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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: 811-05547
The Laudus Trust
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
211 Main Street, San Francisco, California 94105
(Address of principal executive offices)     (Zip code)
Marie Chandoha
The Laudus Trust
211 Main Street, San Francisco, California 94105
(Name and address of agent for service)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (415) 636-7000
Date of fiscal year end: March 31
Date of reporting period: June 30, 2014
 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Item 1. Schedule of Investments
Item 2. Controls and Procedures
Item 3. Exhibits
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Item 1. Schedule of Investments.

 


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Laudus Trust
Laudus Mondrian International Equity Fund
 
Portfolio Holdings as of June 30, 2014 (Unaudited)
 
 
The following are the portfolio holdings as of the report date. For more information, please refer to the fund’s semiannual or annual shareholder reports.
 
                         
        Cost
  Value
Holdings by Category   ($)   ($)
 
  98 .6%   Common Stock     118,894,462       156,235,230  
  0 .5%   Other Investment Company     837,609       837,609  
 
 
  99 .1%   Total Investments     119,732,071       157,072,839  
  0 .9%   Other Assets and Liabilities, Net             1,453,390  
 
 
  100 .0%   Net Assets             158,526,229  
 
                 
    Number
  Value
Security   of Shares   ($)
 
 Common Stock 98.6% of net assets
 
Australia 2.6%
                 
 
Insurance 2.6%
AMP Ltd.
    418,228       2,090,658  
QBE Insurance Group Ltd.
    194,872       1,995,933  
                 
              4,086,591  
 
China 1.3%
                 
 
Telecommunication Services 1.3%
China Mobile Ltd.
    216,500       2,102,808  
 
France 11.4%
                 
 
Capital Goods 2.6%
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
    73,795       4,163,675  
                 
 
Energy 3.0%
Total S.A.
    66,640       4,821,381  
                 
 
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences 3.2%
Sanofi
    47,142       5,010,699  
                 
 
Telecommunication Services 2.6%
Orange S.A.
    259,370       4,103,833  
                 
              18,099,588  
 
Germany 8.4%
                 
 
Automobiles & Components 1.5%
Daimler AG - Reg’d
    24,740       2,311,076  
                 
 
Software & Services 2.1%
SAP AG
    43,875       3,380,775  
                 
 
Telecommunication Services 3.1%
Deutsche Telekom AG - Reg’d
    279,365       4,899,787  
                 
 
Utilities 1.7%
RWE AG
    63,791       2,735,875  
                 
              13,327,513  
 
Israel 3.3%
                 
 
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences 3.3%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. ADR
    100,900       5,289,178  
 
Italy 3.1%
                 
 
Energy 3.1%
Eni S.p.A.
    181,910       4,975,179  
 
Japan 16.2%
                 
 
Food & Staples Retailing 2.1%
Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd.
    77,600       3,270,824  
                 
 
Household & Personal Products 3.3%
Kao Corp.
    134,600       5,301,053  
                 
 
Insurance 2.4%
Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.
    117,300       3,860,781  
                 
 
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences 2.9%
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    97,400       4,520,601  
                 
 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment 1.2%
Tokyo Electron Ltd.
    28,400       1,935,582  
                 
 
Technology Hardware & Equipment 2.8%
Canon, Inc.
    134,900       4,408,800  
                 
 
Telecommunication Services 1.5%
NTT DOCOMO, Inc.
    136,800       2,335,285  
                 
              25,632,926  
 
Netherlands 4.8%
                 
 
Food & Staples Retailing 2.9%
Koninklijke Ahold N.V.
    240,849       4,516,180  
                 
 
Media 1.9%
Reed Elsevier N.V.
    131,668       3,023,523  
                 
              7,539,703  
 
Singapore 3.9%
                 
 
Banks 1.9%
United Overseas Bank Ltd.
    165,927       3,000,414  
                 
 
Telecommunication Services 2.0%
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.
    1,006,000       3,109,236  
                 
              6,109,650  
 
Spain 8.7%
                 
 
Banks 2.1%
Banco Santander S.A.
    325,078       3,396,823  
                 
 
Telecommunication Services 3.1%
Telefonica S.A.
    283,026       4,858,946  
 
 
 
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Portfolio Holdings (Unaudited) continued
 
                 
    Number
  Value
Security   of Shares   ($)
                 
 
Utilities 3.5%
Iberdrola S.A.
    728,423       5,572,097  
                 
              13,827,866  
 
Switzerland 12.5%
                 
 
Capital Goods 3.2%
ABB Ltd. - Reg’d *
    222,922       5,129,509  
                 
 
Food, Beverage & Tobacco 3.1%
Nestle S.A. - Reg’d
    63,646       4,931,732  
                 
 
Insurance 2.9%
Zurich Insurance Group AG *
    14,998       4,517,188  
                 
 
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences 3.3%
Novartis AG - Reg’d
    58,207       5,271,130  
                 
              19,849,559  
 
Taiwan 1.8%
                 
 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment 1.8%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    658,154       2,785,007  
 
United Kingdom 20.6%
                 
 
Energy 6.8%
BP plc
    574,668       5,060,479  
Royal Dutch Shell plc, Class A
    137,911       5,694,356  
                 
              10,754,835  
                 
 
Food & Staples Retailing 3.1%
Tesco plc
    1,022,054       4,967,370  
                 
 
Food, Beverage & Tobacco 3.3%
Unilever plc
    115,553       5,237,956  
                 
 
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences 3.0%
GlaxoSmithKline plc
    179,597       4,781,802  
                 
 
Telecommunication Services 1.3%
Vodafone Group plc
    585,143       1,955,711  
                 
 
Utilities 3.1%
National Grid plc
    341,186       4,911,988  
                 
              32,609,662  
                 
Total Common Stock
(Cost $118,894,462)     156,235,230  
         
                 
                 
 
 Other Investment Company 0.5% of net assets
 
United States 0.5%
State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund, Premier Class 0.00% (a)
    837,609       837,609  
                 
Total Other Investment Company
(Cost $837,609)     837,609  
         
 
End of Investments.
 
At 06/30/14, the tax basis cost of the fund’s investments was $123,862,098 and the unrealized appreciation and depreciation were $35,298,834 and ($2,088,093), respectively, with a net unrealized appreciation of $33,210,741.
 
At 06/30/14, the values of certain foreign securities held by the fund aggregating $150,946,052 were adjusted from their closing market values in accordance with international fair valuation procedures approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees.
 
* Non-income producing security.
(a) The rate shown is the 7-day yield.
 
     
ADR —
  American Depositary Receipt
Reg’d —
  Registered
 
     
AUD —
  Australian dollar
USD —
  U.S. dollar
 
In addition to the above, the fund held the following at 06/30/14:
 
 
                                             
            Amount of
      Amount of
  Unrealized
        Currency
  Currency
  Currency
  Currency
  Appreciation
        to be
  to be
  to be
  to be
  (Depreciation)
Expiration Date   Counterparty   Received   Received   Delivered   Delivered   ($)
 
 Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts
                                         
                                             
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     AUD       544,000       USD       511,902       923  
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     USD       3,974,296       AUD       4,223,500       (74,189 )
                                     
Net Unrealized Depreciation on Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts
    (73,266 )
         
 
 
Under procedures approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”), the investment adviser has formed a Pricing Committee to administer the pricing and valuation of portfolio securities and other assets and to ensure that prices used for internal purposes or provided by third parties reasonably reflect fair market value. Among other things, these procedures allow the fund to utilize independent pricing services, quotations from securities and financial instrument dealers and other market sources to determine fair value.
 
 
 


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The fund values the securities in its portfolio every business day. The fund uses the following policies to value various types of securities:
 
  •  Securities traded on an exchange or over-the-counter: Traded securities are valued at the closing value for the day, or, on days when no closing value has been reported, at halfway between the most recent bid and ask quotes. Securities that are primarily traded on foreign exchanges are valued at the official closing price or the last sales price on the exchange where the securities are principally traded with these values then translated into U.S. dollars at the current exchange rate, unless these securities are fair valued as discussed below.
 
  •  Securities for which no quoted value is available: The Board has adopted procedures to fair value the fund’s securities when market prices are not “readily available” or are unreliable. For example, a fund may fair value a security when it is de-listed or its trading is halted or suspended; when a security’s primary pricing source is unable or unwilling to provide a price; or when a security’s primary trading market is closed during regular market hours. The fund makes fair value determinations in good faith in accordance with the fund’s valuation procedures. The Pricing Committee considers a number of factors, including unobservable market inputs when arriving at fair value. The Pricing Committee may employ techniques such as the review of related or comparable assets or liabilities, related market activities, recent transactions, market multiples, book values, transactional back-testing, disposition analysis and other relevant information. The Pricing Committee regularly reviews these inputs and assumptions to calibrate the valuations. Due to the subjective and variable nature of fair value pricing, there can be no assurance that a fund could obtain the fair value assigned to the security upon the sale of such security. The Board convenes on a regular basis to review fair value determinations made by the fund pursuant to the valuation procedures.
 
  •  Foreign equity security fair valuation: The Board has adopted procedures to fair value foreign equity securities that are traded in markets that close prior to the fund valuing its holdings. By fair valuing securities whose prices may have been affected by events occurring after the close of trading, the fund seeks to establish prices that investors might expect to realize upon the current sales of these securities. This methodology is designed to deter “arbitrage” market timers, who seek to exploit delays between the change in the value of a fund’s portfolio holdings and the Net Asset Value (“NAV”) of the fund’s shares, and seeks to help ensure that the prices at which the fund’s shares are purchased and redeemed are fair and do not result in dilution of shareholder interest or other harm to shareholders. When fair value pricing is used at the open or close of a reporting period, it may cause a temporary divergence between the return of the fund and that of its comparative index or benchmark. The Board regularly reviews fair value determinations made by the fund pursuant to these procedures.
 
  •  Forward foreign currency exchange contracts (“forwards”): Forwards are valued based on that day’s forward exchange rates or by using an interpolated forward exchange rate for contracts with interim settlement dates.
 
  •  Short-term securities (60 days or less to maturity): Short-term securities are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value.
 
  •  Underlying funds: Mutual funds are valued at their respective NAVs.
 
In accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosures under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (GAAP), the fund discloses the fair value of its investments in a hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure the fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to valuations based upon unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to valuations based upon unobservable inputs that are significant to the valuation (Level 3 measurements). If inputs used to measure the financial instruments fall within different levels of the hierarchy, the categorization is based on the lowest level input that is significant to the valuation. If the fund determines that either the volume and/or level of activity for an asset or liability has significantly decreased (from normal conditions for that asset or liability) or price quotations or observable inputs are not associated with orderly transactions, increased analysis and management judgment will be required to estimate fair value.
 
The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are as follows:
 
  •  Level 1 — quoted prices in active markets for identical securities — Investments whose values are based on quoted market prices in active markets, and whose values are therefore classified as Level 1 prices, include active listed equities and futures contracts. Investments in mutual funds are valued daily at their NAVs, which are classified as Level 1 prices.
 
 
 
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  •  Level 2 — other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.) — Investments that trade in markets that are not considered to be active, but whose values are based on quoted market prices, dealer quotations or valuations provided by alternative pricing sources supported by observable inputs are classified as Level 2 prices. These generally include U.S. government and sovereign obligations, most government agency securities, investment-grade corporate bonds, certain mortgage products, less liquid listed equities, and state, municipal and provincial obligations. In addition, international securities whose markets close hours before the fund values its holdings may require fair valuations due to significant movement in the U.S. markets occurring after the daily close of the foreign markets. The Board has approved a vendor that calculates fair valuations of international equity securities based on a number of factors that appear to correlate to the movements in the U.S. markets. As investments whose values are classified as Level 2 prices include positions that are not traded in active markets and/or are subject to transfer restrictions, valuations may be adjusted to reflect illiquidity and/or non-transferability, which are generally based on available market information.
 
  •  Level 3 — significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumption in determining the fair value of investments) — Investments whose values are classified as Level 3 prices have significant unobservable inputs, as they may trade infrequently or not at all. When observable prices are not available for these securities, the fund uses one or more valuation techniques for which sufficient and reliable data is available. The inputs used by the fund in estimating the value of Level 3 prices may include the original transaction price, quoted prices for similar securities or assets in active markets, completed or pending third-party transactions in the underlying investment or comparable issuers, and changes in financial ratios or cash flows. Level 3 prices may also be adjusted to reflect illiquidity and/or non-transferability, with the amount of such discount estimated by the fund in the absence of market information. Assumptions used by the fund due to the lack of observable inputs may significantly impact the resulting fair value and, therefore the fund’s results of operations.
 
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the fund’s investments as of June 30, 2014:
 
Assets Valuation Input
 
                                 
    Quoted Prices in
      Significant
   
    Active Markets for
  Other Significant
  Unobservable
   
    Identical Assets
  Observable Inputs
  Inputs
   
Description
 
(Level 1)
 
(Level 2)
 
(Level 3)
 
Total
 
Common Stock1
    $—       $150,946,052       $—       $150,946,052  
Israel1
    5,289,178                   5,289,178  
Other Investment Company1
    837,609                   837,609  
                                 
Total
    $6,126,787       $150,946,052       $—       $157,072,839  
                                 
Other Financial Instruments
                               
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts2
    $—       $923       $—       $923  
                                 
                                 
Liabilities Valuation Input
                 
 
Other Financial Instruments
                               
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts2
    $—       ($74,189 )     $—       ($74,189 )
 
     
1
  As categorized in Portfolio Holdings.
2
  Forward foreign currency exchange contracts are not included in Investments in the schedule of portfolio holdings and are valued at unrealized appreciation or depreciation.
 
The fund’s policy is to recognize transfers between Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 as of the beginning of the fiscal year. There were security transfers in the amount of $5,387,361 from Level 1 to Level 2 for the period ended June 30, 2014. The transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 were primarily due to the use of international fair valuation by the fund. There were no transfers in or out of Level 3 securities during the period.
 
 
 


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The fund invested in forward foreign currency exchange contracts during the period ended June 30, 2014. The fund invested in forwards to hedge part of the fund’s exposure to currencies that were deemed to be overvalued by the sub-adviser.
 
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Laudus Trust
Laudus Mondrian Emerging Markets Fund
 
Portfolio Holdings as of June 30, 2014 (Unaudited)
 
 
The following are the portfolio holdings as of the report date. For more information, please refer to the fund’s semiannual or annual shareholder reports.
 
                         
        Cost
  Value
Holdings by Category   ($)   ($)
 
  92 .5%   Common Stock     125,809,382       144,134,622  
  3 .8%   Preferred Stock     7,094,483       5,942,395  
  3 .6%   Other Investment Company     5,614,573       5,614,573  
 
 
  99 .9%   Total Investments     138,518,438       155,691,590  
  0 .1%   Other Assets and Liabilities, Net             199,172  
 
 
  100 .0%   Net Assets             155,890,762  
 
                 
    Number
  Value
Security   of Shares   ($)
 
 Common Stock 92.5% of net assets
 
Brazil 7.2%
                 
 
Energy 0.0%
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. ADR
    3,300       51,612  
                 
 
Materials 0.5%
Vale S.A. ADR
    61,800       817,614  
                 
 
Software & Services 1.1%
Cielo S.A.
    82,060       1,689,853  
                 
 
Transportation 3.7%
CCR S.A.
    407,400       3,318,941  
EcoRodovias Infraestrutura e Logistica S.A.
    346,100       2,371,556  
                 
              5,690,497  
                 
 
Utilities 1.9%
CPFL Energia S.A. ADR
    164,400       2,992,080  
                 
              11,241,656  
 
Chile 2.3%
                 
 
Utilities 2.3%
Enersis S.A. ADR
    213,700       3,600,845  
 
China 16.0%
                 
 
Capital Goods 1.8%
Beijing Enterprises Holdings Ltd.
    287,000       2,716,708  
                 
 
Energy 1.3%
China Shenhua Energy Co., Ltd., Class H
    699,500       2,020,704  
                 
 
Health Care Equipment & Services 2.2%
Mindray Medical International Ltd. ADR
    110,900       3,493,350  
                 
 
Household & Personal Products 1.7%
Hengan International Group Co., Ltd.
    256,500       2,701,092  
                 
 
Retailing 2.4%
Belle International Holdings Ltd.
    3,431,392       3,807,804  
                 
 
Telecommunication Services 3.5%
China Mobile Ltd.
    559,500       5,434,277  
                 
 
Utilities 3.1%
China Resources Power Holdings Co., Ltd.
    1,698,000       4,828,253  
                 
              25,002,188  
 
India 8.1%
                 
 
Banks 2.5%
Axis Bank Ltd.
    70,676       2,256,030  
Housing Development Finance Corp., Ltd.
    99,621       1,644,742  
                 
              3,900,772  
                 
 
Capital Goods 1.0%
Larsen & Toubro Ltd.
    53,135       1,504,673  
                 
 
Energy 2.1%
Cairn India Ltd.
    530,473       3,219,480  
                 
 
Software & Services 2.5%
Infosys Ltd.
    36,453       1,966,545  
Infosys Ltd. ADR
    36,600       1,967,982  
                 
              3,934,527  
                 
              12,559,452  
 
Indonesia 4.0%
                 
 
Banks 2.8%
PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk
    2,654,400       2,174,049  
PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk
    2,443,400       2,128,961  
                 
              4,303,010  
                 
 
Utilities 1.2%
PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (Persero) Tbk
    4,118,400       1,935,588  
                 
              6,238,598  
 
Kazakhstan 1.2%
                 
 
Energy 1.2%
KazMunaiGas Exploration Production JSC GDR
    115,539       1,845,158  
 
Malaysia 4.8%
                 
 
Banks 2.9%
AMMB Holdings Berhad
    2,021,100       4,482,433  
                 
 
Consumer Services 1.4%
Genting Malaysia Berhad
    1,703,100       2,227,904  
 
 
 
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Portfolio Holdings (Unaudited) continued
 
                 
    Number
  Value
Security   of Shares   ($)
                 
 
Utilities 0.5%
Tenaga Nasional Berhad
    216,400       822,107  
                 
              7,532,444  
 
Mexico 7.4%
                 
 
Banks 1.9%
Grupo Financiero Santander Mexico S.A.B. de C.V., Class B ADR
    219,100       2,909,648  
                 
 
Real Estate 3.9%
Fibra Uno Administracion S.A. de C.V.
    1,754,900       6,123,584  
                 
 
Telecommunication Services 1.6%
America Movil S.A.B. de C.V., Series L ADR
    120,600       2,502,450  
                 
              11,535,682  
 
Peru 1.8%
                 
 
Banks 1.8%
Credicorp Ltd.
    18,494       2,875,262  
 
Philippines 2.8%
                 
 
Telecommunication Services 2.8%
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. ADR
    64,500       4,346,010  
 
Republic of Korea 7.3%
                 
 
Automobiles & Components 3.5%
Hyundai Mobis
    19,440       5,459,585  
                 
 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment 3.8%
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    4,492       5,866,321  
                 
              11,325,906  
 
Russia 4.6%
                 
 
Banks 2.0%
Sberbank of Russia ADR
    305,989       3,111,908  
                 
 
Energy 2.6%
Gazprom OAO ADR
    458,974       3,999,959  
                 
              7,111,867  
 
South Africa 4.7%
                 
 
Capital Goods 1.9%
Bidvest Group Ltd.
    108,553       2,884,955  
                 
 
Food, Beverage & Tobacco 2.2%
SABMiller plc
    60,043       3,481,617  
                 
 
Retailing 0.6%
Woolworths Holdings Ltd.
    126,017       926,318  
                 
              7,292,890  
 
Taiwan 7.3%
                 
 
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment 4.0%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    1,495,719       6,329,200  
                 
 
Technology Hardware & Equipment 1.1%
Asustek Computer, Inc.
    151,000       1,687,566  
                 
 
Telecommunication Services 2.2%
Taiwan Mobile Co., Ltd.
    1,095,000       3,388,524  
                 
              11,405,290  
 
Thailand 2.9%
                 
 
Energy 2.9%
PTT PCL
    461,700       4,523,821  
 
Turkey 4.5%
                 
 
Energy 2.6%
Tupras-Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri A/S
    169,369       3,951,421  
                 
 
Telecommunication Services 1.9%
Turk Telekomunikasyon A/S
    1,043,520       3,015,429  
                 
              6,966,850  
 
United Kingdom 3.1%
                 
 
Food, Beverage & Tobacco 3.1%
Unilever plc
    105,726       4,792,503  
 
United States 2.5%
                 
 
Consumer Services 2.5%
Yum! Brands, Inc.
    48,500       3,938,200  
                 
Total Common Stock
(Cost $125,809,382)     144,134,622  
         
                 
                 
 
 Preferred Stock 3.8% of net assets
 
Brazil 3.8%
                 
 
Energy 1.6%
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.
    316,400       2,475,925  
                 
 
Materials 2.2%
Vale S.A. ADR
    291,300       3,466,470  
                 
Total Preferred Stock
(Cost $7,094,483)     5,942,395  
         
                 
                 
 
 Other Investment Company 3.6% of net assets
 
United States 3.6%
State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund, Premier Class 0.00% (a)
    5,614,573       5,614,573  
                 
Total Other Investment Company
(Cost $5,614,573)     5,614,573  
         
 
End of Investments.
 
At 06/30/14, the tax basis cost of the fund’s investments was $147,255,840 and the unrealized appreciation and depreciation were $13,787,482 and ($5,351,732) respectively, with a net unrealized appreciation of $8,435,750.
 
 
 


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At 06/30/14, the values of certain foreign securities held by the fund aggregating $87,654,789 were adjusted from their closing market values in accordance with international fair valuation procedures approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees.
 
(a) The rate shown is the 7-day yield.
 
     
ADR —
  American Depositary Receipt
GDR —
  Global Depositary Receipt
 
 
Under procedures approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”), the investment adviser has formed a Pricing Committee to administer the pricing and valuation of portfolio securities and other assets and to ensure that prices used for internal purposes or provided by third parties reasonably reflect fair market value. Among other things, these procedures allow the fund to utilize independent pricing services, quotations from securities and financial instrument dealers and other market sources to determine fair value.
 
The fund values the securities in its portfolio every business day. The fund uses the following policies to value various types of securities:
 
  •  Securities traded on an exchange or over-the-counter: Traded securities are valued at the closing value for the day, or, on days when no closing value has been reported, at halfway between the most recent bid and ask quotes. Securities that are primarily traded on foreign exchanges are valued at the official closing price or the last sales price on the exchange where the securities are principally traded with these values then translated into U.S. dollars at the current exchange rate, unless these securities are fair valued as discussed below.
 
  •  Securities for which no quoted value is available: The Board has adopted procedures to fair value the fund’s securities when market prices are not “readily available” or are unreliable. For example, a fund may fair value a security when it is de-listed or its trading is halted or suspended; when a security’s primary pricing source is unable or unwilling to provide a price; or when a security’s primary trading market is closed during regular market hours. The fund makes fair value determinations in good faith in accordance with the fund’s valuation procedures. The Pricing Committee considers a number of factors, including unobservable market inputs when arriving at fair value. The Pricing Committee may employ techniques such as the review of related or comparable assets or liabilities, related market activities, recent transactions, market multiples, book values, transactional back-testing, disposition analysis and other relevant information. The Pricing Committee regularly reviews these inputs and assumptions to calibrate the valuations. Due to the subjective and variable nature of fair value pricing, there can be no assurance that a fund could obtain the fair value assigned to the security upon the sale of such security. The Board convenes on a regular basis to review fair value determinations made by the fund pursuant to the valuation procedures.
 
  •  Foreign equity security fair valuation: The Board has adopted procedures to fair value foreign equity securities that are traded in markets that close prior to the fund valuing its holdings. By fair valuing securities whose prices may have been affected by events occurring after the close of trading, the fund seeks to establish prices that investors might expect to realize upon the current sales of these securities. This methodology is designed to deter “arbitrage” market timers, who seek to exploit delays between the change in the value of a fund’s portfolio holdings and the Net Asset Value (“NAV”) of the fund’s shares, and seeks to help ensure that the prices at which the fund’s shares are purchased and redeemed are fair and do not result in dilution of shareholder interest or other harm to shareholders. When fair value pricing is used at the open or close of a reporting period, it may cause a temporary divergence between the return of the fund and that of its comparative index or benchmark. The Board regularly reviews fair value determinations made by the fund pursuant to these procedures.
 
  •  Short-term securities (60 days or less to maturity): Short-term securities are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value.
 
  •  Underlying funds: Mutual funds are valued at their respective NAVs.
 
In accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosures under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (GAAP), the fund discloses the fair value of its investments in a hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure the fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to valuations based upon unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to valuations based upon unobservable inputs that are significant to the valuation (Level 3 measurements). If
 
 
 
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inputs used to measure the financial instruments fall within different levels of the hierarchy, the categorization is based on the lowest level input that is significant to the valuation. If the fund determines that either the volume and/or level of activity for an asset or liability has significantly decreased (from normal conditions for that asset or liability) or price quotations or observable inputs are not associated with orderly transactions, increased analysis and management judgment will be required to estimate fair value.
 
The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are as follows:
 
  •  Level 1 — quoted prices in active markets for identical securities — Investments whose values are based on quoted market prices in active markets, and whose values are therefore classified as Level 1 prices, include active listed equities. Investments in mutual funds are valued daily at their NAVs, which are classified as Level 1 prices.
 
  •  Level 2 — other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.) — Investments that trade in markets that are not considered to be active, but whose values are based on quoted market prices, dealer quotations or valuations provided by alternative pricing sources supported by observable inputs are classified as Level 2 prices. These generally include U.S. government and sovereign obligations, most government agency securities, investment-grade corporate bonds, certain mortgage products, less liquid listed equities, and state, municipal and provincial obligations. In addition, international securities whose markets close hours before the fund values its holdings may require fair valuations due to significant movement in the U.S. markets occurring after the daily close of the foreign markets. The Board has approved a vendor that calculates fair valuations of international equity securities based on a number of factors that appear to correlate to the movements in the U.S. markets. As investments whose values are classified as Level 2 prices include positions that are not traded in active markets and/or are subject to transfer restrictions, valuations may be adjusted to reflect illiquidity and/or non-transferability, which are generally based on available market information.
 
  •  Level 3 — significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumption in determining the fair value of investments) — Investments whose values are classified as Level 3 prices have significant unobservable inputs, as they may trade infrequently or not at all. When observable prices are not available for these securities, the fund uses one or more valuation techniques for which sufficient and reliable data is available. The inputs used by the fund in estimating the value of Level 3 prices may include the original transaction price, quoted prices for similar securities or assets in active markets, completed or pending third-party transactions in the underlying investment or comparable issuers, and changes in financial ratios or cash flows. Level 3 prices may also be adjusted to reflect illiquidity and/or non-transferability, with the amount of such discount estimated by the fund in the absence of market information. Assumptions used by the fund due to the lack of observable inputs may significantly impact the resulting fair value and, therefore the fund’s results of operations.
 
 
 


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The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the fund’s investments as of June 30, 2014:
 
                                 
    Quoted Prices in
      Significant
   
    Active Markets for
  Other Significant
  Unobservable
   
    Identical Assets
  Observable Inputs
  Inputs
   
Description
 
(Level 1)
 
(Level 2)
 
(Level 3)
 
Total
 
Common Stock1
    $—       $55,554,481       $—       $55,554,481  
Brazil1
    11,241,656                   11,241,656  
Chile1
    3,600,845                   3,600,845  
China1
          21,508,838             21,508,838  
Health Care Equipment & Services
    3,493,350                   3,493,350  
India1
          8,624,925             8,624,925  
Software & Services
    1,967,982       1,966,545             3,934,527  
Kazakhstan1
    1,845,158                   1,845,158  
Mexico1
    11,535,682                   11,535,682  
Peru1
    2,875,262                   2,875,262  
Philippines1
    4,346,010                   4,346,010  
Russia1
    7,111,867                   7,111,867  
Thailand1
    4,523,821                   4,523,821  
United States1
    3,938,200                   3,938,200  
Preferred Stock
                               
Brazil1
    5,942,395                   5,942,395  
Other Investment Company1
    5,614,573                   5,614,573  
                                 
Total
    $68,036,801       $87,654,789       $—       $155,691,590  
                                 
 
     
1
  As categorized in Portfolio Holdings.
 
The fund’s policy is to recognize transfers between Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 as of the beginning of the fiscal year. There were no transfers between Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 for the period ended June 30, 2014.
 
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Laudus Trust
Laudus Mondrian International Government Fixed Income Fund
 
Portfolio Holdings as of June 30, 2014 (Unaudited)
 
 
The following are the portfolio holdings as of the report date. For more information, please refer to the fund’s semiannual or annual shareholder reports.
 
For fixed rate obligations, the rate shown is the interest rate (the rate established when the obligation was issued). For variable-rate obligations, the rate shown is the rate as of the report date. The maturity date shown for all the securities is the final legal maturity.
 
                         
        Cost
  Value
Holdings by Category   ($)   ($)
 
  80 .3%   Government Bonds     237,322,334       254,320,360  
  2 .7%   Government Agency Obligation     8,410,130       8,617,267  
  15 .1%   Supranational     49,690,557       47,665,745  
  0 .3%   Other Investment Company     835,830       835,830  
 
 
  98 .4%   Total Investments     296,258,851       311,439,202  
  1 .6%   Other Assets and Liabilities, Net             5,086,730  
 
 
  100 .0%   Net Assets             316,525,932  
 
                 
Security
  Face Amount
  Value
    Rate, Maturity Date   (local currency)   ($)
 
 Government Bonds 80.3% of net assets
 
Australia 9.9%
Australia Government Bond
5.25%, 03/15/19 (AUD)
    4,500,000       4,669,260  
5.75%, 05/15/21 (AUD)
    24,600,000       26,760,133  
                 
              31,429,393  
 
Austria 4.4%
Austria Government Bond
6.25%, 07/15/27 (EUR)
    6,750,000       14,008,519  
 
Canada 4.2%
Canada Government International Bond
3.50%, 01/13/20 (EUR)
    8,430,000       13,425,897  
 
Finland 4.4%
Finland Government Bond
3.50%, 04/15/21 (EUR)
    8,661,000       13,899,393  
 
France 4.6%
France Government Bond OAT
5.75%, 10/25/32 (EUR)
    7,000,000       14,434,167  
 
Germany 1.7%
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
3.50%, 07/04/19 (EUR)
    3,300,000       5,230,846  
 
Japan 12.5%
Japan Government Five Year Bond
0.40%, 09/20/15 (JPY)
    1,460,000,000       14,469,702  
Japan Government Ten Year Bond
1.90%, 06/20/16 (JPY)
    668,000,000       6,829,927  
1.00%, 09/20/21 (JPY)
    80,000,000       828,393  
Japan Government Thirty Year Bond
2.40%, 12/20/34 (JPY)
    1,080,000,000       12,442,894  
1.70%, 03/20/44 (JPY)
    500,000,000       4,955,254  
                 
              39,526,170  
 
Mexico 4.6%
Mexico Government Bond
6.50%, 06/10/21 (MXN)
    170,000,000       14,102,708  
7.50%, 06/03/27 (MXN)
    6,150,000       538,937  
                 
              14,641,645  
 
Netherlands 4.5%
Netherlands Government Bond
5.50%, 01/15/28 (EUR)
    7,193,490       14,198,962  
 
New Zealand 3.9%
New Zealand Government Bond
6.00%, 12/15/17 (NZD)
    5,800,000       5,407,380  
5.50%, 04/15/23 (NZD)
    7,500,000       7,085,659  
                 
              12,493,039  
 
Poland 7.8%
Poland Government Bond
5.50%, 10/25/19 (PLN)
    39,000,000       14,387,981  
5.75%, 09/23/22 (PLN)
    26,500,000       10,210,933  
                 
              24,598,914  
 
Sweden 9.9%
Sweden Government Bond
5.00%, 12/01/20 (SEK)
    80,000,000       14,719,902  
3.50%, 06/01/22 (SEK)
    97,365,000       16,754,480  
                 
              31,474,382  
 
United Kingdom 7.9%
United Kingdom Gilt
3.75%, 09/07/21 (GBP)
    10,000,000       18,706,935  
4.50%, 09/07/34 (GBP)
    3,100,000       6,252,098  
                 
              24,959,033  
                 
Total Government Bonds
(Cost $237,322,334)     254,320,360  
         
                 
                 
 
 
 
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Security
  Face Amount
  Value
    Rate, Maturity Date   (local currency)   ($)
 
 Government Agency Obligation 2.7% of net assets
 
Germany 2.7%
Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau
2.05%, 02/16/26 (JPY) (a)
    750,000,000       8,617,267  
                 
Total Government Agency Obligation
(Cost $8,410,130)     8,617,267  
         
                 
                 
 
 Supranational* 15.1% of net assets
                 
                 
Asian Development Bank
2.35%, 06/21/27 (JPY)
    950,000,000       11,124,214  
European Investment Bank
1.40%, 06/20/17 (JPY)
    1,290,000,000       13,260,074  
European Union Notes
2.75%, 06/03/16 (EUR)
    8,500,000       12,237,637  
Nordic Investment Bank
1.70%, 04/27/17 (JPY)
    1,070,000,000       11,043,820  
                 
Total Supranational
(Cost $49,690,557)     47,665,745  
         
                 
                 
    Number
  Value
Security   of Shares   ($)
 
 Other Investment Company 0.3% of net assets
 
United States 0.3%
State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund, Premier Class 0.00% (b)
    835,830       835,830  
                 
Total Other Investment Company
(Cost $835,830)     835,830  
         
 
End of Investments.
 
At 06/30/14 the tax basis cost of the fund’s investments was $298,437,684 and the unrealized appreciation and depreciation were $15,619,831 and ($2,618,313) respectively, with a net appreciation of $13,001,518.
 
* Supranational bonds represent the debt of international organizations or institutions such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, regional multilateral development banks and others.
(a) Guaranteed by the Republic of Germany.
(b) The rate shown is the 7-day yield.
 
     
AUD —
  Australian dollar
EUR —
  euro currency
GBP —
  Great British pound
JPY —
  Japanese yen
MXN —
  Mexican peso
NZD —
  New Zealand dollar
PLN —
  Polish zloty
SEK —
  Swedish krona
USD —
  U.S. dollar
ZAR —
  South African rand
 
In addition to the above, the fund held the following at 06/30/14:
 
 
                                             
            Amount of
      Amount of
  Unrealized
        Currency
  Currency
  Currency
  Currency
  Appreciation
        to be
  to be
  to be
  to be
  (Depreciation)
Expiration Date   Counterparty   Received   Received   Delivered   Delivered   ($)
 
 Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts
                                         
                                             
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     AUD       1,457,000       USD       1,371,031       17,172  
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     AUD       746,500       USD       702,453       16,696  
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     AUD       1,881,000       USD       1,770,013       31,724  
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     AUD       3,504,000       USD       3,297,249       67,472  
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     ZAR       126,551,226       AUD       12,706,000       (113,838 )
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     NZD       1,004,000       USD       876,740       2,366  
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     NZD       698,500       USD       609,963       15,519  
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     NZD       574,500       USD       501,680       18,434  
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     NZD       989,000       USD       863,641       (1,041 )
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     NZD       2,014,000       USD       1,758,719       36,508  
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     USD       29,037,716       AUD       30,858,500       (542,052 )
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     USD       16,858,032       NZD       19,305,000       (465,191 )
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     AUD       1,442,500       ZAR       14,169,750       31,405  
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     AUD       768,500       ZAR       7,531,039       18,413  
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     AUD       913,000       ZAR       9,148,397       3,037  
                                     
Net Unrealized Depreciation on Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts
    (863,376 )
         
 
 
 
 


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Under procedures approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”), the investment adviser has formed a Pricing Committee to administer the pricing and valuation of portfolio securities and other assets and to ensure that prices used for internal purposes or provided by third parties reasonably reflect fair market value. Among other things, these procedures allow the fund to utilize independent pricing services, quotations from securities and financial instrument dealers and other market sources to determine fair value.
 
The fund values the securities in its portfolio every business day. The fund uses the following policies to value various types of securities:
 
  •  Bonds and notes: Bonds and notes are valued at halfway between the most recent bid and ask quotes or, if such quotes are unavailable, at prices for securities of comparable maturity, credit quality and type. Valuations for bonds and notes are provided by independent bond-pricing services.
 
  •  Securities for which no quoted value is available: The Board has adopted procedures to fair value the fund’s securities when market prices are not “readily available” or are unreliable. For example, a fund may fair value a security when it is de-listed or its trading is halted or suspended; when a security’s primary pricing source is unable or unwilling to provide a price; or when a security’s primary trading market is closed during regular market hours. The fund makes fair value determinations in good faith in accordance with the fund’s valuation procedures. The Pricing Committee considers a number of factors, including unobservable market inputs when arriving at fair value. The Pricing Committee may employ techniques such as the review of related or comparable assets or liabilities, related market activities, recent transactions, market multiples, book values, transactional back-testing, disposition analysis and other relevant information. The Pricing Committee regularly reviews these inputs and assumptions to calibrate the valuations. Due to the subjective and variable nature of fair value pricing, there can be no assurance that a fund could obtain the fair value assigned to the security upon the sale of such security. The Board convenes on a regular basis to review fair value determinations made by the fund pursuant to the valuation procedures.
 
  •  Foreign equity security fair valuation: The Board has adopted procedures to fair value foreign equity securities that are traded in markets that close prior to the fund valuing its holdings. By fair valuing securities whose prices may have been affected by events occurring after the close of trading, the fund seeks to establish prices that investors might expect to realize upon the current sales of these securities. This methodology is designed to deter “arbitrage” market timers, who seek to exploit delays between the change in the value of a fund’s portfolio holdings and the Net Asset Value (“NAV”) of the fund’s shares, and seeks to help ensure that the prices at which the fund’s shares are purchased and redeemed are fair and do not result in dilution of shareholder interest or other harm to shareholders. When fair value pricing is used at the open or close of a reporting period, it may cause a temporary divergence between the return of the fund and that of its comparative index or benchmark. The Board regularly reviews fair value determinations made by the fund pursuant to these procedures.
 
  •  Forward foreign currency exchange contracts (“forwards”): Forwards are valued based on that day’s forward exchange rates or by using an interpolated forward exchange rate for contracts with interim settlement dates.
 
  •  Short-term securities (60 days or less to maturity): Short-term securities are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value.
 
  •  Underlying funds: Mutual funds are valued at their respective NAVs.
 
In accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosures under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (GAAP), the fund discloses the fair value of its investments in a hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure the fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to valuations based upon unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to valuations based upon unobservable inputs that are significant to the valuation (Level 3 measurements). If inputs used to measure the financial instruments fall within different levels of the hierarchy, the categorization is based on the lowest level input that is significant to the valuation. If the fund determines that either the volume and/or level of activity for an asset or liability has significantly decreased (from normal conditions for that asset or liability) or price quotations or observable inputs are not associated with orderly transactions, increased analysis and management judgment will be required to estimate fair value.
 
 
 
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The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are as follows:
 
  •  Level 1 — quoted prices in active markets for identical securities — Investments whose values are based on quoted market prices in active markets, and whose values are therefore classified as Level 1 prices, include active listed equities and futures contracts. Investments in mutual funds are valued daily at their NAVs, which are classified as Level 1 prices.
 
  •  Level 2 — other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.) — Investments that trade in markets that are not considered to be active, but whose values are based on quoted market prices, dealer quotations or valuations provided by alternative pricing sources supported by observable inputs are classified as Level 2 prices. These generally include U.S. government and sovereign obligations, most government agency securities, investment-grade corporate bonds, certain mortgage products, less liquid listed equities, and state, municipal and provincial obligations. In addition, international securities whose markets close hours before the fund values its holdings may require fair valuations due to significant movement in the U.S. markets occurring after the daily close of the foreign markets. The Board has approved a vendor that calculates fair valuations of international equity securities based on a number of factors that appear to correlate to the movements in the U.S. markets. As investments whose values are classified as Level 2 prices include positions that are not traded in active markets and/or are subject to transfer restrictions, valuations may be adjusted to reflect illiquidity and/or non-transferability, which are generally based on available market information.
 
  •  Level 3 — significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumption in determining the fair value of investments) — Investments whose values are classified as Level 3 prices have significant unobservable inputs, as they may trade infrequently or not at all. When observable prices are not available for these securities, the fund uses one or more valuation techniques for which sufficient and reliable data is available. The inputs used by the fund in estimating the value of Level 3 prices may include the original transaction price, quoted prices for similar securities or assets in active markets, completed or pending third-party transactions in the underlying investment or comparable issuers, and changes in financial ratios or cash flows. Level 3 prices may also be adjusted to reflect illiquidity and/or non-transferability, with the amount of such discount estimated by the fund in the absence of market information. Assumptions used by the fund due to the lack of observable inputs may significantly impact the resulting fair value and, therefore the fund’s results of operations.
 
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the fund’s investments as of June 30, 2014:
 
Assets Valuation Input
 
                                 
    Quoted Prices in
      Significant
   
    Active Markets for
  Other Significant
  Unobservable
   
    Identical Assets
  Observable Inputs
  Inputs
   
Description
 
(Level 1)
 
(Level 2)
 
(Level 3)
 
Total
 
Government Bonds1
    $—       $254,320,360       $—       $254,320,360  
Government Agency Obligations1
          8,617,267             8,617,267  
Supranational
          47,665,745             47,665,745  
Other Investment Company1
    835,830                   835,830  
                                 
Total
    $835,830       $310,603,372       $—       $311,439,202  
                                 
Other Financial Instruments
                               
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts2
    $—       $258,746       $—       $258,746  
                                 
                                 
Liabilities Valuation Input
                 
 
Other Financial Instruments
                               
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts2
    $—       ($1,122,122 )     $—       ($1,122,122 )
 
     
1
  As categorized in Portfolio Holdings.
2
  Forward foreign currency exchange contracts are not included in Investments in the schedule of portfolio holdings and are valued at unrealized appreciation or depreciation.
 
 
 


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The fund’s policy is to recognize transfers between Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 as of the beginning of the fiscal year. There were no transfers between Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 for the period ended June 30, 2014.
 
The fund invested in forward foreign currency exchange contracts during the period ended June 30, 2014. The fund invested in forwards to hedge part of the fund’s exposure to currencies that were deemed to be overvalued by the sub-adviser.
 
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Portfolio Holdings as of June 30, 2014 (Unaudited)
 
 
The following are the portfolio holdings as of the report date. For more information, please refer to the fund’s semiannual or annual shareholder reports.
 
For fixed rate obligations, the rate shown is the interest rate (the rate established when the obligation was issued). For variable-rate obligations, the rate shown is the rate as of the report date. The maturity date shown for all the securities is the final legal maturity.
 
                         
        Cost
  Value
Holdings by Category   ($)   ($)
 
  63 .6%   Government Bonds     11,751,242       11,288,322  
  1 .7%   Supranational     272,434       309,540  
  32 .9%   U.S. Government Securities     5,923,823       5,830,032  
  0 .7%   Other Investment Company     117,935       117,935  
 
 
  98 .9%   Total Investments     18,065,434       17,545,829  
  1 .1%   Other Assets and Liabilities, Net             188,611  
 
 
  100 .0%   Net Assets             17,734,440  
 
                 
Security
  Face Amount
  Value
    Rate, Maturity Date   (local currency)   ($)
 
 Government Bonds 63.6% of net assets
 
Australia 7.8%
Australia Government Bond
5.25%, 03/15/19 (AUD)
    250,000       259,403  
4.50%, 04/15/20 (AUD)
    465,000       470,672  
5.75%, 05/15/21 (AUD)
    601,000       653,774  
                 
              1,383,849  
 
Brazil 3.9%
Brazil Notas do Tesouro Nacional
10.00%, 01/01/17 (BRL)
    400,000       166,662  
10.00%, 01/01/21 (BRL)
    782,000       307,145  
10.00%, 01/01/23 (BRL)
    580,000       222,874  
                 
              696,681  
 
Colombia 1.5%
Colombia Government International Bond
7.75%, 04/14/21 (COP)
    140,000,000       86,632  
Colombian TES
7.25%, 06/15/16 (COP)
    80,000,000       44,172  
5.00%, 11/21/18 (COP)
    97,000,000       49,934  
7.00%, 05/04/22 (COP)
    54,000,000       29,653  
10.00%, 07/24/24 (COP)
    81,000,000       53,820  
                 
              264,211  
 
Germany 10.4%
Bundesobligation
0.50%, 10/13/17 (EUR)
    10,000       13,877  
0.50%, 02/23/18 (EUR)
    765,000       1,060,584  
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
2.50%, 01/04/21 (EUR)
    150,000       230,171  
3.25%, 07/04/42 (EUR)
    317,000       534,236  
                 
              1,838,868  
 
Hungary 0.4%
Hungary Government Bond
6.75%, 02/24/17 (HUF)
    4,400,000       21,476  
6.50%, 06/24/19 (HUF)
    4,000,000       20,261  
6.00%, 11/24/23 (HUF)
    6,000,000       30,145  
                 
              71,882  
 
Indonesia 1.3%
Indonesia Treasury Bond
5.25%, 05/15/18 (IDR)
    1,400,000,000       108,720  
5.63%, 05/15/23 (IDR)
    1,130,000,000       80,468  
8.38%, 03/15/34 (IDR)
    470,000,000       38,139  
                 
              227,327  
 
Japan 9.1%
Japan Government Ten Year Bond
1.50%, 03/20/15 (JPY)
    17,000,000       169,561  
1.40%, 03/20/18 (JPY)
    57,300,000       592,535  
0.80%, 09/20/20 (JPY)
    33,200,000       339,193  
Japan Government Thirty Year Bond
1.70%, 03/20/44 (JPY)
    50,900,000       504,445  
                 
              1,605,734  
 
Malaysia 1.5%
Malaysia Government Bond
3.31%, 10/31/17 (MYR)
    380,000       117,521  
4.24%, 02/07/18 (MYR)
    50,000       15,880  
3.42%, 08/15/22 (MYR)
    330,000       98,868  
3.84%, 04/15/33 (MYR)
    130,000       37,529  
                 
              269,798  
 
Mexico 2.5%
Mexico Government Bond
8.00%, 12/17/15 (MXN)
    1,605,000       132,103  
7.25%, 12/15/16 (MXN)
    682,600       57,132  
6.50%, 06/10/21 (MXN)
    560,000       46,456  
8.00%, 12/07/23 (MXN)
    900,000       81,186  
7.50%, 06/03/27 (MXN)
    1,500,000       131,448  
                 
              448,325  
 
 
 
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Security
  Face Amount
  Value
    Rate, Maturity Date   (local currency)   ($)
 
Peru 1.1%
Peru Government Bond
8.60%, 08/12/17 (PEN)
    64,000       25,955  
7.84%, 08/12/20 (PEN)
    380,000       156,292  
5.20%, 09/12/23 (PEN)
    20,000       7,107  
                 
              189,354  
 
Poland 2.3%
Poland Government Bond
5.50%, 04/25/15 (PLN)
    300,000       101,245  
5.25%, 10/25/20 (PLN)
    567,000       209,018  
5.75%, 09/23/22 (PLN)
    270,000       104,036  
                 
              414,299  
 
Qatar 0.8%
Qatar Government International Bond
5.25%, 01/20/20 (USD) (a)
    120,000       136,944  
 
Russia 1.8%
Russian Federal Bond - OFZ
7.50%, 03/15/18 (RUB)
    3,100,000       90,012  
7.60%, 04/14/21 (RUB)
    7,900,000       227,059  
                 
              317,071  
 
South Africa 1.9%
South Africa Government Bond
13.50%, 09/15/15 (ZAR)
    592,900       60,046  
8.00%, 12/21/18 (ZAR)
    1,040,000       99,446  
10.50%, 12/21/26 (ZAR)
    1,220,000       133,949  
6.25%, 03/31/36 (ZAR)
    650,000       45,461  
                 
              338,902  
 
Sweden 7.8%
Sweden Government Bond
3.75%, 08/12/17 (SEK)
    350,000       57,420  
4.25%, 03/12/19 (SEK)
    4,600,000       792,667  
3.50%, 06/01/22 (SEK)
    2,845,000       489,565  
3.50%, 03/30/39 (SEK)
    285,000       50,855  
                 
              1,390,507  
 
Thailand 0.4%
Thailand Government Bond
3.88%, 06/13/19 (THB)
    1,700,000       54,151  
3.63%, 06/16/23 (THB)
    800,000       24,451  
                 
              78,602  
 
Turkey 1.3%
Turkey Government Bond
9.00%, 03/08/17 (TRY)
    70,000       33,767  
6.30%, 02/14/18 (TRY)
    170,000       75,628  
7.10%, 03/08/23 (TRY)
    280,000       120,136  
                 
              229,531  
 
United Kingdom 7.8%
United Kingdom Gilt
4.00%, 09/07/16 (GBP)
    25,000       45,516  
3.75%, 09/07/20 (GBP)
    197,000       367,619  
4.25%, 12/07/27 (GBP)
    500,000       973,302  
                 
              1,386,437  
                 
Total Government Bonds
(Cost $11,751,242)     11,288,322  
         
                 
                 
 
 Supranational* 1.7% of net assets
                 
                 
European Union Notes
2.75%, 06/03/16 (EUR)
    215,000       309,540  
                 
Total Supranational
(Cost $272,434)     309,540  
         
                 
                 
 
 U.S. Government Securities 32.9% of net assets
 
United States 32.9%
U.S. Treasury Notes
0.25%, 01/15/15 (USD)
    120,000       120,119  
4.00%, 08/15/18 (USD)
    157,700       174,794  
1.50%, 08/31/18 (USD)
    800,000       804,250  
1.25%, 04/30/19 (USD)
    845,000       832,457  
3.63%, 08/15/19 (USD)
    670,000       735,718  
1.00%, 08/31/19 (USD)
    242,000       233,795  
2.13%, 08/31/20 (USD)
    690,000       697,224  
3.63%, 02/15/21 (USD)
    915,000       1,007,250  
2.13%, 08/15/21 (USD)
    1,225,000       1,224,425  
                 
Total U.S. Government Securities
(Cost $5,923,823)     5,830,032  
         
                 
                 
    Number
  Value
Security   of Shares   ($)
 
 Other Investment Company 0.7% of net assets
 
United States 0.7%
State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund, Premier Class 0.00% (b)
    117,935       117,935  
                 
Total Other Investment Company
(Cost $117,935)     117,935  
         
 
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At 06/30/14, the tax basis cost of the fund’s investments was $18,073,792 and the unrealized appreciation and depreciation were $341,510 and ($869,473), respectively, with a net depreciation of ($527,963).
 
* Supranational bonds represent the debt of international organizations or institutions such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, regional multilateral development banks and others.
(a) Securities exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registrations, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At the period end, the value of these amounted to $136,944 or 0.8% of net assets.
(b) The rate shown is the 7-day yield.
 
     
AUD —
  Australian dollar
BRL —
  Brazilian real
CLP —
  Chilean peso
CNY —
  Chinese yuan renminbi
COP —
  Colombian peso
EUR —
  euro currency
GBP —
  Great British pound
HUF —
  Hungarian forint
IDR —
  Indonesian rupiah
INR —
  Indian rupee
JPY —
  Japanese yen
MXN —
  Mexican peso
MYR —
  Malaysian ringgit
PEN —
  Peruvian nuevo sol
PLN —
  Polish zloty
RUB —
  Russian ruble
SEK —
  Swedish krona
THB —
  Thailand Baht
TRY —
  Turkish lira
USD —
  U.S. dollar
ZAR —
  South African rand
 
In addition to the above, the fund held the following at 06/30/14:
 
 
                                             
            Amount of
      Amount of
  Unrealized
        Currency
  Currency
  Currency
  Currency
  Appreciation
        to be
  to be
  to be
  to be
  (Depreciation)
Expiration Date   Counterparty   Received   Received   Delivered   Delivered   ($)
 
 Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts
                                         
                                             
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     AUD       78,500       USD       73,868       731  
07/31/2014
  Barclays Capital, Inc.     CLP       44,104,000       USD       79,511       2,473  
07/31/2014
  Barclays Capital, Inc.     CLP       19,751,000       USD       35,607       52  
07/31/2014
  JPMorgan Chase Bank     CNY       484,000       USD       77,787       (157 )
07/31/2014
  Barclays Capital, Inc.     CNY       491,000       USD       78,912       (532 )
07/31/2014
  JPMorgan Chase Bank     INR       7,108,500       USD       117,388       2,753  
07/31/2014
  State Street Bank London     USD       1,445,840       AUD       1,536,500       (26,990 )
07/31/2014
  JPMorgan Chase Bank     USD       156,699       CNY       975,000       686  
07/31/2014
  Barclays Capital, Inc.     USD       117,388       INR       7,108,500       1,444  
                                     
Net Unrealized Depreciation on Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts
    (19,540 )
         
 
 
Under procedures approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”), the investment adviser has formed a Pricing Committee to administer the pricing and valuation of portfolio securities and other assets and to ensure that prices used for internal purposes or provided by third parties reasonably reflect fair market value. Among other things, these procedures allow the fund to utilize independent pricing services, quotations from securities and financial instrument dealers and other market sources to determine fair value.
 
The fund values the securities in its portfolio every business day. The fund uses the following policies to value various types of securities:
 
  •  Bonds and notes: Bonds and notes are valued at halfway between the most recent bid and ask quotes or, if such quotes are unavailable, at prices for securities of comparable maturity, credit quality and type. Valuations for bonds and notes are provided by independent bond-pricing services.
 
  •  Securities for which no quoted value is available: The Board has adopted procedures to fair value the fund’s securities when market prices are not “readily available” or are unreliable. For example, a fund may fair value a security when it is de-listed or its trading is halted or suspended; when a security’s primary pricing source is unable or unwilling to provide a price; or when a security’s primary trading market is closed during regular market hours. The fund makes fair value determinations in good faith in accordance with the fund’s valuation procedures. The Pricing Committee considers a number of factors, including unobservable market inputs when arriving at fair value. The Pricing Committee may employ techniques such as the review of related or comparable assets or liabilities, related market activities, recent transactions,
 
 
 
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  market multiples, book values, transactional back-testing, disposition analysis and other relevant information. The Pricing Committee regularly reviews these inputs and assumptions to calibrate the valuations. Due to the subjective and variable nature of fair value pricing, there can be no assurance that a fund could obtain the fair value assigned to the security upon the sale of such security. The Board convenes on a regular basis to review fair value determinations made by the fund pursuant to the valuation procedures.
 
  •  Foreign equity security fair valuation: The Board has adopted procedures to fair value foreign equity securities that are traded in markets that close prior to the fund valuing its holdings. By fair valuing securities whose prices may have been affected by events occurring after the close of trading, the fund seeks to establish prices that investors might expect to realize upon the current sales of these securities. This methodology is designed to deter “arbitrage” market timers, who seek to exploit delays between the change in the value of a fund’s portfolio holdings and the Net Asset Value (“NAV”) of the fund’s shares, and seeks to help ensure that the prices at which the fund’s shares are purchased and redeemed are fair and do not result in dilution of shareholder interest or other harm to shareholders. When fair value pricing is used at the open or close of a reporting period, it may cause a temporary divergence between the return of the fund and that of its comparative index or benchmark. The Board regularly reviews fair value determinations made by the fund pursuant to these procedures.
 
  •  Forward foreign currency exchange contracts (“forwards”): Forwards are valued based on that day’s forward exchange rates or by using an interpolated forward exchange rate for contracts with interim settlement dates.
 
  •  Short-term securities (60 days or less to maturity): Short-term securities are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value.
 
  •  Underlying funds: Mutual funds are valued at their respective NAVs.
 
In accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosures under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (GAAP), the fund discloses the fair value of its investments in a hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure the fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to valuations based upon unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to valuations based upon unobservable inputs that are significant to the valuation (Level 3 measurements). If inputs used to measure the financial instruments fall within different levels of the hierarchy, the categorization is based on the lowest level input that is significant to the valuation. If the fund determines that either the volume and/or level of activity for an asset or liability has significantly decreased (from normal conditions for that asset or liability) or price quotations or observable inputs are not associated with orderly transactions, increased analysis and management judgment will be required to estimate fair value.
 
The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are as follows:
 
  •  Level 1 — quoted prices in active markets for identical securities — Investments whose values are based on quoted market prices in active markets, and whose values are therefore classified as Level 1 prices, include active listed equities and futures contracts. Investments in mutual funds are valued daily at their NAVs, which are classified as Level 1 prices.
 
  •  Level 2 — other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.) — Investments that trade in markets that are not considered to be active, but whose values are based on quoted market prices, dealer quotations or valuations provided by alternative pricing sources supported by observable inputs are classified as Level 2 prices. These generally include U.S. government and sovereign obligations, most government agency securities, investment-grade corporate bonds, certain mortgage products, less liquid listed equities, and state, municipal and provincial obligations. In addition, international securities whose markets close hours before the fund values its holdings may require fair valuations due to significant movement in the U.S. markets occurring after the daily close of the foreign markets. The Board has approved a vendor that calculates fair valuations of international equity securities based on a number of factors that appear to correlate to the movements in the U.S. markets. As investments whose values are classified as Level 2 prices include positions that are not traded in active markets and/or are subject to transfer restrictions, valuations may be adjusted to reflect illiquidity and/or non-transferability, which are generally based on available market information.
 
  •  Level 3 — significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumption in determining the fair value of investments) — Investments whose values are classified as Level 3 prices have significant unobservable inputs, as they may
 
 
 


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  trade infrequently or not at all. When observable prices are not available for these securities, the fund uses one or more valuation techniques for which sufficient and reliable data is available. The inputs used by the fund in estimating the value of Level 3 prices may include the original transaction price, quoted prices for similar securities or assets in active markets, completed or pending third-party transactions in the underlying investment or comparable issuers, and changes in financial ratios or cash flows. Level 3 prices may also be adjusted to reflect illiquidity and/or non-transferability, with the amount of such discount estimated by the fund in the absence of market information. Assumptions used by the fund due to the lack of observable inputs may significantly impact the resulting fair value and, therefore the fund’s results of operations.
 
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the fund’s investments as of June 30, 2014:
 
Assets Valuation Input
 
                                 
    Quoted Prices in
      Significant
   
    Active Markets for
  Other Significant
  Unobservable
   
    Identical Assets
  Observable Inputs
  Inputs
   
Description
 
(Level 1)
 
(Level 2)
 
(Level 3)
 
Total
 
Government Bonds1
    $—       $11,288,322       $—       $11,288,322  
Supranational
          309,540             309,540  
U.S. Government Securities1
          5,830,032             5,830,032  
Other Investment Company1
    117,935                   117,935  
                                 
Total
    $117,935       $17,427,894       $—       $17,545,829  
                                 
Other Financial Instruments
                               
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts2
    $—       $8,139       $—       $8,139  
                                 
                                 
Liabilities Valuation Input
                 
 
Other Financial Instruments
                               
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts2
    $—       ($27,679 )     $—       ($27,679 )
 
     
1
  As categorized in Portfolio Holdings.
2
  Forward foreign currency exchange contracts are not included in Investments in the schedule of portfolio holdings and are valued at unrealized appreciation or depreciation.
 
The fund’s policy is to recognize transfers between Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 as of the beginning of the fiscal year. There were no transfers between Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 for the period ended June 30, 2014.
 
The fund invested in forward foreign currency exchange contracts during the period ended June 30, 2014. The fund invested in forwards to hedge part of the fund’s exposure to currencies that were deemed to be overvalued by the sub-adviser.
 
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Laudus Trust
Laudus U.S. Large Cap Growth Fund
 
Portfolio Holdings as of June 30, 2014 (Unaudited)
 
 
The following are the portfolio holdings as of the report date. For more information, please refer to the fund’s semiannual or annual shareholder reports.
 
                         
        Cost
  Value
Holdings by Category   ($)   ($)
 
  99 .1%   Common Stock     1,882,987,813       2,183,366,237  
  0 .0%   Other Investment Company     336,873       336,873  
 
 
  99 .1%   Total Investments     1,883,324,686       2,183,703,110  
  0 .9%   Other Assets and Liabilities, Net             19,281,180  
 
 
  100 .0%   Net Assets             2,202,984,290  
 
                 
    Number
  Value
Security   of Shares   ($)
 
 Common Stock 99.1% of net assets
 
Automobiles & Components 1.2%
Delphi Automotive plc
    391,314       26,898,924  
 
Capital Goods 7.0%
Eaton Corp. plc
    522,840       40,352,791  
Emerson Electric Co.
    516,352       34,265,119  
Precision Castparts Corp.
    194,668       49,134,203  
Roper Industries, Inc.
    125,179       18,277,386  
SolarCity Corp. *
    174,129       12,293,507  
                 
              154,323,006  
 
Commercial & Professional Supplies 0.3%
Verisk Analytics, Inc., Class A *
    103,706       6,224,434  
 
Consumer Durables & Apparel 1.1%
NIKE, Inc., Class B
    322,769       25,030,736  
 
Consumer Services 5.6%
McDonald’s Corp.
    385,318       38,816,935  
Starbucks Corp.
    491,042       37,996,830  
Wynn Resorts Ltd.
    223,400       46,368,904  
                 
              123,182,669  
 
Diversified Financials 3.5%
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., Class B *
    134,816       17,062,313  
Discover Financial Services
    464,955       28,817,911  
Moody’s Corp.
    354,974       31,117,021  
                 
              76,997,245  
 
Energy 6.1%
Concho Resources, Inc. *
    197,378       28,521,121  
FMC Technologies, Inc. *
    282,988       17,282,077  
Gulfport Energy Corp. *
    176,585       11,089,538  
Laredo Petroleum, Inc. *
    986,508       30,562,018  
Schlumberger Ltd.
    405,558       47,835,566  
                 
              135,290,320  
 
Food, Beverage & Tobacco 1.3%
Mondelez International, Inc., Class A
    778,385       29,275,060  
 
Health Care Equipment & Services 2.4%
Abbott Laboratories
    969,990       39,672,591  
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. *
    29,938       12,328,469  
                 
              52,001,060  
 
Household & Personal Products 0.6%
The Estee Lauder Cos., Inc., Class A
    184,795       13,722,877  
 
Materials 1.4%
Monsanto Co.
    243,915       30,425,957  
 
Media 8.6%
Comcast Corp., Class A
    656,653       35,249,133  
Liberty Global plc, Class A *
    973,830       43,062,763  
The Walt Disney Co.
    475,407       40,761,396  
Time, Inc. *
    1       21  
Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., Class A
    2,013,355       70,769,428  
                 
              189,842,741  
 
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences 15.4%
AbbVie, Inc.
    1,589,848       89,731,021  
Allergan, Inc.
    145,957       24,698,844  
Biogen Idec, Inc. *
    119,311       37,619,951  
Gilead Sciences, Inc. *
    573,311       47,533,215  
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. *
    193,301       54,601,733  
United Therapeutics Corp. *
    340,283       30,111,643  
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. *
    427,504       53,916,805  
                 
              338,213,212  
 
Retailing 7.4%
Netflix, Inc. *
    91,397       40,269,518  
The Home Depot, Inc.
    256,435       20,760,978  
The Priceline Group, Inc. *
    41,467       49,884,801  
TripAdvisor, Inc. *
    476,390       51,764,537  
                 
              162,679,834  
 
Software & Services 26.7%
Alliance Data Systems Corp. *
    126,887       35,686,969  
Autodesk, Inc. *
    367,834       20,738,481  
Baidu, Inc. ADR *
    212,661       39,727,201  
Facebook, Inc., Class A *
    1,042,732       70,165,436  
 
 
 
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    Number
  Value
Security   of Shares   ($)
Google, Inc., Class A *
    215,336       125,900,499  
Intuit, Inc.
    265,860       21,409,706  
LinkedIn Corp., Class A *
    307,176       52,671,469  
MasterCard, Inc., Class A
    219,421       16,120,861  
salesforce.com, Inc. *
    491,702       28,558,052  
Splunk, Inc. *
    136,468       7,550,774  
Visa, Inc., Class A
    334,260       70,431,925  
VMware, Inc., Class A *
    317,056       30,694,191  
Yahoo! Inc. *
    1,968,814       69,164,436  
                 
              588,820,000  
 
Technology Hardware & Equipment 4.0%
Apple, Inc.
    949,461       88,233,411  
 
Telecommunication Services 2.2%
Crown Castle International Corp.
    302,012       22,427,411  
SoftBank Corp.
    342,100       25,494,301  
                 
              47,921,712  
 
Transportation 4.3%
American Airlines Group, Inc. *
    709,626       30,485,533  
Union Pacific Corp.
    639,574       63,797,506  
                 
              94,283,039  
                 
Total Common Stock
(Cost $1,882,987,813)     2,183,366,237  
         
                 
                 
 
 Other Investment Company 0.0% of net assets
 
Money Market Fund 0.0%
State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund, Premier Class 0.00% (a)
    336,873       336,873  
                 
Total Other Investment Company
(Cost $336,873)     336,873  
         
 
End of Investments.
 
At 06/30/14, the tax basis cost of the fund’s investments was $1,888,382,591 and the unrealized appreciation and depreciation were $309,028,495 and ($13,707,976), respectively, with a net unrealized appreciation of $295,320,519.
 
At 06/30/14, the values of certain foreign securities held by the fund aggregating $25,494,301 were adjusted from their closing market values in accordance with international fair valuation procedures approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees.
 
* Non-income producing security.
(a) The rate shown is the 7-day yield.
 
     
ADR —
  American Depositary Receipt
 
 
Under procedures approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”), the investment adviser has formed a Pricing Committee to administer the pricing and valuation of portfolio securities and other assets and to ensure that prices used for internal purposes or provided by third parties reasonably reflect fair market value. Among other things, these procedures allow the fund to utilize independent pricing services, quotations from securities and financial instrument dealers and other market sources to determine fair value.
 
The fund values the securities in its portfolio every business day. The fund uses the following policies to value various types of securities:
 
  •  Securities traded on an exchange or over-the-counter: Traded securities are valued at the closing value for the day, or, on days when no closing value has been reported, at halfway between the most recent bid and ask quotes. Securities that are primarily traded on foreign exchanges are valued at the official closing price or the last sales price on the exchange where the securities are principally traded with these values then translated into U.S. dollars at the current exchange rate, unless these securities are fair valued as discussed below.
 
  •  Securities for which no quoted value is available: The Board has adopted procedures to fair value the fund’s securities when market prices are not “readily available” or are unreliable. For example, a fund may fair value a security when it is de-listed or its trading is halted or suspended; when a security’s primary pricing source is unable or unwilling to provide a price; or when a security’s primary trading market is closed during regular market hours. The fund makes fair value determinations in good faith in accordance with the fund’s valuation procedures. The Pricing Committee considers a number of factors, including unobservable market inputs when arriving at fair value. The Pricing Committee may employ techniques such as the review of related or comparable assets or liabilities, related market activities, recent transactions, market multiples, book values, transactional back-testing, disposition analysis and other relevant information. The Pricing Committee regularly reviews these inputs and assumptions to calibrate the valuations. Due to the subjective and variable nature of fair value pricing, there can be no assurance that a fund could obtain the fair value assigned to the security upon
 
 
 


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  the sale of such security. The Board convenes on a regular basis to review fair value determinations made by the fund pursuant to the valuation procedures.
 
  •  Foreign equity security fair valuation: The Board has adopted procedures to fair value foreign equity securities that are traded in markets that close prior to the fund valuing its holdings. By fair valuing securities whose prices may have been affected by events occurring after the close of trading, the fund seeks to establish prices that investors might expect to realize upon the current sales of these securities. This methodology is designed to deter “arbitrage” market timers, who seek to exploit delays between the change in the value of a fund’s portfolio holdings and the Net Asset Value (“NAV”) of the fund’s shares, and seeks to help ensure that the prices at which the fund’s shares are purchased and redeemed are fair and do not result in dilution of shareholder interest or other harm to shareholders. When fair value pricing is used at the open or close of a reporting period, it may cause a temporary divergence between the return of the fund and that of its comparative index or benchmark. The Board regularly reviews fair value determinations made by the fund pursuant to these procedures.
 
  •  Short-term securities (60 days or less to maturity): Short-term securities are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value.
 
  •  Underlying funds: Mutual funds are valued at their respective NAVs.
 
In accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosures under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (GAAP), the fund discloses the fair value of its investments in a hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure the fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to valuations based upon unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to valuations based upon unobservable inputs that are significant to the valuation (Level 3 measurements). If inputs used to measure the financial instruments fall within different levels of the hierarchy, the categorization is based on the lowest level input that is significant to the valuation. If the fund determines that either the volume and/or level of activity for an asset or liability has significantly decreased (from normal conditions for that asset or liability) or price quotations or observable inputs are not associated with orderly transactions, increased analysis and management judgment will be required to estimate fair value.
 
The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are as follows:
 
  •  Level 1 — quoted prices in active markets for identical securities — Investments whose values are based on quoted market prices in active markets, and whose values are therefore classified as Level 1 prices, include active listed equities. Investments in mutual funds are valued daily at their NAVs, which are classified as Level 1 prices.
 
  •  Level 2 — other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.) — Investments that trade in markets that are not considered to be active, but whose values are based on quoted market prices, dealer quotations or valuations provided by alternative pricing sources supported by observable inputs are classified as Level 2 prices. These generally include U.S. government and sovereign obligations, most government agency securities, investment-grade corporate bonds, certain mortgage products, less liquid listed equities, and state, municipal and provincial obligations. In addition, international securities whose markets close hours before the fund values its holdings may require fair valuations due to significant movement in the U.S. markets occurring after the daily close of the foreign markets. The Board has approved a vendor that calculates fair valuations of international equity securities based on a number of factors that appear to correlate to the movements in the U.S. markets. As investments whose values are classified as Level 2 prices include positions that are not traded in active markets and/or are subject to transfer restrictions, valuations may be adjusted to reflect illiquidity and/or non-transferability, which are generally based on available market information.
 
  •  Level 3 — significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumption in determining the fair value of investments) — Investments whose values are classified as Level 3 prices have significant unobservable inputs, as they may trade infrequently or not at all. When observable prices are not available for these securities, the fund uses one or more valuation techniques for which sufficient and reliable data is available. The inputs used by the fund in estimating the value of Level 3 prices may include the original transaction price, quoted prices for similar securities or assets in active markets, completed or pending third-party transactions in the underlying investment or comparable issuers, and changes in financial ratios or cash flows. Level 3 prices may also be adjusted to reflect illiquidity and/or non-transferability, with the
 
 
 
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  amount of such discount estimated by the fund in the absence of market information. Assumptions used by the fund due to the lack of observable inputs may significantly impact the resulting fair value and, therefore the fund’s results of operations.
 
The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the fund’s investments as of June 30, 2014:
 
                                 
    Quoted Prices in
      Significant
   
    Active Markets for
  Other Significant
  Unobservable
   
    Identical Assets
  Observable Inputs
  Inputs
   
Description
 
(Level 1)
 
(Level 2)
 
(Level 3)
 
Total
 
Common Stock1
    $2,135,444,525       $—       $—       $2,135,444,525  
Telecommunication Services
    22,427,411       25,494,301             47,921,712  
Other Investment Company1
    336,873                   336,873  
                                 
Total
    $2,158,208,809       $25,494,301       $—       $2,183,703,110  
                                 
 
     
1
  As categorized in Portfolio Holdings.
 
The fund’s policy is to recognize transfers between Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 as of the beginning of the fiscal year. There were no transfers between Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 for the period ended June 30, 2014.
 
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Item 2. Controls and Procedures.
(a)   Based on their evaluation of Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures, as of a date within 90 days of the filing date, Registrant’s Chief Executive Officer, Marie Chandoha and Registrant’s Principal Financial Officer, George Pereira, have concluded that Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures are: (i) reasonably designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in this report is appropriately communicated to Registrant’s officers to allow timely decisions regarding disclosures required in this report; (ii) reasonably designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in this report is recorded, processed, summarized and reported in a timely manner; and (iii) are effective in achieving the goals described in (i) and (ii) above.
 
(b)   During Registrant’s last fiscal quarter, there have been no changes in Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Act (17 CFR 270.30a-3(d)) that the above officers believe to have materially affected, or to be reasonably likely to materially affect, Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
Item 3. Exhibits.
Separate certifications for Registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Act (17 CFR 270.30a-2(a)), are attached.
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) The Laudus Trust
         
By:
  /s/ Marie Chandoha    
 
 
 
Marie Chandoha
   
    President and Chief Executive Officer
 
       
Date:
  August 12, 2014    
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/ Marie Chandoha
 
Marie Chandoha
   
 
  President and Chief Executive Officer    
 
       
Date:
  August 12, 2014    
 
       
By:
  /s/ George Pereira
 
George Pereira
   
 
  Chief Financial Officer    
 
       
Date:
  August 12, 2014