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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM N-CSR

 

 

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Investment Company Act file number 811-06400

 

 

The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

 

SEI Investments

One Freedom Valley Drive

Oaks, PA 19456

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

 

 

SEI Investments

One Freedom Valley Drive

Oaks, PA 19456

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (877) 446-3863

Date of fiscal year end: October 31, 2021

Date of reporting period: October 31, 2021

 

 

 


Item 1.

Reports to Stockholders.

A copy of the report transmitted to stockholders pursuant to Rule 30e-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Act”) (17 CFR § 270.30e-1), is attached hereto.


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Cambiar Opportunity Fund

 

Cambiar SMID Fund

 

Cambiar Small Cap Fund

 

Cambiar International Equity Fund

 

 

Cambiar International Small Cap Fund

 

Cambiar Global Equity Fund

 

Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS          

Shareholders’ Letter

       1  

Opportunity Fund

    

Fund Performance Commentary

       6  

Characteristics and Performance

       7  

SMID Fund

    

Fund Performance Commentary

       8  

Characteristics and Performance

       9  

Small Cap Fund

    

Fund Performance Commentary

       10  

Characteristics and Performance

       11  

International Equity Fund

    

Fund Performance Commentary

       12  

Characteristics and Performance

       13  

International Small Cap Fund

    

Fund Performance Commentary

       14  

Characteristics and Performance

       15  

Global Equity Fund

    

Fund Performance Commentary

       16  

Characteristics and Performance

       17  

Aggressive Value Fund

    

Fund Performance Commentary

       18  

Characteristics and Performance

       19  

Schedules of Investments

       20  

Statements of Assets and Liabilities

       38  

Statements of Operations

       42  

Statements of Changes in Net Assets

       46  

Financial Highlights

       53  

Notes to Financial Statements

       64  

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

       73  

Trustees and Officers of the Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund

       74  

Disclosure of Fund Expenses

       82  

Approval of Investment Advisory Agreement

       84  

Review of the Liquidity Risk Management Program

       86  

Notice to Shareholders

       87  

 

 

The Funds file their complete schedules of investments with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT (Form N-Q for filings prior to March 31, 2020). The Funds’ Forms N-Q and N-PORT are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov, and may be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.

A description of the policies and procedures that the Funds use to determine how to vote proxies relating to portfolio securities, as well as information relating to how the Funds voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30, is available (i) without charge, upon request, by calling 1-866-777-8227; and (ii) on the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov.


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Cambiar Investors, LLC

Shareholder Letter

October 31, 2021

The Once in 100 Years Pandemic – Year 2

At the very beginning of (fiscal) year 2021 for most mutual funds, vaccines for COVID-19 emerged from clinical studies showing high efficacy against severe disease and transmission, leading to an explosive stock market rally that continued for many months. During the depths of the brief but severe 2020 recession, stocks of businesses tethered to the physical economy, from industrials to financials to consumption-driven businesses lagged badly behind internet platforms, technology hardware, and other largely digital businesses whose growth and market adoption was accelerated by COVID lockdown necessities. With a cure or at least a palliative in sight, physical economy businesses leapt forward. Aided by continued digital adoption and ebullient financial market conditions, digital platform and related stocks continued to perform well in fiscal 2021, but with less relatively extreme performance differentials versus their physical economy alternatives. A year after vaccine efficacy was first disclosed, the financial optimism brought forth by the re-opening of the global economy is more guarded, as the global societal costs of coping with COVID continue to mount, at some $10 trillion and counting by many estimates.

Looking out into 2022 and beyond, we expect the societal costs and policy responses from this episode of history to manifest in an inflation bulge for broad goods and services over the 2020-2022 time period, with cumulative inflation in the United States landing in the range of 8-15% above its pre-COVID trendline. This likely leaves many goods and services priced well above what they might have been expected to be had COVID never occurred in the first place. The supply side of the world economy has been both damaged and bogged down by the challenges of coping with a health care emergency that isn’t over with yet. The U.S. Federal Reserve has attempted to define this phenomenon as “transitory”, modeled after the post World War II de-mobilization and reorganization of the industrial complex; however, we envision this pricing bulge as being rather durable and less. Visibility beyond this window of time is challenging. However, we do expect a different and generally more restricted policy response.

The strength of the stock market and significance of the monetary impulse behind it cannot be understated. It seems this has created three distinct stock markets all operating at the same time. There is the traditional stock market of industrial businesses, consumer products, commodity businesses, financial companies, and so forth. There is a parallel multi trillion dollar defensive growth universe of massive digital platform businesses, known colloquially as the FAANG+ stocks, though the underlying names and identities of this group of stocks seem to be shifting. Last is the RobinHood stock market of entirely speculative stocks, most with little earnings support or operating history. There may be some unique businesses that emerge from this speculative cluster of the market over time, but this area seems especially vulnerable to a shift in Federal Reserve largesse.

For the more pedestrian “regular” stock market, as 2022 comes into view, we anticipate that the mismatch between supply, demand, and pricing capacity may become particularly pronounced and challenging to forecast with accuracy. With costs now galloping for labor and materials, companies unable to price their products more aggressively risk margin squeezes, while consumer unit demand may begin to falter as the cost of a consumption basket rises to the point of squeezing out some purchases. Other companies with un-dynamic businesses have benefited from these unique pressure points, leading to near term windfall profits that may dissipate quickly. As the markets sort out what the real trajectory is for price, volume, and costs, company financial reports are apt to be volatile events over the course of 2022.

 

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Source: Bloomberg. Indexed to 100 or pre-pandemic levels, to illustrate how these cost, volume and physical demand elements may course through the economy.

 

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Outside the U.S., policy responses to COVID have been strong but less overwhelming, so as not to drive a comparable inflationary bulge as what is underway in the U.S. It is unclear whether rising nominal price levels paired with a more active Fed (read: positive interest rates by latter 2022) should entail a stronger U.S. dollar, or a higher velocity U.S. economy with higher price levels and heavy financialization quickly succumbs to modest interest rate pressure (read: interest rates peak at very low levels). We suspect both hypotheses hold some weight, influencing international events and returns.

Internationally, the dominant driver of economic growth has been China for nearly all of the 21st century. The news from China from an investment standpoint in 2021 has been decidedly dour. China’s unelected communist government has, for more than 30 years, fostered an aggressively capitalist economic development plan at the core of its otherwise statist planned economy. In 2021, China shed widely held notions that it would continue to give businesses a free reign to develop, instead targeting increased control of all manner of data, confiscation of deemed excess profits, inserting Communist Party apparatchiks onto corporate boards, whilst clamping down broadly on a variety of industries. It is befuddling that after years of economic success on the back of a successful and innovative private sector, that China would seek to clamp down on its growth, aiming for greater statism and alignment with Marxist principles, but this appears to be the direction. We believe the motivations may be, in part, to move China past an economic stagnation zone known as “the middle income trap”, decrease the visibility of extreme wealth in a notionally Communist country, and advance various statist and ideological goals. We are not confident that the Chinese economy can perform very well under these constraints, nor that foreign capital will be treated very well in the process.

In the field of Developing Economy economics, there is a well-delineated concept called the “middle income trap”. Middle income countries have per capita GDP ranging between 5% and 40% of that of the U.S., which equates to a ceiling of $25,000 per capita in 2021. In the post World War II time period, only 15 out of 101 middle income countries actually advanced beyond this level. Even among countries that advanced beyond the middle income level, such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, they spent 23, 27, and 29 years, respectively, “stuck” at a middle income level. Why is this so hard to avoid/grow past?

In simple terms, it is challenging to advance economically after the easier elements of modernization are implemented, such as using modern capital equipment tools, modern telecommunications, etc. The growing pains are very tangible. Countries that have benefited from low wages become less competitive as they move into middle income status. Others with heavy commodity exposure can only go so far digging things out of the ground. One way or the other, nations eventually need to move up the value-added ladder to become richer, and this means Intellectual Property (I.P.) formation. In turn, I.P. formation requires not only an educated workforce but a commercial and independent legal system that is consistent with supporting/promoting I.P. rights. In addition, as countries move up the income scale, various industries do lose competitiveness, and there are natural erosions of relevance, leading to displaced workers and economic losses. The creative-destruction feature of market-based economics will rear its head on both the positive and negative sides as countries develop.

So, what happens when workers are displaced, factories become uncompetitive, and other features of a country’s development strategy begin to backfire? The correct answer is that you need to grind it out and understand that to become an affluent nation, it is more complicated than you might think, that various institutions will need to be fostered carefully, and that some practices that may have gotten your country from zero to where it is presently may not be able to drive it further. And these generally are not the answers that most governments are looking for because they extend beyond most elected governments’ terms, or unelected governments’ expected lifespans. The temptation to resort economically unorthodox forms of intervention are high. These include blaming scapegoats, blocking certain kinds of imports, stifling certain kinds of investors, trying to fix their currency to unrealistic valuations, borrow a bunch of money to build irrelevant infrastructure, and/or engage in other forms of populism to quell a population that becomes restive to the lack of progress.

Rather than let the free markets run, governments experiencing aspects of the Middle Income Trap often interfere. And that is where things can start to go dark, as interventionist reactions just exacerbate the problem, drive longer-term capital away, cause brain drain, and impede market forces from working. South American countries such as Argentina and Brazil are classic examples of this over the 1960-1990 time period, becoming at first just interventionist, and as their interventions failed quite decisively, military governments eventually came in. At that point, rather than just being trapped, they generally went backwards.

China faces a truly unique set of contrasts, by way of its size, cultural longevity, the anecdotal fact that its people are amazingly good capitalist entrepreneurs, and that its government is rooted in a highly antagonistic, Leninist set of dogmatic principles that lie in direct contrast to the normal features of a market-led economy. China has sought, since the end of the Cold War, to grow its productive capacities and economy by opening to the rest of the world. In doing so, it has become the second largest economy in general and second largest global manufacturer. Technology, internet, and other entrepreneurial businesses have thrived. As nation-builders, the CCP and the Chinese people managed to pack 150 years of industrial progress into about 32 years, which is amazing and on a scale unseen in human history. Maybe now the leadership are overconfident?

The contrast between communist ideology, which features state control over just about everything, and gigantic free-wheeling technology and consumer led businesses is a staggering one. It has been laying in plain sight for years, and observers have generally concluded that in order to advance the country, communist dogma would need to give way to practical reality, namely

 

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that the way forward would be through successful private businesses, large and small, that would advance the lives of the Chinese people. As a practical matter, that constructive view ought to be true. But as China’s progress has become more stunted as of late, the same unproductive urges cited above are coming out in force. Whether these prove to be typical reactions to a lack of progress and middle income trap issues, or more extreme ones, exaggerated by the communist dogma that China’s leadership actually believes, is hard to parse currently. The signs do point to the CCP doubling down on being a more interventionist state in most respects. Maybe tripling down after this month.

This is unfortunate for equities globally, not just in China. Investors will likely assign a much higher risk premium to Chinese stocks (i.e., lower multiples) for some time to come. China has been an immense source of consumer product and industrial growth for 30+ years now. If Chinese growth falls further, and it is reasonable to believe that it will, demand growth for commodities, advanced industrial products, infrastructure, and consumer products/luxuries will also slow given the scope of the nation. Markets prone to excess global capacity/irrational capacity growth may be particularly at risk.

Offsetting some of this negativity, arms races in technology, and outright military armaments probably continue apace.

Cambiar Domestic Strategies

Each of Cambiar’s domestic strategies trailed moderately in fiscal 2021 relative to their primary benchmarks, following a rather exceptional 2020. Given the Funds’ emphasis on quality and downside protection, we were not entirely surprised, as the market in 2021 has favored very deep value asset-heavy businesses and as well highly speculative/disruptive technology businesses in contrast to steadier performers. Cambiar remains focused on consistent execution in the underwriting of new positions, maintenance of existing holdings, and selective avoidance of industries/companies that do not meet our investment criteria, and feel confident that the relatively extreme positioning that worked in 2021 is not likely to persist.

Hedging and hedging instruments – Cambiar has not generally employed futures, forward contracts, and other such instruments to manage currency or other forms of volatility, as these represent “known costs for unknown benefits”, although we retain the option to do so. Our philosophy is that these instruments make the most sense for manufacturing companies, who expect to deliver a certain good at a certain time in the future with costs that can also be certain in today’s currency prices but not necessarily in the future. Mutual fund portfolios, on the other hand, are never “delivered” to a final buyer; they are intended to represent a continuous set of holdings for years or decades, with daily liquidity as an option for the investors in the fund. Hedging instruments are not designed with any of this in mind. Hedging costs are feasible (that is to say not overly costly) in a world of stable currencies and lower interest rates, but for currencies with volatile trading patterns or high local interest rates, such as emerging market currencies, the cost of hedging instruments can be either prohibitive or wholly inconsistent in their availability. For emerging market positions, of which we have but a few presently, if one is not confident of the value and stability of local currencies, we believe it is best not to invest heavily in general.

Derivatives – The only Cambiar fund that has held any derivatives since early 2012 is the Aggressive Value Fund, where Cambiar employs the use of longer maturity call options and total return swaps on occasion. In our view, these instruments, among other impacts, can permit smoother management of Fund positions and cash balances during periods of cash flow and market volatility and also allow for some degree of improved management portfolio returns. By their nature, derivatives embed a degree of leverage and can either amplify or reduce overall portfolio performance accordingly. The use of these instruments for the Aggressive Value Fund has been very modest in 2021. The Fund held a swap position in Deutsche Telekom and its subsidiary holding T-Mobile, during early 2021 The Fund liquidated this position after some moderate appreciation, reasoning there were other opportunities for the capital to be deployed.

Final Comments – Last year, we wrote that the greatest risks to markets, besides said complacency, is that after years of failing to achieve any semblance of their inflationary goals – what if Central Banks actually caught the inflationary car they are chasing? The world’s stock and bond markets are not (at all) priced for any significant resurgence in inflation. This remains the largest risk to financial asset prices, and one that we cannot forecast with much confidence in either direction.

Thank you for your continued confidence in Cambiar.

Sincerely,

 

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Brian M. Barish

President

Cambiar Investors LLC

This material represents an assessment of the market environment at a specific point in time and is not intended to be a forecast of future events, or a guarantee of future results. This information should not be relied upon by the reader as research or investment advice regarding the funds or any stock in particular, nor should it be construed as a recommendation to purchase or sell a security. This information is for educational purposes only.

 

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Mutual fund investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal. In addition to the normal risks associated with equity investing, international investing may involve risk of capital loss from unfavorable fluctuations in currency values, from differences in generally accepted accounting principles or from economic or political instability in other nations. Investments in small companies typically exhibit higher volatility. Emerging markets involve heightened risks related to the same factors as well as increased volatility and lower trading volume. Funds may invest in derivatives, which are often more volatile than other investments and may magnify the Fund’s gains or losses.

Holdings are subject to change.

 

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Definition of Comparative Indices

MSCI World Index: The MSCI World Index is a free float-adjusted, market capitalization-weighted index that measures large and mid-cap equity performance across countries with developed markets.

MSCI EAFE Index: The MSCI EAFE Index (Europe, Australasia, Far East) is a free float-adjusted, market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure developed market equity performance, excluding the U.S. & Canada.

MSCI EAFE Growth Index: The MSCI EAFE Growth Index captures large and mid cap securities exhibiting overall growth style characteristics across Developed Markets countries around the world, excluding the US and Canada. The growth investment style characteristics for index construction are defined using five variables: long-term forward EPS growth rate, short-term forward EPS growth rate, current internal growth rate and long-term historical EPS growth trend and long-term historical sales per share growth trend.

MSCI EAFE Value Index: The MSCI EAFE Value Index captures large and mid cap securities exhibiting overall value style characteristics across Developed Markets countries around the world, excluding the US and Canada. The value investment style characteristics for index construction are defined using three variables: book value to price, 12-month forward earnings to price and dividend yield.

MSCI EAFE Small Cap Index: The MSCI EAFE (Europe, Australia, Far East) Small Cap Index is a free float-adjusted, market capitalization weighted Index that is designed to measure small cap representation across developed market equity performance, excluding the U.S. & Canada.

Russell 1000 Value Index: The Russell 1000® Value Index is a float-adjusted, market capitalization weighted Index of those Russell 1000 companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values. The Russell 1000® Index measures the performance of the 1,000 largest companies in the Russell 3000® Index, which consists of 3,000 of the largest U.S. equities.

Russell 2000 Value Index: The Russell 2000® Value Index is a float-adjusted, market capitalization weighted Index comprised of firms in the Russell 2000® Index that experience lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values. The Russell 2000 Index is a float-adjusted, market capitalization weighted Index that measures the performance of the 2,000 smallest companies in the Russell 3000® Index, which consists of 3,000 of the largest U.S. equities.

Russell 2500 Value Index: The Russell 2500® Value Index is a float-adjusted, market capitalization weighted Index comprised of the smallest 2500 firms in the Russell 3000® Index that experience lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values. The Russell 3000 Index is a float-adjusted, market capitalization weighted Index that measures the performance of the 3,000 smallest companies in the United States.

S&P 500 Index: The S&P 500 is a market capitalization weighted Index of 500 of the top companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy.

 

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Fund Performance Commentary

Cambiar Opportunity Fund – The Fund benchmarks itself against the Russell 1000 Value Index, and owns a mix of mostly large-cap U.S. stocks with some occasional mid-cap names. The Fund performed adequately over the full fiscal year given its focus and the market temperament, gaining 39.42% versus a 43.76% gain for the Russell 1000 Value Index, over the one year period ending 10.31.2021. Having generated outperformance of thousands of basis points in the preceding two fiscal years, some retracement is not unexpected. The Fund does occasionally dip into mid cap stocks where we find unique business opportunities and business-valuation disconnects. Our efforts here were not productive in 2021 and a good chunk of the relative underperformance happened down-cap. Given our stated concerns about a more conservative monetary climate in 2022, we aim to be especially cautious with regard to the lower end of the target capitalization range for this Fund.

The upwelling in economic activity and a steepening of the yield curve was particularly beneficial to bank stocks and other financial services companies in fiscal 2021. Over the years, we have become increasingly sanguine about the investment challenges of bank stocks versus other kinds of financial businesses. Banks can and generally do participate in broad stock market rallies. However, the core business of banks is challenged to earn superior returns on capital given high capital requirements, a high regulatory burden, and a relatively looser relationship between economic growth and business-lending. As stocks, they perform as beta trades all too often, faltering as yield curves flatten or broader markets flatten, but ripping under the right circumstances. Fiscal 2021 constituted the right circumstances for a bank-driven beta rally, though we have our questions about sustainability as the economic costs mount. For this reason, we have endeavored to build a financial services portfolio containing only higher ROE banks and which leans more heavily on other financial businesses that are not specifically in the deposit-taking and lending game. This worked very well in 2021, enabling the Cambiar Opportunity Fund’s financials positions to outgain those of the Russel 1000 Index moderately (in the context of a massive beta rally) without overloading on the very banks that can be so injurious should the tide go out.

We were less productive in the financial technology realm. Financial technology businesses, which range from credit card payment networks (i.e. Mastercard, Visa, American Express) to software and services providers handling merchant transactions, to vertical specialists are all needed to process a massive array of daily consumer and business transactions. In the not so distant past, payment methods were few and uncomplicated: there was cash, checks, or credit cards. Today the range of choices has exploded, with card present/card not present options necessary for e-commerce transactions, peer-to-peer payments, cryptocurrencies increasingly gaining acceptance, debit versus credit, and a variety of clearing networks driving this. The need for seamless and scalable technology is high, and this attracted our interest in holding positions which benefit from the increasing complexity and yet necessity of all this. As the year went on, the complexity feature began to overwhelm other investment merits, creating unanswerable questions about whether financial technology would be dominated by just a handful of especially forward-looking technology providers, blunting growth and creating obsolescence issues. We tend to believe the financial technology market will remain vibrant and not conducive to being dominated by very small number of mega-winners, but for the time being our positions in this sector have lagged the markets and experienced multiple compression.

Outside of traditional finance and financial technology, performance in the technology and industrial sectors was strong, offset by poorer performance in consumer discretionary stocks and a vacant position in energy. We remain unconvinced of the durable alpha argument in energy stocks given increasingly urgent carbon mitigation efforts worldwide.

 

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CHARACTERISTICS & PERFORMANCE     

 

Characteristics

  

Ticker

     CAMOX | CAMWX  

Number of Holdings

     38  

Strategy Assets

     $357,276 B  

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURN(1)

FOR PERIODS ENDED OCTOBER 31, 2021

     1-Year
Return
  3-Year
Return
  5-Year
Return
  10-Year
Return
 

Annualized

Inception
to Date

Investor Class Shares   39.42%   19.09%   14.76%   12.35%   9.44%
Institutional Class Shares   39.75%   19.30%   14.97%   12.59%   8.48%
S&P 500 Index   42.91%   21.48%   18.93%   16.21%   10.90%
Russell 1000® Value Index   43.76%   13.90%   12.39%   12.85%   7.49%
 

 

GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT     

 

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(1) Returns shown represent the performance of the Investor Class Shares and Institutional Class Shares. The performance of the Institutional Class Shares may vary as a result of shareholder servicing fees paid by the Investor Class Shares. Investor Class Shares were offered beginning June 30, 1998 and Institutional Class Shares were offered beginning November 3, 2005. The S&P 500 Index annualized inception to date return since June 30, 1998.The Russell 1000® Value Index annualized inception to date return since June 30, 1998.

The performance data quoted herein represents past performance and the return and value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that, when redeemed, may be worth less than its original cost. If the Adviser had not limited certain expenses, the Fund’s total return would have been lower. The Fund’s performance assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. There are no assurances that the Fund will meet its stated objectives. The Fund’s holdings and allocations are subject to change because it is actively managed and should not be considered recommendations to buy individual securities. Index returns assume reinvestment of dividends and, unlike the Fund’s returns, do not reflect any fees or expenses. If such fees and expenses were included in the index returns, the performance would have been lower. Please note that one cannot invest directly in an unmanaged index.

Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

See definition of comparative indices on page 5.

 

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Cambiar SMID Fund – The SMID Fund delivered a 44.07% return in the 2021 fiscal year. While we are pleased with the absolute return of the strategy, it did not keep pace with the blistering 58.14% return of the Russell 2500 Value benchmark.

The Fund’s financial holdings produced the largest positive contribution to relative performance, due to good stock selection. Two high quality banks and a P&C insurer were among the stronger performing stocks for the year across the SMID portfolio. Most other sectors failed to keep pace with the index increase. Though we experienced some stock specific issues, we believe the majority of the performance differential between the SMID fund and the benchmark can be attributed to the inability of high quality, stable companies with fair valuations that populate the SMID Fund to keep pace with more marginal or speculative stocks the most benefited from ample liquidity and risk seeking investment behavior. This was most evident in the energy sector, which increased 193% in the Russell 2500 Value off an admittedly depressed base in early November 2020. As the Fund held no energy stocks during the year, this was the largest detractor from the Fund’s relative performance. With a checkered track record of capital discipline and adequate oil and gas supply over the medium to long term, we do not see an attractive enough multi-year fundamental story for stocks to warrant capital deployment to the sector at this time and be consistent with our stated investment philosophy focused on buying quality businesses at a good price. Away from energy, low- to mid- single digit cash balances and our industrial sector holdings skewed toward highly profitable, stable businesses were the other large relative performance detractors.

While we would prefer to beat the benchmark every year, we must acknowledge that certain environments are not well suited to our consistent investment philosophy. Fiscal 2021, with its ample liquidity and associated high investor risk appetite, was one of those periods. We have a view that stronger companies tend to produce better financial performance over the medium- to long-term. When paired with a stock that values those financials at undemanding levels, we believe superior investment returns can be realized at a lower level of volatility. We are unwavering in this investment philosophy and intend to exercise strict discipline in doing what we say we do, even when it is uncomfortable and seemingly out of step with broad investor sentiment.

Coming off the ebullience of 2021, the SMID Fund continues to own highly profitable businesses with strong balance sheets, steady free cash flow, attractive forward growth prospects and undemanding valuations that offer a skewed risk-reward over the near and medium term. While we cannot predict when these biases will again support above average returns for the SMID Fund, we are confident with our tenets that business strength and the price paid for those attributes ultimately determines forward equity return potential. Should equity markets overall get more challenging, particularly as financial conditions inevitably tighten, we would note a manager skewed toward quality and price may be in good position to deliver above average downside capture, protecting client capital and creating the opportunity to deploy funds into an improved opportunity set.

 

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CHARACTERISTICS & PERFORMANCE     

 

Characteristics

  

Ticker

     CAMMX | CAMUX  

Number of Holdings

     40  

Strategy Assets

     $150,289 B  

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURN(1)

FOR PERIODS ENDED OCTOBER 31, 2021

     1-Year
Return
  3-Year
Return
  5-Year
Return
  10-Year
Return
 

Annualized

Inception
to Date

Investor Class Shares   44.07%   17.17%   15.64%   13.62%   11.17%
Institutional Class Shares   44.17%   17.27%   15.69%   N/A   10.92%
Russell 2500® Index   49.43%   18.43%   16.31%   N/A   12.28%
Russell 2500® Value Index   58.14%   13.91%   12.20%   N/A   10.45%
 

 

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LOGO

(1) Returns shown represent the performance of the Investor Class Shares and Institutional Class Shares. The performance of the Institutional Class Shares may vary as a result of shareholder servicing fees paid by the Investor Class Shares. Investor Class Shares were offered beginning May 31, 2011 and Institutional Class Shares were offered beginning November 3, 2014. The Russell 2500® Index annualized inception to date return since May 31, 2011.The Russell 2500® Value Index annualized inception to date return since May 31, 2011.

The performance data quoted herein represents past performance and the return and value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that, when redeemed, may be worth less than its original cost. If the Adviser had not limited certain expenses, the Fund’s total return would have been lower. The Fund’s performance assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. There are no assurances that the Fund will meet its stated objectives. The Fund’s holdings and allocations are subject to change because it is actively managed and should not be considered recommendations to buy individual securities. Index returns assume reinvestment of dividends and, unlike the Fund’s returns, do not reflect any fees or expenses. If such fees and expenses were included in the index returns, the performance would have been lower. Please note that one cannot invest directly in an unmanaged index.

Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

See definition of comparative indices on page 5.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMALL CAP FUND
     (UNAUDITED)
      
      

 

 

Cambiar Small Cap Fund – The Fund trailed its primary Russell 2000 Value benchmark during the 2021 fiscal year, gaining 40.79% against a stunning 64.30% gain for the Index. The Fund year coincidentally lined up almost exactly with the regulatory approval of vaccines in early November 2020, a development that in combination with rampant government-driven liquidity support triggered a massive rally in many riskier assets, particularly relatively highly levered and cyclically geared small cap stocks.

The goal for the Cambiar Small Cap Fund as always is to identify and invest at appropriate valuation levels in companies demonstrating above-average internal financial/operating performance reflective of a structural product and/or advantaged market position over multi-year periods. Our expectation is that in times of relatively high capital market risk tolerance, such businesses and their respective stocks may lag, but alternatively should evidence their inherent underlying financial durability in times of market stress. The result is to deliver through-the-cycle excess equity returns relative to the benchmark. Individual stock valuation levels and associated price-sensitivity at entry remain critical investment process components, and portfolio balance is actively managed to maintain diverse sources of combined return and to provide consistent exposure to historically less volatile and/or acyclical areas of the market. With risk and liquidity considerations less a market concern for much of the 2021 fiscal year the Fund was unable to keep pace with the Index, where approximately 40% of included companies deliver no profit at all.

Backing up to the start of the fiscal year, the aforementioned vaccine catalyst allowed small cap stocks to breach previous record highs in the first calendar quarter of the year, before extending to ever further peaks, including at the close of October. Despite lagging the Index, the Cambiar Small Cap Fund did deliver strong absolute performance, maintaining its aggregate exposure to more profitable, higher internal investment return and lower leverage businesses across the portfolio. Stock selection was particularly strong in Information Technology and particularly weak in Financials, where lower bank exposure and elevated losses in insurance names limited further positive return. And Health Care, with several owned names struggling with both execution and utilization in a COVID impacted operating environment offsetting other positive contribution. And with ongoing skepticism on the financial durability and long-term hydrocarbon demand structure of many lower capitalization energy stocks, abstentia from the Energy sector also negatively impacted relative returns of the Fund in fiscal 2021.

Still, the Cambiar Small Cap Fund continues to maintain good overall balance in terms of sector allocation, business diversification, and perhaps most importantly variance of forecasted value drivers across the portfolio. Current capital market indicators, and most asset prices more broadly still suggest ebullience as measured by valuation metrics relative to history, though performance in higher market cap stocks did begin to narrow toward the close of fiscal 2021. We are mindful of the rhyme to previous exuberant capital market environments we have witnessed, whether 1999 or 2007, and continue to execute our investment process while that much more focused on the risk-reward relationship between valuation and fundamentals in the companies we evaluate. Whatever the forward environment brings, the Cambiar Small Cap Fund continues to reflect thoughtful individual stock analysis and overall portfolio construction, set up for continued sustainable execution.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMALL CAP FUND
     (UNAUDITED)
      
      

 

 

CHARACTERISTICS & PERFORMANCE     

 

Characteristics

  

Ticker

     CAMSX | CAMZX  

Number of Holdings

     48  

Strategy Assets

     $96,939 B  

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURN(1)

FOR PERIODS ENDED OCTOBER 31, 2021

     1-Year
Return
  3-Year
Return
  5-Year
Return
  10-Year
Return
 

Annualized

Inception
to Date

Investor Class Shares   40.79%   14.17%   11.41%   9.42%   9.58%
Institutional Class Shares   41.18%   14.39%   11.60%   9.65%   12.32%
Russell 2000® Index   50.80%   16.47%   15.52%   13.50%   10.16%
Russell 2000® Value Index   64.30%   13.44%   12.61%   12.12%   8.84%
 

 

GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT     

 

LOGO

(1) Returns shown represent the performance of the Investor Class Shares and Institutional Class Shares. The performance of the Institutional Class Shares may vary as a result of shareholder servicing fees paid by the Investor Class Shares. Investor Class Shares were offered beginning August 31, 2004 and Institutional Class Shares were offered beginning October 31, 2008. The Russell 2000® Index annualized inception to date return since August 31, 2004.The Russell 2000® Value Index annualized inception to date return since August 31, 2004.

The performance data quoted herein represents past performance and the return and value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that, when redeemed, may be worth less than its original cost. If the Adviser had not limited certain expenses, the Fund’s total return would have been lower. The Fund’s performance assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. There are no assurances that the Fund will meet its stated objectives. The Fund’s holdings and allocations are subject to change because it is actively managed and should not be considered recommendations to buy individual securities. Index returns assume reinvestment of dividends and, unlike the Fund’s returns, do not reflect any fees or expenses. If such fees and expenses were included in the index returns, the performance would have been lower. Please note that one cannot invest directly in an unmanaged index.

Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

See definition of comparative indices on page 5.

 

11


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND
     (UNAUDITED)
      
      

 

 

Cambiar International Equity Fund – The Cambiar International Equity Fund posted a total return of 27.13% for the period compared to MSCI EAFE, which returned 34.18% for the same time period. We have commentated in prior shareholder letters that the extreme skew between growth stock valuations in the EAFE index and more pedestrian businesses has been a challenge, and this continues to be the case for 2021. It is also true that given the upwelling in stock market sentiment as vaccines became viable to combat the pandemic, very deeply distressed but operationally challenged businesses have leapt upward in a somewhat speculative manner, leaving our discipline somewhat hampered by its focus on generally steadier return companies. We do expect some of these behavioral elements of the market to work more favorably under less-extreme conditions. With all those qualifiers in place, we are, without any qualifiers, profoundly disappointed by this performance.

The longer-term success of the Cambiar International Strategy stemmed from three basic insights about international investing. First, international markets have a tendency to exhibit greater price and valuation swings as stocks de-rate or re-rate based on their growth and returns profile. Growth and high returns on capital are relatively rarer than in the United States, where the business culture and velocity of new ideas has tended to be greater. A price-sensitive discipline that is acutely tuned to actions when an attractive entry point (or exit point) is presented can benefit from this, especially knowing the market tendencies. Second, a deep value, or aggressive growth mindset tends to be insufficiently flexible in contending with these elements, leading to a quality-value or GARP mindset as the better mousetrap. Last, corporate governance and capital stewardship tend to be important value drivers, especially as the quality of thinking / governance varies greatly overseas. From a behavioral point of view, these elements have driven the longer term success of Cambiar International’s efforts. For a number of reasons, none of which I find very satisfactory, the experience of the last few years has seen a flawed implementation of the above into Cambiar International Fund. We have redoubled efforts, added several new members to the team, and are focusing hard on the basic blocking and tackling issues to the above. These include identifying a wide funnel of possible stock ideas during better times so that there is an active roster of stocks to be implemented as and when the inevitable swoons occur, and ensuring the market structure, business output, and competitive position of our positions is durably strong, such that our conviction does not waver in these same episodes. International portfolio management generally requires a cast iron stomach and unemotional 1,000 yard stare.

We hope to be able to improve materially on the preceding paragraph in a year’s time.

Most of the damage in terms of relative performance came from positions directly exposed to China. We had staked out during the depths of the pandemic positions in China’s dominant digital platform businesses, Alibaba and Tencent, and some additional exposures to leisure and consumption. Internet based businesses have proven to be particularly sensible businesses through which to access the growth in per capita wealth and any number of consumptive and financial trends in China. However these are also businesses that naturally scale, that can push into adjacent markets with relative ease, and in so doing generate very high returns on invested capital – normally good things form an investor. In a country run by ideologues however, extreme success is frowned upon, and in a country that seeks to control and monitor its citizens closely, digital platform businesses are ideal ways to achieve this. As a result, these business are among the many targets of the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, to exert greater control over and to redirect profits for state priorities. This brings about basic shareholder right questions (whose profits are these exactly) and degrees of business freedom questions (will these companies be allowed to grow profitably, especially in adjacent markets). After enduring some losses in these businesses in the context of strong overall returns for international markets broadly, we exited these positions, unable to come to any comfortable conclusion that these basic governance factors would suddenly shift in a durably favorable direction.

Elsewhere in the portfolio, industrial / transportation businesses performed well given the timing of vaccine-efficacy news as the new fiscal year began, and we have added in selective cases hospitality and travel linked exposures which remain discounted from valuation levels consistent with a more full recovery. These sagged moderately in the late summer as the Delta variant of COVID reached Europe and North America, pushing out the expected recovery time. Additional variants to the virus are likely, though not necessarily more dangerous than the strains we have already seen. The response of governments and health officials to these variants remains as challenging to handicap as the trajectory of the vaccines themselves. It is unclear if there will ever be an all clear moment with respect to COVID. We expect to be contending with this virus perhaps for decades. But with a great deal of science and ingenuity trained on this one (acute) health problem, we do not believe it is a reasonable expectation to believe that travel, leisure, restaurants, and related infrastructure will remain deeply depressed indefinitely. Should a more full recovery occur, we expect the lack of investment and capacity during the 2020-22 time period will prove challenging to catch up with.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND
     (UNAUDITED)
      
      

 

 

CHARACTERISTICS & PERFORMANCE     

 

Characteristics

  

Ticker

     CAMIX | CAMYX  

Number of Holdings

     42  

Strategy Assets

     $919,039 B  

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURN(1)

FOR PERIODS ENDED OCTOBER 31, 2021

    

1-Year

Return

 

3-Year

Return

 

5-Year

Return

 

10-Year

Return

 

Annualized

Inception
to Date

Investor Class Shares   27.13%   5.78%   5.14%   5.87%   6.99%
Institutional Class Shares   27.23%   5.89%   5.26%   N/A   7.04%
MSCI EAFE Index   34.18%   11.54%   9.79%   7.37%   5.20%
 

 

GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT     

 

LOGO

(1) Returns shown represent the performance of the Investor Class Shares and Institutional Class Shares. The performance of the Institutional Class Shares may vary as a result of shareholder servicing fees paid by the Investor Class Shares. Investor Class Shares were offered beginning September 9, 2002 and Institutional Class Shares were offered beginning November 30, 2012. The MSCI EAFE Index annualized inception to date return since September 9, 2002.

The performance data quoted herein represents past performance and the return and value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that, when redeemed, may be worth less than its original cost. If the Adviser had not limited certain expenses, the Fund’s total return would have been lower. The Fund’s performance assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. There are no assurances that the Fund will meet its stated objectives. The Fund’s holdings and allocations are subject to change because it is actively managed and should not be considered recommendations to buy individual securities. Index returns assume reinvestment of dividends and, unlike the Fund’s returns, do not reflect any fees or expenses. If such fees and expenses were included in the index returns, the performance would have been lower. Please note that one cannot invest directly in an unmanaged index.

Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

See definition of comparative indices on page 5.

 

13


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR INTERNATIONAL SMALL CAP FUND
     (UNAUDITED)
      
      

 

 

International Small Cap Fund – The Cambiar International Small Cap Fund posted a total return of 30.83% for the reporting period, compared to the MSCI EAFE Small Cap Index which returned 35.77%, leading to a performance lag against the Index of 4.94%. This underperformance was driven entirely by allocation (-4.18% impact from allocation) as stock selection was a solid positive contributor during the period. The biggest drags from allocation included an overweight to consumer staples and healthcare, while cash was a -211bps headwind. Additionally, the Fund suffered from a combined negative impact from being underweight energy and materials. On a bright note, the Fund benefited from a modest overweight in financials and underweight in utilities and real estate. Since the announcement of Moderna’s and Pfizer’s vaccines in November, we’ve witnessed a large move in what we believe are higher beta lower quality businesses that suffered significantly during the pandemic namely banks, energy stocks and commodity producers. This is very typical during the early phase of any economic recovery. Our QPD process largely avoids a meaningful allocation to these parts of the market simply because these companies don’t have a history of demonstrating through the cycle cash flow durability, pricing power, wide moats and generally acceptable returns on investor capital. Therefore while painful in the short term, we believe these periods of outperformance from low-quality areas of the market are likely to be short-lived.

Stock selection was a bright spot during the reporting. Outperformance here came from consumer staples, health care, consumer discretionary, and technology with the biggest negative impact from communication services, industrials and materials. Individual outperformers included Greggs (consumer discretionary), Zai Lab (healthcare), Virgin Money (financials), Virbac (healthcare), Eurazeo (financials), L’Occitane (consumer discretionary) and Electrocomponents (technology). Many of these stocks suffered significantly during the pandemic namely Greggs and Virgin Money but have since recovered all of their pandemic losses. Negative detractors included Autohome (communication services) and China East Education (consumer discretionary). These two stocks suffered in large part due to their jurisdiction in China and the fallout from concerns over VIE structures and general regulatory clampdowns. Additionally Ryohin Keikaku (consumer discretionary), GN Store Nord (healthcare) and Scout24 (communication services) were negative contributors during the period.

To conclude, the Fund’s underperformance vs MSCI EAFE Small Cap was largely driven by being under-allocated to lower quality higher beta parts of the market that have benefitted from the post pandemic re-opening and vaccine availability. While we’re disappointed, we are still very optimistic that our focus on buying and owning high quality businesses at prices that give us a strong margin of safety and what we consider a pragmatic valuation framework will win. Heading into 2022 as government stimulus measures wind down and as central banks begin to taper emergency bond buying programs we believe the markets will once again return to owning high quality companies at reasonable prices.

 

14


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR INTERNATIONAL SMALL CAP
     (UNAUDITED)
      
      

 

 

CHARACTERISTICS & PERFORMANCE     

 

Characteristics

  

Ticker

     CAMFX

Number of Holdings

     44  

Strategy Assets

     $96,881 B  

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURN(1)

FOR PERIODS ENDED OCTOBER 31, 2021

    

1-Year

Return

 

3-Year

Return

 

5-Year

Return

 

10-Year

Return

 

Annualized

Inception
to Date

Institutional Class Shares   30.83%   12.08%   11.02%   N/A   8.17%

MSCI EAFE Small

Cap Index

  35.77%   13.37%   11.37%   N/A   9.83%
 

 

GROWTH OF A $100,000 INVESTMENT     

 

LOGO

(1) Commenced operations on November 18, 2014.

The performance data quoted herein represents past performance and the return and value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that, when redeemed, may be worth less than its original cost. If the Adviser had not limited certain expenses, the Fund’s total return would have been lower. The Fund’s performance assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. There are no assurances that the Fund will meet its stated objectives. The Fund’s holdings and allocations are subject to change because it is actively managed and should not be considered recommendations to buy individual securities. Index returns assume reinvestment of dividends and, unlike the Fund’s returns, do not reflect any fees or expenses. If such fees and expenses were included in the index returns, the performance would have been lower. Please note that one cannot invest directly in an unmanaged index.

Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

See definition of comparative indices on page 5.

 

15


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR GLOBAL EQUITY FUND
     (UNAUDITED)
      
      

 

 

Cambiar Global Equity Fund – The Cambiar Global Equity Fund posted a strong performance of 31.61% during the period, which trailed the MSCI World Index return of 40.42%. The Fund benefited from overweight positions in cyclical sectors as global markets recovered on the COVID vaccine announcement late in 2020. Increased visibility on highly anticipated economic recovery resulted in significant rerating of the sectors most negatively impacted by the pandemic. Financials were the biggest beneficiaries of this trend with stocks such as KKR, Charles Schwab, KBC Group, and American Express, outperforming the indices by a wide margin. Information technology sector, which included high-growth companies such as ASML, Capgemini, and Marvell Technology, continued to perform strongly as demand for their products remains propelled by structural tailwinds. Stocks within the industrial complex also benefited tremendously from the improved visibility driven by the vaccine news, with Airbus, Deutsche Post, Union Pacific, and Expeditors, all delivering strong outperformance.

The detractors to the performance were in the consumer discretionary, healthcare and energy sectors. The Fund’s exposure to Chinese stocks, such as Alibaba, Sand China, and Vipshop, was negatively impacted by China’s heightened regulatory intervention. Although for years China has been viewed as an attractive investment opportunity given a growing middle class and expanding consumption trends, the recent actions of the Chinese government in the sake of promoting “common prosperity” will question Investors’ willingness to allocate capital to companies where the basic principles of capitalism are being violated. Within healthcare, stocks such as Merck and Roche, did well, with their performance partially offset by medical devices companies, such as Phillips NV and Smith & Nephew, which continue to be negatively impacted by the delay of elective medical procedures as pandemic endures. Incyte was also a detractor to performance due to on-going delays and tougher FDA drug approval standards. Energy, although a small part of the Index at 3%, performed very well on the back of economic rebound, which hurt the Fund’s performance given its nil allocation to the sector based on poor longer-term economics.

As the world continues to normalize away from the pandemic phase, we are laser focused on new investment opportunities, which must fall within our proven underwriting discipline of seeking “best ideas” sourced from our domestic and international portfolios. Given the strong markets’ performance since the pandemic trough, selection of right stocks will be much more important for outperformance going forward. We will continue to seek investment candidates which possess durable competitive advantage with above-average operating/financial matrix which are not appropriately reflected in current prices. We remain optimistic that this strategy will continue to deliver strong results going forward.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR GLOBAL EQUITY FUND
     (UNAUDITED)
      
      

 

 

CHARACTERISTICS & PERFORMANCE     

 

Characteristics

  

Ticker

     CAMGX  

Number of Holdings

     48  

Strategy Assets

     $10,258 B  

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURN(1)

FOR PERIODS ENDED OCTOBER 31, 2021

     1-Year
Return
  3-Year
Return
  5-Year
Return
  10-Year
Return
 

Annualized

Inception
to Date

Investor Class Shares   31.61%   13.51%   10.37%   N/A   9.87%
MSCI World Index   40.42%   18.20%   15.45%   N/A   12.57%
 

 

GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT

 

    

LOGO

(1) Commenced operations on November 30, 2011.

The performance data quoted herein represents past performance and the return and value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that, when redeemed, may be worth less than its original cost. If the Adviser had not limited certain expenses, the Fund’s total return would have been lower. The Fund’s performance assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. There are no assurances that the Fund will meet its stated objectives. The Fund’s holdings and allocations are subject to change because it is actively managed and should not be considered recommendations to buy individual securities. Index returns assume reinvestment of dividends and, unlike the Fund’s returns, do not reflect any fees or expenses. If such fees and expenses were included in the index returns, the performance would have been lower. Please note that one cannot invest directly in an unmanaged index.

Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

See definition of comparative indices on page 5.

 

17


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR AGGRESSIVE VALUE FUND
     (UNAUDITED)
      
      

 

 

Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund – The Fund gained 47.96%, versus a 40.42% gain for the MSCI World Index during the fiscal year. In May 2020 the Fund reclaimed its original name as the Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund, at the request of the manager and with Fund board approval. This Fund was incepted in 2007 under this name, but in 2016 it was re-named the Cambiar Global Unconstrained Fund and subsequently the Cambiar Global Ultra Focus Fund in 2017.

The name changes to the two “Global U___” titles were intended to align the Fund with a more descriptive name for improved marketability and benchmarking. However, whether coincidental or not, the Fund’s opportunistic and very concentrated strategy seemed at odds and out of step with markets in the 2017 and 2018 time period, generating poorer overall results on the heels of portfolio misfires and limited digital platform businesses. The Fund performed better in 2019 but entered 2020 rather heavily exposed to the global travel and aircraft supply spaces – ground zero from a business disruption and capital destruction perspective owing to the pandemic. March 2020 results undid a very solid 2019 in a space of days.

Your fund manager is not a firm believer in spiritual notions such as negative karma or that the name of a financial product wrapper might by lucky or unlucky as the case may be. However, following years of generally successful investing under the unique but provocative Aggressive Value name, I began to question whether we had messed with a good thing that was intended to be what it was (originally) intended to be, upsetting the financial gods in some way. Secondly, with markets and stocks severely disjointed from fair valuations given pandemic-based disruptions, the opportunity set for Aggressive Value to do what it is capable of doing seemed especially strong. There will be no subsequent renaming of Aggressive Value – this is what this Fund was always intended to be called, it would seem.

The Fund employs a concentrated strategy, and typically holds 20-30 positions in global equities of varying capitalization ranges. The Fund’s objective is to gain long term capital appreciation by acquiring larger positions in equities that it deems to be distinctly undervalued with a range of drivers and returns, and to seek to achieve this by identifying uniquely attractive buy and sell points in which to build or exit these positions. Due to the concentrated nature of the Fund and the idiosyncratic nature of its positions, performance on a quarterly and annual basis can be very volatile, and for this reporting period, it was true to form. Given the Fund’s more focused portfolio construction approach and long-term performance orientation, investors are encouraged to look at 3-5 year expected holding periods for this strategy.

Early in 2021, the Aggressive Value Fund benefited handsomely from an (unintended) participation in a Robinhood-Meme stock, Bed, Bath and Beyond. Our investment team identified Bed Bath as distinctive turnaround candidate with a clear end market vertical under new management, following years of deficient execution and business strategy. We were aware that this was far from a consensus view, and that short positions were quite massive as a percentage of the stock’s float. We were entirely unaware that by early January, excessively shorted small cap stocks would become day-trader targets, triggering explosive gains and leading to some de-stabilization of the broader stock market. Bed Bath did not generate the same intensity and outsized returns as other meme stocks but did participate in the (outsized) rally, which we generally used to monetize the swings. Later in 2021 we exited this position.

The Fund was well positioned throughout 2021 in “re-opening” stocks such as aircraft manufacturing, aircraft leasing, air travel booking services, and other related personal transportation services. These stocks did very well in the early part of the year but faded in the summer months as the Delta variant rampaged through the population and slowed the velocity of economic reopening. Additional variants of COVID are likely to emerge in 2022 and beyond – we don’t doubt this. We do doubt that citizens of free societies will continue to live cloistered lives to impede a virus that remains virulent in the face of any but the most severe social shutdown, or that the quality and availability of therapies and vaccines to address COVID and derivatives will not continue to improve. It is possible that optimism is excessive in this regard, but this remains a core view.

 

18


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR AGGRESSIVE VALUE FUND
     (UNAUDITED)
      
      

 

 

 CHARACTERISTICS & PERFORMANCE     

 

Characteristics

  

Ticker

     CAMAX  

Number of Holdings

     28  

Strategy Assets

     $53,641 B  

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURN(1)

FOR PERIODS ENDED OCTOBER 31, 2021

    

1-Year

Return

 

3-Year

Return

 

5-Year

Return

 

10-Year

Return

 

Annualized

Inception to
Date

Investor Class Shares   47.96%   13.95%   9.19%   9.08%   7.99%
MSCI World Index   40.42%   18.20%   15.45%   12.19%   7.24%
 

 

 GROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT     

 

LOGO

(1) Commenced operations on August 31, 2007.

The performance data quoted herein represents past performance and the return and value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that, when redeemed, may be worth less than its original cost. If the Adviser had not limited certain expenses, the Fund’s total return would have been lower. The Fund’s performance assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. There are no assurances that the Fund will meet its stated objectives. The Fund’s holdings and allocations are subject to change because it is actively managed and should not be considered recommendations to buy individual securities. Index returns assume reinvestment of dividends and, unlike the Fund’s returns, do not reflect any fees or expenses. If such fees and expenses were included in the index returns, the performance would have been lower. Please note that one cannot invest directly in an unmanaged index.

Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

See definition of comparative indices on page 5.

 

19


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR OPPORTUNITY FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 SECTOR WEIGHTINGS (UNAUDITED)†     

 

LOGO

†Percentages based on total investments.

 

 SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS         
 COMMON STOCK — 99.5%         
    Shares      Value
AEROSPACE/DEFENSE EQUIPMENT — 6.0%           

L3Harris Technologies

    47,000      $     10,835,380    

Raytheon Technologies

    120,000        10,663,200    
    

 

 

 

       21,498,580    
    

 

 

 

AIR FREIGHT & LOGISTICS — 3.4%           

United Parcel Service, Cl B

    57,000        12,167,790    
    

 

 

 

AIRLINES — 2.5%           

Southwest Airlines *

    185,000        8,746,800    
    

 

 

 

BANKS — 6.2%           

JPMorgan Chase

    64,000        10,872,960    

US Bancorp

    190,000        11,470,300    
    

 

 

 

       22,343,260    
    

 

 

 

BIOTECHNOLOGY — 2.7%           

Biogen *

    36,000        9,600,480    
    

 

 

 

CAPITAL MARKETS — 7.6%           

Charles Schwab

    100,000        8,203,000    

Goldman Sachs Group

    25,000        10,333,750    

KKR, Cl A

            107,000        8,524,690    
    

 

 

 

       27,061,440    
    

 

 

 

CHEMICALS — 3.0%           

Corteva

    245,000        10,571,750    
    

 

 

 

COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT — 3.5%           

Motorola Solutions

    50,000        12,429,500    
    

 

 

 

CONSUMER FINANCE — 2.1%           

American Express

    44,000        7,646,320    
    

 

 

 

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT INSTRUMENTS & COMPONENTS — 2.0%           

TE Connectivity

    50,000        7,300,000    
    

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 COMMON STOCK — continued     

 

    Shares      Value
FOOD, BEVERAGE & TOBACCO — 2.1%           

Sysco

    100,000      $ 7,690,000    
    

 

 

 

HEALTH CARE EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES — 3.8%           

Baxter International

    88,000        6,948,480    

Medtronic

    57,000        6,832,020    
    

 

 

 

       13,780,500    
    

 

 

 

HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS & SERVICES — 3.2%           

Centene *

    160,000        11,398,400    
    

 

 

 

HOTELS, RESTAURANTS & LEISURE — 1.6%           

Penn National Gaming *

    80,000        5,728,000    
    

 

 

 

HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS — 2.8%           

Colgate-Palmolive

    130,000        9,904,700    
    

 

 

 

INDUSTRIAL CONGLOMERATES — 2.0%           

3M

    40,000        7,147,200    
    

 

 

 

INSURANCE — 6.5%           

Chubb

    63,000        12,308,940    

Principal Financial Group

    162,000        10,868,580    
    

 

 

 

       23,177,520    
    

 

 

 

INTERACTIVE MEDIA & SERVICES — 3.7%           

Alphabet, Cl A *

    4,500        13,324,140    
    

 

 

 

INTERNET & DIRECT MARKETING RETAIL — 3.0%           

Amazon.com *

    3,200        10,791,776    
    

 

 

 

IT SERVICES — 5.4%           

Fiserv *

    110,000        10,833,900    

Mastercard, Cl A

    25,000        8,388,000    
    

 

 

 

       19,221,900    
    

 

 

 

MULTI-UTILITIES — 2.7%           

Sempra Energy

    75,000        9,572,250    
    

 

 

 

PHARMACEUTICALS — 2.8%           

Bristol-Myers Squibb

    170,000        9,928,000    
    

 

 

 

REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS — 1.9%           

Welltower

    85,000        6,834,000    
    

 

 

 

ROAD & RAIL — 6.5%           

Uber Technologies *

    270,000        11,831,400    

Union Pacific

    47,000        11,345,800    
    

 

 

 

       23,177,200    
    

 

 

 

SEMI-CONDUCTORS & EQUIPMENT — 5.1%           

Applied Materials

    79,000        10,795,350    

Skyworks Solutions

    45,000        7,520,850    
    

 

 

 

       18,316,200    
    

 

 

 

SEMI-CONDUCTORS & INSTRUMENTS — 3.6%           

Marvell Technology

    185,000        12,672,500    
    

 

 

 

SPECIALTY RETAIL — 3.8%           

Gap

    280,000        6,353,200    

TJX

    110,000        7,203,900    
    

 

 

 

       13,557,100    
    

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMON STOCK

    

(Cost $252,947,691)

       355,587,306    
    

 

 

 

 SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT — 0.5%           

First American Treasury Obligation Fund 0.013%

    

(Cost $1,688,499)

        1,688,499        1,688,499    
    

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS— 100.0%     

(Cost $254,636,190)

     $     357,275,805    
    

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

21


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR OPPORTUNITY FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

Percentages are based on Net Assets of $357,252,879.

*

Non-income producing security.

Cl — Class

As of October 31, 2021, all of the Fund’s investments in securities were considered Level 1, in accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosure under U.S. GAAP.

For the year ended October 31, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

For more information on valuation inputs, see Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies in Notes to Financial Statements.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

22


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMID FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 SECTOR WEIGHTINGS (UNAUDITED)†     

 

LOGO

† Percentages based on total investments.

 

 SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS           
 COMMON STOCK — 99.5%           
    Shares      Value
AEROSPACE & DEFENSE — 2.5%       

Mercury Systems *

    72,000      $ 3,710,880    
    

 

 

 

AIR FREIGHT & LOGISTICS — 2.4%       

Expeditors International of Washington

    29,500        3,636,170    
    

 

 

 

BANKS — 10.7%       

BOK Financial

    42,170        4,266,339    

East West Bancorp

    52,330        4,159,189    

First Horizon

    218,990        3,716,260    

Signature Bank NY

    13,250        3,946,115    
    

 

 

 

           16,087,903    
    

 

 

 

BIOTECHNOLOGY — 5.1%       

Exelixis *

    193,840        4,169,498    

Incyte *

    52,000        3,482,960    
    

 

 

 

       7,652,458    
    

 

 

 

BUILDING PRODUCTS — 2.9%       

Builders FirstSource *

    76,000        4,428,520    
    

 

 

 

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT — 5.0%       

GrafTech International

        304,850        3,261,895    

Hubbell, Cl B

    21,340        4,254,556    
    

 

 

 

       7,516,451    
    

 

 

 

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, INSTRUMENTS & COMPONENTS — 2.3%       

IPG Photonics *

    21,800        3,466,418    
    

 

 

 

ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT — 2.5%       

Vontier

    112,000        3,788,960    
    

 

 

 

FOOD, BEVERAGE & TOBACCO — 2.4%       

Lamb Weston Holdings

    65,000        3,669,250    
    

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

23


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMID FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 COMMON STOCK — continued     

 

    Shares      Value
GAS UTILITIES — 2.3%       

Atmos Energy

    37,090      $ 3,416,731    
    

 

 

 

HEALTH CARE EQUIPMENT & SERVICES — 2.9%       

STERIS

    18,490        4,321,853    
    

 

 

 

HOTELS, RESTAURANTS & LEISURE — 2.7%       

Penn National Gaming *

    57,730        4,133,468    
    

 

 

 

INSURANCE — 13.6%       

American Financial Group

    28,165        3,831,566    

Arch Capital Group *

        103,650        4,334,643    

Axis Capital Holdings

    76,210        3,968,255    

Fidelity National Financial

    90,440        4,332,980    

Reinsurance Group of America, Cl A

    33,835        3,995,237    
    

 

 

 

       20,462,681    
    

 

 

 

IT SERVICES — 12.0%       

Amdocs

    49,280        3,835,955    

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding, Cl A

    46,000        3,995,560    

Euronet Worldwide *

    31,105        3,489,670    

Maximus

    42,170        3,566,317    

WEX *

    20,530        3,073,341    
    

 

 

 

       17,960,843    
    

 

 

 

MACHINERY — 5.3%       

Lincoln Electric Holdings

    30,490        4,341,776    

Toro

    38,600        3,685,142    
    

 

 

 

       8,026,918    
    

 

 

 

MEDICAL PRODUCTS & SERVICES — 2.9%       

Amedisys *

    26,000        4,402,840    
    

 

 

 

REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS — 7.5%       

Americold Realty Trust

    125,000        3,683,750    

National Retail Properties

    82,310        3,733,582    

VICI Properties

    132,610        3,892,103    
    

 

 

 

       11,309,435    
    

 

 

 

SEMI-CONDUCTORS & INSTRUMENTS — 4.8%       

ON Semiconductor *

    81,565        3,920,829    

Qorvo *

    20,020        3,367,965    
    

 

 

 

       7,288,794    
    

 

 

 

SOFTWARE — 2.5%       

Dolby Laboratories, Cl A

    41,720        3,685,962    
    

 

 

 

SPECIALTY RETAIL — 4.6%       

Burlington Stores *

    12,190        3,367,975    

Gap

    158,000        3,585,020    
    

 

 

 

       6,952,995    
    

 

 

 

WATER UTILITIES — 2.6%       

Essential Utilities

    84,340        3,969,884    
    

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMON STOCK

    

(Cost $131,669,720)

       149,889,414    
    

 

 

 

 SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT — 0.3%           

First American Treasury Obligation Fund 0.013%

    

(Cost $399,169)

        399,169        399,169    
    

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS— 99.8%     

(Cost $132,068,889)

     $     150,288,583    
    

 

 

 

 

 

Percentages are based on Net Assets of $150,528,909.

*

Non-income producing security.

Cl — Class

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

24


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMID FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

As of October 31, 2021, all of the Fund’s investments in securities were considered Level 1, in accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosure under U.S. GAAP.

For the year ended October 31, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

For more information on valuation inputs, see Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies in Notes to Financial Statements.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

25


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMALL CAP FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 SECTOR WEIGHTINGS (UNAUDITED)†     

 

LOGO

† Percentages based on total investments.

 

 SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS         
 COMMON STOCK — 97.7%         
    Shares      Value
AEROSPACE & DEFENSE — 7.1%           

BWX Technologies

    37,000      $ 2,099,380    

Mercury Systems *

    37,000        1,906,980    

Parsons *

    56,000        1,939,840    

RADA Electronic Industries *

    92,000        941,160    
    

 

 

 

       6,887,360    
    

 

 

 

AIR FREIGHT & LOGISTICS — 2.4%           

Forward Air

    23,000        2,312,880    
    

 

 

 

AIRLINES — 2.1%           

Hawaiian Holdings *

    105,000        2,031,750    
    

 

 

 

BANKS — 11.2%           

Cathay General Bancorp

    49,000        2,067,310    

Prosperity Bancshares

    30,000        2,259,300    

Texas Capital Bancshares *

    34,000        2,060,400    

United Bankshares

    58,000        2,145,420    

United Community Banks

    67,000        2,334,280    
    

 

 

 

           10,866,710    
    

 

 

 

BIOTECHNOLOGY — 4.7%           

Chimerix *

    123,000        644,520    

Emergent BioSolutions *

    37,000        1,763,790    

Exelixis *

        100,075        2,152,614    
    

 

 

 

       4,560,924    
    

 

 

 

BUILDING PRODUCTS — 2.1%           

PGT Innovations *

    92,000        1,964,200    
    

 

 

 

CHEMICALS — 2.1%           

Cabot

    39,000        2,080,650    
    

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMALL CAP FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 COMMON STOCK — continued     

 

    Shares      Value
COMMERCIAL SERVICES & SUPPLIES — 1.7%           

Healthcare Services Group

    85,000      $ 1,631,150    
    

 

 

 

CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING — 2.3%           

NV5 Global *

    21,000        2,186,730    
    

 

 

 

ELECTRIC UTILITIES — 2.4%           

IDACORP

    22,000        2,295,040    
    

 

 

 

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT — 1.9%            

GrafTech International

    174,000        1,861,800    
    

 

 

 

ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT — 2.0%           

Advanced Energy Industries

    21,000        1,928,220    
    

 

 

 

FOOD PRODUCTS — 2.3%           

Hain Celestial Group *

    50,000        2,243,500    
    

 

 

 

HEALTH CARE EQUIPMENT & SERVICES — 5.9%           

Cardiovascular Systems *

    58,000        2,034,640    

ICU Medical *

    8,000        1,873,040    

NuVasive *

    34,000        1,814,240    
    

 

 

 

             5,721,920    
    

 

 

 

HEALTH CARE PROVIDER & SERVICES — 4.0%           

Apria *

    51,000        1,908,930    

Innovage Holding *

        293,000        1,939,660    
    

 

 

 

       3,848,590    
    

 

 

 

HOTELS, RESTAURANTS & LEISURE — 2.4%           

Monarch Casino & Resort *

    32,000        2,311,040    
    

 

 

 

INSURANCE — 10.3%           

Axis Capital Holdings

    41,000        2,134,870    

First American Financial

    27,000        1,974,780    

James River Group Holdings

    58,000        1,853,100    

Reinsurance Group of America, Cl A

    17,000        2,007,360    

RenaissanceRe Holdings

    14,000        1,985,200    
    

 

 

 

       9,955,310    
    

 

 

 

IT SERVICES — 2.5%           

WNS Holdings ADR *

    27,000        2,397,870    
    

 

 

 

PHARMACEUTICALS — 2.2%           

Harmony Biosciences Holdings *

    50,000        2,073,500    
    

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES — 4.2%           

Insperity

    18,000        2,250,000    

ManpowerGroup

    19,000        1,836,350    
    

 

 

 

       4,086,350    
    

 

 

 

REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS — 2.0%           

NETSTREIT

    80,000        1,939,200    
    

 

 

 

REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT — 2.2%           

Marcus & Millichap *

    46,000        2,166,600    
    

 

 

 

RETAIL — 1.8%           

American Eagle Outfitters

    74,000        1,756,760    
    

 

 

 

SEMI-CONDUCTORS & INSTRUMENTS — 6.8%           

Cohu *

    65,000        2,082,600    

Diodes *

    26,500        2,546,385    

Rambus *

    83,000        1,931,410    
    

 

 

 

       6,560,395    
    

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

27


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMALL CAP FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 COMMON STOCK — continued     

 

    Shares      Value
SOFTWARE — 9.1%           

Bottomline Technologies DE *

    51,000      $ 2,361,300    

Cerence *

    23,000        2,417,990    

Cognyte Software *

    93,000        1,851,630    

Envestnet *

    26,000        2,171,000    
    

 

 

 

       8,801,920    
    

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMON STOCK
(Cost $82,243,192)

       94,470,369    
    

 

 

 

 SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT — 2.6%           

First American Treasury Obligation Fund 0.013%
(Cost $2,468,533)

        2,468,533        2,468,533    
    

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 100.3%
      (Cost $84,711,725)

     $     96,938,902    
    

 

 

 

   Percentages are based on Net Assets of $96,657,903.

*

Non-income producing security.

ADR — American Depositary Receipt

Cl — Class

As of October 31, 2021, all of the Fund’s investments were considered Level 1, in accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosure under U.S. GAAP.

For the year ended October 31, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

For more information on valuation inputs, see Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies in Notes to Financial Statements.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

28


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 SECTOR WEIGHTINGS (UNAUDITED)†     

 

 

LOGO

† Percentages based on total investments.

 

 SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS
 COMMON STOCK — 98.5%
         Shares                   Value         
BELGIUM — 5.4%       

KBC Group

     258,000      $ 24,026,912  

UCB

     214,000        25,505,346  
     

 

 

 

        49,532,258    
     

 

 

 

BRAZIL — 2.0%       

XP, Cl A *

     574,278        18,842,066  
     

 

 

 

CHINA — 1.8%       

Yum China Holdings

     288,000        16,439,040  
     

 

 

 

DENMARK — 2.4%       

Carlsberg, Cl B

     136,000        22,434,188  
     

 

 

 

FINLAND — 2.3%       

Nordea Bank Abp

     1,753,000        21,445,061  
     

 

 

 

FRANCE — 13.3%       

Air Liquide

     117,000        19,508,791  

Airbus

     173,000        22,118,722  

Capgemini

     106,000        24,666,551  

Cie de Saint-Gobain

     288,000        19,829,235  

Pernod Ricard

     99,000        22,740,073  

Worldline *

     237,000        13,802,740  
     

 

 

 

              122,666,112  
     

 

 

 

GERMANY — 13.2%       

Deutsche Post

     367,000        22,706,017  

Fresenius Medical Care & KGaA

     268,000        17,801,607  

Merck KGaA

     115,000        27,146,408  

SAP

     216,000        31,291,971  

Siemens

     143,000        23,189,457  
     

 

 

 

        122,135,460  
     

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 COMMON STOCK — continued     

 

         Shares                 Value         
HONG KONG — 2.5%       

AIA Group

     2,018,000      $ 22,785,335    
     

 

 

 

JAPAN — 11.9%          

Eisai

     232,000        16,339,232  

FANUC

     99,000        19,378,723  

Hitachi

     373,000        21,448,932  

Murata Manufacturing

     258,000        19,587,401  

Sony Group

     286,000        32,972,494  
     

 

 

 

            109,726,782  
     

 

 

 

NETHERLANDS — 2.5%          

Koninklijke Philips

     486,000        22,880,007  
     

 

 

 

SINGAPORE — 2.2%       

DBS Group Holdings

     880,000        20,575,751  
     

 

 

 

SPAIN — 9.7%       

Aena SME ADR *

     1,128,000        18,589,440  

Amadeus IT Group

     394,000        26,344,096  

Banco Santander

     5,404,000        20,468,419  

Iberdrola

     2,067,000        24,408,306  
     

 

 

 

        89,810,261  
     

 

 

 

SWITZERLAND — 7.0%       

Julius Baer Group

     288,000        20,816,776  

Roche Holding

     63,000        24,361,238  

Zurich Insurance Group

     44,000        19,505,898  
     

 

 

 

        64,683,912  
     

 

 

 

TAIWAN — 1.7%       

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ADR

     137,000        15,576,900  
     

 

 

 

UNITED KINGDOM — 20.6%       

BAE Systems

     2,817,000        21,273,034  

Bunzl

     695,000        25,699,877  

Compass Group

     1,160,000        24,606,542  

Entain

     1,170,000        32,792,664  

London Stock Exchange Group

     216,000        20,988,094  

Reckitt Benckiser Group

     321,000        26,028,808  

Smith & Nephew ADR

     455,000        15,811,250  

SSE

     1,034,000        23,256,863  
     

 

 

 

        190,457,132  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMON STOCK
(Cost $747,028,051)

        909,990,265  
     

 

 

 

 SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT — 1.0%          

First American Treasury Obligation Fund 0.013%
(Cost $9,049,159)

     9,049,159        9,049,159  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 99.5%
(Cost $756,077,210)

      $ 919,039,424  
     

 

 

 

 

 

Percentages are based on Net Assets of $923,797,212.

*

Non-income producing security.

ADR — American Depositary Receipt

Cl — Class

As of October 31, 2021, all of the Fund’s investments were considered Level 1, in accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosure under U.S. GAAP.

For the year ended October 31, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

For more information on valuation inputs, see Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies in Notes to Financial Statements.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

30


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR INTERNATIONAL SMALL CAP FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 SECTOR WEIGHTINGS (UNAUDITED)†     

 

LOGO

† Percentages based on total investments.

 

 SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS  
 COMMON STOCK — 96.0%  
           Shares                     Value         
ARGENTINA — 2.2%         

Despegar.com *

       188,000        $  2,090,560    
         

 

 

 

AUSTRIA — 2.0%         

Flughafen Wien

       60,000          1,976,764  
         

 

 

 

DENMARK — 1.5%         

GN Store Nord

       24,517          1,487,784  
         

 

 

 

FINLAND — 4.3%         

Enento Group

       49,000          2,073,175  

Nokian Renkaat

       54,692          2,048,461  
         

 

 

 

            4,121,636  
         

 

 

 

FRANCE — 13.2%         

Eurazeo

       28,569          2,676,744  

Euronext

       25,924          2,918,904  

Remy Cointreau

       10,081          2,034,729  

Virbac

       6,174          3,122,507  

Wendel

       15,000          1,995,839  
         

 

 

 

                  12,748,723  
         

 

 

 

GERMANY — 12.7%         

Brenntag

       24,101          2,291,274  

Gerresheimer

       19,648          1,801,152  

KION Group

       22,716          2,478,921  

Rheinmetall

       22,588          2,189,212  

Scout24

       23,614          1,643,330  

Stabilus

       25,209          1,894,208  
         

 

 

 

            12,298,097  
         

 

 

 

ITALY — 5.8%         

Azimut Holding

       76,384          2,197,789  

Buzzi Unicem

       70,327          1,639,785  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

31


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR INTERNATIONAL SMALL CAP FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 COMMON STOCK — continued     

 

           Shares                     Value         
ITALY — continued         

Technogym

       168,532        $  1,768,997    
         

 

 

 

            5,606,571  
         

 

 

 

JAPAN — 11.4%         

Daito Trust Construction

       17,000          2,106,076  

Kakaku.com

       73,500          2,427,967  

MatsukiyoCocokara

       46,500          2,052,161  

Ryohin Keikaku

       101,700          1,996,969  

Taiyo Yuden

       48,800          2,461,943  
         

 

 

 

            11,045,116  
         

 

 

 

LUXEMBOURG — 2.2%         

L’Occitane International

       603,600          2,152,805  
         

 

 

 

MEXICO — 2.0%         

Coca-Cola Femsa ADR

       36,243          1,948,061  
         

 

 

 

NETHERLANDS — 2.3%         

Aalberts

       40,000          2,212,589  
         

 

 

 

NORWAY — 5.1%         

Schibsted

       39,269          2,025,296  

Volue *

       410,500          2,871,785  
         

 

 

 

            4,897,081  
         

 

 

 

SPAIN — 2.0%         

Almirall

       130,019          1,931,385  
         

 

 

 

SWITZERLAND — 3.9%         

COSMO Pharmaceuticals *

       23,810          1,812,535  

Softwareone Holding

       85,000          1,968,108  
         

 

 

 

            3,780,643  
         

 

 

 

UNITED KINGDOM — 23.0%         

B&M European Value Retail

       280,000          2,426,386  

Biffa

       531,000          2,892,268  

Britvic

       147,225          1,789,186  

Electrocomponents

       171,591          2,641,848  

Greggs

       70,356          2,941,530  

Hargreaves Lansdown

       86,081          1,810,681  

Lancashire Holdings

       223,429          1,547,216  

Rotork

       411,413          1,994,286  

Tate & Lyle

       219,877          1,950,517  

Virgin Money UK

       791,000          2,200,770  
         

 

 

 

                22,194,688  
         

 

 

 

UNITED STATES — 2.4%         

WNS Holdings ADR *

       26,000          2,309,060  
         

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMON STOCK
(Cost $70,691,678)

            92,801,563  
         

 

 

 

 SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT — 4.2%                

First American Treasury Obligation Fund 0.013%
(Cost $4,079,305)

       4,079,305          4,079,305  
         

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 100.2%
(Cost $74,770,983)

          $ 96,880,868  
         

 

 

 

 

 

Percentages are based on Net Assets of $96,670,350.

*

Non-income producing security.

ADR — American Depositary Receipt

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

32


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR INTERNATIONAL SMALL CAP FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

As of October 31, 2021, all of the Fund’s investments were considered Level 1, in accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosure under U.S. GAAP.

For the year ended October 31, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

For more information on valuation inputs, see Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies in Notes to Financial Statements.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

33


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR GLOBAL EQUITY FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 SECTOR WEIGHTINGS (UNAUDITED)†         

 

LOGO

† Percentages based on total investments.

 

 SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS         
 COMMON STOCK — 98.1%         
           Shares            Value
BELGIUM — 3.9%         

KBC Group ADR

       4,220        $             196,188    

UCB ADR

       3,386          203,227  
         

 

 

 

            399,415  
         

 

 

 

CHINA — 1.9%         

Yum China Holdings

       3,445          196,641  
         

 

 

 

FRANCE — 6.2%         

Airbus ADR

       6,106          195,392  

Capgemini ADR

       5,135          239,753  

Pernod Ricard ADR

       4,269          195,947  
         

 

 

 

            631,092  
         

 

 

 

GERMANY — 5.7%         

Deutsche Post ADR

       2,968          184,432  

Merck KGaA ADR

       4,218          199,891  

SAP ADR

       1,413          204,574  
         

 

 

 

            588,897  
         

 

 

 

HONG KONG — 2.4%         

AIA Group ADR

       5,420          245,201  
         

 

 

 

JAPAN — 2.2%         

Sony Group ADR

       1,947          225,443  
         

 

 

 

NETHERLANDS — 4.1%         

ASML Holding ADR

       258          209,723  

Koninklijke Philips ADR

           4,395          207,664  
         

 

 

 

            417,387  
         

 

 

 

SPAIN — 2.1%         

Iberdrola ADR

       4,474          211,889  
         

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

34


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR GLOBAL EQUITY FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 COMMON STOCK — continued     

 

       Shares        Value
SWITZERLAND — 2.0%         

Roche Holding ADR

       4,264        $ 206,079  
         

 

 

 

TAIWAN — 1.9%         

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ADR

       1,740          197,838  
         

 

 

 

UNITED KINGDOM — 10.2%         

Entain ADR *

       9,000          252,225  

London Stock Exchange Group ADR

       9,224          228,663  

Reckitt Benckiser Group ADR

       12,001          194,776  

Smith & Nephew ADR

       4,746          164,924  

SSE ADR

       8,975          205,976  
         

 

 

 

            1,046,564  
         

 

 

 

UNITED STATES — 55.5%         

3M

       1,091          194,940  

Alphabet *

       104          307,936  

Amazon.com *

       73          246,187  

American Express

       1,211          210,448  

Baxter International

       2,700          213,192  

Biogen *

       750          200,010  

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding

       2,462          213,849  

Burlington Stores *

       724          200,034  

Charles Schwab

       2,523          206,962  

Chubb

       1,179          230,353  

Colgate-Palmolive

       3,087          235,199  

Corteva

       4,527          195,340  

Expeditors International of Washington

       1,593          196,353  

Fiserv *

       2,020          198,950  

Gap

       7,450          169,040  

JPMorgan Chase

       1,169          198,601  

KKR

       2,747          218,853  

L3Harris Technologies

       888          204,720  

Marvell Technology

       3,690          252,765  

Mastercard

       570          191,246  

Medtronic

       1,629          195,252  

Motorola Solutions

       929          230,940  

Sysco

       3,321          255,385  

Uber Technologies *

       5,413          237,198  

Ulta Beauty *

       539          198,007  

Union Pacific

       1,181          285,093    
         

 

 

 

            5,686,853  
         

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMON STOCK

         

(Cost $7,397,579)

                10,053,299  
         

 

 

 

 SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT — 2.0%                

First American Treasury Obligation Fund 0.013%

         

(Cost $204,890)

           204,890          204,890  
         

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 100.1%

(Cost $7,602,469)

          $         10,258,189  
         

 

 

 

Percentages are based on Net Assets of $10,248,414.

*

Non-income producing security.

ADR — American Depositary Receipt

As of October 31, 2021, all of the Fund’s investments were considered Level 1, in accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosure under U.S. GAAP.

For the year ended October 31, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

For more information on valuation inputs, see Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies in Notes to Financial Statements.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

35


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR AGGRESSIVE VALUE FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 SECTOR WEIGHTINGS (UNAUDITED)†     

 

LOGO

† Percentages based on total investments.

 

 SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS          
 COMMON STOCK — 99.2%          
    Shares      Value
FRANCE — 9.0%           

Airbus ADR

    50,000      $ 1,600,000    

Capgemini ADR

    37,000        1,727,530  

Thales ADR

    82,000        1,508,800  
    

 

 

 

       4,836,330  
    

 

 

 

GERMANY — 5.4%           

SAP ADR

    20,000        2,895,600  
    

 

 

 

JAPAN — 2.0%           

Eisai ADR

    15,000        1,060,350  
    

 

 

 

NETHERLANDS — 3.9%           

ING Groep ADR

    140,000        2,118,200  
    

 

 

 

SPAIN — 6.8%           

Aena SME ADR *

        110,000        1,812,800  

Amadeus IT Group ADR *

    27,000        1,809,000  
    

 

 

 

       3,621,800  
    

 

 

 

UNITED KINGDOM — 10.8%           

BAE Systems ADR

    60,000        1,839,600  

Entain ADR *

    90,000        2,522,250  

Tate & Lyle ADR

    40,000        1,424,000  
    

 

 

 

               5,785,850  
    

 

 

 

UNITED STATES — 61.3%           

3M

    10,000        1,786,800  

Air Lease

    57,000        2,282,850  

Alphabet *

    900        2,664,828  

Applied Materials

    13,000        1,776,450  

Biogen *

    6,000        1,600,080  

Centene *

    30,000        2,137,200  

Corteva

    42,000        1,812,300  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

36


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR AGGRESSIVE VALUE FUND
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 COMMON STOCK — continued     

 

    Shares      Value
UNITED STATES — continued           

Fiserv *

    20,000      $ 1,969,800  

Gap

    65,000        1,474,850  

Goldman Sachs Group

    4,000        1,653,400  

GrafTech International

    250,000        2,675,000  

Marvell Technology

    30,000        2,055,000  

Motorola Solutions

    10,000        2,485,900  

Principal Financial Group

    30,000        2,012,700  

Raytheon Technologies

    23,000        2,043,780  

Uber Technologies *

    57,000        2,497,740  
    

 

 

 

       32,928,678  
    

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMON STOCK

    

(Cost $42,283,524)

       53,246,808  
    

 

 

 

 SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT — 0.7%           

First American Treasury Obligation Fund 0.013%

    

(Cost $393,879)

        393,879        393,879  
    

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS — 99.9%

(Cost $42,677,403)

     $       53,640,687    
    

 

 

 

Percentages are based on Net Assets of $53,693,455.

*

Non-income producing security.

ADR — American Depositary Receipt

As of October 31, 2021, all of the Fund’s investments were considered Level 1, in accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosure under U.S. GAAP.

For the year ended October 31, 2021, there were no transfers in or out of Level 3.

For more information on valuation inputs, see Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies in Notes to Financial Statements.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

37


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR FUNDS
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 STATEMENTS OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES          
     Opportunity
Fund
  SMID Fund

Assets:

    

Cost of securities

   $ 254,636,190     $ 132,068,889  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investments in securities at value

   $ 357,275,805     $ 150,288,583  

Receivable for capital shares sold

     210,133       397,436  

Dividends receivable

     236,614       68,337  

Receivable for dividend tax reclaim

     12,560        

Prepaid expenses

     18,399       18,208  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Assets

     357,753,511       150,772,564  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liabilities:

    

Payable for capital shares redeemed

     238,033       88,975  

Investment Adviser fees payable

     153,916       81,912  

Audit fees payable

     25,490       25,490  

Payable due to administrator

     16,239       6,849  

Shareholder servicing fees payable

     13,922       14,998  

Payable due to trustees

     5,995       2,506  

Chief Compliance Officer fees payable

     789       563  

Other accrued expenses

     46,248       22,362  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

     500,632       243,655  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets

   $ 357,252,879     $ 150,528,909  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets:

    

Paid-in Capital

   $ 230,328,561     $ 117,173,958  

Total distributable earnings

     126,924,318       33,354,951  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets

   $     357,252,879     $     150,528,909  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Class Shares:

    

Net Assets

   $ 158,920,855     $ 124,536,013  

Total shares outstanding at end of year

     5,371,892       4,988,691  

Net Asset Value Per Share
(Net Assets ÷ Shares Outstanding)

     $29.58       $24.96  

Institutional Class Shares:

    

Net Assets

   $ 198,332,024     $ 25,992,896  

Total shares outstanding at end of year

     6,722,305       1,040,773  

Net Asset Value Per Share
(Net Assets ÷ Shares Outstanding)

     $29.50       $24.97  

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

38


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR FUNDS
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 STATEMENTS OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
     Small Cap Fund   International
Equity Fund

Assets:

    

Cost of securities

   $ 84,711,725     $ 756,077,210  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investments in securities at value

   $ 96,938,902     $ 919,039,424  

Receivable for capital shares sold

     5,233       983,344  

Dividends receivable

     27       1,648,136  

Receivable for dividend tax reclaim

           9,052,449  

Prepaid expenses

     18,446       18,544  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Assets

     96,962,608       930,741,897  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liabilities:

    

Payable for capital shares redeemed

     187,378       1,222,533  

Investment Adviser fees payable

     54,338       651,730  

Audit fees payable

     25,490       25,490  

Shareholder servicing fees payable

     13,019       25,319  

Payable due to administrator

     4,407       42,636  

Payable due to trustees

     1,632       15,703  

Chief Compliance Officer fees payable

     506       1,418  

Payable for investment securities purchased

           4,790,093  

Other accrued expenses

     17,935       169,763  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

     304,705       6,944,685  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets

   $     96,657,903     $ 923,797,212  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets:

    

Paid-in Capital

   $ 61,400,333     $ 826,081,432  

Total distributable earnings

     35,257,570       97,715,780  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets

   $ 96,657,903     $     923,797,212  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investor Class Shares:

    

Net Assets

   $ 40,967,385     $ 205,316,934  

Total shares outstanding at end of year

     1,955,018       7,317,483  

Net Asset Value Per Share
(Net Assets ÷ Shares Outstanding)

     $20.95       $28.06  

Institutional Class Shares:

    

Net Assets

   $ 55,690,518     $ 718,480,278  

Total shares outstanding at end of year

     2,575,163       25,572,261  

Net Asset Value Per Share
(Net Assets ÷ Shares Outstanding)

     $21.63       $28.10  

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

39


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR FUNDS
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 STATEMENTS OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
     International
Small Cap Fund
   Global Equity
Fund

Assets:

     

Cost of securities

   $ 74,770,983      $ 7,602,469  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Investments in securities at value

   $ 96,880,868      $ 10,258,189  

Receivable for investment securities sold

     1,771,596         

Receivable for capital shares sold

     93,120        103  

Receivable due from Investment Adviser

            2,886  

Dividends receivable

     89,622        3,938  

Receivable for dividend tax reclaim

     71,981        16,713  

Unrealized appreciation on foreign currency spot contracts

     62         

Prepaid expenses

     9,040        4,913  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total Assets

     98,916,289        10,286,742  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Liabilities:

     

Payable for investment securities purchased

     2,085,511         

Investment Adviser fees payable

     60,139         

Payable for capital shares redeemed

     29,555         

Audit fees payable

     25,490        25,490  

Shareholder servicing fees payable

     17,602        4,196  

Payable due to administrator

     4,364        464  

Payable due to trustees

     1,614        171  

Chief Compliance Officer fees payable

     505        411  

Payable due to custodian

            3,315  

Payable due to transfer agent fees

            3,333  

Other accrued expenses

     21,159        948  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

     2,245,939        38,328  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Assets

   $ 96,670,350      $ 10,248,414  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Assets:

     

Paid-in Capital

   $ 67,838,573      $ 6,674,982  

Total distributable earnings

     28,831,777        3,573,432  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Assets

   $     96,670,350      $     10,248,414  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Investor Class Shares:

     

Net Assets

     N/A      $ 10,248,414  

Total shares outstanding at end of year

     N/A        680,076  

Net Asset Value Per Share
(Net Assets ÷ Shares Outstanding)

     N/A      $ 15.07  

Institutional Class Shares:

     

Net Assets

   $ 96,670,350        N/A  

Total shares outstanding at end of period

     6,674,257        N/A  

Net Asset Value Per Share
(Net Assets ÷ Shares Outstanding)

     $14.48        N/A  

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

N/A – Not Applicable

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR FUNDS
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES     
     Aggressive
Value Fund

Assets:

  

Cost of securities

   $ 42,677,403  
  

 

 

 

Investments in securities at value

   $ 53,640,687  

Receivable for capital shares sold

     569  

Dividends receivable

     32,040  

Receivable for dividend tax reclaim

     108,468  

Prepaid expenses

     13,237  
  

 

 

 

Total Assets

     53,795,001  
  

 

 

 

Liabilities:

  

Investment Adviser fees payable

     29,510  

Audit fees payable

     25,490  

Payable for capital shares redeemed

     24,477  

Shareholder servicing fees payable

     5,555  

Payable due to administrator

     2,464  

Payable due to trustees

     909  

Chief Compliance Officer fees payable

     459  

Other accrued expenses

     12,682  
  

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

     101,546  
  

 

 

 

Net Assets

   $ 53,693,455  
  

 

 

 

Net Assets:

  

Paid-in Capital

   $     60,237,453  

Total distributable loss

     (6,543,998)  
  

 

 

 

Net Assets

   $ 53,693,455  
  

 

 

 

Investor Class Shares:

  

Net Assets

   $ 53,693,455  

Total shares outstanding at end of year

     2,130,288  

Net Asset Value Per Share
(Net Assets ÷ Shares Outstanding)

     $25.20  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

41


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR FUNDS
     FOR THE YEAR ENDED
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      

 

 

 STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
     Opportunity
Fund
   SMID Fund

Investment Income

     

Dividends

   $ 4,823,977      $ 2,209,204  

Interest

     5,992        3,882  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total Investment Income

     4,829,969        2,213,086  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Expenses

     

Investment Advisory Fees

     1,979,920        990,758  

Shareholder Servicing Fees - Investor Class Shares

     285,342        81,825  

Administration Fees

     176,743        66,332  

Trustees’ Fees

     19,995        7,509  

Chief Compliance Officer Fees

     3,784        2,408  

Transfer Agent Fees

     91,071        56,892  

Printing Fees

     44,155        17,519  

Registration & Filing Fees

     40,615        37,756  

Audit Fees

     23,490        23,490  

Legal Fees

     22,458        8,544  

Custodian Fees

     17,133        5,363  

Pricing Fees

     3,508        2,828  

Other Expenses

     23,840        8,999  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total Expenses

     2,732,054        1,310,223  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Less:

     

Investment Advisory Fees Waiver

     (301,274)        (176,242)  

Fees Paid Indirectly (Note 3)

     (636)        (29)  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Expenses

     2,430,144        1,133,952  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

     2,399,825        1,079,134  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Realized Gain on Investments

     26,768,516        17,871,146  

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation on Investments

     68,486,641        10,662,042  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Gain on Investments

     95,255,157        28,533,188  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets from Operations

   $       97,654,982      $       29,612,322  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

42


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR FUNDS
     FOR THE YEAR ENDED
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      

 

 

 STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS         
       Small Cap Fund          International    
Equity Fund

Investment Income

  

Dividends

   $ 964,082      $ 24,670,239  

Interest

     895         

Less: Foreign Taxes Withheld

            (2,385,858)  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total Investment Income

     964,977        22,284,381  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Expenses

  

Investment Advisory Fees

     832,635        9,485,606  

Shareholder Servicing Fees - Investor Class Shares

     86,245        174,870  

Administration Fees

     52,459        564,413  

Trustees’ Fees

     5,968        65,441  

Chief Compliance Officer Fees

     2,245        8,890  

Transfer Agent Fees

     52,818        205,221  

Registration & Filing Fees

     35,342        52,929  

Audit Fees

     23,490        25,770  

Printing Fees

     14,599        103,308  

Legal Fees

     6,732        73,755  

Custodian Fees

     6,091        258,547  

Pricing Fees

     3,070        8,064  

Other Expenses

     8,381        89,632  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total Expenses

     1,130,075        11,116,446  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Less:

     

Investment Advisory Fees Waiver

     (161,691)        (1,450,695)  

Fees Paid Indirectly (Note 3)

     (147)        (350)  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Expenses

     968,237        9,665,401  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Investment Income (Loss)

     (3,260)        12,618,980  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Realized Gain on Investments

     27,008,500        144,220,947  

Net Realized Gain on Foreign Currency Transactions

            44,945  

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation on Investments

     4,517,399        114,125,435  

Net Change in Depreciation on Translation of Other Assets and Liabilities Denominated in Foreign Currencies

            (163,958)  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Gain on Investments and Foreign Currency Transactions

     31,525,899        258,227,369  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets from Operations

   $ 31,522,639      $ 270,846,349  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Amounts designated as “—” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

43


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR FUNDS
     FOR THE YEAR ENDED
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      

 

 

 STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
     International
  Small Cap Fund  
       Global Equity    
Fund

Investment Income

     

Dividends

   $ 1,560,246      $ 131,937  

Interest

     3,021        35  

Less: Foreign Taxes Withheld

     (150,076)        (10,660)  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total Investment Income

     1,413,191        121,312  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Expenses

     

Investment Advisory Fees

     799,679        79,147  

Shareholder Servicing Fees - Investor Class Shares

            8,442  

Shareholder Servicing Fees - Institutional Class Shares

     88,852         

Administration Fees

     47,589        5,652  

Trustees’ Fees

     5,381        637  

Chief Compliance Officer Fees

     2,174        1,652  

Transfer Agent Fees

     32,834        20,006  

Audit Fees

     25,770        25,770  

Custodian Fees

     24,789        10,045  

Registration & Filing Fees

     22,719        24,103  

Printing Fees

     8,907        1,722  

Legal Fees

     6,140        726  

Pricing Fees

     2,527        1,342  

Other Expenses

     13,632        2,297  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total Expenses

     1,080,993        181,541  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Less:

     

Investment Advisory Fees Waiver

     (147,022)        (79,147)  

Reimbursement of other operating expenses

            (9,521)  

Fees Paid Indirectly (Note 3)

     (12)        (6)  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Expenses

     933,959        92,867  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

     479,232        28,445  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Realized Gain on Investments

     6,283,662        915,446  

Net Realized Gain on Foreign Currency Transactions

     4,273         

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation on Investments

     12,338,270        1,857,841  

Net Change in Depreciation on Translation of Other Assets and Liabilities Denominated in Foreign Currencies

     (3,755)         
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Gain on Investments and Foreign Currency Transactions

     18,622,450        2,773,287  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets from Operations

   $ 19,101,682      $ 2,801,732  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Amounts designated as “—” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

44


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR FUNDS
     FOR THE YEAR ENDED
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      

 

 

 STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS     
     Aggressive Value
Fund

Investment Income

  

Dividends

   $ 671,843  

Interest

     460  

Less: Foreign Taxes Withheld

     (78,509)  
  

 

 

 

Total Investment Income

     593,794  
  

 

 

 

Expenses

  

Investment Advisory Fees

     472,505  

Shareholder Servicing Fees - Investor Class Shares

     26,264  

Administration Fees

     28,134  

Trustees’ Fees

     3,232  

Chief Compliance Officer Fees

     1,941  

Audit Fees

     29,470  

Transfer Agent Fees

     26,821  

Registration & Filing Fees

     24,740  

Custodian Fees

     12,803  

Printing Fees

     6,396  

Legal Fees

     3,633  

Pricing Fees

     1,872  

Other Expenses

     5,756  
  

 

 

 

Total Expenses

     643,567  
  

 

 

 

Less:

  

Investment Advisory Fees Waiver

     (117,801)  

Fees Paid Indirectly (Note 3)

     (60)  
  

 

 

 

Net Expenses

     525,706  
  

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

     68,088  
  

 

 

 

Net Realized Gain on Investments

     10,899,770  

Net Realized Loss on Purchased Options

     (301,045)  

Net Realized Gain on Equity Swaps

     313,192  

Net Realized Gain on Forward Foreign Currency Contracts

     6,423  

Net Realized Loss on Foreign Currency Transactions

     (2,890)  

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation on Investments

     6,739,619  

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation on Equity Swaps

     185,016  

Net Change in Appreciation on Translation of Other Assets and Liabilities Denominated in Foreign Currencies

     6,262  
  

 

 

 

Net Gain on Investments, Purchased Options, Equity Swaps, Forward Foreign Currency Contracts, and Foreign Currency Transactions

     17,846,347  
  

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets from Operations

   $ 17,914,435  
  

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR OPPORTUNITY FUND
         
      
      

 

 

 STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

 

     Year   Year
     Ended   Ended
       October 31, 2021       October 31, 2020  

Operations:

    

Net Investment Income

   $ 2,399,825     $ 2,958,517  

Net Realized Gain on Investments

     26,768,516       10,431,008  

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation on Investments

     68,486,641       1,597,741  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

     97,654,982       14,987,266  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distributions:

    

Investor Class Shares

     (4,793,254     (10,062,977

Institutional Class Shares

     (6,447,619     (11,285,396
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Distributions

     (11,240,873     (21,348,373
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Share Transactions:

    

Investor Class Shares

    

Issued

     33,300,609       10,701,744  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     4,500,725       9,390,640  

Redeemed

     (20,164,006     (19,837,876
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets from Investor Class Share Transactions

     17,637,328       254,508  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Institutional Class Shares

    

Issued

     67,209,839       47,444,160  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     4,442,481       10,701,041  

Redeemed

     (49,442,359     (50,711,889
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets from Institutional Class Share Transactions

     22,209,961       7,433,312  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets from Capital Share Transactions

     39,847,289       7,687,820  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Increase in Net Assets

     126,261,398       1,326,713  

Net Assets:

    

Beginning of year

     230,991,481       229,664,768  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

End of year

   $ 357,252,879     $ 230,991,481  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Share Transactions:

    

Investor Class Shares

    

Issued

     1,208,153       482,329  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     181,264       421,808  

Redeemed

     (726,128     (953,620
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Increase (Decrease) in Investor Class Shares

     663,289       (49,483
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Institutional Class Shares

    

Issued

     2,554,135       2,319,861  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     179,568       482,547  

Redeemed

     (1,787,159     (2,434,750
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Increase in Institutional Class Shares

     946,544       367,658  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase in Shares Outstanding

     1,609,833       318,175  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

46


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMID FUND
         
      
      

 

 

 STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS     

 

     Year   Year
     Ended   Ended
       October 31, 2021       October 31, 2020  

Operations:

    

Net Investment Income

   $ 1,079,134     $ 443,629  

Net Realized Gain (Loss) on Investments

     17,871,146       (1,274,457

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Investments

     10,662,042       (33,399
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

     29,612,322       (864,227
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distributions:

    

Investor Class Shares

     (416,918     (2,275,348

Institutional Class Shares

     (38,843     (200,037
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Distributions

     (455,761     (2,475,385
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Share Transactions:

    

Investor Class Shares

    

Issued

     79,008,167       33,455,634  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     415,260       2,275,347  

Redemption Fees — Note 2

     7,419       6,305  

Redeemed

     (32,949,713     (28,017,720
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets from Investor Class Share Transactions

     46,481,133       7,719,566  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Institutional Class Shares

    

Issued

     19,831,585       694,630  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     38,843       200,037  

Redemption Fees — Note 2

     5,310        

Redeemed

     (3,125,716     (442,660
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets from Institutional Class Share Transactions

     16,750,022       452,007  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets from Capital Share Transactions

     63,231,155       8,171,573  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Increase in Net Assets

     92,387,716       4,831,961  

Net Assets:

    

Beginning of year

     58,141,193       53,309,232  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

End of year

   $ 150,528,909     $ 58,141,193  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Share Transactions:

    

Investor Class Shares

    

Issued

     3,269,984       2,081,963  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     19,860       117,306  

Redeemed

     (1,364,109     (1,725,796
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Increase in Investor Class Shares

     1,925,735       473,473  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Institutional Class Shares

    

Issued

     892,975       41,206  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     1,859       10,310  

Redeemed

     (126,119     (28,576
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Increase in Institutional Class Shares

     768,715       22,940  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase in Shares Outstanding

     2,694,450       496,413  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

47


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMALL CAP FUND
         
      
      

 

 

 STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS     

 

     Year   Year
     Ended   Ended
       October 31, 2021       October 31, 2020  

Operations:

    

Net Investment Income (Loss)

   $ (3,260   $ 365,741  

Net Realized Gain (Loss) on Investments

     27,008,500       (1,673,970

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Investments

     4,517,399       (2,762,996
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

     31,522,639       (4,071,225
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distributions:

    

Investor Class Shares

     (144,182     (1,997,948

Institutional Class Shares

     (228,264     (1,993,116
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Distributions

     (372,446     (3,991,064
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Share Transactions:

    

Investor Class Shares

    

Issued

     2,294,768       5,587,752  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     137,681       1,941,834  

Redemption Fees — Note 2

     418        

Redeemed

     (12,001,817     (9,418,970
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Decrease in Net Assets from Investor Class Share Transactions

     (9,568,950     (1,889,384
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Institutional Class Shares

    

Issued

     3,182,398       13,376,268  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     227,486       1,779,842  

Redeemed

     (6,579,140     (11,994,323
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from Institutional Class Share Transactions

     (3,169,256     3,161,787  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets from Capital Share Transactions

     (12,738,206     1,272,403  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

     18,411,987       (6,789,886

Net Assets:

    

Beginning of year

     78,245,916       85,035,802  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

End of year

   $ 96,657,903     $ 78,245,916  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Share Transactions:

    

Investor Class Shares

    

Issued

     120,338       414,477  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     7,632       117,594  

Redeemed

     (600,184     (646,338
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Decrease in Investor Class Shares

     (472,214     (114,267
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Institutional Class Shares

    

Issued

     160,136       914,108  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     12,244       104,527  

Redeemed

     (326,440     (792,078
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Increase (Decrease) in Institutional Class Shares

     (154,060     226,557  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Shares Outstanding

     (626,274     112,290  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

48


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND
         
      
      

 

 

 STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS     

 

     Year   Year
     Ended   Ended
       October 31, 2021       October 31, 2020  

Operations:

    

Net Investment Income

   $ 12,618,980     $ 16,013,075  

Net Realized Gain (Loss) on Investments

     144,220,947       (12,945,787

Net Realized Gain (Loss) on Foreign Currency Transactions

     44,945       (457,575

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Investments

     114,125,435       (272,463,009

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Foreign Currencies and Translation of Other Assets and Liabilities Denominated in Foreign Currencies

     (163,958     397,758  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

     270,846,349       (269,455,538
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distributions:

    

Investor Class Shares

     (2,667,354     (15,453,840

Institutional Class Shares

     (12,889,468     (65,082,070
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Distributions

     (15,556,822     (80,535,910
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Share Transactions:

    

Investor Class Shares

    

Issued

     24,287,448       66,785,332  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     2,644,097       12,530,037  

Redemption Fees — Note 2

     587       17,617  

Redeemed

     (65,789,350     (259,830,961
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Decrease in Net Assets from Investor Class Share Transactions

     (38,857,218     (180,497,975
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Institutional Class Shares

    

Issued

     139,516,598       392,943,265  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     3,509,337       27,430,490  

Redemption Fees — Note 2

     17,501       65,144  

Redeemed

     (468,189,689     (1,239,825,058
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Decrease in Net Assets from Institutional Class Share Transactions

     (325,146,253     (819,386,159
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Decrease in Net Assets from Capital Share Transactions

     (364,003,471     (999,884,134
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Decrease in Net Assets

     (108,713,944     (1,349,875,582

Net Assets:

    

Beginning of year

     1,032,511,156       2,382,386,738  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

End of year

   $ 923,797,212     $ 1,032,511,156  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Share Transactions:

    

Investor Class Shares

    

Issued

     891,458       2,914,796  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     99,740       469,818  

Redeemed

     (2,404,082     (11,978,212
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Decrease in Investor Class Shares

     (1,412,884     (8,593,598
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Institutional Class Shares

    

Issued

     5,062,769       17,837,506  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     132,278       1,027,744  

Redeemed

     (17,053,999     (54,687,390
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Decrease in Institutional Class Shares

     (11,858,952     (35,822,140
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Decrease in Shares Outstanding

     (13,271,836     (44,415,738
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

49


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR INTERNATIONAL SMALL CAP FUND
         
      
      

 

 

 STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS     

 

     Year   Year
     Ended   Ended
       October 31, 2021       October 31, 2020  

Operations:

    

Net Investment Income

   $ 479,232     $ 271,855  

Net Realized Gain on Investments, Purchased Options and Equity Swaps

     6,283,662       1,171,522  

Net Realized Gain on Foreign Currency Transactions

     4,273       39,632  

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation on Investments

     12,338,270       9,515,459  

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Foreign Currencies and Translation of Other Assets and Liabilities Denominated in Foreign Currencies

     (3,755     1,318  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

     19,101,682       10,999,786  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distributions:

     (1,525,955     (39,907
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Share Transactions:

    

Issued

     34,134,480       52,110,831  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     1,008,443       39,907  

Redemption Fees — Note 2

     4,740       5,898  

Redeemed

     (17,055,665     (4,802,761
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets from Capital Share Transactions

     18,091,998       47,353,875  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Increase in Net Assets

     35,667,725       58,313,754  

Net Assets:

    

Beginning of year

     61,002,625       2,688,871  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

End of year

   $ 96,670,350     $  61,002,625  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Share Transactions:

    

Issued

     2,385,567       5,608,404  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     73,658       3,218  

Redeemed

     (1,189,355     (430,554
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase in Shares Outstanding

     1,269,870       5,181,068  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

50


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR GLOBAL EQUITY FUND
         
      
      

 

 

 STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS      

 

     Year   Year
     Ended   Ended
       October 31, 2021       October 31, 2020  

Operations:

    

Net Investment Income

   $ 28,445     $ 54,898  

Net Realized Gain on Investments

     915,446       672,378  

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Investments

     1,857,841       (800,839
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

     2,801,732       (73,563
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distributions:

     (625,968     (622,562
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Share Transactions:

    

Issued

     346,267       805,729  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     625,968       622,562  

Redemption Fees — Note 2

           212  

Redeemed

     (2,112,867     (2,979,798
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Decrease in Net Assets from Capital Share Transactions

     (1,140,632     (1,551,295
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

     1,035,132       (2,247,420

Net Assets:

    

Beginning of year

     9,213,282       11,460,702  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

End of year

   $ 10,248,414     $ 9,213,282  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Share Transactions:

    

Issued

     24,332       69,423  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     46,167       47,820  

Redeemed

     (147,413     (251,409
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Decrease in Shares Outstanding

     (76,914     (134,166
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amounts designated as “—” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

51


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR AGGRESSIVE VALUE FUND
      
      
      

 

 

 STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS     

 

     Year
Ended
  October 31, 2021  
  Year
Ended
  October 31, 2020  

Operations:

    

Net Investment Income

   $ 68,088     $ 395,647  

Net Realized Gain (Loss) on Investments, Purchased Options and Equity Swaps

     10,911,917       (5,052,666

Net Realized Gain on Forward Foreign Currency Contracts and Foreign Currency Transactions

     3,533       1,577  

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation on Investments, Purchased Options and Written Options

     6,739,619       264,307  

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Equity Swaps

     185,016       (185,015

Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation on Foreign Currencies and Translation of Other Assets and Liabilities Denominated in Foreign Currencies

     6,262       3,373  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

     17,914,435       (4,572,777
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distributions:

     (213,332     (755,037
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Share Transactions:

    

Issued

     1,572,075       1,271,091  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     209,391       747,912  

Redemption Fees — Note 2

     1,654       155  

Redeemed

     (3,598,778     (13,618,625
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Decrease in Net Assets from Capital Share Transactions

     (1,815,658     (11,599,467
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets

     15,885,445       (16,927,281

Net Assets:

    

Beginning of year

     37,808,010       54,735,291  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

End of year

   $  53,693,455     $ 37,808,010  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Share Transactions:

    

Issued

     63,526       72,311  

Reinvestment of Dividends

     9,789       38,023  

Redeemed

     (152,906     (822,943
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Decrease in Shares Outstanding

     (79,591     (712,609
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

52


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR OPPORTUNITY FUND
      
      
      

 

 

 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS      
    Selected Per Share Data & Ratios  
    For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Year or Period  

 

     Investor Class Shares  
     Year ended October 31,      Period May         
            1, 2017 to
October 31,

2017(1)
     Year ended
April 30,

2017
 
Opportunity Fund    2021      2020      2019      2018  

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year/Period

   $ 22.07         $ 22.63         $ 22.62         $ 26.33         $ 24.20        $ 22.67     

Income (Loss) from Operations:

                 

Net Investment Income(2)

     0.17           0.27           0.34           0.23           0.12          0.22     

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

     8.34           1.29           2.06           (0.62)          2.01          3.25     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total from Operations

     8.51           1.56           2.40           (0.39)          2.13          3.47     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Dividends and Distributions:

                 

Net Investment Income

     (0.19)          (0.32)          (0.24)          (0.21)          —               (0.40)    

Net Realized Gain

     (0.81)          (1.80)          (2.15)          (3.11)          —               (1.54)    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Dividends and Distributions

     (1.00)          (2.12)          (2.39)          (3.32)          —               (1.94)    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net Asset Value, End of Year/Period

   $ 29.58         $ 22.07         $ 22.63         $ 22.62         $ 26.33        $ 24.20     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Return†

     39.42%              6.91%              13.32%              (2.17)%              8.80%            15.41%       
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Ratios and Supplemental Data

                 

Net Assets, End of Year/Period (Thousands)

     $158,921           $103,903           $107,692           $115,537           $170,495            $173,177     

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets

       0.85%              0.84%              0.80%              1.00%              1.00%*            1.05%        

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Waivers and Fees Paid Indirectly)

     0.94%              0.94%              0.88%              1.06%              1.06%*            1.10%        

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

     0.61%              1.27%              1.63%              0.96%              0.93%*            0.93%        

Portfolio Turnover Rate

     36%              87%              70%              47%              16%**            46%        

 

*

Annualized

**

Portfolio turnover is for the period indicated and has not been annualized.

Total return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. Total return would have been lower had the Adviser not waived a portion of its fee. Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

(1)

Effective August 15, 2017, Cambiar Funds changed their fiscal year end to October 31 (See Note 1 in Notes to Financial Statements).

(2)

Per share data calculated using the average shares method.

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR OPPORTUNITY FUND
      
      
      

 

 

 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS      
    Selected Per Share Data & Ratios  
    For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Year or Period  

 

     Institutional Class Shares  
     Year ended October 31,      Period May         
            1, 2017 to
October 31,

2017(1)
     Year ended
April 30,

2017
 
Opportunity Fund    2021      2020      2019      2018  

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year/Period

   $ 22.00         $ 22.55         $ 22.57         $ 26.30         $ 24.15        $ 22.62     

Income (Loss) from Operations:

                 

Net Investment Income(2)

     0.22           0.31           0.37           0.27           0.14          0.29     

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

     8.32           1.28           2.05           (0.62)          2.01          3.24     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total from Operations

     8.54           1.59           2.42           (0.35)          2.15          3.53     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Dividends and Distributions:

                 

Net Investment Income

     (0.23)          (0.34)          (0.29)          (0.27)          —               (0.46)    

Net Realized Gain

     (0.81)          (1.80)          (2.15)          (3.11)          —               (1.54)    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Dividends and Distributions

     (1.04)          (2.14)          (2.44)          (3.38)          —               (2.00)    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net Asset Value, End of Year/Period

   $ 29.50         $ 22.00         $ 22.55         $ 22.57         $ 26.30        $ 24.15     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Return†

     39.75%              7.09%              13.46%              (2.00)%              8.90%            15.73%        
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Ratios and Supplemental Data

                 

Net Assets, End of Year/Period (Thousands)

     $198,332           $127,089           $121,973           $169,330           $175,834           $175,630     

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets

     0.65%              0.65%              0.71%              0.80%              0.80%*            0.80%        

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Waivers, Expense Reimbursements and Fees Paid Indirectly)

     0.74%              0.75%              0.79%              0.86%              0.86%*            0.85%        

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

     0.81%              1.45%              1.76%              1.11%              1.13%*            1.24%        

Portfolio Turnover Rate

     36%              87%              70%              47%              16%**            46%        

 

*

Annualized

**

Portfolio turnover is for the period indicated and has not been annualized.

Total return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. Total return would have been lower had the Adviser not waived a portion of its fee. Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

(1)

Effective August 15, 2017, Cambiar Funds changed their fiscal year end to October 31 (See Note 1 in Notes to Financial Statements).

(2)

Per share data calculated using the average shares method.

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

54


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMID FUND
      
      
      

 

 

 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS      
    Selected Per Share Data & Ratios  
    For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Year or Period  

 

    Investor Class Shares  
    Year ended October 31,     Period May        
          1, 2017 to
October 31,

2017(1)
    Year ended
April 30,

2017
 
SMID Fund           2021                     2020                     2019                     2018          

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year/Period

  $ 17.43        $ 18.78        $ 17.37        $ 16.42        $ 15.74        $ 12.90     

Income (Loss) from Operations:

           

Net Investment Income(2)

    0.21          0.13          0.11          0.09          0.04          0.08     

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

    7.45          (0.69)         2.35          0.93          0.64          2.84     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total from Operations

    7.66          (0.56)         2.46          1.02          0.68          2.92     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Dividends and Distributions:

           

Net Investment Income

    (0.13)         (0.09)         (0.09)         (0.07)         —               (0.08)    

Net Realized Gain

    —               (0.70)         (0.96)         —               —               —          
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Dividends and Distributions

    (0.13)         (0.79)         (1.05)         (0.07)         —               (0.08)    
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Asset Value, End of Year/Period

  $ 24.96        $ 17.43        $ 18.78        $ 17.37        $ 16.42        $ 15.74     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Return†

      44.07%             (3.42)%               15.61%               6.20%               4.32%               22.66%        
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ratios and Supplemental Data

           

Net Assets, End of Year/Period (Thousands)

    $124,536          $53,396          $48,630          $35,750          $30,231          $29,379     

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets

    0.93%             0.95%             0.94%             0.95%             0.95%*           1.04%        

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Waivers and Fees Paid Indirectly)

    1.07%             1.20%             1.21%             1.26%             1.38%*           1.39%        

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

    0.87%             0.76%             0.61%             0.53%             0.45%*           0.55%        

Portfolio Turnover Rate

    52%             82%             65%             61%             13%**         48%        

 

*

Annualized

**

Portfolio turnover is for the period indicated and has not been annualized.

Total return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. Total return would have been lower had the Adviser not waived a portion of its fee. Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

(1)

Effective August 15, 2017, Cambiar Funds changed their fiscal year end to October 31 (See Note 1 in Notes to Financial Statements).

(2)

Per share data calculated using the average shares method.

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMID FUND
      
      
      

 

 

 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS      
    Selected Per Share Data & Ratios  
    For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Year or Period  

 

    Institutional Class Shares  
    Year ended October 31,     Period May        
          1, 2017 to
October 31,

2017(1)
    Year ended
April 30,

2017
 
SMID Fund           2021                     2020                     2019                     2018          

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year/Period

  $ 17.44        $ 18.78        $ 17.36        $ 16.41        $ 15.73        $ 12.89     

Income (Loss) from Operations:

           

Net Investment Income(2)

    0.22          0.15          0.12          0.09          0.04          0.06     

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

    7.45          (0.69)         2.35          0.93          0.64          2.87     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total from Operations

    7.67          (0.54)         2.47          1.02          0.68          2.93     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Dividends and Distributions:

           

Net Investment Income

    (0.14)         (0.10)         (0.09)         (0.07)         —               (0.09)    

Net Realized Gain

    —               (0.70)         (0.96)         —               —               —          
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Dividends and Distributions

    (0.14)         (0.80)         (1.05)         (0.07)         —               (0.09)    
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Asset Value, End of Year/Period

  $ 24.97        $ 17.44        $ 18.78        $ 17.36        $ 16.41        $ 15.73     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Return†

      44.17%               (3.32)%             15.69%               6.22%               4.32%               22.73%        
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ratios and Supplemental Data

           

Net Assets, End of Year/Period (Thousands)  

    $25,993          $4,745          $4,679          $3,780          $3,704          $3,592     

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets

    0.85%             0.85%             0.88%             0.95%             0.95%*           0.97%        

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Waivers and Fees Paid Indirectly)

    0.99%             1.09%             1.15%             1.26%             1.38%*           1.34%        

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

    0.89%             0.86%             0.67%             0.54%             0.45%*           0.40%        

Portfolio Turnover Rate

    52%             82%             65%             61%             13%**         48%        

 

*

Annualized

**

Portfolio turnover is for the period indicated and has not been annualized.

Total return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. Total return would have been lower had the Adviser not waived a portion of its fee. Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

(1)

Effective August 15, 2017, Cambiar Funds changed their fiscal year end to October 31 (See Note 1 in Notes to Financial Statements).

(2)

Per share data calculated using the average shares method.

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMALL CAP FUND
      
      
      

 

 

 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS      
    Selected Per Share Data & Ratios  
    For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Year or Period  

 

    Investor Class Shares  
    Year ended October 31,     Period May        
          1, 2017 to
October 31,

2017(1)
    Year ended
April 30,

2017
 
Small Cap Fund           2021                     2020                     2019                     2018          

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year/Period

  $ 14.93        $ 16.61        $ 18.45        $ 19.37        $ 18.66        $ 16.35     

Income (Loss) from Operations:

           

Net Investment Income (Loss)(2)

    (0.02)         0.06          0.07          0.06          0.03          0.04     

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

    6.10          (0.94)         1.34          (0.10)         0.68          2.27     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total from Operations

    6.08          (0.88)         1.41          (0.04)         0.71          2.31     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Dividends and Distributions:

           

Net Investment Income

    (0.06)         (0.08)         (0.01)         (0.08)         —               —          

Net Realized Gain

    —               (0.72)         (3.24)         (0.80)         —               —          
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Dividends and Distributions

    (0.06)         (0.80)         (3.25)         (0.88)         —               —          
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Redemption Fees(2)  

    —               0.00(3)        0.00(3)        0.00(3)        0.00(3)        0.00(3)   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Asset Value, End of Year/Period

  $ 20.95        $ 14.93        $ 16.61        $ 18.45        $ 19.37        $ 18.66     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Return†

      40.79%               (5.76)%               12.17%               (0.37)%               3.80%               14.13%        
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ratios and Supplemental Data

           

Net Assets, End of Year/Period (Thousands)

    $40,967          $36,234          $42,212          $49,475          $99,220          $121,257     

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets

    1.10%             1.05%             1.15%             1.12%             1.10%*           1.30%        

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Waivers and Fees Paid Indirectly)  

    1.26%             1.25%             1.30%             1.21%             1.15%*           1.33%        

Ratio of Net Investment Income (Loss) to Average Net Assets

    (0.10)%            0.41%             0.42%             0.31%             0.35%*           0.24%        

Portfolio Turnover Rate

    64%             70%             55%             45%             26%**         54%        

 

*

Annualized

**

Portfolio turnover is for the period indicated and has not been annualized.

Total return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. Total return would have been lower had the Adviser not waived a portion of its fee. Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

(1)

Effective August 15, 2017, Cambiar Funds changed their fiscal year end to October 31 (See Note 1 in Notes to Financial Statements).

(2)

Per share data calculated using the average shares method.

(3)

Amount represents less than $0.005 per share.

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR SMALL CAP FUND
      
      
      

 

 

 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS      
    Selected Per Share Data & Ratios  
    For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Year or Period  

 

    Institutional Class Shares  
    Year ended October 31,     Period May        
          1, 2017 to
October 31,

2017(1)
    Year ended
April 30,

2017
 
Small Cap Fund           2021                     2020                     2019                     2018          

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year/Period

  $ 15.39        $ 17.11        $ 18.89        $ 19.83        $ 19.10        $ 16.69     

Income (Loss) from Operations:

           

Net Investment Income(2)

    0.02          0.08          0.10          0.08          0.04          0.08     

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

    6.30          (0.97)         1.39          (0.11)         0.69          2.33     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total from Operations

    6.32          (0.89)         1.49          (0.03)         0.73          2.41     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Dividends and Distributions:

           

Net Investment Income

    (0.08)         (0.11)         (0.03)         (0.11)         —               —          

Net Realized Gain

    —               (0.72)         (3.24)         (0.80)         —               —          
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Dividends and Distributions

    (0.08)         (0.83)         (3.27)         (0.91)         —               —          
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Redemption Fees(2)

    —               0.00(3)       0.00(3)       0.00(3)       0.00(3)       0.00(3)  
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Asset Value, End of Year/Period

  $ 21.63        $ 15.39        $ 17.11        $ 18.89        $ 19.83        $ 19.10     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Return†

      41.18%               (5.64)%               12.37%               (0.29)%               3.82%               14.44%        
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ratios and Supplemental Data

           

Net Assets, End of Year/Period (Thousands)  

    $55,691          $42,012          $42,824          $72,239          $198,706          $366,398     

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets

    0.90%             0.90%             0.96%             1.05%             1.05%*           1.05%        

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Waivers and Fees Paid Indirectly)  

    1.07%             1.10%             1.10%             1.14%             1.10%*           1.09%        

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

    0.08%             0.55%             0.61%             0.41%             0.41%*           0.46%        

Portfolio Turnover Rate

    64%             70%             55%             45%             26%**         54%        

 

*

Annualized

**

Portfolio turnover is for the period indicated and has not been annualized.

Total return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. Total return would have been lower had the Adviser not waived a portion of its fee. Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

(1)

Effective August 15, 2017, Cambiar Funds changed their fiscal year end to October 31 (See Note 1 in Notes to Financial Statements).

(2)

Per share data calculated using the average shares method.

(3)

Amount represents less than $0.005 per share.

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

58


THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND
      
      
      

 

 

 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS      
    Selected Per Share Data & Ratios  
    For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Year or Period  

 

    Investor Class Shares  
    Year ended October 31,     Period May        
          1, 2017 to
October 31,

2017(1)
    Year ended
April 30,

2017
 
International Equity Fund           2021                     2020                     2019                     2018          

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year/Period

  $ 22.33        $ 26.26        $ 25.02        $ 28.31        $ 25.23        $ 24.26     

Income (Loss) from Operations:

           

Net Investment Income(2)

    0.34          0.21          0.72          0.45          0.28          0.47     

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

    5.70          (3.23)         0.73          (3.15)         2.80          0.90     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total from Operations

    6.04          (3.02)         1.45          (2.70)         3.08          1.37     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Dividends and Distributions:

           

Net Investment Income

    (0.31)         (0.91)         (0.16)         (0.36)         —               (0.40)    

Net Realized Gain

    —               —               (0.05)         (0.23)         —               —          
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Dividends and Distributions

    (0.31)         (0.91)         (0.21)         (0.59)         —               (0.40)    
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Redemption Fees(2)

    —               0.00(3)       0.00(3)       0.00(3)       0.00(3)       0.00(3)  
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Asset Value, End of Year/Period

  $ 28.06        $ 22.33        $ 26.26        $ 25.02        $ 28.31        $ 25.23     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Return†

      27.13%               (12.07)%               5.88%               (9.77)%               12.21%               5.75%        
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ratios and Supplemental Data

           

Net Assets, End of Year/Period (Thousands)

    $205,317          $194,941          $455,008          $710,594          $1,665,962          $1,410,600     

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets

    0.98%             1.03%             1.02%             1.08%             1.08%*           1.06%        

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Waivers and Fees Paid Indirectly)

    1.12%             1.15%             1.10%             1.12%             1.12%*           1.11%        

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

    1.21%             0.87%             2.89%             1.60%             2.08%*           1.94%        

Portfolio Turnover Rate

    61%             58%             42%             54%             26%**         57%        

 

*

Annualized

**

Portfolio turnover is for the period indicated and has not been annualized.

Total return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. Total return would have been lower had the Adviser not waived a portion of its fee. Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

(1)

Effective August 15, 2017, Cambiar Funds changed their fiscal year end to October 31 (See Note 1 in Notes to Financial Statements).

(2)

Per share data calculated using the average shares method.

(3)

Amount represents less than $0.005 per share.

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND
      
      
      

 

 

 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS      
    Selected Per Share Data & Ratios  
    For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Year or Period  

 

    Institutional Class Shares  
    Year ended October 31,     Period May        
          1, 2017 to
October 31,

2017(1)  
    Year ended
April 30,

2017
 
International Equity Fund           2021                     2020                     2019                     2018          

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year/Period

  $ 22.38        $ 26.31        $ 25.11        $ 28.40        $ 25.29        $ 24.31     

Income (Loss)   from Operations:

           

Net Investment Income(2)

    0.33          0.25          0.77          0.49          0.31          0.43     

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)  

    5.74          (3.24)         0.70          (3.15)         2.80          0.96     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total from Operations

    6.07          (2.99)         1.47          (2.66)         3.11          1.39     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Dividends and Distributions:

           

Net Investment Income

    (0.35)         (0.94)         (0.22)         (0.40)         —               (0.42)    

Net Realized Gain

    —               —               (0.05)         (0.23)         —               —          
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Dividends and Distributions

    (0.35)         (0.94)         (0.27)         (0.63)         —               (0.42)    
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Redemption Fees(2)

    —               0.00(3)       0.00(3)       0.00(3)       0.00(3)       0.01     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Asset Value, End of Year/Period

  $ 28.10        $ 22.38        $ 26.31        $ 25.11        $ 28.40        $ 25.29     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Return†

      27.23%               (11.94)%               5.99%               (9.63)%               12.30%               5.87%        
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ratios and Supplemental Data

           

Net Assets, End of Year/Period (Thousands)  

    $718,480          $837,570          $1,927,379          $2,514,844          $1,913,807          $1,726,372     

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets

    0.90%             0.90%             0.92%             0.95%             0.95%*           0.95%        

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Waivers and Fees Paid Indirectly)  

    1.04%             1.02%             1.00%             1.00%             0.99%*           1.00%        

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

    1.19%             1.02%             3.07%             1.73%             2.24%*           1.79%        

Portfolio Turnover Rate

    61%             58%             42%             54%             26%**         57%        

 

*

Annualized

**

Portfolio turnover is for the period indicated and has not been annualized.

Total return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. Total return would have been lower had the Adviser not waived a portion of its fee. Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

(1)

Effective August 15, 2017, Cambiar Funds changed their fiscal year end to October 31 (See Note 1 in Notes to Financial Statements).

(2)

Per share data calculated using the average shares method.

(3)

Amount represents less than $0.005 per share.

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS      
    Selected Per Share Data & Ratios  
    For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Year or Period  

 

    Institutional Class Shares  
    Year ended October 31,     Period May        
          1, 2017 to
October 31,

2017(1)  
    Year ended
April 30,

2017
 
International Small Cap Fund           2021                     2020                     2019                     2018          

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year/Period

  $ 11.29        $ 12.04        $ 11.22        $ 12.68        $ 11.36        $ 10.17     

Income (Loss) from Operations:

           

Net Investment Income(2)

    0.08          0.09          0.19          0.10          0.09          0.13     

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

    3.39          (0.66)         1.17          (0.70)         1.23          1.25     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total from Operations

    3.47          (0.57)         1.36          (0.60)         1.32          1.38     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Dividends and Distributions:

           

Net Investment Income

    (0.06)         (0.17)         (0.07)         (0.10)         —               (0.12)    

Net Realized Gain

    (0.22)         (0.01)         (0.47)         (0.76)         —               (0.07)    
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Dividends and Distributions

    (0.28)         (0.18)         (0.54)         (0.86)         —               (0.19)    
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Asset Value, End of Year/Period

  $ 14.48        $ 11.29        $ 12.04        $ 11.22        $ 12.68       $ 11.36     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Return†

    30.83%             (4.89)%             13.14%               (5.36)%             11.62%             13.83%        
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ratios and Supplemental Data

           

Net Assets, End of Year/Period (Thousands)

    $96,670          $61,003          $2,689          $2,228          $2,064          $1,552     

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets

    1.05%             1.05%             1.06%             1.15%             1.15%*          1.15%        

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Waivers and Fees Paid Indirectly)

    1.22%             1.45%             4.75%             5.45%             7.93%*          8.20%        

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

    0.54%             0.81%             1.70%             0.78%             1.43%*          1.30%        

Portfolio Turnover Rate

    38%             42%             49%             68%             26%**         49%        

 

*

Annualized

**

Portfolio turnover is for the period indicated and has not been annualized.

Total return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. Total return would have been lower had the Adviser not waived a portion of its fee. Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

(1)

Effective August 15, 2017, Cambiar Funds changed their fiscal year end to October 31 (See Note 1 in Notes to Financial Statements).

(2)

Per share data calculated using the average shares method.

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR GLOBAL EQUITY FUND
      
      
      

 

 

 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS       
     Selected Per Share Data & Ratios  
     For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Year or Period  

 

    Investor Class Shares  
    Year ended October 31,     Period May        
          1, 2017 to
October 31,

2017(1)  
    Year ended
April 30,

2017
 
Global Equity Fund           2021                     2020                     2019                     2018          

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year/Period

  $ 12.17        $ 12.86        $ 12.05        $ 13.27        $ 12.14        $ 11.20     

Income (Loss) from Operations:

           

Net Investment Income(2)

    0.04          0.07          0.28          0.15          0.08          0.13     

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

    3.71          (0.05)         0.99          (0.87)         1.05          0.92     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total from Operations

    3.75          0.02          1.27          (0.72)         1.13          1.05     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Dividends and Distributions:

           

Net Investment Income

    (0.05)         (0.25)         (0.17)         (0.17)         —               (0.08)    

Net Realized Gain

    (0.80)         (0.46)         (0.29)         (0.33)         —               (0.03)    
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Dividends and Distributions

    (0.85)         (0.71)         (0.46)         (0.50)         —               (0.11)    
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Redemption Fees(2)

    —               0.00(3)       0.00(3)       0.00(3)       —               0.00(3)  
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Asset Value, End of Year/Period

  $ 15.07        $ 12.17        $ 12.86        $ 12.05        $ 13.27        $ 12.14     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Return†

    31.61%               (0.17)%             11.32%               (5.72)%             9.31%             9.35%        
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ratios and Supplemental Data

           

Net Assets, End of Year/Period (Thousands)

    $10,248          $9,213          $11,461          $11,921          $14,215          $13,652     

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets

    0.88%             0.88%             0.85%             0.95%             0.95%*          1.10%        

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Waivers and Fees Paid Indirectly)

    1.72%             1.76%             1.58%             1.60%             1.78%*          1.84%        

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

    0.27%             0.54%             2.27%             1.21%             1.27%*          1.10%        

Portfolio Turnover Rate

    38%             69%             41%             45%             21%**          60%        

 

*

Annualized

**

Portfolio turnover is for the period indicated and has not been annualized.

Total return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. Total return would have been lower had the Adviser not waived a portion of its fee. Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

(1)

Effective August 15, 2017, Cambiar Funds changed their fiscal year end to October 31 (See Note 1 in Notes to Financial Statements).

(2)

Per share data calculated using the average shares method.

(3)

Amount represents less than $0.005 per share.

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS      
    Selected Per Share Data & Ratios  
    For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Year or Period  

 

    Investor Class Shares  
    Year ended October 31,     Period May        
          1, 2017 to
October 31,

2017(1)
    Year ended
April 30,

2017
 
Aggressive Value Fund           2021                     2020                     2019                     2018          

Net Asset Value, Beginning of Year/Period

  $ 17.11        $ 18.73        $ 17.50        $ 19.67        $ 18.76        $ 17.12     

Income (Loss) from Operations:

           

Net Investment Income(2)

    0.03          0.15          0.22          0.13          0.07          0.02     

Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

    8.16          (1.51)         1.15          (2.24)         0.84          1.66     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total from Operations

    8.19          (1.36)         1.37          (2.11)         0.91          1.68     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Dividends and Distributions:

           

Net Investment Income

    (0.10)         (0.26)         (0.14)         (0.06)         —               (0.04)    
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Dividends and Distributions

    (0.10)         (0.26)         (0.14)         (0.06)         —               (0.04)    
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Redemption Fees(2)

    —               0.00(3)        0.00(3)        0.00(3)        0.00(3)         0.00(3)   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Asset Value, End of Year/Period

  $ 25.20        $ 17.11        $ 18.73        $ 17.50        $ 19.67        $ 18.76     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Return†

    47.96%             (7.44)%             8.04%             (10.76)%             4.85%             9.83%        
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Ratios and Supplemental Data

           

Net Assets, End of Year/Period (Thousands)

    $53,693          $37,808          $54,735          $80,479          $111,860          $112,985     

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets

    1.00%             1.05%             1.16%             1.13%             1.12%*           1.35%        

Ratio of Expenses to Average Net Assets (Excluding Waivers, Expense Reimbursements and Fees Paid Indirectly)

    1.22%             1.29%             1.32%             1.20%             1.21%*           1.40%        

Ratio of Net Investment Income to Average Net Assets

    0.13%             0.86%             1.26%             0.68%             0.75%*           0.14%        

Portfolio Turnover Rate

    112%             135%             92%             87%             43%**         72%        

 

*

Annualized

**

Portfolio turnover is for the period indicated and has not been annualized.

Total return is for the period indicated and has not been annualized. Total return would have been lower had the Adviser not waived a portion of its fee. Returns shown do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.

(1)

Effective August 15, 2017, Cambiar Funds changed their fiscal year end to October 31 (See Note 1 in Notes to Financial Statements).

(2)

Per share data calculated using the average shares method.

(3)

Amount represents less than $0.005 per share.

Amounts designated as “-” are $0 or have been rounded to $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

 

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     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS     

1. Organization:

The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund (the “Trust”) was organized as a Massachusetts business trust under an Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated February 18, 1997. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company with 39 portfolios. The financial statements herein are those of the Cambiar Opportunity Fund, Cambiar SMID Fund, Cambiar Small Cap Fund, Cambiar International Equity Fund, Cambiar International Small Cap Fund, Cambiar Global Equity Fund and Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund (collectively the “Funds,” individually a “Fund”), each of which are diversified Funds, except for the Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund which is considered to be non-diversified. The Opportunity Fund and International Equity Fund seek total return and capital preservation. The SMID Fund, Small Cap Fund, International Small Cap Fund, Global Equity Fund and Aggressive Value Fund seek long-term capital appreciation. The goal of each of the Funds is to provide above-average performance in both rising and falling market periods by investing in stocks that have limited downside risk and positive upside potential. The financial statements of the remaining funds of the Trust are presented separately. The assets of each fund are segregated, and a shareholder’s interest is limited to the fund in which shares are held.

Effective August 15, 2017, the Funds changed their fiscal year end to October 31. The previous fiscal year end was April 30.

Effective June 3, 2020, the Cambiar Global Ultra Focus Fund’s name changed to the Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund.

2. Significant Accounting Policies:

The following are significant accounting policies, which are consistently followed in the preparation of the financial statements of the Funds. The Funds are investment companies that apply the accounting and reporting guidance issued in Topic 946 by the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”).

Use of Estimates — The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates and such differences could be material.

Security Valuation — Securities listed on a securities exchange, market or automated quotation system for which quotations are readily available (except for securities traded on NASDAQ), including securities traded over the counter, are valued at the last quoted sale price on an exchange or market (foreign or domestic) on which they are traded on the valuation date (or at approximately 4:00 pm ET if a security’s primary exchange is normally open at that time), or, if there is no such reported sale on the valuation date, at the most recent quoted bid price. For securities traded on NASDAQ, the NASDAQ Official Closing Price will be used. Debt obligations with remaining maturities of sixty days or less may be valued at their amortized cost, which approximates market value provided that it is determined the amortized cost continues to approximate fair value. Should existing credit, liquidity or interest rate conditions in the relevant markets and issuer specific circumstances suggest that amortized cost does not approximate fair value, then the amortized cost method may not be used. The prices for foreign securities are reported in local currency and converted to U.S. dollars using currency exchange rates.

Securities for which market prices are not “readily available” are valued in accordance with fair value procedures established by the Funds’ Board of Trustees (the “Board”). The Funds’ fair value procedures are implemented through a fair value pricing committee (the “Committee”) designated by the Board. Some of the more common reasons that may necessitate that a security be valued using fair value procedures include: the security’s trading has been halted or suspended; the security has been de-listed from a national exchange; the security’s primary trading market is temporarily closed at a time when under normal conditions it would be open; or the security’s primary pricing source is not able or willing to provide a price. When a security is valued in accordance with the fair value procedures, the Committee will determine the value after taking into consideration relevant information reasonably available to the Committee.

For securities that principally trade on a foreign market or exchange, a significant gap in time can exist between the time of a particular security’s last trade and the time at which a Fund calculates its net asset value. The closing prices of such securities may no longer reflect their market value at the time a Fund calculates net asset value if an event that could materially affect the value of those securities (a “Significant Event”) has occurred between the time of the security’s last close and the time that a Fund calculates net asset value. A Significant Event may relate to a single issuer or to an entire market sector. If the Funds’ Adviser becomes aware of a Significant Event that has occurred with respect to a security or group of securities after the closing of the exchange or market on which the security or securities principally trade, but before the time at which a Fund calculates net asset value, it may request that a Committee meeting be called. In addition, the Funds’ Administrator monitors price movements among certain selected indices, securities and/or baskets of securities that may be an indicator that the closing prices received earlier from foreign exchanges or markets may not reflect market

 

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value at the time a Fund calculates net asset value. If price movements in a monitored index or security exceed levels established by the Administrator, the Administrator notifies the Adviser if a Fund is holding the relevant security that such limits have been exceeded. In such event, the Adviser makes the determination whether a Committee meeting should be called based on the information provided.

The Cambiar International Equity Fund and Cambiar International Small Cap Fund use Markit Fair Value (“Markit”) as a third party fair valuation vendor. Markit provides a fair value for foreign securities held by the Fund based on certain factors and methodologies (involving, generally, tracking valuation correlations between the U.S. market and each non-U.S. security) applied by Markit in the event that there is a movement in the U.S. market that exceeds a specific threshold that has been established by the Committee. The Committee has also established a “confidence interval” which is used to determine the level of correlation between the value of a foreign security and movements in the U.S. market before a particular security is fair valued when the threshold is exceeded. In the event that the threshold established by the Committee is exceeded on a specific day, the Cambiar International Equity Fund and Cambiar International Small Cap Fund value the non-U.S. securities in its portfolio that exceed the applicable “confidence interval” based upon the fair values provided by Markit. In such event, it is not necessary to hold a Committee meeting. In the event that the Adviser believes that the fair values provided by Markit are not reliable, the Adviser contacts the Fund’s Administrator and requests that a meeting of the Committee be held. As of October 31, 2021, no securities were fair valued in the International Equity Fund and the International Small Cap Fund.

If a local market in which the Fund owns securities is closed for one or more days, the Cambiar International Equity Fund and Cambiar International Small Cap Fund shall value all securities held in the corresponding currency based on the fair value prices provided by Markit using the predetermined confidence interval discussed above.

Options for which the primary market is a national securities exchange are valued at the last quoted sale price on the primary exchange or market (foreign or domestic) on which they are traded, or, if there is no such reported sale, at the most recent quoted bid price for long options, and the most recent ask price for written options. Options not traded on a national securities exchange are valued in accordance with fair value procedures established by the Funds’ Board of Trustees.

Swaps are marked-to-market daily based upon quotations from market makers and the resulting changes in market values, if any, are recorded as an unrealized gain or loss in the Statement of Operations.

In accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosure under GAAP, the Funds disclose the fair value of their investments in a hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure the fair value. The objective of a fair value measurement is to determine the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (an exit price). Accordingly, the fair value hierarchy gives the highest priority to quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3). The three levels of the fair value hierarchy under ASC 820 are described below:

Level 1 — Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical, unrestricted assets or liabilities that the Funds have the ability to access at the measurement date;

Level 2 — Other significant observable inputs (includes quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, referenced indices, quoted prices in inactive markets, adjusted quoted prices in active markets, adjusted quoted prices on foreign equity securities that were adjusted in accordance with pricing procedures approved by the Board, etc.)

Level 3 — Prices, inputs or exotic modeling techniques which are both significant to the fair value measurement and unobservable (supported by little or no market activity).

Investments are classified within the level of the lowest significant input considered in determining fair value. Investments classified within Level 3 whose fair value measurement considers several inputs may include Level 1 or Level 2 inputs as components of the overall fair value measurement.

For the year ended October 31, 2021, there have been no significant changes to the Funds’ fair value methodologies.

Federal Income Taxes — It is each Fund’s intention to qualify or continue to qualify as a regulated investment company for Federal income tax purposes by complying with the appropriate provisions of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and to distribute substantially all of its income to share-holders. Accordingly, no provision for Federal income taxes has been made in the financial statements.

The Funds evaluate tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing the Funds’ tax returns to determine whether it is “more-likely-than-not” (i.e., greater than 50-percent) that each tax position will be sustained upon examination by a taxing authority based on the technical merits of the position. Tax positions not deemed to meet the

 

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more-likely-than-not threshold are recorded as a tax benefit or expense in the current year. The Funds did not record any tax provision in the current period. However, management’s conclusions regarding tax positions taken may be subject to review and adjustment at a later date based on factors including, but not limited to, examination by tax authorities (i.e., the last 3 tax year ends, as applicable), on-going analysis of and changes to tax laws, regulations and interpretations thereof.

The Cambiar International Equity Fund, Cambiar International Small Cap Fund, Cambiar Global Equity Fund and Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund may be subject to taxes imposed by countries in which they invest. Such taxes are generally based on either income or gains earned or repatriated. The Funds accrue and apply such taxes to net investment income, net realized gains and net unrealized gains as income and/or capital gains are earned.

As of October 31, 2021, the Funds did not have a liability for any unrecognized tax benefits. The Funds recognize interest and penalties, if any, related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense in the Statements of Operations. During the year ended October 31, 2021, the Funds did not incur any interest or penalties.

Security Transactions and Investment Income — Security transactions are accounted for on trade date for financial reporting purposes. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date and interest income is recognized on the accrual basis. Costs used in determining realized gains and losses on the sales of investment securities are based on specific identification.

Cash Equivalents — Idle cash and currency balances may be swept into various overnight sweep accounts and are classified as cash equivalents on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Funds maintain cash in bank deposit accounts which, at times, may exceed United States federally insured limits. Amounts swept are available on the next business day.

Foreign Currency Translation — The books and records of the Funds are maintained in U.S. dollars. Investment securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in a foreign currency are translated into U.S. dollars on the date of valuation. The Funds do not isolate that portion of realized or unrealized gains and losses resulting from changes in the foreign exchange rate from fluctuations arising from changes in the market prices of the securities. These gains and losses are included in net realized and gains and losses on investments and net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments on the Statement of Operations. Net realized and unrealized gains and losses on foreign currency transactions represent net foreign exchange gains or losses from foreign currency exchange contracts, disposition of foreign currencies, currency gains or losses realized between trade and settlement dates on securities transactions and the difference between the amount of the investment income and foreign withholding taxes recorded on the Funds’ books and the U.S. dollar equivalent amounts actually received or paid.

Options — The Funds may utilize longer maturity options for stock replacement when and as price and volatility relationships become more favorable for options versus underlying stocks or for tax and liquidity management purposes. The Funds are authorized to write (sell) and purchase put and call options. The risk in writing a call option is that the Funds give up the opportunity to profit if the market price of the security increases. The risk in writing a put option is that the Funds may incur a loss if the market price of the security decreases and the option is exercised. The risk in purchasing an option is that the Funds pay a premium whether or not the option is exercised. The Funds also have the additional risk of being unable to enter into a closing transaction at an acceptable price if a liquid secondary market does not exist. Option contracts also involve the risk that they may not work as intended due to unanticipated developments in market conditions or other causes.

As of October 31, 2021, the Funds did not hold open options contracts.

Swap Contracts — The Funds are authorized to enter into various contracts, including total return swaps and equity swap contracts, for the purposes of capitalizing on valuation anomalies that exist in the market. Swaps are a two-party contract in which the seller (buyer) will pay to the buyer (seller) the difference between the current value of a security and its value at the time the contract was entered.

In a long position, the Funds will receive or pay an amount based upon the amount, if any, by which the notional amount of the swap would have increased or decreased in value had it been invested in the particular stocks, plus the dividends that would have been received on those stocks, less a floating rate of interest on the notional amount of the swap. In a short position, the Fund will receive or pay an amount based upon the amount, if any, by which the notional amount of the swap would have decreased or increased in value had it sold the particular stocks short, less the dividends that would have been paid on those stocks, plus a floating rate of interest on the notional amount of the swap. All of these components are reflected in the market value of the swaps.

Periodic payments made or received are recorded as realized gains or losses. At year end, the Statements of Assets and Liabilities reflect, if any, unrealized appreciation or depreciation and accrued periodic payments for swap contracts the Funds may have open at year end.

 

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Entering into swap contracts involves, to varying degrees, elements of credit and market risk in excess of the amounts recognized on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Such risks involve the possibility that there will be no liquid market for these contracts, that the counterparty to the contract may default on its obligation to perform and that there may be unfavorable changes in market conditions. Swaps outstanding at year end, if any, are listed on the Schedules of Investments. In connection with swap contracts, cash or securities may be segregated as collateral by the Funds’ custodian.

For the year ended October 31, 2021, the Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund’s average quarterly long notional amount outstanding was $3,191,564, and the average quarterly short notional amount outstanding was $(3,166,681).

As of October 31, 2021, the Funds did not hold swap contracts.

There is the risk that the counterparty refuses to continue to enter into swap agreements with the Funds’ in the future, or requires increased fees, which could impair the Funds’ ability to achieve its investment objective. A counterparty may also increase its collateral requirements, which may limit the Funds ability to use leverage and reduce investment returns. In addition, if the Funds cannot locate a counterparty willing to enter into transactions with the Funds, they will not be able to implement their investment strategy.

To reduce counterparty risk with respect to OTC transactions, the Funds have entered into master netting arrangements, established within the Fund’s International Swap and Derivatives Association, Inc. (“ISDA”) master agreements, which allow the Funds to make (or to have an entitlement to receive) a single net payment in the event of default (close-out netting) for outstanding payables and receivables with respect to certain OTC positions in purchased equity options and swaps for each individual counterparty. In addition, the Funds may require that certain counterparties post cash and/or securities in collateral accounts to cover their net payment obligations for those derivative contracts subject to ISDA master agreements. If the counterparty fails to perform under these contracts and agreements, the cash and/or securities will be made available to the Funds.

For financial reporting purposes, the Funds do not offset derivative assets and derivative liabilities that are subject to netting arrangements in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Bankruptcy or insolvency laws of a particular jurisdiction may impose restrictions on or prohibitions against the right of offset in bankruptcy, insolvency or other events.

Collateral terms are contract specific for OTC derivatives. For derivatives traded under an ISDA master agreement, the collateral requirements are typically calculated by netting the mark to market amount of each transaction under such agreement and comparing that amount to the value of any collateral currently pledged by the Funds or the counterparty.

For financial reporting purposes, cash collateral that has been pledged to cover obligations of the Funds, if any, is reported separately on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as cash pledged as collateral. Non-cash collateral pledged by the Funds, if any, is noted in the Schedules of Investments. Generally, the amount of collateral due from or to a party must exceed a minimum transfer amount threshold before a transfer has to be made. To the extent amounts due to the Funds from its counterparties are not fully collateralized, contractually or otherwise, the Funds bear the risk of loss from counterparty nonperformance.

As of October 31, 2021, the Funds did not hold any collateral.

Expenses — Expenses of the Trust which can be directly attributed to a particular Fund are borne by that Fund. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed to a Fund are apportioned among the Funds of the Trust based on the number of funds and/or relative net assets.

Classes — Class specific expenses are borne by that class of shares. Income, realized and unrealized gains and losses and non-class specific expenses are allocated to the respective class on the basis of relative daily net assets.

Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders — The Funds will distribute substantially all of their net investment income and net realized capital gains, if any, at least annually. All distributions are recorded on ex-dividend date.

Redemption Fees — The Cambiar Opportunity Fund, The Cambiar SMID Fund, Cambiar Small Cap Fund, Cambiar International Equity Fund, Cambiar International Small Cap Fund, Cambiar Global Equity Fund and Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund retain a redemption fee of 2.00% on redemptions of capital shares held for less than ninety days. For the year ended October 31, 2021, the Funds retained fees of $0, $12,729, $418, $18,088, $4,740, $0, and $1,654, respectively. Such fees are retained by the Funds for the benefit of the remaining shareholders and are recorded as additions to fund capital.

 

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3. Administration, Distribution, Shareholder Servicing, Transfer Agent and Custody Agreements:

The Funds and SEI Investments Global Fund Services (the “Administrator”) are parties to an Administration Agreement under which the Administrator provides management and administrative services to the Funds. For these services, the Administrator is paid an asset-based fee, which will vary depending on the number of share classes and the average daily net assets of the Funds. For the year ended October 31, 2021, the Funds incurred the following fees for these services: $176,743, $66,332, $52,459, $564,413, $47,589, $5,652 and $28,134 for the Cambiar Opportunity Fund, Cambiar SMID Fund, Cambiar Small Cap Fund, Cambiar International Equity Fund, Cambiar International Small Cap Fund, Cambiar Global Equity Fund and Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund, respectively.

The Trust and SEI Investments Distribution Co. (the “Distributor”) are parties to a Distribution Agreement. The Distributor receives no fees under the agreement.

The Funds have adopted a shareholder servicing fee plan under which a shareholder servicing fee up to 0.25% of average daily net assets attributable to the Investor Class Shares of the Funds and the Institutional Share Class of the Cambiar International Small Cap Fund will be paid to the Distributor. The Distributor may perform, or may compensate other service providers for providing, certain shareholder and administrative services. Shareholder servicing fees in excess of 0.25% of average daily net assets are paid by Cambiar Investors, LLC (the “Adviser”).

Certain officers of the Trust are also officers of the Administrator, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SEI Investments Company and/or the Distributor. Such officers are paid no fees by the Trust for serving as officers of the Trust.

A portion of the services provided by the Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”) and his staff, whom are employees of the Administrator, are paid for by the Trust as incurred. The services include regulatory oversight of the Trust’s Advisors and service providers as required by SEC regulations. The CCO’s services have been approved by and are reviewed by the Board.

DST Systems, Inc. serves as the Transfer Agent and dividend disbursing agent for the Funds under a transfer agency agreement.

The Funds earn cash management credits which are used to offset transfer agent expenses. During the year ended October 31, 2021, the Cambiar Opportunity, Cambiar SMID, Cambiar Small Cap, Cambiar International Equity, Cambiar International Small Cap, Cambiar Global Equity, and Cambiar Aggressive Value Funds earned credits of $636, $29, $147, $350, $12, $6 and $60, respectively, which were used to offset transfer agent expenses. These amounts are listed as “Fees Paid Indirectly” on the Statements of Operations.

U.S. Bank, N.A. serves as custodian (the “Custodian”) for the Funds. The Custodian plays no role in determining the investment policies of the Funds or which securities are to be purchased and sold by the Fund’s. Prior to July 31, 2021, MUFG Union Bank, N.A. acted as the Fund’s custodian.

4. Investment Advisory Agreements:

Under the terms of the investment advisory agreement, the advisory fees for each Fund are as follows:

 

                  Advisory Fee    
  Cambiar Opportunity Fund    0.60%
  Cambiar SMID Fund    0.80%
  Cambiar Small Cap Fund    0.85%
  Cambiar International Equity Fund    0.90%
  Cambiar International Small Cap    0.90%
  Cambiar Global Equity Fund    0.75%
  Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund    0.90%

The Adviser has contractually agreed, through March 1, 2022, to waive a portion of its advisory fees and to assume expenses, which are calculated based on each Fund’s average daily net assets, in order to keep net operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, non-routine expenses, and shareholder servicing fees) of each Fund from exceeding certain contractual expense limitations. Accordingly, the contractual expense limitations for each Fund are as follows:

 

              Contractual
Expense

    Limitations    
  Cambiar Opportunity Fund    0.65%
  Cambiar SMID Fund    0.85%
  Cambiar Small Cap Fund    0.90%
  Cambiar International Equity Fund    0.90%
  Cambiar International Small Cap    0.95%
  Cambiar Global Equity Fund    0.80%
  Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund    0.95%

 

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Refer to waiver of investment advisory fees on the Statements of Operations for fees waived for the year ended October 31, 2021. In addition, if at any point it becomes unnecessary for the Adviser to reduce fees or make expense reimbursements, the Board may permit the Adviser to retain the difference between the total annual fund operating expenses and the expense caps listed above to recapture all or a portion of its prior fee reductions or reimbursements made during the preceding three-year period. There were no fees recouped by the Adviser during the year ending October 31, 2021.

At October 31, 2021, the amount the Adviser may seek as reimbursement of previously waived fees and reimbursed expenses is as follows:

 

Period Waived   Subject to
Repayment
until
October 31:
    Cambiar
Opportunity
Fund
    Cambiar
SMID Fund
    Cambiar
Small Cap
Fund
    Cambiar
International
Equity Fund
    Cambiar
International
Small Cap

Fund
    Cambiar
Global Equity
Fund
    Cambiar
Aggressive  
Value Fund  
10/31/18-10/31/19     2022      $ 202,013        $ 124,148        $ 139,956        $ 2,107,698        $ 88,532        $ 82,940        $ 96,421    
10/31/19-10/31/20     2023       217,613         140,439         148,323         1,872,945         132,308         88,493         110,456    
10/31/20-10/31/21     2024       301,274         176,242         161,691         1,450,695         147,022         88,668         117,801    
   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

     $     720,900        $     440,829        $     449,970        $     5,431,338        $     367,862        $     260,101        $     324,678    
   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

5. Investment Transactions:

For the year ended October 31, 2021, the Funds made purchases and sales of investment securities other than long-term U.S. Government and short-term securities as follows:

 

                   Purchases         Sales
  Cambiar Opportunity Fund     $      147,409,119         $      115,566,890    
  Cambiar SMID Fund         125,243,757             60,226,443    
  Cambiar Small Cap Fund         60,796,998             73,679,180    
  Cambiar International Equity Fund         608,761,308             973,509,534    
  Cambiar International Small Cap Fund         47,659,796             31,005,513    
  Cambiar Global Equity Fund         3,857,997             5,637,837    
  Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund         56,763,432             58,670,308    

There were no purchases or sales of long-term U.S. Government Securities for any of the Funds.

6. Federal Tax Information:

The timing and characterization of certain income and capital gains distributions are determined annually in accordance with federal tax regulations which may differ from U.S. GAAP. These book/tax differences may be temporary or permanent in nature. The permanent differences are primarily attributable to investments in partnerships, reclassification of long term capital gain distributions on REITs, foreign currency translations, reclassifications of distributions, and swap reclass. The permanent differences that are credited or charged to Paid-in Capital and Distributable Earnings as of October 31, 2021 is primarily related to utilization of earnings and profits on shareholder redemptions.

Accordingly, the following reclassifications (primarily attributable to deemed income and capital gain distribution) that have been made to/from the following accounts:

 

     Distributable
Loss
    Paid-in
Capital
 

Cambiar Opportunity Fund

    $     (3,193,173   $   3,193,173  

Cambiar SMID Fund

     (2,271,678     2,271,678  

Cambiar Small Cap Fund

     (1,962,123     1,962,123  

Cambiar Global Equity Fund

     (21,743     21,743  

 

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The tax character of dividends and distributions declared during the last two fiscal years ended October 31, were as follows:

 

     Ordinary
Income
     Long -Term
Capital Gain
     Total         

Cambiar Opportunity Fund

           

2021

   $ 7,700,939          $ 3,539,934          $ 11,240,873         

2020

     3,501,349              17,847,024            21,348,373                          

Cambiar SMID Fund

           

2021

     455,761            —            455,761         

2020

     750,316            1,725,069            2,475,385         

Cambiar Small Cap Fund

           

2021

     372,446            —            372,446         

2020

     469,927            3,521,137            3,991,064         

Cambiar International Equity Fund

           

2021

     15,556,822            —            15,556,822         

2020

       80,535,910            —              80,535,910         

Cambiar International Small Cap Fund

           

2021

     1,491,489            34,466            1,525,955         

2020

     39,907            —            39,907         

Cambiar Global Equity Fund

           

2021

     267,950            358,018            625,968         

2020

     221,761            400,801            622,562         

Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund

           

2021

     213,332            —            213,332         

2020

     755,037            —            755,037         

As of October 31, 2021, the components of Distributable Earnings (Accumulated Losses) on a tax basis were as follows:

 

    Cambiar
Opportunity
Fund
    Cambiar SMID
Fund
    Cambiar Small
Cap Fund
    Cambiar
International
Equity Fund
    Cambiar
International
Small Cap Fund
    Cambiar Global
Equity Fund
    Cambiar
Aggressive
Value Fund
 

Undistributed Ordinary Income

  $ 12,607,827     $ 10,375,553     $ 8,821,260     $ 12,659,894     $ 3,192,936     $ 201,600     $ 172,934  

Undistributed Long-Term Capital Gain

    12,758,828       5,221,308       14,759,084             3,550,225       718,966        

Capital Loss Carryforwards

                      (73,210,586                 (17,357,969

Net Unrealized Appreciation

    101,557,673       17,758,088       11,677,226       158,266,472       22,088,682       2,652,863       10,641,030  

Other Temporary Differences

    (10     2                   (66     3       7  
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Distributable Earnings (Loss)

  $   126,924,318     $     33,354,951     $     35,257,570     $   97,715,780     $   28,831,777     $     3,573,432     $     (6,543,998)  
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

As of October 31, 2021, the following Funds have capital losses carried forward as follows:

 

     Short-Term
Loss
     Long-Term
Loss
     Total Post-
Enactment
Capital Loss
Carryforwards
 

Cambiar International Equity Fund

     73,210,586               73,210,586  

Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund

     17,357,969               17,357,969  

During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2021, the following funds utilized the prior year capital loss carryforward:

 

     Short-Term
Loss
     Long-Term
Loss
     Total Post-
Enactment
Capital Loss
Carryforwards
 

Cambiar SMID Fund

   $      $ 790,012      $ 790,012  

Cambiar Small Cap Fund

                  1,266,194        1,266,194  

Cambiar International Equity Fund

         132,913,387        9,108,528            142,021,915  

Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund

     8,910,806        1,722,255        10,633,061  

The difference between book-basis and tax-basis unrealized appreciation (depreciation) is due to differences in the timing of recognition of gains and losses on investments for tax and book purposes. The Funds’ net unrealized appreciation difference is attributable primarily to Wash sales.

 

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The Federal tax cost and aggregate gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation on investments for Federal income tax purposes at October 31, 2021, were as follows:

 

     Federal Tax
Cost
     Aggregate
Gross
Unrealized
Appreciation
     Aggregate
Gross
Unrealized
Depreciation
    Net Unrealized
Appreciation
 

Cambiar Opportunity Fund

   $     255,718,132      $     106,649,769      $     (5,092,096   $     101,557,673  

Cambiar SMID Fund

     132,530,495        24,293,487        (6,535,399     17,758,088  

Cambiar Small Cap Fund

     85,261,676        18,601,607        (6,924,381     11,677,226  

Cambiar International Equity Fund

     760,925,507        182,967,695        (24,701,223     158,266,472  

Cambiar International Small Cap Fund

     74,789,724        23,723,610        (1,634,928     22,088,682  

Cambiar Global Equity Fund

     7,605,326        2,770,620        (117,757     2,652,863  

Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund

     43,000,562        12,679,359        (2,038,329     10,641,030  

7. Concentrated Risks:

At October 31, 2021, the net assets of the Cambiar International Equity Fund and the Cambiar International Small Cap Fund were substantially comprised of foreign denominated securities and/or currency. Changes in currency exchange rates will affect the value of, and investment income from, such securities and currency.

Foreign security and currency transactions may involve certain considerations and risks not typically associated with those of U.S. dollar denominated transactions as a result of, among other factors, the possibly lower level of governmental supervision and regulation of foreign securities markets and the possibility of political or economic instability.

The Funds’ use of derivatives, including options and swaps, is subject to market risk, leverage risk, correlation risk, liquidity risk, counterparty risk, valuation risk and hedging risk. Market risk is the risk that the market value of an investment may move up and down, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably. Markets for securities in which the Fund invests may decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, economic or other developments that may cause broad changes in market value, public perceptions concerning these developments, and adverse investor sentiment or publicity. Similarly, the impact of any epidemic, pandemic or natural disaster, or widespread fear that such events may occur, could negatively affect the global economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and the markets in general in significant and unforeseen ways. Any such impact could adversely affect the prices and liquidity of the securities and other instruments in which the Fund invests, which in turn could negatively impact the Fund’s performance and cause losses on your investment in the Fund. Leverage risk is the risk that the use of leverage may amplify the effects of market volatility on the Fund’s share price and may also cause the Fund to liquidate portfolio positions when it would not be advantageous to do so in order to satisfy its obligations. Correlation risk is the risk that changes in the value of the derivative may not correlate closely or at all with the underlying asset, rate or index. Liquidity risk is the risk that the derivative may be difficult or impossible to sell at the time and the price that the Fund would like, which may result in the Fund accepting a lower price to sell a security, selling other securities to raise cash or giving up another investment opportunity, any of which could have a negative effect on the Fund’s management or performance. Counterparty risk is the risk that the counterparty to a derivative contract will default or otherwise fail to honor a financial obligation. Valuation risk is the risk that the derivative may be difficult to value. Hedging risk is the risk that derivatives instruments used for hedging purposes may also limit any potential gain that may result from the increase in value of the hedged asset. To the extent that the Fund engages in hedging strategies, there can be no assurance that such strategy will be effective or that there will be a hedge in place at any given time. Each of these risks could cause a Fund to lose more than the principal amount invested in a derivative instrument.

In the normal course of business, the Funds enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is dependent on future claims that may be made against the Funds and, therefore, cannot be established; however, based on experience, the risk of loss from such claims is considered remote.

The foregoing is not intended to be a complete discussion of the risks associated with investing in a Fund. Please review each Fund’s current prospectus for additional disclosures regarding the principal risks associated with investing in a Fund.

 

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8. Other:

At October 31, 2021, the percentage of total shares outstanding held by shareholders for each Fund, which are comprised of an omnibus account that are held on behalf of various individual shareholders, was as follows:

 

            No. of
Shareholders
   % of Ownership     
  Cambiar Opportunity Fund, Investor Class    3    65%   
  Cambiar Opportunity Fund, Institutional Class    2    60%   
  Cambiar SMID Fund, Investor Class    1    87%   
  Cambiar SMID Fund, Institutional Class    1    66%   
  Cambiar Small Cap Fund, Investor Class    3    63%   
  Cambiar Small Cap Fund, Institutional Class    3    64%   
  Cambiar International Equity Fund, Investor Class    1    74%   
  Cambiar International Equity Fund, Institutional Class    2    73%   
  Cambiar International Small Cap, Institutional Class    3    91%   
  Cambiar Global Equity Fund, Investor Class    2    93%   
  Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund, Investor Class    2    43%   

9. Subsequent Events:

The Funds have evaluated the need for additional disclosures and/or adjustments resulting from subsequent events. Based on this evaluation, no additional disclosures or adjustments were required to the financial statements as of October 31, 2021.

 

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 REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Trustees of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund and the Shareholders of Cambiar Opportunity Fund, Cambiar SMID Fund, Cambiar Small Cap Fund, Cambiar International Equity Fund, Cambiar International Small Cap Fund, Cambiar Global Equity Fund and Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities of Cambiar Opportunity Fund, Cambiar SMID Fund, Cambiar Small Cap Fund, Cambiar International Equity Fund, Cambiar International Small Cap Fund, Cambiar Global Equity Fund and Cambiar Global Aggressive Value Fund, (seven of the series constituting The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund (the “Trust”)), including the schedules of investments, as of October 31, 2021, and the related statements of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the four years in the period ended October 31, 2021, the period May 1, 2017 to October 31, 2017 and the year ended April 30, 2017 and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the Funds (seven of the series constituting The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund) at October 31, 2021, the results of their operations for the year then ended, the changes in their net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and their financial highlights for each of the four years in the period ended October 31, 2021, the period May 1, 2017 to October 31, 2017 and the year ended April 30, 2017, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on each of the Funds’ financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of October 31, 2021, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers or by other appropriate auditing procedures where replies from brokers were not received. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

LOGO

We have served as the auditor of one or more Cambiar Investors investment companies since 2005.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

December 23, 2021

 

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 TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS OF THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND (Unaudited)

 

Set forth below are the names, ages, position with the Trust, term of office, length of time served and the principal occupations for the last five years of each of the persons currently serving as Trustees and Officers of the Trust. Trustees who are deemed not to be “interested persons” of the Trust are referred to as “Independent Board Members.” Messrs. Nesher and Klauder are Trustees who may be deemed to be “interested” persons of the Fund as that term is defined in the 1940 Act by virtue of their

 

 

Name and Year of Birth

   Position with Trust and Length
of Time Served 1
  Principal
Occupations
in the Past Five Years

INTERESTED TRUSTEES 3 4

        

Robert Nesher

(Born: 1946)

   Chairman of the Board
of Trustees
(since 1991)
  SEI employee 1974 to present; currently performs various services on behalf of SEI Investments for which Mr. Nesher is compensated. President, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee of SEI Daily Income Trust, SEI Tax Exempt Trust, SEI Institutional Managed Trust, SEI Institutional International Trust, SEI Institutional Investments Trust, SEI Asset Allocation Trust, Adviser Managed Trust, New Covenant Funds, SEI Insurance Products Trust and SEI Catholic Values Trust. President and Director of SEI Structured Credit Fund, LP. Vice Chairman of O’Connor EQUUS (closed-end investment company) to 2016. President, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee of SEI Liquid Asset Trust to 2016. Vice Chairman of Winton Series Trust to 2017. Vice Chairman of Winton Diversified Opportunities Fund (closed-end investment company), The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund III, Gallery Trust, Schroder Series Trust and Schroder Global Series Trust to 2018.

N. Jeffrey Klauder

(Born: 1952)

   Trustee
(since 2018)
 

Senior Advisor of SEI Investments since 2018. Executive Vice President and General Counsel of SEI Investments, 2004 to 2018.

 

INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES 4

        

Joseph T. Grause, Jr.

(Born: 1952)

  

Trustee

(since 2011)
Lead Independent Trustee

(since 2018)

 

Self-Employed Consultant since 2012. Director of Endowments and Foundations, Morningstar Investment Management, Morningstar, Inc., 2010 to 2011. Director of International Consulting and Chief Executive Officer of Morningstar Associates Europe Limited, Morningstar, Inc., 2007 to 2010. Country Manager - Morningstar UK Limited, Morningstar, Inc., 2005 to 2007.

 

 

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affiliation with the Trust’s Distributor. The Trust’s Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) includes additional information about the Trustees and Officers. The SAI may be obtained without charge by calling 1-866-777-8227. The following chart lists Trustees and Officers as of October 31, 2021.

 

Other Directorships

Held in the Past Five Years 2

    

Current Directorships: Trustee of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund II, Bishop Street Funds, Frost Family of Funds, Catholic Responsible Investments Funds, SEI Daily Income Trust, SEI Institutional International Trust, SEI Institutional Investments Trust, SEI Institutional Managed Trust, SEI Asset Allocation Trust, SEI Tax Exempt Trust, Adviser Managed Trust, New Covenant Funds, SEI Insurance Products Trust and SEI Catholic Values Trust. Director of SEI Structured Credit Fund, LP, SEI Global Master Fund plc, SEI Global Assets Fund plc, SEI Global Investments Fund plc, SEI Investments—Global Funds Services, Limited, SEI Investments Global, Limited, SEI Investments (Europe) Ltd., SEI Investments—Unit Trust Management (UK) Limited, SEI Multi-Strategy Funds PLC and SEI Global Nominee Ltd.

 

Former Directorships: Trustee of The KP Funds to 2021. Trustee of SEI Liquid Asset Trust to 2016.

 

Current Directorships: Trustee of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund II, Bishop Street Funds and Catholic Responsible Investments Funds. Director of SEI Private Trust Company, SEI Global Fund Services Ltd., SEI Investments Global Limited, SEI Global Master Fund, SEI Global Investments Fund, SEI Global Assets Fund and SEI Investments - Guernsey Limited.

 

Former Directorships: Trustee of The KP Funds to 2021. Trustee of SEI Investments Management Corporation, SEI Trust Company, SEI Investments (South Africa), Limited and SEI Investments (Canada) Company to 2018.

    

Current Directorships: Trustee of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund II, Bishop Street Funds, Frost Family of Funds, and Catholic Responsible Investments Funds. Director of RQSI GAA Systematic Global Macro Fund, Ltd.

 

Former Directorships: Trustee of The KP Funds to 2021. Director of The Korea Fund, Inc. to 2019.

 

 

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 TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS OF THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND (Unaudited)

 

 

Name and

Year of Birth

   Position with Trust
and Length of
Time Served1
   Principal
Occupations
in the Past Five Years

 

INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES (continued)3

         

Mitchell A. Johnson

(Born: 1942)

 

  

Trustee

(since 2005)

 

   Retired. Private investor since 1994.

Betty L. Krikorian

(Born: 1943)

  

Trustee
(since 2005)

 

   Vice President, Compliance, AARP Financial Inc., from 2008 to 2010. Self-Employed Legal and Financial Services Consultant since 2003. Counsel (in-house) for State Street Bank from 1995 to 2003.
Robert Mulhall
(Born: 1958)
  

Trustee
(since 2019)

 

   Partner, Ernst & Young LLP, from 1998 to 2018.
Bruce R. Speca
(Born: 1956)
  

Trustee
(since 2011)

 

  

Global Head of Asset Allocation, Manulife Asset Management (subsidiary of Manulife Financial), 2010 to 2011. Executive Vice President – Investment Management Services, John Hancock Financial Services (subsidiary of Manulife Financial), 2003 to 2010.

 

OFFICERS

         
Michael Beattie
(Born: 1965)
   President
(since 2011)
   Director of Client Service, SEI Investments Company, since 2004.

 

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Other Directorships
Held in the Past Five Years2

    

Current Directorships: Trustee of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund II, Bishop Street Funds, Catholic Responsible Investments Funds, SEI Asset Allocation Trust, SEI Daily Income Trust, SEI Institutional International Trust, SEI Institutional Managed Trust, SEI Institutional Investments Trust, SEI Tax Exempt Trust, Adviser Managed Trust, New Covenant Funds, SEI Insurance Products Trust and SEI Catholic Values Trust. Director of Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac) since 1997 and RQSI GAA Systematic Global Macro Fund, Ltd.

 

Former Directorships: Trustee of The KP Funds to 2021. Trustee of SEI Liquid Asset Trust to 2016.

Current Directorships: Trustee of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund II, Bishop Street Funds, and Catholic Responsible Investments Funds. Director of RQSI GAA Systematic Global Macro Fund, Ltd.

 

Former Directorships: Trustee of The KP Funds to 2021.

Current Directorships: Trustee of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund II, Bishop Street Funds, Frost Family of Funds and Catholic Responsible Investments Funds. Director of RQSI GAA Systematic Global Macro Fund, Ltd.

 

Former Directorships: Trustee of The KP Funds to 2021. Trustee of Villanova University Alumni Board of Directors to 2018.

Current Directorships: Trustee of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund II, Bishop Street Funds, Frost Family of Funds and Catholic Responsible Investments Funds. Director of Stone Harbor Investments Funds (8 Portfolios), Stone Harbor Emerging Markets Income Fund (closed-end fund) and Stone Harbor Emerging Markets Total Income Fund (closed-end fund). Director of RQSI GAA Systematic Global Macro Fund, Ltd.

 

Former Directorships: Trustee of The KP Funds to 2021.

 

None.

 

 

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 TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS OF THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND (Unaudited)

 

Name and Year of Birth    Position
with Trust
and Length of
Time Served
  Principal
Occupations
in the Past Five Years

OFFICERS (continued)

        

James Bernstein

(Born: 1962)

  

Vice President and Assistant

Secretary

 

(since 2017)

 

Attorney, SEI Investments, since 2017.

 

Prior Positions: Self-employed consultant, 2017. Associate General Counsel & Vice President, Nationwide Funds Group and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, from 2002 to 2016. Assistant General Counsel & Vice President, Market Street Funds and Provident Mutual Insurance Company, from 1999 to 2002.

 

John Bourgeois

(Born: 1973)

  

Assistant Treasurer

(since 2017)

  Fund Accounting Manager, SEI Investments, since 2000.

Russell Emery

(Born: 1962)

  

Chief Compliance Officer

(since 2006)

  Chief Compliance Officer of SEI Structured Credit Fund, LP since 2007. Chief Compliance Officer of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund II, Bishop Street Funds, Frost Family of Funds, Catholic Responsible Investments Funds, The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund III, Gallery Trust, Schroder Series Trust, Schroder Global Series Trust, Delaware Wilshire Private Markets Master Fund, Delaware Wilshire Private Markets Fund, Delaware Wilshire Private Markets Tender Fund, SEI Institutional Managed Trust, SEI Asset Allocation Trust, SEI Institutional International Trust, SEI Institutional Investments Trust, SEI Daily Income Trust, SEI Tax Exempt Trust, Adviser Managed Trust, New Covenant Funds, SEI Insurance Products Trust and SEI Catholic Values Trust. Chief Compliance Officer of O’Connor EQUUS (closed-end investment company) to 2016. Chief Compliance Officer of SEI Liquid Asset Trust to 2016. Chief Compliance Officer of Winton Series Trust to 2017. Chief Compliance Officer of Winton Diversified Opportunities Fund (closed-end investment company) to 2018. Chief Compliance Officer of The KP Funds to 2021.

Eric C. Griffith

(Born: 1969)

  

Vice President and Assistant

Secretary

(since 2019)

  Counsel at SEI Investments since 2019. Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase & Co., from 2012 to 2018.

 

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Other Directorships

Held in the Past Five Years

    

None.

 

None.

 

None.

 

None.

 

 

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 TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS OF THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND (Unaudited)

 

Name and Year of Birth    Position
with Trust
and Length of
Time Served
 

Principal

Occupation

in the Past Five Years

OFFICERS (continued)

        

Matthew M. Maher

(Born: 1975)

   Vice President
(since 2018)
Secretary
(since 2020)
  Counsel at SEI Investments since 2018. Attorney, Blank Rome LLP, from 2015 to 2018. Assistant Counsel & Vice President, Bank of New York Mellon, from 2013 to 2014. Attorney, Dilworth Paxson LLP, from 2006 to 2013.

Andrew Metzger

(Born: 1980)

   Treasurer, Controller and Chief
Financial Officer
(since 2021)
 

Director of Fund Accounting, SEI Investments, since 2020. Senior Director, Embark, from 2019 to 2020. Senior Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, from 2002 to 2019.

 

Robert Morrow

(Born: 1968)

   Vice President
(since 2017)
  Account Manager, SEI Investments, since 2007.

Alexander F. Smith

(Born: 1977)

   Vice President and Assistant
Secretary
(since 2020)
  Counsel at SEI Investments since 2020. Associate Counsel & Manager, Vanguard, 2012 to 2020. Attorney, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, 2008 to 2012.

Bridget E. Sudall

(Born: 1980)

   Anti-Money Laundering
Compliance Officer and Privacy
Officer
(since 2015)
  Senior Associate and AML Officer, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, from 2011 to 2015. Investor Services Team Lead, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, from 2007 to 2011.

 

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Other Directorships

Held in the Past Five Years

    

None.

 

None.

 

None.

 

None.

 

None.

 

 

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 DISCLOSURE OF FUND EXPENSES (Unaudited)

All mutual funds have operating expenses. As a shareholder of a mutual fund, your investment is affected by these ongoing costs, which include (among others) costs for portfolio management, administrative services, and shareholder reports like this one. It is important for you to understand the impact of these costs on your investment returns.

Operating expenses such as these are deducted from a mutual fund’s gross income and directly reduce your investment return. These expenses are expressed as a percentage of a mutual fund’s average net assets; this percentage is known as a mutual fund’s expense ratio.

The following examples use the expense ratio and are intended to help you understand the ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in your Fund and to compare these costs with those of other mutual funds. The examples are based on an investment of $1,000 made at the beginning of the period shown and held for the entire period (May 1, 2021 to October 31, 2021).

The table on the next page illustrates your Fund’s costs in two ways:

  Actual Fund Return. This section helps you to estimate the actual expenses that your Fund incurred over the period. The “Expenses Paid During Period” column shows the actual dollar expense cost incurred by a $1,000 investment in the Fund, and the “Ending Account Value” number is derived from deducting that expense cost from the Fund’s gross investment return.

You can use this information, together with the actual amount you invested in the Fund, to estimate the expenses you paid over that period. Simply divide your actual account value by $1,000 to arrive at a ratio (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply that ratio by the number shown under “Expenses Paid During Period.”

  Hypothetical 5% Return. This section helps you compare your Fund’s costs with those of other mutual funds. It assumes that the Fund had an annual 5% return before expenses during the period, but that the expense ratio (Column 3) for the period is unchanged. This example is useful in making comparisons because the Securities and Exchange Commission requires all mutual funds to make this 5% calculation. You can assess your Fund’s comparative cost by comparing the hypothetical result for your Fund in the “Expenses Paid During Period” column with those that appear in the same charts in the shareholder reports for other mutual funds.

NOTE: Because the return is set at 5% for comparison purposes — NOT your Fund’s actual return — the account values shown do not apply to your specific investment.

 

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 DISCLOSURE OF FUND EXPENSES (Unaudited)

 

    

Beginning

Account
Value
05/01/21

  

Ending

Account

Value

10/31/21

     Annualized
Expense
Ratios
 

Expenses
Paid

During
Period*

Cambiar Opportunity Fund — Investor Class Shares

Actual Fund Return

   $1,000.00      $1,031.70      0.86%   $4.40

Hypothetical 5% Return

   $1,000.00      $1,020.87      0.86%   $4.38

Cambiar Opportunity Fund — Institutional Class Shares

Actual Fund Return

   $1,000.00      $1,032.90      0.65%   $3.33

Hypothetical 5% Return

   $1,000.00      $1,021.93      0.65%   $3.31

Cambiar SMID Fund — Investor Class Shares

Actual Fund Return

   $1,000.00      $979.20      0.92%   $4.59

Hypothetical 5% Return

   $1,000.00      $1,020.57      0.92%   $4.69

Cambiar SMID Fund — Institutional Class Shares

Actual Fund Return

   $1,000.00      $979.60      0.85%   $4.24

Hypothetical 5% Return

   $1,000.00      $1,020.92      0.85%   $4.33

Cambiar Small Cap Fund — Investor Class Shares

Actual Fund Return

   $1,000.00      $997.60      1.10%   $5.54

Hypothetical 5% Return

   $1,000.00      $1,019.66      1.10%   $5.60

Cambiar Small Cap Fund — Institutional Class Shares

Actual Fund Return

   $1,000.00      $999.10      0.90%   $4.53

Hypothetical 5% Return

   $1,000.00      $1,020.67      0.90%   $4.58

Cambiar International Equity Fund — Investor Class Shares

Actual Fund Return

   $1,000.00      $980.10      0.98%   $4.89

Hypothetical 5% Return

   $1,000.00      $1,020.27      0.98%   $4.99

Cambiar International Equity Fund — Institutional Class Shares

Actual Fund Return

   $1,000.00      $980.80      0.90%   $4.49

Hypothetical 5% Return

   $1,000.00      $1,020.67      0.90%   $4.58

Cambiar International Small Cap Fund — Institutional Class Shares

Actual Fund Return

   $1,000.00      $981.00      1.05%   $5.24

Hypothetical 5% Return

   $1,000.00      $1,019.91      1.05%   $5.35

Cambiar Global Equity Fund — Investor Class Shares

Actual Fund Return

   $1,000.00      $1,009.40      0.88%   $4.46

Hypothetical 5% Return

   $1,000.00      $1,020.77      0.88%   $4.48

Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund — Investor Class Shares

Actual Fund Return

   $1,000.00      $990.20      1.00%   $5.02

Hypothetical 5% Return

   $1,000.00      $1,020.16      1.00%   $5.09

 

  *

Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized expense ratio multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period shown).

 

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 APPROVAL OF INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT (UNAUDITED)

Pursuant to Section 15 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”), the Funds’ advisory agreement (the “Agreement”) must be renewed at least annually after its initial two-year term: (i) by the vote of the Board of Trustees (the “Board” or the “Trustees”) of The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund (the “Trust”) or by a vote of a majority of the shareholders of the Funds; and (ii) by the vote of a majority of the Trustees who are not parties to the Agreement or “interested persons” of any party thereto, as defined in the 1940 Act (the “Independent Trustees”), cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such renewal.

A Board meeting was held on May 18, 2021 to decide whether to renew the Agreement for an additional one-year term (the “May Meeting”). The May Meeting was held via videoconference in reliance on relief provided in orders issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 13, 2020, March 25, 2020 and June 19, 2020 from 1940 Act sections and rules requiring that certain votes of a company’s board of trustees be cast in person due to circumstances related to the current or potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In preparation for the May Meeting, the Trustees requested that the Adviser furnish information necessary to evaluate the terms of the Agreement. Prior to the May Meeting, the Independent Trustees of the Funds met to review and discuss the information provided and submitted a request for additional information to the Adviser, and information was provided in response to this request. The Trustees used this information, as well as other information that the Adviser and other service providers of the Funds presented or submitted to the Board at the May Meeting and other meetings held during the prior year, to help them decide whether to renew the Agreement for an additional year.

Specifically, the Board requested and received written materials from the Adviser and other service providers of the Funds regarding: (i) the nature, extent and quality of the Adviser’s services; (ii) the Adviser’s investment management personnel; (iii) the Adviser’s operations and financial condition; (iv) the Adviser’s brokerage practices (including any soft dollar arrangements) and investment strategies; (v) the Funds’ advisory fees paid to the Adviser and overall fees and operating expenses compared with peer groups of mutual funds; (vi) the level of the Adviser’s profitability from its relationship with the Funds, including both direct and indirect benefits accruing to the Adviser and its affiliates; (vii) the Adviser’s potential economies of scale; (viii) the Adviser’s compliance program, including a description of material compliance matters and material compliance violations; (ix) the Adviser’s policies on and compliance procedures for personal securities transactions; and (x) the Funds’ performance compared with peer groups of mutual funds and the Funds’ benchmark indices.

Representatives from the Adviser, along with other Fund service providers, presented additional information and participated in question and answer sessions at the May Meeting to help the Trustees evaluate the Adviser’s services, fees and other aspects of the Agreement. The Independent Trustees received advice from independent counsel and met in executive sessions outside the presence of Fund management and the Adviser.

At the May Meeting, the Trustees, including all of the Independent Trustees, based on their evaluation of the information provided by the Adviser and other service providers of the Funds, renewed the Agreement. In considering the renewal of the Agreement, the Board considered various factors that they determined were relevant, including: (i) the nature, extent and quality of the services provided by the Adviser; (ii) the investment performance of the Funds and the Adviser; (iii) the costs of the services provided and profits realized by the Adviser from its relationship with the Funds, including both direct and indirect benefits accruing to the Adviser and its affiliates; (iv) the extent to which economies of scale are being realized by the Adviser; and (v) whether fee levels reflect such economies of scale for the benefit of Fund investors, as discussed in further detail below.

Nature, Extent and Quality of Services Provided by the Adviser

In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services provided by the Adviser, the Board reviewed the portfolio management services provided by the Adviser to the Funds, including the quality and continuity of the Adviser’s portfolio management personnel, the resources of the Adviser, and the Adviser’s compliance history and compliance program. The Trustees reviewed the terms of the Agreement. The Trustees also reviewed the Adviser’s investment and risk management approaches for the Funds. The most recent investment adviser registration form (“Form ADV”) for the Adviser was available to the Board, as was the response of the Adviser to a detailed series of questions which included, among other things, information about the investment advisory services provided by the Adviser to the Funds.

The Trustees also considered other services provided to the Funds by the Adviser such as selecting broker-dealers for executing portfolio transactions, monitoring adherence to the Funds’ investment restrictions, and monitoring compliance with various Fund policies and procedures and with applicable securities laws and regulations. Based on the factors above, as well as those discussed below, the Board concluded, within the context of its full deliberations, that the nature, extent and quality of the services provided to the Funds by the Adviser were sufficient to support renewal of the Agreement.

Investment Performance of the Funds and the Adviser

The Board was provided with regular reports regarding the Funds’ performance over various time periods. The Trustees also reviewed reports prepared by the Funds’ administrator comparing the Funds’ performance to their benchmark indices and peer groups of mutual funds as classified by Lipper, an independent provider of investment company data, over various periods of time.

 

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Representatives from the Adviser provided information regarding and led discussions of factors impacting the performance of the Funds, outlining current market conditions and explaining their expectations and strategies for the future. The Trustees determined that the Funds’ performance was satisfactory, or, where the Funds’ performance was materially below their benchmarks and/or peer groups, the Trustees were satisfied by the reasons for the underperformance and/or the steps taken by the Adviser in an effort to improve the performance of the Funds. Based on this information, the Board concluded, within the context of its full deliberations, that the investment results that the Adviser had been able to achieve for the Funds were sufficient to support renewal of the Agreement.

Costs of Advisory Services, Profitability and Economies of Scale

In considering the advisory fees payable by the Funds to the Adviser, the Trustees reviewed, among other things, a report of the advisory fees paid to the Adviser. The Trustees also reviewed reports prepared by the Funds’ administrator comparing the Funds’ net and gross expense ratios and advisory fees to those paid by peer groups of mutual funds as classified by Lipper. The Trustees reviewed the management fees charged by the Adviser to other clients with comparable mandates to certain Funds. The Trustees considered any differences in management fees and took into account the respective demands, resources and complexity associated with such Funds and other client accounts as well as the extensive regulatory, compliance and tax regimes to which the Funds are subject. The Board concluded, within the context of its full deliberations, that the advisory fees were reasonable in light of the nature and quality of the services rendered by the Adviser.

The Trustees reviewed the costs of services provided by and the profits realized by the Adviser from its relationship with the Funds, including both direct benefits and indirect benefits, such as research and brokerage services received under soft dollar arrangements, accruing to the Adviser and its affiliates. The Trustees considered how the Adviser’s profitability was affected by factors such as its organizational structure and method for allocating expenses. The Trustees concluded that the profit margins of the Adviser with respect to the management of the Funds were not unreasonable. The Board also considered the Adviser’s commitment to managing the Funds and its willingness to continue its expense limitation and fee waiver arrangements with the Funds.

The Trustees considered the Adviser’s views relating to economies of scale in connection with the Funds as Fund assets grow and the extent to which the benefits of any such economies of scale are shared with the Funds and Fund shareholders. The Board considered the existence of any economies of scale and whether those were passed along to the Funds’ shareholders through a graduated advisory fee schedule or other means, including fee waivers. The Trustees recognized that economies of scale are difficult to identify and quantify and are rarely identifiable on a fund-by-fund basis. Based on this evaluation, the Board concluded that the advisory fee was reasonable in light of the information that was provided to the Trustees by the Adviser with respect to economies of scale.

Renewal of the Agreement

Based on the Board’s deliberations and its evaluation of the information described above and other factors and information it believed relevant in the exercise of its reasonable business judgment, the Board, including all of the Independent Trustees, with the assistance of Fund counsel and Independent Trustees’ counsel, unanimously concluded that the terms of the Agreement, including the fees payable thereunder, were fair and reasonable and agreed to renew the Agreement for another year. In its deliberations, the Board did not identify any absence of information as material to its decision, or any particular factor (or conclusion with respect thereto) or single piece of information that was all-important, controlling or determinative of its decision, but considered all of the factors together, and each Trustee may have attributed different weights to the various factors (and conclusions with respect thereto) and information.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR FUNDS
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 

 REVIEW OF THE LIQUIDITY RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (UNAUDITED)

Pursuant to Rule 22e-4 under the 1940 Act, the Funds’ investment adviser has adopted, and the Board has approved, a liquidity risk management program (the “Program”) to govern the Funds’ approach to managing liquidity risk. The Program is overseen by the Funds’ Liquidity Risk Management Program Administrator (the “Program Administrator”), and the Program’s principal objectives include assessing, managing and periodically reviewing each Fund’s liquidity risk, based on factors specific to the circumstances of the Funds.

At a meeting of the Board held on May 19, 2021, the Trustees received a report from the Program Administrator addressing the operations of the Program and assessing its adequacy and effectiveness of implementation for the period from January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020. The Program Administrator’s report included an assessment of how market conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the Funds’ liquidity risk during the period covered by the report. The Program Administrator’s report noted that the Program Administrator had determined that the Program is reasonably designed to assess and manage each Fund’s liquidity risk and has operated adequately and effectively to manage each Fund’s liquidity risk during the period covered by the report. The Program Administrator’s report noted that during the period covered by the report, there were no liquidity events that impacted the Funds or their ability to timely meet redemptions without dilution to existing shareholders. The Program Administrator’s report further noted that no material changes have been made to the Program during the period covered by the report.

There can be no assurance that the Program will achieve its objectives in the future. Please refer to the prospectus for more information regarding a Fund’s exposure to liquidity risk and other principal risks to which an investment in the Funds may be subject.

 

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THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND    CAMBIAR FUNDS
     OCTOBER 31, 2021
      
      

 

 

 

 NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS (Unaudited)    

For shareholders that do not have an October 31, 2021 tax year end, this notice is for informational purposes only. For shareholders with an October 31, 2021 tax year end, please consult your tax advisor as to the pertinence of this notice. For the fiscal year ended October 31 2021, each portfolio is designating the following items with regard to distributions paid during the year.

 

     Long-Term
Capital Gain
Distributions
  Ordinary
Income
Distributions
  Total
Distributions
  Qualifying for
Corporate
Dividends Rec.
Deduction (1)
  Qualifying
Dividend
Income (2)  

Cambiar Opportunity Fund

       31.49 %       68.51 %       100.00 %       41.50 %       44.25 %  

Cambiar SMID Fund

       0.00 %       100.00 %       100.00 %       29.52 %       30.79 %

Cambiar Small Cap Fund

       0.00 %       100.00 %       100.00 %       38.94 %       39.53 %

Cambiar International Equity Fund

       0.00 %       100.00 %       100.00 %       0.10 %       100.00 %

Cambiar International Small Cap Fund

       2.10 %       97.90 %       100.00 %       0.00 %       40.83 %

Cambiar Global Equity Fund

       57.19 %       42.81 %       100.00 %       25.80 %       48.79 %

Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund

       0.00 %       100.00 %       100.00 %       100.00 %       100.00 %
     U.S.
Government
Interest (3)
  Interest Related
Dividends (4)
  Short-Term
Capital Gain
Dividends (5)
  Qualifying
Business Income
(6)
  Foreign Tax
Credit Pass
Through (7)

Cambiar Opportunity Fund

       0.00 %       0.00 %       100.00 %       0.79 %       0.00 %

Cambiar SMID Fund

       0.00 %       0.02 %       100.00 %       0.79 %       0.00 %

Cambiar Small Cap Fund

       0.00 %       0.00 %       100.00 %       7.28 %       0.00 %

Cambiar International Equity Fund

       0.00 %       0.43 %       0.00 %       0.00 %       9.73 %

Cambiar International Small Cap Fund

       0.00 %       0.00 %       100.00 %       0.00 %       7.08 %

Cambiar Global Equity Fund

       0.00 %       0.00 %       100.00 %       0.00 %       0.00 %

Cambiar Aggressive Value Fund

       0.00 %       0.00 %       0.00 %       0.00 %       0.00 %

 

(1)  

Qualifying dividends represent dividends which qualify for the corporate dividends received deduction and is reflected as a percentage of “Ordinary Income Distributions.”

 

(2)  

The percentage in this column represents the amount of “Qualifying Dividend Income” as created by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 and is reflected as a percentage of “Ordinary Income Distributions.” It is the intention of each of the aforementioned funds to designate the maximum amount permitted by law.

 

(3)  

“U.S. Government Interest” represents the amount of interest that was derived from direct U.S. Government obligations and distributed during the fiscal year. This amount is reflected as a percentage of total ordinary income distributions (the total of short term capital gain and net investment income distributions). Generally, interest from direct U.S. Government obligations is exempt from state income tax. However, for residents of California, Connecticut and New York, the statutory threshold requirements were not satisfied to permit exemption of these amounts from state income.

 

(4)  

The percentage in this column represents the amount of “Interest Related Dividends” and is reflected as a percentage of ordinary income distribution. Interest related dividends are exempt from U.S. withholding tax when paid to foreign investors.

 

(5)  

The percentage in this column represents the amount of “Short-Term Capital Gain Dividends” and is reflected as a percentage of short-term capital gain distribution that is exempt from U.S. withholding tax when paid to foreign investors.

 

(6)  

The percentage in this column represents that amount of ordinary dividend income that qualified for 20% Business Income Deduction.

 

(7)  

Foreign Tax Credit Pass Through represents amounts eligible for the foreign tax credit and is reflected as a percentage of “Ordinary Income Distributions.” the Cambiar International Equity Fund and the Cambiar International Small Cap Fund intend to pass through a foreign tax credit to shareholders. For the fiscal year ended October 31, 2021, the total amount of foreign source income for the Cambiar International Equity Fund and the Cambiar International Small Cap Fund was $11,367,384 and $1,213,403, respectively. The total amount of foreign taxes paid for the Cambiar International Equity Fund and the Cambiar International Small Cap Fund was $1,675,923 and $116,263, respectively. Your allocable shares of foreign tax credit will be reported on Form 1099 DIV.

 

(8)  

The fund is designating a portion of the redemption proceeds as taxable net investment income and/or realized capital gain for dividend paid deduction purposes (equalization debits). This designation has no impact on shareholders’ income tax reporting. For shareholders’ income tax reporting, the amount of ordinary income and/or long-term gain, if any, will be designated on Form 1099-DIV.

 

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NOTES


NOTES

 


The Cambiar Funds

P.O. Box 219009

Kansas City, MO 64121

1-866-777-8227

Investment Adviser

Cambiar Investors, LLC

200 Columbine Street

Suite 800

Denver, CO 80206

Distributor

SEI Investments Distribution Co.

One Freedom Valley Drive

Oaks, PA 19456

Administrator

SEI Investments Global Funds Services

One Freedom Valley Drive

Oaks, PA 19456

Legal Counsel

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

1701 Market Street

Philadelphia, PA 19103-2921

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Ernst & Young LLP

2005 Market Street, Suite 700

Philadelphia, PA 19103

This information must be preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus

for the Funds described.

CMB-AR-001-2000


Item 2.

Code of Ethics.

The Registrant (also referred to as the “Trust”) has adopted a code of ethics that applies to the Registrant’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer, controller or principal accounting officer, and any person who performs a similar function. There have been no amendments to or waivers granted to this code of ethics during the period covered by this report.

 

Item 3.

Audit Committee Financial Expert.

(a)(1) The Registrant’s board of trustees has determined that the Registrant has at least one audit committee financial expert serving on the audit committee.

(a)(2) The audit committee financial expert is Robert Mulhall. Mr. Mulhall is considered to be “independent,” as that term is defined in Form N-CSR Item 3(a)(2).

 

Item 4.

Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

Fees billed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) relate to The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund (the “Trust”).

PwC billed the Trust aggregate fees for services rendered to the Trust for the last two fiscal years as follows:

 

     2021     2020  
          All fees and
services to
the Trust
that were
pre-approved
    All fees and
services to

service
affiliates

that  were
pre-approved
     All other
fees and
services to
service
affiliates

that did not
require
pre-approval
    All fees and
services to the
Trust that were
pre-approved
    All fees and
services to
service
affiliates

that were
pre-approved
     All other
fees and
services to
service
affiliates

that did not
require
pre-approval
 
(a)    Audit Fees(1)    $ 104,400       None        None     $ 104,400       None        None  
(b)    Audit-Related Fees      None       None        None       None       None        None  
(c)    Tax Fees    $ 10,000 (2)      None      $ 150,670 (5)    $ 10,000 (2)      None      $ 88,304  
(d)    All Other Fees      None       None      $ 385,179 (6)      None       None      $ 376,378  


Fees billed by Ernst & Young LLP (“E&Y”) related to the Trust

E&Y billed the Trust aggregate fees for services rendered to the Trust for the last two fiscal years as follows:

 

     2021      2020  
          All fees and
services to
the Trust
that were
pre-approved
     All fees and
services to
service
affiliates
that were
pre-approved
     All other
fees and
services to
service
affiliates
that did not
require
pre-approval
     All fees and
services to
the Trust
that were
pre-approved
    All fees and
services to
service
affiliates
that were
pre-approved
     All other
fees and
services to
service
affiliates
that did not
require
pre-approval
 
(a)    Audit Fees(1)    $ 719,590        None        None      $ 766,250       None        None  
(b)    Audit-Related Fees      None        None        None        None       None        None  
(c)    Tax Fees      None        None        None      $ 970 (3)      None        None  
(d)    All Other Fees      None        None        None        None       None        None  

Fees billed by Deloitte & Touche LLP (“D&T”) related to the Trust

D&T billed the Trust aggregate fees for services rendered to the Trust for the last two fiscal years as follows:

 

     2021      2020  
          All fees and
services to
the Trust
that were
pre-approved
     All fees and
services to
service
affiliates
that were
pre-approved
     All other
fees and
services to
service
affiliates
that did not
require
pre-approval
     All fees and
services to
the Trust
that were
pre-approved
     All fees and
services to
service
affiliates
that were
pre-approved
     All other
fees and
services to
service
affiliates
that did not
require
pre-approval
 
(a)    Audit Fees(1)      None        None        None      $ 69,500        None        None  
(b)    Audit-Related Fees      None        None        None        None        None        None  
(c)    Tax Fees(4)      None        None        None      $ 24,150        None        None  
(d)    All Other Fees      None        None        None        None        None        None  


Fees billed by BBD, LLP (“BBD”) related to the Trust

BBD billed the Trust aggregate fees for services rendered to the Trust for the last two fiscal years as follows:

 

     2021      2020  
          All fees and
services to
the Trust
that were
pre-approved
     All fees and
services to
service
affiliates
that were
pre-approved
     All other
fees and
services to
service
affiliates
that did not
require
pre-approval
     All fees and
services to
the Trust
that were
pre-approved
     All fees and
services to
service
affiliates
that were
pre-approved
     All other
fees and
services to
service
affiliates
that did not
require
pre-approval
 
(a)    Audit Fees(1)    $ 77,300        None        None      $ 95,300        None        None  
(b)    Audit-Related Fees      None        None        None        None        None        None  
(c)    Tax Fees      None        None        None        None        None        None  
(d)    All Other Fees      None        None        None        None        None        None  

Notes:

 

  (1)

Audit fees include amounts related to the audit of the Trust’s annual financial statements and services normally provided by the accountant in connection with statutory and regulatory filings.

 

  (2)

Tax compliance services provided to McKee International Equity Portfolio.

 

  (3)

Common Reporting Services (“CRS”) tax services for the Sands Capital Global Growth Fund.

 

  (4)

Review and signing of federal and state income tax returns.

 

  (5)

Tax compliance services provided to service affiliates of the funds.

 

  (6)

Non-audit assurance engagements for service affiliates of the funds.

(e)(1) The Trust’s Audit Committee has adopted and the Board of Trustees has ratified an Audit and Non-Audit Services Pre-Approval Policy (the “Policy”), which sets forth the procedures and the conditions pursuant to which services proposed to be performed by the independent auditor of the Funds may be pre-approved.

The Policy provides that all requests or applications for proposed services to be provided by the independent auditor must be submitted to the Registrant’s Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) and must include a detailed description of the services proposed to be rendered. The CFO will determine whether such services:

 

  1.

require specific pre-approval;


  2.

are included within the list of services that have received the general pre-approval of the Audit Committee pursuant to the Policy; or

 

  3.

have been previously pre-approved in connection with the independent auditor’s annual engagement letter for the applicable year or otherwise. In any instance where services require pre-approval, the Audit Committee will consider whether such services are consistent with SEC’s rules and whether the provision of such services would impair the auditor’s independence.

Requests or applications to provide services that require specific pre-approval by the Audit Committee will be submitted to the Audit Committee by the CFO. The Audit Committee will be informed by the CFO on a quarterly basis of all services rendered by the independent auditor. The Audit Committee has delegated specific pre-approval authority to either the Audit Committee Chair or financial expert, provided that the estimated fee for any such proposed pre-approved service does not exceed $100,000 and any pre-approval decisions are reported to the Audit Committee at its next regularly-scheduled meeting.

Services that have received the general pre-approval of the Audit Committee are identified and described in the Policy. In addition, the Policy sets forth a maximum fee per engagement with respect to each identified service that has received general pre-approval.

All services to be provided by the independent auditor shall be provided pursuant to a signed written engagement letter with the Registrant, the investment adviser, or applicable control affiliate (except that matters as to which an engagement letter would be impractical because of timing issues or because the matter is small may not be the subject of an engagement letter) that sets forth both the services to be provided by the independent auditor and the total fees to be paid to the independent auditor for those services.

In addition, the Audit Committee has determined to take additional measures on an annual basis to meet the Audit Committee’s responsibility to oversee the work of the independent auditor and to assure the auditor’s independence from the Registrant, such as (a) reviewing a formal written statement from the independent auditor delineating all relationships between the independent auditor and the Registrant, and (b) discussing with the independent auditor the independent auditor’s methods and procedures for ensuring independence.

(e)(2) Percentage of fees billed applicable to non-audit services pursuant to waiver of pre-approval requirement were as follows (PwC):

 

     2021      2020  

Audit-Related Fees

     None        None  

Tax Fees

     None        None  

All Other Fees

     None        None  

(e)(2) Percentage of fees billed applicable to non-audit services pursuant to waiver of pre-approval requirement were as follows (E&Y):

 

     2021      2020  

Audit-Related Fees

     None        None  

Tax Fees

     None        None  

All Other Fees

     None        None  


(e)(2) Percentage of fees billed applicable to non-audit services pursuant to waiver of pre-approval requirement were as follows (D&T):

 

     2021      2020  

Audit-Related Fees

     None        None  

Tax Fees

     None        None  

All Other Fees

     None        None  

(e)(2) Percentage of fees billed applicable to non-audit services pursuant to waiver of pre-approval requirement were as follows (BBD):

 

     2021      2020  

Audit-Related Fees

     None        None  

Tax Fees

     None        None  

All Other Fees

     None        None  

(f) Not applicable.

(g) The aggregate non-audit fees and services billed by PwC for services rendered to the Registrant, and rendered to the Registrant’s investment adviser (not including any sub-adviser whose role is primarily portfolio management and is subcontracted with or overseen by another investment adviser), and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the Registrant for the last two fiscal-years-ended October 31st were $535,849 and $464,682 for 2021 and 2020, respectively.

(g) The aggregate non-audit fees and services billed by E&Y for services rendered to the Registrant, and rendered to the Registrant’s investment adviser (not including any sub-adviser whose role is primarily portfolio management and is subcontracted with or overseen by another investment adviser), and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the Registrant for the last two fiscal-years-ended October 31st were $0 and $970 for 2021 and 2020, respectively.

(g) The aggregate non-audit fees and services billed by D&T for services rendered to the Registrant, and rendered to the Registrant’s investment adviser (not including any sub-adviser whose role is primarily portfolio management and is subcontracted with or overseen by another investment adviser), and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the Registrant for the last two fiscal-years-ended October 31st were $0 and $24,150 for 2021 and 2020, respectively.

(g) The aggregate non-audit fees and services billed by BBD for services rendered to the Registrant, and rendered to the Registrant’s investment adviser (not including any sub-adviser whose role is primarily portfolio management and is subcontracted with or overseen by another investment adviser), and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the Registrant for the last two fiscal-years-ended October 31st were $0 and $0 for 2021 and 2020, respectively.


(h) During the past fiscal year, all non-audit services provided by the Registrant’s principal accountant to either the Registrant’s investment adviser or to any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Registrant’s investment adviser that provides ongoing services to the Registrant were pre-approved by the Audit Committee of Registrant’s Board of Trustees. Included in the Audit Committee’s pre-approval of these non-audit service were the review and consideration as to whether the provision of these non-audit services is compatible with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.

 

Item 5.

Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.

Not applicable to open-end management investment companies.

 

Item 6.

Schedule of Investments.

Schedule of Investments is included as part of the Report to Shareholders filed under Item 1 of this form.

 

Item 7.

Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not applicable to open-end management investment companies.

 

Item 8.

Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies

Not applicable to open-end management investment companies.

 

Item 9.

Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Company and Affiliated Purchasers.

Not applicable to open-end management investment companies.

 

Item 10.

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

There have been no changes to the procedures by which shareholders may recommend nominees to the Registrant’s Board of Trustees during the period covered by this report.

 

Item 11.

Controls and Procedures.

(a) The Registrant’s principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, have concluded that the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Act (17 CFR § 270.30a-3(c)), as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of the report, are effective based on the evaluation of these controls and procedures required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the Act (17 CFR § 270.30a-3(b)) and Rule 13a-15(b) or Rule 15d-15(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR § 240.13a-15(b) or § 240.15d-15(b)).

(b) There has been no change in the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Act (17 CFR § 270.3a-3(d)) that occurred during the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Item 12.

Disclosure of Securities Lending Activities for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not applicable to open-end management investment companies.


Items 13.

Exhibits.

(a)(1) A copy of the Registrant’s Code of Ethics, as required by Item 2 of this Form, accompanies this filing as an exhibit.

(a)(2) A separate certification for the principal executive officer and the principal financial officer of the Registrant, as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Act (17 CFR § 270.30a-2(a)), is filed herewith.

(b) Officer certifications, as required by Rule 30a-2(b) under the Act (17 CFR § 270.30a-2(b)), also accompany this filing as an exhibit.

 


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

(Registrant)       The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund
By (Signature and Title)      

/s/ Michael Beattie

     

Michael Beattie,

President

Date: January 7, 2022      

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 (Signature and Title)      

/s/ Michael Beattie

     

Michael Beattie,

President

Date: January 7, 2022      
By (Signature and Title)      

/s/ Andrew Metzger

      Andrew Metzger,
      Treasurer, Controller, and CFO
Date: January 7, 2022