N-CSRS 1 a12-18441_2ncsrs.htm N-CSRS

 

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

811-22187

 

PAX WORLD FUNDS TRUST II

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

30 Penhallow Street, Suite 400, Portsmouth, NH

 

03801

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip code)

 

Pax World Management LLC

30 Penhallow Street, Suite 400, Portsmouth, NH  03801

Attn.:  Joseph Keefe

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:

800-767-1729

 

 

Date of fiscal year end:

December 31

 

 

Date of reporting period:

06/30/12

 

 

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Item 1.                                     Semi-Annual Report to Shareholders

 



June 30, 2012

SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT

Pax MSCI North America
ESG Index ETF

(NASI)

Pax MSCI EAFE
ESG Index ETF

(EAPS)




Table of Contents

Letter to Shareholders   2  
Sustainability Update   5  
Commentary and Portfolio Highlights   7  
Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF   7  
Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF   10  
Shareholder Expense Examples   15  
Schedule of Investments   17  
Statement of Assets and Liabilities   23  
Statement of Operations   24  
Statement of Changes in Net Assets   25  
Financial Highlights   26  
Notes to Financial Statements   28  

 

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Letter to Shareholders

by Joseph Keefe, President & CEO

Dear fellow shareholders,

As I write, the economic recovery in the U.S. has slowed and our nation's capital is not only mired in its now customary partisan gridlock but election-year politics provide added incentive to do nothing. The European crisis continues, the China boom is slowing and financial markets remain volatile and unpredictable. What some call a risk-on/risk-off market—a very volatile, short-term focused, directionless market—has continued to characterize the first six months of 2012. This is not the most favorable climate for sustainable investors, or for long-term investors more generally. One could say that we are long investors in a very short market.

This is particularly true of index investors, or investors in exchange-traded funds ("ETFs") like Pax World's ESG Shares, which invest in underlying indices. We are investing in the market, or at least one part of the market, and when it moves, so does our investment portfolio. Despite all this volatility, however, we at Pax World remain convinced that an investment approach focused on investing in the most sustainable companies—those with strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance—is the best strategy for our shareholders, and the right strategy for our times.

Speaking of our times, the sustainability agenda has never been more important. Mother Nature has certainly been sending signals of late in the form of the warmest year, the hottest summer and one of the worst droughts in many, many decades. As ecologist Bill McKibben recently wrote:

"If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere—the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe.

"Meteorologists reported that this spring was the warmest ever recorded for our nation—in fact, it crushed the old record by so much that it represented the 'largest temperature departure from average of any season on record.' The same week, Saudi authorities reported that it had rained in Mecca despite a temperature of 109 degrees, the hottest downpour in the planet's history."1

We have just learned as well that July was the hottest month on record in the U.S. What we are witnessing is not only a prolonged crisis in the global economy but a tectonic shift in the global ecology as well—and the two, of course, are intimately related. The current model of global capitalism is premised upon

1Bill McKibben, "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math," Rolling Stone, July 19, 2012.


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a perpetual economic growth paradigm that must ultimately invade all accessible habitat and consume all available resources. Climate change may be the most urgent challenge but is in a sense only a symptom. "The problem is the delusion that we can have infinite quantitative economic growth, that we can keep having more and more stuff, on a finite planet."2 Unfortunately, this elemental truth is something that neither policy makers nor average citizens have an easy time getting their arms around. As Jeremy Grantham has written, "[t]he problems of compounding growth in the face of finite resources are not easily understood by optimistic, short-term-oriented, and relatively innumerate humans (especially the political variety)."3

There are many potential strategies for addressing this challenge but surely sustainable investing is one of them. Sustainable investing can be thought of as an investment approach wherein the connections between economic output and ecological/societal health are no longer obscured but are expressly linked. The goal, over time, should be for the quality of output to replace the quantity of output as the true measure of economic well-being. In a sense, what we are trying to do is to invest in solutions rather than perpetuating the dominant, increasingly problematic growth paradigm.

In fact, Pax World recently changed the name of one of our mutual funds in recognition of this imperative. What we formerly called the Global Green Fund has been renamed the Global Environmental Markets Fund (PGRNX). This Fund, not unlike our ESG Shares ETFs, is about solutions. As its new name states, the Fund invests in environmental markets, including energy (energy efficiency and renewables), water (water infrastructure & technologies, pollution control) and waste (waste management & technologies, environmental support services). It is sometimes not well understood that environmental markets are a much broader, more diversified investment universe than alternative energy, and in our view, much less volatile. (As of June 30th, alternative energy constituted only about 4% of Fund holdings whereas energy efficiency accounted for approximately 33%, water infrastructure 25% and waste management and pollution control another 26%.4) We changed the name of the Fund to better clarify its broader, more diversified mandate. With global population exceeding 7 billion, emerging nations rising in affluence and consumption, and increased concerns about energy security, resource scarcity, pollution and of course climate change, we believe environmental solutions will be an ever more important key to sustainable global growth.

The Pax World Global Environmental Markets Fund continues to be sub-advised by Impax Asset Management (Impax) in London, UK, an investment manager specializing in environmental and resource scarcity markets.

It's only a name change, but in a way it represents something larger than that. At least we hope it does. We want to invest in solutions. We want to invest in

2Paul Gilding, The Great Disruption, Bloomsbury Press, 2011, p. 186.

3Jeremy Grantham, "Time to Wake Up: Days of Abundant Resources and Falling Prices Are Over Forever," April 2011 GMO Quarterly Letter.

4Pax World Global Environmental Markets Fund holdings as-of 6/30/2012. Holdings are subject to change.


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a sustainable future. Markets go up and down but we can't lose sight of the fact that investing should be about the long term. At Pax World, we are doing what we can to make sure it is.

I hope you enjoyed your summer.

Peace.

Joseph F. Keefe


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June 30, 2012

Sustainability Investing

Sustainability Update

2012 has been a very active year for shareowner activists. There were nearly 400 shareholder resolutions filed, over half of them in just two areas: political spending and environment. Pax World was active in both areas, filing three resolutions on corporate governance issues (two on corporate political activity and one on board diversity) and one on an environmental issue.

Pax World has a strong history of using the tools at our disposal to support women's empowerment, and nowhere is this more needed than in the boardroom and executive suite. We were pleased that we were able to withdraw our shareholder proposal with Roper Industries, a manufacturer of high-tech, customized electronic equipment, after the company agreed to modify its nominating committee charter for directors to include making gender diversity a part of every director search.

This year, as a Presidential election year, is also going to bring intense focus to corporate political spending, both on campaigns and lobbying. Even without the campaign, 2012 has already been a landmark year for corporate political activity due to the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida. This dreadful incident brought into sharp focus the activities of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which advocated that states adopt so-called Stand Your Ground laws, which allow people to use deadly force to defend themselves if they believe that there is a threat without a duty to retreat. Florida, where Mr. Martin was killed, had passed a Stand Your Ground statute. ALEC's legislative activities began to come under the spotlight after Mr. Martin was killed. Investor attention focused on companies that funded ALEC, and Pax World signed on to a letter sent to companies that were members of ALEC, but whose own policies were inconsistent with the positions taken by ALEC. By the end of May, sixteen companies had announced that they had ended their membership.

Pax World also filed two resolutions asking companies to disclose on what and with whom they spent money on lobbying. Pax World's resolution at Target Corp (TGT) sought increased disclosure of Target's lobbying priorities and its position on several public policy issues. After discussion, Target agreed to provide statements detailing its position on its top lobbying priorities. Target also agreed to include a statement about how it determined what its top lobbying priorities were, and the company has committed to updating its position statements on its top lobbying priorities each year, making changes as its lobbying priorities change.


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Sustainability Update, continued

We filed a similar resolution with Amgen, which appeared on the company's proxy and was voted on by its shareholders at its annual meeting. This resolution got a vote in favor of nearly 25% (not counting abstentions and broker non-votes). While it did not pass, the results show that a significant proportion of the company's shareholders are interested in the company being more transparent about its lobbying expenditures.

Finally, Pax World co-filed with Calvert a shareholder proposal at Amazon asking the company to report on climate change and energy use. Amazon, like other major providers of web content, operates large server farms that, according to Greenpeace, may consume as much electricity as a small city.1 Our proposal received a vote of 21% in favor, not counting abstentions and broker non-votes.

This is what successful advocacy often looks like: a couple of productive negotiations with companies and a couple of respectable votes. The reality is that advocacy rarely, if ever, achieves instant and total success. The private sector is a big ship, and big ships don't turn on a dime. But they do turn, and it's good to have a hand on the wheel.

1Greenpeace, "How Clean is Your Cloud?" April 27, 2012, http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/ publications/Campaign-reports/Climate-Reports/How-Clean-is-Your-Cloud/.


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Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF

June 30, 2012

Commentary

The Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF (NASI) employs a passive management approach, seeking to track the performance of the MSCI North America ESG Index, a broadly diversified, sector-neutral index of American and Canadian companies with superior ESG performance as rated by MSCI ESG Research.

For the six-month period ended June 30, 2012, the Fund's NAV return was 5.35% tracking the MSCI North America ESG Index return of 5.62%, while underperforming the MSCI North America Index return of 8.43%.

During the period the financial service sector made the most positive contribution to performance while the energy sector was the largest detractor to performance. Positions that contributed most positively to performance included Oracle Corp., a company that supplies software for enterprise information management; Merck & Co., Inc., a global healthcare company; and Intel Corp., a manufacturer of microprocessors for the personal computer and communication industry. Positions that detracted most from performance included Google, Inc., a global internet search engine company; Procter & Gamble Co., a global consumer products company; and McDonalds Corp., a franchiser and operator of fast-food restaurants.

The Fund described herein is indexed to an MSCI index. The Fund referred to herein is not sponsored, endorsed or promoted by MSCI or its affiliates, and MSCI and its affiliates bear no liability with respect to any such fund or any index on which such fund is based.

The MSCI North America ESG Index is designed to measure the performance of equity securities of issuers organized or operating in the United States and Canada that have high environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings relative to their sector and industry group peers, as rated by MSCI ESG Research annually.

MSCI ESG Research evaluates companies' ESG characteristics and derives corresponding ESG scores and ratings. Companies are ranked by ESG score against their sector peers to determine their eligibility for the MSCI ESG indices. MSCI ESG Research identifies the highest-rated companies in each peer group to meet the float-adjusted market capitalization sector targets. The rating system is based on general and industry specific ESG criteria, assigning ratings on a 9-point scale from AAA (highest) to C (lowest). Constituents of the MSCI EAFE Index having an ESG rating of B or above are eligible for inclusion in the Index.

The MSCI North America ESG Index includes or utilizes data, ratings, analysis, reports, analytics or other information or materials from MSCI's ESG Research Group within Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of MSCI. The prospectus contains a more detailed description of the limited relationship MSCI has with Pax World Management LLC, ESG Shares and any related funds.

The MSCI North America Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of North America.

Unlike the Fund, the MSCI North America ESG Index and the MSCI North America Index are not investments, are not professionally managed and do not reflect deductions for fees, expenses or taxes.


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Portfolio Highlights (Unaudited)

Returns — Period ended June 30, 2012

        Total Return  
    YTD   1 Year   Since
Inception1
 
NAV Return2     5.35 %     -0.11 %     7.39 %  
Market Value Return2     5.04 %     -0.15 %     7.39 %  
MSCI North America ESG Index3     5.62 %     0.42 %     8.07 %  
MSCI North America Index4     8.43 %     3.00 %     11.04 %  

 

All total return figures assume reinvestment of dividends and capital gains at net asset value; actual returns may differ. Performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when sold or redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. Current performance data may be higher or lower than actual data quoted. Total returns for periods of less than one year have not been annualized.

An index is a statistical measure of a specified financial market or sector. An index does not actually hold a portfolio of securities, incur expenses or pay any transaction costs. Therefore, index returns do not reflect deductions for fees or expenses and are not available for direct investment. In comparison, the Fund's performance is negatively impacted by these deductions. Fund returns do not reflect brokerage commissions on transactions in Fund shares or taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

1The Fund's inception date is May 18, 2010.

2The NAV return is based on the closing NAV (net asset value per share) of the Fund and the Market Value return is based on the market price per share of the Fund. The market prices used for Market Value returns are based on the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4 p.m. ET and do not represent the returns an investor would receive if shares were traded at other times.

3The MSCI North America ESG Index is designed to measure the performance of equity securities of issuers organized or operating in North America that have high environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings from MSCI, selected initially and adjusted annually by MSCI.

4The MSCI North America Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of North America.


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Portfolio Highlights (Unaudited), continued

Asset Allocation   Percent of Net Assets  
Common Stocks     99.9 %  
Money Market Fund     0.1 %  
Other Assets & Liabilities     0.0 %*  
Total Net Assets     100.0 %  

 

*Less than 0.05%.

Top Ten Holdings

Company   Percent of Net Assets  
IBM     3.4 %  
Johnson & Johnson     3.0 %  
Procter & Gamble Co.     2.7 %  
Google, Inc. (Class A)     2.4 %  
Intel Corp.     2.1 %  
Merck & Co., Inc.     2.0 %  
Oracle Corp.     1.9 %  
PepsiCo, Inc.     1.8 %  
Abbott Laboratories     1.6 %  
QUALCOMM, Inc.     1.5 %  
Total     22.4 %  

 

Ten largest holdings do not include money market securities, certificates of deposit, commercial paper or cash and equivalents, if applicable.

Sector Diversification

Sector   Percent of Net Assets  
Information Technology     19.7 %  
Financials     17.9 %  
Health Care     12.3 %  
Consumer Discretionary     11.5 %  
Consumer Staples     11.0 %  
Industrials     10.5 %  
Energy     7.8 %  
Materials     4.7 %  
Utilities     3.0 %  
Telecommunication Services     1.5 %  
Cash and cash equivalents plus other assets less liabilities     0.1 %  
Total     100.0 %  

 

Geographical Diversification

Country   Percent of Net Assets  
United States     90.1 %  
Canada     9.6 %  
Other Countries     0.3 %  
Other Assets & Liabilities     0.0 %*  
Total     100.0 %  

 

*Less than 0.05%.

 


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Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF

June 30, 2012

Commentary

The Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF (EAPS) employs a passive management approach, seeking to track the performance of the MSCI EAFE ESG Index, which consists of companies operating in developed market countries around the world, excluding the U.S. and Canada, that have superior ESG performance as rated by MSCI ESG Research.

For the six-month period ended June 30, 2012, the Fund's NAV return was 4.15%, outperforming both the MSCI EAFE ESG Index return of 3.52% and the MSCI EAFE Index return of 2.96%.

In light of the European debt crisis, surprisingly, Europe was the most positive contributor to performance during the period. From a sector perspective, financials were the most positive contributor to performance while utilities were the largest detractor to performance. Positions that contributed most positively to performance included HSBC Holdings PLC, a London based international banking and financial services company; and Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., a Japanese property development company. Positions that detracted most from performance included Repsol SA, a Spanish based integrated energy company; and Tesco PLC, a food retailer based in the United Kingdom.

The Fund described herein is indexed to an MSCI index. The Fund referred to herein is not sponsored, endorsed or promoted by MSCI or its affiliates, and MSCI and its affiliates bear no liability with respect to any such fund or any index on which such fund is based.

The MSCI EAFE ESG Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index designed to measure the performance of equity securities of issuers organized or operating in developed market countries around the world excluding the U.S. and Canada that have high environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings relative to their sector and industry group peers, as rated by MSCI ESG Research annually. The Index targets sector weights that reflect the relative sector weights of the MSCI Europe & Middle East Index1 and the MSCI Pacific Index2. MSCI ESG Research evaluates companies' ESG characteristics and derives corresponding ESG scores and ratings. Companies are ranked by ESG score against their sector peers to determine their eligibility for the MSCI ESG indices. MSCI ESG Research identifies the highest-rated companies in each peer group to meet the float-adjusted market capitalization sector targets. The rating system is based on general and industry-specific ESG criteria, assigning ratings on a 9-point scale from AAA (highest) to C (lowest). Constituents of the MSCI EAFE Index having an ESG rating of B or above are eligible for inclusion in the Index.

The MSCI EAFE ESG Index includes or utilizes data, ratings, analysis, reports, analytics or other information or materials from MSCI's ESG Research Group within Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of MSCI. The prospectus contains a more detailed description of the limited relationship MSCI has with Pax World Management LLC, ESG Shares and any related funds.

The MSCI EAFE (Europe, Australasia, Far East) Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets, excluding the U.S. and Canada. The MSCI EAFE Index consisted of the following 22 developed market country indices: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

1The MSCI Europe & Middle East Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of the developed markets in Europe and the Middle


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Commentary, continued

East. The MSCI Europe & Middle East Index consisted of the following 17 developed market country indices: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

2The MSCI Pacific Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of the developed markets in the Pacific region. The MSCI Pacific Index consisted of the following 5 developed market country indices: Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, and Singapore.

Unlike the Fund, the MSCI EAFE ESG Index, the MSCI EAFE Index, the MSCI Europe & Middle East Index and the MSCI Pacific Index are not investments, are not professionally managed and do not reflect deductions for fees, expenses or taxes.


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Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF

June 30, 2012

Portfolio Highlights (Unaudited)

Returns — Period ended June 30, 2012

        Total Return  
    YTD   1 Year   Since
Inception1
 
NAV Return2     4.15 %     -11.06 %     -7.46 %  
Market Value Return2     4.78 %     -9.63 %     -7.01 %  
MSCI EAFE ESG Index3     3.52 %     -11.61 %     -7.31 %  
MSCI EAFE Index4     2.96 %     -13.83 %     -9.05 %  

 

All total return figures assume reinvestment of dividends and capital gains at net asset value; actual returns may differ. Performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when sold or redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. Current performance data may be higher or lower than actual data quoted. Total returns for periods of less than one year have not been annualized.

An index is a statistical measure of a specified financial market or sector. An index does not actually hold a portfolio of securities, incur expenses or pay any transaction costs. Therefore, index returns do not reflect deductions for fees or expenses and are not available for direct investment. In comparison, the Fund's performance is negatively impacted by these deductions. Fund returns do not reflect brokerage commissions on transactions in Fund shares or taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions.

1The Fund's inception date is January 27, 2011.

2The NAV return is based on the closing NAV (net asset value per share) of the Fund and the Market Value return is based on the market price per share of the Fund. The market prices used for Market Value returns are based on the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4 p.m. ET and do not represent the returns an investor would receive if shares were traded at other times.

3MSCI EAFE ESG Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index designed to measure the performance of equity securities of issuers organized or operating in Europe and the Asia Pacific region that have high environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings from MSCI, selected initially and adjusted annually by MSCI.

4The MSCI EAFE (Europe, Australasia, Far East) Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets, excluding the U.S. and Canada. The MSCI EAFE Index consisted of the following 22 developed market country indices: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.


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Portfolio Highlights (Unaudited), continued

Asset Allocation   Percent of Net Assets  
Common Stocks     99.3 %  
Preferred Stock     0.2 %  
Money Market Fund     0.1 %  
Rights     0.0 %*  
Other Assets & Liabilities     0.4 %  
Total Net Assets     100.0 %  

 

*Less than 0.05%.

Top Ten Holdings

Company   Percent of Net Assets  
HSBC Holdings PLC     3.6 %  
Vodafone Group PLC     3.6 %  
GlaxoSmithKline PLC     2.9 %  
Roche Holding AG     2.7 %  
Novartis AG     2.6 %  
Commonwealth Bank of Australia     2.1 %  
BG Group PLC     1.7 %  
Westpac Banking Corp.     1.6 %  
Pearson PLC     1.6 %  
BASF SE     1.6 %  
Total     24.0 %  

 

Ten largest holdings do not include money market securities, certificates of deposit, commercial paper or cash and equivalents, if applicable.

Sector Diversification

Sector   Percent of Net Assets  
Financials     25.7 %  
Consumer Discretionary     13.2 %  
Health Care     12.0 %  
Industrials     11.5 %  
Consumer Staples     11.4 %  
Materials     6.6 %  
Telecommunication Services     6.2 %  
Energy     6.0 %  
Information Technology     4.1 %  
Utilities     2.8 %  
Cash and cash equivalents plus other assets less liabilities     0.5 %  
Total     100.0 %  

 


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Portfolio Highlights (Unaudited), continued

Geographical Diversification

Country   Percent of Net Assets  
Japan     24.6 %  
United Kingdom     23.2 %  
Australia     9.4 %  
Switzerland     9.2 %  
France     7.6 %  
Spain     4.7 %  
Germany     4.7 %  
Sweden     4.7 %  
Netherlands     2.6 %  
Belgium     2.0 %  
Denmark     2.0 %  
Italy     1.2 %  
Hong Kong     0.8 %  
Finland     0.7 %  
New Zealand     0.7 %  
Luxembourg     0.5 %  
Norway     0.5 %  
Austria     0.3 %  
Israel     0.1 %  
Ireland     0.0 %*  
Short Term Investment     0.1 %  
Other Assets & Liabilities     0.4 %  
Total     100.0 %  

 

*Less than 0.05%.


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Shareholder Expense Examples (Unaudited)

Examples As a shareholder of the Funds, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including brokerage commissions on purchases and sales of your fund shares and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees and other Fund expenses. The examples below are intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Funds and compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other funds. For more information, see the prospectus or talk to your financial adviser.

The examples are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period beginning on January 1, 2012 and ending on June 30, 2012.

Actual Expenses The first line in the table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this table, 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 under the heading entitled "Expenses Paid During Period" to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Examples for Comparison Purposes The second line in the table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on each 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 Funds and other funds. To do so, compare these 5% hypothetical examples with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the tables are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs. Therefore, the second line of the table under each Fund is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning


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Shareholder Expense Examples (Unaudited), continued

different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

    Beginning
Account Value
(1/1/12)
  Ending
Account Value
(6/30/12)
  Annualized
Expense
Ratio
  Expenses Paid
During Period1
 
Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF  
Based on Actual Fund Return   $ 1,000     $ 1,053.50       0.50 %   $ 2.55    
Based on Hypothetical 5% Return     1,000       1,022.38       0.50 %     2.51    
Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF  
Based on Actual Fund Return   $ 1,000     $ 1,041.50       0.55 %   $ 2.79    
Based on Hypothetical 5% Return     1,000       1,022.13       0.55 %     2.77    

 

1 Expenses are equal to each Fund's annualized expense ratio, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 182/366 (to reflect the period beginning on January 1, 2012 and ending on June 30, 2012).


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Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF

June 30, 2012 (Unaudited)

Schedule of Investments

Security Description   Shares   Value  
COMMON STOCKS: 99.9%  
Consumer Discretionary: 11.5%  
Advance Auto Parts, Inc.     113     $ 7,709    
Autoliv, Inc.     139       7,598    
AutoZone, Inc. (a)     54       19,827    
Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. (a)     374       23,113    
Best Buy Co., Inc.     461       9,662    
BorgWarner, Inc. (a)     169       11,085    
Cablevision Systems Corp. (Class A)     307       4,080    
Canadian Tire Corp., Ltd. (Class A)     121       8,175    
CarMax, Inc. (a)     352       9,131    
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (a)     48       18,238    
Darden Restaurants, Inc.     199       10,075    
Discovery Communications, Inc.
(Series A) (a)
    221       11,934    
Discovery Communications, Inc.
(Series C) (a)
    169       8,465    
Ford Motor Co.     5,499       52,735    
GameStop Corp. (Class A)     211       3,874    
Genuine Parts Co.     241       14,520    
Gildan Activewear, Inc.     179       4,925    
Harley-Davidson, Inc.     357       16,326    
Hasbro, Inc.     179       6,063    
J.C. Penney Co., Inc.     251       5,851    
Johnson Controls, Inc.     1,056       29,262    
Kohl's Corp.     373       16,968    
Liberty Global, Inc. (Series A) (a)     214       10,621    
Liberty Global, Inc. (Series C) (a)     186       8,881    
Liberty Media Corp. – Interactive
(Class A) (a)
    847       15,068    
Liberty Media Corp. – Liberty Capital
(Class A) (a)
    164       14,417    
Lowe's Cos., Inc.     1,926       54,775    
Macy's, Inc.     642       22,053    
Marriott International, Inc. (Class A)     414       16,229    
Mattel, Inc.     526       17,063    
McDonald's Corp.     1,581       139,966    
Mohawk Industries, Inc. (a)     90       6,285    
Netflix, Inc. (a)     81       5,546    
Newell Rubbermaid, Inc.     447       8,109    
NIKE, Inc. (Class B)     572       50,210    
Nordstrom, Inc.     258       12,820    
O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. (a)     197       16,503    
PetSmart, Inc.     172       11,727    
Ross Stores, Inc.     354       22,114    
Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd.     219       5,701    
Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
(Class A)
    143       8,131    
Staples, Inc.     1,077       14,055    
Starbucks Corp.     1,169       62,331    
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Worldwide, Inc.
    303       16,071    
Target Corp.     987       57,433    
The Gap, Inc.     492       13,461    
The TJX Cos., Inc.     1,171       50,271    
The Washington Post Co. (Class B)     6       2,243    
Thomson Reuters Corp.     584       16,596    
Tiffany & Co.     196       10,378    

 

Security Description   Shares   Value  
COMMON STOCKS, continued  
Consumer Discretionary, continued  
Tim Hortons, Inc.     244     $ 12,846    
Time Warner Cable, Inc.     487       39,983    
Time Warner, Inc.     1,504       57,904    
V.F. Corp.     137       18,283    
Virgin Media, Inc.     411       10,024    
Whirlpool Corp.     119       7,278    
      1,134,992    
Consumer Staples: 11.0%  
Avon Products, Inc.     669       10,844    
Bunge, Ltd.     226       14,179    
Campbell Soup Co.     296       9,880    
Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.     469       13,151    
Colgate-Palmolive Co.     743       77,346    
ConAgra Foods, Inc.     640       16,595    
DE Master Blenders 1753 NV (a)     917       10,369    
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.     328       14,350    
Empire Co., Inc. (Class A)     46       2,421    
Energizer Holdings, Inc. (a)     102       7,676    
General Mills, Inc.     1,000       38,540    
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters,
Inc. (a)
    204       4,443    
H.J. Heinz Co.     496       26,972    
Herbalife, Ltd.     180       8,699    
Hillshire Brands Co.     183       5,305    
Hormel Foods Corp.     225       6,845    
Kellogg Co.     388       19,140    
Kimberly-Clark Corp.     610       51,100    
Kraft Foods, Inc. (Class A)     2,607       100,682    
Loblaw Cos., Ltd.     175       5,562    
McCormick & Co., Inc.     187       11,342    
Mead Johnson Nutrition Co.     315       25,361    
Metro, Inc. (Class A)     155       7,926    
Monster Beverage Corp. (a)     230       16,376    
PepsiCo, Inc.     2,483       175,449    
Procter & Gamble Co.     4,354       266,683    
Safeway, Inc.     416       7,550    
Saputo, Inc.     200       8,304    
Sysco Corp.     906       27,008    
The Clorox Co.     191       13,840    
The Estee Lauder Cos., Inc. (Class A)     366       19,808    
The J.M. Smucker Co.     175       13,216    
The Kroger Co.     847       19,642    
Viterra, Inc.     490       7,763    
Whole Foods Market, Inc.     269       25,641    
      1,090,008    
Energy: 7.8%  
Apache Corp.     596       52,382    
ARC Resources, Ltd.     450       10,108    
Cameron International Corp. (a)     382       16,315    
Cenovus Energy, Inc.     1,170       37,150    
Chesapeake Energy Corp.     1,028       19,121    
Cimarex Energy Co.     133       7,331    
Concho Resources, Inc. (a)     152       12,938    
Continental Resources, Inc. (a)     70       4,663    
Crescent Point Energy Corp.     453       16,886    

 

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June 30, 2012 (Unaudited)

Schedule of Investments, continued

Security Description   Shares   Value  
COMMON STOCKS, continued  
Energy, continued  
Denbury Resources, Inc. (a)     605     $ 9,142    
Devon Energy Corp.     595       34,504    
Enbridge, Inc.     1,162       46,345    
Energen Corp.     112       5,055    
Enerplus Corp.     300       3,849    
EOG Resources, Inc.     417       37,576    
EQT Corp.     232       12,442    
FMC Technologies, Inc. (a)     372       14,594    
Hess Corp.     475       20,639    
Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (a)     140       10,279    
Marathon Oil Corp.     1,092       27,922    
National-Oilwell Varco, Inc.     658       42,402    
Newfield Exploration Co. (a)     210       6,155    
Nexen, Inc.     820       13,867    
Noble Corp.     391       12,719    
Noble Energy, Inc.     275       23,325    
Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp.     452       9,559    
Penn West Petroleum, Ltd.     734       9,835    
Pioneer Natural Resources Co.     181       15,966    
Plains Exploration & Production Co. (a)     198       6,966    
QEP Resources, Inc.     275       8,242    
Range Resources Corp.     251       15,529    
Southwestern Energy Co. (a)     542       17,306    
Spectra Energy Corp.     1,011       29,380    
Suncor Energy, Inc.     2,454       70,867    
Sunoco, Inc.     165       7,837    
Superior Energy Services, Inc. (a)     244       4,936    
Talisman Energy, Inc.     1,600       18,316    
The Williams Cos., Inc.     918       26,457    
Ultra Petroleum Corp. (a)     236       5,445    
Weatherford International, Ltd. (a)     1,177       14,866    
Whiting Petroleum Corp. (a)     182       7,484    
      766,700    
Financials: 17.9%  
ACE, Ltd.     524       38,844    
AFLAC, Inc.     725       30,878    
American Express Co.     1,629       94,824    
American Tower Corp. (b)     610       42,645    
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.     344       17,977    
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (b)     1,505       25,254    
Arch Capital Group, Ltd. (a)     208       8,255    
Assurant, Inc.     136       4,738    
Axis Capital Holdings, Ltd.     183       5,957    
Bank of Nova Scotia     1,708       88,361    
BB&T Corp.     1,082       33,380    
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (Class B) (a)     1,414       117,829    
BlackRock, Inc.     205       34,813    
Boston Properties, Inc. (b)     230       24,925    
Capital One Financial Corp.     773       42,252    
CBRE Group, Inc. (Class A) (a)     483       7,902    
Chubb Corp.     421       30,657    
Cincinnati Financial Corp.     239       9,099    
CME Group, Inc.     98       26,275    
Comerica, Inc.     306       9,397    
Discover Financial Services     822       28,425    

 

Security Description   Shares   Value  
COMMON STOCKS, continued  
Financials, continued  
Duke Realty Corp. (b)     402     $ 5,885    
Eaton Vance Corp.     178       4,797    
Federal Realty Investment Trust (b)     98       10,201    
Franklin Resources, Inc.     234       25,972    
Genworth Financial, Inc. (Class A) (a)     763       4,319    
HCP, Inc. (b)     635       28,035    
Health Care REIT, Inc. (b)     326       19,006    
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (b)     1,098       17,370    
Hudson City Bancorp, Inc.     737       4,695    
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (a)     112       15,230    
Invesco, Ltd.     692       15,639    
KeyCorp     1,480       11,455    
Legg Mason, Inc.     195       5,142    
Liberty Property Trust (b)     180       6,631    
M&T Bank Corp.     176       14,532    
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc.     843       27,170    
New York Community Bancorp, Inc.     679       8,508    
Northern Trust Corp.     336       15,463    
NYSE Euronext     401       10,258    
PartnerRe, Ltd.     101       7,643    
People's United Financial, Inc.     557       6,467    
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.     818       49,988    
Principal Financial Group, Inc.     467       12,249    
ProLogis, Inc. (b)     713       23,693    
Prudential Financial, Inc.     726       35,160    
Regency Centers Corp. (b)     140       6,660    
Regions Financial Corp.     2,192       14,796    
RenaissanceRe Holdings, Ltd.     79       6,005    
Royal Bank of Canada     2,259       115,581    
Simon Property Group, Inc. (b)     461       71,759    
State Street Corp.     756       33,748    
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.     393       24,743    
The Bank of New York Mellon Corp.     1,870       41,046    
The Charles Schwab Corp.     1,677       21,684    
The Macerich Co. (b)     204       12,046    
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.     201       4,557    
The Progressive Corp.     901       18,768    
The Toronto-Dominion Bank     1,405       109,814    
The Travelers Cos., Inc.     609       38,879    
U.S. Bancorp     2,965       95,354    
Ventas, Inc. (b)     447       28,215    
Vornado Realty Trust (b)     258       21,667    
      1,773,517    
Health Care: 12.3%  
Abbott Laboratories     2,440       157,307    
Aetna, Inc.     544       21,091    
Agilent Technologies, Inc.     540       21,190    
Baxter International, Inc.     870       46,240    
Becton, Dickinson & Co.     325       24,294    
Biogen Idec, Inc. (a)     351       50,677    
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.     2,620       94,189    
CIGNA Corp.     444       19,536    
Coventry Health Care, Inc.     219       6,962    
DENTSPLY International, Inc.     220       8,318    
Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (a)     178       18,387    

 

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Schedule of Investments, continued

Security Description   Shares   Value  
COMMON STOCKS, continued  
Health Care, continued  
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (a)     1,175     $ 60,254    
Henry Schein, Inc. (a)     139       10,910    
Humana, Inc.     254       19,670    
Johnson & Johnson     4,344       293,481    
Life Technologies Corp. (a)     277       12,462    
Medtronic, Inc.     1,637       63,401    
Merck & Co., Inc.     4,812       200,901    
Patterson Cos., Inc.     138       4,757    
Valeant Pharmaceuticals
International, Inc. (a)
    446       19,980    
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)     326       18,230    
Waters Corp. (a)     138       10,967    
WellPoint, Inc.     519       33,107    
      1,216,311    
Industrials: 10.5%  
3M Co.     1,024       91,750    
AMETEK, Inc.     249       12,428    
Avery Dennison Corp.     164       4,484    
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.     253       14,808    
Canadian National Railway Co.     686       57,938    
Cooper Industries PLC     246       16,772    
CSX Corp.     1,632       36,491    
Cummins, Inc.     283       27,425    
Danaher Corp.     909       47,341    
Deere & Co.     594       48,037    
Dover Corp.     285       15,279    
Eaton Corp.     493       19,538    
Emerson Electric Co.     1,140       53,101    
Equifax, Inc.     185       8,621    
Expeditors International
Washington, Inc.
    329       12,749    
Fastenal Co.     436       17,575    
IHS, Inc. (Class A) (a)     71       7,649    
Illinois Tool Works, Inc.     675       35,701    
Ingersoll-Rand PLC     461       19,445    
Iron Mountain, Inc.     199       6,559    
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.     145       8,642    
Joy Global, Inc.     165       9,360    
Manpower, Inc.     124       4,545    
Masco Corp.     559       7,753    
Norfolk Southern Corp.     512       36,746    
PACCAR, Inc.     526       20,614    
Pall Corp.     179       9,811    
Parker Hannifin Corp.     234       17,990    
Pentair, Inc.     152       5,818    
Pitney Bowes, Inc.     309       4,626    
Precision Castparts Corp.     225       37,010    
Quanta Services, Inc. (a)     321       7,726    
Robert Half International, Inc.     209       5,971    
Rockwell Automation, Inc.     221       14,599    
Rockwell Collins, Inc.     219       10,808    
Roper Industries, Inc.     149       14,688    
Southwest Airlines Co.     299       2,757    
The Dun & Bradstreet Corp.     74       5,267    
Tyco International, Ltd.     715       37,788    

 

Security Description   Shares   Value  
COMMON STOCKS, continued  
Industrials, continued  
Union Pacific Corp.     744     $ 88,767    
United Parcel Service, Inc. (Class B)     1,121       88,290    
W.W. Grainger, Inc.     92       17,594    
Waste Management, Inc.     680       22,712    
Xylem, Inc.     287       7,224    
      1,040,797    
Information Technology: 19.7%  
Accenture PLC (Class A)     1,004       60,330    
Adobe Systems, Inc. (a)     766       24,795    
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (a)     921       5,277    
Analog Devices, Inc.     461       17,366    
Applied Materials, Inc.     2,003       22,954    
Autodesk, Inc. (a)     350       12,247    
CA, Inc.     527       14,277    
CGI Group, Inc. (Class A) (a)     349       8,377    
Cisco Systems, Inc.     8,359       143,524    
Citrix Systems, Inc. (a)     288       24,175    
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.
(Class A) (a)
    471       28,260    
Corning, Inc.     2,362       30,541    
Dell, Inc. (a)     2,370       29,672    
EMC Corp. (a)     3,186       81,657    
Flextronics International, Ltd. (a)     1,066       6,609    
Google, Inc. (Class A) (a)     408       236,669    
Hewlett-Packard Co.     3,067       61,677    
IBM     1,739       340,114    
Intel Corp. (a)     7,902       210,588    
Intuit, Inc.     435       25,817    
Lam Research Corp. (a)     370       13,964    
Microchip Technology, Inc.     297       9,825    
Motorola Solutions, Inc.     419       20,158    
Nuance Communications, Inc. (a)     382       9,099    
NVIDIA Corp. (a)     947       13,088    
Open Text Corp. (a)     89       4,453    
Oracle Corp.     6,354       188,714    
QUALCOMM, Inc.     2,625       146,160    
Salesforce.com, Inc. (a)     200       27,652    
Symantec Corp. (a)     1,132       16,539    
Teradata Corp. (a)     259       18,651    
Texas Instruments, Inc.     1,777       50,982    
Xerox Corp.     2,067       16,267    
Yahoo!, Inc. (a)     1,789       28,320    
      1,948,798    
Materials: 4.7%  
Agnico-Eagle Mines, Ltd.     266       10,761    
Agrium, Inc.     245       21,685    
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.     326       26,318    
Alcoa, Inc.     1,654       14,472    
Allegheny Technologies, Inc.     157       5,007    
Ball Corp.     230       9,441    
Celanese Corp. (Series A)     244       8,447    
Cliffs Natural Resources, Inc.     220       10,844    
Eastman Chemical Co.     212       10,678    
Ecolab, Inc.     451       30,907    
Franco-Nevada Corp.     214       9,665    

 

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Security Description   Shares   Value  
COMMON STOCKS, continued  
Materials, continued  
International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc.     125     $ 6,850    
International Paper Co.     644       18,618    
Kinross Gold Corp.     1,767       14,404    
LyondellBasell Industries NV (Class A)     489       19,692    
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.     70       5,517    
MeadWestvaco Corp.     265       7,619    
Nucor Corp.     492       18,647    
Osisko Mining Corp. (a)     598       4,106    
Owens-Illinois, Inc. (a)     242       4,639    
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc.     1,333       58,187    
Praxair, Inc.     462       50,233    
Rock-Tenn Co. (Class A)     109       5,946    
Sealed Air Corp.     283       4,369    
Sigma-Aldrich Corp.     187       13,825    
Silver Wheaton Corp.     548       14,713    
Teck Resources, Ltd. (Class B)     894       27,650    
The Sherwin-Williams Co.     137       18,132    
Yamana Gold, Inc.     1,157       17,830    
      469,202    
Telecommunication Services: 1.5%  
BCE, Inc.     397       16,348    
CenturyLink, Inc.     961       37,950    
Crown Castle International Corp. (a)     442       25,928    
Frontier Communications Corp.     1,545       5,917    
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (a)     226       5,006    
Rogers Communications, Inc. (Class B)     607       21,977    
SBA Communications Corp. (Class A) (a)     179       10,212    
Sprint Nextel Corp. (a)     4,653       15,169    
Windstream Corp.     909       8,781    
      147,288    
Utilities: 3.0%  
Alliant Energy Corp.     172       7,838    
American Water Works Co., Inc.     273       9,358    
Calpine Corp. (a)     485       8,007    
Canadian Utilities, Ltd. (Class A)     88       5,736    
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.     628       12,981    
Consolidated Edison, Inc.     455       28,296    
DTE Energy Co.     264       15,663    
Integrys Energy Group, Inc.     121       6,881    
MDU Resources Group, Inc.     278       6,008    
NextEra Energy, Inc.     613       42,181    
NiSource, Inc.     438       10,841    
Northeast Utilities     486       18,862    
Oneok, Inc.     304       12,862    
Pepco Holdings, Inc.     353       6,908    
PG&E Corp.     640       28,973    
Pinnacle West Capital Corp.     169       8,744    
Sempra Energy     353       24,315    
TransAlta Corp.     348       5,888    
Wisconsin Energy Corp.     357       14,126    
Xcel Energy, Inc.     755       21,450    
      295,918    
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS  
(Cost $9,511,193)         9,883,531    

 

Security Description   Shares   Value  
SHORT TERM INVESTMENT: 0.1%  
MONEY MARKET FUND: 0.1%  
SSgA Prime Money Market Fund  
(Cost $5,149)     5,149     $ 5,149    
TOTAL INVESTMENTS: 100.0%  
(Cost $9,516,342)         9,888,680    
OTHER ASSETS &
LIABILITIES: 0.0% (c)
        4,148    
Net Assets: 100.0%       $ 9,892,828    

 

(a)  Non-income producing security.

(b)  REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust)

(c)  Amount shown represents less than 0.05% of net assets.

 

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Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF

June 30, 2012 (Unaudited)

Schedule of Investments, continued

Security Description   Shares   Value  
COMMON STOCKS: 99.3%  
Australia: 9.4%  
Australia & New Zealand Banking
Group, Ltd.
    5,380     $ 121,490    
Commonwealth Bank of Australia     3,299       179,565    
Fortescue Metals Group, Ltd.     2,469       12,401    
GPT Group (a)     10,068       33,954    
Mirvac Group (a)     24,152       31,565    
National Australia Bank, Ltd.     5,208       125,667    
Newcrest Mining, Ltd.     1,778       41,208    
Orica, Ltd.     50       1,265    
Origin Energy, Ltd.     2,431       30,401    
OZ Minerals, Ltd.     1,224       9,862    
Westpac Banking Corp.     6,543       141,717    
Woolworths, Ltd.     2,895       79,530    
      808,625    
Austria: 0.3%  
OMV AG     935       29,391    
Belgium: 2.0%  
Colruyt SA     3,080       137,566    
Delhaize Group     799       29,283    
KBC Groep NV     409       8,650    
      175,499    
Denmark: 2.0%  
Danske Bank A/S (b)     2,021       28,082    
Novo Nordisk A/S (Class B)     965       139,770    
      167,852    
Finland: 0.7%  
Nokia OYJ     7,678       15,785    
Stora Enso OYJ (R Shares)     2,469       15,165    
UPM-Kymmene OYJ     2,232       25,209    
      56,159    
France: 7.6%  
Carrefour SA     1,509       27,854    
CGG-Veritas (b)     989       25,397    
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain     1,296       47,860    
Danone SA     1,417       88,141    
France Telecom SA     3,946       51,955    
L'Oreal SA     751       87,910    
Renault SA     2,525       100,745    
Schneider Electric SA     1,224       67,926    
Societe BIC SA     687       70,967    
Technip SA     650       67,599    
Veolia Environnement SA     1,195       15,141    
      651,495    
Germany: 4.5%  
BASF SE     2,029       140,847    
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG     839       60,615    
Deutsche Boerse AG     230       12,414    
Deutsche Post AG     2,967       52,488    
HeidelbergCement AG     79       3,786    
Hochtief AG (b)     374       18,107    
K+S AG     601       27,457    
Metro AG     585       17,079    
SAP AG     935       55,229    
      388,022    

 

Security Description   Shares   Value  
COMMON STOCKS, continued  
Hong Kong: 0.8%  
CLP Holdings, Ltd.     4,000     $ 33,906    
Li & Fung, Ltd.     16,000       30,569    
      64,475    
Ireland: 0.0% (c)  
Experian PLC     103       1,455    
Israel: 0.1%  
Delek Group, Ltd.     40       5,835    
Italy: 1.2%  
ENI SpA     2,063       43,931    
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA     24,509       34,773    
Pirelli & C. SpA     25       263    
UniCredit SpA (b)     6,984       26,412    
      105,379    
Japan: 24.6%  
Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd.     700       23,082    
Canon, Inc.     1,600       63,467    
Central Japan Railway Co.     8       62,865    
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.     2,400       45,329    
Denso Corp.     800       27,001    
East Japan Railway Co.     800       50,132    
Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.     100       19,902    
Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd.     8,000       63,868    
Fujitsu, Ltd.     16,000       75,999    
Hitachi Construction Machinery
Co., Ltd.
    1,600       29,758    
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.     3,200       110,249    
Kao Corp.     1,600       43,995    
KDDI Corp.     8       51,435    
Komatsu, Ltd.     3,200       75,318    
Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.     8,000       62,464    
Kubota Corp.     8,000       73,192    
Mitsubishi Electric Corp.     8,000       66,174    
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.     25,400       120,331    
Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance
Co., Ltd.
    790       32,673    
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.     7,000       134,227    
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.     42,500       71,375    
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.     500       26,037    
Nidec Corp.     100       7,545    
Nikon Corp.     800       24,083    
Nippon Steel Corp.     8,000       17,947    
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.     7,200       67,497    
NTT DoCoMo, Inc.     40       66,525    
Panasonic Corp.     4,000       32,235    
Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.     1,600       65,672    
Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc.     2,400       50,924    
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.     800       43,715    
Softbank Corp.     1,600       59,215    
Sony Corp.     2,400       33,779    
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.     2,500       81,840    
Takashimaya Co., Ltd.     7,000       53,515    
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.     1,600       72,490    
The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.     5,600       92,012    
Ube Industries, Ltd.     8,000       18,448    
      2,116,315    

 

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Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF

June 30, 2012 (Unaudited)

Schedule of Investments, continued

Security Description   Shares   Value  
COMMON STOCKS, continued  
Luxembourg: 0.5%  
Tenaris SA     2,445     $ 42,788    
Netherlands: 2.6%  
Akzo Nobel NV     881       41,412    
ASML Holding NV     1,037       52,726    
Unilever NV     3,866       129,448    
      223,586    
New Zealand: 0.7%  
Auckland International Airport, Ltd.     30,530       59,874    
Norway: 0.5%  
Norsk Hydro ASA     5,324       23,913    
Statoil ASA     802       19,077    
      42,990    
Spain: 4.7%  
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA     9,822       70,163    
Banco de Sabadell SA     6,917       13,457    
Banco Santander SA     17,515       116,049    
Distribuidora Internacional de
Alimentacion SA (b)
    743       3,498    
Ferrovial SA     2,803       31,613    
Iberdrola SA     9,886       46,658    
Industria de Diseno Textil SA     807       83,497    
Repsol YPF SA     2,525       40,503    
      405,438    
Sweden: 4.7%  
Atlas Copco AB     1,450       31,175    
Hennes & Mauritz AB (Class B)     2,999       107,492    
Modern Times Group AB (Class B)     425       19,654    
Nordea Bank AB     8,568       73,733    
Sandvik AB     2,854       36,531    
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
(Class A)
    4,156       26,950    
Swedbank AB (Class A)     4,419       69,527    
Volvo AB (Class B)     3,380       38,563    
      403,625    
Switzerland: 9.2%  
Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA     1,272       69,681    
Lindt & Spruengli AG (b)     13       40,243    
Novartis AG     4,027       225,070    
Roche Holding AG     1,344       232,307    
Swiss Re AG (b)     650       40,895    
Syngenta AG     238       81,295    
Wolseley PLC     1,197       44,627    
Xstrata PLC     4,281       53,622    
      787,740    
United Kingdom: 23.2%  
Associated British Foods PLC     2,803       56,361    
Barclays PLC     20,541       52,466    
BG Group PLC     7,321       149,274    
Bunzl PLC     7,017       114,791    
Burberry Group PLC     664       13,799    
GlaxoSmithKline PLC     11,168       253,463    
HSBC Holdings PLC     35,008       308,091    

 

Security Description   Shares   Value  
COMMON STOCKS, continued  
United Kingdom, continued  
Lonmin PLC     895     $ 10,872    
Marks & Spencer Group PLC     4,921       25,085    
Pearson PLC     7,094       140,863    
Prudential PLC     7,029       81,362    
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC     400       21,111    
RSA Insurance Group PLC     35,565       60,300    
Standard Chartered PLC     5,192       112,745    
Tesco PLC     19,627       95,446    
Tullow Oil PLC     2,935       67,670    
Unilever PLC     3,519       118,335    
Vodafone Group PLC     109,222       307,072    
WPP PLC     650       7,881    
      1,996,987    
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS  
(Cost $9,101,078)         8,533,530    
PREFERRED STOCK: 0.2%  
Germany: 0.2%  
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG Preference
Shares
    815       18,224    
TOTAL PREFERRED STOCK  
(Cost $18,476)         18,224    
RIGHTS: 0.0% (c)  
Spain: 0.0% (c)  
Repsol YPF SA, Expires 07/26/12 (b)     2,525       1,775    
TOTAL RIGHTS  
(Cost $1,748)         1,775    
SHORT TERM INVESTMENT: 0.1%  
United States: 0.1%  
MONEY MARKET FUND: 0.1%  
SSgA Prime Money Market Fund  
(Cost $5,305)     5,305       5,305    
TOTAL INVESTMENTS: 99.6%  
(Cost $9,126,607)         8,558,834    
OTHER ASSETS &
LIABILITIES: 0.4%
        38,369    
Net Assets: 100.0%       $ 8,597,203    

 

(a)  REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust)

(b)  Non-income producing security.

(c)  Amount shown represents less than 0.05% of net assets.

 

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June 30, 2012 (Unaudited)

Statements of Assets and Liabilities

    Pax MSCI
North America
ESG Index ETF
  Pax MSCI
EAFE ESG
Index ETF
 
ASSETS  
Investments, at value (Note B)   $ 9,888,680     $ 8,558,834    
Foreign currency, at value     213       1,786    
Receivable for investments sold     11,310       7    
Receivable for foreign taxes recoverable           7,808    
Dividends receivable (Note B)     16,323       40,390    
Total Assets     9,916,526       8,608,825    
LIABILITIES  
Payable for investments purchased     11,313          
Accrued advisory fee (Note C)     12,385       11,622    
Total Liabilities     23,698       11,622    
NET ASSETS   $ 9,892,828     $ 8,597,203    
NET ASSETS CONSIST OF:  
Paid in capital   $ 9,537,973     $ 9,258,481    
Undistributed net investment income     7,632       3,659    
Accumulated net realized gain (loss) on:  
Investments and foreign currency
transactions
    (25,138 )     (97,140 )  
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of:  
Investments     372,338       (567,773 )  
Foreign currency     23       (24 )  
NET ASSETS   $ 9,892,828     $ 8,597,203    
NET ASSET VALUE PER SHARE  
Net asset value per share   $ 28.27     $ 21.49    
Outstanding beneficial interest shares (unlimited
amount authorized, $0.01 par value)
    350,000       400,000    
COST OF INVESTMENTS:  
Investments, at cost (Note B)   $ 9,516,342     $ 9,126,607    
Foreign currency, at cost   $ 211     $ 1,797    

 

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For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2012 (Unaudited)

Statements of Operations

    Pax MSCI
North America
ESG Index ETF
  Pax MSCI
EAFE ESG
Index ETF
 
INVESTMENT INCOME  
Dividend income   $ 95,900     $ 203,157    
Foreign taxes withheld     (1,976 )     (17,798 )  
Total Investment Income     93,924       185,359    
EXPENSES  
Advisory fee (Note C)     20,871       19,112    
Total Expenses     20,871       19,112    
Net Investment Income     73,053       166,247    
REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS)
ON INVESTMENTS
 
Net realized loss on:  
Investments     (17,315 )     (61,356 )  
Foreign currency transactions     (299 )     (2,280 )  
Net change in unrealized appreciation
(depreciation) on:
 
Investments     96,323       (166,675 )  
Foreign currency translation     15       552    
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on
investments and foreign currency
transactions
    78,724       (229,759 )  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets from
operations
  $ 151,777     $ (63,512 )  

 

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Statements of Changes in Net Assets

    Pax MSCI North America
ESG Index ETF
  Pax MSCI EAFE ESG
Index ETF
 
    Six Months
Ended
6/30/12
(Unaudited)
  Year Ended
12/31/11
  Six Months
Ended
6/30/12
(Unaudited)
  For the Period
1/27/11*-12/31/11
 
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET
ASSETS FROM OPERATIONS:
 
Net investment income (loss)   $ 73,053     $ 61,239     $ 166,247     $ 67,901    
Net realized gain (loss) on investments
and foreign currency transactions
    (17,614 )     29,178       (63,636 )     (32,731 )  
Net change in unrealized appreciation
(depreciation) on investments and
foreign currency translation
    96,338       (23,263 )     (166,123 )     (401,674 )  
Net increase (decrease) in net assets
resulting from operations
    151,777       67,154       (63,512 )     (366,504 )  
Net equalization credits and charges     15,621       5,761       49,315       24,122    
Distributions to shareholders from:  
Net investment income     (64,733 )     (61,217 )     (161,580 )     (69,682 )  
Total distributions to shareholders     (64,733 )     (61,217 )     (161,580 )     (69,682 )  
From capital share transactions:  
Proceeds from sale of shares sold     4,404,726       2,632,435       4,615,290       4,643,191    
Net income equalization (Note B)     (15,621 )     (5,761 )     (49,315 )     (24,122 )  
Net increase in net assets from
capital share transactions
    4,389,105       2,626,674       4,565,975       4,619,069    
Net increase in net assets during
the period
    4,491,770       2,638,372       4,390,198       4,207,005    
Net assets at beginning of period     5,401,058       2,762,686       4,207,005          
Net assets at end of period (1)   $ 9,892,828     $ 5,401,058     $ 8,597,203     $ 4,207,005    
(1) Including undistributed (distribution in
excess of) net investment income
  $ 7,632     $ (688 )   $ 3,659     $ (1,008 )  
Shares of beneficial interest:  
Shares sold     150,000       100,000       200,000       200,000    
Net increase in shares outstanding     150,000       100,000       200,000       200,000    

 

* Commencement of operations

 

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Financial Highlights

Selected data for a share outstanding throughout each period

    Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF  
    Six Months
Ended
6/30/12
(Unaudited)
  Year Ended
12/31/11
  For the Period
5/18/10*-12/31/10
 
Net asset value, beginning of
period
  $ 27.01     $ 27.63     $ 25.00    
Income (loss) from investment
operations:
 
Net investment income1     0.25       0.44       0.27    
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)2     1.14       (0.76 )     2.62    
Total from investment operations     1.39       (0.32 )     2.89    
Net equalization credits and charges     0.05       0.04          
Distributions to shareholders from:  
Net investment income     (0.18 )     (0.34 )     (0.26 )  
Total distributions     (0.18 )     (0.34 )     (0.26 )  
Net asset value, end of period   $ 28.27     $ 27.01     $ 27.63    
Total return3     5.35 %     (1.03 )%     11.58 %  
Net assets, end of period (in 000's)   $ 9,893     $ 5,401     $ 2,763    
Ratio of expenses to average net
assets
    0.50 %4     0.50 %     0.50 %4  
Ratio of net investment income to
average net assets
    1.75 %4     1.60 %     1.69 %4  
Portfolio turnover rate5     7 %     10 %     30 %  

 

1  Based on average shares outstanding during the period.

2  Amounts shown in this caption for a share outstanding may not accord with the change in aggregate gains and losses in securities for the fiscal period because of the timing of sales and repurchases of Fund shares in relation to fluctuating market values for the Fund.

3  Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of shares at net asset value on the first day of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of the period. Total return for periods of less than one year is not annualized. Broker commission charges are not included in this calculation.

4  Annualized.

5  Portfolio turnover rate excludes the value of securities received or delivered from in kind processing of creations or redemptions of the Fund's capital shares. Turnover calculations are not annualized.

*  Commencement of operations

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Financial Highlights

Selected data for a share outstanding throughout each period

    Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF  
    Six Months
Ended
6/30/12
(Unaudited)
  For the Period
1/27/11*-12/31/11
 
Net asset value, beginning of period   $ 21.04     $ 25.06    
Income (loss) from investment operations:  
Net investment income1     0.52       0.62    
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)2     0.17       (4.30 )  
Total from investment operations     0.69       (3.68 )  
Net equalization credits and charges     0.16       0.22    
Distributions to shareholders from:  
Net investment income     (0.40 )     (0.56 )  
Total distributions     (0.40 )     (0.56 )  
Net asset value, end of period   $ 21.49     $ 21.04    
Total return3     4.15 %     (14.04 )%  
Net assets, end of period (in 000's)   $ 8,597     $ 4,207    
Ratio of expenses to average net assets     0.55 %4     0.55 %4  
Ratio of net investment income to average net assets     4.78 %4     2.91 %4  
Portfolio turnover rate5     7 %     11 %  

 

1  Based on average shares outstanding during the period.

2  Amounts shown in this caption for a share outstanding may not accord with the change in aggregate gains and losses in securities for the fiscal period because of the timing of sales and repurchases of Fund shares in relation to fluctuating market values for the Fund.

3  Total return is calculated assuming a purchase of shares at net asset value on the first day of the period, reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and a sale at net asset value on the last day of the period. Total return for periods of less than one year is not annualized. Broker commission charges are not included in this calculation.

4  Annualized.

5  Portfolio turnover rate excludes the value of securities received or delivered from in kind processing of creations or redemptions of the Fund's capital shares. Turnover calculations are not annualized.

*  Commencement of operations

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June 30, 2012 (Unaudited)

Notes to the Financial Statements

NOTE A—Organization

Pax World Funds Trust II (the "Trust"), which is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), is an open-end management investment company organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on February 7, 2008.

As of June 30, 2012, the Trust offered two portfolios which represent series of beneficial interest in the Trust: the Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF and the Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF (each referred to as a "Fund" or collectively as the "Funds"). The Funds commenced operations on May 18, 2010 and January 27, 2011, respectively and first listed on NYSE Arca, Inc. on May 19, 2010 and January 28, 2011, respectively. Each Fund operates as a non-diversified investment company. The Funds' investment objectives are to seek investment returns that closely correspond to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the MSCI North America ESG Index and the MSCI EAFE ESG Index, respectively.

NOTE B—Significant Accounting Policies

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed by the Trust in the preparation of its financial statements:

Use of Estimates The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affects the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Indemnifications and Guarantees Under the Trust's organizational documents, its officers and trustees are indemnified against certain liabilities arising out of the performance of their duties to the Trust. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the Trust enters into contracts with service providers that contain general indemnification clauses. The Trust's maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this could involve future claims that may be made against the Trust that have not yet occurred. However, while the Trust has a relatively short operating history, the Trust nonetheless expects this risk of loss to be remote.

Valuation of Investments For purposes of calculating the net asset value ("NAV"), determined ordinarily as of the close of regular trading (normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time) (the "NYSE Close") on the New York Stock Exchange


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("NYSE") on each day (a "Business Day") that the NYSE is open for trading, the Funds normally use pricing data for domestic equity securities received shortly after the NYSE Close and do not normally take into account trading, clearances or settlements that take place after the NYSE Close. Domestic fixed income and foreign securities are normally priced using data reflecting the earlier closing of the principal markets for those securities, subject to possible fair value adjustments. Information that becomes known to the Funds or their agents after NAV has been calculated on a particular day will not generally be used to retroactively adjust the price of a security or NAV determined earlier that day.

Fair values for various types of securities and other instruments are determined on the basis of closing prices or last sales prices on an exchange or other market, or based on quotes or other market information obtained from quotation reporting systems, established market makers or pricing services. Short-term investments having a maturity of 60 days or less are generally valued at amortized cost, which approximates fair value.

Investments denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar are converted to U.S. dollars using daily exchange rates obtained from pricing services. As a result, the NAV of a Fund's shares may be affected by changes in the value of currencies in relation to the U.S. dollar.

If market quotations are not readily available (including in cases when available market quotations are deemed to be unreliable), the Funds' investments will be valued as determined in good faith pursuant to policies and procedures approved by the Board of Trustees (so called "evaluated pricing"). Evaluated pricing may require subjective determinations about the value of a security or other asset, and fair values used to determine a Fund's NAV may differ from quoted or published prices, or from prices that are used by others, for the same investments. Also, the use of evaluated pricing may not always result in adjustments to the prices of securities or other assets held by a Fund.

The Funds may determine that market quotations are not readily available due to events relating to a single issuer (e.g., corporate actions or announcements) or events relating to multiple issuers (e.g., governmental actions or natural disasters). The Funds may determine the fair value of investments based on information provided by pricing services and other third-party vendors, which may recommend fair value prices or adjustments with reference to other securities, indices or assets. In considering whether fair value pricing is required and in determining fair values, the Funds may, among other things, consider significant events (which may be considered to include changes in the value of U.S. securities or securities indices) that occur after the close of the relevant market and the usual time of valuation. Evaluated pricing could result in a


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Notes to the Financial Statements, continued

difference between the prices used to calculate the Funds' NAVs and the prices used by the Funds' benchmark indices, which, in turn, could result in a difference between the Funds' performance and the performance of the Funds' benchmark indices.

Non-U.S. markets can be significantly more volatile than U.S. markets, causing the prices of some of the Funds' investments to fluctuate significantly, rapidly and unpredictably. Non-U.S. securities may be less liquid than U.S. securities; consequently, the Funds may at times be unable to sell non-U.S. securities at desirable times or prices. Other risks related to non-U.S. securities include delays in the settlement of transactions; less publicly available information about issuers; different reporting, accounting and auditing standards; the effect of political, social, diplomatic or economic events; seizure, expropriation or nationalization of the issuer or its assets; and the possible imposition of currency exchange controls. If a Fund invests substantially in securities of non-U.S. issuers tied economically to a particular country or geographic region, it will be subject to the risks associated with such country or geographic region to a greater extent than a fund that is more diversified across countries or geographic regions.

The Board of Trustees of the Trust has determined that, because shares of the Funds are purchased or redeemed principally by the delivery of securities in kind, rather than cash, the use of local market closing prices to determine the value of non-U.S. securities, rather than fair values determined as of the NYSE Close to give effect to intervening changes in one or more indices, is unlikely to result in material dilution of the interests of the Funds' shareholders. Therefore, and in order to minimize tracking error relative to the each Fund's benchmark index (which is based on local market closing prices), the Funds generally intend to use local market closing prices to value non-U.S. securities, and may determine in the future to value non-U.S. securities using a different methodology.

Fair Value Measurements Fair value is defined as the price that the Fund would receive upon selling an investment in orderly transaction between market participants. Various inputs are used in determining value, these inputs are summarized in the three broad Levels listed below.

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

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

• Level 3 –  significant unobservable inputs (including the Funds' own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)


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Observable inputs are inputs that reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability developed based on market data obtained from sources independent of the reporting entity. Unobservable inputs are inputs that reflect the reporting entity's own assumptions about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability developed based on the best information available in the circumstances. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. The following is a general summary of valuation inputs and classifications for different categories of securities.

Equity Securities Equity securities, including common stocks, preferred stocks and exchange-traded funds, for which market quotations are readily available, valued at the last reported sale price or official closing price as reported by an independent pricing service, are generally categorized as Level 1 in the hierarchy. To the extent that significant inputs for equity securities are unobservable, values are categorized as Level 3 in the hierarchy.

Short-term Investments Short-term securities, including repurchase agreements, with remaining maturities of 60 days or less, which are valued at amortized cost, are generally categorized as Level 2 in the hierarchy.

The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Funds' net assets as of June 30, 2012:

Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF   Level 1   Level 2   Level 3   Total  
Common Stocks   $ 9,883,531     $     $     $ 9,883,531    
Money Market Fund     5,149                   5,149    
Total   $ 9,888,680     $     $     $ 9,888,680    
Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF   Level 1   Level 2   Level 3   Total  
Common Stocks   $ 8,533,530     $     $     $ 8,533,530    
Preferred Stock     18,224                   18,224    
Rights     1,775                   1,775    
Money Market Fund     5,305                   5,305    
Total   $ 8,558,834     $     $     $ 8,558,834    

 

The Funds did not hold any Level 2 or Level 3 categorized securities during the six months ended June 30, 2012.

Transfers in and out of Levels during the period are assumed to be transferred on the last day of the period at their current value. There were no transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 during the period.


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Notes to the Financial Statements, continued

Investment Transactions Investment transactions are recorded as of the date of purchase, sale or maturity. Net realized gains and losses from the sale or disposition of securities are determined on the identified cost basis, which is also used for federal income tax purposes. Corporate actions (including cash dividends) are recorded net of foreign tax withholdings.

Investment Income Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income is recorded on the accrual basis and includes accretion of discount and amortization of premiums, if any. The value of additional securities received as dividend payments is recorded as income and as an increase to the cost basis of such securities.

Distributions to Shareholders Distributions to shareholders are recorded by the Funds on the ex-dividend date. The Funds expect to pay dividends of net investment income and to make distributions of capital gains, if any, at least annually. Income and capital gains distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Equalization The Funds follow the accounting practice known as "Equalization" by which a portion of the proceeds from sales and costs of reacquiring Fund shares, equivalent on a per share basis to the amount of distributable net investment income on the date of the transaction, is credited or charged to undistributed net investment income. As a result, undistributed net investment income per share is unaffected by sales or reacquisition of Fund shares. Amounts related to Equalization can be found on the Statements of Changes.

Expenses The Funds are charged a unified management fee that includes all the costs and expenses of the Funds (other than taxes, charges of governmental agencies, interest, brokerage commissions incurred in connection with portfolio transactions and extraordinary expenses), including accounting expenses, administrator, transfer agent and custodian fees, Fund legal fees and other expenses.

Federal Income Taxes The Funds intend to elect to be treated and qualify each year as regulated investment companies under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"). If each Fund so qualifies and satisfies certain distribution requirements, such Fund will ordinarily not be subject to federal income tax on its net investment income (which includes short-term capital gains) and net capital gains that it distributes to shareholders. The Funds expect to distribute all or substantially all of their income and gains to shareholders every year. Therefore, no Federal income or excise tax


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provision is required. The Funds are treated as separate entities for U.S. Federal income tax purposes.

Foreign Currency Transactions The accounting records of the Funds are maintained in U.S. dollars. In addition, purchases and sales of investment securities, dividend and interest income and certain expenses are translated at the rates of exchange prevailing on the respective dates of such transactions. Net realized and unrealized foreign currency exchange gains or losses occurring during the holding period of investment securities are a component of realized gain (loss) on investment transactions and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments, respectively.

NOTE C—Investment Advisory Fee and Transactions with Affiliated and Other Parties

The Trust has entered into an Investment Advisory Contract (the "Management Contract") with Pax World Management LLC (the "Adviser"). Pursuant to the terms of the Management Contract, the Adviser, subject to the supervision of the Board of Trustees of the Trust, is responsible for managing the assets of each Fund in accordance with the Funds' investment objectives, investment programs and policies.

Pursuant to the Management Contract the Adviser has contracted to furnish the Funds continuously with an investment program, determining what investments to purchase, sell and exchange for the Funds and what assets to hold uninvested. The Adviser also has contracted to provide office space and certain management and administrative facilities for the Funds. Each Fund pays a unified management fee to the Adviser at the following annual rates (expressed as a percentage of the average daily net assets of such Fund):

    Annual Rate  
Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF     0.50 %  
Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF     0.55 %  

 

Out of the management fee, the Adviser bears all expenses of managing and operating the Funds, except taxes, charges of governmental agencies, interest, brokerage commissions incurred in connection with portfolio transactions and extraordinary expenses. The aggregate remuneration paid to the Trust's Trustees (and borne by the Adviser) was $12,502.


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Notes to the Financial Statements, continued

NOTE D—Investment Information

During the period ended June 30, 2012, the Funds had purchases and sales of investment securities as follows:

    Purchases   Sales   Purchases In-Kind   Sales In-Kind  
Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF   $ 693,338     $ 634,206     $ 4,404,691     $    
Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF   $ 471,594     $ 541,942     $ 4,620,250     $    

 

The identified cost of investments for federal income tax purposes and the gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation at June 30, 2012 were as follows:

    Identified Cost   Gross Unrealized
Appreciation
  Gross Unrealized
Depreciation
  Net Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
 
Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF   $ 9,516,342     $ 747,441     $ 375,103     $ 372,338    
Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF   $ 9,126,607     $ 222,529     $ 790,302     $ (567,773 )  

 

Tax Information The RIC Modernization Act of 2010 ("the Act") was signed into law on December 22, 2010. Under the Act, the Funds will be permitted to carryforward capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning after December 22, 2010 for an unlimited period. However, losses incurred post-enactment will be required to be utilized prior to the losses incurred in pre-enactment years. As a result, pre-enactment capital loss carryforwards may be more likely to expire unused. Additionally, post-enactment losses that are carried forward will retain their character as either short-term or long-term capital losses, rather than being considered as all short-term as under previous law.

At December 31, 2011, the Funds had capital loss carryforwards which may be used to offset any net realized gains expiring December 31:

    Expires
in 2018
  No Expiration
Short-term
 
Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF   $ 7,304     $    
Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF   $     $ 20,009    

 

During the period from November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011, the Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF incurred a capital loss in the amount of $13,421. This loss is treated for federal income tax purposes as if it had occurred on January 1, 2012.

The timing and characterization of certain income and capital gains distributions are determined annually in accordance with federal tax regulations,


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which may differ from GAAP. These differences primarily relate to investments in foreign denominated securities and real estate investment trusts. Additionally, timing differences may occur due to wash sale loss deferrals. As a result, net investment income (loss) and net realized gain (loss) on investment transactions for a reporting period may differ significantly from distributions during such period, and may result in reclassification among certain capital accounts. For tax purposes, short-term capital gains are considered ordinary income.

The tax character of distributions paid during 2012 and 2011 was as follows:

    Distributions Paid in 2012   Distributions Paid in 2011  
    Ordinary
Income
  Long-term
Capital Gains
  Ordinary
Income
  Long-term
Capital Gains
 
Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF   $ 64,733     $     $ 61,217     $    
Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF   $ 161,580     $     $ 69,682     $    

 

Management has analyzed the Funds' current tax positions which will be subject to examination by the Funds' major tax jurisdictions. The Funds recognize interest and penalties, if any, related to tax liabilities as income tax expense in the Statement of Operations. Management has concluded that, as of and during the six months ended June 30, 2012, no provision for federal income tax is necessary and, therefore, the Funds did not have a liability for any unrecognized tax expenses.

NOTE E—Shareholder Transactions

The Funds issue and redeem shares only to Authorized Participants (typically broker-dealers) in exchange for delivery of a basket of assets (securities and/or cash), referred to as a Creation Unit, in aggregations of 50,000 shares. The Fund may impose a creation transaction fee and a redemption transaction fee to offset transfer and other transaction costs associated with the issuance and redemption of Creation Units. The standard creation and redemption transaction fee of $1,000 for Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF and $1,800 for Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF is charged to each purchaser on the day such purchaser creates a Creation Unit. The fee is a single charge regardless of the number of Creation Units purchased by an investor on the same day. Similarly, the standard redemption transaction fee will be $1,000 and $1,800, respectively regardless of the number of Creation Units redeemed that day. Purchasers and redeemers of Creation Units for cash (when cash creations and redemptions are permitted) will also be subject to an additional variable charge of up to a maximum of four times the standard creation/redemption transaction fee to offset the transaction cost to the Fund of buying portfolio securities.


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Notes to the Financial Statements, continued

In addition, purchasers and redeemers of Creation Units are responsible for payment of the costs of transferring securities to or from a Fund. From time to time, the Adviser may cover the cost of any transaction fees.

Retail investors may only buy and sell shares of the Fund on a national securities exchange (NYSE Arca) through a broker-dealer. Such transactions may be subject to customary brokerage commission charges. Shares can be bought and sold throughout trading day like other publicly-traded securities, trading at current market prices, which may be different from the Fund's net asset value.

NOTE F—Approval of Investment Advisory Agreement Review Process

Review Process The 1940 Act requires that the Trustees request and evaluate, and the Adviser furnish, such information as may reasonably be necessary for the Trustees to evaluate the terms of the Trust's Management Contract. The Trustees who are not "interested persons" (as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act) of the Trust (the "Independent Trustees") met telephonically or in person in March and June of 2012 for the purpose of considering the Management Contract (the "contract review meetings"). In addition, the Trustees consider matters bearing on the Trust and its investment management and other arrangements at their regular meetings throughout the year, including reviews of investment results and performance data at each regular meeting and periodic presentations from the Adviser.

During the course of the contract review meetings, the Trustees met and discussed the Management Contract with representatives of the Adviser. The Independent Trustees were assisted in their evaluation of the Management Contract by independent legal counsel, from whom they received assistance and advice, including a written memorandum regarding the legal standards applicable to the consideration of advisory arrangements, and with whom they met separately from management. The Independent Trustees made various requests for additional information or explanations from management regarding information that had been provided, to which management responded either orally or in writing.

In their deliberations, the Trustees did not identify any particular information that was all-important or controlling. Some of the factors that figured particularly in Trustees' deliberations are described below, although individual Trustees may have evaluated the information presented differently from one another, or given different weights to various factors in reaching their unanimous conclusion. The Trustees' conclusions were based, in part, on their


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consideration of these arrangements during the course of the year and, as applicable, in prior years. The Trustees evaluated all information available to them on a Fund-by-Fund basis, and their determinations were made separately in respect of each Fund. However, they also took into account the common interests of all the Funds in their review.

Nature, Extent and Quality of Services In considering the Management Contract, the Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, evaluated the nature, extent and quality of the advisory services provided to the Trust by the Adviser. They considered the terms of the Management Contract and received and considered information provided by management that described, among other matters:

• the nature and scope of the advisory services provided to the Funds and information regarding the experience, qualifications and adequacy of the personnel providing those services,

• the investment program used by the Adviser to manage the Funds,

• possible conflicts of interest and fall-out benefits,

• brokerage practices,

• the compliance function of the Adviser,

• financial results, assets under management and other information relating to the financial resources of the Adviser, and

• information relating to portfolio manager compensation.

In addition to considering the Funds' investment performance (see below), the Trustees considered, among other matters, the Adviser's general oversight of the Trust. They also took into account, to the extent they deemed relevant in light of the Funds' index-based investment approach, information concerning the investment philosophy and investment process used by the Adviser in managing the Funds as well as the Adviser's in-house investment and social research capabilities. They also considered various investment resources available to the Adviser.

The Trustees considered, among other matters, that the Adviser provides the Trust with office space and personnel, and provides oversight and coordination of the Funds' third-party service providers. These services include accounting, bookkeeping, tax, legal, audit, custody and transfer agency services, and preparation of prospectuses, shareholder reports and other regulatory filings. They also took into account the Adviser's compliance and operational functions, as


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Notes to the Financial Statements, continued

well as steps taken by the Adviser to enhance compliance and operational capabilities and the resources being devoted to each. The Trustees also took into account the fact that the fee paid to the Adviser is a unified fee that includes all of the costs and expenses of the Funds (other than taxes, charges of governmental agencies, interest, brokerage commissions incurred in connection with portfolio transactions and extraordinary expenses), including accounting expenses, administrator, transfer agent and custodian fees, Fund legal fees and other expenses.

The Trustees concluded, within the context of their overall conclusions regarding the Management Contract, that the scope of the services provided to each Fund by the Adviser under the Management Contract was consistent with such Fund's operational requirements; that the Adviser has the capabilities, resources and personnel necessary to provide the advisory services currently required by each Fund; and that, overall, the nature, extent and quality of the services provided by the Adviser to the Trust were sufficient to warrant approval of the Management Contract.

Fund Performance In connection with the contract review meetings, the Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, reviewed information regarding the since-inception investment performance of each Fund relative to its benchmark for the period ended March 31, 2012. In addition to the information reviewed by the Trustees at the contract review meetings, the Trustees receive during the year detailed comparative performance information for each Fund, including performance relative to its benchmark.

Based on this and other information, the Trustees concluded, within the context of their overall conclusions regarding the Management Contract, that the relevant performance record and process in managing each Fund were sufficient to support approval of the Management Contract.

Fees and Other Expenses The Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, considered the advisory fees paid by each Fund to the Adviser, as well as each Fund's total expense ratio. In connection with their review, the Trustees noted that the Adviser, at the time of the contract review meetings, did not have a significant institutional advisory business outside of the Funds and other investment companies, and considered the differences in the services provided and proposed to be provided to institutional clients and those provided to the Funds, as well as differences in the advisory fees charged and proposed to be charged to such clients and those charged to the Funds.

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fees and expenses to be charged represented reasonable compensation to the Adviser in light of the services provided.

Costs of Services Provided and Profitability The Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, reviewed information regarding the cost of services provided by the Adviser and the estimated profitability of the Adviser's relationship with the Trust, including a profitability report prepared by management detailing the costs of services provided to the Trust by the Adviser and the profitability to the Adviser of its advisory relationship with the Trust for the year ended December 31, 2011. The Trustees recognized that the Adviser should, in the abstract, be entitled to earn a reasonable level of profit for the services provided to each Fund, and that it is difficult to make comparisons of profitability from investment company advisory contracts because comparative information is not generally available and is affected by numerous factors, including the structure of the particular adviser, the types of funds it manages, its business mix, numerous assumptions about cost allocations and the Adviser's capital structure and cost of capital. The Trustees concluded that, particularly in light of the small size and relatively recent launch of the Funds, they were satisfied that the Adviser's level of profitability from its relationship with the Trust was not excessive.

Possible Fall-Out Benefits The Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, considered information regarding the direct and indirect benefits to the Adviser from its relationships with the Trust, including reputational and other "fall out" benefits. During the course of the year, the Trustees received presentations from the Adviser about its trading practices and brokerage arrangements, including its policies with respect to research provided in connection with trade execution for other investment companies advised by the Adviser (soft dollar arrangements), and the Trustees accepted the representation of the Adviser that it fulfills its fiduciary obligation of seeking best execution when engaging in portfolio transactions for the Funds. The Trustees considered the receipt of these benefits in light of the Adviser's overall profitability, and concluded that such benefits were not excessive.

Possible Economies of Scale The Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, considered the extent to which the Adviser might realize economies of scale or other efficiencies in managing and supporting the Funds. They noted that as assets increase, certain fixed costs may be spread across a larger asset base, and it was noted that any economies of scale or other efficiencies might be realized (if at all) across a variety of products and services, including the Funds, and not only in respect of a single Fund.


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Notes to the Financial Statements, continued

The Trustees noted that, in light of the small size and relatively recent launch of the Funds, the Funds did not yet appear to have achieved significant economies of scale. The Trustees concluded that the Funds' overall fee arrangements represent an appropriate sharing at the present time between Fund shareholders and the Adviser of any economies of scale or other efficiencies in the management of each Fund at current asset levels.

Conclusions Based on their evaluation of factors that they deemed to be material, including those factors described above, the Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, unanimously concluded that the continuation of the Management Contract with respect to each Fund was in the best interests of each Fund and should be approved.

NOTE G—Other Information

Frequency Distribution of Discounts and Premiums Bid/Offer Midpoint vs. NAV as of June 30, 2012

The following chart is provided to show the frequency at which the daily market price on the NYSE Arca, Inc. ("the Exchange"), the secondary market for shares of the Fund, was at a discount or premium to such Fund's NAV). The market price of the Fund generally is determined using the midpoint between the highest bid and the lowest offer on the Exchange, as of the time that the Fund's NAV is calculated (referred to as the "Bid/Offer Midpoint"). The Fund's Bid/Offer Midpoint may at times be at, above or below its NAV. The discount or premium is the percentage difference between the NAV and the Bid/Offer Midpoint of a Fund. A discount is the amount that a Fund is trading below the reported NAV, expressed as a percentage of the NAV. A premium is the amount that a Fund is trading above the reported NAV, expressed as a percentage of NAV. The NAV of the Fund will fluctuate with changes in the market value of its portfolio holdings. The Bid/Offer Midpoint of the Fund will fluctuate in accordance with changes in its NAV, as well as supply and demand.

    Bid/Offer Midpoint Above NAV   Bid/Offer Midpoint Below NAV  
Commencement of Trading   50-99
Basis Points
  100-199
Basis Points
  >200
Basis Points
  50-99
Basis Points
  100-199
Basis Points
  >200
Basis Points
 
Pax MSCI North America ESG Index ETF
05/18/10 through 06/30/12
    62       25       6       15       1       0    
Pax MSCI EAFE ESG Index ETF
01/27/11 through 06/30/12
    67       51       13       39       25       22    


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Recent Accounting Pronouncements In December 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-11, Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities. The update creates new disclosure requirements related to derivatives and other financial instruments that are either offset in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities or subject to an enforceable master netting arrangement or similar agreement. The disclosure requirements are effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013. Management is currently evaluating the impact, if any, of the update's adoption on the financial statements of the Funds.

Subsequent Events

Management has evaluated the possibility of subsequent events existing in the Trust's financial statements, and has determined that there are no material events that would require disclosure in the Trust's financial statements through this date.

Proxy Voting

You may obtain a description of the policies and procedures that the Funds use to determine how to vote proxies relating to their portfolio securities, without charge, upon request by contacting the Fund at 888.729.3863 or on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The information regarding how the Funds voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ended June 30 is available without charge, upon request, by telephoning ESG Shares (toll-free) at 888.729.3863 or visiting ESG Shares website at www.esgshares.com and will be available without charge by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

Quarterly Portfolio Holdings Disclosure

The Funds file their complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Each Fund's Form N-Qs are available on the SEC website at www.sec.gov and may be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 800.SEC.0330. Information contained in the Fund's Form N-Qs may also be obtained by visiting ESG Shares website at www.esgshares.com or telephoning ESG Shares (toll-free) at 888.729.3863.


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Item 2.                                     Code of Ethics.

 

This disclosure is not required for the Semi-annual report filing.

 

Item 3.                                     Audit Committee Financial Expert.

 

This disclosure is not required for the Semi-annual report filing.

 

Item 4.                                     Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

 

This disclosure is not required for the Semi-annual report filing.

 

Item 5.                                     Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.

 

This disclosure is not applicable to the Registrant.

 

Item 6.                                     Schedule of Investments.

 

A complete series of schedules of investments are included as part of the Report to Shareholders filed under Item 1

 

Item 7.                                     Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

 

This disclosure is not applicable to the Registrant, as it is an open-end investment company.

 

Item 8.                                     Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

 

This disclosure is not applicable to the Registrant, as it is an open-end investment company.

 

Item 9.                                     Purchase of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers.

 

This disclosure is not applicable to the Registrant, as it is an open-end investment company.

 

Item 10.                               Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

 

There have been no material changes to the procedures by which shareholders may recommend nominees to the Registrant’s Board of Directors that have been implemented since the Registrant last provided disclosure in response to the requirements of this Item.

 

Item 11.                               Controls and Procedures.

 

(a)           It is the conclusion of the Registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer (or persons performing similar functions), based on an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended) (the “Disclosure Controls”) as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report on Form N-CSR, that the design and operation of the Disclosure Controls are effective to reasonably ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Registrant in this report on Form N-CSR has been recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

(b)           There has been no change in the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended) that occurred during the second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report on Form N-CSR that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 



 

Item 12.                               Exhibits.

 

 

(a)

(1)

The registrant’s code of ethics pursuant to Item 2 of Form N-CSR is filed with the registrant’s annual Form N-CSR.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2)

Certifications of the principal executive officer and principal financial officer of the Registrant as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, are attached.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(3)

Written solicitation to repurchase securities issued by closed-end companies: not applicable.

 

 

 

 

 

(b)

Certification of the principal executive officer and principal financial officer of the Registrant required by Rule 30a-2(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 



 

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)

Pax World Funds Trust II

 

 

 

 

By (Signature and Title)

/s/ Joseph F. Keefe

 

 

Joseph F. Keefe, President

 

 

 

 

Date

August 21, 2012

 

 

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 by the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

By (Signature and Title)

/s/ Joseph F. Keefe

 

 

Joseph F. Keefe, President (Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

 

 

Date

August 21, 2012

 

 

 

 

By (Signature and Title)

/s/ Alicia K. DuBois

 

 

Alicia K. DuBois, Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)

 

 

 

 

Date

August 21, 2012

 

 

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