UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM N-Q

 

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

 

Investment Company Act file number:

 

811-05770

 

 

 

Exact name of registrant as specified in charter:

 

Aberdeen Chile Fund, Inc.

 

 

 

Address of principal executive offices:

 

1735 Market Street, 32nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103

 

 

 

Name and address of agent for service:

 

Ms. Andrea Melia
Aberdeen Asset Management Inc.
1735 Market Street, 32nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103

 

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:

 

1-800-522-5465

 

 

 

Date of fiscal year end:

 

December 31

 

 

 

Date of reporting period:

 

March 31, 2017

 



 

Item 1. Schedule of Investments

 

The schedule of investments for the three-month period ended March 31, 2017 is filed herewith.

 



 

Portfolio of Investments (unaudited)

 

As of March 31, 2017

 

Shares

 

Description

 

Industry and Percentage
of Net Assets

 

Value
(US$)

 

LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS—98.0%

 

 

 

 

 

COMMON STOCKS—93.0%

 

 

 

 

 

CHILE—93.0%

 

 

 

 

 

191,000

 

Antarchile SA

 

Industrial Conglomerates— 2.9%

 

$

2,214,283

 

31,213,901

 

Banco de Chile

 

Banks— 4.9%

 

3,744,012

 

36,084

 

Banco de Credito e Inversiones

 

Banks— 2.6%

 

1,979,528

 

115,855,987

 

Banco Santander Chile

 

Banks— 9.5%

 

7,252,905

 

1,326,977

 

Banmedica SA

 

Health Care Providers & Services— 4.2%

 

3,195,403

 

1,119,250

 

Cencosud SA

 

Food & Staples Retailing— 4.5%

 

3,429,794

 

285,283

 

Cia Cervecerias Unidas SA

 

Beverages— 4.7%

 

3,549,420

 

1,576,732

 

Coca-Cola Embonor SA, Class A (a)(b)

 

Beverages— 4.4%

 

3,357,164

 

1,165,161

 

Embotelladora Andina SA (b)

 

Beverages— 5.8%

 

4,418,739

 

189,284

 

Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones SA (c)

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services— 3.0%

 

2,294,700

 

318,139

 

Empresas COPEC SA

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels— 4.5%

 

3,465,479

 

24,975,400

 

Enel Americas SA

 

Electric Utilities— 6.8%

 

5,204,194

 

22,390,000

 

Enel Chile SA

 

Electric Utilities— 3.3%

 

2,476,939

 

559,034

 

Forus SA

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods— 2.9%

 

2,232,408

 

1,217,500

 

Inversiones Aguas Metropolitanas SA

 

Water Utilities— 2.5%

 

1,912,021

 

2,105,000

 

Parque Arauco SA

 

Real Estate Management & Development— 7.4%

 

5,614,397

 

898,583

 

S.A.C.I. Falabella

 

Multiline Retail— 9.8%

 

7,500,504

 

11,658,000

 

Sociedad Matriz SAAM SA

 

Transportation Infrastructure— 1.4%

 

1,098,180

 

1,681,000

 

Sonda SA

 

Information Technology Services— 3.8%

 

2,899,510

 

1,854,000

 

Vina Concha y Toro SA

 

Beverages— 4.1%

 

3,146,778

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

70,986,358

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks

 

 

 

70,986,358

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PREFERRED STOCKS—5.0%

 

 

 

 

 

CHILE—5.0%

 

 

 

 

 

83,650

 

Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA, ADR, Preferred Shares

 

Chemicals— 3.8%

 

2,875,051

 

26,500

 

Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA, Class B, Preferred Shares

 

Chemicals— 1.2%

 

914,423

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,789,474

 

 

 

Total Preferred Stocks

 

3,789,474

 

 

 

Total Long-Term Investments—98.0% (cost $55,900,296)

 

74,775,832

 

 

See Notes to Portfolio of Investments.

 



 

Portfolio of Investments (unaudited) (concluded)

 

As of March 31, 2017

 

Shares

 

Description

 

Value
(US$)

 

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT—0.1%

 

 

 

 

 

UNITED STATES—0.1%

 

 

 

 

 

90,402

 

State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund(d)

 

90,402

 

 

 

Total Short-Term Investment—0.1% (cost $90,402)

 

90,402

 

 

 

Total Investments—98.1% (cost $55,990,698) (e)

 

74,866,234

 

 

 

Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities—1.9%

 

1,476,535

 

 

 

Net Assets—100.0%(e)

 

$

76,342,769

 

 


(a)

Illiquid security.

(b)

This share class contains full voting rights and no preference on dividends. The two share classes of this company are formally labeled as preferred.

(c)

Non-income producing security.

(d)

Registered investment company advised by State Street Global Advisors.

(e)

See accompanying Notes to Portfolio of Investments for tax unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) of securities.

 

 

ADR

American Depositary Receipt

 

See Notes to Portfolio of Investments.

 



 

Notes to Portfolio of Investments (unaudited)

 

March 31, 2017

 

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

 

a. Security Valuation:

 

The Fund values its securities at current market value or fair value, consistent with regulatory requirements. “Fair Value” is defined in the Fund’s Valuation and Liquidity Procedures as the price that could be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between willing market participants without a compulsion to contract at the measurement date.

 

Equity securities that are traded on an exchange are valued at the last quoted sale price on the principal exchange on which the security is traded at the “Valuation Time” subject to application, when appropriate, of the valuation factors described in the paragraph below. The Valuation Time is as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (usually 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time). In the absence of a sale price, the security is valued at the mean of the bid/ask price quoted at the close on the principal exchange on which the security is traded. Securities traded on NASDAQ are valued at the NASDAQ official closing price. Closed-end funds and exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) are valued at the market price of the security at the Valuation Time. A security using any of these pricing methodologies is determined to be a Level 1 investment.

 

Foreign equity securities that are traded on foreign exchanges that close prior to the Valuation Time are valued by applying valuation factors to the last sale price or the mean price as noted above. Valuation factors are provided by an independent pricing service provider approved by the Fund’s Board of Directors (the “Board”). These valuation factors are used when pricing the Fund’s portfolio holdings to estimate market movements between the time foreign markets close and the time the Fund values such foreign securities. These valuation factors are based on inputs such as depositary receipts, indices, futures, sector indices/ETFs, exchange rates, and local exchange opening and closing prices of each security. When prices with the application of valuation factors are utilized, the value assigned to the foreign securities may not be the same as quoted or published prices of the securities on their primary markets. A security that applies a valuation factor is determined to be a Level 2 investment because the exchange-traded price has been adjusted. Valuation factors are not utilized if the independent pricing service provider is unable to provide a valuation factor or if the valuation factor falls below a predetermined threshold; in such case, the security is determined to be a Level 1 investment.

 

Short-term investments are comprised of cash and cash equivalents invested in short-term investment funds which are redeemable daily. The Fund sweeps available cash into the State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund; which has elected to qualify as a “government money market fund” pursuant to Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act, and has an objective to maintain a $1.00 per share net asset value (“NAV”), and which objective is not guaranteed. Generally, these investment types are categorized as Level 1 investments.

 

In the event that a security’s market quotations are not readily available or are deemed unreliable (for reasons other than because the foreign exchange on which it trades closes before the Valuation Time), the security is valued at fair value as determined by the Fund’s Pricing Committee, taking into account the relevant factors and surrounding circumstances using valuation policies and procedures approved and established by the Board. A security that has been fair valued by the Fund’s Pricing Committee may be classified as Level 2 or Level 3 depending on the nature of the inputs.

 

In accordance with the authoritative guidance on fair value measurements and disclosures under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), the Fund discloses the fair value of its investments using a three-level hierarchy that classifies the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure the fair value. The hierarchy assigns Level 1 measurements to valuations based upon unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets, Level 2 measurements to valuations based upon other significant observable inputs, including adjusted quoted prices in active markets for similar assets, and Level 3 measurements to valuations based upon unobservable inputs that are significant to the valuation. Observable inputs are inputs that reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability, which are 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

 



 

Notes to Portfolio of Investments (unaudited) (concluded)

 

March 31, 2017

 

circumstances. A financial instrument’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of any input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The three-level hierarchy of inputs is summarized 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, and credit risk); or

Level 3 — significant unobservable inputs (including the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments).

 

The following is a summary of the inputs used as of March 31, 2017 in valuing the Fund’s investments and other financial instruments at fair value. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities. Please refer to the Portfolio of Investments for a detailed breakout of the security types:

 

Investments, at Value

 

Level 1

 

Level 2

 

Level 3

 

Total

 

Long-Term Investments

 

$

74,775,832

 

$

 

$

 

$

74,775,832

 

Short-Term Investment

 

90,402

 

 

 

90,402

 

Total

 

$

74,866,234

 

$

 

$

 

$

74,866,234

 

 

Amounts listed as “-” are $0 or round to $0.

 

For movements between the Levels within the fair value hierarchy, the Fund has adopted a policy of recognizing transfers at the end of each period. The utilization of valuation factors may result in transfers between Level 1 and Level 2. During the period ended March 31, 2017, securities issued by Coca-Cola Embonor SA and Embotelladora Andina SA in the amounts of $3,357,164 and $4,418,739, respectively, transferred from Level 2 to Level 1 because these securities were fair valued by the Fund’s Pricing Committee on December 31, 2016 but not on March 31, 2017. For the period ended March 31, 2017, there were no significant changes to the fair valuation methodologies.

 

b. Rights Issues and Warrants:

 

Rights issues give the right, normally to existing shareholders, to buy a proportional number of additional securities at a given price (generally at a discount) within a fixed period (generally a short term period) and are offered at the company’s discretion. Warrants are securities that give the holder the right to buy common stock at a specified price for a specified period of time. Rights issues and warrants are speculative and have no value if they are not exercised before the expiration date. Rights issues and warrants are valued at the last sale price on the exchange on which they are traded.

 

c. Federal Income Taxes:

 

The U.S. federal income tax basis of the Fund’s investments and the net unrealized appreciation as of March 31, 2017 were as follows:

 

Cost

 

Appreciation

 

Depreciation

 

Net
Unrealized
Appreciation

 

$

 55,990,698

 

$

21,708,457

 

$

(2,832,921

)

$

18,875,536

 

 



 

Item 2. Controls and Procedures

 

(a)         The Registrant’s principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, have concluded that the Registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-3(c))) are effective, as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of the report that includes the disclosure required by this paragraph, based on the evaluation of these controls and procedures required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a3(b)) and Rule 13a-15(b) or 15d-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR 240.13a-15(b) or 240.15d-15(b)).

 

(b)         There was 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 (17 CFR 270.30a-3(d))) that occurred during the registrant’s last fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Item 3. Exhibits

 

(a)         Certification of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer of the Registrant as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-2(a)) is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.302CERT.

 



 

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.

 

Aberdeen Chile Fund, Inc.

 

 

By:

/s/ Christian Pittard

 

 

Christian Pittard,

 

Principal Executive Officer of

 

Aberdeen Chile Fund, Inc.

 

 

 

Date: May 24, 2017

 

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

 

 

By:

/s/ Christian Pittard

 

 

Christian Pittard,

 

 

Principal Executive Officer of

 

 

Aberdeen Chile Fund, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

Date: May 24, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Andrea Melia

 

 

Andrea Melia,

 

 

Principal Financial Officer of

 

 

Aberdeen Chile Fund, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

Date: May 24, 2017