LIBOR. That announcement suggests that LIBOR may cease to be published or utilized after that time. Various financial industry groups have begun planning for that transition, but the effect of the transition process and its ultimate success cannot yet be determined. The transition process may lead to increased volatility and illiquidity in markets for instruments the terms of which are based on LIBOR. It could also lead to a reduction in the value of some LIBOR-based investments and reduce the effectiveness of new hedges placed against existing LIBOR-based investments. Since the usefulness of LIBOR as a benchmark could deteriorate during the transition period, these effects could occur prior to the end of 2021. The willingness and ability of issuers to include enhanced provisions in new and existing contracts or instruments also remains uncertain. Any of these factors may adversely affect the Fund’s performance or NAV. On November 30, 2020, the administrator of LIBOR announced a delay in the phase out of a majority of the U.S. dollar LIBOR publications until June 30 , 2023, with the remainder of LIBOR publications to still end at the end of 2021.

Certain impacts to public health conditions particular to the coronavirus “COVID-19” outbreak that occurred may have a significant negative impact on the operations and profitability of the issuers of the Fund’s investments. The extent of the impact to the financial performance of the Fund will depend on future developments, including (i) the duration and spread of the outbreak, (ii) the restrictions and advisories, (iii) the effects on the financial markets, and (iv) the effects on the economy overall, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.

Valuation of investments

The Fund generally calculates its net asset value on days that the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open. The Fund calculates net asset value separately for each class as of the close of regular trading on the NYSE (generally, 4:00 p.m., Eastern time). The NYSE normally is not open, and the Fund does not price its shares, on most national holidays and Good Friday. To the extent that the Fund’s assets are traded in other markets on days when the NYSE is not open, the value of the Fund’s assets may be affected on those days. If trading on the NYSE is halted for the day before 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, the Fund’s net asset value per share generally will still be calculated as of the close of regular trading on the NYSE. The time at which the Fund calculates its net asset value and until which purchase, sale or exchange orders are accepted may be changed as permitted by the SEC.

The Fund calculates its net asset value based on the current market value, where available, for its portfolio investments. The Fund normally obtains market values for its investments from independent pricing sources and broker-dealers. Independent pricing sources may use reported last sale prices, official market closing prices, current market quotations or valuations from computerized “evaluation” systems that derive values based on comparable investments. An evaluation system incorporates parameters such as security quality, maturity and coupon, and/or research and evaluations by its staff, including review of broker-dealer market price quotations, if available, in determining

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

the valuation of the portfolio investments. Investments also may be valued based on appraisals derived from information concerning the investment or similar investments received from recognized dealers in those holdings. Investments traded in the over-the-counter (“OTC”) market and listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. (“NASDAQ”) normally are valued at the NASDAQ Official Closing Price. Other OTC securities are valued at the last bid price on the valuation date available prior to valuation. Investments which are listed on US and foreign stock exchanges normally are valued at the market closing price, the last sale price on the day the securities are valued or, lacking any sales on such day, at the last available bid price. Investments listed on foreign stock exchanges may be fair valued based on significant events that have occurred subsequent to the close of the foreign markets. In cases where investments are traded on more than one exchange, the investments are valued on the exchange designated as the primary market by UBS AM. If a market value is not readily available from an independent pricing source for a particular investment, that investment is valued at fair value as determined in good faith by or under the direction of the Fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”). Foreign currency exchange rates are generally determined as of the close of the NYSE.

The amortized cost method of valuation, which approximates market value, generally is used to value short-term debt instruments with 60 days or less remaining to maturity, unless the Board determines that this does not represent fair value.

Investments in open-end investment companies are valued at the daily closing net asset value of the respective investment company. Pursuant to the Fund’s use of the practical expedient within ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurement, investments in investment companies without publicly published prices are also valued at the daily net asset value.

The Board has delegated to the Equities, Fixed Income, and Multi-Asset Valuation Committee (“VC”) the responsibility for making fair value determinations with respect to the Fund’s portfolio holdings. The VC is comprised of representatives of management. The VC provides reports to the Board at each quarterly meeting regarding any investments that have been fair valued, valued pursuant to standing instructions approved by the VC, or where non-vendor pricing sources had been used to make fair value determinations when sufficient information exists during the prior quarter. Fair valuation determinations are subject to review at least monthly by the VC during scheduled meetings. Pricing decisions, processes, and controls over fair value determinations are subject to internal and external reviews, including annual internal compliance reviews and periodic internal audit reviews.

The types of investments for which such fair value pricing may be necessary include, but are not limited to: foreign investments under some circumstances; securities of an issuer that has entered into a restructuring; investments whose trading has been halted or suspended; fixed income securities that are in default and for which there is no current market value quotation; and investments that are restricted as to transfer or resale. The need to fair value a Fund’s portfolio investments may also result from low trading volume in foreign markets or thinly traded domestic investments, and when a security that is subject to a trading limit or collar on the exchange or market on which it is primarily traded reaches the “limit up” or “limit down” price and no trading has taken place at that price. Various factors may be reviewed in order to make a good faith determination of an investment’s fair value. These factors include, but are not limited to, fundamental analytical data relating to the investment; the nature and duration of restrictions on disposition of the investment; and the evaluation of forces which influence the market in which the investment is purchased and sold. Valuing investments at fair value involves greater reliance on judgment than valuing investments that have readily available market quotations. Fair value determinations can also involve reliance on quantitative models employed by a fair value pricing service.

US GAAP requires disclosure regarding the various inputs that are used in determining the value of the of the Fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized into the three broad levels listed below:

Level 1—Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments.

 

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Level 2—Other significant observable inputs, including but not limited to, quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds and credit risks.

Level 3—Unobservable inputs inclusive of the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments.

A fair value hierarchy table has been included near the end of the Fund’s Portfolio of investments.

Investments

Asset-backed securities—The Fund may invest in asset-backed securities (“ABS”), representing interests in pools of certain types of underlying installment loans, home equity loans, leases of various types of real and personal property and receivables from revolving lines of credit (credit cards). Such assets are securitized through the use of trusts or special purpose corporations. The yield characteristics of ABS differ from those of traditional debt securities. One such major difference is that principal may be prepaid at any time because the underlying obligations generally may be prepaid at any time. ABS may decrease in value as a result of increases in interest rates and may benefit less than other fixed-income securities from declining interest rates because of the risk of prepayment.

Repurchase agreements—The Fund may purchase securities or other obligations from a bank or securities dealer (or its affiliate), subject to the seller’s agreement to repurchase them at an agreed upon date (or upon demand) and price. The Fund maintains custody of the underlying obligations prior to their repurchase, either through its regular custodian or through a special “tri-party” custodian or sub-custodian that maintains a separate account for both the Fund and their counterparty. The underlying collateral is valued daily in an effort to ensure that the value, including accrued interest, is at least equal to the repurchase price.

Repurchase agreements carry certain risks not associated with direct investments in securities, including a possible decline in the market value of the underlying obligations. If their value becomes less than the repurchase price, plus any agreed-upon additional amount, the counterparty must provide additional collateral so that the collateral is at least equal to the repurchase price plus any agreed-upon additional amount. The difference between the total amount to be received upon repurchase of the obligations and the price that was paid by the Fund upon acquisition is accrued as interest and included in its net investment income. In the event of default of the obligation to repurchase, the Fund generally has the right to liquidate the collateral and apply the proceeds in satisfaction of the obligation. Repurchase agreements involving obligations other than US government securities (such as commercial paper, corporate bonds, equities and mortgage loans) may be subject to special risks and may not have the benefit of certain protections in the event of counterparty insolvency. Moreover, repurchase agreements secured by obligations that are not eligible for direct investment under Rule 2a-7 or a Fund’s investment strategies and limitations, may require the Fund to promptly dispose of such collateral if the seller or guarantor becomes insolvent. If the seller (or seller’s guarantor, if any) becomes insolvent, the Fund may suffer delays, costs and possible losses in connection with the disposition or retention of the collateral. Under certain circumstances, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, realization and/or retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings. The Fund intends to enter into repurchase agreements only in transactions with counterparties believed by UBS AM to present minimal credit risk.

The Fund may participate in joint repurchase agreement transactions with other funds managed, advised or subadvised by UBS AM. Under certain circumstances, the Fund may engage in a repurchase agreement transaction with a yield of zero in order to invest cash amounts remaining in its portfolio at the end of the day in order to avoid having the Fund potentially exposed to a fee for uninvested cash held in a business account at a bank.

At April 30, 2021, the Fund was not invested in any repurchase agreements.

Restricted securities—The Fund may invest in securities that are subject to legal or contractual restrictions on resale. These securities generally may be resold in transactions exempt from registration or to the public if the

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

securities are registered. Disposal of these securities may involve time-consuming negotiations and expense, and prompt sale at an acceptable price may be difficult. Information regarding restricted securities, if any, is included in the Fund’s portfolio footnotes.

Investment advisor and administrator fees and other transactions with affiliates

The Board has approved an Investment Advisory and Administration Contract (the “Advisory Contract”), under which UBS AM serves as investment advisor and administrator of the Fund. In accordance with the Advisory Contract, the Fund is to pay UBS AM an investment advisory fee and an administration fee, which is to be accrued daily and paid monthly, at the annual rates of 0.20% and 0.10%, respectively, of the Fund’s average daily net assets. At April 30, 2021, UBS AM is owed $598,718 by the Fund, representing investment advisory and administration fees net of fee waivers/expense reimbursements.

UBS AM has contractually undertaken to waive fees/reimburse a portion of the Fund’s expenses, when necessary, to maintain the total annual operating expenses (excluding (1) dividend expense, borrowing costs and interest expense relating to short sales, and (2) expenses related to investments in other investment companies, interest, taxes, brokerage commissions and extraordinary expenses, if any) of Class A, Class P and Class I shares at a level not to exceed 0.35%, 0.25% and 0.23% of average daily net assets, respectively through August 31, 2021. For the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM waived $2,786,601 in investment advisory and administration fees. UBS AM may recoup from the Fund any such waived fees/ reimbursed expenses during the following three fiscal years, to the extent that ordinary operating expenses (with certain exclusions such as dividend expense, borrowing costs and interest expense) are otherwise below the applicable expense cap in effect at the time the fees or expenses were waived/reimbursed.

At April 30, 2021, the Fund had remaining fee waivers and expense reimbursements subject to repayment to UBS AM and respective dates of expiration as follows:

 

        Fee waivers/
expense
reimbursements
subject to
repayment
     Expires
April 30,
2022
     Expires
April 30,
2023
     Expires
April 30,
2024
Class A      $ 3,359,207        $ 939,941        $ 1,554,459        $ 864,807  
Class P        2,625,878          278,721          613,566          1,733,591  
Class I        204,737          15,733          801          188,203  

For the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS AM did not voluntarily waive any additional fees.

Service plan

UBS Asset Management (US) Inc. (“UBS AM (US)”) is the principal underwriter of the Fund’s shares. The Fund has adopted a service plan (the “Plan”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act for Class A shares. The Plan governs payments made for the expenses incurred in the service of Class A shares. The Fund pays UBS AM (US) monthly service fees at an annual rate of 0.10% of the average daily net assets of Class A shares. At April 30, 2021, the Fund owed UBS AM (US) $55,156 for service fees.

Transfer agency and related services fees

UBS Financial Services Inc. provides certain services to the Fund pursuant to a delegation of authority from BNY Mellon Investment Servicing (US) Inc. (“BNY Mellon”), the Fund’s transfer agent, and is compensated for these services by BNY Mellon, not the Fund. For the period ended April 30, 2021, UBS Financial Services Inc. received from BNY Mellon, not the Fund, $137,308 of the total transfer agency and related service fees paid by the Fund to BNY Mellon.

 

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Notes to financial statements

 

Securities lending

The Fund may lend securities up to 3313% of its total assets to qualified broker-dealers or institutional investors. The loans are initially secured by cash, U.S. government securities, and irrevocable letters of credit in an amount at least equal to 102% of the market value of the securities loaned with respect to domestic securities and 105% of the market value of the securities loaned with respect to foreign securities. In the event that the value of the cash, U.S. government securities, and irrevocable letters of credit securing the loan falls below 100% of the market value for domestic securities, and 103% of the market value for foreign securities, the borrower must provide additional cash, U.S. government securities, and irrevocable letters of credit so that the total value securing the loan returns to at least 102% of the market value for domestic securities and 105% of the market value for foreign securities.

The Fund will regain ownership of loaned securities to exercise certain beneficial rights; however, the Fund may bear the risk of delay in recovery of, or even loss of rights in, the securities loaned should the borrower fail financially. The Fund receives compensation for lending its securities from interest or dividends earned on the cash, US government securities and irrevocable letters of credit held as collateral, net of fee rebates paid to the borrower plus reasonable administrative and custody fees. Cash collateral received is invested in State Street Navigator Securities Lending Government Money Market Portfolio, which is included in the Fund’s Portfolio of investments. State Street Bank and Trust Company serves as the Fund’s lending agent.

At April 30, 2021, the Fund did not have securities out on loan.

Bank line of credit

The Fund participates with other funds managed by UBS AM in a $185 million committed credit facility (the “Committed Credit Facility”) with State Street Bank and Trust Company. The Committed Credit Facility is to be utilized for temporary financing until the settlement of sales or purchases of portfolio securities, the repurchase or redemption of shares of the participating Fund at the request of shareholders and other temporary or emergency purposes.

Interest on amounts borrowed is calculated based on the prevailing rates in effect at the time of borrowing. The funds covered by the Committed Credit Facility have agreed to pay commitment fees on the average daily balance of the Committed Credit Facility not utilized. Commitment fees have been allocated among the funds in the Committed Credit Facility as follows: 50% of the allocation is based on the relative asset size of funds and the other 50% of the allocation is based on utilization.

For the period ended April 30, 2021, the Fund had borrowings as follows:

 

Average daily amount of
borrowing outstanding
     Days outstanding      Interest expense      Weighted average
annualized interest rate
$4,089,962        3        $ 407          1.44

Additional information regarding compensation to affiliate of a board member

Professor Meyer Feldberg serves as a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Fund may conduct transactions, resulting in him being deemed an interested trustee of the Fund. The Fund has been informed that Professor Feldberg’s role at Morgan Stanley does not involve matters directly affecting any UBS funds. Portfolio transactions are executed through Morgan Stanley based on that firm’s ability to provide best execution of the transactions.

During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Fund purchased and sold certain securities (e.g., fixed income securities) in principal trades with Morgan Stanley, having an aggregate value of $64,122,708. Morgan Stanley received compensation in connection with these trades, which may have been in the form of a “mark-up” or “mark-down” of the price of the securities, a fee from the issuer, or some other form of compensation. Although the precise

 

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amount of this compensation is not generally known by the Fund’s investment advisor, it is believed that under normal circumstances it represents a small portion of the total value of the transactions.

Purchases and sales of securities

For the period ended April 30, 2021, aggregate purchases and sales of portfolio securities, excluding short-term securities, were $1,792,711,050 and $1,113,360,838, respectively.

Shares of beneficial interest

There is an unlimited amount of $0.001 par value shares of beneficial interest authorized. Transactions in shares of beneficial interest were as follows:

For the year ended April 30, 2021:

           
                   Class A
                       Shares    Amount
Shares sold            613,445      $ 6,136,466  
Shares repurchased            (58,024,274      (579,960,883
Dividends reinvested                              382,940        3,827,292  
Net increase (decrease)                              (57,027,889    $ (569,997,125
           
    Class P         Class I
     Shares    Amount            Shares    Amount
Shares sold     358,287,732      $ 3,577,584,082         118,304,286      $ 1,180,827,149  
Shares repurchased     (228,866,731      (2,285,505,566       (68,702,281      (686,089,593
Dividends reinvested     683,300        6,823,909         54,581        544,885  
Net increase (decrease)     130,104,301      $ 1,298,902,425               49,656,586      $ 495,282,441  

For the year ended April 30, 2020:

           
                   Class A
                       Shares    Amount
Shares sold            171,262,111      $ 1,714,377,936  
Shares repurchased                     (170,111,107      (1,695,851,631
Dividends reinvested                              2,801,107        28,009,965  
Net increase (decrease)                              3,952,111      $ 46,536,270  
           
    Class P         Class I
     Shares    Amount         Shares    Amount
Shares sold     144,032,500      $ 1,437,676,810         24,000      $ 240,000  
Shares repurchased     (88,693,027      (883,900,072       (49,950      (499,500
Dividends reinvested     918,595        9,170,557         833        8,316  
Net increase (decrease)     56,258,068      $ 562,947,295               (25,117    $ (251,184

Federal tax status

The Fund intends to distribute substantially all of its income and to comply with the other requirements of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required. In addition, by distributing during each calendar year substantially all of its net investment income, net realized capital gains and certain other amounts, if any, the Fund intends not to be subject to a federal excise tax.

The tax character of distributions paid during the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020, was ordinary income in the amount of $13,573,237 and $43,614,391, respectively.

 

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Notes to financial statements

 

For federal income tax purposes, the estimated cost and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) in value of investments held at April 30, 2021 were as follows:

 

Cost of investments      Gross unrealized
appreciation
     Gross unrealized
depreciation
   Net Unrealized
Appreciation
(depreciation)
$3,389,798,814      $ 2,889,646        $ (554,926    $ 2,334,720  

At April 30, 2021, the components of accumulated earnings (deficit) on a tax basis were as follows:

 

Undistributed
ordinary income
  Undistributed
long-term
capital gains
    Accumulated
capital and
other losses
     Unrealized
appreciation
(depreciation)
     Other
temporary
differences
   Total
$206,883     $—     $(11,808,848)      $ 2,334,720        $ (239,137    $ (9,506,382

Net capital losses recognized by the Fund may be carried forward indefinitely, and retain their character as short-term and/or long-term losses. These carryforwards are available as a reduction, to the extent provided in the regulations, of future realized capital gains. To the extent that such losses are used to offset future net realized capital gains, it is probable these gains will not be distributed. At April 30, 2021, the Fund had capital loss carryforwards of $10,565,348 in short-term and $1,243,500 in long-term capital losses.

ASC 740-10 “Income Taxes—Overall” set forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken. The Fund has analyzed and concluded as of April 30, 2021 that there are no significant uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken that would require recognition in the financial statements. The Fund recognizes interest and penalties, if any, related to uncertain tax positions as income tax expense in the Statement of operations. During the period ended April 30, 2021, the Fund did not incur any interest or penalties.

Under the applicable foreign tax laws, gains on certain securities held in certain foreign countries may be subject to taxes that will be paid by the Fund.

The tax year beginning with the Fund’s inception in May 2018 remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities.

 

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Report of independent registered public accounting firm

 

To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Opinion on the financial statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of UBS Ultra Short Income Fund (the “Fund”) (one of the funds constituting UBS Series Funds (the “Trust”)), including the portfolio of investments, as of April 30, 2021, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the two years in the period then ended and for the period from May 29, 2018 (commencement of operations) through April 30, 2019, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund (one of the funds constituting UBS Series Funds) at April 30, 2021, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and its financial highlights for each of the two years in the period then ended and for the period from May 29, 2018 (commencement of operations) to April 30, 2019, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Basis for opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of April 30, 2021, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers or by other appropriate auditing procedures where replies from brokers were not received. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

LOGO

We have served as the auditor of one or more UBS investment companies since 1978.

New York, New York

June 28, 2021

 

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Tax information (unaudited)

 

Other tax information

Pursuant to Sections 871(k)(1)(C)(i) and 871(k)(2)(C)(i) of the Internal Revenue Code, the Fund designates $10,183,723 of ordinary income distributions paid as qualified interest income for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2021.

 

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General information (unaudited)

 

Quarterly portfolio schedule

The Fund filed its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The Fund’s Form N-PORT reports are available on the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov. Additionally, you may obtain copies of such portfolio holdings schedules for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year from the Fund upon request by calling 1-800-647 1568.

Proxy voting policies, procedures and record

You may obtain a description of the Fund’s (1) proxy voting policies, (2) proxy voting procedures and (3) information regarding how the Fund voted any proxies related to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 for which an SEC filing has been made, without charge, upon request by contacting the Fund directly at 1-800-647 1568, online on the Fund’s Web site: www.ubs.com/ubsam-proxy, or on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Web site (http://www.sec.gov).

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Board of Trustees & Officers

The Fund is governed by a Board of Trustees which oversees the Fund’s operations. The table below shows, for each trustee and officer, his or her name, address and age, the position held with the Trust, the length of time served as a trustee or officer of the Trust, the trustee’s or officer’s principal occupations during the last five years, the number of funds in the UBS fund complex overseen by the trustee or for which a person served as an officer, and other directorships held by such trustee.

The Fund’s Statement of Additional Information contains additional information about the trustees and is available, without charge, upon request by calling 1-800-647-1568

 

Interested Trustee
         

Name,

address,

and age

  Position(s)
held with
Trust
 

Term of office1

and length of

time served

 

Principal occupation(s)

during past

5 years

  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
 

Other directorships

held by

trustee

Meyer Feldberg2;

79

Morgan Stanley

1585 Broadway

36th Floor

New York, NY

10036

 

Trustee and

Chairman of the

Board of

Trustees

 

Since 1998

(Trustee);

since 2017

(Chairman of

the Board of

Trustees)

 

Professor Feldberg is Dean

Emeritus and Professor of

Leadership and Ethics at

Columbia Business

School, although on an

extended leave of

absence. He is also a

senior advisor to Morgan

Stanley (financial services)

(since 2005). Professor

Feldberg also served as

President of New York

City Global Partners (an

organization located in

part of the Office of the

Mayor of the City of New

York that promoted

interaction with other

cities around the world

(2007 to 2014). Prior to

2004, he was Dean and

Professor of Management

and Ethics of the

Graduate School of

Business at Columbia

University (since 1989).

From 1992 to 2016,

Professor Feldberg was a

director of Macy’s, Inc.

(operator of department

stores). From 1997 to

2017, Professor Feldberg

was a director of Revlon,

Inc. (cosmetics).

 

Professor Feldberg is a

director or trustee of 8

investment companies

(consisting of 48

portfolios) for which UBS

AM or one of its affiliates

serves as investment

advisor or manager.

 

Professor Feldberg is also a

director of the New York

City Ballet.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Independent Trustees
         

Name,

address,

and age

  Position(s)
held with
Trust
 

Term of office

and length of

time served

 

Principal occupation(s)

during past

5 years

  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
 

Other directorships

held by

trustee

Alan S. Bernikow;

80

K2 Integrity

845 Third Avenue

New York, NY

10022

  Trustee   Since 2005  

Mr. Bernikow is retired.

Previously, he was deputy

chief executive officer at

Deloitte & Touche

(international accounting

and consulting firm).

From 2003 to 2017, Mr. Bernikow was

also a director of

Destination XL Group, Inc.

(menswear) (and served as

a member of its

nominating and corporate

governance committee).

  Mr. Bernikow is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.  

Mr. Bernikow is also a

director of Revlon, Inc.

(cosmetics) (and serves as

the chair of its audit

committee and as the

chair of its compensation

committee) and the lead

director of Mack-Cali

Realty Corporation (real

estate investment trust)

(and serves as the chair of

its audit committee).

Richard R. Burt;

74

McLarty Associates

900 17th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

20006

  Trustee   Since 1998  

Mr. Burt is a managing

partner of McLarty

Associates (a consulting

firm) (since 2007). He was

chairman of IEP Advisors

(international investments

and consulting firm) until

2009.

  Mr. Burt is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.  

Mr. Burt is also a director

of The Central Europe,

Russia and Turkey Fund,

Inc., The European Equity

Fund, Inc., and The New

Germany Fund, Inc. (and

serves as a member of

each such fund’s audit,

nominating and

governance committees).

Bernard H. Garil;

81

6754 Casa Grande Way Delray Beach, FL

33446

  Trustee   Since 2005   Mr. Garil is retired (since 2001). He was a managing director at PIMCO Advisory Services (from 1999 to 2001) where he served as president of closed-end funds and vice-president of the variable insurance product funds advised by OpCap Advisors (until 2001).   Mr. Garil is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   Mr. Garil is also a trustee for the Brooklyn College Foundation, Inc. (charitable foundation).

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Independent Trustees (concluded)
         

Name,

address,

and age

  Position(s)
held with
Trust
 

Term of office

and length of

time served

 

Principal occupation(s)

during past

5 years

  Number of portfolios in
fund complex overseen
by trustee
 

Other directorships

held by

trustee

Heather R. Higgins;

61

c/o Keith A. Weller,

Fund Secretary

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

One North Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606

  Trustee   Since 2005   Ms. Higgins is the president and director of The Randolph Foundation (charitable foundation) (since 1991). Ms. Higgins also serves (or has served) on the boards of several non-profit charitable groups, including the Independent Women’s Forum (chairman) and the Philanthropy Roundtable (vice chairman). She also serves on the board of the Hoover Institution (from 2001 to 2007 and since 2009).   Ms. Higgins is a trustee of 5 investment companies (consisting of 45 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.   None

 

1 

Each trustee holds office for an indefinite term.

2 

Professor Feldberg is deemed an “interested person” of the Trust as defined in the Investment Company Act because he is a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm with which the Trust may conduct transactions.

 

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Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers
        

Name, address,

and age

   Position(s) held
with Trust
  

Term of office1
and length

of time served

   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years

Rose Ann Bubloski2;

53

   Vice President and Assistant Treasurer    Since 2011    Ms. Bubloski is a director (since 2012) (prior to which she was an associate director (from 2008 to 2012)) and a senior manager of fund accounting—US (previously named product control and investment support) at UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. and/or UBS Asset Management (US) Inc. (“UBS AM—Americas region”). Ms. Bubloski is a vice president and assistant treasurer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Franklin P. Dickson2;

42

   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Dickson is an associate director (since 2015) and tax compliance manager (since 2017) (prior to which he was a product controller (from 2015 to 2017) of fund accounting—US (previously named product control and investment support) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Dickson is a vice president of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Lisa N. DiPaolo2;

43

   Vice President    Since 2015    Ms. DiPaolo is an executive director (since 2020) (prior to which she was a director from 2008 until March 2020), and portfolio manager (since 2015) at UBS AM—Americas region. Ms. DiPaolo joined UBS AM—Americas region in 2000 and has been a municipal securities analyst on the tax-free fixed income team. Ms. DiPaolo is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Elbridge T. Gerry III2;

64

   Vice President    Since 1999    Mr. Gerry is a managing director and head of municipal strategy of UBS AM—Americas region (prior to which he was co-head of municipal investments (from 2017 until June 2020; head from 2001 to 2017)). Mr. Gerry is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Charles W. Grande2;

57

   Vice President    Since 2017    Mr. Grande is a managing director, head of municipal fixed income team (since June 2020; formerly co-head from 2017 until June 2020) and head of municipal credit research (since 2009) with UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Grande is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Mark F. Kemper3;

63

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2004 and 2019, respectively    Mr. Kemper is a managing director (since 2006) and senior legal counsel (since 2019) (prior to which he was Interim Head of Asia Pacific Legal (March 2020-March 2021)), Interim Head of Compliance and Operational Risk Control (from June 2019 through September 2019) and general counsel of UBS AM—Americas region (from 2004-2019)). He has been secretary of UBS AM—Americas region (since 2004) and assistant secretary of UBS Asset Management Trust Company (since 1993). Mr. Kemper is vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager. Mr. Kemper is employed by UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017).

Joanne M. Kilkeary2;

53

   Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer    Since 1999 (Vice President) and since 2017 (Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer)    Ms. Kilkeary is an executive director (since 2013) (prior to which she was a director (from 2008 to 2013)) and head of fund accounting—US (since November 2020) (prior to which she was head of regulatory, tax, audit and board governance for product control and investment support (from 2017 through October 2020) (prior to which she was a senior manager (from 2004 to 2017) of registered fund product control of UBS AM—Americas region). Ms. Kilkeary is a vice president, treasurer and principal accounting officer of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

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UBS Ultra Short Income Fund

Supplemental information (unaudited)

 

Officers (continued)     
        

Name, address,

and age

   Position(s) held
with Trust
  

Term of office1
and length

of time served

   Principal occupation(s) during past 5 years

Igor Lasun2;

42

   President    Since 2018    Mr. Lasun is a managing director (since March 2021) (prior to which he was an executive director (from 2018 until February 2021)) and head of fund development and management for UBS AM—Americas region (since 2018) (prior to which he was a senior fixed income product specialist from 2007 to 2018, and had joined the firm in 2005). In this role, he oversees development and management for both wholesale and institutional businesses. Mr. Lasun serves as president of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Ryan Nugent2;

43

   Vice President    Since 2009    Mr. Nugent is an executive director (since 2017) (prior to which he was director (from 2010 to 2017)), and portfolio manager (since 2005) and head of municipal trading (since 2013) of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Nugent is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 28 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Frank Pluchino2,4;

61

   Chief Compliance Officer    Since 2017    Mr. Pluchino is an executive director with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and is also the chief compliance officer of UBS Hedge Fund Solutions LLC (since 2010). Mr. Pluchino is the chief compliance officer of 10 investment companies (consisting of 62 portfolios) for which UBS AM or one of its affiliates serves as investment advisor or manager.

Robert Sabatino3;

47

   Vice President    Since 2001    Mr. Sabatino is a managing director (since 2010) (prior to which he was an executive director (since 2007)), head of global liquidity portfolio management (since 2015), head of US taxable money markets (from 2009 to 2015), and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region in the short duration fixed income group (since 2000). Mr. Sabatino is a vice president of two investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Eric Sanders3;

55

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2005    Mr. Sanders is a director and associate general counsel with UBS Business Solutions US (since 2017) and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005). Mr. Sanders is a vice president and assistant secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Philip Stacey3;

36

   Vice President and Assistant Secretary    Since 2018    Mr. Stacey is an executive director (since 2019) and associate general counsel (since 2017) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC (since 2017) and also with UBS AM—Americas region since 2015. Mr. Stacey is a vice president and assistant secretary of 6 investment companies (consisting of 58 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

David Walczak3;

37

   Vice President    Since 2016    Mr. Walczak is an executive director (since 2016), head of US money markets (since 2015) and portfolio manager of UBS AM—Americas region. Mr. Walczak is a vice president of three investment companies (consisting of 43 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

Keith A. Weller3;

59

   Vice President and Secretary   

Since 1998

(Vice President) and since 2019 (Secretary)

   Mr. Weller is an executive director (since 2005) and deputy general counsel (since 2019) (prior to which he was senior associate general counsel) with UBS Business Solutions US LLC and also with UBS AM—Americas region (since 2005) and has been an attorney with affiliated entities since 1995. Mr. Weller is a vice president and secretary of 7 investment companies (consisting of 59 portfolios) for which UBS AM serves as investment advisor or manager.

 

1 

Officers of the Trust are appointed by the trustees and serve at the pleasure of the board.

2 

This person’s business address is 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019-6028.

3 

This person’s business address is One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

4 

This person’s business address is 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019.

 

36


Trustees

Meyer Feldberg

Chairman

Alan S. Bernikow

Richard R. Burt

Bernard H. Garil

Heather R. Higgins

Investment Advisor and Administrator

UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

Principal Underwriter

UBS Asset Management (US) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

 

 

This report is not to be used in connection with the offering of shares of the Fund unless accompanied or preceded by an effective prospectus.

© UBS 2021. All rights reserved.


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UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc.

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019-6028

 

S1709


  (b)

Copy of each notice transmitted to shareholders in reliance on Rule 30e-3 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), that contains disclosures specified by paragraph (c)(3) of that rule: Not applicable to the registrant.

Item 2. Code of Ethics.

The registrant has adopted a code of ethics that applies to its principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions pursuant to Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. (The registrant has designated the code of ethics adopted pursuant to Sarbanes-Oxley as a “Code of Conduct” to lessen the risk of confusion with its separate code of ethics adopted pursuant to Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act.).

Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert.

The registrant’s Board has determined that the following person serving on the registrant’s Audit Committee is an “audit committee financial expert” as defined in item 3 of Form N-CSR: Alan S. Bernikow. Mr. Bernikow is independent as defined in item 3 of Form N-CSR.

Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

 

  (a)

Audit Fees:

For the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020, the aggregate Ernst & Young LLP (E&Y) audit fees for professional services rendered to the registrant were approximately $496,217 and $483,092*, respectively.    

Fees included in the audit fees category are those associated with the annual audits of financial statements and services that are normally provided in connection with statutory and regulatory filings.

 

  (b)

Audit-Related Fees:

In each of the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020, the aggregate audit-related fees billed by E&Y for services rendered to the registrant that are reasonably related to the performance of the audits of the financial statements, but not reported as audit fees, were approximately $62,964 and $60,102, respectively.        

Fees included in the audit-related fees category are those associated with the reading and providing of comments on the 2020 and 2019 semiannual financial statements.

There were no audit-related fees required to be approved pursuant to paragraph (c)(7)(ii) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X during the fiscal years indicated above.


  (c)

Tax Fees:

In each of the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020, the aggregate tax fees billed by E&Y for professional services rendered to the registrant were approximately $207,000 and $175,500, respectively.

Fees included in the tax fees category comprise all services performed by professional staff in the independent accountant’s tax division except those services related to the audits. This category comprises fees for review of tax compliance, tax return preparation and excise tax calculations.

There were no tax fees required to be approved pursuant to paragraph (c)(7)(ii) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X during the fiscal years indicated above.

 

  (d)

All Other Fees:

In each of the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020, there were no fees billed by E&Y for products and services, other than the services reported in Item 4(a)-(c) above, rendered to the registrant.

Fees included in the all other fees category would consist of services related to internal control reviews, strategy and other consulting, financial information systems design and implementation, consulting on other information systems, and other tax services unrelated to the registrant.

There were no “all other fees” required to be approved pursuant to paragraph (c)(7)(ii) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X during the fiscal years indicated above.

(e) (1) Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures:

The registrant’s Audit Committee (“audit committee”) has adopted an “Audit Committee Charter (Amended and Restated as of September 14, 2016)” (the “charter”). The charter contains the audit committee’s pre-approval policies and procedures. Reproduced below is an excerpt from the charter regarding pre-approval policies and procedures:

The [audit] Committee shall:

 

 

  2.

Pre-approve (a) all audit and permissible non-audit services1 to be provided to the Fund and (b) all permissible non-audit services to be provided by the Fund’s independent auditors to UBS AM and any Covered Service Providers, if the engagement relates directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Fund. In carrying out this responsibility, the Committee shall seek periodically from UBS AM and from the independent auditors a list of such audit and permissible non-audit services that can be expected to be rendered to the Fund, UBS AM or any Covered Service Providers by the Fund’s independent auditors, and an estimate of the fees sought to be paid in connection with such services. The Committee has delegated its responsibility to pre-approve any such audit and permissible non-audit services not exceeding $100,000 (excluding reasonable out-of-pocket expenses) on an annual basis to the Chairperson. All such pre-approvals will be reported to the full Committee on a quarterly basis at the Committee’s


 

next regularly scheduled meeting after the pre-approval. The Committee may not delegate to management its responsibility to pre-approve services to be performed by the independent auditor. Requests or applications to provide services that require specific pre-approval by the Committee or the Chairperson will be submitted by both the Fund’s independent auditors and the Fund’s Treasurer or other designated Fund officer and must include a joint statement as to whether, in their view, the request or application is consistent with SEC rules on auditor independence. From year to year, the Committee shall report to the Board whether this system of pre-approval has been effective and efficient or whether this Charter should be amended to allow for pre-approval pursuant to such policies and procedures as the Committee shall approve, including the delegation of some or all of the Committee’s pre-approval responsibilities to other persons (other than UBS AM or the Fund’s officers).

 

                         

1 The Committee will not approve non-audit services that the Committee believes may taint the independence of the auditors. Currently, permissible non-audit services include any professional services (including tax services) that are not prohibited services as described below, provided to the Fund by the independent auditors, other than those provided to the Fund in connection with an audit or a review of the financial statements of the Fund. Permissible non-audit services may not include: (i) bookkeeping or other services related to the accounting records or financial statements of the Fund; (ii) financial information systems design and implementation; (iii) appraisal or valuation services, fairness opinions or contribution-in-kind reports; (iv) actuarial services; (v) internal audit outsourcing services; (vi) management functions or human resources; (vii) broker or dealer, investment advisor or investment banking services; (viii) legal services and expert services unrelated to the audit; and (ix) any other service the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board determines, by regulation, is impermissible. Pre-approval by the Committee of any permissible non-audit services is not required so long as: (i) the aggregate amount of all such permissible non-audit services provided to the Fund, UBS AM and any service providers controlling, controlled by or under common control with UBS AM that provide ongoing services to the Fund (“Covered Service Providers”) constitutes not more than 5% of the total amount of revenues paid to the independent auditors (during the fiscal year in which the permissible non-audit services are provided) by (a) the Fund, (b) UBS AM and (c) any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with UBS AM that provides ongoing services to the Fund during the fiscal year in which the services are provided that would have to be approved by the Committee; (ii) the permissible non-audit services were not recognized by the Fund at the time of the engagement to be non-audit services; and (iii) such services are promptly brought to the attention of the Committee and approved by the Committee (or its delegate(s)) prior to the completion of the audit.


(e) (2) Services approved pursuant to paragraph (c)(7)(i)(C) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X:

Audit-Related Fees:

There were no amounts that were approved by the audit committee pursuant to the de minimis exception for the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 on behalf of the registrant.

There were no amounts that were required to be approved by the audit committee pursuant to the de minimis exception for the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 on behalf of the registrant’s service providers that relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the registrant.

Tax Fees:

There were no amounts that were approved by the audit committee pursuant to the de minimis exception for the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 on behalf of the registrant.

There were no amounts that were required to be approved by the audit committee pursuant to the de minimis exception for the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 on behalf of the registrant’s service providers that relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the registrant.

All Other Fees:    

There were no amounts that were approved by the audit committee pursuant to the de minimis exception for the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 on behalf of the registrant.

There were no amounts that were required to be approved by the audit committee pursuant to the de minimis exception for the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020 on behalf of the registrant’s service providers that relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the registrant.

 

  (f)

For the fiscal year ended April 30, 2021, if greater than 50%, specify the percentage of hours spent on the audit of the registrant’s financial statements for the most recent fiscal year that were attributed to work performed by persons who are not full-time, permanent employees of E&Y. According to E&Y, such amount was below 50%; therefore, disclosure item not applicable for this filing.

 

  (g)

For the fiscal years ended April 30, 2021 and April 30, 2020, the aggregate fees billed by E&Y of $596,704 and $412,342, respectively, for non-audit services rendered on behalf of the registrant (“covered”), its investment adviser (not including any sub-adviser whose role is primarily portfolio management and is subcontracted with or overseen by another investment adviser) and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser (“non-covered”) that provides (or provided during the relevant fiscal period) services to the registrant for each of the last two fiscal years of the registrant is shown in the table below:

 

    

2021

    

2020

 

Covered Services

   $ 269,964      $ 235,602  

Non-Covered Services

     326,740        176,740  


  (h)

The registrant’s audit committee was not required to consider whether the provision of non-audit services that were rendered to the registrant’s investment adviser (not including any sub-adviser whose role is primarily portfolio management and is subcontracted with or overseen by another investment adviser), and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the investment adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant that were not pre-approved pursuant to paragraph (c)(7)(ii) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X is compatible with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.

 

  (i)

Not applicable to the registrant.

 

  (j)

Not applicable to the registrant.

 

 

* This figure differs from that reported for 2020 in the prior year’s filing due to the Capital Feeders not being billed for work related to the auditor’s consent to the Trust’s annual filing on Form N-1A and annual audit, as those Feeders were liquidated prior to completion of the N-1A and annual audit.

Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.

Not applicable to the registrant.

Item 6. Investments.

(a) Included as part of the report to shareholders filed under Item 1 of this form.

(b) Not applicable.

Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not applicable to the registrant.

Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not applicable to the registrant.

Item 9. Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers.

Not applicable to the registrant.

Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The registrant’s Board has established a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will consider nominees recommended by shareholders if a vacancy occurs among those board members who are not “interested persons” as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. In order to recommend a nominee, a shareholder should send a letter to the chairperson of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, Richard R. Burt, care of the Secretary of the registrant at UBS Asset Management, UBS Building, One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606, Attn: Keith A. Weller, Secretary, and indicate on the envelope “Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.” The shareholder’s letter should state the nominee’s name and should include the nominee’s resume or curriculum vitae, and must be accompanied by a written consent of the individual to stand for election if nominated for the Board and to serve if elected by shareholders.


Item 11. Controls and Procedures.

 

  (a)

The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended) are effective based on their evaluation of these controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this document.

 

  (b)

The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer are aware of no changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Item 12. Disclosure of Securities Lending Activities for Closed- End Management Investment Companies.

Not applicable to the registrant.

Item 13. Exhibits.

 

  (a)

(1) Code of Ethics as required pursuant to Section  406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (and designated by registrant as a “Code of Conduct”) is filed herewith as Exhibit EX-99.CODE ETH.

 

  (a)

(2) Certifications of principal executive officer and principal financial officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 are attached hereto as Exhibit EX-99.CERT.

 

  (a)

(3) Written solicitation to purchase securities under Rule 23c-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 sent or given during the period covered by the report by or on behalf of the registrant to 10 or more persons – not applicable to the registrant.

 

  (a)

(4) Change in the registrant’s independent public accountant – Not applicable to the registrant.

 

  (b)

Certifications of principal executive officer and principal financial officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 are attached hereto as Exhibit EX-99.906CERT.

 

  (c)

Disclosure pursuant to Section  13(r) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is attached hereto as Exhibit EX-99.IRANNOTICE.

 


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.

 

UBS Series Funds
By:       /s/ Igor Lasun
  Igor Lasun
  President
  Date:     July 9, 2021

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:   /s/ Igor Lasun
  Igor Lasun
  President
Date:       July 9, 2021
By:   /s/ Joanne M. Kilkeary
  Joanne M. Kilkeary
  Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer
Date:   July 9, 2021