N-Q 1 d682629dnq.htm CLEARBRIDGE ENERGY MLP & INFRASTRUCTURE FUND ClearBridge Energy MLP & Infrastructure Fund

 

 

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)

620 Eighth Avenue, 49th Floor, New York, NY 10018

(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: October 31

Date of reporting period: January 31, 2019

 

 

 


 

ITEM 1.

SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS.


LEGG MASON PARTNERS EQUITY TRUST

CLEARBRIDGE ENERGY MLP & INFRASTRUCTURE FUND

FORM N-Q

JANUARY 31, 2019


CLEARBRIDGE ENERGY MLP & INFRASTRUCTURE FUND

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited)    January 31, 2019

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
COMMON STOCKS - 55.2%      
ENERGY - 52.1%      

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 52.1%

     

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

     4,580      $ 216,771  

Cheniere Energy Inc.

     3,432        225,311

Enbridge Inc.

     18,603        681,242  

EnLink Midstream LLC

     42,734        464,946  

Equitrans Midstream Corp.

     12,662        263,623  

Kinder Morgan Inc.

     48,631        880,221  

ONEOK Inc.

     8,239        529,026  

SemGroup Corp., Class A Shares

     18,604        298,036  

Targa Resources Corp.

     12,060        518,701  

TransCanada Corp.

     17,224        732,364  

Williams Cos Inc.

     28,910        778,546  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL ENERGY

        5,588,787  
     

 

 

 
INDUSTRIALS - 3.1%      

Transportation Infrastructure - 3.1%

     

Macquarie Infrastructure Corp.

     7,774        335,604  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMON STOCKS
(Cost - $6,187,740)

        5,924,391  
     

 

 

 
     SHARES/UNITS         
MASTER LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS - 43.7%      

Crude/Refined Products Pipelines - 1.4%

     

BP Midstream Partners LP

     9,672        151,947  
     

 

 

 

Diversified Energy Infrastructure - 19.7%

     

Enterprise Products Partners LP

     21,360        591,031  

Genesis Energy LP

     27,763        580,802  

Plains GP Holdings LP, Class A Shares

     32,691        746,663  

Shell Midstream Partners LP

     9,743        197,978  
     

 

 

 

Total Diversified Energy Infrastructure

        2,116,474  
     

 

 

 

General Partner - 14.6%

     

Antero Midstream GP LP

     37,482        503,008  

Tallgrass Energy LP

     26,461        630,566  

Western Gas Equity Partners LP

     13,572        428,468  
     

 

 

 

Total General Partner

        1,562,042  
     

 

 

 

Global Infrastructure - 4.4%

     

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP

     11,874        464,986  
     

 

 

 

Liquids Transportation & Storage - 3.6%

     

Magellan Midstream Partners LP

     6,331        389,040  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL MASTER LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS
(Cost - $4,845,137)

        4,684,489  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS BEFORE SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS
(Cost - $11,032,877)

        10,608,880  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

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CLEARBRIDGE ENERGY MLP & INFRASTRUCTURE FUND

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)

   January 31, 2019

 

SECURITY

   RATE     SHARES      VALUE  
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.8%        

JPMorgan 100% U.S. Treasury Securities Money Market Fund, Institutional Class
(Cost - $87,767)

     2.234     87,767      $ 87,767  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 99.7%
(Cost - $11,120,644)

          10,696,647  

Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities - 0.3%

          36,593  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL NET ASSETS - 100.0%

        $ 10,733,240  
       

 

 

 

 

*

Non-income producing security.

This Schedule of Investments is unaudited and is intended to provide information about the Fund’s investments as of the date of the schedule. Other information regarding the Fund is available in the Fund’s most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited)

 

1. Organization and significant accounting policies

ClearBridge Energy MLP & Infrastructure Fund (the “Fund”) is a separate non-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. The valuations for fixed income securities (which may include, but are not limited to, corporate, government, municipal, mortgage-backed, collateralized mortgage obligations and asset-backed securities) and certain derivative instruments are typically the prices supplied by independent third party pricing services, which may use market prices or broker/dealer quotations or a variety of valuation techniques and methodologies. The independent third party pricing services use inputs that are observable such as issuer details, interest rates, yield curves, prepayment speeds, credit risks/spreads, default rates and quoted prices for similar securities. Investments in open-end funds are valued at the closing net asset value per share of each fund on the day of valuation. When the Fund holds securities or other assets that are denominated in a foreign currency, the Fund will normally use the currency exchange rates as of 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). If independent third party pricing services are unable to supply prices for a portfolio investment, or if the prices supplied are deemed by the manager to be unreliable, the market price may be determined by the manager using quotations from one or more broker/dealers or at the transaction price if the security has recently been purchased and no value has yet been obtained from a pricing service or pricing broker. 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.

The Board of Trustees is responsible for the valuation process and has delegated the supervision of the daily valuation process to the Legg Mason North Atlantic Fund Valuation Committee (the “Valuation Committee”). The Valuation Committee, pursuant to the policies adopted by the Board of Trustees, is responsible for making fair value determinations, evaluating the effectiveness of the Fund’s pricing policies, and reporting to the Board of Trustees. When determining the reliability of third party pricing information for investments owned by the Fund, the Valuation Committee, among other things, conducts due diligence reviews of pricing vendors, monitors the daily change in prices and reviews transactions among market participants.

The Valuation Committee will consider pricing methodologies it deems relevant and appropriate when making fair value determinations. Examples of possible methodologies include,

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)

 

but are not limited to, multiple of earnings; discount from market of a similar freely traded security; discounted cash-flow analysis; book value or a multiple thereof; risk premium/yield analysis; yield to maturity; and/or fundamental investment analysis. The Valuation Committee will also consider factors it deems relevant and appropriate in light of the facts and circumstances. Examples of possible factors include, but are not limited to, the type of security; the issuer’s financial statements; the purchase price of the security; the discount from market value of unrestricted securities of the same class at the time of purchase; analysts’ research and observations from financial institutions; information regarding any transactions or offers with respect to the security; the existence of merger proposals or tender offers affecting the security; the price and extent of public trading in similar securities of the issuer or comparable companies; and the existence of a shelf registration for restricted securities.

For each portfolio security that has been fair valued pursuant to the policies adopted by the Board of Trustees, the fair value price is compared against the last available and next available market quotations. The Valuation Committee reviews the results of such back testing monthly and fair valuation occurrences are reported to the Board of Trustees quarterly.

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.

GAAP establishes a disclosure hierarchy that categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value assets and liabilities at measurement date. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed 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 methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)

 

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  

Long-Term Investments†:

           

Common Stocks

   $ 5,924,391        —          —        $ 5,924,391  

Master Limited Partnerships

     4,684,489        —          —          4,684,489  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Long-Term Investments

     10,608,880        —          —          10,608,880  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Short-Term Investments†

     87,767        —          —          87,767  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Investments

   $ 10,696,647        —          —        $ 10,696,647  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

See Schedule of Investments for additional detailed categorizations.

 

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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/    JANE TRUST        

  Jane Trust
  Chief Executive Officer
Date:   March 21, 2019

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/    JANE TRUST        

  Jane Trust
  Chief Executive Officer
Date:   March 21, 2019
By  

/s/    RICHARD F. SENNETT        

  Richard F. Sennett
  Principal Financial Officer
Date:   March 21, 2019