N-CSRS 1 a_dynamicriskallocation.htm PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST a_dynamicriskallocation.htm


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: (811-07513)
Exact name of registrant as specified in charter: Putnam Funds Trust
Address of principal executive offices: 100 Federal Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110
Name and address of agent for service: Robert T. Burns, Vice President
100 Federal Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02110
Copy to:         Bryan Chegwidden, Esq.
Ropes & Gray LLP
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (617) 292-1000
Date of fiscal year end: May 31, 2019
Date of reporting period: June 1, 2018 — November 30, 2018



Item 1. Report to Stockholders:

The following is a copy of the report transmitted to stockholders pursuant to Rule 30e-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940:




Putnam
Dynamic Risk
Allocation Fund


Semiannual report
11 | 30 | 18

 

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Message from the Trustees

January 11, 2019

Dear Fellow Shareholder:

Global financial markets dealt with some challenges as we entered the final months of 2018. After rising to record highs in the summer, U.S. stocks experienced increased turbulence with concerns mounting over rising interest rates and the escalating U.S.–China trade conflict. International stock markets, which have lagged U.S. markets all year, took another leg down during a selloff in October. Fixed-income markets, while generally less volatile than stocks, have also encountered headwinds as the Federal Reserve has continued its path of normalizing monetary policy. Against this backdrop, the U.S. economy continues to grow, but markets may remain choppy.

Although no one can predict the direction of the markets in the months ahead, Putnam’s experienced investment professionals actively seek to position their fund portfolios for all types of conditions. They take a research-intensive approach to investing that includes risk management strategies designed to serve investors through changing markets. In all environments, we believe investors should remain focused on time-tested strategies: maintain a well-diversified portfolio, think about long-term goals, and speak regularly with your financial advisor.

Thank you for investing with Putnam.





Traditional balanced funds can be unbalanced in terms of risk. Instead of balancing stocks and bonds, Putnam Dynamic Risk Allocation Fund makes allocations across four different risk sources — equity, credit, inflation, and interest rates. We believe this flexible approach can produce better risk-adjusted returns for investors over time.


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Illustrations are hypothetical and are not intended to represent the current allocation of any Putnam fund. A traditional balanced fund is represented by a 60%/40% split between equities and fixed income, as defined by Lipper. Risk contribution is from Putnam research, which uses the historical standard deviation for the respective asset classes multiplied by the appropriate asset weight. Leverage may be achieved either through short-term borrowing or through the use of derivatives. Asset weights may exceed 100% in funds that employ leverage due to borrowed capital and/or derivatives exposure. Risk, as measured by standard deviation, gauges how widely a set of values varies from the mean. It is a historical measure of the variability of return earned by an investment portfolio over a three-year period. Asset weight for Putnam Dynamic Risk Allocation Fund represents a baseline allocation selected by the fund’s portfolio managers and is subject to change. It is inclusive of leverage and represents a starting point for future active allocation.

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Current performance may be lower or higher than the quoted past performance, which cannot guarantee future results. Share price, principal value, and return will fluctuate, and you may have a gain or a loss when you sell your shares. Performance of class A shares assumes reinvestment of distributions and does not account for taxes. Fund returns in the bar chart do not reflect a sales charge of 5.75%; had they, returns would have been lower. See below and pages 10–12 for additional performance information. For a portion of the periods, the fund had expense limitations, without which returns would have been lower. To obtain the most recent month-end performance, visit putnam.com.

* The Putnam Dynamic Risk Allocation Blended Index is an unmanaged index administered by Putnam Management, 50% of which is the MSCI World Index (ND), 40% of which is the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index, and 10% of which is the S&P GSCI. See index descriptions on pages 16–17.

Returns for the six-month period are not annualized, but cumulative.


This comparison shows your fund’s performance in the context of broad market indexes for the six months ended 11/30/18. See above and pages 10–12 for additional fund performance information. Index descriptions can be found on pages 16–17.

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Jason is Co-Head of Global Asset Allocation. He has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.S. from Northeastern University. Jason joined Putnam in 1999 and has been in the investment industry since 1993.

In addition to Jason, James A. Fetch and Robert J. Schoen are Portfolio Managers of the fund.

Please describe the investment environment for the reporting period.

Global markets were marked by a series of ups and downs during the six-month period that ended November 30, 2018. The U.S. economy strengthened but interest rates, market volatility, and global trade tensions increased. Buoyed by government spending and tax cuts, the economy grew at a 3.5% annual rate in the third quarter of 2018, after expanding 4.2% in the second quarter, according to the Commerce Department. Unemployment has touched multi-decade lows, inflation remains anchored, and the likelihood of a recession remains low, in our view.

Still, the outlook for global economic growth has eased over the past few months because of protectionist tariffs, higher interest rates, and weakness in many emerging markets, including China. And for stocks and bonds, the reporting period has turned out to be more challenging than the previous period. The Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate steadily in 2018. Additional rate hikes are possible in 2019.

Large-cap stocks and their mid- and small-cap counterparts have declined recently. Market

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Allocations are shown as a percentage of the fund’s net assets as of 11/30/18. Cash and net other assets, if any, represent the market value weights of cash, derivatives, short-term securities, and other unclassified assets in the portfolio. Summary information may differ from the portfolio schedule included in the financial statements due to the inclusion of derivative securities, any interest accruals, the exclusion of as-of trades, if any, the use of different classifications of securities for presentation purposes, and rounding. Holdings and allocations may vary over time.

A negative percentage reflects the effect of fund strategies that are designed to enhance performance if certain securities decline in value.

volatility and losses spiked in October and November 2018, as investor appetite for riskier assets tumbled. In fixed-income markets, Treasury yields and short-term interest rates rose during the period. With short-term Treasury yields climbing faster than long-term yields, the yield curve flattened, which causes concern because this has happened in the past as a forerunner to recessions. Also, higher rates are a headwind for fixed-income assets.

How did the fund perform during the reporting period?

The fund declined 7.15% during the six-month period compared with a loss of 3.04% for its benchmark index. The fund allocates assets across four different risk categories: stocks, interest rate-sensitive bonds, credit-sensitive bonds, and inflation-sensitive assets. It was a difficult period for all of the fund’s risk allocations.

What helped and what detracted in the fund’s performance relative to its composite benchmark?

The fund’s negative performance was driven by equities, bonds, and inflation-sensitive assets. Small gains in the U.S. equity markets were offset by significant weakness in international developed- and emerging-market stocks. U.S. and international government bonds also declined. In addition, inflation-sensitive securities detracted, led by commodities. In our view, the commodities sector was hurt by the dramatic sell-off in crude oil prices when the U.S. government, after reimposing sanctions against Iran’s oil exports, granted waivers to some of the biggest buyers of these exports.

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We seek to add value through asset allocation strategies and active security selection. Our allocation strategies added value, but our active implementation and security selection detracted. With regard to positive contributors, an overweight position in U.S. equities and an underweight position in rate-sensitive fixed-income assets helped performance. But those positions could not offset weakness elsewhere. Our overweight position in commodities detracted and offset much of the gains from other allocation decisions.

Within implementation, our international developed-market equities strategy underperformed the fund’s benchmark. Active currency decisions and a short-term S&P 500 mean-reversion strategy also detracted from the fund’s performance. The declines were partially offset by strong fixed-income security selection.

How did the fund use derivatives?

The fund used futures, forward currency contracts, total return swaps and interest rate swaps to hedge, among other things, market and currency risks.

What is your outlook for 2019, and how have you positioned the fund?

We recently increased our exposure to equity, inflation (commodities), and credit risks, looking to take advantage of short-term market


This table shows the fund’s top 10 individual holdings and the percentage of the fund’s net assets that each represented as of 11/30/18. Short-term investments, TBA commitments and derivatives, if any, are excluded. Holdings may vary over time.

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weakness. We believe bond yields will continue to drift higher in 2019 as interest-rate normalization continues in the United States and globally. While we believe the nine-year U.S. economic expansion is poised to continue, our view is that growth is likely to slow in 2019 as the stimulus provided by the tax cuts wanes.

The Fed has also stepped up the pace of its balance sheet reductions this year, which constrains liquidity and fosters volatility. Overall, we believe that the combination of a peak in global growth momentum, rising inflation risks, and a more restrictive Fed is a good recipe for higher volatility in markets.

The portfolio has an overweight position in U.S. equities and commodities. We are neutral on high-yield credit and have a slightly underweight position in interest-rate-sensitive fixed-income assets. For U.S. stocks, we expect to see short-term upgrades as companies return to buying back their own shares and valuations become more appealing due to recent market weakness. We are constructive on commodities because we believe that the correction in oil has brought prices to levels that are not warranted when there are positive supply/demand dynamics that can push energy prices higher. In terms of credit, we recently upgraded our position due to positive indications from our quantitative model and what we believe are slightly better fundamentals in this sector following third-quarter earnings reports.

Thank you, Jason, for your time and insights today.

ABOUT DERIVATIVES

Derivatives are an increasingly common type of investment instrument, the performance of which is derived from an underlying security, index, currency, or other area of the capital markets. Derivatives employed by the fund’s managers generally serve one of two main purposes: to implement a strategy that may be difficult or more expensive to invest in through traditional securities, or to hedge unwanted risk associated with a particular position.

For example, the fund’s managers might use currency forward contracts to capitalize on an anticipated change in exchange rates between two currencies. This approach would require a significantly smaller outlay of capital than purchasing traditional bonds denominated in the underlying currencies. In another example, the managers may identify a bond that they believe is undervalued relative to its risk of default, but may seek to reduce the interest-rate risk of that bond by using interest-rate swaps, a derivative through which two parties “swap” payments based on the movement of certain rates. In other examples, the managers may use options and futures contracts to hedge against a variety of risks by establishing a combination of long and short exposures to specific equity markets or sectors.

Like any other investment, derivatives may not appreciate in value and may lose money. Derivatives may amplify traditional investment risks through the creation of leverage and may be less liquid than traditional securities. And because derivatives typically represent contractual agreements between two financial institutions, derivatives entail “counterparty risk,” which is the risk that the other party is unable or unwilling to pay. Putnam monitors the counterparty risks we assume. For example, Putnam often enters into collateral agreements that require the counterparties to post collateral on a regular basis to cover their obligations to the fund. Counterparty risk for exchange-traded futures and centrally cleared swaps is mitigated by the daily exchange of margin and other safeguards against default through their respective clearinghouses.

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The views expressed in this report are exclusively those of Putnam Management and are subject to change. They are not meant as investment advice.

Please note that the holdings discussed in this report may not have been held by the fund for the entire period. Portfolio composition is subject to review in accordance with the fund’s investment strategy and may vary in the future. Current and future portfolio holdings are subject to risk. Statements in the Q&A concerning the fund’s performance or portfolio composition relative to those of the fund’s Lipper peer group may reference information produced by Lipper Inc. or through a third party.


Allocations are shown as a percentage of the fund’s net assets as of 11/30/18. Risk contribution is from Putnam research, which uses the historical standard deviation for the respective asset classes multiplied by the appropriate asset weight. Holdings and allocations may vary over time.

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Your fund’s performance

This section shows your fund’s performance, price, and distribution information for periods ended November 30, 2018, the end of the first half of its current fiscal year. In accordance with regulatory requirements for mutual funds, we also include performance information as of the most recent calendar quarter-end and expense information taken from the fund’s current prospectus. Performance should always be considered in light of a fund’s investment strategy. Data represent past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. More recent returns may be less or more than those shown. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate, and you may have a gain or a loss when you sell your shares. Performance information does not reflect any deduction for taxes a shareholder may owe on fund distributions or on the redemption of fund shares. For the most recent month-end performance, please visit the Individual Investors section at putnam.com or call Putnam at 1-800-225-1581. Class R, R6, and Y shares are not available to all investors. See the Terms and definitions section in this report for definitions of the share classes offered by your fund.

Fund performance Total return for periods ended 11/30/18

  Life of  Annual    Annual    Annual     
  fund  average  5 years  average  3 years  average  1 year  6 months 
Class A (9/19/11)                 
Before sales charge  29.18%  3.62%  11.43%  2.19%  11.60%  3.73%  –5.33%  –7.15% 
After sales charge  21.75  2.77  5.02  0.98  5.18  1.70  –10.77  –12.49 
Class B (9/19/11)                 
Before CDSC  22.35  2.84  7.32  1.42  9.10  2.95  –6.11  –7.46 
After CDSC  22.35  2.84  5.37  1.05  6.10  1.99  –10.72  –12.09 
Class C (9/19/11)                 
Before CDSC  22.32  2.84  7.21  1.40  9.04  2.93  –6.08  –7.53 
After CDSC  22.32  2.84  7.21  1.40  9.04  2.93  –7.00  –8.46 
Class M (9/19/11)                 
Before sales charge  24.56  3.10  8.59  1.66  9.88  3.19  –5.87  –7.42 
After sales charge  20.20  2.59  4.79  0.94  6.03  1.97  –9.16  –10.66 
Class R (9/19/11)                 
Net asset value  26.79  3.35  9.91  1.91  10.70  3.45  –5.60  –7.27 
Class R6 (7/2/12)                 
Net asset value  32.50  3.99  13.38  2.54  12.87  4.12  –4.97  –6.91 
Class Y (9/19/11)                 
Net asset value  31.53  3.88  12.73  2.42  12.41  3.98  –5.15  –7.05 

 

Current performance may be lower or higher than the quoted past performance, which cannot guarantee future results. After-sales-charge returns for class A and M shares reflect the deduction of the maximum 5.75% and 3.50% sales charge, respectively, levied at the time of purchase. Class B share returns after contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) reflect the applicable CDSC, which is 5% in the first year, declining over time to 1% in the sixth year, and is eliminated thereafter. Class C share returns after CDSC reflect a 1% CDSC for the first year that is eliminated thereafter. Class R, R6, and Y shares have no initial sales charge or CDSC. Performance for class R6 shares prior to their inception is derived from the historical performance of class Y shares and has not been adjusted for the lower investor servicing fees applicable to class R6 shares; had it, returns would have been higher.

For a portion of the periods, the fund had expense limitations, without which returns would have been lower.

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Comparative index returns For periods ended 11/30/18

  Life of  Annual    Annual    Annual     
  fund  average  5 years  average  3 years  average  1 year  6 months 
Putnam Dynamic Risk                 
Allocation Blended Index*  37.90%  4.57%  12.43%  2.37%  16.79%  5.31%  –1.09%  –3.04% 
Lipper Alternative Global                 
Macro Funds category  25.36  3.05  7.83  1.43  9.03  2.75  –2.97  –3.38 
average                 

 

Index and Lipper results should be compared with fund performance before sales charge, before CDSC, or at net asset value.

* The Putnam Dynamic Risk Allocation Blended Index is an unmanaged index administered by Putnam Management, 50% of which is the MSCI World Index (ND), 40% of which is the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index, and 10% of which is the S&P GSCI. See index descriptions on pages 16–17.

Over the 6-month, 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, and life-of-fund periods ended 11/30/18, there were 270, 265, 233, 199, and 136 funds, respectively, in this Lipper category.

Fund price and distribution information For the six-month period ended 11/30/18

  Class A  Class B  Class C  Class M  Class R  Class R6  Class Y 
  Before  After  Net  Net  Before  After  Net  Net  Net 
  sales  sales  asset  asset  sales  sales  asset  asset  asset 
Share value  charge  charge  value  value  charge  charge  value  value  value 
5/31/18  $11.61  $12.32  $11.39  $11.42  $11.59  $12.01  $11.56  $11.58  $11.63 
11/30/18  10.78  11.44  10.54  10.56  10.73  11.12  10.72  10.78  10.81 

 

The classification of distributions, if any, is an estimate. Before-sales-charge share value and current dividend rate for class A and M shares, if applicable, do not take into account any sales charge levied at the time of purchase. After-sales-charge share value, current dividend rate, and current 30-day SEC yield, if applicable, are calculated assuming that the maximum sales charge (5.75% for class A shares and 3.50% for class M shares) was levied at the time of purchase. Final distribution information will appear on your year-end tax forms.

The fund made no distributions during the period.

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Fund performance as of most recent calendar quarter Total return for periods ended 12/31/18

  Life of  Annual    Annual    Annual     
  fund  average  5 years  average  3 years  average  1 year  6 months 
Class A (9/19/11)                 
Before sales charge  23.18%  2.90%  5.63%  1.10%  9.81%  3.17%  –11.00%  –10.92% 
After sales charge  16.10  2.07  –0.45  –0.09  3.49  1.15  –16.12  –16.04 
Class B (9/19/11)                 
Before CDSC  16.72  2.15  1.87  0.37  7.49  2.44  –11.64  –11.17 
After CDSC  16.72  2.15  0.04  0.01  4.49  1.47  –16.03  –15.59 
Class C (9/19/11)                 
Before CDSC  16.69  2.14  1.81  0.36  7.43  2.42  –11.63  –11.24 
After CDSC  16.69  2.14  1.81  0.36  7.43  2.42  –12.51  –12.12 
Class M (9/19/11)                 
Before sales charge  18.80  2.39  3.00  0.59  8.18  2.66  –11.47  –11.16 
After sales charge  14.65  1.89  –0.61  –0.12  4.40  1.44  –14.57  –14.27 
Class R (9/19/11)                 
Net asset value  21.03  2.66  4.38  0.86  9.10  2.95  –11.17  –10.94 
Class R6 (7/2/12)                 
Net asset value  26.48  3.28  7.60  1.48  11.25  3.62  –10.60  –10.68 
Class Y (9/19/11)                 
Net asset value  25.58  3.18  6.99  1.36  10.72  3.45  –10.79  –10.79 

 

See the discussion following the fund performance table on page 10 for information about the calculation of fund performance.

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Your fund’s expenses

As a mutual fund investor, you pay ongoing expenses, such as management fees, distribution fees (12b-1 fees), and other expenses. In the most recent six-month period, your fund’s expenses were limited; had expenses not been limited, they would have been higher. Using the following information, you can estimate how these expenses affect your investment and compare them with the expenses of other funds. You may also pay one-time transaction expenses, including sales charges (loads) and redemption fees, which are not shown in this section and would have resulted in higher total expenses. For more information, see your fund’s prospectus or talk to your financial representative.

Expense ratios

  Class A  Class B  Class C  Class M  Class R  Class R6  Class Y 
Net expenses for the fiscal year               
ended 5/31/18*  1.15%  1.90%  1.90%  1.65%  1.40%  0.76%  0.90% 
Total annual operating expenses for the               
fiscal year ended 5/31/18  1.39%  2.14%  2.14%  1.89%  1.64%  1.00%  1.14% 
Annualized expense ratio for the               
six-month period ended 11/30/18  1.14%  1.89%  1.89%  1.64%  1.39%  0.75%  0.89% 

 

Fiscal-year expense information in this table is taken from the most recent prospectus, is subject to change, and may differ from that shown for the annualized expense ratio and in the financial highlights of this report.

Expenses are shown as a percentage of average net assets.

* Reflects Putnam Management’s contractual obligation to limit certain fund expenses through 9/30/19.

Expenses per $1,000

The following table shows the expenses you would have paid on a $1,000 investment in each class of the fund from 6/1/18 to 11/30/18. It also shows how much a $1,000 investment would be worth at the close of the period, assuming actual returns and expenses.

  Class A  Class B  Class C  Class M  Class R  Class R6  Class Y 
Expenses paid per $1,000*†  $5.51  $9.12  $9.12  $7.92  $6.72  $3.63  $4.30 
Ending value (after expenses)  $928.50  $925.40  $924.70  $925.80  $927.30  $930.90  $929.50 

 

* Expenses for each share class are calculated using the fund’s annualized expense ratio for each class, which represents the ongoing expenses as a percentage of average net assets for the six months ended 11/30/18. The expense ratio may differ for each share class.

Expenses are calculated by multiplying the expense ratio by the average account value for the period; then multiplying the result by the number of days in the period; and then dividing that result by the number of days in the year.

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Estimate the expenses you paid

To estimate the ongoing expenses you paid for the six months ended 11/30/18, use the following calculation method. To find the value of your investment on 6/1/18, call Putnam at 1-800-225-1581.


Compare expenses using the SEC’s method

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has established guidelines to help investors assess fund expenses. Per these guidelines, the following table shows your fund’s expenses based on a $1,000 investment, assuming a hypothetical 5% annualized return. You can use this information to compare the ongoing expenses (but not transaction expenses or total costs) of investing in the fund with those of other funds. All mutual fund shareholder reports will provide this information to help you make this comparison. Please note that you cannot use this information to estimate your actual ending account balance and expenses paid during the period.

  Class A  Class B  Class C  Class M  Class R  Class R6  Class Y 
Expenses paid per $1,000*†  $5.77  $9.55  $9.55  $8.29  $7.03  $3.80  $4.51 
Ending value (after expenses)  $1,019.35  $1,015.59  $1,015.59  $1,016.85  $1,018.10  $1,021.31  $1,020.61 

 

* Expenses for each share class are calculated using the fund’s annualized expense ratio for each class, which represents the ongoing expenses as a percentage of average net assets for the six months ended 11/30/18. The expense ratio may differ for each share class.

Expenses are calculated by multiplying the expense ratio by the average account value for the six-month period; then multiplying the result by the number of days in the six-month period; and then dividing that result by the number of days in the year.

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Consider these risks before investing

International investing involves currency, economic, and political risks. Emerging-market securities carry illiquidity and volatility risks. The fund may invest a portion of its assets in small and/or midsize companies. Such investments increase the risk of greater price fluctuations. Funds that invest in government securities are not guaranteed. Mortgage-backed securities are subject to prepayment risk and the risk that they may increase in value less when interest rates decline and decline in value more when interest rates rise. Allocation of assets among asset classes may hurt performance, and efforts to diversify risk through the use of leverage and allocation decisions may not be successful. Derivatives carry additional risks, such as the inability to terminate or sell derivatives positions and the failure of the other party to meet its obligations. Growth stocks may be more susceptible to earnings disappointments, and value stocks may fail to rebound. Bond investments are subject to interest-rate risk (the risk of bond prices falling if interest rates rise) and credit risk (the risk of an issuer defaulting on interest or principal payments). Interest-rate risk is greater for longer-term bonds, and credit risk is greater for below-investment-grade bonds. Unlike bonds, funds that invest in bonds have fees and expenses. Active trading strategies may lose money or not earn a return sufficient to cover trading and other costs. Use of leverage obtained through derivatives increases these risks by increasing investment exposure. Over-the-counter derivatives are also subject to the risk of the potential inability to terminate or sell derivatives positions and the potential failure of the other party to the instrument to meet its obligations. REITs are subject to the risk of economic downturns that have an adverse impact on real estate markets. The use of short selling may result in losses if the securities appreciate in value. Commodities involve market, political, regulatory, and natural conditions risks. Stock and bond prices may fall or fail to rise over time for several reasons, including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions (including, in the case of bonds, perceptions about the risk of default and expectations about monetary policy or interest rates), changes in government intervention in the financial markets, and factors related to a specific issuer or industry. These and other factors may lead to increased volatility and reduced liquidity in the fund’s portfolio holdings. You can lose money by investing in the fund.

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Terms and definitions

Important terms

Total return shows how the value of the fund’s shares changed over time, assuming you held the shares through the entire period and reinvested all distributions in the fund.

Before sales charge, or net asset value, is the price, or value, of one share of a mutual fund, without a sales charge. Before-sales-charge figures fluctuate with market conditions, and are calculated by dividing the net assets of each class of shares by the number of outstanding shares in the class.

After sales charge is the price of a mutual fund share plus the maximum sales charge levied at the time of purchase. After-sales-charge performance figures shown here assume the 5.75% maximum sales charge for class A shares and 3.50% for class M shares.

Contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) is generally a charge applied at the time of the redemption of class B or C shares and assumes redemption at the end of the period. Your fund’s class B CDSC declines over time from a 5% maximum during the first year to 1% during the sixth year. After the sixth year, the CDSC no longer applies. The CDSC for class C shares is 1% for one year after purchase.

Share classes

Class A shares are generally subject to an initial sales charge and no CDSC (except on certain redemptions of shares bought without an initial sales charge).

Class B shares are closed to new investments and are only available by exchange from another Putnam fund or through dividend and/or capital gains reinvestment. They are not subject to an initial sales charge and may be subject to a CDSC.

Class C shares are not subject to an initial sales charge and are subject to a CDSC only if the shares are redeemed during the first year.

Class M shares have a lower initial sales charge and a higher 12b-1 fee than class A shares and no CDSC.

Class R shares are not subject to an initial sales charge or CDSC and are only available to employer-sponsored retirement plans.

Class R6 shares are not subject to an initial sales charge or CDSC and carry no 12b-1 fee. They are generally only available to employer-sponsored retirement plans, corporate and institutional clients, and clients in other approved programs.

Class Y shares are not subject to an initial sales charge or CDSC and carry no 12b-1 fee. They are generally only available to corporate and institutional clients and clients in other approved programs.

Comparative indexes

Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index of global investment-grade fixed-income securities.

Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index of U.S. investment-grade fixed-income securities.

ICE BofAML (Intercontinental Exchange Bank of America Merrill Lynch) U.S. 3-Month Treasury Bill Index is an unmanaged index that seeks to measure the performance of U.S. Treasury bills available in the marketplace.

MSCI EAFE Index (ND) is an unmanaged index of equity securities from developed countries in Western Europe, the Far East, and Australasia. Calculated with net dividends (ND), this total return index reflects the reinvestment of dividends after the deduction of withholding taxes, using a tax rate applicable to non-resident institutional investors who do not benefit from double taxation treaties.

MSCI World Index (ND) is an unmanaged index of equity securities from developed countries. Calculated with net dividends (ND), this total return index reflects the

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reinvestment of dividends after the deduction of withholding taxes, using a tax rate applicable to non-resident institutional investors who do not benefit from double taxation treaties.

Putnam Dynamic Risk Allocation Blended Index is a benchmark administered by Putnam Management, comprising 50% the MSCI World Index (ND), 40% the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index, and 10% the S&P GSCI.

S&P 500 Index is an unmanaged index of common stock performance.

S&P GSCI is a composite index of commodity sector returns that represents a broadly diversified, unleveraged, long-only position in commodity futures.

Indexes assume reinvestment of all distributions and do not account for fees. Securities and performance of a fund and an index will differ. You cannot invest directly in an index.

ICE Data Indices, LLC (“ICE BofAML”), used with permission. ICE BofAML permits use of the ICE BofAML indices and related data on an “as is” basis; makes no warranties regarding same; does not guarantee the suitability, quality, accuracy, timeliness, and/or completeness of the ICE BofAML indices or any data included in, related to, or derived therefrom, assumes no liability in connection with the use of the foregoing, and does not sponsor, endorse, or recommend Putnam Investments, or any of its products or services.

Lipper is a third-party industry-ranking entity that ranks mutual funds. Its rankings do not reflect sales charges. Lipper rankings are based on total return at net asset value relative to other funds that have similar current investment styles or objectives as determined by Lipper. Lipper may change a fund’s category assignment at its discretion. Lipper category averages reflect performance trends for funds within a category.

Other information for shareholders

Important notice regarding delivery of shareholder documents

In accordance with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations, Putnam sends a single copy of annual and semiannual shareholder reports, prospectuses, and proxy statements to Putnam shareholders who share the same address, unless a shareholder requests otherwise. If you prefer to receive your own copy of these documents, please call Putnam at 1-800-225-1581, and Putnam will begin sending individual copies within 30 days.

Proxy voting

Putnam is committed to managing our mutual funds in the best interests of our shareholders. The Putnam funds’ proxy voting guidelines and procedures, as well as information regarding how your fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the 12-month period ended June 30, 2018, are available in the Individual Investors section of putnam.com and on the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov. If you have questions about finding forms on the SEC’s website, you may call the SEC at  1-800-SEC-0330. You may also obtain the Putnam funds’ proxy voting guidelines and procedures at no charge by calling Putnam’s Shareholder Services at 1-800-225-1581.

Fund portfolio holdings

The fund will file a complete schedule of its portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Shareholders may obtain the fund’s Form N-Q on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Trustee and employee fund ownership

Putnam employees and members of the Board of Trustees place their faith, confidence, and, most importantly, investment dollars in Putnam mutual funds. As of November 30, 2018, Putnam employees had approximately $477,000,000 and the Trustees had approximately $66,000,000 invested in Putnam mutual funds. These amounts include investments by the Trustees’ and employees’ immediate family members as well as investments through retirement and deferred compensation plans.

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Trustee approval of management contract

General conclusions

The Board of Trustees of The Putnam Funds oversees the management of each fund and, as required by law, determines annually whether to approve the continuance of your fund’s management contract with Putnam Investment Management, LLC (“Putnam Management”) and the sub-management contract with respect to your fund between Putnam Management and its affiliate, Putnam Investments Limited (“PIL”). The Board, with the assistance of its Contract Committee, requests and evaluates all information it deems reasonably necessary under the circumstances in connection with its annual contract review. The Contract Committee consists solely of Trustees who are not “interested persons” (as this term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”)) of The Putnam Funds (“Independent Trustees”).

At the outset of the review process, members of the Board’s independent staff and independent legal counsel discussed with representatives of Putnam Management the annual contract review materials furnished to the Contract Committee during the course of the previous year’s review, identifying possible changes in these materials that might be necessary or desirable for the coming year. Following these discussions and in consultation with the Contract Committee, the Independent Trustees’ independent legal counsel requested that Putnam Management and its affiliates furnish specified information, together with any additional information that Putnam Management considered relevant, to the Contract Committee. Over the course of several months ending in June 2018, the Contract Committee met on a number of occasions with representatives of Putnam Management, and separately in executive session, to consider the information that Putnam Management provided. Throughout this process, the Contract Committee was assisted by the members of the Board’s independent staff and by independent legal counsel for The Putnam Funds and the Independent Trustees.

In May 2018, the Contract Committee met in executive session to discuss and consider its recommendations with respect to the continuance of the contracts. At the Trustees’ June 2018 meeting, the Contract Committee met in executive session with the other Independent Trustees to review a summary of the key financial, performance and other data that the Contract Committee considered in the course of its review.

The Contract Committee then presented its written report, which summarized the key factors that the Committee had considered and set forth its recommendations. The Contract Committee recommended, and the Independent Trustees approved, the continuance of your fund’s management and sub-management contracts, effective July 1, 2018. (Because PIL is an affiliate of Putnam Management and Putnam Management remains fully responsible for all services provided by PIL, the Trustees have not attempted to evaluate PIL as a separate entity, and all subsequent references to Putnam Management below should be deemed to include reference to PIL as necessary or appropriate in the context.)

The Independent Trustees’ approval was based on the following conclusions:

• That the fee schedule in effect for your fund represented reasonable compensation in light of the nature and quality of the services being provided to the fund, the fees paid by competitive funds, the costs incurred by Putnam Management in providing services to the fund, and the application of certain reductions and waivers noted below; and

• That the fee schedule in effect for your fund represented an appropriate sharing between fund shareholders and Putnam Management of such economies of scale as may exist in the management of the fund at current asset levels.

These conclusions were based on a comprehensive consideration of all information provided to the Trustees and were not the result of any single factor. Some of the factors that figured particularly in the Trustees’ deliberations and how the Trustees considered these factors are described below, although individual Trustees may have evaluated the information presented differently, giving different weights to various factors. It is also important to recognize that the management arrangements for your fund and the other Putnam funds are the result of many years of review and discussion between the Independent Trustees and Putnam Management, that some aspects of the arrangements may receive greater scrutiny in some years than others, and that the Trustees’ conclusions may be based, in part, on their consideration of fee arrangements in previous years. For example, with some minor exceptions, the funds’ current fee arrangements under the management contracts were first implemented at the beginning of 2010 following extensive review

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by the Contract Committee and discussions with representatives of Putnam Management, as well as approval by shareholders.

Management fee schedules and total expenses

The Trustees reviewed the management fee schedules in effect for all Putnam funds, including fee levels and breakpoints. The Trustees also reviewed the total expenses of each Putnam fund, recognizing that in most cases management fees represented the major, but not the sole, determinant of total costs to fund shareholders. (In a few instances, funds have implemented so-called “all-in” management fees covering substantially all routine fund operating costs.)

In reviewing fees and expenses, the Trustees generally focus their attention on material changes in circumstances — for example, changes in assets under management, changes in a fund’s investment strategy, changes in Putnam Management’s operating costs or profitability, or changes in competitive practices in the mutual fund industry — that suggest that consideration of fee changes might be warranted. The Trustees concluded that the circumstances did not indicate that changes to the management fee structure for your fund would be appropriate at this time.

Under its management contract, your fund has the benefit of breakpoints in its management fee schedule that provide shareholders with economies of scale in the form of reduced fee rates as assets under management in the Putnam family of funds increase. The Trustees concluded that the fee schedule in effect for your fund represented an appropriate sharing of economies of scale between fund shareholders and Putnam Management.

As in the past, the Trustees also focused on the competitiveness of each fund’s total expense ratio. In order to support the effort to have fund expenses meet competitive standards, the Trustees and Putnam Management have implemented expense limitations that were in effect during your fund’s fiscal year ending in 2017. These expense limitations were: (i) a contractual expense limitation applicable to all open-end funds of 25 basis points on investor servicing fees and expenses and (ii) a contractual expense limitation applicable to specified open-end funds, including your fund, of 20 basis points on so-called “other expenses” (i.e., all expenses exclusive of management fees, distribution fees, investor servicing fees, investment-related expenses, interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses and extraordinary expenses). These expense limitations attempt to maintain competitive expense levels for the funds. Most funds, including your fund, had sufficiently low expenses that these expense limitations were not operative during their fiscal years ending in 2017. Putnam Management has agreed to maintain these expense limitations until at least September 30, 2019. In addition, Putnam Management contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses of your fund to the extent that expenses of the fund (excluding payments under the fund’s distribution plans, investor servicing fees, brokerage, interest, taxes, investment-related expenses, extraordinary expenses, and acquired fund fees and expenses) would exceed an annual rate of 0.70% of its average net assets through at least September 30, 2019. During its fiscal year ending in 2017, your fund’s expenses were reduced as a result of this expense limitation. Putnam Management’s support for these expense limitation arrangements was an important factor in the Trustees’ decision to approve the continuance of your fund’s management and sub-management contracts.

The Trustees reviewed comparative fee and expense information for a custom group of competitive funds selected by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (“Broadridge”). This comparative information included your fund’s percentile ranking for effective management fees and total expenses (excluding any applicable 12b-1 fee), which provides a general indication of your fund’s relative standing. In the custom peer group, your fund ranked in the second quintile in effective management fees (determined for your fund and the other funds in the custom peer group based on fund asset size and the applicable contractual management fee schedule) and in the second quintile in total expenses (excluding any applicable 12b-1 fees) as of December 31, 2017. The first quintile represents the least expensive funds and the fifth quintile the most expensive funds. The fee and expense data reported by Broadridge as of December 31, 2017 reflected the most recent fiscal year-end data available in Broadridge’s database at that time.

In connection with their review of fund management fees and total expenses, the Trustees also reviewed the costs of the services provided and the profits realized by Putnam Management and its affiliates from their contractual relationships with the funds. This information included trends in revenues, expenses and profitability of Putnam

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Management and its affiliates relating to the investment management, investor servicing and distribution services provided to the funds. In this regard, the Trustees also reviewed an analysis of Putnam Management’s revenues, expenses and profitability, allocated on a fund-by-fund basis, with respect to the funds’ management, distribution, and investor servicing contracts. For each fund, the analysis presented information about revenues, expenses and profitability for each of the agreements separately and for the agreements taken together on a combined basis. The Trustees concluded that, at current asset levels, the fee schedules in place represented reasonable compensation for the services being provided and represented an appropriate sharing between fund shareholders and Putnam Management of such economies of scale as may exist in the management of the Putnam funds at that time.

The information examined by the Trustees in connection with their annual contract review for the Putnam funds included information regarding fees charged by Putnam Management and its affiliates to institutional clients, including defined benefit pension and profit-sharing plans and sub-advised mutual funds. This information included, in cases where an institutional product’s investment strategy corresponds with a fund’s strategy, comparisons of those fees with fees charged to the Putnam funds, as well as an assessment of the differences in the services provided to these different types of clients as compared to the services provided to the Putnam funds. The Trustees observed that the differences in fee rates between these clients and the Putnam funds are by no means uniform when examined by individual asset sectors, suggesting that differences in the pricing of investment management services to these types of clients may reflect, among other things, historical competitive forces operating in separate markets. The Trustees considered the fact that in many cases fee rates across different asset classes are higher on average for mutual funds than for institutional clients, as well as the differences between the services that Putnam Management provides to the Putnam funds and those that it provides to its other clients. The Trustees did not rely on these comparisons to any significant extent in concluding that the management fees paid by your fund are reasonable.

Investment performance

The quality of the investment process provided by Putnam Management represented a major factor in the Trustees’ evaluation of the quality of services provided by Putnam Management under your fund’s management contract. The Trustees were assisted in their review of the Putnam funds’ investment process and performance by the work of the investment oversight committees of the Trustees and the full Board of Trustees, which meet on a regular basis with the funds’ portfolio teams and with the Chief Investment Officers and other senior members of Putnam Management’s Investment Division throughout the year. The Trustees concluded that Putnam Management generally provides a high-quality investment process — based on the experience and skills of the individuals assigned to the management of fund portfolios, the resources made available to them, and in general Putnam Management’s ability to attract and retain high-quality personnel — but also recognized that this does not guarantee favorable investment results for every fund in every time period.

The Trustees considered that 2017 was a strong year for the performance of the Putnam funds, with generally favorable results for most asset classes, including U.S. equity, international and global equity, taxable and tax exempt fixed income, and global asset allocation Funds. In this regard, the Trustees considered that, for the one-year period ended December 31, 2017, the Putnam open-end Funds’ performance, on an asset-weighted basis, ranked in the 32nd percentile of their Lipper peers (excluding those Putnam funds that are evaluated based on their total returns and/or comparisons of those returns versus selected investment benchmarks or targeted annual returns). The Trustees observed that this strong performance has continued a positive trend that began in mid-year 2016 across most Putnam funds. They noted that the longer-term performance of the Putnam funds continued to be strong, exemplified by the fact that the Putnam funds were ranked by the Barron’s/Lipper Fund Families survey as the 7th-best performing mutual fund complex out of 55 complexes for the five-year period ended December 31, 2017 and the 9th-best performing mutual fund complex out of 50 complexes for the ten-year period ended 2017. In addition, the survey ranked the Putnam funds 7th out of 59 mutual fund complexes for the one-year period ended 2017; the Putnam funds have ranked 1st or 2nd in the survey for the one-year period three times since 2009 (most recently in 2013). They also noted, however, the disappointing investment performance of some funds for periods ended December 31, 2017 and considered information

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provided by Putnam Management regarding the factors contributing to the underperformance and actions being taken to improve the performance of these particular funds. The Trustees indicated their intention to continue to monitor closely the performance of those funds, including the effectiveness of any efforts Putnam Management has undertaken to address underperformance and whether additional actions to address areas of underperformance are warranted.

For purposes of the Trustees’ evaluation of the Putnam Funds’ investment performance, the Trustees generally focus on a competitive industry ranking of each fund’s total net return over a one-year, three-year and five-year period. For a number of Putnam funds with relatively unique investment mandates for which Putnam Management informed the Trustees that meaningful competitive performance rankings are not considered to be available, the Trustees evaluated performance based on their total gross and net returns and, in most cases, comparisons of those returns with the returns of selected investment benchmarks. In the case of your fund, the Trustees considered that its class A share cumulative total return performance at net asset value was in the following quartiles of its Lipper Inc. (“Lipper”) peer group (Lipper Alternative Global Macro Funds) for the one-year, three-year and five-year periods ended December 31, 2017 (the first quartile representing the best-performing funds and the fourth quartile the worst-performing funds):

One-year period  2nd 
Three-year period  2nd 
Five-year period  2nd 

 

Over the one-year, three-year and five-year periods ended December 31, 2017, there were 285, 256 and 213 funds, respectively, in your fund’s Lipper peer group. (When considering performance information, shareholders should be mindful that past performance is not a guarantee of future results.)

The Trustees considered Putnam Management’s continued efforts to support fund performance through initiatives including structuring compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts to enhance accountability for fund performance, emphasizing accountability in the portfolio management process, and affirming its commitment to a fundamental-driven approach to investing. The Trustees noted further that Putnam Management continued to strengthen its fundamental research capabilities by adding new investment personnel.

Brokerage and soft-dollar allocations; investor servicing

The Trustees considered various potential benefits that Putnam Management may receive in connection with the services it provides under the management contract with your fund. These include benefits related to brokerage allocation and the use of soft dollars, whereby a portion of the commissions paid by a fund for brokerage may be used to acquire research services that are expected to be useful to Putnam Management in managing the assets of the fund and of other clients. Subject to policies established by the Trustees, soft dollars generated by these means are used predominantly to acquire brokerage and research services (including third-party research and market data) that enhance Putnam Management’s investment capabilities and supplement Putnam Management’s internal research efforts. However, the Trustees noted that a portion of available soft dollars continues to be used to pay fund expenses. The Trustees indicated their continued intent to monitor regulatory and industry developments in this area with the assistance of their Brokerage Committee. The Trustees also indicated their continued intent to monitor the allocation of the Putnam funds’ brokerage in order to ensure that the principle of seeking best price and execution remains paramount in the portfolio trading process.

Putnam Management may also receive benefits from payments that the funds make to Putnam Management’s affiliates for investor or distribution services. In conjunction with the annual review of your fund’s management and sub-management contracts, the Trustees reviewed your fund’s investor servicing agreement with Putnam Investor Services, Inc. (“PSERV”) and its distributor’s contracts and distribution plans with Putnam Retail Management Limited Partnership (“PRM”), both of which are affiliates of Putnam Management. The Trustees concluded that the fees payable by the funds to PSERV and PRM, as applicable, for such services are fair and reasonable in relation to the nature and quality of such services, the fees paid by competitive funds, and the costs incurred by PSERV and PRM, as applicable, in providing such services. Furthermore, the Trustees were of the view that the services provided were required for the operation of the funds, and that they were of a quality at least equal to those provided by other providers.

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Financial statements

These sections of the report, as well as the accompanying Notes, constitute the fund’s financial statements.

The fund’s portfolio lists all the fund’s investments and their values as of the last day of the reporting period. Holdings are organized by asset type and industry sector, country, or state to show areas of concentration and diversification.

Statement of assets and liabilities shows how the fund’s net assets and share price are determined. All investment and non-investment assets are added together. Any unpaid expenses and other liabilities are subtracted from this total. The result is divided by the number of shares to determine the net asset value per share, which is calculated separately for each class of shares. (For funds with preferred shares, the amount subtracted from total assets includes the liquidation preference of preferred shares.)

Statement of operations shows the fund’s net investment gain or loss. This is done by first adding up all the fund’s earnings — from dividends and interest income — and subtracting its operating expenses to determine net investment income (or loss). Then, any net gain or loss the fund realized on the sales of its holdings — as well as any unrealized gains or losses over the period — is added to or subtracted from the net investment result to determine the fund’s net gain or loss for the fiscal period.

Statement of changes in net assets shows how the fund’s net assets were affected by the fund’s net investment gain or loss, by distributions to shareholders, and by changes in the number of the fund’s shares. It lists distributions and their sources (net investment income or realized capital gains) over the current reporting period and the most recent fiscal year-end. The distributions listed here may not match the sources listed in the Statement of operations because the distributions are determined on a tax basis and may be paid in a different period from the one in which they were earned. Dividend sources are estimated at the time of declaration. Actual results may vary. Any non-taxable return of capital cannot be determined until final tax calculations are completed after the end of the fund’s fiscal year.

Financial highlights provide an overview of the fund’s investment results, per-share distributions, expense ratios, net investment income ratios, and portfolio turnover in one summary table, reflecting the five most recent reporting periods. In a semiannual report, the highlights table also includes the current reporting period.

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The fund’s portfolio 11/30/18 (Unaudited)

COMMON STOCKS (50.8%)*  Shares  Value 
Banking (3.5%)     
ABN AMRO Group NV GDR (Netherlands)  5,592  $143,213 
Banco de Chile ADR (Chile)  678  19,757 
Banco do Brasil SA (Brazil)  5,600  64,631 
Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A. (Units) (Brazil)  8,100  89,483 
Banco Santander Chile ADR (Chile)  1,451  44,923 
Banco Santander Mexico SA Institucion de Banca Multiple Grupo     
Financiero Santand Class B (Mexico)  24,600  30,240 
Bank of China, Ltd. (China)  163,000  71,410 
Bank of Communications Co., Ltd. (China)  128,000  97,480 
BB&T Corp.  628  32,091 
China Construction Bank Corp. (China)  12,000  10,262 
DNB ASA (Norway)  6,368  109,750 
FirstRand, Ltd. (South Africa)  14,997  72,423 
Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV (Mexico)  15,600  71,509 
Hang Seng Bank, Ltd. (Hong Kong)  5,600  129,628 
HSBC Holdings PLC (United Kingdom)  3,513  29,763 
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, Ltd. (China)  234,000  166,759 
Industrial Bank of Korea (South Korea)  3,482  46,117 
Itau Unibanco Holding SA (Preference) (Brazil)  10,050  93,613 
JPMorgan Chase & Co.  11,260  1,251,999 
Lloyds Banking Group PLC (United Kingdom)  107,876  76,140 
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (Japan)  107,700  178,729 
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)  5,196  705,513 
Resona Holdings, Inc. (Japan)  28,600  151,745 
Sberbank of Russia PJSC ADR (Russia)  4,281  50,803 
Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. (South Korea)  971  35,776 
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (Japan)  5,000  183,591 
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. (Japan)  1,300  52,161 
SunTrust Banks, Inc.  4,283  268,501 
Swedbank AB Class A (Sweden)  7,432  172,851 
U.S. Bancorp  5,403  294,247 
    4,745,108 
Basic materials (1.7%)     
Anglo American PLC (United Kingdom)  5,295  105,809 
Anhui Conch Cement Co., Ltd. (China)  20,000  104,397 
ArcelorMittal SA (France)  5,815  131,934 
Arkema SA (France)  786  74,627 
Astral Foods, Ltd. (South Africa)  760  9,603 
BASF SE (Germany)  1,919  139,783 
BlueScope Steel, Ltd. (Australia)  12,852  106,298 
Boliden AB (Sweden)  903  20,246 
Catcher Technology Co., Ltd. (Taiwan)  9,000  77,162 
China Oriental Group Co., Ltd. (China)  36,000  23,242 
CIMIC Group, Ltd. (Australia)  1,332  39,737 
Covestro AG (Germany)  2,273  130,755 
Evonik Industries AG (Germany)  1,029  27,641 
Evraz PLC (Russia)  12,747  73,882 
Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corp. (Taiwan)  31,000  107,052 

 

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COMMON STOCKS (50.8%)* cont.  Shares  Value 
Basic materials cont.     
Formosa Plastics Corp. (Taiwan)  23,000  $74,583 
Glencore PLC (United Kingdom)  5,095  18,863 
HOCHTIEF AG (Germany)  264  37,459 
Kumba Iron Ore, Ltd. (South Africa)  1,584  28,288 
Lotte Chemical Corp. (South Korea)  99  24,124 
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp. (Japan)  4,100  33,540 
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co., Inc. (Japan)  1,700  27,941 
PTT Global Chemical PCL (Thailand)  43,900  104,119 
Rio Tinto PLC (United Kingdom)  4,228  191,936 
Sherwin-Williams Co. (The)  626  265,468 
Shimizu Corp. (Japan)  4,300  36,913 
Sika AG (Switzerland)  117  14,495 
Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (China)  72,000  32,972 
South32, Ltd. (Australia)  22,427  51,141 
Taisei Corp. (Japan)  3,100  136,371 
UPM-Kymmene OYJ (Finland)  3,958  105,505 
    2,355,886 
Capital goods (3.4%)     
ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA (Spain)  3,109  119,745 
Avery Dennison Corp.  2,028  195,499 
Berry Plastics Group, Inc.    1,890  95,105 
BWX Technologies, Inc.  1,905  86,144 
China Railway Group, Ltd. (China)  85,000  78,465 
Crown Holdings, Inc.  S   7,347  376,754 
Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd. (South Korea)  522  44,242 
Faurecia SA (France)  2,304  90,377 
Garrett Motion, Inc. (Switzerland)    425  4,888 
General Dynamics Corp.  2,131  394,001 
Hitachi, Ltd. (Japan)  5,500  159,309 
Honeywell International, Inc.  4,258  624,862 
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.  313  67,452 
L3 Technologies, Inc.  1,534  281,167 
Northrop Grumman Corp.  2,413  627,090 
Raytheon Co.  3,939  690,664 
Resideo Technologies, Inc.    710  14,640 
Sandvik AB (Sweden)  10,002  148,445 
SKF AB Class B (Sweden)  5,839  92,240 
Tervita Corp. (Canada)    63  400 
United Tractors Tbk PT (Indonesia)  6,800  13,088 
Waste Management, Inc.  4,153  389,344 
Weichai Power Co., Ltd. Class H (China)  46,000  49,549 
    4,643,470 
Communication services (1.5%)     
Advanced Info Service PCL (Thailand)  4,100  22,066 
ARRIS International PLC    1,328  41,035 
AT&T, Inc.  12,294  384,065 
BT Group PLC (United Kingdom)  4,997  16,688 
China Mobile, Ltd. (China)  10,000  99,689 
Equinix, Inc. R   285  109,805 

 

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COMMON STOCKS (50.8%)* cont.  Shares  Value 
Communication services cont.     
Eutelsat Communications SA (France)  894  $19,090 
KDDI Corp. (Japan)  7,400  173,665 
KT Corp. (South Korea)  501  13,632 
LG Uplus Corp. (South Korea)  7,427  117,274 
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (Japan)  2,300  94,824 
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (Japan)  3,900  90,307 
SK Telecom Co., Ltd. (South Korea)  443  114,198 
Swisscom AG (Switzerland)  85  40,794 
Telenor ASA (Norway)  3,541  68,814 
Telkom SA SOC, Ltd. (South Africa)  5,855  23,968 
TIM Participacoes SA (Brazil)  20,100  61,646 
Verizon Communications, Inc.  8,767  528,650 
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc.    4,169  109,728 
    2,129,938 
Conglomerates (0.9%)     
Danaher Corp.  7,790  853,317 
Marubeni Corp. (Japan)  17,900  133,767 
Mitsubishi Corp. (Japan)  3,400  91,779 
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Japan)  8,600  135,154 
    1,214,017 
Consumer cyclicals (5.7%)     
ABC-Mart, Inc. (Japan)  500  28,102 
Amazon.com, Inc.    153  258,596 
Aramark  1,320  50,239 
Aristocrat Leisure, Ltd. (Australia)  2,001  34,614 
Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd (Malaysia)  8,500  2,449 
Berkeley Group Holdings PLC (The) (United Kingdom)  634  26,135 
Booking Holdings, Inc.    110  208,107 
Caesars Entertainment Corp.    1,093  9,312 
Crown, Ltd. (Australia)  5,357  45,955 
Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Ltd. (China)  56,000  54,269 
Ecolab, Inc.  1,119  179,588 
Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. (Japan)  100  52,011 
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (Italy)    4,247  70,353 
Ford Motor Co.  15,899  149,610 
Ford Otomotiv Sanayi AS (Turkey)  2,216  22,928 
Fosun Tourism Group (Rights) (Hong Kong)  119   
Galaxy Entertainment Group, Ltd. (Hong Kong)  15,000  92,715 
Geely Automobile Holdings, Ltd. (China)  22,000  43,305 
Genting Bhd (Malaysia)  16,700  25,085 
Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. Class H (China)  22,000  22,865 
Haier Electronics Group Co., Ltd. (China)  7,000  16,298 
Hermes International (France)  271  147,232 
Home Depot, Inc. (The)  656  118,290 
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. R   8,361  158,859 
Hyatt Hotels Corp. Class A  2,011  143,404 
Industria de Diseno Textil SA (Inditex) (Spain)  1,274  39,089 
Iron Mountain, Inc. R   3,344  113,596 
Itausa — Investimentos Itau SA (Preference) (Brazil)  2,200  7,020 

 

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COMMON STOCKS (50.8%)* cont.  Shares  Value 
Consumer cyclicals cont.     
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Class A  658  $36,381 
Kimberly-Clark Corp.  5,207  600,732 
Lowe’s Cos., Inc.  7,116  671,537 
Marriott International, Inc./MD Class A  286  32,899 
Michael Kors Holdings, Ltd.    2,761  120,794 
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (Japan)  2,800  17,259 
Moncler SpA (Italy)  548  17,918 
Motus Holdings, Ltd. (South Africa)    4,462  28,011 
Mr Price Group, Ltd. (South Africa)  4,189  72,877 
News Corp. Class A  6,369  82,670 
Next PLC (United Kingdom)  644  40,230 
Pearson PLC (United Kingdom)  7,381  90,659 
Peugeot SA (France)  6,600  145,089 
Pou Chen Corp. (Taiwan)  7,000  7,619 
President Chain Store Corp. (Taiwan)  8,000  82,886 
ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE (Germany)  2,551  51,760 
PVH Corp.  1,796  198,476 
Qualicorp SA (Brazil)  15,900  56,988 
Randstad Holding NV (Netherlands)  759  36,960 
Ross Stores, Inc.  4,588  401,909 
RTL Group SA (Belgium)  409  24,526 
Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. (The) Class A  723  54,934 
Sinotruk Hong Kong, Ltd. (China)  49,000  81,131 
Sony Corp. (Japan)  3,700  195,867 
Suzuki Motor Corp. (Japan)  800  39,854 
Taylor Wimpey PLC (United Kingdom)  40,735  69,723 
Tekfen Holding AS (Turkey)  3,017  11,574 
TJX Cos., Inc. (The)  15,788  771,244 
Toyota Motor Corp. (Japan)  4,800  288,897 
TUI AG (Germany)  6,604  94,063 
Volvo AB (Sweden)  9,809  137,150 
Wal-Mart de Mexico SAB de CV (Mexico)  47,500  117,666 
Walt Disney Co. (The)  4,598  531,023 
Wolters Kluwer NV (Netherlands)  1,736  104,819 
Worldpay, Inc. Class A    3,562  305,655 
Zhongsheng Group Holdings, Ltd. (China)  14,500  29,634 
    7,771,440 
Consumer finance (0.7%)     
American Express Co.  7,966  894,343 
Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Co., Ltd. (Japan)  4,100  22,357 
    916,700 
Consumer staples (4.0%)     
Altria Group, Inc.  3,183  174,524 
Ashtead Group PLC (United Kingdom)  3,187  71,517 
Associated British Foods PLC (United Kingdom)  2,883  89,114 
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc.    225  27,378 
Carlsberg A/S Class B (Denmark)  732  81,075 
Cia Cervecerias Unidas SA ADR (Chile)  900  23,382 
Coca-Cola Amatil, Ltd. (Australia)  3,384  21,372 

 

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COMMON STOCKS (50.8%)* cont.  Shares  Value 
Consumer staples cont.     
Coca-Cola European Partners PLC (United Kingdom)  1,280  $62,131 
Coles Group, Ltd. (Australia)    807  6,907 
Colruyt SA (Belgium)  579  37,005 
ConAgra Foods, Inc.  2,175  70,355 
Constellation Brands, Inc. Class A  3,376  660,886 
Estacio Participacoes SA (Brazil)  800  5,120 
Hershey Co. (The)  2,671  289,269 
Hindustan Unilever, Ltd. (India)  2,857  71,920 
Imperial Brands PLC (United Kingdom)  5,255  161,675 
Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk PT (Indonesia)  36,900  17,069 
Ingredion, Inc.  953  99,550 
J Sainsbury PLC (United Kingdom)  13,221  51,400 
Kao Corp. (Japan)  400  29,473 
Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize NV (Netherlands)  7,695  198,487 
L’Oreal SA (France)  638  150,816 
LG Corp. (South Korea)  411  26,519 
Liberty Expedia Holdings, Inc. Class A    790  33,109 
Marine Harvest ASA (Norway)  1,426  33,374 
McDonald’s Corp.  5,213  982,703 
Monster Beverage Corp.    5,541  330,687 
Nestle SA (Switzerland)  1,519  129,707 
PepsiCo, Inc.  469  57,190 
Pola Orbis Holdings, Inc. (Japan)  900  25,434 
Procter & Gamble Co. (The)  3,672  347,041 
Sao Martinho SA (Brazil)  3,600  16,804 
Smiles Fidelidade SA (Brazil)  4,500  51,435 
Swedish Match AB (Sweden)  1,276  49,893 
Sysco Corp.  6,468  435,943 
Turkiye Sise ve Cam Fabrikalari AS (Turkey)  10,106  9,734 
Uni-President Enterprises Corp. (Taiwan)  41,000  96,351 
Unicharm Corp. (Japan)  1,200  37,592 
US Foods Holding Corp.    6,972  231,331 
Want Want China Holdings, Ltd. (China)  75,000  55,302 
Wesfarmers, Ltd. (Australia)  807  18,657 
WH Group, Ltd. (Hong Kong)  28,500  20,796 
WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC (United Kingdom)  5,314  16,120 
Woolworths Group, Ltd. (Australia)  6,594  139,770 
    5,545,917 
Energy (2.5%)     
BP PLC (United Kingdom)  1,437  9,529 
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) (China)  150,000  127,414 
Ecopetrol SA ADR (Colombia) S   4,934  94,782 
Equinor ASA (Norway)  6,476  151,311 
Exxon Mobil Corp.  8,745  695,228 
Halcon Resources Corp.    3,109  8,705 
Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa SA (Poland)    1,056  18,284 
JX Holdings, Inc. (Japan)  1,800  10,895 
Marathon Petroleum Corp.  6,625  431,685 
Nine Point Energy F   540  7,798 

 

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COMMON STOCKS (50.8%)* cont.  Shares  Value 
Energy cont.     
Occidental Petroleum Corp.  9,689  $680,846 
OMV AG (Austria)  1,240  62,891 
Petronas Dagangan Bhd (Malaysia)  2,300  14,195 
Phillips 66  2,000  187,040 
PTT PCL (Foreign depositary shares) (Thailand)  78,600  118,901 
Repsol SA (Spain)  6,516  112,574 
Royal Dutch Shell PLC Class B (United Kingdom)  4,350  133,045 
Surgutneftegas OJSC (Russia)  24,617  13,880 
Thai Oil PCL (Thailand)  9,700  22,416 
TOTAL SA (France)  4,857  270,380 
Valero Energy Corp.  3,337  266,626 
    3,438,425 
Financial (0.9%)     
3i Group PLC (United Kingdom)  7,916  84,392 
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.  781  82,684 
CME Group, Inc.  2,054  390,424 
CoreLogic, Inc.    1,959  79,261 
Deutsche Boerse AG (Germany)  310  39,622 
Hana Financial Group, Inc. (South Korea)  1,834  61,727 
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.  822  67,174 
KB Financial Group, Inc. (South Korea)  144  6,056 
London Stock Exchange Group PLC (United Kingdom)  683  35,121 
Macquarie Group, Ltd. (Australia)  2,056  173,031 
ORIX Corp. (Japan)  10,100  163,545 
Yuanta Financial Holding Co., Ltd. (Taiwan)  98,000  49,993 
    1,233,030 
Health care (5.8%)     
AbbVie, Inc.  1,908  179,867 
Akorn, Inc.    4,400  30,184 
Alfresa Holdings Corp. (Japan)  2,200  58,800 
Allergan PLC  430  67,338 
Amgen, Inc.  1,303  271,350 
Anthem, Inc.  607  176,072 
Astellas Pharma, Inc. (Japan)  10,500  161,364 
Baxter International, Inc.  7,783  533,525 
Bayer AG (Germany)  522  38,125 
Biogen, Inc.    161  53,729 
Boston Scientific Corp.    2,485  93,610 
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.  2,002  107,027 
Celgene Corp.    1,673  120,824 
Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.    581  78,348 
China Shineway Pharmaceutical Group, Ltd. (China)  8,000  9,968 
Coloplast A/S Class B (Denmark)  104  9,919 
Concordia International Corp. (Canada)    214  4,066 
Eli Lilly & Co.  1,731  205,366 
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co., KGaA (Germany)  983  79,938 
Gilead Sciences, Inc.  1,906  137,118 
GlaxoSmithKline PLC (United Kingdom)  12,589  260,499 
Guangzhou Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Holdings Co., Ltd. (China)  6,000  24,425 

 

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COMMON STOCKS (50.8%)* cont.  Shares  Value 
Health care cont.     
Humana, Inc.  2,648  $872,437 
Hypermarcas SA (Brazil)  7,800  64,748 
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.    94  49,902 
Ipsen SA (France)  84  10,836 
Johnson & Johnson  4,383  643,863 
Koninklijke Philips NV (Netherlands)  905  34,258 
Medipal Holdings Corp. (Japan)  1,900  43,704 
Merck & Co., Inc.  5,570  441,924 
Mettler-Toledo International, Inc.    52  33,106 
Novartis AG (Switzerland)  2,920  266,557 
Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. R   3,407  129,262 
PerkinElmer, Inc.  817  71,128 
Pfizer, Inc.  18,291  845,593 
Roche Holding AG (Switzerland)  1,337  346,923 
Sanofi (France)  1,376  124,536 
Shionogi & Co., Ltd. (Japan)  2,500  165,465 
Siemens Healthineers AG (Germany)    2,251  97,454 
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.  307  76,612 
UCB SA (Belgium)  936  78,708 
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.  1,388  390,528 
Ventas, Inc. R   964  61,204 
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.    472  85,333 
Zoetis, Inc.  3,894  365,530 
    8,001,073 
Insurance (1.6%)     
Aegon NV (Netherlands)  2,259  12,585 
Allianz SE (Germany)  1,128  238,237 
Allstate Corp. (The)  5,209  464,591 
Aviva PLC (United Kingdom)  27,581  143,134 
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. Class B    102  22,260 
Fosun International, Ltd. (China)  47,500  75,961 
IRB Brasil Resseguros SA (Brazil)  4,000  77,424 
Legal & General Group PLC (United Kingdom)  50,921  158,999 
Loews Corp.  6,071  291,772 
Old Republic International Corp.  7,519  169,553 
Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China, Ltd. Class H (China)  5,000  48,517 
Reinsurance Group of America, Inc.  842  125,778 
Travelers Cos., Inc. (The)  2,366  308,455 
    2,137,266 
Investment banking/Brokerage (0.2%)     
Daiwa Securities Group, Inc. (Japan)  2,000  11,083 
Korea Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. (South Korea)  1,037  62,978 
Partners Group Holding AG (Switzerland)  212  139,326 
Schroders PLC (United Kingdom)  1,372  44,360 
    257,747 
Real estate (5.9%)     
Agile Group Holdings, Ltd. (China)  38,000  51,910 
AGNC Investment Corp. R   13,479  238,578 
Agree Realty Corp. R   954  56,830 

 

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COMMON STOCKS (50.8%)* cont.  Shares  Value 
Real estate cont.     
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. R   988  $123,006 
American Homes 4 Rent R   4,124  85,903 
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. R   24,304  244,012 
Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc. R   3,309  52,514 
AvalonBay Communities, Inc. R   1,203  229,256 
Boston Properties, Inc. R   1,497  196,406 
Brandywine Realty Trust R   4,306  61,447 
Camden Property Trust R   2,104  200,216 
Cheung Kong Property Holdings, Ltd. (Hong Kong)  23,000  166,143 
Chimera Investment Corp.   6,070  116,483 
CoreSite Realty Corp. R   513  49,997 
Corporate Office Properties Trust R   2,367  57,920 
Country Garden Holdings co., Ltd. (China)  66,000  81,601 
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. R   547  62,927 
Douglas Emmett, Inc. R   2,788  102,933 
Duke Realty Corp. R   6,289  178,985 
Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. Class A R   1,797  29,093 
EPR Properties R   3,593  254,493 
Equity Commonwealth R   1,566  49,752 
Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. R   1,327  132,076 
Equity Residential Trust R   8,441  601,422 
Essex Property Trust, Inc. R   666  174,832 
Extra Space Storage, Inc. R   1,676  160,862 
Four Corners Property Trust, Inc. R   1,105  30,653 
Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. R   3,995  137,548 
Getty Realty Corp. R   1,379  42,184 
Guangzhou R&F Properties Co., Ltd. (China)  32,400  50,484 
HCP, Inc. R   2,438  71,336 
Henderson Land Development Co., Ltd. (Hong Kong)  14,000  71,923 
Highwoods Properties, Inc. R   1,759  76,288 
Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. R   2,121  65,454 
iStar, Inc. R   6,546  69,911 
JBG SMITH Properties R   553  22,159 
Kerry Properties, Ltd. (Hong Kong)  3,500  12,052 
Liberty Property Trust R   4,514  204,439 
Macerich Co. (The) R   1,201  60,398 
Medical Properties Trust, Inc. R   7,769  134,171 
MFA Financial, Inc. R   7,759  56,253 
Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp. R   813  11,325 
National Health Investors, Inc. R   1,136  88,585 
National Retail Properties, Inc.  2,594  129,856 
New Residential Investment Corp. R   11,203  192,692 
Park Hotels & Resorts, Inc. R   4,882  150,464 
Persimmon PLC (United Kingdom)  5,077  122,987 
Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc. Class A R   3,196  59,222 
Prologis, Inc. R   4,203  283,030 
PS Business Parks, Inc. R   393  55,421 
Public Storage R   1,253  267,215 
Realty Income Corp. R   328  21,022 

 

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COMMON STOCKS (50.8%)* cont.  Shares  Value 
Real estate cont.     
Saul Centers, Inc. R   186  $9,793 
Scentre Group (Australia) R   20,717  59,118 
Select Income REIT R   1,176  22,697 
Simon Property Group, Inc. R   2,257  419,102 
SL Green Realty Corp. R   1,346  129,781 
Spirit MTA REIT R   1,176  11,442 
Spirit Realty Capital, Inc. R   11,760  87,259 
Starwood Property Trust, Inc. R   6,377  142,653 
Stockland (Units) (Australia) R   20,344  54,226 
Sun Hung Kai Properties, Ltd. (Hong Kong)  4,000  57,150 
Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. R   5,997  91,514 
Swire Properties, Ltd. (Hong Kong)  4,200  14,680 
Tier REIT, Inc. R   1,053  24,788 
Two Harbors Investment Corp. R   5,964  85,762 
UDR, Inc. R   3,968  169,116 
Washington Prime Group, Inc. R   9,885  61,781 
Welltower, Inc. R   3,117  225,453 
WP Carey, Inc.   1,500  101,625 
    8,014,609 
Technology (9.2%)     
Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd. ADR (China)  S   890  143,165 
Alphabet, Inc. Class A    961  1,066,374 
Amadeus IT Holding SA Class A (Spain)  1,873  134,548 
Amdocs, Ltd.  1,574  102,168 
Apple, Inc.  4,956  885,042 
Applied Materials, Inc.  7,550  281,464 
AU Optronics Corp. (Taiwan)  10,000  4,097 
Avaya Holdings Corp.    1,803  28,070 
Brother Industries, Ltd. (Japan)  1,000  16,729 
Capgemini SE (France)  720  84,056 
CDK Global, Inc.  2,876  144,950 
Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd. (Israel)    491  54,899 
Cisco Systems, Inc.  599  28,674 
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. Class A  9,558  680,816 
Corning, Inc.  2,665  85,866 
Dell Technologies, Inc. Class V    2,206  232,689 
eBay, Inc.    19,017  567,657 
F5 Networks, Inc.    2,804  482,204 
Facebook, Inc. Class A    2,547  358,134 
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.  4,538  489,877 
Fiserv, Inc.    4,534  358,775 
Fujitsu, Ltd. (Japan)  600  36,931 
Genpact, Ltd.  2,463  74,826 
HannStar Display Corp. (Taiwan)  48,000  11,611 
Harris Corp.  2,422  346,225 
HCL Technologies, Ltd. (India)  7,512  109,436 
Hoya Corp. (Japan)  3,000  184,157 
HP, Inc.  20,201  464,623 
Infosys, Ltd. (India)  11,902  114,021 

 

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COMMON STOCKS (50.8%)* cont.  Shares  Value 
Technology cont.     
Intuit, Inc.  4,500  $965,385 
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.  4,547  254,268 
Microsoft Corp.  5,221  578,957 
Naspers, Ltd. Class N (South Africa)  90  18,080 
NetApp, Inc.  6,260  418,606 
NTT Data Corp. (Japan)  10,700  124,424 
Radiant Opto-Electronics Corp. (Taiwan)  15,000  41,325 
Red Hat, Inc.    2,763  493,361 
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (South Korea)  9,966  374,161 
SK Hynix, Inc. (South Korea)  2,305  144,182 
Synopsys, Inc.    2,606  239,596 
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. ADR (Taiwan)  4,015  150,924 
Tata Consultancy Services, Ltd. (India)  4,688  132,323 
Tech Mahindra, Ltd. (India)    9,238  93,795 
Tencent Holdings, Ltd. (China)  5,000  200,556 
Texas Instruments, Inc.  7,472  746,079 
Tianneng Power International, Ltd. (China)  26,000  23,691 
Tokyo Electron, Ltd. (Japan)  100  13,985 
Tripod Technology Corp. (Taiwan)  11,000  29,897 
Wipro, Ltd. (India)  6,847  32,017 
    12,647,696 
Transportation (1.2%)     
Aena SME SA (Spain)  775  123,262 
AirAsia Bhd (Malaysia)  47,300  34,844 
Central Japan Railway Co. (Japan)  900  185,456 
easyJet PLC (United Kingdom)  6,965  98,967 
Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte SAB de CV (Mexico)  10,000  44,773 
Imperial Holdings, Ltd. (South Africa)  4,462  20,488 
International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (Spain)  18,881  151,332 
Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (Japan)  1,800  64,918 
Kansas City Southern  2,415  248,866 
Kyushu Railway Co. (Japan)  1,200  39,659 
Norfolk Southern Corp.  3,390  578,809 
    1,591,374 
Utilities and power (2.1%)     
American Electric Power Co., Inc.  9,359  727,569 
Cia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo (Brazil)  7,355  53,693 
CLP Holdings, Ltd. (Hong Kong)  13,000  143,301 
Duke Energy Corp.  6,283  556,485 
E.ON SE (Germany)  9,677  98,787 
Endesa SA (Spain)  4,998  111,399 
Enel SpA (Italy)  19,248  104,428 
Eni SpA (Italy)  10,675  172,216 
Exelon Corp.  7,860  364,625 
GAIL India, Ltd. (India)  9,295  45,767 
Glow Energy PCL (Thailand)  7,000  18,518 
Inter RAO UES PJSC (Russia)  424,269  25,949 
Kinder Morgan, Inc.  21,494  366,903 
Manila Electric Co. (Philippines)  1,230  9,034 

 

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COMMON STOCKS (50.8%)* cont.  Shares  Value 
Utilities and power cont.     
RWE AG (Germany)  967  $20,907 
Tenaga Nasional Bhd (Malaysia)  30,600  104,217 
    2,923,798 
Total common stocks (cost $61,605,626)    $69,567,494 
 
  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)*  amount  Value 
Basic materials (1.9%)     
Allegheny Technologies, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
7.875%, 8/15/23  $35,000  $36,488 
Allegheny Technologies, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
5.95%, 1/15/21  20,000  19,850 
ArcelorMittal SA sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 6.125%, 6/1/25 (France)  5,000  5,256 
ArcelorMittal SA sr. unsec. unsub. notes 7.00%, 10/15/39 (France)  40,000  42,422 
Beacon Escrow Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 4.875%, 11/1/25  40,000  36,300 
Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 6.375%, 10/1/23  30,000  29,850 
Big River Steel, LLC/BRS Finance Corp. 144A company guaranty sr.     
notes 7.25%, 9/1/25  65,000  66,300 
BMC East, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. notes 5.50%, 10/1/24  55,000  51,563 
Boise Cascade Co. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.625%, 9/1/24  70,000  67,200 
Builders FirstSource, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsub. notes     
5.625%, 9/1/24  50,000  46,063 
BWAY Holding Co. 144A sr. notes 5.50%, 4/15/24  15,000  14,363 
BWAY Holding Co. 144A sr. unsec. notes 7.25%, 4/15/25  120,000  108,900 
Celanese US Holdings, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 4.625%, 11/15/22 (Germany)  47,000  48,065 
CF Industries, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. bonds     
4.95%, 6/1/43  45,000  34,847 
CF Industries, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. notes     
4.50%, 12/1/26  85,000  83,322 
Chemours Co. (The) company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.375%, 5/15/27  35,000  31,588 
Chemours Co. (The) company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
7.00%, 5/15/25  35,000  35,438 
Chemours Co. (The) company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
6.625%, 5/15/23  5,000  5,075 
Citigroup, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 7.875%, 7/15/26  30,000  28,200 
Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.75%, 3/1/25  15,000  13,800 
Compass Minerals International, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr.     
unsec. notes 4.875%, 7/15/24  80,000  72,000 
Cornerstone Chemical Co. 144A company guaranty sr. notes     
6.75%, 8/15/24  15,000  14,175 
CPG Merger Sub, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
8.00%, 10/1/21  30,000  29,700 
Dow Chemical Co. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 3.50%, 10/1/24  52,000  49,945 
Dow Chemical Co. (The) 144A sr. unsec. notes 4.80%, 11/30/28  5,000  5,011 
Flex Acquisition Co., Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.875%, 1/15/25  30,000  27,713 
Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.875%, 2/15/23 (Indonesia)  55,000  57,269 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Basic materials cont.     
Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 5.45%, 3/15/43 (Indonesia)  $20,000  $16,350 
GCP Applied Technologies, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes     
5.50%, 4/15/26  100,000  95,750 
Glencore Funding, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 4.625%, 4/29/24  44,000  43,646 
Glencore Funding, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 4.00%, 4/16/25  71,000  67,303 
HudBay Minerals, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
7.625%, 1/15/25 (Canada)  35,000  34,738 
Huntsman International, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 4.875%, 11/15/20  50,000  50,500 
Ingevity Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 4.50%, 2/1/26  50,000  46,125 
International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. sr. unsec. notes     
4.45%, 9/26/28  35,000  34,834 
International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. sr. unsec. notes     
3.40%, 9/25/20  85,000  84,862 
International Paper Co. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.00%, 2/15/27  20,000  18,007 
Joseph T Ryerson & Son, Inc. 144A sr. notes 11.00%, 5/15/22  15,000  15,975 
Kraton Polymers, LLC/Kraton Polymers Capital Corp. 144A     
company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 7.00%, 4/15/25  25,000  22,500 
Louisiana-Pacific Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
4.875%, 9/15/24  40,000  39,000 
Mercer International, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
7.75%, 12/1/22 (Canada)  9,000  9,315 
Mercer International, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 6.50%, 2/1/24 (Canada)  30,000  29,850 
Mercer International, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 5.50%, 1/15/26 (Canada)  20,000  18,200 
Mercer International, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 7.375%,     
1/15/25 (Canada)  5,000  5,020 
New Gold, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
6.25%, 11/15/22 (Canada)  10,000  8,550 
Novelis Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. bonds     
5.875%, 9/30/26  105,000  97,913 
Novelis Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.25%, 8/15/24  5,000  4,950 
Nutrien, Ltd. sr. unsec. bonds 5.25%, 1/15/45 (Canada)  10,000  9,701 
Nutrien, Ltd. sr. unsec. bonds 4.125%, 3/15/35 (Canada)  25,000  22,157 
Pisces Midco, Inc. 144A sr. notes 8.00%, 4/15/26  40,000  38,000 
Platform Specialty Products Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes     
6.50%, 2/1/22  15,000  15,281 
PQ Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 5.75%, 12/15/25  50,000  46,750 
Sherwin-Williams Co. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 3.45%, 6/1/27  22,000  20,143 
Sherwin-Williams Co. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.75%, 6/1/22  15,000  14,381 
Smurfit Kappa Treasury Funding DAC company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. notes 7.50%, 11/20/25 (Ireland)  40,000  46,400 
Steel Dynamics, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.00%, 12/15/26  30,000  28,965 
Steel Dynamics, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
4.125%, 9/15/25  15,000  13,838 
Steel Dynamics, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
5.50%, 10/1/24  30,000  29,925 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Basic materials cont.     
Steel Dynamics, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
5.25%, 4/15/23  $5,000  $4,994 
Teck Resources, Ltd. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
3.75%, 2/1/23 (Canada)  20,000  19,250 
Teck Resources, Ltd. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
8.50%, 6/1/24 (Canada)  10,000  10,850 
TMS International Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 7.25%, 8/15/25  55,000  53,900 
TopBuild Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.625%, 5/1/26  45,000  41,738 
Tronox Finance PLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.75%, 10/1/25 (United Kingdom)  15,000  12,713 
U.S. Concrete, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
6.375%, 6/1/24  63,000  59,693 
Univar USA, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.75%, 7/15/23  30,000  29,963 
USG Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. bonds     
4.875%, 6/1/27  45,000  45,056 
USG Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 5.50%, 3/1/25  35,000  35,263 
Westlake Chemical Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
bonds 4.375%, 11/15/47  49,000  41,095 
Westlake Chemical Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 3.60%, 8/15/26  90,000  82,352 
WestRock MWV, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
8.20%, 1/15/30  25,000  31,601 
WestRock MWV, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
7.95%, 2/15/31  22,000  27,684 
WR Grace & Co.- Conn. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.625%, 10/1/24  35,000  35,427 
Zekelman Industries, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. notes     
9.875%, 6/15/23  30,000  31,875 
    2,653,086 
Capital goods (1.2%)     
Allison Transmission, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
4.75%, 10/1/27  55,000  49,500 
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 7.75%, 11/15/19  3,000  3,083 
ATS Automation Tooling Systems, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.50%,     
6/15/23 (Canada)  35,000  35,894 
Berry Global, Inc. company guaranty notes 5.50%, 5/15/22  20,000  20,000 
Berry Global, Inc. company guaranty unsub. notes 5.125%, 7/15/23  50,000  49,531 
Berry Global, Inc. 144A notes 4.50%, 2/15/26  10,000  9,400 
Bombardier, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 8.75%, 12/1/21 (Canada)  15,000  15,488 
Bombardier, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 7.50%, 12/1/24 (Canada)  80,000  75,900 
Briggs & Stratton Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.875%, 12/15/20  55,000  57,200 
Covanta Holding Corp. sr. unsec. notes 6.00%, 1/1/27  20,000  18,600 
Crown Americas, LLC/Crown Americas Capital Corp. VI 144A     
company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 4.75%, 2/1/26  20,000  19,276 
Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. bonds     
7.375%, 12/15/26  35,000  37,450 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Capital goods cont.     
Gates Global, LLC/Gates Global Co. 144A company guaranty sr.     
unsec. notes 6.00%, 7/15/22  $62,000  $61,845 
GFL Environmental, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 5.375%,     
3/1/23 (Canada)  20,000  18,200 
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 8.00%, 5/15/22  60,000  61,362 
Honeywell International, Inc. sr. unsec. bonds 3.812%, 11/21/47  60,000  55,688 
Hulk Finance Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 7.00%, 6/1/26 (Canada)  65,000  58,175 
Johnson Controls International PLC sr. unsec. bonds 4.95%, 7/2/64  35,000  31,443 
Johnson Controls International PLC sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
4.50%, 2/15/47  26,000  23,443 
L3 Technologies, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. bonds     
3.85%, 12/15/26  42,000  40,389 
L3 Technologies, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
4.40%, 6/15/28  27,000  26,868 
MasTec, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
4.875%, 3/15/23  35,000  33,906 
Northrop Grumman Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.25%, 1/15/28  45,000  41,829 
Oshkosh Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
5.375%, 3/1/25  65,000  65,650 
Oshkosh Corp. sr. unsec. sub. notes 4.60%, 5/15/28  65,000  63,619 
Park-Ohio Industries, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.625%, 4/15/27  20,000  19,744 
RBS Global, Inc./Rexnord, LLC 144A sr. unsec. notes     
4.875%, 12/15/25  65,000  61,669 
Republic Services, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 3.95%, 5/15/28  35,000  34,314 
Resideo Funding, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.125%, 11/1/26  25,000  24,906 
Stevens Holding Co, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.125%, 10/1/26  55,000  54,313 
Tennant Co. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
5.625%, 5/1/25  30,000  29,063 
Titan Acquisition, Ltd./Titan Co-Borrower, LLC 144A sr. unsec.     
notes 7.75%, 4/15/26 (Canada)  50,000  41,000 
TransDigm, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
6.50%, 5/15/25  20,000  19,925 
TransDigm, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
6.375%, 6/15/26  85,000  82,972 
Trident Merger Sub, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.625%, 11/1/25  25,000  22,375 
United Technologies Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 1.90%, 5/4/20  217,000  212,276 
Vertiv Group Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 9.25%, 10/15/24  35,000  33,950 
Vertiv Intermediate Holding Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 12.00%,     
2/15/22  ‡‡   15,000  14,400 
Wabash National Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.50%, 10/1/25  55,000  48,950 
Waste Management, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 4.75%, 6/30/20  24,000  24,516 
    1,698,112 
Communication services (2.0%)     
American Tower Corp. sr. unsec. bonds 3.125%, 1/15/27 R   26,000  23,411 
American Tower Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 3.55%, 7/15/27 R   64,000  58,776 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Communication services cont.     
AT&T, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 4.10%, 2/15/28  $75,000  $70,623 
AT&T, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.75%, 5/15/46  50,000  43,036 
AT&T, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.40%, 5/15/25  51,000  47,454 
CCO Holdings, LLC/CCO Holdings Capital Corp. 144A company     
guaranty sr. unsec. bonds 5.50%, 5/1/26  35,000  33,950 
CCO Holdings, LLC/CCO Holdings Capital Corp. 144A company     
guaranty sr. unsec. notes 5.875%, 4/1/24  90,000  90,788 
CCO Holdings, LLC/CCO Holdings Capital Corp. 144A sr. unsec.     
notes 5.75%, 2/15/26  80,000  80,001 
CCO Holdings, LLC/CCO Holdings Capital Corp. 144A sr. unsec.     
unsub. notes 5.125%, 5/1/23  25,000  24,844 
Charter Communications Operating, LLC/Charter     
Communications Operating Capital Corp. company guaranty sr.     
sub. bonds 6.484%, 10/23/45  63,000  62,968 
Charter Communications Operating, LLC/Charter     
Communications Operating Capital Corp. company guaranty sr.     
sub. notes 4.908%, 7/23/25  31,000  30,786 
Charter Communications Operating, LLC/Charter     
Communications Operating Capital Corp. company guaranty sr.     
sub. bonds 5.375%, 5/1/47  50,000  44,565 
Comcast Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
3.969%, 11/1/47  31,000  26,636 
Comcast Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
2.35%, 1/15/27  5,000  4,378 
Comcast Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
6.50%, 11/15/35  64,000  74,768 
Comcast Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
3.375%, 2/15/25  34,000  32,899 
Comcast Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
3.15%, 3/1/26  5,000  4,698 
CommScope Technologies Finance, LLC 144A sr. unsec. notes     
6.00%, 6/15/25  75,000  69,473 
CommScope Technologies, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. notes 5.00%, 3/15/27  30,000  24,713 
Cox Communications, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. bonds 3.50%, 8/15/27  20,000  18,364 
Crown Castle International Corp. sr. unsec. bonds 3.80%, 2/15/28 R   20,000  18,540 
Crown Castle International Corp. sr. unsec. bonds 3.65%, 9/1/27 R   30,000  27,578 
Crown Castle International Corp. sr. unsec. notes 4.875%, 4/15/22 R   15,000  15,411 
Crown Castle International Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
3.70%, 6/15/26 R   34,000  31,837 
CSC Holdings, LLC sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 5.25%, 6/1/24  180,000  171,000 
CSC Holdings, LLC sr. unsec. unsub. notes 6.75%, 11/15/21  130,000  136,013 
Deutsche Telekom International Finance BV company guaranty sr.     
unsec. unsub. bonds 8.75%, 6/15/30 (Netherlands)  12,000  15,785 
DISH DBS Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
5.875%, 11/15/24  110,000  93,500 
Equinix, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 5.375%, 5/15/27 R   35,000  34,300 
Equinix, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.875%, 1/15/26 R   10,000  10,150 
Frontier Communications Corp. sr. unsec. notes 11.00%, 9/15/25  15,000  10,575 
Frontier Communications Corp. sr. unsec. notes 10.50%, 9/15/22  20,000  16,000 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Communication services cont.     
Frontier Communications Corp. 144A company guaranty notes     
8.50%, 4/1/26  $60,000  $54,454 
Intelsat Connect Finance SA 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 9.50%, 2/15/23 (Luxembourg)  90,000  84,150 
Intelsat Jackson Holdings SA 144A company guaranty sr. notes     
8.00%, 2/15/24 (Bermuda)  2,000  2,093 
Intelsat Jackson Holdings SA 144A sr. unsec. notes 9.75%,     
7/15/25 (Bermuda)  85,000  87,763 
NBCUniversal Media, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 5.15%, 4/30/20  50,000  51,248 
NBCUniversal Media, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 4.375%, 4/1/21  160,000  163,194 
Quebecor Media, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.75%,     
1/15/23 (Canada)  15,000  15,263 
Sprint Capital Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
6.875%, 11/15/28  40,000  38,650 
Sprint Communications, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 7.00%, 8/15/20  145,000  150,075 
Sprint Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
7.25%, 9/15/21  185,000  192,863 
T-Mobile USA, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.375%, 3/1/25  30,000  30,863 
T-Mobile USA, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.00%, 3/1/23  20,000  20,440 
T-Mobile USA, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.375%, 4/15/27  105,000  102,113 
T-Mobile USA, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
4.00%, 4/15/22  15,000  14,756 
T-Mobile USA, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
4.75%, 2/1/28  40,000  37,042 
T-Mobile USA, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
4.50%, 2/1/26  15,000  14,077 
Verizon Communications, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
4.40%, 11/1/34  22,000  20,853 
Verizon Communications, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
4.329%, 9/21/28  45,000  44,596 
Videotron, Ltd./Videotron Ltee. 144A sr. unsec. notes 5.125%,     
4/15/27 (Canada)  135,000  127,913 
Vodafone Group PLC sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.375%, 5/30/28     
(United Kingdom)  50,000  47,982 
Windstream Services, LLC/Windstream Finance Corp. 144A     
company guaranty sub. notes 9.00%, 6/30/25  9,000  6,570 
    2,754,778 
Conglomerates (0.2%)     
Siemens Financieringsmaatschappij NV 144A company guaranty     
sr. unsec. notes 2.20%, 3/16/20 (Netherlands)  250,000  246,628 
    246,628 
Consumer cyclicals (3.8%)     
21st Century Fox America, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 7.75%, 12/1/45  93,000  134,026 
Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 3.55%, 7/26/27 (Canada)  15,000  13,822 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Consumer cyclicals cont.     
Amazon.com, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 3.15%, 8/22/27  $70,000  $66,433 
Amazon.com, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.30%, 12/5/21  150,000  150,629 
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 6.125%, 5/15/27  40,000  35,400 
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
sub. notes 5.875%, 11/15/26  15,000  13,350 
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
sub. notes 5.75%, 6/15/25  35,000  31,675 
American Builders & Contractors Supply Co., Inc. 144A company     
guaranty sr. unsec. notes 5.875%, 5/15/26  10,000  9,688 
American Builders & Contractors Supply Co., Inc. 144A sr. unsec.     
notes 5.75%, 12/15/23  30,000  29,925 
Autonation, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
5.50%, 2/1/20  41,000  41,900 
BMW US Capital, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
3.95%, 8/14/28  35,000  33,784 
BMW US Capital, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
3.40%, 8/13/21  10,000  9,928 
BMW US Capital, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
2.00%, 4/11/21  80,000  77,012 
Boyd Gaming Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.00%, 8/15/26  20,000  19,350 
Boyd Gaming Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
6.875%, 5/15/23  20,000  20,725 
Boyd Gaming Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
6.375%, 4/1/26  35,000  34,781 
Boyne USA, Inc. 144A company guaranty notes 7.25%, 5/1/25  15,000  15,600 
Brookfield Residential Properties, Inc./Brookfield Residential     
US Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 6.125%,     
7/1/22 (Canada)  20,000  19,350 
Carriage Services, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.625%, 6/1/26  35,000  34,606 
CBS Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
2.90%, 1/15/27  48,000  41,988 
CBS Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
4.60%, 1/15/45  18,000  15,913 
CBS Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
4.00%, 1/15/26  11,000  10,574 
CBS Radio, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
7.25%, 11/1/24  75,000  71,813 
Cinemark USA, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
4.875%, 6/1/23  50,000  48,625 
Clear Channel Worldwide Holdings, Inc. company guaranty sr.     
unsec. sub. notes 7.625%, 3/15/20  20,000  20,000 
Constellation Merger Sub, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 8.50%, 9/15/25  90,000  84,375 
CRC Escrow Issuer, LLC/CRC Finco, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr.     
unsec. notes 5.25%, 10/15/25  65,000  59,638 
Delta Merger Sub., Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.00%, 9/15/26  5,000  4,838 
Diamond Resorts International, Inc. 144A sr. notes 7.75%, 9/1/23  30,000  29,325 
Ecolab, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 4.35%, 12/8/21  85,000  87,042 
Ecolab, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 2.70%, 11/1/26  71,000  65,161 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Consumer cyclicals cont.     
Eldorado Resorts, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
7.00%, 8/1/23  $15,000  $15,675 
Ford Motor Co. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.346%, 12/8/26  46,000  41,331 
Gartner, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.125%, 4/1/25  30,000  29,588 
General Motors Financial Co., Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 4.00%, 10/6/26  51,000  45,936 
General Motors Financial Co., Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. notes 4.30%, 7/13/25  15,000  14,109 
General Motors Financial Co., Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. notes 4.00%, 1/15/25  7,000  6,573 
Gray Escrow, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 7.00%, 5/15/27  60,000  60,906 
Gray Television, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.875%, 7/15/26  30,000  29,175 
Hanesbrands, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
4.625%, 5/15/24  30,000  28,875 
Hilton Worldwide Finance, LLC/Hilton Worldwide Finance Corp.     
company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 4.875%, 4/1/27  150,000  143,063 
Home Depot, Inc. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.625%, 6/1/22  67,000  65,607 
Howard Hughes Corp. (The) 144A sr. unsec. notes 5.375%, 3/15/25  70,000  66,325 
Hyatt Hotels Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.85%, 3/15/26  45,000  45,575 
iHeartCommunications, Inc. company guaranty sr. notes 9.00%,     
12/15/19 (In default)    265,000  189,475 
IHS Markit, Ltd. sr. unsec. sub. bonds 4.75%, 8/1/28     
(United Kingdom)  30,000  29,250 
IHS Markit, Ltd. 144A company guaranty notes 4.75%, 2/15/25     
(United Kingdom)  140,000  138,951 
IHS Markit, Ltd. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 4.00%,     
3/1/26 (United Kingdom)  10,000  9,413 
Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. (The) sr. unsec. sub. bonds     
4.65%, 10/1/28  140,000  138,210 
Iron Mountain, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. bonds     
5.25%, 3/15/28 R   20,000  18,101 
Iron Mountain, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
4.875%, 9/15/27 R   60,000  53,100 
Jack Ohio Finance, LLC/Jack Ohio Finance 1 Corp. 144A company     
guaranty notes 10.25%, 11/15/22  80,000  86,400 
Jack Ohio Finance, LLC/Jack Ohio Finance 1 Corp. 144A company     
guaranty sr. notes 6.75%, 11/15/21  65,000  66,625 
Jacobs Entertainment, Inc. 144A notes 7.875%, 2/1/24  20,000  20,994 
Jeld-Wen, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
4.875%, 12/15/27  25,000  21,813 
Jeld-Wen, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
4.625%, 12/15/25  30,000  26,850 
Lear Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 3.80%, 9/15/27  96,000  86,528 
Lennar Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
5.875%, 11/15/24  15,000  15,038 
Lions Gate Capital Holdings, LLC 144A company guaranty sr.     
unsec. notes 5.875%, 11/1/24  45,000  45,338 
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 4.875%, 11/1/24  25,000  24,188 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Consumer cyclicals cont.     
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
sub. notes 5.625%, 3/15/26  $30,000  $29,841 
Mattamy Group Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.875%,     
12/15/23 (Canada)  45,000  43,200 
Mattamy Group Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.50%,     
10/1/25 (Canada)  15,000  14,081 
Meredith Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.875%, 2/1/26  55,000  56,238 
MGM Resorts International company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.75%, 10/1/20  40,000  41,680 
MGM Resorts International company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 8.625%, 2/1/19  60,000  60,356 
MGM Resorts International company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 6.625%, 12/15/21  5,000  5,238 
Navistar International Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.625%, 11/1/25  80,000  79,101 
Neiman Marcus Group, LLC (The) company guaranty sr. notes     
7.125%, 6/1/28  20,000  15,000 
Neiman Marcus Group, Ltd. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. sub.     
notes 8.75%, 10/15/21  16,458  8,229 
Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 5.625%, 8/1/24  75,000  72,375 
Nielsen Co. Luxembourg SARL (The) 144A company guaranty sr.     
unsec. notes 5.00%, 2/1/25 (Luxembourg)  25,000  24,375 
Nielsen Finance, LLC/Nielsen Finance Co. 144A company guaranty     
sr. unsec. sub. notes 5.00%, 4/15/22  65,000  63,564 
Omnicom Group, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
3.60%, 4/15/26  52,000  48,685 
Outfront Media Capital, LLC/Outfront Media Capital Corp.     
company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes 5.875%, 3/15/25  40,000  40,100 
Penn National Gaming, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 5.625%, 1/15/27  25,000  23,000 
Penske Automotive Group, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub.     
notes 5.75%, 10/1/22  30,000  30,150 
Penske Automotive Group, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub.     
notes 5.50%, 5/15/26  75,000  69,375 
Penske Automotive Group, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub.     
notes 5.375%, 12/1/24  10,000  9,488 
PetSmart, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 7.125%, 3/15/23  15,000  10,050 
PulteGroup, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
7.875%, 6/15/32  70,000  72,975 
PulteGroup, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
5.50%, 3/1/26  20,000  19,732 
QVC, Inc. company guaranty sr. sub. notes 4.45%, 2/15/25  36,000  34,065 
Refinitiv US Holdings, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. notes     
6.25%, 5/15/26  45,000  44,409 
Rivers Pittsburgh Borrower LP/Rivers Pittsburgh Finance Corp.     
144A sr. notes 6.125%, 8/15/21  65,000  63,781 
S&P Global, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
4.40%, 2/15/26  26,000  26,568 
S&P Global, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
2.95%, 1/22/27  24,000  22,245 
Sabre GLBL, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. notes 5.375%, 4/15/23  45,000  44,775 
Scientific Games International, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 10.00%, 12/1/22  145,000  150,242 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Consumer cyclicals cont.     
Sinclair Television Group, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
sub. notes 5.625%, 8/1/24  $65,000  $61,913 
Sirius XM Radio, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
6.00%, 7/15/24  30,000  30,713 
Sirius XM Radio, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. bonds 5.00%, 8/1/27  155,000  145,700 
Six Flags Entertainment Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
bonds 5.50%, 4/15/27  95,000  90,963 
Six Flags Entertainment Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. notes 4.875%, 7/31/24  35,000  33,513 
Spectrum Brands, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.75%, 7/15/25  35,000  33,119 
Spectrum Brands, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
6.125%, 12/15/24  30,000  28,950 
Standard Industries, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 5.375%, 11/15/24  50,000  47,500 
Standard Industries, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 5.00%, 2/15/27  128,000  115,200 
Standard Industries, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 4.75%, 1/15/28  5,000  4,375 
SugarHouse HSP Gaming Prop. Mezz LP/SugarHouse HSP     
Gaming Finance Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsub. notes     
5.875%, 5/15/25  35,000  32,725 
Time Warner, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
3.80%, 2/15/27  62,000  57,857 
Time Warner, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
2.95%, 7/15/26  27,000  23,951 
Townsquare Media, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.50%, 4/1/23  15,000  13,838 
TRI Pointe Group, Inc./TRI Pointe Homes, Inc. company guaranty     
sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.875%, 6/15/24  40,000  35,848 
Tribune Media Co. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.875%, 7/15/22  20,000  20,250 
Univision Communications, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. sub.     
notes 5.125%, 2/15/25  55,000  50,167 
Weekley Homes, LLC/Weekley Finance Corp. sr. unsec. notes     
6.00%, 2/1/23  30,000  28,275 
Werner FinCo LP/Werner FinCo, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr.     
unsec. notes 8.75%, 7/15/25  60,000  55,800 
WMG Acquisition Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. notes     
5.00%, 8/1/23  30,000  29,588 
WMG Acquisition Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.50%, 4/15/26  10,000  9,700 
Wolverine World Wide, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
bonds 5.00%, 9/1/26  25,000  23,375 
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 5.375%, 4/15/26  30,000  28,875 
Wynn Las Vegas, LLC/Wynn Las Vegas Capital Corp. 144A company     
guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes 5.25%, 5/15/27  80,000  73,076 
    5,192,477 
Consumer staples (1.2%)     
1011778 BC ULC/New Red Finance, Inc. 144A company guaranty     
notes 5.00%, 10/15/25 (Canada)  50,000  47,000 
1011778 BC ULC/New Red Finance, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr.     
notes 4.625%, 1/15/22 (Canada)  25,000  24,875 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Consumer staples cont.     
1011778 BC ULC/New Red Finance, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr.     
sub. notes 4.25%, 5/15/24 (Canada)  $50,000  $47,250 
Altria Group, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
2.625%, 1/14/20  145,000  143,616 
Anheuser-Busch Cos., LLC/Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide, Inc.     
144A company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.65%, 2/1/26  19,000  17,924 
Ascend Learning, LLC 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.875%, 8/1/25  45,000  43,650 
Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes     
8.50%, 7/15/25  65,000  57,363 
CEC Entertainment, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
8.00%, 2/15/22  60,000  54,000 
Coca-Cola Co. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 2.25%, 9/1/26  22,000  19,809 
Dean Foods Co. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.50%, 3/15/23  50,000  43,875 
Diageo Investment Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
8.00%, 9/15/22  7,000  8,102 
ERAC USA Finance, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. bonds     
4.50%, 2/15/45  37,000  33,829 
ERAC USA Finance, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
7.00%, 10/15/37  132,000  162,053 
ERAC USA Finance, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.625%, 3/15/42  42,000  44,747 
Fresh Market, Inc. (The) 144A company guaranty sr. notes     
9.75%, 5/1/23  35,000  25,893 
Golden Nugget, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
8.75%, 10/1/25  50,000  50,000 
Golden Nugget, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.75%, 10/15/24  55,000  54,038 
Itron, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 5.00%, 1/15/26  50,000  46,532 
KFC Holding Co./Pizza Hut Holdings, LLC/Taco Bell of America, LLC     
144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 5.25%, 6/1/26  60,000  58,837 
KFC Holding Co./Pizza Hut Holdings, LLC/Taco Bell of America, LLC     
144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 5.00%, 6/1/24  15,000  14,794 
KFC Holding Co./Pizza Hut Holdings, LLC/Taco Bell of America, LLC     
144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 4.75%, 6/1/27  20,000  18,746 
Kraft Heinz Co. (The) company guaranty sr. unsec. bonds     
4.375%, 6/1/46  5,000  4,084 
Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. notes 4.875%, 11/1/26  145,000  141,230 
Maple Escrow Subsidiary, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 4.597%, 5/25/28  135,000  132,094 
Match Group, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. bonds 5.00%, 12/15/27  40,000  37,100 
Netflix, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 4.875%, 4/15/28  35,000  32,288 
Netflix, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. bonds 6.375%, 5/15/29  20,000  20,250 
Netflix, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 5.875%, 11/15/28  25,000  24,648 
Newell Brands, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.20%, 4/1/26  63,000  60,014 
PepsiCo, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 3.45%, 10/6/46  34,000  29,518 
Rite Aid Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
6.125%, 4/1/23  65,000  55,900 
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
3.30%, 11/18/21  26,000  25,611 
    1,579,670 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Energy (3.5%)     
Alta Mesa Holdings LP/Alta Mesa Finance Services Corp. company     
guaranty sr. unsec. notes 7.875%, 12/15/24  $90,000  $64,125 
Antero Resources Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.625%, 6/1/23  25,000  24,813 
Antero Resources Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
5.375%, 11/1/21  20,000  19,925 
Antero Resources Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
5.125%, 12/1/22  15,000  14,700 
Apergy Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.375%, 5/1/26  55,000  54,450 
Ascent Resources Utica Holdings, LLC/ARU Finance Corp. 144A sr.     
unsec. notes 10.00%, 4/1/22  16,000  16,920 
Ascent Resources Utica Holdings, LLC/ARU Finance Corp. 144A sr.     
unsec. notes 7.00%, 11/1/26  20,000  18,750 
Baytex Energy Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
5.625%, 6/1/24 (Canada)  20,000  17,350 
BP Capital Markets PLC company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
2.315%, 2/13/20 (United Kingdom)  82,000  80,883 
BP Capital Markets PLC company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
1.366%, 9/19/19 (United Kingdom)  40,000  39,529 
California Resources Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
5.00%, 1/15/20  30,000  27,150 
California Resources Corp. 144A company guaranty notes     
8.00%, 12/15/22  21,000  16,091 
Cheniere Corpus Christi Holdings, LLC company guaranty sr. notes     
5.875%, 3/31/25  85,000  87,550 
Cheniere Corpus Christi Holdings, LLC company guaranty sr. notes     
5.125%, 6/30/27  105,000  101,719 
Chesapeake Energy Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
8.00%, 6/15/27  20,000  19,000 
Chesapeake Energy Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
8.00%, 1/15/25  100,000  96,250 
Chesapeake Energy Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.75%, 3/15/23  10,000  9,300 
Chevron Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 1.561%, 5/16/19  30,000  29,828 
Comstock Escrow Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 9.75%, 8/15/26  55,000  50,050 
Concho Resources, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
3.75%, 10/1/27  115,000  106,789 
Continental Resources, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. bonds     
4.90%, 6/1/44  30,000  26,362 
Continental Resources, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
3.80%, 6/1/24  20,000  18,877 
Covey Park Energy, LLC/Covey Park Finance Corp. 144A company     
guaranty sr. unsec. notes 7.50%, 5/15/25  60,000  56,700 
CrownRock LP/CrownRock Finance, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes     
5.625%, 10/15/25  45,000  42,075 
DCP Midstream Operating LP company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 5.375%, 7/15/25  15,000  15,019 
DCP Midstream Operating LP 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. bonds 6.75%, 9/15/37  20,000  20,150 
Denbury Resources, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
6.375%, 8/15/21  35,000  30,100 

 

44 Dynamic Risk Allocation Fund 

 



  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Energy cont.     
Denbury Resources, Inc. 144A company guaranty notes     
9.00%, 5/15/21  $36,000  $36,090 
Denbury Resources, Inc. 144A notes 7.50%, 2/15/24  15,000  13,256 
Diamondback Energy, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 5.375%, 5/31/25  50,000  49,438 
Diamondback Energy, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 4.75%, 11/1/24  20,000  19,425 
Endeavor Energy Resources LP/EER Finance, Inc. 144A sr. unsec.     
bonds 5.75%, 1/30/28  60,000  61,650 
Endeavor Energy Resources LP/EER Finance, Inc. 144A sr. unsec.     
notes 5.50%, 1/30/26  20,000  20,400 
Energy Transfer Partners LP jr. unsec. sub. FRB Ser. B, 6.625%,     
perpetual maturity  141,000  124,080 
Energy Transfer Partners LP sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
6.125%, 12/15/45  13,000  12,441 
Ensco PLC sr. unsec. notes 7.75%, 2/1/26 (United Kingdom)  30,000  24,750 
EOG Resources, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.15%, 1/15/26  5,000  5,035 
EOG Resources, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.625%, 3/15/23  35,000  33,335 
EP Energy, LLC/Everest Acquisition Finance, Inc. company     
guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes 9.375%, 5/1/20  29,000  25,665 
EP Energy, LLC/Everest Acquisition Finance, Inc. 144A company     
guaranty notes 9.375%, 5/1/24  46,000  25,300 
EP Energy, LLC/Everest Acquisition Finance, Inc. 144A company     
guaranty sr. notes 8.00%, 11/29/24  30,000  26,250 
EP Energy, LLC/Everest Acquisition Finance, Inc. 144A company     
guaranty sr. notes 7.75%, 5/15/26  35,000  33,688 
EQT Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.90%, 10/1/27  60,000  52,593 
Exxon Mobil Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.222%, 3/1/21  240,000  234,542 
FTS International, Inc. company guaranty sr. notes 6.25%, 5/1/22  20,000  18,800 
Hess Infrastructure Partners LP/Hess Infrastructure Partners     
Finance Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 5.625%, 2/15/26  70,000  67,900 
Holly Energy Partners LP/Holly Energy Finance Corp. 144A     
company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 6.00%, 8/1/24  70,000  69,125 
Indigo Natural Resources, LLC 144A sr. unsec. notes     
6.875%, 2/15/26  45,000  41,850 
Jagged Peak Energy, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.875%, 5/1/26  45,000  43,088 
MEG Energy Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 7.00%,     
3/31/24 (Canada)  10,000  9,363 
MEG Energy Corp. 144A notes 6.50%, 1/15/25 (Canada)  50,000  51,000 
Motiva Enterprises, LLC 144A sr. unsec. notes 5.75%, 1/15/20  11,000  11,192 
Nabors Industries, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.75%, 2/1/25  60,000  48,675 
Nabors Industries, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.50%, 1/15/23  5,000  4,399 
Newfield Exploration Co. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.75%, 1/30/22  25,000  25,563 
Newfield Exploration Co. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.375%, 1/1/26  75,000  74,719 
Nine Energy Service, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 8.75%, 11/1/23  20,000  19,750 
Noble Holding International, Ltd. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. notes 7.75%, 1/15/24  20,000  17,500 

 

Dynamic Risk Allocation Fund 45 

 



  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Energy cont.     
Noble Holding International, Ltd. 144A company guaranty sr.     
unsec. notes 7.875%, 2/1/26  $25,000  $23,313 
Oasis Petroleum, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
6.875%, 3/15/22  81,000  79,988 
Oasis Petroleum, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.25%, 5/1/26  35,000  32,288 
Occidental Petroleum Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
4.40%, 4/15/46  41,000  38,888 
Pertamina Persero PT 144A sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.30%,     
5/20/23 (Indonesia)  200,000  195,008 
Petrobras Global Finance BV company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
bonds 7.375%, 1/17/27 (Brazil)  133,000  137,535 
Petrobras Global Finance BV company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
bonds 7.25%, 3/17/44 (Brazil)  19,000  18,311 
Petrobras Global Finance BV company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 6.25%, 3/17/24 (Brazil)  294,000  297,308 
Petrobras Global Finance BV company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 6.125%, 1/17/22 (Brazil)  18,000  18,473 
Petrobras Global Finance BV company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 5.999%, 1/27/28 (Brazil)  126,000  118,598 
Petrobras Global Finance BV company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 5.299%, 1/27/25 (Brazil)  8,000  7,560 
Petroleos de Venezuela SA 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 6.00%, 11/15/26 (Venezuela) (In default)    110,000  17,600 
Petroleos Mexicanos company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
6.50%, 3/13/27 (Mexico)  159,000  148,716 
Petroleos Mexicanos company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
6.375%, 1/23/45 (Mexico)  12,000  9,708 
Precision Drilling Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
7.125%, 1/15/26 (Canada)  30,000  28,125 
Range Resources Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.00%, 3/15/23  15,000  14,147 
Range Resources Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
5.75%, 6/1/21  25,000  24,938 
Regency Energy Partners LP/Regency Energy Finance Corp.     
company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.875%, 3/1/22  10,000  10,430 
Regency Energy Partners LP/Regency Energy Finance Corp.     
company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.50%, 11/1/23  25,000  24,810 
Rose Rock Midstream LP/Rose Rock Finance Corp. company     
guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes 5.625%, 11/15/23  5,000  4,650 
Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC sr. bonds 4.20%, 3/15/28  26,000  24,429 
Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC sr. notes 5.00%, 3/15/27  34,000  33,897 
SESI, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 7.75%, 9/15/24  50,000  44,625 
SESI, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
7.125%, 12/15/21  20,000  18,900 
Seven Generations Energy, Ltd. 144A sr. unsec. bonds 6.75%,     
5/1/23 (Canada)  5,000  4,994 
Seventy Seven Energy, Inc. escrow sr. unsec. notes     
6.50%, 7/15/22 F   50,000  5 
Shell International Finance BV company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 2.875%, 5/10/26 (Netherlands)  55,000  51,546 
SM Energy Co. sr. unsec. notes 6.625%, 1/15/27  15,000  14,325 

 

46 Dynamic Risk Allocation Fund 

 



  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Energy cont.     
SM Energy Co. sr. unsec. sub. notes 5.00%, 1/15/24  $25,000  $23,219 
SM Energy Co. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 6.125%, 11/15/22  34,000  33,405 
Spectra Energy Partners LP sr. unsec. notes 3.375%, 10/15/26  39,000  35,777 
Statoil ASA company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.90%,     
11/8/20 (Norway)  55,000  54,585 
Tallgrass Energy Partners LP/Tallgrass Energy Finance Corp. 144A     
company guaranty sr. unsec. bonds 5.50%, 1/15/28  30,000  29,475 
Targa Resources Partners LP/Targa Resources Partners Finance     
Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 5.375%, 2/1/27  20,000  19,200 
Targa Resources Partners LP/Targa Resources Partners Finance     
Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.00%, 1/15/28  105,000  97,042 
Total Capital International SA company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 2.75%, 6/19/21 (France)  235,000  231,763 
Transcanada Trust company guaranty jr. unsec. sub. FRB 5.30%,     
3/15/77 (Canada)  46,000  40,756 
Transocean Pontus, Ltd. 144A company guaranty sr. notes 6.125%,     
8/1/25 (Cayman Islands)  25,000  24,500 
Transocean, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
7.50%, 4/15/31  20,000  16,100 
Transocean, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
9.00%, 7/15/23  10,000  10,250 
Trinidad Drilling, Ltd. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.625%, 2/15/25 (Canada)  60,000  60,384 
USA Compression Partners LP/USA Compression Finance Corp.     
144A sr. unsec. notes 6.875%, 4/1/26  30,000  29,288 
Vermilion Energy, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.625%, 3/15/25 (Canada)  20,000  19,000 
Weatherford International, Ltd. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub.     
notes 9.875%, 2/15/24  37,000  24,698 
Whiting Petroleum Corp. sr. unsec. notes 6.625%, 1/15/26  35,000  33,688 
Williams Cos., Inc. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes 8.75%, 3/15/32  38,000  48,685 
Williams Partners LP sr. unsec. sub. notes 4.30%, 3/4/24  60,000  59,180 
WPX Energy, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 8.25%, 8/1/23  30,000  32,775 
WPX Energy, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 5.75%, 6/1/26  25,000  24,000 
WPX Energy, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 6.00%, 1/15/22  14,000  14,036 
    4,810,238 
Financials (5.5%)     
AIG Global Funding 144A sr. notes 2.15%, 7/2/20  50,000  48,963 
Air Lease Corp. sr. unsec. sub. bonds 4.625%, 10/1/28  105,000  100,688 
Air Lease Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.625%, 4/1/27  41,000  36,645 
Alliance Data Systems Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 5.375%, 8/1/22  40,000  39,800 
Alliant Holdings Intermediate, LLC 144A sr. unsec. notes     
8.25%, 8/1/23  30,000  30,506 
Ally Financial, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
8.00%, 11/1/31  100,000  116,770 
Ally Financial, Inc. sub. unsec. notes 5.75%, 11/20/25  80,000  81,800 
American Express Co. sr. unsec. bonds 8.125%, 5/20/19  75,000  76,711 
American International Group, Inc. jr. unsec. sub. FRB     
8.175%, 5/15/58  150,000  178,500 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Financials cont.     
Bank of America Corp. jr. unsec. sub. FRN Ser. AA, 6.10%,     
perpetual maturity  $49,000  $49,858 
Bank of America Corp. jr. unsec. sub. FRN Ser. Z, 6.50%,     
perpetual maturity  15,000  15,675 
Bank of America Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. bonds Ser. MTN,     
3.248%, 10/21/27  56,000  51,431 
Bank of America Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. MTN,     
2.151%, 11/9/20  15,000  14,649 
Bank of America Corp. unsec. sub. notes 6.11%, 1/29/37  170,000  185,142 
Bank of Montreal sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. D, 3.10%,     
4/13/21 (Canada)  55,000  54,694 
Bank of Montreal unsec. sub. FRN 3.803%, 12/15/32 (Canada)  10,000  9,119 
Bank of Nova Scotia (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.70%,     
3/7/22 (Canada)  16,000  15,530 
Bank of Nova Scotia (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.35%,     
10/21/20 (Canada)  60,000  58,909 
Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel SA 144A sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 2.20%, 7/20/20 (France)  245,000  239,866 
BGC Partners, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 5.125%, 5/27/21  7,000  7,134 
Cantor Fitzgerald LP 144A unsec. bonds 7.875%, 10/15/19  25,000  25,749 
Cantor Fitzgerald LP 144A unsec. notes 6.50%, 6/17/22  48,000  50,538 
CBRE Services, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.25%, 3/15/25  37,000  38,129 
CBRE Services, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
4.875%, 3/1/26  35,000  35,389 
CIT Group, Inc. sr. unsec. sub. notes 5.00%, 8/1/23  35,000  35,044 
CIT Group, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.25%, 3/7/25  57,000  57,274 
CIT Group, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.00%, 8/15/22  30,000  30,113 
Citigroup, Inc. sr. unsec. FRB 3.668%, 7/24/28  60,000  55,980 
Citigroup, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 2.65%, 10/26/20  118,000  115,956 
Citigroup, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. FRB 3.887%, 1/10/28  97,000  92,406 
Citigroup, Inc. unsec. sub. bonds 4.45%, 9/29/27  60,000  57,922 
Citigroup, Inc. unsec. sub. notes 4.60%, 3/9/26  49,000  48,150 
CNG Holdings, Inc. 144A sr. notes 9.375%, 5/15/20  50,000  46,500 
CNO Financial Group, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.25%, 5/30/25  50,000  48,844 
Commonwealth Bank of Australia 144A sr. unsec. notes 3.15%,     
9/19/27 (Australia)  55,000  51,277 
Commonwealth Bank of Australia 144A unsec. notes 2.20%,     
11/9/20 (Australia)  330,000  321,576 
Cooperatieve Rabobank UA company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
bonds Ser. MTN, 5.25%, 5/24/41 (Netherlands)  30,000  32,336 
Credit Acceptance Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
7.375%, 3/15/23  35,000  35,963 
Credit Acceptance Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.125%, 2/15/21  10,000  10,013 
Digital Realty Trust LP company guaranty sr. unsec. bonds     
4.45%, 7/15/28 R   80,000  79,296 
Digital Realty Trust LP company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
3.40%, 10/1/20 R   25,000  24,904 
ESH Hospitality, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.25%, 5/1/25 R   40,000  38,250 

 

48 Dynamic Risk Allocation Fund 

 



  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Financials cont.     
Fairfax Financial Holdings, Ltd. 144A sr. unsec. notes 4.85%,     
4/17/28 (Canada)  $85,000  $81,703 
Fairfax US, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
4.875%, 8/13/24  60,000  59,941 
Fifth Third Bancorp jr. unsec. sub. FRB 5.10%, perpetual maturity  25,000  23,000 
Freedom Mortgage Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 8.25%, 4/15/25  35,000  31,063 
Freedom Mortgage Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 8.125%, 11/15/24  50,000  44,375 
GE Capital International Funding Co. Unlimited Co. company     
guaranty sr. unsec. notes 3.373%, 11/15/25 (Ireland)  11,000  9,495 
GLP Capital LP/GLP Financing II, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 5.25%, 6/1/25  30,000  29,813 
GLP Capital LP/GLP Financing II, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. notes 5.375%, 4/15/26  60,000  59,508 
goeasy, Ltd. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 7.875%,     
11/1/22 (Canada)  30,000  30,750 
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) sr. unsec. FRB 4.223%, 5/1/29  85,000  81,477 
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
3.85%, 1/26/27  120,000  113,100 
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
2.60%, 12/27/20  238,000  232,838 
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
2.30%, 12/13/19  136,000  134,556 
Hospitality Properties Trust sr. unsec. notes 4.375%, 2/15/30 R   57,000  51,781 
Hospitality Properties Trust sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
4.50%, 3/15/25 R   13,000  12,609 
HUB International, Ltd. 144A sr. unsec. notes 7.00%, 5/1/26  40,000  38,100 
Huntington Bancshares, Inc. unsec. notes 4.35%, 2/4/23  30,000  29,949 
Icahn Enterprises LP/Icahn Enterprises Finance Corp. company     
guaranty sr. unsec. notes 6.75%, 2/1/24  30,000  30,188 
Icahn Enterprises LP/Icahn Enterprises Finance Corp. company     
guaranty sr. unsec. notes 6.25%, 2/1/22  30,000  30,488 
Icahn Enterprises LP/Icahn Enterprises Finance Corp. company     
guaranty sr. unsec. notes 6.00%, 8/1/20  30,000  30,225 
Icahn Enterprises LP/Icahn Enterprises Finance Corp. company     
guaranty sr. unsec. notes 5.875%, 2/1/22  15,000  15,051 
iStar, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 6.00%, 4/1/22 R   20,000  19,731 
iStar, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.25%, 9/15/22 R   15,000  14,325 
JPMorgan Chase & Co. jr. unsec. bonds 6.10%, perpetual maturity  9,000  9,113 
JPMorgan Chase & Co. jr. unsec. sub. FRB Ser. Z, 5.30%,     
perpetual maturity  43,000  43,219 
JPMorgan Chase & Co. sr. unsec. unsub. FRB 3.964%, 11/15/48  196,000  169,521 
JPMorgan Chase & Co. unsec. sub. bonds 3.625%, 12/1/27  124,000  114,462 
KeyCorp sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. MTN, 1.988%, 12/13/18  84,000  83,994 
KKR Group Finance Co. III, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. bonds 5.125%, 6/1/44  19,000  18,292 
KKR Group Finance Co., LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. notes 6.375%, 9/29/20  41,000  43,001 
Liberty Mutual Group, Inc. 144A company guaranty jr. unsec. sub.     
bonds 7.80%, 3/15/37  92,000  103,040 
Lloyds Banking Group PLC jr. unsec. sub. FRB 7.50%, perpetual     
maturity (United Kingdom)  200,000  189,456 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Financials cont.     
LPL Holdings, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.75%, 9/15/25  $60,000  $56,850 
Macquarie Bank, Ltd. 144A sr. unsec. notes 2.85%,     
7/29/20 (Australia)  49,000  48,440 
Macquarie Group Ltd. 144A sr. unsec. notes 7.625%,     
8/13/19 (Australia)  110,000  113,162 
MGM Growth Properties Operating Partnership LP/MGP Finance     
Co-Issuer, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 5.625%, 5/1/24 R   25,000  25,246 
MGM Growth Properties Operating Partnership LP/MGP Finance     
Co-Issuer, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 4.50%, 1/15/28 R   15,000  13,238 
Mid-America Apartments LP sr. unsec. notes 4.30%, 10/15/23 R   20,000  20,170 
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 3.535%,     
7/26/21 (Japan)  90,000  89,895 
Morgan Stanley sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.375%, 1/22/47  55,000  50,272 
Morgan Stanley sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.625%, 1/20/27  120,000  112,942 
Morgan Stanley sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.65%, 1/27/20  80,000  79,329 
National Australia Bank, Ltd./New York sr. unsec. notes 2.50%,     
1/12/21 (Australia)  250,000  244,714 
Nationstar Mortgage, LLC/Nationstar Capital Corp. company     
guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes 6.50%, 7/1/21  55,000  54,931 
Neuberger Berman Group, LLC/Neuberger Berman Finance Corp.     
144A sr. unsec. notes 4.875%, 4/15/45  40,000  34,947 
Peachtree Corners Funding Trust 144A company guaranty sr.     
unsec. unsub. bonds 3.976%, 2/15/25  100,000  96,436 
Provident Funding Associates LP/PFG Finance Corp. 144A sr.     
unsec. notes 6.375%, 6/15/25  40,000  38,100 
Regions Financial Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.75%, 8/14/22  35,000  33,603 
Royal Bank of Canada sr. unsec. notes Ser. GMTN, 2.125%,     
3/2/20 (Canada)  77,000  76,018 
Royal Bank of Canada unsec. sub. notes Ser. GMTN, 4.65%,     
1/27/26 (Canada)  30,000  30,371 
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB 144A sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
2.625%, 11/17/20 (Sweden)  270,000  265,451 
Springleaf Finance Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes     
7.125%, 3/15/26  15,000  14,100 
Springleaf Finance Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 6.875%, 3/15/25  35,000  32,944 
Springleaf Finance Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 6.125%, 5/15/22  30,000  30,000 
Starwood Property Trust, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 4.75%, 3/15/25 R   45,000  41,963 
Swiss Re Treasury US Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 4.25%, 12/6/42  60,000  56,420 
TMX Finance, LLC/TitleMax Finance Corp. 144A sr. notes     
11.125%, 4/1/23  35,000  31,850 
Toronto-Dominion Bank (The) unsec. sub. FRB 3.625%,     
9/15/31 (Canada)  43,000  40,122 
Travelport Corporate Finance PLC 144A company guaranty sr.     
notes 6.00%, 3/15/26 (United Kingdom)  60,000  59,100 
UBS AG/London 144A sr. unsec. notes 2.20%, 6/8/20     
(United Kingdom)  200,000  196,105 

 

50 Dynamic Risk Allocation Fund 

 



  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Financials cont.     
UBS Group Funding (Switzerland) AG 144A company guaranty sr.     
unsec. unsub. notes 2.65%, 2/1/22 (Switzerland)  $200,000  $191,842 
USIS Merger Sub, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.875%, 5/1/25  55,000  52,250 
VEREIT Operating Partnership LP company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 4.60%, 2/6/24 R   40,000  39,894 
Wand Merger Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 9.125%, 7/15/26  10,000  10,100 
Wand Merger Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 8.125%, 7/15/23  35,000  35,350 
Wells Fargo & Co. jr. unsec. sub. FRB Ser. U, 5.875%,     
perpetual maturity  46,000  46,863 
Wells Fargo & Co. sr. unsec. notes Ser. GMTN, 2.60%, 7/22/20  115,000  113,189 
Westpac Banking Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.15%,     
3/6/20 (Australia)  286,000  281,965 
Westpac Banking Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.00%,     
8/19/21 (Australia)  45,000  43,157 
WeWork Cos, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
7.875%, 5/1/25  70,000  65,450 
    7,588,942 
Health care (2.2%)     
AbbVie, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 3.60%, 5/14/25  19,000  18,125 
Air Medical Merger Sub Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.375%, 5/15/23  70,000  58,100 
Allergan Funding SCS company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 3.45%,     
3/15/22 (Luxembourg)  16,000  15,645 
Allergan Funding SCS company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
3.80%, 3/15/25 (Luxembourg)  15,000  14,398 
Amgen, Inc. sr. unsec. bonds 4.663%, 6/15/51  47,000  43,511 
Amgen, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.60%, 8/19/26  69,000  61,811 
ASP AMC Merger Sub, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 8.00%, 5/15/25  50,000  31,640 
AstraZeneca PLC sr. unsec. unsub. notes 6.45%, 9/15/37     
(United Kingdom)  12,000  14,052 
Bausch Health Cos., Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. notes     
5.50%, 11/1/25  15,000  14,738 
Bausch Health Cos., Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
9.00%, 12/15/25  35,000  36,925 
Bausch Health Cos., Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.125%, 4/15/25  135,000  126,725 
Bausch Health Cos., Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.625%, 12/1/21  5,000  4,994 
Bausch Health Cos., Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsub. notes     
7.00%, 3/15/24  55,000  57,544 
Bausch Health Cos., Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsub. notes     
6.50%, 3/15/22  20,000  20,621 
Becton Dickinson and Co. (BD) sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
4.669%, 6/6/47  69,000  63,936 
Becton Dickinson and Co. (BD) sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
3.70%, 6/6/27  59,000  54,976 
Biogen, Inc. sr. unsec. sub. notes 3.625%, 9/15/22  56,000  55,811 
BioScrip, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 8.875%, 2/15/21  45,000  42,525 
Centene Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 6.125%, 2/15/24  60,000  62,394 
Centene Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.75%, 5/15/22  15,000  15,056 
Centene Escrow I Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 5.375%, 6/1/26  20,000  20,125 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Health care cont.     
CHS/Community Health Systems, Inc. company guaranty sr. notes     
6.25%, 3/31/23  $95,000  $88,113 
CHS/Community Health Systems, Inc. company guaranty sr.     
unsec. notes 6.875%, 2/1/22  105,000  51,996 
CHS/Community Health Systems, Inc. 144A company guaranty     
sub. notes 8.125%, 6/30/24  51,000  39,270 
CVS Health Corp. sr. unsec. notes zero %, 12/1/22  60,000  61,899 
CVS Health Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 5.05%, 3/25/48  31,000  30,090 
CVS Health Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.78%, 3/25/38  94,000  89,679 
CVS Health Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.25%, 12/5/18  145,000  144,998 
Elanco Animal Health, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 4.90%, 8/28/28  123,000  123,729 
Endo Finance, LLC/Endo Finco, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr.     
unsec. unsub. notes 5.375%, 1/15/23  65,000  53,463 
Halfmoon Parent, Inc. 144A sr. unsub. notes 3.75%, 7/15/23  58,000  57,198 
HCA, Inc. company guaranty sr. bonds 5.25%, 6/15/26  50,000  50,375 
HCA, Inc. company guaranty sr. notes 6.50%, 2/15/20  85,000  87,338 
HCA, Inc. company guaranty sr. sub. bonds 5.50%, 6/15/47  80,000  77,000 
Jaguar Holding Co. II/Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC     
144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 6.375%, 8/1/23  30,000  29,738 
Kinetic Concepts, Inc./KCI USA, Inc. 144A company guaranty sub.     
notes 12.50%, 11/1/21  25,000  26,750 
Mallinckrodt International Finance SA/Mallinckrodt CB,     
LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.50%,     
4/15/25 (Luxembourg)  30,000  23,850 
Merck & Co., Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.70%, 2/10/45  35,000  32,526 
Molina Healthcare, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.375%, 11/15/22  25,000  24,963 
Molina Healthcare, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
4.875%, 6/15/25  20,000  18,850 
Novartis Capital Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
4.00%, 11/20/45  60,000  57,458 
Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 4.50%, 4/1/27 R   45,000  42,975 
Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. notes 4.95%, 4/1/24 R   72,000  72,713 
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc./Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics     
SA 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.625%, 5/15/22  45,000  43,313 
Pfizer, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.00%, 12/15/26  30,000  28,548 
Pfizer, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 1.70%, 12/15/19  105,000  103,527 
Service Corp. International sr. unsec. notes 4.625%, 12/15/27  30,000  27,976 
Service Corp. International sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.375%, 5/15/24  225,000  226,125 
Shire Acquisitions Investments Ireland DAC company guaranty sr.     
unsec. unsub. notes 3.20%, 9/23/26 (Ireland)  36,000  32,295 
Shire Acquisitions Investments Ireland DAC company guaranty sr.     
unsec. unsub. notes 2.875%, 9/23/23 (Ireland)  26,000  24,328 
Sotera Health Holdings, LLC 144A sr. unsec. notes 6.50%, 5/15/23  40,000  39,400 
Tenet Healthcare Corp. sr. unsec. notes 8.125%, 4/1/22  25,000  26,000 
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.70%, 2/15/21  43,000  44,210 
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.85%, 6/15/28  90,000  89,807 
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. 144A company     
guaranty sr. unsec. notes 9.25%, 4/1/26  40,000  42,588 

 

52 Dynamic Risk Allocation Fund 

 



  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Health care cont.     
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes     
8.50%, 1/31/27  $35,000  $36,225 
WellCare Health Plans, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 5.25%, 4/1/25  20,000  19,825 
WellCare Health Plans, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 5.375%, 8/15/26  15,000  14,890 
Zoetis, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 3.90%, 8/20/28  30,000  29,232 
    2,946,912 
Technology (2.0%)     
Alphabet, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 1.998%, 8/15/26  30,000  26,811 
Analog Devices, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.85%, 3/12/20  45,000  44,721 
Apple, Inc. sr. unsec. bonds 4.25%, 2/9/47  19,000  18,441 
Apple, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 2.85%, 5/6/21  50,000  49,645 
Apple, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 2.10%, 5/6/19  250,000  249,229 
Apple, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.375%, 5/13/45  28,000  27,650 
Apple, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.85%, 5/4/43  75,000  68,540 
Apple, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.00%, 5/6/20  35,000  34,526 
Avaya, Inc. 144A escrow notes 7.00%, 4/1/19  300,000   
Banff Merger Sub, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 9.75%, 9/1/26  65,000  61,181 
Broadcom Corp./Broadcom Cayman Finance, Ltd. company     
guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.875%, 1/15/27  57,000  51,289 
Broadcom Corp./Broadcom Cayman Finance, Ltd. company     
guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.50%, 1/15/28  70,000  60,973 
Cisco Systems, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.50%, 9/20/26  30,000  27,282 
Cisco Systems, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.20%, 2/28/21  150,000  146,502 
Diamond 1 Finance Corp./Diamond 2 Finance Corp. 144A     
company guaranty sr. notes 6.02%, 6/15/26  188,000  190,054 
Diamond 1 Finance Corp./Diamond 2 Finance Corp. 144A     
company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 7.125%, 6/15/24  40,000  41,808 
Diamond 1 Finance Corp./Diamond 2 Finance Corp. 144A sr. bonds     
8.35%, 7/15/46  15,000  16,534 
Energizer Gamma Acquisition, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr.     
unsec. notes 6.375%, 7/15/26  15,000  14,100 
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. sr. unsec. sub. notes     
Ser. 10Y, 4.25%, 5/15/28  20,000  19,613 
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
5.00%, 10/15/25  6,000  6,188 
First Data Corp. 144A notes 5.75%, 1/15/24  95,000  95,356 
Fiserv, Inc. sr. unsec. sub. bonds 4.20%, 10/1/28  45,000  44,379 
Inception Merger Sub, Inc./Rackspace Hosting, Inc. 144A sr. unsec.     
notes 8.625%, 11/15/24  67,000  56,615 
Infor Software Parent, LLC/Infor Software Parent, Inc. 144A     
company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 7.125%, 5/1/21  ‡‡   140,000  139,650 
Infor US, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 6.50%, 5/15/22  15,000  14,925 
Legrand France SA sr. unsec. unsub. notes 8.50%, 2/15/25 (France)  10,000  12,212 
Microchip Technology, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. notes     
4.333%, 6/1/23  90,000  87,666 
Microsoft Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 3.30%, 2/6/27  45,000  43,812 
Microsoft Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 2.40%, 8/8/26  67,000  61,431 
Microsoft Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.70%, 8/8/46  15,000  13,872 
Microsoft Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 1.55%, 8/8/21  180,000  173,020 
Oracle Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.65%, 7/15/26  90,000  82,296 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Technology cont.     
Oracle Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.25%, 10/8/19  $212,000  $210,894 
Plantronics, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.50%, 5/31/23  45,000  43,538 
Qorvo, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 5.50%, 7/15/26  15,000  14,550 
Salesforce.com, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.70%, 4/11/28  65,000  63,887 
Solera, LLC/Solera Finance, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes     
10.50%, 3/1/24  90,000  96,975 
Tempo Acquisition, LLC/Tempo Acquisition Finance Corp. 144A sr.     
unsec. notes 6.75%, 6/1/25  80,000  75,600 
TTM Technologies, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.625%, 10/1/25  70,000  66,850 
VMware, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 3.90%, 8/21/27  10,000  8,961 
Western Digital Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
4.75%, 2/15/26  115,000  105,225 
    2,666,801 
Transportation (0.1%)     
Penske Truck Leasing Co. LP/PTL Finance Corp. 144A sr. unsec.     
bonds 3.40%, 11/15/26  16,000  14,771 
Penske Truck Leasing Co. LP/PTL Finance Corp. 144A sr. unsec.     
notes 3.90%, 2/1/24  15,000  14,728 
United Airlines, Inc. Pass-Through Trust pass-through certificates     
Ser. 14-2, Class A, 3.75%, 9/3/26  20,734  20,409 
Watco Cos., LLC/Watco Finance Corp. 144A company guaranty sr.     
unsec. notes 6.375%, 4/1/23  60,000  60,150 
    110,058 
Utilities and power (1.1%)     
AES Corp./Virginia (The) sr. unsec. notes 5.50%, 4/15/25  140,000  141,050 
AES Corp./Virginia (The) sr. unsec. notes 4.875%, 5/15/23  25,000  24,844 
AES Corp./Virginia (The) sr. unsec. notes 4.50%, 3/15/23  20,000  19,825 
AES Corp./Virginia (The) sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 5.125%, 9/1/27  55,000  54,175 
American Electric Power Co., Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. J,     
4.30%, 12/1/28  40,000  39,866 
American Transmission Systems, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
5.00%, 9/1/44  49,000  50,293 
Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co. sr. unsec. bonds 3.80%, 7/15/48  30,000  25,800 
Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co. sr. unsec. unsub. bonds     
6.125%, 4/1/36  7,000  8,172 
Calpine Corp. sr. unsec. sub. notes 5.75%, 1/15/25  85,000  78,200 
Calpine Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. notes 5.25%, 6/1/26  25,000  23,250 
Calpine Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. sub. notes     
5.875%, 1/15/24  15,000  15,000 
Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc. sr. unsec. notes     
7.125%, 12/1/18  96,000  96,000 
Consolidated Edison, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. A,     
2.00%, 3/15/20  10,000  9,829 
Duke Energy Corp. sr. unsec. notes 3.15%, 8/15/27  40,000  36,708 
Dynegy, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
7.625%, 11/1/24  88,000  93,500 
Dynegy, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
8.125%, 1/30/26  25,000  26,875 

 

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  Principal   
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (24.7%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Utilities and power cont.     
El Paso Natural Gas Co., LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub.     
notes 8.375%, 6/15/32  $20,000  $24,840 
Emera US Finance LP company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
3.55%, 6/15/26  11,000  10,276 
Enbridge, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 4.25%, 12/1/26 (Canada)  42,000  40,954 
Energy Transfer LP sr. sub. notes 5.875%, 1/15/24  166,000  170,965 
Energy Transfer LP sr. sub. notes 5.50%, 6/1/27  15,000  14,963 
Enterprise Products Operating, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. bonds 4.25%, 2/15/48  65,000  56,406 
FirstEnergy Transmission, LLC 144A sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
5.45%, 7/15/44  80,000  84,274 
IPALCO Enterprises, Inc. sr. sub. notes 3.70%, 9/1/24  25,000  23,870 
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP company guaranty sr. unsec.     
notes 5.40%, 9/1/44  29,000  27,585 
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP company guaranty sr. unsec.     
unsub. notes 3.45%, 2/15/23  45,000  43,628 
Kinder Morgan, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes     
3.15%, 1/15/23  60,000  57,418 
MidAmerican Funding, LLC sr. bonds 6.927%, 3/1/29  15,000  18,329 
NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Inc. company guaranty jr. unsec.     
sub. FRB 4.80%, 12/1/77  35,000  30,275 
NRG Energy, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
7.25%, 5/15/26  5,000  5,275 
NRG Energy, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
6.625%, 1/15/27  85,000  86,587 
NRG Energy, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes     
5.75%, 1/15/28  15,000  14,625 
Oncor Electric Delivery Co., LLC sr. notes 3.75%, 4/1/45  64,000  58,544 
Vistra Operations Co., LLC 144A sr. unsec. notes 5.50%, 9/1/26  50,000  49,188 
    1,561,389 
Total corporate bonds and notes (cost $35,239,213)    $33,809,091 
 
U.S. GOVERNMENT AND AGENCY  Principal   
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (14.5%)*  amount  Value 
U.S. Government Guaranteed Mortgage Obligations (2.2%)     
Government National Mortgage Association Pass-Through Certificates     
3.50%, TBA, 12/1/48  $3,000,000  $2,965,313 
    2,965,313 
U.S. Government Agency Mortgage Obligations (12.3%)     
Federal National Mortgage Association Pass-Through Certificates     
6.03%, 2/1/43 i   140,654  146,017 
6.00%, TBA, 12/1/48  1,000,000  1,076,328 
4.00%, 1/1/57  84,272  84,973 
4.00%, TBA, 1/1/49  3,000,000  3,013,711 
4.00%, TBA, 12/1/48  4,000,000  4,022,500 
3.00%, TBA, 1/1/49  2,000,000  1,904,844 
3.00%, TBA, 12/1/48  2,000,000  1,906,250 
3.00%, TBA, 12/1/33  1,000,000  986,719 
2.404%, 7/1/22 i   3,884,276  3,800,597 
    16,941,939 
Total U.S. government and agency mortgage obligations (cost $19,820,059)  $19,907,252 

 

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  Principal   
U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS (0.2%)*  amount  Value 
U.S. Treasury Notes 1.375%, 4/30/21 i   $225,000  $217,753 
Total U.S. treasury obligations (cost $217,753)    $217,753 
 
  Principal   
COMMODITY LINKED NOTES (5.1%)*†††  amount  Value 
Bank of America Corp. unsec. notes 1-month LIBOR less 0.16%, 2019     
(Indexed to the S&P GSCI Index Total Return multiplied by 3)  $871,000  $513,721 
Citigroup Global Markets Holding, Inc. sr. notes Ser. N, 1-month LIBOR     
less 0.15%, 2019 (Indexed to the S&P GSCI 3 Month Forward Total Return     
Index multiplied by 3)  3,925,000  2,372,882 
Goldman Sachs International 144A notes zero %, 2018 (Indexed to the     
S&P GSCI Excess Return Index multiplied by 3) ##   461,000  338,047 
Goldman Sachs International 144A notes zero %, 2019 (Indexed to the     
S&P GSCI Excess Return Index multiplied by 3)  1,380,000  1,052,897 
UBS AG/London 144A sr. notes 1-month LIBOR less 0.25%, 2019     
(Indexed to the S&P GSCI Total Return Commodity Index multiplied by 3)     
(United Kingdom)  2,343,000  1,605,168 
UBS AG/London 144A sr. notes 1-month LIBOR less 0.25%, 2019     
(Indexed to the S&P GSCI Total Return Commodity Index multiplied by 3)     
(United Kingdom)  1,580,000  1,090,480 
Total commodity Linked Notes (cost $10,560,000)    $6,973,195 
 
  Principal   
MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES (3.2%)*  amount  Value 
Agency collateralized mortgage obligations (0.4%)     
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation IFB Ser. 3829, Class AS,     
IO, ((-1 x 1 Month US LIBOR) + 6.95%), 4.644%, 3/15/41  $162,634  $25,649 
Federal National Mortgage Association     
Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 16-C02, Class 1M2,     
(1 Month US LIBOR + 6.00%), 8.315%, 9/25/28  40,000  46,368 
Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 14-C04, Class 1M2,     
(1 Month US LIBOR + 4.90%), 7.215%, 11/25/24  23,815  26,825 
Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 14-C03, Class 2M2,     
(1 Month US LIBOR + 2.90%), 5.215%, 7/25/24  23,894  25,197 
Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 14-C02, Class 1M2,     
(1 Month US LIBOR + 2.60%), 4.915%, 5/25/24  34,000  35,811 
IFB Ser. 18-86, Class DS, IO, ((-1 x 1 Month US LIBOR) + 6.10%),     
3.79%, 12/25/48  816,000  117,810 
Government National Mortgage Association     
Ser. 17-162, Class QI, IO, 5.00%, 10/20/47  163,672  36,212 
Ser. 16-135, Class PI, IO, 4.00%, 5/20/46  450,632  80,393 
IFB Ser. 13-99, Class AS, IO, ((-1 x 1 Month US LIBOR) + 6.05%),     
3.749%, 6/20/43  279,794  49,699 
Ser. 16-123, Class LI, IO, 3.50%, 3/20/44  292,944  32,546 
Ser. 17-H22, Class EI, IO, 2.92%, 10/20/67 W   310,176  35,670 
Ser. 15-H26, Class DI, IO, 2.277%, 10/20/65 W   289,886  27,480 
    539,660 

 

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  Principal   
MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES (3.2%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (1.7%)     
CD Commercial Mortgage Trust FRB Ser. 16-CD1, Class XA, IO,     
1.56%, 8/10/49 W   $370,565  $29,830 
Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust     
Ser. 14-GC21, Class C, 4.78%, 5/10/47 W   61,000  60,288 
Ser. 14-GC21, Class AS, 4.026%, 5/10/47  75,000  76,299 
FRB Ser. 14-GC19, Class XA, IO, 1.311%, 3/10/47 W   1,113,130  55,949 
Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust 144A FRB Ser. 12-GC8,     
Class XA, IO, 1.964%, 9/10/45 W   692,624  35,318 
COMM Mortgage Trust     
FRB Ser. 14-UBS6, Class C, 4.612%, 12/10/47 W   113,000  108,935 
FRB Ser. 14-LC15, Class XA, IO, 1.424%, 4/10/47   1,802,073  83,550 
FRB Ser. 14-CR16, Class XA, IO, 1.294%, 4/10/47 W   308,400  12,972 
FRB Ser. 13-CR11, Class XA, IO, 1.266%, 8/10/50 W   713,354  27,710 
FRB Ser. 14-CR17, Class XA, IO, 1.239%, 5/10/47 W   1,096,178  42,470 
FRB Ser. 14-UBS6, Class XA, IO, 1.11%, 12/10/47 W   1,377,141  54,860 
CSAIL Commercial Mortgage Trust Ser. 15-C1, Class XA, IO,     
1.061%, 4/15/50 W   1,298,998  53,266 
CSMC Trust FRB Ser. 16-NXSR, Class C, 4.507%, 12/15/49 W   125,000  122,068 
DBUBS Mortgage Trust 144A FRB Ser. 11-LC3A, Class D,     
5.516%, 8/10/44 W   100,000  102,266 
GS Mortgage Securities Trust     
FRB Ser. 14-GC22, Class C, 4.846%, 6/10/47 W   139,000  138,812 
FRB Ser. 14-GC22, Class XA, IO, 1.146%, 6/10/47 W   1,797,819  67,733 
GS Mortgage Securities Trust 144A FRB Ser. 10-C1, Class D,     
6.197%, 8/10/43 W   158,403  160,528 
JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust     
FRB Ser. 14-C22, Class C, 4.71%, 9/15/47 W   118,000  114,583 
FRB Ser. 14-C22, Class XA, IO, 1.032%, 9/15/47 W   3,390,305  132,825 
JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust     
Ser. 12-C6, Class AS, 4.117%, 5/15/45  41,000  41,473 
LSTAR Commercial Mortgage Trust 144A FRB Ser. 15-3, Class B,     
3.217%, 4/20/48 W   147,000  135,804 
Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill Lynch Trust     
FRB Ser. 14-C17, Class C, 4.613%, 8/15/47 W   44,000  42,864 
Ser. 14-C18, Class C, 4.489%, 10/15/47 W   45,000  44,177 
Ser. 12-C5, Class AS, 3.792%, 8/15/45  41,000  41,027 
FRB Ser. 14-C17, Class XA, IO, 1.348%, 8/15/47 W   713,135  26,571 
FRB Ser. 13-C12, Class XA, IO, 0.784%, 10/15/46 W   735,676  17,957 
Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 144A Ser. 12-C4, Class C,     
5.601%, 3/15/45 W   100,000  98,540 
UBS-Barclays Commercial Mortgage Trust 144A     
FRB Ser. 12-C3, Class C, 5.199%, 8/10/49 W   50,000  50,695 
FRB Ser. 12-C2, Class D, 5.049%, 5/10/63 W   48,000  44,697 
Wachovia Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust FRB Ser. 05-C21,     
Class D, 3.297%, 10/15/44 W   32,170  31,871 
Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust FRB Ser. 13-LC12, Class C,     
4.422%, 7/15/46 W   45,000  42,984 

 

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  Principal   
MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES (3.2%)* cont.  amount  Value 
Commercial mortgage-backed securities cont.     
WF-RBS Commercial Mortgage Trust     
FRB Ser. 13-C16, Class AS, 4.668%, 9/15/46 W   $33,000  $34,370 
Ser. 13-UBS1, Class AS, 4.306%, 3/15/46 W   48,000  48,705 
FRB Ser. 14-C22, Class XA, IO, 0.997%, 9/15/57 W   2,432,421  88,978 
WF-RBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 144A     
FRB Ser. 11-C3, Class D, 5.855%, 3/15/44 W   47,000  41,759 
FRB Ser. 11-C5, Class XA, IO, 1.90%, 11/15/44 W   970,679  37,285 
FRB Ser. 12-C10, Class XA, IO, 1.714%, 12/15/45 W   837,392  42,070 
    2,392,089 
Residential mortgage-backed securities (non-agency) (1.1%)     
Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc. FRB Ser. 05-2, Class 1A2A,     
4.31%, 5/25/35 W   61,601  62,891 
Countrywide Alternative Loan Trust     
FRB Ser. 06-OA7, Class 1A2, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.94%),     
2.993%, 6/25/46  206,100  189,295 
FRB Ser. 07-OH1, Class A1D, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.21%),     
2.525%, 4/25/47  30,389  27,358 
Federal National Mortgage Association     
Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 16-C03, Class 2M2,     
(1 Month US LIBOR + 5.90%), 8.215%, 10/25/28  260,800  296,292 
Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 15-C04, Class 1M2,     
(1 Month US LIBOR + 5.70%), 8.015%, 4/25/28  167,539  191,284 
Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 15-C04, Class 2M2,     
(1 Month US LIBOR + 5.55%), 7.865%, 4/25/28  157,533  176,561 
Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 15-C03, Class 2M2,     
(1 Month US LIBOR + 5.00%), 7.315%, 7/25/25  21,055  23,152 
Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 15-C01, Class 1M2,     
(1 Month US LIBOR + 4.30%), 6.615%, 2/25/25  70,298  76,941 
Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 16-C06, Class 1M2,     
(1 Month US LIBOR + 4.25%), 6.565%, 4/25/29  10,000  11,123 
Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 15-C02, Class 1M2,     
(1 Month US LIBOR + 4.00%), 6.315%, 5/25/25  20,014  21,678 
GSAA Trust FRB Ser. 07-6, Class 1A1, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.12%),     
2.435%, 5/25/47  31,107  24,242 
Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust FRB Ser. 05-A2, Class A2,     
3.536%, 2/25/35 W   23,137  23,649 
Morgan Stanley Resecuritization Trust 144A Ser. 15-R4, Class CB1,     
3.107%, 8/26/47 W   80,000  77,942 
Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust FRB Ser. 04-10, Class A10,     
(1 Month US LIBOR + 0.90%), 3.215%, 11/25/34  65,976  65,742 
Structured Asset Mortgage Investments II Trust FRB Ser. 07-AR7,     
Class 1A1, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.85%), 3.165%, 5/25/47  59,844  50,073 
Structured Asset Securities Corp. Mortgage Loan Trust FRB     
Ser. 06-AM1, Class A4, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.16%), 2.475%, 4/25/36  31,409  31,297 
WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Trust     
FRB Ser. 05-AR10, Class 1A3, 4.133%, 9/25/35 W   26,565  26,558 
FRB Ser. 05-AR12, Class 1A8, 4.045%, 10/25/35 W   105,198  103,759 
FRB Ser. 05-AR19, Class A1B3, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.35%),     
2.665%, 12/25/45  37,018  35,221 
    1,515,058 
Total mortgage-backed securities (cost $4,482,353)    $4,446,807 

 

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FOREIGN GOVERNMENT AND AGENCY    Principal   
BONDS AND NOTES (0.9%)*    amount  Value 
Argentina (Republic of) sr. unsec. unsub. notes 7.50%,       
4/22/26 (Argentina)    $255,000  $214,838 
Argentina (Republic of) sr. unsec. unsub. notes 6.875%,       
1/26/27 (Argentina)    150,000  120,750 
Argentina (Republic of) 144A sr. unsec. notes 7.125%,       
8/1/27 (Argentina)    160,000  121,600 
Indonesia (Republic of) sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. REGS, 4.75%,       
1/8/26 (Indonesia)    200,000  199,750 
Ivory Coast (Republic of) sr. unsec. unsub. bonds Ser. REGS, 5.25%,       
3/22/30 (Ivory Coast)  EUR  200,000  200,450 
Mexico (Government of) sr. unsec. bonds 5.55%, 1/21/45 (Mexico)    $205,000  201,892 
Russia (Federation of) 144A sr. unsec. unsub. bonds 4.375%,       
3/21/29 (Russia)    200,000  186,500 
Venezuela (Republic of) sr. unsec. notes 9.00%, 5/7/23 (Venezuela)       
(In default)      51,000  11,411 
Venezuela (Republic of) sr. unsec. unsub. notes 8.25%, 10/13/24       
(Venezuela) (In default)      82,000  18,860 
Total foreign government and agency bonds and notes (cost $1,439,152)    $1,276,051 

 

PURCHASED OPTIONS  Expiration       
OUTSTANDING (0.9%)*  date/strike  Notional  Contract   
Counterparty  price  amount  amount  Value 
Bank of America N.A.         
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (Put)  Nov-19/$240.00  7,367,022  $26,726  $206,755 
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (Put)  Oct-19/240.00  7,378,048  26,766  195,033 
Citibank, N.A.         
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (Put)  Aug-19/250.00  7,439,794  26,990  210,226 
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (Put)  Jul-19/250.00  7,257,865  26,330  188,422 
USD/JPY (Put)  Jan-19/JPY 108.00  3,362,300  3,362,300  4,788 
Goldman Sachs International         
USD/CNH (Call)  Apr-19/CNH 7.00  1,850,700  1,850,700  25,993 
JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A.         
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (Put)  Sep-19/$260.00  7,058,018  25,605  274,872 
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (Put)  Jun-19/245.00  7,494,648  27,189  145,465 
Total purchased options outstanding (cost $1,249,947)      $1,251,554 

 

  Principal   
ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES (0.8%)*  amount  Value 
loanDepot Station Place Agency Securitization Trust 144A FRB     
Ser. 17-LD1, Class A, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.80%), 3.115%, 11/25/50  $121,000  $121,000 
Mello Warehouse Securitization Trust 144A FRB Ser. 18-W1,     
Class A, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.85%), 3.131%, 11/25/51  34,000  34,000 
Station Place Securitization Trust 144A     
FRB Ser. 18-1, Class A, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.90%),     
3.182%, 4/24/19  308,000  308,000 
FRB Ser. 18-5, Class A, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.70%),     
2.982%, 9/24/19  248,000  248,000 
FRB Ser. 18-3, Class A, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.70%),     
2.982%, 7/24/19  242,000  242,000 
Towd Point Asset Trust 144A FRB Ser. 18-SL1, Class A, (1 Month     
US LIBOR + 0.60%), 2.906%, 1/25/46  131,451  130,962 
Total asset-backed securities (cost $1,083,923)    $1,083,962 

 

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  Principal   
SENIOR LOANS (0.5%)*c  amount  Value 
Avaya, Inc. bank term loan FRN Ser. B, (BBA LIBOR USD 3 Month     
+ 4.25%), 6.609%, 12/15/24  $54,525  $53,878 
Brand Industrial Services, Inc. bank term loan FRN (BBA LIBOR     
USD 3 Month + 4.25%), 6.732%, 6/21/24  74,063  72,880 
California Resources Corp. bank term loan FRN (BBA LIBOR USD     
3 Month + 4.75%), 7.037%, 11/17/22  55,000  55,000 
CPG International, Inc. bank term loan FRN (BBA LIBOR USD     
3 Month + 3.75%), 6.251%, 5/5/24  9,694  9,597 
Eagleclaw Midstream Ventures, LLC bank term loan FRN     
(BBA LIBOR USD 3 Month + 4.25%), 6.641%, 6/30/24  39,799  38,326 
Forterra Finance, LLC bank term loan FRN (BBA LIBOR USD     
3 Month + 3.00%), 5.345%, 10/25/23  24,672  22,526 
FTS International, Inc. bank term loan FRN Ser. B, (BBA LIBOR USD     
3 Month + 4.75%), 7.095%, 4/16/21  15,074  15,055 
Jo-Ann Stores, LLC bank term loan FRN (BBA LIBOR USD 3 Month     
+ 9.25%), 11.604%, 5/21/24  45,000  44,297 
Jo-Ann Stores, LLC bank term loan FRN (BBA LIBOR USD 3 Month     
+ 5.00%), 7.477%, 10/16/23  19,845  19,473 
KCA Deutag Alpha, Ltd. bank term loan FRN Ser. B, (BBA LIBOR USD     
3 Month + 6.75%), 9.021%, 3/21/23  17,859  15,850 
Keane Group Holdings, LLC bank term loan FRN Ser. B, (BBA LIBOR     
USD 3 Month + 3.75%), 6.125%, 5/25/25  63  59 
Navistar, Inc. bank term loan FRN Ser. B, (BBA LIBOR USD 3 Month     
+ 3.50%), 5.82%, 11/6/24  94,238  93,766 
Neiman Marcus Group, Ltd., Inc. bank term loan FRN (BBA LIBOR     
USD 3 Month + 3.25%), 5.568%, 10/25/20  56,593  48,973 
Rackspace Hosting, Inc. bank term loan FRN (BBA LIBOR USD     
3 Month + 3.00%), 5.582%, 11/3/23  24,874  22,934 
Revlon Consumer Products Corp. bank term loan FRN Ser. B,     
(BBA LIBOR USD 3 Month + 3.50%), 6.207%, 9/7/23  28,624  20,994 
Robertshaw Holdings Corp. bank term loan FRN (BBA LIBOR USD     
3 Month + 8.00%), 10.375%, 2/28/26  30,000  28,500 
Robertshaw Holdings Corp. bank term loan FRN (BBA LIBOR USD     
3 Month + 3.50%), 5.875%, 2/28/25  29,850  28,805 
Titan Acquisition, Ltd. (United Kingdom) bank term loan FRN     
Ser. B, (BBA LIBOR USD 3 Month + 3.00%), 5.345%, 3/28/25  69,638  65,155 
Total senior loans (cost $679,704)    $656,068 

 

  Expiration  Strike     
WARRANTS (0.2%)*   date  price  Warrants  Value 
Bank of Shanghai Co., Ltd. 144A (China)  12/12/19  $0.00  57,229  $94,533 
Gree Electric Appliances of Zhuhai, Inc.         
144A (China)  8/29/19  0.00  17,600  93,401 
Guangdong Kangmei Pharmaceutic 144A (China)  12/12/19  0.00  15,671  23,764 
Halcon Resources Corp.  9/9/20  14.04  844  46 
Total warrants (cost $236,209)        $211,744 

 

CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCKS (—%)*  Shares  Value 
EPR Properties Ser. C, $1.438 cv. pfd. R   1,550  $45,235 
Nine Point Energy 6.75% cv. pfd.  11  12,940 
Total convertible preferred stocks (cost $45,286)    $58,175 

 

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    Principal   
CONVERTIBLE BONDS AND NOTES (—%)*    amount  Value 
DISH Network Corp. cv. sr. unsec. notes 3.375%, 8/15/26    $20,000  $17,558 
Total convertible bonds and notes (cost $18,601)      $17,558 
 
  Principal amount/   
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS (10.4%)*    shares  Value 
Putnam Cash Collateral Pool, LLC 2.43% d   Shares   494,500  $494,500 
Putnam Short Term Investment Fund 2.37% L   Shares   9,148,691  9,148,691 
State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund,       
Premier Class 2.15% P   Shares   500,000  500,000 
U.S. Treasury Bills 2.398%, 2/21/19 §     $77,001  76,602 
U.S. Treasury Bills 2.385%, 3/7/19 §     148,000  147,100 
U.S. Treasury Bills 2.376%, 2/14/19 # §     2,517,999  2,506,154 
U.S. Treasury Bills 2.300%, 1/17/19 # §     381,001  379,917 
U.S. Treasury Bills 2.294%, 1/24/19 §     40,000  39,869 
U.S. Treasury Bills 2.269%, 1/10/19 §     14,000  13,967 
U.S. Treasury Bills 2.209%, 12/11/18 §     961,000  960,540 
Total short-term investments (cost $14,266,764)      $14,267,340 
 
TOTAL INVESTMENTS       
Total investments (cost $150,944,590)      $153,744,044 

 

Key to holding’s currency abbreviations

CNH  Chinese Yuan (Offshore) 
EUR  Euro 
JPY  Japanese Yen 
USD/$  United States Dollar 

 

Key to holding’s abbreviations

ADR  American Depository Receipts: represents ownership of foreign securities on deposit with a custodian bank 
bp  Basis Points 
DAC  Designated Activity Company 
ETF  Exchange Traded Fund 
FRB  Floating Rate Bonds: the rate shown is the current interest rate at the close of the reporting period. Rates may 
  be subject to a cap or floor. For certain securities, the rate may represent a fixed rate currently in place at the 
  close of the reporting period. 
FRN  Floating Rate Notes: the rate shown is the current interest rate or yield at the close of the reporting period. 
  Rates may be subject to a cap or floor. For certain securities, the rate may represent a fixed rate currently in 
  place at the close of the reporting period. 
GDR  Global Depository Receipts: represents ownership of foreign securities on deposit with a custodian bank 
GMTN  Global Medium Term Notes 
IFB  Inverse Floating Rate Bonds, which are securities that pay interest rates that vary inversely to changes in the 
  market interest rates. As interest rates rise, inverse floaters produce less current income. The rate shown is 
  the current interest rate at the close of the reporting period. Rates may be subject to a cap or floor. 
IO  Interest Only 
MTN  Medium Term Notes 
OJSC  Open Joint Stock Company 
OTC  Over-the-counter 
PJSC  Public Joint Stock Company 

 

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REGS  Securities sold under Regulation S may not be offered, sold or delivered within the United States except 
  pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the 
  Securities Act of 1933. 
SPDR  S&P Depository Receipts 
TBA  To Be Announced Commitments 

 

Notes to the fund’s portfolio

Unless noted otherwise, the notes to the fund’s portfolio are for the close of the fund’s reporting period, which ran from June 1, 2018 through November 30, 2018 (the reporting period). Within the following notes to the portfolio, references to “Putnam Management” represent Putnam Investment Management, LLC, the fund’s manager, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Putnam Investments, LLC and references to “ASC 820” represent Accounting Standards Codification 820 Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures.

* Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $136,851,808.

 The value of the commodity linked notes, which are marked to market daily, may be based on a multiple of the performance of the index. The multiple (or leverage) will increase the volatility of the note’s value relative to the change in the underlying index.

This security is non-income-producing.

‡‡ Income may be received in cash or additional securities at the discretion of the issuer. The rate shown in parenthesis is the rate paid in kind, if applicable.

# This security, in part or in entirety, was pledged and segregated with the broker to cover margin requirements for futures contracts at the close of the reporting period. Collateral at period end totaled $793,366 and is included in Investments in securities on the Statement of assets and liabilities (Notes 1 and 9).

§ This security, in part or in entirety, was pledged and segregated with the custodian for collateral on the initial margin on certain centrally cleared derivative contracts at the close of the reporting period. Collateral at period end totaled $2,925,622 and is included in Investments in securities on the Statement of assets and liabilities (Notes 1 and 9).

## Forward commitment, in part or in entirety (Note 1).

c Senior loans are exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, but contain certain restrictions on resale and cannot be sold publicly. These loans pay interest at rates which adjust periodically. The interest rates shown for senior loans are the current interest rates at the close of the reporting period. Senior loans are also subject to mandatory and/or optional prepayment which cannot be predicted. As a result, the remaining maturity may be substantially less than the stated maturity shown (Notes 1 and 7).

d Affiliated company. See Notes 1 and 5 to the financial statements regarding securities lending. The rate quoted in the security description is the annualized 7-day yield of the fund at the close of the reporting period.

F This security is valued by Putnam Management at fair value following procedures approved by the Trustees. Securities are classified as Level 3 for ASC 820 based on the securities’ valuation inputs. At the close of the reporting period, fair value pricing was also used for certain foreign securities in the portfolio (Note 1).

i This security was pledged, or purchased with cash that was pledged, to the fund for collateral on certain derivative contracts (Note 1).

L Affiliated company (Note 5). The rate quoted in the security description is the annualized 7-day yield of the fund at the close of the reporting period.

P This security was pledged, or purchased with cash that was pledged, to the fund for collateral on certain derivative contracts. The rate quoted in the security description is the annualized 7-day yield of the fund at the close of the reporting period (Note 1).

R Real Estate Investment Trust.

S Security on loan, in part or in entirety, at the close of the reporting period (Note 1).

W The rate shown represents the weighted average coupon associated with the underlying mortgage pools. Rates may be subject to a cap or floor.

At the close of the reporting period, the fund maintained liquid assets totaling $11,446,607 to cover certain derivative contracts and delayed delivery securities.

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Unless otherwise noted, the rates quoted in Short-term investments security descriptions represent the weighted average yield to maturity.

Debt obligations are considered secured unless otherwise indicated.

144A after the name of an issuer represents securities exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.

See Note 1 to the financial statements regarding TBA commitments.

The dates shown on debt obligations are the original maturity dates.

DIVERSIFICATION BY COUNTRY 

 

Distribution of investments by country of risk at the close of the reporting period, excluding collateral received, if any (as a percentage of Portfolio Value):

 

United States  79.4%  Germany  0.8% 
Switzerland  2.6  South Korea  0.7 
Japan  2.5  Sweden  0.6 
United Kingdom  2.1  Netherlands  0.6 
China  1.4  Spain  0.5 
Australia  1.2  Taiwan  0.5 
France  1.2  Hong Kong  0.5 
Canada  1.0  Other  3.6 
Brazil  0.8  Total  100.0% 

 

FORWARD CURRENCY CONTRACTS at 11/30/18 (aggregate face value $39,539,942) (Unaudited) 
            Unrealized 
    Contract  Delivery    Aggregate  appreciation/ 
Counterparty  Currency  type*  date  Value  face value  (depreciation) 
Bank of America N. A.           
  Australian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  $434,695  $430,008  $4,687 
  British Pound  Buy  12/19/18  343,710  351,008  (7,298) 
  Canadian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  1,055  1,097  (42) 
  Euro  Buy  12/19/18  525,370  545,649  (20,279) 
  Euro  Sell  12/19/18  525,370  523,939  (1,431) 
  Hong Kong Dollar  Sell  2/20/19  428,771  428,190  (581) 
  Japanese Yen  Sell  2/20/19  358,153  361,140  2,987 
  South Korean Won  Buy  2/20/19  210,623  211,884  (1,261) 
  South Korean Won  Sell  2/20/19  213,979  210,134  (3,845) 
  Swedish Krona  Buy  12/19/18  198,437  198,434  3 
  Swedish Krona  Sell  12/19/18  198,437  200,556  2,119 
Barclays Bank PLC             
  Australian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  121,053  120,940  113 
  British Pound  Sell  12/19/18  227,652  232,366  4,714 
  Canadian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  85,602  88,995  (3,393) 
  Euro  Sell  12/19/18  104,983  118,137  13,154 
  Norwegian Krone  Buy  12/19/18  43,744  42,290  1,454 
  Singapore Dollar  Buy  2/20/19  210,009  209,889  120 
  Singapore Dollar  Sell  2/20/19  210,009  210,088  79 
Citibank, N.A.             
  Australian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  234,500  230,513  3,987 
  British Pound  Buy  12/19/18  28,313  22,150  6,163 

 

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FORWARD CURRENCY CONTRACTS at 11/30/18 (aggregate face value $39,539,942) (Unaudited) cont. 
            Unrealized 
    Contract  Delivery    Aggregate  appreciation/ 
Counterparty  Currency  type*  date  Value  face value  (depreciation) 
Citibank, N.A. cont.           
  Canadian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  $217,395  $223,478  $(6,083) 
  Danish Krone  Buy  12/19/18  231,509  239,607  (8,098) 
  Euro  Buy  12/19/18  181,170  185,949  (4,779) 
  Euro  Sell  12/19/18  222,551  232,097  9,546 
  South Korean Won  Buy  2/20/19  211,141  209,706  1,435 
  South Korean Won  Sell  2/20/19  210,804  211,169  365 
  Swedish Krona  Buy  12/19/18  394,366  394,350  16 
  Swedish Krona  Sell  12/19/18  394,366  398,644  4,278 
Credit Suisse International           
  Australian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  1,181,204  1,160,740  20,464 
  British Pound  Buy  12/19/18  215,663  224,007  (8,344) 
  British Pound  Sell  12/19/18  215,663  215,584  (79) 
  Canadian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  440,292  452,699  (12,407) 
  Euro  Sell  12/19/18  291,708  301,664  9,956 
  Japanese Yen  Sell  2/20/19  206,868  206,826  (42) 
  New Zealand Dollar  Sell  1/16/19  240,415  231,315  (9,100) 
  Swiss Franc  Buy  12/19/18  223,782  230,039  (6,257) 
  Swiss Franc  Sell  12/19/18  223,782  233,801  10,019 
Goldman Sachs International           
  Australian Dollar  Sell  1/16/19  687,262  679,841  (7,421) 
  British Pound  Buy  12/19/18  26,400  26,392  8 
  British Pound  Sell  12/19/18  26,399  26,969  570 
  Canadian Dollar  Sell  1/16/19  163,141  167,121  3,980 
  Chinese Yuan (Offshore)  Buy  2/20/19  52,514  52,598  (84) 
  Euro  Sell  12/19/18  674,795  692,513  17,718 
  Japanese Yen  Sell  2/20/19  927,798  935,619  7,821 
  New Taiwan Dollar  Sell  2/20/19  2,732  890  (1,842) 
  New Zealand Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  737,548  743,132  (5,584) 
  Norwegian Krone  Buy  12/19/18  1,363,246  1,389,811  (26,565) 
  South African Rand  Buy  1/16/19  108,863  107,732  1,131 
  South African Rand  Sell  1/16/19  112,589  106,532  (6,057) 
  Swedish Krona  Sell  12/19/18  201,573  187,466  (14,107) 
HSBC Bank USA, National Association           
  Australian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  119,517  128,536  (9,019) 
  British Pound  Sell  12/19/18  8,035  6,883  (1,152) 
  Canadian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  27,655  28,751  (1,096) 
  Euro  Sell  12/19/18  265,519  279,240  13,721 
  Indonesian Rupiah  Buy  12/19/18  240,599  229,422  11,177 
  Indonesian Rupiah  Sell  12/19/18  240,599  227,821  (12,778) 
  Japanese Yen  Sell  2/20/19  824,696  831,537  6,841 
  Mexican Peso  Buy  1/16/19  410  1,959  (1,549) 
  New Zealand Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  365,197  348,238  16,959 
  Norwegian Krone  Buy  12/19/18  186,616  177,688  8,928 

 

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FORWARD CURRENCY CONTRACTS at 11/30/18 (aggregate face value $39,539,942) (Unaudited) cont. 
            Unrealized 
    Contract  Delivery    Aggregate  appreciation/ 
Counterparty  Currency  type*  date  Value  face value  (depreciation) 
HSBC Bank USA, National Association cont.         
  Swedish Krona  Buy  12/19/18  $453,178  $465,111  $(11,933) 
  Swedish Krona  Sell  12/19/18  453,180  453,348  168 
JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A.           
  Australian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  154,700  150,826  3,874 
  British Pound  Sell  12/19/18  101,901  103,381  1,480 
  Canadian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  217,621  231,907  (14,286) 
  Euro  Buy  12/19/18  5,715,805  5,916,967  (201,162) 
  Japanese Yen  Buy  2/20/19  5,640,090  5,685,678  (45,588) 
  New Zealand Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  223,424  217,731  5,693 
  Norwegian Krone  Buy  12/19/18  437,793  449,534  (11,741) 
  Singapore Dollar  Sell  2/20/19  75,870  73,776  (2,094) 
  Swedish Krona  Sell  12/19/18  844,629  852,911  8,282 
  Swiss Franc  Sell  12/19/18  414,177  428,891  14,714 
NatWest Markets PLC           
  Australian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  238,084  236,027  2,057 
  Canadian Dollar  Sell  1/16/19  223,047  227,474  4,427 
  Euro  Sell  12/19/18  10,770  11,076  306 
  New Zealand Dollar  Sell  1/16/19  240,622  230,698  (9,924) 
  Norwegian Krone  Buy  12/19/18  312,804  326,737  (13,933) 
  Swedish Krona  Buy  12/19/18  318,327  318,318  9 
  Swedish Krona  Sell  12/19/18  318,327  321,787  3,460 
State Street Bank and Trust Co.           
  Australian Dollar  Sell  1/16/19  197,855  190,419  (7,436) 
  British Pound  Sell  12/19/18  49,867  54,211  4,344 
  Canadian Dollar  Sell  1/16/19  372,247  382,339  10,092 
  Euro  Sell  12/19/18  323,566  337,129  13,563 
  Israeli Shekel  Buy  1/16/19  7,068  7,235  (167) 
  Japanese Yen  Sell  2/20/19  119,570  120,557  987 
  New Zealand Dollar  Sell  1/16/19  258,782  242,825  (15,957) 
  Norwegian Krone  Buy  12/19/18  391,243  398,577  (7,334) 
  Swedish Krona  Sell  12/19/18  496,456  500,505  4,049 
UBS AG             
  British Pound  Sell  12/19/18  223,826  231,738  7,912 
  Euro  Sell  12/19/18  943,715  976,421  32,706 
  New Zealand Dollar  Sell  1/16/19  319,591  312,570  (7,021) 
  Norwegian Krone  Buy  12/19/18  105,370  111,259  (5,889) 
  Swedish Krona  Buy  12/19/18  218,613  224,565  (5,952) 
  Swedish Krona  Sell  12/19/18  218,613  218,593  (20) 
WestPac Banking Corp.           
  Australian Dollar  Sell  1/16/19  106,644  105,515  (1,129) 
  Canadian Dollar  Buy  1/16/19  233,898  243,243  (9,345) 

 

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FORWARD CURRENCY CONTRACTS at 11/30/18 (aggregate face value $39,539,942) (Unaudited) cont. 
            Unrealized 
    Contract  Delivery    Aggregate  appreciation/ 
Counterparty  Currency  type*  date  Value  face value  (depreciation) 
WestPac Banking Corp. cont.           
  Japanese Yen  Sell  2/20/19  $633,822  $638,911  $5,089 
  New Zealand Dollar  Sell  1/16/19  78,625  75,379  (3,246) 
Unrealized appreciation          307,725 
Unrealized (depreciation)          (554,730) 
Total            $(247,005) 

 

* The exchange currency for all contracts listed is the United States Dollar.

FUTURES CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 11/30/18 (Unaudited)       
          Unrealized 
  Number of  Notional    Expiration  appreciation/ 
  contracts  amount  Value  date  (depreciation) 
Euro-Bobl 5 yr (Long)  28  $4,183,291  $4,183,292  Dec-18  $11,014 
Euro-Bund 10 yr (Long)  35  6,400,780  6,400,782  Dec-18  34,022 
Euro-Buxl 30 yr (Long)  13  2,628,510  2,628,510  Dec-18  23,669 
Euro-Schatz 2 yr (Long)  19  2,409,216  2,409,217  Dec-18  1,073 
Japanese Government Bond           
10 yr (Long)  12  15,980,619  15,980,619  Dec-18  88,752 
Russell 2000 Index E-Mini (Long)  29  2,223,236  2,225,170  Dec-18  (271,418) 
S&P 500 Index E-Mini (Short)  64  8,832,544  8,826,560  Dec-18  342,145 
Tokyo Price Index (Long)  19  2,790,957  2,791,878  Dec-18  (23,957) 
U.K. Gilt 10 yr (Long)  32  5,000,769  5,000,771  Mar-19  28,893 
U.S. Treasury Bond 30 yr (Long)  5  699,531  699,531  Mar-19  2,529 
U.S. Treasury Bond Ultra 30 yr (Long)  14  2,133,688  2,133,688  Mar-19  8,597 
U.S. Treasury Note 2 yr (Long)  19  4,008,703  4,008,703  Mar-19  (319) 
U.S. Treasury Note 5 yr (Long)  40  4,518,438  4,518,438  Mar-19  858 
U.S. Treasury Note 10 yr (Long)  57  6,808,828  6,808,829  Mar-19  5,324 
U.S. Treasury Note 10 yr (Short)  175  20,904,297  20,904,297  Mar-19  (21,975) 
Unrealized appreciation          546,876 
Unrealized (depreciation)          (317,669) 
Total          $229,207 

 

WRITTEN OPTIONS OUTSTANDING at 11/30/18 (premiums $69,679) (Unaudited)   
  Expiration  Notional  Contract   
Counterparty  date/strike price  amount  amount  Value 
Bank of America N.A.         
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (Call)  Dec-18/$290.00  $8,853,051  $32,117  $14,320 
Citibank, N.A.         
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (Call)  Dec-18/278.00  8,915,899  32,345  95,974 
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (Call)  Dec-18/287.00  8,875,930  32,200  16,422 
USD/JPY (Put)  Jan-19/JPY 105.00  3,362,300  3,362,300  1,617 
Goldman Sachs International         
USD/CNH (Call)  Apr-19/CNH 7.20  1,850,700  1,850,700  11,991 
Total        $140,324 

 

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TBA SALE COMMITMENTS OUTSTANDING at 11/30/18 (proceeds receivable $5,925,039) (Unaudited) 
  Principal  Settlement   
Agency  amount  date  Value 
Federal National Mortgage Association, 4.00%, 12/1/48  $4,000,000  12/13/18  $4,022,500 
Federal National Mortgage Association, 3.00%, 12/1/48  2,000,000  12/13/18  1,906,250 
Total      $5,928,750 

 

CENTRALLY CLEARED INTEREST RATE SWAP CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 11/30/18 (Unaudited) 
    Upfront         
    premium        Unrealized 
    received  Termination  Payments  Payments  appreciation/ 
Notional amount  Value  (paid)  date  made by fund  received by fund   (depreciation) 
$4,162,900  $4,529 E  $4,715  12/19/20  3 month USD-  3.05% —  $9,244 
        LIBOR-BBA —  Semiannually   
        Quarterly     
6,696,300  7,286 E  (2,547)  12/19/20  3.05% —  3 month USD-  (9,832) 
        Semiannually  LIBOR-BBA —   
          Quarterly   
3,856,600  20,571 E  7,804  12/19/23  3 month USD-  3.10% —  28,375 
        LIBOR-BBA —  Semiannually   
        Quarterly     
3,750,900  20,007 E  (7,597)  12/19/23  3.10% —  3 month USD-  (27,604) 
        Semiannually  LIBOR-BBA —   
          Quarterly   
34,462,000  267,425 E  26,292  12/19/28  3 month USD-  3.15% —  293,718 
        LIBOR-BBA —  Semiannually   
        Quarterly     
7,441,900  57,749 E  (5,739)  12/19/28  3.15% —  3 month USD-  (63,488) 
        Semiannually  LIBOR-BBA —   
          Quarterly   
1,248,900  12,618 E  (6,799)  12/19/48  3 month USD-  3.20% —  5,818 
        LIBOR-BBA —  Semiannually   
        Quarterly     
210,400  2,126 E  1,141  12/19/48  3.20% —  3 month USD-  (985) 
        Semiannually  LIBOR-BBA —   
          Quarterly   
356,000  2,790  (5)  9/28/28  3.143% —  3 month USD-  (3,243) 
        Semiannually  LIBOR-BBA —   
          Quarterly   
339,000  2,786  (3)  10/15/23  3 month USD-  3.1545% —  3,072 
        LIBOR-BBA —  Semiannually   
        Quarterly     
563,000  3,085  (7)  11/23/28  3.1185% —  3 month USD-  (3,148) 
        Semiannually  LIBOR-BBA —   
          Quarterly   
564,000  1,583  (7)  11/30/28  3 month USD-  3.0895% —  1,581 
        LIBOR-BBA —  Semiannually   
        Quarterly     
Total    $17,248        $233,508 

 

E Extended effective date.

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OTC TOTAL RETURN SWAP CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 11/30/18 (Unaudited)   
    Upfront         
    premium  Termina-  Payments  Total return  Unrealized 
Swap counterparty/    received  tion  received (paid)  received by  appreciation/ 
Notional amount  Value  (paid)  date  by fund  or paid by fund  (depreciation) 
Bank of America N.A.             
$20,226,378  $20,735,087  $—  6/13/19  3 month USD-  Russell 1000 Total  $(508,561) 
        LIBOR-BBA minus  Return Index —   
        0.07% — Quarterly  Quarterly   
20,175,092  20,763,431   —  6/13/19  (3 month USD-  A basket (MLFCF15)  588,339 
        LIBOR-BBA plus  of common   
        0.10%) — Quarterly  stocks — Quarterly*   
Barclays Bank PLC             
327,602  322,854   —  1/12/41  4.00% (1 month  Synthetic TRS  (2,094) 
        USD-LIBOR) —  Index 4.00% 30 year   
        Monthly  Fannie Mae pools —   
          Monthly   
10,672  10,530   —  1/12/43  3.50% (1 month  Synthetic TRS  (62) 
        USD-LIBOR) —  Index 3.50% 30 year   
        Monthly  Fannie Mae pools —   
          Monthly   
Citibank, N.A.             
7,838,777  8,056,454   —  11/26/19  (3 month USD-  A basket  219,895 
        LIBOR-BBA  (CGPUTQL2) of   
        plus 0.34%) —  common stocks —   
        Quarterly  Quarterly*   
6,487,327  6,694,894   —  11/26/19  3 month USD-  Russell 1000 Total  (205,969) 
        LIBOR-BBA plus  Return Index —   
        0.25% — Quarterly  Quarterly   
Credit Suisse International           
28,898  28,344   —  1/12/45  3.50% (1 month  Synthetic TRS  (347) 
        USD-LIBOR) —  Index 3.50% 30 year   
        Monthly  Fannie Mae pools —   
          Monthly   
JPMorgan Securities LLC           
327,602  322,854   —  1/12/41  (4.00%) 1 month  Synthetic TRS  2,094 
        USD-LIBOR —  Index 4.00% 30 year   
        Monthly  Fannie Mae pools —   
          Monthly   
Upfront premium received   —    Unrealized appreciation  810,328 
Upfront premium (paid)   —    Unrealized (depreciation)  (717,033) 
Total    $—    Total    $93,295 

 

* The 50 largest components, and any individual component greater than 1% of basket value, are shown below.

A BASKET (MLFCF15) OF COMMON STOCKS       
        Percentage 
Common stocks  Sector  Shares  Value  value 
Alphabet, Inc. Class A  Communication Services  732  $811,745  3.91% 
JPMorgan Chase & Co.  Financials  5,402  600,671  2.89% 
Apple, Inc.  Information Technology  2,999  535,615  2.58% 
Verizon Communications, Inc.  Communication Services  8,414  507,344  2.44% 
Cisco Systems, Inc.  Information Technology  10,340  494,982  2.38% 

 

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A BASKET (MLFCF15) OF COMMON STOCKS cont.       
        Percentage 
Common stocks  Sector  Shares  Value  value 
Home Depot, Inc. (The)  Consumer Discretionary  2,703  $487,375  2.35% 
Boeing Co. (The)  Industrials  1,386  480,527  2.31% 
Chevron Corp.  Energy  3,669  436,421  2.10% 
Citigroup, Inc.  Financials  6,705  434,392  2.09% 
Starbucks Corp.  Consumer Discretionary  5,652  377,089  1.82% 
IBM Corp.  Information Technology  3,023  375,632  1.81% 
Amazon.com, Inc.  Consumer Discretionary  217  367,494  1.77% 
Coca-Cola Co. (The)  Consumer Staples  7,192  362,457  1.75% 
Microsoft Corp.  Information Technology  3,111  344,960  1.66% 
PepsiCo, Inc.  Consumer Staples  2,731  332,972  1.60% 
Oracle Corp.  Information Technology  6,296  306,976  1.48% 
Adobe, Inc.  Information Technology  1,175  294,705  1.42% 
Johnson & Johnson  Health Care  1,995  293,121  1.41% 
Amgen, Inc.  Health Care  1,383  287,968  1.39% 
Medtronic PLC  Health Care  2,779  271,061  1.31% 
Lowe’s Cos., Inc.  Consumer Discretionary  2,800  264,227  1.27% 
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.  Consumer Staples  3,068  259,756  1.25% 
ConocoPhillips  Energy  3,679  243,469  1.17% 
Merck & Co., Inc.  Health Care  2,919  231,592  1.12% 
Eli Lilly & Co.  Health Care  1,902  225,697  1.09% 
Facebook, Inc. Class A  Communication Services  1,469  206,560  0.99% 
Lockheed Martin Corp.  Industrials  684  205,504  0.99% 
Delta Air Lines, Inc.  Industrials  3,140  190,619  0.92% 
Intuit, Inc.  Information Technology  867  186,052  0.90% 
MetLife, Inc.  Financials  4,016  179,247  0.86% 
Intel Corp.  Information Technology  3,591  177,091  0.85% 
NXP Semiconductors NV  Information Technology  2,122  176,941  0.85% 
Mondelez International, Inc. Class A  Consumer Staples  3,927  176,648  0.85% 
Morgan Stanley  Financials  3,954  175,523  0.85% 
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.  Information Technology  1,182  174,184  0.84% 
Cigna Corp.  Health Care  766  171,125  0.82% 
Booking Holdings, Inc.  Consumer Discretionary  87  163,994  0.79% 
Honeywell International, Inc.  Industrials  1,106  162,233  0.78% 
United Continental Holdings, Inc.  Industrials  1,638  158,370  0.76% 
Ross Stores, Inc.  Consumer Discretionary  1,783  156,166  0.75% 
Pfizer, Inc.  Health Care  3,345  154,656  0.74% 
LyondellBasell Industries NV Class A  Materials  1,656  154,547  0.74% 
HCA Healthcare, Inc.  Health Care  1,044  150,318  0.72% 
Exelon Corp.  Utilities  3,058  141,866  0.68% 
Valero Energy Corp.  Energy  1,743  139,278  0.67% 
Phillips 66  Energy  1,462  136,703  0.66% 
Sysco Corp.  Consumer Staples  1,975  133,113  0.64% 
Procter & Gamble Co. (The)  Consumer Staples  1,389  131,229  0.63% 
Cummins, Inc.  Industrials  805  121,572  0.59% 
Agilent Technologies, Inc.  Health Care  1,631  118,020  0.57% 

 

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A BASKET (CGPUTQL2) OF COMMON STOCKS       
        Percentage 
Common stocks  Sector  Shares  Value  value 
JPMorgan Chase & Co.  Financials  2,082  $231,457  2.87% 
Alphabet, Inc. Class A  Communication Services  176  195,552  2.43% 
McDonald’s Corp.  Consumer Discretionary  951  179,322  2.23% 
Intuit, Inc.  Information Technology  814  174,589  2.17% 
American Express Co.  Financials  1,494  167,785  2.08% 
Apple, Inc.  Information Technology  916  163,624  2.03% 
Humana, Inc.  Health Care  489  160,994  2.00% 
Pfizer, Inc.  Health Care  3,388  156,620  1.94% 
Danaher Corp.  Health Care  1,423  155,894  1.94% 
TJX Cos., Inc. (The)  Consumer Discretionary  2,844  138,909  1.72% 
Texas Instruments, Inc.  Information Technology  1,372  137,004  1.70% 
American Electric Power Co., Inc.  Utilities  1,726  134,173  1.67% 
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.  Financials  948  128,783  1.60% 
(The)         
Exxon Mobil Corp.  Energy  1,617  128,560  1.60% 
Raytheon Co.  Industrials  721  126,430  1.57% 
Occidental Petroleum Corp.  Energy  1,780  125,063  1.55% 
Cognizant Technology Solutions  Information Technology  1,749  124,592  1.55% 
Corp. Class A         
Constellation Brands, Inc. Class A  Consumer Staples  618  121,077  1.50% 
Lowe’s Cos., Inc.  Consumer Discretionary  1,266  119,514  1.48% 
Johnson & Johnson  Health Care  804  118,060  1.47% 
Northrop Grumman Corp.  Industrials  442  114,885  1.43% 
Honeywell International, Inc.  Industrials  782  114,704  1.42% 
Kimberly-Clark Corp.  Consumer Staples  957  110,443  1.37% 
Norfolk Southern Corp.  Industrials  634  108,176  1.34% 
Microsoft Corp.  Information Technology  966  107,123  1.33% 
eBay, Inc.  Consumer Discretionary  3,535  105,521  1.31% 
Duke Energy Corp.  Utilities  1,166  103,313  1.28% 
Walt Disney Co. (The)  Communication Services  846  97,726  1.21% 
Verizon Communications, Inc.  Communication Services  1,609  97,044  1.20% 
Baxter International, Inc.  Health Care  1,414  96,942  1.20% 
Red Hat, Inc.  Information Technology  506  90,416  1.12% 
Fidelity National Information  Information Technology  828  89,419  1.11% 
Services, Inc.         
F5 Networks, Inc.  Information Technology  516  88,668  1.10% 
Allstate Corp. (The)  Financials  964  85,982  1.07% 
HP, Inc.  Information Technology  3,659  84,146  1.04% 
Merck & Co., Inc.  Health Care  1,025  81,300  1.01% 
Marathon Petroleum Corp.  Energy  1,217  79,288  0.98% 
Sysco Corp.  Consumer Staples  1,170  78,843  0.98% 
NetApp, Inc.  Information Technology  1,157  77,347  0.96% 
Ross Stores, Inc.  Consumer Discretionary  827  72,460  0.90% 
General Dynamics Corp.  Industrials  391  72,232  0.90% 
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.  Health Care  254  71,599  0.89% 
Waste Management, Inc.  Industrials  763  71,510  0.89% 

 

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A BASKET (CGPUTQL2) OF COMMON STOCKS cont.       
        Percentage 
Common stocks  Sector  Shares  Value  value 
CME Group, Inc.  Financials  374  $71,124  0.88% 
Crown Holdings, Inc.  Materials  1,337  68,560  0.85% 
Exelon Corp.  Utilities  1,476  68,480  0.85% 
Equity Residential Trust  Real Estate  958  68,231  0.85% 
Kinder Morgan, Inc.  Energy  3,957  67,552  0.84% 
Zoetis, Inc.  Health Care  712  66,843  0.83% 
Fiserv, Inc.  Information Technology  833  65,947  0.82% 

 

CENTRALLY CLEARED TOTAL RETURN SWAP CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 11/30/18 (Unaudited) 
    Upfront         
    premium  Termina-  Payments  Total return  Unrealized 
    received  tion  received (paid)  received by  appreciation/ 
Notional amount  Value  (paid)  date  by fund  or paid by fund  (depreciation) 
$2,600,000  $300,235  $—  1/9/23  (2.76%) — At  USA Non Revised  $(300,235) 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index-Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   
1,600,000  144,923   —  8/8/22  (2.5325%) — At  USA Non Revised  (144,923) 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index-Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   
700,000  65,537   —  9/10/22  (2.5925%) — At  USA Non Revised  (65,537) 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index-Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   
6,900,000  584,803   —  7/19/23  (2.57%) — At  USA Non Revised  (584,804) 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index-Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   
1,400,000  14,398   —  8/7/25  (1.92%) — At  USA Non Revised  14,398 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index- Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   
1,500,000  43,595   —  4/7/26  (1.858%) — At  USA Non Revised  43,595 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index-Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   
4,800,000  66,667   —  12/5/26  (2.308%) — At  USA Non Revised  (66,667) 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index-Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   

 

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CENTRALLY CLEARED TOTAL RETURN SWAP CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 11/30/18 (Unaudited) cont. 
    Upfront         
    premium  Termina-  Payments  Total return  Unrealized 
    received  tion  received (paid)  received by  appreciation/ 
Notional amount  Value  (paid)  date  by fund  or paid by fund  (depreciation) 
$3,600,000  $8,676   $—  5/5/27  (2.17%) — At  USA Non Revised  $(8,676) 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index-Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   
1,200,000  13,957   —  8/7/27  (2.085%) — At  USA Non Revised  13,957 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index-Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   
3,500,000  23,139  (38)  11/7/27  (2.1438%) — At  USA Non Revised  23,101 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index-Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   
4,000,000  58,672  (67)  3/7/28  (2.335%) — At  USA Non Revised  (58,739) 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index-Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   
1,400,000  18,857  (24)  4/6/28  (2.3075%) — At  USA Non Revised  (18,880) 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index-Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   
6,000,000  98,652  (100)  7/2/28  (2.356%) — At  USA Non Revised  (98,753) 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index-Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   
1,700,000  33,546  (29)  7/9/28  (2.3875%) — At  USA Non Revised  (33,575) 
        maturity  Consumer Price   
          Index-Urban   
          (CPI-U) — At   
          maturity   
Total    $(258)        $(1,285,738) 

 

OTC CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION SOLD at 11/30/18 (Unaudited) 
    Upfront           
    premium      Termi-  Payments  Unrealized 
Swap counterparty/    received  Notional    nation  received  appreciation/ 
Referenced debt*  Rating***  (paid)**  amount  Value  date  by fund  (depreciation) 
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.             
CMBX NA BB.6  BB/P  $4,923  $20,000  $5,004  5/11/63  500 bp —  $(65) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7  BB/P  1,157  9,000  1,373  1/17/47  500 bp —  (208) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.7  BBB–/P  280  3,000  193  1/17/47  300 bp —  89 
Index            Monthly   

 

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OTC CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION SOLD at 11/30/18 (Unaudited) cont. 
    Upfront           
    premium      Termi-  Payments  Unrealized 
Swap counterparty/    received  Notional    nation  received  appreciation/ 
Referenced debt*  Rating***  (paid)**  amount  Value  date  by fund  (depreciation) 
Credit Suisse International             
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  $158  $7,000  $223  5/11/63  200 bp —  $(62) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  997  20,000  636  5/11/63  200 bp —  368 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  893  46,000  1,463  5/11/63  200 bp —  (554) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  4,009  79,000  2,512  5/11/63  200 bp —  1,523 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.7  A-/P  $294  $8,000  $64  1/17/47  200 bp —  $233 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.7  A-/P  943  24,000  192  1/17/47  200 bp —  759 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.7  A-/P  1,040  25,000  200  1/17/47  200 bp —  848 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  2,090  18,000  2,587  5/11/63  300 bp —  (488) 
Index            Monthly   
Goldman Sachs International             
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  607  12,000  382  5/11/63  200 bp —  230 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  301  13,000  413  5/11/63  200 bp —  (108) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  759  15,000  477  5/11/63  200 bp —  287 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  781  15,000  477  5/11/63  200 bp —  309 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  1,248  19,000  604  5/11/63  200 bp —  650 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  1,133  22,000  700  5/11/63  200 bp —  441 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  1,186  24,000  763  5/11/63  200 bp —  430 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  1,988  31,000  986  5/11/63  200 bp —  1,013 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  1,083  35,000  1,113  5/11/63  200 bp —  (19) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  1,820  58,000  1,844  5/11/63  200 bp —  (5) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  3,736  62,000  1,972  5/11/63  200 bp —  1,785 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  3,257  64,000  2,035  5/11/63  200 bp —  1,243 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  52  1,000  144  5/11/63  300 bp —  (91) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  109  1,000  144  5/11/63  300 bp —  (35) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  317  4,000  575  5/11/63  300 bp —  (256) 
Index            Monthly   

 

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OTC CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION SOLD at 11/30/18 (Unaudited) cont. 
    Upfront           
    premium      Termi-  Payments  Unrealized 
Swap counterparty/    received  Notional    nation  received  appreciation/ 
Referenced debt*  Rating***  (paid)**  amount  Value  date  by fund  (depreciation) 
Goldman Sachs International cont.           
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  $1,056  $9,000  $1,293  5/11/63  300 bp —  $(233) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  613  9,000  1,293  5/11/63  300 bp —  (676) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  1,266  15,000  2,156  5/11/63  300 bp —  (882) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  1,941  23,000  3,305  5/11/63  300 bp —  (1,353) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  4,261  35,000  5,030  5/11/63  300 bp —  (751) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  6,390  85,000  12,215  5/11/63  300 bp —  (5,784) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  8,253  88,000  12,646  5/11/63  300 bp —  (4,348) 
Index            Monthly   
JPMorgan Securities LLC             
CMBX NA BB.6  BB/P  1,059  5,000  1,251  5/11/63  500 bp —  (188) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.6  BB/P  1,270  6,000  1,501  5/11/63  500 bp —  (226) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  717  14,000  445  5/11/63  200 bp —  277 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  1,176  19,000  604  5/11/63  200 bp —  578 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  362  21,000  668  5/11/63  200 bp —  (299) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  1,114  22,000  700  5/11/63  200 bp —  422 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  1,155  35,000  1,113  5/11/63  200 bp —  54 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  2,118  36,000  1,145  5/11/63  200 bp —  986 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  1,205  42,000  1,336  5/11/63  200 bp —  (117) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  1,238  44,000  1,399  5/11/63  200 bp —  (146) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  1,613  49,000  1,558  5/11/63  200 bp —  71 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  1,900  58,000  1,844  5/11/63  200 bp —  75 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  3,188  72,000  2,290  5/11/63  200 bp —  923 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  12,776  212,000  6,742  5/11/63  200 bp —  6,105 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  21,202  701,000  22,292  5/11/63  200 bp —  (857) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  359  3,000  431  5/11/63  300 bp —  (70) 
Index            Monthly   

 

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OTC CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION SOLD at 11/30/18 (Unaudited) cont. 
    Upfront           
    premium      Termi-  Payments  Unrealized 
Swap counterparty/    received  Notional    nation  received  appreciation/ 
Referenced debt*  Rating***  (paid)**  amount  Value  date  by fund  (depreciation) 
JPMorgan Securities LLC cont.             
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  $794  $7,000  $1,006  5/11/63  300 bp —  $(208) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  1,125  9,000  1,293  5/11/63  300 bp —  (164) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  1,222  11,000  1,581  5/11/63  300 bp —  (353) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  2,008  18,000  2,587  5/11/63  300 bp —  (570) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.6  BBB–/P  3,529  33,000  4,742  5/11/63  300 bp —  (1,197) 
Index            Monthly   
Morgan Stanley & Co. International PLC           
CMBX NA A.6  A/P  622  46,000  1,463  5/11/63  200 bp —  (825) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.6  BB/P  1,473  6,000  1,501  5/11/63  500 bp —  (23) 
Index            Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.6  BB/P  3,203  13,000  3,253  5/11/63  500 bp —  (38) 
Index            Monthly   
Upfront premium received  125,369  Unrealized appreciation    19,699 
Upfront premium (paid)   —  Unrealized (depreciation)    (21,199) 
Total    $125,369  Total    $(1,500) 

 

* Payments related to the referenced debt are made upon a credit default event.

** Upfront premium is based on the difference between the original spread on issue and the market spread on day of execution.

*** Ratings for an underlying index represent the average of the ratings of all the securities included in that index. The Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s or Fitch ratings are believed to be the most recent ratings available at November 30, 2018. Securities rated by Putnam are indicated by “/P.” The Putnam rating categories are comparable to the Standard & Poor’s classifications.

OTC CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION PURCHASED at 11/30/18 (Unaudited) 
  Upfront           
  premium      Termi-  Payments  Unrealized 
Swap counterparty/  received  Notional    nation  (paid)  appreciation/ 
Referenced debt*  (paid)**  amount  Value  date  by fund  (depreciation) 
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.           
CMBX NA A.7 Index  $(22)  $3,000  $24  1/17/47  (200 bp) —  $1 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (1,143)  7,000  1,068  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (81) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (1,099)  7,000  1,068  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (38) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (1,413)  7,000  1,068  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (351) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.9 Index  (1,386)  9,000  1,379  9/17/58  (500 bp) —  (15) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.9 Index  (1,393)  9,000  1,379  9/17/58  (500 bp) —  (21) 
          Monthly   

 

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OTC CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION PURCHASED at 11/30/18 (Unaudited) cont. 
  Upfront           
  premium      Termi-  Payments  Unrealized 
Swap counterparty/  received  Notional    nation  (paid)  appreciation/ 
Referenced debt*  (paid)**  amount  Value  date  by fund  (depreciation) 
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. cont.           
CMBX NA BB.9 Index  $(1,386)  $9,000  $1,379  9/17/58  (500 bp) —  $(14) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.9 Index  (626)  4,000  613  9/17/58  (500 bp) —  (17) 
          Monthly   
Credit Suisse International             
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (2,348)  133,000  33,277  5/11/63  (500 bp) —  30,817 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (2,138)  13,000  1,983  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (167) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.9 Index  (2,235)  14,000  2,145  9/17/58  (500 bp) —  (102) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.9 Index  (616)  4,000  613  9/17/58  (500 bp) —  (6) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.9 Index  (313)  2,000  306  9/17/58  (500 bp) —  (8) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.7 Index  (78)  1,000  64  1/17/47  (300 bp) —  (15) 
          Monthly   
Goldman Sachs International             
CMBX NA BB.6 Index  (2,557)  25,000  6,255  5/11/63  (500 bp) —  3,677 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (303)  2,000  305  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  1 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (6,904)  34,000  5,185  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (1,747) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (2,130)  13,000  1,983  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (158) 
          Monthly   
JPMorgan Securities LLC             
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (958)  6,000  915  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (48) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (799)  5,000  763  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (41) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA A.7 Index  (1,138)  54,000  432  1/17/47  (200 bp) —  (724) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.6 Index  (399)  3,000  751  5/11/63  (500 bp) —  349 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.6 Index  (281)  2,000  500  5/11/63  (500 bp) —  218 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (8,391)  49,000  7,473  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (957) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (1,786)  11,000  1,678  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (118) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (1,565)  10,000  1,525  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (49) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (1,620)  9,000  1,373  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (255) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (1,099)  7,000  1,068  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (38) 
          Monthly   

 

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OTC CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION PURCHASED at 11/30/18 (Unaudited) cont. 
  Upfront           
  premium      Termi-  Payments  Unrealized 
Swap counterparty/  received  Notional    nation  (paid)  appreciation/ 
Referenced debt*  (paid)**  amount  Value  date  by fund  (depreciation) 
JPMorgan Securities LLC cont.             
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  $(973)  $5,000  $763  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  $(215) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BBB–.7 Index  (67)  1,000  64  1/17/47  (300 bp) —  (3) 
          Monthly   
Merrill Lynch International             
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (2,602)  15,000  2,288  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (327) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.9 Index  (1,564)  10,000  1,532  9/17/58  (500 bp) —  (40) 
          Monthly   
Morgan Stanley & Co. International PLC           
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (2,614)  13,000  1,983  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (643) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (2,121)  11,000  1,678  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (453) 
          Monthly   
CMBX NA BB.7 Index  (1,211)  6,000  915  1/17/47  (500 bp) —  (301) 
          Monthly   
Upfront premium received   —    Unrealized appreciation    35,063 
Upfront premium (paid)  (57,278)    Unrealized (depreciation)    (6,952) 
Total  $(57,278)  Total    $28,111 

 

* Payments related to the referenced debt are made upon a credit default event.

** Upfront premium is based on the difference between the original spread on issue and the market spread on day of execution.

CENTRALLY CLEARED CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION SOLD   
at 11/30/18 (Unaudited)             
    Upfront           
    premium      Termi-  Payments  Unrealized 
    received  Notional    nation  received  appreciation/ 
Referenced debt*  Rating***  (paid)**  amount  Value  date  by fund  (depreciation) 
EM Series 30  BBB–/P  $442,934  $9,100,000  $432,023  12/20/23  100 bp —  $28,860 
Index            Quarterly   
NA HY Series 31  B+/P  (223,257)  3,107,000  139,756  12/20/23  500 bp —  (55,883) 
Index            Quarterly   
NA IG Series 31  BBB+/P  (45,550)  2,590,000  29,777  12/20/23  100 bp —  (11,024) 
Index            Quarterly   
Total    $174,127          $(38,047) 

 

* Payments related to the referenced debt are made upon a credit default event.

** Upfront premium is based on the difference between the original spread on issue and the market spread on day of execution.

*** Ratings are presented for credit default contracts in which the fund has sold protection on the underlying referenced debt. Ratings for an underlying index represent the average of the ratings of all the securities included in that index. The Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s or Fitch ratings are believed to be the most recent ratings available at November 30, 2018. Securities rated by Putnam are indicated by “/P.” The Putnam rating categories are comparable to the Standard & Poor’s classifications.

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CENTRALLY CLEARED CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION PURCHASED 
at 11/30/18 (Unaudited)           
  Upfront           
  premium      Termi-  Payments   
Referenced  received  Notional    nation  (paid)  Unrealized 
debt*  (paid)**  amount  Value  date  by fund  appreciation 
NA HY Series 31  $13,715  $191,000  $8,591  12/20/23  (500 bp) —  $3,425 
Index          Quarterly   
Total  $13,715          $3,425 

 

* Payments related to the referenced debt are made upon a credit default event.

** Upfront premium is based on the difference between the original spread on issue and the market spread on day of execution.

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ASC 820 establishes a three-level hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements. The valuation hierarchy is based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of the fund’s investments. The three levels are defined as follows:

Level 1: Valuations based on quoted prices for identical securities in active markets.

Level 2: Valuations based on quoted prices in markets that are not active or for which all significant inputs are observable, either directly or indirectly.

Level 3: Valuations based on inputs that are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement.

The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the fund’s net assets as of the close of the reporting period:

      Valuation inputs  
Investments in securities:  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3 
Common stocks:       
Basic materials  $369,587  $1,986,299  $—­ 
Capital goods  3,848,010  795,460  —­ 
Communication services  1,270,627  859,311  —­ 
Conglomerates  853,317  360,700  —­ 
Consumer cyclicals  5,407,540  2,363,900  —­ 
Consumer staples  3,905,745  1,640,172  —­ 
Energy  2,520,109  910,518  7,798 
Financials  13,212,561  4,091,899  —­ 
Health care  6,189,594  1,811,479  —­ 
Technology  10,723,674  1,924,022  —­ 
Transportation  872,448  718,926  —­ 
Utilities and power  2,113,742  810,056  —­ 
Total common stocks  51,286,954  18,272,742  7,798 
 
Asset-backed securities  —­  1,083,962  —­ 
Commodity linked notes  —­  6,973,195  —­ 
Convertible bonds and notes  —­  17,558  —­ 
Convertible preferred stocks  —­  58,175  —­ 
Corporate bonds and notes  —­  33,809,086  5 
Foreign government and agency bonds and notes  —­  1,276,051  —­ 
Mortgage-backed securities  —­  4,446,807  —­ 
Purchased options outstanding  —­  1,251,554  —­ 
Senior loans  —­  656,068  —­ 
U.S. government and agency mortgage obligations  —­  19,907,252  —­ 
U.S. treasury obligations  —­  217,753  —­ 
Warrants  46  211,698  —­ 
Short-term investments  9,648,691  4,618,649  —­ 
Totals by level  $60,935,691  $92,800,550  $7,803 

 

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      Valuation inputs  
Other financial instruments:  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3 
Forward currency contracts  $—­  $(247,005)  $—­ 
Futures contracts  229,207  —­  —­ 
Written options outstanding  —­  (140,324)  —­ 
TBA sale commitments  —­  (5,928,750)  —­ 
Interest rate swap contracts  —­  216,260  —­ 
Total return swap contracts  —­  (1,192,185)  —­ 
Credit default contracts  —­  (263,944)  —­ 
Totals by level  $229,207  $(7,555,948)  $—­ 

 

At the start and close of the reporting period, Level 3 investments in securities represented less than 1% of the fund’s net assets and were not considered a significant portion of the fund’s portfolio.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Statement of assets and liabilities 11/30/18 (Unaudited)

ASSETS   
Investment in securities, at value, including $490,188 of securities on loan (Notes 1 and 9):   
Unaffiliated issuers (identified cost $141,301,399)  $144,100,853 
Affiliated issuers (identified cost $9,643,191) (Notes 1 and 5)  9,643,191 
Cash  4,013 
Foreign currency (cost $45,558) (Note 1)  49,265 
Dividends, interest and other receivables  674,563 
Foreign tax reclaim  55,727 
Receivable for shares of the fund sold  2,226,855 
Receivable for investments sold  2,154,100 
Receivable for sales of delayed delivery securities (Note 1)  5,932,372 
Receivable from Manager (Note 2)  10,169 
Receivable for variation margin on futures contracts (Note 1)  53,346 
Receivable for variation margin on centrally cleared swap contracts (Note 1)  62,073 
Unrealized appreciation on forward currency contracts (Note 1)  307,725 
Unrealized appreciation on OTC swap contracts (Note 1)  865,090 
Premium paid on OTC swap contracts (Note 1)  57,278 
Prepaid assets  63,485 
Total assets  166,260,105 
 
LIABILITIES   
Payable for investments purchased  141,338 
Payable for purchases of delayed delivery securities (Note 1)  16,271,000 
Payable for shares of the fund repurchased  138,047 
Payable for custodian fees (Note 2)  45,959 
Payable for investor servicing fees (Note 2)  28,072 
Payable for Trustee compensation and expenses (Note 2)  20,683 
Payable for administrative services (Note 2)  581 
Payable for distribution fees (Note 2)  12,270 
Payable for variation margin on futures contracts (Note 1)  31,498 
Payable for variation margin on centrally cleared swap contracts (Note 1)  9,579 
Unrealized depreciation on OTC swap contracts (Note 1)  745,184 
Premium received on OTC swap contracts (Note 1)  125,369 
Unrealized depreciation on forward currency contracts (Note 1)  554,730 
Written options outstanding, at value (premiums $69,679) (Note 1)  140,324 
TBA sale commitments, at value (proceeds receivable $5,925,039) (Note 1)  5,928,750 
Collateral on securities loaned, at value (Note 1)  494,500 
Collateral on certain derivative contracts, at value (Notes 1 and 9)  4,664,367 
Other accrued expenses  56,046 
Total liabilities  29,408,297 
 
Net assets  $136,851,808 

 

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Statement of assets and liabilities cont.

REPRESENTED BY   
Paid-in capital (Unlimited shares authorized) (Notes 1 and 4)  $134,940,226 
Total distributable earnings (Note 1)  1,911,582 
Total — Representing net assets applicable to capital shares outstanding  $136,851,808 
 
COMPUTATION OF NET ASSET VALUE AND OFFERING PRICE   
Net asset value and redemption price per class A share ($14,735,594 divided by 1,367,472 shares)  $10.78 
Offering price per class A share (100/94.25 of $10.78)*  $11.44 
Net asset value and offering price per class B share ($1,905,878 divided by 180,850 shares)**  $10.54 
Net asset value and offering price per class C share ($4,849,994 divided by 459,206 shares)**  $10.56 
Net asset value and redemption price per class M share ($249,557 divided by 23,251 shares)  $10.73 
Offering price per class M share (100/96.50 of $10.73)*  $11.12 
Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per class R share   
($44,146 divided by 4,118 shares)  $10.72 
Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per class R6 share   
($75,761,711 divided by 7,030,865 shares)  $10.78 
Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per class Y share   
($39,304,928 divided by 3,635,002 shares)  $10.81 

 

* On single retail sales of less than $50,000. On sales of $50,000 or more the offering price is reduced.

** Redemption price per share is equal to net asset value less any applicable contingent deferred sales charge.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Statement of operations Six months ended 11/30/18 (Unaudited)

INVESTMENT INCOME   
Interest (including interest income of $145,067 from investments in affiliated issuers) (Note 5)  $1,325,625 
Dividends (net of foreign tax of $36,222)  1,131,773 
Securities lending (net of expenses) (Notes 1 and 5)  795 
Total investment income  2,458,193 
 
EXPENSES   
Compensation of Manager (Note 2)  543,831 
Investor servicing fees (Note 2)  87,950 
Custodian fees (Note 2)  47,095 
Trustee compensation and expenses (Note 2)  3,701 
Distribution fees (Note 2)  60,747 
Administrative services (Note 2)  1,762 
Auditing and tax fees  71,699 
Blue sky expense  48,282 
Other  30,259 
Fees waived and reimbursed by Manager (Note 2)  (217,911) 
Total expenses  677,415 
Expense reduction (Note 2)  (1,483) 
Net expenses  675,932 
 
Net investment income  1,782,261 
 
REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS)   
Net realized gain (loss) on:   
Securities from unaffiliated issuers (Notes 1 and 3)  2,741,999 
Foreign currency transactions (Note 1)  (26,383) 
Forward currency contracts (Note 1)  (722,532) 
Futures contracts (Note 1)  (429,084) 
Swap contracts (Note 1)  (2,953,444) 
Written options (Note 1)  122,794 
Total net realized loss  (1,266,650) 
Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:   
Securities from unaffiliated issuers and TBA sale commitments  (11,691,125) 
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies  2,222 
Forward currency contracts  76,487 
Futures contracts  (792,822) 
Swap contracts  1,434,383 
Written options  (88,605) 
Total change in net unrealized depreciation  (11,059,460) 
 
Net loss on investments  (12,326,110) 
 
Net decrease in net assets resulting from operations  $(10,543,849) 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Statement of changes in net assets

DECREASE IN NET ASSETS  Six months ended 11/30/18*  Year ended 5/31/18 
Operations     
Net investment income  $1,782,261  $3,418,916 
Net realized gain (loss) on investments     
and foreign currency transactions  (1,266,650)  6,743,056 
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments     
and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies  (11,059,460)  3,523,652 
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting     
from operations  (10,543,849)  13,685,624 
Distributions to shareholders (Note 1):     
From ordinary income     
Net investment income     
Class A    (505,565) 
Class B    (49,532) 
Class C    (130,069) 
Class M    (5,868) 
Class R    (3,083) 
Class R6    (2,453,358) 
Class Y    (1,444,735) 
Increase in capital from settlement payments    96,972 
Decrease from capital share transactions (Note 4)  (9,851,099)  (28,513,638) 
Total decrease in net assets  (20,394,948)  (19,323,252) 
 
NET ASSETS     
Beginning of period  157,246,756  176,570,008 
End of period (Note 1)  $136,851,808  $157,246,756 

 

* Unaudited.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Financial highlights (For a common share outstanding throughout the period)

  INVESTMENT OPERATIONS LESS DISTRIBUTIONS RATIOS AND SUPPLEMENTAL DATA
                        Ratio of  Ratio of net   
  Net asset    Net realized      From            expenses  investment   
  value,    and unrealized  Total from  From net  net realized    Non-recurring  Net asset  Total return  Net assets,  to average  income (loss)  Portfolio 
  beginning  Net investment  gain (loss) on  investment  investment  gain on  Total  reimburse-­  value, end  at net asset  end of period  net assets  to average  turnover 
Period ended­  of period­  income (loss)a  investments­  operations­  income­  investments­  distributions  ments­  of period­  value (%)b  (in thousands)  (%)c,d  net assets (%)d  (%) 
Class A­                             
November 30, 2018**   $11.61­  .12­  (.95)  (.83)  —­  —­  —­  —­  $10.78­  (7.15)*  $14,736­  .57*  1.08*  113*e 
May 31, 2018­  10.96­  .22­  .74­  .96­  (.32)  —­  (.32)  .01­f  11.61­  8.86­  18,906­  1.14­  1.93­  312­e 
May 31, 2017­  10.28­  .17­  .76­  .93­  (.25)  —­  (.25)  —­  10.96­  9.18­  18,582­  1.13­  1.64­  299­e 
May 31, 2016­  11.10­  .15­  (.73)  (.58)  (.03)  (.21)  (.24)  —­  10.28­  (5.14)  20,236­  1.25­  1.49­  300­e 
May 31, 2015­  11.58­  .10­  (.05)  .05­  (.27)  (.26)  (.53)  —­  11.10­  .53­  28,223­  1.41­  .91­  245­e 
May 31, 2014­  10.63­  .04­  .98­  1.02­  (.07)  —­  (.07)  —­  11.58­  9.59­  33,884­  1.40­  .33­  117­g 
Class B­                             
November 30, 2018**   $11.39­  .08­  (.93)  (.85)  —­  —­  —­  —­  $10.54­  (7.46)*  $1,906­  .95*  .69*  113*e 
May 31, 2018­  10.76­  .13­  .72­  .85­  (.23)  —­  (.23)  .01­f  11.39­  7.97­  2,315­  1.89­  1.18­  312­e 
May 31, 2017­  10.08­  .09­  .75­  .84­  (.16)  —­  (.16)  —­  10.76­  8.41­  2,669­  1.88­  .89­  299­e 
May 31, 2016­  10.94­  .08­  (.73)  (.65)  —­  (.21)  (.21)  —­  10.08­  (5.91)  3,207­  2.00­  .75­  300­e 
May 31, 2015­  11.44­  .02­  (.06)  (.04)  (.20)  (.26)  (.46)  —­  10.94­  (.26)  3,829­  2.16­  .17­  245­e 
May 31, 2014­  10.53­  (.03)  .95­  .92­  (.01)  —­  (.01)  —­  11.44­  8.78­  3,705­  2.15­  (.32)  117­g 
Class C­                             
November 30, 2018**   $11.42­  .08­  (.94)  (.86)  —­  —­  —­  —­  $10.56­  (7.53)*  $4,850­  .95*  .69*  113*e 
May 31, 2018­  10.78­  .13­  .72­  .85­  (.22)  —­  (.22)  .01­f  11.42­  7.99­  5,812­  1.89­  1.18­  312­e 
May 31, 2017­  10.09­  .09­  .75­  .84­  (.15)  —­  (.15)  —­  10.78­  8.42­  7,356­  1.88­  .88­  299­e 
May 31, 2016­  10.95­  .08­  (.73)  (.65)  —­  (.21)  (.21)  —­  10.09­  (5.90)  9,659­  2.00­  .74­  300­e 
May 31, 2015­  11.44­  .02­  (.06)  (.04)  (.19)  (.26)  (.45)  —­  10.95­  (.27)  15,125­  2.16­  .16­  245­e 
May 31, 2014­  10.51­  (.04)  .97­  .93­  —­  —­  —­  —­  11.44­  8.85­  16,325­  2.15­  (.38)  117­g 
Class M­                             
November 30, 2018**   $11.59­  .09­  (.95)  (.86)  —­  —­  —­  —­  $10.73­  (7.42)*  $250­  .82*  .81*  113*e 
May 31, 2018­  10.94­  .16­  .73­  .89­  (.25)  —­  (.25)  .01­f  11.59­  8.29­  297­  1.64­  1.43­  312­e 
May 31, 2017­  10.27­  .12­  .75­  .87­  (.20)  —­  (.20)  —­  10.94­  8.63­  289­  1.63­  1.15­  299­e 
May 31, 2016­  11.11­  .11­  (.74)  (.63)  —­  (.21)  (.21)  —­  10.27­  (5.63)  250­  1.75­  1.02­  300­e 
May 31, 2015­  11.60­  .05­  (.06)  (.01)  (.22)  (.26)  (.48)  —­  11.11­  .01­  336­  1.91­  .42­  245­e 
May 31, 2014­  10.66­  (.01)  .97­  .96­  (.02)  —­  (.02)  —­  11.60­  9.03­  339­  1.90­  (.09)  117­g 
Class R­                             
November 30, 2018**   $11.56­  .11­  (.95)  (.84)  —­  —­  —­  —­  $10.72­  (7.27)*  $44­  .70*  .95*  113*e 
May 31, 2018­  10.93­  .19­  .73­  .92­  (.30)  —­  (.30)  .01­f  11.56­  8.51­  103­  1.39­  1.67­  312­e 
May 31, 2017­  10.21­  .15­  .75­  .90­  (.18)  —­  (.18)  —­  10.93­  8.92­  110­  1.38­  1.40­  299­e 
May 31, 2016­  11.02­  .12­  (.72)  (.60)  —­  (.21)  (.21)  —­  10.21­  (5.40)  135­  1.50­  1.17­  300­e 
May 31, 2015­  11.52­  .07­  (.05)  .02­  (.26)  (.26)  (.52)  —­  11.02­  .25­  261­  1.66­  .66­  245­e 
May 31, 2014­  10.59­  .02­  .97­  .99­  (.06)  —­  (.06)  —­  11.52­  9.34­  484­  1.65­  .17­  117­g 

 

See notes to financial highlights at the end of this section.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Financial highlights cont.

  INVESTMENT OPERATIONS LESS DISTRIBUTIONS RATIOS AND SUPPLEMENTAL DATA
                        Ratio of  Ratio of net   
  Net asset    Net realized      From            expenses  investment   
  value,    and unrealized  Total from  From net  net realized    Non-recurring  Net asset  Total return  Net assets,  to average  income (loss)  Portfolio 
  beginning  Net investment  gain (loss) on  investment  investment  gain on  Total  reimburse-­  value, end  at net asset  end of period  net assets  to average  turnover 
Period ended­  of period­  income (loss)a  investments­  operations­  income­  investments­  distributions  ments­  of period­  value (%)b  (in thousands)  (%)c,d  net assets (%)d  (%) 
Class R6­                             
November 30, 2018**   $11.58­  .14­  (.94)  (.80)  —­  —­  —­  —­  $10.78­  (6.91)*  $75,762­  .38*  1.26*  113*e 
May 31, 2018­  10.94­  .26­  .73­  .99­  (.36)  —­  (.36)  .01­f  11.58­  9.19­  81,403­  .75­  2.31­  312­e 
May 31, 2017­  10.26­  .22­  .75­  .97­  (.29)  —­  (.29)  —­  10.94­  9.65­  102,097­  .75­  2.04­  299­e 
May 31, 2016­  11.10­  .22­  (.76)  (.54)  (.09)  (.21)  (.30)  —­  10.26­  (4.83)  96,118­  .81­  2.17­  300­e 
May 31, 2015­  11.61­  .14­  (.07)  .07­  (.32)  (.26)  (.58)  —­  11.10­  .79­  30,007­  1.11­  1.23­  245­e 
May 31, 2014­  10.68­  .07­  .98­  1.05­  (.12)  —­  (.12)  —­  11.61­  9.93­  2,055­  1.11­  .68­  117­g 
Class Y­                             
November 30, 2018**   $11.63­  .14­  (.96)  (.82)  —­  —­  —­  —­  $10.81­  (7.05)*  $39,305­  .45*  1.19*  113*e 
May 31, 2018­  10.99­  .25­  .73­  .98­  (.35)  —­  (.35)  .01­f  11.63­  9.02­  48,411­  .89­  2.17­  312­e 
May 31, 2017­  10.30­  .20­  .77­  .97­  (.28)  —­  (.28)  —­  10.99­  9.56­  45,467­  .88­  1.90­  299­e 
May 31, 2016­  11.10­  .17­  (.72)  (.55)  (.04)  (.21)  (.25)  —­  10.30­  (4.94)  47,321­  1.00­  1.62­  300­e 
May 31, 2015­  11.59­  .13­  (.06)  .07­  (.30)  (.26)  (.56)  —­  11.10­  .79­  135,058­  1.16­  1.17­  245­e 
May 31, 2014­  10.65­  .07­  .98­  1.05­  (.11)  —­  (.11)  —­  11.59­  9.87­  133,332­  1.15­  .64­  117­g 

 

* Not annualized

** Unaudited.

a Per share net investment income (loss) has been determined on the basis of the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the period.

b Total return assumes dividend reinvestment and does not reflect the effect of sales charges.

c Includes amounts paid through expense offset arrangements, if any (Note 2). Also excludes acquired fund fees and expenses, if any.

d Reflects an involuntary contractual expense limitation in effect during the period. As a result of such limitation, the expenses of each class reflect a reduction of the following amounts as a percentage of average net assets (Note 2):

          Percentage of average net assets 
  11/30/18  5/31/18  5/31/17  5/31/16  5/31/15  5/31/14 
Class A  0.15%  0.24%  0.23%  0.17%  0.10%  0.10% 
Class B  0.15  0.24  0.23  0.17  0.10  0.10 
Class C  0.15  0.24  0.23  0.17  0.10  0.10 
Class M  0.15  0.24  0.23  0.17  0.10  0.10 
Class R  0.15  0.24  0.23  0.17  0.10  0.10 
Class R6  0.15  0.24  0.23  0.20  N/A  N/A 
Class Y  0.15  0.24  0.23  0.17  0.10  0.10 

 

e Portfolio turnover includes TBA purchase and sale commitments.

f Reflects a non-recurring reimbursement from Putnam Management which amounted to $0.01 per share outstanding on May 31, 2018.

g Portfolio turnover excludes TBA purchase and sale commitments. Including TBA purchase and sale commitments to conform with current year presentation, the portfolio turnover would have been following:

  Portfolio turnover % 
May 31, 2014  212% 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Notes to financial statements 11/30/18 (Unaudited)

Within the following Notes to financial statements, references to “State Street” represent State Street Bank and Trust Company, references to “the SEC” represent the Securities and Exchange Commission, references to “Putnam Management” represent Putnam Investment Management, LLC, the fund’s manager, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Putnam Investments, LLC and references to “OTC”, if any, represent over-the-counter. Unless otherwise noted, the “reporting period” represents the period from June 1, 2018 through November 30, 2018.

Putnam Dynamic Risk Allocation Fund (the fund) is a diversified series of Putnam Funds Trust (the Trust), a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company. The goal of the fund is to seek total return. Total return is composed of capital appreciation and income. The fund invests in a diversified set of asset classes. By investing in a broader set of asset classes than a traditional balanced fund, and by using leverage to increase the fund’s exposures to asset classes, Putnam Management believes the fund may achieve a higher total return than a traditional balanced fund with approximately the same amount of risk as a traditional balanced fund. Risk is measured by the volatility of the fund’s investment portfolio. The fund may invest without limit in U.S., international, and emerging markets equity securities (growth or value stocks or both) of companies of any size and fixed-income securities (including in below-investment-grade securities, which are sometimes referred to as “junk bonds”); mortgage- and asset-backed securities; inflation-protected securities; commodities; and real estate investment trusts (REITs). These asset classes offer different return potential and exposure to different investment risks. Putnam Management allocates the fund’s assets among asset classes in a manner intended to diversify the fund’s exposure to these different types of risk. Putnam Management typically using leverage to adjust or to increase the fund’s exposure to certain asset classes in order to diversify or balance risk exposure. Putnam Management expects that, on average, net notional investment exposure of approximately 150% of the net assets of the fund will result from the fund’s allocation strategy under normal market conditions, although the amounts of leverage may be significantly higher or lower at any given time. Putnam Management believes that better risk diversification creates the potential for the fund to perform well in a variety of market environments. Because the potential risks and returns of asset classes, the costs of leverage, and the benefits of diversification vary over time and with market conditions, Putnam Management makes dynamic adjustments to the fund’s asset allocations as the market environment changes. Putnam Management uses qualitative analysis, which includes evaluation of the business cycle environment and its impact on different asset classes, and quantitative techniques, which incorporate individual valuation and relative valuation measures, to establish asset class allocations that it believes will enable the fund to perform well in a variety of environments. Putnam Management also uses active trading strategies, such as active security selection, tactical asset allocation, currency transactions and options transactions. Certain of these strategies may introduce additional investment leverage. When making particular investments within an asset class, Putnam Management may consider, among other factors, a company’s valuation, financial strength, growth potential, competitive position in its industry, projected future earnings, cash flows and dividends when deciding whether to buy or sell equity investments, and among other factors, credit, interest rate and prepayment risks when deciding whether to buy or sell fixed-income investments. Putnam Management may also take into account general market conditions when making investment decisions. Putnam Management typically uses derivatives, such as futures, options, certain foreign currency transactions, warrants and swap contracts, to a significant extent for hedging purposes, to obtain leverage, and to adjust the return and volatility characteristics of the fund’s investments. The fund may also engage in short sales of securities.

The fund offers class A, class B, class C, class M, class R, class R6 and class Y shares. Purchases of class B shares are closed to new and existing investors except by exchange from class B shares of another Putnam fund or through dividend and/or capital gains reinvestment. Class A and class M shares are sold with a maximum front-end sales charge of 5.75% and 3.50%, respectively. Class A shares generally are not subject to a contingent deferred sales charge, and class M, class R, class R6 and class Y shares are not subject to a contingent deferred sales charge. Class B shares, which convert to class A shares after approximately eight years, are not subject to a front-end sales charge and are subject to a contingent deferred sales charge if those shares are redeemed within six years of purchase. Class C shares are subject to a one-year 1.00% contingent deferred sales charge and generally convert to class A shares after approximately ten years. Class R shares, which are not available to all investors, are sold at net asset value. The expenses for class A, class B, class C, class M and class R shares may differ based on the distribution fee of each class, which is identified in Note 2. Class R6 and class Y shares, which are sold at net asset value, are generally subject to the same expenses as class A, class B, class C, class M and class R shares, but do not bear a distribution fee, and in the case of class R6 shares, bear a lower investor servicing fee, which is identified in Note 2. Class R6 and class Y shares are not available to all investors.

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In the normal course of business, the fund enters into contracts that may include agreements to indemnify another party under given circumstances. The fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be, but have not yet been, made against the fund. However, the fund’s management team expects the risk of material loss to be remote.

The fund has entered into contractual arrangements with an investment adviser, administrator, distributor, shareholder servicing agent and custodian, who each provide services to the fund. Unless expressly stated otherwise, shareholders are not parties to, or intended beneficiaries of these contractual arrangements, and these contractual arrangements are not intended to create any shareholder right to enforce them against the service providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either directly or on behalf of the fund.

Under the fund’s Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, any claims asserted against or on behalf of the Putnam Funds, including claims against Trustees and Officers, must be brought in state and federal courts located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Note 1: Significant accounting policies

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies consistently followed by the fund in the preparation of its financial statements. The preparation of financial statements is in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities in the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events after the Statement of assets and liabilities date through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements.

Investment income, realized and unrealized gains and losses and expenses of the fund are borne pro-rata based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the fund, except that each class bears expenses unique to that class (including the distribution fees applicable to such classes). Each class votes as a class only with respect to its own distribution plan or other matters on which a class vote is required by law or determined by the Trustees. If the fund were liquidated, shares of each class would receive their pro-rata share of the net assets of the fund. In addition, the Trustees declare separate dividends on each class of shares.

Security valuation Portfolio securities and other investments are valued using policies and procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. The Trustees have formed a Pricing Committee to oversee the implementation of these procedures and have delegated responsibility for valuing the fund’s assets in accordance with these procedures to Putnam Management. Putnam Management has established an internal Valuation Committee that is responsible for making fair value determinations, evaluating the effectiveness of the pricing policies of the fund and reporting to the Pricing Committee.

Investments for which market quotations are readily available are valued at the last reported sales price on their principal exchange, or official closing price for certain markets, and are classified as Level 1 securities under Accounting Standards Codification 820 Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (ASC 820). If no sales are reported, as in the case of some securities that are traded OTC, a security is valued at its last reported bid price and is generally categorized as a Level 2 security.

Investments in open-end investment companies (excluding exchange-traded funds), if any, which can be classified as Level 1 or Level 2 securities, are valued based on their net asset value. The net asset value of such investment companies equals the total value of their assets less their liabilities and divided by the number of their outstanding shares.

Market quotations are not considered to be readily available for certain debt obligations (including short-term investments with remaining maturities of 60 days or less) and other investments; such investments are valued on the basis of valuations furnished by an independent pricing service approved by the Trustees or dealers selected by Putnam Management. Such services or dealers determine valuations for normal institutional-size trading units of such securities using methods based on market transactions for comparable securities and various relationships, generally recognized by institutional traders, between securities (which consider such factors as security prices, yields, maturities and ratings). These securities will generally be categorized as Level 2.

Many securities markets and exchanges outside the U.S. close prior to the scheduled close of the New York Stock Exchange and therefore the closing prices for securities in such markets or on such exchanges may not fully reflect events that occur after such close but before the scheduled close of the New York Stock Exchange. Accordingly, on certain days, the fund will fair value certain foreign equity securities taking into account multiple factors including movements in the U.S. securities markets, currency valuations and comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts, exchange-traded funds and futures contracts. The foreign equity securities, which

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would generally be classified as Level 1 securities, will be transferred to Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy when they are valued at fair value. The number of days on which fair value prices will be used will depend on market activity and it is possible that fair value prices will be used by the fund to a significant extent. At the close of the reporting period, fair value pricing was used for certain foreign securities in the portfolio. Securities quoted in foreign currencies, if any, are translated into U.S. dollars at the current exchange rate.

To the extent a pricing service or dealer is unable to value a security or provides a valuation that Putnam Management does not believe accurately reflects the security’s fair value, the security will be valued at fair value by Putnam Management in accordance with policies and procedures approved by the Trustees. Certain investments, including certain restricted and illiquid securities and derivatives, are also valued at fair value following procedures approved by the Trustees. These valuations consider such factors as significant market or specific security events such as interest rate or credit quality changes, various relationships with other securities, discount rates, U.S. Treasury, U.S. swap and credit yields, index levels, convexity exposures, recovery rates, sales and other multiples and resale restrictions. These securities are classified as Level 2 or as Level 3 depending on the priority of the significant inputs.

To assess the continuing appropriateness of fair valuations, the Valuation Committee reviews and affirms the reasonableness of such valuations on a regular basis after considering all relevant information that is reasonably available. Such valuations and procedures are reviewed periodically by the Trustees. Certain securities may be valued on the basis of a price provided by a single source. The fair value of securities is generally determined as the amount that the fund could reasonably expect to realize from an orderly disposition of such securities over a reasonable period of time. By its nature, a fair value price is a good faith estimate of the value of a security in a current sale and does not reflect an actual market price, which may be different by a material amount.

Security transactions and related investment income Security transactions are recorded on the trade date (the date the order to buy or sell is executed). Gains or losses on securities sold are determined on the identified cost basis.

Interest income, net of any applicable withholding taxes, is recorded on the accrual basis. Dividend income, net of any applicable withholding taxes, is recognized on the ex-dividend date except that certain dividends from foreign securities, if any, are recognized as soon as the fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends, if any, are recorded at the fair value of the securities received. Dividends representing a return of capital or capital gains, if any, are reflected as a reduction of cost and/or as a realized gain. All premiums/discounts are amortized/accreted on a yield-to-maturity basis.

The fund earned certain fees in connection with its senior loan purchasing activities. These fees are treated as market discount and are amortized into income in the Statement of operations.

Securities purchased or sold on a forward commitment or delayed delivery basis may be settled at a future date beyond customary settlement time; interest income is accrued based on the terms of the securities. Losses may arise due to changes in the fair value of the underlying securities or if the counterparty does not perform under the contract.

Stripped securities The fund may invest in stripped securities which represent a participation in securities that may be structured in classes with rights to receive different portions of the interest and principal. Interest-only securities receive all of the interest and principal-only securities receive all of the principal. If the interest-only securities experience greater than anticipated prepayments of principal, the fund may fail to recoup fully its initial investment in these securities. Conversely, principal-only securities increase in value if prepayments are greater than anticipated and decline if prepayments are slower than anticipated. The fair value of these securities is highly sensitive to changes in interest rates.

Foreign currency translation The accounting records of the fund are maintained in U.S. dollars. The fair value of foreign securities, currency holdings, and other assets and liabilities is recorded in the books and records of the fund after translation to U.S. dollars based on the exchange rates on that day. The cost of each security is determined using historical exchange rates. Income and withholding taxes are translated at prevailing exchange rates when earned or incurred. The fund does not isolate that portion of realized or unrealized gains or losses resulting from changes in the foreign exchange rate on investments from fluctuations arising from changes in the market prices of the securities. Such gains and losses are included with the net realized and unrealized gain or loss on investments. Net realized gains and losses on foreign currency transactions represent net realized exchange gains or losses on disposition of foreign currencies, currency gains and losses realized between the trade and settlement dates on securities transactions and the difference between the amount of investment income and foreign withholding taxes recorded on the fund’s books and the U.S. dollar equivalent amounts actually received or paid. Net unrealized appreciation and depreciation of assets and liabilities in foreign currencies arise from

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changes in the value of assets and liabilities other than investments at the period end, resulting from changes in the exchange rate.

Options contracts The fund uses options contracts to hedge duration and convexity, to isolate prepayment risk, to gain exposure to interest rates, to hedge against changes in values of securities it owns, owned or expects to own, to hedge prepayment risk, to generate additional income for the portfolio, to enhance returns on securities owned, to enhance the return on a security owned, to gain exposure to securities and to manage downside risks.

The potential risk to the fund is that the change in value of options contracts may not correspond to the change in value of the hedged instruments. In addition, losses may arise from changes in the value of the underlying instruments if there is an illiquid secondary market for the contracts, if interest or exchange rates move unexpectedly or if the counterparty to the contract is unable to perform. Realized gains and losses on purchased options are included in realized gains and losses on investment securities. If a written call option is exercised, the premium originally received is recorded as an addition to sales proceeds. If a written put option is exercised, the premium originally received is recorded as a reduction to the cost of investments.

Exchange-traded options are valued at the last sale price or, if no sales are reported, the last bid price for purchased options and the last ask price for written options. OTC traded options are valued using prices supplied by dealers.

Options on swaps are similar to options on securities except that the premium paid or received is to buy or grant the right to enter into a previously agreed upon interest rate or credit default contract. Forward premium swap option contracts include premiums that have extended settlement dates. The delayed settlement of the premiums is factored into the daily valuation of the option contracts. In the case of interest rate cap and floor contracts, in return for a premium, ongoing payments between two parties are based on interest rates exceeding a specified rate, in the case of a cap contract, or falling below a specified rate in the case of a floor contract.

Written option contracts outstanding at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.

Futures contracts The fund uses futures contracts to manage exposure to market risk, to hedge prepayment risk, to hedge interest rate risk, to gain exposure to interest rates and to equitize cash.

The potential risk to the fund is that the change in value of futures contracts may not correspond to the change in value of the hedged instruments. In addition, losses may arise from changes in the value of the underlying instruments, if there is an illiquid secondary market for the contracts, if interest or exchange rates move unexpectedly or if the counterparty to the contract is unable to perform. With futures, there is minimal counterparty credit risk to the fund since futures are exchange traded and the exchange’s clearinghouse, as counterparty to all exchange traded futures, guarantees the futures against default. Risks may exceed amounts recognized on the Statement of assets and liabilities. When the contract is closed, the fund records a realized gain or loss equal to the difference between the value of the contract at the time it was opened and the value at the time it was closed.

Futures contracts are valued at the quoted daily settlement prices established by the exchange on which they trade. The fund and the broker agree to exchange an amount of cash equal to the daily fluctuation in the value of the futures contract. Such receipts or payments are known as “variation margin.”

Futures contracts outstanding at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.

Forward currency contracts The fund buys and sells forward currency contracts, which are agreements between two parties to buy and sell currencies at a set price on a future date. These contracts are used to hedge foreign exchange risk and to gain exposure to currencies.

The U.S. dollar value of forward currency contracts is determined using current forward currency exchange rates supplied by a quotation service. The fair value of the contract will fluctuate with changes in currency exchange rates. The contract is marked to market daily and the change in fair value is recorded as an unrealized gain or loss. The fund records a realized gain or loss equal to the difference between the value of the contract at the time it was opened and the value at the time it was closed when the contract matures or by delivery of the currency. The fund could be exposed to risk if the value of the currency changes unfavorably, if the counterparties to the contracts are unable to meet the terms of their contracts or if the fund is unable to enter into a closing position. Risks may exceed amounts recognized on the Statement of assets and liabilities.

Forward currency contracts outstanding at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.

Interest rate swap contracts The fund entered into OTC and/or centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts, which are arrangements between two parties to exchange cash flows based on a notional principal amount, to hedge interest rate risk, to gain exposure on interest rates and to hedge prepayment risk.

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An OTC and centrally cleared interest rate swap can be purchased or sold with an upfront premium. For OTC interest rate swap contracts, an upfront payment received by the fund is recorded as a liability on the fund’s books. An upfront payment made by the fund is recorded as an asset on the fund’s books. OTC and centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts are marked to market daily based upon quotations from an independent pricing service or market makers. Any change is recorded as an unrealized gain or loss on OTC interest rate swaps. Daily fluctuations in the value of centrally cleared interest rate swaps are settled through a central clearing agent and are recorded in variation margin on the Statement of assets and liabilities and recorded as unrealized gain or loss. Payments, including upfront premiums, received or made are recorded as realized gains or losses at the reset date or the closing of the contract. Certain OTC and centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts may include extended effective dates. Payments related to these swap contracts are accrued based on the terms of the contract.

The fund could be exposed to credit or market risk due to unfavorable changes in the fluctuation of interest rates or if the counterparty defaults, in the case of OTC interest rate contracts, or the central clearing agency or a clearing member defaults, in the case of centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts, on its respective obligation to perform under the contract. The fund’s maximum risk of loss from counterparty risk or central clearing risk is the fair value of the contract. This risk may be mitigated for OTC interest rate swap contracts by having a master netting arrangement between the fund and the counterparty and for centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts through the daily exchange of variation margin. There is minimal counterparty risk with respect to centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts due to the clearinghouse guarantee fund and other resources that are available in the event of a clearing member default. Risk of loss may exceed amounts recognized on the Statement of assets and liabilities.

OTC and centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts outstanding, including their respective notional amounts at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.

Total return swap contracts The fund entered into OTC and/or centrally cleared total return swap contracts, which are arrangements to exchange a market-linked return for a periodic payment, both based on a notional principal amount, to hedge sector exposure, to manage exposure to specific sectors or industries, to manage exposure to specific securities, to gain exposure to a basket of securities, to gain exposure to specific markets or countries, to gain exposure to specific sectors or industries and to generate additional income for the portfolio.

To the extent that the total return of the security, index or other financial measure underlying the transaction exceeds or falls short of the offsetting interest rate obligation, the fund will receive a payment from or make a payment to the counterparty. OTC and/or centrally cleared total return swap contracts are marked to market daily based upon quotations from an independent pricing service or market maker. Any change is recorded as an unrealized gain or loss on OTC total return swaps. Daily fluctuations in the value of centrally cleared total return swaps are settled through a central clearing agent and are recorded in variation margin on the Statement of assets and liabilities and recorded as unrealized gain or loss. Payments received or made are recorded as realized gains or losses. Certain OTC and/or centrally cleared total return swap contracts may include extended effective dates. Payments related to these swap contracts are accrued based on the terms of the contract. The fund could be exposed to credit or market risk due to unfavorable changes in the fluctuation of interest rates or in the price of the underlying security or index, the possibility that there is no liquid market for these agreements or that the counterparty may default on its obligation to perform. The fund’s maximum risk of loss from counterparty risk or central clearing risk is the fair value of the contract. This risk may be mitigated for OTC total return swap contracts by having a master netting arrangement between the fund and the counterparty and for centrally cleared total return swap contracts through the daily exchange of variation margin. There is minimal counterparty risk with respect to centrally cleared total return swap contracts due to the clearinghouse guarantee fund and other resources that are available in the event of a clearing member default. Risk of loss may exceed amounts recognized on the Statement of assets and liabilities.

OTC and/or centrally cleared total return swap contracts outstanding, including their respective notional amounts at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.

Credit default contracts The fund entered into OTC and/or centrally cleared credit default contracts to hedge credit risk, to hedge market risk and to gain exposure on individual names and/or baskets of securities.

In OTC and centrally cleared credit default contracts, the protection buyer typically makes a periodic stream of payments to a counterparty, the protection seller, in exchange for the right to receive a contingent payment upon the occurrence of a credit event on the reference obligation or all other equally ranked obligations of the reference entity. Credit events are contract specific but may include bankruptcy, failure to pay, restructuring and obligation acceleration. For OTC credit default contracts, an upfront payment received by the fund is recorded as

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a liability on the fund’s books. An upfront payment made by the fund is recorded as an asset on the fund’s books. Centrally cleared credit default contracts provide the same rights to the protection buyer and seller except the payments between parties, including upfront premiums, are settled through a central clearing agent through variation margin payments. Upfront and periodic payments received or paid by the fund for OTC and centrally cleared credit default contracts are recorded as realized gains or losses at the reset date or close of the contract. The OTC and centrally cleared credit default contracts are marked to market daily based upon quotations from an independent pricing service or market makers. Any change in value of OTC credit default contracts is recorded as an unrealized gain or loss. Daily fluctuations in the value of centrally cleared credit default contracts are recorded in variation margin on the Statement of assets and liabilities and recorded as unrealized gain or loss. Upon the occurrence of a credit event, the difference between the par value and fair value of the reference obligation, net of any proportional amount of the upfront payment, is recorded as a realized gain or loss.

In addition to bearing the risk that the credit event will occur, the fund could be exposed to market risk due to unfavorable changes in interest rates or in the price of the underlying security or index or the possibility that the fund may be unable to close out its position at the same time or at the same price as if it had purchased the underlying reference obligations. In certain circumstances, the fund may enter into offsetting OTC and centrally cleared credit default contracts which would mitigate its risk of loss. Risks of loss may exceed amounts recognized on the Statement of assets and liabilities. The fund’s maximum risk of loss from counterparty risk, either as the protection seller or as the protection buyer, is the fair value of the contract. This risk may be mitigated for OTC credit default contracts by having a master netting arrangement between the fund and the counterparty and for centrally cleared credit default contracts through the daily exchange of variation margin. Counterparty risk is further mitigated with respect to centrally cleared credit default swap contracts due to the clearinghouse guarantee fund and other resources that are available in the event of a clearing member default. Where the fund is a seller of protection, the maximum potential amount of future payments the fund may be required to make is equal to the notional amount.

OTC and centrally cleared credit default contracts outstanding, including their respective notional amounts at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.

TBA commitments The fund may enter into TBA (to be announced) commitments to purchase securities for a fixed unit price at a future date beyond customary settlement time. Although the unit price and par amount have been established, the actual securities have not been specified. However, it is anticipated that the amount of the commitments will not significantly differ from the principal amount. The fund holds, and maintains until settlement date, cash or high-grade debt obligations in an amount sufficient to meet the purchase price, or the fund may enter into offsetting contracts for the forward sale of other securities it owns. Income on the securities will not be earned until settlement date.

The fund may also enter into TBA sale commitments to hedge its portfolio positions, to sell mortgage-backed securities it owns under delayed delivery arrangements or to take a short position in mortgage-backed securities. Proceeds of TBA sale commitments are not received until the contractual settlement date. During the time a TBA sale commitment is outstanding, either equivalent deliverable securities or an offsetting TBA purchase commitment deliverable on or before the sale commitment date are held as “cover” for the transaction, or other liquid assets in an amount equal to the notional value of the TBA sale commitment are segregated. If the TBA sale commitment is closed through the acquisition of an offsetting TBA purchase commitment, the fund realizes a gain or loss. If the fund delivers securities under the commitment, the fund realizes a gain or a loss from the sale of the securities based upon the unit price established at the date the commitment was entered into.

TBA commitments, which are accounted for as purchase and sale transactions, may be considered securities themselves, and involve a risk of loss due to changes in the value of the security prior to the settlement date as well as the risk that the counterparty to the transaction will not perform its obligations. Counterparty risk is mitigated by having a master agreement between the fund and the counterparty.

Unsettled TBA commitments are valued at their fair value according to the procedures described under “Security valuation” above. The contract is marked to market daily and the change in fair value is recorded by the fund as an unrealized gain or loss. Based on market circumstances, Putnam Management will determine whether to take delivery of the underlying securities or to dispose of the TBA commitments prior to settlement.

TBA purchase commitments outstanding at period end, if any, are listed within the fund’s portfolio and TBA sale commitments outstanding at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.

Master agreements The fund is a party to ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.) Master Agreements that govern OTC derivative and foreign exchange contracts and Master Securities Forward Transaction Agreements that govern transactions involving mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities

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that may result in delayed delivery (Master Agreements) with certain counterparties entered into from time to time. The Master Agreements may contain provisions regarding, among other things, the parties’ general obligations, representations, agreements, collateral requirements, events of default and early termination. With respect to certain counterparties, in accordance with the terms of the Master Agreements, collateral posted to the fund is held in a segregated account by the fund’s custodian and, with respect to those amounts which can be sold or repledged, are presented in the fund’s portfolio.

Collateral pledged by the fund is segregated by the fund’s custodian and identified in the fund’s portfolio. Collateral can be in the form of cash or debt securities issued by the U.S. Government or related agencies or other securities as agreed to by the fund and the applicable counterparty. Collateral requirements are determined based on the fund’s net position with each counterparty.

With respect to ISDA Master Agreements, termination events applicable to the fund may occur upon a decline in the fund’s net assets below a specified threshold over a certain period of time. Termination events applicable to counterparties may occur upon a decline in the counterparty’s long-term or short-term credit ratings below a specified level. In each case, upon occurrence, the other party may elect to terminate early and cause settlement of all derivative and foreign exchange contracts outstanding, including the payment of any losses and costs resulting from such early termination, as reasonably determined by the terminating party. Any decision by one or more of the fund’s counterparties to elect early termination could impact the fund’s future derivative activity.

At the close of the reporting period, the fund had a net liability position of $113,682 on open derivative contracts subject to the Master Agreements. There was no collateral posted by the fund at period end for these agreements.

Securities lending The fund may lend securities, through its agent, to qualified borrowers in order to earn additional income. The loans are collateralized by cash in an amount at least equal to the fair value of the securities loaned. The fair value of securities loaned is determined daily and any additional required collateral is allocated to the fund on the next business day. The remaining maturities of the securities lending transactions are considered overnight and continuous. The risk of borrower default will be borne by the fund’s agent; the fund will bear the risk of loss with respect to the investment of the cash collateral. Income from securities lending, net of expenses, is included in investment income on the Statement of operations. Cash collateral is invested in Putnam Cash Collateral Pool, LLC, a limited liability company managed by an affiliate of Putnam Management. Investments in Putnam Cash Collateral Pool, LLC are valued at its closing net asset value each business day. There are no management fees charged to Putnam Cash Collateral Pool, LLC. At the close of the reporting period, the fund received cash collateral of $494,500 and the value of securities loaned amounted to $490,188.

Interfund lending The fund, along with other Putnam funds, may participate in an interfund lending program pursuant to an exemptive order issued by the SEC. This program allows the fund to borrow from or lend to other Putnam funds that permit such transactions. Interfund lending transactions are subject to each fund’s investment policies and borrowing and lending limits. Interest earned or paid on the interfund lending transaction will be based on the average of certain current market rates. During the reporting period, the fund did not utilize the program.

Lines of credit The fund participates, along with other Putnam funds, in a $317.5 million unsecured committed line of credit and a $235.5 million unsecured uncommitted line of credit, both provided by State Street. Borrowings may be made for temporary or emergency purposes, including the funding of shareholder redemption requests and trade settlements. Interest is charged to the fund based on the fund’s borrowing at a rate equal to 1.25% plus the higher of (1) the Federal Funds rate and (2) the overnight LIBOR for the committed line of credit and the Federal Funds rate plus 1.30% for the uncommitted line of credit. A closing fee equal to 0.04% of the committed line of credit and 0.04% of the uncommitted line of credit has been paid by the participating funds. In addition, a commitment fee of 0.21% per annum on any unutilized portion of the committed line of credit is allocated to the participating funds based on their relative net assets and paid quarterly. During the reporting period, the fund had no borrowings against these arrangements.

Federal taxes It is the policy of the fund to distribute all of its taxable income within the prescribed time period and otherwise comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), applicable to regulated investment companies. It is also the intention of the fund to distribute an amount sufficient to avoid imposition of any excise tax under Section 4982 of the Code.

The fund is subject to the provisions of Accounting Standards Codification 740 Income Taxes (ASC 740). ASC 740 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The fund did not have a liability to record for any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. No provision has been made for federal taxes on income, capital gains or unrealized appreciation on securities held nor for excise tax on income and capital gains. Each of the fund’s federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.

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The fund may also be subject to taxes imposed by governments of countries in which it invests. Such taxes are generally based on either income or gains earned or repatriated. The fund accrues and applies such taxes to net investment income, net realized gains and net unrealized gains as income and/or capital gains are earned. In some cases, the fund may be entitled to reclaim all or a portion of such taxes, and such reclaim amounts, if any, are reflected as an asset on the fund’s books. In many cases, however, the fund may not receive such amounts for an extended period of time, depending on the country of investment.

Under the Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2010, the fund will be permitted to carry forward capital losses incurred for an unlimited period and the carry forwards will retain their character as either short-term or long-term capital losses. At May 31, 2018, the fund had the following capital loss carryovers available, to the extent allowed by the Code, to offset future net capital gain, if any:

  Loss carryover   
Short-term  Long-term  Total 
$1,885,381  $—  $1,885,381 

 

Tax cost of investments includes adjustments to net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) which may not necessarily be final tax cost basis adjustments, but closely approximate the tax basis unrealized gains and losses that may be realized and distributed to shareholders. The aggregate identified cost on a tax basis is $145,515,265, resulting in gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation of $13,281,314 and $12,379,276, respectively, or net unrealized appreciation of $902,038.

For the fiscal year ended May 31, 2018, the fund had undistributed net investment income of $2,829,088.

Distributions to shareholders Distributions to shareholders from net investment income are recorded by the fund on the ex-dividend date. Distributions from capital gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date and paid at least annually. The amount and character of income and gains to be distributed are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles. Dividend sources are estimated at the time of declaration. Actual results may vary. Any non-taxable return of capital cannot be determined until final tax calculations are completed after the end of the fund’s fiscal year. Reclassifications are made to the fund’s capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution (or available capital loss carryovers) under income tax regulations.

Expenses of the Trust Expenses directly charged or attributable to any fund will be paid from the assets of that fund. Generally, expenses of the Trust will be allocated among and charged to the assets of each fund on a basis that the Trustees deem fair and equitable, which may be based on the relative assets of each fund or the nature of the services performed and relative applicability to each fund.

Note 2: Management fee, administrative services and other transactions

The fund pays Putnam Management a management fee (based on the fund’s average net assets and computed and paid monthly) at annual rates that may vary based on the average of the aggregate net assets of all open-end mutual funds sponsored by Putnam Management (excluding net assets of funds that are invested in, or that are invested in by, other Putnam funds to the extent necessary to avoid “double counting” of those assets). Such annual rates may vary as follows:

0.880%  of the first $5 billion,  0.680%  of the next $50 billion, 
0.830%  of the next $5 billion,  0.660%  of the next $50 billion, 
0.780%  of the next $10 billion,  0.650%  of the next $100 billion and 
0.730%  of the next $10 billion,  0.645%  of any excess thereafter. 

 

For the reporting period, the management fee represented an effective rate (excluding the impact from any expense waivers in effect) of 0.362% of the fund’s average net assets.

Putnam Management has contractually agreed to waive fees (and, to the extent necessary, bear other expenses) of the fund through September 30, 2019, to the extent that total expenses of the fund (excluding brokerage, interest, taxes, investment-related expenses, payments under distribution plans, extraordinary expenses, payments under the fund’s investor servicing contract and acquired fund fees and expenses, but including payments under the fund’s investment management contract) would exceed an annual rate of 0.70% of the fund’s average net assets. During the reporting period, the fund’s expenses were reduced by $166,942 as a result of this limit.

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Putnam Management has also contractually agreed, through September 30, 2019, to waive fees and/or reimburse the fund’s expenses to the extent necessary to limit the cumulative expenses of the fund, exclusive of brokerage, interest, taxes, investment-related expenses, extraordinary expenses, acquired fund fees and expenses and payments under the fund’s investor servicing contract, investment management contract and distribution plans, on a fiscal year-to-date basis to an annual rate of 0.20% of the fund’s average net assets over such fiscal year-to-date period. During the reporting period, the fund’s expenses were reduced by $50,969 as a result of this limit.

Putnam Investments Limited (PIL), an affiliate of Putnam Management, is authorized by the Trustees to manage a separate portion of the assets of the fund as determined by Putnam Management from time to time. PIL did not manage any portion of the assets of the fund during the reporting period. If Putnam Management were to engage the services of PIL, Putnam Management would pay a quarterly sub-management fee to PIL for its services at an annual rate of 0.35% of the average net assets of the portion of the fund managed by PIL.

The fund reimburses Putnam Management an allocated amount for the compensation and related expenses of certain officers of the fund and their staff who provide administrative services to the fund. The aggregate amount of all such reimbursements is determined annually by the Trustees.

Custodial functions for the fund’s assets are provided by State Street. Custody fees are based on the fund’s asset level, the number of its security holdings and transaction volumes.

Putnam Investor Services, Inc., an affiliate of Putnam Management, provides investor servicing agent functions to the fund. Putnam Investor Services, Inc. received fees for investor servicing for class A, class B, class C, class M, class R and class Y shares that included (1) a per account fee for each direct and underlying non-defined contribution account (retail account) of the fund; (2) a specified rate of the fund’s assets attributable to defined contribution plan accounts; and (3) a specified rate based on the average net assets in retail accounts. Putnam Investor Services, Inc. has agreed that the aggregate investor servicing fees for each fund’s retail and defined contribution accounts for these share classes will not exceed an annual rate of 0.25% of the fund’s average assets attributable to such accounts.

Class R6 shares paid a monthly fee based on the average net assets of class R6 shares at an annual rate of 0.05%.

During the reporting period, the expenses for each class of shares related to investor servicing fees were as follows:

Class A  $16,022  Class R  68 
Class B  2,055  Class R6  19,819 
Class C  5,168  Class Y  44,554 
Class M  264  Total  $87,950 

 

The fund has entered into expense offset arrangements with Putnam Investor Services, Inc. and State Street whereby Putnam Investor Services, Inc.’s and State Street’s fees are reduced by credits allowed on cash balances. The fund also reduced expenses through brokerage/service arrangements. For the reporting period, the fund’s expenses were reduced by $565 under the expense offset arrangements and by $918 under the brokerage/service arrangements.

Each Independent Trustee of the fund receives an annual Trustee fee, of which $109, as a quarterly retainer, has been allocated to the fund, and an additional fee for each Trustees meeting attended. Trustees also are reimbursed for expenses they incur relating to their services as Trustees.

The fund has adopted a Trustee Fee Deferral Plan (the Deferral Plan) which allows the Trustees to defer the receipt of all or a portion of Trustees fees payable on or after July 1, 1995. The deferred fees remain invested in certain Putnam funds until distribution in accordance with the Deferral Plan.

The fund has adopted an unfunded noncontributory defined benefit pension plan (the Pension Plan) covering all Trustees of the fund who have served as a Trustee for at least five years and were first elected prior to 2004. Benefits under the Pension Plan are equal to 50% of the Trustee’s average annual attendance and retainer fees for the three years ended December 31, 2005. The retirement benefit is payable during a Trustee’s lifetime, beginning the year following retirement, for the number of years of service through December 31, 2006. Pension expense for the fund is included in Trustee compensation and expenses in the Statement of operations. Accrued pension liability is included in Payable for Trustee compensation and expenses in the Statement of assets and liabilities. The Trustees have terminated the Pension Plan with respect to any Trustee first elected after 2003.

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The fund has adopted distribution plans (the Plans) with respect to the following share classes pursuant to Rule 12b–1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The purpose of the Plans is to compensate Putnam Retail Management Limited Partnership, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Putnam Investments, LLC, for services provided and expenses incurred in distributing shares of the fund. The Plans provide payments by the fund to Putnam Retail Management Limited Partnership at an annual rate of up to the following amounts (Maximum %) of the average net assets attributable to each class. The Trustees have approved payment by the fund at the following annual rate (Approved %) of the average net assets attributable to each class. During the reporting period, the class-specific expenses related to distribution fees were as follows:

  Maximum %  Approved %  Amount 
Class A  0.35%  0.25%  $21,249 
Class B  1.00%  1.00%  10,886 
Class C  1.00%  1.00%  27,377 
Class M  1.00%  0.75%  1,048 
Class R  1.00%  0.50%  187 
Total      $60,747 

 

For the reporting period, Putnam Retail Management Limited Partnership, acting as underwriter, received net commissions of $2,989 and $28 from the sale of class A and class M shares, respectively, and received $196 and no monies in contingent deferred sales charges from redemptions of class B and class C shares, respectively.

A deferred sales charge of up to 1.00% is assessed on certain redemptions of class A shares. For the reporting period, Putnam Retail Management Limited Partnership, acting as underwriter, received no monies on class A redemptions.

Note 3: Purchases and sales of securities

During the reporting period, the cost of purchases and the proceeds from sales, excluding short-term investments, were as follows:

  Cost of purchases  Proceeds from sales 
Investments in securities, including TBA commitments (Long-term)  $156,976,069  $162,464,307 
U.S. government securities (Long-term)     
Total  $156,976,069  $162,464,307 

 

The fund may purchase or sell investments from or to other Putnam funds in the ordinary course of business, which can reduce the fund’s transaction costs, at prices determined in accordance with SEC requirements and policies approved by the Trustees. During the reporting period, purchases or sales of long-term securities from or to other Putnam funds, if any, did not represent more than 5% of the fund’s total cost of purchases and/or total proceeds from sales.

Note 4: Capital shares

At the close of the reporting period, there were an unlimited number of shares of beneficial interest authorized. Transactions, including, if applicable, direct exchanges pursuant to share conversions, in capital shares were as follows:

  SIX MONTHS ENDED 11/30/18  YEAR ENDED 5/31/18 
Class A  Shares  Amount  Shares  Amount 
Shares sold  75,333  $864,333  198,902  $2,251,499 
Shares issued in connection with         
reinvestment of distributions      43,227  493,216 
  75,333  864,333  242,129  2,744,715 
Shares repurchased  (336,948)  (3,858,122)  (308,230)  (3,505,305) 
Net decrease  (261,615)  $(2,993,789)  (66,101)  $(760,590) 

 

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  SIX MONTHS ENDED 11/30/18  YEAR ENDED 5/31/18 
Class B  Shares  Amount  Shares  Amount 
Shares sold  2,053  $22,368  1,921  $21,299 
Shares issued in connection with         
reinvestment of distributions      4,228  47,524 
  2,053  22,368  6,149  68,823 
Shares repurchased  (24,433)  (276,730)  (50,898)  (566,737) 
Net decrease  (22,380)  $(254,362)  (44,749)  $(497,914) 
 
  SIX MONTHS ENDED 11/30/18  YEAR ENDED 5/31/18 
Class C  Shares  Amount  Shares  Amount 
Shares sold  12,901  $143,935  40,373  $449,972 
Shares issued in connection with         
reinvestment of distributions      10,870  122,399 
  12,901  143,935  51,243  572,371 
Shares repurchased  (62,723)  (714,859)  (224,662)  (2,491,797) 
Net decrease  (49,822)  $(570,924)  (173,419)  $(1,919,426) 
 
  SIX MONTHS ENDED 11/30/18  YEAR ENDED 5/31/18 
Class M  Shares  Amount  Shares  Amount 
Shares sold  502  $5,891  3,687  $41,556 
Shares issued in connection with         
reinvestment of distributions      514  5,868 
  502  5,891  4,201  47,424 
Shares repurchased  (2,898)  (33,546)  (4,978)  (56,342) 
Net decrease  (2,396)  $(27,655)  (777)  $(8,918) 
 
  SIX MONTHS ENDED 11/30/18  YEAR ENDED 5/31/18 
Class R  Shares  Amount  Shares  Amount 
Shares sold  783  $8,982  1,469  $16,466 
Shares issued in connection with         
reinvestment of distributions      141  1,601 
  783  8,982  1,610  18,067 
Shares repurchased  (5,556)  (64,026)  (2,739)  (31,554) 
Net decrease  (4,773)  $(55,044)  (1,129)  $(13,487) 
 
  SIX MONTHS ENDED 11/30/18  YEAR ENDED 5/31/18 
Class R6  Shares  Amount  Shares  Amount 
Shares sold  350,409  $3,905,584  3,496,720  $38,241,197 
Shares issued in connection with         
reinvestment of distributions      215,775  2,453,358 
  350,409  3,905,584  3,712,495  40,694,555 
Shares repurchased  (347,651)  (3,994,288)  (6,017,580)  (66,293,580) 
Net increase (decrease)  2,758  $(88,704)  (2,305,085)  $(25,599,025) 

 

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  SIX MONTHS ENDED 11/30/18  YEAR ENDED 5/31/18 
Class Y  Shares  Amount  Shares  Amount 
Shares sold  258,834  $2,932,768  548,443  $6,252,757 
Shares issued in connection with         
reinvestment of distributions      125,093  1,428,565 
  258,834  2,932,768  673,536  7,681,322 
Shares repurchased  (785,926)  (8,793,389)  (650,061)  (7,395,600) 
Net increase (decrease)  (527,092)  $(5,860,621)  23,475  $285,722 

 

At the close of the reporting period, two shareholders of record owned 21.4% and 33.0% respectively, of the outstanding shares of the fund.

Note 5: Affiliated transactions

Transactions during the reporting period with any company which is under common ownership or control were as follows:

          Shares 
          outstanding 
          and fair 
  Fair value as  Purchase  Sale  Investment  value as 
Name of affiliate  of 5/31/18  cost  proceeds  income  of 11/30/18 
Short-term investments           
Putnam Cash Collateral           
Pool, LLC*  $144,050  $2,601,674  $2,251,224  $5,422  $494,500 
Putnam Short Term           
Investment Fund**  19,395,321  19,515,350  29,761,980  145,067  9,148,691 
Total Short-term           
investments  $19,539,371  $22,117,024  $32,013,204  $150,489  $9,643,191 

 

* No management fees are charged to Putnam Cash Collateral Pool, LLC (Note 1). Investment income shown is included in securities lending income on the Statement of operations. There were no realized or unrealized gains or losses during the period.

** Management fees charged to Putnam Short Term Investment Fund have been waived by Putnam Management. There were no realized or unrealized gains or losses during the period.

Note 6: Market, credit and other risks

In the normal course of business, the fund trades financial instruments and enters into financial transactions where risk of potential loss exists due to changes in the market (market risk) or failure of the contracting party to the transaction to perform (credit risk). The fund may be exposed to additional credit risk that an institution or other entity with which the fund has unsettled or open transactions will default. Investments in foreign securities involve certain risks, including those related to economic instability, unfavorable political developments, and currency fluctuations.

The fund may invest in higher-yielding, lower-rated bonds that may have a higher rate of default. The fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securitized debt instruments, including mortgage-backed and asset-backed investments. The yields and values of these investments are sensitive to changes in interest rates, the rate of principal payments on the underlying assets and the market’s perception of the issuers. The market for these investments may be volatile and limited, which may make them difficult to buy or sell.

Note 7: Senior loan commitments

Senior loans are purchased or sold on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis and may be settled a month or more after the trade date, which from time to time can delay the actual investment of available cash balances; interest income is accrued based on the terms of the securities. Senior loans can be acquired through an agent, by assignment from another holder of the loan, or as a participation interest in another holder’s portion of the loan. When the fund invests in a loan or participation, the fund is subject to the risk that an intermediate

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participant between the fund and the borrower will fail to meet its obligations to the fund, in addition to the risk that the borrower under the loan may default on its obligations.

Note 8: Summary of derivative activity

The volume of activity for the reporting period for any derivative type that was held during the period is listed below and was based on an average of the holdings at the end of each fiscal quarter:

Purchased equity option contracts (contract amount)  $160,000 
Purchased currency options (contract amount)  $2,500,000 
Written equity option contracts (contract amount)  $78,000 
Written currency options (contract amount)  $2,200,000 
Futures contracts (number of contracts)  600 
Forward currency contracts (contract amount)  $81,600,000 
Centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts (notional)  $70,000,000 
OTC total return swap contracts (notional)  $61,400,000 
Centrally cleared total return swap contracts (notional)  $43,500,000 
OTC credit default contracts (notional)  $8,900,000 
Centrally cleared credit default contracts (notional)  $20,100,000 
Warrants (number of warrants)  47,000 

 

The following is a summary of the fair value of derivative instruments as of the close of the reporting period:

Fair value of derivative instruments as of the close of the reporting period   
  ASSET DERIVATIVES LIABILITY DERIVATIVES
Derivatives not         
accounted for as  Statement of    Statement of   
hedging instruments  assets and    assets and   
under ASC 815  liabilities location  Fair value  liabilities location  Fair value 
  Receivables, Net       
  assets — Unrealized    Payables, Net assets —   
Credit contracts  appreciation  $287,289*  Unrealized depreciation  $551,233* 
Foreign exchange         
contracts  Investments, Receivables  338,506  Payables  568,338 
  Investments,       
  Receivables, Net       
  assets — Unrealized    Payables, Net assets —   
Equity contracts  appreciation  2,582,896*  Unrealized depreciation  1,136,621* 
  Receivables, Net       
  assets — Unrealized    Payables, Net assets —   
Interest rate contracts  appreciation  611,720*  Unrealized depreciation  1,498,912* 
Total    $3,820,411    $3,755,104 

 

* Includes cumulative appreciation/depreciation of futures contracts and/or centrally cleared swaps as reported in the fund’s portfolio. Only current day’s variation margin is reported within the Statement of assets and liabilities.

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The following is a summary of realized and change in unrealized gains or losses of derivative instruments in the Statement of operations for the reporting period (Note 1):

Amount of realized gain or (loss) on derivatives recognized in net gain or (loss) on investments   
Derivatives not             
accounted for as             
hedging        Forward     
instruments under        currency     
ASC 815  Warrants  Options  Futures  contracts  Swaps  Total 
Credit contracts  $—  $—  $—  $—  $(405,759)  $(405,759) 
Foreign exchange             
contracts    (18,573)    (722,532)    $(741,105) 
Equity contracts  (1,002)  (571,073)  (1,236,460)    (279,974)  $(2,088,509) 
Interest             
rate contracts      807,376    (2,267,711)  $(1,460,335) 
Total  $(1,002)  $(589,646)  $(429,084)  $(722,532)  $(2,953,444)  $(4,695,708) 
 
 
Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) on derivatives recognized in net gain or (loss) 
on investments             
Derivatives not             
accounted for as             
hedging        Forward     
instruments under        currency     
ASC 815  Warrants  Options  Futures  contracts  Swaps  Total 
Credit contracts  $—  $—  $—  $—  $175,301  $175,301 
Foreign exchange             
contracts    (8,370)    76,487    $68,117 
Equity contracts  (25,017)  157,698  (322,816)    52,672  $(137,463) 
Interest             
rate contracts      (470,006)    1,206,410  $736,404 
Total  $(25,017)  $149,328  $(792,822)  $76,487  $1,434,383  $842,359 

 

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Note 9: Offsetting of financial and derivative assets and liabilities

The following table summarizes any derivatives, repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements, at the end of the reporting period, that are subject to an enforceable master netting agreement or similar agreement. For securities lending transactions or borrowing transactions associated with securities sold short, if any, see Note 1. For financial reporting purposes, the fund does not offset financial assets and financial liabilities that are subject to the master netting agreements in the Statement of assets and liabilities.

  Bank of America N.A. Barclays Bank PLC Barclays
Capital, Inc. (clearing
broker)
Citibank, N.A. Citigroup
Global
Markets, Inc.
Credit Suisse International Goldman
Sachs
International
HSBC Bank
USA, National Association
JPMorgan
Chase Bank N.A.
JPMorgan
Securities LLC
Merrill Lynch International Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. Morgan
Stanley & Co. International
PLC
NatWest
Markets PLC
State Street Bank and Trust Co. UBS AG WestPac
Banking Corp.
Total
Assets:                                     
Centrally cleared interest rate                                     
swap contracts§  $—  $—  $54,979  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $54,979 
OTC Total return swap contracts*#  588,339      219,895            2,094                810,328 
Centrally cleared total return                                     
swap contracts§      6,150                              6,150 
OTC Credit default contracts —                                     
protection sold*#                                     
OTC Credit default contracts —                                     
protection purchased*#          7,932  38,247  13,667      17,195  3,799    4,549          85,389 
Centrally cleared credit default contracts§      944                              944 
Futures contracts§                        53,346            53,346 
Forward currency contracts#  9,796  19,634    25,790    40,439  31,228  57,794  34,043          10,259  33,035  40,618  5,089  307,725 
Purchased options**#  401,788      403,436      25,993    420,337                  1,251,554 
Total Assets  $999,923  $19,634  $62,073  $649,121  $7,932  $78,686  $70,888  $57,794  $454,380  $19,289  $3,799  $53,346  $4,549  $10,259  $33,035  $40,618  $5,089  $2,570,415 
Liabilities:                                     
Centrally cleared interest rate                                     
swap contracts§      1,814                              1,814 
OTC Total return swap contracts*#  508,561  2,156    205,969    347                        717,033 
Centrally cleared total return                                     
swap contracts§      1,096                              1,096 
OTC Credit default contracts —                                     
protection sold*#          6,544  7,797  50,310      56,034      6,184          126,869 
OTC Credit default contracts —                                     
protection purchased*#                                     
Centrally cleared credit default contracts§      6,669                              6,669 
Futures contracts§                        31,498            31,498 
Forward currency contracts#  34,737  3,393    18,960    36,229  61,660  37,527  274,871          23,857  30,894  18,882  13,720  554,730 
Written options#  14,320      114,013      11,991                      140,324 
Total Liabilities  $557,618  $5,549  $9,579  $338,942  $6,544  $44,373  $123,961  $37,527  $274,871  $56,034  $—  $31,498  $6,184  $23,857  $30,894  $18,882  $13,720  $1,580,033 
Total Financial and Derivative Net Assets  $442,305  $14,085  $52,494  $310,179  $1,388  $34,313  $(53,073)  $20,267  $179,509  $(36,745)  $3,799  $21,848  $(1,635)  $(13,598)  $2,141  $21,736  $(8,631)  $990,382 
Total collateral received (pledged)†##  $442,305  $—  $—  $310,000  $—  $—  $—  $—  $179,509  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—   
Net amount  $—  $14,085  $52,494  $179  $1,388  $34,313  $(53,073)  $20,267  $—  $(36,745)  $3,799  $21,848  $(1,635)  $(13,598)  $2,141  $21,736  $(8,631)   

 

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  Bank of America N.A. Barclays Bank PLC Barclays
Capital, Inc. (clearing
broker)
Citibank, N.A. Citigroup
Global
Markets, Inc.
Credit Suisse International Goldman
Sachs
International
HSBC Bank USA, National Association JPMorgan
Chase Bank
N.A.
JPMorgan
Securities LLC
Merrill Lynch International Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. Morgan
Stanley & Co. International
PLC
NatWest
Markets PLC
State Street Bank and Trust Co. UBS AG WestPac
Banking Corp.
Total
Controlled collateral received (including                                     
TBA commitments)**  $4,164,367  $—  $—  $310,000  $—  $—  $—  $—  $190,000  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $4,664,367 
Uncontrolled collateral received  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $— 
Collateral (pledged) (including                                     
TBA commitments)**  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $—  $— 

 

* Excludes premiums, if any. Included in unrealized appreciation and depreciation on OTC swap contracts on the Statement of assets and liabilities.

** Included with Investments in securities on the Statement of assets and liabilities.

Additional collateral may be required from certain brokers based on individual agreements.

# Covered by master netting agreement (Note 1).

## Any over-collateralization of total financial and derivative net assets is not shown. Collateral may include amounts related to unsettled agreements.

§ Includes current day’s variation margin only as reported on the Statement of assets and liabilities, which is not collateralized. Cumulative appreciation/(depreciation) for futures contracts and centrally cleared swap contracts is represented in the tables listed after the fund’s portfolio. Collateral pledged for initial margin on futures contracts and centrally cleared swap contracts, which is not included in the table above, amounted to $793,366 and $2,925,622, respectively.

Note 10: New accounting pronouncements

In March 2017, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2017–08, Receivables — Nonrefundable Fees and Other Costs (Subtopic 310–20): Premium Amortization on Purchased Callable Debt Securities. The amendments in the ASU shorten the amortization period for certain callable debt securities held at a premium, to be amortized to the earliest call date. The ASU is effective for fiscal years and interim periods within those fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018. Management is currently evaluating the impact, if any, of applying this provision.

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Fund information

Founded over 80 years ago, Putnam Investments was built around the concept that a balance between risk and reward is the hallmark of a well-rounded financial program. We manage funds across income, value, blend, growth, sustainable, asset allocation, absolute return, and global sector categories.

Investment Manager  Trustees  Michael J. Higgins 
Putnam Investment  Kenneth R. Leibler, Chair  Vice President, Treasurer, 
Management, LLC  Liaquat Ahamed  and Clerk 
100 Federal Street  Ravi Akhoury   
Boston, MA 02110  Barbara M. Baumann  Janet C. Smith 
  Katinka Domotorffy  Vice President, 
Investment Sub-Advisor  Catharine Bond Hill  Principal Financial Officer, 
Putnam Investments Limited  Paul L. Joskow  Principal Accounting Officer, 
16 St James’s Street  Robert E. Patterson  and Assistant Treasurer 
London, England SW1A 1ER  George Putnam, III 
  Robert L. Reynolds  Susan G. Malloy 
Marketing Services  Manoj P. Singh  Vice President and 
Putnam Retail Management    Assistant Treasurer 
100 Federal Street  Officers 
Boston, MA 02110  Robert L. Reynolds  Mark C. Trenchard 
  President  Vice President and 
Custodian    BSA Compliance Officer 
State Street Bank  Jonathan S. Horwitz 
and Trust Company  Executive Vice President,  Nancy E. Florek 
  Principal Executive Officer,  Vice President, Director of 
Legal Counsel  and Compliance Liaison  Proxy Voting and Corporate 
Ropes & Gray LLP    Governance, Assistant Clerk, 
  Robert T. Burns  and Assistant Treasurer 
  Vice President and 
  Chief Legal Officer  Denere P. Poulack 
    Assistant Vice President, Assistant 
  James F. Clark  Clerk, and Assistant Treasurer 
  Vice President and   
  Chief Compliance Officer   

 

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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Putnam Funds Trust
By (Signature and Title):
/s/ Janet C. Smith
Janet C. Smith
Principal Accounting Officer

Date: January 28, 2019
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

By (Signature and Title):
/s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz
Jonathan S. Horwitz
Principal Executive Officer

Date: January 28, 2019
By (Signature and Title):
/s/ Janet C. Smith
Janet C. Smith
Principal Financial Officer

Date: January 28, 2019