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 Paradigm Value Fund 
         Schedule of Investments
        September 30, 2022 (Unaudited)
 Shares               Fair Value    % of Net Assets
                   
 COMMON STOCKS               
                   
 Air Courier Services               
           37,000   Air Transport Services Group, Inc. *        $      891,330   2.01%
                   
 Aircraft Parts & Auxiliary Equipment, NEC               
           10,000   Ducommun Incorporated *                  396,600   0.89%
                   
 Communications Services, NEC               
           30,000   Calix, Inc. *               1,834,200   4.14%
                   
 Computer Communications Equipment               
          124,300   A10 Networks, Inc.                1,649,461    
          100,000   Extreme Networks, Inc. *               1,307,000    
                    2,956,461   6.67%
                   
 Electrical Work                 
           19,700   EMCOR Group Inc.                2,274,956   5.13%
                   
 Electronic Computers               
             6,000   Omnicell, Inc. *                  522,180   1.18%
                   
 Footwear, (No Rubber)               
           20,000   Caleres, Inc.                   484,400   1.09%
                   
 Industrial Organic Chemicals               
           21,700   Sensient Technologies Corporation             1,504,678   3.39%
                   
 Laboratory Analytical Instruments               
           12,500   PerkinElmer Inc.               1,504,125   3.39%
                   
 Measuring & Controlling Devices, NEC               
           10,000   Onto Innovation Inc. *                  640,500   1.44%
                   
 Millwood, Veneer, Plywood, & Structural Wood Members           
           10,000   JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. *                    87,500   0.20%
                   
 Mining & Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels)             
           78,000   Summit Materials, Inc. - Class A *             1,868,880   4.22%
                   
 Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories               
           60,000   Modine Manufacturing Company *                776,400   1.75%
                   
 National Commercial Banks               
           34,000   First Merchants Corporation               1,315,120    
           17,000   National Bank Holdings Corporation - Class A              628,830    
                    1,943,950   4.38%
                   
 Optical Instruments & Lenses               
           12,000   Coherent Corp. *                  418,200   0.94%
                   
 Printed Circuit Boards               
           15,000   Jabil Circuit, Inc.                   865,650   1.95%
                   
 Retail - Catalog & Mail-Order Houses               
             7,000   Insight Enterprises, Inc. *                  576,870   1.30%
                   
 Retail - Family Clothing Stores               
           67,600   American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.                657,748   1.48%
                   
 Retail - Retail Stores, NEC               
             6,000   IAC/InterActiveCorp. *                  332,280   0.75%
                   
 Retail - Shoe Stores               
           51,000   Designer Brands Inc. - Class A                780,810    
           29,800   Foot Locker, Inc.                  927,674    
                    1,708,484   3.86%
                   
 Semiconductors & Related Devices               
           56,700   Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. (Singapore)             2,184,651    
           20,000   MaxLinear, Inc. *                  652,400    
           11,700   Qorvo, Inc. *                  929,097    
                    3,766,148   8.50%
                   
 Services - Business Services, NEC               
             5,900   Concentrix Corp.                   658,617    
          140,000   Conduent Incorporated *                  467,600    
                    1,126,217   2.54%
                   
 Services - Computer Integrated Systems Design             
          100,000   Ribbon Communications Inc. *                222,000   0.50%
                   
 Services - Help Supply Services               
           44,400   Kforce Inc.                2,604,060   5.87%
                   
 Services - Home Health Care Services               
           18,900   Addus HomeCare Corporation *             1,800,036   4.06%
                   
 Services - Management Services               
           30,000   R1 RCM Inc.  *                   555,900   1.25%
                   
 Services - Medical Laboratories               
           33,300   RadNet, Inc. *                   677,655   1.53%
                   
 Services - Prepackaged Software               
           40,000   Absolute Software Corp. (Canada)                464,400    
             6,666   Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc. *                315,302    
                       779,702   1.77%
                   
 Services - Skilled Nursing Care Facilities               
           10,000   The Ensign Group, Inc.                  795,000   1.79%
                   
 Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery)     
             3,500   Kadant Inc.                  583,835   1.32%
                   
 Special Industry Machinery, NEC               
           28,100   Azenta, Inc.               1,204,366    
           20,000   Veeco Instruments Inc. *                  366,400    
                    1,570,766   3.55%
                   
 State Commercial Banks               
           11,000   Banner Corporation                  649,880    
           29,000   Renasant Corporation                  907,120    
                    1,557,000   3.52%
                   
 Telegraph & Other Message Communications             
             7,200   Ziff Davis Inc. *                  493,056   1.11%
                   
 Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus               
             6,000   Fabrinet (Thailand) *                  572,700   1.29%
                   
 Transportation Services               
             9,900   GATX Corp.                  842,985   1.90%
                   
 Water, Sewer, Pipeline, Comm & Power Line Construction           
           23,000   Primoris Services Corporation                373,750   0.84%
                   
 Wholesale - Computers & Peripheral Equipment & Software         
           10,832   TD SYNNEX Corporation                   879,450   1.98%
                   
 Total for Common Stocks (Cost $19,324,931)             41,445,652   93.48%
                   
 REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS               
           10,950   Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc.             1,698,017    
 Total for Real Estate Investment Trusts (Cost $306,603)              1,698,017   3.83%
                   
 MONEY MARKET FUNDS               
       1,241,455   SEI Daily Income Trust Government Fund CL F 2.60% **         1,241,455   2.80%
 Total for Money Market Funds (Cost $1,241,455)             
                   
 Total Investment Securities              44,385,124   100.11%
               (Cost $20,872,989)               
                   
 Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets                   (50,011)   -0.11%
                     
 Net Assets               $  44,335,113   100.00%
                   
                   
 * Non-Income Producing Securities.               
 ** The rate shown represents the 7-day yield at September 30, 2022. 
 
                   
 1. SECURITY TRANSACTIONS               
                   
For Federal income tax purposes, the cost of securities owned at September 30, 2022, was $20,872,989. At September 30, 2022, 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 Appreciation    $  24,576,818    
      Unrealized Depreciation        (1,064,683)    
      Unrealized Appreciation    $  23,512,135    
                   
2. SECURITIES VALUATIONS              
                   
The Fund utilizes various methods to measure the fair value 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 Valuation Committee 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 Valuation Committee 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 Valuation Committee, 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 Valuation Committee 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 Valuation Committee 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 Board maintains responsibilities for the fair value determinations under Rule 2a-5 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and oversees the Valuation Committee.
                   
The following table summarizes the inputs used to value the Fund’s assets measured at fair value as of September 30, 2022:
                   
Valuation of Inputs and Assets Level 1   Level 2   Level 3   Total
Common Stocks    $  41,445,652    $                 -    $                 -    $       41,445,652
Real Estate Investment Trusts       1,698,017                       -                       -               1,698,017
Money Market Funds       1,241,455                       -                       -               1,241,455
Total       $  44,385,124    $                 -    $                 -    $       44,385,124
                   
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 September 30, 2022.