REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

 

The Board of Trustees and Shareholders Permanent Portfolio Family of Funds

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities of Permanent Portfolio Family of Funds (“Fund,” comprising, respectively, the Permanent Portfolio, the Short-Term Treasury Portfolio, the Versatile Bond Portfolio and the Aggressive Growth Portfolio), including the schedules of investments, as of January 31, 2026, the related statements of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the respective Portfolios constituting the Fund as of January 31, 2026, the results of their operations for the year then ended, the changes in their net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and their financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB. We have served as the auditor of one or more of the Portfolios of the Fund since 2000.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of investments owned as of January 31, 2026 by correspondence with the custodian, brokers, when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures, and a physical observation of the Permanent Portfolio’s gold and silver inventory count as of January 31, 2026. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ Tait Weller & Baker LLP

 

 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania March 31, 2026