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EnTrustPermal Alternative Core Fund
ENTRUSTPERMAL
ALTERNATIVE CORE FUND
Investment objective
The fund seeks total return.
Fees and expenses of the fund
The accompanying table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund.

You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $25,000 in funds distributed through Legg Mason Investor Services, LLC (“LMIS”), the fund’s distributor. More information about these and other discounts is available from your Service Agent, in the fund’s Prospectus on page 31 under the heading “Sales charges,” in the appendix titled “Appendix: Waivers and Discounts Available from Certain Service Agents” on page A-1 of the fund’s Prospectus and in the fund’s Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) on page 77 under the heading “Sales Charge Waivers and Reductions for Class A Shares.” “Service Agents” include banks, brokers, dealers, insurance companies, investment advisers, financial consultants or advisers, mutual fund supermarkets and other financial intermediaries that have entered into an agreement with LMIS to sell shares of the fund.

If you purchase Class I shares or Class IS shares through a Service Agent acting solely as an agent on behalf of its customers, that Service Agent may charge you a commission. Such commissions, if any, are not charged by the fund and are not reflected in the fee table or expense example below.
Shareholder fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees - EnTrustPermal Alternative Core Fund - USD ($)
Class A
Class C
Class FI
Class R
Class I
Class IS
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases (as a % of offering price) 5.75% [1],[2] none none none none none
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) (as a % of the lower of net asset value at purchase or redemption) [3] none [4] 1.00% none none none none
Small account fee ($) [5] $ 15 $ 15 none none none none
[1] Shareholders purchasing Class A shares through certain Service Agents or in certain types of accounts may be eligible for a waiver of the sales charge. For additional information, see “Sales charges” in the Prospectus.
[2] The sales charge is waived for shareholders purchasing Class A shares through accounts where LMIS is the broker-dealer of record (“LMIS Accounts”).
[3] Maximum deferred sales charge (load) may be reduced over time.
[4] You may buy Class A shares in amounts of $1,000,000 or more at net asset value (without an initial sales charge), but if you redeem those shares within 18 months of their purchase, you will pay a contingent deferred sales charge of 1.00%.
[5] If the value of your account is below $1,000 ($250 for retirement plans that are not employer-sponsored), the fund may charge you a fee of $3.75 per account that is determined and assessed quarterly by the fund or your Service Agent (with an annual maximum of $15.00 per account). Please contact your Service Agent or the fund for more information.
Annual fund operating expenses (%)
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses - EnTrustPermal Alternative Core Fund
Class A
Class C
Class FI
Class R
Class I
Class IS
Management fees [1] 0.90% 0.90% 0.90% 0.90% 0.90% 0.90%
Distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees 0.25% 1.00% 0.25% 0.50% none none
Other expenses 0.22% 0.21% 0.21% 0.31% [2] 0.22% 0.19%
Dividend and interest expense on securities sold short [3] 0.10% 0.10% 0.10% 0.10% 0.10% 0.10%
Acquired fund fees and expenses [4] 0.11% 0.11% 0.11% 0.11% 0.11% 0.11%
Total annual fund operating expenses [5] 1.58% 2.32% 1.57% 1.92% 1.33% 1.30%
Fees waived and/or expenses reimbursed [6] (0.01%) (0.02%) (0.09%)
Total annual fund operating expenses after waiving fees and/or reimbursing expenses [7] 1.58% 2.32% 1.57% 1.91% 1.31% 1.21%
[1] Management fees have been restated to reflect current fees.
[2] “Other expenses” for Class R shares are estimated for the current fiscal year. Actual expenses may differ from estimates.
[3] Dividend and interest expenses on securities sold short are estimated based on the subadviser’s expected use of derivatives to take short positions, rather than selling securities short, and are subject to change. Dividend expenses on securities sold short refer to paying the value of dividends to the securities lenders. Interest expenses on securities sold short arise from the use of short sale proceeds to invest in additional securities or other instruments.
[4] Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are estimated to reflect that the fund is no longer required to invest more than 25% of its assets in the mutual fund industry under its revised concentration policy. This estimate is based on the subadviser’s allocations to exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and other underlying funds and is subject to change.
[5] Total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate with the ratios of expenses to average net assets reported in the consolidated financial highlights tables in the fund’s Prospectus and in the fund’s shareholder reports, which reflect the fund’s operating expenses and do not include acquired fund fees and expenses, do not reflect the fund’s higher management fee effective as of January 5, 2018 and do not reflect estimated lower dividend and interest expenses on securities sold short.
[6] The manager has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse operating expenses (other than interest, brokerage (including brokerage commissions on purchases and sales of closed-end funds, ETFs, ETNs and other assets), taxes, incentive or performance-based fees of underlying funds, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend and interest expenses on securities sold short and extraordinary expenses) so that the ratio of total annual fund operating expenses will not exceed 1.45% for Class A shares, 2.20% for Class C shares, 1.45% for Class FI shares, 1.70% for Class R shares, 1.10% for Class I shares and 1.00% for Class IS shares, subject to recapture as described below. In addition, the ratio of total annual fund operating expenses for Class IS shares will not exceed the ratio of total annual fund operating expenses for Class I shares, subject to recapture as described below. These arrangements cannot be terminated prior to December 31, 2019 without the Board of Trustees’ consent. The manager is permitted to recapture amounts waived and/or reimbursed to a class during the same fiscal year in which the manager earned the fee or incurred the expense if the class’ total annual fund operating expenses have fallen to a level below the limits described above. In no case will the manager recapture any amount that would result, on any particular business day of the fund, in the class’ total annual fund operating expenses exceeding the applicable limits described above or any other lower limit then in effect.
[7] Total annual fund operating expenses (after waiving fees and/or reimbursing expenses, as applicable) exceed the expense cap for Class A, Class C, Class FI, Class R, Class I and Class IS shares as a result of acquired fund fees and expenses, brokerage commissions on purchases and sales of ETFs and dividend and interest expenses on securities sold short.
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:
  • You invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated
  • Your investment has a 5% return each year and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same (except that fee waivers and reimbursements are reflected only in the one-year figures)
  • You reinvest all distributions and dividends without a sales charge
Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Number of years you own your shares ($)
Expense Example - EnTrustPermal Alternative Core Fund - USD ($)
1 year
3 years
5 years
10 years
Class A 726 1,045 1,386 2,345
Class C 335 724 1,240 2,656
Class FI 160 496 856 1,868
Class R 194 602 1,036 2,243
Class I 133 419 726 1,598
Class IS 123 403 704 1,560
Number of years you own your shares ($)
Expense Example, No Redemption - EnTrustPermal Alternative Core Fund - USD ($)
1 year
3 years
5 years
10 years
Class A 726 1,045 1,386 2,345
Class C 235 724 1,240 2,656
Class FI 160 496 856 1,868
Class R 194 602 1,036 2,243
Class I 133 419 726 1,598
Class IS 123 403 704 1,560
Portfolio turnover.
The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 78% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal investment strategies
The fund typically will invest, directly in securities or other instruments or through underlying funds, including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), in the following manner:
  • 50% to 100% of its total assets in alternative investments, including commodities, real estate assets, infrastructure assets, foreign currencies and hedge fund strategies
  • 0% to 50% of its total assets in equity-related investments
  • 0% to 50% of its total assets in fixed income-related investments
  • 0% to 40% in cash and cash equivalents
The fund may seek both long and short exposures to equities, fixed income, structured credit, currencies, commodities, real estate assets, infrastructure assets and other real assets. A “long” exposure will benefit the fund when the underlying asset increases in price. A “short” exposure will benefit the fund when the underlying asset decreases in price. The fund will typically invest in multiple styles of hedge fund investing that may involve investment techniques and strategies that are different from the strategies used by typical mutual funds. The fund may employ an asset allocation strategy that seeks to exploit perceived inefficiencies or imbalances in equity, fixed income or other asset classes in any region or country. The fund may also employ various portfolio hedging strategies, including strategies and products that are expected to produce positive returns in adverse market environments or that are used to limit volatility. The fund may hold fixed income instruments of any maturity or duration. Duration is a measure of the underlying portfolio’s price sensitivity to changes in prevailing interest rates.

The fund may not invest more than 10% of its total assets in any one investment considered by EnTrustPermal Partners Offshore LP (“EPOLP”) to be an alternative investment.

EPOLP will allocate assets to securities and other instruments, various ETFs or other underlying funds which, in its opinion, are consistent with the fund’s investment policies and strategies and invest in the markets and strategies as identified by its thematic asset allocation process.

The fund may obtain exposure to investment strategies (including hedge fund strategies) through the use of one or more total return swaps through which the fund makes payments to a counterparty (at either a fixed or variable rate) in exchange for receiving from the counterparty payments that reflect the return of a “basket” of securities, derivatives or commodity interests.

The fund may not invest more than 10% of its total assets either directly or through swaps in any one investment considered by EPOLP to be an alternative investment.

The fund and certain ETFs or other underlying funds may engage in active and frequent trading to achieve their principal investment strategies, resulting in high portfolio turnover.
Principal risks
Risk is inherent in all investing. The value of your investment in the fund, as well as the amount of return you receive on your investment, may fluctuate significantly. You may lose part or all of your investment in the fund or your investment may not perform as well as other similar investments.

The fund’s investment strategies and portfolio investments differ from those of many other mutual funds. The manager and the subadviser may devote significant portions of the fund’s assets to pursuing investment opportunities or strategies including through the use of derivatives that may create a form of investment leverage in the fund. This approach to investing may make the fund a more volatile investment than other mutual funds and cause the fund to perform less favorably than other mutual funds under similar market or economic conditions. An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or by any bank or government agency. The following is a summary description of certain risks of investing in the fund in alphabetical order.

Allocation risk. The fund’s ability to achieve its investment goal depends upon the portfolio managers’ skill in determining the fund’s strategic asset class allocation. The value of your investment may decrease if the portfolio managers’ judgment about the attractiveness, value or market trends affecting a particular asset class, investment style or other issuer is incorrect.

Commodity regulatory risk. The fund is deemed a “commodity pool” and the fund’s manager is considered a “commodity pool operator” with respect to the fund under the Commodity Exchange Act. The fund’s manager is therefore subject to dual regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Due to recent regulatory changes, additional regulatory requirements may be imposed and additional expenses may be incurred by the fund. The regulatory requirements governing the use of commodity futures (which include futures on broad-based securities indexes, interest rate futures and currency futures), options on commodity futures, certain swaps or certain other investments could change at any time.

Credit risk. If an issuer or guarantor of a security held by the fund or a counterparty to a financial contract with the fund defaults or is downgraded, or is perceived to be less creditworthy, or if the value of the assets underlying a security declines, the value of your investment will typically decline. Subordinated securities are more likely to suffer a credit loss than non-subordinated securities of the same issuer and will be disproportionately affected by a default, downgrade or perceived decline in creditworthiness.

Currency risk. The value of investments in securities denominated in foreign currencies increases or decreases as the rates of exchange between those currencies and the U.S. dollar change. Currency conversion costs and currency fluctuations could erase investment gains or add to investment losses. Currency exchange rates can be volatile, and are affected by factors such as general economic conditions, the actions of the U.S. and foreign governments or central banks, the imposition of currency controls and speculation.

Currency transactions risk. If changes in the currency exchange rates do not occur as anticipated, the fund may lose money on forward currency transactions. The fund’s ability to use forward foreign currency transactions successfully depends on a number of factors, including the forward foreign currency transactions being available at prices that are not too costly, the availability of liquid markets and the ability of the portfolio managers to accurately predict the direction of changes in currency exchange rates. Currency exchange rates may be volatile. Currency transactions are subject to counterparty risk, which is the risk that the other party in the transaction will not fulfill its contractual obligation.

Cybersecurity risk. Cybersecurity incidents may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary information, or cause the fund, the manager, the subadviser and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality.

Derivatives risk. Using derivatives can increase fund losses and reduce opportunities for gains when market prices, interest rates, currencies, or the derivatives themselves behave in a way not anticipated by the fund. Using derivatives also can have a leveraging effect and increase fund volatility. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. Derivatives may be difficult to sell, unwind or value, and the counterparty may default on its obligations to the fund. Derivatives are generally subject to the risks applicable to the assets, rates, indices or other indicators underlying the derivative. The value of a derivative may fluctuate more than the underlying assets, rates, indices or other indicators to which it relates. Use of derivatives may have different tax consequences for the fund than an investment in the underlying security, and those differences may affect the amount, timing and character of income distributed to shareholders. The U.S. government and foreign governments are in the process of adopting and implementing regulations governing derivatives markets, including mandatory clearing of certain derivatives, margin and reporting requirements. The ultimate impact of the regulations remains unclear. Additional regulation of derivatives may make derivatives more costly, limit their availability or utility, otherwise adversely affect their performance or disrupt markets.

Credit default swap contracts involve heightened risks and may result in losses to the fund. Credit default swaps may be illiquid and difficult to value, and they increase credit risk since the fund has exposure to both the issuer whose credit is the subject of the swap and the counterparty to the swap.

ETF risk. Investing in an ETF will give the fund exposure to the securities comprising the index on which the ETF is based and will expose the fund to risks similar to those of investing directly in those securities. Unlike shares of typical mutual funds or unit investment trusts, shares of ETFs are traded on an exchange and may trade throughout a trading day. ETFs are bought and sold based on market values and not at net asset value, and therefore, may trade at either a premium or discount to net asset value. However, the trading prices of index-based ETFs tend to closely track the actual net asset value of the underlying portfolios. The fund will generally gain or lose value on holdings of an ETF consistent with the performance of the index on which the ETF is based. The fund will indirectly bear its proportionate share of the management fees and other expenses that are charged by the ETF in addition to the management fees and other expenses paid by the fund. The fund will also pay brokerage commissions in connection with the purchase and sale of shares of ETFs. An ETF may not replicate exactly the performance of the benchmark index it seeks to track for a number of reasons, including transaction costs incurred by the ETF, the temporary unavailability of certain index securities in the secondary market or discrepancies between the ETF and the index with respect to the weighting of securities or the number of securities held. ETFs that invest in commodities may be, or may become, subject to regulatory trading limits that could hurt the value of their securities. Some commodity ETFs also invest in commodity futures, which can lose money even when commodity prices are rising.    Investments in ETFs are subject to the risk that the listing exchange may halt trading of an ETF’s shares, in which case the fund would be unable to sell its ETF shares unless and until trading is resumed.

Extension risk. When interest rates rise, repayments of fixed income securities, particularly asset- and mortgage-backed securities, may occur more slowly than anticipated, extending the effective duration of these fixed income securities at below market interest rates and causing their market prices to decline more than they would have declined due to the rise in interest rates alone. This may cause the fund’s share price to be more volatile.

Foreign investments and emerging markets risk. The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk. Foreign countries in which the fund may invest may have markets that are less liquid, less regulated and more volatile than U.S. markets. The value of the fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable or unsuccessful government actions, reduction of government or central bank support and political or financial instability. Lack of information may also affect the value of these securities.

The risks of foreign investments are heightened when investing in issuers in emerging market countries. Emerging market countries tend to have economic, political and legal systems that are less fully developed and are less stable than those of more developed countries. Less developed markets are more likely to experience problems with the clearing and settling of trades and the holding of securities by banks, agents and depositories that are less developed than those in the United States. They are often particularly sensitive to market movements because their market prices tend to reflect speculative expectations. Low trading volumes may result in a lack of liquidity and in extreme price volatility.

Hedging risk. There can be no assurance that the fund will engage in hedging transactions at any given time, even under volatile market conditions, or that any hedging transactions the fund engages in will be successful. Hedging transactions involve costs and may reduce gains or result in losses.

Hedge fund strategies risk. The fund may employ investment strategies that involve greater risks than the strategies used by typical mutual funds, including increased use of short sales, leverage and derivative transactions and hedging strategies. Hedge fund strategies may be narrowly focused on a particular market, security type or activity, and would be exposed to greater risk of loss if the investment thesis underlying the strategy does not occur as anticipated. Hedge fund strategies that are intended to reduce the fund’s volatility may fail to do so effectively. The use of leverage by a hedge fund strategy (e.g., through options) will magnify any losses incurred by the strategy.

High yield (“junk”) bonds risk. High yield bonds are generally subject to greater credit risks than higher-grade bonds, including the risk of default on the payment of interest or principal. High yield bonds are considered speculative, tend to be less liquid and are more difficult to value than higher grade securities. High yield bonds tend to be volatile and more susceptible to adverse events, credit downgrades and negative sentiments and may be difficult to sell at a desired price, or at all, during periods of uncertainty or market turmoil.

Issuer risk. The value of a security can go up or down more than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole, due to factors specifically relating to a particular company, such as disappointing earnings reports by the issuer, unsuccessful products or services, loss of major customers, changes in management, corporate actions, negative perception in the marketplace, major litigation against the issuer or changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or the competitive environment. The fund may experience a substantial or complete loss on an individual security. Historically, the prices of securities of small and medium capitalization companies have generally gone up or down more than those of large capitalization companies, although even large capitalization companies may fall out of favor with investors.

Leveraging risk. The value of your investment may be more volatile if the fund borrows or uses derivatives or other investments that have a leveraging effect on the fund’s portfolio. Other risks described in the Prospectus also will be compounded because leverage generally magnifies the effect of a change in the value of an asset and creates a risk of loss of value on a larger pool of assets than the fund would otherwise have had. The fund may also have to sell assets at inopportune times to satisfy its obligations. The use of leverage is considered to be a speculative investment practice and may result in the loss of a substantial amount, and possibly all, of the fund’s assets.

Liquidity risk. Some assets held by the fund may be impossible or difficult to sell, particularly during times of market turmoil. These illiquid assets may also be difficult to value. Markets may become illiquid when, for instance, there are few, if any, interested buyers or sellers or when dealers are unwilling or unable to make a market for certain securities. As a general matter, dealers recently have been less willing to make markets for fixed income securities. If the fund is forced to sell an illiquid asset to meet redemption requests or other cash needs, the fund may be forced to sell at a loss. The fund may not receive its proceeds from the sale of certain securities for an extended period (for example, several weeks or even longer).

Market and interest rate risk. The value of the fund’s securities may go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably, due to general market conditions, such as real or perceived adverse economic or political conditions, inflation, changes in interest rates, lack of liquidity in the bond markets or adverse investor sentiment. If the value of the securities owned by the fund falls, the value of your investment will decline. The value of your investment will generally go down when interest rates rise. A rise in rates tends to have a greater impact on the prices of longer term or duration securities. Interest rates have been historically low, so the fund faces a heightened risk that interest rates may rise. A general rise in interest rates may cause investors to move out of fixed income securities on a large scale, which could adversely affect the price and liquidity of fixed income securities and could also result in increased redemptions from the fund.

The maturity of a security may be significantly longer than its duration. A security’s maturity and other features may be more relevant than its duration in determining the security’s sensitivity to other factors affecting the issuer or markets generally such as changes in credit quality or in the yield premium that the market may establish for certain types of securities.

Market events risk. In the past decade financial markets throughout the world have experienced increased volatility, depressed valuations, decreased liquidity and heightened uncertainty. Governmental and non-governmental issuers have defaulted on, or been forced to restructure, their debts. These conditions may continue, recur, worsen or spread. Events that have contributed to these market conditions include, but are not limited to, major cybersecurity events; geopolitical events (including wars and terror attacks); measures to address budget deficits; downgrading of sovereign debt; declines in oil and commodity prices; dramatic changes in currency exchange rates; and public sentiment.

The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve, as well as certain foreign governments and central banks, have taken steps to support financial markets, including by keeping interest rates at historically low levels. This and other government intervention may not work as intended, particularly if the efforts are perceived by investors as being unlikely to achieve the desired results. The Federal Reserve has reduced its market support activities and recently has begun raising interest rates. Certain foreign governments and central banks are implementing or discussing so-called negative interest rates (e.g., charging depositors who keep their cash at a bank) to spur economic growth. Further Federal Reserve or other U.S. or non-U.S. governmental or central bank actions, including interest rate increases or contrary actions by different governments, could negatively affect financial markets generally, increase market volatility and reduce the value and liquidity of securities in which the fund invests.

Policy and legislative changes in the United States and in other countries are affecting many aspects of financial regulation and may in some instances contribute to decreased liquidity and increased volatility in the financial markets. The impact of these changes on the markets, and the practical implications for market participants, may not be fully known for some time.

Economies and financial markets throughout the world are increasingly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, terrorism, natural disasters and other circumstances in one country or region could have profound impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries directly affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected.

Portfolio turnover risk. Active and frequent trading may increase a shareholder’s tax liability and transaction costs, which could detract from fund performance.

Prepayment or call risk. Many issuers have a right to prepay their fixed income securities. Issuers may be more likely to prepay their securities if interest rates fall. If this happens, the fund will not benefit from the rise in the market price of the securities that normally accompanies a decline in interest rates, and will be forced to reinvest prepayment proceeds at a time when yields on securities available in the market are lower than the yield on prepaid securities. The fund may also lose any premium it paid on prepaid securities.

Real assets risk. Investments by the fund in real assets that operate in the real estate, natural resources and commodities sectors involve a high degree of risk, including significant financial, operating, and competitive risks. Investments in REITs and MLPs expose the fund to adverse macroeconomic conditions, such as a rise in interest rates or a downturn in the economy in which the asset is located, elevating the risk of loss.

REITs risk. The value of real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) may be affected by the condition of the economy as a whole and changes in the value of the underlying real estate, the creditworthiness of the issuer of the investments and property taxes, interest rates, liquidity of the credit markets and the real estate regulatory environment. REITs that concentrate their holdings in specific businesses, such as apartments, offices or retail space, will be affected by conditions affecting those businesses.

Risks relating to inflation-indexed securities. The value of inflation-indexed fixed income securities generally fluctuates in response to changes in real interest rates, which are in turn tied to the relationship between nominal interest rates and the rate of inflation. If nominal interest rates increase at a faster rate than inflation, real interest rates might rise, leading to a decrease in value of inflation-indexed securities. The fund may also experience a loss on an inflation-indexed security if there is deflation. If inflation is lower than expected during the period the fund holds an inflation-indexed security, the fund may earn less on the security than on a conventional bond.

Sovereign debt risk. Sovereign government and supranational debt involve many of the risks of foreign and emerging markets investments as well as the risk of debt moratorium, repudiation or renegotiation and the fund may be unable to enforce its rights against the issuers.

Subsidiary risk. By investing in a wholly-owned subsidiary, the fund is indirectly exposed to the risks associated with the subsidiary’s investments. The investments held by the subsidiary are generally similar to those that are permitted to be held by the fund and are subject to the same risks that apply to similar investments if held directly by the fund. To receive pass-through tax treatment as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), the fund must, among other things, derive at least 90% of its gross income for each taxable year from sources treated under the Code as “qualifying income.” Although the Internal Revenue Service (the “Service”) has issued to the fund a private letter ruling stating that the income and gain the fund is treated as earning from a wholly-owned subsidiary is such “qualifying income,” proposed tax regulations, if finalized in current form, would effectively revoke the fund’s private letter ruling and would require the wholly-owned subsidiary to distribute its annual net profit, if any, to the fund each year in order for the fund to treat that income as qualifying income. There can be no assurance that the Service will treat the annual net profit realized by the wholly-owned subsidiary and imputed for income tax purposes to the fund as “qualifying income” for purposes of the fund remaining qualified as a regulated investment company for U.S. federal income tax purposes. If the Service makes an adverse determination relating to the treatment of such income and gain, the fund would likely need to change its investment strategies, which could adversely affect the fund. Changes in the laws of the Cayman Islands, under which the subsidiary is organized, or changes in the laws of the United States, could prevent the subsidiary from operating as described in this Prospectus and could negatively affect the fund and its shareholders.

Tracking error risk. The fund may hold long or short positions through investments in instruments whose investment objectives are to track (positively or negatively) the performance of a particular market or benchmark index. The performance of these instruments, however, may not match that of the indexes the instruments are designed to track, either on a daily or aggregate basis.

Valuation risk. The sales price the fund could receive for any particular portfolio investment may differ from the fund’s valuation of the investment, particularly for securities that trade in thin or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. Investors who purchase or redeem fund shares on days when the fund is holding fair-valued securities may receive fewer or more shares or lower or higher redemption proceeds than they would have received if the fund had not fair-valued securities or had used a different valuation methodology. The fund’s ability to value its investments may be impacted by technological issues and/or errors by pricing services or other third party service providers.

These and other risks are discussed in more detail in the Prospectus or in the Statement of Additional Information.
Performance
The accompanying bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year for Class A shares. The table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the fund that has been in operation for at least one full calendar year and also compares the fund’s performance with the average annual total returns of an index or other benchmark. The fund also compares its performance to that of a composite index consisting of 60% Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) World Index (Gross) and 40% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Index (the “60/40 Composite Index”). Performance for classes other than those shown may vary from the performance shown to the extent the expenses for those classes differ. The fund makes updated performance information, including its current net asset value, available at www.leggmason.com/mutualfunds (select fund and share class), or by calling the fund at 1-877-721-1926.

The fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Sales charges are not reflected in the accompanying bar chart, and if those charges were included, returns would be less than those shown.
Total returns (%)
Before taxes
Bar Chart
Calendar Years ended December 31

Best Quarter (09/30/2010): 7.47    Worst Quarter (09/30/2011): (9.97)
Average annual total returns (%)
(for periods ended December 31, 2017)
Average Annual Total Returns - EnTrustPermal Alternative Core Fund
1 year
5 years
Since inception
Inception date
Class A (3.83%) 2.99% 5.93% Apr. 13, 2009
Class A | Return after taxes on distributions (3.88%) 1.15% 4.44%  
Class A | Return after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares (2.16%) 1.63% 4.14%  
Class C 0.24% 3.42% 5.85% Apr. 13, 2009
Class FI 2.03% 4.21% 6.64% Apr. 13, 2009
Class I 2.30% 4.47% 6.91% Apr. 13, 2009
Class IS 2.19% 4.46% 6.91% Apr. 13, 2009
MSCI World (Gross) (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 23.07% 12.26% 13.64%  
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 3.54% 2.10% 3.95%  
60/40 Composite Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) 14.90% 8.22% 9.91%  
Prior to January 5, 2018, the fund followed a policy of investing more than 25% of its assets in mutual funds. Prior to July 31, 2013, the fund followed a different investment objective and investment strategies under the name “Permal Tactical Allocation Fund.”

The after-tax returns are shown only for Class A shares, are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and the after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. After-tax returns for classes other than Class A will vary from returns shown for Class A. Returns after taxes on distributions and sale of fund shares are higher than returns before taxes for certain periods shown because they reflect the tax benefit of capital losses realized on the redemption of fund shares.