N-Q 1 ast_fs-nq.htm QUARTERLY NOTICE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 29, 2017


UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549


 
FORM N-Q
 
 
QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED MANAGEMENT
INVESTMENT COMPANY
 



Investment Company Act file number  811-07959



Advisors Series Trust
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)



615 East Michigan Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)



Douglas G. Hess, President
Advisors Series Trust
c/o U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC
777 East Wisconsin Avenue, 5th Floor
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
(Name and address of agent for service)


Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (414) 765-6609




Date of fiscal year end:  October 31, 2017



Date of reporting period:  July 31, 2017


Item 1. Schedules of Investments.
 
First State Global Listed Infrastructure Fund
 
           
Schedule of Investments
 
at July 31, 2017 (Unaudited)
     
           
Shares
     
Value
 
   
COMMON STOCKS: 86.53%
     
   
Airport Services - 2.21%
     
 
476
 
Aena SA^
 
$
93,033
 
 
3,200
 
Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico SAB de CV - Class B^
   
36,611
 
           
129,644
 
               
     
Construction & Engineering - 1.47%
       
 
966
 
VINCI SA^
   
86,501
 
               
     
Electric Utilities - 25.40%
       
 
1,522
 
Alliant Energy Corp.
   
61,687
 
 
3,463
 
American Electric Power Company, Inc.
   
244,280
 
 
2,701
 
Eversource Energy
   
164,194
 
 
4,118
 
Great Plains Energy, Inc.
   
127,081
 
 
3,600
 
Hydro One Ltd.^
   
64,565
 
 
1,630
 
NextEra Energy, Inc.
   
238,127
 
 
3,446
 
PG&E Corp.
   
233,260
 
 
12,500
 
Power Assets Holdings Ltd.^
   
123,810
 
 
1,626
 
SSE plc^
   
29,591
 
 
4,366
 
Xcel Energy, Inc.
   
206,555
 
           
1,493,150
 
               
     
Gas Utilities - 2.97%
       
 
29,000
 
Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.^
   
116,149
 
 
1,155
 
UGI Corp.
   
58,293
 
           
174,442
 
               
     
Highways & Railtracks - 18.22%
       
 
4,208
 
Abertis Infraestructuras SA^
   
82,970
 
 
9,316
 
Atlantia SpA^
   
283,386
 
 
29,200
 
CCR SA^
   
159,936
 
 
14,167
 
Groupe Eurotunnel SE^
   
157,091
 
 
86,000
 
Jiangsu Expressway Co. Ltd. - Class H^
   
124,775
 
 
28,802
 
Transurban Group^
   
263,035
 
           
1,071,193
 
               
     
Integrated Telecommunication Services - 0.39%
       
 
3,521
 
Infrastructture Wireless Italiane SpA^
   
22,716
 
               
     
Marine Ports & Services - 3.31%
       
 
28,000
 
China Merchants Port Holdings Co. Ltd.^
   
87,902
 
 
52,000
 
COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd.^
   
63,606
 
 
4,000
 
Kamigumi Co., Ltd.^
   
42,868
 
           
194,376
 
               
     
Multi-Utilities - 12.28%
       
 
3,169
 
Dominion Energy, Inc.
   
244,583
 
 
32,729
 
National Grid plc^
   
404,985
 
 
2,760
 
NiSource, Inc.
   
71,926
 
           
721,494
 
               
 

   
Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation - 10.65%
     
 
8,228
 
Enbridge, Inc.^
   
341,065
 
 
13,956
 
Kinder Morgan, Inc.
   
285,121
 
           
626,186
 
               
     
Railroads - 9.63%
       
 
700
 
Central Japan Railway Co.^
   
112,649
 
 
1,591
 
CSX Corp.
   
78,500
 
 
2,800
 
East Japan Railway Co.^
   
262,590
 
 
614
 
Kansas City Southern
   
63,359
 
 
475
 
Union Pacific Corp.
   
48,906
 
           
566,004
 
     
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $4,853,307)
   
5,085,706
 
               
     
MLP INVESTMENTS: 4.06%
       
     
Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation - 4.06%
       
 
6,409
 
Enterprise Products Partners, LP
   
174,325
 
 
2,442
 
Plains All American Pipeline, LP
   
64,395
 
           
238,720
 
     
TOTAL MLP INVESTMENTS (Cost $234,307)
   
238,720
 
               
     
REITS: 5.86%
       
     
Real Estate - 5.86%
       
 
2,059
 
American Tower Corp.
   
280,704
 
 
116
 
Crown Castle International Corp.
   
11,667
 
 
377
 
SBA Communications Corp.*
   
51,856
 
           
344,227
 
     
TOTAL REITS (Cost $303,857)
   
344,227
 
               
     
Total Investments in Securities (Cost $5,391,471): 96.45%
   
5,668,653
 
     
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities: 3.55%
   
208,936
 
     
Net Assets: 100.00%
 
$
5,877,589
 
 
   
* Non-income producing security.
   
   
^  Foreign issuer.
   
         
 
LP
Limited Partnership
   
 
Ltd.
Company is incorporated and shareholders have limited liability.
   
 
plc
Public Limited Company is a publicly traded company which signifies that shareholders have limited liability.
 
REIT
Real Estate Investment Trust
   
 
SA
An abbreviation used by many countries to signify a stock company whereby shareholders have limited liability.
 
SAB de CV
Sociedad Anonima de Capital Variable which is the most formal business structure in Mexico.
   
 
SE
Company is a European company.
   
 
SpA
Società per Azioni is the Italian term for a limited share company.
   
         
 
The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) was developed by and/or is the exclusive property of MSCI, Inc. and Standard & Poor's
 
Financial Services LLC ("S&P").  GICS is a service mark of MSCI and S&P and has been licensed for use by U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC.
         
 
Country Allocation
   
 
Country
% of Net Assets
   
 
United States
49.64%
   
 
Japan
9.09%
   
 
United
Kingdom
7.39%
   
 
Canada
6.90%
   
 
Italy
5.21%
   
 
China
4.70%
   
 
Australia
4.48%
   
 
France
4.14%
   
 
Spain
3.00%
   
 
Brazil
2.72%
   
 
Hong Kong
2.11%
   
 
Mexico
0.62%
   
   
100.00%
   
         
 

First State Global Listed Infrastructure Fund
Notes to Schedule of Investments
July 31, 2017 (Unaudited)

Note 1 – Securities Valuation

The First State Global Listed Infrastructure Fund's (the "Fund") investments in securities are carried at their fair value. Equity securities, including common stocks, that are primarily traded on a national securities exchange shall be valued at the last sales price on the exchange on which they are primarily traded on the day of valuation or, if there has been no sale price on such day, at the mean between the bid and asked prices. Securities primarily traded in the NASDAQ Global Market System for which market quotations are readily available shall be valued using the NASDAQ Official Closing Price ("NOCP"). If the NOCP is not available, such securities shall be valued at the last sale price on the day of valuation, or if there has been no sale on such day, at the mean between the bid and asked prices. Over-the-counter securities which are not traded in the NASDAQ Global Market System shall be valued at the most recent sales price.  Investments in open-end mutual funds are valued at their net asset value per share.  To the extent these securities are actively traded and valuation adjustments are not applied, they are categorized in level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.

The Fund determines the fair value of its investments and computes its net asset value per share as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") (4:00 pm EST).

Foreign securities will be priced at their local currencies as of the close of their primary exchange or market or as of the time the Fund calculates its net asset value per share, whichever is earlier.  Foreign securities, currencies and other assets denominated in foreign currencies are then translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate of such currencies against the U.S. dollar, as provided by an approved pricing service.  All assets denominated in foreign currency will be converted into U.S. dollars using the applicable currency exchange rates as of the close of the NYSE, generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
 
For foreign securities traded on foreign exchanges, Advisors Series Trust has selected ICE Data Services' Fair Value Information Services ("FVIS") to provide pricing data with respect to foreign security holdings held by the Fund. The use of this third-party pricing service is designed to capture events occurring after a foreign exchange closes that may affect the value of certain holdings of the Fund's securities traded on those foreign exchanges. The Fund utilizes a confidence interval when determining the use of the FVIS provided prices. The confidence interval is a measure of the historical relationship that each foreign exchange traded security has to movements in various indices and the price of the security's corresponding American Depositary Receipt, if one exists. FVIS provides the confidence interval for each security for which it provides a price. If the FVIS provided price falls within the confidence interval the Fund will value the particular security at that price. If the FVIS provided price does not fall within the confidence interval the particular security will be valued at the preceding closing price on its respective foreign exchange, or if there were no transactions on such day, at the mean between the bid and asked prices. These securities would generally be categorized as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy. First State Investments (US) LLC (the "Adviser") anticipates that the Fund's portfolio holdings will be fair valued only if market quotations for those holdings are considered unreliable.

The Board of Trustees ("Board") has delegated day-to-day valuation issues to a Valuation Committee of Advisors Series Trust which is comprised of representatives from U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, the Fund's administrator.  The function of the Valuation Committee is to value securities where current and reliable market quotations are not readily available or the closing price does not represent fair value by following procedures approved by the Board.  These procedures consider many factors, including the type of security, size of holding, trading volume and news events.  All actions taken by the Valuation Committee are subsequently reviewed and ratified by the Board.

Depending on the relative significance of the valuation inputs, fair valued securities may be classified in either level 2 or level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.

The Fund has adopted authoritative fair value accounting standards which establish an authoritative definition of fair value and set out a hierarchy for measuring fair value. These standards require additional disclosures about the various inputs and valuation techniques used to develop the measurements of fair value, a discussion in changes in valuation techniques and related inputs during the period and expanded disclosure of valuation levels for majority security types.  These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:

·
Level 1 – Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Fund has the ability to access.
·
Level 2 - Observable inputs other than quoted prices included in level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly.  These inputs may include quoted prices for the identical instrument on an inactive market, prices for similar instruments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, yield curves, default rates and similar data.
·
Level 3 - Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability, to the extent relevant observable inputs are not available, representing the Fund's own assumptions about the assumptions a market participant would use in valuing the asset or liability, and would be based on the best information available.


The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.  The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Fund's securities as of July 31, 2017:

   
Level 1
   
Level 2
   
Level 3
   
Total
 
Common Stocks
                       
 Energy
 
$
626,186
   
$
-
   
$
-
   
$
626,186
 
 Industrials
   
387,312
     
1,660,406
     
-
     
2,047,718
 
 Telecommunication Services
   
22,716
     
-
     
-
     
22,716
 
 Utilities
   
1,714,551
     
674,535
     
-
     
2,389,086
 
Total Common Stocks
   
2,750,765
     
2,334,941
     
-
     
5,085,706
 
MLP Investments     238,720       -       -       238,720  
REITS
   
344,227
     
-
     
-
     
344,227
 
Total Investments in Securities
 
$
3,333,712
   
$
2,334,941
   
$
-
   
$
5,668,653
 


Refer to the Fund's schedule of investments for a detailed break-out of holdings by industry classification. Transfers between levels are recognized at July 31, 2017, the end of the reporting period. The Fund recognized no significant transfers to/from level 1 or level 2. There were no level 3 securities held in the Fund during the period ended July 31, 2017.

Note 2 – Federal Income Taxes

The cost basis of investments for federal income tax purposes at July 31, 2017 was as follows*:


Cost of investments
 
$
5,391,471
 
         
Gross unrealized appreciation
 
$
334,987
 
Gross unrealized depreciation
   
(57,805)
 
Net unrealized appreciation
 
$
277,182
 
         

* Because tax adjustments are calculated annually at the end of the Fund's fiscal year, the above table does not reflect tax adjustments.
 

Item 2. Controls and Procedures.
 
(a)
The Registrant's President/Principal Executive Officer and Treasurer/Principal Financial Officer have concluded that the Registrant's disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (the "1940 Act")) (17 CFR 270.30a-3(c)) are effective as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of the report that includes the disclosure required by this paragraph, based on the evaluation of these controls and procedures required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the 1940 Act (17 CFR 270.30a-3(b)) and Rule 13a-15(b) or Rule 15d‑15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (17 CFR 240.13a-15(b) or 240.15d-15(d)).

(b)
There were no changes in the Registrant's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the 1940 Act) (17 CFR 270.30a-3(d))  that occurred during the Registrant's last fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrant's internal control over financial reporting.


 
Item 3. Exhibits.
 
Separate certifications for each principal executive officer and principal financial officer of the registrant as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the 1940 Act (17 CFR 270.30a-2(a)).  Filed herewith.
 

SIGNATURES

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


(Registrant)  Advisors Series Trust                                      

By (Signature and Title)*/s/ Douglas G. Hess                    
                                             Douglas G. Hess, President

Date                                     9/28/2017                                       

 
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/ Douglas G. Hess                     
                                              Douglas G. Hess, President

Date                                     9/28/2017                                         
 
By (Signature and Title)* /s/ Cheryl L. King                         
                                              Cheryl L. King, Treasurer

Date                                     9/28/2017                                         

 
* Print the name and title of each signing officer under his or her signature.