| UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION | ||
| Washington, D.C. 20549 | ||
FORM N-CSR | ||
| CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES | ||
| Investment Company Act file number: | (811–07513) |
| Exact name of registrant as specified in charter: | Putnam Funds Trust |
| Address of principal executive offices: | 100 Federal Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110 |
| Name and address of agent for service: | Robert T. Burns, Vice President 100 Federal Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 |
| Copy to: | Bryan Chegwidden, Esq. Ropes & Gray LLP 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036 |
| Registrant's telephone number, including area code: | (617) 292–1000 |
| Date of fiscal year end: | October 31, 2019 |
| Date of reporting period: | November 1, 2018 — October 31, 2019 |
Item 1. Report to Stockholders: |
| The following is a copy of the report transmitted to stockholders pursuant to Rule 30e-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940: | |||
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Annual report
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Message from the Trustees
December 13, 2019
Dear Fellow Shareholder:
We believe your mutual fund investment offers a number of advantages, such as investment diversification and daily liquidity. Putnam funds also include a commitment to active investing. Putnam’s portfolio managers and analysts take a research-intensive approach that incorporates risk management strategies designed to serve you through changing conditions.
To support your overall investment program, we believe that the counsel of a financial advisor is prudent. For over 80 years, Putnam has recognized the importance of professional investment advice. Your financial advisor can help in many ways, including defining and planning for goals, determining your appropriate level of risk, and reviewing your investments on a regular basis.
As always, your fund’s Board of Trustees remains committed to protecting the interests of Putnam shareholders like you. We thank you for investing with Putnam.
Performance history as of 10/31/19
Current performance may be lower or higher than the quoted past performance, which cannot guarantee future results. Share price, principal value, and return will fluctuate, and you may have a gain or a loss when you sell your shares. Performance of class A shares assumes reinvestment of distributions and does not account for taxes. Fund returns in the bar chart do not reflect a sales charge of 2.25%; had they, returns would have been lower. See below and pages 8–11 for additional performance information. For a portion of the periods, the fund had expense limitations, without which returns would have been lower. To obtain the most recent month-end performance, visit putnam.com.
Before June 1, 2018, the fund was managed with a materially different investment strategy and may have achieved materially different performance results under its current investment strategy from that shown for periods before this date.
* The ICE BofAML U.S. Treasury Bill-ICE BofAML 1-3 Year U.S. Corporate Linked Benchmark represents performance of the ICE BofAML U.S. Treasury Bill Index from the inception date of the fund, December 23, 2008, through May 31, 2018, and performance of the ICE BofAML 1-3 Year U.S. Corporate Index from June 1, 2018, and thereafter.
This comparison shows your fund’s performance in the context of broad market indexes for the 12 months ended 10/31/19. See above and pages 8–11 for additional fund performance information. Index descriptions can be found on page 15.
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Emily has a B.A. in Mathematics from Williams College. She joined Putnam in 2012 and has been in the investment industry since 1999.
Albert Chan, CFA, D. William Kohli, and Brett S. Kozlowski, CFA, are also Portfolio Managers of the fund.
What was the market environment during the reporting period?
Global financial markets experienced bouts of volatility from trade tensions and concerns about slowing global growth during the trailing 12-month period. However, global central banks pivoted to a dovish stance during the period. As a result, risk assets performed well. Against this backdrop, the ICE BofAML 1–3 Year U.S. Corporate Index — the fund’s primary benchmark — gained 5.79% for the period.
The Federal Reserve lowered the benchmark federal funds rate to a range of 1.5% to 1.75% in October 2019, the third reduction since July 2019, and hinted at a pause in its policy easing. The rate cuts are part of an effort to keep borrowing costs low, credit widely available, and businesses and consumers confident. Other central banks around the world addressed market worries by also cutting rates. The European Central Bank (ECB) cut its deposit rate by 10 basis points to a record low of –0.50% and reinstituted its bond buy-back program.
The U.S. Treasury market continued to draw headlines. Parts of the U.S. Treasury yield curve became inverted during the reporting period, as the yield on the benchmark 10-year note fell
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Allocations are shown as a percentage of the fund’s net assets as of 10/31/19. Cash and net other assets, if any, represent the market value weights of cash, derivatives, short-term securities, and other unclassified assets in the portfolio. Summary information may differ from the portfolio schedule included in the financial statements due to the inclusion of derivative securities, any interest accruals, the use of different classifications of securities for presentation purposes, and rounding. Allocations may not total 100% because the table includes the notional value of certain derivatives (the economic value for purposes of calculating periodic payment obligations), in addition to the market value of securities. Holdings and allocations may vary over time.
below the yield on the 2-year note in August 2019 for the first time since 2007. An inverted yield curve — which plots bond yields with differing maturity dates — can be a signal of a recession on the horizon, but we do not believe a recession is imminent. Given this backdrop, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which tracks U.S. bonds, rose 11.51% for the period.
How did the fund perform during the period? What strategies influenced performance?
The fund underperformed its primary benchmark, the ICE BofAML 1–3 Year U.S. Corporate Index, returning 4.78% during the period compared with the benchmark return of 5.79%.
Mortgage credit strategies were the primary contributor to returns versus the benchmark. Specifically, an allocation to commercial mortgage-backed securities [CMBS] interest-only [IO] cash bonds drove performance for the fund. The fund’s exposure to mezzanine CMBS cash bonds and non-agency residential mortgage-backed security [RMBS] strategies contributed on the margin. Our allocation to more senior bonds backed by high-quality collateral displayed less sensitivity to the significant fall in interest rates throughout the period.
Which strategies detracted from fund performance during the period?
Over the trailing 12 months, an underweight allocation to investment-grade corporate bonds detracted from performance relative to the primary benchmark. Corporate earnings remained strong throughout the year as companies were less affected by trade tensions and slowing global growth than investors had anticipated. That benefited the investment-grade corporate credit market.
Additionally, exposure to agency credit risk transfer securities also detracted from relative returns. A sharp decline in interest rates challenged the sector over much of the trailing 12 months. The market repriced across the
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more seasoned credit risk transfer deals as investors anticipated the possibility of increased refinancing risk.
What is the outlook for fixed-income markets?
The global economy appears to be slowing as protectionist tariffs and uncertainty over Brexit weigh on the global outlook. The U.S. expansion cooled in the third quarter of 2019 as gross domestic product rose at a 1.9% annual rate, a solid pace but down from 3.1% in the first quarter. We believe inflationary pressures will remain modest and the U.S. economy will expand at a more moderate pace for the remainder of 2019 and in 2020 compared with 2018.
Consumer spending has been a major driver of U.S. growth. The U.S. housing market has also picked up, aided by imbalances in supply and demand, along with an improved interest-rate environment. We believe interest rates may stay within a moderate range over the near term and continue to support the housing sector. As for the Fed, we believe the most likely scenario is that it will pause interest rate increases over the intermediate term, subject to significant changes in market dynamics.
This table shows the fund’s top 10 individual holdings and the percentage of the fund’s net assets that each represented as of 10/31/19. Short-term investments and derivatives, if any, are excluded. Holdings may vary over time.
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How are you positioning the fund?
We continue to see attractive opportunities across various fixed-income sectors where we can manage volatility using shorter maturities. We expect to keep the portfolio conservatively positioned in corporate and mortgage credit risk because of the uncertain backdrop for trade, growth, and the potential for volatility. We are generally constructive on the U.S. corporate credit market given our expectation that supply/demand dynamics will likely remain balanced over the intermediate term. In addition, we believe valuations should remain supported by stable fundamentals and a generally strong technical backdrop.
Many of the same risks to our constructive outlook in 2019 remain the same heading into 2020. We will continue to monitor unforeseen government policy changes and remain keenly focused on balance sheet degradation that we believe could be more sector specific. We continue to have conviction in the “crossover corridor” of investment-grade and high-yield credits, which contains companies that exhibit similar qualities to investment-grade borrowers but carry slightly higher leverage on their balance sheets. We find current spread levels to be generally appropriate versus underlying fundamental risk but think there will be augmented volatility with greater credit dispersion over the intermediate term.
Within mortgage credit, we believe some areas of the non-agency residential mortgage market are attractive against a backdrop of low, new, and existing housing supply, and lower interest rates. We prefer senior securities backed by higher quality collateral, advantageous geographic locations, and favorable credit characteristics in a variety of housing markets. We continue to have conviction in the more seasoned collateral in the commercial CMBS sector. The fund’s positioning remains concentrated in AAA through BBB- securities issued between 2011 and 2013. Additionally, we continue to find attractive opportunities in CMBS IO tranches, including those of more recent vintages.
This chart shows how the fund’s top weightings have changed over the past six months. Allocations are shown as a percentage of the fund’s net assets. Cash and net other assets, if any, represent the market value weights of cash, derivatives, short-term securities, and other unclassified assets in the portfolio. Current period summary information may differ from the portfolio schedule included in the financial statements due to the inclusion of derivative securities, any interest accruals, the use of different classifications of securities for presentation purposes, and rounding. Holdings and allocations may vary over time.
Data in the chart reflect a new calculation methodology put into effect within the past six months.
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Can you discuss changes in the fund’s dividend distribution?
The fund changed from a periodic distribution fund to one that declares distributions daily effective June 1, 2019. The last periodic distribution was paid on May 28, 2019, to shareholders of record on May 23, 2019.
Thank you, Emily, for your time and insights today.
The views expressed in this report are exclusively those of Putnam Management and are subject to change. They are not meant as investment advice.
Please note that the holdings discussed in this report may not have been held by the fund for the entire period. Portfolio composition is subject to review in accordance with the fund’s investment strategy and may vary in the future. Current and future portfolio holdings are subject to risk.
ABOUT DERIVATIVES
Derivatives are an increasingly common type of investment instrument, the performance of which is derived from an underlying security, index, currency, or other area of the capital markets. Derivatives employed by the fund’s managers generally serve one of two main purposes: to implement a strategy that may be difficult or more expensive to invest in through traditional securities, or to hedge unwanted risk associated with a particular position.
For example, the fund’s managers might use currency forward contracts to capitalize on an anticipated change in exchange rates between two currencies. This approach would require a significantly smaller outlay of capital than purchasing traditional bonds denominated in the underlying currencies. In another example, the managers may identify a bond that they believe is undervalued relative to its risk of default but may seek to reduce the interest-rate risk of that bond by using interest-rate swaps, a derivative through which two parties “swap” payments based on the movement of certain rates.
Like any other investment, derivatives may not appreciate in value and may lose money. Derivatives may amplify traditional investment risks through the creation of leverage and may be less liquid than traditional securities. And because derivatives typically represent contractual agreements between two financial institutions, derivatives entail “counterparty risk,” which is the risk that the other party is unable or unwilling to pay. Putnam monitors the counterparty risks we assume. For example, Putnam often enters into collateral agreements that require the counterparties to post collateral on a regular basis to cover their obligations to the fund. Counterparty risk for exchange-traded futures and centrally cleared swaps is mitigated by the daily exchange of margin and other safeguards against default through their respective clearinghouses.
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Your fund’s performance
This section shows your fund’s performance, price, and distribution information for periods ended October 31, 2019, the end of its most recent fiscal year. In accordance with regulatory requirements for mutual funds, we also include performance information as of the most recent calendar quarter-end and expense information taken from the fund’s current prospectus. Performance should always be considered in light of a fund’s investment strategy. Data represent past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. More recent returns may be less or more than those shown. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate, and you may have a gain or a loss when you sell your shares. Performance information does not reflect any deduction for taxes a shareholder may owe on fund distributions or on the redemption of fund shares. For the most recent month-end performance, please visit the Individual Investors section at putnam.com or call Putnam at 1-800-225-1581. Class R, R6, and Y shares are not available to all investors. Effective November 25, 2019, class M shares will no longer be available for purchase and will convert automatically to class A shares. See the Terms and definitions section in this report for definitions of the share classes offered by your fund.
Fund performance Total return for periods ended 10/31/19
| Annual | ||||||||
| average | Annual | Annual | Annual | |||||
| (life of fund) | 10 years | average | 5 years | average | 3 years | average | 1 year | |
| Class A (12/23/08) | ||||||||
| Before sales charge | 1.80% | 17.56% | 1.63% | 11.38% | 2.18% | 10.50% | 3.38% | 4.78% |
| After sales charge | 1.59 | 14.92 | 1.40 | 8.87 | 1.71 | 8.01 | 2.60 | 2.42 |
| Class B (12/23/08) | ||||||||
| Before CDSC | 1.60 | 15.41 | 1.44 | 10.29 | 1.98 | 9.89 | 3.19 | 4.55 |
| After CDSC | 1.60 | 15.41 | 1.44 | 10.29 | 1.98 | 9.89 | 3.19 | 3.55 |
| Class C (12/23/08) | ||||||||
| Before CDSC | 1.11 | 9.06 | 0.87 | 7.25 | 1.41 | 7.98 | 2.59 | 4.00 |
| After CDSC | 1.11 | 9.06 | 0.87 | 7.25 | 1.41 | 7.98 | 2.59 | 3.00 |
| Class M (12/23/08) | ||||||||
| Before sales charge | 1.73 | 16.87 | 1.57 | 11.02 | 2.11 | 10.25 | 3.31 | 4.72 |
| After sales charge | 1.66 | 16.00 | 1.50 | 10.19 | 1.96 | 9.42 | 3.05 | 3.94 |
| Class R (12/23/08) | ||||||||
| Net asset value | 1.54 | 14.57 | 1.37 | 9.95 | 1.92 | 9.71 | 3.14 | 4.49 |
| Class R6 (7/2/12) | ||||||||
| Net asset value | 2.06 | 20.66 | 1.90 | 12.83 | 2.44 | 11.35 | 3.65 | 5.01 |
| Class Y (12/23/08) | ||||||||
| Net asset value | 2.05 | 20.51 | 1.88 | 12.75 | 2.43 | 11.27 | 3.62 | 5.03 |
Current performance may be lower or higher than the quoted past performance, which cannot guarantee future results. After-sales-charge returns for class A and M shares reflect the deduction of the maximum 2.25% and 0.75% sales charge, respectively, levied at the time of purchase. Class B share returns after contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) reflect the applicable CDSC, which is 1% in the first year, declining over time to 0.50% in the second year, and is eliminated thereafter. Class C share returns after CDSC reflect a 1% CDSC for the first year that is eliminated thereafter. Class R, R6, and Y shares have no initial sales charge or CDSC. Performance for class R6 shares prior to their inception is derived from the historical performance of class Y shares and has not been adjusted for the lower investor servicing fees applicable to class R6 shares; had it, returns would have been higher.
For a portion of the periods, the fund had expense limitations, without which returns would have been lower.
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Class B share performance reflects conversion to class A shares after eight years.
Class C share performance reflects conversion to class A shares after 10 years.
Comparative index returns For periods ended 10/31/19
| Annual | ||||||||
| average | Annual | Annual | Annual | |||||
| (life of fund) | 10 years | average | 5 years | average | 3 years | average | 1 year | |
| ICE BofAML 1-3 Year U.S. | ||||||||
| Corporate Index | 3.75% | 29.99% | 2.66% | 12.16% | 2.32% | 8.42% | 2.73% | 5.79% |
| ICE BofAML U.S. Treasury | ||||||||
| Bill-ICE BofAML 1-3 Year | ||||||||
| U.S. Corporate Linked | 0.85 | 9.31 | 0.89 | 8.61 | 1.67 | 8.17 | 2.65 | 5.79 |
| Benchmark* | ||||||||
| Lipper Short Investment | ||||||||
| Grade Debt Funds | 2.87 | 23.24 | 2.09 | 9.23 | 1.77 | 6.78 | 2.21 | 4.57 |
| category average† |
Index and Lipper results should be compared with fund performance before sales charge, before CDSC, or at net asset value.
* The ICE BofAML U.S. Treasury Bill-ICE BofAML 1-3 Year U.S. Corporate Linked Benchmark represents performance of the ICE BofAML U.S. Treasury Bill Index from the inception date of the fund, December 23, 2008, through May 31, 2018, and performance of the ICE BofAML 1-3 Year U.S. Corporate Index from June 1, 2018, and thereafter.
† Over the 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, 10-year, and life-of-fund periods ended 10/31/19, there were 364, 318, 274, 176, and 165 funds, respectively, in this Lipper category.
Past performance does not indicate future results. At the end of the same time period, a $10,000 investment in the fund’s class B and C shares would have been valued at $11,541 and $10,906, respectively, and no contingent deferred sales charges would apply. A $10,000 investment in the fund’s class M shares ($9,925 after sales charge) would have been valued at $11,600. A $10,000 investment in the fund’s class R, R6, and Y shares would have been valued at $11,457, $12,066, and $12,051, respectively.
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Fund price and distribution information For the 12-month period ended 10/31/19
| Distributions | Class A | Class B | Class C | Class M | Class R | Class R6 | Class Y | ||
| Number | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | ||
| Income | $0.318250 | $0.296475 | $0.244988 | $0.312084 | $0.294106 | $0.342189 | $0.342146 | ||
| Capital gains | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Return of capital* | 0.011567 | 0.010776 | 0.008905 | 0.011343 | 0.010690 | 0.012437 | 0.012436 | ||
| Total | $0.329817 | $0.307251 | $0.253893 | $0.323427 | $0.304796 | $0.354626 | $0.354582 | ||
| Before | After | Net | Net | Before | After | Net | Net | Net | |
| sales | sales | asset | asset | sales | sales | asset | asset | asset | |
| Share value | charge | charge | value | value | charge | charge | value | value | value |
| 10/31/18 | $10.01 | $10.24 | $10.00 | $9.98 | $9.98 | $10.06 | $10.06 | $10.05 | $10.02 |
| 10/31/19 | 10.15 | 10.38 | 10.14 | 10.12 | 10.12 | 10.20 | 10.20 | 10.19 | 10.16 |
| Before | After | Net | Net | Before | After | Net | Net | Net | |
| Current rate | sales | sales | asset | asset | sales | sales | asset | asset | asset |
| (end of period) | charge | charge | value | value | charge | charge | value | value | value |
| Current dividend | |||||||||
| rate1 | 2.60% | 2.54% | 2.40% | 1.86% | 2.55% | 2.53% | 2.35% | 2.84% | 2.84% |
| Current 30-day | |||||||||
| SEC yield2 | N/A | 2.10 | 1.95 | 1.41 | N/A | 2.09 | 1.90 | 2.40 | 2.40 |
The classification of distributions, if any, is an estimate. Before-sales-charge share value and current dividend rate for class A and M shares, if applicable, do not take into account any sales charge levied at the time of purchase. After-sales-charge share value, current dividend rate, and current 30-day SEC yield, if applicable, are calculated assuming that the maximum sales charge (2.25% for class A shares and 0.75% for class M shares) was levied at the time of purchase. Final distribution information will appear on your year-end tax forms.
* See page 68.
1 Most recent distribution, including any return of capital and excluding capital gains, annualized and divided by share price before or after sales charge at period-end.
2 Based only on investment income and calculated using the maximum offering price for each share class, in accordance with SEC guidelines.
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Fund performance as of most recent calendar quarter Total return for periods ended 9/30/19
| Annual | ||||||||
| average | Annual | Annual | Annual | |||||
| (life of fund) | 10 years | average | 5 years | average | 3 years | average | 1 year | |
| Class A (12/23/08) | ||||||||
| Before sales charge | 1.78% | 17.76% | 1.65% | 11.02% | 2.11% | 10.15% | 3.27% | 4.38% |
| After sales charge | 1.57 | 15.11 | 1.42 | 8.52 | 1.65 | 7.67 | 2.49 | 2.03 |
| Class B (12/23/08) | ||||||||
| Before CDSC | 1.58 | 15.72 | 1.47 | 9.85 | 1.90 | 9.45 | 3.06 | 4.15 |
| After CDSC | 1.58 | 15.72 | 1.47 | 9.85 | 1.90 | 9.45 | 3.06 | 3.15 |
| Class C (12/23/08) | ||||||||
| Before CDSC | 1.09 | 9.42 | 0.90 | 6.97 | 1.36 | 7.70 | 2.50 | 3.70 |
| After CDSC | 1.09 | 9.42 | 0.90 | 6.97 | 1.36 | 7.70 | 2.50 | 2.70 |
| Class M (12/23/08) | ||||||||
| Before sales charge | 1.73 | 17.19 | 1.60 | 10.78 | 2.07 | 10.01 | 3.23 | 4.42 |
| After sales charge | 1.66 | 16.31 | 1.52 | 9.95 | 1.91 | 9.19 | 2.97 | 3.64 |
| Class R (12/23/08) | ||||||||
| Net asset value | 1.52 | 14.79 | 1.39 | 9.52 | 1.84 | 9.28 | 3.00 | 4.09 |
| Class R6 (7/2/12) | ||||||||
| Net asset value | 2.05 | 20.83 | 1.91 | 12.34 | 2.35 | 10.97 | 3.53 | 4.62 |
| Class Y (12/23/08) | ||||||||
| Net asset value | 2.04 | 20.80 | 1.91 | 12.37 | 2.36 | 11.00 | 3.54 | 4.63 |
See the discussion following the fund performance table on page 8 for information about the calculation of fund performance.
As a mutual fund investor, you pay ongoing expenses, such as management fees, distribution fees (12b-1 fees), and other expenses. Using the following information, you can estimate how these expenses affect your investment and compare them with the expenses of other funds. You may also pay one-time transaction expenses, including sales charges (loads) and redemption fees, which are not shown in this section and would have resulted in higher total expenses. Effective November 25, 2019, class M shares will no longer be available for purchase and will convert automatically to class A shares. For more information, see your fund’s prospectus or talk to your financial representative.
Expense ratios
| Class A | Class B | Class C | Class M | Class R | Class R6 | Class Y | |
| Total annual operating expenses for the | |||||||
| fiscal year ended 10/31/18 | 0.63% | 0.83% | 1.38% | 0.68% | 0.88% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| Annualized expense ratio for the | |||||||
| six-month period ended 10/31/19* | 0.62% | 0.82% | 1.37% | 0.67% | 0.87% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
Fiscal-year expense information in this table is taken from the most recent prospectus, is subject to change, and may differ from that shown for the annualized expense ratio and in the financial highlights of this report.
Expenses are shown as a percentage of average net assets.
* Expense ratios for each class are for the fund’s most recent fiscal half year. As a result of this, ratios may differ from expense ratios based on one-year data in the financial highlights.
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Expenses per $1,000
The following table shows the expenses you would have paid on a $1,000 investment in each class of the fund from 5/1/19 to 10/31/19. It also shows how much a $1,000 investment would be worth at the close of the period, assuming actual returns and expenses.
| Class A | Class B | Class C | Class M | Class R | Class R6 | Class Y | |
| Expenses paid per $1,000*† | $3.16 | $4.17 | $6.96 | $3.41 | $4.43 | $1.89 | $1.88 |
| Ending value (after expenses) | $1,020.10 | $1,019.10 | $1,015.30 | $1,018.90 | $1,018.80 | $1,021.30 | $1,020.40 |
* Expenses for each share class are calculated using the fund’s annualized expense ratio for each class, which represents the ongoing expenses as a percentage of average net assets for the six months ended 10/31/19. The expense ratio may differ for each share class.
† Expenses are calculated by multiplying the expense ratio by the average account value for the period; then multiplying the result by the number of days in the period; and then dividing that result by the number of days in the year.
Estimate the expenses you paid
To estimate the ongoing expenses you paid for the six months ended 10/31/19, use the following calculation method. To find the value of your investment on 5/1/19, call Putnam at 1-800-225-1581.
Compare expenses using the SEC’s method
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has established guidelines to help investors assess fund expenses. Per these guidelines, the following table shows your fund’s expenses based on a $1,000 investment, assuming a hypothetical 5% annualized return. You can use this information to compare the ongoing expenses (but not transaction expenses or total costs) of investing in the fund with those of other funds. All mutual fund shareholder reports will provide this information to help you make this comparison. Please note that you cannot use this information to estimate your actual ending account balance and expenses paid during the period.
| Class A | Class B | Class C | Class M | Class R | Class R6 | Class Y | |
| Expenses paid per $1,000*† | $3.16 | $4.18 | $6.97 | $3.41 | $4.43 | $1.89 | $1.89 |
| Ending value (after expenses) | $1,022.08 | $1,021.07 | $1,018.30 | $1,021.83 | $1,020.82 | $1,023.34 | $1,023.34 |
* Expenses for each share class are calculated using the fund’s annualized expense ratio for each class, which represents the ongoing expenses as a percentage of average net assets for the six months ended 10/31/19. The expense ratio may differ for each share class.
† Expenses are calculated by multiplying the expense ratio by the average account value for the six-month period; then multiplying the result by the number of days in the six-month period; and then dividing that result by the number of days in the year.
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Consider these risks before investing
Allocation of assets among fixed-income strategies and sectors may hurt performance. The effects of inflation may erode the value of your investment over time. The value of investments in the fund’s portfolio may fall or fail to rise over extended periods of time for a variety of reasons, including general economic, political, or financial market conditions; investor sentiment and market perceptions; government actions; geopolitical events or changes; and factors related to a specific issuer, geography, industry, or sector. These and other factors may lead to increased volatility and reduced liquidity in the fund’s portfolio holdings. Bond investments are subject to interest-rate risk (the risk of bond prices falling if interest rates rise) and credit risk (the risk of an issuer defaulting on interest or principal payments). Interest-rate risk is generally greater for longer-term bonds, and credit risk is generally greater for below-investment-grade bonds. Unlike bonds, funds that invest in bonds have fees and expenses. Lower-rated bonds may offer higher yields in return for more risk. Funds that invest in government securities are not guaranteed. Mortgage-backed securities are subject to prepayment risk, which means that they may increase in value less when interest rates decline and decline in value more when interest rates rise. The fund may have to invest the proceeds from prepaid investments, including mortgage- and asset-backed investments, in other investments with less attractive terms and yields. International investing involves currency, economic, and political risks. Emerging-market securities have illiquidity and volatility risks. The fund may not achieve its goal, and it is not intended to be a complete investment program. Risks associated with derivatives include increased investment exposure (which may be considered leverage) and, in the case of over-the-counter instruments, the potential inability to terminate or sell derivatives positions and the potential failure of the other party to the instrument to meet its obligations. The fund’s prospectus lists additional risks.
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Terms and definitions
Important terms
Total return shows how the value of the fund’s shares changed over time, assuming you held the shares through the entire period and reinvested all distributions in the fund.
Before sales charge, or net asset value, is the price, or value, of one share of a mutual fund, without a sales charge. Before-sales-charge figures fluctuate with market conditions, and are calculated by dividing the net assets of each class of shares by the number of outstanding shares in the class.
After sales charge is the price of a mutual fund share plus the maximum sales charge levied at the time of purchase. After-sales-charge performance figures shown here assume the 2.25% maximum sales charge for class A shares and 0.75% for class M shares.
Contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) is generally a charge applied at the time of the redemption of class B or C shares and assumes redemption at the end of the period. Your fund’s class B CDSC declines over time from a 1.00% maximum during the first year to 0.50% during the second year. After the second year, the CDSC no longer applies. The CDSC for class C shares is 1% for one year after purchase.
Share classes
Class A shares are generally subject to an initial sales charge and no CDSC (except on certain redemptions of shares bought without an initial sales charge).
Class B shares are closed to new investments and are only available by exchange from another Putnam fund or through dividend and/or capital gains reinvestment. They are not subject to an initial sales charge and may be subject to a CDSC.
Class C shares are not subject to an initial sales charge and are subject to a CDSC only if the shares are redeemed during the first year.
Class M shares have a lower initial sales charge and a higher 12b-1 fee than class A shares and no CDSC. Effective November 25, 2019, class M shares will no longer be available for purchase and will convert automatically to class A shares.
Class R shares are not subject to an initial sales charge or CDSC and are only available to employer-sponsored retirement plans.
Class R6 shares are not subject to an initial sales charge or CDSC and carry no 12b-1 fee. They are generally only available to employer-sponsored retirement plans, corporate and institutional clients, and clients in other approved programs.
Class Y shares are not subject to an initial sales charge or CDSC and carry no 12b-1 fee. They are generally only available to corporate and institutional clients and clients in other approved programs.
Fixed-income terms
Current rate is the annual rate of return earned from dividends or interest of an investment. Current rate is expressed as a percentage of the price of a security, fund share, or principal investment.
Mortgage-backed security (MBS), also known as a mortgage “pass-through,” is a type of asset-backed security that is secured by a mortgage or collection of mortgages. The following are types of MBSs:
• Agency “pass-through” has its principal and interest backed by a U.S. government agency, such as the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac).
• Collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) represents claims to specific cash flows from pools of home mortgages. The streams of principal and interest payments
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on the mortgages are distributed to the different classes of CMO interests in “tranches.” Each tranche may have different principal balances, coupon rates, prepayment risks, and maturity dates. A CMO is highly sensitive to changes in interest rates and any resulting change in the rate at which homeowners sell their properties, refinance, or otherwise prepay loans. CMOs are subject to prepayment, market, and liquidity risks.
◦ Interest-only (IO) security is a type of CMO in which the underlying asset is the interest portion of mortgage, Treasury, or bond payments.
• Non-agency residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS) is an MBS not backed by Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae, or Freddie Mac. One type of RMBS is an Alt-A mortgage-backed security.
• Commercial mortgage-backed security (CMBS) is secured by the loan on a commercial property.
Yield curve is a graph that plots the yields of bonds with equal credit quality against their differing maturity dates, ranging from shortest to longest. It is used as a benchmark for other debt, such as mortgage or bank lending rates.
Comparative indexes
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index of U.S. investment-grade fixed-income securities.
CMBX Index is an unmanaged index that tracks the performance of a basket of CMBS issued in a particular year.
ICE BofAML (Intercontinental Exchange Bank of America Merrill Lynch) 1-3 Year U.S. Corporate Index is an unmanaged index of U.S. investment-grade corporate debt with a remaining term to maturity of less than three years.
ICE BofAML U.S. Treasury Bill Index is an unmanaged index that tracks the performance of U.S. dollar-denominated U.S. Treasury bills publicly issued in the U.S. domestic market. Qualifying securities must have a remaining term of at least one month to final maturity and a minimum amount outstanding of $1 billion.
MSCI World Index (ND) is an unmanaged index of equity securities from developed countries. Calculated with net dividends (ND), this total return index reflects the reinvestment of dividends after the deduction of withholding taxes, using a tax rate applicable to nonresident institutional investors who do not benefit from double taxation treaties.
S&P 500 Index is an unmanaged index of common stock performance.
Indexes assume reinvestment of all distributions and do not account for fees. Securities and performance of a fund and an index will differ. You cannot invest directly in an index.
ICE Data Indices, LLC (“ICE BofAML”), used with permission. ICE BofAML permits use of the ICE BofAML indices and related data on an “as is” basis; makes no warranties regarding same; does not guarantee the suitability, quality, accuracy, timeliness, and/or completeness of the ICE BofAML indices or any data included in, related to, or derived therefrom; assumes no liability in connection with the use of the foregoing; and does not sponsor, endorse, or recommend Putnam Investments, or any of its products or services.
Lipper is a third-party industry-ranking entity that ranks mutual funds. Its rankings do not reflect sales charges. Lipper rankings are based on total return at net asset value relative to other funds that have similar current investment styles or objectives as determined by Lipper. Lipper may change a fund’s category assignment at its discretion. Lipper category averages reflect performance trends for funds within a category.
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Other information for shareholders
Proxy voting
Putnam is committed to managing our mutual funds in the best interests of our shareholders. The Putnam funds’ proxy voting guidelines and procedures, as well as information regarding how your fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the 12-month period ended June 30, 2019, are available in the Individual Investors section of putnam.com and on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website, www.sec.gov. If you have questions about finding forms on the SEC’s website, you may call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. You may also obtain the Putnam funds’ proxy voting guidelines and procedures at no charge by calling Putnam’s Shareholder Services at 1-800-225-1581.
Fund portfolio holdings
The fund will file a complete schedule of its portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-PORT within 60 days of the end of such fiscal quarter. Shareholders may obtain the fund’s Form N-PORT on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
Prior to its use of Form N-PORT, the fund filed its complete schedule of its portfolio holdings with the SEC on Form N-Q, which is available online at www.sec.gov.
Trustee and employee fund ownership
Putnam employees and members of the Board of Trustees place their faith, confidence, and, most importantly, investment dollars in Putnam mutual funds. As of October 31, 2019, Putnam employees had approximately $472,000,000 and the Trustees had approximately $74,000,000 invested in Putnam mutual funds. These amounts include investments by the Trustees’ and employees’ immediate family members as well as investments through retirement and deferred compensation plans.
Important notice regarding Putnam’s privacy policy
In order to conduct business with our shareholders, we must obtain certain personal information such as account holders’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth. Using this information, we are able to maintain accurate records of accounts and transactions.
It is our policy to protect the confidentiality of our shareholder information, whether or not a shareholder currently owns shares of our funds. In particular, it is our policy not to sell information about you or your accounts to outside marketing firms. We have safeguards in place designed to prevent unauthorized access to our computer systems and procedures to protect personal information from unauthorized use.
Under certain circumstances, we must share account information with outside vendors who provide services to us, such as mailings and proxy solicitations. In these cases, the service providers enter into confidentiality agreements with us, and we provide only the information necessary to process transactions and perform other services related to your account. Finally, it is our policy to share account information with your financial representative, if you’ve listed one on your Putnam account.
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Trustee approval of management contract
General conclusions
The Board of Trustees of The Putnam Funds oversees the management of each fund and, as required by law, determines annually whether to approve the continuance of your fund’s management contract with Putnam Investment Management, LLC (“Putnam Management”), the sub-management contract with respect to your fund between Putnam Management and its affiliate, Putnam Investments Limited (“PIL”), and the sub-advisory contract among Putnam Management, PIL, and another affiliate, The Putnam Advisory Company (“PAC”). The Board, with the assistance of its Contract Committee, requests and evaluates all information it deems reasonably necessary under the circumstances in connection with its annual contract review. The Contract Committee consists solely of Trustees who are not “interested persons” (as this term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”)) of The Putnam Funds (“Independent Trustees”).
At the outset of the review process, members of the Board’s independent staff and independent legal counsel discussed with representatives of Putnam Management the annual contract review materials furnished to the Contract Committee during the course of the previous year’s review, identifying possible changes in these materials that might be necessary or desirable for the coming year. Following these discussions and in consultation with the Contract Committee, the Independent Trustees’ independent legal counsel requested that Putnam Management and its affiliates furnish specified information, together with any additional information that Putnam Management considered relevant, to the Contract Committee. Over the course of several months ending in June 2019, the Contract Committee met on a number of occasions with representatives of Putnam Management, and separately in executive session, to consider the information that Putnam Management provided. Throughout this process, the Contract Committee was assisted by the members of the Board’s independent staff and by independent legal counsel for The Putnam Funds and the Independent Trustees.
In May 2019, the Contract Committee met in executive session to discuss and consider its recommendations with respect to the continuance of the contracts. At the Trustees’ June 2019 meeting, the Contract Committee met in executive session with the other Independent Trustees to review a summary of the key financial, performance and other data that the Contract Committee considered in the course of its review. The Contract Committee then presented its written report, which summarized the key factors that the Committee had considered and set forth its recommendations. The Contract Committee recommended, and the Independent Trustees approved, the continuance of your fund’s management, sub-management and sub-advisory contracts, effective July 1, 2019. (Because PIL and PAC are affiliates of Putnam Management and Putnam Management remains fully responsible for all services provided by PIL and PAC, the Trustees have not attempted to evaluate PIL or PAC as separate entities, and all subsequent references to Putnam Management below should be deemed to include reference to PIL and PAC as necessary or appropriate in the context.)
The Independent Trustees’ approval was based on the following conclusions:
• That the fee schedule in effect for your fund represented reasonable compensation in light of the nature and quality of the services being provided to the fund, the fees paid by competitive funds, the costs incurred by Putnam Management in providing services to the fund, and the application of certain reductions and waivers noted below; and
• That the fee schedule in effect for your fund represented an appropriate sharing between fund shareholders and Putnam Management of such economies of scale as may exist in the management of the fund at current asset levels.
These conclusions were based on a comprehensive consideration of all information provided to the Trustees and were not the result of any single factor. Some of the factors that figured particularly in the Trustees’ deliberations and how the Trustees considered these factors are described below, although individual Trustees may have evaluated the information presented differently, giving different weights to various factors. It is also important to recognize that the management arrangements for your fund and the other Putnam funds are the result of many years of review and discussion between the Independent Trustees and Putnam Management, that some aspects of
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the arrangements may receive greater scrutiny in some years than others, and that the Trustees’ conclusions may be based, in part, on their consideration of fee arrangements in previous years. For example, with some minor exceptions, the funds’ current fee arrangements under the management contracts were first implemented at the beginning of 2010 following extensive review by the Contract Committee and discussions with representatives of Putnam Management, as well as approval by shareholders.
Management fee schedules and total expenses
The Trustees reviewed the management fee schedules in effect for all Putnam funds, including fee levels and breakpoints. The Trustees also reviewed the total expenses of each Putnam fund, recognizing that in most cases management fees represented the major, but not the sole, determinant of total costs to fund shareholders. (Two funds, one of which is your fund, have implemented so-called “all-in” management fees covering substantially all routine fund operating costs.)
In reviewing fees and expenses, the Trustees generally focus their attention on material changes in circumstances — for example, changes in assets under management, changes in a fund’s investment strategy, changes in Putnam Management’s operating costs or profitability, or changes in competitive practices in the mutual fund industry — that suggest that consideration of fee changes might be warranted. The Trustees noted that they had approved an amended management contract for your fund, effective August 1, 2018, at their meeting on June 29, 2018. In substance, the amended management contract differed from the previous management contract only in that it reduced the management fee from a fixed rate of 40 basis points of the fund’s average net assets to a fixed rate of 37 basis points of the fund’s average net assets. The Trustees also noted that they had previously approved in January 2018, and that shareholders had approved in May 2018, a management contract with Putnam Management that eliminated the performance adjustment component in calculating the fund’s management fee (subject to an eighteen-month transition period during which your fund will continue to receive the benefit of any performance adjustment that reduces the management fee). The Trustees considered that the performance adjustment could reduce the management fee below 37 basis points during the eighteen-month transition period. The Trustees concluded that the circumstances did not indicate that further changes to the management fee structure for your fund would be appropriate at this time.
Under its management contract, your fund pays a management fee at a fixed rate of 37 basis points to Putnam Management (remaining subject to the eighteen-month transition period, extending through November 30, 2019, during which your fund will continue to receive the benefit of any performance adjustment that reduces the management fee). Putnam Management is obligated to pay, out of the management fee, all of the fund’s organizational and other operating expenses (including investor servicing fees), excluding only fees payable under the fund’s distribution plans, any applicable performance-based upward or downward adjustments to the fund’s base management fee, brokerage, interest, taxes, investment-related expenses, extraordinary expenses, and acquired fund fees and expenses.
As in the past, the Trustees also focused on the competitiveness of each fund’s total expense ratio. In order to support the effort to have fund expenses meet competitive standards, the Trustees and Putnam Management and the funds’ investor servicing agent, Putnam Investor Services, Inc. (“PSERV”), have implemented expense limitations that were in effect during your fund’s fiscal year ending in 2018. These expense limitations were: (i) a contractual expense limitation applicable to all open-end funds of 25 basis points on investor servicing fees and expenses and (ii) a contractual expense limitation applicable to specified open-end funds, including your fund, of 20 basis points on so-called “other expenses” (i.e., all expenses exclusive of management fees, distribution fees, investor servicing fees, investment-related expenses, interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses and extraordinary expenses). These expense limitations attempt to maintain competitive expense levels for the funds. Most funds, including your fund, had sufficiently low expenses that these expense limitations were not operative during their fiscal years ending in 2018. (In light of the fact that, under your fund’s management contract, Putnam Management bears many of the fund’s organizational and operating expenses, as a practical matter it is unlikely that these expense limitations would become operative with respect to your fund.) Putnam Management and PSERV have agreed to maintain these expense limitations
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until at least February 28, 2021. The support of Putnam Management and PSERV for these expense limitation arrangements was an important factor in the Trustees’ decision to approve the continuance of your fund’s management, sub-management and sub-advisory contracts.
The Trustees reviewed comparative fee and expense information for a custom group of competitive funds selected by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (“Broadridge”). This comparative information included your fund’s percentile ranking for effective management fees and total expenses (excluding any applicable 12b-1 fees), which provides a general indication of your fund’s relative standing. In the custom peer group, your fund ranked in the second quintile in effective management fees (determined for your fund and the other funds in the custom peer group based on fund asset size and the applicable contractual management fee schedule) and in the first quintile in total expenses (excluding any applicable 12b-1 fees) as of December 31, 2018. The first quintile represents the least expensive funds and the fifth quintile the most expensive funds. The fee and expense data reported by Broadridge as of December 31, 2018 reflected the most recent fiscal year-end data available in Broadridge’s database at that time.
In connection with their review of fund management fees and total expenses, the Trustees also reviewed the costs of the services provided and the profits realized by Putnam Management and its affiliates from their contractual relationships with the funds. This information included trends in revenues, expenses and profitability of Putnam Management and its affiliates relating to the investment management, investor servicing and distribution services provided to the funds. In this regard, the Trustees also reviewed an analysis of Putnam Management’s revenues, expenses and profitability, allocated on a fund-by-fund basis, with respect to the funds’ management, distribution, and investor servicing contracts. For each fund, the analysis presented information about revenues, expenses and profitability for each of the agreements separately and for the agreements taken together on a combined basis. The Trustees concluded that, at current asset levels, the fee schedules in place represented reasonable compensation for the services being provided and represented an appropriate sharing between fund shareholders and Putnam Management of such economies of scale as may exist in the management of the Putnam funds at that time.
The information examined by the Trustees in connection with their annual contract review for the Putnam funds included information regarding fees charged by Putnam Management and its affiliates to institutional clients, including defined benefit pension and profit-sharing plans and sub-advised mutual funds. This information included, in cases where an institutional product’s investment strategy corresponds with a fund’s strategy, comparisons of those fees with fees charged to the Putnam funds, as well as an assessment of the differences in the services provided to these different types of clients as compared to the services provided to the Putnam funds. The Trustees observed that the differences in fee rates between these clients and the Putnam funds are by no means uniform when examined by individual asset sectors, suggesting that differences in the pricing of investment management services to these types of clients may reflect, among other things, historical competitive forces operating in separate markets. The Trustees considered the fact that in many cases fee rates across different asset classes are higher on average for mutual funds than for institutional clients, and the Trustees also considered the differences between the services that Putnam Management provides to the Putnam funds and those that it provides to its other clients. The Trustees did not rely on these comparisons to any significant extent in concluding that the management fees paid by your fund are reasonable.
Investment performance
The quality of the investment process provided by Putnam Management represented a major factor in the Trustees’ evaluation of the quality of services provided by Putnam Management under your fund’s management contract. The Trustees were assisted in their review of the Putnam funds’ investment process and performance by the work of the investment oversight committees of the Trustees and the full Board of Trustees, which meet on a regular basis with the funds’ portfolio teams and with the Chief Investment Officers and other senior members of Putnam Management’s Investment Division throughout the year. The Trustees concluded that Putnam Management generally provides a high-quality investment process — based on the experience and skills of the individuals assigned to the management of fund portfolios, the resources made available to them, and in general Putnam Management’s ability to attract and retain high-quality
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personnel — but also recognized that this does not guarantee favorable investment results for every fund in every time period.
The Trustees considered that, after a strong start to the year, 2018 was a mixed year for The Putnam Funds, with the Putnam open-end Funds’ performance, on an asset-weighted basis, ranking in the 54th percentile of their Lipper Inc. (“Lipper”) peers (excluding those Putnam funds that are evaluated based on their total returns versus selected investment benchmarks). The Trustees also noted that The Putnam Funds were ranked by the Barron’s/Lipper Fund Families survey as the 41st-best performing mutual fund complex out of 57 complexes for the one-year period ended December 31, 2018 and the 29th-best performing mutual fund complex out of 55 complexes for the five-year period ended December 31, 2018. The Trustees observed that The Putnam Funds’ performance over the longer-term continued to be strong, ranking 6th out of 49 mutual fund complexes in the survey over the ten-year period ended 2018. In addition, the Trustees noted that 22 of the funds were four- or five-star rated by Morningstar Inc. at the end of 2018. They also noted, however, the disappointing investment performance of some funds for periods ended December 31, 2018 and considered information provided by Putnam Management regarding the factors contributing to the underperformance and actions being taken to improve the performance of these particular funds. The Trustees indicated their intention to continue to monitor closely the performance of those funds, including the effectiveness of any efforts Putnam Management has undertaken to address underperformance and whether additional actions to address areas of underperformance are warranted.
For purposes of the Trustees’ evaluation of the Putnam Funds’ investment performance, the Trustees generally focus on a competitive industry ranking of each fund’s total net return over a one-year, three-year and five-year period. For a number of Putnam funds with relatively unique investment mandates for which Putnam Management informed the Trustees that meaningful competitive performance rankings are not considered to be available, the Trustees evaluated performance based on their total gross and net returns and comparisons of those returns with the returns of selected investment benchmarks. In the case of your fund, the Trustees considered information about your fund’s total return and its performance relative to its benchmark over the one-year, three-year and five-year periods ended December 31, 2018. Your fund’s class A shares’ return net of fees and expenses was positive and slightly trailed the return of its benchmark over the one-year period ended December 31, 2018, and was positive and exceeded the return of its benchmark over the three-year and five-year periods ended December 31, 2018. (When considering performance information, shareholders should be mindful that past performance is not a guarantee of future results.)
The Trustees considered that your fund’s name, investment objective, and investment strategies had changed in 2018, and that your fund was operating under its previous name, investment objective, and investment strategies during the periods for which the Trustees were reviewing the fund’s performance. The Trustees also considered Putnam Management’s continued efforts to support fund performance through initiatives including structuring compensation for portfolio managers and research analysts to enhance accountability for fund performance, emphasizing accountability in the portfolio management process, and affirming its commitment to a fundamental-driven approach to investing. The Trustees noted further that Putnam Management had made selective hires in 2018 to strengthen its investment team.
Brokerage and soft-dollar allocations; investor servicing
The Trustees considered various potential benefits that Putnam Management may receive in connection with the services it provides under the management contract with your fund. These include benefits related to brokerage allocation and the use of soft dollars, whereby a portion of the commissions paid by a fund for brokerage may be used to acquire research services that are expected to be useful to Putnam Management in managing the assets of the fund and of other clients. Subject to policies established by the Trustees, soft dollars generated by these means are used predominantly to acquire brokerage and research services (including third-party research and market data) that enhance Putnam Management’s investment capabilities and supplement Putnam Management’s internal research efforts. However, the Trustees noted that a portion of available soft dollars continues to be used to pay fund expenses. The Trustees indicated their continued intent to monitor regulatory and industry developments in this area with the
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assistance of their Brokerage Committee. The Trustees also indicated their continued intent to monitor the allocation of the Putnam funds’ brokerage in order to ensure that the principle of seeking best price and execution remains paramount in the portfolio trading process.
Putnam Management may also receive benefits from payments that the funds make to Putnam Management’s affiliates for investor or distribution services. In conjunction with the annual review of your fund’s management, sub-management and sub-advisory contracts, the Trustees reviewed your fund’s investor servicing agreement with PSERV and its distributor’s contracts and distribution plans with Putnam Retail Management Limited Partnership (“PRM”), both of which are affiliates of Putnam Management. The Trustees concluded that the fees payable by the funds to PSERV and PRM, as applicable, for such services are fair and reasonable in relation to the nature and quality of such services, the fees paid by competitive funds, and the costs incurred by PSERV and PRM, as applicable, in providing such services. Furthermore, the Trustees were of the view that the services provided were required for the operation of the funds, and that they were of a quality at least equal to those provided by other providers.
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Audited financial statements
These sections of the report, as well as the accompanying Notes, preceded by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, constitute the fund’s audited financial statements.
The fund’s portfolio lists all the fund’s investments and their values as of the last day of the reporting period. Holdings are organized by asset type and industry sector, country, or state to show areas of concentration and diversification.
Statement of assets and liabilities shows how the fund’s net assets and share price are determined. All investment and non-investment assets are added together. Any unpaid expenses and other liabilities are subtracted from this total. The result is divided by the number of shares to determine the net asset value per share, which is calculated separately for each class of shares. (For funds with preferred shares, the amount subtracted from total assets includes the liquidation preference of preferred shares.)
Statement of operations shows the fund’s net investment gain or loss. This is done by first adding up all the fund’s earnings — from dividends and interest income — and subtracting its operating expenses to determine net investment income (or loss). Then, any net gain or loss the fund realized on the sales of its holdings — as well as any unrealized gains or losses over the period — is added to or subtracted from the net investment result to determine the fund’s net gain or loss for the fiscal year.
Statement of changes in net assets shows how the fund’s net assets were affected by the fund’s net investment gain or loss, by distributions to shareholders, and by changes in the number of the fund’s shares. It lists distributions and their sources (net investment income or realized capital gains) over the current reporting period and the most recent fiscal year-end. The distributions listed here may not match the sources listed in the Statement of operations because the distributions are determined on a tax basis and may be paid in a different period from the one in which they were earned.
Financial highlights provide an overview of the fund’s investment results, per-share distributions, expense ratios, net investment income ratios, and portfolio turnover in one summary table, reflecting the five most recent reporting periods. In a semiannual report, the highlights table also includes the current reporting period.
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Shareholders and the Board of Trustees
Putnam Funds Trust:
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Putnam Short Duration Bond Fund (the “fund”), a series of the Putnam Funds Trust, including the fund’s portfolio, as of October 31, 2019, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the years in the two-year period then ended, and the related notes (collectively, the “financial statements”) and the financial highlights for each of the years in the five-year period then ended. In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the fund as of October 31, 2019, and the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the years in the two-year period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the years in the five-year period then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights 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 conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements and financial highlights, 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 and financial highlights. Such procedures also included confirmation of securities owned as of October 31, 2019, by correspondence with the custodian, transfer agent and brokers or by other appropriate auditing procedures. 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 and financial highlights. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
We have served as the auditor of one or more Putnam investment companies since 1999.
Boston, Massachusetts
December 13, 2019
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The fund’s portfolio 10/31/19
| Principal | ||
| CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (48.7%)* | amount | Value |
| Banking (11.8%) | ||
| ANZ New Zealand Int’l, Ltd./London 144A company guaranty sr. | ||
| unsec. FRN (BBA LIBOR USD 3 Month + 1.00%), 2.94%, 1/25/22 | ||
| (United Kingdom) | $2,060,000 | $2,083,198 |
| Bank of America Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. FRN 3.55%, 3/5/24 | 2,430,000 | 2,530,817 |
| Bank of America Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. FRN 2.881%, 4/24/23 | 2,060,000 | 2,095,492 |
| Bank of America Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. FRN Ser. MTN, (BBA LIBOR | ||
| USD 3 Month + 0.65%), 2.756%, 6/25/22 | 1,375,000 | 1,381,687 |
| Bank of America Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. FRN Ser. MTN, | ||
| 2.328%, 10/1/21 | 440,000 | 441,036 |
| Bank of America Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. MTN, | ||
| 2.151%, 11/9/20 | 735,000 | 735,009 |
| Bank of America Corp. unsec. sub. notes Ser. MTN, 4.20%, 8/26/24 | 4,000,000 | 4,306,545 |
| Bank of Montreal sr. unsec. notes Ser. MTN, 3.10%, | ||
| 7/13/20 (Canada) | 1,030,000 | 1,037,981 |
| Bank of Montreal sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. D, 3.10%, | ||
| 4/13/21 (Canada) | 480,000 | 488,614 |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (The) sr. unsec. notes Ser. MTN, | ||
| 1.95%, 8/23/22 | 2,250,000 | 2,255,159 |
| Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel SA 144A sr. unsec. unsub. | ||
| notes 2.20%, 7/20/20 (France) | 830,000 | 832,223 |
| BNP Paribas SA company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| Ser. BKNT, 5.00%, 1/15/21 (France) | 825,000 | 854,172 |
| BNP Paribas SA 144A sr. unsec. notes 2.95%, 5/23/22 (France) | 680,000 | 693,141 |
| CIT Bank NA sr. unsec. FRN Ser. BKNT, 2.969%, 9/27/25 | 1,000,000 | 1,008,125 |
| Citibank NA sr. unsec. FRN 3.165%, 2/19/22 | 2,500,000 | 2,537,321 |
| Citigroup, Inc. sr. unsec. FRN 4.044%, 6/1/24 | 5,180,000 | 5,484,829 |
| Citigroup, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 2.65%, 10/26/20 | 845,000 | 850,885 |
| Citigroup, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. FRN (BBA LIBOR USD 3 Month | ||
| + 0.96%), 2.90%, 4/25/22 | 1,370,000 | 1,386,937 |
| Citigroup, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.50%, 1/14/22 | 500,000 | 525,748 |
| Citigroup, Inc. unsec. sub. notes 3.50%, 5/15/23 | 6,250,000 | 6,531,883 |
| Citizens Financial Group, Inc. 144A unsec. sub. notes | ||
| 4.15%, 9/28/22 | 960,000 | 1,000,165 |
| Commonwealth Bank of Australia 144A sr. unsec. notes 1.75%, | ||
| 11/7/19 (Australia) | 500,000 | 499,992 |
| Commonwealth Bank of Australia 144A unsec. notes 2.20%, | ||
| 11/9/20 (Australia) | 1,145,000 | 1,149,001 |
| Credit Suisse AG unsec. sub. notes 5.40%, 1/14/20 | 1,380,000 | 1,388,942 |
| Fifth Third Bancorp sr. unsec. sub. notes 2.375%, 1/28/25 | 5,000,000 | 5,023,483 |
| HSBC USA, Inc. unsec. sub. notes 5.00%, 9/27/20 | 5,685,000 | 5,828,289 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. sr. unsec. FRN (BBA LIBOR USD 3 Month | ||
| + 0.61%), 2.755%, 6/18/22 | 1,000,000 | 1,003,310 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.25%, 1/23/20 | 1,625,000 | 1,625,715 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. unsec. sub. notes 3.875%, 9/10/24 | 4,460,000 | 4,756,350 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. unsec. sub. notes 3.375%, 5/1/23 | 9,250,000 | 9,635,322 |
| Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. sr. unsec. notes Ser. BKNT, | ||
| 2.05%, 8/17/20 | 805,000 | 806,008 |
| Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 3.535%, | ||
| 7/26/21 (Japan) | 620,000 | 634,220 |
| 24 Short Duration Bond Fund |
| Principal | ||
| CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (48.7%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Banking cont. | ||
| National Australia Bank, Ltd., NY sr. unsec. notes 2.80%, | ||
| 1/10/22 (Australia) | $2,430,000 | $2,476,015 |
| PNC Bank NA sr. unsec. notes Ser. BKNT, 2.00%, 5/19/20 | 350,000 | 350,283 |
| PNC Bank NA sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.30%, 10/30/24 | 6,635,000 | 6,994,968 |
| Royal Bank of Canada sr. unsec. notes Ser. GMTN, 2.125%, | ||
| 3/2/20 (Canada) | 1,010,000 | 1,010,765 |
| Royal Bank of Canada sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. GMTN, 3.70%, | ||
| 10/5/23 (Canada) | 1,510,000 | 1,598,116 |
| Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB sr. unsec. notes 2.30%, | ||
| 3/11/20 (Sweden) | 2,260,000 | 2,263,501 |
| SunTrust Bank sr. unsec. FRN Ser. BKNT, 3.689%, 8/2/24 | 2,350,000 | 2,472,826 |
| SunTrust Bank sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. BNKT, 3.20%, 4/1/24 | 6,655,000 | 6,946,670 |
| SunTrust Banks, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.00%, 5/1/25 | 1,128,000 | 1,225,903 |
| Svenska Handelsbanken AB company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 1.95%, 9/8/20 (Sweden) | 880,000 | 880,516 |
| Toronto-Dominion Bank (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. MTN, | ||
| 1.90%, 12/1/22 (Canada) | 5,745,000 | 5,720,503 |
| U.S. Bancorp unsec. sub. notes Ser. MTN, 3.60%, 9/11/24 | 3,800,000 | 4,041,147 |
| U.S. Bank NA sr. unsec. notes Ser. BKNT, 3.15%, 4/26/21 | 1,290,000 | 1,313,982 |
| UBS AG/London 144A sr. unsec. notes 2.20%, 6/8/20 | ||
| (United Kingdom) | 580,000 | 580,823 |
| US Bancorp unsec. sub. notes Ser. MTN, 2.95%, 7/15/22 | 1,315,000 | 1,349,850 |
| Wells Fargo & Co. sr. unsec. notes Ser. GMTN, 2.60%, 7/22/20 | 1,395,000 | 1,402,015 |
| Wells Fargo & Co. sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. MTN, 3.75%, 1/24/24 | 2,000,000 | 2,116,338 |
| Wells Fargo Bank NA sr. unsec. notes Ser. BKNT, 3.625%, 10/22/21 | 2,060,000 | 2,122,744 |
| Westpac Banking Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.15%, | ||
| 3/6/20 (Australia) | 2,430,000 | 2,432,001 |
| 118,710,565 | ||
| Basic materials (2.3%) | ||
| Celanese US Holdings, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 3.50%, 5/8/24 (Germany) | 893,000 | 921,931 |
| Celanese US Holdings, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. | ||
| notes 4.625%, 11/15/22 (Germany) | 930,000 | 983,392 |
| CF Industries, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 3.45%, 6/1/23 | 1,715,000 | 1,740,725 |
| DuPont de Nemours, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.766%, 11/15/20 | 1,500,000 | 1,527,324 |
| Georgia-Pacific, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 5.40%, 11/1/20 | 4,250,000 | 4,392,322 |
| Glencore Funding, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. | ||
| notes 4.625%, 4/29/24 | 1,510,000 | 1,608,107 |
| Huntsman International, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 5.125%, 11/15/22 | 465,000 | 496,954 |
| International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 3.40%, 9/25/20 | 1,200,000 | 1,213,322 |
| International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 3.20%, 5/1/23 | 420,000 | 427,829 |
| International Paper Co. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.75%, 2/15/22 | 524,000 | 551,605 |
| Packaging Corp. of America sr. unsec. notes 3.90%, 6/15/22 | 3,000,000 | 3,117,224 |
| Sherwin-Williams Co. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.75%, 6/1/22 | 3,902,000 | 3,972,412 |
| Steel Dynamics, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 5.50%, 10/1/24 | 715,000 | 736,650 |
| Short Duration Bond Fund 25 |
| Principal | ||
| CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (48.7%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Basic materials cont. | ||
| Teck Resources, Ltd. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 3.75%, 2/1/23 (Canada) | $360,000 | $365,736 |
| WR Grace & Co.- Conn. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 5.625%, 10/1/24 | 550,000 | 594,000 |
| 22,649,533 | ||
| Capital goods (2.5%) | ||
| Honeywell International, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.15%, 8/8/22 | 5,000,000 | 5,056,934 |
| Northrop Grumman Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.55%, 10/15/22 | 5,100,000 | 5,181,070 |
| Raytheon Co. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.50%, 12/15/22 | 2,910,000 | 2,957,891 |
| Republic Services, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 2.50%, 8/15/24 | 3,000,000 | 3,050,013 |
| United Technologies Corp. sr. unsec. notes 3.10%, 6/1/22 | 5,000,000 | 5,151,743 |
| Waste Management, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. | ||
| notes 4.75%, 6/30/20 | 418,000 | 425,658 |
| Waste Management, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. | ||
| notes 2.90%, 9/15/22 | 3,585,000 | 3,685,496 |
| 25,508,805 | ||
| Communication services (5.3%) | ||
| American Tower Corp. sr. unsec. sub. notes 3.00%, 6/15/23 R | 1,000,000 | 1,027,171 |
| American Tower Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.50%, 1/31/23 R | 3,500,000 | 3,640,342 |
| AT&T, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.45%, 4/1/24 | 4,250,000 | 4,606,415 |
| AT&T, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.80%, 3/1/24 | 6,639,000 | 7,020,301 |
| CCO Holdings, LLC/CCO Holdings Capital Corp. 144A company | ||
| guaranty sr. unsec. notes 5.875%, 4/1/24 | 665,000 | 692,431 |
| Charter Communications Operating, LLC/Charter | ||
| Communications Operating Capital Corp. company guaranty sr. | ||
| notes 4.50%, 2/1/24 | 5,500,000 | 5,916,015 |
| Charter Communications Operating, LLC/Charter | ||
| Communications Operating Capital Corp. company guaranty sr. | ||
| FRN (BBA LIBOR USD 3 Month + 1.65%), 3.559%, 2/1/24 | 1,615,000 | 1,661,706 |
| Comcast Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 3.70%, 4/15/24 | 9,740,000 | 10,416,759 |
| Cox Communications, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes 3.15%, 8/15/24 | 3,500,000 | 3,619,575 |
| Crown Castle International Corp. sr. unsec. notes 3.20%, 9/1/24 R | 2,500,000 | 2,595,235 |
| Crown Castle International Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 3.40%, 2/15/21 R | 675,000 | 686,178 |
| Equinix, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.875%, 1/15/26 R | 665,000 | 706,363 |
| Sprint Spectrum Co., LLC/Sprint Spectrum Co. II, LLC/Sprint | ||
| Spectrum Co. III, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. notes | ||
| 3.36%, 9/20/21 | 810,000 | 815,063 |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 5.125%, 4/15/25 | 575,000 | 597,454 |
| Verizon Communications, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. FRN (BBA LIBOR | ||
| USD 3 Month + 0.55%), 2.70%, 5/22/20 | 1,500,000 | 1,504,134 |
| Verizon Communications, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 3.50%, 11/1/24 | 5,240,000 | 5,566,970 |
| Verizon Communications, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 3.125%, 3/16/22 | 2,000,000 | 2,058,707 |
| Videotron, Ltd. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.00%, | ||
| 7/15/22 (Canada) | 495,000 | 520,988 |
| 53,651,807 |
| 26 Short Duration Bond Fund |
| Principal | ||
| CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (48.7%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Conglomerates (0.2%) | ||
| Siemens Financieringsmaatschappij NV 144A company guaranty | ||
| sr. unsec. notes 2.20%, 3/16/20 (Netherlands) | $2,030,000 | $2,029,009 |
| 2,029,009 | ||
| Consumer cyclicals (3.3%) | ||
| Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. | ||
| notes 2.70%, 7/26/22 (Canada) | 2,300,000 | 2,326,947 |
| Amazon.com, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 2.50%, 11/29/22 | 1,370,000 | 1,397,447 |
| Autonation, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 5.50%, 2/1/20 | 825,000 | 831,205 |
| BMW US Capital, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. FRN | ||
| (BBA LIBOR USD 3 Month + 0.50%), 2.676%, 8/13/21 | 89,000 | 89,167 |
| BMW US Capital, LLC 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 2.00%, 4/11/21 | 700,000 | 701,301 |
| CBS Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 3.375%, 3/1/22 | 904,000 | 926,346 |
| CBS Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 2.90%, 6/1/23 | 1,000,000 | 1,017,943 |
| Ecolab, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 4.35%, 12/8/21 | 2,000,000 | 2,101,806 |
| Ecolab, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.25%, 1/12/20 | 1,645,000 | 1,645,641 |
| Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC sr. unsec. unsub. FRN (BBA LIBOR USD | ||
| 3 Month + 0.88%), 2.881%, 10/12/21 | 1,000,000 | 986,273 |
| Fox Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 4.03%, 1/25/24 | 2,040,000 | 2,180,104 |
| Hilton Worldwide Finance, LLC/Hilton Worldwide Finance Corp. | ||
| company guaranty sr. unsec. sub. notes 4.625%, 4/1/25 | 590,000 | 606,225 |
| IHS Markit, Ltd. sr. unsec. notes 3.625%, 5/1/24 (United Kingdom) | 900,000 | 940,941 |
| IHS Markit, Ltd. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 5.00%, | ||
| 11/1/22 (United Kingdom) | 1,845,000 | 1,972,249 |
| Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. (The) sr. unsec. notes 4.20%, 4/15/24 | 2,157,000 | 2,324,159 |
| Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. (The) sr. unsec. sub. notes | ||
| 3.75%, 10/1/21 | 735,000 | 755,162 |
| Lennar Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 4.50%, 4/30/24 | 1,370,000 | 1,448,775 |
| Moody’s Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.75%, 12/15/21 | 1,370,000 | 1,391,204 |
| Omnicom Group, Inc./Omnicom Capital, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. | ||
| notes 3.625%, 5/1/22 | 3,000,000 | 3,111,275 |
| S&P Global, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 3.30%, 8/14/20 | 2,790,000 | 2,819,337 |
| Total System Services, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.00%, 6/1/23 | 3,500,000 | 3,700,451 |
| 33,273,958 | ||
| Consumer finance (0.9%) | ||
| Air Lease Corp. sr. unsec. sub. notes 3.50%, 1/15/22 | 1,375,000 | 1,414,018 |
| Air Lease Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.25%, 9/15/24 | 5,539,000 | 5,946,121 |
| Aviation Capital Group, LLC 144A sr. unsec. FRN (BBA LIBOR USD | ||
| 3 Month + 0.95%), 3.082%, 6/1/21 | 820,000 | 821,693 |
| Aviation Capital Group, LLC 144A sr. unsec. FRN (BBA LIBOR USD | ||
| 3 Month + 0.67%), 2.606%, 7/30/21 | 660,000 | 658,244 |
| 8,840,076 | ||
| Consumer staples (0.7%) | ||
| Anheuser-Busch InBev Finance, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. | ||
| unsub. notes 2.625%, 1/17/23 | 2,000,000 | 2,045,881 |
| Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide, Inc. company guaranty sr. | ||
| unsec. unsub. notes 3.50%, 1/12/24 | 3,000,000 | 3,178,903 |
| Short Duration Bond Fund 27 |
| Principal | ||
| CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (48.7%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Consumer staples cont. | ||
| Ashtead Capital, Inc. 144A notes 5.25%, 8/1/26 | $620,000 | $661,075 |
| Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. | ||
| unsub. notes 4.625%, 11/1/24 | 695,000 | 730,619 |
| United Rentals North America, Inc. company guaranty notes | ||
| 4.625%, 7/15/23 | 500,000 | 510,750 |
| 7,127,228 | ||
| Energy (2.7%) | ||
| BP Capital Markets PLC company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 3.561%, 11/1/21 (United Kingdom) | 2,000,000 | 2,067,034 |
| Cheniere Corpus Christi Holdings, LLC company guaranty sr. notes | ||
| 7.00%, 6/30/24 | 540,000 | 621,043 |
| Energy Transfer Partners LP company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 5.875%, 1/15/24 | 565,000 | 627,320 |
| Energy Transfer Partners LP company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 4.50%, 4/15/24 | 3,970,000 | 4,238,377 |
| Energy Transfer Partners LP sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.20%, 2/1/22 | 2,435,000 | 2,561,993 |
| Newfield Exploration Co. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.625%, 7/1/24 | 1,870,000 | 2,048,440 |
| Occidental Petroleum Corp. sr. unsec. FRN (BBA LIBOR USD | ||
| 3 Month + 1.25%), 3.437%, 8/13/21 | 3,000,000 | 3,018,990 |
| Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC sr. notes 6.25%, 3/15/22 | 3,000,000 | 3,233,001 |
| Total Capital International SA company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. | ||
| notes 2.434%, 1/10/25 (France) | 5,000,000 | 5,069,665 |
| Williams Cos., Inc. (The) sr. unsec. sub. notes 4.55%, 6/24/24 | 1,980,000 | 2,136,020 |
| Williams Partners LP sr. unsec. notes 5.25%, 3/15/20 | 400,000 | 404,436 |
| Williams Partners LP sr. unsec. sub. notes 4.30%, 3/4/24 | 665,000 | 706,384 |
| 26,732,703 | ||
| Financial (1.4%) | ||
| Ally Financial, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 3.875%, 5/21/24 | 1,489,000 | 1,555,112 |
| Bank of Nova Scotia (The) sr. unsec. notes 2.00%, | ||
| 11/15/22 (Canada) | 5,620,000 | 5,608,827 |
| CIT Group, Inc. sr. unsec. sub. notes 5.00%, 8/1/23 | 560,000 | 603,400 |
| CIT Group, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.25%, 3/7/25 | 715,000 | 787,394 |
| UBS Group Funding (Switzerland) AG 144A company guaranty sr. | ||
| unsec. notes 3.491%, 5/23/23 (Switzerland) | 5,765,000 | 5,936,295 |
| 14,491,028 | ||
| Health care (3.9%) | ||
| Becton Dickinson and Co. sr. unsec. notes 2.894%, 6/6/22 | 1,500,000 | 1,529,358 |
| Becton Dickinson and Co. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.734%, 12/15/24 | 2,129,000 | 2,274,848 |
| Becton Dickinson and Co. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.125%, 11/8/21 | 890,000 | 908,154 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 144A sr. unsec. notes 2.90%, 7/26/24 | 6,465,000 | 6,699,763 |
| Centene Escrow I Corp. 144A sr. unsec. notes 5.375%, 6/1/26 | 560,000 | 592,760 |
| Cigna Corp. company guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 3.75%, 7/15/23 | 1,195,000 | 1,251,809 |
| CVS Health Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.70%, 3/9/23 | 2,940,000 | 3,065,262 |
| DH Europe Finance II Sarl company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 2.20%, 11/15/24 (Luxembourg) | 5,200,000 | 5,226,842 |
| Elanco Animal Health, Inc. sr. unsec. notes Ser. WI, 4.272%, 8/28/23 | 1,300,000 | 1,361,702 |
| Elanco Animal Health, Inc. sr. unsec. notes Ser. WI, 3.912%, | ||
| 8/27/21 (acquired various dates from 8/14/18 to 12/21/18, cost | ||
| $1,650,533) ∆∆ | 1,650,000 | 1,694,199 |
| 28 Short Duration Bond Fund |
| Principal | ||
| CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (48.7%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Health care cont. | ||
| Merck & Co., Inc. sr. unsec. notes 2.90%, 3/7/24 | $2,030,000 | $2,116,650 |
| Service Corp. International sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.375%, 5/15/24 | 680,000 | 701,250 |
| Teva Pharmaceutical Finance IV, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. | ||
| unsub. notes 2.25%, 3/18/20 (Israel) | 1,000,000 | 987,500 |
| UnitedHealth Group, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.35%, 7/15/22 | 3,500,000 | 3,633,453 |
| UnitedHealth Group, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.375%, 8/15/24 | 2,000,000 | 2,027,106 |
| Zoetis, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 3.25%, 2/1/23 | 2,500,000 | 2,582,118 |
| Zoetis, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 3.25%, 8/20/21 | 1,030,000 | 1,051,635 |
| Zoetis, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.45%, 11/13/20 | 1,400,000 | 1,417,471 |
| 39,121,880 | ||
| Insurance (3.2%) | ||
| AIG Global Funding 144A sr. notes 2.15%, 7/2/20 | 445,000 | 445,717 |
| Fairfax US, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 4.875%, 8/13/24 | 2,157,000 | 2,302,192 |
| Liberty Mutual Group, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 5.00%, 6/1/21 | 1,590,000 | 1,648,919 |
| Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. sr. unsec. sub. FRN (BBA LIBOR USD | ||
| 3 Month + 1.20%), 3.304%, 12/29/21 | 45,000 | 45,056 |
| Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. sr. unsec. sub. notes 3.875%, 3/15/24 | 2,000,000 | 2,135,396 |
| Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. sr. unsec. sub. notes 3.50%, 12/29/20 | 1,000,000 | 1,017,578 |
| Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.75%, 1/30/22 | 1,000,000 | 1,014,303 |
| MassMutual Global Funding II 144A sr. notes 2.50%, 10/17/22 | 2,000,000 | 2,029,855 |
| Metropolitan Life Global Funding I 144A notes 2.50%, 12/3/20 | 6,000,000 | 6,045,597 |
| Metropolitan Life Global Funding I 144A sr. notes 3.00%, 1/10/23 | 1,085,000 | 1,116,506 |
| New York Life Global Funding 144A notes 2.30%, 6/10/22 | 4,000,000 | 4,041,067 |
| New York Life Global Funding 144A notes 1.70%, 9/14/21 | 4,355,000 | 4,340,896 |
| Pricoa Global Funding I 144A notes 2.40%, 9/23/24 | 5,000,000 | 5,060,277 |
| Protective Life Global Funding 144A notes 2.262%, 4/8/20 | 475,000 | 475,679 |
| 31,719,038 | ||
| Investment banking/Brokerage (2.5%) | ||
| Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. FRN (BBA LIBOR | ||
| USD 3 Month + 1.17%), 3.328%, 11/15/21 | 2,425,000 | 2,442,523 |
| Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. FRN | ||
| 2.876%, 10/31/22 | 2,000,000 | 2,027,320 |
| Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 3.625%, 2/20/24 | 8,700,000 | 9,145,450 |
| Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 3.00%, 4/26/22 | 2,265,000 | 2,295,036 |
| Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 2.60%, 12/27/20 | 455,000 | 455,439 |
| Morgan Stanley sr. unsec. unsub. FRN (BBA LIBOR USD 3 Month | ||
| + 1.18%), 3.146%, 1/20/22 | 2,200,000 | 2,222,735 |
| Morgan Stanley sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.75%, 5/19/22 | 2,180,000 | 2,213,673 |
| Morgan Stanley unsec. sub. notes 4.875%, 11/1/22 | 4,185,000 | 4,489,066 |
| 25,291,242 | ||
| Real estate (0.1%) | ||
| Digital Realty Trust LP company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 4.75%, 10/1/25 R | 1,000,000 | 1,109,116 |
| 1,109,116 |
| Short Duration Bond Fund 29 |
| Principal | ||
| CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (48.7%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Technology (4.5%) | ||
| Alphabet, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 3.375%, 2/25/24 | $4,302,000 | $4,578,454 |
| Apple, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 2.85%, 5/11/24 | 6,000,000 | 6,234,479 |
| Apple, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 2.10%, 9/12/22 | 670,000 | 676,252 |
| Apple, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.40%, 5/3/23 | 2,200,000 | 2,239,283 |
| Broadcom Corp./Broadcom Cayman Finance, Ltd. company | ||
| guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.625%, 1/15/24 | 4,925,000 | 5,070,311 |
| Broadcom Corp./Broadcom Cayman Finance, Ltd. company | ||
| guaranty sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.00%, 1/15/22 | 1,625,000 | 1,646,019 |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.60%, 2/28/23 | 1,625,000 | 1,665,098 |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 1.85%, 9/20/21 | 2,745,000 | 2,749,140 |
| Dell International, LLC/EMC Corp. 144A company guaranty sr. | ||
| notes 4.00%, 7/15/24 | 1,500,000 | 1,571,049 |
| Diamond 1 Finance Corp./Diamond 2 Finance Corp. 144A | ||
| company guaranty sr. notes 4.42%, 6/15/21 | 2,425,000 | 2,504,390 |
| Diamond 1 Finance Corp./Diamond 2 Finance Corp. 144A | ||
| company guaranty sr. unsec. notes 7.125%, 6/15/24 | 650,000 | 689,163 |
| Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes | ||
| 4.50%, 10/15/22 | 3,949,000 | 4,207,096 |
| Fiserv, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 4.75%, 6/15/21 | 500,000 | 521,838 |
| Fiserv, Inc. sr. unsec. notes 2.75%, 7/1/24 | 2,000,000 | 2,044,752 |
| Fiserv, Inc. sr. unsec. sub. notes 3.80%, 10/1/23 | 1,625,000 | 1,722,271 |
| Microchip Technology, Inc. company guaranty sr. notes | ||
| 4.333%, 6/1/23 | 1,055,000 | 1,116,278 |
| Microsoft Corp. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.375%, 2/12/22 | 3,240,000 | 3,287,212 |
| Salesforce.com, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 3.25%, 4/11/23 | 3,000,000 | 3,128,968 |
| 45,652,053 | ||
| Transportation (0.5%) | ||
| Penske Truck Leasing Co. LP/PTL Finance Corp. 144A sr. unsec. | ||
| notes 2.70%, 11/1/24 | 5,000,000 | 5,050,158 |
| 5,050,158 | ||
| Utilities and power (2.9%) | ||
| AES Corp./Virginia (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes 4.50%, 3/15/23 | 730,000 | 746,425 |
| American Electric Power Co., Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. I, | ||
| 3.65%, 12/1/21 | 1,585,000 | 1,637,207 |
| American Transmission Systems, Inc. 144A sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 5.25%, 1/15/22 | 3,705,000 | 3,940,420 |
| Consolidated Edison, Inc. sr. unsec. unsub. notes Ser. A, | ||
| 2.00%, 3/15/20 | 440,000 | 440,008 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC sr. notes 3.35%, 5/15/22 | 2,615,000 | 2,711,302 |
| Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. sr. notes 3.80%, 9/1/23 | 478,000 | 508,612 |
| Emera US Finance LP company guaranty sr. unsec. notes | ||
| 2.70%, 6/15/21 | 650,000 | 655,732 |
| Enterprise Products Operating, LLC company guaranty sr. unsec. | ||
| unsub. notes 3.35%, 3/15/23 | 4,660,000 | 4,826,431 |
| Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP company guaranty sr. unsec. | ||
| notes 3.50%, 3/1/21 | 675,000 | 685,373 |
| Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP company guaranty sr. unsec. | ||
| unsub. notes 4.30%, 5/1/24 | 2,000,000 | 2,136,799 |
| Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP company guaranty sr. unsec. | ||
| unsub. notes 3.45%, 2/15/23 | 2,150,000 | 2,221,932 |
| 30 Short Duration Bond Fund |
| Principal | ||
| CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (48.7%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Utilities and power cont. | ||
| NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Inc. company guaranty sr. unsec. | ||
| unsub. notes 2.403%, 9/1/21 | $3,500,000 | $3,526,715 |
| NRG Energy, Inc. 144A company guaranty sr. notes 3.75%, 6/15/24 | 795,000 | 824,685 |
| Pennsylvania Electric Co. sr. unsec. unsub. notes 5.20%, 4/1/20 | 600,000 | 607,439 |
| Southern Co. (The) sr. unsec. unsub. notes 2.35%, 7/1/21 | 1,965,000 | 1,976,574 |
| Vistra Operations Co., LLC 144A sr. notes 3.55%, 7/15/24 | 2,000,000 | 2,048,276 |
| 29,493,930 | ||
| Total corporate bonds and notes (cost $480,430,783) | $490,452,129 | |
| Principal | ||
| MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES (29.0%)* | amount | Value |
| Agency collateralized mortgage obligations (0.1%) | ||
| Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation | ||
| REMICs IFB Ser. 2976, Class LC, ((-3.667 x 1 Month US LIBOR) | ||
| + 24.42%), 17.375%, 5/15/35 | $13,794 | $20,691 |
| REMICs Ser. 3724, Class CM, 5.50%, 6/15/37 | 27,353 | 31,080 |
| REMICs Ser. 3539, Class PM, 4.50%, 5/15/37 | 10,753 | 11,347 |
| REMICs Ser. 3609, Class LK, 2.00%, 12/15/24 | 3,020 | 3,013 |
| Structured Pass-Through Certificates FRB Ser. 8, Class A9, IO, | ||
| 0.424%, 11/15/28 W | 57,543 | 794 |
| Structured Pass-Through Certificates FRB Ser. 59, Class 1AX, IO, | ||
| 0.282%, 10/25/43 W | 191,856 | 1,880 |
| Structured Pass-Through Certificates Ser. 48, Class A2, IO, | ||
| 0.212%, 7/25/33 W | 302,831 | 2,180 |
| Federal National Mortgage Association | ||
| REMICs IFB Ser. 05-75, Class GS, ((-3 x 1 Month US LIBOR) | ||
| + 20.25%), 14.782%, 8/25/35 | 77,171 | 103,772 |
| REMICs IFB Ser. 11-4, Class CS, ((-2 x 1 Month US LIBOR) + 12.90%), | ||
| 9.255%, 5/25/40 | 118,536 | 142,291 |
| REMICs Ser. 05-68, Class PC, 5.50%, 7/25/35 | 4,015 | 4,064 |
| REMICs Ser. 11-60, Class PA, 4.00%, 10/25/39 | 10,921 | 11,365 |
| REMICs Ser. 03-43, Class YA, 4.00%, 3/25/33 | 72,212 | 72,448 |
| REMICs Ser. 10-155, Class A, 3.50%, 9/25/25 | 2,511 | 2,510 |
| REMICs Ser. 10-81, Class AP, 2.50%, 7/25/40 | 47,048 | 46,755 |
| REMICs Trust Ser. 98-W2, Class X, IO, 1.615%, 6/25/28 W | 379,507 | 12,334 |
| REMICs Trust Ser. 98-W5, Class X, IO, 0.754%, 7/25/28 W | 109,429 | 3,152 |
| Government National Mortgage Association | ||
| Ser. 09-32, Class AB, 4.00%, 5/16/39 | 15,160 | 16,228 |
| Ser. 10-151, Class KO, PO, zero %, 6/16/37 | 91,039 | 80,125 |
| GSMPS Mortgage Loan Trust 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 98-2, IO, 1.004%, 5/19/27 W | 10,777 | — |
| FRB Ser. 99-2, IO, 0.84%, 9/19/27 W | 32,138 | 122 |
| FRB Ser. 98-3, IO, zero %, 9/19/27 W | 14,031 | — |
| FRB Ser. 98-4, IO, zero %, 12/19/26 W | 25,096 | — |
| 566,151 | ||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities (12.6%) | ||
| Banc of America Commercial Mortgage Trust FRB Ser. 07-1, | ||
| Class XW, IO, 0.211%, 1/15/49 W | 210,746 | 101 |
| BANK FRB Ser. 17-BNK9, Class XA, IO, 0.814%, 11/15/54 W | 9,625,974 | 512,152 |
| Short Duration Bond Fund 31 |
| Principal | ||
| MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES (29.0%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities cont. | ||
| Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust FRB | ||
| Ser. 07-T26, Class AJ, 5.45%, 1/12/45 W | $551,000 | $487,635 |
| Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 06-PW11, Class B, 5.775%, 3/11/39 W | 553,555 | 276,778 |
| FRB Ser. 06-T22, Class E, 5.728%, 4/12/38 W | 1,499,000 | 1,541,668 |
| CD Commercial Mortgage Trust | ||
| FRB Ser. 16-CD1, Class XA, IO, 1.412%, 8/10/49 W | 9,486,877 | 707,057 |
| FRB Ser. 17-CD6, Class XA, IO, 0.965%, 11/13/50 W | 20,518,908 | 1,105,569 |
| FRB Ser. 16-CD2, Class XA, IO, 0.674%, 11/10/49 W | 87,273,172 | 2,979,296 |
| CFCRE Commercial Mortgage Trust FRB Ser. 16-C4, Class XA, IO, | ||
| 1.712%, 5/10/58 W | 33,291,348 | 2,945,951 |
| CFCRE Commercial Mortgage Trust 144A FRB Ser. 11-C2, Class D, | ||
| 5.741%, 12/15/47 W | 275,000 | 288,750 |
| Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust Ser. 14-GC21, Class AS, | ||
| 4.026%, 5/10/47 | 310,000 | 329,043 |
| COMM Mortgage Trust | ||
| FRB Ser. 12-LC4, Class C, 5.537%, 12/10/44 W | 686,000 | 716,803 |
| FRB Ser. 14-CR17, Class C, 4.786%, 5/10/47 W | 577,000 | 615,947 |
| Ser. 13-LC6, Class AM, 3.282%, 1/10/46 | 911,000 | 937,940 |
| FRB Ser. 13-LC13, Class XA, IO, 1.15%, 8/10/46 W | 5,240,660 | 183,266 |
| FRB Ser. 14-LC15, Class XA, IO, 1.103%, 4/10/47 W | 19,653,285 | 790,062 |
| FRB Ser. 14-CR20, Class XA, IO, 1.035%, 11/10/47 W | 59,743,479 | 2,591,672 |
| FRB Ser. 14-CR17, Class XA, IO, 0.983%, 5/10/47 W | 4,897,640 | 184,994 |
| FRB Ser. 15-CR26, Class XA, IO, 0.952%, 10/10/48 W | 44,816,580 | 2,061,473 |
| FRB Ser. 15-LC21, Class XA, IO, 0.765%, 7/10/48 W | 63,773,623 | 1,913,209 |
| FRB Ser. 14-CR14, Class XA, IO, 0.617%, 2/10/47 W | 25,002,317 | 584,804 |
| COMM Mortgage Trust 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 10-C1, Class D, 6.107%, 7/10/46 W | 502,000 | 513,462 |
| Ser. 12-CR5, Class AM, 3.223%, 12/10/45 | 1,751,684 | 1,796,912 |
| Credit Suisse Commercial Mortgage Trust 144A FRB Ser. 08-C1, | ||
| Class AJ, 5.803%, 2/15/41 W | 497,986 | 351,877 |
| Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp. 144A FRB | ||
| Ser. 03-C3, Class AX, IO, 2.002%, 5/15/38 W | 200,906 | 5,012 |
| CSAIL Commercial Mortgage Trust Ser. 15-C1, Class XA, IO, | ||
| 0.861%, 4/15/50 W | 21,948,402 | 812,348 |
| CSMC Trust FRB Ser. 16-NXSR, Class XA, IO, 0.784%, 12/15/49 W | 38,544,495 | 1,574,255 |
| DBUBS Mortgage Trust 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 11-LC2A, Class D, 5.53%, 7/10/44 W | 2,289,000 | 2,385,612 |
| FRB Ser. 11-LC3A, Class D, 5.334%, 8/10/44 W | 2,735,000 | 2,840,626 |
| Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation | ||
| Multifamily Structured Pass-Through Certificates FRB Ser. KC05, | ||
| Class X1, IO, 1.204%, 6/25/27 | 30,000,000 | 2,024,310 |
| Multifamily Structured Pass-Through Certificates FRB Ser. K048, | ||
| Class X1, IO, 0.247%, 6/25/25 W | 255,888,967 | 3,267,702 |
| GE Capital Commercial Mortgage Corp. FRB Ser. 05-C1, Class D, | ||
| 4.41%, 6/10/48 W | 497,508 | 298,505 |
| GS Mortgage Securities Corp., II FRB Ser. 13-GC10, Class XA, IO, | ||
| 1.504%, 2/10/46 W | 13,126,888 | 565,506 |
| 32 Short Duration Bond Fund |
| Principal | ||
| MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES (29.0%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities cont. | ||
| GS Mortgage Securities Trust | ||
| FRB Ser. 14-GC18, Class C, 4.99%, 1/10/47 W | $748,000 | $757,948 |
| FRB Ser. 14-GC22, Class C, 4.691%, 6/10/47 W | 565,000 | 597,075 |
| Ser. 12-GCJ7, Class AS, 4.085%, 5/10/45 | 3,000,000 | 3,112,500 |
| FRB Ser. 13-GC12, Class XA, IO, 1.421%, 6/10/46 W | 6,764,314 | 277,777 |
| FRB Ser. 15-GC30, Class XA, IO, 0.822%, 5/10/50 W | 38,493,346 | 1,193,117 |
| FRB Ser. 14-GC24, Class XA, IO, 0.741%, 9/10/47 W | 78,339,933 | 2,365,866 |
| GS Mortgage Securities Trust 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 10-C1, Class D, 6.051%, 8/10/43 W | 1,431,000 | 1,446,767 |
| FRB Ser. 11-GC3, Class C, 5.637%, 3/10/44 W | 927,000 | 960,314 |
| FRB Ser. 11-GC3, Class D, 5.637%, 3/10/44 W | 2,547,000 | 2,644,412 |
| FRB Ser. 11-GC5, Class B, 5.39%, 8/10/44 W | 1,470,000 | 1,535,055 |
| FRB Ser. 11-GC5, Class C, 5.39%, 8/10/44 W | 1,358,000 | 1,405,428 |
| Ser. 11-GC5, Class AS, 5.209%, 8/10/44 W | 1,174,000 | 1,225,643 |
| FRB Ser. 10-C2, Class D, 5.18%, 12/10/43 W | 2,815,000 | 2,891,498 |
| Ser. 10-C1, Class B, 5.148%, 8/10/43 | 2,490,000 | 2,528,807 |
| Ser. 12-GC6, Class AS, 4.948%, 1/12/45 | 2,500,000 | 2,625,000 |
| JPMBB Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust | ||
| FRB Ser. 13-C14, Class C, 4.702%, 8/15/46 W | 709,000 | 746,124 |
| Ser. 13-C17, Class AS, 4.458%, 1/15/47 | 241,000 | 261,286 |
| FRB Ser. 13-C12, Class C, 4.10%, 7/15/45 W | 3,000,000 | 3,134,766 |
| FRB Ser. 15-C31, Class XA, IO, 0.916%, 8/15/48 W | 18,276,731 | 709,260 |
| FRB Ser. 14-C22, Class XA, IO, 0.852%, 9/15/47 W | 8,141,884 | 270,909 |
| JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust | ||
| Ser. 12-C6, Class B, 4.819%, 5/15/45 W | 2,113,444 | 2,223,954 |
| Ser. 12-C6, Class AS, 4.117%, 5/15/45 | 494,000 | 514,710 |
| FRB Ser. 16-JP2, Class XA, IO, 1.829%, 8/15/49 W | 20,619,933 | 2,037,538 |
| FRB Ser. 13-C10, Class XA, IO, 0.984%, 12/15/47 W | 8,370,973 | 226,853 |
| JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 10-C2, Class D, 5.599%, 11/15/43 W | 1,792,000 | 1,815,056 |
| FRB Ser. 12-C6, Class E, 5.158%, 5/15/45 W | 898,000 | 862,777 |
| FRB Ser. 12-LC9, Class D, 4.401%, 12/15/47 W | 173,000 | 178,733 |
| LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust | ||
| FRB Ser. 06-C6, Class AJ, 5.452%, 9/15/39 W | 168,835 | 98,511 |
| FRB Ser. 07-C2, Class XW, IO, 0.163%, 2/15/40 W | 21,935 | 2 |
| Merrill Lynch Mortgage Trust 144A FRB Ser. 05-MCP1, Class XC, IO, | ||
| 0.001%, 6/12/43 W | 1,210,071 | 32 |
| ML-CFC Commercial Mortgage Trust 144A FRB Ser. 06-4, Class XC, | ||
| IO, 0.561%, 12/12/49 W | 843,476 | 3,339 |
| Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill Lynch Trust | ||
| FRB Ser. 13-C9, Class C, 4.035%, 5/15/46 W | 1,400,000 | 1,462,891 |
| Ser. 12-C6, Class B, 3.93%, 11/15/45 | 2,636,000 | 2,732,240 |
| FRB Ser. 13-C7, Class XA, IO, 1.349%, 2/15/46 W | 26,288,754 | 927,730 |
| FRB Ser. 14-C17, Class XA, IO, 1.11%, 8/15/47 W | 6,341,094 | 248,786 |
| FRB Ser. 15-C26, Class XA, IO, 1.03%, 10/15/48 W | 37,159,247 | 1,792,023 |
| FRB Ser. 17-C34, Class XA, IO, 0.817%, 11/15/52 W | 77,952,338 | 3,995,619 |
| FRB Ser. 16-C32, Class XA, IO, 0.735%, 12/15/49 W | 102,467,708 | 4,258,937 |
| Morgan Stanley Bank of America Merrill Lynch Trust 144A FRB | ||
| Ser. 13-C7, Class XB, IO, 0.335%, 2/15/46 W | 24,165,000 | 248,900 |
| Short Duration Bond Fund 33 |
| Principal | ||
| MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES (29.0%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities cont. | ||
| Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust | ||
| Ser. 05-T19, Class D, 5.289%, 6/12/47 W | $240,924 | $242,850 |
| FRB Ser. 18-H4, Class XA, IO, 0.865%, 12/15/51 W | 34,264,521 | 2,224,699 |
| Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 05-IQ10, Class E, 5.719%, 9/15/42 W | 2,074,021 | 2,108,848 |
| Ser. 12-C4, Class C, 5.419%, 3/15/45 W | 245,060 | 254,509 |
| Ser. 12-C4, Class B, 5.213%, 3/15/45 W | 1,450,000 | 1,533,375 |
| FRB Ser. 12-C4, Class XA, IO, 2.075%, 3/15/45 W | 1,562,681 | 58,786 |
| UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust | ||
| Ser. 12-C1, Class AS, 4.171%, 5/10/45 | 1,500,000 | 1,561,695 |
| FRB Ser. 17-C7, Class XA, IO, 1.06%, 12/15/50 W | 8,088,595 | 526,072 |
| UBS-Barclays Commercial Mortgage Trust 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 12-C3, Class C, 5.031%, 8/10/49 W | 418,000 | 440,289 |
| FRB Ser. 12-C2, Class D, 4.89%, 5/10/63 W | 279,000 | 280,898 |
| FRB Ser. 12-C2, Class XA, IO, 1.311%, 5/10/63 W | 14,305,919 | 420,432 |
| UBS-Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust 144A Ser. 11-C1, | ||
| Class AS, 5.154%, 1/10/45 | 472,000 | 495,562 |
| Wachovia Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust FRB Ser. 06-C29, IO, | ||
| 0.306%, 11/15/48 W | 1,006,028 | 30 |
| Wachovia Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust 144A FRB Ser. 07-C31, | ||
| IO, zero %, 4/15/47 W | 2,581,848 | 3 |
| Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust | ||
| FRB Ser. 13-LC12, Class C, 4.285%, 7/15/46 W | 898,000 | 917,588 |
| FRB Ser. 16-BNK1, Class XA, IO, 1.767%, 8/15/49 W | 6,631,692 | 637,306 |
| FRB Ser. 16-C37, Class XA, IO, 0.991%, 12/15/49 W | 8,012,136 | 339,715 |
| FRB Ser. 15-C27, Class XA, IO, 0.895%, 2/15/48 W | 7,169,163 | 249,534 |
| FRB Ser. 15-LC20, Class XB, IO, 0.479%, 4/15/50 W | 10,567,000 | 257,201 |
| Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 10-C1, Class C, 5.596%, 11/15/43 W | 2,466,000 | 2,517,202 |
| FRB Ser. 13-LC12, Class D, 4.285%, 7/15/46 W | 964,000 | 901,748 |
| WF-RBS Commercial Mortgage Trust | ||
| FRB Ser. 13-C16, Class AS, 4.668%, 9/15/46 W | 1,257,000 | 1,357,635 |
| Ser. 13-C18, Class AS, 4.387%, 12/15/46 W | 491,000 | 529,367 |
| FRB Ser. 12-C10, Class C, 4.37%, 12/15/45 W | 267,000 | 267,525 |
| Ser. 12-C8, Class B, 4.311%, 8/15/45 | 3,015,000 | 3,150,223 |
| Ser. 13-UBS1, Class AS, 4.306%, 3/15/46 W | 360,000 | 385,336 |
| Ser. 12-C8, Class AS, 3.66%, 8/15/45 | 1,284,000 | 1,330,736 |
| Ser. 13-C12, Class AS, 3.56%, 3/15/48 | 395,000 | 409,753 |
| Ser. 13-C11, Class AS, 3.311%, 3/15/45 | 433,000 | 445,600 |
| FRB Ser. 14-C22, Class XA, IO, 0.813%, 9/15/57 W | 28,744,043 | 935,532 |
| FRB Ser. 14-C23, Class XA, IO, 0.569%, 10/15/57 W | 81,177,694 | 2,022,124 |
| WF-RBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 11-C5, Class C, 5.665%, 11/15/44 W | 2,494,000 | 2,632,307 |
| FRB Ser. 11-C2, Class D, 5.652%, 2/15/44 W | 3,652,000 | 3,740,656 |
| Ser. 11-C4, Class D, 5.23%, 6/15/44 W | 1,324,000 | 1,336,777 |
| Ser. 11-C4, Class E, 5.23%, 6/15/44 W | 40,000 | 40,085 |
| 127,060,478 |
| 34 Short Duration Bond Fund |
| Principal | ||
| MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES (29.0%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Residential mortgage-backed securities (non-agency) (16.3%) | ||
| Angel Oak Mortgage Trust I, LLC 144A | ||
| Ser. 19-1, Class A3, 4.124%, 11/25/48 W | $1,517,032 | $1,561,481 |
| FRB Ser. 17-2, Class A1, 2.478%, 7/25/47 W | 85,765 | 85,576 |
| Angel Oak Mortgage Trust, LLC 144A FRB Ser. 17-1, Class A1, | ||
| 2.81%, 1/25/47 W | 341,611 | 341,714 |
| Arroyo Mortgage Trust 144A | ||
| Ser. 19-1, Class A3, 4.208%, 1/25/49 W | 2,488,546 | 2,532,873 |
| Ser. 19-3, Class A3, 3.416%, 10/25/48 W | 657,755 | 658,977 |
| BankUnited Trust FRB Ser. 05-1, Class 1A1, (1 Month US LIBOR | ||
| + 0.60%), 2.423%, 9/25/45 | 205,305 | 198,120 |
| Bellemeade Re, Ltd. 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 17-1, Class M1, (1 Month US LIBOR + 1.70%), 3.523%, | ||
| 10/25/27 (Bermuda) | 202,954 | 203,461 |
| FRB Ser. 18-2A, Class M1B, (1 Month US LIBOR + 1.35%), 3.173%, | ||
| 8/25/28 (Bermuda) | 324,000 | 324,486 |
| FRB Ser. 18-3A, Class M1A, (1 Month US LIBOR + 1.20%), 3.023%, | ||
| 10/25/28 (Bermuda) | 591,633 | 591,096 |
| BRAVO Residential Funding Trust 144A Ser. 19-NQM1, Class A3, | ||
| 2.996%, 7/25/59 W | 448,728 | 448,868 |
| Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc. FRB Ser. 05-2, Class 1A2A, | ||
| 4.89%, 5/25/35 W | 246,443 | 256,082 |
| COLT Funding, LLC 144A Ser. 19-4, Class A3, 2.988%, 11/25/49 W | 3,970,443 | 3,972,925 |
| COLT Mortgage Loan Trust 144A | ||
| Ser. 19-1, Class A3, 4.088%, 3/25/49 W | 751,848 | 760,269 |
| Ser. 18-2, Class A1, 3.47%, 7/27/48 W | 328,270 | 334,835 |
| Ser. 18-1, Class A1, 2.93%, 2/25/48 W | 68,354 | 68,354 |
| Countrywide Home Loans Mortgage Pass-Through Trust FRB | ||
| Ser. 05-3, Class 1A1, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.62%), 2.443%, 4/25/35 | 164,472 | 145,555 |
| CSMC Trust 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 12-4R, Class 7A2, 4.246%, 1/27/36 W | 87,515 | 87,483 |
| Ser. 18-RPL7, Class A1, 4.00%, 8/26/58 | 711,600 | 712,489 |
| Deephaven Residential Mortgage Trust 144A | ||
| Ser. 18-2A, Class A1, 3.479%, 4/25/58 W | 890,705 | 894,980 |
| FRB Ser. 17-3A, Class A1, 2.577%, 10/25/47 W | 1,112,017 | 1,112,795 |
| Eagle Re, Ltd 144A FRB Ser. 18-1, Class M2, (1 Month US LIBOR | ||
| + 3.00%), 4.823%, 11/25/28 | 600,000 | 601,688 |
| Eagle Re, Ltd. 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 19-1, Class M1B, (1 Month US LIBOR + 1.80%), 3.623%, | ||
| 4/25/29 (Bermuda) | 2,000,000 | 2,001,250 |
| FRB Ser. 18-1, Class M1, (1 Month US LIBOR + 1.70%), | ||
| 3.523%, 11/25/28 | 592,803 | 594,894 |
| Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation | ||
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt FRN Ser. 14-HQ3, Class M3, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 4.75%), 6.573%, 10/25/24 | 181,443 | 192,038 |
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt FRN Ser. 15-DNA3, Class M3, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 4.70%), 6.523%, 4/25/28 | 1,000,000 | 1,100,459 |
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt FRN Ser. 16-DNA2, Class M3, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 4.65%), 6.473%, 10/25/28 | 5,427,221 | 5,814,769 |
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt FRN Ser. 14-HQ1, Class M3, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 4.10%), 5.923%, 8/25/24 | 2,267,759 | 2,395,307 |
| Short Duration Bond Fund 35 |
| Principal | ||
| MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES (29.0%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Residential mortgage-backed securities (non-agency) cont. | ||
| Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation | ||
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt FRN Ser. 15-DNA2, Class M3, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 3.90%), 5.723%, 12/25/27 | $4,200,000 | $4,357,614 |
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt FRN Ser. 14-HQ2, Class M3, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 3.75%), 5.573%, 9/25/24 | 633,000 | 683,064 |
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt FRN Ser. 17-DNA1, Class M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 3.25%), 5.073%, 7/25/29 | 2,000,000 | 2,094,734 |
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt FRN Ser. 15-DNA3, Class M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 2.85%), 4.673%, 4/25/28 | 1,206,775 | 1,223,908 |
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt FRN Ser. 14-HQ2, Class M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 2.20%), 4.023%, 9/25/24 | 1,760,612 | 1,782,035 |
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt FRN Ser. 14-DN1, Class M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 2.20%), 4.023%, 2/25/24 | 1,007,663 | 1,020,867 |
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt FRN Ser. 15-HQ2, Class M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 1.95%), 3.773%, 5/25/25 | 702,959 | 711,174 |
| Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation 144A | ||
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Trust FRB Ser. 19-DNA1, Class M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 2.65%), 4.473%, 1/25/49 | 1,760,000 | 1,784,753 |
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Trust FRB Ser. 19-DNA2, Class M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 2.45%), 4.273%, 3/25/49 | 240,000 | 241,557 |
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Trust FRB Ser. 19-HQA1, Class M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 2.35%), 4.173%, 2/25/49 | 412,000 | 415,120 |
| Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt FRN Ser. 18-HRP2, Class M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 1.25%), 3.073%, 2/25/47 | 1,600,000 | 1,600,936 |
| Federal National Mortgage Association | ||
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 16-C01, Class 2M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 6.95%), 8.773%, 8/25/28 | 3,376,433 | 3,640,674 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 16-C01, Class 1M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 6.75%), 8.573%, 8/25/28 | 7,356,893 | 8,123,040 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 16-C02, Class 1M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 6.00%), 7.823%, 9/25/28 | 6,251,883 | 6,807,101 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 16-C03, Class 2M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 5.90%), 7.723%, 10/25/28 | 352,150 | 379,632 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 15-C04, Class 1M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 5.70%), 7.523%, 4/25/28 | 1,472,162 | 1,604,592 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 15-C04, Class 2M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 5.55%), 7.373%, 4/25/28 | 800,325 | 853,074 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 13-C01, Class M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 5.25%), 7.073%, 10/25/23 | 3,172,765 | 3,497,932 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 15-C03, Class 2M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 5.00%), 6.823%, 7/25/25 | 11,033 | 11,724 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 14-C04, Class 2M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 5.00%), 6.823%, 11/25/24 | 4,280,723 | 4,557,073 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 14-C04, Class 1M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 4.90%), 6.723%, 11/25/24 | 2,364,268 | 2,582,078 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 15-C01, Class 2M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 4.55%), 6.373%, 2/25/25 | 444,333 | 458,652 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 14-C01, Class M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 4.40%), 6.223%, 1/25/24 | 3,427,744 | 3,715,612 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 16-C04, Class 1M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 4.25%), 6.073%, 1/25/29 | 1,920,000 | 2,023,711 |
| 36 Short Duration Bond Fund |
| Principal | ||
| MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES (29.0%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Residential mortgage-backed securities (non-agency) cont. | ||
| Federal National Mortgage Association | ||
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 15-C02, Class 2M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 4.00%), 5.823%, 5/25/25 | $503,879 | $523,652 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 17-C01, Class 1M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 3.55%), 5.373%, 7/25/29 | 5,585,000 | 5,838,297 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 14-C03, Class 2M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 2.90%), 4.723%, 7/25/24 | 2,313,397 | 2,409,323 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 14-C02, Class 1M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 2.60%), 4.423%, 5/25/24 | 2,463,628 | 2,569,181 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 14-C02, Class 2M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 2.60%), 4.423%, 5/25/24 | 3,232,397 | 3,347,996 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 17-C02, Class 2ED3, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 1.35%), 3.173%, 9/25/29 | 4,000,000 | 4,005,272 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 17-C01, Class 1EB1, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 1.25%), 3.073%, 7/25/29 | 6,000,000 | 5,953,584 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 17-C07, Class 1EB2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 1.00%), 2.823%, 5/25/30 | 4,910,716 | 4,886,329 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 17-C02, Class 2ED4, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.85%), 2.673%, 9/25/29 | 2,300,000 | 2,284,309 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities FRB Ser. 18-C04, Class 2M1, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.75%), 2.573%, 12/25/30 | 584,696 | 584,696 |
| Federal National Mortgage Association 144A | ||
| Connecticut Avenue Securities Trust FRB Ser. 19-R01, Class 2M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 2.45%), 4.273%, 7/25/31 | 1,000,000 | 1,007,852 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities Trust FRB Ser. 19-R07, Class 1M2, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.00%), 3.923%, 10/25/39 | 2,140,000 | 2,140,043 |
| Connecticut Avenue Securities Trust FRB Ser. 19-R02, Class 1M1, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.85%), 2.673%, 8/25/31 | 276,493 | 276,559 |
| First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust FRB Ser. 06-FF15, Class A5, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.16%), 1.983%, 11/25/36 | 1,738,395 | 1,695,283 |
| FWD Securitization Trust 144A Ser. 19-INV1, Class A3, | ||
| 3.11%, 6/25/49 W | 3,236,092 | 3,262,757 |
| Galton Funding Mortgage Trust 144A | ||
| Ser. 18-2, Class A41, 4.50%, 10/25/58 W | 850,420 | 872,503 |
| Ser. 18-1, Class A43, 3.50%, 11/25/57 W | 488,480 | 493,523 |
| GCAT, LLC 144A Ser. 19-NQM1, Class A2, 3.241%, 2/25/59 | 2,754,643 | 2,766,809 |
| GSAA Home Equity Trust FRB Ser. 06-8, Class 2A2, (1 Month | ||
| US LIBOR + 0.18%), 2.003%, 5/25/36 | 569,394 | 241,748 |
| Home Re, Ltd. 144A FRB Ser. 18-1, Class M1, (1 Month US LIBOR | ||
| + 1.60%), 3.423%, 10/25/28 (Bermuda) | 1,551,780 | 1,545,961 |
| Homeward Opportunities Fund I Trust 144A | ||
| Ser. 18-2, Class A2, 4.137%, 11/25/58 W | 1,204,525 | 1,220,092 |
| Ser. 18-1, Class A1, 3.78%, 6/25/48 W | 837,114 | 842,848 |
| Legacy Mortgage Asset Trust 144A Ser. 19-GS7, Class A1, | ||
| 3.25%, 6/25/59 | 5,030,000 | 5,032,515 |
| Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust FRB Ser. 05-A2, Class A2, | ||
| 4.432%, 2/25/35 W | 90,356 | 94,098 |
| Morgan Stanley Resecuritization Trust 144A | ||
| Ser. 15-R4, Class CB1, 2.843%, 8/26/47 W | 1,265,000 | 1,255,558 |
| FRB Ser. 14-R8, Class 2A, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.16%), | ||
| 2.178%, 6/26/47 | 246,095 | 246,095 |
| Short Duration Bond Fund 37 |
| Principal | ||
| MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES (29.0%)* cont. | amount | Value |
| Residential mortgage-backed securities (non-agency) cont. | ||
| New Residential Mortgage Loan Trust 144A | ||
| Ser. 19-NQM4, Class A3, 2.77%, 9/25/59 W | $1,984,403 | $1,984,999 |
| FRB Ser. 18-4A, Class A1M, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.90%), | ||
| 2.723%, 1/25/48 | 631,100 | 637,776 |
| Ser. 19-NQM4, Class A2, 2.668%, 9/25/59 W | 1,753,220 | 1,751,116 |
| Nomura Resecuritization Trust 144A FRB Ser. 15-8R, Class 4A1, | ||
| (1 Month US LIBOR + 2.00%), 4.446%, 11/25/47 | 456,001 | 460,321 |
| Oaktown Re II, Ltd. 144A FRB Ser. 18-1A, Class M1, (1 Month | ||
| US LIBOR + 1.55%), 3.373%, 7/25/28 (Bermuda) | 599,076 | 599,544 |
| Oaktown Re, Ltd. 144A FRB Ser. 17-1A, Class M2, (1 Month US LIBOR | ||
| + 4.00%), 5.823%, 4/25/27 (Bermuda) | 343,282 | 349,933 |
| Onslow Bay Financial, LLC Trust 144A Ser. 18-EXP1, Class 1A3, | ||
| 4.00%, 4/25/48 W | 1,506,336 | 1,531,361 |
| Park Place Securities, Inc. Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates | ||
| FRB Ser. 04-WCW2, Class M3, (1 Month US LIBOR + 1.05%), | ||
| 2.873%, 10/25/34 | 200,000 | 199,380 |
| Radnor Re, Ltd. 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 19-1, Class M2, (1 Month US LIBOR + 3.20%), 5.023%, | ||
| 2/25/29 (Bermuda) | 1,570,000 | 1,589,662 |
| FRB Ser. 19-2, Class M1B, (1 Month US LIBOR + 1.75%), 3.573%, | ||
| 6/25/29 (Bermuda) | 2,000,000 | 1,998,750 |
| RCO V Mortgage, LLC 144A Ser. 18-1, Class A1, 4.00%, 5/25/23 | 1,640,084 | 1,640,084 |
| Residential Mortgage Loan Trust 144A Ser. 19-3, Class A2, | ||
| 2.941%, 9/25/59 W | 1,488,094 | 1,487,164 |
| Starwood Mortgage Residential Trust 144A | ||
| Ser. 18-IMC1, Class A1, 3.793%, 3/25/48 W | 245,293 | 246,835 |
| Ser. 19-1, Class A3, 3.175%, 6/25/49 W | 2,341,772 | 2,350,554 |
| Ser. 19-INV1, Class A2, 2.865%, 8/25/49 W | 3,172,971 | 3,170,987 |
| Structured Asset Mortgage Investments II Trust FRB Ser. 07-AR7, | ||
| Class 1A1, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.85%), 2.673%, 5/25/47 | 570,030 | 480,894 |
| Structured Asset Securities Corp. Mortgage Loan Trust FRB | ||
| Ser. 06-AM1, Class A4, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.16%), 1.983%, 4/25/36 | 41,234 | 41,211 |
| Vericrest Opportunity Loan Transferee LXII, LLC 144A Ser. 17-NPL9, | ||
| Class A1, 3.125%, 9/25/47 | 761,287 | 763,494 |
| Vericrest Opportunity Loan Transferee LXIV, LLC 144A Ser. 17-NP11, | ||
| Class A1, 3.375%, 10/25/47 | 766,699 | 766,699 |
| Verus Securitization Trust 144A | ||
| Ser. 19-1, Class A3, 3.985%, 2/25/59 W | 1,856,281 | 1,874,844 |
| Ser. 19-1, Class A1, 3.73%, 2/25/59 W | 1,537,783 | 1,556,525 |
| Ser. 2, Class A1, 3.635%, 6/1/58 W | 1,008,171 | 1,014,472 |
| 164,056,969 | ||
| Total mortgage-backed securities (cost $293,090,025) | $291,683,598 |
| 38 Short Duration Bond Fund |
| Principal | ||
| ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES (2.0%)* | amount | Value |
| Finance of America Structured Securities Trust 144A Ser. 18-HB1, | ||
| Class M2, 4.087%, 9/25/28 W | $1,800,000 | $1,837,260 |
| Mello Warehouse Securitization Trust 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 18-W1, Class A, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.85%), | ||
| 2.868%, 11/25/51 | 126,000 | 126,000 |
| FRB Ser. 19-1, Class A, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.80%), | ||
| 2.623%, 6/25/52 | 1,067,000 | 1,067,000 |
| RMF Buyout Issuance Trust 144A | ||
| Ser. 18-1, Class M3, 4.448%, 11/25/28 W | 517,000 | 527,565 |
| Ser. 19-1, Class M3, 3.011%, 7/25/29 W | 2,100,000 | 2,124,387 |
| Station Place Securitization Trust 144A | ||
| FRB Ser. 19-7, Class A, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.70%), | ||
| 2.746%, 9/24/20 | 3,480,000 | 3,480,000 |
| FRB Ser. 19-3, Class A, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.70%), | ||
| 2.746%, 6/24/20 | 2,679,000 | 2,679,000 |
| FRB Ser. 19-11, Class A, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.75%), | ||
| 2.572%, 10/24/20 | 2,814,000 | 2,814,000 |
| FRB Ser. 19-WL1, Class A, (1 Month US LIBOR + 0.65%), | ||
| 2.473%, 8/25/52 | 2,056,000 | 2,056,000 |
| Toorak Mortgage Corp. 144A Ser. 19-1, Class A1, 4.336%, 3/25/22 | 2,500,000 | 2,525,000 |
| Towd Point Asset Trust 144A FRB Ser. 18-SL1, Class A, (1 Month | ||
| US LIBOR + 0.60%), 2.423%, 1/25/46 | 489,819 | 483,771 |
| Total asset-backed securities (cost $19,626,824) | $19,719,983 | |
| Principal amount/ | ||
| SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS (23.1%)* | shares | Value |
| Albermarle Corp. commercial paper 2.084%, 11/25/19 | $2,000,000 | $1,997,125 |
| Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. commercial paper | ||
| 2.193%, 11/12/19 | 2,500,000 | 2,498,358 |
| Ameren Illinois Co. commercial paper 2.104%, 11/15/19 | 2,000,000 | 1,998,275 |
| American Electric Power Co., Inc. commercial paper | ||
| 2.153%, 11/6/19 | 2,000,000 | 1,999,317 |
| Bell Canada, Inc. commercial paper 2.158%, 12/16/19 | 2,000,000 | 1,995,009 |
| Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co. commercial paper | ||
| 2.054%, 11/18/19 | 1,500,000 | 1,498,440 |
| CAFCO, LLC asset backed commercial paper 2.011%, 3/9/20 | 2,000,000 | 1,987,578 |
| Canadian Natural Resources, Ltd. commercial paper | ||
| 2.084%, 11/25/19 | 2,500,000 | 2,496,406 |
| CBS Corp. commercial paper 2.153%, 11/12/19 | 1,000,000 | 999,312 |
| Chariot Funding, LLC asset backed commercial paper | ||
| 2.107%, 11/21/19 | 1,500,000 | 1,498,485 |
| CHARTA, LLC asset backed commercial paper 2.020%, 2/14/20 | 3,000,000 | 2,984,303 |
| Collateralized Commercial Paper V Co., LLC commercial paper | ||
| 1.919%, 4/27/20 | 3,000,000 | 2,971,957 |
| CRH America Finance, Inc. commercial paper 2.280%, 12/6/19 | 2,500,000 | 2,494,925 |
| Diageo Capital PLC commercial paper 2.071%, 11/5/19 | 2,500,000 | 2,499,303 |
| Enbridge US, Inc. commercial paper 2.255%, 11/15/19 | 2,000,000 | 1,998,275 |
| ENGIE SA commercial paper 2.037%, 12/19/19 | 3,000,000 | 2,992,744 |
| Entergy Corp. commercial paper 2.208%, 12/2/19 | 2,000,000 | 1,996,492 |
| ERAC USA Finance, LLC commercial paper 2.259%, 11/26/19 | 3,000,000 | 2,995,602 |
| Fortive Corp. commercial paper 2.204%, 11/12/19 | 2,000,000 | 1,998,625 |
| Short Duration Bond Fund 39 |
| Principal amount/ | |||
| SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS (23.1%)* cont. | shares | Value | |
| LMA-Americas, LLC asset backed commercial paper | |||
| 1.926%, 3/24/20 | $2,000,000 | $1,985,283 | |
| Manhattan Asset Funding Co., LLC asset backed commercial | |||
| paper 2.131%, 12/6/19 | 2,000,000 | 1,996,468 | |
| Mid-America Apartments LP commercial paper 2.133%, 11/7/19 | 2,500,000 | 2,499,003 | |
| Old Line Funding, LLC asset backed commercial paper | |||
| 1.928%, 4/23/20 | 2,500,000 | 2,476,390 | |
| Omnicom Capital Inc. commercial paper 2.123%, 11/7/19 | 1,000,000 | 999,601 | |
| PPL Capital Funding, Inc. commercial paper 2.164%, 11/8/19 | 2,000,000 | 1,999,088 | |
| Putnam Short Term Investment Fund 1.98% L | Shares | 165,612,052 | 165,612,052 |
| Southern Co. Gas Capital Corp. commercial paper | |||
| 2.022%, 11/12/19 | $1,500,000 | 1,498,969 | |
| Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. commercial paper 1.972%, 11/1/19 | 3,000,000 | 2,999,840 | |
| State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund, | |||
| Premier Class 1.75% P | Shares | 120,000 | 120,000 |
| U.S. Treasury Bills 2.056%, 11/21/19 § | $188,000 | 187,841 | |
| U.S. Treasury Bills 2.048%, 12/5/19 § | 571,000 | 570,195 | |
| U.S. Treasury Bills 1.977%, 11/14/19 § | 714,000 | 713,616 | |
| U.S. Treasury Bills 1.905%, 11/7/19 ∆ § | 599,000 | 598,841 | |
| Victory Receivables Corp. asset backed commercial paper | |||
| 2.161%, 12/12/19 | 2,000,000 | 1,995,772 | |
| Welltower, Inc. commercial paper 2.245%, 11/6/19 | 2,000,000 | 1,999,317 | |
| WRKCo., Inc. commercial paper 2.072%, 11/6/19 | 2,500,000 | 2,499,147 | |
| Total short-term investments (cost $232,645,244) | $232,651,954 | ||
| TOTAL INVESTMENTS | |||
| Total investments (cost $1,025,792,876) | $1,034,507,664 | ||
Key to holding’s abbreviations
| BKNT | Bank Note |
| bp | Basis Points |
| FRB | Floating Rate Bonds: the rate shown is the current interest rate at the close of the reporting period. Rates may |
| be subject to a cap or floor. For certain securities, the rate may represent a fixed rate currently in place at the | |
| close of the reporting period. | |
| FRN | Floating Rate Notes: the rate shown is the current interest rate or yield at the close of the reporting period. |
| Rates may be subject to a cap or floor. For certain securities, the rate may represent a fixed rate currently in | |
| place at the close of the reporting period. | |
| GMTN | Global Medium Term Notes |
| IFB | Inverse Floating Rate Bonds, which are securities that pay interest rates that vary inversely to changes in the |
| market interest rates. As interest rates rise, inverse floaters produce less current income. The rate shown is | |
| the current interest rate at the close of the reporting period. Rates may be subject to a cap or floor. | |
| IO | Interest Only |
| MTN | Medium Term Notes |
| OTC | Over-the-counter |
| PO | Principal Only |
| 40 Short Duration Bond Fund |
Notes to the fund’s portfolio
Unless noted otherwise, the notes to the fund’s portfolio are for the close of the fund’s reporting period, which ran from November 1, 2018 through October 31, 2019 (the reporting period). Within the following notes to the portfolio, references to “Putnam Management” represent Putnam Investment Management, LLC, the fund’s manager, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Putnam Investments, LLC and references to “ASC 820” represent Accounting Standards Codification 820 Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures.
* Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $1,006,836,271.
∆∆ This security is restricted with regard to public resale. The total fair value of this security and any other restricted securities (excluding 144A securities), if any, held at the close of the reporting period was $1,694,199, or less than 0.1% of net assets.
∆ This security, in part or in entirety, was pledged and segregated with the custodian for collateral on certain derivative contracts at the close of the reporting period. Collateral at period end totaled $62,981 and is included in Investments in securities on the Statement of assets and liabilities (Notes 1 and 8).
§ This security, in part or in entirety, was pledged and segregated with the custodian for collateral on the initial margin on certain centrally cleared derivative contracts at the close of the reporting period. Collateral at period end totaled $1,814,386 and is included in Investments in securities on the Statement of assets and liabilities (Notes 1 and 8).
L Affiliated company (Note 5). The rate quoted in the security description is the annualized 7-day yield of the fund at the close of the reporting period.
P This security was pledged, or purchased with cash that was pledged, to the fund for collateral on certain derivative contracts. The rate quoted in the security description is the annualized 7-day yield of the fund at the close of the reporting period.
R Real Estate Investment Trust.
W The rate shown represents the weighted average coupon associated with the underlying mortgage pools. Rates may be subject to a cap or floor.
At the close of the reporting period, the fund maintained liquid assets totaling $5,344,727 to cover certain derivative contracts and the settlement of certain securities.
Unless otherwise noted, the rates quoted in Short-term investments security descriptions represent the weighted average yield to maturity.
Debt obligations are considered secured unless otherwise indicated.
144A after the name of an issuer represents securities exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.
The dates shown on debt obligations are the original maturity dates.
| CENTRALLY CLEARED INTEREST RATE SWAP CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 10/31/19 | ||||||
| Upfront | ||||||
| premium | Unrealized | |||||
| received | Termination | Payments | Payments | appreciation/ | ||
| Notional amount | Value | (paid) | date | made by fund | received by fund | (depreciation) |
| $359,937,300 | $421,127 E | $(199,400) | 12/18/21 | 3 month USD- | 1.58 % — | $221,727 |
| LIBOR-BBA — | Semiannually | |||||
| Quarterly | ||||||
| 137,657,600 | 176,064 E | (178,153) | 12/18/24 | 1.45 % — | 3 month USD- | (2,183) |
| Semiannually | LIBOR-BBA — | |||||
| Quarterly | ||||||
| Total | $(377,553) | $219,544 | ||||
E Extended effective date.
| Short Duration Bond Fund 41 |
| OTC CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION SOLD at 10/31/19 | |||||||
| Upfront | |||||||
| premium | Termi- | Payments | Unrealized | ||||
| Swap counterparty/ | received | Notional | nation | received | appreciation/ | ||
| Referenced debt* | Rating*** | (paid)** | amount | Value | date | by fund | (depreciation) |
| Bank of America N.A. | |||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.6 | BBB–/P | $2,939 | $43,000 | $3,685 | 5/11/63 | 300 bp — | $(721) |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.6 | BBB–/P | 5,604 | 93,000 | 7,970 | 5/11/63 | 300 bp — | (2,311) |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.6 | BBB–/P | 11,483 | 186,000 | 15,940 | 5/11/63 | 300 bp — | (4,349) |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.6 | BBB–/P | 10,944 | 192,000 | 16,454 | 5/11/63 | 300 bp — | (5,398) |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. | |||||||
| CMBX NA A.6 | A/P | (13) | 30,000 | 114 | 5/11/63 | 200 bp — | 112 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.6 | BB/P | 28,797 | 117,000 | 18,112 | 5/11/63 | 500 bp — | 10,800 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 | BB/P | 9,511 | 74,000 | 4,669 | 1/17/47 | 500 bp — | 4,914 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| Credit Suisse International | |||||||
| CMBX NA A.6 | A/P | (795) | 720,000 | 2,736 | 5/11/63 | 200 bp — | 2,221 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.6 | BBB–/P | 282 | 3,000 | 257 | 5/11/63 | 300 bp — | 27 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.7 | BBB–/P | 42,427 | 574,000 | 2,755 | 1/17/47 | 300 bp — | 40,007 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| Goldman Sachs International | |||||||
| CMBX NA A.6 | A/P | 4,549 | 145,000 | 551 | 5/11/63 | 200 bp — | 5,156 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA A.6 | A/P | 6,818 | 138,000 | 524 | 5/11/63 | 200 bp — | 7,396 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA A.6 | A/P | 5,714 | 87,000 | 331 | 5/11/63 | 200 bp — | 6,078 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA A.6 | A/P | 1,889 | 62,000 | 236 | 5/11/63 | 200 bp — | 2,149 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA A.6 | A/P | 588 | 19,000 | 72 | 5/11/63 | 200 bp — | 667 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA A.7 | A-/P | 1,714 | 34,000 | 813 | 1/17/47 | 200 bp — | 2,540 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.6 | BBB–/P | 216 | 2,000 | 171 | 5/11/63 | 300 bp — | 46 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.6 | BBB–/P | 4,019 | 37,000 | 3,171 | 5/11/63 | 300 bp — | 870 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| JPMorgan Securities LLC | |||||||
| CMBX NA BB.6 | BB/P | 9,313 | 44,000 | 6,811 | 5/11/63 | 500 bp — | 2,544 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA A.6 | A/P | 43,939 | 1,910,000 | 7,258 | 5/11/63 | 200 bp — | 51,940 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.6 | BBB–/P | 265 | 2,000 | 171 | 5/11/63 | 300 bp — | 94 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
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| OTC CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION SOLD at 10/31/19 cont. | |||||||
| Upfront | |||||||
| premium | Termi- | Payments | Unrealized | ||||
| Swap counterparty/ | received | Notional | nation | received | appreciation/ | ||
| Referenced debt* | Rating*** | (paid)** | amount | Value | date | by fund | (depreciation) |
| Merrill Lynch International | |||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.6 | BBB–/P | $89 | $1,000 | $86 | 5/11/63 | 300 bp — | $4 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| Morgan Stanley & Co. International PLC | |||||||
| CMBX NA A.6 | A/P | — | 18,000 | 68 | 5/11/63 | 200 bp — | 75 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA A.6 | A/P | 71 | 7,000 | 27 | 5/11/63 | 200 bp — | 100 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA A.6 | A/P | 11 | 4,000 | 15 | 5/11/63 | 200 bp — | 28 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA A.7 | A-/P | (6) | 6,000 | 143 | 1/17/47 | 200 bp — | 140 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.6 | BB/P | 9,332 | 38,000 | 5,882 | 5/11/63 | 500 bp — | 3,486 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.6 | BB/P | 18,481 | 75,000 | 11,610 | 5/11/63 | 500 bp — | 6,944 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.6 | BBB–/P | 242 | 2,000 | 171 | 5/11/63 | 300 bp — | 72 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.6 | BBB–/P | 957 | 9,000 | 771 | 5/11/63 | 300 bp — | 191 |
| Index | Monthly | ||||||
| Upfront premium received | 220,194 | Unrealized appreciation | 148,601 | ||||
| Upfront premium (paid) | (814) | Unrealized (depreciation) | (12,779) | ||||
| Total | $219,380 | Total | $135,822 | ||||
* Payments related to the referenced debt are made upon a credit default event.
** Upfront premium is based on the difference between the original spread on issue and the market spread on day of execution.
*** Ratings for an underlying index represent the average of the ratings of all the securities included in that index. The Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s or Fitch ratings are believed to be the most recent ratings available at October 31, 2019. Securities rated by Putnam are indicated by “/P.” The Putnam rating categories are comparable to the Standard & Poor’s classifications.
| OTC CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION PURCHASED at 10/31/19 | ||||||
| Upfront | ||||||
| premium | Termi- | Payments | Unrealized | |||
| Swap counterparty/ | received | Notional | nation | (paid) | appreciation/ | |
| Referenced debt* | (paid)** | amount | Value | date | by fund | (depreciation) |
| Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. | ||||||
| CMBX NA A.7 Index | $(297) | $40,000 | $956 | 1/17/47 | (200 bp) — | $(1,268) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | (16,751) | 83,000 | 5,237 | 1/17/47 | (500 bp) — | (11,594) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | (7,838) | 48,000 | 3,029 | 1/17/47 | (500 bp) — | (4,856) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | (7,539) | 48,000 | 3,029 | 1/17/47 | (500 bp) — | (4,557) |
| Monthly | ||||||
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| OTC CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION PURCHASED at 10/31/19 cont. | ||||||
| Upfront | ||||||
| premium | Termi- | Payments | Unrealized | |||
| Swap counterparty/ | received | Notional | nation | (paid) | appreciation/ | |
| Referenced debt* | (paid)** | amount | Value | date | by fund | (depreciation) |
| Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. cont. | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.9 Index | $(11,148) | $108,000 | $5,184 | 9/17/58 | (500 bp) — | $(6,069) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.6 Index | (15,770) | 152,000 | 13,026 | 5/11/63 | (300 bp) — | (2,832) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| Credit Suisse International | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | (3,989) | 226,000 | 34,985 | 5/11/63 | (500 bp) — | 30,776 |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | (52,019) | 282,000 | 17,794 | 1/17/47 | (500 bp) — | (34,499) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | (42,273) | 257,000 | 16,217 | 1/17/47 | (500 bp) — | (26,306) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.9 Index | (301) | 3,000 | 144 | 9/17/58 | (500 bp) — | (160) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.6 Index | (49,505) | 418,000 | 35,823 | 5/11/63 | (300 bp) — | (13,927) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| Goldman Sachs International | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.6 Index | (4,910) | 48,000 | 7,430 | 5/11/63 | (500 bp) — | 2,473 |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | (4,086) | 27,000 | 1,704 | 1/17/47 | (500 bp) — | (2,408) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | (15,401) | 94,000 | 5,931 | 1/17/47 | (500 bp) — | (9,561) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | (5,685) | 28,000 | 1,767 | 1/17/47 | (500 bp) — | (3,946) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.7 Index | (8,458) | 104,000 | 499 | 1/17/47 | (300 bp) — | (8,019) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.7 Index | (135) | 2,000 | 10 | 1/17/47 | (300 bp) — | (126) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.7 Index | (69) | 1,000 | 5 | 1/17/47 | (300 bp) — | (65) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.7 Index | (68) | 1,000 | 5 | 1/17/47 | (300 bp) — | (64) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| JPMorgan Securities LLC | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | (64,666) | 511,000 | 32,244 | 1/17/47 | (500 bp) — | (32,919) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.7 Index | (15,595) | 411,000 | 1,973 | 1/17/47 | (300 bp) — | (13,862) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| Merrill Lynch International | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | (58,463) | 337,000 | 21,265 | 1/17/47 | (500 bp) — | (37,525) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BBB–.7 Index | (82) | 1,000 | 5 | 1/17/47 | (300 bp) — | (78) |
| Monthly | ||||||
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| OTC CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING — PROTECTION PURCHASED at 10/31/19 cont. | ||||||
| Upfront | ||||||
| premium | Termi- | Payments | Unrealized | |||
| Swap counterparty/ | received | Notional | nation | (paid) | appreciation/ | |
| Referenced debt* | (paid)** | amount | Value | date | by fund | (depreciation) |
| Morgan Stanley & Co. International PLC | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | $(24,622) | $122,000 | $7,698 | 1/17/47 | (500 bp) — | $(17,043) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | (15,619) | 81,000 | 5,111 | 1/17/47 | (500 bp) — | (10,587) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| CMBX NA BB.7 Index | (15,083) | 75,000 | 4,733 | 1/17/47 | (500 bp) — | (10,423) |
| Monthly | ||||||
| Upfront premium received | — | Unrealized appreciation | 33,249 | |||
| Upfront premium (paid) | (440,372) | Unrealized (depreciation) | (252,694) | |||
| Total | $(440,372) | Total | $(219,445) | |||
* Payments related to the referenced debt are made upon a credit default event.
** Upfront premium is based on the difference between the original spread on issue and the market spread on day of execution.
ASC 820 establishes a three-level hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements. The valuation hierarchy is based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of the fund’s investments. The three levels are defined as follows:
Level 1: Valuations based on quoted prices for identical securities in active markets.
Level 2: Valuations based on quoted prices in markets that are not active or for which all significant inputs are observable, either directly or indirectly.
Level 3: Valuations based on inputs that are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the fund’s net assets as of the close of the reporting period:
| Valuation inputs | |||||
| Investments in securities: | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | ||
| Asset-backed securities | $— | $19,719,983 | $— | ||
| Corporate bonds and notes | — | 490,452,129 | — | ||
| Mortgage-backed securities | — | 291,683,598 | — | ||
| Short-term investments | 165,732,052 | 66,919,902 | — | ||
| Totals by level | $165,732,052 | $868,775,612 | $— | ||
| Valuation inputs | |||||
| Other financial instruments: | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | ||
| Interest rate swap contracts | $— | $597,097 | $— | ||
| Credit default contracts | — | 137,369 | — | ||
| Totals by level | $— | $734,466 | $— | ||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
| Short Duration Bond Fund 45 |
Statement of assets and liabilities 10/31/19
| ASSETS | |
| Investment in securities, at value (Notes 1 and 8): | |
| Unaffiliated issuers (identified cost $860,180,824) | $868,895,612 |
| Affiliated issuers (identified cost $165,612,052) (Note 5) | 165,612,052 |
| Cash | 2,117,715 |
| Interest and other receivables | 5,476,145 |
| Receivable for shares of the fund sold | 24,972,874 |
| Receivable for custodian fees (Note 2) | 1,989 |
| Receivable for variation margin on centrally cleared swap contracts (Note 1) | 805,292 |
| Unrealized appreciation on OTC swap contracts (Note 1) | 181,850 |
| Premium paid on OTC swap contracts (Note 1) | 441,186 |
| Total assets | 1,068,504,715 |
| LIABILITIES | |
| Payable for investments purchased | 52,311,849 |
| Payable for shares of the fund repurchased | 7,557,655 |
| Payable for compensation of Manager (Note 2) | 334,615 |
| Payable for investor servicing fees (Note 2) | 61,620 |
| Payable for Trustee compensation and expenses (Note 2) | 41,550 |
| Payable for distribution fees (Note 2) | 135,946 |
| Payable for variation margin on centrally cleared swap contracts (Note 1) | 597,745 |
| Distributions payable to shareholders | 7,048 |
| Unrealized depreciation on OTC swap contracts (Note 1) | 265,473 |
| Premium received on OTC swap contracts (Note 1) | 220,194 |
| Collateral on certain derivative contracts, at value (Notes 1 and 8) | 120,000 |
| Other accrued expenses | 14,749 |
| Total liabilities | 61,668,444 |
| Net assets | $1,006,836,271 |
| REPRESENTED BY | |
| Paid-in capital (Unlimited shares authorized) (Notes 1 and 4) | $1,009,177,286 |
| Total distributable earnings (Note 1) | (2,341,015) |
| Total — Representing net assets applicable to capital shares outstanding | $1,006,836,271 |
(Continued on next page)
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Statement of assets and liabilities cont.
| COMPUTATION OF NET ASSET VALUE AND OFFERING PRICE | |
| Net asset value and redemption price per class A share | |
| ($612,828,647 divided by 60,388,895 shares) | $10.15 |
| Offering price per class A share (100/97.75 of $10.15)* | $10.38 |
| Net asset value and offering price per class B share ($909,127 divided by 89,687 shares)** | $10.14 |
| Net asset value and offering price per class C share ($20,930,082 divided by 2,067,965 shares)** | $10.12 |
| Net asset value and redemption price per class M share ($2,139,729 divided by 211,373 shares) | $10.12 |
| Offering price per class M share (100/99.25 of $10.12)† | $10.20 |
| Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per class R share | |
| ($425,750 divided by 41,741 shares) | $10.20 |
| Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per class R6 share | |
| ($4,325,825 divided by 424,498 shares) | $10.19 |
| Net asset value, offering price and redemption price per class Y share | |
| ($365,277,111 divided by 35,936,169 shares) | $10.16 |
* On single retail sales of less than $100,000.
** Redemption price per share is equal to net asset value less any applicable contingent deferred sales charge.
† On single retail sales of less than $250,000.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
| Short Duration Bond Fund 47 |
Statement of operations Year ended 10/31/19
| INVESTMENT INCOME | |
| Interest (including interest income of $2,108,034 from investments in affiliated issuers) (Note 5) | $19,959,271 |
| Total investment income | 19,959,271 |
| EXPENSES | |
| Compensation of Manager (Note 2) | 2,170,221 |
| Distribution fees (Note 2) | 1,037,138 |
| Other | 8,928 |
| Total expenses | 3,216,287 |
| Expense reduction (Note 2) | (4,144) |
| Net expenses | 3,212,143 |
| Net investment income | 16,747,128 |
| REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) | |
| Net realized gain (loss) on: | |
| Securities from unaffiliated issuers (Notes 1 and 3) | 333,358 |
| Swap contracts (Note 1) | (1,335,226) |
| Total net realized loss | (1,001,868) |
| Change in net unrealized appreciation on: | |
| Securities from unaffiliated issuers | 10,756,496 |
| Swap contracts | 207,131 |
| Total change in net unrealized appreciation | 10,963,627 |
| Net gain on investments | 9,961,759 |
| Net increase in net assets resulting from operations | $26,708,887 |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
| 48 Short Duration Bond Fund |
Statement of changes in net assets
| INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS | Year ended 10/31/19 | Year ended 10/31/18 |
| Operations | ||
| Net investment income | $16,747,128 | $4,780,004 |
| Net realized gain (loss) on investments | (1,001,868) | 4,659,658 |
| Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | ||
| of investments | 10,963,627 | (6,073,833) |
| Net increase in net assets resulting from operations | 26,708,887 | 3,365,829 |
| Distributions to shareholders (Note 1): | ||
| From ordinary income | ||
| Net investment income | ||
| Class A | (10,019,054) | (2,281,679) |
| Class B | (22,552) | (27,750) |
| Class C | (411,595) | (258,546) |
| Class M | (63,764) | (48,789) |
| Class P | — | (1,158,490) |
| Class R | (12,239) | (12,772) |
| Class R6 | (58,853) | (23,482) |
| Class Y | (7,199,090) | (2,434,822) |
| From return of capital | ||
| Class A | (364,158) | — |
| Class B | (820) | — |
| Class C | (14,960) | — |
| Class M | (2,318) | — |
| Class R | (445) | — |
| Class R6 | (2,139) | — |
| Class Y | (261,663) | — |
| Increase (decrease) from capital share transactions (Note 4) | 792,558,474 | (1,161,537) |
| Total increase (decrease) in net assets | 800,833,711 | (4,042,038) |
| NET ASSETS | ||
| Beginning of year | 206,002,560 | 210,044,598 |
| End of year | $1,006,836,271 | $206,002,560 |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
| Short Duration Bond Fund 49 |
Financial highlights (For a common share outstanding throughout the period)
| INVESTMENT OPERATIONS | LESS DISTRIBUTIONS | RATIOS AND SUPPLEMENTAL DATA | |||||||||||
| Ratio of net | |||||||||||||
| Net asset | Net realized | Ratio | investment | ||||||||||
| value, | and unrealized | Total from | From net | Net asset | Total return | Net assets, | of expenses | income (loss) | Portfolio | ||||
| beginning | Net investment | gain (loss) | investment | investment | From return | Total | value, end | at net asset | end of period | to average | to average | turnover | |
| Period ended | of period | income (loss)a | on investments | operations | income | of capital | distributions | of period | value (%)b | (in thousands) | net assets (%)c | net assets (%) | (%)d |
| Class A | |||||||||||||
| October 31, 2019 | $10.01 | .28 | .19 | .47 | (.32) | (.01) | (.33) | $10.15 | 4.78 | $612,829 | .62 | 2.75 | 18 |
| October 31, 2018 | 10.15 | .27 | (.09) | .18 | (.32) | — | (.32) | 10.01 | 1.80 | 105,367 | .65 | 2.67 | 386 |
| October 31, 2017 | 10.04 | .24 | .11 | .35 | (.24) | — | (.24) | 10.15 | 3.60 | 74,649 | .65 | 2.40 | 256 |
| October 31, 2016 | 10.07 | .21 | (.08) | .13 | (.16) | — | (.16) | 10.04 | 1.29 | 90,313 | .62 | 2.11 | 129 |
| October 31, 2015 | 10.25 | .13 | (.18) | (.05) | (.13) | — | (.13) | 10.07 | (.49) | 113,553 | .66 | 1.28 | 105 |
| Class B | |||||||||||||
| October 31, 2019 | $10.00 | .26 | .19 | .45 | (.30) | (.01) | (.31) | $10.14 | 4.55 | $909 | .82 | 2.62 | 18 |
| October 31, 2018 | 10.10 | .25 | (.08) | .17 | (.27) | — | (.27) | 10.00 | 1.71 | 711 | .85 | 2.46 | 386 |
| October 31, 2017 | 10.00 | .22 | .11 | .33 | (.23) | — | (.23) | 10.10 | 3.34 | 1,212 | .85 | 2.19 | 256 |
| October 31, 2016 | 10.03 | .19 | (.09) | .10 | (.13) | — | (.13) | 10.00 | 1.01 | 1,633 | .82 | 1.92 | 129 |
| October 31, 2015 | 10.20 | .11 | (.17) | (.06) | (.11) | — | (.11) | 10.03 | (.64) | 1,617 | .86 | 1.09 | 105 |
| Class C | |||||||||||||
| October 31, 2019 | $9.98 | .21 | .18 | .39 | (.24) | (.01) | (.25) | $10.12 | 4.00 | $20,930 | 1.37 | 2.08 | 18 |
| October 31, 2018 | 10.06 | .19 | (.08) | .11 | (.19) | — | (.19) | 9.98 | 1.09 | 12,518 | 1.40 | 1.92 | 386 |
| October 31, 2017 | 9.95 | .16 | .11 | .27 | (.16) | — | (.16) | 10.06 | 2.71 | 15,086 | 1.40 | 1.64 | 256 |
| October 31, 2016 | 9.98 | .13 | (.08) | .05 | (.08) | — | (.08) | 9.95 | .53 | 19,601 | 1.37 | 1.37 | 129 |
| October 31, 2015 | 10.15 | .05 | (.17) | (.12) | (.05) | — | (.05) | 9.98 | (1.20) | 23,503 | 1.41 | .53 | 105 |
| Class M | |||||||||||||
| October 31, 2019 | $9.98 | .28 | .18 | .46 | (.31) | (.01) | (.32) | $10.12 | 4.72 | $2,140 | .67 | 2.81 | 18 |
| October 31, 2018 | 10.12 | .27 | (.10) | .17 | (.31) | — | (.31) | 9.98 | 1.73 | 1,830 | .70 | 2.65 | 386 |
| October 31, 2017 | 10.02 | .24 | .10 | .34 | (.24) | — | (.24) | 10.12 | 3.48 | 1,520 | .70 | 2.35 | 256 |
| October 31, 2016 | 10.05 | .21 | (.09) | .12 | (.15) | — | (.15) | 10.02 | 1.24 | 1,803 | .67 | 2.08 | 129 |
| October 31, 2015 | 10.23 | .12 | (.17) | (.05) | (.13) | — | (.13) | 10.05 | (.53) | 1,942 | .71 | 1.24 | 105 |
| Class R | |||||||||||||
| October 31, 2019 | $10.06 | .27 | .17 | .44 | (.29) | (.01) | (.30) | $10.20 | 4.49 | $426 | .87 | 2.64 | 18 |
| October 31, 2018 | 10.19 | .24 | (.08) | .16 | (.29) | — | (.29) | 10.06 | 1.58 | 341 | .90 | 2.41 | 386 |
| October 31, 2017 | 10.09 | .24 | .09 | .33 | (.23) | — | (.23) | 10.19 | 3.36 | 482 | .90 | 2.33 | 256 |
| October 31, 2016 | 10.00 | .19 | (.10) | .09 | — | — | — | 10.09 | .90 | 286 | .87 | 1.98 | 129 |
| October 31, 2015 | 10.18 | .11 | (.18) | (.07) | (.11) | — | (.11) | 10.00 | (.67) | 37 | .91 | 1.06 | 105 |
| Class R6 | |||||||||||||
| October 31, 2019 | $10.05 | .29 | .20 | .49 | (.34) | (.01) | (.35) | $10.19 | 5.01 | $4,326 | .37 | 2.87 | 18 |
| October 31, 2018 | 10.21 | .30 | (.09) | .21 | (.37) | — | (.37) | 10.05 | 2.08 | 635 | .40 | 2.94 | 386 |
| October 31, 2017 | 10.10 | .27 | .11 | .38 | (.27) | — | (.27) | 10.21 | 3.87 | 452 | .40 | 2.68 | 256 |
| October 31, 2016 | 10.13 | .24 | (.09) | .15 | (.18) | — | (.18) | 10.10 | 1.55 | 530 | .37 | 2.38 | 129 |
| October 31, 2015 | 10.31 | .16 | (.18) | (.02) | (.16) | — | (.16) | 10.13 | (.22) | 525 | .41 | 1.54 | 105 |
See notes to financial highlights at the end of this section.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
| 50 Short Duration Bond Fund | Short Duration Bond Fund 51 |
Financial highlights cont.
| INVESTMENT OPERATIONS | LESS DISTRIBUTIONS | RATIOS AND SUPPLEMENTAL DATA | |||||||||||
| Ratio of net | |||||||||||||
| Net asset | Net realized | Ratio | investment | ||||||||||
| value, | and unrealized | Total from | From net | Net asset | Total return | Net assets, | of expenses | income (loss) | Portfolio | ||||
| beginning | Net investment | gain (loss) | investment | investment | From return | Total | value, end | at net asset | end of period | to average | to average | turnover | |
| Period ended | of period | income (loss)a | on investments | operations | income | of capital | distributions | of period | value (%)b | (in thousands) | net assets (%)c | net assets (%) | (%)d |
| Class Y | |||||||||||||
| October 31, 2019 | $10.02 | .30 | .19 | .49 | (.34) | (.01) | (.35) | $10.16 | 5.03 | $365,277 | .37 | 3.01 | 18 |
| October 31, 2018 | 10.19 | .30 | (.10) | .20 | (.37) | — | (.37) | 10.02 | 1.99 | 84,601 | .40 | 2.95 | 386 |
| October 31, 2017 | 10.08 | .27 | .11 | .38 | (.27) | — | (.27) | 10.19 | 3.88 | 70,567 | .40 | 2.71 | 256 |
| October 31, 2016 | 10.11 | .24 | (.09) | .15 | (.18) | — | (.18) | 10.08 | 1.55 | 64,053 | .37 | 2.39 | 129 |
| October 31, 2015 | 10.29 | .16 | (.18) | (.02) | (.16) | — | (.16) | 10.11 | (.22) | 100,119 | .41 | 1.54 | 105 |
Before June 1, 2018, the fund was managed with a materially different investment strategy and may have achieved materially different performance results under its current investment strategy from that shown for periods before that date.
a Per share net investment income (loss) has been determined on the basis of the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the period.
b Total return assumes dividend reinvestment and does not reflect the effect of sales charges.
c Includes amounts paid through expense offset arrangements, if any (Note 2). Also excludes acquired fund fees, if any.
d Portfolio turnover includes TBA purchase and sale commitments.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
| 52 Short Duration Bond Fund | Short Duration Bond Fund 53 |
Notes to financial statements 10/31/19
Within the following Notes to financial statements, references to “State Street” represent State Street Bank and Trust Company, references to “the SEC” represent the Securities and Exchange Commission, references to “Putnam Management” represent Putnam Investment Management, LLC, the fund’s manager, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Putnam Investments, LLC and references to “OTC”, if any, represent over-the-counter. Unless otherwise noted, the “reporting period” represents the period from November 1, 2018 through October 31, 2019.
Putnam Short Duration Bond Fund (the fund) is a diversified series of Putnam Funds Trust (the Trust), a Massachusetts business trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company. The goal of the fund is to seek as high a rate of current income as Putnam Management believes is consistent with preservation of capital. The fund invests in a diversified portfolio of fixed income securities. The fund’s investments may include corporate credit, including investment-grade debt, below-investment-grade debt (sometimes referred to as “junk bonds”), bank loans and structured credit; sovereign debt, including obligations of governments in developed and emerging markets; and securitized assets, including asset-backed securities, residential mortgage-backed securities (which may be backed by non-qualified or “sub-prime” mortgages), commercial mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations. Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in bonds (bonds include any debt instrument, and may be represented by other investment instruments, including derivatives). This policy may be changed only after 60 days’ notice to shareholders. The fund normally maintains an effective duration of three years or less. Effective duration provides a measure of a fund’s interest-rate sensitivity. The longer a fund’s duration, the more sensitive the fund is to shifts in interest rates. Putnam Management may consider, among other factors, credit, interest rate and prepayment risks, as well as general market conditions, when deciding whether to buy or sell investments. The fund may use derivatives, such as futures, options, certain foreign currency transactions and swap contracts, for both hedging and non-hedging purposes. The fund may invest in securities that are purchased in private placements, which may be illiquid because they are subject to restrictions on resale.
The fund offers class A, class B, class C, class M, class R, class R6 and class Y shares. Effective April 27, 2018, the fund’s class P shares were fully redeemed and no longer offered. Purchases of class B shares are closed to new and existing investors except by exchange from class B shares of another Putnam fund or through dividend and/or capital gains reinvestment. Effective November 25, 2019, class M shares will no longer be available for purchase and will convert automatically to class A shares. Class A and class M shares are sold with a maximum front-end sales charge of 2.25% and 0.75%, respectively. Class A shares generally are not subject to a contingent deferred sales charge, and class M, class R, class R6 and class Y shares are not subject to a contingent deferred sales charge. Class B shares, which convert to class A shares after approximately eight years, are not subject to a front-end sales charge and are subject to a contingent deferred sales charge if those shares are redeemed within two years of purchase. Class C shares are subject to a one-year 1.00% contingent deferred sales charge and generally convert to class A shares after approximately ten years. Class R shares, which are not available to all investors, are sold at net asset value. The expenses for class A, class B, class C, class M and class R shares may differ based on the distribution fee of each class, which is identified in Note 2. Class R6 and class Y shares, which are sold at net asset value, are generally subject to the same expenses as class A, class B, class C, class M and class R shares, but do not bear a distribution fee, and in the case of class R6 shares, bear a lower investor servicing fee, which is identified in Note 2. Class R6 and class Y shares are not available to all investors.
In the normal course of business, the fund enters into contracts that may include agreements to indemnify another party under given circumstances. The fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be, but have not yet been, made against the fund. However, the fund’s management team expects the risk of material loss to be remote.
The fund has entered into contractual arrangements with an investment adviser, administrator, distributor, shareholder servicing agent and custodian, who each provide services to the fund. Unless expressly stated otherwise, shareholders are not parties to, or intended beneficiaries of these contractual arrangements, and these contractual arrangements are not intended to create any shareholder right to enforce them against the service providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either directly or on behalf of the fund.
Under the fund’s Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, any claims asserted against or on behalf of the Putnam Funds, including claims against Trustees and Officers, must be brought in state and federal courts located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Note 1: Significant accounting policies
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies consistently followed by the fund in the preparation of its financial statements. The preparation of financial statements is in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities in the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events after the Statement of assets and liabilities date through the date that the financial statements were issued have been evaluated in the preparation of the financial statements.
Investment income, realized and unrealized gains and losses and expenses of the fund are borne pro-rata based on the relative net assets of each class to the total net assets of the fund, except that each class bears expenses unique to that class (including the distribution fees applicable to such classes). Each class votes as a class only with respect to its own distribution plan or other matters on which a class vote is required by law or determined by the Trustees. If the fund were liquidated, shares of each class would receive their pro-rata share of the net assets of the fund. In addition, the Trustees declare separate dividends on each class of shares.
Security valuation Portfolio securities and other investments are valued using policies and procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. The Trustees have formed a Pricing Committee to oversee the implementation of these procedures and have delegated responsibility for valuing the fund’s assets in accordance with these procedures to Putnam Management. Putnam Management has established an internal Valuation Committee that is responsible for making fair value determinations, evaluating the effectiveness of the pricing policies of the fund and reporting to the Pricing Committee.
Market quotations are not considered to be readily available for certain debt obligations (including short-term investments with remaining maturities of 60 days or less) and other investments; such investments are valued on the basis of valuations furnished by an independent pricing service approved by the Trustees or dealers selected by Putnam Management. Such services or dealers determine valuations for normal institutional-size trading units of such securities using methods based on market transactions for comparable securities and various relationships, generally recognized by institutional traders, between securities (which consider such factors as security prices, yields, maturities and ratings). These securities will generally be categorized as Level 2. Securities quoted in foreign currencies, if any, are translated into U.S. dollars at the current exchange rate.
Investments in open-end investment companies (excluding exchange-traded funds), if any, which can be classified as Level 1 or Level 2 securities, are valued based on their net asset value. The net asset value of such investment companies equals the total value of their assets less their liabilities and divided by the number of their outstanding shares.
To the extent a pricing service or dealer is unable to value a security or provides a valuation that Putnam Management does not believe accurately reflects the security’s fair value, the security will be valued at fair value by Putnam Management in accordance with policies and procedures approved by the Trustees. Certain investments, including certain restricted and illiquid securities and derivatives, are also valued at fair value following procedures approved by the Trustees. These valuations consider such factors as significant market or specific security events such as interest rate or credit quality changes, various relationships with other securities, discount rates, U.S. Treasury, U.S. swap and credit yields, index levels, convexity exposures, recovery rates, sales and other multiples and resale restrictions. These securities are classified as Level 2 or as Level 3 depending on the priority of the significant inputs.
To assess the continuing appropriateness of fair valuations, the Valuation Committee reviews and affirms the reasonableness of such valuations on a regular basis after considering all relevant information that is reasonably available. Such valuations and procedures are reviewed periodically by the Trustees. Certain securities may be valued on the basis of a price provided by a single source. The fair value of securities is generally determined as the amount that the fund could reasonably expect to realize from an orderly disposition of such securities over a reasonable period of time. By its nature, a fair value price is a good faith estimate of the value of a security in a current sale and does not reflect an actual market price, which may be different by a material amount.
Security transactions and related investment income Security transactions are recorded on the trade date (the date the order to buy or sell is executed). Gains or losses on securities sold are determined on the identified cost basis.
Interest income, net of any applicable withholding taxes and including amortization and accretion of premiums and discounts on debt securities, is recorded on the accrual basis.
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Stripped securities The fund may invest in stripped securities which represent a participation in securities that may be structured in classes with rights to receive different portions of the interest and principal. Interest-only securities receive all of the interest and principal-only securities receive all of the principal. If the interest-only securities experience greater than anticipated prepayments of principal, the fund may fail to recoup fully its initial investment in these securities. Conversely, principal-only securities increase in value if prepayments are greater than anticipated and decline if prepayments are slower than anticipated. The fair value of these securities is highly sensitive to changes in interest rates.
Interest rate swap contracts The fund entered into OTC and/or centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts, which are arrangements between two parties to exchange cash flows based on a notional principal amount, for hedging term structure risk, for yield curve positioning and for gaining exposure to rates in various countries.
An OTC and centrally cleared interest rate swap can be purchased or sold with an upfront premium. For OTC interest rate swap contracts, an upfront payment received by the fund is recorded as a liability on the fund’s books. An upfront payment made by the fund is recorded as an asset on the fund’s books. OTC and centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts are marked to market daily based upon quotations from an independent pricing service or market makers. Any change is recorded as an unrealized gain or loss on OTC interest rate swaps. Daily fluctuations in the value of centrally cleared interest rate swaps are settled through a central clearing agent and are recorded in variation margin on the Statement of assets and liabilities and recorded as unrealized gain or loss. Payments, including upfront premiums, received or made are recorded as realized gains or losses at the reset date or the closing of the contract. Certain OTC and centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts may include extended effective dates. Payments related to these swap contracts are accrued based on the terms of the contract.
The fund could be exposed to credit or market risk due to unfavorable changes in the fluctuation of interest rates or if the counterparty defaults, in the case of OTC interest rate contracts, or the central clearing agency or a clearing member defaults, in the case of centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts, on its respective obligation to perform under the contract. The fund’s maximum risk of loss from counterparty risk or central clearing risk is the fair value of the contract. This risk may be mitigated for OTC interest rate swap contracts by having a master netting arrangement between the fund and the counterparty and for centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts through the daily exchange of variation margin. There is minimal counterparty risk with respect to centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts due to the clearinghouse guarantee fund and other resources that are available in the event of a clearing member default. Risk of loss may exceed amounts recognized on the Statement of assets and liabilities.
OTC and centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts outstanding, including their respective notional amounts at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.
Credit default contracts The fund entered into OTC and/or centrally cleared credit default contracts for hedging credit risk, for gaining liquid exposure to individual names, to hedging market risk and for gaining exposure to specific sectors.
In OTC and centrally cleared credit default contracts, the protection buyer typically makes a periodic stream of payments to a counterparty, the protection seller, in exchange for the right to receive a contingent payment upon the occurrence of a credit event on the reference obligation or all other equally ranked obligations of the reference entity. Credit events are contract specific but may include bankruptcy, failure to pay, restructuring and obligation acceleration. For OTC credit default contracts, an upfront payment received by the fund is recorded as a liability on the fund’s books. An upfront payment made by the fund is recorded as an asset on the fund’s books. Centrally cleared credit default contracts provide the same rights to the protection buyer and seller except the payments between parties, including upfront premiums, are settled through a central clearing agent through variation margin payments. Upfront and periodic payments received or paid by the fund for OTC and centrally cleared credit default contracts are recorded as realized gains or losses at the reset date or close of the contract. The OTC and centrally cleared credit default contracts are marked to market daily based upon quotations from an independent pricing service or market makers. Any change in value of OTC credit default contracts is recorded as an unrealized gain or loss. Daily fluctuations in the value of centrally cleared credit default contracts are recorded in variation margin on the Statement of assets and liabilities and recorded as unrealized gain or loss. Upon the occurrence of a credit event, the difference between the par value and fair value of the reference obligation, net of any proportional amount of the upfront payment, is recorded as a realized gain or loss.
In addition to bearing the risk that the credit event will occur, the fund could be exposed to market risk due to unfavorable changes in interest rates or in the price of the underlying security or index or the possibility that the fund may be unable to close out its position at the same time or at the same price as if it had purchased the
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underlying reference obligations. In certain circumstances, the fund may enter into offsetting OTC and centrally cleared credit default contracts which would mitigate its risk of loss. Risks of loss may exceed amounts recognized on the Statement of assets and liabilities. The fund’s maximum risk of loss from counterparty risk, either as the protection seller or as the protection buyer, is the fair value of the contract. This risk may be mitigated for OTC credit default contracts by having a master netting arrangement between the fund and the counterparty and for centrally cleared credit default contracts through the daily exchange of variation margin. Counterparty risk is further mitigated with respect to centrally cleared credit default swap contracts due to the clearinghouse guarantee fund and other resources that are available in the event of a clearing member default. Where the fund is a seller of protection, the maximum potential amount of future payments the fund may be required to make is equal to the notional amount.
OTC and centrally cleared credit default contracts outstanding, including their respective notional amounts at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.
Master agreements The fund is a party to ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.) Master Agreements that govern OTC derivative and foreign exchange contracts and Master Securities Forward Transaction Agreements that govern transactions involving mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities that may result in delayed delivery (Master Agreements) with certain counterparties entered into from time to time. The Master Agreements may contain provisions regarding, among other things, the parties’ general obligations, representations, agreements, collateral requirements, events of default and early termination. With respect to certain counterparties, in accordance with the terms of the Master Agreements, collateral posted to the fund is held in a segregated account by the fund’s custodian and, with respect to those amounts which can be sold or repledged, are presented in the fund’s portfolio.
Collateral pledged by the fund is segregated by the fund’s custodian and identified in the fund’s portfolio. Collateral can be in the form of cash or debt securities issued by the U.S. Government or related agencies or other securities as agreed to by the fund and the applicable counterparty. Collateral requirements are determined based on the fund’s net position with each counterparty.
With respect to ISDA Master Agreements, termination events applicable to the fund may occur upon a decline in the fund’s net assets below a specified threshold over a certain period of time. Termination events applicable to counterparties may occur upon a decline in the counterparty’s long-term or short-term credit ratings below a specified level. In each case, upon occurrence, the other party may elect to terminate early and cause settlement of all derivative and foreign exchange contracts outstanding, including the payment of any losses and costs resulting from such early termination, as reasonably determined by the terminating party. Any decision by one or more of the fund’s counterparties to elect early termination could impact the fund’s future derivative activity.
At the close of the reporting period, the fund had a net liability position of $44,530 on open derivative contracts subject to the Master Agreements. Collateral posted by the fund at period end for these agreements totaled $62,981 and may include amounts related to unsettled agreements.
Interfund lending The fund, along with other Putnam funds, may participate in an interfund lending program pursuant to an exemptive order issued by the SEC. This program allows the fund to borrow from or lend to other Putnam funds that permit such transactions. Interfund lending transactions are subject to each fund’s investment policies and borrowing and lending limits. Interest earned or paid on the interfund lending transaction will be based on the average of certain current market rates. During the reporting period, the fund did not utilize the program.
Lines of credit The fund participates, along with other Putnam funds, in a $317.5 million unsecured committed line of credit and a $235.5 million unsecured uncommitted line of credit, both provided by State Street. Borrowings may be made for temporary or emergency purposes, including the funding of shareholder redemption requests and trade settlements. Interest is charged to the fund based on the fund’s borrowing at a rate equal to 1.25% plus the higher of (1) the Federal Funds rate and (2) the overnight LIBOR for the committed line of credit and the Federal Funds rate plus 1.30% for the uncommitted line of credit. A closing fee equal to 0.04% of the committed line of credit and 0.04% of the uncommitted line of credit has been paid by the participating funds. In addition, a commitment fee of 0.21% per annum on any unutilized portion of the committed line of credit is allocated to the participating funds based on their relative net assets and paid quarterly. During the reporting period, the fund had no borrowings against these arrangements.
Federal taxes It is the policy of the fund to distribute all of its taxable income within the prescribed time period and otherwise comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), applicable to regulated investment companies. It is also the intention of the fund to distribute an amount sufficient to avoid imposition of any excise tax under Section 4982 of the Code.
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The fund is subject to the provisions of Accounting Standards Codification 740 Income Taxes (ASC 740). ASC 740 sets forth a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The fund did not have a liability to record for any unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying financial statements. No provision has been made for federal taxes on income, capital gains or unrealized appreciation on securities held nor for excise tax on income and capital gains. Each of the fund’s federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
Under the Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2010, the fund will be permitted to carry forward capital losses incurred for an unlimited period and the carry forwards will retain their character as either short-term or long-term capital losses. At October 31, 2019, the fund had the following capital loss carryovers available, to the extent allowed by the Code, to offset future net capital gain, if any:
| Loss carryover | ||
| Short-term | Long-term | Total |
| $9,746,113 | $1,183,822 | $10,929,935 |
Distributions to shareholders Income distributions are recorded daily and paid monthly. Prior to June 1, 2019, distributions to shareholders from net investment income were recorded by the fund on the ex-dividend date. Distributions from capital gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date and paid at least annually. The amount and character of income and gains to be distributed are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles. These differences include temporary and/or permanent differences from the expiration of a capital loss carryover and tax equalization. Reclassifications are made to the fund’s capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution (or available capital loss carryovers) under income tax regulations. At the close of the reporting period, the fund reclassified $771,193 to decrease undistributed net investment income, $943,072 to decrease paid-in capital and $1,714,265 to decrease accumulated net realized loss.
Tax cost of investments includes adjustments to net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) which may not necessarily be final tax cost basis adjustments, but closely approximate the tax basis unrealized gains and losses that may be realized and distributed to shareholders. The tax basis components of distributable earnings and the federal tax cost as of the close of the reporting period were as follows:
| Unrealized appreciation | $12,602,062 |
| Unrealized depreciation | (4,006,094) |
| Net unrealized appreciation | 8,595,968 |
| Capital loss carryforward | (10,929,935) |
| Cost for federal income tax purposes | $1,026,646,162 |
Expenses of the Trust Expenses directly charged or attributable to any fund will be paid from the assets of that fund. Generally, expenses of the Trust will be allocated among and charged to the assets of each fund on a basis that the Trustees deem fair and equitable, which may be based on the relative assets of each fund or the nature of the services performed and relative applicability to each fund.
Note 2: Management fee, administrative services and other transactions
The fund pays Putnam Management a monthly base fee equal to 0.37% of the monthly average of the fund’s net asset value. In return for this fee, Putnam Management provides investment management and investor servicing and bears the fund’s organizational and operating expenses, excluding performance fee adjustments, payments under the fund’s distribution plan, brokerage, interest, taxes, investment related expenses, extraordinary expenses and acquired fund fees and expenses.
The applicable base fee is increased or decreased for each month by an amount based on the performance of the fund. The amount of the increase or decrease is calculated monthly based on a performance adjustment rate that is equal to 0.04 multiplied by the difference between the fund’s annualized performance (measured by the fund’s class A shares) and the annualized performance of the ICE BofAML U.S. Treasury Bill Index plus 1.00% over the thirty-six month period then ended (the performance period). The maximum annualized performance adjustment rate is +/–0.04%. Each month, the performance adjustment rate is multiplied by the fund’s average net assets over the performance period and the result is divided by twelve. The resulting dollar amount is added
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to, or subtracted from, the base fee for that month. The monthly base fee is determined based on the fund’s average net assets for the month, while the performance adjustment is determined based on the fund’s average net assets over the thirty-six month performance period. This means it is possible that, if the fund underperforms significantly over the performance period, and the fund’s assets have declined significantly over that period, the negative performance adjustment may exceed the base fee. In this event, Putnam Management would make a payment to the fund.
For periods beginning on June 1, 2018 through November 30, 2019, the base fee will only be adjusted downward by the amount computed by applying the performance adjustment rate to the average net assets of the fund. If the result of the computation is positive, the fund will only pay the base fee. The performance fee will be terminated effective November 30, 2019, and the fund’s management fee will be equal to 0.37% of the monthly average of the fund’s net asset value.
Because the performance adjustment is based on the fund’s performance relative to its applicable benchmark index, and not its absolute performance, the performance adjustment could increase Putnam Management’s fee even if the fund’s shares lose value during the performance period provided that the fund outperformed its benchmark index, and could decrease Putnam Management’s fee even if the fund’s shares increase in value during the performance period provided that the fund underperformed its benchmark index.
For the reporting period, the management fee represented an effective rate (excluding the impact of any expense waiver in effect) of 0.37% of the fund’s average net assets.
Putnam Management has contractually agreed, through February 28, 2021, to waive fees and/or reimburse the fund’s expenses to the extent necessary to limit the cumulative expenses of the fund, exclusive of brokerage, interest, taxes, investment-related expenses, extraordinary expenses, acquired fund fees and expenses and payments under the fund’s investor servicing contract, investment management contract and distribution plans, on a fiscal year-to-date basis to an annual rate of 0.20% of the fund’s average net assets over such fiscal year-to-date period. During the reporting period, the fund’s expenses were not reduced as a result of this limit.
Putnam Investments Limited (PIL), an affiliate of Putnam Management, is authorized by the Trustees to manage a separate portion of the assets of the fund as determined by Putnam Management from time to time. PIL did not manage any portion of the assets of the fund during the reporting period. If Putnam Management were to engage the services of PIL, Putnam Management would pay a quarterly sub-management fee to PIL for its services at an annual rate of 0.35% of the average net assets of the portion of the fund managed by PIL.
The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC (PAC), an affiliate of Putnam Management, is authorized by the Trustees to manage a separate portion of the assets of the fund, as designated from time to time by Putnam Management or PIL. PAC did not manage any portion of the assets of the fund during the reporting period. If Putnam Management or PIL were to engage the services of PAC, Putnam Management or PIL, as applicable, would pay a quarterly sub-advisory fee to PAC for its services at the annual rate of 0.35% of the average net assets of the portion of the fund’s assets for which PAC is engaged as sub-adviser.
The aggregate amount of all reimbursements for the compensation and related expenses of certain officers of the fund and their staff who provide administrative services to the fund is determined annually by the Trustees. These fees are being paid by Putnam Management as part of the management contract.
Custodial functions for the fund’s assets are provided by State Street. Custody fees are based on the fund’s asset level, the number of its security holdings and transaction volumes. These fees are being paid by Putnam Management as part of the management contract.
Putnam Investor Services, Inc., an affiliate of Putnam Management, provides investor servicing agent functions to the fund. Putnam Investor Services, Inc. received fees for investor servicing for class A, class B, class C, class M, class R and class Y shares that included (1) a per account fee for each direct and underlying non-defined contribution account (retail account) of the fund; (2) a specified rate of the fund’s assets attributable to defined contribution plan accounts; and (3) a specified rate based on the average net assets in retail accounts. Putnam Investor Services, Inc. has agreed that the aggregate investor servicing fees for each fund’s retail and defined contribution accounts for these share classes will not exceed an annual rate of 0.25% of the fund’s average assets attributable to such accounts. Class R6 shares paid a monthly fee based on the average net assets of class R6 shares at an annual rate of 0.05%. These fees are being paid by Putnam Management as part of the management contract.
The fund has entered into expense offset arrangements with Putnam Investor Services, Inc. and State Street whereby Putnam Investor Services, Inc.’s and State Street’s fees are reduced by credits allowed on cash balances. For the reporting period, the fund’s expenses were reduced by $4,144 under the expense offset arrangements.
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Each Independent Trustee of the fund receives an annual Trustee fee, of which $607, as a quarterly retainer, has been allocated to the fund, and an additional fee for each Trustees meeting attended. Trustees also are reimbursed for expenses they incur relating to their services as Trustees. These fees are being paid by Putnam Management as part of the management contract.
The fund has adopted a Trustee Fee Deferral Plan (the Deferral Plan) which allows the Trustees to defer the receipt of all or a portion of Trustees fees payable on or after July 1, 1995. The deferred fees remain invested in certain Putnam funds until distribution in accordance with the Deferral Plan.
The fund has adopted an unfunded noncontributory defined benefit pension plan (the Pension Plan) covering all Trustees of the fund who have served as a Trustee for at least five years and were first elected prior to 2004. Benefits under the Pension Plan are equal to 50% of the Trustee’s average annual attendance and retainer fees for the three years ended December 31, 2005. The retirement benefit is payable during a Trustee’s lifetime, beginning the year following retirement, for the number of years of service through December 31, 2006. Accrued pension liability is included in Payable for Trustee compensation and expenses in the Statement of assets and liabilities. The Trustees have terminated the Pension Plan with respect to any Trustee first elected after 2003. These fees are being paid by Putnam Management as part of the management contract.
The fund has adopted distribution plans (the Plans) with respect to the following share classes pursuant to Rule 12b–1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The purpose of the Plans is to compensate Putnam Retail Management Limited Partnership, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Putnam Investments, LLC, for services provided and expenses incurred in distributing shares of the fund. The Plans provide payments by the fund to Putnam Retail Management Limited Partnership at an annual rate of up to the following amounts (Maximum %) of the average net assets attributable to each class. The Trustees have approved payment by the fund at the following annual rate (Approved %) of the average net assets attributable to each class. During the reporting period, the class-specific expenses related to distribution fees were as follows:
| Maximum % | Approved % | Amount | |
| Class A | 0.35% | 0.25% | $850,918 |
| Class B | 1.00% | 0.45% | 3,499 |
| Class C | 1.00% | 1.00% | 174,335 |
| Class M | 1.00% | 0.30% | 6,190 |
| Class R | 1.00% | 0.50% | 2,196 |
| Total | $1,037,138 |
For the reporting period, Putnam Retail Management Limited Partnership, acting as underwriter, received net commissions of $23,770 and $81 from the sale of class A and class M shares, respectively, and received $177 and $189 in contingent deferred sales charges from redemptions of class B and class C shares, respectively.
A deferred sales charge of up to 1.00% is assessed on certain redemptions of class A shares. For the reporting period, Putnam Retail Management Limited Partnership, acting as underwriter, received $204 on class A redemptions.
Note 3: Purchases and sales of securities
During the reporting period, the cost of purchases and the proceeds from sales, excluding short-term investments, were as follows:
| Cost of purchases | Proceeds from sales | |
| Investments in securities (Long-term) | $716,424,397 | $83,919,659 |
| U.S. government securities (Long-term) | — | — |
| Total | $716,424,397 | $83,919,659 |
The fund may purchase or sell investments from or to other Putnam funds in the ordinary course of business, which can reduce the fund’s transaction costs, at prices determined in accordance with SEC requirements and policies approved by the Trustees. During the reporting period, purchases or sales of long-term securities from or to other Putnam funds, if any, did not represent more than 5% of the fund’s total cost of purchases and/or total proceeds from sales.
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Note 4: Capital shares
At the close of the reporting period, there were an unlimited number of shares of beneficial interest authorized. Transactions, including, if applicable, direct exchanges pursuant to share conversions, in capital shares were as follows:
| YEAR ENDED 10/31/19 | YEAR ENDED 10/31/18 | |||
| Class A | Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount |
| Shares sold | 70,559,796 | $711,823,473 | 7,476,701 | $75,040,233 |
| Shares issued in connection with | ||||
| reinvestment of distributions | 994,269 | 10,029,430 | 197,744 | 1,972,141 |
| 71,554,065 | 721,852,903 | 7,674,445 | 77,012,374 | |
| Shares repurchased | (21,692,923) | (219,283,116) | (4,503,803) | (45,211,327) |
| Net increase | 49,861,142 | $502,569,787 | 3,170,642 | $31,801,047 |
| YEAR ENDED 10/31/19 | YEAR ENDED 10/31/18 | |||
| Class B | Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount |
| Shares sold | 69,781 | $704,667 | 8,214 | $82,358 |
| Shares issued in connection with | ||||
| reinvestment of distributions | 1,849 | 18,581 | 1,917 | 19,066 |
| 71,630 | 723,248 | 10,131 | 101,424 | |
| Shares repurchased | (53,064) | (534,981) | (58,967) | (590,649) |
| Net increase (decrease) | 18,566 | $188,267 | (48,836) | $(489,225) |
| YEAR ENDED 10/31/19 | YEAR ENDED 10/31/18 | |||
| Class C | Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount |
| Shares sold | 1,477,958 | $14,836,905 | 172,236 | $1,722,115 |
| Shares issued in connection with | ||||
| reinvestment of distributions | 40,155 | 402,934 | 23,772 | 236,633 |
| 1,518,113 | 15,239,839 | 196,008 | 1,958,748 | |
| Shares repurchased | (704,077) | (7,075,399) | (440,919) | (4,412,433) |
| Net increase (decrease) | 814,036 | $8,164,440 | (244,911) | $(2,453,685) |
| YEAR ENDED 10/31/19 | YEAR ENDED 10/31/18 | |||
| Class M | Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount |
| Shares sold | 44,842 | $450,242 | 45,318 | $453,265 |
| Shares issued in connection with | ||||
| reinvestment of distributions | 6,598 | 66,082 | 4,896 | 48,711 |
| 51,440 | 516,324 | 50,214 | 501,976 | |
| Shares repurchased | (23,411) | (236,067) | (17,058) | (169,972) |
| Net increase | 28,029 | $280,257 | 33,156 | $332,004 |
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| YEAR ENDED 10/31/18* | ||||
| Class P | Shares | Amount | ||
| Shares sold | 838,043 | $8,562,815 | ||
| Shares issued in connection with reinvestment of distributions | 116,121 | 1,158,490 | ||
| 954,164 | 9,721,305 | |||
| Shares repurchased | (5,469,135) | (55,171,590) | ||
| Net decrease | (4,514,971) | $(45,450,285) | ||
| YEAR ENDED 10/31/19 | YEAR ENDED 10/31/18 | |||
| Class R | Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount |
| Shares sold | 26,570 | $267,327 | 8,175 | $82,378 |
| Shares issued in connection with | ||||
| reinvestment of distributions | 764 | 7,725 | 924 | 9,252 |
| 27,334 | 275,052 | 9,099 | 91,630 | |
| Shares repurchased | (19,472) | (197,549) | (22,486) | (225,589) |
| Net increase (decrease) | 7,862 | $77,503 | (13,387) | $(133,959) |
| YEAR ENDED 10/31/19 | YEAR ENDED 10/31/18 | |||
| Class R6 | Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount |
| Shares sold | 457,674 | $4,658,613 | 44,930 | $456,143 |
| Shares issued in connection with | ||||
| reinvestment of distributions | 6,039 | 60,992 | 2,342 | 23,482 |
| 463,713 | 4,719,605 | 47,272 | 479,625 | |
| Shares repurchased | (102,380) | (1,041,828) | (28,340) | (284,159) |
| Net increase | 361,333 | $3,677,777 | 18,932 | $195,466 |
| YEAR ENDED 10/31/19 | YEAR ENDED 10/31/18 | |||
| Class Y | Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount |
| Shares sold | 40,193,276 | $405,731,016 | 6,316,858 | $63,493,222 |
| Shares issued in connection with | ||||
| reinvestment of distributions | 737,492 | 7,448,098 | 229,805 | 2,295,883 |
| 40,930,768 | 413,179,114 | 6,546,663 | 65,789,105 | |
| Shares repurchased | (13,434,093) | (135,578,671) | (5,035,613) | (50,752,005) |
| Net increase | 27,496,675 | $277,600,443 | 1,511,050 | $15,037,100 |
* Effective April 27, 2018, the fund terminated its class P shares.
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Note 5: Affiliated transactions
Transactions during the reporting period with any company which is under common ownership or control were as follows:
| Shares | |||||
| outstanding | |||||
| and fair | |||||
| Fair value as | Purchase | Sale | Investment | value as | |
| Name of affiliate | of 10/31/18 | cost | proceeds | income | of 10/31/19 |
| Short-term investments | |||||
| Putnam Short Term | |||||
| Investment Fund* | $17,696,700 | $620,269,968 | $472,354,616 | $2,108,034 | $165,612,052 |
| Total Short-term | |||||
| investments | $17,696,700 | $620,269,968 | $472,354,616 | $2,108,034 | $165,612,052 |
* Management fees charged to Putnam Short Term Investment Fund have been waived by Putnam Management. There were no realized or unrealized gains or losses during the period.
Note 6: Market, credit and other risks
In the normal course of business, the fund trades financial instruments and enters into financial transactions where risk of potential loss exists due to changes in the market (market risk) or failure of the contracting party to the transaction to perform (credit risk). The fund may be exposed to additional credit risk that an institution or other entity with which the fund has unsettled or open transactions will default. Investments in foreign securities involve certain risks, including those related to economic instability, unfavorable political developments, and currency fluctuations.
The fund may invest in higher-yielding, lower-rated bonds that may have a higher rate of default. The fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securitized debt instruments, including mortgage-backed and asset-backed investments. The yields and values of these investments are sensitive to changes in interest rates, the rate of principal payments on the underlying assets and the market’s perception of the issuers. The market for these investments may be volatile and limited, which may make them difficult to buy or sell.
Note 7: Summary of derivative activity
The volume of activity for the reporting period for any derivative type that was held during the period is listed below and was based on an average of the holdings at the end of each fiscal quarter:
| Centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts (notional) | $418,800,000 |
| OTC credit default contracts (notional) | $8,500,000 |
The following is a summary of the fair value of derivative instruments as of the close of the reporting period:
| Fair value of derivative instruments as of the close of the reporting period | ||||
| ASSET DERIVATIVES | LIABILITY DERIVATIVES | |||
| Derivatives not | ||||
| accounted for as | Statement of | Statement of | ||
| hedging instruments | assets and | assets and | ||
| under ASC 815 | liabilities location | Fair value | liabilities location | Fair value |
| Credit contracts | Receivables | $236,021 | Payables | $98,652 |
| Receivables, Net | ||||
| assets — Unrealized | Payables, Net assets — | |||
| Interest rate contracts | appreciation | 597,097* | Unrealized depreciation | — |
| Total | $833,118 | $98,652 | ||
* Includes cumulative appreciation/depreciation of centrally cleared swaps as reported in the fund’s portfolio. Only current day’s variation margin is reported within the Statement of assets and liabilities.
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The following is a summary of realized and change in unrealized gains or losses of derivative instruments in the Statement of operations for the reporting period (Note 1):
| Amount of realized gain or (loss) on derivatives recognized in net gain or (loss) on investments | ||
| Derivatives not accounted for as | ||
| hedging instruments under ASC 815 | Swaps | Total |
| Credit contracts | $8,503 | $8,503 |
| Interest rate contracts | (1,343,729) | $(1,343,729) |
| Total | $(1,335,226) | $(1,335,226) |
| Change in unrealized appreciation or (depreciation) on derivatives recognized in net gain or (loss) | ||
| on investments | ||
| Derivatives not accounted for as | ||
| hedging instruments under ASC 815 | Swaps | Total |
| Credit contracts | $(170,064) | $(170,064) |
| Interest rate contracts | 377,195 | $377,195 |
| Total | $207,131 | $207,131 |
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Note 8: Offsetting of financial and derivative assets and liabilities
The following table summarizes any derivatives, repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements, at the end of the reporting period, that are subject to an enforceable master netting agreement or similar agreement. For securities lending transactions or borrowing transactions associated with securities sold short, if any, see Note 1. For financial reporting purposes, the fund does not offset financial assets and financial liabilities that are subject to the master netting agreements in the Statement of assets and liabilities.
| Bank of America N.A. |
Barclays Capital, Inc. (clearing broker) |
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. |
Credit Suisse International |
Goldman Sachs International |
JPMorgan Securities LLC |
Merrill Lynch International |
Morgan Stanley & Co. International PLC |
Total | |
| Assets: | |||||||||
| Centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts§ | $— | $805,292 | $— | $— | $— | $— | $— | $— | $805,292 |
| OTC Credit default contracts — protection sold*# | — | — | 125 | 3,016 | 2,714 | 8,001 | — | 267 | 14,123 |
| OTC Credit default contracts — protection purchased*# | — | — | 29,138 | 103,971 | 17,096 | 33,480 | 20,942 | 17,271 | 221,898 |
| Total Assets | $— | $805,292 | $29,263 | $106,987 | $19,810 | $41,481 | $20,942 | $17,538 | $1,041,313 |
| Liabilities: | |||||||||
| Centrally cleared interest rate swap contracts§ | — | 597,745 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 597,745 |
| OTC Credit default contracts — protection sold*# | 43,749 | — | 22,594 | 2,675 | 3,319 | 6,940 | 85 | 18,319 | 97,681 |
| OTC Credit default contracts — protection purchased*# | — | — | 971 | — | — | — | — | — | 971 |
| Total Liabilities | $43,749 | $597,745 | $23,565 | $2,675 | $3,319 | $6,940 | $85 | $18,319 | $696,397 |
| Total Financial and Derivative Net Assets | $(43,749) | $207,547 | $5,698 | $104,312 | $16,491 | $34,541 | $20,857 | $(781) | $344,916 |
| Total collateral received (pledged)†## | $(43,749) | $— | $— | $104,312 | $— | $— | $— | $— | |
| Net amount | $— | $207,547 | $5,698 | $— | $16,491 | $34,541 | $20,857 | $(781) | |
| Controlled collateral received (including TBA commitments)** | $— | $— | $— | $120,000 | $— | $— | $— | $— | $120,000 |
| Uncontrolled collateral received | $— | $— | $— | $— | $— | $— | $— | $— | $— |
| Collateral (pledged) (including TBA commitments)** | $(62,981) | $— | $— | $— | $— | $— | $— | $— | $(62,981) |
* Excludes premiums, if any. Included in unrealized appreciation and depreciation on OTC swap contracts on the Statement of assets and liabilities.
** Included with Investments in securities on the Statement of assets and liabilities.
† Additional collateral may be required from certain brokers based on individual agreements.
# Covered by master netting agreement (Note 1).
## Any over-collateralization of total financial and derivative net assets is not shown. Collateral may include amounts related to unsettled agreements.
§ Includes current day’s variation margin only as reported on the Statement of assets and liabilities, which is not collateralized. Cumulative appreciation/(depreciation) for centrally cleared swap contracts is represented in the tables listed after the fund’s portfolio. Collateral pledged for centrally cleared swap contracts, which is not included in the table above, amounted to $1,814,386.
Note 9: New accounting pronouncements
In March 2017, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2017–08, Receivables — Nonrefundable Fees and Other Costs (Subtopic 310–20): Premium Amortization on Purchased Callable Debt Securities. The amendments in the ASU shorten the amortization period for certain callable debt securities held at a premium, to be amortized to the earliest call date. The ASU is effective for fiscal years and interim periods within those fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018. Management is currently evaluating the impact, if any, of applying this provision.
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Federal tax information (Unaudited)
For the reporting period, a portion of the fund’s distribution represents a return of capital and is therefore not taxable to shareholders.
The Form 1099 that will be mailed to you in January 2020 will show the tax status of all distributions paid to your account in calendar 2019.
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* Mr. Reynolds is an “interested person” (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of the fund and Putnam Investments. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of Putnam Investments, as well as the President of your fund and each of the other Putnam funds.
The address of each Trustee is 100 Federal Street, Boston, MA 02110.
As of October 31, 2019, there were 91 Putnam funds. All Trustees serve as Trustees of all Putnam funds.
Each Trustee serves for an indefinite term, until his or her resignation, retirement at age 75, removal, or death.
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Officers
In addition to Robert L. Reynolds, the other officers of the fund are shown below:
| Robert T. Burns (Born 1961) | Richard T. Kircher (Born 1962) |
| Vice President and Chief Legal Officer | Vice President and BSA Compliance Officer |
| Since 2011 | Since 2019 |
| General Counsel, Putnam Investments, | Assistant Director, Operational Compliance, Putnam |
| Putnam Management, and Putnam Retail Management | Investments and Putnam Retail Management |
| James F. Clark (Born 1974) | Susan G. Malloy (Born 1957) |
| Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer | Vice President and Assistant Treasurer |
| Since 2016 | Since 2007 |
| Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer, | Head of Accounting and Middle Office Services, |
| Putnam Investments and Chief Compliance Officer, | Putnam Investments and Putnam Management |
| Putnam Management | |
| Denere P. Poulack (Born 1968) | |
| Nancy E. Florek (Born 1957) | Assistant Vice President, Assistant Clerk, |
| Vice President, Director of Proxy Voting and Corporate | and Assistant Treasurer |
| Governance, Assistant Clerk, and Assistant Treasurer | Since 2004 |
| Since 2000 | |
| Janet C. Smith (Born 1965) | |
| Michael J. Higgins (Born 1976) | Vice President, Principal Financial Officer, Principal |
| Vice President, Treasurer, and Clerk | Accounting Officer, and Assistant Treasurer |
| Since 2010 | Since 2007 |
| Head of Fund Administration Services, | |
| Jonathan S. Horwitz (Born 1955) | Putnam Investments and Putnam Management |
| Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer, | |
| and Compliance Liaison | Mark C. Trenchard (Born 1962) |
| Since 2004 | Vice President |
| Since 2002 | |
| Director of Operational Compliance, Putnam | |
| Investments and Putnam Retail Management | |
The principal occupations of the officers for the past five years have been with the employers as shown above, although in some cases they have held different positions with such employers. The address of each officer is 100 Federal Street, Boston, MA 02110.
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Services for shareholders
Investor services
Systematic investment plan Tell us how much you wish to invest regularly — weekly, semimonthly, or monthly — and the amount you choose will be transferred automatically from your checking or savings account. There’s no additional fee for this service, and you can suspend it at any time. This plan may be a great way to save for college expenses or to plan for your retirement.
Please note that regular investing does not guarantee a profit or protect against loss in a declining market. Before arranging a systematic investment plan, consider your financial ability to continue making purchases in periods when prices are low.
Systematic exchange You can make regular transfers from one Putnam fund to another Putnam fund. There are no additional fees for this service, and you can cancel or change your options at any time.
Dividends PLUS You can choose to have the dividend distributions from one of your Putnam funds automatically reinvested in another Putnam fund at no additional charge.
Free exchange privilege You can exchange money between Putnam funds free of charge, as long as they are the same class of shares. A signature guarantee is required if you are exchanging more than $500,000. The fund reserves the right to revise or terminate the exchange privilege.
Reinstatement privilege If you’ve sold Putnam shares or received a check for a dividend or capital gain, you may reinvest the proceeds with Putnam within 90 days of the transaction and they will be reinvested at the fund’s current net asset value — with no sales charge. However, reinstatement of class B shares may have special tax consequences. Ask your financial or tax representative for details.
Check-writing service You have ready access to many Putnam accounts. It’s as simple as writing a check, and there are no special fees or service charges. For more information about the check-writing service, call Putnam or visit our website.
Dollar cost averaging When you’re investing for long-term goals, it’s time, not timing, that counts. Investing on a systematic basis is a better strategy than trying to figure out when the markets will go up or down. This means investing the same amount of money regularly over a long period. This method of investing is called dollar cost averaging. When a fund’s share price declines, your investment dollars buy more shares at lower prices. When it increases, they buy fewer shares. Over time, you will pay a lower average price per share.
For more information
Visit the Individual Investors section at putnam.com A secure section of our website contains complete information on your account, including balances and transactions, updated daily. You may also conduct transactions, such as exchanges, additional investments, and address changes. Log on today to get your password.
Call us toll free at 1-800-225-1581 Ask a helpful Putnam representative or your financial advisor for details about any of these or other services, or see your prospectus.
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Fund information
Founded over 80 years ago, Putnam Investments was built around the concept that a balance between risk and reward is the hallmark of a well-rounded financial program. We manage funds across income, value, blend, growth, sustainable, asset allocation, absolute return, and global sector categories.
| Investment Manager | Trustees | Michael J. Higgins |
| Putnam Investment | Kenneth R. Leibler, Chair | Vice President, Treasurer, |
| Management, LLC | Liaquat Ahamed | and Clerk |
| 100 Federal Street | Ravi Akhoury | |
| Boston, MA 02110 | Barbara M. Baumann | Jonathan S. Horwitz |
| Katinka Domotorffy | Executive Vice President, | |
| Investment Sub-Advisors | Catharine Bond Hill | Principal Executive Officer, |
| Putnam Investments Limited | Paul L. Joskow | and Compliance Liaison |
| 16 St James’s Street | Robert E. Patterson | |
| London, England SW1A 1ER | George Putnam, III | Richard T. Kircher |
| Robert L. Reynolds | Vice President and BSA | |
| The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC | Manoj P. Singh | Compliance Officer |
| 100 Federal Street | ||
| Boston, MA 02110 | Officers | Susan G. Malloy |
| Robert L. Reynolds | Vice President and | |
| Marketing Services | President | Assistant Treasurer |
| Putnam Retail Management | ||
| 100 Federal Street | Robert T. Burns | Denere P. Poulack |
| Boston, MA 02110 | Vice President and | Assistant Vice President, Assistant |
| Chief Legal Officer | Clerk, and Assistant Treasurer | |
| Custodian | ||
| State Street Bank | James F. Clark | Janet C. Smith |
| and Trust Company | Vice President, Chief Compliance | Vice President, |
| Officer, and Chief Risk Officer | Principal Financial Officer, | |
| Legal Counsel | Principal Accounting Officer, | |
| Ropes & Gray LLP | Nancy E. Florek | and Assistant Treasurer |
| Vice President, Director of | ||
| Independent Registered | Proxy Voting and Corporate | Mark C. Trenchard |
| Public Accounting Firm | Governance, Assistant Clerk, | Vice President |
| KPMG LLP | and Assistant Treasurer |
This report is for the information of shareholders of Putnam Short Duration Bond Fund. It may also be used as sales literature when preceded or accompanied by the current prospectus, the most recent copy of Putnam’s Quarterly Performance Summary, and Putnam’s Quarterly Ranking Summary. For more recent performance, please visit putnam.com. Investors should carefully consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses of a fund, which are described in its prospectus. For this and other information or to request a prospectus or summary prospectus, call 1-800-225-1581 toll free. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing. The fund’s Statement of Additional Information contains additional information about the fund’s Trustees and is available without charge upon request by calling 1-800-225-1581.
| Item 2. Code of Ethics: |
| (a) The fund's principal executive, financial and accounting officers are employees of Putnam Investment Management, LLC, the Fund's investment manager. As such they are subject to a comprehensive Code of Ethics adopted and administered by Putnam Investments which is designed to protect the interests of the firm and its clients. The Fund has adopted a Code of Ethics which incorporates the Code of Ethics of Putnam Investments with respect to all of its officers and Trustees who are employees of Putnam Investment Management, LLC. For this reason, the Fund has not adopted a separate code of ethics governing its principal executive, financial and accounting officers. |
| (c) In October 2019, the Code of Ethics of Putnam Investments was amended. The key changes to the Code of Ethics are as follows: (i) Employee notification to the Code of Ethics Officer before acting as a public official for any government entity (ii) Clarifying changes to the Insider Trading provisions and to the rules for trading in securities issued by Great-West Lifeco. |
| Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert: |
| The Funds' Audit, Compliance and Distributions Committee is comprised solely of Trustees who are “independent” (as such term has been defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in regulations implementing Section 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (the “Regulations”)). The Trustees believe that each of the members of the Audit, Compliance and Distributions Committee also possess a combination of knowledge and experience with respect to financial accounting matters, as well as other attributes, that qualify them for service on the Committee. In addition, the Trustees have determined that each of Mr. Patterson, Ms. Baumann and Mr. Singh qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” (as such term has been defined by the Regulations) based on their review of his or her pertinent experience and education. The SEC has stated, and the funds' amended and restated agreement and Declaration of Trust provides, that the designation or identification of a person as an audit committee financial expert pursuant to this Item 3 of Form N-CSR does not impose on such person any duties, obligations or liability that are greater than the duties, obligations and liability imposed on such person as a member of the Audit, Compliance and Distribution Committee and the Board of Trustees in the absence of such designation or identification. |
| Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services: |
| The following table presents fees billed in each of the last two fiscal years for services rendered to the fund by the fund's independent auditor: |
| Fiscal year ended | Audit Fees | Audit-Related Fees | Tax Fees | All Other Fees | |
| October 31, 2019 | $105,672 | $ — | $6,145 | $ — | |
| October 31, 2018 | $101,899 | $ — | $6,025 | $ — | |
| For the fiscal years ended October 31, 2019 and October 31, 2018, the fund's independent auditor billed aggregate non-audit fees in the amounts of $6,145 and $6,025 respectively, to the fund, Putnam Management and any entity controlling, controlled by or under common control with Putnam Management that provides ongoing services to the fund. |
| Audit Fees represent fees billed for the fund's last two fiscal years relating to the audit and review of the financial statements included in annual reports and registration statements, and other services that are normally provided in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements. |
| Audit-Related Fees represent fees billed in the fund's last two fiscal years for services traditionally performed by the fund's auditor, including accounting consultation for proposed transactions or concerning financial accounting and reporting standards and other audit or attest services not required by statute or regulation. |
| Tax Fees represent fees billed in the fund's last two fiscal years for tax compliance, tax planning and tax advice services. Tax planning and tax advice services include assistance with tax audits, employee benefit plans and requests for rulings or technical advice from taxing authorities. |
| Pre-Approval Policies of the Audit, Compliance and Distributions Committee. The Audit, Compliance and Distributions Committee of the Putnam funds has determined that, as a matter of policy, all work performed for the funds by the funds' independent auditors will be pre-approved by the Committee itself and thus will generally not be subject to pre-approval procedures. |
| The Audit, Compliance and Distributions Committee also has adopted a policy to pre-approve the engagement by Putnam Management and certain of its affiliates of the funds' independent auditors, even in circumstances where pre-approval is not required by applicable law. Any such requests by Putnam Management or certain of its affiliates are typically submitted in writing to the Committee and explain, among other things, the nature of the proposed engagement, the estimated fees, and why this work should be performed by that particular audit firm as opposed to another one. In reviewing such requests, the Committee considers, among other things, whether the provision of such services by the audit firm are compatible with the independence of the audit firm. |
| The following table presents fees billed by the fund's independent auditor for services required to be approved pursuant to paragraph (c)(7)(ii) of Rule 2–01 of Regulation S-X. |
| Fiscal year ended | Audit-Related Fees | Tax Fees | All Other Fees | Total Non-Audit Fees | |
| October 31, 2019 | $ — | $ — | $ — | $ — | |
| October 31, 2018 | $ — | $ — | $ — | $ — | |
| Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants |
| Not applicable |
Item 6. Schedule of Investments: |
| The registrant's schedule of investments in unaffiliated issuers is included in the report to shareholders in Item 1 above. |
| Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures For Closed-End Management Investment Companies: |
| Not applicable |
Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Investment Companies |
| Not Applicable |
Item 9. Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Companies and Affiliated Purchasers: |
| Not applicable |
Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders: |
| Not applicable |
Item 11. Controls and Procedures: |
| (a) The registrant's principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded, based on their evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 180 days of the filing date of this report, that the design and operation of such procedures are generally effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by the registrant in this report is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission's rules and forms. |
| (b) Changes in internal control over financial reporting: Not applicable |
Item 12. Disclosures of Securities Lending Activities for Closed-End Management Investment Companies: |
| Not Applicable |
Item 13. Exhibits: |
| (a)(1) The Code of Ethics of The Putnam Funds, which incorporates the Code of Ethics of Putnam Investments, is filed herewith. |
| (b) The certifications required by Rule 30a-2(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, are filed herewith. |
| SIGNATURES |
| Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized. |
| Putnam Funds Trust |
| By (Signature and Title): |
| /s/ Janet C. Smith Janet C. Smith Principal Accounting Officer |
| Date: December 27, 2019 |
| Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated. |
| By (Signature and Title): |
| /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz Jonathan S. Horwitz Principal Executive Officer |
| Date: December 27, 2019 |
| By (Signature and Title): |
| /s/ Janet C. Smith Janet C. Smith Principal Financial Officer |
| Date: December 27, 2019 |