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The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund III Knights of Columbus Limited Duration Fund Knights of Columbus Core Bond Fund (Formerly, Catholic Investor Limited Duration Fund) (Formerly, Catholic Investor Core Bond Fund) Knights of Columbus Long/Short Equity Fund Knights of Columbus Large Cap Value Fund (Formerly, Catholic Investor Long/Short Equity Fund) (Formerly, Catholic Investor Large Cap Value Fund) Knights of Columbus Large Cap Growth Fund Knights of Columbus Small Cap Fund (Formerly, Catholic Investor Large Cap Growth Fund) (Formerly, Catholic Investor Small Cap Fund) Knights of Columbus U.S. All Cap Index Fund Knights Of Columbus Global Real Estate Fund (Formerly, Catholic Investor U.S. All Cap Index Fund) (Formerly, Catholic Investor Global Real Estate Fund) Knights of Columbus International Equity Fund (Formerly, Catholic Investor International Equity Fund) Semi-Annual Report April 30, 2020 Beginning on March 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the Funds’ shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports from the Funds or from your financial intermediary, such as a broker-dealer or bank. Instead, the reports will be made available on a website, and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a website link to access the report. If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may elect to receive shareholder reports and other communications from the Funds electronically by contacting your financial intermediary. You may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. If you invest through a financial intermediary, you can follow the instructions included with this disclosure, if applicable, or you can contact your financial intermediary to inform it that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports. If you invest directly with the Funds, you can inform the Funds that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports by calling 1-844-KC-FUNDS (1-844-523-8637). Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held with your financial intermediary if you invest through a financial intermediary or all Knights of Columbus Funds if you invest directly with the Funds. THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND III KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS APRIL 30, 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter to Shareholders ...................................................................................1 Schedules of Investments ................................................................................4 Statements of Assets and Liabilities .......................................................................54 Statements of Operations ...............................................................................56 Statements of Changes in Net Assets .....................................................................58 Financial Highlights ....................................................................................67 Notes to Financial Statements ...........................................................................70 Disclosure of Fund Expenses ............................................................................85 Review of Liquidity Risk Management Program .............................................................87 Approval of Investment Advisory Agreement ................................................................88 The Funds file their complete schedules of investments with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q or as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT within sixty days after period end. The Funds’ Forms N-Q and Form N-PORT reports are available on the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov, and may be reviewed and copied at the Commission’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 fund securities, as well as information relating to how the Funds voted proxies relating to fund securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30, is available (i) without charge, upon request, by calling 1-844-523-8637; and (ii) on the Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov. THE ADVISORS’ INNER CIRCLE FUND III KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS FUNDS APRIL 30, 2020 LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS (Unaudited) Dear Shareholders: First, I hope that this letter finds all of you and your families healthy and safe. Thus far the Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors team has remained healthy with no one, testing positive for COVID-19. In the New Haven office where bond management takes place, the entire investment staff was sent home on March 12th and my last day in the office was March 13th. The equity team housed in our Boston office was last in the office on March 13th. I am happy to report that technology allowed us all to move with speed to our home offices and function seamlessly. We hold our daily meetings on conference calls, and we have a full meeting on the funds, inclusive of compliance matters, every Tuesday and this has functioned extremely well using Go ToMeeting as the medium to see each other and share documents. I suppose there is no amount of hyperbole that can be used to explain this current situation. We came into this year with a view that equities would have a return in the mid-single digits based on the absolute strength of the stock market in 2019. We had largely viewed that for prices to hold or move higher we would need to see earnings improve. On the positive side of the ledger, we had very low unemployment, relatively strong wage growth, strong consumer sentiment, strong business sentiment, low-interest rates, and low inflation. We were starting to see some cracks in earnings and then COVID-19 became part of our lexicon. The bond market came into the year with the yield on the 10-year Treasury standing at 1.9%. Credit spreads were generally tighter than average, so we were watching inflation closely. I began looking at the long term relationship of wage gains and inflation and it appeared that if we continued to have wages growing in excess of inflation, it was likely that we would see interest rates increase unless the Fed stepped into the market to buy longer-dated securities to hold down interest rates. Again, we were looking at traditional economic relationships and then everything changed…and rapidly. To progress from where we are, we really think there are several phases to move forward. First, we need to have COVID-19 testing become more widely available so the medical experts can determine our proximity to herd immunity. The next phase will be a therapy that dramatically reduces the probability of death. It appears that co-morbidity factors play a significant role in a patient’s level of severity once COVID-19 has been contracted so we need to worry about the most vulnerable among us. The last phase will be a vaccine and I have been happy to see the amount of cooperation among the drug companies recognizing the need to get to an effective vaccine. At this point, the world can begin to determine the origins of the virus and, more importantly, how to stop the next one from occurring. It seems to me that all countries should contribute to global research on the eradication of future coronaviruses to see if there is a way to stop this disease in the way that science has eradicated so many others. We are now evaluating a post-COVID-19 world and the one thing we know for sure is that the world will be different, and no one knows what it will be like. Early data from Georgia shows some renewed economic activity and I am waiting to see if the broad economy has a larger acceleration or if it is slow and halting, particularly if we start seeing an acceleration in new cases. The decision to allow a business to open is the toughest because one has to weigh the pandemic with the potential for inducing a depression. A difficult choice to say the least. We are trying to maintain portfolio strategy to participateina broad array of market outcomes. As we look at this current environment, getting people back to work will be the top priority within the economy. As of this writing, the unemployment rate stands at 14.7% and many pundits believe it may eclipse 20%. Beyond a needed vaccine, we are first looking to see how quickly the unemployed are absorbed into the economy and secondly awaiting the level of consumer and business spending in order to determine the level of economic activity and how that translates into portfolio performance. No thinking of economic activity would be complete without considering U.S. and China relations. There has been significant rhetoric from both sides relating to the origin of the virus. We do, however, believe that there will be a return of drug production within our borders and that there could be a manufacturing boom both here and in Europe as many countries seek to be less dependent on a supply chain that runs through China and becomes inextricably linked to their policies and world view. During the last six months, Knights of Columbus Core Bond Fund returned 1.52% versus 4.86% for the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Index and the Lipper Core Bond category average return of 2.86%. In the fourth quarter, our underweight position in Treasuries coupled with our overweight positionin credit hurt performance relative to the benchmark as there was a strong flight to quality in the fourth quarter. During this period, Knights of Columbus Limited Duration Fund returned 0.24% versus 2.58% for the Bloomberg Barclays 1-3 Year US Government/ Credit Index and the Lipper Short Investment Grade Debt Classification return of -0.53%. Our overweight to spread product was a negative factor relative to the benchmark, however, issue selection added value relative to the peer group.