N-Q 1 dnq.htm LEGG MASON PARTNERS EQUITY TRUST Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-Q

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY

Investment Company Act file number 811-06444

Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

55 Water Street, New York, NY 10041

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

Robert I. Frenkel, Esq.

Legg Mason & Co., LLC

100 First Stamford Place

Stamford, CT 06902

(Name and address of agent for service)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:

1-877-721-1926

Date of fiscal year end: September 30,

Date of reporting period: December 31, 2010

 

 

 


 

ITEM 1. SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS


LEGG MASON PARTNERS EQUITY TRUST

LEGG MASON CLEARBRIDGE

FUNDAMENTAL ALL CAP VALUE FUND

FORM N-Q

DECEMBER 31, 2010


LEGG MASON CLEARBRIDGE FUNDAMENTAL ALL CAP VALUE FUND

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited)    December 31, 2010

 

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
COMMON STOCKS - 99.3%      
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY - 9.0%      

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.5%

     

Carnival Corp.

     738,030       $ 34,030,563   
           

Leisure Equipment & Products - 1.4%

     

Mattel Inc.

     1,263,090         32,120,379   
           

Media - 2.4%

     

Walt Disney Co.

     1,480,910         55,548,934   
           

Specialty Retail - 3.7%

     

Gap Inc.

     1,170,117         25,906,390   

Home Depot Inc.

     1,726,300         60,524,078   
           

Total Specialty Retail

        86,430,468   
           

TOTAL CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY

        208,130,344   
           
CONSUMER STAPLES - 5.1%      

Food & Staples Retailing - 2.6%

     

Safeway Inc.

     2,696,270         60,639,112   
           

Food Products - 2.5%

     

Unilever PLC

     979,950         29,991,485   

Unilever PLC, ADR

     867,850         26,799,208   
           

Total Food Products

        56,790,693   
           

TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES

        117,429,805   
           
ENERGY - 15.0%      

Energy Equipment & Services - 7.1%

     

Baker Hughes Inc.

     860,230         49,179,349   

Halliburton Co.

     1,365,530         55,754,590   

Schlumberger Ltd.

     687,550         57,410,425   
           

Total Energy Equipment & Services

        162,344,364   
           

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 7.9%

     

ConocoPhillips

     697,150         47,475,915   

Devon Energy Corp.

     585,600         45,975,456   

Hess Corp.

     820,750         62,820,205   

Noble Energy Inc.

     297,990         25,650,979   
           

Total Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

        181,922,555   
           

TOTAL ENERGY

        344,266,919   
           
FINANCIALS - 21.9%      

Capital Markets - 6.9%

     

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

     1,518,110         45,846,922   

BlackRock Inc.

     128,040         24,401,863   

Franklin Resources Inc.

     265,820         29,561,842   

Morgan Stanley

     2,127,920         57,900,703   

Teton Advisors Inc., Class A Shares

     1,750         17,282
           

Total Capital Markets

        157,728,612   
           

Commercial Banks - 2.7%

     

First Republic Bank

     120,800         3,517,696

KeyCorp

     2,721,610         24,086,248   

U.S. Bancorp

     1,303,500         35,155,395   
           

Total Commercial Banks

        62,759,339   
           

Diversified Financial Services - 4.6%

     

Bank of America Corp.

     1,712,370         22,843,016   

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

     1,952,940         82,843,715   
           

Total Diversified Financial Services

        105,686,731   
           

Insurance - 4.1%

     

Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings Ltd.

     720,730         42,840,191   

Chubb Corp.

     855,160         51,001,743   
           

Total Insurance

        93,841,934   
           

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 1.8%

     

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust

     859,600         17,467,072   

Weyerhaeuser Co.

     1,336,111         25,292,581   
           

Total Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

        42,759,653   
           

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

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Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    December 31, 2010

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  

Real Estate Management & Development - 1.8%

     

Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.

     493,040       $ 41,375,917   
           

TOTAL FINANCIALS

        504,152,186   
           
HEALTH CARE - 7.8%      

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 0.4%

     

Enzo Biochem Inc.

     1,869,326         9,870,041
           

Pharmaceuticals - 7.4%

     

GlaxoSmithKline PLC, ADR

     503,160         19,733,935   

Johnson & Johnson

     664,730         41,113,551   

Merck & Co. Inc.

     1,483,240         53,455,970   

Novartis AG, ADR

     925,860         54,579,447   
           

Total Pharmaceuticals

        168,882,903   
           

TOTAL HEALTH CARE

        178,752,944   
           
INDUSTRIALS - 15.4%      

Aerospace & Defense - 5.5%

     

Boeing Co.

     628,880         41,040,709   

Honeywell International Inc.

     820,440         43,614,590   

Northrop Grumman Corp.

     656,470         42,526,127   
           

Total Aerospace & Defense

        127,181,426   
           

Construction & Engineering - 1.7%

     

EMCOR Group Inc.

     174,342         5,052,431

Fluor Corp.

     388,030         25,710,868   

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

     162,270         7,440,079
           

Total Construction & Engineering

        38,203,378   
           

Electrical Equipment - 1.1%

     

Babcock & Wilcox Co.

     993,375         25,420,466
           

Industrial Conglomerates - 1.8%

     

McDermott International Inc.

     1,967,830         40,714,403
           

Machinery - 5.3%

     

Deere & Co.

     676,810         56,209,070   

Dover Corp.

     526,290         30,761,651   

Oshkosh Corp.

     112,455         3,962,914

Parker Hannifin Corp.

     365,250         31,521,075   
           

Total Machinery

        122,454,710   
           

TOTAL INDUSTRIALS

        353,974,383   
           
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - 18.0%      

Communications Equipment - 4.0%

     

Cisco Systems Inc.

     2,243,880         45,393,692

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, ADR

     4,053,090         46,732,128   
           

Total Communications Equipment

        92,125,820   
           

Internet Software & Services - 2.7%

eBay Inc.

     2,194,490         61,072,657
           

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 8.3%

     

Applied Materials Inc.

     3,853,580         54,142,799   

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., GDR

     162,800         68,685,320 (a) 

Texas Instruments Inc.

     2,105,500         68,428,750   
           

Total Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

        191,256,869   
           

Software - 3.0%

     

Lawson Software Inc.

     1,860,900         17,213,325

Microsoft Corp.

     1,866,450         52,111,284   
           

Total Software

        69,324,609   
           

TOTAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

        413,779,955   
           
MATERIALS - 3.7%      

Metals & Mining - 3.7%

     

BHP Billiton Ltd., ADR

     268,770         24,974,109   

Nucor Corp.

     442,860         19,406,125   

United States Steel Corp.

     689,260         40,266,569   
           

TOTAL MATERIALS

        84,646,803   
           

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

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Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    December 31, 2010

 

 

SECURITY

              SHARES     VALUE  
TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES - 3.4%        

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 1.3%

       

AT&T Inc.

        1,008,270      $ 29,622,973   
             

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 2.1%

       

Vodafone Group PLC, ADR

        1,832,252        48,426,420   
             

TOTAL TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES

          78,049,393   
             

TOTAL INVESTMENTS BEFORE SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS (Cost - $1,755,425,488)

  

    2,283,182,732   
             
    RATE     MATURITY
DATE
    FACE
AMOUNT
       
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 1.1%        

Repurchase Agreements - 1.1%

       

Interest in $50,001,000 joint tri-party repurchase

agreement dated 12/31/10 with RBS Securities

Inc.; Proceeds at maturity - $24,713,515; (Fully

collateralized by U.S. government obligations,

2.750% due 2/15/19; Market value - $25,209,500)

(Cost - $24,713,000)

    0.250     1/3/11      $ 24,713,000        24,713,000   
             

TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 100.4% (Cost - $1,780,138,488#)

          2,307,895,732   

Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets - (0.4)%

          (10,314,360
             

TOTAL NET ASSETS - 100.0%

        $ 2,297,581,372   
             

 

* Non-income producing security.

 

# Aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes is substantially the same.

 

(a) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. This security may be resold in transactions that are exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. This security has been deemed liquid pursuant to guidelines approved by the Board of Trustees, unless otherwise noted.

 

Abbreviations used in this schedule:
ADR    — American Depositary Receipt
GDR    — Global Depositary Receipt

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited)

 

1. Organization and Significant Accounting Policies

Legg Mason ClearBridge Fundamental All Cap Value Fund (the “Fund”) is a separate diversified investment series of Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust (the “Trust”). The Trust, a Maryland statutory trust, is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as an open-end management investment company.

The following are significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Fund and are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”).

(a) Investment Valuation. Equity securities for which market quotations are available are valued at the last reported sales price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange on which they trade. Debt securities are valued at the mean between the last quoted bid and asked prices provided by an independent pricing service, which are based on transactions in debt obligations, quotations from bond dealers, market transactions in comparable securities and various other relationships between securities. When reliable prices are not readily available, such as when the value of a security has been significantly affected by events after the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded, but before the Fund calculates its net asset value, the Fund values these securities as determined in accordance with procedures approved by the Fund’s Board of Trustees. Short-term obligations with maturities of 60 days or less are valued at amortized cost, which approximates fair value.

The Fund has adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Codification Topic 820 (“ASC Topic 820”). ASC Topic 820 establishes a single definition of fair value, creates a three-tier hierarchy as a framework for measuring fair value based on inputs used to value the Fund’s investments, and requires additional disclosure about fair value. The hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

 

   

Level 2 – other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

 

   

Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

The Fund uses valuation techniques to measure fair value that are consistent with the market approach and/or income approach, depending on the type of security and the particular circumstance. The market approach uses prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable securities. The income approach uses valuation techniques to discount estimated future cash flows to present value.

The following is a summary of the inputs used in valuing the Fund’s assets carried at fair value:

 

ASSETS

 

DESCRIPTION

   QUOTED PRICES
(LEVEL 1)
     OTHER SIGNIFICANT
OBSERVABLE INPUTS

(LEVEL 2)
     SIGNIFICANT
UNOBSERVABLE
INPUTS

(LEVEL 3)
     TOTAL  

Common stocks†

   $ 2,283,182,732         —           —         $ 2,283,182,732   
                                   

Short-term investments†

     —         $ 24,713,000         —           24,713,000   
                                   

Total investments

   $ 2,283,182,732       $ 24,713,000         —         $ 2,307,895,732   
                                   

 

See Schedule of Investments for additional detailed categorizations.

(b) Repurchase Agreements. The Fund may enter into repurchase agreements with institutions that its investment adviser has determined are creditworthy. Each repurchase agreement is recorded at cost. Under the terms of a typical repurchase agreement, the Fund acquires a debt security subject to an obligation of the seller to repurchase, and of the Fund to resell, the security at an agreed-upon price and time, thereby determining the yield during the Fund’s holding period. When entering into repurchase agreements, it is the Fund’s policy that its custodian or a third party custodian, acting on the Fund’s behalf, take possession of the underlying collateral securities, the market value of which, at all

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)

 

times, at least equals the principal amount of the repurchase transaction, including accrued interest. To the extent that any repurchase transaction maturity exceeds one business day, the value of the collateral is marked-to-market and measured against the value of the agreement in an effort to ensure the adequacy of the collateral. If the counterparty defaults, the Fund generally has the right to use the collateral to satisfy the terms of the repurchase transaction. However, if the market value of the collateral declines during the period in which the Fund seeks to assert its rights or if bankruptcy proceedings are commenced with respect to the seller of the security, realization of the collateral by the Fund may be delayed or limited.

(c) Foreign Currency Translation. Investment securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollar amounts based upon prevailing exchange rates on the date of valuation. Purchases and sales of investment securities and income and expense items denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollar amounts based upon prevailing exchange rates on the respective dates of such transactions.

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 possibility of lower levels of governmental supervision and regulation of foreign securities markets and the possibility of political or economic instability.

(d) Security Transactions. Security transactions are accounted for on a trade date basis.

2. Investments

At December 31, 2010, the aggregate gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation of investments for federal income tax purposes were substantially as follows:

 

Gross unrealized appreciation

   $ 567,630,671   

Gross unrealized depreciation

     (39,873,427
        

Net unrealized appreciation

   $ 527,757,244   
        

3. Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities

Financial Accounting Standards Board Codification Topic 815 requires enhanced disclosure about an entity’s derivative and hedging activities.

During the period ended December 31, 2010, the Fund did not invest in any derivative instruments.

 

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ITEM 2. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

 

  (a) The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a- 3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”)) are effective as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report that includes the disclosure required by this paragraph, based on their evaluation of the disclosure controls and procedures required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the 1940 Act and 15d-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

  (b) There were no changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the 1940 Act) that occurred during the registrant’s last fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are likely to materially affect the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

ITEM 3. EXHIBITS.

Certifications pursuant to Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, are attached hereto.


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.

 

Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust

By

 

/S/    R. JAY GERKEN        

  R. Jay Gerken
  Chief Executive Officer

Date:

  February 23, 2011

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

By

 

/S/    R. JAY GERKEN        

  R. Jay Gerken
  Chief Executive Officer

Date:

  February 23, 2011
 

By

 

/S/    KAPREL OZSOLAK        

  Kaprel Ozsolak
  Chief Financial Officer

Date:

  February 23, 2011