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Bank 12740C103 74685.00000000 NS USD 1870859.25000000 1.169821846819 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Certara Inc N/A Certara, Inc. 15687V109 68790.00000000 NS USD 1339341.30000000 0.837471185011 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Federal Signal Corp 549300RTXZRPTNP6G884 Federal Signal Corp. 313855108 11824.00000000 NS USD 722328.16000000 0.451661589262 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N elf Beauty Inc 549300U2K9TCON25C029 elf Beauty, Inc. 26856L103 28063.00000000 NS USD 3275513.36000000 2.048132208810 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Mercury Systems Inc 549300P3B84SGK7HH679 Mercury Systems, Inc. 589378108 73710.00000000 NS USD 2799505.80000000 1.750491409301 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Steven Madden Ltd 549300Z9GZ7GYJWSGF43 Steven Madden Ltd. 556269108 46311.00000000 NS USD 1545861.18000000 0.966605147080 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N TopBuild Corp 5493007YSKHOL4RWII46 TopBuild Corp. 89055F103 9878.00000000 NS USD 2705880.54000000 1.691948857497 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N Repay Holdings Corp N/A Repay Holdings Corp. 76029L100 266252.00000000 NS USD 2223204.20000000 1.390138164108 Long EC CORP US N 1 N N N 2023-08-29 TRANSAMERICA FUNDS Vincent Toner Vincent Toner Treasurer XXXX NPORT-EX 2 NPORT_I4CI_94103825_0723.htm FOR VALIDATION PURPOSES ONLY - [604880.I4CI]

Transamerica Small Cap Growth

 

SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS

At July 31, 2023

(unaudited)

 

     Shares      Value  
COMMON STOCKS - 96.8%  

Aerospace & Defense - 3.0%

 

AerSale Corp. (A)

     132,560        $  1,989,725  

Mercury Systems, Inc. (A)

     73,710        2,799,506  
     

 

 

 
        4,789,231  
     

 

 

 
Banks - 5.2%  

Cadence Bank

     74,685        1,870,859  

Home BancShares, Inc.

     154,211        3,748,870  

Triumph Financial, Inc. (A)

     37,355        2,648,843  
     

 

 

 
        8,268,572  
     

 

 

 
Biotechnology - 1.5%  

Avid Bioservices, Inc. (A)

     193,708        2,452,343  
     

 

 

 
Building Products - 1.2%  

AZEK Co., Inc. (A)

     60,700        1,893,840  
     

 

 

 
Chemicals - 1.0%  

Quaker Chemical Corp.

     7,780        1,558,956  
     

 

 

 
Commercial Services & Supplies - 3.3%  

Aris Water Solutions, Inc., Class A (B)

     117,770        1,287,226  

Casella Waste Systems, Inc., Class A (A)

     49,290        3,977,210  
     

 

 

 
        5,264,436  
     

 

 

 
Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail - 3.3%  

Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. (A)

     159,347        5,330,157  
     

 

 

 
Diversified Consumer Services - 1.4%  

OneSpaWorld Holdings Ltd. (A)

     168,784        2,168,031  
     

 

 

 
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 1.2%  

Napco Security Technologies, Inc.

     49,347        1,849,526  
     

 

 

 
Financial Services - 2.4%  

I3 Verticals, Inc., Class A (A)

     67,607        1,690,851  

Repay Holdings Corp. (A)

     266,252        2,223,204  
     

 

 

 
        3,914,055  
     

 

 

 
Food Products - 1.4%  

Sovos Brands, Inc. (A)

     127,304        2,266,011  
     

 

 

 
Ground Transportation - 2.1%  

Saia, Inc. (A)

     7,840        3,317,418  
     

 

 

 
Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 6.3%  

CONMED Corp.

     37,784        4,573,753  

LeMaitre Vascular, Inc.

     66,947        4,233,059  

Neogen Corp. (A)

     56,754        1,316,125  
     

 

 

 
        10,122,937  
     

 

 

 
Health Care Providers & Services - 4.0%  

Amedisys, Inc. (A)

     22,240        2,020,282  

Chemed Corp.

     5,460        2,845,152  

Option Care Health, Inc. (A)

     47,230        1,595,429  
     

 

 

 
        6,460,863  
     

 

 

 
Health Care Technology - 3.5%  

Certara, Inc. (A)

     68,790        1,339,342  

Simulations Plus, Inc.

     85,119        4,238,926  
     

 

 

 
        5,578,268  
     

 

 

 
     Shares      Value  
COMMON STOCKS (continued)  
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 4.1%  

Texas Roadhouse, Inc.

     58,513        $   6,527,125  
     

 

 

 
Household Durables - 3.0%  

Skyline Champion Corp. (A)

     30,310        2,111,395  

TopBuild Corp. (A)

     9,878        2,705,880  
     

 

 

 
        4,817,275  
     

 

 

 
IT Services - 1.0%  

Endava PLC, ADR (A) (B)

     29,448        1,544,842  
     

 

 

 
Life Sciences Tools & Services - 7.2%  

Medpace Holdings, Inc. (A)

     21,379        5,412,521  

Mesa Laboratories, Inc.

     21,444        2,758,985  

Repligen Corp. (A)

     19,537        3,351,768  
     

 

 

 
        11,523,274  
     

 

 

 
Machinery - 0.4%  

Federal Signal Corp.

     11,824        722,328  
     

 

 

 
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 9.3%  

Earthstone Energy, Inc., Class A (A)

     385,636        6,162,463  

Excelerate Energy, Inc., Class A

     180,800        3,836,576  

Permian Resources Corp.

     421,147        4,923,209  
     

 

 

 
        14,922,248  
     

 

 

 
Personal Care Products - 3.4%  

Coty, Inc., Class A (A)

     182,295        2,194,832  

elf Beauty, Inc. (A)

     28,063        3,275,513  
     

 

 

 
        5,470,345  
     

 

 

 
Pharmaceuticals - 1.0%  

ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)

     31,606        1,660,895  
     

 

 

 
Professional Services - 3.3%  

WNS Holdings Ltd., ADR (A)

     76,605        5,294,172  
     

 

 

 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 1.2%  

Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (A)

     12,401        1,849,485  
     

 

 

 
Software - 13.9%  

Appfolio, Inc., Class A (A)

     16,357        2,953,911  

DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc. (A)

     80,839        3,403,322  

Guidewire Software, Inc. (A)

     18,170        1,541,179  

Model N, Inc. (A)

     67,963        2,264,527  

Pegasystems, Inc.

     54,332        2,866,013  

Qualys, Inc. (A)

     32,582        4,522,382  

Workiva, Inc. (A)

     44,290        4,663,294  
     

 

 

 
        22,214,628  
     

 

 

 
Specialty Retail - 4.0%  

America’s Car-Mart, Inc. (A)

     19,500        2,322,840  

Boot Barn Holdings, Inc. (A)

     43,230        4,059,297  
     

 

 

 
        6,382,137  
     

 

 

 
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 1.9%  

Oxford Industries, Inc.

     14,340        1,546,569  

Steven Madden Ltd.

     46,311        1,545,861  
     

 

 

 
        3,092,430  
     

 

 

 
Trading Companies & Distributors - 2.3%  

SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. (A)

     21,330        3,626,100  
     

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(Cost $119,421,333)

 

     154,881,928  
  

 

 

 
 

 

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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (continued)

At July 31, 2023

(unaudited)

 

     Shares      Value  
OTHER INVESTMENT COMPANY - 0.1%  
Securities Lending Collateral - 0.1%  

State Street Navigator Securities Lending Trust - Government Money Market Portfolio, 5.28% (C)

     211,795        $   211,795  
     

 

 

 

Total Other Investment Company
(Cost $211,795)

 

     211,795  
  

 

 

 
     Principal      Value  
REPURCHASE AGREEMENT - 3.3%  

Fixed Income Clearing Corp., 2.50% (C), dated 07/31/2023, to be repurchased at $5,222,080 on 08/01/2023. Collateralized by a U.S. Government Obligation, 1.50%, due 08/15/2026, and with a value of $5,326,226.

     $  5,221,717        5,221,717  
     

 

 

 

Total Repurchase Agreement
(Cost $5,221,717)

 

     5,221,717  
  

 

 

 

Total Investments
(Cost $124,854,845)

 

     160,315,440  

Net Other Assets (Liabilities) - (0.2)%

        (326,127
     

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $  159,989,313  
     

 

 

 
 

 

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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (continued)

At July 31, 2023

(unaudited)

 

INVESTMENT VALUATION:

 

Valuation Inputs (D)

 

     Level 1 -
Unadjusted
Quoted
Prices
     Level 2 -
Other
Significant
Observable
Inputs
     Level 3 -
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
     Value  

ASSETS

 

Investments

 

Common Stocks

   $ 154,881,928      $ —        $     —        $ 154,881,928  

Other Investment Company

     211,795        —          —          211,795  

Repurchase Agreement

     —          5,221,717        —          5,221,717  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Investments

   $     155,093,723      $     5,221,717      $     —        $     160,315,440  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

FOOTNOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS:

 

(A)      Non-income producing securities.
(B)      All or a portion of the securities are on loan. The total value of all securities on loan is $206,564, collateralized by cash collateral of $211,795. The amount of securities on loan indicated may not correspond with the securities on loan identified because securities with pending sales are in the process of recall from the brokers.
(C)      Rates disclosed reflect the yields at July 31, 2023.
(D)      There were no transfers in or out of Level 3 during the period ended July 31, 2023. Please reference the Investment Valuation section of the Notes to Schedule of Investments for more information regarding investment valuation and pricing inputs.

PORTFOLIO ABBREVIATION:

 

ADR

   American Depositary Receipt

 

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NOTES TO SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS

At July 31, 2023

(unaudited)

 

INVESTMENT VALUATION

Transamerica Small Cap Growth (the “Fund”) is a series of the Transamerica Funds.

Transamerica Asset Management, Inc. (“TAM”) has been designated as the Fund’s valuation designee pursuant to Rule 2a-5 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, with responsibility for fair valuation subject to oversight by the Fund’s Board of Trustees. The net asset value of the Fund is computed as of the official close of the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) each day the NYSE is open for business.

TAM utilizes various methods to measure the fair value of its investments on a recurring basis. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States of America establishes a hierarchy that prioritizes inputs to valuation methods. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. The three levels (“Levels”) of inputs of the fair value hierarchy are defined as follows:

Level 1 — Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.

Level 2 — Inputs, other than quoted prices included in Level 1, which are observable, either directly or indirectly. These inputs may include quoted prices for the identical instrument on an inactive market, prices for similar instruments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, yield curves, default rates, and similar data.

Level 3 — Unobservable inputs based on the best information available in the circumstances, to the extent observable inputs are not available, which may include TAM’s own assumptions used in determining the fair value of the Fund’s investments.

The inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different Levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, for disclosure purposes, the Level in the fair value hierarchy that is assigned to the fair value measurement of a security is determined based on the lowest Level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. Certain investments that are measured at fair value using Net Asset Value (“NAV”) per share, or its equivalent, using the “practical expedient” have not been classified in the fair value Levels. The hierarchy classification of inputs used to value the Fund’s investments at July 31, 2023, is disclosed within the Investment Valuation section of the Schedule of Investments.

The availability of observable inputs can vary from security to security and is affected by a wide variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the type of security, whether the security is new and not yet established in the marketplace, the liquidity of markets, and other characteristics particular to the security. To the extent that valuation is based on models or inputs that are less observable or unobservable in the market, the determination of fair value requires more judgment. Accordingly, the degree of judgment exercised in determining fair value is generally greatest for instruments categorized in Level 3. Due to the inherent uncertainty of valuation, the determination of values may differ significantly from values that would have been realized had a ready market for investments existed, and the differences could be material.

Fair value measurements: Descriptions of the valuation techniques applied to the Fund’s significant categories of assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis are as follows:

Equity securities: Securities are stated at the last reported sales price or closing price on the day of valuation taken from the primary exchange where the security is principally traded. To the extent these securities are actively traded and valuation adjustments are not applied, they are categorized in Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy. Equities traded on inactive markets or valued by reference to similar instruments are generally categorized in Level 2 or Level 3 if inputs are unobservable.

Foreign equity securities: Securities in which the primary trading market closes at the same time or after the NYSE, are valued based on quotations from the primary market in which they are traded and are categorized in Level 1. Because many foreign securities markets and exchanges close prior to the close of the NYSE, closing prices for foreign securities in those markets or on those exchanges do not reflect the events that occur after that close. Certain foreign securities may be fair valued using a pricing service that considers the correlation of the trading patterns of the foreign security to the intraday trading in the U.S. markets for investments such as American Depositary Receipts, financial futures, or ETFs and the movement of certain indices of securities based on a statistical analysis of their historical relationship; such valuations generally are categorized in Level 2.

Securities lending collateral: Securities lending collateral is invested in a money market fund which is valued at the actively traded NAV and no valuation adjustments are applied. Securities lending collateral is categorized in Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.

Repurchase agreements: Repurchase agreements are valued at cost, which approximates fair value. To the extent the inputs are observable and timely, the values are generally categorized in Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.

 

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