497 1 a_saimultisaleschg.htm PUTNAM MULTIFUND SAI SUPPLEMENT a_saimultisaleschg.htm
Supplement to Statement of Additional Information  January 2, 2008 


SUPPLEMENT TO THE STATEMENTS OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OF ALL PUTNAM FUNDS, EXCEPT PUTNAM MONEY MARKET FUNDS

In the section "How to buy shares - Sales Charges and Other Share Class Features - Retail Investors," the tables under "Initial sales charges for class A and class M shares" are restated as follows:

For Growth Funds, Blend Funds, Value Funds, Asset Allocation Funds and RetirementReady® Funds only:

  CLASS A  CLASS M 
    Amount of sales    Amount of sales 
    charge    charge 
    reallowed to    reallowed to 
  Sales charge as  dealers as a  Sales charge as  dealers as a 
Amount of transaction at  a percentage of  percentage of  a percentage of  percentage of 
offering price ($)  offering price  offering price  offering price  offering price 
 
Under 50,000  5.75%  5.00%  3.50%  3.00% 
50,000 but under 100,000  4.50  3.75  2.50  2.00 
100,000 but under 250,000  3.50  2.75  1.50  1.00 
250,000 but under 500,000  2.50  2.00  1.00  1.00 
500,000 but under 1,000,000  2.00  1.75  1.00  1.00 
1,000,000 and above  NONE  NONE  N/A*  N/A* 

For Taxable and Tax-Free Income Funds only (except for Money Market Funds and Putnam Floating Rate Income Fund):

  CLASS A  CLASS M 
    Amount of sales    Amount of sales 
    charge    charge 
    reallowed to    reallowed to 
  Sales charge as  dealers as a  Sales charge as  dealers as a 
Amount of transaction at  a percentage of  percentage of  a percentage of  percentage of 
offering price ($)  offering price  offering price  offering price  offering price 
 
Under 50,000  4.00%  3.50  3.25  3.00 
50,000 but under 100,000  4.00%  3.50  2.25  2.00 
100,000 but under 250,000  3.25  2.75  1.25  1.00 
250,000 but under 500,000  2.50  2.00  1.00  1.00 
500,000 but under 1,000,000  2.00  1.75  1.00  1.00 
1,000,000 and above  NONE  NONE  N/A*  N/A* 


For Putnam Floating Rate Income Fund only:

  CLASS A  CLASS M 
    Amount of sales    Amount of sales 
    charge    charge 
    reallowed to    reallowed to 
  Sales charge as  dealers as a  Sales charge as  dealers as a 
Amount of transaction at  a percentage of  percentage of  a percentage of  percentage of 
offering price ($)  offering price  offering price  offering price  offering price 
 
Under 100,000  3.25%  3.00%  2.00%  1.80% 
100,000 but under 250,000  2.50  2.25  1.20  1.00 
250,000 but under 500,000  2.00  1.75  1.00  1.00 
500,000 but under 1,000,000  1.50  1.25  1.00  1.00 
1,000,000 and above  NONE  NONE  N/A*  N/A* 

*The fund will not accept purchase orders for class M shares (other than by qualified employee-benefit plans) where the total of the current purchase, plus existing account balances that are eligible to be linked under a right of accumulation (as described below) is $1 million or more.

PUTNAM INVESTMENTS  SAI multi 1/08  [SAP CODE]