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IXIS ADVISOR EQUITY FUNDS

IXIS ADVISOR DIVERSIFIED PORTFOLIOS

 

Supplement dated April 2, 2007, to the Statement of Additional Information – Part II for IXIS Advisor Funds Trust I, IXIS Advisor Funds Trust II, IXIS Advisor Funds Trust III and IXIS Advisor Funds Trust IV dated May 1, 2006, as may be revised or supplemented from time to time

 

Effective April 1, 2007, Jonathan P. Mason was appointed an Independent Trustee to the Board of Trustees for the IXIS Advisor and Loomis Sayles Funds. Accordingly, the following is added to the table in the sub-section “Trustees and Officers” within the section “Management of the Trusts”:

 

 

Name and Date of Birth

Position(s) Held with the Trusts, Length of Time Served and Term of
Office*

 

Principal Occupation(s)

During Past 5 Years**

 

Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Overseen*** and Other Directorships Held

 

 

 

 

Jonathan P. Mason

(8/30/58)

Trustee

 

Since 2007 for IXIS Advisor Funds Trust I, IXIS Advisor Funds Trust II, IXIS Advisor Funds Trust III and IXIS Advisor Funds Trust IV

 

Audit Committee Member

Chief Financial Officer, Cabot Corp. (specialty chemicals); formerly, Vice President and Treasurer, International Paper Company; formerly, Chief Financial Officer, Carter Holt Harvey (forest products)

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None

* Each Trustee serves until retirement, resignation or removal from the Board of Trustees. The current retirement age is 72. The position of Chairperson of the Board is appointed for a two-year term.

 

** Each person listed above, except as noted, holds the same position(s) with the Trusts. Previous positions during the past five years with IXIS Asset Management Distributors, L.P. (the “Distributor”), IXIS Asset Management Advisors, L.P. (“IXIS Advisors”), or Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P. are omitted if not materially different from a trustee’s or officer’s current position with such entity.

 

*** The trustees of the Trusts serve as trustees of a fund complex that includes all series of IXIS Advisor Funds Trust I, IXIS Advisor Funds Trust II, IXIS Advisor Funds Trust III, IXIS Advisor Funds Trust IV, IXIS Advisor Cash Management Trust, AEW Real Estate Income Fund, Loomis Sayles Funds I and Loomis Sayles Funds II.

 

Effective April 1, 2007, Russell L. Kane succeeded Max J. Mahoney as Anti-Money Laundering Officer for the IXIS Advisor and Loomis Sayles Funds. All references to Max J. Mahoney are deleted.

 

Effective with his appointment to the Board of Trustees on April 1, 2007, Mr. Mason became a member of the Audit Committee. In addition, Charles D. Baker, previously a member of the Audit Committee, became a member of the Contract Review and Governance Committee. Accordingly, the lists of the members of the Audit Committee and the Contract Review and Governance Committee in the sub-section “Standing Board Committees” within the section “Management of the Trust” are amended and restated as follows:

 

Audit Committee

Contract Review and Governance Committee

Daniel M. Cain – Chairman

Edward A. Benjamin - Chairman

Jonathan P. Mason

Graham T. Allison, Jr.

Cynthia L. Walker

Charles D. Baker

 

Richard Darman

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

As chairperson of the Board of Trustees, Ms. Moose is an ex officio member of both Committees.

As of December 31, 2006, Mr. Mason did not own shares of the Funds or any Funds overseen by the Board of Trustees for the IXIS Advisor and Loomis Sayles Funds.

 

 

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