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Federated Hermes Strategic Value Dividend Fund

A Portfolio of Federated Hermes Equity Funds

CLASS A SHARES (TICKER SVAAX)
CLASS C SHARES (TICKER SVACX)
INSTITUTIONAL SHARES (TICKER SVAIX)
CLASS R6 SHARES (TICKER SVALX)

SUPPLEMENT TO SUMMARY PROSPECTUS DATED DECEMBER 31, 2023

1. Under the section entitled “Risk/Return Summary: Fees and Expenses,” please delete and replace the “Fee Table” and “Example” in their entirety with the following:

RISK/RETURN SUMMARY: Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell Class A Shares (A), Class C Shares (C), Institutional Shares (IS) and Class R6 Shares (R6) of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the tables and examples below. You may qualify for certain sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in certain classes (e.g., A class) of Federated Hermes funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional, in the “What Do Shares Cost? ” section of the Prospectus on page 17 and in “Appendix B” to this Prospectus.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

	A	C	IS	R6
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)	5.50%	None	None	None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of original purchase price or redemption proceeds, as applicable)	0.00%	1.00%	None	None
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends (and other Distributions) (as a percentage of offering price)	None	None	None	None
Redemption Fee (as a percentage of amount redeemed, if applicable)	None	None	None	None
Exchange Fee	None	None	None	None

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

	A	C	IS	R6
Management Fee1	0.73%	0.73%	0.73%	0.73%
Distribution (12b-1) Fee	0.00%2	0.75%	None	None
Other Expenses	0.43%	0.44%	0.19%	0.11%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses1	1.16%	1.92%	0.92%	0.84%
Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements1,3	(0.10)%	(0.05)%	(0.11)%	(0.05)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements	1.06%	1.87%	0.81%	0.79%

The Management Fee, Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses and Fee Waivers and/or Expense Reimbursements have been restated to reflect current fees due to a reduction in the stated gross Management Fee for the Fund effective July 1, 2024.

The Fund has adopted a Distribution (12b-1) Plan for its Class A Shares pursuant to which the A class of the Fund may incur and pay a Distribution (12b-1) Fee of up to a maximum amount of 0.05%. No such fee is currently incurred and paid by the A class of the Fund. The A class of the Fund will not incur and pay such a Distribution (12b-1) Fee until such time as approved by the Fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Trustees”).

The Adviser and certain of its affiliates on their own initiative have agreed to waive certain amounts of their respective fees and/or reimburse expenses. Effective January 1, 2024, total annual fund operating expenses (excluding acquired fund fees and expenses, tax reclaim recovery expenses, interest expense, extraordinary expenses and proxy-related expenses, if any) paid by the Fund’s A, C, IS and R6 classes (after the voluntary waivers and/or reimbursements) will not exceed 1.05%, 1.86%, 0.80% and 0.78% (the “Fee Limit”), respectively, up to but not including the later of (the “Termination Date”): (a) January 1, 2025; or (b) the date of the Fund’s next effective Prospectus. While the Adviser and its affiliates currently do not anticipate terminating or increasing these arrangements prior to the Termination Date, these arrangements may only be terminated or the Fee Limit increased prior to the Termination Date with the agreement of the Trustees.

Example

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 for the time periods indicated and then redeem or hold all of your Shares at the end of those periods. Expenses assuming no redemptions are also shown. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that operating expenses remain the same. The Example does not reflect sales charges (loads) on reinvested dividends. If these sales charges (loads) were included, your costs would be higher. Although your actual costs and returns may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Share Class	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
A:
Expenses assuming redemption	$662	$898	$1,153	$1,881
Expenses assuming no redemption	$662	$898	$1,153	$1,881
C:
Expenses assuming redemption	$295	$603	$1,037	$2,046
Expenses assuming no redemption	$195	$603	$1,037	$2,046
IS:
Expenses assuming redemption	$94	$293	$509	$1,131
Expenses assuming no redemption	$94	$293	$509	$1,131
R6:
Expenses assuming redemption	$86	$268	$466	$1,037
Expenses assuming no redemption	$86	$268	$466	$1,037

June 24, 2024

Federated Hermes Strategic Value Dividend Fund
Federated Hermes Funds
4000 Ericsson Drive
Warrendale, PA 15086-7561

Federated Securities Corp., Distributor

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