-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, P48b/Jezv5rKIaviR6VmbZ+aNviTGNsODhKQwXAfL4TUc/PBO5QJn1YNrpS+GsC1 wQgBTYrLQQQOvp9g0NbIGg== 0000357236-08-000002.txt : 20080516 0000357236-08-000002.hdr.sgml : 20080516 20080516101235 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000357236-08-000002 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: NSAR-B/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 5 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20061031 FILED AS OF DATE: 20080516 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080516 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20080516 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FEDERATED STOCK TRUST CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000357236 IRS NUMBER: 251412885 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MA FISCAL YEAR END: 1031 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: NSAR-B/A SEC ACT: 1940 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 811-03385 FILM NUMBER: 08840553 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 5800 CORPORATE DRIVE CITY: PITTSBURGH STATE: PA ZIP: 15237-7000 BUSINESS PHONE: 8003417400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 5800 CORPORATE DRIVE CITY: PITTSBURGH STATE: PA ZIP: 15237-7000 0000357236 S000009100 FEDERATED STOCK TRUST C000024715 FEDERATED STOCK TRUST FSTKX NSAR-B/A 1 answer.fil PAGE 1 000 B000000 10/31/2006 000 C000000 0000357236 000 D000000 N 000 E000000 NF 000 F000000 Y 000 G000000 Y 000 H000000 N 000 I000000 6.1 000 J000000 U 001 A000000 FEDERATED STOCK TRUST 001 B000000 811-3385 001 C000000 4122888239 002 A000000 5800 CORPORATE DR. 002 B000000 PITTSBURGH 002 C000000 PA 002 D010000 15237 002 D020000 7000 003 000000 N 004 000000 N 005 000000 N 006 000000 N 007 A000000 N 007 B000000 0 062 A000000 N 062 B000000 0.0 062 C000000 0.0 062 D000000 0.0 062 E000000 0.0 062 F000000 0.0 062 G000000 0.0 062 H000000 0.0 062 I000000 0.0 062 J000000 0.0 062 K000000 0.0 062 L000000 0.0 062 M000000 0.0 062 N000000 0.0 062 O000000 0.0 062 P000000 0.0 062 Q000000 0.0 062 R000000 0.0 071 A000000 416332 071 B000000 673341 071 C000000 776130 071 D000000 54 072 A000000 12 074 N000000 884375 074 T000000 741337 075 A000000 0 075 B000000 780824 077 A000000 Y PAGE 2 080 A000000 FEDERAL INSURANCE COMPANY 080 B000000 NTL FIRE INS;FID DEP;CONTINENT;ST PAUL MERC 080 C000000 50000 080 C00AA00 0 081 A000000 Y 081 B000000 164 081 B00AA00 0 082 A000000 N 082 B000000 0 082 B00AA00 0 083 A000000 N 083 B000000 0 084 A000000 N 084 B000000 0 085 A000000 Y 085 B000000 N SIGNATURE STEPHEN KEENE TITLE GENERAL COUNSEL EX-99.77E LEGAL 2 leg.txt SUBITEM 77E LEGAL PROCEEDINGS Since October 2003 Federated and related entities collectively Federated and various Federated funds Funds have been named as defendants in several class action lawsuits now pending in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland The lawsuits were purportedly filed on behalf of people who purchased owned and or redeemed shares of Federatedsponsored mutual funds during specified periods beginning November 1 1998 The suits are generally similar in alleging that Federated engaged in illegal and improper trading practices including market timing and late trading in concert with certain institutional traders which allegedly caused financial injury to the mutual fund shareholders These lawsuits began to be filed shortly after Federateds first public announcement that it had received requests for information on shareholder trading activities in the Funds from the SEC the Office of the New York State Attorney General NYAG and other authorities In that regard on November 28 2005 Federated announced that it had reached final settlements with the SEC and the NYAG with respect to those matters Specifically the SEC and NYAG settled proceedings against three Federated subsidiaries involving undisclosed market timing arrangements and late trading The SEC made findings that Federated Investment Management Company FIMC an SECregistered investment adviser to various Funds and Federated Securities Corp an SEC registered broker dealer and distributor for the Funds violated provisions of the Investment Advisers Act and Investment Company Act by approving but not disclosing three market timing arrangements or the associated conflict of interest between FIMC and the funds involved in the arrangements either to other fund shareholders or to the funds board; and that Federated Shareholder Services Company formerly an SECregistered transfer agent failed to prevent a customer and a Federated employee from late trading in violation of provisions of the Investment Company Act The NYAG found that such conduct violated provisions of New York State law Federated entered into the settlements without admitting or denying the regulators findings As Federated previously reported in 2004 it has already paid approximately $80 million to certain funds as determined by an independent consultant As part of these settlements Federated agreed to pay disgorgement and a civil money penalty in the aggregate amount of an additional $72 million and among other things agreed that it would not serve as investment adviser to any registered investment company unless i at least 75% of the funds directors are independent of Federated ii the chairman of each such fund is independent of Federated iii no action may be taken by the funds board or any committee thereof unless approved by a majority of the independent trustees of the fund or committee respectively and iv the fund appoints a senior officer who reports to the independent trustees and is responsible for monitoring compliance by the fund with applicable laws and fiduciary duties and for managing the process by which management fees charged to a fund are approved The settlements are described in Federateds announcement which along with previous press releases and related communications on those matters is available in the About Us section of Federateds website at FederatedInvestorscom Federated and various Funds have also been named as defendants in several additional lawsuits the majority of which are now pending in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania alleging among other things excessive advisory and Rule 12b1 fees The board of the Funds has retained the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro LLP to represent the Funds in these lawsuits Federated and the Funds and their respective counsel are reviewing the allegations and intend to defend this litigation Additional lawsuits based upon similar allegations may be filed in the future The potential impact of these lawsuits all of which seek unquantified damages attorneys fees and expenses and future potential similar suits is uncertain Although we do not believe that these lawsuits will have a material adverse effect on the Funds there can be no assurance that these suits ongoing adverse publicity andor other developments resulting from the regulatory investigations will not result in increased Fund redemptions reduced sales of Fund shares or other adverse consequences for the Funds EX-99.77B ACCT LTTR 3 acct.txt Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm To the Shareholders and Board of Trustees of Federated Stock Trust In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of Federated Stock Trust as of and for the year ended October 31 2006 in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board United States we considered its internal control over financial reporting including control activities for safeguarding securities as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to comply with the requirements of Form NSAR but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of Federated Stock Trusts internal control over financial reporting Accordingly we express no such opinion The management of Federated Stock Trust is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting In fulfilling this responsibility estimates and judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of controls A companys internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with US generally accepted accounting principles Such internal control includes policies and procedures that provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition use or disposition of a companys assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements Because of its inherent limitations internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements Also projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate A control deficiency exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees in the normal course of performing their assigned functions to prevent or detect misstatements on a timely basis A significant deficiency is a control deficiency or combination of control deficiencies that adversely affects the companys ability to initiate authorize record process or report external financial data reliably in accordance with US generally accepted accounting principles such that there is more than a remote likelihood that a misstatement of the companys annual or interim financial statements that is more than inconsequential will not be prevented or detected A material weakness is a significant deficiency or combination of significant deficiencies that results in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected Our consideration of Federated Stock Trusts internal control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in the first paragraph and would not necessarily disclose all deficiencies in internal control that might be significant deficiencies or material weaknesses under standards established by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board United States However we noted no deficiencies in Federated Stock Trusts internal control over financial reporting and its operation including controls for safeguarding securities that we consider to be a material weakness as defined above as of October 31 2006 This report is intended solely for the information and use of management and the Board of Trustees of Federated Stock Trust and the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than these specified parties S KPMG LLP Boston Massachusetts December 22 2006 EX-99.77Q1 OTHR EXHB 4 amd.txt ITEM 77Q1A COPIES OF ANY MATERIAL AMENDMENTS TO THE REGISTRANTS CHARTER OR BYLAWS AMENDMENT 13 TO THE BYLAWS OF FEDERATED STOCK TRUST Effective January 1 2006 Strike Section 1 Officers and Section 2 Election of Officers from Article I OFFICERS AND THEIR ELECTION and replace with the following Section 1 Officers The Officers of the Trust shall be a President one or more Executive Vice Presidents one or more Senior Vice Presidents one or more Vice Presidents a Treasurer and a Secretary The Board of Trustees in its discretion may also elect or appoint one or more Vice Chairmen of the Board of Trustees who need not be a Trustee and other Officers or agents including one or more Assistant Vice Presidents one or more Assistant Secretaries and one or more Assistant Treasurers An Executive Vice President Senior Vice President or Vice President the Secretary or the Treasurer may appoint an Assistant Vice President an Assistant Secretary or an Assistant Treasurer respectively to serve until the next election of Officers Two or more offices may be held by a single person except the offices of President and Executive Vice President Senior Vice President or Vice President may not be held by the same person concurrently It shall not be necessary for any Trustee or any Officer to be a holder of shares in any Series or Class of the Trust Any officer or such other person as the Board may appoint may preside at meetings of the shareholders Section 2 Election of Officers The Officers shall be elected annually by the Trustees Each Officer shall hold office for one year and until the election and qualification of his successor or until earlier resignation or removal Strike Sections 2 Chairman of the Trustees Section 3 Vice Chairman of the Trustees Section 4 President and Section 5 Vice President from Article II POWERS AND DUTIES OF TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS and replace with the following Section 2 Chairman of the Board The Board may elect from among its members a Chairman of the Board The Chairman shall at all times be a Trustee who meets all applicable regulatory and other relevant requirements for serving in such capacity The Chairman shall not be an officer of the Trust but shall preside over meetings of the Board and shall have such other responsibilities in furthering the Board functions as may be assigned from time to time by the Board of Trustees or prescribed by these ByLaws It shall be understood that the election of any Trustee as Chairman shall not impose on that person any duty obligation or liability that is greater than the duties obligations and liabilities imposed on that person as a Trustee in the absence of such election and no Trustee who is so elected shall be held to a higher standard of care by virtue thereof In addition election as Chairman shall not affect in any way that Trustees rights or entitlement to indemnification under the ByLaws or otherwise by the Trust The Chairman shall be elected by the Board annually to hold office until his successor shall have been duly elected and shall have qualified or until his death or until he shall have resigned or have been removed as herein provided in these ByLaws Each Trustee including the Chairman shall have one vote Resignation The Chairman may resign at any time by giving written notice of resignation to the Board Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified in such notice or if the time when it shall become effective shall not be specified therein immediately upon its receipt and unless otherwise specified therein the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective Removal The Chairman may be removed by majority vote of the Board with or without cause at any time Vacancy Any vacancy in the office of Chairman arising from any cause whatsoever may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term of the office which shall be vacant by the vote of the Board Absence If for any reason the Chairman is absent from a meeting of the Board the Board may select from among its members who are present at such meeting a Trustee to preside at such meeting Section 3 Vice Chairman of the Trustees Any Vice Chairman shall perform such duties as may be assigned to him from time to time by the Trustees The Vice Chairman need not be a Trustee Section 4 President The President shall be the principal executive officer of the Trust He shall counsel and advise the Chairman He shall have general supervision over the business of the Trust and policies of the Trust He shall employ and define the duties of all employees shall have power to discharge any such employees shall exercise general supervision over the affairs of the Trust and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him from time to time by the Trustees the Chairman or the Executive Committee The President shall have the power to appoint one or more Assistant Secretaries or other junior officers subject to ratification of such appointments by the Board The President shall have the power to sign in the name of and on behalf of the Trust powers of attorney proxies waivers of notice of meeting consents and other instruments relating to securities or other property owned by the Trust and may in the name of and on behalf of the Trust take all such action as the President may deem advisable in entering into agreements to purchase securities or other property in the ordinary course of business and to sign representation letters in the course of buying securities or other property Section 5 Vice President The Executive Vice President Senior Vice President or Vice President if any in order of their rank as fixed by the Board or if not ranked a Vice President designated by the Board in the absence of the President shall perform all duties and may exercise any of the powers of the President subject to the control of the Trustees Each Executive Vice President Senior Vice President and Vice President shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him from time to time by the Trustees the Chairman the President or the Executive Committee Each Executive Vice President Senior Vice President and Vice President shall be authorized to sign documents on behalf of the Trust The Executive Vice President Senior Vice President and Vice President shall have the power to sign in the name of and on behalf of the Trust and subject to Article VIII Section 1 powers of attorney proxies waivers of notice of meeting consents and other instruments relating to securities or other property owned by the Trust and may in the name of and on behalf of the Trust take all such action as the Executive Vice President Senior Vice President or Vice President may deem advisable in entering into agreements to purchase securities or other property in the ordinary course of business and to sign representation letters in the course of buying securities or other property EX-99.77K CHNG ACCNT 5 aud.txt CHANGE IN INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM On August 18 2006 the Funds Trustees upon the recommendation of the Audit Committee appointed KPMG LLP KPMG as the Funds independent registered public accounting firm On the same date the Funds previous independent registered public accounting firm Deloitte Touche LLP DT resigned The previous reports issued by DT on the Funds financial statements for the fiscal years ended October 31 2005 and October 31 2004 contained no adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion nor were they qualified or modified as to uncertainty audit scope or accounting principles During the Funds fiscal years ended October 31 2005 and October 31 2004 i there were no disagreements with DT on any matter of accounting principles or practices financial statement disclosure or auditing scope or procedure which disagreements if not resolved to the satisfaction of DT would have caused it to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its reports on the financial statements for such years and ii there were no reportable events of the kind described in Item 304a 1 v of Regulation SK under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended As indicated above the Fund has appointed KPMG as the independent registered public accounting firm to audit the Funds financial statements for the fiscal year ending October 31 2006 During the Funds fiscal years ended October 31 2005 and October 31 2004 and the interim period commencing November 1 2005 and ending August 18 2006 neither the Fund nor anyone on its behalf has consulted KPMG on items which i concerned the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction either completed or proposed or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Funds financial statements or ii concerned the subject of a disagreement as defined in paragraph a 1 iv of Item 304 of Regulations S-K or reportable events as described in paragraph a 1 v of said Item 304 -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----