N-CSRS 1 fp0079075_ncsrs.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: 811-22393

 

Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund

(exact name of Registrant as specified in charter)

 

345 Park Avenue, 31st Floor

New York, New York 10154

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

 

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

Marisa Beeney

Blackstone Alternative Credit Advisors LP

345 Park Avenue, 31st Floor

New York, New York 10154

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (877) 876-1121

 

Date of fiscal year end:    December 31

 

Date of reporting period: June 30, 2022

 

 

Item 1. Report to Stockholders.

 

(a) 

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Manager Commentary 2
Fund Summary 4
Portfolio of Investments 13
Statements of Assets and Liabilities 63
Statements of Operations 64
Statements of Changes in Net Assets 65
Statements of Cash Flows 66
Financial Highlights 67
Notes to Financial Statements 72
Summary of Dividend Reinvestment Plan 88
Additional Information 89
Privacy Procedures 91
Approval of Investment Advisory Agreement 102
Trustees & Officers 106

 

 

Blackstone Credit Funds Manager Commentary

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

To Our Shareholders:

 

Global credit markets endured a challenging first half of 2022 amid mounting macro headwinds that included inflation, rising interest rates, supply chain issues, lockdowns in China, the war in Ukraine, the escalating energy crisis in Europe, and, most recently, recession concerns.

 

Markets also fretted over an increasingly hawkish Federal Reserve (the “Fed”), which embarked on a monetary policy-tightening regime that included balance sheet reduction and rate hikes in an attempt to subdue record-high and persistent inflation. Interest rate risk morphed into rising credit risk over the second quarter, as investors worried that the Fed’s determination to do whatever it takes to subdue rising prices might push the economy into recession.

 

High yield was the first to feel the impact of rate volatility, with loans holding up during the first quarter, buoyed by inflows as investors sought floating rate assets to hedge against rising rates. By the end of the first half of the year, however, a mix of fundamental and technical factors applied pressure to both markets, pushing returns into negative territory.

 

Loan prices fell significantly over the first half of 2022 to levels last seen during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. From $98.7 at the start of the year, average prices ended the first half of the year at $92.2.1 High yield experienced an even more dramatic decline in price, falling from $103.44 in January to $85.83 on average through June 30.2 Despite their decline in price, loans outperformed other credit asset classes during the first half of the year, returning -4.55%.

6-Month Total Returns as of June 30, 2022
US Loans (S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index) -4.55%
US High Yield Bonds (Bloomberg High Yield US High Yield Index) -14.19%
3-month Treasury Bills (Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Bellwethers: 3 Month) 0.15%
10-year Treasuries (Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Bellwethers: 10 Year) -11.71%
US Aggregate Bonds (Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index) -10.35%
US Investment Grade Bonds (Bloomberg U.S. Corporate Investment Grade Index) -14.39%
Emerging Markets (Bloomberg EM USD Aggregate Index) -17.14%
US Large Cap Equities (S&P 500® Index) -20.58%

 

Sources: Bloomberg, Barclays, S&P/LCD

 

Past Performance is no guarantee of future results. Index performance is shown for illustrative purposes only. You cannot invest directly in an index.



Collateralized loan obligation (“CLO”) creation continued, despite widening liability spreads and limited primary loan supply. The first half of the year’s $77.03 billion lagged the same period in 2021 by $6.14 billion3, with managers opting for “print and sprint,” short-dated, and static transactions, to take advantage of cheap loans. CLO AAA spreads widened to an average of 159 basis points by the end of the second quarter, their widest in two years.4

 

Demand for loans from CLOs helped counter some of the dynamics in the loan retail space.5 After $19.6 billion in net inflows to loan mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the first quarter of 2022, loan retail funds turned negative, with $4.5 billion exiting loan funds in the second quarter of 2022.6

 

Primary issuance slowed severely, and banks were forced to sell paper at heavy discounts, given the secondary market sell-off. Institutional loan volume was $168 billion over the first half of the year compared to $268 billion in the six months prior7, while the $24.7 billion of high yield bonds that priced over the first six months was a fifth of the volume recorded in the same period in 2021.8 Banks are now looking to resume primary market activity in September in an effort to clear the backlog of roughly $40 billion of underwritten loans.9

 

We anticipate ongoing volatility over the second half of the year, with monetary policy likely to provide direction. Loans should benefit from additional demand due to ongoing hikes, as the Fed acts to tamp down the inflationary environment that we believe will remain high for longer.10

 

We are mindful that default rates have started to increase and have already adopted a more cautious approach to our investment strategy, generally rotating into higher-quality assets in more defensive sectors. We recognize that rising rates will increase the interest burden on leveraged borrowers,11 and we expect this and the slower growth environment to impact borrowers unevenly.

 

We see room for optimism around recovery rates, which have meaningfully improved since the initial COVID-19-induced restructuring wave. Over the last twelve months, high yield bond recoveries have averaged 68% (eight data points) compared to 22% in 2020, while first-lien loans have averaged 64% compared to 48% in 2020.12

 

We will rely on active management to navigate the choppier markets, while taking advantage of opportunities as they arise. We believe that staying higher up in the capital structure in senior secured loans should provide protection against rising stress. Refinancing risk is negligible over the near term, with just $331 billion of loans and bonds set to mature in 2023/2024, but we are aware that this rises sharply to roughly $1 trillion in 2025/2026.

 

At Blackstone Credit, we value your continued investment and confidence in us and in our family of funds. Additional information about our funds is available on our website at www.blackstone-credit.com.

 

Sincerely,

Blackstone Liquid Credit Strategies LLC

 

 

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Blackstone Credit Funds Manager Commentary

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

All figures are approximate and as of June 30, 2022, unless otherwise indicated. The words “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to BSL, BGX and BGB, unless the context requires otherwise. In all other instances, including with respect to current and forward-looking views and opinions of the market and BSL, BGX and BGB ‘s portfolio and performance positioning, these terms refer to BSL’s, BGX’s and BGB’s adviser, Blackstone Liquid Credit Strategies LLC.

 

Certain information contained in this communication constitutes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the federal securities laws and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, such as “outlook,” “indicator,” “believes,” “expects,” “potential,” “continues,” “may,” “can,” “will,” “should,” “seeks,” “approximately,” “predicts,” “intends,” “plans,” “estimates,” “anticipates”, “confident,” “conviction,” “identified” or the negative versions of these words or other comparable words thereof. These may include BSL’s, BGX’s and BGB’s financial estimates and their underlying assumptions, statements about plans, objectives and expectations with respect to future operations, statements regarding future performance, statements regarding economic and market trends and statements regarding identified but not yet closed investments. Such forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain and there are or may be important factors that could cause actual outcomes or results to differ materially from those indicated in such statements. BSL, BGX and BGB believe these factors include but are not limited to those described under the section entitled “Risk Factors” in their prospectuses and annual reports for the most recent fiscal year, and any such updated factors included in their periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which are accessible on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. These factors should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are included in this document (or BSL’s, BGX’s and BGB’s prospectus and other filings). Except as otherwise required by federal securities laws, BSL, BGX and BGB undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

 

1S&P/ LSTA Index
2Bloomberg/ Barclays High Yield Index, July 1, 2022.
3LCD, Second Quarter Review, July 1, 2022.
4LCD, Second Quarter Review, July 1, 2022.
5Lipper, LCD, July 1, 2022.
6Lipper, July 1, 2022.
7LCD, Second Quarter Review, July 1, 2022.
8LCD, Second Quarter Review, July 1, 2022.
9Blackstone Credit, July 1, 2022.
10Joe Zidle, “Longer Runway for Growth – and Inflation”, May 16, 2022.
11J.P. Morgan, Interest(ing) coverage scenarios, April 19, 2022. Assuming a 300 basis point increase in rates, interest coverage will erode to 2.1x from 3.9x at the end of 4Q21.
12JPMorgan Default Monitor, July 1, 2022.

 

 

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Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund Fund Summary

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund

 

Fund Overview

 

Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund (“BSL” or herein, the “Fund”) is a closed-end term fund that trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “BSL”. BSL’s primary investment objective is to seek high current income, with a secondary objective to seek preservation of capital, consistent with its primary goal of high current income. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its Managed Assets in senior, secured floating rate loans (“Senior Loans”). BSL may also invest in second-lien loans and high yield bonds and employs financial leverage, which may increase risk to the Fund. The Fund has a limited term, and absent shareholder approval to extend the life of the Fund, the Fund will dissolve on or about May 31, 2027.

 

Portfolio Management Commentary

 

Fund Performance

As of June 30, 2022, BSL outperformed its benchmark, the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index (“S&P LLI”), on a Net Asset Value (“NAV”) per share basis for the five-year, ten-year, and since inception periods and underperformed its benchmark for the six-month, one-year and three-year periods. On a share price basis, the Fund underperformed its benchmark for the six-month, one-year, three-year, five-year, ten-year, and since inception periods. The shares of the Fund traded at an average discount to NAV of 4.8% for the six months ended June 30, 2022, compared to its peer group average discount of 6.0% over the same period.

 

NAV Performance Factors

The Fund’s underperformance relative to the benchmark for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was primarily attributable to the Fund’s leverage and allocation to high yield. The Fund’s allocation to CLO securities also contributed to the Fund’s underperformance for the period. By issuer, the largest positive contributors to performance were Thunder Finco US, Project Leopard Holdings, and UWH PLLC. The most significant detractors were Envision Healthcare, Bright Bidco BV, and Park River Holdings.

 

Portfolio Activity and Positioning

During the period, we continued to dynamically manage the Fund to reduce risk and take advantage of select investment opportunities against a rapidly evolving macroeconomic backdrop. The Fund’s largest sector overweights were electronics/electric, healthcare, and business equipment and services; the largest sector underweights included cable and satellite television, lodging and casinos, and utilities. The Fund reduced its allocation to broadly syndicated senior loans and high yield bonds during the period in favor of CLO securities.

 

 

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Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund Fund Summary

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

Performance Summary

Performance quoted represents past performance, which may be higher or lower than current performance. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that an investor would pay on Fund distributions or on the sale of Fund shares. To obtain the most recent month-end performance, visit www.blackstone-credit.com.

 

Value of a $10,000 Investment

 

 

 

BSL Total Return (as of June 30, 2022)

 

  6 Month 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year 10 Year Since Inception
NAV* -9.49%** -7.65% 1.99% 3.26% 4.30% 4.77%
Market Price* -20.58% -13.33% -0.77% 1.48% 3.63% 3.74%
S&P LLI -4.55% -2.78% 2.08% 2.91% 3.74% 4.11%

 

Annualized.

*NAV is equal to the total assets attributable to common shareholders less liabilities divided by the number of common shares outstanding. Market Price is the price at which a share can currently be traded in the market. Market Price is based on the close price at 4 p.m. ET and does not represent the returns an investor would receive if shares were traded at other times. Return assumes distributions are reinvested pursuant to the Fund’s dividend reinvestment plan. Performance data quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results.

**Excludes adjustments in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and as such, the net asset value and total return for shareholder transactions reported to the market as of June 30, 2022 may differ from the net asset value for financial reporting purposes.

 

 

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Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund Fund Summary

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

BSL’s Portfolio Composition*

 

 

 

*Numbers may not sum to 100.00% due to rounding. The Fund’s Cash and Other represents net cash and other assets and liabilities, which includes amounts payable for investments purchased but not yet settled and amounts receivable for investments sold but not yet settled. At period end, the amounts payable for investments purchased but not yet settled exceeded the amount of cash on hand. The Fund uses sales proceeds or funds from its leverage program to settle amounts payable for investments purchased, but such amounts are not reflected in the Fund’s net cash.

 

BSL’s Moody’s Rating*

 

 

 

*For more information on Moody’s ratings and descriptions refer to https://ratings.moodys.io/ratings.
Portfolio Characteristics
Average All-In Rate 5.87%
Current Dividend Yield^ 6.68%
Effective Duration^^ 0.44 yr
Average Position* 0.24%
Leverage* 32.80%

 

^Using current dividend rate of $0.074/share and market price/share as of 6/30/2022.

^^Loan durations are based on the actual remaining time until the underlying base rate is reset for each individual loan.

*As a percentage of Managed Assets.

 

Top 10 Issuers*  
AqGen Ascensus, Inc. 1.0%
Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc. 0.9%
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. 0.9%
Carestream Health, Inc. 0.9%
PetVet Care Centers LLC 0.9%
Idera, Inc. 0.9%
Park River Holdings, Inc. 0.9%
Mitchell International, Inc. 0.9%
Ivanti Software, Inc. 0.9%
Rocket Software, Inc. 0.9%
Top 10 Issuer 9.0%

 

*As a percentage of Managed Assets.

Portfolio holdings and distributions are subject to change and are not recommendations to buy or sell any security.

 

Top 5 Industries*^  
Electronics/Electric 17.3%
Business Equipment & Services 15.3%
Healthcare 13.1%
Building & Development 4.7%
Industrial Equipment 4.3%
Top 5 Industries 54.7%

 

*As a percentage of Managed Assets.

^S&P Industry Classification Schema.


 

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Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund Fund Summary

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund

 

Fund Overview

 

Blackstone Long Short Credit Income Fund (“BGX” or herein, the “Fund”) is a closed-end fund that trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “BGX”. BGX’s primary investment objective is to provide current income, with a secondary objective of capital appreciation. BGX will take long positions in investments which we believe offer the potential for attractive returns under various economic and interest rate environments. BGX may also take short positions in investments which we believe will under-perform due to a greater sensitivity to earnings growth of the issuer, default risk or the general level and direction of interest rates. BGX must hold no less than 70% of its Managed Assets in first- and second-lien secured loans (“Secured Loans”), but may also invest in unsecured loans and high yield bonds.

 

Portfolio Management Commentary

 

Fund Performance

As of June 30, 2022, BGX outperformed a composite weighting of the S&P LLI and the Bloomberg U.S. High Yield Index (“Bloomberg HYI”) (70% loans, 30% high yield bonds) on a NAV per share basis for the three-year, five-year, ten-year, and since inception periods and underperformed its benchmark for the six-month and one-year periods. On a share price basis, the Fund underperformed its benchmark for the six-month, one-year, three-year, five-year, ten-year, and since inception periods. The shares of the Fund traded at an average discount to NAV of 9.1% for the six months ended June 30, 2022, compared to its peer group average discount of 8.6% over the same period.

 

NAV Performance Factors

The Fund’s underperformance relative to the benchmark for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was primarily attributable to leverage, credit selection within the Fund’s loan allocation, and an allocation to CLO securities. By issuer, the largest positive contributors to performance were PBF Finance, Project Leopard Holdings, and Inmar. The most significant detractors were Envision Healthcare, Bright Bidco, and Park River Holdings.

 

Portfolio Activity and Positioning

During the period, we continued to dynamically manage the Fund to reduce risk and take advantage of select investment opportunities against a rapidly evolving macroeconomic backdrop. The Fund’s largest sector overweights were electronics/electric, business equipment and services, and structured finance obligations; the largest sector underweights included telecom, lodging & casinos, and cable & satellite television. The Fund reduced its allocation to broadly syndicated loans during the period in favor of high yield bonds and CLO securities.

 

 

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Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund Fund Summary

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

Performance Summary 

Performance quoted represents past performance, which may be higher or lower than current performance. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that an investor would pay on Fund distributions or on the sale of Fund shares. To obtain the most recent month-end performance, visit www.blackstone-credit.com.

 

Value of a $10,000 Investment

 

 

 

BGX Total Return (as of June 30, 2022)

 

  6 Month 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year 10 Year Since Inception
NAV* -11.78%** -9.83% 1.61% 3.28% 4.80% 4.82%
Market Price* -19.44% -18.32% -1.96% 1.96% 3.70% 3.26%
70% S&P LLI / 30% Bloomberg HYI -7.50% -5.85% 1.38% 2.59% 3.97% 3.99%

 

Annualized.

*NAV is equal to the total assets attributable to common shareholders less liabilities divided by the number of common shares outstanding. Market Price is the price at which a share can currently be traded in the market. Market Price is based on the close price at 4 p.m. ET and does not represent the returns an investor would receive if shares were traded at other times. Return assumes distributions are reinvested pursuant to the Fund’s dividend reinvestment plan. Performance data quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results.

**Excludes adjustments in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and as such, the net asset value and total return for shareholder transactions reported to the market as of June 30, 2022 may differ from the net asset value for financial reporting purposes.

 

 

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Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund

Fund Summary

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

BGX’s Portfolio Composition*

 

 

 

*Numbers may not sum to 100.00% due to rounding. The Fund’s Cash and Other represents net cash and other assets and liabilities, which includes amounts payable for investments purchased but not yet settled and amounts receivable for investments sold but not yet settled. At period end, the amounts payable for investments purchased but not yet settled exceeded the amount of cash on hand. The Fund uses sales proceeds or funds from its leverage program to settle amounts payable for investments purchased, but such amounts are not reflected in the Fund’s net cash.

 

BGX’s Moody’s Rating Distribution*

  

 

 

*For more information on Moody's ratings and descriptions refer to https://ratings.moodys.io/ratings.

Portfolio Characteristics  
Average All-In Rate 5.93%
Current Dividend Yield^ 8.24%
Effective Duration^^ 1.11 yr
Average Position* 0.23%
Leverage* 39.71%

  

^Using current dividend rate of $0.079/share and market price/share as of 6/30/2022.

^^Loan durations are based on the actual remaining time until the underlying base rate is reset for each individual loan.

*As a percentage of Managed Assets.

 

Top 10 Issuers*  
Carestream Health, Inc. 1.3%
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. 1.0%
Park River Holdings, Inc. 0.9%
Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc. 0.9%
Weld North Education Llc 0.8%
Mitchell International, Inc. 0.8%
Ivanti Software, Inc. 0.8%
ProAmpac PG Borrower LLC 0.8%
Garda World Security 0.8%
Access CIG LLC 0.8%
Top 10 Issuer 8.8%

  

*As a percentage of Managed Assets.

Portfolio holdings and distributions are subject to change and are not recommendations to buy or sell any security.

 

Top 5 Industries*^  
Electronics/Electric 16.4%
Business Equipment & Services 14.3%
Healthcare 10.9%
Structured Finance Obligations 4.7%
Building & Development 4.5%
Top 5 Industries 50.8%

 

*As a percentage of Managed Assets.
^S&P Industry Classification Schema.


 

 

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Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund

Fund Summary

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund

 

Fund Overview

 

Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund (“BGB” or herein, the “Fund”) is a closed-end term fund that trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “BGB”. BGB’s primary investment objective is to seek high current income, with a secondary objective to seek preservation of capital, consistent with its primary goal of high current income. BGB invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of loans and other fixed income instruments of predominantly U.S. corporate issuers, including first- and second-lien loans (“Senior Secured Loans”) and high yield corporate bonds of varying maturities. BGB must hold no less than 80% of its Managed Assets in credit investments comprised of corporate fixed income instruments and other investments (including derivatives) with similar economic characteristics. The Fund has a limited term and will dissolve on or about September 15, 2027, absent shareholder approval to extend such term.

 

Portfolio Management Commentary

 

Fund Performance 

As of June 30, 2022, BGB outperformed a composite weighting of the S&P LLI and the Bloomberg HYI (75% loans, 25% high yield bonds) on a NAV per share basis for the since inception period and underperformed its benchmark for the six-month, one-year, three-year, and five-year periods. On a share price basis, the Fund underperformed for the six-month, one-year, three-year, five-year, and since inception periods. The shares of the Fund traded at an average discount to NAV of 9.1% for the six months ended June 30, 2022, compared to its peer group average discount of 8.6% over the same period.

 

NAV Performance Factors

The Fund’s underperformance relative to the benchmark for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was primarily attributable to leverage and negative credit selection in loans. By issuer, the largest positive contributors to performance were Ridgeback Resources, PBF Finance, and Inmar. The most significant detractors were Envision Healthcare, Bright Bidco, and Park River Holdings.

 

Portfolio Activity and Positioning

During the period, we continued to dynamically manage the Fund to reduce risk and take advantage of select investment opportunities against a rapidly evolving macroeconomic backdrop. The Fund’s largest sector overweights were electronics/electric, business equipment and services, and healthcare; the largest sector underweights included cable & satellite television, lodging and casinos, and telecom. The Fund reduced its allocation to broadly syndicated loans during the period in favor of high yield bonds.

 

 

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Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund

Fund Summary

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

Performance Summary 

Performance quoted represents past performance, which may be higher or lower than current performance. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that an investor would pay on Fund distributions or on the sale of Fund shares. To obtain the most recent month-end performance, visit www.blackstone-credit.com.

 

Value of a $10,000 Investment

 

 

 

BGB Total Return (as of June 30, 2022)

  6 Month 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year Since Inception
NAV* -11.18%** -9.36% 0.57% 2.23% 3.90%
Market Price* -14.98% -14.41% -1.15% 1.33% 2.22%
75% S&P LLI / 25% Bloomberg HYI -7.01% -5.34% 1.50% 2.64% 3.65%

 

Annualized.

*NAV is equal to the total assets attributable to common shareholders less liabilities divided by the number of common shares outstanding. Market Price is the price at which a share can currently be traded in the market. Market Price is based on the close price at 4 p.m. ET and does not represent the returns an investor would receive if shares were traded at other times. Return assumes distributions are reinvested pursuant to the Fund’s dividend reinvestment plan. Performance data quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results.

**Excludes adjustments in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and as such, the net asset value and total return for shareholder transactions reported to the market as of June 30, 2022 may differ from the net asset value for financial reporting purposes.

 

 

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Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund

Fund Summary

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

BGB’s Portfolio Composition*

  

 

 

*Numbers may not sum to 100.00% due to rounding. The Fund’s Cash and Other represents net cash and other assets and liabilities, which includes amounts payable for investments purchased but not yet settled and amounts receivable for investments sold but not yet settled. At period end, the amounts payable for investments purchased but not yet settled exceeded the amount of cash on hand. The Fund uses sales proceeds or funds from its leverage program to settle amounts payable for investments purchased, but such amounts are not reflected in the Fund’s net cash.

 

BGB’s Moody’s Rating Distribution*

 

 

*For more information on Moody's ratings and descriptions refer to https://ratings.moodys.io/ratings.

 

Portfolio Characteristics  
Average All-In Rate 5.85%
Current Dividend Yield^ 7.20%
Effective Duration^^ 1.03 yr
Average Position* 0.22%
Leverage* 37.52%

  

^Using current dividend rate of $0.067/share and market price/share as of 6/30/2022.

^^Loan durations are based on the actual remaining time until the underlying base rate is reset for each individual loan.

*As a percentage of Managed Assets.

 

Top 10 Issuers*  
Carestream Health, Inc. 1.3%
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. 0.9%
PetVet Care Centers LLC 0.9%
Park River Holdings, Inc. 0.9%
Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc. 0.9%
Weld North Education Llc 0.9%
ECi Macola/MAX Holding LLC 0.8%
Mitchell International, Inc. 0.8%
Ivanti Software, Inc. 0.8%
Ridgeback Resources 0.8%
Top 10 Issuer 9.0%

 

*As a percentage of Managed Assets.

Portfolio holdings and distributions are subject to change and are not recommendations to buy or sell any security.

 

Top 5 Industries*^  
Electronics/Electric 17.1%
Business Equipment & Services 14.4%
Healthcare 11.5%
Building & Development 4.5%
Oil & Gas 3.8%
Top 5 Industries 51.3%

 

*As a percentage of Managed Assets.

^S&P Industry Classification Schema.


 

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Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund

Portfolio of Investments

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

  

    Principal
Amount
    Value 
FLOATING RATE LOAN INTERESTS(a) - 135.09%          
Aerospace & Defense - 4.21%          
Amentum Government Services Holdings LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 6M US L + 4.00%, 02/15/2029  $976,531   $932,592 
Atlas CC Acquisition Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 05/25/2028   1,544,340    1,431,418 
Atlas CC Acquisition Corp., First Lien C Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 05/25/2028   314,102    291,134 
Dynasty Acquisition Co., Inc., First Lien 2020 B-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 04/06/2026   913,423    844,917 
Dynasty Acquisition Co., Inc., First Lien 2020 B-2 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 04/06/2026   492,350    455,424 
Nordam Group LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.50%, 04/09/2026   1,702,799    1,429,499 
Peraton Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 02/01/2028   2,324,259    2,188,952 
Vertex Aerospace Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 12/06/2028   613,846    584,308 
         8,158,244 
           
Air Transport - 2.81%          
AAdvantage Loyality IP, Ltd., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 04/20/2028   1,119,016    1,070,456 
American Airlines, Inc., First Lien 2018 Replacement Term Loan, 1M US L + 1.75%, 06/27/2025   782,743    697,135 
American Airlines, Inc., First Lien 2020 Term Loan, 1M US L + 1.75%, 01/29/2027   245,440    217,214 
Global Medical Response, Inc., First Lien 2018 New Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 1.00% Floor, 03/14/2025   2,343,140    2,186,208 
KKR Apple Bidco LLC, Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.75%, 0.50% Floor, 09/21/2029   173,714    167,200 
United AirLines, Inc., First Lien Class B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor,   04/21/2028    1,187,197    1,108,552 
         5,446,765 
           
Automotive - 1.99%          
Bright BidCo B.V., First Lien 2018 Refinancing B Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 1.00% Floor, 06/30/2024   5,550    2,482 
Burgess Point Purchaser Corp. TL 1L, First Lien Term Loan 06/29/2029   1,472,000   $1,324,800 
GC EOS Buyer, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 08/01/2025   1,347,366    1,340,946 
Wheel Pros, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 0.75% Floor, 05/11/2028   1,417,877    1,180,886 
         3,849,114 
           
Beverage & Tobacco - 1.05%          
Triton Water Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 03/31/2028    2,280,745    2,027,423 
           

Brokers, Dealers & Investment Houses - 2.48%

          
Advisor Group Holdings, Inc., First Lien B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 07/31/2026   1,871,638    1,785,243 
Deerfield Dakota Holding LLC, First Lien Initial Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 04/09/2027   1,279,952    1,201,958 
Deerfield Dakota Holding LLC, Second Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 0.75% Floor, 04/07/2028   304,000    297,666 
Edelman Financial Engines Center LLC, First Lien Initial (2021) Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.75% Floor, 04/07/2028   1,626,478    1,509,575 
         4,794,442 
           
Building & Development - 6.61%          

Arc Falcon I, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 09/30/2028

   70,355    65,149 
CP Atlas Buyer, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 11/23/2027   1,698,552    1,498,972 
Foundation Building Materials, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 0.50% Floor, 01/31/2028    1,804,857    1,588,274 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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Portfolio of Investments

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Building & Development (continued)        
Illuminate Merger Sub Corp, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 07/21/2028  $437,457   $384,691 
LBM Acquisition LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 12/17/2027   2,173,102    1,791,798 
Park River Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 0.75% Floor, 12/28/2027   3,059,076    2,523,738 
SRS Distribution, Inc., First Lien 2021 Refinancing Term Loan, 6M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 06/02/2028   586,771    543,349 
SRS Distribution, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 6M US L + 3.50%, 06/02/2028   485,739    448,855 
Tutor Perini Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 1.00% Floor, 08/18/2027   1,597,622    1,503,762 
United Site Cov-Lite, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 12/15/2028   1,090,411    987,956 
White Cap Buyer LLC, First Lien Initial Closing Date Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 10/19/2027    1,572,872    1,453,924 
        12,790,468 
           

Business Equipment & Services - 22.28%

          
Access CIG LLC, First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 02/27/2025   1,463,884    1,386,664 
Access CIG LLC, Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.75%, 02/27/2026   1,074,290    1,031,318 
Aegion Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 05/17/2028   593,486    544,523 
AG Group Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 12/29/2028   559,182    538,213 
Allied Universal Holdco LLC, First Lien Initial U.S. Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 05/12/2028   2,074,263    1,905,729 
Anticimex International AB, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 11/16/2028   1,265,513    1,200,124 
AqGen Island Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan:          
3M US L + 3.50%, 08/02/2028   1,127,869    1,054,558 
3M US L + 6.50%, 08/02/2029   1,865,513    1,748,918 
BMC Acquisition, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.25%, 1.00% Floor, 12/28/2024   785,027    747,738 
Connectwise, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 09/29/2028   536,408    492,600 
DG Investment Intermediate Holdings 2, Inc., First Lien Closing Date Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/31/2028   717,648    672,573 
DG Investment Intermediate Holdings 2, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/30/2029(b)   601,071    583,039 
Divisions Holding Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 05/27/2028(b)   551,446    519,738 
DTI Holdco, Inc. TL, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 04/26/2029   761,150    714,663 
EAB Global, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 08/16/2028   698,326    658,870 
Element Materials Technology Group Holdings DTL, First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.250%, 04/12/2029   82,186    79,078 
Element Materials Technology Group Holdings TL, First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.250%, 04/12/2029   178,068    171,336 
Epicor Software Corp., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.75%, 1.00% Floor, 07/31/2028   822,203    803,293 
Equiniti Group PLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 12/11/2028   347,345    330,847 
eResearchTechnology, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 1.00% Floor, 02/04/2027   768,243    711,747 
Foundational Education Group, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 08/31/2028   582,217    558,928 
Galaxy US Opco Inc. TL, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 04/29/2029   659,368    620,630 
Garda World Security Corp., First Lien B-2 Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 10/30/2026   2,151,356    2,000,761 
Garda World Security Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 02/01/2029   218,182    201,273 
Inmar, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 1.00% Floor, 05/01/2024   598,425    564,390 
Inmar, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 8.00%, 1.00% Floor, 05/01/2025(b)   1,002,931    1,005,438 
KUEHG Corp, Second Lien Tranche B Term Loan, 3M US L + 8.25%, 1.00% Floor, 08/22/2025   1,444,156    1,399,633 
KUEHG Corp., First Lien B-3 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 02/21/2025   899,829    840,697 
Learning Care Group No. 2, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 1.00% Floor, 03/13/2025   1,131,547    1,050,924 
Loyalty Ventures, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 11/03/2027   520,179    414,452 
Madison IAQ LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 0.50% Floor, 06/21/2028   932,180    851,584 

 

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  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

 

 

  Principal
Amount
  

Value

 
Business Equipment & Services (continued)          
McKissock Investment Holdings, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, L + 5.750%, 03/12/2029  $920,551   $892,934 
Minotaur Acquisition, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 03/27/2026   1,322,615    1,255,380 
Mitchell International, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 10/15/2028   2,329,002    2,128,126 
Mitchell International, Inc., Second Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.50%, 10/15/2029   412,371    389,369 
Momentive, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 10/10/2025(b)   1,633,679    1,584,669 
National Intergovernmental Purchasing Alliance Company, Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.50%, 05/22/2026(b)   1,519,235    1,481,254 
Revspring, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 10/11/2025   1,273,800    1,222,848 
Rinchem Company, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 03/02/2029(b)   514,883    484,634 
Sabre GLBL, Inc., First Lien 2021 Other B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 12/17/2027   239,173    224,375 
Sabre GLBL, Inc., First Lien 2021 Other B-2 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 12/17/2027   381,255    357,667 
Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., First Lien 2020 Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 1.00% Floor, 09/03/2026   303,975    294,287 
Seren BidCo, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 11/16/2028(b)   549,240    523,151 
Skopima Merger Sub Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 05/12/2028   1,128,568    1,036,871 
St. George's University Scholastic Services LLC, First Lien Term Loan B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.25%, 0.50% Floor, 02/10/2029   953,678    901,226 
TRC Companies, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 12/08/2028   1,127,878    1,064,908 
TRC Companies, Second Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 12/07/2029   713,846    669,231 
Virtusa Corp., First Lien Term Loan:          
1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 02/11/2028   626,038    593,662 
1M US L + 3.75%, 02/15/2029   631,919    599,271 
Weld North Education LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 12/21/2027   2,124,811    2,025,646 
        43,133,788 
           
Cable & Satellite Television - 0.23%          
Numericable U.S. LLC, First Lien USD TLB-[12] Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.6875%, 01/31/2026   492,268    449,195 
           
Chemical & Plastics - 4.48%          
Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC, First Lien 2021 Refinancing Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 08/27/2026   2,104,609    2,057,256 
CPC Acquisition Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 12/29/2027   421,358    371,497 
DCG Acquisition Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 09/30/2026(b)   1,510,874    1,420,222 
Geon Performance Solutions LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 0.75% Floor, 08/18/2028   1,156,757    1,098,919 
Hexion Holdings Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 03/15/2029   398,733    359,108 
Hyperion Materials & Technologies, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 0.50% Floor, 08/30/2028   752,060    714,457 
Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc., First Lien Closing Date Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 1.00% Floor, 10/28/2024   1,419,711    1,349,613 
Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 10/28/2024   638,400    606,879 
Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 8.25%, 1.00% Floor, 10/27/2025   725,111    698,224 
         8,676,175 
           
Clothing & Textiles - 0.46%          

S&S Holdings LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 0.50% Floor, 03/11/2028

   942,074    886,336 
           

Conglomerates - 3.17%

          
Genuine Financial Holdings LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 07/11/2025   1,423,175    1,357,709 
Hunter Douglas Inc., First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.000%, 02/26/2029   1,065,217    920,918 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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Portfolio of Investments

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

  

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Conglomerates (continued)        
Output Services Group, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 1.00% Floor, 03/27/2024  $586,950   $439,898 
Spring Education Group, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 07/30/2025   1,333,412    1,249,407 
Vaco Holdings, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 01/21/2029   341,143    329,203 
VT Topco, Inc., First Lien 2021 Delayed Draw Term Loan, 3M US L + 1.38%, 0.75% Floor, 08/01/2025(b)(c)   65,399    63,274 
VT Topco, Inc., First Lien 2021 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 08/01/2025   1,821,462    1,773,648 
         6,134,057 
           

Containers & Glass Products - 4.47%

          
Berlin Packaging L.L.C., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 03/11/2028   1,016,630    948,851 
Charter Next Generation, Inc., First Lien Initial (2021) Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 12/01/2027   808,171    763,217 
Clydesdale Acquisition Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 0.50% Floor, 04/13/2029   1,916,709    1,796,914 
IBC Capital I, Ltd., First Lien Tranche B-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 09/11/2023   250,707    226,995 
IBC Capital, Ltd., Second Lien Tranche B-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.00%, 09/11/2024   620,110    585,229 
LABL, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.00%, 10/29/2028   570,000    529,387 
ProAmpac PG Borrower LLC, First Lien 2020-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 11/03/2025   2,451,869    2,277,786 
Strategic Materials Holding Corp., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.75%, 1.00% Floor, 10/31/2025   800,000    400,000 
Tekni-Plex, Inc., First Lien Delayed Draw Tem Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.50% Floor, 09/15/2028(c)   97,297    91,556 
Tekni-Plex, Inc., First Lien Tranche B-3 Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.50% Floor, 09/15/2028   1,093,243     1,028,742 
         8,648,677 
           
Diversified Insurance - 1.20%          
Acrisure LLC, First Lien 2021-1 Additional Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 02/15/2027   334,316    313,839 
Acrisure LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 02/15/2027   381,644    361,291 
NFP Corp., First Lien Closing Date Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.25%, 02/15/2027   1,776,442    1,646,762 
         2,321,892 
           
Drugs - 1.85%          
Cambrex Corp., First Lien Tranche B-2 Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.60%, 0.75% Floor, 12/04/2026   592,222    563,351 
Curia Global, Inc., First Lien 2021 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 08/30/2026   1,880,867    1,780,561 
LSCS Holdings/Eversana, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 12/16/2028   501,417    478,853 
Padagis LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/06/2028   408,184    376,550 
Sharp MicCo, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 12/31/2028(b)   397,419    373,574 
         3,572,889 
           
Ecological Services & Equipment - 0.37%          

EnergySolutions LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 05/09/2025

   759,692    710,631 
           

Electronics/Electric - 25.35%

          
Apttus Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 05/08/2028   582,791    547,824 
BMC Software, Inc., Second Lien 2nd Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.50%, 0.50% Floor, 02/27/2026   326,531    307,961 
Boxer Parent Company, Inc., First Lien 2021 Replacement Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 10/02/2025   1,877,707    1,754,097 
Brave Parent Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 04/18/2025   974,582    939,497 
CDK Global, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.500%, 06/08/2029   1,090,073    1,033,395 
Cloudera, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 10/08/2028   1,302,176    1,202,344 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

  

    Principal
Amount
    Value 
Electronics/Electric (continued)          
ConvergeOne Holdings, Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.00%, 01/04/2026  $2,128,500   $1,830,521 
CoreLogic, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 06/02/2028   1,858,889    1,557,749 
CoreLogic, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.50%, 0.50% Floor, 06/04/2029(b)   567,442    417,070 
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 10/16/2028   586,236    526,147 
CPI International, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.25%, 1.00% Floor, 07/26/2025(b)   313,530    305,692 
DCert Buyer, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 10/16/2026   1,097,194    1,051,737 
DCert Buyer, Inc., Second Lien First Amendment Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.00%, 02/19/2029   668,275    624,837 
Delta Topco, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 12/01/2027   1,710,645    1,553,488 
ECI Macola/MAX Holding LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 11/09/2027   2,224,415    2,103,474 
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.75% Floor, 02/10/2028   1,578,578    1,423,349 
Fiserv Investment Solutions, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 02/18/2027   911,911    867,455 
Help/Systems Holdings, Inc., First Lien Seventh Amendment Refinancing Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 11/19/2026   2,095,858    1,970,630 
Hyland Software, Inc., Second Lien 2021 Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.25%, 0.75% Floor, 07/07/2025   765,110    753,633 
Idera, Inc., First Lien B-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/02/2028   2,795,877    2,587,067 
Imperva, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 1.00% Floor, 01/12/2026   1,564,712    1,412,935 
Ingram Micro, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 06/30/2028   752,400    713,840 
Internet Brands, Inc., First Lien 2020 June New Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 09/13/2024   1,791,414    1,691,543 
Ivanti Software, Inc., First Lien First Amendment Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 12/01/2027   252,284    216,335 
Ivanti Software, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 12/01/2027   2,089,500    1,805,683 
Ivanti Software, Inc., Second Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.25%, 12/01/2028   537,313    493,434 
LI Group Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2021 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/11/2028   728,112    696,257 
Magenta Buyer LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 0.75% Floor, 07/27/2028   1,711,506    1,543,410 
McAfee Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 03/01/2029   1,370,413    1,251,646 
MH SUB I LLC, Second Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.25%, 02/23/2029   705,038    668,023 
Mitnick Corporate Purchaser Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.85%, 05/02/2029   405,947    386,664 
MLN US HoldCo LLC, First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 11/30/2025   973,628    652,331 
Park Place Technologies LLC, First Lien Closing Date Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.00%, 1.00% Floor, 11/10/2027   1,663,200    1,603,599 
Perforce Software, Inc., First Lien New Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 07/01/2026   813,288    752,088 
Project Alpha Intermediate Holding, Inc., First Lien 2021 Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 04/26/2024   849,119    819,137 
Project Castle, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, L + 5.500%, 06/01/2029   1,520,000    1,371,800 
Project Leopard Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2018 Repricing Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 1.00% Floor, 07/05/2024   312,901    311,532 
Project Leopard Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2019 Incremental Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 1.00% Floor, 07/05/2024   1,289,666    1,284,024 
Quest Borrower Ltd., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 02/01/2029   1,404,878    1,254,289 
Rocket Software, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 11/28/2025   2,001,412    1,866,317 
Rocket Software, Inc., First Lien USD Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 11/28/2025   627,000    584,157 
S2P Acquisition Borrower, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 08/14/2026   1,134,583    1,085,796 
Sovos Compliance LLC, First Lien Delayed Draw Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 0.50% Floor, 08/11/2028   69,228    65,399 
Sovos Compliance LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 0.50% Floor, 08/11/2028   398,873    376,811 
Triton Solar US Acquisition Co., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 6.00%, 10/29/2024(b)   220,863    214,237 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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Portfolio of Investments

 

  June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
 Amount
   Value 
Electronics/Electric (continued)        
Veritas US, Inc., First Lien Dollar B-2021 Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 1.00% Floor, 09/01/2025  $777,136   $641,782 
Vision Solutions, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 04/24/2028   2,165,626    1,968,554 
         49,089,590 
           
Equipment Leasing - 0.40%          
Spin Holdco, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 03/04/2028   842,021    777,606 
           
Financial Intermediaries - 2.45%          
Apex Group Treasury LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/27/2028   269,880    256,386 
Apex Group Treasury, Ltd., First Lien USD Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/27/2028   484,926    460,680 
ION Trading Finance, Ltd., First Lien Initial Dollar (2021) Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 04/01/2028   2,353,312    2,177,555 
Lereta, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.25%, 07/30/2028   500,679    456,244 
Pre Paid Legal Services, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 12/15/2028   1,483,606    1,388,566 
         4,739,431 
           

Food Products - 0.57%

          
Snacking Investments BidCo Pty, Ltd., First Lien Initial US Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.00%, 1.00% Floor, 12/18/2026   1,171,985    1,113,386 
           
Food Service - 3.04%          
Fertitta Entertainment, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 01/27/2029   1,807,799    1,672,224 
Fogo de Chao, Inc., First Lien 2018 Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 1.00% Floor, 04/07/2025   1,944,296    1,859,233 
Quidditch Acquisition, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.00%, 1.00% Floor, 03/21/2025   1,912,916    1,682,170 
Tacala Investment Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.75% Floor, 02/05/2027   714,480    670,232 
         5,883,859 
           

Food/Drug Retailers - 1.19%

          
EG Group, Ltd., First Lien Additional Facility Term Loan:          
3M US L + 4.00%, 02/07/2025   2,023,879    1,907,505 
3M US L + 4.25%, 0.50% Floor, 03/31/2026   221,823    210,732 
EG Group, Ltd., First Lien Facility B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 02/07/2025   199,479    188,009 
         2,306,246 
           
Healthcare - 19.03%          
AthenaHealth Group, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 02/15/2029   1,181,995    1,091,874 
Auris Luxembourg III SARL, First Lien Facility B2 Term Loan, 6M US L + 3.75%, 02/27/2026   2,296,599    2,084,164 
Carestream Health, Inc., First Lien 2023 Extended Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.25%, 1.00% Floor, 05/08/2023   155,819    155,001 
Carestream Health, Inc., Second Lien 2023 Extended Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 8.00%   PIK, 1.00% Floor, 08/08/2023(d)   2,850,019    2,467,632 
Covenant Surgical Partners, Inc., First Lien Delayed Draw Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 07/01/2026    269,360    253,872 
Covenant Surgical Partners, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 07/01/2026   1,312,789    1,237,303 
Envision Healthcare Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 10/10/2025   1,759,054    598,518 
Femur Buyer, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 03/05/2026   579,064    511,024 
Genesis Care Finance Pty, Ltd., First Lien Facility B5 Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 1.00% Floor, 05/14/2027   1,985,789    1,522,445 
Heartland Dental Care, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, L + 5.000%, 04/30/2025(b)   972,222    933,333 
Heartland Dental LLC, First Lien 2021 Incremental Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 04/30/2025   1,099,379    1,031,767 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Healthcare (continued)          
LifePoint Health, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 11/16/2025  $1,392,207   $1,302,911 
Loire UK Midco 3, Ltd., First Lien Facility B2 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 04/21/2027   941,934    890,128 
Medical Solutions LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 11/01/2028   1,358,073    1,276,928 
NAPA Management Services Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.25%, 0.75% Floor, 02/23/2029   932,781    865,448 
Navicure, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 10/22/2026   1,148,530    1,092,539 
Onex TSG Intermediate Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 02/28/2028   1,402,500    1,311,338 
Parexel International Corporation, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.25%, 0.50% Floor, 11/15/2028   749,296    705,649 
Pathway Vet Alliance LLC, First Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 03/31/2027   1,225,544    1,141,288 
Pediatric Associates Holding Co. LLC, First Lien Term Loan:          
3M US L + 3.25%, 12/29/2028(c)   2,046    1,918 
3M US L + 3.25%, 0.50% Floor, 12/29/2028   27,008    25,320 
PetVet Care Centers LLC, First Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.75% Floor, 02/14/2025   1,610,553    1,523,309 
PetVet Care Centers LLC, Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.25%, 02/13/2026   1,120,000    1,096,206 
Phoenix Guarantor, Inc., First Lien Tranche B-3 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 03/05/2026   1,297,544    1,221,313 
Project Ruby Ultimate Parent Corp., First Lien Closing Date Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.25%, 0.75% Floor, 03/10/2028   743,489    699,151 
Resonetics LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 04/28/2028   560,449    533,827 
Surgery Center Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2021 New Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 08/31/2026   2,332,569    2,180,229 
Team Health Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 2.75%, 1.00% Floor, 02/06/2024   1,291,799    1,154,384 
Tecostar Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2017 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 1.00% Floor, 05/01/2024   2,027,219    1,768,749 
U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 10/01/2028   993,851    929,748 
Verscend Holding Corp., First Lien B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 08/27/2025   2,128,500    2,043,360 
Viant Medical Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 07/02/2025   537,309    496,452 
YI LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 1.00% Floor, 11/07/2024   1,355,726    1,301,497 
Zest Acquisition Corp., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.00%, 1.00% Floor, 03/13/2026   1,500,000    1,402,500 
         36,851,125 
           
Home Furnishings - 0.91%          
Osmosis Buyer Limited Delayed, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 07/31/2028   148,148    135,062 
Osmosis Buyer Limited, First Lien Initial B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/31/2028   1,138,958    1,040,723 
Osmosis Buyer Limited, First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.000%, 07/31/2028   651,852    594,274 
         1,770,059 
           
Industrial Equipment - 6.39%          
Bettcher Industries, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 12/14/2028   842,800    800,660 
Engineered Machinery Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 05/19/2028   1,593,995    1,501,352 
FCG Acquisitions, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 03/31/2028   584,429    551,555 
Justrite Safety Group, First Lien Delayed Draw Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 06/28/2026(b)   75,366    69,996 
Justrite Safety Group, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 06/28/2026(b)   1,394,194    1,294,857 
LTI Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 09/06/2025   1,357,297    1,266,528 
LTI Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan:          
1M US L + 4.75%, 07/24/2026   209,474    197,953 
3M US L + 4.75%, 07/24/2026   210,526    198,947 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited) 

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Industrial Equipment (continued)        
LTI Holdings, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 09/06/2026  $468,085   $428,005 
PRO MACH Group, Inc., First Lien Closing Date Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 1.00% Floor, 08/31/2028   1,651,816    1,562,519 
Redwood Star Merger Sub, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.60%, 04/05/2029   1,690,837    1,580,088 
Tailwind Smith Cooper Intermediate Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 05/28/2026   1,493,079    1,389,654 
TK Elevator Midco GmbH, First Lien Facility B1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 07/30/2027   1,626,913    1,528,290 
         12,370,404 
           
Insurance - 1.41%          
Baldwin Risk Partners, LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 10/14/2027   1,956,314    1,865,835 
HIG Finance 2, Ltd., First Lien 2021 Dollar Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.25%, 0.75% Floor, 11/12/2027   752,860    712,605 
Outcomes Group Holdings, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.50%, 10/26/2026   162,722    159,874 
         2,738,314 
           
Leisure Goods/Activities/Movies - 5.75%          
Alterra Mountain Company, First Lien Series B-2 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 08/17/2028   1,413,479    1,348,106 
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., First Lien B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.00%, 04/22/2026   3,127,974    2,645,484 
Amplify Finco Pty, Ltd., First Lien U.S. Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 11/26/2026   1,381,923    1,348,522 
CE Intermediate I, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 11/10/2028(b)   871,111    823,200 
Crown Finance US, Inc., First Lien Initial Dollar Tranche Term Loan, 3M US L + 2.50%, 1.00% Floor, 02/28/2025   1,440,119    918,378 
Crown Finance US, Inc., First Lien Second Amendment Dollar Tranche Term Loan, 3M US L + 2.75%, 09/30/2026   226,131    140,020 
Motion Finco LLC, First Lien Facility B1 (USD) Loan Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 11/12/2026   1,225,788    1,135,895 
Motion Finco LLC, First Lien Facility B2 (USD) Loan Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 11/12/2026   161,104    149,289 
Recess Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 09/30/2024   1,908,852    1,839,656 
Travel Leaders Group LLC, First Lien 2018 Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 01/25/2024   872,874    782,859 
         11,131,409 
           
Oil & Gas - 0.12%          
BCP Raptor II LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 11/03/2025   618    618 
Freeport LNG, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 12/21/2028   264,470    230,089 
         230,707 
           
Property & Casualty Insurance - 0.97%          
AssuredPartners, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 02/12/2027   1,168,969    1,098,831 
Polaris Newco LLC, First Lien Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 0.50% Floor, 06/02/2028   840,712    779,310 
         1,878,141 
           
Publishing - 3.48%          
Cengage Learning, Inc., First Lien Term Loan B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 07/14/2026   746,345    675,442 
Champ Acquisition Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 6M US L + 5.50%, 12/19/2025   1,392,099    1,356,427 
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 08/21/2026   1,582,282    1,367,487 
McGraw-Hill Education, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/28/2028   1,064,169    966,617 
Recorded Books, Inc., First Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 08/29/2025   1,346,667    1,281,858 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

  

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Publishing (continued)        
Shutterfly LLC, First Lien 2021 Refinancing B Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 0.75% Floor, 09/25/2026  $1,332,088   $1,082,988 
         6,730,819 
           
Radio & Television - 0.11%          
Univision Communications, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.250%, 06/08/2029   218,182    208,545 
           
Retailers (except food & drug) - 0.03%          
FBB Holdings III, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 6.04% (including 6.00% PIK), 01/31/2025(b)(d)   75,557    58,556 
           
Surface Transport - 1.93%          
Drive Chassis Holdco LLC, Second Lien 2021 Refinancing B Term Loan, 3M US L + 6.75%, 04/10/2026   1,410,343    1,392,714 
Kenan Advantage Group, Inc.,The, First Lien U.S. B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/24/2026   1,244,045    1,172,512 
WWEX UNI TopCo Holdings LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 07/26/2028   1,277,583    1,167,263 
         3,732,489 
           
Telecommunications - 4.18%          
CCI Buyer, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 12/17/2027   2,126,488    1,945,736 
Ensono LP, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 6M US L + 4.00%, 05/26/2028   1,024,091    952,568 
Greeneden U.S. Holdings I LLC, First Lien Initial Dollar (2020) Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 12/01/2027   1,353,750    1,298,246 
Telesat Canada, First Lien B-5 Term Loan, 1M US L + 2.75%, 12/07/2026   1,254,928    883,156 
Zacapa S.A.R.L., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 03/22/2029   1,884,740    1,765,295 
Zayo Group Holdings, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.30%, 03/09/2027   1,340,640    1,256,568 
         8,101,569 
           
Utilities - 0.12%          
Eastern Power LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 10/02/2025   281,616    239,154 
           
TOTAL FLOATING RATE LOAN INTERESTS          
(Cost $281,313,161)        261,551,505 
           
COLLATERALIZED LOAN OBLIGATION SECURITIES(a) - 5.61%          
Structured Finance Obligations - 5.61%          
522 Funding CLO 2021-7, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.22%, 04/23/2034(b)(e)   500,000    441,566 
Allegro CLO XII, Ltd., 3M US L + 7.10%, 01/21/2032(b)(e)   1,000,000    923,427 
Eaton Vance CLO 2013-1, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.80%, 01/15/2034(b)(e)   500,000    452,093 
Elmwood CLO 16, Ltd., 3M US SOFR + 7.22%, 04/20/2034(b)(e)   500,000    459,086 
Galaxy 30 Clo, Ltd., 3M US SOFR + 6.95%, 04/15/2035(b)(e)   1,000,000    908,253 
Galaxy XXVII CLO, Ltd., 3M US L + 5.78%, 05/16/2031(b)(e)   625,000    536,269 
HPS Loan Management CLO 6-2015, Ltd., 3M US L + 5.10%, 02/05/2031(b)(e)   834,000    700,686 
Magnetite XXXII, Ltd., 3M US SOFR + 6.90%, 04/15/2035(b)(e)   1,000,000    913,366 
Neuberger Berman CLO XVII, Ltd., 3M US L + 7.20%, 04/22/2029(b)(e)   500,000    448,269 
Octagon Investment Partners 43, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.60%, 10/25/2032(b)(e)   500,000    441,603 
Park Avenue Institutional Advisers CLO, Ltd. 2022-1, 3M US SOFR + 7.29%, 04/20/2035(b)(e)   1,000,000    928,230 
PPM CLO 3, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.61%, 04/17/2034(b)(e)   500,000    445,933 
Rad CLO 2, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.00%, 10/15/2031(b)(e)   750,000    641,434 
Rad CLO 5, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.70%, 07/24/2032(b)(e)   500,000    444,169 
Romark CLO IV, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.95%, 07/10/2034(b)(e)   1,000,000    871,111 
Sound Point CLO XXXII, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.70%, 10/25/2034(b)(e)   1,000,000    860,385 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Structured Finance Obligations (continued)        
Wellfleet CLO 2020-1, Ltd., 3M US L + 7.24%, 04/15/2033(b)(e)  $500,000   $454,693 
         10,870,573 
           
TOTAL COLLATERALIZED LOAN OBLIGATION SECURITIES          
(Cost $12,107,158)        10,870,573 
           
CORPORATE BONDS - 9.82%          
Aerospace & Defense - 0.18%          
Howmet Aerospace, Inc., 5.950%, 02/01/2037   70,000    66,128 
Science Applications International Corp., 4.875%, 04/01/2028(e)   40,000    37,360 
TransDigm, Inc.:          
7.500%, 03/15/2027   40,000    37,566 
4.625%, 01/15/2029   140,000    113,028 
4.875%, 05/01/2029   110,000    89,735 
         343,817 
           
Air Transport - 0.07%          
Air Canada, 3.875%, 08/15/2026(e)   50,000    42,397 
American Airlines Group, Inc., 3.750%, 03/01/2025(e)   120,000    101,325 
         143,722 
           
Automotive - 0.28%          
Allison Transmission, Inc., 3.750%, 01/30/2031(e)   190,000    152,612 
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc., 6.500%, 04/01/2027   50,000    44,311 
Ford Motor Credit Co. LLC, 4.389%, 01/08/2026   200,000    184,731 
Group 1 Automotive, Inc., 4.000%, 08/15/2028(e)   100,000    83,775 
Titan International, Inc., 7.000%, 04/30/2028   80,000    75,273 
         540,702 
           
Brokers, Dealers & Investment Houses - 0.29%          
CVR Energy, Inc., 5.250%, 02/15/2025(e)   240,000    220,998 
Icahn Enterprises LP / Icahn Enterprises Finance Corp., 5.250%, 05/15/2027   210,000    186,479 
Navient Corp.:          
6.750%, 06/25/2025   55,000    49,757 
5.625%, 08/01/2033   160,000    111,340 
         568,574 
           
Building & Development - 0.33%          
Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., 6.375%, 06/15/2030(e)   56,000    54,853 
Builders FirstSource, Inc., 4.250%, 02/01/2032(e)   60,000    45,785 
Dycom Industries, Inc., 4.500%, 04/15/2029(e)   60,000    52,522 
Griffon Corp., 5.750%, 03/01/2028   150,000    136,584 
Howard Hughes Corp.:          
4.125%, 02/01/2029(e)   55,000    42,521 
4.375%, 02/01/2031(e)   110,000    81,596 
Louisiana-Pacific Corp., 3.625%, 03/15/2029(e)   70,000    55,280 
Taylor Morrison Communities, Inc. / Taylor Morrison Holdings II, Inc., 5.625%, 03/01/2024(e)   100,000    97,397 
Tri Pointe Homes, Inc., 5.700%, 06/15/2028   80,000    69,181 
         635,719 
           
Business Equipment & Services - 0.47%          
Iron Mountain, Inc.:          
4.875%, 09/15/2029(e)   160,000    136,448 
4.500%, 02/15/2031(e)   55,000    45,100 
5.625%, 07/15/2032(e)   200,000    169,497 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

  

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Business Equipment & Services (continued)        
Open Text Corp., 3.875%, 02/15/2028(e)  $400,000   $356,346 
Xerox Holdings Corp., 5.500%, 08/15/2028(e)   240,000    201,102 
         908,493 
           
Cable & Satellite Television - 0.26%          
CCO Holdings LLC / CCO Holdings Capital Corp.:          
5.000%, 02/01/2028(e)   180,000    166,708 
4.250%, 02/01/2031(e)   100,000    81,777 
DISH DBS Corp., 7.375%, 07/01/2028   105,000    71,697 
Viasat, Inc., 6.500%, 07/15/2028(e)   281,000    193,911 
         514,093 
           
Chemical & Plastics - 0.41%          
Ashland LLC, 3.375%, 09/01/2031(e)   90,000    73,377 
Chemours Co.:          
5.750%, 11/15/2028(e)   46,000    39,289 
4.625%, 11/15/2029(e)   140,000    110,353 
CVR Partners LP / CVR Nitrogen Finance Corp., 6.125%, 06/15/2028(e)   80,000    71,641 
Methanex Corp., 5.250%, 12/15/2029   290,000    245,662 
Nufarm Australia, Ltd. / Nufarm Americas, Inc., 5.000%, 01/27/2030(e)   80,000    67,780 
Valvoline, Inc., 4.250%, 02/15/2030(e)   220,000    184,085 
         792,187 
           
Conglomerates - 0.26%          
Eldorado Gold Corp., 6.250%, 09/01/2029(e)   38,000    31,043 
LSB Industries, Inc., 6.250%, 10/15/2028(e)   110,000    97,236 
NCR Corp., 5.250%, 10/01/2030(e)   110,000    95,016 
Service Corp. International:          
3.375%, 08/15/2030   110,000    90,228 
4.000%, 05/15/2031   230,000    196,843 
         510,366 
           
Containers & Glass Products - 0.32%          
Ball Corp., 3.125%, 09/15/2031   150,000    121,248 
OI European Group BV, 4.750%, 02/15/2030(e)   145,000    121,627 
Owens-Brockway Glass Container, Inc., 6.625%, 05/13/2027(e)   110,000    102,806 
Sealed Air Corp., 6.875%, 07/15/2033(e)   220,000    222,079 
Silgan Holdings, Inc., 4.125%, 02/01/2028   30,000    26,951 
TriMas Corp., 4.125%, 04/15/2029(e)   20,000    17,112 
         611,823 
           
Cosmetics & Toiletries - 0.02%          
Edgewell Personal Care Co., 5.500%, 06/01/2028(e)   50,000    45,591 
           
Ecological Services & Equipment - 0.04%          
Stericycle, Inc., 3.875%, 01/15/2029(e)   100,000    81,886 
           
Electronics/Electric - 0.40%          
Energizer Holdings, Inc., 4.750%, 06/15/2028(e)   70,000    55,658 
Entegris, Inc., 3.625%, 05/01/2029(e)   140,000    117,289 
Fair Isaac Corp., 4.000%, 06/15/2028(e)   250,000    221,921 
Seagate HDD Cayman, 5.750%, 12/01/2034   130,000    114,634 
Sensata Technologies, Senior Unsecured Bond,, 4.875%, 10/15/2023(e)   200,000    197,049 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

  

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Electronics/Electric (continued)        
TTM Technologies, Inc., 4.000%, 03/01/2029(e)  $80,000   $67,430 
         773,981 
           
Equipment Leasing - 0.03%          
Avis Budget Car Rental LLC / Avis Budget Finance, Inc., 5.750%, 07/15/2027(e)   60,000    53,790 
           
Farming/Agriculture - 0.02%          
Central Garden & Pet Co., 4.125%, 10/15/2030   60,000    49,307 
           
Financial Intermediaries - 0.54%          
Enova International, Inc., 8.500%, 09/15/2025(e)   100,000    87,110 
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA, 5.017%, 06/26/2024(e)   400,000    382,354 
Nationstar Mortgage Holdings, Inc.:          
5.125%, 12/15/2030(e)   170,000    127,290 
5.750%, 11/15/2031(e)   145,000    111,208 
PennyMac Financial Services, Inc., 5.750%, 09/15/2031(e)   40,000    29,906 
PRA Group, Inc., 5.000%, 10/01/2029(e)   80,000    66,402 
SS&C Technologies, Inc., 5.500%, 09/30/2027(e)   270,000    252,639 
         1,056,909 
           
Food Products - 0.32%          
B&G Foods, Inc., 5.250%, 04/01/2025   30,000    27,710 
Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.:          
4.875%, 05/15/2028(e)   85,000    80,135 
4.125%, 01/31/2030(e)   120,000    104,185 
Pilgrim's Pride Corp., 4.250%, 04/15/2031(e)   115,000    96,300 
Post Holdings, Inc.:          
5.625%, 01/15/2028(e)   295,000    280,650 
5.500%, 12/15/2029(e)   30,000    26,879 
         615,859 
           
Food Service - 0.39%          
1011778 BC ULC / New Red Finance, Inc.:          
3.875%, 01/15/2028(e)   230,000    200,109 
4.375%, 01/15/2028(e)   110,000    96,346 
3.500%, 02/15/2029(e)   50,000    42,413 
4.000%, 10/15/2030(e)   55,000    44,315 
Aramark Services, Inc., 5.000%, 02/01/2028(e)   30,000    27,249 
Yum! Brands, Inc.:          
4.750%, 01/15/2030(e)   300,000    272,787 
4.625%, 01/31/2032   80,000    70,904 
         754,123 
           
Food/Drug Retailers - 0.17%          
Albertsons Cos. Inc / Safeway, Inc. / New Albertsons LP / Albertsons LLC:          
4.625%, 01/15/2027(e)   240,000    214,872 
5.875%, 02/15/2028(e)   130,000    121,731 
         336,603 
           
Forest Products - 0.17%          
Clearwater Paper Corp., 4.750%, 08/15/2028(e)   50,000    43,204 
Mercer International, Inc., 5.125%, 02/01/2029   210,000    179,717 
Resolute Forest Products, Inc., 4.875%, 03/01/2026(e)   60,000    54,392 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

  

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Forest Products (continued)        
Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc., 6.875%, 10/01/2026(e)  $50,000   $44,566 
         321,879 
           
Healthcare - 0.39%          
Acadia Healthcare Co., Inc.:          
5.500%, 07/01/2028(e)   70,000    65,508 
5.000%, 04/15/2029(e)   20,000    17,985 
DaVita, Inc., 4.625%, 06/01/2030(e)   240,000    187,925 
Encompass Health Corp.:          
4.750%, 02/01/2030   130,000    109,128 
4.625%, 04/01/2031   80,000    64,897 
Hologic, Inc., 3.250%, 02/15/2029(e)   140,000    120,053 
Tenet Healthcare Corp., 6.125%, 10/01/2028(e)   215,000    184,657 
         750,153 
           
Insurance - 0.15%          
MGIC Investment Corp., 5.250%, 08/15/2028   100,000    89,727 
Radian Group, Inc.:          
4.500%, 10/01/2024   100,000    94,252 
4.875%, 03/15/2027   110,000    98,750 
         282,729 
           
Leisure Goods/Activities/Movies - 0.23%          
Carnival Corp., 7.625%, 03/01/2026(e)   75,000    58,266 
Cinemark USA, Inc., 5.875%, 03/15/2026(e)   170,000    151,844 
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., 4.750%, 10/15/2027(e)   190,000    169,007 
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Inc., 5.250%, 08/15/2029(e)   70,000    59,339 
         438,456 
           
Lodging & Casinos - 0.35%          
Churchill Downs, Inc., 4.750%, 01/15/2028(e)   270,000    240,781 
Cogent Communications Group, Inc., 7.000%, 06/15/2027(e)   57,000    54,520 
Hilton Domestic Operating Co., Inc., 4.875%, 01/15/2030   420,000    380,736 
         676,037 
           
Nonferrous Metals/Minerals - 0.18%          
Commercial Metals Co., 3.875%, 02/15/2031   155,000    124,277 
Compass Minerals International, Inc., 6.750%, 12/01/2027(e)   100,000    90,603 
Parkland Corp., 4.500%, 10/01/2029(e)   80,000    65,003 
SunCoke Energy, Inc., 4.875%, 06/30/2029(e)   80,000    64,035 
         343,918 
           
Oil & Gas - 1.50%          
AmeriGas Partners LP / AmeriGas Finance Corp., 5.500%, 05/20/2025   70,000    66,005 
Antero Midstream Partners LP / Antero Midstream Finance Corp., 7.875%, 05/15/2026(e)   120,000    120,083 
Apache Corp., 5.350%, 07/01/2049   155,000    122,775 
Athabasca Oil Corp., 9.750%, 11/01/2026(e)   62,000    64,904 
Baytex Energy Corp., 8.750%, 04/01/2027(e)   60,000    60,253 
Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP / Calumet Finance Corp., 8.125%, 01/15/2027(e)   190,000    160,876 
CNX Resources Corp., 6.000%, 01/15/2029(e)   110,000    102,961 
Crestwood Midstream Partners LP / Crestwood Midstream Finance Corp., 6.000%, 02/01/2029(e)   135,000    118,037 
EnLink Midstream Partners LP, 5.450%, 06/01/2047   220,000    156,116 
Ensign Drilling, Inc., 9.250%, 04/15/2024(e)   60,000    56,817 
Global Partners LP / GLP Finance Corp., 7.000%, 08/01/2027   110,000    99,136 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

  

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Oil & Gas (continued)        
Laredo Petroleum, Inc., 10.125%, 01/15/2028  $43,000   $42,627 
MEG Energy Corp., 5.875%, 02/01/2029(e)   145,000    132,652 
Murphy Oil USA, Inc.:          
4.750%, 09/15/2029   20,000    18,038 
3.750%, 02/15/2031(e)   60,000    51,096 
Nabors Industries, Ltd., 7.250%, 01/15/2026(e)   140,000    124,358 
Northern Oil and Gas, Inc., 8.125%, 03/01/2028(e)   80,000    75,518 
Occidental Petroleum Corp., 4.625%, 06/15/2045   110,000    90,610 
Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., 5.150%, 11/15/2029   170,000    145,916 
PBF Holding Co. LLC / PBF Finance Corp., 6.000%, 02/15/2028   148,000    125,654 
Penn Virginia Holdings LLC, 9.250%, 08/15/2026(e)   50,000    48,049 
Petrofac, Ltd., 9.750%, 11/15/2026(e)   200,000    153,968 
Precision Drilling Corp., 6.875%, 01/15/2029(e)   150,000    134,470 
SM Energy Co., 6.750%, 09/15/2026   140,000    132,256 
Sunoco LP / Sunoco Finance Corp., 4.500%, 05/15/2029   140,000    115,671 
Transocean, Inc.:          
7.250%, 11/01/2025(e)   155,000    114,912 
7.500%, 01/15/2026(e)   145,000    103,874 
Vermilion Energy, Inc., 6.875%, 05/01/2030(e)   110,000    98,560 
W&T Offshore, Inc., 9.750%, 11/01/2023(e)   80,000    76,314 
         2,912,506 
           
Radio & Television - 0.22%          
Gray Escrow II, Inc., 5.375%, 11/15/2031(e)   120,000    96,408 
Sirius XM Radio, Inc., 3.875%, 09/01/2031(e)   275,000    219,501 
Univision Communications, Inc., 7.375%, 06/30/2030(e)   16,000    15,723 
Urban One, Inc., 7.375%, 02/01/2028(e)   118,000    101,196 
         432,828 
           
Real Estate Investment Trust and Real Estate Operating Companies - 0.40%          
iStar, Inc., 4.250%, 08/01/2025   140,000    129,560 
Kennedy-Wilson, Inc., 4.750%, 02/01/2030   10,000    7,842 
MPT Operating Partnership LP / MPT Finance Corp.:          
5.000%, 10/15/2027   70,000    64,170 
4.625%, 08/01/2029   17,000    14,950 
New Residential Investment Corp., 6.250%, 10/15/2025(e)   110,000    95,975 
Service Properties Trust:          
4.500%, 03/15/2025   50,000    39,565 
4.750%, 10/01/2026   90,000    65,708 
Starwood Property Trust, Inc., 4.375%, 01/15/2027(e)   410,000    356,565 
         774,335 
           
Retailers (except food & drug) - 0.28%          
Asbury Automotive Group, Inc., 5.000%, 02/15/2032(e)   230,000    188,365 
FirstCash, Inc.:          
4.625%, 09/01/2028(e)   165,000    142,712 
5.625%, 01/01/2030(e)   50,000    43,256 
Macy's Retail Holdings LLC, 6.125%, 03/15/2032(e)   110,000    92,089 
Penske Automotive Group, Inc., 3.750%, 06/15/2029   40,000    33,460 
Sonic Automotive, Inc., 4.625%, 11/15/2029(e)   50,000    38,808 
         538,690 
           
Steel - 0.29%          
Allegheny Technologies, Inc., 5.125%, 10/01/2031   200,000    153,515 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Steel (continued)        
Carpenter Technology Corp.:        
6.375%, 07/15/2028  $50,000   $44,718 
7.625%, 03/15/2030   72,000    66,232 
FMG Resources August 2006 Pty, Ltd.:          
5.875%, 04/15/2030(e)   60,000    54,098 
6.125%, 04/15/2032(e)   54,000    48,707 
United States Steel Corp.:          
6.875%, 03/01/2029   190,000    166,250 
6.650%, 06/01/2037   29,000    22,579 
         556,099 
           
Surface Transport - 0.14%          
Danaos Corp., 8.500%, 03/01/2028(e)   100,000    99,174 
Delek Logistics Partners LP / Delek Logistics Finance Corp., 7.125%, 06/01/2028(e)   60,000    54,109 
Holly Energy Partners LP / Holly Energy Finance Corp.:          
6.375%, 04/15/2027(e)   53,000    49,994 
5.000%, 02/01/2028(e)   70,000    60,075 
         263,352 
           
Telecommunications - 0.50%          
CommScope, Inc., 8.250%, 03/01/2027(e)   40,000    31,720 
Consolidated Communications, Inc., 6.500%, 10/01/2028(e)   105,000    88,620 
Frontier Communications Holdings LLC, 6.750%, 05/01/2029(e)   70,000    56,831 
Hughes Satellite Systems Corp., 6.625%, 08/01/2026   90,000    80,041 
Lumen Technologies, Inc.:          
5.125%, 12/15/2026(e)   180,000    151,884 
4.500%, 01/15/2029(e)   55,000    41,091 
5.375%, 06/15/2029(e)   130,000    103,259 
7.650%, 03/15/2042   75,000    57,702 
SBA Communications Corp.:          
3.875%, 02/15/2027   90,000    82,224 
3.125%, 02/01/2029   37,000    30,374 
T-Mobile USA, Inc., 2.625%, 04/15/2026   60,000    54,562 
United States Cellular Corp., 6.700%, 12/15/2033   40,000    38,177 
Uniti Group LP / Uniti Fiber Holdings, Inc. / CSL Capital LLC, 6.000%, 01/15/2030(e)   100,000    69,313 
Uniti Group LP / Uniti Group Finance, Inc. / CSL Capital LLC, 6.500%, 02/15/2029(e)   110,000    80,898 
         966,696 
           
Utilities - 0.22%          
DPL, Inc., 4.125%, 07/01/2025   160,000    147,997 
Enviva Partners LP / Enviva Partners Finance Corp., 6.500%, 01/15/2026(e)   80,000    77,401 
Vistra Operations Co. LLC, 4.375%, 05/01/2029(e)   230,000    193,100 
         418,498 
TOTAL CORPORATE BONDS          
(Cost $21,321,783)        19,013,721 

 

   Shares   Value 
WARRANTS - 0.00%        
Healthcare - 0.00%        
Carestream Health expires 12/31/2049 at $0.01(b)   52     
           
TOTAL WARRANTS          
(Cost $0)         

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

Total Investments- 150.52%    
(Cost $314,742,102)  $291,435,799 
      
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets - (1.70)%   (3,320,013)
      
Leverage Facility - (48.82)%   (94,500,000)
      
Net Assets - 100.00%  $193,615,786 

 

Amounts above are shown as a percentage of net assets as of June 30, 2022.

 

Investment Abbreviations: 

LIBOR - London Interbank Offered Rate 

SOFR - Secured Overnight Financing Rate

 

Reference Rates: 

1M US L - 1 Month LIBOR as of June 30, 2022 was 1.79%

3M US L - 3 Month LIBOR as of June 30, 2022 was 2.29%

6M US L - 6 Month LIBOR as of June 30, 2022 was 2.94%

3M US SOFR - 3 Month SOFR as of June 30, 2022 was 0.70%

 

(a)Floating or variable rate security. The reference rate is described above. The rate in effect as of June 30, 2022 is based on the reference rate plus the displayed spread as of the security's last reset date. Where applicable, the reference rate is subject to a floor rate.

(b)Level 3 assets valued using significant unobservable inputs as a result of unavailable quoted prices from an active market or the unavailability of other significant observable inputs.

(c)A portion of this position was not funded as of June 30, 2022. The Portfolio of Investments records only the funded portion of each position. As of June 30, 2022, the Fund has unfunded delayed draw loans in the amount of $668,078. Fair value of these unfunded delayed draws was $626,729.

(d)Represents a payment-in-kind (“PIK”) security which may pay interest/dividend in additional par/shares.

(e)Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Total market value of Rule 144A securities amounts to $24,149,083, which represented approximately 12.47% of net assets as of June 30, 2022. Such securities may normally be sold to qualified institutional buyers in transactions exempt from registration.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund Portfolio of Investments

 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
FLOATING RATE LOAN INTERESTS(a) - 126.61%          
Aerospace & Defense - 3.87%          
Amentum Government Services Holdings LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 6M US L + 4.00%, 02/15/2029  $863,265   $824,423 
Atlas CC Acquisition Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 05/25/2028   1,510,617    1,400,161 
Atlas CC Acquisition Corp., First Lien C Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 05/25/2028   307,243    284,777 
Dynasty Acquisition Co., Inc., First Lien 2020 B-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 04/06/2026   877,764    811,931 
Dynasty Acquisition Co., Inc., First Lien 2020 B-2 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 04/06/2026   471,916    436,522 
Nordam Group LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.50%, 04/09/2026   1,393,200    1,169,591 
Peraton Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 02/01/2028   1,023,205    963,639 
Vertex Aerospace Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 12/06/2028   544,788    518,573 
         6,409,617 
           
Air Transport - 2.99%          
AAdvantage Loyality IP, Ltd., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 04/20/2028   1,082,447    1,035,474 
American Airlines, Inc., First Lien 2018 Replacement Term Loan, 1M US L + 1.75%, 06/27/2025   675,528    601,646 
American Airlines, Inc., First Lien 2020 Term Loan, 1M US L + 1.75%, 01/29/2027   238,372    210,960 
Global Medical Response, Inc., First Lien 2018 New Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 1.00% Floor, 03/14/2025   1,801,734    1,681,062 
Global Medical Response, Inc., First Lien 2020 Refinancing Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 1.00% Floor, 10/02/2025   227,470    212,187 
KKR Apple Bidco LLC, Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.75%, 0.50% Floor, 09/21/2029   153,086    147,345 
United AirLines, Inc., First Lien Class B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 04/21/2028   1,148,400    1,072,324 
         4,960,998 
           
Automotive - 2.13%          
Bright BidCo B.V., First Lien 2018 Refinancing B Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 1.00% Floor, 06/30/2024   4,949    2,213 
Burgess Point Purchaser Corp. TL 1L, First Lien Term Loan 06/29/2029   1,297,200   $1,167,480 
GC EOS Buyer, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 08/01/2025   1,259,107    1,253,108 
Wheel Pros, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 0.75% Floor, 05/11/2028   1,330,751    1,108,322 
         3,531,123 
           
Beverage & Tobacco - 0.93%          
Triton Water Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 03/31/2028   1,723,766    1,532,308 
           
Brokers, Dealers & Investment Houses - 2.37%          
Advisor Group Holdings, Inc., First Lien B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 07/31/2026   1,553,161    1,481,467 
Deerfield Dakota Holding LLC, First Lien Initial Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 04/09/2027   1,270,195    1,192,796 
Deerfield Dakota Holding LLC, Second Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 0.75% Floor, 04/07/2028   296,000    289,833 
Edelman Financial Center LLC, Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 07/20/2026   553,846    510,231 
Edelman Financial Engines Center LLC, First Lien Initial (2021) Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.75% Floor, 04/07/2028   482,355    447,686 
         3,922,013 
           
Building & Development - 6.43%          
Arc Falcon I, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 09/30/2028   63,192    58,516 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Building & Development (continued)          
Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc., First Lien Tranche B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.25%, 0.50% Floor, 04/12/2028  $1,089,078   $908,699 
CP Atlas Buyer, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 11/23/2027   1,598,637    1,410,797 
Foundation Building Materials, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 0.50% Floor, 01/31/2028   657,945    578,992 
Illuminate Merger Sub Corp, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 07/21/2028   423,161    372,119 
LBM Acquisition LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 12/17/2027   2,077,645    1,713,091 
Park River Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 0.75% Floor, 12/28/2027   2,929,010    2,416,433 
SRS Distribution, Inc., First Lien 2021 Refinancing Term Loan, 6M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 06/02/2028   550,586    509,842 
SRS Distribution, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 6M US L + 3.50%, 06/02/2028   428,058    395,553 
Tutor Perini Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 1.00% Floor, 08/18/2027   187,390    176,381 
United Site Cov-Lite, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 12/15/2028   962,628    872,180 
White Cap Buyer LLC, First Lien Initial Closing Date Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 10/19/2027   1,348,176    1,246,221 
         10,658,824 
           
Business Equipment & Services - 22.48%          
Access CIG LLC, First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 02/27/2025   1,229,030    1,164,199 
Access CIG LLC, Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.75%, 02/27/2026   940,445    902,827 
Aegion Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 05/17/2028   576,621    529,050 
AG Group Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 12/29/2028   492,197    473,740 
Allied Universal Holdco LLC, First Lien Initial U.S. Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 05/12/2028   1,822,624    1,674,536 
Anticimex International AB, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 11/16/2028   1,167,197    1,106,888 
AqGen Island Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 6.50%, 08/02/2029   1,747,855    1,638,614 
BMC Acquisition, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.25%, 1.00% Floor, 12/28/2024   588,770    560,804 
Connectwise, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 09/29/2028   448,660    412,018 
DG Investment Intermediate Holdings 2, Inc., First Lien Closing Date Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/31/2028   694,196    650,593 
DG Investment Intermediate Holdings 2, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/30/2029(b)   581,429    563,986 
Divisions Holding Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 05/27/2028(b)   533,464    502,790 
DTI Holdco, Inc. TL, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 04/26/2029   731,435    686,763 
EAB Global, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 08/16/2028   675,505    637,339 
Element Materials Technology Group Holdings DTL, First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.250%, 04/12/2029   72,901    70,145 
Element Materials Technology Group Holdings TL, First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.250%, 04/12/2029   157,952    151,980 
Epicor Software Corp., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.75%, 1.00% Floor, 07/31/2028   704,746    688,537 
Equiniti Group PLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 12/11/2028   307,545    292,937 
eResearchTechnology, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 1.00% Floor, 02/04/2027   673,485    623,957 
Foundational Education Group, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 08/31/2028   509,440    489,062 
Galaxy US Opco Inc. TL, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 04/29/2029   633,627    596,401 
Garda World Security Corp., First Lien B-2 Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 10/30/2026   2,065,521    1,920,934 
Garda World Security Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 02/01/2029   190,909    176,114 
Inmar, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 8.00%, 1.00% Floor, 05/01/2025(b)   802,345    804,350 
KUEHG Corp, Second Lien Tranche B Term Loan, 3M US L + 8.25%, 1.00% Floor, 08/22/2025   1,410,922    1,367,423 
KUEHG Corp., First Lien B-3 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 02/21/2025   724,099    676,515 
Learning Care Group No. 2, Inc., 3M US L + 3.25%, 1.00% Floor, 03/13/2025   1,369,413    1,271,842 
Loyalty Ventures, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 11/03/2027   460,575    366,963 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Business Equipment & Services (continued)          
Madison IAQ LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 0.50% Floor, 06/21/2028  $858,698   $784,455 
McKissock Investment Holdings, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, L + 5.750%, 03/12/2029   811,235    786,898 
Minotaur Acquisition, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 03/27/2026   1,082,139    1,027,129 
Mitchell International, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 10/15/2028   2,065,893    1,887,710 
Mitchell International, Inc., Second Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.50%, 10/15/2029   365,979    345,565 
Momentive, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 10/10/2025(b)   1,567,836    1,520,801 
National Intergovernmental Purchasing Alliance Company, Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.50%, 05/22/2026(b)   1,243,011    1,211,935 
Revspring, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 10/11/2025   1,042,200    1,000,512 
Rinchem Company, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 03/02/2029(b)   454,545    427,841 
Sabre GLBL, Inc., First Lien 2021 Other B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 12/17/2027   231,357    217,042 
Sabre GLBL, Inc., First Lien 2021 Other B-2 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 12/17/2027   368,796    345,979 
Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., First Lien 2020 Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 1.00% Floor, 09/03/2026   260,550    252,246 
Seren BidCo, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 11/16/2028(b)   485,560    462,496 
Skopima Merger Sub Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 05/12/2028   1,073,566    986,338 
TRC Companies, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 12/08/2028   1,093,479    1,032,430 
TRC Companies, Second Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 12/07/2029   633,538    593,942 
Virtusa Corp., First Lien Term Loan:          
1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 02/11/2028   537,962    510,142 
1M US L + 3.75%, 02/15/2029   556,220    527,483 
Weld North Education LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 12/21/2027   2,426,500    2,313,255 
         37,235,506 
           
Chemical & Plastics - 4.20%          
Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC, First Lien 2021 Refinancing Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 08/27/2026   1,617,031    1,580,648 
CPC Acquisition Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 12/29/2027   398,680    351,503 
DCG Acquisition Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 09/30/2026(b)   1,461,500    1,373,810 
Geon Performance Solutions LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 0.75% Floor, 08/18/2028   347,988    330,588 
Hexion Holdings Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 03/15/2029   352,451    317,426 
Hyperion Materials & Technologies, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 0.50% Floor, 08/30/2028   669,147    635,689 
Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc., First Lien Closing Date Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 1.00% Floor, 10/28/2024   1,338,600    1,272,507 
Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 10/28/2024   558,600    531,019 
Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 8.25%, 1.00% Floor, 10/27/2025   588,834    567,000 
         6,960,190 
           
Clothing & Textiles - 0.51%          
S&S Holdings LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 0.50% Floor, 03/11/2028   902,308    848,923 
           
Conglomerates - 1.93%          
Output Services Group, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 1.00% Floor, 03/27/2024   457,168    342,631 
Spring Education Group, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 07/30/2025   1,131,050    1,059,794 
Vaco Holdings, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 01/21/2029   302,764    292,168 
VT Topco, Inc., First Lien 2021 Delayed Draw Term Loan, 3M US L + 1.38%, 0.75% Floor, 08/01/2025(b)(c)   53,515    51,776 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Conglomerates (continued)          
VT Topco, Inc., First Lien 2021 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 08/01/2025  $1,490,477   $1,451,352 
         3,197,721 
           
Containers & Glass Products - 3.79%          
Berlin Packaging L.L.C., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 03/11/2028   902,260    842,106 
Clydesdale Acquisition Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 0.50% Floor, 04/13/2029   1,687,103    1,581,659 
IBC Capital I, Ltd., First Lien Tranche B-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 09/11/2023   205,123    185,722 
IBC Capital, Ltd., Second Lien Tranche B-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.00%, 09/11/2024   507,363    478,824 
LABL, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.00%, 10/29/2028   505,875    469,831 
ProAmpac PG Borrower LLC, First Lien 2020-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 11/03/2025   2,346,408    2,179,813 
Strategic Materials Holding Corp., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.75%, 1.00% Floor, 10/31/2025   533,333    266,667 
Tekni-Plex, Inc., First Lien Delayed Draw Tem Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.50% Floor, 09/15/2028(c)   23,987    22,571 
Tekni-Plex, Inc., First Lien Tranche B-3 Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.50% Floor, 09/15/2028   269,031    253,158 
         6,280,351 
           
Diversified Insurance - 0.72%          
Acrisure LLC, First Lien 2021-1 Additional Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 02/15/2027   296,705    278,532 
Acrisure LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 02/15/2027   337,346    319,355 
NFP Corp., First Lien Closing Date Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.25%, 02/15/2027   646,692    599,484 
         1,197,371 
           
Drugs - 1.87%          
Cambrex Corp., First Lien Tranche B-2 Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.60%, 0.75% Floor, 12/04/2026   434,688    413,496 
Curia Global, Inc., First Lien 2021 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 08/30/2026   1,653,163    1,564,999 
LSCS Holdings/Eversana, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 12/16/2028   442,657    422,738 
Padagis LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/06/2028   397,442    366,641 
Sharp MicCo, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 12/31/2028(b)   351,290    330,213 
         3,098,087 
           
Ecological Services & Equipment - 0.37%          
EnergySolutions LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 05/09/2025   651,694    609,607 
           
Electronics/Electric - 25.87%          
Apttus Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 05/08/2028   566,451    532,464 
BMC Software, Inc., Second Lien 2nd Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.50%, 0.50% Floor, 02/27/2026   737,755    695,799 
Boxer Parent Company, Inc., First Lien 2021 Replacement Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 10/02/2025   1,536,306    1,435,171 
Brave Parent Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 04/18/2025   811,709    782,487 
CDK Global, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.500%, 06/08/2029   966,927    916,651 
Cloudera, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 10/08/2028   1,147,542    1,059,566 
ConvergeOne Holdings, Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.00%, 01/04/2026   1,741,500    1,497,699 
CoreLogic, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 06/02/2028   1,767,072    1,480,806 
CoreLogic, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.50%, 0.50% Floor, 06/04/2029(b)   553,488    406,814 
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 10/16/2028   520,008    466,707 
CPI International, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.25%, 1.00% Floor, 07/26/2025(b)   209,020    203,794 
DCert Buyer, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 10/16/2026   1,408,703    1,350,340 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Electronics/Electric (continued)          
DCert Buyer, Inc., Second Lien First Amendment Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.00%, 02/19/2029  $647,969   $605,851 
Delta Topco, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 12/01/2027   1,897,625    1,723,290 
ECI Macola/MAX Holding LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 11/09/2027   1,526,455    1,443,461 
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.75% Floor, 02/10/2028   1,578,578    1,423,349 
Fiserv Investment Solutions, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 02/18/2027   802,744    763,611 
Help/Systems Holdings, Inc., First Lien Seventh Amendment Refinancing Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 11/19/2026   1,864,205    1,752,819 
Hyland Software, Inc., Second Lien 2021 Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.25%, 0.75% Floor, 07/07/2025   1,394,543    1,373,625 
Idera, Inc., First Lien B-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/02/2028   1,669,993    1,545,269 
Imperva, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 1.00% Floor, 01/12/2026   1,295,714    1,170,030 
Internet Brands, Inc., First Lien 2020 June New Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 09/13/2024   680,615    642,671 
Ivanti Software, Inc., First Lien First Amendment Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 12/01/2027   245,645    210,642 
Ivanti Software, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 12/01/2027   1,791,000    1,547,728 
Ivanti Software, Inc., Second Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.25%, 12/01/2028   476,866    437,922 
LI Group Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2021 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/11/2028   710,776    679,680 
Magenta Buyer LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 0.75% Floor, 07/27/2028   1,579,785    1,424,626 
McAfee Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 03/01/2029   1,215,596    1,110,247 
MH SUB I LLC, Second Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.25%, 02/23/2029   675,113    639,670 
Mitnick Corporate Purchaser Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.85%, 05/02/2029   390,099    371,569 
MLN US HoldCo LLC, First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 11/30/2025   796,605    533,725 
Park Place Technologies LLC, First Lien Closing Date Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.00%, 1.00% Floor, 11/10/2027   1,425,600    1,374,514 
Perforce Software, Inc., First Lien New Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 07/01/2026   623,478    576,562 
Project Alpha Intermediate Holding, Inc., First Lien 2021 Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 04/26/2024   744,654    718,360 
Project Castle, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, L + 5.500%, 06/01/2029   1,339,500    1,208,899 
Project Leopard Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2018 Repricing Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 1.00% Floor, 07/05/2024   529,479    527,162 
Project Leopard Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2019 Incremental Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 1.00% Floor, 07/05/2024   1,183,624    1,178,446 
Quest Borrower Ltd., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 02/01/2029   1,238,049    1,105,342 
Rocket Software, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 11/28/2025   1,493,022    1,392,243 
Rocket Software, Inc., First Lien USD Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 11/28/2025   610,500    568,785 
S2P Acquisition Borrower, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 08/14/2026   972,500    930,683 
Sovos Compliance LLC, First Lien Delayed Draw Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 0.50% Floor, 08/11/2028   61,198    57,813 
Sovos Compliance LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 0.50% Floor, 08/11/2028   352,609    333,106 
Triton Solar US Acquisition Co., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 6.00%, 10/29/2024(b)   180,705    175,284 
Veritas US, Inc., First Lien Dollar B-2021 Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 1.00% Floor, 09/01/2025   735,541    607,432 
Vision Solutions, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 04/24/2028   2,060,693    1,873,170 
         42,855,884 
Equipment Leasing - 0.41%          
Spin Holdco, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 03/04/2028   729,194    673,410 
           
Financial Intermediaries - 2.23%          
Apex Group Treasury LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/27/2028   238,253    226,340 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Financial Intermediaries (continued)          
Apex Group Treasury, Ltd., First Lien USD Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/27/2028  $428,640   $407,208 
ION Trading Finance, Ltd., First Lien Initial Dollar (2021) Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 04/01/2028   1,549,060    1,433,369 
Lereta, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.25%, 07/30/2028   444,353    404,917 
Pre Paid Legal Services, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 12/15/2028   1,305,882    1,222,227 
         3,694,061 
           
Food Products - 0.30%          
Snacking Investments BidCo Pty, Ltd., First Lien Initial US Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.00%, 1.00% Floor, 12/18/2026   527,629    501,248 
           
Food Service - 3.37%          
Fertitta Entertainment, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 01/27/2029   628,134    581,027 
Fogo de Chao, Inc., First Lien 2018 Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 1.00% Floor, 04/07/2025   1,887,715    1,805,128 
Quidditch Acquisition, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.00%, 1.00% Floor, 03/21/2025   1,696,691    1,492,027 
Tacala Investment Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.75% Floor, 02/05/2027   612,411    574,485 
Tacala Investment Corp., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.50%, 0.75% Floor, 02/04/2028   1,207,931    1,133,444 
         5,586,111 
           
Food/Drug Retailers - 0.91%          
EG Group, Ltd., First Lien Additional Facility Term Loan:          
3M US L + 4.00%, 02/07/2025   1,244,401    1,172,849 
3M US L + 4.25%, 0.50% Floor, 03/31/2026   214,590    203,860 
EG Group, Ltd., First Lien Facility B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 02/07/2025   132,986    125,339 
         1,502,048 
           
Healthcare - 16.78%          
AthenaHealth Group, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 02/15/2029   1,044,899    965,230 
Auris Luxembourg III SARL, First Lien Facility B2 Term Loan, 6M US L + 3.75%, 02/27/2026   1,759,097    1,596,381 
Carestream Health, Inc., First Lien 2023 Extended Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.25%, 1.00% Floor, 05/08/2023   119,778    119,150 
Carestream Health, Inc., Second Lien 2023 Extended Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 8.00% PIK, 1.00% Floor, 08/08/2023(d)   3,905,703    3,381,675 
Covenant Surgical Partners, Inc., First Lien Delayed Draw Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 07/01/2026   237,230    223,589 
Covenant Surgical Partners, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 07/01/2026   1,156,197    1,089,716 
Envision Healthcare Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 10/10/2025   1,439,226    489,697 
Femur Buyer, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 03/05/2026   294,269    259,692 
Genesis Care Finance Pty, Ltd., First Lien Facility B5 Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 1.00% Floor, 05/14/2027   1,702,105    1,304,953 
Heartland Dental Care, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, L + 5.000%, 04/30/2025(b)   859,375    825,000 
Heartland Dental LLC, First Lien 2021 Incremental Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 04/30/2025   1,063,452    998,049 
LifePoint Health, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 11/16/2025   1,351,799    1,265,095 
Loire UK Midco 3, Ltd., First Lien Facility B2 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 04/21/2027   907,557    857,642 
Medical Solutions LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 11/01/2028   198,350    186,499 
NAPA Management Services Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.25%, 0.75% Floor, 02/23/2029   823,471    764,028 
Navicure, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 10/22/2026   990,451    942,166 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Healthcare (continued)          
Onex TSG Intermediate Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 02/28/2028  $1,356,667   $1,268,483 
Pathway Vet Alliance LLC, First Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 03/31/2027   557,611    519,276 
Pediatric Associates Holding Co. LLC, First Lien Term Loan:          
3M US L + 3.25%, 12/29/2028(c)   239    224 
3M US L + 3.25%, 0.50% Floor, 12/29/2028   3,146    2,949 
PetVet Care Centers LLC, 1M US L + 6.25%, 02/13/2026   987,000    966,031 
Project Ruby Ultimate Parent Corp., First Lien Closing Date Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.25%, 0.75% Floor, 03/10/2028   719,192    676,303 
Resonetics LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 04/28/2028   529,650    504,491 
Surgery Center Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2021 New Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 08/31/2026   1,591,600    1,487,652 
Team Health Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 2.75%, 1.00% Floor, 02/06/2024   290,814    259,879 
Tecostar Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2017 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 1.00% Floor, 05/01/2024   1,615,315    1,409,363 
U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 10/01/2028   392,351    367,044 
Verscend Holding Corp., First Lien B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 08/27/2025   1,899,715    1,823,726 
Viant Medical Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 07/02/2025   791,736    731,533 
YI LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 1.00% Floor, 11/07/2024   1,355,726    1,301,497 
Zest Acquisition Corp., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.00%, 1.00% Floor, 03/13/2026   1,285,714    1,202,143 
         27,789,156 
           
Home Furnishings - 1.00%          
Osmosis Buyer Limited Delayed, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 07/31/2028   131,481    119,868 
Osmosis Buyer Limited, First Lien Initial B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/31/2028   1,101,737    1,006,712 
Osmosis Buyer Limited, First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.000%, 07/31/2028   578,519    527,418 
         1,653,998 
           
Industrial Equipment - 5.46%          
Bettcher Industries, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 12/14/2028   744,975    707,726 
Engineered Machinery Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 05/19/2028   529,114    498,362 
FCG Acquisitions, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 03/31/2028   570,058    537,992 
Justrite Safety Group, First Lien Delayed Draw Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 06/28/2026(b)   65,693    61,012 
Justrite Safety Group, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 06/28/2026(b)   1,215,248    1,128,662 
LTI Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 09/06/2025   1,209,963    1,129,047 
LTI Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan:          
1M US L + 4.75%, 07/24/2026   183,289    173,209 
3M US L + 4.75%, 07/24/2026   184,211    174,079 
LTI Holdings, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 09/06/2026   382,979    350,186 
PRO MACH Group, Inc., First Lien Closing Date Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 1.00% Floor, 08/31/2028   1,671,531    1,581,168 
Redwood Star Merger Sub, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.60%, 04/05/2029   1,530,338    1,430,101 
Tailwind Smith Cooper Intermediate Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 05/28/2026   1,373,610    1,278,460 
         9,050,004 
           
Insurance - 0.70%          
HIG Finance 2, Ltd., First Lien 2021 Dollar Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.25%, 0.75% Floor, 11/12/2027   701,769    664,246 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Insurance (continued)          
Outcomes Group Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 10/24/2025  $379,964   $356,691 
Outcomes Group Holdings, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.50%, 10/26/2026   133,136    130,806 
         1,151,743 
           
Leisure Goods/Activities/Movies - 5.20%          
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., First Lien B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.00%, 04/22/2026   3,170,909    2,681,796 
Amplify Finco Pty, Ltd., First Lien U.S. Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 11/26/2026   1,184,505    1,155,876 
CE Intermediate I, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 11/10/2028(b)   770,000    727,650 
Crown Finance US, Inc., First Lien Initial Dollar Tranche Term Loan, 3M US L + 2.50%, 1.00% Floor, 02/28/2025   1,393,459    888,622 
Crown Finance US, Inc., First Lien Second Amendment Dollar Tranche Term Loan, 3M US L + 2.75%, 09/30/2026   219,619    135,988 
Motion Finco LLC, First Lien Facility B1 (USD) Loan Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 11/12/2026   1,153,655    1,069,052 
Motion Finco LLC, First Lien Facility B2 (USD) Loan Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 11/12/2026   151,623    140,504 
Recess Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 09/30/2024   1,089,949    1,050,438 
Travel Leaders Group LLC, First Lien 2018 Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 01/25/2024   854,600    766,470 
         8,616,396 
           
Oil & Gas - 0.13%          
Freeport LNG, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 12/21/2028   248,616    216,296 
           
Property & Casualty Insurance - 0.45%          
Polaris Newco LLC, First Lien Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 0.50% Floor, 06/02/2028   807,807    748,809 
           
Publishing - 3.46%          
Cengage Learning, Inc., First Lien Term Loan B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 07/14/2026   725,419    656,504 
Champ Acquisition Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 6M US L + 5.50%, 12/19/2025   1,138,990    1,109,804 
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 08/21/2026   1,094,373    945,812 
McGraw-Hill Education, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/28/2028   941,669    855,346 
Recorded Books, Inc., First Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 08/29/2025   1,170,000    1,113,694 
Shutterfly LLC, First Lien 2021 Refinancing B Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 0.75% Floor, 09/25/2026   1,288,413    1,047,480 
         5,728,640 
           
Radio & Television - 0.11%          
Univision Communications, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.250%, 06/08/2029   192,273    183,780 
           
Retailers (except food & drug) - 0.03%          
FBB Holdings III, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 6.04% (including 6.00% PIK), 01/31/2025(b)(d)   56,668    43,918 
           
Surface Transport - 1.72%          
Drive Chassis Holdco LLC, Second Lien 2021 Refinancing B Term Loan, 3M US L + 6.75%, 04/10/2026   1,202,598    1,187,566 
Kenan Advantage Group, Inc.,The, First Lien U.S. B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/24/2026   1,190,073    1,121,644 
WWEX UNI TopCo Holdings LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 07/26/2028   592,850    541,657 
         2,850,867 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Telecommunications - 3.77%        
CCI Buyer, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 12/17/2027  $1,854,759   $1,697,104 
Ensono LP, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 6M US L + 4.00%, 05/26/2028   982,923    914,275 
Greeneden U.S. Holdings I LLC, First Lien Initial Dollar (2020) Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 12/01/2027   1,181,518    1,133,075 
Telesat Canada, First Lien B-5 Term Loan, 1M US L + 2.75%, 12/07/2026   1,193,514    839,936 
Zacapa S.A.R.L., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 03/22/2029   592,519    554,969 
Zayo Group Holdings, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.30%, 03/09/2027   1,181,439    1,107,351 
         6,246,710 
           
Utilities - 0.12%          
Eastern Power LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 10/02/2025   241,385    204,989 
           
TOTAL FLOATING RATE LOAN INTERESTS          
(Cost $225,921,464)        209,740,707 
           
COLLATERALIZED LOAN OBLIGATION SECURITIES(a) - 7.76%          
Structured Finance Obligations - 7.76%          
522 Funding CLO 2021-7, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.22%, 04/23/2034(b)(e)   500,000    441,566 
Eaton Vance CLO 2013-1, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.80%, 01/15/2034(b)(e)   500,000    452,093 
Elmwood CLO 16, Ltd., 3M US SOFR + 7.22%, 04/20/2034(b)(e)   750,000    688,630 
Galaxy 30 Clo, Ltd., 3M US SOFR + 6.95%, 04/15/2035(b)(e)   1,000,000    908,253 
Galaxy XXVII CLO, Ltd., 3M US L + 5.78%, 05/16/2031(b)(e)   625,000    536,269 
HPS Loan Management CLO 6-2015, Ltd., 3M US L + 5.10%, 02/05/2031(b)(e)   833,000    699,846 
Jamestown CLO XIV, Ltd., 3M US L + 7.20%, 10/20/2034(e)   1,000,000    882,811 
Magnetite XXXII, Ltd., 3M US SOFR + 6.90%, 04/15/2035(b)(e)   1,000,000    913,366 
OCP CLO 2020-18, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.43%, 07/20/2032(b)(e)   1,000,000    880,196 
Octagon Investment Partners 43, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.60%, 10/25/2032(b)(e)   500,000    441,603 
Parallel 2021-2, Ltd., 3M US L + 7.20%, 10/20/2034(b)(e)   500,000    441,355 
Park Avenue Institutional Advisers CLO, Ltd. 2022-1, 3M US SOFR + 7.29%, 04/20/2035(b)(e)   1,000,000    928,230 
PPM CLO 3, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.61%, 04/17/2034(b)(e)   500,000    445,933 
Rad CLO 2, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.00%, 10/15/2031(b)(e)   750,000    641,434 
Rad CLO 5, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.70%, 07/24/2032(b)(e)   250,000    222,084 
Romark CLO II, Ltd., 3M US L + 3.35%, 07/25/2031(b)(e)   250,000    235,307 
Romark CLO IV, Ltd., 3M US L + 6.95%, 07/10/2034(b)(e)   1,000,000    871,111 
Tiaa Clo III, Ltd., 3M US L + 5.90%, 01/16/2031(b)(e)   2,500,000    1,998,534 
Wellfleet CLO 2020-1, Ltd., 3M US L + 7.24%, 04/15/2033(b)(e)   250,000    227,346 
         12,855,967 
           
TOTAL COLLATERALIZED LOAN OBLIGATION SECURITIES          
(Cost $14,545,591)        12,855,967 
           
CORPORATE BONDS - 32.09%          
Aerospace & Defense - 0.56%          
Howmet Aerospace, Inc., 5.950%, 02/01/2037   196,000    185,159 
Science Applications International Corp., 4.875%, 04/01/2028(e)   90,000    84,059 
TransDigm, Inc.:          
7.500%, 03/15/2027   90,000    84,523 
4.625%, 01/15/2029   300,000    242,204 
4.875%, 05/01/2029   400,000    326,308 
         922,253 
           
Air Transport - 0.44%          
Air Canada, 3.875%, 08/15/2026(e)   520,000    440,931 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Air Transport (continued)          
American Airlines Group, Inc., 3.750%, 03/01/2025(e)  $340,000   $287,088 
         728,019 
           
Automotive - 0.77%          
Allison Transmission, Inc., 3.750%, 01/30/2031(e)   520,000    417,675 
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc., 6.500%, 04/01/2027   120,000    106,347 
Ford Motor Credit Co. LLC, 4.389%, 01/08/2026   350,000    323,279 
Group 1 Automotive, Inc., 4.000%, 08/15/2028(e)   270,000    226,193 
Titan International, Inc., 7.000%, 04/30/2028   220,000    207,000 
         1,280,494 
           
Brokers, Dealers & Investment Houses - 0.91%          
CVR Energy, Inc.:          
5.250%, 02/15/2025(e)   210,000    193,373 
5.750%, 02/15/2028(e)   320,000    285,799 
Icahn Enterprises LP / Icahn Enterprises Finance Corp.:          
5.250%, 05/15/2027   340,000    301,918 
4.375%, 02/01/2029   200,000    162,014 
Navient Corp.:          
6.750%, 06/25/2025   424,000    383,583 
5.625%, 08/01/2033   250,000    173,969 
         1,500,656 
           
Building & Development - 0.99%          
Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., 6.375%, 06/15/2030(e)   157,000    153,784 
Builders FirstSource, Inc., 4.250%, 02/01/2032(e)   90,000    68,678 
Dycom Industries, Inc., 4.500%, 04/15/2029(e)   150,000    131,305 
Griffon Corp., 5.750%, 03/01/2028   404,000    367,866 
Howard Hughes Corp.:          
5.375%, 08/01/2028(e)   200,000    167,913 
4.125%, 02/01/2029(e)   100,000    77,312 
4.375%, 02/01/2031(e)   220,000    163,192 
Louisiana-Pacific Corp., 3.625%, 03/15/2029(e)   210,000    165,841 
Taylor Morrison Communities, Inc. / Taylor Morrison Holdings II, Inc., 5.625%, 03/01/2024(e)   180,000    175,314 
Tri Pointe Homes, Inc., 5.700%, 06/15/2028   200,000    172,952 
         1,644,157 
           
Business Equipment & Services - 1.25%          
Iron Mountain, Inc.:          
4.875%, 09/15/2029(e)   510,000    434,928 
4.500%, 02/15/2031(e)   90,000    73,800 
5.625%, 07/15/2032(e)   530,000    449,168 
Open Text Corp., 3.875%, 02/15/2028(e)   890,000    792,870 
Xerox Holdings Corp., 5.500%, 08/15/2028(e)   375,000    314,221 
         2,064,987 
           
Cable & Satellite Television - 0.81%          
CCO Holdings LLC / CCO Holdings Capital Corp.:          
5.000%, 02/01/2028(e)   370,000    342,678 
4.250%, 02/01/2031(e)   350,000    286,221 
DISH DBS Corp., 7.375%, 07/01/2028   300,000    204,847 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Cable & Satellite Television (continued)          
Viasat, Inc.:          
5.625%, 09/15/2025(e)  $110,000   $89,118 
6.500%, 07/15/2028(e)   610,000    420,946 
         1,343,810 
           
Chemical & Plastics - 1.31%          
Ashland LLC, 3.375%, 09/01/2031(e)   140,000    114,142 
Chemours Co.:          
5.750%, 11/15/2028(e)   216,000    184,487 
4.625%, 11/15/2029(e)   320,000    252,237 
CVR Partners LP / CVR Nitrogen Finance Corp., 6.125%, 06/15/2028(e)   310,000    277,607 
HB Fuller Co., 4.250%, 10/15/2028   110,000    92,486 
Methanex Corp., 5.250%, 12/15/2029   640,000    542,150 
Nufarm Australia, Ltd. / Nufarm Americas, Inc., 5.000%, 01/27/2030(e)   200,000    169,450 
Valvoline, Inc., 4.250%, 02/15/2030(e)   640,000    535,520 
         2,168,079 
           
Conglomerates - 0.86%          
Eldorado Gold Corp., 6.250%, 09/01/2029(e)   110,000    89,860 
LSB Industries, Inc., 6.250%, 10/15/2028(e)   410,000    362,424 
NCR Corp., 5.250%, 10/01/2030(e)   170,000    146,843 
Service Corp. International:          
3.375%, 08/15/2030   490,000    401,925 
4.000%, 05/15/2031   490,000    419,362 
         1,420,414 
           
Containers & Glass Products - 1.26%          
Ball Corp., 3.125%, 09/15/2031   360,000    290,995 
OI European Group BV, 4.750%, 02/15/2030(e)   400,000    335,524 
Owens-Brockway Glass Container, Inc., 6.625%, 05/13/2027(e)   310,000    289,726 
Sealed Air Corp., 6.875%, 07/15/2033(e)   650,000    656,142 
Silgan Holdings, Inc., 4.125%, 02/01/2028   300,000    269,510 
TriMas Corp., 4.125%, 04/15/2029(e)   290,000    248,120 
         2,090,017 
           
Cosmetics & Toiletries - 0.07%          
Edgewell Personal Care Co., 5.500%, 06/01/2028(e)   130,000    118,537 
           
Ecological Services & Equipment - 0.18%          
Stericycle, Inc., 3.875%, 01/15/2029(e)   370,000    302,976 
           
Electronics/Electric - 1.38%          
Energizer Holdings, Inc., 6.500%, 12/31/2027(e)   200,000    175,521 
Entegris, Inc., 4.375%, 04/15/2028(e)   300,000    265,119 
Fair Isaac Corp., 4.000%, 06/15/2028(e)   750,000    665,764 
Seagate HDD Cayman, 5.750%, 12/01/2034   490,000    432,083 
Sensata Technologies, Senior Unsecured Bond,, 4.875%, 10/15/2023(e)   550,000    541,884 
TTM Technologies, Inc., 4.000%, 03/01/2029(e)   250,000    210,719 
         2,291,090 
Equipment Leasing - 0.14%          
Avis Budget Car Rental LLC / Avis Budget Finance, Inc., 5.750%, 07/15/2027(e)   140,000    125,510 
Hertz Corp., 5.000%, 12/01/2029(e)   130,000    100,452 
         225,962 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Farming/Agriculture - 0.07%        
Central Garden & Pet Co., 4.125%, 10/15/2030  $150,000   $123,268 
           
Financial Intermediaries - 1.70%          
Enova International, Inc., 8.500%, 09/15/2025(e)   300,000    261,331 
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA:          
5.017%, 06/26/2024(e)   450,000    430,148 
5.710%, 01/15/2026(e)   400,000    381,672 
Nationstar Mortgage Holdings, Inc.:          
5.125%, 12/15/2030(e)   739,000    553,337 
5.750%, 11/15/2031(e)   170,000    130,382 
PennyMac Financial Services, Inc., 5.750%, 09/15/2031(e)   120,000    89,719 
PRA Group, Inc., 5.000%, 10/01/2029(e)   220,000    182,604 
SS&C Technologies, Inc., 5.500%, 09/30/2027(e)   700,000    654,990 
World Acceptance Corp., 7.000%, 11/01/2026(e)   180,000    128,961 
         2,813,144 
           
Food Products - 1.02%          
B&G Foods, Inc., 5.250%, 04/01/2025   100,000    92,366 
Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.:          
4.875%, 05/15/2028(e)   135,000    127,274 
4.125%, 01/31/2030(e)   425,000    368,987 
Pilgrim's Pride Corp., 4.250%, 04/15/2031(e)   310,000    259,593 
Post Holdings, Inc.:          
5.625%, 01/15/2028(e)   805,000    765,841 
5.500%, 12/15/2029(e)   80,000    71,677 
         1,685,738 
           
Food Service - 1.28%          
1011778 BC ULC / New Red Finance, Inc.:          
3.875%, 01/15/2028(e)   421,000    366,287 
4.375%, 01/15/2028(e)   360,000    315,313 
3.500%, 02/15/2029(e)   350,000    296,891 
4.000%, 10/15/2030(e)   100,000    80,573 
Aramark Services, Inc., 5.000%, 02/01/2028(e)   60,000    54,499 
Performance Food Group, Inc., 5.500%, 10/15/2027(e)   150,000    139,125 
Yum! Brands, Inc.:          
4.750%, 01/15/2030(e)   480,000    436,459 
3.625%, 03/15/2031   90,000    75,810 
4.625%, 01/31/2032   400,000    354,518 
         2,119,475 
           
Food/Drug Retailers - 0.55%          
Albertsons Cos. Inc / Safeway, Inc. / New Albertsons LP / Albertsons LLC:          
4.625%, 01/15/2027(e)   530,000    474,509 
5.875%, 02/15/2028(e)   290,000    271,553 
4.875%, 02/15/2030(e)   200,000    172,119 
         918,181 
           
Forest Products - 0.55%          
Clearwater Paper Corp., 4.750%, 08/15/2028(e)   150,000    129,610 
Mercer International, Inc., 5.125%, 02/01/2029   620,000    530,593 
Resolute Forest Products, Inc., 4.875%, 03/01/2026(e)   170,000    154,111 
Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc., 6.875%, 10/01/2026(e)   110,000    98,046 
         912,360 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Healthcare - 1.35%        
Acadia Healthcare Co., Inc.:          
5.500%, 07/01/2028(e)  $185,000   $173,129 
5.000%, 04/15/2029(e)   80,000    71,938 
Carriage Services, Inc., 4.250%, 05/15/2029(e)   220,000    179,248 
DaVita, Inc., 4.625%, 06/01/2030(e)   540,000    422,832 
Encompass Health Corp.:          
4.500%, 02/01/2028   180,000    154,295 
4.750%, 02/01/2030   450,000    377,750 
Hologic, Inc., 3.250%, 02/15/2029(e)   410,000    351,583 
Tenet Healthcare Corp., 6.125%, 10/01/2028(e)   580,000    498,145 
         2,228,920 
           
Insurance - 0.67%          
MGIC Investment Corp., 5.250%, 08/15/2028   360,000    323,019 
NMI Holdings, Inc., 7.375%, 06/01/2025(e)   240,000    235,628 
Radian Group, Inc.:          
4.500%, 10/01/2024   350,000    329,882 
4.875%, 03/15/2027   240,000    215,454 
         1,103,983 
           
Leisure Goods/Activities/Movies - 0.73%          
Carnival Corp., 7.625%, 03/01/2026(e)   210,000    163,144 
Cinemark USA, Inc., 5.875%, 03/15/2026(e)   463,000    413,552 
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., 4.750%, 10/15/2027(e)   540,000    480,335 
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Inc., 5.250%, 08/15/2029(e)   180,000    152,586 
         1,209,617 
           
Lodging & Casinos - 1.20%          
Boyd Gaming Corp., 4.750%, 06/15/2031(e)   180,000    152,460 
Churchill Downs, Inc., 4.750%, 01/15/2028(e)   750,000    668,835 
Cogent Communications Group, Inc., 7.000%, 06/15/2027(e)   159,000    152,083 
Hilton Domestic Operating Co., Inc.:          
3.750%, 05/01/2029(e)   410,000    348,286 
4.875%, 01/15/2030   660,000    598,300 
4.000%, 05/01/2031(e)   80,000    66,721 
         1,986,685 
           
Nonferrous Metals/Minerals - 0.61%          
Commercial Metals Co., 3.875%, 02/15/2031   410,000    328,732 
Kaiser Aluminum Corp., 4.625%, 03/01/2028(e)   100,000    83,394 
Minerals Technologies, Inc., 5.000%, 07/01/2028(e)   239,000    208,359 
Parkland Corp., 4.500%, 10/01/2029(e)   201,000    163,321 
SunCoke Energy, Inc., 4.875%, 06/30/2029(e)   280,000    224,121 
         1,007,927 
           
Oil & Gas - 5.02%          
AmeriGas Partners LP / AmeriGas Finance Corp., 5.500%, 05/20/2025   150,000    141,438 
Antero Midstream Partners LP / Antero Midstream Finance Corp., 7.875%, 05/15/2026(e)   350,000    350,243 
Apache Corp., 5.350%, 07/01/2049   315,000    249,510 
Athabasca Oil Corp., 9.750%, 11/01/2026(e)   168,000    175,869 
Baytex Energy Corp., 8.750%, 04/01/2027(e)   130,000    130,547 
Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP / Calumet Finance Corp., 8.125%, 01/15/2027(e)   530,000    448,759 
CNX Resources Corp., 6.000%, 01/15/2029(e)   320,000    299,523 
Crestwood Midstream Partners LP / Crestwood Midstream Finance Corp., 6.000%, 02/01/2029(e)   310,000    271,047 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Oil & Gas (continued)          
EnLink Midstream Partners LP, 5.450%, 06/01/2047  $795,000   $564,148 
Ensign Drilling, Inc., 9.250%, 04/15/2024(e)   130,000    123,104 
Global Partners LP / GLP Finance Corp., 7.000%, 08/01/2027   340,000    306,422 
Laredo Petroleum, Inc., 10.125%, 01/15/2028   151,000    149,689 
MEG Energy Corp.:          
7.125%, 02/01/2027(e)   221,000    223,071 
5.875%, 02/01/2029(e)   270,000    247,007 
Murphy Oil USA, Inc.:          
4.750%, 09/15/2029   120,000    108,229 
3.750%, 02/15/2031(e)   100,000    85,159 
Nabors Industries, Ltd.:          
7.250%, 01/15/2026(e)   210,000    186,538 
7.500%, 01/15/2028(e)   105,000    90,435 
Northern Oil and Gas, Inc., 8.125%, 03/01/2028(e)   160,000    151,036 
Occidental Petroleum Corp.:          
6.200%, 03/15/2040   130,000    128,319 
4.625%, 06/15/2045   160,000    131,797 
6.600%, 03/15/2046   70,000    74,547 
Park-Ohio Industries, Inc., 6.625%, 04/15/2027   40,000    31,600 
Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., 5.150%, 11/15/2029   470,000    403,415 
PBF Holding Co. LLC / PBF Finance Corp.:          
7.250%, 06/15/2025   70,000    65,554 
6.000%, 02/15/2028   510,000    432,998 
Penn Virginia Holdings LLC, 9.250%, 08/15/2026(e)   210,000    201,808 
Petrofac, Ltd., 9.750%, 11/15/2026(e)   550,000    423,412 
Precision Drilling Corp., 6.875%, 01/15/2029(e)   420,000    376,515 
SM Energy Co., 6.750%, 09/15/2026   430,000    406,216 
Sunoco LP / Sunoco Finance Corp., 4.500%, 05/15/2029   310,000    256,128 
Transocean, Inc.:          
7.250%, 11/01/2025(e)   355,000    263,186 
7.500%, 01/15/2026(e)   480,000    343,858 
Vermilion Energy, Inc., 6.875%, 05/01/2030(e)   300,000    268,800 
W&T Offshore, Inc., 9.750%, 11/01/2023(e)   220,000    209,862 
         8,319,789 
           
Radio & Television - 0.76%          
Gray Escrow II, Inc., 5.375%, 11/15/2031(e)   285,000    228,970 
Sirius XM Radio, Inc.:          
4.000%, 07/15/2028(e)   340,000    295,306 
3.875%, 09/01/2031(e)   590,000    470,929 
Univision Communications, Inc., 7.375%, 06/30/2030(e)   46,000    45,203 
Urban One, Inc., 7.375%, 02/01/2028(e)   265,000    227,261 
         1,267,669 
           
Real Estate Investment Trust and Real Estate Operating Companies - 1.29%          
iStar, Inc., 4.250%, 08/01/2025   225,000    208,222 
Kennedy-Wilson, Inc., 4.750%, 02/01/2030   170,000    133,308 
MPT Operating Partnership LP / MPT Finance Corp.:          
5.000%, 10/15/2027   189,000    173,258 
4.625%, 08/01/2029   38,000    33,419 
New Residential Investment Corp., 6.250%, 10/15/2025(e)   330,000    287,925 
Service Properties Trust:          
4.750%, 10/01/2026   250,000    182,524 
3.950%, 01/15/2028   100,000    68,600 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Real Estate Investment Trust and Real Estate Operating Companies (continued)          
Starwood Property Trust, Inc., 4.375%, 01/15/2027(e)  $1,210,000   $1,052,301 
         2,139,557 
           
Retailers (except food & drug) - 0.98%          
Asbury Automotive Group, Inc.:          
4.750%, 03/01/2030   150,000    123,517 
5.000%, 02/15/2032(e)   515,000    421,774 
FirstCash, Inc.:          
4.625%, 09/01/2028(e)   600,000    518,952 
5.625%, 01/01/2030(e)   50,000    43,256 
Macy's Retail Holdings LLC, 6.125%, 03/15/2032(e)   210,000    175,806 
Penske Automotive Group, Inc., 3.750%, 06/15/2029   100,000    83,652 
Sonic Automotive, Inc.:          
4.625%, 11/15/2029(e)   200,000    155,231 
4.875%, 11/15/2031(e)   140,000    105,520 
         1,627,708 
           
Steel - 0.95%          
Allegheny Technologies, Inc.:          
4.875%, 10/01/2029   250,000    199,719 
5.125%, 10/01/2031   380,000    291,677 
Carpenter Technology Corp.:          
6.375%, 07/15/2028   300,000    268,306 
7.625%, 03/15/2030   100,000    91,990 
FMG Resources August 2006 Pty, Ltd.:          
5.875%, 04/15/2030(e)   126,000    113,606 
6.125%, 04/15/2032(e)   126,000    113,650 
United States Steel Corp.:          
6.875%, 03/01/2029   440,000    385,000 
6.650%, 06/01/2037   143,000    111,337 
         1,575,285 
           
Surface Transport - 0.37%          
Danaos Corp., 8.500%, 03/01/2028(e)   150,000    148,760 
Delek Logistics Partners LP / Delek Logistics Finance Corp., 7.125%, 06/01/2028(e)   220,000    198,401 
Holly Energy Partners LP / Holly Energy Finance Corp.:          
6.375%, 04/15/2027(e)   37,000    34,902 
5.000%, 02/01/2028(e)   260,000    223,137 
         605,200 
           
Telecommunications - 1.44%          
CommScope, Inc., 8.250%, 03/01/2027(e)   110,000    87,229 
Consolidated Communications, Inc., 6.500%, 10/01/2028(e)   300,000    253,200 
Frontier Communications Holdings LLC, 6.750%, 05/01/2029(e)   190,000    154,256 
Hughes Satellite Systems Corp., 6.625%, 08/01/2026   250,000    222,335 
Lumen Technologies, Inc.:          
5.125%, 12/15/2026(e)   160,000    135,008 
4.500%, 01/15/2029(e)   120,000    89,653 
5.375%, 06/15/2029(e)   220,000    174,746 
7.600%, 09/15/2039   140,000    110,060 
7.650%, 03/15/2042   170,000    130,791 
SBA Communications Corp.:          
3.875%, 02/15/2027   170,000    155,313 
3.125%, 02/01/2029   116,000    95,226 
T-Mobile USA, Inc., 2.625%, 04/15/2026   130,000    118,218 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.  

 

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June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Telecommunications (continued)          
United States Cellular Corp., 6.700%, 12/15/2033  $110,000   $104,986 
Uniti Group LP / Uniti Fiber Holdings, Inc. / CSL Capital LLC, 6.000%, 01/15/2030(e)   160,000    110,901 
Uniti Group LP / Uniti Group Finance, Inc. / CSL Capital LLC, 6.500%, 02/15/2029(e)   350,000    257,404 
Viavi Solutions, Inc., 3.750%, 10/01/2029(e)   220,000    184,654 
        2,383,980 
           
Utilities - 0.62%          
DPL, Inc., 4.125%, 07/01/2025   440,000    406,992 
Enviva Partners LP / Enviva Partners Finance Corp., 6.500%, 01/15/2026(e)   200,000    193,503 
Vistra Operations Co. LLC, 4.375%, 05/01/2029(e)   500,000    419,782 
         1,020,277 
           
TOTAL CORPORATE BONDS          
(Cost $59,559,533)        53,150,214 

 

   Shares   Value 
WARRANTS - 0.00%        
Healthcare - 0.00%        
Carestream Health expires 12/31/2049 at $0.01(b)   71     
           
TOTAL WARRANTS          
(Cost $0)         
           
Total Investments- 166.46%          
(Cost $300,026,588)        275,746,888 
           
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets - (0.52)%        (867,349)
           
Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Shares - (12.15)%          
(liquidation preference plus distributions payable on term preferred shares)        (20,126,945)
           
Leverage Facility - (53.79)%        (89,100,000)
           
Net Assets - 100.00%       $165,652,593 

 

Amounts above are shown as a percentage of net assets as of June 30, 2022.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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Investment Abbreviations:

LIBOR - London Interbank Offered Rate

PIK - Payment in-kind

SOFR - Secured Overnight Financing Rate

 

Reference Rates:

1M US L - 1 Month LIBOR as of June 30, 2022 was 1.79%

3M US L - 3 Month LIBOR as of June 30, 2022 was 2.29%

6M US L - 6 Month LIBOR as of June 30, 2022 was 2.94%

3M US SOFR - 3 Month SOFR as of June 30, 2022 was 0.70%

 

(a)Floating or variable rate security. The reference rate is described above. The rate in effect as of June 30, 2022 is based on the reference rate plus the displayed spread as of the security's last reset date. Where applicable, the reference rate is subject to a floor rate.

(b)Level 3 assets valued using significant unobservable inputs as a result of unavailable quoted prices from an active market or the unavailability of other significant observable inputs.

(c)A portion of this position was not funded as of June 30, 2022. The Portfolio of Investments records only the funded portion of each position. As of June 30, 2022, the Fund has unfunded delayed draw loans in the amount of $367,853. Fair value of these unfunded delayed draws was $344,546.

(d)Represents a payment-in-kind (“PIK”) security which may pay interest/dividend in additional par/shares.

(e)Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Total market value of Rule 144A securities amounts to $49,663,254, which represented approximately 29.98% of net assets as of June 30, 2022. Such securities may normally be sold to qualified institutional buyers in transactions exempt from registration.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
FLOATING RATE LOAN INTERESTS(a) - 129.54%        
Aerospace & Defense - 4.44%        
Amentum Government Services Holdings LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 6M US L + 4.00%, 02/15/2029  $2,877,551   $2,748,076 
Atlas CC Acquisition Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 05/25/2028   4,895,625    4,537,657 
Atlas CC Acquisition Corp., First Lien C Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 05/25/2028   995,720    922,913 
Dynasty Acquisition Co., Inc., First Lien 2020 B-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 04/06/2026   2,849,493    2,635,781 
Dynasty Acquisition Co., Inc., First Lien 2020 B-2 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 04/06/2026   1,531,986    1,417,087 
Nordam Group LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.50%, 04/09/2026   4,644,000    3,898,638 
Peraton Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 02/01/2028   7,334,921    6,907,918 
Vertex Aerospace Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 12/06/2028   1,795,500    1,709,101 
         24,777,171 
           
Air Transport - 2.87%          
AAdvantage Loyality IP, Ltd., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 04/20/2028   3,510,638    3,358,294 
American Airlines, Inc., First Lien 2018 Replacement Term Loan, 1M US L + 1.75%, 06/27/2025   2,233,474    1,989,199 
American Airlines, Inc., First Lien 2020 Term Loan, 1M US L + 1.75%, 01/29/2027   775,008    685,882 
Global Medical Response, Inc., First Lien 2018 New Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 1.00% Floor, 03/14/2025   5,540,512    5,169,436 
Global Medical Response, Inc., First Lien 2020 Refinancing Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 1.00% Floor, 10/02/2025   921,739    859,812 
KKR Apple Bidco LLC, Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.75%, 0.50% Floor, 09/21/2029   510,286    491,150 
United AirLines, Inc., First Lien Class B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 04/21/2028   3,724,541    3,477,808 
         16,031,581 
           
Automotive - 2.16%          
Bright BidCo B.V., First Lien 2018 Refinancing B Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 1.00% Floor, 06/30/2024   16,590    7,418 
Burgess Point Purchaser Corp. TL 1L, First Lien Term Loan 06/29/2029   4,324,000   $3,891,600 
GC EOS Buyer, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 08/01/2025   4,535,067    4,513,457 
Wheel Pros, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 0.75% Floor, 05/11/2028   4,395,109    3,660,489 
         12,072,964 
           
Beverage & Tobacco - 1.13%          
Triton Water Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 03/31/2028   7,083,056    6,296,341 
           
Brokers, Dealers & Investment Houses - 3.17%          
Advisor Group Holdings, Inc., First Lien B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 07/31/2026   5,675,636    5,413,649 
Deerfield Dakota Holding LLC, First Lien Initial Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 04/09/2027   5,215,901    4,898,070 
Deerfield Dakota Holding LLC, Second Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 0.75% Floor, 04/07/2028   960,000    939,998 
Edelman Financial Center LLC, Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 07/20/2026   1,846,154    1,700,769 
Edelman Financial Engines Center LLC, First Lien Initial (2021) Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.75% Floor, 04/07/2028   5,142,141    4,772,550 
         17,725,036 
           
Building & Development - 6.02%          
Arc Falcon I, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 09/30/2028   209,707    194,189 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Building & Development (continued)        
Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc., First Lien Tranche B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.25%, 0.50% Floor, 04/12/2028  $2,088,048   $1,742,215 
CP Atlas Buyer, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 11/23/2027   4,995,742    4,408,742 
Foundation Building Materials, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 0.50% Floor, 01/31/2028   2,183,758    1,921,707 
Illuminate Merger Sub Corp, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 07/21/2028   1,372,414    1,206,873 
LBM Acquisition LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 12/17/2027   6,705,065    5,528,560 
Park River Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 0.75% Floor, 12/28/2027   9,520,500    7,854,413 
SRS Distribution, Inc., First Lien 2021 Refinancing Term Loan, 6M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 06/02/2028   1,836,568    1,700,662 
SRS Distribution, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 6M US L + 3.50%, 06/02/2028   1,426,859    1,318,510 
Tutor Perini Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 1.00% Floor, 08/18/2027   667,878    628,640 
United Site Cov-Lite, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 12/15/2028   3,194,563    2,894,402 
White Cap Buyer LLC, First Lien Initial Closing Date Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 10/19/2027   4,568,820    4,223,303 
         33,622,216 
           
Business Equipment & Services - 22.10%          
Access CIG LLC, First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 02/27/2025   4,113,480    3,896,494 
Access CIG LLC, Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.75%, 02/27/2026   3,143,115    3,017,390 
Aegion Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 05/17/2028   1,868,822    1,714,644 
AG Group Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 12/29/2028   1,642,599    1,581,001 
Allied Universal Holdco LLC, First Lien Initial U.S. Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 05/12/2028   6,093,338    5,598,254 
Anticimex International AB, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 11/16/2028   3,824,158    3,626,564 
AqGen Island Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 6.50%, 08/02/2029   5,708,001    5,351,250 
BMC Acquisition, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.25%, 1.00% Floor, 12/28/2024   2,551,338    2,430,150 
Connectwise, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 09/29/2028   1,495,534    1,373,394 
DG Investment Intermediate Holdings 2, Inc., First Lien Closing Date Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/31/2028   2,251,445    2,110,032 
DG Investment Intermediate Holdings 2, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/30/2029(b)   1,885,714    1,829,143 
Divisions Holding Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 05/27/2028(b)   1,726,265    1,627,005 
DTI Holdco, Inc. TL, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 04/26/2029   2,374,465    2,229,444 
EAB Global, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 08/16/2028   2,190,826    2,067,044 
Element Materials Technology Group Holdings DTL, First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.250%, 04/12/2029   242,430    233,264 
Element Materials Technology Group Holdings TL, First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.250%, 04/12/2029   525,265    505,405 
Epicor Software Corp., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.75%, 1.00% Floor, 07/31/2028   2,388,305    2,333,374 
Equiniti Group PLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 12/11/2028   1,016,709    968,415 
eResearchTechnology, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 1.00% Floor, 02/04/2027   2,265,606    2,098,993 
Foundational Education Group, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 08/31/2028   909,714    873,326 
Galaxy US Opco Inc. TL, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 04/29/2029   2,056,949    1,936,104 
Garda World Security Corp., First Lien B-2 Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 10/30/2026   6,900,936    6,417,871 
Garda World Security Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 02/01/2029   640,909    591,239 
Inmar, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 8.00%, 1.00% Floor, 05/01/2025(b)   3,209,378    3,217,401 
KUEHG Corp, Second Lien Tranche B Term Loan, 3M US L + 8.25%, 1.00% Floor, 08/22/2025   3,954,922    3,832,992 
KUEHG Corp., First Lien B-3 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 02/21/2025   2,510,520    2,345,541 
Learning Care Group No. 2, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 1.00% Floor, 03/13/2025   4,462,257    4,144,321 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Business Equipment & Services (continued)        
Loyalty Ventures, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 11/03/2027  $1,522,606   $1,213,136 
Madison IAQ LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 0.50% Floor, 06/21/2028   2,834,437    2,589,371 
McKissock Investment Holdings, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, L + 5.750%, 03/12/2029   2,704,117    2,622,994 
Minotaur Acquisition, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 03/27/2026   3,607,132    3,423,763 
Mitchell International, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 10/15/2028   6,870,070    6,277,526 
Mitchell International, Inc., Second Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.50%, 10/15/2029   1,206,186    1,138,904 
Momentive, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 10/10/2025(b)   5,791,761    5,618,008 
National Intergovernmental Purchasing Alliance Company, Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.50%, 05/22/2026(b)   4,143,948    4,040,350 
Revspring, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 10/11/2025   3,474,000    3,335,040 
Rinchem Company, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 03/02/2029(b)   1,512,470    1,423,612 
Sabre GLBL, Inc., First Lien 2021 Other B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 12/17/2027   750,345    703,922 
Sabre GLBL, Inc., First Lien 2021 Other B-2 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 12/17/2027   1,196,095    1,122,093 
Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., First Lien 2020 Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 1.00% Floor, 09/03/2026   882,975    854,835 
Seren BidCo, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 11/16/2028(b)   1,599,960    1,523,962 
Skopima Merger Sub Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 05/12/2028   3,491,056    3,207,407 
TRC Companies, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 12/08/2028   3,511,330    3,315,293 
TRC Companies, Second Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 12/07/2029   2,088,000    1,957,500 
Virtusa Corp., First Lien Term Loan:          
1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 02/11/2028   1,818,491    1,724,447 
1M US L + 3.75%, 02/15/2029   1,856,261    1,760,358 
Weld North Education LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 12/21/2027   7,989,680    7,616,802 
         123,419,378 
           
Cable & Satellite Television - 1.12%          
Numericable U.S. LLC, First Lien USD TLB-[12] Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.6875%, 01/31/2026   6,842,526    6,243,804 
           
Chemical & Plastics - 4.44%          
Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC, First Lien 2021 Refinancing Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 08/27/2026   5,437,422    5,315,080 
CPC Acquisition Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 12/29/2027   1,317,142    1,161,278 
DCG Acquisition Corp., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 09/30/2026(b)   4,740,000    4,455,600 
Geon Performance Solutions LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 0.75% Floor, 08/18/2028   3,075,447    2,921,674 
Hexion Holdings Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 03/15/2029   1,167,717    1,051,675 
Hyperion Materials & Technologies, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 0.50% Floor, 08/30/2028   2,208,301    2,097,886 
Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc., First Lien Closing Date Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 1.00% Floor, 10/28/2024   4,295,157    4,083,083 
Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 10/28/2024   1,875,300    1,782,707 
Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 8.25%, 1.00% Floor, 10/27/2025   1,995,334    1,921,347 
         24,790,330 
           
Clothing & Textiles - 0.50%          
S&S Holdings LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 0.50% Floor, 03/11/2028   2,940,031    2,766,084 
           
Conglomerates - 1.93%          
Output Services Group, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 1.00% Floor, 03/27/2024   1,693,025    1,268,863 
Spring Education Group, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 07/30/2025   3,819,149    3,578,543 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Conglomerates (continued)        
Vaco Holdings, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 01/21/2029  $997,843   $962,918 
VT Topco, Inc., First Lien 2021 Delayed Draw Term Loan, 3M US L + 1.38%, 0.75% Floor, 08/01/2025(b)(c)   177,100    171,345 
VT Topco, Inc., First Lien 2021 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 08/01/2025   4,932,487    4,803,009 
         10,784,678 
           
Containers & Glass Products - 4.09%          
Berlin Packaging L.L.C., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 03/11/2028   2,753,014    2,569,470 
Charter Next Generation, Inc., First Lien Initial (2021) Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 12/01/2027   1,955,397    1,846,628 
Clydesdale Acquisition Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 0.50% Floor, 04/13/2029   5,630,331    5,278,436 
IBC Capital I, Ltd., First Lien Tranche B-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 09/11/2023   683,745    619,077 
IBC Capital, Ltd., Second Lien Tranche B-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.00%, 09/11/2024   1,691,209    1,596,078 
LABL, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.00%, 10/29/2028   1,667,250    1,548,459 
ProAmpac PG Borrower LLC, First Lien 2020-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 11/03/2025   7,671,910    7,127,205 
Strategic Materials Holding Corp., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.75%, 1.00% Floor, 10/31/2025   2,666,667    1,333,333 
Tekni-Plex, Inc., First Lien Delayed Draw Tem Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.50% Floor, 09/15/2028(c)   79,956    75,238 
Tekni-Plex, Inc., First Lien Tranche B-3 Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.50% Floor, 09/15/2028   896,768    843,859 
         22,837,783 
           
Diversified Insurance - 0.70%          
Acrisure LLC, First Lien 2021-1 Additional Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 02/15/2027   977,874    917,979 
Acrisure LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 02/15/2027   1,117,671    1,058,066 
NFP Corp., First Lien Closing Date Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.25%, 02/15/2027   2,089,313    1,936,793 
         3,912,838 
           
Drugs - 1.63%          
Cambrex Corp., First Lien Tranche B-2 Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.60%, 0.75% Floor, 12/04/2026   1,612,233    1,533,637 
Curia Global, Inc., First Lien 2021 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 08/30/2026   3,737,520    3,538,198 
LSCS Holdings/Eversana, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 12/16/2028   1,468,996    1,402,891 
Packaging Coordinators Midco, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 11/30/2027   358,105    339,528 
Padagis LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/06/2028   1,289,003    1,189,105 
Sharp MicCo, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 12/31/2028(b)   1,163,871    1,094,039 
         9,097,398 
           
Ecological Services & Equipment - 0.33%          
EnergySolutions LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 05/09/2025   1,999,470    1,870,344 
           
Electronics/Electric - 26.49%          
Apttus Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 05/08/2028   1,830,073    1,720,269 
BMC Software, Inc., Second Lien 2nd Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.50%, 0.50% Floor, 02/27/2026   2,509,184    2,366,486 
Boxer Parent Company, Inc., First Lien 2021 Replacement Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 10/02/2025   5,121,018    4,783,902 
Brave Parent Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 04/18/2025   2,723,202    2,625,167 
CDK Global, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.500%, 06/08/2029   3,215,488    3,048,298 
Cloudera, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 10/08/2028   3,825,142    3,531,887 
ConvergeOne Holdings, Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.00%, 01/04/2026   5,805,000    4,992,329 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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 June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Electronics/Electric (continued)        
CoreLogic, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.50% Floor, 06/02/2028  $5,757,573   $4,824,847 
CoreLogic, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.50%, 0.50% Floor, 06/04/2029(b)   1,786,047    1,312,744 
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 10/16/2028   1,729,273    1,552,022 
CPI International, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.25%, 1.00% Floor, 07/26/2025(b)   1,045,100    1,018,972 
DCert Buyer, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 10/16/2026   4,756,030    4,558,988 
DCert Buyer, Inc., Second Lien First Amendment Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.00%, 02/19/2029   2,114,098    1,976,681 
Delta Topco, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 12/01/2027   6,131,089    5,567,825 
ECI Macola/MAX Holding LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 11/09/2027   7,981,177    7,547,240 
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 0.75% Floor, 02/10/2028   5,080,692    4,581,082 
Fiserv Investment Solutions, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 02/18/2027   2,416,715    2,298,900 
Help/Systems Holdings, Inc., First Lien Seventh Amendment Refinancing Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 11/19/2026   6,225,968    5,853,967 
Hyland Software, Inc., Second Lien 2021 Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.25%, 0.75% Floor, 07/07/2025   4,574,717    4,506,096 
Idera, Inc., First Lien B-1 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/02/2028   5,919,025    5,476,963 
Imperva, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 1.00% Floor, 01/12/2026   4,337,985    3,917,201 
Internet Brands, Inc., First Lien 2020 June New Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 09/13/2024   4,428,617    4,181,722 
Ivanti Software, Inc., First Lien First Amendment Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 12/01/2027   803,325    688,856 
Ivanti Software, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 12/01/2027   6,069,500    5,245,080 
Ivanti Software, Inc., Second Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.25%, 12/01/2028   1,571,642    1,443,294 
LI Group Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2021 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/11/2028   2,288,352    2,188,237 
Magenta Buyer LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 0.75% Floor, 07/27/2028   5,193,535    4,683,452 
McAfee Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 03/01/2029   4,042,431    3,692,094 
MH SUB I LLC, Second Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.25%, 02/23/2029   2,180,856    2,066,361 
Mitnick Corporate Purchaser Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.85%, 05/02/2029   1,266,381    1,206,228 
MLN US HoldCo LLC, First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 11/30/2025   2,655,349    1,779,084 
Park Place Technologies LLC, First Lien Closing Date Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.00%, 1.00% Floor, 11/10/2027   4,831,200    4,658,074 
Perforce Software, Inc., First Lien New Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 07/01/2026   2,149,475    1,987,727 
Project Alpha Intermediate Holding, Inc., First Lien 2021 Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 04/26/2024   2,241,255    2,162,117 
Project Castle, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, L + 5.500%, 06/01/2029   4,465,000    4,029,662 
Project Leopard Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2018 Repricing Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 1.00% Floor, 07/05/2024   2,647,393    2,635,810 
Project Leopard Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2019 Incremental Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 1.00% Floor, 07/05/2024   3,854,540    3,837,677 
Quest Borrower Ltd., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 02/01/2029   4,126,829    3,684,474 
Rocket Software, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 11/28/2025   4,999,776    4,662,291 
Rocket Software, Inc., First Lien USD Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 11/28/2025   1,980,000    1,844,707 
S2P Acquisition Borrower, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 08/14/2026   3,295,694    3,153,980 
Sovos Compliance LLC, First Lien Delayed Draw Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 0.50% Floor, 08/11/2028   203,994    192,711 
Sovos Compliance LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 0.50% Floor, 08/11/2028   1,175,363    1,110,353 
Triton Solar US Acquisition Co., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 6.00%, 10/29/2024(b)   602,351    584,281 
Veritas US, Inc., First Lien Dollar B-2021 Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 1.00% Floor, 09/01/2025   2,443,924    2,018,266 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Electronics/Electric (continued)        
Vision Solutions, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 04/24/2028  $6,709,749   $6,099,162 
         147,897,566 
           
Equipment Leasing - 0.38%          
Spin Holdco, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 03/04/2028   2,270,291    2,096,614 
           
Financial Intermediaries - 2.18%          
Apex Group Treasury LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/27/2028   790,663    751,130 
Apex Group Treasury, Ltd., First Lien USD Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/27/2028   1,420,141    1,349,134 
ION Trading Finance, Ltd., First Lien Initial Dollar (2021) Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 04/01/2028   5,028,416    4,652,869 
Lereta, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.25%, 07/30/2028   1,464,487    1,334,514 
Pre Paid Legal Services, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 12/15/2028   4,358,092    4,078,912 
         12,166,559 
           
Food Products - 0.30%          
Snacking Investments BidCo Pty, Ltd., First Lien Initial US Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.00%, 1.00% Floor, 12/18/2026   1,788,077    1,698,673 
           
Food Service - 3.52%          
Fertitta Entertainment, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 01/27/2029   3,590,032    3,320,797 
Fogo de Chao, Inc., First Lien 2018 Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 1.00% Floor, 04/07/2025   6,138,608    5,870,044 
Quidditch Acquisition, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.00%, 1.00% Floor, 03/21/2025   5,502,607    4,838,855 
Tacala Investment Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.75% Floor, 02/05/2027   2,075,393    1,946,864 
Tacala Investment Corp., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.50%, 0.75% Floor, 02/04/2028   3,949,483    3,705,938 
         19,682,498 
           
Food/Drug Retailers - 0.91%          
EG Group, Ltd., First Lien Additional Facility Term Loan:          
3M US L + 4.00%, 02/07/2025   4,015,146    3,784,275 
3M US L + 4.25%, 0.50% Floor, 03/31/2026   694,402    659,682 
EG Group, Ltd., First Lien Facility B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 02/07/2025   664,931    626,697 
         5,070,654 
           
Healthcare - 17.15%          
AthenaHealth Group, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 02/15/2029   3,482,995    3,217,434 
Auris Luxembourg III SARL, First Lien Facility B2 Term Loan, 6M US L + 3.75%, 02/27/2026   5,918,537    5,371,073 
Carestream Health, Inc., First Lien 2023 Extended Term Loan, 3M US L + 7.25%, 1.00% Floor, 05/08/2023   375,168    373,198 
Carestream Health, Inc., Second Lien 2023 Extended Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 8.00% PIK, 1.00% Floor, 08/08/2023(d)   12,626,323    10,932,250 
Covenant Surgical Partners, Inc., First Lien Delayed Draw Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 07/01/2026   800,935    754,881 
Covenant Surgical Partners, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 07/01/2026   3,903,610    3,679,152 
Envision Healthcare Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 10/10/2025   4,797,420    1,632,322 
Femur Buyer, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 03/05/2026   982,505    867,061 
Genesis Care Finance Pty, Ltd., First Lien Facility B5 Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 1.00% Floor, 05/14/2027   5,768,246    4,422,341 
Heartland Dental Care, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, L + 5.000%, 04/30/2025(b)   2,847,222    2,733,333 
Heartland Dental LLC, First Lien 2021 Incremental Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 04/30/2025   3,449,032    3,236,917 

  

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Healthcare (continued)        
LifePoint Health, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 11/16/2025  $4,328,127   $4,050,521 
Loire UK Midco 3, Ltd., First Lien Facility B2 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 04/21/2027   2,963,312    2,800,330 
Medical Solutions LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 11/01/2028   652,229    613,259 
NAPA Management Services Corp., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.25%, 0.75% Floor, 02/23/2029   2,732,756    2,535,492 
Navicure, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 10/22/2026   3,346,422    3,183,284 
Onex TSG Intermediate Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.75%, 0.75% Floor, 02/28/2028   4,427,500    4,139,713 
Pathway Vet Alliance LLC, First Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 03/31/2027   3,540,555    3,297,142 
Pediatric Associates Holding Co. LLC, First Lien Term Loan:          
3M US L + 3.25%, 12/29/2028(c)   787    738 
3M US L + 3.25%, 0.50% Floor, 12/29/2028   10,368    9,720 
PetVet Care Centers LLC, First Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 0.75% Floor, 02/14/2025   4,913,245    4,647,095 
PetVet Care Centers LLC, Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.25%, 02/13/2026   3,290,000    3,220,104 
Phoenix Guarantor, Inc., First Lien Tranche B-3 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 03/05/2026   1,218,878    1,147,269 
Project Ruby Ultimate Parent Corp., First Lien Closing Date Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.25%, 0.75% Floor, 03/10/2028   2,349,521    2,209,407 
Resonetics LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 04/28/2028   1,728,379    1,646,281 
Surgery Center Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2021 New Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 08/31/2026   6,323,381    5,910,401 
Team Health Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 2.75%, 1.00% Floor, 02/06/2024   947,286    846,518 
Tecostar Holdings, Inc., First Lien 2017 Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 1.00% Floor, 05/01/2024   5,278,196    4,605,226 
U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 10/01/2028   2,660,614    2,489,004 
Verscend Holding Corp., First Lien B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 08/27/2025   3,310,844    3,178,410 
Viant Medical Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 07/02/2025   233,252    215,516 
YI LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 1.00% Floor, 11/07/2024   3,873,503    3,718,563 
Zest Acquisition Corp., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.00%, 1.00% Floor, 03/13/2026   4,357,143    4,073,929 
         95,757,884 
           
Home Furnishings - 0.97%          
Osmosis Buyer Limited Delayed, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 07/31/2028   433,333    395,057 
Osmosis Buyer Limited, First Lien Initial B Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/31/2028   3,573,201    3,265,012 
Osmosis Buyer Limited, First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.000%, 07/31/2028   1,906,667    1,738,251 
         5,398,320 
           
Industrial Equipment - 5.36%          
Bettcher Industries, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 12/14/2028   2,468,200    2,344,790 
Engineered Machinery Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 05/19/2028   1,759,553    1,657,288 
FCG Acquisitions, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.50% Floor, 03/31/2028   1,839,515    1,736,042 
Justrite Safety Group, First Lien Delayed Draw Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.50%, 06/28/2026(b)   223,902    207,949 
Justrite Safety Group, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.50%, 06/28/2026(b)   4,141,938    3,846,825 
LTI Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 09/06/2025   3,913,770    3,652,037 
LTI Holdings, Inc., First Lien Term Loan:          
1M US L + 4.75%, 07/24/2026   615,329    581,486 
3M US L + 4.75%, 07/24/2026   618,421    584,408 
LTI Holdings, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 6.75%, 09/06/2026   1,276,596    1,167,287 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Industrial Equipment (continued)        
PRO MACH Group, Inc., First Lien Closing Date Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 1.00% Floor, 08/31/2028  $5,508,429   $5,210,643 
Redwood Star Merger Sub, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.60%, 04/05/2029   5,044,559    4,714,140 
Tailwind Smith Cooper Intermediate Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 05/28/2026   4,531,321    4,217,436 
         29,920,331 
           
Insurance - 0.47%          
HIG Finance 2, Ltd., First Lien 2021 Dollar Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.25%, 0.75% Floor, 11/12/2027   2,297,177    2,174,346 
Outcomes Group Holdings, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 1M US L + 7.50%, 10/26/2026   443,787    436,021 
         2,610,367 
           
Leisure Goods/Activities/Movies - 4.97%          
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., First Lien B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.00%, 04/22/2026   9,720,569    8,221,171 
Amplify Finco Pty, Ltd., First Lien U.S. Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 11/26/2026   4,014,157    3,917,135 
CE Intermediate I, LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 11/10/2028(b)   2,551,111    2,410,800 
Crown Finance US, Inc., First Lien Initial Dollar Tranche Term Loan, 3M US L + 2.50%, 1.00% Floor, 02/28/2025   4,543,506    2,897,439 
Crown Finance US, Inc., First Lien Second Amendment Dollar Tranche Term Loan, 3M US L + 2.75%, 09/30/2026   714,037    442,132 
Motion Finco LLC, First Lien Facility B1 (USD) Loan Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 11/12/2026   3,699,715    3,428,397 
Motion Finco LLC, First Lien Facility B2 (USD) Loan Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.25%, 11/12/2026   486,248    450,589 
Recess Holdings, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 09/30/2024   3,630,990    3,499,366 
Travel Leaders Group LLC, First Lien 2018 Refinancing Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 01/25/2024   2,764,116    2,479,067 
         27,746,096 
           
Oil & Gas - 0.13%          
Freeport LNG, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 12/21/2028   805,461    700,751 
           
Property & Casualty Insurance - 0.63%          
AssuredPartners, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.50%, 02/12/2027   1,167,075    1,091,215 
Polaris Newco LLC, First Lien Dollar Term Loan, 1M US L + 4.00%, 0.50% Floor, 06/02/2028   2,626,088    2,434,292 
         3,525,507 
           
Publishing - 3.40%          
Cengage Learning, Inc., First Lien Term Loan B Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 07/14/2026   2,343,662    2,121,014 
Champ Acquisition Corp., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 6M US L + 5.50%, 12/19/2025   3,796,634    3,699,345 
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., First Lien B Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.50%, 08/21/2026   3,631,330    3,138,377 
McGraw-Hill Education, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.75%, 0.50% Floor, 07/28/2028   3,123,564    2,837,227 
Recorded Books, Inc., First Lien 2021 Replacement Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 08/29/2025   3,938,889    3,749,330 
Shutterfly LLC, First Lien 2021 Refinancing B Term Loan, 3M US L + 5.00%, 0.75% Floor, 09/25/2026   4,200,082    3,414,667 
         18,959,960 
           
Radio & Television - 0.11%          
Univision Communications, Inc., First Lien Term Loan, L + 4.250%, 06/08/2029   640,909    612,600 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Retailers (except food & drug) - 0.03%        
FBB Holdings III, Inc., Second Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 6.04% (including 6.00% PIK), 01/31/2025(b)  $226,671   $175,670 
           
Surface Transport - 1.68%          
Drive Chassis Holdco LLC, Second Lien 2021 Refinancing B Term Loan, 3M US L + 6.75%, 04/10/2026   3,974,732    3,925,048 
Kenan Advantage Group, Inc.,The, First Lien U.S. B-1 Term Loan, 1M US L + 3.75%, 0.75% Floor, 03/24/2026   3,874,785    3,651,985 
WWEX UNI TopCo Holdings LLC, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 0.75% Floor, 07/26/2028   1,978,505    1,807,661 
         9,384,694 
           
Telecommunications - 4.11%          
CCI Buyer, Inc., First Lien Initial Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 12/17/2027   6,103,766    5,584,946 
Ensono LP, First Lien Initial Term Loan, 6M US L + 4.00%, 05/26/2028   3,189,930    2,967,145 
Greeneden U.S. Holdings I LLC, First Lien Initial Dollar (2020) Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.00%, 0.75% Floor, 12/01/2027   4,028,719    3,863,541 
Telesat Canada, First Lien B-5 Term Loan, 1M US L + 2.75%, 12/07/2026   3,881,421    2,731,550 
Zacapa S.A.R.L., First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 4.25%, 03/22/2029   4,413,219    4,133,531 
Zayo Group Holdings, First Lien Term Loan, 1M US L + 5.30%, 03/09/2027   3,938,130    3,691,170 
         22,971,883 
           
Utilities - 0.12%          
Eastern Power LLC, First Lien Term Loan, 3M US L + 3.75%, 1.00% Floor, 10/02/2025   818,027    694,685 
           
TOTAL FLOATING RATE LOAN INTERESTS          
(Cost $779,088,733)        723,319,258 
           
CORPORATE BONDS - 29.56%          
Aerospace & Defense - 0.52%          
Howmet Aerospace, Inc., 5.950%, 02/01/2037   674,000    636,721 
Science Applications International Corp., 4.875%, 04/01/2028(e)   250,000    233,496 
TransDigm, Inc.:          
7.500%, 03/15/2027   250,000    234,787 
4.625%, 01/15/2029   1,100,000    888,079 
4.875%, 05/01/2029   1,150,000    938,136 
         2,931,219 
           
Air Transport - 0.33%          
Air Canada, 3.875%, 08/15/2026(e)   1,100,000    932,739 
American Airlines Group, Inc., 3.750%, 03/01/2025(e)   1,100,000    928,813 
         1,861,552 
           
Automotive - 0.76%          
Allison Transmission, Inc.:          
4.750%, 10/01/2027(e)   1,200,000    1,099,349 
3.750%, 01/30/2031(e)   670,000    538,157 
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc., 6.500%, 04/01/2027   300,000    265,866 
Ford Motor Co.:          
7.400%, 11/01/2046   100,000    99,301 
5.291%, 12/08/2046   927,000    713,605 
Group 1 Automotive, Inc., 4.000%, 08/15/2028(e)   950,000    795,866 
Titan International, Inc., 7.000%, 04/30/2028   760,000    715,092 
         4,227,236 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Beverage & Tobacco - 0.06%        
Primo Water Holdings, Inc., 4.375%, 04/30/2029(e)  $380,000   $310,979 
           
Brokers, Dealers & Investment Houses - 0.80%          
CVR Energy, Inc.:          
5.250%, 02/15/2025(e)   690,000    635,369 
5.750%, 02/15/2028(e)   1,230,000    1,098,540 
Icahn Enterprises LP / Icahn Enterprises Finance Corp.:          
5.250%, 05/15/2027   800,000    710,396 
4.375%, 02/01/2029   900,000    729,063 
Navient Corp.:          
6.750%, 06/25/2025   342,000    309,399 
5.625%, 08/01/2033   1,450,000    1,009,021 
         4,491,788 
           
Building & Development - 1.21%          
Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., 6.375%, 06/15/2030(e)   496,000    485,840 
Builders FirstSource, Inc., 4.250%, 02/01/2032(e)   390,000    297,603 
Dycom Industries, Inc., 4.500%, 04/15/2029(e)   570,000    498,958 
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp., 5.250%, 06/01/2029(e)   350,000    303,339 
Griffon Corp., 5.750%, 03/01/2028   1,251,000    1,139,111 
Howard Hughes Corp.:          
5.375%, 08/01/2028(e)   770,000    646,465 
4.125%, 02/01/2029(e)   700,000    541,182 
4.375%, 02/01/2031(e)   510,000    378,309 
Louisiana-Pacific Corp., 3.625%, 03/15/2029(e)   670,000    529,113 
M/I Homes, Inc., 3.950%, 02/15/2030   180,000    135,987 
Taylor Morrison Communities, Inc.:          
5.750%, 01/15/2028(e)   600,000    540,136 
5.125%, 08/01/2030(e)   260,000    216,286 
Tri Pointe Homes, Inc., 5.700%, 06/15/2028   1,230,000    1,063,654 
         6,775,983 
           
Business Equipment & Services - 0.97%          
Iron Mountain, Inc.:          
5.000%, 07/15/2028(e)   550,000    488,151 
4.875%, 09/15/2029(e)   400,000    341,120 
5.250%, 07/15/2030(e)   1,290,000    1,123,977 
4.500%, 02/15/2031(e)   770,000    631,400 
5.625%, 07/15/2032(e)   870,000    737,313 
Open Text Corp., 3.875%, 02/15/2028(e)   600,000    534,519 
Open Text Holdings, Inc., 4.125%, 12/01/2031(e)   1,000,000    829,476 
Xerox Holdings Corp., 5.500%, 08/15/2028(e)   870,000    728,993 
         5,414,949 
           
Cable & Satellite Television - 0.65%          
CCO Holdings LLC / CCO Holdings Capital Corp.:          
4.250%, 02/01/2031(e)   700,000    572,442 
4.500%, 06/01/2033(e)   1,200,000    948,204 
DISH DBS Corp., 7.375%, 07/01/2028   920,000    628,199 
Viasat, Inc.:          
5.625%, 09/15/2025(e)   100,000    81,017 
6.500%, 07/15/2028(e)   1,994,000    1,376,010 
         3,605,872 

  

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Chemical & Plastics - 1.19%        
Ashland LLC, 3.375%, 09/01/2031(e)  $690,000   $562,556 
Chemours Co.:          
5.750%, 11/15/2028(e)   1,529,000    1,305,926 
4.625%, 11/15/2029(e)   350,000    275,884 
CVR Partners LP / CVR Nitrogen Finance Corp., 6.125%, 06/15/2028(e)   1,050,000    940,283 
HB Fuller Co., 4.250%, 10/15/2028   210,000    176,564 
Methanex Corp.:          
5.125%, 10/15/2027   1,100,000    972,604 
5.250%, 12/15/2029   130,000    110,124 
Nufarm Australia, Ltd. / Nufarm Americas, Inc., 5.000%, 01/27/2030(e)   620,000    525,295 
Valvoline, Inc., 4.250%, 02/15/2030(e)   2,110,000    1,765,542 
         6,634,778 
           
Conglomerates - 0.68%          
Eldorado Gold Corp., 6.250%, 09/01/2029(e)   337,000    275,300 
LSB Industries, Inc., 6.250%, 10/15/2028(e)   1,390,000    1,228,704 
Service Corp. International:          
3.375%, 08/15/2030   1,170,000    959,699 
4.000%, 05/15/2031   1,580,000    1,352,227 
         3,815,930 
           
Containers & Glass Products - 1.11%          
Ball Corp.:          
2.875%, 08/15/2030   680,000    548,839 
3.125%, 09/15/2031   430,000    347,578 
OI European Group BV, 4.750%, 02/15/2030(e)   1,520,000    1,274,991 
Owens-Brockway Glass Container, Inc.:          
5.875%, 08/15/2023(e)   700,000    693,907 
6.625%, 05/13/2027(e)   500,000    467,300 
Sealed Air Corp., 6.875%, 07/15/2033(e)   1,990,000    2,008,806 
Silgan Holdings, Inc., 4.125%, 02/01/2028   130,000    116,787 
TriMas Corp., 4.125%, 04/15/2029(e)   840,000    718,691 
         6,176,899 
           
Cosmetics & Toiletries - 0.07%          
Edgewell Personal Care Co., 4.125%, 04/01/2029(e)   460,000    380,534 
           
Ecological Services & Equipment - 0.14%          
Stericycle, Inc., 3.875%, 01/15/2029(e)   956,000    782,825 
           
Electronics/Electric - 0.89%          
Energizer Holdings, Inc., 6.500%, 12/31/2027(e)   700,000    614,324 
Entegris, Inc.:          
4.375%, 04/15/2028(e)   750,000    662,798 
3.625%, 05/01/2029(e)   350,000    293,221 
Fair Isaac Corp., 4.000%, 06/15/2028(e)   1,570,000    1,393,665 
Seagate HDD Cayman, 5.750%, 12/01/2034   1,090,000    961,164 
Sensata Technologies, Inc., 4.375%, 02/15/2030(e)   400,000    341,185 
TTM Technologies, Inc., 4.000%, 03/01/2029(e)   820,000    691,158 
         4,957,515 
           
Equipment Leasing - 0.13%          
Avis Budget Car Rental LLC / Avis Budget Finance, Inc.:          
5.750%, 07/15/2027(e)   470,000    421,355 
5.375%, 03/01/2029(e)   57,000    47,498 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Equipment Leasing (continued)        
Hertz Corp., 5.000%, 12/01/2029(e)  $320,000   $247,266 
         716,119 
           
Farming/Agriculture - 0.07%          
Central Garden & Pet Co., 4.125%, 10/15/2030   500,000    410,893 
           
Financial Intermediaries - 1.82%          
Enova International, Inc., 8.500%, 09/15/2025(e)   1,100,000    958,215 
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA:          
5.017%, 06/26/2024(e)   1,600,000    1,529,416 
5.710%, 01/15/2026(e)   1,300,000    1,240,432 
Nationstar Mortgage Holdings, Inc.:          
5.125%, 12/15/2030(e)   1,622,000    1,214,497 
5.750%, 11/15/2031(e)   1,120,000    858,984 
PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.:          
5.375%, 10/15/2025(e)   1,300,000    1,134,893 
5.750%, 09/15/2031(e)   500,000    373,830 
PRA Group, Inc., 5.000%, 10/01/2029(e)   840,000    697,216 
SS&C Technologies, Inc., 5.500%, 09/30/2027(e)   1,870,000    1,749,759 
World Acceptance Corp., 7.000%, 11/01/2026(e)   570,000    408,377 
         10,165,619 
           
Food Products - 0.83%          
B&G Foods, Inc., 5.250%, 04/01/2025   350,000    323,281 
Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.:          
4.125%, 01/31/2030(e)   1,200,000    1,041,846 
4.375%, 01/31/2032(e)   350,000    305,164 
Pilgrim's Pride Corp., 4.250%, 04/15/2031(e)   950,000    795,525 
Post Holdings, Inc.:          
5.625%, 01/15/2028(e)   1,750,000    1,664,871 
5.500%, 12/15/2029(e)   200,000    179,194 
4.500%, 09/15/2031(e)   390,000    320,112 
         4,629,993 
           
Food Service - 1.13%          
1011778 BC ULC / New Red Finance, Inc.:          
3.875%, 01/15/2028(e)   1,248,000    1,085,810 
4.375%, 01/15/2028(e)   1,300,000    1,138,631 
3.500%, 02/15/2029(e)   670,000    568,334 
4.000%, 10/15/2030(e)   450,000    362,581 
Aramark Services, Inc., 5.000%, 02/01/2028(e)   140,000    127,163 
Performance Food Group, Inc., 5.500%, 10/15/2027(e)   520,000    482,300 
Yum! Brands, Inc.:          
4.750%, 01/15/2030(e)   1,240,000    1,127,520 
3.625%, 03/15/2031   1,110,000    934,986 
4.625%, 01/31/2032   550,000    487,462 
         6,314,787 
           
Food/Drug Retailers - 0.58%          
Albertsons Cos. Inc / Safeway, Inc. / New Albertsons LP / Albertsons LLC:          
4.625%, 01/15/2027(e)   2,600,000    2,327,780 
5.875%, 02/15/2028(e)   950,000    889,570 
         3,217,350 

  

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Forest Products - 0.51%        
Clearwater Paper Corp., 4.750%, 08/15/2028(e)  $400,000   $345,628 
Graphic Packaging International LLC, 3.500%, 03/01/2029(e)   240,000    201,823 
Mercer International, Inc., 5.125%, 02/01/2029   1,940,000    1,660,242 
Resolute Forest Products, Inc., 4.875%, 03/01/2026(e)   400,000    362,614 
Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc., 6.875%, 10/01/2026(e)   310,000    276,311 
         2,846,618 
           
Healthcare - 1.24%          
Acadia Healthcare Co., Inc.:          
5.500%, 07/01/2028(e)   650,000    608,289 
5.000%, 04/15/2029(e)   200,000    179,846 
Carriage Services, Inc., 4.250%, 05/15/2029(e)   760,000    619,221 
DaVita, Inc., 4.625%, 06/01/2030(e)   1,770,000    1,385,949 
Encompass Health Corp.:          
4.500%, 02/01/2028   400,000    342,878 
4.750%, 02/01/2030   1,380,000    1,158,434 
Hologic, Inc., 3.250%, 02/15/2029(e)   1,200,000    1,029,024 
Tenet Healthcare Corp., 6.125%, 10/01/2028(e)   1,850,000    1,588,910 
         6,912,551 
           
Industrial Equipment - 0.12%          
ATS Automation Tooling Systems, Inc., 4.125%, 12/15/2028(e)   400,000    334,586 
Wabash National Corp., 4.500%, 10/15/2028(e)   450,000    344,812 
         679,398 
           
Insurance - 0.69%          
MGIC Investment Corp., 5.250%, 08/15/2028   1,240,000    1,112,621 
NMI Holdings, Inc., 7.375%, 06/01/2025(e)   770,000    755,975 
Radian Group, Inc.:          
4.500%, 10/01/2024   500,000    471,259 
6.625%, 03/15/2025   1,300,000    1,271,517 
4.875%, 03/15/2027   250,000    224,432 
         3,835,804 
           
Leisure Goods/Activities/Movies - 0.65%          
Carnival Corp., 7.625%, 03/01/2026(e)   650,000    504,969 
Cinemark USA, Inc., 5.875%, 03/15/2026(e)   900,000    803,880 
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.:          
4.750%, 10/15/2027(e)   1,320,000    1,174,153 
3.750%, 01/15/2028(e)   350,000    302,750 
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Inc., 5.250%, 08/15/2029(e)   610,000    517,097 
Vista Outdoor, Inc., 4.500%, 03/15/2029(e)   400,000    306,641 
         3,609,490 
           
Lodging & Casinos - 1.24%          
Boyd Gaming Corp., 4.750%, 06/15/2031(e)   550,000    465,850 
Churchill Downs, Inc., 4.750%, 01/15/2028(e)   2,510,000    2,238,368 
Cogent Communications Group, Inc.:          
3.500%, 05/01/2026(e)   570,000    525,363 
7.000%, 06/15/2027(e)   503,000    481,120 
Hilton Domestic Operating Co., Inc.:          
3.750%, 05/01/2029(e)   2,400,000    2,038,749 
4.000%, 05/01/2031(e)   400,000    333,604 
3.625%, 02/15/2032(e)   400,000    318,668 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Lodging & Casinos (continued)        
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc., 4.375%, 08/15/2028(e)  $570,000   $499,365 
         6,901,087 
           
Nonferrous Metals/Minerals - 0.49%          
Commercial Metals Co., 3.875%, 02/15/2031   1,170,000    938,089 
Kaiser Aluminum Corp., 4.625%, 03/01/2028(e)   480,000    400,289 
Minerals Technologies, Inc., 5.000%, 07/01/2028(e)   797,000    694,821 
SunCoke Energy, Inc., 4.875%, 06/30/2029(e)   910,000    728,394 
         2,761,593 
           
Oil & Gas - 4.45%          
Apache Corp., 5.350%, 07/01/2049   1,030,000    815,857 
Athabasca Oil Corp., 9.750%, 11/01/2026(e)   594,000    621,823 
Baytex Energy Corp., 8.750%, 04/01/2027(e)   400,000    401,684 
Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP / Calumet Finance Corp., 8.125%, 01/15/2027(e)   1,790,000    1,515,619 
CNX Resources Corp., 6.000%, 01/15/2029(e)   1,010,000    945,370 
Crestwood Midstream Partners LP / Crestwood Midstream Finance Corp., 6.000%, 02/01/2029(e)   970,000    848,115 
EnLink Midstream LLC, 5.375%, 06/01/2029   530,000    464,698 
EnLink Midstream Partners LP:          
5.600%, 04/01/2044   1,010,000    717,194 
5.450%, 06/01/2047   880,000    624,466 
Ensign Drilling, Inc., 9.250%, 04/15/2024(e)   500,000    473,477 
Global Partners LP / GLP Finance Corp., 6.875%, 01/15/2029   550,000    466,171 
Laredo Petroleum, Inc., 10.125%, 01/15/2028   319,000    316,229 
MEG Energy Corp., 5.875%, 02/01/2029(e)   1,470,000    1,344,816 
Murphy Oil USA, Inc., 4.750%, 09/15/2029   780,000    703,486 
Nabors Industries, Ltd., 7.500%, 01/15/2028(e)   440,000    378,965 
Northern Oil and Gas, Inc., 8.125%, 03/01/2028(e)   850,000    802,379 
Occidental Petroleum Corp.:          
7.950%, 06/15/2039   300,000    339,593 
6.200%, 03/15/2040   640,000    631,725 
6.600%, 03/15/2046   190,000    202,342 
Park-Ohio Industries, Inc., 6.625%, 04/15/2027   100,000    79,000 
Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., 5.150%, 11/15/2029   1,550,000    1,330,412 
PBF Holding Co. LLC / PBF Finance Corp.:          
7.250%, 06/15/2025   1,230,000    1,151,882 
6.000%, 02/15/2028   450,000    382,057 
Penn Virginia Holdings LLC, 9.250%, 08/15/2026(e)   750,000    720,742 
Petrofac, Ltd., 9.750%, 11/15/2026(e)   1,800,000    1,385,712 
Precision Drilling Corp., 6.875%, 01/15/2029(e)   1,430,000    1,281,945 
SM Energy Co., 6.750%, 09/15/2026   1,150,000    1,086,391 
Sunoco LP / Sunoco Finance Corp., 4.500%, 05/15/2029   1,810,000    1,495,456 
Transocean, Inc.:          
7.250%, 11/01/2025(e)   400,000    296,548 
7.500%, 01/15/2026(e)   1,970,000    1,411,249 
Vermilion Energy, Inc., 6.875%, 05/01/2030(e)   955,000    855,680 
W&T Offshore, Inc., 9.750%, 11/01/2023(e)   780,000    744,058 
         24,835,141 
           
Publishing - 0.04%          
Gartner, Inc., 3.750%, 10/01/2030(e)   290,000    247,363 
           
Radio & Television - 0.71%          
Gray Escrow II, Inc., 5.375%, 11/15/2031(e)   850,000    682,894 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Radio & Television (continued)        
Lamar Media Corp., 4.000%, 02/15/2030  $263,000   $221,275 
Sirius XM Radio, Inc.:          
4.000%, 07/15/2028(e)   2,020,000    1,754,461 
3.875%, 09/01/2031(e)   700,000    558,730 
Univision Communications, Inc., 7.375%, 06/30/2030(e)   145,000    142,488 
Urban One, Inc., 7.375%, 02/01/2028(e)   688,000    590,022 
         3,949,870 
           
Real Estate Investment Trust and Real Estate Operating Companies - 1.36%          
iStar, Inc., 4.250%, 08/01/2025   1,550,000    1,434,416 
Kennedy-Wilson, Inc., 4.750%, 02/01/2030   570,000    446,974 
MPT Operating Partnership LP / MPT Finance Corp.:          
5.000%, 10/15/2027   595,000    545,442 
4.625%, 08/01/2029   139,000    122,244 
New Residential Investment Corp., 6.250%, 10/15/2025(e)   1,050,000    916,125 
Service Properties Trust:          
4.750%, 10/01/2026   800,000    584,076 
3.950%, 01/15/2028   300,000    205,802 
Starwood Property Trust, Inc.:          
3.750%, 12/31/2024(e)   750,000    683,869 
3.625%, 07/15/2026(e)   1,600,000    1,358,872 
4.375%, 01/15/2027(e)   1,520,000    1,321,898 
         7,619,718 
           
Retailers (except food & drug) - 0.97%          
Asbury Automotive Group, Inc.:          
4.750%, 03/01/2030   450,000    370,550 
5.000%, 02/15/2032(e)   1,645,000    1,347,222 
FirstCash, Inc., 4.625%, 09/01/2028(e)   2,045,000    1,768,761 
Macy's Retail Holdings LLC:          
5.875%, 04/01/2029(e)   200,000    170,615 
4.300%, 02/15/2043   590,000    372,803 
Papa John's International, Inc., 3.875%, 09/15/2029(e)   450,000    371,858 
Penske Automotive Group, Inc., 3.750%, 06/15/2029   350,000    292,781 
Sonic Automotive, Inc.:          
4.625%, 11/15/2029(e)   600,000    465,693 
4.875%, 11/15/2031(e)   320,000    241,188 
         5,401,471 
           
Steel - 0.93%          
Allegheny Technologies, Inc.:          
5.875%, 12/01/2027   800,000    709,510 
4.875%, 10/01/2029   1,130,000    902,729 
Carpenter Technology Corp., 6.375%, 07/15/2028   1,310,000    1,171,604 
FMG Resources August 2006 Pty, Ltd.:          
5.875%, 04/15/2030(e)   412,000    371,473 
6.125%, 04/15/2032(e)   412,000    371,618 
United States Steel Corp.:          
6.875%, 03/01/2029   1,420,000    1,242,500 
6.650%, 06/01/2037   572,000    445,349 
         5,214,783 
           
Surface Transport - 0.34%          
Danaos Corp., 8.500%, 03/01/2028(e)   540,000    535,537 
Delek Logistics Partners LP / Delek Logistics Finance Corp., 7.125%, 06/01/2028(e)   760,000    685,387 

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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   Principal
Amount
   Value 
Surface Transport (continued)        
Holly Energy Partners LP / Holly Energy Finance Corp.:        
6.375%, 04/15/2027(e)  $122,000   $115,080 
5.000%, 02/01/2028(e)   640,000    549,261 
         1,885,265 
           
Telecommunications - 1.42%          
CommScope, Inc., 8.250%, 03/01/2027(e)   350,000    277,547 
Consolidated Communications, Inc., 6.500%, 10/01/2028(e)   950,000    801,800 
Frontier Communications Holdings LLC, 6.750%, 05/01/2029(e)   600,000    487,125 
Hughes Satellite Systems Corp., 6.625%, 08/01/2026   800,000    711,472 
Lumen Technologies, Inc.:          
5.125%, 12/15/2026(e)   830,000    700,354 
4.500%, 01/15/2029(e)   230,000    171,835 
5.375%, 06/15/2029(e)   100,000    79,430 
7.600%, 09/15/2039   640,000    503,130 
7.650%, 03/15/2042   450,000    346,212 
SBA Communications Corp., 3.125%, 02/01/2029   818,000    671,508 
Sprint Corp., 7.125%, 06/15/2024   1,000,000    1,029,350 
United States Cellular Corp., 6.700%, 12/15/2033   250,000    238,605 
Uniti Group LP / Uniti Fiber Holdings, Inc. / CSL Capital LLC, 6.000%, 01/15/2030(e)   1,160,000    804,031 
Uniti Group LP / Uniti Group Finance, Inc. / CSL Capital LLC, 6.500%, 02/15/2029(e)   620,000    455,973 
Viavi Solutions, Inc., 3.750%, 10/01/2029(e)   760,000    637,895 
         7,916,267 
           
Utilities - 0.46%          
DPL, Inc., 4.125%, 07/01/2025   1,500,000    1,387,473 
Enviva Partners LP / Enviva Partners Finance Corp., 6.500%, 01/15/2026(e)   500,000    483,758 
Vistra Operations Co. LLC, 4.375%, 05/01/2029(e)   850,000    713,630 
         2,584,861 
TOTAL CORPORATE BONDS          
(Cost $188,415,550)        165,024,100 

  

   Shares   Value 
COMMON STOCK - 1.53%        
Building & Development - 0.00%(f)        
Brock Holdings III Inc.(b)   164,832     
           
Oil & Gas - 1.53%          
Ridgeback Resources Inc.(b)(g)   1,201,345    7,177,084 
Total Safety Holdings, LLC(g)   2,951    1,106,625 
Utex Industries Holdings, LLC(b)(g)   3,182    233,877 
         8,517,586 
           
TOTAL COMMON STOCK          
(Cost $13,934,058)        8,517,586 

  

   Shares   Value 
WARRANTS - 0.00%        
Healthcare - 0.00%        
Carestream Health expires 12/31/2049 at $0.01(b)   228     

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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Shares

  

Value
(concluded)

 
Healthcare (continued)        
Oil & Gas - 0.00%(f)        
Utex Industries Holdings, LLC expires 12/31/2049 at $114.76(b)   7,955   $3,182 
           
TOTAL WARRANTS          
(Cost $0)        3,182 
           
Total Investments- 160.63%          
(Cost $981,438,341)        896,864,126 
           
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets - (0.52)%        (2,923,063)
           
Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Shares - (8.11)%          
(liquidation preference plus distributions payable on term preferred shares)        (45,285,626)
           
Leverage Facility - (52.00)%        (290,300,000)
           
Net Assets - 100.00%       $558,355,437 

 

Amounts above are shown as a percentage of net assets as of June 30, 2022.

 

Investment Abbreviations: 

LIBOR - London Interbank Offered Rate 

SOFR - Secured Overnight Financing Rate

 

Reference Rates: 

1M US L - 1 Month LIBOR as of June 30, 2022 was 1.79%

3M US L - 3 Month LIBOR as of June 30, 2022 was 2.29%

6M US L - 6 Month LIBOR as of June 30, 2022 was 2.94%

3M US SOFR - 3 Month SOFR as of June 30, 2022 was 0.70%

 

(a)Floating or variable rate security. The reference rate is described above. The rate in effect as of June 30, 2022 is based on the reference rate plus the displayed spread as of the security's last reset date. Where applicable, the reference rate is subject to a floor rate.

(b)Level 3 assets valued using significant unobservable inputs as a result of unavailable quoted prices from an active market or the unavailability of other significant observable inputs.

(c)A portion of this position was not funded as of June 30, 2022. The Portfolio of Investments records only the funded portion of each position. As of June 30, 2022, the Fund has unfunded delayed draw loans in the amount of $1,220,065. Fair value of these unfunded delayed draws was $1,142,695.

(d)Represents a payment-in-kind (“PIK”) security which may pay interest/dividend in additional par/shares.

(e)Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Total market value of Rule 144A securities amounts to $115,163,239, which represented approximately 20.63% of net assets as of June 30, 2022. Such securities may normally be sold to qualified institutional buyers in transactions exempt from registration.

(f)Amount represents less than 0.005% of net assets.

(g)Non-income producing security.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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Blackstone Credit Funds Statements of Assets and Liabilities
 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Senior Floating Rate
Term Fund
   Long-Short Credit
Income Fund
   Strategic Credit
Fund
 
ASSETS:               
Investments, at fair value (Cost $314,742,102, $300,026,588 and $981,438,341, respectively)  $291,435,799   $275,746,888   $896,864,126 
Cash   1,805,731    1,599,699    8,949,411 
Receivable for investment securities sold   7,457,341    7,490,435    22,889,730 
Interest receivable   1,284,704    1,797,108    4,919,948 
Net unrealized appreciation on unfunded loan commitments   41,205    23,749    78,809 
Prepaid offering cost   145,203    489,153     
Prepaid expenses and other assets   13,464    13,987    24,745 
Total Assets   302,183,447    287,161,019    933,726,769 
                
LIABILITIES:               
Payable for investment securities purchased   12,915,502    11,515,588    37,516,964 
Leverage facility   94,500,000    89,100,000    290,300,000 
Interest due on leverage facility   276,479    187,503    408,318 
Accrued investment advisory fee payable   360,242    171,003    758,362 
Accrued fund accounting and administration fees payable   160,824    146,759    461,140 
Accrued trustees' fees payable   24,407    19,109    65,709 
Other payables and accrued expenses   330,207    279,962    661,710 
Mandatory redeemable preferred shares (net of deferred financing costs of: –, $(38,443) and $(86,497), respectively)(a)       19,961,557    44,913,503 
Distributions payable on mandatory redeemable preferred shares       126,945    285,626 
Total Liabilities   108,567,661    121,508,426    375,371,332 
Net Assets Attributable to Common Shareholders  $193,615,786   $165,652,593   $558,355,437 
                
COMPOSITION OF NET ASSETS ATTRIBUTABLE TO COMMON SHARES:               
Par value ($0.001 per share, applicable to 13,523,716, 12,708,275 and 44,664,382 shares issued and outstanding)  $13,524   $12,708   $44,664 
Paid-in capital in excess of par value   263,797,589    236,887,594    839,706,479 
Total distributable earnings   (70,195,327)   (71,247,709)   (281,395,706)
Net Assets Attributable to Common Shareholders  $193,615,786   $165,652,593   $558,355,437 
                
Net Asset Value per Common Share  $14.32   $13.04   $12.50 

 

(a)$1,000 liquidation value per share. -, 20,000, and 45,000 shares issued and outstanding, respectively.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 
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Blackstone Credit Funds Statements of Operations
 

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Senior Floating Rate
Term Fund
   Long-Short Credit
Income Fund
   Strategic Credit
Fund
 
INVESTMENT INCOME:               
Interest  $8,767,654   $8,728,277   $27,433,726 
Facility and other fees   52,965    68,521    234,199 
Total Investment Income   8,820,619    8,796,798    27,667,925 
                
EXPENSES:               
Investment advisory fee   1,397,228    1,103,698    4,872,388 
Fund accounting and administration fees   169,548    148,377    515,455 
Insurance expense   42,723    42,721    51,268 
Legal and audit fees   122,708    137,561    236,323 
Custodian fees   52,113    36,109    102,292 
Trustees' fees and expenses   56,594    47,387    160,004 
Printing expense   8,337    13,405    17,013 
Transfer agent fees   10,434    15,997    15,867 
Interest on leverage facility   802,612    780,094    2,528,786 
Amortization of deferred financing costs       17,796    40,041 
Other expenses   12,437    26,940    37,923 
Distributions to mandatory redeemable preferred shares       360,418    810,940 
Total Expenses   2,674,734    2,730,503    9,388,300 
Net Investment Income   6,145,885    6,066,295    18,279,625 
                
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN/(LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS:               
Net realized gain/(loss) on:               
Investment securities   (3,876,387)   (4,358,602)   (12,481,196)
Net realized loss:   (3,876,387)   (4,358,602)   (12,481,196)
Net change in unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on:               
Investment securities and unfunded commitments   (23,055,632)   (24,644,906)   (77,843,394)
Net change in unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on investments   (23,055,632)   (24,644,906)   (77,843,394)
Net Realized and Unrealized Loss on Investments   (26,932,019)   (29,003,508)   (90,324,590)
                
Net Decrease in Net Assets Attributable to Common Shares from Operations  $(20,786,134)  $(22,937,213)  $(72,044,965)

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 
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Blackstone Credit Funds Statements of Changes in Net Assets

 

 

   Senior Floating Rate
Term Fund
   Long-Short Credit
Income Fund
   Strategic Credit
Fund
 
   For the Six
Months Ended
June 30, 2022
(Unaudited)
   For the
Year Ended
December 31,
2021
   For the Six
Months Ended
June 30, 2022
(Unaudited)
   For the
Year Ended
December 31,
2021
   For the Six
Months Ended
June 30, 2022
(Unaudited)
   For the
Year Ended
December 31,
2021
 
FROM OPERATIONS:                              
Net investment income(a)  $6,145,885   $13,813,221   $6,066,295   $13,497,245   $18,279,625   $41,471,880 
Net realized gain/(loss)   (3,876,387)   (636,485)   (4,358,602)   234,539    (12,481,196)   (1,950,794)
Net change in unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on Investment securities and unfunded commitments   (23,055,632)   4,608,802    (24,644,906)   2,830,426    (77,843,394)   11,718,069 
Net Increase/(Decrease) in Net Assets Attributable to Common Shares from Operations   (20,786,134)   17,785,538    (22,937,213)   16,562,210    (72,044,965)   51,239,155 
                               
DISTRIBUTIONS TO COMMON SHAREHOLDERS:                              
From distributable earnings   (4,898,908)   (13,362,661)   (4,778,311)   (13,101,880)   (14,649,917)   (39,929,957)
Net Decrease in Net Assets from Distributions to Common Shareholders   (4,898,908)   (13,362,661)   (4,778,311)   (13,101,880)   (14,649,917)   (39,929,957)
                               
Proceeds from sale of common shares (net of offering costs)   32,583                     
Cost of shares repurchased   (170,192)   (451,155)                
Net asset value of common shares issued to shareholders from reinvestment of dividends   51,564    162,123        7,232         
Net Increase/(Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions   (86,045)   (289,032)       7,232         
Net Increase/(Decrease) in Net Assets Attributable to Common Shares   (25,771,087)   4,133,845    (27,715,524)   3,467,562    (86,694,882)   11,309,198 
                               
NET ASSETS ATTRIBUTABLE TO COMMON SHAREHOLDERS:                              
Beginning of period   219,386,873    215,253,028    193,368,117    189,900,555    645,050,319    633,741,121 
End of period  $193,615,786   $219,386,873   $165,652,593   $193,368,117   $558,355,437   $645,050,319 

 

(a)Includes impact of distributions to preferred shareholders from net investment income. Distributions on the Fund's mandatory redeemable preferred stock ("MRPS") are treated as an operating expense under GAAP and are included in the calculation of net investment income. See Note 11 - Leverage. The Long-Short Credit Income Fund and the Strategic Credit Fund recorded distributions of $360,418 and $810,940, respectively, to holders of MRPS for the six months ended June 30, 2022. For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, the Long-Short Credit Income Fund and the Strategic Credit Fund recorded distributions of $722,000 and $1,624,500, respectively, to holders of MRPS. See Note 12 for details on tax characterization of distributions.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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Blackstone Credit Funds Statements of Cash Flows
 

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

   Senior Floating Rate
Term Fund
   Long-Short Credit
Income Fund
   Strategic Credit
Fund
 
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:               
Net decrease in net assets from operations  $(20,786,134)  $(22,937,213)  $(72,044,965)
Adjustments to reconcile net increase in net assets from operations to net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities:               
Purchases of investment securities   (118,412,590)   (148,677,525)   (364,043,199)
Payment-in-kind interest   (124,582)   (165,219)   (698,069)
Proceeds from disposition of investment securities   128,876,115    160,034,184    402,671,911 
Net discounts (accreted)/premiums amortized   (504,779)   (501,684)   (1,476,724)
Net realized (gain)/loss on:               
Investment securities   3,876,387    4,358,602    12,481,196 
Net change in unrealized (appreciation)/depreciation on:               
Investment securities and unfunded commitments   23,055,632    24,644,906    77,843,394 
Amortization of deferred financing costs       17,796    40,041 
(Increase)/Decrease in assets:               
Interest receivable   99,936    (309,351)   (425,715)
Prepaid offering costs   (145,203)   (65,935)    
Receivable for dividend reinvest   23,504         
Net unrealized appreciation on unfunded loan commitments   (43,400)   (25,702)   (85,021)
Prepaid expenses and other assets   24,872    24,203    16,465 
Increase/(Decrease) in liabilities:               
Distributions payable on mandatory redeemable preferred shares       (582)   (1,311)
Interest due on loan facility   121,337    116,846    156,302 
Payable to Adviser for offering costs       (68,282)    
Accrued investment advisory fees payable   111,992    (27,583)   (97,912)
Accrued fund accounting and administration expense   961    (15,167)   (103,927)
Accrued trustees' fees payable   (2,914)   (4,959)   (14,434)
Other payables and accrued expenses   (11,997)   (19,718)   59,355 
Net Cash Provided by/(Used in) Operating Activities   16,159,137    16,377,617    54,277,387 
                
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:               
Proceeds from leverage facility   2,000,000    15,000,000    32,500,000 
Payments on leverage facility   (13,000,000)   (24,800,000)   (66,000,000)
Cost of shares repurchased   (170,192)        
Proceeds from sale of common shares (net of offering costs)   32,583         
Distributions paid - common shareholders - net of distributions reinvested   (7,025,593)   (6,506,636)   (19,562,999)
Net Cash Used in Financing Activities   (18,163,202)   (16,306,636)   (53,062,999)
                
Net Increase/(Decrease) in Cash   (2,004,065)   70,981    1,214,388 
Cash, beginning balance  $3,809,796   $1,528,718   $7,735,023 
Cash, ending balance  $1,805,731   $1,599,699   $8,949,411 
                
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:               
Cash paid on interest on leverage facility  $681,275   $663,248   $2,372,484 
Reinvestment of distributions  $51,564         

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 
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Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund Financial Highlights

 

For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Periods Indicated

 

   For the Six
Months Ended
June 30, 2022
(Unaudited)
   For the
Year Ended
December 31,
2021
   For the
Year Ended
December 31,
2020
(a)
   For the
Year Ended
December 31,
2019
   For the
Year Ended
December 31,
2018
   For the
Year Ended
December 31,
2017
 
PER COMMON SHARE OPERATING PERFORMANCE:                    
Net asset value - beginning of period  $16.21   $15.88   $16.41   $16.48   $17.57   $17.61 
INCOME/(LOSS) FROM INVESTMENT OPERATIONS:                              
Net investment income(b)   0.45    1.02    1.08    1.31    1.32    1.26 
Net realized and unrealized gain/(loss) on investments, foreign currency transactions and unfunded loan commitments   (1.98)   0.30    (0.72)   (0.06)   (1.00)   (0.14)
Total Income/(Loss) from Investment Operations   (1.53)   1.32    0.36    1.25    0.32    1.12 
                               
DISTRIBUTIONS TO COMMON SHAREHOLDERS:                              
From net investment income   (0.36)   (0.99)   (1.09)   (1.32)   (1.41)   (1.16)
Total Distributions to Common Shareholders   (0.36)   (0.99)   (1.09)   (1.32)   (1.41)   (1.16)
                               
CAPITAL SHARE TRANSACTIONS:                              
Accretion to net asset value resulting from share repurchases           0.20             
Total Capital Share Transactions           0.20             
Net asset value per common share - end of period  $14.32   $16.21   $15.88   $16.41   $16.48   $17.57 
Market price per common share - end of period  $13.30   $17.17   $14.22   $16.15   $15.33   $18.00 
                               
Total Investment Return - Net Asset Value(c)   (9.43%)   8.57%   4.98%   7.92%   1.88%   6.67%
Total Investment Return - Market Price(c)   (20.58%)   28.43%   (4.48%)   14.17%   (7.49%)   6.44%
                               
RATIOS AND SUPPLEMENTAL DATA:                              
Net assets attributable to common shares, end of period (000s)  $193,616   $219,387   $215,253   $250,848   $251,645   $267,903 
Ratio of expenses to average net assets attributable to common shares   2.54%(d)   2.36%   2.75%   3.54%   3.35%   3.01%
Ratio of expenses to average managed assets(e)   1.72%(d)   1.60%   1.87%   2.37%   2.25%   2.02%
Ratio of net investment income to average net assets attributable to common shares   5.83%(d)   6.23%   7.19%   7.82%   7.49%   7.11%
Portfolio turnover rate   34%(f)   97%   76%   40%   88%   135%
                               
LEVERAGE FACILITY:                              
Aggregate principal amount, end of period (000s)  $94,500   $105,500   $100,000   $123,500   $124,000   $132,000 
Average borrowings outstanding during the period (000s)  $100,539   $105,974   $104,521   $125,408   $132,067   $132,323 
Asset coverage, end of period per $1,000(g)  $3,049   $3,079   $3,153   $3,031   $3,029   $3,030 

 

(a)Prior to December 10, 2020 the Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund was known as the Blackstone / GSO Senior Floating Rate Term Fund.

(b)Calculated using average common shares outstanding.

(c)Total investment return is calculated assuming a purchase of common share at the opening on the first day and a sale at closing on the last day of each period reported. Dividends and distributions are assumed for purposes of this calculation to be reinvested at prices obtained under the Fund's dividend reinvestment plan. Total investment returns does not reflect sales load or brokerage commissions, if any, and are not annualized.

(d)Annualized.

(e)Average managed assets represent net assets applicable to common shares plus principal value of leverage.

(f)Percentage represents the results for the period and is not annualized.

(g)Calculated by subtracting the Fund's total liabilities (excluding the principal amount of the Leverage Facility) from the Fund's total assets and dividing by the principal amount of the Leverage Facility and then multiplying by $1,000.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund Financial Highlights

 

For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Periods Indicated

 

   For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)  

For the Year Ended

December 31, 2021

  

For the Year Ended

December 31, 2020 (a)

  

For the Year Ended

December 31, 2019

  

For the Year Ended

December 31, 2018

  

For the Year Ended

December 31, 2017

 
PER COMMON SHARE OPERATING PERFORMANCE:                    
Net asset value - beginning of period  $15.22   $14.94   $15.74   $15.62   $17.09   $16.94 
INCOME/(LOSS) FROM INVESTMENT OPERATIONS:                              
Net investment income(b)(c)   0.48    1.06    1.18    1.46    1.46    1.34 
Net realized and unrealized gain/(loss) on  investments, foreign currency  transactions and unfunded loan  commitments   (2.28)   0.25    (0.79)   0.12    (1.32)   0.05 
Total Income/(Loss) from Investment  Operations   (1.80)   1.31    0.39    1.58    0.14    1.39 
                               
DISTRIBUTIONS TO COMMON SHAREHOLDERS:                              
From net investment income   (0.38)   (1.03)   (1.19)   (1.46)   (1.61)   (1.24)
Total Distributions to Common  Shareholders   (0.38)   (1.03)   (1.19)   (1.46)   (1.61)   (1.24)
                               
Net asset value per common share - end of period  $13.04   $15.22   $14.94   $15.74   $15.62   $17.09 
Market price per common share - end of period  $11.50   $14.70   $13.42   $15.64   $13.74   $15.92 
                               
Total Investment Return - Net Asset Value(d)   (11.78%)   9.26%   4.41%   10.73%   1.25%   8.85%
Total Investment Return - Market Price(d)   (19.44%)   17.48%   (5.62%)   25.08%   (4.40%)   7.90%
                               
RATIOS AND SUPPLEMENTAL DATA:                              
Net assets attributable to common shares, end of  period (000s)  $165,653   $193,368   $189,901   $199,982   $198,399   $217,067 
Ratio of expenses to average net assets  attributable to common shares   2.97%(e)   2.69%   3.08%   3.85%   3.73%   3.03%
Ratio of expenses to average managed assets(f)   1.82%(e)   1.67%   1.89%   2.36%   2.31%   1.93%
Ratio of net investment income to average net  assets attributable to common shares   6.60%(e)   6.89%   8.28%   9.15%   8.52%   7.82%
Portfolio turnover rate   45%(g)   90%   77%   40%   75%   126%
                               
MANDATORY REDEEMABLE PREFERRED SHARES:                              
Liquidation value, end of period, including  dividends payable on Mandatory Redeemable  Preferred Shares (000s)  $20,127   $20,128   $20,128   $20,128   $20,122   $20,121 
Total shares outstanding (000s)   20    20    20    20    20    20 
Asset coverage, end of period per $1,000(h)  $2,518   $2,626   $2,638   $2,562   $2,556   $2,644 
Liquidation preference per share  $1,000   $1,000   $1,000   $1,000   $1,000   $1,000 
                               
LEVERAGE FACILITY:                              
Aggregate principal amount, end of period (000s)  $89,100   $98,900   $95,900   $108,000   $107,500   $112,000 
Average borrowings outstanding during the  period (000s)  $98,391   $100,347   $93,946   $109,385   $115,392   $105,633 
Asset coverage, end of period per $1,000(i)  $3,085   $3,157   $3,189   $3,037   $3,032   $3,117 

 

(a)Prior to December 10, 2020 the Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund was known as the Blackstone / GSO Long-Short Credit Income Fund.

(b)Calculated using average common shares outstanding.

(c)Distributions on the Company's MRPS are treated as an operating expense under GAAP and are included in the calculation of net investment income. See Note 11 - Leverage.

(d)Total investment return is calculated assuming a purchase of common share at the opening on the first day and a sale at closing on the last day of each period reported. Dividends and distributions are assumed for purposes of this calculation to be reinvested at prices obtained under the Fund's dividend reinvestment plan. Total investment returns does not reflect sales load or brokerage commissions, if any, and are not annualized.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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(e)Annualized.

(f)Average managed assets represent net assets applicable to common shares plus principal value of leverage.

(g)Percentage represents the results for the period and is not annualized.

(h)Calculated by subtracting the Fund's total liabilities (excluding the liquidation value of the Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Shares and the principal amount of the Leverage Facility) from the Fund's total assets and dividing by the liquidation value of the Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Shares and the principal amount of the Leverage Facility and then multiplying by $1,000.

(i)Calculated by subtracting the Fund's total liabilities (excluding Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Shares at liquidation value, including dividends payable on mandatory redeemable preferred shares, and the principal amount of the Leverage Facility) from the Fund's total assets and dividing by the principal amount of the Leverage Facility and then multiplying by $1,000.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund Financial Highlights

 

For a Share Outstanding Throughout the Periods Indicated

 

   For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)   For the Year Ended December 31, 2021   For the Year Ended December 31, 2020 (a)   For the Year Ended December 31, 2019   For the Year Ended December 31, 2018   For the Year Ended December 31, 2017 
PER COMMON SHARE OPERATING PERFORMANCE:                    
Net asset value - beginning of period  $14.44   $14.19   $15.25   $15.30   $16.89   $16.79 
INCOME/(LOSS) FROM INVESTMENT OPERATIONS:                              
Net investment income(b)(c)   0.41    0.93    1.08    1.35    1.38    1.26 
Net realized and unrealized gain/(loss) on investments, foreign currency transactions and unfunded loan commitments   (2.02)   0.21    (1.04)   (0.06)   (1.46)   0.10 
Total Income/(Loss) from Investment  Operations   (1.61)   1.14    0.04    1.29    (0.08)   1.36 
                               
DISTRIBUTIONS TO COMMON SHAREHOLDERS:                              
From net investment income   (0.33)   (0.89)   (1.10)   (1.34)   (1.51)   (1.26)
Total Distributions to Common Shareholders   (0.33)   (0.89)   (1.10)   (1.34)   (1.51)   (1.26)
Net asset value per common share - end of period  $12.50   $14.44   $14.19   $15.25   $15.30   $16.89 
Market price per common share - end of period  $11.17   $13.49   $12.48   $14.38   $13.47   $15.71 
                               
Total Investment Return - Net Asset Value(d)   (11.12%)   8.60%   2.03%   9.29%   (0.02%)   8.79%
Total Investment Return - Market Price(d)   (14.98%)   15.36%   (4.83%)   17.05%   (5.37%)   10.75%
                               
RATIOS AND SUPPLEMENTAL DATA:                              
Net assets attributable to common shares, end of  period (000s)  $558,355   $645,050   $633,741   $681,312   $683,578   $754,442 
Ratio of expenses to average net assets  attributable to common shares   3.06%(e)   2.78%   3.15%   3.97%   3.72%   3.29%
Ratio of expenses to average managed assets(f)   1.93%(e)   1.77%   2.00%   2.50%   2.36%   2.10%
Ratio of net investment income to average net  assets attributable to common shares   5.95%(e)   6.36%   7.90%   8.68%   8.20%   7.38%
Portfolio turnover rate   33%(g)   101%   77%   40%   76%   136%
                               
MANDATORY REDEEMABLE PREFERRED SHARES:                              
Liquidation value, end of period, including  dividends payable on Mandatory Redeemable  Preferred Shares (000s)  $45,286   $45,287   $45,287   $45,287   $45,274   $45,272 
Total shares outstanding (000s)   45    45    45    45    45    45 
Asset coverage, end of period per $1,000(h)  $2,665   $2,749   $2,790   $2,697   $2,682   $2,796 
Liquidation preference per share  $1,000   $1,000   $1,000   $1,000   $1,000   $1,000 
                               
LEVERAGE FACILITY:                              
Aggregate principal amount, end of period (000s)  $290,300   $323,800   $309,100   $356,500   $361,500   $375,000 
Average borrowings outstanding during the  period (000s)  $317,742   $325,709   $306,661   $363,945   $387,479   $384,195 
Asset coverage, end of period per $1,000(i)  $3,079   $3,131   $3,196   $3,037   $3,015   $3,132 

 

(a)Prior to December 10, 2020 the Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund was known as the Blackstone / GSO Strategic Credit Fund.

(b)Calculated using average common shares outstanding.

(c)Distributions on the Company's MRPS are treated as an operating expense under GAAP and are included in the calculation of net investment income. See Note 11 - Leverage.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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(d)Total investment return is calculated assuming a purchase of common share at the opening on the first day and a sale at closing on the last day of each period reported. Dividends and distributions are assumed for purposes of this calculation to be reinvested at prices obtained under the Fund's dividend reinvestment plan. Total investment returns does not reflect sales load or brokerage commissions, if any, and are not annualized.

(e)Annualized.

(f)Average managed assets represent net assets applicable to common shares plus principal value of leverage.

(g)Percentage represents the results for the period and is not annualized.

(h)Calculated by subtracting the Fund's total liabilities (excluding the liquidation value of the Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Shares and the principal amount of the Leverage Facility) from the Fund's total assets and dividing by the liquidation value of the Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Shares and the principal amount of the Leverage Facility and then multiplying by $1,000.

(i)Calculated by subtracting the Fund's total liabilities (excluding Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Shares at liquidation value, including dividends payable on mandatory redeemable preferred shares, and the principal amount of the Leverage Facility) from the Fund's total assets and dividing by the principal amount of the Leverage Facility and then multiplying by $1,000.

 

See Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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Blackstone Credit Funds Notes to Financial Statements

 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

NOTE 1. ORGANIZATION

 

Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund (formerly known as Blackstone / GSO Senior Floating Rate Term Fund) (“BSL”), is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. BSL was organized as a Delaware statutory trust on March 4, 2010. BSL was registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), on March 5, 2010. BSL commenced operations on May 26, 2010. Prior to that date, BSL had no operations other than matters relating to its organization and the sale and issuance of 5,236 common shares of beneficial interest in BSL to Blackstone Liquid Credit Strategies LLC (formerly known as GSO / Blackstone Debt Funds Management LLC) (the “Adviser”) at a price of $19.10 per share. The Adviser serves as BSL’s investment adviser. BSL’s common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (the “Exchange”) and trade under the ticker symbol “BSL.”

 

Absent shareholder approval to extend the term of BSL, BSL was initially scheduled to dissolve on or about May 31, 2020. Upon dissolution, BSL will distribute substantially all of its net assets to shareholders, after making appropriate provision for any liabilities. Pursuant to BSL’s Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, prior to the date of dissolution a majority of BSL’s Board of Trustees (the “BSL Board”), with the approval of a majority of the shareholders entitled to vote (as defined in the 1940 Act), may extend the life of BSL by a period of two years or such shorter time as may be determined. The dissolution date of BSL may be extended an unlimited number of times. On March 31, 2017, BSL announced an extension of BSL’s reinvestment period. The extension allows BSL to continue to reinvest proceeds generated by maturities, prepayments and sales of investments until one year prior to BSL’s scheduled dissolution date. On November 17, 2017, BSL’s shareholders approved extending the term of BSL by two years by changing BSL’s scheduled dissolution date from May 31, 2020 to May 31, 2022. On November 18, 2019, the BSL Board approved a proposal to amend BSL's charter to allow an extension of up to five years in length (the “Charter Amendment”). The BSL Board also approved a proposal to extend the term of BSL by five years by changing BSL's scheduled dissolution date from May 31, 2022 to May 31, 2027 (the “Term Extension”). The Charter Amendment and the Term Extension were subject to shareholder approval, which was obtained at a special shareholder meeting held on February 19, 2020.

 

On January 26, 2022, the SEC declared effective a registration statement filed under the “shelf” registration process for BSL. Pursuant to the shelf registration, BSL may offer, from time to time, in one or more offerings, up to $100,000,000 of common shares. These shares may be offered and sold to or through underwriters, through dealers or agents that BSL designates from time to time, directly to purchasers, through at-the-market ("ATM") offerings or through a combination of these methods. On February 1, 2022, BSL launched an ATM offering to sell up to $50,000,000 aggregate amount of its common shares. During the period ended June 30, 2022, BSL sold 2,004 common shares totaling $32,583, net of offering costs of $87, pursuant to this shelf registration.

 

Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund (formerly known as Blackstone / GSO Long-Short Credit Income Fund) (“BGX”) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. BGX was organized as a Delaware statutory trust on October 22, 2010. BGX was registered under the 1940 Act on October 26, 2010. BGX commenced operations on January 27, 2011. Prior to that, BGX had no operations other than matters relating to its organization and the sale and issuance of 5,236 common shares of beneficial interest in BGX to the Adviser at a price of $19.10 per share. The Adviser serves as the investment adviser for BGX. BGX’s common shares are listed on the Exchange and trade under the ticker symbol “BGX.”

 

On May 22, 2020, the SEC declared effective a registration statement filed under the “shelf” registration process for BGX. Pursuant to the shelf registration, BGX may offer, from time to time, in one or more offerings, up to $100,000,000 of common shares. These shares may be offered and sold to or through underwriters, through dealers or agents that BGX designates from time to time, directly to purchasers, through at-the-market ("ATM") offerings or through a combination of these methods. On August 19, 2020, BGX launched an ATM offering to sell up to $50,000,000 aggregate amount of its common shares. On July 30, 2021, the SEC declared effective an updated shelf registration statement and BGX filed an updated prospectus supplement with respect to the ATM offering on August 19, 2021. As of June 30, 2022, BGX has not yet sold any shares pursuant to this shelf registration.

 

Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund (formerly known as Blackstone / GSO Strategic Credit Fund) (“BGB” and, collectively with BSL and BGX, the “Funds”) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. BGB was organized as a Delaware statutory trust on March 28, 2012. BGB was registered under the 1940 Act on April 6, 2012. BGB commenced operations on September 26, 2012. Prior to that, BGB had no operations other than matters relating to its organization and the sale and issuance of 5,236 common shares of beneficial interest in BGB to the Adviser at a price of $19.10 per share. The Adviser serves as the investment adviser for BGB. BGB’s common shares are listed on the Exchange and trade under the ticker symbol “BGB.”

 

BGB will dissolve on or about September 15, 2027, absent shareholder approval to extend such term. Upon dissolution, BGB will distribute substantially all of its net assets to shareholders, after making appropriate provision for any liabilities of BGB. Pursuant to BGB’s Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, prior to the date of dissolution a majority of BGB’s Board of Trustees (the “BGB Board”), with the approval of a majority of the outstanding voting securities entitled to vote (as defined in the 1940 Act), may extend the life of BGB. If approved, the dissolution date of BGB may be extended by a period of two years or such shorter time as may be determined. The dissolution date of BGB may be extended an unlimited number of times.

 

 

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The Funds were previously classified as non-diversified investment companies for purposes of the 1940 Act. As a result of ongoing operations, the Funds are now classified as diversified companies; BGX and BSL as of April 1, 2014 and BGB as of September 25, 2015. This means that with respect to 75% of each Fund’s total assets, no more than 5% of such Fund’s total assets may be invested in any one issuer, excepting cash and cash items, U.S. government securities, and securities of other investment companies. The Funds may not resume operating in a non-diversified manner without first obtaining shareholder approval in accordance with the 1940 Act. The name changes of BSL, BGX, and BGB became effective on December 10, 2020.

 

Investment Objectives: BSL’s primary investment objective is to seek high current income, with a secondary objective to seek preservation of capital, consistent with its primary goal of high current income. Under normal market conditions, at least 80% of BSL’s Managed Assets (defined below) will be invested in senior secured, floating rate loans (“Senior Loans”).

 

BGX’s primary investment objective is to provide current income, with a secondary objective of capital appreciation. BGX seeks to achieve its investment objectives by employing a dynamic long-short strategy in a diversified portfolio of loans and fixed-income instruments of predominantly U.S. corporate issuers, including first- and second-lien secured loans (“Secured Loans”) and high-yield corporate debt securities of varying maturities. BGX’s short positions, either directly or through the use of derivatives, may total up to 30% of such Fund’s net assets.

 

BGB’s primary investment objective is to seek high current income, with a secondary objective to seek preservation of capital, consistent with its primary goal of high current income. BGB will seek to achieve its investment objectives by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of loans and other fixed income instruments of predominantly U.S. corporate issuers, including first- and second-lien secured loans (‘‘Senior Secured Loans’’) and high yield corporate bonds of varying maturities. Under normal market conditions, at least 80% of BGB’s Managed Assets (defined below) will be invested in credit investments comprised of corporate fixed income instruments and other investments (including derivatives) with similar economic characteristics.

 

Senior Loans, Secured Loans and Senior Secured Loans are referred to collectively as “Loans” throughout the Notes to Financial Statements.

 

NOTE 2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

Basis of Presentation: The Funds' financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and are stated in U.S. dollars. Each Fund is considered an Investment Company under U.S. GAAP and follows the accounting and reporting guidance applicable to investment companies in the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946.

 

The preparation of financial statements requires management to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statement. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

 

Portfolio Valuation: Each Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) is determined daily on each day that the Exchange is open for business, as of the close of the regular trading session on the Exchange. Each Fund calculates NAV per share by subtracting liabilities (including accrued expenses or dividends) from the total assets of such Fund (the value of the securities plus cash or other assets, including interest accrued but not yet received) and dividing the result by the total number of outstanding common shares of such Fund.

 

Loans are primarily valued by using a composite loan price from a nationally recognized loan pricing service. The methodology used by the Funds’ nationally recognized loan pricing provider for composite loan prices is to value loans at the mean of the bid and ask prices from one or more brokers or dealers. Collateralized Loan Obligation securities (“CLOs”) are valued at the price provided by a nationally recognized pricing service. The prices provided by the nationally recognized pricing service are typically based on the evaluated mid-price of each of the CLOs. Corporate bonds and convertible bonds, other than short-term investments, are valued at the price provided by a nationally recognized pricing service. The prices provided by the nationally recognized pricing service are typically based on the mean of bid and ask prices for each corporate bond security. In determining the value of a particular investment, pricing services may use certain information with respect to transactions in such investments, quotations from dealers, pricing matrices, market transactions in comparable investments, various relationships observed in the market between investments and calculated yield measures based on valuation technology commonly employed in the market for such investments. Equity securities for which market quotations are available are generally valued at the last sale price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange on which they trade. Futures contracts are ordinarily valued at the last sales price on the securities or commodities exchange on which they are traded. Written and purchased options are ordinarily valued at the closing price on the securities or commodities exchange on which they are traded. Short-term debt investments, if any, having a remaining maturity of 60 days or less when purchased would be valued at cost adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts. Any investments and other assets for which such current market quotations are not readily available are valued at fair value (“Fair Valued Assets”) as determined in good faith by a committee of the Adviser (“Fair Valued Asset Committee”) under procedures established by, and under the general supervision and responsibility of, the Funds’ Boards of Trustees (collectively, the “Board”). Such methods may include, but are not limited to, the use of a market comparable and/or income approach methodologies. A Fair Valued Asset Committee meeting may be called at any time by any member of the Fair Valued Asset Committee. The pricing of all Fair Valued Assets and determinations thereof shall be reported by the Fair Valued Asset Committee to the Board at each regularly scheduled quarterly meeting. The Funds have procedures to identify and investigate potentially stale or missing prices for investments which are valued using a nationally recognized pricing service, exchange price or broker-dealer quotations. After performing such procedures, any prices which are deemed to be stale are reviewed by the Fair Valued Asset Committee and an alternative pricing source is determined.

 

 

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Blackstone Credit Funds Notes to Financial Statements
 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

Various inputs are used to determine the value of the Funds’ investments. Observable inputs are inputs that reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability developed based on market data obtained from sources independent of the reporting entity. Unobservable inputs are inputs that reflect the reporting entity’s own assumptions about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability developed based on the best information available in the circumstances. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized in the three broad Levels listed below.

 

Level 1— Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments at the measurement date. 

Level 2— Significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).

Level 3— Significant unobservable inputs (including the Funds’ own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments).

 

The categorization of a value determined for investments and other financial instruments is based on the pricing transparency of the investment and other financial instrument and does not necessarily correspond to the Funds’ perceived risk of investing in those securities. Investments measured and reported at fair value are classified and disclosed in one of the following levels within the fair value hierarchy based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.

 

The following tables summarize valuation of the Funds’ investments under the fair value hierarchy levels as of June 30, 2022:

 

Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund

 

Investments in Securities at Value*  Level 1 - Quoted Prices   Level 2 - Significant Observable Inputs   Level 3 - Significant Unobservable Inputs   Total 
Floating Rate Loan Interests                    
Business Equipment & Services  $   $36,951,865   $6,181,923   $43,133,788 
Chemical & Plastics       7,255,953    1,420,222    8,676,175 
Conglomerates       6,070,783    63,274    6,134,057 
Drugs       3,199,315    373,574    3,572,889 
Electronics/Electric       48,152,591    936,999    49,089,590 
Healthcare       35,917,792    933,333    36,851,125 
Industrial Equipment       11,005,551    1,364,853    12,370,404 
Leisure Goods/Activities/Movies       10,308,209    823,200    11,131,409 
Retailers (except food & drug)           58,556    58,556 
Other       90,533,512        90,533,512 
Collateralized Loan Obligation Securities Structured Finance Obligations           10,870,573    10,870,573 
Corporate Bonds       19,013,721        19,013,721 
Warrants                    
Healthcare                
Total  $   $268,409,292   $23,026,507   $291,435,799 
                     
Other Financial Instruments                    
Assets                    
Net Unrealized Appreciation on Unfunded Loan Commitments       39,362    1,843    41,205 
Total       39,362    1,843    41,205 

 

 
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Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund

Investments in Securities at Value*  Level 1 - Quoted Prices   Level 2 - Significant  Observable Inputs   Level 3 - Significant  Unobservable Inputs   Total 
Floating Rate Loan Interests                    
Business Equipment & Services  $   $31,741,307   $5,494,199   $37,235,506 
Chemical & Plastics       5,586,380    1,373,810    6,960,190 
Conglomerates       3,145,945    51,776    3,197,721 
Drugs       2,767,874    330,213    3,098,087 
Electronics/Electric       42,069,992    785,892    42,855,884 
Healthcare       26,964,156    825,000    27,789,156 
Industrial Equipment       7,860,330    1,189,674    9,050,004 
Leisure Goods/Activities/Movies       7,888,746    727,650    8,616,396 
Retailers (except food & drug)           43,918    43,918 
Other       70,893,845        70,893,845 
Collateralized Loan Obligation Securities Structured Finance Obligations       882,811    11,973,156    12,855,967 
Corporate Bonds       53,150,214        53,150,214 
Warrants                    
Healthcare                
Total  $   $252,951,600   $22,795,288   $275,746,888 
                     
Other Financial Instruments                    
Assets                    
Net Unrealized Appreciation on Unfunded Loan Commitments       22,239    1,510    23,749 
Total       22,239    1,510    23,749 

 

Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund 

Investments in Securities at Value*  Level 1 - Quoted Prices   Level 2 - Significant  Observable Inputs   Level 3 - Significant  Unobservable Inputs   Total 
Floating Rate Loan Interests                    
Business Equipment & Services  $   $104,139,897   $19,279,481   $123,419,378 
Chemical & Plastics       20,334,730    4,455,600    24,790,330 
Conglomerates       10,613,333    171,345    10,784,678 
Drugs       8,003,359    1,094,039    9,097,398 
Electronics/Electric       144,981,569    2,915,997    147,897,566 
Healthcare       93,024,551    2,733,333    95,757,884 
Industrial Equipment       25,865,557    4,054,774    29,920,331 
Leisure Goods/Activities/Movies       25,335,296    2,410,800    27,746,096 
Retailers (except food & drug)           175,670    175,670 
Other       253,729,927        253,729,927 
Corporate Bonds       165,024,100        165,024,100 
Common Stock                    
Building & Development                
Oil & Gas       1,106,625    7,410,961    8,517,586 
Warrants                    
Healthcare                
Oil & Gas           3,182    3,182 
Total  $   $852,158,944   $44,705,182   $896,864,126 
                     
Other Financial Instruments                    
Assets                    
Net Unrealized Appreciation on Unfunded Loan Commitments       73,812    4,997    78,809 
Total       73,812    4,997    78,809 

 

*Refer to each Fund's Portfolio of Investments for a listing of securities by type.

 

 
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The changes of the fair value of investments for which the Funds have used significant unobservable (Level 3) inputs to determine the fair value are as follows:

 

Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund  Floating Rate Loan Interests   Collateralized Loan Obligation Securities   Warrants   Unfunded Loan Commitments   Total 
Balance as of December 31, 2021  $6,737,603   $6,265,917   $144,751   $(1,298)  $13,146,973 
Accrued discount/ premium   5,775    2,147            7,922 
Realized Gain/(Loss)   134    (10,005)           (9,871)
Change in Unrealized Appreciation/(Depreciation)   (344,866)   (1,157,992)   (144,751)   3,141    (1,644,468)
Purchases   987,736    6,427,500            7,415,236 
Sales Proceeds   (13,927)   (656,994)           (670,921)
Transfer into Level 3   6,741,020                6,741,020 
Transfer out of Level 3   (1,957,541)               (1,957,541)
Balance as of June 30, 2022  $12,155,934   $10,870,573   $   $1,843   $23,028,350 
Net change in unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) included in the Statements of Operations attributable to Level 3 investments held at June 30, 2022  $(773,151)  $(1,173,918)  $(144,751)  $3,141   $(2,088,679)

 

Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund  Floating Rate Loan Interests   Collateralized Loan Obligation Securities   Warrants   Unfunded Loan Commitments   Total 
Balance as of December 31, 2021  $5,650,482   $8,895,174   $198,367   $(1,136)  $14,742,887 
Accrued discount/ premium   4,676    2,999            7,675 
Realized Gain/(Loss)   117    (10,005)           (9,888)
Change in Unrealized Appreciation/(Depreciation)   (288,774)   (1,427,991)   (198,367)   2,646    (1,912,486)
Purchases   879,821    5,169,974            6,049,795 
Sales Proceeds   (12,137)   (656,995)           (669,132)
Transfer into Level 3   6,224,611                6,224,611 
Transfer out of Level 3   (1,636,664)               (1,636,664)
Balance as of June 30, 2022  $10,822,132   $11,973,156   $   $1,510   $22,796,798 
Net change in unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) included in the Statements of Operations attributable to Level 3 investments held at June 30, 2022  $(522,048)  $(1,443,919)  $(198,367)  $2,646   $(2,161,688)

 

Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund  Floating Rate Loan Interests   Common Stock   Warrants   Unfunded Loan Commitments   Total 
Balance as of December 31, 2021  $18,906,289   $4,773,980   $632,478   $(3,813)  $24,308,934 
Accrued discount/ premium   16,610                16,610 
Realized Gain/(Loss)   352                352 
Change in Unrealized Appreciation/(Depreciation)   (990,022)   2,636,981    (629,296)   8,810    1,026,473 
Purchases   2,978,508                2,978,508 
Sales Proceeds   (36,623)               (36,623)
Transfer into Level 3   21,548,860                21,548,860 
Transfer out of Level 3   (5,132,935)               (5,132,935)
Balance as of June 30, 2022  $37,291,039   $7,410,961   $3,182   $4,997   $44,710,179 
Net change in unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) included in the Statements of Operations attributable to Level 3 investments held at June 30, 2022  $(2,357,502)  $2,636,981   $(629,296)  $8,810   $(341,007)

 

 

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June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

          
Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund  Fair Value  Valuation Technique  Unobservable Input(s)  Value/Rate (Weighted Average)
Floating Rate Loan Interests  $12,155,934  Third Party Vendor Pricing Services  Broker Quotes  N/A
Collateralized Loan Obligation Securities   10,870,573  Third Party Vendor Pricing Services  Broker Quotes  N/A
Warrants     Performance Multiple Methodology  EBITDA Multiple(a)  4.25x
Unfunded Loan Commitments   1,843  Third Party Vendor Pricing Services  Broker Quote  N/A

 

          
Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund  Fair Value  Valuation Technique  Unobservable Input(s)  Value/Rate (Weighted Average)
Floating Rate Loan Interests  $10,822,132  Third Party Vendor Pricing Services  Broker Quotes  N/A
Collateralized Loan Obligation Securities   11,973,156  Third Party Vendor Pricing Services  Broker Quotes  N/A
Warrants     Performance Multiple Methodology  EBITDA Multiple(a)  4.25x
Unfunded Loan Commitments   1,510  Third Party Vendor Pricing Services  Broker Quote  N/A

 

         Unobservable  Value/Rate
Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund  Fair Value  Valuation Technique  Input(s)  (Weighted Average)
Floating Rate Loan Interests  $37,291,039  Third Party Vendor Pricing Services  Broker Quotes  N/A
Common Stock   233,877  Third Party Vendor Pricing Services  Broker Quotes  N/A
    7,177,084  Discounted Cash Flows  Discount Rate(a)  10%
      Performance Multiple Methodology  EBITDA Multiple(a)  7.38x
Warrants   3,182  Third Party Vendor Pricing Services  Broker Quote  N/A
      Performance Multiple Methodology  EBITDA Multiple(a)  4.25x
Unfunded Loan Commitments   4,997  Third Party Vendor Pricing Services  Broker Quote  N/A

 

(a)A change to the unobservable input at the reporting date would result in a significant change to the value of the investment as follows:

 

Unobservable Input Impact to Value if Input Increases Impact to Value if Input Decreases
EBITDA Multiple Increase Decrease
Discount Rate Decrease Increase

 

Securities Transactions and Investment Income: Securities transactions are recorded on trade date for financial reporting purposes and amounts payable or receivable for trades not settled at the time of period end are reflected as liabilities and assets, respectively. Interest Income is recognized on an accrual basis from the date of settlement. Accretion of discount and amortization of premium, which are included in interest income, are accreted or amortized daily using the accrual basis interest method. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Realized gains and losses from securities transactions and foreign currency transactions, if any, are recorded on the basis of identified cost and stated separately in the Statement of Operations.

 

When the Funds sell a floating rate loan interest, they may pay an agency fee. The Funds earn facility and other fees on floating rate loan interests, and facility fees are typically amortized to income over the term of the loan. Consent and amendment fees are also recorded to income as earned. All of these fees are shown on the Statement of Operations under “Facility and other fees.”

 

Federal Income Taxes: It is the policy of the Funds to continue to qualify as regulated investment companies by complying with the requirements of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. For the period ended June 30, 2022, Management has analyzed the tax positions taken by the Funds and has concluded that no income tax provisions are required.

 

Income distributions and capital gain distributions, if any, are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP. These differences are primarily due to differing treatments of income and gains on various investment securities held by the Funds, including differences in the timing of recognition or income, losses, and/or gains, and differing characterization of distributions made by the Funds as a whole.

 

As of, and during, the period ended June 30, 2022, the Funds did not incur a liability arising from any unrecognized tax benefits. The Funds file U.S. federal, state, and local tax returns as required. The Funds’ tax returns are subject to examination by the relevant tax authorities until expiration of the applicable statute of limitations, which is generally three years after the filing of the tax return for federal purposes and four years after the filing of most state and local returns for state and local purposes. Tax returns for any open years have not required and as such not incorporated any uncertain tax positions that result in a provision for income taxes.

 

 

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June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

Distributions to Shareholders: The Funds make monthly cash distributions of all or a portion of their net investment income to common shareholders. The Funds will distribute to common shareholders at least annually all or substantially all of their net investment income determined after the payment of dividends and/or interest, if any, owed with respect to any outstanding preferred shares and/or borrowings. The Funds intend to pay any capital gain distributions at least annually, if any. The Funds utilize a "dynamic" distribution strategy that is based on the net investment income earned by the Funds. The Funds declare a set of monthly distributions each quarter in amounts closely tied to the Funds' recent average monthly net investment income. As a result, the monthly distribution amounts for the Funds typically vary when compared quarter over quarter. A distribution may be treated as paid by December 31 of any calendar year if such a distribution is declared by the Fund in October, November or December with a record date in such a month and is paid by the Fund prior to January 31 of the following calendar year. Such distributions may be taxable to shareholders in the calendar year in which the distributions are declared, rather than taxable to shareholders in the calendar year in which the distributions are paid.

 

Offering Costs: Offering costs incurred in connection with BGX's shelf registration statement, through June 30, 2022, are approximately $557,435. The Statement of Assets and Liabilities reflects the current offering costs of $489,153 as deferred offering costs, of which $423,218 will be charged to paid-in-capital upon the issuance of shares. Any remaining deferred offering costs at the end of the shelf offering period will be charged to expense and costs incurred to keep the shelf registration current are expensed as incurred.

 

Offering costs incurred in connection with BSL’s shelf registration statement, through June 30, 2022, are approximately $145,203. The Statement of Assets and Liabilities reflects the current offering costs of $145,203 as deferred offering costs. These offering costs will be charged to paid-in-capital upon the issuance of shares. Any remaining deferred offering costs at the end of the shelf offering period will be charged to expense and costs incurred to keep the shelf registration current are expensed as incurred.

 

COVID-19 and Global Economic Market Conditions: The impact of the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic has rapidly evolved around the globe, causing disruption in the U.S. and global economies. Although the global economy continued reopening in 2022 and robust economic activity has supported a continued recovery, certain geographies, most notably China, have experienced setbacks.

 

Additionally, certain of our investments may operate in, or have dealings with, countries subject to sanctions or embargos imposed by the U.S. government, foreign governments, or the United Nations or other international organizations. In particular, on February 24, 2022, Russian troops began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and, as of the date hereof, the countries remain in active armed conflict. Around the same time, the U.S., the U.K., the E.U., and several other nations announced a broad array of new or expanded sanctions, export controls, and other measures against Russia, Russian-backed separatist regions in Ukraine, and certain banks, companies, government officials, and other individuals in Russia and Belarus, as well as a number of Russian Oligarchs. The U.S. or other countries could also institute broader sanctions on Russia and others supporting Russia’s economy or military efforts. The ongoing conflict and the rapidly evolving measures in response could be expected to have a negative impact on the economy and business activity globally (including in the countries in which the Fund invests), and therefore are expected to result in adverse consequences to the Russian economy and could have a material adverse effect on our portfolio companies and our business, financial condition, cash flows and results of operations. The severity and duration of the conflict and its impact on global economic and market conditions are impossible to predict, and as a result, present material uncertainty and risk with respect to the Fund and its portfolio companies and operations, and the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objectives. Similar risks will exist to the extent that any portfolio companies, service providers, vendors or certain other parties have material operations or assets in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, or the immediate surrounding areas. Sanctions could also result in Russia taking counter measures or retaliatory actions which could adversely impact our business or the business of our investments, including, but not limited to, cyberattacks targeting private companies, individuals or other infrastructure upon which our business and the business of our portfolio companies rely.

 

The estimates and assumptions underlying the Funds' financial statements are based on the information available as of June 30, 2022. The estimates and assumptions include judgments about financial market and economic conditions which have changed, and may continue to change, over time.

 

NOTE 3. MANAGEMENT FEES, ADMINISTRATION FEES, AND OTHER AGREEMENTS

 

Management Fees: The Adviser, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blackstone Alternative Credit Advisors LP (formerly known as GSO Capital Partners LP) (collectively with its affiliates in the credit-focused business of Blackstone Inc., “Blackstone Credit”), is a registered investment adviser and is responsible for the day-to-day management of, and providing administrative and compliance oversight services to, the Funds.

 

For BSL, the Adviser receives a monthly fee at the annual rate of 0.90% of the average daily value of BSL’s total assets (including any assets attributable to any leverage used) minus the sum of BSL’s accrued liabilities (other than Fund liabilities incurred for any leverage) (“BSL Managed Assets”). Effective November 17, 2017, the Adviser agreed to reduce a portion of the previous management fee (“Reduced Management Fee”), from an annual rate of 1.00% to 0.90% of BSL’s Managed Assets, in connection with the extension of BSL’s term through May 31, 2022. Due to the approval of the extension of the BSL term to May 31, 2027, the Reduced Management Fee will continue through BSL’s dissolution date. If BSL’s term is extended again by shareholders beyond May 31, 2027, the Reduced Management Fee will be assessed at that time. For BGX, the Adviser receives a monthly fee at the annual rate of 1.20% of the average daily value of BGX’s net assets (total assets of BGX minus liabilities, including accrued expenses or dividends). For BGB, the Adviser receives a monthly fee at the annual rate of 1.00% of the average daily value of BGB’s Managed Assets (defined below).

 

 

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Trustee Fees: Effective January 1, 2022, the Funds and Blackstone Floating Rate Enhanced Income Fund (the “Blackstone Credit Closed-End Funds”) agreed to pay a retainer fee of $155,000 per annum to each Trustee who is not a director, officer, employee, or affiliate of Blackstone Credit or ALPS Fund Services, Inc. (“ALPS”). The Chairman of the Audit Committee and the Chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee also agreed to receive a retainer fee of $12,000 per annum and the Lead Independent Trustee agreed to receive a retainer fee of $16,000 per annum from the Funds.

 

The Board implemented a Trustee Emeritus program (the “Program”) in November 2021. A Trustee Emeritus appointed under the Program will receive compensation equal to 10% of his or her retainer for serving as a Trustee as of the date on which the Board appoints such person as Trustee Emeritus. The term of service of a Trustee Emeritus expires twelve months from the date of the Trustee’s retirement from the Board.

 

Fund Accounting and Administration Fees: ALPS serves as administrator to the Funds. Under the administration agreement, ALPS is responsible for calculating the NAV of the common shares and generally managing the administrative affairs of the Funds. For BSL and BGB, ALPS receives a monthly fee based on the average daily value of the Funds’ respective Managed Assets, plus out-of-pocket expenses. For BGX, ALPS receives a monthly fee based on the average daily value of the Fund’s net assets, plus out-of-pocket expenses. ALPS is not considered an affiliate of the Funds, as defined under the 1940 Act.

 

Custodian and Transfer Agent: The Bank of New York Mellon serves as the Funds’ custodian. Computershare Inc. (“Computershare”), serves as the Funds’ transfer agent. The Bank of New York Mellon and Computershare, are not considered affiliates of the Funds as defined under the 1940 Act.

 

NOTE 4. SECURITIES TRANSACTIONS

 

Investment transactions for the period ended June 30, 2022, excluding temporary short-term investments, were as follows:

 

Fund  Cost of Investments Purchased   Proceeds from Investments Sold 
Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund  $107,168,855   $114,371,331 
Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund   137,186,710    149,899,462 
Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund   326,724,055    360,045,887 

 

NOTE 5. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

The Adviser is a related party. Fee arrangements with related parties are disclosed in Note 3 and amounts incurred are disclosed in the Statement of Operations.

 

During the period ended June 30, 2022, none of the Funds engaged in cross trades with an affiliate pursuant to Rule 17a-7 under the 1940 Act.

 

Blackstone Holdings Finance Co. L.L.C ("FINCO"), an affiliate of the Adviser, pays expenses on behalf of the Funds from time to time. The Funds reimburse FINCO for such expenses paid on behalf of the Funds. FINCO does not charge any fees for providing such services. The amounts of $18,363, $17,619 and $24,438 for BSL, BGX, and BGB, respectively, as of the period ended June 30, 2022 is recorded as other payables and accrued expenses on the Funds' Statements of Assets and Liabilities.

 

Blackstone Securities Partners L.P. (“BSP”), an affiliate of BSL and of the Adviser, serves as the Distributor for BSL’s ATM offering of common shares of beneficial interest (“BSL Common Shares”) under a distribution agreement with BSL (the “Distribution Agreement”). Pursuant to the Distribution Agreement, BSL compensates BSP with respect to the sale of BSL Common Shares in the ATM offering at a commission rate of 1.00% of the gross proceeds of the sale of BSL Common Shares. Additionally, BSP entered into a sub-placement agent agreement with UBS Securities LLC (the “Sub-Placement Agent”) and of the commission rate of 1.00%, BSP will compensate the Sub-Placement Agent at a rate of 0.80% of the gross proceeds of the sale of BSL's Common Shares sold through the Sub-Placement Agent. During the period ended June 30, 2022, BSP rebated 0.20% of the gross proceeds of the sale of BSL Common Shares back to BSL totaling $66.

 

 

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June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

NOTE 6. SHARE REPURCHASE PROGRAM

 

In connection with the approval of the Term Extension by shareholders on February 19, 2020, BSL has implemented a share repurchase program (the “Share Repurchase Program”) over the remaining life of the Fund. The Fund will repurchase up to 15% of outstanding shares in the open market under certain circumstances. If shares of BSL trade at an average discount to BSL’s NAV per share of greater than 10% over any rolling forty (40) business day period, BSL will seek to buy back up to 15% of its outstanding shares through the open market (the “Repurchase Quantity”), subject to reasonable volume limitations and a maximum price of 90% of the Fund’s NAV per share (the "Repurchase Price Ceiling"). If the Share Repurchase Program is triggered but an amount of shares less than the Repurchase Quantity is repurchased subject to the Repurchase Price Ceiling, the Fund will continue the Share Repurchase Program the next time, if applicable, shares can be repurchased at a price below the Repurchase Price Ceiling. Such repurchase may continue throughout the remaining life of the Fund, until shares repurchased equal the Repurchase Quantity.

 

BSL's Share Repurchase Program was triggered on April 22, 2020. For the period ended June 30, 2022, BSL repurchased 12,469 shares of its common stock on the open market at a total cost, inclusive of commissions ($0.02 per share), of $170,192 at a per-share weighted average discount to NAV of 10.09%. For the year ended December 31, 2021, BSL repurchased 32,097 shares of its common stock on the open market at a total cost, inclusive of commissions ($0.02 per share), of $451,155 at a per-share weighted average discount to NAV of 10.07%.

 

NOTE 7. CAPITAL

 

The Funds have authorized an unlimited number of $0.001 par value common shares.

 

Transactions in shares were as follows:        
Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund  For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)   For the Year Ended December 31, 2021 
Common shares outstanding - beginning of period   13,530,940    13,552,995 
Common shares issued in connection with offering   2,004     
Common shares issued as reinvestment of dividends   3,241    10,042 
Less Shares Repurchased   (12,469)   (32,097)
Common shares outstanding - end of period   13,523,716    13,530,940 
         
Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund  For the Six Months Ended
June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)
   For the Year Ended
December 31, 2021
 
Common shares outstanding - beginning of period   12,708,275    12,707,797 
Common shares issued as reinvestment of dividends       478 
Common shares outstanding - end of period   12,708,275    12,708,275 
         
Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund  For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)   For the Year Ended December 31, 2021 
Common shares outstanding - beginning of period   44,664,382    44,664,382 
Common shares issued as reinvestment of dividends        
Common shares outstanding - end of period   44,664,382    44,664,382 

 

 

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Blackstone Credit Funds Notes to Financial Statements
 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

NOTE 8. LOANS AND OTHER INVESTMENTS

 

BSL defines “Senior Loans” as first lien senior secured, floating rate loans that are made to U.S. and, to a limited extent, non-U.S. corporations, partnerships and other business entities (“Borrowers”), which operate in various industries and geographical regions. BGX includes first and second lien secured, floating rate loans in its definition of “Secured Loans.” Under normal market conditions, at least 80% of BSL’s Managed Assets (defined below) will be invested in Senior Loans and 70% of BGX’s Managed Assets (defined below) will be invested in Secured Loans. BSL defines "Managed Assets" as total assets (including any assets attributable to any leverage used) minus the sum of BSL's accrued liabilities (other than liabilities related to the principal amount of leverage). BGX defines its managed assets as total assets (including any assets attributable to any leverage used) minus the sum of BGX’s accrued liabilities (other than liabilities related to the principal amount of leverage). BGB defines “Managed Assets” as total assets (including "effective leverage” (meaning leverage incurred through total return swaps, securities lending arrangements, credit default swaps or other derivative transactions) and “traditional leverage” (meaning borrowing money or issuing preferred shares (but will not issue auction rate preferred shares), debt securities or commercial paper, or enter into similar transactions)). Under normal market conditions, at least 80% of BGB's Managed Assets will be invested in credit investments comprised of corporate fixed income instruments and other investments (including derivatives) with similar economic characteristics. At June 30, 2022, 83.81% of BSL’s Managed Assets were held in Senior Loans, 76.34% of BGX's Managed Assets were held in Secured Loans, and 99.41% of BGB’s Managed Assets were held in corporate fixed income instruments including Senior Secured Loans.

 

Senior secured loans hold a senior position in the capital structure of a business entity, are secured with specific collateral and have a claim on the assets and/or stock of the Borrower that is senior to that held by unsecured creditors, subordinated debt holders and stockholders of the Borrower.

 

Loans often require prepayments from Borrowers’ excess cash flows or permit the Borrowers to repay at their election. The degree to which Borrowers repay, whether as a contractual requirement or at their election, cannot be predicted with accuracy. As a result, the actual remaining maturity may be substantially less than the stated maturities shown. However, floating rate loans typically have an expected average life of two to four years. Floating rate loans typically have rates of interest which are re-determined periodically, either daily, monthly, quarterly or semi-annually by reference to a floating base lending rate, primarily the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”), plus a premium or credit spread.

 

Changes in the method of determining LIBOR, or the replacement of LIBOR with an alternative reference rate, may adversely affect the Funds’ credit arrangements and the Funds’ CLO transactions. Instruments in which the Funds invest may pay interest at floating rates based on LIBOR or may be subject to interest caps or floors based on LIBOR. The Funds and issuers of instruments in which the Funds invest may also obtain financing at floating rates based on LIBOR. The underlying collateral of CLOs in which the Funds invest may pay interest at floating rates based on LIBOR. Derivative instruments utilized by the Funds and/or issuers of instruments in which the Funds may invest may also reference LIBOR.

 

The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority announced a phase out of the LIBOR. Although many LIBOR rates ceased to be published or no longer are representative of the underlying market they seek to measure after December 31, 2021, a selection of widely used USD LIBOR rates will continue to be published through June 2023 in order to assist with the transition. On July 29, 2021, the U.S. Federal Reserve System (“FRS”), in conjunction with the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (“ARRC”), a steering committee comprised of large U.S. financial institutions, formally recommended replacing U.S.-dollar LIBOR with the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”), a new index calculated by short-term repurchase agreements, backed by Treasury securities. Given the inherent differences between LIBOR and SOFR, or any other alternative benchmark rate that may be established, there remains uncertainty regarding the future utilization of LIBOR and the nature of any replacement rate. In many cases, the nominated replacements, as well as other potential replacements, are not complete or ready to implement and require margin adjustments. There is currently no final consensus as to which benchmark rate(s) (along with any adjustment and/or permutation thereof) will replace all or any LIBOR tenors after the discontinuation thereof and there can be no assurance that any such replacement benchmark rate(s) will attain market acceptance. Before LIBOR ceases to exist, we and our portfolio companies may need to amend or restructure our existing LIBOR- based debt instruments and any related hedging arrangements that extend beyond June 30, 2023, depending on the applicable LIBOR tenor. Such amendments and restructurings may be difficult, costly and time consuming. In addition, from time to time we invest in floating rate loans and investment securities whose interest rates are indexed to LIBOR. Uncertainty as to the nature of alternative reference rates and as to potential changes or other reforms to LIBOR, or any changes announced with respect to such reforms, may result in a sudden or prolonged increase or decrease in the reported LIBOR rates and the value of LIBOR-based loans and securities, including those of other issuers we or our funds currently own or may in the future own. It remains uncertain how such changes would be implemented and the effects such changes would have on us, issuers of instruments in which we invest and financial markets generally.

 

The expected discontinuation of LIBOR could have a significant impact on our business. There could be significant operational challenges for the transition away from LIBOR including, but not limited to, amending loan agreements with borrowers on investments that may have not been modified with fallback language and adding effective fallback language to new agreements in the event that LIBOR is discontinued before maturity. Beyond these challenges, we anticipate there may be additional risks to our current processes and information systems that will need to be identified and evaluated by us. Due to the uncertainty of the replacement for LIBOR, the potential effect of any such event on our cost of capital and net investment income cannot yet be determined.

 

 

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June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

There is no guarantee that a transition from LIBOR to an alternative will not result in financial market disruptions, significant increases in benchmark rates, or borrowing costs to borrowers, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, result of operations, financial condition, and unit price. In addition, the transition to a successor rate could potentially cause (i) increased volatility or illiquidity in markets for instruments that currently rely on LIBOR, (ii) a reduction in the value of certain instruments held by the Funds, or (iii) reduced effectiveness of related Fund transactions, such as hedging. It remains uncertain how such changes would be implemented and the effects such changes would have on the Funds, issuers of instruments in which the Funds invest and financial markets generally.

 

Loans are subject to the risk of payment defaults of scheduled interest or principal. Such non-payment could result in a reduction of income, a reduction in the value of the investment and a potential decrease in the NAV of any of the Funds. Risk of loss of income is generally higher for subordinated unsecured loans or debt, which are not backed by a security interest in any specific collateral. There can be no assurance that the liquidation of any collateral securing a Loan would satisfy the Borrower’s obligation to the applicable Fund in the event of non-payment of scheduled interest or principal payments, or that such collateral could be readily liquidated.

 

Second lien loans generally are subject to similar risks as those associated with investments in first lien loans except that such loans are subordinated in payment and/or lower in lien priority to first lien holders. In the event of default on a second lien loan, the first priority lien holder has first claim to the underlying collateral of the loan. Second lien loans are subject to the additional risk that the cash flow of the Borrower and property securing the loan or debt, if any, may be insufficient to meet scheduled payments after giving effect to the senior obligations of the Borrower. At June 30, 2022, BSL, BGX and BGB had invested $20,087,032, $20,531,677 and $71,676,612, respectively, in second lien secured loans. Second lien secured loans are considered Secured Loans for BGX and Senior Secured Loans for BGB, but are not considered Senior Loans for BSL.

 

Loans can be rated below investment grade or may also be unrated. As a result, the risks associated with Loans may be similar to the risks of other below investment grade securities, although they are senior and secured in contrast to other below investment grade securities, which are often subordinated or unsecured. The Funds typically invest in Loans rated below investment grade, which are considered speculative because of the credit risk of the Borrowers. Such companies are more likely than investment grade issuers to default on their payments of interest and principal owed to the Funds, and such defaults could reduce NAV and income distributions. The amount of public information available with respect to below investment grade loans will generally be less extensive than that available for registered or exchange-listed securities. In evaluating the creditworthiness of Borrowers, the Adviser will consider, and may rely in part on, analyses performed by others. The Adviser’s established best execution procedures and guidelines require trades to be placed for execution only with broker-dealer counterparties approved by the Counterparty Committee of the Adviser. The factors considered by the Counterparty Committee when selecting and approving brokers and dealers include, but are not limited to: (i) quality, accuracy, and timeliness of execution, (ii) review of the reputation, financial strength and stability of the financial institution, (iii) willingness and ability of the counterparty to commit capital, (iv) ongoing reliability and (v) access to underwritten offerings and secondary markets. The Counterparty Committee regularly reviews each broker-dealer counterparty based on the foregoing factors.

 

The Funds may acquire Loans through assignments or participations. The Funds typically acquire these Loans through assignment, and if a Fund acquires a Loan through participation, it will seek to elevate a participation interest into an assignment as soon as practicably possible. The purchaser of an assignment typically succeeds to all the rights and obligations of the assigning institution and becomes a lender under the credit agreement with respect to the debt obligation. A participation typically results in a contractual relationship only with the institution participating out the interest, not with the Borrower. Sellers of participations typically include banks, broker-dealers, other financial institutions and lending institutions. The Adviser has adopted best execution procedures and guidelines which seek to mitigate credit and counterparty risk in the atypical situation when the Funds must acquire a Loan through a participation.

 

BSL and BGX have invested in CLO securities. A CLO is a financing company (generally called a Special Purpose Vehicle (“SPV”)), created to reapportion the risk and return characteristics of a pool of assets. While the assets underlying a CLO are typically Secured Loans, the assets may also include (i) unsecured loans, (ii) debt securities that are rated below investment grade, and (iii) equity securities incidental to investments in Secured Loans. When investing in CLOs, each fund will not invest in equity tranches, which are the lowest tranche. However, each fund may invest in lower tranches of CLO debt securities, which typically experience a lower recovery, greater risk of loss or deferral or non-payment of interest than more senior debt tranches of the CLO. In addition, each fund intends to invest in CLOs consisting primarily of individual Secured Loans of Borrowers and not repackaged CLO obligations from other high risk pools. The underlying Secured Loans purchased by CLOs are generally performing at the time of purchase but may become non-performing, distressed or defaulted. CLOs with underlying assets of non-performing, distressed or defaulted loans are not contemplated to comprise a significant portion of each fund’s investments in CLOs. The key feature of the CLO structure is the prioritization of the cash flows from a pool of debt securities among the several classes of the CLO. The SPV is a company founded solely for the purpose of securitizing payment claims arising out of this diversified asset pool. On this basis, marketable securities are issued by the SPV which, due to the diversification of the underlying risk, generally represent a lower level of risk than the original assets. The redemption of the securities issued by the SPV typically takes place on a date earlier than legal maturity from refinancing of the senior debt tranches.

 

 

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Blackstone Credit Funds Notes to Financial Statements
 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

NOTE 9. GENERAL COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

As of June 30, 2022, the Funds had unfunded loan commitments outstanding, which could be extended at the option of the borrower, as detailed below:

 

   Blackstone Senior Floating
Rate Term Fund
   Blackstone Long-Short
Credit Income Fund
   Blackstone Strategic
Credit Fund
 
Borrower  Par Value   Fair Value   Par Value   Fair Value   Par Value   Fair Value 
Arc Falcon I, Inc. First Lien Delayed Draw  $10,502   $9,725   $9,271   $8,585   $30,768   $28,491 
AthenaHealth Group, Inc. Initial Delayed Draw Term Loan   200,338    185,063    177,101    163,598    590,338    545,328 
Medical Solutions LLC, First Lien Delayed Draw Term Loan   258,989    243,513    37,876    35,613    124,546    117,104 
Pediatric Assoc. Holding & Co. LLC Delayed Draw Term Loan   2,046    1,918    239    224    787    738 
Pro Mach Group, Inc. First Lien Delayed Draw Term Loan   82,551    78,089    83,537    79,021    275,290    260,408 
Trident TPI Holdings, Inc. Tranche B-3 Delayed Draw Tem Term Loan   58,017    54,594    14,303    13,459    47,676    44,863 
VT Topco, Inc., First Lien 2021 Delayed Draw Term Loan   55,635    53,827    45,526    44,046    150,660    145,763 
Total  $668,078   $626,729   $367,853   $344,546   $1,220,065   $1,142,695 

 

Unfunded loan commitments are marked to market on the relevant day of the valuation in accordance with the Funds’ valuation policies. Any related unrealized appreciation/depreciation on unfunded loan commitments is recorded on the Statements of Assets and Liabilities and the Statements of Operations. For the period ended June 30, 2022, BSL, BGX and BGB recorded a net increase in unrealized appreciation on unfunded loan commitments totaling $43,400, $25,702 and $85,021, respectively.

 

NOTE 10. CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS

 

BGX may enter into over-the-counter (“OTC”) and/or centrally cleared credit default swap contracts and may also use credit default swaps to express a negative credit view on a loan or other investment. If BGX purchases protection under a credit default swap and no credit event occurs on the reference obligation, BGX will have made a series of periodic payments and recover nothing of monetary value. However, if a credit event occurs on the reference obligation, BGX (if the buyer of protection) will receive the full notional value of the reference obligation through a cash payment in exchange for the reference obligation or alternatively, a cash payment representing the difference between the expected recovery rate and the full notional value.

 

The periodic swap payments received or made by BGX are recorded in the Statements of Operations as realized gains or losses, respectively. Any upfront fees paid are recorded as assets and any upfront fees received are recorded as liabilities and amortized over the term of the swap. Swaps are marked-to-market daily and changes in value, including the accrual of periodic amounts of interest, are recorded as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) and shown on BGX’s Statement of Operations. When the swap is terminated, BGX will record a realized gain or loss equal to the difference between the proceeds from (or cost of) the closing transaction and BGX’s basis in the contract, if any. Generally, the basis of the contracts is the unamortized premium received or paid.

 

International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. Master Agreements (“ISDA Master Agreements”) govern OTC financial derivative transactions entered into by a Fund and those counterparties. The ISDA Master Agreements maintain provisions for general obligations, representations, agreements, collateral and events of default or termination. Events of termination include conditions that may entitle counterparties to elect to terminate early and cause settlement of all outstanding transactions under the applicable ISDA Master Agreement. Any election to terminate early could be material to the financial statements.

 

Swap transactions involve, to varying degrees, elements of interest rate, credit and market risk in excess of the amounts recognized in the Statements of Assets and Liabilities. Such risks involve the possibility that there will be no liquid market for these agreements, that the counterparty to the agreements may default on its obligation to perform or disagree as to the meaning of the contractual terms in the agreements, and that there may be unfavorable changes in interest rates and/or market values associated with these transactions. The Adviser selects only those counterparties that it believes are credit-worthy.

 

During the period ended June 30, 2022, BGX did not enter into any credit default swaps.

 

 
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Blackstone Credit Funds Notes to Financial Statements
 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

NOTE 11. LEVERAGE

 

On July 27, 2016 BGX and BGB issued 7-year Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Shares (“MRPS”). BGX issued 20,000 MRPS with a total liquidation value of $20,000,000 and BGB issued 45,000 MRPS with a total liquidation value of $45,000,000. As of February 11, 2021, the mandatory redeemable preferred stock (“MRPS”) of BGB and BGX were rated “AA” by Fitch Ratings. On February 12, 2021, Fitch Ratings downgraded the ratings on both BGB’s MRPS and BGX’s MRPS to “A”. The downgrades were driven by changes to Fitch Ratings’ rating criteria for closed-end funds, rather than by any fundamental changes to the Funds’ credit profiles. The dividend rate on the Funds’ MRPS will increase if the credit rating for the relevant Fund is downgraded below “A” by Fitch Ratings or the equivalent rating of other nationally recognized statistical ratings organizations. BGB and BGX used the proceeds of the offerings to make additional investments for their portfolios. The final redemption date of the MRPS is July 27, 2023. BGB and BGX make quarterly dividend payments on the MRPS at an annual dividend rate of 3.61%. Due to the terms of the MRPS, face value approximates fair value at June 30, 2022. This fair value is based on Level 2 inputs under the three-tier fair valuation hierarchy (see Note 2).

 

In connection with BGB and BGX’s issuance of MRPS, certain costs were incurred by BGB and BGX and have been recorded net against the outstanding liability. These costs are being amortized over the period beginning July 27, 2016 (day of issuance) through July 27, 2023, the final redemption date. The net deferred financing costs as of June 30, 2022 are shown on BGB’s and BGX’s Statements of Assets and Liabilities. The amount of expense amortized during the period ended June 30, 2022 is shown on BGB’s and BGX’s Statements of Operations under amortization of deferred financing costs.

 

Except for matters which do not require the vote of holders of MRPS under the 1940 Act and except as otherwise provided in BGB’s and BGX’s Declarations of Trust, Bylaws, or the applicable Securities Purchase Agreements or as otherwise required by applicable law, each holder of MRPS shall be entitled to one vote for each MRPS held on each matter submitted to a vote of shareholders of the Fund, and the holders of outstanding preferred shares and common shares shall vote together as a single class on all matters submitted to shareholders; provided, however, that the holders of outstanding preferred shares shall be entitled, as a class, to the exclusion of the holders of shares of all other classes of beneficial interest of the Fund, to elect two Trustees of the applicable Fund at all times.

 

Each Fund has entered into a separate Credit Agreement (each, an “Agreement”) with a bank to borrow money pursuant to a two-year revolving line of credit (“Leverage Facility”) for BSL, BGX and BGB. BSL entered into an agreement dated October 8, 2014, as amended on October 7, 2015, October 5, 2016, and October 4, 2017, and as further amended and restated on June 20, 2018 and as further amended and restated on October 4, 2019 and as amended on October 2, 2020, October 1, 2021 and November 29, 2021, to borrow up to a limit of $142 million, with $48 million for tranche A loans ("BSL Tranche A Loans") and $94 million for tranche B loans ("BSL Tranche B Loans"). BGX entered into an agreement dated July 29, 2014, as amended on January 26, 2015, July 28, 2015, July 26, 2016, July 25, 2017, January 8, 2018 and February 23, 2018 and as further amended and restated on June 20, 2018, and as further amended and restated on July 25, 2019 and as amended on July 23, 2020, July 26, 2021, November 29, 2021, and July 21, 2022, to borrow up to a limit of $122 million, with $41 million for tranche A loans (“BGX Tranche A Loans”) and $81 million for tranche B loans (“BGX Tranche B Loans”). BGB entered into an agreement dated December 21, 2012, as amended at December 20, 2013, December 19, 2014, December 18, 2015, July 26, 2016, December 16, 2016, December 20, 2017, as amended and restated on June 20, 2018, as amended on December 4, 2018 and as further amended and restated on January 11, 2019, as further amended on January 10, 2020, January 8, 2021, September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2021, to borrow up to a limit of $415 million, with $145 million for tranche A loans (“BGB Tranche A Loans” and collectively with BGX Tranche A Loans and BSL Tranche A Loans, the “Tranche A Loans”) and $270 million for tranche B loans (“BGB Tranche B Loans” and collectively with BGX Tranche B Loans and BSL Tranche B Loans, the “Tranche B Loans”). Borrowings under each Agreement are secured by the assets of each Fund.

 

Interest on BSL’s and BGB’s Leverage Facilities is charged at a rate of 0.85% above LIBOR with respect to Tranche A Loans, 1.15% above LIBOR for one (1) month interest period Tranche B Loans and 1.00% above LIBOR for three (3), six (6) and nine (9) months interest period Tranche B Loans, with LIBOR measured for the period commencing on the date of the making of such LIBOR Loan (or the last date upon which any other Loan was converted to, or continued as, such LIBOR Loan) and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one (1), three (3), six (6) or nine (9) months thereafter, as the Fund may elect, or such other periods as the lender may agree in its sole and absolute discretion.

 

Interest on BGX's Leverage Facility is charged at a rate of 0.85% above adjusted term SOFR with respect to Tranche A Loans, 1.15% above adjusted term SOFR for one (1) month interest period Tranche B Loans and 1.00% above adjusted term SOFR for three (3) month interest period Tranche B Loans, with adjusted term SOFR measured for the period commencing on the date of the making of such Loan at adjusted term SOFR (or the last date upon which any other Loan was converted to, or continued to adjusted term SOFR) and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one (1) or three (3) months thereafter, as the Fund may elect, or such other periods as the lender may agree in its sole and absolute discretion.

 

Under the terms of the applicable Agreement, each Fund must pay a commitment fee on any undrawn amounts. The commitment fee payable in BSL, BGB and BGX, for each of Tranche A and Tranche B Loans is 0.15% on the undrawn amounts when drawn amounts exceed 75% of the borrowing limit and 0.25% on the undrawn amounts at any other time. Interest and fees are generally payable at the end of the respective interest period. Each Fund may elect to extend the applicable Agreement for a further period with the consent of the lending bank. At June 30, 2022, BSL, BGX, and BGB had borrowings outstanding under their respective Leverage Facility of $94,500,000, $89,100,000 and $290,300,000, at an interest rate of 2.21%, 2.34% and 2.57%, respectively. Due to the short term nature of each Agreement, face value approximates fair value at June 30, 2022. This fair value is based on Level 2 inputs under the three-tier fair valuation hierarchy (see Note 2). For the period ended June 30, 2022, the average borrowings under BSL’s, BGX’s and BGB’s Leverage Facility and the average interest rates were $100,538,674 and 1.61%, $98,390,608 and 1.60%, and $317,741,989 and 1.60%, respectively.

 

 

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June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

 

Under each Agreement and each governing document of the MRPS, each Fund has agreed to certain covenants and additional investment limitations while the leverage is outstanding. Each Fund agreed to maintain asset coverage of three times over borrowings and BGX and BGB have agreed to maintain 225% asset coverage over borrowings plus MRPS. Compliance with the investment restrictions and calculations are performed by the Funds’ custodian, The Bank of New York Mellon.

 

The use of borrowings to leverage the common shares of the Funds can create risks. Changes in the value of the Funds’ portfolios, including securities bought with the proceeds of leverage, are borne entirely by the holders of common shares of the Funds. All costs and expenses related to any form of leverage used by the Funds are borne entirely by common shareholders. If there is a net decrease or increase in the value of the Funds’ investment portfolios, the leverage may decrease or increase, as the case may be, the NAV per common share to a greater extent than if the Funds did not utilize leverage. During periods when BSL and BGB are using leverage, the fees paid to the Adviser for advisory services and to ALPS for administrative services are higher than if BSL and BGB did not use leverage because the fees paid are calculated on the basis of BSL and BGB’s Managed Assets, which include the assets purchased through leverage. As of June 30, 2022, BSL’s, BGX’s, and BGB’s leverage represented 32.80%, 39.71% and 37.52% of each Fund’s Managed Assets, respectively. The leverage amounts in BGX and BGB include 7.28% and 5.04% of Managed Assets attributable to the MRPS, respectively.

 

NOTE 12. INCOME TAX

 

Ordinary income, which as determined on a tax basis includes net short-term capital gains, if any, are allocated to common stockholders after the consideration of any payments due on outstanding term preferred shares. To the extent that the amount distributed to common stockholders exceeds the amount of available ordinary income these distributions may be treated as a return of capital on a tax basis. Additionally, to the extent that the amount distributed on any outstanding term preferred shares exceeds the amount of available ordinary income, these distributions may also be treated as a return of capital on a tax basis.

 

Amounts paid from net long-term capital gains of the Funds, if any, will be designated as such by the Funds and are determined after the consideration of any payments due on outstanding preferred shares.

 

The Funds may make certain adjustments to the classification of net assets as a result of significant permanent book-to-tax differences, which include differences in the book and tax basis of certain assets and liabilities, and nondeductible federal taxes or losses, among other items. These differences may be charged or credited to paid-in capital and distributable earnings as a result. For the year ended December 31, 2021 permanent differences were as follows:

 

Fund  Increase/(Decrease) Paid-in capital   Increase/(Decrease) Total Distributable Earnings 
Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund  $4   $(4)
Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund  $1   $(1)
Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund  $5   $(5)

 

The tax character of distributions paid by the Funds during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021:

 

2021  Blackstone Senior Floating  Rate Term Fund   Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund   Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund 
Distributions Paid From:               
Ordinary Income  $13,362,661   $13,823,880(a)  $41,554,457(a)
Total  $13,362,661   $13,823,880   $41,554,457 

 

(a)Distributions paid include common shares and mandatory redeemable preferred shares.

 

 
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Blackstone Credit Funds Notes to Financial Statements
 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

Under the Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2010, net capital losses recognized by the Fund may get carried forward indefinitely, and retain their character as short-term and/or long-term losses. Any such losses will be deemed to arise on the first day of the next taxable year. Losses for the year ended December 31, 2021, and as such are deemed to arise on the first day of the year ended December 31, 2022, were as follows:

 

Fund  Short Term   Long Term 
Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund  $   $43,111,580 
Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund  $   $42,717,859 
Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund  $   $184,719,500 

 

At December 31, 2021, the components of distributable earnings on a tax basis for the Funds were as follows:

 

   Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund   Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund   Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund 
Undistributed ordinary income  $   $   $ 
Accumulated capital losses   (43,111,580)   (42,717,859)   (184,719,500)
Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation)   (203,426)   258,339    (7,167,446)
Other Cumulative effect of timing differences   (1,195,279)   (1,072,665)   (2,813,878)
Total  $(44,510,285)  $(43,532,185)  $(194,700,824)

 

The amount of net tax unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) and the tax cost of investment securities at June 30, 2022, calculated using book/tax differences as of the most recently ended fiscal year, December 31, 2021 are as follows:

 

   Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund   Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund   Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund 
Cost of investments for income tax purposes  $314,694,857   $300,133,453   $981,874,962 
Gross appreciation (excess of value over tax cost)  $176,905   $27,628   $407,815 
Gross depreciation (excess of tax cost over value)   (23,435,963)   (24,414,193)   (85,418,651)
Net unrealized depreciation  $(23,259,058)  $(24,386,565)  $(85,010,836)

 

NOTE 13. RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENT

 

In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU No. 2020-04, “Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848),” which provides optional expedients and exceptions for applying GAAP to contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions affected by reference rate reform if certain criteria are met. The amendments apply only to contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that reference London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) or another reference rate expected to be discontinued because of reference rate reform. In January 2021, the FASB issued ASU No. 2021-01, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848), which expanded the scope of Topic 848 to include derivative instruments impacted by discounting transition. ASU 2020-04 and ASU 2021-01 are effective for all entities through December 31, 2022. The expedients and exceptions provided by the amendments do not apply to contract modifications and hedging relationships entered into or evaluated after December 31, 2022, except for hedging transactions as of December 31, 2022, that an entity has elected certain optional expedients for and that are retained through the end of the hedging relationship. Management is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of ASU 2020-04 and 2021-01.

 

 

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Blackstone Credit Funds Notes to Financial Statements
 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

NOTE 14. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

In preparing these financial statements, the Funds’ management has evaluated events and transactions for potential recognition or disclosure through the date the financial statements were issued.

 

Shareholder Distributions for BSL: On June 9, 2022, a monthly distribution of $0.074 per share was declared to common shareholders, payable on July 29, 2022 to common shareholders of record on July 22, 2022. On June 9, 2022, a monthly distribution of $0.074 per share was declared to common shareholders, payable August 31, 2022 to common shareholders of record on August 24, 2022.

 

Shareholder Distributions for BGX: On June 9, 2022, a monthly distribution of $0.079 per share was declared to common shareholders, payable on July 29, 2022 to common shareholders of record on July 22, 2022. On June 9, 2022, a monthly distribution of $0.079 per share was declared to common shareholders, payable August 31, 2022 to common shareholders of record on August 24, 2022.

 

Shareholder Distributions for BGB: On June 9, 2022, a monthly distribution of $0.067 per share was declared to common shareholders, payable on July 29, 2022 to common shareholders of record on July 22, 2022. On June 9, 2022, a monthly distribution of $0.067 per share was declared to common shareholders, payable August 31, 2022 to common shareholders of record on August 24, 2022.

 

 

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Blackstone Credit Funds Summary of Dividend Reinvestment Plan

 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

Pursuant to the Funds’ Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the “DRIP”), shareholders whose shares are registered in their own name may ‘‘opt-in’’ to the plan and elect to reinvest all or a portion of their distributions in common shares by providing the required enrollment notice to Computershare, the DRIP administrator. Shareholders whose shares are held in the name of a broker or other nominee may have distributions reinvested only if such a service is provided by the broker or the nominee or if the broker or the nominee permits participation in the DRIP. Shareholders whose shares are held in the name of a broker or other nominee should contact the broker or nominee for details. A shareholder may terminate participation in the DRIP at any time by notifying the DRIP administrator before the record date of the next distribution through the Internet, by telephone or in writing. All distributions to shareholders who do not participate in the DRIP, or have elected to terminate their participation in the DRIP, will be paid by check mailed directly to the record holder by or under the direction of the DRIP administrator when the Board declares a distribution.

 

When the Funds declare a distribution, shareholders who are participants in the applicable DRIP receive the equivalent of the amount of the distribution in common shares. If you participate in the DRIP, the number of common shares of the Funds that you will receive will be determined as follows:

 

(1) If the market price of the common shares plus any brokerage commissions on the payable date (or, if the payable date is not a New York Stock Exchange trading day, the immediately preceding trading day) for determining shareholders eligible to receive the relevant distribution (the ‘‘determination date’’) is equal to or exceeds 98% of the NAV per common share, the Fund will issue new common shares at a price equal to the greater of:

 

(a) 98% of the NAV per share at the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on the determination date or

 

(b) 95% of the market price per common share on the determination date.

 

(2) If 98% of the NAV per common share exceeds the market price of the common shares plus any brokerage commissions on the determination date, the DRIP administrator will receive the distribution in cash and will buy common shares in the open market, on the New York Stock Exchange or elsewhere, for your account as soon as practicable commencing on the trading day following the determination date and terminating no later than the earlier of (a) 30 days after the distribution payment date, or (b) the record date for the next succeeding distribution to be made to the shareholders; except when necessary to comply with applicable provisions of the federal securities laws. If during this period: (i) the market price plus any brokerage commissions rises so that it equals or exceeds 98% of the NAV per common share at the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on the determination date before the DRIP administrator has completed the open market purchases or (ii) the DRIP administrator is unable to invest the full amount eligible to be reinvested in open market purchases, the DRIP administrator will cease purchasing common shares in the open market and the Fund will issue the remaining common shares at a price per share equal to the greater of (a) 98% of the NAV per share at the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on the determination date or (b) 95% of the then current market price per share.

 

The DRIP administrator maintains all shareholder accounts in the dividend reinvestment plan and furnishes written confirmations of all transactions in the account, including information needed by shareholders for personal and tax records. Common shares in the account of each DRIP participant are held by the DRIP administrator in non-certificated form in the name of the participant, and each shareholder’s proxy includes shares purchased pursuant to the DRIP.

 

There is no charge to participants for reinvesting regular distributions and capital gains distributions. The fees of the DRIP administrator for handling the reinvestment of regular distributions and capital gains distributions are included in the fee to be paid by us to our transfer agent. There are no brokerage charges with respect to shares issued directly by us as a result of regular distributions or capital gains distributions payable either in shares or in cash. However, each participant bears a pro rata share of brokerage commissions incurred with respect to the DRIP administrator’s open market purchases in connection with the reinvestment of such distributions. Shareholders that opt-in to the DRIP will add to their investment through dollar cost averaging. Because all dividends and distributions paid to such shareholder will be automatically reinvested in additional common shares, the average cost of such shareholder’s common shares will decrease over time. Dollar cost averaging is a technique for lowering the average cost per share over time if the Fund’s NAV declines. While dollar cost averaging has definite advantages, it cannot assure profit or protect against loss in declining markets.

 

The automatic reinvestment of such dividends or distributions does not relieve participants of any income tax that may be payable on such dividends or distributions.

 

You may obtain additional information by contacting the DRIP administrator at the following address: Computershare, Attn: Sales Dept., P.O. Box 358035, Pittsburgh, PA 15252.

 

 

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Blackstone Credit Funds Additional Information
 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

Portfolio Information. The Funds file their complete schedules of portfolio holdings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit on Form N-PORT within 60 days after the end of the Funds’ fiscal quarter. The Funds' portfolio holdings information for the third month of each fiscal quarter on Form N-PORT is available (1) on the Funds’ website located at www.blackstone-credit.com or (2) on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. Holdings and allocations shown on any Form N-PORT are as of the date indicated in the filing and may not be representative of future investments. Holdings and allocations should not be considered research or investment advice and should not be relied upon in making investment decisions.

 

Proxy Information. The policies and procedures used to determine how to vote proxies relating to securities held by the Funds are available

 

(1) without charge, upon request, by calling 1-877-876-1121, (2) on the Funds’ website located at www.blackstone-credit.com, and (3) on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. Information regarding how the Funds voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent twelve-month period ended June 30 is available on Form N-PX by August 31 of each year (1) without charge, upon request, by calling 1-877-876-1121, (2) on the Funds’ website located www.blackstone-credit.com, and (3) on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

 

Senior Officer Code of Ethics. The Funds file a copy of their code of ethics that applies to the Funds’ principal executive officer, principal financial officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions, with the SEC as an exhibit to each annual report on Form N-CSR. This will be available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

 

BSL Annual Meeting of Shareholders- Voting Results 

On April 20, 2022, BSL held a special meeting of shareholders to consider the proposals set forth below. The following votes were recorded:

 

Proposal 1: The election of Michael F. Holland as Class II Trustee of BSL, term to expire at the 2025 annual shareholder meeting (only common shareholders vote).

 

  Number of
Shares
  % of
Shares Voted
Affirmative 5,230,810   46.16%
Withheld 6,100,028   53.84%
Total 11,330,838   100.00%

 

Proposal 2: The election of Daniel H. Smith, Jr. as Class II Trustee of BSL, term to expire at the 2025 annual shareholder meeting (only common shareholders vote).

 

  Number of
Shares
  % of
Shares Voted
Affirmative 10,996,963   97.05%
Withheld 333,875   2.95%
Total 11,330,838   100.00%

 

BGX Annual Meeting of Shareholders- Voting Results 

On April 20, 2022, BGX held a special meeting of shareholders to consider the proposals set forth below. The following votes were recorded:

 

Proposal 1: The election of Michael F. Holland as Class I Trustee of BGX, term to expire at the 2025 annual shareholder meeting (only preferred shareholders vote).

 

  Number of
Shares
  % of
Shares Voted
Affirmative 20,000   100.00%
Withheld 0   0.00%
Total 20,000   100.00%

 

Proposal 2: The election of Daniel H. Smith, Jr. as Class I Trustee of BGX, term to expire at the 2025 annual shareholder meeting (common and preferred shareholders vote).

 

  Number of
Shares
  % of
Shares Voted
Affirmative 5,640,746   54.50%
Withheld 4,709,474   45.50%
Total 10,350,220   100.00%

 

 

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BGB Annual Meeting of Shareholders- Voting Results 

On April 20, 2022, BGB held a special meeting of shareholders to consider the proposals set forth below. The following votes were recorded:

 

Proposal 1: The election of Michael F. Holland as Class III Trustee of BGB, term to expire at the 2025 annual shareholder meeting (only preferred shareholders vote).

 

  Number of
Shares
  % of
Shares Voted
Affirmative 45,000   100.00%
Withheld 0   0.00%
Total 45,000   100.00%

 

Proposal 2: The election of Daniel H. Smith, Jr. as Class III Trustee of BGB, term to expire at the 2025 annual shareholder meeting (common and preferred shareholders vote).

 

  Number of
Shares
  % of
Shares Voted
Affirmative 17,751,226   46.17%
Withheld 20,694,284   53.83%
Total 38,445,510   100.00%

 

 

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Blackstone Credit Funds Privacy Procedures

 

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This privacy policy sets forth the Adviser’s policies with respect to nonpublic personal information of individual investors, shareholders, prospective investors and former investors of investment funds managed by the Adviser. These policies apply to individuals only and are subject to change.

 

Rev April 2021

 

FACTS WHAT DO BLACKSTONE REGISTERED FUNDS DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Why? Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
What?

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include: 

●    Social Security number and income 

●    Assets and investment experience 

●    Risk tolerance and transaction history

How? All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons Blackstone Registered Funds (as defined below) choose to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

Reasons we can share your personal information

Do Blackstone  

Registered Funds share?

Can you limit 

this sharing?

For our everyday business purposes – such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus Yes No
For our marketing purposes – to offer our products and services to you Yes No
For joint marketing with other financial companies No We don't share
For our affiliates' everyday business purposes – information about your transactions and experiences No We don't share
For our affiliates' everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness No We don't share
For our affiliates to market to you No We don't share
For nonaffiliates to market to you No We don't share

 

 
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Questions? Email us at GLB.privacy@blackstone.com
Who We Are
Who is providing this notice? Blackstone Registered Funds include Blackstone Alternative Investment Funds, on behalf of its series Blackstone Alternative Multi-Strategy Fund, Blackstone Diversified Multi-Strategy Fund, a sub-fund of Blackstone Alternative Investment Funds plc, Blackstone Floating Rate Enhanced Income Fund, Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund, Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund, Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund, Blackstone Secured Lending Fund, Blackstone Real Estate Income Fund, Blackstone Real Estate Income Fund II, and Blackstone Real Estate Income Master Fund.
What We Do
How do Blackstone Registered Funds protect my personal information? To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings.
How do Blackstone Registered Funds collect my personal information?

We collect your personal information, for example, when you:

●     open an account or give us your income information

●     provide employment information or give us your contact information

●     tell us about your investment or retirement portfolio

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can't I limit all sharing?

Federal law gives you the right to limit only:

●     sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes—information about your creditworthiness

●     affiliates from using your information to market to you sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing. See below for more on your rights under state law.

What happens when I limit sharing for an account I hold jointly with someone else? Your choices will apply to everyone on your account — unless you tell us otherwise.
Definitions
Affiliates

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

●    Our affiliates include companies with a Blackstone name and financial companies such as Blackstone Credit and Strategic Partners Fund Solutions.

Nonaffiliates

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

●    Blackstone Registered Funds do not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint marketing

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

●    Our joint marketing partners include financial services companies.

 

 
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Other Important Information

California Residents — In accordance with California law, we will not share information we collect about California residents with nonaffiliates except as permitted by law, such as with the consent of the customer or to service the customer’s accounts. We will also limit the sharing of information about you with our affiliates to the extent required by applicable California law.

 

Vermont Residents — In accordance with Vermont law, we will not share information we collect about Vermont residents with nonaffiliates except as permitted by law, such as with the consent of the customer or to service the customer’s accounts. We will not share creditworthiness information about Vermont residents among Blackstone Registered Funds’ affiliates except with the authorization or consent of the Vermont resident. 

Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, or if you would like us to update information we have about you or your preferences, please email us at PrivacyQueries@Blackstone.com or access our web form www.blackstone.com/privacy.

 

You also may write to:

 

Blackstone Inc. 

Attn: Legal & Compliance 

345 Park Avenue 

New York, NY 10154

 

 

 
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INVESTOR DATA PRIVACY NOTICE

 

 

Why are you seeing this notice?

 

You may need to provide Personal Data to us as part of your investment into a fund or other investment vehicle (as applicable, the Fund) managed or advised by investment advisers or management companies that are subsidiaries of Blackstone Inc. or its affiliates (and, where applicable, the general partner of the relevant Fund) (collectively, Blackstone).
We want you to understand how and why we use, store and otherwise process your Personal Data when you deal with us or our relevant affiliates (including under applicable data protection laws). If this notice (the Data Privacy Notice) has been made available to you, you may have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data under applicable data protection laws (including as described in this Data Privacy Notice).
Personal Data” has the meaning given to it under data protection laws that apply to our processing of your personal information, and includes any information that relates to, describes, identifies or can be used, directly or indirectly, to identify an individual (such as name, address, date of birth, personal identification numbers, sensitive personal information, and economic information).
We ask that investors promptly provide the information contained in this Data Privacy Notice to any individuals whose Personal Data they provide to the Fund or its affiliates in connection with ‘know your client’/anti-money laundering requests or otherwise.

 

Please read the information below carefully. It explains how and why Personal Data is processed by us.

 

Who is providing this notice?

 

Blackstone is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Blackstone is a global financial services firm with offices, branches, operations and entities globally, including as described at this link: https://www.blackstone.com/privacy#appendixA

 

For transparency, the Blackstone entities on whose behalf this privacy statement is made are: (i) the Fund; and (ii) where applicable, the Blackstone general partner, manager and/or investment adviser of the relevant Fund, in each case, with which you contract, transact or otherwise share Personal Data (together, the Fund Parties).
Where we use the terms “we”, “us” and “our” in this Data Privacy Notice, we are referring to the Fund and the Fund Parties.
Please consult your subscription documents, private placement memorandum or other offering documentation provided to you by or on behalf of the Fund Parties which will further specify the entities and contact details of the Fund Parties relevant to our relationship with you.
We welcome investors and their representatives to contact us if they have any queries with respect to the Fund Parties (in particular, which Fund Parties are relevant to their relationship with Blackstone). If you have any queries, please see the ‘Contact Us’ section.

 

When you provide us with your Personal Data, each Fund Party that decides how and why Personal Data is processed acts as a “data controller”. In simple terms, this means that the Fund Party makes certain decisions on how to use and protect your Personal Data – but only to the extent that we have informed you about the use or are otherwise permitted by law.

 

Where your Personal Data is processed by an entity controlled by, or under common control with, the Blackstone entity/ies managing a Fund for its own purposes, this entity will also be a data controller.

 

What Personal Data do we collect about you?

 

The types of Personal Data that we collect and share depends on the product or service you have with us and the nature of your investment.

 

The Personal Data collected about you will help us to provide you with a better service and facilitate our business relationship.

 

We may combine Personal Data that you provide to us with Personal Data that we collect from you, or about you from other sources, in some circumstances. This will include Personal Data collected in an online or offline context.

 

As a result of our relationship with you as an investor, in the past 12 months we may have collected Personal Data concerning you in the following categories:

 

Identifiers (e.g., real name, alias, postal address, email address, social security or driver’s licence number, government ID, signature, telephone number, education, employment, employment history, financial information, including tax-related information/codes and bank account details, information used for monitoring and background checks to comply with laws and regulations, including ‘know your client’, anti-money laundering, and sanctions checks, online registration details, and other contact information);

 

 
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Sensitive/protected characteristic information (e.g., age/date of birth, nationality, citizenship, country of residence, gender, and other information used to comply with laws and regulations);
Commercial information (e.g., assets, income, transaction and investment history, accounts at other institutions, financial positions/returns, information concerning source of funds and any applicable restrictions on your investment such as political exposure or sanctions);
Internet or other network activity (e.g., browsing or search history, information regarding interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement, online identifiers such as cookies);
Sensory and surveillance data (e.g., recordings of telephone calls where permitted or required by law, video (surveillance) recordings, closed-circuit television (CCTV) images and recordings, and other records of your interactions with us or our service providers, including electronic communications);
Professional or employment-related information (e.g., current or past job history); and
Inferences drawn from other personal information (e.g., profiles reflecting preferences and trends, based on information such as assets, investment experience, risk tolerance, investment activity, and transaction history).

 

Where do we obtain your Personal Data?

 

We collect, and have collected, Personal Data about you from a number of sources, including from you directly:

 

WHAT HOW

Personal Data that you give us

●   From the forms and any associated documentation that you complete when subscribing for an investment, shares, interests, and/or opening an account with us. This can include information about your name, address, date of birth, passport details or other national identifier, driving license, your national insurance or social security number and income, employment information and details about your investment or retirement portfolio(s), and financial-related data (such as returns and financial positions)

●   When you provide it to us in correspondence and conversations, including electronic communications such as email and telephone calls

●   When you make transactions with respect to the Fund

●   When you interact with our online platforms and websites (such as bxaccess.com)

●   When you purchase securities from us and/or tell us where to send money

●   From cookies, web beacons, and similar interactions when you or your devices access our sites

●   When we need to identify you and/or complete necessary security checks, where you visit one of our buildings or attend meetings. This can include form of ID, and your image for CCTV purposes.

Personal Data we obtain from others

We obtain Personal Data from:

●   Publicly available and accessible directories and sources

●   Bankruptcy registers

●   Tax authorities, including those that are based outside the territory in which you are located or domiciled, including the Cayman Islands, the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Economic Area (EEA), if you are subject to tax in another jurisdiction

●   Governmental and competent regulatory authorities to whom we have regulatory obligations

●   Credit agencies

●   Fraud prevention and detection agencies / organizations

●   Transaction counterparties

  

 
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Why do we process your Personal Data?

 

We may process or disclose your Personal Data for the following reasons:

 

WHY HOW
Contract

It is necessary to perform our contract with you to: 

●   Administer, manage and set up your investor account(s) to allow you to purchase your holding (of shares or interests) in our Funds 

●   Meet the resulting contractual obligations we have to you 

●   Facilitate the continuation or termination of the contractual relationship between you and the Fund 

●   Facilitate the transfer of funds, and administering and facilitating any other transaction, between you and the Fund

Compliance with law

It is necessary for compliance with an applicable legal or regulatory obligation to which we are subject, in order to: 

●   Undertake our client and investor due diligence, and on-boarding checks 

●   Carry out verification, ‘know your client’, terrorist financing, sanctions, and anti-money laundering checks 

●   Verify the identity and addresses of our investors (and, if applicable, their beneficial owners) 

●   Comply with requests from regulatory, governmental, tax and law enforcement authorities 

●   Carry out surveillance and investigations 

●   Carry out audit checks 

●   Maintain statutory registers 

●   Prevent and detect fraud 

●   Comply with sanctions requirements

 

 
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Legitimate Interests

 

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party (such as a transaction counterparty or lender) to:

●   Manage and administer your holding in any Funds in which you are invested, and any related accounts on an ongoing basis

●   Assess and process any applications or requests made by you

●   Open, maintain or close accounts in connection with your investment in, or withdrawal from, the Fund scheme

●   Send updates, information and notices or otherwise correspond with you in connection with your investment in the Fund scheme

●   Address or investigate any complaints, claims, proceedings or disputes

●   Provide you with, and inform you about, our investment products and services

●   Monitor and improve our relationships with investors

●   Comply with applicable prudential and regulatory obligations, including anti-money laundering, sanctions and ‘know your client’ checks

●   Assist our transaction counterparties to comply with their regulatory and legal obligations (including anti-money laundering, ‘know your client’, terrorist financing, and sanctions checks)

●   Manage our risk and operations

●   Comply with our accounting and tax-reporting requirements

●   Comply with our audit requirements

●   Assist with internal compliance with our policies and processes

●   Ensure appropriate group management and governance

●   Keep our internal records

●   Prepare reports on incidents/accidents

●   Protect our business against fraud, breach of confidence, theft of proprietary materials, and other financial or business crimes (to the extent that this is not required of us by law)

●   Analyze and manage commercial risks

●   Seek professional advice, including legal advice

●   Enable any actual or proposed assignee or transferee, participant or sub-participant of the partnership’s or Fund vehicles’ rights or obligations to evaluate proposed transactions

●   Facilitate business asset transactions involving the Fund partnership or Fund-related vehicles

●   Monitor communications to/from us using our systems

●   Protect the security and integrity of our information technology systems

●   Protect the security and safety of our buildings and locations where we operate

●   Operate, run and schedule online meetings, webinars and conferences (for example, using Zoom and other online meeting platforms)

●   Manage our financing arrangements with our financiers and financing transaction counterparties, including payment providers, intermediaries, and correspondent/agent banks

●   Monitor the operation of Fund distribution platforms, where these are operated by third parties or service providers

 

We only rely on these interests where we have considered that, on balance, the legitimate interests are not overridden by your interests, fundamental rights or freedoms.

Monitoring as described in ‘Legitimate Interests’ above

 

We monitor communications where the law requires us to do so. We will also monitor where we are required to do so to comply with regulatory rules and practices and, where we are permitted to do so, to protect our business and the security of our systems.

 

 
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Who we share your Personal Data With

 

Your Personal Data will be shared with:

 

Who Why
Fund Associates

We share your Personal Data with our associates, related parties and members of our group. This is:

●     To manage our relationship with you

●     For the legitimate interests of a third party in carrying out anti-money laundering, ‘know your client’, and other compliance checks required of them under applicable laws and regulations

●     For the purposes set out in this Data Privacy Notice

Fund Managers, Depositories, Administrators, Custodians, Distributors, Investment Advisers

●     Delivering the services you require

●     Managing your investment

●     Supporting and administering investment-related activities

●     Complying with applicable investment, anti-money laundering and other laws and regulations

Tax Authorities

●     To comply with applicable laws and regulations

●     Where required or requested by tax authorities in the territory in which you are located or domiciled (in particular, Cayman Island or UK/EEA tax authorities) who, in turn, may share your Personal Data with foreign tax authorities

●     Where required or requested by foreign tax authorities, including outside of the territory in which you are located or domiciled (including outside the Cayman Islands or UK/EEA)

Service Providers

●     Delivering and facilitating the services needed to support our business relationship with you (including cloud services)

●     Supporting and administering investment-related activities

●     Where disclosure to the service provider is considered necessary to support Blackstone with the purposes described in section 5 of this Data Privacy Notice

Financing Counterparties, Lenders, Correspondent and Agent Banks

●     Assisting these transaction counterparties with regulatory checks, such as ‘know your client’, and anti-money laundering procedures

●     Sourcing credit for Fund-related entities in the course of our transactions and fund life cycles

Our Lawyers, Auditors and other Professional Advisers

●     Providing you with investment-related services

●     To comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements

●     Supporting Blackstone with the purposes described in section 5 of this Data Privacy Notice

 

In exceptional circumstances, we will share your Personal Data with:

 

Competent regulatory, prosecuting and other governmental agencies or litigation counterparties, in any country or territory; and
Other organizations and agencies – where we are required to do so by law.

 

For California residents, in the preceding 12 months, we may have disclosed Personal Data listed in any of the categories in "What Personal Data do we collect about you?" above for a business purpose (in particular, as described in this section).

 

We have not sold Personal Data in the 12 months preceding the date of this Data Privacy Notice. 

 

 
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Do you have to provide us with this Personal Data?

 

Where we collect Personal Data from you, we will indicate if:

 

Provision of the Personal Data is necessary for our compliance with a legal obligation; or
It is purely voluntary and there are no implications for you if you do not wish to provide us with it.

 

Unless otherwise indicated, you should assume that we require the Personal Data for business and/or compliance purposes.

 

Some of the Personal Data that we request is necessary for us to perform our contract with you and if you do not wish to provide us with this Personal Data, it will affect our ability to provide our services to you and manage your investment.

 

Sending your Personal Data Internationally

 

We may transfer your Personal Data between different countries to recipients in countries other than the country in which the information was originally collected (including to our affiliates and group members, members of the Fund’s partnership, transaction counterparties, and third-party service providers). Where you are based in the UK, the EU, or another country which imposes data transfer restrictions outside of its territory, this includes transfers outside of the UK and the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or that geographical area, to those countries in which our affiliates, group members, service providers and business partners operate. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information.

 

Where we transfer Personal Data outside of the UK, the EEA, or other territories subject to data transfer restrictions to other members of our group, our service providers or another third party recipient, we will ensure that our arrangements with them are governed by data transfer agreements or appropriate safeguards, designed to ensure that your Personal Data is protected as required under applicable data protection law (including, where appropriate, under an agreement on terms approved for this purpose by the European Commission or by obtaining your consent).

 

Please contact us if you would like to know more about these agreements or receive a copy of them. Please see the ‘Contact Us’ section for details.

 

Consent – and Your Right to Withdraw It

 

Except as may otherwise be required by local law, we do not generally rely on obtaining your consent to process your Personal Data. In particular, we do not generally rely on obtaining your consent where our processing of your Personal Data is subject only to the data protection laws of the UK/EEA (in these circumstances we will usually rely on another legal basis more appropriate in the circumstances, including those set out in “Why do we process your Personal Data?” above). If we do rely on consent for processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time. Please contact us or send us an email at PrivacyQueries@Blackstone.com at any time if you wish to do so.

 

Where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent for the processing of your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes. If you do receive direct marketing communications from us (for example, by post, email, fax or telephone), you may opt-out by clicking the link in the relevant communication, completing the forms provided to you (where relevant), or by contacting us (see the ‘Contact Us’ section for details.

 

Retention and Deletion of your Personal Data

 

We keep your Personal Data for as long as it is required by us for our legitimate business purposes, to perform our contractual obligations or, where longer, such longer period as is required or permitted by law or regulatory obligations which apply to us. We will generally:

 

Retain Personal Data about you throughout the life cycle of any investment you are involved in; and
Retain some Personal Data after your relationship with us ends.

 

As a general principle, we do not retain your Personal Data for longer than we need it.

 

We will usually delete your Personal Data (at the latest) after you cease to be an investor in any fund and there is no longer any legal / regulatory requirement, or business purpose, for retaining your Personal Data.

 

 
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Your Rights

 

You may, subject to certain limitations, have data protection rights depending on the data protection laws that apply to our processing of your Personal Data, including the right to:

 

Access your Personal Data, and some related information, including the purpose for processing the Personal Data, the categories of recipients of that Personal Data to the extent that it has been transferred internationally, and, where the Personal Data has not been collected directly from you, the source (the category information)
Restrict the use of your Personal Data in certain circumstances
Have incomplete or inaccurate Personal Data corrected
Ask us to stop processing your Personal Data
Require us to delete your Personal Data in some limited circumstances

 

You also have the right in some circumstances to request us to “port” your Personal Data in a portable, re-usable format to other organizations (where this is possible).

 

California residents may also request certain information about our disclosure of Personal Data during the prior year, including category information (as defined above).

 

We review and verify requests to protect your Personal Data, and will action data protection requests fairly and in accordance with applicable data protection laws and principles.

 

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please see the ‘Contact Us’ section for details.

 

Concerns or Queries

 

We take your concerns very seriously. We encourage you to bring to our attention any concerns you have about our processing of your Personal Data. This Data Privacy Notice was drafted with simplicity and clarity in mind. We are, of course, happy to provide any further information or explanation needed. Please see the ‘Contact Us’ section for details.

 

Please also contact us via any of the contact methods listed below if you have a disability and require an alternative format of this Data Privacy Notice.

 

If you want to make a complaint, you can also contact the body regulating data protection in your country, where you live or work, or the location where the data protection issue arose. In particular:

 

Country Supervisory Authority
Cayman Islands Cayman Islands Ombudsman (available at: https://ombudsman.ky)
European Union

A list of the EU data protection authorities and contact details is available by clicking this link: 

http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080

United Kingdom Information Commissioner’s Office (available at: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/)

 

 
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Contact Us

 

Please contact us if you have any questions about this Data Privacy Notice or the Personal Data we hold about you.

 

Contact us by email or access our web form by emailing PrivacyQueries@Blackstone.com.

 

Contact us in writing using this address:

 

Address

For EU/UK related queries: 

40 Berkeley Square, London, W1J 5AL, United Kingdom 

All other queries: 

345 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10154

 

A list of country-specific addresses and contacts for locations where we operate is available at https://www.blackstone.com/privacy#appendixA.

 

Changes to this Data Privacy Notice

 

We keep this Data Privacy Notice under regular review. Please check regularly for any updates at our investor portal (www.bxaccess.com).

 

 
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Blackstone Credit Funds Approval of Investment Advisory Agreement
 

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The Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), requires that the Board of Trustees (collectively, the “Board”) of each of Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund (“BSL”), Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund (“BGX”), and Blackstone Strategic Credit Fund (“BGB,” and together with BSL and BGX, the “Funds” and each a “Fund”), including a majority of its members who are not considered to be “interested persons” under the 1940 Act (the “Independent Trustees”) voting separately, approve on an annual basis the continuation of the Fund’s investment advisory agreement (each, an “Agreement” and collectively, the “Agreements”) with the Fund’s investment adviser, Blackstone Liquid Credit Strategies LLC (the “Adviser”). At a joint meeting (the “Contract Renewal Meeting”) held in person on May 25, 2022, the Board, including the Independent Trustees, considered, and unanimously approved, the continuation of each Agreement for an additional one-year term. To assist in its consideration, prior to the Contract Renewal Meeting, the Independent Trustees, through their Independent Legal Counsel (“Independent Counsel”) had requested, received and considered a variety of information, including information provided in response to supplemental requests (together with the information provided at the Contract Renewal Meeting, the “Contract Renewal Information”) about the Adviser, as well as the advisory arrangements for the Funds, certain portions of which are discussed below. In preparation for the Contract Renewal Meeting, the Independent Trustees met in person in a private session (the “Review Session”) prior to the Contract Renewal Meeting with Independent Counsel to review the Contract Renewal Information. No representatives of the Funds, the Adviser, or Fund management were present at the Review Session. In addition to the Contract Renewal Information, the Board received performance and other information since each Fund’s inception related to the services rendered by the Adviser to such Fund. The Board’s evaluation took into account the information received since each Fund’s inception and also reflected the knowledge and familiarity gained as members of the Board with respect to the investment advisory and other services provided to each Fund by the Adviser under that Fund’s Agreement.

 

Board Approval of the Continuation of the Agreements

In its deliberations regarding renewal of each Agreement, the Board, including the Independent Trustees, considered various factors, including those set forth below.

 

Nature, Extent and Quality of the Services Provided to the Funds under the Agreements

The Board received and considered Contract Renewal Information regarding the nature, extent and quality of services the Adviser provided to the Funds under the Agreements. Specifically, the Board took into account the fact that the Adviser has a large and knowledgeable investment team, with one of the largest credit teams in the US and globally, and has expanded its team and resources. The Adviser also explained to the Board its investment process, as well as its infrastructure and operational teams serving the Funds.

 

The Board also reviewed Contract Renewal Information regarding the Adviser’s compliance policies and procedures established pursuant to the 1940 Act and considered the compliance record for the Adviser and each Fund during the previous year and since its inception.

 

The Board reviewed the qualifications, backgrounds and responsibilities of the Funds’ senior personnel and the portfolio management team primarily responsible for the day-to-day portfolio management of each Fund. The Board also considered, based on its knowledge of the Adviser and its affiliates, the Contract Renewal Information and the Board’s discussions with the Adviser at the Contract Renewal Meeting, the general reputation and investment performance records of the Adviser and certain of its affiliates and the financial resources of the corporate parent of the Adviser, Blackstone Inc., available to support the Adviser’s activities in respect of the Funds.

 

The Board considered the responsibilities of the Adviser under each Fund’s Agreement, including the Adviser’s coordination and oversight of the services provided to the Fund by other unaffiliated parties.

 

In reaching its determinations regarding continuation of each Fund’s Agreement, the Board took into account that such Fund’s shareholders, in pursuing their investment goals and objectives, likely considered the reputation and the investment style, philosophy and strategy of the Adviser, as well as the resources available to the Adviser, in purchasing their shares.

 

Fund Performance

Among other things, the Board received and considered information and analyses (the “Broadridge Performance Information”) comparing the performance of each Fund with a group of funds (the “Peer Group”) selected by Broadridge Financial Solutions (“Broadridge”), an independent provider of investment company data, primarily from the Morningstar CEF Classification of US Senior Loan Funds Leveraged classification (the “Morningstar Senior Loan Leveraged Classification”), which consists of 26 closed-end funds. Broadridge selected the Peer Group funds primarily from the Morningstar Senior Loan Leveraged Classification to be as comparable as possible to the Funds based upon its consideration of the constituent funds’ investment style, share class characterization, and assets. The Board was provided with a description of the methodology Broadridge used to select each Fund’s Peer Group. On May 19, 2022, each of the members of the Board participated in a video conference call with Broadridge regarding the Broadridge Performance Information, including its peer grouping methodology and reporting format. Representatives of the Adviser also participated on that call. The Board noted Broadridge’s view that the relatively limited number of closed-end funds compared to the open-end fund universe creates limitations on peer grouping as compared to certain open-end funds.

  

 
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Blackstone Credit Funds Approval of Investment Advisory Agreement
 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

The Peer Group for BSL consisted of eight funds for each of the 1-, 3-, 5- and 10-year periods ended March 31, 2022 (such periods being hereinafter called the “1-year period”, the “3-year period”, the “5-year period” and the “10-year period,” respectively) with an emphasis on strategies that have high net historical portfolio allocations to bank loans. The Peer Groups for BGX and BGB were the same, which consisted of ten funds, including both BGX and BGB, for each of the 1-, 3- and 5- year periods, and, for BGX, five funds, including BGX, for the 10-year period. The Peer Group for BGX and BGB included funds with historical portfolio allocations to bank loans higher than 20% and allocations to high-yield bonds. Most Peer Group funds, similar to BGX and BGB, had a majority of their assets allocated to bank loans, while three Peer Group funds had less than 50% of their assets allocated to bank loans. Broadridge included funds from outside the Morningstar Senior Loan Leveraged Classification with portfolio allocations to bank loans higher than 20% in the Peer Group for BGX and BGB. The Board noted that it had received and discussed with the Adviser information at periodic intervals since each Fund’s inception comparing such Fund’s performance against its benchmarks and its Peer Group funds at that time. The Board also noted that it also had received the return volatility and Sharpe ratio (a measure of risk-weighted return) of each Fund relative to its Peer Group funds. The performance discussion below focuses on the comparison of the Funds’ performance relative to the respective Peer Group, rather than to the broader Morningstar Senior Loan Leveraged Classification.

 

BSL

The Broadridge Performance Information comparing BSL’s performance to that of its Peer Group based on net asset value (“NAV”) per share showed, among other things, that BSL’s returns, measured on a gross return basis, ranked fifth among its Peer Group funds for the 1-year period; ranked second among its Peer Group funds for each of the 3- and 10-year periods; and ranked first among its Peer Group funds for the 5-year period.1 BSL’s returns, measured on a net return basis ranked sixth among its Peer Group funds for the 1-year period; ranked first among its Peer Group funds for each of the 3- and 5-year periods; and ranked eighth among its Peer Group funds for the 10-year period. Whether measured on a gross or net return basis, BSL’s returns were higher than the Peer Group median performance for each of the 3- and 5-year periods and lower than the Peer Group median performance for the 1-year period, and BSL’s gross returns were higher than the Peer Group median performance for the 10-year period, but were lower than the Peer Group median performance with respect to net returns for the 10-year period. The Board also considered BSL’s performance relative to its benchmark and in absolute terms. The Broadridge Performance Information showed that, measured on a gross and net return basis, BSL outperformed its benchmark for each of the 1-, 3-, 5-, and 10-year periods. The Broadridge Performance Information noted that BSL’s Sharpe ratio ranked in the second and first quartile for each of the 3- and 5-year periods, respectively. On a gross return basis, BSL’s Sharpe ratio ranked sixth, third, second and eighth among its Peer Group funds, respectively, for the 1-, 3-, 5- and 10-year periods. On a net return basis, BSL’s Sharpe ratio ranked fifth, fourth, third and eighth, respectively, among its Peer Group funds for the 1-, 3-, 5- and 10-year periods.

 

BGX

The Broadridge Performance Information comparing BGX’s performance to that of the Peer Group based on NAV per share showed, among other things, that BGX’s returns, measured on a gross return basis, ranked fifth among its Peer Group funds for the 1-year period; ranked third among its Peer Group funds for the 3- and 5-year periods; and ranked first among its Peer Group funds for the 10-year period. BGX’s returns, measured on a net return basis, ranked fifth among its Peer Group funds for the 1-year period; ranked third among its Peer Group funds for the 3- and 5-year periods; and ranked third among its Peer Group funds for the 10-year period. The Fund’s gross and net returns were better than the Peer Group median return in the 1-, 3-, 5- and 10-year periods. The Board also considered BGX’s performance relative to its benchmark and in absolute terms. The Broadridge Performance Information noted that BGX on a gross return basis outperformed its Peer Group medians and benchmark for each of the 1-, 3-, 5-, and 10-year periods. On a gross return basis, BGX’s Sharpe ratio ranked fourth, fourth, fourth and fifth among its Peer Group funds, respectively, for the 1-, 3-, 5- and 10-year periods. On a net return basis, BGX’s Sharpe ratio ranked fifth, fifth, sixth and last, respectively, among its Peer Group funds for the 1-, 3-, 5- and 10-year periods.

 

BGB

The Broadridge Performance Information comparing BGB’s performance to that of the Peer Group based on NAV per share showed, among other things, that BGB’s returns, measured on a gross return basis, ranked seventh among its Peer Group funds for the 1-year period; ranked sixth among its Peer Group funds for the 3-year period; and ranked fifth among its Peer Group funds for the 5-year period. BGB’s returns, measured on a net return basis, ranked seventh among its Peer Group funds for the 1-year period; ranked ninth among its Peer Group funds for the 3-year period; and ranked eighth among its Peer Group funds for the 5-year period. The Fund’s returns on both a gross and net return basis were lower than the Peer Group median performance for each of the 1- and 3-year periods, and the Fund’s gross returns were better than the Peer Group median return in the 5-year period, but the Fund’s net returns were below the Peer Group median return for the 5-year period. The Board also considered BGB’s performance relative to its benchmark and in absolute terms. The Broadridge Performance Information noted that BGB outperformed its benchmark on a gross return basis for each of the 1-, 3- and 5-year periods. The Broadridge Performance Information showed that BGB’s Sharpe ratio, on a gross return basis, was ranked third among its Peer Group funds for the 1-year period; ninth among the Peer Group funds for the 3-year period; and eighth among the Peer Group funds for the 5-year period. BGB’s Sharpe ratio on a net return basis was ranked sixth among the Peer Group funds for the 1-year period; and ninth among the Peer Group funds for each of the 3- and 5-year periods.

 

In assessing Fund performance, the Adviser noted that the small number and varying investment strategies of funds in the Peer Groups for BSL, BGX and BGB made meaningful performance comparisons challenging. Broadridge itself noted that the relatively limited number of closed-end funds compared to open-end funds poses particular challenges for peer grouping. The Adviser discussed with the Board whether the Morningstar Senior Loan Leveraged Classification provides relevant and appropriate performance comparisons in the case of BGX and BGB in light of their broader investment strategies. The Adviser also noted the particular limitations of the BGX and BGB Peer Groups, highlighting the wide range of investment strategies employed and returns achieved by funds in those Peer Groups (relative to the BSL Peer Group). In addition to the Broadridge Performance Information, the Board considered information provided by the Adviser regarding the Funds and the Morningstar Senior Loan Leveraged Classification and their respective Peer Groups as to differences in each Fund’s portfolio composition by asset class, credit rating, investment size, and other relevant metrics.

  

 
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Blackstone Credit Funds Approval of Investment Advisory Agreement
 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

The Board also noted the credit review and other processes employed by the Adviser in managing the Funds’ investment portfolios, including that the Adviser continues to utilize a disciplined investment approach with respect to the Funds, as well as a systematic approach for the high yield portions of their portfolios. Based on its review and considering other relevant factors, including those noted above, the Board concluded that the Funds’ performance was acceptable.

 

Management Fees and Expenses

The Board reviewed and considered the investment advisory fee (the “Advisory Fee”) payable by each Fund to the Adviser under its respective Agreement in light of the nature, extent and overall quality of the investment advisory and other services provided by the Adviser to that Fund.

Additionally, the Board received and considered information and analyses (the “Broadridge Expense Information”) that Broadridge prepared, comparing, among other things, the Advisory Fee for each Fund and each Fund’s overall expenses with corresponding information contained in the Morningstar Senior Loan Leveraged Classification and each Fund’s Peer Group. The comparison was based upon the constituent funds’ latest fiscal years. The discussion below focuses on the Funds’ expenses relative to their respective Peer Groups, rather than to the broader Morningstar Senior Loan Leveraged Classification.

 

BSL

The eight funds in BSL’s Peer Group had average common share net assets ranging from $153.00 million to $753.09 million. Six of the other funds in the Peer Group were larger than BSL and one was smaller. The Broadridge Expense Information—which compared BSL’s actual total expenses to the Peer Group—showed, among other things, that the Fund’s actual Advisory Fee (i.e., giving effect to any voluntary fee waivers implemented by the Adviser with respect to the Fund and by the managers of the other Peer Group funds) as compared on the basis of common share net assets, ranked seventh among the eight funds in the Peer Group and was higher (i.e., worse) than the Peer Group median for that expense component. The Board noted that BSL’s actual advisory fee was closer to the average for managers with smaller fixed income retail platforms. The Fund’s actual total expenses, compared on the basis of common share net assets, ranked sixth among the funds in the Peer Group and were lower than the Peer Group median for that expense component.

 

BGX

The ten funds in BGX’s Peer Group (which was the same as BGB’s Peer Group and included BGB) had average common share net assets ranging from $151.21 million to $753.09 million. Seven of the other funds in the Peer Group were larger than BGX and two were smaller. The Broadridge Expense Information—which compared BGX’s actual total expenses to the Fund’s Peer Group—showed, among other things, that the Fund’s actual Advisory Fee as compared on the basis of common share net assets, ranked fourth among the funds in the Peer Group and was better (i.e., lower) than the Peer Group median for that expense component. The Fund’s actual total expenses, compared on the basis of common share net assets, ranked sixth among the funds in the Peer Group and were lower than the Peer Group median for that expense component.

 

BGB

The ten funds in BGB’s Peer Group (which was the same as BGX’s Peer Group and included BGX) had average common share net assets ranging from $151.21 million to $753.09 million. One of the other funds in the Peer Group was larger than BGB and eight were smaller. The Broadridge Expense Information—which compared BGB’s actual total expenses to the Fund’s Peer Group—showed, among other things, that the Fund’s actual Advisory Fee as compared on the basis of common share net assets, ranked ninth among the funds in the Peer Group and was higher than the Peer Group median for that expense component. The Board noted that BGB’s actual advisory fee was closer to the average for managers with smaller fixed income retail platforms. The Fund’s actual total expenses, compared on the basis of common share net assets, ranked seventh among the funds in the Peer Group and were higher than the Peer Group median for that expense component.

 

The Board took into account that Broadridge Expense Information indicated that the gross expense ratios of BSL, BGX and BGB decreased and that most fee components remained flat year-over-year, while interest expense decreased. The Board also noted that the allocation of non-compensation expenses to the Funds increased year-over-year as the Adviser’s employees returned from the COVID pandemic.

 

In its evaluation of the Advisory Fee and the Broadridge Expense Information for each Fund, the Board took into account the complexity of each Fund’s investment program and the credit review and other processes the Adviser employs in managing the Funds’ investment portfolios, including the Adviser’s standing and reputation in the leveraged finance market and the strength of its trading and middle office and risk management support teams. The Board noted that the Advisory Fee for each of BSL, BGX and BGB were slightly higher year-over-year. The Board further noted that the relatively limited number of closed-end funds compared to the open-end fund universe poses particular challenges for concise peer grouping. The Board considered the Adviser’s belief that in making such peer comparisons, smaller funds, such as BSL and BGX, may be disadvantaged versus larger funds that have greater opportunities for economies of scale. The Adviser provided, and the Board considered, expense information contained in the Broadridge Expense Information in support of this belief.

 

 
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Blackstone Credit Funds Approval of Investment Advisory Agreement
 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

The Board also considered Contract Renewal Information regarding fees (including sub-advisory fees) charged by the Adviser to other U.S. clients investing primarily in an asset class similar to that of the Funds, including, where applicable, institutional commingled funds and exchange-traded funds. The Board was advised that the base fees paid by such institutional and other clients generally are lower, and may be significantly lower, than the Advisory Fee for any one Fund. The Contract Renewal Information discussed the significant differences in scope of services provided to the Funds and to these other clients, noting that the Funds were subject to heightened regulatory requirements relative to institutional clients; that the Funds require additional resources for administration; and that the Adviser manages the leverage arrangements of the Funds and coordinates and oversees the provision of services to the Funds by other fund service providers. The Board considered the fee comparisons in light of the different services provided in managing these other types of clients and funds.

 

Taking all of the above into consideration, the Board determined that the Advisory Fee for each Fund was reasonable in light of the nature, extent and overall quality of the investment advisory and other services provided to such Fund under its Agreement.

 

Profitability

The Board, as part of the Contract Renewal Information, received an analysis of the profitability to the Adviser and its affiliates in providing services to each Fund for each of the past two fiscal years. In addition, the Board received Contract Renewal Information with respect to the Adviser’s revenue and cost allocation methodologies it used in preparing such profitability data. The Board agreed that the Adviser’s profitability in providing investment advisory and other services to each Fund was at a level which was not considered excessive in light of the nature, extent and overall quality of such services.

 

Economies of Scale

The Board received Contract Renewal Information concerning whether the Adviser would realize economies of scale if the Funds’ assets grow. The Board noted that BGB currently does not have any plans to seek additional assets beyond maintaining its dividend reinvestment plan, any significant growth in its assets generally will occur through appreciation in the value of the Fund’s investment portfolio, rather than sales of additional shares in the Fund. The Board further noted that BGX and BSL were currently in the same circumstance, except that either could engage in an at-the-market offering to raise additional capital. The Board determined that for each Fund, to the extent economies of scale may be realized by the Adviser, the benefits of such economies of scale would be shared with the Fund and its shareholders as the Fund grows.

 

Other Benefits to the Adviser

The Board considered other benefits the Adviser and its affiliates receive as a result of the Adviser’s relationship with each of the Funds and did not regard such benefits as excessive.

 

* * * * *

 

In light of all of the foregoing and other relevant factors, the Board determined that, under the circumstances, continuation of each Fund’s Agreement would be in the interests of the Fund and its shareholders and unanimously voted to continue the Agreement for a period of one additional year.

 

The Board did not identify any single factor it reviewed as being the principal factor in determining whether to approve continuation of each Agreement for the next year, and each Board member attributed different weights to the various factors. The Independent Trustees were advised by their Independent Counsel throughout the process. Prior to the Review Session and the Contract Renewal Meeting, the Independent Trustees received a memorandum as to their responsibilities from their Independent Counsel. Prior to voting, the Independent Trustees discussed the proposed continuation of the Agreements in a private session with their Independent Counsel at which no representatives of the Adviser or Fund management were present.

 

1First in these performance rankings represents the fund with the best returns in the Peer Group, and last in these performance rankings represents the fund with the worst returns in the Peer Group, whether measured on a gross or net return basis.

  

 
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Blackstone Credit Funds Trustees & Officers

 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

The overall management of the business and affairs of the Funds, including oversight of the Adviser, is vested in the Board. The Board is classified into three classes—Class I, Class II and Class III—as nearly equal in number as reasonably possible, with the Trustees in each class to hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. At each succeeding annual meeting of shareholders, the successors to the class of Trustees whose terms expire at that meeting shall be elected to hold office for terms expiring at the later of the annual meeting of shareholders held in the third year following the year of their election or the election and qualification of their successors. The Funds’ executive officers were appointed by the Board to hold office until removed or replaced by the Board or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified.

 

Below is a list of the Trustees and officers of the Funds and their present positions and principal occupations during the past five years. The business address of the Funds, the Adviser, the Trustees and the Funds’ officers is 345 Park Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, NY 10154, unless specified otherwise below.

 

NON-INTERESTED TRUSTEES 

Name, Address and
Year of Birth(1)  
Position(s) Held
with the Funds
Term of Office
and Length of
Time Served  
Principal Occupation(s)
During the Past Five Years  
Number of
Portfolios in Fund
Complex(2)
Overseen by
Trustee
Other Directorships
Held by the Trustee
During the Past
Five Years

Edward H. D'Alelio

Birth Year: 1952

Lead Independent Trustee and member of Audit and Nominating and Governance Committees

Trustee Since:

BSL: April 2010

BGX: November 2010

BGB: May 2012

 

Term Expires:

BSL: 2023

BGX: 2023

BGB: 2023

Mr. D'Alelio was formerly a Managing Director and CIO for Fixed Income at Putnam Investments, Boston where he retired in 2002. He currently is an Executive in Residence with the School of Management, Univ. of Mass Boston. 4 Owl Rock Capital Corp. business development companies (“BDCs”) (5 portfolios overseen in Fund Complex)

Thomas W. Jasper

Birth Year: 1948

Trustee, Chairman of Audit Committee and member of Nominating and Governance Committee

Trustee Since:

BSL: April 2010

BGX: November 2010

BGB: May 2012

 

Term Expires:

BSL: 2024

BGX: 2024

BGB: 2024

Mr. Jasper is the Managing Partner of Manursing Partners LLC, a consulting firm. 4 Sisecam Resources LP (master limited partnership)

Gary S. Schpero

Birth Year: 1953

Trustee, Chairman of Nominating and Governance Committee and member of Audit Committee

Trustee Since:

BSL: May 2012

BGX: May 2012

BGB: May 2012

 

Term Expires:

BSL: 2024

BGX: 2024

BGB: 2024

Mr. Schpero is retired. Prior to January 2000, he was a partner at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where he served as managing partner of the Investment Management and Investment Company Practice Group. 4 EQ Premier VIP Trust; EQ Advisors Trust; 1290 Funds

Jane M. Siebels

Birth Year: 1960

Trustee, Member of Audit and Nominating and Governance Committees

Trustee Since:

BSL: November 2021

BGX: November 2021

BGB: November 2021

 

Term Expires:

BSL: 2023

BGX: 2023

BGB: 2023

Ms. Siebels is CEO and Chair of Homer Technology. Previously, she was a Consultant at Per4M and advised a small global equity hedge fund. Prior to 2019, she was CEO and CIO of Amber Asset Management, f/k/a Green Cay Asset Management. 4 Scotia Bank (Bahamas); Scotia Trust (Bahamas); First Trust Bank (Bahamas); Global Innovation Fund; JackPotJoy (Bahamas) (until 2022); Amber Asset Management (until 2019); Green Cay Asset Management (until 2017)

 

 

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Blackstone Credit Funds Trustees & Officers

 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

INTERESTED TRUSTEE(3) 

Name, Address and
Year of Birth(1)  
Position(s) Held
with the Funds
Term of Office
and Length of
Time Served  
Principal Occupation(s)
During the Past Five Years  
Number of
Portfolios in Fund
Complex(2)
Overseen by
Trustee
Other Directorships
Held by the Trustee
During the Past
Five Years

Daniel H. Smith, Jr.

Birth Year: 1963

Trustee, Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer

Trustee Since: 

BSL: April 2010

BGX: November 2010

BGB: May 2012

 

Term Expires:

BSL: 2025

BGX: 2022

BGB: 2022

Mr. Smith is a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone Credit and is Head of Blackstone Liquid Credit Strategies LLC. Mr. Smith joined Blackstone Credit in 2005 from the Royal Bank of Canada where he was a Managing Partner and Co-head of RBC Capital Market's Alternative Investments Unit. 4 None

 

TRUSTEE EMERITUS 

Name, Address and
Year of Birth(1)  
Position(s) Held
with the Funds
Term of Office
and Length of
Time Served  
Principal Occupation(s)
During the Past Five Years  
Number of
Portfolios in Fund
Complex(2)
Overseen by
Trustee
Other Directorships
Held by the Trustee
During the Past
Five Years

Michael F. Holland(4)

Birth Year: 1944

Trustee Emeritus

Trustee From:

BSL: April 2010 – May 2022

BGX: November 2010 – May 2022

BGB: May 2012 – May 2022

 

Trustee Emeritus Since:

BSL: May 2022

BGX: May 2022

BGB: May 2022

 

Trustee Emeritus

Term Expires:

BSL: May 2023

BGX: May 2023

BGB: May 2023

Mr. Holland is the Chairman of Holland & Company, a private investment firm he founded in 1995. He is also President and Founder of the Holland Balanced Fund. N/A State Street Master Funds; Reaves Utility Income Fund; The China Fund, Inc. (until 2019); The Taiwan Fund (until 2017)

  

 

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Blackstone Credit Funds Trustees & Officers

 

June 30, 2022 (Unaudited)

 

OFFICERS

Name, Address and

Year of Birth(1)

Position(s) Held

with the Funds

Term of Office and Length of Time Served

Principal Occupation During the Past Five Years
Daniel H. Smith, Jr.
Birth Year: 1963
Trustee, Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer

Officer Since:

BSL: April 2010

BGX: November 2010

BGB: May 2012

 

Term of Office:

Indefinite

Mr. Smith is a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone Credit and is Head of Blackstone Liquid Credit Strategies LLC. Mr. Smith joined Blackstone Credit in 2005 from the Royal Bank of Canada where he was a Managing Partner and Co-head of RBC Capital Market's Alternative Investments Unit.
Gregory Roppa
Birth Year: 1976
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Officer Since:

BSL: March 2022

BGX: March 2022

BGB: March 2022

 

Term of Office:

Indefinite

Mr. Roppa is a Managing Director in the Global Fund Finance group of Blackstone, where he focuses on the accounting and financial reporting for certain entities within Blackstone Credit, Real Estate, and Insurance businesses. Before joining Blackstone in 2019, Mr. Roppa was the Director of Operations and Fund Accounting for Clinton Group Inc., an alternative asset management firm. Prior to that Mr. Roppa began his career in the financial services audit practice at Arthur Andersen LLP. Mr. Roppa received a B.S. in Accounting from Binghamton University, where he graduated cum laude. He is a Certified Public Accountant.
Robert Zable
Birth Year: 1972
Executive Vice President and Assistant Secretary

Officer Since:

BSL: September 2015

BGX: September 2015

BGB: September 2015

 

Term of Office:

Indefinite

Mr. Zable is a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone Credit and Senior Portfolio Manager of the U.S. CLOs and closed-end funds within Blackstone Credit’s Liquid Credit Strategies business. Before joining Blackstone Credit in 2007, Mr. Zable was a Vice President at FriedbergMilstein LLC, where he was responsible for credit opportunity investments and junior capital origination and execution. Prior to that, Mr. Zable was a Principal with Abacus Advisors Group, a restructuring and distressed investment firm. Mr. Zable began his career at JP Morgan Securities Inc., where he focused on leveraged finance in New York and London.
Marisa Beeney
Birth Year: 1970
Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

Officer Since:

BSL: April 2010

BGX: November 2010

BGB: May 2012

 

Term of Office:

Indefinite

Ms. Beeney is a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone Credit and General Counsel of Blackstone Credit. Before joining Blackstone Credit in 2007, she was with the finance group of DLA Piper. Ms. Beeney began her career at Latham & Watkins LLP working primarily on project finance and development transactions, as well as other structured credit products.
Valerie Naratil
Birth Year: 1988
Public Relations Officer

Officer Since:

BSL: February 2021

BGX: February 2021

BGB: February 2021

 

Term of Office:

Indefinite

Ms. Naratil is a Principal of Blackstone Credit and part of the Institutional Client Solutions team for Blackstone Credit’s Liquid Credit Strategies business. Before joining Blackstone Credit in 2014, Ms. Naratil worked at UBS Investment Bank, advising corporate clients across the Healthcare industry.

  

(1)The address of each Trustee/Nominee, Trustee Emeritus and Officer, unless otherwise noted, is Blackstone Alternative Credit Advisors LP, 345 Park Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, NY 10154.

(2)The “Fund Complex” consists of the Blackstone Credit Closed-End Funds, Blackstone Secured Lending Fund, Blackstone Private Credit Fund, and Blackstone Alternative Multi-Strategy Fund.

(3)"Interested person" of the Funds as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act. Mr. Smith is an interested person due to his employment with the Adviser.

(4)Mr. Holland became a Trustee Emeritus of the Funds effective May 25, 2022.

 

 

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(b)Not applicable.

 

Item 2. Code of Ethics.

 

Not applicable to this Report.

 

Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert.

 

Not applicable to this Report.

 

Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

 

Not applicable to this Report.

 

Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.

 

Not applicable to this Report.

 

Item 6. Investments.

 

(a)Schedule of Investments in securities of unaffiliated issuers as of the close of the reporting period is included as part of the Report to Stockholders filed under Item 1(a) of this Form N-CSR.

 

(b)Not applicable.

 

Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

 

Not applicable to this Report.

 

Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

 

(a)        Not applicable to this Report.

 

(b)        As of the date of this filing, there have been no changes in any of the portfolio managers identified in the most recent annual report on Form N-CSR.

 

 

Item 9. Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers. 

 

REGISTRANT PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES(a)

 

Period(b),(c) (a) Total Number of Shares (or Units) Purchased (b) Average Price Paid per Share (or Unit) (c) Total Number of Shares (or Units) Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs(d),(e) (d) Maximum Number (or Approximate Dollar Value) of Shares (or Units) that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs
Month # 1 (January 1 to January 31) 0.0000 0 1,765,284 527,643
Month # 2 (February 1 to February 28) 0.0000 0 1,765,284 527,643
Month # 3 (March 1 to March 31) 0.0000 0 1,765,284 527,643
Month # 4 (April 1 to April 30) 0.0000 0 1,765,284 527,643
Month # 5 (May 1 to May 31) 7,038.00 13.78 1,772,322 520,605
Month # 6 (June 1 to June 30) 5,431.00 13.44 1,777,753 515,174
Total 12,469.00 13.63 1,777,753 515,174

 

(a)The share repurchase program (the “Program”) pursuant to which the Common Shares in this table were repurchased was first announced by the Fund in a preliminary proxy statement filed on December 3, 2019. The Program became effective upon approval by the Fund’s Shareholders of an extension of the term of the Fund on February 19, 2020.
(b)The Fund has implemented the Program over the remaining life of the Fund (through May 31, 2027) such that if Common Shares trade at an average discount to net asset value (“NAV”) per Common Share of greater than 10% over any rolling forty (40) business day period, the Fund will buy back up to 15% of its outstanding Common Shares through the open market, subject to a maximum price of 90% of the Fund’s NAV per Common Share.

 

 

(c)The Program will expire at the end of the Fund’s term, which is currently May 31, 2027.
(d)No repurchase plan or program has expired during the period covered by this table.
(e)The Fund has not determined to terminate the Program prior to its expiration. The Fund intends to make further purchases under the Program if the Fund’s Common Shares trade at an average discount to net asset value (“NAV”) per Common Share of greater than 10% over any rolling forty (40) business day period, as described in note (b) above.

 

Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

 

There have been no material changes to the procedures by which shareholders may recommend nominees to the registrant’s Board of Trustees, where those changes were implemented after the registrant last provided disclosure in response to the requirements of Item 407(c)(2)(iv) of Regulation S-K, or this Item.

 

Item 11. Controls and Procedures.

 

(a)The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the 1940 Act) are effective as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this Report, based on the evaluation of these controls and procedures required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the 1940 Act and Rules 13a-15(b) or 15d-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

(b)There was no change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the 1940 Act) that occurred during the period covered by this Report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

 

Item 12. Disclosure of Securities Lending Activities for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 13. Exhibits.

 

(a)(1) Not applicable to this Report.

 

(a)(2) The certifications required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the 1940 Act are attached hereto as Exhibit 99.Cert.

 

(a)(3) Not applicable.

 

(a)(4) Not applicable.

 

(b) The certifications by the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as required by Rule 30a-2(b) under the 1940 Act and Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 are attached hereto as Exhibit 99.906Cert.

 

 

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.

 

Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund  
   
By: /s/ Daniel H. Smith, Jr.  
  Daniel H. Smith, Jr. (Principal Executive Officer)  
  Chief Executive Officer and President  
     
Date: September 2, 2022  
     
By: /s/ Gregory Roppa  
  Gregory Roppa (Principal Financial Officer)  
  Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer  
     
Date: September 2, 2022  

 

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.

  

Blackstone Senior Floating Rate Term Fund  
     
By: /s/ Daniel H. Smith, Jr.  
  Daniel H. Smith, Jr. (Principal Executive Officer)  
  Chief Executive Officer and President  
     
Date: September 2, 2022  
     
By: /s/ Gregory Roppa  
  Gregory Roppa (Principal Financial Officer)  
  Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer  
     
Date: September 2, 2022