EX-99

Putnam Global Equity Fund, October 31, 2010, annual shareholder
report

Because the electronic format for filing Form NSAR does not
provide adequate space for responding to certain items correctly,
the correct answers are as follows:

72DD1 (000s omitted)

Class A	22,292
Class B	1,008
Class C	307

72DD2 (000s omitted)

Class M	332
Class R	38
Class Y	627

73A1

Class A	0.2150
Class B	0.1550
Class C	0.1620

73A2

Class M	0.1800
Class R	0.1990
Class Y	0.2330

74U1	(000s omitted)

Class A	94,741
Class B	4,616
Class C	1,699

74U2	(000s omitted)

Class M	1,658
Class R	150
Class Y	2,338

74V1

Class A	8.41
Class B	7.57
Class C	7.97

74V2

Class M	8.05
Class R	8.31
Class Y	8.68

Item 61

Shareholders can open a fund account with as little as $500 and
make subsequent investments in any amount. The minimum investment
is waived if you make regular investments weekly, semi monthly,
or monthly through automatic deductions through your bank
checking or savings account. Currently, Putnam is waiving the
minimum, but reserves the right to reject initial investments
under the minimum.

Item 85B

Additional Information About Errors and Omissions Policy

While no claims with respect to the Registrant/Series were filed
under such policy during the period, requests under such policy
for reimbursement of legal expenses and costs arising out of
claims of market timing activity in the Putnam Funds have been
submitted by the investment manager of the Registrant/Series.

EX-99

Putnam Global Equity Fund, October 31, 2010, annual shareholder
report

Shareholder meeting results (Unaudited)

November 19, 2009 meeting

At the meeting, each of the nominees for Trustees was elected, as
follows:

      				Votes for  Votes withheld

Ravi Akhoury 			79,337,360 	3,937,502
Jameson A. Baxter 		79,393,075 	3,881,787
Charles B. Curtis 		79,358,785 	3,916,077
Robert J. Darretta 		79,344,078 	3,930,784
Myra R. Drucker 		79,383,436 	3,891,426
John A. Hill 			79,409,121 	3,865,741
Paul L. Joskow 			79,376,697 	3,898,165
Elizabeth T. Kennan*		79,167,425 	4,107,437
Kenneth R. Leibler 		79,436,225 	3,838,637
Robert E. Patterson 		79,387,510 	3,887,352
George Putnam, III 		79,327,689 	3,947,173
Robert L. Reynolds 		79,472,983 	3,801,879
W. Thomas Stephens 		79,442,911 	3,831,951
Richard B. Worley 		79,430,839 	3,844,023

* Dr. Kennan retired from the Board of Trustees of the Putnam
funds effective June 30, 2010.

A proposal to approve a new management contract between the fund
and Putnam Management with both Fund Family breakpoints and
performance fees was approved as follows:

Votes		Votes					Broker
for		against			Abstentions	non votes

61,606,232 	3,171,075 		1,999,634 	16,497,921

A proposal to approve a new management contract between the fund
and Putnam Management with Fund Family breakpoints only was
approved as follows:

Votes		Votes					Broker
for		against			Abstentions	non votes

61,562,806 	3,148,434 		2,065,701 	16,497,921

A proposal to approve a new management contract between the fund
and Putnam Management with performance fees only was approved as
follows:

Votes		Votes					Broker
for		against			Abstentions	non votes

61,558,831 	3,227,650 		1,990,461 	16,497,920

All tabulations are rounded to the nearest whole number.

EX-99

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Trustees and Shareholders
Putnam Global Equity Fund:

In planning and performing our audits of the financial statements
of the Putnam Global Equity Fund (the Fund) as of and for the
year ended October 31, 2010, in accordance with the standards of
the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), we
considered the Funds internal control over financial reporting,
including controls over safeguarding securities, as a basis for
designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing
our opinion on the financial statements and to comply with the
requirements of Form N-SAR, but not for the purpose of expressing
an opinion on the effectiveness of the Funds internal control
over financial reporting.   Accordingly, we express no such
opinion.
Management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and
maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting.
In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by
management are required to assess the expected benefits and
related costs of controls.  A companys internal control over
financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable
assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and
the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A
companys internal control over financial reporting includes those
policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of
records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect
the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company;
(2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded
as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and
that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only
in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of
the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding
prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use,
or disposition of the companys assets that could have a material
effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over
financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future
periods are subject to the risk that controls may become
inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree
of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

A deficiency in internal control over financial reporting exists
when the design or operation of a control does not allow
management or employees, in the normal course of performing their
assigned functions, to prevent or detect misstatements on a
timely basis. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a
combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial
reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a
material misstatement of a Funds annual or interim financial
statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

Our consideration of the Funds internal control over financial
reporting was for the limited purpose described in the first
paragraph and would not necessarily disclose all deficiencies in
internal control that might be material weaknesses under
standards established by the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board (United States).  However, we noted no deficiencies in the
Funds internal control over financial reporting and its
operation, including controls over safeguarding securities that
we consider to be a material weakness as defined above as of
October 31, 2010.

This report is intended solely for the information and use of
management and the Board of Trustees of the Putnam Global Equity
Fund and the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not
intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than these
specified parties.



/s/ KPMG LLP

Boston, Massachusetts
December 15, 2010