497 1 a_multisaisupp.htm PUTNAM OPEN END FUNDS

PGOF-SA2 06/24

Statement of Additional Information Supplement  June 4, 2024 

 

George Putnam Balanced Fund  Putnam Retirement Advantage 2055 Fund 
Putnam California Tax Exempt Income Fund  Putnam Retirement Advantage 2060 Fund 
Putnam Convertible Securities Fund  Putnam Retirement Advantage 2065 Fund 
Putnam Core Bond Fund  Putnam Retirement Advantage Maturity Fund 
Putnam Core Equity Fund  Putnam Short Duration Bond Fund 
Putnam Diversified Income Trust  Putnam Short Term Investment Fund 
Putnam Dynamic Asset Allocation Balanced  Putnam Short-Term Municipal Income Fund 
Fund  Putnam Small Cap Growth Fund 
Putnam Dynamic Asset Allocation Conservative  Putnam Small Cap Value Fund 
Fund  Putnam Strategic Intermediate Municipal Fund 
Putnam Dynamic Asset Allocation Equity Fund  Putnam Sustainable Future Fund 
Putnam Dynamic Asset Allocation Growth Fund  Putnam Sustainable Leaders Fund 
Putnam Emerging Markets Equity Fund  Putnam Sustainable Retirement 2025 Fund 
Putnam Floating Rate Income Fund  Putnam Sustainable Retirement 2030 Fund 
Putnam Focused Equity Fund  Putnam Sustainable Retirement 2035 Fund 
Putnam Focused International Equity Fund  Putnam Sustainable Retirement 2040 Fund 
Putnam Global Health Care Fund  Putnam Sustainable Retirement 2045 Fund 
Putnam Global Income Trust  Putnam Sustainable Retirement 2050 Fund 
Putnam Global Technology Fund  Putnam Sustainable Retirement 2055 Fund 
Putnam Government Money Market Fund  Putnam Sustainable Retirement 2060 Fund 
Putnam High Yield Fund  Putnam Sustainable Retirement 2065 Fund 
Putnam Income Fund  Putnam Sustainable Retirement Maturity Fund 
Putnam Intermediate-Term Municipal Income  Putnam Tax Exempt Income Fund 
Fund  Putnam Tax-Free High Yield Fund 
Putnam International Capital Opportunities Fund  Putnam Ultra Short Duration Income Fund 
Putnam International Equity Fund  Putnam Ultra Short MAC Series 
Putnam International Value Fund  Putnam VT Core Equity Fund 
Putnam Large Cap Growth Fund  Putnam VT Diversified Income Fund 
Putnam Large Cap Value Fund  Putnam VT Emerging Markets Equity Fund 
Putnam Massachusetts Tax Exempt Income Fund  Putnam VT Focused International Equity Fund 
Putnam Minnesota Tax Exempt Income Fund  Putnam VT George Putnam Balanced Fund 
Putnam Money Market Fund  Putnam VT Global Asset Allocation Fund 
Putnam Mortgage Opportunities Fund  Putnam VT Global Health Care Fund 
Putnam Mortgage Securities Fund  Putnam VT Government Money Market Fund 
Putnam Multi-Asset Income Fund  Putnam VT High Yield Fund 
Putnam New Jersey Tax Exempt Income Fund  Putnam VT Income Fund 
Putnam New York Tax Exempt Income Fund  Putnam VT International Equity Fund 
Putnam Ohio Tax Exempt Income Fund  Putnam VT International Value Fund 
Putnam Pennsylvania Tax Exempt Income Fund  Putnam VT Large Cap Growth Fund 
Putnam Research Fund  Putnam VT Large Cap Value Fund 
Putnam Retirement Advantage 2025 Fund  Putnam VT Mortgage Securities Fund 
Putnam Retirement Advantage 2030 Fund  Putnam VT Research Fund 
Putnam Retirement Advantage 2035 Fund  Putnam VT Small Cap Growth Fund 
Putnam Retirement Advantage 2040 Fund  Putnam VT Small Cap Value Fund 
Putnam Retirement Advantage 2045 Fund  Putnam VT Sustainable Future Fund 
Putnam Retirement Advantage 2050 Fund  Putnam VT Sustainable Leaders Fund 

 

 

            
 
 

Effective immediately, the disclosure under the sub-section The Management Contract in the section MANAGEMENT of the Statement of Additional Information for each fund listed above is supplemented to include the following:

 

Franklin Templeton Services, LLC (“FT Services”) has entered into an agreement with Putnam Management to provide certain administrative services and facilities for the fund. FT Services is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton and is an affiliate of Putnam Management, the fund's investment manager, and Putnam Retail Management, its principal underwriter. The administrative services FT Services provides include preparing and maintaining books, records, and tax and financial reports, and monitoring compliance with regulatory requirements. Putnam Management pays FT Services a monthly fee equal to the following:

 

0.150% of the fund’s daily net assets up to and including $200 million;

0.135% of the fund’s average daily net assets over $200 million, up to and including $700 million;

0.100% of the fund’s average daily net assets over $700 million, up to and including $1.2 billion;

0.075% of the fund’s average daily net assets in excess of $1.2 billion.

 

The monthly fees are paid by Putnam Management and are not additional expenses of the fund.

 

For all funds listed above except series of Putnam Variable Trust

Effective immediately, the sub-section Public Disclosures under the section DISCLOSURE OF PORTFOLIO INFORMATION is deleted and replaced in its entirety with the following:

Public Disclosures

The fund’s portfolio holdings are currently disclosed to the public through filings with the SEC and postings on the Putnam Investments website. The fund files its portfolio holdings with the SEC twice each year on Form N-CSR (with respect to each annual period and semi-annual period). In addition, money market funds file reports of portfolio holdings on Form N-MFP each month (with respect to the prior month), and funds other than money market funds file reports of portfolio holdings on Form N-PORT 60 days after each fiscal quarter (for the respective fiscal quarter), with the schedule of portfolio holdings filed on Form N-PORT for the third month of the first and third fiscal quarter made publicly available. Shareholders may obtain the Form N-CSR and N-MFP filings and the publicly available portions of Form N-PORT filings on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. Form N-CSR filings are available upon filing, Form N-MFP filings are available 60 days after each calendar month end, and information reported on Form N-PORT filings for the third month of a fiscal quarter is available 60 days after the end of the fiscal quarter. You may call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for information about the SEC’s website.

 

For Putnam Money Market Fund and Putnam Government Money Market Fund, the following information is publicly available on the Putnam Investments website, putnam.com/individual, as disclosed in the following table. This information will remain available on the website for six months thereafter, after which the information can be found on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

 

 

 
 

 

 

Information Frequency of Disclosure Date of Web Posting

Full Portfolio Holdings

 

 

Top 10 Portfolio Holdings and Other Portfolio Statistics

Monthly

 

 

Monthly

 

No later than 5 business days after the end of each month.

 


Beginning on or after 5 business days after the end of each month.

 

For Putnam Mortgage Opportunities Fund, Putnam Management makes the fund’s portfolio information publicly available on the Putnam Investments institutional website, putnam.com/institutional, as disclosed in the following table.

 

Information Frequency of Disclosure Date of Web Posting

Full Portfolio Holdings

 

 

 

Top 10 Portfolio Holdings and Other Portfolio Statistics

 

Monthly

 

 

 

Monthly

 

 

On or before 15 calendar days after the end of each month.

 



Beginning on or after 5 business days after the end of each month.

 

For Putnam Ultra Short Duration Income Fund and Putnam Ultra Short MAC Series, Putnam Management makes the fund’s portfolio information publicly available on the Putnam Investments website, putnam.com/individual, as disclosed in the following table.

 

Information Frequency of Disclosure Date of Web Posting

Full Portfolio Holdings

 

 

Top 10 Portfolio Holdings and Other Portfolio Statistics

 

Monthly

 

 

Monthly

 

 

On or after 5 business days after the end of each month.

 


Beginning on or after 5 business days after the end of each month.

 

 

For all other funds, Putnam Management makes each fund’s portfolio information publicly available on the Putnam Investments website, putnam.com/individual, as disclosed in the following table.

 

Information (1) Frequency of Disclosure Date of Web Posting
Full Portfolio Holdings Monthly On or before 15 calendar days after the end of each month.

Top 10 Portfolio Holdings and Other Portfolio Statistics

 

Monthly

 

 

Beginning on or after 5 business days after the end of each month.

 

(1)Putnam mutual funds that are not currently offered to the general public (such as Putnam Short Term Investment Fund, Putnam Dynamic Asset Allocation Equity Fund, and Putnam Multi-Asset Income Fund) do not post portfolio holdings on the Putnam Investments website, except to the extent required by applicable regulations. The Putnam Retirement Advantage Funds and Putnam
 
 

Sustainable Retirement Funds invest solely in other funds in the Putnam funds complex. Please see these funds’ prospectuses for their target allocations.

The scope of the information relating to the fund’s portfolio that is made available on the website may change from time to time without notice. In addition, the posting of fund holdings may be delayed in some instances for technical reasons.

Putnam Management or its affiliates may include fund portfolio information that has already been made public through a Web posting or SEC filing in marketing literature and other communications to shareholders, advisors or other parties, provided that, in the case of information made public through the Web, the information is disclosed no earlier than the day after the date of posting to the website.

 

For each fund listed above that is a series of Putnam Variable Trust

Effective immediately, the sub-section Public Disclosures under the section DISCLOSURE OF PORTFOLIO INFORMATION is deleted and replaced in its entirety with the following:

Public Disclosures

The fund’s portfolio holdings are currently disclosed to the public through filings with the SEC and postings on the Putnam Investments website. The fund files its portfolio holdings with the SEC twice each year on Form N-CSR (with respect to each annual period and semi-annual period). In addition, money market funds file reports of portfolio holdings on Form N-MFP each month (with respect to the prior month), and funds other than money market funds file reports of portfolio holdings on Form N-PORT 60 days after each fiscal quarter (for the respective fiscal quarter), with the schedule of portfolio holdings filed on Form N-PORT for the third month of the first and third fiscal quarter made publicly available. Shareholders may obtain the Form N-CSR and N-MFP filings and the publicly available portions of Form N-PORT filings on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. Form N-CSR filings are available upon filing, Form N-MFP filings are available 60 days after each calendar month end, and information reported on Form N-PORT filings for the third month of a fiscal quarter is available 60 days after the end of the fiscal quarter. You may call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for information about the SEC’s website.

 

For Putnam VT Government Money Market Fund, the following information is publicly available on the Putnam Investments website, putnam.com/individual, as disclosed in the following table. This information will remain available on the website for six months thereafter, after which the information can be found on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

 

Information Frequency of Disclosure Date of Web Posting

Full Portfolio Holdings

 

 

 

Top 10 Portfolio Holdings and Other Portfolio Statistics

Monthly

 

 

 

Monthly

No later than 5 business days after the end of each month.

 

 


Beginning on or after 5 business days after the end of each month.

 

 

For all other funds, Putnam Management makes each fund’s portfolio information publicly available on the Putnam Investments website, putnam.com/individual, as disclosed in the following table.

 

 
 

 

 

Information Frequency of Disclosure Date of Web Posting
Full Portfolio Holdings Monthly On or before 15 calendar days after the end of each month.

Top 10 Portfolio Holdings and Other Portfolio Statistics

 

Monthly

 

Beginning on or after 5 business days after the end of each month.

 

The scope of the information relating to the fund’s portfolio that is made available on the website may change from time to time without notice. In addition, the posting of fund holdings may be delayed in some instances for technical reasons.

 

Putnam Management or its affiliates may include fund portfolio information that has already been made public through a Web posting or SEC filing in marketing literature and other communications to shareholders, advisors or other parties, provided that, in the case of information made public through the Web, the information is disclosed no earlier than the day after the date of posting to the website.

 

Shareholders should retain this Supplement for future reference.