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LEGG MASON INTERNATIONAL LOW VOLATILITY HIGH DIVIDEND ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited)    January 31, 2022
(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)   

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
COMMON STOCKS - 98.5%      
COMMUNICATION SERVICES - 11.3%      

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 8.1%

     

CITIC Telecom International Holdings Ltd.

     143,574      $ 52,292  

Deutsche Telekom AG, Registered Shares

     97,165        1,815,947  

Elisa oyj

     9,330        544,701  

HKT Trust & HKT Ltd.

     221,355        301,478  

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.

     73,700        2,089,633  

Proximus SADP

     17,349        352,305  

Swisscom AG, Registered Shares

     3,123        1,771,729  
     

 

 

 

Total Diversified Telecommunication Services

        6,928,085  
     

 

 

 

Media - 0.3%

     

Eutelsat Communications SA

     16,327        200,779  

Telenet Group Holding NV

     2,382        91,055  
     

 

 

 

Total Media

        291,834  
     

 

 

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 2.9%

     

Freenet AG

     17,635        476,231  

SoftBank Corp.

     162,400        2,021,103  
     

 

 

 

Total Wireless Telecommunication Services

        2,497,334  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES

        9,717,253  
     

 

 

 
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY - 1.2%      

Household Durables - 1.1%

     

Persimmon PLC

     28,486        914,945  
     

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 0.1%

     

T-Gaia Corp.

     5,500        79,189  
     

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 0.0%††

     

Pacific Textiles Holdings Ltd.

     88,477        44,820  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY

        1,038,954  
     

 

 

 
CONSUMER STAPLES - 17.5%      

Food & Staples Retailing - 5.3%

     

Axfood AB

     10,041        254,626  

Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize NV

     64,662        2,084,338  

Tesco PLC

     549,561        2,189,837  
     

 

 

 

Total Food & Staples Retailing

        4,528,801  
     

 

 

 

Food Products - 2.8%

     

Danone SA

     31,495        1,950,651  

Orkla ASA

     36,427        346,455  

Rogers Sugar Inc.

     17,644        83,101  
     

 

 

 

Total Food Products

        2,380,207  
     

 

 

 

Personal Products - 2.1%

     

Unilever PLC

     36,386        1,850,992  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

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LEGG MASON INTERNATIONAL LOW VOLATILITY HIGH DIVIDEND ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    January 31, 2022
(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)   

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  

Tobacco - 7.3%

     

British American Tobacco PLC

     59,447      $ 2,523,116  

Imperial Brands PLC

     61,116        1,436,166  

Japan Tobacco Inc.

     110,000        2,189,976  

Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S

     3,627        77,815  
     

 

 

 

Total Tobacco

        6,227,073  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES

        14,987,073  
     

 

 

 
ENERGY - 0.1%      

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 0.1%

     

Itochu Enex Co. Ltd.

     9,600        83,399  
     

 

 

 
FINANCIALS - 20.2%      

Banks - 13.3%

     

Bank of Nova Scotia

     33,832        2,435,649  

Banque Cantonale Vaudoise, Registered Shares

     1,717        140,709  

BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd.

     270,457        1,040,546  

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

     17,427        2,187,213  

DBS Group Holdings Ltd.

     87,600        2,280,457  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.

     124,200        1,145,416  

Seven Bank Ltd.

     372,000        781,289  

United Overseas Bank Ltd.

     62,900        1,393,694  
     

 

 

 

Total Banks

        11,404,973  
     

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 0.4%

     

IGM Financial Inc.

     6,505        228,427  

Jupiter Fund Management PLC

     29,391        90,537  
     

 

 

 

Total Capital Markets

        318,964  
     

 

 

 

Insurance - 6.5%

     

Assicurazioni Generali SpA

     52,258        1,088,439  

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

     158,993        650,392  

Gjensidige Forsikring ASA

     8,921        216,720  

Great-West Lifeco Inc.

     17,329        541,071  

Legal & General Group PLC

     84,976        327,659  

Poste Italiane SpA

     37,822        502,634  

Zurich Insurance Group AG

     4,789        2,266,809  
     

 

 

 

Total Insurance

        5,593,724  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL FINANCIALS

        17,317,661  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

 

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LEGG MASON INTERNATIONAL LOW VOLATILITY HIGH DIVIDEND ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    January 31, 2022
(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)   

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
HEALTH CARE - 7.6%      

Pharmaceuticals - 7.6%

     

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

     98,984      $ 2,181,936  

Novartis AG, Registered Shares

     25,107        2,160,812  

Sanofi

     21,162        2,200,272  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL HEALTH CARE

        6,543,020  
     

 

 

 
INDUSTRIALS - 13.2%      

Aerospace & Defense - 1.1%

     

BAE Systems PLC

     128,318        993,696  
     

 

 

 

Air Freight & Logistics - 0.2%

     

Cia de Distribucion Integral Logista Holdings SA

     4,230        85,116  

Oesterreichische Post AG

     1,829        76,374  
     

 

 

 

Total Air Freight & Logistics

        161,490  
     

 

 

 

Construction & Engineering - 2.3%

     

ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA

     17,029        425,505  

Bouygues SA

     22,773        796,235  

Chudenko Corp.

     2,800        51,346  

Nishimatsu Construction Co. Ltd.

     16,500        544,153  

Sanki Engineering Co. Ltd.

     11,300        138,866  
     

 

 

 

Total Construction & Engineering

        1,956,105  
     

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 1.4%

     

CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.

     165,022        1,168,215  
     

 

 

 

Machinery - 1.3%

     

Kone oyj, Class B Shares

     18,089        1,160,294  
     

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 1.6%

     

Aurizon Holdings Ltd.

     540,868        1,341,362  
     

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 5.3%

     

ITOCHU Corp.

     65,000        2,068,605  

Mitsubishi Corp.

     71,200        2,395,681  

Nippon Steel Trading Corp.

     1,500        67,043  
     

 

 

 

Total Trading Companies & Distributors

        4,531,329  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INDUSTRIALS

        11,312,491  
     

 

 

 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - 0.1%      

Communications Equipment - 0.1%

     

VTech Holdings Ltd.

     11,859        93,609  
     

 

 

 
MATERIALS - 2.3%      

Construction Materials - 0.4%

     

Holcim Ltd.

     6,832        365,063  
     

 

 

 

Metals & Mining - 1.9%

     

Rio Tinto Ltd.

     20,344        1,599,031  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL MATERIALS

        1,964,094  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

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LEGG MASON INTERNATIONAL LOW VOLATILITY HIGH DIVIDEND ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    January 31, 2022
(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)   

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
REAL ESTATE - 6.5%      

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 3.3%

     

AEON REIT Investment Corp.

     232      $ 293,763  

Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust

     307,900        628,483  

Charter Hall Long Wale REIT

     39,205        133,138  

Cofinimmo SA

     960        140,869  

Cromwell Property Group

     210,634        124,658  

CT Real Estate Investment Trust

     11,956        159,344  

Frontier Real Estate Investment Corp.

     48        201,831  

Prime US REIT

     76,600        59,365  

SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust

     29,171        705,077  

Waypoint REIT Ltd.

     212,269        405,292  
     

 

 

 

Total Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

        2,851,820  
     

 

 

 

Real Estate Management & Development - 3.2%

     

Allreal Holding AG, Registered Shares

     533        114,781  

Cibus Nordic Real Estate AB

     3,637        99,671  

Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd.

     65,912        287,822  

Kerry Properties Ltd.

     85,600        241,512  

LEG Immobilien SE

     3,877        510,669  

Samhallsbyggnadsbolaget i Norden AB, Class D Shares

     18,526        60,456  

Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd.

     83,772        1,017,935  

Swiss Prime Site AG, Registered Shares

     3,598        352,631  
     

 

 

 

Total Real Estate Management & Development

        2,685,477  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL REAL ESTATE

        5,537,297  
     

 

 

 
UTILITIES - 18.5%      

Electric Utilities - 9.9%

     

CK Infrastructure Holdings Ltd.

     34,968        215,255  

CLP Holdings Ltd.

     79,451        793,741  

Fortis Inc.

     42,753        2,029,742  

Fortum oyj

     43,712        1,178,478  

Iberdrola SA

     178,857        2,037,067  

Okinawa Electric Power Co. Inc.

     11,600        141,143  

Power Assets Holdings Ltd.

     76,586        469,973  

Red Electrica Corp. SA

     33,826        679,129  

Terna Rete Elettrica Nazionale SpA

     125,773        979,891  
     

 

 

 

Total Electric Utilities

        8,524,419  
     

 

 

 

Gas Utilities - 2.8%

     

Enagas SA

     28,347        610,118  

Italgas SpA

     45,693        300,570  

Rubis SCA

     5,789        185,988  

Snam SpA

     235,378        1,308,740  
     

 

 

 

Total Gas Utilities

        2,405,416  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

 

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LEGG MASON INTERNATIONAL LOW VOLATILITY HIGH DIVIDEND ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    January 31, 2022
(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)   

 

SECURITY

    SHARES      VALUE  

Multi-Utilities - 5.8%

       

A2A SpA

       308,585      $ 580,979  

ACEA SpA

       3,677        73,782  

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp.

       146,070        2,084,581  

E.ON SE

       148,434        2,033,342  

Iren SpA

       55,212        164,882  
       

 

 

 

Total Multi-Utilities

          4,937,566  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL UTILITIES

          15,867,401  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS BEFORE SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS
(Cost - $79,692,872)

          84,462,252  
       

 

 

 
     RATE               
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.3%        

Invesco Treasury Portfolio, Institutional Class
(Cost - $249,370)

     0.010     249,370        249,370  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 98.8%
(Cost - $79,942,242)

          84,711,622  

Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities - 1.2%

          1,045,852  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL NET ASSETS - 100.0%

        $ 85,757,474  
       

 

 

 

 

††

Represents less than 0.1%.

Abbreviation(s) used in this schedule:

REIT    — Real Estate Investment Trust

At January 31, 2022, the Fund had the following open futures contracts:

 

     Number of
Contracts
     Expiration
Date
     Notional
Amount
     Market
Value
     Unrealized
Depreciation
 
Contracts to Buy:               

MSCI EAFE Index Futures

     4        3/22      $ 453,275      $ 447,060      $ (6,215

At January 31, 2022, the Fund had the following open forward foreign currency contracts:

 

Currency
Purchased
     Currency
Sold
    

Counterparty

   Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
 
USD      135,034        CHF        125,708      Bank of New York Mellon      2/8/22      $ (10
USD      6,969,011        CHF        6,404,054      Bank of New York Mellon      2/8/22        89,374  
USD      487,155        EUR        434,533      Bank of New York Mellon      2/8/22        (29
USD      24,966,853        EUR        22,092,175      Bank of New York Mellon      2/8/22        197,828  
USD      254,868        JPY        29,366,539      Bank of New York Mellon      2/8/22        (9
USD      12,886,537        JPY        1,491,374,433      Bank of New York Mellon      2/8/22        (57,343

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

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LEGG MASON INTERNATIONAL LOW VOLATILITY HIGH DIVIDEND ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    January 31, 2022
(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)   

 

Currency
Purchased
     Currency
Sold
    

Counterparty

   Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
 
USD      11,080        NOK        98,803      Bank of New York Mellon      2/8/22      $ 0 1 
USD      568,600        NOK        5,062,246      Bank of New York Mellon      2/8/22        910  
USD      8,734        SEK        81,523      Bank of New York Mellon      2/8/22        0 1 
USD      455,851        SEK        4,166,905      Bank of New York Mellon      2/8/22        9,405  
USD      68,249        AUD        96,869      UBS Securities LLC      2/8/22        (2
USD      3,572,317        AUD        4,990,022      UBS Securities LLC      2/8/22        56,503  
USD      198,484        CAD        252,436      UBS Securities LLC      2/8/22        (2
USD      10,104,834        CAD        12,886,392      UBS Securities LLC      2/8/22        (27,530
USD      249,847        GBP        186,232      UBS Securities LLC      2/8/22        1  
USD      12,816,586        GBP        9,474,895      UBS Securities LLC      2/8/22        105,228  
USD      99,958        SGD        135,164      UBS Securities LLC      2/8/22        (1
USD      5,063,293        SGD        6,891,582      UBS Securities LLC      2/8/22        (33,285
                 

 

 

 
Total                   $ 341,038  
                 

 

 

 

 

1 

Value is less than $1.

Abbreviation(s) used in this table:

 

AUD    — Australian Dollar
CAD    — Canadian Dollar
CHF    — Swiss Franc
EUR    — Euro
GBP    — British Pound
JPY    — Japanese Yen
NOK    — Norwegian Krone
SEK    — Swedish Krona
SGD    — Singapore Dollar
USD    — United States Dollar

This Schedule of Investments is unaudited and is intended to provide information about the Fund’s investments as of the date of the schedule. Other information regarding the Fund is available in the Fund’s most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited)

 

1. Organization and significant accounting policies

Legg Mason International Low Volatility High Dividend ETF (the “Fund”) is a separate diversified investment series of Legg Mason ETF Investment Trust (the “Trust”). The Trust, a Maryland statutory trust, is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as an open-end management investment company.

The Fund is an exchange-traded fund (“ETF”). ETFs are funds that trade like other publicly-traded securities. The Fund is designed to track an index. Similar to shares of an index mutual fund, each share of the Fund represents an ownership interest in an underlying portfolio of securities intended to track an index. Unlike shares of a mutual fund, which can be bought from and redeemed by the issuing fund by all shareholders at a price based on net asset value (“NAV”), shares of the Fund may be directly purchased from and redeemed by the Fund at NAV solely by certain large institutional investors who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s distributor (“Authorized Participants”). Also unlike shares of a mutual fund, shares of the Fund are listed on a national securities exchange and trade in the secondary market at market prices that change throughout the day.

Shares of the Fund are listed and traded at market prices on the Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. The market price for the Fund’s shares may be different from the Fund’s NAV. The Fund issues and redeems shares at NAV only in blocks of a specified number of shares or multiples thereof (“Creation Units”). Only Authorized Participants may purchase or redeem Creation Units directly with the Fund at NAV. Creation Units are issued and redeemed generally in-kind for a basket of securities and/or cash. Except when aggregated in Creation Units, shares of the Fund are not redeemable securities. Shareholders who are not Authorized Participants may not redeem shares directly from the Fund at NAV.

The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the QS International Low Volatility High Dividend Hedged Index (the “Underlying Index”). The Underlying Index seeks to provide more stable income through investments in stocks of profitable companies in developed markets outside of the United States with relatively high dividend yields or anticipated dividend yields and lower price and earnings volatility, while mitigating exposure to exchange-rate fluctuations between the U.S. dollar and other international currencies and is based on a proprietary methodology created and sponsored by Franklin Advisers, Inc. (“Franklin Advisers”), the Fund’s subadviser.

The following are significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Fund and are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”).

(a) Investment valuation. Equity securities for which market quotations are available are valued at the last reported sales price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange on which they trade. The valuations for fixed income securities (which may include, but are not limited to, corporate, government, municipal, mortgage-backed, collateralized mortgage obligations and asset-backed securities) and certain derivative instruments are typically the prices supplied by independent third party pricing services, which may use market prices or broker/dealer quotations or a variety of valuation techniques and methodologies. The independent third party pricing services typically use inputs that are observable such as issuer details, interest rates, yield curves, prepayment speeds, credit risks/spreads, default rates and quoted prices for similar securities.

 

 

    

 

 

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)

 

Investments in open-end funds are valued at the closing net asset value per share of each fund on the day of valuation. Futures contracts are valued daily at the settlement price established by the board of trade or exchange on which they are traded. When the Fund holds securities or other assets that are denominated in a foreign currency, the Fund will use the currency exchange rates, generally determined as of 4:00 p.m. (London Time). If independent third party pricing services are unable to supply prices for a portfolio investment, or if the prices supplied are deemed by the manager to be unreliable, the market price may be determined by the manager using quotations from one or more broker/ dealers or at the transaction price if the security has recently been purchased and no value has yet been obtained from a pricing service or pricing broker. When reliable prices are not readily available, such as when the value of a security has been significantly affected by events after the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded, but before the Fund calculates its net asset value, the Fund values these securities as determined in accordance with procedures approved by the Fund’s Board of Trustees.

The Board of Trustees is responsible for the valuation process and has delegated the supervision of the daily valuation process to the Global Fund Valuation Committee (the “Valuation Committee”). The Valuation Committee, pursuant to the policies adopted by the Board of Trustees, is responsible for making fair value determinations, evaluating the effectiveness of the Fund’s pricing policies, and reporting to the Board of Trustees. When determining the reliability of third party pricing information for investments owned by the Fund, the Valuation Committee, among other things, conducts due diligence reviews of pricing vendors, monitors the daily change in prices and reviews transactions among market participants.

The Valuation Committee will consider pricing methodologies it deems relevant and appropriate when making fair value determinations. Examples of possible methodologies include, but are not limited to, multiple of earnings; discount from market of a similar freely traded security; discounted cash-flow analysis; book value or a multiple thereof; risk premium/yield analysis; yield to maturity; and/or fundamental investment analysis. The Valuation Committee will also consider factors it deems relevant and appropriate in light of the facts and circumstances. Examples of possible factors include, but are not limited to, the type of security; the issuer’s financial statements; the purchase price of the security; the discount from market value of unrestricted securities of the same class at the time of purchase; analysts’ research and observations from financial institutions; information regarding any transactions or offers with respect to the security; the existence of merger proposals or tender offers affecting the security; the price and extent of public trading in similar securities of the issuer or comparable companies; and the existence of a shelf registration for restricted securities.

For each portfolio security that has been fair valued pursuant to the policies adopted by the Board of Trustees, the fair value price is compared against the last available and next available market quotations. The Valuation Committee reviews the results of such back testing monthly and fair valuation occurrences are reported to the Board of Trustees quarterly.

 

 

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)

 

The Fund uses valuation techniques to measure fair value that are consistent with the market approach and/or income approach, depending on the type of security and the particular circumstance. The market approach uses prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable securities. The income approach uses valuation techniques to discount estimated future cash flows to present value.

GAAP establishes a disclosure hierarchy that categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value assets and liabilities at measurement date. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:

 

   

Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

 

   

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

 

   

Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

The following is a summary of the inputs used in valuing the Fund’s assets and liabilities carried at fair value:

 

ASSETS

 

DESCRIPTION

   QUOTED PRICES
(LEVEL 1)
     OTHER SIGNIFICANT
OBSERVABLE INPUTS
(LEVEL 2)
     SIGNIFICANT
UNOBSERVABLE
INPUTS
(LEVEL 3)
     TOTAL  

Common Stocks†

   $ 84,462,252        —           $ 84,462,252  

Short-Term Investments†

     249,370        —          —          249,370  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Investments

   $ 84,711,622        —          —        $ 84,711,622  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Other Financial Instruments:

           

Forward Foreign Currency Contracts††

     —        $ 459,249        —        $ 459,249  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 84,711,622      $ 459,249        —        $ 85,170,871  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

LIABILITIES

 

DESCRIPTION

   QUOTED PRICES
(LEVEL 1)
     OTHER SIGNIFICANT
OBSERVABLE INPUTS
(LEVEL 2)
     SIGNIFICANT
UNOBSERVABLE
INPUTS
(LEVEL 3)
     TOTAL  

Other Financial Instruments:

           

Futures Contracts††

   $ 6,215        —          —        $ 6,215  

Forward Foreign Currency Contracts††

     —        $ 118,211        —          118,211  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 6,215      $ 118,211        —        $ 124,426  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

See Schedule of Investments for additional detailed categorizations.

 

††

Reflects the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of the instruments.

 

 

    

 

 

 

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