N-Q 1 d466626dnq.htm AB VARIABLE PRODUCTS SERIES FUND, INC. AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM N-Q

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Investment Company Act file number: 811-05398

AB VARIABLE PRODUCTS SERIES FUND, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10105

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

Joseph J. Mantineo

AllianceBernstein L.P.

1345 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10105

(Name and address of agent for service)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (800) 221-5672

Date of fiscal year end: December 31, 2017

Date of reporting period: September 30, 2017

 

 

 


ITEM 1. SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS.


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 63.7%

       

Information Technology - 12.1%

       

Communications Equipment - 0.6%

       

Arista Networks, Inc. (a)

     1,990        $ 377,324  

Cisco Systems, Inc.

     3,983          133,948  

Nokia Oyj

     66,740          401,008  

Nokia Oyj (Sponsored ADR) - Class A

     122,979          735,414  
       

 

 

 
          1,647,694  
       

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 0.5%

 

Amphenol Corp. - Class A

     4,744          401,532  

Corning, Inc.

     5,906          176,708  

Keyence Corp.

     2,000          1,063,735  
       

 

 

 
          1,641,975  
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 3.4%

 

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Sponsored ADR) (a)

     2,730          471,498  

Alphabet, Inc. - Class A (a)

     530          516,072  

Alphabet, Inc. - Class C (a)

     4,348          4,170,210  

Criteo SA (Sponsored ADR) (a)(b)

     4,740          196,710  

eBay, Inc. (a)

     4,940          189,992  

Facebook, Inc. - Class A (a)

     23,670          4,044,493  

NetEase, Inc. (ADR)

     450          118,714  

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

     4,200          183,627  

Yahoo Japan Corp.

     102,200          485,747  
       

 

 

 
          10,377,063  
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 1.9%

 

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.

     13,357          499,418  

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. - Class A

     11,455          830,946  

Fiserv, Inc. (a)

     8,910          1,149,034  

Fujitsu Ltd.

     18,000          133,966  

Vantiv, Inc. - Class A (a)

     2,290          161,376  

Visa, Inc. - Class A

     29,260          3,079,322  
       

 

 

 
          5,854,062  
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 2.2%

 

Applied Materials, Inc.

     1,594          83,031  

ASM International NV

     2,870          181,495  

ASML Holding NV

     2,601          444,453  

Infineon Technologies AG

     7,700          194,135  

Intel Corp.

     38,891          1,480,969  

NVIDIA Corp.

     2,539          453,897  

SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.

     2,700          187,556  

Siltronic AG (a)

     2,760          343,253  

SK Hynix, Inc.

     1,720          125,440  

SUMCO Corp.

     13,800          217,736  

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

     21,000          150,412  

Texas Instruments, Inc.

     5,610          502,880  

Tokyo Electron Ltd.

     1,200          184,739  

Xilinx, Inc.

     28,979          2,052,583  
       

 

 

 
          6,602,579  
       

 

 

 

Software - 1.9%

 

Adobe Systems, Inc. (a)

     10,500          1,566,390  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Constellation Software, Inc./Canada

     1,679        $ 916,019  

Dassault Systemes SE

     3,130          316,671  

Electronic Arts, Inc. (a)

     8,450          997,607  

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

     800          294,987  

Oracle Corp.

     30,263          1,463,216  

ServiceNow, Inc. (a)

     1,905          223,894  
       

 

 

 
          5,778,784  
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 1.6%

 

Apple, Inc.

     16,700          2,573,804  

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

     8,190          120,475  

HP, Inc.

     38,674          771,933  

NCR Corp. (a)

     3,432          128,768  

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

     120          270,027  

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Preference Shares)

     130          235,149  

Xerox Corp.

     19,206          639,368  
       

 

 

 
          4,739,524  
       

 

 

 
          36,641,681  
       

 

 

 

Real Estate - 9.8%

 

Diversified Real Estate Activities - 0.7%

 

City Developments Ltd.

     35,600          298,316  

Kerry Properties Ltd.

     30,500          126,683  

Leopalace21 Corp.

     35,900          250,185  

Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.

     12,500          217,242  

Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.

     31,800          689,520  

Sumitomo Realty & Development Co., Ltd.

     5,000          151,276  

Wharf Holdings Ltd. (The)

     41,000          366,793  
       

 

 

 
          2,100,015  
       

 

 

 

Diversified REITs - 1.2%

 

Activia Properties, Inc.

     35          145,257  

Armada Hoffler Properties, Inc.

     20,820          287,524  

Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. - Class A

     18,390          377,731  

GPT Group (The)

     78,470          305,773  

Gramercy Property Trust

     13,257          401,024  

H&R Real Estate Investment Trust

     11,960          206,466  

Hispania Activos Inmobiliarios SOCIMI SA

     11,230          202,409  

Hulic Reit, Inc.

     92          135,721  

ICADE

     2,550          227,501  

Liberty Property Trust

     8,290          340,387  

Merlin Properties Socimi SA

     15,764          218,544  

Mirvac Group

     186,290          335,114  

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust

     11,260          368,878  
       

 

 

 
          3,552,329  
       

 

 

 

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 0.3%

 

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.

     10,261          1,096,696  
       

 

 

 

Health Care REITs - 0.5%

 

Healthcare Realty Trust, Inc.

     9,200          297,528  

Medical Properties Trust, Inc.

     22,270          292,405  

Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc.

     12,580          276,005  

Welltower, Inc.

     10,820          760,430  
       

 

 

 
          1,626,368  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Hotel & Resort REITs - 0.4%

 

MGM Growth Properties LLC - Class A

     10,260        $ 309,955  

Park Hotels & Resorts, Inc.

     10,270          283,041  

RLJ Lodging Trust

     18,170          399,740  

Summit Hotel Properties, Inc.

     10,620          169,814  
       

 

 

 
          1,162,550  
       

 

 

 

Industrial REITs - 0.7%

 

Goodman Group

     27,870          180,446  

LaSalle Logiport REIT

     151          147,230  

Mapletree Logistics Trust

     247,900          226,889  

PLA Administradora Industrial S de RL de CV (a)

     46,200          79,537  

Prologis, Inc.

     3,260          206,880  

Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust

     28,880          147,206  

Rexford Industrial Realty, Inc.

     13,250          379,215  

Segro PLC

     36,880          265,156  

STAG Industrial, Inc.

     15,310          420,566  
       

 

 

 
          2,053,125  
       

 

 

 

Office REITs - 1.5%

 

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.

     3,740          444,948  

Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust

     6,776          216,354  

Axiare Patrimonio SOCIMI SA

     9,740          199,037  

Beni Stabili SpA SIIQ

     207,680          180,166  

Boston Properties, Inc.

     4,674          574,341  

Brandywine Realty Trust

     12,110          211,804  

Champion REIT

     196,000          135,547  

Columbia Property Trust, Inc.

     18,100          394,037  

Corporate Office Properties Trust

     6,570          215,693  

Daiwa Office Investment Corp.

     30          150,135  

Derwent London PLC

     8,490          318,004  

Hibernia REIT PLC

     54,390          98,032  

Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc.

     11,790          395,319  

Investa Office Fund

     53,120          187,783  

Japan Real Estate Investment Corp.

     36          173,092  

Mack-Cali Realty Corp.

     8,320          197,267  

MCUBS MidCity Investment Corp.

     50          152,411  

Workspace Group PLC

     22,686          269,793  
       

 

 

 
          4,513,763  
       

 

 

 

Real Estate Development - 0.3%

 

CK Asset Holdings Ltd.

     93,500          777,296  

TAG Immobilien AG

     11,490          193,289  
       

 

 

 
          970,585  
       

 

 

 

Real Estate Management & Development - 0.4%

 

Daito Trust Construction Co., Ltd.

     3,200          582,984  

Vonovia SE

     15,272          650,400  
       

 

 

 
          1,233,384  
       

 

 

 

Real Estate Operating Companies - 0.7%

 

Aroundtown SA

     24,850          177,690  

BUWOG AG (a)

     7,126          213,588  

CA Immobilien Anlagen AG

     9,140          262,502  

Deutsche Wohnen SE

     7,150          303,864  

Entra ASA (c)

     18,398          251,790  

Fabege AB

     14,310          293,743  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Hongkong Land Holdings Ltd.

     42,100        $ 303,569  

Inmobiliaria Colonial Socimi SA

     27,357          271,689  
       

 

 

 
          2,078,435  
       

 

 

 

Residential REITs - 1.0%

 

American Homes 4 Rent - Class A

     18,320          397,727  

Camden Property Trust

     5,040          460,908  

Education Realty Trust, Inc.

     5,640          202,645  

Emlak Konut Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi AS (a)

     202,130          152,095  

Essex Property Trust, Inc.

     2,530          642,696  

Independence Realty Trust, Inc.

     32,140          326,864  

Japan Rental Housing Investments, Inc.

     236          166,527  

Killam Apartment Real Estate Investment Trust

     15,330          162,054  

Sun Communities, Inc.

     4,731          405,352  

UNITE Group PLC (The)

     31,460          289,825  
       

 

 

 
          3,206,693  
       

 

 

 

Retail REITs - 1.6%

 

Brixmor Property Group, Inc.

     19,140          359,832  

Eurocommercial Properties NV

     5,300          226,634  

Frontier Real Estate Investment Corp.

     39          158,218  

Fukuoka REIT Corp.

     116          165,147  

Kenedix Retail REIT Corp.

     70          145,559  

Klepierre SA

     6,123          240,490  

Link REIT

     77,268          628,341  

National Retail Properties, Inc.

     10,350          431,181  

Realty Income Corp.

     10,330          590,773  

Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.

     12,600          239,526  

Scentre Group

     54,960          169,657  

Simon Property Group, Inc.

     7,596          1,223,032  

Urban Edge Properties

     12,980          313,078  
       

 

 

 
          4,891,468  
       

 

 

 

Specialized REITs - 0.5%

 

Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

     4,870          576,267  

Equinix, Inc.

     500          223,150  

National Storage Affiliates Trust

     15,010          363,843  

Public Storage

     1,360          291,026  
       

 

 

 
          1,454,286  
       

 

 

 
          29,939,697  
       

 

 

 

Financials - 9.7%

 

Banks - 4.5%

 

ABN AMRO Group NV (GDR) (c)

     6,180          185,055  

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.

     9,180          213,835  

Banco Santander SA

     23,410          163,749  

Bank of America Corp.

     83,814          2,123,847  

Bank of Queensland Ltd.

     23,408          238,877  

Barclays PLC

     92,180          239,021  

BNP Paribas SA

     11,640          939,066  

BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd.

     59,000          287,389  

Citigroup, Inc.

     14,051          1,022,070  

Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

     1,635          61,917  

Comerica, Inc.

     7,529          574,162  

Danske Bank A/S

     4,425          177,326  

DNB ASA

     15,090          304,668  

Erste Group Bank AG (a)

     8,430          364,219  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Fifth Third Bancorp

     5,234        $ 146,447  

HSBC Holdings PLC

     30,730          303,791  

ING Groep NV

     21,500          396,296  

Intesa Sanpaolo SpA

     54,080          191,460  

Itau Unibanco Holding SA (Preference Shares)

     8,250          112,921  

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

     18,724          1,788,329  

KB Financial Group, Inc.

     2,170          106,762  

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.

     65,500          425,870  

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)

     2,996          403,771  

Royal Bank of Canada

     1,710          132,305  

Sberbank of Russia PJSC (Sponsored ADR) (b)

     15,598          222,583  

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

     2,924          174,767  

US Bancorp

     9,085          486,865  

Wells Fargo & Co.

     32,606          1,798,221  
       

 

 

 
          13,585,589  
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 1.5%

 

Credit Suisse Group AG (REG) (a)

     23,778          376,753  

Franklin Resources, Inc.

     1,564          69,614  

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)

     3,676          871,910  

MarketAxess Holdings, Inc.

     3,849          710,179  

Morgan Stanley

     8,180          394,030  

Partners Group Holding AG

     980          665,320  

S&P Global, Inc.

     5,450          851,889  

Thomson Reuters Corp.

     2,453          112,544  

UBS Group AG (a)

     41,202          704,842  
       

 

 

 
          4,757,081  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Finance - 0.7%

 

Capital One Financial Corp.

     7,473          632,664  

Discover Financial Services

     1,591          102,588  

Hitachi Capital Corp.

     7,400          176,108  

OneMain Holdings, Inc. (a)

     10,982          309,582  

Synchrony Financial

     25,834          802,146  
       

 

 

 
          2,023,088  
       

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services - 0.4%

 

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. - Class B (a)

     4,127          756,562  

GRENKE AG

     4,146          386,902  

ORIX Corp.

     10,900          175,972  
       

 

 

 
          1,319,436  
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 2.4%

 

Admiral Group PLC

     14,769          359,884  

AIA Group Ltd.

     129,800          960,948  

Allianz SE (REG)

     1,880          422,223  

Allstate Corp. (The)

     8,598          790,242  

American International Group, Inc.

     17,683          1,085,560  

Aviva PLC

     19,640          135,554  

First American Financial Corp.

     11,689          584,099  

FNF Group

     16,512          783,660  

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)

     2,784          154,317  

Lincoln National Corp.

     5,204          382,390  

Loews Corp.

     1,598          76,480  

MetLife, Inc.

     4,482          232,840  

PICC Property & Casualty Co., Ltd. - Class H

     68,000          120,625  

Principal Financial Group, Inc.

     1,371          88,210  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Prudential Financial, Inc.

     2,641        $ 280,791  

Prudential PLC

     33,890          811,005  
       

 

 

 
          7,268,828  
       

 

 

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 0.2%

 

Housing Development Finance Corp., Ltd.

     20,140          533,926  
       

 

 

 
          29,487,948  
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 7.7%

 

Biotechnology - 0.8%

 

Biogen, Inc. (a)

     5,062          1,585,014  

China Biologic Products Holdings, Inc. (a)(b)

     1,190          109,801  

Gilead Sciences, Inc.

     8,239          667,524  

Grifols SA (ADR) (b)

     8,390          183,657  
       

 

 

 
          2,545,996  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 1.9%

 

Align Technology, Inc. (a)

     2,305          429,352  

Danaher Corp.

     5,269          451,975  

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (a)

     16,715          1,827,117  

Essilor International SA

     6,500          805,594  

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (a)

     1,954          2,043,649  

Sartorius AG (Preference Shares)

     1,296          124,013  
       

 

 

 
          5,681,700  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 1.7%

 

Aetna, Inc.

     4,027          640,333  

Anthem, Inc.

     1,305          247,794  

Cigna Corp.

     4,111          768,510  

McKesson Corp.

     4,750          729,648  

Quest Diagnostics, Inc.

     3,584          335,606  

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

     11,971          2,344,520  
       

 

 

 
          5,066,411  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Technology - 0.3%

 

Cerner Corp. (a)

     14,450          1,030,574  
       

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 0.6%

 

Eurofins Scientific SE

     1,706          1,079,388  

Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. (a)

     669          418,901  

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

     1,098          207,742  
       

 

 

 
          1,706,031  
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 2.4%

 

Allergan PLC

     1,644          336,938  

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

     4,094          260,952  

Johnson & Johnson

     7,946          1,033,059  

Mallinckrodt PLC (a)

     14,204          530,803  

Merck & Co., Inc.

     6,294          403,005  

Novartis AG (REG)

     2,630          225,588  

Novo Nordisk A/S - Class B

     5,320          255,779  

Pfizer, Inc.

     7,360          262,752  

Roche Holding AG

     2,300          587,926  

Sanofi

     5,040          501,715  

Shire PLC

     10,300          524,618  

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

     1,680          29,894  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Sponsored ADR)

     30,549        $ 537,662  

Zoetis, Inc.

     30,000          1,912,800  
       

 

 

 
          7,403,491  
       

 

 

 
          23,434,203  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 6.0%

 

Auto Components - 0.8%

 

Bridgestone Corp.

     2,800          127,130  

Cie Generale des Etablissements Michelin - Class B

     1,010          147,361  

Faurecia

     4,075          282,789  

Hankook Tire Co., Ltd.

     1,660          87,416  

Lear Corp.

     3,221          557,491  

Magna International, Inc. - Class A

     16,200          864,756  

Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.

     9,500          155,306  

Valeo SA

     4,130          306,449  
       

 

 

 
          2,528,698  
       

 

 

 

Automobiles - 0.5%

 

General Motors Co.

     6,743          272,282  

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

     12,400          366,302  

Peugeot SA

     14,410          343,033  

Toyota Motor Corp.

     10,000          596,284  
       

 

 

 
          1,577,901  
       

 

 

 

Diversified Consumer Services - 0.0%

 

Tarena International, Inc. (ADR) (b)

     4,100          59,655  
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 0.5%

 

Carnival Corp.

     2,091          135,016  

Merlin Entertainments PLC (c)

     20,239          120,786  

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

     863          102,300  

Sodexo SA

     2,771          345,435  

Starbucks Corp.

     12,680          681,043  
       

 

 

 
          1,384,580  
       

 

 

 

Household Durables - 0.1%

 

Nikon Corp.

     300          5,203  

Panasonic Corp.

     28,100          407,786  
       

 

 

 
          412,989  
       

 

 

 

Internet & Direct Marketing Retail - 0.2%

 

Priceline Group, Inc. (The) (a)

     280          512,629  
       

 

 

 

Leisure Products - 0.1%

 

Amer Sports Oyj (a)

     6,590          174,953  
       

 

 

 

Media - 1.0%

 

Charter Communications, Inc. - Class A (a)

     319          115,931  

Comcast Corp. - Class A

     44,154          1,699,046  

CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA

     5,568          243,268  

I-CABLE Communications Ltd. (a)

     20,494          686  

Regal Entertainment Group - Class A

     14,456          231,296  

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. - Class A

     4,838          127,627  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Walt Disney Co. (The)

     4,468        $ 440,411  
       

 

 

 
          2,858,265  
       

 

 

 

Multiline Retail - 0.2%

 

Dollar Tree, Inc. (a)

     6,281          545,317  

Target Corp.

     3,136          185,055  
       

 

 

 
          730,372  
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 1.7%

 

ABC-Mart, Inc.

     7,400          390,887  

Best Buy Co., Inc.

     1,291          73,535  

Home Depot, Inc. (The)

     13,621          2,227,851  

Michaels Cos., Inc. (The) (a)

     20,754          445,589  

TJX Cos., Inc. (The)

     15,358          1,132,345  

Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. (a)

     3,820          863,549  
       

 

 

 
          5,133,756  
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 0.9%

 

HUGO BOSS AG

     3,330          293,830  

Kering

     450          179,265  

NIKE, Inc. - Class B

     31,212          1,618,342  

Pandora A/S

     2,184          215,937  

Samsonite International SA

     103,800          445,756  
       

 

 

 
          2,753,130  
       

 

 

 
          18,126,928  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 5.1%

 

Beverages - 1.2%

 

Asahi Group Holdings Ltd.

     2,500          101,097  

Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan, Inc.

     5,300          171,665  

Constellation Brands, Inc. - Class A

     4,600          917,470  

Monster Beverage Corp. (a)

     28,861          1,594,570  

PepsiCo, Inc.

     6,097          679,389  

Pernod Ricard SA

     1,610          222,718  
       

 

 

 
          3,686,909  
       

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 0.8%

 

Costco Wholesale Corp.

     9,930          1,631,400  

CVS Health Corp.

     2,294          186,548  

Sugi Holdings Co., Ltd.

     2,800          149,047  

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

     7,088          553,856  
       

 

 

 
          2,520,851  
       

 

 

 

Food Products - 0.5%

 

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

     4,072          173,101  

BRF SA (a)

     8,500          122,569  

Orkla ASA

     30,610          314,110  

Tyson Foods, Inc. - Class A

     8,297          584,524  

WH Group Ltd. (c)

     225,000          239,625  
       

 

 

 
          1,433,929  
       

 

 

 

Household Products - 0.7%

 

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

     3,537          257,671  

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Preference Shares)

     2,430          331,069  

Procter & Gamble Co. (The)

     11,786          1,072,290  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC

     4,120        $ 376,436  
       

 

 

 
          2,037,466  
       

 

 

 

Personal Products - 0.4%

 

Unilever PLC

     17,668          1,022,612  
       

 

 

 

Tobacco - 1.5%

 

British American Tobacco PLC

     24,319          1,522,460  

British American Tobacco PLC (Sponsored ADR)

     9,400          587,030  

Imperial Brands PLC

     4,060          173,284  

Japan Tobacco, Inc.

     32,500          1,065,056  

Philip Morris International, Inc.

     11,740          1,303,257  
       

 

 

 
          4,651,087  
       

 

 

 
          15,352,854  
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 4.5%

 

Aerospace & Defense - 0.9%

 

Airbus SE

     4,580          435,994  

BAE Systems PLC

     32,440          274,726  

Hexcel Corp.

     4,071          233,757  

Raytheon Co.

     5,248          979,172  

Saab AB - Class B

     3,600          182,985  

Textron, Inc.

     1,311          70,636  

United Technologies Corp.

     4,091          474,883  
       

 

 

 
          2,652,153  
       

 

 

 

Airlines - 0.4%

 

Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.

     10,300          348,669  

JetBlue Airways Corp. (a)

     22,157          410,569  

Qantas Airways Ltd.

     79,944          366,169  

United Continental Holdings, Inc. (a)

     2,002          121,882  
       

 

 

 
          1,247,289  
       

 

 

 

Building Products - 0.4%

 

Allegion PLC

     8,792          760,245  

AO Smith Corp.

     9,440          561,019  
       

 

 

 
          1,321,264  
       

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 0.3%

 

Babcock International Group PLC

     10,755          119,289  

Copart, Inc. (a)

     19,941          685,372  

IWG PLC

     40,670          168,717  
       

 

 

 
          973,378  
       

 

 

 

Construction & Engineering - 0.1%

 

AECOM (a)

     5,381          198,075  

Quanta Services, Inc. (a)

     5,685          212,448  
       

 

 

 
          410,523  
       

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 0.4%

 

Eaton Corp. PLC

     10,095          775,195  

Emerson Electric Co.

     2,696          169,416  

Philips Lighting NV (c)

     3,290          132,791  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

TKH Group NV

     2,160        $ 140,310  
       

 

 

 
          1,217,712  
       

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 0.5%

 

General Electric Co.

     12,256          296,350  

Roper Technologies, Inc.

     4,465          1,086,781  
       

 

 

 
          1,383,131  
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 0.7%

 

Cummins, Inc.

     2,636          442,927  

FANUC Corp.

     1,600          324,405  

IDEX Corp.

     1,910          232,008  

IHI Corp.

     8,200          285,841  

Ingersoll-Rand PLC

     1,198          106,826  

Oshkosh Corp.

     6,805          561,685  

WABCO Holdings, Inc. (a)

     1,700          251,600  
       

 

 

 
          2,205,292  
       

 

 

 

Professional Services - 0.2%

 

Teleperformance

     2,899          432,497  
       

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 0.3%

 

Norfolk Southern Corp.

     602          79,609  

Ryder System, Inc.

     2,277          192,520  

Union Pacific Corp.

     4,830          560,135  
       

 

 

 
          832,264  
       

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 0.3%

 

BOC Aviation Ltd. (c)

     37,400          203,379  

Brenntag AG

     8,430          469,937  

United Rentals, Inc. (a)

     2,533          351,428  
       

 

 

 
          1,024,744  
       

 

 

 
          13,700,247  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 3.5%

 

Energy Equipment & Services - 0.2%

 

RPC, Inc. (b)

     21,831          541,190  
       

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 3.3%

 

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

     19,975          668,963  

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (Toronto)

     5,860          196,265  

Chevron Corp.

     6,492          762,810  

ConocoPhillips

     3,545          177,427  

Devon Energy Corp.

     15,035          551,935  

EOG Resources, Inc.

     11,256          1,088,905  

Exxon Mobil Corp.

     14,684          1,203,794  

Hess Corp.

     10,872          509,788  

HollyFrontier Corp.

     5,962          214,453  

JXTG Holdings, Inc.

     74,500          384,138  

LUKOIL PJSC (Sponsored ADR) (b)

     1,180          62,579  

Marathon Oil Corp.

     4,332          58,742  

Marathon Petroleum Corp.

     14,575          817,366  

Novatek PJSC (Sponsored GDR) (c)

     1,040          122,195  

QEP Resources, Inc. (a)

     26,098          223,660  

Royal Dutch Shell PLC - Class A

     66,725          2,020,938  

TOTAL SA

     12,950          695,343  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Valero Energy Corp.

     2,806        $ 215,866  

YPF SA (Sponsored ADR)

     5,353          119,265  
       

 

 

 
          10,094,432  
       

 

 

 
          10,635,622  
       

 

 

 

Materials - 2.3%

 

Chemicals - 1.2%

 

Air Water, Inc.

     9,000          166,182  

Arkema SA

     2,536          311,172  

CF Industries Holdings, Inc.

     13,472          473,676  

Eastman Chemical Co.

     4,166          376,981  

Ecolab, Inc.

     7,170          922,134  

Incitec Pivot Ltd.

     65,980          186,929  

Johnson Matthey PLC

     7,028          322,270  

Koninklijke DSM NV

     1,848          151,288  

LyondellBasell Industries NV - Class A

     3,895          385,800  

Mosaic Co. (The)

     1,842          39,769  

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.

     3,500          247,394  
       

 

 

 
          3,583,595  
       

 

 

 

Construction Materials - 0.3%

 

Anhui Conch Cement Co., Ltd. - Class H

     52,000          208,714  

Buzzi Unicem SpA

     5,080          137,278  

Fletcher Building Ltd.

     25,910          149,753  

Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua SAB de CV

     39,050          199,882  

HeidelbergCement AG

     1,590          163,626  
       

 

 

 
          859,253  
       

 

 

 

Containers & Packaging - 0.0%

 

WestRock Co.

     1,282          72,728  
       

 

 

 

Metals & Mining - 0.7%

 

BHP Billiton PLC

     25,850          456,149  

BlueScope Steel Ltd.

     16,001          138,225  

Boliden AB

     4,880          165,526  

First Quantum Minerals Ltd.

     12,750          143,160  

Gerdau SA (Preference Shares)

     40,300          140,477  

Glencore PLC (a)

     180,510          828,541  

Newmont Mining Corp.

     3,210          120,407  

Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.

     5,500          177,063  

Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd.

     6,700          181,609  
       

 

 

 
          2,351,157  
       

 

 

 

Paper & Forest Products - 0.1%

 

Mondi PLC

     6,914          185,884  
       

 

 

 
          7,052,617  
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 1.4%

 

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 0.8%

 

AT&T, Inc.

     20,559          805,296  

BT Group PLC

     134,660          512,178  

China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd. (a)

     122,000          170,565  

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.

     13,200          604,833  

TDC A/S

     32,900          192,944  
       

 

 

 
          2,285,816  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.6%

 

SoftBank Group Corp.

     11,500        $ 932,607  

T-Mobile US, Inc. (a)

     9,989          615,922  

Vodafone Group PLC

     129,953          363,893  
       

 

 

 
          1,912,422  
       

 

 

 
          4,198,238  
       

 

 

 

Utilities - 1.3%

 

Electric Utilities - 0.9%

 

American Electric Power Co., Inc.

     10,829          760,629  

Edison International

     7,026          542,196  

EDP - Energias de Portugal SA

     43,550          164,214  

Enel SpA

     32,841          197,844  

Eversource Energy

     1,154          69,748  

PG&E Corp.

     6,743          459,131  

Portland General Electric Co.

     11,183          510,392  

Xcel Energy, Inc.

     2,341          110,776  
       

 

 

 
          2,814,930  
       

 

 

 

Multi-Utilities - 0.4%

 

Ameren Corp.

     1,182          68,367  

CMS Energy Corp.

     1,661          76,937  

DTE Energy Co.

     1,111          119,277  

NiSource, Inc.

     22,229          568,840  

Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc.

     3,500          161,875  

WEC Energy Group, Inc.

     1,887          118,466  
       

 

 

 
          1,113,762  
       

 

 

 

Water Utilities - 0.0%

 

Pennon Group PLC

     13,390          142,969  
       

 

 

 
          4,071,661  
       

 

 

 

Transportation - 0.2%

 

Airport Services - 0.0%

 

Sydney Airport

     29,160          162,845  
       

 

 

 

Highways & Railtracks - 0.1%

 

Transurban Group

     26,680          249,146  
       

 

 

 

Railroads - 0.1%

 

East Japan Railway Co.

     1,800          166,155  
       

 

 

 
          578,146  
       

 

 

 

Banks - 0.1%

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 0.1%

 

Aareal Bank AG

     5,360          227,219  
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $147,875,558)

 

       193,447,061  
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGHS - 8.0%

 

Agency Fixed Rate 30-Year - 7.2%

 

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Gold

       

4.00%, 2/01/46

   U.S.$ 507          537,274  


      Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Series 2005

  

5.50%, 1/01/35

   U.S.$          185        $ 206,382  

Series 2007

  

5.50%, 7/01/35

     19          21,104  

Series 2017

  

4.00%, 7/01/44

     399          422,698  

Federal National Mortgage Association

  

3.00%, 5/01/45

     1,220          1,225,686  

3.50%, 10/01/47, TBA

     6,470          6,669,660  

4.00%, 10/25/47, TBA

     3,180          3,347,695  

4.00%, 12/01/40-10/01/43

     1,260          1,336,196  

4.50%, 10/01/33-4/01/47

     4,536          4,872,920  

5.00%, 12/01/39

     103          113,217  

Series 2004

  

5.50%, 2/01/34-11/01/34

     69          76,734  

Series 2007

  

5.50%, 1/01/37-8/01/37

     258          288,086  

Series 2008

  

5.50%, 8/01/37

     118          131,927  

Government National Mortgage Association

  

3.00%, 12/20/46

     487          494,527  

3.50%, 10/01/47, TBA

     2,081          2,163,427  
       

 

 

 
       21,907,533  
       

 

 

 

Agency Fixed Rate 15-Year - 0.8%

       

Federal National Mortgage Association

  

2.50%, 12/01/31-1/01/32

     1,576          1,588,571  

Series 2016

  

2.50%, 11/01/31

     765          770,910  
       

 

 

 
       2,359,481  
       

 

 

 

Total Mortgage Pass-Throughs
(cost $24,205,379)

 

       24,267,014  
       

 

 

 

CORPORATES - INVESTMENT GRADE - 7.9%

       

Industrial - 4.2%

       

Basic - 0.5%

       

Anglo American Capital PLC

       

3.75%, 4/10/22 (c)

     200          205,018  

Dow Chemical Co. (The)

       

4.125%, 11/15/21

     165          175,191  

Eastman Chemical Co.

       

3.80%, 3/15/25

     84          86,508  

Glencore Funding LLC

       

4.125%, 5/30/23 (c)

     126          131,019  

Minsur SA

       

6.25%, 2/07/24 (c)

     168          184,170  

Mosaic Co. (The)

       

5.625%, 11/15/43

     96          98,078  

Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA

       

3.625%, 4/03/23 (c)

     237          238,778  

Vale Overseas Ltd.

       

6.875%, 11/21/36

     145          166,003  

Yamana Gold, Inc.

       

4.95%, 7/15/24

     142          145,713  
       

 

 

 
       1,430,478  
       

 

 

 


      Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Capital Goods - 0.1%

       

Embraer Netherlands Finance BV

       

5.40%, 2/01/27

   U.S.$ 160        $ 173,280  

General Electric Co.

       

Series D

       

5.00%, 1/21/21 (d)

     68          71,683  
       

 

 

 
          244,963  
       

 

 

 

Communications - Media - 0.3%

       

Charter Communications Operating LLC/Charter Communications Operating Capital

       

4.908%, 7/23/25

     165          176,545  

Comcast Corp.

       

5.15%, 3/01/20

     451          485,010  

Cox Communications, Inc.

       

2.95%, 6/30/23 (c)

     91          89,741  

Time Warner Cable LLC

       

4.125%, 2/15/21

     165          171,214  

4.50%, 9/15/42

     85          80,436  
       

 

 

 
          1,002,946  
       

 

 

 

Communications - Telecommunications - 0.9%

       

AT&T, Inc.

       

3.40%, 5/15/25

     575          567,002  

4.125%, 2/17/26

     345          354,377  

5.15%, 2/14/50

     105          105,744  

Rogers Communications, Inc.

       

4.00%, 6/06/22 CAD

     46          38,981  

Sprint Spectrum Co. LLC/Sprint Spectrum Co. II LLC/Sprint Spectrum Co. III LLC

       

3.36%, 9/20/21 (c)

   U.S.$          225          228,105  

Verizon Communications, Inc.

       

2.625%, 8/15/26

     295          276,654  

3.50%, 11/01/24

     1,048          1,067,838  
       

 

 

 
          2,638,701  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Cyclical - Automotive - 0.4%

       

Ford Motor Credit Co. LLC

       

5.875%, 8/02/21

     915          1,018,642  

General Motors Co.

       

3.50%, 10/02/18

     130          132,100  

General Motors Financial Co., Inc.

       

4.00%, 1/15/25

     41          41,813  

4.30%, 7/13/25

     50          51,614  
       

 

 

 
          1,244,169  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Non-Cyclical - 0.5%

       

Becton Dickinson and Co.

       

3.734%, 12/15/24

     66          67,731  

Biogen, Inc.

       

4.05%, 9/15/25

     251          267,930  

Bunge Ltd. Finance Corp.

       

8.50%, 6/15/19

     155          171,075  

Mylan NV

       


      Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

3.125%, 11/22/28 (c)

   EUR 165        $ 208,594  

3.95%, 6/15/26

   U.S.$          68          69,276  

Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III BV

       

2.80%, 7/21/23

     211          202,079  

3.15%, 10/01/26

     391          361,007  

Tyson Foods, Inc.

       

2.65%, 8/15/19

     64          64,756  

3.95%, 8/15/24

     206          217,130  
       

 

 

 
          1,629,578  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 0.8%

       

Cenovus Energy, Inc.

       

3.00%, 8/15/22

     17          16,703  

5.70%, 10/15/19

     59          62,415  

Ecopetrol SA

       

5.875%, 5/28/45

     94          91,768  

Encana Corp.

       

3.90%, 11/15/21

     140          144,169  

Enterprise Products Operating LLC

       

3.70%, 2/15/26

     278          285,923  

5.20%, 9/01/20

     185          200,357  

Hess Corp.

       

4.30%, 4/01/27

     199          197,951  

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP

       

2.65%, 2/01/19

     302          304,304  

Kinder Morgan, Inc./DE

       

5.00%, 2/15/21 (c)

     250          268,245  

Marathon Petroleum Corp.

       

5.125%, 3/01/21

     163          176,865  

Noble Energy, Inc.

       

3.90%, 11/15/24

     170          174,243  

Plains All American Pipeline LP/PAA Finance Corp.

       

3.60%, 11/01/24

     232          226,214  

Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC

       

5.00%, 3/15/27

     146          155,259  

Williams Partners LP

       

4.125%, 11/15/20

     155          162,344  
       

 

 

 
          2,466,760  
       

 

 

 

Services - 0.2%

       

Expedia, Inc.

       

3.80%, 2/15/28 (c)

     185          183,317  

S&P Global, Inc.

       

4.40%, 2/15/26

     226          243,515  

Total System Services, Inc.

       

3.75%, 6/01/23

     45          46,511  
       

 

 

 
          473,343  
       

 

 

 

Technology - 0.4%

       

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

       

5.00%, 7/15/20

     71          75,972  

Broadcom Corp./Broadcom Cayman Finance Ltd.

       

3.625%, 1/15/24 (c)

     53          54,544  

3.875%, 1/15/27 (c)

     117          120,499  


      Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Dell International LLC/EMC Corp.

       

6.02%, 6/15/26 (c)

   U.S.$          50        $ 55,469  

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

       

2.10%, 10/04/19 (c)

     183          183,013  

HP, Inc.

       

4.65%, 12/09/21

     114          122,755  

KLA-Tencor Corp.

       

4.65%, 11/01/24

     225          244,102  

Lam Research Corp.

       

2.80%, 6/15/21

     71          71,819  

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

       

7.50%, 5/15/25

     33          40,042  

Seagate HDD Cayman

       

4.75%, 1/01/25

     127          123,701  

VMware, Inc.

       

2.95%, 8/21/22

     85          85,497  

Western Digital Corp.

       

7.375%, 4/01/23 (c)

     156          170,818  
       

 

 

 
          1,348,231  
       

 

 

 

Transportation - Services - 0.1%

       

Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd.

       

3.95%, 1/19/22 (c)

     200          205,429  
       

 

 

 
          12,684,598  
       

 

 

 

Financial Institutions - 3.6%

       

Banking - 3.3%

       

Banco Santander SA

       

3.50%, 4/11/22

     200          204,946  

Bank of America Corp.

       

2.881%, 4/24/23

     265          266,238  

3.824%, 1/20/28

     270          277,341  

Series G

       

3.593%, 7/21/28

     210          212,087  

Barclays PLC

       

3.65%, 3/16/25

     270          270,562  

BNP Paribas SA

       

3.80%, 1/10/24 (c)

     215          223,748  

Citigroup, Inc.

       

3.668%, 7/24/28

     370          373,652  

3.875%, 3/26/25

     235          240,511  

Compass Bank

       

2.875%, 6/29/22

     265          263,686  

5.50%, 4/01/20

     314          331,352  

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA

       

4.375%, 8/04/25

     320          337,389  

Credit Agricole SA/London

       

4.125%, 1/10/27 (c)

     250          261,430  

Credit Suisse Group Funding Guernsey Ltd.

       

3.80%, 6/09/23

     385          398,340  

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)

       

2.35%, 11/15/21

     208          206,276  

3.75%, 5/22/25

     186          191,355  

5.75%, 1/24/22

     335          375,438  


      Principal
Amount

(000)
     U.S. $ Value  

Series D

     

6.00%, 6/15/20

   U.S.$ 217      $ 238,236  

HSBC Holdings PLC

     

4.041%, 3/13/28

     585        612,489  

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

     

3.22%, 3/01/25

     265        269,211  

3.54%, 5/01/28

     485        490,480  

Lloyds Banking Group PLC

     

4.65%, 3/24/26

     200        211,120  

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.

     

3.85%, 3/01/26

     272        282,932  

Morgan Stanley

     

3.591%, 7/22/28

     445        446,985  

5.625%, 9/23/19

     168        179,353  

Series G

     

5.50%, 7/24/20

     189        205,422  

Nationwide Building Society

     

4.00%, 9/14/26 (c)

     290        289,150  

PNC Bank NA

     

3.80%, 7/25/23

     685        722,709  

Santander Holdings USA, Inc.

     

4.40%, 7/13/27 (c)

     265        270,297  

Santander Issuances SAU

     

3.25%, 4/04/26 (c)

   EUR 200        254,364  

Santander UK Group Holdings PLC

     

2.875%, 8/05/21

   U.S.$          226        227,187  

Santander UK PLC

     

5.00%, 11/07/23 (c)

     200        216,396  

UBS Group Funding Switzerland AG

     

4.125%, 9/24/25 (c)

     305        320,814  

US Bancorp

     

Series J

     

5.30%, 4/15/27 (d)

     116        126,461  

Wells Fargo & Co.

     

3.069%, 1/24/23

     212        215,559  
     

 

 

 
        10,013,516  
     

 

 

 

Insurance - 0.2%

     

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)

     

5.50%, 3/30/20

     38        40,955  

Lincoln National Corp.

     

8.75%, 7/01/19

     31        34,442  

MetLife, Inc.

     

10.75%, 8/01/39

     70        117,046  

XLIT Ltd.

     

3.25%, 6/29/47

   EUR 165        191,513  

6.375%, 11/15/24

   U.S.$ 157        184,423  
     

 

 

 
        568,379  
     

 

 

 

REITS - 0.1%

     

Host Hotels & Resorts LP

     

Series D

     

3.75%, 10/15/23

     10        10,223  

Trust F/1401

     

5.25%, 1/30/26 (c)

     200        212,501  


      Principal
Amount

(000)
     U.S. $ Value  

Welltower, Inc.

     

4.00%, 6/01/25

   U.S.$          238      $ 247,884  
     

 

 

 
        470,608  
     

 

 

 
        11,052,503  
     

 

 

 

Utility - 0.1%

     

Electric - 0.1%

     

Israel Electric Corp., Ltd.

     

Series 6

     

5.00%, 11/12/24 (c)

     320        346,400  

Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

     

6.05%, 3/01/34

     38        49,541  
     

 

 

 
        395,941  
     

 

 

 

Total Corporates - Investment Grade
(cost $23,391,718)

        24,133,042  
     

 

 

 

GOVERNMENTS - TREASURIES - 4.8%

     

United States - 4.8%

     

U.S. Treasury Bonds

     

2.75%, 8/15/42

     280        276,763  

3.00%, 5/15/45

     533        548,907  

3.125%, 2/15/43-8/15/44

     575        606,775  

3.375%, 5/15/44

     234        257,838  

4.375%, 2/15/38

     822        1,045,219  

U.S. Treasury Notes

     

0.75%, 12/31/17

     1,590        1,588,509  

1.00%, 12/31/17

     910        909,716  

1.125%, 2/28/19

     4,160        4,143,100  

1.25%, 5/31/19

     1,070        1,066,656  

1.75%, 11/30/21

     1,335        1,330,411  

1.875%, 7/31/22

     1,342        1,339,064  

2.25%, 11/15/24

     305        306,525  

2.375%, 8/15/24

     1,081        1,096,607  
     

 

 

 

Total Governments - Treasuries
(cost $14,507,329)

        14,516,090  
     

 

 

 

ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES - 3.3%

     

Autos - Fixed Rate - 1.9%

     

Ally Master Owner Trust

     

Series 2015-3, Class A

     

1.63%, 5/15/20

     454        454,054  

AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust

     

Series 2016-4, Class A2A

     

1.34%, 4/08/20

     136        135,969  

Series 2017-3, Class A2A

     

1.69%, 12/18/20

     130        129,887  

California Republic Auto Receivables Trust

     

Series 2014-2, Class A4

     

1.57%, 12/16/19

     84        84,385  

Series 2015-2, Class A3

     

1.31%, 8/15/19

     32        32,392  


      Principal
Amount

(000)
     U.S. $ Value  

Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables Trust Series 2015-BA, Class A3

     

1.91%, 3/16/20 (c)

   U.S.$         107      $ 107,022  

CPS Auto Receivables Trust Series 2013-B, Class A

     

1.82%, 9/15/20 (c)

     41        40,955  

CPS Auto Trust Series 2017-A, Class A

     

1.68%, 8/17/20 (c)

     88        87,972  

Drive Auto Receivables Trust Series 2016-CA, Class A3

     

1.67%, 11/15/19 (c)

     149        148,952  

Series 2017-AA, Class A3

     

1.77%, 1/15/20 (c)

     235        234,853  

Series 2017-BA, Class A3

     

1.74%, 6/17/19 (c)

     215        215,065  

DT Auto Owner Trust Series 2017-3A, Class A

     

1.73%, 8/17/20 (c)

     122        121,472  

Enterprise Fleet Financing LLC Series 2014-2, Class A2

     

1.05%, 3/20/20 (c)

     4        3,893  

Series 2015-1, Class A2

     

1.30%, 9/20/20 (c)

     66        65,795  

Exeter Automobile Receivables Trust

     

Series 2016-1A, Class D

     

8.20%, 2/15/23 (c)

     140        148,209  

Series 2016-3A, Class A

     

1.84%, 11/16/20 (c)

     54        53,881  

Series 2017-2A, Class A

     

2.11%, 6/15/21 (c)

     139        139,418  

Fifth Third Auto Trust Series 2014-3, Class A4

     

1.47%, 5/17/21

     268        267,910  

First Investors Auto Owner Trust Series 2016-2A, Class A1

     

1.53%, 11/16/20 (c)

     96        95,826  

Flagship Credit Auto Trust

     

Series 2016-3, Class A1

     

1.61%, 12/15/19(c)

     104        103,967  

Series 2016-4, Class A2

     

1.96%, 2/16/21(c)

     110        109,686  

Series 2016-4, Class D

     

3.89%, 11/15/22(c)

     100        101,041  

Series 2017-2, Class A

     

1.85%, 7/15/21(c)

     184        183,548  

Series 2017-3, Class A

     

1.88%, 10/15/21(c)

     175        175,066  

Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust Series 2015-2, Class A1

     

1.98%, 1/15/22

     322        321,890  

GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust Series 2015-2, Class A3

     

1.68%, 12/20/18

     255        255,127  


      Principal
Amount

(000)
     U.S. $ Value  

GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust

     

Series 2015-1, Class A1

     

1.65%, 5/15/20 (c)

   U.S.$         221      $ 221,333  

Series 2016-1, Class A1

     

1.96%, 5/17/21 (c)

     280        280,527  

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust

     

Series 2015-1, Class A3

     

1.41%, 6/15/20

     75        75,128  

Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP

     

Series 2015-1A, Class A

     

2.73%, 3/25/21 (c)

     215        215,127  

Series 2015-2A, Class A

     

2.02%, 9/25/19 (c)

     180        179,387  

Series 2015-3A, Class A

     

2.67%, 9/25/21 (c)

     265        262,741  

Hertz Vehicle Financing LLC

     

Series 2013-1A, Class B2

     

2.48%, 8/25/19 (c)

     192        191,077  

Series 2016-1A, Class A

     

2.32%, 3/25/20(c)

     145        144,839  

Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust

     

Series 2015-B, Class A3

     

1.40%, 11/15/18 (c)

     70        69,802  

Mercedes Benz Auto Lease Trust

     

Series 2015-B, Class A3

     

1.34%, 7/16/18

     82        81,668  

Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust

     

Series 2017-3, Class A2

     

1.67%, 6/15/20

     123        122,928  

Westlake Automobile Receivables Trust

     

Series 2016-2A, Class A2

     

1.57%, 6/17/19 (c)

     61        60,517  
     

 

 

 
        5,723,309  
     

 

 

 

Other ABS - Fixed Rate - 0.7%

     

Ascentium Equipment Receivables Trust

     

Series 2016-1A, Class A2

     

1.75%, 11/13/18 (c)

     24        24,290  

CLUB Credit Trust Series 2017-P1, Class A

     

2.42%, 9/15/23 (c)(e)

     320        319,990  

CNH Equipment Trust

     

Series 2014-B, Class A4

     

1.61%, 5/17/21

     205        205,269  

Series 2015-A, Class A4

     

1.85%, 4/15/21

     227        226,941  

Marlette Funding Trust

     

Series 2016-1A, Class A

     

3.06%, 1/17/23 (c)(e)

     35        35,489  

Series 2017-1A, Class A

     

2.827%, 3/15/24 (c)(e)

     96        96,583  

Series 2017-2A, Class A

     

2.39%, 7/15/24 (c)(e)

     129        129,489  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Prosper Marketplace Issuance Trust

       

Series 2017-2A, Class B

       

3.48%, 9/15/23 (c)(e)

   U.S.$                 100        $         100,243  

SBA Tower Trust

       

3.156%, 10/08/20 (c)(e)

     251          252,851  

SoFi Consumer Loan Program LLC

       

Series 2016-2, Class A

       

3.09%, 10/27/25 (c)(e)

     77          77,532  

Series 2016-3, Class A

       

3.05%, 12/26/25 (c)(e)

     108          109,127  

Series 2017-2, Class A

       

3.28%, 2/25/26 (c)(e)

     130          132,188  

Series 2017-3, Class A

       

2.77%, 5/25/26 (c)(e)

     137          138,009  

Series 2017-5, Class A2

       

2.78%, 9/25/26 (c)(e)

     180          179,404  
       

 

 

 
          2,027,405  
       

 

 

 

Credit Cards - Fixed Rate - 0.3%

       

Barclays Dryrock Issuance Trust

       

Series 2014-3, Class A

       

2.41%, 7/15/22

     326          329,297  

Series 2015-2, Class A

       

1.56%, 3/15/21

     214          214,078  

World Financial Network Credit Card Master Trust

       

Series 2013-A, Class A

       

1.61%, 12/15/21

     246          246,074  

Series 2017-B, Class A

       

1.98%, 6/15/23

     205          204,842  
       

 

 

 
          994,291  
       

 

 

 

Autos - Floating Rate - 0.2%

       

BMW Floorplan Master Owner Trust

       

Series 2015-1A, Class A

       

1.734% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.50%), 7/15/20 (c)(f)

     378          379,277  

Wells Fargo Dealer Floorplan Master Note Trust

       

Series 2015-1, Class A

       

1.736% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.50%), 1/20/20 (f)

     384          384,614  
       

 

 

 
          763,891  
       

 

 

 

Credit Cards - Floating Rate - 0.2%

       

Discover Card Execution Note Trust

       

Series 2015-A1, Class A1

       

1.584% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.35%), 8/17/20 (f)

     240          240,236  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

World Financial Network Credit Card Master Trust

       

Series 2015-A, Class A

       

1.714% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.48%), 2/15/22 (f)

   U.S.$                 256        $         256,443  
       

 

 

 
          496,679  
       

 

 

 

Home Equity Loans - Fixed Rate - 0.0%

       

Credit-Based Asset Servicing & Securitization LLC

       

Series 2003-CB1, Class AF

       

3.95%, 1/25/33 (e)

     53          53,245  
       

 

 

 

Total Asset-Backed Securities
(cost $10,026,609)

          10,058,820  
       

 

 

 

COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES - 2.6%

       

Non-Agency Fixed Rate CMBS - 2.1%

       

Banc of America Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2007-5, Class AM

       

5.772%, 2/10/51 (e)

     146          146,048  

BHMS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2014-ATLS, Class AFX

       

3.601%, 7/05/33 (c)

     335          338,441  

CFCRE Commercial Mortgage Trust Series

       

2016-C4, Class A4

       

3.283%, 5/10/58

     115          116,047  

CGRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2013-VN05, Class A

       

3.369%, 3/13/35 (c)

     495          509,455  

Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2012-GC8, Class D

       

5.036%, 9/10/45 (c)(e)

     169          150,554  

Series 2015-GC27, Class A5

       

3.137%, 2/10/48

     246          247,972  

Series 2015-GC35, Class A4

       

3.818%, 11/10/48

     100          105,122  

Series 2016-GC36, Class A5

       

3.616%, 2/10/49

     125          129,719  

Commercial Mortgage Loan Trust

       

Series 2008-LS1, Class A1A

       

6.267%, 12/10/49 (e)

     183          183,246  

Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2013-SFS, Class A1

       

1.873%, 4/12/35 (c)

     150          147,482  

Series 2015-CR24, Class A5

       

3.696%, 8/10/48

     135          140,709  

CSAIL Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2015-C3, Class A4

       

3.718%, 8/15/48

     214          223,129  

Series 2015-C4, Class A4

       

3.808%, 11/15/48

     370          387,636  

GS Mortgage Securities Corp. II

       

Series 2013-KING, Class A

       

2.706%, 12/10/27 (c)

     438          442,671  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

GS Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2013-G1, Class A2

       

3.557%, 4/10/31 (c)

   U.S.$                 276        $         274,472  

JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage

       

Securities Trust

       

Series 2004-LN2, Class A1A

       

4.838%, 7/15/41 (c)

     105          104,758  

Series 2006-LDP9, Class AM

       

5.372%, 5/15/47 (e)

     70          69,770  

Series 2007-CB19, Class AM

       

5.99%, 2/12/49 (e)

     16          15,667  

Series 2012-C6, Class E

       

5.307%, 5/15/45 (c)(e)

     119          105,849  

JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2015-C30, Class A5

       

3.822%, 7/15/48

     125          131,562  

Series 2015-C31, Class A3

       

3.801%, 8/15/48

     355          373,260  

Series 2015-C32, Class C

       

4.818%, 11/15/48 (e)

     195          192,482  

LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2006-C6, Class AJ

       

5.452%, 9/15/39 (e)

     75          59,756  

LSTAR Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2014-2, Class A2

       

2.767%, 1/20/41 (c)

     101          100,946  

Series 2015-3, Class A2

       

2.729%, 4/20/48 (c)

     228          228,637  

Series 2016-4, Class A2

       

2.579%, 3/10/49 (c)

     161          158,976  

Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust

       

Series 2005-IQ9, Class D

       

5.00%, 7/15/56 (e)

     112          111,914  

Series 2016-UB12, Class A4

       

3.596%, 12/15/49

     195          202,774  

UBS-Barclays Commercial Mort gage Trust

       

Series 2012-C4, Class A5

       

2.85%, 12/10/45

     168          169,972  

Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2015-SG1, Class C

       

4.619%, 9/15/48 (e)

     197          191,865  

Series 2016-NXS6, Class C

       

4.454%, 11/15/49 (e)

     180          183,925  

WF-RBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2013-C14, Class A5

       

3.337%, 6/15/46

     260          269,244  

Series 2014-C20, Class A2

       

3.036%, 5/15/47

     206          209,279  
       

 

 

 
          6,423,339  
       

 

 

 

Non-Agency Floating Rate CMBS - 0.5%

       

CGBAM Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2016-IMC, Class A

       


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

3.134% (LIBOR 1 Month + 1.90%), 11/15/21(c)(f)

   U.S.$                 112        $         112,400  

Series 2016-IMC, Class C

       

5.184% (LIBOR 1 Month + 3.95%), 11/15/21(c)(e)(f)

     113          113,442  

CSMC Mortgage-Backed Trust

       

Series 2016-MFF, Class D

       

5.827% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.60%), 11/15/33 (c)(e)(f)

     110          110,618  

Great Wolf Trust

       

Series 2017-WOLF, Class A

       

2.09% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.85%), 9/15/34 (c)(f)

     189          188,999  

H/2 Asset Funding NRE

       

Series 2015-1A

       

2.888% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.92%), 6/24/49 (e)(f)(g)

     133          132,785  

JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage

       

Securities Trust

       

Series 2015-SGP, Class A

       

2.927% (LIBOR 1 Month + 1.70%), 7/15/36 (c)(f)

     268          268,614  

Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust

       

Series 2015-XLF2, Class AFSA

       

3.104% (LIBOR 1 Month + 1.87%), 8/15/26 (c)(f)

     105          105,200  

Series 2015-XLF2, Class SNMA

       

3.184% (LIBOR 1 Month + 1.95%), 11/15/26 (c)(f)

     119          118,231  

Starwood Retail Property Trust

       

Series 2014-STAR, Class A

       

2.454% (LIBOR 1 Month + 1.22%), 11/15/27 (c)(f)

     378          377,914  
       

 

 

 
          1,528,203  
       

 

 

 

Total Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
(cost $8,022,937)

          7,951,542  
       

 

 

 

COLLATERALIZED MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS - 2.1%

       

Risk Share Floating Rate - 1.2%

       

Bellemeade Re II Ltd.

       

Series 2016-1A, Class M2B

       

7.737% (LIBOR 1 Month + 6.50%), 4/25/26 (f)(g)

     170          175,108  

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt Notes

       

Series 2014-DN3, Class M3

       

5.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.00%), 8/25/24 (f)

     323          344,715  

Series 2014-DN4, Class M3

       

5.787% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.55%), 10/25/24 (f)

     234          253,635  

Series 2014-HQ3, Class M3

       

5.987% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.75%), 10/25/24 (f)

     250          275,449  


      Principal
Amount

(000)
     U.S. $ Value  

Series 2016-DNA1, Class M3

     

6.787% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.55%), 7/25/28 (f)

   U.S. $        250      $ 293,260  

Federal National Mortgage Association

     

Connecticut Avenue Securities

     

Series 2014-C03, Class 1M1

     

2.437% (LIBOR 1 Month + 1.20%), 7/25/24 (f)

     7        7,032  

Series 2014-C04, Class 1M2

     

6.137% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.90%), 11/25/24 (f)

     172        194,648  

Series 2014-C04, Class 2M2

     

6.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.00%), 11/25/24 (f)

     63        70,583  

Series 2015-C01, Class 1M2

     

5.537% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.30%), 2/25/25 (f)

     126        134,746  

Series 2015-C01, Class 2M2

     

5.787% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.55%), 2/25/25 (f)

     121        129,372  

Series 2015-C02, Class 1M2

     

5.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.00%), 5/25/25 (f)

     168        178,613  

Series 2015-C02, Class 2M2

     

5.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.00%), 5/25/25 (f)

     159        167,572  

Series 2015-C03, Class 1M2

     

6.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.00%), 7/25/25 (f)

     82        90,506  

Series 2015-C03, Class 2M2

     

6.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.00%), 7/25/25 (f)

     236        257,878  

Series 2015-C04, Class 1M2

     

6.937% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.70%), 4/25/28 (f)

     74        83,337  

Series 2015-C04, Class 2M2

     

6.787% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.55%), 4/25/28 (f)

     117        129,324  

Series 2016-C01, Class 1M2

     

7.987% (LIBOR 1 Month + 6.75%), 8/25/28 (f)

     204        241,124  

Series 2016-C01, Class 2M2

     

8.187% (LIBOR 1 Month + 6.95%), 8/25/28 (f)

     159        187,983  

Series 2016-C03, Class 2M2

     

7.137% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.90%), 10/25/28 (f)

     145        165,978  

JP Morgan Madison Avenue Securities Trust

     

Series 2014-CH1, Class M2

     

5.487% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.25%), 11/25/24 (f)(g)

     34        36,527  

Wells Fargo Credit Risk Transfer Securities Trust

     

Series 2015-WF1, Class 1M2

     


      Principal
Amount

(000)
     U.S. $ Value  

6.487% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.25%), 11/25/25 (f)(g)

   U.S. $        144      $ 156,105  

Series 2015-WF1, Class 2M2

     

6.737% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.50%), 11/25/25 (f)(g)

     41        46,170  
     

 

 

 
        3,619,665  
     

 

 

 

Non-Agency Fixed Rate - 0.4%

     

Alternative Loan Trust

     

Series 2005-20CB, Class 3A6

     

5.50%, 7/25/35

     33        31,056  

Series 2005-57CB, Class 4A3

     

5.50%, 12/25/35

     74        66,803  

Series 2006-23CB, Class 1A7

     

6.00%, 8/25/36

     54        52,503  

Series 2006-24CB, Class A16

     

5.75%, 6/25/36

     136        114,548  

Series 2006-28CB, Class A14

     

6.25%, 10/25/36

     95        79,685  

Series 2006-J1, Class 1A13

     

5.50%, 2/25/36

     79        71,520  

Chase Mortgage Finance Trust

     

Series 2007-S5, Class 1A17

     

6.00%, 7/25/37

     44        40,232  

Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc.

     

Series 2005-2, Class 1A4

     

3.189%, 5/25/35

     15        14,879  

Countrywide Home Loan Mortgage Pass-Through Trust

     

Series 2006-10, Class 1A8

     

6.00%, 5/25/36

     68        56,754  

Series 2006-13, Class 1A19

     

6.25%, 9/25/36

     40        34,565  

Credit Suisse Mortgage Trust

     

Series 2010-6R, Class 3A2

     

5.875%, 1/26/38 (c)

     141        117,322  

First Horizon Alternative Mortgage Securities Trust

     

Series 2006-FA3, Class A9

     

6.00%, 7/25/36

     133        114,788  

JP Morgan Mortgage Trust

     

Series 2007-S3, Class 1A8

     

6.00%, 8/25/37

     61        54,278  

RBSSP Resecuritization Trust

     

Series 2009-7, Class 10A3

     

6.00%, 8/26/37 (c)

     202        179,630  

Series 2010-9, Class 7A6

     

6.00%, 5/26/37 (c)

     177        144,787  

Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities Trust

     

Series 2007-8, Class 2A5

     

5.75%, 7/25/37

     38        37,774  
     

 

 

 
        1,211,124  
     

 

 

 

Agency Floating Rate - 0.4%

     

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. REMICs

     


      Principal
Amount
(000)
     U.S. $ Value  

Series 4416, Class BS

     

4.866% (6.10% - LIBOR 1 Month), 12/15/44 (f)(h)

   U.S.$ 802      $ 152,104  

Series 4693, Class SL

     

4.916% (6.15% - LIBOR 1 Month), 6/15/47 (f)(h)

     688        151,510  

Federal National Mortgage Association REMICs

     

Series 2011-131, Class ST

     

5.303% (6.54% - LIBOR 1 Month), 12/25/41 (f)(h)

     369        78,964  

Series 2012-70, Class SA

     

5.313% (6.55% - LIBOR 1 Month), 7/25/42 (f)(h)

     672        147,207  

Series 2016-106, Class ES

     

4.763% (6.00% - LIBOR 1 Month), 1/25/47 (f)(h)

     745        153,122  

Series 2017-16, Class SG

     

4.813% (6.05% - LIBOR 1 Month), 3/25/47 (f)(h)

     716        147,510  

Series 2017-81, Class SA

     

4.977% (6.20% - LIBOR 1 Month), 10/25/47 (e)(f)(h)

     700        160,781  

Government National Mortgage Association

     

Series 2017-65, Class ST

     

4.914% (6.15% - LIBOR 1 Month), 4/20/47 (f)(h)

     706        152,382  
     

 

 

 
        1,143,580  
     

 

 

 

Non-Agency Floating Rate - 0.1%

     

Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust

     

Series 2006-AR4, Class A2

     

1.427% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.19%), 12/25/36 (f)

     306        196,469  

HomeBanc Mortgage Trust

     

Series 2005-1, Class A1

     

1.487% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.25%), 3/25/35 (f)

     114        103,211  
     

 

 

 
        299,680  
     

 

 

 

Total Collateralized Mortgage Obligations
(cost $6,001,997)

        6,274,049  
     

 

 

 

INFLATION-LINKED SECURITIES - 2.0%

     

Japan - 0.3%

     

Japanese Government CPI Linked Bond

     

Series 2022 0.10%, 3/10/27

   JPY 110,866        1,029,610  
     

 

 

 

United States - 1.7%

     

U.S. Treasury Inflation Index

     

0.125%, 4/15/19-4/15/20 (TIPS)

   U.S.$ 2,250        2,258,793  

0.25%, 1/15/25 (TIPS)

     1,153        1,142,021  


      Principal
Amount

(000)
     U.S. $ Value  

0.375%, 7/15/25(TIPS)

   U.S.$     1,621      $ 1,620,855  
     

 

 

 
        5,021,669  
     

 

 

 

Total Inflation-Linked Securities
(cost $6,113,540)

        6,051,279  
     

 

 

 

CORPORATES - NON-INVESTMENT GRADE - 1.2%

     

Industrial - 0.8%

     

Basic - 0.1%

     

NOVA Chemicals Corp. 5

     

.25%, 8/01/23 (c)

     125        128,891  

SPCM SA

     

4.875%, 9/15/25 (c)

     200        206,722  
     

 

 

 
        335,613  
     

 

 

 

Communications - Media - 0.1%

     

CSC Holdings LLC

     

6.75%, 11/15/21

     45        49,716  

SFR Group SA

     

5.375%, 5/15/22 (c)

   EUR 195        240,692  
     

 

 

 
        290,408  
     

 

 

 

Communications - Telecommunications - 0.2%

     

CenturyLink, Inc.

     

Series Y

     

7.50%, 4/01/24

   U.S.$ 75        77,652  

Sprint Capital Corp.

     

6.90%, 5/01/19

     370        394,435  
     

 

 

 
        472,087  
     

 

 

 

Consumer Cyclical - Automotive - 0.1%

     

Allison Transmission, Inc.

     

5.00%, 10/01/24 (c)

     170        176,089  

Consumer Cyclical - Other - 0.1%

     

International Game Technology PLC

     

6.25%, 2/15/22 (c)

     200        220,780  

KB Home 4.75%, 5/15/19

     107        110,516  
     

 

 

 
        331,296  
     

 

 

 

Consumer Non-Cyclical - 0.1%

     

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.

     

6.125%, 4/15/25 (c)

     135        118,223  

Energy - 0.1%

     

Cheniere Energy Partners LP

     

5.25%, 10/01/25 (c)

     102        104,308  

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.

     

4.875%, 11/01/43

     111        82,834  

Nabors Industries, Inc.

     

5.50%, 1/15/23

     212        210,660  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
     U.S. $ Value  

SM Energy Co.

     

6.50%, 1/01/23

   U.S.$ 14      $ 14,105  
     

 

 

 
        411,907  
     

 

 

 

Transportation - Services - 0.0%

     

Avis Budget Car Rental LLC/Avis Budget Finance, Inc.

     

5.25%, 3/15/25 (c)

     94        94,053  
     

 

 

 
        2,229,676  
     

 

 

 

Financial Institutions - 0.4%

     

Banking - 0.3%

     

Bank of America Corp.

     

Series Z

     

6.50%, 10/23/24 (d)

     79        89,253  

Barclays Bank PLC

     

6.86%, 6/15/32 (c)(d)

     44        53,231  

Intesa Sanpaolo SpA

     

Series E

     

3.928%, 9/15/26 (c)

   EUR 190        241,958  

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC

     

2.001%, 12/31/17(c)(d)

     100        113,983  

8.625%, 8/15/21(d)

   U.S.$ 200        222,008  

Series U

     

3.655%, 9/30/27(d)

     200        191,570  

Standard Chartered PLC

     

2.821% (LIBOR 3 Month + 1.51%), 1/30/27 (c)(d)(f)

     200        172,262  
     

 

 

 
        1,084,265  
     

 

 

 

Finance - 0.1%

     

Navient Corp.

     

6.625%, 7/26/21

     170        182,220  
     

 

 

 
        1,266,485  
     

 

 

 

Total Corporates - Non-Investment Grade
(cost $3,465,827)

        3,496,161  
     

 

 

 

EMERGING MARKETS - TREASURIES - 0.2%

     

Brazil - 0.2%

     

Brazil Notas do Tesouro Nacional

     

Series F

     

10.00%, 1/01/21-1/01/27
(cost $523,827)

   BRL     2,150        693,475  
     

 

 

 

QUASI-SOVEREIGNS - 0.2%

     

Quasi-Sovereign Bonds - 0.2%

     

Chile - 0.1%

     

Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile

     

3.625%, 8/01/27 (c)

   U.S.$ 265        263,781  
     

 

 

 

 


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Mexico - 0.1%

       

Petroleos Mexicanos

       

4.625%, 9/21/23

   U.S.$              226        $ 233,029  

6.50%, 3/13/27 (c)

     100          110,823  
       

 

 

 
          343,852  
       

 

 

 

Total Quasi-Sovereigns
(cost $593,269)

          607,633  
       

 

 

 

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS - US MUNICIPAL BONDS - 0.2%

       

California - 0.2%

       

State of California

       

Series 2010

       

7.625%, 3/01/40
(cost $350,329)

     345          528,657  
       

 

 

 

EMERGING MARKETS - CORPORATE BONDS - 0.1%

       

Industrial - 0.1%

       

Capital Goods - 0.0%

       

Odebrecht Finance Ltd.

       

5.25%, 6/27/29 (c)

     217          79,205  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Non-Cyclical - 0.1%

       

Minerva Luxembourg SA

       

6.50%, 9/20/26 (c)

     200          202,175  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 0.0%

       

Petrobras Global Finance BV

       

6.125%, 1/17/22

     123          132,047  
       

 

 

 

Total Emerging Markets - Corporate Bonds
(cost $538,329)

          413,427  
       

 

 

 

GOVERNMENTS - SOVEREIGN BONDS - 0.1%

       

Mexico - 0.1%

       

Mexico Government International Bond

       

4.125%, 1/21/26
(cost $209,333)

     200          210,700  
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

RIGHTS - 0.0%

       

Real Estate - 0.0%

       

Industrial REITs - 0.0%

       

Mapletree Logistics Trust, expiring 10/04/17 (a)(e )
(cost $0)

     24,790          1,736  
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 7.0%

       

Agency Discount Note - 3.5%

       

Federal Home Loan Bank Discount Notes

       

Zero Coupon, 10/25/17-1/24/18
(cost $10,771,941)

   U.S.$         10,795          10,771,941  
       

 

 

 

 


      Principal
Amount
(000)
     U.S. $ Value  

Governments - Treasuries - 2.3%

        

Japan - 2.3%

        

Japan Treasury Discount Bill

        

Series 687

        

Zero Coupon, 12/11/17
(cost $7,129,248)

     JPY        796,000      $ 7,075,568  
        

 

 

 

Time Deposit - 1.2%

        

State Street Time Deposit

        

0.12%, 10/02/17
(cost $3,705,048)

     U.S.      $ 3,705        3,705,048  
        

 

 

 

Total Short-Term Investments
(cost $21,606,237)

           21,552,557  
        

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities Loaned - 103.4%
(cost $267,432,218)

           314,203,243  
        

 

 

 
                 Shares             

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 0.3%

        

Investment Companies - 0.3%

        

AB Fixed Income Shares, Inc. - Government Money Market Portfolio - Class AB, 0.83% (i) (j) (k)
(cost $873,566)

        873,566        873,566  

Total Investments - 103.7%
(cost $268,305,784) (l)

           315,076,809  

Other assets less liabilities - (3.7)% (m)

           (11,170,647
        

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

         $ 303,906,162  
        

 

 

 

FUTURES

 

Description

   Number
of
Contracts
     Expiration
Month
     Notional
(000)
     Original
Value
     Value at
September 30,
2017
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Purchased Contracts

                 

U.S. T-Note 2 Yr (CBT) Futures

     5        December 2017 USD        1,000      $ 1,081,647      $ 1,078,516      $ (3,131

U.S. T-Note 5 Yr (CBT) Futures

     82        December 2017 USD        8,200        9,680,679        9,635,000        (45,679

U.S. T-Note 10 Yr (CBT) Futures

     20        December 2017 USD        2,000        2,532,839        2,506,250        (26,589

U.S. Ultra Bond (CBT) Futures

     49        December 2017 USD        4,900        8,182,719        8,091,125        (91,594

Sold Contracts

                 

10 Yr Mini Japan Government Bond Futures

     8        December 2017 JPY        80,000        1,073,934        1,069,131        4,803  

Euro-BOBL Futures

     34        December 2017 EUR        3,400        5,294,249        5,271,418        22,831  
                 

 

 

 
                  $ (139,359
                 

 

 

 


FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Barclays Bank PLC

   JPY      925,000      USD      8,308        10/26/17      $ 79,399  

Barclays Bank PLC

   KRW      716,880      USD      637        11/15/17        10,763  

Barclays Bank PLC

   EUR      464      USD      557        12/18/17        5,912  

BNP Paribas SA

   CNY      745      USD      109        11/15/17        (2,868

Citibank, NA

   BRL      809      USD      255        10/03/17        (77

Citibank, NA

   USD      255      BRL      809        10/03/17        69  

Citibank, NA

   CAD      1,190      USD      940        11/15/17        (14,091

Citibank, NA

   CNY      6,977      USD      1,034        11/15/17        (12,920

Citibank, NA

   KRW      69,801      USD      63        11/15/17        1,640  

Citibank, NA

   USD      1,770      AUD      2,237        11/15/17        (16,323

Citibank, NA

   USD      716      JPY      78,749        11/15/17        (15,174

Citibank, NA

   USD      62      KRW      70,189        11/15/17        (813

Citibank, NA

   USD      64      RUB      3,700        11/22/17        (480

Credit Suisse International

   BRL      2,117      USD      665        10/03/17        (3,674

Credit Suisse International

   USD      668      BRL      2,117        10/03/17        179  

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

   BRL      350      USD      112        10/03/17        1,322  

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

   USD      110      BRL      350        10/03/17        30  

Standard Chartered Bank

   BRL      3,276      USD      1,034        10/03/17        (277

Standard Chartered Bank

   USD      1,027      BRL      3,276        10/03/17        7,732  

Standard Chartered Bank

   BRL      3,276      USD      1,023        11/03/17        (7,426

Standard Chartered Bank

   GBP      1,291      USD      1,685        11/15/17        (47,675

Standard Chartered Bank

   HKD      3,932      USD      504        11/15/17        (114

Standard Chartered Bank

   USD      649      GBP      497        11/15/17        18,354  

Standard Chartered Bank

   USD      717      SEK      5,790        11/15/17        (4,122

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   EUR      179      USD      213        10/04/17        1,376  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   EUR      1,171      USD      1,347        10/04/17        (37,850

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      280      EUR      236        10/04/17        (228

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   AUD      285      USD      225        11/15/17        1,986  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   CAD      85      USD      68        11/15/17        98  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   CAD      634      USD      501        11/15/17        (7,311

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   CHF      329      USD      345        11/15/17        3,845  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   CHF      443      USD      458        11/15/17        (534

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   EUR      594      USD      706        11/15/17        1,940  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   GBP      151      USD      196        11/15/17        (6,346

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   HKD      2,245      USD      288        11/15/17        704  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   HKD      1,384      USD      177        11/15/17        (37

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   ILS      223      USD      64        11/15/17        428  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   ILS      736      USD      205        11/15/17        (3,527

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   JPY      81,329      USD      744        11/15/17        19,699  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   NOK      3,262      USD      414        11/15/17        3,637  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      148      AUD      189        11/15/17        565  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      517      AUD      650        11/15/17        (7,416

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      1,307      CHF      1,264        11/15/17        1,544  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      594      EUR      515        11/15/17        15,791  


Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      612      EUR      513        11/15/17      $ (4,149

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      922      GBP      705        11/15/17        23,598  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      172      HKD      1,345        11/15/17        119  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      101      HKD      790        11/15/17        (123

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      100      HUF      26,164        11/15/17        (930

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      142      ILS      510        11/15/17        2,439  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      128      JPY      14,376        11/15/17        372  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      261      NOK      2,052        11/15/17        (3,170

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      110      SEK      896        11/15/17        262  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      638      SEK      5,141        11/15/17        (5,168

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      64      TRY      231        11/15/17        371  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      64      ZAR      858        11/15/17        (1,068

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   EUR      138      USD      164        12/18/17        32  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   JPY      29,862      USD      268        12/18/17        1,903  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   MXN      4,675      USD      258        12/18/17        4,448  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   NOK      1,228      USD      158        12/18/17        3,853  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   NZD      120      USD      86        12/18/17        (148

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      155      AUD      195        12/18/17        (2,437

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      360      EUR      299        12/18/17        (4,996

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      368      GBP      281        12/18/17        9,535  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      79      NOK      617        12/18/17        (1,596

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      459      SEK      3,657        12/18/17        (8,250

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      62      SGD      84        12/18/17        (198

UBS AG

   JPY      57,914      USD      521        11/15/17        4,909  
                 

 

 

 
                  $ 7,338  
                 

 

 

 

CENTRALLY CLEARED CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS

 

Description

   Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Payment
Frequency
     Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30, 2017
     Notional
Amount
(000)
     Market
Value
    Upfront
Premiums Paid
(Received)
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Buy Contracts

                      

CDX-NAHY Series 29, 5 Year Index

     (5.00 )%      Quarterly        3.26     USD        150      $ (11,945   $ (11,202   $ (743

 

* Termination date


CENTRALLY CLEARED INTEREST RATE SWAPS

 

           

Rate Type

         

Notional Amount
(000)

    

Termination
Date

  

Payments
made
by the
Fund

  

Payments
received
by the
Fund

  

Payment Frequency Paid/Received

  

Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)

MXN

     4,254      6/22/20    4 Week TIIE    6.770%    Monthly/ Monthly    $(778)

SEK

     9,070      3/31/22    3 Month STIBOR    0.341%    Quarterly/ Annual    2,845

NZD

     1,865      3/31/22    3 Month BKBM    2.936%    Quarterly/ Semi-Annual    28,000

USD

     430      6/09/25    3 Month LIBOR    2.488%    Semi-Annual/ Quarterly    (12,151)

USD

     1,560      11/10/25    2.256%    3 Month LIBOR    Semi-Annual/ Quarterly    (15,501)

USD

     142      6/28/26    1.460%    3 Month LIBOR    Semi-Annual/ Quarterly    8,514

USD

     295      11/08/26    1.657%    3 Month LIBOR    Semi-Annual/ Quarterly    13,080

USD

     370      12/21/26    3 Month LIBOR    2.497%    Quarterly/ Semi-Annual    9,444

USD

     185      4/26/27    2.287%    3 Month LIBOR    Semi-Annual/ Quarterly    (1,323)

MXN

     1,550      6/14/27    7.090%    4 Week TIIE    Monthly/ Monthly    (122)

JPY

     306,510      8/29/27    0.241%    6 Month LIBOR    Semi-Annual/ Semi-Annual    3,217
                 

 

                  $35,225
                 

 

CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS

 

Swap Counterparty & Referenced Obligation

   Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Payment
Frequency
     Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30, 2017
     Notional
Amount
(000)
     Market
Value
    Upfront
Premiums
Paid
(Received)
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Buy Contracts

                   

Citibank, NA

                   

Sprint Communications, Inc.,

                   

7.000%, 8/15/20, 6/20/19*

     (5.00 )%      Quarterly        0.36     USD        172      $ (13,703   $ (3,625   $ (10,078

Sprint Communications, Inc.,

                   

7.000%, 8/15/20, 6/20/19*

     (5.00     Quarterly        0.36       USD        198        (15,775     (4,327     (11,448


Swap Counterparty & Referenced Obligation

   Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Payment
Frequency
     Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30, 2017
     Notional
Amount
(000)
     Market
Value
    Upfront
Premiums
Paid
(Received)
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

 

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50 )%      Monthly        0.52        USD        17      $ 24     $ 219     $ (195

Credit Suisse International

 

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52        USD        5        7       47       (40

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52        USD        620        870       7,926       (7,056

Deutsche Bank AG

 

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52        USD        233        327       2,498       (2,171

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52        USD        207        290       2,853       (2,563

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52        USD        775        1,087       8,380       (7,293

Goldman Sachs International

 

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52        USD        51        71       494       (423

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52        USD        226        317       3,089       (2,772

Sale Contracts

 

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

 

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        55        (8,325     (7,851     (474

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        60        (9,061     (8,366     (695

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        210        (31,171     (27,322     (3,849

Credit Suisse International

 

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        48        (7,249     (3,489     (3,760

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        165        (24,918     (11,222     (13,696

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        35        (5,286     (4,485     (801

Deutsche Bank AG

 


Swap Counterparty & Referenced Obligation

   Fixed
Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Payment
Frequency
     Implied
Credit
Spread at
September
30,
2017
     Notional
Amount
(000)
     Market
Value
    Upfront
Premiums
Paid
(Received)
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00     Monthly        6.75        USD        8      $ (1,188   $ (986   $ (202

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        9        (1,336     (543     (793

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        48        (7,133     (6,359     (774

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        52        (7,719     (6,251     (1,468

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        53        (8,004     (6,373     (1,631

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        79        (11,726     (8,947     (2,779

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        156        (23,156     (13,490     (9,666

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        232        (34,437     (17,094     (17,343

Goldman Sachs International

 

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        4        (604     (377     (227

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        8        (1,208     (831     (377

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        8        (1,208     (768     (440

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        15        (2,265     (1,702     (563

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        78        (11,779     (11,160     (619

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        53        (7,867     (5,936     (1,931

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        172        (26,046     (23,973     (2,073

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD        47        (7,098     (4,270     (2,828


Swap Counterparty & Referenced
Obligation

   Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Payment
Frequency
     Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30,
2017
     Notional
Amount
(000)
     Market
Value
    Upfront
Premiums
Paid
(Received)
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00     Monthly        6.75        USD           64      $ (9,665   $ (4,461   $ (5,204

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD         170        (25,673     (13,663     (12,010

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD         230        (34,734     (19,250     (15,484

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75        USD         272        (41,077     (13,985     (27,092
             

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 
      $ (376,418   $ (205,600   $ (170,818
             

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* Termination date
(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered restricted, but liquid and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At September 30, 2017, the aggregate market value of these securities amounted to $18,840,497 or 6.2% of net assets.
(d) Securities are perpetual and, thus, do not have a predetermined maturity date. The date shown, if applicable, reflects the next call date.
(e) Security in which significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) were used in determining fair value.
(f) Floating Rate Security. Stated interest/floor rate was in effect at September 30, 2017.
(g) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities, which represent 0.18% of net assets as of September 30, 2017, are considered illiquid and restricted. Additional information regarding such securities follows:

 

144A/Restricted & Illiquid Securities

   Acquisition
Date
     Cost      Market
Value
     Percentage
of
Net Assets
 

Bellemeade Re II Ltd. Series 2016-1A, Class M2B

           

7.737%, 4/25/26

     4/29/16      $ 170,300      $ 175,108        0.06

H/2 Asset Funding NRE Series 2015-1A

           

2.888%, 6/24/49

     6/19/15        132,785        132,785        0.04

JP Morgan Madison Avenue Securities Trust Series 2014-CH1, Class M2

           

5.487%, 11/25/24

     11/06/15        33,108        36,527        0.01

Wells Fargo Credit Risk Transfer Securities Trust Series 2015-WF1, Class 1M2

           

6.487%, 11/25/25

     9/28/15        143,805        156,105        0.05

Wells Fargo Credit Risk Transfer Securities Trust Series 2015-WF1, Class 2M2

           

6.737%, 11/25/25

     9/28/15        40,583        46,170        0.02

 

(h) Inverse interest only security.
(i) Affiliated investments.


(j) To obtain a copy of the fund’s shareholder report, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AB at (800) 227-4618.
(k) The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(l) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $50,908,850 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(4,406,183), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $46,502,667.
(m) An amount of U.S. $311,763 has been segregated to collateralize margin requirements for the open futures contracts at September 30, 2017.

 

Currency Abbreviations:
AUD    -         Australian Dollar
BRL    -         Brazilian Real
CAD    -         Canadian Dollar
CHF    -         Swiss Franc
CNY    -         Chinese Yuan Renminbi
EUR    -         Euro
GBP    -         Great British Pound
HKD    -         Hong Kong Dollar
HUF    -         Hungarian Forint
ILS    -         Israeli Shekel
JPY    -         Japanese Yen
KRW    -         South Korean Won
MXN    -         Mexican Peso
NOK    -         Norwegian Krone
NZD    -         New Zealand Dollar
RUB    -         Russian Ruble
SEK    -         Swedish Krona
SGD    -         Singapore Dollar
TRY    -         Turkish Lira
USD    -         United States Dollar
ZAR    -         South African Rand
Glossary:
ABS    -         Asset-Backed Securities
ADR    -         American Depositary Receipt
BKBM    -         Bank Bill Benchmark (New Zealand)
BOBL    -         Bundesobligationen
CBT    -         Chicago Board of Trade
CDX-CMBX.NA    -         North American Commercial Mortgage-Backed Index
CDX-NAHY    -         North American High Yield Credit Default Swap Index
CMBS    -         Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
CPI    -         Consumer Price Index
GDR    -         Global Depositary Receipt
LIBOR    -         London Interbank Offered Rates
PJSC    -         Public Joint Stock Company
REG    -         Registered Shares
REIT    -         Real Estate Investment Trust
REMICs    -         Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits
STIBOR    -         Stockholm Interbank Offered Rate
TBA    -         To Be Announced
TIIE    -         Banco de México Equilibrium Interbank Interest Rate
TIPS    -         Treasury Inflation Protected Security


COUNTRY BREAKDOWN *

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

  68.0%       

United States

  4.9%       

Japan

  4.7%       

United Kingdom

  2.8%       

France

  1.4%       

Germany

  1.4%       

Canada

  1.4%       

Hong Kong

  1.1%       

Switzerland

  1.0%       

Australia

  0.7%       

Netherlands

  0.6%       

Brazil

  0.5%       

Spain

  0.5%       

Israel

  4.1%       

Other

  6.9%       

Short-Term

 

 

      
  100.0%       

Total Investments

 

 

      

 

* All data are as of September 30, 2017. The Portfolio’s country breakdown is expressed as a percentage of total investments (excluding security lending collateral) and may vary over time. “Other” country weightings represent 0.5% or less in the following countries: Argentina, Austria, Bermuda, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan and Turkey.


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Valuations of mortgage-backed or other asset backed securities, by pricing vendors, are based on both proprietary and industry recognized models and discounted cash flow techniques. Significant inputs to the valuation of these instruments are value of the collateral, the rates and timing of delinquencies, the rates and timing of prepayments, and default and loss expectations, which are driven in part by housing prices for residential mortgages. Significant inputs are determined based on relative value analyses, which incorporate comparisons to instruments with similar collateral and risk profiles, including relevant indices. Mortgage and asset backed securities for which management has collected current observable data through pricing services are generally categorized within Level 2. Those investments for which current observable data has not been provided are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1      Level 2      Level 3     Total  

Assets:

          

Common Stocks:

          

Information Technology

   $ 31,227,545      $ 5,414,136      $ – 0  –    $ 36,641,681  

Real Estate

     20,255,492        9,684,205        – 0  –      29,939,697  

Financials

     19,120,502        10,367,446        – 0  –      29,487,948  

Health Care

     19,299,688        4,134,515        – 0  –      23,434,203  

Consumer Discretionary

     12,891,066        5,235,862        – 0  –      18,126,928  

Consumer Staples

     9,663,675        5,689,179        – 0  –      15,352,854  

Industrials

     9,947,329        3,752,918        – 0  –      13,700,247  


Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Energy

     7,375,459       3,260,163       – 0  –      10,635,622  

Materials

     2,875,014       4,177,603       – 0  –      7,052,617  

Telecommunication Services

     1,421,218       2,777,020       – 0  –      4,198,238  

Utilities

     3,566,634       505,027       – 0  –      4,071,661  

Transportation

     – 0  –      578,146       – 0  –      578,146  

Banks

     – 0  –      227,219       – 0  –      227,219  

Mortgage Pass - Throughs

     – 0  –      24,267,014       – 0  –      24,267,014  

Corporates - Investment Grade

     – 0  –      24,133,042       – 0  –      24,133,042  

Governments - Treasuries

     – 0  –      14,516,090       – 0  – (a)      14,516,090  

Asset - Backed Securities

     – 0  –      8,434,670       1,624,150       10,058,820  

Commercial Mortgage - Backed Securities

     – 0  –      6,183,621       1,767,921       7,951,542  

Collateralized Mortgage Obligations

     – 0  –      6,113,268       160,781       6,274,049  

Inflation - Linked Securities

     – 0  –      6,051,279       – 0  –      6,051,279  

Corporates - Non - Investment Grade

     – 0  –      3,496,161       – 0  –      3,496,161  

Emerging Markets - Treasuries

     – 0  –      693,475       – 0  –      693,475  

Quasi - Sovereigns

     – 0  –      607,633       – 0  –      607,633  

Local Governments - US Municipal Bonds

     – 0  –      528,657       – 0  –      528,657  

Emerging Markets - Corporate Bonds

     – 0  –      413,427       – 0  –      413,427  

Governments - Sovereign Bonds

     – 0  –      210,700       – 0  –      210,700  

Rights

     – 0  –      – 0  –      1,736       1,736  

Short - Term Investments:

        

Agency Discount Notes

     – 0  –      10,771,941       – 0  –      10,771,941  

Governments - Treasuries

     – 0  –      7,075,568       – 0  – (a)      7,075,568  

Time Deposits

     – 0  –      3,705,048       – 0  –      3,705,048  

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     873,566       – 0  –      – 0  –      873,566  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     138,517,188       173,005,033       3,554,588       315,076,809  

Other Financial Instruments (b):

        

Assets:

 

Futures

     27,634       – 0  –      – 0  –      27,634  

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      228,854       – 0  –      228,854  

Centrally Cleared Interest Rate Swaps

     – 0  –      65,100       – 0  –      65,100  

Credit Default Swaps

     – 0  –      2,993       – 0  –      2,993  

Liabilities:

 

Futures

     (166,993     – 0  –      – 0  –      (166,993

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (221,516     – 0  –      (221,516

Centrally Cleared Credit Default Swaps

     – 0  –      (11,945     – 0  –      (11,945

Centrally Cleared Interest Rate Swaps

     – 0  –      (29,875     – 0  –      (29,875

Credit Default Swaps

     – 0  –      (379,411     – 0  –      (379,411
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (c)

   $ 138,377,829     $ 172,659,233     $ 3,554,588     $ 314,591,650  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) The Portfolio held securities with zero market value at period end.
(b) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument.
(c) There were de minimis transfers under 1% of net assets between Level 1 and Level 2 during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

The following is a reconciliation of investments in which significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) were used in determining fair value.

 

     Asset-Backed
Securities
     Collateralized
Mortgage Obligations
    Commercial
Mortgage-Backed
Securities
 

Balance as of 12/31/16

   $ 828,021      $  –0  –    $ 4,024,522  

Accrued discounts/(premiums)

     392        – 0 –      (2,405


Realized gain (loss)

     5,209       – 0  –      (172,767

Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     4,286       – 0  –      143,739  

Purchases/Payups

     1,219,684       160,781       – 0  – 

Sales/Paydowns

     (433,443     – 0  –      (2,225,167

Transfers in to Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 

Transfers out of Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance as of 9/30/17

   $ 1,624,149     $ 160,781     $ 1,767,922  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation from investments held as of 9/30/17

   $ 4,848     $ – 0  –    $ 95,835  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

     Common Stocks     Rights     Total  

Balance as of 12/31/16

   $ 9,230     $ – 0  –      4,861,773  

Accrued discounts/(premiums)

     – 0  –      – 0  –      (2,013

Realized gain (loss)

     (36,058     – 0  –      (203,616

Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     150,967       1,736       300,728  

Purchases/Payups

     – 0  –      – 0  –      1,380,465  

Sales/Paydowns

     (124,139     – 0  –      (2,782,749

Transfers in to Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 

Transfers out of Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance as of 9/30/17

   $ – 0  –    $ 1,736     $ 3,554,588  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation from investments held as of 9/30/17

   $ – 0  –    $ 1,736     $ 102,419  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

As of September 30, 2017, all Level 3 securities were priced by third party vendors.

The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is as follows:

 

Fund

   Market  Value
12/31/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
     Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
     Dividend
Income
(000)
 

Government Money Market*

   $ 655      $ 14,174      $ 13,955      $ 874      $ 4  

 

 

* Investments of cash collateral for securities lending transactions


AB Variable Products Series Fund

AB Dynamic Asset Allocation Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 51.9%

 

Financials - 9.4%

 

Banks - 5.0%

 

Aozora Bank Ltd.

     2,000        $ 76,147  

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.

     31,095          724,314  

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA

     73,153          654,017  

Banco de Sabadell SA

     50,635          105,855  

Banco Santander SA

     171,172          1,197,322  

Bank Hapoalim BM

     14,749          103,208  

Bank Leumi Le-Israel BM

     12,645          67,202  

Bank of America Corp.

     71,245          1,805,348  

Bank of East Asia Ltd. (The)

     21,000          91,026  

Bank of Ireland Group PLC (a)

     11,605          95,052  

Bank of Kyoto Ltd. (The)

     400          20,360  

Bank of Queensland Ltd.

     7,933          80,956  

Bankia SA

     5,319          25,679  

Bankinter SA

     7,353          69,641  

Barclays PLC

     180,209          467,279  

BB&T Corp.

     5,650          265,211  

Bendigo & Adelaide Bank Ltd.

     4,177          38,137  

BNP Paribas SA

     13,908          1,122,038  

BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd.

     39,500          192,404  

CaixaBank SA

     42,465          213,153  

Chiba Bank Ltd. (The)

     11,000          78,777  

Citigroup, Inc.

     20,279          1,475,094  

Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

     3,619          137,052  

Comerica, Inc.

     1,200          91,512  

Commerzbank AG (a)

     15,814          215,663  

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

     18,280          1,082,417  

Concordia Financial Group Ltd.

     11,221          55,499  

Credit Agricole SA

     14,327          260,810  

Danske Bank A/S

     7,940          318,184  

DBS Group Holdings Ltd.

     17,000          261,699  

DNB ASA

     9,303          187,828  

Erste Group Bank AG (a)

     3,207          138,559  

Fifth Third Bancorp

     5,340          149,413  

Fukuoka Financial Group, Inc.

     9,000          41,631  

Hang Seng Bank Ltd.

     8,100          198,026  

Hiroshima Bank Ltd. (The)

     2,500          20,270  

HSBC Holdings PLC

     217,206          2,147,261  

Huntington Bancshares, Inc./OH

     7,565          105,607  

ING Groep NV

     36,740          677,205  

Intesa Sanpaolo SpA

     120,775          427,581  

Japan Post Bank Co., Ltd.

     3,855          47,642  

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

     25,215          2,408,285  

KBC Group NV

     3,064          259,949  

KeyCorp

     7,525          141,620  

Kyushu Financial Group, Inc.

     3,564          21,941  

Lloyds Banking Group PLC

     769,079          698,906  

M&T Bank Corp.

     1,115          179,560  

Mebuki Financial Group, Inc.

     16,800          65,002  

Mediobanca SpA

     12,965          139,327  

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.

     135,900          883,599  

Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd.

     1,057          18,957  

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.

     253,500          444,395  

National Australia Bank Ltd.

     28,193          698,986  

Nordea Bank AB

     28,914          392,571  

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp., Ltd.

     29,000          239,141  

People’s United Financial, Inc.

     2,165          39,273  

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)

     3,430          462,261  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Raiffeisen Bank International AG (a)

     1,307        $ 43,807  

Regions Financial Corp.

     8,725          132,882  

Resona Holdings, Inc.

     21,000          107,969  

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (a)

     47,824          172,157  

Seven Bank Ltd.

     16,218          58,607  

Shinsei Bank Ltd.

     3,700          59,298  

Shizuoka Bank Ltd. (The)

     4,000          35,999  

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB - Class A

     16,190          213,598  

Societe Generale SA

     9,446          553,549  

Standard Chartered PLC (a)

     34,982          347,829  

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.

     14,300          549,680  

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc.

     3,200          115,593  

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

     3,490          208,597  

Suruga Bank Ltd.

     1,000          21,580  

Svenska Handelsbanken AB - Class A

     14,254          215,354  

Swedbank AB - Class A

     8,621          238,728  

UniCredit SpA (a)

     17,373          370,735  

United Overseas Bank Ltd.

     12,000          208,389  

US Bancorp

     11,215          601,012  

Wells Fargo & Co.

     31,675          1,746,876  

Westpac Banking Corp.

     35,553          894,283  

Zions Bancorporation

     1,430          67,467  
       

 

 

 
          29,589,841  
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 1.4%

       

3i Group PLC

     9,721          119,015  

Affiliated Managers Group, Inc.

     407          77,261  

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

     1,145          170,044  

ASX Ltd.

     1,453          59,887  

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (The)

     7,415          393,143  

BlackRock, Inc. - Class A

     877          392,098  

CBOE Holdings, Inc.

     646          69,529  

Charles Schwab Corp. (The)

     8,390          366,979  

CME Group, Inc. - Class A

     2,350          318,848  

Credit Suisse Group AG (REG) (a)

     25,000          396,115  

Daiwa Securities Group, Inc.

     16,000          90,701  

Deutsche Bank AG (REG)

     19,693          340,900  

Deutsche Boerse AG

     2,077          225,501  

E*TRADE Financial Corp. (a)

     1,870          81,551  

Franklin Resources, Inc.

     2,420          107,714  

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)

     2,638          625,707  

Hargreaves Lansdown PLC

     2,483          49,271  

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd.

     10,900          294,388  

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

     4,330          297,471  

Invesco Ltd.

     2,830          99,163  

Investec PLC

     5,877          42,963  

Japan Exchange Group, Inc.

     4,965          87,950  

Julius Baer Group Ltd. (a)

     2,130          126,394  

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

     3,987          204,716  

Macquarie Group Ltd.

     3,705          265,263  

Moody’s Corp.

     1,145          159,395  

Morgan Stanley

     10,270          494,706  

Nasdaq, Inc.

     760          58,953  

Natixis SA

     21,759          174,136  

Nomura Holdings, Inc.

     38,855          218,015  

Northern Trust Corp.

     1,460          134,218  

Partners Group Holding AG

     158          107,266  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Raymond James Financial, Inc.

     909        $ 76,656  

S&P Global, Inc.

     1,860          290,737  

Schroders PLC

     1,291          58,078  

Singapore Exchange Ltd.

     21,000          114,580  

St James’s Place PLC

     4,994          76,757  

State Street Corp.

     2,535          242,194  

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.

     1,725          156,371  

UBS Group AG (a)

     38,983          666,881  
       

 

 

 
          8,331,515  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Finance - 0.2%

       

Acom Co., Ltd. (a)

     13,014          50,493  

American Express Co.

     5,410          489,389  

Capital One Financial Corp.

     3,513          297,410  

Credit Saison Co., Ltd.

     3,500          72,624  

Discover Financial Services

     2,810          181,189  

Navient Corp.

     2,200          33,044  

Provident Financial PLC

     379          4,220  

Synchrony Financial

     5,518          171,334  
       

 

 

 
          1,299,703  
       

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services - 0.7%

       

AMP Ltd.

     28,155          106,912  

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. - Class B (a)

     13,294          2,437,056  

Challenger Ltd./Australia

     12,809          125,557  

Eurazeo SA

     1,370          122,454  

EXOR NV

     3,679          233,487  

First Pacific Co., Ltd./Hong Kong

     86,660          69,285  

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert SA

     768          80,841  

IHS Markit Ltd. (a)

     2,261          99,665  

Industrivarden AB - Class C

     4,979          126,305  

Investor AB - Class B

     4,336          214,520  

Kinnevik AB

     4,676          152,759  

Leucadia National Corp.

     2,255          56,939  

Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Co., Ltd.

     10,370          55,020  

ORIX Corp.

     14,110          227,795  

Pargesa Holding SA

     346          28,790  

Standard Life Aberdeen PLC

     28,554          165,982  

Wendel SA

     844          136,723  
       

 

 

 
          4,440,090  
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 2.1%

       

Admiral Group PLC

     2,010          48,979  

Aegon NV

     11,109          64,755  

Aflac, Inc.

     2,855          232,368  

Ageas

     1,646          77,417  

AIA Group Ltd.

     128,423          950,754  

Allianz SE (REG)

     4,871          1,093,962  

Allstate Corp. (The)

     2,600          238,966  

American International Group, Inc.

     7,093          435,439  

Aon PLC

     1,865          272,476  

Arthur J Gallagher & Co.

     1,202          73,983  

Assicurazioni Generali SpA

     11,115          207,309  

Assurant, Inc.

     410          39,163  

Aviva PLC

     43,251          298,516  

Baloise Holding AG (REG)

     926          146,635  

Brighthouse Financial, Inc. (a)

     697          42,378  

Chubb Ltd.

     3,232          460,722  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Cincinnati Financial Corp.

     1,060        $ 81,164  

CNP Assurances

     4,544          106,526  

Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc.

     10,264          184,111  

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

     13,089          63,810  

Everest Re Group Ltd.

     294          67,147  

Gjensidige Forsikring ASA

     3,690          64,277  

Hannover Rueck SE (REG)

     795          95,883  

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)

     2,675          148,275  

Insurance Australia Group Ltd.

     23,145          115,919  

Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd.

     16,700          197,301  

Legal & General Group PLC

     63,405          220,997  

Lincoln National Corp.

     1,590          116,833  

Loews Corp.

     1,890          90,455  

Mapfre SA

     16,735          54,532  

Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc.

     3,590          300,878  

Medibank Pvt Ltd.

     39,307          90,185  

MetLife, Inc.

     7,670          398,456  

MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc.

     4,800          154,687  

Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG in Muenchen (REG)

     1,588          339,873  

NN Group NV

     7,137          298,872  

Old Mutual PLC

     61,153          159,302  

Principal Financial Group, Inc.

     1,840          118,386  

Progressive Corp. (The)

     4,045          195,859  

Prudential Financial, Inc.

     3,065          325,871  

Prudential PLC

     27,421          656,198  

QBE Insurance Group Ltd.

     13,053          102,904  

RSA Insurance Group PLC

     10,859          90,726  

Sampo Oyj - Class A

     4,765          252,185  

SCOR SE

     3,333          139,782  

Sompo Holdings, Inc.

     4,000          155,878  

Sony Financial Holdings, Inc.

     4,130          67,771  

Suncorp Group Ltd.

     12,247          125,753  

Swiss Life Holding AG (a)

     342          120,569  

Swiss Re AG

     3,176          287,886  

T&D Holdings, Inc.

     5,500          79,791  

Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.

     7,300          285,703  

Torchmark Corp.

     752          60,228  

Travelers Cos., Inc. (The)

     2,030          248,716  

Tryg A/S

     2,469          57,087  

UnipolSai Assicurazioni SpA

     4,035          9,435  

Unum Group

     1,620          82,831  

Willis Towers Watson PLC

     887          136,802  

XL Group Ltd.

     1,910          75,350  

Zurich Insurance Group AG

     1,604          490,149  
       

 

 

 
          12,199,165  
       

 

 

 
          55,860,314  
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 7.6%

       

Communications Equipment - 0.4%

       

Cisco Systems, Inc.

     35,090          1,180,077  

F5 Networks, Inc. (a)

     480          57,869  

Harris Corp.

     845          111,269  

Juniper Networks, Inc.

     2,640          73,471  

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

     1,145          97,176  

Nokia Oyj

     62,192          373,681  

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson - Class B

     28,969          167,009  
       

 

 

 
          2,060,552  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 0.5%

       

Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

     2,053        $ 54,258  

Amphenol Corp. - Class A

     2,150          181,976  

Corning, Inc.

     7,205          215,574  

FLIR Systems, Inc.

     910          35,408  

Hamamatsu Photonics KK

     1,600          48,402  

Hexagon AB - Class B

     4,263          211,479  

Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.

     300          42,242  

Hitachi High-Technologies Corp.

     1,881          68,316  

Hitachi Ltd.

     52,000          366,644  

Ingenico Group SA

     930          88,167  

Keyence Corp.

     1,054          560,589  

Kyocera Corp.

     3,100          192,404  

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

     2,000          294,437  

Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.

     929          36,012  

Omron Corp.

     1,800          91,786  

Shimadzu Corp.

     2,000          39,447  

TDK Corp.

     1,200          81,544  

TE Connectivity Ltd.

     2,460          204,328  

Yaskawa Electric Corp.

     2,000          63,479  

Yokogawa Electric Corp.

     4,500          76,683  
       

 

 

 
          2,953,175  
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 1.3%

       

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (a)

     1,205          58,708  

Alphabet, Inc. - Class A (a)

     2,089          2,034,101  

Alphabet, Inc. - Class C (a)

     2,094          2,008,376  

DeNA Co., Ltd.

     1,663          37,301  

eBay, Inc. (a)

     7,285          280,181  

Facebook, Inc. - Class A (a)

     16,237          2,774,416  

Kakaku.com, Inc.

     3,799          48,466  

Mixi, Inc.

     827          39,941  

United Internet AG

     2,321          144,675  

VeriSign, Inc. (a)(b)

     625          66,494  

Yahoo Japan Corp.

     13,553          64,416  
       

 

 

 
          7,557,075  
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 1.2%

       

Accenture PLC - Class A

     4,335          585,529  

Alliance Data Systems Corp.

     430          95,267  

Amadeus IT Group SA - Class A

     4,677          304,186  

Atos SE

     677          105,008  

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

     3,170          346,544  

Capgemini SE

     1,557          182,519  

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. - Class A

     4,230          306,844  

Computershare Ltd.

     3,663          41,675  

CSRA, Inc.

     990          31,947  

DXC Technology Co.

     2,018          173,306  

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.

     2,270          211,995  

Fiserv, Inc. (a)

     1,550          199,888  

Fujitsu Ltd.

     18,000          133,966  

Gartner, Inc. (a)

     640          79,622  

Global Payments, Inc.

     1,059          100,637  

International Business Machines Corp.

     6,076          881,506  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Mastercard, Inc. - Class A

     6,710        $ 947,452  

Nomura Research Institute Ltd.

     1,300          50,769  

NTT Data Corp.

     6,010          64,313  

Obic Co., Ltd.

     730          45,961  

Otsuka Corp.

     600          38,481  

Paychex, Inc.

     2,245          134,610  

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (a)

     7,835          501,675  

Total System Services, Inc.

     1,110          72,705  

Visa, Inc. - Class A

     13,150          1,383,906  

Western Union Co. (The) - Class W

     3,380          64,896  

Worldpay Group PLC (c)

     19,270          105,178  
       

 

 

 
          7,190,385  
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 1.3%

       

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (a)(b)

     5,483          69,908  

Analog Devices, Inc.

     2,510          216,287  

Applied Materials, Inc.

     7,535          392,498  

ASM Pacific Technology Ltd.

     900          13,000  

ASML Holding NV

     3,784          646,601  

Broadcom Ltd.

     2,775          673,049  

Disco Corp.

     309          62,976  

Infineon Technologies AG

     10,766          271,437  

Intel Corp.

     33,040          1,258,163  

KLA-Tencor Corp.

     1,060          112,360  

Lam Research Corp.

     1,129          208,910  

Microchip Technology, Inc.

     1,495          134,221  

Micron Technology, Inc. (a)

     7,220          283,963  

NVIDIA Corp.

     3,735          667,706  

NXP Semiconductors NV (a)

     3,725          421,260  

Qorvo, Inc. (a)

     868          61,350  

QUALCOMM, Inc.

     10,270          532,397  

Renesas Electronics Corp. (a)

     5,418          59,048  

Rohm Co., Ltd.

     1,300          111,551  

Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

     1,324          134,916  

STMicroelectronics NV

     12,251          237,661  

Texas Instruments, Inc.

     6,975          625,239  

Tokyo Electron Ltd.

     1,689          260,020  

Xilinx, Inc.

     1,735          122,890  
       

 

 

 
          7,577,411  
       

 

 

 

Software - 1.7%

       

Activision Blizzard, Inc.

     4,755          306,745  

Adobe Systems, Inc. (a)

     3,460          516,163  

ANSYS, Inc. (a)

     612          75,111  

Autodesk, Inc. (a)

     1,375          154,357  

CA, Inc.

     2,185          72,935  

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (a)

     2,014          79,493  

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (a)

     1,405          160,198  

Citrix Systems, Inc. (a)

     1,080          82,966  

Dassault Systemes SE

     924          93,484  

Electronic Arts, Inc. (a)

     2,085          246,155  

Gemalto NV

     323          14,436  

Intuit, Inc.

     1,700          241,638  

Konami Holdings Corp.

     1,300          62,586  

LINE Corp. (a)

     33          1,193  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Micro Focus International PLC

     4,754        $ 152,164  

Microsoft Corp.

     54,420          4,053,746  

Nexon Co., Ltd. (a)

     2,595          67,839  

Nice Ltd.

     596          48,276  

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

     1,200          442,480  

Oracle Corp.

     21,000          1,015,350  

Oracle Corp. Japan

     500          39,301  

Red Hat, Inc. (a)

     1,240          137,466  

Sage Group PLC (The)

     12,240          114,626  

salesforce.com, Inc. (a)

     4,484          418,895  

SAP SE

     10,475          1,148,534  

Symantec Corp.

     4,255          139,606  

Synopsys, Inc. (a)

     1,072          86,328  

Trend Micro, Inc./Japan

     1,600          78,826  
       

 

 

 
          10,050,897  
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 1.2%

       

Apple, Inc.

     37,125          5,721,705  

Brother Industries Ltd.

     2,200          51,295  

Canon, Inc.

     11,400          390,119  

FUJIFILM Holdings Corp.

     4,200          163,176  

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

     11,560          170,048  

HP, Inc.

     11,910          237,723  

Konica Minolta, Inc.

     6,000          49,297  

NEC Corp.

     2,500          67,819  

NetApp, Inc.

     1,940          84,894  

Ricoh Co., Ltd.

     6,000          58,345  

Seagate Technology PLC

     2,050          67,998  

Seiko Epson Corp.

     2,700          65,383  

Western Digital Corp.

     1,963          169,603  

Xerox Corp.

     1,486          49,469  
       

 

 

 
          7,346,874  
       

 

 

 
          44,736,369  
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 6.5%

       

Biotechnology - 1.0%

       

AbbVie, Inc.

     11,366          1,009,983  

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

     1,580          221,658  

Amgen, Inc.

     5,253          979,422  

Biogen, Inc. (a)

     1,565          490,033  

Celgene Corp. (a)

     5,430          791,802  

CSL Ltd.

     4,876          513,312  

Genmab A/S (a)

     540          119,418  

Gilead Sciences, Inc.

     9,215          746,599  

Grifols SA

     2,839          82,851  

Incyte Corp. (a)

     1,240          144,758  

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

     540          241,445  

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

     1,707          259,532  
       

 

 

 
          5,600,813  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 1.0%

       

Abbott Laboratories

     11,976          639,039  

Align Technology, Inc. (a)

     540          100,586  

Baxter International, Inc.

     3,380          212,095  

Becton Dickinson and Co.

     1,487          291,378  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Boston Scientific Corp. (a)

     9,460        $ 275,948  

Cochlear Ltd.

     405          50,659  

Coloplast A/S - Class B

     1,154          93,827  

ConvaTec Group PLC (c)

     12,601          46,303  

Cooper Cos., Inc. (The)

     361          85,597  

CR Bard, Inc.

     515          165,058  

CYBERDYNE, Inc. (a)

     3,189          42,529  

Danaher Corp.

     4,240          363,707  

DENTSPLY SIRONA, Inc.

     1,596          95,457  

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (a)

     1,490          162,872  

Essilor International SA

     2,369          293,608  

Getinge AB - Class B

     2,013          37,792  

Hologic, Inc. (a)

     1,920          70,445  

Hoya Corp.

     3,900          210,907  

IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (a)

     633          98,425  

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (a)

     305          318,993  

Koninklijke Philips NV

     7,299          301,157  

Medtronic PLC

     9,659          751,180  

Olympus Corp.

     2,800          94,881  

ResMed, Inc.

     1,016          78,191  

Smith & Nephew PLC

     9,779          176,757  

Sonova Holding AG (REG)

     666          113,044  

Straumann Holding AG

     132          84,891  

Stryker Corp.

     2,175          308,894  

Sysmex Corp.

     1,500          95,837  

Terumo Corp.

     3,300          129,800  

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (a)

     645          64,539  

William Demant Holding A/S (a)

     2,050          54,199  

Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.

     1,385          162,170  
       

 

 

 
          6,070,765  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 0.9%

       

Aetna, Inc.

     2,467          392,278  

Alfresa Holdings Corp.

     2,700          49,465  

AmerisourceBergen Corp. - Class A

     1,235          102,196  

Anthem, Inc.

     1,850          351,278  

Cardinal Health, Inc.

     2,195          146,889  

Centene Corp. (a)

     1,187          114,866  

Cigna Corp.

     1,815          339,296  

DaVita, Inc. (a)

     1,150          68,298  

Envision Healthcare Corp. (a)

     823          36,994  

Express Scripts Holding Co.(a)

     4,389          277,911  

Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA

     2,085          203,843  

Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA

     4,696          379,765  

HCA Healthcare, Inc. (a)

     2,050          163,159  

Healthscope Ltd.

     34,249          44,960  

Henry Schein, Inc. (a)

     1,140          93,469  

Humana, Inc.

     1,065          259,466  

Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings (a)

     725          109,453  

McKesson Corp.

     1,565          240,400  

Mediclinic International PLC

     1,862          16,218  

Medipal Holdings Corp.

     3,900          67,780  

Miraca Holdings, Inc.

     1,000          46,554  

Patterson Cos., Inc.

     560          21,644  

Quest Diagnostics, Inc.

     950          88,958  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Ramsay Health Care Ltd.

     1,156        $ 56,562  

Ryman Healthcare Ltd.

     5,937          39,775  

Sonic Healthcare Ltd.

     5,598          91,991  

Suzuken Co., Ltd./Aichi Japan

     1,200          42,681  

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

     6,635          1,299,465  

Universal Health Services, Inc. - Class B

     650          72,111  
       

 

 

 
          5,217,725  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Technology - 0.0%

       

Cerner Corp. (a)

     2,080          148,346  

M3, Inc.

     2,070          59,018  
       

 

 

 
          207,364  
       

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 0.3%

       

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

     2,245          144,129  

Illumina, Inc. (a)

     1,011          201,391  

Lonza Group AG (REG) (a)

     779          204,694  

Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. (a)

     220          137,755  

PerkinElmer, Inc.

     755          52,072  

QIAGEN NV (a)

     2,703          85,442  

Quintiles IMS Holdings, Inc. (a)

     896          85,183  

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

     2,785          526,922  

Waters Corp. (a)

     545          97,838  
       

 

 

 
          1,535,426  
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 3.3%

       

Allergan PLC

     2,400          491,880  

Astellas Pharma, Inc.

     22,500          286,369  

AstraZeneca PLC

     13,478          896,306  

Bayer AG (REG)

     8,814          1,204,021  

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

     11,665          743,527  

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

     2,100          87,268  

Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.

     5,700          128,630  

Eisai Co., Ltd.

     2,933          150,618  

Eli Lilly & Co.

     6,765          578,678  

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

     52,848          1,056,464  

Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC

     3,047          49,507  

Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co., Inc.

     1,000          48,057  

Ipsen SA

     880          117,087  

Johnson & Johnson

     19,105          2,483,841  

Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd.

     435          7,412  

Merck & Co., Inc.

     19,305          1,236,099  

Merck KGaA

     1,230          136,989  

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp.

     3,000          68,871  

Mylan NV (a)

     2,555          80,150  

Novartis AG (REG)

     23,800          2,041,444  

Novo Nordisk A/S - Class B

     20,377          979,700  

Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

     3,900          88,524  

Orion Oyj - Class B

     974          45,225  

Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd.

     3,717          147,794  

Perrigo Co. PLC

     1,022          86,512  

Pfizer, Inc.

     42,336          1,511,395  

Recordati SpA

     2,055          94,832  

Roche Holding AG

     7,488          1,914,084  

Sanofi

     12,344          1,228,804  

Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

     2,500          39,445  

Shionogi & Co., Ltd.

     2,800          153,067  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Shire PLC

     9,881        $ 503,276  

Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd.

     2,900          37,778  

Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdings Co., Ltd.

     567          43,083  

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

     7,600          420,249  

Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (a)

     133          14,988  

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Sponsored ADR)

     9,825          172,920  

UCB SA

     1,203          85,736  

Vifor Pharma AG

     802          94,593  

Zoetis, Inc.

     3,446          219,717  
       

 

 

 
          19,774,940  
       

 

 

 
          38,407,033  
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 6.4%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 1.0%

       

Airbus SE

     5,607          533,759  

Arconic, Inc.

     2,756          68,569  

BAE Systems PLC

     33,818          286,396  

Boeing Co. (The)

     4,060          1,032,093  

Cobham PLC

     27,677          54,036  

Dassault Aviation SA

     41          66,342  

Elbit Systems Ltd.

     250          36,755  

General Dynamics Corp.

     2,010          413,216  

L3 Technologies, Inc.

     525          98,926  

Leonardo SpA

     5,271          98,832  

Lockheed Martin Corp.

     1,800          558,522  

Meggitt PLC

     10,854          75,812  

Northrop Grumman Corp.

     1,240          356,773  

Raytheon Co.

     2,050          382,489  

Rockwell Collins, Inc.

     900          117,639  

Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC (a)

     19,591          233,021  

Safran SA

     2,977          304,217  

Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd.

     43,000          109,286  

Textron, Inc.

     1,855          99,947  

Thales SA

     694          78,596  

TransDigm Group, Inc.

     363          92,801  

United Technologies Corp.

     5,425          629,734  
       

 

 

 
          5,727,761  
       

 

 

 

Air Freight & Logistics - 0.3%

       

Bollore SA

     25,929          129,661  

CH Robinson Worldwide, Inc.

     965          73,437  

Deutsche Post AG (REG)

     9,235          411,643  

Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.

     1,220          73,029  

FedEx Corp.

     1,715          386,870  

Kuehne & Nagel International AG (REG)

     477          88,388  

Royal Mail PLC

     8,567          44,112  

United Parcel Service, Inc. - Class B

     4,855          583,037  

Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd.

     3,400          68,680  
       

 

 

 
          1,858,857  
       

 

 

 

Airlines - 0.2%

       

Alaska Air Group, Inc.

     843          64,296  

American Airlines Group, Inc.

     3,682          174,858  

ANA Holdings, Inc.

     1,008          38,163  

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

     5,202          250,840  

Deutsche Lufthansa AG (REG)

     3,330          92,604  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

easyJet PLC

     2,320        $ 37,859  

International Consolidated Airlines Group SA

     10,420          83,043  

Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.

     900          30,466  

Qantas Airways Ltd.

     24,972          114,380  

Singapore Airlines Ltd.

     14,000          103,812  

Southwest Airlines Co.

     4,305          240,994  

United Continental Holdings, Inc. (a)

     2,022          123,099  
       

 

 

 
          1,354,414  
       

 

 

 

Building Products - 0.3%

       

Allegion PLC

     635          54,908  

AO Smith Corp.

     1,055          62,699  

Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.

     2,000          74,286  

Assa Abloy AB - Class B

     9,541          218,445  

Cie de Saint-Gobain

     4,539          270,434  

Daikin Industries Ltd.

     2,500          253,181  

Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc.

     1,071          72,003  

Geberit AG (REG)

     360          170,430  

Johnson Controls International PLC

     5,892          237,389  

LIXIL Group Corp.

     2,500          66,390  

Masco Corp.

     2,305          89,918  

TOTO Ltd.

     1,000          42,144  
       

 

 

 
          1,612,227  
       

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 0.2%

       

Babcock International Group PLC

     482          5,346  

Brambles Ltd.

     15,030          106,383  

Cintas Corp.

     585          84,404  

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

     2,500          59,954  

G4S PLC

     17,154          63,999  

ISS A/S

     1,785          71,964  

Park24 Co., Ltd.

     1,300          31,659  

Republic Services, Inc. - Class A

     1,600          105,696  

Secom Co., Ltd.

     2,000          145,649  

Societe BIC SA

     891          106,805  

Sohgo Security Services Co., Ltd.

     1,000          45,903  

Stericycle, Inc. (a)

     610          43,688  

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.

     5,000          49,601  

Waste Management, Inc.

     2,845          222,678  
       

 

 

 
          1,143,729  
       

 

 

 

Construction & Engineering - 0.3%

       

ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA

     2,540          94,228  

Bouygues SA

     1,739          82,552  

CIMIC Group Ltd.

     2,988          103,838  

Eiffage SA

     1,102          114,127  

Ferrovial SA

     4,609          101,554  

Fluor Corp.

     965          40,626  

HOCHTIEF AG

     422          71,277  

Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.

     815          47,490  

JGC Corp.

     4,000          64,778  

Kajima Corp.

     7,000          69,576  

Obayashi Corp.

     6,000          71,967  

Quanta Services, Inc. (a)

     1,015          37,931  

Shimizu Corp.

     4,000          44,357  

Skanska AB - Class B

     8,587          199,125  

Taisei Corp.

     2,000          104,884  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Vinci SA

     5,456        $ 518,391  
       

 

 

 
          1,766,701  
       

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 0.5%

       

ABB Ltd. (REG)

     20,970          518,546  

Acuity Brands, Inc.

     323          55,323  

AMETEK, Inc.

     1,599          105,598  

Eaton Corp. PLC

     3,144          241,428  

Emerson Electric Co.

     4,450          279,638  

Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

     14,000          77,682  

Legrand SA

     2,541          183,384  

Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd.

     800          40,079  

Mitsubishi Electric Corp.

     21,000          328,510  

Nidec Corp.

     2,567          315,564  

OSRAM Licht AG

     678          54,152  

Prysmian SpA

     1,074          36,288  

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

     930          165,735  

Schneider Electric SE (Paris) (a)

     6,098          531,020  

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA

     810          10,583  

Vestas Wind Systems A/S

     2,133          191,726  
       

 

 

 
          3,135,256  
       

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 0.9%

       

3M Co.

     4,255          893,124  

CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.

     25,840          330,966  

DCC PLC

     843          81,857  

General Electric Co.

     62,559          1,512,677  

Honeywell International, Inc.

     5,305          751,931  

Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd.

     2,300          145,875  

Jardine Strategic Holdings Ltd.

     2,005          86,718  

Keihan Holdings Co., Ltd.

     1,000          29,289  

Keppel Corp., Ltd.

     13,000          62,414  

NWS Holdings Ltd.

     37,000          72,323  

Roper Technologies, Inc.

     725          176,465  

Seibu Holdings, Inc.

     3,142          53,668  

Siemens AG (REG)

     8,153          1,150,464  

Smiths Group PLC

     3,761          79,543  

Toshiba Corp. (a)

     38,000          106,558  
       

 

 

 
          5,533,872  
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 1.2%

       

Alfa Laval AB

     3,778          92,409  

Alstom SA

     3,502          148,793  

Amada Holdings Co., Ltd.

     3,000          32,938  

ANDRITZ AG

     693          40,051  

Atlas Copco AB - Class A

     6,392          271,164  

Atlas Copco AB - Class B

     3,579          139,036  

Caterpillar, Inc.

     4,085          509,440  

CNH Industrial NV

     22,634          271,729  

Cummins, Inc.

     1,100          184,833  

Deere & Co.

     2,035          255,576  

Dover Corp.

     1,085          99,158  

FANUC Corp.

     2,100          425,782  

Flowserve Corp.

     910          38,757  

Fortive Corp.

     2,070          146,535  

GEA Group AG

     1,741          79,256  

Hino Motors Ltd.

     6,000          73,422  

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

     3,000          88,907  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Hoshizaki Corp.

     400        $ 35,137  

IHI Corp.

     2,600          90,632  

Illinois Tool Works, Inc.

     2,225          329,211  

IMI PLC

     4,517          75,262  

Ingersoll-Rand PLC

     1,805          160,952  

JTEKT Corp.

     4,300          59,524  

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.

     900          29,841  

KION Group AG

     721          69,068  

Komatsu Ltd.

     9,800          277,507  

Kone Oyj - Class B

     3,593          190,462  

Kubota Corp.

     10,000          181,907  

Kurita Water Industries Ltd.

     1,200          34,680  

Makita Corp.

     2,200          88,794  

MAN SE

     1,273          143,702  

Metso Oyj

     1,073          39,380  

MINEBEA MITSUMI, Inc.

     7,000          109,636  

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.

     3,100          122,572  

Nabtesco Corp.

     1,000          37,207  

NGK Insulators Ltd.

     2,000          37,473  

NSK Ltd.

     4,719          63,712  

PACCAR, Inc.

     2,410          174,339  

Parker-Hannifin Corp.

     945          165,394  

Pentair PLC

     1,160          78,834  

Sandvik AB

     12,165          210,098  

Schindler Holding AG

     413          91,271  

Schindler Holding AG (REG)

     575          123,832  

SKF AB - Class B

     4,700          102,613  

SMC Corp./Japan

     600          212,017  

Snap-on, Inc.

     420          62,584  

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

     1,065          160,783  

Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd.

     1,200          48,167  

THK Co., Ltd.

     3,100          105,737  

Volvo AB - Class B

     14,676          283,365  

Wartsila Oyj Abp

     1,408          99,681  

Weir Group PLC (The)

     2,037          53,617  

Xylem, Inc./NY

     1,235          77,348  

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd.

     56,331          59,544  
       

 

 

 
          7,183,669  
       

 

 

 

Marine - 0.1%

       

AP Moller - Maersk A/S - Class A

     70          128,867  

AP Moller - Maersk A/S - Class B

     68          129,476  

Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd.

     1,200          36,413  

Nippon Yusen KK (a)

     3,100          64,510  
       

 

 

 
          359,266  
       

 

 

 

Professional Services - 0.4%

       

Adecco Group AG (REG)

     1,673          130,334  

Bureau Veritas SA

     3,094          79,848  

Capita PLC

     6,326          47,863  

Equifax, Inc.

     855          90,622  

Experian PLC

     10,230          205,487  

Intertek Group PLC

     1,536          102,671  

Nielsen Holdings PLC

     2,316          95,998  

Randstad Holding NV

     1,613          99,689  

Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.

     11,748          254,385  

RELX NV

     15,125          321,762  

RELX PLC

     11,663          255,960  

Robert Half International, Inc.

     885          44,551  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

SGS SA (REG)

     52        $ 124,866  

Verisk Analytics, Inc. - Class A (a)

     1,100          91,509  

Wolters Kluwer NV

     5,568          257,325  
       

 

 

 
          2,202,870  
       

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 0.5%

       

Aurizon Holdings Ltd.

     22,082          85,095  

Central Japan Railway Co.

     1,537          269,728  

CSX Corp.

     6,560          355,946  

DSV A/S

     1,630          123,482  

East Japan Railway Co.

     3,600          332,310  

Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc.

     2,200          83,525  

JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

     603          66,981  

Kansas City Southern

     770          83,684  

Keikyu Corp.

     2,000          40,560  

Keio Corp.

     1,200          49,461  

Keisei Electric Railway Co., Ltd.

     2,945          81,480  

Kintetsu Group Holdings Co., Ltd.

     1,700          63,243  

Kyushu Railway Co.

     1,722          51,226  

MTR Corp., Ltd.

     15,500          90,756  

Nagoya Railroad Co., Ltd.

     1,800          38,761  

Nippon Express Co., Ltd.

     1,200          78,230  

Norfolk Southern Corp.

     2,040          269,770  

Odakyu Electric Railway Co., Ltd.

     3,000          56,925  

Tobu Railway Co., Ltd.

     1,200          32,971  

Tokyu Corp.

     5,000          70,814  

Union Pacific Corp.

     5,800          672,626  

West Japan Railway Co.

     1,568          109,011  
       

 

 

 
          3,106,585  
       

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 0.4%

       

AerCap Holdings NV (a)

     1,564          79,936  

Ashtead Group PLC

     4,791          115,578  

Brenntag AG

     1,471          82,002  

Bunzl PLC

     3,191          96,940  

Fastenal Co.(b)

     1,980          90,248  

Ferguson PLC

     3,100          203,389  

ITOCHU Corp.

     16,000          262,156  

Marubeni Corp.

     16,000          109,379  

MISUMI Group, Inc.

     2,900          76,435  

Mitsubishi Corp.

     16,100          374,580  

Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

     18,200          269,195  

Sumitomo Corp.

     11,300          162,691  

Toyota Tsusho Corp.

     2,300          75,591  

Travis Perkins PLC

     2,972          57,666  

United Rentals, Inc. (a)

     600          83,244  

WW Grainger, Inc.

     380          68,305  
       

 

 

 
          2,207,335  
       

 

 

 

Transportation Infrastructure - 0.1%

       

Abertis Infraestructuras SA

     6,861          138,709  

Aena SME SA (c)

     780          140,967  

Aeroports de Paris

     1,000          161,655  

Atlantia SpA

     176          5,561  

Auckland International Airport Ltd.

     10,521          48,984  

Groupe Eurotunnel SE (REG)

     6,892          83,086  

Hutchison Port Holdings Trust - Class U

     43,553          18,772  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Kamigumi Co., Ltd.

     1,500        $ 34,751  

Transurban Group

     19,376          180,939  
       

 

 

 
          813,424  
       

 

 

 
          38,005,966  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 6.3%

       

Auto Components - 0.4%

       

Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd.

     1,800          94,901  

BorgWarner, Inc.

     1,380          70,697  

Bridgestone Corp.

     6,900          313,286  

Cie Generale des Etablissements Michelin - Class B

     1,732          252,701  

Continental AG

     1,047          265,906  

Delphi Automotive PLC

     1,891          186,074  

Denso Corp.

     5,200          263,174  

GKN PLC

     16,316          75,601  

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (The)

     1,810          60,183  

Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

     1,000          62,795  

NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.

     3,000          63,890  

NOK Corp.

     2,800          62,635  

Nokian Renkaat Oyj

     1,090          48,502  

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.

     1,600          54,878  

Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.

     7,200          117,706  

Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd.

     4,100          75,252  

Toyota Industries Corp.

     1,600          92,020  

Valeo SA

     2,277          168,955  

Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. (The)

     1,000          20,623  
       

 

 

 
          2,349,779  
       

 

 

 

Automobiles - 1.1%

       

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG

     3,152          319,910  

Daimler AG (REG)

     10,262          819,164  

Ferrari NV

     1,527          168,960  

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (a)

     14,140          253,408  

Ford Motor Co.

     27,220          325,823  

General Motors Co.

     9,916          400,408  

Harley-Davidson, Inc. (b)

     1,250          60,263  

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

     18,521          547,120  

Isuzu Motors Ltd.

     5,500          72,924  

Mazda Motor Corp.

     5,200          79,664  

Mitsubishi Motors Corp.

     11,400          90,258  

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

     26,300          260,544  

Peugeot SA

     7,475          177,944  

Porsche Automobil Holding SE (Preference Shares)

     1,458          93,285  

Renault SA

     1,830          179,811  

Subaru Corp.

     6,000          216,403  

Suzuki Motor Corp.

     3,500          183,698  

Toyota Motor Corp.

     28,500          1,699,409  

Volkswagen AG

     630          106,564  

Volkswagen AG (Preference Shares)

     1,767          288,471  

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.

     2,700          80,825  
       

 

 

 
          6,424,856  
       

 

 

 

Distributors - 0.0%

       

Genuine Parts Co.

     1,060          101,389  

Jardine Cycle & Carriage Ltd.

     2,000          58,200  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

LKQ Corp. (a)

     2,114        $ 76,083  
       

 

 

 
          235,672  
       

 

 

 

Diversified Consumer Services - 0.0%

       

Benesse Holdings, Inc.

     300          10,824  

H&R Block, Inc.

     1,520          40,249  
       

 

 

 
          51,073  
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 0.9%

       

Accor SA

     2,705          134,529  

Aristocrat Leisure Ltd.

     4,876          80,540  

Carnival Corp.

     2,985          192,741  

Carnival PLC

     2,273          144,545  

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. - Class A (a)(b)

     244          75,110  

Compass Group PLC

     16,836          357,218  

Crown Resorts Ltd.

     9,430          83,850  

Darden Restaurants, Inc.

     870          68,539  

Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Ltd.

     823          29,651  

Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd.

     20,155          142,485  

Genting Singapore PLC

     92,000          79,554  

Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc.

     1,466          101,814  

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC

     2,053          108,605  

Marriott International, Inc./MD - Class A

     2,231          245,990  

McDonald’s Corp.

     5,980          936,946  

McDonald’s Holdings Co. Japan Ltd.

     2,200          97,332  

Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd. (ADR)

     2,651          63,942  

Merlin Entertainments PLC (c)

     6,755          40,314  

MGM Resorts International

     3,460          112,761  

Oriental Land Co., Ltd./Japan

     2,100          160,103  

Paddy Power Betfair PLC

     1,060          105,763  

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

     1,177          139,522  

Sands China Ltd.

     39,744          207,865  

Sodexo SA

     1,005          125,284  

Starbucks Corp.

     10,220          548,916  

Tatts Group Ltd.

     15,121          47,306  

TUI AG

     6,938          117,733  

Whitbread PLC

     1,737          87,678  

Wyndham Worldwide Corp.

     750          79,057  

Wynn Macau Ltd.

     77,455          209,476  

Wynn Resorts Ltd.

     560          83,395  

Yum! Brands, Inc.

     2,545          187,337  
       

 

 

 
          5,195,901  
       

 

 

 

Household Durables - 0.4%

       

Auto Trader Group PLC (c)

     9,529          50,132  

Barratt Developments PLC

     9,541          78,600  

Berkeley Group Holdings PLC

     1,236          61,598  

Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

     2,100          29,622  

DR Horton, Inc.

     2,355          94,035  

Electrolux AB - Class B

     2,430          82,707  

Garmin Ltd.

     770          41,557  

Husqvarna AB - Class B

     8,194          84,382  

Iida Group Holdings Co., Ltd.

     1,346          24,012  

Leggett & Platt, Inc.

     925          44,150  

Lennar Corp. - Class A

     1,300          68,640  

Mohawk Industries, Inc. (a)

     450          111,380  

Newell Brands, Inc.

     3,355          143,158  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Nikon Corp.

     3,200        $ 55,492  

Panasonic Corp.

     23,500          341,031  

Persimmon PLC

     3,527          122,060  

PulteGroup, Inc.

     2,135          58,350  

Rinnai Corp.

     700          59,961  

SEB SA

     568          104,240  

Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.

     4,000          78,806  

Sekisui House Ltd.

     6,000          101,134  

Sharp Corp./Japan (a)

     1,500          45,366  

Sony Corp.

     13,500          503,667  

Taylor Wimpey PLC

     31,025          81,315  

Whirlpool Corp.

     550          101,442  
       

 

 

 
          2,566,837  
       

 

 

 

Internet & Direct Marketing Retail - 0.7%

       

Amazon.com, Inc. (a)

     2,762          2,655,249  

Expedia, Inc.

     832          119,758  

Netflix, Inc. (a)

     2,982          540,786  

Priceline Group, Inc. (The) (a)

     347          635,294  

Rakuten, Inc.

     8,852          96,644  

Start Today Co., Ltd.

     2,592          82,141  

TripAdvisor, Inc. (a)

     762          30,884  

Zalando SE (a) (c)

     2,021          101,439  
       

 

 

 
          4,262,195  
       

 

 

 

Leisure Products - 0.1%

       

Bandai Namco Holdings, Inc.

     1,900          65,274  

Hasbro, Inc.

     800          78,136  

Mattel, Inc.

     2,335          36,146  

Sankyo Co., Ltd.

     300          9,573  

Shimano, Inc.

     700          93,253  

Yamaha Corp.

     1,600          59,074  
       

 

 

 
          341,456  
       

 

 

 

Media - 1.0%

       

Altice NV - Class A (a)

     3,528          70,687  

Altice NV - Class B (a)

     1,176          23,480  

Axel Springer SE

     2,191          140,919  

CBS Corp. - Class B

     2,840          164,720  

Charter Communications, Inc. - Class A (a)

     1,523          553,489  

Comcast Corp. - Class A

     33,502          1,289,157  

Dentsu, Inc.

     2,100          92,249  

Discovery Communications, Inc. - Class A (a) (b)

     1,045          22,248  

Discovery Communications, Inc. - Class C (a)

     1,545          31,302  

DISH Network Corp. - Class A (a)

     1,475          79,989  

Eutelsat Communications SA

     3,140          92,952  

Hakuhodo DY Holdings, Inc.

     2,490          32,784  

I-CABLE Communications Ltd. (a)

     7,906          265  

Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. (The)

     2,795          58,108  

ITV PLC

     34,542          80,929  

JCDecaux SA

     189          7,086  

Lagardere SCA

     352          11,792  

News Corp. - Class A

     2,658          35,245  

News Corp. - Class B

     817          11,152  

Omnicom Group, Inc.

     1,660          122,956  

Pearson PLC

     7,821          64,137  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Publicis Groupe SA

     1,801        $ 125,993  

REA Group Ltd.

     1,002          52,779  

RTL Group SA (London) (a)

     1,166          88,339  

Schibsted ASA - Class B

     2,252          53,269  

Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. - Class A

     670          57,546  

SES SA

     4,651          101,819  

Sky PLC

     13,314          163,334  

Telenet Group Holding NV (a)

     454          30,052  

Time Warner, Inc.

     5,445          557,840  

Toho Co., Ltd./Tokyo

     1,000          34,918  

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. - Class A

     7,421          195,766  

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. - Class B

     3,367          86,835  

Viacom, Inc. - Class B

     2,410          67,094  

Vivendi SA

     11,072          280,496  

Walt Disney Co. (The)

     11,094          1,093,536  

WPP PLC

     13,761          255,350  
       

 

 

 
          6,230,612  
       

 

 

 

Multiline Retail - 0.2%

       

Dollar General Corp.

     1,820          147,511  

Dollar Tree, Inc. (a)

     1,638          142,211  

Don Quijote Holdings Co., Ltd.

     1,000          37,378  

Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd.

     2,200          22,990  

J Front Retailing Co., Ltd.

     3,500          48,392  

Kohl’s Corp.

     1,230          56,149  

Macy’s, Inc.

     2,105          45,931  

Marks & Spencer Group PLC

     15,442          73,113  

Marui Group Co., Ltd.

     3,300          47,240  

Next PLC

     1,363          96,081  

Nordstrom, Inc.

     770          36,306  

Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd.

     257          75,759  

Target Corp.

     4,025          237,515  
       

 

 

 
          1,066,576  
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 0.8%

       

ABC-Mart, Inc.

     500          26,411  

Advance Auto Parts, Inc.

     531          52,675  

AutoZone, Inc. (a)

     225          133,900  

Best Buy Co., Inc.

     1,900          108,224  

CarMax, Inc. (a)(b)

     1,320          100,069  

Dixons Carphone PLC

     6,678          17,315  

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.

     500          147,477  

Foot Locker, Inc.

     942          33,177  

Gap, Inc. (The)

     1,505          44,443  

Hennes & Mauritz AB - Class B

     9,038          234,773  

Hikari Tsushin, Inc.

     500          62,726  

Home Depot, Inc. (The)

     8,630          1,411,523  

Industria de Diseno Textil SA

     11,626          438,303  

Kingfisher PLC

     29,522          118,197  

L Brands, Inc. (b)

     1,685          70,113  

Lowe’s Cos., Inc.

     6,090          486,835  

Nitori Holdings Co., Ltd.

     750          107,259  

O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. (a)

     690          148,605  

Ross Stores, Inc.

     2,750          177,568  

Shimamura Co., Ltd.

     200          23,991  

Signet Jewelers Ltd.

     508          33,807  

Tiffany & Co.

     755          69,294  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

TJX Cos., Inc. (The)

     4,570        $ 336,946  

Tractor Supply Co.

     915          57,910  

Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. (a)

     402          90,876  

USS Co., Ltd.

     4,120          83,154  

Yamada Denki Co., Ltd.

     10,990          60,095  
       

 

 

 
          4,675,666  
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 0.7%

       

adidas AG

     2,040          461,992  

Burberry Group PLC

     4,236          100,018  

Cie Financiere Richemont SA (REG)

     5,585          511,228  

Coach, Inc.

     1,930          77,740  

Hanesbrands, Inc.

     2,627          64,729  

Hermes International

     281          141,773  

HUGO BOSS AG

     1,317          116,208  

Kering

     721          287,223  

Li & Fung Ltd.

     48,000          24,131  

Luxottica Group SpA

     1,559          87,241  

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE

     2,973          821,848  

Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (a)

     1,159          55,458  

NIKE, Inc. - Class B

     9,420          488,427  

Pandora A/S

     1,106          109,353  

PVH Corp.

     545          68,703  

Ralph Lauren Corp.

     390          34,433  

Swatch Group AG (The)

     294          122,515  

Swatch Group AG (The) (REG)

     1,834          146,233  

Under Armour, Inc. - Class A (a)(b)

     1,247          20,551  

Under Armour, Inc. - Class C (a)(b)

     1,254          18,835  

VF Corp.

     2,310          146,847  
       

 

 

 
          3,905,486  
       

 

 

 
          37,306,109  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 5.0%

       

Beverages - 1.1%

       

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV

     8,118          970,403  

Asahi Group Holdings Ltd.

     3,700          149,623  

Brown-Forman Corp. - Class B

     1,254          68,092  

Carlsberg A/S - Class B

     1,051          115,330  

Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd.

     14,439          87,646  

Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan, Inc.

     1,300          42,107  

Coca-Cola Co. (The)

     27,130          1,221,121  

Coca-Cola European Partners PLC

     2,055          86,162  

Coca-Cola HBC AG (a)

     1,928          65,280  

Constellation Brands, Inc. - Class A

     1,270          253,301  

Diageo PLC

     27,623          908,396  

Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.

     1,270          112,357  

Heineken Holding NV

     1,000          93,951  

Heineken NV

     2,500          247,381  

Kirin Holdings Co., Ltd.

     9,345          219,550  

Molson Coors Brewing Co. - Class B

     1,300          106,132  

Monster Beverage Corp. (a)

     2,880          159,120  

PepsiCo, Inc.

     10,075          1,122,657  

Pernod Ricard SA

     2,021          279,574  

Remy Cointreau SA

     195          23,100  

Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd.

     1,324          58,893  

Treasury Wine Estates Ltd.

     6,024          64,805  
       

 

 

 
          6,454,981  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Food & Staples Retailing - 0.8%

       

Aeon Co., Ltd.

     6,200        $ 91,639  

Carrefour SA

     5,903          119,166  

Casino Guichard Perrachon SA

     1,228          72,829  

Colruyt SA

     862          44,167  

Costco Wholesale Corp.

     3,065          503,549  

CVS Health Corp.

     7,430          604,208  

Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentacion SA

     8,219          48,000  

FamilyMart UNY Holdings Co., Ltd.

     800          42,145  

ICA Gruppen AB

     2,462          92,618  

J Sainsbury PLC

     18,022          57,460  

Jeronimo Martins SGPS SA

     2,405          47,472  

Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize NV

     9,852          184,081  

Kroger Co. (The)

     6,580          131,995  

Lawson, Inc.

     600          39,732  

METRO AG (a)

     3,266          69,038  

Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd.

     8,000          309,076  

Sundrug Co., Ltd.

     1,000          41,439  

Sysco Corp.

     3,555          191,792  

Tesco PLC (a)

     87,120          218,475  

Tsuruha Holdings, Inc.

     600          71,740  

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

     10,563          825,393  

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.

     5,945          459,073  

Wesfarmers Ltd.

     12,002          389,627  

Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC

     19,623          61,556  

Woolworths Ltd.

     14,003          277,312  
       

 

 

 
          4,993,582  
       

 

 

 

Food Products - 1.1%

       

Ajinomoto Co., Inc.

     5,000          97,573  

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

     4,015          170,678  

Associated British Foods PLC

     3,965          169,748  

Barry Callebaut AG (REG) (a)

     91          139,313  

Calbee, Inc.

     1,315          46,185  

Campbell Soup Co.

     1,325          62,036  

Conagra Brands, Inc.

     2,885          97,340  

Danone SA

     6,291          494,119  

General Mills, Inc.

     4,135          214,028  

Hershey Co. (The)

     1,000          109,170  

Hormel Foods Corp.

     1,850          59,459  

JM Smucker Co. (The)

     795          83,419  

Kellogg Co.

     1,765          110,083  

Kerry Group PLC - Class A

     1,906          182,906  

Kikkoman Corp.

     1,000          30,726  

Kraft Heinz Co. (The)

     4,178          324,004  

Marine Harvest ASA (a)

     4,327          85,567  

McCormick & Co., Inc./MD

     825          84,678  

MEIJI Holdings Co., Ltd.

     1,100          87,107  

Mondelez International, Inc. - Class A

     10,835          440,551  

Nestle SA (REG)

     33,982          2,852,491  

NH Foods Ltd.

     1,866          51,285  

Nisshin Seifun Group, Inc.

     4,000          66,960  

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.

     1,200          72,912  

Orkla ASA

     10,095          103,592  

Tate & Lyle PLC

     4,440          38,553  

Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd.

     1,000          36,739  

Tyson Foods, Inc. - Class A

     2,075          146,184  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

WH Group Ltd. (c)

     67,807        $ 72,215  

Wilmar International Ltd.

     26,000          61,097  

Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.

     800          57,571  

Yamazaki Baking Co., Ltd.

     59          1,065  
       

 

 

 
          6,649,354  
       

 

 

 

Household Products - 0.7%

       

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (b)

     1,776          86,047  

Clorox Co. (The)

     920          121,357  

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

     6,200          451,670  

Essity AB - Class B (a)

     4,979          135,748  

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

     989          120,432  

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Preference Shares)

     1,696          231,067  

Kimberly-Clark Corp.

     2,515          295,965  

Lion Corp.

     2,000          36,544  

Procter & Gamble Co. (The)

     18,170          1,653,107  

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC

     7,158          654,012  

Unicharm Corp.

     3,800          87,040  
       

 

 

 
          3,872,989  
       

 

 

 

Personal Products - 0.5%

       

Beiersdorf AG

     1,051          113,157  

Coty, Inc. - Class A

     3,262          53,921  

Estee Lauder Cos., Inc. (The) - Class A

     1,540          166,073  

Kao Corp.

     5,400          317,916  

Kose Corp.

     500          57,311  

L’Oreal SA

     2,700          572,518  

Pola Orbis Holdings, Inc.

     1,800          54,428  

Shiseido Co., Ltd.

     3,600          144,080  

Unilever NV

     15,507          916,633  

Unilever PLC

     13,679          791,731  
       

 

 

 
          3,187,768  
       

 

 

 

Tobacco - 0.8%

       

Altria Group, Inc.

     13,660          866,317  

British American Tobacco PLC

     24,956          1,562,338  

Imperial Brands PLC

     10,218          436,112  

Japan Tobacco, Inc.

     11,724          384,207  

Philip Morris International, Inc.

     10,850          1,204,459  

Swedish Match AB

     2,884          101,290  
       

 

 

 
          4,554,723  
       

 

 

 
          29,713,397  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 2.9%

       

Energy Equipment & Services - 0.3%

       

Baker Hughes a GE Co. - Class A

     2,960          108,395  

Halliburton Co.

     5,990          275,720  

Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

     735          38,301  

National Oilwell Varco, Inc.

     2,605          93,077  

Saipem SpA (a)

     18,421          79,555  

Schlumberger Ltd.

     9,700          676,672  

TechnipFMC PLC (a)

     3,318          92,638  

Tenaris SA

     4,501          63,801  
       

 

 

 
          1,428,159  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 2.6%

 

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

     3,795        $ 185,386  

Andeavor

     825          85,099  

Apache Corp.

     2,645          121,141  

BP PLC

     210,515          1,348,557  

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.

     3,240          86,670  

Caltex Australia Ltd.

     3,100          78,217  

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (a)(b)

     5,195          22,338  

Chevron Corp.

     13,180          1,548,650  

Cimarex Energy Co.

     677          76,955  

Concho Resources, Inc. (a)

     1,007          132,642  

ConocoPhillips

     8,620          431,431  

Devon Energy Corp.

     3,620          132,890  

Enagas SA

     2,159          60,836  

Eni SpA

     24,216          401,058  

EOG Resources, Inc.

     3,860          373,416  

EQT Corp.

     1,190          77,636  

Exxon Mobil Corp.

     30,310          2,484,814  

Galp Energia SGPS SA

     5,341          94,713  

Hess Corp.

     1,840          86,278  

Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.

     1,200          33,914  

Inpex Corp.

     9,048          96,386  

JXTG Holdings, Inc.

     32,750          168,866  

Kinder Morgan, Inc./DE

     13,389          256,801  

Koninklijke Vopak NV

     502          22,015  

Lundin Petroleum AB (a)

     856          18,757  

Marathon Oil Corp.

     5,905          80,072  

Marathon Petroleum Corp.

     3,674          206,038  

Neste Oyj

     1,220          53,319  

Newfield Exploration Co. (a)

     1,370          40,648  

Noble Energy, Inc.

     3,000          85,080  

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

     5,350          343,523  

Oil Search Ltd.

     18,278          100,845  

OMV AG

     1,402          81,737  

ONEOK, Inc.

     2,718          150,604  

Origin Energy Ltd. (a)

     16,658          98,103  

Phillips 66

     3,110          284,907  

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

     1,215          179,261  

Range Resources Corp.

     1,300          25,441  

Repsol SA

     13,383          246,975  

Royal Dutch Shell PLC - Class A

     48,497          1,465,667  

Royal Dutch Shell PLC - Class B

     40,305          1,240,834  

Santos Ltd. (a)

     18,468          58,564  

Showa Shell Sekiyu KK

     4,285          49,397  

Snam SpA

     26,833          129,310  

Statoil ASA

     12,989          261,137  

TOTAL SA

     25,086          1,346,979  

Valero Energy Corp.

     3,225          248,099  

Williams Cos., Inc. (The)

     4,755          142,698  

Woodside Petroleum Ltd.

     7,059          161,638  
       

 

 

 
          15,506,342  
       

 

 

 
          16,934,501  
       

 

 

 

Materials - 2.8%

       

Chemicals - 1.6%

       

Air Liquide SA

     4,143          552,493  

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

     1,520          229,854  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Akzo Nobel NV

     3,630        $ 334,793  

Albemarle Corp.

     761          103,732  

Arkema SA

     1,159          142,211  

Asahi Kasei Corp.

     12,000          147,870  

BASF SE

     9,789          1,042,883  

CF Industries Holdings, Inc.

     1,600          56,256  

Chr Hansen Holding A/S

     1,460          125,330  

Covestro AG (c)

     1,766          151,965  

Croda International PLC

     1,689          85,882  

Daicel Corp.

     3,000          36,173  

DowDuPont, Inc.

     16,770          1,160,987  

Eastman Chemical Co.

     1,030          93,205  

Ecolab, Inc.

     1,840          236,642  

EMS-Chemie Holding AG (REG)

     203          135,096  

Evonik Industries AG

     2,574          92,027  

FMC Corp.

     930          83,058  

Frutarom Industries Ltd.

     300          23,076  

Givaudan SA (REG)

     88          191,575  

Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.

     3,000          82,322  

Incitec Pivot Ltd.

     32,013          90,697  

International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc.

     550          78,600  

Israel Chemicals Ltd.

     4,414          19,651  

Johnson Matthey PLC

     1,842          84,465  

JSR Corp.

     800          15,211  

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.

     3,000          75,572  

Kuraray Co., Ltd.

     3,000          56,129  

LANXESS AG

     1,767          139,542  

Linde AG

     1,768          367,652  

LyondellBasell Industries NV - Class A

     2,399          237,621  

Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp.

     13,000          123,942  

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co., Inc.

     2,500          58,659  

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

     1,600          48,668  

Monsanto Co.

     3,040          364,253  

Mosaic Co. (The)

     2,430          52,464  

Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd.

     2,000          68,039  

Nissan Chemical Industries Ltd.

     1,000          35,192  

Nitto Denko Corp.

     1,600          133,458  

Novozymes A/S - Class B

     2,458          126,262  

Orica Ltd.

     7,662          119,266  

PPG Industries, Inc.

     1,850          201,021  

Praxair, Inc.

     1,990          278,083  

Sherwin-Williams Co. (The)

     565          202,293  

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

     4,100          366,950  

Sika AG

     20          148,914  

Solvay SA

     927          138,585  

Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.

     15,000          93,841  

Symrise AG

     1,178          89,558  

Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp.

     7,000          82,959  

Teijin Ltd.

     3,000          59,186  

Toray Industries, Inc.

     14,000          135,847  

Tosoh Corp.

     3,149          71,080  

Umicore SA

     1,001          82,868  

Yara International ASA

     1,297          58,159  
       

 

 

 
          9,412,117  
       

 

 

 

Construction Materials - 0.2%

       

Boral Ltd.

     17,642          94,066  

CRH PLC

     8,841          336,345  

Fletcher Building Ltd.

     7,055          40,776  

HeidelbergCement AG

     1,342          138,105  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

James Hardie Industries PLC

     3,449        $ 48,139  

LafargeHolcim Ltd. (REG) (a)

     4,333          253,675  

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.

     477          98,371  

Taiheiyo Cement Corp.

     500          19,317  

Vulcan Materials Co.

     915          109,434  
       

 

 

 
          1,138,228  
       

 

 

 

Containers & Packaging - 0.1%

       

Amcor Ltd./Australia

     11,024          131,851  

Avery Dennison Corp.

     585          57,529  

Ball Corp.

     2,420          99,946  

International Paper Co.

     2,865          162,789  

Packaging Corp. of America

     675          77,409  

Sealed Air Corp.

     1,340          57,245  

Toyo Seikan Group Holdings Ltd.

     1,700          28,409  

WestRock Co.

     1,747          99,107  
       

 

 

 
          714,285  
       

 

 

 

Metals & Mining - 0.8%

       

Alumina Ltd.

     466          808  

Anglo American PLC

     14,945          268,687  

Antofagasta PLC

     6,389          81,383  

ArcelorMittal (a)

     12,535          323,357  

BHP Billiton Ltd.

     34,230          694,177  

BHP Billiton PLC

     22,510          397,211  

BlueScope Steel Ltd.

     6,941          59,960  

Boliden AB

     4,189          142,088  

Fortescue Metals Group Ltd.

     18,067          73,167  

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. (a)

     8,525          119,691  

Fresnillo PLC

     2,356          44,392  

Glencore PLC (a)

     130,406          598,564  

Hitachi Metals Ltd.

     5,000          69,679  

JFE Holdings, Inc.

     5,000          97,799  

Kobe Steel Ltd.

     1,199          13,731  

Mitsubishi Materials Corp.

     2,700          93,520  

Newcrest Mining Ltd.

     7,017          115,498  

Newmont Mining Corp.

     3,695          138,600  

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.

     8,643          198,734  

Norsk Hydro ASA

     16,444          119,988  

Nucor Corp.

     2,210          123,848  

Randgold Resources Ltd.

     890          86,986  

Rio Tinto Ltd.

     4,038          211,651  

Rio Tinto PLC

     13,185          613,750  

South32 Ltd.

     56,741          146,789  

Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.

     2,500          80,483  

thyssenkrupp AG

     3,919          116,394  

voestalpine AG

     1,082          55,175  
       

 

 

 
          5,086,110  
       

 

 

 

Paper & Forest Products - 0.1%

       

Mondi PLC

     3,496          93,991  

Oji Holdings Corp.

     14,000          75,594  

Stora Enso Oyj - Class R

     5,244          74,177  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

UPM-Kymmene Oyj

     5,689        $ 154,349  
       

 

 

 
          398,111  
       

 

 

 
          16,748,851  
       

 

 

 

Real Estate - 1.7%

       

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 1.1%

       

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.

     632          75,189  

American Tower Corp.

     2,965          405,256  

Apartment Investment & Management Co. - Class A

     1,075          47,150  

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

     945          168,607  

Boston Properties, Inc.

     1,100          135,168  

British Land Co. PLC (The)

     9,308          75,150  

Crown Castle International Corp.

     2,370          236,953  

Daiwa House REIT Investment Corp.

     13          31,116  

Dexus

     13,420          100,145  

Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

     1,030          121,880  

Duke Realty Corp.

     2,548          73,433  

Equinix, Inc.

     520          232,076  

Equity Residential

     2,540          167,462  

Essex Property Trust, Inc.

     478          121,426  

Extra Space Storage, Inc.

     883          70,569  

Federal Realty Investment Trust

     522          64,838  

GGP, Inc.

     4,044          83,994  

Goodman Group

     16,928          109,601  

GPT Group (The)

     17,105          66,653  

Hammerson PLC

     7,467          53,765  

HCP, Inc.

     2,880          80,150  

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.

     5,150          95,224  

ICADE

     1,592          142,032  

Intu Properties PLC

     9,588          29,640  

Iron Mountain, Inc.

     1,708          66,441  

Japan Prime Realty Investment Corp.

     7          23,390  

Japan Real Estate Investment Corp.

     12          57,697  

Japan Retail Fund Investment Corp.

     24          43,067  

Kimco Realty Corp.

     2,930          57,282  

Klepierre SA

     2,231          87,626  

Land Securities Group PLC

     9,737          126,993  

Link REIT

     21,500          174,837  

Macerich Co. (The)

     810          44,526  

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.

     796          85,076  

Mirvac Group

     40,488          72,833  

Nippon Building Fund, Inc.

     13          64,812  

Nippon Prologis REIT, Inc.

     14          29,509  

Nomura Real Estate Master Fund, Inc.

     34          44,205  

Prologis, Inc.

     3,670          232,898  

Public Storage

     1,030          220,410  

Realty Income Corp.

     1,808          103,400  

Regency Centers Corp.

     1,033          64,087  

SBA Communications Corp. (a)

     870          125,324  

Scentre Group

     50,683          156,454  

Segro PLC

     8,541          61,407  

Simon Property Group, Inc.

     2,216          356,798  

SL Green Realty Corp.

     676          68,492  

Stockland

     23,010          77,707  

UDR, Inc.

     1,828          69,519  

Unibail-Rodamco SE

     1,361          331,189  

United Urban Investment Corp.

     26          38,080  

Ventas, Inc.

     2,441          158,982  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Vicinity Centres

     39,646        $ 82,807  

Vornado Realty Trust

     1,185          91,103  

Welltower, Inc.

     2,475          173,943  

Westfield Corp.

     18,793          115,710  

Weyerhaeuser Co.

     5,198          176,888  
       

 

 

 
          6,470,969  
       

 

 

 

Real Estate Management & Development - 0.6%

       

Aeon Mall Co., Ltd.

     1,700          30,262  

Azrieli Group Ltd.

     811          45,106  

CapitaLand Ltd.

     35,000          92,606  

CBRE Group, Inc. - Class A (a)

     2,065          78,222  

City Developments Ltd.

     11,000          92,176  

CK Asset Holdings Ltd.

     25,719          213,811  

Daito Trust Construction Co., Ltd.

     700          127,528  

Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd.

     6,000          207,255  

Deutsche Wohnen SE

     3,212          136,505  

Global Logistic Properties Ltd.

     80,329          195,724  

Hang Lung Properties Ltd.

     14,000          33,332  

Henderson Land Development Co., Ltd.

     25,141          167,222  

Hongkong Land Holdings Ltd.

     14,000          100,949  

Hulic Co., Ltd.

     6,591          64,628  

Kerry Properties Ltd.

     8,500          35,305  

LendLease Group

     10,380          146,246  

Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.

     13,000          225,932  

Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.

     10,000          216,830  

New World Development Co., Ltd.

     82,122          118,496  

Nomura Real Estate Holdings, Inc.

     3,600          76,796  

Sino Land Co., Ltd.

     16,000          28,208  

Sumitomo Realty & Development Co., Ltd.

     3,843          116,271  

Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd.

     15,000          244,354  

Swire Properties Ltd.

     25,389          86,224  

Swiss Prime Site AG (REG) (a)

     976          87,738  

Tokyu Fudosan Holdings Corp.

     7,989          48,221  

Vonovia SE

     5,710          243,176  

Wharf Holdings Ltd. (The)

     13,000          116,300  

Wheelock & Co., Ltd.

     17,000          120,001  
       

 

 

 
          3,495,424  
       

 

 

 
          9,966,393  
       

 

 

 

Utilities - 1.7%

       

Electric Utilities - 1.0%

       

Alliant Energy Corp.

     1,588          66,013  

American Electric Power Co., Inc.

     3,425          240,572  

AusNet Services

     37,398          49,626  

Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc.

     6,100          75,810  

Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc. (The)

     4,000          42,493  

CK Infrastructure Holdings Ltd.

     15,000          129,316  

CLP Holdings Ltd.

     12,500          128,333  

DONG Energy A/S (c)

     1,822          104,441  

Duke Energy Corp.

     4,782          401,305  

Edison International

     2,265          174,790  

EDP - Energias de Portugal SA

     25,431          95,892  

Electricite de France SA

     11,071          134,461  

Endesa SA

     3,024          68,237  

Enel SpA

     88,110          530,802  

Entergy Corp.

     1,225          93,541  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Eversource Energy

     2,210        $ 133,572  

Exelon Corp.

     6,397          240,975  

FirstEnergy Corp.

     2,935          90,486  

Fortum Oyj

     4,228          84,484  

HK Electric Investments & HK Electric Investments Ltd. - Class SS(c)

     104,180          95,204  

Iberdrola SA

     62,572          486,537  

Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (The)

     8,491          108,680  

Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc.

     4,100          43,556  

Mercury NZ Ltd.

     13,502          33,073  

NextEra Energy, Inc.

     3,245          475,555  

PG&E Corp.

     3,475          236,613  

Pinnacle West Capital Corp.

     785          66,380  

Power Assets Holdings Ltd.

     8,500          73,781  

PPL Corp.

     4,695          178,175  

Red Electrica Corp. SA

     5,707          120,045  

Southern Co. (The)

     6,810          334,643  

SSE PLC

     10,739          200,950  

Terna Rete Elettrica Nazionale SpA

     23,069          134,794  

Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc.

     4,300          54,715  

Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings, Inc. (a)

     13,800          55,749  

Xcel Energy, Inc.

     3,520          166,566  
       

 

 

 
          5,750,165  
       

 

 

 

Gas Utilities - 0.1%

       

APA Group

     12,605          82,687  

Gas Natural SDG SA

     3,334          73,857  

Hong Kong & China Gas Co., Ltd.

     79,344          149,510  

Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.

     3,600          66,911  

Toho Gas Co., Ltd.

     2,018          59,089  

Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.

     3,800          93,056  
       

 

 

 
          525,110  
       

 

 

 

Independent Power and Renewable Electricity Producers - 0.0%

       

AES Corp./VA

     4,585          50,527  

Electric Power Development Co., Ltd.

     1,600          40,193  

Meridian Energy Ltd.

     18,542          38,103  

NRG Energy, Inc.

     2,190          56,042  
       

 

 

 
          184,865  
       

 

 

 

Multi-Utilities - 0.6%

       

AGL Energy Ltd.

     6,423          117,943  

Ameren Corp.

     1,660          96,014  

CenterPoint Energy, Inc.

     2,995          87,484  

Centrica PLC

     64,140          160,758  

CMS Energy Corp.

     1,920          88,934  

Consolidated Edison, Inc.

     2,130          171,848  

Dominion Energy, Inc.

     4,385          337,338  

DTE Energy Co.

     1,270          136,347  

E.ON SE

     23,845          270,317  

Engie SA

     18,347          311,558  

Innogy SE (c)

     1,395          62,146  

National Grid PLC

     36,605          453,373  

NiSource, Inc.

     2,205          56,426  

Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc.

     3,505          162,106  

RWE AG (a)

     5,973          135,886  

SCANA Corp.

     995          48,248  

Sempra Energy

     1,760          200,869  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Suez

     5,769        $ 105,335  

United Utilities Group PLC

     8,008          91,694  

Veolia Environnement SA

     2,727          63,016  

WEC Energy Group, Inc.

     2,188          137,363  
       

 

 

 
          3,295,003  
       

 

 

 

Water Utilities - 0.0%

       

American Water Works Co., Inc.

     1,221          98,791  

Severn Trent PLC

     2,239          65,219  
       

 

 

 
          164,010  
       

 

 

 
          9,919,153  
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 1.6%

       

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 1.2%

       

AT&T, Inc.

     42,926          1,681,411  

Bezeq The Israeli Telecommunication Corp., Ltd.

     25,040          35,781  

BT Group PLC

     89,935          342,067  

CenturyLink, Inc. (b)

     3,810          72,009  

Deutsche Telekom AG (REG)

     34,368          641,798  

Elisa Oyj

     1,354          58,330  

HKT Trust & HKT Ltd. - Class SS

     55,098          67,007  

Iliad SA

     332          88,247  

Inmarsat PLC

     6,433          55,520  

Koninklijke KPN NV

     28,755          98,681  

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (a)

     1,997          106,420  

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.

     7,400          339,073  

Orange SA

     18,911          309,648  

Proximus SADP

     1,568          54,055  

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.

     76,000          206,307  

Spark New Zealand Ltd.

     17,417          45,985  

Swisscom AG (REG)

     247          126,638  

TDC A/S

     10,476          61,437  

Telecom Italia SpA/Milano (ordinary shares) (a)

     150,129          140,826  

Telefonica Deutschland Holding AG

     17,113          96,169  

Telefonica SA

     50,008          543,440  

Telenor ASA

     7,146          151,385  

Telia Co. AB

     24,258          114,387  

Telstra Corp., Ltd.

     40,732          111,584  

TPG Telecom Ltd.

     8,880          33,994  

Verizon Communications, Inc.

     28,445          1,407,743  
       

 

 

 
          6,989,942  
       

 

 

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.4%

       

KDDI Corp.

     19,550          515,337  

Millicom International Cellular SA

     641          42,344  

NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

     14,767          337,526  

SoftBank Group Corp.

     8,822          715,431  

StarHub Ltd.

     23,000          44,161  

Tele2 AB - Class B

     3,826          43,843  

Vodafone Group PLC

     283,081          792,680  
       

 

 

 
          2,491,322  
       

 

 

 
          9,481,264  
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $237,068,446)

          307,079,350  
       

 

 

 


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

GOVERNMENTS - TREASURIES - 29.2%

       

United States – 29.2%

       

U.S. Treasury Bonds

       

2.25%, 8/15/46

   $ 5,033        $ 4,426,246  

2.50%, 2/15/45

     520          485,063  

2.75%, 8/15/42

     920          909,363  

2.875%, 5/15/43-8/15/45

     5,597          5,626,490  

3.00%, 5/15/45-5/15/47

     1,633          1,680,188  

3.125%, 11/15/41-2/15/43

     2,825          2,985,192  

3.50%, 2/15/39

     358          404,316  

3.625%, 8/15/43

     3,475          3,989,191  

3.75%, 8/15/41

     220          257,228  

3.875%, 8/15/40

     280          333,025  

4.25%, 5/15/39

     240          300,300  

4.375%, 11/15/39-5/15/41

     1,258          1,602,851  

4.50%, 8/15/39

     220          284,522  

4.75%, 2/15/37-2/15/41

     2,661          3,537,931  

5.375%, 2/15/31

     650          870,695  

6.00%, 2/15/26

     2,846          3,665,114  

6.25%, 8/15/23-5/15/30

     724          1,004,627  

6.875%, 8/15/25

     590          790,231  

7.25%, 8/15/22

     775          966,570  

7.625%, 2/15/25

     55          75,556  

8.00%, 11/15/21

     9,123          11,365,262  

U.S. Treasury Notes

       

1.00%, 9/30/19

     995          985,672  

1.125%, 2/28/21-9/30/21

     2,905          2,841,085  

1.25%, 11/30/18-10/31/21

     21,979          21,828,294  

1.375%, 12/31/18-5/31/21

     12,309          12,238,217  

1.50%, 5/31/19-8/15/26

     8,738          8,608,762  

1.625%, 6/30/20-2/15/26

     14,732          14,392,100  

1.75%, 3/31/22-5/15/23

     6,871          6,814,907  

1.875%, 11/30/21-8/31/22

     6,146          6,145,164  

2.00%, 11/15/21-11/15/26

     15,816          15,765,101  

2.125%, 8/15/21-5/15/25

     5,862          5,868,694  

2.25%, 11/15/24-8/15/27

     3,051          3,034,919  

2.375%, 8/15/24-5/15/27

     1,829          1,844,630  

2.50%, 8/15/23-5/15/24

     2,242          2,297,174  

2.625%, 8/15/20-11/15/20

     3,700          3,807,024  

2.75%, 2/15/19-11/15/23

     3,189          3,265,675  

3.125%, 5/15/21

     394          412,831  

3.375%, 11/15/19

     1,890          1,964,123  

3.50%, 5/15/20

     910          955,216  

3.625%, 2/15/20-2/15/21

     13,021          13,794,235  
       

 

 

 

Total Governments - Treasuries
(cost $173,642,357)

          172,423,784  
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENT COMPANIES – 14.6%

       

Funds and Investment Trusts – 14.6% (d)

       

iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

     644,492          34,815,458  

iShares International Developed Real Estate ETF

     293,373          8,557,691  

SPDR S&P MidCap 400 ETF Trust

     40,670          13,271,841  

Vanguard Global ex-U.S. Real Estate ETF (b)

     150,903          8,965,147  

Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF

     18,523          2,722,881  

Vanguard REIT ETF

     140,365          11,662,928  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Vanguard Small-Cap ETF (b)

     45,948        $ 6,493,371  
       

 

 

 

Total Investment Companies
(cost $78,279,089)

          86,489,317  
       

 

 

 

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS – 3.4%

       

Investment Companies - 3.4%

       

AB Fixed Income Shares, Inc. - Government Money Market Portfolio - Class AB, 0.83% (d) (e)(f)
(cost $20,303,299)

     20,303,299          20,303,299  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities Loaned – 99.1%
(cost $509,293,191)

          586,295,750  
       

 

 

 

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED – 0.2%

       

Investment Companies - 0.2%

       

AB Fixed Income Shares, Inc. - Government Money Market Portfolio - Class AB, 0.83% (d) (e)(f)
(cost $1,043,218)

     1,043,218          1,043,218  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 99.3%
(cost $510,336,409) (g)

          587,338,968  

Other assets less liabilities - 0.7% (h)

          4,306,544  
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 591,645,512  
       

 

 

 

FUTURES

 

Description

   Number
of
Contracts
     Expiration
Month
            Notional
(000)
     Original
Value
     Value at
September 30,
2017
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Purchased Contracts

 

10 Yr Canadian Bond Futures

     44        December 2017        CAD        4,400      $ 4,849,824      $ 4,771,148      $ (78,676

Euro-Bund Futures

     25        December 2017        EUR        2,500        4,785,550        4,757,444        (28,106

FTSE 100 Index Futures

     37        December 2017        GBP        0        3,636,126        3,633,964        (2,162

Mini MSCI EAFE Futures

     11        December 2017        USD        1        1,082,509        1,088,120        5,611  

TOPIX Index Futures

     2        December 2017        JPY        20        284,501        297,712        13,211  

U.S. T-Note 5 Yr (CBT) Futures

     17        December 2017        USD        1,700        2,009,654        1,997,500        (12,154

U.S. T-Note 10 Yr (CBT) Futures

     201        December 2017        USD        20,100        25,455,041        25,187,813        (267,228

U.S. Ultra Bond (CBT) Futures

     46        December 2017        USD        4,600        7,683,169        7,595,750        (87,419

Sold Contracts

                    

Euro STOXX 50 Index Futures

     108        December 2017        EUR        1        4,504,771        4,564,594        (59,823

S&P 500 E Mini Futures

     32        December 2017        USD        2        3,943,524        4,025,760        (82,236

SPI 200 Futures

     96        December 2017        AUD        2        10,732,262        10,670,348        61,914  
                    

 

 

 
               $ (537,068
                    

 

 

 


FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Bank of America, NA

     USD        2,162        CAD        2,656        12/18/17      $ (31,679

Barclays Bank PLC

     CAD        1,304        USD        1,053        12/18/17        7,074  

Barclays Bank PLC

     GBP        1,623        USD        2,085        12/18/17        (94,925

Barclays Bank PLC

     JPY        199,062        USD        1,837        12/18/17        61,445  

BNP Paribas SA

     AUD        4,840        USD        3,814        12/18/17        21,002  

BNP Paribas SA

     USD        1,967        NZD        2,687        12/18/17        (28,937

Citibank, NA

     NOK        7,781        USD        1,002        12/18/17        23,315  

Credit Suisse International

     CHF        2,845        USD        2,945        12/18/17        (8,351

Credit Suisse International

     EUR        11,037        USD        13,271        12/18/17        171,439  

Credit Suisse International

     JPY        385,194        USD        3,507        12/18/17        71,676  

Credit Suisse International

     USD        16,905        AUD        21,224        12/18/17        (271,587

Credit Suisse International

     USD        2,366        NOK        18,366        12/18/17        (56,080

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     USD        11,668        EUR        9,728        12/18/17        (122,808

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     EUR        11,037        USD        13,272        12/18/17        171,663  

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     JPY        322,411        USD        2,890        12/18/17        13,950  

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     CHF        4,381        USD        4,611        12/18/17        63,161  

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     SEK        10,014        USD        1,263        12/18/17        28,183  

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     USD        623        GBP        458        12/18/17        (7,712

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     SEK        12,024        USD        1,519        12/18/17        35,687  

UBS AG

     AUD        12,317        USD        9,801        12/18/17        147,725  

UBS AG

     GBP        1,393        USD        1,825        12/18/17        (46,709
                 

 

 

 
   $ 147,532  
                 

 

 

 

TOTAL RETURN SWAPS

 

Counterparty & Referenced Obligation

   # of Shares
or Units
     Rate Paid/
Received
    Payment
Frequency
     Notional
Amount
(000)
     Maturity
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Receive Total Return on Reference Obligation

 

UBS AG

                

Russell 2000 Total

     LIBOR Minus           

Return Index

     1,256        0.40     Quarterly      $ 8,501        2/15/18      $ 669,617  

Pay Total Return on Reference Obligation

                

Citibank, NA

                

S&P 500 Total Return

     LIBOR Plus           

Index

     3,575        0.26     Quarterly        17,335        12/15/17        (128,749
                

 

 

 
              $ 540,868  
                

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered restricted, but liquid and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At September 30, 2017, the aggregate market value of these securities amounted to $970,304 or 0.2% of net assets.
(d) To obtain a copy of the fund’s shareholder report, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov. Additionally, shareholder reports for AB funds can be obtained by calling AB at (800) 227-4618.
(e) Affiliated investments.
(f) The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.


(g) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $87,205,678 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(10,051,787), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $77,153,891.
(h) An amount of U.S. $1,744,691 has been segregated to collateralize margin requirements for the open futures contracts at September 30, 2017.

Currency Abbreviations:

 

AUD    -    Australian Dollar
CAD    -    Canadian Dollar
CHF    -    Swiss Franc
EUR    -    Euro
GBP    -    Great British Pound
JPY    -    Japanese Yen
NOK    -    Norwegian Krone
NZD    -    New Zealand Dollar
SEK    -    Swedish Krona
USD    -    United States Dollar

Glossary:

 

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt
ASX    -    Australian Stock Exchange
CBOE    -    Chicago Board Options Exchange
CBT    -    Chicago Board of Trade
EAFE    -    Europe, Australia, and Far East
ETF    -    Exchange Traded Fund
FTSE    -    Financial Times Stock Exchange
HK    -    Hong Kong
LIBOR    -    London Interbank Offered Rates
MSCI    -    Morgan Stanley Capital International
REG    -    Registered Shares
REIT    -    Real Estate Investment Trust
SPDR    -    Standard & Poor’s Depository Receipt
SPI    -    Share Price Index
TOPIX    -    Tokyo Price Index


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Dynamic Asset Allocation Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks:

        

Financials

   $ 22,733,632     $ 33,126,682     $ – 0  –    $ 55,860,314  

Information Technology

     35,701,462       9,034,907       – 0  –      44,736,369  

Health Care

     22,337,498       16,069,535       – 0  –      38,407,033  

Industrials

     15,934,151       22,071,815       – 0  –      38,005,966  

Consumer Discretionary

     18,446,261       18,859,848       – 0  –      37,306,109  

Consumer Staples

     12,861,659       16,851,738       – 0  –      29,713,397  

Energy

     9,173,321       7,761,180       – 0  –      16,934,501  

Materials

     4,600,289       12,148,562       – 0  –      16,748,851  

Real Estate

     4,572,911       5,393,482       – 0  –      9,966,393  

Utilities

     4,665,626       5,253,527       – 0  –      9,919,153  

Telecommunication Services

     3,370,371       6,110,893       – 0  –      9,481,264  

Governments - Treasuries

     – 0  –      172,423,784       – 0  –      172,423,784  

Investment Companies

     86,489,317       – 0  –      – 0  –      86,489,317  

Short-Term Investments

     20,303,299       – 0  –      – 0  –      20,303,299  


Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     1,043,218       – 0  –      – 0  –      1,043,218  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     262,233,015       325,105,953       – 0  –      587,338,968  

Other Financial Instruments (a):

        

Assets:

        

Futures

     5,611       75,125       – 0  –      80,736  

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      816,320       – 0  –      816,320  

Total Return Swaps

     – 0  –      669,617       – 0  –      669,617  

Liabilities:

        

Futures

     (555,819     (61,985     – 0  –      (617,804

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (668,788     – 0  –      (668,788

Total Return Swaps

     – 0  –      (128,749     – 0  –      (128,749
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (b)

   $     261,682,807     $     325,807,493     $     – 0  –    $     587,490,300  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument.
(b) There were de minimis transfers under 1% of net assets between Level 1 and Level 2 during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is as follows:

 

Fund

   Market  Value
12/31/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
     Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
     Dividend
Income
(000)
 

Government Money Market

   $ 21,929      $ 91,674      $ 93,300      $ 20,303      $ 118  

Government Money Market*

     8,035        168,376        175,368        1,043        26  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 29,964      $ 260,050      $ 268,668      $ 21,346      $ 144  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

* Investments of cash collateral for securities lending transactions


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Global Bond Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

INVESTMENT COMPANIES - 51.0%

 

Funds and Investment Trusts - 51.0%

 

AB Global Bond Fund, Inc.-Class Z (a)(b)
(cost $5,431,084)

     642,653        $   5,411,137  
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

GOVERNMENTS - TREASURIES - 32.4%

       

Australia - 1.0%

       

Australia Government Bond

       

Series 128

       

5.75%, 7/15/22 (c)

   AUD  75          67,794  

Series 142

       

4.25%, 4/21/26 (c)

     45          39,352  
       

 

 

 
          107,146  
       

 

 

 

Belgium - 1.8%

       

Kingdom of Belgium Government Bond

       

Series 71

       

3.75%, 6/22/45 (c)

   EUR 27          46,602  

Series 72

       

2.60%, 6/22/24 (c)

     53          72,574  

Series 81

       

0.80%, 6/22/27 (c)

     61          72,507  
       

 

 

 
          191,683  
       

 

 

 

Canada - 1.5%

       

Canadian Government Bond

       

1.00%, 6/01/27

   CAD 80          57,826  

2.50%, 6/01/24

     105          87,132  

2.75%, 12/01/48

     15          12,683  
       

 

 

 
          157,641  
       

 

 

 

France - 1.2%

       

French Republic Government Bond OAT

       

2.50%, 5/25/30 (c)

   EUR 35          48,483  

3.50%, 4/25/26 (c)

     50          73,919  
       

 

 

 
          122,402  
       

 

 

 

Germany - 1.5%

       

Bundesobligation

       

Series 175

       

Zero Coupon, 4/08/22 (c)

     50          59,812  

Bundesrepublik Deutschland

       

2.50%, 7/04/44-8/15/46 (c)

     64          97,904  
       

 

 

 
          157,716  
       

 

 

 

Italy - 5.7%

       

Italy Buoni Poliennali Del Tesoro

       

1.35%, 4/15/22

     75          91,138  

3.45%, 3/01/48 (c)

     13          15,653  

3.75%, 5/01/21

     262          347,244  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

4.50%, 8/01/18

   U.S.$ 45        $ 55,337  

5.50%, 11/01/22

     65          94,345  
       

 

 

 
               603,717  
       

 

 

 

Mexico - 1.9%

       

Mexican Bonos

       

Series M

       

6.50%, 6/10/21

   MXN     1,045          56,988  

8.00%, 6/11/20

     1,280          72,490  

Series M 20

       

10.00%, 12/05/24

     1,080          70,226  
       

 

 

 
          199,704  
       

 

 

 

New Zealand - 0.5%

       

New Zealand Government Bond

       

Series 423

       

5.50%, 4/15/23 (c)

   NZD 65          54,051  
       

 

 

 

Russia - 0.3%

       

Russian Federal Bond-OFZ

       

Series 6214

       

6.40%, 5/27/20

   RUB 1,850          31,311  
       

 

 

 

South Africa - 0.5%

       

Republic of South Africa Government Bond

       

Series 2048

       

8.75%, 2/28/48

   ZAR 724          48,397  

Series R213

       

7.00%, 2/28/31

     150          9,227  
       

 

 

 
          57,624  
       

 

 

 

Spain - 1.5%

       

Spain Government Bond

       

1.95%, 7/30/30 (c)

   EUR 13          15,374  

2.15%, 10/31/25 (c)

     20          25,371  

2.90%, 10/31/46 (c)

     29          34,709  

4.10%, 7/30/18 (c)

     45          55,142  

4.20%, 1/31/37 (c)

     21          31,725  

5.15%, 10/31/44 (c)

     1          1,718  
       

 

 

 
          164,039  
       

 

 

 

Sweden - 0.6%

       

Sweden Government Bond

       

Series 1054

       

3.50%, 6/01/22

   SEK 430          61,444  
       

 

 

 

United Kingdom - 5.5%

       

United Kingdom Gilt

       

1.50%, 7/22/26 (c)

   GBP 45          61,508  

1.75%, 9/07/22 (c)

     20          28,061  

2.00%, 7/22/20-9/07/25 (c)

     115          162,835  

2.25%, 9/07/23 (c)

     78          112,610  

3.25%, 1/22/44 (c)

     55          93,300  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

4.25%, 12/07/27 (c)

   U.S.$ 75        $ 127,978  
       

 

 

 
          586,292  
       

 

 

 

United States - 8.9%

       

U.S. Treasury Bonds

       

2.875%, 5/15/43-11/15/46

     109          109,637  

3.00%, 11/15/44-11/15/45

     95          97,825  

3.625%, 8/15/43

     90          103,317  

6.25%, 5/15/30

     90          127,758  

U.S. Treasury Notes

       

1.625%, 2/15/26-5/15/26

     70          66,452  

1.75%, 6/30/22

     130          129,045  

2.00%, 2/15/25-11/15/26

     98          96,008  

2.125%, 12/31/22

     55          55,395  

2.25%, 2/15/27

     155          154,080  
       

 

 

 
          939,517  
       

 

 

 

Uruguay - 0.0%

       

Uruguay Government International Bond

       

8.50%, 3/15/28 (c)

   UYU        146          5,193  
       

 

 

 

Total Governments - Treasuries
(cost $3,348,007)

            3,439,480  
       

 

 

 

CORPORATES - INVESTMENT GRADE - 4.1%

       

Industrial - 3.2%

       

Basic - 0.2%

       

Fibria Overseas Finance Ltd.

       

5.50%, 1/17/27

   U.S.$ 2          2,114  

Glencore Funding LLC

  

4.00%, 4/16/25 (c)

     5          5,078  

4.125%, 5/30/23 (c)

     5          5,199  

4.625%, 4/29/24 (c)

     4          4,249  

Mosaic Co. (The)

       

5.625%, 11/15/43

     5          5,108  
       

 

 

 
          21,748  
       

 

 

 

Capital Goods - 0.1%

       

General Electric Co.

       

Series D

       

5.00%, 1/21/21 (d)

     5          5,271  
       

 

 

 

Communications - Media - 0.3%

       

Charter Communications Operating LLC/Charter Communications Operating Capital

       

3.579%, 7/23/20

     5          5,135  

4.908%, 7/23/25

     15          16,050  

Cox Communications, Inc.

       

2.95%, 6/30/23 (c)

     8          7,889  
       

 

 

 
          29,074  
       

 

 

 

Communications - Telecommunications - 0.5%

       

AT&T, Inc.

       

3.40%, 8/14/24-5/15/25

     13          12,980  

3.60%, 2/17/23

     7          7,213  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

4.125%, 2/17/26

   U.S.$          12        $        12,326  

4.90%, 8/14/37

     10          10,109  

Verizon Communications, Inc.

  

2.625%, 8/15/26

     10          9,378  

3.50%, 11/01/24

     5          5,095  
       

 

 

 
          57,101  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Non-Cyclical - 0.6%

       

AbbVie, Inc.

       

2.50%, 5/14/20

     4          4,047  

3.60%, 5/14/25

     10          10,387  

Mylan NV

       

3.15%, 6/15/21

     11          11,190  

3.95%, 6/15/26

     5          5,094  

Reynolds American, Inc.

       

4.45%, 6/12/25

     10          10,728  

5.85%, 8/15/45

     3          3,641  

Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III BV

       

3.15%, 10/01/26

     25          23,082  
       

 

 

 
          68,169  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 0.5%

       

Energy Transfer LP

       

4.65%, 6/01/21

     5          5,313  

EnLink Midstream Partners LP

       

4.15%, 6/01/25

     13          13,139  

Enterprise Products Operating LLC

       

3.70%, 2/15/26

     10          10,285  

Hess Corp.

       

4.30%, 4/01/27

     12          11,937  

Plains All American Pipeline LP/PAA Finance Corp.

       

3.60%, 11/01/24

     12          11,701  
       

 

 

 
          52,375  
       

 

 

 

Services - 0.2%

       

Expedia, Inc.

       

3.80%, 2/15/28 (c)

     6          5,945  

S&P Global, Inc.

       

4.40%, 2/15/26

     15          16,163  
       

 

 

 
          22,108  
       

 

 

 

Technology - 0.8%

       

Broadcom Corp./Broadcom Cayman Finance Ltd.

       

3.625%, 1/15/24 (c)

     5          5,146  

3.875%, 1/15/27 (c)

     5          5,150  

Dell International LLC/EMC Corp.

       

5.45%, 6/15/23 (c)

     20          21,899  

6.02%, 6/15/26 (c)

     5          5,547  


      Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

HP, Inc.

       

4.65%, 12/09/21

   U.S.$ 10        $ 10,768  

KLA-Tencor Corp.

       

4.65%, 11/01/24

     15          16,273  

Seagate HDD Cayman

       

4.875%, 3/01/24 (c)

     5          4,929  

VMware, Inc.

       

2.95%, 8/21/22

     6          6,035  

Western Digital Corp.

       

7.375%, 4/01/23 (c)

     10          10,950  
       

 

 

 
          86,697  
       

 

 

 
               342,543  
       

 

 

 

Financial Institutions - 0.9%

       

Banking - 0.8%

       

Bank of America Corp.

       

3.824%, 1/20/28

     15          15,408  

3.875%, 8/01/25

     20          20,972  

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)

       

3.85%, 7/08/24-1/26/27

     13          13,477  

Series E

       

1.625%, 7/27/26 (c)

   EUR 5          5,923  

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

       

3.782%, 2/01/28

   U.S.$ 16          16,461  

Santander Holdings USA, Inc.

       

4.40%, 7/13/27 (c)

     15          15,300  
       

 

 

 
          87,541  
       

 

 

 

REITS - 0.1%

       

VEREIT Operating Partnership LP

       

4.60%, 2/06/24 5

          5,241  
       

 

 

 
          92,782  
       

 

 

 

Total Corporates - Investment Grade
(cost $424,601)

          435,325  
       

 

 

 

INFLATION-LINKED SECURITIES - 3.4%

       

Brazil - 0.6%

       

Brazil Notas do Tesouro Nacional

       

Series B

       

6.00%, 8/15/50-5/15/55

   BRL 56          60,246  
       

 

 

 

New Zealand - 0.1%

       

New Zealand Government Bond

       

Series 925

       

2.00%, 9/20/25 (c)

   NZD 20          14,633  
       

 

 

 

United States - 2.7%

       

U.S. Treasury Inflation Index

       

0.125%, 4/15/20 (TIPS)

   U.S.$         183          183,812  


      Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

0.25%, 1/15/25 (TIPS)

   U.S.$ 98        $ 97,215  
       

 

 

 
          281,027  
       

 

 

 

Total Inflation-Linked Securities
(cost $347,714)

          355,906  
       

 

 

 

GOVERNMENTS - SOVEREIGN AGENCIES - 2.7%

       

Canada - 2.7%

       

Canada Housing Trust No. 1

       

1.70%, 12/15/17 (c)

   CAD 60          48,146  

3.80%, 6/15/21 (c)

     285          243,244  
       

 

 

 

Total Governments - Sovereign Agencies
(cost $291,481)

               291,390  
       

 

 

 

MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGHS - 2.6%

       

Agency Fixed Rate 30-Year - 2.5%

       

Federal National Mortgage Association

       

3.50%, 10/01/47, TBA

   U.S.$ 55          56,697  

4.00%, 10/25/47, TBA

            119          125,624  

4.50%, 10/25/47, TBA

     75          80,496  
       

 

 

 
          262,817  
       

 

 

 

Other Agency Fixed Rate Programs - 0.1%

       

Canadian Mortgage Pools

       

6.125%, 12/15/24

   CAD 12          11,411  
       

 

 

 

Total Mortgage Pass-Throughs
(cost $274,446)

          274,228  
       

 

 

 

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS - PROVINCIAL BONDS - 1.3%

       

Canada - 1.3%

       

Province of Ontario Canada

       

2.40%, 6/02/26

     15          11,701  

2.60%, 6/02/25-6/02/27

     80          63,057  

Province of Quebec Canada

       

2.75%, 9/01/27

     80          63,763  
       

 

 

 

Total Local Governments - Provincial Bonds
(cost $138,948)

          138,521  
       

 

 

 

COLLATERALIZED MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS - 1.2%

       

Risk Share Floating Rate - 1.2%

       

Federal National Mortgage Association
Connecticut Avenue Securities

       

Series 2014-C04, Class 2M2

       

6.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.00%), 11/25/24 (e)

   U.S.$ 13          14,587  

Series 2015-C01, Class 1M2

       

5.537% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.30%), 2/25/25 (e)

     8          8,693  

Series 2015-C01, Class 2M2

       

5.787% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.55%), 2/25/25 (e)

     14          14,497  

Series 2015-C02, Class 2M2

       

5.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.00%), 5/25/25 (e)

     21          22,645  


      Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Series 2015-C03, Class 2M2

       

6.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.00%), 7/25/25 (e)

   U.S.$ 10        $ 10,569  

Series 2016-C01, Class 1M2

       

7.987% (LIBOR 1 Month + 6.75%), 8/25/28 (e)

     13          14,739  

Series 2016-C01, Class 2M2

       

8.187% (LIBOR 1 Month + 6.95%), 8/25/28 (e)

     13          14,787  

Series 2016-C02, Class 1M2

       

7.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 6.00%), 9/25/28 (e)

     15          17,378  

Series 2016-C04, Class 1M2

       

5.487% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.25%), 1/25/29 (e)

     10          10,955  
       

 

 

 

Total Collateralized Mortgage Obligations
(cost $121,504)

                128,850  
       

 

 

 

EMERGING MARKETS - TREASURIES - 1.1%

       

Argentina - 0.4%

       

Argentina POM Politica Monetaria

       

Series POM

       

26.25%, 6/21/20 (e)

   ARS 44          2,679  

Argentine Bonos del Tesoro

       

15.50%, 10/17/26

     205          12,583  

16.00%, 10/17/23

     389          23,212  
       

 

 

 
          38,474  
       

 

 

 

Brazil - 0.4%

       

Brazil Notas do Tesouro Nacional

       

Series F

       

10.00%, 1/01/21

   BRL       140          45,817  
       

 

 

 

Turkey - 0.3%

       

Turkey Government Bond

       

11.00%, 2/24/27

   TRY 95          27,150  
       

 

 

 

Total Emerging Markets - Treasuries
(cost $113,943)

          111,441  
       

 

 

 

CORPORATES - NON-INVESTMENT GRADE - 1.0%

       

Industrial - 0.9%

       

Communications - Telecommunications - 0.3%

       

CenturyLink, Inc.

       

Series S

       

6.45%, 6/15/21

   U.S.$ 8          8,351  

Series T

       

5.80%, 3/15/22

     8          7,975  

Series Y

       

7.50%, 4/01/24

     5          5,177  


      Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Uniti Group LP/Uniti Group Finance, Inc./CSL Capital LLC

       

6.00%, 4/15/23 (c)

   U.S.$ 9        $ 8,615  
       

 

 

 
          30,118  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Non-Cyclical - 0.4%

       

CHS/Community Health Systems, Inc.

       

5.125%, 8/01/21

     5          4,943  

6.25%, 3/31/23

     5          4,927  

Mallinckrodt International Finance SA/Mallinckrodt CB LLC

       

4.875%, 4/15/20 (c)

     7          6,963  

5.75%, 8/01/22 (c)

     3          2,925  

Tenet Healthcare Corp.

  

4.375%, 10/01/21

     6          6,079  

4.50%, 4/01/21

     5          5,096  

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.

       

5.875%, 5/15/23 (c)

     5          4,416  

6.125%, 4/15/25 (c)

     4          3,503  
       

 

 

 
          38,852  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 0.2%

       

Cheniere Energy Partners LP

       

5.25%, 10/01/25 (c)

     6          6,136  

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.

       

4.875%, 11/01/43

     10          7,462  

Nabors Industries, Inc.

       

5.50%, 1/15/23

     3          2,981  

QEP Resources, Inc.

       

5.25%, 5/01/23

     10          9,733  
       

 

 

 
          26,312  
       

 

 

 

Transportation - Services - 0.0%

       

Hertz Corp. (The)

       

5.50%, 10/15/24 (c)

     5          4,510  
       

 

 

 
          99,792  
       

 

 

 

Financial Institutions - 0.1%

       

Finance - 0.1%

       

Navient Corp.

       

6.625%, 7/26/21

     10          10,719  
       

 

 

 

Total Corporates - Non-Investment Grade
(cost $111,396)

               110,511  
       

 

 

 

COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES - 0.2%

       

Non-Agency Fixed Rate CMBS - 0.2%

       

JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2015-C32, Class C

       

4.818%, 11/15/48 (f)

              10          9,886  

LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2006-C6, Class AJ

       

5.452%, 9/15/39 (f)

     12          9,943  
       

 

 

 

Total Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
(cost $22,153)

          19,829  
       

 

 

 


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

QUASI-SOVEREIGNS - 0.2%

       

Quasi-Sovereign Bonds - 0.2%

       

Mexico - 0.2%

       

Petroleos Mexicanos

       

5.375%, 3/13/22 (c)

(cost $14,928)

   U.S.$ 15        $ 16,003  
       

 

 

 

EMERGING MARKETS - CORPORATE BONDS - 0.1%

       

Industrial - 0.1%

       

Energy - 0.1%

       

Petrobras Global Finance BV

       

6.125%, 1/17/22

     9          9,662  

8.75%, 5/23/26

     5          6,018  
       

 

 

 

Total Emerging Markets - Corporate Bonds
(cost $13,926)

          15,680  
       

 

 

 

EMERGING MARKETS - SOVEREIGNS - 0.1%

       

Argentina - 0.1%

       

Argentine Republic Government International Bond

       

5.625%, 1/26/22

(cost $6,000)

     6          6,300  
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 1.9%

       

Investment Companies - 1.9%

       

AB Fixed Income Shares, Inc.-Government Money Market Portfolio-Class AB,
0.83% (a)(b)(g)
(cost $203,289)

     203,289          203,289  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 103.3%
(cost $10,863,420) (h)

          10,957,890  

Other assets less liabilities - (3.3) % (i)

          (353,537
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 10,604,353  
       

 

 

 

FUTURES

 

Description

   Number
of
Contracts
     Expiration
Month
     Notional
(000)
     Original
Value
     Value at
September 30,
2017
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Purchased Contracts

                    

10 Yr Mini Japan Government Bond Futures

     7        December 2017        JPY        70,000      $ 939,748      $ 935,490      $ (4,258

Sold Contracts

                    

Euro-BOBL Futures

     1        December 2017        EUR        100        155,715        155,042        673  

Euro-Schatz Futures

     1        December 2017        EUR        100        132,572        132,526        46  

U.S. 10 Yr Ultra Futures

     1        December 2017        USD        100        135,920        134,328        1,592  


Description

   Number
of
Contracts
     Expiration
Month
     Notional
(000)
     Original
Value
     Value at
September 30,
2017
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

U.S. T-Note 5 Yr (CBT) Futures

     2        December 2017        USD        200      $ 236,380      $ 235,000      $ 1,380  
                    

 

 

 
                     $ (567
                    

 

 

 

FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
       In Exchange
For
(000)
       Settlement
Date
       Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Barclays Bank PLC

   KRW      124,657        USD      112          10/26/17        $ 2,701  

Barclays Bank PLC

   TWD      2,536        USD      84          11/22/17          (65

Barclays Bank PLC

   USD      85        TWD      2,544          11/22/17          (840

BNP Paribas SA

   GBP      596        USD      807          12/01/17          7,509  

Credit Suisse International

   BRL      334        USD      105          10/03/17          (579

Credit Suisse International

   USD      105        BRL      334          10/03/17          28  

Standard Chartered Bank

   BRL      334        USD      105          10/03/17          (28

Standard Chartered Bank

   USD      105        BRL      334          10/03/17          788  

Standard Chartered Bank

   BRL      334        USD      104          11/03/17          (756

Standard Chartered Bank

   USD      24        RUB      1,409          11/22/17          (114

Standard Chartered Bank

   CNY      440        USD      67          11/28/17          758  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   EUR      1,027        USD      1,182          10/04/17          (31,654

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   CAD      28        MXN      402          10/06/17          (468

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   MXN      3,615        USD      201          10/06/17          2,984  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      64        MXN      1,137          10/06/17          (1,611

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      49        TRY      172          10/17/17          (1,417

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   CAD      847        USD      676          11/10/17          (2,938

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      38        CAD      46          11/10/17          (747

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   AUD      317        USD      253          11/30/17          4,542  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   NZD      97        USD      71          11/30/17          363  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   NZD      57        USD      41          11/30/17          (31

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      86        AUD      110          11/30/17          74  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      205        GBP      151          12/01/17          (2,616

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   JPY      1,793        USD      16          12/05/17          165  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   ZAR      579        USD      43          12/07/17          719  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   SEK      506        USD      63          12/13/17          673  
                          

 

 

 
     $ (22,560
                          

 

 

 


CENTRALLY CLEARED CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS

 

Description

  Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Payment
Frequency
    Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30,2017
    Notional
Amount
(000)
    Market
Value
    Upfront
Premiums
Paid
(Received)
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Sale Contracts

 

     

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC/(INTRCONX)

 

     

CDX-NAHY Series 28, 5 Year Index, 6/20/22*

    5.00     Quarterly       3.14     USD       9     $ 706     $ 547     $ 159  

CDX-NAHY Series 29, 5 Year Index, 12/20/22*

    5.00       Quarterly       3.26       USD       200       15,927       14,976       951  

CDX-NAIG Series 28, 5 Year Index, 6/20/22*

    1.00       Quarterly       0.53       USD       1,100       23,517       15,738       7,779  
           

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 
            $ 40,150     $ 31,261     $ 8,889  
           

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* Termination date

CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS

 

Swap Counterparty & Referenced Obligation

  Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Payment
Frequency
    Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30, 2017
    Notional
Amount
(000)
    Market
Value
    Upfront
Premiums
Paid
(Received)
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Sale Contracts

               

Bank of America, NA

               

CDX-EM Series 23, 5 Year Index, 6/20/20*

    1.00     Quarterly       2.14     USD       147     $ (4,276   $ (6,849   $ 2,573  

Barclays Bank PLC

               

CDX-CMBX.NA.BB Series 6, 5/11/63*

    5.00       Monthly       11.72       USD       6       (1,452     (99     (1,353

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 7, 1/17/47*

    3.00       Monthly       5.23       USD       100       (11,012     (588     (10,424

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

               

CDX-CMBX.NA.BB Series 6, 5/11/63*

    5.00       Monthly       11.72       USD       6       (1,451     (102     (1,349

Goldman Sachs International

               

CDX-CMBX.NA.BB Series 6, 5/11/63*

    5.00       Monthly       11.72       USD       11       (2,661     (198     (2,463

CDX-CMBX.NA.BB Series 6, 5/11/63*

    5.00       Monthly       11.72       USD       12       (2,903     (191     (2,712
           

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 
            $ (23,755   $ (8,027   $ (15,728
           

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* Termination date

 

(a) Affiliated investments.
(b) To obtain a copy of the fund’s shareholder report, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AB at (800) 227-4618.


(c) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered restricted, but liquid and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At September 30, 2017, the aggregate market value of these securities amounted to $1,866,473 or 17.6% of net assets.
(d) Securities are perpetual and, thus, do not have a predetermined maturity date. The date shown, if applicable, reflects the next call date.
(e) Floating Rate Security. Stated interest/floor rate was in effect at September 30, 2017.
(f) Security in which significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) were used in determining fair value.
(g) The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(h) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $201,908 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(137,404), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $64,504.
(i) An amount of U.S. $11,048 has been segregated to collateralize margin requirements for the open futures contracts at September 30, 2017.

Currency Abbreviations:

 

ARS    -    Argentine Peso
AUD    -    Australian Dollar
BRL    -    Brazilian Real
CAD    -    Canadian Dollar
CNY    -    Chinese Yuan Renminbi
EUR    -    Euro
GBP    -    Great British Pound
JPY    -    Japanese Yen
KRW    -    South Korean Won
MXN    -    Mexican Peso
NZD    -    New Zealand Dollar
RUB    -    Russian Ruble
SEK    -    Swedish Krona
TRY    -    Turkish Lira
TWD    -    New Taiwan Dollar
USD    -    United States Dollar
UYU    -    Uruguayan Peso
ZAR    -    South African Rand

Glossary:

 

ARPP7DRR

   -    Argentina Central Bank 7-Day Repo Reference Rate

BOBL

   -    Bundesobligationen

CBT

   -    Chicago Board of Trade

CDX-CMBX.NA

   -    North American Commercial Mortgage-Backed Index

CDX-NAHY

   -    North American High Yield Credit Default Swap Index

CDX-NAIG

   -    North American Investment Grade Credit Default Swap Index

CMBS

   -    Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities

INTRCONX

   -    Inter-Continental Exchange

LIBOR

   -    London Interbank Offered Rates

OAT

   -    Obligations Assimilables du Trésor

REIT

   -    Real Estate Investment Trust

TBA

   -    To Be Announced

TIPS

   -    Treasury Inflation Protected Security

Country Breakdown1

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

  68.9%       

United States

  5.5%       

Italy

  5.5%       

Canada

  5.3%       

United Kingdom

  2.0%       

Mexico

  1.7%       

Belgium

  1.5%       

Spain

  1.4%       

Germany

  1.1%       

Brazil

  1.1%       

France

  1.0%       

Australia

  0.6%       

New Zealand

  0.6%       

Sweden

  1.9%       

Other

  1.9%       

Short-Term

 

 

      
  100.0%       

Total Investments

 

 

      

 

1 All data are as of September 30, 2017. The Portfolio’s country breakdown is expressed as a percentage of total investments and may vary over time. “Other” country weightings represent 0.4% or less in the following countries: Argentina, Israel, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey and Uruguay.


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Global Bond Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Valuations of mortgage-backed or other asset backed securities, by pricing vendors, are based on both proprietary and industry recognized models and discounted cash flow techniques. Significant inputs to the valuation of these instruments are value of the collateral, the rates and timing of delinquencies, the rates and timing of prepayments, and default and loss expectations, which are driven in part by housing prices for residential mortgages. Significant inputs are determined based on relative value analyses, which incorporate comparisons to instruments with similar collateral and risk profiles, including relevant indices. Mortgage and asset backed securities for which management has collected current observable data through pricing services are generally categorized within Level 2. Those investments for which current observable data has not been provided are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Investment Companies

   $     5,411,137     $ – 0  –    $             – 0  –    $     5,411,137  

Governments - Treasuries

     – 0  –          3,439,480       – 0  –      3,439,480  

Corporates - Investment Grade

     – 0  –      435,325       – 0  –      435,325  

Inflation-Linked Securities

     – 0  –      355,906       – 0  –      355,906  

Governments - Sovereign Agencies

     – 0  –      291,390       – 0  –      291,390  

Mortgage Pass-Throughs

     – 0  –      274,228       – 0  –      274,228  

Local Governments - Provincial Bonds

     – 0  –      138,521       – 0  –      138,521  

Collateralized Mortgage Obligations

     – 0  –      128,850       – 0  –      128,850  


Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Emerging Markets - Treasuries

   $ – 0  –    $ 111,441     $ – 0  –    $ 111,441  

Corporates - Non-Investment Grade

     – 0  –      110,511       – 0  –      110,511  

Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities

     – 0  –      – 0  –      19,829       19,829  

Quasi-Sovereigns

     – 0  –      16,003       – 0  –      16,003  

Emerging Markets - Corporate Bonds

     – 0  –      15,680       – 0  –      15,680  

Emerging Markets - Sovereigns

     – 0  –      6,300       – 0  –      6,300  

Short-Term Investments

     203,289       – 0  –      – 0  –      203,289  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     5,614,426       5,323,635       19,829       10,957,890  

Other Financial Instruments (a):

        

Assets:

 

Futures

     3,691       – 0  –      – 0  –      3,691  

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      21,304       – 0  –      21,304  

Centrally Cleared Credit Default Swaps

     – 0  –      40,150       – 0  –      40,150  

Liabilities:

 

Futures

     (4,258     – 0  –      – 0  –      (4,258

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (43,864     – 0  –      (43,864

Credit Default Swaps

     – 0  –      (23,755     – 0  –      (23,755
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (b)

   $     5,613,859     $     5,317,470     $     19,829     $     10,951,158  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument. Other financial instruments may also include credit default swaps which are valued at market value.

 

(b) There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

The following is a reconciliation of investments in which significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) were used in determining fair value.

 

     Commercial
Mortgage-Backed
Securities
    Total  

Balance as of 12/31/16

   $ 21,371     $ 21,371  

Accrued discounts/(premiums)

     2       2  

Realized gain (loss)

     (44     (44

Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     (274     (274

Purchases/Payups

     – 0  –      – 0  – 

Sales/Paydowns

     (1,226     (1,226

Transfers in to Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  – 

Transfers out of Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance as of 9/30/17

   $     19,829     $     19,829  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation from investments held as of 9/30/17

   $ (274   $ (274
  

 

 

   

 

 

 


The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

 

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

 

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is as follows:

 

        Distributions  

Fund

   Market Value
12/31/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
    Realized
Gain
(Loss)
(000)
    Change in
Unrealized
Appr./(Depr.)
(000)
    Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
     Dividend
Income
(000)
     Realized
Gains
(000)
 

AB Government Money Market

   $ 301      $ 2,118      $ 2,216     $         – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ 203      $ 2      $         – 0  – 

AB Global Bond Fund, Inc.

     5,267        100        – 0  –      – 0  –      44       5,411        101        – 0  – 
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $     5,568      $     2,218      $     2,216     $ – 0  –    $     44     $     5,614      $     103      $ – 0  – 
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Global Risk Allocation-Moderate Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares      U.S. $ Value  

INVESTMENT COMPANIES - 34.6%

     

Funds and Investment Trusts - 34.6% (a)

     

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF

     76,670      $         4,919,914  

iShares Core S&P 500 ETF

     23,730        6,002,029  

iShares MSCI EAFE ETF

     90,720        6,212,506  

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

     36,660        1,642,735  

iShares Russell 2000 ETF

     11,040        1,635,907  

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

     21,700        5,451,691  

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF

     26,920        6,212,059  
     

 

 

 

Total Investment Companies
(cost $27,506,552)

        32,076,841  
     

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
        

INFLATION-LINKED SECURITIES - 4.0%

     

United States - 4.0%

     

U.S. Treasury Inflation Index
0.375%, 7/15/25 (TIPS)
(cost $3,762,198)

   $ 3,731        3,731,475  
     

 

 

 
     Notional
Amount
        

OPTIONS PURCHASED - CALLS – 0.1%

     

Options on Indices – 0.1%

     

Euro STOXX 50 Index

     

Expiration: Oct 2017; Contracts: 540; Exercise Price: EUR 3,600.00;
Counterparty: Deutsche Bank AG (b)

     EUR               540        14,557  

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

     

Expiration: Nov 2017; Contracts: 139,200; Exercise Price: USD 47.00;
Counterparty: Deutsche Bank AG (b)

     USD        139,200        25,022  
     

 

 

 
        39,579  
     

 

 

 

Options on Funds and Investment Trusts – 0.0%

     

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

     

Expiration: Oct 2017; Contracts: 390; Exercise Price: USD 253.00;
Counterparty: Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. (b)

     USD               390        31,785  
     

 

 

 

Total Options Purchased - Calls
(premiums paid $85,744)

        71,364  
     

 

 

 

OPTIONS PURCHASED - PUTS – 0.0%

     

Options on Funds and Investment Trusts – 0.0%

     

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

     

Expiration: Oct 2017; Contracts: 411; Exercise Price: USD 244.00;
Counterparty: Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. (b)

     USD          41,100        16,029  
     

 

 

 

Options on Indices – 0.0%

     

Euro STOXX 50 Index

     

Expiration: Oct 2017; Contracts: 460; Exercise Price: EUR 3,350.00;
Counterparty: Goldman Sachs International (b)

     EUR               460        1,591  


Company

   Notional
Amount
     U.S. $ Value  

Euro STOXX 50 Index

     

Expiration: Oct 2017; Contracts: 890; Exercise Price: EUR 3,425.00;
Counterparty: Deutsche Bank AG (b)

     EUR               890      $              5,867  

FTSE 100 Index

     

Expiration: Oct 2017; Contracts: 120; Exercise Price: GBP 7,050.00;
Counterparty: Deutsche Bank AG (b)

     GBP               120        1,071  

Nikkei 225 Index

     

Expiration: Oct 2017; Contracts: 9,000; Exercise Price: JPY 18,750.00;
Counterparty: Morgan Stanley & Co. International PLC (b)

     JPY             9,000        656  
     

 

 

 
        9,185  
     

 

 

 

Total Options Purchased - Puts
(premiums paid $130,608)

        25,214  
     

 

 

 
     Shares         

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 58.9%

     

Investment Companies - 26.5%

     

AB Fixed Income Shares, Inc. - Government
Money Market Portfolio - Class AB, 0.83% (a)(c)(d)
(cost $24,532,294)

     24,532,294        24,532,294  
     

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
        

Governments - Treasuries - 21.7%

     

Japan - 21.7%

     

Japan Treasury Discount Bill

     

Series 707

     

Zero Coupon, 12/11/17

     JPY        286,000        2,542,652  

Series 710

     

Zero Coupon, 12/25/17

     1,980,000        17,600,443  
     

 

 

 

Total Governments - Treasuries
(cost $20,276,983)

        20,143,095  
     

 

 

 

U.S. Treasury Bills – 10.7%

     

U.S. Treasury Bill Zero Coupon, 10/05/17-12/28/17
(cost $9,929,627)

   $                  9,944        9,929,627  
     

 

 

 

Total Short-Term Investments
(cost $54,738,904)

            54,605,016  
     

 

 

 


     U.S. $ Value  

Total Investments - 97.6%
(cost $86,224,006)(e)

   $     90,509,910  

Other assets less liabilities - 2.4%(f)

     2,258,377  
  

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

   $ 92,768,287  
  

 

 

 

FUTURES

 

Description

   Number
of
Contracts
     Expiration
Month
     Notional
(000)
    Original
Value
     Value at
September 30,
2017
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Purchased Contracts

                   

10 Yr Australian Bond Futures

     12        December 2017        AUD        1,200     $ 1,215,965      $ 1,195,819      $ (20,146

10 Yr Canadian Bond Futures

     4        December 2017        CAD        400       440,898        433,741        (7,157

Euro STOXX 50 Index Futures

     193        December 2017        EUR        2       7,963,207        8,157,098        193,891  

Euro-BTP Futures

     13        December 2017        EUR        1,300       2,091,001        2,073,621        (17,380

Euro-OAT Futures

     13        December 2017        EUR        1,300       2,399,831        2,383,680        (16,151

FTSE 100 Index Futures

     21        December 2017        GBP        0 **      2,078,236        2,062,520        (15,716

Long Gilt Futures

     4        December 2017        GBP        400       679,170        663,997        (15,173

Nikkei 225 (CME) Futures

     16        December 2017        USD        0 **      1,588,525        1,630,800        42,275  

S&P 500 E Mini Futures

     95        December 2017        USD        5       11,707,768        11,951,475        243,707  

S&P TSX 60 Index Futures

     5        December 2017        CAD        1       703,212        736,285        33,073  

SPI 200 Futures

     7        December 2017        AUD        0 **      782,728        778,046        (4,682

TOPIX Index Futures

     18        December 2017        JPY        180       2,560,506        2,679,405        118,899  

U.S. T-Note 10 Yr (CBT) Futures

     24        December 2017        USD        2,400       3,039,408        3,007,500        (31,908

U.S. Ultra Bond (CBT) Futures

     3        December 2017        USD        300       501,122        495,375        (5,747

Sold Contracts

                   

Euro-Bund Futures

     26        December 2017        EUR        2,600       4,976,898        4,947,742        29,156  
                   

 

 

 
              $ 526,941  
                   

 

 

 

FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
   Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Bank of America, NA

     JPY        286,146        USD        2,659      12/22/17    $ 105,786  

Barclays Bank PLC

     JPY        322,496        USD        2,976      12/18/17      99,545  

Citibank, NA

     JPY        1,892,104        USD        17,071      1/09/18      170,811  

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     CHF        866        USD        911      12/18/17      12,484  

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     JPY        88,427        USD        798      1/09/18      8,319  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     HKD        1,141        USD        146      12/18/17      (137

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     SGD        190        USD        141      12/18/17      448  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        3,377        EUR        2,812      12/18/17      (39,605

UBS AG

     AUD        1,080        USD        859      12/18/17      12,953  

UBS AG

     GBP        1,990        USD        2,606      12/18/17      (66,715

UBS AG

     USD        834        GBP        637      12/18/17      21,355  
                 

 

 

 
   $ 325,244  
                 

 

 

 


PUT OPTIONS WRITTEN

 

Description

  

Counterparty

   Contracts      Exercise
Price
     Expiration
Month
     Notional
(000)
    Premiums
Received
     U.S. $
Value
 

Euro STOXX 50 Index

   Goldman Sachs International      460        EUR        3,225        October 2017        EUR        0 **    $ 18,723      $ (545

Euro STOXX 50 Index

   Deutsche Bank AG      540        EUR        3,275        October 2017        EUR        1       5,064        (963

Euro STOXX 50 Index

   Deutsche Bank AG      890        EUR        3,300        October 2017        EUR        1       9,622        (1,974

FTSE 100 Index

   Deutsche Bank AG      120        GBP        6,800        October 2017        GBP        0 **      2,364        (441

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

   Deutsche Bank AG      139,200        USD        41.50        November 2017        USD        139       57,072        (33,099

Nikkei 225 Index

   Morgan Stanley & Co. International PLC      9,000        JPY        18,000        October 2017        JPY        9       10,242        (183

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

   Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.      801        USD        237.00        October 2017        USD        80       47,224        (14,418
                      

 

 

    

 

 

 
                       $ 150,311      $ (51,623
                      

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

** Notional amount less than 500.
(a) To obtain a copy of the fund’s shareholder report, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov. Additionally, shareholder reports for AB funds can be obtained by calling AB at (800) 227-4618.
(b) Non-income producing security.
(c) Affiliated investments.
(d) The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(e) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $5,787,489 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(550,711), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $5,236,778.
(f) An amount of U.S. $1,545,208 has been segregated to collateralize margin requirements for the open futures contracts at September 30, 2017.

Currency Abbreviations:

 

AUD       Australian Dollar   
CAD       Canadian Dollar   
CHF       Swiss Franc   
EUR       Euro   
GBP       Great British Pound   
HKD       Hong Kong Dollar   
JPY       Japanese Yen   
SGD       Singapore Dollar   
USD       United States Dollar   

 

Glossary:

 

  
BTP       Buoni del Tesoro Poliennali   
CBT       Chicago Board of Trade   
CME       Chicago Mercantile Exchange   
EAFE       Europe, Australia, and Far East   
ETF       Exchange Traded Fund   
FTSE       Financial Times Stock Exchange   
MSCI       Morgan Stanley Capital International   
OAT       Obligations Assimilables du Trésor   
OSE       Osaka Securities Exchange   
SPDR       Standard & Poor’s Depository Receipt   
SPI       Share Price Index   
TIPS       Treasury Inflation Protected  Security   
TOPIX       Tokyo Price Index   
TSX       Toronto Stock Exchange   

COUNTRY BREAKDOWN 1

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

  39.7%       

United States

  60.3%       

Short-Term

 

 

      
  100.0%       

 

 

      

 

1 All data are as of September 30, 2017. The Fund’s country breakdown is expressed as a percentage of total investments and may vary over time.


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Global Risk Allocation-Moderate Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Options are valued using market-based inputs to models, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency, where such inputs and models are available. Alternatively the values may be obtained through unobservable management determined inputs and/or management’s proprietary models. Where models are used, the selection of a particular model to value an option depends upon the contractual terms of, and specific risks inherent in, the option as well as the availability of pricing information in the market. Valuation models require a variety of inputs, including contractual terms, market prices, measures of volatility and correlations of such inputs. Exchange traded options generally will be classified as Level 2. For options that do not trade on exchange but trade in liquid markets, inputs can generally be verified and model selection does not involve significant management judgment. Options are classified within Level 2 on the fair value hierarchy when all of the significant inputs can be corroborated to market evidence. Otherwise such instruments are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Investment Companies

   $ 32,076,841     $ – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ 32,076,841  

Inflation-Linked Securities

     – 0  –      3,731,475       – 0  –      3,731,475  

Options Purchased - Calls

     – 0  –      71,364       – 0  –      71,364  

Options Purchased - Puts

     – 0  –      25,214       – 0  –      25,214  

Short-Term Investments:

        

Investment Companies

     24,532,294       – 0  –      – 0  –      24,532,294  


Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Governments - Treasuries

     – 0  –      20,143,095       – 0  –      20,143,095  

U.S. Treasury Bills

     – 0  –      9,929,627       – 0  –      9,929,627  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     56,609,135       33,900,775       – 0  –      90,509,910  

Other Financial Instruments (a):

        

Assets:

        

Futures

     348,211       312,790       – 0  –      661,001  

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      431,701       – 0  –      431,701  

Liabilities:

        

Futures

     (113,662     (20,398     – 0  –      (134,060

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (106,457     – 0  –      (106,457

Put Options Written

     – 0  –      (51,623     – 0  –      (51,623
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (b)

   $ 56,730,022     $ 34,236,687     $     – 0  –    $ 90,966,709  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument. Other financial instruments may also include options written which are valued at market value.
(b) There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is as follows:

 

Fund

   Market  Value
12/31/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
     Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
     Dividend
Income
(000)
 

Government Money Market

   $ 36,333      $ 32,089      $ 43,890      $ 24,532      $ 124  


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Global Thematic Growth Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 94.6%

       

Information Technology - 21.7%

       

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 1.2%

       

Flex Ltd. (a)

     104,150        $ 1,725,766  
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 7.7%

       

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Sponsored ADR) (a)

     19,270          3,328,122  

Alphabet, Inc.-Class C (a)

     2,567          2,462,035  

Facebook, Inc.-Class A (a)

     14,650          2,503,245  

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

     57,200          2,500,823  
       

 

 

 
            10,794,225  
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 2.0%

       

Visa, Inc.-Class A

     25,950          2,730,978  
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 6.7%

       

ams AG (a)

     28,230          2,049,768  

Broadcom Ltd.

     9,970          2,418,124  

Infineon Technologies AG

     100,880          2,543,427  

NVIDIA Corp.

     12,968          2,318,290  
       

 

 

 
          9,329,609  
       

 

 

 

Software - 3.1%

       

Microsoft Corp.

     34,400          2,562,456  

salesforce.com, Inc. (a)

     18,052          1,686,418  
       

 

 

 
          4,248,874  
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 1.0%

       

Apple, Inc.

     9,145          1,409,427  
       

 

 

 
          30,238,879  
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 19.7%

       

Biotechnology - 2.1%

       

Foundation Medicine, Inc. (a)(b)

     40,531          1,629,346  

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

     2,890          1,292,177  
       

 

 

 
          2,921,523  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 7.2%

       

Abbott Laboratories

     58,270          3,109,287  

Danaher Corp.

     28,800          2,470,464  

Essilor International SA

     17,737          2,198,280  

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.

     24,360          2,344,893  
       

 

 

 
          10,122,924  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 3.2%

       

Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.

     114,018          1,756,747  

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

     14,200          2,781,070  
       

 

 

 
          4,537,817  
       

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 5.3%

       

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.-Class A (a)

     11,960          2,657,751  

Bruker Corp.

     79,770          2,373,158  

ICON PLC (a)

     20,250          2,306,070  
       

 

 

 
          7,336,979  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Pharmaceuticals - 1.9%

       

Roche Holding AG

     7,170        $ 1,832,797  

Vectura Group PLC (a)

     538,730          768,099  
       

 

 

 
          2,600,896  
       

 

 

 
          27,520,139  
       

 

 

 

Financials - 19.1%

       

Banks - 5.7%

       

Bank Mandiri Persero Tbk PT

     3,421,000          1,709,575  

Credicorp Ltd.

     7,300          1,496,646  

HDFC Bank Ltd.

     51,450          1,430,707  

Svenska Handelsbanken AB-Class A

     114,700          1,732,922  

Swedbank AB-Class A

     59,540          1,648,752  
       

 

 

 
          8,018,602  
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 6.0%

       

Charles Schwab Corp. (The)

     58,750          2,569,725  

MSCI, Inc.-Class A

     28,590          3,342,171  

Partners Group Holding AG

     3,680          2,498,344  
       

 

 

 
          8,410,240  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Finance - 1.3%

       

Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd. (a)

     126,480          1,837,561  
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 3.6%

       

AIA Group Ltd.

     437,800          3,241,164  

Prudential PLC

     74,570          1,784,497  
       

 

 

 
          5,025,661  
       

 

 

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 2.5%

       

Housing Development Finance Corp., Ltd.

     129,360          3,429,425  
       

 

 

 
            26,721,489  
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 14.4%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 2.3%

       

Hexcel Corp.

     54,429          3,125,313  
       

 

 

 

Building Products - 2.5%

       

Kingspan Group PLC

     82,570          3,511,271  
       

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 1.4%

       

China Everbright International Ltd.

     1,554,000          1,958,247  
       

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 4.3%

       

Schneider Electric SE (Paris) (a)

     30,690          2,672,516  

Vestas Wind Systems A/S

     36,380          3,270,043  
       

 

 

 
          5,942,559  
       

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 1.9%

       

Siemens AG (REG)

     19,010          2,682,489  
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 2.0%

       

Xylem, Inc./NY

     45,030          2,820,229  
       

 

 

 
          20,040,108  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Consumer Discretionary - 6.1%

       

Auto Components - 1.9%

       

Delphi Automotive PLC

     26,680        $ 2,625,312  
       

 

 

 

Diversified Consumer Services - 1.0%

       

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. (a)

     15,920          1,372,463  
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.1%

       

Starbucks Corp.

     29,020          1,558,664  
       

 

 

 

Internet & Direct Marketing Retail - 1.0%

       

Amazon.com, Inc. (a)

     1,453          1,396,842  
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 1.1%

       

NIKE, Inc.-Class B

     30,560          1,584,536  
       

 

 

 
          8,537,817  
       

 

 

 

Utilities - 4.9%

       

Water Utilities - 4.9%

       

American Water Works Co., Inc.

     38,929          3,149,745  

AquaVenture Holdings Ltd. (a)(b)

     31,241          421,754  

Beijing Enterprises Water Group Ltd. (a)

     2,596,000          2,099,461  

Cia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo

     107,800          1,132,748  
       

 

 

 
          6,803,708  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 3.1%

       

Food Products - 1.7%

       

Nestle SA (REG)

     27,620          2,318,457  

Household Products - 1.4%

       

Unicharm Corp.

     87,700          2,008,801  
       

 

 

 
          4,327,258  
       

 

 

 

Real Estate - 2.2%

       

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 1.3%

       

SBA Communications Corp. (a)

     12,170          1,753,089  
       

 

 

 

Real Estate Management & Development - 0.9%

       

SM Prime Holdings, Inc.

     1,914,100          1,299,435  
       

 

 

 
          3,052,524  
       

 

 

 

Materials - 2.0%

       

Chemicals - 2.0%

       

Ecolab, Inc.

     21,690          2,789,551  
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 1.4%

       

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 1.4%

       

Telekomunikasi Indonesia Persero Tbk PT

     5,604,500          1,949,129  
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $95,390,268)

          131,980,602  
       

 

 

 

WARRANTS - 0.0%

       

Information Technology - 0.0%

       

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 0.0%

       

Thin Film Electronics ASA, expiring 7/14/18 (a)(c)(d)(e)
(cost $0)

     591,845          0  
       

 

 

 


     Principal
Amount

(000)
     U.S. $ Value  

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 5.5%

     

Time Deposit - 5.5%

     

State Street Time Deposit
0.12%, 10/02/17
(cost $7,690,312)

   U.S.$ 7,690      $ 7,690,312  
     

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities Loaned - 100.1%
(cost $103,080,580)

        139,670,914  
     

 

 

 
     Shares         

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 0.0%

 

  

Investment Companies - 0.0%

     

AB Fixed Income Shares, Inc.-Government Money Market Portfolio-Class AB,
0.83% (f)(g)(h)
(cost $17,115)

     17,115        17,115  
     

 

 

 

Total Investments - 100.1%
(cost $103,097,695) (i)

        139,688,029  

Other assets less liabilities - (0.1)%

        (114,571
     

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

      $ 139,573,458  
     

 

 

 

FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Bank of America, NA

     USD        125        KRW        143,694        10/26/17      $ 168  

Bank of America, NA

     USD        683        CNY        4,551        11/16/17        475  

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD        1,720        TWD        51,428        11/22/17        (23,521

Barclays Bank PLC

     INR        433,571        USD        6,719        11/29/17        129,451  

Barclays Bank PLC

     CNY        2,716        USD        405        12/18/17        (1,696

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD        2,661        CAD        3,296        12/18/17        (17,877

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD        8,398        JPY        909,993        12/18/17        (280,891

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD        521        MXN        9,452        12/18/17        (8,565

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD        178        TWD        5,354        12/18/17        (1,193

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD        888        ZAR        11,647        12/18/17        (38,546

Citibank, NA

     USD        501        RUB        28,928        11/22/17        (3,755

Deutsche Bank AG

     USD        1,578        GBP        1,229        12/18/17        72,647  

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     EUR        1,261        USD        1,513        12/18/17        15,920  

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     HKD        12,558        USD        1,609        12/18/17        (1,475

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     CHF        2,979        USD        3,135        12/18/17        42,944  

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     EUR        531        USD        630        12/18/17        77  

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     JPY        102,517        USD        924        12/18/17        9,905  

Standard Chartered Bank

     USD        2,296        KRW        2,600,641        10/26/17        (24,201

Standard Chartered Bank

     CNY        35,129        USD        5,355        11/16/17        83,068  

Standard Chartered Bank

     INR        19,722        USD        304        11/29/17        4,732  

Standard Chartered Bank

     USD        2,541        AUD        3,193        12/18/17        (38,910

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     CHF        118        USD        123        12/18/17        677  


Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     EUR        500        USD        599        12/18/17      $ 5,402  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     SEK        5,855        USD        739        12/18/17        17,377  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        492        CAD        617        12/18/17        2,273  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        418        CHF        403        12/18/17        662  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        249        GBP        186        12/18/17        469  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        195        JPY        21,925        12/18/17        152  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        285        NOK        2,208        12/18/17        (6,928

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        187        ZAR        2,514        12/18/17        (3,384

UBS AG

     USD        3,473        GBP        2,652        12/18/17        88,908  
                 

 

 

 
   $ 24,365  
                 

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Illiquid security.
(d) Fair valued by the Adviser.
(e) Security in which significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) were used in determining fair value.
(f) Affiliated investments.
(g) The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(h) To obtain a copy of the fund’s shareholder report, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AB at (800) 227-4618.
(i) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $38,098,573 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(1,483,874), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $36,614,699.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.

Currency Abbreviations:

 

AUD    -    Australian Dollar
CAD    -    Canadian Dollar
CHF    -    Swiss Franc
CNY    -    Chinese Yuan Renminbi
EUR    -    Euro
GBP    -    Great British Pound
HKD    -    Hong Kong Dollar
INR    -    Indian Rupee
JPY    -    Japanese Yen
KRW    -    South Korean Won
MXN    -    Mexican Peso
NOK    -    Norwegian Krone
RUB    -    Russian Ruble
SEK    -    Swedish Krona
TWD    -    New Taiwan Dollar
USD    -    United States Dollar
ZAR    -    South African Rand


Glossary:

 

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt
REG    -    Registered Shares

Country Breakdown1

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

  49.6%       

United States

  7.1%       

China

  6.1%       

India

  4.8%       

Switzerland

  3.8%       

Germany

  3.5%       

France

  2.6%       

Indonesia

  2.5%       

Ireland

  2.4%       

Sweden

  2.3%       

Denmark

  2.3%       

Hong Kong

  1.8%       

United Kingdom

  1.5%       

Austria

  4.2%       

Other

  5.5%       

Short-Term

 

 

      
  100.0%       

Total Investments

 

 

      

 

1 All data are as of September 30, 2017. The Portfolio’s country breakdown is expressed as a percentage of total investments and may vary over time. “Other” country weightings represent 1.4% or less in the following countries: Brazil, Japan, Norway, Peru and Philippines.


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Global Thematic Growth Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks

        

Information Technology

   $ 23,144,861     $ 7,094,018     $ – 0  –    $ 30,238,879  

Health Care

     21,732,315       5,787,824       – 0  –      27,520,139  

Financials

     7,408,542       19,312,947       – 0  –      26,721,489  

Industrials

     9,456,813       10,583,295       – 0  –      20,040,108  

Consumer Discretionary

     8,537,817       – 0  –      – 0  –      8,537,817  

Utilities

     4,704,247       2,099,461       – 0  –      6,803,708  

Consumer Staples

     – 0  –      4,327,258       – 0  –      4,327,258  

Real Estate

     1,753,089       1,299,435       – 0  –      3,052,524  

Materials

     2,789,551       – 0  –      – 0  –      2,789,551  

Telecommunication Services

     – 0  –      1,949,129       – 0  –      1,949,129  

Warrants

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –(a)      – 0  – 

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      7,690,312       – 0  –      7,690,312  

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     17,115       – 0  –      – 0  –      17,115  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     79,544,350       60,143,679 (b)      – 0  –      139,688,029  

Other Financial Instruments (c):

        

Assets:

        

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      475,307       – 0  –      475,307  

Liabilities:

        

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (450,942     – 0  –      (450,942
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (d)

   $     79,544,350     $     60,168,044     $             –0  –    $     139,712,394  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) The Portfolio held securities with zero market value at period end.
(b) A significant portion of the Portfolio’s foreign equity investments are categorized as Level 2 investments since they are valued using fair value prices based on third party vendor modeling tools to the extent available.
(c) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument.
(d) There were de minimis transfers under 1% of net assets from Level 1 to Level 2 during the reporting period.


The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

The following is a reconciliation of investments in which significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) were used in determining fair value.

 

     Warrants(a)     Total  

Balance as of 12/31/16

   $ – 0  –    $ – 0  – 

Accrued discounts/(premiums)

     – 0  –      – 0  – 

Realized gain (loss)

     – 0  –      – 0  – 

Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     – 0  –      – 0  – 

Purchases

     – 0  –      – 0  – 

Sales

     – 0  –      – 0  – 

Transfers in to Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  – 

Transfers out of Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance as of 9/30/17

   $ – 0  –    $ – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation from investments held as of 9/30/17

   $             – 0  –    $             – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) The Portfolio held securities with zero market value at period end.

The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is as follows:

 

Fund

   Market Value
12/31/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
     Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
     Dividend
Income
(000)
 

Government Money Market*

   $     4,544      $     24,019      $     28,546      $     17      $     12  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

* Investments of cash collateral for securities lending transactions


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Growth Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 95.6%

       

Information Technology - 35.3%

       

Communications Equipment - 0.7%

       

Arista Networks, Inc. (a)

     2,530        $ 479,713  
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 14.5%

       

Alphabet, Inc.-Class C (a)

     5,115          4,905,848  

CoStar Group, Inc. (a)

     1,990          533,818  

Facebook, Inc.-Class A (a)

     22,997          3,929,497  

Trade Desk, Inc. (The)-Class A (a)

     9,650          593,571  
       

 

 

 
          9,962,734  
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 6.0%

       

Fiserv, Inc. (a)

     8,520          1,098,739  

Visa, Inc.-Class A

     28,960          3,047,751  
       

 

 

 
          4,146,490  
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 4.6%

       

NVIDIA Corp.

     5,120          915,302  

Xilinx, Inc.

     31,560          2,235,395  
       

 

 

 
          3,150,697  
       

 

 

 

Software - 7.1%

       

Adobe Systems, Inc. (a)

     13,910          2,075,094  

Electronic Arts, Inc. (a)

     11,380          1,343,523  

HubSpot, Inc. (a)

     8,090          679,964  

ServiceNow, Inc. (a)

     4,047          475,644  

Splunk, Inc. (a)

     5,050          335,472  
       

 

 

 
          4,909,697  
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 2.4%

       

Apple, Inc.

     10,925          1,683,761  
       

 

 

 
          24,333,092  
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 19.6%

       

Biotechnology - 2.9%

       

Biogen, Inc. (a)

     6,424          2,011,483  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 7.8%

       

Align Technology, Inc. (a)

     2,363          440,156  

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (a)

     17,210          1,881,225  

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (a)

     2,150          2,248,642  

Nevro Corp. (a)

     8,510          773,389  
       

 

 

 
          5,343,412  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 4.7%

       

Teladoc, Inc. (a)(b)

     11,019          365,280  

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

     14,608          2,860,977  
       

 

 

 
          3,226,257  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Technology - 1.7%

       

Cerner Corp. (a)

     16,270          1,160,376  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Pharmaceuticals - 2.5%

       

Zoetis, Inc.

     27,410        $ 1,747,661  
       

 

 

 
          13,489,189  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 17.0%

       

Diversified Consumer Services - 2.2%

       

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. (a)

     11,160          962,103  

Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (a)

     5,890          534,930  
       

 

 

 
          1,497,033  
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 3.7%

       

Planet Fitness, Inc.

     60,070          1,620,689  

Starbucks Corp.

     17,610          945,833  
       

 

 

 
          2,566,522  
       

 

 

 

Internet & Direct Marketing Retail - 1.2%

       

Priceline Group, Inc. (The) (a)

     457          836,685  
       

 

 

 

Media - 1.3%

       

Comcast Corp.-Class A

     22,020          847,329  
       

 

 

 

Multiline Retail - 1.9%

       

Dollar Tree, Inc. (a)

     15,150          1,315,323  
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 4.5%

       

Home Depot, Inc. (The)

     14,959          2,446,694  

Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. (a)

     2,962          669,590  
       

 

 

 
          3,116,284  
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 2.2%

       

NIKE, Inc.-Class B

     29,452          1,527,086  
       

 

 

 
          11,706,262  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 9.9%

       

Beverages - 6.2%

       

Constellation Brands, Inc.-Class A

     10,110          2,016,439  

Monster Beverage Corp. (a)

     40,968          2,263,482  
       

 

 

 
          4,279,921  
       

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 3.1%

       

Costco Wholesale Corp.

     13,155          2,161,235  
       

 

 

 

Food Products - 0.6%

       

Blue Buffalo Pet Products, Inc. (a)

     14,070          398,885  
       

 

 

 
          6,840,041  
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 8.8%

       

Building Products - 2.9%

       

Allegion PLC

     9,030          780,824  

AO Smith Corp.

     10,450          621,044  

Lennox International, Inc.

     3,190          570,914  
       

 

 

 
          1,972,782  
       

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 1.5%

       

Copart, Inc. (a)

     30,680          1,054,472  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Industrial Conglomerates - 1.7%

       

Roper Technologies, Inc.

     4,860        $ 1,182,924  
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 2.2%

       

IDEX Corp.

     6,230          756,758  

WABCO Holdings, Inc. (a)

     5,220          772,560  
       

 

 

 
          1,529,318  
       

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 0.5%

       

Fastenal Co. (b)

     7,750          353,245  
       

 

 

 
          6,092,741  
       

 

 

 

Materials - 2.5%

       

Chemicals - 2.5%

       

Ecolab, Inc.

     7,000          900,270  

PolyOne Corp.

     21,150          846,635  
       

 

 

 
          1,746,905  
       

 

 

 

Financials - 2.5%

       

Capital Markets - 2.5%

       

MarketAxess Holdings, Inc.

     4,420          815,534  

S&P Global, Inc.

     5,780          903,472  
       

 

 

 
          1,719,006  
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $43,378,357)

          65,927,236  
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 4.7%

       

Time Deposit - 4.7%

       

State Street Bank & Trust Co.
0.12%, 10/02/17
(cost $3,227,820)

   $ 3,228          3,227,820  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities Loaned - 100.3%
(cost $46,606,177)

          69,155,056  
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 1.0%

       

Investment Companies - 1.0%

       

AB Fixed Income Shares, Inc.-Government Money Market Portfolio-Class AB,
0.83% (c)(d)(e)
(cost $731,449)

     731,449          731,449  
       

 

 

 


               U.S. $ Value  

Total Investments - 101.3%
(cost $47,337,626) (f)

        $ 69,886,505  

Other assets less liabilities - (1.3)%

          (920,544
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 68,965,961  
       

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Affiliated investments.
(d) The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(e) To obtain a copy of the fund’s shareholder report, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AB at (800) 227-4618.
(f) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $22,635,393 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(86,514), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $22,548,879.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Growth Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks (a)

   $ 65,927,236     $ – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ 65,927,236  

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      3,227,820       – 0  –      3,227,820  

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     731,449       – 0  –      – 0  –      731,449  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     66,658,685       3,227,820       – 0  –      69,886,505  

Other Financial Instruments (b)

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (c)

   $     66,658,685     $     3,227,820     $             – 0  –    $     69,886,505  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
(b) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument.
(c) There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is as follows:

 

Fund

   Market  Value
12/31/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
     Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
     Dividend
Income
(000)
 

AB Government Money Market*

   $ 684      $ 5,721      $ 5,674      $ 731      $ 2  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

* Investments of cash collateral for securities lending transactions


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Growth and Income Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 88.5%

       

Financials - 20.0%

       

Banks - 8.5%

       

Citigroup, Inc.

     390,400        $ 28,397,696  

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

     496,680          47,437,907  

Wells Fargo & Co.

     273,210          15,067,531  
       

 

 

 
          90,903,134  
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 4.4%

       

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)

     72,260          17,139,349  

Northern Trust Corp.

     105,380          9,687,583  

State Street Corp.

     161,870          15,465,060  

TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.

     105,700          5,158,160  
       

 

 

 
          47,450,152  
       

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services - 2.3%

       

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.-Class B (a)

     134,002          24,565,247  
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 4.8%

       

Allstate Corp. (The)

     164,950          15,160,554  

Axis Capital Holdings Ltd.

     164,973          9,454,603  

Chubb Ltd.

     63,310          9,024,841  

FNF Group

     174,700          8,291,262  

Validus Holdings Ltd.

     204,659          10,071,269  
       

 

 

 
          52,002,529  
       

 

 

 
             214,921,062  
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 17.2%

       

Biotechnology - 5.1%

       

Amgen, Inc.

     49,620          9,251,649  

Biogen, Inc. (a)

     75,950          23,781,464  

Gilead Sciences, Inc.

     266,780          21,614,516  
       

 

 

 
          54,647,629  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 1.6%

       

Hologic, Inc. (a)

     455,060          16,696,151  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 5.4%

       

Aetna, Inc.

     149,560          23,781,536  

Cigna Corp.

     133,670          24,988,270  

Quest Diagnostics, Inc.

     99,400          9,307,816  
       

 

 

 
          58,077,622  
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 5.1%

       

Eli Lilly & Co.

     285,660          24,435,356  

Pfizer, Inc.

     434,490          15,511,293  

Roche Holding AG (Sponsored ADR)

     463,700          14,838,400  
       

 

 

 
          54,785,049  
       

 

 

 
          184,206,451  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 13.7%

       

Auto Components - 0.4%

       

BorgWarner, Inc.

     87,410          4,478,014  
       

 

 

 

Household Durables - 2.6%

       

DR Horton, Inc.

     449,490          17,948,135  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Garmin Ltd.

     178,540        $ 9,635,804  
       

 

 

 
          27,583,939  
       

 

 

 

Media - 7.5%

       

AMC Networks, Inc.-Class A (a)

     105,560          6,172,093  

Comcast Corp.-Class A

     237,090          9,123,223  

Discovery Communications, Inc.-Class A (a)(b)

     1,190,810          25,352,345  

Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.-Class A

     73,250          6,291,443  

Time Warner, Inc.

     329,050          33,711,172  
       

 

 

 
          80,650,276  
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 1.9%

       

Ross Stores, Inc.

     318,340          20,555,214  
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 1.3%

       

Hanesbrands, Inc. (b)

     161,500          3,979,360  

VF Corp.

     152,050          9,665,819  
       

 

 

 
          13,645,179  
       

 

 

 
          146,912,622  
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 11.7%

       

Communications Equipment - 0.9%

       

Cisco Systems, Inc.

     285,430          9,599,011  
       

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 2.5%

       

Dolby Laboratories, Inc.-Class A

     333,170          19,163,938  

FLIR Systems, Inc.

     99,530          3,872,712  

TE Connectivity Ltd.

     50,030          4,155,492  
       

 

 

 
          27,192,142  
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 0.5%

       

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (a)

     106,929          5,209,581  
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 1.9%

       

International Business Machines Corp.

     56,220          8,156,398  

Mastercard, Inc.-Class A

     84,610          11,946,932  
       

 

 

 
          20,103,330  
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 3.3%

       

Ambarella, Inc. (a)(b)

     111,530          5,466,085  

Intel Corp.

     260,772          9,930,198  

Synaptics, Inc. (a)

     104,210          4,082,948  

Xilinx, Inc.

     222,700          15,773,841  
       

 

 

 
          35,253,072  
       

 

 

 

Software - 1.4%

       

VMware, Inc.-Class A (a)(b)

     135,250          14,767,948  
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 1.2%

       

Apple, Inc.

     85,545          13,184,195  
       

 

 

 
             125,309,279  
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 8.5%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 4.3%

       

Boeing Co. (The)

     28,940          7,356,837  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Raytheon Co.

         207,980        $      38,804,909  
       

 

 

 
          46,161,746  
       

 

 

 

Airlines - 0.7%

       

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

     84,200          4,060,124  

Southwest Airlines Co.

     75,690          4,237,126  
       

 

 

 
          8,297,250  
       

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 1.3%

       

AMETEK, Inc.

     63,830          4,215,333  

Sensata Technologies Holding NV (a)

     197,800          9,508,246  
       

 

 

 
          13,723,579  
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 1.0%

       

Caterpillar, Inc.

     50,880          6,345,245  

Parker-Hannifin Corp.

     24,159          4,228,308  
       

 

 

 
          10,573,553  
       

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 1.2%

       

Norfolk Southern Corp.

     98,200          12,985,968  
       

 

 

 
          91,742,096  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 8.4%

       

Energy Equipment & Services - 3.1%

       

Dril-Quip, Inc. (a)

     139,290          6,149,654  

National Oilwell Varco, Inc.

     170,180          6,080,531  

Oceaneering International, Inc.

     273,050          7,173,024  

Oil States International, Inc. (a)

     239,915          6,081,845  

TechnipFMC PLC (a)

     268,150          7,486,748  
       

 

 

 
          32,971,802  
       

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 5.3%

       

ConocoPhillips

     252,570          12,641,128  

Exxon Mobil Corp.

     212,750          17,441,245  

Noble Energy, Inc.

     717,970          20,361,629  

World Fuel Services Corp.

     182,480          6,187,897  
       

 

 

 
          56,631,899  
       

 

 

 
          89,603,701  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 5.0%

       

Beverages - 0.7%

       

PepsiCo, Inc.

     62,980          7,017,862  
       

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 4.3%

       

CVS Health Corp.

     158,430          12,883,528  

United Natural Foods, Inc. (a)

     125,800          5,232,022  

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

     361,647          28,259,096  
       

 

 

 
          46,374,646  
       

 

 

 
          53,392,508  
       

 

 

 

Real Estate - 2.8%

       

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 1.0%

       

Liberty Property Trust

     265,250          10,891,165  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Real Estate Management & Development - 1.8%

       

CBRE Group, Inc.-Class A (a)

     497,980        $ 18,863,482  
       

 

 

 
          29,754,647  
       

 

 

 

Utilities - 1.2%

       

Electric Utilities - 1.2%

       

Exelon Corp.

     343,180          12,927,591  
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $782,524,912)

          948,769,957  
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 12.5%

       

Time Deposit - 12.5%

       

State Street Bank & Trust Co.
0.12%, 10/02/17
(cost $133,836,708)

   $ 133,837          133,836,708  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities Loaned - 101.0%
(cost $916,361,620)

 

       1,082,606,665  
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 2.5%

 

Investment Companies - 2.5%

       

AB Fixed Income Shares, Inc.-Government Money Market Portfolio-Class AB,
0.83% (c)(d)(e)
(cost $27,404,219)

     27,404,219          27,404,219  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 103.5%
(cost $943,765,839) (f)

          1,110,010,884  

Other assets less liabilities - (3.5)%

          (37,766,085
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 1,072,244,799  
       

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Affiliated investments.
(d) The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(e) To obtain a copy of the fund’s shareholder report, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AB at (800) 227-4618.
(f) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $174,318,831 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(8,073,786), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $166,245,044.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.

Glossary:

 

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Growth and Income Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks (a)

   $ 948,769,957     $ – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ 948,769,957  

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      133,836,708       – 0  –      133,836,708  

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     27,404,219       – 0  –      – 0  –      27,404,219  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     976,174,176       133,836,708       – 0  –      1,110,010,884  

Other Financial Instruments (b)

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (c)

   $     976,174,176     $     133,836,708     $             – 0  –    $     1,110,010,884  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
(b) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument.
(c) There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is as follows:

 

Fund

   Market  Value
12/31/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
     Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
     Dividend
Income
(000)
 

Government Money Market*

     $    13,560        $    226,329        $    212,485        $    27,404        $    79  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

* Investments of cash collateral for securities lending transactions


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Intermediate Bond Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

     Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGHS - 22.1%

 

Agency Fixed Rate 30-Year - 18.8%

 

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Gold

       

4.00%, 2/01/46

   U.S.$ 266        $ 282,069  

Series 2005

  

5.50%, 1/01/35

     92          102,875  

Series 2007

  

5.50%, 7/01/35

     25          28,328  

Series 2017

  

4.00%, 7/01/44

     213          225,759  

Federal National Mortgage Association

  

3.50%, 10/01/47, TBA

     3,398          3,502,860  

4.00%, 12/01/40-10/01/43

     635          673,498  

4.00%, 10/25/47, TBA

     1,258          1,324,340  

4.50%, 5/01/46-2/01/47

     2,168          2,330,137  

Series 2003

  

5.50%, 4/01/33-7/01/33

     87          97,088  

Series 2004

  

5.50%, 4/01/34-11/01/34

     76          85,217  

Series 2005

  

5.50%, 2/01/35

     92          102,311  

Government National Mortgage Association

  

3.00%, 4/20/46

     313          318,223  

3.50%, 10/01/47, TBA

         1,098          1,141,491  

Series 1994

  

9.00%, 9/15/24

     1          1,301  
       

 

 

 
       10,215,497  
       

 

 

 

Agency Fixed Rate 15-Year - 2.4%

       

Federal National Mortgage Association

       

2.50%, 7/01/31-1/01/32

     1,320          1,330,099  
       

 

 

 

Other Agency Fixed Rate Programs - 0.9%

       

Federal National Mortgage Association

       

4.50%, 11/01/30

     465          501,040  
       

 

 

 

Total Mortgage Pass-Throughs
(cost $11,997,927)

 

       12,046,636  
       

 

 

 

CORPORATES - INVESTMENT GRADE - 20.9%

       

Industrial - 10.2%

       

Basic - 1.1%

       

Eastman Chemical Co.

       

3.80%, 3/15/25

     50          51,493  

Glencore Funding LLC

       

4.125%, 5/30/23 (a)

     58          60,310  

Mosaic Co. (The)

       

5.625%, 11/15/43

     53          54,148  

Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA

       

3.625%, 4/03/23 (a)

     260          261,950  

Vale Overseas Ltd.

       

6.875%, 11/21/36

     80          91,588  

Yamana Gold, Inc.

       

4.95%, 7/15/24

     81          83,118  
       

 

 

 
       602,607  
       

 

 

 


     Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Capital Goods - 0.2%

 

Embraer Netherlands Finance BV

       

5.40%, 2/01/27

   U.S.$ 85        $ 92,055  

General Electric Co.

       

Series D

       

5.00%, 1/21/21 (b)

     40          42,166  
       

 

 

 
       134,221  
       

 

 

 

Communications - Media - 0.7%

       

Charter Communications Operating LLC/Charter Communications Operating Capital

       

4.908%, 7/23/25

     135          144,446  

Cox Communications, Inc.

       

2.95%, 6/30/23 (a)

     51          50,295  

Time Warner Cable LLC

       

4.125%, 2/15/21

     200          207,532  
       

 

 

 
       402,273  
       

 

 

 

Communications - Telecommunications - 1.7%

       

AT&T, Inc.

  

3.40%, 5/15/25

     310          305,688  

4.125%, 2/17/26

     147          150,996  

5.15%, 2/14/50

     60          60,425  

Rogers Communications, Inc.

       

4.00%, 6/06/22

   CAD 27          22,880  

Verizon Communications, Inc.

  

2.625%, 8/15/26

   U.S.$        157          147,236  

3.50%, 11/01/24

     145          147,745  

5.50%, 3/16/47

     105          116,550  
       

 

 

 
            951,520  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Cyclical - Automotive - 0.5%

       

General Motors Co.

       

3.50%, 10/02/18

     80          81,292  

General Motors Financial Co., Inc.

  

3.10%, 1/15/19

     110          111,516  

3.25%, 5/15/18

     9          9,077  

4.00%, 1/15/25

     23          23,456  

4.30%, 7/13/25

     30          30,969  
       

 

 

 
       256,310  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Non-Cyclical - 1.9%

       

Becton Dickinson and Co.

       

3.734%, 12/15/24

     40          41,049  

Biogen, Inc.

       

4.05%, 9/15/25

     144          153,713  

Bunge Ltd. Finance Corp.

       

8.50%, 6/15/19

     2          2,207  

Medtronic, Inc.

       

3.50%, 3/15/25

     195          203,338  

Mylan NV

  

3.125%, 11/22/28 (a)

   EUR 100          126,421  

3.95%, 6/15/26

   U.S.$ 37          37,694  

Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III BV

  

2.80%, 7/21/23

     122          116,842  


     Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

3.15%, 10/01/26

   U.S.$        171        $ 157,882  

Tyson Foods, Inc.

  

2.65%, 8/15/19

     39          39,461  

3.95%, 8/15/24

     123          129,646  
       

 

 

 
         1,008,253  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 1.7%

       

Cenovus Energy, Inc.

  

3.00%, 8/15/22

     12          11,790  

5.70%, 10/15/19

     36          38,084  

Ecopetrol SA

       

5.875%, 5/28/45

     57          55,646  

Encana Corp.

       

3.90%, 11/15/21

     45          46,340  

Enterprise Products Operating LLC

  

3.70%, 2/15/26

     161          165,588  

5.20%, 9/01/20

     55          59,565  

Hess Corp.

       

4.30%, 4/01/27

     109          108,426  

Noble Energy, Inc.

       

3.90%, 11/15/24

     107          109,671  

Plains All American Pipeline LP/PAA Finance Corp.

       

3.60%, 11/01/24

     137          133,583  

Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC

       

5.00%, 3/15/27

     80          85,074  

Williams Partners LP

       

4.125%, 11/15/20

     97          101,596  
       

 

 

 
       915,363  
       

 

 

 

Services - 0.5%

       

Expedia, Inc.

       

3.80%, 2/15/28 (a)

     94          93,145  

S&P Global, Inc.

       

4.40%, 2/15/26

     127          136,842  

Total System Services, Inc.

       

3.75%, 6/01/23

     19          19,638  
       

 

 

 
       249,625  
       

 

 

 

Technology - 1.9%

       

Broadcom Corp./Broadcom Cayman Finance Ltd.

  

3.625%, 1/15/24 (a)

     28          28,816  

3.875%, 1/15/27 (a)

     62          63,854  

Dell International LLC/EMC Corp.

  

5.45%, 6/15/23 (a)

     160          175,192  

6.02%, 6/15/26 (a)

     31          34,390  

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

       

2.10%, 10/04/19 (a)

     96          96,007  

HP, Inc.

       

4.65%, 12/09/21

     107          115,218  

KLA-Tencor Corp.

       

4.65%, 11/01/24

     134          145,377  

Lam Research Corp.

       

2.80%, 6/15/21

     39          39,450  

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

  

3.50%, 3/01/23

     82          82,831  


     Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

7.50%, 5/15/25

     U.S.$         23        $ 27,908  

Seagate HDD Cayman

       

4.75%, 1/01/25

     75          73,051  

VMware, Inc.

       

2.95%, 8/21/22

     45          45,263  

Western Digital Corp.

       

7.375%, 4/01/23 (a)

     89          97,454  
       

 

 

 
       1,024,811  
       

 

 

 
         5,544,983  
       

 

 

 

Financial Institutions - 10.1%

       

Banking - 9.4%

       

Banco Santander SA

       

3.50%, 4/11/22

            200          204,946  

Bank of America Corp.

  

2.881%, 4/24/23

     145          145,677  

3.824%, 1/20/28

     145          148,943  

Series G

  

3.593%, 7/21/28

     85          85,845  

BNP Paribas SA

       

3.80%, 1/10/24 (a)

     200          208,138  

Citigroup, Inc.

       

3.668%, 7/24/28

     290          292,862  

Compass Bank

       

5.50%, 4/01/20

     250          263,815  

Cooperatieve Rabobank UA

       

4.375%, 8/04/25

     250          263,585  

Credit Suisse Group Funding Guernsey Ltd.

       

3.80%, 6/09/23

     265          274,182  

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)

  

2.35%, 11/15/21

     118          117,022  

3.75%, 5/22/25

     53          54,526  

3.85%, 7/08/24

     210          218,744  

Series D

  

6.00%, 6/15/20

     195          214,083  

HSBC Holdings PLC

       

4.041%, 3/13/28

     310          324,567  

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  

3.22%, 3/01/25

     140          142,225  

3.54%, 5/01/28

     255          257,881  

Lloyds Banking Group PLC

       

4.65%, 3/24/26

     200          211,120  

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.

       

3.85%, 3/01/26

     200          208,038  

Morgan Stanley

  

3.591%, 7/22/28

     235          236,048  

5.625%, 9/23/19

     143          152,664  

Santander Holdings USA, Inc.

       

4.40%, 7/13/27 (a)

     140          142,799  

Santander Issuances SAU

       

3.25%, 4/04/26 (a)

   EUR 200          254,364  

UBS AG/Stamford CT

       

7.625%, 8/17/22

   U.S.$ 250          295,037  

UBS Group Funding Switzerland AG

       

4.125%, 9/24/25 (a)

     200          210,370  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

US Bancorp

       

Series J

       

5.30%, 4/15/27 (b)

   U.S.$ 63        $ 68,681  

Wells Fargo & Co.

       

3.069%, 1/24/23

     113          114,897  
       

 

 

 
       5,111,059  
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 0.4%

       

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)

       

5.50%, 3/30/20

     31          33,410  

Lincoln National Corp.

       

8.75%, 7/01/19

     35          38,886  

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.

       

9.375%, 8/15/39 (a)

     35          57,948  

XLIT Ltd.

       

3.25%, 6/29/47

   EUR        100          116,069  
       

 

 

 
       246,313  
       

 

 

 

REITS - 0.3%

       

Host Hotels & Resorts LP Series D

       

3.75%, 10/15/23

   U.S.$ 6          6,134  

Welltower, Inc.

       

4.00%, 6/01/25

     146          152,063  
       

 

 

 
       158,197  
       

 

 

 
       5,515,569  
       

 

 

 

Utility - 0.6%

       

Electric - 0.6%

       

Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co.

       

6.125%, 4/01/36

     90          115,760  

Israel Electric Corp., Ltd.

       

Series 6

       

5.00%, 11/12/24 (a)

     200          216,500  
       

 

 

 
       332,260  
       

 

 

 

Total Corporates - Investment Grade
(cost $10,974,024)

 

       11,392,812  
       

 

 

 

ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES - 13.4%

       

Autos - Fixed Rate - 7.5%

       

Ally Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2015-2, Class A3

       

1.49%, 11/15/19

     96          96,437  

Ally Master Owner Trust

       

Series 2015-3, Class A

       

1.63%, 5/15/20

     259          259,031  

AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust

       

Series 2016-4, Class A2A

       

1.34%, 4/08/20

     75          74,602  

Series 2017-3, Class A2A

       

1.69%, 12/18/20

     65          64,944  

Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP LLC

       

Series 2013-2A, Class A

       


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

2.97%, 2/20/20 (a)

   U.S. $       288        $      290,258  

Series 2016-1A, Class A

       

2.99%, 6/20/22 (a)

     100          100,843  

Bank of The West Auto Trust

       

Series 2015-1, Class A3

       

1.31%, 10/15/19 (a)

     104          104,362  

California Republic Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2014-2, Class A4

       

1.57%, 12/16/19

     51          50,714  

Series 2015-2, Class A3

       

1.31%, 8/15/19

     18          18,376  

Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2015-BA, Class A3

       

1.91%, 3/16/20 (a)

     100          100,445  

CPS Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2013-B, Class A

       

1.82%, 9/15/20 (a)

     35          34,587  

DT Auto Owner Trust

       

Series 2017-3A, Class A

       

1.73%, 8/17/20 (a)

     61          60,736  

Enterprise Fleet Financing LLC

       

Series 2014-2, Class A2

       

1.05%, 3/20/20 (a)

     3          2,884  

Series 2015-1, Class A2

       

1.30%, 9/20/20 (a)

     39          38,798  

Exeter Automobile Receivables Trust

       

Series 2016-3A, Class A

       

1.84%, 11/16/20 (a)

     27          26,941  

Series 2016-3A, Class D

       

6.40%, 7/17/23 (a)

     100          103,033  

Series 2017-1A, Class D

       

6.20%, 11/15/23 (a)

     100          102,645  

Series 2017-2A, Class A

       

2.11%, 6/15/21 (a)

     70          69,709  

Series 2017-3A, Class A

       

2.05%, 12/15/21 (a)

     140          139,983  

Series 2017-3A, Class C

       

3.68%, 7/17/23 (a)

     60          59,989  

Fifth Third Auto Trust

       

Series 2014-3, Class A4

       

1.47%, 5/17/21

     165          164,944  

Flagship Credit Auto Trust

       

Series 2016-3, Class A1

       

1.61%, 12/15/19 (a)

     38          38,223  

Series 2016-4, Class D

       

3.89%, 11/15/22 (a)

     125          126,302  

Series 2017-3, Class A

       

1.88%, 10/15/21 (a)

     92          92,396  

Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust

       

Series 2014-2, Class A

       

2.31%, 4/15/26 (a)

     257          258,971  

Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust

       

Series 2015-2, Class A1

       

1.98%, 1/15/22

     198          197,932  


      Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Series 2016-1, Class A1

  

1.76%, 2/15/21

   U.S.$        131        $ 130,870  

Series 2017-1, Class A1

  

2.07%, 5/15/22

     115          115,358  

GM Financial Automobile Leasing Trust

       

Series 2015-2, Class A3

       

1.68%, 12/20/18

     144          143,664  

GMF Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust

       

Series 2015-1, Class A1

       

1.65%, 5/15/20 (a)

     128          128,491  

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust

       

Series 2015-1, Class A3

       

1.41%, 6/15/20

     82          81,687  

Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP

       

Series 2015-1A, Class B

       

3.52%, 3/25/21 (a)

     115          116,400  

Hertz Vehicle Financing LLC

       

Series 2013-1A, Class A2

       

1.83%, 8/25/19 (a)

     485          483,771  

Hyundai Auto Lease Securitization Trust

       

Series 2015-B, Class A3

       

1.40%, 11/15/18 (a)

     41          41,292  

Mercedes Benz Auto Lease Trust

       

Series 2015-B, Class A3

       

1.34%, 7/16/18

     47          46,877  

Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2016-3, Class A2

       

1.34%, 11/15/19

     48          48,180  

Series 2017-3, Class A2

  

1.67%, 6/15/20

     65          64,962  

Westlake Automobile Receivables Trust

       

Series 2016-2A, Class A2

       

1.57%, 6/17/19 (a)

     33          33,077  
       

 

 

 
            4,112,714  
       

 

 

 

Other ABS - Fixed Rate - 2.3%

       

Ascentium Equipment Receivables Trust

       

Series 2016-1A, Class A2

       

1.75%, 11/13/18 (a)

     14          14,288  

CLUB Credit Trust

       

Series 2017-P1, Class B

       

3.56%, 9/15/23 (a)(c)

     100          99,991  

CNH Equipment Trust

       

Series 2014-B, Class A4

       

1.61%, 5/17/21

     99          98,576  

Series 2015-A, Class A4

       

1.85%, 4/15/21

     134          133,806  

Marlette Funding Trust

       

Series 2016-1A, Class A

       

3.06%, 1/17/23 (a)(c)

     40          40,329  

Series 2017-1A, Class A

       

2.827%, 3/15/24 (a)(c)

     69          68,988  

Series 2017-2A, Class A

       

2.39%, 7/15/24 (a)(c)

     121          120,856  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

SBA Tower Trust

       

3.156%, 10/08/20 (a)(c)

   U.S.$        147        $ 148,084  

SoFi Consumer Loan Program LLC

       

Series 2016-2, Class A

       

3.09%, 10/27/25 (a)(c)

     72          72,937  

Series 2016-3, Class A

  

3.05%, 12/26/25 (a)(c)

     78          78,957  

Series 2017-1, Class A

  

3.28%, 1/26/26 (a)(c)

     73          74,395  

Series 2017-2, Class A

  

3.28%, 2/25/26 (a)(c)

     88          89,421  

Series 2017-3, Class A

  

2.77%, 5/25/26 (a)(c)

     99          99,194  

Series 2017-5, Class A2

  

2.78%, 9/25/26 (a)(c)

     110          109,636  
       

 

 

 
            1,249,458  
       

 

 

 

Credit Cards - Fixed Rate - 1.8%

       

Barclays Dryrock Issuance Trust

       

Series 2015-2, Class A

       

1.56%, 3/15/21

     183          183,067  

Synchrony Credit Card Master Note Trust

       

Series 2012-2, Class A

       

2.22%, 1/15/22

     232          233,403  

Series 2015-3, Class A

  

1.74%, 9/15/21

     173          172,979  

Series 2016-1, Class A

  

2.04%, 3/15/22

     130          130,458  

World Financial Network Credit Card Master Trust

  

Series 2016-B, Class A

  

1.44%, 6/15/22

     137          136,705  

Series 2017-B, Class A

  

1.98%, 6/15/23

     110          109,915  
       

 

 

 
          966,527  
       

 

 

 

Autos - Floating Rate - 0.8%

       

BMW Floorplan Master Owner Trust
Series 2015-1A, Class A
1.734% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.50%), 7/15/20 (a)(d)

     214          214,723  

Wells Fargo Dealer Floorplan Master Note Trust
Series 2015-1, Class A
1.736% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.50%), 1/20/20 (d)

     227          227,363  
       

 

 

 
          442,086  
       

 

 

 

Credit Cards - Floating Rate - 0.8%

       

Discover Card Execution Note Trust
Series 2015-A1, Class A1
1.584% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.35%), 8/17/20 (d)

     263          263,259  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

World Financial Network Credit Card Master Trust

       

Series 2015-A, Class A

       

1.714% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.48%), 2/15/22 (d)

   U.S.$ 150        $ 150,260  
       

 

 

 
       413,519  
       

 

 

 

Home Equity Loans - Fixed Rate - 0.1%

       

Credit-Based Asset Servicing & Securitization LLC

       

Series 2003-CB1, Class AF

       

3.95%, 1/25/33 (c)

     61          61,237  
       

 

 

 

Home Equity Loans - Floating Rate - 0.1%

       

Asset Backed Funding Certificates Trust

       

Series 2003-WF1, Class A2

       

2.362% (LIBOR 1 Month + 1.13%), 12/25/32 (c)(d)

     31          30,587  
       

 

 

 

Total Asset-Backed Securities
(cost $7,258,658)

 

       7,276,128  
       

 

 

 

GOVERNMENTS - TREASURIES - 10.9%

       

United States - 10.9%

       

U.S. Treasury Bonds

       

2.875%, 8/15/45-11/15/46

     330          330,803  

3.00%, 11/15/45-2/15/47

         1,978          2,035,372  

3.625%, 2/15/44

     65          74,709  

4.50%, 2/15/36

     99          127,308  

6.25%, 5/15/30

     261          369,930  

U.S. Treasury Notes

       

0.75%, 12/31/17

     840          839,212  

1.00%, 12/31/17

     530          529,834  

1.75%, 11/30/21

     1,247            1,242,713  

2.25%, 11/15/24

     171          171,755  

2.50%, 8/15/23

     215          220,509  
       

 

 

 

Total Governments - Treasuries
(cost $6,163,050)

 

       5,942,145  
       

 

 

 

COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES - 8.8%

       

Non-Agency Fixed Rate CMBS - 7.1%

       

Banc of America Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2007-5, Class AM

       

5.772%, 2/10/51 (c)

     76          75,706  

BHMS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2014-ATLS, Class AFX

       

3.601%, 7/05/33 (a)

     200          202,054  

CFCRE Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2016-C4, Class A4

       

3.283%, 5/10/58

     115          116,047  

CGRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2013-VN05, Class A

       

3.369%, 3/13/35 (a)

     260          267,592  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2012-GC8, Class D

       

5.036%, 9/10/45 (a)(c)

   U.S.$ 128        $      114,103  

Series 2015-GC27, Class A5

  

3.137%, 2/10/48

     144          144,759  

Series 2015-GC35, Class A4

  

3.818%, 11/10/48

     55          57,817  

Series 2016-C1, Class A4

  

3.209%, 5/10/49

     192          193,717  

Series 2016-GC36, Class A5

  

3.616%, 2/10/49

     65          67,454  

Commercial Mortgage Trust

  

Series 2013-SFS, Class A1

  

1.873%, 4/12/35 (a)

     78          76,890  

Series 2014-UBS5, Class A4

  

3.838%, 9/10/47

     130          136,878  

Series 2015-CR24, Class A5

  

3.696%, 8/10/48

     65          67,749  

CSAIL Commercial Mortgage Trust

  

Series 2015-C3, Class A4

  

3.718%, 8/15/48

     117          121,699  

Series 2015-C4, Class A4

  

3.808%, 11/15/48

            215          225,248  

GS Mortgage Securities Corp. II

       

Series 2013-KING, Class A

       

2.706%, 12/10/27 (a)

     238          240,307  

GS Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2013-G1, Class A2

       

3.557%, 4/10/31 (a)

     136          135,747  

JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust

  

Series 2006-LDP9, Class AM

  

5.372%, 5/15/47 (c)

     39          38,956  

Series 2012-C6, Class D

  

5.307%, 5/15/45 (c)

     110          112,916  

Series 2012-C6, Class E

  

5.307%, 5/15/45 (a)(c)

     132          117,267  

JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2014-C22, Class XA

       

1.08%, 9/15/47 (e)

     2,865          138,248  

Series 2015-C30, Class A5

  

3.822%, 7/15/48

     65          68,412  

Series 2015-C31, Class A3

  

3.801%, 8/15/48

     195          205,303  

LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2006-C6, Class AJ

       

5.452%, 9/15/39 (c)

     40          31,859  

LSTAR Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2016-4, Class A2

       

2.579%, 3/10/49 (a)

     159          157,447  

Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust

       

Series 2016-UB12, Class A4

       

3.596%, 12/15/49

     100          103,987  

UBS-Barclays Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2012-C4, Class A5

       

2.85%, 12/10/45

     112          113,466  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust

  

Series 2016-LC25, Class C

  

4.584%, 12/15/59 (c)

   U.S.$ 85        $ 84,250  

Series 2016-NXS6, Class C

  

4.454%, 11/15/49 (c)

     100          102,180  

WF-RBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

  

Series 2013-C11, Class XA

  

1.431%, 3/15/45 (a)(e)

         1,574          72,248  

Series 2013-C14, Class A5

  

3.337%, 6/15/46

     132          136,822  

Series 2014-C20, Class A2

  

3.036%, 5/15/47

     125          127,099  
       

 

 

 
         3,854,227  
       

 

 

 

Non-Agency Floating Rate CMBS - 1.7%

       

CGBAM Commercial Mortgage Trust

  

Series 2016-IMC, Class A

  

3.134% (LIBOR 1 Month + 1.90%), 11/15/21 (a)(d)

     115          115,000  

Series 2016-IMC, Class C

  

5.184% (LIBOR 1 Month + 3.95%), 11/15/21 (a)(c)(d)

     123          123,481  

CSMC Mortgage-Backed Trust
Series 2016-MFF, Class D
5.827% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.60%), 11/15/33 (a)(c)(d)

     100          100,562  

Great Wolf Trust
Series 2017-WOLF, Class A
2.09% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.85%), 9/15/34 (a)(d)

     93          93,000  

JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust
Series 2015-SGP, Class A
2.927% (LIBOR 1 Month + 1.70%), 7/15/36 (a)(d)

     122          121,936  

Starwood Retail Property Trust
Series 2014-STAR, Class A
2.454% (LIBOR 1 Month + 1.22%), 11/15/27 (a)(d)

     196          196,064  

Waldorf Astoria Boca Raton Trust
Series 2016-BOCA, Class A
2.584% (LIBOR 1 Month + 1.35%), 6/15/29 (a)(d)

     211          211,375  
       

 

 

 
       961,418  
       

 

 

 

Total Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
(cost $4,864,920)

 

       4,815,645  
       

 

 

 

COLLATERALIZED MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS - 7.8%

       

Risk Share Floating Rate - 5.0%

       

Bellemeade Re II Ltd.

  

Series 2016-1A, Class M2A

  

5.737% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.50%), 4/25/26 (d)(f)

     1          1,168  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Series 2016-1A, Class M2B

  

7.737% (LIBOR 1 Month + 6.50%), 4/25/26 (d)(f)

   U.S.$        150        $ 154,235  

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt Notes

       

Series 2014-DN4, Class M3

       

5.787% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.55%), 10/25/24 (d)

     234          253,635  

Series 2014-HQ3, Class M2

  

3.887% (LIBOR 1 Month + 2.65%), 10/25/24 (d)

     35          35,239  

Series 2015-DNA1, Class M3

  

4.537% (LIBOR 1 Month + 3.30%), 10/25/27 (d)

     250          277,237  

Series 2015-HQA1, Class M2

  

3.887% (LIBOR 1 Month + 2.65%), 3/25/28 (d)

     158          161,896  

Federal National Mortgage Association Connecticut Avenue Securities

       

Series 2014-C03, Class 1M1

       

2.437% (LIBOR 1 Month + 1.20%), 7/25/24 (d)

     4          4,167  

Series 2014-C04, Class 1M2

  

6.137% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.90%), 11/25/24 (d)

     161          182,753  

Series 2014-C04, Class 2M2

       

6.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.00%), 11/25/24 (d)

     55          61,172  

Series 2015-C01, Class 1M2

       

5.537% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.30%), 2/25/25 (d)

     77          82,586  

Series 2015-C01, Class 2M2

  

5.787% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.55%), 2/25/25 (d)

     69          73,240  

Series 2015-C02, Class 1M2

  

5.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.00%), 5/25/25 (d)

     95               101,423  

Series 2015-C02, Class 2M2

  

5.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 4.00%), 5/25/25 (d)

     112          117,753  

Series 2015-C03, Class 1M2

  

6.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.00%), 7/25/25 (d)

     118          130,732  

Series 2015-C03, Class 2M2

       

6.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.00%), 7/25/25 (d)

     101          110,972  

Series 2015-C04, Class 1M2

       

6.937% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.70%), 4/25/28 (d)

     145          163,154  

Series 2015-C04, Class 2M2

       

6.787% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.55%), 4/25/28 (d)

     138          151,767  

Series 2016-C01, Class 1M2

       

7.987% (LIBOR 1 Month + 6.75%), 8/25/28 (d)

     160          188,413  


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Series 2016-C01, Class 2M2

       

8.187% (LIBOR 1 Month + 6.95%), 8/25/28 (d)

   U.S.$ 92        $ 108,975  

Series 2016-C02, Class 1M2

       

7.237% (LIBOR 1 Month + 6.00%), 9/25/28 (d)

     130          150,607  

Series 2016-C03, Class 2M2

       

7.137% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.90%), 10/25/28 (d)

     148          169,412  

Wells Fargo Credit Risk Transfer Securities Trust

       

Series 2015-WF1, Class 1M2

       

6.487% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.25%), 11/25/25 (d)(f)

     48          52,035  

Series 2015-WF1, Class 2M2

       

6.737% (LIBOR 1 Month + 5.50%), 11/25/25 (d)(f)

     20          23,253  
       

 

 

 
            2,755,824  
       

 

 

 

Agency Floating Rate - 1.2%

       

Federal National Mortgage Association REMICs

       

Series 2011-131, Class ST

       

5.303% (6.54% - LIBOR 1 Month), 12/25/41 (d)(g)

     195          41,675  

Series 2012-70, Class SA

       

5.313% (6.55% - LIBOR 1 Month), 7/25/42 (d)(g)

     360          78,861  

Series 2015-90, Class SL

       

4.913% (6.15% - LIBOR 1 Month), 12/25/45 (d)(g)

     397          77,798  

Series 2016-77, Class DS

       

4.763% (6.00% - LIBOR 1 Month), 10/25/46 (d)(g)

     391          73,912  

Series 2017-16, Class SG

       

4.813% (6.05% - LIBOR 1 Month), 3/25/47 (d)(g)

            382          78,672  

Series 2017-26, Class TS

       

4.713% (5.95% - LIBOR 1 Month), 4/25/47 (d)(g)

     357          76,463  

Series 2017-62, Class AS

       

4.913% (6.15% - LIBOR 1 Month), 8/25/47 (d)(g)

     365          77,833  

Series 2017-81, Class SA

       

4.977% (6.20% - LIBOR 1 Month), 10/25/47 (c)(d)(g)

     361          83,029  

Government National Mortgage Association

       

Series 2017-65, Class ST

       

4.914% (6.15% - LIBOR 1 Month), 4/20/47 (d)(g)

     368          79,322  
       

 

 

 
          667,565  
       

 

 

 


     Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Non-Agency Fixed Rate - 1.2%

       

Alternative Loan Trust

       

Series 2005-20CB, Class 3A6

       

5.50%, 7/25/35

   U.S.$ 22        $ 20,704  

Series 2005-57CB, Class 4A3

  

5.50%, 12/25/35

     45          41,134  

Series 2006-23CB, Class 1A7

  

6.00%, 8/25/36

     27          26,584  

Series 2006-24CB, Class A16

  

5.75%, 6/25/36

     81          68,003  

Series 2006-28CB, Class A14

  

6.25%, 10/25/36

     56          47,087  

Series 2006-9T1, Class A1

  

5.75%, 5/25/36

     34          27,118  

Series 2006-J1, Class 1A13

  

5.50%, 2/25/36

     47          42,608  

Chase Mortgage Finance Trust

       

Series 2007-S5, Class 1A17

       

6.00%, 7/25/37

     27          24,668  

Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc.

       

Series 2005-2, Class 1A4

       

3.189%, 5/25/35

     53          53,140  

Countrywide Home Loan Mortgage Pass-Through Trust

       

Series 2006-10, Class 1A8

       

6.00%, 5/25/36

     41          34,052  

Series 2006-13, Class 1A19

       

6.25%, 9/25/36

     23          20,514  

First Horizon Alternative Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2006-FA3, Class A9

       

6.00%, 7/25/36

     67          58,039  

JP Morgan Alternative Loan Trust

       

Series 2006-A3, Class 2A1

       

3.613%, 7/25/36

            148          130,412  

JP Morgan Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2007-S3, Class 1A8

       

6.00%, 8/25/37

     37          33,215  

Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities Trust

       

Series 2007-8, Class 2A5

       

5.75%, 7/25/37

     21          21,248  
       

 

 

 
            648,526  
       

 

 

 

Non-Agency Floating Rate - 0.3%

       

Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust

       

Series 2006-AR4, Class A2

       

1.427% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.19%), 12/25/36 (d)

     154          98,997  

HomeBanc Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2005-1, Class A1

       

1.487% (LIBOR 1 Month + 0.25%), 3/25/35 (d)

     57          51,870  
       

 

 

 
       150,867  
       

 

 

 


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Agency Fixed Rate - 0.1%

 

Federal National Mortgage Association Grantor Trust

       

Series 2004-T5, Class AB4

       

1.834%, 5/28/35 (c)

   U.S.$ 50        $ 46,795  
       

 

 

 

Total Collateralized Mortgage Obligations
(cost $4,100,398)

          4,269,577  
       

 

 

 

INFLATION-LINKED SECURITIES - 6.0%

       

Japan - 1.0%

       

Japanese Government CPI Linked Bond

       

Series 2022

       

0.10%, 3/10/27

   JPY   59,697          554,406  
       

 

 

 

United States - 5.0%

       

U.S. Treasury Inflation Index

  

0.125%, 4/15/19-4/15/20 (TIPS)

   U.S.$ 1,200          1,205,141  

0.25%, 1/15/25 (TIPS)

     647          640,596  

0.375%, 7/15/25 (TIPS)

     852          851,723  
       

 

 

 
         2,697,460  
       

 

 

 

Total Inflation-Linked Securities
(cost $3,285,770)

          3,251,866  
       

 

 

 

CORPORATES - NON-INVESTMENT GRADE - 3.4%

       

Industrial - 2.1%

       

Basic - 0.1%

       

NOVA Chemicals Corp.

       

5.25%, 8/01/23 (a)

     74          76,304  
       

 

 

 

Communications - Media - 0.3%

       

CSC Holdings LLC

       

6.75%, 11/15/21

     30          33,144  

SFR Group SA

       

5.375%, 5/15/22 (a)

   EUR 120          148,118  
       

 

 

 
       181,262  
       

 

 

 

Communications - Telecommunications - 0.9%

       

Arqiva Broadcast Finance PLC

       

9.50%, 3/31/20 (a)

   GBP 100          141,893  

CenturyLink, Inc.

       

Series Y

       

7.50%, 4/01/24

   U.S.$ 42          43,485  

Sprint Capital Corp.

       

6.90%, 5/01/19

     210          223,868  

Windstream Services LLC

       

6.375%, 8/01/23

     80          56,466  
       

 

 

 
       465,712  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Cyclical - Other - 0.1%

       

KB Home

       

4.75%, 5/15/19

     63          65,070  
       

 

 

 


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Consumer Non-Cyclical - 0.2%

 

First Quality Finance Co., Inc.

       

4.625%, 5/15/21 (a)

   U.S.$ 85        $ 85,918  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 0.4%

       

Cheniere Energy Partners LP

       

5.25%, 10/01/25 (a)

     53          54,199  

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.

       

4.875%, 11/01/43

     68          50,745  

Nabors Industries, Inc.

       

5.50%, 1/15/23

     113          112,286  

SM Energy Co.

       

6.50%, 1/01/23

     9          9,067  
       

 

 

 
       226,297  
       

 

 

 

Transportation - Services - 0.1%

       

Avis Budget Car Rental LLC/Avis Budget
Finance, Inc.

       

5.25%, 3/15/25 (a)

     52          52,029  
       

 

 

 
         1,152,592  
       

 

 

 

Financial Institutions - 1.3%

       

Banking - 1.1%

       

Bank of America Corp.
Series Z

       

6.50%, 10/23/24 (b)

     49          55,360  

Barclays Bank PLC

       

6.86%, 6/15/32 (a)(b)

     29          35,084  

Intesa Sanpaolo SpA
Series E

       

3.928%, 9/15/26 (a)

   EUR 100          127,346  

Lloyds Banking Group PLC

       

7.50%, 6/27/24 (b)

   U.S.$        200          223,914  

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC

       

2.001%, 12/31/17 (a)(b)

   EUR 50          56,991  

Standard Chartered PLC

       

2.821% (LIBOR 3 Month + 1.51%),

       

1/30/27 (a)(b)(d)

   U.S.$ 100          86,131  
       

 

 

 
       584,826  
       

 

 

 

Finance - 0.2%

       

Navient Corp.

       

6.625%, 7/26/21

     95          101,829  
       

 

 

 
       686,655  
       

 

 

 

Total Corporates - Non-Investment Grade
(cost $1,866,931)

 

       1,839,247  
       

 

 

 

AGENCIES - 2.9%

       

Agency Debentures - 2.9%

       

Residual Funding Corp. Principal Strip
Zero Coupon, 7/15/20

       

(cost $1,506,050)

     1,677          1,594,995  
       

 

 

 


     Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

EMERGING MARKETS - TREASURIES - 0.9%

       

Brazil - 0.7%

       

Brazil Notas do Tesouro Nacional
Series F

       

10.00%, 1/01/21-1/01/27

   BRL     1,145        $      369,272  
       

 

 

 

Turkey - 0.2%

       

Turkey Government Bond

       

11.00%, 2/24/27

   TRY 485          138,607  
       

 

 

 

Total Emerging Markets - Treasuries
(cost $416,133)

          507,879  
       

 

 

 

QUASI-SOVEREIGNS - 0.7%

       

Quasi-Sovereign Bonds - 0.7%

       

Chile - 0.4%

       

Corp. Nacional del Cobre de Chile
3.625%, 8/01/27 (a)

   U.S.$  200          199,080  
       

 

 

 

Mexico - 0.3%

       

Petroleos Mexicanos

  

4.625%, 9/21/23

     120          123,732  

6.50%, 3/13/27 (a)

     50          55,412  
       

 

 

 
          179,144  
       

 

 

 

Total Quasi-Sovereigns
(cost $369,961)

          378,224  
       

 

 

 

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS - US MUNICIPAL BONDS - 0.6%

       

United States - 0.6%

       

State of California

  

Series 2010

       

7.625%, 3/01/40
(cost $203,089)

     200          306,468  
       

 

 

 

EMERGING MARKETS - CORPORATE BONDS - 0.3%

       

Industrial - 0.3%

       

Capital Goods - 0.2%

       

Odebrecht Finance Ltd.

       

7.125%, 6/26/42 (a)

     200          76,000  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 0.1%

       

Petrobras Global Finance BV

       

6.125%, 1/17/22

     65          69,781  
       

 

 

 

Total Emerging Markets - Corporate Bonds
(cost $123,628)

          145,781  
       

 

 

 
      Shares           

PREFERRED STOCKS - 0.2%

       

Financial Institutions - 0.2%

       

REITS - 0.2%

       

Sovereign Real Estate Investment Trust
12.00% (a)
(cost $87,659)

     93          116,250  
       

 

 

 


     Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 12.0%

 

Agency Discount Note - 7.6%

 

Federal Home Loan Bank Discount Notes
Zero Coupon, 10/25/17-1/24/18
(cost $4,145,394)

   U.S.$ 4,155        $ 4,145,394  
       

 

 

 

Governments - Treasuries - 4.0%

       

Japan - 4.0%

       

Japan Treasury Discount Bill
Series 687
Zero Coupon, 12/11/17
(cost $2,237,026)

   JPY  246,000          2,186,721  
       

 

 

 

Time Deposit - 0.4%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.12%, 10/02/17
(cost $192,402)

   U.S.$ 192          192,402  
       

 

 

 

Total Short-Term Investments
(cost $6,574,822)

          6,524,517  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 110.9%
(cost $59,793,020) (h)

          60,408,170  
       

 

 

 

Other assets less liabilities - (10.9)% (i)

          (5,946,613
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 54,461,557  
       

 

 

 

FUTURES

 

Description

   Number
of
Contracts
     Expiration
Month
     Notional
(000)
     Original
Value
     Value at
September 30,
2017
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Purchased Contracts

                    

U.S. T-Note 5 Yr (CBT) Futures

     63        December 2017        USD        6,300      $ 7,447,054      $ 7,402,500      $ (44,554

U.S. Ultra Bond (CBT) Futures

     13        December 2017        USD        1,300        2,169,269        2,146,625        (22,644

Sold Contracts

                    

10 Yr Mini Japan Government Bond Futures

     5        December 2017        JPY        50,000        671,209        668,207        3,002  

Euro-BOBL Futures

     18        December 2017        EUR        1,800        2,802,820        2,790,750        12,070  

U.S. T-Note 2 Yr (CBT) Futures

     41        December 2017        USD        8,200        8,869,405        8,843,828        25,577  

U.S. T-Note 10 Yr (CBT) Futures

     6        December 2017        USD        600        758,804        751,875        6,929  
                    

 

 

 
                     $ (19,620
                    

 

 

 

FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver

(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Barclays Bank PLC

     JPY        320,000        USD        2,874        10/26/17      $ 27,468  

Citibank, NA

     KRW        240,509        USD        215        10/26/17        5,078  

Citibank, NA

     CAD        640        USD        511        11/10/17        (2,245

Citibank, NA

     USD        220        RUB        12,690        11/22/17        (1,477

Credit Suisse International

     BRL        670        USD        210        10/03/17        (1,162

Credit Suisse International

     USD        211        BRL        670        10/03/17        57  

Credit Suisse International

     MYR        610        USD        146        10/26/17        1,428  


Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Credit Suisse International

     USD        142        MYR        609        10/26/17      $ 2,502  

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     TWD        6,016        USD        199        11/22/17        194  

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     USD        200        TWD        6,012        11/22/17        (2,037

Standard Chartered Bank

     BRL        670        USD        211        10/03/17        (57

Standard Chartered Bank

     USD        210        BRL        670        10/03/17        1,580  

Standard Chartered Bank

     BRL        670        USD        209        11/03/17        (1,518

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     EUR        109        USD        129        10/04/17        834  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     EUR        481        USD        553        10/04/17        (15,206

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        221        MXN        3,955        10/06/17        (3,919

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        73        TRY        255        10/17/17        (2,017

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        154        CAD        188        11/10/17        (3,104

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     AUD        338        USD        270        11/30/17        4,846  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     NZD        167        AUD        154        11/30/17        (38

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     GBP        208        USD        281        12/01/17        2,472  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        144        GBP        106        12/01/17        (1,690

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     SEK        867        USD        107        12/13/17        408  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        110        NOK        856        12/13/17        (2,131

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        107        SEK        853        12/13/17        (1,676
                 

 

 

 
   $ 8,590  
                 

 

 

 

CENTRALLY CLEARED INTEREST RATE SWAPS

 

                   Rate Type           

Notional Amount (000)

     Termination
Date
     Payments
made by
the
Fund
  Payments
received
by the
Fund
  Payment
Frequency Paid/
Received
   Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

MXN

     2,243        6/22/20      4 Week TIIE   6.770%   Monthly/

Monthly

   $ (410

SEK

     4,830        3/31/22      3 Month STIBOR   0.341%   Quarterly/

Annual

     1,515  

NZD

     1,015        3/31/22      3 Month BKBM   2.936%   Quarterly/

Semi-Annual

     15,261  

USD

     530        1/14/24      2.980%   3 Month LIBOR   Semi-Annual/

Quarterly

     (29,525

USD

     650        4/28/24      2.817%   3 Month LIBOR   Semi-Annual/

Quarterly

     (34,225

USD

     740        11/10/25      2.256%   3 Month LIBOR   Semi-Annual/

Quarterly

     (7,353

USD

     80        6/28/26      1.460%   3 Month LIBOR   Semi-Annual/

Quarterly

     4,797  

USD

     175        11/08/26      1.657%   3 Month LIBOR   Semi-Annual/

Quarterly

     7,759  

USD

     200        11/09/26      1.672%   3 Month LIBOR   Semi-Annual/

Quarterly

     8,615  


                   Rate Type        

Notional Amount (000)

     Termination
Date
     Payments
made
by the
Fund
    Payments
received
by the
Fund
    Payment
Frequency
Paid/Received
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

USD

     200        12/21/26        3 Month LIBOR       2.497%      

Quarterly/

Semi-Annual

 

 

   $ 5,105  

USD

     105        4/26/27        2.287%       3 Month LIBOR      

Semi-Annual/

Quarterly

 

 

     (751

MXN

     818        6/14/27        7.090%       4 Week TIIE      

Monthly/

Monthly


 

     (65

USD

     260        7/12/27        2.355%       3 Month LIBOR      

Semi-Annual/

Quarterly

 

 

     (1,874

JPY

     159,280        8/29/27        0.241%       6 Month LIBOR      

Semi-Annual/

Semi-Annual

 

 

     1,672  
               

 

 

 
                $ (29,479
               

 

 

 

CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS

 

Swap Counterparty & Referenced Obligation

   Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Payment
Frequency
     Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30, 2017
    Notional
Amount
(000)
     Market
Value
    Upfront
Premiums
Paid
(Received)
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Buy Contracts

                   

Citibank, NA

                   

Sprint Communications, Inc., 7.000%, 8/15/20, 6/20/19*

     (5.00 )%      Quarterly        0.36     USD        98      $ (7,808   $ (2,066   $ (5,742

Sprint Communications, Inc., 7.000%, 8/15/20, 6/20/19*

     (5.00     Quarterly        0.36       USD        112        (8,924     (2,448     (6,476

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

                   

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52       USD        3        5       39       (34

Credit Suisse International

                   

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52       USD        4        5       37       (32

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52       USD        330        463       4,219       (3,756

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 7, 1/17/47*

     (3.00     Monthly        5.23       USD        350        38,541       23,059       15,482  

Deutsche Bank AG

                   

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52       USD        42        59       579       (520


Swap Counterparty & Referenced Obligation

   Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Payment
Frequency
     Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30,
2017
    Notional
Amount
(000)
     Market
Value
    Upfront
Premiums
Paid
(Received)
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50 )%      Monthly        0.52     USD        122      $ 171     $ 1,308     $ (1,137

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52       USD        408        572       4,412       (3,840

Goldman Sachs International

                   

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52       USD        27        38       262       (224

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52       USD        46        65       629       (564

Morgan Stanley Capital Services LLC

                   

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52       USD        50        70       665       (595

CDX-CMBX.NA.AAA Series 9, 9/17/58*

     (0.50     Monthly        0.52       USD        99        138       1,317       (1,179

Sale Contracts

                   

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

                   

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        32        (4,833     (4,462     (371

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        60        (9,081     (8,564     (517

Credit Suisse International

                   

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        28        (4,228     (2,035     (2,193

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        94        (14,196     (6,393     (7,803

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        350        (52,855     (21,294     (31,561

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        318        (48,052     (13,677     (34,375

Deutsche Bank AG

                   

CDX-CMBX.NA.A Series 6, 5/11/63*

     2.00       Monthly        3.27       USD        135        (7,899     (2,776     (5,123

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        8        (1,208     (986     (222


Swap Counterparty & Referenced Obligation

   FixedRate
(Pay)
Receive
    Payment
Frequency
     ImpliedCredit
Spread at
September 30, 2017
    Notional
Amount
(000)
     Market
Value
    Upfront
Premiums
Paid
(Received)
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00     Monthly        6.75     USD        8      $ (1,208   $ (483   $ (725

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        27        (4,078     (3,246     (832

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        28        (4,228     (3,367     (861

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        51        (7,710     (6,756     (954

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        84        (12,686     (9,514     (3,172

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        85        (12,836     (7,350     (5,486

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        132        (19,934     (9,726     (10,208

Goldman Sachs International

                   

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        4        (604     (377     (227

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        41        (6,192     (5,866     (326

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        8        (1,208     (831     (377

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        8        (1,208     (768     (440

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        16        (2,416     (1,816     (600

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        92        (13,932     (12,823     (1,109

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        57        (8,608     (6,384     (2,224

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        49        (7,400     (4,451     (2,949

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

     3.00       Monthly        6.75       USD        125        (18,877     (10,462     (8,415


Swap Counterparty & Referenced Obligation

  Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Payment
Frequency
    Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30, 2017
    Notional
Amount
(000)
    Market
Value
    Upfront
Premiums
Paid
(Received)
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

    3.00     Monthly       6.75     USD       185     $ (27,938   $ (14,868   $ (13,070

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

    3.00       Monthly       6.75       USD       246       (37,150     (12,648     (24,502

Morgan Stanley Capital Services LLC

               

CDX-CMBX.NA.BBB- Series 6, 5/11/63*

    3.00       Monthly       6.75       USD       35       (5,286     (2,595     (2,691
           

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 
            $ (312,456   $ (142,506   $ (169,950
           

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* Termination date

 

(a) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered restricted, but liquid and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At September 30, 2017, the aggregate market value of these securities amounted to $9,619,716 or 17.7% of net assets.
(b) Securities are perpetual and, thus, do not have a predetermined maturity date. The date shown, if applicable, reflects the next call date.
(c) Security in which significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) were used in determining fair value.
(d) Floating Rate Security. Stated interest/floor rate was in effect at September 30, 2017.
(e) IO - Interest Only.
(f) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities, which represent 0.42% of net assets as of September 30, 2017, are considered illiquid and restricted. Additional information regarding such securities follows:

 

144A/Restricted & Illiquid Securities

   Acquisition
Date
     Cost      Market
Value
     Percentage of
Net Assets
 

Bellemeade Re II Ltd. Series 2016-1A, Class M2B
7.737%, 4/25/26

     4/29/16      $ 150,000      $ 154,235        0.28  

Bellemeade Re II Ltd. Series 2016-1A, Class M2A
5.737%, 4/25/26

     7/17/17        1,170        1,168        0.00  

Wells Fargo Credit Risk Transfer Securities Trust Series 2015-WF1, Class 1M2
6.487%, 11/25/25

     9/28/15        47,935        52,035        0.10  

Wells Fargo Credit Risk Transfer Securities Trust Series 2015-WF1, Class 2M2
6.737%, 11/25/25

     9/28/15        20,439        23,253        0.04  

 

(g) Inverse interest only security.
(h) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $1,400,216 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(995,525), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $404,691.
(i) An amount of U.S. $102,314 has been segregated to collateralize margin requirements for the open futures contracts at September 30, 2017.


Currency Abbreviations:

 

AUD    -    Australian Dollar
BRL    -    Brazilian Real
CAD    -    Canadian Dollar
EUR    -    Euro
GBP    -    Great British Pound
JPY    -    Japanese Yen
KRW    -    South Korean Won
MXN    -    Mexican Peso
MYR    -    Malaysian Ringgit
NOK    -    Norwegian Krone
NZD    -    New Zealand Dollar
RUB    -    Russian Ruble
SEK    -    Swedish Krona
TRY    -    Turkish Lira
TWD    -    New Taiwan Dollar
USD    -    United States Dollar

Glossary:

 

ABS    -    Asset-Backed Securities
BKBM    -    Bank Bill Benchmark (New Zealand)
BOBL    -    Bundesobligationen
CBT    -    Chicago Board of Trade
CDX-CMBX.NA    -    North American Commercial Mortgage-Backed Index
CMBS    -    Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
CPI    -    Consumer Price Index
LIBOR    -    London Interbank Offered Rates
REIT    -    Real Estate Investment Trust
REMICs    -    Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits
STIBOR    -    Stockholm Interbank Offered Rate
TBA    -    To Be Announced
TIIE    -    Banco de México Equilibrium Interbank Interest Rate
TIPS    -    Treasury Inflation Protected Security


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Intermediate Bond Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Valuations of mortgage-backed or other asset backed securities, by pricing vendors, are based on both proprietary and industry recognized models and discounted cash flow techniques. Significant inputs to the valuation of these instruments are value of the collateral, the rates and timing of delinquencies, the rates and timing of prepayments, and default and loss expectations, which are driven in part by housing prices for residential mortgages. Significant inputs are determined based on relative value analyses, which incorporate comparisons to instruments with similar collateral and risk profiles, including relevant indices. Mortgage and asset backed securities for which management has collected current observable data through pricing services are generally categorized within Level 2. Those investments for which current observable data has not been provided are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2      Level 3     Total  

Assets:

 

Mortgage Pass-Throughs

   $             – 0  –    $     12,046,636      $ – 0  –    $     12,046,636  

Corporates - Investment Grade

     – 0  –      11,392,812        – 0  –      11,392,812  

Asset-Backed Securities

     – 0  –      6,181,516            1,094,612       7,276,128  

Governments - Treasuries

     – 0  –      5,942,145        – 0  –      5,942,145  

Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities

     – 0  –      3,914,365        901,280       4,815,645  

Collateralized Mortgage Obligations

     – 0  –      4,139,753        129,824       4,269,577  

Inflation-Linked Securities

     – 0  –      3,251,866        – 0  –      3,251,866  

Corporates - Non-Investment Grade

     – 0  –      1,839,247        – 0  –      1,839,247  


Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Agencies

     – 0  –      1,594,995       – 0  –      1,594,995  

Emerging Markets - Treasuries

     – 0  –      507,879       – 0  –      507,879  

Quasi-Sovereigns

     – 0  –      378,224       – 0  –      378,224  

Local Governments - US Municipal Bonds

     – 0  –      306,468       – 0  –      306,468  

Emerging Markets - Corporate Bonds

     – 0  –      145,781       – 0  –      145,781  

Preferred Stocks

     – 0  –      116,250       – 0  –      116,250  

Short-Term Investments:

        

Agency Discount Notes

     – 0  –      4,145,394       – 0  –      4,145,394  

Governments - Treasuries

     – 0  –      2,186,721       – 0  –      2,186,721  

Time Deposits

     – 0  –      192,402       – 0  –      192,402  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     – 0  –      58,282,454       2,125,716       60,408,170  

Other Financial Instruments (a):

        

Assets:

 

Futures

     47,578       – 0  –      – 0  –      47,578  

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      46,867       – 0  –      46,867  

Centrally Cleared Interest Rate Swaps

     – 0  –      44,724       – 0  –      44,724  

Credit Default Swaps

     – 0  –      40,127       – 0  –      40,127  

Liabilities:

 

Futures

     (67,198     – 0  –      – 0  –      (67,198

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (38,277     – 0  –      (38,277

Centrally Cleared Interest Rate Swaps

     – 0  –      (74,203     – 0  –      (74,203

Credit Default Swaps

     – 0  –      (352,583     – 0  –      (352,583
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (b)

   $     (19,620   $     57,949,109     $     2,125,716     $     60,055,205  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument. Other financial instruments may also include credit default swaps which are valued at market value.

 

(b) There were de minimis transfers under 1% of net assets during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

The following is a reconciliation of investments in which significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) were used in determining fair value.

 

     Asset-Backed
Securities
    Commercial
Mortgage-Backed
Securities
    Collateralized
Mortgage Obligations
 

Balance as of 12/31/16

   $ 699,392     $     1,500,896     $ – 0  – 

Accrued discounts/(premiums)

     39       (382     – 0  – 

Realized gain (loss)

     3,636       (33,642     – 0  – 

Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     5,382       31,361       2,339  

Purchases

     779,776       – 0  –      83,029  

Sales

     (393,613     (596,953     – 0  – 

Transfers in to Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  –      44,456  

Transfers out of Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance as of 9/30/17

   $     1,094,612     $ 901,280     $     129,824  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation from investments held as of 9/30/17

   $ 5,848     $ (1,849   $ 2,339  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 


     Total               

Balance as of 12/31/16

   $ 2,200,288       

Accrued discounts/(premiums)

     (343     

Realized gain (loss)

     (30,006     

Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     39,082       

Purchases

     862,805       

Sales

     (990,566     

Transfers in to Level 3

     44,456       

Transfers out of Level 3

     – 0  –      
  

 

 

      

Balance as of 9/30/17

   $     2,125,716       
  

 

 

      

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation from investments held as of 9/30/17

   $ 6,338       
  

 

 

      

As of September 30, 2017, all Level 3 securities were priced by third party vendors.

The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB International Growth Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 89.5%

       

Financials - 24.6%

       

Banks - 9.4%

       

Credicorp Ltd.

     8,300        $ 1,701,666  

HDFC Bank Ltd.

     70,640          1,964,337  

Svenska Handelsbanken AB-Class A

     74,920          1,131,914  

Swedbank AB-Class A

     64,770          1,793,579  
       

 

 

 
          6,591,496  
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 4.4%

       

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

     24,760          1,271,324  

Partners Group Holding AG

     2,600          1,765,134  
       

 

 

 
          3,036,458  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Finance - 2.4%

       

Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd. (a)

     117,110          1,701,430  
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 5.8%

       

AIA Group Ltd.

     276,800          2,049,233  

Prudential PLC

     82,815          1,981,804  
       

 

 

 
          4,031,037  
       

 

 

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 2.6%

       

Housing Development Finance Corp., Ltd.

     68,247          1,809,276  
       

 

 

 
          17,169,697  
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 18.3%

       

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 0.4%

       

Halma PLC

     19,524          292,953  
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 5.1%

       

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Sponsored ADR) (a)

     10,320          1,782,367  

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

     39,800          1,740,083  
       

 

 

 
          3,522,450  
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 12.8%

       

ams AG (a)

     23,400          1,699,064  

ASML Holding NV

     7,270          1,242,280  

Disco Corp.

     6,700          1,365,496  

Infineon Technologies AG

     67,920          1,712,426  

NXP Semiconductors NV (a)

     11,210          1,267,739  

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

     233,000          1,668,852  
       

 

 

 
          8,955,857  
       

 

 

 
          12,771,260  
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 13.8%

       

Building Products - 4.7%

       

Cie de Saint-Gobain

     17,473          1,041,042  

Kingspan Group PLC

     52,330          2,225,321  
       

 

 

 
          3,266,363  
       

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 0.3%

       

China Everbright International Ltd.

     148,000          186,500  
       

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 5.6%

       

Schneider Electric SE (Paris) (a)

     19,550          1,702,434  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Vestas Wind Systems A/S

     24,530        $   2,204,897  
       

 

 

 
          3,907,331  
       

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 3.2%

       

Siemens AG (REG)

     15,820          2,232,350  
       

 

 

 
          9,592,544  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 9.2%

       

Food & Staples Retailing - 1.7%

       

Tsuruha Holdings, Inc.

     9,800          1,171,745  
       

 

 

 

Food Products - 1.9%

       

Nestle SA (REG)

     16,288          1,367,235  
       

 

 

 

Household Products - 4.1%

       

Pigeon Corp.

     29,800          1,018,735  

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC

     12,430          1,135,704  

Unicharm Corp.

     30,300          694,033  
       

 

 

 
          2,848,472  
       

 

 

 

Personal Products - 1.5%

       

Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.

     73,380          1,031,536  
       

 

 

 
          6,418,988  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 6.9%

       

Auto Components - 4.5%

       

Delphi Automotive PLC

     17,750          1,746,600  

Valeo SA

     18,690          1,386,813  
       

 

 

 
          3,133,413  
       

 

 

 

Household Durables - 1.8%

       

Panasonic Corp.

     85,800          1,245,126  
       

 

 

 

Multiline Retail - 0.6%

       

Don Quijote Holdings Co., Ltd.

     11,700          437,319  
       

 

 

 
          4,815,858  
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 6.5%

       

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 2.0%

       

Essilor International SA

     11,162          1,383,391  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 1.2%

       

Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.

     56,655          872,919  
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 3.3%

       

Roche Holding AG

     7,080          1,809,790  

Vectura Group PLC (a)(b)

     325,390          463,928  
       

 

 

 
          2,273,718  
       

 

 

 
          4,530,028  
       

 

 

 

Utilities - 3.5%

       

Multi-Utilities - 0.6%

       

Suez

     22,680          414,111  
       

 

 

 

Water Utilities - 2.9%

       

Beijing Enterprises Water Group Ltd. (a)

     1,692,000          1,368,370  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Cia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo

     60,800        $ 638,878  
       

 

 

 
          2,007,248  
       

 

 

 
          2,421,359  
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 3.1%

       

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 3.1%

       

Deutsche Telekom AG (REG)

     76,810          1,434,373  

Telekomunikasi Indonesia Persero Tbk PT

     2,051,500          713,469  
       

 

 

 
          2,147,842  
       

 

 

 

Materials - 2.4%

       

Chemicals - 2.4%

       

Chr Hansen Holding A/S

     14,340          1,230,982  

Umicore SA

     5,389          446,132  
       

 

 

 
          1,677,114  
       

 

 

 

Real Estate - 1.2%

       

Real Estate Management & Development - 1.2%

       

SM Prime Holdings, Inc.

     1,247,400          846,829  
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $42,646,814)

          62,391,519  
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 5.3%

       

Time Deposit - 5.3%

       

State Street Bank & Trust Co.
0.12%, 10/02/17
(cost $3,647,560)

   U.S.$ 3,648          3,647,560  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities Loaned - 94.8%
(cost $46,294,374)

          66,039,079  
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 0.3%

       

Investment Companies - 0.3%

       

AB Fixed Income Shares, Inc.-Government Money Market Portfolio-Class AB,
0.83% (c)(d)(e)
(cost $229,935)

     229,935          229,935  
       

 

 

 


              U.S. $ Value  

Total Investments - 95.1%
(cost $46,524,309) (f)

        $ 66,269,014  

Other assets less liabilities - 4.9%

          3,444,006  
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 69,713,020  
       

 

 

 

FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Bank of America, NA

     USD        1,510        CNY        10,068        11/15/17      $ 934  

Bank of America, NA

     USD        665        EUR        564        11/15/17        2,793  

Bank of America, NA

     USD        496        RUB        30,290        11/15/17        25,154  

Barclays Bank PLC

     CNY        1,059        USD        158        11/15/17        (668

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD        312        INR        20,109        11/15/17        (5,443

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD        823        JPY        92,317        11/15/17        (1,102

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD        2,519        KRW        2,835,083        11/15/17        (42,565

BNP Paribas SA

     CNY        1,911        USD        282        11/15/17        (4,663

BNP Paribas SA

     INR        34,157        USD        526        11/15/17        6,391  

Citibank, NA

     BRL        2,145        USD        677        10/03/17        (182

Citibank, NA

     USD        677        BRL        2,145        10/03/17        203  

Citibank, NA

     CNY        10,959        USD        1,625        11/15/17        (19,423

Citibank, NA

     INR        406,760        USD        6,321        11/15/17        128,707  

Citibank, NA

     USD        2,455        AUD        3,103        11/15/17        (22,643

Citibank, NA

     USD        3,824        CAD        4,841        11/15/17        57,324  

Citibank, NA

     USD        726        GBP        548        11/15/17        9,787  

Citibank, NA

     USD        3,994        JPY        439,039        11/15/17        (84,599

Citibank, NA

     USD        571        MXN        10,410        11/15/17        (3,286

Citibank, NA

     USD        1,061        ZAR        14,236        11/15/17        (16,914

Credit Suisse International

     BRL        2,145        USD        677        10/03/17        32  

Credit Suisse International

     USD        677        BRL        2,145        10/03/17        182  

Credit Suisse International

     USD        675        BRL        2,145        11/03/17        (217

Credit Suisse International

     USD        889        CHF        860        11/15/17        1,669  

Credit Suisse International

     USD        996        SEK        8,112        11/15/17        2,153  

Credit Suisse International

     USD        904        SEK        7,267        11/15/17        (9,694

Deutsche Bank AG

     AUD        821        USD        648        11/15/17        4,088  

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     USD        104        INR        6,853        11/15/17        (1

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     TWD        3,164        USD        104        11/22/17        19  

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     USD        916        AUD        1,149        11/15/17        (15,089

Standard Chartered Bank

     HKD        9,596        USD        1,229        11/15/17        (277

Standard Chartered Bank

     SEK        15,217        USD        1,884        11/15/17        10,834  

Standard Chartered Bank

     USD        2,029        GBP        1,555        11/15/17        57,424  

Standard Chartered Bank

     INR        17,183        USD        265        11/29/17        4,123  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     AUD        142        USD        111        11/15/17        (24

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     CAD        104        USD        83        11/15/17        (178

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     CHF        147        USD        153        11/15/17        737  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     CHF        1,616        USD        1,671        11/15/17        (1,948

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     EUR        2,767        USD        3,285        11/15/17        7,175  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     GBP        165        USD        221        11/15/17        (390

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     JPY        52,904        USD        478        11/15/17        7,251  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     SEK        1,290        USD        160        11/15/17        1,562  


Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        166        CAD        208        11/15/17      $ 1,007  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        289        GBP        214        11/15/17        (2,035

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        297        HKD        2,322        11/15/17        206  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        555        HKD        4,331        11/15/17        (37

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        167        JPY        18,409        11/15/17        (3,582

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        301        NOK        2,374        11/15/17        (2,647

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        329        ZAR        4,427        11/15/17        (4,384

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     ZAR        3,427        USD        256        11/15/17        4,569  
                 

 

 

 
   $ 92,333  
                 

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Affiliated investments.
(d) To obtain a copy of the fund’s shareholder report, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AB at (800) 227-4618.
(e) The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(f) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $20,679,477 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(842,439), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $19,837,038.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.

Currency Abbreviations:

 

AUD    -    Australian Dollar
BRL    -    Brazilian Real
CAD    -    Canadian Dollar
CHF    -    Swiss Franc
CNY    -    Chinese Yuan Renminbi
EUR    -    Euro
GBP    -    Great British Pound
HKD    -    Hong Kong Dollar
INR    -    Indian Rupee
JPY    -    Japanese Yen
KRW    -    South Korean Won
MXN    -    Mexican Peso
NOK    -    Norwegian Krone
RUB    -    Russian Ruble
SEK    -    Swedish Krona
TWD    -    New Taiwan Dollar
USD    -    United States Dollar
ZAR    -    South African Rand

Glossary:

 

ADR

   -    American Depositary Receipt

REG

   -    Registered Shares

COUNTRY BREAKDOWN1

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

  11.2%       

India

  9.0%       

Japan

  9.0%       

France

  8.1%       

Germany

  7.8%       

United Kingdom

  7.7%       

China

  7.5%       

Switzerland

  5.2%       

Denmark

  4.4%       

Sweden

  3.8%       

Netherlands

  3.4%       

Ireland

  3.1%       

Hong Kong

  2.6%       

United States

  11.7%       

Other

  5.5%       

Short-Term

 

 

      
  100.0%       

Total Investments

 

 

      

 

1 All data are as of September 30, 2017. The Portfolio’s country breakdown is expressed as a percentage of total investments and may vary over time. “Other” country weightings represent 2.6% or less in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Indonesia, Peru, Philippines and Taiwan.


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB International Growth Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks:

        

Financials

   $ 1,701,666     $ 15,468,031     $         – 0  –    $ 17,169,697  

Information Technology

     3,050,106       9,721,154       – 0  –      12,771,260  

Industrials

     2,225,321       7,367,223       – 0  –      9,592,544  

Consumer Staples

     – 0  –      6,418,988       – 0  –      6,418,988  

Consumer Discretionary

     1,746,600       3,069,258       – 0  –      4,815,858  

Health Care

     463,928       4,066,100       – 0  –      4,530,028  

Utilities

     638,878       1,782,481       – 0  –      2,421,359  

Telecommunication Services

     – 0  –      2,147,842       – 0  –      2,147,842  

Materials

     – 0  –      1,677,114       – 0  –      1,677,114  

Real Estate

     – 0  –      846,829       – 0  –      846,829  

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      3,647,560       – 0  –      3,647,560  

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     229,935       – 0  –      – 0  –      229,935  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     10,056,434       56,212,580 (a)      – 0  –      66,269,014  

Other Financial Instruments (b):

        

Assets:

        

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      334,324       – 0  –      334,324  

Liabilities:

        

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (241,991     – 0  –      (241,991
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (c)(d)

   $ 10,056,434     $ 56,304,913     $ – 0  –    $ 66,361,347  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) A significant portion of the Portfolio’s foreign equity investments are categorized as Level 2 investments since they are valued using fair value prices based on third party vendor modeling tools to the extent available.
(b) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument.
(c) There were no transfers from Level 1 to Level 2 during the reporting period.
(d) An amount of $1,771,733 was transferred from Level 2 to Level 1 due to increase in trading volume during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and any third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily comparison of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 31, 2017 is as follows:

 

Fund

   Market  Value
12/31/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
     Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
     Dividend
Income
(000)
 

Government Money Market*

   $ 2,304      $ 12,099      $ 14,173      $ 230      $ 3  

 

* Investments of cash collateral for securities lending transactions


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB International Value Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 97.5%

       

Financials - 20.0%

       

Banks - 14.0%

       

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.

     205,590        $ 4,788,927  

Barclays PLC

     2,268,410          5,881,946  

BNP Paribas SA

     122,890          9,914,243  

BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd.

     1,498,000          7,296,750  

DNB ASA

     386,550          7,804,472  

Erste Group Bank AG (a)

     211,140          9,122,320  

ING Groep NV

     530,460          9,777,626  

KB Financial Group, Inc.

     84,850          4,174,545  

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.

     1,566,900          10,187,719  
       

 

 

 
            68,948,548  
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 2.0%

       

Credit Suisse Group AG (REG) (a)

     613,877          9,726,628  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Finance - 1.0%

       

Hitachi Capital Corp.

     201,600          4,797,762  
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 3.0%

       

Allianz SE (REG)

     45,270          10,167,046  

PICC Property & Casualty Co., Ltd.-Class H

     2,728,000          4,839,206  
       

 

 

 
          15,006,252  
       

 

 

 
          98,479,190  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 12.8%

       

Auto Components - 3.8%

       

Faurecia

     106,280          7,375,400  

Hankook Tire Co., Ltd.

     66,454          3,499,482  

Magna International, Inc. (New York)-Class A

     143,940          7,683,517  
       

 

 

 
          18,558,399  
       

 

 

 

Automobiles - 3.2%

       

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

     244,000          7,207,886  

Peugeot SA

     363,930          8,663,416  
       

 

 

 
          15,871,302  
       

 

 

 

Household Durables - 2.6%

       

Nikon Corp.

     123,800          2,146,857  

Panasonic Corp.

     719,500          10,441,358  
       

 

 

 
          12,588,215  
       

 

 

 

Leisure Products - 0.9%

       

Amer Sports Oyj (a)

     176,470          4,684,967  
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 2.3%

       

HUGO BOSS AG

     84,730          7,476,338  

Pandora A/S

     37,213          3,679,332  
       

 

 

 
          11,155,670  
       

 

 

 
          62,858,553  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 10.6%

       

Beverages - 0.9%

       

Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan, Inc.

     135,700          4,395,276  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Food Products - 3.0%

       

Orkla ASA

     808,160        $ 8,293,081  

WH Group Ltd. (b)

     6,273,500          6,681,292  
       

 

 

 
          14,974,373  
       

 

 

 

Household Products - 1.7%

       

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Preference Shares)

     60,590          8,254,935  
       

 

 

 

Tobacco - 5.0%

       

British American Tobacco PLC

     240,230          15,039,288  

Japan Tobacco, Inc.

     294,700          9,657,596  
       

 

 

 
          24,696,884  
       

 

 

 
            52,321,468  
       

 

 

 

Materials - 10.0%

       

Chemicals - 6.4%

       

Air Water, Inc.

     233,300          4,307,813  

Arkema SA

     63,151          7,748,746  

Incitec Pivot Ltd.

     1,736,530          4,919,804  

Johnson Matthey PLC

     187,760          8,609,772  

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.

     88,300          6,241,394  
       

 

 

 
          31,827,529  
       

 

 

 

Metals & Mining - 3.6%

       

BlueScope Steel Ltd.

     403,173          3,482,814  

First Quantum Minerals Ltd.

     335,830          3,770,770  

Gerdau SA (Preference Shares)

     1,643,700          5,729,583  

Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd.

     170,100          4,610,690  
       

 

 

 
          17,593,857  
       

 

 

 
          49,421,386  
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 10.0%

       

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 8.3%

       

BT Group PLC

     3,493,520          13,287,579  

China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd. (a)

     5,012,000          7,007,141  

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.

     344,100          15,766,901  

TDC A/S

     794,094          4,657,014  
       

 

 

 
          40,718,635  
       

 

 

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 1.7%

       

Vodafone Group PLC

     3,010,800          8,430,804  
       

 

 

 
          49,149,439  
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 9.7%

       

Communications Equipment - 2.0%

       

Nokia Oyj

     1,659,940          9,973,754  
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 2.6%

       

Yahoo Japan Corp. (c)

     2,680,800          12,741,578  
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 2.2%

       

SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. (c)

     68,500          4,758,359  

SUMCO Corp.

     377,300          5,953,022  
       

 

 

 
          10,711,381  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Software - 1.3%

       

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

     17,900        $ 6,600,327  
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 1.6%

       

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

     3,500          7,875,777  
       

 

 

 
          47,902,817  
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 9.6%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 3.5%

       

Airbus SE

     110,800          10,547,620  

BAE Systems PLC

     804,590          6,813,869  
       

 

 

 
          17,361,489  
       

 

 

 

Airlines - 3.9%

       

Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.

     289,800          9,810,112  

Qantas Airways Ltd.

     2,079,535          9,524,940  
       

 

 

 
            19,335,052  
       

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 0.8%

       

Philips Lighting NV (b)

     92,700          3,741,548  
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 1.4%

       

IHI Corp. (c)

     197,500          6,884,582  
       

 

 

 
          47,322,671  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 8.0%

       

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 8.0%

       

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (Toronto)

     162,860          5,454,554  

JXTG Holdings, Inc.

     1,874,400          9,664,819  

Royal Dutch Shell PLC (Euronext Amsterdam)-Class A

     382,090          11,572,573  

Royal Dutch Shell PLC-Class A

     259,644          7,846,912  

YPF SA (Sponsored ADR)

     210,543          4,690,898  
       

 

 

 
          39,229,756  
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 4.6%

       

Biotechnology - 1.0%

       

Grifols SA (ADR)

     231,240          5,061,843  
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 3.6%

       

Sanofi

     122,770          12,221,340  

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Sponsored ADR)

     300,540          5,289,504  
       

 

 

 
          17,510,844  
       

 

 

 
          22,572,687  
       

 

 

 

Utilities - 1.7%

       

Electric Utilities - 1.0%

       

EDP-Energias de Portugal SA

     1,255,840          4,735,389  
       

 

 

 

Water Utilities - 0.7%

       

Pennon Group PLC (c)

     350,830          3,745,901  
       

 

 

 
          8,481,290  
       

 

 

 

Real Estate - 0.5%

       

Real Estate Management & Development - 0.5%

       

Leopalace21 Corp.

     345,500          2,407,767  
       

 

 

 


     Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Total Common Stocks
(cost $405,893,546)

        $ 480,147,024  
       

 

 

 

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 1.1%

       

Time Deposit - 1.1%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.12%, 10/02/17
(cost $5,611,128)

   $ 5,611          5,611,128  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities Loaned - 98.6%
(cost $411,504,674)

          485,758,152  
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 2.4%

       

Investment Companies - 2.4%

       

AB Fixed Income Shares, Inc.-Government Money Market Portfolio-Class AB,
0.83% (d)(e)(f)
(cost $11,999,738)

     11,999,738          11,999,738  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 101.0%
(cost $423,504,412) (g)

          497,757,890  

Other assets less liabilities - (1.0)%

          (5,151,932
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 492,605,958  
       

 

 

 

FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Bank of America, NA

     TRY        5,330        USD        1,470        10/17/17      $ (19,353

Bank of America, NA

     USD        3,807        GBP        2,947        10/17/17        144,166  

Bank of America, NA

     KRW        1,397,559        USD        1,219        10/26/17        (1,631

Bank of America, NA

     USD        6,363        EUR        5,280        1/16/18        (84,893

Barclays Bank PLC

     CNY        48,327        USD        7,052        10/17/17        (220,771

Barclays Bank PLC

     GBP        1,330        USD        1,725        10/17/17        (57,708

Barclays Bank PLC

     KRW        15,946,221        USD        13,820        10/17/17        (107,731

Barclays Bank PLC

     NOK        46,971        USD        5,625        10/17/17        (274,212

Barclays Bank PLC

     TWD        136,780        USD        4,479        10/17/17        (24,629

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD        1,276        GBP        963        10/17/17        14,815  

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD        1,219        KRW        1,366,439        10/17/17        (25,972

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD        4,511        TWD        136,780        10/17/17        (7,575

Barclays Bank PLC

     JPY        219,338        USD        1,963        1/16/18        2,693  

BNP Paribas SA

     CAD        1,269        USD        957        10/17/17        (59,649

BNP Paribas SA

     CNY        32,120        USD        4,688        10/17/17        (145,709

BNP Paribas SA

     KRW        818,323        USD        720        10/17/17        4,950  

BNP Paribas SA

     USD        1,988        CHF        1,869        10/17/17        (55,663

BNP Paribas SA

     USD        1,621        GBP        1,234        10/17/17        33,131  

BNP Paribas SA

     USD        1,234        JPY        136,692        10/17/17        (18,380

BNP Paribas SA

     USD        2,020        GBP        1,539        1/16/18        48,803  

Citibank, NA

     BRL        16,788        USD        5,299        10/03/17        (1,590

Citibank, NA

     USD        5,299        BRL        16,788        10/03/17        1,422  

Citibank, NA

     CAD        13,905        USD        10,805        10/17/17        (340,465

Citibank, NA

     EUR        9,131        USD        10,816        10/17/17        16,069  

Citibank, NA

     ILS        19,216        USD        5,471        10/17/17        32,173  


Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Citibank, NA

     JPY        501,934        USD        4,599        10/17/17      $ 135,718  

Citibank, NA

     JPY        1,548,634        USD        13,623        10/17/17        (147,976

Citibank, NA

     USD        2,199        AUD        2,780        10/17/17        (19,120

Citibank, NA

     USD        17,392        CHF        16,664        10/17/17        (167,811

Citibank, NA

     USD        15,331        EUR        13,632        10/17/17        793,205  

Citibank, NA

     USD        2,215        ILS        7,991        10/17/17        46,784  

Citibank, NA

     USD        14,613        SEK        122,711        10/17/17        464,625  

Citibank, NA

     USD        1,120        ZAR        14,704        10/17/17        (36,756

Citibank, NA

     USD        2,005        RUB        115,704        11/22/17        (15,018

Credit Suisse International

     NOK        44,716        USD        5,236        10/17/17        (380,345

Credit Suisse International

     USD        4,205        HUF        1,096,289        10/17/17        (46,087

Credit Suisse International

     USD        6,268        SEK        50,466        10/17/17        (66,976

Credit Suisse International

     USD        11,777        CHF        11,342        1/16/18        22,311  

Credit Suisse International

     USD        1,269        SEK        10,295        1/16/18        2,757  

Deutsche Bank AG

     CHF        6,004        USD        6,240        10/17/17        33,888  

Deutsche Bank AG

     USD        2,624        AUD        3,324        10/17/17        (16,683

Deutsche Bank AG

     USD        5,499        GBP        4,291        10/17/17        253,923  

Deutsche Bank AG

     USD        1,151        ILS        4,151        10/17/17        23,849  

Deutsche Bank AG

     CAD        1,213        USD        977        1/16/18        3,994  

Deutsche Bank AG

     ILS        5,131        USD        1,454        1/16/18        (2,985

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     USD        2,375        AUD        3,083        10/17/17        43,384  

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     USD        1,197        HKD        9,356        10/17/17        744  

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     USD        2,672        NOK        20,857        10/17/17        (52,425

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

     USD        2,159        EUR        1,924        10/17/17        116,626  

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

     USD        1,723        NOK        13,781        10/17/17        7,943  

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

     USD        1,232        SEK        10,118        10/17/17        10,733  

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     CAD        4,192        USD        3,331        10/17/17        (29,386

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     CHF        1,500        USD        1,556        10/17/17        5,335  

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     EUR        1,113        USD        1,322        10/17/17        5,145  

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     USD        29,503        EUR        25,739        10/17/17        940,413  

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     USD        1,830        GBP        1,379        10/17/17        18,724  

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     USD        1,201        NOK        9,454        10/17/17        (13,169

Standard Chartered Bank

     BRL        16,788        USD        5,299        10/03/17        (1,422

Standard Chartered Bank

     USD        5,261        BRL        16,788        10/03/17        39,618  

Standard Chartered Bank

     HKD        95,917        USD        12,311        10/17/17        28,586  

Standard Chartered Bank

     USD        813        CNY        5,324        10/17/17        (11,746

Standard Chartered Bank

     USD        2,431        HKD        18,961        10/17/17        (3,265

Standard Chartered Bank

     USD        3,647        TRY        13,583        10/17/17        148,778  

Standard Chartered Bank

     BRL        16,788        USD        5,240        11/03/17        (38,050

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     AUD        6,565        USD        5,205        10/17/17        55,801  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     EUR        9,463        USD        11,239        10/17/17        45,863  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     EUR        1,178        USD        1,385        10/17/17        (8,198

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     GBP        1,170        USD        1,522        10/17/17        (46,273

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     HKD        7,674        USD        983        10/17/17        39  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     JPY        716,079        USD        6,471        10/17/17        103,499  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     NOK        15,077        USD        1,869        10/17/17        (24,337

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        3,684        AUD        4,692        10/17/17        (3,676

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        24        GBP        18        10/17/17        270  

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD        1,416        ZAR        19,261        10/17/17        3,662  

UBS AG

     USD        1,977        EUR        1,689        10/17/17        21,047  

UBS AG

     USD        539        GBP        407        10/17/17        6,231  


Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

UBS AG

     JPY        1,137,647        USD        10,261        1/16/18      $ 95,821  
                 

 

 

 
                  $ 1,199,903  
                 

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered restricted, but liquid and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At September 30, 2017, the aggregate market value of these securities amounted to $10,422,840 or 2.1% of net assets.
(c) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(d) Affiliated investments.
(e) The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(f) To obtain a copy of the fund’s shareholder report, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AB at (800) 227-4618.
(g) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $93,359,893 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(17,906,512), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $75,453,381.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.

Currency Abbreviations:

 

AUD    -    Australian Dollar
BRL    -    Brazilian Real
CAD    -    Canadian Dollar
CHF    -    Swiss Franc
CNY    -    Chinese Yuan Renminbi
EUR    -    Euro
GBP    -    Great British Pound
HKD    -    Hong Kong Dollar
HUF    -    Hungarian Forint
ILS    -    Israeli Shekel
JPY    -    Japanese Yen
KRW    -    South Korean Won
NOK    -    Norwegian Krone
RUB    -    Russian Ruble
SEK    -    Swedish Krona
TRY    -    Turkish Lira
TWD    -    New Taiwan Dollar
USD    -    United States Dollar
ZAR    -    South African Rand

Glossary:

 

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt
REG    -    Registered Shares

COUNTRY BREAKDOWN1

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

  28.5%       

Japan

  16.7%       

United Kingdom

  11.6%       

France

  5.3%       

Germany

  4.7%       

Australia

  3.5%       

Canada

  3.3%       

Norway

  3.2%       

South Korea

  3.0%       

Finland

  2.9%       

Hong Kong

  2.8%       

Netherlands

  2.4%       

China

  2.0%       

Switzerland

  8.9%       

Other

  1.2%       

Short-Term

 

 

      
  100.0%       

Total Investments

 

 

      

 

1 All data are as of September 30, 2017. The Portfolio’s country breakdown is expressed as a percentage of total investments and may vary over time. “Other” country weightings represent 1.9% or less in the following countries: Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Israel, Portugal and Spain.


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB International Value Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks:

        

Financials

   $ – 0  –    $ 98,479,190     $ – 0  –    $ 98,479,190  

Consumer Discretionary

     7,683,517       55,175,036       – 0  –      62,858,553  

Consumer Staples

     – 0  –      52,321,468       – 0  –      52,321,468  

Materials

     9,500,353       39,921,033       – 0  –      49,421,386  

Telecommunication Services

     – 0  –      49,149,439       – 0  –      49,149,439  

Information Technology

     – 0  –      47,902,817       – 0  –      47,902,817  

Industrials

     3,741,548       43,581,123       – 0  –      47,322,671  

Energy

     10,145,452       29,084,304       – 0  –      39,229,756  

Health Care

     10,351,347       12,221,340       – 0  –      22,572,687  

Utilities

     – 0  –      8,481,290       – 0  –      8,481,290  

Real Estate

     – 0  –      2,407,767       – 0  –      2,407,767  

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      5,611,128       – 0  –      5,611,128  

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     11,999,738       – 0  –      – 0  –      11,999,738  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     53,421,955       444,335,935  (a)      – 0  –      497,757,890  

Other Financial Instruments (b):

        

Assets:

        

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      3,777,538       – 0  –      3,777,538  

Liabilities:

        

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (2,577,635     – 0  –      (2,577,635
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (c)

   $ 53,421,955     $ 445,535,838     $ – 0  –    $ 498,957,793  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) A significant portion of the Portfolio’s foreign equity investments are categorized as Level 2 investments since they are valued using fair value prices based on third party vendor modeling tools to the extent available.
(b) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument.


(c) There were de minimis transfers under 1% of net assets from Level 2 to Level 1 during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is as follows:

 

Fund

   Market  Value
12/31/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
     Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
     Dividend
Income
(000)
 

AB Government Money Market*

   $ 8,420      $ 213,542      $ 209,962      $ 12,000      $ 65  

 

* Investments of cash collateral for securities lending transactions


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Large Cap Growth Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 93.2%

       

Information Technology - 39.0%

       

Communications Equipment - 0.6%

       

Arista Networks, Inc. (a)

     14,989        $ 2,842,064  
       

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 0.7%

       

Amphenol Corp.-Class A

     33,706          2,852,876  
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 14.8%

       

Alphabet, Inc.-Class A (a)

     4,130          4,021,463  

Alphabet, Inc.-Class C (a)

     33,199          31,841,493  

Facebook, Inc.-Class A (a)

     180,449          30,833,321  
       

 

 

 
          66,696,277  
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 8.7%

       

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.-Class A

     87,406          6,340,431  

Fiserv, Inc. (a)

     63,880          8,237,965  

Vantiv, Inc.-Class A (a)

     17,510          1,233,930  

Visa, Inc.-Class A

     221,460          23,306,450  
       

 

 

 
          39,118,776  
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 5.1%

       

NVIDIA Corp.

     19,482          3,482,797  

Texas Instruments, Inc.

     42,310          3,792,669  

Xilinx, Inc.

     221,257          15,671,633  
       

 

 

 
          22,947,099  
       

 

 

 

Software - 4.7%

       

Adobe Systems, Inc. (a)

     80,370          11,989,596  

Electronic Arts, Inc. (a)

     63,950          7,549,937  

ServiceNow, Inc. (a)

     14,571          1,712,530  
       

 

 

 
          21,252,063  
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 4.4%

       

Apple, Inc.

     127,792          19,695,303  
       

 

 

 
          175,404,458  
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 20.3%

       

Biotechnology - 2.7%

       

Biogen, Inc. (a)

     38,695          12,116,178  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 8.0%

       

Align Technology, Inc. (a)

     17,420          3,244,823  

Danaher Corp.

     40,352          3,461,395  

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (a)

     127,862          13,976,595  

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (a)

     14,718          15,393,262  
       

 

 

 
          36,076,075  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 3.9%

       

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

     90,621          17,748,123  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Technology - 1.8%

       

Cerner Corp. (a)

     110,140          7,855,185  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 0.7%

       

Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. (a)

     5,035        $ 3,152,716  
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 3.2%

       

Zoetis, Inc.

     228,038          14,539,703  
       

 

 

 
          91,487,980  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 15.4%

       

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.2%

       

Starbucks Corp.

     97,080          5,214,167  
       

 

 

 

Internet & Direct Marketing Retail - 0.9%

       

Priceline Group, Inc. (The) (a)

     2,160          3,954,571  
       

 

 

 

Media - 2.6%

       

Comcast Corp.-Class A

     217,960          8,387,101  

Walt Disney Co. (The)

     34,100          3,361,237  
       

 

 

 
            11,748,338  
       

 

 

 

Multiline Retail - 0.9%

       

Dollar Tree, Inc. (a)

     47,951          4,163,106  
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 7.1%

       

Home Depot, Inc. (The)

     103,061          16,856,657  

TJX Cos., Inc. (The)

     117,089          8,632,972  

Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. (a)

     29,200          6,600,952  
       

 

 

 
          32,090,581  
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 2.7%

       

NIKE, Inc.-Class B

     236,240          12,249,044  
       

 

 

 
          69,419,807  
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 7.3%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 0.4%

       

Hexcel Corp.

     30,572          1,755,444  
       

 

 

 

Building Products - 2.2%

       

Allegion PLC

     66,879          5,783,027  

AO Smith Corp.

     71,217          4,232,426  
       

 

 

 
          10,015,453  
       

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 1.2%

       

Copart, Inc. (a)

     151,952          5,222,590  
       

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 1.8%

       

Roper Technologies, Inc.

     32,874          8,001,532  
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 0.8%

       

IDEX Corp.

     14,480          1,758,886  

WABCO Holdings, Inc. (a)

     12,792          1,893,216  
       

 

 

 
          3,652,102  
       

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 0.9%

       

Union Pacific Corp.

     35,500          4,116,935  
       

 

 

 
          32,764,056  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Consumer Staples - 7.0%

       

Beverages - 4.3%

       

Constellation Brands, Inc.-Class A

     35,070        $ 6,994,712  

Monster Beverage Corp. (a)

     220,018          12,155,994  
       

 

 

 
          19,150,706  
       

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 2.7%

       

Costco Wholesale Corp.

     74,800          12,288,892  
       

 

 

 
          31,439,598  
       

 

 

 

Financials - 2.6%

       

Capital Markets - 2.6%

       

MarketAxess Holdings, Inc.

     29,409          5,426,255  

S&P Global, Inc.

     41,350          6,463,418  
       

 

 

 
          11,889,673  
       

 

 

 

Materials - 1.6%

       

Chemicals - 1.6%

       

Ecolab, Inc.

     54,770          7,043,970  
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $280,934,556)

          419,449,542  
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 7.2%

       

Time Deposit - 7.2%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.12%, 10/02/17
(cost $32,481,753)

   $ 32,482          32,481,753  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 100.4%
(cost $313,416,309) (b)

          451,931,295  

Other assets less liabilities - (0.4)%

          (2,014,122
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 449,917,173  
       

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $138,878,030 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(363,044), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $138,514,986.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Russell sector classification scheme which was developed by Russell Investments. Russell classifies index members into industries that most closely describe the nature of its business and its primary economic orientation.


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Large Cap Growth Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks (a)

   $ 419,449,542     $ – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ 419,449,542  

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      32,481,753       – 0  –      32,481,753  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     419,449,542       32,481,753       – 0  –      451,931,295  

Other Financial Instruments (b)

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (c)

   $     419,449,542     $     32,481,753     $             – 0  –    $     451,931,295  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
(b) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument.
(c) There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is as follows:

 

Fund

   Market  Value
12/31/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
     Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
    Dividend
Income
(000)
 

Government Money Market*

   $ 1,452      $ 174      $ 1,626      $         – 0  –    $         – 0  – 
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* Investments of cash collateral for securities lending transactions


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Real Estate Investment Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 99.3%

       

Real Estate - 98.6%

       

Diversified REITs - 8.8%

       

Armada Hoffler Properties, Inc.

     59,930        $ 827,633  

Empire State Realty Trust, Inc.-Class A

     43,580          895,133  

Gramercy Property Trust

     33,094          1,001,094  

Liberty Property Trust

     21,700          891,002  

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust

     27,870          913,021  
       

 

 

 
            4,527,883  
       

 

 

 

Health Care REITs - 9.5%

       

Healthcare Realty Trust, Inc.

     20,910          676,229  

Medical Properties Trust, Inc.

     58,990          774,539  

Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc.

     31,870          699,228  

Ventas, Inc.

     10,310          671,490  

Welltower, Inc.

     29,680          2,085,911  
       

 

 

 
          4,907,397  
       

 

 

 

Hotel & Resort REITs - 6.4%

       

DiamondRock Hospitality Co.

     59,320          649,554  

MGM Growth Properties LLC-Class A

     17,630          532,602  

Park Hotels & Resorts, Inc.

     29,200          804,752  

RLJ Lodging Trust

     34,910          768,020  

Summit Hotel Properties, Inc.

     35,048          560,418  
       

 

 

 
          3,315,346  
       

 

 

 

Industrial REITs - 7.1%

       

Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp.-Class A

     41,740          675,771  

Prologis, Inc.

     13,890          881,459  

Rexford Industrial Realty, Inc.

     31,810          910,402  

STAG Industrial, Inc.

     43,880          1,205,384  
       

 

 

 
          3,673,016  
       

 

 

 

Office REITs - 13.3%

       

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.

     9,050          1,076,678  

Boston Properties, Inc.

     11,559          1,420,370  

Brandywine Realty Trust

     41,450          724,961  

Columbia Property Trust, Inc.

     45,490          990,317  

Corporate Office Properties Trust

     16,630          545,963  

Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc.

     32,960          1,105,149  

Mack-Cali Realty Corp.

     21,240          503,600  

Vornado Realty Trust

     5,990          460,511  
       

 

 

 
          6,827,549  
       

 

 

 

Residential REITs - 15.6%

       

American Homes 4 Rent-Class A

     46,140          1,001,699  

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

     4,540          810,027  

Camden Property Trust

     10,260          938,277  

Education Realty Trust, Inc.

     17,770          638,476  

Essex Property Trust, Inc.

     6,310          1,602,929  

Independence Realty Trust, Inc.

     54,610          555,384  

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.

     13,130          1,403,334  

Sun Communities, Inc.

     12,745          1,091,992  
       

 

 

 
          8,042,118  
       

 

 

 

Retail REITs - 16.5%

       

Brixmor Property Group, Inc.

     49,820          936,616  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

GGP, Inc.

     11,860        $ 246,332  

National Retail Properties, Inc.

     20,270          844,448  

Realty Income Corp.

     29,080          1,663,085  

Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.

     43,250          822,183  

Simon Property Group, Inc.

     19,410          3,125,204  

Urban Edge Properties

     34,820          839,859  
       

 

 

 
          8,477,727  
       

 

 

 

Specialized REITs - 21.4%

       

American Tower Corp.

     28,120          3,843,442  

Crown Castle International Corp.

     7,880          787,842  

CyrusOne, Inc.

     8,580          505,619  

Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

     12,950          1,532,374  

Equinix, Inc.

     5,423          2,420,285  

National Storage Affiliates Trust

     38,212          926,259  

Public Storage

     4,810          1,029,292  
       

 

 

 
          11,045,113  
       

 

 

 
          50,816,149  
       

 

 

 

Media - 0.7%

       

Movies & Entertainment - 0.7%

       

Regal Entertainment Group-Class A

     22,330          357,280  
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $45,014,479)

          51,173,429  
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.8%

       

Time Deposit - 0.8%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.12%, 10/02/17
(cost $409,548)

   $ 410          409,548  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 100.1%
(cost $45,424,027) (a)

 

       51,582,977  

Other assets less liabilities - (0.1)%

          (45,781
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 51,537,196  
       

 

 

 

 

(a) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $7,187,638 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(1,028,688), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $6,158,950.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the sector categorization methodology of the Adviser.

Glossary:

 

REIT    -    Real Estate Investment Trust


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Real Estate Investment Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks (a)

   $ 51,173,429     $ – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ 51,173,429  

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      409,548       – 0  –      409,548  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     51,173,429       409,548       – 0  –      51,582,977  

Other Financial Instruments (b)

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (c)

   $     51,173,429     $     409,548     $             – 0  –    $     51,582,977  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
(b) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument.
(c) There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is as follows:

 

Fund

   Market  Value
12/31/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
     Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
     Dividend
Income
(000)
 

AB Government Money Market*

   $ – 0 –    $ 4,993      $ 4,993      $ – 0 –    $ 1  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

* Investments of cash collateral for securities lending transactions


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Small Cap Growth Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 98.2%

       

Information Technology - 27.3%

       

Communications Equipment - 2.2%

       

Ciena Corp. (a)

     18,320        $ 402,490  

Lumentum Holdings, Inc. (a)

     9,990          542,957  
       

 

 

 
          945,447  
       

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 0.9%

       

Coherent, Inc. (a)

     1,630          383,327  
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 10.5%

       

2U, Inc. (a)

     10,510          588,980  

Cimpress NV (a)(b)

     5,366          524,044  

CoStar Group, Inc. (a)

     1,530          410,422  

GrubHub, Inc. (a)

     12,260          645,612  

LogMeIn, Inc.

     5,240          576,662  

New Relic, Inc. (a)

     10,382          517,024  

Q2 Holdings, Inc. (a)

     11,219          467,271  

Trade Desk, Inc. (The)-Class A (a)

     9,833          604,828  

Wix.com Ltd. (a)

     3,837          275,688  
       

 

 

 
          4,610,531  
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 3.6%

       

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (a)

     6,780          547,553  

Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.

     5,301          564,821  

Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (a)

     5,834          466,137  
       

 

 

 
          1,578,511  
       

 

 

 

Software - 10.1%

       

Aspen Technology, Inc. (a)

     8,083          507,693  

Blackbaud, Inc.

     5,748          504,675  

Blackline, Inc. (a)

     10,701          365,118  

Guidewire Software, Inc. (a)

     5,523          430,021  

HubSpot, Inc. (a)

     5,460          458,913  

Paylocity Holding Corp. (a)

     9,813          479,071  

Proofpoint, Inc. (a)

     7,160          624,495  

RingCentral, Inc.-Class A (a)

     13,740          573,645  

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (a)

     3,932          401,968  

Ultimate Software Group, Inc. (The) (a)

     515          97,644  
       

 

 

 
          4,443,243  
       

 

 

 
          11,961,059  
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 21.5%

       

Biotechnology - 9.3%

       

Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)(b)

     7,965          168,619  

Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. (a)(b)

     8,113          201,121  

Audentes Therapeutics, Inc. (a)

     7,819          219,010  

Avexis, Inc. (a)

     2,720          263,106  

BeiGene Ltd. (ADR) (a)(b)

     2,487          257,305  

Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Co., Ltd. (a)

     4,281          160,024  

Blueprint Medicines Corp. (a)

     5,612          390,988  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Clovis Oncology, Inc. (a)

     5,080        $ 418,592  

DBV Technologies SA (Sponsored ADR) (a)

     3,715          157,665  

Loxo Oncology, Inc. (a)

     4,415          406,710  

Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (a)

     3,600          220,608  

Nucana PLC (ADR) (a)

     9,042          166,101  

Prothena Corp. PLC (a)(b)

     4,500          291,465  

Radius Health, Inc. (a)(b)

     4,070          156,898  

Sage Therapeutics, Inc. (a)

     3,166          197,242  

TESARO, Inc. (a)

     1,718          221,794  

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, Inc. (a)

     3,573          190,298  
       

 

 

 
            4,087,546  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 5.3%

       

DexCom, Inc. (a)

     4,745          232,149  

iRhythm Technologies, Inc. (a)

     12,743          661,107  

Nevro Corp. (a)

     6,769          615,167  

Penumbra, Inc. (a)

     6,488          585,866  

Tactile Systems Technology, Inc. (a)

     7,709          238,594  
       

 

 

 
          2,332,883  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 1.4%

       

Teladoc, Inc. (a)(b)

     18,529          614,236  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Technology - 1.5%

       

Vocera Communications, Inc. (a)

     20,337          637,972  
       

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 1.3%

       

ICON PLC (a)

     5,022          571,905  
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 2.7%

       

Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

     4,700          228,420  

GW Pharmaceuticals PLC (ADR) (a)(b)

     1,368          138,838  

Intersect ENT, Inc. (a)

     17,210          536,092  

Medicines Co. (The) (a)

     7,300          270,392  
       

 

 

 
          1,173,742  
       

 

 

 
          9,418,284  
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 17.2%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 1.9%

       

Hexcel Corp.

     6,274          360,253  

Mercury Systems, Inc. (a)

     8,980          465,883  
       

 

 

 
          826,136  
       

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 1.8%

       

Advanced Disposal Services, Inc. (a)

     12,365          311,474  

Tetra Tech, Inc.

     9,770          454,794  
       

 

 

 
          766,268  
       

 

 

 

Construction & Engineering - 0.9%

       

Dycom Industries, Inc. (a)

     4,723          405,611  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Industrial Conglomerates - 0.7%

       

Carlisle Cos., Inc.

     3,225        $ 323,435  
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 8.4%

       

Astec Industries, Inc.

     8,020          449,200  

Gardner Denver Holdings, Inc. (a)

     16,379          450,750  

IDEX Corp.

     3,662          444,823  

John Bean Technologies Corp.

     4,220          426,642  

Kennametal, Inc.

     12,200          492,148  

Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.

     4,919          450,974  

Nordson Corp.

     3,660          433,710  

RBC Bearings, Inc. (a)

     4,293          537,269  
       

 

 

 
            3,685,516  
       

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 1.0%

       

Genesee & Wyoming, Inc.-Class A (a)

     5,924          438,435  
       

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 2.5%

       

H&E Equipment Services, Inc.

     18,159          530,243  

SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. (a)

     9,760          567,056  
       

 

 

 
          1,097,299  
       

 

 

 
          7,542,700  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 16.4%

       

Distributors - 1.0%

       

Pool Corp.

     4,137          447,499  
       

 

 

 

Diversified Consumer Services - 3.3%

       

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. (a)

     6,475          558,210  

Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (a)

     9,580          870,056  
       

 

 

 
          1,428,266  
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 5.7%

       

Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. (a)

     2,982          315,197  

Dave & Buster’s Entertainment, Inc. (a)

     7,107          372,975  

Hilton Grand Vacations, Inc. (a)

     13,471          520,385  

Planet Fitness, Inc.

     26,708          720,582  

Vail Resorts, Inc.

     2,450          558,894  
       

 

 

 
          2,488,033  
       

 

 

 

Multiline Retail - 1.2%

       

Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Holdings, Inc. (a)

     11,312          524,877  
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 5.2%

       

Five Below, Inc. (a)

     12,112          664,707  

Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc.-Class A (a)

     11,861          461,749  

Lithia Motors, Inc.-Class A

     5,890          708,626  

Select Comfort Corp. (a)

     14,370          446,188  
       

 

 

 
          2,281,270  
       

 

 

 
          7,169,945  
       

 

 

 

Financials - 6.5%

       

Banks - 3.9%

       

Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc.

     330          22,094  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Signature Bank/New York NY (a)

     1,714        $ 219,461  

Sterling Bancorp/DE

     18,276          450,503  

SVB Financial Group (a)

     2,582          483,066  

Western Alliance Bancorp (a)

     9,587          508,878  
       

 

 

 
          1,684,002  
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 2.6%

       

Hamilton Lane, Inc.-Class A

     9,180          246,483  

Houlihan Lokey, Inc.

     12,360          483,647  

Stifel Financial Corp.

     7,727          413,085  
       

 

 

 
          1,143,215  
       

 

 

 
          2,827,217  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 3.1%

       

Food & Staples Retailing - 1.1%

       

Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. (The) (a)

     24,747          477,617  
       

 

 

 

Food Products - 1.2%

       

Freshpet, Inc. (a)(b)

     33,294          521,051  
       

 

 

 

Personal Products - 0.8%

       

elf Beauty, Inc. (a)(b)

     16,415          370,158  
       

 

 

 
          1,368,826  
       

 

 

 

Materials - 2.7%

       

Chemicals - 1.3%

       

PolyOne Corp.

     14,552          582,517  
       

 

 

 

Construction Materials - 1.4%

       

Summit Materials, Inc.-Class A (a)

     18,284          585,636  
       

 

 

 
          1,168,153  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 2.6%

       

Energy Equipment & Services - 1.7%

       

Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. (a)

     22,988          365,509  

Oil States International, Inc. (a)

     13,761          348,842  
       

 

 

 
          714,351  
       

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 0.9%

       

Matador Resources Co. (a)

     14,895          404,399  
       

 

 

 
          1,118,750  
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 0.9%

       

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 0.9%

       

Vonage Holdings Corp. (a)

     49,393          402,059  
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $31,621,947)

          42,976,993  
       

 

 

 


     Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 2.2%

       

Time Deposit - 2.2%

       

State Street Bank & Trust Co.
0.12%, 10/02/17
(cost $971,815)

   $ 972        $ 971,815  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for
Securities Loaned - 100.4%

(cost $32,593,762)

          43,948,808  
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 6.3%

       

Investment Companies - 6.3%

       

AB Fixed Income Shares, Inc.-Government
Money Market Portfolio-Class AB,
0.83% (c)(d)(e)
(cost $2,737,752)

     2,737,752          2,737,752  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 106.7%
(cost $35,331,514) (f)

          46,686,560  

Other assets less liabilities - (6.7)%

          (2,933,749
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 43,752,811  
       

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Affiliated investments.
(d) The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(e) To obtain a copy of the fund’s shareholder report, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AB at (800) 227-4618.
(f) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $11,854,351 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(499,305), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $11,355,046.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.

Glossary:

 

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Small Cap Growth Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

 

Common Stocks (a)

   $ 42,976,993     $ – 0  –    $             – 0  –    $ 42,976,993  

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      971,815       – 0  –      971,815  

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     2,737,752       – 0  –      – 0  –      2,737,752  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     45,714,745       971,815       – 0  –      46,686,560  

Other Financial Instruments (b)

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (c)

   $     45,714,745     $     971,815     $ – 0  –    $     46,686,560  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
(b) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument.
(c) There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is as follows:

 

Fund

   Market  Value
12/31/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
     Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
     Dividend
Income
(000)
 

Government Money Market*

   $ 2,326      $ 17,792      $ 17,380      $ 2,738      $ 13  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

* Investments of cash collateral for securities lending transactions


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Small/Mid Cap Value Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 98.1%

       

Financials - 20.1%

       

Banks - 10.4%

       

Associated Banc-Corp.

     312,480        $ 7,577,640  

Comerica, Inc.

     143,460          10,940,259  

Fulton Financial Corp.

     388,240          7,279,500  

Huntington Bancshares, Inc./OH

     737,820          10,299,967  

Synovus Financial Corp.

     190,050          8,753,703  

Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc. (a)

     84,440          7,244,952  

Webster Financial Corp.

     171,552          9,015,058  

Zions Bancorporation

     234,510          11,064,182  
       

 

 

 
          72,175,261  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Finance - 0.7%

       

OneMain Holdings, Inc. (a)

     164,620          4,640,638  
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 7.6%

       

American Financial Group, Inc./OH

     95,820          9,912,579  

First American Financial Corp.

     183,070          9,148,008  

Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (The)

     43,760          4,241,657  

Old Republic International Corp.

     353,320          6,956,871  

Reinsurance Group of America, Inc.-Class A

     84,010          11,721,915  

Selective Insurance Group, Inc.

     110,430          5,946,655  

Validus Holdings Ltd.

     87,612          4,311,387  
       

 

 

 
          52,239,072  
       

 

 

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 1.4%

       

Essent Group Ltd. (a)

     236,268          9,568,854  
       

 

 

 
          138,623,825  
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 18.6%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 1.0%

       

Esterline Technologies Corp. (a)

     76,910          6,933,437  
       

 

 

 

Air Freight & Logistics - 1.0%

       

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (a)

     107,610          7,080,738  
       

 

 

 

Airlines - 1.4%

       

SkyWest, Inc.

     216,300          9,495,570  
       

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 1.6%

       

ABM Industries, Inc.

     111,560          4,653,168  

Steelcase, Inc.-Class A

     429,244          6,610,357  
       

 

 

 
          11,263,525  
       

 

 

 

Construction & Engineering - 4.1%

       

AECOM (a)

     247,495          9,110,291  

Granite Construction, Inc.

     95,460          5,531,907  

Quanta Services, Inc. (a)

     218,555          8,167,400  

Tutor Perini Corp. (a)

     179,150          5,087,860  
       

 

 

 
          27,897,458  
       

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 2.2%

       

EnerSys

     103,850          7,183,304  

Regal Beloit Corp.

     101,230          7,997,170  
       

 

 

 
          15,180,474  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Machinery - 4.1%

       

Oshkosh Corp.

     126,630        $ 10,452,040  

SPX FLOW, Inc. (a)

     203,350          7,841,176  

Terex Corp.

     220,980          9,948,520  
       

 

 

 
          28,241,736  
       

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 2.5%

       

Ryder System, Inc.

     112,656          9,525,065  

Werner Enterprises, Inc.

     215,460          7,875,063  
       

 

 

 
          17,400,128  
       

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 0.7%

       

MRC Global, Inc. (a)

     288,820          5,051,462  
       

 

 

 
          128,544,528  
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 17.8%

       

Communications Equipment - 1.5%

       

Infinera Corp. (a)

     433,132          3,841,881  

NETGEAR, Inc. (a)

     126,227          6,008,405  
       

 

 

 
          9,850,286  
       

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 5.2%

       

Anixter International, Inc. (a)

     118,980          10,113,300  

Avnet, Inc.

     203,120          7,982,616  

CDW Corp./DE

     137,780          9,093,480  

VeriFone Systems, Inc. (a)

     429,500          8,710,260  
       

 

 

 
          35,899,656  
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 5.2%

       

Amdocs Ltd.

     150,440          9,676,301  

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.

     263,345          9,846,470  

Convergys Corp.

     281,114          7,278,041  

Genpact Ltd.

     314,370          9,038,137  
       

 

 

 
          35,838,949  
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 3.4%

       

Cypress Semiconductor Corp.

     548,810          8,243,126  

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (a)

     219,700          5,839,626  

Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (a)

     91,030          4,292,065  

Qorvo, Inc. (a)

     71,250          5,035,950  
       

 

 

 
          23,410,767  
       

 

 

 

Software - 1.2%

       

Verint Systems, Inc. (a)

     202,310          8,466,674  
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 1.3%

       

NCR Corp. (a)

     238,397          8,944,655  
       

 

 

 
          122,410,987  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 14.7%

       

Auto Components - 3.9%

       

Cooper-Standard Holdings, Inc. (a)

     71,209          8,258,108  

Dana, Inc.

     338,390          9,461,384  

Lear Corp.

     27,497          4,759,181  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Tenneco, Inc.

     68,760        $ 4,171,669  
       

 

 

 
          26,650,342  
       

 

 

 

Diversified Consumer Services - 1.7%

       

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co. (a)

     245,164          2,954,226  

Sotheby’s (a)

     189,510          8,738,306  
       

 

 

 
          11,692,532  
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.8%

       

Bloomin’ Brands, Inc.

     443,429          7,804,351  

Brinker International, Inc. (b)

     153,542          4,891,848  
       

 

 

 
          12,696,199  
       

 

 

 

Household Durables - 2.1%

       

CalAtlantic Group, Inc.

     241,690          8,853,105  

PulteGroup, Inc.

     201,210          5,499,069  
       

 

 

 
          14,352,174  
       

 

 

 

Media - 1.7%

       

Regal Entertainment Group-Class A (b)

     410,530          6,568,480  

Scholastic Corp.

     132,150          4,915,980  
       

 

 

 
          11,484,460  
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 2.7%

       

Burlington Stores, Inc. (a)

     48,507          4,630,478  

Caleres, Inc.

     186,075          5,679,009  

Michaels Cos., Inc. (The) (a)

     402,200          8,635,234  
       

 

 

 
          18,944,721  
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 0.8%

       

Crocs, Inc. (a)

     574,810          5,575,657  
       

 

 

 
          101,396,085  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 8.0%

       

Energy Equipment & Services - 3.3%

       

Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (a)

     260,700          1,926,573  

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (b)

     73,780          3,844,676  

Oil States International, Inc. (a)

     211,210          5,354,173  

RPC, Inc. (b)

     467,410          11,587,094  
       

 

 

 
          22,712,516  
       

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 4.7%

       

HollyFrontier Corp.

     181,200          6,517,764  

Oasis Petroleum, Inc. (a)

     644,750          5,880,120  

QEP Resources, Inc. (a)

     779,920          6,683,914  

SM Energy Co.

     318,770          5,654,980  

SRC Energy, Inc. (a)

     758,010          7,329,957  
       

 

 

 
          32,066,735  
       

 

 

 
          54,779,251  
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Real Estate - 4.6%

       

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 4.6%

       

Education Realty Trust, Inc.

     229,780        $ 8,255,995  

Empire State Realty Trust, Inc.-Class A

     355,891          7,310,001  

Gramercy Property Trust

     364,668          11,031,207  

STAG Industrial, Inc.

     194,770          5,350,332  
       

 

 

 
          31,947,535  
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 4.6%

       

Health Care Providers & Services - 3.2%

       

LifePoint Health, Inc. (a)

     148,095          8,574,700  

Molina Healthcare, Inc. (a)

     109,960          7,560,850  

WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (a)

     36,859          6,330,165  
       

 

 

 
          22,465,715  
       

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 1.4%

       

ICON PLC (a)

     82,335          9,376,310  
       

 

 

 
          31,842,025  
       

 

 

 

Utilities - 4.2%

       

Electric Utilities - 3.0%

       

Alliant Energy Corp.

     166,578          6,924,648  

PNM Resources, Inc.

     167,800          6,762,340  

Portland General Electric Co.

     154,950          7,071,918  
       

 

 

 
          20,758,906  
       

 

 

 

Gas Utilities - 0.6%

       

Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc.

     52,850          4,102,217  
       

 

 

 

Multi-Utilities - 0.6%

       

Black Hills Corp.

     58,705          4,043,013  
       

 

 

 
          28,904,136  
       

 

 

 

Materials - 4.0%

       

Chemicals - 1.9%

       

Ingevity Corp. (a)

     70,890          4,428,498  

Trinseo SA

     132,290          8,876,659  
       

 

 

 
          13,305,157  
       

 

 

 

Containers & Packaging - 1.5%

       

Graphic Packaging Holding Co.

     719,160          10,032,282  
       

 

 

 

Metals & Mining - 0.6%

       

Alcoa Corp. (a)

     91,638          4,272,164  
       

 

 

 
          27,609,603  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 1.5%

       

Beverages - 0.8%

       

Cott Corp.

     371,279          5,572,898  
       

 

 

 

Food Products - 0.7%

       

Ingredion, Inc.

     39,905          4,814,139  
       

 

 

 
          10,387,037  
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $528,309,508)

 

       676,445,012  
       

 

 

 


      Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 2.6%

       

Time Deposit - 2.6%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.12%, 10/02/17

       

(cost $18,028,635)

   $ 18,029        $ 18,028,635  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for
Securities Loaned - 100.7%

(cost $546,338,143)

 

       694,473,647  
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 3.3%

 

Investment Companies - 3.3%

       

AB Fixed Income Shares, Inc.-Government
Money Market Portfolio-Class AB,
0.83% (c)(d)(e)

       

(cost $23,119,734)

     23,119,734          23,119,734  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 104.0%
(cost $569,457,877) (f)

          717,593,381  

Other assets less liabilities - (4.0)%

          (27,815,803
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 689,777,578  
       

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Affiliated investments.
(d) The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(e) To obtain a copy of the fund’s shareholder report, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AB at (800) 227-4618.
(f) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $171,753,406 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(23,617,902), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $148,135,504.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Small/Mid Cap Value Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

 

Common Stocks (a)

   $ 676,445,012     $ – 0  –    $             – 0  –    $ 676,445,012  

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      18,028,635       –0  –      18,028,635  

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     23,119,734       – 0  –      –0  –      23,119,734  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     699,564,746       18,028,635       –0  –      717,593,381  

Other Financial Instruments (b)

     – 0  –      – 0  –      –0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (c)

   $     699,564,746     $     18,028,635     $ –0  –    $     717,593,381  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
(b) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument.
(c) There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is as follows:

 

Fund

   Market  Value
12/31/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
     Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
     Dividend
Income
(000)
 

Government Money Market*

   $     13,941      $     163,242      $     154,063      $     23,120      $     89  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

* Investments of cash collateral for securities lending transactions


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Value Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 99.6%

       

Financials - 28.5%

       

Banks - 11.4%

       

Bank of America Corp.

     144,117        $ 3,651,925  

Comerica, Inc.

     17,981          1,371,231  

Wells Fargo & Co.

     62,370          3,439,705  
       

 

 

 
          8,462,861  
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 1.9%

       

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)

     5,735          1,360,285  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Finance - 5.2%

       

Capital One Financial Corp.

     15,003          1,270,154  

OneMain Holdings, Inc. (a)

     23,895          673,600  

Synchrony Financial

     62,653          1,945,376  
       

 

 

 
          3,889,130  
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 10.0%

       

Allstate Corp. (The)

     22,508          2,068,710  

American International Group, Inc.

     42,423          2,604,348  

First American Financial Corp.

     15,271          763,092  

FNF Group

     42,630          2,023,220  
       

 

 

 
          7,459,370  
       

 

 

 
            21,171,646  
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 15.5%

       

Communications Equipment - 2.2%

       

Nokia Oyj (Sponsored ADR)-Class A

     276,599          1,654,062  
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 1.1%

       

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.

     21,417          800,781  
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 3.3%

       

Intel Corp.

     64,496          2,456,008  
       

 

 

 

Software - 4.6%

       

Oracle Corp.

     71,279          3,446,340  
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 4.3%

       

HP, Inc.

     80,448          1,605,742  

NCR Corp. (a)

     8,152          305,863  

Xerox Corp.

     37,862          1,260,426  
       

 

 

 
          3,172,031  
       

 

 

 
          11,529,222  
       

 

 

 

Energy - 11.7%

       

Energy Equipment & Services - 2.0%

       

RPC, Inc. (b)

     60,017          1,487,821  
       

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 9.7%

       

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

     36,597          1,225,634  

Devon Energy Corp.

     28,681          1,052,879  

EOG Resources, Inc.

     21,967          2,125,088  

Hess Corp.

     26,587          1,246,664  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Marathon Petroleum Corp.

     28,474        $   1,596,822  
       

 

 

 
          7,247,087  
       

 

 

 
          8,734,908  
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 11.3%

       

Biotechnology - 2.0%

       

Gilead Sciences, Inc.

     18,816          1,524,473  
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 6.6%

       

Aetna, Inc.

     6,572          1,045,014  

Cigna Corp.

     11,455          2,141,397  

McKesson Corp.

     11,321          1,739,019  
       

 

 

 
          4,925,430  
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 2.7%

       

Mallinckrodt PLC (a)

     32,886          1,228,950  

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Sponsored ADR)

     42,939          755,726  
       

 

 

 
          1,984,676  
       

 

 

 
          8,434,579  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 7.3%

       

Beverages - 1.9%

       

PepsiCo, Inc.

     12,975          1,445,804  
       

 

 

 

Food Products - 1.1%

       

Tyson Foods, Inc.-Class A

     11,495          809,823  
       

 

 

 

Tobacco - 4.3%

       

British American Tobacco PLC (Sponsored ADR)

     13,518          844,199  

Philip Morris International, Inc.

     21,261          2,360,184  
       

 

 

 
          3,204,383  
       

 

 

 
          5,460,010  
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 7.3%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 2.8%

       

Raytheon Co.

     11,279          2,104,436  
       

 

 

 

Airlines - 1.1%

       

JetBlue Airways Corp. (a)

     44,443          823,529  
       

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 1.9%

       

Eaton Corp. PLC

     18,310          1,406,025  
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 1.5%

       

Oshkosh Corp.

     13,036          1,075,991  
       

 

 

 
          5,409,981  
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 7.1%

       

Auto Components - 3.3%

       

Lear Corp.

     5,087          880,458  

Magna International, Inc. (New York)-Class A

     29,610          1,580,582  
       

 

 

 
          2,461,040  
       

 

 

 

Media - 2.7%

       

Comcast Corp.-Class A

     40,726          1,567,136  


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Regal Entertainment Group-Class A

     25,943        $ 415,088  
       

 

 

 
            1,982,224  
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 1.1%

       

Michaels Cos., Inc. (The) (a)

     38,800          833,036  
       

 

 

 
          5,276,300  
       

 

 

 

Utilities - 6.2%

       

Electric Utilities - 4.7%

       

American Electric Power Co., Inc.

     24,712          1,735,771  

Edison International

     14,272          1,101,370  

Portland General Electric Co.

     14,795          675,244  
       

 

 

 
          3,512,385  
       

 

 

 

Multi-Utilities - 1.5%

       

NiSource, Inc.

     43,940          1,124,424  
       

 

 

 
          4,636,809  
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 2.0%

       

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 2.0%

       

T-Mobile US, Inc. (a)

     23,635          1,457,334  
       

 

 

 

Materials - 1.6%

       

Chemicals - 1.0%

       

CF Industries Holdings, Inc.

     21,180          744,689  
       

 

 

 

Metals & Mining - 0.6%

       

Alcoa Corp. (a)

     9,000          419,580  
       

 

 

 
          1,164,269  
       

 

 

 

Real Estate - 1.1%

       

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 1.1%

       

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.

     7,770          830,458  
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $62,614,765)

          74,105,516  
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.5%

       

Time Deposit - 0.5%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.12%, 10/02/17
(cost $411,028)

   $ 411          411,028  
       

 

 

 


      Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for
Securities Loaned - 100.1%
(cost $63,025,793)

        $ 74,516,544  
       

 

 

 

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 2.0%

       

Investment Companies - 2.0%

       

AB Fixed Income Shares, Inc.-Government Money
Market Portfolio-Class AB,
0.83% (c)(d)(e)
(cost $1,515,429)

     1,515,429          1,515,429  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 102.1%
(cost $64,541,222) (f)

          76,031,973  

Other assets less liabilities - (2.1)%

          (1,593,935
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $   74,438,038  
       

 

 

 
       

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Affiliated investments.
(d) The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(e) To obtain a copy of the fund’s shareholder report, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AB at (800) 227-4618.
(f) As of September 30, 2017, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $14,010,048 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(2,519,297), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $11,490,751.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.

Glossary:

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt


AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AB Value Portfolio

September 30, 2017 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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 Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2017:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

 

Common Stocks (a)

   $ 74,105,516     $ – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ 74,105,516  

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      411,028       – 0  –      411,028  

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     1,515,429       – 0  –      – 0  –      1,515,429  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     75,620,945       411,028       – 0  –      76,031,973  

Other Financial Instruments (b)

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (c)

   $     75,620,945     $     411,028     $             – 0  –    $     76,031,973  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
(b) Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on the instrument.
(c) There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


The Adviser established the Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to oversee the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) Portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).

A summary of the Portfolio’s transactions in AB mutual funds for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is as follows:

 

Fund

   Market  Value
12/30/16
(000)
     Purchases
at Cost
(000)
     Sales
Proceeds
(000)
     Market Value
9/30/17
(000)
     Dividend
Income
(000)
 

Government Money Market*

   $             – 0 –      $     23,738      $     22,223      $     1,515      $     6  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

* Investments of cash collateral for securities lending transactions


ITEM 2. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

(a) The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended) are effective at the reasonable assurance level based on their evaluation of these controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this document.

(b) There were no significant changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that could significantly affect these controls subsequent to the date of their evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.

 

ITEM 3. EXHIBITS.

The following exhibits are attached to this Form N-Q:

 

EXHIBIT NO.

 

DESCRIPTION OF EXHIBIT

11 (a) (1)   Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
11 (a) (2)   Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002


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): AB Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

 

By:   /s/    Robert M. Keith
  Robert M. Keith
  President
Date:   November 22, 2017

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:   /s/    Robert M. Keith
  Robert M. Keith
  President
Date:   November 22, 2017

 

By:   /s/    Joseph J. Mantineo
  Joseph J. Mantineo
  Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer
Date:   November 22, 2017