0001752724-20-216720.txt : 20201027 0001752724-20-216720.hdr.sgml : 20201027 20201027141959 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001752724-20-216720 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: NPORT-P PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20200831 FILED AS OF DATE: 20201027 PERIOD START: 20201130 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FIDUCIARY/CLAYMORE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE FUND CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001305197 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1130 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: NPORT-P SEC ACT: 1940 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 811-21652 FILM NUMBER: 201263585 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 227 WEST MONROE STREET CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60606 BUSINESS PHONE: 312-827-0100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 227 WEST MONROE STREET CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60606 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: FIDUCIARY/CLAYMORE MLP OPPORTUNITY FUND DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20090701 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Fiduciary/Claymore MLP Opportunity Fund DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20041005 NPORT-P 1 primary_doc.xml NPORT-P false 0001305197 XXXXXXXX Fiduciary/Claymore Energy Infrastructure Fund 811-21652 0001305197 4CX5UKZQ9CZKIVNYQ181 227 West Monroe Street Chicago 60606 312-827-0100 Fiduciary/Claymore Energy Infrastructure Fund 4CX5UKZQ9CZKIVNYQ181 2020-11-30 2020-08-31 N 137354291.21 57303749.13 80050542.08 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 10042000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 N Equitrans Midstream Corp 549300RH0NLJNZ5SXU64 Equitrans Midstream Corp. 294600101 113560.00000000 NS USD 1167396.80000000 1.458324665476 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Williams Cos Inc/The D71FAKCBLFS2O0RBPG08 Williams Companies, Inc. 969457100 283492.00000000 NS USD 5885293.92000000 7.351972600158 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Enable Midstream Partners LP 549300TLGDBYE711G509 Enable Midstream Partners, LP 292480100 333114.00000000 NS USD 1872100.68000000 2.338648348101 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N KNOT Offshore Partners LP 549300RM8O2QLS7ZQN07 KNOT Offshore Partners, LP N/A 55709.00000000 NS USD 688563.24000000 0.860160621163 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Shell Midstream Partners LP 529900YZVDXMTV4XGE96 Shell Midstream Partners, LP 822634101 349240.00000000 NS USD 3628603.60000000 4.532890728427 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP. RCNB6OTYUAMMP879YW96 BNP Paribas N/A -4850000 PA USD -4850000 -6.05867227626 Short RA CORP US N 2 Reverse repurchase N 1.30675000 N/A 34533742.20000000 USD 34533742.20000000 USD N N N Noble Midstream Partners LP N/A Noble Midstream Partners, LP 65506L105 190444.00000000 NS USD 1706378.24000000 2.131626089795 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Delek Logistics Partners LP 549300UVYITDIU51P724 Delek Logistics Partners, LP 24664T103 129729.00000000 NS USD 4278462.42000000 5.344701370946 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Cheniere Energy Partners LP 5493005UEC8AZ34LDV29 Cheniere Energy Partners, LP 16411Q101 116645.00000000 NS USD 4221382.55000000 5.273396582100 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N NextEra Energy Partners LP 5493008F4ZOQFNG3WN54 NextEra Energy Partners, LP 65341B106 56310.00000000 NS USD 3396619.20000000 4.243093315477 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N NGL Energy Partners LP 5299005YSRP46BE8Z459 NGL Energy Partners, LP 62913M107 497974.00000000 NS USD 2181126.12000000 2.724686258614 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Kinder Morgan Inc 549300WR7IX8XE0TBO16 Kinder Morgan, Inc. 49456B101 301121.00000000 NS USD 4161492.22000000 5.198580936330 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Plains All American Pipeline L 5521FA2ITF25TVH63740 Plains All American Pipeline, LP 726503105 813427.00000000 NS USD 5759063.16000000 7.194283774174 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Energy Transfer LP MTLVN9N7JE8MIBIJ1H73 Energy Transfer, LP 29273V100 931388.00000000 NS USD 5979510.96000000 7.469669542055 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N TC PipeLines LP 6HL0C5LCIE4TN8UZHL06 TC PipeLines, LP 87233Q108 106577.00000000 NS USD 3236743.49000000 4.043374855307 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N USD Partners LP 549300W8EFTTL1ACGP25 USD Partners, LP 903318103 253538.00000000 NS USD 846816.92000000 1.057852823974 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Enterprise Products Partners L K4CDIF4M54DJZ6TB4Q48 Enterprise Products Partners, LP 293792107 400540.00000000 NS USD 7033482.40000000 8.786302025251 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Magellan Midstream Partners LP MZF5TI8NFVZZNUSKDL39 Magellan Midstream Partners, LP 559080106 170181.00000000 NS USD 6468579.81000000 8.080619620958 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Crestwood Equity Partners LP 549300CUY0F1TYDLDL45 Crestwood Equity Partners, LP 226344208 71990.00000000 NS USD 977624.20000000 1.221258688071 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Phillips 66 Partners LP 549300TL5L4IG0H4FX64 Phillips 66 Partners, LP 718549207 143105.00000000 NS USD 3852386.60000000 4.812442864097 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Western Midstream Partners LP N/A Western Midstream Partners, LP 958669103 107105.00000000 NS USD 971442.35000000 1.213536254419 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Genesis Energy LP 549300VJ5D6MDK138782 Genesis Energy, LP 371927104 252250.00000000 NS USD 1349537.50000000 1.685856791139 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N DCP Midstream LP 52990024YYS3MLGW0E91 DCP Midstream, LP 23311P100 249877.00000000 NS USD 3165941.59000000 3.954928358681 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Dreyfus Treasury Obligations C 549300MKKM9KT7BF6329 Dreyfus Treasury Obligations Cash Management Fund N/A 1093464.10000000 NS USD 1093464.10000000 1.365967139744 Long STIV RF US N 1 N N N NuStar Energy LP 5493003BMLTUIEG2LG44 NuStar Energy, LP 67058H102 332570.00000000 NS USD 4506323.50000000 5.629347888108 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N MPLX LP 5493000CZJ19CK4P3G36 MPLX, LP 55336V100 389965.00000000 NS USD 7124660.55000000 8.900202753005 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N 2020-09-30 Fiduciary/Claymore Energy Infrastructure Fund John Sullivan John Sullivan CFO XXXX NPORT-EX 2 gug80820fmo.htm FIDUCIARY/CLAYMORE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE FUND NQ
Fiduciary/Claymore Energy Infrastructure Fund
 
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited)                  
August 31, 2020
   

  Shares   Value
COMMON STOCKS - 19.1%
Midstream Natural Gas - 8.8%
Williams Companies, Inc.1 283,492   $    5,885,294 
Equitrans Midstream Corp.1 113,560     1,167,397 
Total Midstream Natural Gas       7,052,691 
Diversified Infrastructure - 5.2%
Kinder Morgan, Inc.1 301,121     4,161,492 
Utilities - 4.2%
NextEra Energy Partners, LP1 56,310     3,396,619 
Marine Transportation - 0.9%
KNOT Offshore Partners, LP1 55,709     688,563 
Total Common Stocks    
(Cost $13,409,644)       15,299,365 
MASTER LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS AND RELATED ENTITIES - 86.4%
Midstream Oil - 41.1%
Magellan Midstream Partners, LP1 170,181     6,468,580 
Plains All American Pipeline, LP1 813,427     5,759,063 
NuStar Energy, LP1 332,570     4,506,323 
Delek Logistics Partners, LP1 129,729     4,278,462 
Phillips 66 Partners, LP1 143,105     3,852,387 
Shell Midstream Partners, LP1 349,240     3,628,604 
NGL Energy Partners, LP1 497,974     2,181,126 
Genesis Energy, LP1 252,250     1,349,538 
USD Partners, LP 253,538     846,817 
Total Midstream Oil       32,870,900 
Diversified Infrastructure - 25.1%
MPLX, LP1 389,965     7,124,661 
Enterprise Products Partners, LP1 400,540   7,033,482 
Energy Transfer, LP1 931,388     5,979,511 
Total Diversified Infrastructure       20,137,654 
Midstream Natural Gas - 7.6%
TC PipeLines, LP1 106,577     3,236,743 
Enable Midstream Partners, LP1 333,114     1,872,101 
Crestwood Equity Partners, LP1 71,990     977,624 
Total Midstream Natural Gas       6,086,468 
Gathering & Processing - 7.3%
DCP Midstream, LP1 249,877     3,165,942 
Noble Midstream Partners, LP1 190,444     1,706,378 
Western Midstream Partners, LP1 107,105     971,442 
Total Gathering & Processing       5,843,762 
Other Energy Infrastructure - 5.3%
Cheniere Energy Partners, LP1 116,645     4,221,383 
Total Master Limited Partnerships and Related Entities    
(Cost $43,018,024)       69,160,167 
MONEY MARKET FUND - 1.4%
Dreyfus Treasury Obligations Cash Management Fund – Institutional Shares, 0.02%2   1,093,464      1,093,464 
Total Money Market Fund    
(Cost $1,093,464)       1,093,464 
Total Investments - 106.9%    
(Cost $57,521,132)   $   85,552,996 
Other Assets & Liabilities, net - (6.9)%   (5,502,454)
Total Net Assets - 100.0%   $   80,050,542 

† 
Value determined based on Level 1 inputs — See Note 3.

All or a portion of these securities have been physically segregated and pledged as collateral. As of August 31, 2020, the total amount segregated was $74,400,309, of which $39,866,567 is related to the outstanding line of credit and $34,533,742 is related to reverse repurchase agreements.

Rate indicated is the 7-day yield as of August 31, 2020.


Fiduciary/Claymore Energy Infrastructure Fund
 
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited)                  
August 31, 2020
   


The following table summarizes the inputs used to value the Fund's investments at August 31, 2020 (See Note 3 in the Notes to Schedule of Investments):

Investments in Securities (Assets)
 
Level 1
Quoted Prices
   
Level 2 Significant Observable Inputs
   
Level 3 Significant Unobservable Inputs
   
Total
 
Common Stocks
 
$
15,299,365
   
$
   
$
   
$
15,299,365
 
Master Limited Partnerships and Related Entities
   
69,160,167
     
     
     
69,160,167
 
Money Market Fund
   
1,093,464
     
     
     
1,093,464
 
Total Assets
 
$
85,552,996
   
$
   
$
   
$
85,552,996
 

Please refer to the detailed portfolio for a breakdown of investment type by industry category.

The Fund may hold assets and/or liabilities in which the fair value approximates the carrying amount for financial statement purposes. As of August 31, 2020, reverse repurchase agreements of $4,850,000 are categorized as Level 2 within the disclosure hierarchy — See Note 2.


NOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited) 
August 31, 2020
 
Note 1 – Organization and Significant Accounting Policies

Organization
Fiduciary/Claymore Energy Infrastructure Fund (the “Fund”) was organized as a Delaware statutory trust on October 4, 2004. The Fund is registered as a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).

The Fund’s investment objective is to provide a high level of after-tax total return with an emphasis on current distributions paid to shareholders. The Fund has been structured to seek to provide an efficient vehicle through which its shareholders may invest in a portfolio of publicly traded securities of master limited partnerships (“MLPs”) and other energy infrastructure companies. MLPs combine the tax benefits of limited partnerships with the liquidity of publicly traded securities. The Fund anticipates that a significant portion of the distributions received by the Fund from the MLPs in which it invests will be return of capital. To the extent that the Fund increases its investments in non-MLP energy infrastructure companies, a greater portion of the distributions the Fund receives may consist of taxable income. While the Fund will generally seek to maximize the portion of the Fund’s distributions to Common Shareholders that will consist of return of capital, no assurance can be given in this regard. There can be no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.

For information on the Fund's other significant accounting policies, please refer to the Fund's most recent semi-annual or annual shareholder report.
 
Significant Accounting Policies
The Fund operates as an investment company and, accordingly, follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services – Investment Companies. 
 
The following significant accounting policies are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) and are consistently followed by the Fund. This requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amount of assets and liabilities, contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from these estimates. All time references are based on Eastern Time.
 
(a) Valuation of Investments 
The Board of Trustees of the Fund (the “Board”) has adopted policies and procedures for the valuation of the Fund's investments (the “Valuation Procedures”). Pursuant to the Valuation Procedures, the Board has delegated to a valuation committee, consisting of representatives from Guggenheim’s investment management, fund administration, legal and compliance departments (the “Valuation Committee”), the day-to-day responsibility for implementing the Valuation Procedures, including, under most circumstances, the responsibility for determining the fair value of the Fund’s securities and/or other assets.
 
Valuations of the Fund's securities and other assets are supplied primarily by pricing services appointed pursuant to the processes set forth in the Valuation Procedures. The Valuation Committee convenes monthly, or more frequently as needed, to review the valuation of all assets which have been fair valued for reasonableness. The Fund's officers, through the Valuation Committee and consistent with the monitoring and review responsibilities set forth in the Valuation Procedures, regularly review procedures used and valuations provided by the pricing services.
 
If the pricing service cannot or does not provide a valuation for a particular investment or such valuation is deemed unreliable, such investment is fair valued by the Valuation Committee.
 
Equity securities listed or traded on a recognized U.S. securities exchange or the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (“NASDAQ”) National Market System shall generally be valued on the basis of the last sale price on the primary U.S. exchange or market on which the security is listed or traded; provided, however, that securities listed on NASDAQ will be valued at the NASDAQ Official Closing Price, which may not necessarily represent the last sale price. If there is no sale on the valuation date, exchange-traded U.S. equity securities will be valued on the basis of the last bid price.
 
Open-end investment companies are valued at their net asset value per share (“NAV”) as of the close of business, on the valuation date.

NOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited) 
August 31, 2020
 
Exchange-traded options are valued at the mean of the bid and ask prices on the principal exchange on which they are traded. Over-the-counter ("OTC") options are valued using a price provided by a pricing service.

Investments for which market quotations are not readily available are fair-valued as determined in good faith by Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC (“GFIA” or the “Advisor”) subject to review and approval by the Valuation Committee, pursuant to methods established or ratified by the Board. Valuations in accordance with these methods are intended to reflect each security’s (or asset’s or liability’s) “fair value". Each such determination is based on a consideration of all relevant factors, which are likely to vary from one pricing context to another. Examples of such factors may include, but are not limited to market prices; sale prices; broker quotes; and models which derive prices based on inputs such as prices of securities with comparable maturities and characteristics, or based on inputs such as anticipated cash flows or collateral, spread over U.S. Treasury securities, and other information analysis.

Note 2 – Financial Instruments and Derivatives
As part of its investment strategy, the Fund utilizes a variety of derivative instruments. These investments involve, to varying degrees, elements of market risk. Valuation and accounting treatment of these instruments can be found under Significant Accounting Policies in Note 1 of these Notes to Schedule of Investments.

Derivatives are instruments whose values depend on, or are derived from, in whole or in part, the value of one or more other assets, such as securities, currencies, commodities or indices. Derivative instruments may be used to increase investment flexibility (including to maintain cash reserves while maintaining exposure to certain other assets), for risk management (hedging) purposes, to facilitate trading, to reduce transaction costs and to pursue higher investment returns. Derivative instruments may also be used to mitigate certain investment risks, such as foreign currency exchange rate risk, interest rate risk and credit risk. U.S. GAAP requires disclosures to enable investors to better understand how and why a Fund uses derivative instruments, how these derivative instruments are accounted for and their effects on the Fund’s financial position and results of operations.

The Fund utilized derivatives for the following purposes:

Hedge: an investment made in order to reduce the risk of adverse price movements in a security, by taking an offsetting position to protect against broad market moves.

Options Purchased and Written
A call option on a security gives the purchaser of the option the right to buy, and the writer of a call option the obligation to sell, the underlying security. The purchaser of a put option has the right to sell, and the writer of the put option the obligation to buy, the underlying security at any time during the option period. The risk associated with purchasing options is limited to the premium originally paid.

The risk in writing a call option is that a Fund may incur a loss if the market price of the underlying security increases and the option is exercised. The risk in writing a put option is that a Fund may incur a loss if the market price of the underlying security decreases and the option is exercised. In addition, there may be an imperfect correlation between the movement in prices of options and the underlying securities where a Fund may not be able to enter into a closing transaction because of an illiquid secondary market; or, for OTC options, a Fund may be at risk because of the counterparty’s inability to perform.

Reverse Repurchase Agreements
The Fund may enter into reverse repurchase agreements as part of its financial leverage strategy. Under a reverse repurchase agreement, the Fund temporarily transfers possession of a portfolio instrument to another party, such as a bank or broker-dealer, in return for cash. At the same time, the Fund agrees to repurchase the instrument at an agreed upon time and price, which reflects an interest payment. Such agreements have the economic effect of borrowings. The Fund may enter into such agreements when it is able to invest the cash acquired at a rate higher than the cost of the agreement, which would increase earned income. When the Fund enters into a reverse repurchase agreement, any fluctuations in the market value of either the instruments transferred to another party or the instruments in which the proceeds may be invested would affect the market value of the Fund’s assets.

Note 3 – Fair Value Measurement  
In accordance with U.S. GAAP, fair value is defined as the price that the Fund would receive to sell an investment or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction with an independent buyer in the principal market, or in the absence of a principal market, the most advantageous market for the investment or liability. U.S. GAAP establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy based on the types of inputs used to value assets and liabilities and requires corresponding disclosure. The hierarchy and the corresponding inputs are summarized below:
 
Level 1 — quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
 
Level 2 — significant other observable inputs (for example quoted prices for securities that are similar based on characteristics such as interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).
 
Level 3 — significant unobservable inputs based on the best information available under the circumstances, to the extent observable inputs are not available, which may include assumptions.
 
The types of inputs available depend on a variety of factors, such as the type of security and the characteristics of the markets in which it trades, if any. Fair valuation determinations that rely on fewer or no observable inputs require greater judgment. Accordingly, fair value determinations for Level 3 securities require the greatest amount of judgment.
 
Independent pricing services are used to value a majority of the Fund’s investments. When values are not available from a pricing service, they will be determined under the valuation policies that have been reviewed and approved by the Board. In any event, values are determined using a variety of sources and techniques, including: market prices; broker quotes; and models which derive prices based on inputs such as prices of securities with comparable maturities and characteristics or based on inputs such as anticipated cash flows or collateral, spread over U.S. Treasury Securities, and other information and analysis.

The inputs or methodologies used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. The suitability of the techniques and sources employed to determine fair valuation are regularly monitored and subject to change. 
  
Note 4 – Federal Income Tax Information
The Fund is treated as a regular corporation, or “C” corporation, for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Accordingly, the Fund generally is subject to U.S. federal income tax on its taxable income at the 21% rate applicable to corporations. In addition, as a regular corporation, the Fund is subject to various state income taxes by reason of its investments in MLPs. As a limited partner in the MLPs, the Fund includes its allocable share of the MLP’s taxable income in computing its own taxable income. Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. The amount which the Fund is required to pay for U.S. corporate income tax could materially reduce the Fund’s cash available to make distributions on common shares. 
 

NOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited) 
August 31, 2020

At August 31, 2020, the cost of investments for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the aggregate gross unrealized appreciation for all investments for which there was an excess of value over tax cost, and the aggregate gross unrealized depreciation for all investments for which there was an excess of tax cost over value, were as follows:

Tax Cost
Tax
Unrealized
Appreciation
Tax
Unrealized
Depreciation
Net Tax
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
 $57,521,132
 $39,053,838
 $(11,021,974)
 $28,031,864
 
Note 5 – COVID-19 and Recent Developments
The global ongoing crisis caused by the outbreak of COVID-19 is causing materially reduced consumer demand and economic output, disrupting supply chains, resulting in market closures, travel restrictions and quarantines, and adversely impacting local and global economies. Investors should be aware that in light of the current uncertainty, volatility and distress in economies, financial markets, and labor and health conditions all over the world, the Fund’s investments and a shareholder’s investment in the Fund are subject to sudden and substantial losses, increased volatility and other adverse events. Firms through which investors invest with the Fund, the Fund, its service providers, the markets in which it invests and market intermediaries are also impacted by quarantines and similar measures intended to contain the ongoing pandemic, which can obstruct their functioning and subject them to heightened operational risks.