0000928816-16-002191.txt : 20160217 0000928816-16-002191.hdr.sgml : 20160217 20160217160144 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000928816-16-002191 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 497 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 FILED AS OF DATE: 20160217 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20160217 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20160217 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PUTNAM VOYAGER FUND CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000081280 IRS NUMBER: 046187125 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MA FISCAL YEAR END: 0731 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 497 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 002-29546 FILM NUMBER: 161433163 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE POST OFFICE SQ CITY: BOSTON STATE: MA ZIP: 02109 BUSINESS PHONE: 6172921000 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: PUTNAM VOYAGER FUND INC /PRED/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19821109 0000081280 S000006573 PUTNAM VOYAGER FUND C000017940 Class A Shares PVOYX C000017941 Class B Shares PVOBX C000017942 Class C Shares PVFCX C000017943 Class M Shares PVOMX C000017944 Class R Shares PVYRX C000017945 Class Y Shares PVYYX C000118076 Class R5 C000118077 Class R6 497 1 a_voyagersupp.htm PUTNAM VOYAGER FUND a_voyagersupp.htm
Prospectus Supplement  February 17, 2016 

 

Putnam Voyager Fund
Prospectus dated November 30, 2015

The sub-section Your fund's management in the section Fund summary and the sub-section The fund’s investment manager in the section Who oversees and manages the fund? are supplemented to reflect that the fund’s portfolio manager is now Robert Brookby.

Mr. Brookby, who joined the fund in February 2016, has been employed by Putnam Management since 2008 and over the past five years has been employed as a Portfolio Manager.


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