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KAR Small-Cap Value Fund
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited)
December 31, 2019
($ reported in thousands)
  Shares   Value
Common Stocks—95.9%
Communication Services—3.0%    
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. 558,100   $18,892
Consumer Discretionary—8.5%    
Cheesecake Factory, Inc. (The) 582,100   22,620
Thor Industries, Inc. 417,540   31,019
      53,639
       
 
Consumer Staples—6.4%    
National Beverage Corp. 427,134   21,792
WD-40 Co. 97,954   19,017
      40,809
       
 
Energy—1.3%    
Core Laboratories N.V. 221,000   8,325
Financials—18.8%    
Bank of Hawaii Corp. 268,360   25,537
First Financial Bankshares, Inc. 614,120   21,556
Houlihan Lokey, Inc. 491,286   24,009
Primerica, Inc. 206,663   26,982
RLI Corp. 233,012   20,976
      119,060
       
 
Health Care—2.5%    
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.(1) 307,640   15,951
Industrials—25.6%    
Graco, Inc. 429,981   22,359
Landstar System, Inc. 181,428   20,659
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. 141,210   13,659
RBC Bearings, Inc.(1) 197,800   31,319
SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc.(1) 434,635   39,400
UniFirst Corp. 45,950   9,281
Watsco, Inc. 141,353   25,465
      162,142
       
 
Information Technology—17.2%    
American Software, Inc. Class A 663,891   9,879
Badger Meter, Inc. 250,304   16,252
Brooks Automation, Inc. 677,130   28,412
Cass Information Systems, Inc. 329,496   19,025
CoreLogic, Inc.(1) 487,570   21,312
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. 95,240   13,874
      108,754
       
 
Materials—6.2%    
Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. (The) 368,681   39,147
Real Estate—6.4%    
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. 50,838   8,850
  Shares   Value
       
Real Estate—continued    
MGM Growth Properties LLC Class A 1,035,410   $32,067
      40,917
       
 
Total Common Stocks
(Identified Cost $444,791)
  607,636
       
 
       
 
Total Long-Term Investments—95.9%
(Identified Cost $444,791)
  607,636
       
 
       
 
Short-Term Investment—1.4%
Money Market Mutual Fund—1.4%
Dreyfus Government Cash Management Fund - Institutional Shares (seven-day effective yield 1.512%)(2) 9,115,336   9,115
Total Short-Term Investment
(Identified Cost $9,115)
  9,115
       
 
       
 
TOTAL INVESTMENTS—97.3%
(Identified Cost $453,906)
  $616,751
Other assets and liabilities, net—2.7%   17,044
NET ASSETS—100.0%   $633,795
    
Abbreviation:
LLC Limited Liability Company
    
Footnote Legend:
(1) Non-income producing.
(2) Shares of this fund are publicly offered, and its prospectus and annual report are publicly available.
The following table summarizes the market value of the Fund’s investments as of December 31, 2019, based on the inputs used to value them (See Security Valuation Note 1 in the Notes to Schedule of Investments):
  Total
Value at
December 31, 2019
  Level 1
Quoted Prices
Assets:      
Equity Securities:      
Common Stocks $607,636   $607,636
Money Market Mutual Fund 9,115   9,115
Total Investments $616,751   $616,751
There were no securities valued using significant observable inputs (Level 2) or significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) at December 31, 2019.
There were no transfers into or out of Level 3 related to securities held at December 31, 2019.
See Notes to Schedule of Investments
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KAR SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND
NOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (Unaudited)
December 31, 2019
Note 1. Security Valuation
The Fund utilizes a fair value hierarchy which prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into three broad levels. The Fund’s policy is to recognize transfers into or out of Level 3 at the end of the reporting period.
Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical securities (security types generally include listed equities).
Level 2 – prices determined using other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).
Level 3 – prices determined using significant unobservable inputs (including the Valuation Committee’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments).
A description of the valuation techniques applied to the Fund’s major categories of assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis is as follows:
Equity securities are valued at the official closing price (typically last sale) on the exchange on which the securities are primarily traded or, if no closing price is available, at the last bid price and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Restricted equity securities and private placements that are illiquid or are internally fair valued by the Valuation Committee, are generally categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy.
Certain non-U.S. securities may be fair valued in cases where closing prices are not readily available or are deemed not reflective of readily available market prices. For example, significant events (such as movement in the U.S. securities market, or other regional and local developments) may occur between the time that non-U.S. markets close (where the security is principally traded) and the time that the Fund calculates its net asset value (“NAV”) at the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) (generally 4 p.m. Eastern time) that may impact the value of securities traded in these non-U.S. markets. In such cases, the Fund’s fair value non-U.S. securities using an independent pricing service which considers the correlation of the trading patterns of the non-U.S. security to the intraday trading in the U.S. markets for investments such as American Depository Receipts, financial futures, exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), and certain indexes, as well as prices for similar securities. Such fair valuations are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy. Because the frequency of significant events is not predictable, fair valuation of certain non-U.S. common stocks may occur on a frequent basis.
Listed derivatives, such as options and futures, that are actively traded are valued based on quoted prices from the exchange and are categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. Over-the-counter derivative contracts, which include forward currency contracts and equity-linked instruments, do not require material subjectivity as pricing inputs are observed from actively quoted markets and are categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy.
Investments in open-end mutual funds are valued at NAV. Investments in closed-end funds and ETFs are valued as of the close of regular trading on the NYSE each business day. Each is categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy.
A summary of the inputs used to value the Fund’s net assets by each major security type is disclosed at the end of the Schedule of Investments for the Fund. The inputs or methodologies used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Other information regarding each Fund is available in the Fund’s most recent Report to Shareholders.
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