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CLEARBRIDGE VARIABLE AGGRESSIVE GROWTH PORTFOLIO

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited)    March 31, 2023

 

(Percentages shown based on Portfolio net assets)

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
COMMON STOCKS - 98.6%      
COMMUNICATION SERVICES - 15.8%      

Entertainment - 6.4%

     

Liberty Media Corp.-Liberty Formula One, Class C Shares

     25,556      $ 1,912,356

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.

     32,871        1,941,690

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.

     23,864        4,649,900  

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

     81,688        1,233,489

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Class A Shares

     10,301        940,069  
     

 

 

 

Total Entertainment

        10,677,504  
     

 

 

 

Interactive Media & Services - 2.1%

     

Match Group Inc.

     41,844        1,606,391

Meta Platforms Inc., Class A Shares

     9,234        1,957,054
     

 

 

 

Total Interactive Media & Services

        3,563,445  
     

 

 

 

Media - 7.3%

     

AMC Networks Inc., Class A Shares

     29,048        510,664

Comcast Corp., Class A Shares

     245,641        9,312,250  

Liberty Broadband Corp., Class A Shares

     6,225        511,197

Liberty Broadband Corp., Class C Shares

     12,131        991,103

Liberty Media Corp.-Liberty SiriusXM, Class C Shares

     36,634        1,025,385
     

 

 

 

Total Media

        12,350,599  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES

        26,591,548  
     

 

 

 
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY - 3.8%      

Broadline Retail - 2.1%

     

Etsy Inc.

     32,182        3,582,822
     

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.7%

     

Airbnb Inc., Class A Shares

     23,329        2,902,128
     

 

 

 

TOTAL CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY

        6,484,950  
     

 

 

 
CONSUMER STAPLES - 1.7%      

Beverages - 1.7%

     

Diageo PLC, ADR

     15,927        2,885,654  
     

 

 

 
FINANCIALS - 1.6%      

Capital Markets - 1.6%

     

Cohen & Steers Inc.

     41,106        2,629,140  
     

 

 

 
HEALTH CARE - 28.8%      

Biotechnology - 16.2%

     

AbbVie Inc.

     24,595        3,919,705  

Biogen Inc.

     21,378        5,943,725

Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc.

     59,698        2,133,607

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

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CLEARBRIDGE VARIABLE AGGRESSIVE GROWTH PORTFOLIO

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    March 31, 2023

 

(Percentages shown based on Portfolio net assets)

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  

Biotechnology - continued

     

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.

     34,333      $ 1,376,753

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.

     44,270        13,948,149
     

 

 

 

Total Biotechnology

        27,321,939  
     

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 2.0%

     

Insulet Corp.

     10,671        3,403,622
     

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 7.9%

     

Guardant Health Inc.

     31,564        739,860

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

     26,612        12,576,565  
     

 

 

 

Total Health Care Providers & Services

        13,316,425  
     

 

 

 

Health Care Technology - 1.1%

     

Doximity Inc., Class A Shares

     54,789        1,774,068
     

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 1.6%

     

Charles River Laboratories International Inc.

     13,612        2,747,174
     

 

 

 

TOTAL HEALTH CARE

        48,563,228  
     

 

 

 
INDUSTRIALS - 7.8%      

Aerospace & Defense - 4.0%

     

L3Harris Technologies Inc.

     34,339        6,738,685  
     

 

 

 

Building Products - 3.4%

     

Johnson Controls International PLC

     94,862        5,712,590  
     

 

 

 

Ground Transportation - 0.4%

     

Lyft Inc., Class A Shares

     72,640        673,373
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INDUSTRIALS

        13,124,648  
     

 

 

 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - 37.4%      

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 6.5%

     

TE Connectivity Ltd.

     83,878        11,000,600  
     

 

 

 

IT Services - 2.7%

     

Accenture PLC, Class A Shares

     5,767        1,648,266  

Snowflake Inc., Class A Shares

     18,397        2,838,473
     

 

 

 

Total IT Services

        4,486,739  
     

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 11.8%

     

Broadcom Inc.

     21,150        13,568,571  

Wolfspeed Inc.

     97,826        6,353,799
     

 

 

 

Total Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

        19,922,370  
     

 

 

 

Software - 13.7%

     

Autodesk Inc.

     41,580        8,655,293

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., Class A Shares

     37,643        5,166,878

DocuSign Inc.

     31,416        1,831,553

Dolby Laboratories Inc., Class A Shares

     10,251        875,640  

HubSpot Inc.

     15,211        6,521,716
     

 

 

 

Total Software

        23,051,080  

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

 

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CLEARBRIDGE VARIABLE AGGRESSIVE GROWTH PORTFOLIO

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    March 31, 2023

 

(Percentages shown based on Portfolio net assets)

 

SECURITY

    SHARES      VALUE  

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 2.7%

       

Seagate Technology Holdings PLC

       51,901      $ 3,431,694  

Western Digital Corp.

       26,765        1,008,238
       

 

 

 

Total Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals

          4,439,932  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

          62,900,721  
       

 

 

 
MATERIALS - 1.7%        

Metals & Mining - 1.7%

       

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

       69,296        2,834,899  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS BEFORE SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS

(Cost - $94,630,318)

          166,014,788  
       

 

 

 
     RATE               
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 1.5%        

JPMorgan 100% U.S. Treasury Securities Money Market Fund, Institutional Class

     4.436     1,732,392        1,732,392 (a)  

Western Asset Premier Institutional U.S. Treasury Reserves, Premium Shares

     4.617     742,454        742,454 (a)(b)  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS

(Cost - $2,474,846)

          2,474,846  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 100.1%

(Cost - $97,105,164)

          168,489,634  

Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets - (0.1)%

          (97,990
       

 

 

 

TOTAL NET ASSETS - 100.0%

        $ 168,391,644  
       

 

 

 

 

*

Non-income producing security.

 

(a)

Rate shown is one-day yield as of the end of the reporting period.

 

(b)

In this instance, as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, an “Affiliated Company” represents Portfolio ownership of at least 5% of the outstanding voting securities of an issuer, or a company which is under common ownership or control with the Portfolio. At March 31, 2023, the total market value of investments in Affiliated Companies was $742,454 and the cost was $742,454 (Note 2).

Abbreviation(s) used in this schedule:

ADR    — American Depositary Receipts

This Schedule of Investments is unaudited and is intended to provide information about the Portfolio’s investments as of the date of the schedule. Other information regarding the Portfolio is available in the Portfolio’s most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited)

 

1. Organization and significant accounting policies

ClearBridge Variable Aggressive Growth Portfolio (the “Portfolio”) is a separate diversified investment series of Legg Mason Partners Variable Equity Trust (the “Trust”). The Trust, a Maryland statutory trust, is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as an open-end management investment company.

Shares of the Portfolio may only be purchased or redeemed through variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies offered by the separate accounts of participating insurance companies or through eligible pension or other qualified plans.

The Portfolio follows the accounting and reporting guidance in Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946, Financial Services – Investment Companies (“ASC 946”). The following are significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Portfolio and are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), including, but not limited to, ASC 946.

(a) Investment valuation. Equity securities for which market quotations are available are valued at the last reported sales price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange on which they trade. The valuations for fixed income securities (which may include, but are not limited to, corporate, government, municipal, mortgage-backed, collateralized mortgage obligations and asset-backed securities) and certain derivative instruments are typically the prices supplied by independent third party pricing services, which may use market prices or broker/dealer quotations or a variety of valuation techniques and methodologies. The independent third party pricing services typically use inputs that are observable such as issuer details, interest rates, yield curves, prepayment speeds, credit risks/spreads, default rates and quoted prices for similar securities. Investments in open-end funds are valued at the closing net asset value per share of each fund on the day of valuation. When the Portfolio holds securities or other assets that are denominated in a foreign currency, the Portfolio will normally use the currency exchange rates as of 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). If independent third party pricing services are unable to supply prices for a portfolio investment, or if the prices supplied are deemed by the manager to be unreliable, the market price may be determined by the manager using quotations from one or more broker/dealers or at the transaction price if the security has recently been purchased and no value has yet been obtained from a pricing service or pricing broker. When reliable prices are not readily available, such as when the value of a security has been significantly affected by events after the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded, but before the Portfolio calculates its net asset value, the Portfolio values these securities as determined in accordance with procedures approved by the Portfolio’s Board of Trustees.

Pursuant to policies adopted by the Board of Trustees, the Portfolio’s manager has been designated as the valuation designee and is responsible for the oversight of the daily valuation process. The Portfolio’s manager is assisted by the Global Fund Valuation Committee (the “Valuation Committee”). The Valuation Committee is responsible for making

 

 

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (cont’d)

 

fair value determinations, evaluating the effectiveness of the Portfolio’s pricing policies, and reporting to the Portfolio’s manager and the Board of Trustees. When determining the reliability of third party pricing information for investments owned by the Portfolio, the Valuation Committee, among other things, conducts due diligence reviews of pricing vendors, monitors the daily change in prices and reviews transactions among market participants.

The Valuation Committee will consider pricing methodologies it deems relevant and appropriate when making fair value determinations. Examples of possible methodologies include, but are not limited to, multiple of earnings; discount from market of a similar freely traded security; discounted cash-flow analysis; book value or a multiple thereof; risk premium/yield analysis; yield to maturity; and/or fundamental investment analysis. The Valuation Committee will also consider factors it deems relevant and appropriate in light of the facts and circumstances. Examples of possible factors include, but are not limited to, the type of security; the issuer’s financial statements; the purchase price of the security; the discount from market value of unrestricted securities of the same class at the time of purchase; analysts’ research and observations from financial institutions; information regarding any transactions or offers with respect to the security; the existence of merger proposals or tender offers affecting the security; the price and extent of public trading in similar securities of the issuer or comparable companies; and the existence of a shelf registration for restricted securities.

For each portfolio security that has been fair valued pursuant to the policies adopted by the Board of Trustees, the fair value price is compared against the last available and next available market quotations. The Valuation Committee reviews the results of such back testing monthly and fair valuation occurrences are reported to the Board of Trustees quarterly.

The Portfolio uses valuation techniques to measure fair value that are consistent with the market approach and/or income approach, depending on the type of security and the particular circumstance. The market approach uses prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable securities. The income approach uses valuation techniques to discount estimated future cash flows to present value.

 

   

 

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (cont’d)

 

GAAP establishes a disclosure hierarchy that categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value assets and liabilities at measurement date. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:

 

   

Level 1 – unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

 

   

Level 2 – other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

 

   

Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

The following is a summary of the inputs used in valuing the Portfolio’s assets carried at fair value:

 

ASSETS

 

DESCRIPTION

   QUOTED PRICES
(LEVEL 1)
     OTHER SIGNIFICANT
OBSERVABLE INPUTS
(LEVEL 2)
     SIGNIFICANT
UNOBSERVABLE
INPUTS
(LEVEL 3)
     TOTAL  

Common Stocks†

   $ 166,014,788        —          —        $ 166,014,788  

Short-Term Investments†

     2,474,846        —          —          2,474,846  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Investments

   $ 168,489,634        —          —        $ 168,489,634  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

See Schedule of Investments for additional detailed categorizations.

2. Transactions with affiliated company

As defined by the 1940 Act, an affiliated company is one in which the Portfolio owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common ownership or control with the Portfolio. The following company was considered an affiliated company for all or some portion of the period ended March 31, 2023. The following transactions were effected in such company for the period ended March 31, 2023.

 

     Affiliate
Value at
December 31,

2022
     Purchased      Sold      Realized
Gain
(Loss)
     Dividend
Income
     Net Increase
(Decrease) in
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
     Affiliate
Value at
March 31,
2023
 
     Cost      Shares      Proceeds      Shares  
Western Asset Premier Institutional U.S. Treasury Reserves, Premium Shares    $ 400,328      $ 1,877,487        1,877,487      $ 1,535,361        1,535,361             $ 9,261             $ 742,454  

 

 

 

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