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 811-23600

 

 

Thornburg Income Builder Opportunities Trust

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

 

c/o Thornburg Investment Management, Inc.

2300 North Ridgetop Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87506

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

 

 

Garrett Thornburg, 2300 North Ridgetop Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87506

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 505-984-0200

Date of fiscal year end: September 30, 2021

Date of reporting period: September 30, 2021

 

 

Item 1. Reports to Stockholders

The following annual reports are attached hereto, in order:

Thornburg Income Builder Opportunities Trust

 

 

 



Annual Report
September 30, 2021


LOGO

At Thornburg, we believe unconstrained investing leads to better outcomes for our clients. Our investment solutions are highly active, high conviction, and benchmark agnostic. When it comes to finding economic opportunity for clients, it’s more than what we do.
It’s how we do it. Active As bottom-up, fundamental, active managers, we look beyond conventional benchmarks. Long Term We take a long-term view in how we manage our firm and our portfolios. Benchmark Agnostic Investment strategies should have the flexibility to pursue solutions for clients, not stay within the conventional confines of benchmarks. Flexible Perspective Our approach to portfolio construction is guided by our convictions rather than convention. High Conviction We focus our attention and capital on thoroughly researched, well-understood positions. The best form of risk management is to know what you own, and why. Repeatable & Robust Our long-term outperformance of benchmarks verifies that our process works and outperforms conventional thinking. Independent We are independently owned and far from the herd of other investment managers. Investment Driven All members of the investment team are resources for all of our strategies. Collaborative Our team collaborates on opportunities across geography, sector, or asset class.



    
SHARE CLASS NASDAQ SYMBOL
Common Shares TBLD
Investments carry risks, including possible loss of principal. Please see the Trust’s prospectus for a discussion of the risks associated with an investment in the Trust. Investments in the Trust are not FDIC insured, nor are they deposits of or guaranteed by a bank or any other entity.
 
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Letter to Shareholders
Thornburg Income Builder Opportunities Trust  |  September 30, 2021 (Unaudited)
Dear Shareholder:
In the last several shareholder letters to Thornburg Investment Management clients we have pointed out the disconnect between the on-the-ground reality of everyday life and the market dynamic playing out in your portfolios. In 2020 we endured real personal and professional challenges, and in turning the calendar on 2021 there was a palpable sense of relief and optimism. Perhaps where we are today, looking forward to the rest of 2021 and beyond, we are left with a better and more practical sense of reality. We know that any prior timeline for a back to “normal” is either untenable or indefinite. We are coming to grips with the fact that the world has changed in innumerable ways, both large and small. Most importantly, we have adapted to be able to continue to push forward and deliver.
At Thornburg Investment Management, you, our clients, are the constituency on whom we are most focused, and the volatility over the last several years has been an opportunity to execute on the promise of the firm’s platform, investment process and portfolios. Looking forward, we believe valuations across asset classes are high and therefore vulnerable to their own high expectations as well as exogenous shocks. The global policymakers, particularly central banks, are just beginning to grapple with the second and third order effects of the extraordinary actions they took (and in many cases continue to take) over the past 18 months. At Thornburg, we see the importance of ever-lower rates and accommodative policy both for the robustness of the post-pandemic recovery as well as for the now ensuing excess of demand over supply in both goods and labor. While this may, or may not, be transitory, the effect of massive stimulus, as well as its potential withdrawal, are hard to overemphasize. While the past can be a guide to some of the
outcomes that can occur, there are no clearly trodden pathways for what will occur. As market participants, we will have to navigate out of record low nominal and real global interest rates, close to record high equity prices, and a voracious appetite for less liquid investments and vehicles (including special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), pre-IPO equity, private debt, and the like).
In this environment, just as in other volatile periods throughout Thornburg’s four-decade history, we will rely on our unsiloed, global approach to markets and investments. More and more, the interconnectedness of markets and capital demands an equally interconnected approach to analysis and execution.
Many firms have good products, but we believe that our firm’s approach is our differentiator: we evaluate individual opportunities for each portfolio with a clear understanding of the bigger picture of what you expect from us. This is what underlies the excellent long-term outcomes we’ve been able to achieve. It is our understanding of and participation in the interconnectedness of markets that is our core competency.
Thank you so much for your time and your business.

 
Jason Brady, cfa
Portfolio Manager
CEO, President, and
Managing Director
 
 
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