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ANDREWS TITLE CFO EX-99.77O RULE 10F-3 2 comet77o.htm Unassociated Document
 
 

 


 
Participating Funds
 
n U.S. Registered Funds (Name of Fund, Aladdin Ticker):
BlackRock Funds, BlackRock Global Long/Short Credit Fund  (BR-GC)
BlackRock Credit Allocation Income Trust (Preferred Sleeve)  (BTZ-PREF)
BlackRock Strategic Bond Trust  (BHD)
BlackRock Secured Credit Portfolio  (BR-MSB)
BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Trust  (BIT)
BlackRock Limited Duration Income Trust  (BLW)
BlackRock Core Bond Trust  (BHK)
BlackRock Senior High Income Fund, Inc.  (ARK)
BlackRock Income Opportunity Trust  (BNA-USD)
BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund, Inc.  (DSU)
 
 
The Offering
 
 
Key Characteristics (Complete ALL Fields)
Date of
Offering Commencement:
05-08-2013
Security Type:
BND/CORP

Issuer
Commercial Metals Company  (2023)
Selling Underwriter
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Affiliated Underwriter(s)
 PNC
 Other:
List of Underwriter(s)
Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, RBS Securities Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, PNC Capital Markets LLC, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.
 
 
 
Transaction Details
Date of Purchase
05-08-2013

Purchase Price/Share
(per share / % of par)
$100.00
Total Commission, Spread or Profit
1.25%

1. Aggregate Principal Amount Purchased (a+b)
$22,500,000
a.US Registered Funds
(Appendix attached with individual Fund/Client purchase)
$5,368,000
b.Other BlackRock Clients
$17,132,000
 
2. Aggregate Principal Amount of Offering
 
$330,000,000
Fund Ratio
[Divide Sum of #1 by #2]
Must be less than 0.25
(unless securities are Government Securities)
0.06818

 
Legal Requirements
 
 
Offering Type (check ONE)
The securities fall into one of the following transaction types (see Definitions):
 
U.S. Registered Public Offering[Issuer must have 3 years of continuous operations]
 
Eligible Rule 144A Offering[Issuer must have 3 years of continuous operations]
 
Eligible Municipal Securities[Issuer must have 3 years of continuous operations]
 
Eligible Foreign Offering[Issuer must have 3 years of continuous operations]
 
Government Securities Offering
 
Timing and Price (check ONE or BOTH)
 
The securities were purchased before the end of the first day on which any sales were made, at a price that was not more than the price paid by each other purchaser of securities in that offering or in any concurrent offering of the securities; and
 
If the securities are offered for subscription upon exercise of rights, the securities were purchased on or before the fourth day before the day on which the rights offering terminated.
 
Firm Commitment Offering (check ONE)
  YES
  NO
The securities were offered pursuant to an underwriting or similar agreement under which the underwriters were committed to purchase all of the securities being offered, except those purchased by others pursuant to a rights offering, if the underwriters purchased any of the securities.
 
No Benefit to Affiliated Underwriter (check ONE)
  YES
  NO
No affiliated underwriter was a direct or indirect participant in, or benefited directly or indirectly from, the transaction.



Completed by:
Dillip Behera
Date:
05-14-2013
 
Global Syndicate Team Member
 
 
   
Approved by:
Steven Delaura
Date:
05-14-13
 
Global Syndicate Team Member
 
 
   

 

 
 

 


 

 
 
Definitions
 
Term
Definition
Fund Ratio
Number appearing at the bottom of page 1 of 2 of the Rule 10f-3 Report form.  It is the sum of the Funds’ participation in the offering divided by the total amount of the offering.
Eligible Foreign Offering
The securities are sold in a public offering conducted under the laws of a country other than the United States and
(a)the offering is subject to regulation in such country by a “foreign financial regulatory authority,” as defined in Section 2(a)(50) of the Investment Company Act of 1940;
(b)the securities were offered at a fixed price to all purchasers in the offering (except for any rights to purchase securities that are required by law to be granted to existing security holders of the issuer);
(c)financial statements, prepared and audited as required or permitted by the appropriate foreign financial regulatory authority in such country, for the two years prior to the offering, were made available to the public and prospective purchasers in connection with the offering; and
(d)if the issuer is a “domestic issuer,” i.e., other than a foreign government, a national of any foreign country, or a corporation or other organization incorporated or organized under the laws of any foreign country, it (1) has a class of securities registered pursuant to section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or is required to file reports pursuant to section 15(d) of that act, and (2) has filed all the material required to be filed pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of that act for a period of at least 12 months immediately preceding the sale of securities (or for such shorter period that the issuer was required to file such material)
Eligible Municipal Securities
The securities are direct obligations of, or obligations guaranteed as to principal or interest by, a State or any political subdivision thereof, or any agency or instrumentality of a State or any political subdivision thereof, or any municipal corporate instrumentality of one or more States, or any security which is an industrial development bond (as defined in section 103(c)(2) of Title 26) the interest on which is excludable from gross income under certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
(a)with respect to ratings, the securities
(1)have received an investment grade rating from at least one nationally recognized statistical rating organization (“NRSRO”); or
(2)have received one of the three highest ratings from an NRSRO, if the issuer of the municipal securities, or the entity supplying the revenue or other payments from which the issue is to be paid, has been in continuous operation for less than three years, including the operation of any predecessors.
(b) The purchases of municipal securities, if any, were not designated as group sales or otherwise allocated to the account of any prohibited seller (i.e., an affiliated underwriter).
Eligible Rule 144A Offering
The securities are sold in an offering where
(a)the securities are offered or sold in transactions exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, Rule 144A thereunder, or Rules 501-508 thereunder;
(b)the securities were sold to persons that the seller and any person acting on behalf of the seller reasonably believe to include qualified institutional buyers, as defined in Rule 144A (“QIBs”); and
(c)the seller and any person acting on behalf of the seller reasonably believe that the securities are eligible for resale to other QIBs pursuant to Rule 144A
Government Securities Offering
The security is issued or guaranteed as to principal or interest by the United States, or by a person controlled or supervised by and acting as an instrumentality of the Government of the United States pursuant to authority granted by the Congress of the United States; or any certificate of deposit for any of the foregoing
U.S. Registered Public Offering.
The securities offered are registered under the Securities Act of 1933 that are being offered to the public.



 
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EX-99.77O RULE 10F-3 3 chespeke77o.htm Unassociated Document
 
 

 


 
Participating Funds
 
n U.S. Registered Funds (Name of Fund, Aladdin Ticker):
BlackRock Multi-Asset Income - Passive High Yield Portfolio  (BR-INC-PHY)
BlackRock Multi-Asset Income - High Yield Portfolio  (BR-INC-HY)
BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Trust  (BIT)
BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund, Inc.  (DSU)
BlackRock Funds, BlackRock Global Long/Short Credit Fund  (BR-GC)
BlackRock High Yield Portfolio of BlackRock Series Fund, Inc  (BVA-HI)
BlackRock Secured Credit Portfolio  (BR-MSB)
BlackRock Core Bond Trust  (BHK)
BlackRock Income Opportunity Trust  (BNA-USD)
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund  (ISHHYLD)
AST BlackRock Global Strategies Portfolio - US High Yield  (PRU-AA-HY)
BlackRock Strategic Bond Trust  (BHD)
BlackRock Strategic Income Opportunities Portfolio  (BR-SIP)
BlackRock Senior High Income Fund, Inc.  (ARK)
BlackRock High Yield V.I. Fund  (BVA-HY)
BlackRock Credit Allocation Income Trust (Preferred Sleeve)  (BTZ-PREF)
BlackRock High Yield Portfolio  (MIST-HY)
BlackRock Limited Duration Income Trust  (BLW)
BlackRock Funds II, High Yield Bond Portfolio  (BR-HIYLD)
 
 
The Offering
 
 
Key Characteristics (Complete ALL Fields)
Date of
Offering Commencement:
03-18-2013
Security Type:
BND/CORP

Issuer
Chesapeake Energy Corporation  (2023)
Selling Underwriter
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
Affiliated Underwriter(s)
 PNC
 Other:
List of Underwriter(s)
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., DNB Markets, Inc., Jefferies LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., Mizuho Securities USA Inc., Natixis Securities Americas LLC, Nomura Securities International, Inc., RBS Securities Inc., Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., UBS Securities LLC, Comerica Securities, Inc., Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., PNC Capital Markets LLC, Santander Investment Securities Inc., SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited, TD Securities (USA) LLC
 
 
 

 
Transaction Details
Date of Purchase
03-18-2013

Purchase Price/Share
(per share / % of par)
$100.00
Total Commission, Spread or Profit
1.00%

1. Aggregate Principal Amount Purchased (a+b)
$115,000,000
a.US Registered Funds
(Appendix attached with individual Fund/Client purchase)
$65,730,000
b.Other BlackRock Clients
$49,270,000
 
2. Aggregate Principal Amount of Offering
 
$1,100,000,000
Fund Ratio
[Divide Sum of #1 by #2]
Must be less than 0.25
(unless securities are Government Securities)
0.10454



 
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Rule 10f-3 Report – Definitions
 

 
Legal Requirements
 
 
Offering Type (check ONE)
The securities fall into one of the following transaction types (see Definitions):
 
U.S. Registered Public Offering[Issuer must have 3 years of continuous operations]
 
Eligible Rule 144A Offering[Issuer must have 3 years of continuous operations]
 
Eligible Municipal Securities[Issuer must have 3 years of continuous operations]
 
Eligible Foreign Offering[Issuer must have 3 years of continuous operations]
 
Government Securities Offering
 
Timing and Price (check ONE or BOTH)
 
The securities were purchased before the end of the first day on which any sales were made, at a price that was not more than the price paid by each other purchaser of securities in that offering or in any concurrent offering of the securities; and
 
If the securities are offered for subscription upon exercise of rights, the securities were purchased on or before the fourth day before the day on which the rights offering terminated.
 
Firm Commitment Offering (check ONE)
  YES
  NO
The securities were offered pursuant to an underwriting or similar agreement under which the underwriters were committed to purchase all of the securities being offered, except those purchased by others pursuant to a rights offering, if the underwriters purchased any of the securities.
 
No Benefit to Affiliated Underwriter (check ONE)
X   YES
  NO
No affiliated underwriter was a direct or indirect participant in, or benefited directly or indirectly from, the transaction.



Completed by:
Dillip Behera
Date:
03-20-2013
 
Global Syndicate Team Member
 
 
   
Approved by:
David Lim
Date:
03-20-2013
 
Global Syndicate Team Member
 
 
   

 

 
 

 


 

 
 
Definitions
 
Term
Definition
Fund Ratio
Number appearing at the bottom of page 1 of 2 of the Rule 10f-3 Report form.  It is the sum of the Funds’ participation in the offering divided by the total amount of the offering.
Eligible Foreign Offering
The securities are sold in a public offering conducted under the laws of a country other than the United States and
(a)the offering is subject to regulation in such country by a “foreign financial regulatory authority,” as defined in Section 2(a)(50) of the Investment Company Act of 1940;
(b)the securities were offered at a fixed price to all purchasers in the offering (except for any rights to purchase securities that are required by law to be granted to existing security holders of the issuer);
(c)financial statements, prepared and audited as required or permitted by the appropriate foreign financial regulatory authority in such country, for the two years prior to the offering, were made available to the public and prospective purchasers in connection with the offering; and
(d)if the issuer is a “domestic issuer,” i.e., other than a foreign government, a national of any foreign country, or a corporation or other organization incorporated or organized under the laws of any foreign country, it (1) has a class of securities registered pursuant to section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or is required to file reports pursuant to section 15(d) of that act, and (2) has filed all the material required to be filed pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of that act for a period of at least 12 months immediately preceding the sale of securities (or for such shorter period that the issuer was required to file such material)
Eligible Municipal Securities
The securities are direct obligations of, or obligations guaranteed as to principal or interest by, a State or any political subdivision thereof, or any agency or instrumentality of a State or any political subdivision thereof, or any municipal corporate instrumentality of one or more States, or any security which is an industrial development bond (as defined in section 103(c)(2) of Title 26) the interest on which is excludable from gross income under certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
(a)with respect to ratings, the securities
(1)have received an investment grade rating from at least one nationally recognized statistical rating organization (“NRSRO”); or
(2)have received one of the three highest ratings from an NRSRO, if the issuer of the municipal securities, or the entity supplying the revenue or other payments from which the issue is to be paid, has been in continuous operation for less than three years, including the operation of any predecessors.
(b) The purchases of municipal securities, if any, were not designated as group sales or otherwise allocated to the account of any prohibited seller (i.e., an affiliated underwriter).
Eligible Rule 144A Offering
The securities are sold in an offering where
(a)the securities are offered or sold in transactions exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, Rule 144A thereunder, or Rules 501-508 thereunder;
(b)the securities were sold to persons that the seller and any person acting on behalf of the seller reasonably believe to include qualified institutional buyers, as defined in Rule 144A (“QIBs”); and
(c)the seller and any person acting on behalf of the seller reasonably believe that the securities are eligible for resale to other QIBs pursuant to Rule 144A
Government Securities Offering
The security is issued or guaranteed as to principal or interest by the United States, or by a person controlled or supervised by and acting as an instrumentality of the Government of the United States pursuant to authority granted by the Congress of the United States; or any certificate of deposit for any of the foregoing
U.S. Registered Public Offering.
The securities offered are registered under the Securities Act of 1933 that are being offered to the public.