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 811-22441

John Hancock Hedged Equity & Income Fund
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

601 Congress Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

Salvatore Schiavone

Treasurer

601 Congress Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02210
(Name and address of agent for service)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: 617-663-4497

Date of fiscal year end:       December 31
 
Date of reporting period: March 31, 2018



ITEM 1. SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS







John Hancock

Hedged Equity & Income Fund

Quarterly portfolio holdings 3/31/18

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Fund’s investments  
As of 3-31-18 (unaudited)
        Shares Value
Common stocks 81.5%         $168,537,357
(Cost $167,611,862)          
Consumer discretionary 8.4%     17,268,097
Auto components 0.9%      
Aisan Industry Company, Ltd.     7,100 75,850
Bridgestone Corp.     1,600 70,390
Exedy Corp.     5,855 185,256
Fuyao Glass Industry Group Company, Ltd., H Shares (A)     84,800 328,014
Keihin Corp.     10,495 215,919
Nissin Kogyo Company, Ltd.     9,490 164,650
NOK Corp.     9,185 179,361
Showa Corp.     4,980 85,317
Sumitomo Riko Company, Ltd.     10,100 101,803
Tokai Rika Company, Ltd.     11,000 224,393
Toyoda Gosei Company, Ltd.     7,875 182,381
Automobiles 0.8%      
Daimler AG     1,067 90,908
Dongfeng Motor Group Company, Ltd., H Shares     158,000 184,456
Ford Motor Company     20,802 230,486
Honda Motor Company, Ltd.     15,950 552,135
Kia Motors Corp.     6,646 199,087
Mitsubishi Motors Corp.     15,010 107,344
Nissan Motor Company, Ltd.     7,600 78,448
Renault SA     1,002 121,590
Diversified consumer services 0.1%      
Allstar Co-Invest LLC (B)(C)(D)     236,300 0
Benesse Holdings, Inc.     2,700 98,224
New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc., ADR     609 53,379
Hotels, restaurants and leisure 1.6%      
Carnival Corp.     516 33,839
Crown Resorts, Ltd.     65,032 638,683
Darden Restaurants, Inc.     489 41,687
Las Vegas Sands Corp. (E)     31,325 2,252,268
McDonald's Corp.     1,585 247,862
OPAP SA     8,903 102,041
Household durables 1.3%      
Barratt Developments PLC     21,795 162,183
Berkeley Group Holdings PLC     1,039 55,233
Coway Company, Ltd.     445 36,739
Funai Electric Company, Ltd. (D)     12,363 88,854
Garmin, Ltd.     12,678 747,115
Nikon Corp.     6,865 124,091
Persimmon PLC     30,990 1,099,905
Pioneer Corp. (D)     85,800 141,346
Steinhoff International Holdings NV (D)     156,014 43,458
Taylor Wimpey PLC     115,095 298,176
Internet and direct marketing retail 0.0%      
Qliro Group AB (D)     34,220 50,191
Leisure products 0.2%      
Sankyo Company, Ltd.     10,280 359,620
Media 1.6%      
Avex, Inc.     9,590 135,939
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        Shares Value
Consumer discretionary (continued)      
Media (continued)      
Axel Springer SE     7,648 $639,779
Eutelsat Communications SA     1,342 26,599
Fuji Media Holdings, Inc.     7,525 128,016
Gendai Agency, Inc.     3,600 18,530
Metropole Television SA     1,940 49,982
Nippon Television Holdings, Inc.     10,750 188,886
ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE     4,759 164,835
Proto Corp.     2,100 32,750
RTL Group SA     3,208 266,341
SES SA     90,835 1,229,540
Telenet Group Holding NV (D)     3,306 220,989
Television Francaise 1     11,098 150,708
TV Asahi Holdings Corp.     3,660 80,907
Multiline retail 0.6%      
Harvey Norman Holdings, Ltd.     33,546 95,913
Kohl's Corp.     1,573 103,047
Macy's, Inc.     5,045 150,038
Marks & Spencer Group PLC     45,164 171,553
Next PLC     1,005 67,183
Nordstrom, Inc.     13,639 660,264
Target Corp.     1,435 99,632
Specialty retail 1.0%      
CECONOMY AG     12,764 146,750
Halfords Group PLC     31,076 142,111
Honeys Holdings Company, Ltd.     4,630 43,591
L Brands, Inc. (E)     31,293 1,195,706
Nishimatsuya Chain Company, Ltd.     6,400 72,439
PAL GROUP Holdings Company, Ltd.     3,100 84,831
The Gap, Inc.     1,580 49,296
The Home Depot, Inc.     255 45,451
USS Company, Ltd.     3,200 65,496
Xebio Holdings Company, Ltd.     7,875 156,086
Textiles, apparel and luxury goods 0.3%      
361 Degrees International, Ltd.     193,940 62,890
Daphne International Holdings, Ltd. (D)     350,000 21,296
Geox SpA     25,186 85,317
Pandora A/S     1,108 119,881
Sanyo Shokai, Ltd.     5,000 108,528
Xtep International Holdings, Ltd.     240,883 134,315
Consumer staples 5.3%     11,032,075
Beverages 0.4%      
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.     842 99,676
PepsiCo, Inc.     2,079 226,923
The Coca-Cola Company     11,924 517,859
Food and staples retailing 0.4%      
Cawachi, Ltd.     2,500 62,281
J Sainsbury PLC     80,387 269,657
METRO AG     10,806 191,161
Sysco Corp.     678 40,653
Walmart, Inc.     789 70,197
Wesfarmers, Ltd.     5,031 161,218
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        Shares Value
Consumer staples (continued)      
Food products 0.2%      
Marine Harvest ASA     20,968 $423,836
Household products 0.1%      
The Procter & Gamble Company     3,920 310,778
Personal products 1.0%      
The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., Class A     499 74,710
Unilever NV     35,681 2,013,862
Tobacco 3.2%      
Altria Group, Inc.     4,942 307,985
British American Tobacco PLC     28,061 1,622,118
Imperial Brands PLC     50,630 1,723,926
Japan Tobacco, Inc.     4,100 117,125
Philip Morris International, Inc. (E)     28,150 2,798,110
Energy 7.8%     16,136,454
Energy equipment and services 0.2%      
Core Laboratories NV     328 35,496
Fugro NV (D)     7,674 101,482
Helmerich & Payne, Inc.     727 48,389
Saipem SpA (D)     36,394 142,771
Oil, gas and consumable fuels 7.6%      
Advantage Oil & Gas, Ltd. (D)     16,359 48,378
AltaGas, Ltd.     10,896 201,623
ARC Resources, Ltd.     7,439 81,068
BP PLC     138,233 932,396
Cameco Corp.     8,266 75,131
Chevron Corp.     3,562 406,210
Coal India, Ltd.     105,400 456,798
Ecopetrol SA, ADR     33,677 650,976
Eni SpA     32,545 573,288
Exxon Mobil Corp.     4,570 340,968
Gazprom PJSC, ADR     59,917 295,391
Inpex Corp.     14,940 185,395
Inter Pipeline, Ltd.     1,739 30,181
Japan Petroleum Exploration Company, Ltd.     7,165 163,052
LUKOIL PJSC, ADR     4,670 322,433
LUKOIL PJSC, ADR     45 3,115
Occidental Petroleum Corp.     9,459 614,457
ONEOK, Inc.     3,461 197,000
Painted Pony Energy, Ltd. (D)     27,909 46,141
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, ADR (D)     13,463 190,367
Plains GP Holdings LP, Class A (D)     67,696 1,472,388
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, A Shares     9,281 293,637
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, B Shares     89,668 2,885,377
S-Oil Corp.     601 68,053
Statoil ASA     6,389 151,215
Surgutneftegas OJSC, ADR     42,595 208,722
Targa Resources Corp.     6,356 279,664
The Williams Companies, Inc.     1,422 35,351
TOTAL SA     50,611 2,901,003
Tourmaline Oil Corp.     4,984 84,527
TransCanada Corp.     31,226 1,291,358
Tupras Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri AS     4,424 123,569
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        Shares Value
Energy (continued)      
Oil, gas and consumable fuels (continued)      
Valero Energy Corp.     2,146 $199,084
Financials 16.3%     33,696,229
Banks 7.8%      
ABN AMRO Group NV (A)     4,423 133,368
Allahabad Bank (D)     42,134 33,075
Aozora Bank, Ltd.     2,100 84,286
Banco Santander Chile, ADR     19,964 668,994
Bank of Ireland Group PLC (D)     20,858 182,776
Bank Rakyat Indonesia Persero Tbk PT     2,354,100 617,809
BNP Paribas SA     6,094 451,935
BPER Banca     30,882 172,202
CaixaBank SA     57,349 273,420
Canara Bank     26,160 107,085
Corp Bank (D)     41,448 19,716
Dah Sing Financial Holdings, Ltd.     10,400 66,136
DNB ASA     3,758 74,022
HSBC Holdings PLC     89,447 839,971
ING Groep NV     20,465 345,351
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA     547,059 1,991,843
JPMorgan Chase & Co.     16,324 1,795,150
KB Financial Group, Inc.     4,112 238,485
Krung Thai Bank PCL     69,500 42,369
Lloyds Banking Group PLC     263,224 239,435
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.     69,999 465,186
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.     217,925 397,142
Moneta Money Bank AS (A)     228,515 946,550
National Australia Bank, Ltd.     4,267 94,201
Nordea Bank AB     176,327 1,886,692
People's United Financial, Inc.     2,735 51,035
Raiffeisen Bank International AG (D)     2,282 88,883
Sberbank of Russia PJSC, ADR     8,200 152,930
Shinhan Financial Group Company, Ltd.     3,792 161,764
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB, Series A     2,718 28,556
Societe Generale SA     6,205 336,996
Standard Chartered PLC     28,925 289,897
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.     10,900 462,425
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc.     6,620 270,620
The Tochigi Bank, Ltd.     16,600 64,239
Unicaja Banco SA (A)(D)     80,179 138,184
UniCredit SpA     18,710 391,060
Wells Fargo & Company (E)     27,845 1,459,356
Westpac Banking Corp.     4,334 95,996
Capital markets 3.1%      
Banca Generali SpA     23,385 754,485
CME Group, Inc.     3,946 638,226
Credit Suisse Group AG (D)     37,839 635,507
GAM Holding AG (D)     12,097 203,693
Ichiyoshi Securities Company, Ltd.     7,900 91,392
IG Group Holdings PLC     95,416 1,068,627
IGM Financial, Inc.     6,245 182,597
Julius Baer Group, Ltd. (D)     13,516 831,794
SBI Holdings, Inc.     28,300 664,937
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        Shares Value
Financials (continued)      
Capital markets (continued)      
UBS Group AG (D)     74,665 $1,315,517
Uranium Participation Corp. (D)     20,548 61,563
Diversified financial services 0.1%      
AMP, Ltd.     22,080 85,211
G-Resources Group, Ltd. (D)     2,823,000 26,364
Insurance 4.3%      
Admiral Group PLC     2,994 77,492
Ageas     5,470 282,277
Assicurazioni Generali SpA     105,878 2,035,210
CNP Assurances     25,245 637,290
Coface SA     8,659 98,991
Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc.     13,525 249,691
Direct Line Insurance Group PLC     27,779 148,743
Insurance Australia Group, Ltd.     117,139 678,226
Legal & General Group PLC     36,646 132,778
Poste Italiane SpA (A)     38,993 356,176
Sampo OYJ, A Shares     1,273 70,922
Sanlam, Ltd.     81,681 590,082
Shin Kong Financial Holding Company, Ltd.     499,645 191,491
Sony Financial Holdings, Inc.     2,100 38,346
Storebrand ASA     11,874 97,646
T&D Holdings, Inc.     20,895 332,359
Tongyang Life Insurance Company, Ltd.     14,910 103,702
Tryg A/S     10,874 253,355
UnipolSai Assicurazioni SpA     61,595 146,457
Zurich Insurance Group AG (D)     7,394 2,439,002
Mortgage real estate investment trusts 0.9%      
AGNC Investment Corp.     54,515 1,031,424
Annaly Capital Management, Inc.     82,799 863,594
Thrifts and mortgage finance 0.1%      
New York Community Bancorp, Inc.     9,357 121,922
Health care 6.4%     13,268,705
Biotechnology 0.4%      
AbbVie, Inc.     6,571 621,945
Amgen, Inc.     758 129,224
Gilead Sciences, Inc.     1,465 110,446
Health care equipment and supplies 0.3%      
Abbott Laboratories     4,524 271,078
Hoya Corp.     1,500 75,769
Koninklijke Philips NV     1,000 38,292
Medtronic PLC     2,329 186,832
ResMed, Inc.     883 86,949
Health care providers and services 0.1%      
Cardinal Health, Inc.     692 43,375
Suzuken Company, Ltd.     4,260 179,254
Health care technology 0.1%      
AGFA-Gevaert NV (D)     25,190 97,559
Life sciences tools and services 0.0%      
CMIC Holdings Company, Ltd.     3,000 78,203
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        Shares Value
Health care (continued)      
Pharmaceuticals 5.5%      
Almirall SA     7,151 $84,543
AstraZeneca PLC     37,144 2,553,325
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company     3,539 223,842
Eisai Company, Ltd.     3,030 195,091
Eli Lilly & Company     1,574 121,780
GlaxoSmithKline PLC     5,802 112,681
H Lundbeck A/S     590 33,138
Johnson & Johnson     4,124 528,491
Kyowa Hakko Kirin Company, Ltd.     3,000 65,153
Merck & Company, Inc.     5,894 321,046
Novartis AG     39,597 3,202,640
Pfizer, Inc.     19,642 697,095
Roche Holding AG     11,690 2,681,651
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd.     10,855 529,303
Industrials 7.7%     15,829,842
Aerospace and defense 0.5%      
Harris Corp.     1,094 176,440
Lockheed Martin Corp.     509 172,006
The Boeing Company     1,461 479,033
United Technologies Corp.     1,535 193,134
Air freight and logistics 0.2%      
CTT-Correios de Portugal SA     22,902 88,127
PostNL NV     53,916 202,035
United Parcel Service, Inc., Class B     484 50,655
Airlines 0.1%      
ANA Holdings, Inc.     1,300 50,375
SAS AB (D)     48,248 114,631
Building products 0.2%      
Cie de Saint-Gobain     7,040 371,747
Commercial services and supplies 0.1%      
Relia, Inc.     7,600 92,938
Toppan Forms Company, Ltd.     11,000 121,823
Construction and engineering 0.2%      
Chiyoda Corp.     14,495 135,681
JGC Corp.     9,385 204,336
Raubex Group, Ltd.     39,060 66,770
Toyo Engineering Corp. (D)     8,800 83,970
Electrical equipment 0.9%      
ABB, Ltd.     67,037 1,594,019
Emerson Electric Company     1,459 99,650
Ushio, Inc.     11,305 151,790
Zumtobel Group AG     8,974 84,419
Industrial conglomerates 0.2%      
3M Company     1,060 232,691
DMCI Holdings, Inc.     115,500 27,037
Rheinmetall AG     494 70,121
Machinery 2.0%      
Alstom SA     4,225 190,558
Caterpillar, Inc. (E)     6,363 937,779
Hisaka Works, Ltd.     6,200 60,848
Kone OYJ, Class B     34,527 1,723,168
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        Shares Value
Industrials (continued)      
Machinery (continued)      
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.     8,195 $315,991
Sandvik AB     35,338 647,435
The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.     3,650 119,971
Toshiba Machine Company, Ltd.     17,525 121,839
Marine 0.1%      
D/S Norden A/S (D)     6,793 122,531
Kuehne + Nagel International AG     203 31,974
Pacific Basin Shipping, Ltd. (D)     559,000 150,582
Professional services 0.5%      
Adecco Group AG     2,434 173,374
Hays PLC     70,421 186,293
SGS SA     256 629,742
SThree PLC     7,842 35,503
Road and rail 0.1%      
Go-Ahead Group PLC     7,361 181,353
Kyushu Railway Company     1,000 31,197
Trading companies and distributors 0.8%      
ITOCHU Corp.     70,100 1,368,854
Rexel SA     11,998 203,243
SIG PLC     52,286 99,494
Transportation infrastructure 1.8%      
Abertis Infraestructuras SA     26,791 600,598
Aena SME SA (A)     3,186 642,436
Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG     3,083 69,368
Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. (E)     10,698 395,077
Sydney Airport     371,705 1,927,206
Information technology 9.9%     20,572,960
Communications equipment 1.6%      
Cisco Systems, Inc.     28,695 1,230,729
Nokia OYJ     337,303 1,862,626
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, B Shares     40,689 259,106
Electronic equipment, instruments and components 0.4%      
Citizen Watch Company, Ltd.     21,095 148,824
Hirose Electric Company, Ltd.     1,575 217,583
Hosiden Corp.     5,800 72,969
Nichicon Corp.     12,820 146,864
Simplo Technology Company, Ltd.     21,300 136,413
Yokogawa Electric Corp.     2,300 46,633
Internet software and services 0.6%      
Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd., ADR (D)     1,862 341,751
Alphabet, Inc., Class A (D)     34 35,263
Autohome, Inc., ADR     933 80,182
Baidu, Inc., ADR (D)     312 69,635
DeNA Company, Ltd.     6,660 121,297
Dropbox, Inc. (D)     2,280 66,084
Facebook, Inc., Class A (D)     521 83,251
Gree, Inc.     26,300 151,611
Mixi, Inc.     600 22,449
Momo, Inc., ADR (D)     709 26,502
NetEase, Inc., ADR     479 134,307
SINA Corp. (D)     528 55,055
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        Shares Value
Information technology (continued)      
IT services 1.4%      
Accenture PLC, Class A     4,880 $749,080
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.     808 91,692
Computershare, Ltd.     50,585 678,367
Fujitsu, Ltd.     48,685 295,855
IBM Corp.     2,629 403,367
Paychex, Inc.     5,614 345,766
Sopra Steria Group     702 143,284
The Western Union Company     8,965 172,397
TravelSky Technology, Ltd., H Shares     18,000 52,576
Semiconductors and semiconductor equipment 3.9%      
Broadcom, Ltd.     356 83,891
Disco Corp.     229 48,947
Intel Corp. (E)     72,024 3,751,010
KLA-Tencor Corp.     398 43,386
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.     4,379 263,703
MediaTek, Inc.     7,490 86,182
Microchip Technology, Inc.     424 38,737
Miraial Company, Ltd.     3,000 43,810
QUALCOMM, Inc. (E)     55,473 3,073,759
Rohm Company, Ltd.     1,000 94,921
Shinko Electric Industries Company, Ltd.     18,875 139,533
Texas Instruments, Inc.     423 43,945
Tokyo Electron, Ltd.     1,300 240,488
Tokyo Seimitsu Company, Ltd.     3,815 154,797
Software 0.5%      
Alpha Systems, Inc.     1,100 23,606
Konami Holdings Corp.     900 45,834
Microsoft Corp.     6,844 624,652
NHN Entertainment Corp. (D)     2,065 131,600
Nintendo Company, Ltd.     229 101,739
Trend Micro, Inc.     2,500 147,429
Technology hardware, storage and peripherals 1.5%      
Acer, Inc. (D)     206,180 173,484
Apple, Inc.     3,140 526,829
Brother Industries, Ltd.     1,400 32,462
Canon, Inc.     17,560 637,047
Catcher Technology Company, Ltd.     79,357 997,510
Compal Electronics, Inc.     312,405 214,510
HP, Inc.     2,159 47,325
Melco Holdings, Inc.     1,900 63,239
Neopost SA     5,376 141,640
Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.     26 60,748
Seagate Technology PLC     4,352 254,679
Materials 5.8%     12,096,687
Chemicals 1.2%      
China BlueChemical, Ltd., H Shares     318,000 89,878
Covestro AG (A)     6,381 628,318
DowDuPont, Inc.     5,069 322,946
EMS-Chemie Holding AG     101 63,894
JSR Corp.     11,230 252,742
LyondellBasell Industries NV, Class A     2,840 300,131
Monsanto Company     499 58,228
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        Shares Value
Materials (continued)      
Chemicals (continued)      
Praxair, Inc.     473 $68,254
PTT Global Chemical PCL     268,500 816,168
Construction materials 0.2%      
LafargeHolcim, Ltd. (D)     5,726 313,754
Vicat SA     1,848 139,591
Containers and packaging 0.7%      
AMVIG Holdings, Ltd.     152,000 41,766
International Paper Company     22,007 1,175,834
Nampak, Ltd. (D)     127,852 164,562
Metals and mining 3.0%      
Acacia Mining PLC     31,372 62,877
Anglo American Platinum, Ltd.     4,607 126,406
Anglo American PLC     12,613 293,816
Barrick Gold Corp.     14,212 177,050
BHP Billiton PLC     30,541 603,588
Centerra Gold, Inc. (D)     25,276 144,984
Chubu Steel Plate Company, Ltd.     5,800 43,719
CST Group, Ltd. (D)     1,440,000 6,288
Eldorado Gold Corp. (D)     51,281 43,076
Glencore PLC (D)     126,132 626,779
Gold Fields, Ltd.     47,621 192,188
Impala Platinum Holdings, Ltd. (D)     28,187 56,134
Kinross Gold Corp. (D)     26,433 104,410
Kyoei Steel, Ltd.     7,670 131,018
Nakayama Steel Works, Ltd.     11,800 77,934
Neturen Company, Ltd.     6,100 62,798
Northern Dynasty Minerals, Ltd. (D)     11,046 10,289
Pacific Metals Company, Ltd. (D)     3,900 117,110
Petra Diamonds, Ltd. (D)     74,640 68,913
Resolute Mining, Ltd.     64,800 62,578
Rio Tinto PLC     40,312 2,045,595
Rio Tinto, Ltd.     10,740 608,445
Salzgitter AG     2,371 121,291
Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Company, Ltd.     17,460 140,828
Western Areas, Ltd.     62,613 152,948
Yamato Kogyo Company, Ltd.     6,825 188,331
Paper and forest products 0.7%      
Stora Enso OYJ, R Shares     37,220 684,341
UPM-Kymmene OYJ     19,067 706,887
Real estate 3.8%     7,839,080
Equity real estate investment trusts 3.3%      
Colony NorthStar, Inc., Class A     24,664 138,612
Crown Castle International Corp.     389 42,638
Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc.     54,146 1,812,267
Growthpoint Properties, Ltd.     18,293 43,877
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.     2,427 45,239
Iron Mountain, Inc.     3,008 98,843
Park Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (E)     99,236 2,681,357
Unibail-Rodamco SE     8,127 1,856,397
VEREIT, Inc.     14,992 104,344
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        Shares Value
Real estate (continued)      
Real estate management and development 0.5%      
Nexity SA     15,856 $1,015,506
Telecommunication services 5.7%     11,784,256
Diversified telecommunication services 4.7%      
AT&T, Inc.     13,354 476,070
BCE, Inc.     37,034 1,593,639
Bezeq The Israeli Telecommunication Corp., Ltd.     253,211 324,541
BT Group PLC     609,892 1,946,659
CenturyLink, Inc.     17,313 284,453
China Telecom Corp., Ltd., H Shares     588,505 261,021
China Unicom Hong Kong, Ltd. (D)     150,000 191,895
Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA     16,802 227,762
KT Corp.     8,964 230,804
Magyar Telekom Telecommunications PLC     81,445 145,343
O2 Czech Republic AS     31,143 430,772
Proximus SADP     1,519 47,229
Spark New Zealand, Ltd.     63,538 154,171
Telenor ASA     65,946 1,499,686
Turk Telekomunikasyon AS (D)     47,571 81,235
Verizon Communications, Inc. (E)     35,944 1,718,842
Wireless telecommunication services 1.0%      
China Mobile, Ltd.     27,200 249,299
Mobile TeleSystems PJSC, ADR     23,120 263,337
NTT DOCOMO, Inc.     60,996 1,554,996
Orange Belgium SA     5,012 102,502
Utilities 4.4%     9,012,972
Electric utilities 2.8%      
Contact Energy, Ltd.     15,329 58,456
Edison International     17,645 1,123,281
EDP - Energias de Portugal SA     470,369 1,787,217
Endesa SA     8,804 193,954
Orsted A/S (A)     11,443 744,503
SSE PLC     80,208 1,438,879
The Chugoku Electric Power Company, Inc.     28,100 343,281
The Southern Company     1,947 86,953
Independent power and renewable electricity producers 1.1%      
China Longyuan Power Group Corp., Ltd., H Shares     1,481,000 1,143,748
Glow Energy PCL     255,300 695,611
Meridian Energy, Ltd.     121,728 251,777
NTPC, Ltd.     55,295 144,824
Multi-utilities 0.5%      
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.     3,898 106,805
Centrica PLC     121,068 242,411
E.ON SE     20,099 223,342
Engie SA     14,818 247,438
RWE AG     7,302 180,492
Preferred securities 0.4%         $811,601
(Cost $666,144)          
Financials 0.2%         486,906
Banks 0.2%      
GMAC Capital Trust I (3 month LIBOR + 5.785%), 7.624% (F)   1,625 42,218
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        Shares Value
Financials (continued)          
Banks (continued)      
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA   117,399 $444,688
Information technology 0.0%         38,459
Technology hardware, storage and peripherals 0.0%      
Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.   20 38,459
Telecommunication services 0.1%         105,336
Diversified telecommunication services 0.1%      
Telefonica Brasil SA   6,900 105,336
Utilities 0.1%         180,900
Electric utilities 0.1%      
Cia Paranaense de Energia, B Shares   22,900 180,900
Exchange-traded funds 0.1%         $121,812
(Cost $123,666)          
iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF       1,849 121,812
    
  Rate (%) Maturity date   Par value^ Value
Foreign government obligations 0.2%         $410,769
(Cost $376,901)          
Argentina 0.2%         410,769
Provincia de Buenos Aires
Bond (A)
5.375 01-20-23 EUR 125,000 159,789
Republic of Argentina
Bond
7.500 04-22-26   235,000 250,980
Corporate bonds 13.2%         $27,274,237
(Cost $26,917,183)          
Consumer discretionary 3.1%     6,475,178
Auto components 0.1%      
Avis Budget Car Rental LLC (A) 5.250 03-15-25   180,000 171,900
Avis Budget Car Rental LLC 5.500 04-01-23   110,000 108,900
Automobiles 0.1%      
LKQ European Holdings BV (A) 3.625 04-01-26 EUR 100,000 123,213
Diversified consumer services 0.1%      
Crown European Holdings SA (A) 2.875 02-01-26 EUR 225,000 274,288
Service Corp. International 4.625 12-15-27   35,000 33,775
Hotels, restaurants and leisure 1.0%      
Boyd Gaming Corp. 6.375 04-01-26   85,000 88,992
Caesars Resort Collection LLC (A) 5.250 10-15-25   120,000 115,042
CEC Entertainment, Inc. 8.000 02-15-22   160,000 141,600
Cirsa Funding Luxembourg SA 5.875 05-15-23 EUR 100,000 126,513
Cirsa Funding Luxembourg SA (A) 5.875 05-15-23 EUR 115,000 145,490
Codere Finance 2 Luxembourg SA (A) 6.750 11-01-21 EUR 150,000 193,128
Eldorado Resorts, Inc. 6.000 04-01-25   130,000 131,950
Jacobs Entertainment, Inc. (A) 7.875 02-01-24   165,000 174,900
New Red Finance, Inc. (A) 5.000 10-15-25   320,000 304,704
Penn National Gaming, Inc. (A) 5.625 01-15-27   186,000 178,560
Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. 5.625 05-01-24   115,000 120,175
Scientific Games International, Inc. (A) 5.000 10-15-25   20,000 19,450
Scientific Games International, Inc. 6.625 05-15-21   115,000 117,731
Scientific Games International, Inc. 10.000 12-01-22   40,000 43,075
Station Casinos LLC (A) 5.000 10-01-25   115,000 109,250
Sugarhouse HSP Gaming Prop Mezz LP (A) 5.875 05-15-25   110,000 104,775
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  Rate (%) Maturity date   Par value^ Value
Consumer discretionary (continued)      
Household durables 0.3%      
Beazer Homes USA, Inc. 5.875 10-15-27   40,000 $37,050
Beazer Homes USA, Inc. 6.750 03-15-25   45,000 44,550
Beazer Homes USA, Inc. 8.750 03-15-22   106,000 114,215
KB Home 7.000 12-15-21   225,000 241,031
M/I Homes, Inc. 5.625 08-01-25   40,000 38,938
M/I Homes, Inc. 6.750 01-15-21   165,000 169,744
Internet and direct marketing retail 0.1%      
Liberty Interactive LLC 8.250 02-01-30   125,000 134,453
Netflix, Inc. 5.875 02-15-25   90,000 94,275
Leisure products 0.1%      
Jack Ohio Finance LLC (A) 6.750 11-15-21   155,000 160,038
Media 1.0%      
Altice Financing SA (A) 7.500 05-15-26   210,000 205,800
CCO Holdings LLC 5.125 02-15-23   5,000 5,033
CCO Holdings LLC 5.250 09-30-22   5,000 5,075
CCO Holdings LLC 5.750 09-01-23   35,000 35,525
CCO Holdings LLC (A) 5.750 02-15-26   120,000 119,401
Cequel Communications Holdings I LLC (A) 5.125 12-15-21   55,000 54,794
Cequel Communications Holdings I LLC (A) 5.125 12-15-21   155,000 154,806
CSC Holdings LLC (A) 10.875 10-15-25   200,000 234,998
DISH DBS Corp. 6.750 06-01-21   120,000 121,200
DISH DBS Corp. 7.875 09-01-19   320,000 335,200
Gray Television, Inc. (A) 5.125 10-15-24   130,000 125,775
Gray Television, Inc. (A) 5.875 07-15-26   30,000 29,175
Sinclair Television Group, Inc. (A) 5.875 03-15-26   75,000 74,250
TEGNA, Inc. (A) 4.875 09-15-21   115,000 115,863
TEGNA, Inc. 5.125 10-15-19   157,000 158,178
Tribune Media Company 5.875 07-15-22   150,000 152,063
WMG Acquisition Corp. (A) 5.500 04-15-26   85,000 85,425
Specialty retail 0.3%      
Eurotorg LLC Via Bonitron DAC (A) 8.750 10-30-22   200,000 202,540
goeasy, Ltd. (A) 7.875 11-01-22   135,000 144,747
Party City Holdings, Inc. (A) 6.125 08-15-23   140,000 142,625
Staples, Inc. (A) 8.500 09-15-25   120,000 111,000
Consumer staples 0.6%     1,333,329
Food products 0.4%      
KazAgro National Management Holding JSC 4.625 05-24-23   200,000 198,905
MARB BondCo PLC (A) 7.000 03-15-24   200,000 188,000
Post Holdings, Inc. (A) 5.000 08-15-26   190,000 180,500
Post Holdings, Inc. (A) 5.625 01-15-28   150,000 143,250
Post Holdings, Inc. (A) 5.750 03-01-27   50,000 49,375
TreeHouse Foods, Inc. 4.875 03-15-22   190,000 189,288
Household products 0.1%      
Diamond BC BV (A) 5.625 08-15-25 EUR 200,000 236,111
Personal products 0.1%      
Revlon Consumer Products Corp. 6.250 08-01-24   240,000 147,900
Energy 1.8%     3,807,470
Energy equipment and services 0.0%      
Rowan Companies, Inc. 5.850 01-15-44   50,000 35,500
Transocean, Inc. 6.800 03-15-38   25,000 19,500
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  Rate (%) Maturity date   Par value^ Value
Energy (continued)      
Energy equipment and services (continued)      
Transocean, Inc. 7.500 04-15-31   10,000 $8,813
Transocean, Inc. 9.350 12-15-41   25,000 24,750
Weatherford International, Ltd. 5.950 04-15-42   20,000 13,600
Weatherford International, Ltd. 6.500 08-01-36   45,000 32,063
Weatherford International, Ltd. 7.000 03-15-38   15,000 10,875
Oil, gas and consumable fuels 1.8%      
Blue Racer Midstream LLC (A) 6.125 11-15-22   230,000 234,025
Borets Finance DAC 7.625 09-26-18   200,000 203,400
California Resources Corp. (A) 8.000 12-15-22   160,000 125,600
Cloud Peak Energy Resources LLC 12.000 11-01-21   145,000 150,800
Continental Resources, Inc. 3.800 06-01-24   40,000 38,500
Continental Resources, Inc. (A) 4.375 01-15-28   75,000