1345 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10105
(800) 334-2143
SUPPLEMENT DATED DECEMBER 22, 2022
TO PROSPECTUS DATED
This Supplement is intended to highlight certain changes to the Prospectus of the First Eagle High Income Fund (the “Fund”) dated March 1, 2022, as may be amended or supplemented. Please review these matters carefully.
January 1, 2023 Implementation of Contractual Expense Limitations
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of First Eagle Funds (the “Trust”) held on December 14, 2022, the Board approved an expense limitation agreement pursuant to which First Eagle Investment Management, LLC (the “Adviser”) has agreed to support contractual limitations on the Fund’s expenses.
Effective January 1, 2023, the Adviser will undertake to waive and/or reimburse certain fees and expenses of the Fund’s Class A, C, I, R3, R4, R5 and R6 shares so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend and interest expenses relating to short sales, and extraordinary expenses, if any) (“annual operating expenses”) of each class are limited to 0.94%, 1.69%, 0.69%, 1.04%, 0.79%, 0.69% and 0.69% of average net assets, respectively. These undertakings will extend until February 29, 2024 and may not be terminated before then without the consent of the Board. The Fund has agreed that each of Classes A, C, I, R3, R4, R5 and R6 will repay the Adviser for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for the class, provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 0.94%, 1.69%, 0.69%, 1.04%, 0.79%, 0.69% and 0.69% of the class’ average net assets, respectively. Any such repayment must be within three years after the year in which the Adviser incurred the expense.
Effective January 1, 2023, the Fees and Expenses table and related expense Example in the Prospectus are revised and restated as follows:
The following information describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the High Income 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.
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The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the High Income Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. This hypothetical example assumes you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then either redeem or do not redeem all shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes the average annual return is 5% and operating expenses remain the same (except that the fee waiver is taken into account only for the one-year expense example). Please keep in mind your actual costs may be higher or lower.
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The information in this Supplement modifies (and if inconsistent, replaces) information contained in the Fund’s Prospectus dated March 1, 2022 as may be amended or supplemented.