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WILMINGTON TRUST COLLECTIVE INVESTMENT TRUST FUNDS SUB-ADVISED BY FRANKLIN ADVISERS, INC. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS DECEMBER 31, 2020 WITH INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT Wilmington Trust Collective Investment Trust Funds Sub-Advised by Franklin Advisers, Inc. CONTENTS Independent Auditor's Report ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Fund Index ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Wilmington Trust Franklin DynaTech CIT ................................................................................................................................................... 4 Wilmington Trust Franklin Growth CIT ..................................................................................................................................................... 15 Wilmington Trust Franklin Real Estate Securities CIT .............................................................................................................................. 23 Wilmington Trust Franklin Small Cap Value CIT ...................................................................................................................................... 28 Wilmington Trust Franklin Templeton Global Bond Plus Trust ................................................................................................................. 35 Wilmington Trust Franklin U.S. Aggregate Bond CIT ............................................................................................................................... 39 Notes to the Financial Statements............................................................................................................................................................ 49 INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT Wi lmington Trust, N.A., Trustee for Wilmi ngton Trust Collective Investment Trust Report on the Financial Statements We have audited the accompanying financial statements of funds sub-advised by Franklin Advisers, Inc. of Wilmington Trust Collective Investment Trust (the "Trust"), comprising the funds (the "Funds") included on the Fund Index on page 3, which comprise the statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedules of investments, as of December 31, 2020, the related statements of operations and changes in net assets, the financial highlights for the year then ended, or for the period then ended for inception dates in 2020, and the related notes to the financial statements. These financial statements and financial highlights are hereinafter collectively referred to as financial statements. Management's Responsibility for the Financial Statements Manageme nt is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with account ing principles generally accepted in the United States of America; this includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. Audito r's Responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audit s in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement. An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, t he auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity's preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expre ssing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity's internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of s ignificant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial s tatements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion. Op inion In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the Funds as of December 31, 2020, the results of its operations, changes in its net assets and its financial highlight s for the year then ended, or for the period then ended for inception dates in 2020, in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. 1 www.hogantaylor.com Other Matter Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the financial statements of each of the Funds as a whole. The supplementary information for the year ended December 31, 2020, or for the period then ended for inception dates in 2020, following the schedule of investments, is presented for purposes of additional analysis and is not a required part of the financial statements. Such information is the responsibility of management and was derived from and relates directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the financial statements. The information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the financial statements and certain additional procedures, including comparing and reconciling such information directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the financial statements or to the financial statements themselves, and other additional procedures in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. In our opinion, the information is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the financial statements as a whole. Tulsa, Oklahoma April 30, 2021 2 Franklin Advisers, Inc. Wilmington Trust Collective Investment Trust Funds Sub-Advised by Franklin Advisers, Inc. FUND INDEX FUND NAME FUND OBJECTIVE Wilmington Trust Franklin DynaTech CIT The Fund seeks capital appreciation by investing primarily in companies that the Sub-Advisor believes are leaders in innovation, take advantage of new tech- nologies, have superior management and benefit from new industry conditions in the dynamically changing global economy. Its benchmark is the Russell 1000 Growth Index. Wilmington Trust Franklin Growth CIT The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by utilizing fundamental, bottom- up research and investing in companies that are believed to produce sustainable earnings and cash flow growth. Wilmington Trust Franklin Real Estate The Fund seeks to maximize total investment return consisting of income and Securities CIT capital appreciation by investing in equity securities of companies operating in the real estate industry predominately in the United States, including companies qualifying under federal tax law as real estate investment trusts (REITs). Wilmington Trust Franklin Small Cap The Fund seeks long-term total return by investing at least 80% of its net assets Value CIT in equity securities of small-capitalization companies, which are those with market capitalizations not exceeding either the highest market capitalization of the Russell 2000 Index or the 12-month average of the highest market capitalization in the Russell 2000 Index, whichever is greater at the time of purchase. Its benchmark is the Russell 2000 Value Index. Wilmington Trust Franklin Templeton The Fund invests solely in the Franklin Templeton Global Bond Plus Trust which Global Bond Plus Trust seeks to maximize total investment return consisting of a combination of interest income, capital appreciation and currency gains. Wilmington Trust Franklin U.S. Aggregate The Fund seeks to provide high current income consistent with preservation of Bond CIT capital. Capital appreciation over the long term is a secondary goal. See Notes to the Financial Statements. 3 Wilmington Trust Collective Investment Trust Funds Sub-Advised by Franklin Advisers, Inc. Wilmington Trust Franklin DynaTech CIT Schedule of Investments December 31, 2020 Principal Amount or Fair Shares Cost Value Common Stocks - 97.5% Communications - 27.4% Adevinta ASA 1,337 $ 18,779 $ 22,486 Airbnb, Inc. Class A 200 13,600 29,360 Alibaba Group Holding Limited ^ 1,406 353,692 327,218 Alphabet Inc. Class A 268 397,991 469,708 Alphabet Inc. Class C 84 123,514 147,158 Amazon.com, Inc. 645 1,721,374 2,100,730 Booking Holdings Inc. 46 83,280 102,454 Charter Communications, Inc. 174 99,785 115,110 Chewy, Inc. Class A 2,544 159,685 228,680 Delivery Hero AG 937 89,355 145,601 DoorDash, Inc. 100 10,200 14,275 Facebook, Inc. Class A 2,531 636,427 691,368 Farfetch Limited Class A 495 24,485 31,586 Fiverr International Ltd. 1,339 183,892 261,239 JD.com, Inc. ^ 262 22,439 23,030 Liberty Broadband Corporation 1,003 132,196 158,053 Match Group, Inc. 1,338 141,066 202,292 Meituan Class B 456 17,675 17,325 MercadoLibre, Inc. 401 406,424 671,763 Netflix, Inc. 240 103,606 129,775