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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-CSR
CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES
Investment Company Act file number 811-07883
ICON Funds
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
     
5299 DTC Blvd. Suite 1200 Greenwood Village, CO   80111
 
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
Erik L. Jonson 5299 DTC Blvd. Suite 1200 Greenwood Village, CO 80111
(Name and address of agent for service)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 303-790-1600
Date of fiscal year end: September 30, 2007
Date of reporting period: September 30, 2007
 
 

 

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(CUBE WITH ARROWS)
2007 Annual Report
ICON U.S. Diversified Funds
Investment Update
 
ICON Bond Fund
ICON Core Equity Fund
ICON Equity Income Fund
ICON Income Opportunity Fund
ICON Long/Short Fund
 
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About This Report
 
Historical Returns
 
All total returns mentioned in this Report account for the change in a Fund’s per-share price and the reinvestment of any dividends, capital gain distributions, tax return of capital, and adjustments for financial statement purposes. If your account is set up to receive Fund distributions in cash rather than to reinvest them, your actual return may differ from these figures. The Funds’ performance results do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. The Adviser may have reimbursed certain fees or expenses of some of the Funds. If not for these reimbursements, performance would have been lower. Fund results shown, unless otherwise indicated, are at net asset value. If a sales charge (maximum 5.75%) had been deducted, results would have been lower.
 
Past performance does not guarantee future results. 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. Performance results represent past performance, and current performance may be higher or lower. Please call 1-800-764-0442 or visit www.iconadvisers.com for performance results current to the most recent month-end.
 
Portfolio Data
 
This Report reflects ICON’s views, opinions and portfolio holdings as of September 30, 2007, the end of the reporting period. The information is not a complete analysis of every aspect of any sector, industry, security or the Funds.
 
Opinions and forecasts regarding industries, companies and/or themes, and portfolio composition and holdings are subject to change at any time based on market and other conditions, and should not be construed as a recommendation of any specific security, industry or sector. Each Fund’s holdings as of September 30, 2007 are included in each Fund’s Schedule of Investments.
 
While ICON’s quantitative investment methodology primarily considers company-specific factors beyond financial data, various company factors may impact a stock’s performance, and therefore, Fund performance. Investments in foreign securities may entail unique risks, including political, market, and currency risks. Financial statements of foreign companies are governed by different accounting, auditing, and financial standards than U.S. companies and tend to be less transparent and uniform than in the United States. Many corporate governance standards, which help ensure the integrity of public information in the United States, do not exist in foreign countries. In general,
 
 
 
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there is less governmental supervision of foreign stock exchanges and securities brokers and issuers. The ICON system relies on the integrity of financial statements released to the market as part of our analysis.
 
According to ICON, value investing is an analytical, quantitative approach to investing that employs various factors, including projecting earnings growth estimates, in an effort to determine whether securities are over- or underpriced relative to ICON’s estimates of their intrinsic value. Value investing involves risks and uncertainties and does not guarantee better performance or lower costs than other investment methodologies. ICON’s value-to-price ratio is a ratio of intrinsic value, as calculated using ICON’s proprietary valuation methodology, of a broad range of domestic and international securities within ICON’s system as compared to the current market price of those securities.
 
This Report contains statements regarding industry or sector themes, new market themes, investment outlook, relative strength, value-to-price ratios, and investment team expectations, beliefs, goals and the like that are based on current expectations, recent individual stock performance relative to current market prices, estimates of company values and other information supplied to the market by the companies we follow. Words such as “expects,” “suggests,” “anticipates,” “targets,” “goals,” “value,” “intrinsic value,” “indicates,” “believes,” “considers,” “estimates,” variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward looking statements, which are not statements of historical fact. Forward looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to assess. These risks and uncertainties are based on a number of important factors, including, among others: stock price fluctuations; the integrity and accuracy of historical and projected financial and other information supplied by companies to the public; interest rates; future earnings growth rates, the risks noted in this Annual Report, and other factors beyond the control of our investment team. Therefore, actual outcome may differ materially from what is expressed in such forward looking statements.
 
There are risks associated with mutual fund investing, including the loss of principal. The likelihood of loss may be greater if you invest for a shorter period of time. There is no assurance that the investment process will consistently lead to successful results.
 
There are risks associated with selling short, including the risk that the ICON Long/Short Fund may have to cover its short position at a higher price than the short price, resulting in a loss. The ICON Long/Short Fund’s loss on a short sale is potentially unlimited as a loss occurs when the value of a security sold short increases. Call options involve certain risks, such as limited gains and lack of liquidity in the underlying securities, and are not
 
 
 
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suitable for all investors. An investment concentrated in sectors and industries may involve greater risk and volatility than a more diversified investment. Investments in foreign securities may entail unique risks, including political, market, and currency risks.
 
Investing in fixed income securities such as bonds involves interest rate risk. When interest rates rise, the value of fixed income securities generally decreases. The ICON Bond Fund may invest up to 25% of its assets in high-yield bonds that are below investment grade. High-yield bonds involve a greater risk of default and price volatility than U.S. Government and other higher-quality bonds.
 
The prospectus contains this and other information about the Funds and is available by visiting www.iconadvisers.com or calling 1-800-764-0442. Please read the prospectus carefully.
 
Comparative Indexes
 
The comparative indexes discussed in this Report are meant to provide a basis for judging a Fund’s performance against specific securities indexes. Each index shown accounts for both change in the security price and reinvestment of dividends and distributions (except as noted), but does not reflect the costs of managing a mutual fund. The Funds’ portfolios may significantly differ in holdings and composition from the index. Individuals cannot invest directly in an index.
 
•   The unmanaged Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) Composite 1500 Index (“S&P Composite 1500 Index”) is a broad-based capitalization-weighted index comprising 1,500 stocks of large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap U.S. companies.
 
•   The Lehman Brothers (“LB”) U.S. Universal Index represents the union of the U.S. Aggregate Index, the U.S. High-Yield Corporate Index, the 144A Index, the Eurodollar Index, the Emerging Markets Index, the non-ERISA portion of the Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (“CMBS”) Index and the CMBS High-Yield Index. All securities in this market-value weighted index have at least one year remaining to maturity and meet certain minimum issue size criteria.
 
•   The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (“VIX”) is an up-to-the-minute market estimate of expected volatility that is calculated by using real-time S&P 500 Index option bid/ask quotes. VIX uses nearby and second nearby options with at least 8 days left to expiration and then weights them to yield a constant, 30-day measure of the expected volatility of the S&P 500 Index.
 
Index returns and statistical data included in this Report are provided by Bloomberg, FactSet Research Systems, and Lehman Brothers.
 
 
 
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Message From ICON Funds
 
Dear ICON Shareholder:
 
We realize you are faced with many mutual fund choices as you construct your financial plan, and we appreciate your continued commitment to one or more of the ICON Diversified Funds. To those shareholders who are receiving their first ICON Funds Annual Report, we welcome you.
 
Investing lore is replete with sayings that communicate the wisdom that comes only from long-term experience. During the past five years, I have been reminded of the expression, “Wall Street climbs a wall of worry.” As the saying goes, market advances need to climb the proverbial “wall of worry” in order to keep going higher.
 
Many investors believe they have plenty to worry about: the sub-prime mortgage crisis, interest rates, oil prices, consumer spending, and inflation, not to mention the anxieties of terrorism, the Iraq war, environmental issues, and the weakness of the dollar. Amid these concerns, investors are inundated with news and theories about the stock market, leading to confusion, fear, and poor investment decisions.
 
Second-guessing the Federal Reserve (the Fed) seems to be a popular activity lately for many investors. Some argue the Fed waited too long to ease. Some argue the Fed should not be easing at all. Others believe the Fed should ease monetary policy even more.
 
We believe the debates regarding the economy and the stock market are a distraction for investment purposes. At ICON, we do not waste energy trying to predict what the Fed will do. Fed economists have direct access to economic statistics and banking activity. They are in the best position to make decisions regarding interest rates.
 
Debate also centers on the economy as people guess whether there will be a recession. They focus particular attention on the housing market and argue over when it might rebound. Again, this debate is irrelevant to the ICON system, as we avoid conjecture about the economy and housing market when making investment decisions.
 
 
 
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A Strong Equity Market
 
Despite worrisome headlines and gloomy expectations, it may be surprising to know how well the equity markets have performed over the last five years. Below are cumulative and annualized rates of return for a few popular indexes for the five-year period ended September 30, 2007.
 
Index Returns, 9/30/02 - 9/30/07
 
                 
Index
  Cumulative Return     Annualized Return  
 
Dow Jones Industrial Average
    105.03%       15.44%  
NASDAQ Composite Index
    138.06%       18.94%  
S&P 500 Index
    105.13%       15.45%  
S&P MidCap 400 Index
    130.45%       18.17%  
S&P SmallCap 600 Index
    135.93%       18.73%  
 
The unmanaged Dow Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks, primarily industrials. The unmanaged NASDAQ Composite (“NASDAQ”) Index is a broad-based capitalization-weighted index of all NASDAQ National Market and Small-Cap stocks. The unmanaged Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 Index is a market value-weighted index of large-cap common stocks considered representative of the broad market. The unmanaged S&P SmallCap 600 Index is an unmanaged index of 600 domestic stocks chosen for their market capitalization, liquidity, financial viability, and sector representation. The unmanaged S&P MidCap 400 Index is a widely recognized unmanaged mid-cap index of 400 domestic stocks chosen for their market capitalization, liquidity, and industry group representations. Total returns for the unmanaged indexes include the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions, except as noted, but do not reflect the costs of managing a mutual fund. The Funds’ composition may differ significantly from the indexes. Individuals cannot invest directly in an index.
 
Sources: FactSet Research Systems, Bloomberg
 
We think these are impressive rates of returns and are above-average by historic standards. A 100% cumulative return means the investment has doubled during the period. Yet analysts, observers, and investors have doubted the strength of this market. But, as the adage says, as they worried, the market kept climbing.
 
The past five years are significant to ICON because we opened four new funds in September 2002. ICON Long/Short, ICON Equity Income, ICON Income Opportunity, and ICON Bond Funds recently reached their five-year performance track records. Additionally, the ICON Core Equity Fund has seven years of performance as of mid-October, and most of the ICON Sector and International Funds now boast 10-year track records.
 
 
 
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Guided by Valuation
 
As always, our valuation readings have been our guide. According to our methodology, stocks have, on average, been priced below our estimate of intrinsic value over the course of the fiscal year. Our valuations dictate being invested.
 
While investors worry about current events, they have been giving us stocks at bargain prices. In our view, the impressive rates of return seen in market indexes are simply the result of prices trying to catch up with intrinsic value.
 
At ICON, we invest in industries that our methodology identifies as underpriced. Our quantitative process keeps us on track when many other investors are doubtful and worried. We continue to uncover companies we think are healthy and well-managed. These companies seem to be succeeding even amidst investor fear and worry.
 
Our discipline directed us to stay invested during the fiscal year, allowing the ICON Funds to take advantage of this rising market. In our regular communications, we have been steady in our message that it has been best to be invested in underpriced stocks and ride through short-term setbacks. You should be commended for your resolve to stick with the ICON system, and we believe you should be proud if you have participated in the advance.
 
In closing, we are grateful for the privilege of playing a role in your investment portfolio. In addition to reading this report on your Funds and communicating with your financial adviser, we invite you to visit our website at www.iconadvisers.com for current market updates, up-to-date Fund performance, and other information about your account.
 
Yours truly,
 
-s- Craig T. Callahan
Craig T. Callahan, DBA
Chairman of the Board of Trustees and President of the Adviser
 
 
 
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Class I IOBIX
Class C IOBCX
Class Z IOBZX

 
Management Overview
ICON Bond Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmark?
 
A.  For the Fund’s fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the Lehman Brothers U.S. Universal Index gained 5.31%, outperforming the ICON Bond Fund, which returned 4.80% for Class I shares, 4.27% for Class C shares, and 5.02% for Class Z shares over the same period. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  Bond yields, credit spreads, and the yield curve itself experienced wide swings over the 12-month period.
 
Yields on 10-year Treasuries, which started off the fiscal year trading around 4.6%, illustrate the fluctuation during the year. With a federal funds rate of 5.25%, the bond market was expecting several rate cuts. As the economy held its ground but inflation continued to creep higher, some investors believed the likelihood and timing of a rate cut seemed distant. The yield on 10-year Treasuries rose to 5.29% by mid-June 2007 (the highest yield for 10-year Treasuries since the Fed made its last rate hike on June 29, 2006).
 
This trend quickly reversed as the 10-year yield fell to 4.33% by early September 2007 as concerns about sub-prime mortgages caused a flight to liquidity and quality and increased expectation of significant Fed rate cuts. One such cut came on September 18, 2007, which led to a slight up-tick in yields to 4.70% by September 20, 2007.
 
Credit spreads also endured 12 months of fluctuations. After years of tight credit spreads, spreads widened almost overnight in mid-July 2007 as fears about sub-prime mortgages led to a lack of liquidity. Junk yields widened with option-adjusted spreads averaging around 450 basis points in June 2007 to a range of 550-990 basis points by August 2007. Bonds of mortgage-related companies saw their prices drop in a matter of weeks from approximately 90 cents on the dollar to around 60 cents on the dollar.
 
Given this environment, the yield curve also oscillated, starting the period inverted and then moving to a slight upward slope in June 2007.
 
 
 
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Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  In light of our expectation of a normal upwards-sloping yield curve, the Fund was positioned on the short end of the curve for the greater part of the year.
 
The Fund’s weighted average duration was below 4.0 for the fiscal year while the benchmark’s weighted average duration was above 4.5. This allowed the Fund to minimize the negative effects of rising yields for the first three quarters of the year. However, this positioning also hampered the Fund from participating in the strong performance that higher-quality longer durations delivered from mid-June 2007 to the end of the fiscal year.
 
With historically tight credit spreads for the greater part of the fiscal year and our expectation of normal credit spreads, we positioned the Fund in high-quality instruments. The Fund’s weighting in non-investment grade instruments started the fiscal year at 16.7% of assets, but was reduced to less than 10% in the final fiscal quarter when credit spreads widened. Furthermore, the Fund avoided mortgage-backed securities, which saw valuations drop precipitously during this period of time.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the bond market?
 
A.  Although the federal funds rate of 4.75% is still above the yield for 10-year Treasuries, the yield curve has taken on a more normal slightly upward sloping curve. Given this yield curve, we expect to see more opportunities to increase the Fund’s duration.
 
Furthermore, notwithstanding that credit spreads have widened and we are beginning to see more attractive valuations in riskier fixed-income investments, our relative strength indicators have yet to confirm the leadership of these corporate bonds.
 
 
 
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Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                             
                                      Gross
      Net
 
      Inception
                      Since
      Expense
      Expense
 
      Date       1 Year       5 Years       Inception       Ratio*       Ratio*  
ICON Bond Fund - Class I
      9/30/02         4.80%         4.41 %       4.41%         1.11 %       1.01 %
 
 
Lehman Brothers U.S. Universal Index
                5.31%         4.86 %       4.86%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Bond Fund - Class C
      10/21/02         4.27%         N/A         4.33%         3.08 %       1.61 %
 
 
Lehman Brothers U.S. Universal Index
                5.31%         N/A         5.32%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Bond Fund - Class Z
      5/6/04         5.02%         N/A         4.04%         25.40 %       0.76 %
 
 
Lehman Brothers U.S. Universal Index
                5.31%         N/A         5.04%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section. The Adviser has agreed to limit certain Fund expenses; without these limitations, returns would have been lower. The limitation provisions may be terminated in the future. Class Z shares are available only to institutional investors.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
Class C total returns exclude applicable sales charges. If sales charges were included, returns would be lower.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund’s Class I shares on the Class’ inception date of 9/30/02 to a $10,000 investment made in an unmanaged securities index on that date. Performance for the Fund’s other share classes will vary due to differences in charges and expenses. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
Credit Quality Diversification
 
         
 
Aaa
    43.4%
 
Aa1
    4.4%
 
Aa2
    12.7%
 
Aa3
    4.8%
 
A1
    3.1%
 
A2
    3.6%
 
A3
    6.6%
 
Baa1
    2.8%
 
Baa2
    3.6%
 
Baa3
    3.8%
 
Ba1
    2.8%
 
Ba2
    1.3%
 
Ba3
    1.1%
 
B1
    4.2%
 
B2
    0.3%
 
Percentages are based upon total investments less short-term investments.
 
Ratings based on Moody’s.
 
 
 
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ICON Bond Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                                 
    Interest
  Maturity
   
Shares or Principal Amount   Rate   Date   Value
 
 
Corporate Bonds (41.1%)
$ 220,000     Ace INA Holdings, Inc.      8.88 %     08/15/29     $ 282,971  
  275,000     Allied Waste North America     5.75 %     02/15/11       270,188  
  750,000     American General Finance     5.38 %     10/01/12       738,215  
  500,000     American Standard, Inc.      7.38 %     02/01/08       502,373  
  500,000     AutoZone, Inc.      5.50 %     11/15/15       486,897  
  2,000,000     Bank of America Corp.      6.25 %     04/15/12       2,072,184  
  500,000     Bank of America Corp.      4.88 %     01/15/13       488,076  
  3,000,000     Bank of America Corp.      5.38 %     06/15/14       2,966,700  
  297,000     Calenergy Co., Inc.      7.63 %     10/15/07       297,220  
  250,000     Centex Corp.      4.55 %     11/01/10       229,646  
  250,000     Centex Corp.      5.25 %     06/15/15       212,681  
  1,127,000     Chartered Semiconductor - YD     5.75 %     08/03/10       1,132,443  
  450,000     Cincinnati Financial Corp.      6.90 %     05/15/28       476,783  
  1,000,000     CIT Group, Inc.      5.50 %     11/30/07       997,660  
  750,000     CIT Group, Inc.      4.75 %     12/15/10       713,800  
  355,000     CIT Group, Inc.      7.75 %     04/02/12       368,337  
  410,000     CNA Financial Corp.      6.60 %     12/15/08       414,590  
  1,750,000     Comcast Cable Communications Holdings     8.38 %     03/15/13       1,961,466  
  400,000     Comcast Cable Communications Holdings     8.88 %     05/01/17       472,280  
  500,000     Countrywide Financial     4.25 %     12/19/07       494,213  
  1,000,000     Countrywide Home Loan     4.13 %     09/15/09       919,084  
  114,000     Cox Communications, Inc.      7.63 %     06/15/25       126,586  
  100,000     D.R. Horton, Inc.      8.00 %     02/01/09       99,299  
  2,500,000     DaimlerChrysler AG     6.50 %     11/15/13       2,592,310  
  1,250,000     DaimlerChrysler NA Holding     4.75 %     01/15/08       1,246,604  
  500,000     DaimlerChrysler NA Holding     8.00 %     06/15/10       534,152  
  1,000,000     DaimlerChrysler NA Holding     7.75 %     01/18/11       1,071,322  
  500,000     Deutsche Telekom International Finance - YD     8.00 %     06/15/10       535,590  
  450,000     Deutsche Telekom International Finance - YD     8.25 %     06/15/30       550,873  
  260,000     Dillard’s, Inc.      9.50 %     09/01/09       264,875  
  232,000     Dillard’s, Inc.      9.13 %     08/01/11       237,581  
  500,000     Donnelley (R.R.) & Sons     4.95 %     04/01/14       471,568  
  750,000     Embratel - YD     11.00 %     12/15/08       794,062  
  500,000     Farmers Insurance Capital Notes(a)     7.20 %     07/15/48       487,773  
  6,000     First American Financial Corp.      7.55 %     04/01/28       6,377  
 
 
 
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    Interest
  Maturity
   
Shares or Principal Amount   Rate   Date   Value
 
 
$ 2,500,000     Ford Motor Credit Co.      4.95 %     01/15/08     $ 2,483,985  
  2,000,000     Ford Motor Credit Co.      5.63 %     10/01/08       1,954,124  
  500,000     General Electric Corp.      5.45 %     01/15/13       504,679  
  900,000     General Mills, Inc.      3.88 %     11/30/07       897,638  
  1,500,000     GMAC LLC(b)     5.13 %     05/09/08       1,488,126  
  226,000     Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.      4.13 %     01/15/08       225,069  
  250,000     Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.      7.35 %     10/01/09       261,070  
  1,250,000     Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.      6.88 %     01/15/11       1,308,267  
  1,000,000     Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.      6.60 %     01/15/12       1,047,926  
  670,000     Household Finance Corp.      5.88 %     02/01/09       675,130  
  500,000     Household Finance Corp.      7.00 %     05/15/12       525,688  
  250,000     IBM Corp.      3.80 %     02/01/08       248,824  
  950,000     IBM Corp.      8.38 %     11/01/19       1,160,260  
  500,000     International Lease Finance Corp.      6.38 %     03/15/09       509,753  
  294,000     International Lease Finance Corp.      4.88 %     09/01/10       291,995  
  450,000     John Hancock(a)     7.38 %     02/15/24       501,959  
  50,000     JP Morgan Chase & Co.      6.70 %     11/01/07       50,029  
  200,000     JP Morgan Chase & Co.      4.00 %     02/01/08       199,271  
  455,000     JP Morgan Chase & Co.      6.75 %     08/15/08       459,952  
  500,000     Kraft Foods, Inc.      6.25 %     06/01/12       516,225  
  218,000     Morgan Stanley     3.63 %     04/01/08       216,547  
  500,000     Morgan Stanley     3.88 %     01/15/09       492,447  
  250,000     Morgan Stanley     4.25 %     05/15/10       244,458  
  500,000     Morgan Stanley     4.75 %     04/01/14       469,661  
  400,000     New Jersey Bell Telephone     7.85 %     11/15/29       453,230  
  122,000     NLV Financial Corp.(a)     6.50 %     03/15/35       112,726  
  500,000     Pemex Project Funding Master Trust     8.50 %     02/15/08       505,000  
  500,000     Prudential Financial, Inc.      4.75 %     06/13/15       470,032  
  250,000     Pulte Homes, Inc.      5.20 %     02/15/15       208,455  
  1,000,000     Rockwell Automation, Inc.      6.15 %     01/15/08       1,002,370  
  350,000     Royal Caribbean Cruises - YD     6.75 %     03/15/08       350,889  
  500,000     Ryder System, Inc.      5.85 %     03/01/14       504,013  
  382,000     Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp.      6.25 %     05/01/09       387,356  
  213,000     Semco Energy, Inc.      6.40 %     11/25/08       211,706  
  700,000     Standard Pacific Corp.      6.50 %     10/01/08       623,000  
  500,000     Target Corp.      3.38 %     03/01/08       495,879  
  350,000     Telefonica de Argentina - YD     9.13 %     11/07/10       363,475  
  500,000     Tennessee Gas Pipeline     7.00 %     10/15/28       508,947  
  450,000     Time Warner Cos., Inc.      7.48 %     01/15/08       452,502  
  288,000     TRW, Inc.      6.32 %     05/27/08       288,845  
  500,000     Tyco International, Ltd. - YD     6.13 %     11/01/08       505,477  
 
 
 
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    Interest
  Maturity
   
Shares or Principal Amount   Rate   Date   Value
 
 
$ 155,000     Union Carbide Corp.      6.70 %     04/01/09     $ 155,471  
  410,000     Verizon, Inc.      8.30 %     08/01/31       493,744  
  1,000,000     Washington Mutual Bank     5.13 %     01/15/15       931,398  
                                 
Total Corporate Bonds
(Cost $51,797,226)
    51,274,377  
U.S. Government And U.S. Government Agency Bonds (55.4%)
               
  750,000     Fannie Mae     2.50 %     06/15/08       738,342  
  270,000     Fannie Mae     3.10 %     07/28/08       266,425  
  500,000     Fannie Mae     4.00 %     09/02/08       497,182  
  3,000,000     Fannie Mae     5.00 %     02/16/12       3,045,360  
  8,000,000     Fannie Mae     5.25 %     08/01/12       8,163,272  
  5,000,000     Fannie Mae     4.38 %     03/15/13       4,927,020  
  6,825,000     Fannie Mae     5.13 %     01/02/14       6,891,264  
  1,500,000     Fannie Mae     5.00 %     03/09/15       1,478,196  
  500,000     Fannie Mae     5.00 %     04/17/15       492,284  
  9,000,000     Fannie Mae     5.25 %     09/15/16       9,175,149  
  1,000,000     Fannie Mae     5.00 %     07/09/18       967,044  
  255,000     Federal Farm Credit Bank     5.90 %     08/04/08       257,538  
  1,000,000     Federal Home Loan Bank     4.00 %     02/12/10       990,188  
  405,000     Federal Home Loan Bank     4.80 %     03/19/13       400,880  
  750,000     Federal Home Loan Bank     5.50 %     02/14/20       735,298  
  500,000     Federal Home Loan Bank     5.50 %     03/03/20       490,539  
  500,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      5.75 %     04/15/08       502,322  
  3,000,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      3.88 %     06/15/08       2,981,601  
  200,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      5.13 %     10/15/08       201,357  
  3,000,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      4.63 %     12/19/08       3,003,459  
  3,000,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      4.88 %     02/17/09       3,015,579  
  1,000,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      3.38 %     04/15/09       984,249  
  2,000,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      6.00 %     06/15/11       2,100,720  
  5,900,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      5.75 %     01/15/12       6,162,343  
  1,500,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      5.05 %     02/28/13       1,494,555  
  370,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      5.00 %     10/29/13       367,089  
  457,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      5.00 %     09/15/14       452,077  
  1,500,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      5.16 %     02/27/15       1,488,165  
  400,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      5.00 %     12/15/15       392,997  
  550,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      5.00 %     09/09/16       538,518  
  975,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      5.25 %     07/27/17       962,518  
  1,500,000     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      6.75 %     09/15/29       1,788,951  
  85,000     US Treasury Note     4.38 %     01/31/08       85,093  
  2,000,000     US Treasury Note     4.63 %     03/31/08       2,004,688  
 
 
 
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    Interest
  Maturity
   
Shares or Principal Amount   Rate   Date   Value
 
 
$ 973,000     US Treasury Note Strips     9.88 %     05/15/08     $ 949,084  
                                 
Total U.S. Government And U.S. Government Agency Bonds
(Cost $68,070,998)
    68,991,346  
Foreign Government Bonds (2.0%)
       
  1,000,000     Federal Republic of Brazil - YD     9.38 %     04/07/08       1,019,500  
  750,000     Federal Republic of Brazil - YD     14.50 %     10/15/09       889,125  
  500,000     Republic of South Africa - YD     6.50 %     06/02/14       526,250  
                                 
Total Foreign Government Bonds
(Cost $2,407,559)
    2,434,875  
Short-Term Investment (0.2%)
       
  262,467     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%, 10/01/07#                     262,467  
                                 
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $262,467)
    262,467  
Other Securities (1.2%)
       
  1,532,004     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment Fund, 5.24%                     1,532,004  
                                 
Total Other Securities
(Cost $1,532,004)
    1,532,004  
Total Investments 99.9%
(Cost $124,070,254)
    124,495,069  
Other Assets Less Liabilities 0.1%
    109,276  
         
Net Assets 100.0%
  $ 124,604,345  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Security was acquired pursuant to rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933 and may be deemed to be restricted for resale. The securities are considered to be illiquid. The aggregate value of these securities at September 30, 2007 was $1,102,458 which represented 0.88% of the Fund’s Net Assets.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
YD Yankee Dollar Bond
 
 
 
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Class I ICNIX
Class C ICNCX
Class Z ICNZX
Class A ICNAX

 
Management Overview
ICON Core Equity Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmark?
 
A.  For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the Fund’s benchmark, the S&P Composite 1500 Index, gained 16.59%, compared to the ICON Core Equity Fund’s return of 17.05% for Class I shares, 16.25% for Class C shares, and 17.18% for Class Z shares. Class A shares of the Fund have returned 16.25% (and 9.57% with maximum sales charge). Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  During the fiscal year, investors were presumably influenced by many concerns. In those 12 months, crude oil futures rose approximately 30%, sub-prime mortgage issues created fears of recession, market volatility reached levels not seen since 2003, and U.S. Dollar Index decreased in value by approximately 9%.
 
The Federal Reserve responded by cutting the discount window by a total of 100 basis points and cutting the federal funds rate by 50 basis points in order to combat liquidity problems. In spite of news headlines that may have distracted investors, we maintained a disciplined focus on industries that we thought offered attractive combinations of value and relative strength, helping the Fund navigate this turbulence.
 
We believe the fiscal year can be viewed in five distinct time periods — three strong up markets and two sharp drops — which reflect both the volatility and the absence of sustained sector leadership during the period.
 
The three strong up markets (from the start of the period to February 23, 2007; March 2, 2007 to July 19, 2007; and August 16, 2007 to the end of the period) accounted for a 31.05% gain in the S&P 1500 Index. The leading sectors during these three time periods consistently were Materials, Energy, Industrials, and Information Technology.
 
The two correction periods (from February 23, 2007 to March 2, 2007 and July 19, 2007 to August 16, 2007) accounted for a (13.62%) loss in the S&P 1500 Index. The worst-performing sectors during these time periods practically mirrored the best-performing sectors during the advancing markets: Materials, Consumer Discretionary, Energy, and Industrials.
 
 
 
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This sector-specific volatility created a challenging environment that required the Fund to maintain exposure to all nine economic sectors while using selective industry allocation.
 
Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  The ICON Core Equity Fund steered through a volatile year. Leading sector contributors to performance were Information Technology, Industrials, and Telecommunication & Utilities. All three sectors were approximately equal-weight to the benchmark, but the Fund was aided by value-driven industry overweights.
 
On an industry level, the oil & gas equipment & services, computer hardware, construction & farm machinery & heavy trucks, integrated telecommunication services, and oil & gas drilling industries contributed positively to returns. These industries were significantly overweight relative to the benchmark during the period, boosting performance.
 
In contrast, the Consumer Discretionary, Healthcare, and Leisure & Consumer Staples sectors detracted from returns. Both Healthcare and Consumer Discretionary were overweight due to our valuations, but showed weak performance. Additionally, the Fund’s lack of exposure to the strong-performing integrated oil & gas industry within the Energy sector detracted from overall returns.
 
In general, the coal & consumable fuels, healthcare facilities, housewares & specialties, automotive retail, and homebuilding industries had a negative impact on Fund performance during the fiscal period.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the equity market?
 
A.  Our experience indicates that significant spikes in market volatility, such as we’ve witnessed recently, may herald a change in sector leadership.
 
Since 2003, we have seen cyclically-sensitive sectors such as Energy, Materials, and Industrials lead the market. The market’s recent volatility, coupled with our determination of value in sectors such as Financials and Consumer Discretionary, lead us to believe that we might be in the midst of a theme change.
 
While we are watching our system for indications of a possible theme shift, we are waiting for more definitive indicators before aggressively targeting other sectors that reflect what we believe to be the most attractive combinations of value and relative strength.
 
The U.S. Dollar Index indicates the general international value of the U.S. dollar by averaging the exchange rates between the dollar and six major world currencies. An individual cannot invest in the index.
 
 
 
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Sector Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Information Technology
    20.8%
Industrials
    20.0%
Financial
    17.0%
Healthcare
    13.5%
Telecommunication and Utilities
    7.9%
Energy
    7.5%
Consumer Discretionary
    6.5%
Materials
    4.7%
Leisure and Consumer Staples
    1.7%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Computer Hardware
    5.1%
Aerospace & Defense
    4.8%
Construction & Farm Machinery & Heavy Trucks
    4.7%
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
    4.5%
Wireless Telecommunication Services
    4.5%
Managed Health Care
    4.1%
Technology Distributors
    4.0%
Other Diversified Financial Services
    3.9%
Railroads
    3.7%
Marine
    3.6%
Internet Software Services
    3.5%
Pharmaceuticals
    3.5%
Integrated Telecommunication Services
    3.4%
Auto Parts & Equipment
    3.1%
Communications Equipment
    3.1%
Health Care Services
    3.0%
Life & Health Insurance
    2.9%
Industrial Conglomerates
    2.8%
Investment Banking & Brokerage
    2.5%
Multi-Line Insurance
    2.5%
Diversified Banks
    2.3%
Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals
    2.3%
Reinsurance
    2.2%
Health Care Equipment
    2.1%
Oil & Gas Drilling
    2.0%
Semiconductor Equipment
    1.6%
Systems Software
    1.6%
Diversified Metals & Mining
    1.5%
Agriculture Products
    1.2%
Household Appliances
    1.1%
Integrated Oil & Gas
    1.0%
Semiconductors
    1.0%
Automotive Retail
    0.9%
Electronic Equipment Manufacturers
    0.9%
Home Improvement Retail
    0.9%
Metal & Glass Containers
    0.9%
Biotechnology
    0.8%
Diversified Capital Markets
    0.7%
Housewares & Specialties
    0.5%
Movies & Entertainment
    0.5%
Trading Companies & Distributors
    0.4%
       
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
 
 
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Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                             
                                      Gross
      Net
 
      Inception
                      Since
      Expense
      Expense
 
      Date       1 Year       5 Years       Inception       Ratio*       Ratio*  
ICON Core Equity Fund - Class I
      10/12/00         17.05%         14.25 %       9.58%         1.23 %       1.23 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59%         15.82 %       4.51%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Core Equity Fund - Class C
      11/28/00         16.25%         13.39 %       7.98%         2.03 %       2.02 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59%         15.82 %       4.40%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Core Equity Fund - Class Z
      5/6/04         17.18%         N/A         13.42%         0.99 %       0.98 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59%         N/A         12.08%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Core Equity Fund - Class A
      5/31/06         16.25%         N/A         8.16%         7.44 %       7.43 %
 
 
ICON Core Equity Fund - Class A
(including maximum sales charge of 5.75%)
      5/31/06         9.57%         N/A         3.48%         7.44 %       7.43 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59%         N/A         16.34%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section. The Since Inception performance results for Class C shares include returns for certain time periods that were restated as of June 8, 2004. Class Z shares are available only to institutional investors.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
Class C total returns exclude applicable sales charges. If sales charges were included, returns would be lower.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund’s Class I shares on the Class’ inception date of 10/12/00 to a $10,000 investment made in an unmanaged securities index on that date. Performance for the Fund’s other share classes will vary due to differences in charges and expenses. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Core Equity Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (99.6%)
  35,500     AAR Corp.(a)   $ 1,077,070  
  58,900     Aflac, Inc.      3,359,656  
  66,500     Amedisys, Inc.(a)     2,554,930  
  59,100     America Movil S.A.B. de C.V. - ADR     3,782,400  
  68,800     American International Group, Inc.      4,654,320  
  40,900     Amphenol Corp. - Class A     1,626,184  
  28,600     Anixter International, Inc.(a)(b)     2,358,070  
  7,700     Apple Computer, Inc.(a)     1,182,258  
  48,200     Arrow Electronics, Inc.(a)     2,049,464  
  25,000     Astec Industries, Inc.(a)     1,436,250  
  107,700     AT&T, Inc.      4,556,787  
  23,400     Atwood Oceanics, Inc.(a)     1,791,504  
  14,900     AutoZone, Inc.(a)     1,730,486  
  72,800     Avnet, Inc.(a)     2,901,808  
  29,300     Ball Corp.      1,574,875  
  84,500     Banco Santander Central Hispano S.A. - ADR     1,631,695  
  86,400     Bank of America Corp.      4,343,328  
  70,100     BE Aerospace, Inc.(a)     2,911,253  
  19,800     BorgWarner, Inc.      1,812,294  
  24,200     Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.      1,964,314  
  40,000     Cameron International Corp.(a)     3,691,600  
  21,000     Celgene Corp.(a)     1,497,510  
  21,000     CIGNA Corp.      1,119,090  
  49,000     Corn Products International, Inc.      2,247,630  
  20,300     Credit Suisse Group - ADR     1,346,499  
  17,200     Cummins, Inc.      2,199,708  
  38,400     Curtiss-Wright Corp.      1,824,000  
  102,000     Dell, Inc.(a)     2,815,200  
  16,400     Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.      1,857,956  
  63,900     eBay, Inc.(a)     2,493,378  
  18,200     Everest Re Group, Ltd.      2,006,368  
  50,900     Express Scripts, Inc.(a)     2,841,238  
  25,500     Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, Inc. - Class B(b)     2,674,695  
  79,100     General Electric Co.      3,274,740  
  6,900     Google, Inc. - Class A(a)     3,914,163  
  41,700     Grant Prideco, Inc.(a)     2,273,484  
  34,900     Harris Corp.      2,016,871  
  34,700     Humana, Inc.(a)     2,424,836  
  70,600     Intel Corp.      1,825,716  
  47,400     International Business Machines Corp.      5,583,720  
  23,200     Johnson & Johnson, Inc.      1,524,240  
  32,600     Johnson Controls, Inc.      3,850,386  
  58,800     JPMorgan Chase & Co.      2,694,216  
  63,200     K-V Pharmaceutical Co.(a)     1,807,520  
  48,200     Kirby Corp.(a)     2,127,548  
  18,200     KLA-Tencor Corp.      1,015,196  
  46,100     Lifetime Brands, Inc.(b)     935,369  
  59,300     Lowe’s Cos., Inc.      1,661,586  
  29,900     Memc Electronic Materials, Inc.(a)     1,759,914  
  30,700     Merck & Co., Inc.      1,586,883  
  30,200     MetLife, Inc.      2,105,846  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  22,300     MICROS Systems, Inc.(a)   $ 1,451,061  
  50,000     Monsanto Co.      4,287,000  
  27,300     Morgan Stanley     1,719,900  
  16,100     MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. - Class A     814,499  
  26,700     Murphy Oil Corp.      1,866,063  
  223,000     Navios Maritime Holdings, Inc.      2,930,220  
  25,100     NII Holdings, Inc.(a)     2,061,965  
  45,600     Norfolk Southern Corp.      2,367,096  
  67,500     Oracle Corp.(a)     1,461,375  
  45,500     Oshkosh Truck Corp.      2,819,635  
  32,900     QUALCOMM, Inc.      1,390,354  
  80,600     Quintana Maritime, Ltd. - ADR     1,537,042  
  32,100     RenaissanceRe Holdings, Ltd.      2,099,661  
  21,800     Research In Motion, Ltd.(a)     2,148,390  
  52,000     Rogers Communications, Inc. - Class B     2,367,560  
  46,900     Schering-Plough Corp.      1,483,447  
  21,900     Schlumberger, Ltd.(b)     2,299,500  
  13,700     Siemens AG - ADR     1,880,325  
  30,500     Stryker Corp.      2,097,180  
  18,800     Telefonica S.A. - ADR     1,575,064  
  27,300     The Boeing Co.      2,866,227  
  13,100     The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.      2,839,294  
  28,100     The Walt Disney Co.      966,359  
  20,850     Union Pacific Corp.      2,357,301  
  46,800     UnitedHealth Group, Inc.      2,266,524  
  57,300     Wabtec Corp.      2,146,458  
  23,200     WellPoint, Inc.(a)     1,830,944  
  71,800     Wells Fargo & Co.      2,557,516  
  22,100     Whirlpool Corp.      1,969,110  
  22,400     Zimmer Holdings, Inc.(a)     1,814,176  
                 
         
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $155,918,170)
    182,567,298  
 
Other Securities (3.9%)
                 
  7,148,566     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment Fund, 5.24%     7,148,566  
                 
         
Total Other Securities
(Cost $7,148,566)
    7,148,566  
         
Total Investments 103.5%
(Cost $163,066,736)
    189,715,864  
         
Liabilities Less Other Assets (3.5)%
    (6,410,252 )
         
         
Net Assets 100.0%   $ 183,305,612  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
 
 
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Class I IOEIX
Class C IOECX
Class Z IOEZX
Class A IEQAX

 
Management Overview
ICON Equity Income Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmark?
 
A.  For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the Fund’s benchmark, the S&P Composite 1500 Index, gained 16.59%, while the ICON Equity Income Fund returned 17.67% for Class I shares, 16.45% for Class C shares, and 17.74% for Class Z shares. Class A shares of the Fund returned 17.29% (and 10.55% with maximum sales charge) during the same period. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  The broad market was dominated during the fiscal year by strong demand for Materials and Energy stocks as global growth, especially in China, fueled consumption.
 
The strong performance of the equity market, relative stability in the Moody’s AAA bond yield, and moderate growth in earnings per share has led to a decline of value-to-price ratios for the domestic market. The result has been a need to focus the Fund’s holdings on optimal combinations of value and relative strength.
 
Despite Federal Reserve policy activity during the fiscal period, 10-year Treasury bond yields ended the fiscal period very close to where they started at around 4.6%. The Fund’s fixed-income positions generally produced a return consistent with the stated coupon yield of the bonds held.
 
The Fund’s overweighting of the Industrials sector served it well during the period. More than half of this sector’s contribution to performance was a result of the Fund’s holdings in the marine industry.
 
The Fund’s position in the Materials sector also was beneficial for returns, with particularly strong performance from the diversified metals & mining, steel, and aluminum industries.
 
While the Information Technology sector generally did well during the period, the lack of dividend-paying stocks from this group limited the Fund’s ability to have a meaningful position in this sector, causing relative underperformance.
 
 
 
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Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  The Fund established a large position in the marine industry based on our estimation of the industry’s strong value, good relative strength, and active dividend yields. Marine stocks seemed to be driven by a global demand to move goods between countries. The industry had a weighted average holding of approximately 2.5% and contributed significantly to fiscal-year returns.
 
Conversely, the thrifts & mortgage finance industry hampered returns as sub-prime default fears gripped these stocks. Even with a minimal weighted average position size, this industry made a negative contribution to performance.
 
In general, having determined that REITs lacked the relative strength ICON looks for, we sold mortgage REIT holdings before the brunt of the mortgage crisis decimated them. The Fund’s mortgage REIT holdings returned about 3% while the S&P 1500 Index’s holdings lost approximately (85%). Given the active dividend yield in this industry group, it would not be unusual for the Fund to have a notably larger position than the benchmark when valuation and relative strength criteria are met.
 
Although it was an underweight position, the Fund enjoyed strong performance from the integrated oil & gas industry. Holdings in the diversified metals and mining and computer hardware industries also aided Fund returns during the period.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the market?
 
A.  We measure the broad equity market to be undervalued by 12% relative to our estimate of intrinsic worth, indicating upside potential.
 
The Financials sector has performed well off of the market’s low on August 15, 2007. Given that sector’s active valuations and relatively high dividend yield, we are monitoring our metrics closely and will increase the sector’s weighting if we believe it is warranted in an effort to augment income generated by the portfolio.
 
The Consumer Discretionary sector also closed the period with what we consider to be an attractive valuation, and we will watch this group for signs of leadership.
 
The steepening yield curve is presenting more active risk/return for longer bonds. If rates for longer bonds start to decline, the Fund may be able to take advantage of this relative strength by increasing exposure to the debt sector.
 
 
 
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Sector Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Financial
    19.3%
Industrials
    17.2%
Information Technology
    11.2%
Telecommunication and Utilities
    10.0%
Healthcare
    7.2%
Energy
    6.8%
Consumer Discretionary
    6.1%
Leisure and Consumer Staples
    4.4%
Materials
    4.4%
 
Percentages are based upon common stock positions as a percentage of net assets.
 
Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Pharmaceuticals
    4.6%
Computer Hardware
    3.8%
Industrial Conglomerates
    3.8%
Other Diversified Financial Services
    3.8%
Integrated Telecommunication Services
    3.5%
Integrated Oil & Gas
    3.3%
Semiconductors
    3.3%
Life & Health Insurance
    3.0%
Reinsurance
    2.7%
Aerospace & Defense
    2.6%
Wireless Telecommunication Services
    2.4%
Diversified Banks
    2.3%
Railroads
    2.3%
Systems Software
    2.1%
Industrial Machinery
    2.0%
Auto Parts & Equipment
    1.8%
Household Products
    1.6%
Marine
    1.6%
Trading Companies & Distributors
    1.5%
Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders
    1.5%
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
    1.5%
Health Care Equipment
    1.4%
Agriculture Products
    1.3%
Diversified Metals & Mining
    1.3%
Internet Software Services
    1.3%
Regional Banks
    1.3%
Oil & Gas Exploration & Production
    1.2%
Construction & Farm Machinery & Heavy Trucks
    1.1%
Consumer Finance
    1.1%
Footwear
    1.1%
Multi-Line Insurance
    1.1%
Metal & Glass Containers
    1.0%
Steel
    0.9%
Electric Utilities
    0.9%
Insurance Brokers
    0.9%
Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation
    0.9%
Asset Management & Custody Banks
    0.8%
Electrical Components & Equipment
    0.8%
Investment Banking & Brokerage
    0.8%
Multi-Utilities
    0.8%
Trucking
    0.8%
Water Utilities
    0.8%
Air Freight & Logistics
    0.7%
Communications Equipment
    0.7%
Food Retail
    0.7%
Household Appliances
    0.7%
Life Sciences & Services
    0.7%
Soft Drinks
    0.7%
Specialty Chemicals
    0.7%
Automobile Manufacturers
    0.6%
Diversified Chemicals
    0.6%
General Merchandise Stores
    0.6%
Health Care Facilities
    0.6%
Home Improvement Retail
    0.6%
Housewares & Specialties
    0.6%
Mortgage Reits
    0.5%
Property & Casualty Insurance
    0.5%
Thrifts & Mortgage Finance
    0.5%
 
Percentages are based upon common stock positions as a percentage of net assets.
 
 
 
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Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                             
                              Gross
    Net
      Inception
                Since
    Expense
    Expense
      Date     1 Year     5 Years     Inception     Ratio*     Ratio*
ICON Equity Income Fund - Class I
      9/30/02         17.67 %       15.54 %       15.54 %       1.23 %       1.23 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59 %       15.82 %       15.82 %       N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Equity Income Fund - Class C
      11/8/02         16.45 %       N/A         13.44 %       2.29 %       2.20 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59 %       N/A         13.89 %       N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Equity Income Fund - Class Z
      5/10/04         17.74 %       N/A         12.57 %       4.36 %       1.20 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59 %       N/A         12.99 %       N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Equity Income Fund - Class A
      5/31/06         17.29 %       N/A         13.09 %       38.36 %       1.44 %
 
 
ICON Equity Income Fund - Class A
(including maximum sales charge of 5.75%)
      5/31/06         10.55 %       N/A         8.17 %       38.36 %       1.44 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59 %       N/A         16.34 %       N/A         N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section. The Adviser has agreed to limit certain Fund expenses; without these limitations, returns would have been lower. The limitation provisions may be terminated in the future. Class Z shares are available only to institutional investors.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
Class C total returns exclude applicable sales charges. If sales charges were included, returns would be lower.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund’s Class I shares on the Class’ inception date of 9/30/02 to a $10,000 investment made in an unmanaged securities index on that date. Performance for the Fund’s other share classes will vary due to differences in charges and expenses. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Equity Income Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (86.6%)
  8,700     3M Co.    $ 814,146  
  20,300     Abbott Laboratories     1,088,486  
  10,600     ACE Ltd.      642,042  
  28,900     Aflac, Inc.      1,648,456  
  26,600     Aircastle, Ltd.      888,972  
  19,700     Ameren Corp.      1,034,250  
  20,600     American International Group, Inc.      1,393,590  
  7,000     Apache Corp.      630,420  
  23,200     Archer Daniels Midland Co.      767,456  
  65,900     AT&T, Inc.      2,788,229  
  9,500     Ball Corp.      510,625  
  49,200     Bank of America Corp.      2,473,284  
  35,700     Barnes Group, Inc.      1,139,544  
  18,600     Baxter International, Inc.      1,046,808  
  21,500     BB&T Corp.      868,385  
  23,800     BCE, Inc. - ADR     953,190  
  9,700     BHP Billiton, Ltd. - ADR     762,420  
  12,200     BP PLC - ADR     846,070  
  43,200     Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.      1,245,024  
  14,200     BT Group PLC - ADR     892,186  
  17,800     Canadian National Railway Co. - ADR     1,014,600  
  18,700     Caterpillar, Inc.      1,466,641  
  12,400     Chevron Corp.      1,160,392  
  19,700     China Medical Technologies, Inc.      842,963  
  27,200     Citigroup, Inc.      1,269,424  
  5,900     CNOOC, Ltd. - ADR     981,937  
  21,800     Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo - ADR     1,076,920  
  16,800     ConocoPhillips     1,474,536  
  14,500     Constellation Energy Group     1,243,955  
  19,800     Corn Products International, Inc.      908,226  
  21,100     Credicorp Ltd.      1,428,470  
  17,500     Dow Chemical Co.      753,550  
  17,900     Drew Industries, Inc.(a)     728,172  
  7,600     Eaton Corp.      752,704  
  20,800     Emerson Electric Co.      1,106,976  
  9,200     Everest Re Group, Ltd.      1,014,208  
  70,800     Flagstar Bancorp, Inc.      688,884  
  19,900     FPL Group, Inc.      1,211,512  
  9,000     Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, Inc. - Class B     944,010  
  16,600     Genco Shipping & Trading, Ltd.      1,087,798  
  99,800     General Electric Co.      4,131,720  
  22,900     General Motors Corp.      840,430  
  2,900     Google, Inc. - Class A(a)     1,645,083  
  13,000     Greif, Inc., Class A     788,840  
  45,100     Hewlett-Packard Co.      2,245,529  
  13,400     Huaneng Power International, Inc. - ADR     707,252  
  18,700     IDEX Corp.      680,493  
  77,100     Intel Corp.      1,993,806  
  23,100     International Business Machines Corp.      2,721,180  
  40,300     JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc.      1,059,890  
  15,400     Johnson & Johnson, Inc.      1,011,780  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  13,700     Johnson Controls, Inc.    $ 1,618,107  
  26,400     JPMorgan Chase & Co.      1,209,648  
  30,400     Kaman Corp. - Class A     1,050,624  
  33,600     Kroger Co.      958,272  
  8,900     L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc.      909,046  
  11,900     Manor Care, Inc.     766,360  
  23,000     Merck & Co., Inc.     1,188,870  
  15,300     MetLife, Inc.     1,066,869  
  86,200     MFA Mortgage Investments, Inc. - REIT     691,324  
  91,800     Microsoft Corp.     2,704,428  
  16,000     Morgan Stanley     1,008,000  
  21,700     National Financial Partners Corp.     1,149,666  
  24,800     Nike, Inc. - Class B     1,454,768  
  16,800     Norfolk Southern Corp.     872,088  
  12,600     Occidental Petroleum Corp.     807,408  
  38,500     Partner Communications Co., Ltd.     637,560  
  14,200     PartnerRe, Ltd.     1,121,658  
  12,700     PepsiCo, Inc.     930,402  
  29,400     PerkinElmer, Inc.     858,774  
  15,231     Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. - ADR     979,962  
  12,800     PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.     871,680  
  30,200     Procter & Gamble Co.     2,124,268  
  12,000     Prudential Financial, Inc.     1,170,960  
  21,600     QUALCOMM, Inc.     912,816  
  12,500     Quanex Corp.     587,250  
  51,400     Quintana Maritime, Ltd.     980,198  
  21,300     Raytheon Co.     1,359,366  
  21,500     RenaissanceRe Holdings, Ltd.     1,406,315  
  36,100     RPM International, Inc.     864,595  
  44,000     Schering-Plough Corp.     1,391,720  
  193,261     Siliconware Precision Industries Co. - ADR     2,338,458  
  25,200     SK Telecom Co., Ltd. - ADR     748,440  
  15,400     Smith International, Inc.     1,099,560  
  11,900     Steel Dynamics, Inc.     555,730  
  11,700     Target Corp.     743,769  
  10,300     The Boeing Co.     1,081,397  
  25,400     The Home Depot, Inc.     823,976  
  16,800     The Stanley Works     942,984  
  12,700     Tidewater, Inc.     798,068  
  15,900     Tsakos Energy Navigation, Ltd.     1,119,519  
  25,500     Tupperware Brands Corp.     802,995  
  9,900     Union Pacific Corp.     1,119,294  
  12,800     United Parcel Service, Inc. - Class B     961,280  
  28,600     US Bancorp     930,358  
  19,600     Vodafone Group PLC - ADR     711,480  
  38,700     Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. - Class A     1,046,061  
  58,100     Wells Fargo & Co.     2,069,522  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $97,126,274)
    112,961,357  
 
 
 
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    Interest
  Maturity
   
Shares or Principal Amount   Rate   Date   Value
 
 
Convertible Preferred Stocks (0.8%)
  7,000     Northrop Grumman Corp.     7.00 %     04/04/21     $ 1,008,000  
                                 
Total Convertible Preferred Stocks
(Cost $927,374)
            1,008,000  
Corporate Bonds (2.2%)
                       
$ 1,000,000     DaimlerChrysler AG     6.50 %     11/15/13       1,036,924  
  1,288,000     Household Finance Corp.     4.75 %     07/15/13       1,225,823  
  575,000     United Rentals NA, Inc.     7.75 %     11/15/13       592,250  
                                 
Total Corporate Bonds
               
(Cost $2,902,552)
            2,854,997  
U.S. Government And U.S. Government Agency Bonds (8.5%)
               
  1,000,000     Fannie Mae     6.63 %     10/15/07       1,000,704  
  1,000,000     Fannie Mae     3.25 %     01/15/08       994,491  
  1,000,000     Fannie Mae     5.25 %     01/15/09       1,009,196  
  750,000     Fannie Mae     6.63 %     09/15/09       781,006  
  750,000     Fannie Mae     6.13 %     03/15/12       795,655  
  3,000,000     Freddie Mac     5.00 %     01/16/09       3,020,622  
  1,323,000     Freddie Mac     5.16 %     02/27/15       1,312,562  
  258,000     Freddie Mac     5.00 %     09/29/17       251,677  
  1,000,000     Federal Home Loan Bank     2.75 %     03/14/08       990,429  
  1,000,000     Federal Home Loan Bank     5.80 %     09/02/08       1,010,371  
                                 
Total U.S. Government And U.S. Government Agency Bonds
               
(Cost $11,139,821)
            11,166,713  
 
 
 
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Underlying Security/
           
Expiration Date/
           
Exercise Price   Contracts     Value  
   
 
Call Option Purchased (0.4%)
Anixter International Inc., Expiration January 2009, Exercise Price $75
    133     $ 238,070  
Avnet Inc., Expiration January 2009, Exercise Price $50
    200       71,000  
Harris Corp Option, Expiration February 2008, Exercise Price $60
    167       60,955  
Kinetic Concepts, Inc., Expiration January 2008, Exercise Price $50
    100       88,000  
MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., Expiration January 2008, Exercise Price $65
    154       58,520  
                 
Total Call Options Purchased
(Cost $502,567)
    516,545  
 
             
Shares or Principal Amount   Value  
   
Short-Term Investments (1.3%)
$ 1,650,639
  Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%, 10/01/07 #   $ 1,650,639  
             
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $1,650,639)
    1,650,639  
Total Investments 99.8%
(Cost $114,249,227)
    130,158,251  
Other Assets Less Liabilities 0.2%
    202,781  
         
Net Assets 100.0%
  $ 130,361,032  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
REIT Real Estate Investment Trust
 
 
 
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Class I IOCIX
Class C IOCCX
Class Z IOCZX
Class A IOCAX

 
Management Overview
ICON Income Opportunity Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmark?
 
A.  For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the S&P Composite 1500 Index gained 16.59%, while the ICON Income Opportunity Fund returned 12.51% for Class I shares, 11.53% for Class C shares, and 12.67% for Class Z shares. Class A shares of the Fund returned 12.51% (and 6.05% with maximum sales charge) during the same period. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  Volatility in the U.S. equity market rose sharply during the fiscal period, driven, we think, by investors’ fears over oil prices, the housing slowdown, consumer spending, and the sub-prime mortgage lending debacle.
 
These worries were the backdrop for a short-term sell-off from July 19, 2007 to August 16, 2007, in which the S&P 1500 Index lost (9.15%), a correction that interrupted what we believe is an ongoing bull market.
 
The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), a measure of the market’s forecast of future volatility, reflected the fear and uncertainty behind this environment. The VIX started the period at a value of 11.98, well below its 15-year average of 18.61. By early March 2007, on the heels of a global equity decline sparked by a free-fall in the Chinese market, the VIX spiked to a high of 19.63.
 
During the ensuing four months leading up to the sharp correction that began on July 19, market concerns mounted over the sub-prime lending crisis and the slowdown in the U.S. housing market. As investors’ anxiety seemed to increase, so too did the VIX. On August 16, as the market was in the final stage of forming a near-term bottom, the VIX skyrocketed to a period-high of 30.83.
 
We believe the intense rise in volatility over the period was positive for the ICON Income Opportunity Fund. Increases in stock market volatility generally raise the amount of premium market-makers are willing to pay for call options. Since the Fund writes S&P 500 Index options, the Fund generally received more for options toward the end of this fiscal period than it had since early in the bull market.
 
 
 
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The Fund participated in 60.3% of the S&P 1500 Index’s upside return for the fiscal year, while dampening volatility and providing a downside cushion along the way.
 
Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  While all nine economic sectors contributed positively to overall Fund performance, the top-contributing sectors for the period included Telecommunication & Utilities, Information Technology, and Energy. These three sectors comprised approximately 33% of the Fund on average over the period. In contrast, the Consumer Discretionary sector, comprising about 9% of the Fund on average over the period, made only a negligible contribution to performance.
 
At the industry level, the three top contributing groups to Fund performance were oil & gas equipment & services, integrated telecommunication services, and communications equipment. Two of the Fund’s largest industry detractors were housewares & specialties and coal & consumable fuels.
 
Overall, the Fund’s strategy of writing at-the-money S&P 500 Index call options and buying out-of-the-money S&P 500 Index put options limited the upside potential of the underlying equities. On the other hand, consistent with the recently changed investment strategy of the Fund, the implementation of this index option approach decreased the overall volatility of the Fund, while at the same time providing downside protection during market downturns over the course of the fiscal period.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the equity market?
 
A.  Domestic stocks ended the period trading at about a 12% discount to our calculation of their intrinsic value, indicating to us that the bull market has the potential to continue.
 
While we do not consider market capitalization when making investment decisions, our system has noted the strength of large-capitalization stocks. Since summer 2006, large-cap stocks have outperformed their small- and mid-cap counterparts. Our value and relative strength metrics have pulled us toward many of these issues as they have demonstrated leadership in the marketplace, particularly large-cap Technology and Financial stocks.
 
While we cannot be certain where option premium levels will go from here, recent levels on the VIX are more in keeping with historical averages. Should these levels continue, we believe it would benefit the Fund: relatively higher values on the VIX have historically translated into higher option premiums, which, in turn, help diminish the Fund’s volatility and enhance its downside protection.
 
 
 
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Sector Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
         
Information Technology
    20.0%  
Financial
    19.7%  
Industrials
    18.7%  
Healthcare
    11.4%  
Energy
    8.3%  
Telecommunication and Utilities
    8.0%  
Consumer Discretionary
    6.3%  
Leisure and Consumer Staples
    5.6%  
Materials
    4.2%  
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Computer Hardware
    6.2%
Diversified Banks
    4.8%
Aerospace & Defense
    4.5%
Construction & Farm Machinery & Heavy Trucks
    4.4%
Wireless Telecommunication Services
    4.3%
Managed Health Care
    4.1%
Industrial Conglomerates
    4.0%
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
    4.0%
Other Diversified Financial Services
    4.0%
Pharmaceuticals
    3.6%
Integrated Oil & Gas
    3.4%
Integrated Telecommunication Services
    3.3%
Life & Health Insurance
    3.1%
Semiconductors
    3.1%
Household Products
    2.9%
Internet Software Services
    2.9%
Technology Distributors
    2.7%
Auto Parts & Equipment
    2.6%
Multi-Line Insurance
    2.6%
Health Care Equipment
    2.5%
Marine
    2.5%
Systems Software
    2.3%
Investment Banking & Brokerage
    2.2%
Railroads
    2.0%
Reinsurance
    2.0%
Communications Equipment
    1.8%
Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals
    1.5%
Metal & Glass Containers
    1.4%
Industrial Machinery
    1.3%
Home Improvement Retail
    1.2%
General Merchandise Stores
    1.0%
Semiconductor Equipment
    1.0%
Oil & Gas Drilling
    0.9%
Automotive Retail
    0.8%
Gold
    0.8%
Soft Drinks
    0.8%
Agriculture Products
    0.7%
Food Distributors
    0.7%
Health Care Services
    0.7%
Household Appliances
    0.7%
Biotechnology
    0.5%
Distillers & Vintners
    0.5%
Diversified Metals & Mining
    0.5%
Regional Banks
    0.5%
Thrifts & Mortgage Finance
    0.5%
Electric Utilities
    0.4%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
 
 
 
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Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                             
                                      Gross
      Net
 
      Inception
                      Since
      Expense
      Expense
 
      Date       1 Year       5 Years       Inception       Ratio*       Ratio*  
ICON Income Opportunity Fund - Class I
      9/30/02         12.51 %       11.05 %       11.05 %       1.47 %       1.47 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59 %       15.82 %       15.82 %       N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Income Opportunity Fund - Class C
      11/21/02         11.53 %       N/A         8.90 %       2.61 %       2.23 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59 %       N/A         13.70 %       N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Income Opportunity Fund - Class Z
      5/6/04         12.67 %       N/A         7.63 %       3.52 %       1.22 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59 %       N/A         12.08 %       N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Income Opportunity Fund - Class A
      5/31/06         12.51 %       N/A         9.65 %       42.18 %       1.47 %
 
 
Income Opportunity Fund - Class A
(include maximum sales charge of 5.75%)
      5/31/06         6.05 %       N/A         4.88 %       42.18 %       1.47 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59 %       N/A         16.34 %       N/A         N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found on in the About This Report section. The Adviser has agreed to limit certain Fund expenses; without these limitations, returns would have been lower. The limitation provisions may be terminated in the future. Class Z shares are available only to institutional investors.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
Class C total returns exclude applicable sales charges. If sales charges were included, returns would be lower.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund’s Class I shares on the Class’ inception date of 9/30/02 to a $10,000 investment made in an unmanaged securities index on that date. Performance for the Fund’s other share classes will vary due to differences in charges and expenses. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Income Opportunity Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (102.2%)
  17,500     Aetna, Incx   $ 949,725  
  18,000     Aflac, Inc.      1,026,720  
  6,600     Allegheny Energy, Inc.(a)     344,916  
  19,600     America Movil S.A.B. de C.V. - ADRx     1,254,400  
  14,800     American International Group, Inc.x     1,001,220  
  9,200     Anixter International, Inc.(a)(b)     758,540  
  3,000     Apple Computer, Inc.(a)     460,620  
  17,500     Arrow Electronics, Inc.(a)x     744,100  
  16,000     Astec Industries, Inc.(a)     919,200  
  42,600     AT&T, Inc.x     1,802,406  
  688     AU Optronics Corp. - ADR(b)     11,641  
  5,500     AutoZone, Inc.(a)x     638,770  
  17,000     Avnet, Inc.(a)     677,620  
  10,200     Ball Corp.      548,250  
  41,200     Banco Santander Central Hispano S.A. - ADRx     795,572  
  30,400     Bank of America Corp.x     1,528,208  
  31,500     Barnes Group, Inc.      1,005,480  
  9,700     BB&T Corp.      391,783  
  21,700     BE Aerospace, Inc.(a)     901,201  
  10,500     BP PLC - ADR     728,175  
  8,900     Cameron International Corp.(a)x     821,381  
  12,800     Caterpillar, Inc.      1,003,904  
  5,500     Celgene Corp.(a)     392,205  
  9,000     Central European Distribution Corp.(a)     431,190  
  16,500     CIGNA Corp.x     879,285  
  330     Citadel Broadcasting Corp.x     1,373  
  14,800     Citigroup, Inc.      690,716  
  8,800     ConocoPhillips     772,376  
  12,800     Corn Products International, Inc.      587,136  
  68,900     Dell, Inc.(a)x     1,901,640  
  6,000     Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.x     679,740  
  11,800     Drew Industries, Inc.(a)     480,024  
  16,800     eBay, Inc.(a)x     655,536  
  7,200     Everest Re Group, Ltd.      793,728  
  9,800     Express Scripts, Inc.(a)     547,036  
  3,800     Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, Inc. - Class B     398,582  
  77,600     General Electric Co.x     3,212,640  
  33,500     Gold Fields Ltd., - ADR     606,015  
  2,900     Google, Inc. - Class A(a)x     1,645,083  
  9,600     Greif, Inc., Class A     582,528  
  10,500     Halliburton Co.      403,200  
  11,300     Harris Corp.      653,027  
  16,500     Health Net, Inc.(a)x     891,825  
  8,300     Hewlett-Packard Co.      413,257  
  4,400     HSBC Holdings PLC - ADR     407,440  
  7,900     Humana, Inc.(a)     552,052  
  75,000     Intel Corp.      1,939,500  
  18,600     International Business Machines Corp.x     2,191,080  
  19,600     Johnson & Johnson, Inc.     1,287,720  
  13,300     Johnson Controls, Inc.x     1,570,863  
  21,500     JPMorgan Chase & Co.x     985,130  
  6,400     Kimberly-Clark Corp.      449,664  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  17,600     Kirby Corp.(a)   $ 776,864  
  15,100     Lam Research Corp.(a)     804,226  
  9,200     Loews Corp.      444,820  
  18,600     Lowe’s Cos., Inc.      521,172  
  19,500     Manulife Financial Corp.     804,570  
  22,600     Medtronic, Inc.     1,274,866  
  8,700     MetLife, Inc.x     606,651  
  30,900     Microsoft Corp.x     910,314  
  13,600     Monsanto Co.     1,166,064  
  14,400     Morgan Stanleyx     907,200  
  5,900     Murphy Oil Corp.     412,351  
  32,000     National Bank Of Greece S.A. - ADR     413,120  
  3,600     National Oilwell Varco, Inc.(a)     520,200  
  93,900     Navios Maritime Holdings, Inc.     1,233,846  
  5,200     NII Holdings, Inc.(a)     427,180  
  15,500     Norfolk Southern Corp.     804,605  
  3,300     Northrop Grumman Corp.     257,400  
  12,400     Occidental Petroleum Corp.x     794,592  
  42,600     Oracle Corp.(a)     922,290  
  11,700     Oshkosh Truck Corp.x     725,049  
  26,500     Procter & Gamble Co.x     1,864,010  
  8,600     PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia - ADR(b)     419,852  
  19,400     Raytheon Co.     1,238,108  
  12,600     RenaissanceRe Holdings, Ltd.     824,166  
  8,000     Research In Motion, Ltd.(a)     788,400  
  17,600     Rogers Communications, Inc. - Class B     801,328  
  41,500     Schering-Plough Corp.x     1,312,645  
  5,100     Schlumberger, Ltd.(b)     535,500  
  13,600     Sciele Pharma, Inc.(a)     353,872  
  48,500     Siliconware Precision Industries Co. - ADR(b)     586,850  
  10,700     Stryker Corp.     735,732  
  15,700     Sysco Corp.     558,763  
  12,200     Target Corp.     775,554  
  11,700     Telefonos de Mexico S.A. de C.V. - ADR     384,579  
  7,900     The Boeing Co.     829,421  
  3,900     The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.     845,286  
  5,700     The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.     527,535  
  12,700     The Home Depot, Inc.     411,988  
  17,100     The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.     635,607  
  4,900     Triumph Group, Inc.     400,379  
  7,100     Union Pacific Corp.     802,726  
  36,500     Vimpel-Communications - ADRx     986,960  
  21,300     Wabtec Corp.     797,898  
  7,900     Wachovia Corp.     396,185  
  11,400     Washington Mutual, Inc.     402,534  
  13,600     Weatherford International, Ltd.(a)     913,648  
  51,100     Wells Fargo & Co.x     1,820,182  
  6,700     Whirlpool Corp.     596,970  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $72,299,220)
    81,589,481  
Short-Term Investments (0.0%)
       
$ 11,395     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%, 10/01/07 #     11,395  
                 
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $11,395)
    11,395  
 
 
 
 
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Underlying Securities Index/
           
Expiration Date/
           
Exercise Price   Contracts     Value  
   
 
Put Options Purchased (0.4%)
       
S&P Index Oct 1515 Put, Expiration October 2007,
Exercise Price $1515
    211     $ 354,480  
                 
Total Put Options Purchased
(Cost $464,907)
    354,480  
 
                         
Shares or Principal Amount     Value  
   
 
Other Securities (2.8%)
       
  2,214,204     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment Fund, 5.24%           $ 2,214,204  
                         
Total Other Securities
(Cost $2,214,204)
    2,214,204  
Total Investments 105.4%
(Cost $74,989,726)
    84,169,560  
Liabilities Less Other Assets (5.4)%
    (4,352,704 )
         
Net Assets 100.0%
  $ 79,816,856  
         
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
x A portion or all of the security is pledged as collateral for all options written.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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Schedule of Written Call Options
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Underlying Security/
           
Expiration Date/
           
Exercise Price   Contracts*     Value  
   
 
S&P Index Oct 1530 Call, Expiration October 2007,
Exercise Price $1530
    527     $ 1,204,195  
                 
Total Options Written
(Premiums received $2,000,804)
  $ 1,204,195  
         
 
All written options have 100 shares per contract.
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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Class I IOLIX
Class C IOLCX
Class Z IOLZX
Class A ISTAX

 
Management Overview
ICON Long/Short Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmark?
 
A.  The Fund’s benchmark, the S&P Composite 1500 Index, gained 16.59% for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007. In comparison, the ICON Long/Short Fund returned 15.05% for Class I shares, 14.05% for Class C shares, and 14.81% for Class Z shares. Class A shares of the Fund returned 14.94% (and 8.32% with maximum sales charge) during the same period. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  The stock market climbed a wall of worry during the fiscal year. Concerns over recession, inflation, a sell-off in the Chinese market, housing, and sub-prime mortgages dominated the headlines. The sector leaders of the year, Energy, Materials, and Industrials, are hardly the defensive sectors that investors favor in the face of such fears.
 
The Financials sector produced the most disappointing returns within the S&P 1500 Index, gaining a meager 1.48% for the fiscal year. At the outset of the year, our system suggested the Financials sector demonstrated the best combination of value and strength. Unfortunately, this value was never realized as the sector was rocked by sub-prime fears and lack of liquidity in the structured credit market. Considering that the Financials sector makes up more than 20% of the S&P 1500 Index, this sector was a drag on both benchmark and Fund returns.
 
The Consumer Discretionary sector, which we similarly calculated was undervalued at the beginning of the fiscal year, also failed to perform as we’d anticipated. This sector was dragged down by the sub-prime fears, the slowdown in the housing market, and concerns over slowing U.S. consumer spending.
 
Despite the weak returns from the Financials and Consumer Discretionary sectors, strong economic and earnings growth, low inflation, and moderate bond yields led the market higher during the period.
 
Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  When the fiscal year began, relative strength indicators led the Fund to underweight positions in the leading cyclical sectors: Energy, Materials, and Industrials. However, these sectors contradicted their weak relative
 
 
 
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strength metrics and led the market higher from the beginning of October 2006 through the end of 2006.
 
Although the Fund was underweight the Materials, Energy, and Industrials sectors at the beginning of the period, our discipline and relative strength analysis guided us to add to these sectors throughout the year and participate in their returns.
 
We reduced the Fund’s short positions following the market sell-off, which bottomed out in mid-August 2007. We believe this sell-off, accompanied by a reduction in the federal funds rate, brought value back to the marketplace and reduced the Fund’s short opportunities.
 
The Financial sector showed value and relative strength at the beginning of the period, but its overweight position did little to enhance Fund returns as the sector was dragged down by sub-prime mortgage fears and liquidity issues.
 
Our relative strength indicators, as well as some shorting opportunities in the REIT industry, allowed us to reduce the Fund’s exposure to Financials, but the Fund’s weightings at the beginning of the fiscal year contributed to relative underperformance.
 
An overweight position in the Consumer Discretionary sector also hampered fiscal-year returns. The Fund’s average weight in the sector was about 7.5% versus an average weight of approximately 6% for the benchmark, but our relative strength readings led us to reduce the Fund’s position in this sector throughout the year. Holdings in the homebuilding and home improvement retail industries, which appeared to offer significant value, were hit especially hard by the housing slowdown.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the equity market?
 
A.  We expect to maintain the Fund’s overweight long positions in the Energy and Industrials sectors since our system indicates they are demonstrating value and strength against the broad market. We continue to watch for recognition by the market of the value we see in the Financials and Consumer Discretionary sectors.
 
Although the Fund’s short positions were reduced toward the end of the fiscal year, we continue to monitor valuations to detect any signs of sector and industry overpricing. Should we see value diminishing, we will add short positions as our metrics warrant.
 
 
 
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Sector Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
         
Financial
    19.4%  
Information Technology
    15.9%  
Energy
    15.6%  
Healthcare
    15.4%  
Industrials
    14.5%  
Telecommunication and Utilities
    5.6%  
Materials
    5.1%  
Consumer Discretionary
    3.3%  
Leisure and Consumer Staples
    3.0%  
 
Percentages are based upon long positions as a percentage of net assets.
 
Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
    7.0%
Managed Health Care
    5.5%
Computer Hardware
    5.4%
Other Diversified Financial Services
    5.2%
Technology Distributors
    4.8%
Health Care Services
    4.7%
Oil & Gas Drilling
    4.7%
Diversified Banks
    3.9%
Aerospace & Defense
    3.4%
Wireless Telecommunication Services
    3.0%
Construction & Farm Machinery & Heavy Trucks
    2.8%
Health Care Distributors
    2.8%
Life & Health Insurance
    2.8%
Steel
    2.7%
Integrated Telecommunication Services
    2.6%
Railroads
    2.6%
Pharmaceuticals
    2.4%
Electronic Equipment Manufacturers
    2.2%
Diversified Metals & Mining
    2.1%
Industrial Machinery
    2.0%
Marine
    2.0%
Reinsurance
    2.0%
Investment Banking & Brokerage
    1.9%
Regional Banks
    1.9%
Multi-Line Insurance
    1.7%
Oil & Gas Exploration & Production
    1.7%
Systems Software
    1.7%
Household Products
    1.5%
Home Improvement Retail
    1.4%
Integrated Oil & Gas
    1.4%
Auto Parts & Equipment
    1.1%
Internet Software Services
    1.0%
Soft Drinks
    1.0%
Metal & Glass Containers
    0.9%
Coal & Consumable Fuels
    0.8%
General Merchandise Stores
    0.8%
Semiconductor Equipment
    0.8%
Marine Ports & Services
    0.6%
Distillers & Vintners
    0.5%
Trading Companies & Distributors
    0.5%
 
Percentages are based upon long positions as a percentage of net assets.
 
 
 
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Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                             
                                      Gross
      Net
 
      Inception
                      Since
      Expense
      Expense
 
      Date       1 Year       5 Years       Inception       Ratio*       Ratio*  
ICON Long/Short Fund - Class I
      9/30/02         15.05 %       15.65 %       15.65 %       1.45 %       1.45 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59 %       15.82 %       15.82 %       N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Long/Short Fund - Class C
      10/17/02         14.05 %       N/A         13.54 %       2.30 %       2.30 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59 %       N/A         14.87 %       N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Long/Short Fund - Class Z
      5/6/04         14.81 %       N/A         11.90 %       1.17 %       1.17 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59 %       N/A         12.08 %       N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Long/Short Fund - Class A
      5/31/06         14.94 %       N/A         9.38 %       2.51 %       1.54 %
 
 
ICON Long/Short Fund - Class A
(include maximum sales charge of 5.75%)
      5/31/06         8.32 %       N/A         4.62 %       2.51 %       1.54 %
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
                16.59 %       N/A         16.34 %       N/A         N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section. The Adviser has agreed to limit certain Fund expenses; without these limitations, returns would have been lower. The limitation provisions may be terminated in the future. Class Z shares are available only to institutional investors.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
Class C total returns exclude applicable sales charges. If sales charges were included, returns would be lower.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund’s Class I shares on the Class’ inception date of 9/30/02 to a $10,000 investment made in an unmanaged securities index on that date. Performance for the Fund’s other share classes will vary due to differences in charges and expenses. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Long/Short Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (97.8%)
  60,000     AAR Corp.(a)   $ 1,820,400  
  100,000     Acergy S.A. - ADR     2,970,000  
  50,000     Aegean Marine Petroleum Network, Inc.     1,813,000  
  70,000     Aetna, Inc.x     3,798,900  
  52,600     Aflac, Inc.     3,000,304  
  148,200     Amedisys, Inc.(a)x     5,693,844  
  72,500     America Movil S.A.B. de C.V. - ADR     4,640,000  
  29,400     American International Group, Inc.     1,988,910  
  92,000     Amphenol Corp. - Class A     3,657,920  
  60,000     Anixter International, Inc.(a)x     4,947,000  
  28,000     Apache Corp.     2,521,680  
  95,000     Arrow Electronics, Inc.(a)     4,039,400  
  85,000     AT&T, Inc.x     3,596,350  
  55,000     Atwood Oceanics, Inc.(a)     4,210,800  
  75,000     Avnet, Inc.(a)     2,989,500  
  50,000     Ball Corp.     2,687,500  
  160,800     Bank of America Corp.x     8,083,416  
  68,300     BB&T Corp.     2,758,637  
  41,800     BP PLC - ADR     2,898,830  
  55,000     Bristow Group, Inc.(a)(b)x     2,404,050  
  19,500     BT Group PLC - ADR     1,225,185  
  30,000     Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.     2,435,100  
  75,000     CIGNA Corp.x     3,996,750  
  75,300     Citigroup, Inc.     3,514,251  
  27,100     CONSOL Energy, Inc.     1,262,860  
  60,000     Constellation Brands, Inc.(a)     1,452,600  
  200,000     Dell, Inc.(a)x     5,520,000  
  40,000     Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.x     4,531,600  
  75,000     eBay, Inc.(a)     2,926,500  
  62,000     ENSCO International, Inc.     3,478,200  
  26,400     Everest Re Group, Ltd.     2,910,336  
  59,000     Express Scripts, Inc.(a)     3,293,380  
  69,200     FMC Technologies, Inc.(a)     3,990,072  
  42,500     Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, Inc. - Class B     4,457,825  
  44,150     HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc.     1,264,456  
  56,700     Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc.(a)     2,407,482  
  73,500     Henry Schein, Inc.(a)     4,471,740  
  43,400     Hercules Offshore, Inc.(a)(b)     1,133,174  
  102,200     Hewlett-Packard Co.     5,088,538  
  31,700     HSBC Holdings PLC - ADR(b)     2,935,420  
  40,000     Humana, Inc.(a)     2,795,200  
  42,400     International Business Machines Corp.     4,994,720  
  65,000     Johnson & Johnson, Inc.     4,270,500  
  28,000     Johnson Controls, Inc.     3,307,080  
  78,200     JPMorgan Chase & Co.     3,583,124  
  40,000     Kennametal, Inc.     3,359,200  
  25,500     Kimberly-Clark Corp.     1,791,630  
  57,500     Kirby Corp.(a)     2,538,050  
  55,000     KT Corp. - ADR(b)     1,377,750  
  20,000     Lam Research Corp.(a)     1,065,200  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  13,200     Lehman Brothers Holding, Inc.(b)   $ 814,836  
  72,800     Lowe’s Cos., Inc.     2,039,856  
  50,100     MedcoHealth Solutions, Inc.(a)     4,528,539  
  19,000     MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.(a)     1,118,340  
  50,000     Merck & Co., Inc.     2,584,500  
  38,500     MetLife, Inc.     2,684,605  
  75,000     Microsoft Corp.     2,209,500  
  40,000     Moog, Inc. - Class A(a)     1,757,600  
  11,700     Morgan Stanley     737,100  
  30,000     MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. - Class A     1,517,700  
  64,300     Mueller Industries, Inc.     2,323,802  
  40,000     National Oilwell Varco, Inc.(a)     5,780,000  
  232,600     Navios Maritime Holdings, Inc.     3,056,364  
  45,000     Norfolk Southern Corp.     2,335,950  
  45,000     Northwest Pipe Co.(a)     1,701,900  
  80,000     Oracle Corp.(a)     1,732,000  
  50,000     Oshkosh Truck Corp.     3,098,500  
  75,000     Partner Communications Co., Ltd.(b)     1,242,000  
  95,100     Patterson Cos., Inc.(a)     3,671,811  
  24,700     Peabody Energy Corp.     1,182,389  
  40,300     PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.     2,744,430  
  37,700     Procter & Gamble Co.     2,651,818  
  25,500     Prudential Financial, Inc.     2,488,290  
  30,000     PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia - ADR(b)     1,464,600  
  62,500     Quanex Corp.     2,936,250  
  55,000     Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.x     3,109,700  
  5,000     Rio Tinto PLC - ADR     1,717,000  
  38,300     Rofin-Sinar Technologies, Inc.(a)     2,689,043  
  65,300     Rogers Communications, Inc. - Class B     2,973,109  
  12,400     Suncor Energy, Inc. ADR     1,175,644  
  50,000     Symantec Corp.(a)     969,000  
  103,000     SYNNEX Corp.(a)     2,117,680  
  35,000     Target Corp.     2,224,950  
  75,000     Tata Motors, Ltd. - ADR(b)     1,435,500  
  40,000     Terex Corp.(a)     3,560,800  
  60,000     The Boeing Co.x     6,299,400  
  17,100     The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.     3,706,254  
  18,400     The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.     1,702,920  
  63,900     The Home Depot, Inc.     2,072,916  
  80,000     The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.     2,973,600  
  30,000     Tidewater, Inc.     1,885,200  
  39,600     Transatlantic Holdings, Inc.x     2,785,068  
  25,000     Union Pacific Corp.     2,826,500  
  60,000     UnitedHealth Group, Inc.     2,905,800  
  55,500     Wachovia Corp.     2,783,325  
  50,000     Weatherford International, Ltd.(a)x     3,359,000  
  30,000     WellPoint, Inc.(a)     2,367,600  
  157,700     Wells Fargo & Co.     5,617,274  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $253,849,463)
    283,558,327  
                 
 
Short-Term Investments (1.1%)
$  2,997,163     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%, 10/01/07#     2,997,163  
                 
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $2,997,163)
    2,997,163  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value  
   
 
Other Securities (3.8%)        
   11,012,588     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment Fund, 5.24%   $ 11,012,588  
                 
Total Other Securities
(Cost $11,012,588)
    11,012,588  
Total Investments 102.7%
(Cost $267,859,214)
    297,568,078  
Liabilities Less Other Assets (2.7)%     (7,711,801 )
         
Net Assets 100.0%   $ 289,856,277  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
x A portion or all of the security is pledged as collateral for securities sold short.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
 
 
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Schedule of Securities Sold Short
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares     Short Security   Value  
   
 
  45,000     Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.(a)   $ 594,000  
  17,500     BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc.(a)     580,300  
  15,600     Brookfield Asset Management, Inc. - Class A     600,600  
  23,000     Brookfield Properties Corp.     572,700  
  9,700     BRE Properties, Inc.     542,521  
  8,600     Coinstar, Inc.(a)     276,662  
  10,000     Companhia Brasileira De Distribuicao
Grupo - ADR
    303,200  
  6,600     Corporate Office Properties Trust     274,758  
  2,400     Essex Property Trust, Inc.     282,168  
  12,700     Equity Residential     537,972  
  104,000     Genesis Microchip, Inc.(a)     815,360  
  6,500     Hittite Microwave Corp.(a)     286,975  
  17,600     Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.     394,944  
  30,200     Hutchinson Technology, Inc.(a)     742,920  
  126,600     Ikanos Communications, Inc.(a)     705,162  
  50,400     Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc.(a)     523,152  
  50,000     Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc.(a)     972,500  
  49,900     LaserCard Corp.(a)     554,389  
  75,100     Louisiana-Pacific Corp.     1,274,447  
  15,300     Lexmark International, Inc.(a)     635,409  
  47,600     Micron Technology, Inc.(a)     528,360  
  75,000     Multimedia Games, Inc.(a)     639,000  
  3,600     Public Storage     283,140  
  50,500     Rackable Systems, Inc.(a)     654,985  
  3,600     SL Green Realty Corp.     420,372  
  6,000     Sovran Self Storage, Inc.     275,040  
  60,000     Stillwater Mining Co.(a)     617,400  
  10,000     Temple-Inland, Inc.     526,300  
  21,800     UDR, Inc.     530,176  
  20,700     Weyerhaeuser Co.     1,496,610  
                 
Total Securities Sold Short
(Proceeds $18,315,847)
  $ 17,441,522  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
 
 
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Statements of Assets and Liabilities
September 30, 2007
 
                                         
          ICON
    ICON
    ICON
       
    ICON
    Core
    Equity
    Income
    ICON
 
    Bond
    Equity
    Income
    Opportunity
    Long/Short
 
    Fund     Fund     Fund     Fund*     Fund  
Assets
                                       
Investments, at cost
  $ 124,070,254     $ 163,066,736     $ 114,249,227     $ 74,989,726     $ 267,859,214  
                                         
Investments, at value†
    124,495,069       189,715,864       130,158,251       84,169,560       297,568,078  
Cash
    6,527             1,693             132,843  
Deposits for short sales
                            18,695,984  
Receivables:
                                       
Fund shares sold
    282,251       164,460       156,537       186,351       1,328,219  
Investments sold
          3,397,976             2,937,513       7,398,945  
Interest
    1,574,056       3,711       158,046       741       29,183  
Dividends
          74,280       185,304       54,198       120,576  
Expense reimbursements by Adviser
    13,520             2,986       3,626        
Expense reimbursement by Sub-Administrator
                807,370              
Other assets
    43,687       45,707       40,811       42,453       63,434  
                                         
Total Assets
    126,415,110       193,401,998       131,510,998       87,394,442       325,337,262  
                                         
Liabilities
                                       
Options written, at value (premiums received of $2,000,804)
                      1,204,195        
Common stocks sold short, at value (proceeds of $18,315,847)
                            17,441,522  
Payables:
                                       
Due to custodian bank
          20,021             272,902        
Due to prime broker
                      1,215,297        
Interest
    127       586       522       1,435        
Investments bought
          1,846,487             2,446,967       6,451,046  
Payable for collateral received on securities loaned
    1,532,004       7,148,566             2,214,204       11,012,588  
Fund shares redeemed
    146,150       814,209       163,476       110,667       225,826  
Distributions due to shareholders
    6,645             24,612              
Advisory fees and fee waiver recoupment
    61,998       112,384       79,201       58,945       195,751  
Accrued distribution fees
    26,557       94,274       29,641       17,676       83,686  
Fund accounting fees
    3,010       3,977       2,975       1,939       5,858  
Transfer agent fees
    6,585       16,908       8,198       5,292       11,450  
Administration fees
    4,856       7,143       5,028       3,063       10,721  
Trustee fees
    1,755       2,532       1,782       1,098       3,876  
Code 860 expense
                807,370              
Accrued expenses
    21,078       29,299       27,161       23,906       38,661  
                                         
Total Liabilities
    1,810,765       10,096,386       1,149,966       7,577,586       35,480,985  
                                         
Net Assets - all share classes
  $ 124,604,345     $ 183,305,612     $ 130,361,032     $ 79,816,856     $ 289,856,277  
                                         
Net Assets - Class I
  $ 123,102,023     $ 88,245,937     $ 124,668,453     $ 77,195,306     $ 238,942,827  
                                         
Net Assets - Class C
  $ 1,491,231     $ 92,349,635     $ 5,330,728     $ 2,290,521     $ 43,985,878  
                                         
Net Assets - Class Z
  $ 11,091     $ 1,319,978     $ 39,822     $ 36,688     $ 447,008  
                                         
Net Assets - Class A
  $     $ 1,390,062     $ 322,029     $ 294,341     $ 6,480,564  
                                         
 
 
 
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          ICON
    ICON
    ICON
       
    ICON
    Core
    Equity
    Income
    ICON
 
    Bond
    Equity
    Income
    Opportunity
    Long/Short
 
    Fund     Fund     Fund     Fund*     Fund  
Net Assets Consist of
                                       
Paid-in capital
  $ 125,825,644     $ 141,578,469     $ 101,770,909     $ 76,541,086     $ 252,545,042  
Accumulated undistributed net investment income/(loss)
    (33,477 )           (146,553 )           338,387  
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain/(loss) from investments, written options, and securities sold short
    (1,612,637 )     15,078,015       12,827,652       (6,700,673 )     6,389,659  
Unrealized appreciation/ (depreciation) on investments, written options and securities sold short
    424,815       26,649,128       15,909,024       9,976,443       30,583,189  
                                         
Net Assets
  $ 124,604,345     $ 183,305,612     $ 130,361,032     $ 79,816,856     $ 289,856,277  
                                         
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized, no par value)
                                       
Class I
    12,280,825       5,317,905       7,565,343       5,858,320       12,406,564  
Class C
    148,412       5,898,958       326,424       181,602       2,372,019  
Class Z
    1,107       79,426       2,420       2,744       23,164  
Class A
          85,187       19,633       22,389       337,579  
Net asset value (offering and redemption price per share)
                                       
Class I
  $ 10.02     $ 16.59     $ 16.48     $ 13.18     $ 19.26  
Class C
  $ 10.05     $ 15.66     $ 16.33     $ 12.61     $ 18.54  
Class Z
  $ 10.02     $ 16.62     $ 16.46     $ 13.37     $ 19.30  
Class A
  $     $ 16.32     $ 16.40     $ 13.15     $ 19.20  
Class A maximum offering price (100%/(100%-maximum sales charge)) of net asset value adjusted to the nearest cent per share
  $     $ 17.32     $ 17.40     $ 13.95     $ 20.37  
 
Formerly the ICON Covered Call Fund.
†  Includes securities on loan of $1,472,749, $7,008,015, $0, $2,168,286 and $10,733,407.
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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Statements of Operations
For the year ended September 30, 2007
 
                                         
          ICON
    ICON
    ICON
       
    ICON
    Core
    Equity
    Income
    ICON
 
    Bond
    Equity
    Income
    Opportunity
    Long/Short
 
    Fund     Fund     Fund     Fund*     Fund  
Investment Income
                                       
Interest
  $ 5,654,249     $ 76,721     $ 590,706     $ 65,195     $ 1,216,131  
Dividends
          2,596,002       3,673,601       890,566       3,347,330  
Income from securities lending, net
    490       10,019             1,667       21,508  
Foreign taxes withheld
                (4,846 )            
                                         
Total Investment Income
    5,654,739       2,682,742       4,259,461       957,428       4,584,969  
                                         
Expenses
                                       
Advisory fees
    624,637       1,489,598       1,036,497       514,294       2,104,848  
Distribution fees:
                                       
Class I
    257,261       246,286       332,349       164,855       510,984  
Class C
    10,114       977,851       50,750       25,399       364,366  
Class A
          2,514       380       177       9,144  
Fund accounting fees
    30,762       50,967       37,310       22,104       63,305  
Transfer agent fees
    67,508       186,477       90,010       54,584       118,634  
Administration fees
    48,082       91,744       63,839       31,674       114,388  
Registration fees:
                                       
Class I
    19,161       13,017       14,620       14,591       23,196  
Class C
    11,396       12,982       9,854       9,945       12,878  
Class A
          1,905       1,978       2,289       2,043  
Insurance expense
    5,376       11,917       7,915       3,693       11,388  
Trustee fees and expenses
    9,757       17,992       12,854       8,110       21,576  
Interest expense
    4,347       8,403       9,769       35,980       795  
Other expenses
    71,217       115,406       89,726       93,363       134,299  
Dividends on short positions
                            442,961  
Recoupment of previously reimbursed expenses
                      71,582       7,478  
Code 860 expense
                807,370              
                                         
Total expenses before expense reimbursement and transfer agent earnings credit
    1,159,618       3,227,059       2,565,221       1,052,640       3,942,283  
                                         
Transfer agent earnings credit
    (5,213 )     (9,803 )     (6,830 )     (3,397 )     (12,441 )
Expense reimbursement by Adviser due to expense limitation agreement
    (101,907 )           (12,700 )            
Expense reimbursement of Code 860 expense by the Sub-Administrator
                (807,370 )            
                                         
Net Expenses
    1,052,498       3,217,256       1,738,321       1,049,243       3,929,842  
                                         
Net Investment Income/(Loss)
    4,602,241       (534,514 )     2,521,140       (91,815 )     655,127  
                                         
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain/(Loss) on Investments
                                       
Net realized gain/(loss) from investment transactions
    (158,250 )     19,681,940       15,603,497       4,877,476       6,388,241  
Net realized gain (loss) from written option transactions
                      (2,091,486 )      
Net realized gain/(loss) from securities sold short
                            947,989  
Change in unrealized net appreciation/(depreciation) on investments
    756,222       11,709,068       4,578,186       4,362,278       23,497,071  
Change in unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on written options and securities sold short
                      690,276       503,778  
                                         
Net realized and unrealized gain/(loss) on investments
    597,972       31,391,008       20,181,683       7,838,544       31,337,079  
                                         
Net Increase/(Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting From Operations
  $ 5,200,213     $ 30,856,494     $ 22,702,823     $ 7,746,729     $ 31,992,206  
                                         
 
Formerly the ICON Covered Call Fund.
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
 
                                 
    ICON Bond Fund     ICON Core Equity Fund  
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
    2007     2006     2007     2006  
 
Operations
                               
Net investment income/(loss)
  $ 4,602,241     $ 3,646,185     $ (534,514 )   $ (958,391 )
Net realized gain/(loss) from investment transactions, written options and securities sold short
    (158,250 )     (1,371,071 )     19,681,940       17,009,597  
Change in net unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on investments, written options and securities sold short
    756,222       143,765       11,709,068       (10,215,314 )
                                 
Net increase/(decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
    5,200,213       2,418,879       30,856,494       5,835,892  
                                 
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders
                               
Net investment income
                               
Class I
    (4,626,599 )     (3,568,886 )            
Class C
    (46,277 )     (35,016 )            
Class Z
    (527 )     (163 )            
Class A
                       
Net realized gains
                               
Class I
          (67,629 )     (7,580,907 )     (3,632,925 )
Class C
          (720 )     (7,230,668 )     (3,157,999 )
Class Z
          (5 )     (94,989 )     (44,621 )
Class A
                (36,638 )      
                                 
Net decrease from dividends and distributions
    (4,673,403 )     (3,672,419 )     (14,943,202 )     (6,835,545 )
                                 
Fund Share Transactions
                               
Shares sold
                               
Class I
    68,988,664       64,855,369       23,824,919       48,438,116  
Class C
    917,781       680,279       8,551,109       30,392,845  
Class Z
    48,144       3,382       133,685       144,544  
Class A
                1,422,196       126,818  
Reinvested dividends and distributions
                               
Class I
    4,481,263       3,549,356       6,749,960       3,340,799  
Class C
    44,325       32,459       6,925,661       3,039,446  
Class Z
    525       169       92,041       44,621  
Class A
                32,501        
Shares repurchased
                               
Class I
    (41,215,819 )     (59,254,239 )     (55,610,067 )     (40,446,108 )
Class C
    (441,608 )     (720,554 )     (26,377,163 )     (14,874,966 )
Class Z
    (41,463 )     (5,070 )     (299,637 )     (69,837 )
Class A
                (279,650 )      
                                 
Net increase/(decrease) from fund share transactions
    32,781,812       9,141,151       (34,834,445 )     30,136,278  
                                 
Total net increase/(decrease) in net assets
    33,308,622       7,887,611       (18,921,153 )     29,136,625  
Net Assets
                               
Beginning of period
    91,295,723       83,408,112       202,226,765       173,090,140  
                                 
End of period
  $ 124,604,345     $ 91,295,723     $ 183,305,612     $ 202,226,765  
                                 
 
 
 
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ICON Equity Income Fund     ICON Income Opportunity Fund*     ICON Long/Short Fund  
Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
2007     2006     2007     2006     2007     2006  
 
                                             
$ 2,521,140     $ 2,594,897     $ (91,815 )   $ (52,034 )   $ 655,127     $ 44,891  
                                             
                                             
  15,603,497       6,652,579       2,785,990       4,370,730       7,336,230       8,168,092  
 


4,578,186
      (4,514,597 )     5,052,554       (4,231,738 )     24,000,849       (5,119,897 )
                                             
                                             
  22,702,823       4,732,879       7,746,729       86,958       31,992,206       3,093,086  
                                             
                                             
                                             
 
(2,854,133
)     (3,020,514 )     (46,145 )           (394,093 )      
  (70,223 )     (62,488 )                        
  (787 )     (546 )                 (13,175 )      
  (3,730 )     (137 )     (41 )           (7,001 )      
                                             
  (5,844,508 )     (8,604,004 )     (10,443,229 )     (466,120 )     (4,519,604 )      
  (206,407 )     (280,066 )     (411,998 )     (32,162 )     (791,906 )      
  (971 )     (1,603 )     (3,627 )     (31 )     (82,900 )      
  (2,660 )           (5,517 )           (47,236 )      
                                             
 
(8,983,419
)     (11,969,358 )     (10,910,557 )     (498,313 )     (5,855,915 )      
                                             
                                             
                                             
  20,775,427       35,024,898       32,396,237       21,879,443       124,049,120       155,386,607  
  879,642       1,641,563       350,569       471,669       18,629,284       15,396,350  
  21,895       5,128       29,639       84,618       287,714       3,298,177  
  289,568       18,735       269,504       15,074       6,279,254       828,559  
                                             
  8,210,633       10,796,225       10,266,374       459,746       4,670,355        
  256,742       293,967       379,286       27,565       745,754        
  1,757       2,148       3,627       31       96,075        
  6,277       137       5,556             43,032        
                                             
  (51,367,295 )     (34,657,379 )     (22,746,946 )     (15,996,624 )     (80,032,782 )     (42,414,938 )
  (1,040,584 )     (817,109 )     (1,156,174 )     (1,268,384 )     (5,843,771 )     (3,333,058 )
  (11,598 )     (4,693 )     (89 )     (80,654 )     (3,639,251 )     (54,803 )
  (12,552 )     (29 )     (84 )     (27 )     (977,888 )     (10,006 )
                                             
 
(21,990,088
)     12,303,591       19,797,499       5,592,457       64,306,896       129,096,888  
                                             
                                             
  (8,270,684 )     5,067,112       16,633,671       5,181,102       90,443,187       132,189,974  
                                             
  138,631,716       133,564,604       63,183,185       58,002,083       199,413,090       67,223,116  
                                             
$ 130,361,032     $ 138,631,716     $ 79,816,856     $ 63,183,185     $ 289,856,277     $ 199,413,090  
                                             
 
 
 
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Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
 
                                 
    ICON Bond Fund     ICON Core Equity Fund  
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
    2007     2006     2007     2006  
 
Transactions in Fund Shares
                               
Shares Sold
                               
Class I
    6,930,357       6,497,960       1,521,324       3,111,904  
Class C
    91,548       68,321       576,959       2,023,988  
Class Z
    4,870       338       8,541       9,247  
Class A
                92,820       8,503  
Reinvested dividends and distributions
                               
Class I
    448,497       355,905       447,314       223,460  
Class C
    4,422       3,232       483,635       211,758  
Class Z
    53       17       6,091       2,991  
Class A
                2,184        
Shares repurchased
                               
Class I
    (4,131,816 )     (5,932,254 )     (3,549,165 )     (2,631,913 )
Class C
    (44,117 )     (72,047 )     (1,762,394 )     (993,097 )
Class Z
    (4,178 )     (505 )     (19,996 )     (4,524 )
Class A
                (18,320 )      
                                 
Net increase/(decrease)
    3,299,636       920,967       (2,211,007 )     1,962,317  
                                 
Shares outstanding beginning of period
    9,130,708       8,209,741       13,592,483       11,630,166  
                                 
Shares outstanding end of period
    12,430,344       9,130,708       11,381,476       13,592,483  
                                 
Purchase and Sales of Investment Securities (excluding short-term securities and written options)
                               
Purchase of securities (including short sale transactions)
  $ 21,614,156     $ 44,043,104     $ 228,139,282     $ 309,597,013  
Proceeds from sales of securities (including short sale transactions)
    25,763,927       31,016,317       275,726,296       287,820,163  
Purchases of long-term U.S. government securities
    43,613,130       14,805,946              
Proceeds from sales of long-term U.S. government securities
    5,421,100       11,229,676              
Accumulated undistributed net investment income/(loss)
  $ (33,477 )   $ 37,685     $     $  
                                 
 
Formerly the ICON Covered Call Fund
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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ICON Equity Income Fund     ICON Income Opportunity Fund*     ICON Long/Short Fund  
Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
2007     2006     2007     2006     2007     2006  
 
                                             
                                             
  1,331,983       2,306,970       2,383,848       1,585,494       6,741,937       8,952,416  
  56,569       108,682       26,619       35,165       1,050,920       916,226  
  1,408       338       2,101       5,982       15,636       185,742  
  18,766       1,249       20,879       1,094       340,691       48,384  
                                             
 
536,569
      729,216       776,387       33,630       266,877        
  16,958       20,038       29,724       2,068       43,971        
  114       145       274       2       5,462        
  405       9       424             2,463        
                                             
  (3,260,624 )     (2,290,509 )     (1,672,257 )     (1,164,572 )     (4,408,590 )     (2,470,963 )
  (67,244 )     (54,361 )     (87,051 )     (94,159 )     (328,475 )     (201,278 )
  (734 )     (304 )     (7 )     (5,853 )     (189,213 )     (3,184 )
  (794 )     (2 )     (6 )     (2 )     (53,377 )     (582 )
                                             
  (1,366,624 )     821,471       1,480,935       398,849       3,488,302       7,426,761  
                                             
 
9,280,444
      8,458,973       4,584,120       4,185,271       11,651,024       4,224,263  
                                             
 
7,913,820
      9,280,444       6,065,055       4,584,120       15,139,326       11,651,024  
                                             
                                             
$ 154,997,733     $ 216,358,850     $ 109,635,674     $ 101,463,973     $ 324,247,248     $ 213,729,009  
 

192,524,496
      210,597,210       104,042,037       100,165,236       246,986,193       105,361,679  
 
7,570,798
      3,470,308                          
 

750,000
      4,539,570                          

$
(146,553 )   $ 240,595     $     $     $ 338,387     $ 44,891  
                                             
 
 
 
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Financial Highlights
 
                                                 
          Income from investment operations     Less dividends and  
    Net asset
    Net
    Net realized
          Dividends
    Distributions
 
    value,
    investment
    and unrealized
    Total from
    from net
    from net
 
    beginning of
    income/
    gains/(losses)
    investment
    investment
    realized
 
    period     (loss)(x)     on investments     operations     income     gains  
 
ICON Bond Fund 
                                               
Class I†
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
  $ 10.00     $ 0.44     $ 0.03     $ 0.47     $ (0.45 )   $  
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    10.16       0.42       (0.15 )     0.27       (0.42 )     (0.01 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    10.52       0.40       (0.29 )     0.11       (0.41 )     (0.06 )
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    10.41       0.45       0.10       0.55       (0.44 )      
September 30, 2002 (inception) to September 30, 2003
    10.00       0.42       0.38       0.80       (0.39 )      
Class C
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    10.02       0.38       0.04       0.42       (0.39 )      
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    10.18       0.36       (0.15 )     0.21       (0.36 )     (0.01 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    10.54       0.33       (0.28 )     0.05       (0.35 )     (0.06 )
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    10.42       0.38       0.12       0.50       (0.38 )      
October 21, 2002 (inception) to September 30, 2003
    9.79       0.37       0.60       0.97       (0.34 )      
Class Z
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    10.00       0.46       0.03       0.49       (0.47 )      
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    10.15       0.45       (0.15 )     0.30       (0.44 )     (0.01 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    10.51       0.42       (0.28 )     0.14       (0.44 )     (0.06 )
May 6, 2004 (inception) to September 30, 2004
    10.26       0.46       (0.02 )     0.44       (0.19 )      
ICON Core Equity Fund 
                                               
Class I
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    15.22       0.02       2.46       2.48             (1.11 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    15.14       (0.02 )     0.67       0.65             (0.57 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    12.78       (0.05 )     2.41       2.36              
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    11.12       (0.07 )     1.73       1.66              
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    9.50       (0.04 )     1.66       1.62              
Class C
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    14.52       (0.10 )     2.35       2.25             (1.11 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    14.58       (0.14 )     0.65       0.51             (0.57 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    12.41       (0.15 )     2.32       2.17              
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    10.88       (0.16 )     1.69       1.53              
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    9.36       (0.11 )     1.63       1.52              
Class Z
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    15.23       0.03       2.47       2.50             (1.11 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    15.12       0.02       0.66       0.68             (0.57 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    12.79       (0.14 )     2.47       2.33              
May 6, 2004 (inception) to September 30, 2004
    12.07       (0.03 )     0.75       0.72              
Class A
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    15.09       (0.06 )     2.40       2.34             (1.11 )
May 31, 2006 (inception) to September 30, 2006
    15.80       (0.27 )     (0.44 )     (0.71 )            
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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                              Ratio of net investment
       
                        Ratio of expenses to average net assets(a)     income to avg net assets(a)        
                        Before
    After
    Before
    After
       
                        expense
    expense
    expense
    expense
       
distributions                       limitation
    limitation
    limitation
    limitation
       
Total
                Net assets,
    and transfer
    and transfer
    and transfer
    and transfer
       
dividends
    Net asset
          end of
    agent
    agent
    agent
    agent
    Portfolio
 
and
    value, end
    Total
    period (in
    earnings
    earnings
    earnings
    earnings
    turnover
 
distributions     of period     return*     thousands)     credit     credit     credit     credit     rate(b)  
 
                                                                     
                                                                     
$ (0.45 )   $ 10.02       4.80 %   $ 123,102       1.09%       1.00 %(c)     4.34 %     4.42 %     34.40 %
  (0.43 )     10.00       2.72 %     90,324       1.11%       1.01 %(c)     4.14 %     4.24 %     66.82 %
  (0.47 )     10.16       1.05 %     82,415       1.18%       1.10 %     3.72 %     3.80 %     76.28 %
  (0.44 )     10.52       5.41 %     61,502       1.29%       1.30 %     4.28 %     4.27 %     37.98 %
                                                                     
  (0.39 )     10.41       8.19 %     39,338       1.45%       1.30 %     4.01 %     4.16 %     41.65 %
                                                                     
  (0.39 )     10.05       4.27 %     1,491       3.15%       1.60 %(c)     2.28 %     3.82 %     34.40 %
  (0.37 )     10.02       2.09 %     968       3.08%       1.61 %(c)     2.17 %     3.64 %     66.82 %
  (0.41 )     10.18       0.47 %     988       3.42%       1.69 %     1.46 %     3.19 %     76.28 %
  (0.38 )     10.54       4.83 %     371       6.84%       1.90 %     3.63 %     8.57 %     37.98 %
                                                                     
  (0.34 )     10.42       9.98 %     260       2.05%       1.90 %     3.48 %     3.63 %     41.65 %
                                                                     
  (0.47 )     10.02       5.02 %     11       31.60%       0.75 %(c)     (26.18 )%     4.67 %     34.40 %
  (0.45 )     10.00       3.06 %     4       25.40%       0.76 %(c)     (20.18 )%     4.47 %     66.82 %
  (0.50 )     10.15       1.30 %     5       74.28%       0.84 %     (69.41 )%     4.03 %     76.28 %
                                                                     
  (0.19 )     10.51       4.33 %     1       0.86%       0.86 %     4.60 %     4.60 %     37.98 %
                                                                     
                                                                     
  (1.11 )     16.59       17.05 %     88,246       1.24%       1.23 %     0.12 %     0.13 %     116.81 %
  (0.57 )     15.22       4.35 %     104,966       1.23%       1.23 %     (0.13 )%     (0.13 )%     148.67 %
        15.14       18.47 %     93,780       1.27%       N/A       (0.33 )%     N/A       136.82 %
        12.78       14.93 %     47,273       1.33%       N/A       (0.59 )%     N/A       116.26 %
        11.12       17.05 %     37,603       1.39%       N/A       (0.37 )%     N/A       188.07 %
                                                                     
  (1.11 )     15.66       16.25 %     92,350       2.02%       2.02 %     (0.68 )%     (0.67 )%     116.81 %
  (0.57 )     14.52       3.54 %     95,842       2.03%       2.02 %     (0.91 )%     (0.91 )%     148.67 %
        14.58       17.49 %     78,145       2.04%       N/A       (1.10 )%     N/A       136.82 %
        12.41       14.06 %     53,101       2.08%       N/A       (1.34 )%     N/A       116.26 %
        10.88       16.24 %     35,428       2.14%       N/A       (1.12 )%     N/A       188.07 %
                                                                     
  (1.11 )     16.62       17.18 %     1,320       1.18%       1.18 %     0.17 %     0.17 %     116.81 %
  (0.57 )     15.23       4.57 %     1,291       0.99%       0.98 %     0.12 %     0.12 %     148.67 %
        15.12       18.22 %     1,165       1.76%       N/A       (0.94 )%     N/A       136.82 %
                                                                     
        12.79       5.97 %     36       1.12%       N/A       (0.28 )%     N/A       116.26 %
                                                                     
  (1.11 )     16.32       16.25 %     1,390       1.66%       1.65 %     (0.42 )%     (0.41 )%     116.81 %
                                                                     
        15.09       (4.49 )%     128       7.44%       7.43 %     (5.45 )%     (5.44 )%     148.67 %
 
 
 
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Financial Highlights (continued)
 
                                                 
          Income from investment operations     Less dividends and  
    Net asset
    Net
    Net realized
          Dividends
    Distributions
 
    value,
    investment
    and unrealized
    Total from
    from net
    from net
 
    beginning of
    income/
    gains/(losses)
    investment
    investment
    realized
 
    period     (loss)(x)     on investments     operations     income     gains  
 
ICON Equity Income Fund 
                                               
Class I†
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    14.94       0.29       2.26       2.55       (0.34 )     (0.67 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    15.79       0.30       0.29       0.59       (0.35 )     (1.09 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    14.33       0.27       1.54       1.81       (0.27 )     (0.08 )
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    12.22       0.31       2.09       2.40       (0.29 )      
September 30, 2002 (inception) to September 30, 2003
    10.00       0.25       2.20       2.45       (0.23 )      
Class C
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    14.85       0.14       2.23       2.37       (0.22 )     (0.67 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    15.71       0.15       0.29       0.44       (0.21 )     (1.09 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    14.27       0.13       1.54       1.67       (0.15 )     (0.08 )
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    12.21       0.20       2.06       2.26       (0.20 )      
November 8, 2002 (inception) to September 30, 2003
    10.63       0.16       1.59       1.75       (0.17 )      
Class Z
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    14.94       0.30       2.26       2.56       (0.37 )     (0.67 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    15.79       0.30       0.29       0.59       (0.35 )     (1.09 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    14.33       0.28       1.55       1.83       (0.29 )     (0.08 )
May 10, 2004 (inception) to September 30, 2004
    13.43       0.39       0.70       1.09       (0.19 )      
Class A
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    14.92       0.27       2.22       2.49       (0.34 )     (0.67 )
May 31, 2006 (inception) to September 30, 2006
    15.04       0.08       (0.01 )     0.07       (0.19 )      
ICON Income Opportunity Fund#
                                               
Class I†
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    13.80       (0.02 )     1.64       1.62       (0.01 )     (2.23 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    13.88       (0.01 )     0.05       0.04             (0.12 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    13.25       (0.06 )     1.26       1.20             (0.57 )
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    12.40       (0.07 )     1.36       1.29             (0.44 )
September 30, 2002 (inception) to September 30, 2003
    10.00       (0.07 )     2.47       2.40              
Class C
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    13.39       (0.11 )     1.56       1.45             (2.23 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    13.56       (0.11 )     0.06       (0.05 )           (0.12 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    13.06       (0.16 )     1.23       1.07             (0.57 )
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    12.32       (0.16 )     1.34       1.18             (0.44 )
November 21, 2002 (inception) to September 30, 2003
    10.75       (0.17 )     1.74       1.57              
Class Z
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    13.94       0.01       1.65       1.66             (2.23 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    13.94       0.02       0.10       0.12             (0.12 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    13.29       (0.03 )     1.25       1.22             (0.57 )
May 6, 2004 (inception) to September 30, 2004
    12.86       (0.01 )     0.44       0.43              
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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                              Ratio of net investment
       
                        Ratio of expenses to average net assets(a)     income to avg net assets(a)        
                        Before
    After
    Before
    After
       
                        expense
    expense
    expense
    expense
       
distributions                       limitation
    limitation
    limitation
    limitation
       
Total
                Net assets,
    and transfer
    and transfer
    and transfer
    and transfer
       
dividends
    Net asset
          end of
    agent
    agent
    agent
    agent
    Portfolio
 
and
    value, end
    Total
    period (in
    earnings
    earnings
    earnings
    earnings
    turnover
 
distributions     of period     return*     thousands)     credit     credit     credit     credit     rate(b)  
 
                                                                     
                                                                     
  (1.01 )     16.48       17.67 %   $ 124,668       1.23 %(g)     1.22 %(c)     1.86 %     1.86 %     121.30 %
  (1.44 )     14.94       4.02 %     133,835       1.23 %     1.23 %(c)     1.96 %     1.96 %     162.84 %
  (0.35 )     15.79       12.71 %     129,681       1.27 %     1.27 %     1.79 %     1.79 %     143.82 %
  (0.29 )     14.33       19.69 %     117,552       1.35 %     1.37 %     2.25 %     2.23 %     51.84 %
                                                                     
  (0.23 )     12.22       24.72 %     42,474       1.72 %     1.45 %     2.23 %     2.30 %     35.17 %
                                                                     
  (0.89 )     16.33       16.45 %     5,331       2.33 %(g)     2.21 %(c)     0.75 %     0.87 %     121.30 %
  (1.30 )     14.85       3.03 %     4,753       2.29 %     2.20 %(c)     0.91 %     1.00 %     162.84 %
  (0.23 )     15.71       11.71 %     3,861       2.53 %     2.20 %     0.53 %     0.86 %     143.82 %
  (0.20 )     14.27       18.56 %     1,885       3.47 %     2.20 %     0.12 %     1.40 %     51.84 %
                                                                     
  (0.17 )     12.21       16.63 %     581       2.48 %     2.20 %     1.10 %     1.38 %     35.17 %
                                                                     
  (1.04 )     16.46       17.74 %     40       11.08 %(g)     1.21 %(c)     (7.96 )%     1.92 %     121.30 %
  (1.44 )     14.94       4.04 %     24       4.36 %     1.20 %(c)     (1.20 )%     1.96 %     162.84 %
  (0.37 )     15.79       12.89 %     23       9.37 %     1.20 %     (6.31 )%     1.86 %     143.82 %
                                                                     
  (0.19 )     14.33       8.12 %     14       1.11 %     0.97 %(d)     2.62 %     2.76 %     51.84 %
                                                                     
  (1.01 )     16.40       17.29 %     322       3.77 %(g)     1.45 %(c)     (0.60 )%     1.73 %     121.30 %
                                                                     
  (0.19 )     14.92       0.46 %     19       38.36 %     1.44 %(c)     (35.18 )%     1.74 %     162.84 %
                                                                     
                                                                     
  (2.24 )     13.18       12.51 %     77,195       1.50 %     1.50 %(c)     (0.11 )%     (0.11 )%     150.42 %
  (0.12 )     13.80       0.30 %     60,321       1.47 %     1.47 %(c)     (0.04 )%     (0.04 )%     159.55 %
  (0.57 )     13.88       9.21 %     54,347       1.54 %     1.45 %     (0.57 )%     (0.48 )%     159.35 %
  (0.44 )     13.25       10.53 %     42,962       1.60 %     1.45 %     (0.67 )%     (0.52 )%     167.57 %
                                                                     
        12.40       24.00 %     20,981       2.07 %     1.45 %     (1.27 )%     (0.65 )%     184.24 %
                                                                     
  (2.23 )     12.61       11.53 %     2,291       2.76 %     2.25 %(c)     (1.34 )%     (0.83 )%     150.42 %
  (0.12 )     13.39       (0.36 )%     2,842       2.61 %     2.23 %(c)     (1.23 )%     (0.85 )%     159.55 %
  (0.57 )     13.56       8.31 %     3,652       2.80 %     2.20 %     (1.80 )%     (1.20 )%     159.35 %
  (0.44 )     13.06       9.69 %     1,964       3.89 %     2.20 %     (2.93 )%     (1.23 )%     167.57 %
                                                                     
        12.32       14.60 %     148       2.83 %     2.20 %     (2.13 )%     (1.50 )%     184.24 %
                                                                     
  (2.23 )     13.37       12.67 %     37       17.99 %     1.25 %(c)     (16.64 )%     0.10 %     150.42 %
  (0.12 )     13.94       0.88 %     5       3.52 %     1.22 %(c)     (2.14 )%     0.15 %     159.55 %
  (0.57 )     13.94       9.42 %     3       53.94 %     1.20 %     (52.97 )%     (0.23 )%     159.35 %
                                                                     
        13.29       3.34 %     3       1.12 %     1.12 %     (0.11 )%     (0.11 )%     167.57 %
 
 
 
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Financial Highlights (continued)
 
                                                 
          Income from investment operations     Less dividends and  
    Net asset
    Net
    Net realized
          Dividends
    Distributions
 
    value,
    investment
    and unrealized
    Total from
    from net
    from net
 
    beginning of
    income/
    gains/(losses)
    investment
    investment
    realized
 
    period     (loss)(x)     on investments     operations     income     gains  
 
Income Opportunity Fund#
                                               
Class A
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    13.80       (0.03 )     1.65       1.62       (0.04 )     (2.23 )
May 31, 2006 (inception) to September 30, 2006
    13.73       0.03       0.04       0.07              
ICON Long/Short Fund(e) 
                                               
Class I†
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    17.19       0.07       2.47       2.54       (0.04 )     (0.43 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    15.99       0.03       1.17       1.20              
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    13.92       (0.08 )     2.65       2.57             (0.50 )
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    12.00       (0.08 )     2.16       2.08             (0.16 )
September 30, 2002 (inception) to September 30, 2003
    10.00       (0.07 )     2.07       2.00              
Class C
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    16.67       (0.08 )     2.38       2.30             (0.43 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    15.63       (0.13 )     1.17       1.04              
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    13.73       (0.19 )     2.59       2.40             (0.50 )
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    11.92       (0.18 )     2.15       1.97             (0.16 )
October 17, 2002 (inception) to September 30, 2003
    10.61       (0.15 )     1.46       1.31              
Class Z
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    17.29       0.10       2.41       2.51       (0.07 )     (0.43 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    16.05       0.11       1.13       1.24              
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    13.94       (0.05 )     2.66       2.61             (0.50 )
May 6, 2004 (inception) to September 30, 2004
    13.99       (0.04 )     (0.01 )     (0.05 )            
Class A
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    17.18       0.05       2.46       2.51       (0.06 )     (0.43 )
May 31, 2006 (inception) to September 30, 2006
    17.52       0.05       (0.39 )     (0.34 )            
 
(x)  Calculated using the average share method.
 *  The total return calculation is for the period indicated and excludes any sales charges.
 †  The Fund has changed its originally stated inception date of October 1, 2002 to September 30, 2002.
(a)  Annualized for periods less than a year.
(b)  Portfolio turnover is calculated at the Fund level and is not annualized.
(c)  The Fund’s operating expenses, not including interest expense, are contractually limited to the amounts discussed in Note 3. The ratios in these financial highlights reflect the limitation, including the interest expense.
(d)  The limitation on expenses for Class Z shares occurred when the Adviser reimbursed the Fund for excise and income taxes incurred during the period. These expenses were extraordinary expenses not subject to the contractual expense limitation discussed in Note 3.
(e)  The Fund’s operating expenses, not including dividends on short positions, are contractually limited to 1.55% for Class I, 2.30% for Class C, 1.30% for Class Z and 1.55% for Class A. The ratios in these financial highlights reflect the limitation, including the dividends on short positions.
 #  Formerly the ICON Covered Call Fund.
(f)  Prior disclosures were reclassified to be consistent with current presentation.
(g)  The Ratio of expenses to average net assets before expense limitation and transfer agent earnings credit including non-recurring Code 860 expense were 1.81%, 2.91%, 11.66% and 4.35% for Class I, C, Z and A, respectively. See Note 6.
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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                              Ratio of net investment
       
                        Ratio of expenses to average net assets(a)     income to avg net assets(a)        
                        Before
    After
    Before
    After
       
                        expense
    expense
    expense
    expense
       
distributions                       limitation
    limitation
    limitation
    limitation
       
Total
                Net assets,
    and transfer
    and transfer
    and transfer
    and transfer
       
dividends
    Net asset
          end of
    agent
    agent
    agent
    agent
    Portfolio
 
and
    value, end
    Total
    period (in
    earnings
    earnings
    earnings
    earnings
    turnover
 
distributions     of period     return*     thousands)     credit     credit     credit     credit     rate(b)  
 
                                                                     
                                                                     
  (2.27 )     13.15       12.51 %   $ 294       7.12 %     1.49 %(c)     (5.85 )%     (0.22 )%     150.42 %
                                                                     
        13.80       0.51 %     15       42.18 %     1.47 %(c)     (40.01 )%     0.69 %     159.55 %
                                                                     
                                                                     
  (0.47 )     19.26       15.05 %     238,943       1.46 %     1.46 %(c)     0.39 %     0.39 %     105.00 %
        17.19       7.50 %     168,522       1.45 %(f)     1.45 %(c)     0.18 %(f)     0.18 %     94.62 %
  (0.50 )     15.99       18.69 %     53,158       1.58 %     1.58 %     (0.53 )%     (0.53 )%     112.06 %
  (0.16 )     13.92       17.42 %     24,480       2.15 %     1.74 %     (1.03 )%     (0.62 )%     148.32 %
                                                                     
        12.00       20.00 %     9,726       3.09 %     1.55 %     (2.20 )%     (0.66 )%     162.25 %
                                                                     
  (0.43 )     18.54       14.05 %     43,986       2.33 %     2.32 %(c)     (0.48 )%     (0.47 )%     105.00 %
        16.67       6.65 %     26,763       2.30 %(f)     2.30 %(c)     (0.78 )%(f)     (0.78 )%     94.62 %
  (0.50 )     15.63       17.68 %     13,925       2.37 %     2.32 %     (1.35 )%     (1.31 )%     112.06 %
  (0.16 )     13.73       16.61 %     3,716       3.70 %     2.49 %     (2.57 )%     (1.35 )%     148.32 %
                                                                     
        11.92       12.35 %     269       3.84 %     2.30 %     (2.99 )%     (1.45 )%     162.25 %
                                                                     
  (0.50 )     19.30       14.81 %     447       1.25 %     1.25 %(c)     0.55 %     0.55 %     105.00 %
        17.29       7.73 %     3,306       1.17 %(f)     1.17 %(c)     0.61 %(f)     0.61 %     94.62 %
  (0.50 )     16.05       18.96 %     140       3.07 %     1.33 %     (2.07 )%     (0.33 )%     112.06 %
                                                                     
        13.94       (0.36 )%     32       1.98 %     1.76 %     (0.50 )%     (0.28 )%     148.32 %
                                                                     
  (0.49 )     19.20       14.94 %     6,481       1.68 %     1.67 %(c)     0.27 %     0.26 %     105.00 %
                                                                     
        17.18       (1.94 )%     821       2.51 %     1.54 %(c)     (0.01 )%     0.96 %     94.62 %
 
 
 
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Notes to Financial Statements
September 30, 2007
 
1. Organization
 
The ICON Bond Fund (“Bond Fund”), ICON Core Equity Fund (“Core Equity Fund”), ICON Equity Income Fund (“Equity Income Fund”), ICON Income Opportunity Fund (“Income Opportunity Fund”, formerly, the ICON Covered Call Fund) and ICON Long/Short Fund (“Long/Short Fund”) are series funds (individually a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”). The Funds are part of the ICON Funds (the “Trust”), a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) as an open-end investment management company. Each Fund offers four classes of shares, Class I, Class C, Class Z and Class A with the exception of Bond Fund, which offers three classes of shares, Class I, Class C and Class Z. All classes have equal rights as to earnings, assets and voting privileges except that each Class may bear different distribution fees, registration costs and shareholder servicing costs and each Class has exclusive voting rights with respect to its distribution plan. There are currently 12 other active funds within the Trust. Those Funds are covered by separate prospectuses and shareholder reports.
 
Each Fund is authorized to issue an unlimited number of no par shares. The investment objective of the Bond Fund is maximum total return. The investment objective of the Core Equity Fund is long-term capital appreciation with a secondary objective of capital preservation. The investment objective of the Equity Income Fund is modest capital appreciation and income. The investment objective of the Income Opportunity Fund is modest capital appreciation and to maximize realized gains. The investment objective of the Long/Short Fund is capital appreciation.
 
The Funds may have elements of risk, including the risk of loss of principal. There is no assurance that the investment process will consistently lead to successful results. An investment concentrated in sectors and industries may involve greater risk and volatility than a more diversified investment. Investing in fixed income securities such as bonds involves interest rate risk. When interest rates rise, the value of fixed income securities generally decreases. Additionally, the Bond Fund may invest in medium- and lower-quality debt securities. High-yield bonds involve a greater risk of default and price volatility than U.S. government and other high-quality bonds. The Income Opportunity Fund invests in call options; call options involve certain risks, such as limited gains and lack of liquidity of the underlying securities, and are not suitable for all investors. The Long/Short Fund engages in short
 
 
 
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selling; there are risks associated with selling short, including the risk that the Long/Short Fund may have to cover its short position at a higher price than the short sale, resulting in a loss. The Long/Short Fund’s loss on a short sale is potentially unlimited as a loss occurs when the value of a security sold short increases. There are also risks associated with small and mid-cap investing, including limited product lines, less liquidity and small market share. Investments in foreign securities and currency transactions may involve certain considerations and risks not typically associated with those of U.S. dollar-denominated transactions as a result of, among other factors, the possibility of lower government supervision and regulation of foreign securities markets and the possibility of political or economic instability. Financial statements of foreign companies are governed by different accounting, auditing, and financial standards than U.S. companies and tend to be less transparent and uniform than in the United States. Many corporate governance standards, which help ensure the integrity of public information in the United States, do not exist in foreign countries. In general, there is less governmental supervision of foreign stock exchanges and securities brokers and issuers.
 
In the normal course of business, the Funds may enter into various agreements that provide for general indemnifications. Each Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as any potential exposure involving future claims that may be made against each Fund is unknown. However, based on experience, the Funds expect the risk of loss to be minimal.
 
2. Significant Accounting Policies
 
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Funds in the preparation of their financial statements. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
 
Investment Valuation
 
The Funds’ securities and other assets, excluding options on securities indexes, are valued as of the closing price at the close of regular trading on
 
 
 
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the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) (normally 4 p.m. Eastern time) each day the NYSE is open, except that securities traded primarily on the NASDAQ Stock Market (“NASDAQ”) are normally valued by the Funds at the NASDAQ Official Closing Price provided by NASDAQ each business day. Options on securities indexes are generally valued at 4:15 p.m. Eastern time each day the NYSE is open. The Funds use pricing services to obtain the market value of securities in their portfolios; if a pricing service is not able to provide a price, or the pricing service’s valuation quote is considered inaccurate or does not reflect the market value of the security, prices may be obtained through market quotations from independent broker/dealers. If market quotations from these sources are not readily available, the Funds’ securities or other assets are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the Funds’ Board of Trustees (“Board”) or pursuant to procedures approved by the Board.
 
Lacking any sales that day, a security is valued at the current closing bid price (or yield equivalent thereof) or based on quotes obtained from dealers making a market for the security. Options are valued at their closing mid-price on the principal market where the option is traded. Mid-price is the average of the closing bid and closing ask prices. Debt securities with a remaining maturity of greater than 60 days are valued in accordance with the evaluated bid price supplied by the pricing service. The evaluated bid price supplied by the pricing service is a matrix system which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities and ratings. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of 60 days or less are generally valued at amortized cost or original cost plus accrued interest, which approximates market value. Currency rates as of the close of the NYSE are used to convert foreign security values into U.S. dollars.
 
The Funds’ securities traded in countries outside of the Western Hemisphere are fair valued daily by utilizing the quotations of an independent pricing service, unless the Board determines that use of another valuation methodology is appropriate. The purposes of daily fair valuation are to avoid stale prices and to take into account, among other things, any significant events occurring after the close of foreign markets. The pricing service uses statistical analyses and quantitative models to adjust local market prices using factors such as subsequent movements and changes in the prices of indexes, securities and exchange rates in other markets to determine fair value as of the time a Fund calculates its net asset value. The valuation assigned to fair-value securities for purposes of calculating a Fund’s NAV may differ from the security’s most recent closing market price and from the prices used by other mutual funds to calculate their NAVs.
 
 
 
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New Accounting Pronouncement
 
In September 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement on Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements.” This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, sets out a framework for measuring fair value and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 applies to fair value measurements already required or permitted by existing standards. SFAS No. 157 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007 and interim periods within those fiscal years. The changes to current generally accepted accounting principles from the application of this Statement relate to the definition of fair value, the methods used to measure fair value, and the expanded disclosures about fair value measurements. Management does not believe the adoption of SFAS No. 157 will impact the financial statement amounts, however, additional disclosures will be required about the inputs used to develop the measurements and the effect of certain measurements on changes in net assets for the period.
 
Repurchase Agreements
 
Repurchase agreements, if held by the Funds, are fully collateralized by U.S. Government securities and such collateral is in the possession of the Funds’ custodian. The collateral is evaluated daily to ensure its market value exceeds the current market value of the repurchase agreements including accrued interest. In the event of default on the obligation to purchase, the Funds have the right to liquidate the collateral and apply the proceeds in satisfaction of the obligation. In the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, realization and/or retention of the collateral or proceeds may be subject to legal proceedings. No repurchase agreements were purchased or sold by the Funds during the year ended September 30, 2007.
 
Foreign Currency Translation
 
The accounting records of the Funds are maintained in U.S. dollars. Investment securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in a foreign currency are translated daily into U.S. dollars at the prevailing rates of exchange. Income and expenses are translated into U.S. dollars at the prevailing exchange rate on the respective dates of the transactions. Purchases and sales of securities are translated into U.S. dollars at the contractual currency exchange rates established at the time of each trade.
 
 
 
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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 
The Funds do not isolate that portion of the results of operations resulting from changes in foreign exchange rates on investments from the fluctuations arising from changes in market prices of securities held. Net unrealized appreciation or depreciation on investments and foreign currency translations arise from changes in the value of assets and liabilities, resulting from changes in the exchange rates and changes in market prices of securities held.
 
Forward Foreign Currency Contracts
 
The Funds may enter into short-term forward foreign currency contracts in connection with planned purchases or sales of securities as a hedge against fluctuations in foreign exchange rates pending the settlement of transactions in foreign securities. A forward foreign currency contract is an agreement between contracting parties to exchange an amount of currency at some future time at an agreed upon rate.
 
These contracts are marked-to-market daily and the related appreciation or depreciation of the contract is presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Net realized gains and losses on foreign currency transactions represent disposition of foreign currencies, and the difference between the amount recorded at the time of the transaction and the U.S. dollar amount actually received. Any realized gain or loss incurred by the Funds due to foreign currency translation is included in the Statement of Operations. The Funds did not enter into any forward foreign currency contracts during the year ended September 30, 2007.
 
Futures Contracts
 
The Funds may invest in financial futures contracts for the purpose of hedging their existing securities or securities they intend to purchase against fluctuations in fair value caused by changes in prevailing markets. Upon entering into a financial futures contract, the Fund is required to pledge to a broker an amount of cash and/or other assets equal to a certain percentage of the contract amount (initial margin deposit). Subsequent payments, known as “variation margin,” are made or received by the Fund each day, depending on the daily fluctuations in the fair value of the underlying security. The Fund recognizes a gain or loss equal to the daily variation margin. Should market conditions change unexpectedly, the Fund may not achieve the anticipated benefits of the financial futures contracts and may realize a loss. The use of futures transactions involves the risk of imperfect correlation in movements in the price of futures contracts and the
 
 
 
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underlying hedged assets. The Funds held no financial futures contracts during the year ended September 30, 2007.
 
Options Transactions
 
The Income Opportunity Fund writes (sells) call options as part of its normal investment activities. Each Fund may write (sell) put and call options on individual securities and on securities indexes.
 
When a Fund writes a put or call option, an amount equal to the premium received is included in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as a liability. The amount of the liability is subsequently marked-to-market to reflect the current market value of the option. Such liability is subject to off balance sheet risks to the extent of any future increases in market value of the written options. If an option expires on its stipulated expiration date or if the Fund enters into a closing purchase transaction, a gain or loss is realized. If a written call option on an individual security is exercised, a gain or loss is realized for the sale of the underlying security, and the proceeds from the sale are increased by the premium originally received. If a written call option on a securities index is exercised, a gain or loss is realized as determined by the premium originally received, the exercise price and the market value of the index. If a written put option on an individual security is exercised, the cost of the security acquired is decreased by the premium originally received. As a writer of an option, a Fund bears the market risk of an unfavorable change in the price of the individual security or securities index underlying the written option.
 
Each Fund may also purchase put and call options. When a Fund purchases a put or call option, an amount equal to the premium paid is included in the Fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities as an investment, and is subsequently marked-to-market to reflect the current market value of the option. If an option expires on the stipulated expiration date or if the Fund enters into a closing sale transaction, a gain or loss is realized. If the fund exercises a call on an individual security, the cost of the security acquired is increased by the premium paid for the call. If the Fund exercises a put option on an individual security, a gain or loss is realized from the sale of the underlying security, and the proceeds from such a sale are decreased by the premium originally paid. If the Fund exercises a put option on a security index, a gain or loss is realized as determined by the premium originally paid, the exercise price and the market value of the index. Written and purchased options are non-income producing securities.
 
 
 
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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 
The Income Opportunity Fund’s written options are collateralized by cash and/or securities held with the Fund’s prime broker and in a segregated account at the Fund’s custodian. Such collateral for the Fund is restricted from use. The cash collateral or borrowings from the prime broker are included on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. The securities pledged as collateral are included on the Schedule of Investments.
 
As of September 30, 2007, the Equity Income Fund and the Income Opportunity Fund engaged in option transactions which are included on each Funds’ Schedule of Investments.
 
Short Sales
 
The Long/Short Fund may engage in short sales (selling securities it does not own) as part of its normal investment activities. These short sales are collateralized by cash and/or securities held with the Fund’s prime broker and in a segregated account at the Fund’s custodian. The collateral required is determined daily by reference to the market value of the short positions. Such collateral for the Fund is restricted from use. The cash collateral that is restricted from use is included on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as ‘Deposits for short sales.’ The securities pledged as collateral that are restricted from use is included on the Schedule of Investments. Dividends received on short sales are treated as an expense on the Statement of Operations. Liabilities for securities sold short are reported at market value in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Such liabilities are subject to off-balance sheet risk to the extent of any future increases in market value of the securities sold short. The ultimate liability for securities sold short may exceed the liabilities recorded in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Liabilities for securities sold short are closed out by purchasing the applicable securities for delivery to the Fund’s prime broker. As of September 30, 2007, the Long/Short Fund engaged in short selling. The short positions are included in the Schedule of Securities Sold Short on the Schedule of Investments.
 
Securities Lending
 
Under procedures adopted by the Trustees, the Funds may lend securities to non-affiliated qualified parties. The Funds may seek to earn additional income through securities lending. There is the risk of delay in recovering a loaned security. The Funds do not have the right to vote on securities while they are being lent; however, the Funds may attempt to call back the loan and vote the proxy.
 
 
 
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All loans will be continuously secured by collateral which consists of cash. Brown Brothers Harriman (the “Lending Agent”) may invest the cash collateral in the Securities Lending Investment Fund of Brown Brothers Harriman Trust, which complies with Rule 2a-7 of the 1940 Act relating to money market funds.
 
The cash collateral invested by the Lending Agent is disclosed in the Schedule of Investments. The lending fees received and the Funds’ portion of the interest income earned on cash collateral are included on the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
 
As of September 30, 2007, the following Funds had securities with the following values on loans:
 
                 
    Value of
    Value of
 
Fund   Loaned Securities     Collateral  
   
ICON Bond Fund
  $ 1,472,749     $ 1,532,004  
ICON Core Equity Fund
    7,008,015       7,148,566  
ICON Income Opportunity Fund
    2,168,286       2,214,204  
ICON Long/Short Fund
    10,733,407       11,012,588  
 
Income Taxes
 
The Funds intend to qualify as regulated investment companies under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and, accordingly, the Funds will generally not be subject to federal and state income taxes, or federal excise taxes to the extent that they intend to make sufficient distributions of net investment income and net realized capital gains.
 
Dividends paid by the Funds from net investment income and distributions of net realized short-term gains are, for federal income tax purposes, taxable as ordinary income to shareholders.
 
Dividends and distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Funds on the ex-dividend/distribution date. The Bond Fund distributes net investment income, if any, to shareholders monthly. The Equity Income Fund and the Income Opportunity Fund distribute net investment income, if any, to shareholders quarterly. Other Funds distribute income, if any, annually. The Funds distribute net realized capital gains, if any, to shareholders at least annually, if not offset by capital loss carryovers. The Funds may utilize equalization accounting for tax purposes and designate earnings and profits, including net realized gains distributed to shareholders on redemption of shares, as part of the dividends paid deduction for income tax purposes. Income distributions and capital gain distributions are determined in
 
 
 
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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 
accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
 
On July 13, 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) released FASB Interpretation No. 48 “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes” (“FIN 48”). FIN 48 provides guidance for how uncertain tax positions should be recognized, measured, presented and disclosed in the financial statements. FIN 48 requires the evaluation of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing the Funds’ tax return to determine whether the tax positions are “more-likely-than-not” of being sustained by the applicable tax authority. Tax positions not deemed to meet the more-likely-than-not threshold would be recorded as a tax benefit or expense in the current year. Adoption of FIN 48 is required no later than the last business day of the first financial statement reporting period for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006 and is to be applied to all open tax years as of the effective date. At this time, management is evaluating the implications, if any, of FIN 48. Its impact to the financial statements has not yet been determined.
 
Investment Income
 
Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Interest income is accrued as earned. Certain dividends from foreign securities are recorded as soon as the Funds are informed of the dividend if such information is obtained subsequent to the ex-dividend date. Discounts and premiums on securities purchased are amortized over the life of the respective securities.
 
Investment Transactions
 
Security transactions are accounted for no later than one business day after the trade date. However, for financial reporting purposes, security transactions are accounted for on the trade date. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost.
 
Allocation of Income and Expenses
 
Each class of a Fund’s shares bears expenses incurred specifically on its behalf and, in addition, each class bears a portion of general expenses, based upon relative net assets of each class. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed to a specific Fund in the Trust are apportioned between all Funds in the Trust based upon relative net assets. In calculating the net
 
 
 
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asset value per share of each class, investment income, realized and unrealized gains and losses and expenses other than class-specific expenses are allocated daily to each class of shares based upon the proportion of net assets.
 
3. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates
 
Investment Advisory Fees
 
ICON Advisers, Inc. (“ICON”) serves as investment adviser to the Funds and is responsible for managing the Funds’ portfolios of securities. ICON receives a monthly management fee that is computed daily at an annual rate of 0.60% of average daily nets assets of the Bond Fund, 0.75% of average daily net assets of the Core Equity, Equity Income and Income Opportunity Funds, and 0.85% of average daily net assets of the Long/Short Fund.
 
ICON has contractually agreed to limit its investment advisory fee and/or reimburse certain of the Funds’ operating expenses (exclusive of brokerage, interest, taxes, and extraordinary expenses) to the extent necessary to ensure that the Funds’ operating expenses do not exceed the following amounts:
                                 
    Class I     Class C     Class Z     Class A  
   
ICON Bond Fund
    1.00%       1.60%       0.75%       N/A  
ICON Equity Income Fund
    1.45%       2.20%       1.20%       1.45 %
ICON Income Opportunity Fund
    1.45%       2.20%       1.20%       1.45 %
ICON Long/Short Fund
    1.55%       2.30%       1.30%       1.55 %
 
The Funds’ expense limitation will continue in effect until at least January 31, 2017.
 
To the extent ICON reimburses or absorbs fees and expenses, it may seek payment of such amounts for up to three years after the expenses were reimbursed or absorbed. A Fund will make no such payment, however, if the total Fund operating expenses exceed the expense limits in effect at the time the expenses were reimbursed or at the time these payments are proposed.
 
As of September 30, 2007 the following amounts were still available for recoupment by ICON based upon their potential expiration dates:
 
                         
    2008     2009     2010  
   
ICON Bond Fund
  $ 90,804     $ 102,270     $ 101,907  
ICON Equity Income Fund
    11,555       6,067       13,070  
ICON Income Opportunity Fund
    22,209       42,816       20,262  
 
 
 
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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 
Accounting, Custody and Transfer Agent Fees
 
Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc. (“Citi”) is the Fund Accounting Agent for the Funds. Effective August 1, 2007, The BISYS Group, Inc., and its subsidiaries, was acquired by and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citi. For its services, the Trust pays Citi 0.03% on the first $1.75 billion of net assets, 0.0175% on net assets over $1.75 billion and up to $5 billion, and 0.01% on net assets in excess of $5 billion.
 
Brown Brothers Harriman (“BBH”) is the custodian of the Trust’s investments. For domestic custody services, the Trust pays BBH 0.0065% on the first $50 million of average net assets and 0.0050% on domestic assets above $50 million, plus certain transaction charges. For foreign custody services, the Trust pays BBH 0.03% on foreign assets plus certain transaction charges.
 
Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. (“BFDS”) is the Trust’s transfer agent. For these services, the Trust pays an account fee of $13.25 per open account, $7.00 per networked account, $1.80 per closed account, plus certain other transaction and cusip charges.
 
Transfer agent earnings credits are credits received for interest which is a result from overnight balances used by the transfer agent, BFDS, for clearing shareholder transactions. During the year ended September 30, 2007, the Funds received transfer agent earnings credits which are included on the Statement of Operations.
 
Administrative Services
 
The Trust has entered into an administrative services agreement with ICON pursuant to which ICON oversees the administration of the Trust’s business and affairs. As of January 31, 2006, this agreement provides for an annual fee of 0.05% on the Funds’ first $1.5 billion of average daily net assets, 0.045% on the next $1.5 billion of average daily net assets, 0.040% on the next $2 billion of average daily net assets and 0.030% on average daily net assets over $5 billion. During the year ended September 30, 2007, the Funds’ payment for administrative services to ICON is included in the Statement of Operations. The administrative services agreement provides that ICON will not be liable for any error of judgment, mistake of law, or any loss suffered by the Trust in connection with matters to which the administrative services agreement relates, except for a loss resulting from willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence by ICON in the performance of its duties.
 
 
 
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ICON has entered into a sub-administration agreement with Citi pursuant to which Citi assists ICON with the administration and business affairs of the Trust. Effective August 1, 2007, The BISYS Group, Inc., and its subsidiaries, was acquired by and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citi. For its services, ICON pays Citi at an annual rate of 0.025% on the first $1.75 billion of Trust assets and 0.015% on assets above $1.75 billion.
 
Distribution Fees
 
The Funds have adopted a Distribution Plan pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act (“12b-1 Plan”) under which the Funds are authorized to compensate the Funds’ distributor, ICON Distributors, Inc. (“IDI”) (an affiliate of the adviser) for the sale and distribution of shares. Under the 12b-1 Plan, Bond Fund Class C shareholders pay an annual 12b-1 and service fee of 0.85% of average daily net assets and Class I shareholders pay an annual 12b-1 fee of 0.25% of average daily net assets. The shareholders of the other Funds pay an annual 12b-1 and service fee of 1.00% of average daily net assets for Class C shares and an annual 12b-1 and service fee of 0.25% of average daily net assets for Class I shares and Class A shares. The total amount paid under the 12b-1 plans by the Funds is shown in the Statement of Operations.
 
Related Parties
 
Certain Officers and Directors of ICON are also Officers and Trustees of the Funds; however, such Officers and Trustees (with the exception of the Chief Compliance Officer, “CCO”) receive no compensation from the Funds. The CCO’s salary is paid 90% by the Funds and 10% by the Adviser. For the year ended September 30, 2007, the total related amounts paid by the Trust under this arrangement are included in Other Expenses on the Statements of Operations.
 
Some of the 12b-1 amounts received by IDI, discussed in the Distribution Fees section above, have been used to offset various shareholder servicing costs incurred by ICON. For the year ended September 30, 2007, this amount was $202,954.
 
4. Line of Credit
 
The Funds have entered into Lines of Credit agreements with BBH. The maximum borrowing is limited to the lesser of $50 million or 25% of the net asset value in the Fund subject to a maximum borrowing limit by the Trust of $150 million. The ICON Income Opportunity Fund is limited to the lesser
 
 
 
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of $50 million or 10% of net asset value. Interest on domestic borrowings with BBH is charged at LIBOR plus 2.00%, which was 7.12% at September 30, 2007. Interest on domestic borrowings with the prime broker is charged at the Fed Funds rate plus 50 basis points, which was 5.75% at September 30, 2007. The average interest rate charged for the year ended September 30, 2007 was 6.96%.
 
         
    Average Borrowing
 
    (10/1/06-9/30/07)  
   
ICON Bond Fund
  $ 1,643,695  
ICON Core Equity Fund**
    1,118,090  
ICON Equity Income Fund**
    715,467  
ICON Income Opportunity Fund**
    716,525  
ICON Long/Short Fund
    176,140  
 
**Fund had outstanding borrowings as of September 30, 2007.
 
5. Options Contracts Written
 
The number of option contracts written and the premiums received by the Income Opportunity Fund during the year ended September 30, 2007, were as follows:
 
                 
    Number of
    Premiums
 
    Contracts     Received  
   
Options outstanding, beginning of year
    13,216     $ 2,108,685  
Options written during year
    25,686       32,716,751  
Options expired during year
    (1,745 )     (215,172 )
Options closed during year
    (36,630 )     (32,609,460 )
Options exercised during year
    -       -  
                 
Options outstanding, end of year
    527     $ 2,000,804  
                 
 
6. Federal Income Tax
 
Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations that may differ from accounting principles that are generally accepted in the United States of America. These differences are due to differing treatments for items such as net short-term gains, deferrals of wash losses, foreign currency transactions, net investment losses, and capital loss carryforwards.
 
The tax components of capital shown in the following tables represent losses or deductions the Funds may be able to offset against income and gains recognized in future years and post October loss deferrals. The accumulated losses noted represent net capital loss carryforwards as of September 30,
 
 
 
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2007 that may be available to offset future realized capital gains and thereby reduce future taxable income distributions. The ICON Bond Fund has a capital loss carryforward of $1,454,386, which expires in 2015.
 
For the year ended September 30, 2007 the ICON Bond Fund also elected to defer post October losses of $158,250.
 
The tax characteristics of dividends and distributions paid to shareholders during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, were as follows:
 
                                 
    Distributions paid from           Total
 
    Ordinary
    Net Long-
    Total Taxable
    Distributions
 
Fund   Income     Term Gains     Distributions     Paid  
   
ICON Bond Fund
  $ 4,558,618     $     $ 4,558,618     $ 4,558,618  
ICON Core Equity Fund
    282,034       14,661,168       14,943,202       14,943,202  
ICON Equity Income Fund
    3,096,011       6,054,545       9,150,556       9,150,556  
ICON Income Opportunity Fund
    10,910,557             10,910,557       10,910,557  
ICON Long/Short Fund
    414,269       5,441,646       5,855,915       5,855,915  
 
The tax characteristics of dividends and distributions paid to shareholders during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, were as follows:
 
                                 
    Distributions paid from           Total
 
    Ordinary
    Net Long-
    Total Taxable
    Distributions
 
Fund   Income     Term Gains     Distributions     Paid  
   
ICON Bond Fund
  $  3,571,906     $ 57,888     $ 3,629,794     $ 3,629,794  
ICON Core Equity Fund
    16,325       6,819,220       6,835,545       6,835,545  
ICON Equity Income Fund
    2,922,978        8,885,673       11,808,651       11,808,651  
ICON Income Opportunity Fund
          498,313       498,313       498,313  
 
As of September 30, 2007, the components of accumulated earnings (deficit) on a tax basis was as follows:
 
                                                         
                                        Total
 
    Undistributed
    Undistributed
                Accumulated
    Unrealized
    Accumulated
 
    Ordinary
    Net Long-
    Accumulated
    Distributions
    capital and
    Appreciation
    Earnings
 
Fund   Income     Term Gains     Earnings     Payable *     other losses     (Depreciation) **     (Deficits)  
   
ICON Bond Fund
  $ 402,803     $     $ 402,803     $ (436,281 )   $ (1,612,636 )   $ 424,815     $ (1,221,299 )
ICON Core Equity Fund
    8.394,122       6,683,893       15,078,015                   26,649,128       41,727,143  
ICON Equity Income Fund
    6,768,155       6,457,591       13,225,746       (525,680 )             15,890,057       28,590,123  
ICON Income Opportunity Fund
    3,275,770             3,275,770                         3,275,770  
ICON Long/Short Fund
    2,326,351       4,487,674       6,814,025                   30,497,210       37,311,235  
 
 
 
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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 
 
* Differences between the financial statement distribution payable and the tax basis distribution payable is a result of accrual based accounting and cash basis accounting used for federal tax reporting purposes.
 
** The differences between the book-basis and tax-basis unrealized appreciation (depreciation) is attributable primarily to tax deferral of losses on wash sales and recognition of tax unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of passive foreign investment companies.
 
As of September 30, 2007, book cost for financial reporting purposes is substantially the same for federal income tax purposes and differs from fair value by net unrealized appreciation / (depreciation) of securities as follows:
 
                                 
          Unrealized
    Unrealized
    Net Appreciation
 
Fund   Cost     Appreciation     (Depreciation)     (Depreciation)  
   
ICON Bond Fund
  $ 124,070,254     $ 1,189,902     $ (765,087 )   $ 424,815  
ICON Core Equity Fund
    163,066,736       28,705,539       (2,056,411 )     26,649,128  
ICON Equity Income Fund
    114,268,194       17,250,848       (1,360,791 )     15,890,057  
ICON Income Opportunity Fund
    84,966,168             (796,608 )     (796,608 )
ICON Long/Short Fund
    267,945,193       33,207,597       (3,584,712 )     29,622,885  
 
Due to a potential late dividend declaration for the year ended September 30, 2006 requiring a Code Section 860 deficiency dividend, the Equity Income Fund may be required to pay penalties and interest estimated to be $807,370. The Equity Income Fund has been fully indemnified for any amounts that may be paid by the Sub-Administrator of the Fund. This estimated Code Section 860 liability and the offsetting indemnification receivable have been included on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities and the Code 860 expense and the offsetting reimbursement have been included on the Statement of Operations.
 
 
 
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
To the Board of Trustees and Shareholders of the ICON Diversified Funds:
 
In our opinion, the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities, including the schedules of investments, short securities and written call options, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of ICON Bond Fund, ICON Core Equity Fund, ICON Equity Income Fund, ICON Income Opportunity Fund (formerly known as ICON Covered Call Fund) and ICON Long/Short Fund (five of the portfolios constituting ICON Funds, hereafter referred to as the “Funds”) at September 30, 2007, and the results of each of their operations for the year then ended, the changes in each of their net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods presented, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as “financial statements”) are the responsibility of the Funds’ management; our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at September 30, 2007 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
 
 
-s- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
 
Denver, Colorado
November 20, 2007
 
 
 
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Six Month Hypothetical Expense Example
September 30, 2007 (unaudited)
 
Example
 
As a shareholder of a Fund you may pay two types of fees: transaction fees and fund-related fees. Certain funds charge transactions fees, including sales charges (loads) on purchase payments, reinvested dividends, or other distributions; redemption fees; and exchange fees. Funds also incur various ongoing expenses, including management fees, distribution and/or service fees, and other fund expenses, which are indirectly paid by shareholders.
 
This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the various ICON Funds and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds. This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the six-month period (4/1/07 - 9/30/07).
 
Actual Expenses
 
The first set of lines in the table for each Fund provide information about actual account values and actual expenses. The Example includes, but is not limited to, management fees, 12b-1 fees, fund accounting, custody and transfer agent fees. However, the Example does not include client specific fees, such as the $10 fee charged to IRA accounts, or the $15 fee charged for wire redemptions. You may use this information, 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 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for each Fund under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
 
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
 
The second set of lines in the table for each Fund provide information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return. 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 the Fund and 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. Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only
 
 
 
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and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads), redemption fees, or exchange fees that may be charged by other funds. Therefore, this information is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.
 
                                 
    Beginning
    Ending
    Expenses Paid
    Annualized
 
    Account Value
    Account Value
    During Period
    Expense Ratio
 
    4/1/07     9/30/07     4/1/07 - 9/30/07*     4/1/07-9/30/07  
 
ICON Bond Fund
                               
Class I
                               
Actual Expenses
  $ 1,000.00     $ 1,021.40     $ 5.12       1.01%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,019.94       5.11          
Class C
                               
Actual period return
    1,000.00       1,019.30       8.10       1.60%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,016.98       8.09          
Class Z
                               
Actual period return
    1,000.00       1,023.40       3.85       0.76%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,021.19       3.85          
ICON Core Equity Fund
                               
Class I
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,102.30       6.48       1.23%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.83       6.22          
Class C
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,098.90       10.47       1.99%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,015.02       10.05          
Class Z
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,102.10       7.17       1.36%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.18       6.88          
Class A
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,100.50       8.74       1.66%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,016.68       8.39          
ICON Equity Income Fund
                               
Class I
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,101.00       6.48       1.23%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.83       6.22          
Class C
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,095.20       11.56       2.20%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,013.97       11.11          
Class Z
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,101.10       6.37       1.21%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.93       6.12          
 
 
 
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    Beginning
    Ending
    Expenses Paid
    Annualized
 
    Account Value
    Account Value
    During Period
    Expense Ratio
 
    4/1/07     9/30/07     4/1/07 - 9/30/07*     4/1/07-9/30/07  
 
Class A
                               
Actual Expenses
  $ 1,000.00     $ 1,099.60     $ 7.63       1.45%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,017.73       7.33          
ICON Income Opportunity Fund
                               
Class I
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,068.90       7.57       1.46%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,017.68       7.38          
Class C
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,064.20       11.44       2.21%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,013.92       11.16          
Class Z
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,070.30       6.28       1.21%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.93       6.12          
Class A
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,069.10       7.47       1.44%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,017.78       7.28          
ICON Long/Short Fund
                               
Class I
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,070.00       8.30       1.60%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,016.98       8.09          
Class C
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,065.50       12.48       2.41%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,012.92       12.16          
Class Z
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,066.30       7.82       1.51%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,017.43       7.64          
Class A
                               
Actual period return
    1,000.00       1,069.60       9.13       1.76%  
Hypothetical Example (5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,016.18       8.90          
 
 
* Expenses are equal to the Fund’s six month expense ratio annualized, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/365 to reflect the one-half year period.
 
Total returns exclude applicable sales charges. If sales charges were included (maximum 5.75%), returns would be lower.
 
 
 
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Board of Trustees and Fund Officers (unaudited)
 
The ICON Funds Board of Trustees (“Board”) consists of five Trustees who oversee the 17 ICON Funds (the “Funds”). The Board is responsible for general oversight of the Funds’ business and for assuring that the Funds are managed in the best interest of the Funds’ shareholders. The Trustees, and their ages, and principal occupations are set forth below. The address of the Trustees is 5299 DTC Blvd., Suite 1200, Greenwood Village, CO 80111. Trustees have no official term of office and generally serve until they resign or are not re-elected.
 
Interested Trustee
 
Craig T. Callahan, 56, Chairman of the Board. Dr. Callahan has been a Trustee of the Funds since their inception. Dr. Callahan also serves as President (1998 to present) and served as the Chief Investment Officer (1991 to 2004) of ICON Advisers, Inc. (“ICON Advisers”), the Funds’ Investment Adviser. Dr. Callahan is also President (1998 to present); Director (1991 to present); and was previously Vice President (1991 to 1998) of ICON Distributors, Inc. (“IDI”), the Funds’ Distributor, and is President of ICON Insurance Agency, Inc. (2004 to present). Dr. Callahan also serves as the Director (1994 to present), and was previously Secretary/Treasurer (1994 to 1998) of ICON Management & Research Corporation (“IM&R”), the parent company of ICON Advisers and IDI.
 
Independent Trustees
 
Glen F. Bergert, 57. Mr. Bergert has been a Trustee of the Funds since 1999. Mr. Bergert is President of Venture Capital Management LLC (1997 to present); General Partner of SOGNO Partners LP, a venture capital company (2001 to present); General Partner of Bergert Properties, a real estate holding company (1997 to present); and General Partner of Pyramid Real Estate Partnership, a real estate development company (1998 to present); General Partner of Chamois Partners, a venture capital company (2004 to present); and was previously a General Partner with KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP (1979 to 1997). Mr. Bergert is also a Director of Herre Bros, Inc., a contracting company (1998 to present); Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, an insurance company (1998 to present); Delta Dental of California, an insurance company (2006 to present); and Delta Reinsurance Corporation (2000 to present).
 
John C. Pomeroy, Jr., 60. Mr. Pomeroy has been a Trustee of the Funds since November 2002. Mr. Pomeroy is Chief Investment Officer and Director of Investments, Pennsylvania State University (2001 to present) and was
 
 
 
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Portfolio Manager and Product Manager, Trinity Investment Management Corporation (1989 to 2001).
 
Gregory Kellam Scott, 59.  Mr. Scott has been a Trustee of the Funds since November 2002. Mr. Scott currently serves as Executive Director of the Indiana Civil Rights Commission (2005 to present) and has been appointed to the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on the African Judiciary (2006 to present). Mr. Scott was Senior Vice President — Law, General Counsel and Secretary of GenCorp, Inc., a multinational technology-based manufacturing company (2002 to 2004); Vice President and General Counsel of Kaiser-Hill Company, LLC, a nuclear clean-up and environmental remediation company (2000 to 2002) and a Colorado Supreme Court Justice (1993 to 2000).
 
R. Michael Sentel, 59. Mr. Sentel has been a Trustee of the Funds since their inception. Mr. Sentel is a Senior Attorney with the U.S. Department of Education (1996 to present). Mr. Sentel also provides legal representation as a sole practitioner with an emphasis on corporate and transactional law. He served as general counsel to numerous public companies and served on the board of directors of one of these clients. Mr. Sentel began his legal career with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement and served as a branch chief (1980-1981). Later he served as the section chief for the Professional Liability Section of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. with responsibility for the Rocky Mountain Region (1991 to 1994).
 
The Officers of the Funds are:
 
Craig T. Callahan, 56. Dr. Callahan has been President of the Funds since their inception in 1996. Dr. Callahan also serves as ICON Advisers’ President (1998 to present) and served as the Chief Investment Officer (1991 to 2004). Dr. Callahan is also President (1998 to present), Director (1991 to present) and was previously Vice President (1991 to 1998) of IDI, and is President of ICON Insurance Agency, Inc. (2004 to present). Dr. Callahan is also the Director (1994 to present), and was previously Secretary/Treasurer (1994 to 1998) of IM&R.
 
Erik L. Jonson, 58. Mr. Jonson has been a Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Funds since their inception in 1996. Mr. Jonson is also Chief Financial Officer (1996 to present) and Executive Vice President (2004 to present) and was previously Vice President (1998 to 2004) of ICON Advisers; Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Director (1996 to present) of IM&R; and Executive Vice President (2004 to present) and Treasurer (2002 to present) and was previously Secretary/Treasurer, (1998 to 2002) and Vice President, (2002 to 2004) of IDI; and Executive Vice President and Treasurer of ICON Insurance Agency, Inc. (2004 to present).
 
 
 
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Donald Salcito, 54. Mr. Salcito serves as Vice President and Secretary of the Funds since November 15, 2006. Mr. Salcito is also Executive Vice President and General Counsel (September 2005 to present) of ICON Advisers, Inc.; Director of ICON Management & Research (2005 to present); Executive Vice President, Secretary, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, for ICON Distributors, Inc. (2005 to present); Executive Vice President and Secretary of ICON Insurance Agency, Inc. (2005 to present). Previously he was a Partner in the law firm of Perkins Coie, LLP. (2000-2005).
 
Carrie M. Schoffman, 34. Ms. Schoffman serves as Assistant Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of the Funds (May 2004 to present). She also serves as Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of ICON Advisers, Inc. (May 2004 to present). Previously she was a staff accountant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2003 to 2004). She also was a Manager (2001 to 2003) and Senior Associate/Associate (1996 to 2001) at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
 
Stephen Abrams, 44. Mr. Abrams serves as Anti-Money Laundering Officer of the Funds (2005 to present). Mr. Abrams is also Vice President and Associate General Counsel of ICON Advisers, Inc. (2005 to present). Previously he was a Partner at Perkins Coie, LLP (2004-2005) and Associate (2000 to 2004).
 
 
 
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Other Information (unaudited)
 
Renewal of Investment Advisory Agreement
 
In determining to renew the investment advisory agreements between ICON Funds (the “Trust”) and ICON Advisers, Inc. (“ICON” or the “Adviser”) the Board requested, was provided with and reviewed data with respect to ICON, its personnel, and the services to be provided to each Fund by ICON under the Trust’s Investment Advisory Agreement dated October 9, 1996, as amended (related to the Sector, International and Core Equity Funds) and under the Trust’s Investment Advisory Agreement dated July 9, 2002 and effective October 1, 2002, as amended (related to the U.S. Diversified Funds — Bond, Income Opportunity, Equity Income and Long/Short Funds) (collectively, the “Advisory Agreements”). The data included information concerning advisory, distribution and administrative services provided to the Funds by ICON and its related companies; information concerning other businesses of those companies; comparative data related to exchange traded funds versus the Sector Funds; and comparative data obtained from Lipper Analytical Services related to Fund performance and Fund expenses.
 
On August 14, 2007, the Board of Trustees, including all of the Trustees that are not “interested persons” of the Trust (the “Independent Trustees”), approved continuation of the Advisory Agreements with the Adviser for each Fund for an additional one-year term commencing October 1, 2007.
 
The Independent Trustees were represented by independent legal counsel throughout the process. Prior to acting on the matter, the Independent Trustees met separately as a group in private sessions with their independent legal counsel to review and discuss the foregoing information and also met with management to discuss responses to questions raised during the process. In addition, the Independent Trustees received materials from their independent legal counsel discussing the legal standards applicable to their consideration of the agreement.
 
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services provided by the Adviser, the Board reviewed information relating to the Adviser’s operations and personnel. Among other things, the Adviser provided biographical information on its professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. In the course of their deliberations the Board evaluated, among other things, information relating to the investment philosophy, strategies and techniques used in managing each Fund, the qualifications and experience of the Adviser’s investment personnel, the Adviser’s compliance programs, the Adviser’s brokerage practices, including the extent to which the Adviser obtains research through “soft dollar” arrangements with the Funds’ brokerage, and the financial and non-financial resources available to provide services required under the Advisory Agreement.
 
 
 
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In considering the reasonableness of the fee payable to the Adviser for managing each Fund, the Board reviewed, among other things, financial statements of the Adviser and an analysis of the profitability to the Adviser and its affiliates of their relationship with each Fund over various time periods, which analysis identified all revenues and other benefits received by the Adviser and its affiliates from managing each Fund, the costs associated with providing such services and the resulting profitability to the Adviser and its affiliates. The Board considered the current and anticipated asset levels of each Fund and the willingness of the Adviser to waive fees and pay expenses of the Funds from time to time to limit the total expenses of the Funds. The Board concluded that the profitability to the Adviser and its affiliates from their relationship with the Funds is not excessive and that the Adviser is not realizing material benefits from economies of scale that would warrant adjustments to the fees for any Fund at this time. The Board of Trustees concluded that, in light of the nature, extent and quality of the services provided by the Adviser and the levels of profitability associated with providing these services, the fees charged by the Adviser under the Advisory Agreements to each Fund are reasonable.
 
In connection with reviewing data bearing upon the nature, quality, and extent of services furnished by ICON to each Fund, the Board assessed data concerning ICON’s staffing, systems and facilities. The Board also assessed ICON’s non-Trust business to see if there are any initiatives that would dilute service to the Trust. It was noted:
 
A. That the breadth and the quality of investment advisory and other services being provided to each Fund is satisfactory, as evidenced in part by the performance record of each Fund compared with the performance records of a peer group of comparable funds;
 
B. That ICON has made significant expenditures in the past year and in prior years to ensure that it has the sophisticated systems and the highly trained personnel necessary for it to be able to continue to provide quality service to the Funds’ shareholders, including the dedication of substantial resources to ICON’s investment and trading departments;
 
C. That the Board is satisfied with the research, portfolio management, and trading services, among others, being provided by ICON to the Funds, and is charging fair, reasonable, and competitive fees; and
 
D. The risks assumed by ICON in providing investment advisory services to each Fund including the capital commitments which have been made in the past and which continue to be made by ICON to ensure the continuation of the highest quality of service to the Trust is made with the recognition that the Trust’s advisory relationship with ICON be terminated at any time and must be renewed on an annual basis.
 
 
 
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In connection with assessing data bearing the fairness of fee arrangements, the Board used data from Lipper, Inc. concerning funds of similar size and funds of larger size, as well as data concerning ICON’s other clients and noted:
 
A. the advisory fee structures of the Funds were considered in comparison with advisory fees and expense ratios of other similarly managed funds as set forth in the comparative data;
 
B. that contractual advisory fees of the Sector Funds were higher than fees for similar funds; but that the Sector Funds’ expense ratios were competitive and in most instances lower than those of similarly managed Funds;
 
C. that ICON has contractually agreed to impose expense limitations on certain Funds at a cost to ICON;
 
D. that the advisory and other fees payable by the Funds to ICON are essentially fees which would be similar to those which would have resulted solely from “arm’s-length” bargaining, and may well be lower than fees arrived at solely from such arm’s-length negotiation;
 
E. that, the fees paid to ICON for managing other institutional accounts (such as pension plans) are not lower than the fees paid by similarly-managed funds; and to the extent such fees of those accounts are lower, the reasons why such accounts are less costly for ICON to manage.
 
F. the extent to which economies of scale could be realized as a Fund grows in assets and whether the Fund’s fees reflect these economies of scale for the benefit of Fund shareholders.
 
In connection with profitability, the Board reviewed the costs borne by ICON in providing advisory services to each Fund and the profitability of ICON in light of the estimated profitability analysis.
 
In connection with the direct and indirect benefits to ICON from serving as the Funds’ adviser, the Board discussed and noted:
 
A. that ICON benefits from serving directly or through affiliates as the principal underwriter and administrative agent for the Funds; the services provided by ICON and its affiliates to the Funds are satisfactory, and whether the profits derived from providing the services are competitive and reasonable; and
 
B. that ICON receives research assistance from the use of soft dollars generated from Fund portfolio transactions; the Trustees noted that such research assists ICON in providing quality to which it provides advisory services.
 
 
 
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Based on these considerations, among others, the Board, including all of the Independent Trustees, concluded that the continuation of the Advisory Agreement was in the best interests of each Fund and its shareholders, the services to be performed under the agreement were services required for the operation of the Funds, ICON had provided satisfactory advisory services to the Funds in the past, and the fees for the advisory services which ICON would perform and other benefits from the relationship with the Trust and consistent with fees paid by similar funds, are reasonable in light of the comparative data, and would be within the range of what would have been negotiated at arm’s length in light of the circumstances.
 
Supplemental Tax Information
 
For corporate shareholders, the following percentage of the total ordinary income dividends paid during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007 qualifies for the corporate dividends received deduction for the following Funds:
 
         
    Dividends Received
 
Fund   Deduction  
   
ICON Core Equity Fund
    23.10 %
ICON Equity Income Fund
    53.08  
ICON Income Opportunity Fund
    4.33  
ICON Long/Short Fund
    39.88  
 
For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the following Funds paid qualified dividend income:
 
         
Fund   Amount  
   
ICON Core Equity Fund
  $ 74,860  
ICON Equity Income Fund
    1,751,682  
ICON Income Opportunity Fund
    592,693  
ICON Long/Short Fund
    350,120  
 
The Funds designate the following amounts as long-term capital gain distributions qualifying for the maximum 15% income tax rate for individuals:
 
         
Fund   Amount  
   
ICON Core Equity Fund
  $ 16,421,849  
ICON Equity Income Fund
    7,096,418  
ICON Long/Short Fund
    6,001,607  
 
 
 
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Portfolio Holdings
 
A list of each ICON Fund’s Top 10 holdings is available at www.iconadvisers.com on or about 15 days following each month-end. Each ICON Fund also files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings for the first and third quarters of its fiscal year with the SEC on Form N-Q. The ICON Funds’ Forms N-Q are available at www.sec.gov or may be reviewed and copied at the Commission’s Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information about the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
 
Proxy Voting
 
A summarized description of the policies and procedures the ICON Funds use to vote proxies is available free of charge at www.iconadvisers.com or by calling 1-800-764-0442.
 
Information about how the ICON Funds voted proxies related to each Fund’s portfolio securities during the 12-month period ended June 30 is available free of charge at www.iconadvisers.com or on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
 
For More Information
 
This report is for the general information of the Funds’ shareholders and is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus. You may obtain a copy of the prospectus, which contains information about the investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses, and share classes of each ICON Fund, by visiting www.iconadvisers.com or by calling 1-800-764-0442. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.
 
ICON Distributors, Inc., Distributor.
 
 
 
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For more information about the ICON Funds, contact us:
     
By Telephone
  1-800-764-0442
     
By Mail
  ICON Funds
P.O. Box 55452
Boston, MA 02205-8165
     
In Person
  ICON Funds
5299 DTC Boulevard, 12th Floor
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
     
On the Internet
  www.iconadvisers.com
     
By E-Mail
  info@iconadvisers.com
 
 
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About This Report
 
Historical Returns
 
All total returns mentioned in this Report account for the change in a Fund’s per-share price and the reinvestment of any dividends, capital gain distributions, tax return of capital, and adjustments for financial statement purposes. If your account is set up to receive Fund distributions in cash rather than to reinvest them, your actual return may differ from these figures. The Funds’ performance results do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. The Adviser may have reimbursed certain fees or expenses of some of the Funds. If not for these reimbursements, performance would have been lower. Fund results shown, unless otherwise indicated, are at net asset value. If a sales charge (maximum 5.75%) had been deducted, results would have been lower.
 
Past performance does not guarantee future results. 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. Performance results represent past performance, and current performance may be higher or lower. Please call 1-800-764-0442 or visit www.iconadvisers.com for performance results current to the most recent month-end.
 
Portfolio Data
 
This Report reflects ICON’s views, opinions and portfolio holdings as of September 30, 2007, the end of the reporting period. The information is not a complete analysis of every aspect of any sector, industry, security or the Funds.
 
Opinions and forecasts regarding industries, companies and/or themes, and portfolio composition and holdings are subject to change at any time based on market and other conditions, and should not be construed as a recommendation of any specific security, industry or sector. Each Fund’s holdings as of September 30, 2007 are included in each Fund’s Schedule of Investments.
 
While ICON’s quantitative investment methodology primarily considers company-specific factors beyond financial data, various company factors may impact a stock’s performance, and therefore, Fund performance. Investments in foreign securities may entail unique risks, including political, market, and currency risks. Financial statements of foreign companies are governed by different accounting, auditing, and financial standards than U.S. companies and tend to be less transparent and uniform than in the United States. Many corporate governance standards, which help ensure the
 
 
 
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integrity of public information in the United States, do not exist in foreign countries. In general, there is less governmental supervision of foreign stock exchanges and securities brokers and issuers. The ICON system relies on the integrity of financial statements released to the market as part of our analysis.
 
According to ICON, value investing is an analytical, quantitative approach to investing that employs various factors, including projecting earnings growth estimates, in an effort to determine whether securities are over- or underpriced relative to ICON’s estimates of their intrinsic value. Value investing involves risks and uncertainties and does not guarantee better performance or lower costs than other investment methodologies. ICON’s value-to-price ratio is a ratio of intrinsic value, as calculated using ICON’s proprietary valuation methodology, of a broad range of domestic and international securities within ICON’s system as compared to the current market price of those securities.
 
This Report contains statements regarding industry or sector themes, new market themes, investment outlook, relative strength, value-to-price ratios, and investment team expectations, beliefs, goals and the like that are based on current expectations, recent individual stock performance relative to current market prices, estimates of company values and other information supplied to the market by the companies we follow. Words such as “expects,” “suggests,” “anticipates,” “targets,” “goals,” “value,” “intrinsic value,” “indicates,” “believes,” “considers,” “estimates,” variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward looking statements, which are not statements of historical fact. Forward looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to assess. These risks and uncertainties are based on a number of important factors, including, among others: stock price fluctuations; the integrity and accuracy of historical and projected financial and other information supplied by companies to the public; interest rates; future earnings growth rates, the risks noted in this Annual Report, and other factors beyond the control of our investment team. Therefore, actual outcome may differ materially from what is expressed in such forward looking statements.
 
There are risks associated with mutual fund investing, including the loss of principal. The likelihood of loss may be greater if you invest for a shorter period of time. There is no assurance that the investment process will consistently lead to successful results.
 
An investment in a region fund may involve greater risk and volatility than a diversified fund. An investment concentrated in sectors and industries may involve greater risk and volatility than a more diversified investment.
 
 
 
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The prospectus contains this and other information about the Funds and is available by visiting www.iconadvisers.com or calling 1-800-764-0442. Please read the prospectus carefully.
 
Comparative Indexes
 
The comparative indexes discussed in this Report are meant to provide a basis for judging a Fund’s performance against specific securities indexes. Each index shown accounts for both change in the security price and reinvestment of dividends and distributions (except as noted), but does not reflect the costs of managing a mutual fund. The total return figures for the Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) indexes assume change in security prices and the deduction of local taxes. The Funds’ portfolios may significantly differ in holdings and composition from the indexes. Individuals cannot invest directly in an index.
 
•   The unmanaged MSCI Europe Index comprises approximately 600 stocks traded in developed markets from 15 European countries. The capitalization-weighted index attempts to capture at least 60% of investable capitalization in those markets subject to constraints governed by industry representation, maximum liquidity, maximum float, and minimum cross-ownership.
 
•   The unmanaged MSCI All Country Pacific Index comprises stocks traded in the developed and emerging markets of the Pacific Basin (Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand). The capitalization-weighted index attempts to capture at least 60% of investable capitalization in those markets subject to constraints governed by industry representation, maximum liquidity, maximum float, and minimum cross-ownership.
 
•   The MSCI All Country World Index ex-United States (“ACWI ex-U.S.”) is a leading unmanaged benchmark of international stock performance. The capitalization-weighted index is representative of the performance of securities of companies located in developed and emerging markets outside of the United States.
 
Index returns and statistical data included in this Report are provided by Bloomberg and FactSet Research Systems.
 
 
 
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Message From ICON Funds
 
Dear ICON Shareholder:
 
We realize you are faced with many mutual fund choices as you construct your financial plan, and we appreciate your continued commitment to diversify with one or more of the ICON International Funds. To those shareholders who are receiving their first ICON Funds Annual Report, we welcome you.
 
Investing lore is replete with sayings that communicate the wisdom that comes only from long-term experience. During the past five years, I have been reminded of the expression, “Wall Street climbs a wall of worry.” As the saying goes, market advances need to climb the proverbial “wall of worry” in order to keep going higher. We have seen this to be true in the international markets as well.
 
Many investors believe they have plenty to worry about: interest rates, oil prices, and currency, not to mention the anxieties of terrorism, the Iraq war, and environmental issues. Amid these concerns, investors are inundated with news and theories about international stock markets, leading to confusion, fear, and poor investment decisions.
 
We believe the debates regarding the global economies and stock markets are a distraction for investment purposes. At ICON, we do not waste energy trying to predict what the central banks will do. Bank economists have direct access to statistics and banking activity. They are in the best position to make decisions regarding interest rates.
 
Debate also centers on global economies as people guess whether there will be a recession. Again, this debate is irrelevant to the ICON system, as we avoid conjecture about world economies when making investment decisions.
 
 
 
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A Strong Equity Market
 
Despite worrisome headlines and gloomy expectations, it may be surprising to know how well the international equity markets have performed over the last five years relative to the U.S. market. Below are cumulative and annualized rates of returns for a few domestic and international indexes for the five-year period ended September 30, 2007.
 
Index Returns, 9/30/02 - 9/30/07
 
                 
Index
 
Cumulative Return
 
Annualized Return
 
MSCI ACWI ex-U.S.
    221.81 %     26.33 %
MSCI AC Pacific Index
    174.19 %     22.35 %
MSCI Europe Index
    217.87 %     26.02 %
Dow Jones Industrial Average
    105.02 %     15.44 %
S&P 500 Index
    105.13 %     15.45 %
 
The unmanaged Dow Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks, primarily industrials. The unmanaged Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 Index is a market value-weighted index of large-cap common stocks considered representative of the broad market. Total returns for the unmanaged indexes include the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but do not reflect the costs of managing a mutual fund.
 
The Funds’ composition may differ significantly from the indexes. Individuals cannot invest directly in an index.
 
Sources: FactSet Research Systems, Bloomberg
 
We think these are impressive rates of returns and are above-average by historic standards. A 100% cumulative return means the investment has doubled during the period. Yet analysts, observers, and investors have doubted the strength of international markets. But, as the adage says, as they worried, the markets kept climbing.
 
The ICON International Funds now boast 10-year track records, reflecting our experience in navigating international markets. The past five years are also significant to ICON because we opened four new funds in October 2002. ICON Long/Short, ICON Equity Income, ICON Income Opportunity, and ICON Bond Funds recently reached their five-year performance track records. Additionally, the ICON Core Equity Fund has seven years of performance as of mid-October, and most of the ICON Sector Funds have 10-years of performance.
 
Guided by Valuation
 
As always, our valuation readings have been our guide. According to our methodology, international stocks have, on average, been priced below our
 
 
 
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estimate of intrinsic value over the course of the fiscal year. Our valuations dictate being invested.
 
While investors worry about current events, they have been giving us international stocks at bargain prices. In our view, the impressive rates of return seen in international market indexes are simply the result of prices trying to catch up with intrinsic value.
 
At ICON, we invest in industries that our methodology identifies as underpriced. Our quantitative process keeps us on track when many other investors are doubtful and worried. We continue to uncover overseas companies that we think are healthy and well-managed. These companies seem to be succeeding even amidst investor fear and worry.
 
Our discipline directed us to stay invested during the fiscal year, allowing the ICON Funds to take advantage of a rising international market. In our regular communications, we have been steady in our message that it has been best to be invested in underpriced stocks and ride through short-term setbacks. You should be commended for your resolve to stick with the ICON system, and we believe you should be proud if you have participated in the advance.
 
In closing, we are grateful for the privilege of playing a role in your investment portfolio. In addition to reading this report on your Funds and communicating with your financial adviser, we invite you to visit our website at www.iconadvisers.com for current market updates, up-to-date Fund performance and other information about your account.
 
Yours truly,
 
-s- Craig T. Callahan
Craig T. Callahan, DBA
Chairman of the Board of Trustees and President of the Adviser
 
 
 
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Class A IPCAX
Class S ICARX

 
Management Overview
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmark?
 
A.  The ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund, Class S appreciated 43.03% for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, outperforming its benchmark, the MSCI All Country Pacific Index, which returned 28.72%. Class A shares of the Fund returned 42.38% (and 34.23% with maximum sales charge) during the same period. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  In the 12 months ended September 30, 2007, the Asia-Pacific region continued to outperform the broad U.S. market. The beginning of the fiscal period started out strongly, but was interrupted by a sharp global sell-off in February 2007, which was presumably sparked by proposed government restrictions on personal securities trading in China. Most markets recovered by the spring, but volatility ensued as the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States rattled many overseas markets. The Fund was able to navigate this turbulence and outperform its benchmark.
 
Guided by ICON’s value and relative strength readings, the Fund shifted away from holdings in Japan, decreasing its position in Japan from about 48% at the beginning of the period to approximately 26% at fiscal year-end. Assets were deployed to industries in China, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan— areas which appeared more attractive to our system.
 
While we do not consider market capitalization when making investment decisions, the Fund continued to have a small- to mid-cap tilt based on its holdings. As in the previous fiscal year, the Fund’s small- and mid-cap positions were overweight relative to the predominantly large-cap benchmark. The Fund’s average weight was about 14% small-cap versus the benchmark’s 2%, and approximately 25% mid-cap versus the benchmark’s 15%. However, to take advantage of the continued strength our system detected in large-cap companies, the Fund maintained an average large-cap weighting of approximately 60% compared to the index’s large-cap weighting of about 83%.
 
 
 
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Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  An overweighting of the Industrials sector represented the most significant and most successful sector allocation within the Fund during the fiscal year. Holdings in Industrials nearly doubled during the period to represent approximately 25% of net assets by the end of the fiscal year. This sector was also the largest contributor to overall Fund performance, led by positions in the construction & farm machinery and marine industries.
 
The Fund’s position in the Materials sector was also increased during the period to about 10% of the portfolio. The diversified metals & mining industry, the Fund’s second largest holding in the Materials sector, continued to dominate due, we believe, to increasing global commodities demand.
 
Industries in the Information Technology sector added to relative performance, with the semiconductors and home entertainment software industries contributing to overall returns.
 
Conversely, Fund performance during the fiscal year was hampered by holdings in the computer hardware, photographic products, and electrical components & equipment industries.
 
As for country allocation, the Fund’s overweight positions in South Korea and Singapore and its underweight in Japan contributed positively to relative performance, but its underweight in Australia detracted from performance.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the Asia-Pacific equity market?
 
A.  The Asia-Pacific region remains attractive according to our calculations, with stocks priced at about 13% below our estimate of intrinsic value at the close of the fiscal year.
 
As for sector leadership, our analysis continues to favor the Industrials sector, while the Energy and Materials sectors have declined in value. The Information Technology and Consumer Discretionary sectors could prove to be leaders if a new theme shift takes place, but we haven’t seen the relative strength readings we need to indicate a theme change.
 
From a country perspective, although China continues to be the strongest performer in the region, our numbers indicate the country is slightly overvalued. In contrast, while Japan struggled during the past 12 months, our metrics suggest that the country may be undervalued, and we continue to watch closely for signs of a recovery. By our estimation, Taiwan and Singapore have both shown abundant value, warranting increased weightings.
 
 
 
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Country Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Japan
    25.9%
Taiwan
    15.5%
Singapore
    14.0%
China
    10.2%
South Korea
    10.2%
Malaysia
    8.1%
Hong Kong
    7.6%
Thailand
    3.0%
Australia
    2.3%
Cayman Islands
    0.7%
Indonesia
    0.3%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Sector Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
         
Industrials
    24.9%  
Information Technology
    17.1%  
Financial
    14.8%  
Consumer Discretionary
    13.1%  
Materials
    10.3%  
Energy
    7.2%  
Healthcare
    4.4%  
Telecommunication and Utilities
    3.4%  
Leisure and Consumer Staples
    2.6%  
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Industry Composition
As of September 30, 2007
 
       
Marine
    7.1%
Diversified Banks
    6.7%
Real Estate Management & Development
    5.9%
Construction & Farm Machinery & Heavy Trucks
    5.7%
Steel
    4.0%
Automobile Manufacturers
    4.0%
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
    3.6%
Trading Companies & Distributors
    3.3%
Electronic Equipment Manufacturers
    3.2%
Industrial Conglomerates
    2.6%
Computer Hardware
    2.4%
Semiconductors
    2.4%
Diversified Metals & Mining
    2.3%
Health Care Equipment
    2.3%
Commodity Chemicals
    2.2%
Construction & Engineering
    2.1%
Electronic Manufacturing Services
    2.1%
Office Electronics
    2.1%
Pharmaceuticals
    2.1%
Textiles
    2.0%
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing
    1.9%
Personal Products
    1.9%
Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders
    1.8%
Coal & Consumable Fuels
    1.7%
Tire & Rubber
    1.6%
Consumer Electronics
    1.5%
Property & Casualty Insurance
    1.4%
Computer Storage & Peripherals
    1.4%
Education Services
    1.4%
Home Entertainment Software
    1.3%
Electrical Components & Equipment
    1.3%
Internet Software Services
    1.2%
Integrated Telecommunication Services
    1.0%
Apparel Retail
    0.9%
Auto Parts & Equipment
    0.9%
Footwear
    0.9%
Industrial Gases
    0.8%
Aerospace & Defense
    0.7%
Communications Equipment
    0.7%
Construction Materials
    0.7%
Other Diversified Financial Services
    0.7%
Electric Utilities
    0.6%
Industrial Machinery
    0.6%
Airport Services
    0.5%
Railroads
    0.5%
Airlines
    0.4%
Food Distributors
    0.4%
Technology Distributors
    0.4%
Agriculture Products
    0.3%
Diversified Chemicals
    0.3%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
 
 
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Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                                       
                                              Gross
      Net
 
      Inception
                              Since
      Expense
      Expense
 
      Date       1 Year       5 Years       10 Years       Inception       Ratio*       Ratio*  
 
 
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund - Class S
      2/25/97         43.03%         27.31%         6.73%         6.28%         1.44%         1.44%  
 
 
MSCI All Country Pacific Index
                28.72%         22.35%         6.32%         5.60%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund - Class A
      5/31/06         42.38%         N/A         N/A         27.71%         25.78%         1.81%  
 
 
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund - Class A (including maximum sales charge of 5.75%)
      5/31/06         34.23%         N/A         N/A         22.14%         25.78%         1.81%  
 
 
MSCI All Country Pacific Index
                28.72%         N/A         N/A         21.61%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section. The Adviser has agreed to limit certain expenses on Class A shares; without these limitations, returns would have been lower. The limitation provisions may be terminated in the future.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Funds’ Class S shares on the Class’ inception date of 2/25/97 to a $10,000 investment made in an unmanaged securities index on that date. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends, capital gain distributions and tax return of capital but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Asia - Pacific Region Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (97.8%)
  43,600     Aeon Mall Co., Ltd.    $ 1,325,240  
  434,000     Agile Property Holdings, Ltd.      909,996  
  1,666,000     Allgreen Properties, Ltd.      2,145,818  
  1,124,600     AMMB Holdings Bhd.(a)     1,430,785  
  103,000     ASICS Corp.      1,585,247  
  15,000     Astellas Pharma, Inc.      716,933  
  246,000     Asustek Computer, Inc.      747,340  
  240,000     Bangkok Bank Public Co., Ltd.      811,565  
  230,000     Banpu Public Co., Ltd.      2,332,110  
  1,810,000     Beauty China Holdings, Ltd.      1,494,232  
  120,100     BHP Billiton, Ltd.      4,688,359  
  62,950     Canon, Inc.      3,416,453  
  2,344,000     China Construction Bank Corp.      2,131,712  
  1,566,000     China Energy, Ltd.(a)     1,597,687  
  267,000     China Hongxing Sports, Ltd.      184,688  
  6,739,000     China Oriental Group Co., Ltd.      3,847,075  
  1,940,000     China Power International Development, Ltd.      1,011,123  
  986,000     China Sky Chemical Fibre Co., Ltd.      1,430,752  
  2,600,450     China Steel Corp.      3,801,305  
  465,000     China Vanke Co., Ltd.      1,311,131  
  1,664,385     Compal Electronics, Inc.      1,885,666  
  548,760     D-Link Corp.      1,364,155  
  57,400     DAH Sing Financial Group     441,742  
  53,000     Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.      1,589,125  
  11,200     Daum Communications Corp.(a)     841,108  
  41,000     DBS Group Holdings, Ltd.      594,246  
  503,500     Delta Electronics, Inc.      1,942,916  
  50,600     Denso Corp.      1,898,129  
  1,390,000     Digital China Holdings, Ltd.      805,225  
  34,100     Dongbu Insurance Co., Ltd.      1,424,212  
  75     East Japan Railway Co.      591,356  
  209,900     Electricity Generating Public Co., Ltd.      710,964  
  120,000     Esprit Holdings, Ltd.      1,901,599  
  649,000     Ezra Holdings Pte., Ltd.      2,791,711  
  742,000     Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corp.      1,899,123  
  3,792,000     Fountain Set Holdings, Ltd.      1,379,878  
  46,900     FUJIFILM Holdings Corp.      2,155,061  
  878,000     Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd.      1,292,060  
  694,000     Guangzhou R&F Properties Co., Ltd.      3,271,339  
  38,100     Hankook Tire Co., Ltd.      778,631  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  640,000     Hengan International Group Co., Ltd.    $ 2,400,744  
  576,618     Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.     4,343,977  
  49,000     Honda Motor Co., Ltd.      1,631,967  
  712,400     Hong Leong Financial Group Bhd.     1,211,932  
  334,000     Hopson Development Holdings, Ltd.      1,107,034  
  3,114,000     Huadian Power International Corp., Ltd.      1,988,508  
  9,700     Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.      4,463,245  
  15,500     Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co., Ltd.      5,311,495  
  35,880     Industrial Bank of Korea     772,301  
  290,115     Innolux Display Corp.      1,239,590  
  91,557     Itochu Enex Co., Ltd.      618,566  
  22,500     JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. - ADR(a)*     1,011,375  
  406,000     Keppel Corp., Ltd.      3,929,965  
  2,530,000     KNM Group Bhd.     3,426,350  
  9,600     Kookmin Bank     792,066  
  26,400     Korea Electric Power Corp.      1,229,839  
  1,496,600     KS Energy Services, Ltd.      4,007,667  
  176,000     Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd.     681,614  
  12,900     Kyocera Corp.      1,203,032  
  1,338,000     Mah Sing Group Bhd.     741,376  
  130,300     MediaTek, Inc.      2,342,673  
  2,000     Megastudy Co., Ltd.      608,067  
  143,600     Meritz Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd.      1,559,200  
  62,000     Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp.      538,494  
  81,400     Mitsubishi Corp.      2,564,029  
  190,000     Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.      1,235,416  
  174,450     Mitsui & Co., Ltd.      4,219,430  
  823,000     Nan Ya Plastics Corp.      2,141,457  
  7,100     NHN Corp.(a)     1,635,400  
  3,500     Nintendo Co., Ltd.      1,807,301  
  90,000     Nippon Mining Holdings, Inc.      897,468  
  85,000     Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha     825,561  
  376,000     Olam International, Ltd.      794,385  
  44,000     Olympus Corp.      1,800,819  
  2,812,000     Pacific Basin Shipping, Ltd.      5,876,302  
  952,000     Petronas Dagangan Bhd.     2,457,485  
  990,000     PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia     713,782  
  282,000     Public Bank Bhd.     822,911  
  1,512,000     Raffles Education Corp., Ltd.      2,333,596  
  13,625     Realtek Semiconductor Corp.     61,664  
  40,000     Ricoh Co., Ltd.      841,949  
  672,800     Sembcorp Marine, Ltd.      2,082,134  
  25,400     Shinhan Financial Group, Ltd.      1,645,520  
  296,000     SIA Engineering Co., Ltd.      976,345  
  993,000     Siam Commercial Bank Public Co., Ltd.      2,285,146  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  1,114,542     Siliconware Precision Industries Co.    $ 2,520,461  
  59,740     Singapore Airlines, Ltd.     746,709  
  530,000     Singapore Technologies Engineering, Ltd.      1,388,674  
  744,000     Singapore Telecommunications, Ltd.      2,010,519  
  65,400     Sony Corp.      3,144,222  
  29,000     Square Enix Co., Ltd.      957,086  
  112,000     Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.      649,364  
  105,000     Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.      1,316,557  
  376,000     Taiheiyo Cement Corp.      1,424,523  
  28,700     Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.      2,013,021  
  58,200     Terumo Corp.      2,929,880  
  174,000     The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.      1,298,737  
  208,000     Toshiba Corp.(b)     1,933,087  
  84,000     Tosoh Corp.      542,368  
  89,500     Toyota Motor Corp.      5,236,644  
  1,150,000     TPV Technology, Ltd.      825,027  
  324,060     Tripod Technology Corp.      1,325,101  
  1,546,000     U-Ming Marine Transport Corp.      5,069,629  
  105,000     United Overseas Bank, Ltd.      1,559,519  
  2,598,000     Wasion Meters Group, Ltd.      1,599,953  
  1,931,943     WCT Engineering Bhd.     4,358,362  
  650,000     Weiqiao Textile Co., Ltd.      1,217,746  
  104     West Japan Railway Co.      495,560  
  662,000     Wing Tai Holdings, Ltd.      1,716,993  
  668,000     Wistron Corp.      1,204,292  
  566,000     Yanzhou Coal Mining Co., Ltd.      1,157,573  
  1,900,000     YNH Property Bhd.     1,488,814  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $157,243,241)
    201,787,395  
Short-Term Investments (3.5%)
$ 2,730,056     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%, 10/01/07#*     2,730,056  
  4,987     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Australian Dollar, 5.50%, 10/01/07#*     4,987  
  6,537     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Hong Kong Dollar, 4.55%, 10/01/07#*     6,537  
  44     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Japanese Yen, 0.01%, 10/01/07#*     44  
  524,904     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Malaysian Ringgit, 0%, 10/01/07#*     524,904  
  383     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - New Zealand Dollar, 6.30%, 10/01/07#*     383  
  763     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Singapore Dollar, 1.25%, 10/01/07#*     763  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
$ 3,855,985     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Taiwan Dollar, 0%, 10/01/07#*   $ 3,855,985  
                 
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $7,123,659)
    7,123,659  
Other Securities (0.9%)
  1,910,700     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment Fund*, 5.24%     1,910,700  
                 
Total Other Securities
(Cost $1,910,700)
    1,910,700  
Total Investments
(Cost $166,277,600) 102.2%
    210,821,754  
Liabilities Less Other Assets (2.2)%     (4,516,786 )
         
Net Assets 100.0%   $ 206,304,968  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
* All securities were fair valued (Note 2) as of September 30, 2007 unless noted with a *. Total value of securities fair valued was $200,776,020.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
 
 
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Class A IERAX
Class S ICSEX

 
Management Overview
ICON Europe Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmark?
 
A.  The ICON Europe Fund, Class S appreciated 29.69% for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, outperforming the 28.11% return for the MSCI Europe Index. Class A shares of the Fund returned 29.14% (and 21.69% with maximum sales charge) over the same period. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  Europe’s economic situation strengthened relative to other major global regions during the fiscal year. Economic growth picked up, employment improved, and inflationary pressures remained at bay.
 
Throughout the period, the Fund participated in a cyclical theme, which has been in place for more than four years, with the Materials, Industrials, and Telecommunications & Utilities sectors leading. Weakness was seen in the Financials and Health Care sectors.
 
The period opened with the European region priced at 25% below our calculation of intrinsic value. Investors took advantage of bargain stocks that followed a sell-off in May 2006, and strong performance continued until February 2007, when worldwide equities sold off in apparent response to proposed government regulation of Chinese loans and stock purchases.
 
Investors who were evidently fearful about the global contagion of the U.S. sub-prime loan crisis brought declines to European stocks. We measured the region at near fair value in July 2007 as interest rates in the region climbed, with the Materials, Industrials, and Energy sectors suffering heavier losses during the summer correction. Nevertheless, the fiscal year ended on an upswing with the Materials, Industrials, Energy, and Information Technology sectors leading the way.
 
Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  Globally, the Industrials sector continued to outperform, and the Fund’s overweight position in the sector aided performance, led by the heavy electrical equipment industry.
 
Fund returns also benefited from global strength in the Energy sector, with its overweight holding in the oil & gas equipment & services industry
 
 
 
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contributing significantly. In the Consumer Discretionary sector, the tires & rubber industry aided performance.
 
Conversely, the Fund’s underweight in the strong-performing Telecommunication & Utilities sector detracted from 12-month returns, especially during sell-offs over the course of the year. An overweighting of the weak human resources & employment services industry from the Industrials sector also hindered returns. Performance was also hampered by an underweight position in the automobile manufacturers industry.
 
Regarding country composition, an overweight in the Netherlands and an underweight in the United Kingdom helped performance, but the Fund’s overweight holdings in Switzerland detracted from relative performance.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the European equity market?
 
A.  Our analysis indicates that the European region remains undervalued by about 16%, thus demonstrating greater value than the U.S. equity market, which we estimate to be undervalued by 12%. We believe the defensive market theme that emerged in 2006 has dissipated and returned to the sector leadership of the past three or more years: Energy, Materials, and Telecommunications & Utilities.
 
We believe volatility and fallout from the U.S. sub-prime mortgage and credit problems have spread to European Financials stocks, creating value. Although Financials has yet to show strength, our system indicates that this sector, as well as Consumer Discretionary, may be future leaders.
 
 
 
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Country Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Switzerland
    23.3%
Germany
    18.8%
Netherlands
    10.3%
United Kingdom
    9.1%
France
    7.4%
Greece
    6.5%
Finland
    4.9%
Belgium
    4.7%
Spain
    3.7%
Austria
    2.6%
Russia
    1.6%
Denmark
    1.3%
Italy
    1.1%
Portugal
    1.1%
Ireland
    1.0%
Chech Republic
    0.9%
Luxembourg
    0.8%
Sweden
    0.8%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Sector Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Financial
    26.9%
Leisure and Consumer Staples
    16.9%
Industrials
    12.2%
Healthcare
    10.9%
Consumer Discretionary
    9.4%
Telecommunication and Utilities
    8.5%
Materials
    6.3%
Information Technology
    5.4%
Energy
    3.4%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Diversified Banks
    18.9%
Pharmaceuticals
    7.2%
Packaged Foods & Meats
    5.4%
Brewers
    4.1%
Electric Utilities
    3.7%
Electrical Components & Equipment
    3.6%
Automobile Manufacturers
    3.4%
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
    3.4%
Apparel Accessories & Luxury Goods
    3.0%
Heavy Electrical Equipment
    3.0%
Tire & Rubber
    2.9%
Health Care Distributors
    2.7%
Multi-Line Insurance
    2.7%
Food Retail
    2.6%
Systems Software
    2.6%
Industrial Conglomerates
    2.5%
Multi-Utilities
    2.2%
Communications Equipment
    2.0%
Construction Materials
    2.0%
Wireless Telecommunication Services
    2.0%
Diversified Capital Markets
    1.9%
Diversified Metals & Mining
    1.9%
Food Distributors
    1.8%
Reinsurance
    1.5%
Steel
    1.5%
Other Diversified Financial Services
    1.4%
Leisure Products
    1.3%
Health Care Equipment
    1.0%
Marine
    1.0%
Specialty Chemicals
    0.9%
Computer Storage & Peripherals
    0.8%
Construction & Farm Machinery & Heavy Trucks
    0.8%
Agriculture Products
    0.7%
Industrial Machinery
    0.7%
Alternative Carriers
    0.6%
Movies & Entertainment
    0.6%
Soft Drinks
    0.6%
Asset Management & Custody Banks
    0.5%
Building Products
    0.5%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
 
 
 
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Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                                       
                                              Gross
      Net
 
      Inception
                              Since
      Expense
      Expense
 
      Date       1 Year       5 Years       10 Years       Inception       Ratio*       Ratio*  
 
 
ICON Europe Fund - Class S
      2/20/97         29.69%         28.42%         11.20%         12.35%         1.51%         1.51%  
 
 
MSCI Europe Index
                28.11%         26.02%         10.03%         11.48%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON Europe Fund - Class A
      5/31/06         29.14%         N/A         N/A         23.05%         33.40%         1.84%  
 
 
ICON Europe Fund - Class A (including maximum sales charge of 5.75%)
      5/31/06         21.69%         N/A         N/A         17.72%         33.40%         1.84%  
 
 
MSCI Europe Index
                28.11%         N/A         N/A         25.83%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section. The Fund’s name and investment strategy changed effective January 29, 2004. The Fund’s past performance would have been different if the current strategy had been in effect. The Adviser has agreed to limit certain expenses on Class A shares; without these limitations, returns would have been lower. The limitation provisions may be terminated in the future.
 
* Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Funds’ Class S shares on the Class’ inception date of 2/20/97 to a $10,000 investment made in unmanaged securities indexes on that date. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Europe Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (99.9%)
  136,900     Abb, Ltd.    $ 3,592,015  
  14,400     ABN ARMO Holding N.V.      756,682  
  40,600     Adidas AG     2,661,448  
  43,000     Aleo Solar AG(a)(b)     957,891  
  17,200     Allied Irish Banks PLC     416,507  
  31,423     Anglo Irish Bank Corp. PLC     582,438  
  13,500     ArcelorMittal     1,061,087  
  49,300     Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A.      1,156,221  
  68,400     Banco Espirito Santo S.A.      1,557,151  
  54,935     Banco Popular Espanol S.A.      947,127  
  106,600     Banco Santander Central Hispano, S.A.      2,075,905  
  23,400     Bank of Ireland     436,134  
  109,800     Barclays PLC     1,334,628  
  36,400     BHP Billiton PLC     1,302,048  
  26,700     BNP Paribas     2,921,633  
  12,300     Bouygues S.A.      1,061,233  
  208,000     Cable & Wireless PLC     780,848  
  40,500     Celesio AG     2,570,597  
  20,200     CEZ A.S.     1,238,820  
  14,600     Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Co. S.A.      844,532  
  6,400     Compagnie de Saint-Gobain     668,212  
  16,700     Credit Suisse Group     1,110,187  
  21,100     DaimlerChrysler AG     2,115,873  
  5,700     Delhaize Group     547,090  
  7,040     Dem Allianz AG     1,639,672  
  33,000     Dexia S.A.      999,033  
  16,300     E.ON AG     3,003,671  
  10,200     Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG     777,370  
  17,900     Fortis     527,712  
  39,200     Fugro N.V.      3,179,264  
  3,000     Galenica AG     1,283,936  
  49,100     Gerry Weber International AG     1,580,923  
  29,700     HBOS PLC     555,734  
  42,800     Heineken N.V.      2,807,324  
  12,900     Holcim, Ltd.      1,423,177  
  112,000     HSBC Holdings PLC     2,068,147  
  17,000     Iberdrola S.A.      996,683  
  31,400     InBev N.V.      2,843,131  
  31,800     ING Groep N.V.      1,413,030  
  54,900     Jumbo S.A.      1,878,744  
  12,300     KBC Groep N.V.      1,689,892  
  79,840     Koninklijke Ahold N.V.(a)     1,204,752  
  14,400     Kuehne & Nagel International AG     1,418,303  
  9,100     Lafarge S.A.      1,410,203  
  36,900     Logitech International S.A.(a)     1,095,715  
  65,700     Man Group PLC     744,189  
  10,600     Michelin - Class B     1,429,150  
  59,400     National Bank of Greece S.A.      3,788,854  
  75,500     National Grid PLC     1,207,714  
  11,760     Nestle S.A.      5,273,030  
  75,500     Nokia Oyj     2,864,441  
  66,300     Nokian Renkaat Oyj     2,600,466  
  46,000     Novartis AG     2,531,156  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  15,000     Novo Nordisk A/S - Class B   $ 1,814,312  
  13,300     Nutreco Holding N.V.      938,673  
  13,700     Phonak Holding AG     1,371,862  
  44,575     Piraeus Bank S.A.      1,589,418  
  900     Porsche AG     1,919,486  
  8,800     PSA Peugeot Citroen     727,537  
  10,100     Raiffeisen International Bank Holding AG     1,477,050  
  15,500     Rio Tinto PLC     1,333,897  
  17,070     Roche Holding AG     3,091,564  
  150,100     Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC     1,619,387  
  14,200     RWE AG     1,780,714  
  37,400     Saipem S.p.A     1,594,298  
  45,200     Scania AB - B Shares     1,098,561  
  14,600     Schindler Holding AG     922,511  
  10,200     Schneider Electric S.A.      1,287,801  
  45,200     Sidenor S.A.      932,832  
  25,800     Siemens AG     3,531,981  
  615     Sika AG     1,197,351  
  55,700     Sligro Food Group N.V.      2,541,166  
  13,000     Software AG     1,218,218  
  5,685     Solon AG fuer Solartechnik(a)(b)     629,127  
  39,500     Stada Arzneimittel AG     2,576,002  
  23,900     Swiss Re     2,125,856  
  101,700     Temenos Group AG(a)     2,372,567  
  200,700     Tesco PLC     1,798,771  
  29,120     UBS AG     1,564,886  
  52,100     Unilever N.V.      1,606,729  
  28,595     Vacon Oyj     1,427,712  
  64,600     Vimpel-Communications - ADR*     1,746,784  
  18,200     Vivendi Universal     768,981  
  4,750     Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OJSC - ADR*     519,365  
  35,700     Zumtobel AG     1,358,645  
  7,000     Zurich Financial Services AG     2,098,873  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $118,700,958)
    139,514,640  
Rights (0.0%)
  10,100     Raiffeisen International Bank Holding AG Rights     0  
                 
Total Rights
(Cost $0)
    0  
Short-Term Investments (0.0%)
       
$ 7,474     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - British Pound, 4.80%, 10/01/07#*     7,474  
  641     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Danish Krone, 3.05%, 10/01/07#*     641  
  41,815     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Euro, 3.05%, 10/01/07#*     41,815  
  413     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Norwegian Kroner, 3.95%, 10/01/07#*     413  
  1,134     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Swedish Krona, 2.85%, 10/01/07#*     1,134  
                 
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $51,477)
  $ 51,477  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Other Securities (0.8%)
  1,122,560     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment Fund*, 5.24%   $ 1,122,560  
                 
Total Other Securities
(Cost $1,122,560)
    1,122,560  
Total Investments
(Cost $119,874,995) 100.7%
    140,688,677  
Liabilities Less Other Assets (0.7)%     (954,480 )
         
Net Assets 100.0%   $ 139,734,197  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
* All securities were fair valued (Note 2) as of September 30, 2007 unless noted with a *. Total value of securities fair valued was $137,248,491.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
 
 
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Class I IIQIX
Class C IIQCX
Class Z ICNEX
Class A IIQAX

 
Management Overview
ICON International Equity Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmark?
 
A.  For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the ICON International Equity Fund appreciated 40.11% for Class I shares, 38.74% for Class C shares, and 40.56% for Class Z shares, outpacing the 31.06% return of the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) ex-U.S., the Fund’s benchmark. Class A shares of the Fund returned 39.97% (and 31.91% with maximum sales charge) during the same period. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  During the period, international markets outperformed U.S. equities. The Fund benefited from broad participation among the Asia-Pacific, European, and Western Hemisphere regions, with Brazil and Canada showing particular strength.
 
The most significant reallocation in the Fund during the period was an increased weighting in Asia and a decreased position in Europe. Driven by declines in Telecommunications and Utilities stocks, increases in Industrials stocks, and falling valuations in Europe, the Fund was gradually pulled toward the Asia-Pacific region.
 
As a multi-cap manager, we do not consider investments based on market capitalization. However, our valuations resulted in a concentration in mid- to small-cap companies during the period. These allocations were overweight the predominantly large-cap benchmark, and the overweighting of mid-cap stocks in particular helped performance.
 
Currency movements worldwide throughout the fiscal year helped absolute performance, primarily due to the Fund’s European and Western Hemisphere exposure.
 
Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  The Fund’s increased allocation of assets toward Asia and a decreased weighting in Europe were positive for fiscal-year returns. Further, overweight positions in South Korea and Hong Kong and a notable underweighting in Japan helped performance. The Fund’s underweight position in the United Kingdom and its overweight holdings in Brazil also helped overall returns.
 
 
 
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In contrast, the Fund’s overweight position in Switzerland and underweight position in Australia were a drag on performance.
 
From a sector perspective, the Fund’s active overweighting in the Industrials sector proved effective as this group continued to outperform the benchmark. Within Industrials, performance standouts were primarily in Asia due to strength in the shipbuilders and marine stocks.
 
The Fund’s Materials sector allocation also contributed to 12-month returns, led by the diversified metals & mining and steel industries. Conversely, the Fund’s underweight position in the wireless telecommunication services industry detracted from relative performance.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the international equity market?
 
A.  With our analysis showing continued parity in value across the major international regions during the past fiscal year, we still see opportunity worldwide, albeit less than in years past.
 
We believe the cyclical theme that has driven returns since 2003 remains in place, with the Industrials sector standing tall globally. The Energy and Materials sectors also continue to lead despite declining value. Our calculations suggest that leadership could be imminent in the Information Technology and Consumer Discretionary sectors in Asia and in Financials in Europe, but our relative strength metrics have not yet indicated that expectation.
 
While we do not target countries as a primary investment decision, it is a secondary factor that we monitor. Taiwan and Singapore remain the most attractive countries in the Asia-Pacific region, according to our analysis. Within Europe, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands look attractive to our system, and Brazil still leads in the Western Hemisphere region.
 
 
 
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Country Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Switzerland
    11.4%
Taiwan
    9.9%
Germany
    9.2%
Japan
    8.4%
Singapore
    8.2%
Canada
    5.3%
United Kingdom
    5.1%
Hong Kong
    4.9%
Brazil
    4.6%
South Korea
    4.5%
Malaysia
    4.0%
France
    3.3%
China
    2.7%
Netherlands
    2.4%
Greece
    1.8%
Mexico
    1.8%
Finland
    1.7%
Belgium
    1.5%
Spain
    1.2%
Australia
    0.9%
Austria
    0.7%
Chech Republic
    0.7%
Thailand
    0.7%
United States of America
    0.7%
Luxembourg
    0.6%
Cayman Islands
    0.5%
Italy
    0.3%
Poland
    0.3%
Russia
    0.3%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Sector Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Industrials
    22.5%
Financial
    18.7%
Information Technology
    10.2%
Materials
    9.5%
Telecommunication and Utilities
    9.2%
Leisure and Consumer Staples
    7.9%
Consumer Discretionary
    7.8%
Energy
    6.1%
Healthcare
    5.7%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Diversified Banks
    12.3%
Marine
    5.6%
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
    3.9%
Construction & Farm Machinery & Heavy Trucks
    3.6%
Industrial Conglomerates
    3.2%
Diversified Metals & Mining
    3.1%
Packaged Foods & Meats
    3.0%
Steel
    3.0%
Pharmaceuticals
    2.7%
Automobile Manufacturers
    2.6%
Electric Utilities
    2.5%
Integrated Telecommunication Services
    2.4%
Real Estate Management & Development
    2.4%
Electrical Components & Equipment
    2.1%
Trading Companies & Distributors
    2.1%
Health Care Distributors
    2.0%
Apparel Accessories & Luxury Goods
    1.9%
Construction & Engineering
    1.9%
Electronic Manufacturing Services
    1.9%
Semiconductors
    1.9%
Multi-Utilities
    1.8%
Wireless Telecommunication Services
    1.8%
 
 
 
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Industry Composition (continued)
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Electronic Equipment Manufacturers
    1.7%
Brewers
    1.6%
Heavy Electrical Equipment
    1.6%
Personal Products
    1.5%
Computer Hardware
    1.4%
Construction Materials
    1.4%
Oil & Gas Drilling
    1.3%
Education Services
    1.2%
Communications Equipment
    1.1%
Consumer Electronics
    1.1%
Food Retail
    1.1%
Office Electronics
    1.1%
Health Care Equipment
    1.0%
Industrial Machinery
    1.0%
Diversified Capital Markets
    0.9%
Multi-Line Insurance
    0.9%
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing
    0.9%
Railroads
    0.9%
Commodity Chemicals
    0.8%
Industrial Gases
    0.8%
Life & Health Insurance
    0.8%
Reinsurance
    0.8%
Water Utilities
    0.8%
Systems Software
    0.7%
Specialty Chemicals
    0.5%
Textiles
    0.5%
Tire & Rubber
    0.5%
Agriculture Products
    0.4%
Asset Management & Custody Banks
    0.4%
Building Products
    0.4%
Computer Storage & Peripherals
    0.4%
Home Entertainment Software
    0.4%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
 
 
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Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                                       
                                              Gross
      Net
 
      Inception
                              Since
      Expense
      Expense
 
      Date       1 Year       5 Years       10 Years       Inception       Ratio*       Ratio*  
ICON International Equity Fund - Class I
      2/6/04         40.11%         N/A         N/A         23.79%         1.71%         1.71%  
 
 
MSCI ACWI ex-U.S.
                31.06%         N/A         N/A         22.05%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON International Equity Fund - Class C
      2/19/04         38.74%         N/A         N/A         21.43%         2.76%         2.54%  
 
 
MSCI ACWI ex-U.S.
                31.06%         N/A         N/A         21.29%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON International Equity Fund - Class Z
      2/18/97         40.56%         32.77%         12.28%         12.60%         1.41%         1.40%  
 
 
MSCI ACWI ex-U.S.
                31.06%         26.33%         9.17%         9.81%         N/A         N/A  
 
 
ICON International Equity Fund - Class A
      5/31/06         39.97%         N/A         N/A         27.96%         19.13%         1.79%  
 
 
ICON International Equity Fund - Class A (including maximum sales charge of 5.75%)
      5/31/06         31.91%         N/A         N/A         22.38%         19.13%         1.79%  
 
 
MSCI ACWI ex-U.S.
                31.06%         N/A         N/A         25.97%                   N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section. The Fund’s name and investment strategy changed effective January 29, 2004. The Fund’s past performance would have been different if the current strategy had been in effect. The Adviser has agreed to limit certain Fund expenses; without these limitations, returns would have been lower. The limitation provisions may be terminated in the future. Class Z shares are available only to grandfathered and institutional investors.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
Class C total returns exclude applicable sales charges. If sales charges were included, returns would be lower.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund’s Class Z shares on the Class’ inception date of 2/18/97 to a $10,000 investment made in an unmanaged securities index on that date. Performance for the Fund’s other share classes will vary due to differences in charges and expenses. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends, capital gain distributions and tax return of capital but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON International Equity Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (97.6%)
  118,300     Abb, Ltd.    $ 3,103,984  
  32,000     Adidas AG     2,097,693  
  420,000     Agile Property Holdings, Ltd.      880,642  
  46,800     Aleo Solar AG(a)(b)     1,042,542  
  1,355,500     America Movil S.A. de C.V.*     4,338,592  
  18,500     ArcelorMittal     1,454,082  
  10,900     Atwood Oceanics, Inc.(a)*     834,504  
  32,900     Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A.      771,596  
  30,000     Banco Itau Holding Financeir S.A.*     1,516,376  
  109,800     Banco Santander Central Hispano S.A.      2,138,221  
  17,600     Bank of Nova Scotia(b)*     924,779  
  7,600     Bank Zachodni WBK S.A.      725,197  
  69,021     Barclays PLC     838,956  
  1,492,000     Beauty China Holdings, Ltd.      1,231,710  
  53,900     BHP Billiton, Ltd.      2,104,101  
  27,600     BNP Paribas     3,020,115  
  288,900     Brasil Telecom Participacoes S.A.*     4,298,807  
  8,600     Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce*     859,308  
  38,300     Canadian National Railway Co.*     2,186,150  
  49,500     Canon, Inc.      2,686,488  
  55,200     Celesio AG     3,503,628  
  25,900     CEZ A.S.     1,588,389  
  2,001,000     China Energy, Ltd.(a)     2,041,489  
  5,185,000     China Oriental Group Co., Ltd.      2,959,947  
  1,880,460     China Steel Corp.      2,748,833  
  517,500     China Vanke Co., Ltd.      1,459,162  
  9,600     Compagnie de Saint-Gobain     1,002,317  
  1,684,445     Compal Electronics, Inc.      1,908,393  
  79,200     Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo - SABESP*     1,976,541  
  123,400     Companhia Vale do Rio Doce - Class A*     3,526,195  
  16,187     Credit Suisse Group     1,076,083  
  14,400     DaimlerChrysler AG     1,444,008  
  590,300     Delta Electronics, Inc.      2,277,861  
  27,300     Dexia S.A.      826,472  
  24,100     E.ON AG     4,441,011  
  75,300     Ensign Energy Services, Inc.*     1,422,098  
  654,000     Ezra Holdings Pte., Ltd.      2,813,219  
  718,000     Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corp.      1,837,696  
  3,154,501     Fountain Set Holdings, Ltd.      1,147,897  
  36,800     Fugro N.V.      2,984,615  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  19,100     FUJIFILM Holdings Corp.    $ 877,647  
  3,500     Galenica AG     1,497,926  
  62,600     Gildan Activewear, Inc.*(a)     2,479,700  
  29,000     Heineken N.V.      1,902,159  
  674,000     Hengan International Group Co., Ltd.      2,528,284  
  15,300     Holcim, Ltd.      1,687,954  
  629,400     Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.     4,741,612  
  742,200     Hong Leong Financial Group Bhd.     1,262,628  
  496,000     Hopson Development Holdings, Ltd.      1,643,979  
  159,000     HSBC Holdings PLC     2,936,029  
  7,000     Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.      3,220,899  
  16,450     Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co., Ltd.      5,637,038  
  22,100     InBev N.V.      2,001,057  
  48,246     Itochu Enex Co., Ltd.      325,954  
  6,600     KBC Groep N.V.      906,772  
  424,000     Keppel Corp., Ltd.      4,104,200  
  1,614,000     KNM Group Bhd.     2,185,821  
  1,652,000     KS Energy Services, Ltd.      4,423,805  
  10,750     Lafarge S.A.      1,665,899  
  1,335,000     Mah Sing Group Bhd.     739,714  
  75,900     Man Group PLC     859,726  
  44,900     Manulife Financial Corp.(b)*     1,851,719  
  67,300     Martinrea International, Inc.*     1,157,311  
  89,150     MediaTek, Inc.      1,602,834  
  2,300     Megastudy Co., Ltd.      699,277  
  65,000     Mitsubishi Corp.      2,047,443  
  193,000     Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.      1,254,923  
  126,300     Mitsui & Co., Ltd.      3,054,824  
  68,000     National Bank of Greece S.A.      4,337,409  
  118,900     National Grid PLC     1,901,950  
  14,310     Nestle S.A.      6,416,416  
  1,800     Nintendo Co., Ltd.      929,469  
  70,600     Nokia Oyj     2,678,537  
  25,600     Novartis AG     1,408,643  
  12,800     Nutreco Holding N.V.      903,384  
  25,000     Olympus Corp.      1,023,193  
  2,843,000     Pacific Basin Shipping, Ltd.      5,941,084  
  723,000     Petronas Dagangan Bhd.     1,866,346  
  13,000     Phonak Holding AG     1,301,767  
  880     Porsche AG     1,876,831  
  12,500     PSA Peugeot Citroen     1,033,433  
  1,465,000     Raffles Education Corp., Ltd.      2,261,057  
  11,240     Raiffeisen International Bank Holding AG     1,643,766  
  9,400     Realtek Semiconductor Corp.     42,542  
  24,100     Rio Tinto PLC     2,073,995  
  16,459     Roche Holding AG     2,980,906  
  19,300     Royal Bank of Canada*     1,068,448  
  105,800     Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC     1,141,447  
  19,000     RWE AG     2,382,646  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  11,930     Schneider Electric S.A.    $ 1,506,222  
  22,400     Shinhan Financial Group, Ltd.      1,451,167  
  744,900     Siam Commercial Bank Public Co., Ltd.      1,714,205  
  26,200     Siemens AG     3,586,741  
  600     Sika AG     1,168,148  
  1,306,837     Siliconware Precision Industries Co.      2,955,323  
  566,000     Singapore Telecommunications, Ltd.      1,529,508  
  7,660     Solon AG fuer Solartechnik(a)(b)     847,689  
  55,100     Sony Corp.      2,649,031  
  19,700     Stada Arzneimittel AG     1,284,740  
  29,900     Stantec, Inc.*     979,327  
  23,200     Swiss Re     2,063,592  
  12,600     Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.      883,765  
  76,500     Temenos Group AG(a)     1,784,674  
  295,800     Tesco PLC     2,651,104  
  174,000     The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.      1,298,737  
  160,000     Toshiba Corp.(b)     1,486,990  
  33,300     Toyota Motor Corp.      1,948,383  
  1,300,000     TPV Technology, Ltd.      932,639  
  8,000     Transocean, Inc.(a)*     904,400  
  217,260     Tripod Technology Corp.      888,389  
  1,564,000     U-Ming Marine Transport Corp.      5,128,655  
  23,074     UBS AG     1,239,978  
  99,000     Unicredito Italiano S.p.A.      847,432  
  96,000     United Overseas Bank, Ltd.      1,425,846  
  28,430     Vacon Oyj     1,419,474  
  1,794,000     Wasion Meters Group, Ltd.      1,104,817  
  1,617,866     WCT Engineering Bhd.     3,649,821  
  7,650     Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OJSC - ADR*     836,451  
  542,000     Wing Tai Holdings, Ltd.      1,405,755  
  6,930     Zurich Financial Services AG     2,077,885  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $199,311,165)
    238,200,988  
Rights (0.0%)
  11,240     Raiffeisen International Bank Holding AG Rights     0  
                 
Total Rights
(Cost $0)
    0  
Short-Term Investments (2.4%)
$ 1,799,962     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%, 10/01/07#*     1,799,962  
  1,319     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Australian Dollar, 5.50%, 10/01/07#*     1,319  
  4,434     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - British Pound, 4.80%, 10/01/07#*     4,434  
  1,213     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Canadian Dollar, 3.55%, 10/01/07#*     1,213  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
$ 289     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Danish Krone, 3.05%, 10/01/07#*   $ 289  
  685,241     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Euro, 3.05%, 10/01/07#*     685,241  
  3,337     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Hong Kong Dollar, 4.55%, 10/01/07#*     3,337  
  174     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Norwegian Kroner, 3.95%, 10/01/07#*     174  
  160     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Singapore Dollar, 1.25%, 10/01/07#*     160  
  395     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Swedish Krona, 2.85%, 10/01/07#*     395  
  57     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Swiss Frank, 1.46%, 10/01/07#*     57  
  3,358,520     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - Taiwan Dollar, 0%, 10/01/07#*     3,358,520  
                 
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $5,855,101)
  $ 5,855,101  
Other Securities (2.3%)
  5,565,319     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment Fund*, 5.24%     5,565,319  
                 
Total Other Securities
(Cost $5,565,319)
    5,565,319  
Total Investments
(Cost $210,731,585) 102.3%
    249,621,408  
Liabilities Less Other Assets (2.3)%     (5,600,892 )
         
Net Assets 100.0%   $ 244,020,516  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
* All securities were fair valued (Note 2) as of September 30, 2007 unless noted with a *. Total value of securities fair valued was $207,040,282.
 
 
 
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Statements of Assets and Liabilities
September 30, 2007
 
                         
    ICON
             
    Asia-Pacific
    ICON
    ICON
 
    Region
    Europe
    International
 
    Fund     Fund     Equity Fund  
 
Assets
                       
Investments, at cost
  $ 166,277,600     $ 119,874,995     $ 210,731,585  
                         
Investments, at value†
    210,821,754       140,688,677       249,621,408  
Foreign currency, at value (cost $101,437, $641,701 and $913,251; respectively)
    101,363       645,045       917,891  
Receivables:
                       
Fund shares sold
    1,068,933       397,625       2,118,227  
Investments sold
    3,997,193       1,129,379       5,293,004  
Interest
    1,192       4,652       9,451  
Dividends
    737,923       79,182       517,912  
Expense reimbursements by Adviser
    960       1,059       -  
Foreign tax reclaims
    -       256,730       142,186  
Other assets
    43,212       36,342       48,450  
                         
Total Assets
    216,772,530       143,238,691       258,668,529  
                         
Liabilities
                       
Payables:
                       
Due to custodian bank
    3,907,454       331,625       2,897,578  
Interest
    4,087       10,747       4,333  
Investments bought
    4,298,496       1,691,933       5,684,663  
Payable for collateral received on securities loaned
    1,910,700       1,122,560       5,565,319  
Fund shares redeemed
    125,368       176,219       178,681  
Advisory fees and fee waiver recoupment
    157,837       112,553       188,270  
Accrued distribution fees
    155       131       54,746  
Fund accounting fees
    6,600       5,215       7,091  
Transfer agent fees
    9,218       7,106       9,256  
Administration fees
    7,460       5,237       8,509  
Trustee fees
    2,638       1,900       3,046  
Accrued expenses
    37,549       39,268       46,521  
                         
Total Liabilities
    10,467,562       3,504,494       14,648,013  
                         
Net Assets — all share classes
  $ 206,304,968     $ 139,734,197     $ 244,020,516  
                         
Net Assets — Class S
  $ 205,331,915     $ 139,068,643     $ -  
                         
Net Assets — Class I
  $ -     $ -     $ 170,382,746  
                         
Net Assets — Class C
  $ -     $ -     $ 29,274,092  
                         
Net Assets — Class Z
  $ -     $ -     $ 37,619,436  
                         
Net Assets — Class A
  $ 973,053     $ 665,554     $ 6,744,242  
                         
Net Assets Consist of
                       
Paid-in capital
  $ 145,079,865     $ 101,602,036     $ 178,750,387  
Accumulated undistributed net investment income/(loss)
    1,112,505       1,213,565       1,624,228  
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain/(loss) from investments and foreign currency transactions
    15,571,624       16,095,015       24,747,484  
Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on investments and other assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currency
    44,540,974       20,823,581       38,898,417  
                         
Net Assets
  $ 206,304,968     $ 139,734,197     $ 244,020,516  
                         
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized, no par value)
                       
Class S
    10,912,979       5,785,745       -  
Class I
    -       -       8,479,456  
Class C
    -       -       1,533,111  
Class Z
    -       -       1,849,950  
Class A
    51,975       27,833       333,232  
Net asset value (offering and redemption price per share)
                       
Class S
  $ 18.82     $ 24.04     $ -  
Class I
  $ -     $ -     $ 20.09  
Class C
  $ -     $ -     $ 19.09  
Class Z
  $ -     $ -     $ 20.34  
Class A
  $ 18.72     $ 23.91     $ 20.24  
Class A maximum offering price (100%/(100%-maximum sales charge)) of net asset value adjusted to the nearest cent per share
  $ 19.86     $ 25.37     $ 21.47  
 
† Includes securities on loan of $1,840,150, $1,065,252 and $5,301,633.
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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Statements of Operations
For the year ended September 30, 2007
 
                         
    ICON
          ICON
 
    Asia-Pacific
    ICON
    International
 
    Region
    Europe
    Equity
 
    Fund     Fund     Fund  
 
Investment Income
                       
Interest
  $ 57,097     $ 167,568     $ 128,856  
Dividends
    4,096,962       3,758,754       4,704,376  
Income from securities lending, net
    3,387       11,583       13,705  
Foreign taxes withheld
    (460,233 )     (417,135 )     (546,543 )
                         
Total Investment Income
    3,697,213       3,520,770       4,300,394  
                         
Expenses
                       
Advisory fees
    1,568,603       1,513,899       1,691,488  
Distribution fees:
                       
Class I
    -       -       285,658  
Class C
    -       -       200,771  
Class A
    550       1,096       6,767  
Fund accounting fees
    70,885       72,600       75,798  
Transfer agent fees
    101,085       77,643       96,423  
Custody fees
    119,245       125,542       135,730  
Administration fees
    72,461       69,934       78,141  
Registration fees:
                       
Class S
    39,946       27,141       -  
Class I
    -       -       17,373  
Class C
    -       -       17,347  
Class A
    1,855       1,741       1,744  
Insurance expense
    8,899       5,967       6,930  
Trustee fees and expenses
    13,952       15,213       15,646  
Interest expense
    107,384       70,867       9,480  
Other expenses
    81,506       78,553       80,482  
Recoupment of previously reimbursed expenses
    -       -       20,536  
                         
Total expenses before expense reimbursement and transfer agent earnings credit
    2,186,371       2,060,196       2,740,314  
Transfer agent earnings credit
    (7,908 )     (7,664 )     (8,603 )
Expense reimbursement by Adviser due to expense limitation agreement
    (3,131 )     (2,624 )     -  
                         
Net Expenses
    2,175,332       2,049,908       2,731,711  
                         
Net Investment Income/(Loss)
    1,521,881       1,470,862       1,568,683  
                         
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain/(Loss) on Investments and Foreign Currency Translations
                       
Net realized gain/(loss) from investment transactions
    24,898,211       25,312,930       27,661,435  
Net realized gain/(loss) from foreign currency translations
    (63,187 )     (409,192 )     (277,388 )
Change in unrealized net appreciation/(depreciation) on investments & foreign currency translations
    31,658,932       10,572,351       28,720,835  
                         
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain/(Loss) on Investments and Foreign Currency translations
    56,493,956       35,476,089       56,104,882  
                         
Net Increase/(Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting From Operations
  $ 58,015,837     $ 36,946,951     $ 57,673,565  
                         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
 
                 
    ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund  
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
    2007     2006  
 
Operations
               
Net investment income/(loss)
  $ 1,521,881     $ 155,747  
Net realized gain/(loss) from investment transactions
    24,898,211       1,094,030  
Net realized gain/(loss) from foreign currency translations
    (63,187 )     (569,787 )
Change in net unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on investments and foreign currency translations
    31,658,932       6,454,824  
                 
Net increase/(decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
    58,015,837       7,134,814  
                 
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders
               
Net investment income
               
Class S
    (327,103 )     (85,846 )
Class A
    (214 )     -  
                 
Net decrease from dividends and distributions
    (327,317 )     (85,846 )
                 
Fund Share Transactions
               
Shares sold
               
Class S
    89,318,346       221,387,084  
Class A
    981,784       24,469  
Reinvested dividends and distributions
               
Class S
    303,437       80,516  
Class A
    174       -  
Shares repurchased
               
Class S
    (89,329,345 )     (129,793,185 )
Class A
    (126,676 )     (26 )
                 
Net increase/(decrease) from fund share transactions
    1,147,720       91,698,858  
                 
Total net increase/(decrease) in net assets
    58,836,240       98,747,826  
Net Assets
               
Beginning of period
    147,468,728       48,720,902  
                 
End of period
  $ 206,304,968     $ 147,468,728  
                 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
 
                                 
    ICON Europe Fund     ICON International Equity Fund  
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
    2007     2006     2007     2006  
 
Operations
                               
Net investment income/(loss)
  $ 1,470,862     $ 688,766     $ 1,568,683     $ 405,330  
Net realized gain/(loss) from investment transactions
    25,312,930       2,724,355       27,661,435       6,781,431  
Net realized gain/(loss) from foreign currency translations
    (409,192 )     (286,266 )     (277,388 )     (454,070 )
Change in net unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on investments and foreign currency translations
    10,572,351       6,903,602       28,720,835       4,534,281  
                                 
Net increase/(decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
    36,946,951       10,030,457       57,673,565       11,266,972  
                                 
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders
                               
Net investment income
                               
Class S
    (366,098 )     -       -       -  
Class I
    -       -       (10,385 )     (24,881 )
Class C
    -       -       -       -  
Class Z
    -       -       -       (50,351 )
Class A
    (553 )     -       -       -  
Net realized gains
                               
Class S
    (1,940,765 )     (1,340,887 )     -       -  
Class I
    -       -       (3,723,882 )     (1,143,374 )
Class C
    -       -       (724,596 )     (134,889 )
Class Z
    -       -       (1,230,878 )     (934,778 )
Class A
    (3,610 )     -       (117,472 )     -  
                                 
Net decrease from dividends and distributions
    (2,311,026 )     (1,340,887 )     (5,807,213 )     (2,288,273 )
                                 
Fund Share Transactions
                               
Shares sold
                               
Class S
    113,256,468       117,006,017       -       -  
Class I
    -       -       77,455,420       68,838,279  
Class C
    -       -       11,921,728       12,648,559  
Class Z
    -       -       6,829,087       13,277,909  
Class A
    575,800       29,478       8,691,180       88,208  
Reinvested dividends and distributions
                               
Class S
    2,085,318       1,336,067       -       -  
Class I
    -       -       3,619,722       1,133,191  
Class C
    -       -       666,173       130,198  
Class Z
    -       -       1,228,139       983,433  
Class A
    4,163       -       116,347       -  
Shares repurchased
                               
Class S
    (116,233,754 )     (44,864,637 )     -       -  
Class I
    -       -       (22,357,920 )     (13,588,831 )
Class C
    -       -       (3,263,458 )     (915,055 )
Class Z
    -       -       (8,285,805 )     (5,302,946 )
Class A
    (28,933 )     (36 )     (3,202,753 )     (29 )
                                 
Net increase/(decrease) from fund share transactions
    (340,938 )     73,506,889       73,417,860       77,292,916  
                                 
Total net increase/(decrease) in net assets
    34,294,987       82,196,459       125,284,212       86,271,615  
Net Assets
                               
Beginning of period
    105,439,210       23,242,751       118,736,304       32,464,689  
                                 
End of period
  $ 139,734,197     $ 105,439,210     $ 244,020,516     $ 118,736,304  
                                 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
 
                 
    ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund  
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
    2007     2006  
 
Transactions in Fund Shares
               
Shares Sold
               
Class S
    5,692,452       17,006,822  
Class A
    57,467       1,846  
Reinvested dividends and distributions
               
Class S
    21,264       6,233  
Class A
    12       -  
Shares repurchased
               
Class S
    (5,979,748 )     (10,164,560 )
Class A
    (7,348 )     (2 )
                 
Net increase/(decrease)
    (215,901 )     6,850,339  
                 
Shares outstanding beginning of period
    11,180,855       4,330,516  
                 
Shares outstanding end of period
    10,964,954       11,180,855  
                 
Purchase and Sales of Investment Securities
(excluding short-term securities)
               
Purchase of securities
  $ 207,034,481     $ 291,355,445  
Proceeds from sales of securities
    205,128,051       202,024,877  
Accumulated undistributed net investment income/(loss)
  $ 1,112,505     $ (270,114 )
                 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
 
                                 
    ICON Europe Fund     ICON International Equity Fund  
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
    2007     2006     2007     2006  
 
Transactions in Fund Shares
                               
Shares Sold
                               
Class S
    5,325,734       6,577,613       -       -  
Class I
    -       -       4,426,226       4,778,664  
Class C
    -       -       722,425       892,329  
Class Z
    -       -       362,014       987,753  
Class A
    27,337       1,577       496,277       5,877  
Reinvested dividends and distributions
                               
Class S
    100,015       91,261       -       -  
Class I
    -       -       228,951       84,133  
Class C
    -       -       43,972       9,984  
Class Z
    -       -       76,903       72,522  
Class A
    200       -       7,295       -  
Shares repurchased
                               
Class S
    (5,242,428 )     (2,549,057 )     -       -  
Class I
    -       -       (1,293,738 )     (935,489 )
Class C
    -       -       (200,912 )     (64,198 )
Class Z
    -       -       (466,665 )     (372,280 )
Class A
    (1,279 )     (2 )     (176,215 )     (2 )
                                 
Net increase/(decrease)
    209,579       4,121,392       4,226,533       5,459,293  
                                 
Shares outstanding beginning of period
    5,603,999       1,482,607       7,969,216       2,509,923  
                                 
Shares outstanding end of period
    5,813,578       5,603,999       12,195,749       7,969,216  
                                 
Purchase and Sales of Investment Securities (excluding short-term securities)                                
Purchase of securities
  $ 195,767,756     $ 133,003,344     $ 289,490,635     $ 168,974,479  
Proceeds from sales of securities
    196,894,045       60,122,066       221,259,001       98,308,045  
Accumulated undistributed net investment income/(loss)
  $ 1,213,565     $ 366,659     $ 1,624,228     $ 10,385  
                                 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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Financial Highlights
 
                                                 
     
                               
     
                               
     
    Income from investment operations     Less dividends and  
    Net asset
    Net
    Net realized
          Dividends
    Distributions
 
    value,
    investment
    and unrealized
    Total from
    from net
    from net
 
    beginning
    income/
    gains/(losses)
    investment
    investment
    realized
 
    of period     (loss)(x)     on investments     operations     income     gains  
 
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund
                                               
Class S#
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
  $ 13.19     $ 0.15     $ 5.51     $ 5.66     $ (0.03 )   $ -  
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    11.25       0.02       1.93       1.95       (0.01 )     -  
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    8.17       0.03       3.08       3.11       (0.03 )     -  
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    7.62       0.02       0.55       0.57       (0.02 )     -  
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    5.68       0.04       1.90       1.94       -       -  
Class A
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    13.18       0.27       5.30       5.57       (0.03 )     -  
May 31, 2006 (inception) to
September 30, 2006
    13.54       0.04       (0.40 )     (0.36 )     -       -  
                                                 
ICON Europe Fund
                                               
Class S#
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    18.82       0.21       5.33       5.54       (0.05 )     (0.27 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    15.68       0.20       3.80       4.00       -       (0.86 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    12.03       0.07       3.58       3.65       -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    9.84       (0.04 )     2.23       2.19       -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    7.40       (0.02 )     2.46       2.44       -       -  
Class A
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    18.79       0.15       5.28       5.43       (0.04 )     (0.27 )
May 31, 2006 (inception) to
September 30, 2006
    18.40       (0.02 )     0.41       0.39       -       -  
                                                 
ICON International Equity Fund
                                               
Class I
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    14.94       0.18       5.63       5.81       - (c)     (0.66 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    12.91       0.09       2.57       2.66       (0.01 )     (0.62 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    10.59       0.04       3.25       3.29       -       (0.97 )
February 6, 2004 (inception) to September 30, 2004
    10.96       0.04       (0.41 )     (0.37 )     -       -  
Class C
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    14.36       - (c)     5.39       5.39       -       (0.66 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    12.53       (0.03 )     2.48       2.45       -       (0.62 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    10.55       (0.14 )     3.09       2.95       -       (0.97 )
February 19, 2004 (inception) to September 30, 2004
    11.29       (0.02 )     (0.72 )     (0.74 )     -       -  
Class Z
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    15.07       0.20       5.73       5.93       -       (0.66 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    13.00       0.09       2.63       2.72       (0.03 )     (0.62 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    10.60       0.06       3.31       3.37       -       (0.97 )
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    8.41       0.01       2.24       2.25       (0.06 )     -  
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    5.96       0.06       2.45       2.51       -       (0.06 )
Class A
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    15.06       0.17       5.67       5.84       -       (0.66 )
May 31, 2006 (inception) to
September 30, 2006
    15.17       0.03       (0.14 )     (0.11 )     -       -  
 
(x)  Calculated using the average share method.
 *  The total return calculation is for the period indicated and excludes any sales charges.
 #  Class S was formerly the only class in the Fund. Multi-class operations commenced May 31, 2006.
(a)  Portfolio turnover is calculated at the Fund level and is not annualized.
(b)  The Fund’s operating expenses, not including interest expense, are contractually limited to the amounts discussed in Note 3. The ratios in these financial highlights reflect the limitation, including the interest expense.
(c)  Amount less than $0.005.
(d)  Annualized for periods less than a year.
 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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                                    Ratio of net investment
       
                        Ratio of expenses to
    income to average net
       
                        average net assets(d)     assets(d)        
                        Before
    After
    Before
    After
       
                        expense
    expense
    expense
    expense
       
distributions                       limitation
    limitation
    limitation
    limitation
       
Total
    Net asset
          Net assets,
    and transfer
    and transfer
    and transfer
    and transfer
       
dividends
    value,
          end of
    agent
    agent
    agent
    agent
    Portfolio
 
and
    end of
    Total
    period (in
    earnings
    earnings
    earnings
    earnings
    turnover
 
distributions    
period
    return*     thousands)     credit     credit     credit     credit     rate(a)  
 
                                                                     
                                                                     
$ (0.03 )   $ 18.82       43.03 %   $ 205,332       1.38%       1.38 %     0.96 %     0.97 %     130.84 %
  (0.01 )     13.19       17.36 %     147,444       1.44%       1.44 %     0.12 %     0.12 %     159.51 %
  (0.03 )     11.25       38.12 %     48,721       1.93%       N/A       0.30 %     N/A       185.84 %
  (0.02 )     8.17       7.51 %     17,047       1.91%       N/A       0.20 %     N/A       58.62 %
  -       7.62       34.15 %     6,084       1.98%       N/A       0.68 %     N/A       81.44 %
                                                                     
  (0.03 )     18.72       42.38 %     973       3.26%       1.85 %(b)     0.24 %     1.65 %     130.84 %
   
-
      13.18       (2.66 )%     24       25.78%       1.81 %(b)     (23.09 )%     0.88 %     159.51 %
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
  (0.32 )     24.04       29.69 %     139,069       1.35%       1.35 %     0.97 %     0.97 %     133.36 %
  (0.86 )     18.82       27.09 %     105,409       1.51%       1.51 %     1.13 %     1.13 %     100.62 %
  -       15.68       30.34 %     23,243       1.85%       N/A       0.51 %     N/A       153.55 %
  -       12.03       22.26 %     7,826       2.24%       N/A       (0.38 )%     N/A       78.57 %
  -       9.84       32.97 %     9,262       1.87%       N/A       (0.29 )%     N/A       101.37 %
                                                                     
  (0.31 )     23.91       29.14 %     666       2.43%       1.84 %(b)     0.09 %     0.69 %     133.36 %
   
-
      18.79       2.12 %     30       33.40%       1.84 %(b)     (31.86 )%     (0.30 )%     100.62 %
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
  (0.66 )     20.09       40.11 %     170,383       1.54%       1.54 %(b)     1.02 %     1.03 %     132.30 %
  (0.63 )     14.94       21.20 %     76,454       1.71%       1.71 %(b)     0.59 %     0.59 %     129.31 %
  (0.97 )     12.91       32.90 %     15,376       2.02%       1.97 %     0.27 %     0.32 %     139.23 %
    -       10.59       (3.38 )%     3,211       2.32%       N/A       0.44 %     N/A       117.74 %
                                                                     
  (0.66 )     19.09       38.74 %     29,274       2.57%       2.56 %(b)     (0.04 )%     (0.03 )%     132.30 %
  (0.62 )     14.36       20.09 %     13,899       2.76%       2.54 %(b)     (0.39 )%     (0.18 )%     129.31 %
  (0.97 )     12.53       29.56 %     1,622       4.52%       3.51 %     (2.23 )%     (1.22 )%     139.23 %
   
-
      10.55       (6.55 )%     183       3.06%       N/A       (0.16 )%     N/A       117.74 %
                                                                     
  (0.66 )     20.34       40.56 %     37,619       1.26%       1.26 %(b)     1.16 %     1.16 %     132.30 %
  (0.65 )     15.07       21.54 %     28,295       1.41%       1.40 %(b)     0.60 %     0.61 %     129.31 %
  (0.97 )     13.00       33.57 %     15,466       1.68%       1.68 %     0.51 %     0.51 %     139.23 %
  (0.06 )     10.60       26.79 %     9,303       1.98%       N/A       0.03 %     N/A       117.74 %
  (0.06 )     8.41       42.60 %     10,587       2.00%       N/A       0.88 %     N/A       98.91 %
                                                                     
  (0.66 )     20.24       39.97 %     6,744       1.70%       1.69 %(b)     0.98 %     0.99 %     132.30 %
   
-
      15.06       (0.73 )%     88       19.13%       1.79 %(b)     (16.62 )%     0.72 %     129.31 %
 
 
 
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Notes to Financial Statements
September 30, 2007
 
1. Organization
 
The ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund (“Asia-Pacific Region Fund”), ICON Europe Fund (“Europe Fund”) and ICON International Equity Fund (“International Equity Fund”) are series funds (individually a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”). The Funds are part of the ICON Funds (the “Trust”), a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) as an open-end investment management company. The Asia-Pacific Region Fund and the Europe Fund offer two classes of shares, Class S and Class A. The International Equity Fund offers four classes of shares, Class I, Class C, Class Z and Class A. All classes have equal rights as to earnings, assets and voting privileges except that each Class may bear different distribution fees, registration costs and transfer agent costs and that each Class has exclusive voting rights with respect to its distribution plan. There are 14 other active funds within the Trust. Those Funds are covered by separate prospectuses and shareholder reports.
 
Each Fund is authorized to issue an unlimited number of no par shares. The Funds primarily invest in foreign securities; the Asia-Pacific Region Fund and the Europe Fund primarily invest in companies whose principal business activities fall within specific regions. The investment objective of each Fund is long-term capital appreciation.
 
The Funds may have elements of risk, including the loss of principal. There is no assurance that the investment process will consistently lead to successful results. An investment concentrated in sectors and industries may involve greater risk and volatility than a more diversified investment. Investments in foreign securities and currency transactions may involve certain considerations and risks not typically associated with those of U.S. dollar-denominated transactions as a result of, among other factors, the possibility of lower government supervision and regulation of foreign securities markets and the possibility of political or economic instability. Financial statements of foreign companies are governed by different accounting, auditing, and financial standards than U.S. companies and tend to be less transparent and uniform than in the United States. Many corporate governance standards, which help ensure the integrity of public information in the United States, do not exist in foreign countries. In general, there is less governmental supervision of foreign stock exchanges and securities brokers and issuers. There are also risks associated with small- and mid-cap
 
 
 
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investing, including limited product lines, less liquidity, and small market share.
 
In the normal course of business, the Funds may enter into various agreements that provide for general indemnifications. Each Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as any potential exposure involving future claims that may be made against each Fund is unknown. However, based on experience, the Funds expect the risk of loss to be minimal.
 
2. Significant Accounting Policies
 
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Funds in the preparation of their financial statements. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
 
Investment Valuation
 
The Funds’ securities and other assets are valued at the closing price at the close of the regular trading session of the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) (normally 4 p.m. Eastern time) each day the NYSE is open, except that (a) securities traded primarily on the NASDAQ Stock Market (“NASDAQ”) are normally valued by the Funds at the NASDAQ Official Closing Price provided by NASDAQ each business day; and (b) foreign securities in the Funds traded in countries outside of the Western Hemisphere are fair valued daily based on procedures established by the Funds’ Board of Trustees (“Board”) to avoid stale prices and to take into account, among other things, any significant events occurring after the close of a foreign market in those regions. The Funds use pricing services to obtain the market value of securities in their portfolios; if a pricing service is not able to provide a price, or the pricing service’s valuation quote is considered inaccurate or does not reflect the market value of the security, prices may be obtained through market quotations from independent broker/dealers. If market quotations from these sources are not readily available, the Funds’ securities or other assets are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the Funds’ Board or pursuant to procedures approved by the Board.
 
 
 
 
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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 
Lacking any sales that day, a security is valued at the current closing bid price (or yield equivalent thereof) or based on quotes from dealers making a market for the security. Options are valued at their closing mid-price on the principal market where the option is traded. Mid-price is the average of the closing bid and closing ask prices. Debt securities with a remaining maturity of greater than 60 days are valued in accordance with the evaluated bid price supplied by the pricing service. The evaluated bid price supplied by the pricing service is a matrix system which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities and ratings. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of 60 days or less are generally valued at amortized cost or original cost plus accrued interest, which approximates market value. Currency rates as of the close of the NYSE are used to convert foreign security values into U.S. dollars.
 
The Funds’ securities traded in countries outside of the Western Hemisphere are fair valued daily by utilizing the quotations of an independent pricing service, unless the Board determines that use of another valuation methodology is appropriate. The purposes of daily fair valuation are to avoid stale prices and to take into account, among other things, any significant events occurring after the close of foreign markets. The pricing service uses statistical analyses and quantitative models to adjust local market prices using factors such as subsequent movements and changes in the prices of indexes and securities and exchange rates in other markets to determine fair value as of the time a Fund calculates its net asset value. The valuation assigned to fair-valued securities for purposes of calculating a Fund’s NAV may differ from the security’s most recent closing market price and from the prices used by other mutual funds to calculate their NAVs.
 
New Accounting Pronouncement
 
In September 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement on Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements.” This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, sets out a framework for measuring fair value and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 applies to fair value measurements already required or permitted by existing standards. SFAS No. 157 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007 and interim periods within those fiscal years. The changes to current generally accepted accounting principles from the application of this Statement relate to the definition of fair value, the methods used to measure fair value, and the expanded disclosures about fair value measurements. Management does not believe the adoption of
 
 
 
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SFAS No. 157 will impact the financial statement amounts, however, additional disclosures will be required about the inputs used to develop the measurements and the effect of certain measurements on changes in net assets for the period.
 
Repurchase Agreements
 
Repurchase agreements, if held by the Funds, are fully collateralized by U.S. Government securities and such collateral is in the possession of the Funds’ custodian. The collateral is evaluated daily to ensure its market value exceeds the current market value of the repurchase agreements including accrued interest. In the event of default on the obligation to repurchase, the Funds have the right to liquidate the collateral and apply the proceeds in satisfaction of the obligation. In the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, realization and/or retention of the collateral or proceeds may be subject to legal proceedings. No repurchase agreements were purchased or sold by the Funds during the year ended September 30, 2007.
 
Foreign Currency Translation
 
The accounting records of the Funds are maintained in U.S. dollars. Investment securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in a foreign currency are translated daily into U.S. dollars at the prevailing rates of exchange. Income and expenses are translated into U.S. dollars at the prevailing exchange rate on the respective dates of the transactions. Purchases and sales of securities are translated into U.S. dollars at the contractual currency exchange rates established at the time of each trade.
 
The Funds do not isolate that portion of the results of operations resulting from changes in foreign exchange rates on investments from the fluctuations arising from changes in market prices of securities held. Net unrealized appreciation or depreciation on investments and foreign currency translations arise from changes in the value of assets and liabilities, resulting from changes in the exchange rates and changes in market prices of securities held.
 
Forward Foreign Currency Contracts
 
The Funds may enter into short-term forward foreign currency contracts in connection with planned purchases or sales of securities as a hedge against fluctuations in foreign exchange rates pending the settlement of transactions in foreign securities. A forward foreign currency contract is an agreement
 
 
 
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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 
between contracting parties to exchange an amount of currency at some future time at an agreed upon rate.
 
These contracts are marked-to-market daily and the related appreciation or depreciation of the contract is presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Net realized gains and losses on foreign currency transactions represent disposition of foreign currencies, and the difference between the amount recorded at the time of the transaction and the U.S. dollar amount actually received. Any realized gain or loss incurred by the Funds due to foreign currency translation is included in the Statement of Operations. The Funds did not enter into any forward foreign currency contracts during the year ended September 30, 2007.
 
Futures Contracts
 
The Funds may invest in financial futures contracts for the purpose of hedging their existing securities or securities they intend to purchase against fluctuations in fair value caused by changes in prevailing markets. Upon entering into a financial futures contract, the Fund is required to pledge to a broker an amount of cash and/or other assets equal to a certain percentage of the contract amount (initial margin deposit). Subsequent payments, known as “variation margin,” are made or received by the Fund each day, depending on the daily fluctuations in the fair value of the underlying security. The Fund recognizes a gain or loss equal to the daily variation margin. Should market conditions change unexpectedly, the Fund may not achieve the anticipated benefits of the financial futures contracts and may realize a loss. The use of futures transactions involves the risk of imperfect correlation in movements in the price of futures contracts and the underlying hedged assets. The Funds held no financial futures contracts during the year ended September 30, 2007.
 
Options Transactions
 
Each Fund may write call and put options on any security in which it may invest. When a Fund writes a put or call option, an amount equal to the premium received is included in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as a liability. The amount of the liability is subsequently marked-to-market to reflect the current market value of the option. If an option expires on its stipulated expiration date or if the Fund enters into a closing purchase transaction, a gain or loss is realized. If a written call option is exercised, a gain or loss is realized for the sale of the underlying security, and the proceeds from the sale are increased by the premium originally received. If
 
 
 
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a written put option is exercised, the cost of the security acquired is decreased by the premium originally received. As a writer of an option, the Fund has no control over whether the underlying securities are subsequently sold (call) or purchased (put) and, as a result, bears the market risk of an unfavorable change in the price of the security underlying the written option.
 
Each Fund may also purchase put and call options on any security in which it may invest. When a Fund purchases a call or put option, an amount equal to the premium paid is included in the Fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities as an investment, and is subsequently marked-to-market to reflect the current market value of the option. If an option expires on the stipulated expiration date or if the Fund enters into a closing sale transaction, a gain or loss is realized. If the Fund exercises a call, the cost of the security acquired is increased by the premium paid for the call. If the Fund exercises a put option, a gain or loss is realized from the sale of the underlying security, and the proceeds from such sale are decreased by the premium originally paid. Written and purchased options are non-income producing securities. The Funds did not enter into any option transactions during the year ended September 30, 2007.
 
Securities Lending
 
Under procedures adopted by the Trustees, the Funds may lend securities to non-affiliated qualified parties. The Funds may seek to earn additional income through securities lending. There is the risk of delay in recovering a loaned security. The Funds do not have the right to vote on securities while they are being lent; however, the Funds may attempt to call back the loan and vote the proxy.
 
All loans will be continuously secured by collateral which consists of cash. Brown Brothers Harriman (the “Lending Agent”) may invest the cash collateral in the Securities Lending Investment Fund of Brown Brothers Harriman Trust, which complies with Rule 2a-7 of the 1940 Act relating to money market funds.
 
The cash collateral invested by the Lending Agent is disclosed in the Schedule of Investments. The lending fees received and the Funds’ portion of the interest income earned on cash collateral are included on the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
 
 
 
 
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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 
As of September 30, 2007, the following Funds had securities with the following values on loan:
 
                 
    Value of
    Value of
 
Fund   Loaned Securities     Collateral  
   
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund
  $ 1,840,150     $ 1,910,700  
ICON Europe Fund
    1,065,252       1,122,560  
ICON International Equity Fund
    5,301,633       5,565,319  
 
Income Taxes
 
The Funds intend to qualify as regulated investment companies under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and, accordingly, the Funds will generally not be subject to federal and state income taxes or federal excise taxes to the extent that they intend to make sufficient distributions of net investment income and net realized capital gains.
 
Dividends paid by the Funds from net investment income and distributions of net realized short-term gains are, for federal income tax purposes, taxable as ordinary income to shareholders.
 
Dividends and distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Funds on the ex-dividend/distribution date. The Funds distribute net realized capital gains, if any, to shareholders at least annually, if not offset by capital loss carryovers. The Funds may utilize equalization accounting for tax purposes and designate earnings and profits, including net realized gains distributed to shareholders on redemption of shares, as part of the dividends paid deduction for income tax purposes. Income distributions and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
 
On July 13, 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) released FASB Interpretation No. 48 “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes” (“FIN 48”). FIN 48 provides guidance for how uncertain tax positions should be recognized, measured, presented and disclosed in the financial statements. FIN 48 requires the evaluation of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing the Funds’ tax return to determine whether the tax positions are “more-likely-than-not” of being sustained by the applicable tax authority. Tax positions not deemed to meet the more-likely-than-not threshold would be recorded as a tax benefit or expense in the current year. Adoption of FIN 48 is required no later than the last business day of the first financial statement reporting period for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006 and is to be applied to all open tax
 
 
 
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years as of the effective date. At this time, management is evaluating the implications, if any, of FIN 48. Its impact to the financial statements has not yet been determined.
 
Investment Income
 
Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Interest income is accrued as earned. Certain dividends from foreign securities are recorded as soon as the Funds are informed of the dividend if such information is obtained subsequent to the ex-dividend date. Discounts and premiums on securities purchased are amortized over the life of the respective securities.
 
Investment Transactions
 
Security transactions are accounted for no later than one business day after the trade date. However, for financial reporting purposes, security transactions are accounted for on the trade date. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost.
 
Allocation of Income and Expenses
 
Each class of a Fund’s shares bears expenses incurred specifically on its behalf and, in addition, each class bears a portion of general expenses, based upon relative net assets of each class. Expenses which cannot be directly attributed to a specific Fund in the Trust are apportioned between all Funds based upon relative net assets. In calculating the net asset value of the shares in the various classes of the Funds, investment income, realized and unrealized gains and losses and expenses other than class-specific expenses are allocated daily to each class of shares based upon the proportion of net assets.
 
 
 
 
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3. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates
 
Investment Advisory Fees
 
ICON Advisers, Inc. (“ICON”) serves as the investment adviser to the Funds and is responsible for managing the Funds’ portfolios of securities. ICON receives a monthly management fee that is computed daily at an annual rate of 1.00% of each Fund’s average daily net assets.
 
ICON has contractually agreed to limit its investment advisory fee and/or reimburse certain of the Funds’ operating expenses (exclusive of brokerage, interest, taxes, and extraordinary expenses) to the extent necessary to ensure that the Funds’ operating expenses do not exceed the following amounts:
 
                                         
    Class S     Class I     Class C     Class Z     Class A  
   
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund
    -       N/A       N/A       N/A       1.80%  
ICON Europe Fund
    -       N/A       N/A       N/A       1.80%  
ICON International Equity Fund
    N/A       1.80%       2.55%       1.55%       1.80%  
 
The expense limitations will continue in effect until at least January 29, 2017. To the extent ICON reimburses or absorbs fees and expenses, it may seek payment of such amounts for up to three years after the expenses were reimbursed or absorbed. A Fund will make no such payment, however, if the total Fund operating expenses exceed the expense limits in effect at the time the expenses were reimbursed or at the time these payments are proposed.
 
As of September 30, 2007 the following amounts were still available for recoupment by ICON based upon their potential expiration dates:
 
                         
    2008     2009     2010  
   
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund
  $   -     $ 722     $ 3,131  
ICON Europe Fund
    -       709       2,624  
ICON International Equity Fund
    -       -       2,647  
 
Accounting, Custody and Transfer Agent Fees
 
Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc. (“Citi”) is the Fund Accounting Agent for the Funds. Effective August 1, 2007, The BISYS Group, Inc., and its subsidiaries, was acquired by and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citi. For its services, the Trust pays Citi 0.03% on the first $1.75 billion of net assets, 0.0175% on net assets over $1.75 billion and up to $5 billion, and 0.01% on net assets in excess of $5 billion.
 
 
 
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Brown Brothers Harriman (“BBH”) is the custodian of the Trust’s investments. For domestic custody services, the Trust pays BBH 0.0065% on the first $50 million of average net assets and 0.0050% on domestic assets above $50 million, plus certain transaction charges. For foreign custody services, the Trust pays BBH 0.03% on foreign assets plus certain transaction charges.
 
Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. (“BFDS”) is the Trust’s transfer agent. For these services, the Trust pays an account fee of $13.25 per open account, $7.00 per networked account, $1.80 per closed account, plus certain other transaction and cusip charges.
 
Transfer agent earnings credits are credits received for interest which is a result from overnight balances used by the transfer agent, BFDS, for clearing shareholder transactions. During the year ended September 30, 2007, the Funds received transfer agent earnings credits which are included on the Statement of Operations.
 
Administrative Services
 
The Trust has entered into an administrative services agreement with ICON pursuant to which ICON oversees the administration of the Trust’s business and affairs. As of January 31, 2006, this agreement provides for an annual fee of 0.05% on the Funds’ first $1.5 billion of average daily net assets, 0.045% on the next $1.5 billion of average daily net assets, 0.040% on the next $2 billion of average daily net assets and 0.030% on average daily net assets over $5 billion. During the year ended September 30, 2007, the Funds payment for administrative services to ICON is included in the Statement of Operations. The administrative services agreement provides that ICON will not be liable for any error of judgment, mistake of law, or any loss suffered by the Trust in connection with matters to which the administrative services agreement relates, except for a loss resulting from willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence by ICON in the performance of its duties.
 
ICON has entered into a sub-administration agreement with Citi pursuant to which Citi assists ICON with the administration and business affairs of the Trust. Effective August 1, 2007, The BISYS Group, Inc., and its subsidiaries, was acquired by and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citi. For its services, ICON pays Citi at an annual rate of 0.025% on the first $1.75 billion of Trust assets and 0.015% on assets above $1.75 billion.
 
 
 
 
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Distribution Fees
 
The Funds have adopted a Distribution Plan pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act (“12b-1 Plan”) under which the Funds are authorized to compensate the Funds’ distributor, ICON Distributors, Inc. (“IDI”) (an affiliate of the adviser) for the sale and distribution of shares. Under the 12b-1 Plan, Class I and Class A shareholders of the International Equity Fund and Class A shareholders of the Asia-Pacific Region Fund and the Europe Fund pay an annual 12b-1 and service fee of 0.25% of average daily net assets. The Class C shareholders of the International Equity Fund pay an annual 12b-1 and service fee of 1.00% of average daily net assets.
 
Related Parties
 
Certain Officers and Directors of ICON are also Officers and Trustees of the Funds; however, such Officers and Trustees (with the exception of the Chief Compliance Officer, “CCO”) receive no compensation from the Funds. The CCO’s salary is paid 90% by the Funds and 10% by the Adviser. For the year ended September 30, 2007, the total related amounts paid by the Trust under this agreement are included in Other Expenses on the Statement of Operations.
 
Some of the 12b-1 amounts received by IDI, discussed in the Distribution Fees section above, have been used to offset various shareholder servicing costs incurred by ICON. For the year ended September 30, 2007, the amount was $15,423.
 
4. Line of Credit
 
The Funds have entered into Lines of Credit agreements with BBH. The maximum borrowing is limited to the lesser of $50 million or 25% of the net asset value in the Fund subject to a maximum borrowing limit by the Trust of $150 million. Interest on domestic borrowings is charged at LIBOR plus 2.00% which was 7.12% at September 30, 2007. The average interest rate charged for the year ended September 30, 2007 was 6.82%.
 
         
    Average Borrowing
 
    (10/1/06 - 9/30/07)  
   
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund**
  $ 1,368,095  
ICON Europe Fund**
    2,806,906  
ICON International Equity Fund**
    230,647  
 
**Fund had outstanding borrowings as of September 30, 2007.
 
 
 
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5. Federal Income Tax
 
Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations that may differ from accounting principles that are generally accepted in the United States of America. These differences are due to differing treatments for items such as net short-term gains, deferrals of wash losses, foreign currency transactions, net investment losses, and capital loss carryforwards.
 
The tax components of capital shown in the following tables represent losses or deductions the Funds may be able to offset against income and gains recognized in future years and post October loss deferrals.
 
During the year ended September 30, 2007 the ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund utilized capital loss carryforwards of $6,889,133. For the year ended September 30, 2007, the ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund and the ICON Europe Fund will elect to defer post October currency losses of $21,330 and $213,173, respectively.
 
The tax characteristics of dividends and distributions paid to shareholders during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, were as follows:
 
                                 
    Distributions paid from           Total
 
    Ordinary
    Net Long-
    Total Taxable
    Distributions
 
Fund   Income     Term Gains     Distributions     Paid  
   
 
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund
  $ 327,317     $ -     $ 327,317     $ 327,317  
ICON Europe Fund
    1,255,900       1,055,126       2,311,026       2,311,026  
ICON International Equity Fund
    3,376,711       2,430,502       5,807,213       5,807,213  
 
The tax characteristics of dividends and distributions paid to shareholders during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, were as follows:
 
                                 
    Distributions paid from           Total
 
    Ordinary
    Net Long-
    Total Taxable
    Distributions
 
Fund   Income     Term Gains     Distributions     Paid  
   
 
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund
  $ 85,846     $ -     $ 85,846     $ 85,846  
ICON Europe Fund
    -       1,340,887       1,340,887       1,340,887  
ICON International Equity Fund
    952,037       1,336,236       2,288,273       2,288,273  
 
 
 
 
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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 
As of September 30, 2007, the components of accumulated earnings (deficit) on a tax basis was as follows:
 
                                                 
                                  Total
 
    Undistributed
    Undistributed
          Accumulated
    Unrealized
    Accumulated
 
    Ordinary
    Net Long-
    Accumulated
    capital and
    Appreciation
    Earnings
 
Fund   Income     Term Gains     Earnings     other losses     (Depreciation)     (Deficits)  
   
 
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund
  $ 4,690,147     $ 12,015,312     $ 16,705,459     $ (21,330 )     $44,540,974     $ 61,225,103  
ICON Europe Fund
    15,002,307       2,578,368       17,580,675       (213,173 )     20,764,659       38,132,161  
ICON International Equity Fund
    15,951,878       10,512,656       26,464,534       -       38,805,595       65,270,129  
 
As of September 30, 2007, book cost for financial reporting purposes is substantially the same for federal income tax puposes and differs from fair value by net unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) of securities as follows:
 
                                 
          Unrealized
    Unrealized
    Net Appreciation
 
Fund   Cost     Appreciation     (Depreciation)     (Depreciation)  
   
 
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund
  $ 166,277,600     $ 46,259,945     $ (1,715,791 )   $ 44,544,154  
ICON Europe Fund
    119,933,917       22,448,563       (1,693,803 )     20,754,760  
ICON International Equity Fund
    210,824,407       41,562,641       (2,765,640 )     38,797,001  
 
 
 
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
To the Board of Trustees and Shareholders of the ICON International Funds:
 
In our opinion, the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities, including the schedules of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund, ICON Europe Fund, and ICON International Equity Fund (three of the portfolios constituting ICON Funds, hereafter referred to as the “Funds”) at September 30, 2007, and the results of each of their operations for the year then ended, the changes in each of their net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods presented, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as “financial statements”) are the responsibility of the Funds’ management; our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at September 30, 2007 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
 
-s- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
 
Denver, Colorado
November 20, 2007
 
 
 
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Six Month Hypothetical Expense Example
September 30, 2007 (unaudited)
 
Example
 
As a shareholder of a Fund you may pay two types of fees: transaction fees and fund-related fees. Certain funds charge transactions fees, including sales charges (loads) on purchase payments, reinvested dividends, or other distributions; redemption fees; and exchange fees. Funds also incur various ongoing expenses, including management fees, distribution and/or service fees, and other fund expenses, which are indirectly paid by shareholders.
 
This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the various ICON Funds and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds. This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the six-month period (4/1/07 - 9/30/07).
 
Actual Expenses
 
The first line in the table for each Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. The Example includes, but is not limited to, management fees, 12b-1 fees, fund accounting, custody and transfer agent fees. However, the Example does not include client specific fees, such as the $10 fee charged to IRA accounts, or the $15 fee charged for wire redemptions. You may use this information, 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 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for each Fund under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
 
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
 
The second line in the table for each Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return. 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 the Fund and 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. 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 sales charges (loads),
 
 
 
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redemption fees, or exchange fees that may be charged by other funds. Therefore, this information is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.
 
                                 
                Expenses
       
                Paid
    Annualized
 
    Beginning
    Ending
    During
    Expense
 
    Account
    Account
    Period
    Ratio
 
    Value
    Value
    4/1/07 -
    4/1/07 -
 
    4/1/07     9/30/07     9/30/07*     9/30/07  
   
 
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund
                               
Class S
                               
Actual Expenses
  $ 1,000.00     $ 1,252.20     $ 7.43       1.32 %
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.38       6.68          
Class A
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,248.80       10.20       1.81 %
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,015.93       9.15          
ICON Europe Fund
                               
Class S
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,100.20       7.16       1.36 %
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.18       6.88          
Class A
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,097.30       9.67       1.84 %
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,015.77       9.30          
ICON International Equity Fund
                               
Class I
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,208.10       8.41       1.52 %
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,017.38       7.69          
Class C
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,201.40       14.18       2.57 %
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,012.11       12.96          
Class Z
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,210.00       6.93       1.25 %
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.73       6.33          
Class A
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,206.20       9.84       1.78 %
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,016.08       9.00          
 
Expenses are equal to the Fund’s six month expense ratio annualized, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/365 to reflect the one-half year period.
 
Total returns exclude applicable sales charges. If sales charges were included (maximum 5.75%), returns would be lower.
 
 
 
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Board of Trustees and Fund Officers (unaudited)
 
The ICON Funds Board of Trustees (“Board”) consists of five Trustees who oversee the 17 ICON Funds (the “Funds”). The Board is responsible for general oversight of the Funds’ business and for assuring that the Funds are managed in the best interest of the Funds’ shareholders. The Trustees, and their ages, and principal occupations are set forth below. The address of the Trustees is 5299 DTC Blvd., Suite 1200, Greenwood Village, CO 80111. Trustees have no official term of office and generally serve until they resign or are not re-elected.
 
Interested Trustee
 
Craig T. Callahan, 56, Chairman of the Board. Dr. Callahan has been a Trustee of the Funds since their inception. Dr. Callahan also serves as President (1998 to present) and served as the Chief Investment Officer (1991 to 2004) of ICON Advisers, Inc. (“ICON Advisers”), the Funds’ Investment Adviser. Dr. Callahan is also President (1998 to present); Director (1991 to present); and was previously Vice President (1991 to 1998) of ICON Distributors, Inc. (“IDI”), the Funds’ Distributor, and is President of ICON Insurance Agency, Inc. (2004 to present). Dr. Callahan also serves as the Director (1994 to present), and was previously Secretary/Treasurer (1994 to 1998) of ICON Management & Research Corporation (“IM&R”), the parent company of ICON Advisers and IDI.
 
Independent Trustees
 
Glen F. Bergert, 57. Mr. Bergert has been a Trustee of the Funds since 1999. Mr. Bergert is President of Venture Capital Management LLC (1997 to present); General Partner of SOGNO Partners LP, a venture capital company (2001 to present); General Partner of Bergert Properties, a real estate holding company (1997 to present); and General Partner of Pyramid Real Estate Partnership, a real estate development company (1998 to present); General Partner of Chamois Partners, a venture capital company (2004 to present); and was previously a General Partner with KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP (1979 to 1997). Mr. Bergert is also a Director of Herre Bros, Inc., a contracting company (1998 to present); Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, an insurance company (1998 to present); Delta Dental of California, an insurance company (2006 to present); and Delta Reinsurance Corporation (2000 to present).
 
John C. Pomeroy, Jr., 60. Mr. Pomeroy has been a Trustee of the Funds since November 2002. Mr. Pomeroy is Chief Investment Officer and Director of Investments, Pennsylvania State University (2001 to present) and was
 
 
 
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Portfolio Manager and Product Manager, Trinity Investment Management Corporation (1989 to 2001).
 
Gregory Kellam Scott, 59. Mr. Scott has been a Trustee of the Funds since November 2002. Mr. Scott currently serves as Executive Director of the Indiana Civil Rights Commission (2005 to present) and has been appointed to the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on the African Judiciary (2006 to present). Mr. Scott was Senior Vice President — Law, General Counsel and Secretary of GenCorp, Inc., a multinational technology-based manufacturing company (2002 to 2004); Vice President and General Counsel of Kaiser-Hill Company, LLC, a nuclear clean-up and environmental remediation company (2000 to 2002) and a Colorado Supreme Court Justice (1993 to 2000).
 
R. Michael Sentel, 59. Mr. Sentel has been a Trustee of the Funds since their inception. Mr. Sentel is a Senior Attorney with the U.S. Department of Education (1996 to present). Mr. Sentel also provides legal representation as a sole practitioner with an emphasis on corporate and transactional law. He served as general counsel to numerous public companies and served on the board of directors of one of these clients. Mr. Sentel began his legal career with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement and served as a branch chief (1980-1981). Later he served as the section chief for the Professional Liability Section of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. with responsibility for the Rocky Mountain Region (1991 to 1994).
 
The Officers of the Funds are:
 
Craig T. Callahan, 56. Dr. Callahan has been President of the Funds since their inception in 1996. Dr. Callahan also serves as ICON Advisers’ President (1998 to present) and served as the Chief Investment Officer (1991 to 2004). Dr. Callahan is also President (1998 to present), Director (1991 to present) and was previously Vice President (1991 to 1998) of IDI, and is President of ICON Insurance Agency, Inc. (2004 to present). Dr. Callahan is also the Director (1994 to present), and was previously Secretary/Treasurer (1994 to 1998) of IM&R.
 
Erik L. Jonson, 58. Mr. Jonson has been a Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Funds since their inception in 1996. Mr. Jonson is also Chief Financial Officer (1996 to present) and Executive Vice President (2004 to present) and was previously Vice President (1998 to 2004) of ICON Advisers; Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Director (1996 to present) of IM&R; and Executive Vice President (2004 to present) and Treasurer (2002 to present) and was previously Secretary/Treasurer, (1998 to 2002) and Vice President, (2002 to 2004) of IDI; and Executive Vice President and Treasurer of ICON Insurance Agency, Inc. (2004 to present).
 
 
 
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Donald Salcito, 54. Mr. Salcito serves as Vice President and Secretary of the Funds since November 15, 2006. Mr. Salcito is also Executive Vice President and General Counsel (September 2005 to present) of ICON Advisers, Inc.; Director of ICON Management & Research (2005 to present); Executive Vice President, Secretary, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, for ICON Distributors, Inc. (2005 to present); Executive Vice President and Secretary of ICON Insurance Agency, Inc. (2005 to present). Previously he was a Partner in the law firm of Perkins Coie, LLP. (2000-2005).
 
Carrie M. Schoffman, 34. Ms. Schoffman serves as Assistant Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of the Funds (May 2004 to present). She also serves as Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of ICON Advisers, Inc. (May 2004 to present). Previously she was a staff accountant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2003 to 2004). She also was a Manager (2001 to 2003) and Senior Associate/Associate (1996 to 2001) at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
 
Stephen Abrams, 44. Mr. Abrams serves as Anti-Money Laundering Officer of the Funds (2005 to present). Mr. Abrams is also Vice President and Associate General Counsel of ICON Advisers, Inc. (2005 to present). Previously he was a Partner at Perkins Coie, LLP (2004-2005) and Associate (2000 to 2004).
 
 
 
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Other Information (unaudited)
 
Renewal of Investment Advisory Agreement
 
In determining to renew the investment advisory agreements between ICON Funds (the “Trust”) and ICON Advisers, Inc. (“ICON” or the “Adviser”) the Board requested, was provided with and reviewed data with respect to ICON, its personnel, and the services to be provided to each Fund by ICON under the Trust’s Investment Advisory Agreement dated October 9, 1996, as amended (related to the Sector, International and Core Equity Funds) and under the Trust’s Investment Advisory Agreement dated July 9, 2002 and effective October 1, 2002, as amended (related to the U.S. Diversified Funds — Bond, Income Opportunity, Equity Income and Long/Short Funds) (collectively, the “Advisory Agreements”). The data included information concerning advisory, distribution and administrative services provided to the Funds by ICON and its related companies; information concerning other businesses of those companies; comparative data related to exchange traded funds versus the Sector Funds; and comparative data obtained from Lipper Analytical Services related to Fund performance and Fund expenses.
 
On August 14, 2007, the Board of Trustees, including all of the Trustees that are not “interested persons” of the Trust (the “Independent Trustees”), approved continuation of the Advisory Agreements with the Adviser for each Fund for an additional one-year term commencing October 1, 2007.
 
The Independent Trustees were represented by independent legal counsel throughout the process. Prior to acting on the matter, the Independent Trustees met separately as a group in private sessions with their independent legal counsel to review and discuss the foregoing information and also met with management to discuss responses to questions raised during the process. In addition, the Independent Trustees received materials from their independent legal counsel discussing the legal standards applicable to their consideration of the agreement.
 
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services provided by the Adviser, the Board reviewed information relating to the Adviser’s operations and personnel. Among other things, the Adviser provided biographical information on its professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. In the course of their deliberations the Board evaluated, among other things, information relating to the investment philosophy, strategies and techniques used in managing each Fund, the qualifications and experience of the Adviser’s investment personnel, the Adviser’s compliance programs, the Adviser’s brokerage practices, including the extent to which the Adviser obtains research through “soft dollar” arrangements with the Funds’ brokerage, and the financial and non-financial resources available to provide services required under the Advisory Agreement.
 
 
 
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In considering the reasonableness of the fee payable to the Adviser for managing each Fund, the Board reviewed, among other things, financial statements of the Adviser and an analysis of the profitability to the Adviser and its affiliates of their relationship with each Fund over various time periods, which analysis identified all revenues and other benefits received by the Adviser and its affiliates from managing each Fund, the costs associated with providing such services and the resulting profitability to the Adviser and its affiliates. The Board considered the current and anticipated asset levels of each Fund and the willingness of the Adviser to waive fees and pay expenses of the Funds from time to time to limit the total expenses of the Funds. The Board concluded that the profitability to the Adviser and its affiliates from their relationship with the Funds is not excessive and that the Adviser is not realizing material benefits from economies of scale that would warrant adjustments to the fees for any Fund at this time. The Board of Trustees concluded that, in light of the nature, extent and quality of the services provided by the Adviser and the levels of profitability associated with providing these services, the fees charged by the Adviser under the Advisory Agreements to each Fund are reasonable.
 
In connection with reviewing data bearing upon the nature, quality, and extent of services furnished by ICON to each Fund, the Board assessed data concerning ICON’s staffing, systems and facilities. The Board also assessed ICON’s non-Trust business to see if there are any initiatives that would dilute service to the Trust. It was noted:
 
A. That the breadth and the quality of investment advisory and other services being provided to each Fund is satisfactory, as evidenced in part by the performance record of each Fund compared with the performance records of a peer group of comparable funds;
 
B. That ICON has made significant expenditures in the past year and in prior years to ensure that it has the sophisticated systems and the highly trained personnel necessary for it to be able to continue to provide quality service to the Funds’ shareholders, including the dedication of substantial resources to ICON’s investment and trading departments;
 
C. That the Board is satisfied with the research, portfolio management, and trading services, among others, being provided by ICON to the Funds, and is charging fair, reasonable, and competitive fees; and
 
D. The risks assumed by ICON in providing investment advisory services to each Fund including the capital commitments which have been made in the past and which continue to be made by ICON to ensure the continuation of the highest quality of service to the Trust is made with the recognition that the Trust’s advisory relationship with ICON be terminated at any time and must be renewed on an annual basis.
 
 
 
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In connection with assessing data bearing the fairness of fee arrangements, the Board used data from Lipper, Inc. concerning funds of similar size and funds of larger size, as well as data concerning ICON’s other clients and noted:
 
A. the advisory fee structures of the Funds were considered in comparison with advisory fees and expense ratios of other similarly managed funds as set forth in the comparative data;
 
B. that contractual advisory fees of the Sector Funds were higher than fees for similar funds; but that the Sector Funds’ expense ratios were competitive and in most instances lower than those of similarly managed Funds;
 
C. that ICON has contractually agreed to impose expense limitations on certain Funds at a cost to ICON;
 
D. that the advisory and other fees payable by the Funds to ICON are essentially fees which would be similar to those which would have resulted solely from “arm’s-length” bargaining, and may well be lower than fees arrived at solely from such arm’s-length negotiation;
 
E. that, the fees paid to ICON for managing other institutional accounts (such as pension plans) are not lower than the fees paid by similarly-managed funds; and to the extent such fees of those accounts are lower, the reasons why such accounts are less costly for ICON to manage.
 
F. the extent to which economies of scale could be realized as a Fund grows in assets and whether the Fund’s fees reflect these economies of scale for the benefit of Fund shareholders.
 
In connection with profitability, the Board reviewed the costs borne by ICON in providing advisory services to each Fund and the profitability of ICON in light of the estimated profitability analysis.
 
In connection with the direct and indirect benefits to ICON from serving as the Funds’ adviser, the Board discussed and noted:
 
A. that ICON benefits from serving directly or through affiliates as the principal underwriter and administrative agent for the Funds; the services provided by ICON and its affiliates to the Funds are satisfactory, and whether the profits derived from providing the services are competitive and reasonable; and
 
B. that ICON receives research assistance from the use of soft dollars generated from Fund portfolio transactions; the Trustees noted that such research assists ICON in providing quality to which it provides advisory services.
 
 
 
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Based on these considerations, among others, the Board, including all of the Independent Trustees, concluded that the continuation of the Advisory Agreement was in the best interests of each Fund and its shareholders, the services to be performed under the agreement were services required for the operation of the Funds, ICON had provided satisfactory advisory services to the Funds in the past, and the fees for the advisory services which ICON would perform and other benefits from the relationship with the Trust and consistent with fees paid by similar funds, are reasonable in light of the comparative data, and would be within the range of what would have been negotiated at arm’s length in light of the circumstances.
 
Supplemental Tax Information
 
For corporate shareholders, the following percentage of the total ordinary income dividends paid during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007 qualifies for the corporate dividends received deduction for the following Funds:
 
         
    Dividends Received
 
Fund   Deduction  
   
 
ICON International Equity Fund
    0.06 %
 
For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the following Funds paid qualified dividend income:
 
         
Fund   Amount  
   
 
ICON International Equity Fund
  $ 12,156  
 
The Funds designate the following amounts as long-term capital gain distributions qualifying for the maximum 15% income tax rate for individuals:
 
         
Fund   Amount  
   
 
ICON Asia-Pacific Region Fund
  $ 1,612,474  
ICON Europe Fund
    8,302,676  
ICON International Equity Fund
    3,223,111  
 
Portfolio Holdings
 
A list of each ICON Fund’s Top 10 holdings is available at www.iconadvisers.com on or about 15 days following each month end. Each ICON Fund also files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings for the first and third quarters of its fiscal year with the SEC on Form N-Q. The ICON Funds’ Forms N-Q are available at www.sec.gov or may be reviewed and copied at the Commission’s Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information about the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
 
 
 
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Proxy Voting
 
A summarized description of the policies and procedures the ICON Funds use to vote proxies is available free of charge at www.iconadvisers.com or by calling 1-800-764-0442.
 
Information about how the ICON Funds voted proxies related to each Fund’s portfolio securities during the 12-month period ended June 30 is available free of charge at www.iconadvisers.com or on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
 
For More Information
 
This report is for the general information of the Funds’ shareholders and is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus. You may obtain a copy of the prospectus, which contains information about the investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses, and share classes of each ICON Fund, by visiting www.iconadvisers.com or by calling 1-800-764-0442. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.
 
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For more information about the ICON Funds, contact us:
     
By Telephone
  1-800-764-0442
     
By Mail
  ICON Funds
P.O. Box 55452
Boston, MA 02205-8165
     
In Person
  ICON Funds
5299 DTC Boulevard, 12th Floor
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
     
On the Internet
  www.iconadvisers.com
     
By E-Mail
  info@iconadvisers.com
 
 
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About This Report
 
Historical Returns
 
All total returns mentioned in this Report account for the change in a Fund’s per-share price and the reinvestment of any dividends, capital gain distributions, tax return of capital, and adjustments for financial statement purposes. If your account is set up to receive Fund distributions in cash rather than to reinvest them, your actual return may differ from these figures. The Funds’ performance results do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares. Fund results shown, unless otherwise indicated, are at net asset value.
 
Past performance does not guarantee future results. 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. Performance results represent past performance, and current performance may be higher or lower. Please call 1-800-764-0442 or visit www.iconadvisers.com for performance results current to the most recent month-end.
 
Portfolio Data
 
This Report reflects ICON’s views, opinions and portfolio holdings as of September 30, 2007, the end of the reporting period. The information is not a complete analysis of every aspect of any sector, industry, security or the Funds.
 
Opinions and forecasts regarding industries, companies and/or themes, and portfolio composition and holdings are subject to change at any time based on market and other conditions, and should not be construed as a recommendation of any specific security, industry or sector. Each Fund’s holdings as of September 30, 2007 are included in each Fund’s Schedule of Investments.
 
While ICON’s quantitative investment methodology primarily considers company-specific factors beyond financial data, various company factors may impact a stock’s performance, and therefore, Fund performance. Investments in foreign securities may entail unique risks, including political, market, and currency risks. Financial statements of foreign companies are governed by different accounting, auditing, and financial standards than U.S. companies and tend to be less transparent and uniform than in the United States. Many corporate governance standards, which help ensure the integrity of public information in the United States, do not exist in foreign countries. In general, there is less governmental supervision of foreign stock exchanges and securities brokers and issuers. The ICON system relies on the
 
 
 
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integrity of financial statements released to the market as part of our analysis.
 
According to ICON, value investing is an analytical, quantitative approach to investing that employs various factors, including projecting earnings growth estimates, in an effort to determine whether securities are over- or underpriced relative to ICON’s estimates of their intrinsic value. Value investing involves risks and uncertainties and does not guarantee better performance or lower costs than other investment methodologies. ICON’s value-to-price ratio is a ratio of intrinsic value, as calculated using ICON’s proprietary valuation methodology, of a broad range of domestic and international securities within ICON’s system as compared to the current market price of those securities.
 
This Report contains statements regarding industry or sector themes, new market themes, investment outlook, relative strength, value-to-price ratios, and investment team expectations, beliefs, goals and the like that are based on current expectations, recent individual stock performance relative to current market prices, estimates of company values and other information supplied to the market by the companies we follow. Words such as “expects,” “suggests,” “anticipates,” “targets,” “goals,” “value,” “intrinsic value” “indicates,” “believes,” “considers,” “estimates,” variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward looking statements, which are not statements of historical fact. Forward looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to assess. These risks and uncertainties are based on a number of important factors, including, among others: stock price fluctuations; the integrity and accuracy of historical and projected financial and other information supplied by companies to the public; interest rates; future earnings growth rates, the risks noted in this Annual Report, and other factors beyond the control of our investment team. Therefore, actual outcome may differ materially from what is expressed in such forward looking statements.
 
There are risks associated with mutual fund investing, including the loss of principal. The likelihood of loss may be greater if you invest for a shorter period of time. There is no assurance that the investment process will consistently lead to successful results.
 
An investment concentrated in sectors and industries may involve greater risk and volatility than a more diversified investment. Investments in foreign securities may entail unique risks, including political, market, and currency risks.
 
 
 
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The prospectus contains this and other information about the Funds and is available by visiting www.iconadvisers.com or calling 1-800-764-0442. Please read the prospectus carefully.
 
Comparative Indexes
 
The comparative indexes discussed in this Report are meant to provide a basis for judging the Funds’ performance against specific securities indexes. Each index shown accounts for both change in security price and reinvestment of dividends and distributions (except as noted), but does not reflect the costs of managing a mutual fund. The Funds’ portfolios may significantly differ in holdings and composition from the indexes. Individuals cannot invest directly in an index.
 
•   The unmanaged Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) Composite 1500 Index (“S&P Composite 1500 Index”) is a broad-based capitalization-weighted index comprising 1,500 stocks of large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap U.S. companies.
 
•   The capitalization-weighted S&P 1500 Sector and Industry Indexes are based on specific classifications determined by S&P.
 
•   The unmanaged NASDAQ Composite (“NASDAQ”) Index is a broad-based capitalization-weighted index of all NASDAQ National Market and Small-Cap stocks.
 
Index returns and statistical data included in this Report are provided by Bloomberg and FactSet Research Systems.
 
 
 
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Message From ICON Funds
 
Dear ICON Shareholder:
 
We realize you are faced with many mutual fund choices as you construct your financial plan, and we appreciate your continued commitment to diversify with one or more of the ICON Sector Funds. To those shareholders who are receiving their first ICON Funds Annual Report, we welcome you.
 
Investing lore is replete with sayings that communicate the wisdom that comes only from long-term experience. During the past five years, I have been reminded of the expression, “Wall Street climbs a wall of worry.” As the saying goes, market advances need to climb the proverbial “wall of worry” in order to keep going higher.
 
Many investors believe they have plenty to worry about: the sub-prime mortgage crisis, interest rates, oil prices, consumer spending, and inflation, not to mention the anxieties of terrorism, the Iraq war, environmental issues, and the weakness of the dollar. Amid these concerns, investors are inundated with news and theories about the stock market, leading to confusion, fear, and poor investment decisions.
 
Second-guessing the Federal Reserve (the Fed) seems to be a popular activity lately for many investors. Some argue the Fed waited too long to ease. Some argue the Fed should not be easing at all. Others believe the Fed should ease monetary policy even more.
 
We believe the debates regarding the economy and the stock market are a distraction for investment purposes. At ICON, we do not waste energy trying to predict what the Fed will do. Fed economists have direct access to economic statistics and banking activity. They are in the best position to make decisions regarding interest rates.
 
Debate also centers on the economy as people guess whether there will be a recession. They focus particular attention on the housing market and argue over when it might rebound. Again, this debate is irrelevant to the ICON system, as we avoid conjecture about the economy and housing market when making investment decisions.
 
 
 
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A Strong Equity Market
 
Despite worrisome headlines and gloomy expectations, it may be surprising to know how well the equity markets have performed over the last five years. Below are cumulative and annualized rates of return for a few popular indexes for the five-year period ended September 30, 2007.
 
Index Returns, 9/30/02 - 9/30/07
 
                 
Index
  Cumulative Return     Annualized Return  
 
Dow Jones Industrial Average
    105.02 %     15.44 %
NASDAQ Composite Index
    138.06 %     18.94 %
S&P 500 Index
    105.13 %     15.45 %
S&P MidCap 400 Index
    130.45 %     18.17 %
S&P SmallCap 600 Index
    135.93 %     18.73 %
 
The unmanaged Dow Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks, primarily industrials. The unmanaged NASDAQ Composite (“NASDAQ”) Index is a broad-based capitalization-weighted index of all NASDAQ National Market and Small-Cap stocks. The unmanaged Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 Index is a market value-weighted index of large-cap common stocks considered representative of the broad market. The unmanaged S&P SmallCap 600 Index is an unmanaged index of 600 domestic stocks chosen for their market capitalization, liquidity, financial viability, and sector representation. The unmanaged S&P MidCap 400 Index is a widely recognized unmanaged mid-cap index of 400 domestic stocks chosen for their market capitalization, liquidity, and industry group representations. Total returns for the unmanaged indexes include the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions, except as noted, but do not reflect the costs of managing a mutual fund. The Funds’ composition may differ significantly from the indexes. Individuals cannot invest directly in an index.
 
Sources: FactSet Research Systems, Bloomberg
 
We think these are impressive rates of returns and are above-average by historic standards. A 100% cumulative return means the investment has doubled during the period. Yet analysts, observers, and investors have doubted the strength of this market. But, as the adage says, as they worried, the market kept climbing.
 
The past five years are significant to ICON because we opened four new funds in September 2002. ICON Long/Short, ICON Equity Income, ICON Income Opportunity, and ICON Bond Funds recently reached their five-year performance track records. Additionally, the ICON Core Equity Fund has seven years of performance as of mid-October, and most of the ICON Sector and International Funds now boast 10-year track records.
 
 
 
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Guided by Valuation
 
As always, our valuation readings have been our guide. According to our methodology, stocks have, on average, been priced below our estimate of intrinsic value over the course of the fiscal year. Our valuations dictate being invested.
 
While investors worry about current events, they have been giving us stocks at bargain prices. In our view, the impressive rates of return seen in market indexes are simply the result of prices trying to catch up with intrinsic value.
 
At ICON, we invest in industries that our methodology identifies as underpriced. Our quantitative process keeps us on track when many other investors are doubtful and worried. We continue to uncover companies we think are healthy and well-managed. These companies seem to be succeeding even amidst investor fear and worry.
 
Our discipline directed us to stay invested during the fiscal year, allowing the ICON Funds to take advantage of this rising market. In our regular communications, we have been steady in our message that it has been best to be invested in underpriced stocks and ride through short-term setbacks. You should be commended for your resolve to stick with the ICON system, and we believe you should be proud if you have participated in the advance.
 
In closing, we are grateful for the privilege of playing a role in your investment portfolio. In addition to reading this report on your Funds and communicating with your financial adviser, we invite you to visit our website at www.iconadvisers.com for current market updates, up-to-date Fund performance, and other information about your account.
 
Yours truly,
 
-s- Craig T. Callahan
Craig T. Callahan, DBA
Chairman of the Board of Trustees and President of the Adviser
 
 
 
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Management Overview
ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmarks?
 
A.  For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the Fund’s sector-specific benchmark, the S&P 1500 Consumer Discretionary Index, returned 5.92%, and its broad benchmark, the S&P Composite 1500 Index, gained 16.59%. The ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund trailed both benchmarks, appreciating 5.62% during the same period. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  We believe investor concerns over rising oil prices, the sub-prime mortgage debacle, the slowdown in housing, and concerns over the possibility of inflation all weighed heavily on the Consumer Discretionary sector during the period. With oil, gold, and other commodity prices rising sharply, investors apparently doubted the ability of consumers to continue spending, which, in turn, would dampen profits for retail, home, and auto-related issues.
 
Investors appeared reluctant to buy shares of Consumer Discretionary stocks in spite of the significant value they held based on our calculations. At the start of the fiscal period, our analysis indicated the Consumer Discretionary sector was trading at about a 30% discount to our estimation of its intrinsic value.
 
Despite investor concerns, earnings of companies within this sector remained generally strong, and a slowdown in consumer spending did not materialize during the period.
 
Amid this backdrop, Consumer Discretionary stocks struggled relative to the broader market, while trading in the sector was quite volatile. To illustrate, from the beginning of the period to February 20, 2007, the S&P 1500 Consumer Discretionary Index rose 15.60%. Then, from February 20 to March 5, 2007, the Index fell (7.28%), and from March 5 to June 4, 2007, the Index bounced back, rising 9.08%. Finally, after a short period of sideways movement, the Consumer Discretionary Index dropped (12.50%) from July 19 to August 15, 2007.
 
 
 
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Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  Our valuation system directs us to invest in industries that are demonstrating the best combination of value and strength relative to the broad market. During the period, several industries in particular contributed to absolute performance, including footwear, auto parts & equipment, apparel accessories & luxury goods, broadcasting & cable TV, and general merchandise stores. Together, these industries comprised about 35% of average Fund assets in the fiscal year.
 
Conversely, the home improvement retail, household appliances, and homebuilder industries detracted from fiscal-year returns, accounting for approximately 12% on average of the total assets of the Fund in the period. These housing-related groups, while offering significant value based on our calculations, fell as investors appeared overwhelmed by the constant negative headlines related to consumer spending over the period.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the Consumer Discretionary sector?
 
A.  According to our methodology, the Consumer Discretionary sector is the most undervalued sector of the nine we track, with a value-to-price ratio of 1.31 at the close of the fiscal year. Inopportunely, while the sector has a high value-to-price ratio, our calculations reveal it also has the lowest relative strength ranking among the sectors we follow.
 
We believe this sector is well positioned to lead the broad market higher, and our experience indicates that the Consumer Discretionary sector has fared well following Federal Reserve rate cuts. However, we need to see an increase in its relative strength metric before more broadly diversifying across the sector.
 
Based on our quantitative analysis, the underlying company fundamentals of consumer-related issues remain generally strong. Until investors’ fears subside regarding the ability of the consumer to continue spending briskly, however, we believe these stocks will lack relative strength.
 
 
 
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Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Auto Parts & Equipment
    14.6%
Footwear
    7.9%
Home Improvement Retail
    7.3%
Apparel Accessories & Luxury Goods
    7.0%
Housewares & Specialties
    7.0%
General Merchandise Stores
    6.2%
Household Appliances
    5.7%
Automotive Retail
    5.2%
Computer Hardware
    4.4%
Apparel Retail
    4.0%
Education Services
    3.7%
Home Entertainment Software
    3.4%
Distributors
    3.0%
Specialty Stores
    2.8%
Household Products
    2.4%
Automobile Manufacturers
    2.3%
Internet Software Services
    2.3%
Computer & Electronics Retail
    1.7%
Consumer Electronics
    1.6%
Food Distributors
    1.6%
Soft Drinks
    1.6%
Agriculture Products
    1.4%
Drug Retail
    1.3%
Semiconductors
    1.2%
Internet Retail
    0.9%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                   
                              Since
         
                              Inception
      Expense
 
      1 Year       5 Years       10 Years       7/9/97       Ratio*  
ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund
      5.62%         8.57%         3.60%         4.46%         1.32 %
 
 
S&P 1500 Consumer Discretionary Index
      5.92%         11.50%         5.76%         6.51%         N/A  
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
      16.59%         15.82%         6.97%         7.42%         N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The performance of the S&P 1500 Consumer Discretionary Index includes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions beginning on January 1, 2002. Additional information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(Graph)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund on its inception date of 7/9/97 to a $10,000 investment made in unmanaged securities indexes on that date. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (100.5%)
  13,500     Abercrombie & Fitch Co.   $ 1,089,450  
  16,600     AutoZone, Inc.(a)     1,927,924  
  35,400     Best Buy Co., Inc.     1,629,108  
  32,500     BorgWarner, Inc.     2,974,725  
  50,900     Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc.(a)     2,180,556  
  23,800     Capella Education Co.(a)     1,330,658  
  21,900     Coach, Inc.(a)     1,035,213  
  28,500     Corn Products International, Inc.     1,307,295  
  31,600     CVS Caremark Corp.     1,252,308  
  149,000     Dell, Inc.(a)     4,112,400  
  115,900     Drew Industries, Inc.(a)     4,714,812  
  55,300     eBay, Inc.(a)     2,157,806  
  58,100     General Motors Corp.(b)     2,132,270  
  100,800     Gildan Activewear, Inc. - Class A(a)     3,970,512  
  65,700     Iconix Brand Group, Inc.(a)     1,563,003  
  45,600     Intel Corp.     1,179,216  
  51,600     Johnson Controls, Inc.     6,094,476  
  93,400     Libbey, Inc.(b)     1,636,368  
  129,900     Lifetime Brands, Inc.(b)     2,635,671  
  82,200     LKQ Corp.(a)     2,861,382  
  119,600     Lowe’s Cos., Inc.     3,351,192  
  99,120     Nike, Inc. - Class B     5,814,379  
  31,500     Nintendo Co., Ltd. - ADR     2,031,750  
  18,400     NutriSystem, Inc.(a)(b)     862,776  
  91,100     O’Reilly Automotive, Inc.(a)     3,043,651  
  43,300     PetSmart, Inc.     1,381,270  
  32,200     Procter & Gamble Co.     2,264,948  
  30,200     Shanda Interactive Entertainment, Ltd.(a)     1,123,742  
  31,100     Sony Corp. - ADR(b)     1,494,666  
  56,450     Staples, Inc.     1,213,111  
  43,800     Sysco Corp.     1,558,842  
  92,400     Target Corp.     5,873,868  
  111,400     The Home Depot, Inc.     3,613,816  
  39,600     The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.     1,471,932  
  28,400     The Stanley Works     1,594,092  
  91,600     TJX Cos., Inc.     2,662,812  
  75,400     Tupperware Brands Corp.     2,374,346  
  37,200     Volcom, Inc.(a)     1,581,744  
  42,700     Whirlpool Corp.     3,804,570  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $86,482,249)
    94,902,660  
Other Securities (9.0%)
  8,489,276     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment Fund, 5.24%     8,489,276  
                 
Total Other Securities
(Cost $8,489,276)
    8,489,276  
Total Investments 109.5%
(Cost $94,971,525)
    103,391,936  
Liabilities Less Other Assets (9.5)%
    (8,914,701 )
         
Net Assets 100.0%
  $ 94,477,235  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
 
 
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 ICENX

 
Management Overview
ICON Energy Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmarks?
 
A.  For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the ICON Energy Fund appreciated 43.64%, outperforming its sector-specific benchmark, the S&P 1500 Energy Index, which returned 42.66%, and its broad benchmark, the S&P Composite 1500 Index, which gained 16.59%. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  Amid significant volatility in both the broad equity market and the price of oil, the ICON Energy Fund rose sharply during the fiscal period. These strong gains came as investors were evidently concerned not only about the rising price of oil, but also about the slowdown in the housing market and the deterioration in the sub-prime lending market. Despite these fears, the market advanced over the last 12 months, led by the Energy sector.
 
Throughout the period, crude oil futures drove Energy stock prices higher, with futures starting the period at $62.91 per barrel and ending at $81.66 per barrel on September 30, 2007, an increase of nearly 30%.
 
The Fund’s fiscal-year appreciation was not without volatility. From the start of the period to December 14, 2006, the Fund rose 15.75%. Subsequently, in less than a month, from December 14, 2006 to January 11, 2007, Energy stocks and oil futures both fell dramatically. During that timeframe, the Fund declined (13.32%).
 
Nearly all of the Fund’s gains for the period came in a time of relative calm as oil prices advanced steadily between mid-January and late July 2007. From January 11, 2007 to July 23, 2007, the ICON Energy Fund charged higher, returning 42.99%.
 
Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  Of the seven industries we track in the Energy sector, only two outperformed the S&P 1500 Energy Index: oil & gas equipment & services and integrated oil & gas.
 
The integrated oil & gas industry, comprised predominantly of large-cap global oil companies such as Exxon Mobil, rose approximately 44% during the 12 months ended September 30, 2007, versus the 42.66% return of
 
 
 
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the S&P 1500 Energy Index. While the Fund maintained a significant weight in this industry on an absolute basis (about 22% on average during the period), the integrated oil & gas industry position was largely underweight relative to the benchmark due to what we saw as its lack of value. However, this group advanced on momentum, and the Fund’s underweight position was a drag on relative performance.
 
The oil & gas equipment & services industry, comprising a mix of small- to large-cap companies, was the best-performing Energy industry in the fiscal year, rising around 60%. The Fund was significantly overweight this industry relative to the S&P 1500 Energy Index, about 31% on average during the period versus approximately 16% in the benchmark. The Fund held an overweight position in this industry based on our calculation of its strong value and relative strength metrics, and this active overweight was the primary contributor to the Fund’s relative outperformance.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the Energy sector?
 
A.  Despite the strong rise in Energy stocks during the fiscal year, prices of Energy shares have yet to catch up with our estimate of their intrinsic value. Based on our quantitative methodology, the Energy sector ended the period trading at a 15% discount to our calculation of fair value.
 
Of course, the price of oil futures can have a significant impact of the fortunes of Energy companies, and we do not believe that analysts can accurately and consistently predict the future price of oil. While our research indicates there is upside potential in this sector, we also anticipate ongoing volatility as expectations over the future price of oil can change abruptly and dramatically.
 
The Fund enters the new fiscal year with a continued overweight in the oil & gas equipment & services industry. Although the Fund remains underweight the integrated oil & gas industry, we have increased the Fund’s position based on our valuation and relative strength metric.
 
 
 
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Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Integrated Oil & Gas
    32.8%
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
    30.6%
Oil & Gas Drilling
    15.1%
Oil & Gas Exploration & Production
    12.3%
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing
    3.8%
Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation
    2.3%
Coal & Consumable Fuels
    1.2%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                         
                      Since
         
                      Inception
      Expense
 
      1 Year       5 Years       11/5/97       Ratio*  
ICON Energy Fund
      43.64%         31.82%         18.16%         1.17%  
 
 
S&P 1500 Energy Index
      42.66%         30.10%         13.61%         N/A  
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
      16.59%         15.82%         7.10%         N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund on its inception date of 11/5/97 to a $10,000 investment made in unmanaged securities indexes on that date. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Energy Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (98.1%)
  250,000     Acergy S.A. - ADR   $ 7,425,000  
  413,800     Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.(a)     9,612,574  
  139,900     Apache Corp.     12,599,394  
  169,300     Atwood Oceanics, Inc.(a)     12,961,608  
  206,500     Baker Hughes, Inc.     18,661,405  
  632,400     Bois d’Arc Energy, Inc.(a)     12,123,108  
  389,600     BP PLC - ADR     27,018,760  
  349,400     Cameron International Corp.(a)     32,246,126  
  543,800     Chevron Corp.     50,888,804  
  92,900     China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. - ADR(b)     11,436,919  
  100,000     CNOOC, Ltd. - ADR(b)     16,643,000  
  915,800     ConocoPhillips     80,379,766  
  284,600     Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.     32,242,334  
  138,300     Dril-Quip, Inc.(a)     6,825,105  
  300,000     El Paso Corp.     5,091,000  
  388,200     FMC Technologies, Inc.(a)     22,383,612  
  490,900     Grant Prideco, Inc.(a)     26,763,868  
  320,900     Halliburton Co.     12,322,560  
  407,200     Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc.(a)     17,289,712  
  400,000     Helmerich & Payne, Inc.     13,132,000  
  15,200     Lufkin Industries, Inc.     836,304  
  266,200     Marathon Oil Corp.     15,178,724  
  51,600     Murphy Oil Corp.     3,606,324  
  295,200     National Oilwell Varco, Inc.(a)     42,656,400  
  377,400     Noble Corp.     18,511,470  
  802,100     Occidental Petroleum Corp.     51,398,568  
  350,000     Oil States International, Inc.(a)     16,905,000  
  400,000     Pride International, Inc.(a)     14,620,000  
  575,000     Range Resources Corp.     23,379,500  
  332,800     Royal Dutch Shell PLC - Class A - ADR     27,349,504  
  103,600     Schlumberger, Ltd.     10,878,000  
  127,800     Sunoco, Inc.     9,045,684  
  379,300     Superior Energy Services, Inc.(a)     13,442,392  
  175,000     The Williams Companies, Inc.     5,960,500  
  173,900     Tidewater, Inc.     10,927,876  
  275,000     Transocean, Inc.(a)     31,088,750  
  114,100     Tsakos Energy Navigation, Ltd.     8,033,781  
  325,700     Valero Energy Corp.     21,880,526  
  179,000     W-H Energy Services, Inc.(a)     13,201,250  
  212,498     Weatherford International, Ltd.(a)     14,275,615  
  308,833     XTO Energy, Inc.     19,098,233  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $516,805,147)
    800,321,056  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Short-Term Investments (2.1%)
$ 17,009,417     Brown Brothers Harriman Time
Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%,
10/01/07#
  $ 17,009,417  
                 
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $17,009,417)
    17,009,417  
Other Securities (3.4%)        
  28,147,480     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment Fund, 5.24%     28,147,480  
                 
Total Other Securities
(Cost $28,147,480)
    28,147,480  
Total Investments 103.6%
(Cost $561,962,044)
    845,477,953  
Liabilities Less Other Assets (3.6)%     (29,402,989 )
         
Net Assets 100.0%   $ 816,074,964  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
 
 
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 ICFSX

 
Management Overview
ICON Financial Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmarks?
 
A.  The ICON Financial Fund appreciated 3.84% for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, outperforming its sector-specific benchmark, the S&P 1500 Financials Index, which returned 1.47%, but lagging its broad benchmark, the S&P Composite 1500 Index, which gained 16.59%. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  The Financial sector lagged the broad equity market during the fiscal year. Late in the period, the Federal Reserve (Fed) Open Market Committee lowered the Federal Funds rate for the first time since June 2003, cutting it 0.50% in response to the increasing economic threat of defaults on sub-prime mortgages.
 
Sub-prime mortgage concerns also drove the Fed to attempt to infuse liquidity into the market by making an additional 50-point decrease in the discount window after a previous 50-point cut.
 
After this Fed activity, the yield curve migrated from flat to upward-sloping. The three-month Treasury fell more than 100 basis points, beginning the period at 4.88% and closing out the period at 3.81%.
 
Mortgage lenders suffered as sub-prime and Alt-A mortgages declined sharply toward the close of the period. These types of mortgages are granted to borrowers whose credit history is not sufficient to get a conventional mortgage. Often these borrowers have impaired or even no credit history and may be likely to default when the housing market declines. Mortgage declines pulled down the Financial sector overall as investors feared that other financial firms had significant exposure to the sub-prime and Alt-A markets.
 
Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  While the Fund owned holdings in the distressed mortgage REITs industry, we sold the positions due to low relative strength. Toward the end of the period, we re-initiated a position in the REITs industry after our system detected emerging leadership against the broad market.
 
 
 
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The Fund’s mortgage REIT holdings lost about (5%) while they were held, while mortgage REIT holdings in the S&P 1500 Financials Index lost a market-weighted average of approximately (80%) during the fiscal year.
 
The Fund enjoyed solid gains from the investment banking & brokerage industry, its most heavily weighted industry, as well as from the asset management industry. We pared the investment banking & brokerage industry as relative strength started to decline.
 
However, gains from the investment banking & brokerage industry were partially offset by losses in the overweighted specialized finance industry and the consumer finance industry.
 
The Fund initiated a position in the insurance brokers industry when the industry began to demonstrate leadership. The Fund’s weighting in the life & health insurance industry more than doubled during the fiscal year as its relative strength increased. Both industries contributed positively to the Fund’s fiscal-year return.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the Financial sector?
 
A.  With the Financial sector priced at 17% below our measurement of its intrinsic value, our analysis suggests there may be opportunities for favorable industry moves toward fair value.
 
Since the Financial sector low on August 15, 2007, there has been strong industry leadership within the Fund, particularly in the investment banking & brokerage, reinsurance, and life & health insurance industries. We will be watching the earnings-per-share growth estimates of these industries, as well as other industry fundamentals.
 
 
 
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Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Investment Banking & Brokerage
    15.9%
Other Diversified Financial Services
    11.9%
Reinsurance
    11.6%
Life & Health Insurance
    11.4%
Diversified Banks
    10.8%
Asset Management & Custody Banks
    7.9%
Insurance Brokers
    4.6%
Specialized Finance
    4.3%
Multi-Line Insurance
    4.2%
Diversified Commercial & Professional Services
    3.5%
Thrifts & Mortgage Insurance
    2.8%
Consumer Finance
    2.6%
Publishing
    2.5%
Diversified Capital Markets
    1.9%
Property & Casualty Insurance
    1.4%
Mortgage Reits
    1.0%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                   
                              Since
         
                              Inception
      Expense
 
      1 Year       5 Years       10 Years       7/1/97       Ratio*  
ICON Financial Fund
      3.84%         14.63%         10.03%         10.31%         1.20 %
 
 
S&P 1500 Financials Index
      1.47%         13.63%         8.10%         9.04%         N/A  
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
      16.59%         15.82%         6.97%         7.60%         N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund on its inception date of 7/1/97 to a $10,000 investment made in unmanaged securities indexes on that date. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Financial Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (98.3%)
  118,900     Aflac, Inc.   $ 6,782,056  
  55,000     American Express Co.     3,265,350  
  63,100     American International Group, Inc.     4,268,715  
  86,100     Aon Corp.     3,858,141  
  86,900     Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. - ADR     2,023,032  
  111,700     Banco Santander Central Hispano, S.A. - ADR     2,156,927  
  195,400     Bank of America Corp.     9,822,758  
  93,400     Bank of New York Mellon Corp.     4,122,676  
  26,500     Cash America International, Inc.     996,400  
  98,400     Citigroup, Inc.     4,592,328  
  113,700     Credicorp Ltd.     7,697,490  
  56,800     Credit Suisse Group - ADR     3,767,544  
  32,900     Dun & Bradstreet Corp.     3,244,269  
  72,600     Everest Re Group, Ltd.     8,003,424  
  75,000     EZCORP, Inc.(a)     1,008,750  
  127,700     Financial Federal Corp.     3,576,877  
  146,200     Flagstar Bancorp, Inc.     1,422,526  
  49,400     Franklin Resources, Inc.     6,298,500  
  71,100     Freddie Mac     4,195,611  
  76,900     FTI Consulting, Inc.(a)     3,868,839  
  75,800     GFI Group, Inc.(a)     6,527,896  
  67,200     ING Group N.V. - ADR     2,977,632  
  139,900     JPMorgan Chase & Co.     6,410,218  
  86,700     Loews Corp.     4,191,945  
  93,400     MetLife, Inc.     6,512,782  
  244,100     MFA Mortgage Investments, Inc. - REIT     1,957,682  
  112,200     Morgan Stanley     7,068,600  
  47,700     Morningstar, Inc.(a)     2,928,780  
  102,900     National Financial Partners Corp.     5,451,642  
  157,400     optionsXpress Holdings, Inc.     4,114,436  
  43,200     PartnerRe, Ltd.     3,412,368  
  95,125     Portfolio Recovery Associates Inc.     5,048,284  
  46,300     Prudential Financial, Inc.     4,517,954  
  87,900     RenaissanceRe Holdings, Ltd.     5,749,539  
  97,600     StanCorp Financial Group, Inc.     4,832,176  
  38,100     State Street Corp.     2,596,896  
  145,100     TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.(a)     2,643,722  
  48,400     The Allstate Corp.     2,767,996  
  219,500     The Charles Schwab Corp.     4,741,200  
  30,600     The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.     6,632,244  
  48,200     The Thomson Corp.     2,021,026  
  85,800     Transatlantic Holdings, Inc.     6,034,314  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  101,600     Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. - Class A   $ 2,746,248  
  275,000     Wells Fargo & Co.     9,795,500  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $177,840,899)
    196,653,293  
Short-Term Investments (1.8%)
$ 3,671,874     Brown Brothers Harriman Time
Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%,
10/01/07#
    3,671,874  
                 
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $3,671,874)
    3,671,874  
Total Investments 100.1%
(Cost $181,512,773)
    200,325,167  
Liabilities Less Other Assets (0.1)%     (236,235 )
         
Net Assets 100.0%   $ 200,088,932  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
REIT Real Estate Investment Trust
 
 
 
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 ICHCX

 
Management Overview
ICON Healthcare Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmarks?
 
A.  For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the Fund’s sector-specific benchmark, the S&P 1500 Health Care Index, returned 9.57%, and its broad benchmark, the S&P Composite 1500 Index, gained 16.59%. The ICON Healthcare Fund trailed both benchmarks, appreciating 7.17% during the same period. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  A volatile year in equities led to a difficult year for the Health Care sector. As the market rallied at the outset of the fiscal year, the S&P 1500 Health Care Index was negative through mid-November 2006. Even though the sector began to participate in the broad rally that continued through late February 2007, it evidently was not immune to a global sell-off, a housing market downturn, and recession fears that combined to rock the world markets in February 2007.
 
The sector rallied again through mid-July, but fell more than 5% from July 19, 2007 to August 15, 2007 as the sub-prime mortgage crisis roiled markets. This pattern of volatility led to quick theme changes between cyclical and defensive Health Care industries.
 
It was difficult for the ICON system to identify sustained industry leadership in this setting. Of the 10 industries we follow in the sector, not one was able to maintain a favorable relative strength reading for more than half of the 12-month period. Industry leaders at the outset of the fiscal year quickly became laggards, and conversely, industries that began the fiscal period as laggards eventually led, only to see their strength fade.
 
Although our research indicated the pharmaceutical industry was weakening during the period, large-cap pharmaceuticals began to outperform in mid-April, and the Fund began to lag its benchmark. Johnson and Johnson, Merck & Co., Eli Lilly & Co., Schering-Plough Corp., Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., and Allergan Inc., which together comprised more than 25% of the market-cap weighted S&P 1500 Health Care Index as of September 30, 2007, outperformed the benchmark from April 16 to September 30, 2007. While the Fund owned the first four companies mentioned, underweight positions muted gains.
 
 
 
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Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  The fiscal year witnessed numerous changes and reversals in leadership throughout the Health Care sector. At the outset of the fiscal year, the health care facilities industry offered the best combination of value and strength according to our analysis, but this leadership quickly disappeared, and the industry reached our sell breakpoint by November 2006.
 
The industry regained leadership, becoming the strongest industry by March 2007, only to fall back out of favor and again below our sell target in August 2007. This fluctuation caused the health care facilities industry to detract from the Fund’s performance relative to its benchmark.
 
The Fund’s holding in the pharmaceuticals industry also was a detractor to returns relative to the benchmark, leading from September 2006 through February 2007, but producing disappointing returns for the second half of the period. The Fund’s positions in Johnson and Johnson, Merck & Co., Eli Lilly & Co., Schering-Plough Corp., while meaningful, were underweight the benchmark, contributing significantly to underperformance.
 
Conversely, overweight industry positions and careful stock selection led to positive gains versus the benchmark in the biotechnology and managed health care industries.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the Healthcare sector?
 
A.  Despite a difficult fiscal year for the Health Care sector, we are pleased with the Fund’s long-term track record. Our calculations indicate the Health Care sector continues to have significant upside, trading at a 12% discount to our measurement of intrinsic value.
 
In particular, we think the managed health care and biotechnology industries continue to show value and leadership.
 
 
 
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Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Pharmaceuticals
    33.6%
Biotechnology
    19.1%
Managed Health Care
    18.9%
Health Care Equipment
    13.2%
Health Care Services
    10.2%
Health Care Distributors
    4.5%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                   
                              Since
         
                              Inception
      Expense
 
      1 Year       5 Years       10 Years       2/24/97       Ratio*  
ICON Healthcare Fund
      7.17 %       13.59 %       10.91 %       11.98 %       1.19 %
 
 
S&P 1500 Health Care Index
      9.57 %       9.49 %       7.75 %       8.42 %       N/A  
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
      16.59 %       15.82 %       6.97 %       8.36 %       N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund on its inception date of 2/24/97 to a $10,000 investment made in unmanaged securities indexes on that date. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Healthcare Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (99.5%)
  184,000     Aetna, Inc.   $ 9,985,680  
  20,000     Air Methods Corp.(a)     924,000  
  200,034     Amedisys, Inc.(a)     7,685,306  
  85,000     AmerisourceBergen Corp.     3,853,050  
  275,000     Amgen, Inc.(a)     15,556,750  
  25,000     AMN Healthcare Services, Inc.(a)     468,250  
  48,100     AstraZeneca PLC - ADR     2,408,367  
  250,000     Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(a)     14,227,500  
  100,000     Biogen Idec, Inc.(a)     6,633,000  
  140,000     Biovail Corp. - ADR(b)     2,431,800  
  50,000     Cardinal Health, Inc.     3,126,500  
  400,000     Celgene Corp.(a)     28,524,000  
  70,000     Cephalon, Inc.(a)(b)     5,114,200  
  375,000     CIGNA Corp.     19,983,750  
  138,700     Coventry Health Care, Inc.(a)     8,628,527  
  100,000     Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(a)     2,113,000  
  125,000     DaVita, Inc.(a)     7,897,500  
  250,000     Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Ltd. - ADR(b)     4,090,000  
  325,000     Eli Lilly & Co.     18,502,250  
  150,000     Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc.(a)(b)     4,651,500  
  100,000     Express Scripts, Inc.(a)     5,582,000  
  87,000     Forest Laboratories, Inc.(a)     3,244,230  
  60,000     Genentech, Inc.(a)     4,681,200  
  50,000     Gentiva Health Services, Inc.(a)     960,500  
  175,000     Genzyme Corp.(a)     10,843,000  
  250,000     Gilead Sciences, Inc.(a)     10,217,500  
  63,800     Health Net, Inc.(a)     3,448,390  
  125,000     HealthSpring, Inc.(a)     2,437,500  
  100,000     Henry Schein, Inc.(a)     6,084,000  
  215,000     Humana, Inc.(a)     15,024,200  
  425,000     Johnson & Johnson, Inc.     27,922,500  
  325,000     K-V Pharmaceutical Co.(a)     9,295,000  
  175,000     LifeCell Corp.(a)(b)     6,574,750  
  100,000     Lincare Holdings, Inc.(a)     3,665,000  
  50,000     Matria Healthcare, Inc.(a)     1,308,000  
  110,000     McKesson HBOC, Inc.     6,466,900  
  150,000     MedcoHealth Solutions, Inc.(a)     13,558,500  
  75,000     Medtronic, Inc.     4,230,750  
  425,000     Merck & Co., Inc.     21,968,250  
  350,000     Mylan Laboratories, Inc.     5,586,000  
  550,000     Pfizer, Inc.     13,436,500  
  75,000     PSS World Medical, Inc.(a)     1,434,750  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  100,000     Quest Diagnostics, Inc.   $ 5,777,000  
  150,000     ResMed, Inc.(a)     6,430,500  
  200,000     Respironics, Inc.(a)     9,606,000  
  350,000     Schering-Plough Corp.     11,070,500  
  140,000     Sciele Pharma, Inc.,(a)(b)     3,642,800  
  125,000     St. Jude Medical, Inc.(a)     5,508,750  
  275,000     Stryker Corp.     18,909,000  
  104,500     Syneron Medical, Ltd.     2,470,380  
  175,000     Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. - ADR     7,782,250  
  250,000     UnitedHealth Group, Inc.     12,107,500  
  46,400     WellCare Health Plans, Inc.(a)     4,891,952  
  175,000     WellPoint, Inc.(a)     13,811,000  
  200,000     Wyeth     8,910,000  
  185,000     Zimmer Holdings, Inc.(a)     14,983,150  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $391,115,443)
    470,675,132  
Short-Term Investments (0.5%)        
$ 2,430,680     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%, 10/01/07#     2,430,680  
                 
Total Short-Term Investments (Cost $2,430,680)
    2,430,680  
Other Securities (5.2%)
       
  24,723,419     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment
Fund, 5.24%
    24,723,419  
                 
Total Other Securities
(Cost $24,723,419)
    24,723,419  
Total Investments 105.2%
(Cost $418,269,542)
    497,829,231  
Liabilities Less Other Assets (5.2)%
    (24,542,718 )
         
Net Assets 100.0%
  $ 473,286,513  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
 
 
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Management Overview
ICON Industrials Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmarks?
 
A.  The ICON Industrials Fund gained 28.73% for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, outperforming its sector-specific benchmark, the S&P 1500 Industrials Index, which returned 25.38%, and its broad benchmark, the S&P Composite 1500 Index, which appreciated 16.59%. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  At the beginning of the fiscal year, the Industrials sector was trading at a 19% discount to our measurement of intrinsic value, and 19 of the 20 industries we follow in the sector were undervalued according to our calculations, providing ample opportunity for diversification.
 
While producing a solid gain for the fiscal year, the Industrials sector experienced volatility as concerns about the economy evidently affected the equity market as a whole. From the beginning of the period through July 19, 2007, the Industrials sector gained more than 26%, and the Fund was able to benefit from strong combinations of value and relative strength in the marine, heavy electrical equipment, and construction & farm machinery & heavy trucks industries. Positions in these industries enabled the Fund to outperform the sector as a whole with a total return of more than 33%.
 
From July 19, 2007 through August 15, 2007, sub-prime mortgage issues contributed to fears of recession and decreased spending on industrial growth. During this time period, the Industrials Fund declined by more than 10%, hampered by weakness in the railroads, trucking and electrical components and equipment industries. Once the fear-based sell-off subsided, Industrials rallied for the last month and a half of the period, with the Fund gaining particular strength from the marine ports & services, marine, and heavy electrical equipment industries.
 
Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  On an industry basis, the aerospace & defense, marine, industrial machinery, construction & farm machinery & heavy trucks, electrical components & equipment, and industrial conglomerates industries contributed most to the Fund’s absolute return for the period.
 
 
 
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While the Fund remained diversified in every industry in the Industrials sector during the period, the six industries identified above comprised about 65% of Fund assets on average and contributed measurably to performance. Specifically, a significant overweight in the marine industry aided performance as strong earnings growth within the dry bulk shipping sector produced returns of approximately 150% during the period.
 
Five of the 28 industries in the Fund — specifically air freight & logistics, trucking, oil & gas equipment & services, oil & gas storage & transportation, and office services & supplies — detracted from overall performance in the fiscal year. Three of these industries are in the Industrials sector while two are in the Energy sector and were added based on strong combinations of value and relative strength. The average position held in the air freight & logistics, trucking, oil & gas equipment & services, oil & gas storage & transportation, and office services & supplies industries was about 5%, limiting the negative impact to the Fund.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the Industrials sector?
 
A.  Even after a strong year, the Industrials sector continued to trade at a 14% discount to our measurement of its intrinsic value. This suggests that the sector will continue to grow at a pace that makes it difficult for market prices to catch up to our estimation of intrinsic value.
 
Therefore, we remain generally bullish on the sector, and we continue to look for industries that demonstrate strong combinations of value and relative strength. Currently, the Fund’s largest weightings are in the aerospace & defense, industrial conglomerates, and construction & farm machinery & heavy trucks industries.
 
 
 
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Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Aerospace & Defense
    25.9%
Industrial Conglomerates
    13.1%
Construction & Farm Machinery & Heavy Trucks
    12.4%
Industrial Machinery
    9.2%
Railroads
    9.2%
Marine
    6.5%
Electrical Components & Equipment
    6.1%
Trading Companies & Distributors
    3.6%
Diversified Commercial & Professional Services
    3.5%
Building Products
    3.3%
Air Freight & Logistics
    2.2%
Heavy Electrical Equipment
    1.4%
Marine Ports & Services
    0.9%
Trucking
    0.8%
Metal & Glass Containers
    0.7%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                   
                              Since
         
                              Inception
      Expense
 
      1 Year       5 Years       10 Years       5/9/97       Ratio*  
ICON Industrials Fund
      28.73 %       17.16 %       5.40 %       7.39 %       1.24 %
                                                   
S&P 1500 Industrials Index
      25.38 %       18.11 %       7.37 %       8.64 %       N/A  
                                                   
S&P Composite 1500 Index
      16.59 %       15.82 %       6.97 %       8.33 %       N/A  
                                                   
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund on its inception date of 5/9/97 to a $10,000 investment made in unmanaged securities indexes on that date. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Industrials Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (98.8%)
  70,500     A.O. Smith Corp.(b)   $ 3,093,540  
  76,500     AAON, Inc.     1,509,345  
  54,100     AAR Corp.(a)     1,641,394  
  82,500     ABB, Ltd. - ADR     2,163,975  
  8,600     Actuant Corp. - Class A     558,742  
  11,800     Acuity Brands, Inc.     595,664  
  40,000     Aegean Marine Petroleum Network, Inc.     1,450,400  
  29,800     AerCap Holdings NV(a)     741,722  
  50,000     Aircastle, Ltd.     1,671,000  
  10,000     Alliant Techsystems, Inc.(a)(b)     1,093,000  
  25,000     Ameron International Corp.(b)     2,644,250  
  15,000     AMETEK, Inc.     648,300  
  33,100     Apogee Enterprises, Inc.     858,614  
  60,000     Astec Industries, Inc.(a)     3,447,000  
  15,000     Baldor Electric Co.     599,250  
  20,000     Ball Corp.     1,075,000  
  100,000     Barnes Group, Inc.     3,192,000  
  60,000     BE Aerospace, Inc.(a)     2,491,800  
  50,000     Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.     4,058,500  
  30,000     Canadian National Railway Co.     1,710,000  
  48,800     Carlisle Cos., Inc.     2,371,680  
  60,000     Caterpillar, Inc.     4,705,800  
  10,000     CRA International, Inc.(a)     481,900  
  28,300     CSX Corp.     1,209,259  
  15,800     Cummins, Inc.     2,020,662  
  30,400     Curtiss-Wright Corp.     1,444,000  
  10,100     Danaher Corp.     835,371  
  5,400     DRS Technologies, Inc.     297,648  
  30,000     DryShips, Inc.(b)     2,725,500  
  19,000     Dun & Bradstreet Corp.     1,873,590  
  38,200     Dynamex, Inc.(a)     978,684  
  8,600     Eaton Corp.     851,744  
  15,000     EnPro Industries, Inc.(a)     609,000  
  24,400     Excel Maritime Carriers, Ltd.(b)     1,361,520  
  9,000     FedEx Corp.     942,750  
  15,000     First Solar, Inc.(a)     1,766,100  
  38,200     FTI Consulting, Inc.(a)     1,921,842  
  18,000     Genco Shipping & Trading, Ltd.(b)     1,179,540  
  25,000     General Dynamics Corp.     2,111,750  
  325,000     General Electric Co.     13,455,000  
                 
  65,000     Healthcare Services Group, Inc.(b)     1,317,550  
  24,800     Hub Group, Inc. - Class A(a)     744,744  
  19,500     IDEX Corp.     709,605  
  25,000     Illinois Tool Works, Inc.     1,491,000  
  22,000     Ingersoll Rand Co., Ltd. - Class A     1,198,340  
  40,000     JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. - ADR(a)     1,798,000  
  10,000     Kennametal, Inc.     839,800  
  37,500     Kirby Corp.(a)     1,655,250  
  50,000     L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc.     5,107,000  
  9,600     Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.     745,056  
  35,000     Lockheed Martin Corp.     3,797,150  
  25,000     Middleby Corp.(a)     1,613,500  
  60,000     Moog, Inc. - Class A(a)     2,636,400  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  25,400     MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. - Class A   $ 1,284,986  
  20,000     Mueller Industries, Inc.     722,800  
  171,200     Navios Maritime Holdings, Inc.     2,249,568  
  65,000     Norfolk Southern Corp.     3,374,150  
  30,000     Northrop Grumman Corp.     2,340,000  
  60,000     Oshkosh Truck Corp.     3,718,200  
  25,000     Precision Castparts Corp.     3,699,500  
  40,000     Quintana Maritime, Ltd.     762,800  
  37,800     Raytheon Co.     2,412,396  
  12,500     Rockwell Collins, Inc.     913,000  
  25,000     Ryder System, Inc.     1,225,000  
  20,000     Siemens AG - ADR     2,745,000  
  25,000     Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. - ADR(a)     997,500  
  15,000     Tata Motors, Ltd. - ADR(b)     287,100  
  17,500     Terex Corp.(a)     1,557,850  
  30,000     Textron, Inc.     1,866,300  
  60,000     The Boeing Co.     6,299,400  
  36,200     The Manitowoc Co., Inc.     1,602,936  
  20,000     The Toro Co.     1,176,600  
  18,400     TransDigm Group, Inc.(a)     841,064  
  35,000     Union Pacific Corp.     3,957,100  
  10,100     United Parcel Service, Inc. - Class B     758,510  
  40,000     United Technologies Corp.     3,219,200  
  10,000     Valmont Industries, Inc.     848,500  
  14,400     W.W. Grainger, Inc.     1,313,136  
  22,500     Wabtec Corp.     842,850  
  15,000     Watsco, Inc.     696,450  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $128,979,960)
    153,752,127  
Short-Term Investments (1.1%)
       
$ 1,727,526     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%,        
        10/01/07#     1,727,526  
                 
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $1,727,526)
    1,727,526  
Other Securities (4.3%)
       
  6,824,486     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment
Fund, 5.24%
    6,824,486  
                 
Total Other Securities
(Cost $6,824,486)
    6,824,486  
Total Investments 104.2%
(Cost $137,531,972)
    162,304,139  
Liabilities Less Other Assets (4.2)%
    (6,565,618 )
         
Net Assets 100.0%
  $ 155,738,521  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
 
 
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Management Overview
ICON Information Technology Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmarks?
 
A.  The ICON Information Technology Fund gained 26.38% for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, outpacing its sector-specific benchmark, the S&P 1500 Information Technology Index, which returned 23.30%, and its broad benchmarks, the NASDAQ Composite Index and the S&P Composite 1500 Index, which rose 20.52% and 16.59% respectively. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  As the period opened, Technology stocks were trading at about a 21% discount to our calculation of their intrinsic value, indicating significant upside potential.
 
After trading in a sideways pattern at the beginning of the fiscal period, Technology issues began to move higher in early March 2007. From March 5 to July 19, 2007, the Technology sector advanced as investors shook off concerns over a severe downturn in global equity markets in late February.
 
From March 5 to July 19, 2007, the ICON Information Technology Fund outpaced its benchmark by approximately 3% as the Fund’s industry composition worked in its favor.
 
For the first time this decade, the Fund had a heavy tilt toward the large-cap segment of the Technology sector. Our quantitative investment process pulled us in this direction based on value and relative strength metrics. Blue chip technology companies including Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, and Intel were added to the Fund as our research suggested they were trading at generally significant discounts to their intrinsic worth and were, on balance, exhibiting attractive relative strength according to our calculations.
 
While large-cap issues in general had not been favorable for most of this decade, our system identified attractive combinations of value and relative strength in these neglected blue chip issues and, accordingly, we tilted the Fund toward them.
 
 
 
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Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  Among the industries that contributed to absolute Fund performance during the fiscal year were computer hardware, communications equipment, internet software & services, and semiconductors. Guided by our valuation metrics, each of these industries was represented in the Fund with large-cap blue chip companies: IBM in computer hardware, Cisco in communications equipment, Google in internet software & services, and Intel in semiconductors. These four industries comprised an average of approximately 60% of net assets during the period.
 
With a positive return for the period, most industry holdings in the Fund contributed to its overall total return. However, computer storage & peripherals and electronic manufacturing services were two industries that slightly hampered returns.
 
The largest industry overweight relative to the Fund’s benchmark was in computer hardware. The Fund’s average weight in this industry during the fiscal year was about 5% greater than the average computer hardware position in the S&P 1500 Information Technology Index. This overweight proved beneficial to the Fund as the computer hardware industry was the best-performing industry in the sector over the period.
 
The Fund was underweight relative to its benchmark in the communications equipment industry, with an underweight in this industry over the period of approximately 4% versus the S&P 1500 Information Technology Index. This positioning also worked in the Fund’s favor as the communications equipment industry underperformed the sector benchmark for the period.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the Information Technology sector?
 
A.  Due to the sharp rise in Technology issues throughout the period, our value-to-price ratio for the sector at the end of the fiscal period was 1.03, indicating the sector is approaching our estimation of fair value. Nevertheless, we anticipate opportunity within the sector when we analyze its constituent industries.
 
While we do not base investment decisions on market capitalization, we recognize that larger companies generally lagged this decade but started demonstrating leadership in the summer of 2006. Based on our valuation, we believe they continue to have upside potential.
 
With proper industry selection based on our value and relative strength calculations, we believe the Information Technology sector remains an attractive area of the U.S. equity market.
 
 
 
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Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Computer Hardware
    26.5%
Communications Equipment
    14.9%
Internet Software Services
    13.8%
Systems Software
    11.7%
Semiconductors
    10.5%
Technology Distributors
    6.1%
Application Software
    4.1%
Semiconductor Equipment
    3.9%
Home Entertainment Software
    2.6%
Electronic Manufacturing Services
    2.4%
Data Processing & Outsourced Services
    1.4%
IT Consulting & Other Services
    0.8%
Office Electronics
    0.7%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                   
                              Since
         
                              Inception
      Expense
 
      1 Year       5 Years       10 Years       2/19/97       Ratio*  
ICON Information Technology Fund
      26.38 %       13.00 %       9.36 %       11.49 %       1.25 %
 
 
S&P 1500 Information Technology Index
      23.30 %       18.87 %       4.53 %       6.76 %       N/A  
 
 
NASDAQ Composite Index
      20.52 %       18.94 %       5.33 %       7.15 %       N/A  
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
      16.59 %       15.82 %       6.97 %       8.31 %       N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund on its inception date of 2/19/97 to a $10,000 investment made in unmanaged securities indexes on that date. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Information Technology Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (99.4%)
  72,400     Altera Corp.   $ 1,743,392  
  49,800     Analog Devices, Inc.     1,800,768  
  63,300     Anixter International, Inc.(a)(b)     5,219,085  
  81,400     Apple Computer, Inc.(a)     12,498,156  
  107,700     Arrow Electronics, Inc.(a)     4,579,404  
  4,393     AU Optronics Corp. - ADR(b)     74,329  
  30,900     AutoDesk, Inc.(a)     1,544,073  
  129,500     Avnet, Inc.(a)     5,161,870  
  95,300     Brightpoint, Inc.(a)     1,430,453  
  13,700     Brother Industries, Ltd. - ADR     1,750,989  
  659,400     Cisco Systems, Inc.(a)     21,832,734  
  26,970     Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.(a)     2,151,397  
  536,900     Dell, Inc.(a)     14,818,440  
  75,000     Diebold, Inc.     3,406,500  
  298,400     eBay, Inc.(a)     11,643,568  
  181,100     Epiq Systems, Inc.(a)     3,408,302  
  251,700     GigaMedia, Ltd.(a)     4,067,472  
  33,300     Google, Inc. - Class A(a)     18,890,091  
  88,500     Harris Corp.     5,114,415  
  149,800     Heartland Payment Systems, Inc.(b)     3,849,860  
  323,300     Hewlett-Packard Co.     16,097,107  
  302,040     Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. - GDR*     4,483,098  
  703,700     Intel Corp.     18,197,682  
  203,200     International Business Machines Corp.     23,936,960  
  58,700     KLA-Tencor Corp.     3,274,286  
  74,700     Lam Research Corp.(a)     3,978,522  
  56,400     Memc Electronic Materials, Inc.(a)     3,319,704  
  90,700     MICROS Systems, Inc.(a)     5,901,849  
  625,800     Microsoft Corp.     18,436,068  
  55,100     Nintendo Co., Ltd. - ADR     3,553,950  
  58,400     Nokia Corp. - ADR     2,215,112  
  167,500     ON Semiconductor Corp.(a)     2,103,800  
  80,400     Open Text Corp.(a)(b)     2,087,988  
  588,600     Oracle Corp.(a)     12,743,190  
  68,700     Plexus Corp.(a)     1,882,380  
  119,800     QUALCOMM, Inc.     5,062,748  
  56,700     Research In Motion, Ltd.(a)     5,587,785  
  94,400     Shanda Interactive Entertainment, Ltd.(a)     3,512,624  
  329,369     Siliconware Precision Industries Co. - ADR(b)     3,985,365  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $203,925,245)
    265,345,516  
Short-Term Investments (0.1%)
       
$ 397,279     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%, 10/01/07#     397,279  
                 
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $397,279)
    397,279  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Other Securities (4.2%)
       
  11,287,173     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment
Fund, 5.24%
  $ 11,287,173  
                 
Total Other Securities
(Cost $11,287,173)
    11,287,173  
Total Investments 103.7%
(Cost $215,609,697)
    277,029,968  
Liabilities Less Other Assets (3.7)%
    (10,065,186 )
         
Net Assets 100.0%
  $ 266,964,782  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
* Security was fair valued (Note 2) as of September 30, 2007.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
GDR Global Depositary Receipt
 
 
 
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 ICLEX

 
Management Overview
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmarks?
 
A.  The ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund gained 15.61% for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, outperforming its sector-specific benchmarks, the S&P 1500 Consumer Staples Index and the S&P 1500 Consumer Discretionary Index, which returned 14.15% and 5.92%, respectively. Although neither index is an ideal comparison, together they provide a suitable reference for the Fund’s overall performance in its sectors.
 
In contrast, the Fund fell short of its broad benchmark, the S&P Composite 1500 Index, which returned 16.59% over the same period. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  The strong performance of the broad market, relative stability in the Moody’s AAA bond yield, and moderate growth in earnings led to a decline in our calculation of value for the domestic equity market in general and for the Leisure and Consumer Staples sector in particular.
 
As a result of these thinning valuations, we focused the Fund’s composition on companies we determined were the optimal combination of value and relative strength. Over the past 12 months, the Fund’s total positions were reduced from 57 to 41 as of September 30, 2007.
 
The equity market was dominated during the fiscal period by strong demand for Materials and Energy stocks as global growth fueled consumption of these goods, especially as China builds the infrastructure to support its growing economy. These global trends shifted investors’ preferences away from Leisure and Consumer Staples stocks.
 
Market performance was also driven by a strong energy market, propelling returns of ethanol producers in the agricultural products industry and contributing to relative performance. The Fund began the period with an approximately 4% weighting in agricultural products, but steadily increased its agricultural holdings to end the year overweight the benchmark with a more than 14% position.
 
Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  The Fund’s overweight position in the strong-performing agricultural products industry contributed to relative returns. Agricultural products
 
 
 
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comprised about 2% of the market-cap weighted S&P 1500 Consumer Staples Index, but represented a weighted average holding of around 7.5% of the Fund’s assets.
 
The broadcasting & cable TV industry delivered solid returns, aided by the purchase of Cablevision System Corporation by a private company. The Fund owned Cablevision System at the time of the acquisition announcement but later liquidated the position.
 
The Fund began the fiscal year with a 15.4% holding in the broadcasting and cable TV industry, but pared it back to 2.2% by the end of the period. While the industry still demonstrates value based on our methodology, we decreased its weighting when we determined it no longer had potential as a market leader.
 
The Fund’s broadcasting & cable TV reallocation helped relative performance by maximizing the Fund’s exposure while the industry was doing well and minimizing declines during the industry’s recent downturn.
 
Fund performance benefited during the period from the packaged foods and meats, distillers and vintners, and soft drinks industries. While the soft drinks industry was a notable contributor to Fund returns, our metrics suggested that Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. lacked relative strength. The fact that the Fund was underweight the soft drinks industry compared with the S&P 1500 Consumer Staples Index muted gains.
 
Holdings in the publishing, hypermarkets & super centers, and photographic products industries detracted from fiscal-year returns.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the Leisure and Consumer Staples sector?
 
A.  While overall equity valuations thinned toward the end of the fiscal year, our system continued to find value in the Leisure and Consumer Staples sector. Of the 21 industries that we track in these sectors, only eight are overpriced according to our calculations.
 
The broadcasting & cable TV industry, a former leader in this sector, is again showing an attractive valuation. We are watching this industry closely for signs of leadership and will increase this position if its metrics meet our targets.
 
Given that value is not as robust as we have seen in recent years, we have become more selective in the construction of the Fund. As a result, we anticipate the Fund may become more concentrated in certain industries as it has during the past fiscal year.
 
 
 
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Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Agriculture Products
    14.6%
Soft Drinks
    12.9%
Packaged Foods & Meats
    9.6%
Household Products
    7.9%
Publishing
    7.4%
Movies & Entertainment
    6.7%
Distillers & Vintners
    5.6%
Drug Retail
    5.6%
Leisure Products
    5.5%
Food Retail
    4.1%
Food Distributors
    3.0%
Restaurants
    3.0%
Leisure Facilities
    2.6%
Broadcast & Cable TV
    2.2%
Brewers
    2.0%
Home Entertainment Software
    2.0%
Wireless Telecommunication Services
    1.6%
Specialty Stores
    1.0%
Computer Hardware
    0.8%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                   
                              Since
         
                              Inception
      Expense
 
      1 Year       5 Years       10 Years       5/9/97       Ratio*  
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
      15.61 %       9.50 %       9.19 %       10.16 %       1.54 %
 
 
S&P 1500 Consumer Discretionary Index
      5.92 %       11.50 %       5.76 %       7.18 %       N/A  
 
 
S&P 1500 Consumer Staples Index
      14.15 %       10.15 %       6.41 %       6.78 %       N/A  
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
      16.59 %       15.82 %       6.97 %       8.33 %       N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The performance of the S&P 1500 Consumer Discretionary Index includes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions beginning on January 1, 2002. Additional information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(LINE GRAPH)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund on its inception date of 5/9/97 to a $10,000 investment made in unmanaged securities indexes on that date. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (98.1%)
  1,700     Apple Computer, Inc.(a)   $ 261,018  
  14,200     Archer Daniels Midland Co.      469,736  
  11,600     Bunge, Ltd.      1,246,420  
  23,600     Central European Distribution Corp.(a)     1,130,676  
  16,500     ConAgra Foods, Inc.      431,145  
  25,700     Constellation Brands, Inc.(a)     622,197  
  40,800     Corn Products International, Inc.      1,871,496  
  24,500     CVS Caremark Corp.      970,935  
  13,100     Darden Restaurants, Inc.      548,366  
  15,000     EchoStar Communications Corp. - Class A(a)     702,150  
  4,200     Energizer Holdings, Inc.(a)     465,570  
  36,200     Fresh Del Monte Produce, Inc.(b)     1,040,750  
  34,130     Global Sources, Ltd.(a)(b)     756,662  
  25,600     Hansen Natural Corp.(a)     1,451,008  
  34,500     Kroger Co.      983,940  
  8,200     Life Time Fitness, Inc.(a)(b)     502,988  
  19,300     Meredith Corp.      1,105,890  
  6,400     Molson Coors Brewing Co.      637,888  
  9,800     Nintendo Co., Ltd. — ADR     632,100  
  11,000     PepsiAmericas, Inc.      356,840  
  15,100     PepsiCo, Inc.      1,106,226  
  19,500     Performance Food Group Co.(a)     587,535  
  9,800     PetSmart, Inc.      312,620  
  9,900     Polaris Industries, Inc.(b)     431,838  
  28,900     Procter & Gamble Co.      2,032,826  
  10,900     Rogers Communications, Inc. - Class B     496,277  
  9,700     Safeway, Inc.      321,167  
  13,300     Scholastic Corp.(a)     463,638  
  44,200     Smith & Wesson Holding Corp.(a)(b)     843,778  
  26,400     Smithfield Foods, Inc.(a)     831,600  
  14,800     Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc.      438,376  
  7,200     The Andersons, Inc.(b)     345,744  
  31,000     The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.      1,152,270  
  27,300     The Walt Disney Co.      938,847  
  18,500     Time Warner, Inc.      339,660  
  20,100     Unilever PLC — ADR     636,567  
  5,300     Vail Resorts, Inc.(a)     330,137  
  21,400     Viacom, Inc. Class B(a)     833,958  
  16,500     Walgreen Co.      779,460  
  10,400     Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OJSC - ADR     1,137,136  
  12,400     Yum! Brands, Inc.      419,492  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $26,368,416)
    30,966,927  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Short-Term Investments (2.1%)
       
$ 646,666     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%, 10/01/07#   $ 646,666  
                 
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $646,666)
    646,666  
Other Securities (11.9%)
       
  3,751,015     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment
Fund, 5.24%
    3,751,015  
                 
Total Other Securities
(Cost $3,751,015)
    3,751,015  
Total Investments 112.1%
(Cost $30,766,097)
    35,364,608  
Liabilities Less Other Assets (12.1)%
    (3,793,679 )
         
Net Assets 100.0%
  $ 31,570,929  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
 
 
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 ICBMX

 
Management Overview
ICON Materials Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmarks?
 
A.  The ICON Materials Fund gained 48.63% for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, beating its sector-specific benchmark, the S&P 1500 Materials Index, which returned 37.14%, and its broad benchmark, the S&P Composite 1500 Index, which gained 16.59%. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  Eleven of the 15 industries we track in the Materials sector produced double-digit returns during the fiscal year, indicating a broad sector rally.
 
Although qualitative factors do not have a role in our investment analysis, we observed that the combination of increasing commodity prices, substantial foreign demand (specifically from China and India), and merger and acquisition activity helped produce robust company earnings in the Materials sector.
 
The Fund entered the fiscal year with the Materials sector trading at about a 19% discount to our calculation of intrinsic value, slightly below our valuation of the broad domestic market. The right combinations of value and relative strength drew the Fund to industries such as specialty chemicals, metal & glass containers, and diversified chemicals.
 
Over the course of the year, however, solid market returns slowly decreased our estimation of the intrinsic value of Materials stocks to the point of measuring the sector’s lowest value-to-price ratio of the year, 0.90, on July 13, 2007. At that time, not a single industry within the sector was valued above 1.00, according to our methodology.
 
Combinations of value and relative strength were difficult for our system to find. In order to generate some downside protection, the Fund purchased Materials sector index put options in early July. This strategy proved to be advantageous as the ICON Materials Fund was able to reduce declines when the S&P 1500 Materials Index dropped more than 16% from July 19, 2007 to August 16, 2007.
 
 
 
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Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  Industries that contributed significantly to absolute performance were diversified metals & mining, specialty chemicals, steel, metal & glass containers, and diversified chemicals. These five industries constituted approximately 60% of Fund assets on average during the fiscal year.
 
In order to help minimize valuation risk and diversify holdings, the Fund initiated industry positions within the Industrials and Energy sectors that demonstrated value. These positions contributed positively to performance overall.
 
Our research suggested that from August 16, 2007 through the end of the fiscal year, a distinctly new theme emerged in the Materials sector, led by the diversified metals & mining and fertilizers & agricultural chemicals industries. Our system recognized this theme and through aggressive overweight positions, the Fund outperformed the benchmark by more than 5% during this time period.
 
A few industries detracted from absolute performance during the fiscal year, including coal & consumable fuels, commodity chemicals, and precious metals & minerals. The Fund held nominal positions in these industries, minimizing the impact to overall Fund returns.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the Materials sector?
 
A.  At the close of the fiscal year, the Materials sector was the most overvalued of the nine we track with a value-to-price ratio of 0.97. Lower valuations demand that we utilize an especially selective approach on both an industry and stock level. Additionally, we believe diversifying among other sector holdings during periods of overvaluation will provide an opportunity to invest in industries that reflect better value and relative strength.
 
Our experience suggests that commodity-based industries and sectors, like the Materials sector, have performed well when interest rates are cut. Based on recent Federal Reserve monetary policy, we have positioned the Fund to fully participate in potential market rallies.
 
 
 
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Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Diversified Metals & Mining
    18.6%
Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals
    16.7%
Steel
    11.9%
Specialty Chemicals
    10.6%
Diversified Chemicals
    9.7%
Industrial Gases
    8.9%
Metal & Glass Containers
    6.4%
Construction Materials
    2.8%
Railroads
    2.5%
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
    2.4%
Construction & Farm Machinery & Heavy Trucks
    2.2%
Oil & Gas Drilling
    2.0%
Marine
    1.9%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                   
                              Since
         
                              Inception
      Expense
 
      1 Year       5 Years       10 Years       5/5/97       Ratio*  
ICON Materials Fund
      48.63 %       27.07 %       6.22 %       6.85 %       1.30 %
 
 
S&P 1500 Materials Index
      37.14 %       22.05 %       8.15 %       9.17 %       N/A  
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
      16.59 %       15.82 %       6.97 %       8.26 %       N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(Graph)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund on its inception date of 5/5/97 to a $10,000 investment made in unmanaged securities indexes on that date. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Materials Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (96.6%)
  65,900     Air Products & Chemical, Inc.   $ 6,442,384  
  40,000     Airgas, Inc.     2,065,200  
  103,000     Albemarle Corp.     4,552,600  
  30,000     AMCOL International Corp.(b)     992,700  
  40,000     Arcelor Mittal - Class A(b)     3,134,400  
  60,000     Arch Chemicals, Inc.     2,812,800  
  76,000     Ball Corp.     4,085,000  
  37,100     BHP Billiton Ltd. - ADR(b)     2,916,060  
  18,800     Brush Engineered Materials, Inc.(a)     975,532  
  15,600     Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.     1,266,252  
  36,600     Caterpillar, Inc.     2,870,538  
  32,500     Claymont Steel Holdings, Inc.(a)     658,125  
  16,100     Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc.(b)     1,416,317  
  80,800     Companhia Vale do Rio Doce - ADR(b)     2,741,544  
  20,000     Crown Holdings, Inc.(a)     455,200  
  11,900     Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.     1,348,151  
  110,000     Dow Chemical Co.     4,736,600  
  14,700     DryShips, Inc.(b)     1,335,495  
  42,000     FMC Corp.     2,184,840  
  120,000     Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, Inc. - Class B(b)     12,586,800  
  55,900     Gerdau Ameristeel Corp.     668,005  
  20,800     Grant Prideco, Inc.(a)     1,134,016  
  65,000     Greif, Inc. - Class A     3,944,200  
  25,000     Haynes International, Inc.(a)     2,134,250  
  80,000     Hercules, Inc.     1,681,600  
  49,300     Lafarge S.A. - ADR(b)     1,905,445  
  25,000     Lubrizol Corp.     1,626,500  
  14,300     Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.(b)     1,909,765  
  210,000     Monsanto Co.     18,005,400  
  13,500     National Oilwell Varco, Inc.(a)     1,950,750  
  94,600     Navios Maritime Holdings, Inc.     1,243,044  
  12,400     Norfolk Southern Corp.     643,684  
  15,900     PotashCorp of Saskatchewan, Inc.     1,680,630  
  53,900     PPG Industries, Inc.     4,072,145  
  37,900     Praxair, Inc.     3,174,504  
  26,100     Quaker Chemical Corp.     613,872  
  65,000     Quanex Corp.     3,053,700  
  65,000     Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.     3,675,100  
  4,300     Rio Tinto PLC - ADR     1,476,620  
  180,000     RPM International, Inc.     4,311,000  
  16,300     RTI International Metals, Inc.(a)     1,291,938  
  11,200     Southern Copper Corp.(b)     1,386,896  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  20,000     Steel Dynamics, Inc.   $ 934,000  
  26,700     Syngenta AG - ADR(b)     1,156,911  
  25,000     The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co.     1,068,750  
  11,200     Transocean, Inc.(a)     1,266,160  
  11,300     Union Pacific Corp.     1,277,578  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $99,082,777)
    126,863,001  
Short-Term Investments (4.2%)
$ 5,510,356     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%, 10/01/07#     5,510,356  
                 
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $5,510,356)
    5,510,356  
Other Securities (18.0%)
       
  23,686,477     Brown Brothers Harriman Securities Lending Investment
Fund, 5.24%
    23,686,477  
                 
Total Other Securities
(Cost $23,686,477)
    23,686,477  
Total Investments 118.8%
(Cost $128,279,610)
    156,059,834  
Liabilities Less Other Assets (18.8)%
    (24,739,128 )
         
Net Assets 100.0%
  $ 131,320,706  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
(b) A portion or all of the security was on loan as of September 30, 2007.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
 
 
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 ICTUX

 
Management Overview
ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund
 
Q.  How did the Fund perform relative to its benchmarks?
 
A.  The ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund appreciated 31.60% for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, outperforming the 28.37% return of S&P 1500 Telecommunication Services Index and the 19.04% return of the S&P 1500 Utilities Index. Although neither sector-specific benchmark is an ideal comparison, together they provide a suitable reference for the Fund’s overall performance in its sectors.
 
Additionally, the Fund outpaced its broad benchmark, the S&P Composite 1500 Index, which returned 16.59% over the same period. Total returns for other periods as of September 30, 2007 appear in the subsequent pages of this Fund’s Management Overview.
 
Q.  What primary factors were behind the Fund’s relative performance?
 
A.  The Telecommunications and Utilities sectors enjoyed an impressive year. Seven out of the eight industry groups within these two sectors delivered double-digit returns over the fiscal year, advancing with the strong equity market and led by the integrated telecommunications industry, which gained approximately 30% during the period.
 
We believe the strength of the integrated telecommunications industry was driven by price trying to catch up to value, as the industry suffered more than the broad market following the tech bubble’s bursting in 2000 and has yet to reach our calculation of its intrinsic value. In addition, the few large-cap firms which dominate this industry surprised analysts as they completed major acquisitions and delivered positive earnings surprises.
 
The electric utility industry also performed well, returning approximately 22%. The industry benefited from a setting in which corporations turned in strong earnings, interest rates remained relatively low, and inflation and recession fears subsided. It also held up much better than the overall market during the February 2007 and July 2007 fear-based sell-offs.
 
Finally, the wireless telecommunications services industry appreciated considerably, gaining strength from mergers and acquisitions and the extremely rapid growth of wireless customers in developing global markets.
 
 
 
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Q.  How did the Fund’s composition affect performance?
 
A.  Guided by ICON’s value and relative strength calculations, the Fund was weighted in some of the top-performing industries within the benchmarks.
 
Specifically, the integrated telecommunications industry was both the most heavily weighted industry within the Fund, with an average weight of around 40% of net assets, and the top-performing industry within the benchmark. This allocation contributed more than any other industry to the Fund’s total return during the fiscal year. Furthermore, the Fund’s individual holdings in this industry outperformed the benchmark’s holdings on a weighted average.
 
The Fund’s next largest industry position was in the second best-performing industry within the benchmark, electric utilities. As with the integrated telecommunications industry, stock selection among electric utilities (which was the second largest contributor to fiscal-year returns) aided the Fund’s relative performance.
 
The Fund’s other top industry holdings were independent power producers & energy traders, with about a 9% average weight, and wireless telecommunication services, with an average weight of around 8%. These industries were also among the top performers for the benchmark.
 
Q.  What is your investment outlook for the Telecommunication & Utilities sectors?
 
A.  Our analysis of the Telecommunication and Utilities sectors continues to indicate widespread value.
 
Our calculations suggest that the integrated telecommunications and wireless telecommunication services industries show more value and leadership than industries in the Utilities sector, and we expect to keep the Fund more heavily weighted toward the Telecommunications sector until our valuation measurements suggest a shift.
 
 
 
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Industry Composition
as of September 30, 2007
 
       
Integrated Telecommunication Services
    35.3%
Electric Utilities
    18.3%
Wireless Telecommunication Services
    15.0%
Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders
    12.0%
Electrical Components & Equipment
    4.0%
Aerospace & Defense
    3.5%
Gas Utilities
    2.6%
Technology Distributors
    2.3%
Alternative Carriers
    1.4%
Water Utilities
    1.1%
Communications Equipment
    0.7%
Computer Hardware
    0.7%
Coal & Consumable Fuels
    0.6%
Industrial Conglomerates
    0.5%
Broadcast & Cable TV
    0.4%
 
Percentages are based upon net assets.
 
Average Annual Total Return
as of September 30, 2007
 
                                                   
                              Since
         
                              Inception
      Expense
 
      1 Year       5 Years       10 Years       7/9/97       Ratio*  
ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund
      31.60 %       20.47 %       11.05 %       11.46 %       1.38 %
 
 
S&P 1500 Telecommunications Services Index
      28.37 %       21.85 %       4.19 %       4.71 %       N/A  
 
 
S&P 1500 Utilities Index
      19.04 %       20.02 %       9.17 %       9.39 %       N/A  
 
 
S&P Composite 1500 Index
      16.59 %       15.82 %       6.97 %       7.42 %       N/A  
 
 
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Information about these performance results and the comparative indexes can be found in the About This Report section.
 
Please see the January 29, 2007 prospectus for details.
 
 
 
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Value of a $10,000 Investment
through September 30, 2007
 
(Graph)
 
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. The above graph compares a $10,000 investment made in the Fund on its inception date of 7/9/97 to a $10,000 investment made in unmanaged securities indexes on that date. The Fund’s performance in this chart and the performance table assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions but does not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or on the redemption of Fund shares.
 
 
 
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ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund
Schedule of Investments
September 30, 2007
 
                 
Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
Common Stocks (98.4%)
  66,400     Allegheny Energy, Inc.(a)   $ 3,470,064  
  60,706     America Movil S.A.B. de C.V. - ADR     3,885,184  
  10,000     American States Water Co.     390,000  
  15,000     Anixter International, Inc.(a)     1,236,750  
  5,000     Apple Computer, Inc.(a)     767,700  
  20,000     Arrow Electronics, Inc.(a)     850,400  
  586,400     AT&T, Inc.     24,810,584  
  15,000     Atmos Energy Corp.     424,800  
  19,000     Belden CDT, Inc.     891,290  
  30,000     Brightpoint, Inc.(a)     450,300  
  7,500     BT Group PLC - ADR     471,225  
  5,000     China Mobile, Ltd. - ADR     410,200  
  22,500     Cisco Systems, Inc.(a)     744,975  
  19,950     Comcast Corp. - Class A(a)     482,391  
  5,000     Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo - ADR     247,000  
  65,000     Constellation Energy Group     5,576,350  
  20,600     DRS Technologies, Inc.     1,135,472  
  52,600     Edison International     2,916,670  
  15,000     El Paso Electric Co.(a)     346,950  
  50,000     Encore Wire Corp.     1,256,500  
  12,300     Entergy Corp.     1,331,967  
  66,200     Exelon Corp.     4,988,832  
  16,000     First Energy Corp.     1,013,440  
  43,000     FPL Group, Inc.     2,617,840  
  35,000     France Telecom S.A. - ADR     1,170,400  
  50,000     Gilat Satellite Networks, Ltd.(a)     510,000  
  60,000     Hong Kong Electric Holdings, Ltd. - ADR     306,000  
  25,000     Huaneng Power International, Inc. - ADR     1,319,500  
  15,000     Hubbell, Inc. - Class B     856,800  
  35,000     II-VI, Inc.(a)     1,208,550  
  70,000     Korea Electric Power Corp. - ADR     1,620,500  
  30,000     KT Corp. - ADR     751,500  
  10,000     L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc.     1,021,400  
  16,300     Lockheed Martin Corp.     1,768,387  
  15,100     Mobile TeleSystems - ADR     1,046,581  
  18,100     NII Holdings, Inc.(a)     1,486,915  
  141,500     NRG Energy, Inc.(a)     5,984,035  
  10,000     ONEOK, Inc.     474,000  
  60,600     Partner Communications Co., Ltd.     1,003,536  
  14,400     Peabody Energy Corp.     689,328  
  12,500     Pepco Holdings, Inc.     338,500  
  75,000     Premiere Global Services, Inc.(a)     948,750  
  10,000     PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia - ADR     488,200  
  30,000     Questar Corp.     1,575,900  
  75,500     Rogers Communications, Inc. - Class B     3,437,515  
 
 
 
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Shares or Principal Amount   Value
 
 
  4,000     Siemens AG - ADR   $ 549,000  
  30,000     SK Telecom Co., Ltd. - ADR     891,000  
  28,900     Southern Co.     1,048,492  
  42,500     Southwest Water Co.     536,775  
  5,000     Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. - ADR(a)     199,500  
  62,366     Telefonica S.A. - ADR     5,225,024  
  17,500     Telefonos de Mexico S.A. de C.V. - ADR     575,225  
  14,000     Telekom Austria AG - ADR     728,700  
  12,500     Telemig Celular Participacoes S.A. - ADR     732,500  
  50,000     Telenor ASA - ADR     2,995,000  
  5,000     Telus Corp.     280,750  
  10,000     The AES Corp.(a)     200,400  
  15,200     UGI Corp.     394,896  
  20,000     US Cellular Corp.(a)     1,964,000  
  25,000     Verizon Communications, Inc.     1,107,000  
  60,000     Vimpel-Communications - Sp ADR     1,622,400  
                 
Total Common Stocks
(Cost $90,725,859)
    107,773,843  
Short-Term Investments (0.8%)
$ 885,953     Brown Brothers Harriman Time Deposit - U.S. Dollar, 4.37%, 10/01/07#     885,953  
                 
Total Short-Term Investments
(Cost $885,953)
    885,953  
Total Investments 99.2%
(Cost $91,611,812)
    108,659,796  
Other Assets Less Liabilities 0.8%
    848,794  
         
Net Assets 100.0%
  $ 109,508,590  
         
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
(a) Non-income producing security.
 
# BBH Time Deposits are considered short-term obligations and are payable on demand. Interest rates change periodically on specified dates. The rates listed are as of September 30, 2007.
 
ADR American Depositary Receipt
 
 
 
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Statements of Assets and Liabilities
September 30, 2007
 
                                 
    ICON
                   
    Consumer
    ICON
    ICON
    ICON
 
    Discretionary
    Energy
    Financial
    Healthcare
 
    Fund     Fund     Fund     Fund  
 
Assets
                               
Investments, at cost
  $ 94,971,525     $ 561,962,044     $ 181,512,773     $ 418,269,542  
                                 
Investments, at value†
    103,391,936       845,477,953       200,325,167       497,829,231  
Cash
    -       -       -       -  
Receivables:
                               
Fund shares sold
    50,465       856,815       101,447       286,932  
Investments sold
    3,821,160       2,428,655       -       1,229,632  
Interest
    7,700       19,620       1,276       6,656  
Dividends
    55,075       461,679       45,296       177,850  
Other assets
    30,830       89,113       38,339       65,430  
                                 
Total Assets
  $ 107,357,166     $ 849,333,835     $ 200,511,525     $ 499,595,731  
                                 
Liabilities
                               
Payables:
                               
Due to custodian bank
    1,423,267       -       -       -  
Interest
    5,233       -       -       173  
Investments bought
    2,765,536       3,592,051       -       -  
Payable for collateral received on securities loaned
    8,489,276       28,147,480       -       24,723,419  
Fund shares redeemed
    79,070       702,261       187,046       1,072,965  
Advisory fees
    77,462       640,981       163,601       388,463  
Fund accounting fees
    2,116       16,431       4,258       10,035  
Transfer agent fees
    9,135       34,335       12,825       29,839  
Administration fees
    3,708       31,377       7,827       18,826  
Trustee fees
    1,309       11,021       2,767       6,572  
Accrued expenses
    23,819       82,934       44,269       58,926  
                                 
Total Liabilities
    12,879,931       33,258,871       422,593       26,309,218  
                                 
Net Assets
  $ 94,477,235     $ 816,074,964     $ 200,088,932     $ 473,286,513  
                                 
Net Assets Consist of
                               
Paid-in capital
  $ 81,786,981     $ 403,417,465     $ 160,508,722     $ 364,252,705  
Accumulated undistributed net investment income/(loss)
    -       2,043,509       1,841,912       45,860  
Accumulated undistributed net realized gain/(loss) from investment transactions
    4,269,843       127,098,081       18,925,904       29,428,259  
Unrealized appreciation/ (depreciation) on investments
    8,420,411       283,515,909       18,812,394       79,559,689  
                                 
Net Assets
  $ 94,477,235     $ 816,074,964     $ 200,088,932     $ 473,286,513  
                                 
Shares outstanding (unlimited shares authorized no par value)
    7,385,114       19,681,342       13,993,713       26,771,370  
Net asset value (offering and redemption price per share)
  $ 12.79     $ 41.46     $ 14.30     $ 17.68  
 
†  Includes securities on loan of $8,277,668, $27,557,377, $0, $24,119,424, $6,661,041, $10,791,244, $3,651,227, $23,148,452, and $0.
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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      ICON
    ICON
             
ICON
    Information
    Leisure and
    ICON
    ICON
 
Industrials
    Technology
    Consumer
    Materials
    Telecommunication
 
Fund     Fund     Staples Fund     Fund     & Utilities Fund  
 
                                     
$ 137,531,972     $ 215,609,697     $ 30,766,097     $ 128,279,610     $ 91,611,812  
                                     
  162,304,139       277,029,968       35,364,608       156,059,834       108,659,796  
  5,939       -       -       19,786       -  
                                     
  101,521       1,593,348       9,888       656,513       35,952  
  668,360       -       -       -       949,865  
  3,227       38,716       3,694       8,743       308  
  186,462       97,132       3,938       122,114       69,910  
  34,747       46,102       19,476       32,211       41,108  
                                     
$ 163,304,395     $ 278,805,266     $ 35,401,604     $ 156,899,201     $ 109,756,939  
                                     
                                     
                                     
  -       -       -       -       -  
  -       3,458       -       -       -  
  426,011       -       -       1,702,545       -  
                                     
  6,824,486       11,287,173       3,751,015       23,686,477       -  
  145,775       269,542       30,443       49,973       122,926  
  124,721       214,678       25,684       100,303       88,071  
  3,464       5,500       854       2,697       2,395  
  8,528       13,188       8,336       12,893       9,853  
  6,026       10,265       1,229       4,798       4,146  
  2,099       3,617       434       1,673       1,483  
  24,764       33,063       12,680       17,136       19,475  
                                     
  7,565,874       11,840,484       3,830,675       25,578,495       248,349  
                                     
$ 155,738,521     $ 266,964,782     $ 31,570,929     $ 131,320,706     $ 109,508,590  
                                     
                                     
$ 125,152,367     $ 234,966,985     $ 20,072,049     $ 84,128,217     $ 76,612,020  
                                     
  135,503       -       530,127       495,440       1,083,590  
                                     
                                     
  5,678,484       (29,422,474 )     6,370,242       18,916,825       14,764,996  
                                     
  24,772,167       61,420,271       4,598,511       27,780,224       17,047,984  
                                     
$ 155,738,521     $ 266,964,782     $ 31,570,929     $ 131,320,706     $ 109,508,590  
                                     
                                     
  14,467,046       24,220,190       2,973,375       8,535,089       11,909,369  
                                     
$ 10.77     $ 11.02     $ 10.62     $ 15.39     $ 9.20  
 
 
 
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Statements of Operations
For the year ended September 30, 2007
 
                                 
    ICON
                   
    Consumer
    ICON
    ICON
    ICON
 
    Discretionary
    Energy
    Financial
    Healthcare
 
    Fund     Fund     Fund     Fund  
 
Investment Income
                               
Interest
  $ 49,277     $ 611,821     $ 97,043     $ 542,720  
Dividends
    1,329,962       9,584,535       6,580,100       6,033,132  
Income from securities lending, net
    23,995       22,712       -       9,655  
Foreign taxes withheld
    (9,462 )     -       -       (33,750 )
                                 
Total Investment Income
    1,393,772       10,219,068       6,677,143       6,551,757  
                                 
Expenses
                               
Advisory fees
    1,411,227       7,132,345       3,233,805       5,397,290  
Fund accounting fees
    36,705       173,515       79,364       130,939  
Transfer agent fees
    107,701       387,140       159,661       350,711  
Administration fees
    65,195       334,813       149,366       250,392  
Registration fees
    31,967       54,243       35,172       49,472  
Insurance expense
    8,266       55,951       19,753       35,073  
Trustee fees and expenses
    14,720       57,667       30,203       46,976  
Interest expense
    84,528       63,664       85,021       60,864  
Other expenses
    75,046       266,165       116,503       210,675  
                                 
Total expenses before transfer agent earnings credit
    1,835,355       8,525,503       3,908,848       6,532,392  
Transfer agent earnings credit
    (7,032 )     (35,946 )     (15,588 )     (26,495 )
                                 
Net Expenses
    1,828,323       8,489,557       3,893,260       6,505,897  
                                 
Net Investment Income/(Loss)
    (434,551 )     1,729,511       2,783,883       45,860  
                                 
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain/(Loss) on Investments
                               
Net realized gain/(loss) from investment transactions
    9,399,406       148,157,856       32,263,708       38,078,093  
Change in unrealized net appreciation/(depreciation) on investments
    (1,555,381 )     99,930,732       (18,892,178 )     (4,357,126 )
                                 
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain/(Loss) on Investments
    7,844,025       248,088,588       13,371,530       33,720,967  
                                 
Net Increase/(Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting From Operations
  $ 7,409,474     $ 249,818,099     $ 16,155,413     $ 33,766,827  
                                 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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      ICON
    ICON
             
ICON
    Information
    Leisure and
    ICON
    ICON
 
Industrials
    Technology
    Consumer
    Materials
    Telecommunication
 
Fund     Fund     Staples Fund     Fund     & Utilities Fund  
 
                                     
$ 130,598     $ 61,105     $ 43,504     $ 172,813     $ 165,572  
  1,488,347       1,672,612       1,736,346       2,152,333       2,639,021  
                                     
  10,205       85,143       11,363       15,697       -  
  -       (9,178 )     (3,924 )     (1,885 )     (2,103 )
                                     
  1,629,150       1,809,682       1,787,289       2,338,958       2,802,490  
                                     
                                     
  1,135,275       2,441,105       739,260       1,221,027       1,106,753  
  31,290       60,399       20,862       31,887       29,853  
  93,345       150,838       111,320       148,615       113,428  
  52,440       112,757       34,153       56,408       51,131  
  25,631       32,833       22,220       30,330       28,452  
  8,610       11,807       3,629       10,136       4,859  
  11,708       22,297       9,558       12,962       12,178  
  16,655       73,515       39,195       31,470       52,503  
  78,498       106,900       60,951       81,208       76,296  
                                     
                                     
                                     
  1,453,452       3,012,451       1,041,148       1,624,043       1,475,453  
                                     
  (5,736 )     (12,124 )     (3,613 )     (6,085 )     (5,523 )
                                     
  1,447,716       3,000,327       1,037,535       1,617,958       1,469,930  
                                     
  181,434       (1,190,645 )     749,754       721,000       1,332,560  
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
  10,093,733       22,583,204       12,220,864       28,330,381       24,415,452  
                                     
                                     
  15,827,903       34,418,793       53,228       18,977,096       7,591,509  
                                     
                                     
  25,921,636       57,001,997       12,274,092       47,307,477       32,006,961  
                                     
                                     
                                     
$ 26,103,070     $ 55,811,352     $ 13,023,846     $ 48,028,477     $ 33,339,521  
                                     
 
 
 
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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
 
                 
    ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund  
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
    2007     2006  
 
Operations
               
Net investment income/(loss)
  $ (434,551 )   $ (711,624 )
Net realized gain/(loss) from investment transactions
    9,399,406       (1,974,252 )
Change in net unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on investments
    (1,555,381 )     (2,215,040 )
                 
Net increase/(decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
    7,409,474       (4,900,916 )
                 
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders
               
Net investment income
    -       -  
Net realized gains
    -       (15,842,362 )
                 
Net decrease from dividends and distributions
    -       (15,842,362 )
                 
Fund Share Transactions
               
Shares sold
    89,592,479       169,800,249  
Reinvested dividends and distributions
    -       15,740,469  
Shares repurchased
    (113,316,789 )     (223,427,131 )
                 
Net increase/(decrease) from fund share transactions
    (23,724,310 )     (37,886,413 )
                 
Total net increase/(decrease) in net assets
    (16,314,836 )     (58,629,691 )
Net Assets
               
Beginning of period
    110,792,071       169,421,762  
                 
End of period
  $ 94,477,235     $ 110,792,071  
                 
Transactions in Fund Shares
               
Shares Sold
    6,847,754       13,890,840  
Reinvested dividends and distributions
    -       1,362,806  
Shares repurchased
    (8,612,211 )     (18,549,943 )
                 
Net increase/(decrease)
    (1,764,457 )     (3,296,297 )
                 
Shares outstanding beginning of period
    9,149,571       12,445,868  
                 
Shares outstanding end of period
    7,385,114       9,149,571  
                 
Purchase and Sales of Investment Securities
               
(excluding short-term securities)
               
Purchase of securities
  $ 200,968,196     $ 269,340,097  
Proceeds from sales of securities
    225,414,872       323,712,014  
Accumulated undistributed net investment income/(loss)
  $ -     $ -  
                 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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ICON Energy Fund     ICON Financial Fund  
Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
2007     2006     2007     2006  
 
                             
$ 1,729,511     $ (1,539,702 )   $ 2,783,883     $ 2,917,573  
                             
  148,157,856       97,201,478       32,263,708       19,921,934  
                             
  99,930,732       (135,974,290 )     (18,892,178 )     14,885,101  
                             
                             
  249,818,099       (40,312,514 )     16,155,413       37,724,608  
                             
                             
  -       (2,256,525 )     (3,859,545 )     (1,744,311 )
  (71,884,906 )     (23,251,426 )     (15,342,221 )     (16,113,682 )
                             
  (71,884,906 )     (25,507,951 )     (19,201,766 )     (17,857,993 )
                             
                             
  240,156,174       381,970,561       72,560,984       225,592,853  
  66,740,457       24,368,155       18,814,482       17,760,399  
  (457,121,104 )     (561,109,848 )     (256,853,973 )     (105,489,351 )
                             
                             
  (150,224,473 )     (154,771,132 )     (165,478,507 )     137,863,901  
                             
  27,708,720       (220,591,597 )     (168,524,860 )     157,730,516  
                             
  788,366,244       1,008,957,841       368,613,792       210,883,276  
                             
$ 816,074,964     $ 788,366,244     $ 200,088,932     $ 368,613,792  
                             
                             
  6,798,155       11,049,736       4,850,768       16,117,798  
  2,077,847       760,300       1,267,822       1,353,679  
  (13,927,421 )     (16,964,736 )     (17,605,528 )     (7,698,732 )
                             
  (5,051,419 )     (5,154,700 )     (11,486,938 )     9,772,745  
                             
  24,732,761       29,887,461       25,480,651       15,707,906  
                             
  19,681,342       24,732,761       13,993,713       25,480,651  
                             
                             
                             
$ 392,001,086     $ 213,408,134     $ 292,616,174     $ 526,674,690  
  574,733,632       408,025,665       477,406,026       404,037,325  
                             
$ 2,043,509     $ (167,659 )   $ 1,841,912     $ 2,917,574  
                             
 
 
 
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Statements of Changes in Net Assets
 
                 
    ICON Healthcare Fund  
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
    2007     2006  
 
Operations
               
Net investment income/(loss)
  $ 45,860     $ (3,659,319 )
Net realized gain/(loss) from investment transactions
    38,078,093       58,118,854  
Change in net unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on investments
    (4,357,126 )     (45,909,243 )
                 
Net increase/(decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
    33,766,827       8,550,292  
                 
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders
               
Net investment income
    -       -  
Net realized gains
    (43,433,266 )     (10,591,515 )
                 
Net decrease from dividends and distributions
    (43,433,266 )     (10,591,515 )
                 
Fund Share Transactions
               
Shares sold
    181,868,544       403,323,627  
Reinvested dividends and distributions
    39,813,766       9,893,314  
Shares repurchased
    (384,931,407 )     (447,733,008 )
                 
Net increase/(decrease) from fund share transactions
    (163,249,097 )     (34,516,067 )
                 
Total net increase/(decrease) in net assets
    (172,915,536 )     (36,557,290 )
Net Assets
               
Beginning of period
    646,202,049       682,759,339  
                 
End of period
  $ 473,286,513     $ 646,202,049  
                 
Transactions in Fund Shares
               
Shares Sold
    10,331,471       22,417,731  
Reinvested dividends and distributions
    2,401,313       557,019  
Shares repurchased
    (21,963,906 )     (25,034,402 )
                 
Net increase/(decrease)
    (9,231,122 )     (2,059,652 )
                 
Shares outstanding beginning of period
    36,002,492       38,062,144  
                 
Shares outstanding end of period
    26,771,370       36,002,492  
                 
Purchase and Sales of Investment Securities
(excluding short-term securities)
               
Purchase of securities
  $ 129,819,228     $ 394,109,360  
Proceeds from sales of securities
    316,128,173       446,505,389  
Accumulated undistributed net investment income/(loss)
  $ 45,860     $ -  
                 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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ICON Industrials Fund     ICON Information Technology Fund  
Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
2007     2006     2007     2006  
 
                             
$ 181,434     $ (654,991 )   $ (1,190,645 )   $ (1,595,172 )
  10,093,733       52,064,019       22,583,204       2,580,097  
                             
  15,827,903       (34,755,918 )     34,418,793       (5,472,197 )
                             
                             
  26,103,070       16,653,110       55,811,352       (4,487,272 )
                             
                             
  (29,288 )     -       -       -  
  (30,562,108 )     (6,835,273 )     -       -  
                             
  (30,591,396 )     (6,835,273 )     -       -  
                             
                             
  102,467,349       70,147,062       102,161,768       175,022,474  
  30,151,213       6,801,064       -       -  
  (78,406,365 )     (197,386,921 )     (132,996,792 )     (148,620,178 )
                             
  54,212,197       (120,438,795 )     (30,835,024 )     26,402,296  
                             
  49,723,871       (110,620,958 )     24,976,328       21,915,024  
                             
  106,014,650       216,635,608       241,988,454       220,073,430  
                             
$ 155,738,521     $ 106,014,650     $ 266,964,782     $ 241,988,454  
                             
                             
  10,027,742       5,011,944       10,238,362       20,144,351  
  3,426,275       543,216              
  (7,006,122 )     (14,600,539 )     (13,770,758 )     (17,698,365 )
                             
  6,447,895       (9,045,379 )     (3,532,396 )     2,445,986  
                             
  8,019,151       17,064,530       27,752,586       25,306,600  
                             
  14,467,046       8,019,151       24,220,190       27,752,586  
                             
                             
                             
$ 167,987,214     $ 188,989,372     $ 191,800,451     $ 432,267,414  
  140,686,846       319,518,181       225,844,274       406,207,512  
                             
$ 135,503     $ 16,029     $ -     $ -  
                             
 
 
 
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Statements of Changes in Net Assets (continued)
 
                 
    ICON Leisure and Consumer
 
    Staples Fund  
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
    2007     2006  
 
Operations
               
Net investment income/(loss)
  $ 749,754     $ (351,244 )
Net realized gain/(loss) from investment transactions
    12,220,864       (110,039 )
Net realized gain/(loss) from foreign currency translations
    -       2,784  
Change in net unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) on investments
    53,228       452,764  
                 
Net increase/(decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
    13,023,846       (5,735 )
                 
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders
               
Net investment income
    (219,627 )     -  
Net realized gains
    (38,584 )     (9,538,955 )
Tax return of capital
    -       (34,857 )
                 
Net decrease from dividends and distributions
    (258,211 )     (9,573,812 )
                 
Fund Share Transactions
               
Shares sold
    38,286,389       42,533,627  
Reinvested dividends and distributions
    238,048       8,013,754  
Shares repurchased
    (87,855,183 )     (20,242,047 )
                 
Net increase/(decrease) from fund share transactions
    (49,330,746 )     30,305,334  
                 
Total net increase/(decrease) in net assets
    (36,565,111 )     20,725,787  
Net Assets
               
Beginning of period
    68,136,040       47,410,253  
                 
End of period
  $ 31,570,929     $ 68,136,040  
                 
Transactions in Fund Shares
               
Shares Sold
    4,103,651       4,626,945  
Reinvested dividends and distributions
    23,949       900,421  
Shares repurchased
    (8,551,820 )     (2,093,062 )
                 
Net increase/(decrease)
    (4,424,220 )     3,434,304  
                 
Shares outstanding beginning of period
    7,397,595       3,963,291  
                 
Shares outstanding end of period
    2,973,375       7,397,595  
                 
Purchase and Sales of Investment Securities
(excluding short-term securities)
               
Purchase of securities
  $ 108,060,147     $ 129,436,793  
Proceeds from sales of securities
    157,645,145       109,381,086  
Accumulated undistributed net investment income/(loss)
  $ 530,127     $ -  
                 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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      ICON Telecommunication &
 
ICON Materials Fund     Utilities Fund  
Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
    Year Ended
 
September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
    September 30,
 
2007     2006     2007     2006  
 
                             
$ 721,000     $ 1,129,408     $ 1,332,560     $ 1,318,975  
  28,330,381       20,331,914       24,415,452       13,921,397  
                             
  -       (22,334 )     -       -  
                             
  18,977,096       (8,247,321 )     7,591,509       (12,032,876 )
                             
                             
  48,028,477       13,191,667       33,339,521       3,207,496  
                             
                             
  (1,332,635 )     (236,508 )     (1,406,911 )     (1,880,275 )
  (11,756,758 )     (9,051,351 )     (8,089,030 )     (9,640,653 )
  -       -       -       -  
                             
  (13,089,393 )     (9,287,859 )     (9,495,941 )     (11,520,928 )
                             
                             
  72,893,695       150,400,169       108,372,109       74,670,691  
  12,497,890       8,769,250       9,342,455       11,345,862  
  (124,107,302 )     (127,545,242 )     (151,811,576 )     (78,591,644 )
                             
  (38,715,717 )     31,624,177       (34,097,012 )     7,424,909  
                             
  (3,776,633 )     35,527,985       (10,253,432 )     (888,523 )
                             
  135,097,339       99,569,354       119,762,022       120,650,545  
                             
$ 131,320,706     $ 135,097,339     $ 109,508,590     $ 119,762,022  
                             
                             
  5,551,693       12,578,419       12,870,519       10,006,996  
  1,084,886       825,717       1,207,036       1,644,205  
  (9,679,280 )     (10,637,952 )     (17,812,609 )     (10,581,608 )
                             
  (3,042,701 )     2,766,184       (3,735,054 )     1,069,593  
                             
  11,577,790       8,811,606       15,644,423       14,574,830  
                             
  8,535,089       11,577,790       11,909,369       15,644,423  
                             
                             
                             
$ 130,657,599     $ 286,596,817     $ 165,662,385     $ 166,415,855  
  186,180,196       262,570,119       208,944,366       169,449,797  
                             
$ 495,440     $ 1,107,075     $ 1,083,590     $ 1,157,941  
                             
 
 
 
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Financial Highlights
 
                                                 
          Income from investment operations     Less dividends  
    Net asset
    Net
    Net realized
          Dividends
    Distributions
 
    value,
    investment
    and unrealized
    Total from
    from net
    from net
 
    beginning of
    income/
    gains/ (losses)
    investment
    investment
    realized
 
    period     (loss)(x)     on investments     operations     income     gains  
 
ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
  $ 12.11     $ (0.04 )   $ 0.72     $ 0.68     $ -     $ -  
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    13.61       (0.06 )     0.79       0.73       -       (2.23 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    12.70       (0.08 )     0.99       0.91       -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    11.79       (0.05 )     0.96       0.91       -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    10.12       (0.08 )     1.75       1.67       -       -  
ICON Energy Fund
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    31.88       0.08       12.86       12.94       -       (3.36 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    33.76       (0.06 )     (0.89 )     (0.95 )     (0.08 )     (0.85 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    21.81       0.10       11.85       11.95       -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    13.70       (0.04 )     8.15       8.11       -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    11.84       (0.04 )     1.90       1.86       -       -  
ICON Financial Fund 
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    14.47       0.13       0.45       0.58       (0.15 )     (0.60 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    13.43       0.15       1.84       1.99       (0.09 )     (0.86 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    13.36       0.13       0.99       1.12       (0.03 )     (1.02 )
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    10.78       0.04       2.60       2.64       (0.06 )     -  
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    8.84       0.05       1.92       1.97       (0.03 )     -  
 
(x)  Calculated using the average share method.
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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                                    Ratio of net
       
                                    investment
       
                        Ratio of expenses
    income/(loss) to
       
                        to average net assets     average net assets        
and distributions                       Before
    After
    Before
    After
       
Total
                Net assets,
    transfer
    transfer
    transfer
    transfer
       
dividends
    Net asset
          end of
    agent
    agent
    agent
    agent
    Portfolio
 
and
    value,
    Total
    period
    earnings
    earnings
    earnings
    earnings
    turnover
 
distributions
    end of period     return     (in thousands)     credit     credit     credit     credit     rate  
 
                                                                     
                                                                     
$ -     $ 12.79       5.62 %   $ 94,477       1.30%       1.30 %     (0.31 )%     (0.31) %     144.89 %
  (2.23 )     12.11       6.20 %     110,792       N/A       1.32 %     N/A       (0.46) %     173.83 %
  -       13.61       7.17 %     169,422       N/A       1.25 %     N/A       (0.57) %     157.94 %
  -       12.70       7.72 %     151,922       N/A       1.31 %     N/A       (0.38) %     120.63 %
  -       11.79       16.50 %     150,065       N/A       1.40 %     N/A       (0.79) %     174.51 %
                                                                     
  (3.36 )     41.46       43.64 %     816,075       1.18%       1.17 %     0.23 %     0.24 %     54.75 %
  (0.93 )     31.88       (2.81 )%     788,366       N/A       1.17 %     N/A       (0.16) %     22.86 %
  -       33.76       54.79 %     1,008,958       N/A       1.21 %     N/A       0.37 %     27.51 %
  -       21.81       59.20 %     287,614       N/A       1.35 %     N/A       (0.20) %     13.42 %
  -       13.70       15.71 %     55,629       N/A       1.40 %     N/A       (0.29) %     42.53 %
                                                                     
  (0.75 )     14.30       3.84 %     200,089       1.21%       1.21 %     0.86 %     0.86 %     93.04 %
  (0.95 )     14.47       15.53 %     368,614       N/A       1.20 %     N/A       1.10 %     153.47 %
  (1.05 )     13.43       8.29 %     210,883       N/A       1.26 %     N/A       1.00 %     170.75 %
  (0.06 )     13.36       24.53 %     188,393       N/A       1.32 %     N/A       0.34 %     114.50 %
  (0.03 )     10.78       22.35 %     139,261       N/A       1.34 %     N/A       0.54 %     142.77 %
 
 
 
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Financial Highlights (continued)
 
                                                 
          Income from investment operations     Less dividends  
    Net asset
    Net
    Net realized
          Dividends
    Distributions
 
    value,
    investment
    and unrealized
    Total from
    from net
    from net
 
    beginning of
    income/
    gains/ (losses) on
    investment
    investment
    realized
 
    period     (loss)(x)     investments     operations     income     gains  
 
ICON Healthcare Fund
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
  $ 17.95     $ - (a)   $ 1.19     $ 1.19       $     -     $ (1.46 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    17.94       (0.10 )     0.38       0.28       -       (0.27 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    13.70       (0.14 )     4.42       4.28       -       (0.04 )
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    12.28       (0.14 )     1.56       1.42       -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    10.35       (0.09 )     2.02       1.93       -       -  
ICON Industrials Fund
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    13.22       0.02       2.63       2.65       - (a)     (5.10 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    12.70       (0.04 )     0.97       0.93       -       (0.41 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    10.52       (0.04 )     2.22       2.18       -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    8.80       (0.05 )     1.77       1.72       -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    7.96       (0.05 )     0.89       0.84       -       -  
ICON Information Technology Fund
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    8.72       (0.05 )     2.35       2.30       -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    8.70       (0.05 )     0.07       0.02       -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    7.90       (0.08 )     0.88       0.80       -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    8.27       (0.08 )     (0.29 )     (0.37 )     -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    5.98       (0.08 )     2.37       2.29       -       -  
 
(x)  Calculated using the average share method.
(a)  Amount less than $0.005.
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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                                    Ratio of net
       
                        Ratio of
    investment
       
                        expenses to
    income/(loss) to
       
                        average net assets     average net assets        
and distributions                       Before
    After
    Before
    After
       
Total
                Net assets,
    transfer
    transfer
    transfer
    transfer
       
dividends
    Net asset
          end of
    agent
    agent
    agent
    agent
    Portfolio
 
and
    value,
    Total
    period
    earnings
    earnings
    earnings
    earnings
    turnover
 
distributions
    end of period     return     (in thousands)     credit     credit     credit     credit     rate  
 
                                                                     
$ (1.46 )   $ 17.68       7.17 %   $ 473,287       1.21%       1.20 %     0.00 %     0.01 %     24.56 %
  (0.27 )     17.95       1.56 %     646,202       N/A       1.19 %     N/A       (0.55) %     61.37 %
  (0.04 )     17.94       31.39 %     682,759       N/A       1.22 %     N/A       (0.82) %     47.88 %
  -       13.70       11.56 %     285,670       N/A       1.29 %     N/A       (1.04) %     52.72 %
  -       12.28       18.65 %     141,259       N/A       1.34 %     N/A       (0.84) %     85.52 %
                                                                     
  (5.10 )     10.77       28.73 %     155,739       1.28%       1.27 %     0.15 %     0.16 %     125.44 %
  (0.41 )     13.22       7.49 %     106,015       N/A       1.24 %     N/A       (0.30) %     89.38 %
  -       12.70       20.72 %     216,636       N/A       1.24 %     N/A       (0.34) %     67.25 %
  -       10.52       19.55 %     209,693       N/A       1.29 %     N/A       (0.47) %     45.77 %
  -       8.80       10.55 %     132,554       N/A       1.43 %     N/A       (0.64) %     90.49 %
                                                                     
                                                                     
  -       11.02       26.38 %     266,965       1.23%       1.23 %     (0.49 )%     (0.49) %     78.66 %
  -       8.72       0.23 %     241,988       N/A       1.25 %     N/A       (0.61) %     155.39 %
  -       8.70       10.13 %     220,073       N/A       1.29 %     N/A       (0.91) %     152.16 %
  -       7.90       (4.47 )%     244,252       N/A       1.31 %     N/A       (0.91) %     189.67 %
  -       8.27       38.29 %     307,972       N/A       1.35 %     N/A       (1.16) %     155.39 %
 
 
 
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Financial Highlights (continued)
 
                                                 
          Income from investment operations     Less dividends  
    Net asset
    Net
    Net realized
          Dividends
    Distributions
 
    value,
    investment
    and unrealized
    Total from
    from net
    from net
 
    beginning of
    income/
    gains/(losses) on
    investment
    investment
    realized
 
    period     (loss)(x)     investments     operations     income     gains  
 
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
  $ 9.21     $ 0.10     $ 1.33     $ 1.43     $ (0.02 )   $ - (a)
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    11.96       (0.07 )     (0.01 )     (0.08 )     -       (2.67 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    14.51       (0.06 )     0.94       0.88       -       (3.43 )
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    12.42       (0.04 )     2.13       2.09       -       -  
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    11.20       (0.06 )     1.28       1.22       -       -  
ICON Materials Fund
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    11.67       0.08       5.10       5.18       (0.15 )     (1.31 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    11.30       0.09       1.09       1.18       (0.02 )     (0.79 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    9.05       0.03       2.23       2.26       (0.01 )     -  
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    6.20       0.01       2.87       2.88       (0.03 )     -  
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    5.68       0.03       0.50       0.53       (0.01 )     -  
ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund
                                               
Year Ended September 30, 2007
    7.66       0.10       2.18       2.28       (0.11 )     (0.63 )
Year Ended September 30, 2006
    8.28       0.13       0.37       0.50       (0.18 )     (0.94 )
Year Ended September 30, 2005
    6.61       0.14       1.61       1.75       (0.08 )     -  
Year Ended September 30, 2004
    5.69       0.07       0.92       0.99       (0.07 )     -  
Year Ended September 30, 2003
    4.78       0.10       0.87       0.97       (0.06 )     -  
 
(x)  Calculated using the average share method.
(a)  Amount less than $0.005.
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
 
 
 
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                            Ratio of net
   
                    Ratio of
  investment
   
                    expenses to
  income/(loss) to
   
                    average net assets   average net assets    
                    Before
  After
  Before
  After
   
    Total
          Net assets,
  transfer
  transfer
  transfer
  transfer
   
and distributions   dividends
  Net asset
      end of
  agent
  agent
  agent
  agent
  Portfolio
Return of
  and
  value, end of
  Total
  period
  earnings
  earnings
  earnings
  earnings
  turnover
capital
  distributions   period   return   (in thousands)   credit   credit   credit   credit   rate
 
                                                                             
                                                                             
$      -     $ (0.02 )   $ 10.62       15.61%     $ 31,571       1.41%       1.41%       1.02%       1.02%       150.72%  
  - (a)     (2.67 )     9.21       0.11%       68,136       N/A       1.54%       N/A       (0.70)%       215.75%  
  -       (3.43 )     11.96       5.01%       47,410       N/A       1.30%       N/A       (0.45)%       271.72%  
  -       -       14.51       16.83%       83,022       N/A       1.33%       N/A       (0.31)%       148.43%  
  -       -       12.42       10.89%       82,347       N/A       1.38%       N/A       (0.51)%       139.54%  
                                                                             
  -       (1.46 )     15.39       48.63%       131,321       1.33%       1.33%       0.59%       0.59%       109.10%  
  -       (0.81 )     11.67       11.17%       135,097       N/A       1.30%       N/A       0.74%       176.89%  
  -       (0.01 )     11.30       25.04%       99,569       N/A       1.31%       N/A       0.33%       128.01%  
  -       (0.03 )     9.05       46.61%       139,838       N/A       1.37%       N/A       0.13%       59.48%  
  -       (0.01 )     6.20       9.36%       30,376       N/A       1.47%       N/A       0.59%       130.01%  
                                                                             
                                                                             
  -       (0.74 )     9.20       31.60%       109,509       1.33%       1.33%       1.20%       1.20%       154.99%  
  -       (1.12 )     7.66       7.56%       119,762       N/A       1.38%       N/A       1.71%       209.50%  
  -       (0.08 )     8.28       26.70%       120,651       N/A       1.26%       N/A       1.88%       112.91%  
  -       (0.07 )     6.61       17.57%       61,325       N/A       1.37%       N/A       1.07%       108.81%  
  -       (0.06 )     5.69       20.36%       42,509       N/A       1.41%       N/A       2.05%       158.24%  
 
 
 
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Notes to Financial Statements
September 30, 2007
 
1. Organization
 
The ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund (“Consumer Discretionary Fund”), ICON Energy Fund (“Energy Fund”), ICON Financial Fund (“Financial Fund”), ICON Healthcare Fund (“Healthcare Fund”), ICON Industrials Fund (“Industrials Fund”), ICON Information Technology Fund (“Information Technology Fund”), ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund (“Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund”), ICON Materials Fund (“Materials Fund”), and ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund (“Telecommunication & Utilities Fund”) are series funds (individually a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”). The Funds are part of the ICON Funds (the “Trust”), a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as an open-end investment management company. There are eight other active Funds within the Trust. Those Funds are covered by separate prospectuses and shareholder reports.
 
The Funds invest primarily in securities of companies whose principal business activities fall within specific sectors and industries. Each Fund is authorized to issue an unlimited number of no par shares. The investment objective of each Fund is to provide long-term capital appreciation.
 
The Funds may have elements of risk, including the loss of principal. There is no assurance that the investment process will consistently lead to successful results. An investment in a non-diversified sector fund may involve greater risk and volatility than a diversified fund. Investments in foreign securities and currency transactions may involve certain considerations and risks not typically associated with those of U.S. dollar-denominated transactions as a result of, among other factors, the possibility of lower government supervision and regulation of foreign securities markets and the possibility of political or economic instability. Financial statements of foreign companies are governed by different accounting, auditing, and financial standards than U.S. companies and tend to be less transparent and uniform than in the United States. Many corporate governance standards, which help ensure the integrity of public information in the United States, do not exist in foreign countries. In general, there is less governmental supervision of foreign stock exchanges and securities brokers and issuers. There are also risks associated with small- and mid-cap investing, including limited product lines, less liquidity and small market share.
 
In the normal course of business, the Funds may enter into various agreements that provide for general indemnifications. Each Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as any potential exposure
 
 
 
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involving future claims that may be made against each Fund is unknown. However, based on experience, the Funds expect the risk of loss to be minimal.
 
2.  Significant Accounting Policies
 
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Funds in the preparation of their financial statements. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
 
Investment Valuation
 
The Funds’ securities and other assets are valued at the closing price at the close of the regular trading session of the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) (normally 4 p.m. Eastern time) each day the NYSE is open, except that securities traded primarily on the NASDAQ Stock Market (“NASDAQ”) are normally valued by the Funds at the NASDAQ Official Closing Price provided by NASDAQ each business day. The Funds use pricing services to obtain the market value of securities in their portfolios; if a pricing service is not able to provide a price, or the pricing service’s valuation quote is considered inaccurate or does not reflect the market value of the security, prices may be obtained through market quotations from independent broker/dealers. If market quotations from these sources are not readily available, the Funds’ securities or other assets are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the Funds’ Board of Trustees (“Board”) or pursuant to procedures approved by the Board.
 
Lacking any sales that day, a security is valued at the current closing bid price (or yield equivalent thereof) or based on quotes from dealers making a market for the security. Options are valued at their closing mid-price on the principal market where the option is traded. Mid-price is the average of the closing bid and closing ask prices. Debt securities with a remaining maturity of greater than 60 days are valued in accordance with the evaluated bid price supplied by the pricing service. The evaluated bid price supplied by the pricing service is a matrix system which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities and ratings. Short-term securities with
 
 
 
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remaining maturities of 60 days or less are generally valued at amortized cost or original cost plus accrued interest, which approximates market value. Currency rates as of the close of the NYSE are used to convert foreign security values into U.S. dollars.
 
The Funds’ securities traded in countries outside of the Western Hemisphere are fair valued daily by utilizing the quotations of an independent pricing service, unless the Board determines that use of another valuation methodology is appropriate. The purposes of daily fair valuation are to avoid stale prices and to take into account, among other things, any significant events occurring after the close of foreign markets. The pricing service uses statistical analyses and quantitative models to adjust local market prices using factors such as subsequent movements and changes in the prices of indexes and securities and exchange rates in other markets to determine fair value as of the time a Fund calculates its net asset value. The valuation assigned to fair-valued securities for purposes of calculating a Fund’s NAV may differ from the security’s most recent closing market price and from the prices used by other mutual funds to calculate their NAVs.
 
New Accounting Pronouncement
 
In September 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement on Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements.” This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, sets out a framework for measuring fair value and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 applies to fair value measurements already required or permitted by existing standards. SFAS No. 157 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007 and interim periods within those fiscal years. The changes to current generally accepted accounting principles from the application of this Statement relate to the definition of fair value, the methods used to measure fair value, and the expanded disclosures about fair value measurements. Management does not believe the adoption of SFAS No. 157 will impact the financial statement amounts, however, additional disclosures will be required about the inputs used to develop the measurements and the effect of certain measurements on changes in net assets for the period.
 
Repurchase Agreements
 
Repurchase agreements, if held by the Funds, are fully collateralized by U.S. Government securities and such collateral is in the possession of the Funds’
 
 
 
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custodian. The collateral is evaluated daily to ensure its market value exceeds the current market value of the repurchase agreements including accrued interest. In the event of default on the obligation to repurchase, the Funds have the right to liquidate the collateral and apply the proceeds in satisfaction of the obligation. In the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, realization and/or retention of the collateral or proceeds may be subject to legal proceedings. No repurchase agreements were purchased or sold by the Funds during the year ended September 30, 2007.
 
Foreign Currency Translation
 
The accounting records of the Funds are maintained in U.S. dollars. Investment securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in a foreign currency are translated daily into U.S. dollars at the prevailing rates of exchange. Income and expenses are translated into U.S. dollars at the prevailing exchange rate on the respective dates of the transactions. Purchases and sales of securities are translated into U.S. dollars at the contractual currency exchange rates established at the time of each trade.
 
The Funds do not isolate that portion of the results of operations resulting from changes in foreign exchange rates on investments from the fluctuations arising from changes in market prices of securities held. Net unrealized appreciation or depreciation on investments and foreign currency translations arise from changes in the value of assets and liabilities, resulting from changes in the exchange rates and changes in market prices of securities held.
 
Forward Foreign Currency Contracts
 
The Funds may enter into short-term forward foreign currency contracts in connection with planned purchases or sales of securities as a hedge against fluctuations in foreign exchange rates pending the settlement of transactions in foreign securities. A forward foreign currency contract is an agreement between contracting parties to exchange an amount of currency at some future time at an agreed upon rate.
 
These contracts are marked-to-market daily and the related appreciation or depreciation of the contract is presented in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Net realized gains and losses on foreign currency transactions represent disposition of foreign currencies, and the difference between the amount recorded at the time of the transaction and the U.S. dollar amount actually received. Any realized gain or loss incurred by the Funds due to foreign currency translation is included in the Statement of Operations. The
 
 
 
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Funds did not enter into any forward foreign currency contracts during the year ended September 30, 2007.
 
Futures Contracts
 
The Funds may invest in financial futures contracts for the purpose of hedging their existing securities or securities they intend to purchase against fluctuations in fair value caused by changes in prevailing markets. Upon entering into a financial futures contract, the Fund is required to pledge to a broker an amount of cash and/or other assets equal to a certain percentage of the contract amount (initial margin deposit). Subsequent payments, known as “variation margin,” are made or received by the Fund each day, depending on the daily fluctuations in the fair value of the underlying security. The Fund recognizes a gain or loss equal to the daily variation margin. Should market conditions change unexpectedly, the Fund may not achieve the anticipated benefits of the financial futures contracts and may realize a loss. The use of futures transactions involves the risk of imperfect correlation in movements in the price of futures contracts and the underlying hedged assets. The Funds held no financial futures contracts during the year ended September 30, 2007.
 
Options Transactions
 
Each Fund may write call and put options on any security in which it may invest. When a Fund writes a put or call option, an amount equal to the premium received is included in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as a liability. The amount of the liability is subsequently marked-to-market to reflect the current market value of the option. If an option expires on its stipulated expiration date or if the Fund enters into a closing purchase transaction, a gain or loss is realized. If a written call option is exercised, a gain or loss is realized for the sale of the underlying security, and the proceeds from the sale are increased by the premium originally received. If a written put option is exercised, the cost of the security acquired is decreased by the premium originally received. As a writer of an option, the Fund has no control over whether the underlying securities are subsequently sold (call) or purchased (put) and, as a result, bears the market risk of an unfavorable change in the price of the security underlying the written option.
 
Each Fund may also purchase put and call options on any security in which it may invest. When a Fund purchases a call or put option, an amount equal to the premium paid is included in the Fund’s Statement of Assets and
 
 
 
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Liabilities as an investment, and is subsequently marked-to-market to reflect the current market value of the option. If an option expires on the stipulated expiration date or if the Fund enters into a closing sale transaction, a gain or loss is realized. If the Fund exercises a call, the cost of the security acquired is increased by the premium paid for the call. If the Fund exercises a put option, a gain or loss is realized from the sale of the underlying security, and the proceeds from such sale are decreased by the premium originally paid. Written and purchased options are non-income producing securities. The Materials Fund and Financial Fund purchased put options during the year ended September 30, 2007.
 
Securities Lending
 
Under procedures adopted by the Trustees, the Funds may lend securities to non-affiliated qualified parties. The Funds may seek to earn additional income through securities lending. There is the risk of delay in recovering a loaned security. The Funds do not have the right to vote on securities while they are being lent; however, the Funds may attempt to call back the loan and vote the proxy.
 
All loans will be continuously secured by collateral which consists of cash. Brown Brothers Harriman (the ‘Lending Agent‘) may invest the cash collateral in the Securities Lending Investment Fund of Brown Brothers Harriman Trust, which complies with Rule 2a-7 of the 1940 Act relating to money market funds.
 
The cash collateral invested by the Lending Agent is disclosed in the Schedule of Investments. The lending fees received and the Funds’ portion of the interest income earned on cash collateral are included on the Statement of Operations, if applicable.
 
As of September 30, 2007, the following Funds had securities with the following values on loan:
 
                 
    Value of
    Value of
 
Fund   Loaned Securities     Collateral  
   
ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund
  $ 8,277,668     $ 8,489,276  
ICON Energy Fund
    27,557,377       28,147,480  
ICON Healthcare Fund
    24,119,424       24,723,419  
ICON Industrials Fund
    6,661,041       6,824,486  
ICON Information Technology Fund
    10,791,244       11,287,173  
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
    3,651,227       3,751,015  
ICON Materials Fund
    23,148,452       23,686,477  
 
 
 
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Income Taxes
 
The Funds intend to qualify as regulated investment companies under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code and, accordingly, the Funds will generally not be subject to federal and state income taxes, or federal excise taxes to the extent that they intend to make sufficient distributions of net investment income and net realized capital gains.
 
Dividends paid by the Funds from net investment income and distributions of net realized short-term gains are, for federal income tax purposes, taxable as ordinary income to shareholders.
 
Dividends and distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Funds on the ex-dividend/distribution date. The Funds distribute net realized capital gains, if any, to shareholders at least annually, if not offset by capital loss carryovers. The Funds may utilize equalization accounting for tax purposes and designate earnings and profits, including net realized gains distributed to shareholders on redemption of shares, as part of the dividends paid deduction for income tax purposes. Income distributions and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
 
On July 13, 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) released FASB Interpretation No. 48 “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes” (“FIN 48”). FIN 48 provides guidance for how uncertain tax positions should be recognized, measured, presented and disclosed in the financial statements. FIN 48 requires the evaluation of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing the Funds’ tax return to determine whether the tax positions are “more-likely-than-not” of being sustained by the applicable tax authority. Tax positions not deemed to meet the more-likely-than-not threshold would be recorded as a tax benefit or expense in the current year. Adoption of FIN 48 is required no later than the last business day of the first financial statement reporting period for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006 and is to be applied to all open tax years as of the effective date. At this time, management is evaluating the implications, if any, of FIN 48. Its impact to the financial statements has not yet been determined.
 
Investment Income
 
Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of
 
 
 
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the securities received. Interest income is accrued as earned. Certain dividends from foreign securities are recorded as soon as the Funds are informed of the dividend if such information is obtained subsequent to the ex-dividend date. Discounts and premiums on securities purchased are amortized over the life of the respective securities.
 
Investment Transactions
 
Security transactions are accounted for no later than one business day after the trade date. However, for financial reporting purposes, security transactions are accounted for on the trade date. Gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost.
 
Allocation of Income and Expenses
 
Expenses which cannot be directly attributed to a specific Fund in the Trust are apportioned between all Funds in the Trust based upon relative net assets.
 
3. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates
 
Investment Advisory Fees
 
ICON Advisers, Inc. (“ICON”) serves as the investment adviser to the Funds and is responsible for managing the Funds’ portfolios of securities. Effective January 31, 2006, the Funds are obligated to pay ICON management fees computed daily at an annual rate of 1.00% of the first $500 million of average daily net assets, 0.95% on the next $250 million, 0.925% on the next $750 million, 0.90% on the next $3.5 billion, and 0.875% on average daily net assets over $5 billion.
 
Accounting, Transfer Agent and Custody Fees
 
Citi Fund Services Ohio, Inc. (“Citi”) is the Fund Accounting Agent for the Funds. Effective August 1, 2007, The BISYS Group, Inc., and its subsidiaries, was acquired by and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citi. For its services, the Trust pays Citi 0.03% on the first $1.75 billion of average net assets, 0.0175% on the average net assets over $1.75 billion and up to $5 billion, and 0.01% on average net assets in excess of $5 billion.
 
Brown Brothers Harriman (“BBH”) is the custodian of the Trust’s investments. For domestic custody services, the Trust pays BBH 0.0065% on the first $50 million of average net assets and 0.0050% on domestic assets above $50 million, plus certain transaction charges. For foreign custody
 
 
 
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services, the Trust pays BBH 0.03% on foreign assets plus certain transaction charges.
 
Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. (“BFDS”) is the Trust’s transfer agent. For these services, the Trust pays an account fee of $13.25 per open account, $7.00 per networked account, $1.80 per closed account, plus certain other transaction and cusip charges.
 
Transfer agent earnings credits are credits received for interest which is a result from overnight balances used by the transfer agent, BFDS, for clearing shareholder transactions. During the year ended September 30, 2007, the Funds received transfer agent earnings credits which are included on the Statement of Operations.
 
Administrative Services
 
The Trust has entered into an administrative services agreement with ICON pursuant to which ICON oversees the administration of the Trust’s business and affairs. As of January 31, 2006, this agreement provides for an annual fee of 0.05% on the Funds’ first $1.5 billion of average daily net assets, 0.045% on the next $1.5 billion of average daily net assets, 0.040% on the next $2 billion of average daily net assets and 0.030% on average daily net assets over $5 billion. During the year ended September 30, 2007, the Funds’ payment for administrative services to ICON is included in the Statement of Operations. The administrative services agreement provides that ICON will not be liable for any error of judgment, mistake of law, or any loss suffered by the Trust in connection with matters to which the administrative services agreement relates, except for a loss resulting from willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence by ICON in the performance of its duties.
 
ICON has entered into a sub-administration agreement with Citi pursuant to which Citi assists ICON with the administration and business affairs of the Trust. Effective August 1, 2007, The BISYS Group, Inc., and its subsidiaries, was acquired by and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citi. For its services, ICON pays Citi at an annual rate of 0.025% on the first $1.75 billion of Trust assets and 0.015% on assets above $1.75 billion.
 
Related Parties
 
Certain Officers and Directors of ICON are also Officers and Trustees of the Funds; however, such Officers and Trustees (with the exception of the Chief Compliance Officer, “CCO”) receive no compensation from the Funds. The CCO’s salary is paid 90% by the Funds and 10% by the Adviser. For the year
 
 
 
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ended September 30, 2007, the total related amounts paid by the Trust under this arrangement are included in Other Expenses on the Statements of Operations.
 
4. Line of Credit
 
The Funds have entered into Lines of Credit agreements with BBH. The maximum borrowing is limited to the lesser of $50 million or 25% of the net asset value in the Fund subject to a maximum borrowing limit by the Trust of $150 million. Interest is charged at LIBOR plus 2.00%, which was 7.12% at September 30, 2007. The average interest rate charged for the period ended September 30, 2007 was 7.35%.
 
         
    Average Borrowing
 
    (10/1/06-9/30/07)  
   
ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund**
  $ 1,437,856  
ICON Energy Fund
    13,608,997  
ICON Financial Fund**
    5,887,714  
ICON Healthcare Fund**
    5,748,002  
ICON Industrials Fund
    2,480,480  
ICON Information Technology Fund**
    1,735,016  
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
    2,379,468  
ICON Materials Fund
    2,417,044  
ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund
    5,268,594  
 
**Fund had outstanding borrowings as of September 30, 2007.
 
5. Federal Income Tax
 
Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations that may differ from accounting principles that are generally accepted in the United States of America. These differences are due to differing treatments for items such as net short-term gains, deferrals of wash losses, foreign currency transactions, net investment losses, and capital loss carryovers.
 
The tax components of capital shown in the following tables represent losses or deductions the Funds may be able to offset against income and gains recognized in future years and post October loss deferrals. The accumulated losses noted in the following tables represent net capital loss carryforwards as of September 30, 2007 that may be available to offset future realized capital gains and thereby reduce future taxable income distributions. The ICON Information Technology Fund has a capital loss carryforward of $29,035,041, which expires in 2011. During the year ended September 30, 2007, the following capital loss carryforwards were used:
 
 
 
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ICON Information Technology Fund
  $ 22,635,013  
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
    92,773  
 
The tax characteristics of dividends and distributions paid to shareholders during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, were as follows:
 
                                 
    Distributions Paid From           Total
 
    Ordinary
    Net Long-
    Total Taxable
    Distributions
 
Fund   Income     Term Gains     Distributions     Paid  
   
 
ICON Energy Fund
  $ 4,022,978     $ 67,861,928     $ 71,884,906     $ 71,884,906  
ICON Financial Fund
    6,713,996       12,487,770       19,201,766       19,201,766  
ICON Healthcare Fund
          43,433,266       43,433,266       43,433,266  
ICON Industrials Fund
    10,971,411       19,619,985       30,591,396       30,591,396  
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
    219,627       38,584       258,211       258,211  
ICON Materials Fund
    7,056,703       6,032,690       13,089,393       13,089,393  
ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund
    3,703,321       5,792,620       9,495,941       9,495,941  
 
The tax characteristics of dividends and distributions paid to shareholders during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, were as follows:
 
                                         
    Distributions Paid From           Tax
    Total
 
    Ordinary
    Net Long-
    Total Taxable
    Return of
    Distributions
 
Fund
  Income     Term Gains     Distributions     Capital     Paid  
 
ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund
  $     $ 15,842,362     $ 15,842,362     $     $ 15,842,362  
ICON Energy Fund
    4,296,329       21,211,622       25,507,951             25,507,951  
ICON Financial Fund
    2,441,494       15,416,499       17,857,993             17,857,993  
ICON Healthcare Fund
          10,591,515       10,591,515             10,591,515  
ICON Industrials Fund
          6,835,273       6,835,273             6,835,273  
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
          9,538,955       9,538,955       34,857       9,573,812  
ICON Materials Fund
    236,508       9,051,351       9,287,859             9,287,859  
ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund
    2,571,472       8,949,456       11,520,928             11,520,928  
 
 
 
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As of September 30, 2007, the components of accumulated earnings (deficit) on a tax basis was as follows:
 
                                                 
                                  Total
 
    Undistributed
    Undistributed
          Accumulated
    Unrealized
    Accumulated
 
    Ordinary
    Net Long-
    Accumulated
    Capital and
    Appreciation
    Earnings
 
Fund   Income     Term Gains     Earnings     Other Losses     (Depreciation)     (Deficits)  
   
ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund
  $ -     $ 4,638,589     $ 4,638,589     $ -     $ 8,051,665     $ 12,690,254  
ICON Energy Fund
    2,043,509       129,269,655       131,313,164       -       281,344,335       412,657,499  
ICON Financial Fund
    6,499,707       14,581,098       21,080,805       -       18,499,405       39,580,210  
ICON Healthcare Fund
    45,860       29,428,260       29,474,120       -       79,559,688       109,033,808  
ICON Industrials Fund
    1,529,982       4,273,697       5,803,679       -       24,782,475       30,586,154  
ICON Information Technology Fund
    -       -       -       (29,035,041 )     61,032,838       31,997,797  
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
    6,697,369       203,000       6,900,369       -       4,598,511       11,498,880  
ICON Materials Fund
    16,634,753       2,903,681       19,538,434       -       27,654,055       47,192,489  
ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund
    15,935,043       -       15,935,043       -       16,961,527       32,896,570  
 
As of September 30, 2007, book cost for financial reporting purposes is substantially the same for federal income tax purposes and differs from market value by net unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) of securities as follows:
 
                                 
                      Net
 
          Unrealized
    Unrealized
    Appreciation
 
Fund   Cost     Appreciation     (Depreciation)     (Depreciation)  
   
ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund
  $ 95,340,271     $ 11,636,871     $ (3,585,206 )   $ 8,051,665  
ICON Energy Fund
    564,133,618       284,228,780       (2,884,445 )     281,344,335  
ICON Financial Fund
    181,825,762       20,568,348       (2,068,943 )     18,499,405  
ICON Healthcare Fund
    418,269,543       92,896,741       (13,337,053 )     79,559,688  
ICON Industrials Fund
    137,521,664       26,537,925       (1,755,450 )     24,782,475  
ICON Information Technology Fund
    215,997,130       62,074,216       (1,041,378 )     61,032,838  
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
    30,766,097       4,797,056       (198,545 )     4,598,511  
ICON Materials Fund
    128,405,779       29,059,887       (1,405,832 )     27,654,055  
ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund
    91,698,269       17,619,868       (658,341 )     16,961,527  
 
 
 
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
To the Board of Trustees and Shareholders of the ICON Sector Funds:
 
In our opinion, the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities, including the schedules of investments, and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund, ICON Energy Fund, ICON Financial Fund, ICON Healthcare Fund, ICON Industrials Fund, ICON Information Technology Fund, ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund, ICON Materials Fund, and ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund (nine of the portfolios constituting ICON Funds, hereafter referred to as the “Funds”) at September 30, 2007, and the results of each of their operations for the year then ended, the changes in each of their net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as “financial statements”) are the responsibility of the Funds’ management; our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at September 30, 2007 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
 
-s- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
 
Denver, Colorado
November 20, 2007
 
 
 
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Six Month Hypothetical Expense Example
September 30, 2007 (unaudited)
 
As a shareholder of a Fund you may pay two types of fees: transaction fees and fund-related fees. Certain funds charge transactions fees, including sales charges (loads) on purchase payments, reinvested dividends, or other distributions; redemption fees; and exchange fees. Funds also incur various ongoing expenses, including management fees, distribution and/or service fees, and other fund expenses, which are indirectly paid by shareholders.
 
This Example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the various ICON Funds and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds. This Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the six-month period (4/1/07 - 9/30/07).
 
Actual Expenses
 
The first line in the table for each Fund provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. The Example includes, but is not limited to, management fees, fund accounting, custody and transfer agent fees. However, the Example does not include client specific fees, such as the $10 fee charged to IRA accounts, or the $15 fee charged for wire redemptions. You may use this information, 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 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line for each Fund under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.
 
Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes
 
The second line in the table for each Fund provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return. 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 the Fund and 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. 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 sales charges (loads), redemption fees, or exchange fees that may be charged by other funds. Therefore, this information is useful in comparing ongoing costs
 
 
 
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only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds.
 
                                 
    Beginning
    Ending
             
    Account
    Account
    Expenses Paid
    Annualized
 
    Value
    Value
    During Period
    Expense Ratio
 
    4/1/07     9/30/07     4/1/07 - 9/30/07*     4/1/07 - 9/30/07  
   
 
ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund
                               
Actual Expenses
  $ 1,000.00     $ 984.60     $ 6.57       1.32%  
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.38       6.68          
ICON Energy Fund
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,241.70       6.41       1.14%  
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,019.28       5.77          
ICON Financial Fund
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,000.00       6.17       1.23%  
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.83       6.22          
ICON Healthcare Fund
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,037.60       5.98       1.17%  
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,019.13       5.92          
ICON Industrials Fund
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,169.40       6.58       1.21%  
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.93       6.12          
ICON Information Technology Fund
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,197.80       6.67       1.21%  
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.93       6.12          
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,066.30       7.93       1.53%  
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,017,33       7.74          
ICON Materials Fund
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,221.40       6.96       1.25%  
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.73       6.33          
ICON Telecommunication &
Utilities Fund
                               
Actual Expenses
    1,000.00       1,101.80       6.95       1.32%  
Hypothetical Example
(5% return before expenses)
    1,000.00       1,018.38       6.68          
 
Expenses are equal to the Fund’s six month expense ratio annualized, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/365 to reflect the one-half year period.
 
 
 
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Board of Trustees and Fund Officers (unaudited)
 
The ICON Funds Board of Trustees (“Board”) consists of five Trustees who oversee the 17 ICON Funds (the “Funds”). The Board is responsible for general oversight of the Funds’ business and for assuring that the Funds are managed in the best interest of the Funds’ shareholders. The Trustees, and their ages, and principal occupations are set forth below. The address of the Trustees is 5299 DTC Blvd., Suite 1200, Greenwood Village, CO 80111. Trustees have no official term of office and generally serve until they resign or are not re-elected.
 
Interested Trustee
 
Craig T. Callahan, 56, Chairman of the Board. Dr. Callahan has been a Trustee of the Funds since their inception. Dr. Callahan also serves as President (1998 to present) and served as the Chief Investment Officer (1991 to 2004) of ICON Advisers, Inc. (“ICON Advisers”), the Funds’ Investment Adviser. Dr. Callahan is also President (1998 to present); Director (1991 to present); and was previously Vice President (1991 to 1998) of ICON Distributors, Inc. (“IDI”), the Funds’ Distributor, and is President of ICON Insurance Agency, Inc. (2004 to present). Dr. Callahan also serves as the Director (1994 to present), and was previously Secretary/Treasurer (1994 to 1998) of ICON Management & Research Corporation (“IM&R”), the parent company of ICON Advisers and IDI.
 
Independent Trustees
 
Glen F. Bergert, 57. Mr. Bergert has been a Trustee of the Funds since 1999. Mr. Bergert is President of Venture Capital Management LLC (1997 to present); General Partner of SOGNO Partners LP, a venture capital company (2001 to present); General Partner of Bergert Properties, a real estate holding company (1997 to present); and General Partner of Pyramid Real Estate Partnership, a real estate development company (1998 to present); General Partner of Chamois Partners, a venture capital company (2004 to present); and was previously a General Partner with KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP (1979 to 1997). Mr. Bergert is also a Director of Herre Bros, Inc., a contracting company (1998 to present); Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, an insurance company (1998 to present); Delta Dental of California, an insurance company (2006 to present); and Delta Reinsurance Corporation (2000 to present).
 
John C. Pomeroy, Jr., 60. Mr. Pomeroy has been a Trustee of the Funds since November 2002. Mr. Pomeroy is Chief Investment Officer and Director of Investments, Pennsylvania State University (2001 to present) and was
 
 
 
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Portfolio Manager and Product Manager, Trinity Investment Management Corporation (1989 to 2001).
 
Gregory Kellam Scott, 59. Mr. Scott has been a Trustee of the Funds since November 2002. Mr. Scott currently serves as Executive Director of the Indiana Civil Rights Commission (2005 to present) and has been appointed to the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on the African Judiciary (2006 to present). Mr. Scott was Senior Vice President - Law, General Counsel and Secretary of GenCorp, Inc., a multinational technology-based manufacturing company (2002 to 2004); Vice President and General Counsel of Kaiser-Hill Company, LLC, a nuclear clean-up and environmental remediation company (2000 to 2002) and a Colorado Supreme Court Justice (1993 to 2000).
 
R. Michael Sentel, 59. Mr. Sentel has been a Trustee of the Funds since their inception. Mr. Sentel is a Senior Attorney with the U.S. Department of Education (1996 to present). Mr. Sentel also provides legal representation as a sole practitioner with an emphasis on corporate and transactional law. He served as general counsel to numerous public companies and served on the board of directors of one of these clients. Mr. Sentel began his legal career with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement and served as a branch chief (1980-1981). Later he served as the section chief for the Professional Liability Section of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. with responsibility for the Rocky Mountain Region (1991 to 1994).
 
The Officers of the Funds are:
 
Craig T. Callahan, 56. Dr. Callahan has been President of the Funds since their inception in 1996. Dr. Callahan also serves as ICON Advisers’ President (1998 to present) and served as the Chief Investment Officer (1991 to 2004). Dr. Callahan is also President (1998 to present), Director (1991 to present) and was previously Vice President (1991 to 1998) of IDI, and is President of ICON Insurance Agency, Inc. (2004 to present). Dr. Callahan is also the Director (1994 to present), and was previously Secretary/Treasurer (1994 to 1998) of IM&R.
 
Erik L. Jonson, 58. Mr. Jonson has been a Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Funds since their inception in 1996. Mr. Jonson is also Chief Financial Officer (1996 to present) and Executive Vice President (2004 to present) and was previously Vice President (1998 to 2004) of ICON Advisers; Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Director (1996 to present) of IM&R; and Executive Vice President (2004 to present) and Treasurer (2002 to present) and was previously Secretary/Treasurer, (1998 to 2002) and Vice President, (2002 to 2004) of IDI; and Executive Vice President and Treasurer of ICON Insurance Agency, Inc. (2004 to present).
 
 
 
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Donald Salcito, 54. Mr. Salcito serves as Vice President and Secretary of the Funds since November 15, 2006. Mr. Salcito is also Executive Vice President and General Counsel (September 2005 to present) of ICON Advisers, Inc.; Director of ICON Management & Research (2005 to present); Executive Vice President, Secretary, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, for ICON Distributors, Inc. (2005 to present); Executive Vice President and Secretary of ICON Insurance Agency, Inc. (2005 to present). Previously he was a Partner in the law firm of Perkins Coie, LLP. (2000-2005).
 
Carrie M. Schoffman, 34. Ms. Schoffman serves as Assistant Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of the Funds (May 2004 to present). She also serves as Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of ICON Advisers, Inc. (May 2004 to present). Previously she was a staff accountant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2003 to 2004). She also was a Manager (2001 to 2003) and Senior Associate/Associate (1996 to 2001) at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
 
Stephen Abrams, 44. Mr. Abrams serves as Anti-Money Laundering Officer of the Funds (2005 to present). Mr. Abrams is also Vice President and Associate General Counsel of ICON Advisers, Inc. (2005 to present). Previously he was a Partner at Perkins Coie, LLP (2004-2005) and Associate (2000 to 2004).
 
 
 
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Other Information (unaudited)
 
Renewal of Investment Advisory Agreement
 
In determining to renew the investment advisory agreements between ICON Funds (the “Trust”) and ICON Advisers, Inc. (“ICON” or the “Adviser”) the Board requested, was provided with and reviewed data with respect to ICON, its personnel, and the services to be provided to each Fund by ICON under the Trust’s Investment Advisory Agreement dated October 9, 1996, as amended (related to the Sector, International and Core Equity Funds) and under the Trust’s Investment Advisory Agreement dated July 9, 2002 and effective October 1, 2002, as amended (related to the U.S. Diversified Funds — Bond, Income Opportunity, Equity Income and Long/Short Funds) (collectively, the “Advisory Agreements”). The data included information concerning advisory, distribution and administrative services provided to the Funds by ICON and its related companies; information concerning other businesses of those companies; comparative data related to exchange traded funds versus the Sector Funds; and comparative data obtained from Lipper Analytical Services related to Fund performance and Fund expenses.
 
On August 14, 2007, the Board of Trustees, including all of the Trustees that are not “interested persons” of the Trust (the “Independent Trustees”), approved continuation of the Advisory Agreements with the Adviser for each Fund for an additional one-year term commencing October 1, 2007.
 
The Independent Trustees were represented by independent legal counsel throughout the process. Prior to acting on the matter, the Independent Trustees met separately as a group in private sessions with their independent legal counsel to review and discuss the foregoing information and also met with management to discuss responses to questions raised during the process. In addition, the Independent Trustees received materials from their independent legal counsel discussing the legal standards applicable to their consideration of the agreement.
 
In considering the nature, extent and quality of the services provided by the Adviser, the Board reviewed information relating to the Adviser’s operations and personnel. Among other things, the Adviser provided biographical information on its professional staff and descriptions of its organizational and management structure. In the course of their deliberations the Board evaluated, among other things, information relating to the investment philosophy, strategies and techniques used in managing each Fund, the qualifications and experience of the Adviser’s investment personnel, the Adviser’s compliance programs, the Adviser’s brokerage practices, including the extent to which the Adviser obtains research through “soft dollar” arrangements with the Funds’ brokerage, and the financial and non-financial resources available to provide services required under the Advisory Agreement.
 
 
 
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In considering the reasonableness of the fee payable to the Adviser for managing each Fund, the Board reviewed, among other things, financial statements of the Adviser and an analysis of the profitability to the Adviser and its affiliates of their relationship with each Fund over various time periods, which analysis identified all revenues and other benefits received by the Adviser and its affiliates from managing each Fund, the costs associated with providing such services and the resulting profitability to the Adviser and its affiliates. The Board considered the current and anticipated asset levels of each Fund and the willingness of the Adviser to waive fees and pay expenses of the Funds from time to time to limit the total expenses of the Funds. The Board concluded that the profitability to the Adviser and its affiliates from their relationship with the Funds is not excessive and that the Adviser is not realizing material benefits from economies of scale that would warrant adjustments to the fees for any Fund at this time. The Board of Trustees concluded that, in light of the nature, extent and quality of the services provided by the Adviser and the levels of profitability associated with providing these services, the fees charged by the Adviser under the Advisory Agreements to each Fund are reasonable.
 
In connection with reviewing data bearing upon the nature, quality, and extent of services furnished by ICON to each Fund, the Board assessed data concerning ICON’s staffing, systems and facilities. The Board also assessed ICON’s non-Trust business to see if there are any initiatives that would dilute service to the Trust. It was noted:
 
A. That the breadth and the quality of investment advisory and other services being provided to each Fund is satisfactory, as evidenced in part by the performance record of each Fund compared with the performance records of a peer group of comparable funds;
 
B. That ICON has made significant expenditures in the past year and in prior years to ensure that it has the sophisticated systems and the highly trained personnel necessary for it to be able to continue to provide quality service to the Funds’ shareholders, including the dedication of substantial resources to ICON’s investment and trading departments;
 
C. That the Board is satisfied with the research, portfolio management, and trading services, among others, being provided by ICON to the Funds, and is charging fair, reasonable, and competitive fees; and
 
D. The risks assumed by ICON in providing investment advisory services to each Fund including the capital commitments which have been made in the past and which continue to be made by ICON to ensure the continuation of the highest quality of service to the Trust is made with the recognition that the Trust’s advisory relationship with ICON be terminated at any time and must be renewed on an annual basis.
 
 
 
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In connection with assessing data bearing the fairness of fee arrangements, the Board used data from Lipper, Inc. concerning funds of similar size and funds of larger size, as well as data concerning ICON’s other clients and noted:
 
A. the advisory fee structures of the Funds were considered in comparison with advisory fees and expense ratios of other similarly managed funds as set forth in the comparative data;
 
B. that contractual advisory fees of the Sector Funds were higher than fees for similar funds; but that the Sector Funds’ expense ratios were competitive and in most instances lower than those of similarly managed Funds;
 
C. that ICON has contractually agreed to impose expense limitations on certain Funds at a cost to ICON;
 
D. that the advisory and other fees payable by the Funds to ICON are essentially fees which would be similar to those which would have resulted solely from “arm’s-length” bargaining, and may well be lower than fees arrived at solely from such arm’s-length negotiation;
 
E. that, the fees paid to ICON for managing other institutional accounts (such as pension plans) are not lower than the fees paid by similarly-managed funds; and to the extent such fees of those accounts are lower, the reasons why such accounts are less costly for ICON to manage.
 
F. the extent to which economies of scale could be realized as a Fund grows in assets and whether the Fund’s fees reflect these economies of scale for the benefit of Fund shareholders.
 
In connection with profitability, the Board reviewed the costs borne by ICON in providing advisory services to each Fund and the profitability of ICON in light of the estimated profitability analysis.
 
In connection with the direct and indirect benefits to ICON from serving as the Funds’ adviser, the Board discussed and noted:
 
A. that ICON benefits from serving directly or through affiliates as the principal underwriter and administrative agent for the Funds; the services provided by ICON and its affiliates to the Funds are satisfactory, and whether the profits derived from providing the services are competitive and reasonable; and
 
B. that ICON receives research assistance from the use of soft dollars generated from Fund portfolio transactions; the Trustees noted that such research assists ICON in providing quality to which it provides advisory services.
 
 
 
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Based on these considerations, among others, the Board, including all of the Independent Trustees, concluded that the continuation of the Advisory Agreement was in the best interests of each Fund and its shareholders, the services to be performed under the agreement were services required for the operation of the Funds, ICON had provided satisfactory advisory services to the Funds in the past, and the fees for the advisory services which ICON would perform and other benefits from the relationship with the Trust and consistent with fees paid by similar funds, are reasonable in light of the comparative data, and would be within the range of what would have been negotiated at arm’s length in light of the circumstances.
 
Supplemental Tax Information
 
For corporate shareholders, the following percentage of the total ordinary income dividends paid during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007 qualifies for the corporate dividends received deduction for the following Funds:
 
         
    Dividends
    Received
Fund   Deduction
 
 
ICON Energy Fund
    100 .00%
ICON Financial Fund
    76 .96
ICON Industrials Fund
    3 .45
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
    20 .96
ICON Materials Fund
    36 .75
ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund
    43 .07
 
For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the following Funds paid qualified dividend income:
 
       
Fund   Amount
 
 
ICON Energy Fund
  $ 4,022,978
ICON Financial Fund
    5,218,540
ICON Industrials Fund
    513,983
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
    49,326
ICON Materials Fund
    2,532,026
ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund
    1,588,426
 
 
 
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The Funds designate the following amounts as long-term capital gain distributions qualifying for the maximum 15% income tax rate for individuals:
 
       
Fund   Amount
 
 
ICON Consumer Discretionary Fund
  $ 2,318,385
ICON Energy Fund
    85,024,742
ICON Financial Fund
    23,059,453
ICON Healthcare Fund
    52,083,099
ICON Industrials Fund
    21,019,746
ICON Leisure and Consumer Staples Fund
    4,791,671
ICON Materials Fund
    13,572,705
ICON Telecommunication & Utilities Fund
    12,172,537
 
Portfolio Holdings
 
A list of each ICON Fund’s Top 10 holdings is available at www.iconadvisers.com on or about 15 days following each month end. Each ICON Fund also files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings for the first and third quarters of its fiscal year with the SEC on Form N-Q. The ICON Funds’ Forms N-Q are available at www.sec.gov or may be reviewed and copied at the Commission’s Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information about the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.
 
Proxy Voting
 
A summarized description of the policies and procedures the ICON Funds use to vote proxies is available free of charge at www.iconadvisers.com or by calling 1-800-764-0442.
 
Information about how the ICON Funds voted proxies related to each Fund’s portfolio securities during the 12-month period ended June 30 is available free of charge at www.iconadvisers.com or on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
 
For More Information
 
This report is for the general information of the Funds’ shareholders and is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus. You may obtain a copy of the prospectus, which contains information about the investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses, and share classes of each ICON Fund, by visiting www.iconadvisers.com or by calling 1-800-764-0442. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.
 
ICON Distributors, Inc., Distributor
 
 
 
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For more information about the ICON Funds, contact us:
     
By Telephone
  1-800-764-0442
     
By Mail
  ICON Funds
P.O. Box 55452
Boston, MA 02205-8165
     
In Person
  ICON Funds
5299 DTC Boulevard, 12th Floor
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
     
On the Internet
  www.iconadvisers.com
     
By E-Mail
  info@iconadvisers.com
 
 
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1-800-764-0442
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Item 2. Code of Ethics.
During the period covered by the report, with respect to the registrant’s code of ethics that applies to its principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions; there have been no amendments to, nor any waivers granted from, a provision that relates to any element of the code of ethics definition enumerated in paragraph (b) of this Item 2.
Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert.
3(a)(1) The registrant’s board of directors has determined that the registrant has at least one audit committee financial expert serving on its audit committee.
3(a)(2) The audit committee financial experts are Glen F Bergert, John C. Pomeroy, Gregory Kellam Scott and R. Michael Sentel, who are “independent” for purposes of this Item 3 of Form N-CSR.
Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.
Fiscal year ended 9/30/07
                     
        Registrant   Covered Entities 1
(a)  
Audit Fees 2
  $ 334,600       N/A  
(b)  
Non-Audit Fees
               
(c)  
Tax Fees 3
  $ 93,020     $ 11,510  
   
All Other Fees 4
          $ 60,000  
(d)  
Total Non-Audit Fees
  $ 93,020     $ 71,510  
Fiscal year ended 9/30/06
                     
        Registrant   Covered Entities 1
(a)  
Audit Fees 2
  $ 304,000       N/A  
(b)  
Non-Audit Fees
               
(c)  
Tax Fees 3
  $ 98,000     $ 60,000  
   
All Other Fees
             
(d)  
Total Non-Audit Fees
  $ 98,000     $ 60,000  
 
1.   Covered Entities include ICON Advisers, Inc. (“ICON Advisers”), investment adviser and administrator to the Registrant, as well as ICON Advisers’ affiliated entities.
 
2.   “Audit Fees” represents fees for performing an audit of the Registrant’s annual financial statements or services that are normally provided by the independent accountants in connection with statuatory and regulatory filings.
 
3.   “Tax Fees” represent fees for tax return preparation, excise distribution calculations, quarterly tax compliance reviews, and tax planning and tax advice services provided in connection with the preparation and review of the Registrant’s tax returns. ICON Advisers pays $1,000 under its Administration Agreement with the Registrant.
 
4.   “All Other Fees” paid by the Registrant in fiscal year 2007 were related to multi-class issues.
(e)(1) The Audit Committee of the Registrant’s Board of Trustees (“Board”) is required to review and pre-approve all services to be provided by the independent accountants to the Registrant and Covered Entities to determine whether the services performed by the independent accountants impair their independence from the Registrant. The Audit Committee has delegated preapproval authority to the Chairman of the Audit Committee, subject to review and ratification by the full Audit Committee.
(e)(2) All of the principal accountants’ hours spent on auditing the Registrant’s financial statements were attributed to work performed by full-time permanent employees of the independent accountants. 100% of the non-audit services provided by the independent accountants to either the Registrant or the Covered Entities were pre-approved by the Audit Committee.
(f) Not applicable.
(g) The Audit Committee of the Registrant’s Board has considered whether the provision of services other than audit services performed by the independent accountants to the Registrant and Covered Entities is compatible with maintaining the independent accountants’ independence in performing audit services.

 


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Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Schedule of Investments.
Not applicable.
Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable.
Item 9. Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers.
Not applicable.
Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
Not applicable.
Item 11. Controls and Procedures.
(a)The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded, based on their evaluation of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures as conducted within 90 days of the filing date of this report, that these disclosure controls and procedures are adequately designed and are operating effectively to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the registrant on Form N-CSR is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms.
(b)There were no changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Act (17 CFR 270.30a-3(d)) that occurred during the second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
Item 12. Exhibits.
(a)(1)    The Code of ethics that is the subject of the disclosure required by item 2 is furnished herewith.
 
(a)(2)    Certifications pursuant to Rule 30a-2(a) are furnished herewith.
 
(a)(3)    Not applicable.
 
(b)   Certifications pursuant to Rule 30a-2(b) are furnished herewith.

 


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SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
         
(Registrant)
  ICON FUNDS    
 
       
By (Signature and Title)*
       /s/ Craig T. Callahan    
 
 
 
         Craig T. Callahan, President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
 
       
Date December 4, 2007
       
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
         
By (Signature and Title)*
       /s/ Craig T. Callahan    
 
 
 
         Craig T. Callahan, President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
 
       
Date December 4, 2007
       
 
       
By (Signature and Title)*
       /s/ Erik L. Jonson    
 
 
 
         Erik L. Jonson, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
         (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
Date December 4, 2007
       
 
*   Print the name and title of each signing officer under his or her signature.