N-CSR 1 baf-ncsra.htm BROWN ADVISORY FUNDS ANNUAL REPORT 6-30-21
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:  (811-22708)



Brown Advisory Funds
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in charter)



901 South Bond Street Suite 400
Baltimore, MD 21231
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)



Paul J. Chew
Principal Executive Officer
Brown Advisory Funds
901 South Bond Street Suite 400
Baltimore, MD 21231
 (Name and address of agent for service)


(410) 537-5400
Registrant's telephone number, including area code



Date of fiscal year end: June 30



Date of reporting period:  June 30, 2021



Item 1. Reports to Stockholders.

(a)
The registrant’s annual report transmitted to shareholders pursuant to Rule 30e-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), is as follows:








ANNUAL REPORT


June 30, 2021

Brown Advisory Growth Equity Fund

Brown Advisory Flexible Equity Fund

Brown Advisory Equity Income Fund

Brown Advisory Sustainable Growth Fund

Brown Advisory Mid-Cap Growth Fund

Brown Advisory Small-Cap Growth Fund

Brown Advisory Small-Cap Fundamental Value Fund

Brown Advisory Global Leaders Fund

Brown Advisory Intermediate Income Fund

Brown Advisory Total Return Fund

Brown Advisory Sustainable Bond Fund

Brown Advisory Maryland Bond Fund

Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond Fund

Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund

Brown Advisory Mortgage Securities Fund

Brown Advisory – WMC Strategic European Equity Fund

Brown Advisory Emerging Markets Select Fund

Brown Advisory – Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Brown Advisory Growth Equity Fund
 
1
Brown Advisory Flexible Equity Fund
 
4
Brown Advisory Equity Income Fund
 
8
Brown Advisory Sustainable Growth Fund
 
12
Brown Advisory Mid-Cap Growth Fund
 
15
Brown Advisory Small-Cap Growth Fund
 
19
Brown Advisory Small-Cap Fundamental Value Fund
 
25
Brown Advisory Global Leaders Fund
 
29
Brown Advisory Intermediate Income Fund
 
33
Brown Advisory Total Return Fund
 
39
Brown Advisory Sustainable Bond Fund
 
47
Brown Advisory Maryland Bond Fund
 
54
Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
 
58
Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund
 
66
Brown Advisory Mortgage Securities Fund
 
71
Brown Advisory – WMC Strategic European Equity Fund
 
82
Brown Advisory Emerging Markets Select Fund
 
85
Brown Advisory – Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund
 
89
Statements of Assets and Liabilities
 
93
Statements of Operations
 
98
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
 
103
Financial Highlights
 
112
Notes to Financial Statements
 
120
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
135
Additional Information
 
137



The views in the report contained herein were those of the Funds’ investment adviser, Brown Advisory LLC, or, for the sub-advised funds, of the respective sub-adviser, as of June 30, 2021 and may not reflect their views on the date this report is first published or anytime thereafter. This report may contain discussions about certain investments both held and not held in the portfolio as of June 30, 2021. All current and future holdings are subject to risk and are subject to change. While these views are intended to assist shareholders in understanding their investment in each Fund, they do not constitute investment advice, are not a guarantee of future performance and are not intended as an offer or solicitation with respect to the purchase or sale of any security. Performance figures include the reinvestment of dividend and capital gain distributions.
 
The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) was developed by and is the exclusive property of MSCI, Inc. and Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC (“S&P”). GICS® is a service mark of MSCI, Inc. and S&P and has been licensed for use by the Administrator, U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC.
 

GLOSSARY OF TERMS
 
Absolute basis is to express as a fixed amount rather than referring to variable factors.
 
Absolute performance refers to the percentage rise or fall in the share price of a security over a stated period.
 
Absolute return refers to the percent amount that an asset rises or declines in value in a given period.
 
Alpha refers to the abnormal rate of return on a security or portfolio in excess of what would be predicted by an equilibrium model like the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).
 
American Rescue Plan (ARP) is a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021, to speed up the United States’ recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession.
 
Bloomberg Barclays 1-10 Year Blended Municipal Bond Index is a market index of high quality, domestic fixed income securities with maturities of less than 10 years.
 
Bloomberg Barclays Intermediate US Aggregate Bond Index represents domestic taxable investment-grade bonds with index components for government and corporate securities, mortgage pass-through securities and asset-backed securities with average maturities and durations in the intermediate range. This index represents a sector of the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index.
 
Bloomberg Barclays Mortgage Backed Securities Index is a market value-weighted index which covers the mortgage-backed securities component of the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index. The index is composed of agency mortgage-backed passthrough securities of the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) with a minimum $150 million par amount outstanding and a weighted-average maturity of at least 1 year. The index includes reinvestment of income.
 
Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index is a broad-based benchmark that measures the investment grade, US dollar-denominated, fixed-rate taxable bond market.  The index includes Treasuries, government-related and corporate securities, MBS, ABS and CMBS.
 
Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield Index measures the US Dollar denominated, high-yield, fixed-rate corporate bond market.
 
Basis point(s) (bps) is a unit that is equal to 1/100th of 1%, and is used to denote the change in a financial instrument. The basis point is commonly used for calculating changes in interest rates, equity indexes and the yield of a fixed-income security. 1% is equal to 100 basis points.
 
Beta is a measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole.
 
Book value is the net asset value of a company, calculated by total assets minus intangible assets (patents, goodwill) and liabilities.
 
CAPEX, or capital expenditures, are funds used by a company to acquire or upgrade physical assets such as property, industrial buildings or equipment. It is often used to undertake new projects or investments by the firm. This type of outlay is also made by companies to maintain or increase the scope of their operations.
 
Cash flow measures the cash generating capability of a company by adding non-cash charges (e.g. depreciation) and interest expense to pretax income.
 
Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure that examines the weighted average of prices of a basket of consumer goods and services, such as transportation, food, and medical care. It is calculated by taking price changes for each item in the predetermined basket of goods and averaging them.
 
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), also known as the CARES Act, is a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 116th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27, 2020, in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
 
Correlation is a statistical measurement of how two securities move in relation to each other.
 
Credit spread is the difference in yield between a U.S. Treasury bond and another debt security of the same maturity but different credit quality. Credit spreads between U.S. Treasuries and other bond issuances are measured in basis points, with a 1% difference in yield equal to a spread of 100 basis points.
 
Dividend Yield is a financial ratio that shows how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price. In the absence of any capital gains, the dividend yield is the return on investment for a stock.
 
Downside Capture is a statistical measure of a fund’s performance in down markets. For example, a fund with downside capture of 90% would only have declined 90% as much as the related index during the same down market period.
 
Duration is a measure of the sensitivity of the price of a fixed-income investment to a change in interest rates. Duration is expressed as a number of years.
 

GLOSSARY OF TERMS
 
Duration contribution equals the spread duration, or the measure of the sensitivity of the price of a bond or other debt instrument to a change in interest rates, of a security or market segment multiplied by the size of the allocation to it.
 
Earnings growth is a measure of growth in a company’s net income over a specific period, often one year. The term can apply to actual data from previous periods or estimated data for future periods.
 
Earnings per share (EPS) is calculated by taking the total earnings divided by the number of shares outstanding.
 
Earnings Yield is the earnings per share for the most recent 12-month period divided by the current market price per share. The earnings yield shows the percentage of each dollar invested in the stock that was earned by the company.
 
EBITDA is the Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization. An approximate measure of a company’s operating cash flow based on data from the company’s income statement.
 
Enterprise Value (EV) is a measure of a company’s value, often used as an alternative to straightforward market capitalization. Enterprise Value is calculated as market capitalization plus debt, minority interest and preferred shares, minus total cash and cash equivalents.
 
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is an evaluation of a firm’s collective conscientiousness for social and environmental factors. The criteria are a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments. Environmental criteria consider how a company performs as a steward of nature. Social criteria examine how it manages relationships with employees, suppliers, customers, and the communities where it operates. Governance deals with a company’s leadership, executive pay, audits, internal controls, and shareholder rights.
 
FTSE All-World Index is a market capitalization weighted index representing the performance of large and mid-capitalization stocks from the FTSE Global Equity Index Series.
 
FTSE Emerging Index is a market capitalization weighted index representing the performance of over 790 large and mid-capitalization companies in 22 emerging markets.
 
Forward price to earnings ratio uses forecasted earnings, rather than current earnings, to calculate the price to earnings ratio.
 
Free Cash Flow is the operating cash flows (net income plus amortization and depreciation) minus capital expenditures and dividends. Free cash flow is the amount of cash that a company has left over after it has paid all of its expenses, including investments.
 
Free Cash Flow (FCF) Conversion represents the cash a company generates after accounting for cash outflows to support operations and maintain its capital assets. Unlike earnings or net income, free cash flow is a measure of profitability that excludes the non-cash expenses of the income statement and includes spending on equipment and assets as well as changes in working capital from the balance sheet.
 
Free Cash Flow (FCF) Yield is a financial ratio that compares the free cash flow per share a company is expected to earn against its market value per share. The ratio is calculated by taking the free cash flow per share divided by the current share price.
 
Global Financial Crisis refers to the financial crisis of 2007-2008, which was a severe worldwide economic crisis. Prior to the COVID-19 recession in 2020, it was considered by many economists to have been the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression.
 
Government agency residential mortgage-backed security is an instrument whose principal and interest payments are guaranteed by a government agency such as the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac).
 
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the monetary value of all the goods and services produced by an economy over a specified period. It includes consumption, government purchases, investments, and exports minus imports.
 
ICE BofAML 0-3 Month US Treasury Bill Index is a subset of the ICE BofAML US Treasury Bill Index and includes all securities with a remaining term to final maturity less than 3 months.
 
Inflation rate refers to the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time. Inflation is typically a broad measure, such as the overall increase in prices or the increase in the cost of living in a country.
 
Internal rate of return (IRR) is a metric used in financial analysis to estimate the profitability of potential investments. IRR is a discount rate that makes the net present value (NPV) of all cash flows equal to zero in a discounted cash flow analysis.
 
Mandatory convertible is a bond issued by a company which must be converted into shares to common stock on or before a specific date.
 
Meme stocks are stocks that see dramatic price increases, mostly fueled by people on social media (primarily Reddit, Twitter and Tik Tok). These stocks rarely have company fundamentals that back the rise in price and are often highly volatile.
 
Mortgage-backed security (MBS) is an investment similar to a bond that is made up of a bundle of home loans bought from the banks that issued them. Investors in MBS receive periodic payments similar to bond coupon payments.
 

GLOSSARY OF TERMS
 
MSCI Emerging Markets Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure equity market performance in the global emerging markets.
 
MSCI Emerging Markets Small Cap Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure small cap equity market performance in the global emerging markets.
 
MSCI Europe Index is an index that captures large and mid cap representation across 15 developed market countries in Europe.
 
Net present value (NPV) is the difference between the present value of cash inflows and the present value of cash outflows over a period of time. NPV is used in capital budgeting and investment planning to analyze the profitability of a projected investment or project.
 
90% active share is an active share that was developed to quantify the degree of active management and measures the fraction of portfolio (based on position weights) that differs from the benchmark index.  A portfolio with an active share of more than 60% is considered actively managed. Therefore, a 90% active share portfolio significantly differs from its index.
 
Positive Convexity is a measure describing the sensitivity of a bond’s duration to changes in yield where a fall in yields leads to a greater increase in price than price declines due to an increase in yields providing downside protection for investors.
 
Price to Book Value Ratio (P/B) is ratio used to compare a stock’s market value to its book value. It is calculated by dividing the current closing price of the stock by the latest quarter’s book value per share.
 
Price to earnings ratio (P/E) is a common tool for comparing the prices of different common stocks and is calculated by dividing the current market price of a stock by the earnings per share.
 
Quantitative Easing is an expansionary monetary policy implemented by a central bank aiming to increase the money supply and decrease interest rates by buying bonds in order to inject liquidity into the economy.
 
Relative performance measures how a stock is performing relative to a specific market or index.
 
Return of Capital (ROC) is a return from an investment that is not considered income. The return of capital is when some or all of the money an investor has in an investment is paid back to him or her, thus decreasing the value of the investment.
 
Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) is a financial ratio that measures a company’s profitability and the efficiency with which its capital is employed. Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) is calculated as:  ROCE = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) / Capital Employed.
 
Return on Equity (ROE) is the amount of net income returned as a percentage of shareholders equity. Return on equity measures a corporation’s profitability by revealing how much profit a company generates with the money shareholders have invested.
 
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) is a calculation used to assess a company’s efficiency at allocating the capital under its control to profitable investments. ROIC is typically calculated by taking a company’s net income, subtracting dividends the company paid out and dividing that amount by the company’s total capital.
 
Risk-adjusted return refers to a calculation of the profit or potential profit from an investment that takes into account the degree of risk that must be accepted in order to achieve it. The risk is usually measured in comparison to U.S. Treasuries.
 
Russell Midcap Growth Index measures the performance of the mid-capitalization growth sector of the U.S. equity market.
 
Russell 1000® Growth Index measures the performance of the large-cap growth segment of the of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 1000® companies with higher price to book value ratios and higher forecasted growth values.
 
Russell 1000® Value Index measures the performance of the large-cap value segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 1000® companies with lower price to book value ratios and lower expected growth values.
 
Russell 2000® Growth Index measures the performance of the small-cap growth segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 2000® companies with higher price to book value ratios and higher forecasted growth values.
 
Russell 2000® Index measures the performance of the 2,000 smallest companies in the Russell 3000® Index.
 
Russell 2000® Value Index measures the performance of the small-cap value segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 2000® companies with lower price to book value ratios and lower forecasted growth values.
 
Russell 3000® Index measures the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies representing approximately 98% of the investable U.S. equity market.
 
S&P 500 Index (“S&P 500”) is a market-value weighted index representing the performance of 500 widely held, publicly traded large capitalization stocks.
 
Securitized credit refers to the transformation of illiquid, nonmarketed assets into liquid, marketable assets, or in other words, securities.
 

GLOSSARY OF TERMS
 
Sell-side research is investment research issued by an investment bank or brokerage firm that is circulated to the firm’s clients. The ultimate outcome of the research is to provide a report including a set of financial estimates, a price target, and a recommendation of a stock’s expected performance.
 
Standard deviation is a statistical measure of the extent to which returns of an asset vary from its average.
 
Sustainable Business Advantage Drivers (SBA Drivers) refers to characteristic determined to help drive material value for customers and meaningful differentiation versus peers, as well as strong ESG risk management.
 
Tangible Book Value (“TBV”) is a valuation ratio expressing the price of a security compared to its hard, or tangible, book value as reported in the company’s balance sheet. The tangible book value number is equal to the company’s total book value less the value of any intangible assets.
 
Tier 1 Capital Ratio is a comparison between a banking firm’s core equity capital and total risk-weighted assets. A firm’s core equity capital is known as its Tier 1 capital and is the measure of a bank’s financial strength based on the sum of its equity capital and disclosed reserves, and sometimes non-redeemable, non-cumulative preferred stock. A firm’s risk-weighted assets include all assets that the firm holds that are systematically weighted for credit risk. Central banks typically develop the weighting scale for different asset classes, such as cash and coins, which have zero risk, versus a letter or credit, which carries more risk.
 
Turnover refers to a fund buying or selling securities. (The fund “turns over” its portfolio.) A fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities. Additionally, a higher turnover rate may result in higher taxes when the fund shares are held in a taxable account.
 
Yield concessions is when an investor gives up some yield by buying a lower yielding bond that if one were to invest in a higher yielding bond.
 
Yield Curve is a line that plots the yields of securities having equal credit quality but different maturity dates.
 
Yield Spread is the difference between yields on differing securities, calculated by deducting the yield of one security from another.
 
The broad based market indexes referenced in the following management commentaries are considered representative of their indicated market, the indexes are unmanaged and do not reflect the deduction of fees, such as, investment management and fund accounting fees, or taxes associated with a mutual fund. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 


Brown Advisory Growth Equity Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Growth Equity Fund – Investor Shares (the “Fund”) increased 34.98% in value. During the same period, the Russell 1000® Growth Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 42.50%.
 
Low interest rates and strong corporate earnings helped to keep equity markets buoyant as investors looked to move beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. As vaccination levels rose in many countries, the path to reopening began. Investors embraced the notion of normalcy throughout global economies, however the spreading delta variant is threatening to stall recovery efforts in several geographies and we believe is likely to delay the all clear signal for some time. Market leadership vacillated between value and growth stocks as investors attempted to handicap the progress of the recovery or lack thereof. While the momentum has slowed in the consumer discretionary and technology stocks that were the biggest COVID-19 beneficiaries, they remained the biggest drivers of benchmark returns over the course the past twelve months. The Fund performed well on an absolute basis, however it trailed the benchmark primarily due to an underweight to the aforementioned COVID-19 trade. The Fund made up some ground relative to the Index in recent months as the momentum bled off some of the mega-cap technology and consumer stocks that had been dominating market returns.
 
All economic sectors provided a positive contribution to the portfolio. However, as mentioned previously, the consumer discretionary and technology stocks that rode the COVID-19 wave detracted from a relative perspective. There were only three stocks in the portfolio that were down in absolute terms. One of the underperforming stocks was a recent addition to the portfolio, and the other two were eliminated during the period, specifically Illumina and Vontier, which was a spinoff from another holding. The biggest positive contributors to performance were primarily technology companies such as PayPal, Alphabet, and NXP Semiconductors that have participated in the technology rally.
 
The COVID-19 pandemic provided a temporary accelerant to many stocks associated with digital transformation; however, some business models are likely to be more resilient than others. We believe that digital advertising is likely to be one of them. The secular trend in digital advertising which began many years before COVID-19 and then accelerated during the pandemic, has remained quite strong as evidenced by the recent results of companies like Alphabet and Facebook. For these two companies alone, digital advertising grew more than 30% in the last quarter. While the portfolio has had exposure to this trend for years, we have added additional exposure, with the recent purchase of Pinterest. Pinterest’s revenues of $1.7 billion represent a small fraction of the total addressable market and Pinterest is as close to a pure play in online advertising as one can get. We believe the business model is much earlier in its lifecycle than many of the other players in this industry and we believe a long runway for growth remains.
 
Sincerely,
Kenneth M. Stuzin, CFA Portfolio Manager
 

 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. Investments in medium capitalization companies generally carry greater risk than is customarily associated with larger companies for various reasons such as narrower markets, limited financial resources and less liquid stock. The value of the Fund’s investments in REITs may change in response to changes in the real estate market such as declines in the value of real estate, lack of available capital or financing opportunities, and increases in property taxes or operating costs. Investments in foreign securities entail certain risks not associated with investments in domestic securities, such as volatility of currency exchange rates, and in some cases, political and economic instability and relatively illiquid markets. These risks are greater for investments in emerging markets. The Fund may invest in ETFs, which may trade at a discount to the aggregate value of the underlying securities and although expense ratios for ETFs are generally low, frequent trading of ETFs by the Fund can generate brokerage expenses.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.

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Brown Advisory Growth Equity Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against broad-based securities market indices. The Russell 1000® Growth Index measures the performance of the large-cap growth segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 1000® companies with higher price to book ratios and higher forecasted growth values. The S&P 500 Index is a market-value weighted index representing the performance of 500 widely held, publicly traded large capitalization stocks. The indexes are unmanaged and do not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Information Technology
  33.6%
Health Care
  20.9%
Communication Services
  12.2%
Industrials
  10.2%
Consumer Discretionary
    8.1%
Consumer Staples
    7.4%
Materials
    3.0%
Real Estate Investment Trusts
    3.0%
Money Market Funds
    1.5%
Other Assets and Liabilities
    0.1%
 
100.0%

Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
Ten Year
Institutional Shares1
35.14%
23.26%
16.08%
Investor Shares
34.98%
23.08%
15.91%
Advisor Shares
34.63%
22.78%
15.63%
Russell 1000® Growth Index
42.50%
23.66%
17.87%
S&P 500 Index
40.79%
17.65%
14.84%

 
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Advisor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio2
0.69%
0.84%
1.09%
Net Expense Ratio2
0.69%
0.84%
1.09%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/growth-equity-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Investment performance reflects periods during which fee waivers were in effect.  In the absence of such waivers, total return would have been reduced.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Performance information for the Institutional Shares, prior to commencement of operations on October 19, 2012, is based on the performance of Investor Shares, and adjusted for the lower expenses applicable to Institutional Shares.
2
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Growth Equity Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Common Stocks — 95.4%
 
   
Communication Services — 12.2%
 
   
64,581
 
Alphabet, Inc. — Class C*
   
161,860,652
 
   
709,802
 
Electronic Arts, Inc.
   
102,090,822
 
   
672,066
 
Match Group, Inc.*
   
108,370,642
 
   
745,387
 
Pinterest, Inc.*
   
58,848,304
 
             
431,170,420
 
Consumer Discretionary — 8.1%
 
   
39,138
 
Amazon.com, Inc.*
   
134,640,982
 
   
997,125
 
Chewy, Inc.*
   
79,480,834
 
   
194,380
 
Lululemon Athletica, Inc.*
   
70,942,868
 
             
285,064,684
 
Consumer Staples — 7.4%
 
   
1,019,376
 
Brown-Forman Corp.
   
76,392,038
 
   
184,209
 
Costco Wholesale Corp.
   
72,885,975
 
   
348,793
 
Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.
   
110,944,077
 
             
260,222,090
 
Health Care — 20.9%
 
   
222,341
 
Danaher Corp.
   
59,667,430
 
   
260,864
 
DexCom, Inc.*
   
111,388,928
 
   
1,023,114
 
Edwards Lifesciences Corp.*
   
105,963,917
 
   
159,007
 
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.*
   
146,229,197
 
   
240,057
 
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.
   
121,101,555
 
   
271,822
 
Veeva Systems, Inc.*
   
84,523,051
 
   
584,305
 
Zoetis, Inc.
   
108,891,080
 
             
737,765,158
 
Industrials — 10.2%
 
   
278,454
 
Cintas Corp.
   
106,369,428
 
   
372,639
 
IDEX Corp.
   
81,999,212
 
   
388,292
 
L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
   
83,929,316
 
   
189,126
 
Roper Technologies, Inc.
   
88,927,045
 
             
361,225,001
 
Information Technology — 33.6%
 
   
213,546
 
Adobe, Inc.*
   
125,061,079
 
   
413,582
 
Autodesk, Inc.*
   
120,724,586
 
   
281,158
 
Intuit, Inc.
   
137,815,217
 
   
390,853
 
MasterCard, Inc.
   
142,696,522
 
   
573,694
 
Microsoft Corp.
   
155,413,705
 
   
589,167
 
NXP Semiconductors NV
   
121,203,435
 
   
525,791
 
PayPal Holdings, Inc.*
   
153,257,561
 
   
186,984
 
ServiceNow, Inc.*
   
102,757,057
 
   
86,639
 
Shopify, Inc.*
   
126,577,846
 
             
1,185,507,008
 
Materials — 3.0%
 
   
392,473
 
Sherwin-Williams Co.
   
106,929,269
 
Total Common Stocks (Cost $1,542,452,725)
   
3,367,883,630
 
                 
Real Estate Investment Trusts — 3.0%
 
   
335,482
 
SBA Communications Corp.
   
106,918,114
 
Total Real Estate Investment Trusts (Cost $30,948,559)
   
106,918,114
 
                 
Short-Term Investments — 1.5%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 1.5%
 
   
52,998,101
 
First American Government
       
       
  Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%#
   
52,998,101
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $52,998,101)
   
52,998,101
 
Total Investments — 99.9% (Cost $1,626,399,385)
   
3,527,799,845
 
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities — 0.1%
   
2,185,023
 
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
3,529,984,868
 

 
*
Non-Income Producing
 
#
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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Brown Advisory Flexible Equity Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Flexible Equity Fund – Investor Shares (the “Fund”) increased 45.05% in value. During the same period, the S&P 500® Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 40.79%.
 
The U.S. equity market returns for the 12-month period are, in our opinion, nothing short of impressive against a backdrop of a worldwide pandemic.
 
Despite tremendous uncertainty due to the unknown nature of the pandemic and a world-wide lockdown, we had confidence in the recovery of the economy and the U.S. equity markets. We are pleased that our process, which is based on bottom-up stock picking focused on investing in well-managed businesses that can weather uncertain economic environment, has helped the Fund outperform its benchmark over the last 12 months, a period that has witnessed extreme macroeconomic volatility.
 
We do not overly rely on anyone’s ability to predict macroeconomic environment correctly since we consider this exercise as incredibly challenging given the complexities of the global economy and the number of factors that can influence its ultimate outcome. In addition, we believe economic forecasting models are unreliable in predicting turns. This is especially true in the current environment of unprecedented monetary policy, fiscal stimulus and change in the political climate. Given the complexity and uncertainty, we refrain from overlaying a top-down macro view on our strategy. That’s not to say that we ignore every evolving macro condition and its potential impact on individual holdings. With the recent surge in inflationary data, we undertook the exercise of combing through our portfolio to better understand its impact on the various business models. It was imperative given that consumer prices have continued to rise rapidly in the U.S. in recent months, reflecting a surge in demand along with shortages of labor and material with the continued opening of the U.S. economy. Some of the inflation numbers being reported are the highest since 2008 and are running meaningfully above the Federal Reserve’s longer run goal of 2%. The Federal Reserve has continued to downplay inflationary risk and maintained that the current inflation numbers are ‘transitory.’ According to the Fed, the numbers are being impacted due to an easy comparison with 2020 when inflation was particularly weak and also due to temporary disruptions in supply chains, which it expects to adjust in short order.
 
Stock selection was a more meaningful contributor to the return than our sector allocation relative to the Index. No sector declined during the period and all sectors had double-digit returns. Communications services, financials and health care contributed the most to the portfolio’s return relative to the Index. Communications services and financials both had a higher weighting and a higher return than the Index, while health care had a lower weighting but a higher return.
 
Compared to the Index, the Fund’s energy and real estate holdings detracted the most from results. While the weightings were similar, the sectors in the portfolio did not increase as much as those in the Index.
 
The biggest contributors to returns in the 12-month period were Alphabet Inc. CL C, a holding company for Google and Other Bets segments, Facebook, a leader in social media, Apple Inc., a manufacturer of various personal digital, computing and communications devices, Microsoft Corp., a leading technology services and software business and Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., a diversified insurance and industrial company (Warren Buffett’s company). These companies are all long-term holdings and among the largest in the Fund. We continue to like their long-term prospects.
 
Two holdings detracted from the returns, Kinder Morgan, a pipeline transportation company and Organon, a spin-off from Merck focused on women’s health, biosimilars and established brands. We eliminated both. Despite its low valuation, Kinder Morgan does not provide a compelling investment for us because its growth opportunities appear to be diminished. We sold Organon in favor of adding to our Merck holding. We view Merck as having greater appreciation potential than the Organon businesses.
 
In total, we added five new investments and eliminated four since our December 31, 2020 Semi- Annual Report to shareholders.
 
We initiated a position in retailer Bed Bath and Beyond. The company is in the midst of a significant turnaround creating an opportunity to invest in a company with meaningful upside.
 
We invested in First Citizens BancShares, Inc. and CIT Group. First Citizens BancShares is a hundred plus year-old well-run bank with meaningful insider ownership and a demonstrated record of superior risk management and value creation. With its pending merger with CIT Group, the bank expects to have over $100 billion in assets and we believe should achieve higher earnings power due to cost reduction and balance sheet synergies.
 
We initiated a position in Pinterest, a pinboard-style photo sharing website. We believe that Pinterest is well positioned to capture a larger share of the growing global digital advertising spend related to e-commerce.
 

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Brown Advisory Flexible Equity Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
New holding T-Mobile US, Inc. is a well-positioned competitor in wireless services with, what we believe to be a better network than Verizon or AT&T and is poised to gain market share with 5G.
 
The exercise of combing through the portfolio with the lens of an inflationary risk led us to eliminate Dollar Tree and deploy capital in more promising areas. We believe that the company’s business model of selling items for a dollar or a low price will be challenged to maintain profits in an inflationary environment. We believe Dollar Tree lacks true pricing power due to its business model.
 
We exited our position in Hain Celestial Group. The company’s CEO has done a terrific job of turning around the business, which has led to meaningful stock price appreciation. However, after having realized the gains, we deployed the capital to more attractive opportunities.
 
We thank you for trusting us with your investment capital and we reiterate our approach as follows.
 
The Flexible Equity team searches for investment bargains among long-term, attractive businesses with shareholder-oriented managers—those with productive assets and productive managers. These businesses should have or develop competitive advantages that result in good business economics, managers who allocate capital well, capacity to adjust to changes in the world and the ability to grow business value over time. In our opinion, bargains in these types of stocks can arise for various reasons but are often due to short-term investor perceptions, temporary business challenges that will improve, company or industry changes for the better, or as-yet-unrecognized potential for long-term growth and development. Despite the occasional investment that will go awry and stretches when the general stock market is unrewarding, we are optimistic about the long-term outlook for equities of good businesses purchased at reasonable prices and our ability to find them.
 
Sincerely,
 
Maneesh Bajaj, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Fund’s investment focus on environmental factors could cause it to make or avoid investments that could result in the Fund underperforming similar funds that do not have an environmental focus. Investments in smaller and medium-sized capitalization companies generally carry greater risk than is customarily associated with larger companies for various reasons such as narrower markets, limited financial resources and less liquid stock. Investments in foreign securities entail certain risks not associated with investments in domestic securities, such as volatility of currency exchange rates, and in some cases, political and economic instability and relatively illiquid markets. These risks are greater for investments in emerging markets. The value of the Fund’s investments in REITS may change in response to changes in the real estate market such as declines in the value of real estate, lack of available capital or financing opportunities, and increases in property taxes or operating costs.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Flexible Equity Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against the broad-based securities market index. The S&P 500 Index (“Index”) is a market-value weighted index representing the performance of 500 widely held, publicly traded large capitalization stocks. The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Information Technology
  27.8%
Financials
  16.7%
Communication Services
  14.9%
Consumer Discretionary
  14.4%
Health Care
    9.9%
Industrials
    7.1%
Money Market Funds
    3.4%
Real Estate Investment Trusts
    2.3%
Consumer Staples
    2.3%
Energy
    1.3%
Other Assets and Liabilities
 (0.1)%
 
100.0%

Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
Ten Year
Institutional Shares1
45.26%
20.88%
15.93%
Investor Shares
45.05%
20.70%
15.75%
Advisor Shares
44.69%
20.40%
15.47%
S&P 500 Index
40.79%
17.65%
14.84%

 
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Advisor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio2
0.57%
0.72%
0.97%
Net Expense Ratio2
0.57%
0.72%
0.97%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/flexible-equity-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Investment performance reflects periods during which fee waivers were in effect.  In the absence of such waivers, total return would have been reduced.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Performance information for the Institutional Shares, prior to commencement of operations on October 19, 2012, is based on the performance of Investor Shares, and adjusted for the lower expenses applicable to Institutional Shares.
2
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Flexible Equity Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Common Stocks — 94.4%
 
   
Communication Services — 14.9%
 
   
5,792
 
Alphabet, Inc. — Class A*
   
14,142,848
 
   
11,348
 
Alphabet, Inc. — Class C*
   
28,441,719
 
   
95,977
 
Facebook, Inc.*
   
33,372,163
 
   
131,623
 
Pinterest, Inc.*
   
10,391,636
 
   
60,599
 
T-Mobile US, Inc.*
   
8,776,553
 
   
59,711
 
Walt Disney Co.*
   
10,495,402
 
             
105,620,321
 
Consumer Discretionary — 14.4%
 
   
50,259
 
Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd. ADR*
   
11,397,736
 
   
4,173
 
Amazon.com, Inc.*
   
14,355,788
 
   
215,226
 
Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc.*
   
7,164,873
 
   
7,860
 
Booking Holdings, Inc.*
   
17,198,387
 
   
47,025
 
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc.*
   
6,917,848
 
   
162,660
 
CarMax, Inc.*
   
21,007,539
 
   
96,664
 
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
   
18,749,916
 
   
71,426
 
TJX Companies, Inc.
   
4,815,541
 
             
101,607,628
 
Consumer Staples — 2.3%
 
   
85,486
 
Conagra Brands, Inc.
   
3,109,981
 
   
469,260
 
Nomad Foods, Ltd.*
   
13,265,980
 
             
16,375,961
 
Energy — 1.3%
 
   
385,584
 
Suncor Energy, Inc.
   
9,242,448
 
                 
Financials — 16.7%
 
   
77,157
 
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
   
19,202,834
 
   
474,874
 
Bank of America Corp.
   
19,579,055
 
   
86,860
 
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.*
   
24,140,131
 
   
102,982
 
Blackstone Group, Inc.
   
10,003,672
 
   
113,473
 
CIT Group, Inc.
   
5,854,072
 
   
7,173
 
First Citizens BancShares, Inc.
   
5,973,244
 
   
122,422
 
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
   
19,041,518
 
   
249,805
 
KKR & Co., Inc.
   
14,798,448
 
             
118,592,974
 
Health Care — 9.9%
 
   
49,187
 
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
   
7,270,330
 
   
35,679
 
Anthem, Inc.
   
13,622,242
 
   
201,808
 
Edwards Lifesciences Corp.*
   
20,901,255
 
   
91,066
 
Merck & Co., Inc.
   
7,082,203
 
   
52,974
 
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
   
21,212,909
 
             
70,088,939
 
Industrials — 7.1%
 
   
60,331
 
Canadian National Railway Co.
   
6,366,127
 
   
258,385
 
Carrier Global Corp.
   
12,557,511
 
   
18,954
 
General Dynamics Corp.
   
3,568,280
 
   
92,642
 
Otis Worldwide Corp.
   
7,575,337
 
   
128,791
 
Stericycle, Inc.*
   
9,214,996
 
   
34,908
 
United Rentals, Inc.*
   
11,136,001
 
             
50,418,252
 
Information Technology — 27.8%
 
   
34,858
 
Accenture PLC
   
10,275,790
 
   
60,767
 
Analog Devices, Inc.
   
10,461,647
 
   
180,256
 
Apple, Inc.
   
24,687,862
 
   
21,853
 
Intuit, Inc.
   
10,711,685
 
   
87,883
 
MasterCard, Inc.
   
32,085,205
 
   
154,197
 
Microsoft Corp.
   
41,771,967
 
   
67,303
 
PayPal Holdings, Inc.*
   
19,617,478
 
   
103,200
 
Taiwan Semiconductor
       
       
  Manufacturing Co., Ltd. ADR
   
12,400,512
 
   
148,381
 
Visa, Inc.
   
34,694,445
 
             
196,706,591
 
Total Common Stocks (Cost $250,234,953)
   
668,653,114
 
                 
Real Estate Investment Trusts — 2.3%
 
   
35,193
 
Crown Castle International Corp.
   
6,866,155
 
   
30,249
 
SBA Communications Corp.
   
9,640,356
 
Total Real Estate Investment Trusts (Cost $7,142,842)
   
16,506,511
 
                 
Short-Term Investments — 3.4%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 3.4%
 
   
23,925,248
 
First American Government
       
       
  Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%#
   
23,925,248
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $23,925,248)
   
23,925,248
 
Total Investments — 100.1% (Cost $281,303,043)
   
709,084,873
 
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets — (0.1)%
   
(1,036,960
)
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
708,047,913
 

ADR — American Depositary Receipt
 
*
Non-Income Producing
 
#
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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Brown Advisory Equity Income Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Equity Income Fund – Investor  Shares (the “Fund”) increased 31.67% in value. During the same period, the S&P 500® Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 40.79%.
 
The past twelve months was a period of robust performance for the U.S. stock market. Many sectors flourished as economies recovered and reopened for business following the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic. In the U.S., a brightening economic outlook, increased COVID-19 vaccination rates, falling unemployment rates, and government-backed stimulus programs combined to create a strong demand environment for consumer and business spending alike. As a result, economically sensitive sectors of the market such as financials, energy, industrials and materials were the best performers for the Index during the period.
 
The financials sector was the primary relative performance driver for the Fund during the past year. The improving macroeconomic environment provided a tailwind for business areas such as credit cards and investment banking for holding JPMorgan Chase and for the advice and wealth management services offered by Ameriprise Financial. Both companies reported strong financial results and their stocks increased accordingly. Among other financial sector holdings, the Fund swapped commercial insurer Cincinnati Financial during the period in favor of a new position in fellow insurer Chubb. In our opinion, Chubb offered an attractive long-term business outlook similar to Cincinnati Financial but at a more reasonable valuation.
 
The Fund’s holdings in the consumer discretionary sector also added to relative performance, led by a large jump in the stock price of retailer Target. The company thrived during the period and took market share from smaller rivals when the pandemic reduced physical shopping trips in the U.S.
 
Given the Fund’s generally conservative investment approach, it has historically been a challenge to keep up with the Index when stock prices are advancing rapidly. Indeed, this was the case over the past year in the information technology and health care sectors in particular. While several of the Fund’s holdings in these two sectors performed well on an absolute basis, both areas ultimately detracted from relative performance. The consumer staples sector also detracted from relative performance and was among the lowest-returning areas of the Index during the period. Many companies in the sector were faced with the challenge of growing their sales and earnings against what were exceptionally strong results from a year ago, when consumers were stocking up on essentials in the early days of the pandemic.
 
The Fund took advantage of the relative stock price weakness in consumer staples and added leading household product companies Clorox and Procter & Gamble during the period. Meanwhile, tobacco companies Altria and Philip Morris International and beverage maker Coca-Cola were eliminated due to their less favorable long-term earnings growth outlooks. There were several changes in the Fund’s industrial holdings during the period as well. Specifically, aerospace and defense companies General Dynamics and Raytheon Technologies were eliminated in favor of new investments in engine and power systems provider Cummins, parcel delivery company United Parcel Service, and defense supplier L3Harris Technologies.
 
Elsewhere, the Fund added regulated utility company Dominion Energy and eliminated oil sands producer Suncor Energy. A small position in a mandatory convertible preferred security issued by alternative asset manager KKR & Co. was also purchased during the period. And finally, the Fund eliminated Organon, a recent spin-off from pharmaceutical holding Merck. The proceeds from the small Organon stake were re- invested in Merck, which we believe offered a relatively better long-term earnings growth outlook.
 
The earnings picture for many large, high-quality companies has brightened over the past year as economic conditions in the U.S. and elsewhere have strengthened. The Fund remains committed to our long-term goal of seeking to provide both dividend yield and growth through the selection of a portfolio of investments that focuses on holdings with above-average yields and growth potential at reasonable valuations.
 
Sincerely,
 
Brian Graney, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 

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Brown Advisory Equity Income Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Fund is non-diversified which means it may invest a large percentage of its assets in the securities of fewer issuers. Concentration in a limited number of issuers exposes the Fund to greater market risk than if its assets were diversified among a greater number of issuers. The Fund is also subject to interest rate risk which is the risk that debt securities in the Fund’s portfolio will decline in value because of an increase in market interest rates. This risk is usually greater for longer-term debt securities. Income from tax- exempt funds may be subject to state and local taxes and a portion of income may be subject to the Federal Alternative minimum tax for certain investors.
 
Diversification does not assure a profit nor protect against loss in a declining market.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Because the Fund’s ESG criteria exclude securities of certain issuers for nonfinancial reasons, the Fund may forgo some market opportunities available to the funds that do not use these criteria.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Equity Income Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against a broad-based securities market index. The S&P 500 Index (“Index”) is a market-value weighted index representing the performance of 500 widely held, publicly traded large capitalization stocks. The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees. Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Information Technology
  21.7%
Financials
  18.3%
Health Care
  15.9%
Consumer Discretionary
  13.7%
Industrials
    6.3%
Consumer Staples
    6.3%
Real Estate Investment Trusts
    4.1%
Materials
    4.1%
Money Market Funds
    3.4%
Communication Services
    2.4%
Energy
    2.0%
Utilities
    2.0%
Other Assets and Liabilities
 (0.2)%
 
100.0%

     
Since Inception
Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
(12/29/11)
Institutional Shares1
31.84%
13.21%
11.99%
Investor Shares
31.67%
13.05%
11.82%
Advisor Shares
31.27%
12.77%
11.54%
S&P 500 Index
40.79%
17.65%
16.08%

 
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Advisor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio2
0.81%
0.96%
1.21%
Net Expense Ratio2
0.77%
0.92%
1.17%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/equity-income-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Performance information for the Institutional Shares, prior to commencement of operations on October 19, 2012, is based on the performance of Investor Shares, and adjusted for the lower expenses applicable to Institutional Shares.
2
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Equity Income Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Common Stocks — 91.1%
 
   
Communication Services — 2.4%
 
   
38,192
 
Comcast Corp.
   
2,177,708
 
                 
Consumer Discretionary — 13.7%
 
   
14,314
 
Best Buy Co., Inc.
   
1,645,824
 
   
12,783
 
Hasbro, Inc.
   
1,208,249
 
   
7,282
 
Home Depot, Inc.
   
2,322,157
 
   
8,032
 
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
   
1,557,967
 
   
9,767
 
McDonald’s Corp.
   
2,256,079
 
   
13,310
 
Target Corp.
   
3,217,560
 
             
12,207,836
 
Consumer Staples — 6.3%
 
   
7,892
 
Clorox Co.
   
1,419,850
 
   
11,200
 
Procter & Gamble Co.
   
1,511,216
 
   
44,099
 
Reynolds Consumer Products, Inc.
   
1,338,404
 
   
22,612
 
Unilever PLC ADR
   
1,322,802
 
             
5,592,272
 
Energy — 2.0%
 
   
100,000
 
Kinder Morgan, Inc.
   
1,823,000
 
                 
Financials — 17.6%
 
   
11,642
 
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
   
2,897,461
 
   
55,491
 
Bank of America Corp.
   
2,287,894
 
   
25,784
 
Blackstone Group, Inc.
   
2,504,658
 
   
11,392
 
Chubb Ltd.
   
1,810,644
 
   
7,376
 
Erie Indemnity Co.
   
1,426,150
 
   
18,252
 
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
   
2,838,916
 
   
9,392
 
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.
   
1,859,334
 
             
15,625,057
 
Health Care — 15.0%
 
   
12,783
 
AbbVie, Inc.
   
1,439,877
 
   
11,314
 
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
   
779,082
 
   
14,205
 
Johnson & Johnson
   
2,340,132
 
   
16,127
 
Medtronic PLC
   
2,001,844
 
   
38,296
 
Merck & Co., Inc.
   
2,978,280
 
   
21,815
 
Novartis AG ADR
   
1,990,401
 
   
4,376
 
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
   
1,752,325
 
             
13,281,941
 
Industrials — 6.3%
 
   
7,251
 
Canadian National Railway Co.
   
765,125
 
   
3,560
 
Cummins, Inc.
   
867,964
 
   
4,297
 
L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
   
928,796
 
   
7,204
 
Otis Worldwide Corp.
   
589,071
 
   
11,848
 
United Parcel Service, Inc.
   
2,464,029
 
             
5,614,985
 
Information Technology — 21.7%
 
   
5,969
 
Accenture PLC
   
1,759,601
 
   
6,313
 
Analog Devices, Inc.
   
1,086,846
 
   
35,582
 
Apple, Inc.
   
4,873,311
 
   
14,283
 
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
   
2,836,889
 
   
58,241
 
Cisco Systems, Inc.
   
3,086,773
 
   
20,683
 
Microsoft Corp.
   
5,603,025
 
             
19,246,445
 
Materials — 4.1%
 
   
20,315
 
Dow, Inc.
   
1,285,533
 
   
8,017
 
Linde PLC
   
2,317,715
 
             
3,603,248
 
Utilities — 2.0%
 
   
23,987
 
Dominion Energy, Inc.
   
1,764,724
 
Total Common Stocks (Cost $39,809,372)
   
80,937,216
 
                 
Preferred Stocks — 1.6%
 
   
Financials — 0.7%
 
   
8,095
 
KKR & Co., Inc. — Series C, 6.00%
   
623,801
 
Health Care — 0.9%
 
   
13,814
 
Becton, Dickinson & Co. Depositary Shares^
   
739,187
 
Total Preferred Stocks (Cost $1,122,301)
   
1,362,988
 
                 
Real Estate Investment Trusts — 4.1%
 
   
8,063
 
American Tower Corp.
   
2,178,139
 
   
19,737
 
W.P. Carey, Inc.
   
1,472,775
 
Total Real Estate Investment Trusts (Cost $1,962,275)
   
3,650,914
 
                 
Short-Term Investments — 3.4%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 3.4%
 
   
3,023,136
 
First American Government
       
       
  Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%#
   
3,023,136
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $3,023,136)
   
3,023,136
 
Total Investments — 100.2% (Cost $45,917,084)
   
88,974,254
 
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets — (0.2)%
   
(147,474
)
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
88,826,780
 

ADR — American Depositary Receipt
 
^
Each depositary share represents 1/20th interest in a share of Becton, Dickinson and Co. 6.00% Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, Series B. Each outstanding depositary share will automatically convert on June 1, 2023 into a number of shares of common stock. Refer to the company’s filings at sec.gov for additional information.
 
#
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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Brown Advisory Sustainable Growth Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Sustainable Growth Fund – Institutional Shares (the “Fund”) increased 39.42% in value. During the same period, the Russell 1000® Growth Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 42.50%.
 
Our 12-month look-back starts in the third quarter of 2020, a quarter marked by volatility with returns for large growth stocks heavily dominated by the “FAANG” stocks, namely Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Alphabet. While the portfolio performed well from a bottom-up perspective, our underweight or lack of ownership of some of these names held us back on a relative basis. In the fourth quarter of 2020, strong gains in several of our health care and technology names propelled the portfolio ahead of the benchmark. Market optimism and reopening of the economy drove value and small-cap stocks to new highs in the first quarter of 2021. As such, the strategy slightly underperformed its benchmark with solid performance from technology and consumer discretionary companies unable to offset underperformance from several of our names in industrials and health care, which have historically helped performance over the years. In the second quarter of 2021, the strategy again beat its benchmark. After abandoning high-quality, large-cap growth stocks in the first quarter, investors regained their appetite for some of the “COVID-19 winners” and faded the rotation toward cyclicals. We were pleased to see the market react positively to strong results from many of our companies which helped us achieve both attractive absolute and relative performance in the year-to-date 2021 period.
 
In the last year we initiated on six names: Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Chegg (CHGG), Dynatrace (DT), MSCI (MSCI), Nvidia (NVDA), and Square (SQ). All of these trades are, we believe, upgrades to the portfolio with companies that are better positioned to grow sustainably, and/or companies that diversify the portfolio’s exposure to uncorrelated markets. For example, Chegg is our first holding whose core business is to provide educational resources. It is our belief that Chegg’s Sustainable Business Advantage or SBA is that the company helps improve the return on investment of education by helping students learn more, in less time, and at a lower cost – a compelling value proposition whether students are in a four-year college program, or engaged in skills-based learning. And while we believe we have had exposure to the financial sector through various holding such as Verisk Analytics and Visa, MSCI is our first holding that is classified in our benchmark’s financial sector. MSCI is a data analytics provider to the investment industry worldwide. The characteristics of its strong business model include a highly-recurring, scalable subscription revenue model built on the company’s dominant market share in index benchmarking. MSCI is also one of the leading firms driving the adoption of ESG standards worldwide through its ESG research and indexes. We sold out of Aspen Technology, Ball Corporation, Illumina, Nordson, TJX Companies, Vontier, and Tyler Technologies to make room for these new holdings.
 
We remain fully invested and disciplined in our process of finding investment opportunities at the intersection of strong fundamentals, sustainable business advantages and attractive valuations, as this philosophy has served us well over the past eleven and a half years.
 
Sincerely,
 
David Powell, CFA and Karina Funk, CFA
Portfolio Managers
 

Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Fund’s investment focus on environmental factors could cause it to make or avoid investments that could result in the Fund underperforming similar funds that do not have an environmental focus. Investments in smaller and medium-sized capitalization companies generally carry greater risk than is customarily associated with larger companies for various reasons such as narrower markets, limited financial resources and less liquid stock. Investments in foreign securities entail certain risks not associated with investments in domestic securities, such as volatility of currency exchange rates, and in some cases, political and economic instability and relatively illiquid markets. These risks are greater for investments in emerging markets. The value of the Fund’s investments in REITS may change in response to changes in the real estate market such as declines in the value of real estate, lack of available capital or financing opportunities, and increases in property taxes or operating costs.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Because the Fund’s ESG criteria exclude securities of certain issuers for nonfinancial reasons, the Fund may forgo some market opportunities available to the funds that do not use these criteria.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Sustainable Growth Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $1,000,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $1,000,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against a broad-based securities market index. The Russell 1000® Growth Index (“Index”) measures the performance of the large-cap growth segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 1000® companies with higher price to book ratios and higher forecasted growth values.  The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Information Technology
  43.0%
Health Care
  23.0%
Consumer Discretionary
  14.8%
Industrials
    5.2%
Communication Services
    4.2%
Real Estate Investment Trusts
    3.8%
Financials
    2.6%
Materials
    1.7%
Money Market Funds
    1.4%
Other Assets and Liabilities
    0.3%
 
100.0%

     
Since Inception
Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
(6/29/12)
Institutional Shares
39.42%
24.33%
19.98%
Investor Shares
39.28%
24.14%
19.80%
Advisor Shares
38.92%
23.83%
19.50%
Russell 1000® Growth Index
42.50%
23.66%
19.29%
 
 
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Advisor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio1
0.71%
0.86%
1.11%
Net Expense Ratio1
0.71%
0.86%
1.11%
 
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/sustainable-growth-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Sustainable Growth Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Common Stocks — 94.5%
 
   
Communication Services — 4.2%
 
   
97,850
 
Alphabet, Inc. — Class A*
   
238,929,152
 
                 
Consumer Discretionary — 14.8%
 
   
71,546
 
Amazon.com, Inc.*
   
246,129,687
 
   
971,137
 
Chegg, Inc.*
   
80,711,196
 
   
602,884
 
Etsy, Inc.*
   
124,097,643
 
   
384,036
 
Home Depot, Inc.
   
122,465,240
 
   
1,009,014
 
NIKE, Inc.
   
155,882,573
 
   
987,971
 
Starbucks Corp.
   
110,465,037
 
             
839,751,376
 
Financials — 2.6%
 
   
280,978
 
MSCI, Inc.
   
149,783,752
 
                 
Health Care — 23.0%
 
   
232,526
 
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.*
   
149,814,177
 
   
823,836
 
Danaher Corp.
   
221,084,629
 
   
1,234,175
 
Edwards Lifesciences Corp.*
   
127,823,505
 
   
371,410
 
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.*
   
234,563,985
 
   
347,210
 
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.
   
175,157,029
 
   
550,276
 
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
   
220,352,521
 
   
475,688
 
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
   
170,819,561
 
             
1,299,615,407
 
Industrials — 5.2%
 
   
1,945,430
 
Fortive Corp.
   
135,674,288
 
   
904,851
 
Verisk Analytics, Inc.
   
158,095,567
 
             
293,769,855
 
Information Technology — 43.0%
 
   
279,873
 
Accenture PLC
   
82,503,762
 
   
360,888
 
Adobe, Inc.*
   
211,350,448
 
   
792,271
 
Analog Devices, Inc.
   
136,397,375
 
   
494,512
 
Autodesk, Inc.*
   
144,348,053
 
   
1,171,046
 
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.*
   
160,222,514
 
   
3,090,870
 
Dynatrace, Inc.*
   
180,568,625
 
   
474,712
 
Intuit, Inc.
   
232,689,581
 
   
3,002,844
 
Marvell Technology, Inc.
   
175,155,891
 
   
1,005,858
 
Microsoft Corp.
   
272,486,932
 
   
386,140
 
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
   
144,203,983
 
   
201,366
 
NVIDIA Corp.
   
161,112,937
 
   
312,244
 
ServiceNow, Inc.*
   
171,593,690
 
   
563,349
 
Square, Inc.*
   
137,344,486
 
   
941,677
 
Visa, Inc.
   
220,182,916
 
             
2,430,161,193
 
Materials — 1.7%
 
   
474,440
 
Ecolab, Inc.
   
97,720,407
 
Total Common Stocks (Cost $3,223,823,580)
   
5,349,731,142
 
                 
Real Estate Investment Trusts — 3.8%
 
   
802,793
 
American Tower Corp.
   
216,866,501
 
Total Real Estate Investment Trusts (Cost $157,541,336)
   
216,866,501
 
                 
Short-Term Investments — 1.4%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 1.4%
 
   
76,469,607
 
First American Government
       
       
  Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%#
   
76,469,607
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $76,469,607)
   
76,469,607
 
Total Investments — 99.7% (Cost $3,457,834,523)
   
5,643,067,250
 
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities — 0.3%
   
15,154,288
 
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
5,658,221,538
 

 
*
Non-Income Producing
 
#
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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

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Brown Advisory Mid-Cap Growth Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Mid-Cap Growth Fund – Investor Shares (the “Fund”) increased 42.90% in value. During the same period, the Russell Midcap® Growth Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 43.77%.
 
The market snapped back smartly during the year ended June 30, 2021 following the pandemic-driven declines during the first quarter of 2020. Leadership in top market performers shifted from “growth” to “value” and back to “growth” as global COVID-19 case counts ebbed and flowed, effective vaccines were introduced, economies re-opened, and viral variants emerged complicating government responses. Concurrently, the yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury jumped 80 basis points to 1.45% as investors’ fears faded and potential signs of inflation emerged.
 
During the full period, despite oscillating leadership in top market performers, value outpaced growth in the mid-cap space (as measured by the Russell Midcap® Value and Midcap® Growth Indexes) and small-caps beat large caps (as measured by the Russell 2000® Growth and 1000 Growth Indexes). Industrials and technology stocks generally drove returns, while consumer staples, financials, and materials equity prices lagged. Given that this Fund typically sports a beta closer to 0.9 than 1.0, we were happy it nearly kept pace with its benchmark in a surging market that seemed to favor, ironically, more cyclical- and momentum-oriented approaches. From a sector perspective, underperformance in the industrials, technology and real estate sectors offset positive selection effects in the communication services, consumer and financials sectors.
 
Pinterest and Etsy were top contributors to the fund during the period. Both companies benefited from an acceleration in adoption of e-commerce and time spent online in 2020, as well as from an investor rotation into technology and internet stocks. Both also benefited from company-specific initiatives. Pinterest accelerated the monetization of its large and growing user base with platform improvements like auto bidding, video-enabled ads, international expansion, and “shoppable” pins. Etsy continued to improve seller and buyer experiences on its two-sided marketplace by improving search and recommendations and with seller initiatives like free shipping and Etsy ads. Other contributors included semiconductor-maker Marvell Technologies, Charles River Labs (a clinical research organization, or CRO, to biotechnology companies), and salvage-vehicle auctioneer IAA.
 
ACV Auctions (AVCA) was the largest detractor during the 12-month period. Share-price weakness stemmed from a combination of concerns over used car prices peaking, competitor KAR growing its competing offering faster than ACV Auctions, and what appears to be selling pressure after a partial lock-up expired following the stock’s 30% post-IPO run. The company continues to track ahead of our forecasts and we remain excited about its long-term prospects. Neurocrine Biosciences also crimped returns during the period. Revenue growth of the pharmaceutical company’s marketed drug, INGREZZA, as well as its pipeline experienced delays due to COVID-19. We exited the position to fund other opportunities. Other detractors included Jack Henry Associates, Ascendis Pharma and DoorDash.
 
The Fund added 26 new investments during the period, including 14 in technology and communication services, six in the consumer discretionary sector, three in health care, two in industrials, and one in the consumer staples vertical. The Fund exited 30 investments during the period to fund those opportunities. Turnover was mildly above our long-term average due to market volatility and enthusiastic capital market activity.
 
We remain committed to seeking to achieve a diversified portfolio of high-quality companies that we believe are well positioned to seek to contribute to the Fund’s investment objective. We are grateful for your support and look forward to updating you again.
 
Sincerely,
 
George Sakellaris, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 

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Brown Advisory Mid-Cap Growth Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. Investments in smaller companies generally carry greater risk than is customarily associated with larger companies for various reasons such as narrower markets, limited financial resources and less liquid stock. The value of the Fund’s investments in REITs may change in response to changes in the real estate market such as declines in the value of real estate, lack of available capital or financing opportunities, and increases in property taxes or operating costs. The Fund may invest in ETFs, which may trade at a discount to the aggregate value of the underlying securities and although expense ratios for ETFs are generally low, frequent trading of ETFs by the Fund can generate brokerage expenses. Earnings growth is not representative of the fund’s future performance. Diversification does not assure a profit, nor does it protect against a loss in a declining market. Investments in foreign securities entail certain risks not associated with investments in domestic securities, such as volatility of currency exchange rates, and in some cases, political and economic instability and relatively illiquid markets. These risks are greater for investments in emerging markets. Privately Placement issued securities are restricted securities that are not publicly traded. Delay or difficulty in selling such securities may result in a loss to the Fund.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Because the Fund’s ESG criteria exclude securities of certain issuers for nonfinancial reasons, the Fund may forgo some market opportunities available to the funds that do not use these criteria.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Mid-Cap Growth Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund compared with the broad-based securities market index. The Russell Midcap Growth Index (“Index”) measures the performance of the mid-capitalization growth sector of the U.S. equity market. The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Information Technology
  24.9%
Health Care
  20.9%
Consumer Discretionary
  14.3%
Communication Services
  13.9%
Industrials
  11.6%
Materials
    4.1%
Money Market Funds
    3.9%
Consumer Staples
    2.5%
Real Estate Investment Trusts
    2.1%
Financials
    1.7%
Other Assets and Liabilities
    0.1%
 
100.0%

   
Since Inception
Average Annual Total Return
One Year
(10/2/17)
Institutional Shares1
43.03%
20.52%
Investor Shares
42.90%
20.34%
Russell Midcap Growth Index
43.77%
21.20%

 
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio2
0.89%
1.04%
Net Expense Ratio2
0.83%
0.98%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/mid-cap-growth-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Performance information for the Institutional Shares, prior to commencement of operations on July 2, 2018, is based on the performance of Investor Shares, and adjusted for the lower expenses applicable to Institutional Shares.
2
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Mid-Cap Growth Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Common Stocks — 93.9%
 
   
Communication Services — 13.9%
 
   
4,187
 
Doximity, Inc.*
   
243,683
 
   
21,427
 
Electronic Arts, Inc.
   
3,081,845
 
   
4,958
 
IAC/InterActiveCorp*
   
764,375
 
   
21,166
 
Liberty Broadband Corp.*
   
3,559,486
 
   
28,483
 
Match Group, Inc.*
   
4,592,884
 
   
98,224
 
Pinterest, Inc.*
   
7,754,785
 
   
54,961
 
Vimeo, Inc.*
   
2,693,089
 
   
392,486
 
Zynga, Inc.*
   
4,172,127
 
             
26,862,274
 
Consumer Discretionary — 14.3%
 
   
55,833
 
ACV Auctions, Inc.*
   
1,431,000
 
   
21,427
 
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc.*
   
3,152,126
 
   
2,265
 
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.*
   
3,511,520
 
   
14,546
 
Etsy, Inc.*
   
2,994,149
 
   
5,226
 
Lululemon Athletica, Inc.*
   
1,907,333
 
   
74,647
 
National Vision Holdings, Inc.*
   
3,816,701
 
   
15,504
 
Ross Stores, Inc.
   
1,922,496
 
   
23,623
 
Shift4 Payments, Inc.*
   
2,213,948
 
   
11,323
 
Ulta Beauty, Inc.*
   
3,915,153
 
   
8,275
 
Wayfair, Inc.*
   
2,612,500
 
             
27,476,926
 
Consumer Staples — 2.5%
 
   
15,417
 
Brown-Forman Corp.
   
1,155,350
 
   
15,853
 
Casey’s General Stores, Inc.
   
3,085,628
 
   
21,166
 
Oatly Group AB ADR*
   
517,720
 
             
4,758,698
 
Financials — 1.7%
 
   
53,917
 
KKR & Co., Inc.
   
3,194,043
 
                 
Health Care — 20.9%
 
   
13,501
 
Ascendis Pharma A/S ADR*
   
1,776,057
 
   
15,417
 
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Co., Ltd.*
   
1,496,682
 
   
5,052
 
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.*
   
3,254,953
 
   
10,191
 
Blueprint Medicines Corp.*
   
896,400
 
   
34,493
 
Catalent, Inc.*
   
3,729,383
 
   
10,801
 
Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.*
   
3,995,506
 
   
4,442
 
DexCom, Inc.*
   
1,896,734
 
   
58,185
 
Edwards Lifesciences Corp.*
   
6,026,221
 
   
23,257
 
HealthEquity, Inc.*
   
1,871,723
 
   
18,466
 
Inari Medical, Inc.*
   
1,722,508
 
   
44,819
 
LifeStance Health Group, Inc.*
   
1,248,657
 
   
39,232
 
Oak Street Health, Inc.*
   
2,297,819
 
   
14,459
 
Teleflex, Inc.
   
5,809,482
 
   
13,859
 
Veeva Systems, Inc.*
   
4,309,456
 
             
40,331,581
 
Industrials — 11.6%
 
   
4,442
 
Cintas Corp.
   
1,696,844
 
   
10,278
 
Equifax, Inc.
   
2,461,684
 
   
107,921
 
IAA, Inc.*
   
5,886,010
 
   
9,059
 
IDEX Corp.
   
1,993,433
 
   
10,452
 
SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc.*
   
1,769,106
 
   
18,814
 
Verisk Analytics, Inc.
   
3,287,182
 
   
43,290
 
Waste Connections, Inc.
   
5,170,125
 
             
22,264,384
 
Information Technology — 24.9%
 
   
11,193
 
Autodesk, Inc.*
   
3,267,237
 
   
17,074
 
Confluent, Inc.*
   
811,015
 
   
89,968
 
Dynatrace, Inc.*
   
5,255,930
 
   
7,926
 
Fair Isaac Corp.*
   
3,984,241
 
   
86,406
 
Genpact, Ltd.
   
3,925,425
 
   
80,309
 
GoDaddy, Inc.*
   
6,983,670
 
   
15,679
 
Guidewire Software, Inc.*
   
1,767,337
 
   
8,188
 
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.
   
1,338,820
 
   
9,017
 
KLA Corp.
   
2,923,402
 
   
108,966
 
Marvell Technology, Inc.
   
6,355,986
 
   
14,808
 
NXP Semiconductors NV
   
3,046,302
 
   
56,419
 
SentinelOne, Inc.*
   
2,397,808
 
   
15,504
 
WEX, Inc.*
   
3,006,226
 
   
26,479
 
Workiva, Inc.*
   
2,947,907
 
             
48,011,306
 
Materials — 4.1%
 
   
56,356
 
Ball Corp.
   
4,565,963
 
   
31,618
 
FMC Corp.
   
3,421,068
 
             
7,987,031
 
Total Common Stocks (Cost $122,787,341)
   
180,886,243
 
                 
Real Estate Investment Trusts — 2.1%
 
   
12,630
 
SBA Communications Corp.
   
4,025,181
 
Total Real Estate Investment Trusts (Cost $2,963,073)
   
4,025,181
 
                 
Short-Term Investments — 3.9%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 3.9%
 
   
7,408,454
 
First American Government
       
       
  Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%#
   
7,408,454
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $7,408,454)
   
7,408,454
 
Total Investments — 99.9% (Cost $133,158,868)
   
192,319,878
 
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities — 0.1%
   
242,011
 
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
192,561,889
 

 
*
Non-Income Producing
ADR — American Depositary Receipt
 
#
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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Brown Advisory Small-Cap Growth Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Small-Cap Growth Fund – Institutional Shares (the “Fund”) increased 43.31% in value. During the same period, the Russell 2000® Growth Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 51.36%.
 
Stylistically, the portfolio netted strong results for the parts of the period when “quality” mattered but faced headwinds when low-quality market leadership dominated. Overall, we were pleased with the portfolio’s gains given the relative risk assumed to produce the appreciation. More importantly progress remained sound as well as our team’s productivity, as measured by pipeline build and due diligence. We believe both are foundational to producing sound risk-adjusted returns over the long-term.
 
The investment environment over the last 12 months was, in our opinion, extraordinary—you almost cannot make up the macroeconomic twists and turns and their impact on public equity markets. While we were fascinated by the “risk-on, risk-off” dynamics, meme stock performance, retail fund flows, the explosion of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, the erratic movement of the 10-year treasury yield, and the eye popping headline (and underlying) inflation data being witnessed, we strived to remain wholly focused on our core objective. We believe finding, evaluating, and owning, at the right price, 3G (durable growth, sound governance and scalable go- to-market strategies) businesses over a multi-year time frame can make the difficult journey from small- to mid- to large-cap status.
 
This investment process has yielded a portfolio with low- to mid-90% active share, a beta below 1, a standard deviation less than the benchmark, and generally solid capital conservation. While we believe our attention to valuation and portfolio diversification aids in producing these characteristics, the lion’s share is likely due to the higher-than-average quality of our individual portfolio holdings. Business attributes such as a strong and diverse board of directors, capable and shareholder-friendly management teams, well above-average gross margins, strong prospective returns on investor capital, low capital intensity and responsibly constructed balance sheets are all things we seek out, positively skewing the “quality” of our portfolio compared to the average small- cap company. Thus, while we expect our bottom-up stock selection to drive returns over time, our “quality” bias remains relevant to relative short-term investment results.
 
Diving one level down on performance, there were two sectors that detracted from overall relative gains and one sector that was demonstratively positive. Health care was highly additive to results driven by solid, bottom-up security selection. Industrials and information technology produced attractive absolute gains, but a relative lack of cyclicality and momentum, respectively, did not enable these areas to keep up with their benchmark constituents.
 
During the past year, there were a few contributors and detractors of note. On the positive side of the ledger, we had two health care and one technology holding stand out. Charles River Laboratories, Inc. (CRL) was the top contributor for the period. CRL is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO), which provides essential products and services to help pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, government agencies and academic institutions. Charles River Laboratories continues to execute at a high level as the leading pre-clinical CRO, supporting hundreds of well-funded biotechnology assets. Strategic M&A in the high growth areas of cell and gene therapy continued this quarter and investors continued to gain confidence in the durability of CRL’s growth profile. Workiva, Inc. (WK) was the second top contributor for the period. Workiva engages in the provision of cloud-based compliance and regulatory reporting solutions that are designed to solve business challenges at the intersection of data, process and people. Workiva reported accelerating bookings on broad-based demand. The company also announced an ESG-specific reporting product that expands the company’s addressable market opportunity markedly. Numerous growth drivers appear intact over the next few years, providing comfort with the holding despite meaningful multiple expansion since acquiring the position. The third largest contributor for the period was Establishment Labs Holdings, Inc. (ESTA). Establishment Labs Holdings is a technology company which engages in the design, development, manufacture and marketing of silicone breast implants. Establishment Labs Holdings continues to garner more investor attention following several new and novel product announcements that dramatically expand its total addressable market. The management team executed well during the pandemic and appears set up well as global economies re-open.
 
Interestingly, the stocks on the negative side of the ledger matched our contributors with two health care and one technology holding. Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (NBIX) was the largest detractor during the period. Neurocrine is a neuroscience-focused, biopharmaceutical company. It discovers, develops and intends to commercialize drugs for the treatment of neurological and endocrine- related diseases and disorders. Neurocrine has under-performed over the last year because sales of Ingrezza, the company’s multi-billion-dollar drug for tardive dyskinesia (TD), have grown at a slower rate than expected. Some investors
 

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Brown Advisory Small-Cap Growth Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
question whether this is due to saturation of the TD market, but we believe that there is a still plenty more room for penetration in the TD market, and that a majority of TD patients still go undiagnosed. We subscribe to the view that Ingrezza sales have disappointed due to the disruption of in-person psychiatry visits due to COVID-19. TD involves persistent involuntary movements and tics which are less easily diagnosed virtually, so we expect that with a return to in-person psychiatry visits we’ll see a re-acceleration in Ingrezza sales, and a recovery in the Neurocrine share price. The second largest detractor during the period was ON24, Inc. (ONTF). ON24 provides webcasting and video communications solutions. ON24 was a recent IPO, going public in February of 2020. We have sat tight with our initial position, which is relatively small. The stock has underperformed since its initial pop post-offering as investors question the long-term competitive landscape. We remain relatively constructive on the company’s ability to navigate the difficult comparisons presented by the boom in demand from COVID-19. FibroGen, Inc. (FGEN) was the third largest detractor during the period. FibroGen is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapeutics. FibroGen declined in the fourth quarter of 2020 due to the FDA’s decision to extend the review period for the company’s lead asset, Roxadustat, in order to fulfill a request for additional analyses. The position was eliminated.
 
The volatility and market leadership changes during the period made it an active one for the portfolio. The Fund made 28 new investments over the course of the year, which was driven primarily by the dramatic changes in valuations that necessitated nearly 19 eliminations. Notable additions include: Agilon Health, Inc. and AZEK Company, Inc.
 
Agilon Health, Inc. (AGL), which was purchased in April 2021, engages in providing necessary capabilities, capital and business model for existing physician groups to create a Medicare-centric, globally capitated line of business. Agilon Health partners with primary care groups enabling them to practice medicine more fully, having greater influence on downstream costs and share in created savings. The model empowers doctors through capital, resources and collaboration to have immediate impact while practicing more complete, tailored primary care. The company came public in mid-April 2021 also to meaningful investor interest. We received an out-sized allocation of the deal.
 
AZEK Company, Inc. (AZEK), purchased at the beginning of 2021, is a manufacturer of premium building products that replace traditional materials and provide value through lower maintenance, refined aesthetics and reduced total cost. AZEK is a leading manufacturer of low-maintenance and environmentally sustainable building products, best known for its residential decking brand TimberTech. AZEK operates in an attractive composite decking space that offers a combination of secular growth, less cyclicality given decking replacement demand and margin enhancement opportunities.
 
We remain confident that following an investment philosophy and process can yield favorable risk-adjusted returns in the U.S. small-cap market over time. We are confident that the foundation of our efforts and our team, remains solid. With the recent robust initial public offering environment, we believe the population of small- to mid-capitalization securities is more robust today than it has been in years. We are optimistic that we can continue to find business franchises that fit our underlying “3G” (durable growth, sound governance and scalable go-to-market) investment filter that we believe can tilt the odds of success in our favor over time. Our challenge is that we inhabit a complex macroeconomic and equity market environment of which one of the byproducts is elevated valuations within the small-cap growth space in general. To cope with these higher prices, we intend to continue to drive our investment pipeline so that we can take advantage of idiosyncratic or market dislocations to add long-term value to shareholders. Our mantra remains the same: you cannot predict volatility, but you can attempt to prepare for it.
 
We move into the back half of calendar year 2021 with the belief that we are well prepared and optimistic that our philosophy and process can yield attractive risk-adjusted returns to our investors in the future.
 
Sincerely,
 
Chris Berrier
Portfolio Manager
 

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Brown Advisory Small-Cap Growth Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. Investments in smaller companies generally carry greater risk than is customarily associated with larger companies for various reasons such as narrower markets, limited financial resources and less liquid stock. The value of the Fund’s investments in REITs may change in response to changes in the real estate market such as declines in the value of real estate, lack of available capital or financing opportunities, and increases in property taxes or operating costs. The Fund may invest in ETFs, which may trade at a discount to the aggregate value of the underlying securities and although expense ratios for ETFs are generally low, frequent trading of ETFs by the Fund can generate brokerage expenses. Earnings growth is not representative of the fund’s future performance. Diversification does not assure a profit, nor does it protect against a loss in a declining market. Investments in foreign securities entail certain risks not associated with investments in domestic securities, such as volatility of currency exchange rates, and in some cases, political and economic instability and relatively illiquid markets. These risks are greater for investments in emerging markets. Privately Placement issued securities are restricted securities that are not publicly traded. Delay or difficulty in selling such securities may result in a loss to the Fund.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Small-Cap Growth Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $1,000,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $1,000,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund compared with the broad-based securities market index. The Russell 2000® Growth Index (“Index”) measures the performance of the small-cap growth segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 2000® companies with higher price to book ratios and higher forecasted growth values. The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Information Technology
  26.5%
Health Care
  24.9%
Consumer Discretionary
  12.7%
Industrials
  12.1%
Communication Services
    6.8%
Money Market Funds
    4.5%
Consumer Staples
    3.6%
Materials
    2.5%
Financials
    2.3%
Real Estate Investment Trusts
    2.2%
Energy
    0.6%
Private Placements
    0.1%
Other Assets and Liabilities
    1.2%
 
100.0%

Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
Ten Year
Institutional Shares
43.31%
18.13%
14.07%
Investor Shares
43.11%
17.95%
13.91%
Advisor Shares
42.74%
17.65%
13.63%
Russell 2000® Growth Index
51.36%
18.76%
13.52%

 
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Advisor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio1
0.99%
1.14%
1.39%
Net Expense Ratio1
0.99%
1.14%
1.39%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/small-cap-growth-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Investment performance reflects periods during which fee waivers were in effect.  In the absence of such waivers, total return would have been reduced.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Small-Cap Growth Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Common Stocks — 92.0%
 
   
Communication Services — 6.8%
 
   
2,918,168
 
Angi, Inc.*
   
39,453,631
 
   
503,338
 
Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc.
   
38,701,659
 
   
318,290
 
Vimeo, Inc.*
   
15,596,210
 
   
7,742,473
 
Zynga, Inc.*
   
82,302,488
 
             
176,053,988
 
Consumer Discretionary — 12.7%
 
   
315,061
 
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc.*
   
46,348,624
 
   
292,485
 
Chegg, Inc.*
   
24,308,428
 
   
216,169
 
Choice Hotels International, Inc.
   
25,693,847
 
   
118,490
 
Churchill Downs, Inc.
   
23,491,828
 
   
1,163,272
 
Clarus Corp.
   
29,896,090
 
   
741,713
 
Leslie's, Inc.*
   
20,389,690
 
   
1,026,720
 
MakeMyTrip, Ltd.*
   
30,852,936
 
   
842,178
 
National Vision Holdings, Inc.*
   
43,060,561
 
   
673,623
 
Terminix Global Holdings, Inc.*
   
32,138,553
 
   
164,625
 
TopBuild Corp.*
   
32,559,533
 
   
514,500
 
Vroom, Inc.*
   
21,536,970
 
             
330,277,060
 
Consumer Staples — 3.6%
 
   
231,998
 
Casey's General Stores, Inc.
   
45,156,091
 
   
593,506
 
Hain Celestial Group, Inc.*
   
23,811,461
 
   
703,760
 
Simply Good Foods Co.*
   
25,694,277
 
             
94,661,829
 
Energy — 0.6%
 
   
426,251
 
Cactus, Inc.
   
15,651,937
 
                 
Financials — 2.3%
 
   
116,828
 
Hamilton Lane, Inc.
   
10,645,367
 
   
664,584
 
Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.
   
47,717,131
 
             
58,362,498
 
Health Care — 24.9%
 
   
695,733
 
Abcam PLC ADR*
   
13,246,756
 
   
142,097
 
Acceleron Pharma, Inc.*
   
17,831,753
 
   
988,687
 
agilon health, Inc.*
   
40,111,032
 
   
541,271
 
Alignment Healthcare, Inc.*
   
12,649,503
 
   
114,653
 
Ascendis Pharma A/S ADR*
   
15,082,602
 
   
312,018
 
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Co., Ltd.*
   
30,290,707
 
   
253,605
 
Blueprint Medicines Corp.*
   
22,307,096
 
   
449,064
 
Bruker Corp.
   
34,119,883
 
   
454,434
 
Catalent, Inc.*
   
49,133,404
 
   
224,316
 
Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.*
   
82,978,975
 
   
331,347
 
Encompass Health Corp.
   
25,855,006
 
   
526,645
 
Establishment Labs Holdings, Inc.*
   
45,997,174
 
   
460,179
 
HealthEquity, Inc.*
   
37,035,206
 
   
158,669
 
Inari Medical, Inc.*
   
14,800,644
 
   
620,975
 
LifeStance Health Group, Inc.*
   
17,300,364
 
   
1,069,387
 
NeoGenomics, Inc.*
   
48,304,211
 
   
248,172
 
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.*
   
24,152,099
 
   
119,591
 
Nevro Corp.*
   
19,826,992
 
   
396,297
 
Oak Street Health, Inc.*
   
23,211,115
 
   
124,909
 
Olink Holding AB ADR*
   
4,299,368
 
   
406,560
 
OrthoPediatrics Corp.*
   
25,686,461
 
   
467,658
 
Progyny, Inc.*
   
27,591,822
 
   
466,635
 
SI-BONE, Inc.*
   
14,685,003
 
             
646,497,176
 
Industrials — 12.1%
 
   
670,391
 
AZEK Co., Inc.*
   
28,464,802
 
   
275,738
 
FTI Consulting, Inc.*
   
37,668,568
 
   
1,125,886
 
IAA, Inc.*
   
61,405,822
 
   
47,631
 
IDEX Corp.
   
10,481,201
 
   
206,936
 
John Bean Technologies Corp.
   
29,513,212
 
   
417,137
 
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings, Inc.
   
18,963,048
 
   
168,408
 
MSA Safety, Inc.
   
27,884,997
 
   
199,957
 
SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc.*
   
33,844,722
 
   
58,253
 
Valmont Industries, Inc.
   
13,750,621
 
   
303,041
 
Waste Connections, Inc.
   
36,192,187
 
   
117,928
 
Woodward, Inc.
   
14,490,993
 
             
312,660,173
 
Information Technology — 26.5%
 
   
405,015
 
Accolade, Inc.*
   
21,996,365
 
   
264,412
 
BlackLine, Inc.*
   
29,421,123
 
   
271,012
 
CMC Materials, Inc.
   
40,852,349
 
   
436,532
 
Dynatrace, Inc.*
   
25,502,199
 
   
295,425
 
Entegris, Inc.
   
36,328,412
 
   
343,082
 
Envestnet, Inc.*
   
26,026,200
 
   
1,727,351
 
EVO Payments, Inc.*
   
47,916,717
 
   
1,716,780
 
Genpact, Ltd.
   
77,993,315
 
   
2,781,815
 
Infinera Corp.*
   
28,374,513
 
   
670,115
 
Lattice Semiconductor Corp.*
   
37,647,061
 
   
102,579
 
Littelfuse, Inc.
   
26,136,103
 
   
351,203
 
ManTech International Corp.
   
30,393,108
 
   
656,787
 
Mimecast, Ltd.*
   
34,842,550
 
   
285,695
 
Nuance Communications, Inc.*
   
15,553,236
 
   
211,858
 
ON24, Inc.*
   
7,516,722
 
   
519,872
 
Phreesia, Inc.*
   
31,868,154
 
   
532,453
 
PROS Holdings, Inc.*
   
24,263,883
 
   
433,134
 
Sumo Logic, Inc.*
   
8,944,217
 
   
116,624
 
WEX, Inc.*
   
22,613,394
 
   
765,896
 
Workiva, Inc.*
   
85,267,202
 
   
1,704,415
 
Zuora, Inc.*
   
29,401,159
 
             
688,857,982
 
Materials — 2.5%
 
   
453,849
 
HB Fuller Co.
   
28,869,335
 
   
150,768
 
Quaker Chemical Corp.
   
35,760,662
 
             
64,629,997
 
Total Common Stocks (Cost $1,492,736,800)
   
2,387,652,640
 
                 
Private Placements — 0.1%
 
   
19,200
 
Greenspring Global Partners IV-B, L.P.*^†
   
1,643,157
 
   
91,769
 
Greenspring Global Partners V-B, L.P.*~†
   
140,293
 
Total Private Placements (Cost $—)
   
1,783,450
 
                 
Real Estate Investment Trusts — 2.2%
 
   
1,867,477
 
DigitalBridge Group, Inc.*
   
14,753,068
 
   
262,106
 
EastGroup Properties, Inc.
   
43,103,332
 
Total Real Estate Investment Trusts (Cost $42,036,044)
   
57,856,400
 

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

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Brown Advisory Small-Cap Growth Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Short-Term Investments — 4.5%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 4.5%
 
   
116,999,929
 
First American Government
     
       
  Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%#
   
116,999,929
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $116,999,929)
   
116,999,929
 
Total Investments — 98.8% (Cost $1,651,772,773)
   
2,564,292,419
 
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities — 1.2%
   
30,843,314
 
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
2,595,135,733
 

 
*
Non-Income Producing
ADR — American Depositary Receipt
 
^
Security is exempt from registration under Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933. Security was acquired from February 2008 to April 2018 as part of a $2,000,000 capital commitment. As of the date of this report, $1,920,000 of the capital commitment has been fulfilled by the Fund.
 
~
Security is exempt from registration under Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933. Security was acquired from October 2012 to August 2018 as part of a $100,000 capital commitment. As of the date of this report, $91,000 of the capital commitment has been fulfilled by the Fund.
 
These securities are being fair valued, using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3), under the supervision of the Board of Trustees. Further, they may not be sold by the Fund. Total unfunded capital commitments related to these holdings are immaterial and total $89,000, or 0.0% of the Fund’s net assets as of the date of this report.
 
#
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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

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Brown Advisory Small-Cap Fundamental Value Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Small-Cap Fundamental Value Fund – Investor Shares (the “Fund”) increased 54.74% in value. During the same period, the Russell 2000® Value Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 73.28%.
 
The second half of 2020 represented what we believe to be a more normalized pace of activity. Despite the sharp rebound in share prices that preceded the period, we were able to find businesses with what we believe were attractive cash flow profiles trading at discounted valuations.
 
For the year ended June 30, 2021, the Fund trailed its benchmark. Consumer discretionary and information technology were the largest detractors to performance overall, while our financials holdings were the biggest positive contributor during the period.
 
Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS) was the top contributor for the period. Virtus is an asset management company which engages in the provision of investment management and related services to individuals and institutions. Virtus acquired a sizable portion of Allianz Global’s U.S. asset management business. Virtus continues to benefit from a strong equity market as well as the incremental positive impact from the acquisition.
 
EchoStar Corporation (SATS) was the largest detractor during the period. The company is a leading provider of satellite operations and broadband services in more than 100 countries across the globe. Echostar’s multiple contracted over the last year despite resilient revenue and profit results. We expect continued share repurchase activity, the satisfaction of regulatory requirements to maintain rights to a key portion of the S Band spectrum in Europe, and the approach of the company’s Jupiter 3 satellite launch in 2022 should all drive shareholder value over the coming year.
 
The Fund made 14 new investments over the course of the year. Notable additions include: ChampionX Corporation, Vista Outdoor and Ingevity Corporation.
 
ChampionX Corporation (CHX), which was purchased at the end of 2020, is an oilfield services company that was created when Apergy and ChampionX (a former division of Ecolab) combined through a Reverse Morris Trust in June of 2020. The combination of COVID-19 and the ensuing collapse in oil and gas demand during the second quarter made the timing of this transaction rather unfortunate. While both Apergy and ChampionX were strong in their respective market on their own prior to the merger, we believe the newly-formed entity should have increased global scale and structurally higher EBITDA margins given the sizable operating synergies that are expected to be realized over time. Over 80% of ChampionX Corporation’s combined revenue base is tied to production as opposed to drilling, thus making the underlying revenues less cyclical than many other small-cap energy names. The company’s core production chemicals technologies business has 25% global share of a consolidated industry that is consumption based (as opposed to equipment/asset based) and requires little ongoing capital investment. Management expects that total capex for ChampionX Corporation should remain near 2.5% of sales going forward and all free cash flow (FCF) will be targeted towards debt reduction until a leverage ratio of under <1x EBITDA is reached. At the time of our purchase, ChampionX Corp. was trading at 9.3x enterprise value to EBITDA and a 9% FCF yield.
 
Vista Outdoor (VSTO), purchased in November of 2020, was the second biggest contributor over the past 12 months. Vista Outdoor is a leading manufacturer of ammunition and outdoor recreational products. Over the past two plus years under new management, Vista Outdoor has focused on key strategic initiatives to improve operations and strengthen its balance sheet. We believe that the recent acquisition of Remington’s ammunition business out of bankruptcy will help to accelerate these new initiatives and serve to increase the effective valuation.
 
Ingevity Corporation (NGVT), purchased in the beginning of the second quarter of 2021, is a specialty chemicals company with industry leading margins, that is trading at a sizable discount to peers for the first time in years. The company has demonstrated strong pricing power historically across all its businesses given its leading market shares and its FCF conversion remains near the top end of the group. We believe that the stock’s recent underperformance provides a compelling opportunity and at the time of our initial purchase Ingevity was trading at less than 9x EBITDA with a 7.5% FCF yield.
 
The Fund was also active in selling its investments, with 19 eliminations over the course of the year. The majority of exits were in the financial sector and included National General and Waddell Reed, which were sold in cash transactions.
 

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Brown Advisory Small-Cap Fundamental Value Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Over the next several months, we expect the economy to continue to open and gain momentum. We intend to be acutely focused on monitoring whether the actual results can match the high expectations that have been set in many small-cap sub-sectors. We believe that our process and philosophy are designed to assemble a portfolio of investments that seeks our investment objective and can deliver attractive performance to our investors.
 
Sincerely,
 
J. David Schuster
Portfolio Manager
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. Investments in smaller companies generally carry greater risk than is customarily associated with larger companies for various reasons such as narrower markets, limited financial resources and less liquid stock. The value of the Fund’s investments in REITs may change in response to changes in the real estate market such as declines in the value of real estate, lack of available capital or financing opportunities, and increases in property taxes or operating costs. The Fund may invest in ETFs, which may trade at a discount to the aggregate value of the underlying securities and although expense ratios for ETFs are generally low, frequent trading of ETFs by the Fund can generate brokerage expenses. Earnings growth is not representative of the fund’s future performance. Diversification does not assure a profit, nor does it protect against a loss in a declining market. Investments in foreign securities entail certain risks not associated with investments in domestic securities, such as volatility of currency exchange rates, and in some cases, political and economic instability and relatively illiquid markets. These risks are greater for investments in emerging markets. Privately Placement issued securities are restricted securities that are not publicly traded. Delay or difficulty in selling such securities may result in a loss to the Fund.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Small-Cap Fundamental Value Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against a broad-based securities market index. The Russell 2000® Value Index (“Index”) measures the performance of small-cap value segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 2000® companies with lower price to book ratios and lower forecasted growth values. The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Financials
  26.9%
Industrials
  19.7%
Consumer Discretionary
  12.6%
Information Technology
    8.6%
Real Estate Investment Trusts
    7.5%
Materials
    5.3%
Energy
    4.8%
Consumer Staples
    3.8%
Communication Services
    3.7%
Utilities
    2.8%
Money Market Funds
    2.1%
Health Care
    1.7%
Other Assets and Liabilities
    0.5%
 
100.0%

Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
Ten Year
Institutional Shares1
54.97%
10.52%
10.40%
Investor Shares
54.74%
10.35%
10.23%
Advisor Shares2
54.37%
10.08%
9.96%
Russell 2000® Value Index
73.28%
13.62%
10.85%

 
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Advisor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio3
1.24%
1.39%
1.64%
Net Expense Ratio3
1.24%
1.39%
1.64%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/small-cap-fundamental-value-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Investment performance reflects periods during which fee waivers were in effect.  In the absence of such waivers, total return would have been reduced.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Performance information for the Institutional Shares, prior to commencement of operations on October 19, 2012, is based on the performance of Investor Shares, and adjusted for the lower expenses applicable to Institutional Shares.
2
Performance information for Advisor Shares, prior to commencement on July 28, 2011, is based on the performance of Investor Shares, and adjusted for the higher expenses applicable to Advisor Shares.
3
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Small-Cap Fundamental Value Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Common Stocks — 89.9%
 
   
Communication Services — 3.7%
 
   
310,625
 
Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
   
45,935,225
 
                 
Consumer Discretionary — 12.6%
 
   
766,317
 
Core-Mark Holding Co., Inc.
   
34,491,928
 
   
316,805
 
Culp, Inc.
   
5,163,922
 
   
462,523
 
Denny’s Corp.*
   
7,627,004
 
   
97,904
 
Helen of Troy Ltd.*
   
22,333,860
 
   
547,741
 
La-Z-Boy, Inc.
   
20,288,327
 
   
142,465
 
Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc.*
   
9,426,909
 
   
145,067
 
Murphy USA, Inc.
   
19,347,586
 
   
832,020
 
Vista Outdoor, Inc.*
   
38,505,886
 
             
157,185,422
 
Consumer Staples — 3.8%
 
   
956,921
 
Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.*
   
23,779,487
 
   
535,707
 
TreeHouse Foods, Inc.*
   
23,849,676
 
             
47,629,163
 
Energy — 4.8%
 
   
1,705,674
 
ChampionX Corp.*
   
43,750,538
 
   
349,010
 
Natural Gas Services Group, Inc.*
   
3,587,823
 
   
144,416
 
REX American Resources Corp.*
   
13,023,435
 
             
60,361,796
 
Financials — 26.9%
 
   
116,119
 
Alerus Financial Corp.
   
3,368,612
 
   
167,510
 
Assurant, Inc.
   
26,161,712
 
   
491,796
 
Bancorp, Inc.*
   
11,316,226
 
   
1,577,521
 
Eastern Bankshares, Inc.
   
32,449,607
 
   
161,330
 
Hanover Insurance Group, Inc.
   
21,882,801
 
   
270,943
 
Kemper Corp.
   
20,022,688
 
   
1,779,183
 
MGIC Investment Corp.
   
24,196,889
 
   
827,467
 
Pacific Premier Bancorp, Inc.
   
34,993,580
 
   
332,418
 
Peapack Gladstone Financial Corp.
   
10,328,227
 
   
174,666
 
Primerica, Inc.
   
26,748,351
 
   
292,411
 
Renasant Corp.
   
11,696,440
 
   
644,995
 
TriState Capital Holdings, Inc.*
   
13,151,448
 
   
440,405
 
UMB Financial Corp.
   
40,984,089
 
   
952,367
 
Veritex Holdings, Inc.
   
33,723,316
 
   
88,151
 
Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.
   
24,485,703
 
             
335,509,689
 
Health Care — 1.7%
 
   
513,374
 
Owens & Minor, Inc.
   
21,731,121
 
                 
Industrials — 19.7%
 
   
243,296
 
Albany International Corp.
   
21,716,601
 
   
242,645
 
American Woodmark Corp.*
   
19,821,670
 
   
308,999
 
Comfort Systems USA, Inc.
   
24,346,031
 
   
205,891
 
CRA International, Inc.
   
17,624,270
 
   
215,323
 
Curtiss-Wright Corp.
   
25,571,759
 
   
575,388
 
Federal Signal Corp.
   
23,147,859
 
   
120,022
 
Kadant, Inc.
   
21,134,674
 
   
316,480
 
McGrath RentCorp
   
25,815,274
 
   
1,188,833
 
Mueller Water Products, Inc.
   
17,142,972
 
   
201,337
 
Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc.
   
22,235,658
 
   
435,526
 
SPX Corp.*
   
26,601,928
 
             
245,158,696
 
Information Technology — 8.6%
 
   
177,593
 
CMC Materials, Inc.
   
26,770,369
 
   
418,549
 
CTS Corp.
   
15,553,281
 
   
821,612
 
EchoStar Corp.*
   
19,956,955
 
   
416,010
 
Onto Innovation, Inc.*
   
30,385,370
 
   
119,696
 
PC Connection, Inc.
   
5,538,334
 
   
192,230
 
Vectrus, Inc.*
   
9,148,226
 
             
107,352,535
 
Materials — 5.3%
 
   
265,414
 
Eagle Materials, Inc.
   
37,717,983
 
   
345,883
 
Ingevity Corp.*
   
28,141,041
 
             
65,859,024
 
Utilities — 2.8%
 
   
520,419
 
Portland General Electric Co.
   
23,980,908
 
   
1,031,081
 
Star Group L.P.
   
11,548,107
 
             
35,529,015
 
Total Common Stocks (Cost $718,029,499)
   
1,122,251,686
 
                 
Real Estate Investment Trusts — 7.5%
 
   
49,765
 
CTO Realty Growth, Inc.
   
2,663,423
 
   
127,177
 
EastGroup Properties, Inc.
   
20,914,257
 
   
1,055,150
 
Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc.
   
28,531,256
 
   
472,606
 
Getty Realty Corp.
   
14,721,677
 
   
2,281,713
 
Ladder Capital Corp.
   
26,330,968
 
Total Real Estate Investment Trusts (Cost $64,748,220)
   
93,161,581
 
                 
Short-Term Investments — 2.1%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 2.1%
 
   
26,580,611
 
First American Government
       
       
  Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.03%#
   
26,580,611
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $26,580,611)
   
26,580,611
 
Total Investments — 99.5% (Cost $809,358,330)
   
1,241,993,878
 
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities — 0.5%
   
5,629,601
 
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
1,247,623,479
 

 
*
Non-Income Producing
 
#
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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Brown Advisory Global Leaders Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Global Leaders Fund – Investor Shares (the “Fund”) increased 37.91% in value. During the same period, the FTSE All-World Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 39.18%.
 
The Fund returned an annualized 14.67% since inception compared to 11.17% for the Index.
 
The Fund is focused on delivering long-term performance by investing in equity securities of companies that we believe are leaders within their industry or country, as demonstrated by an ability to deliver high relative return on invested capital over time. We are bottom-up investors and invest in securities based on fundamentals rather than geographic or macroeconomic factors. We believe patience and a long-time horizon are underrated virtues in investing, and we remain disciplined on both. We continue to believe that overpaying for good businesses is an ever-present risk for quality- focused investors and we do our best to avoid this mistake too.
 
For the year ended June 30, 2021, the biggest contributing sector to relative performance was information technology. Financials was the worst performing sector mainly due to a rally in interest rate sensitive financials which are not the core focus of the Fund’s financials exposure. Not having any exposure to energy, utilities or real estate benefited the performance during the reporting period. The reporting period was marked by significant global advancements in the fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic. Progress was made on testing, vaccine development, implementation of vaccination programs and the re-opening of global economies, particularly in developed markets. The result was a strong rally for market segments that have suffered from a prolonged lockdown and manifested itself in a rotation from growth and quality into more value-oriented stocks for the rest of the reporting period. While this was a challenging environment for the quality focused Fund, its valuation discipline and global diversification helped it to keep up with the Index. This was particularly notable in the 6-month period from October 30, 2020 to April 30, 2021 after Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca received approval for their COVID-19 vaccines.
 
From an individual stock perspective, the best performers were information technology stocks, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Alphabet and Microsoft, followed by Charles Schwab. As mentioned in our semi-annual report we believe TSMC has been taking the lead as the most advanced semiconductor manufacturer with main competitor Intel delaying production and falling behind TSMC. Charles Schwab’s share price more than doubled during the last year. This was driven by the expectation for higher medium-to-long-term interest rates moving net interest income and net interest margins up. More near term, the company’s financials benefited from a successful integration of TD Ameritrade and surging retail trading activity, particularly in the beginning of 2021. Deutsche Bourse detracted the most, due in our opinion to concerns around the impact that low volatility would have on equity index volumes at Eurex. We conducted a drawdown review and added to the position based on strong structural growth drivers and an attractive internal rate of return (IRR).
 
During the past year we have invested in two new companies, Adobe and Fair Isaac Corporation, while the position in Aspen Technology was sold. Fair Isaac is the creator of the FICO score, a single published score for consumer creditworthiness used in over 90% of U.S. consumer lending decisions. The company has a strong Sustainable Advantage Driver as it enables financial inclusion opportunities for consumers and financial institutions to rely on the FICO score to reduce losses and extend credit responsibly. Adobe is the leader in digital content creation, management and delivery, a massive and growing opportunity that presented itself during the quality sell off in February. We sold the position in Aspen Technology as the company had reached our return expectations much faster than expected and we decided to allocate the capital to Adobe and what we believe to be a higher IRR opportunity.
 
The Global Leaders’ team remains dedicated to executing on our investment process and scouring the globe for high quality companies at attractive prices.
 
Sincerely,
 
Mick Dillon, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 
Bertie Thomson, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 

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Brown Advisory Global Leaders Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Fund invests in small and medium capitalization companies which carry greater risk than is associated with larger companies for various reasons, such as narrower markets, limited financial resources and less liquid stock. The value of the Fund’s investments in REITs may change in response to changes in the real estate market such as declines in the value of real estate, lack of available capital or financing opportunities, and increases in property taxes or operating costs. The Fund may invest in ETFs, which may trade at a discount to the aggregate value of the underlying securities and although expense ratios for ETFs are generally low, frequent trading of ETFs by the Fund can generate brokerage expenses. Investments in foreign securities entail certain risks not associated with investments in domestic securities, such as volatility of currency exchange rates, and in some cases, political and economic instability and relatively illiquid markets. These risks are greater for investments in emerging markets. Private Placement issued securities are restricted securities that are not publicly traded. Delay or difficulty in selling such securities may result in a loss to the Fund. The Adviser assesses a company’s Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) profile through conducting ESG research and leveraging engagement when appropriate through dialogue with company management teams as part of its fundamental due diligence process. The Adviser views ESG characteristics as material to fundamentals and seeks to understand their impact on companies in which the Fund may invest.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Global Leaders Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against a broad-based securities market index.  The FTSE All-World Index (“Index”) is a market capitalization weighted index representing the performance of large and mid-capitalization stocks from the FTSE Global Equity Index Series.  The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Information Technology
  41.0%
Communication Services
  13.8%
Financials
  13.5%
Industrials
    7.7%
Consumer Staples
    7.6%
Health Care
    6.5%
Materials
    4.4%
Consumer Discretionary
    4.1%
Money Market Funds
    1.2%
Other Assets and Liabilities
    0.2%
 
100.0%

     
Since Inception
Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
(7/1/15)
Institutional Shares1
38.17%
18.88%
14.85%
Investor Shares
37.91%
18.70%
14.67%
FTSE All-World Index
39.18%
14.54%
11.17%

 
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio2
0.82%
0.97%
Net Expense Ratio2
0.82%
0.97%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/global-leaders-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Investment performance reflects periods during which fee waivers were in effect.  In the absence of such waivers, total return would have been reduced.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower.  Short-term performance, in particular, is not a good indication of the Fund’s future performance, and an investment should not be made based solely on returns. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Performance information for the Institutional Shares, prior to commencement of operations on October 31, 2018, is based on the performance of Investor Shares, and adjusted for the lower expenses applicable to Institutional Shares.
2
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Global Leaders Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Common Stocks — 98.6%
 
   
China — 6.4%
 
   
2,714,901
 
AIA Group, Ltd.
   
33,679,918
 
   
605,473
 
Tencent Holdings, Ltd.
   
45,587,582
 
             
79,267,500
 
France — 3.4%
 
   
303,350
 
Safran SA
   
42,099,708
 
                 
Germany — 5.4%
 
   
365,525
 
CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA*
   
22,833,038
 
   
252,833
 
Deutsche Boerse AG
   
44,130,955
 
             
66,963,993
 
India — 2.5%
 
   
1,561,537
 
HDFC Bank, Ltd.
   
31,539,712
 
                 
Indonesia — 2.2%
 
   
100,249,137
 
Bank Rakyat Indonesia Persero
   
27,257,253
 
                 
Netherlands — 2.6%
 
   
324,412
 
Wolters Kluwer NV
   
32,607,825
 
                 
Sweden — 2.4%
 
   
576,855
 
Atlas Copco AB
   
30,380,906
 
                 
Switzerland — 5.2%
 
   
108,822
 
Roche Holding AG
   
41,008,279
 
   
78,688
 
Schindler Holding AG
   
23,025,363
 
             
64,033,642
 
Taiwan — 3.9%
 
   
402,064
 
Taiwan Semiconductor
       
       
  Manufacturing Co., Ltd. ADR
   
48,312,011
 
                 
United Kingdom — 2.7%
 
   
584,486
 
Unilever PLC
   
34,153,569
 
                 
United States — 61.9%
 
   
Communication Services — 8.3%
 
   
27,392
 
Alphabet, Inc. — Class C*
   
68,653,117
 
   
244,299
 
Electronic Arts, Inc.
   
35,137,525
 
             
103,790,642
 
Consumer Discretionary — 4.1%
 
   
13,083
 
Booking Holdings, Inc.*
   
28,626,781
 
   
337,950
 
TJX Companies, Inc.
   
22,784,589
 
             
51,411,370
 
Consumer Staples — 4.9%
 
   
346,269
 
Brown-Forman Corp.
   
25,949,399
 
   
109,816
 
Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.
   
34,930,273
 
             
60,879,672
 
Financials — 2.5%
 
   
421,121
 
Charles Schwab Corp.
   
30,661,820
 
                 
Health Care — 3.2%
 
   
382,759
 
Edwards Lifesciences Corp.*
   
39,642,350
 
                 
Information Technology — 34.5%
 
   
49,009
 
Adobe, Inc.*
   
28,701,631
 
   
114,423
 
Autodesk, Inc.*
   
33,400,074
 
   
60,816
 
Fair Isaac Corp.*
   
30,570,987
 
   
82,416
 
Intuit, Inc.
   
40,397,850
 
   
683,192
 
Marvell Technology, Inc.
   
39,850,589
 
   
145,067
 
MasterCard, Inc.
   
52,962,511
 
   
442,862
 
Microsoft Corp.
   
119,971,315
 
   
358,801
 
Visa, Inc.
   
83,894,850
 
             
429,749,807
 
Materials — 4.4%
 
   
101,349
 
Ecolab, Inc.
   
20,874,854
 
   
126,172
 
Sherwin-Williams Co.
   
34,375,561
 
             
55,250,415
 
Total United States
   
771,386,076
 
Total Common Stocks (Cost $843,110,888)
   
1,228,002,195
 
                 
Short-Term Investments — 1.2%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 1.2%
 
   
15,393,557
 
First American Government
       
       
  Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%#
   
15,393,557
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $15,393,557)
   
15,393,557
 
Total Investments — 99.8% (Cost $858,504,445)
   
1,243,395,752
 
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities — 0.2%
   
2,333,711
 
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
1,245,729,463
 

 
*
Non-Income Producing
ADR — American Depositary Receipt
 
#
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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

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Brown Advisory Intermediate Income Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30 2021, the Brown Advisory Intermediate Income Fund – Investor Shares (the “Fund”) increased 1.11% in value. During the same period, the Bloomberg Barclays Intermediate US Aggregate Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 0.05%.
 
The Fund aims to generate performance primarily through a diversified selection of individual securities, supported by a detailed and disciplined research process focused on capital conservation. Duration and sector weightings are determined mainly by an analysis of the intermediate-term risk/reward as opposed to any particular macroeconomic forecast.
 
The second half of 2020 was marked by an ongoing rally in corporate bonds in response to the continuance of an accommodative Federal Reserve and fiscal measures that were beginning to bring clarity to a post- pandemic economic environment. During this period, the Fund was overweight high-quality corporate bonds with 7 to 10-year maturities that were previously purchased during the apex of the pandemic-induced market volatility. The Fund purchased bond issuers with profiles of industry leading, diversified, and well capitalized organizations that we believe were best equipped to weather the severe economic slowdown that occurred. Additionally, these holdings increased the overall quality of the Fund as well as its liquidity profile. This overweight was the primary reason for the Fund’s outperformance1 during the second half of 2020 (the Fund outperformed its benchmark by 77 basis points in that period, generating a return of 1.67% versus the benchmark’s return of 0.90%.). We believe our investment process led us to the most attractive opportunities present at the time. However, our overall allocation to corporate bonds ultimately proved to be the chief reason for the outperformance.
 
In addition, during this period the Federal Reserve announced at its annual Jackson Hole conference that it would adopt an “average inflation targeting” regime after previously targeting a 2% inflation rate. In practice, this would imply that the Federal Reserve would tolerate inflation rising above 2% for a period of time to offset earlier periods when it ran below target. In response to this policy shift and the economic benefits of the impeding COVID-19 vaccine, intermediate and longer-term interest rates began to rise on expectations of higher economic growth and a possible pickup in inflation. Given our focus on individual security analysis, the Fund benefited from having an underweight to Treasury securities. The Fund also continued to reap the benefits of an overweight to corporate bonds given the prospects for a brighter economic outlook.
 
The movement higher in interest rates picked up steam during the first half of 2021 with the 10-year Treasury increasing by approximately 55 basis points from year-end levels in 2020. During this period, the pace of tightening credit spreads slowed but continued to pre-pandemic levels. For this reason, we adopted a more defensive posture via a lower overall duration relative to the Index. Additionally, we liquidated a number of our longer, highest quality corporate bonds that were now potentially exposed to credit spread widening given the magnitude of the prior move. Although interest rates were rising, mortgage originators held mortgage rates steady to slightly higher helping to perpetuate already robust refinance activity. Our emphasis on defensive positioning in regard to principal repayments during a period of robust refinance activity enhanced performance on a relative basis. In short, we held less mortgage pass-through securities in favor of a greater amount of asset-backed and commercial mortgage-backed bonds.
 
Throughout this period, we maintained our emphasis on corporate bonds and other spread product with the exception of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) because of their cash flow characteristics. Although the Fund reduced its overweight position in corporate bonds during the period, the Fund benefited from a combination of an earlier increase in the overall allocation and strong individual security selection. These factors were additive to performance as our holdings outpaced the Index’s counterparts. Credit spreads ended the period at or through pre-pandemic levels. This highlights the value of having a clearly defined investment thesis for a company underpinned by robust fundamental analysis.
 
Looking forward, there continues to be uncertainty regarding the persistence of higher inflation. Yet given the robust labor market dynamics, as measured by job openings and the unemployment rate, we believe a defensive posture is still warranted from an interest rate perspective. Moreover, given the aforementioned corporate bond move to richer valuations, we believe a lessened emphasis on corporate bonds is warranted. We will continue to seek to generate attractive income while continuing to focus on downside protection.
 
Sincerely,
 
Jason T. Vlosich
Portfolio Manager
______________
 
1  The Fund’s outperformance during the time period is included in the proceeding Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary section.

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Brown Advisory Intermediate Income Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Fund is subject to interest rate risk which is the risk that debt securities in the Fund’s portfolio will decline in value because of increases in market interest rates. Investments in Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities include additional risks that investors should be aware of such as credit risk, prepayment risk, possible illiquidity and default, as well as increased susceptibility to adverse economic developments. Investments in debt securities typically decrease in value when interest rates rise. The risk is usually greater for longer-term debt securities. Inflation-indexed bonds see the principal value of the security increased as the Consumer Price Index increases. Should the Consumer Price Index decline, those securities should be adversely impacted. Diversification does not assure a profit, nor does it protect against a loss in a declining market.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Because the Fund’s ESG criteria exclude securities of certain issuers for nonfinancial reasons, the Fund may forgo some market opportunities available to the funds that do not use these criteria.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Intermediate Income Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against a broad-based bond index. The Bloomberg Barclays Intermediate US Aggregate Bond Index (“Index”) represents domestic taxable investment grade bonds, with index components for government and corporate securities, mortgage pass-through securities, and asset-backed securities with average maturities and durations in the intermediate range. The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Corporate Bonds & Notes
  28.0%
U.S. Treasury Notes
  26.9%
Mortgage Backed Securities
  20.1%
Affiliated Mutual Funds
  12.1%
Asset Backed Securities
  10.7%
Money Market Funds
    1.7%
Other Assets and Liabilities
    0.5%
 
100.0%

Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
Ten Year
Investor Shares
1.11%
2.60%
2.52%
Advisor Shares
0.79%
2.34%
2.28%
Bloomberg Barclays Intermediate US Aggregate Bond Index
0.05%
2.53%
2.74%

 
Investor Shares
Advisor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio1
0.60%
0.85%
Net Expense Ratio1
0.56%
0.81%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/intermediate-income-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Investment performance reflects periods during which fee waivers were in effect.  In the absence of such waivers, total return would have been reduced.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021

Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Corporate Bonds & Notes — 28.0%
 
   
1,560,000
 
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
   
3.38
%
08/15/2031
   
1,718,468
 
   
1,635,000
 
American Tower Corp.
   
3.60
%
01/15/2028
   
1,801,531
 
   
1,700,000
 
BorgWarner, Inc.
   
2.65
%
07/01/2027
   
1,805,146
 
   
875,000
 
Chevron Corp.
   
2.00
%
05/11/2027
   
904,176
 
   
1,645,000
 
Citigroup, Inc.
   
3.20
%
10/21/2026
   
1,784,456
 
   
1,820,000
 
Clorox Co.
   
1.80
%
05/15/2030
   
1,791,828
 
   
830,000
 
Colonial Enterprises, Inc.^
   
3.25
%
05/15/2030
   
899,110
 
   
803,000
 
Comcast Corp.
   
3.40
%
04/01/2030
   
887,649
 
   
805,000
 
Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.
   
3.35
%
04/01/2030
   
886,738
 
   
1,665,000
 
Crown Castle International Corp.
   
3.30
%
07/01/2030
   
1,787,655
 
   
805,000
 
Dollar General Corp.
   
3.88
%
04/15/2027
   
904,594
 
   
1,565,000
 
Dollar Tree, Inc.
   
4.20
%
05/15/2028
   
1,787,767
 
   
955,000
 
Ecolab, Inc.
   
1.30
%
01/30/2031
   
902,326
 
   
785,000
 
Exelon Corp.
   
4.05
%
04/15/2030
   
895,886
 
   
1,645,000
 
FMC Corp.
   
3.20
%
10/01/2026
   
1,778,884
 
   
845,000
 
Fortis, Inc.
   
3.06
%
10/04/2026
   
907,812
 
   
865,000
 
Hasbro, Inc.
   
3.50
%
09/15/2027
   
943,610
 
   
830,000
 
Healthcare Trust of America Holdings L.P.
   
3.75
%
07/01/2027
   
924,637
 
   
810,000
 
JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
   
3.88
%
03/01/2026
   
902,225
 
   
1,645,000
 
Keysight Technologies, Inc.
   
4.60
%
04/06/2027
   
1,914,202
 
   
915,000
 
LYB International Finance III LLC
   
2.25
%
10/01/2030
   
916,060
 
   
790,000
 
Mastercard, Inc.
   
3.35
%
03/26/2030
   
890,462
 
   
870,000
 
Morgan Stanley
   
3.75
%
02/25/2023
   
916,947
 
   
1,710,000
 
NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Inc.
   
1.90
%
06/15/2028
   
1,728,095
 
   
750,000
 
Northrop Grumman Corp.
   
4.40
%
05/01/2030
   
888,694
 
   
1,640,000
 
NXP BV^
   
3.88
%
06/18/2026
   
1,818,800
 
   
1,685,000
 
Oracle Corp.
   
2.80
%
04/01/2027
   
1,788,943
 
   
1,185,000
 
Southwest Airlines Co.
   
5.25
%
05/04/2025
   
1,353,217
 
   
1,320,000
 
SYSCO Corp.
   
5.95
%
04/01/2030
   
1,696,247
 
   
1,815,000
 
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
   
2.05
%
03/31/2030
   
1,803,965
 
   
825,000
 
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.
   
3.20
%
08/15/2027
   
902,269
 
   
1,750,000
 
Verizon Communications, Inc.
   
2.10
%
03/22/2028
   
1,788,763
 
   
1,700,000
 
VF Corp.
   
2.40
%
04/23/2025
   
1,784,427
 
   
1,625,000
 
Wells Fargo & Co.
   
3.00
%
10/23/2026
   
1,754,878
 
   
945,000
 
West Fraser Timber Co., Ltd.^
   
4.35
%
10/15/2024
   
1,011,417
 
   
865,000
 
Xylem, Inc.
   
1.95
%
01/30/2028
   
875,289
 
Total Corporate Bonds & Notes (Cost $46,555,475)
   
48,047,173
 
                           
Mortgage Backed Securities — 20.1%
 
   
825,000
 
BAMLL Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust,
                 
       
  Series 2018-DSNY C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.35%)^
   
1.42
%
09/15/2034
   
825,095
 
   
750,000
 
BAMLL Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust,
                 
       
  Series 2019-RLJ C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.60%)^
   
1.67
%
04/15/2036
   
745,138
 
   
485,244
 
BX Commercial Mortgage Trust, Series 2020-BXLP (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.25%)^
   
1.32
%
12/15/2036
   
485,880
 
   
500,000
 
BX Trust, Series 2019-CALM C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.30%)^
   
1.37
%
11/15/2032
   
500,947
 
   
750,000
 
CSMC, Series 2019-ICE4 C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.43%)^
   
1.50
%
05/15/2036
   
753,689
 
   
1,000,000
 
CSMC, Series 2019-ICE4 D (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.60%)^
   
1.67
%
05/15/2036
   
1,003,192
 
   
500,000
 
DBGS Mortgage Trust, Series 2018-C1 7EA^
   
4.64
%
10/17/2051
   
505,003
 
   
441
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# C0-0210
   
8.00
%
01/01/2023
   
457
 
   
95,887
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# 1B-0889 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.59%)
   
1.89
%
05/01/2033
   
95,821
 
   
172,755
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4665 KA
   
4.00
%
12/15/2042
   
173,885
 
   
170,163
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4740 KB
   
3.50
%
02/15/2043
   
170,754
 
   
165,768
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4840 BK
   
4.50
%
09/15/2046
   
170,815
 
   
1,668,107
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 5115 KC
   
1.00
%
12/25/2050
   
1,647,265
 
   
1,700,000
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 5127 ME
   
1.00
%
07/25/2051
   
1,686,387
 
   
352,196
 
FHLMC STACR, Series 2014-HQ2 M3 (1 Month LIBOR USD + 3.75%)
   
3.84
%
09/25/2024
   
360,467
 
   
1,627,876
 
FHLMC UMBS, Pool# QA-2240
   
2.50
%
04/01/2048
   
1,689,190
 
   
1,219,035
 
FHMS, Series Q-006 APT1#
   
2.78
%
04/25/2028
   
1,268,999
 

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Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Mortgage Backed Securities — 20.1% (Continued)
 
   
287,071
 
FHMS, Series Q-006 APT2#
   
2.60
%
10/25/2028
   
297,843
 
   
341,733
 
FHMS, Series Q-010 APT1#
   
2.92
%
04/25/2046
   
344,137
 
   
310,644
 
FHMS, Series Q-007 APT1#
   
2.99
%
10/25/2047
   
315,733
 
   
340,431
 
FHMS, Series Q-007 APT2#
   
3.31
%
10/25/2047
   
359,921
 
   
869,227
 
FHMS, Series Q-013 APT1#
   
1.18
%
05/25/2050
   
875,015
 
   
9,683
 
FNMA, Pool# 628837
   
6.50
%
03/01/2032
   
10,996
 
   
563,930
 
FNMA, Pool# MA2998
   
3.50
%
04/01/2032
   
608,469
 
   
46,556
 
FNMA, Pool# 663238
   
5.50
%
09/01/2032
   
52,036
 
   
24,787
 
FNMA, Pool# 744805 (6 Month LIBOR USD + 1.52%)
   
1.77
%
11/01/2033
   
24,911
 
   
10,437
 
FNMA, Pool# 741373 (1 Year CMT  Rate + 2.28%)
   
2.41
%
12/01/2033
   
10,444
 
   
23,934
 
FNMA, Pool# 764342 (6 Month LIBOR USD + 1.52%)
   
1.77
%
02/01/2034
   
24,078
 
   
786,107
 
FNMA, Pool# AS7789
   
3.00
%
08/01/2036
   
827,689
 
   
1,290,081
 
FNMA, Pool# MA2804
   
3.00
%
11/01/2036
   
1,358,368
 
   
535,297
 
FNMA, Pool# MA2897
   
3.00
%
02/01/2037
   
563,643
 
   
755,226
 
FNMA, Pool# BM1370
   
3.00
%
04/01/2037
   
790,974
 
   
95,728
 
FNMA, Pool# BN0202
   
5.50
%
09/01/2048
   
107,401
 
   
113,032
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2016-M5 (1 Month LIBOR USD + 0.72%)
   
0.82
%
04/25/2023
   
113,288
 
   
395,751
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2013-115 AI~
   
3.00
%
04/25/2031
   
16,096
 
   
372,217
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2020-6 GL
   
3.00
%
04/25/2043
   
378,003
 
   
385,114
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2017-44 BA
   
3.50
%
01/25/2044
   
389,360
 
   
829,395
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2020-10 Q
   
3.00
%
03/25/2050
   
864,167
 
   
1,150,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2016-K723 B#^
   
3.70
%
10/25/2039
   
1,210,476
 
   
750,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-K735 B#^
   
4.16
%
05/25/2052
   
830,602
 
   
500,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2020-K737 B#^
   
3.41
%
01/25/2053
   
534,903
 
   
14,156
 
GNMA, Pool# 781186X
   
9.00
%
06/15/2030
   
14,326
 
   
3,462,886
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2021-093 PC
   
1.00
%
09/20/2050
   
3,411,756
 
   
2,469,983
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2021-091 BC
   
1.00
%
05/20/2051
   
2,447,362
 
   
2,685,587
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2021-084 ED
   
1.00
%
07/16/2060
   
2,602,777
 
   
700,000
 
JPMCC, Series 2019-BKWD C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.60%)^
   
1.67
%
09/17/2029
   
700,363
 
   
500,000
 
KNDL Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-KNSQ C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.05%)^
   
1.12
%
05/15/2036
   
500,669
 
   
500,000
 
MRCD Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-PARK C^
   
2.72
%
12/15/2036
   
511,220
 
   
900,000
 
MSC, Series 2017-CLS A (1 Month LIBOR USD + 0.70%)^
   
0.77
%
11/15/2034
   
900,683
 
   
400,000
 
MSC, Series 2019-NUGS B (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.30%)^
   
2.80
%
12/15/2036
   
401,730
 
Total Mortgage Backed Securities (Cost $34,263,251)
   
34,482,423
 
                           
Asset Backed Securities — 10.7%
 
   
510,000
 
American Homes 4 Rent Trust, Series 2015-SFR2 C^
   
4.69
%
10/18/2052
   
555,044
 
   
900,000
 
CarMax Auto Owner Trust, Series 2021-2 C
   
1.34
%
02/16/2027
   
901,420
 
   
218,243
 
FHF Trust, Series 2020-1A A^
   
2.59
%
12/15/2023
   
220,064
 
   
238,265
 
FHF Trust, Series 2021-1A A^
   
1.27
%
03/15/2027
   
238,262
 
   
279,239
 
FREED ABS Trust, Series 2019-1 B^
   
3.87
%
06/18/2026
   
281,122
 
   
61,471
 
FREED ABS Trust, Series 2020-2CP A^
   
4.52
%
06/18/2027
   
61,781
 
   
590,000
 
GTP Acquisition Partners I LLC, Series 2015-1-2^
   
3.48
%
06/15/2050
   
627,706
 
   
1,575,000
 
HPEFS Equipment Trust, Series 2021-2A B^
   
0.61
%
09/20/2028
   
1,573,691
 
   
700,000
 
HPEFS Equipment Trust, Series 2019-1A D^
   
2.72
%
09/20/2029
   
715,099
 
   
500,000
 
HPEFS Equipment Trust, Series 2020-1A D^
   
2.26
%
02/20/2030
   
510,988
 
   
1,300,000
 
HPEFS Equipment Trust, Series 2021-1A A2^
   
0.27
%
03/20/2031
   
1,300,413
 
   
499,916
 
Invitation Homes Trust, Series 2017-SFR2 C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.45%)^
   
1.53
%
12/19/2036
   
501,451
 
   
734,000
 
Invitation Homes Trust, Series 2018-SFR1 C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.25%)^
   
1.33
%
03/19/2037
   
736,426
 
   
499,818
 
Invitation Homes Trust, Series 2018-SFRI D (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.45%)^
   
1.53
%
03/19/2037
   
501,433
 
   
602,572
 
MVW Owner Trust, Series 2017-1A A^
   
2.42
%
12/20/2034
   
615,946
 
   
616,560
 
Nationstar HECM Loan Trust, Series 2020-1 A#^
   
1.27
%
09/25/2030
   
618,719
 
   
420,956
 
NYCTL Trust, Series 2019-A A^
   
2.19
%
11/10/2032
   
421,930
 
   
400,000
 
Oportun Funding X LLC, Series 2018-C A^
   
4.10
%
10/08/2024
   
400,296
 
   
145,000
 
Oportun Funding XIV LLC, Series 2021-A A^
   
1.21
%
03/08/2028
   
145,490
 
   
1,150,000
 
PFS Financing Corp., Series 2020-F A^
   
0.93
%
08/15/2024
   
1,155,873
 
   
998,288
 
Progress Residential Trust, Series 2018-SFR3 A^
   
3.88
%
10/18/2035
   
1,009,559
 
   
374,630
 
Progress Residential Trust, Series 2019-SFR1 A^
   
3.42
%
03/19/2036
   
380,705
 
                           
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Asset Backed Securities — 10.7% (Continued)
 
   
600,000
 
Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust, Series 2019-3 D
   
2.68
%
10/15/2025
   
615,116
 
   
274,000
 
SBA Tower Trust, Series 2020-1-2^
   
2.33
%
01/15/2028
   
284,653
 
   
300,000
 
SBA Tower Trust, Series 2020-1-2^
   
1.88
%
07/15/2050
   
304,306
 
   
850,000
 
Stack Infrastructure Issuer LLC, Series 2020-1A A2^
   
1.89
%
08/25/2045
   
855,376
 
   
750,000
 
Tesla Auto Lease Trust, Series 2020-A A3^
   
0.68
%
12/20/2023
   
753,396
 
   
445,000
 
Tesla Auto Lease Trust, Series 2021-A C^
   
1.18
%
03/20/2025
   
445,790
 
   
1,125,000
 
Vantage Data Centers LLC, Series 2020-1A A2^
   
1.65
%
09/15/2045
   
1,130,051
 
   
500,000
 
Verizon Owner Trust, Series 2019-A C
   
3.22
%
09/20/2023
   
514,869
 
Total Asset Backed Securities (Cost $18,284,765)
   
18,376,975
 
                           
U.S. Treasury Notes — 26.9%
 
   
2,000,000
 
United States Treasury Note
   
2.63
%
12/15/2021
   
2,023,405
 
   
10,000,000
 
United States Treasury Note
   
0.38
%
03/31/2022
   
10,021,469
 
   
10,000,000
 
United States Treasury Note
   
1.63
%
08/15/2022
   
10,171,680
 
   
6,775,000
 
United States Treasury Note
   
2.25
%
03/31/2026
   
7,224,902
 
   
6,395,000
 
United States Treasury Note
   
2.88
%
05/15/2028
   
7,110,191
 
   
9,920,000
 
United States Treasury Note
   
0.88
%
11/15/2030
   
9,442,600
 
Total U.S. Treasury Notes (Cost $45,585,422)
   
45,994,247
 
                           
 
Shares
                     
Affiliated Mutual Funds (Note 3) — 12.1%
 
   
1,968,305
 
Brown Advisory Mortgage Securities Fund — Institutional Shares
             
20,785,301
 
Total Affiliated Mutual Funds (Cost $20,242,902)
   
20,785,301
 
                           
Short-Term Investments — 1.7%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 1.7%
 
   
2,852,409
 
First American Government Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%*
             
2,852,409
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $2,852,409)
   
2,852,409
 
Total Investments — 99.5% (Cost $167,784,224)
   
170,538,528
 
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities — 0.5%
   
897,153
 
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
171,435,681
 

 
^
Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.
 
#
Variable rate security.  Rate disclosed is as of the date of this report.
 
~
Interest Only Security
 
*
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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

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Brown Advisory Total Return Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Total Return Fund – Institutional Shares (the “Fund”) increased 3.10% in value. During the same period, the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, declined 0.33%.
 
This past year was marked by big events, and these came to dominate results in the fixed income markets. As such, most of the performance of this period was a result of top-down decisions, which normally is not our focus. The Fund generally seeks to provide a competitive total return with preservation of principal through individual security analysis. Top-down positioning, such as interest rate and sector weightings, are set mainly by a combination of risk management and the supply of bottom-up ideas that our analysts provide.
 
The summer of 2020 saw a massive rally in credit securities, as markets gained confidence that companies, with help from policy makers, would be able to see through the COVID-19 pandemic. In March and April of 2020, the Fund added meaningfully to high quality, longer-term corporate bonds. We believed these were the types of companies most equipped to survive a deep recession. This overweight of corporate bonds was the primary reason for outperformance during the second half of 2020 (the Fund outperformed its benchmark by 257 bps in that period), and was a major driver for the whole period. Although our selections were strong, outperforming the benchmark by 313 basis points after adjusting for duration, it was the allocation effect of being overweight that was the bigger driver of results over this period.
 
Starting in August of 2020, we made a risk management decision to underweight duration and especially underweight the longest part of the yield curve. As the Fed shifted to its average inflation targeting (AIT) regime, we believed it was possible that inflation would pick up as the economy recovered. Under AIT, the Fed would allow inflation to rise before acting, which would typically result in longer-term yields rising more than shorter-term yields. Lastly, given that Treasury yields were so low at the time, around 0.60% for the 10-year, we felt that if there were any rate-related volatility, it would be to the upside. For that reason, we decided an underweight was appropriate. This was something of a benefit in the fourth quarter of 2020, as news of a vaccine against COVID- 19 was announced. Rising rates accelerated in the first quarter of this year, spurred by increased government stimulus and a rapidly recovering economy. These moves were large enough that the Fund’s duration and curve positioning dominated the Fund’s outperformance in the first half of 2021.
 
Looking forward, we have maintained a defensive position vis-a-vis rates, and removed most of the overweight to corporate bonds we had in 2020. On a contribution-to-duration basis, the Fund’s corporate bond position is now about neutral. While the earnings outlook for companies remains solid, corporate bond spreads are near long-term tights. We believe the combination of good fundamentals and rich valuations make a neutral stance fitting.
 
In terms of general interest rates, with Treasury rates having climbed into the 1.50% area, rate- related risks are slightly more balanced than they were last summer. However, our core reasons for going defensive remain just as pertinent now. It is likely that inflation will come in two waves: the first is being driven by a burst of post-pandemic demand met by a still healing supply chain. The second will likely be fueled by a tight labor market and resulting wage pressure. As we write this letter, we believe we are living through the first of these phases. The most recent CPI report indicated that year-on-year inflation was 5%, which we believe is almost certainly due to transitory factors that will soon fade. However, it is also the case that the labor market is quite tight, despite unemployment at 5.9%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job openings are at an all- time high, and openings per unemployed worker are at the same level as in 2018, when unemployment was at 4.1%. So while inflation is highly likely to decelerate from 5%, wage pressure is probably already enough to maintain inflation over 2%. We think this warrants caution on the direction of rates.
 
We believe the combination of being neutral on credit and defensive on rates should result in the portfolio being less sensitive to big market swings. We expect this will allow our bottom-up decision making to shine through as fixed income volatility returns to more normal levels.
 
Sincerely,
 
Thomas D.D. Graff, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 

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Brown Advisory Total Return Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Fund is subject to interest rate risk which is the risk that debt securities in the Fund’s portfolio will decline in value because of increases in market interest rates. Investments in Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities include additional risks that investors should be aware of such as credit risk, prepayment risk, possible illiquidity and default, as well as increased susceptibility to adverse economic developments. Investments in debt securities typically decrease in value when interest rates rise. The risk is usually greater for longer-term debt securities. Inflation-indexed bonds see the principal value of the security increased as the Consumer Price Index increases. Should the Consumer Price Index decline, those securities should be adversely impacted. Diversification does not assure a profit, nor does it protect against a loss in a declining market. The Adviser assesses a company’s Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) profile through conducting ESG research and leveraging engagement when appropriate through dialogue with company management teams as part of its fundamental due diligence process. The Adviser views ESG characteristics as material to fundamentals and seeks to understand their impact on companies in which the Fund may invest.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Total Return Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $1,000,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $1,000,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against a broad-based securities market index.  The Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index (“Index”) is a broad-based benchmark that measures the investment grade US dollar-denominated, fixed rate taxable bond market.  The Index includes Treasuries, government-related and corporate securities, MBS, ABS and CMBS.  The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 


PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Corporate Bonds & Notes
  38.9%
Mortgage Backed Securities
  30.6%
Asset Backed Securities
  17.7%
U.S. Treasury Notes
  15.9%
Money Market Funds
    5.5%
Municipal Bonds
    0.4%
U.S. Treasury Bills
    0.4%
Other Assets and Liabilities
 (9.4)%
 
100.0%

     
Since Inception
Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
(10/30/14)
Institutional Shares
3.10%
4.01%
3.87%
Investor Shares
3.05%
3.96%
3.82%
Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index
-0.33%
3.03%
3.25%

 
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio1
0.45%
0.50%
Net Expense Ratio1
0.45%
0.50%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/total-return-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower.  Short-term performance, in particular, is not a good indication of the Fund’s future performance, and an investment should not be made based solely on returns. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Total Return Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Corporate Bonds & Notes — 38.9%
 
 
4,540,000
 
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
   
2.00
%
05/18/2032
   
4,433,610
 
 
1,945,000
 
Allison Transmission, Inc.^
   
5.88
%
06/01/2029
   
2,133,665
 
 
4,145,000
 
Amphenol Corp.
   
2.80
%
02/15/2030
   
4,391,167
 
 
1,076,000
 
Aptiv PLC
   
4.35
%
03/15/2029
   
1,241,064
 
 
2,085,000
 
Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc.^
   
4.50
%
11/15/2026
   
2,191,147
 
 
1,820,000
 
Booking Holdings, Inc.
   
4.63
%
04/13/2030
   
2,180,118
 
 
1,975,000
 
Boyd Gaming Corp.^
   
8.63
%
06/01/2025
   
2,179,649
 
 
2,048,000
 
Brinker International, Inc.^
   
5.00
%
10/01/2024
   
2,159,360
 
 
3,930,000
 
Broadcom, Inc.
   
4.15
%
11/15/2030
   
4,416,095
 
 
2,165,000
 
BWX Technologies, Inc.^
   
4.13
%
06/30/2028
   
2,208,765
 
 
4,200,000
 
Carrier Global Corp.
   
2.72
%
02/15/2030
   
4,362,458
 
 
2,195,000
 
Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc.^
   
5.88
%
07/01/2029
   
2,178,537
 
 
758,000
 
CCM Merger, Inc.^
   
6.38
%
05/01/2026
   
798,940
 
 
2,160,000
 
CCO Holdings LLC
   
4.50
%
05/01/2032
   
2,245,784
 
 
2,205,000
 
Clearway Energy Operating LLC^
   
3.75
%
02/15/2031
   
2,196,941
 
 
4,070,000
 
Colonial Enterprises, Inc.^
   
3.25
%
05/15/2030
   
4,408,887
 
 
5,313,000
 
Conservation Fund
   
3.47
%
12/15/2029
   
5,697,097
 
 
2,150,000
 
Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc.
   
3.00
%
02/15/2029
   
2,154,730
 
 
4,065,000
 
Crown Castle International Corp.
   
3.30
%
07/01/2030
   
4,364,456
 
 
3,810,000
 
CVS Health Corp.
   
4.30
%
03/25/2028
   
4,383,869
 
 
2,165,000
 
Dana, Inc.
   
4.25
%
09/01/2030
   
2,229,950
 
 
3,895,000
 
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
   
3.85
%
05/01/2027
   
4,332,625
 
 
4,570,000
 
Enterprise Products Operating LLC (Fixed until 08/16/2022, then 3 Month LIBOR USD + 2.99%)
   
4.88
%
08/16/2077
   
4,487,294
 
 
3,500,000
 
Equinix, Inc.
   
2.50
%
05/15/2031
   
3,566,802
 
 
3,890,000
 
Exelon Corp.
   
4.05
%
04/15/2030
   
4,439,487
 
 
4,015,000
 
FMC Corp.
   
3.20
%
10/01/2026
   
4,341,775
 
 
4,045,000
 
Fortis, Inc.
   
3.06
%
10/04/2026
   
4,345,678
 
 
1,975,000
 
Graphic Packaging International LLC^
   
4.75
%
07/15/2027
   
2,140,781
 
 
2,975,000
 
Hasbro, Inc.
   
3.50
%
09/15/2027
   
3,245,366
 
 
1,047,000
 
Hawaiian Brand Intellectual Property, Ltd.^
   
5.75
%
01/20/2026
   
1,126,834
 
 
2,925,000
 
Healthcare Trust of America Holdings L.P.
   
3.75
%
07/01/2027
   
3,258,509
 
 
3,835,000
 
Huntsman International LLC
   
4.50
%
05/01/2029
   
4,369,226
 
 
2,190,000
 
Kaiser Aluminum Corp.^
   
4.50
%
06/01/2031
   
2,251,145
 
 
2,130,000
 
LBM Acquisition LLC^
   
6.25
%
01/15/2029
   
2,149,063
 
 
3,895,000
 
Lear Corp.
   
4.25
%
05/15/2029
   
4,392,654
 
 
4,370,000
 
LYB International Finance III LLC
   
2.25
%
10/01/2030
   
4,375,061
 
 
3,880,000
 
Marriott International, Inc.
   
4.65
%
12/01/2028
   
4,439,804
 
 
3,819,000
 
Marvell Technology, Inc.^
   
4.88
%
06/22/2028
   
4,422,268
 
 
2,065,000
 
Mercer International, Inc.
   
5.50
%
01/15/2026
   
2,124,358
 
 
1,960,000
 
NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Inc. (Fixed until 12/01/2027, then 3 Month LIBOR USD + 2.41%)
   
4.80
%
12/01/2077
   
2,205,381
 
 
3,937,000
 
NXP BV^
   
3.88
%
06/18/2026
   
4,366,229
 
 
3,855,000
 
PVH Corp.
   
4.63
%
07/10/2025
   
4,306,662
 
 
2,080,000
 
SBA Communications Corp.
   
3.88
%
02/15/2027
   
2,141,100
 
 
1,900,000
 
Sprint Corp.
   
7.13
%
06/15/2024
   
2,194,500
 
 
3,390,000
 
SYSCO Corp.
   
5.95
%
04/01/2030
   
4,356,270
 
 
4,440,000
 
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
   
2.05
%
03/31/2030
   
4,413,005
 
 
1,800,000
 
Terminix Co. LLC
   
7.45
%
08/15/2027
   
2,114,523
 
 
3,935,000
 
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.
   
3.20
%
08/15/2027
   
4,303,549
 
 
3,730,000
 
Trimble, Inc.
   
4.90
%
06/15/2028
   
4,382,002
 
 
4,165,000
 
VF Corp.
   
2.95
%
04/23/2030
   
4,418,033
 
 
2,165,000
 
VOC Escrow, Ltd.^
   
5.00
%
02/15/2028
   
2,193,145
 
 
4,050,000
 
West Fraser Timber Co., Ltd.^
   
4.35
%
10/15/2024
   
4,334,645
 
Total Corporate Bonds & Notes (Cost $164,251,537)
   
172,094,063
 

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

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Brown Advisory Total Return Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Mortgage Backed Securities — 30.6%
 
 
1,800,000
 
BAMLL Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust,
             
     
  Series 2018-DSNY C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.35%)^
   
1.42
%
09/15/2034
   
1,800,207
 
 
1,250,000
 
BAMLL Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust,
                 
     
  Series 2019-RLJ C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.60%)^
   
1.67
%
04/15/2036
   
1,241,897
 
 
1,455,733
 
BX Commercial Mortgage Trust, Series 2020-BXLP (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.25%)^
   
1.32
%
12/15/2036
   
1,457,640
 
 
940,000
 
BX Trust, Series 2019-CALM C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.30%)^
   
1.37
%
11/15/2032
   
941,780
 
 
500,000
 
CAMB Commercial Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-LIFE B (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.25%)^
   
1.32
%
12/15/2037
   
501,659
 
 
500,000
 
CAMB Commercial Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-LIFE C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.45%)^
   
1.52
%
12/15/2037
   
501,539
 
 
600,000
 
CORE Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-CORE C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.30%)^
   
1.37
%
12/15/2031
   
600,219
 
 
1,250,000
 
CSMC, Series 2019-ICE4 C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.43%)^
   
1.50
%
05/15/2036
   
1,256,148
 
 
2,950,000
 
CSMC, Series 2019-ICE4 D (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.60%)^
   
1.67
%
05/15/2036
   
2,959,416
 
 
4,000,000
 
DBGS Mortgage Trust, Series 2018-C1 7EA^
   
4.64
%
10/17/2051
   
4,040,023
 
 
1,049,209
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# G3-1063
   
3.50
%
11/01/2037
   
1,113,098
 
 
875,974
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4094 NI~
   
2.50
%
03/15/2027
   
24,891
 
 
1,608,247
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4107 LI~
   
3.00
%
08/15/2027
   
193,304
 
 
1,815,107
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4143 IA~
   
3.50
%
09/15/2042
   
184,648
 
 
59,897
 
FHLMC SCRTT, Series 2016-1 M1#^
   
3.00
%
09/25/2055
   
60,008
 
 
300,000
 
FHLMC SCRTT, Series 2017-1 M1#^
   
4.00
%
01/25/2056
   
304,224
 
 
3,800,828
 
FHMS, Series K-021 X1#~
   
1.53
%
06/25/2022
   
29,189
 
 
10,246,852
 
FHMS, Series K-C02 X1#~
   
0.50
%
03/25/2024
   
92,680
 
 
4,363,762
 
FHMS, Series K-038 X1#~
   
1.26
%
03/25/2024
   
109,820
 
 
63,779,976
 
FHMS, Series K-047 X1#~
   
0.25
%
05/25/2025
   
336,191
 
 
11,299,948
 
FHMS, Series Q-013 XPT1~
   
1.66
%
05/25/2025
   
380,020
 
 
19,150,000
 
FHMS, Series K-C06 X1#~
   
1.03
%
06/25/2025
   
568,923
 
 
10,344,297
 
FHMS, Series K-734 X1#~
   
0.79
%
02/25/2026
   
267,495
 
 
6,631,923
 
FHMS, Series K-735 X1#~
   
1.09
%
05/25/2026
   
279,057
 
 
8,494,371
 
FHMS, Series K-736 X1#~
   
1.44
%
07/25/2026
   
470,623
 
 
663,624
 
FHMS, Series K-058 X1#~
   
1.05
%
08/25/2026
   
27,963
 
 
2,998,661
 
FHMS, Series K-C04 X1#~
   
1.40
%
12/25/2026
   
144,268
 
 
7,993,270
 
FHMS, Series Q-013 XPT2~
   
1.81
%
05/25/2027
   
306,240
 
 
1,358,510
 
FHMS, Series K-W03 X1#~
   
0.98
%
06/25/2027
   
51,429
 
 
7,475,746
 
FHMS, Series K-C05 X1#~
   
1.34
%
07/25/2027
   
376,115
 
 
6,000,000
 
FHMS, Series K-739 XAM#~
   
1.71
%
09/25/2027
   
551,265
 
 
16,500,000
 
FHMS, Series K-740 XAM#~
   
1.20
%
10/25/2027
   
1,088,116
 
 
9,874,968
 
FHMS, Series K-070 X1#~
   
0.46
%
11/25/2027
   
198,749
 
 
473,412
 
FHMS, Series Q-006 APT1#
   
2.78
%
04/25/2028
   
492,815
 
 
4,974,822
 
FHMS, Series K-087 X1#~
   
0.51
%
12/25/2028
   
130,919
 
 
3,990,094
 
FHMS, Series K-092 X1#~
   
0.85
%
04/25/2029
   
203,083
 
 
5,496,187
 
FHMS, Series K-G01 X1#~
   
1.11
%
04/25/2029
   
313,555
 
 
3,539,026
 
FHMS, Series K-094 X1#~
   
1.02
%
06/25/2029
   
223,239
 
 
4,495,231
 
FHMS, Series K-103 X1#~
   
0.76
%
11/25/2029
   
219,856
 
 
4,800,000
 
FHMS, Series K-110 XAM#~
   
1.98
%
04/25/2030
   
723,727
 
 
4,750,000
 
FHMS, Series K-111 XAM#~
   
1.91
%
05/25/2030
   
693,830
 
 
6,238,500
 
FHMS, Series K-114 XAM#~
   
1.44
%
06/25/2030
   
692,312
 
 
9,300,000
 
FHMS, Series K-115 XAM#~
   
1.65
%
07/25/2030
   
1,189,051
 
 
4,360,000
 
FHMS, Series K-G04 A2
   
1.49
%
11/25/2030
   
4,354,088
 
 
341,733
 
FHMS, Series Q-010 APT1#
   
2.92
%
04/25/2046
   
344,137
 
 
2,663,235
 
FHMS, Series Q-007 APT2#
   
3.31
%
10/25/2047
   
2,815,709
 
 
1,303,840
 
FHMS, Series Q-013 APT1#
   
1.16
%
05/25/2050
   
1,312,523
 
 
700,004
 
FNMA, Pool# MA2897
   
3.00
%
02/01/2037
   
737,072
 
 
258,741
 
FNMA, Pool# 467095
   
5.90
%
01/01/2041
   
307,187
 
 
170,926
 
FNMA, Pool# 469130
   
4.87
%
10/01/2041
   
196,707
 
 
193,099
 
FNMA, Pool# BH7686
   
4.50
%
12/01/2047
   
209,690
 
 
133,592
 
FNMA, Pool# BK5105
   
5.50
%
05/01/2048
   
151,284
 
 
110,833
 
FNMA, Pool# BK8032
   
5.50
%
06/01/2048
   
125,151
 
 
95,728
 
FNMA, Pool# BN0202
   
5.50
%
09/01/2048
   
107,401
 

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Brown Advisory Total Return Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Mortgage Backed Securities — 30.6% (Continued)
 
 
145,868
 
FNMA, Pool# BN4936
   
5.50
%
12/01/2048
   
163,792
 
 
109,680
 
FNMA, Pool# BN4921
   
5.50
%
01/01/2049
   
122,381
 
 
2,758,967
 
FNMA, Pool# FM4866
   
2.50
%
10/01/2050
   
2,858,959
 
 
4,728,089
 
FNMA, Pool# MA4238
   
2.50
%
01/01/2051
   
4,899,447
 
 
4,902,650
 
FNMA, Pool# BR2618
   
2.00
%
02/01/2051
   
4,963,330
 
 
4,890,307
 
FNMA, Pool# BR2695
   
2.00
%
02/01/2051
   
4,950,005
 
 
4,915,827
 
FNMA, Pool# MA4281
   
2.00
%
03/01/2051
   
4,975,037
 
 
19,000,000
 
FNMA, 2.00%, due TBA July
   
2.00
%
07/15/2051
   
19,211,524
 
 
20,200,000
 
FNMA, 2.50%, due TBA July
   
2.50
%
07/15/2051
   
20,907,789
 
 
20,985,488
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2019-M23 X3#~
   
0.38
%
10/27/2031
   
541,277
 
 
321,353
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2012-65 HJ
   
5.00
%
07/25/2040
   
357,218
 
 
1,658,790
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2020-10 Q
   
3.00
%
03/25/2050
   
1,728,333
 
 
4,115,772
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2021-47~
   
2.50
%
07/25/2051
   
703,540
 
 
2,000,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-K102 B#^
   
3.65
%
10/25/2029
   
2,188,887
 
 
2,986,048
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2020-KF75 (1 Month LIBOR USD + 2.25%)^
   
2.34
%
12/26/2029
   
2,972,955
 
 
2,020,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2020-K105 B#^
   
3.53
%
02/25/2030
   
2,172,167
 
 
1,750,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2016-K723 B#^
   
3.70
%
10/25/2039
   
1,842,028
 
 
1,785,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2017-K64 B#^
   
4.12
%
05/25/2050
   
1,983,114
 
 
1,500,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-K89 B#^
   
4.43
%
01/25/2051
   
1,715,083
 
 
1,500,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-K734 B#^
   
4.19
%
02/25/2051
   
1,654,684
 
 
2,000,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-K735 B#^
   
4.16
%
05/25/2052
   
2,214,940
 
 
750,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-K736 B#^
   
3.88
%
09/25/2052
   
814,672
 
 
355,181
 
GNMA, Pool# 723334X
   
5.00
%
09/15/2039
   
412,901
 
 
3,052,719
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2017-167 SE (1 Month LIBOR USD + 6.20%)~
   
6.11
%
11/20/2047
   
621,934
 
 
1,978,981
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2019-152 LC
   
3.50
%
10/20/2049
   
2,024,251
 
 
602,455
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2014-45 B1#~
   
0.61
%
07/16/2054
   
12,339
 
 
329,463
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2014-135 I0#~
   
0.43
%
01/16/2056
   
8,374
 
 
455,981
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2015-172 I0#~
   
0.70
%
03/16/2057
   
15,050
 
 
692,938
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2016-40 I0#~
   
0.65
%
07/16/2057
   
23,646
 
 
569,254
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2016-56 I0#~
   
0.90
%
11/16/2057
   
28,260
 
 
857,897
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2016-98 I0#~
   
0.86
%
05/16/2058
   
44,234
 
 
4,916,921
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2021-084 ED
   
1.00
%
07/16/2060
   
4,765,307
 
 
1,000,000
 
JPMCC, Series 2019-BKWD C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.60%)^
   
1.67
%
09/17/2029
   
1,000,518
 
 
1,301,678
 
KKR Industrial Portfolio Trust, Series 2020-AIP D (1 Month LIBOR USD + 2.03%)^
   
2.10
%
03/16/2037
   
1,306,023
 
 
1,500,000
 
MRCD Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-PARK C^
   
2.72
%
12/15/2036
   
1,533,660
 
 
600,000
 
MSC, Series 2019-NUGS B (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.30%)^
   
2.80
%
12/15/2036
   
602,595
 
 
1,000,000
 
Natixis Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust, Series 2020-2PAC C^
   
3.40
%
12/16/2038
   
1,041,729
 
 
368,040
 
Velocity Commercial Capital Loan Trust, Series 2017-1 M1#^
   
3.55
%
05/25/2047
   
369,206
 
Total Mortgage Backed Securities (Cost $132,750,129)
   
135,753,369
 
                         
Asset Backed Securities — 17.7%
 
 
540,000
 
American Homes 4 Rent, Series 2014-SFR2 D^
   
5.15
%
10/17/2036
   
582,842
 
 
2,000,000
 
American Homes 4 Rent, Series 2014-SFR3 B^
   
4.20
%
12/18/2036
   
2,132,296
 
 
520,000
 
American Homes 4 Rent, Series 2015-SFR1 D^
   
4.41
%
04/18/2052
   
553,432
 
 
1,000,000
 
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust, Series 2020-2 C
   
1.48
%
02/18/2026
   
1,015,028
 
 
2,196,000
 
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust, Series 2021-1 D
   
1.21
%
12/18/2026
   
2,192,730
 
 
2,255,000
 
CarMax Auto Owner Trust, Series 2021-2 C
   
1.34
%
02/16/2027
   
2,258,558
 
 
500,000
 
CNH Equipment Trust, Series 2020-A A4
   
1.51
%
04/15/2027
   
512,493
 
 
940,510
 
Dext LLC, Series 2020-1 A^
   
1.46
%
02/16/2027
   
945,210
 
 
1,000,000
 
Drive Auto Receivables Trust, Series 2019-3 D
   
3.18
%
10/15/2026
   
1,040,556
 
 
1,320,000
 
Drive Auto Receivables Trust, Series 2020-1
   
2.70
%
05/15/2027
   
1,360,665
 
 
5,200,000
 
Dryden 64 CLO Ltd., Series 2018-64 (3 Month LIBOR USD + 0.97%)^
   
1.16
%
04/18/2031
   
5,203,338
 
 
1,500,000
 
Exeter Automobile Receivables Trust, Series 2019-3A D^
   
3.11
%
08/15/2025
   
1,548,266
 
 
2,182,428
 
FHF Trust, Series 2020-1A A^
   
2.59
%
12/15/2023
   
2,200,638
 
 
1,528,494
 
FHF Trust, Series 2021-1A A^
   
1.27
%
03/15/2027
   
1,528,476
 
 
698,099
 
FREED ABS Trust, Series 2019-1 B^
   
3.87
%
06/18/2026
   
702,806
 

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Brown Advisory Total Return Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Asset Backed Securities — 17.7% (Continued)
 
 
131,723
 
FREED ABS Trust, Series 2020-2CP A^
   
4.52
%
06/18/2027
   
132,389
 
 
791,396
 
FREED ABS Trust, Series 2021-1CP A^
   
0.66
%
03/20/2028
   
791,984
 
 
1,000,000
 
GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust, Series 2021-2 C
   
1.01
%
05/20/2025
   
999,005
 
 
500,000
 
GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding LLC, Series 2019-1 B^
   
3.37
%
02/18/2025
   
520,634
 
 
500,000
 
GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding LLC, Series 2019-1 C^
   
3.54
%
02/17/2026
   
521,396
 
 
750,000
 
HPEFS Equipment Trust, Series 2020-1A C^
   
2.03
%
02/20/2030
   
764,616
 
 
1,000,000
 
HPEFS Equipment Trust, Series 2020-1A D^
   
2.26
%
02/20/2030
   
1,021,977
 
 
1,380,000
 
HPEFS Equipment Trust, Series 2021-1 TR^
   
1.03
%
03/20/2031
   
1,377,992
 
 
1,379,767
 
Invitation Homes Trust, Series 2017-SFR2 B (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.15%)^
   
1.23
%
12/19/2036
   
1,383,768
 
 
1,199,798
 
Invitation Homes Trust, Series 2017-SFR2 C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.45%)^
   
1.53
%
12/19/2036
   
1,203,482
 
 
800,000
 
Invitation Homes Trust, Series 2018-SFR1 B (1 Month LIBOR USD + 0.95%)^
   
1.03
%
03/19/2037
   
802,388
 
 
2,200,000
 
Invitation Homes Trust, Series 2018-SFR1 C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.25%)^
   
1.33
%
03/19/2037
   
2,207,273
 
 
1,000,000
 
Invitation Homes Trust, Series 2018-SFR2 B (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.08%)^
   
1.15
%
06/18/2037
   
1,003,919
 
 
4,000,000
 
Madison Park Funding XVIII Ltd., Series FLT (3 Month LIBOR USD + 1.19%)^
   
1.38
%
10/21/2030
   
4,003,996
 
 
1,687,201
 
MVW Owner Trust, Series 2017-1A A^
   
2.42
%
12/20/2034
   
1,724,649
 
 
1,849,681
 
Nationstar HECM Loan Trust, Series 2020-1 A#^
   
1.27
%
09/25/2030
   
1,856,157
 
 
603,863
 
Newtek Small Business Loan Trust, Series 2018-1 A (1 Month LIBOR USD + -0.55%)^
   
2.70
%
02/25/2044
   
595,226
 
 
5,000,000
 
Octagon Investment Partners 54, Ltd. (3 Month LIBOR USD + 1.12%)^
   
1.25
%
07/15/2034
   
5,012,705
 
 
2,600,000
 
Oportun Funding X LLC, Series 2018-C A^
   
4.10
%
10/08/2024
   
2,601,927
 
 
640,000
 
Oportun Funding XIV LLC, Series 2021-A A^
   
1.21
%
03/08/2028
   
642,164
 
 
2,000,000
 
PFS Financing Corp., Series 2020-F A^
   
0.93
%
08/15/2024
   
2,010,213
 
 
2,420,000
 
PFS Financing Corp., Series 2021-A A^
   
0.71
%
04/15/2026
   
2,420,180
 
 
1,000,000
 
Prestige Auto Receivables Trust, Series 2019-1A D^
   
3.01
%
08/15/2025
   
1,025,582
 
 
2,495,720
 
Progress Residential Trust, Series 2018-SFR3 A^
   
3.88
%
10/18/2035
   
2,523,898
 
 
790,000
 
Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust, Series 2019-3 D
   
2.68
%
10/15/2025
   
809,903
 
 
364,000
 
SBA Tower Trust, Series 2020-1-2^
   
2.33
%
01/15/2028
   
378,152
 
 
2,700,000
 
Stack Infrastructure Issuer LLC, Series 2020-1A A2^
   
1.89
%
08/25/2045
   
2,717,075
 
 
5,800,000
 
Symphony CLO XIX, Ltd., Series 2018-19 (3 Month LIBOR USD + 0.96%)^
   
1.14
%
04/16/2031
   
5,799,211
 
 
2,180,000
 
Tesla Auto Lease Trust, Series 2021-A C^
   
1.18
%
03/20/2025
   
2,183,869
 
 
1,012,457
 
Theorem Funding Trust, Series 2020-1A A^
   
2.48
%
10/15/2026
   
1,019,037
 
 
3,000,000
 
Vantage Data Centers LLC, Series 2020-1A A2^
   
1.65
%
09/15/2045
   
3,013,468
 
 
688,456
 
Westgate Resorts LLC, Series 2018-1A C^
   
4.10
%
12/20/2031
   
696,425
 
 
1,000,000
 
Westlake Automobile Receivables Trust, Series 2020-2A C^
   
2.01
%
07/15/2025
   
1,019,328
 
Total Asset Backed Securities (Cost $78,185,779)
   
78,561,322
 
                         
U.S. Treasury Notes — 15.9%
 
 
33,570,000
 
United States Treasury Note
   
2.75
%
04/30/2023
   
35,117,367
 
 
35,335,000
 
United States Treasury Note
   
0.13
%
01/15/2024
   
35,126,579
 
Total U.S.Treasury Notes (Cost $70,322,080)
   
70,243,946
 
                         
Municipal Bonds — 0.4%
 
 
230,000
 
American Municipal Power, Inc.
   
6.05
%
02/15/2043
   
333,920
 
 
1,200,000
 
Health Care Authority for Baptist Health
   
5.50
%
11/15/2043
   
1,556,107
 
Total Municipal Bonds (Cost $1,526,410)
   
1,890,027
 

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Brown Advisory Total Return Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares/
         
 
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Short-Term Investments — 5.9%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 5.5%
 
   
24,131,317
 
First American Government Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%*
   
24,131,317
 
   
U.S. Treasury Bills — 0.4%
 
   
1,800,000
 
United States Treasury Bill, 07/15/2021, 0.01%†
   
1,799,974
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $25,931,309)
   
25,931,291
 
Total Investments — 109.4% (Cost $472,967,244)
   
484,474,018
 
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets — (9.4)%
   
(41,732,679
)
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
442,741,339
 

 
#
Variable rate security.  Rate disclosed is as of the date of this report.
 
^
Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933.  These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.
 
~
Interest Only Security
 
*
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.
 
This security is pledged as collateral in connection with open futures contracts. Rate disclosed is yield to maturity as of the date of this report.

Futures Contracts — Long (Note 6)
                         
             
Notional
   
Notional
   
Unrealized Appreciation
 
Issue
 
Contracts
 
Expiration Date
 
Amount
   
Value
   
(Depreciation)
 
U.S. Treasury 2-Year Note Futures
   
  31
 
09/30/2021
 
$
6,840,971
   
$
6,829,930
   
$
(11,041
)
U.S. Treasury Long Bond Futures
   
183
 
09/21/2021
   
28,629,623
     
29,417,250
     
787,627
 
U.S. Treasury Ultra Bond Futures
   
256
 
09/21/2021
   
47,618,021
     
49,328,000
     
1,709,979
 
               
$
83,088,615
   
$
85,575,180
   
$
2,486,565
 
                                   
Futures Contracts — Short (Note 6)
                                 
               
Notional
   
Notional
   
Unrealized Appreciation
 
Issue
 
Contracts
 
Expiration Date
 
Amount
   
Value
   
(Depreciation)
 
U.S. Treasury 5-Year Note Futures
   
(245)

09/30/2021
 
$
(30,286,540
)
 
$
(30,240,274
)
 
$
46,266
 
U.S. Treasury 10-Year Note Futures
   
(267)

09/21/2021
   
(35,236,014
)
   
(35,377,500
)
   
(141,486
)
U.S. Treasury 10-Year Ultra Note Futures
   
(217)

09/21/2021
   
(31,382,659
)
   
(31,943,078
)
   
(560,419
)
               
$
(96,905,213
)
 
$
(97,560,852
)
 
$
(655,639
)

There is no variation margin due to or from the Fund as of the date of this report.

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

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Brown Advisory Sustainable Bond Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Sustainable Bond Fund – Investor Shares (the “Fund”) increased 2.39% in value. During the same period, the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, declined 0.33%.
 
The last year was marked by big events, and these came to dominate results in the fixed income markets. As such, most of the performance of this period was a result of top-down decisions, which normally is not our focus. We generally aim to generate performance through individual security analysis, including sustainability analysis. Top-down positioning, such as interest rate and sector weightings are set mainly by a combination of risk-management and the supply of bottom-up ideas our analysts provide.
 
The summer of 2020 saw a massive rally in credit securities, as markets gained confidence that companies, with help from policy makers, would be able to see through the COVID-19 pandemic. The overweight of corporate bonds was the primary reason for outperformance1 during the second half of 2020 (the Fund outperformed its benchmark by 167 basis points in that period, generating a return of 2.97% versus the benchmark’s return of 1.29%).
 
In our analysis, this was a period where our ESG research really showed its value-add. For example, we have long favored consumer lenders that treat their borrowers or tenants fairly. We believe that not only is that the right thing to do, but also managing delinquencies in a reasonable but fair way was better business. When unemployment exploded from 4% to almost 15% in a single month, it created a test that these consumer-facing firms would follow through on their practices during a stress period. Our team spent significant time engaging with these issuers to understand and evaluate the programs lenders were putting in place to help borrowers reschedule payments or otherwise avoid default. Robust programs, in our view, will benefit borrowers, lenders and investors in the long run. We want to be invested with firms that have this kind of long-term view.
 
Starting in August of 2020, we made a risk management decision to underweight duration and especially underweight the longest part of the yield curve. As the Fed shifted to its average inflation targeting (AIT) regime, we believed it was possible that inflation would pick up as the economy recovered. Under AIT, the Fed would allow inflation to rise before acting, which would typically result in longer-term yields rising more than shorter-term yields. Lastly, given that Treasury yields were so low at the time, around 0.60% for the 10-year, we felt that if there were any rate-related volatility, it would be to the upside. For that reason, we decided an underweight was appropriate. This was something of a benefit in the fourth quarter of 2020, as news of a vaccine against COVID- 19 was announced. Rising rates accelerated in the first quarter of 2021, spurred by increased government stimulus and a rapidly recovering economy. These moves were large enough that the Fund’s duration and curve positioning dominated the Fund’s outperformance in the first half of 2021.
 
We have maintained a defensive position vis-a-vis rates, and removed most of the overweight to corporate bonds we had in 2020. In our opinion, while the earnings outlook for companies remains solid, corporate bond spreads are near long-term tights. The combination of good fundamentals and rich valuations make a neutral stance fitting.
 
In terms of general interest rates, with Treasury rates having climbed into the 1.50% area, rate- related risks are slightly more balanced than they were last summer. However, our core reasons for going defensive remain just as pertinent now. We believe it is likely that inflation will come in two waves: the first is being driven by a burst of post-pandemic demand met by a still healing supply chain. The second will likely be fueled by a tight labor market and resulting wage pressure. As we write this letter, we are most certainly living through the first of these phases. The most recent CPI report indicated that year-on-year inflation was 5%, which is almost certainly due to transitory factors that will soon fade. However, it is also the case that the labor market is quite tight, despite unemployment at 5.9%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job openings are at an all- time high, and openings per unemployed worker are at the same level as in 2018, when unemployment was at 4.1%. So while inflation is highly likely to decelerate from 5%, wage pressure is probably already enough to maintain inflation over 2%. We think this warrants caution on the direction of rates.
 
______________
 
1  The Fund’s outperformance during the time period is included in the proceeding Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary section.

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Brown Advisory Sustainable Bond Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
We believe the combination of being neutral on credit and defensive on rates should result in the portfolio being less sensitive to big market swings. We expect this will allow our bottom-up decision making to shine through as fixed income volatility returns to more normal levels.
 
Sincerely,
 
Amy Hauter, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 
Thomas D.D. Graff, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Fund’s investment focus on environmental factors could cause it to make or avoid investments that could result in the Fund underperforming similar funds that do not have an environmental focus. Investments in smaller and medium-sized capitalization companies generally carry greater risk than is customarily associated with larger companies for various reasons such as narrower markets, limited financial resources and less liquid stock. Investments in foreign securities entail certain risks not associated with investments in domestic securities, such as volatility of currency exchange rates, and in some cases, political and economic instability and relatively illiquid markets. These risks are greater for investments in emerging markets. The value of the Fund’s investments in REITS may change in response to changes in the real estate market such as declines in the value of real estate, lack of available capital or financing opportunities, and increases in property taxes or operating costs.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Because the Fund’s ESG criteria exclude securities of certain issuers for nonfinancial reasons, the Fund may forgo some market opportunities available to the funds that do not use these criteria.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Sustainable Bond Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against a broad-based securities market index.  The Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index (“Index”) is a broad-based benchmark that measures the investment grade US dollar-denominated, fixed rate taxable bond market.  The Index includes Treasuries, government-related and corporate securities, MBS, ABS and CMBS.  The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Corporate Bonds & Notes
  38.8%
Mortgage Backed Securities
  30.1%
Money Market Funds
  11.1%
Asset Backed Securities
    9.0%
U.S. Treasury Notes
    8.4%
Foreign Government Bonds
    7.6%
Municipal Bonds
    4.4%
U.S. Treasury Bills
    0.1%
Other Assets and Liabilities
  (9.5)%
 
100.0%

   
Since Inception
Average Annual Total Return
One Year
(8/7/17)
Institutional Shares1
2.44%
4.28%
Investor Shares
2.39%
4.23%
Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index
-0.33%
3.81%

 
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio2
0.49%
0.54%
Net Expense Ratio2
0.49%
0.54%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/sustainable-bond-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Investment performance reflects periods during which fee waivers were in effect. In the absence of such waivers, total return would have been reduced. Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower.  Short-term performance, in particular, is not a good indication of the Fund’s future performance, and an investment should not be made based solely on returns. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Performance information for the Institutional Shares, prior to commencement of operations on July 2, 2018, is based on the performance of Investor Shares, and adjusted for the lower expenses applicable to Institutional Shares.
2
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Sustainable Bond Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Corporate Bonds & Notes — 38.8%
 
 
2,240,000
 
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
   
2.10
%
06/04/2030
   
2,220,701
 
 
2,270,000
 
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
   
2.00
%
05/18/2032
   
2,216,805
 
 
1,005,000
 
Allison Transmission, Inc.^
   
5.88
%
06/01/2029
   
1,102,485
 
 
2,060,000
 
American Tower Corp.
   
3.13
%
01/15/2027
   
2,214,442
 
 
2,095,000
 
Amphenol Corp.
   
2.80
%
02/15/2030
   
2,219,420
 
 
2,066,000
 
Analog Devices, Inc.
   
2.95
%
04/01/2025
   
2,213,299
 
 
429,000
 
Aptiv PLC
   
4.35
%
03/15/2029
   
494,811
 
 
995,000
 
Ball Corp.
   
4.88
%
03/15/2026
   
1,109,494
 
 
2,215,000
 
Bank of America Corp. (Fixed until 09/25/2024, then SOFR + 0.91%)
   
0.98
%
09/25/2025
   
2,214,782
 
 
2,165,000
 
Citigroup, Inc. (Fixed until 05/15/2023, then SOFR + 1.67%)
   
1.68
%
05/15/2024
   
2,211,039
 
 
1,115,000
 
Clearway Energy Operating LLC^
   
3.75
%
02/15/2031
   
1,110,925
 
 
2,399,000
 
Conservation Fund
   
3.47
%
12/15/2029
   
2,572,432
 
 
1,010,000
 
Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.
   
3.35
%
04/01/2030
   
1,112,554
 
 
1,110,000
 
Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc.
   
3.00
%
02/15/2029
   
1,112,442
 
 
2,060,000
 
Crown Castle International Corp.
   
3.30
%
07/01/2030
   
2,211,754
 
 
2,895,000
 
CVS Health Corp.
   
4.30
%
03/25/2028
   
3,331,050
 
 
1,075,000
 
Dana, Inc.
   
4.25
%
09/01/2030
   
1,107,250
 
 
2,224,000
 
Equinix, Inc.
   
2.50
%
05/15/2031
   
2,266,448
 
 
765,000
 
Ford Foundation
   
2.42
%
06/01/2050
   
738,653
 
 
2,060,000
 
Fortis, Inc.
   
3.06
%
10/04/2026
   
2,213,127
 
 
1,020,000
 
Graphic Packaging International LLC^
   
4.75
%
07/15/2027
   
1,105,619
 
 
2,645,000
 
Hasbro, Inc.
   
3.50
%
09/15/2027
   
2,885,375
 
 
513,000
 
Hawaiian Brand Intellectual Property, Ltd.^
   
5.75
%
01/20/2026
   
552,116
 
 
1,940,000
 
Huntsman International LLC
   
4.50
%
05/01/2029
   
2,210,247
 
 
1,990,000
 
JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
   
3.88
%
03/01/2026
   
2,216,577
 
 
1,075,000
 
Kaiser Aluminum Corp.^
   
4.50
%
06/01/2031
   
1,105,014
 
 
2,000,000
 
Land O’Lakes, Inc.^+
   
7.25
%
04/04/2027
   
2,127,420
 
 
1,100,000
 
LBM Acquisition LLC^
   
6.25
%
01/15/2029
   
1,109,845
 
 
1,935,000
 
Marriott International, Inc.
   
4.65
%
12/01/2028
   
2,214,181
 
 
1,920,000
 
Marvell Technology, Inc.^
   
4.88
%
06/22/2028
   
2,223,293
 
 
1,955,000
 
NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Inc.
                 
     
  (Fixed until 12/01/2027, then 3 Month LIBOR USD + 2.41%)
   
4.80
%
12/01/2077
   
2,199,754
 
 
2,795,000
 
Northwell Healthcare, Inc.
   
4.26
%
11/01/2047
   
3,312,591
 
 
2,005,000
 
NXP BV^
   
3.88
%
06/18/2026
   
2,223,594
 
 
1,985,000
 
PVH Corp.
   
4.63
%
07/10/2025
   
2,217,568
 
 
1,075,000
 
SBA Communications Corp.
   
3.88
%
02/15/2027
   
1,106,578
 
 
2,315,000
 
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
   
2.05
%
03/31/2030
   
2,300,925
 
 
2,025,000
 
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.
   
3.20
%
08/15/2027
   
2,214,660
 
 
730,000
 
T-Mobile USA, Inc.
   
3.88
%
04/15/2030
   
817,578
 
 
1,895,000
 
Trimble, Inc.
   
4.90
%
06/15/2028
   
2,226,244
 
 
900,000
 
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
   
4.01
%
08/15/2047
   
1,039,352
 
 
3,000,000
 
Verisk Analytics, Inc.
   
4.00
%
06/15/2025
   
3,322,604
 
 
2,920,000
 
Verizon Communications, Inc.
   
3.88
%
02/08/2029
   
3,323,946
 
 
2,095,000
 
VF Corp.
   
2.95
%
04/23/2030
   
2,222,275
 
 
2,070,000
 
West Fraser Timber Co., Ltd.^
   
4.35
%
10/15/2024
   
2,215,485
 
 
2,200,000
 
Xylem, Inc.
   
2.25
%
01/30/2031
   
2,221,177
 
Total Corporate Bonds & Notes (Cost $82,952,345)
   
86,707,931
 
                         
Mortgage Backed Securities — 30.1%
 
 
500,000
 
CAMB Commercial Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-LIFE B (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.25%)^
   
1.32
%
12/15/2037
   
501,659
 
 
500,000
 
CAMB Commercial Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-LIFE C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.45%)^
   
1.52
%
12/15/2037
   
501,539
 
 
600,000
 
CORE Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-CORE C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.30%)^
   
1.37
%
12/15/2031
   
600,220
 
 
500,000
 
CSMC, Series 2019-ICE4 C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.43%)^
   
1.50
%
05/15/2036
   
502,459
 
 
1,350,000
 
CSMC, Series 2019-ICE4 D (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.60%)^
   
1.67
%
05/15/2036
   
1,354,309
 
 
352,196
 
FHLMC STACR, Series 2014-HQ2 M3 (1 Month LIBOR USD + 3.75%)
   
3.84
%
09/25/2024
   
360,467
 
 
292,337
 
FHLMC STACR, Series 2015-HQ2 M3 (1 Month LIBOR USD + 3.25%)
   
3.34
%
05/27/2025
   
296,878
 
 
109,502
 
FHMS, Series K-W01 A1
   
2.59
%
05/25/2025
   
114,692
 

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Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Mortgage Backed Securities — 30.1% (Continued)
 
 
600,000
 
FHMS, Series K-G01 A7
   
2.88
%
04/25/2026
   
649,041
 
 
582,219
 
FHMS, Series K-W03 X1#~
   
0.98
%
06/25/2027
   
22,041
 
 
300,000
 
FHMS, Series K-W03 A2
   
3.02
%
06/25/2027
   
328,999
 
 
1,006,000
 
FHMS, Series Q-006 APT1#
   
2.78
%
04/25/2028
   
1,047,232
 
 
5,496,187
 
FHMS, Series K-G01 X1#~
   
1.11
%
04/25/2029
   
313,555
 
 
6,250,000
 
FHMS, Series K-G02 X1#~
   
1.14
%
08/25/2029
   
443,081
 
 
800,000
 
FHMS, Series K-G03 A2#
   
1.30
%
06/25/2030
   
788,136
 
 
1,960,000
 
FHMS, Series K-SG1 A2
   
1.50
%
09/25/2030
   
1,962,344
 
 
1,850,000
 
FHMS, Series K-G04 A2
   
1.49
%
11/25/2030
   
1,847,492
 
 
341,733
 
FHMS, Series Q-010 APT1#
   
2.92
%
04/25/2046
   
344,137
 
 
573,497
 
FHMS, Series Q-007 APT1#
   
2.99
%
10/25/2047
   
582,892
 
 
869,227
 
FHMS, Series Q-013 APT1#
   
1.18
%
05/25/2050
   
875,016
 
 
2,000,000
 
FNMA, Pool# AN7996
   
3.15
%
02/01/2028
   
2,154,728
 
 
133,592
 
FNMA, Pool# BK5105
   
5.50
%
05/01/2048
   
151,284
 
 
110,833
 
FNMA, Pool# BK8032
   
5.50
%
06/01/2048
   
125,151
 
 
95,728
 
FNMA, Pool# BN0202
   
5.50
%
09/01/2048
   
107,401
 
 
145,868
 
FNMA, Pool# BN4936
   
5.50
%
12/01/2048
   
163,792
 
 
109,680
 
FNMA, Pool# BN4921
   
5.50
%
01/01/2049
   
122,381
 
 
2,935,000
 
FNMA, 1.50%, Due TBA July
   
1.50
%
07/15/2036
   
2,971,714
 
 
6,670,000
 
FNMA, 2.50%, Due TBA July
   
2.50
%
07/15/2051
   
6,903,710
 
 
78,819
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2017-M2 A2#
   
2.89
%
02/25/2027
   
85,573
 
 
735,926
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2017-M13 A2#
   
3.02
%
09/25/2027
   
807,170
 
 
930,000
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2019-M1 A2#
   
3.67
%
09/25/2028
   
1,064,647
 
 
1,675,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-KG01#^
   
4.31
%
04/25/2029
   
1,796,968
 
 
1,000,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-K89 B#^
   
4.43
%
01/25/2051
   
1,143,389
 
 
1,000,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-K734 B#^
   
4.19
%
02/25/2051
   
1,103,123
 
 
1,250,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-K735 B#^
   
4.16
%
05/25/2052
   
1,384,338
 
 
1,000,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2020-K737 B#^
   
3.41
%
01/25/2053
   
1,069,806
 
 
9,735,000
 
GNMA, 2.00%, Due TBA July
   
2.00
%
07/15/2051
   
9,923,615
 
 
859,646
 
GNMA, Pool# 781950X
   
4.50
%
07/15/2035
   
963,021
 
 
954,937
 
GNMA, Pool# MA7106M
   
2.00
%
01/20/2036
   
987,950
 
 
968,235
 
GNMA, Pool# MA7164M
   
2.00
%
02/20/2036
   
1,001,728
 
 
1,481,822
 
GNMA, Pool# AV8310C
   
3.50
%
08/20/2046
   
1,595,704
 
 
1,153,520
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2020-167 EC
   
1.00
%
02/20/2049
   
1,161,911
 
 
400,453
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2019-152 LC
   
3.50
%
10/20/2049
   
409,613
 
 
1,374,010
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2020-016 MD
   
2.75
%
02/20/2050
   
1,409,771
 
 
2,146,109
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2021-023 ME
   
1.25
%
02/20/2051
   
2,152,787
 
 
1,518,698
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2021-074 HA
   
1.75
%
04/20/2051
   
1,546,093
 
 
4,307,922
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2021-084 ED
   
1.00
%
07/16/2060
   
4,175,085
 
 
1,976,832
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2021-074 NG
   
1.00
%
04/20/2051
   
1,945,892
 
 
311,218
 
IMT Trust, Series 2017-APTS BFL (1 Month LIBOR USD + 0.95%)^
   
1.02
%
06/15/2034
   
311,002
 
 
785,789
 
IMT Trust, Series 2017-APTS CFL (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.10%)^
   
1.17
%
06/15/2034
   
786,492
 
 
1,345,000
 
KNDL Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-KNSQ C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.05%)^
   
1.12
%
05/15/2036
   
1,346,799
 
 
700,000
 
MRCD Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-PARK C^
   
2.72
%
12/15/2036
   
715,708
 
 
200,000
 
MSC, Series 2017-CLS A (1 Month LIBOR USD + 0.70%)^
   
0.77
%
11/15/2034
   
200,152
 
 
1,110,000
 
MSC, Series 2017-CLS D (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.40%)^
   
1.47
%
11/15/2034
   
1,110,970
 
 
1,000,000
 
Natixis Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust, Series 2020-2PAC C^
   
3.40
%
12/16/2038
   
1,041,729
 
Total Mortgage Backed Securities (Cost $66,463,173)
   
67,377,386
 
                         
Asset Backed Securities — 9.0%
 
 
500,000
 
CNH Equipment Trust, Series 2020-A A4
   
1.51
%
04/15/2027
   
512,493
 
 
452,838
 
Dext LLC, Series 2020-1 A^
   
1.46
%
02/16/2027
   
455,101
 
 
545,607
 
FHF Trust, Series 2020-1A A^
   
2.59
%
12/15/2023
   
550,159
 
 
723,787
 
FHF Trust, Series 2021-1A A^
   
1.27
%
03/15/2027
   
723,778
 
 
418,859
 
FREED ABS Trust, Series 2019-1 B^
   
3.87
%
06/18/2026
   
421,684
 
 
162,458
 
FREED ABS Trust, Series 2020-2CP A^
   
4.52
%
06/18/2027
   
163,279
 

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Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Asset Backed Securities — 9.0% (Continued)
 
 
348,504
 
FREED ABS Trust, Series 2021-1CP A^
   
0.66
%
03/20/2028
   
348,764
 
 
600,000
 
FREED ABS Trust, Series 2021-1CP^
   
1.41
%
03/20/2028
   
602,179
 
 
500,000
 
GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding LLC, Series 2019-1 B^
   
3.37
%
02/18/2025
   
520,634
 
 
500,000
 
GreatAmerica Leasing Receivables Funding LLC, Series 2019-1 C^
   
3.54
%
02/17/2026
   
521,396
 
 
1,975,000
 
HPEFS Equipment Trust, Series 2021-2 B^
   
0.61
%
09/20/2028
   
1,973,357
 
 
1,000,000
 
HPEFS Equipment Trust, Series 2019-1A D^
   
2.72
%
09/20/2029
   
1,021,571
 
 
1,000,000
 
HPEFS Equipment Trust, Series 2020-1A D^
   
2.26
%
02/20/2030
   
1,021,977
 
 
620,000
 
HPEFS Equipment Trust, Series 2021-1 TR^
   
1.03
%
03/20/2031
   
619,098
 
 
603,863
 
Newtek Small Business Loan Trust, Series 2018-1 A (1 Month LIBOR USD + -0.55%)^
   
2.70
%
02/25/2044
   
595,226
 
 
395,883
 
NYCTL Trust, Series 2019-A A^
   
2.19
%
11/10/2032
   
396,799
 
 
1,000,000
 
Oportun Funding X LLC, Series 2018-C A^
   
4.10
%
10/08/2024
   
1,000,741
 
 
327,000
 
Oportun Funding XIII LLC, Series 2019-A A^
   
3.08
%
08/08/2025
   
334,999
 
 
305,000
 
Oportun Funding XIV LLC, Series 2021-A A^
   
1.21
%
03/08/2028
   
306,031
 
 
650,000
 
PFS Financing Corp., Series 2020-F A^
   
0.93
%
08/15/2024
   
653,319
 
 
1,075,000
 
PFS Financing Corp., Series 2021-A A^
   
0.71
%
04/15/2026
   
1,075,080
 
 
362,000
 
SBA Tower Trust, Series 2020-1-2^
   
2.33
%
01/15/2028
   
376,074
 
 
850,000
 
Stack Infrastructure Issuer LLC, Series 2020-1A A2^
   
1.89
%
08/25/2045
   
855,376
 
 
750,000
 
Tesla Auto Lease Trust, Series 2020-A A3^
   
0.68
%
12/20/2023
   
753,396
 
 
750,000
 
Tesla Auto Lease Trust, Series 2020-A C^
   
1.68
%
02/20/2024
   
761,317
 
 
525,000
 
Tesla Auto Lease Trust, Series 2021-A C^
   
1.18
%
03/20/2025
   
525,932
 
 
1,125,000
 
Vantage Data Centers LLC, Series 2020-1A A2^
   
1.65
%
09/15/2045
   
1,130,051
 
 
750,000
 
Verizon Owner Trust, Series 2019-A C
   
3.22
%
09/20/2023
   
772,303
 
 
1,000,000
 
Verizon Owner Trust, Series 2019-B C
   
2.60
%
12/20/2023
   
1,026,790
 
Total Asset Backed Securities (Cost $19,834,998)
   
20,018,904
 
                         
U.S. Treasury Notes — 8.4%
 
 
9,480,000
 
United States Treasury Note
   
2.75
%
04/30/2023
   
9,916,969
 
 
8,910,000
 
United States Treasury Note
   
0.13
%
01/15/2024
   
8,857,445
 
Total U.S Treasury Notes (Cost $18,793,496)
   
18,774,414
 
                         
Foreign Government Bonds — 7.6%
 
 
1,000,000
 
Industrial Bank of Korea (3 Month LIBOR USD + 0.60%)^
   
0.78
%
08/02/2021
   
1,000,470
 
 
5,600,000
 
International Bank for Reconstruction & Development
   
0.63
%
04/22/2025
   
5,584,009
 
 
3,920,000
 
International Finance Corp.
   
2.00
%
10/24/2022
   
4,011,463
 
 
2,425,000
 
Korea Development Bank (3 Month LIBOR USD + 0.73%)
   
0.92
%
07/06/2022
   
2,438,813
 
 
4,000,000
 
Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau
   
2.00
%
09/29/2022
   
4,091,005
 
Total Foreign Government Bonds (Cost $17,152,409)
   
17,125,760
 
                         
Municipal Bonds — 4.4%
 
 
2,650,000
 
California Health Facilities Financing Authority
   
3.03
%
06/01/2034
   
2,831,220
 
 
1,325,000
 
Colorado Health Facilities Authority
   
3.36
%
12/01/2030
   
1,345,668
 
 
100,000
 
Honolulu, City & County Hawaii
   
3.00
%
09/01/2027
   
109,159
 
 
30,000
 
Los Angeles California Community College District
   
6.60
%
08/01/2042
   
47,506
 
 
430,000
 
Los Angeles California Wastewater System Revenue
   
3.49
%
06/01/2029
   
471,277
 
 
15,000
 
Maryland Community Development Administration
   
3.24
%
09/01/2048
   
15,607
 
 
3,300,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority
   
3.96
%
12/15/2026
   
3,471,978
 
 
1,000,000
 
New York City Housing Development Corp.
   
2.71
%
08/01/2031
   
1,036,101
 
 
355,000
 
University of California
   
2.99
%
05/15/2026
   
385,296
 
 
25,000
 
University of North Texas System
   
3.69
%
04/15/2030
   
27,721
 
Total Municipal Bonds (Cost $9,265,714)
       
9,741,533
 

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

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Brown Advisory Sustainable Bond Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares/
         
 
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Short-Term Investments — 11.2%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 11.1%
 
   
24,730,581
 
First American Government Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%*
   
24,730,581
 
   
U.S. Treasury Bills — 0.1%
 
   
250,000
 
United States Treasury Bill, 07/15/2021, 0.01%†
   
249,996
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $24,980,580)
   
24,980,577
 
Total Investments — 109.5% (Cost $239,442,715)
   
244,726,505
 
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets — (9.5)%
   
(21,241,388
)
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
223,485,117
 

 
#
Variable rate security.  Rate disclosed is as of the date of this report.
 
^
Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933.  These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.
 
+
Perpetual security with no stated maturity date. Date shown is last call date.
 
~
Interest Only Security
 
*
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.
 
This security is pledged as collateral in connection with open futures contracts. Rate disclosed is yield to maturity as of the date of this report.

Futures Contracts — Long (Note 6)
                         
             
Notional
   
Notional
   
Unrealized Appreciation
 
Issue
 
Contracts
 
Expiration Date
 
Amount
   
Value
   
(Depreciation)
 
U.S. Treasury Long Bond Futures
   
  78
 
09/21/2021
 
$
12,177,516
   
$
12,538,500
   
$
360,984
 
U.S. Treasury Ultra Bond Futures
   
117
 
09/21/2021
   
21,853,021
     
22,544,438
     
691,417
 
               
$
34,030,537
   
$
35,082,938
   
$
1,052,401
 
                                   
Futures Contracts — Short (Note 6)
                                 
               
Notional
   
Notional
   
Unrealized Appreciation
 
Issue
 
Contracts
 
Expiration Date
 
Amount
   
Value
   
(Depreciation)
 
U.S. Treasury 5-Year Note Futures
   
(133)

09/30/2021
 
$
(16,442,448
)
 
$
(16,416,149
)
 
$
26,299
 
U.S. Treasury 10-Year Note Futures
   
(134)

09/21/2021
   
(17,683,562
)
   
(17,755,000
)
   
(71,438
)
U.S. Treasury 10-Year Ultra Note Futures
   
(106)

09/21/2021
   
(15,329,783
)
   
(15,603,532
)
   
(273,749
)
               
$
(49,455,793
)
 
$
(49,774,681
)
 
$
(318,888
)

There is no variation margin due to or from the Fund as of the date of this report.

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

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Brown Advisory Maryland Bond Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Maryland Bond Fund – Investor Shares (the “Fund”) increased 4.41% in value. During the same period, the Bloomberg Barclays 1-10 Year Blended Municipal Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 2.43%.
 
For the period, the Fund was mostly neutral weighted on duration but positioned for the yield curve to flatten. We believed that if interest rates were to rise, it would be because the economy was showing signs of improving and Federal Reserve rate hikes were seen on the near-term horizon. This would, in turn, drive short and intermediate term rates to rise more than long-term rates. Whereas we saw a few reasons why rates might fall, including increasing foreign demand and/or a downgrade in the long-term growth prospects for the U.S. Both of these would be more likely to benefit longer-term bonds more than short or intermediate term bonds.
 
Instead, the municipal yield curve steepened meaningfully for the first half of 2021, which hurt the Fund’s relative performance during that period. This was primarily due to the uncertainty around when the Fed would begin its rate tightening cycle, and the market’s presumption that hikes would not begin until 2022. In contrast, our tone on the market is constructive. While longer-maturity yields have increased around the uncertain timing of Fed “lift off,” we see limited risk of additional curve steepening due to the softer overall global economic outlook. As a result, we continue to maintain our overweight to the intermediate and longer-maturity portion of the municipal yield curve.
 
Offsetting the curve steepening was strong performance from our bottom-up selection in the municipal sector and individual credit selection. The Fund maintains an overweight to revenue-backed issues where we believe there is an upside thesis. Of those sectors, health care-related credits such as not-for-profit hospitals and senior living were the largest contributor. On a combined basis, these holdings returned 3.95% for the period versus the Index’s health care return of 2.80%. The Fund also maintained a combined overweight of roughly 10% to these two sectors during the period, which contributed 44 basis points of relative outperformance. The portfolio also benefitted from strong returns in several other revenue-backed sectors during the period including transportation +3.61%, public power +2.09%, and higher education +1.41%.
 
We believe that the Fund is well positioned to navigate potentially choppy waters as we are likely to enter the first Fed tightening cycle in the past eleven years. We continue to hold a large weighting to short-term, high quality bonds that should provide stability to the portfolio as the Fed begins raising rates. We also remain committed to our view that broad credit quality across the municipal market is improving, but believe that relative valuation and credit selection will play an increasingly important role in future performance. We continue to focus on our core philosophy of seeking sectors and bonds that are underpriced on a fundamental basis, while maintaining the core stability that investors should expect from a high quality municipal bond fund.
 
Sincerely,
 
Stephen M. Shutz, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 

Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Fund is non-diversified which means it may invest a large percentage of its assets in the securities of fewer issuers. Investment in a limited number of issuers exposes the Fund to greater market risk than if its assets were diversified among a greater number of issuers. The Fund is also subject to interest rate risk which is the risk that debt securities in the Fund’s portfolio will decline in value because of an increase in market interest rates. Municipal securities are subject to adverse political or economic factors, including changes in the tax law. Income from tax-exempt funds may be subject to state and local taxes and a portion of income may be subject to the federal alternative minimum tax for certain investors.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report. Credit Quality weights by rating are derived from the highest bond rating as determined by Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”), Moody’s or Fitch. Bond ratings are grades given to bonds that indicate their credit quality as determined by private independent rating services such as S&P, Moody’s and Fitch. These firms evaluate a bond issuer’s financial strength, or its ability to pay a bond’s principal and interest in a timely fashion. Ratings are expressed as letters ranging from ‘AAA’, which is the highest grade, to ‘D’, which is the lowest grade. In limited situations when none of the three rating agencies have issued a formal rating, the Advisor will classify the security as nonrated.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Maryland Bond Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against the broad-based municipal bond index. The Bloomberg Barclays 1-10 Year Blended Municipal Bond Index (“Index”) is a market index of high quality, domestic fixed income securities with maturities of less than 10 years. The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Revenue Bonds
  72.5%
General Obligation Bonds
  25.6%
Money Market Funds
    0.7%
Other Assets and Liabilities
    1.2%
 
100.0%

Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
Ten Year
Investor Shares
4.41%
2.48%
2.55%
Bloomberg Barclays 1-10 Year Blended Municipal Bond Index
2.43%
2.48%
2.97%

   
Investor Shares
 
Gross Expense Ratio1
 
0.49%
 
Net Expense Ratio1
 
0.49%
 

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/maryland-bond-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Investment performance reflects periods during which fee waivers were in effect.  In the absence of such waivers, total return would have been reduced.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Maryland Bond Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Municipal Bonds — 98.1%
 
   
General Obligation Bonds — 25.6%
 
 
1,650,000
 
Baltimore County Maryland
   
5.00
%
08/01/2028
   
1,883,654
 
 
6,000,000
 
Baltimore County Maryland
   
5.00
%
03/01/2032
   
7,757,335
 
 
1,520,000
 
Baltimore County Maryland
   
4.00
%
02/01/2033
   
1,656,907
 
 
5,000,000
 
Baltimore County Maryland
   
4.00
%
03/01/2036
   
6,049,943
 
 
1,080,000
 
Baltimore, Maryland
   
5.00
%
10/15/2032
   
1,352,156
 
 
2,400,000
 
Maryland State
   
5.00
%
08/01/2024
   
2,749,805
 
 
1,400,000
 
Maryland State
   
5.00
%
08/01/2031
   
1,785,563
 
 
5,000,000
 
Montgomery County Maryland
   
5.00
%
11/01/2023
   
5,561,236
 
 
3,370,000
 
Montgomery County Maryland
   
3.00
%
10/01/2034
   
3,769,996
 
 
1,350,000
 
Prince George’s County Maryland
   
5.00
%
10/01/2024
   
1,553,112
 
 
1,500,000
 
Prince George’s County Maryland
   
5.00
%
10/01/2025
   
1,785,115
 
 
1,550,000
 
Prince George’s County Maryland
   
5.00
%
10/01/2026
   
1,901,909
 
 
2,200,000
 
Prince George’s County Maryland
   
5.00
%
10/01/2027
   
2,765,845
 
 
1,000,000
 
Prince George’s County Maryland
   
5.00
%
07/15/2029
   
1,284,203
 
 
5,000,000
 
Prince George’s County Maryland
   
4.00
%
07/15/2037
   
5,980,205
 
                     
47,836,984
 
                         
Revenue Bonds — 72.5%
 
 
975,000
 
Austin, Texas
   
7.88
%
09/01/2026
   
979,523
 
 
1,320,000
 
Baltimore, Maryland
   
5.00
%
07/01/2028
   
1,616,567
 
 
1,000,000
 
Baltimore, Maryland
   
5.00
%
07/01/2028
   
1,224,672
 
 
520,000
 
Baltimore, Maryland
   
5.00
%
06/15/2030
   
576,497
 
 
225,000
 
Baltimore, Maryland^
   
3.25
%
06/01/2031
   
238,374
 
 
1,000,000
 
Baltimore, Maryland
   
5.00
%
07/01/2032
   
1,118,441
 
 
670,000
 
Baltimore, Maryland
   
5.00
%
06/15/2033
   
739,755
 
 
1,000,000
 
Baltimore, Maryland
   
4.00
%
07/01/2034
   
1,207,967
 
 
1,600,000
 
Baltimore, Maryland
   
5.00
%
07/01/2035
   
1,955,192
 
 
1,260,000
 
Baltimore, Maryland^
   
3.50
%
06/01/2039
   
1,323,615
 
 
1,750,000
 
California Municipal Finance Authority^
   
5.00
%
11/01/2039
   
1,957,303
 
 
1,550,000
 
Franklin County Ohio
   
5.00
%
11/15/2034
   
1,726,491
 
 
1,000,000
 
Frederick County Maryland^
   
5.00
%
09/01/2027
   
1,122,000
 
 
2,000,000
 
Frederick County Maryland
   
5.00
%
07/01/2029
   
2,572,868
 
 
5,050,000
 
Frederick County Maryland^
   
5.00
%
09/01/2032
   
5,788,631
 
 
1,110,000
 
Frederick County Maryland^
   
5.00
%
09/01/2037
   
1,258,753
 
 
1,410,000
 
Frederick County Maryland
   
3.75
%
07/01/2039
   
1,509,558
 
 
1,000,000
 
Gaithersburg, City of Maryland
   
5.00
%
01/01/2028
   
1,133,917
 
 
2,000,000
 
Gaithersburg, City of Maryland
   
5.00
%
01/01/2033
   
2,248,545
 
 
2,000,000
 
Lancaster County Pennsylvania Hospital Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2035
   
2,213,163
 
 
1,245,000
 
Maryland Community Development Administration
   
5.00
%
09/01/2030
   
1,582,554
 
 
1,030,000
 
Maryland Community Development Administration
   
5.00
%
09/01/2031
   
1,302,882
 
 
1,000,000
 
Maryland Community Development Administration
   
3.25
%
03/01/2036
   
1,060,351
 
 
1,140,000
 
Maryland Community Development Administration Local Government Infrastructure
   
4.00
%
06/01/2035
   
1,379,539
 
 
850,000
 
Maryland Economic Development Corp.
   
5.00
%
07/01/2031
   
939,908
 
 
4,500,000
 
Maryland Economic Development Corp.
   
4.50
%
07/01/2044
   
5,025,734
 
 
3,000,000
 
Maryland Stadium Authority
   
5.00
%
05/01/2030
   
3,597,772
 
 
1,055,000
 
Maryland State Department of Transportation
   
4.00
%
05/15/2022
   
1,090,756
 
 
1,715,000
 
Maryland State Department of Transportation
   
5.00
%
10/01/2027
   
2,100,776
 
 
485,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2023
   
486,146
 
 
500,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
08/15/2023
   
550,945
 
 
500,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2024
   
523,085
 
 
1,060,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2025
   
1,111,429
 
 
1,000,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
6.00
%
07/01/2025
   
1,000,000
 
 
1,500,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2025
   
1,764,486
 
 
1,450,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2025
   
1,642,116
 
 
420,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2026
   
492,963
 
 
2,500,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.25
%
07/01/2026
   
2,863,306
 
 
1,605,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2028
   
1,828,879
 

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

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Brown Advisory Maryland Bond Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par
                 
Value/Shares
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Municipal Bonds — 98.1% (Continued)
 
   
Revenue Bonds — 72.5% (Continued)
 
 
3,500,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2029
   
4,338,607
 
 
100,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
4.00
%
10/01/2030
   
109,864
 
 
1,130,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
6.25
%
07/01/2031
   
1,130,000
 
 
300,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
4.00
%
10/01/2031
   
329,163
 
 
1,070,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2032
   
1,219,252
 
 
250,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
06/01/2033
   
292,888
 
 
1,250,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
08/15/2033
   
1,441,190
 
 
1,955,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2034
   
2,261,871
 
 
200,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
4.50
%
07/01/2035
   
200,288
 
 
430,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
06/01/2036
   
501,441
 
 
1,200,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2037
   
1,428,106
 
 
1,500,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2038
   
1,734,472
 
 
1,310,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2043
   
1,504,248
 
 
4,355,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
05/15/2045
   
5,332,651
 
 
4,000,000
 
Maryland State Health & Higher Educational Facilities#
   
5.00
%
07/01/2045
   
4,856,810
 
 
4,255,000
 
Maryland State Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
03/01/2022
   
4,390,133
 
 
1,000,000
 
Maryland State Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
06/01/2022
   
1,042,867
 
 
2,500,000
 
Maryland State Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2023
   
2,740,710
 
 
850,000
 
Maryland State Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2024
   
969,998
 
 
3,000,000
 
Maryland State Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2025
   
3,547,271
 
 
1,510,000
 
Maryland State Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2025
   
1,785,459
 
 
4,420,000
 
Maryland State Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2028
   
5,512,928
 
 
4,330,000
 
Maryland State Transportation Authority
   
4.00
%
06/01/2035
   
5,104,635
 
 
1,500,000
 
Metropolitan Washington DC Airports Authority
   
5.00
%
10/01/2039
   
1,903,485
 
 
365,000
 
New Hope Texas Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp.
   
5.50
%
07/01/2046
   
285,836
 
 
820,000
 
New Hope Texas Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp.
   
5.75
%
07/01/2051
   
651,300
 
 
2,000,000
 
Newport News Virginia Economic Development Authority
   
5.00
%
12/01/2031
   
2,305,260
 
 
2,000,000
 
North Carolina Medical Care Commission
   
5.00
%
10/01/2031
   
2,197,794
 
 
1,000,000
 
St Mary’s College of Maryland
   
4.00
%
09/01/2024
   
1,109,143
 
 
1,335,000
 
University System of Maryland
   
5.00
%
04/01/2022
   
1,383,445
 
 
3,280,000
 
Washington State Housing Finance Commission^
   
4.00
%
01/01/2026
   
3,548,292
 
 
2,700,000
 
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
   
4.00
%
06/01/2032
   
3,299,532
 
 
3,500,000
 
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
   
4.00
%
06/01/2042
   
3,835,159
 
                     
135,149,557
 
Total Municipal Bonds (Cost $174,139,298)
             
182,986,541
 
                         
Short-Term Investments — 0.7%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 0.7%
 
 
1,326,775
 
First American Government Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%*
             
1,326,775
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $1,326,775)
             
1,326,775
 
Total Investments — 98.8% (Cost $175,466,073)
             
184,313,316
 
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities — 1.2%
             
2,169,322
 
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
            
$
186,482,638
 

 
#
Variable rate security. Rate disclosed is as of the date of this report.
 
^
Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.
 
*
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond Fund – Investor Shares (the “Fund”) increased 6.72% in value. During the same period, the Bloomberg Barclays 1-10 Year Blended Municipal Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 2.43%.
 
The year ended June 30, 2021 was a period where broad municipal credit fundamentals and investor sentiment dramatically improved from the lows experienced during the spring of last year. Broad municipal credit fundamentals showed surprising resilience, especially when compared to some of the dire projections in the height of the pandemic’s uncertainty. The resilience of municipal credit during this time is attributable to a number of factors. Many state and local governments and revenue-backed municipal issuers had built up meaningful liquidity reserves during the decade- long economic expansion following the Great Financial Crisis. These efforts helped offset revenue declines. Municipal credit was also supported from federal fiscal stimulus in the form of the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), and the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP). The size and scope of this stimulus, along with the surprising strength in underlying municipal credit fundamentals, have led to widespread positive ratings revisions and/or improved credit outlooks by rating agencies across the market. These positive revisions by the rating agencies have been an abrupt turnaround in sentiment on large portions of the municipal market, including many of the same credits and sectors that were just downgraded or put on negative review last year.
 
To be fair, our approach to bottom-up fundamental credit investing views these outside credit ratings as informed opinions, similar to sell-side research teams, or other sources of research within the market. Rating agency actions are typically slow moving and lagging indicators in terms of current municipal bond valuations. However, these actions certainly impact investor perceptions and in turn can influence valuation in the short term when they are taken. We take a long-term fundamental view based on a variety of sources of information. Many times, our process results in moving “faster” than rating agencies with respect to taking purchase or sale actions. For the recent swings of the ratings pendulum, our process looked through the rapid negative rating agency actions to the underlying investment theses, resulting in holding positions and often taking advantage of the dislocations in valuation that the actions caused.
 
Over the last year we took advantage of the confluence of robust primary market supply, heightened secondary volume, and elevated credit spreads to add exposure to many large, essential revenue issuers at attractive yield concessions. During periods of extreme volatility we take solace in the fact that our bottom-up fundamental investment approach can help guide our decisions and help separate headline or market illiquidity risk from credit impairment risk. We spent much of the last year assessing pockets of vulnerability and actively re-underwriting our holdings as new information became available. This experience reemphasized to us our need to analyze every credit individually. We believe our work paid off as liquidity conditions improved and the market began to discern relative value within some of the harder hit sectors. It was our fundamental research process that gave us the conviction to lean into challenged sectors like airports, mass transportation, and dedicated tax revenue bonds. Moreover, it was exactly these decisions (and sectors) that drove the overwhelming majority of the outperformance for the Fund.
 
Sincerely,
 
Stephen M. Shutz, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 
Joshua R. Perry, CFA, CAIA, FRM
Portfolio Manager
 

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Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Fund is non-diversified which means it may invest a large percentage of its assets in the securities of fewer issuers. Concentration in a limited number of issuers exposes the Fund to greater market risk than if its assets were diversified among a greater number of issuers. The Fund is also subject to interest rate risk which is the risk that debt securities in the Fund’s portfolio will decline in value because of an increase in market interest rates. This risk is usually greater for longer- term debt securities. Income from tax-exempt funds may be subject to state and local taxes and a portion of income may be subject to the Federal Alternative minimum tax for certain investors.
 
Diversification does not assure a profit nor protect against loss in a declining market.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Credit Quality weights by rating are derived from the highest bond rating as determined by Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”), Moody’s or Fitch. Bond ratings are grades given to bonds that indicate their credit quality as determined by private independent rating services such as S&P, Moody’s and Fitch. These firms evaluate a bond issuer’s financial strength, or its ability to pay a bond’s principal and interest in a timely fashion. Ratings are expressed as letters ranging from ‘AAA’, which is the highest grade, to ‘D’, which is the lowest grade. In limited situations when none of the three rating agencies have issued a formal rating, the Advisor will classify the security as nonrated.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against the broad-based municipal bond index. The Bloomberg Barclays 1-10 Year Blended Municipal Bond Index (“Index”) is a market index of high quality, domestic fixed income securities with maturities of less than 10 years. The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Revenue Bonds
  86.5%
General Obligation Bonds
  13.6%
Money Market Funds
    0.8%
Floating Rate Note Obligations
  (1.6)%
Other Assets and Liabilities
    0.7%
 
100.0%

     
Since Inception
Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
(6/29/12)
Institutional Shares1
6.87%
3.48%
3.13%
Investor Shares
6.72%
3.43%
3.08%
Bloomberg Barclays 1-10 Year Blended Municipal Bond Index
2.43%
2.48%
2.62%

 
Institutional Share
Investor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio2
0.42%
0.47%
Net Expense Ratio2
0.42%
0.47%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/tax-exempt-bond-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Performance information for the Institutional Shares, prior to commencement of operations on July 2, 2018, is based on the performance of Investor Shares, and adjusted for the lower expenses applicable to Institutional Shares.
2
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Municipal Bonds — 100.1%
 
   
General Obligation Bonds — 13.6%
 
 
4,480,000
 
Alameda California Unified School District+
   
2.48
%
08/01/2032
   
3,672,003
 
 
1,000,000
 
Alamo Texas Community College District
   
4.00
%
02/15/2035
   
1,122,247
 
 
5,100,000
 
Alhambra California Unified School District+
   
2.01
%
08/01/2039
   
3,528,722
 
 
2,000,000
 
Broward County Florida School District
   
5.00
%
07/01/2029
   
2,349,175
 
 
3,600,000
 
California, State of
   
4.00
%
11/01/2033
   
4,284,438
 
 
2,000,000
 
California, State of
   
4.00
%
11/01/2034
   
2,375,986
 
 
15,000,000
 
California, State of
   
5.00
%
08/01/2046
   
18,106,239
 
 
2,800,000
 
Chicago Illinois Park District
   
5.75
%
01/01/2038
   
3,066,984
 
 
3,040,000
 
Clark County Nevada School District
   
5.00
%
06/15/2027
   
3,613,923
 
 
8,045,000
 
Grossmont California Healthcare District+
   
2.47
%
07/15/2033
   
6,490,344
 
 
3,260,000
 
Hawaii, State of
   
4.00
%
11/01/2032
   
3,422,135
 
 
1,000,000
 
Hoover, City of Alabama
   
4.00
%
07/01/2033
   
1,157,484
 
 
5,000,000
 
Kane, McHenry, Cook & DeKalb Counties Illinois Unit School District No. 300
   
5.25
%
01/01/2033
   
5,375,017
 
 
1,025,000
 
Katy Texas Independent School District
   
5.00
%
02/15/2038
   
1,225,147
 
 
1,435,000
 
Lane County Oregon School District No 19 Springfield+
   
3.49
%
06/15/2032
   
1,183,368
 
 
1,200,000
 
Las Vegas Valley Nevada Water District
   
5.00
%
06/01/2033
   
1,253,480
 
 
5,240,000
 
Louisiana, State of
   
4.00
%
05/01/2035
   
5,868,330
 
 
830,000
 
Massachusetts, Commonwealth of (3 Month LIBOR USD + 0.57%)
   
0.69
%
05/01/2037
   
829,333
 
 
5,255,000
 
Memphis, City of Tennessee
   
4.00
%
05/01/2033
   
6,284,223
 
 
5,500,000
 
New Jersey, State of
   
5.00
%
06/01/2027
   
6,426,493
 
 
4,440,000
 
New Jersey, State of
   
4.00
%
06/01/2028
   
4,742,412
 
 
5,755,000
 
New Jersey, State of
   
4.00
%
06/01/2030
   
6,143,119
 
 
17,000,000
 
New York, City of New York†
   
4.00
%
08/01/2037
   
20,341,081
 
 
4,015,000
 
New York, City of New York
   
5.00
%
03/01/2043
   
5,100,321
 
 
3,030,000
 
Ohio, State of
   
5.00
%
05/01/2035
   
3,538,370
 
 
4,600,000
 
Texas, State of
   
5.00
%
08/01/2036
   
4,617,806
 
 
7,000,000
 
Texas, State of
   
4.00
%
10/01/2044
   
7,674,601
 
 
4,640,000
 
Twin Rivers California Unified School District+
   
2.40
%
08/01/2032
   
3,782,324
 
 
5,315,000
 
Victor Valley California Union High School District+
   
3.78
%
08/01/2035
   
3,922,097
 
 
5,350,000
 
Washington, State of
   
5.00
%
02/01/2039
   
6,538,786
 
 
3,325,000
 
Will County Illinois Community Unit School District No. 365 Valley View
   
4.00
%
11/01/2037
   
3,815,943
 
 
9,635,000
 
Wisconsin, State of
   
4.00
%
05/01/2039
   
11,400,827
 
                     
163,252,758
 
                         
Revenue Bonds — 86.5%
 
 
1,285,000
 
Arizona Sports & Tourism Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2028
   
1,336,146
 
 
10,000,000
 
Austin Texas Water & Wastewater System Revenue
   
5.00
%
11/15/2043
   
11,254,326
 
 
4,200,000
 
Austin, Texas
   
7.88
%
09/01/2026
   
4,219,482
 
 
17,000,000
 
Black Belt Energy Gas District#
   
4.00
%
12/01/2048
   
18,370,037
 
 
10,475,000
 
Buckeye Ohio Tobacco Settlement Financing Authority
   
4.00
%
06/01/2038
   
12,591,089
 
 
1,050,000
 
California Infrastructure & Economic Development Bank (SIFMA Municipal Swap Index + 0.35%)
   
0.38
%
08/01/2047
   
1,052,529
 
 
4,300,000
 
Central Florida Expressway Authority
   
4.00
%
07/01/2034
   
5,340,379
 
 
2,000,000
 
Chicago Illinois Wastewater Transmission Revenue
   
5.00
%
01/01/2031
   
2,302,094
 
 
4,000,000
 
Chicago Illinois Waterworks Revenue
   
5.00
%
11/01/2039
   
4,509,090
 
 
7,880,000
 
Chicago O’Hare International Airport
   
5.00
%
01/01/2033
   
9,076,171
 
 
7,715,000
 
Colorado Health Facilities Authority
   
5.00
%
12/01/2035
   
8,680,731
 
 
4,800,000
 
Dallas Fort Worth Texas International Airport
   
4.50
%
11/01/2045
   
5,030,444
 
 
5,530,000
 
Dauphin County Pennsylvania General Authority
   
5.00
%
06/01/2042
   
5,726,598
 
 
2,500,000
 
Delaware State Health Facilities Authority
   
5.00
%
06/01/2034
   
3,046,054
 
 
10,050,000
 
Delaware Valley Pennsylvania Regional Finance Authority (3 Month LIBOR USD + 0.65%)
   
0.74
%
06/01/2027
   
10,050,016
 
 
6,750,000
 
Denver Colorado Airport System Revenue
   
5.00
%
12/01/2034
   
9,249,878
 
 
9,150,000
 
Denver Colorado Airport System Revenue
   
5.00
%
12/01/2036
   
12,862,289
 
 
5,000,000
 
Denver Colorado Dedicated Tax Revenue
   
5.00
%
08/01/2042
   
5,923,130
 
 
4,855,000
 
District of Columbia
   
5.00
%
03/01/2038
   
6,342,441
 
 
1,625,000
 
District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority
   
5.00
%
10/01/2028
   
1,928,594
 
 
2,345,000
 
District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority
   
5.25
%
10/01/2044
   
2,788,100
 
 
1,385,000
 
Energy Northwest
   
5.00
%
07/01/2033
   
1,631,014
 

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Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Municipal Bonds — 100.1% (Continued)
 
   
Revenue Bonds — 86.5% (Continued)
 
 
3,000,000
 
Glendale Arizona Industrial Development Authority
   
5.00
%
11/15/2048
   
3,496,124
 
 
6,835,000
 
Glendale Arizona Industrial Development Authority
   
5.00
%
11/15/2054
   
7,946,762
 
 
15,445,000
 
Golden State Tobacco Securitization Corp.
   
5.00
%
06/01/2031
   
19,332,386
 
 
14,260,000
 
Golden State Tobacco Securitization Corp.
   
5.00
%
06/01/2032
   
17,782,554
 
 
5,000,000
 
Grand Forks, County of North Dakota^
   
6.63
%
12/15/2031
   
5,050,460
 
 
2,500,000
 
Grand Forks, County of North Dakota^
   
9.00
%
06/15/2044
   
2,510,632
 
 
4,050,000
 
Harris County Texas Sports Authority+
   
4.41
%
11/15/2034
   
2,441,683
 
 
1,200,000
 
Henrico County Virginia Economic Development Authority#
   
0.16
%
08/23/2027
   
1,200,000
 
 
1,385,000
 
Hudson County New Jersey Improvement Authority
   
5.00
%
05/01/2041
   
1,642,690
 
 
1,250,000
 
Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
   
5.00
%
01/01/2033
   
1,509,446
 
 
1,500,000
 
Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
   
5.00
%
01/01/2037
   
1,752,157
 
 
6,070,000
 
Imperial California Irrigation District Electric System Revenue
   
4.00
%
11/01/2037
   
6,964,454
 
 
1,810,000
 
Indianapolis Indiana Local Public Improvement Bond Bank
   
5.00
%
02/01/2034
   
2,014,180
 
 
3,720,000
 
Kansas City Missouri Municipal Assistance Corp.+
   
3.06
%
04/15/2026
   
3,562,548
 
 
3,000,000
 
Lancaster County Pennsylvania Hospital Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2035
   
3,319,745
 
 
2,280,000
 
Las Vegas Nevada Redevelopment Agency
   
5.00
%
06/15/2028
   
2,675,254
 
 
5,235,000
 
Lees Summit Missouri Industrial Development Authority
   
5.25
%
08/15/2039
   
5,720,317
 
 
1,000,000
 
Louisiana Public Facilities Authority
   
5.00
%
06/01/2036
   
1,161,865
 
 
2,720,000
 
Louisiana Public Facilities Authority
   
4.00
%
05/15/2042
   
3,078,497
 
 
7,000,000
 
Louisiana State Gasoline & Fuels Tax Revenue
   
5.00
%
05/01/2041
   
8,077,729
 
 
21,505,000
 
Love Field Texas Airport Modernization Corp.
   
5.00
%
11/01/2028
   
22,814,990
 
 
11,760,000
 
Love Field Texas Airport Modernization Corp.
   
5.25
%
11/01/2040
   
12,025,422
 
 
25,000,000
 
Main Street Natural Gas, Inc. (1 Month LIBOR USD + 0.75%)
   
0.81
%
04/01/2048
   
25,129,313
 
 
29,000,000
 
Main Street Natural Gas, Inc. (1 Month LIBOR USD + 0.83%)
   
0.89
%
08/01/2048
   
29,230,480
 
 
10,000,000
 
Main Street Natural Gas, Inc.#
   
4.00
%
03/01/2050
   
11,566,838
 
 
5,030,000
 
Maryland Health & Higher Educational Facilities Authority
   
5.50
%
01/01/2036
   
6,019,865
 
 
1,215,000
 
Massachusetts Health & Educational Facilities Authority#
   
0.19
%
07/01/2023
   
1,215,000
 
 
3,900,000
 
Massachusetts Health & Educational Facilities Authority#
   
0.29
%
07/01/2023
   
3,900,000
 
 
1,000,000
 
Massachusetts Health & Educational Facilities Authority#
   
0.19
%
07/01/2023
   
1,000,000
 
 
4,070,000
 
Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency
   
4.00
%
12/01/2033
   
4,178,476
 
 
14,250,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
2.13
%
06/15/2030
   
12,125,948
 
 
1,495,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
2.24
%
12/15/2033
   
1,130,364
 
 
10,000,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
4.35
%
06/15/2035
   
7,211,889
 
 
10,165,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
4.18
%
06/15/2037
   
6,863,380
 
 
5,365,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
2.83
%
06/15/2038
   
3,505,255
 
 
5,270,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
3.60
%
06/15/2043
   
3,148,648
 
 
11,915,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority
   
5.00
%
06/15/2052
   
12,436,372
 
 
1,000,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority
   
5.00
%
06/15/2053
   
1,148,808
 
 
7,725,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority
   
5.00
%
06/15/2057
   
9,288,150
 
 
1,705,000
 
Metropolitan Transportation Authority+
   
3.20
%
11/15/2029
   
1,478,705
 
 
2,235,000
 
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
   
5.25
%
11/15/2031
   
2,746,112
 
 
6,000,000
 
Metropolitan Transportation Authority+
   
3.60
%
11/15/2033
   
4,642,370
 
 
5,120,000
 
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
11/15/2036
   
6,121,131
 
 
10,000,000
 
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
11/15/2038
   
10,891,652
 
 
17,590,000
 
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
11/15/2038
   
18,831,006
 
 
10,000,000
 
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
   
5.25
%
11/15/2044
   
11,129,946
 
 
10,000,000
 
Miami-Dade County Florida Aviation Revenue
   
5.00
%
10/01/2028
   
11,375,564
 
 
6,760,000
 
Miami-Dade County Florida Water & Sewer System Revenue
   
4.00
%
10/01/2035
   
7,969,067
 
 
3,495,000
 
Michigan State Housing Development Authority
   
4.00
%
10/01/2042
   
3,595,176
 
 
2,020,000
 
Michigan State University
   
4.00
%
08/15/2030
   
2,175,496
 
 
725,000
 
Minneapolis & St. Paul, Minnesota Housing & Redevelopment Authority#
   
0.12
%
08/01/2027
   
719,563
 
 
3,000,000
 
Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission
   
5.00
%
01/01/2030
   
3,341,601
 
 
2,000,000
 
Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission
   
5.00
%
12/01/2030
   
2,343,322
 
 
1,595,000
 
Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission
   
5.00
%
12/01/2037
   
1,860,188
 
 
5,000,000
 
Nebraska Educational Health Cultural & Social Services Finance Authority
   
4.00
%
01/01/2044
   
5,575,375
 
 
1,080,000
 
New Hope Texas Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp.
   
5.00
%
07/01/2031
   
937,075
 

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Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Municipal Bonds — 100.1% (Continued)
 
   
Revenue Bonds — 86.5% (Continued)
 
 
1,750,000
 
New Hope Texas Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp.
   
5.25
%
07/01/2036
   
1,456,994
 
 
4,000,000
 
New Hope Texas Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp.
   
5.00
%
07/01/2046
   
3,050,302
 
 
250,000
 
New Hope Texas Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp.
   
5.50
%
07/01/2046
   
195,778
 
 
2,000,000
 
New Hope Texas Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp.
   
5.75
%
07/01/2051
   
1,588,535
 
 
2,350,000
 
New Jersey Economic Development Authority (SIFMA Municipal Swap Index + 1.55%)
   
1.58
%
09/01/2027
   
2,386,629
 
 
2,835,000
 
New Jersey Economic Development Authority (SIFMA Municipal Swap Index + 1.60%)
   
1.63
%
03/01/2028
   
2,880,515
 
 
1,950,000
 
New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2027
   
2,277,016
 
 
1,000,000
 
New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority
   
5.25
%
06/15/2028
   
1,178,367
 
 
4,320,000
 
New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority+
   
1.58
%
12/15/2032
   
3,471,558
 
 
1,000,000
 
New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority+
   
2.12
%
12/15/2035
   
739,083
 
 
9,675,000
 
New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority+
   
2.25
%
12/15/2038
   
6,539,917
 
 
1,550,000
 
New Jersey Turnpike Authority
   
5.00
%
01/01/2028
   
1,758,842
 
 
13,565,000
 
New Mexico Municipal Energy Acquisition Authority#
   
5.00
%
11/01/2039
   
15,780,167
 
 
16,000,000
 
New York & New Jersey Port Authority
   
4.00
%
03/15/2030
   
19,042,230
 
 
1,165,000
 
New York & New Jersey Port Authority
   
5.00
%
05/01/2031
   
1,365,789
 
 
12,250,000
 
New York & New Jersey Port Authority
   
4.00
%
11/01/2034
   
14,751,781
 
 
2,010,000
 
New York City Transitional Finance Authority Building Aid Revenue
   
5.00
%
07/15/2033
   
2,109,574
 
 
7,045,000
 
New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured Revenue
   
5.00
%
08/01/2036
   
8,008,814
 
 
7,575,000
 
New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured Revenue
   
4.00
%
05/01/2043
   
8,920,080
 
 
2,340,000
 
New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured Revenue
   
4.00
%
05/01/2045
   
2,778,885
 
 
10,000,000
 
New York City Water & Sewer System
   
5.00
%
06/15/2047
   
10,700,923
 
 
2,000,000
 
New York Convention Center Development Corp.+
   
2.46
%
11/15/2032
   
1,610,371
 
 
8,730,000
 
New York Convention Center Development Corp.+
   
2.52
%
11/15/2035
   
6,484,469
 
 
2,750,000
 
New York Convention Center Development Corp.+
   
3.09
%
11/15/2037
   
1,979,918
 
 
3,000,000
 
New York Convention Center Development Corp.+
   
2.77
%
11/15/2037
   
2,104,646
 
 
5,000,000
 
New York Convention Center Development Corp.+
   
3.76
%
11/15/2041
   
3,099,457
 
 
5,000,000
 
New York Convention Center Development Corp.+
   
2.68
%
11/15/2043
   
2,906,419
 
 
4,000,000
 
New York Liberty Development Corp.
   
5.00
%
12/15/2041
   
4,080,207
 
 
1,675,000
 
New York State Dormitory Authority
   
5.00
%
03/15/2030
   
1,981,227
 
 
1,115,000
 
New York State Dormitory Authority
   
5.00
%
02/15/2031
   
1,372,382
 
 
1,325,000
 
New York State Dormitory Authority
   
5.00
%
03/15/2031
   
1,572,096
 
 
2,000,000
 
New York State Dormitory Authority
   
5.00
%
03/15/2036
   
2,356,518
 
 
6,915,000
 
New York State Dormitory Authority
   
5.00
%
03/15/2037
   
7,150,517
 
 
20,035,000
 
New York State Thruway Authority
   
5.00
%
01/01/2037
   
25,818,007
 
 
9,390,000
 
New York State Urban Development Corp.
   
4.00
%
03/15/2038
   
11,208,374
 
 
6,850,000
 
New York State Urban Development Corp.†
   
4.00
%
03/15/2045
   
8,105,834
 
 
15,000,000
 
New York State Urban Development Corp.†
   
4.00
%
03/15/2046
   
17,596,986
 
 
5,030,000
 
New York Transportation Development Corp.
   
4.00
%
07/01/2041
   
5,440,079
 
 
3,375,000
 
Newport News Virginia Economic Development Authority
   
5.00
%
12/01/2031
   
3,890,126
 
 
1,760,000
 
Niagara County New York Tobacco Asset Securitization Corp.
   
5.00
%
05/15/2024
   
1,992,426
 
 
2,000,000
 
North Carolina Medical Care Commission
   
5.00
%
10/01/2031
   
2,197,794
 
 
3,765,000
 
North Carolina Turnpike Authority+
   
3.98
%
01/01/2034
   
2,965,404
 
 
4,165,000
 
North Texas Tollway Authority
   
5.00
%
01/01/2032
   
4,772,282
 
 
2,000,000
 
Omaha Nebraska Public Power District
   
5.00
%
02/01/2043
   
2,302,796
 
 
1,000,000
 
Onondaga County New York Trust for Cultural Resources
   
4.00
%
12/01/2049
   
1,180,076
 
 
1,150,000
 
Orange County Florida Convention Center/Orlando
   
5.00
%
10/01/2027
   
1,351,581
 
 
5,790,000
 
Oregon State Facilities Authority
   
5.00
%
10/01/2031
   
6,833,659
 
 
1,000,000
 
Park Creek Colorado Metropolitan District
   
5.00
%
12/01/2034
   
1,161,335
 
 
2,000,000
 
Peace River Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority
   
5.00
%
10/01/2035
   
2,288,315
 
 
6,000,000
 
Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority (SIFMA Municipal Swap Index + 0.40%)
0.43
%
06/01/2041
   
6,001,477
 
 
10,000,000
 
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
   
5.00
%
06/01/2029
   
11,988,298
 
 
6,360,000
 
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
   
4.00
%
12/01/2036
   
7,315,498
 
 
8,700,000
 
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
   
5.00
%
12/01/2043
   
9,918,580
 
 
10,500,000
 
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Airport Revenue
   
5.00
%
06/15/2027
   
10,592,299
 
 
1,630,000
 
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Airport Revenue
   
4.00
%
07/01/2036
   
1,932,352
 
 
1,695,000
 
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Airport Revenue
   
4.00
%
07/01/2037
   
1,996,204
 

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Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Municipal Bonds — 100.1% (Continued)
 
   
Revenue Bonds — 86.5% (Continued)
 
 
1,760,000
 
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Airport Revenue
   
4.00
%
07/01/2038
   
2,068,076
 
 
1,830,000
 
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Airport Revenue
   
4.00
%
07/01/2039
   
2,145,220
 
 
1,905,000
 
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Airport Revenue
   
4.00
%
07/01/2040
   
2,229,414
 
 
1,520,000
 
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Hospitals & Higher Education Facilities Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2032
   
1,520,000
 
 
745,000
 
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Hospitals & Higher Education Facilities Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2041
   
745,793
 
 
10,000,000
 
Phoenix Arizona Civic Improvement Corp.
   
5.00
%
07/01/2049
   
12,598,849
 
 
2,070,000
 
Pinal County Arizona
   
5.00
%
08/01/2027
   
2,357,292
 
 
17,483,000
 
Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp Sales Tax Revenue+
   
4.64
%
07/01/2033
   
13,150,206
 
 
4,230,000
 
Sales Tax Securitization Corp.
   
5.50
%
01/01/2032
   
5,512,255
 
 
5,830,000
 
San Diego California Tobacco Settlement Revenue Funding Corp.
   
4.00
%
06/01/2032
   
6,499,564
 
 
7,300,000
 
San Francisco City & County Airport Comm-San Francisco International Airport
   
4.00
%
05/01/2039
   
8,653,162
 
 
2,290,000
 
Tampa, City of Florida+
   
3.36
%
09/01/2040
   
1,247,851
 
 
1,850,000
 
Tampa, City of Florida+
   
3.73
%
09/01/2045
   
803,391
 
 
22,140,000
 
Tennessee Energy Acquisition Corp.#
   
4.00
%
05/01/2048
   
23,508,690
 
 
7,150,000
 
Tennessee Energy Acquisition Corp.#
   
4.00
%
11/01/2049
   
8,096,205
 
 
3,045,000
 
Terrebonne Parish Louisiana+
   
3.13
%
04/01/2036
   
2,185,513
 
 
19,490,000
 
Texas Municipal Gas Acquisition & Supply Corp. II (3 Month LIBOR USD + 0.87%)
   
0.95
%
09/15/2027
   
19,806,239
 
 
700,000
 
Texas Municipal Power Agency Revenue
   
3.00
%
09/01/2032
   
750,897
 
 
1,100,000
 
Texas Municipal Power Agency Revenue
   
3.00
%
09/01/2034
   
1,167,199
 
 
1,265,000
 
Tobacco Settlement Authority
   
5.25
%
06/01/2032
   
1,268,135
 
 
11,105,000
 
Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.
   
5.00
%
06/01/2031
   
13,908,377
 
 
20,000,000
 
Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.
   
5.00
%
06/01/2035
   
22,790,040
 
 
5,000,000
 
Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.
   
5.00
%
06/01/2046
   
6,010,494
 
 
1,045,000
 
Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority+
   
3.39
%
11/15/2031
   
852,168
 
 
9,030,000
 
TSASC, Inc.
   
5.00
%
06/01/2031
   
10,992,511
 
 
1,050,000
 
University of Texas System — Permanent University Fund
   
4.00
%
07/01/2032
   
1,161,857
 
 
18,274,646
 
Vermont Student Assistance Corp. (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.00%)
   
1.09
%
06/02/2042
   
18,351,655
 
 
5,755,000
 
Virginia Public Building Authority
   
4.00
%
08/01/2036
   
6,832,082
 
 
3,300,000
 
Virginia Small Business Financing Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2034
   
3,377,200
 
 
4,000,000
 
Virginia Small Business Financing Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2034
   
4,093,582
 
 
2,000,000
 
Washington DC Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
   
4.00
%
07/15/2045
   
2,397,418
 
 
1,000,000
 
Washington State Housing Finance Commission^
   
4.00
%
01/01/2026
   
1,081,796
 
 
2,655,000
 
Washington State Housing Finance Commission^
   
5.00
%
01/01/2031
   
2,957,883
 
 
3,655,000
 
Wayne County Michigan Airport Authority
   
5.00
%
12/01/2038
   
4,273,842
 
 
5,000,000
 
West Virginia State Hospital Finance Authority
   
5.00
%
06/01/2023
   
5,446,568
 
 
1,610,000
 
Wisconsin Health & Educational Facilities Authority
   
5.00
%
05/01/2027
   
1,790,431
 
 
650,000
 
Wisconsin Health & Educational Facilities Authority
   
5.00
%
09/15/2037
   
678,358
 
 
5,250,000
 
Wise County Virginia Industrial Development Authority#
   
0.75
%
10/01/2040
   
5,299,890
 
                     
1,039,362,553
 
Total Municipal Bonds (Cost $1,146,425,142)
   
1,202,615,311
 

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

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Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
             
Short-Term Investments — 0.8%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 0.8%
 
   
9,813,038
 
First American Government Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%*
   
9,813,038
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $9,813,038)
   
9,813,038
 
Total Investments — 100.9% (Cost $1,156,238,180)
   
1,212,428,349
 
                 
Floating Rate Note Obligations — (1.6)%
 
Notes with interest and fee rate of 0.62% as of the date of this report and
       
contractual maturities of collateral ranging from 08/01/2037 to 03/15/2046~
   
(19,425,000
)
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities — 0.7%
   
8,969,766
 
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
1,201,973,115
 

 
+
Zero coupon bond. Rate disclosed is calculated yield to maturity as of the date of this report.
 
#
Variable rate security.  Rate disclosed is as of the date of this report.
 
^
Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.
 
Underlying security related to TOB Trusts entered into by the Fund.
 
*
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.
 
~
Floating rate note obligations related to securities held. The interest and fee rate shown reflects the rates in effect as of the date of this report. As of the date of this report, the Fund’s investments with a value of $46,043,901 are held by TOB Trusts and serve as collateral for the $19,425,000 in the floating rate note obligations outstanding at that date.

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Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund – Investor Shares (the “Fund”) increased 4.57% in value. During the same period, the Bloomberg Barclays 1-10 Year Blended Municipal Bond Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 2.43%.
 
The Fund sharply outperformed its benchmark for the 12-month period ended June 30, 2021—a period where broad municipal credit fundamentals and investor sentiment dramatically improved from the crisis nadir experienced during the spring of last year. Broad municipal credit fundamentals showed surprising resilience, especially when compared to some of the dire projections in the height of the pandemic’s uncertainty. The resilience of municipal credit during this time is attributable to a number of factors. Many state and local governments and revenue- backed municipal issuers had built up meaningful liquidity reserves during the decade-long economic expansion following the Great Financial Crisis. These efforts helped offset revenue declines. Municipal credit was also supported from federal fiscal stimulus in the form of the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), and the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP). The size and scope of this stimulus, along with the surprising strength in underlying municipal credit fundamentals, have led to widespread positive ratings revisions and/or improved credit outlooks by rating agencies across the market. These positive revisions by the rating agencies have been an abrupt turnaround in sentiment on large portions of the municipal market, including many of the same credits and sectors that were just downgraded or put on negative review last year.
 
To be fair, our approach to bottom-up fundamental credit investing views these outside credit ratings as informed opinions, similar to sell-side research teams, or other sources of research within the market. Rating agency actions are typically slow moving and lagging indicators in terms of current municipal bond valuations. However, these actions certainly impact investor perceptions and in turn can influence valuation in the short term when they are taken. We take a long-term fundamental view based on a variety of sources of information. Many times, our process results in moving “faster” than rating agencies with respect to taking purchase or sale actions. For the recent swings of the ratings pendulum, our process looked through the rapid negative rating agency actions to the underlying investment theses, resulting in holding positions and often taking advantage of the dislocations in valuation that the actions caused.
 
Over the last year we took advantage of the confluence of robust primary market supply, heightened secondary volume, and elevated credit spreads to add exposure to many large, essential revenue issuers at attractive yield concessions. During periods of extreme volatility we take solace in the fact that our bottom-up fundamental investment approach can help guide our decisions and help separate headline or market illiquidity risk from credit impairment risk. We spent much of the last year assessing pockets of vulnerability and actively re-underwriting our holdings as new information became available. This experience reemphasized to us our need to analyze every credit individually. We believe our work paid off as liquidity conditions improved and the market began to discern relative value within some of the harder hit sectors. It was our fundamental research process that gave us the conviction to lean into challenged sectors like airports, mass transportation, and dedicated tax revenue bonds. Yet, it was exactly these decisions (and sectors) that drove the overwhelming majority of the outperformance for the Fund.
 
From an ESG perspective, we continue to see growth in labeled bond and more transparency of municipal issuers which has been a challenge in the past. Our engagement efforts have helped provide more insight into a much larger opportunity set. We continue to be focused on municipal issuers that have responded to the pandemic in a way that supports and continues to promote social and racial equality or access to essential services for underserved populations. Our ESG research process seeks to dynamically respond to complex problems. We have used this process in an effort to examine a wide range of factors that we believe influence an issuer’s long-term health and prosperity.. We believe that the social issues, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and racial inequality, reinforce how important these factors are. We also intend to invest in municipal issuers that help ensure equitable access to essential resources and services—like affordable housing, public transit and education.
 
Sincerely,
 
Stephen M. Shutz, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 
Amy N. Hauter, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 

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Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Fund is non-diversified which means it may invest a large percentage of its assets in the securities of fewer issuers. Concentration in a limited number of issuers exposes the Fund to greater market risk than if its assets were diversified among a greater number of issuers. The Fund is also subject to interest rate risk which is the risk that debt securities in the Fund’s portfolio will decline in value because of an increase in market interest rates. This risk is usually greater for longer- term debt securities. Income from tax-exempt funds may be subject to state and local taxes and a portion of income may be subject to the Federal Alternative minimum tax for certain investors. The Adviser utilizes ESG analysis in connection with the Fund’s investments in fixed-income securities. ESG factors are considered systematically and comprehensively through leveraging a repeatable process that strives to minimize risk and capture opportunity.
 
Diversification does not assure a profit nor protect against loss in a declining market.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Because the Fund’s ESG criteria exclude securities of certain issuers for nonfinancial reasons, the Fund may forgo some market opportunities available to the funds that do not use these criteria.
 
Credit Quality weights by rating are derived from the highest bond rating as determined by Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”), Moody’s or Fitch. Bond ratings are grades given to bonds that indicate their credit quality as determined by private independent rating services such as S&P, Moody’s and Fitch. These firms evaluate a bond issuer’s financial strength, or its ability to pay a bond’s principal and interest in a timely fashion. Ratings are expressed as letters ranging from ‘AAA’, which is the highest grade, to ‘D’, which is the lowest grade. In limited situations when none of the three rating agencies have issued a formal rating, the Advisor will classify the security as nonrated.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against the broad-based municipal bond index. The Bloomberg Barclays 1-10 Year Municipal Bond Index (“Index”) is a market index of high quality, domestic fixed income securities with maturities of less than 10 years. The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Revenue Bonds
  92.7%
General Obligation Bonds
    4.7%
Money Market Funds
    2.8%
Other Assets and Liabilities
 (0.2)%
 
100.0%

     
Since Inception
Average Annual Total Return
 
One Year
(12/2/19)
Investor Shares
 
4.57%
2.63%
Bloomberg Barclays 1-10 Year Blended Municipal Bond Index
 
2.43%
3.13%

   
Investor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio1
 
0.57%
Net Expense Ratio1
 
0.57%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/tax-exempt-bond-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Municipal Bonds — 97.4%
 
   
General Obligation Bonds — 4.7%
 
 
850,000
 
California, State of (SIFMA Municipal Swap Index + 0.38%)
   
0.41
%
12/01/2027
   
850,595
 
 
2,425,000
 
Chicago Illinois Park District
   
4.00
%
01/01/2034
   
2,814,714
 
 
1,125,000
 
Detroit City Michigan School District
   
5.00
%
05/01/2039
   
1,448,701
 
 
3,000,000
 
Kane McHenry Cook & De Kalb Counties Illinois Unit School District No. 300
   
5.25
%
01/01/2032
   
3,221,248
 
                     
8,335,258
 
                         
Revenue Bonds — 92.7%
 
 
1,000,000
 
American Municipal Power Ohio, Inc.
   
4.00
%
02/15/2044
   
1,156,211
 
 
4,985,000
 
Arizona Board of Rights State University Systems
   
5.00
%
07/01/2025
   
5,892,203
 
 
3,000,000
 
Aurora Colorado Water Revenue
   
5.00
%
08/01/2041
   
3,611,296
 
 
2,250,000
 
Austin, Texas
   
7.88
%
09/01/2026
   
2,260,437
 
 
1,000,000
 
Baltimore County Maryland
   
4.00
%
01/01/2039
   
1,130,662
 
 
1,525,000
 
Baltimore County Maryland
   
4.00
%
01/01/2040
   
1,721,540
 
 
1,500,000
 
Baltimore County Maryland
   
4.00
%
01/01/2045
   
1,685,977
 
 
1,950,000
 
Bay Area Water Supply & Conservation Agency
   
5.00
%
10/01/2034
   
2,103,198
 
 
750,000
 
Buffalo New York Sewer Authority
   
4.00
%
06/15/2051
   
858,046
 
 
630,000
 
California Infrastructure & Economic Development Bank
   
4.00
%
08/01/2023
   
677,665
 
 
500,000
 
California Infrastructure & Economic Development Bank
   
4.00
%
08/01/2024
   
553,955
 
 
1,005,000
 
California Infrastructure & Economic Development Bank
   
5.00
%
08/01/2038
   
1,283,455
 
 
1,000,000
 
California Infrastructure & Economic Development Bank
   
5.00
%
08/01/2039
   
1,274,357
 
 
4,360,000
 
California Infrastructure & Economic Development Bank (SIFMA Municipal Swap Index + 0.35%)
0.38
%
08/01/2047
   
4,360,942
 
 
1,170,000
 
California Municipal Finance Authority^
   
5.00
%
11/01/2029
   
1,346,500
 
 
1,575,000
 
California Municipal Finance Authority^
   
5.00
%
11/01/2049
   
1,741,438
 
 
1,180,000
 
California School Finance Authority^
   
5.00
%
07/01/2037
   
1,401,339
 
 
1,020,000
 
Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority
   
5.00
%
11/01/2032
   
1,209,468
 
 
2,250,000
 
Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority
   
5.00
%
11/01/2045
   
2,622,822
 
 
1,500,000
 
Colorado Health Facilities Authority
   
4.00
%
12/01/2040
   
1,743,230
 
 
1,000,000
 
Connecticut State Clean Water Fund
   
4.00
%
02/01/2035
   
1,204,770
 
 
1,500,000
 
Connecticut State Clean Water Fund
   
5.00
%
05/01/2036
   
1,837,882
 
 
3,000,000
 
Dallas-Fort Worth Texas International Airport
   
5.25
%
11/01/2030
   
3,309,672
 
 
3,000,000
 
District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority
   
5.00
%
10/01/2039
   
3,571,713
 
 
2,250,000
 
Du Page County, Illinois
   
3.00
%
05/15/2047
   
2,333,773
 
 
1,320,000
 
East Chicago Sanitary District
   
4.00
%
07/15/2031
   
1,428,791
 
 
2,375,000
 
Glendale Arizona Industrial Development Authority
   
5.00
%
11/15/2042
   
2,780,110
 
 
2,500,000
 
Grand Forks County North Dakota^
   
7.00
%
12/15/2043
   
2,525,624
 
 
2,500,000
 
Grand Forks County North Dakota^
   
9.00
%
06/15/2044
   
2,510,632
 
 
600,000
 
Harris County Texas Flood Control District
   
5.00
%
10/01/2027
   
715,163
 
 
1,405,000
 
Hartford County Connecticut Metropolitan District Clean Water Project
   
5.00
%
11/01/2036
   
1,591,244
 
 
1,000,000
 
Illinois Finance Authority (1 Month LIBOR USD + 0.50%)
   
0.56
%
11/01/2034
   
999,875
 
 
2,230,000
 
Illinois Finance Authority
   
4.00
%
08/15/2037
   
2,726,484
 
 
5,000,000
 
Lakeland Florida Hospital System
   
5.00
%
11/15/2040
   
5,607,542
 
 
3,470,000
 
Los Angeles County California Metropolitan Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2038
   
4,308,750
 
 
970,000
 
Maricopa County Arizona Industrial Development Authority (SIFMA Municipal Swap Index + 0.38%)
   
0.41
%
01/01/2035
   
968,792
 
 
850,000
 
Maryland Economic Development Corp.
   
4.00
%
07/01/2040
   
987,052
 
 
1,000,000
 
Massachusetts Port Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2037
   
1,312,187
 
 
5,000,000
 
Metropolitan Government Nashville & Davidson County Health & Educational Facilities
   
5.00
%
07/01/2040
   
5,988,944
 
 
135,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
2.12
%
12/15/2031
   
108,294
 
 
270,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
2.66
%
06/15/2034
   
200,606
 
 
135,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
2.76
%
06/15/2035
   
97,361
 
 
175,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
2.87
%
06/15/2037
   
118,160
 
 
1,175,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
3.34
%
12/15/2038
   
758,116
 
 
1,000,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority
   
5.00
%
06/15/2042
   
1,044,092
 
 
1,100,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
2.70
%
06/15/2046
   
597,941
 
 
1,615,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
2.74
%
06/15/2047
   
852,181
 
 
375,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
3.36
%
12/15/2051
   
172,968
 

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Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par
                 
Value/Shares
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Municipal Bonds — 97.4% (Continued)
 
   
Revenue Bonds — 92.7% (Continued)
 
 
590,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority+
   
3.51
%
12/15/2052
   
264,486
 
 
3,230,000
 
Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority
   
5.00
%
06/15/2053
   
3,710,650
 
 
1,955,000
 
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
   
5.25
%
11/15/2033
   
2,437,611
 
 
1,050,000
 
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
11/15/2035
   
1,272,638
 
 
5,000,000
 
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
11/15/2037
   
5,947,817
 
 
1,250,000
 
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
11/15/2038
   
1,597,721
 
 
1,870,000
 
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
11/15/2042
   
1,997,695
 
 
1,500,000
 
Miami-Dade County Florida Water & Sewer System Revenue
   
4.00
%
10/01/2039
   
1,813,688
 
 
2,540,000
 
Monroeville Pennsylvania Finance Authority
   
4.25
%
02/15/2042
   
2,646,900
 
 
1,000,000
 
New Hampshire Business Finance Authority (SIFMA Municipal Swap Index + 0.75%)
   
0.78
%
10/01/2033
   
1,000,400
 
 
2,075,000
 
New Hope Texas Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp.
   
5.50
%
07/01/2046
   
1,624,957
 
 
2,110,000
 
New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Finance Agency
   
1.60
%
10/01/2026
   
2,117,589
 
 
2,000,000
 
New York City Housing Development Corp.
   
2.60
%
11/01/2034
   
2,079,318
 
 
1,000,000
 
New York City Water & Sewer System
   
5.00
%
06/15/2047
   
1,219,937
 
 
2,350,000
 
New York Liberty Development Corp.
   
5.00
%
11/15/2031
   
2,390,665
 
 
2,425,000
 
New York Liberty Development Corp.
   
4.00
%
09/15/2035
   
2,482,990
 
 
3,000,000
 
New York Liberty Development Corp.
   
5.00
%
09/15/2040
   
3,095,455
 
 
2,000,000
 
New York Liberty Development Corp.
   
5.00
%
12/15/2041
   
2,040,104
 
 
1,000,000
 
New York State Dormitory Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2050
   
1,144,178
 
 
2,500,000
 
New York State Housing Finance Agency
   
1.60
%
11/01/2024
   
2,514,502
 
 
5,000,000
 
New York State Housing Finance Agency
   
0.75
%
11/01/2025
   
5,008,349
 
 
1,444,427
 
New York State Housing Finance Agency
   
1.65
%
05/15/2039
   
1,422,474
 
 
1,000,000
 
Ohio Higher Educational Facility Commission#
   
1.63
%
12/01/2034
   
1,029,900
 
 
1,500,000
 
Ohio, State of (SIFMA Municipal Swap Index + 0.40%)
   
0.43
%
01/01/2052
   
1,501,958
 
 
2,500,000
 
Phoenix Arizona Civic Improvement Corp.
   
5.00
%
07/01/2049
   
3,149,712
 
 
2,000,000
 
Pompano Beach, City of Florida
   
3.50
%
09/01/2035
   
2,206,879
 
 
1,500,000
 
Portland Maine General Airport Revenue
   
4.00
%
01/01/2038
   
1,736,343
 
 
1,500,000
 
Regional Transportation Authority
   
5.00
%
06/01/2031
   
1,692,240
 
 
1,500,000
 
San Francisco, California City & County Airports Common International Airport
   
4.00
%
05/01/2037
   
1,820,487
 
 
1,250,000
 
Southern California Public Power Authority
   
5.00
%
07/01/2021
   
1,250,000
 
 
1,200,000
 
Tampa Florida Hospital Revenue
   
4.00
%
07/01/2039
   
1,415,392
 
 
1,000,000
 
Tampa Florida Hospital Revenue
   
4.00
%
07/01/2045
   
1,164,257
 
 
2,635,000
 
Upper Santa Clara Valley California Joint Powers Authority
   
4.00
%
08/01/2045
   
2,956,308
 
 
2,250,000
 
Virginia Small Business Financing Authority
   
4.00
%
01/01/2036
   
2,550,420
 
 
1,650,000
 
Wayne County Michigan Airport Authority
   
5.00
%
12/01/2034
   
2,230,159
 
 
1,685,000
 
Wayne County Michigan Airport Authority
   
5.00
%
12/01/2036
   
2,268,647
 
                     
166,096,286
 
Total Municipal Bonds (Cost $170,878,117)
   
174,431,544
 
                         
Short-Term Investments — 2.8%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 2.8%
 
 
5,005,964
 
First American Government Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%*
             
5,005,964
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $5,005,964)
   
5,005,964
 
Total Investments — 100.2% (Cost $175,884,081)
   
179,437,508
 
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets — (0.2)%
   
(314,909
)
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
179,122,599
 

 
+
Zero coupon bond. Rate disclosed is calculated yield to maturity as of the date of this report.
 
#
Variable rate security.  Rate disclosed is as of the date of this report.
 
^
Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.
 
*
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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Brown Advisory Mortgage Securities Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Mortgage Securities Fund – Investor Shares (the “Fund”) increased 1.48% in value. During the same period, the Bloomberg Barclays Mortgage Backed Securities Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, declined 0.42%.
 
The Fund seeks to maximize total return consistent with preservation of capital by utilizing a combination of government agency residential mortgage and securitized credit. Within residential mortgage-backed securities (MBS), the Fund aims to find bonds with loan characteristics that are likely to result in slower prepayments. The Fund intends to also use high quality securitized credit opportunistically.
 
Mortgage bonds were caught in a number of cross-currents over the last year. Plunging Treasury during the immediate on-set of the COVID-19 pandemic left mortgages struggling to keep up. MBS investors were anticipating a refinancing boom, and thus did not bid up MBS prices even as Treasury yields plumbed their lows during the summer. Coming in to 2020, the Fund was overweight government-backed commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and underweight higher coupon 30-year MBS. As these CMBS were not able to be refinanced by the borrower, these bonds did appreciate during this period. This appreciation was a major driver of outperformance from June through October.
 
Starting in August, we began rebuilding our traditional MBS bucket, using a combination of to-be- announced (TBA) MBS and middle-coupon 30-year specified pools. We took profits on many of our longer-term CMBS, and in the process set the duration of the Fund below the Index. This was not an explicit call that interest rates would rise. Rather, the view was that interest rate risk was skewed to the upside. If rates did rise, we felt that middle-coupon MBS would outperform both lower and higher coupon cohorts in the Index, and would far outperform the longer-term CMBS that we were selling.
 
In our opinion, MBS can be especially useful when interest rate risk is skewed in this way. Historically, MBS tend to have higher current income generation than other high-quality bond sectors. Usually, the way an MBS position underperforms is exactly what happened in early 2020: rates fall and that touches off a refinancing boom. However, if yields are skewed to the upside, it greatly mitigates this risk. Commonly, MBS will outperform other government bonds when yields rise gently, because the market prices out the refinancing risk.
 
This combination of our structurally short duration position, what we believe to be the natural advantages of MBS when rates rise, plus our utilization of some currently amortizing CMBS/asset- backed securities (ABS) allowed the Fund to outperform by 100 basis points as yields rose in the fourth quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021.
 
With Treasury rates having climbed into the 1.50% area, we believe rate-related risks are slightly more balanced than they were last summer. However, our core reasons for having gone defensive remain just as pertinent now. In our opinion, it is likely that inflation will come in two waves: the first is being driven by a burst of post-pandemic demand met by a still healing supply chain. The second will likely be fueled by a tight labor market and resulting wage pressure. As we write this letter, we believe we are living through the first of these phases. The most recent CPI report indicated that year-on-year inflation was 5%, which we believe is almost certainly due to transitory factors that will soon fade. However, it is also the case that the labor market is quite tight, despite unemployment at 5.9%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job openings are at an all- time high, and openings per unemployed worker are at the same level as in 2018, when unemployment was at 4.1%. So while inflation is highly likely to decelerate from 5%, wage pressure is probably already enough to maintain inflation over 2%. We think this warrants caution on the direction of rates.
 
Hence, we are currently maintaining a defensive stance on duration, while being overweight 2% and 2.5% MBS and underweight other coupons. We think these coupons will be the most robust to rising rates, but also offer the best opportunity for positive security selection. Lastly, the Fund is now especially conservative on credit quality. While the Fund’s holdings are always dominated by government-backed and AAA-rated securities, we now have very few opportunistic holdings at lower ratings. We think this is a time to focus on liquidity, defensiveness and simple income generation ideas.
 
Sincerely,
 
Thomas D.D. Graff, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 

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Brown Advisory Mortgage Securities Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. Investments in debt securities typically decrease in value when interest rates rise. This risk is usually greater for longer- term debt securities. Investments in Asset-Backed and Mortgage-Backed securities include additional risks that investor should be aware of including credit risk, prepayment risk, possible illiquidity and default, as well as increased susceptibility to adverse economic developments. Certain fixed income securities held by the Fund may be difficult (or impossible) to sell at the time and at the price the Adviser would like. As a result, the Fund may have to hold these securities longer than it would like and may forego other investment opportunities. Issuers may experience an acceleration in prepayments of mortgage loans or other receivables backing the issuers’ fixed income securities when interest rates decline, which can shorten the maturity of the security, force the Fund to invest in securities with lower interest rates, and reduce the Fund’s return. Issuers may decrease prepayments of principal when interest rates increase, extending the maturity of a fixed income security and causing the value of the security to decline. Investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. Investors should consult a tax professional for advice and information concerning the tax features of mortgage backed securities and fixed coupon bonds. Mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are bonds secured by a mortgage or collection of mortgages. Diversification does not assure a profit nor protect against loss in a declining market. As part of its fundamental research approach, the Adviser has a process to integrate, identify and consider the Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) risks and opportunities throughout the investment lifecycle using a proprietary ESG assessment.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Because the Fund’s ESG criteria exclude securities of certain issuers for nonfinancial reasons, the Fund may forgo some market opportunities available to funds that do not use these criteria.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Mortgage Securities Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $10,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against a broad-based bond index.  The Bloomberg Barclays Mortgage Backed Securities Index (“Index”) is a market value-weighted index which covers the mortgage-backed securities component of the Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index. The Index is composed of agency mortgage-backed passthrough securities of the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) with a minimum $150 million par amount outstanding and a weighted-average maturity of at least 1 year. The Index includes reinvestment of income.  The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 




PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Mortgage Backed Securities
  85.4%
Money Market Funds
  18.8%
Asset Backed Securities
    5.5%
Corporate Bonds & Notes
    0.6%
Municipal Bonds
    0.2%
Other Assets and Liabilities
(10.5)%
 
100.0%

     
Since Inception
Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
(12/26/13)
Institutional Shares1
1.53%
2.75%
3.13%
Investor Shares
1.48%
2.70%
3.08%
Bloomberg Barclays Mortgage Backed Securities Index
-0.42%
2.27%
2.96%

   
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio2
 
0.47%
0.52%
Net Expense Ratio2
 
0.47%
0.52%
 
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/mortgage-securities-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower.  Short-term performance, in particular, is not a good indication of the Fund’s future performance, and an investment should not be made based solely on returns. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Performance information for the Institutional Shares, prior to commencement of operations on May 13, 2014, is based on the performance of the Investor Shares, and adjusted for the lower expenses applicable to the Institutional Shares.
2
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Mortgage Securities Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Mortgage Backed Securities — 85.4%
 
 
2,080,000
 
BAMLL Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust,
             
     
  Series 2018-DSNY A (1 Month LIBOR USD + 0.85%)^
   
0.92
%
09/15/2034
   
2,082,961
 
 
2,000,000
 
BBCMS Mortgage Trust, Series 2018-TALL A (1 Month LIBOR USD + 0.72%)^
   
0.79
%
03/15/2037
   
1,990,071
 
 
986,000
 
DBGS Mortgage Trust, Series 2018-C1 7EA^
   
4.64
%
10/17/2051
   
995,866
 
 
44,909
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# N3-0530
   
5.50
%
01/01/2029
   
47,273
 
 
72,390
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# C5-3878
   
5.50
%
12/01/2030
   
82,453
 
 
170,788
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# C9-1366
   
4.50
%
04/01/2031
   
186,542
 
 
57,461
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# C6-6421
   
6.50
%
02/01/2032
   
64,441
 
 
202,975
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# N7-0078
   
5.50
%
01/01/2033
   
219,545
 
 
44,799
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# 1B-0889 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.59%)
   
1.89
%
05/01/2033
   
44,768
 
 
82,557
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# A1-4256
   
5.50
%
10/01/2033
   
94,735
 
 
204,566
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# G3-0932
   
4.50
%
03/01/2034
   
223,312
 
 
28,989
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# 1J-0204 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.75%)
   
2.02
%
05/01/2035
   
30,698
 
 
612,914
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# C9-1826
   
3.00
%
05/01/2035
   
648,531
 
 
155,403
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# N7-0071
   
6.00
%
06/01/2035
   
170,098
 
 
57,510
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# A4-6629
   
5.00
%
08/01/2035
   
66,076
 
 
537,447
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# K9-3365
   
3.50
%
11/01/2035
   
570,680
 
 
385,601
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# K9-3349
   
4.00
%
11/01/2035
   
412,964
 
 
25,673
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# 1L-1263 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.25%)
   
2.38
%
03/01/2036
   
27,493
 
 
22,435
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# 1H-1348 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.14%)
   
2.42
%
10/01/2036
   
23,907
 
 
203,892
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# G2-0028
   
7.50
%
12/01/2036
   
230,804
 
 
96,637
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# B3-1891
   
5.38
%
01/01/2037
   
107,503
 
 
117,226
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# 84-7727 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.74%)
   
2.24
%
02/01/2037
   
117,768
 
 
191,886
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# B3-1900
   
5.38
%
02/01/2037
   
213,618
 
 
44,934
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# B3-1934
   
5.38
%
04/01/2037
   
49,993
 
 
91,248
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# B3-1976
   
5.10
%
05/01/2037
   
100,639
 
 
168,146
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# A6-7884
   
5.38
%
05/01/2037
   
187,076
 
 
43,704
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# 1J-1681 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.98%)
   
2.23
%
06/01/2037
   
46,734
 
 
79,540
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# B3-2000
   
5.10
%
06/01/2037
   
87,721
 
 
91,880
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# U3-0471
   
5.10
%
07/01/2037
   
101,333
 
 
52,887
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# U3-0653
   
5.13
%
07/01/2037
   
58,780
 
 
217,317
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# U3-0681
   
5.10
%
09/01/2037
   
239,911
 
 
68,702
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# U3-0606
   
5.10
%
09/01/2037
   
75,785
 
 
48,969
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# 1G-2249 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.78%)
   
2.28
%
10/01/2037
   
49,345
 
 
134,734
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# T3-0346
   
5.38
%
10/01/2037
   
149,952
 
 
1,049,209
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# G3-1063
   
3.50
%
11/01/2037
   
1,113,098
 
 
81,202
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# U3-0800
   
5.10
%
11/01/2037
   
89,548
 
 
140,071
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# U3-1874
   
5.38
%
04/01/2038
   
155,836
 
 
333,157
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# N7-0082
   
6.00
%
07/01/2038
   
367,938
 
 
163,921
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# G0-4655
   
6.00
%
08/01/2038
   
194,353
 
 
197,065
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# G0-4540
   
6.00
%
08/01/2038
   
233,951
 
 
106,147
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# U3-2470
   
5.10
%
11/01/2038
   
117,095
 
 
87,857
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# G0-8348
   
5.00
%
06/01/2039
   
100,307
 
 
455,245
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# C0-3427
   
5.50
%
10/01/2039
   
529,490
 
 
279,203
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# Q3-8585
   
4.00
%
10/01/2043
   
298,107
 
 
3,562,555
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# ZA-5113
   
4.00
%
12/01/2047
   
3,883,320
 
 
406,212
 
FHLMC PC, Pool# G0-8828
   
5.50
%
04/01/2048
   
461,096
 
 
380,696
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4318 DI~
   
2.50
%
08/15/2022
   
3,021
 
 
538,800
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4329 CI~
   
2.50
%
01/15/2023
   
6,475
 
 
19,049
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 1843 Z
   
7.00
%
04/15/2026
   
20,297
 
 
134,391
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 2517 Z
   
5.50
%
10/15/2032
   
149,607
 
 
1,188,614
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 2907 VZ
   
4.50
%
05/15/2034
   
1,311,918
 
 
267,673
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 2890 ZA
   
5.00
%
11/15/2034
   
306,491
 
 
398,281
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 3150 DZ
   
5.50
%
05/15/2036
   
462,928
 
 
227,915
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 3294 CB
   
5.50
%
03/15/2037
   
265,428
 
 
465,835
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4309 BI~
   
3.00
%
08/15/2039
   
11,640
 

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June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Mortgage Backed Securities — 85.4% (Continued)
 
 
3,483,492
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 5014 BP
   
1.25
%
09/25/2040
   
3,501,458
 
 
1,809,752
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4121 DH
   
2.00
%
10/15/2042
   
1,690,219
 
 
881,222
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4665 KA
   
4.00
%
12/15/2042
   
886,989
 
 
340,327
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4740 KB
   
3.50
%
02/15/2043
   
341,508
 
 
142,136
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4663 JA
   
3.50
%
03/15/2043
   
142,356
 
 
747,402
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4690 QA
   
3.50
%
05/15/2044
   
756,225
 
 
26,611
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4840 BH
   
5.00
%
07/15/2044
   
26,591
 
 
3,283,951
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4951 EA
   
2.50
%
09/15/2044
   
3,431,333
 
 
82,025
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4827 GB
   
4.00
%
03/15/2045
   
82,090
 
 
229,610
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4818 PA
   
4.00
%
06/15/2045
   
232,268
 
 
866,830
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4872 AB
   
4.00
%
08/15/2047
   
891,350
 
 
424,523
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4891 PA
   
3.50
%
07/15/2048
   
441,814
 
 
1,000,000
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 4888 AC
   
3.50
%
01/15/2049
   
1,056,315
 
 
2,819,167
 
FHLMC REMIC, Series 5114 TE
   
1.50
%
04/25/2051
   
2,841,069
 
 
388,784
 
FHLMC SCRTT, Series 2016-1 M1#^
   
3.00
%
09/25/2055
   
389,507
 
 
1,000,000
 
FHLMC SCRTT, Series 2017-1 M1#^
   
4.00
%
01/25/2056
   
1,014,082
 
 
2,828,373
 
FHMS, Series K-017 X1#~
   
1.43
%
12/25/2021
   
1,106
 
 
12,370,966
 
FHMS, Series K-019 X1#~
   
1.72
%
03/25/2022
   
58,923
 
 
15,203,311
 
FHMS, Series K-021 X1#~
   
1.53
%
06/25/2022
   
116,757
 
 
23,735,164
 
FHMS, Series K-025 X1#~
   
0.91
%
10/25/2022
   
210,445
 
 
12,647,779
 
FHMS, Series K-035 X1#~
   
0.47
%
08/25/2023
   
82,144
 
 
73,360,944
 
FHMS, Series K-C02 X1#~
   
0.50
%
03/25/2024
   
663,528
 
 
20,073,307
 
FHMS, Series K-038 X1#~
   
1.26
%
03/25/2024
   
505,173
 
 
42,616,898
 
FHMS, Series K-040 X1#~
   
0.84
%
09/25/2024
   
845,754
 
 
17,859,238
 
FHMS, Series K-C03 X1#~
   
0.63
%
11/25/2024
   
256,134
 
 
132,245,906
 
FHMS, Series K-047 X1#~
   
0.25
%
05/25/2025
   
697,081
 
 
11,959,452
 
FHMS, Series Q-013 XPT1~
   
1.66
%
05/25/2025
   
402,199
 
 
174,738
 
FHMS, Series K-W01 A1
   
2.59
%
05/25/2025
   
183,020
 
 
36,948,000
 
FHMS, Series K-C06 X1#~
   
1.03
%
06/25/2025
   
1,097,681
 
 
14,493,759
 
FHMS, Series K-053 X1#~
   
1.02
%
12/25/2025
   
504,509
 
 
41,605,955
 
FHMS, Series K-734 X1#~
   
0.79
%
02/25/2026
   
1,075,897
 
 
9,283,146
 
FHMS, Series K-055 X1#~
   
1.49
%
03/25/2026
   
517,392
 
 
33,029,819
 
FHMS, Series K-735 X1#~
   
1.09
%
05/25/2026
   
1,389,822
 
 
26,032,750
 
FHMS, Series K-736 X1#~
   
1.44
%
07/25/2026
   
1,442,321
 
 
5,972,619
 
FHMS, Series K-058 X1#~
   
1.05
%
08/25/2026
   
251,670
 
 
6,402,829
 
FHMS, Series K-059 X1#~
   
0.43
%
09/25/2026
   
91,673
 
 
26,723,479
 
FHMS, Series K-737 X1#~
   
0.75
%
10/25/2026
   
793,682
 
 
24,918,875
 
FHMS, Series K-C04 X1#~
   
1.40
%
12/25/2026
   
1,198,867
 
 
54,792,350
 
FHMS, Series K-063 X1#~
   
0.42
%
01/25/2027
   
800,549
 
 
22,197,409
 
FHMS, Series K-064 X1#~
   
0.74
%
03/25/2027
   
697,205
 
 
8,080,921
 
FHMS, Series Q-013 XPT2~
   
1.81
%
05/25/2027
   
309,598
 
 
5,648,492
 
FHMS, Series K-W03 X1#~
   
0.98
%
06/25/2027
   
213,834
 
 
22,960,509
 
FHMS, Series K-C05 X1#~
   
1.34
%
07/25/2027
   
1,155,175
 
 
12,452,322
 
FHMS, Series K-068 X1#~
   
0.56
%
08/25/2027
   
309,390
 
 
30,246,643
 
FHMS, Series K-069 X1#~
   
0.49
%
09/25/2027
   
652,732
 
 
6,021,759
 
FHMS, Series K-739 XAM#~
   
1.71
%
09/25/2027
   
553,264
 
 
16,500,000
 
FHMS, Series K-740 XAM#~
   
1.20
%
10/25/2027
   
1,088,116
 
 
52,337,331
 
FHMS, Series K-070 X1#~
   
0.46
%
11/25/2027
   
1,053,367
 
 
31,512,127
 
FHMS, Series K-072 X1#~
   
0.49
%
12/25/2027
   
698,312
 
 
4,308,047
 
FHMS, Series Q-006 APT1#
   
2.78
%
04/25/2028
   
4,484,617
 
 
1,339,665
 
FHMS, Series Q-006 APT2#
   
2.60
%
10/25/2028
   
1,389,935
 
 
24,874,109
 
FHMS, Series K-087 X1#~
   
0.51
%
12/25/2028
   
654,597
 
 
18,160,009
 
FHMS, Series K-091 X1#~
   
0.70
%
03/25/2029
   
738,495
 
 
12,648,887
 
FHMS, Series K-092 X1#~
   
0.85
%
04/25/2029
   
643,788
 
 
9,993,067
 
FHMS, Series K-G01 X1#~
   
1.11
%
04/25/2029
   
570,099
 
 
6,276,823
 
FHMS, Series K-093 X1#~
   
1.09
%
05/25/2029
   
417,749
 

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


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Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Mortgage Backed Securities — 85.4% (Continued)
 
 
10,978,632
 
FHMS, Series K-094 X1#~
   
1.02
%
06/25/2029
   
692,523
 
 
6,250,000
 
FHMS, Series K-G02 X1#~
   
1.14
%
08/25/2029
   
443,081
 
 
14,484,634
 
FHMS, Series K-103 X1#~
   
0.76
%
11/25/2029
   
708,425
 
 
4,800,000
 
FHMS, Series K-110 XAM#~
   
1.98
%
04/25/2030
   
723,727
 
 
4,803,897
 
FHMS, Series K-111 XAM#~
   
1.91
%
05/25/2030
   
701,703
 
 
6,238,500
 
FHMS, Series K-114 XAM#~
   
1.44
%
06/25/2030
   
692,312
 
 
9,275,345
 
FHMS, Series K-115 XAM#~
   
1.65
%
07/25/2030
   
1,185,898
 
 
776,828
 
FHMS, Series Q-004 A2H#
   
2.76
%
01/25/2046
   
775,261
 
 
569,554
 
FHMS, Series Q-010 APT1#
   
2.92
%
04/25/2046
   
573,562
 
 
2,286,643
 
FHMS, Series Q-004 A4H#
   
2.79
%
08/25/2046
   
2,309,646
 
 
2,724,181
 
FHMS, Series Q-007 APT1#
   
2.99
%
10/25/2047
   
2,768,808
 
 
2,431,650
 
FHMS, Series Q-007 APT2#
   
3.31
%
10/25/2047
   
2,570,865
 
 
869,227
 
FHMS, Series Q-013 APT1#
   
1.18
%
05/25/2050
   
875,016
 
 
1,198,844
 
FHS, Series 366 IO~
   
4.00
%
08/15/2049
   
226,884
 
 
9,454
 
FNMA, Pool# 922791
   
6.50
%
12/01/2021
   
9,497
 
 
398,159
 
FNMA, Pool# BL0273
   
4.36
%
10/01/2023
   
422,384
 
 
1,000,000
 
FNMA, Pool# AN9202
   
3.32
%
05/01/2025
   
1,059,628
 
 
1,188,714
 
FNMA, Pool# 109465
   
3.58
%
08/01/2025
   
1,262,738
 
 
30,957
 
FNMA, Pool# 336422 (3 Year CMT Rate + 2.30%)
   
3.91
%
10/01/2025
   
31,063
 
 
83,963
 
FNMA, Pool# 344903
   
5.50
%
10/01/2025
   
93,573
 
 
1,000,000
 
FNMA, Pool# AN0287
   
2.95
%
11/01/2025
   
1,083,008
 
 
459,396
 
FNMA, Pool# BL1166
   
3.62
%
01/01/2026
   
506,192
 
 
440,254
 
FNMA, Pool# BL1165
   
3.62
%
01/01/2026
   
485,101
 
 
65,741
 
FNMA, Pool# 356232
   
6.50
%
01/01/2026
   
73,726
 
 
30,523
 
FNMA, Pool# 406521 (1 Year CMT  Rate + 2.52%)
   
3.90
%
05/01/2026
   
30,634
 
 
1,489,451
 
FNMA, Pool# BL0723
   
3.84
%
09/01/2026
   
1,679,444
 
 
46,904
 
FNMA, Pool# 356329 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.65%)
   
2.78
%
01/01/2027
   
47,042
 
 
16,633
 
FNMA, Pool# 363850 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.13%)
   
2.25
%
04/01/2027
   
16,762
 
 
33,655
 
FNMA, Pool# 406380 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.17%)
   
2.37
%
11/01/2027
   
33,708
 
 
2,375,000
 
FNMA, Pool# AN7996
   
3.15
%
02/01/2028
   
2,558,739
 
 
669,857
 
FNMA, Pool# 257203
   
5.00
%
05/01/2028
   
735,616
 
 
814,574
 
FNMA, Pool# 958720
   
5.65
%
10/01/2028
   
898,667
 
 
2,420,818
 
FNMA, Pool# BL3182
   
2.98
%
07/01/2029
   
2,629,042
 
 
406,521
 
FNMA, Pool# 957502
   
3.98
%
07/01/2029
   
446,836
 
 
39,146
 
FNMA, Pool# 520478 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.10%)
   
2.22
%
11/01/2029
   
39,224
 
 
36,136
 
FNMA, Pool# 559439 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.27%)
   
3.02
%
09/01/2030
   
36,287
 
 
47,829
 
FNMA, Pool# 573097 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.21%)
   
2.34
%
02/01/2031
   
47,922
 
 
105,241
 
FNMA, Pool# AL0898
   
5.00
%
02/01/2031
   
118,176
 
 
25,294
 
FNMA, Pool# 590852 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.11%)
   
2.49
%
07/01/2031
   
25,408
 
 
1,839,756
 
FNMA, Pool# AI4717
   
4.50
%
07/01/2031
   
2,029,436
 
 
34,237
 
FNMA, Pool# 656181 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.16%)
   
2.28
%
08/01/2031
   
34,575
 
 
35,140
 
FNMA, Pool# 723313 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.54%)
   
2.79
%
09/01/2031
   
35,294
 
 
9,622
 
FNMA, Pool# 642122 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.27%)
   
2.77
%
03/01/2032
   
9,652
 
 
9,078
 
FNMA, Pool# 628837
   
6.50
%
03/01/2032
   
10,309
 
 
28,207
 
FNMA, Pool# 640225 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.27%)
   
2.77
%
04/01/2032
   
28,289
 
 
38,410
 
FNMA, Pool# 662138 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.30%)
   
2.55
%
09/01/2032
   
38,499
 
 
35,931
 
FNMA, Pool# 668309 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.02%)
   
2.27
%
11/01/2032
   
36,183
 
 
28,421
 
FNMA, Pool# 696546 (6 Month LIBOR USD + 2.26%)
   
2.51
%
03/01/2033
   
28,361
 
 
6,454
 
FNMA, Pool# 555819 (6 Month LIBOR USD + 1.03%)
   
1.28
%
07/01/2033
   
6,525
 
 
36,923
 
FNMA, Pool# 744805 (6 Month LIBOR USD + 1.52%)
   
1.77
%
11/01/2033
   
37,109
 
 
16,755
 
FNMA, Pool# 751498 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.22%)
   
2.34
%
11/01/2033
   
16,699
 
 
26,570
 
FNMA, Pool# 741373 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.28%)
   
2.41
%
12/01/2033
   
26,587
 
 
28,633
 
FNMA, Pool# 764342 (6 Month LIBOR USD + 1.52%)
   
1.77
%
02/01/2034
   
28,805
 
 
28,667
 
FNMA, Pool# 774969 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.28%)
   
2.40
%
04/01/2034
   
28,623
 
 
114,348
 
FNMA, Pool# 783554 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.21%)
   
2.59
%
07/01/2034
   
114,009
 
 
17,863
 
FNMA, Pool# 819649 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.52%)
   
1.89
%
03/01/2035
   
18,074
 

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Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Mortgage Backed Securities — 85.4% (Continued)
 
 
53,836
 
FNMA, Pool# 889829
   
5.00
%
07/01/2035
   
61,568
 
 
36,737
 
FNMA, Pool# 830970 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.83%)
   
2.56
%
08/01/2035
   
36,927
 
 
38,846
 
FNMA, Pool# 837329 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.04%)
   
2.29
%
09/01/2035
   
39,579
 
 
643,346
 
FNMA, Pool# AL7654
   
3.00
%
09/01/2035
   
682,233
 
 
52,998
 
FNMA, Pool# 836715 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.77%)
   
2.27
%
10/01/2035
   
53,037
 
 
124,759
 
FNMA, Pool# 842006
   
4.25
%
10/01/2035
   
133,857
 
 
28,412
 
FNMA, Pool# 922680 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.91%)
   
2.30
%
11/01/2035
   
30,211
 
 
256,413
 
FNMA, Pool# 850232
   
4.25
%
12/01/2035
   
277,615
 
 
12,894
 
FNMA, Pool# 865849 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.54%)
   
1.91
%
03/01/2036
   
13,026
 
 
20,638
 
FNMA, Pool# 877009 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 2.38%)
   
2.80
%
03/01/2036
   
21,869
 
 
290,448
 
FNMA, Pool# AB0577
   
4.00
%
03/01/2036
   
311,178
 
 
28,770
 
FNMA, Pool# 868568 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.77%)
   
2.08
%
04/01/2036
   
30,550
 
 
62,302
 
FNMA, Pool# 882017 (6 Month LIBOR USD + 1.56%)
   
1.81
%
05/01/2036
   
62,834
 
 
19,962
 
FNMA, Pool# 745626 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.14%)
   
2.31
%
05/01/2036
   
20,064
 
 
4,818
 
FNMA, Pool# 872895 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.88%)
   
2.13
%
06/01/2036
   
4,828
 
 
21,296
 
FNMA, Pool# 886163 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.84%)
   
2.59
%
07/01/2036
   
21,632
 
 
287,349
 
FNMA, Pool# 896838
   
5.45
%
07/01/2036
   
306,615
 
 
2,183,632
 
FNMA, Pool# AS7789
   
3.00
%
08/01/2036
   
2,299,135
 
 
110,307
 
FNMA, Pool# 745818
   
6.50
%
09/01/2036
   
127,279
 
 
3,899,730
 
FNMA, Pool# MA2804
   
3.00
%
11/01/2036
   
4,106,153
 
 
77,776
 
FNMA, Pool# 902770
   
5.38
%
11/01/2036
   
86,468
 
 
101,674
 
FNMA, Pool# 940309 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.50%)
   
2.00
%
01/01/2037
   
101,927
 
 
28,442
 
FNMA, Pool# 888445 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.60%)
   
1.98
%
04/01/2037
   
28,808
 
 
2,171,275
 
FNMA, Pool# BM1370
   
3.00
%
04/01/2037
   
2,274,050
 
 
55,186
 
FNMA, Pool# 995521 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.84%)
   
2.09
%
05/01/2037
   
55,386
 
 
63,477
 
FNMA, Pool# 950382 (6 Month LIBOR USD + 1.10%)
   
1.35
%
08/01/2037
   
65,229
 
 
140,356
 
FNMA, Pool# 941050 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.70%)
   
2.45
%
08/01/2037
   
139,658
 
 
55,086
 
FNMA, Pool# 952835 (1 Year CMT Rate + 2.32%)
   
2.44
%
09/01/2037
   
59,202
 
 
2,339,856
 
FNMA, Pool# MA3208
   
4.50
%
10/01/2037
   
2,560,183
 
 
128,429
 
FNMA, Pool# 955233
   
6.50
%
12/01/2037
   
152,499
 
 
16,222
 
FNMA, Pool# 962656 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.27%)
   
1.64
%
04/01/2038
   
16,352
 
 
6,277
 
FNMA, Pool# 982237 (12 Month LIBOR USD + 1.84%)
   
2.09
%
05/01/2038
   
6,295
 
 
299,016
 
FNMA, Pool# AD0100
   
7.00
%
12/01/2038
   
357,523
 
 
93,366
 
FNMA, Pool# 930507
   
6.50
%
02/01/2039
   
107,193
 
 
2,051,249
 
FNMA, Pool# AS2249
   
4.00
%
04/01/2039
   
2,256,956
 
 
332,477
 
FNMA, Pool# AL0407
   
6.50
%
04/01/2039
   
383,019
 
 
247,592
 
FNMA, Pool# AD0427
   
5.50
%
10/01/2039
   
288,046
 
 
344,225
 
FNMA, Pool# AD0941
   
5.50
%
04/01/2040
   
401,257
 
 
603,728
 
FNMA, Pool# 467095
   
5.90
%
01/01/2041
   
716,770
 
 
298,751
 
FNMA, Pool# AH8447
   
5.50
%
04/01/2041
   
334,307
 
 
940,093
 
FNMA, Pool# 469130
   
4.87
%
10/01/2041
   
1,081,889
 
 
307,274
 
FNMA, Pool# BC1738
   
4.50
%
09/01/2043
   
335,572
 
 
310,717
 
FNMA, Pool# AS1429
   
4.00
%
12/01/2043
   
332,650
 
 
386,137
 
FNMA, Pool# AV7739
   
4.00
%
01/01/2044
   
418,639
 
 
388,453
 
FNMA, Pool# AW6485
   
4.00
%
06/01/2044
   
419,166
 
 
271,744
 
FNMA, Pool# AY0382
   
4.00
%
11/01/2044
   
281,994
 
 
456,049
 
FNMA, Pool# AW9534
   
4.00
%
03/01/2045
   
498,109
 
 
332,799
 
FNMA, Pool# AZ4154
   
4.00
%
06/01/2045
   
358,211
 
 
1,282,639
 
FNMA, Pool# AZ7828
   
4.00
%
08/01/2045
   
1,402,961
 
 
879,712
 
FNMA, Pool# BA3674
   
4.50
%
10/01/2045
   
966,906
 
 
432,921
 
FNMA, Pool# BC6366
   
4.50
%
02/01/2046
   
477,089
 
 
200,683
 
FNMA, Pool# BD1241
   
4.50
%
05/01/2046
   
216,316
 
 
1,003,737
 
FNMA, Pool# BD5189
   
4.50
%
07/01/2046
   
1,106,344
 
 
342,424
 
FNMA, Pool# BD8599
   
4.50
%
11/01/2046
   
372,701
 
 
576,826
 
FNMA, Pool# BH7686
   
4.50
%
12/01/2047
   
626,386
 
 
1,073,812
 
FNMA, Pool# BJ8287
   
4.50
%
01/01/2048
   
1,169,720
 

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Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Mortgage Backed Securities — 85.4% (Continued)
 
 
953,321
 
FNMA, Pool# AN8989
   
4.07
%
04/01/2048
   
1,007,048
 
 
655,130
 
FNMA, Pool# BK5105
   
5.50
%
05/01/2048
   
741,892
 
 
392,538
 
FNMA, Pool# BK8032
   
5.50
%
06/01/2048
   
443,247
 
 
305,079
 
FNMA, Pool# BN0202
   
5.50
%
09/01/2048
   
342,280
 
 
364,576
 
FNMA, Pool# BN4936
   
5.50
%
12/01/2048
   
409,374
 
 
157,881
 
FNMA, Pool# BN4921
   
5.50
%
01/01/2049
   
176,162
 
 
1,091,460
 
FNMA, Pool# BQ1161
   
2.50
%
08/01/2050
   
1,131,341
 
 
6,784,214
 
FNMA, Pool# FM4866
   
2.50
%
10/01/2050
   
7,030,090
 
 
4,728,089
 
FNMA, Pool# MA4238
   
2.50
%
01/01/2051
   
4,899,447
 
 
4,902,650
 
FNMA, Pool# BR2618
   
2.00
%
02/01/2051
   
4,963,330
 
 
4,890,307
 
FNMA, Pool# BR2695
   
2.00
%
02/01/2051
   
4,950,005
 
 
4,915,827
 
FNMA, Pool# MA4281
   
2.00
%
03/01/2051
   
4,975,037
 
 
10,700,000
 
FNMA, 2.00%, Due TBA July
   
2.00
%
07/15/2051
   
10,819,121
 
 
31,300,000
 
FNMA, 2.50%, Due TBA July
   
2.50
%
07/15/2051
   
32,396,723
 
 
2,487
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 1991-136 J
   
7.50
%
10/25/2021
   
2,495
 
 
57,505
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 1996-23 G
   
6.50
%
07/25/2026
   
61,748
 
 
2,174,550
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2016-M7 A2
   
2.50
%
09/25/2026
   
2,268,257
 
 
1,999,130
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2017-T1 A
   
2.90
%
06/25/2027
   
2,179,072
 
 
1,202,671
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2012-139 HI~
   
2.50
%
12/25/2027
   
58,617
 
 
91,372
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2013-15 QI~
   
3.00
%
03/25/2028
   
5,662
 
 
100,224
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2016-M10 A1
   
2.10
%
07/25/2028
   
100,977
 
 
500,000
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2018-M13 A2#
   
3.82
%
09/25/2030
   
590,349
 
 
1,062,493
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2014-14 LI~
   
3.00
%
04/25/2031
   
7,908
 
 
745,820
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2013-115 AI~
   
3.00
%
04/25/2031
   
30,334
 
 
25,982,033
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2019-M23 X3#~
   
0.38
%
10/27/2031
   
670,152
 
 
164,696
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2001-80 Z
   
6.00
%
01/25/2032
   
184,292
 
 
322,388
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2006-M2 A2A#
   
5.27
%
10/25/2032
   
353,334
 
 
402,451
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2003-71 MB
   
5.50
%
08/25/2033
   
469,899
 
 
2,114,902
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2014-8 IQ~
   
4.00
%
03/25/2034
   
279,309
 
 
2,551,781
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2005-73 EZ
   
5.50
%
08/25/2035
   
2,947,903
 
 
885,641
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2005-110 GL
   
5.50
%
12/25/2035
   
1,010,479
 
 
416,420
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2006-21 Z
   
5.50
%
04/25/2036
   
477,203
 
 
1,240,459
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2006-112 QC
   
5.50
%
11/25/2036
   
1,446,715
 
 
570,684
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2007-22 A
   
5.50
%
03/25/2037
   
661,624
 
 
788,082
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2009-20 DA (1 Month LIBOR USD + 7.40%)~
   
7.31
%
04/25/2039
   
189,810
 
 
1,606,764
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2012-65 HJ
   
5.00
%
07/25/2040
   
1,786,092
 
 
329,733
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2015-15 GA
   
3.00
%
03/25/2041
   
333,916
 
 
77,574
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2012-10 UF (1 Month LIBOR USD + 0.55%)
   
0.64
%
02/25/2042
   
78,921
 
 
1,391,771
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2012-27 PI~
   
4.50
%
02/25/2042
   
155,634
 
 
571,128
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2013-34 IG~
   
3.00
%
05/25/2042
   
53,785
 
 
1,075,948
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2012-141 ZC
   
2.50
%
12/25/2042
   
1,068,993
 
 
1,561,929
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2012-154 ZC
   
2.50
%
01/25/2043
   
1,426,500
 
 
113,362
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2013-7 ZC
   
2.00
%
02/25/2043
   
98,850
 
 
8,457
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2003-W10 3A5
   
4.30
%
06/25/2043
   
9,175
 
 
2,346
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2003-W12 1A9
   
4.48
%
06/25/2043
   
2,606
 
 
14,077
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2003-W12 1A8
   
4.55
%
06/25/2043
   
15,556
 
 
8,355
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2003-W12 2A7
   
4.68
%
06/25/2043
   
9,156
 
 
9,747
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2003-W12 2A6
   
5.00
%
06/25/2043
   
10,846
 
 
577,671
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2017-44 BA
   
3.50
%
01/25/2044
   
584,040
 
 
526,196
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2015-40 LI~
   
4.50
%
03/25/2045
   
92,088
 
 
619,157
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2018-86 JA
   
4.00
%
05/25/2047
   
643,456
 
 
1,755,004
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2019-37 IM~
   
5.00
%
07/25/2049
   
225,660
 
 
3,729,000
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2019-70 CB
   
3.50
%
12/25/2049
   
3,985,358
 
 
6,271,652
 
FNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2021-47 IO~
   
2.50
%
07/25/2051
   
1,072,061
 
 
2,305,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-K102#^
   
3.65
%
10/25/2029
   
2,522,692
 
 
1,990,699
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2020-KF75 (1 Month LIBOR USD + 2.25%)^
   
2.34
%
12/26/2029
   
1,981,970
 

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June 30, 2021
Par Value
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Mortgage Backed Securities — 85.4% (Continued)
 
 
1,280,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2020-K105 B#^
   
3.53
%
02/25/2030
   
1,376,423
 
 
9,044,863
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2012-K17 X2A^~
   
0.10
%
12/25/2044
   
253
 
 
20,446,917
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2012-K20 X2A^~
   
0.20
%
05/25/2045
   
25,154
 
 
700,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2017-K68 B#^
   
3.97
%
10/25/2049
   
774,798
 
 
1,300,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2017-K64 B#^
   
4.12
%
05/25/2050
   
1,444,285
 
 
750,000
 
FREMF Mortgage Trust, Series 2019-K736 B#^
   
3.88
%
09/25/2052
   
814,672
 
 
3,248
 
GNMA, Pool# 004295M
   
6.00
%
10/20/2023
   
3,273
 
 
90,400
 
GNMA, Pool# 783374X
   
5.50
%
04/15/2024
   
94,075
 
 
116,732
 
GNMA, Pool# 728160X
   
5.25
%
11/15/2024
   
122,285
 
 
268,181
 
GNMA, Pool# 623145X
   
5.50
%
10/15/2028
   
302,080
 
 
1,106,913
 
GNMA, Pool# 589694X
   
4.50
%
08/15/2029
   
1,222,522
 
 
35,800
 
GNMA, Pool# 728157X
   
3.75
%
11/15/2029
   
38,455
 
 
322,208
 
GNMA, Pool# 770225C
   
4.25
%
08/20/2031
   
352,485
 
 
377,834
 
GNMA, Pool# 003160M
   
6.00
%
11/20/2031
   
439,101
 
 
527,259
 
GNMA, Pool# 003489M
   
6.00
%
12/20/2033
   
617,936
 
 
278,716
 
GNMA, Pool# 782173M
   
5.50
%
05/20/2035
   
327,352
 
 
106,685
 
GNMA, Pool# 784315X
   
6.00
%
06/15/2036
   
119,925
 
 
321,345
 
GNMA, Pool# 770226C
   
4.75
%
09/20/2036
   
349,352
 
 
169,995
 
GNMA, Pool# 004194M
   
5.50
%
07/20/2038
   
193,026
 
 
92,097
 
GNMA, Pool# 706295C
   
5.10
%
12/20/2038
   
100,019
 
 
919,917
 
GNMA, Pool# AC0521C
   
5.50
%
05/20/2042
   
1,058,956
 
 
1,089,216
 
GNMA, Pool# BM9287C
   
4.00
%
08/20/2049
   
1,187,047
 
 
954,937
 
GNMA, Pool# MA7106M
   
2.00
%
01/20/2036
   
987,950
 
 
968,235
 
GNMA, Pool# MA7164M
   
2.00
%
02/20/2036
   
1,001,728
 
 
408,774
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2013-168 IA~
   
2.50
%
11/16/2028
   
21,340
 
 
583,119
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2004-93 PD
   
5.00
%
11/16/2034
   
636,503
 
 
95,958
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2006-40 B
   
6.00
%
08/20/2036
   
109,108
 
 
546,381
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2012-52 WA#
   
6.18
%
04/20/2038
   
641,820
 
 
884,409
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2016-012 KI~
   
5.00
%
09/20/2038
   
154,686
 
 
574,720
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2017-083 ID~
   
7.00
%
01/20/2039
   
106,472
 
 
708,151
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2011-2 DP#
   
5.46
%
03/20/2039
   
795,399
 
 
1,035,797
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2010-105 IB~
   
4.50
%
01/16/2040
   
100,522
 
 
668,073
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2016-68 IC#~
   
6.00
%
01/20/2040
   
121,794
 
 
682,000
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2011-156 PM
   
2.00
%
04/20/2040
   
662,247
 
 
1,170,939
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2017-083 IK~
   
6.00
%
05/20/2040
   
262,335
 
 
346,864
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2016-112 AW#
   
7.08
%
12/20/2040
   
414,496
 
 
1,626,336
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2012-143 IC~
   
5.00
%
10/16/2041
   
275,371
 
 
831,612
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2012-97 GB
   
2.00
%
08/16/2042
   
824,982
 
 
1,148,106
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2017-103 IM~
   
5.00
%
06/20/2043
   
189,222
 
 
903,307
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2013-86 IA~
   
5.00
%
06/20/2043
   
128,486
 
 
577,337
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2014-06 IG~
   
4.50
%
01/16/2044
   
71,358
 
 
2,717,804
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2011-127 C#
   
3.50
%
03/16/2047
   
2,819,673
 
 
629,193
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2018-127 PB
   
3.00
%
09/20/2047
   
658,681
 
 
85,462
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2018-166 AB
   
4.00
%
10/20/2047
   
88,559
 
 
1,090,527
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2018-166 BA
   
3.50
%
11/20/2047
   
1,134,211
 
 
3,052,719
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2017-167 SE (1 Month LIBOR USD + 6.20%)~
   
6.11
%
11/20/2047
   
621,934
 
 
3,977,500
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2018-036 LI~
   
5.00
%
03/20/2048
   
491,290
 
 
752,965
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2018-153 QA
   
3.50
%
11/20/2048
   
816,125
 
 
985,234
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2019-152 LC
   
3.50
%
10/20/2049
   
1,007,771
 
 
2,746,476
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2021-074 NG
   
1.75
%
04/20/2051
   
2,796,018
 
 
1,564,948
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2014-135 I0#~
   
0.43
%
01/16/2056
   
39,778
 
 
2,165,910
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2015-172 I0#~
   
0.70
%
03/16/2057
   
71,485
 
 
3,374,210
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2016-40 I0#~
   
0.65
%
07/16/2057
   
115,142
 
 
2,775,966
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2016-56 I0#~
   
0.90
%
11/16/2057
   
137,811
 
 
4,075,012
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2016-98 I0#~
   
0.86
%
05/16/2058
   
210,112
 
 
9,275,759
 
GNMA REMIC Trust, Series 2021-084 ED
   
1.00
%
07/16/2060
   
8,989,739
 

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

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Brown Advisory Mortgage Securities Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Par
                 
 
Value/Shares
 
Security Description
 
Rate
 
Maturity
 
Value $
 
   
Mortgage Backed Securities — 85.4% (Continued)
 
 
800,291
 
KKR Industrial Portfolio Trust, Series 2020-AIP D (1 Month LIBOR USD + 2.03%)^
   
2.10
%
03/16/2037
   
802,962
 
 
1,300,000
 
Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust, Series 2019-NUGS A (1 Month LIBOR USD + 0.95%)^
   
2.45
%
12/15/2036
   
1,305,404
 
 
538,707
 
SBA, Pool# 522053 (PRIME + 0.58%)
   
3.83
%
05/25/2026
   
551,703
 
 
412,940
 
Velocity Commercial Capital Loan Trust, Series 2017-1 M1#^
   
3.55
%
05/25/2047
   
414,249
 
Total Mortgage Backed Securities (Cost $263,344,108)
   
273,644,753
 
                         
Asset Backed Securities — 5.5%
 
 
1,948,677
 
American Homes 4 Rent Trust, Series 2014-SFR2 A^
   
3.79
%
10/17/2036
   
2,073,956
 
 
2,130,000
 
American Homes 4 Rent Trust, Series 2014-SFR2 B^
   
4.29
%
10/17/2036
   
2,269,187
 
 
2,400,577
 
American Homes 4 Rent Trust, Series 2014-SFR3 A^
   
3.68
%
12/18/2036
   
2,559,076
 
 
323,428
 
American Homes 4 Rent Trust, Series 2015-SFR1 A^
   
3.47
%
04/18/2052
   
343,561
 
 
221,701
 
American Homes 4 Rent Trust, Series 2015-SFR2 A^
   
3.73
%
10/18/2052
   
238,709
 
 
250,000
 
American Homes 4 Rent Trust, Series 2015-SFR2 C^
   
4.69
%
10/18/2052
   
272,080
 
 
1,404,000
 
AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust, Series 2021-1 D
   
1.21
%
12/18/2026
   
1,401,909
 
 
1,505,000
 
CarMax Auto Owner Trust, Series 2021-2 C
   
1.34
%
02/16/2027
   
1,507,375
 
 
545,607
 
FHF Trust, Series 2020-1A A^
   
2.59
%
12/15/2023
   
550,160
 
 
1,015,999
 
FHF Trust, Series 2021-1A A^
   
1.27
%
03/15/2027
   
1,015,987
 
 
493,715
 
FREED ABS Trust, Series 2021-1CP A^
   
0.66
%
03/20/2028
   
494,082
 
 
599,899
 
Invitation Homes Trust, Series 2017-SFR2 C (1 Month LIBOR USD + 1.45%)^
   
1.53
%
12/19/2036
   
601,741
 
 
410,000
 
Oportun Funding XIV LLC, Series 2021-A A^
   
1.21
%
03/08/2028
   
411,386
 
 
1,505,000
 
PFS Financing Corp., Series 2021-A A^
   
0.71
%
04/15/2026
   
1,505,112
 
 
1,552,338
 
Progress Residential Trust, Series 2018-SFR3 A^
   
3.88
%
10/18/2035
   
1,569,864
 
 
337,486
 
Theorem Funding Trust, Series 2020-1A A^
   
2.48
%
10/15/2026
   
339,679
 
 
359,194
 
Westgate Resorts LLC, Series 2018-1A C^
   
4.10
%
12/20/2031
   
363,352
 
Total Asset Backed Securities (Cost $17,098,937)
   
17,517,216
 
                         
Corporate Bonds & Notes — 0.6%
 
 
1,250,000
 
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
   
3.85
%
05/01/2027
   
1,390,444
 
 
460,000
 
Land O’Lakes, Inc.^+
   
7.25
%
04/04/2027
   
489,307
 
Total Corporate Bonds & Notes (Cost $1,748,632)
   
1,879,751
 
                         
Municipal Bonds — 0.2%
 
 
600,000
 
Colorado Health Facilities Authority
   
2.80
%
12/01/2026
   
611,193
 
Total Municipal Bonds (Cost $600,000)
   
611,193
 
                         
Short-Term Investments — 18.8%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 18.8%
 
 
60,256,379
 
First American Government Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%*
             
60,256,379
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $60,256,379)
   
60,256,379
 
Total Investments — 110.5% (Cost $343,048,056)
   
353,909,292
 
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets — (10.5)%
   
(33,506,815
)
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
320,402,477
 

 
#
Variable rate security.  Rate disclosed is as of the date of this report.
 
^
Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933.  These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.
 
+
Perpetual security with no stated maturity date. Date shown is last call date.
 
~
Interest Only Security
 
*
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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

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Brown Advisory Mortgage Securities Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
Futures Contracts — Long (Note 6)
                         
             
Notional
   
Notional
   
Unrealized Appreciation
 
Issue
 
Contracts
 
Expiration Date
 
Amount
   
Value
   
(Depreciation)
 
U.S. Treasury Long Bond Futures
   
50
 
09/21/2021
 
$
7,872,116
   
$
8,037,500
   
$
165,384
 
               
$
7,872,116
   
$
8,037,500
   
$
165,384
 
                                   
Futures Contracts — Short (Note 6)
                                 
               
Notional
   
Notional
   
Unrealized Appreciation
 
Issue
 
Contracts
 
Expiration Date
 
Amount
   
Value
   
(Depreciation)
 
U.S. Treasury 5-Year Note Futures
   
  (25)

09/30/2021
 
$
(3,092,658
)
 
$
(3,085,742
)
 
$
6,916
 
U.S. Treasury 10-Year Note Futures
   
(132)

09/21/2021
   
(17,388,324
)
   
(17,490,000
)
   
(101,676
)
               
$
(20,480,982
)
 
$
(20,575,742
)
 
$
(94,760
)

There is no variation margin due to or from the Fund as of the date of this report.

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

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Brown Advisory – WMC Strategic European Equity Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory – WMC Strategic European Equity Fund – Institutional Shares (the “Fund”) increased 32.55% in value. During the same period, the MSCI Europe Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 35.09%.
 
For the year ended June 30, 2021, the portfolio underperformed the Index. Sector allocation, a result of our bottom-up stock selection process, detracted from relative performance, driven by the Fund’s overweight to health care and underweight to consumer discretionary. This was partially offset by our overweight to industrials and lack of exposure to utilities, which were positive contributors. Security selection contributed to relative performance, most notably within the industrials, health care, and consumer staples sectors. This was partially offset by weak stock selection within financials and consumer discretionary.
 
From an individual stock perspective, our top relative contributors were Alfa Laval (industrials), Electrocomponents (industrials) and Brenntag (industrials). Our top relative detractors were UCB (health care), ASML Holding (information technology), and GlaxoSmithKline (health care). During the period, we initiated new positions in AstraZeneca, WPP, and Publicis. We eliminated positions in Epiroc, Merck, and Diageo.
 
Alfa Laval is a Swedish market leader in heat exchangers, separators and fluid handling products serving three main end markets: marine, energy and food and water. Shares rose over the period as the company continued to see solid demand coming out of the global pandemic. Alfa Laval continues to benefit from ESG tailwinds as its products tend to make processes more efficient, thereby reducing waste. The company recently released plans to acquire digital service company StormGeo from EQT Corporation.
 
UCB is a Belgian pharmaceutical and biotechnology company that focuses on central nervous system treatments (e.g., Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy) and immunologic diseases (e.g., inflammatory conditions like Crohn’s disease, arthritis). Additionally, the health care industry was the worst performing sector over the period and many stocks, regardless of their fundamental performance, traded off in sympathy with the broader sector. From a fundamental perspective, the company experienced some setbacks in terms of getting products to market, primarily driven by the pandemic and resultant changes in consumer behavior (i.e. significant decreases in doctor visits). We remain invested, however, as we believe there is meaningful upside based on the strength of the company’s pipeline and tailwinds from reopening.
 
Sincerely,
 
Carl Dirk Enderlein, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. Investments focused in a single geographic region may be exposed to greater risk than investments diversified among various geographies. Investments in foreign securities entail certain risks not associated with investments in domestic securities, such as volatility of currency exchange rates, and in some cases, political and economic instability and relatively illiquid markets. These risks are greater in emerging markets. Investments in smaller and medium capitalization companies generally carry greater risk than is customarily associated with larger companies for various reasons such as narrower markets, limited financial resources and less liquid stock. The Fund may invest in ETFs, which may trade at a discount to the aggregate value of the underlying securities and although expense ratios for ETFs are generally low, frequent trading of ETFs by the Fund can generate brokerage expenses. The value of investments in REITs may change in response to changes in the real estate market such as declines in the value of real estate, lack of available capital or financing opportunities, and increases in property taxes or operating costs. Derivatives involve risks different from, and in certain cases, greater than the risks presented by more traditional investments. Investors will indirectly bear the principal risks and its share of the fees and expenses of the Fund’s investment in other Investment Companies.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory – WMC Strategic European Equity Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $1,000,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $1,000,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against a broad-based securities market index.  The MSCI Europe Index (“Index”) is an index that captures large and mid cap representation across 15 developed market countries in Europe.  The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
United Kingdom
  32.2%
Germany
  14.8%
France
  12.5%
Sweden
    9.9%
Switzerland
    9.2%
Netherlands
    5.0%
Belgium
    4.0%
Spain
    3.5%
Money Market Funds
    2.6%
Portugal
    1.7%
Austria
    1.7%
Czech Republic
    1.0%
Denmark
    0.7%
Italy
    0.1%
Other Assets and Liabilities
    1.1%
 
100.0%

     
Since Inception
Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
(10/21/13)
Institutional Shares
32.55%
11.23%
7.21%
Investor Shares
32.36%
11.07%
7.05%
Advisor Shares
32.01%
10.79%
6.80%
MSCI Europe Index
35.09%
10.34%
5.12%

 
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Advisor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio1
1.10%
1.25%
1.50%
Net Expense Ratio1
1.10%
1.25%
1.50%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/wmc-strategic-european-equity-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower.  Short-term performance, in particular, is not a good indication of the Fund’s future performance, and an investment should not be made based solely on returns. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory – WMC Strategic European Equity Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Common Stocks — 95.6%
 
   
Austria — 1.7%
 
   
126,719
 
Erste Group Bank AG
   
4,658,352
 
   
73,312
 
Porr AG*
   
1,390,950
 
   
61,043
 
Vienna Insurance Group AG
       
       
  Wiener Versicherung Gruppe
   
1,675,634
 
             
7,724,936
 
Belgium — 4.0%
 
   
176,965
 
UCB S.A.
   
18,533,795
 
                 
Czech Republic — 1.0%
 
   
132,397
 
Komercni banka, a.s.*
   
4,658,762
 
                 
Denmark — 0.7%
 
   
6,431
 
ALK-Abello A/S*
   
3,069,353
 
                 
France — 12.5%
 
   
102,147
 
Amundi S.A.
   
9,009,232
 
   
225,118
 
Bureau Veritas S.A.*
   
7,128,008
 
   
464,734
 
Elior Group S.A.*
   
3,476,032
 
   
589,227
 
Elis S.A.*
   
11,118,325
 
   
64,237
 
Legrand S.A.
   
6,808,036
 
   
12,385
 
Pernod Ricard S.A.
   
2,752,712
 
   
126,856
 
Publicis Groupe S.A.
   
8,118,134
 
   
66,584
 
Safran S.A.
   
9,240,702
 
             
57,651,181
 
Germany — 14.1%
 
   
34,671
 
Beiersdorf AG
   
4,184,988
 
   
115,303
 
Brenntag SE
   
10,731,505
 
   
275,050
 
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA
   
14,354,801
 
   
21,970
 
Hannover Rueck SE
   
3,677,946
 
   
193,551
 
Hensoldt AG
   
3,488,439
 
   
98,129
 
Jenoptik AG
   
2,685,449
 
   
173,116
 
Siemens Healthineers AG
   
10,614,278
 
   
329,528
 
United Internet AG
   
13,476,699
 
   
31,839
 
Washtec AG
   
1,976,931
 
             
65,191,036
 
Italy — 0.1%
 
   
19,163
 
MARR SpA*
   
457,439
 
                 
Netherlands — 5.0%
 
   
36,530
 
Heineken NV
   
4,434,712
 
   
240,147
 
QIAGEN NV*
   
11,608,319
 
   
69,237
 
Wolters Kluwer NV
   
6,959,261
 
             
23,002,292
 
Portugal — 1.7%
 
   
432,154
 
Jeronimo Martins SGPS S.A.
   
7,885,731
 
                 
Spain — 3.5%
 
   
307,989
 
Almirall S.A.
   
5,377,490
 
   
81,214
 
Fluidra S.A.
   
3,226,589
 
   
42,073
 
Laboratorios Farmaceuticos Rovi S.A.
   
2,913,456
 
   
64,812
 
Viscofan S.A.
   
4,517,600
 
             
16,035,135
 
Sweden — 9.9%
 
   
375,241
 
Alfa Laval AB
   
13,262,983
 
   
378,918
 
Assa Abloy AB
   
11,423,590
 
   
338,731
 
Hexpol AB
   
4,187,482
 
   
1,048,735
 
Swedish Match AB
   
8,943,744
 
   
326,483
 
Trelleborg AB
   
7,588,289
 
             
45,406,088
 
Switzerland — 9.2%
 
   
91,772
 
Julius Baer Group, Ltd.
   
5,993,926
 
   
219,408
 
Novartis AG
   
20,015,843
 
   
1,075,487
 
UBS Group AG
   
16,473,477
 
             
42,483,246
 
United Kingdom — 32.2%
 
   
147,785
 
AstraZeneca PLC
   
17,755,489
 
   
913,775
 
BAE Systems PLC
   
6,602,949
 
   
1,921,297
 
Beazley PLC*
   
8,844,427
 
   
335,434
 
Bunzl PLC
   
11,096,559
 
   
247,932
 
Compass Group PLC*
   
5,223,403
 
   
1,809,276
 
ConvaTec Group PLC
   
6,021,660
 
   
370,251
 
Electrocomponents PLC
   
5,274,998
 
   
1,012,733
 
GlaxoSmithKline PLC
   
19,909,389
 
   
88,007
 
Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC
   
2,978,319
 
   
167,407
 
IMI PLC
   
3,984,218
 
   
491,755
 
Lancashire Holdings Ltd.
   
4,172,001
 
   
26,033
 
Next PLC*
   
2,833,266
 
   
593,912
 
Prudential PLC
   
11,299,622
 
   
896,677
 
Rotork PLC
   
4,229,079
 
   
194,778
 
Savills PLC
   
3,109,352
 
   
470,008
 
Smith & Nephew PLC
   
10,193,162
 
   
456,797
 
Smiths Group PLC
   
10,060,411
 
   
126,985
 
Spectris PLC
   
5,695,526
 
   
683,405
 
WPP PLC
   
9,238,164
 
             
148,521,994
 
Total Common Stocks (Cost $350,038,371)
   
440,620,988
 
                 
Preferred Stocks — 0.7%
 
   
Germany — 0.7%
 
   
65,002
 
Fuchs Petrolub SE
   
3,163,275
 
Total Preferred Stocks (Cost $2,735,454)
   
3,163,275
 
                 
Short-Term Investments — 2.6%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 2.6%
 
   
11,868,531
 
First American Government
       
       
  Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%#
   
11,868,531
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $11,868,531)
   
11,868,531
 
Total Investments — 98.9% (Cost $364,642,356)
   
455,652,794
 
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities — 1.1%
   
5,244,747
 
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
460,897,541
 

 
*
Non-Income Producing
 
#
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.
     
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Brown Advisory Emerging Markets Select Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory Emerging Markets Select Fund – Institutional Shares (the “Fund”) increased 42.71%. During the same period, the FTSE Emerging Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 38.76%.
 
During the year, the Fund performed well across Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Top contributors were stocks that were initially hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic but have since recovered as global economic activity has picked up. These include automotive and travel-related names in Asia and consumer cyclical and mining stocks in Latin America. Asia remains a key overweight allocation in the strategy, with notable exposure in India, South Korea and Taiwan. The strategy has maintained considerable exposure in China despite heightened regulatory scrutiny that has pressured a handful of the strategy’s Chinese holdings.
 
From a sector perspective, the portfolio’s information technology and consumer staples stocks were key contributors to overall returns, while consumer discretionary stocks underperformed on a relative basis. Within technology, the portfolio’s semiconductor holdings have benefited from a supply shortage and strong demand for semiconductors across a broad array of industries. Laggards for the year include Chinese internet-enabled businesses and education companies that have been negatively impacted by the regulatory environment in the country.
 
From an individual stock perspective, Taiwan Semiconductor, the largest position in the portfolio, was the Fund’s top contributor. POSCO, a South Korean steel manufacturer, and China Tourism Group, a Chinese specialty retailer focusing on duty free goods, were also top performers. Both were also examples of stocks that have benefited from a cyclical rebound in demand for their respective products. TAL Education, a Chinese education company, and Alibaba Group, an internet conglomerate, were among the bottom contributors as a result of Chinese regulatory pressure. Other bottom contributors include Akbank TAS, a Turkish bank, Shanghai International Airport, and Shimao Group Holdings, a Hong Kong-based real estate developer.
 
Over the 12-month period, the portfolio leaned into companies that were disproportionately impacted by the early days of the pandemic but were trading at attractive valuations. As the global economy reopened, many of these stocks rebounded sharply and have been top performers. Consequently, the Fund has trimmed some of these top performers and has continued to reallocate into parts of the market that offer more attractive opportunities.
 
Overall, we believe the portfolio maintains balanced exposure to emerging market companies that have the potential to benefit from long-term structural growth themes and are trading at attractive valuations on a normalized earnings basis.
 
Sincerely,
 
Chris H. Bartlett
Portfolio Manager
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Fund may invest in ETFs, which may trade at a discount to the aggregate value of the underlying securities and although expense ratios for ETFs are generally low, frequent trading of ETFs by the Fund can generate brokerage expenses. The Fund may invest in foreign securities which involve greater volatility and political, economic and currency risks and differences in accounting methods. These risks are greater in emerging markets. Derivatives may involve certain costs and risks such as liquidity, interest rate, market, credit, management, and the risk that a position could not be closed when most advantageous. Investing in derivatives could lose more than the amount invested. The Fund invests in smaller and medium-sized companies which carry greater risk than is associated with larger companies for various reasons, such as narrower markets, limited financial resources and less liquid stock.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory Emerging Markets Select Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $1,000,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $1,000,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against a broad-based securities market index.  The FTSE Emerging Index (“Index”) is a market capitalization weighted index representing the performance of over 790 large and mid-capitalization companies in 22 emerging markets.  The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 



PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
China
  34.5%
Taiwan
  15.6%
South Korea
  14.0%
India
  11.7%
Brazil
    4.0%
United States
    3.8%
Money Market Funds
    3.3%
Russia
    2.6%
Singapore
    2.1%
Thailand
    1.3%
United Kingdom
    1.2%
Indonesia
    1.1%
Turkey
    1.0%
Hungary
    0.9%
United Arab Emirates
    0.9%
Czech Republic
    0.8%
South Africa
    0.8%
Malaysia
    0.3%
Other Assets and Liabilities
    0.1%
 
100.0%

     
Since Inception
Average Annual Total Return
One Year
Five Year
(12/12/12)
Institutional Shares
42.71%
9.31%
4.15%
Investor Shares
42.56%
9.13%
3.98%
Advisor Shares
42.17%
8.85%
3.70%
FTSE Emerging Index
38.76%
12.40%
5.80%

 
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Advisor Shares
Gross Expense Ratio1
1.17%
1.32%
1.57%
Net Expense Ratio1
1.17%
1.32%
1.57%

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/emerging-markets-select-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower.  Short-term performance, in particular, is not a good indication of the Fund’s future performance, and an investment should not be made based solely on returns.
 
1
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory Emerging Markets Select Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Common Stocks — 91.9%
 
   
Brazil — 1.7%
 
   
2,645,200
 
Ambev S.A.
   
9,072,965
 
                 
China — 34.5%
 
   
786,247
 
AIA Group, Ltd.
   
9,753,849
 
   
324,244
 
Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd.*
   
9,193,562
 
   
54,199
 
Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd. ADR*
   
12,291,249
 
   
110,495
 
Baidu, Inc.*
   
2,834,199
 
   
47,142
 
Baidu, Inc. ADR*
   
9,612,254
 
   
488,050
 
Beijing Oriental Yuhong
       
       
  Waterproof Technology Co., Ltd.
   
4,177,298
 
   
1,636,000
 
Brilliance China Automotive Holdings, Ltd.†
   
2,107
 
   
3,517,000
 
China Construction Bank Corp.
   
2,759,803
 
   
1,066,827
 
China Mengniu Dairy Co., Ltd.
   
6,444,973
 
   
808,000
 
China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd.
   
1,832,240
 
   
496,351
 
China Resources Beer Holdings Co., Ltd.
   
4,451,500
 
   
3,254,000
 
China Resources Power Holdings Co., Ltd.
   
4,445,248
 
   
128,381
 
China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp., Ltd.
   
5,954,747
 
   
2,407,811
 
Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Ltd.
   
2,161,327
 
   
4,392,471
 
Fangda Carbon New Material Co., Ltd.*
   
5,057,463
 
   
671,000
 
Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd.*
   
5,365,377
 
   
138,716
 
Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd.
   
8,257,733
 
   
113,000
 
Huazhu Group Ltd.*
   
606,165
 
   
74,571
 
Huazhu Group Ltd. ADR*
   
3,938,095
 
   
1,164,000
 
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, Ltd.
   
682,126
 
   
13,503
 
Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd.
   
4,295,084
 
   
2,914,000
 
Lenovo Group, Ltd.
   
3,346,442
 
   
1,131,894
 
Longfor Group Holdings, Ltd.
   
6,304,827
 
   
394,949
 
Midea Group Co., Ltd.
   
4,356,518
 
   
549,467
 
Ping An Insurance Group Co. of China, Ltd.
   
5,371,259
 
   
566,900
 
Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd.
   
2,547,626
 
   
1,269,128
 
Shimao Group Holdings Ltd.
   
3,108,989
 
   
329,371
 
Sun Hung Kai Properties, Ltd.
   
4,895,095
 
   
295,783
 
Tencent Holdings, Ltd.
   
22,270,245
 
   
163,202
 
Tencent Music Entertainment Group ADR*
   
2,526,367
 
   
361,272
 
Trip.com Group, Ltd. ADR*
   
12,810,705
 
   
1,677,500
 
Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings Ltd.*
   
4,135,051
 
   
87,157
 
Yum China Holdings, Inc.
   
5,774,151
 
   
17,860
 
Zai Lab Ltd. ADR*
   
3,161,041
 
             
184,724,715
 
Czech Republic — 0.8%
 
   
152,986
 
CEZ AS
   
4,536,814
 
                 
Hungary — 0.9%
 
   
89,885
 
OTP Bank PLC*
   
4,838,666
 
                 
India — 11.7%
 
   
988,394
 
Ambuja Cements Ltd.
   
4,536,635
 
   
332,914
 
Aurobindo Pharma, Ltd.
   
4,328,008
 
   
687,342
 
Axis Bank, Ltd.*
   
6,937,464
 
   
45,604
 
Bajaj Finance Ltd.*
   
3,698,884
 
   
162,018
 
Escorts, Ltd.
   
2,664,395
 
   
244,208
 
ICICI Bank, Ltd.*
   
2,079,046
 
   
348,725
 
Larsen & Toubro, Ltd.
   
7,052,327
 
   
470,157
 
Macrotech Developers Ltd.*
   
4,324,268
 
   
387,114
 
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
   
4,058,649
 
   
296,965
 
Reliance Industries Ltd.
   
8,444,608
 
   
241,624
 
Shriram Transport Finance Co., Ltd.
   
4,376,772
 
   
707,333
 
State Bank of India*
   
3,998,949
 
   
822,194
 
Wipro, Ltd.
   
6,034,044
 
             
62,534,049
 
Indonesia — 1.1%
 
   
1,724,055
 
Bank Central Asia Tbk PT
   
3,585,524
 
   
6,113,900
 
Bank Mandiri Persero Tbk PT
   
2,492,615
 
             
6,078,139
 
Malaysia — 0.3%
 
   
2,620,500
 
Genting Malaysia Bhd
   
1,749,270
 
                 
Russia — 2.6%
 
   
126,856
 
LUKOIL PJSC ADR
   
11,773,813
 
   
254,133
 
Rosneft Oil Co. PJSC GDR
   
1,971,038
 
             
13,744,851
 
Singapore — 2.1%
 
   
340,524
 
DBS Group Holdings, Ltd.
   
7,575,743
 
   
1,158,708
 
Wilmar International, Ltd.
   
3,884,864
 
             
11,460,607
 
South Africa — 0.8%
 
   
290,186
 
Sasol, Ltd.*
   
4,420,727
 
                 
South Korea — 13.6%
 
   
120,630
 
DB Insurance Co., Ltd.
   
5,874,297
 
   
144,513
 
Hankook Tire & Technology Co., Ltd.
   
6,630,870
 
   
15,320
 
Hugel, Inc.*
   
3,266,171
 
   
41,340
 
KB Financial Group, Inc.
   
2,051,706
 
   
37,575
 
Korea Shipbuilding &
       
       
  Offshore Engineering Co., Ltd.*
   
4,469,160
 
   
29,020
 
POSCO
   
8,968,622
 
   
398,563
 
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
   
28,531,593
 
   
147,893
 
Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd.*
   
3,134,950
 
   
88,440
 
Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd.
   
3,193,081
 
   
58,136
 
SK Hynix, Inc.*
   
6,561,731
 
             
72,682,181
 
Taiwan — 15.6%
 
   
248,727
 
Advantech Co., Ltd.
   
3,077,613
 
   
1,276,500
 
ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd.
   
5,121,623
 
   
445,000
 
Catcher Technology Co., Ltd.
   
2,906,564
 
   
387,230
 
Chroma ATE, Inc.
   
2,659,846
 
   
3,511,000
 
Compal Electronics, Inc.
   
2,816,072
 
   
471,493
 
Delta Electronics, Inc.
   
5,122,235
 
   
184,147
 
Globalwafers Co., Ltd.
   
6,071,377
 
   
1,981,000
 
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
   
7,953,729
 
   
1,844,000
 
Lite-On Technology Corp.
   
3,809,473
 
   
212,281
 
MediaTek, Inc.
   
7,320,774
 
   
1,702,457
 
Taiwan Semiconductor
       
       
  Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
   
36,667,574
 
             
83,526,880
 
Thailand — 1.3%
 
   
725,200
 
Bangkok Bank PCL NVDR
   
2,560,307
 
   
1,480,700
 
Siam Commercial Bank PCL NVDR
   
4,535,490
 
             
7,095,797
 

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Brown Advisory Emerging Markets Select Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Common Stocks — 91.9%(Continued)
 
   
Turkey — 1.0%
 
   
3,267,210
 
Akbank T.A.S.
   
1,981,853
 
   
160,365
 
Ford Otomotiv Sanayi A.S.
   
3,128,548
 
             
5,110,401
 
United Arab Emirates — 0.9%
 
   
2,430,302
 
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC
   
4,548,773
 
                 
United Kingdom — 1.2%
 
   
84,924
 
Antofagasta PLC
   
1,688,782
 
   
738,521
 
Standard Chartered PLC*
   
4,713,089
 
             
6,401,871
 
United States — 1.8%
 
   
94,602
 
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.
   
6,552,135
 
   
181,284
 
Flex, Ltd.*
   
3,239,545
 
             
9,791,680
 
Total Common Stocks (Cost $388,237,264)
   
492,318,386
 
                 
Preferred Stocks — 2.7%
 
   
Brazil — 2.3%
 
   
3,393,127
 
Cia Energetica de Minas Gerais
   
8,281,910
 
   
629,700
 
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.
   
3,775,313
 
             
12,057,223
 
South Korea — 0.4%
 
   
21,449
 
Hyundai Motor Co.
   
2,199,236
 
Total Preferred Stocks (Cost $13,291,462)
   
14,256,459
 
                 
Exchange Traded Funds — 2.0%
 
   
United States — 2.0%
 
   
114,168
 
iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex
       
       
  Japan Exchange Traded Fund
   
10,788,876
 
Total Exchange Traded Funds (Cost $10,476,770)
   
10,788,876
 
                 
Short-Term Investments — 3.3%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 3.3%
 
   
17,814,072
 
First American Government
       
       
  Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%#
   
17,814,072
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $17,814,072)
   
17,814,072
 
Total Investments — 99.9% (Cost $429,819,568)
   
535,177,793
 
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities — 0.1%
   
663,048
 
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
535,840,841
 

 
*
Non-Income Producing
 
This security is being fair valued, using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3), under the supervision of the Board of Trustees.
ADR — American Depositary Receipt
GDR — Global Depositary Receipt
NVDR — Non-Voting Depositary Receipt
 
#
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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Brown Advisory – Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Dear Shareholders:
 
During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Brown Advisory – Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund – Institutional Shares (the “Fund”) increased 40.12% in value. During the same period, the Russell 1000® Value Index (the “Index”), the Fund’s benchmark, increased 43.68%.
 
Equity markets continued to rise steadily over the past year and reached all-time highs. Robust economic data driven by re-openings and continued stimulus from central banks provided positive impetus for equity markets. The Fund recorded strong positive returns but underperformed the Index. Relative underperformance was driven primarily by a combination of stock selection and an overweight in consumer staples, stock selection in health care and communication services, and an underweight in financials. This was partially offset by stock selection in the information technology and consumer discretionary sectors, and a combination of stock selection and an overweight in industrials.
 
From an individual stock perspective, American Express, Ingersoll Rand and Harley-Davidson were among the top contributors on an absolute return basis. American Express continued to execute well over the 12-month period as the shift from cash and check payments and the transition to online retail spending accelerated during the pandemic. Ingersoll Rand delivered on margin expansion by way of deal synergies. We believe the company is well-positioned to navigate through challenging environments. Harley-Davidson continued to show tangible signs of improved execution and the stock continued to recover from its lows in 2020 as market confidence in the company’s future prospects increases. Campbell Soup was the only material detractor from performance over the period. Campbell has been challenged by input-cost inflation and the return to normalization after a pandemic windfall which has led to a retailer drawdown of inventory levels. Company management, however, continues to execute well in our view and has deleveraged the balance sheet meaningfully over the past few years while maintaining the dividend.
 
We took advantage of market volatility to initiate positions in four new stocks: sensor and connectivity company TE Connectivity, e-commerce retailer eBay, recreational vehicle manufacturer Polaris and biotechnology company Biogen. We maintained our valuation discipline and exited from positions in BlackRock, KLA and Trane Technologies after deeming these to be fully valued following process-driven trims.
 
The market tug-of-war between growth and value continues to be a leading investment theme but is not interesting to us and we do not consider it important. Given our unique investment approach, our portfolio will never fit neatly into an absolute growth or value bucket. The recent market- defined value rally was, in our view, driven by a rebound in lower-quality companies and barely touched what we define as value stocks. Many of the Fund’s largest holdings have only recently traded at levels that approach where they were pre-pandemic in terms of market price. While the market was getting more expensive, the Fund’s biggest holdings remained undervalued relative to our targets.
 
We believe the valuation gap between the Fund and the broader market remains attractive, affording the portfolio the potential for good capital preservation and room for meaningful capital appreciation in our view. Over the period, several Fund holdings reached our target prices, leading to subsequent one-third sales and a recycling of funds from fully valued companies into others with more attractive valuations. Our focus on our process allows us to remain disciplined in searching for opportunities to own what we believe to be great companies trading at a deep discount to our estimate of their intrinsic value, which is what we believe will lead to the long-term success of our shareholders.
 
We thank you for your continued investment in the Fund.
 
Sincerely,
 
Rui Cardoso, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 
Glenn Fortin, CFA
Portfolio Manager
 

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Brown Advisory – Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund
A Message to Our Shareholders
June 30, 2021
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
 
Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. The Fund may invest in ETFs, which may trade at a discount to the aggregate value of the underlying securities and although expense ratios for ETFs are generally low, frequent trading of ETFs by the Fund can generate brokerage expenses. In addition, the Fund is susceptible to risks from investments in derivatives, private placements, REITs, and its investments in other investment companies. The Fund is non-diversified, which means that it may invest a significant portion of its assets in the securities of a single issuer or small number of issuers. Investment by the Fund in securities of a limited number of issuers exposes it to greater risk and potential monetary losses than if its assets were diversified among the securities of a greater number of issuers. If a Fund is non-diversified, then its investments are not required to meet certain requirements under Federal law. A non-diversified fund is permitted to invest a greater percentage of its assets in the securities of a single issuer than a diversified fund. Thus, the Fund may have fewer holdings than other funds. As a result, a decline in the value of those investments would cause the Fund’s overall value to decline to a greater degree than if the Fund held a more diversified portfolio. The risks of derivatives include imperfect correlation between the value of the instruments and the underlying assets; risks of default by the other party to the derivative transactions; risks that the transactions may result in losses that partially or completely offset gains in portfolio positions ad risks that the derivative transactions may not be liquid.
 
Fund holdings and sector allocations are subject to change and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. For a complete list of fund holdings, please refer to the Schedule of Investments provided in this report.
 
Definitions for terms and indices are provided in the Glossary of Terms.
 

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Brown Advisory – Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund
Performance Information & Portfolio Holdings Summary
June 30, 2021
GROWTH OF A $1,000,000 INVESTMENT
 
The following chart reflects the change in value of a hypothetical $1,000,000 investment, including reinvested dividends and distributions, in the Fund as measured against a broad-based securities market index. The Russell 1000® Value Index (“Index”) measures the performance of the large-cap value segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 1000® companies with lower price to book ratios and lower expected growth values.  The Index is unmanaged and does not reflect the deduction of fees, such as investment management fees.  Investors cannot invest directly in an index.
 




PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
% of Net Assets
Industrials
  16.3%
Consumer Discretionary
  15.3%
Consumer Staples
  14.1%
Health Care
  13.9%
Communication Services
  13.5%
Information Technology
  13.0%
Financials
  10.4%
Money Market Funds
    2.7%
Materials
    1.0%
Other Assets and Liabilities
  (0.2)%
 
100.0%

   
Since Inception
Average Annual Total Return
One Year
(2/13/18)
Institutional Shares
40.12%
13.81%
Russell 1000® Value Index
43.68%
11.11%

 
Institutional Shares
 
Gross Expense Ratio1
0.58%
 
Net Expense Ratio1
0.58%
 

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance and current returns may be lower or higher. The investment return and net asset value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain performance information current to the most recent month end, please visit our website at brownadvisory.com/mf/beutel-goodman-large-cap-value-fund.  The performance table and graph above do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.  Performance data does not reflect the imposition of the redemption fee of 1.00% on shares redeemed within 14 days, and if it did, performance would have been lower. Returns shown are calculated using the net asset values (“NAV”) that were used for shareholder transactions as of the respective period ends.  These NAV, and the returns calculated from them, may differ from the NAV and returns shown elsewhere in this report.
 
1
Per the Fund’s prospectus dated October 31, 2020. Refer to the financial highlights for the gross and net expense ratios for the year ended as of the date of this report. Please note that the expense ratios per the prospectus include acquired fund fees and expenses (as applicable) and the expense ratios in the financial highlights do not.


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Brown Advisory – Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund
Schedule of Investments
June 30, 2021
 
Shares
 
Security Description
 
Value $
 
   
Common Stocks — 97.5%
 
   
Communication Services — 13.5%
 
   
653,640
 
Comcast Corp.
   
37,270,553
 
   
814,192
 
Omnicom Group, Inc.
   
65,127,218
 
   
947,360
 
Verizon Communications, Inc.
   
53,080,581
 
             
155,478,352
 
Consumer Discretionary — 15.3%
 
   
19,675
 
AutoZone, Inc.*
   
29,359,429
 
   
896,270
 
eBay, Inc.
   
62,927,117
 
   
1,220,139
 
Harley-Davidson, Inc.
   
55,906,769
 
   
197,340
 
Polaris, Inc.
   
27,027,686
 
             
175,221,001
 
Consumer Staples — 14.1%
 
   
1,155,580
 
Campbell Soup Co.
   
52,682,892
 
   
839,561
 
Kellogg Co.
   
54,008,959
 
   
415,370
 
Kimberly-Clark Corp.
   
55,568,199
 
             
162,260,050
 
Financials — 10.4%
 
   
183,430
 
American Express Co.
   
30,308,139
 
   
196,320
 
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
   
48,860,122
 
   
60,710
 
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
   
9,442,833
 
   
499,990
 
SEI Investments Co.
   
30,984,380
 
             
119,595,474
 
Health Care — 13.9%
 
   
304,701
 
AmerisourceBergen Corp.
   
34,885,217
 
   
235,205
 
Amgen, Inc.
   
57,331,220
 
   
24,360
 
Biogen, Inc.*
   
8,435,137
 
   
756,155
 
Merck & Co., Inc.
   
58,806,174
 
             
159,457,748
 
Industrials — 16.3%
 
   
103,855
 
Cummins, Inc.
   
25,320,888
 
   
1,085,814
 
Flowserve Corp.
   
43,780,020
 
   
1,096,954
 
Ingersoll Rand, Inc.*
   
53,542,325
 
   
27,170
 
Parker-Hannifin Corp.
   
8,344,179
 
   
678,855
 
Wabtec Corp.
   
55,869,766
 
             
186,857,178
 
Information Technology — 13.0%
 
   
741,277
 
Amdocs, Ltd.
   
57,345,189
 
   
1,519,060
 
NortonLifeLock, Inc.
   
41,348,813
 
   
552,110
 
Oracle Corp.
   
42,976,242
 
   
59,390
 
TE Connectivity, Ltd.
   
8,030,122
 
             
149,700,366
 
Materials — 1.0%
 
   
65,625
 
PPG Industries, Inc.
   
11,141,156
 
Total Common Stocks (Cost $926,154,226)
   
1,119,711,325
 
                 
Short-Term Investments — 2.7%
 
   
Money Market Funds — 2.7%
 
   
31,416,800
 
First American Government
       
       
  Obligations Fund — Class Z, 0.02%#
   
31,416,800
 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $31,416,800)
   
31,416,800
 
Total Investments — 100.2% (Cost $957,571,026)
   
1,151,128,125
 
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets — (0.2)%
   
(1,757,438
)
NET ASSETS — 100.0%
 
$
1,149,370,687
 

 
*
Non-Income Producing
 
#
Annualized seven-day yield as of the date of this report.

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Statements of Assets and Liabilities
June 30, 2021
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
 
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
 
   
GROWTH
   
FLEXIBLE
   
EQUITY
   
SUSTAINABLE
 
   
EQUITY
   
EQUITY
   
INCOME
   
GROWTH
 
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
FUND
 
ASSETS
                       
Investments:
                       
Total investments, at cost
 
$
1,626,399,385
   
$
281,303,043
   
$
45,917,084
   
$
3,457,834,523
 
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
1,901,400,460
     
427,781,830
     
43,057,170
     
2,185,232,727
 
Total investments, at value
   
3,527,799,845
     
709,084,873
     
88,974,254
     
5,643,067,250
 
Cash
   
     
25,395
     
3,093
     
 
Receivables:
                               
Fund shares sold
   
5,387,938
     
346,370
     
63
     
19,374,110
 
Interest and dividends
   
624,484
     
127,347
     
123,155
     
2,016,679
 
Foreign tax reclaims
   
     
     
17,091
     
 
Prepaid expenses and other assets
   
94,644
     
31,267
     
34,268
     
182,297
 
Total Assets
   
3,533,906,911
     
709,615,252
     
89,151,924
     
5,664,640,336
 
LIABILITIES
                               
Payables:
                               
Investments purchased
   
     
1,044,958
     
     
 
Fund shares redeemed
   
1,745,549
     
111,465
     
33,708
     
2,976,400
 
Distribution to shareholders
   
     
     
205,693
     
 
Accrued Liabilities:
                               
Investment advisory fees
   
1,586,970
     
244,942
     
42,021
     
2,392,212
 
Service fees
   
144,119
     
61,326
     
7,972
     
269,448
 
Administration, accounting and transfer agent fees
   
149,918
     
28,732
     
4,001
     
234,510
 
Business management fees
   
140,204
     
28,563
     
3,637
     
220,728
 
Trustee fees
   
13,624
     
2,838
     
346
     
21,150
 
Distribution fees
   
6,641
     
1,206
     
238
     
87,433
 
Professional fees
   
94,331
     
34,824
     
22,558
     
130,638
 
Custody fees
   
18,598
     
3,576
     
1,045
     
28,205
 
Other liabilities
   
22,089
     
4,909
     
3,925
     
58,074
 
Total Liabilities
   
3,922,043
     
1,567,339
     
325,144
     
6,418,798
 
NET ASSETS
 
$
3,529,984,868
   
$
708,047,913
   
$
88,826,780
   
$
5,658,221,538
 
                                 
COMPONENTS OF NET ASSETS
                               
Paid-in capital
 
$
1,346,371,930
   
$
261,423,214
   
$
38,433,557
   
$
3,389,805,386
 
Total distributable earnings (loss)
   
2,183,612,938
     
446,624,699
     
50,393,223
     
2,268,416,152
 
NET ASSETS
 
$
3,529,984,868
   
$
708,047,913
   
$
88,826,780
   
$
5,658,221,538
 
                                 
COMPUTATION OF NET ASSET VALUE
                               
Institutional Shares:
                               
Net assets
 
$
2,321,277,807
   
$
201,849,440
   
$
24,045,240
   
$
3,364,728,254
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
62,075,112
     
5,891,660
     
1,504,991
     
75,506,383
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
37.39
   
$
34.26
   
$
15.98
   
$
44.56
 
Investor Shares:
                               
Net assets
 
$
1,174,665,550
   
$
500,233,326
   
$
63,599,998
   
$
1,849,428,914
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
31,933,112
     
14,645,050
     
3,981,860
     
42,132,399
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
36.79
   
$
34.16
   
$
15.97
   
$
43.90
 
Advisor Shares:
                               
Net assets
 
$
34,041,511
   
$
5,965,147
   
$
1,181,542
   
$
444,064,370
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
993,216
     
174,948
     
74,023
     
10,358,996
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
34.27
   
$
34.10
   
$
15.96
   
$
42.87
 

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

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Statements of Assets and Liabilities
June 30, 2021
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
 
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
 
   
MID-CAP
   
SMALL-CAP
   
SMALL-CAP
   
GLOBAL
 
   
GROWTH
   
GROWTH
   
FUNDAMENTAL
   
LEADERS
 
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
VALUE FUND
   
FUND
 
ASSETS
                       
Investments:
                       
Total investments, at cost
 
$
133,158,868
   
$
1,651,772,773
   
$
809,358,330
   
$
858,504,445
 
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
59,161,010
     
912,519,646
     
432,635,548
     
384,891,307
 
Total investments, at value
   
192,319,878
     
2,564,292,419
     
1,241,993,878
     
1,243,395,752
 
Receivables:
                               
Investments sold
   
2,268,164
     
45,383,094
     
     
 
Fund shares sold
   
68,262
     
3,265,565
     
5,115,964
     
2,355,781
 
Interest and dividends
   
26,353
     
871,138
     
1,740,887
     
362,042
 
Foreign tax reclaims
   
1,540
     
     
     
636,329
 
Prepaid expenses and other assets
   
28,203
     
96,206
     
50,170
     
44,895
 
Total Assets
   
194,712,400
     
2,613,908,422
     
1,248,900,899
     
1,246,794,799
 
LIABILITIES
                               
Payables:
                               
Investments purchased
   
1,974,665
     
15,809,530
     
     
 
Fund shares redeemed
   
25,379
     
677,160
     
129,521
     
198,036
 
Accrued Liabilities:
                               
Investment advisory fees, net
   
99,660
     
1,795,060
     
885,746
     
655,238
 
Service fees
   
3,994
     
101,976
     
82,654
     
11,727
 
Administration, accounting and transfer agent fees
   
9,106
     
117,307
     
56,706
     
53,011
 
Business management fees
   
7,666
     
105,592
     
52,103
     
50,403
 
Trustee fees
   
746
     
10,391
     
5,294
     
4,952
 
Distribution fees
   
     
3,054
     
1,710
     
 
Professional fees
   
23,478
     
75,344
     
45,689
     
44,658
 
Custody fees
   
1,687
     
13,000
     
8,665
     
41,218
 
Other liabilities
   
4,130
     
64,275
     
9,332
     
6,093
 
Total Liabilities
   
2,150,511
     
18,772,689
     
1,277,420
     
1,065,336
 
NET ASSETS
 
$
192,561,889
   
$
2,595,135,733
   
$
1,247,623,479
   
$
1,245,729,463
 
                                 
COMPONENTS OF NET ASSETS
                               
Paid-in capital
 
$
121,754,711
   
$
1,515,128,838
   
$
864,838,069
   
$
862,792,314
 
Total distributable earnings (loss)
   
70,807,178
     
1,080,006,895
     
382,785,410
     
382,937,149
 
NET ASSETS
 
$
192,561,889
   
$
2,595,135,733
   
$
1,247,623,479
   
$
1,245,729,463
 
COMPUTATION OF NET ASSET VALUE
                               
Institutional Shares:
                               
Net assets
 
$
159,180,447
   
$
1,758,121,049
   
$
591,095,963
   
$
1,149,789,529
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
8,016,245
     
27,905,183
     
19,934,918
     
50,878,474
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
19.86
   
$
63.00
   
$
29.65
   
$
22.60
 
Investor Shares:
                               
Net assets
 
$
33,381,442
   
$
822,075,428
   
$
648,402,551
   
$
95,939,934
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
1,689,342
     
26,161,041
     
21,905,817
     
4,256,222
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
19.76
   
$
31.42
   
$
29.60
   
$
22.54
 
Advisor Shares:
                               
Net assets
 
$
   
$
14,939,256
   
$
8,124,965
   
$
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
     
499,970
     
276,038
     
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
   
$
29.88
   
$
29.43
   
$
 

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

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Statements of Assets and Liabilities
June 30, 2021
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
 
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
 
   
INTERMEDIATE
   
TOTAL
   
SUSTAINABLE
   
MARYLAND
 
   
INCOME
   
RETURN
   
BOND
   
BOND
 
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
FUND
 
ASSETS
                       
Investments:
                       
Investments – unaffiliated, at cost
 
$
147,541,322
   
$
472,967,244
   
$
239,442,715
   
$
175,466,073
 
Investments – affiliated, at cost (Note 3)
   
20,242,902
     
     
     
 
Total investments, at cost
   
167,784,224
     
472,967,244
     
239,442,715
     
175,466,073
 
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) – unaffiliated
   
2,211,905
     
11,506,774
     
5,283,790
     
8,847,243
 
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) – affiliated (Note 3)
   
542,399
     
     
     
 
Total net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
2,754,304
     
11,506,774
     
5,283,790
     
8,847,243
 
Investments – unaffiliated, at value
   
149,753,227
     
484,474,018
     
244,726,505
     
184,313,316
 
Investments – affiliated, at value (Note 3)
   
20,785,301
     
     
     
 
Total investments, at value
   
170,538,528
     
484,474,018
     
244,726,505
     
184,313,316
 
Cash deposit at broker – futures contracts (Note 6)
   
116,370
     
     
     
 
Gross unrealized appreciation – futures contracts (Note 6)
   
     
2,543,872
     
1,078,700
     
 
Receivables:
                               
Investments sold
   
668
     
21,019,627
     
     
 
Fund shares sold
   
370,001
     
959,927
     
200,437
     
2,096
 
Interest and dividends
   
607,170
     
2,157,402
     
917,070
     
2,554,545
 
Prepaid expenses and other assets
   
30,956
     
32,008
     
55,975
     
7,252
 
Total Assets
   
171,663,693
     
511,186,854
     
246,978,687
     
186,877,209
 
LIABILITIES
                               
Cash collateral from broker – futures contracts (Note 6)
   
     
917,746
     
3,848
     
 
Gross unrealized depreciation – futures contracts (Note 6)
   
     
712,946
     
345,187
     
 
Payables:
                               
Investments purchased
   
     
66,158,852
     
22,664,071
     
 
Fund shares redeemed
   
24,458
     
94,378
     
182,943
     
30,933
 
Distribution to shareholders
   
106,176
     
360,927
     
189,323
     
259,982
 
Accrued Liabilities:
                               
Investment advisory fees, net
   
36,922
     
108,947
     
52,587
     
46,025
 
Service fees
   
7,008
     
196
     
218
     
7,671
 
Administration, accounting and transfer agent fees
   
14,274
     
32,035
     
15,619
     
11,328
 
Business management fees
   
7,008
     
18,158
     
8,765
     
7,671
 
Trustee fees
   
693
     
1,795
     
846
     
759
 
Distribution fees
   
750
     
     
     
 
Professional fees
   
25,390
     
32,106
     
24,134
     
24,786
 
Custodian fees
   
1,030
     
3,107
     
1,890
     
1,408
 
Other liabilities
   
4,303
     
4,322
     
4,139
     
4,008
 
Total Liabilities
   
228,012
     
68,445,515
     
23,493,570
     
394,571
 
NET ASSETS
 
$
171,435,681
   
$
442,741,339
   
$
223,485,117
   
$
186,482,638
 
                                 
COMPONENTS OF NET ASSETS
                               
Paid-in capital
 
$
167,232,970
   
$
427,992,890
   
$
216,989,165
   
$
181,154,563
 
Total distributable earnings (loss)
   
4,202,711
     
14,748,449
     
6,495,952
     
5,328,075
 
NET ASSETS
 
$
171,435,681
   
$
442,741,339
   
$
223,485,117
   
$
186,482,638
 
COMPUTATION OF NET ASSET VALUE
                               
Institutional Shares:
                               
Net assets
 
$
   
$
437,996,870
   
$
218,476,373
   
$
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
     
41,741,719
     
20,962,654
     
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
   
$
10.49
   
$
10.42
   
$
 
Investor Shares:
                               
Net assets
 
$
167,774,318
   
$
4,744,469
   
$
5,008,744
   
$
186,482,638
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
15,190,026
     
452,244
     
480,556
     
17,137,226
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
11.05
   
$
10.49
   
$
10.42
   
$
10.88
 
Advisor Shares:
                               
Net assets
 
$
3,661,363
   
$
   
$
   
$
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
339,084
     
     
     
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
10.80
   
$
   
$
   
$
 

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

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Statements of Assets and Liabilities
June 30, 2021
                     
BROWN
 
         
BROWN
         
ADVISORY –
 
   
BROWN
   
ADVISORY
   
BROWN
   
WMC
 
   
ADVISORY
   
TAX-EXEMPT
   
ADVISORY
   
STRATEGIC
 
   
TAX-EXEMPT
   
SUSTAINABLE
   
MORTGAGE
   
EUROPEAN
 
   
BOND
   
BOND
   
SECURITIES
   
EQUITY
 
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
FUND
 
ASSETS
                       
Investments:
                       
Total investments, at cost
 
$
1,156,238,180
   
$
175,884,081
   
$
343,048,056
   
$
364,642,356
 
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
56,190,169
     
3,553,427
     
10,861,236
     
91,010,438
 
Total investments, at value
   
1,212,428,349
     
179,437,508
     
353,909,292
     
455,652,794
 
Cash
   
     
     
265,000
     
 
Foreign currency (Cost of $—, $—, $— and $3,254, respectively.)
   
     
     
     
3,236
 
Cash deposit at broker – futures contracts (Note 6)
   
     
     
186,241
     
 
Gross unrealized appreciation – futures contracts (Note 6)
   
     
     
172,300
     
 
Receivables:
                               
Investments sold
   
     
     
20,702,404
     
2,980,854
 
Fund shares sold
   
4,980,620
     
700
     
8,635,127
     
290,301
 
Interest and dividends
   
8,793,750
     
1,763,806
     
1,361,971
     
865,432
 
Foreign tax reclaims
   
     
     
     
3,589,452
 
Prepaid expenses and other assets
   
56,626
     
27,666
     
33,224
     
33,734
 
Total Assets
   
1,226,259,345
     
181,229,680
     
385,265,559
     
463,415,803
 
LIABILITIES
                               
Floating rate note obligations, interest and fees
   
19,453,791
     
     
     
 
Gross unrealized depreciation – futures contracts (Note 6)
   
     
     
101,676
     
 
Payables:
                               
Investments purchased
   
1,918,096
     
1,811,715
     
63,961,128
     
1,807,720
 
Fund shares redeemed
   
479,717
     
23,797
     
384,693
     
259,201
 
Distribution to shareholders
   
1,963,701
     
172,569
     
252,925
     
 
Accrued Liabilities:
                               
Investment advisory fees
   
299,335
     
45,167
     
76,204
     
343,577
 
Service fees
   
473
     
7,528
     
1,294
     
6,020
 
Administration, accounting and transfer agent fees
   
56,281
     
12,931
     
31,858
     
20,893
 
Business management fees
   
49,889
     
7,528
     
12,701
     
19,088
 
Trustee fees
   
4,951
     
755
     
1,250
     
1,895
 
Distribution fees
   
     
     
     
772
 
Professional fees
   
48,525
     
20,012
     
28,355
     
30,472
 
Custodian fees
   
6,255
     
1,417
     
6,130
     
22,162
 
Other liabilities
   
5,216
     
3,662
     
4,868
     
6,462
 
Total Liabilities
   
24,286,230
     
2,107,081
     
64,863,082
     
2,518,262
 
NET ASSETS
 
$
1,201,973,115
   
$
179,122,599
   
$
320,402,477
   
$
460,897,541
 
                                 
COMPONENTS OF NET ASSETS
                               
Paid-in capital
 
$
1,155,077,789
   
$
173,779,280
   
$
312,397,721
   
$
362,566,371
 
Total distributable earnings (loss)
   
46,895,326
     
5,343,319
     
8,004,756
     
98,331,170
 
NET ASSETS
 
$
1,201,973,115
   
$
179,122,599
   
$
320,402,477
   
$
460,897,541
 
COMPUTATION OF NET ASSET VALUE
                               
Institutional Shares:
                               
Net assets
 
$
1,190,435,677
   
$
   
$
288,526,439
   
$
417,418,991
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
113,406,016
     
     
27,326,829
     
31,918,568
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
10.50
   
$
   
$
10.56
   
$
13.08
 
Investor Shares:
                               
Net assets
 
$
11,537,438
   
$
179,122,599
   
$
31,876,038
   
$
39,750,964
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
1,098,830
     
17,584,514
     
3,015,194
     
3,050,860
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
10.50
   
$
10.19
   
$
10.57
   
$
13.03
 
Advisor Shares:
                               
Net assets
 
$
   
$
   
$
   
$
3,727,586
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
     
     
     
289,387
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
   
$
   
$
   
$
12.88
 

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

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Statements of Assets and Liabilities
June 30, 2021
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
 
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY –
 
   
EMERGING
   
BEUTEL
 
   
MARKETS
   
GOODMAN
 
   
SELECT
   
LARGE-CAP
 
   
FUND
   
VALUE FUND
 
ASSETS
           
Investments:
           
Total investments, at cost
 
$
429,819,568
   
$
957,571,026
 
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
105,358,225
     
193,557,099
 
Total investments, at value
   
535,177,793
     
1,151,128,125
 
Foreign currency (Cost of $911,198, and $—, respectively.)
   
908,813
     
 
Receivables:
               
Investments sold
   
362,011
     
 
Fund shares sold
   
2,218,814
     
2,802,894
 
Interest and dividends
   
1,562,428
     
1,994,916
 
Foreign tax reclaims
   
28,686
     
519
 
Prepaid expenses and other assets
   
48,263
     
75,275
 
Total Assets
   
540,306,808
     
1,156,001,729
 
LIABILITIES
               
Payables:
               
Investments purchased
   
3,895,418
     
5,692,502
 
Fund shares redeemed
   
25,001
     
370,080
 
Accrued Liabilities:
               
Investment advisory fees
   
394,797
     
419,606
 
Service fees
   
732
     
 
Administration, accounting and transfer agent fees
   
23,557
     
45,722
 
Business management fees
   
21,933
     
46,623
 
Trustee fees
   
2,170
     
4,678
 
Distribution fees
   
5
     
 
Professional fees
   
31,553
     
38,275
 
Custodian fees
   
62,720
     
8,443
 
Other liabilities
   
8,081
     
5,113
 
Total Liabilities
   
4,465,967
     
6,631,042
 
NET ASSETS
 
$
535,840,841
   
$
1,149,370,687
 
                 
COMPONENTS OF NET ASSETS
               
Paid-in capital
 
$
452,003,523
   
$
913,212,459
 
Total distributable earnings (loss)
   
83,837,318
     
236,158,228
 
NET ASSETS
 
$
535,840,841
   
$
1,149,370,687
 
COMPUTATION OF NET ASSET VALUE
               
Institutional Shares:
               
Net assets
 
$
529,908,416
   
$
1,149,350,687
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
42,161,907
     
79,752,937
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
12.57
   
$
14.41
 
Investor Shares:
               
Net assets
 
$
5,908,145
   
$
20,000
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
470,469
     
1,388
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
12.56
   
$
14.41
 
Advisor Shares:
               
Net assets
 
$
24,280
   
$
 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized)
   
1,926
     
 
Net asset value per share
 
$
12.60
   
$
 

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

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Statements of Operations
For the Year Ended June 30, 2021
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
 
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
 
   
GROWTH
   
FLEXIBLE
   
EQUITY
   
SUSTAINABLE
 
   
EQUITY
   
EQUITY
   
INCOME
   
GROWTH
 
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
FUND
 
INVESTMENT INCOME
                       
Dividend income
 
$
15,094,974
   
$
4,783,061
   
$
1,977,334
   
$
25,128,411
 
Less: foreign taxes withheld
   
(110,182
)
   
(87,723
)
   
(18,467
)
   
(2,382
)
Interest Income
   
25,351
     
4,376
     
1,019
     
23,918
 
Total investment income
   
15,010,143
     
4,699,714
     
1,959,886
     
25,149,947
 
EXPENSES
                               
Investment advisory fees
   
17,978,858
     
2,584,772
     
499,046
     
24,279,680
 
Service fees – Investor Shares (Note 3)
   
1,633,563
     
637,128
     
89,231
     
2,310,182
 
Business management fees
   
1,573,387
     
298,096
     
41,587
     
2,202,969
 
Administration, accounting and transfer agent fees
   
826,872
     
151,792
     
22,999
     
1,136,989
 
Professional fees
   
143,236
     
43,569
     
23,870
     
185,437
 
Registration fees
   
124,517
     
50,572
     
42,147
     
164,450
 
Miscellaneous expenses
   
123,137
     
33,237
     
24,039
     
233,579
 
Trustee fees
   
102,861
     
19,338
     
2,744
     
137,328
 
Custody fees
   
98,893
     
19,466
     
4,001
     
143,413
 
Distribution fees – Advisor Shares (Note 3)
   
60,234
     
12,673
     
2,526
     
929,709
 
Service fees – Advisor Shares (Note 3)
   
36,140
     
7,604
     
1,516
     
557,826
 
Insurance fees
   
33,488
     
5,910
     
916
     
34,212
 
Total Expenses
   
22,735,186
     
3,864,157
     
754,622
     
32,315,774
 
Expenses waived by adviser – expense cap (Note 3)
   
     
     
(20,506
)
   
 
Net Expenses
   
22,735,186
     
3,864,157
     
734,116
     
32,315,774
 
NET INVESTMENT INCOME (LOSS)
   
(7,725,043
)
   
835,557
     
1,225,770
     
(7,165,827
)
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS)
                               
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
   
461,819,891
     
34,441,388
     
9,558,819
     
133,852,813
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments
   
495,474,320
     
183,930,591
     
12,065,441
     
1,304,746,396
 
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS)
   
957,294,211
     
218,371,979
     
21,624,260
     
1,438,599,209
 
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS FROM OPERATIONS
 
$
949,569,168
   
$
219,207,536
   
$
22,850,030
   
$
1,431,433,382
 

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

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Statements of Operations
For the Year Ended June 30, 2021
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
 
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
 
   
MID-CAP
   
SMALL-CAP
   
SMALL-CAP
   
GLOBAL
 
   
GROWTH
   
GROWTH
   
FUNDAMENTAL
   
LEADERS
 
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
VALUE FUND
   
FUND
 
INVESTMENT INCOME
                       
Dividend income
 
$
529,234
   
$
7,347,010
   
$
13,864,276
   
$
9,529,350
 
Less: foreign taxes withheld
   
(8,649
)
   
(63,655
)
   
     
(779,541
)
Interest Income
   
1,513
     
43,339
     
12,309
     
4,391
 
Total investment income
   
522,098
     
7,326,694
     
13,876,585
     
8,754,200
 
EXPENSES
                               
Investment advisory fees
   
1,076,388
     
18,464,400
     
8,527,662
     
6,218,766
 
Business management fees
   
82,799
     
1,086,141
     
501,627
     
478,367
 
Administration, accounting and transfer agent fees
   
46,691
     
567,478
     
247,723
     
248,693
 
Service fees – Investor Shares (Note 3)
   
46,614
     
1,035,195
     
814,207
     
122,688
 
Registration fees
   
35,372
     
88,435
     
51,731
     
44,046
 
Professional fees
   
25,746
     
103,750
     
58,962
     
56,971
 
Miscellaneous expenses
   
24,882
     
203,191
     
47,268
     
54,449
 
Custody fees
   
9,843
     
70,591
     
41,618
     
175,130
 
Trustee fees
   
5,200
     
69,019
     
31,949
     
29,947
 
Insurance fees
   
1,431
     
18,174
     
8,962
     
7,798
 
Distribution fees – Advisor Shares (Note 3)
   
     
35,193
     
13,394
     
 
Service fees – Advisor Shares (Note 3)
   
     
21,116
     
8,037
     
 
Total Expenses
   
1,354,966
     
21,762,683
     
10,353,140
     
7,436,855
 
Expenses waived by adviser – expense cap (Note 3)
   
(53,751
)
   
     
     
(84,839
)
Net Expenses
   
1,301,215
     
21,762,683
     
10,353,140
     
7,352,016
 
NET INVESTMENT INCOME (LOSS)
   
(779,117
)
   
(14,435,989
)
   
3,523,445
     
1,402,184
 
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS)
                               
Net realized gain (loss) on:
                               
Investments
   
18,516,408
     
237,055,955
     
108,654,199
     
21,103,778
 
Less: foreign capital gains taxes paid
   
     
     
     
(93,427
)
Net realized gain (loss)
   
18,516,408
     
237,055,955
     
108,654,199
     
21,010,351
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments
   
39,063,177
     
514,202,972
     
312,738,342
     
270,587,214
 
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS)
   
57,579,585
     
751,258,927
     
421,392,541
     
291,597,565
 
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS FROM OPERATIONS
 
$
56,800,468
   
$
736,822,938
   
$
424,915,986
   
$
292,999,749
 

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

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Statements of Operations
For the Year Ended June 30, 2021
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
 
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY
 
   
INTERMEDIATE
   
TOTAL
   
SUSTAINABLE
   
MARYLAND
 
   
INCOME
   
RETURN
   
BOND
   
BOND
 
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
FUND
 
INVESTMENT INCOME
                       
Dividend income – unaffiliated
 
$
   
$
51,133
   
$
   
$
 
Dividend income – affiliated (Note 3)
   
116,329
     
     
     
 
Interest Income
   
2,442,304
     
7,770,233
     
3,822,394
     
4,333,012
 
Total investment income
   
2,558,633
     
7,821,366
     
3,822,394
     
4,333,012
 
EXPENSES
                               
Investment advisory fees
   
515,920
     
1,309,874
     
571,165
     
537,860
 
Business management fees
   
85,987
     
218,312
     
95,194
     
89,643
 
Service fees – Investor Shares (Note 3)
   
84,151
     
2,722
     
1,876
     
89,643
 
Administration, accounting and transfer agent fees
   
74,822
     
165,869
     
79,292
     
64,476
 
Registration fees
   
35,909
     
44,887
     
43,255
     
7,015
 
Professional fees
   
27,971
     
38,841
     
26,773
     
27,573
 
Miscellaneous expenses
   
25,416
     
28,323
     
24,120
     
23,596
 
Distribution fees – Advisor Shares (Note 3)
   
9,181
     
     
     
 
Custodian fees
   
8,879
     
19,459
     
10,372
     
6,175
 
Trustee fees
   
5,636
     
14,452
     
6,156
     
5,947
 
Service fees – Advisor Shares (Note 3)
   
1,836
     
     
     
 
Insurance fees
   
1,748
     
4,518
     
1,815
     
2,033
 
Total Expenses
   
877,456
     
1,847,257
     
860,018
     
853,961
 
Expenses waived by adviser – investments in affiliates (Note 3)
   
(61,405
)
   
     
     
 
Net Expenses
   
816,051
     
1,847,257
     
860,018
     
853,961
 
NET INVESTMENT INCOME (LOSS)
   
1,742,582
     
5,974,109
     
2,962,376
     
3,479,051
 
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS)
                               
Net realized gain (loss) on:
                               
Investments – unaffiliated
   
2,057,676
     
7,613,488
     
3,321,864
     
97,687
 
Investments – affiliated (Note 3)
   
5,442
     
     
     
 
Securities sold short
   
     
(7,032
)
   
     
 
Futures contracts (Note 6)
   
     
(4,579,658
)
   
(1,158,108
)
   
 
Net realized gain (loss)
   
2,063,118
     
3,026,798
     
2,163,756
     
97,687
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:
                               
Investments – unaffiliated
   
(2,412,237
)
   
1,871,878
     
(1,854,862
)
   
4,228,940
 
Investments – affiliated (Note 3)
   
186,993
     
     
     
 
Futures contracts (Note 6)
   
     
1,827,741
     
838,849
     
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
(2,225,244
)
   
3,699,619
     
(1,016,013
)
   
4,228,940
 
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS)
   
(162,126
)
   
6,726,417
     
1,147,743
     
4,326,627
 
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS FROM OPERATIONS
 
$
1,580,456
   
$
12,700,526
   
$
4,110,119
   
$
7,805,678
 

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

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Statements of Operations
For the Year Ended June 30, 2021
                     
BROWN
 
         
BROWN
         
ADVISORY –
 
   
BROWN
   
ADVISORY
   
BROWN
   
WMC
 
   
ADVISORY
   
TAX-EXEMPT
   
ADVISORY
   
STRATEGIC
 
   
TAX-EXEMPT
   
SUSTAINABLE
   
MORTGAGE
   
EUROPEAN
 
   
BOND
   
BOND
   
SECURITIES
   
EQUITY
 
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
FUND
   
FUND
 
INVESTMENT INCOME
                       
Dividend income
 
$
   
$
   
$
3,095
   
$
8,971,245
 
Less: foreign taxes withheld
   
     
     
     
(885,456
)
Interest Income
   
27,164,593
     
3,345,143
     
503,254
     
10,219
 
Total investment income
   
27,164,593
     
3,345,143
     
506,349
     
8,096,008
 
EXPENSES
                               
Investment advisory fees
   
3,502,039
     
556,202
     
847,679
     
3,363,975
 
Business management fees
   
583,673
     
92,700
     
141,280
     
186,888
 
Administration, accounting and transfer agent fees
   
343,080
     
71,195
     
159,735
     
103,049
 
Professional fees
   
66,680
     
22,778
     
32,598
     
35,703
 
Registration fees
   
65,127
     
32,549
     
34,977
     
39,098
 
Miscellaneous expenses
   
43,026
     
20,439
     
29,324
     
37,052
 
Trustee fees
   
39,098
     
5,944
     
9,306
     
12,218
 
Custodian fees
   
35,020
     
6,877
     
24,717
     
137,225
 
Interest expense and fees on floating rate note obligations
   
28,791
     
     
     
 
Insurance fees
   
12,699
     
1,643
     
2,940
     
3,753
 
Service fees – Investor Shares (Note 3)
   
5,175
     
92,700
     
11,475
     
52,889
 
Distribution fees – Advisor Shares (Note 3)
   
     
     
     
9,197
 
Service fees – Advisor Shares (Note 3)
   
     
     
     
5,518
 
Total expenses
   
4,724,408
     
903,027
     
1,294,031
     
3,986,565
 
NET INVESTMENT INCOME (LOSS)
   
22,440,185
     
2,442,116
     
(787,682
)
   
4,109,443
 
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS)
                               
Net realized gain (loss) on:
                               
Investments
   
20,808,707
     
2,004,560
     
3,012,803
     
45,125,577
 
Securities sold short
   
     
     
(21,093
)
   
 
Futures contracts (Note 6)
   
     
     
658,279
     
 
Net realized gain (loss)
   
20,808,707
     
2,004,560
     
3,649,989
     
45,125,577
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:
                               
Investments
   
32,884,664
     
3,896,490
     
1,247,685
     
52,604,293
 
Futures contracts (Note 6)
   
     
     
91,247
     
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
32,884,664
     
3,896,490
     
1,338,932
     
52,604,293
 
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS)
   
53,693,371
     
5,901,050
     
4,988,921
     
97,729,870
 
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS FROM OPERATIONS
 
$
76,133,556
   
$
8,343,166
   
$
4,201,239
   
$
101,839,313
 

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

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Statements of Operations
For the Year Ended June 30, 2021
   
BROWN
   
BROWN
 
   
ADVISORY
   
ADVISORY –
 
   
EMERGING
   
BEUTEL
 
   
MARKETS
   
GOODMAN
 
   
SELECT
   
LARGE-CAP
 
   
FUND
   
VALUE FUND
 
INVESTMENT INCOME
           
Dividend income
 
$
8,690,279
   
$
15,902,648
 
Less: foreign taxes withheld
   
(1,144,274
)
   
 
Interest Income
   
4,243
     
9,151
 
Total investment income
   
7,550,248
     
15,911,799
 
EXPENSES
               
Investment advisory fees
   
3,581,760
     
3,455,323
 
Custodian fees
   
369,617
     
38,216
 
Business management fees
   
198,987
     
383,925
 
Administration, accounting and transfer agent fees
   
110,050
     
196,027
 
Miscellaneous expenses
   
74,719
     
33,877
 
Registration fees
   
55,482
     
38,435
 
Professional fees
   
36,334
     
46,701
 
Trustee fees
   
12,535
     
23,670
 
Service fees – Investor Shares (Note 3)
   
7,398
     
 
Insurance fees
   
3,181
     
5,346
 
Distribution fees – Advisor Shares (Note 3)
   
79
     
 
Service fees – Advisor Shares (Note 3)
   
48
     
 
Total Expenses
   
4,450,190
     
4,221,520
 
NET INVESTMENT INCOME (LOSS)
   
3,100,058
     
11,690,279
 
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS)
               
Net realized gain (loss) on:
               
Investments
   
14,672,741
     
61,713,222
 
Less: foreign capital gains taxes paid
   
(195,381
)
   
 
Net realized gain (loss)
   
14,477,360
     
61,713,222
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments
   
101,914,885
     
172,843,343
 
NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS)
   
116,392,245
     
234,556,565
 
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS FROM OPERATIONS
 
$
119,492,303
   
$
246,246,844
 

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

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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
   
BROWN ADVISORY
   
BROWN ADVISORY
 
   
GROWTH EQUITY FUND
   
FLEXIBLE EQUITY FUND
 
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
 
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
 
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
 
   
2021
   
2020
   
2021
   
2020
 
OPERATIONS
                       
Net investment income (loss)
 
$
(7,725,043
)
 
$
(5,376,873
)
 
$
835,557
   
$
1,763,590
 
Net realized gain (loss)
   
461,819,891
     
209,265,648
     
34,441,388
     
11,364,792
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
495,474,320
     
336,064,454
     
183,930,591
     
38,237,879
 
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from Operations
   
949,569,168
     
539,953,229
     
219,207,536
     
51,366,261
 
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM EARNINGS
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(96,150,732
)
   
(78,470,295
)
   
(5,183,375
)
   
(6,703,163
)
Investor Shares
   
(53,804,293
)
   
(41,945,136
)
   
(13,042,478
)
   
(16,756,039
)
Advisor Shares
   
(1,430,507
)
   
(435,105
)
   
(144,982
)
   
(222,591
)
Total Distributions from earnings
   
(151,385,532
)
   
(120,850,536
)
   
(18,370,835
)
   
(23,681,793
)
CAPITAL SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
458,256,416
     
400,871,155
     
30,225,050
     
15,519,730
 
Investor Shares
   
110,682,834
     
203,436,442
     
33,280,987
     
36,125,316
 
Advisor Shares
   
25,287,065
     
8,657,340
     
598,360
     
529,537
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
86,813,486
     
71,765,266
     
3,670,013
     
4,713,060
 
Investor Shares
   
46,667,508
     
38,531,279
     
8,053,785
     
8,421,752
 
Advisor Shares
   
1,176,723
     
384,904
     
129,212
     
194,869
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(594,751,190
)
   
(419,582,417
)
   
(22,716,693
)
   
(28,046,512
)
Investor Shares
   
(237,529,004
)
   
(231,327,940
)
   
(46,836,653
)
   
(46,101,607
)
Advisor Shares
   
(11,711,930
)
   
(3,671,135
)
   
(864,904
)
   
(1,127,841
)
Redemption fees:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
8,175
     
16,456
     
59
     
119
 
Investor Shares
   
4,412
     
8,733
     
150
     
312
 
Advisor Shares
   
89
     
107
     
2
     
4
 
Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions
   
(115,095,416
)
   
69,090,190
     
5,539,368
     
(9,771,261
)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
   
683,088,220
     
488,192,883
     
206,376,069
     
17,913,207
 
NET ASSETS
                               
Beginning of period
   
2,846,896,648
     
2,358,703,765
     
501,671,844
     
483,758,637
 
End of period
 
$
3,529,984,868
   
$
2,846,896,648
   
$
708,047,913
   
$
501,671,844
 
SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
13,793,461
     
15,650,481
     
1,021,861
     
685,993
 
Investor Shares
   
3,402,697
     
8,240,080
     
1,088,801
     
1,589,985
 
Advisor Shares
   
830,317
     
360,197
     
20,114
     
22,425
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
2,679,429
     
2,761,264
     
128,920
     
189,312
 
Investor Shares
   
1,462,931
     
1,502,780
     
283,689
     
339,273
 
Advisor Shares
   
39,540
     
15,991
     
4,558
     
7,852
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(18,067,236
)
   
(16,182,952
)
   
(784,283
)
   
(1,248,345
)
Investor Shares
   
(7,276,803
)
   
(9,207,220
)
   
(1,649,133
)
   
(2,039,015
)
Advisor Shares
   
(386,697
)
   
(155,510
)
   
(30,951
)
   
(52,209
)
Increase (Decrease) in shares outstanding
   
(3,522,361
)
   
2,985,111
     
83,576
     
(504,729
)

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

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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
   
BROWN ADVISORY
   
BROWN ADVISORY
 
   
EQUITY INCOME FUND
   
SUSTAINABLE GROWTH FUND
 
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
 
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
 
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
 
   
2021
   
2020
   
2021
   
2020
 
OPERATIONS
                       
Net investment income (loss)
 
$
1,225,770
   
$
1,344,548
   
$
(7,165,827
)
 
$
(1,052,977
)
Net realized gain (loss)
   
9,558,819
     
4,124,769
     
133,852,813
     
(33,269,143
)
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
12,065,441
     
(6,022,094
)
   
1,304,746,396
     
505,822,522
 
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from Operations
   
22,850,030
     
(552,777
)
   
1,431,433,382
     
471,500,402
 
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM EARNINGS
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(1,503,436
)
   
(2,414,169
)
   
     
(7,161,993
)
Investor Shares
   
(3,884,410
)
   
(5,617,757
)
   
     
(4,864,731
)
Advisor Shares
   
(62,187
)
   
(86,596
)
   
     
(2,000,138
)
Total Distributions from earnings
   
(5,450,033
)
   
(8,118,522
)
   
     
(14,026,862
)
CAPITAL SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
614,324
     
1,634,954
     
1,563,805,836
     
793,321,819
 
Investor Shares
   
857,793
     
4,418,792
     
836,613,190
     
815,575,575
 
Advisor Shares
   
128,454
     
117,418
     
113,771,986
     
51,251,840
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
1,260,662
     
1,966,393
     
     
4,922,448
 
Investor Shares
   
2,113,481
     
2,374,278
     
     
4,633,379
 
Advisor Shares
   
57,774
     
77,983
     
     
1,807,570
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(4,644,705
)
   
(5,336,182
)
   
(616,247,511
)
   
(195,572,031
)
Investor Shares
   
(7,001,432
)
   
(7,985,179
)
   
(590,892,163
)
   
(244,928,528
)
Advisor Shares
   
(100,081
)
   
(232,876
)
   
(75,880,872
)
   
(68,597,926
)
Redemption fees:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
137
     
     
35,520
     
41,514
 
Investor Shares
   
364
     
     
22,547
     
27,442
 
Advisor Shares
   
6
     
     
5,437
     
9,470
 
Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions
   
(6,713,223
)
   
(2,964,419
)
   
1,231,233,970
     
1,162,492,572
 
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
   
10,686,774
     
(11,635,718
)
   
2,662,667,352
     
1,619,966,112
 
NET ASSETS
                               
Beginning of period
   
78,140,006
     
89,775,724
     
2,995,554,186
     
1,375,588,074
 
End of period
 
$
88,826,780
   
$
78,140,006
   
$
5,658,221,538
   
$
2,995,554,186
 
SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
41,333
     
118,475
     
41,474,197
     
28,646,694
 
Investor Shares
   
58,637
     
319,670
     
22,746,741
     
29,732,433
 
Advisor Shares
   
8,629
     
8,186
     
3,150,995
     
1,911,307
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
89,237
     
141,578
     
     
176,558
 
Investor Shares
   
151,075
     
169,098
     
     
168,303
 
Advisor Shares
   
4,102
     
5,612
     
     
66,972
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(324,173
)
   
(430,780
)
   
(16,100,160
)
   
(7,111,324
)
Investor Shares
   
(488,066
)
   
(633,456
)
   
(15,762,445
)
   
(9,126,936
)
Advisor Shares
   
(7,074
)
   
(17,381
)
   
(2,043,919
)
   
(2,528,241
)
Increase (Decrease) in shares outstanding
   
(466,300
)
   
(318,998
)
   
33,465,409
     
41,935,766
 

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

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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
   
BROWN ADVISORY
   
BROWN ADVISORY
 
   
MID-CAP GROWTH FUND
   
SMALL-CAP GROWTH FUND
 
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
 
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
 
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
 
   
2021
   
2020
   
2021
   
2020
 
OPERATIONS
                       
Net investment income (loss)
 
$
(779,117
)
 
$
(91,538
)
 
$
(14,435,989
)
 
$
(7,492,479
)
Net realized gain (loss)
   
18,516,408
     
(4,741,929
)
   
237,055,955
     
(20,160,153
)
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
39,063,177
     
12,639,597
     
514,202,972
     
72,885,748
 
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from Operations
   
56,800,468
     
7,806,130
     
736,822,938
     
45,233,116
 
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM EARNINGS
                               
Institutional Shares
   
     
(147,231
)
   
(11,896,784
)
   
(18,379,205
)
Investor Shares
   
     
(3,180
)
   
(5,863,246
)
   
(9,927,383
)
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
(116,750
)
   
(295,436
)
Total Distributions from earnings
   
     
(150,411
)
   
(17,876,780
)
   
(28,602,024
)
CAPITAL SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
41,408,797
     
59,227,073
     
530,516,528
     
374,470,987
 
Investor Shares
   
3,288,623
     
31,906,535
     
220,054,702
     
112,714,527
 
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
2,322,172
     
3,190,952
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
     
105,612
     
10,885,113
     
17,184,357
 
Investor Shares
   
     
3,180
     
4,488,157
     
6,524,308
 
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
94,232
     
235,996
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(28,292,095
)
   
(10,777,556
)
   
(309,822,737
)
   
(202,151,171
)
Investor Shares
   
(9,487,455
)
   
(4,613,788
)
   
(140,236,741
)
   
(107,708,327
)
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
(4,440,626
)
   
(5,389,945
)
Redemption fees:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
34
     
     
10,187
     
1,729
 
Investor Shares
   
7
     
     
4,967
     
869
 
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
93
     
23
 
Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions
   
6,917,911
     
75,851,056
     
313,876,047
     
199,074,305
 
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
   
63,718,379
     
83,506,775
     
1,032,822,205
     
215,705,397
 
NET ASSETS
                               
Beginning of period
   
128,843,510
     
45,336,735
     
1,562,313,528
     
1,346,608,131
 
End of period
 
$
192,561,889
   
$
128,843,510
   
$
2,595,135,733
   
$
1,562,313,528
 
SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
2,392,734
     
4,918,916
     
9,824,740
     
9,043,798
 
Investor Shares
   
186,548
     
2,204,386
     
7,823,520
     
5,730,004
 
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
89,978
     
156,259
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
     
7,754
     
192,793
     
392,516
 
Investor Shares
   
     
234
     
159,267
     
298,050
 
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
3,511
     
11,297
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(1,618,248
)
   
(910,792
)
   
(5,563,525
)
   
(4,943,275
)
Investor Shares
   
(558,836
)
   
(366,462
)
   
(4,910,617
)
   
(5,234,383
)
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
(169,814
)
   
(276,297
)
Increase (Decrease) in shares outstanding
   
402,198
     
5,854,036
     
7,449,853
     
5,177,969
 

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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
   
BROWN ADVISORY SMALL-CAP
   
BROWN ADVISORY
 
   
FUNDAMENTAL VALUE FUND
   
GLOBAL LEADERS FUND
 
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
 
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
 
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
 
   
2021
   
2020
   
2021
   
2020
 
OPERATIONS
                       
Net investment income (loss)
 
$
3,523,445
   
$
7,579,285
   
$
1,402,184
   
$
1,697,619
 
Net realized gain (loss)
   
108,654,199
     
(130,124,556
)
   
21,010,351
     
(20,527,544
)
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
312,738,342
     
(56,534,126
)
   
270,587,214
     
78,134,617
 
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from Operations
   
424,915,986
     
(179,079,397
)
   
292,999,749
     
59,304,692
 
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM EARNINGS
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(2,636,684
)
   
(17,665,988
)
   
(1,219,498
)
   
(1,110,880
)
Investor Shares
   
(2,476,129
)
   
(29,652,680
)
   
(81,118
)
   
(61,528
)
Advisor Shares
   
(8,815
)
   
(388,948
)
   
     
 
Total Distributions from earnings
   
(5,121,628
)
   
(47,707,616
)
   
(1,300,616
)
   
(1,172,408
)
CAPITAL SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
169,637,501
     
175,871,287
     
327,175,286
     
385,866,483
 
Investor Shares
   
103,752,623
     
208,267,812
     
9,721,189
     
50,300,050
 
Advisor Shares
   
3,444,448
     
378,763
     
     
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
1,304,113
     
12,695,459
     
303,142
     
257,184
 
Investor Shares
   
641,899
     
18,062,610
     
70,480
     
46,787
 
Advisor Shares
   
7,959
     
368,764
     
     
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(106,244,029
)
   
(223,014,986
)
   
(49,946,130
)
   
(43,163,681
)
Investor Shares
   
(116,625,651
)
   
(222,672,600
)
   
(6,091,604
)
   
(11,848,832
)
Advisor Shares
   
(1,895,710
)
   
(2,823,549
)
   
     
 
Redemption fees:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
3,937
     
236
     
1,470
     
112
 
Investor Shares
   
4,854
     
365
     
144
     
12
 
Advisor Shares
   
46
     
5
     
     
 
Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions
   
54,031,990
     
(32,865,834
)
   
281,233,977
     
381,458,115
 
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
   
473,826,348
     
(259,652,847
)
   
572,933,110
     
439,590,399
 
NET ASSETS
                               
Beginning of period
   
773,797,131
     
1,033,449,978
     
672,796,353
     
233,205,954
 
End of period
 
$
1,247,623,479
   
$
773,797,131
   
$
1,245,729,463
   
$
672,796,353
 
SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
6,785,199
     
9,485,098
     
16,373,896
     
25,846,034
 
Investor Shares
   
4,300,398
     
10,851,428
     
477,255
     
3,607,720
 
Advisor Shares
   
120,477
     
16,534
     
     
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
54,887
     
499,923
     
15,226
     
15,218
 
Investor Shares
   
27,039
     
712,736
     
3,545
     
2,770
 
Advisor Shares
   
337
     
14,634
     
     
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(4,405,364
)
   
(10,565,739
)
   
(2,498,105
)
   
(2,933,381
)
Investor Shares
   
(4,929,069
)
   
(12,378,205
)
   
(308,680
)
   
(770,558
)
Advisor Shares
   
(79,338
)
   
(137,221
)
   
     
 
Increase (Decrease) in shares outstanding
   
1,874,566
     
(1,500,812
)
   
14,063,137
     
25,767,803
 

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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
   
BROWN ADVISORY
   
BROWN ADVISORY
 
   
INTERMEDIATE INCOME FUND
   
TOTAL RETURN FUND
 
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
 
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
 
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
 
   
2021
   
2020
   
2021
   
2020
 
OPERATIONS
                       
Net investment income (loss)
 
$
1,742,582
   
$
3,185,538
   
$
5,974,109
   
$
8,593,332
 
Net realized gain (loss)
   
2,063,118
     
1,740,365
     
3,026,798
     
15,660,030
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
(2,225,244
)
   
2,603,423
     
3,699,619
     
2,256,513
 
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from Operations
   
1,580,456
     
7,529,326
     
12,700,526
     
26,509,875
 
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM EARNINGS
                               
Institutional Shares
   
     
     
(14,293,838
)
   
(15,553,156
)
Investor Shares
   
(2,024,012
)
   
(3,179,760
)
   
(189,740
)
   
(182,090
)
Advisor Shares
   
(35,872
)
   
(74,932
)
   
     
 
Total Distributions from earnings
   
(2,059,884
)
   
(3,254,692
)
   
(14,483,578
)
   
(15,735,246
)
CAPITAL SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
     
     
150,248,925
     
222,481,486
 
Investor Shares
   
69,035,600
     
47,528,552
     
2,544,231
     
1,981,023
 
Advisor Shares
   
54,578
     
79,040
     
     
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
     
     
8,155,243
     
8,508,031
 
Investor Shares
   
745,482
     
1,015,867
     
171,436
     
140,974
 
Advisor Shares
   
32,893
     
68,639
     
     
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
     
     
(106,757,079
)
   
(99,570,279
)
Investor Shares
   
(49,833,684
)
   
(39,581,033
)
   
(2,461,886
)
   
(2,682,606
)
Advisor Shares
   
(43,882
)
   
(251,405
)
   
     
 
Redemption fees:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
     
     
741
     
128
 
Investor Shares
   
     
     
9
     
3
 
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
     
 
Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions
   
19,990,987
     
8,859,660
     
51,901,620
     
130,858,760
 
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
   
19,511,559
     
13,134,294
     
50,118,568
     
141,633,389
 
NET ASSETS
                               
Beginning of period
   
151,924,122
     
138,789,828
     
392,622,771
     
250,989,382
 
End of period
 
$
171,435,681
   
$
151,924,122
   
$
442,741,339
   
$
392,622,771
 
SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
     
     
14,146,348
     
21,740,019
 
Investor Shares
   
6,201,443
     
4,387,167
     
238,850
     
193,932
 
Advisor Shares
   
5,017
     
7,481
     
     
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
     
     
769,645
     
835,677
 
Investor Shares
   
67,135
     
93,839
     
16,183
     
13,795
 
Advisor Shares
   
3,031
     
6,485
     
     
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
     
     
(10,107,352
)
   
(9,712,425
)
Investor Shares
   
(4,487,530
)
   
(3,683,244
)
   
(233,230
)
   
(258,127
)
Advisor Shares
   
(4,048
)
   
(23,583
)
   
     
 
Increase (Decrease) in shares outstanding
   
1,785,048
     
788,145
     
4,830,444
     
12,812,871
 

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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
   
BROWN ADVISORY
   
BROWN ADVISORY
 
   
SUSTAINABLE BOND FUND
   
MARYLAND BOND FUND
 
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
 
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
 
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
 
   
2021
   
2020
   
2021
   
2020
 
OPERATIONS
                       
Net investment income (loss)
 
$
2,962,376
   
$
3,671,135
   
$
3,479,051
   
$
4,213,987
 
Net realized gain (loss)
   
2,163,756
     
4,532,009
     
97,687
     
40,685
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
(1,016,013
)
   
2,575,255
     
4,228,940
     
(1,469,500
)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from Operations
   
4,110,119
     
10,778,399
     
7,805,678
     
2,785,172
 
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM EARNINGS
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(6,647,215
)
   
(5,317,862
)
   
     
 
Investor Shares
   
(123,028
)
   
(40,327
)
   
(4,243,704
)
   
(4,826,066
)
Total Distributions from earnings
   
(6,770,243
)
   
(5,358,189
)
   
(4,243,704
)
   
(4,826,066
)
CAPITAL SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
102,466,710
     
79,922,729
     
     
 
Investor Shares
   
3,548,318
     
2,242,093
     
24,968,339
     
32,579,695
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
3,271,157
     
2,196,982
     
     
 
Investor Shares
   
95,926
     
36,876
     
1,006,650
     
1,125,659
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(38,120,567
)
   
(60,501,878
)
   
     
 
Investor Shares
   
(714,914
)
   
(1,071,319
)
   
(19,252,616
)
   
(37,539,392
)
Redemption fees:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
1,554
     
1,401
     
     
 
Investor Shares
   
29
     
19
     
     
1,579
 
Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions
   
70,548,213
     
22,826,903
     
6,722,373
     
(3,832,459
)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
   
67,888,089
     
28,247,113
     
10,284,347
     
(5,873,353
)
NET ASSETS
                               
Beginning of period
   
155,597,028
     
127,349,915
     
176,198,291
     
182,071,644
 
End of period
 
$
223,485,117
   
$
155,597,028
   
$
186,482,638
   
$
176,198,291
 
SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
9,729,795
     
7,806,001
     
     
 
Investor Shares
   
338,049
     
217,078
     
2,312,457
     
3,032,321
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
310,735
     
216,092
     
     
 
Investor Shares
   
9,127
     
3,605
     
93,166
     
104,031
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(3,634,984
)
   
(5,944,196
)
   
     
 
Investor Shares
   
(68,198
)
   
(106,285
)
   
(1,781,703
)
   
(3,483,049
)
Increase (Decrease) in shares outstanding
   
6,684,524
     
2,192,295
     
623,920
     
(346,697
)

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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
         
BROWN ADVISORY
 
   
BROWN ADVISORY
   
TAX-EXEMPT SUSTAINABLE
 
   
TAX-EXEMPT BOND FUND
   
BOND FUND
 
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
 
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
 
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
 
   
2021
   
2020
   
2021
     
2020
*
OPERATIONS
                         
Net investment income (loss)
 
$
22,440,185
   
$
26,817,863
   
$
2,442,116
   
$
737,502
 
Net realized gain (loss)
   
20,808,707
     
(10,370,011
)
   
2,004,560
     
117,164
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
32,884,664
     
(5,369,003
)
   
3,896,490
     
(343,063
)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from Operations
   
76,133,556
     
11,078,849
     
8,343,166
     
511,603
 
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM EARNINGS
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(29,711,781
)
   
(30,647,912
)
   
     
 
Investor Shares
   
(260,612
)
   
(399,133
)
   
(2,559,299
)
   
(737,502
)
Total Distributions from earnings
   
(29,972,393
)
   
(31,047,045
)
   
(2,559,299
)
   
(737,502
)
CAPITAL SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
370,614,846
     
615,524,124
     
     
 
Investor Shares
   
4,295,133
     
11,031,021
     
109,926,761
     
167,248,379
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
7,240,171
     
7,064,583
     
     
 
Investor Shares
   
179,967
     
259,177
     
451,744
     
115,022
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(305,615,768
)
   
(481,534,100
)
   
     
 
Investor Shares
   
(3,328,557
)
   
(20,193,394
)
   
(94,071,642
)
   
(10,105,718
)
Redemption fees:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
6
     
15,020
     
     
 
Investor Shares
   
     
173
     
85
     
 
Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions
   
73,385,798
     
132,166,604
     
16,306,948
     
157,257,683
 
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
   
119,546,961
     
112,198,408
     
22,090,815
     
157,031,784
 
NET ASSETS
                               
Beginning of period
   
1,082,426,154
     
970,227,746
     
157,031,784
     
 
End of period
 
$
1,201,973,115
   
$
1,082,426,154
   
$
179,122,599
   
$
157,031,784
 
SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
35,903,729
     
60,408,578
     
     
 
Investor Shares
   
415,733
     
1,072,669
     
10,983,189
     
16,911,731
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
701,699
     
693,059
     
     
 
Investor Shares
   
17,415
     
25,314
     
44,955
     
11,664
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(29,550,681
)
   
(47,976,531
)
   
     
 
Investor Shares
   
(324,070
)
   
(2,009,926
)
   
(9,344,231
)
   
(1,022,794
)
Increase (Decrease) in shares outstanding
   
7,163,825
     
12,213,163
     
1,683,913
     
15,900,601
 

*
Fund commenced operations on December 2, 2019.  Information is for the period from December 2, 2019 to June 30, 2020.

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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
               
BROWN ADVISORY –
 
   
BROWN ADVISORY
   
WMC STRATEGIC
 
   
MORTGAGE SECURITIES FUND
   
EUROPEAN EQUITY FUND
 
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
 
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
 
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
 
   
2021
   
2020
   
2021
   
2020
 
OPERATIONS
                       
Net investment income (loss)
 
$
(787,682
)
 
$
2,756,155
   
$
4,109,443
   
$
1,196,646
 
Net realized gain (loss)
   
3,649,989
     
10,399,819
     
45,125,577
     
17,572,658
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
1,338,932
     
2,065,623
     
52,604,293
     
(41,969,646
)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from Operations
   
4,201,239
     
15,221,597
     
101,839,313
     
(23,200,342
)
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM EARNINGS
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(1,503,072
)
   
(4,158,492
)
   
(20,009,676
)
   
(24,582,304
)
Investor Shares
   
(118,094
)
   
(32,311
)
   
(1,879,956
)
   
(865,242
)
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
(220,820
)
   
(308,735
)
Total Distributions from earnings
   
(1,621,166
)
   
(4,190,803
)
   
(22,110,452
)
   
(25,756,281
)
CAPITAL SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
110,872,804
     
49,987,536
     
114,798,417
     
93,369,220
 
Investor Shares
   
24,528,218
     
11,565,585
     
24,558,529
     
10,769,625
 
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
455,367
     
358,021
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
294,936
     
667,996
     
12,839,068
     
13,910,236
 
Investor Shares
   
117,644
     
32,110
     
1,770,675
     
806,296
 
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
209,582
     
302,297
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(63,258,102
)
   
(105,124,840
)
   
(68,574,420
)
   
(243,637,655
)
Investor Shares
   
(2,689,608
)
   
(2,198,388
)
   
(16,467,048
)
   
(6,471,686
)
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
(1,542,550
)
   
(3,895,250
)
Redemption fees:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
93
     
1,179
     
8
     
211
 
Investor Shares
   
10
     
13
     
1
     
11
 
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
     
3
 
Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions
   
69,865,995
     
(45,068,809
)
   
68,047,629
     
(134,488,671
)
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
   
72,446,068
     
(34,038,015
)
   
147,776,490
     
(183,445,294
)
NET ASSETS
                               
Beginning of period
   
247,956,409
     
281,994,424
     
313,121,051
     
496,566,345
 
End of period
 
$
320,402,477
   
$
247,956,409
   
$
460,897,541
   
$
313,121,051
 
SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
10,524,847
     
4,865,234
     
9,389,076
     
8,968,861
 
Investor Shares
   
2,327,339
     
1,116,122
     
2,044,309
     
1,053,546
 
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
38,762
     
33,648
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
28,000
     
65,368
     
1,097,369
     
1,221,044
 
Investor Shares
   
11,152
     
3,096
     
151,859
     
71,108
 
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
18,193
     
26,901
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(6,005,046
)
   
(10,277,006
)
   
(5,890,250
)
   
(25,118,358
)
Investor Shares
   
(254,888
)
   
(214,179
)
   
(1,266,112
)
   
(631,412
)
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
(135,282
)
   
(378,649
)
Increase (Decrease) in shares outstanding
   
6,631,404
     
(4,441,365
)
   
5,447,924
     
(14,753,311
)

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

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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
   
BROWN ADVISORY
   
BROWN ADVISORY –
 
   
EMERGING MARKETS
   
BEUTEL GOODMAN
 
   
SELECT FUND
   
LARGE-CAP VALUE FUND
 
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
   
Fiscal
 
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
   
Year Ended
 
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
 
   
2021
   
2020
   
2021
   
2020
 
OPERATIONS
                       
Net investment income (loss)
 
$
3,100,058
   
$
4,043,341
   
$
11,690,279
   
$
20,271,705
 
Net realized gain (loss)
   
14,477,360
     
(23,123,861
)
   
61,713,222
     
(16,714,433
)
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
101,914,885
     
(3,503,124
)
   
172,843,343
     
3,067,903
 
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from Operations
   
119,492,303
     
(22,583,644
)
   
246,246,844
     
6,625,175
 
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM EARNINGS
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(2,138,888
)
   
(4,125,513
)
   
(22,311,318
)
   
(7,657,728
)
Investor Shares
   
(21,367
)
   
(46,220
)
   
     
 
Advisor Shares
   
(21
)
   
(1,296
)
   
     
 
Total Distributions from earnings
   
(2,160,276
)
   
(4,173,029
)
   
(22,311,318
)
   
(7,657,728
)
CAPITAL SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
182,958,474
     
113,704,766
     
527,531,771
     
257,251,330
 
Investor Shares
   
1,523,609
     
1,096,194
     
20,000
     
 
Advisor Shares
   
10,218
     
6,426
     
     
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
412,838
     
705,403
     
5,500,846
     
3,633,330
 
Investor Shares
   
20,969
     
43,772
     
     
 
Advisor Shares
   
21
     
1,296
     
     
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(36,476,602
)
   
(147,468,241
)
   
(59,629,241
)
   
(104,804,022
)
Investor Shares
   
(1,427,705
)
   
(1,623,716
)
   
     
 
Advisor Shares
   
(49,719
)
   
(95,199
)
   
     
 
Redemption fees:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
123
     
272
     
150
     
955
 
Investor Shares
   
2
     
4
     
     
 
Advisor Shares
   
     
     
     
 
Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions
   
146,972,228
     
(33,629,023
)
   
473,423,526
     
156,081,593
 
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
   
264,304,255
     
(60,385,696
)
   
697,359,052
     
155,049,040
 
NET ASSETS
                               
Beginning of period
   
271,536,586
     
331,922,282
     
452,011,635
     
296,962,595
 
End of period
 
$
535,840,841
   
$
271,536,586
   
$
1,149,370,687
   
$
452,011,635
 
SHARE TRANSACTIONS
                               
Sale of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
15,248,156
     
13,203,555
     
41,377,447
     
24,554,210
 
Investor Shares
   
127,777
     
125,988
     
1,388
     
 
Advisor Shares
   
878
     
725
     
     
 
Reinvestment of distributions:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
36,341
     
71,325
     
446,135
     
314,395
 
Investor Shares
   
1,846
     
4,426
     
     
 
Advisor Shares
   
2
     
130
     
     
 
Redemption of shares:
                               
Institutional Shares
   
(3,305,092
)
   
(18,060,646
)
   
(4,687,212
)
   
(10,606,917
)
Investor Shares
   
(134,055
)
   
(198,402
)
   
     
 
Advisor Shares
   
(4,854
)
   
(12,782
)
   
     
 
Increase (Decrease) in shares outstanding
   
11,970,999
     
(4,865,681
)
   
37,137,758
     
14,261,688
 

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

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Financial Highlights
           
From Investment
   
Distributions to
                     
Ratios to Average
       
            Operations(a)    
Shareholders From
                     
Net Assets(b)
       
                 
Net
                                                                 
For a Share
             
Realized
                         
Net
         
Net
                         
Outstanding
 
Net Asset
   
Net
   
&
                         
Asset
         
Assets at
   
Net
                   
Throughout
 
Value,
   
Investment
   
Unrealized
       
Net
   
Net
         
Value,
         
End of
   
Investment
         
Gross
   
Portfolio
 
Each Fiscal Period:
 
Beginning
   
Income
   
Gains
       
Investment
   
Realized
         
End of
   
Total
   
Period
   
Income
   
Net
   
Expenses
   
Turnover
 
Beginning
Ending
 
of Period
   
(Loss)
   
(Losses)
 
Total
   
Income
   
Gains
   
Total
   
Period
   
Return(c)
   
(000’s
)
 
(Loss)
   
Expenses
   
(d)
   
Rate(c)
 
                                                                                     
BROWN ADVISORY GROWTH EQUITY FUND:
 
                                                                                     
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
 
$
29.05
     
(0.06
)
 
10.02
 
9.96
     
   
(1.62
)
   
(1.62
)
 
$
37.39
   
35.14
%
 
$2,321,278
     
(0.19
)%
   
0.67
%
   
0.67
%
 
25
%
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
24.80
     
(0.04
)
 
5.56
 
5.52
     
   
(1.27
)
   
(1.27
)
   
29.05
   
22.88
   
1,849,565
     
(0.16
)
   
0.69
     
0.69
   
22
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
23.91
     
(0.04
)
 
3.38
 
3.34
     
   
(2.45
)
   
(2.45
)
   
24.80
   
16.69
   
1,523,633
     
(0.19
)
   
0.70
     
0.70
   
22
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
20.03
     
(0.06
)
 
5.62
 
5.56
     
   
(1.68
)
   
(1.68
)
   
23.91
   
28.89
   
289,434
     
(0.29
)
   
0.71
     
0.71
   
25
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
19.16
     
(0.03
)
 
2.47
 
2.44
     
   
(1.57
)
   
(1.57
)
   
20.03
   
13.91
   
276,592
     
(0.16
)
   
0.72
     
0.72
   
40
 
   
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
28.64
     
(0.11
)
 
9.88
 
9.77
     
   
(1.62
)
   
(1.62
)
   
36.79
   
34.98
   
1,174,666
     
(0.34
)
   
0.82
     
0.82
   
25
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
24.50
     
(0.08
)
 
5.49
 
5.41
     
   
(1.27
)
   
(1.27
)
   
28.64
   
22.70
   
983,640
     
(0.31
)
   
0.84
     
0.84
   
22
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
23.69
     
(0.08
)
 
3.34
 
3.26
     
   
(2.45
)
   
(2.45
)
   
24.50
   
16.50
   
828,388
     
(0.34
)
   
0.85
     
0.85
   
22
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
19.89
     
(0.10
)
 
5.58
 
5.48
     
   
(1.68
)
   
(1.68
)
   
23.69
   
28.69
   
1,775,180
     
(0.44
)
   
0.86
     
0.86
   
25
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
19.06
     
(0.06
)
 
2.46
 
2.40
     
   
(1.57
)
   
(1.57
)
   
19.89
   
13.77
   
1,484,383
     
(0.31
)
   
0.87
     
0.87
   
40
 
   
Advisor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
26.84
     
(0.18
)
 
9.23
 
9.05
     
   
(1.62
)
   
(1.62
)
   
34.27
   
34.63
   
34,042
     
(0.59
)
   
1.07
     
1.07
   
25
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
23.09
     
(0.14
)
 
5.16
 
5.02
     
   
(1.27
)
   
(1.27
)
   
26.84
   
22.39
   
13,692
     
(0.56
)
   
1.09
     
1.09
   
22
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
22.53
     
(0.13
)
 
3.14
 
3.01
     
   
(2.45
)
   
(2.45
)
   
23.09
   
16.22
   
6,683
     
(0.59
)
   
1.10
     
1.10
   
22
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
19.04
     
(0.14
)
 
5.31
 
5.17
     
   
(1.68
)
   
(1.68
)
   
22.53
   
28.32
   
6,215
     
(0.69
)
   
1.11
     
1.11
   
25
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
18.35
     
(0.10
)
 
2.36
 
2.26
     
   
(1.57
)
   
(1.57
)
   
19.04
   
13.53
   
5,479
     
(0.56
)
   
1.12
     
1.12
   
40
 
                                                                                                     
BROWN ADVISORY FLEXIBLE EQUITY FUND:
 
                                                                                                     
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
24.36
     
0.07
   
10.76
 
10.83
     
(0.09
)
 
(0.84
)
   
(0.93
)
   
34.26
   
45.26
   
201,849
     
0.25
     
0.54
     
0.54
   
13
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
22.92
     
0.11
   
2.50
 
2.61
     
(0.15
)
 
(1.02
)
   
(1.17
)
   
24.36
   
11.29
   
134,574
     
0.47
     
0.56
     
0.56
   
12
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
21.94
     
0.17
   
1.63
 
1.80
     
(0.08
)
 
(0.74
)
   
(0.82
)
   
22.92
   
8.94
   
135,190
     
0.78
     
0.57
     
0.57
   
14
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
18.53
     
0.10
   
3.43
 
3.53
     
(0.12
)
 
     
(0.12
)
   
21.94
   
19.07
   
131,218
     
0.48
     
0.72
     
0.72
   
15
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
15.15
     
0.11
   
3.37
 
3.48
     
(0.10
)
 
     
(0.10
)
   
18.53
   
23.05
   
101,431
     
0.61
     
0.73
     
0.73
   
15
 
   
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
24.31
     
0.03
   
10.73
 
10.76
     
(0.07
)
 
(0.84
)
   
(0.91
)
   
34.16
   
45.05
   
500,233
     
0.10
     
0.69
     
0.69
   
13
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
22.88
     
0.07
   
2.49
 
2.56
     
(0.11
)
 
(1.02
)
   
(1.13
)
   
24.31
   
11.12
   
362,695
     
0.32
     
0.71
     
0.71
   
12
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
21.90
     
0.14
   
1.63
 
1.77
     
(0.05
)
 
(0.74
)
   
(0.79
)
   
22.88
   
8.77
   
343,917
     
0.63
     
0.72
     
0.72
   
14
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
18.50
     
0.07
   
3.42
 
3.49
     
(0.09
)
 
     
(0.09
)
   
21.90
   
18.88
   
316,109
     
0.33
     
0.87
     
0.87
   
15
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
15.12
     
0.08
   
3.37
 
3.45
     
(0.07
)
 
     
(0.07
)
   
18.50
   
22.90
   
310,360
     
0.46
     
0.88
     
0.88
   
15
 
   
Advisor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
24.30
     
(0.04
)
 
10.72
 
10.68
     
(0.04
)
 
(0.84
)
   
(0.88
)
   
34.10
   
44.69
   
5,965
     
(0.15
)
   
0.94
     
0.94
   
13
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
22.90
     
0.02
   
2.48
 
2.50
     
(0.08
)
 
(1.02
)
   
(1.10
)
   
24.30
   
10.84
   
4,403
     
0.07
     
0.96
     
0.96
   
12
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
21.91
     
0.08
   
1.65
 
1.73
     
   
(0.74
)
   
(0.74
)
   
22.90
   
8.52
   
4,652
     
0.38
     
0.97
     
0.97
   
14
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
18.50
     
0.02
   
3.42
 
3.44
     
(0.03
)
 
     
(0.03
)
   
21.91
   
18.61
   
6,445
     
0.08
     
1.12
     
1.12
   
15
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
15.12
     
0.04
   
3.37
 
3.41
     
(0.03
)
 
     
(0.03
)
   
18.50
   
22.56
   
5,842
     
0.21
     
1.13
     
1.13
   
15
 

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Financial Highlights
         
From Investment
 
Distributions to
                     
Ratios to Average
       
         
Operations(a)
 
Shareholders From
                     
Net Assets(b)
       
             
Net
                                                           
For a Share
         
Realized
                   
Net
         
Net
                         
Outstanding
 
Net Asset
 
Net
 
&
                   
Asset
         
Assets at
   
Net
                   
Throughout
 
Value,
 
Investment
 
Unrealized
     
Net
 
Net
       
Value,
         
End of
   
Investment
         
Gross
   
Portfolio
 
Each Fiscal Period:
 
Beginning
 
Income
 
Gains
     
Investment
 
Realized
       
End of
   
Total
   
Period
   
Income
   
Net
   
Expenses
   
Turnover
 
Beginning
Ending
 
of Period
 
(Loss)
 
(Losses)
 
Total
 
Income
 
Gains
 
Total
   
Period
   
Return(c)
     
(000’s
)
 
(Loss)
   
Expenses
   
(d)
   
Rate(c)
 
                                                                             
BROWN ADVISORY EQUITY INCOME FUND:
 
                                                                             
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
 
$
12.97
   
0.23
 
3.75
 
3.98
 
(0.23
)
(0.74
)
 
(0.97
)
 
$
15.98
     
31.84
%
 
$
24,045
     
1.59
%
   
0.77
%
   
0.80
%
 
20
%
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
14.15
   
0.23
 
(0.10
)
0.13
 
(0.23
)
(1.08
)
 
(1.31
)
   
12.97
     
0.46
     
22,026
     
1.66
     
0.80
     
0.80
   
16
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
14.41
   
0.26
 
1.33
 
1.59
 
(0.27
)
(1.58
)
 
(1.85
)
   
14.15
     
13.12
     
26,449
     
1.87
     
0.80
     
0.80
   
11
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
13.80
   
0.24
 
1.07
 
1.31
 
(0.25
)
(0.45
)
 
(0.70
)
   
14.41
     
9.51
     
27,975
     
1.70
     
0.77
     
0.77
   
14
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
12.87
   
0.26
 
1.41
 
1.67
 
(0.26
)
(0.48
)
 
(0.74
)
   
13.80
     
13.36
     
29,587
     
1.94
     
0.77
     
0.77
   
7
 
   
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
12.96
   
0.21
 
3.75
 
3.96
 
(0.21
)
(0.74
)
 
(0.95
)
   
15.97
     
31.67
     
63,600
     
1.44
     
0.92
     
0.95
   
20
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
14.15
   
0.21
 
(0.11
)
0.10
 
(0.21
)
(1.08
)
 
(1.29
)
   
12.96
     
0.24
     
55,228
     
1.51
     
0.95
     
0.95
   
16
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
14.40
   
0.24
 
1.34
 
1.58
 
(0.25
)
(1.58
)
 
(1.83
)
   
14.15
     
13.03
     
62,309
     
1.72
     
0.95
     
0.95
   
11
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
13.80
   
0.22
 
1.06
 
1.28
 
(0.23
)
(0.45
)
 
(0.68
)
   
14.40
     
9.27
     
66,512
     
1.55
     
0.92
     
0.92
   
14
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
12.86
   
0.24
 
1.42
 
1.66
 
(0.24
)
(0.48
)
 
(0.72
)
   
13.80
     
13.28
     
81,890
     
1.79
     
0.92
     
0.92
   
7
 
   
Advisor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
12.96
   
0.17
 
3.74
 
3.91
 
(0.17
)
(0.74
)
 
(0.91
)
   
15.96
     
31.27
     
1,182
     
1.19
     
1.17
     
1.20
   
20
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
14.14
   
0.17
 
(0.10
)
0.07
 
(0.17
)
(1.08
)
 
(1.25
)
   
12.96
     
0.05
     
886
     
1.26
     
1.20
     
1.20
   
16
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
14.40
   
0.21
 
1.33
 
1.54
 
(0.22
)
(1.58
)
 
(1.80
)
   
14.14
     
12.67
     
1,017
     
1.47
     
1.20
     
1.20
   
11
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
13.78
   
0.19
 
1.06
 
1.25
 
(0.18
)
(0.45
)
 
(0.63
)
   
14.40
     
9.04
     
1,077
     
1.30
     
1.17
     
1.17
   
14
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
12.84
   
0.20
 
1.43
 
1.63
 
(0.21
)
(0.48
)
 
(0.69
)
   
13.78
     
13.02
     
2,422
     
1.54
     
1.17
     
1.17
   
7
 
                                                                                             
BROWN ADVISORY SUSTAINABLE GROWTH FUND:
 
                                                                                             
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
31.96
   
(0.03
)
12.63
 
12.60
 
 
   
     
44.56
     
39.42
     
3,364,728
     
(0.08
)
   
0.65
     
0.65
   
23
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
26.39
   
0.01
 
5.77
 
5.78
 
 
(0.21
)
 
(0.21
)
   
31.96
     
22.01
     
1,601,989
     
0.05
     
0.70
     
0.70
   
20
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
23.02
   
0.03
 
4.12
 
4.15
 
 
(0.78
)
 
(0.78
)
   
26.39
     
18.89
     
749,949
     
0.10
     
0.73
     
0.73
   
21
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
18.94
   
0.01
 
4.42
 
4.43
 
 
(0.35
)
 
(0.35
)
   
23.02
     
23.59
     
369,642
     
0.05
     
0.73
     
0.73
   
29
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
16.05
   
(0.02
)
3.03
 
3.01
 
 
(0.12
)
 
(0.12
)
   
18.94
     
18.83
     
221,177
     
(0.10
)
   
0.73
     
0.73
   
41
 
   
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
31.52
   
(0.09
)
12.47
 
12.38
 
 
   
     
43.90
     
39.28
     
1,849,429
     
(0.23
)
   
0.80
     
0.80
   
23
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
26.07
   
(0.03
)
5.69
 
5.66
 
 
(0.21
)
 
(0.21
)
   
31.52
     
21.82
     
1,108,023
     
(0.10
)
   
0.85
     
0.85
   
20
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
22.79
   
(0.01
)
4.07
 
4.06
 
 
(0.78
)
 
(0.78
)
   
26.07
     
18.68
     
374,769
     
(0.05
)
   
0.88
     
0.88
   
21
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
18.78
   
(0.02
)
4.38
 
4.36
 
 
(0.35
)
 
(0.35
)
   
22.79
     
23.41
     
102,201
     
(0.10
)
   
0.88
     
0.88
   
29
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
15.94
   
(0.04
)
3.00
 
2.96
 
 
(0.12
)
 
(0.12
)
   
18.78
     
18.65
     
36,954
     
(0.25
)
   
0.88
     
0.88
   
41
 
   
Advisor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
30.86
   
(0.18
)
12.19
 
12.01
 
 
   
     
42.87
     
38.92
     
444,064
     
(0.48
)
   
1.05
     
1.05
   
23
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
25.59
   
(0.09
)
5.57
 
5.48
 
 
(0.21
)
 
(0.21
)
   
30.86
     
21.53
     
285,542
     
(0.35
)
   
1.10
     
1.10
   
20
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
22.44
   
(0.07
)
4.00
 
3.93
 
 
(0.78
)
 
(0.78
)
   
25.59
     
18.39
     
250,871
     
(0.30
)
   
1.13
     
1.13
   
21
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
18.54
   
(0.07
)
4.32
 
4.25
 
 
(0.35
)
 
(0.35
)
   
22.44
     
23.12
     
213,262
     
(0.35
)
   
1.13
     
1.13
   
29
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
15.78
   
(0.08
)
2.96
 
2.88
 
 
(0.12
)
 
(0.12
)
   
18.54
     
18.33
     
172,012
     
(0.50
)
   
1.13
     
1.13
   
41
 

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Financial Highlights
           
From Investment
 
Distributions to
                     
Ratios to Average
       
           
Operations(a)
 
Shareholders From
                     
Net Assets(b)
       
                 
Net
                                                         
For a Share
             
Realized
                 
Net
         
Net
                         
Outstanding
 
Net Asset
   
Net
   
&
                 
Asset
         
Assets at
   
Net
                   
Throughout
 
Value,
   
Investment
   
Unrealized
   
Net
 
Net
       
Value,
         
End of
   
Investment
         
Gross
   
Portfolio
 
Each Fiscal Period:
 
Beginning
   
Income
   
Gains
   
Investment
 
Realized
       
End of
   
Total
   
Period
   
Income
   
Net
   
Expenses
   
Turnover
 
Beginning
Ending
 
of Period
   
(Loss)
   
(Losses)
Total
 
Income
 
Gains
 
Total
   
Period
   
Return(c)
     
(000’s
)
 
(Loss)
   
Expenses
   
(d)
   
Rate(c)
 
                                                                               
BROWN ADVISORY MID-CAP GROWTH FUND:
 
                                                                               
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
 
$
13.86
   
(0.08
)
 
6.08
 
6.00
 
 
 
   
$
19.86
     
43.03
%
 
$
159,180
   
(0.44
)%
 
0.76
%
   
0.79
%
 
48
%
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
13.14
   
(0.01
)
 
0.77
 
0.76
 
 
(0.04
)
(0.04
)
   
13.86
     
5.68
     
100,367
   
(0.11
)
 
0.70
     
0.88
   
35
 
07/02/18^
06/30/19
   
11.42
   
(0.00
)
 
1.83
 
1.83
 
 
(0.11
)
(0.11
)
   
13.14
     
16.36
     
42,404
   
(0.00
)
 
0.70
     
1.04
   
46
 
                                                                                         
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
13.81
   
(0.10
)
 
6.05
 
5.95
 
 
 
     
19.76
     
42.90
     
33,381
   
(0.59
)
 
0.91
     
0.94
   
48
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
13.12
   
(0.03
)
 
0.76
 
0.73
 
 
(0.04
)
(0.04
)
   
13.81
     
5.46
     
28,477
   
(0.26
)
 
0.85
     
1.03
   
35
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
11.36
   
(0.02
)
 
1.89
 
1.87
 
 
(0.11
)
(0.11
)
   
13.12
     
16.80
     
2,933
   
(0.15
)
 
0.85
     
1.19
   
46
 
10/02/17^
06/30/18
   
10.00
   
(0.01
)
 
1.37
 
1.36
 
 
 
     
11.36
     
13.60
     
21,377
   
(0.16
)
 
0.85
     
1.58
   
29
 
                                                                                         
BROWN ADVISORY SMALL-CAP GROWTH FUND:
 
                                                                                         
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
44.31
   
(0.34
)
 
19.48
 
19.14
 
 
(0.45
)
(0.45
)
   
63.00
     
43.31
     
1,758,121
   
(0.61
)
 
0.95
     
0.95
   
32
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
44.24
   
(0.20
)
 
1.15
 
0.95
 
 
(0.88
)
(0.88
)
   
44.31
     
2.18
     
1,039,126
   
(0.48
)
 
0.97
     
0.97
   
29
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
40.64
   
(0.15
)
 
5.52
 
5.37
 
(0.18
)
(1.59
)
(1.77
)
   
44.24
     
14.56
     
838,698
   
(0.36
)
 
0.98
     
0.98
   
44
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
35.15
   
(0.16
)
 
6.31
 
6.15
 
(0.15
)
(0.51
)
(0.66
)
   
40.64
     
17.64
     
424,449
   
(0.42
)
 
0.98
     
0.98
   
30
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
31.19
   
(0.16
)
 
5.25
 
5.09
 
 
(1.13
)
(1.13
)
   
35.15
     
16.57
     
165,615
   
(0.49
)
 
0.98
     
0.98
   
22
 
   
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
22.13
   
(0.21
)
 
9.72
 
9.51
 
 
(0.22
)
(0.22
)
   
31.42
     
43.11
     
822,075
   
(0.76
)
 
1.10
     
1.10
   
32
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
22.13
   
(0.13
)
 
0.57
 
0.44
 
 
(0.44
)
(0.44
)
   
22.13
     
2.02
     
511,028
   
(0.63
)
 
1.12
     
1.12
   
29
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
20.34
   
(0.10
)
 
2.77
 
2.67
 
(0.08
)
(0.80
)
(0.88
)
   
22.13
     
14.40
     
493,421
   
(0.51
)
 
1.13
     
1.13
   
44
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
17.61
   
(0.11
)
 
3.15
 
3.04
 
(0.06
)
(0.25
)
(0.31
)
   
20.34
     
17.44
     
476,786
   
(0.57
)
 
1.13
     
1.13
   
30
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
15.65
   
(0.11
)
 
2.63
 
2.52
 
 
(0.56
)
(0.56
)
   
17.61
     
16.40
     
335,185
   
(0.64
)
 
1.13
     
1.13
   
22
 
   
Advisor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
21.10
   
(0.26
)
 
9.25
 
8.99
 
 
(0.21
)
(0.21
)
   
29.88
     
42.74
     
14,939
   
(1.01
)
 
1.35
     
1.35
   
32
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
21.15
   
(0.18
)
 
0.55
 
0.37
 
 
(0.42
)
(0.42
)
   
21.10
     
1.78
     
12,159
   
(0.88
)
 
1.37
     
1.37
   
29
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
19.46
   
(0.15
)
 
2.64
 
2.49
 
(0.04
)
(0.76
)
(0.80
)
   
21.15
     
14.08
     
14,489
   
(0.76
)
 
1.38
     
1.38
   
44
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
16.85
   
(0.15
)
 
3.02
 
2.87
 
(0.02
)
(0.24
)
(0.26
)
   
19.46
     
17.21
     
18,449
   
(0.82
)
 
1.38
     
1.38
   
30
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
15.02
   
(0.14
)
 
2.51
 
2.37
 
 
(0.54
)
(0.54
)
   
16.85
     
16.04
     
32,852
   
(0.89
)
 
1.38
     
1.38
   
22
 

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

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114




Financial Highlights
         
From Investment
   
Distributions to
                 
Ratios to Average
       
         
Operations(a)
   
Shareholders From
                 
Net Assets(b)
       
             
Net
                                                         
For a Share
         
Realized
                       
Net
       
Net
                     
Outstanding
 
Net Asset
 
Net
 
&
                       
Asset
       
Assets at
 
Net
                 
Throughout
 
Value,
 
Investment
 
Unrealized
       
Net
 
Net
         
Value,
       
End of
 
Investment
       
Gross
   
Portfolio
 
Each Fiscal Period:
 
Beginning
 
Income
 
Gains
       
Investment
 
Realized
         
End of
 
Total
   
Period
 
Income
 
Net
   
Expenses
   
Turnover
 
Beginning
Ending
 
of Period
 
(Loss)
 
(Losses)
 
Total
   
Income
 
Gains
   
Total
   
Period
 
Return(c)
     
(000’s
)
(Loss)
 
Expenses
   
(d)
   
Rate(c)
 
                                                                           
BROWN ADVISORY SMALL-CAP FUNDAMENTAL VALUE FUND:
 
                                                                           
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
 
$
19.25
 
0.11
 
10.44
 
10.55
   
(0.15
)
   
(0.15
)
 
$
29.65
 
54.97
%
 
$
591,096
 
0.43
%
0.95
%
 
0.95
%
 
42
%
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
24.77
 
0.21
 
(4.46
)
(4.25
)
 
(0.13
)
(1.14
)
 
(1.27
)
   
19.25
 
(18.38
)
   
336,819
 
0.94
 
0.97
   
0.97
   
56
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
29.16
 
0.29
 
(1.54
)
(1.25
)
 
(0.21
)
(2.93
)
 
(3.14
)
   
24.77
 
(2.91
)
   
447,846
 
1.10
 
0.97
   
0.97
   
36
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
27.11
 
0.15
 
3.11
 
3.26
   
(0.20
)
(1.01
)
 
(1.21
)
   
29.16
 
12.13
     
410,785
 
0.52
 
0.97
   
0.97
   
32
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
22.75
 
0.17
 
4.31
 
4.48
   
(0.09
)
(0.03
)
 
(0.12
)
   
27.11
 
19.73
     
341,038
 
0.68
 
0.97
   
0.97
   
30
 
                                                                               
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
19.22
 
0.07
 
10.42
 
10.49
   
(0.11
)
   
(0.11
)
   
29.60
 
54.74
     
648,403
 
0.28
 
1.10
   
1.10
   
42
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
24.75
 
0.18
 
(4.46
)
(4.28
)
 
(0.11
)
(1.14
)
 
(1.25
)
   
19.22
 
(18.49
)
   
432,498
 
0.79
 
1.12
   
1.12
   
56
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
29.12
 
0.25
 
(1.53
)
(1.28
)
 
(0.16
)
(2.93
)
 
(3.09
)
   
24.75
 
(3.05
)
   
577,212
 
0.95
 
1.12
   
1.12
   
36
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
27.08
 
0.10
 
3.10
 
3.20
   
(0.15
)
(1.01
)
 
(1.16
)
   
29.12
 
11.95
     
874,269
 
0.37
 
1.12
   
1.12
   
32
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
22.73
 
0.13
 
4.31
 
4.44
   
(0.06
)
(0.03
)
 
(0.09
)
   
27.08
 
19.54
     
834,317
 
0.53
 
1.12
   
1.12
   
30
 
                                                                               
Advisor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
19.10
 
0.01
 
10.36
 
10.37
   
(0.04
)
   
(0.04
)
   
29.43
 
54.37
     
8,125
 
0.03
 
1.35
   
1.35
   
42
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
24.64
 
0.12
 
(4.44
)
(4.32
)
 
(0.08
)
(1.14
)
 
(1.22
)
   
19.10
 
(18.71
)
   
4,480
 
0.54
 
1.37
   
1.37
   
56
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
28.98
 
0.19
 
(1.51
)
(1.32
)
 
(0.09
)
(2.93
)
 
(3.02
)
   
24.64
 
(3.27
)
   
8,393
 
0.70
 
1.37
   
1.37
   
36
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
26.95
 
0.03
 
3.08
 
3.11
   
(0.07
)
(1.01
)
 
(1.08
)
   
28.98
 
11.65
     
25,032
 
0.12
 
1.37
   
1.37
   
32
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
22.62
 
0.07
 
4.29
 
4.36
   
 
(0.03
)
 
(0.03
)
   
26.95
 
19.29
     
24,974
 
0.28
 
1.37
   
1.37
   
30
 
                                                                               
BROWN ADVISORY GLOBAL LEADERS FUND:
 
                                                                               
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
16.38
 
0.03
 
6.22
 
6.25
   
(0.03
)
   
(0.03
)
   
22.60
 
38.17
     
1,149,790
 
0.16
 
0.76
   
0.76
   
14
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
15.24
 
0.07
 
1.13
 
1.20
   
(0.06
)
   
(0.06
)
   
16.38
 
7.85
     
605,983
 
0.45
 
0.75
   
0.82
   
27
 
10/31/18^
06/30/19
   
13.13
 
0.07
 
2.07
 
2.14
   
(0.03
)
   
(0.03
)
   
15.24
 
16.38
     
214,263
 
0.71
 
0.75
   
0.88
   
23
 
                                                                               
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
16.36
 
 
6.20
 
6.20
   
(0.02
)
   
(0.02
)
   
22.54
 
37.91
     
95,940
 
0.01
 
0.91
   
0.91
   
14
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
15.23
 
0.05
 
1.12
 
1.17
   
(0.04
)
   
(0.04
)
   
16.36
 
7.68
     
66,813
 
0.30
 
0.90
   
0.97
   
27
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
13.82
 
0.08
 
1.36
 
1.44
   
(0.03
)
   
(0.03
)
   
15.23
 
10.49
     
18,943
 
0.60
 
0.86
   
1.07
   
23
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
11.50
 
0.08
 
2.25
 
2.33
   
(0.01
)
   
(0.01
)
   
13.82
 
20.28
     
86,112
 
0.60
 
0.85
   
1.10
   
26
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
9.65
 
0.04
 
1.83
 
1.87
   
(0.02
)
   
(0.02
)
   
11.50
 
19.39
     
39,354
 
0.39
 
0.85
   
1.16
   
35
 

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

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Financial Highlights
           
From Investment
 
Distributions to
                 
Ratios to Average
       
           
Operations(a)
 
Shareholders From
                 
Net Assets(b)
       
                 
Net
                                                           
For a Share
             
Realized
                       
Net
       
Net
                       
Outstanding
 
Net Asset
   
Net
   
&
                       
Asset
       
Assets at
 
Net
                   
Throughout
 
Value,
   
Investment
   
Unrealized
       
Net
 
Net
         
Value,
       
End of
 
Investment
         
Gross
   
Portfolio
 
Each Fiscal Period:
 
Beginning
   
Income
   
Gains
       
Investment
 
Realized
         
End of
 
Total
   
Period
 
Income
   
Net
   
Expenses
   
Turnover
 
Beginning
Ending
 
of Period
   
(Loss)
   
(Losses)
   
Total
 
Income
 
Gains
   
Total
   
Period
 
Return(c)
     
(000’s
)
(Loss)
   
Expenses
   
(d)
   
Rate(c)
 
                                                                                 
BROWN ADVISORY INTERMEDIATE INCOME FUND:
 
                                                                                 
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
 
$
11.06
   
0.11
   
0.02
   
0.13
 
(0.13
)
 
(0.01
)
 
(0.14
)
 
$
11.05
 
1.11
%
 
$
167,774
 
1.02
%
 
0.47
%
   
0.50
%
 
50
%
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
10.72
   
0.24
   
0.35
   
0.59
 
(0.25
)
 
   
(0.25
)
   
11.06
 
5.55
     
148,300
 
2.24
   
0.49
     
0.53
   
105
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
10.35
   
0.27
   
0.36
   
0.63
 
(0.26
)
 
   
(0.26
)
   
10.72
 
6.24
     
135,175
 
2.63
   
0.47
     
0.53
   
82
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
10.60
   
0.23
   
(0.24
)
 
(0.01
)
(0.24
)
 
   
(0.24
)
   
10.35
 
(0.12
)
   
125,060
 
2.20
   
0.45
     
0.51
   
35
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
10.78
   
0.20
   
(0.16
)
 
0.04
 
(0.22
)
 
   
(0.22
)
   
10.60
 
0.40
     
131,941
 
1.88
   
0.45
     
0.51
   
62
 
                                                                                         
Advisor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
10.82
   
0.08
   
0.01
   
0.09
 
(0.10
)
 
(0.01
)
 
(0.11
)
   
10.80
 
0.79
     
3,661
 
0.77
   
0.72
     
0.75
   
50
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
10.49
   
0.21
   
0.34
   
0.55
 
(0.22
)
 
   
(0.22
)
   
10.82
 
5.32
     
3,624
 
1.99
   
0.74
     
0.78
   
105
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
10.13
   
0.24
   
0.36
   
0.60
 
(0.24
)
 
   
(0.24
)
   
10.49
 
6.01
     
3,615
 
2.38
   
0.72
     
0.78
   
82
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
10.38
   
0.20
   
(0.24
)
 
(0.04
)
(0.21
)
 
   
(0.21
)
   
10.13
 
(0.38
)
   
3,782
 
1.95
   
0.70
     
0.76
   
35
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
10.56
   
0.17
   
(0.15
)
 
0.02
 
(0.20
)
 
   
(0.20
)
   
10.38
 
0.16
     
4,098
 
1.63
   
0.70
     
0.76
   
62
 
                                                                                         
BROWN ADVISORY TOTAL RETURN FUND:
 
                                                                                         
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
10.51
   
0.14
   
0.18
   
0.32
 
(0.15
)
 
(0.19
)
 
(0.34
)
   
10.49
 
3.10
     
437,997
 
1.37
   
0.42
     
0.42
   
130
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
10.22
   
0.27
   
0.52
   
0.79
 
(0.28
)
 
(0.22
)
 
(0.50
)
   
10.51
 
7.90
     
388,100
 
2.62
   
0.45
     
0.45
   
143
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
9.78
   
0.32
   
0.44
   
0.76
 
(0.32
)
 
   
(0.32
)
   
10.22
 
7.90
     
246,074
 
3.26
   
0.49
     
0.49
   
106
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
10.00
   
0.28
   
(0.22
)
 
0.06
 
(0.28
)
 
   
(0.28
)
   
9.78
 
0.61
     
121,381
 
2.79
   
0.50
     
0.50
   
209
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
10.18
   
0.24
   
(0.16
)
 
0.08
 
(0.25
)
 
(0.01
)
 
(0.26
)
   
10.00
 
0.80
     
107,686
 
2.36
   
0.51
     
0.51
   
216
 
                                                                                         
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
10.51
   
0.14
   
0.18
   
0.32
 
(0.15
)
 
(0.19
)
 
(0.34
)
   
10.49
 
3.05
     
4,744
 
1.32
   
0.47
     
0.47
   
130
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
10.22
   
0.26
   
0.52
   
0.78
 
(0.27
)
 
(0.22
)
 
(0.49
)
   
10.51
 
7.85
     
4,523
 
2.57
   
0.50
     
0.50
   
143
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
9.78
   
0.32
   
0.43
   
0.75
 
(0.31
)
 
   
(0.31
)
   
10.22
 
7.85
     
4,916
 
3.21
   
0.54
     
0.54
   
106
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
10.00
   
0.27
   
(0.21
)
 
0.06
 
(0.28
)
 
   
(0.28
)
   
9.78
 
0.56
     
2,619
 
2.74
   
0.55
     
0.55
   
209
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
10.18
   
0.23
   
(0.16
)
 
0.07
 
(0.24
)
 
(0.01
)
 
(0.25
)
   
10.00
 
0.75
     
2,668
 
2.31
   
0.56
     
0.56
   
216
 
                                                                                         
BROWN ADVISORY SUSTAINABLE BOND FUND:
 
                                                                                         
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
10.54
   
0.16
   
0.10
   
0.26
 
(0.17
)
 
(0.21
)
 
(0.38
)
   
10.42
 
2.44
     
218,476
 
1.56
   
0.45
     
0.45
   
89
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
10.13
   
0.27
   
0.54
   
0.81
 
(0.28
)
 
(0.12
)
 
(0.40
)
   
10.54
 
8.14
     
153,472
 
2.63
   
0.48
     
0.48
   
97
 
07/02/18^
06/30/19
   
9.70
   
0.30
   
0.42
   
0.72
 
(0.29
)
 
   
(0.29
)
   
10.13
 
7.60
     
126,466
 
3.08
   
0.55
     
0.52
   
66
 
                                                                                         
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
10.54
   
0.16
   
0.10
   
0.26
 
(0.17
)
 
(0.21
)
 
(0.38
)
   
10.42
 
2.39
     
5,009
 
1.51
   
0.50
     
0.50
   
89
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
10.13
   
0.26
   
0.54
   
0.80
 
(0.27
)
 
(0.12
)
 
(0.39
)
   
10.54
 
8.09
     
2,125
 
2.58
   
0.53
     
0.53
   
97
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
9.70
   
0.29
   
0.43
   
0.72
 
(0.29
)
 
   
(0.29
)
   
10.13
 
7.54
     
884
 
3.03
   
0.60
     
0.57
   
66
 
08/07/17^
06/30/18
   
10.00
   
0.21
   
(0.34
)
 
(0.13
)
(0.17
)
 
   
(0.17
)
   
9.70
 
(1.27
)
   
54,291
 
2.41
   
0.60
     
0.71
   
64
 

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Financial Highlights
         
From Investment
   
Distributions to
                 
Ratios to Average
       
         
Operations(a)
   
Shareholders From
                 
Net Assets(b)
       
             
Net
                                                           
For a Share
         
Realized
                         
Net
       
Net
                     
Outstanding
 
Net Asset
 
Net
 
&
                         
Asset
       
Assets at
 
Net
                 
Throughout
 
Value,
 
Investment
 
Unrealized
         
Net
 
Net
         
Value,
       
End of
 
Investment
       
Gross
   
Portfolio
 
Each Fiscal Period:
 
Beginning
 
Income
 
Gains
         
Investment
 
Realized
         
End of
 
Total
   
Period
 
Income
 
Net
   
Expenses
   
Turnover
 
Beginning
Ending
 
of Period
 
(Loss)
 
(Losses)
   
Total
   
Income
 
Gains
   
Total
   
Period
 
Return(c)
     
(000’s
)
(Loss)
 
Expenses
   
(d)
   
Rate(c)
 
                                                                             
BROWN ADVISORY MARYLAND BOND FUND:
 
                                                                             
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
 
$
10.67
 
0.21
 
0.26
   
0.47
   
(0.26
)
 
   
(0.26
)
 
$
10.88
 
4.41
%
 
$
186,483
 
1.94
%
0.48
%
 
0.48
%
 
17
%
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
10.80
 
0.25
 
(0.09
)
 
0.16
   
(0.29
)
 
   
(0.29
)
   
10.67
 
1.44
     
176,198
 
2.31
 
0.49
   
0.49
   
37
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
10.50
 
0.28
 
0.30
   
0.58
   
(0.28
)
 
   
(0.28
)
   
10.80
 
5.65
     
182,072
 
2.69
 
0.49
   
0.49
   
33
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
10.62
 
0.26
 
(0.12
)
 
0.14
   
(0.26
)
 
   
(0.26
)
   
10.50
 
1.29
     
181,230
 
2.42
 
0.48
   
0.48
   
25
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
10.92
 
0.23
 
(0.26
)
 
(0.03
)
 
(0.23
)
 
(0.04
)
 
(0.27
)
   
10.62
 
(0.27
)
   
181,518
 
2.14
 
0.49
   
0.49
   
53
 
                                                                                   
BROWN ADVISORY TAX-EXEMPT BOND FUND:
 
                                                                                   
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
10.08
 
0.20
 
0.49
   
0.69
   
(0.27
)
 
   
(0.27
)
   
10.50
 
6.87
     
1,190,436
 
1.92
 
0.40
   
0.40
   
47
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
10.20
 
0.24
 
(0.08
)
 
0.16
   
(0.28
)
 
   
(0.28
)
   
10.08
 
1.59
     
1,072,444
 
2.38
 
0.42
   
0.42
   
80
 
07/02/18^
06/30/19
   
9.90
 
0.33
 
0.30
   
0.63
   
(0.33
)
 
   
(0.33
)
   
10.20
 
6.51
     
950,832
 
3.36
 
0.43
   
0.43
   
53
 
                                                                                   
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
10.09
 
0.19
 
0.48
   
0.67
   
(0.26
)
 
   
(0.26
)
   
10.50
 
6.72
     
11,537
 
1.87
 
0.45
   
0.45
   
47
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
10.20
 
0.24
 
(0.07
)
 
0.17
   
(0.28
)
 
   
(0.28
)
   
10.09
 
1.64
     
9,982
 
2.33
 
0.47
   
0.47
   
80
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
9.90
 
0.33
 
0.30
   
0.63
   
(0.33
)
 
   
(0.33
)
   
10.20
 
6.49
     
19,395
 
3.31
 
0.48
   
0.48
   
53
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
9.94
 
0.31
 
(0.04
)
 
0.27
   
(0.31
)
 
   
(0.31
)
   
9.90
 
2.78
     
439,906
 
3.16
 
0.48
   
0.48
   
55
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
10.26
 
0.29
 
(0.32
)
 
(0.03
)
 
(0.29
)
 
   
(0.29
)
   
9.94
 
(0.29
)
   
257,602
 
2.88
 
0.49
   
0.49
   
55
 
                                                                                   
BROWN ADVISORY TAX-EXEMPT SUSTAINABLE BOND FUND:
 
                                                                                   
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
9.88
 
0.13
 
0.32
   
0.45
   
(0.13
)
 
(0.01
)
 
(0.14
)
   
10.19
 
4.57
     
179,123
 
1.32
 
0.49
   
0.49
   
66
 
12/02/19^
06/30/20
   
10.00
 
0.08
 
(0.12
)
 
(0.04
)
 
(0.08
)
 
   
(0.08
)
   
9.88
 
(0.37
)
   
157,032
 
1.45
 
0.55
   
0.55
   
39
 
                                                                                   
BROWN ADVISORY MORTGAGE SECURITIES FUND:
 
                                                                                   
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
10.46
 
(0.03
)
0.19
   
0.16
   
(0.06
)
 
   
(0.06
)
   
10.56
 
1.53
     
288,526
 
(0.27
)
0.45
   
0.45
   
148
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
10.02
 
0.11
 
0.50
   
0.61
   
(0.17
)
 
   
(0.17
)
   
10.46
 
6.09
     
238,202
 
1.07
 
0.47
   
0.47
   
139
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
9.65
 
0.22
 
0.42
   
0.64
   
(0.27
)
 
   
(0.27
)
   
10.02
 
6.72
     
281,728
 
2.29
 
0.47
   
0.47
   
200
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
9.87
 
0.18
 
(0.16
)
 
0.02
   
(0.24
)
 
   
(0.24
)
   
9.65
 
0.16
     
300,643
 
1.86
 
0.47
   
0.47
   
336
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
10.20
 
0.15
 
(0.21
)
 
(0.06
)
 
(0.20
)
 
(0.07
)
 
(0.27
)
   
9.87
 
(0.52
)
   
342,705
 
1.53
 
0.46
   
0.46
   
414
 
                                                                                   
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
10.47
 
(0.03
)
0.19
   
0.16
   
(0.06
)
 
   
(0.06
)
   
10.57
 
1.48
     
31,876
 
(0.32
)
0.50
   
0.50
   
148
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
10.02
 
0.11
 
0.50
   
0.61
   
(0.16
)
 
   
(0.16
)
   
10.47
 
6.15
     
9,755
 
1.02
 
0.52
   
0.52
   
139
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
9.66
 
0.22
 
0.40
   
0.62
   
(0.26
)
 
   
(0.26
)
   
10.02
 
6.55
     
266
 
2.24
 
0.52
   
0.52
   
200
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
9.87
 
0.18
 
(0.16
)
 
0.02
   
(0.23
)
 
   
(0.23
)
   
9.66
 
0.21
     
321
 
1.81
 
0.52
   
0.52
   
336
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
10.21
 
0.15
 
(0.22
)
 
(0.07
)
 
(0.20
)
 
(0.07
)
 
(0.27
)
   
9.87
 
(0.68
)
   
738
 
1.48
 
0.51
   
0.51
   
414
 

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

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Financial Highlights
         
From Investment
   
Distributions to
                 
Ratios to Average
       
         
Operations(a)
   
Shareholders From
                 
Net Assets(b)
       
             
Net
                                                         
For a Share
         
Realized
                       
Net
       
Net
                     
Outstanding
 
Net Asset
 
Net
 
&
                       
Asset
       
Assets at
 
Net
                 
Throughout
 
Value,
 
Investment
 
Unrealized
       
Net
   
Net
       
Value,
       
End of
 
Investment
       
Gross
   
Portfolio
 
Each Fiscal Period:
 
Beginning
 
Income
 
Gains
       
Investment
   
Realized
       
End of
 
Total
   
Period
 
Income
 
Net
   
Expenses
   
Turnover
 
Beginning
Ending
 
of Period
 
(Loss)
 
(Losses)
 
Total
   
Income
   
Gains
 
Total
   
Period
 
Return(c)
     
(000’s
)
(Loss)
 
Expenses
   
(d)
   
Rate(c)
 
                                                                           
BROWN ADVISORY – WMC STRATEGIC EUROPEAN EQUITY FUND:
 
                                                                           
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
 
$
10.51
 
0.13
 
3.20
   
3.33
   
(0.03
)
 
(0.73
)
 
(0.76
)
 
$
13.08
 
32.55
%
 
$
417,419
 
1.12
%
1.05
%
 
1.05
%
 
51
%
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
11.15
 
0.03
 
(0.07
)
 
(0.04
)
 
(0.10
)
 
(0.50
)
 
(0.60
)
   
10.51
 
(0.66
)
   
287,081
 
0.29
 
1.09
   
1.09
   
53
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
12.42
 
0.07
 
(0.16
)
 
(0.09
)
 
(0.20
)
 
(0.98
)
 
(1.18
)
   
11.15
 
0.84
     
470,903
 
0.62
 
1.07
   
1.07
   
34
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
12.05
 
0.13
 
0.35
   
0.48
   
(0.11
)
 
   
(0.11
)
   
12.42
 
3.97
     
927,916
 
1.03
 
1.07
   
1.07
   
33
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
9.90
 
0.12
 
2.16
   
2.28
   
(0.13
)
 
   
(0.13
)
   
12.05
 
23.32
     
1,176,492
 
1.10
 
1.09
   
1.09
   
27
 
                                                                                   
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
10.48
 
0.12
 
3.18
   
3.30
   
(0.02
)
 
(0.73
)
 
(0.75
)
   
13.03
 
32.36
     
39,751
 
0.97
 
1.20
   
1.20
   
51
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
11.12
 
0.01
 
(0.06
)
 
(0.05
)
 
(0.09
)
 
(0.50
)
 
(0.59
)
   
10.48
 
(0.77
)
   
22,224
 
0.14
 
1.24
   
1.24
   
53
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
12.41
 
0.05
 
(0.17
)
 
(0.12
)
 
(0.19
)
 
(0.98
)
 
(1.17
)
   
11.12
 
0.58
     
18,100
 
0.47
 
1.22
   
1.22
   
34
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
12.05
 
0.11
 
0.36
   
0.47
   
(0.11
)
 
   
(0.11
)
   
12.41
 
3.85
     
14,669
 
0.88
 
1.22
   
1.22
   
33
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
9.90
 
0.10
 
2.17
   
2.27
   
(0.12
)
 
   
(0.12
)
   
12.05
 
23.18
     
7,367
 
0.95
 
1.24
   
1.24
   
27
 
                                                                                   
Advisor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
10.38
 
0.08
 
3.16
   
3.24
   
(0.01
)
 
(0.73
)
 
(0.74
)
   
12.88
 
32.01
     
3,728
 
0.72
 
1.45
   
1.45
   
51
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
11.03
 
(0.01
)
(0.07
)
 
(0.08
)
 
(0.07
)
 
(0.50
)
 
(0.57
)
   
10.38
 
(1.04
)
   
3,816
 
(0.11
)
1.49
   
1.49
   
53
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
12.30
 
0.02
 
(0.16
)
 
(0.14
)
 
(0.15
)
 
(0.98
)
 
(1.13
)
   
11.03
 
0.42
     
7,563
 
0.22
 
1.47
   
1.47
   
34
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
11.98
 
0.08
 
0.35
   
0.43
   
(0.11
)
 
   
(0.11
)
   
12.30
 
3.54
     
13,313
 
0.63
 
1.47
   
1.47
   
33
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
9.85
 
0.08
 
2.15
   
2.23
   
(0.10
)
 
   
(0.10
)
   
11.98
 
22.91
     
10,740
 
0.70
 
1.49
   
1.49
   
27
 
                                                                                   
BROWN ADVISORY EMERGING MARKETS SELECT FUND:
 
                                                                                   
Institutional Shares*
                                                                         
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
8.86
 
0.09
 
3.69
   
3.78
   
(0.07
)
 
   
(0.07
)
   
12.57
 
42.71
     
529,908
 
0.78
 
1.12
   
1.12
   
61
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
9.34
 
0.11
 
(0.48
)
 
(0.37
)
 
(0.11
)
 
   
(0.11
)
   
8.86
 
(4.04
)
   
267,282
 
1.27
 
1.16
   
1.16
   
62
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
10.06
 
0.11
 
(0.48
)
 
(0.37
)
 
(0.35
)
 
   
(0.35
)
   
9.34
 
(3.35
)
   
326,693
 
1.20
 
1.26
   
1.26
   
131
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
10.17
 
0.17
 
(0.17
)
 
   
(0.11
)
 
   
(0.11
)
   
10.06
 
(0.12
)
   
513,535
 
1.57
 
1.15
   
1.15
   
13
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
8.73
 
0.12
 
1.43
   
1.55
   
(0.11
)
 
   
(0.11
)
   
10.17
 
18.04
     
407,616
 
1.31
 
1.17
   
1.17
   
23
 
                                                                                   
Investor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
8.85
 
0.07
 
3.69
   
3.76
   
(0.05
)
 
   
(0.05
)
   
12.56
 
42.56
     
5,908
 
0.63
 
1.27
   
1.27
   
61
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
9.33
 
0.10
 
(0.49
)
 
(0.39
)
 
(0.09
)
 
   
(0.09
)
   
8.85
 
(4.29
)
   
4,202
 
1.12
 
1.31
   
1.31
   
62
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
10.03
 
0.10
 
(0.48
)
 
(0.38
)
 
(0.32
)
 
   
(0.32
)
   
9.33
 
(3.42
)
   
5,063
 
1.05
 
1.41
   
1.41
   
131
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
10.15
 
0.16
 
(0.19
)
 
(0.03
)
 
(0.09
)
 
   
(0.09
)
   
10.03
 
(0.37
)
   
38,106
 
1.42
 
1.30
   
1.30
   
13
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
8.71
 
0.11
 
1.43
   
1.54
   
(0.10
)
 
   
(0.10
)
   
10.15
 
17.90
     
183,378
 
1.16
 
1.32
   
1.32
   
23
 
                                                                                   
Advisor Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
   
8.87
 
0.04
 
3.70
   
3.74
   
(0.01
)
 
   
(0.01
)
   
12.60
 
42.17
     
24
 
0.38
 
1.52
   
1.52
   
61
 
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
9.37
 
0.08
 
(0.50
)
 
(0.42
)
 
(0.08
)
 
   
(0.08
)
   
8.87
 
(4.61
)
   
52
 
0.87
 
1.56
   
1.56
   
62
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
10.07
 
0.07
 
(0.47
)
 
(0.40
)
 
(0.30
)
 
   
(0.30
)
   
9.37
 
(3.66
)
   
167
 
0.80
 
1.66
   
1.66
   
131
 
07/01/17
06/30/18
   
10.19
 
0.13
 
(0.18
)
 
(0.05
)
 
(0.07
)
 
   
(0.07
)
   
10.07
 
(0.60
)
   
172
 
1.17
 
1.55
   
1.55
   
13
 
07/01/16
06/30/17
   
8.73
 
0.08
 
1.45
   
1.53
   
(0.07
)
 
   
(0.07
)
   
10.19
 
17.65
     
253
 
0.91
 
1.57
   
1.57
   
23
 

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

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From Investment
 
Distributions to
               
Ratios to Average
     
         
Operations(a)
 
Shareholders From
               
Net Assets(b)
     
             
Net
                                               
For a Share
         
Realized
                 
Net
       
Net
                 
Outstanding
 
Net Asset
 
Net
 
&
                 
Asset
       
Assets at
 
Net
             
Throughout
 
Value,
 
Investment
 
Unrealized
     
Net
 
Net
     
Value,
       
End of
 
Investment
     
Gross
 
Portfolio
 
Each Fiscal Period:
 
Beginning
 
Income
 
Gains
     
Investment
 
Realized
     
End of
 
Total
   
Period
 
Income
 
Net
 
Expenses
 
Turnover
 
Beginning
Ending
 
of Period
 
(Loss)
 
(Losses)
 
Total
 
Income
 
Gains
 
Total
 
Period
 
Return(c)
     
(000’s
)
(Loss)
 
Expenses
 
(d)
 
Rate(c)
 
                                                                 
BROWN ADVISORY – BEUTEL GOODMAN LARGE-CAP VALUE FUND:
 
                                                                 
Institutional Shares*
 
07/01/20
06/30/21
 
$
10.61
 
0.20
 
3.99
   
4.19
 
(0.39
)
 
(0.39
)
$
14.41
 
40.12
%
 
$
1,149,351
 
1.52
%
0.55
%
0.55
%
42
%
07/01/19
06/30/20
   
10.47
 
0.56
 
(0.20
)
 
0.36
 
(0.10
)
(0.12
)
(0.22
)
 
10.61
 
3.27
     
452,012
 
5.26
 
0.57
 
0.57
 
32
 
07/01/18
06/30/19
   
9.58
 
0.20
 
0.89
   
1.09
 
(0.11
)
(0.09
)
(0.20
)
 
10.47
 
11.62
     
296,963
 
1.97
 
0.60
 
0.60
 
45
 
02/13/18^
06/30/18
   
10.00
 
0.06
 
(0.48
)
 
(0.42
)
 
 
   
9.58
 
(4.20
)
   
151,004
 
1.61
 
0.67
 
0.67
 
11
 

*
Redemption fees of less than $0.005/share are not presented and are included in net realized & unrealized gains (losses) from investment operations.  The increase in the portfolio turnover rate  for Brown Advisory Emerging Markets Select Fund for the year ended June 30, 2019 was primarily the result of a change in sub-advisers during the year.
^
Commencement of operations.
(a)
Calculated based on average shares outstanding during the fiscal period.
(b)
Annualized for periods less than one year.  Ratios include only income and expenses of the funds themselves, as presented in the Statements of Operations, and do not include any additional or pro rata amounts of income or expenses from the ownership of any other investment companies (as applicable).
(c)
Not annualized for periods less than one year.  Portfolio turnover rates are calculated at the fund level (not by individual share class).
(d)
Reflects the expense ratio excluding any expense waivers or expense recoupments.

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

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Note 1. Organization
 
Brown Advisory Funds (the “Trust”) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-ended management investment company. The Trust offers the following series of shares (each a “Fund,” and collectively, the “Funds”):
 
Brown Advisory Growth Equity Fund (“Growth Equity Fund”) seeks to achieve capital appreciation by primarily investing in equity securities,
   
Brown Advisory Flexible Equity Fund (“Flexible Equity Fund”) seeks to achieve long-term growth of capital,
   
Brown Advisory Equity Income Fund (“Equity Income Fund”) seeks to provide current dividend yield and dividend growth,
   
Brown Advisory Sustainable Growth Fund (“Sustainable Growth Fund”) seeks to achieve capital appreciation,
   
Brown Advisory Mid-Cap Growth Fund (“Mid-Cap Growth Fund”) seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation,
   
Brown Advisory Small-Cap Growth Fund (“Small-Cap Growth Fund”) seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation by primarily investing in equity securities,
   
Brown Advisory Small-Cap Fundamental Value Fund (“Small-Cap Fundamental Value Fund”) seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation,
   
Brown Advisory Global Leaders Fund (“Global Leaders Fund”) seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in global equities,
   
Brown Advisory Intermediate Income Fund (“Intermediate Income Fund”) seeks to provide a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of principal within an intermediate-term maturity structure,
   
Brown Advisory Total Return Fund (“Total Return Fund”) seeks to provide a competitive total return consistent with the preservation of principal,
   
Brown Advisory Sustainable Bond Fund (“Sustainable Bond Fund”) seeks to provide a competitive total return consistent with the preservation of principal while giving special consideration to certain environmental, social and governance criteria,
   
Brown Advisory Maryland Bond Fund (“Maryland Bond Fund”) seeks to provide a high level of current income exempt from both Federal and Maryland State income taxes without undue risk,
   
Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond Fund (“Tax-Exempt Bond Fund”) seeks to provide a high level of current income exempt from Federal income tax by investing primarily in intermediate-term investment grade municipal bonds,
   
Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund (“Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund”) seeks to provide a high level of current income exempt from Federal income tax by investing primarily in intermediate-term investment grade municipal bonds while giving special consideration to certain environmental, social, and governance criteria,
   
Brown Advisory Mortgage Securities Fund (“Mortgage Securities Fund”) seeks to maximize total return consistent with preservation of capital,
   
Brown Advisory – WMC Strategic European Equity Fund (“WMC Strategic European Equity Fund”) seeks to achieve total return by investing principally in equity securities issued by companies established or operating in Europe,
   
Brown Advisory Emerging Markets Select Fund (“Emerging Markets Select Fund”) seeks to achieve total return by investing principally in equity securities issued by companies established or operating in emerging markets, and
   
Brown Advisory – Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund (“Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund”) seeks to achieve capital appreciation.


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The Funds commenced operations as follows:
 
  
Institutional
Investor
 
Advisor
      
 
Institutional
 
Investor
 
Advisor
 
Fund
 
Shares
Shares
 
Shares
   
Fund
   
Shares
 
Shares
 
Shares
 
Growth Equity
 
10/19/2012
  6/28/1999
 
  5/18/2006
   
Sustainable Bond
   
7/2/2018
 
    8/7/2017
 
              —
 
Flexible Equity
 
10/19/2012
11/30/2006
 
  1/24/2007
   
Maryland Bond
   
          —
 
12/21/2000
 
              —
 
Equity Income
 
10/19/2012
12/29/2011
 
12/29/2011
   
Tax-Exempt Bond
   
7/2/2018
 
  6/29/2012
 
              —
 
Sustainable Growth
 
  6/29/2012
  6/29/2012
 
  6/29/2012
   
Tax-Exempt
               
Mid-Cap Growth
 
    7/2/2018
  10/2/2017
 
              —
   
  Sustainable Bond
   
          —
 
  12/2/2019
 
              —
 
Small-Cap Growth
 
  9/20/2002
  6/28/1999
 
  4/25/2006
   
Mortgage Securities
   
5/13/2014
 
12/26/2013
 
              —
 
Small-Cap
             
WMC Strategic
               
  Fundamental Value
 
10/19/2012
12/31/2008
 
   7/28/2011
   
  European Equity
   
10/21/2013
 
10/21/2013
 
10/21/2013
 
Global Leaders
 
10/31/2018
    7/1/2015
 
              —
   
Emerging Markets Select
   
12/12/2012
 
12/12/2012
 
12/12/2012
 
Intermediate Income
 
              —
  11/2/1995
 
   5/13/1991
   
Beutel Goodman
               
Total Return
 
10/30/2014
10/30/2014
 
               —
   
  Large-Cap Value
   
2/13/2018
 
  6/30/2021
 
              —
 

Note 2. Significant Accounting Policies
 
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Funds. These policies are in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). The Funds are investment companies and follow the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services – Investment Companies, which is part of U.S. GAAP.
 
A. Security Valuation – The Funds have adopted fair valuation accounting standards which establish an authoritative definition of fair value and set out a hierarchy for measuring fair value. These standards require additional disclosures about the various inputs and valuation techniques used to develop the measurements of fair value and a discussion of changes in valuation techniques and related inputs, if any, during the period. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
 
Level 1 –
Quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.
   
Level 2 –
Evaluated price based on other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment spreads, credit risk, etc).
   
Level 3 –
Significant unobservable inputs (including the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments).

The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
 
Domestic Equity Securities – Domestic equity securities that are traded on a national securities exchange, except those listed on the NASDAQ Global Market® (“NASDAQ”), are valued at the last reported sale price on the exchange on which the security is principally traded. Securities traded on NASDAQ will be valued at the NASDAQ Official Closing Price (“NOCP”). If, on a particular day, an exchange-traded or NASDAQ security does not trade, then the mean between the most recent quoted bid and asked prices will be used. All equity securities that are not traded on a listed exchange are valued at the last sale price in the over- the counter market. If a non-exchange traded security does not trade on a particular day, then the mean between the last quoted closing bid and asked price will be used. Such domestic equity securities are typically categorized as Level 1 securities. Investments in other domestic open-ended mutual funds are valued at their reported Net Asset Value (“NAV”) and are typically categorized as Level 1 securities. Investments in Exchange Traded Funds (“ETFs”) and Closed-End Funds are valued at their last reported sale price and are typically categorized as Level 1 securities.
 
Foreign Equity Securities – For foreign equity securities that are traded on foreign exchanges, the Funds have selected ICE Data Services (“ICE”) to provide pricing data. The use of ICE’s pricing services with respect to these foreign exchange traded securities is designed to capture events occurring after a foreign exchange closes that may affect the value of certain holdings of the Funds that are traded on those foreign exchanges. The Funds utilize a confidence interval when determining whether or not to utilize these prices provided by ICE. The confidence interval is a measure of the relationship that each foreign exchange traded security has to movements in various indices and the price of the foreign exchange traded security’s corresponding American Depositary Receipt, if one exists. ICE provides a confidence interval for each foreign exchange traded security for which it provides a price. If the confidence interval provided by ICE is equal to or greater than a predefined level
 

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utilized by the Funds, the Funds will value that foreign exchange traded security at that price. If the confidence interval provided by ICE is less than the predefined level utilized by the Funds, the Funds will value that foreign exchange traded security at the preceding closing price on its respective foreign exchange, or, if there were no transactions on the preceding day, at the mean between the bid and the asked prices. Such foreign securities are typically categorized as Level 2 securities. Foreign securities for which the local market closing prices are utilized are typically categorized as Level 1 securities.
 
Debt Securities – Debt securities are valued by using the mean between the closing bid and asked prices provided by an independent pricing service. If the closing bid and asked prices are not readily available, the independent pricing service may provide a price determined by a matrix pricing method. These techniques generally consider such factors as yields or prices of bonds of comparable quality, type of issue, coupon, maturity, ratings and general market conditions. Fixed income debt instruments, such as commercial paper, banker’s acceptances and U.S. Treasury Bills, having a maturity of less than 60 days are valued at amortized cost when the amortized cost value is determined to approximate fair value established using market-based and issuer-specific factors. Such debt securities are typically categorized as Level 2.
 
Exchange Traded Options – Exchange traded options are valued at the composite price, using the National Best Bid and Offer quotes (NBBO). NBBO consists of the highest bid price and lowest ask price across any of the exchanges on which an option is quoted, thus providing a view across the entire U.S. options marketplace. Specifically, composite pricing calculates the mean of the highest bid price and lowest ask price across the exchanges where the option is traded. Such options are typically categorized as Level 2.
 
Futures Contracts – Futures contracts are generally valued at the settlement prices established each day on the exchange on which they are traded and are categorized as Level 1 securities.
 
Forward Foreign Currency Contracts – Forward foreign currency contracts are valued at the prevailing forward exchange rates of the underlying currencies and are categorized as Level 2 securities.
 
Securities for which quotations are not readily available, or for which quotations are deemed to be inaccurate or unreliable, are valued at their respective fair values as determined in good faith under guidelines and procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. These are generally considered Level 3 securities when significant unobservable inputs are utilized in the determination of the fair value. When a security is “fair valued,” consideration is given to the facts and circumstances relevant to the particular situation, including a review of various factors set forth in the   lines and procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. Fair value pricing is an inherently subjective process, and no single standard exists for determining fair value. Different funds could reasonably arrive at different values for the same security. The use of fair value pricing by a fund may cause the net asset value of its shares to differ significantly from the net asset value that would be calculated without regard to such considerations. As of June 30, 2021, the Small-Cap Growth Fund and Emerging Markets Select Fund held Level 3 securities for which significant and unobservable inputs or assumptions were used in the determination of fair value. The total value of such securities held as of June 30, 2021 was $1,783,450 or 0.1% of Small-Cap Growth Fund’s net assets and $2,107 or 0.0% of Emerging Market Select Fund’s net assets.
 
The following is a summary of inputs used to value the Funds’ investments as of June 30, 2021:
 
   
Level 1
   
Level 2
   
Level 3
 
Growth Equity Fund
                 
Common Stocks
 
$
3,367,883,630
   
$
   
$
 
REIT^
   
106,918,114
     
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
52,998,101
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
3,527,799,845
   
$
   
$
 
                         
Flexible Equity Fund
                       
Common Stocks
 
$
668,653,114
   
$
   
$
 
REIT^
   
16,506,511
     
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
23,925,248
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
709,084,873
   
$
   
$
 
                         
Equity Income Fund
                       
Common Stocks
 
$
80,937,216
   
$
   
$
 
Preferred Stocks
   
1,362,988
     
     
 
REIT^
   
3,650,914
     
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
3,023,136
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
88,974,254
   
$
   
$
 
                         
Sustainable Growth Fund
                       
Common Stocks
 
$
5,349,731,142
   
$
   
$
 
REIT^
   
216,866,501
     
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
76,469,607
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
5,643,067,250
   
$
   
$
 
                         
Mid-Cap Growth Fund
                       
Common Stocks
 
$
180,886,243
   
$
   
$
 
REIT^
   
4,025,181
     
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
7,408,454
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
192,319,878
   
$
   
$
 
                         
Small-Cap Growth Fund
                       
Common Stocks
 
$
2,387,652,640
   
$
   
$
 
Private Placements
   
     
     
1,783,450
 
REIT^
   
57,856,400
     
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
116,999,929
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
2,562,508,969
   
$
   
$
1,783,450
 


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Level 1
   
Level 2
   
Level 3
 
Small-Cap Fundamental Value Fund
                 
Common Stocks
 
$
1,122,251,686
   
$
   
$
 
REIT^
   
93,161,581
     
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
26,580,611
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
1,241,993,878
   
$
   
$
 
                         
Global Leaders Fund
                       
Common Stocks:
                       
  China
 
$
   
$
79,267,500
   
$
 
  France
   
     
42,099,708
     
 
  Germany
   
     
66,963,993
     
 
  India
   
     
31,539,712
     
 
  Indonesia
   
     
27,257,253
     
 
  Netherlands
   
     
32,607,825
     
 
  Sweden
   
     
30,380,906
     
 
  Switzerland
   
     
64,033,642
     
 
  Taiwan
   
48,312,011
     
     
 
  United Kingdom
   
     
34,153,569
     
 
  United States
   
771,386,076
     
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
15,393,557
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
835,091,644
   
$
408,304,108
   
$
 
                         
Intermediate Income Fund
                       
Corporate Bonds & Notes
 
$
   
$
48,047,173
   
$
 
Mortgage Backed Securities
   
     
34,482,423
     
 
Asset Backed Securities
   
     
18,376,975
     
 
U.S. Treasury Notes
   
     
45,994,247
     
 
Affiliated Mutual Funds
   
20,785,301
     
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
2,852,409
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
23,637,710
   
$
146,900,818
   
$
 
                         
Total Return Fund
                       
Corporate Bonds & Notes
 
$
   
$
172,094,063
   
$
 
Mortgage Backed Securities
   
     
135,753,369
     
 
Asset Backed Securities
   
     
78,561,322
     
 
U.S. Treasury Notes
   
     
70,243,946
     
 
Municipal Bonds
   
     
1,890,027
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
24,131,317
     
1,799,974
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
24,131,317
   
$
460,342,701
   
$
 
Futures Contracts – Long*
 
$
2,486,565
   
$
   
$
 
Futures Contracts – Short*
 
$
(655,639
)
 
$
   
$
 
                         
Sustainable Bond Fund
                       
Corporate Bonds & Notes
 
$
   
$
86,707,931
   
$
 
Mortgage Backed Securities
   
     
67,377,386
     
 
Asset Backed Securities
   
     
20,018,904
     
 
U.S. Treasury Notes
   
     
18,774,414
     
 
Foreign Government Bonds
   
     
17,125,760
     
 
Municipal Bonds
   
     
9,741,533
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
24,730,581
     
249,996
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
24,730,581
   
$
219,995,924
   
$
 
Futures Contracts – Long*
 
$
1,052,401
   
$
   
$
 
Futures Contracts – Short*
 
$
(318,888
)
 
$
   
$
 
                         
Maryland Bond Fund
                       
Municipal Bonds
 
$
   
$
182,986,541
   
$
 
Short-Term Investments
   
1,326,775
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
1,326,775
   
$
182,986,541
   
$
 
                         
Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
                       
Municipal Bonds
 
$
   
$
1,202,615,311
   
$
 
Short-Term Investments
   
9,813,038
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
9,813,038
   
$
1,202,615,311
   
$
 
                         
Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund
                       
Municipal Bonds
 
$
   
$
174,431,544
   
$
 
Short-Term Investments
   
5,005,964
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
5,005,964
   
$
174,431,544
   
$
 
                         
Mortgage Securities Fund
                       
Mortgage Backed Securities
 
$
   
$
273,644,753
   
$
 
Asset Backed Securities
   
     
17,517,216
     
 
Corporate Bonds & Notes
   
     
1,879,751
     
 
Municipal Bonds
   
     
611,193
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
60,256,379
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
60,256,379
   
$
293,652,913
   
$
 
Futures Contracts – Long*
 
$
165,384
   
$
   
$
 
Futures Contracts – Short*
 
$
(94,760
)
 
$
   
$
 
                         
WMC Strategic European Equity Fund
                       
Common Stocks:
                       
  Austria
 
$
1,675,634
   
$
6,049,302
   
$
 
  Belgium
   
     
18,533,795
     
 
  Czech Republic
   
     
4,658,762
     
 
  Denmark
   
     
3,069,353
     
 
  France
   
     
57,651,181
     
 
  Germany
   
3,488,439
     
61,702,597
     
 
  Italy
   
     
457,439
     
 
  Netherlands
   
     
23,002,292
     
 
  Portugal
   
     
7,885,731
     
 
  Spain
   
2,913,456
     
13,121,679
     
 
  Sweden
   
     
45,406,088
     
 
  Switzerland
   
     
42,483,246
     
 
  United Kingdom
   
6,021,660
     
142,500,334
     
 
Preferred Stocks
   
     
3,163,275
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
11,868,531
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
25,967,720
   
$
429,685,074
   
$
 


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Level 1
   
Level 2
   
Level 3
 
Emerging Markets Select Fund
                 
Common Stocks:
                 
  Brazil
 
$
9,072,965
   
$
   
$
 
  China
   
50,720,027
     
134,002,581
     
2,107
 
  Czech Republic
   
     
4,536,814
     
 
  Hungary
   
     
4,838,666
     
 
  India
   
4,324,268
     
58,209,781
     
 
  Indonesia
   
     
6,078,139
     
 
  Malaysia
   
     
1,749,270
     
 
  Russia
   
     
13,744,851
     
 
  Singapore
   
     
11,460,607
     
 
  South Africa
   
     
4,420,727
     
 
  South Korea
   
     
72,682,181
     
 
  Taiwan
   
     
83,526,880
     
 
  Thailand
   
     
7,095,797
     
 
  Turkey
   
     
5,110,401
     
 
  United Arab Emirates
   
     
4,548,773
     
 
  United Kingdom
   
     
6,401,871
     
 
  United States
   
9,791,680
     
     
 
Preferred Stocks:
                       
  Brazil
   
12,057,223
     
     
 
  South Korea
   
     
2,199,236
     
 
Exchanged Traded Funds
   
10,788,876
     
     
 
Short-Term Investments
   
17,814,072
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
114,569,111
   
$
420,606,575
   
$
2,107
 
                         
Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund
                       
Common Stocks
 
$
1,119,711,325
   
$
   
$
 
Short-Term Investments
   
31,416,800
     
     
 
Total Investments
 
$
1,151,128,125
   
$
   
$
 

^
Real Estate Investment Trusts
*
Amounts presented for Futures Contracts represent total unrealized appreciation (depreciation) as of the date of this report.

The following is a reconciliation of Level 3 securities for which significant unobservable inputs were used to determine fair value.
 
Small-Cap Growth Fund
 
Private Placements
 
Balance as of June 30, 2020
 
$
1,814,370
 
Purchases
   
 
Distributions / returns of capital
   
(897,750
)
Realized gains
   
897,750
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
(30,920
)
Balance as June 30, 2021
 
$
1,783,450
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) for Level 3 investments held at June 30, 2021
 
$
(30,920
)

Private Placements – The inputs utilized in valuing the private placements consist of annual audited financial statements and quarterly capital statements which are provided by the issuer. These valuations are adjusted periodically for certain events (additional contributions of capital or purchases made by the Fund, distributions to the Fund made by the issuer, etc) that may occur prior to receipt of the next quarterly capital statement or Annual Report.
 
Emerging Markets Select Fund
 
Common Stock
 
Balance as of June 30, 2020
 
$
 
Transfers into Level 3
   
1,537,485
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
   
(1,535,378
)
Balance as of June 30, 2021
 
$
2,107
 
Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) for Level 3 investments held at June 30, 2021
 
$
(1,535,378
)

Common Stock – The inputs utilized in valuing the common stock consist of information disclosed by the Audit Committee of Brilliance China Automotive Holdings, Ltd. (“Brilliance China”) which indicated that certain wholly owned subsidiaries have entered into unauthorized transactions resulting in material unknown and unauthorized liabilities for Brilliance China.  The discovery of these liabilities, litigation related to these liabilities, as well as the search for any additional unknown liabilities has resulted in Brilliance China’s annual audit being delayed indefinitely and past the March 31, 2021 deadline for the company to continue trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
 

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B. Securities Transactions and Investment Income – Investment securities transactions are accounted for on trade date. Discounts/premiums on debt securities purchased are accreted/amortized to contractual maturity, estimated maturity, or next call date, as applicable. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is recorded on an accrual basis. Income and capital gains on some foreign securities may be subject to foreign withholding or capital gains taxes. Identified cost of investments sold is used to determine the gain and loss for both financial statement and Federal income tax purposes. Distributions deemed to be a return of capital are recorded as a reduction of the cost of the related investments or as realized capital gains when there is no remaining cost basis on the investments.
 
C. Expenses and Share Class Allocations – Expenses directly attributable to a Fund are charged to that Fund. Expenses attributable to more than one Fund are allocated to the respective Funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods. In Funds with multiple share classes, each share class has equal rights to earnings and assets except that each share class bears different shareholder servicing and/or Rule 12b-1 distribution expenses. Each share class has exclusive voting rights with respect to matters that affect just that share class. Income, expenses (other than expenses attributable to a specific share class), and realized and unrealized capital gains or losses on investments are allocated to each share class on the basis of relative net assets.
 
D. Foreign Currency – Investment securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. Dollar amounts at the date of valuation. Purchases and sales of investment securities and income and expense items denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. Dollar amounts on the respective dates of such transactions.
 
The Funds do not isolate the portion of the results of operations resulting from changes in foreign exchange rates on investments from the fluctuations arising from changes in market prices of securities held. Such fluctuations are included with the net realized and unrealized gain or loss from investments. Some of the Funds may invest in forward foreign currency contracts. These amounts are presented separately from realized and unrealized gains and losses from investments in the financial statements.
 
E. Options – The Funds may invest in options. When a Fund writes an option, an amount equal to the premium received by a Fund is recorded as a liability and is subsequently adjusted to the current value of the option written. Premiums received from writing options that expire unexercised are treated by a Fund on the expiration date as realized gain from investments. The difference between the premium and the amount paid on effecting a closing purchase transaction, including brokerage commissions, is also treated as a realized gain, or if the premium is less than the amount paid for closing purchase transaction, as a realized loss. If a call option is exercised, the premium is added to the proceeds from the sale of the underlying security or currency determining whether a Fund has a realized gain or loss. If a put option is exercised, the premium reduces the cost basis of the securities purchase by a Fund. A Fund, as a writer of an option, bears the market risk of an unfavorable change in the price of the security underlying the written option.
 
When a Fund purchases an option, an amount equal to the premium paid by a Fund is recorded as an investment and is subsequently adjusted to the current value of the option purchased. If an option expires on the stipulated expiration date or if a Fund enters into a closing sale transaction, a gain or loss is realized. If a call option is exercised, the cost of the security acquired is increased by the premium paid for the call. If a put option is exercised, a gain or loss is realized from the sale of the underlying security, and the proceeds from such sale are decreased by the premium originally paid. Written and purchased options are non-income producing securities. None of the Funds purchased, sold or wrote any options during the year ended June 30, 2021.
 
F. To-Be-Announced Securities – Some of the Funds may invest in to-be-announced securities (“TBAs”). TBAs is a term that is generally used to describe forward-settling mortgage-backed securities. These TBAs are generally issued by U.S. Government Agencies or U.S. Government Sponsored Entities such as Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae. The actual mortgage-backed security that will be delivered to the buyer at the time TBAs trades are entered into is not known, however, the terms of the acceptable pools of loans that will comprise the mortgage-backed security are determined at the time the trade is entered into (coupon rate, maturity, credit quality, etc.). Investment in TBAs will generally increase a Fund’s exposure to interest rate risk and could also expose a Fund to counterparty default risk. In order to mitigate counterparty default risk, the Funds only enter into TBAs with counterparties for which the risk of default is determined to be remote. As a purchaser or seller of TBAs, the Funds segregate cash or cash equivalents as collateral as required in accordance with applicable industry regulations.
 
G. Tender Option Bonds – Maryland Bond Fund, Tax-Exempt Bond Fund and Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund may engage in tender option bond (“TOB”) transactions up to 5% of its net assets which are accounted for by the funds as a secured borrowing. In a typical TOB transaction, a Fund or another party deposits fixed-rate municipal bonds or other securities into a special purposes entity, referred to as a tender option bond trust (a “TOB Trust”). The TOB Trust generally issues short-term
 

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floating rate interests (“Floaters”), which are generally sold to third party investors (often money market funds) and residual interests (“Residual Interests”), which are generally held by the Fund or party that contributed the securities to the TOB Trust. The interest rates payable on the Residual Interests bear an inverse relationship to the interest rate on the Floaters. The interest rate on the Floaters is reset by a remarketing process typically every 7 to 35 days. After income is paid on the Floaters at current, short-term rates, the residual income from the underlying bond held by the TOB Trust goes to the Residual Interests. If a Fund is the depositor of the municipal bonds or other securities to the TOB Trust, the Fund will receive the proceeds from the TOB Trust’s sale of the Floaters, less certain transaction costs. These proceeds may be used by the Fund to invest in other securities, which would have a leveraging effect on the Fund.
 
Residual Interests may be more volatile and less liquid than other municipal bonds of comparable maturity. In most circumstances, the holder of the Residual Interests bears substantially all of the underlying bond’s downside investment risk and also benefits from any appreciation in the value of the underlying bond. Investments in Residual Interests typically will involve greater risk than investments in the underlying municipal bond, including the risk of loss of principal. Because changes in the interest rate on the Floaters inversely affect the residual interest paid on the Residual Interests, the value of the Residual Interests is generally more volatile than that of a fixed-rate municipal bond. Floaters and Residual Interests are subject to interest rate adjustment formulas which generally reduce or, in the extreme, eliminate the interest received by the Residual Interests when short-term interest rates rise, and increase the interest received when short-term interest rates fall.
 
The Residual Interests held by a Fund provide the Fund with the right to: (1) cause the holders of the Floaters to tender their notes at par, and (2) cause the sale of the underlying bond held by the TOB Trust, thereby collapsing the TOB Trust. A Fund may invest in a TOB Trust on either a non-recourse and recourse basis. Each Fund does not currently intend to invest in a TOB Trust on a recourse basis, although each Fund reserves the right to do so in the future. TOB Trusts are typically supported by a liquidity facility provided by a third-party bank or other financial institution (the “Liquidity Provider”) that allows the holders of the Floaters to tender their Floaters in exchange for payment of par plus accrued interest on any business day (subject to the non-occurrence of a TOTE, as such term is defined below). Depending on the structure of the TOB Trust, the Liquidity Provider may purchase the tendered Floaters, or the TOB Trust may draw upon a loan from the Liquidity Provider to purchase the tendered Floaters.
 
The TOB Trust may also be collapsed without the consent of a Fund, as the holder of the Residual Interest, upon the occurrence of certain “tender option termination events” (or “TOTEs”) as defined in the TOB Trust agreements. Such termination events typically include the bankruptcy or default of the municipal bond, a substantial downgrade in credit quality of the municipal bond, or a judgment or ruling that interest on the underlying municipal bond is subject to federal income taxation. Upon the occurrence of a TOTE, the TOB Trust would generally be liquidated in full with the proceeds typically applied first to any accrued fees owed to the trustee, remarketing agent and liquidity provider, and then to the holders of the Floaters up to par plus accrued interest owed on the Floaters and a portion of gain share, if any, with the balance paid out to the holder of the Residual Interests. In the case of a mandatory termination event, as defined in the TOB Trust agreements, after the payment of fees, the holders of the Floaters would be paid before the holders of the Residual Interests (i.e., the Fund). In contrast, in the case of a TOTE, after payment of fees, the holders of the Floaters and the holders of the Residual Interests would be paid pro rata in proportion to the respective face values of their certificates.
 
The use of Residual Interests will require the Fund to earmark or segregate liquid assets in an amount equal to any Floaters, plus any accrued but unpaid interest due on the Floaters, issued by a TOB Trust sponsored by, or on behalf of, the Fund that are not owned by the Fund. The use of Residual Interests may also require the Fund to earmark or segregate liquid assets in an amount equal to loans provided by the Liquidity Provider to the TOB Trust to purchase tendered Floaters. The Fund reserves the right to modify its asset segregation policies in the future to the extent that such changes are in accordance with applicable regulations or interpretations.
 
Under GAAP, securities of a Fund that are deposited into a TOB Trust continue to be treated as investments of the Fund and are presented on the Fund’s Schedule of Investments and outstanding Floaters issued by a TOB Trust are presented as “Floating rate note obligations, interest and fees” in the liabilities section of the Fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities and also includes interest and fees associated with the floating rate obligations. Interest income from the underlying security is recorded by the Fund on an accrual basis and included as part of “Interest Income” on the Statements of Operations. Interest expense and other fees incurred on the Floaters is included on the Statement of Operations as “Interest expense and fees on floating rate note obligations”. During the year ended as of the date of this report, the Tax-Exempt Bond Fund engaged in TOB transactions and $28,791 of such expenses were incurred. As of the year ended as of the date of this report, the Tax-Exempt Bond fund has
 

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$19,425,000 in outstanding floating rate obligations related to its tender option bond transactions.  This amount is representative of the average amount outstanding during the period from March of 2021 to fiscal year end, the period during which the Fund engaged in such transactions.
 
H. Distributions to Shareholders – For Maryland Bond Fund, Tax-Exempt Bond Fund and Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund, distributions of net investment income, if any, are declared daily and paid monthly. Distributions to shareholders of net investment income, if any, are declared and paid monthly for the Intermediate Income Fund, Total Return Fund, Sustainable Bond Fund and Mortgage Securities Fund and quarterly for the Equity Income Fund. The remaining Funds declare and pay net investment income, if any, at least annually. Distributions to shareholders of net capital gains, if any, are declared and paid at least annually. Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date. If a Fund is involved in a reorganization in which it acquires, or is being acquired by another fund, an additional distribution of net investment income and/or capital gains may be made prior to such reorganization.
 
I. Use of Estimates – The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amount of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
 
J. Federal Taxes – Each Fund has elected to be taxed as a “regulated investment company” and intends to distribute substantially all taxable income to its shareholders and otherwise comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies. Therefore, no provision for federal income taxes or excise taxes has been made.
 
The Funds recognize tax benefits of uncertain tax positions only where the position is “more likely than not” to be sustained assuming examination by tax authorities.
 
The Funds have analyzed their tax positions and have concluded that no liability for unrecognized tax benefits should be recorded related to uncertain income tax positions taken on returns filed for open tax years (2018-2020) as of June 30, 2021 or are expected to be taken in the Funds’ 2021 tax returns. The Funds identify their major tax jurisdictions as U.S. Federal and Delaware State; however, the Funds are not aware of any tax position for which it is reasonably possible that the total amounts of unrecognized tax benefits will change materially in the next year.
 
K. Redemption Fees – A shareholder who redeems or exchanges shares of the Funds within fourteen days of purchase will incur a redemption fee of 1.00% of the current net asset value of shares redeemed or exchanged, subject to certain exceptions. The fee is charged for the benefit of the remaining shareholders and will be paid to the Fund to help offset transaction costs. The fee is accounted for as an addition to paid-in capital. Each Fund reserves the right to modify the terms of or terminate the fee at any time.
 
L. Guarantees and Indemnifications – In the normal course of business, the Funds enter into contracts with service providers that contain general indemnification clauses. The Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Funds that have not yet occurred. However, based on experience, the Funds expect the risk of loss to be remote.
 
M. New Accounting Pronouncements – In March 2020 the FASB issued ASU 2020-04 Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting. The main objective of this ASU is to provide relief to companies that will be impacted by the expected change in benchmark interest rates at the end of 2021. At the end of 2021, participating banks will no longer be required to submit London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) quotes to the UK Financial Conduct Authority. This ASU allows companies to account for modifications as a continuance of the existing contract without additional analysis when certain conditions are met. Management is currently assessing the impact of this ASU on the Funds.
 

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Note 3. Commitments and Other Affiliated Party Transactions
 
Investment Adviser – Brown Advisory LLC serves as Investment Adviser (“the Adviser”) to the Funds. Pursuant to investment advisory agreements, the Adviser receives a management fee, accrued daily and payable monthly, from each Fund at an annual rate of the Fund’s average daily net assets as follows:
 
Fund
Breakpoint
Annual Fee

Fund
Breakpoint
Annual Fee
Growth Equity and
First $1.5 billion
0.60%
 
Flexible Equity
First $150 million
0.50%
Sustainable Growth
$1.5 billion to $3 billion
0.55%
   
$150 million to $250 million
0.45%
 
$3 billion to $6 billion
0.50%
   
$250 million to $1 billion
0.40%
 
Over $6 billion
0.45%
   
Over $1 billion
0.38%

Fund
Annual Fee

Fund
Annual Fee
Equity Income
0.60%
 
Maryland Bond
0.30%
Mid-Cap Growth
0.65%
 
Tax-Exempt Bond
0.30%
Small-Cap Growth
0.85%
 
Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond
0.30%
Small-Cap Fundamental Value
0.85%
 
Mortgage Securities Fund
0.30%
Global Leaders1
0.65%
 
WMC Strategic European Equity2
0.90%
Intermediate Income
0.30%
 
Emerging Markets Select2,3
0.90%
Total Return
0.30%
 
Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value4
0.45%
Sustainable Bond
0.30%
     

1
Brown Advisory Limited (“BAL”) serves as sub-adviser to the Global Leaders Fund and makes investment decisions on its behalf. BAL is compensated for its services by the Adviser.
2
Wellington Management Company LLP (“Wellington”) serves as sub-adviser to the WMC Strategic European Equity Fund and the Emerging Markets Select Fund and makes investment decisions on their behalf. Wellington is compensated for its services by the Adviser.
3
Pzena Investment Management, LLC (“Pzena”) serves as sub-adviser to the Emerging Markets Select Fund and makes investment decisions on its behalf. Pzena is compensated for its services by the Adviser.
4
Beutel, Goodman & Company Ltd. (“Beutel Goodman”) serves as sub-adviser to the Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund and makes investment decisions on its behalf. Beutel Goodman is compensated for its services by the Adviser.

These fees are reported on the Funds’ Statements of Operations as “Investment advisory fees”.
 
Business Management Fees – The Adviser is also entitled to receive an annual business management fee of 0.05%, accrued daily and payable monthly, of the Funds’ average daily net assets in exchange for its management and oversight of the non-investment advisory services provided to the Funds and the Trust. These fees are reported on the Funds’ Statements of Operations as “Business management fees”.
 
Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements (Operating Expense Caps) – The Adviser has contractually agreed to waive a portion of its fees and reimburse certain expenses to limit total annual operating expenses as follows*:
 
Fund(s):
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Advisor Shares
Growth Equity, Flexible Equity, Sustainable Growth and Mid-Cap Growth
0.82%
0.97%
1.22%
Equity Income
0.76%
0.91%
1.16%
Small-Cap Growth
1.04%
1.19%
1.44%
Small-Cap Fundamental Value
1.03%
1.18%
1.43%
Global Leaders
0.87%
1.02%
1.27%
Intermediate Income
0.48%
0.53%
0.78%
Total Return and Sustainable Bond
0.53%
0.58%
0.83%
Maryland Bond and Mortgage Securities
0.55%
0.60%
0.85%
Tax-Exempt Bond and Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond
0.62%
0.67%
0.92%
WMC Strategic European Equity
1.11%
1.26%
1.51%
Emerging Markets Select
1.17%
1.32%
1.57%
Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value
0.70%
0.85%
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*
Prior to the Board approved changes effective November 1, 2020, the expense limitation rate schedule for the Funds were as follows:

Fund(s):
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Advisor Shares
Growth Equity, Flexible Equity, Equity Income and Sustainable Growth
1.00%
1.15%
1.35%
Mid-Cap Growth and Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value
0.70%
0.85%
1.10%
Small-Cap Growth and Small-Cap Fundamental Value
1.25%
1.40%
1.60%
Global Leaders
0.75%
0.90%
1.15%
Intermediate Income, Total Return, Sustainable Bond,
     
Maryland Bond, Tax-Exempt Bond and Mortgage Securities
0.55%
0.60%
0.80%
Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond
0.52%
0.57%
0.82%
WMC Strategic European Equity and Emerging Markets Select
1.60%
1.75%
2.00%

During the year ended June 30, 2021, the Adviser waived $20,506 in expenses for Equity Income Fund, $53,751 in expenses for Mid-Cap Growth Fund and $84,839 in expenses for Global Leaders Fund. The Adviser may recoup any waived amounts from the Funds if such reimbursement does not cause the Funds to exceed its existing expense limitations or the limitation in place at the time the reduction was originally made and the amount recouped is made within three years after the date on which the Adviser waived the expense. The Funds must pay their current ordinary operating expenses before the Adviser is entitled to any recoupment of previously waived fees and/or expenses. The cumulative amounts of previously waived fees that the Adviser may recoup from the Funds are shown below:
 
   
June 30,
 
   
2022
   
2023
   
2024
   
Total
 
Equity Income Fund
 
$
   
$
   
$
20,506
   
$
20,506
 
Mid-Cap Growth Fund
   
103,738
     
125,645
     
53,751
     
283,134
 
Global Leaders Fund
   
231,484
     
260,299
     
84,839
     
576,622
 

Distribution – ALPS Distributors, Inc. (the “Distributor”) serves as principal underwriter for shares of the Funds and acts as each Fund’s Distributor in a continuous public offering of each Fund’s shares.
 
Rule 12b-1 Distribution Fees – Under a Distribution Plan adopted pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the Act (“Distribution Plan”), each Fund pays ALPS Distributors, Inc. (the “Distributor”), or any other entity as authorized by the Board, as compensation for the distribution-related and/or shareholder services provided by such entities an aggregate fee equal to 0.25% of the average daily net assets of Advisor Shares for each Fund. The Distributor may pay any or all amounts received under the Rule 12b-1 Plan to financial intermediaries or other persons, including the Adviser, for any distribution or service activity. These fees are reported in the Funds’ Statements of Operations as “Distribution fees – Advisor Shares”.
 
Shareholder Servicing Fees – The Trust has also adopted a Shareholder Service Plan under which each Fund may pay a fee of up to 0.15% of the average daily net assets of each Fund’s Investor and Advisor Shares (except for the Intermediate Income Fund, Total Return Fund, Sustainable Bond Fund, Maryland Bond Fund, Tax-Exempt Bond Fund, Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund and Mortgage Securities Fund, which may pay a fee of up to 0.05%) for shareholder services provided to the Funds by financial institutions, including the Adviser. The Adviser serves as the shareholder servicing agent of the Funds. These fees are reported in the Funds’ Statements of Operations as “Service fees – Investor Shares” and “Service fees – Advisor Shares”.
 
Investments in Affiliates – Intermediate Income Fund – The Intermediate Income Fund and Mortgage Securities Fund are considered affiliates since Brown Advisory LLC is the Adviser to both of the Funds. In seeking to achieve its investment objective, the Intermediate Income Fund invests a portion of its assets into the Mortgage Securities Fund. As of June 30, 2021, the Intermediate Income Fund owned shares of the Mortgage Securities Fund with a total value of $20,785,301, or 12.1% of the Intermediate Income Fund’s net assets.
 
The Intermediate Income Fund has entered into a Fee Waiver Agreement (the “Agreement”) with the Adviser. Per the Agreement, the Intermediate Income Fund will waive Advisory Fees in an amount equal to the Advisory Fees earned by the Mortgage Securities Fund on the assets invested into it by the Intermediate Income Fund. For example, if the Intermediate Income Fund owned $10,000,000 worth of the Mortgage Securities Fund for an entire year, it would waive, on an annual basis, $30,000 in
 

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Advisory Fees ($10,000,000 multiplied by 0.30%, the annual Advisory Fee ratio for the Mortgage Securities Fund). For the year ended June 30, 2021, the Intermediate Income Fund waived $61,405 in Advisory Fees per the terms of the Agreement. This is a permanent waiver of fees and these waived fees may not be recouped by the Adviser at any time in the future.
 
See the table below for details of the Intermediate Income Fund’s investment in the Mortgage Securities Fund Institutional Shares for the year ended June 30, 2021:
 
     
Net
Change In
       
Beginning
   
Realized
Unrealized
Ending
   
Shares
Market Value
   
Gains
Appreciation
Market Value
Dividend
Capital Gain
Owned at
6/30/2020
Purchases
Sales
(Losses)
(Depreciation)
06/30/2021
Income
Distributions
06/30/2021
$17,632,866
$4,550,000
$(1,590,000)
$5,442
$186,993
$20,785,301
$116,329
$—
1,968,305
 
Other Service Providers – U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC (“Fund Services”), doing business as U.S. Bank Global Fund Services, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, serves as the Funds’ Administrator (“Administrator”), and in that capacity, performs various administrative services for the Funds. Fund Services also serves as the Funds’ fund accountant and transfer agent. Certain officers of the Trust are employees of Fund Services and the Funds’ custodian, U.S. Bank, N.A., is an affiliate of the Administrator. Fees paid to Fund Services and U.S. Bank, N.A. for its service can be found in the Statements of Operations as “Administration, accounting and transfer agent fees” and “Custodian fees”, respectively. Additional amounts for miscellaneous expenses may be paid by the Funds to Fund Services and included in “Miscellaneous expenses” in the Statements of Operations.
 
Rule 17a-7 Transactions – Each Fund is permitted to purchase and sell securities to certain affiliated parties under specified conditions outlined in procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees pursuant to Rule 17a-7 under the 1940 Act. Pursuant to these procedures, during the year ended June 30, 2021, Intermediate Income Fund engaged in securities purchases of $1,338,977; Total Return Fund engaged in securities purchases of $9,086,920; Sustainable Bond Fund engaged in securities purchases of $1,973,794; Mortgage Securities Fund engaged in securities purchases of $4,537,060; WMC Strategic European Equity Fund engaged in securities purchases of $565,051 and sales of $238,370 with a realized gain of $92,213; and Emerging Markets Select Fund engaged in securities sales of $681,630 with a net realized gain of $79,524. These transactions are included in the purchases and sales table in Note 4.
 
Note 4. Purchases and Sales of Securities
 
The cost of purchases and the proceeds from sales of investments (including maturities), other than short-term investments, for the year ended June 30, 2021 were as follows:
 
Fund
 
Purchases
   
Sales
 
Fund
 
Purchases
   
Sales
 
Growth Equity
 
$
766,143,216
   
$
1,035,820,282
 
Total Return
 
$
644,282,016
   
$
593,035,802
 
Flexible Equity
   
74,646,910
     
96,018,787
 
Sustainable Bond
   
234,130,222
     
167,740,726
 
Equity Income
   
15,680,100
     
26,997,670
 
Maryland Bond
   
40,288,936
     
30,546,069
 
Sustainable Growth
   
2,198,465,505
     
1,001,642,678
 
Tax-Exempt Bond
   
617,716,641
     
531,425,859
 
Mid-Cap Growth
   
80,904,762
     
77,519,592
 
Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond
   
146,771,016
     
116,888,998
 
Small-Cap Growth
   
895,625,004
     
652,772,975
 
Mortgage Securities
   
475,678,999
     
435,728,037
 
Small-Cap Fundamental Value
   
460,229,186
     
404,691,842
 
WMC Strategic European Equity
   
221,692,253
     
180,168,323
 
Global Leaders
   
415,249,021
     
131,889,013
 
Emerging Markets Select
   
371,966,178
     
232,048,243
 
Intermediate Income
   
101,754,584
     
81,302,974
 
Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value
   
756,340,650
     
308,478,214
 

Purchases and sales of U.S. Government securities are included in the totals above and include U.S. Treasury Bonds and Notes. The Funds listed below purchased and sold U.S. Government securities for the year ended June 30, 2021 as follows:
 
Fund
 
Purchases
   
Sales
 
Fund
 
Purchases
   
Sales
 
Intermediate Income
 
$
23,219,108
   
$
7,525,216
 
Sustainable Bond
 
$
49,755,848
   
$
36,806,590
 
Total Return
   
105,874,044
     
79,533,806
 
Mortgage Securities
   
23,078,321
     
34,112,305
 


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Note 5. Federal Income Tax and Distribution Information
 
At June 30, 2021, the components of distributable earnings (accumulated losses) on a tax basis were as follows:
 
   
Growth
   
Flexible
   
Equity
   
Sustainable
   
Mid-Cap
   
Small-Cap
 
   
Equity
   
Equity
   
Income
   
Growth
   
Growth
   
Growth
 
   
Fund
   
Fund
   
Fund
   
Fund
   
Fund
   
Fund
 
Cost of investments
 
$
1,630,925,353
   
$
282,026,029
   
$
45,908,604
   
$
3,467,254,960
   
$
134,585,735
   
$
1,659,273,074
 
Unrealized appreciation
   
1,904,029,519
     
429,755,845
     
43,230,703
     
2,197,387,916
     
59,819,689
     
931,533,337
 
Unrealized depreciation
   
(7,155,027
)
   
(2,697,001
)
   
(165,053
)
   
(21,575,626
)
   
(2,085,546
)
   
(26,513,992
)
Net unrealized app (dep)
   
1,896,874,492
     
427,058,844
     
43,065,650
     
2,175,812,290
     
57,734,143
     
905,019,345
 
Undistributed income
   
1,757,252
     
4,843,791
     
400,307
     
9,884,827
     
7,125,510
     
12,395,676
 
Undistributed capital gains
   
284,981,194
     
14,722,064
     
6,927,266
     
82,719,035
     
5,947,525
     
162,591,874
 
Total undistributed earnings
   
286,738,446
     
19,565,855
     
7,327,573
     
92,603,862
     
13,073,035
     
174,987,550
 
Other accumulated gains (losses)
   
     
     
     
     
     
 
Total distributable earnings (losses)
 
$
2,183,612,938
   
$
446,624,699
   
$
50,393,223
   
$
2,268,416,152
   
$
70,807,178
   
$
1,080,006,895
 
                                                 
   
Small-Cap
   
Global
   
Intermediate
   
Total
   
Sustainable
   
Maryland
 
   
Fundamental
   
Leaders
   
Income
   
Return
   
Bond
   
Bond
 
   
Value Fund
   
Fund
   
Fund
   
Fund
   
Fund
   
Fund
 
Cost of investments
 
$
831,274,690
   
$
867,568,788
   
$
167,795,088
   
$
473,013,295
   
$
239,443,690
   
$
177,198,860
 
Unrealized appreciation
   
441,948,995
     
387,786,309
     
3,511,634
     
13,174,798
     
5,876,186
     
7,578,861
 
Unrealized depreciation
   
(31,229,807
)
   
(11,959,345
)
   
(768,194
)
   
(1,714,075
)
   
(593,371
)
   
(464,405
)
Net unrealized app (dep)
   
410,719,188
     
375,826,964
     
2,743,440
     
11,460,723
     
5,282,815
     
7,114,456
 
Undistributed income
   
1,950,053
     
7,101,627
     
311,596
     
3,648,653
     
584,641
   
259,982^
 
Undistributed capital gains
   
     
     
1,253,851
     
     
817,819
     
 
Total undistributed earnings
   
1,950,053
     
7,101,627
     
1,565,447
     
3,648,653
     
1,402,460
   
259,982^
 
Other accumulated gains (losses)
   
(29,883,831
)
   
8,558
     
(106,176
)
   
(360,927
)
   
(189,323
)
   
(2,046,363
)
Total distributable earnings (losses)
 
$
382,785,410
   
$
382,937,149
   
$
4,202,711
   
$
14,748,449
   
$
6,495,952
   
$
5,328,075
 
                                                 
   
Tax-Exempt
   
Tax-Exempt
   
Mortgage
   
WMC Strategic
   
Emerging
   
Beutel Goodman
 
   
Bond
   
Sustainable
   
Securities
   
European
   
Markets
   
Large-Cap
 
   
Fund
   
Bond
   
Fund
   
Equity Fund
   
Select Fund
   
Value Fund
 
Cost of investments
 
$
1,166,081,943
   
$
175,884,081
   
$
343,048,056
   
$
387,567,139
   
$
433,416,969
   
$
972,160,001
 
Unrealized appreciation
   
51,412,700
     
3,954,244
     
14,045,332
     
98,138,834
     
124,572,937
     
199,724,263
 
Unrealized depreciation
   
(5,066,294
)
   
(400,817
)
   
(3,184,096
)
   
(30,053,179
)
   
(22,812,113
)
   
(20,756,139
)
Net unrealized app (dep)
   
46,346,406
     
3,553,427
     
10,861,236
     
68,085,655
     
101,760,824
     
178,968,124
 
Undistributed income
 
1,963,701
^  
1,205,418
^    
282,496
     
8,421,667
     
1,096,629
     
38,937,544
 
Undistributed capital gains
   
548,920
     
757,043
     
     
21,701,630
     
     
18,252,560
 
Total undistributed earnings
 
2,512,621
^  
1,962,461
^    
282,496
     
30,123,297
     
1,096,629
     
57,190,104
 
Other accumulated gains (losses)
   
(1,963,701
)
   
(172,569
)
   
(3,138,976
)
   
122,218
     
(19,020,135
)
   
 
Total distributable earnings (losses)
 
$
46,895,326
   
$
5,343,319
   
$
8,004,756
   
$
98,331,170
   
$
83,837,318
   
$
236,158,228
 

^  Represents income that is exempt from federal income taxes.
 
The differences between tax basis and book basis amounts are primarily due to wash sales, post-October losses, post-December ordinary losses, timing differences related to the amortization of premium on certain fixed income securities, and distributions payable.
 

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At June 30, 2021, the following capital loss carryforwards and tax deferrals were available and outstanding, respectively:
 
   
Capital Loss Carryforwards
   
Tax Deferrals
 
                     
Post-October
   
Post-December
 
Fund
 
Short-Term
   
Long-Term
   
Total
   
Capital Losses
   
Ordinary Losses
 
Growth Equity
 
$
   
$
   
$
   
$
   
$
 
Flexible Equity
   
     
     
     
     
 
Equity Income
   
     
     
     
     
 
Sustainable Growth
   
     
     
     
     
 
Mid-Cap Growth
   
     
     
     
     
 
Small-Cap Growth
   
     
     
     
     
 
Small-Cap Fundamental Value
   
(3,579,412
)
   
(26,304,419
)
   
(29,883,831
)
   
     
 
Global Leaders
   
     
     
     
     
 
Intermediate Income
   
     
     
     
     
 
Total Return
   
     
     
     
     
 
Sustainable Bond
   
     
     
     
     
 
Maryland Bond
   
     
(1,786,381
)
   
(1,786,381
)
   
     
 
Tax-Exempt Bond
   
     
     
     
     
 
Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond
   
     
     
     
     
 
Mortgage Securities
   
(2,886,051
)
   
     
(2,886,051
)
   
     
 
WMC Strategic European Equity
   
     
     
     
     
 
Emerging Markets Select
   
(11,198,699
)
   
(7,837,188
)
   
(19,035,887
)
   
     
 
Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value
   
     
     
     
     
 

Distributions during the fiscal periods ended as noted were characterized for tax purposes as follows:
 
   
Tax-Exempt Income
   
Ordinary Income
   
Long-Term Capital Gain^
 
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
 
Fund
 
2021
   
2020
   
2021
   
2020
   
2021
   
2020
 
Growth Equity
 
$
   
$
   
$
19,356,054
   
$
4,888,278
   
$
132,029,478
   
$
115,962,258
 
Flexible Equity
   
     
     
3,717,208
     
2,585,878
     
14,653,627
     
21,095,915
 
Equity Income
   
     
     
1,331,032
     
1,352,123
     
4,119,001
     
6,766,399
 
Sustainable Growth
   
     
     
     
     
     
14,026,862
 
Mid-Cap Growth
   
     
     
     
105,406
     
     
45,005
 
Small-Cap Growth
   
     
     
     
3,942,913
     
17,876,780
     
24,659,111
 
Small-Cap Fundamental Value
   
     
     
5,121,628
     
4,501,408
     
     
43,206,208
 
Global Leaders
   
     
     
1,300,616
     
1,172,408
     
     
 
Intermediate Income
   
     
     
2,059,884
     
3,254,692
     
     
 
Total Return
   
     
     
8,705,386
     
12,593,609
     
5,778,192
     
3,141,637
 
Sustainable Bond
   
     
     
4,235,965
     
4,662,725
     
2,534,278
     
695,464
 
Maryland Bond
   
4,239,317
     
4,788,290
     
4,387
     
37,776
     
     
 
Tax-Exempt Bond
   
29,962,749
     
30,262,146
     
9,644
     
784,899
     
     
 
Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond
   
2,440,169
     
702,671
     
119,130
     
34,831
     
     
 
Mortgage Securities
   
     
     
1,621,166
     
4,190,803
     
     
 
WMC Strategic European Equity
   
     
     
2,149,303
     
5,422,293
     
19,961,149
     
20,333,988
 
Emerging Markets Select
   
     
     
2,160,276
     
4,173,029
     
     
 
Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value
   
     
     
22,311,318
     
6,225,197
     
     
1,432,531
 

^
Designated as a long-term capital gain dividend, pursuant to Internal Revenue Code Section 852(b)(3).  The Funds, as applicable, have also designated earnings and profits distributed to shareholders on the redemption of shares as capital gains in order to reduce earnings and profits of the Fund related to net capital gains to zero as of the date of this report.


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U.S GAAP requires that certain components of net assets (presented on the Statements of Assets and Liabilities) be reclassified for permanent differences between financial reporting and tax reporting. These reclassifications are primarily the result of net operating losses, investments in real estate investment trusts, foreign currency transactions, distribution reclassifications, and income adjustments to asset-backed security transactions. These reclassifications have no impact on the net assets of the Funds or the Funds’ NAV’s. For the year ended June 30, 2021, the following reclassifications were made:
 
   
Paid-in
   
Distributable
            
Paid-in
   
Distributable
 
Fund
 
Capital
   
Earnings (Loss)
       
Fund
 
Capital
   
Earnings (Loss)
 
Growth Equity
 
$
28,922,013
   
$
(28,922,013
)
       
Total Return
 
$
831,231
   
$
(831,231
)
Flexible Equity
   
1,245,261
     
(1,245,261
)
       
Sustainable Bond
   
264,786
     
(264,786
)
Equity Income
   
528,505
     
(528,505
)
       
Maryland Bond
   
     
 
Sustainable Growth
   
7,468,818
     
(7,468,818
)
       
Tax-Exempt Bond
   
18,449
     
(18,449
)
Mid-Cap Growth
   
844,876
     
(844,876
)
       
Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond
   
214,649
     
(214,649
)
Small-Cap Growth
   
10,161,268
     
(10,161,268
)
       
Mortgage Securities
   
     
 
Small-Cap Fundamental Value
   
5,835,178
     
(5,835,178
)
       
WMC Strategic European Equity
   
3,004,566
     
(3,004,566
)
Global Leaders
   
76,010
     
(76,010
)
       
Emerging Markets Select
   
     
 
Intermediate Income
   
300,148
     
(300,148
)
       
Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value
   
1,934,265
     
(1,934,265
)

Note 6. Futures Contracts
 
The Total Return Fund, Sustainable Bond Fund, and Mortgage Securities Fund invested in futures contracts during the year ended June 30, 2021. At the time a Fund purchases or enters into a futures contract, the Fund deposits and maintains as collateral an initial margin with the broker, as required by the terms of the contract. This collateral may consist of cash and / or securities (generally U.S. Treasury Bills). Thereafter, in connection with changes in the value of the futures contracts, the Funds may send or receive collateral to or from the broker. Such amounts are included on the Statements of Assets and Liabilities as “Cash deposit at broker – futures contracts” or “Cash collateral from broker – futures contracts”. Securities pledged as collateral, if there are any, are included on the Statements of Assets and Liabilities as part of “Total investments, at value”. These securities are also tickmarked on the Schedules of Investments as being pledged in connection with open futures contracts.
 
Pursuant to the contract, the Fund agrees to receive from or pay to the broker an amount of cash equal to the fluctuation in the value of the contract. These daily fluctuations are known as variation margin and are recorded by the Fund as unrealized gains or losses on futures contracts. When these futures contracts are closed, realized gains or losses on futures contracts are recorded by the Fund. The realized gains or losses are reported in the Statement of Operations as net realized gains or losses from futures contracts. Depending upon the agreement with the broker, the Funds may or may not settle variation margin daily. The Funds attempt to mitigate counterparty credit risk by only entering into futures contracts with brokers that the Funds believe have the financial resources to honor their obligations and by monitoring the financial stability of these brokers. The “Notional Amount” of futures contracts shown on the Schedule of Investments represents the notional value of the futures contracts on the day they were opened. The “Notional Value” of futures contracts shown on the Schedule of Investments represents the notional value of the futures contracts as of the date of this report. For long futures contracts, an excess of Notional Value over Notional Amount results in unrealized appreciation on the futures contract (and an excess of Notional Amount over Notional Value results in unrealized depreciation on the futures contract). The opposite is true for short futures contracts. These unrealized appreciation (depreciation) amounts represent the net impact on a Fund’s net assets as a result of open futures contracts as of the date of this report. The use of long futures contracts by the Funds subjects them to a risk of loss in excess of the gross unrealized appreciation and/or gross unrealized depreciation amounts shown on the Statements of Assets and Liabilities and up to the total Notional Amount of the futures contract as shown on the Schedule of Investments. The use of short futures contracts by the Funds subjects them to a risk of loss in excess of the gross unrealized appreciation and/or gross unrealized depreciation amounts shown on the Statements of Assets and Liabilities and, hypothetically, up to an unlimited amount of loss that could exceed the Notional Amount of the futures contracts as shown on the Schedules of Investments.
 

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Notes to Financial Statements
June 30, 2021
During the year ended June 30, 2021, investments in futures contracts were as follows:
 
      
Average Notional Value Outstanding
 
Fund
Risk Type
 
Long Futures Contracts
   
Short Futures Contracts
 
Total Return
Interest Rate
 
$
84,318,749
   
$
(65,549,971
)
Sustainable Bond
Interest Rate
   
45,598,171
     
(34,987,318
)
Mortgage Securities
Interest Rate
   
568,924
     
(24,259,893
)

Investment in long futures contracts increases a Fund’s exposure to interest rate risk, while investment in short futures contracts serves to reduce a Fund’s exposure to interest rate risk. Assets and/or liabilities related to futures contracts were not subject to an arrangement wherein those assets and/or liabilities were, or could have been, settled on a net basis with any other derivative related obligations.
 
Note 7. Line of Credit
 
As of June 30, 2021, Brown Advisory Funds has an unsecured line of credit of up to $100,000,000 with U.S. Bank, N.A. The interest rate on the line of credit as of June 30, 2021 was 3.25% (prime rate). None of the Funds utilized the line of credit during the year ended June 30, 2021.
 
Note 8. COVID-19
 
The global outbreak of COVID-19 (commonly referred to as “coronavirus”) has significantly disrupted economic markets. The ultimate short-term and long-term impact on economies, markets, industries, and individual issuers in which the Funds invest is unknown. The financial performance of the issuers of securities in which the Funds invest depends on future developments including the duration and spread of the outbreak. This uncertainty may adversely affect the value and liquidity of the Funds’ investments.
 
Note 9. Subsequent Events
 
In preparing these financial statements, the Funds have evaluated events and transactions for potential recognition through the date the financial statements were issued. No material events or transactions occurred subsequent to June 30, 2021 that would require recognition or disclosure in these financial statements.
 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Shareholders and Board of Trustees
Brown Advisory Funds
Baltimore, MD
 
Opinion on the Financial Statements
 
We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities of Brown Advisory Growth Equity Fund, Brown Advisory Flexible Equity Fund, Brown Advisory Equity Income Fund, Brown Advisory Sustainable Growth Fund, Brown Advisory Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Brown Advisory Small-Cap Growth Fund, Brown Advisory Small-Cap Fundamental Value Fund, Brown Advisory Global Leaders Fund, Brown Advisory Intermediate Income Fund, Brown Advisory Total Return Fund, Brown Advisory Sustainable Bond Fund, Brown Advisory Maryland Bond Fund, Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond Fund, Brown Advisory Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund, Brown Advisory Mortgage Securities Fund, Brown Advisory – WMC Strategic European Equity Fund, Brown Advisory Emerging Markets Select Fund, and Brown Advisory – Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund (the “Funds”), each a series of Brown Advisory Funds (the “Trust”), including the schedules of investments, as of June 30, 2021, the related statements of operations, the statement of changes in net assets and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Funds as of June 30, 2021, the results of their operations, the changes in their net assets and their financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
 
Individual Funds
     
constituting
     
Brown Advisory
Statement of
Statements of
 
Funds
Operations
Changes in Net Assets
Financial Highlights
Brown Advisory Growth
For the year ended
For each of the two years
For each of the five years in the period
Equity Fund, Brown Advisory
June 30, 2021
in the period ended
ended June 30, 2021
Flexible Equity Fund, Brown
 
June 30, 2021
 
Advisory Equity Income Fund,
     
Brown Advisory Sustainable
     
Growth Fund, Brown Advisory
     
Small-Cap Growth Fund,
     
Brown Advisory Small-Cap
     
Fundamental Value Fund,
     
Brown Advisory Global
     
Leaders Fund, Brown Advisory
     
Intermediate Income Fund,
     
Brown Advisory Total Return
     
Fund, Brown Advisory
     
Maryland Bond Fund, Brown
     
Advisory Tax-Exempt Bond
     
Fund, Brown Advisory
     
Mortgage Securities Fund,
     
Brown Advisory – WMC
     
Strategic European Equity
     
Fund, Brown Advisory
     
Emerging Markets Select Fund
     
       
Brown Advisory
For the year ended
For each of the two years
For each of the three years in the period
Mid-Cap
June 30, 2021
in the period ended
ended June 30, 2021 and the period from
Growth Fund
 
June 30, 2021
October 2, 2017 (commencement of
     
operations) through June 30, 2018


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Individual Funds
     
constituting
     
Brown Advisory
Statement of
Statements of
 
Funds
Operations
Changes in Net Assets
Financial Highlights
Brown Advisory
For the year ended
For each of the two years
For each of the three years in the period
Sustainable
June 30, 2021
in the period ended
ended June 30, 2021 and the period from
Bond Fund
 
June 30, 2021
August 7, 2017 (commencement of
     
operations) through June 30, 2018
       
Brown Advisory
For the year ended
For the year ended
For the year ended June 30, 2021 and the
Tax-Exempt
June 30, 2021
June 30, 2021 and for
period from December 2, 2019
Sustainable Bond
 
the period from
(commencement of operations) through
Fund
 
December 2, 2019
June 30, 2020
   
(commencement of
 
   
operations) through
 
   
June 30, 2020
 
       
Brown Advisory –
For the year ended
For each of the two years
For each of the three years in the period
Beutel Goodman
June 30, 2021
in the period ended
ended June 30, 2021 and the period from
Large-Cap
 
June 30, 2021
February 13, 2018 (commencement of
Value Fund
   
operations) through June 30, 2018

Basis for Opinion
 
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Funds’ management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Funds’ financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Funds in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB. We have served as the auditor of one or more of the funds in the Trust since 2008.
 
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.   Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Funds are not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Funds’ internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Funds’ internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
 
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of June 30, 2021 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers; when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
 
 
TAIT, WELLER & BAKER LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 26, 2021

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Expense Example For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2021 (Unaudited)
As a shareholder of a Fund you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including redemption fees and exchange fees; and (2) ongoing costs, including investment advisory fees; distribution and/or service fees; and other Fund expenses.  This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in a Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.  The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the six month period and held for the entire period (January 1, 2021 – June 30, 2021).
 
Actual Expenses
 
The Actual Expenses columns in the following table provides information about actual account values based on actual returns and actual expenses.  As a shareholder you will be assessed fees for outgoing wire transfers, returned checks and stop payment orders at prevailing rates charged by U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, the Funds’ transfer agent.  If you request that a redemption be made by wire transfer, currently, the Funds’ transfer agent charges a $15.00 fee.  You will be charged a redemption fee equal to 1.00% of the net amount of the redemption if you redeem your shares less than 14 days after you purchase, with certain limited exceptions.  Individual Retirement Accounts (“IRA”) that are held directly at the Funds will be charged a $15.00 annual maintenance fee. IRAs held by broker-dealers or through other means, may or may not incur an annual maintenance fee. Yet, if IRAs maintenance fees are charged to accounts held elsewhere, the fees charged may be more or may be less than $15.00.  To the extent the Funds invest in shares of other investment companies as part of their investment strategy, you will indirectly bear your proportionate share of any fees and expenses charged by the underlying funds in which the Funds invest in addition to the expenses of the Funds.  Actual expenses of the underlying funds may vary.  These expenses are not included in the example below.  The example below includes, but is not limited to, investment advisory, shareholder servicing, fund accounting, custody and transfer agent fees.  However, the example below does not include portfolio trading commissions and related expenses.  You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period.  Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6). Then, multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During the Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
 
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
 
The Hypothetical Expenses columns in the following table provides information about hypothetical account values based on a hypothetical return and hypothetical expenses based on the Funds’ actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Funds’ actual return.  The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Funds and other funds.  To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.  Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads), redemption fees or exchange fees.  Therefore, the hypothetical information in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.  In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.
 
   
Actual Expenses
Hypothetical Expenses
 
 
Beginning
Ending
Expenses
Ending
Expenses
Annualized
 
Account Value
Account Value
Paid During
Account Value
Paid During
Net Expense
 
January 1, 2021
June 30, 2021
the Period*
June 30, 2021
the Period*
Ratio*
Growth Equity Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$1,125.90
$3.48
$1,021.52
$3.31
0.66%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,125.40
$4.27
$1,020.78
$4.06
0.81%
Advisor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,123.60
$5.58
$1,019.54
$5.31
1.06%
             
Flexible Equity Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$1,181.80
$2.87
$1,022.17
$2.66
0.53%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,181.20
$3.68
$1,021.42
$3.41
0.68%
Advisor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,179.50
$5.03
$1,020.18
$4.66
0.93%


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Expense Example For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2021 (Unaudited)
   
Actual Expenses
Hypothetical Expenses
 
 
Beginning
Ending
Expenses
Ending
Expenses
Annualized
 
Account Value
Account Value
Paid During
Account Value
Paid During
Net Expense
 
January 1, 2021
June 30, 2021
the Period*
June 30, 2021
the Period*
Ratio*
Equity Income Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$1,134.30
$4.02
$1,021.03
$3.81
0.76%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,132.70
$4.81
$1,020.28
$4.56
0.91%
Advisor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,131.50
$6.13
$1,019.04
$5.81
1.16%
             
Sustainable Growth Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$1,136.40
$3.39
$1,021.62
$3.21
0.64%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,135.80
$4.18
$1,020.88
$3.96
0.79%
Advisor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,134.40
$5.50
$1,019.64
$5.21
1.04%
             
Mid-Cap Growth Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$1,083.70
$4.03
$1,020.93
$3.91
0.78%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,083.50
$4.80
$1,020.18
$4.66
0.93%
             
Small-Cap Growth Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$1,088.60
$4.92
$1,020.08
$4.76
0.95%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,087.60
$5.69
$1,019.34
$5.51
1.10%
Advisor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,086.50
$6.98
$1,018.10
$6.76
1.35%
             
Small-Cap Fundamental Value Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$1,235.90
$5.27
$1,020.08
$4.76
0.95%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,234.90
$6.10
$1,019.34
$5.51
1.10%
Advisor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,233.40
$7.48
$1,018.10
$6.76
1.35%
             
Global Leaders Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$1,108.90
$3.97
$1,021.03
$3.81
0.76%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,108.20
$4.76
$1,020.28
$4.56
0.91%
             
Intermediate Income Fund
           
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$ 994.50
$2.27
$1,022.51
$2.31
0.46%
Advisor Shares
$1,000.00
$ 992.20
$3.51
$1,021.27
$3.56
0.71%
             
Total Return Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$ 992.60
$2.08
$1,022.71
$2.11
0.42%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$ 992.40
$2.32
$1,022.46
$2.36
0.47%
             
Sustainable Bond Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$ 994.70
$2.23
$1,022.56
$2.26
0.45%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$ 994.40
$2.47
$1,022.32
$2.51
0.50%
             
Maryland Bond Fund
           
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,013.40
$2.35
$1,022.46
$2.36
0.47%
             
Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$1,025.40
$2.01
$1,022.81
$2.01
0.40%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,024.10
$2.26
$1,022.56
$2.26
0.45%
             
Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund
           
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,018.70
$2.40
$1,022.41
$2.41
0.48%
             
Mortgage Securities Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$1,002.70
$2.28
$1,022.51
$2.31
0.46%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,002.50
$2.53
$1,022.27
$2.56
0.51%
             
WMC Strategic European Equity Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$1,109.40
$5.39
$1,019.69
$5.16
1.03%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,108.00
$6.17
$1,018.94
$5.91
1.18%
Advisor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,106.50
$7.47
$1,017.70
$7.15
1.43%


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Expense Example For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2021 (Unaudited)
   
Actual Expenses
Hypothetical Expenses
 
 
Beginning
Ending
Expenses
Ending
Expenses
Annualized
 
Account Value
Account Value
Paid During
Account Value
Paid During
Net Expense
 
January 1, 2021
June 30, 2021
the Period*
June 30, 2021
the Period*
Ratio*
Emerging Markets Select Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$1,072.50
$5.70
$1,019.29
$5.56
1.11%
Investor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,072.60
$6.48
$1,018.55
$6.31
1.26%
Advisor Shares
$1,000.00
$1,070.50
$7.75
$1,017.31
$7.55
1.51%
             
Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund
           
Institutional Shares
$1,000.00
$1,158.40
$2.94
$1,022.07
$2.76
0.55%

*
The calculations are based on expenses incurred during the most recent six-month period ended as of the date of this report.  The dollar amounts shown as expenses paid during the period are equal to the annualized six-month net expense ratio multiplied by the average account value during the period, multiplied by the number of days (181) in the most recent six-month period divided by the number of days in the Funds’ fiscal year (365).



Liquidity Risk Management Program (Unaudited)

In accordance with Rule 22e-4 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Liquidity Rule”), Brown Advisory Funds (the “Trust”) has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the “Program”) for each investment series of the Trust (each a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”) which seeks to assess, manage and review each Fund’s Liquidity Risk. “Liquidity Risk” is defined in Rule 22e-4 as the risk that a fund could not meet requests to redeem shares issued by the fund without significant dilution of remaining investors’ interest in the fund.  The Program includes policies and procedures reasonably designed to comply with the requirements of the Liquidity Rule, including: (i) assess and manage each Fund’s Liquidity Risk; (ii) classification of portfolio holdings; (iii) establishment of a highly liquid investment minimum (“HLIM”), as applicable and (iv) compliance with the Liquidity Rule’s 15% limit on holdings of illiquid investments.
 
The Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of the Funds has designated Brown Advisory LLC (the “Adviser”), investment adviser to the Trust, to administer the Program.  The Adviser has delegated the day-to-day management of the Program to its Investment Risk Management Committee (the “Committee”) which consists of representatives from various departments at the Adviser, including portfolio management, due diligence, trading and legal and compliance.  Certain aspects of the Program rely on third parties to perform certain functions, including the provision of market data.
 
At the meeting of the Board on May 11, 2021, the Adviser provided a written report to the Board addressing the operations and effectiveness of the Program for the period from January 1, 2020 through March 31, 2021 (the “Reporting Period”) and specific liquidity events arising during the Reporting Period, including the impact on Fund liquidity caused by certain extended non-U.S. market closures.  During the Reporting Period, each of the Funds qualified as a fund that primarily holds assets that are highly liquid investments and, therefore, no Fund was required to establish an HLIM.  The report concluded that the Program was adequately implemented and is operating effectively to assess and manage each Fund’s Liquidity Risk and it was further reported that the Program continues to be reasonably designed to monitor and respond to the Funds’ liquidity developments, as applicable.
 
Please refer to your Fund’s prospectus for more information regarding the Fund’s exposure to Liquidity Risk and other risks to which it may be subject.
 

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Trustees and Executive Officers
The Board is responsible for the overall management of the Trust, including general supervision and review of the investment activities of the Funds.  The Board, in turn, elects the Officers of the Trust, who are responsible for administering the day-to-day operations of the Trust and each of the Funds.  The current Trustees and Officers of the Trust, their ages and positions with the Trust, term of office with the Trust and length of time served, their principal occupations for the past five years and other directorships held during the past five years are set forth in the table below.
 
Additional information about the Trustees of the Trust can be found in the Statement of Additional Information, which is available, without charge, upon request, by calling Brown Advisory Funds toll free at 1-800-540-6807 or by accessing our website at www.brownadvisory.com/mf/how-to-invest.

       
Number of
Other
   
Term of
 
Portfolios in
Directorships
   
Office and
 
Fund Complex
Held During
Name, Age
Position with
Length of
Principal Occupation(s)
Overseen by
the Past
and Address
the Trust
Time Served
During Past 5 Years
Trustees
5 Years(2)
Independent Trustees of the Trust(1)
       
Henry H. Hopkins
Trustee
Indefinite Term;
Retired; Formerly, Vice President and Chief
18
None.
Age: 78
 
Since 2012
Legal Counsel, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
 
 
c/o Brown Advisory LLC
Lead
Indefinite Term;
(investment management firm) (1998 to 2008).
 
 
901 South Bond Street
Independent
Since 2015
 
 
 
Suite 400
Trustee
   
 
 
Baltimore, MD 21231
     
 
 
Kyle Prechtl Legg
Trustee
Indefinite Term;
Retired; Formerly President and Chief Executive
18
Director, SunTrust
Age: 69
 
Since 2012
Officer, Legg Mason Capital Management, LLC
 
Banks, Inc. (bank
c/o Brown Advisory LLC
   
(investment management firm) (2006 to 2009).
 
holding company)
901 South Bond Street
     
 
(2011 to 2018);
Suite 400
     
 
Director, BrightSphere
Baltimore, MD 21231
     
 
Investment Group
       
 
plc (asset management
       
 
holding company)
       
 
(2014 to 2018).
Thomas F. O’Neil III
Trustee
Indefinite Term;
Governance and Compliance Adviser
18
None.
Age: 64
 
Since 2012
(healthcare, financial services and retail
 
 
c/o Brown Advisory LLC
   
businesses). Formerly, Global Chief Compliance
 
 
901 South Bond Street
   
Officer, Cigna Corporation (health services
 
 
Suite 400
   
company) (2016 to 2020). Formerly, President,
 
 
Baltimore, MD 21231
   
The Saranac Group LLC (strategic consulting
 
 
     
firm) (2010 to 2016).
 
 
Neal F. Triplett, CFA
Trustee
Indefinite Term;
President, DUMAC, Inc. (university endowment
18
None.
Age: 50
 
Since 2012
investment organization) (since 1999).
 
 
c/o Brown Advisory LLC
     
 
 
901 South Bond Street
     
 
 
Suite 400
     
 
 
Baltimore, MD 21231
     
 
 
Interested Trustees and Officers of the Trust
   
 
 
Michael D. Hankin(3)
Trustee
Indefinite Term
President and Chief Executive Officer, Brown
18
Stanley Black &
Age: 63
 
Since 2012
Advisory Incorporated and affiliates (investment
 
Decker, Inc. (industrial
c/o Brown Advisory
   
management firm) (since 1993).
 
tools and hardware)
Incorporated
       
(since 2016).
901 South Bond Street
         
Suite 400
         
Baltimore, MD 21231
         


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Trustees and Executive Officers
       
Number of
Other
   
Term of
 
Portfolios in
Directorships
   
Office and
 
Fund Complex
Held During
Name, Age
Position with
Length of
Principal Occupation(s)
Overseen by
the Past
and Address
the Trust
Time Served
During Past 5 Years
Trustees
5 Years(2)
Interested Trustees and Officers of the Trust
     
Joseph R. Hardiman(3)
Chairman
Indefinite Term;
Business Consultant (financial services industry
18
None.
Age: 84
and Trustee
Since 2012
consulting) (since 1997); Formerly; Director of
 
 
c/o Brown Advisory LLC
   
Brown Advisory Incorporated (investment
 
 
901 South Bond Street
   
management firm) (2001 to 2012).
 
 
Suite 400
     
 
 
Baltimore, MD 21231
     
 
 
Paul J. Chew
President/
Indefinite Term;
Chief Investment Officer, Brown Advisory
Not
Not
Age: 55
Principal
Since October 2018
Incorporated and affiliates (investment
Applicable.
Applicable.
c/o Brown Advisory
Executive
 
management firm) (since 1995).
   
Incorporated
Officer
       
901 South Bond Street
         
Suite 400
Senior Vice
2016 to
     
Baltimore, MD 21231
President
October 2018
     
Carey E. Taylor
Vice
Indefinite Term;
Chief Operating Officer of
Not
Not
Age: 33
President
Since 2015
Institutional Investing, Brown Advisory
Applicable.
Applicable.
c/o Brown Advisory
   
Incorporated and affiliates (investment
   
Incorporated
   
management firm) (since 2018); Formerly,
   
901 South Bond Street
   
Product Manager, Brown Advisory
   
Suite 400
   
Incorporated and affiliates (investment
   
Baltimore, MD 21231
   
management firm) (2013 to 2018).
   
Jason T. Meix
Treasurer/
Indefinite Term;
Vice President, U.S. Bancorp Fund
Not
Not
Age: 42
Principal
Since 2012
Services, LLC (fund administrative services firm)
Applicable.
Applicable.
c/o Brown Advisory LLC
Financial
 
(since 2008).
   
901 South Bond Street
Officer
       
Suite 400
         
Baltimore, MD 21231
         
Edward L. Paz
Secretary
Indefinite Term;
Vice President and Counsel, U.S. Bancorp Fund
Not
Not
Age: 50
 
Since 2012
Services, LLC (fund administrative services firm)
Applicable.
Applicable.
c/o Brown Advisory LLC
   
(since 2007).
   
901 South Bond Street
         
Suite 400
         
Baltimore, MD 21231
         
Brett D. Rogers
Chief
Indefinite Term;
General Counsel and Chief Compliance
Not
Not
Age: 45
Compliance
Since 2012
Officer, Brown Advisory Incorporated and
Applicable.
Applicable.
c/o Brown Advisory
Officer
 
affiliates (investment management firm)
   
Incorporated
   
(since 2009).
   
901 South Bond Street
Anti-Money
Indefinite Term:
     
Suite 400
Laundering
Since 2012
     
Baltimore, MD 21231
Officer
       

(1)
The Trustees of the Trust who are not “interested persons” of the Trust as defined in the 1940 Act (“Independent Trustees”).
(2)
The directorships disclosed in this column include only the directorships of those companies that a Trustee serves on that are required to report to the SEC under applicable Federal securities laws including publicly traded corporations that are registered with the SEC under the 1934 Act and investment companies that are registered with the SEC under the 1940 Act, and it therefore excludes various other types of directorships that the Trustees of the Trust may currently hold in other types of organizations, including private companies and not-for-profit organizations, which are expressly excluded from the disclosure requirements for mutual fund board members.
(3)
Mr. Hankin is considered an “interested person” of the Trust, as defined in the 1940 Act, because of his current position with Brown Advisory Incorporated, the parent company of the Adviser, and Mr. Hardiman is considered an “interested person” of the Trust, as defined in the 1940 Act, because of his previous position with Brown Advisory Incorporated and his ownership interest in Brown Advisory Incorporated.


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Information About Proxy Voting (Unaudited)
A description of the policies and procedures that the Funds use to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities is available without charge upon request by calling toll-free at (800) 540-6807 and by accessing the Funds’ website at www.brownadvisory.com/mf/how-to-invest (refer to Appendix B in the Statement of Additional Information). Furthermore, you can obtain the description on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
 
Information regarding how the Funds voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the year ended June 30 is available without charge, by calling toll-free at (800) 540-6807. In addition, you can obtain the Funds’ proxy voting records on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
 
Information About the Portfolio Holdings (Unaudited)
The Funds file their complete schedule of portfolio holdings for their first and third fiscal quarters with the SEC on Form N-PORT.  The Funds’ Form N-PORT is available without charge, upon request, by calling toll-free at (800) 540-6807. Furthermore, you can obtain the Form N-PORT on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. The Funds’ schedules of portfolio holdings are posted on their website at www.brownadvisory.com/mf/how-to-invest within ten business days after calendar quarter end.
 
Householding (Unaudited)
In an effort to decrease costs, the Funds will reduce the number of duplicate Prospectuses and annual and semi-annual reports that you receive by sending only one copy of each to those addresses shown by two or more accounts. Please call the Transfer Agent toll free at (800) 540-6807 to request individual copies of these documents. The Funds will begin sending individual copies 30 days after receiving your request. This policy does not apply to account statements.
 
Federal Tax Status of Dividends Declared during the Tax Year (Unaudited)
For Federal Income Tax purposes, distributions from short-term capital gains are classified as ordinary income.  The percentage of ordinary income distributions designated as qualifying for the corporate dividend received deduction (“DRD”), the individual qualified dividend rate (“QDI”), the qualifying interest income exempt from U.S. tax for foreign shareholders (“QII”) and the qualifying short-term capital gain distributions exempt from U.S. tax for foreign shareholders (“QSTCG”) is presented below:
 
 
Income Distributions
       
Fund
Exempt from Federal Tax
QDI
DRD
QII
QSTCG
Growth Equity
  0.00%
  66.25%
  61.25%
    0.05%
100.00%
Flexible Equity
  0.00%
  79.85%
  74.33%
    1.53%
  58.54%
Equity Income
  0.00%
100.00%
  92.38%
    0.04%
    7.85%
Sustainable Growth
  0.00%
    0.00%
    0.00%
    0.00%
    0.00%
Mid-Cap Growth
  0.00%
    0.00%
    0.00%
    0.00%
    0.00%
Small-Cap Growth
  0.00%
    0.00%
    0.00%
    0.00%
    0.00%
Small-Cap Fundamental Value
  0.00%
100.00%
100.00%
    2.01%
    0.00%
Global Leaders
  0.00%
100.00%
100.00%
    4.86%
    0.00%
Intermediate Income
  0.00%
    0.02%
    0.02%
100.00%
    4.10%
Total Return
  0.00%
    0.00%
    0.00%
  87.89%
  28.09%
Sustainable Bond
  0.00%
    0.00%
    0.00%
  92.03%
  26.90%
Maryland Bond
99.90%
    0.00%
    0.00%
100.00%
    0.00%
Tax-Exempt Bond
99.97%
    0.00%
    0.00%
100.00%
    0.00%
Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond
95.35%
    0.00%
    0.00%
100.00%
    4.58%
Mortgage Securities
  0.00%
    0.00%
    0.02%
  88.01%
    0.00%
WMC Strategic European Equity
  0.00%
  76.31%
    0.00%
    0.02%
  57.19%
Emerging Markets Select
  0.00%
100.00%
    2.30%
    0.64%
    0.00%
Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value
  0.00%
  90.69%
  88.65%
    0.00%
    0.00%

The Funds, as applicable, intend to elect to pass through to shareholders the credit for taxes paid to foreign countries.  Such credits for taxes paid to foreign countries will be included in shareholders' Form 1099-DIV.
 

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BROWN ADVISORY FUNDS
 
At Brown Advisory, we believe that you deserve frank and open communication on all aspects of our relationship. In this spirit, we provide this annual summary of our policies relating to confidentiality and privacy of client information, mutual funds, conflicts of interest, trading commissions, proxy voting and Form ADV annual notice.
 
CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY POLICY
 
Brown Advisory takes the confidentiality of your personal information and the privacy of your account very seriously. Our commitment to safeguard your personal information goes beyond our legal obligation to process your transactions accurately and securely. Whether we serve you online, in person, on the telephone or by mail, the principles that guide the way in which we conduct business are built upon the core values of trust and integrity.
 
We limit access to your personal information to only those employees with a business reason to know such information. We train and consistently remind all employees to respect client privacy and to recognize the importance of the confidentiality of such information. Those who violate our privacy policy are subject to disciplinary action. This commitment also applies to the sharing of information among Brown Advisory and its affiliates.
 
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with applicable laws and regulations to protect your personal information, including various measures to protect your personal information while it is stored electronically.
 
Federal law requires us to inform you that we have on record personal information about you and that we obtain such information from you directly (e.g., information you provide to us on account applications and other forms, such as your name, address, social security number, occupation, assets and income) and indirectly (e.g., information on our computer systems about your transactions with us, such as your account balance and account holdings). Any personal information you choose to provide is kept confidential and allows us to: (i) provide better and more complete investment and strategic advice; (ii) develop new services that meet additional needs you may have; and, (iii) comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
 
In addition, in the normal conduct of our business, it may become necessary for us to share information relating to our clients that we have on record, as described above, with companies not affiliated with us who are under contract to perform services on our behalf. For example, we have contracted with companies to assist us in complying with anti-terrorist and anti-money laundering statutory requirements (including the identification and reporting of activities that may involve terrorist acts or money laundering activities), companies that provide clearing services, and other vendors that provide services directly related to your account relationship with us. Our agreements with these companies require that they keep your information confidential and not use such information for any unrelated purpose.
 
We do not sell information about you to third parties, and we do not otherwise disclose information to third parties without your permission or unless required by law.
 

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INVESTMENT ADVISER
Brown Advisory LLC
901 South Bond Street, Suite 400
Baltimore, MD 21231
www.brownadvisory.com
 
DISTRIBUTOR
ALPS Distributors, Inc.
1290 Broadway, Suite 1000
Denver, CO 80203
 
CUSTODIAN
U.S. Bank, N.A.
Custody Operations
1555 North Rivercenter Drive, Suite 302
Milwaukee, WI 53212

TRANSFER AGENT
U.S. Bank Global Fund Services
P.O. Box 701
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0701
(800) 540-6807
 
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
Tait, Weller & Baker LLP
Two Liberty Place
50 South 16th Street, Suite 2900
Philadelphia, PA 19102
 
LEGAL COUNSEL
Dechert LLP
1900 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
 

 
Institutional Shares
Investor Shares
Advisor Shares
 
Symbol
CUSIP
Symbol
CUSIP
Symbol
CUSIP
Growth Equity Fund
 BAFGX
115233702
BIAGX
115233504
BAGAX
115233603
Flexible Equity Fund
  BAFFX
115233843
BIAFX
115233868
 BAFAX
115233850
Equity Income Fund
 BAFDX
115233660
BIADX
115233686
BADAX
115233678
Sustainable Growth Fund
BAFWX
115233207
BIAWX
115233306
BAWAX
115233405
Mid-Cap Growth Fund
BAFMX
115233413
BMIDX
115233439
         —
             —
Small-Cap Growth Fund
 BAFSX
115233819
BIASX
115233835
 BASAX
115233827
Small-Cap Fundamental Value Fund
BAUUX
115233777
BIAUX
115233793
BAUAX
115233785
Global Leaders Fund
 BAFLX
115233355
BIALX
115233462
         —
             —
Intermediate Income Fund
         —
             —
BIAIX
115233744
  BAIAX
115233736
Total Return Fund
  BAFTX
115233538
BIATX
115233520
         —
             —
Sustainable Bond Fund
   BAISX
115233389
BASBX
115233447
         —
             —
Maryland Bond Fund
         —
             —
BIAMX
115233751
         —
             —
Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
   BTEIX
115233371
BIAEX
115233108
         —
             —
Tax-Exempt Sustainable Bond Fund
             —
BITEX
115233348
         —
             —
Mortgage Securities Fund
 BAFZX
115233546
BIAZX
115233587
         —
             —
WMC Strategic European Equity Fund
 BAFHX
115233629
BIAHX
115233611
BAHAX
115233595
Emerging Markets Select Fund
 BAFQX
115233652
BIAQX
115233645
BAQAX
115233637
Beutel Goodman Large-Cap Value Fund
 BVALX
115233421
BIAVX
115233314
         —
             —

This report is submitted for the general information of the shareholders of each Fund. It is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by an effective prospectus, which includes information regarding the Funds’ risks, objectives, fees and expenses, experience of their management, and other information.



BX-ANNUAL


Item 1. Reports to Stockholders (Continued).


(b)
Not applicable.

Item 2. Code of Ethics.

The registrant has adopted a code of ethics that applies to the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer.  The registrant has not made any amendments to its code of ethics during the period covered by this report.  The registrant has not granted any waivers from any provisions of the code of ethics during the period covered by this report.

A copy of the registrant’s Code of Ethics is filed herewith.

Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert.

The Registrant’s Board of Trustees has not designated an audit committee financial expert.  The Registrant has determined that it will retain the services of an independent third party to assist it if circumstances arise that require specific investment company auditing expertise.

Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

The Registrant has engaged its principal accountant to perform audit services, audit-related services, tax services and other services during the past two fiscal years.  “Audit services” refer to performing an audit of the Registrant's annual financial statements or services that are normally provided by the accountant in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements for those fiscal years.  “Audit-related services” refer to the assurance and related services by the principal accountant that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit.  “Tax services” refer to professional services rendered by the principal accountant for tax compliance, tax advice, and tax planning.  There were no “Other services” provided by the principal accountant.  The following table details the aggregate fees billed or expected to be billed for each of the last two fiscal years for audit fees, audit-related fees, tax fees and other fees by the principal accountant.

 
FYE  6/30/2021
FYE  6/30/2020
(a) Audit Fees
$316,550
$330,850
(b) Audit-Related Fees
N/A
N/A
(c) Tax Fees
$50,400
$53,200
(d) All Other Fees
N/A
N/A

(e) (1) The audit committee has adopted pre-approval policies and procedures that require the audit committee to pre‑approve all audit and non‑audit services of the Registrant, including services provided to any entity affiliated with the Registrant.

(2) The percentages of fees billed by Tait, Weller & Baker LLP applicable to non-audit services pursuant to waiver of pre-approval requirement were as follows:

 
FYE  6/30/2021
FYE  6/30/2020
Audit-Related Fees
0%
0%
Tax Fees
0%
0%
All Other Fees
0%
0%

(f) All of the principal accountant’s hours spent on auditing the Registrant’s financial statements were attributed to work performed by full‑time permanent employees of the principal accountant.

(g) The following table indicates the non-audit fees billed or expected to be billed by the Registrant’s accountant for services to the Registrant and to the Registrant’s investment adviser (and any other controlling entity, etc.—not sub-adviser) for the last two fiscal years.

Non-Audit Related Fees
FYE  6/30/2021
FYE  6/30/2020
Registrant
N/A
N/A
Registrant’s Investment Adviser
N/A
N/A

(h) The audit committee of the board of trustees has considered whether the provision of non-audit services that were rendered to the Registrant's investment adviser is compatible with maintaining the principal accountant's independence and has concluded that the provision of such non-audit services by the accountant has not compromised the accountant’s independence.

(i) Not applicable.

(j) Not applicable.

Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.

(a)
Not applicable to registrants who are not listed issuers (as defined in Rule 10A-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934).
(b)
Not applicable.

Item 6. Schedule of Investments.

(a)
Schedule of Investments is included as part of the report to shareholders filed under Item 1 of this Form.
(b)
Not applicable.

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

Not applicable to open-end investment companies.

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

Not applicable to open-end investment companies.

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

Not applicable to open-end investment companies.

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.

Item 11. Controls and Procedures.

(a)
The Registrant’s Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer have reviewed the Registrant's disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Act”)) as of a date within 90 days of the filing of this report, as required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the Act and Rules 13a-15(b) or 15d‑15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  Based on their review, such officers have concluded that the disclosure controls and procedures are effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed in this report is appropriately recorded, processed, summarized and reported and made known to them by others within the Registrant and by the Registrant’s service provider.

(b)
There were no changes in the Registrant's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Act) that occurred during the period covered by this report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

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

Not applicable to open-end investment companies.

Item 13. Exhibits.



(3) Any written solicitation to purchase securities under Rule 23c‑1 under the Act sent or given during the period covered by the report by or on behalf of the registrant to 10 or more persons.  Not applicable to open-end investment companies.

(4) Change in the registrant’s independent public accountant. There was no change in the registrant’s independent public accountant for the period covered by this report.


SIGNATURES

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


(Registrant)                                       Brown Advisory Funds

By (Signature and Title)*                   /s/ Paul J. Chew
Paul J. Chew, Principal Executive Officer

Date     September 2, 2021


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

By (Signature and Title)*                   /s/ Paul J. Chew
Paul J. Chew, Principal Executive Officer

Date     September 2, 2021

By (Signature and Title)*                   /s/ Jason T. Meix
Jason T. Meix, Principal Financial Officer

Date     September 2, 2021

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