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LEGG MASON GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT TRUST

LEGG MASON PARTNERS EQUITY TRUST

LEGG MASON PARTNERS VARIABLE EQUITY TRUST

SUPPLEMENT DATED JUNE 15, 2021

TO THE STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

OF EACH FUND LISTED IN SCHEDULE A (THE “FUNDS”)

 

 

Currently, the Funds of Legg Mason Global Asset Management Trust are overseen by one group of Trustees, and the Funds of Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust and Legg Mason Partners Variable Equity Trust are overseen by a different group of Trustees. A joint proxy statement was mailed to solicit shareholder approval for the election of a single slate of Trustees (hereinafter, the “Board”). Shareholders approved the proposed Trustees during a joint special meeting of shareholders on June 15, 2021. Effective July 1, 2021, the Trustees listed below will oversee all the Funds.

Biographical information for each Trustee along with a discussion of the Trustees’ qualifications are set forth below. Additional information about the Trustees, including information about their ownership of Fund securities and compensation, is available in the joint proxy statement in the SEC’s EDGAR database accessible at www.sec.gov.

INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES#:

 

Name and
Year of Birth
  Position(s)
with Trust
 

Term of Office*

and Length of

Time Served**

  Principal Occupation(s)
During the Past Five Years
 

Number of
Funds
in the
Legg Mason
Funds
Complex
Overseen

by Trustee***

  Other Board
Memberships
Held by Trustee
During the Past
Five Years
           

Paul R. Ades

Born 1940

  Trustee   Since 1983   Paul R. Ades, PLLC (law firm) (since 2000)   59   None
           

Andrew L. Breech

Born 1951

  Trustee   Since 1991   President, Dealer Operating Control Service, Inc. (automotive retail management) (since 1985)   59   None
           

Althea L. Duersten

Born 1951

  Trustee and Chair of the Board  

Since 2014

(Chair of the Board since 2021)

  Retired (since 2011); formerly, Chief Investment Officer, North America, JP Morgan Chase (investment bank) and member of JPMorgan Executive Committee (2007 to 2011)   59   Formerly, Non-Executive Director, Rokos Capital Management LLP (2019 to 2020)
           

Stephen R. Gross

Born 1947

  Trustee   Since 1986   Chairman Emeritus (since 2011) and formerly, Chairman, HLB Gross Collins, P.C. (accounting and consulting firm) (1979 to 2011); Executive Director of Business Builders Team, LLC (since 2005); Principal, Gross Consulting Group, LLC (since 2011); CEO, Gross Capital Partners, LLC (since 2014); CEO, Trusted CFO Solutions, LLC (since 2011)   59   None


Name and
Year of Birth
  Position(s)
with Trust
 

Term of Office*

and Length of

Time Served**

  Principal Occupation(s)
During the Past Five Years
 

Number of
Funds
in the
Legg Mason
Funds
Complex
Overseen

by Trustee***

  Other Board
Memberships
Held by Trustee
During the Past
Five Years
           

Susan M. Heilbron

Born 1945

  Trustee   Since 1991   Retired; formerly, President, Lacey & Heilbron (communications consulting) (1990 to 2002); General Counsel and Executive Vice President, The Trump Organization (1986 to 1990); Senior Vice President, New York State Urban Development Corporation (1984 to 1986); Associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (1980 to 1984 and 1977 to 1979)   59   Formerly, Director, Lincoln Savings Bank FSB (1991 to 1994); Director, Trump Shuttle, Inc. (air transportation) (1989 to 1990); Director, Alexander’s Inc. (department store) (1987 to 1990)
           

Howard J. Johnson

Born 1938

  Trustee   From 1981 to 1998 and since 2000   Retired; formerly, Chief Executive Officer, Genesis Imaging LLC (technology company) (2003 to 2012)   59   None
           

Arnold L. Lehman

Born 1944

  Trustee   Since 1982   Senior Advisor, Phillips (auction house) (since 2015); formerly, Fellow Ford Foundation (2015 to 2016); Director of the Brooklyn Museum (1997 to 2015)   59   Trustee of American Federation of Arts (since 2002)
           

Robin J. W. Masters

Born 1955

  Trustee   Since 2002   Retired; formerly, Chief Investment Officer of ACE Limited (insurance) (1986 to 2000)   59   Director of HSBC Managed Portfolios Limited and HSBC Specialist Funds Limited (since 2020); formerly, Director of Cheyne Capital International Limited (investment advisory firm) (2005 to 2020); Director/Trustee of Legg Mason Institutional Funds plc, Western Asset Fixed Income Funds plc and Western Asset Debt Securities Fund plc (2007 to 2011)
           

Jerome H. Miller

Born 1938

  Trustee   Since 1995   Retired; formerly, President, Shearson Lehman Asset Management (1991 to 1993), Vice Chairman, Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. (1989 to 1992) and Senior Executive Vice President, E.F. Hutton Group Inc. (1986 to 1989)   59   None

 

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Name and
Year of Birth
  Position(s)
with Trust
 

Term of Office*

and Length of

Time Served**

  Principal Occupation(s)
During the Past Five Years
 

Number of
Funds
in the
Legg Mason
Funds
Complex
Overseen

by Trustee***

  Other Board
Memberships
Held by Trustee
During the Past
Five Years
           

Ken Miller

Born 1942

  Trustee   Since 1983   Retired; formerly, President, Young Stuff Apparel Group, Inc. (apparel manufacturer), division of Li & Fung (1963 to 2012)   59   None
           

G. Peter O’Brien

Born 1945

  Trustee   Since 1999   Retired, Trustee Emeritus of Colgate University (since 2005); Board Member, Hill House, Inc. (residential home care) (since 1999); formerly, Board Member, Bridges School (pre-school) (2006 to 2017); Managing Director, Equity Capital Markets Group of Merrill Lynch & Co. (1971 to 1999)   Trustee
of Legg
Mason
Funds
consisting
of 59
portfolios;
Director/
Trustee
of the
Royce
Family of
Funds
consisting
of 16
portfolios
  Formerly, Director of TICC Capital Corp. (2003 to 2017)
           

Thomas F. Schlafly

Born 1948

  Trustee   Since 1983   Chairman, The Saint Louis Brewery, LLC (brewery) (since 2012); formerly, President, The Saint Louis Brewery, Inc. (1989 to 2012); Senior Counsel (since 2017) and formerly, Partner (2009 to 2016), Thompson Coburn LLP (law firm)   59   Director, CNB St. Louis Bank (since 2020); formerly, Director, Citizens National Bank of Greater St. Louis (2006 to 2020)

INTERESTED TRUSTEE AND OFFICER:

 

Name and
Year of Birth
  Position(s)
with Trust
 

Term of Office*

and Length of

Time Served**

  Principal Occupation(s)
During the Past Five Years
 

Number of
Funds
in the
Legg Mason
Funds
Complex
Overseen

by Trustee***

  Other Board
Memberships
Held by Trustee
During the Past
Five Years
           

Jane Trust, CFA†

Born 1962

  Trustee, President and Chief Executive Officer   Since 2015   Senior Vice President, Fund Board Management, Franklin Templeton (since 2020); Officer and/or Trustee/Director of 147 funds associated with LMPFA or its affiliates (since 2015); President and Chief Executive Officer of LMPFA (since 2015); formerly, Senior Managing Director (2018 to 2020) and Managing Director (2016 to 2018) of Legg Mason & Co., LLC (“Legg Mason & Co.”); Senior Vice President of LMPFA (2015)   135   None

 

  #

Trustees who are not “interested persons” of the Trust within the meaning of Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act.

 

  *

Each Trustee serves until his or her respective successor has been duly elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement or removal.

 

  **

Indicates the earliest year in which the Trustee became a board member for a fund in the Legg Mason Funds complex.

 

  ***

The number shown is the total number of separate portfolios within the fund complex that the Trustee will oversee effective July 1, 2021.

 

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Ms. Trust is an “interested person” of the Trust, as defined in the 1940 Act, because of her position with LMPFA and/or certain of its affiliates.

Qualifications of Trustees

The Independent Trustees were selected to join the Board based upon the following as to each Trustee: character and integrity; service as a board member of predecessor funds and/or other funds in the Legg Mason Funds complex; willingness to serve and willingness and ability to commit the time necessary to perform the duties of a Trustee; such person’s skills, experience, judgment, analytical ability, intelligence, and common sense; their current or previous profit and non-profit board membership; such person’s considerable familiarity with the special regulatory requirements governing regulated investment companies and the special responsibilities of investment company trustees; and the Trustee’s status as not being an “interested person” of the Fund, as defined in the 1940 Act. Ms. Trust was selected to join the Board based upon her investment management and risk oversight experience as an executive and portfolio manager and leadership roles with Legg Mason and affiliated entities. The Board also considered her character and integrity, her willingness to serve and willingness and ability to commit the time necessary to perform the duties of a Trustee, her skills, experience, judgment, analytical ability, intelligence, and common sense, her considerable familiarity with the special regulatory requirements governing regulated investment companies and the special responsibilities of investment company trustees, and her status as a representative of Franklin Templeton. Ms. Trust is an interested person of the Fund. Ms. Duersten serves as Chair of the Board and is an Independent Trustee. Independent Trustees constitute more than 75% of the Board.

The Board believes that each Trustee’s experience, qualifications, attributes or skills on an individual basis and in combination with those of the other Trustees lead to the conclusion that the Board possesses the requisite attributes and skills. The Board believes that the Trustees’ ability to review critically, evaluate, question and discuss information provided to them, to interact effectively with the Manager, the Subadviser(s), other service providers, counsel and the independent registered public accounting firm, and to exercise effective business judgment in the performance of their duties support this conclusion. In addition, the following specific experience, qualifications, attributes and/or skills apply to each Trustee.

Each Trustee, except for Ms. Trust and Ms. Duersten, has served as a board member of the Fund and/or other funds in the Legg Mason Funds complex for at least eight years. Mr. Ades has substantial experience practicing law and advising clients with respect to various business transactions. Mr. Breech has substantial experience as the chief executive of a private corporation. Ms. Duersten has substantial experience as a global investment and trading manager in capital markets across multiple asset classes, including as the chief investment officer for the North American region of a major investment bank and service on its executive committee. Mr. Gross has a substantial accounting background and experience as an officer, trustee and board member of various organizations and has been determined to qualify as an audit committee financial expert of Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust and Legg Mason Partners Variable Equity Trust. Ms. Heilbron has substantial legal background and experience, business and consulting experience, and experience as a board member of public companies. Mr. Johnson has substantial experience as the chief executive of an operating company and in the financial services industry, including as an actuary and pension consultant. Dr. Lehman has experience as chief executive officer of major museums and other entities involved in the arts, has previously served as a lead independent trustee and board chair for certain funds in the Legg Mason Fund complex and experience as a founding director of the Legg Mason Funds. Ms. Masters has investment management experience as chief investment officer, as a director of an investment advisory firm and service on the boards of other investment companies. Mr. Jerome Miller had substantial experience as an executive in the asset management group of a major broker/dealer. Mr. Ken Miller has substantial experience as a senior executive of an operating company. Mr. O’Brien has experience at senior levels of a large financial services company and service on the boards of academic institutions and a residential home care company. Mr. Schlafly has substantial experience practicing law and also serves as the non-executive Chairman of a private corporation and as director of a bank. Ms. Trust has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Trust and other funds in the fund complex since 2015 and has investment management and risk oversight experience as an executive and portfolio manager and in leadership roles with Franklin Templeton (and before that, Legg Mason) and affiliated entities. References to the experience, qualifications, attributes and skills of Trustees are

 

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pursuant to requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, do not constitute holding out of the Board or any Trustee as having any special expertise, and shall not impose any greater responsibility or liability on any such person or on the Board.

SCHEDULE A

 

Fund

  

Date of Statement of
Additional Information

LEGG MASON PARTNERS EQUITY TRUST

  

ClearBridge Aggressive Growth Fund

   December 29, 2020

ClearBridge All Cap Value Fund

   January 29, 2021

ClearBridge Appreciation Fund

   March 1, 2021

ClearBridge Dividend Strategy Fund

   May 1, 2021

ClearBridge International Small Cap Fund

   January 29, 2021

ClearBridge International Value Fund

   March 1, 2021

ClearBridge Large Cap Growth Fund

   March 31, 2021

ClearBridge Large Cap Value Fund

   March 1, 2021

ClearBridge Mid Cap Fund

   March 1, 2021

ClearBridge Mid Cap Growth Fund

   March 1, 2021

ClearBridge Select Fund

   March 1, 2021

ClearBridge Small Cap Growth Fund

   March 1, 2021

ClearBridge Small Cap Value Fund

   January 29, 2021

ClearBridge Sustainability Leaders Fund

   March 1, 2021

ClearBridge Tactical Dividend Income Fund

   March 1, 2021

QS Conservative Growth Fund

   May 28, 2021

QS Defensive Growth Fund

   May 28, 2021

QS Global Dividend Fund

   January 29, 2021

QS Global Equity Fund

   March 1, 2021

QS Growth Fund

   May 28, 2021

QS Moderate Growth Fund

   May 28, 2021

QS S&P 500 Index Fund

   January 29, 2021

QS U.S. Large Cap Equity Fund

   March 31, 2021

LEGG MASON PARTNERS VARIABLE EQUITY TRUST

  

ClearBridge Variable Aggressive Growth Portfolio

   May 1, 2021

ClearBridge Variable Appreciation Portfolio

   May 1, 2021

ClearBridge Variable Dividend Strategy Portfolio

   May 1, 2021

ClearBridge Variable Large Cap Growth Portfolio

   May 1, 2021

ClearBridge Variable Large Cap Value Portfolio

   May 1, 2021

ClearBridge Variable Mid Cap Portfolio

   May 1, 2021

ClearBridge Variable Small Cap Growth Portfolio

   May 1, 2021

Franklin Templeton Aggressive Model Portfolio

   May 1, 2021

Franklin Templeton Conservative Model Portfolio

   May 1, 2021

Franklin Templeton Moderately Aggressive Model Portfolio

   May 1, 2021

Franklin Templeton Moderately Conservative Model Portfolio

   May 1, 2021

Franklin Templeton Moderate Model Portfolio

   May 1, 2021

QS Legg Mason Dynamic Multi-Strategy VIT Portfolio

   May 1, 2021

QS Variable Conservative Growth

   May 1, 2021

QS Variable Growth

   May 1, 2021

QS Variable Moderate Growth

   May 1, 2021

LEGG MASON GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT TRUST

  

BrandywineGLOBAL – Alternative Credit Fund

   March 1, 2021

BrandywineGLOBAL – Diversified US Large Cap Value Fund

   January 29, 2021

BrandywineGLOBAL – Dynamic US Large Cap Value Fund

   January 29, 2021

BrandywineGLOBAL – Flexible Bond Fund

   May 1, 2021

BrandywineGLOBAL – Global High Yield Fund

   January 29, 2021

BrandywineGLOBAL – Global Opportunities Bond Fund

   May 1, 2021

 

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Fund

  

Date of Statement of
Additional Information

BrandywineGLOBAL – Global Opportunities Bond Fund (USD Hedged)

   May 1, 2021

BrandywineGLOBAL – Global Unconstrained Bond Fund

   March 1, 2021

BrandywineGLOBAL – International Opportunities Bond Fund

   May 1, 2021

ClearBridge Global Infrastructure Income Fund

   January 29, 2021

ClearBridge International Growth Fund

   March 1, 2021

ClearBridge Small Cap Fund

   March 1, 2021

ClearBridge Value Trust

   March 1, 2021

Martin Currie Emerging Markets Fund

   January 29, 2021

Martin Currie International Unconstrained Equity Fund

   September 30, 2020

Martin Currie SMASh Series EM Fund

   November 25, 2020

QS Global Market Neutral Fund

   January 29, 2021

QS International Equity Fund

   January 29, 2021

QS Strategic Real Return Fund

   January 29, 2021

QS U.S. Small Capitalization Equity Fund

   May 1, 2021

Please retain this supplement for future reference.

 

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