Transamerica Capital, Inc.
TRANSAMERICA FUNDS
ANNUAL REPORT
December 31, 2023
Transamerica Stock Index
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Distributor: Transamerica Capital, Inc.
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Table of Contents
Shareholder Letter 1
Manager Commentary 2
Disclosure of Expenses 4
Statement of Assets and Liabilities 5
Statement of Operations 5
Statement of Changes in Net Assets 6
Financial Highlights 7
Notes to Financial Statements 8
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm 13
Supplemental Tax Information 14
Management of the Trust 15
S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio Annual Report Appendix A
Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures and Quarterly Portfolio Holdings Appendix B
Notice of Privacy Policy Appendix C
Authorized for distribution only when accompanied or preceded by a prospectus. Investors should carefully consider a
Fund’s investment goals, risks, charges and expenses before investing. A prospectus contains this and other information;
please read it carefully before investing.
Transamerica Funds Annual Report 2023
Dear Shareholder,
On behalf of Transamerica Funds, we would like to thank you for your continued support and confidence in our products as we look
forward to continuing to serve you and your financial professional in the future. We value the trust you have placed in us.
This annual report is provided to you to show the investments of Transamerica Stock Index (the “Fund”) during the fiscal year. The
Securities and Exchange Commission requires that annual and semi-annual reports be made available to all investors, and we believe
this to be an important part of the investment process. This report provides detailed information about the Fund for the 12-month period
ended December 31, 2023.
The fiscal year began on January 1, 2023 with U.S. stocks in the early stages of a rebound from bear market lows of 2022 that had
resulted from rising inflation, aggressive Federal Reserve (“Fed”) interest rate hikes to combat it and pervasive fears the economy
would soon enter recession. During the early months of the year, as inflation rates waned, the Fed slowed its pace of rate increases
and corporate earnings held steady, the debate emerged as to whether a “soft landing” in the economy might be achievable, prompting
equities to move higher.
In March 2023, markets experienced a downturn when two prominent regional banks, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, went
into government receivership due to balance sheet shortfalls and rapid depositor flight driven by the impacts of higher long term interest
rates on their bond portfolios. In response, fast and coordinated action between the Fed, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation to guarantee deposits and provide an additional lending facility to the banking industry averted a more
widespread crisis and set the stage for a market recovery and subsequent rally into the summer.
The Fed paused on raising rates in June for the first time in eleven meetings setting the stage for their final rate hike of the year in July
2023. Thereafter, inflation continued to move lower, and the economy showed impressive resilience as seen in the third quarter
annualized gross domestic product growth of 4.9%, its highest in almost three years as consumer spending remained strong throughout
the summer. In light of this, investment grade and high yield credit spreads tightened to their lowest points in more than a year.
Though the Fed did not raise rates at its September meeting, a perceived more hawkish tone in their commentary and “dot plot” of
expected future Fed funds rate levels sent longer term interest rates soaring as the 10-year Treasury bond reached a closing yield of
5% on October 19, 2023. Stocks also declined, challenging their lows of the spring; however, they rebounded as longer-term rates fell
in response to a softer tone at the Fed’s November meeting. In December 2023, as Consumer Price Index core inflation was tracking
below 4% for the first time in more than two years, the Fed concluded its final meeting of the year with a more dovish interpreted
message, sending longer-term rates lower and the 10-year Treasury yield below 4%. This further set the stage for the S&P 500
®
Index
to rally and close 2023 just below its record high of nearly two years earlier.
For the one-year period ended December 31, 2023, the S&P 500
®
Index returned 26.29% while the MSCI EAFE Index, representing
international developed market equities, returned 18.85%. During the same period, the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index returned
5.53%. Please keep in mind that it is important to maintain a diversified portfolio as investment returns have historically been difficult to
predict.
In addition to your active involvement in the investment process, we firmly believe that a financial professional is a key resource to help
you build a complete picture of your current and future financial needs. Financial professionals are familiar with the market’s history,
including long-term returns and volatility of various asset classes. With your financial professional, you can develop an investment
program that incorporates factors such as your goals, your investment timeline and your risk tolerance.
Please contact your financial professional if you have any questions about the contents of this report, and thanks again for the
confidence you have placed in us.
Sincerely,
Marijn Smit
President & Chief Executive Officer
Transamerica Funds
Tom Wald, CFA
Chief Investment Officer
Transamerica Funds
Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index: Measures investment grade, U.S. dollar denominated, fixed-rate taxable bonds, including
Treasuries, government-related and corporate securities, as well as both mortgage- and asset-backed securities.
MSCI EAFE Index: A free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of
developed markets, excluding the U.S. and Canada.
S&P 500
®
Index: A market-capitalization weighted index of 500 large U.S. companies with common stock listed on the New York Stock
Exchange or NASDAQ Stock Market.
The views expressed in this report reflect those of the portfolio managers only and may not necessarily represent the views of
Transamerica Funds. These views are as of the date of this report and subject to change based upon market conditions. These views
should not be relied upon as investment advice and are not indicative of trading intent on behalf of Transamerica Funds.
Investing involves risk, including potential loss of principal. The performance data presented represents past performance and does not
guarantee future results. Indexes are unmanaged and it is not possible to invest directly in an index.
Transamerica Stock Index
(unaudited)
MARKET ENVIRONMENT
U.S. equities, as represented by the S&P 500
®
Index (the “Index”), finished the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, with a positive
return of 26.29%. Top performing sectors for the Index for the fiscal year were information technology, consumer discretionary, and
communication services. Utilities, energy, and consumer staples were the lowest performing sectors for the fiscal year.
The U.S. equity market rallied over the first quarter of 2023 on the back of cooling inflation and resilient economic data. In combination
with a stronger-than-expected gross domestic product, inflation data led investors to position for slower rate rises from the U.S. Federal
Reserve (the “Fed”). Later in the quarter, investors’ attention quickly switched to headline news about the banking sector which led to a
major sell off in the financial sectors. The overall market calmed after the central banks set out reassuring plans.
Furthermore, during the quarter, the Fed raised the interest rate by 25 basis points in February and March 2023, bringing it to the range
of 4.75% and 5.00%. This represented the 9
th
consecutive interest rate hike.
The U.S. equity market rallied over the second quarter of 2023, despite concerns over the debt ceiling. Robust gains were supported by
resilient economic data and strong performance by large-cap growth stocks. Concerns regarding the U.S. debt ceiling dampened
market sentiment in May 2023 before Congress reached an agreement to suspend it. Later in the quarter, markets rallied boosted by
the technology sector on the back of enthusiasm over artificial intelligence and semi-conductor manufacturers.
The U.S. equity market initially rallied over the third quarter of 2023, supported by a falling inflation rate and resilient economic data.
The Fed raised its policy rate by 25 basis points, bringing the fed funds rate to 5.25%-5.50%. In August 2023, a slight rise in inflation
weighed on market performance through the end of the third quarter. However, the Fed kept rates unchanged during their September
meeting, signaling a hawkish pause that raised concerns about high rates persisting for a longer period.
The U.S. equity market rebounded in the fourth quarter of 2023, posting overall robust gains on the back of cooling inflation data. The
market initially dampened in October 2023 with expectations that interest rates would remain higher for longer. Later in the quarter,
however, optimistic inflation data led to hopes that interest rates had reached their peak, leading the market to rally into the end of the
year.
PERFORMANCE
For the year ended December 31, 2023, Transamerica Stock Index, Class R4 returned 25.95%. By comparison, its benchmark, the
S&P 500
®
Index, returned 26.29%.
STRATEGY REVIEW
The Fund invests in securities through the S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio, a master portfolio which is not part of the Transamerica
Funds complex, and which is advised by BlackRock Fund Advisors. The Fund seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that
correspond to the performance of the S&P 500
®
Index. The Fund takes positions in securities that, in combination, should have similar
return characteristics as the return of the Index. The Index is designed to provide a comprehensive measure of large-cap stock
performance. It is an unmanaged, market capitalization-weighted index composed of large-capitalization U.S. equities.
Sectors within the Index posted broadly positive returns over the year. Information technology, consumer discretionary, and
communication services were the top performing sectors, while utilities, energy, and consumer staples were the largest detractors to
performance.
The primary drivers of tracking difference between the Fund and the Index during the year were fees and expenses, slight mismatches
in security weightings versus the Index, cash and futures drag, and transaction costs.
Jennifer Hsui, CFA
Paul Whithead
Co-Portfolio Managers
BlackRock Fund Advisors
Transamerica Funds Annual Report 2023
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Transamerica Stock Index
(unaudited)
S&P 500
®
Index - $31,149
Transamerica Stock Index - Class R4 (NAV) - $30,245
Growth of $10,000
Ten Years from 12/31/2013 through 12/31/2023
$40,000
20,000
10,000
12/31/202312/31/2013
12/2014 12/2015 12/2016 12/2017 12/2018 12/2019 12/2020 12/2021 12/2022
30,000
Average Annual Total Return for Periods Ended 12/31/2023
1 Year 5 Year
10 Year or
Since Inception Inception Date
Class R (NAV) 25.44% 14.98% 12.45% 04/21/2017
Class R4 (NAV) 25.95% 15.36% 11.70% 09/11/2000
S&P 500
®
Index
(A)
26.29% 15.69% 12.03%
(A)
The S&P 500
®
Index is a market-capitalization weighted index of 500 large U.S. companies with common stock listed on the NYSE or NASDAQ.
The Fund’s benchmark is an unmanaged index used as a general measure of market performance. Calculations assume dividends and capital gains are
reinvested and do not include any managerial expenses. The 10 Year or Since Inception of Fund calculation is based on the previous 10 years or since
the inception date of the Fund, whichever is more recent. You cannot invest directly in an index.
The performance data presented represents past performance and does not guarantee future results. Performance data does not reflect the
deduction of taxes that would be paid on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares. Investment return and principal value will
fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower
or higher than performance quoted. Please see www.transamerica.com for performance data current to the most recent month-end. Returns
include the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. Fund shares are sold without a sales load. Net asset value (NAV) returns include
reinvestment of dividends and capital gains but do not reflect the deduction of any sales charges. There are no sales charges for Class R and
R4 shares. Class R shares are available only to eligible retirement plans.
Performance figures reflect any fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements by the investment manager and any recapture by the investment manager
of previously waived fees and/or reimbursed expenses. Absent any applicable waivers and/or reimbursements, the performance would be lower or
higher in the case of any recapture.
Performance results do not include adjustments made for financial reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles
and may differ from amounts reported in the Financial Highlights.
An index fund has operating and other expenses while an index does not. As a result, while the Fund will attempt to track the S&P 500
®
as closely as
possible, it will tend to underperform the index to some degree over time. If an index fund is properly correlated to its stated index, the Fund will perform
poorly when the index performs poorly.
Equity funds invest in equity securities, which include common stock, preferred stock and convertible securities. Because such securities represent
ownership in a corporation, they tend to be more volatile than fixed income or debt securities, which do not represent ownership.
Transamerica Funds Annual Report 2023
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Transamerica Stock Index
DISCLOSURE OF EXPENSES
(unaudited)
SHAREHOLDER EXPENSES
As a shareholder in the Fund, you will bear the ongoing costs (such as the investment advisory fees and other expenses) of managing
the corresponding S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio (“Master Portfolio”), in which the Fund invests. You will also bear the cost of
operating the Fund (such as management fees, distribution fees, and other expenses).
The following example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars and cents) of investing in the Fund and to
compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other funds.
The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at July 1, 2023, and held for the entire six-month period until December 31,
2023.
ACTUAL EXPENSES
The information in the table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information
in these columns, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your
account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = $8.60), then multiply the result by the number in
the appropriate column for your share class titled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account
during this period. If your account is an IRA, your expenses may have included an additional annual fee. The amount of any fee paid
during the six-month period can decrease your ending account value.
HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE FOR COMPARISON PURPOSES
The information in the table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the
Fund’s actual expense ratios and assumed rates of return of 5% per year before expenses, which are not the Fund’s actual returns. The
hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the
period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in your Fund versus other funds. To do so, compare this
5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds. As in the case of
the actual expense example, if your account is subject to an IRA fee, the amount of the fee paid through your account would increase
the hypothetical expenses you would have paid during the period and decrease the hypothetical ending account value.
Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional
costs, such as brokerage commissions paid on purchases and sales of Fund shares. Therefore, the information under the heading
“Hypothetical Expenses” is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning
different funds. If any of these transaction costs were included, your costs would be higher. The expenses shown in the table do not
reflect any fees that may be charged to you by brokers, financial intermediaries, or other financial institutions.
Actual Expenses Hypothetical Expenses
(A)
Beginning
Account Value
July 1, 2023
Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2023
Expenses Paid
During Period
(B)
Ending
Account Value
December 31, 2023
Expenses Paid
During Period
(B)
Net Annualized
Expense Ratio
(C)(D)
Class R $ 1,000.00 $ 1,076.80 $ 3.30 $ 1,022.00 $ 3.21 0.63%
Class R4 1,000.00 1,078.50 1.57 1,023.70 1.53 0.30
(A)
5% return per year before expenses.
(B)
Expenses are calculated using the Fund’s annualized net expense ratios, as disclosed in the table, multiplied by the average account value for the period, multiplied by
the number of days in the period (184 days), and divided by the number of days in the year (365 days).
(C)
Net annualized expense ratios are reflective of applicable fee waivers and/or reimbursements and recapture, if any, and are based on the most recent six-months which
may differ from the net expense ratio displayed in the Financial Highlights that covers a twelve-month period.
(D)
The net expense ratio reflects the expenses of both the Fund and the Master Portfolio.
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Transamerica Stock Index
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
At December 31, 2023
Assets:
Investment in Master Portfolio, at value $ 328,891,358
Receivables and other assets:
Shares of beneficial interest sold 156,631
Due from investment manager 12,099
Due from Master Portfolio 6,016,756
Prepaid expenses 2
Total assets 335,076,846
Liabilities:
Payables and other liabilities:
Shares of beneficial interest redeemed 6,173,388
Investment management fees 16,796
Distribution and service fees 105,577
Transfer agent fees 1,547
Trustee and CCO fees 149
Audit and tax fees 19,009
Custody and accounting fees 6,618
Legal fees 2,074
Printing and shareholder reports fees 4,185
Registration fees 3,020
Other accrued expenses 3,332
Total liabilities 6,335,695
Net assets $ 328,741,151
Net assets consist of:
Paid-in capital $ (391,106,389)
Total distributable earnings (accumulated losses) 719,847,540
Net assets $ 328,741,151
Net assets by class:
Class R $ 171,088,285
Class R4 157,652,866
Shares outstanding:
Class R 10,765,339
Class R4 9,923,126
Net asset value per share:
Class R $ 15.89
Class R4 15.89
STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
For the year ended December 31, 2023
Net investment income (loss) allocated from Master
Portfolio:
Dividend income $ 5,023,724
Interest income 52,725
Net income from securities lending 4,978
Withholding taxes on foreign income (25,071)
Expenses (33,515)
Fees waived 3,642
Total investment income (loss) 5,026,483
Expenses:
Investment management fees 184,784
Distribution and service fees:
Class R 783,328
Class R4 378,269
Transfer agent fees:
Class R 3,191
Class R4 11,348
Trustee and CCO fees 11,951
Audit and tax fees 28,714
Custody and accounting fees 26,610
Legal fees 20,497
Printing and shareholder reports fees 26,398
Registration fees 40,316
Other 14,142
Total expenses before waiver and/or reimbursement and
recapture 1,529,548
Expenses waived and/or reimbursed:
Class R (1,847)
Class R4 (127,509)
Recapture of previously waived and/or reimbursed
fees:
Class R 1,847
Net expenses 1,402,039
Net investment income (loss) 3,624,444
Net realized and change in unrealized gain (loss) on
investments allocated from Master Portfolio:
Net realized gain (loss) 9,196,895
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) 58,243,173
Net realized and change in unrealized gain (loss) 67,440,068
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from
operations $ 71,064,512
The Notes to Financial Statements are an integral part of this report.
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Transamerica Stock Index
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS
For the years ended:
December 31, 2023 December 31, 2022
From operations allocated from Master Portfolio:
Net investment income (loss) $ 3,624,444 $ 3,492,205
Net realized gain (loss) 9,196,895 5,874,426
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) 58,243,173 (76,580,400)
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations 71,064,512 (67,213,769)
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Class R (6,669,370) (8,976,983)
Class R4 (6,919,219) (8,828,263)
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from dividends and/or distributions to shareholders (13,588,589) (17,805,246)
Capital share transactions:
Proceeds from shares sold:
Class R 6,777,023 5,606,090
Class R4 12,714,928 18,442,845
19,491,951 24,048,935
Dividends and/or distributions reinvested:
Class R 6,669,370 8,976,983
Class R4 6,919,219 8,828,263
13,588,589 17,805,246
Cost of shares redeemed:
Class R (18,640,305) (29,981,002)
Class R4 (28,913,770) (11,942,291)
(47,554,075) (41,923,293)
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from capital share transactions (14,473,535) (69,112)
Net increase (decrease) in net assets 43,002,388 (85,088,127)
Net assets:
Beginning of year 285,738,763 370,826,890
End of year $ 328,741,151 $ 285,738,763
Capital share transactions - shares:
Shares issued:
Class R 460,369 373,786
Class R4 859,073 1,257,734
1,319,442 1,631,520
Shares reinvested:
Class R 429,246 667,248
Class R4 447,039 655,484
876,285 1,322,732
Shares redeemed:
Class R (1,277,187) (2,000,196)
Class R4 (1,902,461) (810,713)
(3,179,648) (2,810,909)
Net increase (decrease) in shares outstanding:
Class R (387,572) (959,162)
Class R4 (596,349) 1,102,505
(983,921) 143,343
The Notes to Financial Statements are an integral part of this report.
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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
For a share outstanding during the years indicated: Class R
December 31,
2023
December 31,
2022
December 31,
2021
December 31,
2020
December 31,
2019
Net asset value, beginning of year
$ 13.19 $ 17.23 $ 14.30 $ 12.71 $ 10.26
Investment operations:
(A)
Net investment income (loss)
(B)
0.15 0.14 0.13 0.15 0.16
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)
3.18 (3.33) 3.82 2.06 2.96
Total investment operations 3.33 (3.19) 3.95 2.21 3.12
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Net investment income (0.13) (0.14) (0.17) (0.12) (0.20)
Net realized gains
(0.50) (0.71) (0.85) (0.50) (0.47)
Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders (0.63) (0.85) (1.02) (0.62) (0.67)
Net asset value, end of year $ 15.89 $ 13.19 $ 17.23 $ 14.30 $ 12.71
Total return 25.44% (18.57)% 27.84% 17.80% 30.62%
Ratio and supplemental data:
Net assets end of year (000’s) $ 171,088 $ 147,069 $ 208,632 $ 191,562 $ 204,050
Expenses to average net assets
(A)
Excluding waiver and/or reimbursement and recapture 0.63% 0.63% 0.61% 0.62% 0.62%
Including waiver and/or reimbursement and recapture 0.63%
(C)
0.63%
(C)
0.61% 0.62% 0.62%
Net investment income (loss) to average net assets
(A)
1.01% 0.97% 0.79% 1.22% 1.36%
Portfolio turnover rate of Master Portfolio
10% 13% 6% 5% 3%
(A)
The per share amounts and percentages include the Fund’s proportionate share of income and expenses of the Master Portfolio.
(B)
Calculated based on average number of shares outstanding.
(C)
Waiver and/or reimbursement rounds to less than 0.01%.
For a share outstanding during the years indicated: Class R4
December 31,
2023
December 31,
2022
December 31,
2021
December 31,
2020
December 31,
2019
Net asset value, beginning of year
$ 13.18 $ 17.22 $ 14.30 $ 12.71 $ 10.26
Investment operations:
(A)
Net investment income (loss)
(B)
0.20 0.19 0.18 0.20 0.20
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) 3.19 (3.33) 3.81 2.06 2.96
Total investment operations
3.39 (3.14) 3.99 2.26 3.16
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Net investment income (0.18) (0.19) (0.22) (0.17) (0.24)
Net realized gains
(0.50) (0.71) (0.85) (0.50) (0.47)
Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders (0.68) (0.90) (1.07) (0.67) (0.71)
Net asset value, end of year $ 15.89 $ 13.18 $ 17.22 $ 14.30 $ 12.71
Total return 25.95% (18.35)% 28.23% 18.12% 31.14%
Ratio and supplemental data:
Net assets end of year (000’s) $ 157,653 $ 138,670 $ 162,195 $ 171,891 $ 323,914
Expenses to average net assets
(A)
Excluding waiver and/or reimbursement and recapture 0.38% 0.38% 0.37% 0.38% 0.37%
Including waiver and/or reimbursement and recapture 0.30% 0.30% 0.30% 0.30% 0.30%
Net investment income (loss) to average net assets
(A)
1.34% 1.30% 1.11% 1.57% 1.68%
Portfolio turnover rate of Master Portfolio
10% 13% 6% 5% 3%
(A)
The per share amounts and percentages include the Fund’s proportionate share of income and expenses of the Master Portfolio.
(B)
Calculated based on average number of shares outstanding.
The Notes to Financial Statements are an integral part of this report.
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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
At December 31, 2023
1. ORGANIZATION
Transamerica Funds (the “Trust”) is an open-end management investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”). The Trust applies investment company accounting and reporting guidance. Transamerica Stock
Index (the “Fund”) is a series of the Trust and invests all of its investable assets in the S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio (the “Master
Portfolio”).
The financial statements of the Master Portfolio are included within this report and should be read in conjunction with the Fund’s
financial statements.
This report must be accompanied or preceded by the Fund’s current prospectus, which contains additional information about the Fund,
including risks, as well as investment objectives and strategies.
Transamerica Asset Management, Inc. (“TAM”) serves as investment manager for the Fund pursuant to an investment management
agreement. TAM provides continuous and regular investment management services to the Fund. TAM supervises the Fund’s
investments, conducts its investment program and provides supervisory, compliance and administrative services to the Fund.
TAM is responsible for all aspects of the day-to-day management of the Fund. TAM may in the future retain one or more sub-advisers
to assist in the management of the Fund.
TAM’s investment management services also include the provision of supervisory and administrative services to the Fund. These
services include performing certain administrative services for the Fund and supervising and overseeing the administrative, clerical,
recordkeeping and bookkeeping services provided to the Fund by State Street Bank and Trust Company (“State Street”), to whom TAM
has outsourced the provision of certain sub-administration services. To the extent agreed upon by TAM and the Fund from time to time,
TAM’s supervisory and administrative services include, but are not limited to: monitoring and verifying the custodian’s daily calculation
of the Net Asset Values (“NAV”); shareholder relations functions; compliance services; valuation services; assisting in due diligence and
in the oversight and monitoring of certain aspects of Fund investments; assisting with Fund combinations and liquidations; oversight of
the preparation and filing, and review, of all returns and reports, in connection with federal, state and local taxes; oversight and review
of regulatory reporting; supervising and coordinating the Fund’s custodian and dividend disbursing agent and monitoring their services
to the Fund; assisting the Fund in preparing reports to shareholders; acting as liaison with the Fund’s independent public accountants
and providing, upon request, analyses, fiscal year summaries and other audit related services; assisting in the preparation of agendas
and supporting documents for and minutes of meetings of trustees and committees of trustees; assisting in the preparation of regular
communications with the trustees; and providing personnel and office space, telephones and other office equipment as necessary in
order for TAM to perform supervisory and administrative services to the Fund. The Fund pays certain fees and expenses to State Street
for sub-administration services which are not administrative services covered by the management agreement with TAM or paid for
through the management fees payable thereunder. For the year ended December 31, 2023, (i) the expenses paid to State Street for
sub-administration services by the Fund are shown as a part of Other expenses within the Statement of Operations and (ii) the
expenses payable to State Street for sub-administration services from the Fund are shown as part of Other accrued expenses within
the Statement of Assets and Liabilities.
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
In preparing the Fund’s financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States of
America (“GAAP”), estimates or assumptions (which could differ from actual results) may be used that affect reported amounts and
disclosures. The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed by the Fund.
Investment valuation: The value of the Fund’s investment in the Master Portfolio, reflected within the Statement of Assets and
Liabilities, displays the Fund’s proportional interest in the net assets of the Master Portfolio.
The valuation policy for the underlying securities held by the Master Portfolio is discussed in the Master Portfolio’s Notes to Financial
Statements, which accompany this report.
Security transactions and investment income: The Fund is allocated its proportional share of income and expenses on a daily basis
from its investment in the Master Portfolio. All of the net investment income, as well as the realized and unrealized gains and losses
from the security transactions of the Master Portfolio are allocated pro rata among the investors and recorded by the Fund on a daily
basis.
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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued)
At December 31, 2023
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)
Multiple class operations, income, and expenses: Income, non-class specific expenses, and realized and unrealized gains and
losses are allocated to each class daily based upon net assets. Each class bears its own specific expenses in addition to the allocated
non-class specific expenses.
Distributions to shareholders: Distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date and are determined in accordance with federal
income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP.
Indemnification: In the normal course of business, the Fund enters into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide
general indemnifications. The Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown, as this would involve future claims
that may be made against the Fund and/or its affiliates that have not yet occurred. However, based on experience, the Fund expects
the risk of loss to be remote.
3. BORROWINGS AND OTHER FINANCING TRANSACTIONS
Interfund lending: The Fund, along with other funds and portfolios advised by TAM, may participate in an interfund lending program
pursuant to exemptive relief granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 18, 2017. This program allows the Fund
to lend to and borrow from other funds and portfolios advised by TAM. Interfund lending transactions are subject to the conditions of the
exemptive relief which places limits on the amount of lending or borrowing a Fund may participate in under the program. Interest earned
or paid on an interfund lending transaction will be based on the average of certain current market rates. For the year ended
December 31, 2023, the Fund has not utilized the program.
4. RISK FACTORS
Investing in the Fund involves certain key risks related to the Fund’s trading activity. Please reference the Fund’s prospectus for a more
complete discussion of the following risk(s), as well as other risks of investing in the Fund.
Market risk: The market prices of the Fund’s securities or other assets may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably, due to
general market conditions, overall economic trends or events, inflation, changes in interest rates, governmental actions or interventions,
actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks, market disruptions caused by tariffs, trade disputes or other factors,
political developments, armed conflicts, economic sanctions, cybersecurity events, investor sentiment, public health events such as the
spread of infectious disease, and other factors that may or may not be related to the issuer of the security or other asset. If the market
prices of the Fund’s securities and assets fall, the value of your investment in the Fund could go down.
Economies and financial markets throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. Events or circumstances in one or more
countries or regions could be highly disruptive to, and have profound impacts on, global economies or markets. As a result, whether or
not the Fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries directly affected, the value and
liquidity of the Fund’s investments may go down.
In recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic, the large expansion of government deficits and debt as a result of government actions to
mitigate the effects of the pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the rise of inflation have resulted in extreme volatility in the
global economy and in global financial markets. These events could be prolonged and could continue to adversely affect the value and
liquidity of the Fund’s investments, impair the Fund’s ability to satisfy redemption requests, and negatively impact the Fund’s
performance.
Passive strategy/index risk: The Fund is managed with a passive investment strategy, attempting to track the performance of an
unmanaged index of securities, regardless of the current or projected performance of the index or of the actual securities comprising the
index. This differs from an actively-managed fund, which typically seeks to outperform a benchmark index. As a result, the Fund’s
performance may be less favorable than that of a fund managed using an active investment strategy. The structure and composition of
the index will affect the performance, volatility, and risk of the index and, consequently, the performance, volatility, and risk of the Fund.
Index fund risk: While the Fund seeks to track the performance of the S&P 500
®
Index (i.e., achieve a high degree of correlation with
the index), the Fund’s return may not match the return of the index. The Fund incurs a number of operating expenses not applicable to
the index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities. In addition, the Fund may not be fully invested at times, generally as a result
of cash flows into or out of the Fund or reserves of cash held by the Fund to meet redemptions. The Fund may attempt to replicate the
index return by investing in fewer than all of the securities in the index, or in some securities not included in the index, potentially
increasing the risk of divergence between the Fund’s return and that of the index.
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Transamerica Stock Index
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued)
At December 31, 2023
5. FEES AND OTHER AFFILIATED TRANSACTIONS
TAM, the Fund’s investment manager, is directly owned by Transamerica Life Insurance Company (“TLIC”) and AUSA Holding, LLC
(“AUSA”), both of which are indirect, wholly owned subsidiaries of Aegon Ltd. TLIC is owned by Commonwealth General Corporation
(“Commonwealth”). Commonwealth and AUSA are wholly owned by Transamerica Corporation (DE). Transamerica Corporation (DE) is
wholly owned by Aegon International B.V., which is wholly owned by Aegon Ltd., a Bermuda exempted company with liability limited by
shares (formerly, Aegon NV, a Netherlands corporation) and a publicly traded international insurance group.
Transamerica Fund Services, Inc. (“TFS”) is the Fund’s transfer agent. Transamerica Capital, Inc. (“TCI”) is the Fund’s distributor/
principal underwriter. TAM, TFS, and TCI are affiliates of Aegon Ltd.
Certain officers and trustees of the Fund are also officers and/or trustees of TAM, TFS and TCI. No interested trustee who is deemed
an interested person due to current or former service with TAM or an affiliate of TAM receives compensation from the Fund. The Fund
does pay non-interested persons (independent trustees), as disclosed in Trustee and CCO fees within the Statement of Operations.
As of December 31, 2023, the percentage of the Fund’s interest in the Master Portfolio, including any open receivable or payable, is
0.90%.
As of December 31, 2023, the investment manager and/or other affiliated investment accounts held balances in the Fund as follows:
Account Balance Percentage of Net Assets
$ 314,934,023 95.80%
Investment management fees: TAM serves as the Fund’s investment manager, performing administration as well as investment
advisory services. TAM renders investment advisory, supervisory, and administration services under an investment management
agreement in connection with these services. The Fund has a contractual management fee payable to TAM at an annual rate of 0.07%
of daily average net assets.
Additionally, the Fund incurs its allocated share of the advisory fees based on the interest owned in the corresponding Master Portfolio.
The advisory fees are accrued daily and payable monthly at an annual rate of 0.01% of the Master Portfolio’s daily net assets. The
investment advisory fees allocated from the Master Portfolio are included within the Statement of Operations within net investment
income (loss) allocated from the Master Portfolio, in Expenses.
The Fund pays a management fee to TAM at an effective rate of 0.06% of the Fund’s average daily net assets (which is net of a
voluntary waiver by TAM equal to the Master Portfolio advisory fee allocated to the Fund of 0.01%).
The management fees are reflected in Investment management fees within the Statement of Operations.
TAM has contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse Fund expenses to the extent that the total operating expenses excluding,
as applicable, acquired fund fees and expenses, interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, dividend and interest expenses on securities
sold short, extraordinary expenses, reorganization expenses and other expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of the Fund’s
business, exceed the following stated annual operating expense limits to the Fund’s daily average net assets. To the extent an expense
limit changed during the period, the prior limit is also listed below. The expenses waived and/or reimbursed, if any, are included in
Expenses waived and/or reimbursed within the Statement of Operations.
Class
Operating
Expense Limit
Operating
Expense Limit
Effective Through
Class R 0.65% May 1, 2024
Class R4 0.30 May 1, 2024
TAM is permitted to recapture amounts contractually waived and/or reimbursed to a class during any of the 36 months from the date on
which TAM waived fees and/or reimbursed expenses for the class. A class may recapture and reimburse TAM only if such amount does
not cause, on any particular business day of the Fund, the class’s total annual operating expenses (after the recapture is taken into
account) to exceed the Operating Expense Limits or any other lower limit then in effect. Amounts recaptured, if any, by TAM for the year
ended December 31, 2023 are disclosed in Recapture of previously waived and/or reimbursed fees within the Statement of Operations.
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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued)
At December 31, 2023
5. FEES AND OTHER AFFILIATED TRANSACTIONS (continued)
For the 36-month period ended, the balances available for recapture by TAM for the Fund are as follows:
Amounts Available
Class 2021 2022 2023 Total
Class R4 $ 128,288 $ 120,475 $ 127,509 $ 376,272
Distribution and service fees: The Trust has a distribution plan (“Distribution Plan”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act.
Pursuant to the Distribution Plan, the Trust entered into a distribution agreement with TCI as the Fund’s distributor.
The Distribution Plan requires the Fund to pay distribution fees to TCI as compensation for various distribution activities, not as
reimbursement for specific expenses. Under the Distribution Plan and distribution agreement, TCI, on behalf of the Fund, is authorized
to pay various service providers, as direct payment for expenses incurred in connection with distribution of the Fund’s shares. The
distribution and service fees are included in Distribution and service fees within the Statement of Operations.
The Fund is authorized under the Distribution Plan to pay fees to TCI based on daily average net assets of each applicable class up to
the following annual rates:
Class Rate
Class R 0.50%
Class R4 0.25
Transfer agent fees: Pursuant to a transfer agency agreement, as amended, the Fund pays TFS a fee for providing services based on
assets, accounts and transactions relating to the Fund. The Transfer agent fees included within the Statement of Assets and Liabilities
and Statement of Operations represent fees paid to TFS, and other unaffiliated parties providing transfer agent related services. Please
reference the Fund’s Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information for a more complete discussion on transfer agent fees.
For the year ended December 31, 2023, transfer agent fees paid and the amounts due to TFS are as follows:
Fees Paid to TFS Fees Due to TFS
$ 11,348 $ 1,032
6. FEDERAL INCOME TAXES AND DISTRIBUTIONS TO SHAREHOLDERS
The Fund has not made any provision for federal income or excise taxes due to its policy to distribute all of its taxable income and
capital gains to its shareholders and otherwise qualify as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue
Code. The Fund recognizes the tax benefits of uncertain tax positions only where the position is “more likely than not” to be sustained
assuming examination by tax authorities. The Fund’s tax returns remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and
state tax authorities three years from the date of filing for federal purposes and four years from the date of filing for state purposes.
Management has evaluated the Fund’s tax provisions taken for all open tax years, and has concluded that no provision for income tax
is required in the Fund’s financial statements. If applicable, the Fund recognizes interest accrued related to unrecognized tax benefits in
relation to interest and penalties expense in Other within the Statement of Operations. The Fund identifies its major tax jurisdictions as
U.S. Federal, the state of Colorado, and foreign jurisdictions where the Fund makes significant investments; however, the Fund is not
aware of any tax positions for which it is reasonably possible that the total amounts of unrecognized tax benefits will change materially
in the next twelve months.
Distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from GAAP. Therefore, distributions
determined in accordance with tax regulations may differ significantly in amount or character from net investment income and realized
gains for financial reporting purposes. Financial reporting records are adjusted for permanent book/tax differences to reflect tax
character. The primary permanent differences are due to partnership basis adjustments. These reclassifications have no impact on net
assets or results of operations. Financial records are not adjusted for temporary differences. These permanent reclassifications are as
follows:
Paid-in Capital Total Distributable Earnings
$ (1,374,265) $ 1,374,265
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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued)
At December 31, 2023
6. FEDERAL INCOME TAXES AND DISTRIBUTIONS TO SHAREHOLDERS (continued)
As of December 31, 2023, the approximate cost for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and the aggregate gross/net unrealized
appreciation (depreciation) in the value of investments (including securities sold short and derivatives, if any) are as follows:
Cost
Gross
Appreciation
Gross
(Depreciation)
Net Appreciation
(Depreciation)
$ 51,829,592 $ 277,061,766 $ — $ 277,061,766
As of December 31, 2023, the Fund had no capital loss carryforwards available to offset future realized capital gains. During the year
ended December 31, 2023, the Fund did not have any capital loss carryforwards utilized.
The tax character of distributions paid may differ from the character of distributions shown within the Statement of Changes in Net
Assets due to short-term gains being treated as ordinary income for tax purposes. The tax character of distributions paid during 2023
and 2022 are as follows:
2023 Distributions Paid From: 2022 Distributions Paid From:
Ordinary
Income
Long-Term
Capital Gain Return of Capital
Ordinary
Income
Long-Term
Capital Gain Return of Capital
$ 8,887,132 $ 4,701,457 $ — $ 9,888,507 $ 7,916,739 $
As of December 31, 2023, the tax basis components of distributable earnings are as follows:
Undistributed
Ordinary Income
Undistributed
Long-Term
Capital Gain
Capital Loss
Carryforwards
Late Year
Ordinary Loss
Deferral
Other
Temporary
Differences
Net Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
$ 1,336,054 $ 581,108 $ $ $ 440,868,612 $ 277,061,766
7. REGULATORY UPDATE
The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) has adopted rule and form amendments that will result in changes to the design
and delivery of annual and semi-annual reports to shareholders. Beginning in July 2024, shareholder reports will be streamlined to
highlight certain key information. Certain information currently included in shareholder reports, including financial statements, will no
longer appear in shareholder reports but will be available online, delivered free of charge to shareholders upon request, and filed with
the SEC.
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of Transamerica Stock Index
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Transamerica Stock Index (the “Portfolio”) (one of the series
constituting Transamerica Funds (the “Trust”)) as of December 31, 2023, and the related statement of operations for the year then
ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of
the five years in the period then ended and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the
financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Portfolio (one of the series constituting
Transamerica Funds) at December 31, 2023, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each
of the two years in the period then ended and its financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity
with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s
financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal
securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit
to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As
part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of
expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such
opinion.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to
error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence
regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of
December 31, 2023, by correspondence with the custodian, brokers and others; when replies were not received from brokers and
others, we performed other auditing procedures. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant
estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits
provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
We have served as the auditor of one or more Transamerica investment companies since 1995.
Boston, Massachusetts
February 26, 2024
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SUPPLEMENTAL TAX INFORMATION
(unaudited)
For dividends paid during the year ended December 31, 2023, the Fund designated $4,761,870 of qualified dividend income.
For corporate shareholders 49%, investment income (dividend income plus short-term gains, if any) qualifies for the dividends received
deduction.
For tax purposes, the Fund has made a long-term capital gain designations of $4,701,457 for the year ended December 31, 2023.
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Management of the Trust
The Fund is supervised by the Board.
Board Members and Officers
The members of the Board (“Board Members”) and executive officers of the Trust are listed below.
“Interested Board Member” means a Board Member who may be deemed an “interested person” (as that term is defined in the 1940
Act) of the Trust because of his current or former service with TAM or an affiliate of TAM. Interested Board Members may also be
referred to herein as “Interested Trustees.” “Independent Board Member” means a Board Member who is not an “interested person” (as
defined under the 1940 Act) of the Trust and may also be referred to herein as an “Independent Trustee.”
The Board governs the Fund and is responsible for protecting the interests of the shareholders. The Board Members are experienced
executives who meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the business affairs of the Fund and the operation of the Fund by its
officers. The Board also reviews the management of the Fund’s assets by the investment manager and its respective sub-adviser.
The Fund is among the funds managed and sponsored by TAM (collectively, “Transamerica Fund Family”). The Transamerica Fund
Family consists of (i) Transamerica Funds (“TF”); (ii) Transamerica Series Trust (“TST”); and (iii) Transamerica ETF Trust (“TET”). The
Transamerica Fund Family consists of 109 funds as of the date of this annual report. With the exception of Mr. Smit, none of the Board
Members serve on the board of trustees of TET. TET is overseen by a separate board of trustees.
The mailing address of each Board Member is c/o Secretary, 1801 California Street, Suite 5200, Denver, CO 80202.
The Board Members, their age, their positions with the Trust, and their principal occupations for at least the past five years (their titles
may have varied during that period), the number of funds in the Transamerica Fund Family the Board oversees, and other board
memberships they hold are set forth in the table below. The length of time served is provided from the date a Board Member became a
member of the Board.
Name and Age
Position(s)
Held with
Trust
Term of
Office and
Length
of Time
Served*
Principal Occupation(s)
During Past Five Years
Number of
Funds in
Complex
Overseen
by Board
Member
Other
Directorships
Held
By Board
Member During
Past Five
Years
INTERESTED BOARD MEMBERS
Marijn P. Smit
(50)
Chairman
of the
Board,
President
and Chief
Executive
Officer
Since 2014 Chairman of the Board, President
and Chief Executive Officer, TF and
TST (2014 – present);
President and Chief Executive
Officer, Transamerica Asset
Allocation Variable Funds
(“TAAVF”) (2014 – 2023);
Chairman of the Board, TET
(2017 – 2022), President and Chief
Executive Officer, TET
(2017 – present);
Chairman of the Board, President
and Chief Executive Officer,
Transamerica Partners Portfolio
(“TPP”), Transamerica Partners
Funds Group (“TPFG”) and
Transamerica Partners Funds
Group II (“TPFG II”) (2014 – 2018);
109 Director,
Massachusetts
Fidelity Trust
Company
(2014 – 2021);
Director,
Aegon Global
Funds
(2016 – 2022)
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Name and Age
Position(s)
Held with
Trust
Term of
Office and
Length
of Time
Served*
Principal Occupation(s)
During Past Five Years
Number of
Funds in
Complex
Overseen
by Board
Member
Other
Directorships
Held
By Board
Member During
Past Five
Years
INTERESTED BOARD MEMBERS — continued
Marijn P. Smit
(continued)
Director, Chairman of the Board,
President and Chief Executive
Officer, Transamerica Asset
Management, Inc. (“TAM”)
(2014 – present) and Transamerica
Fund Services, Inc. (“TFS”)
(2014 – 2023); Director, Chairman
of the Board and Executive Vice
President, TFS (2023 – present);
Senior Vice President,
Transamerica Retirement Solutions
LLC (2012 – 2020); Trust Officer,
Massachusetts Fidelity Trust
Company (2014 – 2021);
President, Investment Solutions,
Transamerica Investments &
Retirement (2014 – 2016);
Vice President, Transamerica Life
Insurance Company (2010 – 2016);
Vice President, Transamerica
Premier Life Insurance Company
(2010 – 2016);
Senior Vice President,
Transamerica Financial Life
Insurance Company (2013 – 2016);
Senior Vice President,
Transamerica Retirement Advisors,
Inc. (2013 – 2016);
President and Director,
Transamerica Stable Value
Solutions, Inc. (2010 – 2016).
Kent Callahan
(63)
Board
Member
Since 2023 Board Member, TF and TST
(September 2023 – present);
Founder and Chief Executive
Officer, Shamrock Solutions, LLC
(May 2023 – present);
Vice Chairman, Transamerica
Workplace Solutions
(June 2022 – December 2022);
President and Chief Executive
Officer, Transamerica Workplace
Solutions (2020 – 2022);
Senior Managing Director,
Transamerica Workplace Solutions
(2019 – 2020);
President and Chief Executive
Officer, Transamerica Latin America
(2016 – 2019).
109 N/A
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Name and Age
Position(s)
Held with
Trust
Term of
Office and
Length
of Time
Served*
Principal Occupation(s)
During Past Five Years
Number of
Funds in
Complex
Overseen
by Board
Member
Other
Directorships
Held
By Board
Member During
Past Five
Years
INDEPENDENT BOARD MEMBERS
Sandra N. Bane
(71)
Board
Member
Since 2008 Retired (1999 – present);
Board Member, TF and TST
(2008 – present);
Board Member, TAAVF
(2008 – 2023);
Board Member, TPP, TPFG and
TPFG II (2008 – 2018);
Partner, KPMG (1975 – 1999).
109 Big 5 Sporting
Goods
(2002 – 2021);
Southern
Company Gas
(energy services
holding
company)
(2008 – present)
Leo J. Hill
(67)
Lead
Independent
Board
Member
Since 2001 Principal, Advisor Network
Solutions, LLC (business
consulting) (2006 – present);
Board Member, TST
(2001 – present);
Board Member, TF
(2002 – present);
Board Member, TAAVF
(2007 – 2023);
Board Member, TPP, TPFG and
TPFG II (2007 – 2018);
Market President, Nations Bank of
Sun Coast Florida (1998 – 1999);
Chairman, President and Chief
Executive Officer, Barnett Banks
of Treasure Coast Florida
(1994 – 1998);
Executive Vice President and
Senior Credit Officer, Barnett
Banks of Jacksonville, Florida
(1991 – 1994);
Senior Vice President and Senior
Loan Administration Officer,
Wachovia Bank of Georgia
(1976 – 1991).
109 Ameris Bancorp
(2013 – present);
Ameris Bank
(2013 – present)
Kathleen T. Ives
(58)
Board
Member
Since 2021 Board Member, TF and TST
(2021 – present);
Board Member, TAAVF
(2021 – 2023);
Retired (2019 – present);
Senior Vice President & Director of
Internal Audit (2011-2019), Senior
Vice President & Deputy General
Counsel (2008 – 2011), OFI
Global Asset Management, Inc.
109 Junior
Achievement
Rocky Mountain
(non-profit
organization)
(2013 – present);
Institute of
Internal Auditors,
Denver Chapter
(audit
organization)
(2017 – 2021).
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Name and Age
Position(s)
Held with
Trust
Term of
Office and
Length
of Time
Served*
Principal Occupation(s)
During Past Five Years
Number of
Funds in
Complex
Overseen
by Board
Member
Other
Directorships
Held
By Board
Member During
Past Five
Years
INDEPENDENT BOARD MEMBERS — continued
Lauriann C.
Kloppenburg
(63)
Board
Member
Since 2021
Board Member, TF and TST
(2021 – present);
Board Member, TAAVF
(2021 – 2023);
Director, Adams Funds (investment
companies) (2017 – present);
Investment Committee Member,
1911 Office, LLC (family office)
(2017 – Present);
Executive in Residence and
Student Fund Advisory Board
Member, Champlain College
(2016 – present);
Executive in Residence, Bentley
University (2015 – 2017);
Chief Strategy Officer
(2012 – 2013), Chief Investment
Officer – Equity Group
(2004 – 2012), Loomis Sayles &
Company, L.P.
109 Trustees of
Donations to the
Protestant
Episcopal
Church
(non-profit
organization)
(2010 – 2022);
Forte
Foundation
(non-profit
organization)
(2016 – present)
Fredric A. Nelson III
(67)
Board
Member
Since 2017 Board Member, TF and TST
(2017 – present);
Board Member, TAAVF
(2017 – 2023);
Board Member, TPP, TPFG and
TPFG II (2017 – 2018);
Chief Investment Officer (“CIO”),
Commonfund (2011 – 2015);
Vice Chairman, CIO, ING
Investment Management Americas
(2003 – 2009);
Managing Director, Head of U.S.
Equity, JP Morgan Investment
Management (1994 – 2003);
Managing Director, Head of Global
Quantitative Investments Group,
Bankers Trust Global Investment
Management (1981 – 1994).
109 N/A
John E. Pelletier
(59)
Board
Member
Since 2017 Board Member, TF and TST
(2017 – present);
Board Member, TAAVF
(2017 – 2023);
Board Member, TPP, TPFG and
TPFG II (2017 – 2018);
109 N/A
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Name and Age
Position(s)
Held with
Trust
Term of
Office and
Length
of Time
Served*
Principal Occupation(s)
During Past Five Years
Number of
Funds in
Complex
Overseen
by Board
Member
Other
Directorships
Held
By Board
Member During
Past Five
Years
INDEPENDENT BOARD MEMBERS — continued
John E. Pelletier
(continued)
Director, Center for Financial
Literacy, Champlain College
(2010 – present);
Co-Chair, Vermont Financial
Literacy Commission with Vermont
State Treasurer (2015 – 2018);
Chairman, Vermont Universal
Children’s Higher Education
Savings Account Program Advisory
Committee (2015 – 2021);
Founder and Principal, Sterling
Valley Consulting LLC (a financial
services consulting firm)
(2009 – 2017);
Independent Director, The Sentinel
Funds and Sentinel Variable
Products Trust (2013 – 2017);
Chief Legal Officer, Eaton Vance
Corp. (2007 – 2008);
Executive Vice President and Chief
Operating Officer (2004 – 2007),
General Counsel (1997 – 2004),
Natixis Global Associates.
Patricia L. Sawyer
(73)
Board
Member
Since 2007 Retired (2007 – present);
President/Founder, Smith &
Sawyer LLC (management
consulting) (1989 – 2007);
Board Member, TF and TST
(2007 – present);
Board Member, TAAVF
(1993 – 2023);
Board Member, TPP, TPFG and
TPFG II (1993 – 2018);
Trustee, Chair of Finance
Committee and Chair of
Nominating Committee
(1987 – 1996), Bryant University.
109 Honorary
Trustee, Bryant
University
(1996 – present)
John W. Waechter
(72)
Board
Member
Since 2004
Partner, Englander Fischer
(2016 – present) (law firm);
Attorney, Englander Fischer
(2008 – 2015);
Retired (2004 – 2008);
Board Member, TST
(2004 – present);
Board Member, TF
(2005 – present);
109 Board Member,
Operation PAR,
Inc. (non-profit
organization)
(2008 – present);
Board Member,
Boley PAR, Inc.
(non-profit
organization)
(2016 – present)
Transamerica Funds Annual Report 2023
Page 19
Name and Age
Position(s)
Held with
Trust
Term of
Office and
Length
of Time
Served*
Principal Occupation(s)
During Past Five Years
Number of
Funds in
Complex
Overseen
by Board
Member
Other
Directorships
Held
By Board
Member During
Past Five
Years
INDEPENDENT BOARD MEMBERS — continued
John W. Waechter
(continued)
Board Member, TAAVF
(2007 – 2023);
Board Member, TPP, TPFG and
TPFG II (2007 – 2018);
Employee, RBC Dain Rauscher
(securities dealer) (2004); Executive
Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer and Chief Compliance
Officer, William R. Hough & Co.
(securities dealer) (1979 – 2004);
Treasurer, The Hough Group of
Funds (1993 – 2004) (fund
accounting).
Board Member,
Remember
Honor Support,
Inc. (non-profit
organization)
(2013 – 2020);
Board Member,
WRH Income
Properties, Inc.
and WRH
Properties, Inc.
and affiliates
(real estate)
(2014 – present)
* Each Board Member shall hold office until: 1) his or her successor is elected and qualified or 2) he or she resigns, retires or his or her
term as a Board Member is terminated in accordance with the Trust’s Declaration of Trust.
Transamerica Funds Annual Report 2023
Page 20
Officers
The mailing address of each officer is c/o Secretary, 1801 California Street, Suite 5200, Denver, CO 80202. The following table shows
information about the officers, including their age, their positions held with the Trust and their principal occupations during the past five
years (their titles may have varied during that period). Each officer will hold office until his or her successor has been duly elected or
appointed or until his or her earlier death, resignation or removal.
Name and Age Position
Term of Office
and Length of
Time Served*
Principal Occupation(s) or Employment
During Past Five Years
Marijn P. Smit
(50)
Chairman of the Board,
President and Chief
Executive Officer
Since 2014 See Interested Board Members Table Above.
Timothy Bresnahan
(55)
Assistant Secretary Since 2020 Assistant Secretary, TF and TST (2020 – present);
Assistant Secretary, TAAVF (2020 – 2023);
Chief Legal Officer, Secretary (2021 – present),
Assistant Secretary (2019 – 2021), Secretary
(2019), TET;
Senior Counsel, TAM (2008 – present).
Joshua Durham
(50)
Vice President and Chief
Operating Officer
Since 2022 Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, TF and
TST (2022 – present);
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, TAAVF
(2022 – 2023);
Director, Senior Vice President, and Chief
Operating Officer, TAM (2022 – present) and TFS
(2022 – 2023); Director, President and Chief
Executive Officer, TFS (2023 – present);
Vice President, TAG Resources, LLC
(2022 – present);
Vice President, Transamerica Retirement Solutions,
LLC (2017 – present);
Vice President, Transamerica Casualty Insurance
Company (2016 – 2022);
Vice President (2004 – 2007 and 2012 – 2022),
Responsible Officer (2017 – 2022), Transamerica
Financial Life Insurance Company;
Vice President (2004 – 2007 and 2010 – 2022),
Responsible Officer (2016 – 2022) Transamerica
Life Insurance Company;
Chief Administrative Officer (2014 – 2016) and
Senior Vice President (2009 – 2020), Transamerica
Stable Value Solutions Inc.;
Vice President, Transamerica Premier Life
Insurance Company (2010 – 2020);
Vice President, Transamerica Advisors Life
Insurance Company (2016 – 2019).
Dennis P. Gallagher
(53)
Chief Legal Officer and
Secretary
Since 2021;
2006 – 2014
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, TF and TST
(2021 – present and 2006 – 2014);
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, TAAVF
(2021 – 2023 and 2006 – 2014);
Chief Legal Officer and Assistant Secretary, TAM
(2022 – present);
Transamerica Funds Annual Report 2023
Page 21
Name and Age Position
Term of Office
and Length of
Time Served*
Principal Occupation(s) or Employment
During Past Five Years
Dennis P. Gallagher
(continued)
Associate General Counsel/Lead Attorney, TAM,
Mutual Funds and Latin American Operations
(2017 – 2021);
Associate General Counsel/Chief Legal Officer,
Latin American Operations and International Funds
(2014 – 2017);
Director, Senior Vice President, General Counsel,
Operations and Secretary, TAM (2006 – 2014);
Director, Senior Vice President, General Counsel,
Chief Administrative Officer and Secretary, TFS
(2006 – 2014);
Chairman of the Board, Aegon Global Funds
(2013 – 2022);
Board Member, Mongeral Aegon Seguros e
Previdencia SA (2017 – 2022);
Assistant Secretary, TF, TST, TET and TAAVF
(2019);
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary,
TPP, TPFG and TPFG II (2007 – 2014);
Assistant Vice President, TCI (2007 – 2014).
Molly Possehl
(45)
Anti-Money Laundering
Officer
Since 2019 Anti-Money Laundering Officer, TF, TST and TET
(2019 – present);
Anti-Money Laundering Officer, TAAVF
(2019 – 2023);
Assistant General Counsel, Transamerica Life
Insurance Company/Aegon USA (2013 – present);
Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer and
Fraud Officer, Transamerica Life Insurance
Company/Aegon USA (2015 – present).
Francine J. Rosenberger
(56)
Chief Compliance Officer Since 2019 Chief Compliance Officer, TF, TST and TET
(2019 – present);
Chief Compliance Officer, TAAVF (2019 – 2023);
Co-Derivatives Risk Manager, TF and TST
(2021 – present);
Co-Derivatives Risk Manager, TAAVF
(2021 – 2023);
Chief Compliance Officer (2019 – present), TAM;
(2022 – present), TFS;
General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Fund
Chief Compliance Officer, Steben & Company, Inc.
(2013 – 2019).
Christopher A. Staples,
CFA
(53)
Vice President and Chief
Investment Officer,
Advisory Services
Since 2005 Vice President and Chief Investment Officer,
Advisory Services, TF and TST (2007 – present);
Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, TET
(2017 – present);
Vice President and Chief Investment Officer,
Advisory Services, TAAVF (2007 – 2023);
Transamerica Funds Annual Report 2023
Page 22
Name and Age Position
Term of Office
and Length of
Time Served*
Principal Occupation(s) or Employment
During Past Five Years
Christopher A. Staples,
CFA
(continued)
Vice President and Chief Investment Officer,
Advisory Services, TPP, TPFG and TPFG II
(2007 – 2018);
Director (2005 – 2019), Senior Vice President
(2006 – present), Senior Director, Investments
(2016 – present), Chief Investment Officer, Advisory
Services (2012 – 2016) and Lead Portfolio Manager
(2007 – present), TAM;
Director, TFS (2005 – 2019);
Trust Officer, Massachusetts Fidelity Trust
Company (2010 – 2022);
Registered Representative (2007 – 2016),
Transamerica Capital, Inc. (“TCI”);
Registered Representative, TFA (2005 – present).
Vincent J. Toner
(53)
Vice President and
Treasurer
Since 2014 Vice President and Treasurer, TF and TST
(2014 – present),
Vice President and Treasurer, TAAVF
(2014 – 2023),
Vice President and Treasurer (2017 – present), Vice
President, Principal Financial Officer and Treasurer
(2020 – present), TET;
Vice President and Treasurer, TPP, TPFG and
TPFG II (2014 – 2018);
Vice President (2016 – present), Treasurer
(2016 – 2019), Vice President, Administration and
Treasurer (2014 – 2016), TAM;
Vice President, Administration and Treasurer
(2014 – 2019), Senior Vice President
(2019 – present), TFS;
Vice President (2016 – present), TCI;
Trust Officer (2015 – present), Massachusetts
Fidelity Trust Company.
Thomas R. Wald, CFA
(63)
Vice President and Chief
Investment Officer
Since 2014 Chief Investment Officer, TF and TST
(2014 – present); TET (2017 – present);
Chief Investment Officer, TAAVF (2014 – 2023);
Chief Investment Officer, TPP, TPFG and TPFG II
(2014 – 2018);
Director (2017 – 2020), Akaan Transamerica, S.A.
de C.V., Sociedad Operadora de Fondos de
Inversión;
Chief Investment Officer, Transamerica
Investments & Retirement (2014 – 2020);
Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer,
TAM (2014 – present);
Director, TFS (2019 – present);
Trust Officer, Massachusetts Fidelity Trust
Company (2015 – 2022).
* Elected and serves at the pleasure of the Board of the Trust.
Transamerica Funds Annual Report 2023
Page 23
Appendix A
S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio
TEN LARGEST HOLDINGS
Security
Percent of
Net Assets
Apple, Inc.
..............................................................
6.9%
Microsoft Corp.
..........................................................
6.9
Amazon.com, Inc.
.......................................................
3.4
NVIDIA Corp.
............................................................
3.0
Alphabet, Inc., Class A
...................................................
2.1
Meta Platforms, Inc., Class A
.............................................
1.9
Alphabet, Inc., Class C
..................................................
1.7
Tesla, Inc.
...............................................................
1.7
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., Class B
........................................
1.6
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
..................................................
1.2
SECTOR ALLOCATION
Sector
(a)
Percent of
Net Assets
Information Technology
..................................................
28.5%
Financials
...............................................................
12.8
Health Care
.............................................................
12.4
Consumer Discretionary
.................................................
10.7
Industrials
...............................................................
8.7
Communication Services
................................................
8.5
Consumer Staples
.......................................................
6.1
Energy
..................................................................
3.8
Real Estate
.............................................................
2.5
Materials
................................................................
2.4
Utilities
..................................................................
2.3
Investment Companies
..................................................
0.6
Short-Term Securities
....................................................
0.8
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets
......................................
(0.1)
(a)
For S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio (the “Master Portfolio”) compliance purposes, the Master Portfolio’s sector classifications refer to one or more of the sector subclassifications used by one
or more widely recognized market indexes or ratings group indexes, and/or as defined by the investment adviser. These definitions may not apply for purposes of this report, which may combine
such sector sub-classifications for reporting ease.
Master Portfolio Information as of December 31, 2023 S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio
M ASTER P ORTFOLIO I NFORMATION 1
Security Shares Value
Common Stocks
Aerospace & Defense 1.6%
Axon Enterprise, Inc.
(a)
............................
62,495 $ 16,144,333
Boeing Co.
(a)
.....................................
503,306 131,191,742
General Dynamics Corp.
..........................
201,164 52,236,256
Howmet Aerospace, Inc.
(b)
........................
347,601 18,812,166
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.
..................
35,040 9,097,786
L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
........................
168,092 35,403,537
Lockheed Martin Corp.
............................
196,002 88,835,947
Northrop Grumman Corp.
.........................
126,243 59,099,398
RTX Corp.
........................................
1,276,366 107,393,435
Textron, Inc.
......................................
176,036 14,156,815
TransDigm Group, Inc.
............................
48,983 49,551,203
581,922,618
Air Freight & Logistics 0.5%
CH Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
......................
103,358 8,929,098
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.
........
131,443 16,719,550
FedEx Corp.
......................................
205,392 51,958,014
United Parcel Service, Inc., Class B
................
642,014 100,943,861
178,550,523
Automobile Components 0.1%
Aptiv PLC
(a)
......................................
251,920 22,602,263
BorgWarner, Inc.
..................................
208,912 7,489,495
30,091,758
Automobiles 1.9%
Ford Motor Co.
...................................
3,498,879 42,651,335
General Motors Co.
(b)
.............................
1,212,535 43,554,257
Tesla, Inc.
(a)
......................................
2,451,127 609,056,037
695,261,629
Banks 3.2%
Bank of America Corp.
............................
6,111,486 205,773,734
Citigroup, Inc.
.....................................
1,709,344 87,928,655
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
.....................
419,751 13,910,548
Comerica, Inc.
....................................
117,856 6,577,543
Fifth Third Bancorp
................................
605,140 20,871,279
Huntington Bancshares, Inc.
.......................
1,286,805 16,368,160
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
...........................
2,566,230 436,515,723
KeyCorp.
.........................................
831,798 11,977,891
M&T Bank Corp.
..................................
147,664 20,241,781
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
................
353,795 54,785,156
Regions Financial Corp.
...........................
833,982 16,162,571
Truist Financial Corp.
.............................
1,183,321 43,688,211
U.S. Bancorp
.....................................
1,382,092 59,816,942
Wells Fargo & Co.
................................
3,223,658 158,668,447
Zions Bancorp NA
................................
128,196 5,623,958
1,158,910,599
Beverages 1.5%
Brown-Forman Corp., Class B
.....................
162,610 9,285,031
Coca-Cola Co.
....................................
3,454,643 203,582,112
Constellation Brands, Inc., Class A
.................
143,387 34,663,807
Keurig Dr. Pepper, Inc.
............................
894,106 29,791,612
Molson Coors Beverage Co., Class B
..............
164,962 10,097,324
Monster Beverage Corp.
(a)
........................
660,571 38,055,496
PepsiCo, Inc.
.....................................
1,221,918 207,530,553
533,005,935
Biotechnology 2.0%
AbbVie, Inc.
......................................
1,566,739 242,797,543
Amgen, Inc.
......................................
474,803 136,752,760
Security Shares Value
Biotechnology (continued)
Biogen, Inc.
(a)
.....................................
127,502 $ 32,993,693
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
..............................
1,106,021 89,598,761
Incyte Corp.
(a)
....................................
163,912 10,292,035
Moderna, Inc.
(a)(b)
.................................
295,905 29,427,752
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a)
................
94,748 83,216,221
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a)
....................
229,097 93,217,278
718,296,043
Broadline Retail 3.5%
Amazon.com, Inc.
(a)
...............................
8,072,325 1,226,509,061
eBay, Inc.
........................................
460,695 20,095,516
Etsy, Inc.
(a)
.......................................
109,329 8,861,115
1,255,465,692
Building Products 0.5%
A O Smith Corp.
..................................
112,403 9,266,503
Allegion PLC
.....................................
78,014 9,883,594
Builders FirstSource, Inc.
(a)
........................
109,537 18,286,107
Carrier Global Corp.
...............................
744,760 42,786,462
Johnson Controls International PLC
................
604,964 34,870,125
Masco Corp.
......................................
199,903 13,389,503
Trane Technologies PLC
..........................
201,336 49,105,850
177,588,144
Capital Markets 3.0%
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
..........................
89,828 34,119,369
Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
....................
682,675 35,533,234
BlackRock, Inc.
(c)
.................................
124,576 101,130,797
Blackstone, Inc., Class A
..........................
630,008 82,480,647
Cboe Global Markets, Inc.
.........................
93,778 16,745,000
Charles Schwab Corp.
............................
1,319,918 90,810,358
CME Group, Inc., Class A
.........................
319,328 67,250,477
FactSet Research Systems, Inc.
...................
33,902 16,172,949
Franklin Resources, Inc.
..........................
250,718 7,468,889
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
.......................
289,476 111,671,157
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.
....................
508,035 65,246,935
Invesco Ltd.
......................................
395,466 7,055,113
MarketAxess Holdings, Inc.
........................
32,636 9,557,453
Moody’s Corp.
....................................
140,080 54,709,645
Morgan Stanley
...................................
1,121,833 104,610,927
MSCI, Inc., Class A
...............................
70,309 39,770,286
Nasdaq, Inc.
......................................
301,293 17,517,175
Northern Trust Corp.
..............................
183,975 15,523,810
Raymond James Financial, Inc.
....................
167,047 18,625,740
S&P Global, Inc.
..................................
288,840 127,239,797
State Street Corp.
.................................
273,917 21,217,611
T Rowe Price Group, Inc.
..........................
199,343 21,467,248
1,065,924,617
Chemicals 1.6%
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
..................
197,190 53,990,622
Albemarle Corp.
..................................
105,109 15,186,148
Celanese Corp., Class A
..........................
88,774 13,792,816
CF Industries Holdings, Inc.
.......................
171,482 13,632,819
Corteva, Inc.
......................................
624,444 29,923,357
Dow, Inc.
.........................................
625,168 34,284,213
DuPont de Nemours, Inc.
..........................
381,731 29,366,566
Eastman Chemical Co.
............................
104,899 9,422,028
Ecolab, Inc.
.......................................
225,470 44,721,975
FMC Corp.
.......................................
108,860 6,863,623
International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc.
............
226,856 18,368,530
Linde PLC
........................................
430,417 176,776,566
LyondellBasell Industries NV, Class A
..............
227,611 21,641,254
Schedule of Investments
December 31, 2023
S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio
(Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)
2 2023 B LACKR OCK A NNUAL R EPORT TO S HAREHOLDERS
Security Shares Value
Chemicals (continued)
Mosaic Co.
.......................................
294,232 $ 10,512,909
PPG Industries, Inc.
...............................
209,312 31,302,610
Sherwin-Williams Co.
.............................
209,997 65,498,064
575,284,100
Commercial Services & Supplies 0.6%
Cintas Corp.
......................................
76,830 46,302,368
Copart, Inc.
(a)
.....................................
771,913 37,823,737
Republic Services, Inc.
............................
182,738 30,135,324
Rollins, Inc.
.......................................
249,230 10,883,874
Veralto Corp.
.....................................
194,675 16,013,965
Waste Management, Inc.
..........................
327,190 58,599,729
199,758,997
Communications Equipment 0.8%
Arista Networks, Inc.
(a)
............................
222,638 52,433,475
Cisco Systems, Inc.
...............................
3,595,500 181,644,660
F5, Inc.
(a)
.........................................
52,708 9,433,678
Juniper Networks, Inc.
............................
285,609 8,419,753
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
...........................
148,287 46,427,177
298,358,743
Construction & Engineering 0.1%
Quanta Services, Inc.
.............................
129,091 27,857,838
Construction Materials 0.2%
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.
.....................
54,916 27,398,141
Vulcan Materials Co.
..............................
118,085 26,806,476
54,204,617
Consumer Finance 0.5%
American Express Co.
............................
511,034 95,737,110
Capital One Financial Corp.
.......................
338,745 44,416,245
Discover Financial Services
.......................
222,486 25,007,426
Synchrony Financial
..............................
371,660 14,193,695
179,354,476
Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail 1.8%
Costco Wholesale Corp.
..........................
393,359 259,648,409
Dollar General Corp.
..............................
194,697 26,469,057
Dollar Tree, Inc.
(a)
.................................
186,074 26,431,812
Kroger Co.
.......................................
586,865 26,825,599
Sysco Corp.
......................................
448,741 32,816,429
Target Corp.
......................................
409,905 58,378,670
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
.....................
636,795 16,626,717
Walmart, Inc.
.....................................
1,266,852 199,719,218
646,915,911
Containers & Packaging 0.2%
Amcor PLC
.......................................
1,307,745 12,606,662
Avery Dennison Corp.
.............................
71,618 14,478,295
Ball Corp.
........................................
280,009 16,106,118
International Paper Co.
............................
307,507 11,116,378
Packaging Corp. of America
.......................
79,912 13,018,464
Westrock Co.
.....................................
227,768 9,456,927
76,782,844
Distributors 0.1%
Genuine Parts Co.
................................
124,814 17,286,739
LKQ Corp.
........................................
238,064 11,377,079
Pool Corp.
........................................
34,707 13,838,028
42,501,846
Security Shares Value
DiversifiedTelecommunication Services 0.7%
AT&T, Inc.
........................................
6,345,790 $ 106,482,356
Verizon Communications, Inc.
.....................
3,731,704 140,685,241
247,167,597
Electric Utilities 1.5%
Alliant Energy Corp.
...............................
224,604 11,522,185
American Electric Power Co., Inc.
..................
457,682 37,172,932
Constellation Energy Corp.
........................
285,624 33,386,589
Duke Energy Corp.
...............................
684,117 66,386,714
Edison International
...............................
340,675 24,354,856
Entergy Corp.
.....................................
186,928 18,915,244
Evergy, Inc.
.......................................
204,148 10,656,526
Eversource Energy
...............................
310,250 19,148,630
Exelon Corp.
.....................................
884,475 31,752,652
FirstEnergy Corp.
.................................
458,618 16,812,936
NextEra Energy, Inc.
..............................
1,796,344 109,109,935
NRG Energy, Inc.
.................................
203,628 10,527,568
PG&E Corp.
......................................
1,857,648 33,493,393
Pinnacle West Capital Corp.
.......................
100,706 7,234,719
PPL Corp.
........................................
655,088 17,752,885
Southern Co.
.....................................
968,021 67,877,633
Xcel Energy, Inc.
..................................
490,175 30,346,734
546,452,131
Electrical Equipment 0.6%
AMETEK, Inc.
....................................
205,105 33,819,764
Eaton Corp. PLC
..................................
354,171 85,291,460
Emerson Electric Co.
..............................
507,583 49,403,053
Generac Holdings, Inc.
(a)
..........................
56,265 7,271,689
Hubbell, Inc.
......................................
47,293 15,556,087
Rockwell Automation, Inc.
.........................
102,257 31,748,753
223,090,806
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components 0.6%
Amphenol Corp., Class A
..........................
529,575 52,496,770
CDW Corp.
.......................................
119,139 27,082,677
Corning, Inc.
......................................
683,388 20,809,165
Jabil, Inc.
.........................................
113,572 14,469,073
Keysight Technologies, Inc.
(a)
......................
158,740 25,253,947
TE Connectivity Ltd.
..............................
276,445 38,840,522
Teledyne Technologies, Inc.
(a)
.....................
41,838 18,671,881
Trimble, Inc.
(a)
....................................
220,696 11,741,027
Zebra Technologies Corp., Class A
(a)
..............
45,627 12,471,228
221,836,290
Energy Equipment & Services 0.4%
Baker Hughes Co., Class A
........................
897,461 30,675,217
Halliburton Co.
....................................
798,937 28,881,573
Schlumberger NV
.................................
1,261,512 65,649,084
125,205,874
Entertainment 1.2%
Electronic Arts, Inc.
...............................
219,103 29,975,482
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.
(a)(b)
................
126,007 11,794,255
Netflix, Inc.
(a)
.....................................
388,511 189,158,236
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
(a)
..............
140,335 22,586,918
Walt Disney Co.
..................................
1,624,198 146,648,837
Warner Bros Discovery, Inc., Class A
(a)(b)
..........
1,972,734 22,449,713
422,613,441
Financial Services 4.1%
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., Class B
(a)
...............
1,615,045 576,021,950
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.
.........
520,598 31,272,322
Fiserv, Inc.
(a)
......................................
532,761 70,771,971
Schedule of Investments (continued)
December 31, 2023
S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio
(Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)
M
ASTER P ORTFOLIO S CHEDULE OF I NVESTMENTS 3
Security Shares Value
Financial Services (continued)
FleetCor Technologies, Inc.
(a)
......................
64,093 $ 18,113,323
Global Payments, Inc.
.............................
231,070 29,345,890
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.
.....................
64,027 10,462,652
Mastercard, Inc., Class A
..........................
735,061 313,510,867
PayPal Holdings, Inc.
(a)
...........................
957,021 58,770,659
Visa, Inc., Class A
................................
1,414,929 368,376,765
1,476,646,399
Food Products 0.9%
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.
.......................
476,624 34,421,785
Bunge Global SA
.................................
128,966 13,019,118
Campbell Soup Co.
...............................
174,853 7,558,895
Conagra Brands, Inc.
.............................
424,704 12,172,017
General Mills, Inc.
.................................
520,021 33,874,168
Hershey Co.
......................................
133,183 24,830,638
Hormel Foods Corp.
..............................
255,218 8,195,050
J M Smucker Co.
.................................
94,176 11,901,963
Kellanova
........................................
229,914 12,854,492
Kraft Heinz Co.
...................................
709,622 26,241,822
Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.
.......................
129,112 13,955,716
McCormick & Co., Inc.
............................
223,165 15,268,949
Mondelez International, Inc., Class A
...............
1,207,571 87,464,368
Tyson Foods, Inc., Class A
........................
253,782 13,640,782
315,399,763
Gas Utilities 0.0%
Atmos Energy Corp.
..............................
131,515 15,242,588
Ground Transportation 1.1%
CSX Corp.
........................................
1,754,131 60,815,722
JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
...................
72,560 14,493,134
Norfolk Southern Corp.
............................
201,767 47,693,683
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.
....................
79,699 32,304,396
Uber Technologies, Inc.
(a)
.........................
1,826,676 112,468,441
Union Pacific Corp.
...............................
540,982 132,875,999
400,651,375
Health Care Equipment & Supplies 2.5%
Abbott Laboratories
...............................
1,540,386 169,550,287
Align Technology, Inc.
(a)
...........................
63,258 17,332,692
Baxter International, Inc.
..........................
450,067 17,399,590
Becton Dickinson & Co.
...........................
257,514 62,789,639
Boston Scientific Corp.
(a)
..........................
1,299,713 75,136,409
Cooper Cos., Inc.
(b)
...............................
44,000 16,651,360
DENTSPLY SIRONA, Inc.
.........................
182,492 6,494,890
Dexcom, Inc.
(a)(b)
.................................
344,389 42,735,231
Edwards Lifesciences Corp.
(a)(b)
...................
535,886 40,861,308
GE HealthCare, Inc.
(a)(b)
..........................
347,213 26,846,509
Hologic, Inc.
(a)
....................................
217,692 15,554,093
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
(a)(b)
......................
73,830 40,979,341
Insulet Corp.
(a)(b)
..................................
62,053 13,464,260
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
(a)
...........................
311,879 105,215,499
Medtronic PLC
....................................
1,181,597 97,339,961
ResMed, Inc.
.....................................
130,585 22,463,232
STERIS PLC
.....................................
87,676 19,275,569
Stryker Corp.
.....................................
300,027 89,846,085
Teleflex, Inc.
(b)
....................................
41,424 10,328,660
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.
.....................
185,964 22,631,819
912,896,434
Health Care Providers & Services 2.8%
Cardinal Health, Inc.
..............................
218,780 22,053,024
Cencora, Inc.
.....................................
146,956 30,181,823
Centene Corp.
(a)
..................................
474,188 35,189,492
Security Shares Value
Health Care Providers & Services (continued)
Cigna Group
......................................
259,747 $ 77,781,239
CVS Health Corp.
.................................
1,140,093 90,021,743
DaVita, Inc.
(a)
.....................................
45,877 4,806,075
Elevance Health, Inc.
.............................
209,172 98,637,148
HCA Healthcare, Inc.
..............................
175,818 47,590,416
Henry Schein, Inc.
(a)(b)
............................
115,839 8,770,171
Humana, Inc.
.....................................
109,986 50,352,691
Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings
..............
75,362 17,129,029
McKesson Corp.
..................................
118,114 54,684,420
Molina Healthcare, Inc.
(a)
..........................
51,814 18,720,916
Quest Diagnostics, Inc.
............................
99,749 13,753,392
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
..........................
821,018 432,241,346
Universal Health Services, Inc., Class B
............
55,227 8,418,804
1,010,331,729
Health Care REITs 0.2%
Healthpeak Properties, Inc.
........................
486,194 9,626,641
Ventas, Inc.
.......................................
357,613 17,823,432
Welltower, Inc.
....................................
490,027 44,185,735
71,635,808
Hotel & Resort REITs 0.0%
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.
........................
632,439 12,313,587
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure 2.1%
Airbnb, Inc., Class A
(a)(b)
..........................
378,622 51,545,599
Booking Holdings, Inc.
(a)
..........................
30,970 109,857,403
Caesars Entertainment, Inc.
(a)
.....................
187,957 8,811,424
Carnival Corp.
(a)
..................................
895,273 16,598,361
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.
(a)
......................
24,488 56,003,077
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
..........................
107,426 17,650,092
Domino’s Pizza, Inc.
..............................
31,190 12,857,454
Expedia Group, Inc.
(a)
.............................
118,347 17,963,891
Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc.
(b)
..................
227,631 41,449,329
Las Vegas Sands Corp.
...........................
292,143 14,376,357
Marriott International, Inc., Class A
.................
218,986 49,383,533
McDonald’s Corp.
.................................
643,856 190,909,743
MGM Resorts International
........................
249,482 11,146,856
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.
(a)(b)
...........
369,502 7,404,820
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
(a)
....................
209,200 27,089,308
Starbucks Corp.
..................................
1,016,711 97,614,423
Wynn Resorts Ltd.
................................
86,072 7,842,020
Yum! Brands, Inc.
.................................
248,981 32,531,857
771,035,547
Household Durables 0.4%
D.R. Horton, Inc.
..................................
267,509 40,656,018
Garmin Ltd.
.......................................
136,122 17,497,122
Lennar Corp., Class A
.............................
221,964 33,081,515
Mohawk Industries, Inc.
(a)
.........................
47,669 4,933,741
NVR, Inc.
(a)
.......................................
2,822 19,755,270
PulteGroup, Inc.
..................................
191,375 19,753,727
Whirlpool Corp.
...................................
48,323 5,884,292
141,561,685
Household Products 1.2%
Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
.........................
218,674 20,677,813
Clorox Co.
........................................
110,050 15,692,030
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
............................
733,811 58,492,075
Kimberly-Clark Corp.
..............................
300,602 36,526,149
Procter & Gamble Co.
.............................
2,092,456 306,628,502
438,016,569
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4 2023 B LACKR OCK A NNUAL R EPORT TO S HAREHOLDERS
Security Shares Value
Independent Power and Renewable Electricity Producers 0.0%
AES Corp.
........................................
595,133 $ 11,456,310
Industrial Conglomerates 0.8%
3M Co.
...........................................
490,129 53,580,902
General Electric Co.
..............................
966,096 123,302,833
Honeywell International, Inc.
.......................
585,190 122,720,195
299,603,930
Industrial REITs 0.3%
Prologis, Inc.
.....................................
820,063 109,314,398
Insurance 2.0%
Aflac, Inc.
........................................
472,045 38,943,713
Allstate Corp.
.....................................
232,474 32,541,711
American International Group, Inc.
.................
622,266 42,158,522
Aon PLC, Class A
.................................
177,724 51,721,238
Arch Capital Group Ltd.
(a)(b)
.......................
332,587 24,701,236
Arthur J Gallagher & Co.
..........................
191,296 43,018,644
Assurant, Inc.
.....................................
45,723 7,703,868
Brown & Brown, Inc.
..............................
209,211 14,876,994
Chubb Ltd.
.......................................
364,588 82,396,888
Cincinnati Financial Corp.
.........................
139,406 14,422,945
Everest Group Ltd.
................................
38,527 13,622,377
Globe Life, Inc.
...................................
77,281 9,406,643
Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
............
266,981 21,459,933
Loews Corp.
......................................
164,345 11,436,769
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc.
.....................
438,457 83,074,448
MetLife, Inc.
......................................
551,911 36,497,874
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
.....................
197,638 15,548,181
Progressive Corp.
.................................
519,570 82,757,110
Prudential Financial, Inc.
..........................
319,190 33,103,195
Travelers Cos., Inc.
...............................
203,451 38,755,381
W.R. Berkley Corp.
...............................
180,810 12,786,883
Willis Towers Watson PLC
.........................
91,637 22,102,844
733,037,397
Interactive Media & Services
(a)
5.7%
Alphabet, Inc., Class A
............................
5,253,167 733,814,898
Alphabet, Inc., Class C
............................
4,421,208 623,080,843
Match Group, Inc.
.................................
247,150 9,020,975
Meta Platforms, Inc., Class A
......................
1,970,254 697,391,106
2,063,307,822
IT Services 1.2%
Accenture PLC, Class A
...........................
557,106 195,494,066
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
(a)
.......................
135,090 15,987,902
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., Class A
....
449,145 33,923,922
EPAM Systems, Inc.
(a)
............................
51,513 15,316,875
Gartner, Inc.
(a)
....................................
69,192 31,213,203
International Business Machines Corp.
.............
808,652 132,255,035
VeriSign, Inc.
(a)
...................................
79,744 16,424,074
440,615,077
Leisure Products 0.0%
Hasbro, Inc.
......................................
115,908 5,918,262
Life Sciences Tools & Services 1.4%
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
.........................
259,718 36,108,594
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Class A
(a)
..............
18,560 5,992,838
Bio-Techne Corp.
.................................
138,783 10,708,496
Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.
(a)(b)
...
44,912 10,617,197
Danaher Corp.
....................................
583,302 134,941,085
Illumina, Inc.
(a)
....................................
141,756 19,738,105
IQVIA Holdings, Inc.
(a)(b)
..........................
162,824 37,674,217
Mettler-Toledo International, Inc.
(a)
.................
19,453 23,595,711
Security Shares Value
Life Sciences Tools & Services (continued)
Revvity, Inc.
......................................
110,325 $ 12,059,626
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.
......................
342,587 181,841,754
Waters Corp.
(a)
...................................
52,528 17,293,793
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
................
65,644 23,114,565
513,685,981
Machinery 1.8%
Caterpillar, Inc.
...................................
452,827 133,887,359
Cummins, Inc.
....................................
125,990 30,183,424
Deere & Co.
......................................
237,751 95,069,492
Dover Corp.
......................................
124,313 19,120,583
Fortive Corp.
.....................................
313,634 23,092,871
IDEX Corp.
.......................................
67,191 14,587,838
Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
............................
244,258 63,980,941
Ingersoll Rand, Inc.
...............................
359,199 27,780,451
Nordson Corp.
....................................
48,026 12,686,548
Otis Worldwide Corp.
.............................
365,941 32,740,741
PACCAR, Inc.
....................................
464,583 45,366,530
Parker-Hannifin Corp.
.............................
113,882 52,465,437
Pentair PLC
......................................
145,367 10,569,635
Snap-on, Inc.
.....................................
47,030 13,584,145
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
.......................
134,025 13,147,853
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp.
.......
159,202 20,202,734
Xylem, Inc./New York
.............................
213,875 24,458,745
632,925,327
Media 0.7%
Charter Communications, Inc., Class A
(a)(b)
.........
89,286 34,703,682
Comcast Corp., Class A
...........................
3,564,515 156,303,983
Fox Corp., Class A
................................
225,462 6,689,458
Fox Corp., Class B
................................
113,463 3,137,252
Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc.
.....................
342,111 11,166,503
News Corp., Class A
..............................
337,277 8,280,150
News Corp., Class B
..............................
99,061 2,547,849
Omnicom Group, Inc.
.............................
175,591 15,190,377
Paramount Global, Class B
........................
428,569 6,338,536
244,357,790
Metals & Mining 0.4%
Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.
..........................
1,273,524 54,213,917
Newmont Corp.
...................................
1,015,489 42,031,090
Nucor Corp.
......................................
218,221 37,979,183
Steel Dynamics, Inc.
..............................
138,383 16,343,032
150,567,222
Multi-Utilities 0.7%
Ameren Corp.
....................................
231,618 16,755,246
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
..........................
560,965 16,026,770
CMS Energy Corp.
................................
259,272 15,055,925
Consolidated Edison, Inc.
.........................
306,551 27,886,945
Dominion Energy, Inc.
.............................
743,356 34,937,732
DTE Energy Co.
..................................
183,012 20,178,903
NiSource, Inc.
....................................
362,317 9,619,516
Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc.
..............
443,585 27,125,223
Sempra
..........................................
559,226 41,790,959
WEC Energy Group, Inc.
..........................
280,526 23,611,873
232,989,092
Office REITs 0.1%
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
...............
138,401 17,545,095
Boston Properties, Inc.
............................
129,325 9,074,735
26,619,830
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels 3.5%
APA Corp.
........................................
273,082 9,798,182
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ASTER P ORTFOLIO S CHEDULE OF I NVESTMENTS 5
Security Shares Value
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels (continued)
Chevron Corp.
....................................
1,558,380 $ 232,447,961
ConocoPhillips
....................................
1,054,014 122,339,405
Coterra Energy, Inc.
...............................
673,491 17,187,490
Devon Energy Corp.
..............................
569,422 25,794,817
Diamondback Energy, Inc.
.........................
158,903 24,642,677
EOG Resources, Inc.
.............................
516,842 62,512,040
EQT Corp.
........................................
321,423 12,426,213
Exxon Mobil Corp.
................................
3,555,675 355,496,386
Hess Corp.
.......................................
245,738 35,425,590
Kinder Morgan, Inc.
...............................
1,722,845 30,390,986
Marathon Oil Corp.
................................
538,304 13,005,425
Marathon Petroleum Corp.
........................
337,041 50,003,403
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
.......................
589,900 35,222,929
ONEOK, Inc.
.....................................
517,730 36,355,001
Phillips 66
........................................
390,531 51,995,297
Pioneer Natural Resources Co.
....................
206,947 46,538,241
Targa Resources Corp.
............................
198,824 17,271,841
Valero Energy Corp.
..............................
302,207 39,286,910
Williams Cos., Inc.
................................
1,081,063 37,653,424
1,255,794,218
Passenger Airlines 0.2%
American Airlines Group, Inc.
(a)
....................
580,675 7,978,474
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
...............................
572,882 23,047,043
Southwest Airlines Co.
............................
529,370 15,288,206
United Airlines Holdings, Inc.
(a)
....................
291,492 12,026,960
58,340,683
Personal Care Products 0.2%
Estee Lauder Cos., Inc., Class A
...................
206,747 30,236,749
Kenvue, Inc.
......................................
1,532,972 33,004,887
63,241,636
Pharmaceuticals 3.7%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
..........................
1,806,171 92,674,634
Catalent, Inc.
(a)
...................................
159,343 7,159,281
Eli Lilly & Co.
.....................................
707,817 412,600,686
Johnson & Johnson
...............................
2,137,467 335,026,577
Merck & Co., Inc.
.................................
2,252,423 245,559,155
Pfizer, Inc.
........................................
5,011,620 144,284,540
Viatris, Inc.
.......................................
1,057,404 11,451,685
Zoetis, Inc., Class A
...............................
408,599 80,645,185
1,329,401,743
Professional Services 0.7%
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
...................
365,699 85,196,896
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
................
104,976 21,598,812
Ceridian HCM Holding, Inc.
(a)
......................
136,503 9,162,081
Equifax, Inc.
......................................
109,097 26,978,597
Jacobs Solutions, Inc.
.............................
111,910 14,525,918
Leidos Holdings, Inc.
..............................
122,071 13,212,965
Paychex, Inc.
.....................................
285,345 33,987,443
Paycom Software, Inc.
............................
43,068 8,903,017
Robert Half, Inc.
..................................
94,394 8,299,121
Verisk Analytics, Inc.
..............................
128,947 30,800,280
252,665,130
Real Estate Management & Development
(a)(b)
0.2%
CBRE Group, Inc., Class A
........................
270,552 25,185,686
CoStar Group, Inc.
................................
363,087 31,730,173
56,915,859
Residential REITs 0.3%
AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
......................
126,320 23,649,630
Camden Property Trust
...........................
94,755 9,408,224
Security Shares Value
Residential REITs (continued)
Equity Residential
.................................
306,547 $ 18,748,415
Essex Property Trust, Inc.
.........................
57,043 14,143,241
Invitation Homes, Inc.
.............................
511,243 17,438,499
Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.
.........
102,852 13,829,480
UDR, Inc.
.........................................
269,399 10,315,288
107,532,777
Retail REITs 0.3%
Federal Realty Investment Trust
...................
63,401 6,533,473
Kimco Realty Corp.
...............................
545,873 11,632,554
Realty Income Corp.
..............................
629,154 36,126,023
Regency Centers Corp.
...........................
146,221 9,796,807
Simon Property Group, Inc.
........................
290,591 41,449,900
105,538,757
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment 8.0%
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
(a)
...................
1,434,146 211,407,462
Analog Devices, Inc.
..............................
445,082 88,375,482
Applied Materials, Inc.
.............................
745,399 120,806,816
Broadcom, Inc.
...................................
389,321 434,579,566
Enphase Energy, Inc.
(a)
...........................
121,185 16,013,386
First Solar, Inc.
(a)(b)
...............................
94,828 16,336,968
Intel Corp.
........................................
3,717,466 186,802,666
KLA Corp.
........................................
121,359 70,545,987
Lam Research Corp.
..............................
116,986 91,630,454
Microchip Technology, Inc.
........................
484,011 43,648,112
Micron Technology, Inc.
...........................
972,242 82,971,132
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
....................
42,410 26,751,380
NVIDIA Corp.
.....................................
2,192,489 1,085,764,403
NXP Semiconductors NV
..........................
229,016 52,600,395
ON Semiconductor Corp.
(a)(b)
......................
380,020 31,743,071
Qorvo, Inc.
(a)
.....................................
87,017 9,798,984
QUALCOMM, Inc.
................................
990,614 143,272,503
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
..........................
141,660 15,925,417
Teradyne, Inc.
(b)
..................................
136,880 14,854,218
Texas Instruments, Inc.
............................
805,953 137,382,748
2,881,211,150
Software 10.6%
Adobe, Inc.
(a)
.....................................
404,590 241,378,394
ANSYS, Inc.
(a)
....................................
77,188 28,009,981
Autodesk, Inc.
(a)
..................................
189,963 46,252,191
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
(a)
..................
241,254 65,710,352
Fair Isaac Corp.
(a)
.................................
22,092 25,715,309
Fortinet, Inc.
(a)
....................................
574,002 33,596,337
Gen Digital, Inc.
..................................
500,105 11,412,396
Intuit, Inc.
.........................................
248,594 155,378,708
Microsoft Corp.
...................................
6,595,009 2,479,987,184
Oracle Corp.
......................................
1,397,397 147,327,566
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
(a)
.........................
271,491 80,057,266
PTC, Inc.
(a)
.......................................
105,482 18,455,131
Roper Technologies, Inc.
..........................
94,722 51,639,593
Salesforce, Inc.
(a)
.................................
864,568 227,502,424
ServiceNow, Inc.
(a)
................................
181,080 127,931,209
Synopsys, Inc.
(a)(b)
................................
135,064 69,545,804
Tyler Technologies, Inc.
(a)
.........................
37,092 15,508,907
3,825,408,752
Specialized REITs 1.1%
American Tower Corp.
............................
413,782 89,327,258
Crown Castle, Inc.
................................
385,376 44,391,461
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
...........................
268,765 36,170,394
Equinix, Inc.
......................................
83,053 66,890,056
Extra Space Storage, Inc.
.........................
187,845 30,117,189
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(Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)
6 2023 B LACKR OCK A NNUAL R EPORT TO S HAREHOLDERS
Security Shares Value
Specialized REITs (continued)
Iron Mountain, Inc.
................................
259,383 $ 18,151,622
Public Storage
....................................
139,435 42,527,675
SBA Communications Corp.
.......................
96,325 24,436,689
VICI Properties, Inc.
..............................
900,684 28,713,806
Weyerhaeuser Co.
................................
649,675 22,589,200
403,315,350
Specialty Retail 2.0%
AutoZone, Inc.
(a)(b)
................................
15,653 40,472,553
Bath & Body Works, Inc.
..........................
198,415 8,563,591
Best Buy Co., Inc.
.................................
172,602 13,511,285
CarMax, Inc.
(a)(b)
..................................
140,609 10,790,335
Home Depot, Inc.
.................................
887,718 307,638,673
Lowe’s Cos., Inc.
.................................
512,281 114,008,137
O’Reilly Automotive, Inc.
(a)(b)
......................
52,516 49,894,401
Ross Stores, Inc.
.................................
302,590 41,875,430
TJX Cos., Inc.
....................................
1,020,118 95,697,270
Tractor Supply Co.
................................
96,801 20,815,119
Ulta Beauty, Inc.
(a)
................................
43,548 21,338,084
724,604,878
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals 7.2%
Apple, Inc.
........................................
12,977,209 2,498,502,049
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.
....................
1,149,509 19,518,663
HP, Inc.
...........................................
770,722 23,191,025
NetApp, Inc.
......................................
187,362 16,517,834
Seagate Technology Holdings PLC
................
170,763 14,578,037
Western Digital Corp.
(a)
...........................
284,344 14,891,095
2,587,198,703
Textiles, Apparel & Luxur y Goods 0.5%
Lululemon Athletica, Inc.
(a)
........................
102,805 52,563,169
NIKE, Inc., Class B
...............................
1,087,433 118,062,601
Ralph Lauren Corp., Class A
......................
34,392 4,959,326
Tapestry, Inc.
.....................................
200,026 7,362,957
VF Corp.
.........................................
285,714 5,371,423
188,319,476
Tobacco 0.5%
Altria Group, Inc.
..................................
1,575,228 63,544,697
Philip Morris International, Inc.
.....................
1,377,935 129,636,125
193,180,822
Trading Companies & Distributors 0.3%
Fastenal Co.
......................................
507,575 32,875,633
Security Shares Value
Trading Companies & Distributors (continued)
United Rentals, Inc.
...............................
60,686 $ 34,798,566
WW Grainger, Inc.
................................
39,520 32,749,829
100,424,028
Water Utilities 0.1%
American Water Works Co., Inc.
...................
173,010 22,835,590
Wireless Telecommunication Services 0.2%
T-Mobile U.S., Inc.
................................
451,684 72,418,496
Total Common Stocks 98.7%
(Cost: $14,450,053,546)
..........................................
35,540,881,039
Investment Companies
Equity Funds 0.6%
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF
(c)
.....................
480,032 229,277,684
Total Investment Companies 0.6%
(Cost: $193,523,401)
..............................................
229,277,684
Total Long-Term Investments 99.3%
(Cost: $14,643,576,947)
..........................................
35,770,158,723
Short-Term Securities
Money Market Funds 0.8%
BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional, SL Agency
Shares, 5.54%
(c)(d)(e)
...........................
213,402,184 213,530,225
BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL Agency
Shares, 5.33%
(c)(d)
.............................
84,851,864 84,851,864
Total Short-Term Securities 0.8%
(Cost: $298,271,635)
..............................................
298,382,089
Total Investments 100.1%
(Cost: $14,941,848,582)
..........................................
36,068,540,812
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets (0.1)%
......................
(42,160,164)
Net Assets 100.0%
...............................................
$ 36,026,380,648
(a)
Non-income producing security.
(b)
All or a portion of this security is on loan.
(c)
Affiliate of the Master Portfolio.
(d)
Annualized 7-day yield as of period end.
(e)
All or a portion of this security was purchased with the cash collateral from loaned
securities.
For Master Portfolio compliance purposes, the Master Portfolio’s industry classifications refer to one or more of the industry sub-classifications used by one or more widely
recognized market indexes or rating group indexes, and/or as defined by the investment adviser. These definitions may not apply for purposes of this report, which may
combine such industry sub-classifications for reporting ease.
Schedule of Investments (continued)
December 31, 2023
S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio
(Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)
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Affiliates
Investments in issuers considered to be affiliate(s) of the Master Portfolio during the year ended December 31, 2023 for purposes of Section 2(a)(3) of the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended, were as follows:
Affiliated Issuer
Value at
12/31/22
Purchases
at Cost
Proceeds
from Sale
Net
Realized
Gain (Loss)
Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
Value at
12/31/23
Shares
Held at
12/31/23 Income
Capital Gain
Distributions
from
Underlying
Funds
BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional, SL
Agency Shares
.......................
$ 304,198,748 $ $ (90,712,273)
(a)
$ 66,303 $ (22,553) $ 213,530,225
213,402,184
$ 530,599
(b)
$—
BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL
Agency Shares
.......................
113,361,188 (28,509,324)
(a)
84,851,864
84,851,864
5,310,052
BlackRock, Inc.
.........................
97,239,626 1,761,199 (10,597,099) 545,813 12,181,258 101,130,797
124,576
2,689,555
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF
.............
195,527,543 1,919,111,389 (1,946,438,546) 30,910,729 30,166,569 229,277,684 480,032 4,641,118
$ 31,522,845 $ 42,325,274 $ 628,790,570 $ 13,171,324 $
(a)
Represents net amount purchased (sold).
(b)
All or a portion represents securities lending income earned from the reinvestment of cash collateral from loaned securities, net of fees and collateral investment expenses, and other
payments to and from borrowers of securities.
Derivative Financial Instruments Outstanding as of Period End
Futures Contracts
Description
Number of
Contracts
Expiration
Date
Notional
Amount (000)
Value/
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
Long Contracts
S&P 500 E-Mini Index
..................................................................................
1,396 03/15/24 $ 336,436 $ 1,067,064
Derivative Financial Instruments Categorized by Risk Exposure
As of period end, the fair values of derivative financial instruments located in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities were as follows:
Commodity
Contracts
Credit
Contracts
Equity
Contracts
Foreign
Currency
Exchange
Contracts
Interest
Rate
Contracts
Other
Contracts Total
Assets Derivative Financial Instruments
Futures contracts
Unrealized appreciation on futures contracts
(a)
......................
$ $ $ 1,067,064 $ $ $ $ 1,067,064
(a)
Net cumulative unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on futures contracts and centrally cleared swaps, if any, are reported in the Master Portfolio Schedule of Investments. In the
Statement of Assets and Liabilities, only current day’s variation margin is reported in receivables or payables and the net cumulative unrealized appreciation (depreciation) is included in
net unrealized appreciation (depreciation).
For the period ended December 31, 2023, the effect of derivative financial instruments in the Statement of Operations was as follows:
Commodity
Contracts
Credit
Contracts
Equity
Contracts
Foreign
Currency
Exchange
Contracts
Interest
Rate
Contracts
Other
Contracts Total
Net Realized Gain (Loss) from:
Futures contracts
...................................................
$ $ $ 19,611,777 $ $ $ $ 19,611,777
Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on:
Futures contracts
...................................................
$ $ $ 1,530,752 $ $ $ $ 1,530,752
Average Quarterly Balances of Outstanding Derivative Financial Instruments
Futures contracts:
Average notional value of contracts long
....................................................................................................................
$173,897,184
Schedule of Investments (continued)
December 31, 2023
S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio
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For more information about the Master Portfolio’s investment risks regarding derivative financial instruments, refer to the Notes to Financial Statements.
Fair Value Hierarchy as of Period End
Various inputs are used in determining the fair value of financial instruments. For a description of the input levels and information about the Master Portfolio’s policy regarding
valuation of financial instruments, refer to the Notes to Financial Statements.
The following table summarizes the Master Portfolio’s financial instruments categorized in the fair value hierarchy. The breakdown of the Master Portfolio’s financial instruments
into major categories is disclosed in the Schedule of Investments above.
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
Assets
Investments
Long-Term Investments
Common Stocks
..........................................................
$ 35,540,881,039 $ $ $ 35,540,881,039
Investment Companies
....................................................
229,277,684 229,277,684
Short-Term Securities
Money Market Funds
......................................................
298,382,089 298,382,089
$ 36,068,540,812 $ $ $ 36,068,540,812
Derivative Financial Instruments
(a)
Assets
Equity Contracts
.............................................................
$ 1,067,064 $ $ $ 1,067,064
(a)
Derivative financial instruments are futures contracts. Futures contracts are valued at the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on the instrument.
See notes to financial statements.
Schedule of Investments (continued)
December 31, 2023
S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio
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S&P 500 Index
Master Portfolio
ASSETS
Investments, at value unaffiliated
(a)(b)
...............................................................................................................................
$ 35,439,750,242
Investments, at value affiliated
(c)
....................................................................................................................................
628,790,570
Cash
.................................................................................................................................................................
140,360
Cash pledged for futures contracts
....................................................................................................................................
4,374,000
Receivables:
Investments sold
...................................................................................................................................................
248,857,478
Securities lending income affiliated
...............................................................................................................................
41,555
Dividends unaffiliated
............................................................................................................................................
32,761,336
Dividends affiliated
..............................................................................................................................................
366,438
Variation margin on futures contracts
................................................................................................................................
1,226
Prepaid expenses
....................................................................................................................................................
24,677
Total assets
..........................................................................................................................................................
36,355,107,882
LIABILITIES
Collateral on securities loaned
.........................................................................................................................................
213,354,032
Payables:
Investments purchased
.............................................................................................................................................
24,848,169
Withdrawals to investors
............................................................................................................................................
90,070,442
Investment advisory fees
...........................................................................................................................................
292,193
Trustees’ fees
......................................................................................................................................................
66,998
Professional fees
..................................................................................................................................................
95,400
Total liabilities
........................................................................................................................................................
328,727,234
Commitments and contingent liabilities
NET ASSETS
........................................................................................................................................................
$ 36,026,380,648
NET ASSETS CONSIST OF
Investors’ capital
......................................................................................................................................................
$ 14,898,621,354
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
.............................................................................................................................
21,127,759,294
NET ASSETS
........................................................................................................................................................
$ 36,026,380,648
(a)
Investments, at cost unaffiliated
.................................................................................................................................
$ 14,406,464,693
(b)
Securities loaned, at value
.........................................................................................................................................
$ 207,091,995
(c)
Investments, at cost affiliated
...................................................................................................................................
$ 535,383,889
See notes to financial statements.
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
December 31, 2023
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S&P 500 Index
Master Portfolio
INVESTMENT INCOME
Dividends unaffiliated
............................................................................................................................................
$ 529,735,702
Dividends affiliated
...............................................................................................................................................
12,640,725
Interest unaffiliated
...............................................................................................................................................
301,777
Securities lending income affiliated net
.........................................................................................................................
530,599
Foreign taxes withheld
..............................................................................................................................................
(2,678,121)
Total investment income
...............................................................................................................................................
540,530,682
EXPENSES
Investment advisory
................................................................................................................................................
3,294,787
Trustees
...........................................................................................................................................................
258,986
Professional
........................................................................................................................................................
30,000
Total expenses
........................................................................................................................................................
3,583,773
Less:
Fees waived and/or reimbursed by the Manager
...................................................................................................................
(389,289)
Total expenses after fees waived and/or reimbursed
....................................................................................................................
3,194,484
Net investment income
................................................................................................................................................
537,336,198
REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS)
Net realized gain from:
Investments unaffiliated
.......................................................................................................................................
25,896,977
Investments affiliated
..........................................................................................................................................
31,522,845
Futures contracts
................................................................................................................................................
19,611,777
77,031,599
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:
Investments unaffiliated
.......................................................................................................................................
7,031,638,258
Investments affiliated
..........................................................................................................................................
42,325,274
Futures contracts
................................................................................................................................................
1,530,752
7,075,494,284
Net realized and unrealized gain
.......................................................................................................................................
7,152,525,883
NET INCREASE IN NET ASSETS RESULTING FROM OPERATIONS
...................................................................................................
$ 7,689,862,081
See notes to financial statements.
Statement of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2023
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S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio
Year Ended
12/31/23
Year Ended
12/31/22
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS
OPERATIONS
Net investment income
.....................................................................................................................
$ 537,336,198 $ 487,090,874
Net realized gain (loss)
.....................................................................................................................
77,031,599 (65,760,923)
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
.........................................................................................
7,075,494,284 (6,648,362,451)
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
.................................................................................
7,689,862,081 (6,227,032,500)
CAPITAL TRANSACTIONS
Proceeds from contributions
................................................................................................................
7,389,545,731 8,816,188,759
Value of withdrawals
........................................................................................................................
(8,597,872,533) (7,533,596,462)
Net increase (decrease) in net assets derived from capital transactions
..........................................................................
(1,208,326,802) 1,282,592,297
NET ASSETS
Total increase (decrease) in net assets
.........................................................................................................
6,481,535,279 (4,944,440,203)
Beginning of year
.............................................................................................................................
29,544,845,369 34,489,285,572
End of year
...................................................................................................................................
$ 36,026,380,648 $ 29,544,845,369
See notes to financial statements.
Statements of Changes in Net Assets
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S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio
Year Ended
12/31/23
Year Ended
12/31/22
Year Ended
12/31/21
Year Ended
12/31/20
Year Ended
12/31/19
Total Return
Total return
.................................................................................
26.24% (18.13)% 28.65% 18.42% 31.44%
Ratios to Average Net Assets
(a)
Total expenses
..............................................................................
0.01% 0.01% 0.01% 0.01% 0.03%
Total expenses after fees waived and/or reimbursed
..........................................
0.01% 0.01% 0.01% 0.01% 0.02%
Net investment income
......................................................................
1.63% 1.60% 1.39% 1.82% 1.95%
Supplemental Data
Net assets, end of year (000)
................................................................
$ 36,026,381 $ 29,544,845 $ 34,489,286 $ 26,992,973 $ 23,207,958
Portfolio turnover rate
.......................................................................
10% 13% 6% 5% 3%
(a)
Excludes fees and expenses incurred indirectly as a result of investments in underlying funds.
See notes to financial statements.
Financial Highlights
M ASTER P ORTFOLIO F INANCIAL H IGHLIGHTS 13
1. ORGANIZATION
Master Investment Portfolio (“MIP”) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as an open-end management investment company.
MIP is organized as a Delaware statutory trust. S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio (the “Master Portfolio”) is a series of MIP. The Master Portfolio is classified as diversified.
The Master Portfolio, together with certain other registered investment companies advised by BlackRock Fund Advisors (“BFA” or the “Manager”) or its affiliates, is included in
a complex of funds referred to as the BlackRock Multi-Asset Complex.
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The financial statements are prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”), which may require
management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities in the financial statements, disclosure of contingent assets and
liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results
could differ from those estimates. The Master Portfolio is considered an investment company under U.S. GAAP and follows the accounting and reporting guidance applicable
to investment companies. Below is a summary of significant accounting policies:
Investment Transactions and Income Recognition: For financial reporting purposes, investment transactions are recorded on the dates the transactions are executed.
Realized gains and losses on investment transactions are determined using the specific identification method. Dividend income and capital gain distributions, if any, are
recorded on the ex-dividend dates. Non-cash dividends, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend dates at fair value. Dividends from foreign securities where the ex-dividend
dates may have passed are subsequently recorded when the Master Portfolio is informed of the ex-dividend dates. Under the applicable foreign tax laws, a withholding tax at
various rates may be imposed on capital gains, dividends and interest. Upon notification from issuers, a portion of the dividend income received from a real estate investment
trust may be redesignated as a reduction of cost of the related investment and/or realized gain. Interest income, including amortization and accretion of premiums and
discounts on debt securities, is recognized daily on an accrual basis.
Foreign Taxes: The Master Portfolio may be subject to foreign taxes (a portion of which may be reclaimable) on income, stock dividends, capital gains on investments, or
certain foreign currency transactions. All foreign taxes are recorded in accordance with the applicable foreign tax regulations and rates that exist in the foreign jurisdictions in
which the Master Portfolio invests. These foreign taxes, if any, are paid by the Master Portfolio and are reflected in its Statement of Operations as follows: foreign taxes
withheld at source are presented as a reduction of income, foreign taxes on securities lending income are presented as a reduction of securities lending income, foreign taxes
on stock dividends are presented as “Foreign taxes withheld”, and foreign taxes on capital gains from sales of investments and foreign taxes on foreign currency transactions
are included in their respective net realized gain (loss) categories. Foreign taxes payable or deferred as of December 31, 2023, if any, are disclosed in the Statement of Assets
and Liabilities.
The Master Portfolio files withholding tax reclaims in certain jurisdictions to recover a portion of amounts previously withheld. The Master Portfolio may record a reclaim
receivable based on collectability, which includes factors such as the jurisdiction’s applicable laws, payment history and market convention. The Statement of Operations
includes tax reclaims recorded as well as professional and other fees, if any, associated with recovery of foreign withholding taxes.
Collateralization: If required by an exchange or counterparty agreement, the Master Portfolio may be required to deliver/deposit cash and/or securities to/with an exchange,
or broker-dealer or custodian as collateral for certain investments.
Indemnifications: In the normal course of business, the Master Portfolio enters into contracts that contain a variety of representations that provide general indemnification.
The Master Portfolio’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown because it involves future potential claims against the Master Portfolio, which cannot be
predicted with any certainty.
Other: Expenses directly related to the Master Portfolio are charged to the Master Portfolio. Other operating expenses shared by several funds, including other funds managed
by the Manager, are prorated among those funds on the basis of relative net assets or other appropriate methods.
3. INVESTMENT VALUATION AND FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS
Investment Valuation Policies: The Master Portfolio’s investments are valued at fair value (also referred to as “market value” within the financial statements) each day that
the Master Portfolio is open for business and, for financial reporting purposes, as of the report date. U.S. GAAP defines fair value as the price a fund would receive to sell an
asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The Board of Trustees of MIP (the “Board”) has approved the
designation of the Master Portfolio’s Manager as the valuation designee for the Master Portfolio. The Master Portfolio determines the fair values of its financial instruments
using various independent dealers or pricing services under the Manager’s policies. If a security’s market price is not readily available or does not otherwise accurately
represent the fair value of the security, the security will be valued in accordance with the Manager’s policies and procedures as reflecting fair value. The Manager has formed
a committee (the “Valuation Committee”) to develop pricing policies and procedures and to oversee the pricing function for all financial instruments, with assistance from other
BlackRock pricing committees.
Notes to Financial Statements
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Fair Value Inputs and Methodologies: The following methods and inputs are used to establish the fair value of the Master Portfolio’s assets and liabilities:
Equity investments traded on a recognized securities exchange are valued at that day’s official closing price, as applicable, on the exchange where the stock is primarily
traded. Equity investments traded on a recognized exchange for which there were no sales on that day may be valued at the last available bid (long positions) or ask
(short positions) price.
Exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and closed-end funds traded on a recognized securities exchange are valued at that day’s official closing price, as applicable, on the
exchange where the stock is primarily traded. ETFs and closed-end funds traded on a recognized exchange for which there were no sales on that day may be valued
at the last available bid (long positions) or ask (short positions) price.
Investments in open-end U.S. mutual funds (including money market funds) are valued at that day’s published net asset value (“NAV”).
Futures contracts are valued based on that day’s last reported settlement or trade price on the exchange where the contract is traded.
Generally, trading in foreign instruments is substantially completed each day at various times prior to the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”). Each
business day, the Master Portfolio uses current market factors supplied by independent pricing services to value certain foreign instruments (“Systematic Fair Value Price”).
The Systematic Fair Value Price is designed to value such foreign securities at fair value as of the close of trading on the NYSE, which follows the close of the local markets.
If events (e.g., market volatility, company announcement or a natural disaster) occur that are expected to materially affect the value of such investment, or in the event that
application of these methods of valuation results in a price for an investment that is deemed not to be representative of the market value of such investment, or if a price is not
available, the investment will be valued by the Valuation Committee in accordance with the Manager’s policies and procedures as reflecting fair value (“Fair Valued
Investments”). The fair valuation approaches that may be used by the Valuation Committee include market approach, income approach and cost approach. Valuation
techniques such as discounted cash flow, use of market comparables and matrix pricing are types of valuation approaches and are typically used in determining fair value.
When determining the price for Fair Valued Investments, the Valuation Committee seeks to determine the price that the Master Portfolio might reasonably expect to receive or
pay from the current sale or purchase of that asset or liability in an arm’s-length transaction. Fair value determinations shall be based upon all available factors that the
Valuation Committee deems relevant and consistent with the principles of fair value measurement.
Fair Value Hierarchy: Various inputs are used in determining the fair value of financial instruments. These inputs to valuation techniques are categorized into a fair value
hierarchy consisting of three broad levels for financial reporting purposes as follows:
Level 1 Unadjusted price quotations in active markets/exchanges for identical assets or liabilities that the Master Portfolio has the ability to access;
Level 2 Other observable inputs (including, but not limited to, quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in markets that are active, quoted prices for identical or
similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the assets or liabilities (such as interest rates, yield
curves, volatilities, prepayment speeds, loss severities, credit risks and default rates) or other market–corroborated inputs); and
Level 3 Unobservable inputs based on the best information available in the circumstances, to the extent observable inputs are not available (including the Valuation
Committee’s assumptions used in determining the fair value of financial instruments).
The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to
unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). Accordingly, the degree of judgment exercised in determining fair value is greatest for instruments categorized in Level 3. The
inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, for disclosure purposes, the fair value hierarchy classification is
determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. Investments classified within Level 3 have significant unobservable
inputs used by the Valuation Committee in determining the price for Fair Valued Investments. Level 3 investments include equity or debt issued by privately held companies or
funds that may not have a secondary market and/or may have a limited number of investors. The categorization of a value determined for financial instruments is based on the
pricing transparency of the financial instruments and is not necessarily an indication of the risks associated with investing in those securities.
4. SECURITIES AND OTHER INVESTMENTS
Securities Lending: The Master Portfolio may lend its securities to approved borrowers, such as brokers, dealers and other financial institutions. The borrower pledges and
maintains with the Master Portfolio collateral consisting of cash, an irrevocable letter of credit issued by a bank, or securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government. The
initial collateral received by the Master Portfolio is required to have a value of at least 102% of the current value of the loaned securities for securities traded on U.S. exchanges
and a value of at least 105% for all other securities. The collateral is maintained thereafter at a value equal to at least 100% of the current market value of the securities on loan.
The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of each business day of the Master Portfolio and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Master
Portfolio, or excess collateral returned by the Master Portfolio, on the next business day. During the term of the loan, the Master Portfolio is entitled to all distributions made on
or in respect of the loaned securities, but does not receive interest income on securities received as collateral. Loans of securities are terminable at any time and the borrower,
after notice, is required to return borrowed securities within the standard time period for settlement of securities transactions.
As of period end, any securities on loan were collateralized by cash and/or U.S. Government obligations. Cash collateral invested by the securities lending agent, BlackRock
Institutional Trust Company, N.A. (“BTC”), if any, is disclosed in the Schedule of Investments. Any non-cash collateral received cannot be sold, re-invested or pledged by the
Master Portfolio, except in the event of borrower default. The securities on loan, if any, are disclosed in the Master Portfolio’s Schedule of Investments. The market value of any
securities on loan and the value of related collateral, if any, are shown separately in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as a component of investments at value
unaffiliated and collateral on securities loaned, respectively.
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
M ASTER P ORTFOLIO N OTES TO F INANCIAL S TATEMENTS 15
Securities lending transactions are entered into by the Master Portfolio under Master Securities Lending Agreements (each, an “MSLA”), which provide the right, in the event
of default (including bankruptcy or insolvency), for the non-defaulting party to liquidate the collateral and calculate a net exposure to the defaulting party or request additional
collateral. In the event that a borrower defaults, the Master Portfolio, as lender, would offset the market value of the collateral received against the market value of the securities
loaned. When the value of the collateral is greater than that of the market value of the securities loaned, the lender is left with a net amount payable to the defaulting party.
However, bankruptcy or insolvency laws of a particular jurisdiction may impose restrictions on or prohibitions against such a right of offset in the event of an MSLA
counterparty’s bankruptcy or insolvency. Under the MSLA, absent an event of default, the borrower can resell or re-pledge the loaned securities, and the Master Portfolio can
reinvest cash collateral received in connection with loaned securities. Upon an event of default, the parties’ obligations to return the securities or collateral to the other party are
extinguished, and the parties can resell or re-pledge the loaned securities or the collateral received in connection with the loaned securities in order to satisfy the defaulting
party’s net payment obligation for all transactions under the MSLA. The defaulting party remains liable for any deficiency.
As of period end, the following table is a summary of the Master Portfolio’s securities on loan by counterparty which are subject to offset under an MSLA:
Counterparty
Securities
Loaned at Value
Cash Collateral
Received
(a)
Non-Cash Collateral
Received, at Fair Value
(a)
Net
Amount
Barclays Bank PLC
...................................................................................
$ 8,572,379 $ (8,572,379) $ $
Barclays Capital, Inc.
.................................................................................
3,576,591 (3,576,591)
BNP Paribas SA
......................................................................................
18,075,603 (18,075,603)
BofA Securities, Inc.
..................................................................................
2,597,783 (2,597,783)
Citadel Clearing LLC
.................................................................................
1,714,616 (1,714,616)
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
.........................................................................
1,233,967 (1,233,967)
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
...........................................................................
7,687,216 (7,687,216)
HSBC Bank PLC
.....................................................................................
16,336,576 (16,336,576)
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
...........................................................................
16,638,203 (16,638,203)
Jefferies LLC
.........................................................................................
971,168 (971,168)
Natixis SA
...........................................................................................
343,125 (343,125)
RBC Capital Markets LLC
.............................................................................
58,428,446 (58,428,446)
Scotia Capital (USA), Inc.
.............................................................................
8,172,718 (8,172,718)
Scotia Capital, Inc.
...................................................................................
43,554,257 (43,554,257)
SG Americas Securities LLC
..........................................................................
4,970,600 (4,970,600)
Toronto-Dominion Bank
...............................................................................
12,646,219 (12,646,219)
Virtu Americas LLC
...................................................................................
1,028,356 (1,028,356)
Wells Fargo Bank N.A.
...............................................................................
370,446 (370,446)
Wells Fargo Securities LLC
...........................................................................
173,726 (173,726)
$ 207,091,995 $ (207,091,995) $ $
(a)
Collateral received, if any, in excess of the market value of securities on loan is not presented in this table. The total cash collateral received by the Master Portfolio is disclosed in the
Master Portfolio’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities.
The risks of securities lending include the risk that the borrower may not provide additional collateral when required or may not return the securities when due. To mitigate these
risks, the Master Portfolio benefits from a borrower default indemnity provided by BlackRock, Inc. (“BlackRock”). BlackRock’s indemnity allows for full replacement of the
securities loaned to the extent the collateral received does not cover the value on the securities loaned in the event of borrower default. The Master Portfolio could incur a loss
if the value of an investment purchased with cash collateral falls below the market value of loaned securities or if the value of an investment purchased with cash collateral falls
below the value of the original cash collateral received. Such losses are borne entirely by the Master Portfolio.
5. DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
The Master Portfolio engages in various portfolio investment strategies using derivative contracts both to increase the returns of the Master Portfolio and/or to manage its
exposure to certain risks such as credit risk, equity risk, interest rate risk, foreign currency exchange rate risk, commodity price risk or other risks (e.g., inflation risk). Derivative
financial instruments categorized by risk exposure are included in the Schedule of Investments. These contracts may be transacted on an exchange or over-the-counter
(“OTC”).
Futures Contracts: Futures contracts are purchased or sold to gain exposure to, or manage exposure to, changes in interest rates (interest rate risk) and changes in the value
of equity securities (equity risk) or foreign currencies (foreign currency exchange rate risk).
Futures contracts are exchange-traded agreements between the Master Portfolio and a counterparty to buy or sell a specific quantity of an underlying instrument at a specified
price and on a specified date. Depending on the terms of a contract, it is settled either through physical delivery of the underlying instrument on the settlement date or by
payment of a cash amount on the settlement date. Upon entering into a futures contract, the Master Portfolio is required to deposit initial margin with the broker in the form of
cash or securities in an amount that varies depending on a contract’s size and risk profile. The initial margin deposit must then be maintained at an established level over the
life of the contract. Amounts pledged, which are considered restricted, are included in cash pledged for futures contracts in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities.
Securities deposited as initial margin are designated in the Schedule of Investments and cash deposited, if any, are shown as cash pledged for futures contracts in the
Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Pursuant to the contract, the Master Portfolio agrees to receive from or pay to the broker an amount of cash equal to the daily fluctuation
in market value of the contract (“variation margin”). Variation margin is recorded as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) and, if any, shown as variation margin receivable (or
payable) on futures contracts in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. When the contract is closed, a realized gain or loss is recorded in the Statement of Operations equal
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
16 2023 B LACKR OCK A NNUAL R EPORT TO S HAREHOLDERS
to the difference between the notional amount of the contract at the time it was opened and the notional amount at the time it was closed. The use of futures contracts involves
the risk of an imperfect correlation in the movements in the price of futures contracts and interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates or underlying assets.
6. INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT AND OTHER TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES
Investment Advisory: MIP, on behalf of the Master Portfolio, entered into an Investment Advisory Agreement with the Manager, the Master Portfolio’s investment adviser and
an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackRock, to provide investment advisory services. The Manager is responsible for the management of the Master Portfolio’s portfolio
and provides the personnel, facilities, equipment and certain other services necessary to the operations of the Master Portfolio.
For such services, the Master Portfolio pays the Manager a monthly fee at an annual rate equal to 0.01% of the average daily value of the Master Portfolio’s net assets.
Administration: MIP, on behalf of the Master Portfolio, entered into an Administration Agreement with BlackRock Advisors, LLC (“BAL”), which has agreed to provide general
administrative services (other than investment advice and related portfolio activities). BAL has agreed to bear all of the Master Portfolio’s ordinary operating expenses,
excluding, generally, investment advisory fees, distribution fees, brokerage and other expenses related to the execution of portfolio transactions, extraordinary expenses and
certain other expenses which are borne by the Master Portfolio.
BAL is not entitled to compensation for providing administrative services to the Master Portfolio, for so long as BAL (or an affiliate) is entitled to compensation for providing
administrative services to corresponding feeder funds that invest substantially all of their assets in the Master Portfolio, or BAL (or an affiliate) receives investment advisory
fees from the Master Portfolio.
The fees and expenses of the Master Portfolio’s trustees who are not “interested persons” of MIP, as defined in the 1940 Act (“Independent Trustees”), counsel to the
Independent Trustees and the Master Portfolio’s independent registered public accounting firm (together, the “independent expenses”) are paid directly by the Master Portfolio.
BFA has contractually agreed to reimburse the Master Portfolio or provide an offsetting credit against the investment advisory fees paid by the Maste r Portfolio in an amount
equal to the independent expenses through June 30, 2024. If the Master Portfolio does not pay administration fees, BAL agrees to cap the expenses of the Master Portfolio at
the rate at which it pays an investment advisory fee to BFA. The amount waived is included in fees waived and/or reimbursed by the Manager in the Statement of Operations.
For the year ended December 31, 2023, the amount waived was $288,986.
Expense Waivers and Reimbursements: The Manager contractually agreed to waive its investment advisory fees by the amount of investment advisory fees the Master
Portfolio pays to the Manager indirectly through its investment in affiliated money market funds (the “affiliated money market fund waiver”) through June 30, 2024. The
contractual agreement may be terminated upon 90 days’ notice by a majority of the Independent Trustees or by a vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the
Master Portfolio. This amount is included in fees waived and/or reimbursed by the Manager in the Statement of Operations. For the year ended December 31, 2023, the
amounts waived were $74,744.
The Manager has contractually agreed to waive its investment advisory fee with respect to any portion of the Master Portfolio’s assets invested in affiliated equity and
fixed-income mutual funds and affiliated exchange-traded funds that have a contractual management fee through June 30, 2024. The contractual agreement may be
terminated upon 90 days’ notice by a majority of the Independent Trustees, or by a vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Master Portfolio. This amount
is included in fees waived and/or reimbursed by the Manager in the Statement of Operations. For the year ended December 31, 2023, the Manager waived $25,559 in
investment advisory fees pursuant to this arrangement.
Securities Lending: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has issued an exemptive order which permits BTC, an affiliate of the Manager, to serve as
securities lending agent for the Master Portfolio, subject to applicable conditions. As securities lending agent, BTC bears all operational costs directly related to securities
lending, including any custodial costs. The Master Portfolio is responsible for fees in connection with the investment of cash collateral received f or securities on loan (the
“collateral investment fees”). The cash collateral is invested in a money market fund, BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional or BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, managed by the
Manager or its affiliates. However, BTC has agreed to reduce the amount of securities lending income it receives in order to effectively limit the collateral investment fees the
Master Portfolio bears to an annual rate of 0.04%. The SL Agency Shares of such money market fund will not be subject to a sales load, distribution fee or service fee. The
money market fund in which the cash collateral has been invested may impose a discretionary liquidity fee of up to 2% of the value redeemed, if such fee is determined to be
in the best interests of such money market fund.
Securities lending income is equal to the total of income earned from the reinvestment of cash collateral, net of fees and other payments to and from borrowers of securities,
and less the collateral investment fees. The Master Portfolio retains a portion of securities lending income and remits a remaining portion to BTC as compensation for its
services as securities lending agent.
Pursuant to the current securities lending agreement, the Master Portfolio retains 81% of securities lending income (which excludes collateral investment fees), and this
amount retained can never be less than 70% of the total of securities lending income plus the collateral investment fees.
In addition, commencing the business day following the date that the aggregate securities lending income earned across the BlackRock Multi-Asset Complex in a calendar
year exceeds a specified threshold, the Master Portfolio, pursuant to the securities lending agreement, will retain for the remainder of that calendar year securities lending
income in an amount equal to 81% of securities lending income (which excludes collateral investment fees), and this amount retained can never be less than 70% of the total
of securities lending income plus the collateral investment fees.
The share of securities lending income earned by the Master Portfolio is shown as securities lending income affiliated net in the Statement of Operations. For the year
ended December 31, 2023, the Master Portfolio paid BTC $206,514 for securities lending agent services.
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
M ASTER P ORTFOLIO N OTES TO F INANCIAL S TATEMENTS 17
Interfund Lending: In accordance with an exemptive order (the “Order”) from the SEC, the Master Portfolio may participate in a joint lending and borrowing facility for
temporary purposes (the “Interfund Lending Program”), subject to compliance with the terms and conditions of the Order, and to the extent permitted by the Master Portfolio’s
investment policies and restrictions. The Master Portfolio is currently permitted to borrow and lend under the Interfund Lending Program.
A lending BlackRock fund may lend in aggregate up to 15% of its net assets but may not lend more than 5% of its net assets to any one borrowing fund through the Interfund
Lending Program. A borrowing BlackRock fund may not borrow through the Interfund Lending Program or from any other source more than 33 1/3% of its total assets (or any
lower threshold provided for by the fund’s investment restrictions). If a borrowing BlackRock fund’s total outstanding borrowings exceed 10% of its total assets, each of its
outstanding interfund loans will be subject to collateralization of at least 102% of the outstanding principal value of the loan. All interfund loans are for temporary or emergency
purposes and the interest rate to be charged will be the average of the highest current overnight repurchase agreement rate available to a lending fund and the bank loan rate,
as calculated according to a formula established by the Board.
During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Master Portfolio did not participate in the Interfund Lending Program.
Trustees and Officers: Certain trustees and/or officers of the Master Portfolio are directors and/or officers of BlackRock or its affiliates.
Other Transactions: The Master Portfolio may purchase securities from, or sell securities to, an affiliated fund provided the affiliation is due solely to having a common
investment adviser, common officers, or common trustees. For the year ended December 31, 2023, the purchase and sale transactions and any net realized gains (losses) with
affiliated funds in compliance with Rule 17a-7 under the 1940 Act were as follows:
Master Portfolio Name Purchases Sales
Net Realized
Gain (Loss)
S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio
..................................................................................................
$ 317,564,780 $ 427,044,084 $ (65,670,115)
7. PURCHASES AND SALES
For the year ended December 31, 2023, purchases and sales of investments, excluding short-term securities, were $3,285,766,364 and $4,093,163,573, respectively.
8. INCOME TAX INFORMATION
The Master Portfolio is classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. As such, each investor in the Master Portfolio is treated as the owner of its
proportionate share of net assets, income, expenses and realized and unrealized gains and losses of the Master Portfolio. Therefore, no U.S. federal income tax provision is
required. It is intended that the Master Portfolio’s assets will be managed so an investor in the Master Portfolio can satisfy the requirements of Subchapter M of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
The Master Portfolio files U.S. federal and various state and local tax returns. No income tax returns are currently under examination. The statute of limitations on the Master
Portfolio’s U.S. federal tax returns generally remains open for a period of three years after they are filed. The statutes of limitations on the Master Portfolio’s state and local tax
returns may remain open for an additional year depending upon the jurisdiction.
Management has analyzed tax laws and regulations and their application to the Master Portfolio as of December 31, 2023, inclusive of the open tax return years, and does not
believe that there are any uncertain tax positions that require recognition of a tax liability in the Master Portfolio’s financial statements.
As of December 31, 2023, gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation based on cost of investments (including short positions and derivatives, if any) for U.S. federal
income tax purposes were as follows:
Master Portfolio Name Tax Cost
Gross Unrealized
Appreciation
Gross Unrealized
Depreciation
Net Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio
..........................................................
$ 14,829,138,667 $ 22,015,832,274 $ (776,430,129) $ 21,239,402,145
9. BANK BORROWINGS
MIP, on behalf of the Master Portfolio, along with certain other funds managed by the Manager and its affiliates (“Participating Funds”), is party to a 364-day, $2.50 billion credit
agreement with a group of lenders. Under this agreement, the Master Portfolio may borrow to fund shareholder redemptions. Excluding commitments designated for certain
individual funds, the Participating Funds, including the Master Portfolio, can borrow up to an aggregate commitment amount of $1.75 billion at any time outstanding, subject to
asset coverage and other limitations as specified in the agreement. The credit agreement has the following terms: a fee of 0.10% per annum on unused commitment amounts
and interest at a rate equal to the higher of (a) Overnight Bank Funding Rate (“OBFR”) (but, in any event, not less than 0.00%) on the date the loan is made plus 0.80% per
annum, (b) the Fed Funds rate (but, in any event, not less than 0.00%) in effect from time to time plus 0.80% per annum on amounts borrowed or (c) the sum of (x) Daily Simple
Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) (but, in any event, not less than 0.00%) on the date the loan is made plus 0.10% and (y) 0.80% per annum. The agreement
expires in April 2024 unless extended or renewed. These fees were allocated among such funds based upon portions of the aggregate commitment available to them and
relative net assets of Participating Funds. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Master Portfolio did not borrow under the credit agreement.
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
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10. PRINCIPAL RISKS
In the normal course of business, the Master Portfolio invests in securities or other instruments and may enter into certain transactions, and such activities subject the Master
Portfolio to various risks, including among others, fluctuations in the market (market risk) or failure of an issuer to meet all of its obligations. The value of securities or other
instruments may also be affected by various factors, including, without limitation: (i) the general economy; (ii) the overall market as well as local, regional or global political
and/or social instability; (iii) regulation, taxation or international tax treaties between various countries; or (iv) currency, interest rate and price fluctuations. Local, regional or
global events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness or other public health issues, recessions, or other events could have a significant impact on the
Master Portfolio and its investments. The Master Portfolio’s prospectus provides details of the risks to which the Master Portfolio is subject.
The Manager uses an indexing approach to try to achieve the Master Portfolio’s investment objective. The Master Portfolio is not actively managed, and the Manager generally
does not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets.
The Master Portfolio may be exposed to additional risks when reinvesting cash collateral in money market funds that do not seek to maintain a stable NAV per share of $1.00,
which may be subject to discretionary liquidity fees under certain circumstances.
Valuation Risk: The market values of equities, such as common stocks and preferred securities or equity related investments, such as futures and options, may decline due
to general market conditions which are not specifically related to a particular company. They may also decline due to factors which affect a particular industry or industries.
The Master Portfolio may invest in illiquid investments. An illiquid investment is any investment that the Master Portfolio reasonably expects cannot be sold or disposed of in
current market conditions in seven calendar days or less without the sale or disposition significantly changing the market value of the investment. The Master Portfolio may
experience difficulty in selling illiquid investments in a timely manner at the price that it believes the investments are worth. Prices may fluctuate widely over short or extended
periods in response to company, market or economic news. Markets also tend to move in cycles, with periods of rising and falling prices. This volatility may cause the Master
Portfolio’s NAV to experience significant increases or decreases over short periods of time. If there is a general decline in the securities and other markets, the NAV of
the Master Portfolio may lose value, regardless of the individual results of the securities and other instruments in which the Master Portfolio invests.
Counterparty Credit Risk: The Master Portfolio may be exposed to counterparty credit risk, or the risk that an entity may fail to or be unable to perform on its commitments
related to unsettled or open transactions, including making timely interest and/or principal payments or otherwise honoring its obligations. The M aster Portfolio manages
counterparty credit risk by entering into transactions only with counterparties that the Manager believes have the financial resources to honor their obligations and by
monitoring the financial stability of those counterparties. Financial assets, which potentially expose the Master Portfolio to market, issuer and counterparty credit risks, consist
principally of financial instruments and receivables due from counterparties. The extent of the Master Portfolio’s exposure to market, issuer and counterparty credit risks with
respect to these financial assets is approximately their value recorded in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities, less any collateral held by the Master Portfolio.
A derivative contract may suffer a mark-to-market loss if the value of the contract decreases due to an unfavorable change in the market rates or values of the underlying
instrument. Losses can also occur if the counterparty does not perform under the contract.
With exchange-traded futures, there is less counterparty credit risk to the Master Portfolio since the exchange or clearinghouse, as counterparty to such instruments,
guarantees against a possible default. The clearinghouse stands between the buyer and the seller of the contract; therefore, credit risk is limited to failure of the clearinghouse.
While offset rights may exist under applicable law, the Master Portfolio does not have a contractual right of offset against a clearing broker or clearinghouse in the event of a
default (including the bankruptcy or insolvency). Additionally, credit risk exists in exchange-traded futures with respect to initial and variation margin that is held in a clearing
broker’s customer accounts. While clearing brokers are required to segregate customer margin from their own assets, in the event that a clearing broker becomes insolvent or
goes into bankruptcy and at that time there is a shortfall in the aggregate amount of margin held by the clearing broker for all its clients, typically the shortfall would be allocated
on a pro rata basis across all the clearing broker’s customers, potentially resulting in losses to the Master Portfolio.
Geographic/Asset Class Risk: A diversified portfolio, where this is appropriate and consistent with a fund’s objectives, minimizes the risk that a price change of a particular
investment will have a material impact on the NAV of a fund. The investment concentrations within the Master Portfolio’s portfolio are disclosed in its Schedule of Investments.
The Master Portfolio invests a significant portion of its assets in securities within a single or limited number of market sectors. When a fund concentrates its investments in this
manner, it assumes the risk that economic, regulatory, political and social conditions affecting such sectors may have a significant impact on the Master Portfolio and could
affect the income from, or the value or liquidity of, the Master Portfolio’s portfolio. Investment percentages in specific sectors are presented in the Schedule of Investments.
The Master Portfolio invests a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers located in the United States. A decrease in imports or exports, changes in trade
regulations, inflation and/or an economic recession in the United States may have a material adverse effect on the U.S. economy and the securities listed on U.S. exchanges.
Proposed and adopted policy and legislative changes in the United States may also have a significant effect on U.S. markets generally, as well as on the value of certain
securities. Governmental agencies project that the United States will continue to maintain elevated public debt levels for the foreseeable future which may constrain future
economic growth. Circumstances could arise that could prevent the timely payment of interest or principal on U.S. government debt, such as reaching the legislative “debt
ceiling.” Such non-payment would result in substantial negative consequences for the U.S. economy and the global financial system. If U.S. relations with certain countries
deteriorate, it could adversely affect issuers that rely on the United States for trade. The United States has also experienced increased internal unrest and discord. If these
trends were to continue, they may have an adverse impact on the U.S. economy and the issuers in which the Master Portfolio invests.
Significant Shareholder Redemption Risk: Certain shareholders may own or manage a substantial amount of fund shares and/or hold their fund investments for a limited
period of time. Large redemptions of fund shares by these shareholders may force a fund to sell portfolio securities, which may negatively impact the fund’s NAV, increase the
fund’s brokerage costs, and/or accelerate the realization of taxable income/gains and cause the fund to make additional taxable distributions to shareholders.
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
M ASTER P ORTFOLIO N OTES TO F INANCIAL S TATEMENTS 19
11. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
Management has evaluated the impact of all subsequent events on the Master Portfolio through the date the financial statements were issued and has determined that there
were no subsequent events requiring adjustment or additional disclosure in the financial statements.
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
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To the Board of Trustees of
Master Investment Portfolio and Investors of S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the schedule of investments, of S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio (one of the series constituting
Master Investment Portfolio, referred to hereafter as the "Master Portfolio") as of December 31, 2023, the related statement of operations for the year ended December 31,
2023, the statement of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2023, including the related notes, and the financial highlights for each
of the five years in the period ended December 31, 2023 (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all
material respects, the financial position of the Master Portfolio as of December 31, 2023, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for
each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2023 and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period ended December 31, 2023 in conformity with
accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Master Portfolio’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Master Portfolio’s financial
statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required
to be independent with respect to the Master Portfolio in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and
Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures
that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also
included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2023 by correspondence with the custodian, transfer agent and brokers. We believe that our
audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 14, 2024
We have served as the auditor of one or more BlackRock investment companies since 2000.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
M ASTER P ORTFOLIO R EPORT OF I NDEPENDENT R EGISTERED P UBLIC A CCOUNTING F IRM 21
In compliance with Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Liquidity Rule”), BlackRock Funds III and Master Investment Portfolio (the
“Trusts”) have adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the “Program”) for iShares S&P 500 Index Fund and S&P 500 Index Master Portfolio (the
“Funds”), each a series of the respective Trust, which is reasonably designed to assess and manage each Fund’s liquidity risk.
The Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of the Trusts, on behalf of the Funds, met on November 16-17, 2023 (the “Meeting”) to review the Program. The Board previously
appointed BlackRock Advisors, LLC or BlackRock Fund Advisors (“BlackRock”), each an investment adviser to certain BlackRock funds, as the program administrator for each
Fund’s Program, as applicable. BlackRock also previously delegated oversight of the Program to the 40 Act Liquidity Risk Management Committee (the “Committee”). At the
Meeting, the Committee, on behalf of BlackRock, provided the Board with a report that addressed the operation of the Program and assessed its adequacy and effectiveness
of implementation, including the management of each Fund’s Highly Liquid Investment Minimum (“HLIM”) where applicable, and any material changes to the Program (the
“Report”). The Report covered the period from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023 (the “Program Reporting Period”).
The Report described the Program’s liquidity classification methodology for categorizing each Fund’s investments (including derivative transactions) into one of four liquidity
buckets. It also referenced the methodology used by BlackRock to establish each Fund’s HLIM and noted that the Committee reviews and ratifies the HLIM assigned to each
Fund no less frequently than annually. The Report also discussed notable events affecting liquidity over the Program Reporting Period, including th e imposition of capital
controls in certain countries.
The Report noted that the Program complied with the key factors for consideration under the Liquidity Rule for assessing, managing and periodically reviewing each Fund’s
liquidity risk, as follows:
a) The Fund’s investment strategy and liquidity of portfolio investments during both normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions. During the
Program Reporting Period, the Committee reviewed whether each Fund’s strategy is appropriate for an open-end fund structure with a focus on funds withmore
significant and consistent holdings of less liquid and illiquid assets. The Committee also factored a fund’s concentration in an issuer into the liquidity classification
methodology by taking issuer position sizes into account. Where a fund participated in borrowings for investment purposes (such as tender option bonds or reverse
repurchase agreements), such borrowings were factored into the Program’s calculation of a fund’s liquidity bucketing. A fund’s derivative exposure was also
considered in such calculation.
b) Short-term and long-term cash flow projections during both normal and reasonably foreseeable stressed conditions. During the Program Reporting Period,
the Committee reviewed historical redemption activity and used this information as a component to establish each Fund’s reasonably anticipated trading size
utilized for liquidity classifications. Each Fund has adopted an in-kind redemption policy which may be utilized to meet larger redemption requests. The Committee
may also take into consideration a fund’s shareholder ownership concentration (which, depending on product type and distribution channel, may or may not be
available), a fund’s distribution channels, and the degree of certainty associated with a fund’s short-term and long-term cash flow projections.
c) Holdings of cash and cash equivalents, as well as borrowing arrangements. The Committee considered the terms of the credit facility committed to each
Fund, the financial health of the institution providing the facility and the fact that the credit facility is shared among multiple funds (including that a portion of the
aggregate commitment amount is specifically designated for BlackRock Floating Rate Income Portfolio, a series of BlackRock Funds V, and BlackRock Floating
Rate Loan ETF, a series of BlackRock ETF Trust II). The Committee also considered other types of borrowing available to the funds, such as the ability to use
reverse repurchase agreements and interfund lending, as applicable.
There were no material changes to the Program during the Program Reporting Period other than the enhancement of certain model components in the Program’s classification
methodology. The Report provided to the Board stated that the Committee concluded that based on the operation of the functions, as described in the Report, the Program is
operating as intended and is effective in implementing the requirements of the Liquidity Rule.
Statement Regarding Liquidity Risk Management Program
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Independent Trustees
(a)
Name
Year of Birth
(b)
Position(s) Held
(Length of Service)
(c)
Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years
Number of BlackRock-Advised
Registered Investment Companies
(“RICs”) Consisting of Investment
Portfolios (“Portfolios”) Overseen
Public Company
and Other
Investment
Company
Directorships Held
During
Past 5 Years
Mark Stalnecker
1951
Chair of the Board
(Since 2019) and
Trustee
(Since 2015)
Chief Investment Officer, University of Delaware from
1999 to 2013; Trustee and Chair of the Finance and
Investment Committees, Winterthur Museum and Country
Estate from 2005 to 2016; Member of the Investment
Committee, Delaware Public Employees’ Retirement
System since 2002; Member of the Investment Committee,
Christiana Care Health System from 2009 to 2017;
Member of the Investment Committee, Delaware
Community Foundation from 2013 to 2014; Director and
Chair of the Audit Committee, SEI Private Trust Co. from
2001 to 2014.
28 RICs consisting of 166 Portfolios None
Susan J. Carter
1956
Trustee
(Since 2016)
Trustee, Financial Accounting Foundation from 2017 to
2021; Advisory Board Member, Center for Private Equity
and Entrepreneurship at Tuck School of Business from
1997 to 2021; Director, Pacific Pension Institute from
2014 to 2018; Senior Advisor, Commonfund Capital, Inc.
(“CCI”) (investment adviser) in 2015; Chief Executive
Officer, CCI from 2013 to 2014; President & Chief
Executive Officer, CCI from 1997 to 2013; Advisory Board
Member, Girls Who Invest from 2015 to 2018 and Board
Member thereof from 2018 to 2022; Advisory Board
Member, Bridges Fund Management from 2016 to 2018;
Practitioner Advisory Board Member, Private Capital
Research Institute ("PCRI") since 2017; Lecturer in the
Practice of Management, Yale School of Management
since 2019; Advisor to Finance Committee, Altman
Foundation since 2020; Investment Committee Member,
Tostan since 2021; Member of the President’s Counsel,
Commonfund since 2023.
28 RICs consisting of 166 Portfolios None
Collette Chilton
1958
Trustee
(Since 2015)
Senior advisor, Insignia since 2024; Chief Investment
Officer, Williams College from 2006 to 2023; Chief
Investment Officer, Lucent Asset Management Corporation
from 1998 to 2006; Director, Boys and Girls Club of Boston
since 2017; Director, B1 Capital since 2018; Director,
David and Lucile Packard Foundation since 2020.
28 RICs consisting of 166 Portfolios None
Neil A. Cotty
1954
Trustee
(Since 2016)
Bank of America Corporation from 1996 to 2015, serving in
various senior finance leadership roles, including Chief
Accounting Officer from 2009 to 2015, Chief Financial
Officer of Global Banking, Markets and Wealth
Management from 2008 to 2009, Chief Accounting Officer
from 2004 to 2008, Chief Financial Officer of Consumer
Bank from 2003 to 2004, Chief Financial Officer of Global
Corporate Investment Bank from 1999 to 2002.
28 RICs consisting of 166 Portfolios None
Lena G. Goldberg
1949
Trustee
(Since 2019)
Director, Pioneer Public Interest Law Center since 2023;
Director, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. from
2013 to 2021; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
from 2008 to 2021; FMR LLC/Fidelity Investments
(financial services) from 1996 to 2008, serving in various
senior roles including Executive Vice President - Strategic
Corporate Initiatives and Executive Vice President and
General Counsel; Partner, Sullivan & Worcester LLP from
1985 to 1996 and Associate thereof from 1979 to 1985.
28 RICs consisting of 166 Portfolios None
Trustee and Officer Information
T RUSTEE AND O FFICER I NFORMATION 23
Independent Trustees
(a)
(continued)
Name
Year of Birth
(b)
Position(s) Held
(Length of Service)
(c)
Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years
Number of BlackRock-Advised
Registered Investment Companies
(“RICs”) Consisting of Investment
Portfolios (“Portfolios”) Overseen
Public Company
and Other
Investment
Company
Directorships Held
During
Past 5 Years
Henry R. Keizer
1956
Trustee
(Since 2019)
Director, Park Indemnity Ltd. (captive insurer) from 2010 to
2022.
28 RICs consisting of 166 Portfolios GrafTech
International Ltd.
(materials
manufacturing);
Sealed Air Corp.
(packaging); WABCO
(commercial vehicle
safety systems) from
2015 to 2020; Hertz
Global Holdings (car
rental) from 2015 to
2021.
Cynthia A. Montgomery
1952
Trustee
(Since 2009)
Professor, Harvard Business School since 1989. 28 RICs consisting of 166 Portfolios None
Donald C. Opatrny
1952
Trustee
(Since 2019)
Chair of the Board of Phoenix Art Museum since 2022 and
Trustee thereof since 2018; Chair of the Investment
Committee of The Arizona Community Foundation since
2022 and Trustee thereof since 2020; Director, Athena
Capital Advisors LLC (investment management firm) from
2013 to 2020; Trustee, Vice Chair, Member of the
Executive Committee and Chair of the Investment
Committee, Cornell University from 2004 to 2019; Member
of Affordable Housing Supply Board of Jackson, Wyoming
from 2017 to 2022; Member, Investment Funds
Committee, State of Wyoming from 2017 to 2023; Trustee,
Artstor (a Mellon Foundation affiliate) from 2010 to 2015;
Member of the Investment Committee, Mellon Foundation
from 2009 to 2015; President, Trustee and Member of the
Investment Committee, The Aldrich Contemporary Art
Museum from 2007 to 2014; Trustee and Chair of the
Investment Committee, Community Foundation of Jackson
Hole since 2014.
28 RICs consisting of 166 Portfolios None
Kenneth L. Urish
1951
Trustee
(Since 2009)
Managing Partner, Urish Popeck & Co., LLC (certified
public accountants and consultants) since 1976; Past-
Chairman of the Professional Ethics Committee of the
Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants and
Committee Member thereof since 2007; Member of
External Advisory Board, The Pennsylvania State
University Accounting Department since 2001, Emeritus
since 2022; Principal, UP Strategic Wealth Investment
Advisors, LLC since 2013; Trustee, The Holy Family
Institute from 2001 to 2010; President and Trustee,
Pittsburgh Catholic Publishing Associates from 2003 to
2008; Director, Inter-Tel from 2006 to 2007; Member,
Advisory Board, ESG Competent Boards since 2020.
28 RICs consisting of 166 Portfolios None
Claire A. Walton
1957
Trustee
(Since 2016)
Advisory Board Member, Grossman School of Business at
the University of Vermont since 2023; Advisory Board
Member, Scientific Financial Systems since 2022; General
Partner of Neon Liberty Capital Management, LLC from
2003 to 2023; Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial
Officer of Liberty Square Asset Management, LP from
1998 to 2015; Director, Boston Hedge Fund Group from
2009 to 2018; Director, Massachusetts Council on
Economic Education from 2013 to 2015; Director,
Woodstock Ski Runners from 2013 to 2022.
28 RICs consisting of 166 Portfolios None
Trustee and Officer Information (continued)
24 2023 B LACKR OCK A NNUAL R EPORT TO S HAREHOLDERS
Interested Trustees
(a)(d)
Name
Year of Birth
(b)
Position(s) Held
(Length of Service)
(c)
Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years
Number of BlackRock-Advised
(“RICs”) Consisting of Investment
Portfolios (“Portfolios”) Overseen
Public Company
and Other
Investment
Company
Directorships
Held During
Past 5 Y ears
Robert Fairbairn
1965
Trustee
(Since 2018)
Vice Chairman of BlackRock, Inc. since 2019; Member of
BlackRock’s Global Executive and Global Operating
Committees; Co-Chair of BlackRock’s Human Capital
Committee; Senior Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc.
from 2010 to 2019; oversaw BlackRock’s Strategic Partner
Program and Strategic Product Management Group from
2012 to 2019; Member of the Board of Managers of
BlackRock Investments, LLC from 2011 to 2018; Global
Head of BlackRock’s Retail and iShares businesses from
2012 to 2016.
97 RICs consisting of 268 Portfolios None
John M. Perlowski
(e)
1964
Trustee
(Since 2015)
President and Chief
Executive Officer
(Since 2010)
Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc. since 2009; Head of
BlackRock Global Accounting and Product Services since
2009; Advisory Director of Family Resource Network
(charitable foundation) since 2009.
99 RICs consisting of 270 Portfolios None
(a)
The address of each Trustee is c/o BlackRock, Inc., 50 Hudson Yards, New York, New York 10001.
(b)
Independent Trustees serve until their resignation, retirement, removal or death, or until December 31 of the year in which they turn 75. The Board may determine to extend the terms of
Independent Trustees on a case-by-case basis, as appropriate.
(c)
In connection with the acquisition of Barclays Global Investors by BlackRock, Inc. in December 2009, certain Independent Trustees were elected to the Board. Furthermore, effective January 1,
2019, three BlackRock Fund Complexes were realigned and consolidated into two BlackRock Fund Complexes. As a result, although the chart shows the year that each Independent Trustee
joined the Board, certain Independent Trustees first became members of the boards of other BlackRock-advised Funds or legacy BlackRock funds as follows: Cynthia A. Montgomery, 1994;
Kenneth L. Urish, 1999; Lena G. Goldberg, 2016; Henry R. Keizer, 2016; Donald C. Opatrny, 2015.
(d)
Mr. Fairbairn and Mr. Perlowski are both “interested persons,” as defined in the 1940 Act, of the Trust/MIP based on their positions with BlackRock, Inc. and its affiliates. Mr. Fairbairn and Mr.
Perlowski are also board members of the BlackRock Fixed-Income Complex.
(e)
Mr. Perlowski is also a trustee of the BlackRock Credit Strategies Fund and BlackRock Private Investments Fund.
Officers Who Are Not Trustees
(a)
Name
Year of Birth
(b)
Position(s) Held
(Length of Service) Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years
Roland Villacorta
1971
Vice President
(Since 2022)
Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc. since 2022; Head of Global Cash Management and Head of Securities Lending
within BlackRock’s Portfolio Management Group since 2022; Member of BlackRock’s Global Operating Committee since
2022; Head of Portfolio Management in BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory Group within BlackRock Solutions from
2008 to 2015; Co-Head of BlackRock Solutions’ Portfolio Analytics Group; previously Mr. Villacorta was Co-Head of Fixed
Income within BlackRock’s Risk & Quantitative Analysis Group.
Jennifer McGovern
1977
Vice President
(Since 2014)
Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc. since 2016; Director of BlackRock, Inc. from 2011 to 2015; Head of Americas Product
Development and Governance for BlackRock’s Global Product Group since 2019; Head of Product Structure and Oversight
for BlackRock’s U.S. Wealth Advisory Group from 2013 to 2019.
Trent Walker
1974
Chief Financial Officer
(Since 2021)
Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc. since September 2019; Executive Vice President of PIMCO from 2016 to 2019;
Senior Vice President of PIMCO from 2008 to 2015; Treasurer from 2013 to 2019 and Assistant Treasurer from 2007 to
2017 of PIMCO Funds, PIMCO Variable Insurance Trust, PIMCO ETF Trust, PIMCO Equity Series, PIMCO Equity
Series VIT, PIMCO Managed Accounts Trust, 2 PIMCO-sponsored interval funds and 21 PIMCO-sponsored closed-end
funds.
Jay M. Fife
1970
Treasurer
(Since 2009)
Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc. since 2007.
Aaron Wasserman
1974
Chief Compliance Officer
(Since 2023)
Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc. since 2018; Chief Compliance Officer of the BlackRock-advised funds in the
BlackRock Multi-Asset Complex, the BlackRock Fixed-Income Complex and the iShares Complex since 2023; Deputy
Chief Compliance Officer for the BlackRock-advised funds in the BlackRock Multi-Asset Complex, the BlackRock Fixed-
Income Complex and the iShares Complex from 2014 to 2023.
Lisa Belle
1968
Anti-Money Laundering
Compliance Officer
(Since 2019)
Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc. since 2019; Global Financial Crime Head for Asset and Wealth Management of JP
Morgan from 2013 to 2019; Managing Director of RBS Securities from 2012 to 2013; Head of Financial Crimes for Barclays
Wealth Americas from 2010 to 2012.
Trustee and Officer Information (continued)
T RUSTEE AND O FFICER I NFORMATION 25
Officers Who Are Not Trustees
(a)
(continued)
Name
Year of Birth
(b)
Position(s) Held
(Length of Service) Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years
Janey Ahn
1975
Secretary
(Since 2019)
Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc. since 2018; Director of BlackRock, Inc. from 2009 to 2017.
(a)
The address of each Officer is c/o BlackRock, Inc., 50 Hudson Yards, New York, New York 10001.
(b)
Officers of the Trust/MIP serve at the pleasure of the Board.
Further information about Trust’s/MIP’s Trustees and Officers is available in the Trust’s/MIP’s Statement of Additional Information, which can be obtained without charge by calling (800) 441-7762.
Effective July 1, 2023, Aaron Wasserman replaced Charles Park as Chief Compliance Officer of the Trust/MIP.
Trustee and Officer Information (continued)
26 2023 B LACKR OCK A NNUAL R EPORT TO S HAREHOLDERS
Portfolio Abbreviation
ETF Exchange-Traded Fund
MSCI Morgan Stanley Capital International
S&P Standard & Poor’s
Glossary of Terms Used in this Report
G LOSSARY OF T ERMS U SED IN T HIS R EPORT 27
Appendix B
PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES AND QUARTERLY PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS
(unaudited)
A description of Transamerica Funds’ proxy voting policies and procedures is available in the Statements of Additional Information of
the Funds, available without charge upon request by calling 1-888-233-4339 (toll free) or on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s
(“SEC”) website at http://www.sec.gov.
In addition, Funds are required to file Form N-PX, with their complete proxy voting records for the most recent 12 months ended
June 30th, no later than August 31st of each year. The Form is available without charge: (1) on the Transamerica Funds website at
https://www.transamerica.com/sites/default/files/files/e070d/TF%20NPX%202021.pdf and (2) on the SEC’s website at
http://www.sec.gov.
Each fiscal quarter, the Transamerica Funds except Transamerica Government Money Market, and the Master Portfolio will file with the
SEC a complete schedule of their monthly portfolio holdings on Form N-PORT. The Funds’ holdings as of the end of the third month of
every fiscal quarter, as reported on Form N-PORT, will be publicly available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov within 60 days
of the end of the fiscal quarter.
You may also visit the Trust’s website at www.transamerica.com for this and other information about the Funds and the Trust.
Important Notice Regarding Delivery of Shareholder Documents
Every year we provide shareholders informative materials such as Transamerica Funds’ Annual Report, Semi-Annual Report,
Prospectus, and other required documents that keep you informed regarding your Funds. To the extent provided by mail, Transamerica
Funds will only send one piece per mailing address, a method that saves your Funds money by reducing mailing and printing costs. We
will continue to do this unless you tell us not to. To elect to receive individual mailings, simply call a Transamerica Customer Service
Representative toll free at 1-888-233-4339, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday-Friday. Your request will take effect within 30 days.
Appendix C
NOTICE OF PRIVACY POLICY
(unaudited)
Your privacy is very important to us. We want you to understand what information we collect and how we use it. We collect and use
“nonpublic personal information” in connection with providing our customers with a broad range of financial products and services as
effectively and conveniently as possible. We treat nonpublic personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
What Information We Collect and From Whom We Collect It
We may collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:
Information we receive from you on applications or other forms, such as your name, address, and account number;
Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others, such as your account balance and purchase/redemption
history; and
Information we receive from non-affiliated third parties, including consumer reporting agencies.
What Information We Disclose and To Whom We Disclose It
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about current or former customers to anyone without their express consent,
except as permitted by law. We may disclose the nonpublic personal information we collect, as described above, to persons or
companies that perform services on our behalf and to other financial institutions with which we have joint marketing agreements. We
will require these companies to protect the confidentiality of your nonpublic personal information and to use it only to perform the
services for which we have hired them.
Our Security Procedures
We restrict access to your nonpublic personal information and only allow disclosures to persons and companies as permitted by law to
assist in providing products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your nonpublic
personal information and to safeguard the disposal of certain consumer information.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please call 1-888-233-4339 on any business day between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Eastern Time.
Note: This Privacy Policy applies only to customers that have a direct relationship with us or our affiliates. If you own shares of our
funds in the name of a third party such as a bank or broker-dealer, its privacy policy may apply to you instead of ours.
In an effort to reduce paper mailings and conserve natural resources, we encourage you to
visit our website, www.transamerica.com, to set up an account and enroll in eDelivery.
Transamerica Funds are advised by Transamerica Asset Management, Inc. and distributed by
Transamerica Capital, Inc., Member of FINRA
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