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WILMINGTON TRUST COLLECTIVE INVESTMENT TRUST FUNDS SUB-ADVISED BY FRANKLIN ADVISERS, INC. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS DECEMBER 31, 2019 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 ..................................................................................................................................................... 13 Wilmington Trust Franklin Real Estate Securities CIT .............................................................................................................................. 21 Wilmington Trust Franklin Templeton Global Bond Plus Trust ................................................................................................................. 27 Wilmington Trust Franklin U.S. Aggregate Bond CIT ............................................................................................................................... 31 Notes to the Financial Statements............................................................................................................................................................ 41 INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT Wilmingt on Trust, N.A, Trustee for Wilmington 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, 2019, and the related statements of operations and changes in net assets, and the financial highlights for the year then ended, or for the period then ended for inception dates in 2019, and the related notes to the fi nancial 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 accounting 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 audit. We conducted our audit 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 significant 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. Opinion In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of December 31, 2019, and the results of its operations, and changes in its net assets and its financial highlights for the year then ended, or for the period then ended for inception dates in 2019, 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 the Fund as a whole. The supplementary information on investments purchased and sold for the year ended December 31, 2019, or for the period then ended for inception dates in 2019, 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 29, 2020 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 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, 2019 Principal Amount or Fair Shares Cost Value Common Stocks - 93.2% Communications - 18.2% Adevinta ASA 814 $ 9,331 $ 9,634 Alphabet Inc. Class A 158 194,227 211,624 Alphabet Inc. Class C 51 62,559 68,188 Amazon.com, Inc. 277 486,280 511,852 Booking Holdings Inc. 16 32,084 32,860 Charter Communications, Inc. Class A 45 20,730 21,829 Delivery Hero SE 284 12,892 22,494 Facebook, Inc. Class A 617 115,217 126,639 Liberty Broadband Corporation Class A 614 67,504 76,480 Match Group, Inc. 617 45,100 50,662 MercadoLibre, Inc. 165 89,717 94,370 Motorola Solutions Inc. 9 1,505 1,450 Netflix, Inc. 82 22,789 26,533 Okta, Inc. 244 25,774 28,150 Tencent Holdings Limited 1,838 74,979 88,600 Zendesk, Inc. 538 38,614 41,227 Total Communications 1,299,302 1,412,592 Consumer, Cyclical - 0.3% Chewy, Inc. Class A 15 349 435 Nike, Inc. Class B 193 17,806 19,553 Zalando Se 48 2,119 2,434 Total Consumer, Cyclical 20,274 22,422 Consumer, Non-cylical - 6.0% Adyen NV 82 55,109 67,285 Alcon, Inc. 220 12,797 12,445 Bright Horizons Family Solutions 285 43,024 42,833 CoStar Group, Inc. 131 75,887 78,377 Moody's Corporation 277 58,502 65,763 PayPal Holdings, Inc. 953 98,202 103,086 TransUnion 412 33,726 35,271 Verisk Analytics, Inc. 413 62,649 61,677 Total Consumer, Non-cyclical 439,896 466,737 Financials - 7.2% AssetMark Financial Holdings, Inc. 166 4,413 4,817 CME Group, Inc. 156 32,506 31,312 See Notes to the Financial Statements. 4 Wilmington Trust Collective Investment Trust Funds Sub-Advised by Franklin Advisers, Inc. Wilmington Trust Franklin DynaTech CIT Schedule