• | Collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”) risk is the risk that CLOs may expose the fund to heightened credit risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, market risk and prepayment and extension risk. In addition to these risks, CLOs may also carry additional risks including, but not limited to: (i) the possibility that distributions from collateral securities will not be adequate for the CLO to make interest or other payments; (ii) the risk that the quality of the collateral may decline in value or default; (iii) the risk that the fund may invest |
in classes of CLOs that are subordinate to other classes; (iv) the risk that the complex structure of the security may not be fully understood at the time of investment and may produce disputes with the issuer or unexpected investment results; and (v) the possibility that the CLO’s manager may perform poorly. CLOs may charge management and other administrative fees, which are in addition to those of the fund. CLOs may be difficult to value and may be highly leveraged, which could make them highly volatile. |
• | Collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”) risk is the risk that CLOs may expose the fund to heightened credit risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, market risk and prepayment and extension risk. In addition to these risks, CLOs may also carry additional risks including, but not limited to: (i) the possibility that distributions from collateral securities will not be adequate for the CLO to make interest or other payments; (ii) the risk that the quality of the collateral may decline in value or default; (iii) the risk that the fund may invest in classes of CLOs that are subordinate to other classes; (iv) the risk that the complex structure of the security may not be fully understood at the time of investment and may produce disputes with the issuer or unexpected investment results; and (v) the possibility that the CLO’s manager may perform poorly. CLOs may charge management and other administrative fees, which are in addition to those of the fund. CLOs may be difficult to value and may be highly leveraged, which could make them highly volatile. |
• | Collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”) risk is the risk that CLOs may expose the fund to heightened credit risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, market risk and prepayment and extension risk. In addition to these risks, CLOs may also carry additional risks including, but not limited to: (i) the possibility that distributions from collateral securities will not be adequate for the CLO to make interest or other payments; (ii) the risk that the quality of the collateral may decline in value or default; (iii) the risk that the fund may invest in classes of CLOs that are subordinate to other classes; (iv) the risk that the complex structure of the security may not be fully understood at the time of investment and may produce disputes with the issuer or unexpected investment results; and (v) the possibility that the CLO’s manager may perform poorly. CLOs may charge management and other administrative fees, which are in addition to those of the fund. CLOs may be difficult to value and may be highly leveraged, which could make them highly volatile. |
CARILLON SERIES TRUST
Carillon Reams Core Bond Fund
Carillon Reams Core Plus Bond Fund
Carillon Reams Unconstrained Bond Fund
SUPPLEMENT DATED AUGUST 24, 2023
TO THE STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION DATED MARCH 1, 2023
Effective immediately, the following changes are made to the Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) of the Carillon Reams Core Bond Fund, the Carillon Reams Core Plus Bond Fund, and the Carillon Reams Unconstrained Bond Fund:
In the “II. Investment Information – A. Investment Policies Strategies and Risks” section of the SAI, a row titled “Collateralized Loan Obligations” is added to the table on pages 4-5 immediately after the row titled “To-Be-Announced Securities” and an “X” is placed under the column for the Carillon Reams Core Bond Fund, the Carillon Reams Core Plus Bond Fund, and the Carillon Reams Unconstrained Bond Fund with respect to “Collateralized Loan Obligations” risk. Additionally, on page 17 of the SAI, the following is added immediately after the paragraph titled “To-Be-Announced Securities.”
Collateralized Loan Obligations:
A fund may invest in collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”), which are a type of securitized debt. A CLO is a trust typically collateralized by a pool of loans, which may include, among others, domestic and foreign senior secured loans, senior unsecured loans, and subordinate corporate loans, including loans that may be rated below investment grade or equivalent unrated loans. CLOs may charge management fees and administrative expenses.
For CLOs, the cash flows from the trust are split into two or more portions, called tranches, varying in risk and yield. The riskiest portion is the “equity” tranche, which bears the bulk of defaults from the bonds or loans in the trust and serves to protect the other, more senior tranches from default in all but the most severe circumstances. Since it is partially protected from defaults, senior tranches from a CLO trust typically have higher ratings and lower yields than their underlying securities, and can be rated investment grade. Despite the protection from the equity tranche, CLO tranches can experience substantial losses due to actual defaults, downgrades of the underlying collateral by rating agencies, forced liquidation of the collateral pool due to a failure of coverage tests, increased sensitivity to defaults due to collateral default and disappearance of protecting tranches, market anticipation of defaults, as well as aversion to CLO securities as a class.
The risks of an investment in a CLO depend largely on the type of the collateral securities and the class of the instrument in which a fund invests. Normally, CLOs are privately offered and sold, and thus, are not registered under the securities laws. In addition to the normal risks associated with fixed income securities discussed elsewhere in this SAI and the Prospectus (e.g., prepayment and extension risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, market risk, and interest rate risk (which may be exacerbated if the interest rate payable on a structured financing changes based on multiples of changes in interest rates or inversely to changes in interest rates)), CLOs carry additional risks including, but not limited to: (i) the possibility that distributions from collateral securities will not be adequate for the CLO to make interest or other payments; (ii) the risk that the quality of the collateral may decline in value or default; (iii) the risk that a fund may invest in classes of CLOs that are subordinate to other classes; (iv) the risk that the complex structure of the security may not be fully understood at the time of investment and may produce disputes with the issuer or unexpected investment results; (v) the possibility that the investment return achieved by the CLO could be significantly different than those predicted by financial models; (vi) the lack of a readily available secondary market; (vii) risk of forced “fire sale” liquidation due to technical defaults such as coverage test failures; and (viii) the possibility that the CLO’s manager may perform poorly.
Interest on certain tranches of a CLO may be paid in-kind (meaning that unpaid interest is effectively added to principal), which involves continued exposure to default risk with respect to such payments. Certain CLOs may receive a credit enhancement in the form of a senior-subordinate structure, over-collateralization or bond insurance, but such enhancement may not always be present and may fail to protect a fund against the risk of loss due to defaults on the collateral. Certain CLOs may not hold loans directly, but rather, use derivatives such as swaps to create “synthetic” exposure to the collateral pool of loans. Such CLOs entail the risks of derivative instruments described elsewhere in this SAI.
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