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 Paradigm Value Fund 
       Schedule of Investments
      March 31, 2021 (Unaudited)
 Shares             Fair Value    % of Net Assets
                 
 COMMON STOCKS               
                 
 Air Courier Services               
           55,000 Air Transport Services Group, Inc. *        $    1,609,300   2.40%
                 
 Aircraft Parts & Auxiliary Equipment, NEC             
           10,000 Ducommun Incorporated *                  600,000   0.89%
                 
 Communications Equipment, NEC               
             8,000 Lumentum Holdings Inc. *                  730,800   1.09%
                 
 Communications Services, NEC               
           30,000 Calix, Inc. *               1,039,800   1.55%
                 
 Computer Communications Equipment               
          124,300 A10 Networks, Inc. *               1,194,523    
          150,000 Extreme Networks, Inc. *               1,312,500    
                  2,507,023   3.73%
                 
 Construction - Special Trade Contractors         
           76,800 Matrix Service Co. *               1,006,848   1.50%
                 
 Electrical Work               
           19,700 EMCOR Group Inc.                2,209,552   3.29%
                 
 Electronic Computers               
             6,000 Omnicell, Inc. *                  779,220   1.16%
                 
 Industrial Organic Chemicals               
           21,700 Sensient Technologies Corporation             1,692,600   2.52%
                 
 Laboratory Analytical Instruments               
           13,500 PerkinElmer Inc.               1,731,915   2.58%
                 
 Measuring & Controlling Devices, NEC               
           10,000 Onto Innovation Inc. *                  657,100   0.98%
                 
 Millwood, Veneer, Plywood, & Structural Wood Members           
             5,000 American Woodmark Corporation *                492,900    
           32,000 Jeld-Wen Holding, Inc. *                  886,080    
                  1,378,980   2.05%
                 
 Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels)             
           75,000 Summit Materials, Inc. - Class A *             2,101,500   3.13%
                 
 Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories               
           20,000 Modine Manufacturing Company *                295,400   0.44%
                 
 National Commercial Banks               
           34,000 First Merchants Corporation               1,581,000    
           14,936 National Bank Holdings Corporation - Class A              592,660    
                  2,173,660   3.24%
                 
 Office Machines, NEC               
           40,000 Pitney Bowes Inc.                   329,600   0.49%
                 
 Optical Instruments & Lenses               
           12,000 II-VI Incorporated *                  820,440   1.22%
                 
 Orthopedic, Prosthetic & Surgical Appliances & Supplies           
           40,000 Invacare Corporation *                  320,800   0.48%
                 
 Pharmaceutical Preparations               
           80,000 OptiNose, Inc. *                  295,200   0.44%
                 
 Printed Circuit Boards               
           15,000 Jabil Circuit, Inc.                   782,400   1.16%
                 
 Radio & TV Broadcasting & Communications Equipment         
           20,000 Comtech Telecommunications Corp.                 496,800   0.74%
                 
 Retail - Apparel & Accessory Stores               
           40,000 Tilly’s, Inc. - Class A                  452,800    
           10,000 Zumiez Inc. *                  429,000    
                     881,800   1.31%
                 
 Retail - Catalog & Mail-Order Houses               
             7,000 Insight Enterprises, Inc. *                  667,940   0.99%
                 
 Retail - Family Clothing Stores               
           67,600 American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.             1,976,624   2.94%
                 
 Retail - Retail Stores, NEC               
             6,000 IAC/InterActiveCorp. *               1,297,860    
             9,850 Match Group, Inc. *               1,353,193    
                  2,651,053   3.95%
                 
 Retail - Shoe Stores               
           19,500 Designer Brands Inc. - Class A                339,300    
           24,800 Foot Locker, Inc.               1,395,000    
                  1,734,300   2.58%
                 
 Semiconductors & Related Devices               
           56,700 Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. (Singapore)             2,784,537    
             7,588 Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (Bermuda)                371,660    
           20,000 MaxLinear, Inc. *                  681,600    
           40,000 NeoPhotonics Corporation *                  478,000    
           11,700 Qorvo, Inc. *               2,137,590    
                  6,453,387   9.61%
                 
 Services - Business Services, NEC               
             6,832 Concentrix Corp. *               1,022,887    
          135,000 Conduent Incorporated *                  899,100    
           21,400 Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc. *                985,470    
                  2,907,457   4.33%
                 
 Services - Computer Integrated Systems Design             
          100,000 Ribbon Communications Inc. *                821,000   1.22%
                 
 Services - Help Supply Services               
           44,400 Kforce Inc.                2,379,840   3.54%
                 
 Services - Home Health Care Services               
           18,900 Addus HomeCare Corporation *             1,976,751   2.94%
                 
 Services - Hospitals               
           13,100 Magellan Health Services Inc. *             1,221,444   1.82%
                 
 Services - Management Services               
           30,000 R1 RCM Inc.  *                   740,400   1.10%
                 
 Services - Skilled Nursing Care Facilities               
           10,000 The Ensign Group, Inc.                  938,400   1.40%
                 
 Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery)     
             3,500 Kadant Inc.                  647,535   0.96%
                 
 Special Industry Machinery, NEC               
           28,100 Brooks Automation, Inc.               2,294,365    
           30,000 Veeco Instruments Inc. *                  622,200    
                  2,916,565   4.34%
                 
 State Commercial Banks               
           21,000 Banner Corporation               1,119,930    
             5,000 Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.                 374,450    
           35,000 Renasant Corporation               1,448,300    
                  2,942,680   4.39%
                 
 Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus             
           60,000 GenMark Diagnostics, Inc. *               1,434,000   2.13%
                 
 Telegraph & Other Message Communications             
           18,400 j2 Global, Inc. *               2,205,424   3.28%
                 
 Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus               
             6,000 Fabrinet (Thailand) *                  542,340   0.81%
                 
 Transportation Services               
           15,400 GATX Corp.               1,428,196   2.13%
                 
 Water, Sewer, Pipeline, Comm & Power Line Construction         
           25,000 Primoris Services Corporation                828,250   1.23%
                 
 Wholesale - Computers & Peripheral Equipment & Software         
           10,832 SYNNEX Corporation                1,243,947   1.85%
                 
 Total for Common Stocks (Cost $24,282,632)             63,098,271   93.93%
                 
 REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS               
           11,650 Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc.             1,681,794    
 Total for Real Estate Investment Trusts (Cost $326,868)              1,681,794   2.50%
                 
 MONEY MARKET FUNDS               
       2,523,392 SEI Daily Income Trust Government Fund CL F 0.01% **         2,523,392   3.76%
 Total for Money Market Funds (Cost $2,523,392)             
                 
 Total Investment Securities              67,303,457   100.19%
             (Cost $27,132,892)               
                 
 Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets                   (129,951)   -0.19%
                   
 Net Assets             $  67,173,506   100.00%
                 
                 
 * Non-Income Producing Securities.               
 ** The rate shown represents the 7-day yield at March 31, 2021. 
 
                 
 1. SECURITY TRANSACTIONS               
                 
For Federal income tax purposes, the cost of securities owned at March 31, 2021, was $27,132,892. At March 31, 2021, the composition of gross unrealized appreciation (the excess of value over tax cost) and depreciation (the excess of tax cost over value) of investments was as follows:
                 
        Unrealized Gain    $  40,317,303    
        Unrealized Loss           (146,738)    
        Unrealized Gain    $  40,170,565    
                 
2. SECURITIES VALUATIONS              
                 
The Fund utilizes various methods to measure the fair value of most of its investments on a recurring basis. GAAP establishes a hierarchy that prioritizes inputs to valuation methods. The three levels of inputs are:
                 
Level 1 – Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Fund has the ability to access.
                 
Level 2 – Observable inputs other than quoted prices included in level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. These inputs may include quoted prices for the identical instrument in an inactive market, prices for similar instruments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, yield curves, default rates and similar data.
                 
Level 3 – Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability, to the extent relevant observable inputs are not available, representing the Fund’s own assumptions about the assumptions a market participant would use in valuing the asset or liability, and would be based on the best information available.
                 
The availability of observable inputs can vary from security to security and is affected by a wide variety of factors, including, for example, the type of security, whether the security is new and not yet established in the marketplace, the liquidity of markets, and other characteristics particular to the security. To the extent that valuation is based on models or inputs that are less observable or unobservable in the market, the determination of fair value requires more judgment. Accordingly, the degree of judgment exercised in determining fair value is greatest for instruments categorized in level 3.
                 
The inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, for disclosure purposes, the level in the fair value hierarchy within which the fair value measurement falls in its entirety, is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety.
                 
FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS              
                 
A description of the valuation techniques applied to the Fund’s major categories of assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis follows.
                 
Equity securities (common stocks and real estate investment trusts). Equity securities generally are valued by using market quotations, but may be valued on the basis of prices furnished by a pricing service when the Adviser believes such prices accurately reflect the fair value of such securities. Securities that are traded on any stock exchange or on the NASDAQ over-the-counter market are generally valued by the pricing service at the last quoted sale price. Lacking a last sale price, an equity security is generally valued by the pricing service at its last bid price. Generally, if the security is traded in an active market and is valued at the last sale price, the security is categorized as a level 1 security, and if an equity security is valued by the pricing service at its last bid, it is generally categorized as a level 2 security. When market quotations are not readily available, when the Adviser determines that the market quotation or the price provided by the pricing service does not accurately reflect the current fair value, or when restricted securities are being valued, such securities are valued as determined in good faith by the Adviser, subject to review of the Board of Trustees (the “Trustees” or the “Board”) and are categorized in level 2 or level 3, when appropriate.
                 
Money market funds. Money market funds are valued at net asset value provided by the funds and are classified in level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.
                 
In accordance with the Trust’s good faith pricing guidelines, the Adviser is required to consider all appropriate factors relevant to the value of securities for which it has determined other pricing sources are not available or reliable as described above. There is no single standard for determining fair value, since fair value depends upon the circumstances of each individual case. As a general principle, the current fair value of an issue of securities being valued by the Adviser would appear to be the amount which the owner might reasonably expect to receive for them upon their current sale. Methods which are in accordance with this principle may, for example, be based on (i) a multiple of earnings; (ii) a discount from market of a similar freely traded security (including a derivative security or a basket of securities traded on other markets, exchanges or among dealers); or (iii) yield to maturity with respect to debt issues, or a combination of these and other methods.
                 
The following table summarizes the inputs used to value the Fund’s assets measured at fair value as of March 31, 2021:
                 
Valuation of Inputs and Assets Level 1   Level 2   Level 3   Total
Common Stocks  $  63,098,271    $                 -    $                 -    $    63,098,271
Real Estate Investment Trusts       1,681,794                       -                       -           1,681,794
Money Market Funds       2,523,392                       -                       -           2,523,392
Total     $  67,303,457    $                 -    $                 -    $    67,303,457
                 
Refer to the Fund's Schedule of Investments for a listing of securities by industry. The Fund did not hold any Level 3 assets or liabilities during the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2021.