UNITED STATES  
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION  
Washington, D.C. 20549  
  
FORM N-CSR  
 
CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED  
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES  
 
Investment Company Act file number: (811- 05452)    
 
Exact name of registrant as specified in charter:   Putnam Premier Income Trust  
 
Address of principal executive offices: One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109  
 
Name and address of agent for service:   Beth S. Mazor, Vice President  
  One Post Office Square  
  Boston, Massachusetts 02109  
 
Copy to:   John W. Gerstmayr, Esq.  
  Ropes & Gray LLP  
  One International Place  
  Boston, Massachusetts 02110  
 
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:   (617) 292-1000  
 
Date of fiscal year end: July 31, 2008      
 
Date of reporting period: August 1, 2007 - July 31, 2008  

Item 1. Report to Stockholders:

The following is a copy of the report transmitted to stockholders pursuant to Rule 30e-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940:




What makes

Putnam different?

A time-honored tradition in
money management

Since 1937, our values have been rooted in a profound sense of responsibility for the money entrusted to us.

A prudent approach to investing

We use a research-driven team approach to seek consistent, dependable, superior investment results over time, although there is no guarantee a fund will meet its objectives.

Funds for every investment goal

We offer a broad range of mutual funds and other financial products so investors and their financial representatives can build diversified portfolios.

A commitment to doing what’s right
for investors

With a focus on investment performance and in-depth information about our funds, we put the interests of investors first and seek to set the standard for integrity and service.

Industry-leading service

We help investors, along with their financial representatives, make informed investment decisions with confidence.


In 1830, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Samuel Putnam established The Prudent Man Rule, a legal foundation for responsible money management.

THE PRUDENT MAN RULE

All that can be required of a trustee to invest is that he shall conduct himself faithfully and exercise a sound discretion. He is to observe how men of prudence, discretion, and intelligence manage their own affairs, not in regard to speculation, but in regard to the permanent disposition of their funds, considering the probable income, as well as the probable safety of the capital to be invested.

 

Putnam
Premier Income
Trust

 

7 | 31 | 08
Annual Report

Message from the Trustees   1  
About the fund   2  
Performance and portfolio snapshots   4  
Interview with your fund’s Portfolio Leader   5  
Performance in depth   8  
Your fund’s management   9  
Terms and definitions   10  
Trustee approval of management contract   11  
Other information for shareholders   14  
Financial statements   15  
Federal tax information   59  
Compliance certifications   59  
Shareholder meeting results   59  
About the Trustees   60  
Officers   63  

Cover photograph: © Richard H. Johnson


Message from the Trustees

Dear Fellow Shareholder:

The past 12 months have presented the economy with a growing set of challenges, and financial markets have responded with losses across a wide range of sectors globally. It is always unsettling to see the markets and one’s investment returns declining. Times like these are a reminder of why it is important to keep a long-term perspective, to ensure that your portfolio is well diversified, and to seek the counsel of your financial representative.

At Putnam, we continually strive to offer the best investment returns, innovative products, and award-winning service to our shareholders. In keeping with this tradition, we are pleased to announce that Robert L. Reynolds, a well-known leader and visionary in the mutual fund industry, has joined the Putnam leadership team as President and Chief Executive Officer of Putnam Investments, effective July 1, 2008. Charles E. Haldeman, Jr., former President and CEO, has taken on the role of Chairman of Putnam Investment Management, LLC, the firm’s fund management company.

Mr. Reynolds brings to Putnam substantial industry experience and an outstanding record of success, including serving as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer at Fidelity Investments from 2000 to 2007. We look forward to working with Bob as we continue our goal to position Putnam to exceed our shareholders’ expectations.

We would also like to take this opportunity to welcome new shareholders to the fund and to thank all of our investors for your continued confidence in Putnam.



About the fund
Seeking broad diversification across global bond markets


When Putnam Premier Income Trust was launched in 1988, its three-pronged focus on U.S. investment-grade bonds, high-yield corporate bonds, and non-U.S. bonds was considered innovative. Lower-rated, higher-yielding corporate bonds were rela tively new, having just been established in the late 1970s. And, at the time of the fund’s launch, few investors were venturing outside the United States for fixed-income opportunities.

The bond investment landscape has undergone a transformation in the two decades since the fund’s launch. New sectors such as mortgage- and asset-backed securities now make up over one third of the U.S. investment-grade market. The high-yield corporate bond sector has also grown significantly. Outside the United States, the advent of the euro has resulted in a large market of European bonds. And there are also growing opportunities to invest in the debt of emerging-market countries.

The fund is designed to keep pace with this market expansion. To process the market’s increasing complexity, Putnam’s nearly 100-member fixed-income group aligns teams of specialists with the varied investment opportunities. Each team identifies what it considers to be compelling strategies within its area of expertise. Your fund’s management team selects from among these strategies, systematically building a diversified portfolio that seeks to carefully balance risk and return.

We believe the fund’s multi-strategy approach is well suited to the expanding opportunities of today’s global bond marketplace. As different factors drive the performance of the various fixed-income sectors, the fund’s diversified strategy can take advantage of changing market leadership in pursuit of high current income.

Putnam Premier Income Trust balances risk and return across multiple sectors

Portfolio composition as of 7/31/08


Putnam believes that building a diversified portfolio with multiple income-generating strategies is the best way to pursue your fund’s objectives. The fund’s portfolio is composed of a broad spectrum of government, credit, and securitized debt instruments.

Weightings are shown as a percentage of the fund’s net assets. Allocations and holdings in each sector will vary over time. For more information on current fund holdings, see pages 17–50.

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International investing involves certain risks, such as currency fluctuations, economic instability, and political developments. Additional risks may be associated with emerging-market securities, including illiquidity and volatility. Lower-rated bonds may offer higher yields in return for more risk. Mutual funds that invest in government securities are not guaranteed. Mortgage-backed securities are subject to prepayment risk. Mutual funds that invest in bonds are subject to certain risks, including interest-rate risk, credit risk, and inflation risk. As interest rates rise, the prices of bonds fall. Long-term bonds are more exposed to interest-rate risk than short-term bonds. Unlike bonds, bond funds have ongoing fees and expenses. The fund’s shares trade on a stock exchange at market prices, which may be higher or lower than the fund’s NAV.

How do closed-end funds
differ from open-end funds?

More assets at work While open-end funds need to maintain a cash position to meet redemptions, closed-end funds are not subject to redemptions and can keep more of their assets invested in the market.

Traded like stocks Closed-end fund shares are traded on stock exchanges, and their market prices fluctuate in response to supply and demand, among other factors.

Net asset value vs. market price Like an open-end fund’s net asset value (NAV) per share, the NAV of a closed-end fund share is equal to the current value of the fund’s assets, minus its liabilities, divided by the number of shares outstanding. However, when buying or selling closed-end fund shares, the price you pay or receive is the market price. Market price reflects current market supply and demand and may be higher or lower than the NAV.

Putnam Premier Income Trust


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Performance and portfolio snapshots

Average annual total return (%) comparison as of 7/31/08


Data is historical. Past performance does not guarantee future results. More recent returns may be less or more than those shown. Investment return and net asset value will fluctuate, and you may have a gain or a loss when you sell your shares. Performance assumes reinvestment of distributions and does not account for taxes. Fund returns in the bar chart are at NAV. See pages 5 and 8 for additional performance information, including fund returns at market price. Index and Lipper results should be compared to fund performance at NAV. Lipper calculates performance differently than the closed-end funds it ranks, due to varying methods for determining a fund’s monthly reinvestment NAV.

“In more than 20 years as a money manager,
I have never witnessed a more challenging
period in the credit markets. At the same
time, we believe that the fluctuating
markets have presented some of the best
opportunities for future returns.”

Bill Kohli, Portfolio Leader, Putnam Premier Income Trust

Credit qualities shown as a percentage of portfolio value as of 7/31/08. A bond rated Baa or higher (MIG3/VMIG3 or higher, for short-term debt) is considered investment grade. The chart reflects Moody’s rating; percentages may include bonds not rated by Moody’s but considered by Putnam Management to be of comparable quality. Ratings will vary over time.

Credit quality overview


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Bill, the bond markets have been unusually volatile in recent months. How did the fund perform during its fiscal year?

The fund returned –1.31% at net asset value for the year ended July 31, 2008, and in more than 20 years as a money manager, I have never witnessed a more challenging and volatile period in the credit markets. Over much of the past 12 months, many investors indiscriminately fled even high-quality mortgage and credit instruments for government-backed U.S. Treasury bonds and international government securities. The fund significantly underperformed its benchmark, which is more highly concentrated in these government securities, despite our emphasis on securities of investment-grade and higher quality, and our continued cautious stance on duration — a measure of portfolio risk. The fund also underperformed its peer group, Lipper Flexible Income Funds, which returned 1.24% on average.

Can you discuss the major events that took place during the period within the global fixed-income marketplace?

The fund’s fiscal year roughly coincided with the unfolding of the housing-sparked credit crisis, but November 2007 and January and March of this year stand out as periods when securitized bond prices moved sharply lower. From late 2007 through early 2008, global credit markets grew increasingly illiquid, reaching a low point thus far with the collapse of Bear Stearns on March 17. Other factors contributing to market volatility included spiking energy and commodity prices and rising international tensions.

At first, the U.S. Federal Reserve [the Fed] reacted cautiously to events, but as credit markets ground to a halt, the Fed began to move decisively and creatively to address liquidity and structural issues in the market, in coordination with other major central banks. The Fed cut the federal funds rate dramatically in a relatively short period — by three and one-quarter percentage points over seven FOMC meetings from September to April. And in an unprecedented move, it extended substantial additional credit to commercial and investment banks through newly created lending facilities.

In response to the measures from the Fed — and some earlier indications that the United States might avoid a

Broad market index and fund performance

This comparison shows your fund’s performance in the context of broad market indexes for the 12 months ended 7/31/08. See the previous page and page 8 for additional fund performance information. Index descriptions can be found on page 10.


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recession — bond prices of high-grade credit securities rose somewhat in April, and interest-rate spreads versus Treasuries retreated. However, spreads widened again in July as the worsening financial situation for mortgage-giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac placed another negative spotlight on the mortgage markets.

Of the large number of strategies the fund uses to generate returns, which helped performance during the period?

The fund’s “steepener” strategy, where we overweight shorter-term securities and underweight longer-term issues, continues to be a strong contributor to performance. This strategy is based on our view that the yield curve will steepen as the Fed either cuts short-term rates or holds them steady, and longer-term rates trend higher due to the liquidity squeeze and investors’ inflation concerns. The fund also benefited from exposure to high-quality commercial mortgage-backed securities during the period. We took gains from this position late in the period and shifted a portion into agency collateralized mortgage obligations such as interest-only mortgage instruments, which we believe should benefit from the current environment of shrinking mortgage prepayment levels. The fund also posted gains from a large position in inflation-linked strategies in Japan. However, we significantly reduced these holdings late in the period as our forecast for global economic growth has become more guarded, reducing the expectation of inflation.

In light of our analysis of risks to the economy and markets, over the period we decreased the fund’s longer-dated positions and focused on two-year maturities. In general, we are overweighting European versus U.S. instruments based on our view that the economic fallout in Europe from the global financial crisis is not fully reflected in European bond prices. In addition, we continue to keep the fund’s duration close to that of the benchmark in order to lessen the portfolio’s vulnerability to the negative impact of any future rate increases. In terms of currency strategy, we have been taking a more tactical, that is, less sweeping, approach in recent weeks based on the slight pullback we have now seen in commodity prices and on our forecast for a decline in global growth. Lastly, the fund holds very reduced weights of credit instruments such as high-yield and investment-grade corporate bonds.

What strategy detracted from returns during the period?

The most notable detractor was the fund’s position in high-quality commercial mortgage-backed securitized bonds. Interest-rate spreads widened sharply compared with Treasuries, as their bond prices declined in a market environment that was extremely difficult for many fixed-income instruments.

Bill, were there any investment opportunities in the volatile market?

Top holdings

This table shows the fund’s top holdings and the percentage of the fund’s net assets that each represented as of 7/31/08. Holdings will vary over time.

HOLDING (percent of fund’s net assets)   COUPON (%) and MATURITY DATE  

Securitized sector    
Federal National Mortgage Association Pass-Through Certificates (30.62%)   5%, 2038  
Federal National Mortgage Association Pass-Through Certificates (23.40%)   5%, 2038  
Credit Suisse Mortgage Capital Certificates (2.12%)   5.69%, 2040  
Credit sector    
VTB Capital SA (0.48%)   6.61%, 2012  
VTB Capital (0.39%)   6.32%, 2015  
Echostar DBS Corp. (0.39%)   6.625%, 2014  
Government sector    
Japan (Government of) CPI Linked Bonds (3.67%)   1%, 2016  
U.S. Treasury Strip (1.35%)   zero %, 2024  
Sweden (Government of) Debs. (1.13%)   6.75%, 2014  

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Absolutely. The volatility we have experienced is almost unprecedented, but at the same time we believe that the fluctuating markets have presented some of the best opportunities for future returns that many of us have seen in two decades. At several junctures during periods of volatility, we increased our positions within very high-quality mortgage and mortgage-backed securities. We believe that we have done so without measurably increasing the portfolio’s fundamental credit risk, and we think the opportunity here is very exciting.

What is your outlook for the markets and the fund?

We had been hopeful that the Bear Stearns bailout represented a “bottom” in the extended period of credit market turmoil. However, recent additional write-downs by financial institutions and severe share price declines for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac probably point to extensive and unresolved structural problems for the mortgage and financial markets. These issues will probably not be fully addressed at least until after the presidential election. The possibility for large mortgage-related write-downs among European financial entities also exists. Congress recently passed legislation to address the solvency of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but the market seems to be calling for additional reforms.

We believe the outlook for a U.S. economic slowdown has already been “priced in” to the financial markets, although the downturn could be deeper and market volatility more persistent than many believe. We also believe the global economy could turn down significantly in the coming year, and we have adjusted the fund’s strategies accordingly. In summary, we foresee continued financial market volatility in the short term, but are hopeful that the strategies we have in place will lay the groundwork for future gains for the fund.

Thanks, Bill, for sharing your insights with us.

The views expressed in this report are exclusively those of Putnam Management. They are not meant as investment advice.

Please note that the holdings discussed in this report may not have been held by the fund for the entire period. Portfolio composition is subject to review in accordance with the fund’s investment strategy and may vary in the future.

I N  T H E  N E W S

In early September, the U.S. government announced plans to take over the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), the companies that play key roles in the U.S. home mortgage market. Created by Congress as “government-sponsored enterprises,” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are publicly traded companies with a mandate to foster a liquid mortgage market by acting as reliable purchasers of mortgage loans, which they repackage and sell as mortgage-backed securities. Under the plan, the U.S. Treasury will buy $1 billion of preferred shares in each company and place both companies under the control of the Federal Housing Finance Authority. The government also has pledged to provide up to $200 billion to the companies as they cope with heavy losses resulting from rising home mortgage defaults and falling real estate prices.

Of special interest

We are pleased to report that effective March 2008, your fund’s dividend was increased from $0.033 to $0.039 per share, and that in June, it was increased again from $0.039 to $0.043 per share. These dividend increases were possible due to the higher yield premium offered in bonds from all sectors outside of Treasury bonds, and the fund’s increased exposure to these areas.

Comparison of top sector weightings

This chart shows how the fund’s top weightings have changed over the past six months. Weightings are shown as a percentage of net assets. Holdings will vary over time. Sector concentrations listed after the portfolio schedule in the Financial Statements section of this shareholder report are exclusive of insured or pre-refunded status and may differ from the summary information below.


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Your fund’s performance

This section shows your fund’s performance for periods ended July 31, 2008, the end of its most recent fiscal year. In accordance with regulatory requirements for mutual funds, we also include performance as of the most recent calendar quarter-end. Performance should always be considered in light of a fund’s investment strategy. Data represents past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. More recent returns may be less or more than those shown. Investment return, net asset value, and market price will fluctuate, and you may have a gain or a loss when you sell your shares.

Total return and comparative index results For periods ended 7/31/08

        Lipper Flexible  
        Income Funds  
      Lehman Government   (closed-end)  
  NAV   Market price   Bond Index   category*  

Annual average          
Life of fund (since 2/29/88)   7.64%   6.77%   7.14%   7.07%  

10 years   65.80   54.85   74.62   60.07  
Annual average   5.19   4.47   5.73   4.78  

5 years   35.09   31.71   26.13   34.11  
Annual average   6.20   5.66   4.75   6.00  

3 years   9.68   13.43   16.34   10.79  
Annual average   3.13   4.29   5.17   3.47  

1 year   –1.31   2.84   8.62   1.24  


Performance assumes reinvestment of distributions and does not account for taxes.

Index and Lipper results should be compared to fund performance at net asset value. Lipper calculates performance differently than the closed-end funds it ranks, due to varying methods for determining a fund’s monthly reinvestment NAV.

* Over the 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, 10-year, and life-of-fund periods ended 7/31/08, there were 6, 6, 6, 5, and 1 funds, respectively, in this Lipper category.

Fund price and distribution information For the 12-month period ended 7/31/08

Distributions:      

Number   12  

Income   $0.419  

Capital gains    

Total   $0.419  

Share value:   NAV   Market price  

7/31/07   $7.10   $6.21  

7/31/08   6.55   5.97  

Current yield (end of period)   NAV   POP  

Current dividend rate*   7.88%   8.64%  


The classification of distributions, if any, is an estimate. Final distribution information will appear on your year-end tax forms.

* Most recent distribution, excluding capital gains, annualized and divided by NAV or market price at end of period.

Fund performance as of most recent calendar quarter Total return for periods ended 6/30/08

  NAV   Market price  

Annual average      
Life of fund (since 2/29/88)   7.72%   6.81%  

10 years   68.02   56.16  
Annual average   5.33   4.56  

5 years   34.05   26.29  
Annual average   6.04   4.78  

3 years   11.08   11.45  
Annual average   3.56   3.68  

1 year   –1.02   –2.67  


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Your fund’s management

Your fund is managed by the members of the Putnam Core Fixed-Income and Fixed-Income High Yield teams. D. William Kohli is the Portfolio Leader, and Michael Atkin, Rob Bloemker, Kevin Murphy, and Paul Scanlon are Portfolio Members of your fund. The Portfolio Leader and Portfolio Members coordinate the teams’ management of the fund.

For a complete listing of the members of the Putnam Core Fixed-Income and Fixed-Income High-Yield teams, including those who are not Portfolio Leaders or Portfolio Members of your fund, please visit the Individual Investors section of www.putnam.com.

Trustee and Putnam employee fund ownership

As of July 31, 2008, all of the Trustees of the Putnam funds owned fund shares. The table below shows the approximate value of investments in the fund and all Putnam funds as of that date by the Trustees and Putnam employees. These amounts include investments by the Trustees’ and employees’ immediate family members and investments through retirement and deferred compensation plans.

  Assets in   Total assets in  
  the fund   all Putnam funds  

Trustees   $52,000   $76,000,000  

Putnam employees   $6,000   $568,000,000  


Other Putnam funds managed by the Portfolio Leader and Portfolio Members

D. William Kohli is also a Portfolio Leader of Putnam Diversified Income Trust, Putnam Global Income Trust, and Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust.

Michael Atkin is also a Portfolio Member of Putnam Diversified Income Trust, Putnam Global Income Trust, and Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust.

Rob Bloemker is also a Portfolio Leader of Putnam U.S. Government Income Trust, Putnam American Government Income Fund, and Putnam Income Fund, and a Portfolio Member of Putnam Diversified Income Trust, Putnam Global Income Trust, and Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust.

Kevin Murphy is also a Portfolio Member of Putnam Income Fund, Putnam Diversified Income Trust, Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust, and Putnam Utilities Growth and Income Fund.

Paul Scanlon is also a Portfolio Leader of Putnam High Yield Trust, Putnam High Yield Advantage Fund, and Putnam Floating Rate Income Fund, and a Portfolio Member of Putnam Diversified Income Trust and Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust.

D. William Kohli, Michael Atkin, Rob Bloemker, Kevin Murphy, and Paul Scanlon may also manage other accounts and variable trust funds advised by Putnam Management or an affiliate.

Changes in your fund’s Portfolio Leader and Portfolio Members

During the reporting period ended July 31, 2008, Michael Atkin became a Portfolio Member of your fund, following the departure of Portfolio Member Jeffrey Kaufman.

Investment team fund ownership

The following table shows how much the fund’s current Portfolio Leader and Portfolio Members have invested in the fund and in all Putnam mutual funds (in dollar ranges). Information shown is as of July 31, 2008, and July 31, 2007.


N/A indicates the individual was not a Portfolio Leader or Portfolio Member as of 7/31/07.

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Terms and definitions

Important terms

Total return shows how the value of the fund’s shares changed over time, assuming you held the shares through the entire period and reinvested all distributions in the fund.

Net asset value (NAV) is the value of all your fund’s assets, minus any liabilities, divided by the number of outstanding shares.

Market price is the current trading price of one share of the fund. Market prices are set by transactions between buyers and sellers on exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange.

Comparative indexes

Lehman Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index of U.S. investment-grade fixed-income securities.

Lehman Government Bond Index is an unmanaged index of U.S. Treasury and agency securities.

Merrill Lynch 91-Day Treasury Bill Index is an unmanaged index that seeks to measure the performance of U.S. Treasury bills available in the marketplace.

S&P 500 Index is an unmanaged index of common stock performance.

Indexes assume reinvestment of all distributions and do not account for fees. Securities and performance of a fund and an index will differ. You cannot invest directly in an index.

Lipper is a third-party industry-ranking entity that ranks mutual funds. Its rankings do not reflect sales charges. Lipper rankings are based on total return at net asset value relative to other funds that have similar current investment styles or objectives as determined by Lipper. Lipper may change a fund’s category assignment at its discretion. Lipper category averages reflectperformance trends for funds within a category.

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Trustee approval of management contract

General conclusions

The Board of Trustees of the Putnam funds oversees the management of each fund and, as required by law, determines annually whether to approve the continuance of your fund’s management contract with Putnam Investment Management (“Putnam Management”) and the sub-management contract, in respect of your fund, between Putnam Management’s affiliate, Putnam Investments Limited (“PIL”), and Putnam Management. In this regard, the Board of Trustees, with the assistance of its Contract Committee consisting solely of Trustees who are not “interested persons” (as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended) of the Putnam funds (the “Independent Trustees”), requests and evaluates all information it deems reasonably necessary under the circumstances. Over the course of several months ending in June 2008, the Contract Committee met several times to consider the information provided by Putnam Management and other information developed with the assistance of the Board’s independent counsel and independent staff. The Contract Committee reviewed and discussed key aspects of this information with all of the Independent Trustees. The Contract Committee recommended, and the Independent Trustees approved, the continuance of your fund’s management and sub-management contracts, effective July 1, 2008. (Because PIL is an affiliate of Putnam Management and Putnam Management remains fully responsible for all services provided by PIL, the Trustees have not evaluated PIL as a separate entity, and all subsequent references to Putnam Management below should be deemed to include reference to PIL as necessary or appropriate in the context.)

The Independent Trustees’ approval was based on the following conclusions:

That the fee schedule in effect for your fund represented reasonable compensation in light of the nature and quality of the services being provided to the fund, the fees paid by competitive funds and the costs incurred by Putnam Management in providing such services, and

That this fee schedule represented an appropriate sharing between fund shareholders and Putnam Management of such economies of scale as may exist in the management of the fund at current asset levels.

These conclusions were based on a comprehensive consideration of all information provided to the Trustees, were subject to the continued application of certain expense reductions and waivers and other considerations noted below, and were not the result of any single factor. Some of the factors that figured particularly in the Trustees’ deliberations and how the Trustees considered these factors are described below, although individual Trustees may have evaluated the information presented differently, giving different weights to various factors. It is also important to recognize that the fee arrangements for your fund and the other Putnam funds are the result of many years of review and discussion between the Independent Trustees and Putnam Management, that certain aspects of such arrangements may receive greater scrutiny in some years than others, and that the Trustees’ conclusions may be based, in part, on their consideration of these same arrangements in prior years.

Management fee schedules and
categories; total expenses

The Trustees reviewed the management fee schedules in effect for all Putnam funds, including fee levels and breakpoints, and the assignment of funds to particular fee categories. In reviewing fees and expenses, the Trustees generally focused their attention on material changes in circumstances — for example, changes in a fund’s size or investment style, changes in Putnam Management’s operating costs or responsibilities, or changes in competitive practices in the mutual fund industry — that suggest that consideration of fee changes might be warranted. The Trustees concluded that the circumstances did not warrant changes to the management fee structure of your fund, which had been carefully developed over the years, re-examined on many occasions and adjusted where appropriate. In this regard, the Trustees also noted that shareholders of your fund voted in 2007 to approve new management contracts containing an identical fee structure. The Trustees focused on two areas of particular interest, as discussed further below:

Competitiveness. The Trustees reviewed comparative fee and expense information for competitive funds, which indicated that, in a custom peer group of competitive funds selected by Lipper Inc., your fund ranked in the 50th percentile in management fees and in the 50th percentile in total expenses as of December 31, 2007 (the first percentile being the least expensive funds and the 100th percentile being the most expensive funds). The Trustees expressed their intention to monitor this information closely to ensure that fees and expenses of your fund continue to meet evolving competitive standards.

Economies of scale. Your fund currently has the benefit of breakpoints in its management fee that provide shareholders with significant economies of scale, which means that the effective management fee rate of the fund (as a percentage of fund assets) declines as the fund grows in size and crosses specified asset thresholds. Conversely, if the fund shrinks in size — as has been the case for many Putnam funds in recent years — these breakpoints result in increasing fee levels. In recent years, the Trustees have examined the operation of the existing breakpoint structure during periods of both growth and decline in asset levels. The Trustees concluded that the fee schedule in effect for your fund represented an appropriate sharing of economies of scale at current asset levels.

In connection with their review of the management fees and total expenses of the Putnam funds, the Trustees also reviewed the costs of the services to be provided and profits to be realized by Putnam Management and its affiliates from the relationship with the funds. This information included trends in revenues, expenses

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and profitability of Putnam Management and its affiliates relating to the investment management and distribution services provided to the funds. In this regard, the Trustees also reviewed an analysis of Putnam Management’s revenues, expenses and profitability with respect to the funds’ management contracts, allocated on a fund-by-fund basis.

Investment performance

The quality of the investment process provided by Putnam Management represented a major factor in the Trustees’ evaluation of the quality of services provided by Putnam Management under your fund’s management contract. The Trustees were assisted in their review of the Putnam funds’ investment process and performance by the work of the Investment Oversight Coordinating Committee of the Trustees and the Investment Oversight Committees of the Trustees, which had met on a regular monthly basis with the funds’ portfolio teams throughout the year. The Trustees concluded that Putnam Management generally provides a high-quality investment process — as measured by the experience and skills of the individuals assigned to the management of fund portfolios, the resources made available to such personnel, and in general the ability of Putnam Management to attract and retain high-quality personnel — but also recognized that this does not guarantee favorable investment results for every fund in every time period. The Trustees considered the investment performance of each fund over multiple time periods and considered information comparing each fund’s performance with various benchmarks and with the performance of competitive funds.

While the Trustees noted the satisfactory investment performance of certain Putnam funds, they considered the disappointing investment performance of many funds in recent periods, particularly over periods in 2007 and 2008. They discussed with senior management of Putnam Management the factors contributing to such underperformance and actions being taken to improve performance. The Trustees recognized that, in recent years, Putnam Management has taken steps to strengthen its investment personnel and processes to address areas of underperformance, including recent efforts to further centralize Putnam Management’s equity research function. In this regard, the Trustees took into consideration efforts by Putnam Management to improve its ability to assess and mitigate investment risk in individual funds, across asset classes, and across the complex as a whole. The Trustees indicated their intention to continue to monitor performance trends to assess the effectiveness of these efforts and to evaluate whether additional changes to address areas of underperformance are warranted.

In the case of your fund, the Trustees considered that your fund’s common share cumulative total return performance at net asset value was in the following percentiles of its Lipper Inc. peer group (Lipper Flexible Income Funds (closed-end)) for the one-year, three-year and five-year periods ended December 31, 2007 (the first percentile being the best-performing funds and the 100th percentile being the worst-performing funds):

One-year period   38th  

Three-year period   50th  

Five-year period   43rd  


(Because of the passage of time, these performance results may differ from the performance results for more recent periods shown elsewhere in this report.) Over the one-year, three-year and five-year periods ended December 31, 2007, there were 7, 7, and 6 funds, respectively, in your fund’s Lipper peer group.* Past performance is no guarantee of future returns.

As a general matter, the Trustees believe that cooperative efforts between the Trustees and Putnam Management represent the most effective way to address investment performance problems. The Trustees noted that investors in the Putnam funds have, in effect, placed their trust in the Putnam organization, under the oversight of the funds’ Trustees, to make appropriate decisions regarding the management of the funds. Based on the responsiveness of Putnam Management in the recent past to Trustee concerns about investment performance, the Trustees concluded that it is preferable to seek change within Putnam Management to address performance shortcomings. In the Trustees’ view, the alternative of engaging a new investment adviser for an underperforming fund would entail significant disruptions and would not provide any greater assurance of improved investment performance.

Brokerage and soft-dollar
allocations; other benefits

The Trustees considered various potential benefits that Putnam Management may receive in connection with the services it provides under the management contract with your fund. These include benefits related to brokerage and soft-dollar allocations, whereby a portion of the commissions paid by a fund for brokerage may be used to acquire research services that may be useful to Putnam Management in managing the assets of the fund and of other clients. The Trustees considered changes made in 2008, at Putnam Management’s request, to the Putnam funds’ brokerage allocation policy, which expanded the permitted categories of brokerage and research services payable with soft dollars and increased the permitted soft dollar allocation to third-party services over what had been authorized in previous years. The Trustees indicated their continued intent to monitor the potential benefits associated

* The percentile rankings for your fund’s common share annualized total return performance in the Lipper Flexible Income Funds (closed-end) category for the one-year, five-year, and ten-year periods ended June 30, 2008 were 72%, 43%, and 50%, respectively. Over the one-year, five-year, and ten-year periods ended June 30, 2008, your fund ranked 5th out of 6, 3rd out of 6, and 3rd out of 5 funds, respectively. Note that this more recent information was not available when the Trustees approved the continuance of your fund’s management contract.

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with the allocation of fund brokerage and trends in industry practice to ensure that the principle of seeking “best price and execution” remains paramount in the portfolio trading process.

The Trustees’ annual review of your fund’s management contract arrangements also included the review of your fund’s investor servicing agreement with Putnam Fiduciary Trust Company (“PFTC”), which provides benefits to affiliates of Putnam Management. In the case of the investor servicing agreement, the Trustees considered that certain shareholder servicing functions were shifted to a third-party service provider by PFTC in 2007.

Comparison of retail and
institutional fee schedules

The information examined by the Trustees as part of their annual contract review has included for many years information regarding fees charged by Putnam Management and its affiliates to institutional clients such as defined benefit pension plans, college endowments, etc. This information included comparisons of such fees with fees charged to the funds, as well as a detailed assessment of the differences in the services provided to these two types of clients. The Trustees observed, in this regard, that the differences in fee rates between institutional clients and mutual funds are by no means uniform when examined by individual asset sectors, suggesting that differences in the pricing of investment management services to these types of clients reflect to a substantial degree historical competitive forces operating in separate market places. The Trustees considered the fact that fee rates across different asset classes are typically higher on average for mutual funds than for institutional clients, as well as the differences between the services that Putnam Management provides to the Putnam funds and those that it provides to institutional clients of the firm, but did not rely on such comparisons to any significant extent in concluding that the management fees paid by your fund are reasonable.

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Other information for shareholders

Important notice regarding share
repurchase program

In September 2007, the Trustees of your fund approved the renewal of a share repurchase program that had been in effect since 2005. This renewal will allow your fund to repurchase, in the 12 months beginning October 8, 2007, up to 10% of the fund’s common shares outstanding as of October 5, 2007.

Putnam’s policy on confidentiality

In order to conduct business with our shareholders, we must obtain certain personal information such as account holders’ addresses, telephone numbers, Social Security numbers, and the names of their financial representatives. We use this information to assign an account number and to help us maintain accurate records of transactions and account balances. It is our policy to protect the confidentiality of your information, whether or not you currently own shares of our funds, and, in particular, not to sell information about you or your accounts to outside marketing firms. We have safeguards in place designed to prevent unauthorized access to our computer systems and procedures to protect personal information from unauthorized use. Under certain circumstances, we share this information with outside vendors who provide services to us, such as mailing and proxy solicitation. In those cases, the service providers enter into confidentiality agreements with us, and we provide only the information necessary to process transactions and perform other services related to your account. We may also share this information with our Putnam affiliates to service your account or provide you with information about other Putnam products or services. It is also our policy to share account information with your financial representative, if you’ve listed one on your Putnam account. If you would like clarification about our confidentiality policies or have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us at 1-800-225-1581, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., or Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Proxy voting

Putnam is committed to managing our mutual funds in the best interests of our shareholders. The Putnam funds’ proxy voting guidelines and procedures, as well as information regarding how your fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the 12-month period ended June 30, 2008, are available in the Individual Investors section of www.putnam.com, and on the SEC’s Web site, www.sec.gov. If you have questions about finding forms on the SEC’s Web site, you may call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. You may also obtain the Putnam funds’ proxy voting guidelines and procedures at no charge by calling Putnam’s Shareholder Services at 1-800-225-1581.

Fund portfolio holdings

The fund will file a complete schedule of its portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. Shareholders may obtain the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s Web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the fund’s Forms N-Q may be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. You may call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for information about the SEC’s Web site or the operation of the Public Reference Room.

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Financial statements

These sections of the report, as well as the accompanying Notes, preceded by the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, constitute the fund’s financial statements.

The fund’s portfolio lists all the fund’s investments and their values as of the last day of the reporting period. Holdings are organized by asset type and industry sector, country, or state to show areas of concentration and diversification.

Statement of assets and liabilities shows how the fund’s net assets and share price are determined. All investment and noninvestment assets are added together. Any unpaid expenses and other liabilities are subtracted from this total. The result is divided by the number of shares to determine the net asset value per share. (For funds with preferred shares, the amount subtracted from total assets includes the liquidation preference of preferred shares.)

Statement of operations shows the fund’s net investment gain or loss. This is done by first adding up all the fund’s earnings — from dividends and interest income — and subtracting its operating expenses to determine net investment income (or loss). Then, any net gain or loss the fund realized on the sales of its holdings — as well as any unrealized gains or losses over the period — is added to or subtracted from the net investment result to determine the fund’s net gain or loss for the fiscal year.

Statement of changes in net assets shows how the fund’s net assets were affected by the fund’s net investment gain or loss, by distributions to shareholders, and by changes in the number of the fund’s shares. It lists distributions and their sources (net investment income or realized capital gains) over the current reporting period and the most recent fiscal year-end. The distributions listed here may not match the sources listed in the Statement of operations because the distributions are determined on a tax basis and may be paid in a different period from the one in which they were earned.

Financial highlights provide an overview of the fund’s investment results, per-share distributions, expense ratios, net investment income ratios, and portfolio turnover in one summary table, reflecting the five most recent reporting periods. In a semi-annual report, the highlight table also includes the current reporting period.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Trustees and Shareholders
Putnam Premier Income Trust:

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Putnam Premier Income Trust, including the fund’s portfolio, as of July 31, 2008, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform our audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of July 31, 2008 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers or by other appropriate auditing procedures. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Putnam Premier Income Trust as of July 31, 2008, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.


Boston, Massachusetts
September 17, 2008

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The fund’s portfolio 7/31/08

U.S. GOVERNMENT AND AGENCY   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (61.8%)*   amount   Value  

U.S. Government Guaranteed Mortgage Obligations (0.6%)    
Government National Mortgage Association Pass-Through Certificates  
6 1/2s, with due dates from      
July 20, 2037 to November 20, 2037   $5,077,508   $5,235,189  

    5,235,189  
U.S. Government Agency Mortgage Obligations (61.2%)    
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Pass-Through Certificates  
6s, with due dates from      
September 1, 2021 to October 1, 2021   579,285   591,753  

Federal National Mortgage Association Pass-Through Certificates    
7 1/2s, January 1, 2030   49,829   53,261  
6 1/2s, with due dates from      
September 1, 2036 to November 1, 2037   1,612,299   1,657,676  
6 1/2s, April 1, 2016   33,580   34,764  
6 1/2s, TBA, September 1, 2038   1,000,000   1,023,477  
6 1/2s, TBA, August 1, 2038   1,000,000   1,026,406  
6s, July 1, 2021   4,652,042   4,757,985  
6s, TBA, September 1, 2038   13,000,000   13,018,789  
6s, TBA, August 1, 2038   13,000,000   13,055,860  
5 1/2s, with due dates from      
April 1, 2037 to December 1, 2037   6,113,411   5,992,337  
5 1/2s, with due dates from      
December 1, 2011 to August 1, 2021   2,029,052   2,048,891  
5 1/2s, TBA, September 1, 2038   5,000,000   4,880,078  
5 1/2s, TBA, August 1, 2038   18,000,000   17,611,875  
5s, July 1, 2021   167,737   165,503  
5s, TBA, September 1, 2038   242,000,000   229,200,475  
5s, TBA, August 1, 2038   316,000,000   299,953,141  
4 1/2s, with due dates from      
August 1, 2033 to June 1, 2034   5,105,674   4,697,038  

    599,769,309  
Total U.S. government and agency mortgage obligations    
(cost $603,002,796)     $605,004,498  
 
U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS (2.2%)*   Principal    
  amount   Value  

U.S. Treasury Bonds 6 1/4s,      
May 15, 2030   $2,303,000   $2,806,241  

U.S. Treasury Notes      
4 1/4s, August 15, 2013   4,883,000   5,110,746  
4s, November 15, 2012   3,000   3,113  

U.S. Treasury Strip zero %,      
November 15, 2024   28,450,000   13,189,670  

Total U.S. treasury obligations (cost $18,877,504)   $21,109,770  
 
COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)*   amount   Value  

Asset Backed Funding Certificates 144A FRB      
Ser. 06-OPT3, Class B, 4.961s, 2036   $117,000   $6,891  

Banc of America Alternative Loan      
Trust Ser. 06-7, Class A2, 5.707s, 2036   8,951,000   8,305,731  

Banc of America Commercial Mortgage, Inc.      
FRB Ser. 07-3, Class A3, 5.658s, 2049   343,000   332,344  
Ser. 07-2, Class A2, 5.634s, 2049   977,000   954,715  
Ser. 05-6, Class A2, 5.165s, 2047   2,118,000   2,089,756  
Ser. 07-5, Class XW, IO      
(Interest only), 0.44s, 2051   218,990,822   5,155,338  

Banc of America Commercial Mortgage, Inc. 144A    
Ser. 01-1, Class J, 6 1/8s, 2036   318,946   307,091  
Ser. 01-1, Class K, 6 1/8s, 2036   718,000   572,542  

Banc of America Funding Corp. FRB      
Ser. 06-D, Class 6A1, 5.99s, 2036   6,525,496   4,894,122  


COLLATERALIZED     Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

 
Banc of America Large Loan 144A        
FRB Ser. 05-MIB1, Class K, 4.458s, 2022   $1,187,000   $963,325  

Bayview Commercial Asset Trust 144A      
Ser. 07-5A, IO, 1.55s, 2037     2,818,551   350,628  
Ser. 07-1, Class S, IO, 1.211s, 2037   7,745,831   721,911  

Bear Stearns Alternate Trust        
FRB Ser. 06-5, Class 2A2, 6 1/4s, 2036   4,928,629   3,782,723  
FRB Ser. 06-6, Class 2A1, 5.919s, 2036   2,394,287   1,540,421  

Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage      
Securities, Inc.        
FRB Ser. 00-WF2, Class F, 8.188s, 2032   481,000   451,529  
Ser. 07-PW17, Class A3, 5.736s, 2050   4,243,000   4,020,327  

Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage      
Securities, Inc. 144A        
Ser. 07-PW18, Class X1, IO,        
0.058s, 2050     121,443,940   994,529  

Broadgate Financing PLC sec. FRB        
Ser. D, 6.713s, 2023        
(United Kingdom)   GBP   744,625   1,110,855  

Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc.      
FRB Ser. 06-AR5, Class 2A5A,        
6.196s, 2036     $3,224,335   2,219,159  
FRB Ser. 06-AR7, Class 2A2A,        
5.661s, 2036     564,939   384,158  
IFB Ser. 07-6, Class 2A5, IO,        
4.189s, 2037     3,577,737   284,580  

Citigroup/Deutsche Bank Commercial      
Mortgage Trust Ser. 06-CD3,        
Class A4, 5.658s, 2048     217,000   210,369  

Citigroup/Deutsche Bank Commercial      
Mortgage Trust 144A Ser. 07-CD5,      
Class XS, IO, 0.062s, 2044     71,344,948   504,484  

Commercial Mortgage        
Acceptance Corp. Ser. 97-ML1, IO,      
0.774s, 2017     1,489,709   53,013  

Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through      
Certificates 144A FRB        
Ser. 05-F10A, Class A1, 2.558s, 2017   496,801   481,209  

Countrywide Alternative Loan Trust      
Ser. 06-45T1, Class 2A2, 6s, 2037   2,035,289   1,506,114  
Ser. 06-J8, Class A4, 6s, 2037     5,091,361   3,513,039  
Ser. 07-HY5R, Class 2A1A,        
5.544s, 2047     4,053,215   3,520,597  
IFB Ser. 04-2CB, Class 1A5, IO,        
5.139s, 2034     3,684,160   205,075  

Countrywide Home Loans        
FRB Ser. 05-HYB7, Class 6A1,        
5.713s, 2035     4,659,860   3,355,100  
Ser. 05-2, Class 2X, IO, 1.16s, 2035   5,384,683   108,325  

Countrywide Home Loans 144A IFB      
Ser. 05-R1, Class 1AS, IO,        
3.511s, 2035     5,634,617   399,704  

Credit Suisse Mortgage Capital Certificates      
FRB Ser. 07-C4, Class A2,        
5.811s, 2039     1,632,000   1,614,383  
Ser. 07-C5, Class A3, 5.694s, 2040   21,660,000   20,736,872  

CRESI Finance Limited        
Partnership 144A        
FRB Ser. 06-A, Class D, 3.261s, 2017   167,000   154,318  
FRB Ser. 06-A, Class C, 3.061s, 2017   495,000   465,377  

Criimi Mae Commercial Mortgage        
Trust 144A Ser. 98-C1, Class B,        
7s, 2033     2,634,485   2,637,119  


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COLLATERALIZED     Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

CS First Boston Mortgage        
Securities Corp. 144A        
Ser. 98-C2, Class F, 6 3/4s, 2030     $3,176,400   $3,100,391  
Ser. 98-C1, Class F, 6s, 2040     1,880,000   1,193,759  
Ser. 02-CP5, Class M, 5 1/4s, 2035     691,000   186,570  
FRB Ser. 05-TFLA, Class L, 4.308s, 2020     1,356,000   1,152,600  
FRB Ser. 05-TFLA, Class K, 3.758s, 2020     758,000   712,520  

Deutsche Mortgage & Asset        
Receiving Corp. Ser. 98-C1,        
Class X, IO, 0.626s, 2031     9,894,555   247,826  

DLJ Commercial Mortgage Corp.        
Ser. 98-CF2, Class B4, 6.04s, 2031     552,708   507,939  

DLJ Commercial Mortgage Corp. 144A        
Ser. 98-CF2, Class B5, 5.95s, 2031     1,771,365   1,441,980  

European Loan Conduit 144A FRB        
Ser. 22A, Class D, 6.646s, 2014        
(Ireland)   GBP   995,000   1,540,394  

European Prime Real Estate PLC        
144A FRB Ser. 1-A, Class D,        
6.641s, 2014 (United Kingdom)   GBP   553,521   897,088  

Fannie Mae        
IFB Ser. 06-70, Class SM,        
33.904s, 2036     $429,555   592,938  
IFB Ser. 07-1, Class NR,        
28.795s, 2037     1,684,482   2,014,922  
IFB Ser. 06-62, Class PS,        
25.133s, 2036     1,274,822   1,639,981  
IFB Ser. 06-76, Class QB,        
24.833s, 2036     3,193,311   4,102,822  
IFB Ser. 06-63, Class SP,        
24.533s, 2036     3,498,802   4,419,083  
IFB Ser. 07-W7, Class 1A4,        
24.413s, 2037     1,137,324   1,370,637  
IFB Ser. 06-104, Class GS,        
21.857s, 2036     662,120   786,681  
IFB Ser. 06-60, Class TK,        
18.755s, 2036     972,883   1,133,326  
IFB Ser. 05-25, Class PS,        
17.331s, 2035     1,297,333   1,466,467  
IFB Ser. 05-74, Class CP,        
15.725s, 2035     915,152   1,023,141  
IFB Ser. 05-115, Class NQ,        
15.708s, 2036     518,247   542,144  
IFB Ser. 06-27, Class SP,        
15.542s, 2036     1,478,201   1,649,359  
IFB Ser. 06-8, Class HP,        
15.542s, 2036     1,550,758   1,724,079  
IFB Ser. 06-8, Class WK,        
15.542s, 2036     2,474,890   2,733,376  
IFB Ser. 05-106, Class US,        
15.542s, 2035     2,213,944   2,472,359  
IFB Ser. 05-99, Class SA,        
15.542s, 2035     1,075,843   1,185,027  
IFB Ser. 06-60, Class CS,        
15.065s, 2036     1,619,213   1,686,523  
IFB Ser. 05-74, Class CS,        
13.252s, 2035     1,043,302   1,122,506  
IFB Ser. 04-79, Class S,        
13.032s, 2032     1,495,953   1,568,033  
IFB Ser. 05-114, Class SP,        
12.812s, 2036     649,285   675,418  
IFB Ser. 05-95, Class OP,        
12.753s, 2035     659,245   673,000  
IFB Ser. 05-95, Class CP,        
12.559s, 2035     157,898   168,717  

COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

 
Fannie Mae      
IFB Ser. 05-83, Class QP,      
10.995s, 2034   $374,767   $372,680  
Ser. 383, Class 90, IO, 8s, 2037   135,112   24,982  
Ser. 383, Class 91, IO, 8s, 2037   107,289   19,739  
Ser. 04-T2, Class 1A4, 7 1/2s, 2043   484,059   519,396  
Ser. 02-T19, Class A3, 7 1/2s, 2042   405,483   433,687  
Ser. 02-14, Class A2, 7 1/2s, 2042   2,734   2,911  
Ser. 01-T10, Class A2, 7 1/2s, 2041   386,537   410,825  
Ser. 02-T4, Class A3, 7 1/2s, 2041   1,591   1,691  
Ser. 01-T3, Class A1, 7 1/2s, 2040   250,899   266,278  
Ser. 01-T1, Class A1, 7 1/2s, 2040   758,622   811,726  
Ser. 99-T2, Class A1, 7 1/2s, 2039   302,008   326,643  
Ser. 386, Class 26, IO, 7 1/2s, 2038   272,903   54,782  
Ser. 386, Class 27, IO, 7 1/2s, 2037   158,419   31,801  
Ser. 386, Class 28, IO, 7 1/2s, 2037   155,077   31,130  
Ser. 383, Class 88, IO, 7 1/2s, 2037   287,267   60,707  
Ser. 383, Class 89, IO, 7 1/2s, 2037   224,485   47,753  
Ser. 383, Class 87, IO, 7 1/2s, 2037   358,169   78,392  
Ser. 00-T6, Class A1, 7 1/2s, 2030   146,875   156,209  
Ser. 01-T4, Class A1, 7 1/2s, 2028   719,538   773,206  
Ser. 04-W12, Class 1A3, 7s, 2044   624,466   661,641  
Ser. 01-T10, Class A1, 7s, 2041   1,538,274   1,618,232  
Ser. 386, Class 24, IO, 7s, 2038   228,915   51,616  
Ser. 386, Class 25, IO, 7s, 2038   243,746   55,339  
Ser. 386, Class 22, IO, 7s, 2038   315,159   73,572  
Ser. 386, Class 21, IO, 7s, 2037   356,135   83,033  
Ser. 386, Class 23, IO, 7s, 2037   347,308   78,852  
Ser. 383, Class 84, IO, 7s, 2037   324,978   79,080  
Ser. 383, Class 85, IO, 7s, 2037   206,743   49,660  
Ser. 383, Class 86, IO, 7s, 2037   163,039   39,163  
Ser. 383, Class 79, IO, 7s, 2037   332,395   80,859  
Ser. 383, Class 80, IO, 7s, 2037   720,451   178,528  
Ser. 383, Class 81, IO, 7s, 2037   397,595   96,084  
Ser. 383, Class 82, IO, 7s, 2037   394,185   92,218  
Ser. 383, Class 83, IO, 7s, 2037   329,695   79,453  
Ser. 386, Class 20, IO, 6 1/2s, 2038   345,153   79,663  
Ser. 386, Class 14, IO, 6 1/2s, 2038   2,839,895   690,294  
Ser. 386, Class 12, IO, 6 1/2s, 2038   1,858,073   445,819  
Ser. 386, Class 19, IO, 6 1/2s, 2038   336,415   77,228  
Ser. 386, Class 17, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   516,064   123,988  
Ser. 386, Class 16, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   353,724   82,576  
Ser. 383, Class 60, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   1,638,984   428,344  
Ser. 383, Class 62, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   453,787   116,662  
Ser. 383, Class 69, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   257,819   66,475  
Ser. 383, Class 63, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   355,458   89,858  
Ser. 383, Class 64, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   657,892   170,183  
Ser. 383, Class 67, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   347,071   89,267  
Ser. 383, Class 68, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   167,794   43,138  
Ser. 383, Class 58, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   763,113   195,339  
Ser. 383, Class 59, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   480,835   121,250  
Ser. 383, Class 61, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   383,640   97,451  
Ser. 383, Class 65, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   453,409   118,007  
Ser. 383, Class 66, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   461,236   119,753  
Ser. 383, Class 72, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   1,829,879   463,489  
Ser. 383, Class 77, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   275,608   69,470  
Ser. 383, Class 78, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   282,027   71,002  
Ser. 383, Class 73, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   625,866   157,269  
Ser. 383, Class 76, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   374,443   95,129  
Ser. 383, Class 70, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   967,090   243,176  
Ser. 383, Class 74, IO, 6 1/2s, 2037   516,078   129,436  
Ser. 383, Class 71, IO, 6 1/2s, 2036   408,617   102,096  
Ser. 383, Class 75, IO, 6 1/2s, 2036   328,368   83,072  
Ser. 371, Class 2, IO, 6 1/2s, 2036   28,906,701   8,344,721  
Ser. 383, Class 101, IO, 6 1/2s, 2022   158,216   26,269  
Ser. 383, Class 102, IO, 6 1/2s, 2022   94,319   15,557  

18


COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Fannie Mae      
Ser. 389, Class 6, IO, 6s, 2038   $437,406   $115,101  
Ser. 386, Class 10, IO, 6s, 2038   247,268   60,209  
Ser. 386, Class 11, IO, 6s, 2038   165,559   40,901  
Ser. 386, Class 8, IO, 6s, 2038   2,196,710   520,395  
Ser. 383, Class 40, IO, 6s, 2038   3,147,864   775,687  
Ser. 383, Class 41, IO, 6s, 2038   2,763,550   680,537  
Ser. 383, Class 42, IO, 6s, 2038   1,997,613   493,500  
Ser. 383, Class 43, IO, 6s, 2038   1,805,616   446,942  
Ser. 383, Class 44, IO, 6s, 2038   1,649,120   407,407  
Ser. 383, Class 45, IO, 6s, 2038   1,270,009   316,406  
Ser. 383, Class 46, IO, 6s, 2038   1,103,644   274,959  
Ser. 383, Class 47, IO, 6s, 2038   977,260   243,472  
Ser. 383, Class 48, IO, 6s, 2038   876,617   218,822  
Ser. 383, Class 52, IO, 6s, 2038   355,804   88,816  
Ser. 386, Class 9, IO, 6s, 2038   1,581,381   384,988  
Ser. 383, Class 28, IO, 6s, 2038   3,300,449   836,543  
Ser. 383, Class 29, IO, 6s, 2038   2,968,900   753,435  
Ser. 383, Class 30, IO, 6s, 2038   2,191,580   557,211  
Ser. 383, Class 31, IO, 6s, 2038   1,934,181   491,767  
Ser. 383, Class 32, IO, 6s, 2038   1,499,239   382,358  
Ser. 383, Class 33, IO, 6s, 2038   1,283,735   326,803  
Ser. 383, Class 37, IO, 6s, 2038   498,633   127,560  
Ser. 386, Class 7, IO, 6s, 2038   1,930,938   498,154  
Ser. 383, Class 34, IO, 6s, 2037   519,406   131,251  
Ser. 383, Class 35, IO, 6s, 2037   429,629   108,431  
Ser. 383, Class 36, IO, 6s, 2037   338,267   85,426  
Ser. 383, Class 38, IO, 6s, 2037   211,364   53,506  
Ser. 383, Class 50, IO, 6s, 2037   599,683   147,302  
Ser. 386, Class 6, IO, 6s, 2037   926,862   230,795  
Ser. 383, Class 39, IO, 6s, 2037   142,135   35,676  
Ser. 383, Class 49, IO, 6s, 2037   451,216   111,114  
Ser. 383, Class 51, IO, 6s, 2037   466,287   114,535  
Ser. 383, Class 53, IO, 6s, 2037   172,288   42,480  
Ser. 383, Class 54, IO, 6s, 2037   112,144   27,651  
Ser. 383, Class 55, IO, 6s, 2037   93,485   23,140  
Ser. 383, Class 57, IO, 6s, 2037   284,893   70,381  
Ser. 372, Class 2, IO, 6s, 2036   1,879,324   523,865  
Ser. 370, Class 2, IO, 6s, 2036   1,846,496   521,964  
Ser. 383, Class 100, IO, 6s, 2022   163,084   27,044  
Ser. 383, Class 98, IO, 6s, 2022   500,059   85,055  
Ser. 383, Class 99, IO, 6s, 2022   220,240   36,452  
Ser. 383, Class 18, IO, 5 1/2s, 2038   1,734,748   425,212  
Ser. 383, Class 19, IO, 5 1/2s, 2038   1,582,696   387,942  
Ser. 383, Class 25, IO, 5 1/2s, 2038   270,564   64,419  
Ser. 386, Class 3, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   959,861   233,695  
Ser. 386, Class 4, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   390,662   96,253  
Ser. 386, Class 5, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   251,098   62,632  
Ser. 383, Class 14, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   620,870   153,499  
Ser. 383, Class 15, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   239,739   58,270  
Ser. 383, Class 16, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   103,666   26,045  
Ser. 383, Class 3, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   2,739,850   683,060  
Ser. 383, Class 4, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   2,420,404   603,420  
Ser. 383, Class 5, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   1,536,195   382,982  
Ser. 383, Class 6, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   1,380,931   344,659  
Ser. 383, Class 7, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   1,361,074   339,059  
Ser. 383, Class 10, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   501,649   126,759  
Ser. 383, Class 11, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   348,624   87,420  
Ser. 383, Class 12, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   318,541   80,030  
Ser. 383, Class 13, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   320,531   80,530  
Ser. 383, Class 8, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   550,265   141,115  
Ser. 383, Class 9, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   525,506   120,309  
Ser. 383, Class 20, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   978,647   243,793  
Ser. 383, Class 21, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   925,687   230,600  
Ser. 383, Class 22, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   626,994   155,892  
Ser. 383, Class 23, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   566,198   140,776  

COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

 
Fannie Mae      
Ser. 383, Class 24, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   $397,136   $96,077  
Ser. 383, Class 26, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   290,998   72,631  
Ser. 383, Class 27, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   92,445   22,793  
Ser. 379, Class 2, IO, 5 1/2s, 2037   1,276,170   356,701  
Ser. 363, Class 2, IO, 5 1/2s, 2035   4,361,752   1,205,971  
Ser. 383, Class 95, IO, 5 1/2s, 2022   788,164   136,575  
Ser. 383, Class 97, IO, 5 1/2s, 2022   332,569   55,814  
Ser. 383, Class 94, IO, 5 1/2s, 2022   395,784   67,737  
Ser. 383, Class 96, IO, 5 1/2s, 2022   430,233   70,484  
IFB Ser. 07-W6, Class 6A2, IO,      
5.339s, 2037   2,122,408   233,548  
IFB Ser. 06-90, Class SE, IO,      
5.339s, 2036   4,758,400   618,398  
IFB Ser. 04-51, Class XP, IO,      
5.239s, 2034   4,015,915   503,401  
IFB Ser. 03-66, Class SA, IO,      
5.189s, 2033   1,773,436   208,171  
IFB Ser. 08-7, Class SA, IO,      
5.089s, 2038   8,732,986   1,130,083  
Ser. 386, Class 1, IO, 5s, 2037   96,870   24,486  
Ser. 383, Class 2, IO, 5s, 2037   259,397   66,052  
Ser. 383, Class 92, IO, 5s, 2022   343,920   56,630  
Ser. 383, Class 93, IO, 5s, 2022   185,937   31,121  
IFB Ser. 07-W6, Class 5A2, IO,      
4.829s, 2037   3,091,784   336,056  
IFB Ser. 07-W2, Class 3A2, IO,      
4.819s, 2037   2,952,441   303,121  
IFB Ser. 06-115, Class BI, IO,      
4.799s, 2036   2,450,322   189,277  
IFB Ser. 05-113, Class AI, IO,      
4.769s, 2036   1,521,182   133,839  
IFB Ser. 05-113, Class DI, IO,      
4.769s, 2036   1,168,996   116,304  
IFB Ser. 08-36, Class YI, IO,      
4.739s, 2036   3,873,232   430,225  
IFB Ser. 07-60, Class AX, IO,      
4.689s, 2037   9,059,426   956,944  
IFB Ser. 06-60, Class SI, IO,      
4.689s, 2036   2,915,228   318,823  
IFB Ser. 06-60, Class UI, IO,      
4.689s, 2036   1,171,128   114,959  
IFB Ser. 04-12, Class WS, IO,      
4.689s, 2033   4,353,083   448,207  
IFB Ser. 07-W7, Class 3A2, IO,      
4.669s, 2037   3,481,399   341,375  
IFB Ser. 06-60, Class DI, IO,      
4.609s, 2035   3,628,878   327,335  
IFB Ser. 03-130, Class BS, IO,      
4.589s, 2033   5,207,892   510,018  
IFB Ser. 03-34, Class WS, IO,      
4.539s, 2029   5,020,705   442,599  
IFB Ser. 08-10, Class LI, IO,      
4.519s, 2038   5,018,352   524,703  
IFB Ser. 05-42, Class SA, IO,      
4.339s, 2035   8,548,159   708,177  
IFB Ser. 07-39, Class LI, IO,      
4.309s, 2037   2,708,558   257,236  
IFB Ser. 07-23, Class SI, IO,      
4.309s, 2037   723,935   50,367  
IFB Ser. 07-54, Class CI, IO,      
4.299s, 2037   2,380,517   232,587  
IFB Ser. 07-39, Class PI, IO,      
4.299s, 2037   1,839,037   126,730  
IFB Ser. 07-30, Class WI, IO,      
4.299s, 2037   10,712,125   903,067  

19


COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Fannie Mae      
IFB Ser. 07-28, Class SE, IO,      
4.289s, 2037   $436,428   $42,277  
IFB Ser. 07-22, Class S, IO,      
4.289s, 2037   16,272,240   1,530,771  
IFB Ser. 06-128, Class SH, IO,      
4.289s, 2037   1,968,467   168,635  
IFB Ser. 06-56, Class SM, IO,      
4.289s, 2036   2,670,420   223,873  
IFB Ser. 05-90, Class SP, IO,      
4.289s, 2035   1,235,886   106,378  
IFB Ser. 05-12, Class SC, IO,      
4.289s, 2035   1,528,318   124,518  
IFB Ser. 05-45, Class PL, IO,      
4.289s, 2034   8,624,523   813,961  
IFB Ser. 07-W5, Class 2A2, IO,      
4.279s, 2037   937,499   76,875  
IFB Ser. 07-30, Class IE, IO,      
4.279s, 2037   5,481,743   607,924  
IFB Ser. 06-123, Class CI, IO,      
4.279s, 2037   4,530,283   430,184  
IFB Ser. 06-123, Class UI, IO,      
4.279s, 2037   4,602,352   428,858  
IFB Ser. 07-15, Class BI, IO,      
4.239s, 2037   7,749,547   709,006  
IFB Ser. 06-126, Class CS, IO,      
4.239s, 2037   3,243,278   296,373  
IFB Ser. 06-16, Class SM, IO,      
4.239s, 2036   4,518,169   405,206  
IFB Ser. 05-95, Class CI, IO,      
4.239s, 2035   2,386,862   233,908  
IFB Ser. 05-84, Class SG, IO,      
4.239s, 2035   3,932,562   373,313  
IFB Ser. 05-57, Class NI, IO,      
4.239s, 2035   1,023,911   84,012  
IFB Ser. 05-29, Class SX, IO,      
4.239s, 2035   2,799,998   253,171  
IFB Ser. 05-7, Class SC, IO,      
4.239s, 2035   10,079,054   843,516  
IFB Ser. 04-92, Class S, IO,      
4.239s, 2034   6,609,788   591,679  
IFB Ser. 06-104, Class EI, IO,      
4.229s, 2036   2,574,297   232,781  
IFB Ser. 05-83, Class QI, IO,      
4.229s, 2035   649,584   67,360  
IFB Ser. 06-128, Class GS, IO,      
4.219s, 2037   2,671,497   252,917  
Ser. 06-116, Class ES, IO,      
4.189s, 2036   356,309   29,992  
IFB Ser. 06-114, Class IS, IO,      
4.189s, 2036   2,262,217   203,043  
IFB Ser. 04-92, Class SQ, IO,      
4.189s, 2034   2,750,471   263,284  
IFB Ser. 06-115, Class IE, IO,      
4.179s, 2036   1,766,255   146,323  
IFB Ser. 06-117, Class SA, IO,      
4.179s, 2036   2,617,506   227,786  
IFB Ser. 06-121, Class SD, IO,      
4.179s, 2036   276,627   24,241  
IFB Ser. 06-109, Class SG, IO,      
4.169s, 2036   650,673   57,609  
IFB Ser. 06-104, Class SY, IO,      
4.159s, 2036   584,471   48,016  
IFB Ser. 06-109, Class SH, IO,      
4.159s, 2036   2,146,533   204,282  

COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Fannie Mae      
IFB Ser. 06-111, Class SA, IO,      
4.159s, 2036   $13,595,316   $1,266,900  
IFB Ser. 07-W6, Class 4A2, IO,      
4.139s, 2037   12,564,245   1,159,680  
IFB Ser. 06-128, Class SC, IO,      
4.139s, 2037   2,678,962   234,256  
IFB Ser. 06-43, Class SI, IO,      
4.139s, 2036   5,022,790   444,356  
IFB Ser. 06-8, Class JH, IO,      
4.139s, 2036   8,532,661   799,957  
IFB Ser. 05-122, Class SG, IO,      
4.139s, 2035   2,175,111   190,946  
IFB Ser. 05-57, Class MS, IO,      
4.139s, 2035   7,404,701   583,159  
IFB Ser. 05-95, Class OI, IO,      
4.129s, 2035   364,139   44,104  
IFB Ser. 06-92, Class LI, IO,      
4.119s, 2036   2,581,857   227,133  
IFB Ser. 06-99, Class AS, IO,      
4.119s, 2036   1,026,283   91,182  
IFB Ser. 06-98, Class SQ, IO,      
4.109s, 2036   11,633,101   1,009,753  
IFB Ser. 06-85, Class TS, IO,      
4.099s, 2036   5,651,927   459,974  
IFB Ser. 07-75, Class PI, IO,      
4.079s, 2037   2,777,791   226,562  
IFB Ser. 07-88, Class MI, IO,      
4.059s, 2037   1,111,637   81,771  
IFB Ser. 07-103, Class AI, IO,      
4.039s, 2037   12,212,157   1,033,968  
IFB Ser. 07-15, Class NI, IO,      
4.039s, 2022   4,273,775   329,701  
IFB Ser. 07-106, Class SM, IO,      
3.999s, 2037   6,172,254   494,033  
IFB Ser. 08-3, Class SC, IO,      
3.989s, 2038   8,774,462   722,865  
IFB Ser. 07-109, Class XI, IO,      
3.989s, 2037   1,750,097   151,648  
IFB Ser. 07-109, Class YI, IO,      
3.989s, 2037   2,751,334   209,139  
IFB Ser. 07-W8, Class 2A2, IO,      
3.989s, 2037   4,550,826   386,581  
IFB Ser. 07-88, Class JI, IO,      
3.989s, 2037   3,142,086   262,790  
IFB Ser. 06-79, Class SH, IO,      
3.989s, 2036   3,884,282   342,697  
IFB Ser. 07-54, Class KI, IO,      
3.979s, 2037   1,388,533   80,698  
IFB Ser. 07-30, Class JS, IO,      
3.979s, 2037   4,967,168   414,443  
IFB Ser. 07-30, Class LI, IO,      
3.979s, 2037   4,909,211   422,538  
IFB Ser. 07-W2, Class 1A2, IO,      
3.969s, 2037   1,998,922   179,613  
IFB Ser. 07-106, Class SN, IO,      
3.949s, 2037   2,695,684   210,789  
IFB Ser. 07-54, Class IA, IO,      
3.949s, 2037   2,472,125   210,088  
IFB Ser. 07-54, Class IB, IO,      
3.949s, 2037   2,472,125   210,088  
IFB Ser. 07-54, Class IC, IO,      
3.949s, 2037   2,472,125   210,088  
IFB Ser. 07-54, Class ID, IO,      
3.949s, 2037   2,472,125   210,088  

20


COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Fannie Mae      
IFB Ser. 07-54, Class IE, IO,      
3.949s, 2037   $2,472,125   $210,088  
IFB Ser. 07-54, Class IF, IO,      
3.949s, 2037   3,933,367   332,701  
IFB Ser. 07-54, Class NI, IO,      
3.949s, 2037   2,164,952   189,340  
IFB Ser. 07-54, Class UI, IO,      
3.949s, 2037   3,723,561   352,994  
IFB Ser. 07-91, Class AS, IO,      
3.939s, 2037   1,817,692   143,752  
IFB Ser. 07-91, Class HS, IO,      
3.939s, 2037   1,945,867   152,021  
IFB Ser. 07-15, Class CI, IO,      
3.919s, 2037   8,428,385   707,051  
IFB Ser. 06-123, Class BI, IO,      
3.919s, 2037   10,286,360   846,926  
IFB Ser. 06-115, Class JI, IO,      
3.919s, 2036   6,112,920   513,258  
IFB Ser. 07-109, Class PI, IO,      
3.889s, 2037   2,967,700   242,622  
IFB Ser. 06-123, Class LI, IO,      
3.859s, 2037   4,078,073   328,173  
IFB Ser. 08-1, Class NI, IO,      
3.789s, 2037   5,210,010   383,665  
IFB Ser. 08-10, Class GI, IO,      
3.769s, 2038   3,091,815   198,206  
IFB Ser. 08-13, Class SA, IO,      
3.759s, 2038   11,511,728   856,496  
IFB Ser. 07-39, Class AI, IO,      
3.659s, 2037   4,491,141   325,996  
IFB Ser. 07-32, Class SD, IO,      
3.649s, 2037   2,914,503   218,246  
IFB Ser. 07-30, Class UI, IO,      
3.639s, 2037   2,406,891   181,071  
IFB Ser. 07-32, Class SC, IO,      
3.639s, 2037   4,124,215   313,168  
IFB Ser. 07-1, Class CI, IO,      
3.639s, 2037   2,811,426   207,888  
IFB Ser. 05-74, Class SE, IO,      
3.639s, 2035   5,153,411   317,035  
IFB Ser. 05-92, Class US, IO,      
3.639s, 2025   22,474,614   1,476,011  
IFB Ser. 05-14, Class SE, IO,      
3.589s, 2035   2,238,221   149,095  
IFB Ser. 08-1, Class BI, IO,      
3.449s, 2038   8,978,946   549,494  
IFB Ser. 07-75, Class ID, IO,      
3.409s, 2037   3,003,407   216,161  
FRB Ser. 03-W17, Class 12, IO,      
1.148s, 2033   4,071,928   143,311  
Ser. 00-T6, IO, 0.763s, 2030   6,237,788   108,742  
Ser. 03-W10, Class 3A, IO,      
0.727s, 2043   6,770,110   123,121  
Ser. 03-W10, Class 1A, IO,      
0.681s, 2043   5,623,755   84,935  
Ser. 02-T18, IO, 0.514s, 2042   11,243,888   187,684  
Ser. 06-117, Class OA, PO      
(Principal only), zero %, 2036   135,746   103,800  
Ser. 06-56, Class XF, zero %, 2036   146,370   128,736  
Ser. 04-38, Class AO, PO,      
zero %, 2034   878,053   626,665  
Ser. 04-61, Class CO, PO,      
zero %, 2031   835,515   682,833  
Ser. 99-51, Class N, PO,      
zero %, 2029   111,098   94,175  

COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Fannie Mae      
Ser. 07-15, Class IM, IO,      
zero %, 2009   $2,369,519   $1,509  
Ser. 07-16, Class TS, IO,      
zero %, 2009   9,614,924   33,718  
FRB Ser. 05-91, Class EF,      
zero %, 2035   166,687   153,136  
FRB Ser. 06-54, Class CF,      
zero %, 2035   260,335   256,355  

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.      
Structured Pass-Through Securities      
Ser. T-58, Class 4A, 7 1/2s, 2043   8,510   9,110  
Ser. T-60, Class 1A2, 7s, 2044   2,835,841   3,002,480  
IFB Ser. T-56, Class 2ASI, IO,      
5.639s, 2043   1,385,505   161,498  
Ser. T-57, Class 1AX, IO,      
0.448s, 2043   3,545,903   45,033  

FFCA Secured Lending Corp. 144A      
Ser. 00-1, Class X, IO, 1.325s, 2020   9,471,606   480,530  

First Chicago Lennar Trust 144A      
Ser. 97-CHL1, Class E, 8.045s, 2039   748,714   748,714  

First Union Commercial Mortgage      
Trust 144A Ser. 99-C1, Class G,      
5.35s, 2035   891,000   568,057  

First Union-Lehman Brothers      
Commercial Mortgage Trust II      
Ser. 97-C2, Class G, 7 1/2s, 2029   1,219,000   1,040,885  

Freddie Mac      
IFB Ser. 3153, Class JS,      
20.813s, 2036   1,130,177   1,286,159  
IFB Ser. 3182, Class PS,      
18.77s, 2032   353,534   423,093  
IFB Ser. 3182, Class SP,      
18.77s, 2032   764,894   862,381  
IFB Ser. 3393, Class JS,      
18.204s, 2032   1,118,996   1,146,704  
IFB Ser. 3081, Class DC,      
18.101s, 2035   884,137   993,323  
IFB Ser. 3211, Class SI, IO,      
17.333s, 2036   735,022   287,224  
IFB Ser. 3114, Class GK,      
16.57s, 2036   619,840   683,183  
IFB Ser. 2979, Class AS,      
15.262s, 2034   390,889   416,117  
IFB Ser. 3149, Class SU,      
12.904s, 2036   759,448   774,402  
IFB Ser. 3065, Class DC,      
12.488s, 2035   1,442,831   1,461,002  
IFB Ser. 3226, Class TY,      
11.631s, 2036   2,022,146   2,087,068  
IFB Ser. 3012, Class FS,      
10.731s, 2035   978,760   977,665  
IFB Ser. 246, Class S54, IO,      
6.143s, 2037   12,174,504   1,658,776  
IFB Ser. 3184, Class SP, IO,      
4.893s, 2033   3,745,753   353,981  
IFB Ser. 2882, Class LS, IO,      
4.743s, 2034   1,703,065   180,110  
IFB Ser. 3203, Class SH, IO,      
4.683s, 2036   2,117,512   236,772  
IFB Ser. 2594, Class SE, IO,      
4.593s, 2030   692,299   56,348  
IFB Ser. 2828, Class TI, IO,      
4.593s, 2030   1,227,189   101,940  

21


COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Freddie Mac      
IFB Ser. 3397, Class GS, IO,      
4.543s, 2037   $1,739,235   $149,492  
IFB Ser. 3297, Class BI, IO,      
4.303s, 2037   7,904,504   757,831  
IFB Ser. 3287, Class SD, IO,      
4.293s, 2037   2,695,960   246,492  
IFB Ser. 3281, Class BI, IO,      
4.293s, 2037   1,426,173   129,444  
IFB Ser. 3281, Class CI, IO,      
4.293s, 2037   1,657,206   151,128  
IFB Ser. 3249, Class SI, IO,      
4.293s, 2036   1,273,713   123,435  
IFB Ser. 3028, Class ES, IO,      
4.293s, 2035   6,534,398   595,152  
IFB Ser. 3042, Class SP, IO,      
4.293s, 2035   2,003,487   184,817  
IFB Ser. 2990, Class TS, IO,      
4.293s, 2035   8,897,504   674,862  
IFB Ser. 3045, Class DI, IO,      
4.273s, 2035   12,055,385   990,776  
IFB Ser. 3236, Class ES, IO,      
4.243s, 2036   210,719   15,777  
IFB Ser. 3136, Class NS, IO,      
4.243s, 2036   1,604,275   129,307  
IFB Ser. 3107, Class DC, IO,      
4.243s, 2035   7,141,616   670,453  
IFB Ser. 2950, Class SM, IO,      
4.243s, 2016   1,048,680   88,332  
IFB Ser. 3256, Class S, IO,      
4.233s, 2036   4,068,042   387,391  
IFB Ser. 3031, Class BI, IO,      
4.232s, 2035   1,281,500   130,462  
IFB Ser. 3370, Class TS, IO,      
4.213s, 2037   7,228,276   588,992  
IFB Ser. 3244, Class SB, IO,      
4.203s, 2036   2,041,878   184,982  
IFB Ser. 3244, Class SG, IO,      
4.203s, 2036   2,379,443   219,339  
IFB Ser. 3236, Class IS, IO,      
4.193s, 2036   3,965,118   350,997  
IFB Ser. 3033, Class SG, IO,      
4.193s, 2035   1,642,928   147,517  
IFB Ser. 3114, Class TS, IO,      
4.193s, 2030   7,647,268   556,462  
IFB Ser. 3128, Class JI, IO,      
4.173s, 2036   704,926   65,422  
IFB Ser. 3240, Class S, IO,      
4.163s, 2036   7,100,778   640,979  
IFB Ser. 3229, Class BI, IO,      
4.163s, 2036   223,393   15,906  
IFB Ser. 3153, Class JI, IO,      
4.163s, 2036   3,153,966   251,758  
IFB Ser. 3065, Class DI, IO,      
4.163s, 2035   997,086   98,734  
IFB Ser. 3145, Class GI, IO,      
4.143s, 2036   578,617   55,606  
IFB Ser. 3218, Class AS, IO,      
4.123s, 2036   2,257,409   199,268  
IFB Ser. 3221, Class SI, IO,      
4.123s, 2036   3,202,302   276,050  
IFB Ser. 3153, Class UI, IO,      
4.113s, 2036   492,188   51,505  
IFB Ser. 3424, Class XI, IO,      
4.113s, 2036   4,359,201   380,941  

COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Freddie Mac      
IFB Ser. 3202, Class PI, IO,      
4.083s, 2036   $8,851,799   $767,644  
IFB Ser. 3355, Class MI, IO,      
4.043s, 2037   1,946,887   156,471  
IFB Ser. 3201, Class SG, IO,      
4.043s, 2036   4,059,095   349,679  
IFB Ser. 3203, Class SE, IO,      
4.043s, 2036   3,655,556   310,881  
IFB Ser. 3238, Class LI, IO,      
4.033s, 2036   2,229,829   186,888  
IFB Ser. 3171, Class PS, IO,      
4.028s, 2036   2,910,162   236,774  
IFB Ser. 3152, Class SY, IO,      
4.023s, 2036   6,611,425   604,572  
IFB Ser. 3366, Class SA, IO,      
3.993s, 2037   4,129,104   345,207  
IFB Ser. 3284, Class BI, IO,      
3.993s, 2037   2,333,164   190,854  
IFB Ser. 3260, Class SA, IO,      
3.993s, 2037   2,062,820   158,456  
IFB Ser. 3199, Class S, IO,      
3.993s, 2036   5,906,291   503,636  
IFB Ser. 3284, Class LI, IO,      
3.983s, 2037   6,698,765   568,359  
IFB Ser. 3281, Class AI, IO,      
3.973s, 2037   8,604,706   736,778  
IFB Ser. 3311, Class EI, IO,      
3.953s, 2037   2,423,173   206,473  
IFB Ser. 3311, Class IA, IO,      
3.953s, 2037   3,751,104   325,651  
IFB Ser. 3311, Class IB, IO,      
3.953s, 2037   3,751,104   327,051  
IFB Ser. 3311, Class IC, IO,      
3.953s, 2037   3,751,104   325,651  
IFB Ser. 3311, Class ID, IO,      
3.953s, 2037   3,751,104   325,651  
IFB Ser. 3311, Class IE, IO,      
3.953s, 2037   5,730,407   497,483  
IFB Ser. 3311, Class PI, IO,      
3.953s, 2037   2,904,566   245,063  
IFB Ser. 3382, Class SI, IO,      
3.943s, 2037   24,594,373   2,022,097  
IFB Ser. 3375, Class MS, IO,      
3.943s, 2037   11,473,022   919,574  
IFB Ser. 3240, Class GS, IO,      
3.923s, 2036   4,243,586   351,872  
IFB Ser. 3416, Class BI, IO,      
3.793s, 2038   8,647,997   688,480  
IFB Ser. 2967, Class SA, IO,      
3.693s, 2035   9,781,899   651,164  
IFB Ser. 3339, Class TI, IO,      
3.683s, 2037   4,636,530   354,839  
IFB Ser. 3284, Class CI, IO,      
3.663s, 2037   10,714,271   804,086  
IFB Ser. 3016, Class SQ, IO,      
3.653s, 2035   2,717,095   171,786  
IFB Ser. 3424, Class UI, IO,      
3.303s, 2037   3,042,712   193,065  
Ser. 246, PO, zero %, 2037   1,154,527   839,947  
Ser. 3292, Class DO, PO,      
zero %, 2037   189,870   136,995  
Ser. 3292, Class OA, PO,      
zero %, 2037   254,228   175,843  
Ser. 3300, PO, zero %, 2037   1,500,700   1,105,786  

22


COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Freddie Mac      
Ser. 3139, Class CO, PO,      
zero %, 2036   $328,892   $231,638  
Ser. 2587, Class CO, PO,      
zero %, 2032   960,287   751,651  
FRB Ser. 3345, Class TY,      
zero %, 2037   413,317   328,098  
FRB Ser. 3326, Class XF,      
zero %, 2037   344,610   297,728  
FRB Ser. 3273, Class HF,      
zero %, 2037   101,754   87,325  
FRB Ser. 3235, Class TP,      
zero %, 2036   139,986   110,981  
FRB Ser. 3283, Class KF,      
zero %, 2036   134,161   114,029  
FRB Ser. 3226, Class YW,      
zero %, 2036   645,889   552,159  
FRB Ser. 3332, Class UA,      
zero %, 2036   169,710   143,748  
FRB Ser. 3251, Class TC,      
zero %, 2036   1,549,960   1,508,913  
FRB Ser. 3130, Class JF,      
zero %, 2036   586,893   534,669  
FRB Ser. 3326, Class WF,      
zero %, 2035   329,976   277,644  
FRB Ser. 3030, Class EF,      
zero %, 2035   178,074   155,357  
FRB Ser. 3412, Class UF,      
zero %, 2035   861,865   662,043  
FRB Ser. 2980, Class TY,      
zero %, 2035   85,484   70,104  
FRB Ser. 3112, Class XM,      
zero %, 2034   64,658   57,491  

GE Capital Commercial      
Mortgage Corp. 144A      
Ser. 00-1, Class F, 7.514s, 2033   251,000   253,837  
Ser. 00-1, Class G, 6.131s, 2033 F   1,159,000   849,417  

GMAC Commercial Mortgage      
Securities, Inc. 144A Ser. 99-C3,      
Class G, 6.974s, 2036   1,022,427   979,082  

Government National Mortgage Association      
FRB Ser. 07-41, Class SA,      
25.451s, 2037   232,383   292,803  
FRB Ser. 07-40, Class GS,      
25.331s, 2037   90,268   112,058  
FRB Ser. 07-45, Class SA,      
25.091s, 2037   78,776   97,276  
FRB Ser. 07-45, Class SB,      
24.851s, 2037   78,776   96,665  
IFB Ser. 07-51, Class SP,      
24.731s, 2037   186,425   228,809  
IFB Ser. 05-66, Class SP,      
12.633s, 2035   861,477   868,369  
Ser. 07-17, Class CI, IO,      
7 1/2s, 2037   1,319,138   335,768  
IFB Ser. 08-29, Class SA, IO,      
5.322s, 2038   13,941,486   1,396,449  
IFB Ser. 08-42, Class AI, IO,      
5.23s, 2038   15,793,608   2,000,184  
FRB Ser. 07-2, Class SA, IO,      
4.922s, 2037   349,196   29,356  
IFB Ser. 06-69, Class SI, IO,      
4.922s, 2036   2,677,305   283,641  
IFB Ser. 06-61, Class SM, IO,      
4.922s, 2036   4,511,142   391,198  

COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Government National Mortgage Association      
IFB Ser. 06-62, Class SI, IO,      
4.922s, 2036   $2,760,521   $251,511  
IFB Ser. 07-1, Class SL, IO,      
4.902s, 2037   1,273,958   119,245  
IFB Ser. 07-1, Class SM, IO,      
4.892s, 2037   1,274,688   118,953  
IFB Ser. 06-62, Class SA, IO,      
4.882s, 2036   3,179,585   289,244  
IFB Ser. 06-64, Class SB, IO,      
4.882s, 2036   3,155,431   310,002  
IFB Ser. 05-68, Class PU, IO,      
4.842s, 2032   2,258,082   249,985  
IFB Ser. 04-59, Class SH, IO,      
4.79s, 2034   3,717,184   374,114  
IFB Ser. 04-59, Class SC, IO,      
4.74s, 2034   1,439,871   148,511  
IFB Ser. 04-26, Class IS, IO,      
4.74s, 2034   2,703,558   179,603  
IFB Ser. 07-49, Class NY, IO,      
4.642s, 2035   7,851,319   700,883  
IFB Ser. 07-47, Class SA, IO,      
4.64s, 2036   2,696,259   289,413  
IFB Ser. 07-35, Class NY, IO,      
4.44s, 2035   3,739,000   312,976  
IFB Ser. 07-26, Class SG, IO,      
4.392s, 2037   3,938,869   353,224  
IFB Ser. 07-9, Class BI, IO,      
4.362s, 2037   7,319,124   602,676  
IFB Ser. 07-31, Class CI, IO,      
4.352s, 2037   2,106,872   167,000  
IFB Ser. 07-25, Class SA, IO,      
4.342s, 2037   2,845,895   218,138  
IFB Ser. 07-25, Class SB, IO,      
4.342s, 2037   5,571,800   456,965  
IFB Ser. 07-22, Class S, IO,      
4.342s, 2037   2,193,145   209,502  
IFB Ser. 07-11, Class SA, IO,      
4.342s, 2037   1,837,319   159,764  
IFB Ser. 07-14, Class SB, IO,      
4.342s, 2037   1,747,631   152,421  
IFB Ser. 06-69, Class SA, IO,      
4.342s, 2036   5,151,674   456,189  
IFB Ser. 05-84, Class AS, IO,      
4.342s, 2035   5,917,958   535,827  
IFB Ser. 07-26, Class SD, IO,      
4.34s, 2037   4,032,113   333,727  
FRB Ser. 07-40, Class SC, IO,      
4.292s, 2037   286,185   21,493  
FRB Ser. 07-40, Class SD, IO,      
4.292s, 2037   286,185   21,493  
FRB Ser. 07-40, Class SE, IO,      
4.292s, 2037   286,185   21,493  
FRB Ser. 07-42, Class SC, IO,      
4.292s, 2037   555,377   44,671  
IFB Ser. 07-40, Class SB, IO,      
4.292s, 2037   5,241,537   421,841  
IFB Ser. 07-42, Class SB, IO,      
4.292s, 2037   473,333   38,072  
IFB Ser. 07-51, Class SJ, IO,      
4.292s, 2037   2,291,076   203,583  
IFB Ser. 07-53, Class SY, IO,      
4.277s, 2037   4,534,881   434,043  
FRB Ser. 07-41, Class SM, IO,      
4.242s, 2037   804,281   68,087  

23


COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Government National Mortgage Association      
FRB Ser. 07-41, Class SN, IO,      
4.242s, 2037   $820,036   $69,420  
IFB Ser. 04-88, Class S, IO,      
4.242s, 2032   3,181,879   218,420  
IFB Ser. 04-17, Class QN, IO,      
4.24s, 2034   4,630,697   396,874  
FRB Ser. 07-40, Class SG, IO,      
4.222s, 2037   630,331   52,785  
IFB Ser. 07-59, Class PS, IO,      
4.212s, 2037   1,792,876   145,035  
IFB Ser. 07-59, Class SP, IO,      
4.212s, 2037   559,548   46,049  
IFB Ser. 06-38, Class SG, IO,      
4.192s, 2033   8,339,954   634,195  
IFB Ser. 07-48, Class SB, IO,      
4.19s, 2037   2,919,166   206,297  
FRB Ser. 07-45, Class QA, IO,      
4.182s, 2037   553,727   46,190  
FRB Ser. 07-45, Class QB, IO,      
4.142s, 2037   553,727   45,522  
IFB Ser. 07-53, Class SG, IO,      
4.142s, 2037   1,362,619   98,887  
IFB Ser. 07-51, Class SG, IO,      
4.122s, 2037   11,669,420   881,533  
IFB Ser. 07-74, Class SI, IO,      
4.11s, 2037   3,756,858   288,808  
IFB Ser. 08-3, Class SA, IO,      
4.092s, 2038   4,913,812   332,522  
IFB Ser. 07-79, Class SY, IO,      
4.092s, 2037   8,206,402   553,412  
IFB Ser. 07-64, Class AI, IO,      
4.092s, 2037   1,122,967   82,872  
IFB Ser. 07-53, Class ES, IO,      
4.092s, 2037   2,032,706   120,442  
IFB Ser. 07-17, Class AI, IO,      
4.09s, 2037   9,227,161   709,407  
IFB Ser. 07-78, Class SA, IO,      
4.07s, 2037   13,469,942   960,299  
IFB Ser. 08-2, Class SB, IO,      
4.062s, 2038   11,620,534   761,284  
IFB Ser. 07-10, Class SB, IO,      
4.062s, 2037   14,293,611   1,141,345  
IFB Ser. 08-4, Class SA, IO,      
4.058s, 2038   24,224,155   1,619,234  
IFB Ser. 07-9, Class DI, IO,      
4.052s, 2037   3,729,467   276,555  
FRB Ser. 07-59, Class SC, IO,      
4.042s, 2037   767,641   56,475  
IFB Ser. 07-57, Class QA, IO,      
4.042s, 2037   4,855,507   347,714  
IFB Ser. 07-58, Class SC, IO,      
4.042s, 2037   3,707,905   235,339  
IFB Ser. 07-59, Class SA, IO,      
4.042s, 2037   14,115,393   1,002,803  
IFB Ser. 07-61, Class SA, IO,      
4.042s, 2037   2,607,016   188,642  
IFB Ser. 07-53, Class SC, IO,      
4.042s, 2037   2,214,517   132,729  
IFB Ser. 08-34, Class SH, IO,      
4.042s, 2037   4,961,086   400,660  
IFB Ser. 06-26, Class S, IO,      
4.042s, 2036   19,706,277   1,573,396  
IFB Ser. 08-2, Class SM, IO,      
4.04s, 2038   9,119,536   682,789  

COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Government National Mortgage Association      
IFB Ser. 07-9, Class AI, IO,      
4.04s, 2037   $4,648,148   $394,138  
IFB Ser. 08-15, Class CI, IO,      
4.032s, 2038   19,141,150   1,257,052  
IFB Ser. 07-58, Class SD, IO,      
4.032s, 2037   3,535,721   221,508  
IFB Ser. 08-9, Class SK, IO,      
4.022s, 2038   7,284,719   605,688  
IFB Ser. 08-6, Class SC, IO,      
4.017s, 2038   19,404,224   1,249,943  
IFB Ser. 07-59, Class SD, IO,      
4.012s, 2037   924,923   60,569  
IFB Ser. 06-49, Class SA, IO,      
4.002s, 2036   6,140,526   456,535  
IFB Ser. 05-92, Class S, IO,      
3.942s, 2032   13,590,355   855,768  
IFB Ser. 08-40, Class SA, IO,      
3.94s, 2038   23,737,489   1,760,776  
IFB Ser. 05-71, Class SA, IO,      
3.9s, 2035   6,674,444   488,009  
IFB Ser. 05-65, Class SI, IO,      
3.892s, 2035   2,833,737   219,337  
IFB Ser. 06-7, Class SB, IO,      
3.862s, 2036   661,616   45,584  
IFB Ser. 08-15, Class PI, IO,      
3.842s, 2035   5,775,441   471,148  
IFB Ser. 06-16, Class SX, IO,      
3.832s, 2036   6,903,933   521,539  
IFB Ser. 07-17, Class IB, IO,      
3.792s, 2037   1,771,792   118,799  
IFB Ser. 06-14, Class S, IO,      
3.792s, 2036   2,782,194   200,335  
IFB Ser. 05-57, Class PS, IO,      
3.792s, 2035   3,335,674   299,976  
IFB Ser. 06-11, Class ST, IO,      
3.782s, 2036   1,751,238   124,765  
IFB Ser. 07-27, Class SD, IO,      
3.742s, 2037   1,974,838   148,680  
IFB Ser. 07-19, Class SJ, IO,      
3.742s, 2037   3,476,527   216,174  
IFB Ser. 07-23, Class ST, IO,      
3.742s, 2037   3,850,417   231,791  
IFB Ser. 07-9, Class CI, IO,      
3.742s, 2037   4,877,965   318,544  
IFB Ser. 07-7, Class EI, IO,      
3.742s, 2037   2,198,946   136,405  
IFB Ser. 07-7, Class JI, IO,      
3.742s, 2037   5,048,725   344,905  
IFB Ser. 07-1, Class S, IO,      
3.742s, 2037   4,576,981   285,512  
IFB Ser. 07-3, Class SA, IO,      
3.742s, 2037   4,369,920   271,888  
IFB Ser. 07-25, Class KS, IO,      
3.74s, 2037   4,093,620   315,757  
IFB Ser. 07-21, Class S, IO,      
3.74s, 2037   135,871   8,730  
IFB Ser. 05-17, Class S, IO,      
3.722s, 2035   3,511,962   317,422  
IFB Ser. 07-31, Class AI, IO,      
3.72s, 2037   2,302,965   209,934  
IFB Ser. 07-62, Class S, IO,      
3.69s, 2037   4,277,752   325,558  
IFB Ser. 05-3, Class SN, IO,      
3.642s, 2035   9,503,921   655,622  

24


COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Government National Mortgage Association      
IFB Ser. 07-43, Class SC, IO,      
3.64s, 2037   $3,281,881   $201,681  
IFB Ser. 07-73, Class MI, IO,      
3.542s, 2037   1,239,308   65,848  
IFB Ser. 04-41, Class SG, IO,      
3.542s, 2034   9,809,890   399,853  
Ser. 07-73, Class MO, PO,      
zero %, 2037   89,153   62,803  
FRB Ser. 07-71, Class TA,      
zero %, 2037   751,445   892,165  
FRB Ser. 07-71, Class UC,      
zero %, 2037   107,443   92,343  
FRB Ser. 07-73, Class KI, IO,      
zero %, 2037   887,515   23,465  
FRB Ser. 07-73, Class KM,      
zero %, 2037   88,350   86,233  
FRB Ser. 07-61, Class YC,      
zero %, 2037   1,056,762   1,029,764  
FRB Ser. 07-33, Class TB,      
zero %, 2037   375,477   316,303  
FRB Ser. 07-6, Class TD,      
zero %, 2037   369,494   316,971  
FRB Ser. 98-2, Class EA, PO,      
zero %, 2028   106,660   89,562  

GS Mortgage Securities Corp. II      
FRB Ser. 07-GG10, Class A3,      
5.799s, 2045   679,000   657,257  
Ser. 06-GG6, Class A2, 5.506s, 2038   2,446,000   2,436,510  

HASCO NIM Trust 144A Ser. 05-OP1A,      
Class A, 6 1/4s, 2035 (Cayman Islands)   180,108   18,011  

HSI Asset Loan Obligation FRB      
Ser. 07-AR1, Class 2A1, 6.133s, 2037   8,010,862   6,248,472  

IMPAC Secured Assets Corp. FRB      
Ser. 07-2, Class 1A1A, 2.571s, 2037   716,946   601,702  

IndyMac Indx Mortgage Loan Trust      
FRB Ser. 06-AR25, Class 5A1,      
6.335s, 2036   1,783,381   1,395,322  
FRB Ser. 07-AR15, Class 1A1,      
6.244s, 2037   3,190,176   2,296,927  
FRB Ser. 07-AR9, Class 2A1,      
6.064s, 2037   3,164,038   2,278,108  
FRB Ser. 07-AR11, Class 1A1,      
5.649s, 2037   2,449,808   1,494,383  
FRB Ser. 05-AR31, Class 3A1,      
5.639s, 2036   8,161,042   5,712,730  

JPMorgan Alternative Loan Trust      
FRB Ser. 06-A3, Class 2A1,      
6.069s, 2036   2,830,456   2,186,128  
FRB Ser. 06-A1, Class 5A1,      
5.945s, 2036   2,200,920   1,672,699  
FRB Ser. 06-A6, Class 1A1,      
2.621s, 2036   2,843,908   1,981,180  

JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage      
Securities Corp.      
FRB Ser. 07-LD12, Class AM,      
6.062s, 2051   1,032,000   937,097  
FRB Ser. 07-LD12, Class A3,      
5.99s, 2051   4,928,000   4,755,569  
Ser. 07-CB20, Class A3,      
5.863s, 2051   1,698,000   1,620,045  

COLLATERALIZED   Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage      
Securities Corp.      
FRB Ser. 07-LD11, Class A3,      
5.819s, 2049   $847,000   $807,767  
Ser. 07-CB20, Class A4, 5.794s, 2051   1,107,000   1,022,624  
Ser. 08-C2, Class X, IO, 0.484s, 2051   89,677,617   2,412,328  

JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage      
Securities Corp. 144A      
Ser. 07-CB20, Class X1, IO,      
0.058s, 2051   125,096,327   1,347,287  

LB Commercial Conduit      
Mortgage Trust 144A      
Ser. 99-C1, Class G, 6.41s, 2031   492,082   359,059  
Ser. 98-C4, Class J, 5.6s, 2035   965,000   841,808  

LB-UBS Commercial      
Mortgage Trust      
Ser. 07-C6, Class A2, 5.845s, 2012   1,535,000   1,533,782  
Ser. 07-C7, Class XW, IO,      
0.374s, 2045   119,446,700   2,759,219  

LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust      
144A Ser. 07-C7, Class XCL, IO,      
0.08s, 2045   50,425,409   484,084  

Lehman Mortgage Trust      
IFB Ser. 07-5, Class 4A3,      
25.313s, 2037   1,475,385   1,610,404  
IFB Ser. 07-5, Class 8A2, IO,      
5.259s, 2036   2,658,313   236,932  
IFB Ser. 07-4, Class 3A2, IO,      
4.739s, 2037   2,091,371   184,239  
IFB Ser. 06-5, Class 2A2, IO,      
4.689s, 2036   4,891,048   425,802  
IFB Ser. 07-2, Class 2A13, IO,      
4.229s, 2037   4,035,624   361,171  
IFB Ser. 06-7, Class 2A5, IO,      
4.161s, 2036   7,344,545   611,141  
IFB Ser. 06-9, Class 2A2, IO,      
4.159s, 2037   4,673,011   416,444  
IFB Ser. 06-7, Class 2A4, IO,      
4.089s, 2036   7,829,940   593,204  
IFB Ser. 06-6, Class 1A2, IO,      
4.039s, 2036   2,866,505   208,021  
IFB Ser. 06-6, Class 1A3, IO,      
4.039s, 2036   4,115,190   309,432  

Local Insight Media Finance, LLC      
Ser. 07-1W, Class A1, 5.53s, 2012   3,362,860   3,143,601  

Mach One Commercial      
Mortgage Trust 144A      
Ser. 04-1A, Class J, 5.45s, 2040      
(Canada)   1,154,000   542,380  
Ser. 04-1A, Class K, 5.45s, 2040      
(Canada)   411,000   180,840  
Ser. 04-1A, Class L, 5.45s, 2040      
(Canada)   187,000   78,540  

MASTR Adjustable Rate Mortgages      
Trust FRB Ser. 04-13, Class 3A6,      
3.788s, 2034   554,000   522,477  

MASTR Alternative Loans Trust      
Ser. 06-3, Class 1A1, 6 1/4s, 2036   1,978,472   1,483,854  

Merrill Lynch Capital      
Funding Corp. Ser. 06-4,      
Class XC, IO, 0.107s, 2049   111,006,504   1,342,991  


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COLLATERALIZED     Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Merrill Lynch Mortgage        
Investors, Inc.        
FRB Ser. 05-A9, Class 3A1, 5.277s, 2035     $856,905   $832,823  
Ser. 96-C2, Class JS, IO, 2.262s, 2028 F     2,041,038   130,496  

Merrill Lynch Mortgage Trust FRB        
Ser. 07-C1, Class A3, 5.829s, 2050     451,000   437,104  

Merrill Lynch/Countrywide        
Commercial Mortgage Trust FRB        
Ser. 07-8, Class A2, 5.92s, 2049     821,000   803,076  

Mezz Cap Commercial Mortgage Trust        
Ser. 07-C5, Class X, 4.506s, 2017     4,861,385   1,160,625  

Mezz Cap Commercial Mortgage Trust        
144A Ser. 04-C1, Class X, IO,        
7.796s, 2037     1,376,552   323,874  

Morgan Stanley Capital        
Ser. 98-CF1, Class E, 7.35s, 2032     2,455,000   2,480,024  
FRB Ser. 08-T29, Class A3, 6.28s, 2043     1,332,000   1,317,708  
FRB Ser. 07-IQ14, Class AM,        
5.691s, 2049     507,000   441,393  

Morgan Stanley Capital I 144A        
FRB Ser. 04-RR, Class F7, 6s, 2039     3,360,000   1,848,000  
Ser. 07-HQ13, Class X1, IO,        
0.672s, 2044     110,406,636   3,092,490  

Morgan Stanley Mortgage Loan Trust        
Ser. 05-5AR, Class 2A1, 4.905s, 2035     2,243,345   1,525,475  

Mortgage Capital        
Funding, Inc.        
FRB Ser. 98-MC2, Class E, 7.103s, 2030     459,501   471,175  
Ser. 97-MC2, Class X, IO, 1.73s, 2012     7,302    

Permanent Financing PLC 144A FRB        
Ser. 9A, Class 3A, 2.796s, 2033        
(United Kingdom)     5,517,000   5,326,112  

Permanent Master Issuer PLC FRB        
Ser. 07-1, Class 4A, 2.871s, 2033        
(United Kingdom)     6,703,000   6,449,627  

PNC Mortgage Acceptance Corp. 144A        
Ser. 00-C1, Class J, 6 5/8s, 2010     285,000   189,662  

Residential Asset        
Securitization Trust        
Ser. 07-A5, Class 2A3, 6s, 2037     2,031,848   1,483,249  
IFB Ser. 07-A3, Class 2A2, IO,        
4.229s, 2037     9,253,770   856,788  

Residential Mortgage Securities 144A FRB        
Ser. 20A, Class B1A, 6.491s, 2038        
(United Kingdom)   GBP   201,400   239,565  

SBA CMBS Trust 144A Ser. 05-1A,        
Class E, 6.706s, 2035     $595,000   559,717  

STRIPS 144A        
Ser. 03-1A, Class M, 5s, 2018        
(Cayman Islands)     316,000   221,200  
Ser. 03-1A, Class N, 5s, 2018        
(Cayman Islands)     376,000   248,160  
Ser. 04-1A, Class M, 5s, 2018        
(Cayman Islands)     345,000   224,250  
Ser. 04-1A, Class N, 5s, 2018        
(Cayman Islands)     325,000   191,750  

Structured Adjustable Rate        
Mortgage Loan Trust FRB        
Ser. 06-9, Class 1A1, 5.694s, 2036     2,245,397   1,724,572  

Structured Asset Securities Corp.        
IFB Ser. 07-4, Class 1A3, IO,        
3.79s, 2037     7,151,119   462,332  
Ser. 07-4, Class 1A4, IO, 1s, 2037     7,643,281   210,190  


COLLATERALIZED     Principal    
MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS (42.1%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Structured Asset        
Securities Corp. 144A        
IFB Ser. 08-01, Class 1A2, IO,        
3.61s, 2045 (acquired 3/4/08,        
cost $1,074,564) ‡   $15,432,573   $977,128  
Ser. 07-RF1, Class 1A, IO, 3.307s, 2037     9,451,323   451,880  

Titan Europe PLC 144A        
FRB Ser. 05-CT2A, Class E, 7.095s,        
2014 (Ireland)   GBP   444,138   812,997  
FRB Ser. 05-CT1A, Class D, 7.095s,        
2014 (Ireland)   GBP   868,987   1,380,058  

URSUS EPC 144A FRB Ser. 1-A,        
Class D, 6.938s, 2012 (Ireland)   GBP   467,451   829,054  

Wachovia Bank Commercial        
Mortgage Trust        
Ser. 07-C30, Class A3, 5.246s, 2043     $4,394,000   4,311,448  
Ser. 07-C34, IO, 0.357s, 2046     33,047,359   709,857  

Wachovia Bank Commercial Mortgage        
Trust 144A FRB Ser. 05-WL5A,        
Class L, 5.758s, 2018     917,000   733,600  

Wells Fargo Mortgage        
Backed Securities Trust        
Ser. 05-AR16, Class 2A1, 4.944s, 2035     24,655   22,189  
Ser. 05-AR13, Class 1A4, IO,        
0.742s, 2035     19,798,170   118,789  

Total collateralized mortgage obligations        
(cost $399,784,173)       $412,329,483  
 
CORPORATE BONDS AND     Principal    
NOTES (20.6%)*     amount   Value  

Basic Materials (1.4%)        
Bayer AG jr. unsec. sub. bond FRB        
5s, 2105 (Germany)   EUR   364,000   $481,585  

Builders FirstSource, Inc. company        
guaranty sr. sec. notes FRN        
6.926s, 2012     $530,000   367,025  

Clondalkin Acquisition BV 144A        
company guaranty sr. sec.        
notes FRN 4.776s, 2013        
(Netherlands)     360,000   301,950  

Compass Minerals        
International, Inc. sr. disc.        
notes Ser. B, 12s, 2013     339,000   355,950  

Domtar Corp. company guaranty        
Ser. *, 7 7/8s, 2011 (Canada)     280,000   279,300  

Freeport-McMoRan Copper &        
Gold, Inc. sr. unsec.        
notes 8 3/8s, 2017     1,657,000   1,739,850  

Freeport-McMoRan Copper &        
Gold, Inc. sr. unsec.        
notes 8 1/4s, 2015     830,000   867,350  

Freeport-McMoRan Copper &        
Gold, Inc. sr. unsec. notes FRN        
5.883s, 2015     295,000   296,821  

Georgia-Pacific Corp.        
debs. 9 1/2s, 2011     99,000   99,743  

Georgia-Pacific Corp.        
notes 8 1/8s, 2011     110,000   108,350  

Gerdau Ameristeel Corp.        
sr. notes 10 3/8s, 2011 (Canada)     691,000   717,776  

Hexion U.S. Finance Corp./Hexion        
Nova Scotia Finance, ULC company        
guaranty 9 3/4s, 2014     114,000   97,185  


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CORPORATE BONDS AND     Principal    
NOTES (20.6%)* cont.     amount   Value  

Basic Materials cont.        
Huntsman International, LLC        
company guaranty sr. unsec.        
sub. notes 7 7/8s, 2014     $1,778,000   $1,666,875  

Momentive Performance Materials, Inc.        
company guaranty sr. unsec. notes        
9 3/4s, 2014 S     520,000   460,200  

Mosaic Co. (The) 144A sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes 7 5/8s, 2016     446,000   468,300  

Mosaic Co. (The) 144A sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes 7 3/8s, 2014     269,000   277,070  

NewPage Corp. company        
guaranty 10s, 2012     801,000   766,958  

NewPage Holding Corp.        
sr. notes FRN 9.986s, 2013 ‡‡     163,370   151,934  

Norske Skog Canada, Ltd. company        
guaranty Ser. D, 8 5/8s, 2011        
(Canada)     30,000   24,600  

Novelis, Inc. company        
guaranty 7 1/4s, 2015     221,000   204,425  

Rhodia SA sr. unsec. FRN 7.713s,        
2013 (France)   EUR   835,000   1,169,190  

Rockwood Specialties Group, Inc.        
company guaranty 7 5/8s, 2014   EUR   405,000   567,661  

Steel Dynamics, Inc. company        
guaranty sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes 6 3/4s, 2015     $1,626,000   1,528,440  

Steel Dynamics, Inc. 144A        
sr. notes 7 3/4s, 2016     315,000   310,275  

Stone Container Corp.        
sr. notes 8 3/8s, 2012     399,000   352,118  

      13,660,931  
Capital Goods (1.3%)        
Alliant Techsystems, Inc.        
sr. sub. notes 6 3/4s, 2016 S     206,000   198,275  

Berry Plastics Corp. company        
guaranty sr. sec. notes FRN        
7.541s, 2015     1,530,000   1,422,900  

Bombardier, Inc. 144A sr. unsec.        
notes FRN 7.981s, 2013 (Canada)   EUR   330,000   506,168  

Bombardier, Inc. 144A unsec.        
notes 6 3/4s, 2012 (Canada)     $3,155,000   3,107,675  

Crown Americas, LLC/Crown Americas        
Capital Corp. sr. notes 7 5/8s, 2013     1,016,000   1,031,240  

General Cable Corp. company        
guaranty sr. unsec. notes FRN        
5.166s, 2015     375,000   330,000  

Hawker Beechcraft        
Acquisition Co., LLC        
sr. sub. notes 9 3/4s, 2017     475,000   469,063  

Hexcel Corp.        
sr. sub. notes 6 3/4s, 2015     132,000   127,710  

L-3 Communications Corp. company        
guaranty sr. unsec.        
sub. notes 6 1/8s, 2014     1,301,000   1,229,445  

L-3 Communications Corp.        
sr. sub. notes 5 7/8s, 2015     1,019,000   945,123  

Legrand SA unsec.        
unsub. debs. 8 1/2s, 2025        
(France)     1,573,000   1,658,305  

Owens-Illinois, Inc. debs. 7 1/2s, 2010     207,000   210,623  


CORPORATE BONDS AND     Principal    
NOTES (20.6%)* cont.     amount   Value  

Capital Goods cont.        
Ryerson Tull, Inc. 144A sec.        
notes 12s, 2015     $902,000   $879,450  

Tekni-Plex, Inc. sec.        
notes 10 7/8s, 2012     265,000   266,325  

      12,382,302  
Communication Services (1.5%)        
American Tower Corp. 144A        
sr. notes 7s, 2017 S     770,000   768,075  

Cincinnati Bell, Inc. company        
guaranty 7s, 2015     1,040,000   964,600  

Cricket Communications, Inc.        
company guaranty sr. unsec.        
notes Ser. *, 9 3/8s, 2014     860,000   842,800  

Cricket Communications, Inc. 144A        
company guaranty sr. notes 10s, 2015     870,000   876,525  

Digicel Group, Ltd. 144A        
sr. unsec. notes 8 7/8s, 2015        
(Jamaica)     470,000   433,575  

Digicel, Ltd. 144A sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes 9 1/4s, 2012        
(Jamaica)     420,000   428,400  

Inmarsat Finance PLC company        
guaranty stepped-coupon zero %        
(10 3/8s, 11/15/08), 2012        
(United Kingdom) ††     1,503,000   1,510,515  

iPCS, Inc. company        
guaranty sr. sec. notes FRN        
4.998s, 2013 S     280,000   249,200  

MetroPCS Wireless, Inc. company        
guaranty sr. unsec. notes 9 1/4s, 2014     180,000   174,600  

PAETEC Holding Corp. company        
guaranty sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes 9 1/2s, 2015     295,000   268,819  

Qwest Communications        
International, Inc. company        
guaranty 7 1/2s, 2014     699,000   644,828  

Qwest Corp. sr. unsec.        
notes 7 1/2s, 2014     145,000   133,038  

Qwest Corp. sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes 8 7/8s, 2012     2,424,000   2,417,940  

Qwest Corp. sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes 7 1/4s, 2025     382,000   307,510  

Rural Cellular Corp. sr. unsec.        
sub. notes FRN 5.682s, 2013     385,000   385,963  

West Corp. company        
guaranty 9 1/2s, 2014     255,000   219,300  

Wind Acquisition Fin. SA        
notes 9 3/4s, 2015 (Netherlands)   EUR   2,325,000   3,550,597  

      14,176,285  
Consumer Cyclicals (2.6%)        
Allison Transmission 144A company        
guaranty 11s, 2015     $150,000   135,750  

Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. (The) company        
guaranty 10 1/4s, 2014     310,000   164,300  

Boyd Gaming Corp.        
sr. sub. notes 6 3/4s, 2014     265,000   194,775  

CanWest Media, Inc. company        
guaranty 8s, 2012 (Canada)     663,075   576,875  


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CORPORATE BONDS AND   Principal    
NOTES (20.6%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Consumer Cyclicals cont.      
Cenveo Corp. 144A company      
guaranty sr. unsec.      
notes 10 1/2s, 2016   $515,000   $507,275  

D.R. Horton, Inc. company      
guaranty 8s, 2009   407,000   404,965  

D.R. Horton, Inc. company      
guaranty sr. unsub. notes 5s, 2009   561,000   549,780  

D.R. Horton, Inc.      
sr. notes 7 7/8s, 2011   1,495,000   1,367,925  

FelCor Lodging LP company      
guaranty 8 1/2s, 2011 R   1,012,000   974,050  

Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC      
sr. notes 9 7/8s, 2011   1,389,000   1,118,197  

Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC      
sr. unsec. notes 9 3/4s, 2010   680,000   578,766  

Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC unsec.      
notes 7 3/8s, 2009   382,000   347,950  

Hanesbrands, Inc. company      
guaranty sr. unsec. notes FRN      
Ser. B, 6.508s, 2014   620,000   551,800  

Host Marriott LP sr. notes Ser. M,      
7s, 2012 R   1,460,000   1,372,400  

Jostens IH Corp. company      
guaranty 7 5/8s, 2012   1,164,000   1,129,080  

K. Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc.      
company guaranty sr. sec.      
notes 11 1/2s, 2013   104,000   105,300  

Lamar Media Corp. sr. unsec.      
sub. notes Ser. C, 6 5/8s, 2015   325,000   292,500  

Levi Strauss & Co. sr. unsec.      
notes 8 7/8s, 2016 S   560,000   504,000  

Levi Strauss & Co. sr. unsec.      
unsub. notes 9 3/4s, 2015   1,275,000   1,201,688  

Mashantucket Western Pequot Tribe      
144A bonds 8 1/2s, 2015   760,000   585,200  

Meritage Homes Corp. company      
guaranty 6 1/4s, 2015   282,000   219,960  

Meritage Homes Corp. sr. notes      
7s, 2014   90,000   72,000  

Meritor Automotive, Inc.      
notes 6.8s, 2009   628,000   615,440  

MGM Mirage, Inc. company      
guaranty 8 1/2s, 2010   885,000   851,813  

MGM Mirage, Inc. company      
guaranty 6s, 2009   1,929,000   1,880,775  

NTK Holdings, Inc. sr. disc.      
notes zero %, 2014   207,000   85,388  

Oxford Industries, Inc.      
sr. notes 8 7/8s, 2011   880,000   844,800  

Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc.      
company guaranty sr. unsec.      
sub. notes 7 1/2s, 2015   625,000   465,625  

Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc.      
sr. sub. notes 8 1/4s, 2012   665,000   630,088  

Pulte Homes, Inc. company      
guaranty 7 7/8s, 2011   1,422,000   1,372,230  

Quebecor Media, Inc. sr. unsec.      
notes Ser. *, 7 3/4s, 2016      
(Canada)   140,000   129,150  


CORPORATE BONDS AND   Principal    
NOTES (20.6%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Consumer Cyclicals cont.      
Realogy Corp. company      
guaranty sr. unsec.      
notes 10 1/2s, 2014   $620,000   $403,000  

Sealy Mattress Co.      
sr. sub. notes 8 1/4s, 2014   145,000   120,350  

Station Casinos, Inc.      
sr. notes 6s, 2012 S   614,000   411,380  

Tenneco Automotive, Inc. company      
guaranty 8 5/8s, 2014   81,000   68,040  

Tenneco, Inc. sr. unsec.      
notes company guaranty 8 1/8s, 2015   730,000   649,700  

Texas Industries, Inc. sr. unsec.      
notes 7 1/4s, 2013   713,000   698,740  

THL Buildco, Inc. (Nortek      
Holdings, Inc.)      
sr. sub. notes 8 1/2s, 2014   510,000   288,788  

THL Buildco, Inc. (Nortek      
Holdings, Inc.) 144A sr. sec.      
notes 10s, 2013   255,000   228,225  

Toll Brothers, Inc. company      
guaranty sr. unsec.      
sub. notes 8 1/4s, 2011   1,380,000   1,324,800  

Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc.      
sec. notes 8 1/2s, 2015   686,000   337,855  

Vertis, Inc. company      
guaranty Ser. B, 10 7/8s,      
2009 (In default) †   1,305,000   182,700  

Vertis, Inc. 144A unsec.      
sub. notes 13 1/2s,      
2009 (In default) †   335,000   5,025  

Wynn Las Vegas, LLC/Wynn Las Vegas      
Capital Corp. 1st mtge. 6 5/8s, 2014   1,087,000   983,735  

    25,532,183  
Consumer Staples (2.2%)      
Affinity Group, Inc.      
sr. sub. notes 9s, 2012   1,055,000   949,500  

AMC Entertainment, Inc. company      
guaranty 11s, 2016   485,000   491,063  

AMC Entertainment, Inc.      
sr. sub. notes 8s, 2014   399,000   355,609  

Archibald Candy Corp. company      
guaranty 10s,      
2008 (In default) F   173,688   2,551  

Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC      
company guaranty 7 3/4s, 2016   560,000   386,400  

CCH I Holdings, LLC company      
guaranty 12 1/8s, 2015   47,000   27,025  

CCH II, LLC sr. unsec.      
notes 10 1/4s, 2010   458,000   436,245  

CCH II, LLC sr. unsec.      
notes Ser. B, 10 1/4s, 2010   2,154,000   2,046,300  

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. company      
guaranty 6s, 2012   865,000   839,050  

Cinemark, Inc. sr. disc.      
notes stepped-coupon zero %      
(9 3/4s, 3/15/09), 2014 ††   990,000   941,738  

Clear Channel Communications, Inc.      
sr. unsec. notes 7.65s, 2010   1,234,000   1,159,960  

Clear Channel Communications, Inc.      
sr. unsec. notes 5 1/2s, 2014   115,000   62,675  


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CORPORATE BONDS AND   Principal    
NOTES (20.6%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Consumer Staples cont.      
CSC Holdings, Inc.      
sr. notes 6 3/4s, 2012   $1,063,000   $1,012,508  

Dean Foods Co. company      
guaranty 7s, 2016   272,000   246,160  

Del Monte Corp. company      
guaranty 6 3/4s, 2015   640,000   598,400  

Del Monte Corp.      
sr. sub. notes 8 5/8s, 2012   1,085,000   1,109,413  

DirecTV Holdings, LLC company      
guaranty 6 3/8s, 2015   1,926,000   1,815,255  

DirecTV Holdings, LLC 144A      
sr. notes 7 5/8s, 2016   262,000   260,035  

Echostar DBS Corp. company      
guaranty 6 5/8s, 2014   4,144,000   3,802,120  

Grupo Televisa SA 144A sr. unsec.      
notes 6s, 2018 (Mexico)   100,000   97,631  

Liberty Media, LLC sr. notes 5.7s, 2013   266,000   239,396  

Liberty Media, LLC sr. unsec.      
notes 7 7/8s, 2009   329,000   332,243  

Nielsen Finance LLC/Nielsen      
Finance Co. company guaranty 10s, 2014   4,000   4,030  

Nielsen Finance LLC/Nielsen      
Finance Co. company guaranty      
stepped-coupon zero %      
(12 1/2s, 8/1/11), 2016 ††   700,000   477,750  

Nielsen Finance LLC/Nielsen      
Finance Co. 144A company      
guaranty sr. unsec. notes 10s, 2014   361,000   363,708  

Prestige Brands, Inc.      
sr. sub. notes 9 1/4s, 2012   724,000   727,620  

Rainbow National Services, LLC      
144A sr. notes 8 3/4s, 2012   750,000   758,438  

Rite Aid Corp. company      
guaranty 9 3/8s, 2015   542,000   352,300  

Rite Aid Corp. sec. notes 7 1/2s, 2017   620,000   502,200  

Sara Lee Corp. sr. unsec.      
unsub. notes 6 1/4s, 2011   580,000   589,394  

United Rentals NA, Inc. company      
guaranty 6 1/2s, 2012   479,000   432,298  

Young Broadcasting, Inc. company      
guaranty 10s, 2011   469,000   223,948  

Young Broadcasting, Inc.      
sr. sub. notes 8 3/4s, 2014   160,000   70,000  

    21,712,963  
Energy (3.1%)      
Arch Western Finance, LLC      
sr. notes 6 3/4s, 2013   2,598,000   2,591,505  

Chaparral Energy, Inc. company      
guaranty sr. unsec. notes 8 7/8s, 2017   630,000   543,375  

CHC Helicopter Corp.      
sr. sub. notes 7 3/8s, 2014      
(Canada)   1,502,000   1,560,203  

Chesapeake Energy Corp.      
sr. notes 7 1/2s, 2013   1,991,000   2,010,910  

Complete Production Services, Inc.      
company guaranty 8s, 2016   1,020,000   1,012,350  

Comstock Resources, Inc.      
sr. notes 6 7/8s, 2012   995,000   967,638  

Connacher Oil and Gas, Ltd. 144A      
sec. notes 10 1/4s, 2015 (Canada)   410,000   429,475  


CORPORATE BONDS AND     Principal    
NOTES (20.6%)* cont.     amount   Value  

Energy cont.        
Denbury Resources, Inc.        
sr. sub. notes 7 1/2s, 2015     $625,000   $620,313  

Dong Energy A/S jr. unsec.        
sub. notes FRN 5 1/2s, 2035        
(Denmark)   EUR   364,000   515,000  

El Paso Natural Gas Co.        
debs. 8 5/8s, 2022     $370,000   409,634  

EXCO Resources, Inc. company        
guaranty 7 1/4s, 2011     830,000   821,700  

Forest Oil Corp. sr. notes 8s, 2011     1,465,000   1,486,975  

Gaz Capital for Gazprom 144A        
sr. unsec. notes 7.288s, 2037        
(Luxembourg)     575,000   512,210  

Gaz Capital SA sr. unsec.        
notes 7.288s, 2037 (Luxembourg)     780,000   694,824  

Gaz Capital SA 144A company        
guaranty sr. unsec. bond 8.146s,        
2018 (Luxembourg)     $316,000   322,235  

Gaz Capital SA 144A company        
guaranty sr. unsec. bond 7.343s,        
2013 (Luxembourg)     306,000   311,578  

Gaz Capital SA 144A sr. unsec.        
6.51s, 2022 (Luxembourg)     485,000   427,528  

Harvest Operations Corp.        
sr. notes 7 7/8s, 2011 (Canada)     1,140,000   1,031,700  

Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc.        
144A sr. unsec. notes 9 1/2s, 2016     755,000   755,000  

Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc.        
sr. notes Ser. B, 6 1/8s, 2014     1,013,000   969,948  

Key Energy Services, Inc. 144A        
sr. notes 8 3/8s, 2014     355,000   356,775  

Lukoil International Finance 144A        
company guaranty 6.656s, 2022        
(Netherlands)     1,080,000   928,800  

Lukoil International Finance 144A        
company guaranty 6.356s, 2017        
(Netherlands)     550,000   492,250  

Massey Energy Co.        
sr. notes 6 5/8s, 2010     523,000   520,385  

Newfield Exploration Co.        
sr. sub. notes 6 5/8s, 2014     698,000   659,610  

Offshore Logistics, Inc. company        
guaranty 6 1/8s, 2013     575,000   546,250  

Oslo Seismic Services, Inc. 1st        
mtge. 8.28s, 2011     602,879   630,842  

Pacific Energy Partners/Pacific        
Energy Finance Corp.        
sr. notes 7 1/8s, 2014     695,000   699,440  

Peabody Energy Corp. company        
guaranty 7 3/8s, 2016 S     1,470,000   1,499,400  

PetroHawk Energy Corp. company        
guaranty 9 1/8s, 2013     607,000   614,588  

Petroleum Co. of Trinidad & Tobago        
Ltd. 144A sr. unsec. notes 6s,        
2022 (Trinidad)     1,745,000   1,647,367  

Petroleum Development Corp.        
company guaranty sr. unsec.        
notes 12s, 2018     485,000   514,100  

Petroplus Finance, Ltd. company        
guaranty 6 3/4s, 2014 (Bermuda)     700,000   612,500  


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CORPORATE BONDS AND     Principal    
NOTES (20.6%)* cont.     amount   Value  

Energy cont.        
Plains Exploration &        
Production Co. company        
guaranty 7 3/4s, 2015     $140,000   $137,550  

Plains Exploration &        
Production Co. company        
guaranty 7s, 2017     150,000   140,250  

Pride International, Inc.        
sr. unsec. notes 7 3/8s, 2014     994,000   1,001,455  

SandRidge Energy, Inc.        
sr. notes 8s, 2018     685,000   678,150  

Williams Cos., Inc. (The)        
sr. unsec. notes 8 1/8s, 2012     290,000   310,300  

Williams Cos., Inc. (The)        
sr. unsec. notes 7 5/8s, 2019     736,000   772,800  

      30,756,913  
Financial (4.6%)        
Banco Do Brasil 144A sr. unsec.        
6.081s, 2017 (Cayman Islands)   BRL   1,055,000   566,595  

Bear Stearns Cos., Inc. (The)        
notes Ser. MTN, 6.95s, 2012 S     $2,375,000   2,448,160  

Bosphorus Financial Services, Ltd.        
144A sec. sr. notes FRN 4.476s,        
2012 (Cayman Islands)     2,651,250   2,559,488  

GMAC, LLC sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes 7 3/4s, 2010 S     176,000   142,183  

GMAC, LLC sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes 7s, 2012     185,000   116,562  

GMAC, LLC sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes 6 7/8s, 2012     1,292,000   810,858  

GMAC, LLC sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes 6 7/8s, 2011     165,000   108,950  

GMAC, LLC sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes 6 3/4s, 2014     2,509,000   1,437,170  

GMAC, LLC sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes 6 5/8s, 2012     1,345,000   834,075  

GMAC, LLC sr. unsec.        
unsub. notes FRN 4.882s, 2014     140,000   75,589  

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)        
sub. notes 6 3/4s, 2037     655,000   584,029  

HSBC Capital Funding LP/ Jersey        
Channel Islands company guaranty        
sub. FRB 5.13s, 2049 (Jersey)   EUR   486,000   644,686  

HUB International Holdings, Inc.        
144A sr. sub. notes 10 1/4s, 2015     $185,000   148,000  

HUB International Holdings, Inc.        
144A sr. unsec. unsub. notes 9s, 2014     135,000   120,150  

iStar Financial, Inc. sr. unsec.        
notes Ser. B, 4 7/8s, 2009 R     185,000   175,750  

JPMorgan Chase & Co. 144A        
sr. unsec. FRN 6.46s, 2017     600,000   617,760  

JPMorgan Chase & Co. 144A        
sr. unsec. notes FRN 0.272s, 2011     68,000,000   2,940,320  

JPMorgan Chase & Co. 144A unsec.        
unsub. notes 0.185s, 2012   INR   37,500,000   876,498  

Lender Processing Services, Inc.        
144A sr. unsec. notes 8 1/8s, 2016     $1,760,000   1,757,800  

Leucadia National Corp. sr. unsec.        
notes 8 1/8s, 2015     205,000   204,231  


CORPORATE BONDS AND     Principal    
NOTES (20.6%)* cont.     amount   Value  

Financial cont.        
Leucadia National Corp. sr. unsec.        
notes 7 1/8s, 2017     $495,000   $463,444  

Liberty Mutual Insurance 144A        
notes 7.697s, 2097     1,330,000   1,118,599  

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.        
notes 5.45s, 2013     1,660,000   1,549,186  

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.        
notes FRN Ser. MTN, 3s, 2011     715,000   637,947  

MetLife Capital Trust X 144A        
collateral trust FRB 9 1/4s, 2068     1,500,000   1,614,146  

Morgan Stanley sr. unsec.        
bonds 6.293s, 2017   BRL   3,655,000   1,709,089  

Nuveen Investments, Inc. 144A        
sr. notes 10 1/2s, 2015     $379,000   341,100  

RSHB Capital SA for OJSC Russian        
Agricultural Bank notes 6.299s,        
2017 (Luxembourg)     1,330,000   1,195,936  

RSHB Capital SA for OJSC Russian        
Agricultural Bank sub. bonds FRB        
6.97s, 2016 (Luxembourg)     500,000   481,240  

Russian Agricultural Bank 144A        
notes 7 3/4s, 2018 (Luxembourg)     775,000   748,728  

Russian Agricultural Bank 144A        
notes 7 1/8s, 2014        
(Luxembourg) S     775,000   764,073  

UBS Luxembourg SA for Sberbank        
unsec. sub. notes stepped-coupon        
6.23s (7.429s, 2/11/10), 2015        
(Luxembourg) ††     2,730,000   2,717,797  

USI Holdings Corp. 144A sr. unsec.        
notes FRN 6.551s, 2014     120,000   96,000  

VTB Capital unsec. sub. notes FRN        
6.315s, 2015 (Luxembourg)     3,845,000   3,787,325  

VTB Capital SA bonds 6 1/4s, 2035        
(Luxembourg)     1,724,000   1,542,980  

VTB Capital SA sr. notes 6 1/4s,        
2035 (Luxembourg)     1,065,000   953,175  

VTB Capital SA 144A notes 7 1/2s,        
2011 (Luxembourg)     2,595,000   2,646,900  

VTB Capital SA 144A notes 6 7/8s,        
2018 (Luxembourg)     1,010,000   967,075  

VTB Capital SA 144A sec.        
notes 6.609s, 2012 (Luxembourg)     4,850,000   4,704,209  

      45,207,803  
Government (0.2%)        
Pemex Finance, Ltd. bonds 9.69s,        
2009 (Cayman Islands)     491,250   500,221  

Pemex Project Funding Master Trust        
144A company guaranty 6 5/8s, 2035     340,000   332,418  

Pemex Project Funding Master Trust        
144A company guaranty 5 3/4s, 2018     425,000   413,738  

Pemex Project Funding Master Trust        
144A notes 6 5/8s, 2038     650,000   625,625  

      1,872,002  
Health Care (1.4%)        
Community Health Systems, Inc.        
company guaranty 8 7/8s, 2015     1,310,000   1,319,825  

DaVita, Inc. company        
guaranty 6 5/8s, 2013     291,000   283,725  


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CORPORATE BONDS AND   Principal    
NOTES (20.6%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Health Care cont.      
Elan Finance PLC/Elan      
Finance Corp. company      
guaranty 7 3/4s, 2011 (Ireland)   $395,000   $379,200  

HCA, Inc. company      
guaranty sr. sec. notes 9 5/8s, 2016 ‡‡   532,000   547,960  

HCA, Inc. sr. sec. notes 9 1/4s, 2016   1,275,000   1,313,250  

HCA, Inc. sr. sec. notes 9 1/8s, 2014   563,000   579,890  

Omnicare, Inc. company      
guaranty 6 3/4s, 2013   385,000   358,050  

Omnicare, Inc.      
sr. sub. notes 6 1/8s, 2013   1,065,000   982,463  

Select Medical Corp. company      
guaranty 7 5/8s, 2015   1,217,000   1,049,663  

Service Corporation International      
debs. 7 7/8s, 2013   112,000   112,000  

Stewart Enterprises, Inc.      
sr. notes 6 1/4s, 2013   1,412,000   1,359,050  

Surgical Care Affiliates, Inc.      
144A sr. sub. notes 10s, 2017   600,000   462,000  

Surgical Care Affiliates, Inc.      
144A sr. unsec. notes 8 7/8s, 2015 ‡‡   300,000   261,750  

Tenet Healthcare Corp.      
notes 7 3/8s, 2013   750,000   705,000  

Tenet Healthcare Corp. sr. unsec.      
unsub. notes 6 3/8s, 2011   1,179,000   1,161,315  

US Oncology, Inc. company      
guaranty 9s, 2012   965,000   950,525  

Vanguard Health Holding Co.      
II, LLC sr. sub. notes 9s, 2014   973,000   948,675  

Ventas Realty LP/Capital Corp.      
company guaranty 9s, 2012 R   590,000   621,713  

Ventas Realty LP/Capital Corp.      
company guaranty 6 3/4s, 2010 R   392,000   391,020  

Ventas Realty LP/Capital Corp.      
sr. notes 6 5/8s, 2014 R   337,000   326,890  

    14,113,964  
Technology (0.9%)      
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.      
sr. notes 7 3/4s, 2012   649,000   493,240  

Ceridian Corp. 144A sr. unsec.      
notes 11 1/4s, 2015   541,000   492,310  

Compucom Systems, Inc.      
sr. sub. notes 12 1/2s, 2015   305,000   279,075  

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.      
company guaranty sr. unsec.      
notes 8 7/8s, 2014 S   1,082,000   916,995  

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.      
company guaranty sr. unsec.      
sub. notes 10 1/8s, 2016 S   757,000   594,245  

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.      
company guaranty sr. unsec.      
sub. notes 9 1/8s, 2014 ‡‡   753,000   609,930  

Iron Mountain, Inc. company      
guaranty 8 5/8s, 2013   435,000   436,631  

Iron Mountain, Inc. company      
guaranty sr. unsec.      
sub. notes 8s, 2020   1,035,000   1,001,363  

New ASAT Finance, Ltd. company      
guaranty 9 1/4s, 2011      
(Cayman Islands)   25,000   16,063  


CORPORATE BONDS AND   Principal    
NOTES (20.6%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Technology cont.      
Nortel Networks, Ltd. company      
guaranty sr. unsec.      
notes 10 3/4s, 2016 (Canada) S   $425,000   $416,500  

Nortel Networks, Ltd. company      
guaranty sr. unsec. notes FRN      
7.041s, 2011 (Canada)   460,000   433,550  

Nortel Networks, Ltd. 144A      
sr. unsecd. notes company      
guaranty 10 3/4s, 2016 (Canada)   511,000   500,780  

Sanmina Corp. company      
guaranty sr. unsec.      
sub. notes 6 3/4s, 2013   459,000   408,510  

Sanmina Corp. sr. unsec.      
sub. notes 8 1/8s, 2016   717,000   638,130  

SunGard Data Systems, Inc. company      
guaranty 9 1/8s, 2013   660,000   674,850  

Travelport LLC company      
guaranty 9 7/8s, 2014   325,000   273,000  

Unisys Corp. sr. unsec.      
unsub. notes 12 1/2s, 2016   478,000   469,635  

    8,654,807  
Utilities & Power (1.4%)      
AES Corp. (The) sr. unsec.      
unsub. notes 8s, 2017   255,000   251,175  

AES Corp. (The) 144A sec.      
notes 8 3/4s, 2013   456,000   472,530  

CMS Energy Corp. sr. notes 7 3/4s, 2010   350,000   362,711  

Colorado Interstate Gas Co.      
debs. 6.85s, 2037   615,000   581,379  

Edison Mission Energy sr. unsec.      
notes 7 3/4s, 2016   289,000   289,723  

Edison Mission Energy sr. unsec.      
notes 7 1/2s, 2013   338,000   339,690  

Edison Mission Energy sr. unsec.      
notes 7.2s, 2019   545,000   512,300  

Edison Mission Energy sr. unsec.      
notes 7s, 2017   380,000   359,100  

Ferrellgas LP/Finance      
sr. notes 6 3/4s, 2014   1,010,000   853,450  

Florida Power Corp. 1st mtge. sec.      
bond 5.65s, 2018   495,000   500,143  

Ipalco Enterprises, Inc. 144A      
sr. sec. notes 7 1/4s, 2016   220,000   220,550  

Kinder Morgan, Inc.      
sr. notes 6 1/2s, 2012   3,137,000   3,113,473  

NRG Energy, Inc. sr. notes 7 3/8s, 2016   465,000   451,050  

Orion Power Holdings, Inc.      
sr. unsec. notes 12s, 2010   1,115,000   1,201,413  

PNM Resources, Inc. unsec.      
unsub. notes 9 1/4s, 2015   1,145,000   1,166,469  

Teco Finance, Inc. company      
guaranty sr. unsec.      
unsub. notes 7.2s, 2011   350,000   360,063  

Teco Finance, Inc. company      
guaranty sr. unsec.      
unsub. notes 7s, 2012   550,000   574,214  

Teco Finance, Inc. company      
guaranty sr. unsec.      
unsub. notes 6 3/4s, 2015   63,000   63,394  


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CORPORATE BONDS AND     Principal    
NOTES (20.6%)* cont.     amount   Value  

Utilities & Power cont.        
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.        
sr. unsec. unsub. debs. 7 1/2s, 2017     $291,000   $308,397  

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.        
sr. unsec. unsub. debs. 7s, 2028     145,000   139,592  

Transcontinental Gas        
Pipeline Corp. sr. unsec.        
debs. 7 1/4s, 2026     875,000   894,688  

Utilicorp United, Inc. sr. unsec.        
notes 7.95s, 2011     36,000   37,080  

Vattenfall Treasury AB company        
guaranty unsec. unsub. FRB        
5 1/4s, 2049 (Sweden)   EUR   364,000   514,847  

Williams Partners LP/ Williams        
Partners Finance Corp. sr. unsec.        
notes 7 1/4s, 2017     $280,000   279,300  

      13,846,731  
Total corporate bonds and notes (cost $215,514,441)   $201,916,884  
 
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT BONDS     Principal    
AND NOTES (12.8%)*     amount   Value  

Argentina (Republic of) bonds 7s, 2013     $821,000   $632,170  

Argentina (Republic of)        
bonds Ser. $V, 10 1/2s, 2012   ARS   6,355,000   1,431,464  

Argentina (Republic of) bonds FRB        
zero %, 2013     $3,113,000   1,497,353  

Argentina (Republic of)        
notes Ser. $dis, 8.28s, 2033     2,568,452   1,984,129  

Argentina (Republic of) sr. unsec.        
unsub. bonds 7s, 2015     1,444,000   990,945  

Argentina (Republic of) sr. unsec.        
unsub. bonds FRB 3.144s, 2012     21,027,000   8,515,042  

Brazil (Federal Republic of)        
bonds 6s, 2017     1,880,000   1,919,950  

Brazil (Federal Republic of) notes        
10s, 2012   BRL   1,454   839,350  

Brazil (Federal Republic of) notes        
zero %, 2017   BRL   6,590   3,515,873  

Banco Nacional de        
Desenvolvimento Economico e        
Social 144A sr. unsec.        
notes 6.369s, 2018 (Brazil)     $175,000   176,313  

Canada (Government of)        
bonds Ser. WL43, 5 3/4s, 2029   CAD   1,340,000   1,597,326  

Colombia (Republic of) notes        
10s, 2012 S     $3,565,000   4,135,400  

Colombia (Republic of) unsec. unsub.        
bonds 7 3/8s, 2037     1,000,000   1,093,750  

Colombia (Republic of) unsec.        
unsub. bonds 7 3/8s, 2017     665,000   729,838  

Ecuador (Republic of)        
bonds Ser. REGS, 12s, 2012     3,099,576   3,091,827  

Ecuador (Republic of) 144A unsec.        
bonds 12s, 2012     1,931,880   1,927,050  

Ecuador (Republic of) regs        
notes 9 3/8s, 2015     245,000   243,775  

Ghana (Republic of) bonds 8 1/2s,        
2017     555,000   555,999  

IN 144A sr. unsec.        
unsub. bonds 7 3/4s, 2038     920,000   911,950  


FOREIGN GOVERNMENT BONDS     Principal    
AND NOTES (12.8%)* cont.     amount   Value  

Indonesia (Republic of) sr. unsec.        
unsub. bonds Ser. JUN, 6 3/4s, 2014     $460,000   $460,000  

Indonesia (Republic of) 144A        
bonds 6 5/8s, 2037     1,555,000   1,352,850  

Japan (Government of) 30 yr        
bonds Ser. 23, 2 1/2s, 2036   JPY   313,000,000   2,946,065  

Japan (Government of) CPI Linked        
bonds Ser. 12, 1.2s, 2017   JPY   739,926,000   6,855,994  

Japan (Government of) CPI Linked        
bonds Ser. 8, 1s, 2016   JPY 3,905,897,400  35,937,732  

Mexican (Government of)        
bonds Ser. M 10, 8s, 2015   MXN   34,400,000   3,264,759  

Peru (Republic of) bonds        
8 3/4s, 2033     $935,000   1,215,500  

Russia (Federation of) unsub.        
5s, 2030     120,170   135,041  

Russia (Federation of) 144A        
unsub. unsec. bonds 5s, 2030     5,528,510   6,212,663  

South Africa (Republic of)        
notes 5 7/8s, 2022 S     880,000   821,700  

Sweden (Government of)        
debs. Ser. 1041, 6 3/4s, 2014   SEK   59,875,000   11,090,053  

Turkey (Republic of) bonds 16s,        
2012   TRY   3,090,000   2,539,708  

Ukraine (Government of) 144A        
bonds 6 3/4s, 2017     $1,565,000   1,373,288  

Ukraine (Government of) 144A        
sr. unsub. 6.58s, 2016 S     1,185,000   1,050,206  

United Mexican States        
bonds Ser. MTN, 8.3s, 2031     4,545,000   5,692,613  

Venezuela (Republic of)        
notes 10 3/4s, 2013     3,270,000   3,351,750  

Venezuela (Republic of) unsec.        
note FRN Ser. REGS, 3.791s, 2011     2,715,000   2,416,350  

Venezuela (Republic of)        
unsub. bonds 5 3/8s, 2010     3,465,000   3,257,100  

Total foreign government bonds and notes      
(cost $120,155,940)       $125,762,876  
 
ASSET-BACKED     Principal    
SECURITIES (11.7%)*     amount   Value  

Accredited Mortgage Loan Trust        
FRB Ser. 05-1, Class M2,        
3.151s, 2035     $310,000   $145,700  
FRB Ser. 05-4, Class A2C,        
2.671s, 2035     68,000   60,520  

Ace Securities Corp.        
FRB Ser. 06-OP2, Class A2C,        
2.611s, 2036     217,000   117,180  
FRB Ser. 06-HE3, Class A2C,        
2.611s, 2036     191,000   139,367  

Ameriquest Mortgage        
Securities, Inc. FRB Ser. 03-8,        
Class M2, 4.211s, 2033     430,594   94,731  

Arcap REIT, Inc. 144A        
Ser. 03-1A, Class E, 7.11s, 2038     743,000   620,021  
Ser. 04-1A, Class E, 6.42s, 2039     420,000   297,180  

Argent Securities, Inc.        
FRB Ser. 03-W3, Class M3, 4.731s, 2033   47,809   6,693  
FRB Ser. 06-W4, Class A2C, 2.621s, 2036   340,000   231,200  


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ASSET-BACKED   Principal    
SECURITIES (11.7%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Asset Backed Funding Certificates      
FRB Ser. 04-OPT2, Class M2,      
3.461s, 2033   $467,397   $233,698  

Asset Backed Securities Corp. Home      
Equity Loan Trust      
FRB Ser. 06-HE2, Class A3,      
2.651s, 2036   71,721   53,964  
FRB Ser. 06-HE4, Class A5,      
2.621s, 2036   241,000   180,750  

Asset Backed Securities Corp. Home      
Equity Loan Trust 144A FRB      
Ser. 06-HE2, Class M10, 4.961s, 2036   1,001,000   50  

Aviation Capital Group Trust 144A      
FRB Ser. 03-2A, Class G1, 3.158s, 2033   482,036   429,012  

Bear Stearns Asset      
Backed Securities, Inc.      
FRB Ser. 04-FR3, Class M6,      
5.711s, 2034   507,000   345,381  
FRB Ser. 06-PC1, Class M9,      
4.211s, 2035   364,000   27,300  
FRB Ser. 05-HE1, Class M3,      
3.391s, 2035   435,000   143,550  

Bear Stearns Asset Backed      
Securities, Inc. 144A FRB      
Ser. 06-HE2, Class M10, 4.711s, 2036   552,000   42,413  

Bombardier Capital      
Mortgage Securitization Corp.      
Ser. 00-A, Class A4, 8.29s, 2030   1,458,748   946,675  
Ser. 00-A, Class A2, 7.575s, 2030   2,596,046   1,524,339  
Ser. 99-B, Class A4, 7.3s, 2016   1,277,301   779,575  
Ser. 99-B, Class A3, 7.18s, 2015   2,183,165   1,321,533  
FRB Ser. 00-A, Class A1, 2.618s, 2030   279,318   118,157  

Capital Auto Receivables Asset      
Trust 144A Ser. 06-1, Class D,      
7.16s, 2013   500,000   483,984  

Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc.      
FRB Ser. 05-HE4, Class M11,      
4.961s, 2035   599,000   59,900  
FRB Ser. 05-HE4, Class M12,      
4.511s, 2035   639,024   31,951  
FRB Ser. 05-OPT1, Class M1,      
2.881s, 2035   95,957   62,147  

Conseco Finance Securitizations Corp.      
Ser. 00-2, Class A5, 8.85s, 2030   2,616,818   2,085,782  
Ser. 00-4, Class A6, 8.31s, 2032   6,471,294   5,079,966  
Ser. 00-5, Class A7, 8.2s, 2032   1,053,000   768,690  
Ser. 00-1, Class A5, 8.06s, 2031   1,871,170   1,478,224  
Ser. 00-4, Class A5, 7.97s, 2032   369,716   263,076  
Ser. 00-5, Class A6, 7.96s, 2032   1,461,910   1,103,742  
Ser. 02-1, Class M1F, 7.954s, 2033   85,000   77,364  
Ser. 01-3, Class M2, 7.44s, 2033   125,633   6,282  
Ser. 01-4, Class A4, 7.36s, 2033   396,612   374,161  
Ser. 00-6, Class A5, 7.27s, 2031   147,844   125,667  
Ser. 01-1, Class A5, 6.99s, 2032   8,363,755   7,759,002  
Ser. 01-3, Class A4, 6.91s, 2033   5,655,471   5,337,922  
Ser. 02-1, Class A, 6.681s, 2033   1,705,300   1,682,445  
FRB Ser. 02-1, Class M1A,      
4.521s, 2033   4,326,000   3,749,843  
FRB Ser. 01-4, Class M1,      
4.221s, 2033   573,000   249,917  


ASSET-BACKED     Principal    
SECURITIES (11.7%)* cont.     amount   Value  

Countrywide Asset Backed Certificates        
FRB Ser. 05-BC3, Class M1,        
2.981s, 2035     $96,000   $51,360  
FRB Ser. 05-14, Class 3A2,        
2.701s, 2036     57,965   51,299  

Crest, Ltd. 144A Ser. 03-2A,        
Class E2, 8s, 2038        
(Cayman Islands)     838,000   544,700  

DB Master Finance, LLC 144A        
Ser. 06-1, Class M1, 8.285s, 2031     545,000   446,078  

Equifirst Mortgage Loan Trust FRB        
Ser. 05-1, Class M5, 3.131s, 2035     179,000   44,750  

First Franklin Mortgage Loan Asset        
Backed Certificates FRB        
Ser. 06-FF7, Class 2A3, 2.611s, 2036     356,000   284,104  

Fremont Home Loan Trust        
FRB Ser. 05-E, Class 2A4,        
2.791s, 2036     498,000   339,835  
FRB Ser. 06-2, Class 2A3,        
2.631s, 2036     589,000   438,805  

Gears Auto Owner Trust 144A        
Ser. 05-AA, Class E1, 8.22s, 2012     1,347,000   1,261,908  

Granite Mortgages PLC        
FRB Ser. 03-2, Class 3C, 7.589s,        
2043 (United Kingdom)   GBP   1,431,661   2,673,649  
FRB Ser. 03-2, Class 2C1, 5.2s,        
2043 (United Kingdom)   EUR   2,785,000   4,068,107  

Green Tree Financial Corp.        
Ser. 94-6, Class B2, 9s, 2020     $1,686,394   1,591,023  
Ser. 94-4, Class B2, 8.6s, 2019     719,636   439,203  
Ser. 93-1, Class B, 8.45s, 2018     772,296   660,847  
Ser. 96-6, Class M1, 7.95s, 2027     1,075,000   933,745  
Ser. 99-5, Class A5, 7.86s, 2030     7,779,462   6,534,748  
Ser. 96-8, Class M1, 7.85s, 2027     754,000   629,472  
Ser. 96-2, Class M1, 7.6s, 2026     608,000   475,982  
Ser. 95-8, Class B1, 7.3s, 2026     704,416   589,398  
Ser. 95-4, Class B1, 7.3s, 2025     726,329   671,817  
Ser. 97-6, Class M1, 7.21s, 2029     1,325,000   972,142  
Ser. 95-F, Class B2, 7.1s, 2021     61,303   45,977  
Ser. 98-2, Class A6, 6.81s, 2027     798,759   744,806  
Ser. 99-3, Class A7, 6.74s, 2031     1,438,000   1,342,494  
FRN 6.53s, 2030     356,665   309,552  
Ser. 98-4, Class A5, 6.18s, 2030     898,183   807,765  
Ser. 99-1, Class A5, 6.11s, 2023     460,137   445,189  

Greenpoint Manufactured Housing        
Ser. 00-3, Class IA, 8.45s, 2031     3,216,580   2,736,345  
Ser. 99-5, Class M1A, 8.3s, 2026     312,000   281,791  
Ser. 99-5, Class A4, 7.59s, 2028     58,574   57,402  

GS Auto Loan Trust 144A Ser. 04-1,        
Class D, 5s, 2011     712,336   711,552  

GSAMP Trust FRB Ser. 06-HE5,        
Class A2C, 2.611s, 2036     877,000   519,352  

Guggenheim Structured        
Real Estate Funding, Ltd. 144A        
FRB Ser. 05-2A, Class E, 4.461s,        
2030 (Cayman Islands)     729,000   364,865  
FRB Ser. 05-1A, Class E, 4.261s,        
2030 (Cayman Islands)     162,911   109,150  

Home Equity Asset Trust FRB        
Ser. 06-1, Class 2A4, 2.791s, 2036     248,000   150,040  


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ASSET-BACKED     Principal    
SECURITIES (11.7%)* cont.     amount   Value  

JPMorgan Mortgage        
Acquisition Corp. FRB        
Ser. 06-FRE1, Class A4, 2.751s, 2035     $211,000   $134,618  

Lehman ABS Manufactured Housing        
Contract Ser. 01-B, Class A4,        
5.27s, 2018     2,339,686   2,062,819  

Lehman XS Trust FRB Ser. 07-6,        
Class 2A1, 2.671s, 2037     2,507,703   1,809,558  

LNR CDO, Ltd. 144A        
FRB Ser. 03-1A, Class EFL, 5.461s,        
2036 (Cayman Islands)     1,485,000   519,750  
FRB Ser. 02-1A, Class FFL, 5.212s,        
2037 (Cayman Islands)     2,440,000   1,098,000  

Long Beach Mortgage        
Loan Trust        
FRB Ser. 05-2, Class M4,        
3.081s, 2035     497,000   173,950  
FRB Ser. 06-4, Class 2A4,        
2.721s, 2036     240,000   121,442  
FRB Ser. 06-1, Class 2A3,        
2.651s, 2036     269,000   223,270  

Lothian Mortgages PLC 144A FRB        
Ser. 3A, Class D, 6.597s, 2039        
(United Kingdom)   GBP   1,700,000   3,113,268  

Madison Avenue Manufactured        
Housing Contract FRB Ser. 02-A,        
Class B1, 5.711s, 2032     $2,025,781   1,428,149  

MASTR Asset Backed Securities        
Trust FRB Ser. 06-FRE2, Class A4,        
2.611s, 2036     126,000   66,873  

Mid-State Trust Ser. 11, Class B,        
8.221s, 2038     223,298   184,564  

Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I        
FRB Ser. 04-HE8, Class B3,        
5.661s, 2034     149,459   48,574  
FRB Ser. 05-HE2, Class M5,        
3.141s, 2035     310,000   62,000  
FRB Ser. 05-HE1, Class M3,        
2.981s, 2034     310,000   124,000  
FRB Ser. 06-NC4, Class M2,        
2.761s, 2036     435,000   34,800  

N-Star Real Estate CDO, Ltd. 144A        
FRB Ser. 04-2A, Class C1, 4.46s,        
2039 (Cayman Islands)     500,000   411,250  

Navistar Financial Corp. Owner Trust        
Ser. 05-A, Class C, 4.84s, 2014     158,876   144,331  
Ser. 04-B, Class C, 3.93s, 2012     91,782   83,936  

New Century Home Equity Loan Trust        
FRB Ser. 03-4, Class M3, 4.511s, 2033     26,859   1,612  

Novastar Home Equity Loan        
FRB Ser. 06-1, Class A2C, 2.621s, 2036     298,000   259,737  
FRB Ser. 06-2, Class A2C, 2.611s, 2036     298,000   218,042  

Oakwood Mortgage Investors, Inc.        
Ser. 96-C, Class B1, 7.96s, 2027     2,033,710   1,183,025  
Ser. 99-D, Class A1, 7.84s, 2029     1,759,800   1,425,438  
Ser. 00-A, Class A2, 7.765s, 2017     252,759   192,445  
Ser. 95-B, Class B1, 7.55s, 2021     541,528   303,256  
Ser. 00-D, Class A4, 7.4s, 2030     1,945,000   1,186,450  
Ser. 02-B, Class A4, 7.09s, 2032     738,024   642,081  
Ser. 99-B, Class A4, 6.99s, 2026     1,837,167   1,616,707  
Ser. 00-D, Class A3, 6.99s, 2022     638,868   613,185  
Ser. 01-D, Class A4, 6.93s, 2031     1,357,874   919,106  
Ser. 01-E, Class A4, 6.81s, 2031     1,800,684   1,420,268  

ASSET-BACKED     Principal    
SECURITIES (11.7%)* cont.     amount   Value  

Oakwood Mortgage Investors, Inc.        
Ser. 99-B, Class A3, 6.45s, 2017     $427,393   $361,028  
Ser. 01-C, Class A2, 5.92s, 2017     2,087,680   808,348  
Ser. 02-C, Class A1, 5.41s, 2032     2,240,518   1,770,009  
Ser. 01-D, Class A2, 5.26s, 2019     271,422   169,152  
Ser. 01-E, Class A2, 5.05s, 2019     1,774,793   1,206,859  
Ser. 02-A, Class A2, 5.01s, 2020     496,890   401,733  

Oakwood Mortgage Investors, Inc. 144A        
Ser. 01-B, Class A4, 7.21s, 2030     443,872   363,215  
FRB Ser. 01-B, Class A2, 2.833s, 2018     98,442   74,698  

Ocean Star PLC 144A        
FRB Ser. 04-A, Class E, 9.216s,        
2018 (Ireland)     1,695,000   1,491,600  
FRB Ser. 05-A, Class E, 7.316s,        
2012 (Ireland)     466,000   364,226  

Option One Mortgage Loan Trust FRB        
Ser. 05-4, Class M11, 4.961s, 2035     783,000   86,130  

Park Place Securities, Inc.        
FRB Ser. 05-WCH1, Class M4,        
3.291s, 2036     202,000   56,560  
FRB Ser. 04-MCW1, Class A2,        
2.841s, 2034     214,657   196,758  

Park Place Securities, Inc. 144A        
FRB Ser. 04-MHQ1, Class M10,        
4.961s, 2034     146,893   7,345  

People’s Financial Realty Mortgage        
Securities Trust FRB Ser. 06-1,        
Class 1A2, 2.591s, 2036     455,000   298,025  

Permanent Financing PLC        
FRB Ser. 6, Class 3C, 7.576s, 2042        
(United Kingdom)   GBP   1,731,000   3,406,656  
FRB Ser. 3, Class 3C, 3.846s, 2042        
(United Kingdom)     $680,000   676,631  

Residential Asset        
Mortgage Products, Inc.        
FRB Ser. 06-NC3, Class A2,        
2.651s, 2036     275,623   239,455  
FRB Ser. 07-RZ1, Class A2,        
2.621s, 2037     293,000   213,180  

Residential Asset        
Securities Corp.        
FRB Ser. 05-EMX1, Class M2,        
3.191s, 2035     705,000   282,000  
Ser. 01-KS3, Class AII, 2.943s, 2031     2,902,277   2,684,606  

Residential Asset Securities Corp.        
144A FRB Ser. 05-KS10, Class B,        
5.211s, 2035     778,000   7,780  

Securitized Asset        
Backed Receivables, LLC        
FRB Ser. 05-HE1, Class M2,        
3.111s, 2035     310,000   77,500  
FRB Ser. 07-NC2, Class A2B,        
2.601s, 2037     275,000   181,500  

SG Mortgage Securities Trust        
FRB Ser. 06-OPT2, Class A3D, PO,        
2.671s, 2036     507,000   215,069  
FRB Ser. 06-FRE1, Class A2B,        
2.641s, 2036     231,000   155,925  

Soundview Home Equity        
Loan Trust        
FRB Ser. 06-OPT3, Class 2A3,        
2.631s, 2036     240,000   184,613  
FRB Ser. 06-3, Class A3, 2.621s, 2036     882,000   695,598  


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ASSET-BACKED   Principal    
SECURITIES (11.7%)* cont.   amount   Value  

Soundview Home Equity Loan Trust      
144A FRB Ser. 05-4, Class M10,      
4.961s, 2036   $463,000   $13,890  

South Coast Funding 144A FRB      
Ser. 3A, Class A2, 3.916s, 2038      
(Cayman Islands)   200,000   1,000  

Structured Asset Investment Loan      
Trust FRB Ser. 06-BNC2, Class A6,      
2.721s, 2036   240,000   105,153  

Structured Asset Investment Loan      
Trust 144A FRB Ser. 05-HE3,      
Class M11, 4.961s, 2035   733,252   10,632  

Structured Asset Receivables Trust      
144A FRB Ser. 05-1, 3.286s, 2015   3,437,227   3,196,621  

TIAA Real Estate CDO, Ltd.      
Ser. 03-1A, Class E, 8s, 2038   904,000   474,437  

TIAA Real Estate CDO, Ltd. 144A      
Ser. 02-1A, Class IV, 6.84s, 2037   756,000   581,046  

Wells Fargo Home Equity Trust FRB      
Ser. 07-1, Class A3, 2.781s, 2037   106,000   55,147  

Whinstone Capital Management, Ltd.      
144A FRB Ser. 1A, Class B3, 3.7s,      
2044 (United Kingdom)   504,004   376,743  

Total asset-backed securities (cost $135,735,934)   $114,285,678  
 
 
SENIOR LOANS (11.3%)* c   Principal amount   Value  

Basic Materials (1.1%)      
Aleris International, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B, 4 1/2s, 2013   $789,047   $677,265  

Domtar Corp. bank term loan FRN      
3.858s, 2014 (Canada)   611,722   589,123  

Georgia-Pacific, LLC bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 4.449s, 2013   2,014,668   1,900,181  

Georgia-Pacific, LLC bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B2, 4.465s, 2012   591,000   557,415  

Graphic Packaging Corp. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. C, 5.55s, 2014   636,800   610,831  

Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc.      
bank term loan FRN Ser. C,      
5.063s, 2013   39,600   34,296  

Huntsman International, LLC bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B, 4.213s, 2012   2,730,000   2,554,013  

Momentive Performance      
Materials, Inc. bank term loan      
FRN 4 3/4s, 2013   744,561   680,032  

NewPage Holding Corp. bank term      
loan FRN 6.563s, 2014   580,085   572,592  

Novelis, Inc. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.81s, 2014   454,781   430,147  

Novelis, Inc. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.81s, 2014   1,000,519   946,324  

Rockwood Specialties Group, Inc.      
bank term loan FRN Ser. E,      
4.399s, 2012   1,299,984   1,248,913  

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. bank      
term loan FRN 5.22s, 2010   43,665   42,179  

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B, 4.637s, 2011   49,200   47,526  

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. C, 4.645s, 2011   57,029   55,088  

    10,945,925  

SENIOR LOANS (11.3%)* c cont.   Principal amount   Value  

Capital Goods (0.9%)      
Allied Waste Industries, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN 6.82s, 2012   $762,226   $745,711  

Allied Waste Industries, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN 4.228s, 2012   1,267,774   1,240,305  

BE Aerospace, Inc. bank term loan      
FRN Ser. B, 5 3/4s, 2014   345,000   344,713  

Berry Plastics Holding Corp. bank      
term loan FRN 4.784s, 2015   296,250   260,277  

Graham Packaging Co., LP bank term      
loan FRN 4.986s, 2011   197,500   187,872  

Hawker Beechcraft      
Acquisition Co., LLC bank term      
loan FRN 2.601s, 2014   113,975   105,961  

Hawker Beechcraft      
Acquisition Co., LLC bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 4.801s, 2014   2,160,609   2,008,692  

Hexcel Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.911s, 2012   345,442   338,533  

Mueller Water Products, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B, 4.564s, 2014   696,289   650,450  

Polypore, Inc. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.72s, 2014   608,900   569,321  

Sensata Technologies BV bank term      
loan FRN 4.543s, 2013      
(Netherlands)   152,959   132,819  

Sequa Corp. bank term loan FRN      
6.025s, 2014   978,864   924,211  

Transdigm, Inc. bank term loan FRN      
4.801s, 2013   810,000   783,270  

Wesco Aircraft Hardware Corp. bank      
term loan FRN 5.06s, 2013   408,000   390,150  

    8,682,285  
Communication Services (1.0%)      
Alltel Communications, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B2, 5.564s, 2015   1,395,485   1,377,780  

Alltel Communications, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B3, 5.208s, 2015   1,449,349   1,441,107  

Cricket Communications, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B, 6 1/2s, 2013   63,675   62,181  

Crown Castle International Corp.      
bank term loan FRN 4.301s, 2014   202,972   189,576  

Fairpoint Communications, Inc.      
bank term loan FRN Ser. B,      
5 3/4s, 2015   920,000   806,294  

Intelsat Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B2, 5.288s, 2011   528,258   497,993  

Intelsat Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B2-A, 5.288s, 2013   528,418   498,144  

Intelsat Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B2-C, 5.288s, 2013   528,258   497,993  

Intelsat, Ltd. bank term loan FRN      
5.783s, 2014 (Bermuda)   885,000   752,250  

Intelsat, Ltd. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 5.288s, 2013 (Bermuda)   1,179,000   1,127,124  

Level 3 Communications, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN 4.943s, 2014   408,000   368,220  

MetroPCS Wireless, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN 4.989s, 2013   848,059   804,914  

PAETEC Holding Corp. bank term      
loan FRN 4.983s, 2013   144,275   137,963  

PAETEC Holding Corp. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B1, 4.983s, 2013   397,872   380,465  


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SENIOR LOANS (11.3%)* c cont.   Principal amount   Value  

Communication Services cont .      
Time Warner Telecom, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B, 4.49s, 2013   $622,182   $593,872  

West Corp. bank term loan FRN      
4.954s, 2013   406,970   364,556  

    9,900,432  
Consumer Cyclicals (2.6%)      
Allison Transmission bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 5.322s, 2014   872,430   779,952  

Aramark Corp. bank term loan FRN      
2.025s, 2014   24,372   23,141  

Aramark Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.676s, 2014   383,628   364,255  

CCM Merger, Inc. bank term loan      
FRN Ser. B, 4.764s, 2012   127,649   116,799  

Cenveo, Inc. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. C, 4.551s, 2014   468,437   439,160  

Cenveo, Inc. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. DD, 4.551s, 2014   15,609   14,633  

Claire’s Stores, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN 5.445s, 2014   725,536   497,445  

Cooper-Standard Automotive, Inc.      
bank term loan FRN Ser. B,      
5.313s, 2012   444,659   411,310  

Cooper-Standard Automotive, Inc.      
bank term loan FRN Ser. C,      
5.313s, 2012   1,111,118   1,027,784  

Dana Corp. bank term loan FRN      
6 3/4s, 2015   958,185   884,525  

Dex Media West, LLC/Dex Media      
Finance Co. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 6.949s, 2014   795,000   752,269  

GateHouse Media, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 4.93s, 2014   430,000   258,000  

GateHouse Media, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 4.65s, 2014   1,012,283   594,716  

GateHouse Media, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. DD, 4.788s, 2014   377,717   221,909  

Golden Nugget, Inc. bank term loan      
FRN Ser. B, 4.465s, 2014   200,455   172,892  

Golden Nugget, Inc. bank term loan      
FRN Ser. DD, 4.47s, 2014 U   114,545   98,795  

Goodman Global Holdings, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B, 7 1/2s, 2011   746,910   736,173  

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (The)      
bank term loan FRN 4.54s, 2010   3,458,000   3,172,715  

Harrah’s Operating Co., Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B2, 5.8s, 2015   406,980   360,323  

Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN 4.551s, 2014   551,942   474,210  

Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. A, 4.551s, 2014   173,573   149,128  

Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B, 4.551s, 2014   220,777   189,684  

Landsource Communities/NWHL      
Investment bank term loan FRN      
6 3/4s, 2013   765,129   501,160  

Lear Corp bank term loan FRN      
5.132s, 2013   1,993,897   1,822,338  

Michaels Stores, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 4.791s, 2013   641,834   515,340  


SENIOR LOANS (11.3%)* c cont.   Principal amount   Value  

Consumer Cyclicals cont .      
National Bedding Co. bank term      
loan FRN 4.602s, 2011   $188,000   $146,953  

Navistar Financial Corp. bank term      
loan FRN 5.695s, 2012   423,467   390,119  

Navistar International Corp. bank      
term loan FRN 6.191s, 2012   1,164,533   1,072,826  

Neiman Marcus Group, Inc. (The) bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B, 4.422s, 2013   852,873   794,830  

Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.      
(The) bank term loan FRN Ser. B,      
4.606s, 2014   814,688   684,338  

Realogy Corp. bank term loan FRN      
5.32s, 2013 R   404,250   329,127  

Realogy Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 5.459s, 2013 R   1,501,500   1,222,472  

Standard-Pacific Corp. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 4.469s, 2013   399,999   325,333  

Ticketmaster bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 6.04s, 2014 U   680,000   680,000  

Tribune Co. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 5.786s, 2014   1,866,150   1,329,632  

Tropicana Entertainment bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 6 1/4s, 2011   1,540,000   1,299,375  

TRW Automotive, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 4.249s, 2014   366,300   352,106  

United Components, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. D, 4.698s, 2012   764,222   733,653  

Visant Holding Corp. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. C, 5.171s, 2010   466,809   454,555  

Visteon Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 5.46s, 2013   2,152,000   1,589,252  

Visteon Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B1, 6.1s, 2013   83,000   61,296  

Yankee Candle Co., Inc. bank term      
loan FRN 4.804s, 2014   242,000   217,397  

    26,261,920  
Consumer Staples (2.9%)      
Affinion Group, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 5.17s, 2013   1,983,844   1,892,919  

Cablevision Systems Corp. bank      
term loan FRN 4.206s, 2013   2,507,549   2,373,290  

Cebridge Connections, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B, 4.782s, 2013   1,333,125   1,235,848  

Charter Communications      
Operating, LLC bank term loan FRN      
8 1/2s, 2014   438,900   432,395  

Charter Communications, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN 5.301s, 2014   400,000   320,000  

Charter Communications, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN 4.8s, 2014   3,948,575   3,468,164  

Cinemark USA, Inc. bank term loan      
FRN 4.533s, 2013   993,074   933,489  

Citadel Communications bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 4.284s, 2014   835,000   678,438  

Dean Foods Co. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.305s, 2014   1,481,250   1,396,819  

DirecTV Holdings, LLC bank term      
loan FRN 5 1/4s, 2013   630,000   628,425  

Idearc, Inc. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.787s, 2014   2,717,472   2,013,193  


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SENIOR LOANS (11.3%)* c cont.   Principal amount   Value  

Consumer Staples cont .      
Insight Midwest, LP bank term loan      
FRN Ser. B, 4.47s, 2014   $243,776   $234,063  

Jarden Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B1, 4.551s, 2012   518,288   490,970  

Jarden Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B2, 4.551s, 2012   246,819   233,810  

Mediacom Communications Corp. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. C, 4.215s, 2015   818,470   745,831  

Mediacom Communications Corp. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. D2, 4.215s, 2015   236,400   215,567  

MGM Studios, Inc. bank term loan      
FRN Ser. B, 6.051s, 2011   1,191,585   914,542  

Pinnacle Foods Holding Corp. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B, 5.433s, 2014   999,950   910,787  

Prestige Brands, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 4.726s, 2011   741,423   721,034  

R.H. Donnelley, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN 6.589s, 2011   1,541,792   1,463,418  

R.H. Donnelley, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. D1, 6.628s, 2011   578,223   549,601  

Rental Service Corp. bank term      
loan FRN 6.3s, 2013   890,000   720,900  

Rite-Aid Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.22s, 2014   189,525   166,782  

Six Flags Theme Parks bank term      
loan FRN 4.881s, 2015   1,267,200   1,077,437  

Spanish Broadcasting Systems, Inc.      
bank term loan FRN 4.56s, 2012   775,940   605,233  

Spectrum Brands, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN 2.321s, 2013   60,082   56,529  

Spectrum Brands, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B1, 6.606s, 2013   1,046,567   928,828  

Universal City Development      
Partners bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 5.688s, 2011   1,136,666   1,125,300  

Univision Communications, Inc.      
bank term loan FRN Ser. B,      
5.124s, 2014   573,000   467,174  

VNU Group BV bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.734s, 2013      
(Netherlands)   405,935   377,012  

Warner Music Group bank term loan      
FRN Ser. B, 4.613s, 2011   455,179   423,695  

Young Broadcasting, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 5.313s, 2012   470,053   404,245  

    28,205,738  
Energy (0.3%)      
CR Gas Storage bank term loan FRN      
4.843s, 2013   41,453   38,344  

CR Gas Storage bank term loan FRN      
4.411s, 2013   100,096   92,589  

CR Gas Storage bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.534s, 2013   618,391   572,011  

CR Gas Storage bank term loan FRN      
Ser. DD, 4.844s, 2013   67,804   62,719  

Enterprise GP Holdings, LP bank      
term loan FRN 4.904s, 2014   210,000   205,275  

EPCO Holding, Inc. bank term loan      
FRN Ser. A, 3.833s, 2012   440,000   420,200  


SENIOR LOANS (11.3%)* c cont.   Principal amount   Value  

Energy cont .      
Hercules Offshore, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 4.55s, 2013   $128,700   $124,839  

MEG Energy Corp. bank term loan      
FRN 4.8s, 2013 (Canada)   219,938   210,178  

MEG Energy Corp. bank term loan      
FRN Ser. DD, 4.8s, 2013 (Canada)   224,156   214,256  

Petroleum Geo-Services ASA bank      
term loan FRN 4.55s, 2015      
(Norway)   281,233   272,093  

Targa Resources, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN 4.654s, 2012   415,922   399,909  

Targa Resources, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN 2.676s, 2012   236,129   227,038  

    2,839,451  
Financial (0.1%)      
General Growth Properties, Inc.      
bank term loan FRN Ser. A, 3.62s, 2010 R   200,000   176,833  

Hub International, Ltd. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 5.301s, 2014   279,045   255,500  

Hub International, Ltd. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. DD, 5.301s, 2014 U   62,719   57,427  

Nuveen Investments, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 5.472s, 2014   703,238   648,737  

    1,138,497  
Health Care (0.8%)      
Community Health Systems, Inc.      
bank term loan FRN Ser. B,      
4.859s, 2014   1,156,841   1,094,500  

Community Health Systems, Inc.      
bank term loan FRN Ser. DD,      
1/2s, 2014 U   59,836   56,611  

Davita, Inc. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.097s, 2012   550,000   528,491  

Health Management Associates, Inc.      
bank term loan FRN 4.551s, 2014   2,677,643   2,470,125  

Healthsouth Corp. bank term loan      
FRN Ser. B, 5.29s, 2013   712,672   671,184  

Hologic, Inc. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 5 3/4s, 2013 U   705,000   701,475  

IASIS Healthcare, LLC/IASIS      
Capital Corp. bank term loan FRN      
8.043s, 2014   733,898   634,822  

IASIS Healthcare, LLC/IASIS      
Capital Corp. bank term loan FRN      
7.62s, 2014   61,059   56,581  

IASIS Healthcare, LLC/IASIS      
Capital Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.463s, 2014   661,742   613,215  

IASIS Healthcare, LLC/IASIS      
Capital Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. DD, 4.463s, 2014   228,970   212,179  

LifePoint, Inc. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.274s, 2012   142,618   137,448  

Sun Healthcare Group, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN 2.701s, 2014   68,023   63,432  

Sun Healthcare Group, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B, 4.726s, 2014   209,740   195,583  

Sun Healthcare Group, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. DD, 4.912s, 2014   42,029   39,192  

    7,474,838  

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SENIOR LOANS (11.3%)* c cont.   Principal amount   Value  

Technology (0.6%)      
Activant Solutions Holdings, Inc.      
bank term loan FRN Ser. B,      
4.809s, 2013   $350,000   $305,375  

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.      
bank term loan FRN Ser. B2,      
4.471s, 2013   98,000   94,815  

Compucom Systems, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN 5.97s, 2014   387,075   358,044  

First Data Corp. bank term loan      
FRN Ser. B1, 5.243s, 2014   766,725   704,748  

First Data Corp. bank term loan      
FRN Ser. B3, 5.552s, 2014   751,283   689,973  

Flextronics International, Ltd.      
bank term loan FRN Ser. B,      
5.041s, 2014 (Singapore)   341,172   307,908  

Flextronics International, Ltd.      
bank term loan FRN Ser. B,      
5.041s, 2014 (Singapore)   1,187,278   1,071,518  

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B, 4.221s, 2013   267,641   240,543  

JDA Software Group, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN Ser. B, 5.034s, 2013   69,355   65,367  

Sabre Holdings Corp. bank term      
loan FRN 4.731s, 2014   534,494   416,312  

SunGard Data Systems, Inc. bank      
term loan FRN 4.508s, 2014   1,563,315   1,470,884  

Travelport bank term loan FRN      
5.301s, 2013   12,491   10,446  


SENIOR LOANS (11.3%)* c cont.   Principal amount   Value  

Technology cont .      
Travelport bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.733s, 2013   $225,244   $188,360  

Travelport bank term loan FRN      
Ser. DD, 4.733s, 2013   243,777   202,945  

    6,127,238  
Transportation (0.3%)      
Ceva Group PLC bank term loan FRN      
7.208s, 2015 (Netherlands)   3,480,000   2,505,600  

Delta Airlines, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN 4.463s, 2012   6,750   5,181  

UAL Corp. bank term loan FRN      
Ser. B, 4.574s, 2014   243,333   176,052  

    2,686,833  
Utilities & Power (0.7%)      
Dynegy Holdings, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN 3.983s, 2013   1,505,000   1,395,511  

Energy Future Holdings Corp. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B2, 6.236s, 2014   1,343,867   1,262,756  

Energy Future Holdings Corp. bank      
term loan FRN Ser. B3, 6.262s, 2014   1,245,588   1,165,987  

NRG Energy, Inc. bank term loan      
FRN 7.84s, 2014 U   355,000   339,913  

NRG Energy, Inc. bank term loan      
FRN 4.451s, 2014   563,743   535,820  

NRG Energy, Inc. bank term loan      
FRN 4.301s, 2014   1,150,877   1,093,873  

Reliant Energy, Inc. bank term      
loan FRN 2.351s, 2014   890,000   847,725  

    6,641,585  
 
Total senior loans (cost $119,322,394)     $110,904,742  
   

PURCHASED OPTIONS OUTSTANDING (1.4%)*   Expiration date/   Contract   Value  
  strike price   amount    

Option on an interest rate swap with Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc. for the right to receive a        
fixed rate of 5.37% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing November 12, 2019.   Nov-09/5.370   $40,437,000   $2,041,664  

Option on an interest rate swap with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. for the right to receive a        
fixed rate of 5.355% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing on November 12, 2019.   Nov-09/5.355   40,437,000   2,013,358  

Option on an interest rate swap with Goldman Sachs International for the right to receive a        
fixed rate of 5.355% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing November 12, 2019.   Nov-09/5.355   40,437,000   2,013,358  

Option on an interest rate swap with Goldman Sachs International for the right to pay a        
fixed rate of 5.355% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing on November 12, 2019.   Nov-09/5.355   40,437,000   981,810  

Option on an interest rate swap with Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc. for the right to pay a        
fixed rate of 5.37% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing November 12, 2019.   Nov-09/5.370   40,437,000   964,018  

Option on an interest rate swap with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. for the right to pay a        
fixed rate of 5.355% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing November 12, 2019.   Nov-09/5.355   40,437,000   981,810  

Option on an interest rate swap with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. for the right to pay a        
fixed rate of 5.03% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing on February 16, 2020.   Feb-10/5.030   62,480,000   2,476,082  

Option on an interest rate swap with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. for the right to receive a        
fixed rate of 5.03% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing on February 16, 2020.   Feb-10/5.030   62,480,000   2,298,639  

Total purchased options outstandings (cost $14,590,154)       $13,770,739  
   

CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCKS (0.1%)*   Shares   Value  

Emmis Communications Corp. Ser. A, $3.125 cum. cv. pfd.   4,733   $113,592  

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. Ser. P, 7.25% cv. pfd.   1,477   960,050  

Total convertible preferred stocks (cost $1,609,395)     $1,073,642  

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COMMON STOCKS (—%)*   Shares   Value  

AboveNet, Inc. †   466   $29,009  

Bohai Bay Litigation, LLC (Units) F   1,327   18,783  

VFB LLC (acquired various dates from 6/22/99 through 12/8/03, cost $1,311,474) F ‡ †   1,795,382   37,139  

XCL Warranty Escrow F   1,327   94,737  

Total common stocks (cost $1,460,887)     $179,668  
   

WARRANTS (—%)* †   Expiration date   Strike price   Warrants   Value  

AboveNet, Inc.   9/08/10   $24.00   230   $8,510  

AboveNet, Inc.   9/08/08   20.00   196   7,452  

Dayton Superior Corp. 144A F   6/15/09   .01   1,980   5,025  

New ASAT Finance, Ltd. (Cayman Islands) F   2/01/11   .01   6,500   55  

Smurfit Kappa Group PLC 144A (Ireland)   10/01/13   EUR .001   960   29,640  

Total warrants (cost $73,048)         $50,682  
   

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS (6.5%)*     Principal amount/shares   Value  

Putnam Prime Money Market Fund e     26,440,432   $26,440,432  

Short-term investments held as collateral for loaned securities with yields ranging from 2.00%        
to 2.96% and due dates ranging from August 1, 2008 to September 26, 2008 d     $11,660,825   11,646,260  

Egypt Treasury Bill, for an effective yield of 9.78%, September 12, 2008   EGP   15,325,000   2,866,029  

Egypt Treasury Bill, for an effective yield of 10.58%, December 2, 2008   EGP   8,750,000   1,590,264  

Egypt Treasury Bill, for an effective yield of 11.18%, January 27, 2009   EGP   5,750,000   1,030,771  

U.S. Treasury Bills for effective yields ranging from 1.34% to 1.91%, September 18, 2008 #     $20,346,000   $20,302,612  

Total short-term investments (cost $63,847,121)       $63,876,368  
 
TOTAL INVESTMENTS        

Total investments (cost $1,693,973,787)       $1,670,265,030  

 

Key to holding’s currency abbreviations

ARS Argentine Peso

BRL Brazilian Real

CAD Canadian Dollar

CHF Swiss Franc

EGP Egyptian Pound

EUR Euro

GBP British Pound

INR Indian Rupee

JPY Japanese Yen

MXN Mexican Peso

SEK Swedish Krona

TRY Turkish Lira (New)

USD / $ United States Dollar

ZAR South African Rand

* Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $979,577,367.

† Non-income-producing security.

The interest rate and date shown parenthetically represent the new interest rate to be paid and the date the fund will begin accruing interest at this rate.

‡ Restricted, excluding 144A securities, as to public resale. The total market value of restricted securities held at July 31, 2008 was $1,014,267 or 0.1% of net assets.

‡‡ Income may be received in cash or additional securities at the discretion of the issuer.

# This security was pledged and segregated with the custodian to cover margin requirements for futures contracts at July 31, 2008.

c Senior loans are exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, but contain certain restrictions on resale and cannot be sold publicly. These loans pay interest at rates which adjust periodically. The interest rates shown for senior loans are the current interest rates at July 31, 2008. Senior loans are also subject to mandatory and/or optional prepayment which cannot be predicted. As a result, the remaining maturity may be substantially less than the stated maturity shown (Notes 1 and 6).

d See Note 1 to the financial statements.

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e See Note 5 to the financial statements regarding investments in Putnam Prime Money Market Fund.

F Is valued at fair value following procedures approved by the Trustees.

R Real Estate Investment Trust.

S Securities on loan, in part or in entirety, at July 31, 2008.

U These securities, in part or in entirety, represent unfunded loan commitments (Note 7).

At July 31, 2008, liquid assets totaling $525,453,746 have been designated as collateral for open forward commitments, swap contracts, and forward contracts.

144A after the name of an issuer represents securities exempt from registration under Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.

TBA after the name of a security represents to be announced securities (Note 1).

The rates shown on Floating Rate Bonds (FRB) and Floating Rate Notes (FRN) are the current interest rates at July 31, 2008.

The dates shown on debt obligations are the original maturity dates.

Inverse Floating Rate Bonds (IFB) are securities that pay interest rates that vary inversely to changes in the market interest rates. As interest rates rise, inverse floaters produce less current income. The interest rates shown are the current interest rates at July 31, 2008.

DIVERSIFICATION BY COUNTRY            

Distribution of investments by country of issue at July 31, 2008 (as a percentage of Portfolio Value):        
United States   86.1%   Canada   0.8%   Cayman Islands   0.5%  



Japan   2.8   Sweden   0.7   Other   3.5  

 
 
United Kingdom   1.8   Mexico   0.5   Total   100.0%  

 
 
Luxembourg   1.4   Venezuela   0.5      

 
 
Argentina   0.9   Netherlands   0.5      

 
 

FORWARD CURRENCY CONTRACTS TO BUY at 7/31/08     Aggregate   Delivery   Unrealized appreciation/  
(aggregate face value $182,080,803)   Value   face value   date   (depreciation)  

Australian Dollar   $39,042,212   $39,488,908   10/15/08   $(446,696)  

British Pound   2,980,333   2,929,359   9/17/08   50,974  

Canadian Dollar   3,792,034   3,840,268   10/15/08   (48,234)  

Danish Krone   557,383   551,376   9/17/08   6,007  

Euro   57,672,317   58,113,421   9/17/08   (441,104)  

Japanese Yen   5,061,864   5,113,830   8/20/08   (51,966)  

Malaysian Ringgit   3,735,844   3,828,191   8/20/08   (92,347)  

Mexican Peso   1,424,133   1,370,747   10/15/08   53,386  

New Zealand Dollar   11,902   12,240   10/15/08   (338)  

Norwegian Krone   47,327,725   47,275,232   9/17/08   52,493  

Polish Zloty   10,108,587   9,476,785   9/17/08   631,802  

Swiss Franc   9,984,320   10,080,446   9/17/08   (96,126)  

Total         $(382,149)  

FORWARD CURRENCY CONTRACTS TO SELL at 7/31/08     Aggregate   Delivery   Unrealized appreciation/  
(aggregate face value $188,301,695)   Value   face value   date   (depreciation)  

Australian Dollar   $4,766,169   $4,890,615   10/15/08   $124,446  

British Pound   37,455,935   37,595,830   9/17/08   139,895  

Canadian Dollar   17,983,985   18,093,982   10/15/08   109,997  

Euro   63,540,007   63,378,847   9/17/08   (161,160)  

Hungarian Forint   8,007,444   7,585,571   9/17/08   (421,873)  

Japanese Yen   8,971,112   9,172,625   8/20/08   201,513  

South African Rand   2,708,182   2,497,037   10/15/08   (211,145)  

Swedish Krona   33,117,064   33,165,243   9/17/08   48,179  

Swiss Franc   11,862,252   11,921,945   9/17/08   59,693  

Total         $(110,455)  

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FUTURES CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 7/31/08   Number of     Expiration   Unrealized appreciation/  
  contracts   Value   date   (depreciation)  

Australian Government Treasury Bond 10 yr (Short)   4   $2,650,365   Sep-08   $(2,277)  

Canadian Government Bond 10 yr (Long)   34   3,945,343   Sep-08   23,114  

Euro-Bobl 5 yr (Long)   366   61,245,782   Sep-08   217,335  

Euro-Bund 10 yr (Long)   496   87,005,513   Sep-08   252,674  

Euro-Dollar 90 day (Short)   246   59,495,100   Jun-09   263,468  

Euro-Dollar 90 day (Short)   495   119,394,000   Sep-09   609,516  

Euro-Dollar 90 day (Short)   1,215   292,086,000   Dec-09   1,895,020  

Euro-Dollar 90 day (Short)   41   9,831,800   Mar-10   41,076  

Euro-Schatz 2 yr (Short)   789   126,598,819   Sep-08   (529,157)  

Japanese Government Bond 10 yr (Long)   161   203,597,015   Sep-08   2,975,503  

Sterling Interest Rate 90 day (Long)   258   60,547,037   Jun-09   (215,553)  

Sterling Interest Rate 90 day (Long)   211   49,524,994   Sep-09   (116,839)  

U.K. Gilt 10 yr (Long)   52   11,067,742   Sep-08   98,819  

U.S. Treasury Bond 20 yr (Long)   3,042   351,351,000   Sep-08   3,792,578  

U.S. Treasury Note 2 yr (Short)   10,811   2,291,932,000   Sep-08   (14,414,207)  

U.S. Treasury Note 5 yr (Short)   3,840   427,530,000   Sep-08   (2,285,538)  

U.S. Treasury Note 10 yr (Long)   479   55,002,672   Sep-08   88,636  

Total         $(7,305,832)  
   

WRITTEN OPTIONS OUTSTANDING at 7/31/08   Contract   Expiration date/    
(premiums received $5,687,548)   amount   strike price   Value  

Option on an interest rate swap with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. for the obligation to pay        
a fixed rate of 5.00% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing on December 19, 2018.   $9,815,000   Dec-08/5.000   $309,663  

Option on an interest rate swap with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. for the obligation to receive        
a fixed rate of 5.00% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing on December 19, 2018.   9,815,000   Dec-08/5.000   145,753  

Option on an interest rate swap with Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc. for the obligation        
to pay a fixed rate of 5.515% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing on May 14, 2022.   32,011,000   May-12/5.515   1,801,898  

Option on an interest rate swap with Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc. for the obligation        
to receive a fixed rate of 5.515% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing on May 14, 2022.   32,011,000   May-12/5.515   1,360,788  

Option on an interest rate swap with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. for the obligation to pay        
a fixed rate of 5.51% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing on May 14, 2022.   19,551,000   May-12/5.510   1,095,247  

Option on an interest rate swap with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. for the obligation to receive        
a fixed rate of 5.51% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing on May 14, 2022.   19,551,000   May-12/5.510   833,655  

Option on an interest rate swap with Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc. for the obligation        
to pay a fixed rate of 5.52% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing on May 14, 2022.   12,805,000   May-12/5.520   721,946  

Option on an interest rate swap with Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc. for the obligation        
to receive a fixed rate of 5.52% versus the three month USD-LIBOR-BBA maturing on May 14, 2022.   12,805,000   May-12/5.520   542,036  

Total       $6,810,986  
   

TBA SALE COMMITMENTS OUTSTANDING at 7/31/08 (proceeds receivable $271,530,352)   Principal   Settlement    
Agency   amount   date   Value  

FNMA, 5s, August 1, 2038   $249,000,000   8/13/08   $236,355,481  

FNMA, 5 1/2s, August 1, 2038   23,000,000   8/13/08   22,504,063  

FNMA, 6s, August 1, 2038   13,000,000   8/13/08   13,055,860  

FNMA, 6 1/2s, August 1, 2038   1,000,000   8/13/08   1,026,406  

Total       $272,941,810  

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INTEREST RATE SWAP CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 7/31/08

    Upfront          
    premium          
Swap   Notional   received   Termination   Payments made by   Payments received by   Unrealized appreciation/  
counterparty   amount   (paid)   date   fund per annum   fund per annum   (depreciation)  

Bank of America, N.A.            
  $6,900,000   $—   1/27/14   4.35%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   $(32,443)  

  32,700,000     3/30/09   3.075%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (288,609)  

  68,477,000     5/23/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   3.155%   (160,253)  

  37,724,000     6/6/18   4.6675%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (108,066)  

  134,660,000     7/3/18   5.23625%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   371,662  

  51,800,000     7/18/13   4.14688%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   31,369  

  105,277,000     9/24/09   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.7375%   3,389,257  

  900,000     9/1/15   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.53%   17,121  

  20,688,000     5/8/28   4.95%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5,136  

Citibank, N.A.          
JPY   2,230,000,000     9/11/16   1.8675%   6 month JPY-LIBOR-BBA   (477,991)  

  $23,700,000     9/29/13   5.078%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (1,307,962)  

  65,000,000     7/21/18   4.80625%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (711,341)  

MXN   74,310,000  F     7/18/13   1 month MXN-TIIE-BANXICO   9.175%   (47,943)  

MXN   22,295,000  F     7/22/13   1 month MXN-TIIE-BANXICO   9.21%   (12,013)  

  $10,000,000     9/17/09   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.765%   328,392  

  46,380,000     7/27/09   5.504%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (1,121,845)  

  105,170,000     10/26/12   4.6275%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (3,610,888)  

  30,150,000     11/9/09   4.387%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (581,063)  

  30,982,000     11/9/17   5.0825%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (1,197,349)  

  74,193,000     11/23/17   4.885%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (1,676,578)  

Citibank, N.A., London    
JPY   2,600,000,000     2/10/16   6 month JPY-LIBOR-BBA   1.755%   430,161  

Credit Suisse First Boston International    
  $11,257,600     7/9/14   4.945%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (385,783)  

Credit Suisse International    
CHF   9,120,000     3/13/18   6 month CHF-LIBOR-BBA   3.3175%   (89,763)  

CHF   40,270,000     3/15/10   2.59%   6 month CHF-LIBOR-BBA   285,208  

CHF   40,270,000     3/15/10   2.6625%   6 month CHF-LIBOR-BBA   249,977  

CHF   9,120,000     3/14/18   6 month CHF-LIBOR-BBA   3.3%   (102,859)  

  $1,153,000     8/29/12   5.04556%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (64,029)  

  2,070,000     10/16/17   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.297%   132,479  

  14,923,740     11/6/17   4.97021%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (447,429)  

EUR   56,330,000     7/4/15   3.93163%   6 month EUR-EURIBOR-Telerate   4,644,953  

Deutsche Bank AG    
EUR   83,090,000  E     4/30/12   6 month EUR-EURIBOR-Reuters  4.31%    (1,140,001)  

EUR   71,010,000  E     4/30/15   4.475%   6 month EUR-EURIBOR-Reuters   1,268,756  

EUR   19,890,000  E     4/30/20   6 month EUR-EURIBOR-Reuters  4.7975%    (148,850)  

EUR   91,580,000     7/3/18   6 month EUR-EURIBOR-Reuters  4.86%    84,242  

ZAR   23,880,000     7/6/11   3 month ZAR-JIBAR-SAFEX   9.16%   (133,329)  

  $4,723,000     10/16/17   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.297%   302,269  

  3,250,000     11/7/17   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.056%   119,015  

Goldman Sachs International    
SEK   169,520,000  E     3/2/11   3 month SEK-STIBOR-SIDE   4.2475%   (514,418)  

SEK   40,610,000  E     3/4/19   4.80%   3 month SEK-STIBOR-SIDE   160,630  

  $44,454,000     3/11/38   5.029%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (743,476)  

EUR   46,050,000     3/26/10   6 month EUR-EURIBOR-Reuters  4.129%    (1,096,721)  

GBP   38,380,000     3/29/10   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   5.25%   (592,474)  

GBP   9,280,000     3/27/18   5.0675%   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   352,495  

  $18,916,000     4/2/18   4.076%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   656,117  

  68,752,000     4/3/18   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.19%   (1,748,473)  

CHF   61,590,000     4/5/10   2.89%   6 month CHF-LIBOR-BBA   160,317  

CHF   14,050,000     4/3/18   6 month CHF-LIBOR-BBA   3.42%   (33,518)  


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INTEREST RATE SWAP CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 7/31/08 cont.

    Upfront          
  premium          
Swap Notional   received   Termination   Payments made by   Payments received by   Unrealized appreciation/  
counterparty   amount   (paid)   date   fund per annum   fund per annum   (depreciation)  

Goldman Sachs International cont.    
  $179,539,000   $—   4/8/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   2.64%   $(745,611)  

CHF   19,630,000     4/1/10   2.9%   6 month CHF-LIBOR-BBA   45,217  

CHF   4,460,000     4/2/18   6 month CHF-LIBOR-BBA   3.44%   (3,111)  

  $25,306,000     4/23/18   4.43%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   176,023  

  36,485,000     5/19/18   4.525%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   283,435  

  144,500,000     3/10/10   4.779%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (5,594,182)  

JPY   7,010,070,000     5/7/10   6 month JPY-LIBOR-BBA   1.09125%   20,091  

JPY   1,542,220,000  E     5/7/18   2.205%   6 month JPY-LIBOR-BBA   (35,600)  

GBP   26,240,000     7/10/13   5.73%   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   (430,337)  

GBP   29,680,000     7/10/18   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   5.43%   661,418  

GBP   7,270,000     7/10/38   4.7075%   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   (211,776)  

JPY   1,465,300,000     6/10/16   1.953%   6 month JPY-LIBOR-BBA   (387,498)  

  $700,000     7/25/09   5.327%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (15,857)  

  158,900,000  E     3/8/12   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.99%   1,387,197  

  4,243,000     9/14/14   4.906%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (193,237)  

  2,070,000     9/14/17   5.0625%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (99,336)  

  3,190,000     9/14/09   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.717%   103,494  

  96,335,000     9/19/09   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.763%   3,164,551  

  185,880,600     9/21/09   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.60%   5,579,264  

  51,830,600     9/21/17   5.149%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (2,782,101)  

GBP   3,880,000  E     1/25/38   4.41%   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   (249,839)  

GBP   3,880,000  E     1/7/38   4.33625%   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   (201,225)  

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.    
  $297,249,000     4/27/09   5.034%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (8,240,915)  

  7,693,000     3/7/18   4.45%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   16,317  

  25,078,000     3/12/18   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.4525%   (60,807)  

  27,784,000     3/11/38   5.0025%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (347,621)  

  150,842,000     3/14/18   4.775%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (3,587,641)  

  63,811,000     3/20/13   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   3.145%   (2,081,852)  

  116,638,000     3/26/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   2.33375%   (1,129,765)  

  66,000,000     3/6/16   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.176%   4,013,560  

  64,949,000     4/8/13   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   3.58406%   (879,984)  

  114,128,000     5/23/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   3.16%   (255,739)  

  39,000,000     6/13/13   4.47%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (624,977)  

  14,680,000     10/10/13   5.054%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (778,894)  

  20,430,000     10/10/13   5.09%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (1,124,450)  

  52,691,000     7/16/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   3.384%   (13,188)  

  6,920,000     7/17/18   4.52%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   81,964  

  46,192,000     7/22/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   3.565%   138,857  

MXN   74,310,000  F     7/19/13   1 month MXN-TIIE-BANXICO   9.235%   (30,082)  

  $109,485,000     7/28/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   3.5141%   196,228  

  100,000     7/25/17   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.652%   7,665  

  30,000,000     5/10/15   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.687%   600,756  

  13,000,000     5/10/35   5.062%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (152,725)  

  13,200,000     8/13/12   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.2%   826,980  

  5,641,000     8/29/17   5.2925%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (379,329)  

  2,577,000     8/29/17   5.263%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (167,790)  

  41,913,000     9/11/27   5.27%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (2,196,737)  

  45,120,000     5/4/16   5.62375%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (3,586,561)  

JPY   11,230,000,000     6/6/13   1.83%   6 month JPY-LIBOR-BBA   (2,458,695)  

  $185,880,600     9/21/09   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.6125%   5,613,420  

  51,830,600     9/21/17   5.15%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (2,786,429)  

  3,134,000     9/27/17   5.2335%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (189,000)  


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INTEREST RATE SWAP CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 7/31/08 cont.

    Upfront          
    premium          
Swap   Notional   received   Termination   Payments made by   Payments received by   Unrealized appreciation/  
counterparty   amount   (paid)   date   fund per annum   fund per annum   (depreciation)  

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. cont.    
  $114,678,000   $—   10/30/12   4.68375%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   $(4,219,477)  

  1,640,000     11/7/17   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.05771%   60,277  

  30,150,000     11/9/09   4.3975%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (585,703)  

  30,982,000     11/9/17   5.0895%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (1,214,263)  

  165,391,000     11/30/17   4.705%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (1,360,497)  

  58,161,000     12/11/17   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.65%   182,847  

  56,000,000     8/4/08   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.40%   1,117,821  

  30,500,000     8/4/16   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.5195%   2,643,393  

  105,544,000     1/31/18   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.25%   (3,262,332)  

  43,175,000     2/5/18   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.28%   (639,615)  

Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc.    
  62,932,000   43,568   3/14/18   4.35%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   734,138  

  113,230,000     3/19/13   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   3.0675%   (4,091,837)  

  99,892,000     3/20/13   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   3.215%   (2,938,878)  

  91,090,000     3/26/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   2.3525%   (849,048)  

  91,090,000     3/26/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   2.395%   (773,665)  

  63,811,000     3/20/13   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   3.07%   (2,300,909)  

  176,083,000     3/20/13   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   3.155%   (5,664,394)  

  197,774,000     3/25/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   2.345%   (1,863,976)  

  57,300,000     3/25/13   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   3.2292%   (1,663,424)  

  19,400,000     3/25/38   4.583%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   1,069,363  

  197,774,000     3/25/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   2.268%   (2,158,561)  

  127,518,000     3/25/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   2.275%   (1,374,616)  

GBP   30,700,000     3/22/10   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   5.075%   (679,026)  

GBP   8,660,000     3/20/18   4.99%   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   434,841  

EUR   83,450,000  E     4/12/12   6 month EUR-EURIBOR-Reuters 4.10%     (1,617,229)  

EUR   71,010,000  E     4/13/15   4.31%   6 month EUR-EURIBOR-Reuters   2,004,989  

EUR   19,830,000  E     4/13/20   6 month EUR-EURIBOR-Reuters 4.6575%     (456,025)  

  $97,009,000     4/16/18   4.405%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   839,357  

  20,822,000     4/21/38   4.945%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (14,050)  

  134,660,000  E     7/2/18   5.19%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   591,157  

EUR   91,580,000  E     7/2/18   6 month EUR-EURIBOR-Reuters 4.9425%     491,171  

  $155,000,000     6/10/13   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.127%   135,299  

  31,936,000     6/10/38   5.1275%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (623,719)  

  108,336,000     6/20/18   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.0575%   (5,158,802)  

  134,070,000     6/12/17   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.717%   11,355,954  

  80,954,000     6/14/17   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.8725%   7,771,033  

GBP   23,211,000     7/8/13   5.7475%   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   (410,677)  

GBP   26,277,000     7/8/18   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   5.46%   699,887  

GBP   6,455,000     7/8/38   4.7475%   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   (266,371)  

  $21,082,000     7/17/18   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.715%   81,195  

  30,000,000     8/4/13   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.158%    

  108,143,000     8/3/08   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.425%   2,171,944  

  18,882,000     8/3/11   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.445%   1,267,970  

  1,789,000     8/3/16   5.5675%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (161,179)  

  66,339,000     3/15/09   4.9298%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (1,798,608)  

  182,914,000     8/31/09   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.89%   6,486,176  

  38,636,000     8/31/27   5.4925%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (3,397,851)  

  38,636,000     9/4/27   5.4475%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (2,926,376)  

  182,914,000     9/4/09   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.836%   6,304,179  

  198,421,000     9/11/09   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.6525%   6,272,177  

  5,285,000     9/11/17   5.0525%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (250,858)  

  1,310,000     9/14/17   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.055%   62,094  


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INTEREST RATE SWAP CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 7/31/08 cont.

    Upfront          
    premium          
Swap   Notional   received   Termination   Payments made by   Payments received by   Unrealized appreciation/  
counterparty   amount   (paid)   date   fund per annum   fund per annum   (depreciation)  

Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc. cont.  
  $7,000,000   $—   9/17/17   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.131%   $370,381  

  64,223,300     9/19/09   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.755%   2,102,678  

  185,880,600     9/24/09   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.695%   5,869,173  

  51,830,600     9/24/17   5.285%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (3,338,925)  

  105,170,000     10/26/12   4.61375%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (3,551,412)  

JPY   2,655,800,000     6/10/16   1.7775%   6 month JPY-LIBOR-BBA   (375,565)  

  $760,000     11/7/17   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   5.05521%   27,784  

  30,150,000     11/9/09   4.403%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (588,191)  

  30,982,000     11/9/17   5.067%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (1,160,006)  

  109,767,000     12/11/17   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   4.839%   1,952,561  

JPY   4,600,000,000     10/21/15   1.61%   6 month JPY-LIBOR-BBA   (288,264)  

  $25,921,000     1/16/18   4.375%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   536,496  

  6,358,423     2/8/13   3.441%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   108,315  

  101,770,000     2/14/13   3.563%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   1,174,288  

  91,090,000     3/26/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   2.325%   (897,825)  

EUR   46,050,000     3/29/10   6 month EUR-EURIBOR-Reuters 4.25%     (939,143)  

Merrill Lynch Capital Services, Inc.  
  $105,170,000     10/26/12   4.6165%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (3,562,676)  

  38,216,000     5/19/10   3.2925%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (10,183)  

  57,680,000     7/22/10   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   3.5375%   143,000  

JPY   1,465,300,000     6/10/16   1.99625%   6 month JPY-LIBOR-BBA   (432,081)  

Merrill Lynch Derivative Products AG  
JPY   732,600,000     6/11/17   2.05625%   6 month JPY-LIBOR-BBA   (228,064)  

Morgan Stanley Capital Services, Inc.  
GBP   14,710,000     3/28/18   5.065%   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   564,121  

GBP   61,080,000     3/29/10   6 month GBP-LIBOR-BBA   5.21%   (1,033,515)  

  $881,000     8/29/17   5.26021%   3 month USD-LIBOR-BBA   (57,167)  

Total             $(28,251,289)  

E See Note 1 to the financial statements regarding extended effective dates.

F Is valued at fair value following procedures approved by the Trustees.

TOTAL RETURN SWAP CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 7/31/08

    Termi-       Unrealized  
Swap   Notional   nation   Fixed payments received (paid)   Total return received by   appreciation/  
counterparty   amount   date   by fund per annum   or paid by fund   (depreciation)  

Bank of America, N.A.    
  $45,228,000  1F   11/1/08   Banc of America Securities AAA 10 year Index   The spread return of Banc of   $(1,599,714)  
      multiplied by the modified duration factor minus   America Securities — CMBS AAA    
      20 bp   10 year Index    

Goldman Sachs International  
  2,644,000   9/15/11   678 bp (1 month USD-LIBOR-BBA)   Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust   (1,969)  
        Series 2005-B Class D    
EUR   37,928,000  F   3/26/09   (2.27%)   Eurostat Eurozone HICP   277,979  
        excluding tobacco    
 
EUR   21,440,000  F   4/30/13   2.375%   French Consumer Price Index   (103,624)  
        excluding tobacco    
 
EUR   21,440,000   4/30/13   (2.41%)   Eurostat Eurozone HICP   337,948  
        excluding tobacco    
 
EUR   21,440,000  F   5/6/13   2.34%   French Consumer Price Index   (120,350)  
        excluding tobacco    
 
EUR   21,440,000   5/6/13   (2.385%)   Eurostat Eurozone HICP   372,724  
        excluding tobacco    

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TOTAL RETURN SWAP CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 7/31/08

    Termi-       Unrealized  
Swap   Notional   nation   Fixed payments received (paid)   Total return received by   appreciation/  
counterparty   amount   date   by fund per annum   or paid by fund   (depreciation)  

Goldman Sachs International cont.    
GBP   12,864,000   5/9/13   3.10%   GBP Non-revised Retail Price   $(474,606)  
        Index    
GBP   2,794,000  F   1/7/38   3.485%      
        GBP Non-revised UK Retail Price   (488,555)  
        Index excluding tobacco    
GBP   3,723,000   1/7/18   (3.11%)   GBP Non-revised UK Retail Price   403,404  
        Index excluding tobacco    
 
GBP   3,723,000   1/24/18   (3.26%)   GBP Non-revised UK Retail Price   312,684  
        Index excluding tobacco    
 
GBP   2,794,000  F   1/24/38   3.6665%   GBP Non-revised UK Retail Price   (251,974)  
        Index excluding tobacco    

 
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.    
  $15,225,000  1F   8/1/08   Change in spread of Lehman Brothers AAA 8.5+   The spread return of Lehman   (2,012,486)  
      Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Index   Brothers AAA 8.5+ CMBS Index    
      minus 17.5 bp   adjusted by modified duration    
        factor    

 
Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc.    
  45,228,000  1   11/1/08   Lehman Brothers SD CMBS AAA 8.5+ Index   The spread return of Lehman   (1,697,411)  
      multiplied by the modified duration factor minus   Brothers SD CMBS AAA 8.5+    
      40 bp   Index    
 
  60,015,500    1F 11/1/08   Lehman Brothers SD CMBS AAA 8.5+ Index   The spread return of Lehman   (2,463,516)  
      multiplied by the modified duration factor minus   Brothers SD CMBS AAA 8.5+    
      125 bp   Index    
 
  18,964,000   7/2/10   (3.4075%)   USA Non-revised Consumer   (212,018)  
        Price Index — Urban (CPI-U)    
 
GBP   3,200,000  F   7/10/38   GBP 6,811,083   GBP Non-revised Retail Price   (43,746)  
        Index    
 
 
GBP   8,576,000  F   7/10/18   GBP 4,039,456   GBP Non-revised Retail Price   246,450  
        Index    
 
 
  $7,746,000  1   8/1/08   Lehman Brothers SD CMBS AAA 8.5+ Index   The spread return of Lehman   (273,757)  
      multiplied by the modified duration factor plus   Brothers SD CMBS AAA 8.5+    
      40 bp   Index    
 
  7,746,000  1   8/1/08   Lehman Brothers SD CMBS AAA 8.5+ Index   The spread return of Lehman   (269,862)  
      multiplied by the modified duration factor plus   Brothers SD CMBS AAA 8.5+    
      50 bp   Index    
 
  17,633,000 1   8/1/08   Lehman Brothers SD CMBS AAA 8.5+ Index   The spread return of Lehman   (680,805)  
      multiplied by the modified duration factor minus   Brothers SD CMBS AAA 8.5+    
      25 bp   Index    

 
Merrill Lynch Capital Services    
  135,108,558   8/13/08   (2.73%) 5.50%   FNMA 5.50% 30 YR TBA   (1,122,811)  

Morgan Stanley Capital Services, Inc.    
  17,901,000 1   8/1/08   Beginning of period nominal spread of Lehman   The spread return of Lehman   (774,929)  
      Brothers AAA 8.5+ Commercial Mortgage   Brothers Aaa 8.5+ CMBS Index    
      Backed Securities Index   adjusted by modified duration    
        factor    

Total           $(10,640,944)  

F Is valued at fair value following procedures approved by the Trustees.

1 Fund receives the net fixed and total return payment if positive and pays the net fixed and total return payment if negative.

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CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 7/31/08         Fixed payments   Unrealized  
                                                                Upfront premium     Notional   Termination   received (paid) by   appreciation/  
Swap counterparty / Referenced debt*   received (paid)**     amount   date   fund per annum   (depreciation)  

Bank of America, N.A.    
Abitibibowater Inc., 6 1/2%, 6/15/13   $—     $245,000   12/20/08   550 bp   $(4,105)  

Clear Channel Communications, 5 3/4%, 1/15/13       765,000   9/20/09   635 bp   11,018  

DJ ABX NA CMBX BBB Index   267     389,000   10/12/52   (134 bp)   185,092  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 9 Index   19,847     10,585,080   12/20/12   (375 bp)   957,632  

Financial Security Assurance Inc.       1,075,000   12/20/12   95 bp   (210,745)  

Ford Motor Co., 7.45%, 7/16/31       935,000   3/20/12   (525 bp)   280,467  

Ford Motor Credit Co., 7%, 10/1/13       2,805,000   3/20/12   285 bp   (737,925)  

Idearc, Inc T/L Bank Loan       1,150,000   6/20/12   (152 bp)   155,419  

Lehman Brothers Holdings, 6 5/8%, 1/18/12       2,375,000   9/20/13   269 bp   (47,152)  

Nalco, Co. 7.75%,11/15/11       175,000   9/20/12   350 bp   (1,413)  

Visteon Corp., 7%, 3/10/14   (282,891)     1,065,000   9/20/13   (500 bp)   115,747  

Barclays Bank PLC              
Peru CD       2,814,572   1/7/09   170 bp   15,411  

Peru CD       2,671,785   11/10/08   170 bp   17,323  

Bear Stearns Credit Products, Inc.              
Claire’s Stores, 9 5/8%, 6/1/15       140,000   6/20/12   230 bp   (21,792)  

Citibank, N.A.              
Abitibibowater Inc., 6 1/2%, 6/15/13       245,000   12/20/08   725 bp   (1,953)  

Abitibibowater Inc., 6 1/2%, 6/15/13       245,000   12/20/08   800 bp   (1,031)  

Abitibibowater Inc., 6 1/2%, 6/15/13       245,000   12/20/08   825 bp   (722)  

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., 7.75%, 11/1/12       4,125,000   3/20/09   575 bp   (115,837)  

DJ ABX HE A Index   478,185     673,500   1/25/38   369 bp   (133,420)  

DJ ABX HE AAA Index   330,427     1,769,556   5/25/46   11 bp   89,840  

DJ ABX HE AAA Index   1,612,875     8,877,464   5/25/46   11 bp   405,907  

DJ ABX HE AAA Index   117,189     404,100   1/25/38   76 bp   (107,976)  

DJ ABX HE AAA Index   1,485,000     5,500,000   1/25/38   76 bp   (1,579,600)  

DJ ABX NA HE AAA Index   203,323     1,888,732   7/25/45   18 bp   (8,243)  

DJ ABX NA HE AAA Index   798,185     9,475,340   7/25/45   18 bp   (277,672)  

Freescale Semiconductor, 8 7/8%, 12/15/14       430,000   9/20/12   495 bp   (41,639)  

Lear Corp., term loan       585,000   6/20/13   (225 bp)   45,235  

Sanmina-Sci Corp., 8 1/8%, 3/1/16       510,000   6/20/13   585 bp   930  

Sanmina-Sci Corp., 8 1/8%, 3/1/16       105,000   3/20/09   275 bp   909  

Sara Lee Corp., 6 1/8%, 11/1/32       580,000   9/20/11   (43 bp)   912  

Seat Pagine Gialle S.P.A., 8%, 4/30/14     EUR   945,000   3/20/13   815 bp   (25,775)  

Wind Acquisition 9 3/4%, 12/1/15     EUR   471,000   3/20/13   (495 bp)   (10,757)  

Credit Suisse First Boston International              
Ukraine Government, 7.65%, 6/11/13       $2,175,000   10/20/11   194 bp   (81,722)  

Credit Suisse International              
Advanced Micro Devices, 7 3/4%, 11/1/12       420,000   6/20/09   165 bp   (33,154)  

DJ ABX HE AAA Index   563,990     2,940,888  F   5/25/46   11 bp   167,915  

DJ CMB NA CMBX AA Index   (426,507)     1,908,000  F   10/12/52   (25 bp)   (89,244)  

DJ CMB NA CMBX AAA Index   289,116     1,737,000  F   12/13/49   8 bp   120,875  

DJ CMB NA CMBX AAA Index   3,093,105     19,744,500   2/17/51   35 bp   1,352,352  

Dynegy Holdings Inc., 6 7/8%, 4/1/11       295,000   6/20/17   297 bp   (24,469)  

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.,
bank term loan       1,180,000   3/20/12   41 bp   (6,870)  

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.,
bank term loan       1,180,200   3/20/12   (82 bp)   (9,792)  

Harrahs Operating Co. Inc., 5 5/8%, 6/1/15       320,000   3/20/09   600 bp   (3,239)  

Republic of Peru, 8 3/4%, 11/21/33       1,205,000   4/20/17   125 bp   (9,096)  

Deutsche Bank AG    
DJ ABX HE A Index   3,630,000     5,500,000   1/25/38   369 bp   (1,374,224)  

DJ ABX NA HE AAA Index   190,583     1,820,981   7/25/45   18 bp   (20,458)  

DJ ABX NA HE AAA Index   515,103     6,726,322   7/25/45   18 bp   (264,438)  

DJ iTraxx Europe Series 8 Version 1   (108,873)   EUR   1,135,000   12/20/12   (375 bp)   (31,162)  

DJ iTraxx Europe Series 9 Version 1   317,647   EUR   4,650,000   6/20/13   (650 bp)   (81,262)  


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CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 7/31/08 cont. Fixed payments   Unrealized  
                                                                Upfront premium     Notional   Termination   received (paid) by   appreciation/  
Swap counterparty / Referenced debt*   received (paid)**     amount   date   fund per annum   (depreciation)  

Deutsche Bank AG cont.    
General Electric Capital Corp., 6%, 6/15/12   $ —     $660,000   9/20/13   109 bp   $(4,487)  

Grohe Holding GmBh, 8 5/8%, 10/1/14     EUR   270,000   6/20/09   400 bp   1,660  

Grohe Holding GmBh, 8 5/8%, 10/1/14     EUR   980,000   6/20/09   400 bp   6,025  

India Government Bond, 5.87%, 1/2/10       $11,165,000  F   1/11/10   170 bp   14,830  

iStar Financial, Inc., 6%, 12/15/10   51,300     760,000   3/20/09   500 bp   15,260  

Korea Monetary STAB Bond, 5%, 2/14/09       2,620,000  F   2/23/09   105 bp   6,785  

Korea Monetary STAB Bond, 5.04%, 1/24/09       2,150,000  F   2/2/09   130 bp   3,906  

Korea Monetary STAB Bond, 5.15%, 2/12/10       2,620,000  F   2/19/10   115 bp   12,742  

Malaysian Government, 6.844%, 10/1/09       3,231,000   10/1/09   90 bp   24,426  

Nalco, Co. 7.75%, 11/15/11       160,000   12/20/12   363 bp   (1,289)  

Republic of Argentina, 8.28%, 12/31/33       442,500   4/20/13   (565 bp)   10,402  

Republic of Argentina, 8.28%, 12/31/33       1,375,000   8/20/12   (380 bp)   99,171  

Republic of Argentina, 8.28%, 12/31/33       1,000,000   3/20/13   (551 bp)   22,001  

Republic of Brazil, 12 1/4%, 3/6/30       1,500,000   10/20/17   105 bp   (36,458)  

Republic of China, zero coupon, 12/5/08       4,367,000  F   12/12/08   115 bp   19,641  

Republic of Indonesia, 6.75%, 2014       1,125,000   9/20/16   292 bp   16,230  

Republic of Peru, 8 3/4%, 11/21/33       1,205,000   4/20/17   126 bp   (10,086)  

Republic of South Korea, 5.45%, 1/23/10       1,670,000   2/1/10   101 bp   12,245  

Republic of Turkey, 11 7/8%, 1/15/30       1,810,000   6/20/14   195 bp   (63,612)  

Republic of Venezuela, 9 1/4%, 9/15/27       1,175,000   6/20/14   220 bp   (184,420)  

Russian Federation, 7 1/2%, 3/31/30       442,500   4/20/13   (112 bp)   (4,219)  

Russian Federation, 7.5%, 3/31/30       1,500,000   8/20/17   86 bp   (29,629)  

Smurfit Kappa Funding, 10 1/8%, 10/1/12     EUR   920,000   6/20/09   135 bp   (2,428)  

United Mexican States, 7.5%, 4/8/33       $2,945,000   3/20/14   56 bp   (70,343)  

United Mexican States, 7.5%, 4/8/33       1,080,000   4/20/17   66 bp   (42,712)  

Unity Media GmBh, 8 3/4%, 2/15/15     EUR   880,000   6/20/13   460 bp   (8,807)  

Virgin Media Finance PLC, 8 3/4%, 4/15/14     EUR   880,000   9/20/13   477 bp   (31,093)  

Goldman Sachs International    
Advanced Micro Devices, 7 3/4%, 11/1/12       $710,000   3/20/09   515 bp   (19,366)  

Allied Waste, N.A. 7 3/8%, 4/15/14       310,000   9/20/13   295 bp   3,753  

Any one of the underlying securities in the
basket of BBCMBS securities       7,487,000   a   2.461%   (1,128,478)  

DJ ABX HE A Index   972,989     1,452,000   1/25/38   369 bp   (347,438)  

DJ ABX HE AAA Index   341,251     1,452,000   1/25/38   76 bp   (468,055)  

DJ ABX NA HE AAA Index   249,340     3,255,930   7/25/45   18 bp   (99,702)  

DJ CDX NA CMBX AAA Index   109,727     3,000,000   3/15/49   7 bp   (121,426)  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 9 Index   2,086,320     43,352,100   12/20/12   375 bp   (1,815,152)  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 9 Index 25-35% tranche       6,500,000   12/20/10   429 bp   242,489  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 9 Index 25-35% tranche       5,580,000   12/20/10   108.65 bp   (223,046)  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 9 Index 25-35% tranche       9,520,000   12/20/10   305 bp   67,100  

DJ CDX NA IG Series 10 Index   (105,831)     14,340,000   6/20/13   155 bp   67,946  

DJ CDX NA IG Series 10 Index   181,776     9,470,000   6/20/18   (150 bp)   (332)  

DJ CDX NA IG Series 10 Index 30-100% tranche       47,479,000   6/20/13   (50 bp)   (155,654)  

General Motors Corp., 7 1/8%, 7/15/13       580,000   9/20/08   620 bp   (1,187)  

General Motors Corp., 7 1/8%, 7/15/13       2,720,000   9/20/08   620 bp   (5,567)  

Lehman Brothers Holdings, 6 5/8%, 1/18/12       2,375,000   9/20/17   (67.8 bp)   301,485  

Lighthouse International Co, SA, 8%, 4/30/14     EUR   815,000   3/20/13   680 bp   (78,354)  

Merrill Lynch & Co., 5%, 1/15/15       $2,375,000   9/20/17   (59.8 bp)   276,491  

Rhodia SA, Euribor+275, 10/15/13     EUR   455,000   9/20/13   (367 bp)   18,551  

Rhodia SA, Euribor+275, 10/15/13     EUR   380,000   9/20/13   (387 bp)   10,819  

Wind Acquisition 9 3/4%, 12/1/15     EUR   815,000   3/20/13   597 bp   62,480  

Wind Acquisition 9 3/4%, 12/1/15     EUR   1,070,000   12/20/10   (340 bp)   (6,261)  

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.    
Codere Finance (Luxembourg) S.A., 8.25%, 6/15/15     EUR   815,000   3/20/13   795 bp   98,528  

DJ ABX HE AAA Index   364,141     $1,898,791  F   5/25/46   11 bp   108,415  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 9 Index 25-35% tranche       5,722,000   12/20/10   105.5 bp   (233,052)  

DJ CDX NA IG Series 10 Index   (4,722)     790,000   6/20/13   155 bp   4,852  


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CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 7/31/08 cont. Fixed payments   Unrealized  
                                                                Upfront premium     Notional   Termination   received (paid) by   appreciation/  
Swap counterparty / Referenced debt*   received (paid)**      amount   date   fund per annum   (depreciation)  

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. cont.    
DJ CDX NA IG Series 10 Index   $(4,963)     $900,000   6/20/13   155 bp   $5,943  

DJ CDX NA IG Series 9 Index, 30–100% tranche       18,460,000  F   12/20/12   (13.55 bp)   231,265  

DJ iTraxx Europe Crossover Series 8 Version 1   (435,596)   EUR   3,260,000   12/20/12   (375 bp)   (212,392)  

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.,
 bank term loan       $2,360,300   3/20/12   (85 bp)   (22,026)  

Idearc, Inc T/L Bank Loan       1,150,000   6/20/12   79 bp   (176,282)  

iStar Financial, Inc., 6%, 12/15/10   51,800     740,000   3/20/09   500 bp   7,358  

Republic of Argentina, 8.28%, 12/31/33       1,385,000   6/20/14   235 bp   (260,544)  

Republic of Hungary, 4 3/4%, 2/3/15       1,155,000   4/20/13   (171.5 bp)   (41,781)  

Republic of Indonesia, 6.75%, 3/10/14       1,870,000   6/20/17   171.5 bp   (130,824)  

Republic of Turkey, 11 7/8%, 1/15/30       1,945,000   5/20/17   230 bp   (106,831)  

Republic of Turkey, 11 7/8%, 1/15/30       1,435,000   5/20/17   244 bp   (65,367)  

Russian Federation, 7 1/2%, 3/31/30       1,580,000   5/20/17   60 bp   (56,696)  

Russian Federation, 7.5%, 3/31/30       2,250,000   8/20/12   65 bp   (11,761)  

Russian Federation, 7.5%, 3/31/30       1,500,000   8/20/17   85 bp   (25,427)  

Sanmina-Sci Corp., 8 1/8%, 3/1/16       410,000   6/20/13   595 bp   5,761  

Smurfit-Stone Container Enterprises,
 7 1/2%, 6/1/13       205,000   3/20/13   685 bp   (6,668)  

JPMorgan Securities, Inc.    
DJ CMB NA CMBX AAA Index   5,710,003     66,452,000   2/17/51   35 bp    

Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc.              
Advanced Micro Devices, 7 3/4%, 11/1/12       1,420,000   3/20/09   525 bp   (44,979)  

Allied Waste, N.A. 7 3/8%, 4/15/14       315,000   9/20/13   275 bp   883  

Community Health Systems, 8 7/8%, 7/15/15       380,000   12/20/12   360 bp   (13,486)  

DJ ABX HE A Index   972,989     1,452,000   1/25/38   369 bp   (342,435)  

DJ ABX HE A Index   1,011,225     1,455,000   1/25/38   369 bp   (306,917)  

DJ ABX HE AAA Index   341,251     1,452,000   1/25/38   76 bp   (459,874)  

DJ ABX HE AAA Index   407,400     1,455,000   1/25/38   76 bp   (395,906)  

DJ ABX HE AAA Index   78,126     269,400   1/25/38   76 bp   (70,645)  

DJ ABX HE PEN AAA Index   147,085     2,061,362   5/25/46   11 bp   (122,270)  

DJ ABX HE PEN AAA Index   150,308     2,069,582   5/25/46   11 bp   (120,157)  

DJ ABX NA HE AAA Index   798,036     10,420,925  F   7/25/45   18 bp   (360,406)  

DJ ABX NA HE AAA Index   314,061     4,033,843  F   7/25/45   18 bp   (134,361)  

DJ CDX NA CMBX AA Index   (2,155)     68,000  F   3/15/49   (15 bp)   15,081  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 10 Index   1,335,262     21,580,000   6/20/13   500 bp   41,829  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 10 Index   1,855,833     29,111,111   6/20/13   500 bp   111,010  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 8 Index 35-60% tranche       86,378,000   6/20/12   95 bp   (7,255,020)  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 8 Index 35-60% tranche       9,049,000   6/20/12   104 bp   (730,503)  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 9 Index 25-35% tranche       22,600,000   12/20/10   104.5 bp   (925,941)  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 9 Index 25-35% tranche       22,600,000   12/20/10   90 bp   (1,004,344)  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 9 Index 25-35% tranche       53,900,000   12/20/10   171 bp   (1,349,926)  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 9 Index 25-35% tranche       32,440,000   12/20/10   203 bp   (563,861)  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 9 Index 25-35% tranche       32,440,000   12/20/10   212 bp   (493,953)  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 9 Index, 25-35% tranche       20,510,000   12/20/10   163 bp   (552,915)  

DJ CDX NA IG Series 10 Index   360,788     23,848,000   6/20/18   (150 bp)   (97,809)  

DJ CDX NA IG Series 10 Index 30-100% tranche       17,768,850   6/20/13   (42 bp)   18,396  

DJ CDX NA IG Series 9 Index   (1,437,324)     44,316,000   12/20/12   (60 bp)   (129,115)  

DJ CDX NA IG Series 9 Index   (840,142)     18,138,000   12/20/17   (80 bp)   (205,735)  

DJ iTraxx Europe Series 9 Version 1   (156,459)   EUR   1,125,000   6/20/13   650 bp   (59,949)  

DJ LCDX NA Series 9 Index, 30-100% tranche       $11,300,000  F   12/20/12   96 bp   64,919  

Domtar Corp., 7 1/8%, 8/15/15       280,000   12/20/11   (250 bp)   4,579  

Federal Republic of Brazil, 12 1/4%, 3/6/30       1,155,000   4/20/13   170 bp   35,648  

Freescale Semiconductor, 8 7/8%, 12/15/14       1,143,000   6/20/12   355 bp   (150,463)  

Freescale Semiconductor, 8 7/8%, 12/15/14       1,143,000   6/20/10   (228 bp)   83,576  

General Electric Capital Corp., 6%, 6/15/12       1,320,000   9/20/13   115 bp   (4,034)  

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 6.6%, 1/15/12       2,375,000   9/20/17   (58 bp)   117,903  

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 6.6%, 1/15/12       1,720,000   9/20/12   45.5 bp   (51,117)  

Harrahs Operating Co. Inc., 5 5/8%, 6/1/15       225,000   3/20/09   610 bp   (3,358)  


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CREDIT DEFAULT CONTRACTS OUTSTANDING at 7/31/08 cont.   Fixed payments   Unrealized  
                                                                Upfront premium     Notional   Termination   received (paid) by   appreciation/  
Swap counterparty / Referenced debt*   received (paid)**     amount   date   fund per annum   (depreciation)  

Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc. cont.    
Jefferson Smurfit Corp., 7 1/2%, 6/1/13   $—     $340,000   3/20/13   645 bp   $(15,829)  

MediaCom LLC/ Cap Corp., 9 1/2%, 1/15/13       250,000   6/20/13   740 bp   (1,487)  

MediaCom LLC/ Cap Corp., 9 1/2%, 1/15/13       425,000   9/20/13   820 bp   8,008  

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, 6.6%, 4/1/12       2,375,000   9/20/17   (60.5 bp)   257,507  

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, 6.6%, 4/1/12       2,375,000   9/20/12   48 bp   (172,116)  

Republic of Argentina, 8.28%, 12/31/33       442,500   4/20/13   (565 bp)   10,402  

Republic of Argentina, 8.28%, 12/31/33       685,000   9/20/12   (469 bp)   30,745  

Republic of Argentina, 8.28%, 12/31/33       1,960,000   5/20/17   296 bp   (417,966)  

Republic of Ecuador, 10%, 8/15/30       1,120,000   6/20/12   600 bp   (15,848)  

Republic of Ecuador, 10%, 8/15/30       555,000   5/20/12   540 bp   (14,430)  

Republic of Peru, 8 3/4%, 11/21/33       2,330,000   10/20/16   215 bp   124,877  

Republic of Turkey, 11 7/8%, 1/15/30       2,780,000   5/20/17   228 bp   (143,140)  

Republic of Venezuela, 9 1/4%, 9/15/27       2,340,000   5/20/12   183 bp   (248,857)  

Russian Federation, 7 1/2%, 3/31/30       442,500   4/20/13   (112 bp)   (4,162)  

United Mexican States, 7.5%, 4/8/33       1,310,000   4/20/17   67 bp   (52,335)  

Wind Acquisition 9 3/4%, 12/1/15     EUR   470,000   12/20/10   (357 bp)   (5,579)  

Merrill Lynch Capital Services, Inc.    
Bombardier, Inc, 6 3/4%, 5/1/12       $2,105,000   6/20/12   (150 bp)   22,397  

D.R. Horton Inc., 7 7/8%, 8/15/11       1,435,000   9/20/11   (426 bp)   37,540  

General Motors Corp., 7 1/8%, 7/15/13       1,895,000   9/20/08   500 bp   (9,867)  

Pulte Homes Inc., 5.25%, 1/15/14       1,344,000   9/20/11   (482 bp)   (56,358)  

Merrill Lynch International              
Dynegy Holdings Inc., 6 7/8%, 4/1/11       295,000   6/20/17   295 bp   (24,812)  

KinderMorgan, 6 1/2%, 9/1/12       3,137,000   9/20/12   (128 bp)   (5,249)  

Morgan Stanley Capital Services, Inc.              
Advanced Micro Devices, 7 3/4%, 11/1/12       1,100,000   6/20/09   190 bp   (84,770)  

Aramark Services, Inc., 8.5%, 2/1/15       250,000   12/20/12   355 bp   (9,996)  

Bombardier, Inc, 6 3/4%, 5/1/12       1,050,000   6/20/12   (114 bp)   27,904  

Bundesrepublic of Deutschland, 6%, 6/20/16       5,697,000   6/20/18   8 bp   (14,097)  

DJ ABX NA CMBX AAA Index   551,349     7,746,000   3/15/49   7 bp   (32,450)  

DJ ABX NA CMBX BBB Index   92     127,231   10/12/52   (134 bp)   60,512  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 7 Index   120,995     2,547,270   12/20/09   (325 bp)   150,719  

DJ CDX NA HY Series 9 Index   129,052     3,226,300   12/20/12   375 bp   (156,782)  

DJ CDX NA IG Series 10 Index   787,164     40,404,500   6/20/18   (150 bp)   10,186  

DJ CDX NA IG Series 10 Index 30-100% tranche       86,508,000   6/20/13   (52 bp)   (346,096)  

DJ CDX NA IG Series 10 Index 30-100% tranche       26,360,000   6/20/13   (38.6 bp)   52,272  

DJ CDX NA IG Series 7 Index 10-15% tranche   102,920     2,573,000   12/20/09   0 bp   (210,431)  

DJ CMB NA CMBX AA Index   (571,986)     2,507,000  F   10/12/52   (25 bp)   (128,844)  

DJ CMB NA CMBX AAA Index   2,795,690     23,305,500   12/13/49   8 bp   443,682  

DJ CMB NA CMBX AAA Index   10,159,170     93,615,000   2/17/51   35 bp   2,046,538  

Dominican Republic, 8 5/8%, 4/20/27       2,340,000   11/20/11   (170 bp)   73,436  

Dynegy Holdings Inc., 6 7/8%, 4/1/11       295,000   6/20/12   225 bp   (15,462)  

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.,
 bank term loan       3,540,700   3/20/12   44 bp   (16,948)  

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.,
bank term loan       1,180,200   3/20/12   (83 bp)   (10,194)  

Nalco, Co. 7.75%, 11/15/11       175,000   9/20/12   330 bp   (2,412)  

Nalco, Co. 7.75%, 11/15/11       200,000   3/20/13   460 bp   5,866  

Republic of Austria, 5 1/4%, 1/4/11       5,697,000   6/20/18   (17 bp)   (1,969)  

Republic of Venezuela, 9 1/4%, 9/15/27       1,570,000   10/20/12   339 bp   (99,770)  

Total             $(20,375,915)  

* Payments related to the reference debt are made upon a credit default event.

** Upfront premium is based on the difference between the original spread on issue and the market spread on day of execution.

a Terminating on the date on which the notional amount is reduced to zero or the date on which the assets securing the reference entity are liquidated.

F Is valued at fair value following procedures approved by the Trustees.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Statement of assets and liabilities 7/31/08

ASSETS    

Investment in securities, at value, including $11,380,222    
of securities on loan (Note 1):    
Unaffiliated issuers (identified cost $1,667,533,355)   $1,643,824,598  
Affiliated issuers (identified cost $26,440,432) (Note 5)   26,440,432  

Cash   3,459,211  

Interest and other receivables   15,118,875  

Receivable for securities sold   3,342,371  

Receivable for sales of delayed delivery securities    
(Notes 1, 6 and 7)   272,035,630  

Receivable from Manager (Note 2)   15,870  

Unrealized appreciation on swap contracts (Note 1)   113,041,200  

Receivable for open forward currency contracts (Note 1)   1,679,992  

Receivable for closed forward currency contracts (Note 1)   2,011,344  

Receivable for open swap contracts (Note 1)   5,706,127  

Receivable for closed swap contracts (Note 1)   2,404,934  

Premiums paid on swap contracts (Note 1)   4,377,449  

Total assets   2,093,458,033  
 
LIABILITIES    

Payable to custodian (Note 2)   1,314,139  

Payable for variation margin (Note 1)   3,539,188  

Distributions payable to shareholders   6,450,928  

Payable for securities purchased   5,651,973  

Payable for purchases of delayed delivery securities    
(Notes 1, 6 and 7)   580,220,646  

Payable for shares of the fund repurchased   910,111  

Payable for compensation of Manager (Notes 2 and 5)   1,801,671  

Payable for investor servicing fees (Note 2)   42,520  

Payable for Trustee compensation and expenses (Note 2)   191,975  

Payable for administrative services (Note 2)   4,516  

Payable for open forward currency contracts (Note 1)   2,172,596  

Payable for closed forward currency contracts (Note 1)   1,487,342  

Written options outstanding, at value    
(premiums received $5,687,548) (Notes 1 and 3)   6,810,986  

Unrealized depreciation on swap contracts (Note 1)   172,309,348  

Premiums received on swap contracts (Note 1)   46,225,853  

TBA sales commitments, at value    
(proceeds receivable $271,530,352) (Note 1)   272,941,810  

Collateral on securities loaned, at value (Note 1)   11,646,260  

Other accrued expenses   158,804  

Total liabilities   1,113,880,666  
 
Net assets   $979,577,367  


REPRESENTED BY    

Paid-in capital (Unlimited shares authorized) (Notes 1 and 4)   $1,256,459,694  

Undistributed net investment income (Note 1)   33,906,046  

Accumulated net realized loss on investments    
and foreign currency transactions (Note 1)   (217,445,505)  

Net unrealized depreciation of investments and assets    
and liabilities in foreign currencies   (93,342,868)  

Total — Representing net assets applicable    
to capital shares outstanding   $979,577,367  
 
COMPUTATION OF NET ASSET VALUE    

Net asset value per share    
($979,577,367 divided by 149,513,744 shares)   $6.55  


The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Statement of operations Year ended 7/31/08

INVESTMENT INCOME    

Interest (net of foreign tax of $197,191)    
(including interest income of $810,228    
from investments in affiliated issuers) (Note 5)   $85,900,630  

Dividends   15,009  

Securities lending   37,973  

Total investment income   85,953,612  
 
EXPENSES    

Compensation of Manager (Note 2)   7,460,531  

Investor servicing fees (Note 2)   535,936  

Custodian fees (Note 2)   116,625  

Trustee compensation and expenses (Note 2)   50,240  

Administrative services (Note 2)   33,853  

Other   792,530  

Fees waived by Manager (Note 5)   (15,989)  

Total expenses   8,973,726  

Expense reduction (Note 2)   (396,633)  

Net expenses   8,577,093  

Net investment income   77,376,519  

Net realized gain on investments (Notes 1 and 3)   49,563,560  

Net increase from payments from affiliates (Note 2)   332,689  

Net realized loss on swap contracts (Note 1)   (36,573,585)  

Net realized loss on futures contracts (Note 1)   (16,570,057)  

Net realized loss on foreign currency transactions (Note 1)   (19,512,799)  

Net realized gain on written options (Notes 1 and 3)   7,562,413  

Net unrealized appreciation of assets and liabilities    
in foreign currencies during the year   1,377,428  

Net unrealized depreciation of investments, futures contracts,    
swap contracts, written options, and TBA sale commitments    
during the year   (90,734,481)  

Net loss on investments   (104,554,832)  
 
Net decrease in net assets resulting from operations   $(27,178,313)  


Statement of changes in net assets

DECREASE IN NET ASSETS      
  Year ended   Year ended  
  7/31/08   7/31/07  

Operations:      

Net investment income   $77,376,519   $64,744,213  

Net realized gain (loss) on investments      
and foreign currency transactions   (15,197,779)   7,070,341  

Net unrealized depreciation of investments      
and assets and liabilities in foreign currencies   (89,357,053)   (1,307,022)  

Net increase (decrease) in net assets      
resulting from operations   (27,178,313)   70,507,532  

Distributions to shareholders (Note 1):      

From ordinary income      

Taxable net investment income   (64,434,509)   (64,419,694)  

Decrease from shares repurchased (Note 4)   (70,807,252)   (174,168,870)  

Total decrease in net assets   (162,420,074)   (168,081,032)  
 
NET ASSETS      

Beginning of year   1,141,997,441   1,310,078,473  

End of year (including undistributed net      
investment income of $33,906,046 and      
$13,055,786, respectively)   $979,577,367   $1,141,997,441  
 
NUMBER OF FUND SHARES      

Shares outstanding at beginning of year   160,911,717   186,509,884  

Shares repurchased (Note 4)   (11,397,973)   (25,590,459)  

Retirement of shares held by the fund     (7,708)  

Shares outstanding at end of year   149,513,744   160,911,717  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Financial highlights (For a common share outstanding throughout the period)

PER-SHARE OPERATING PERFORMANCE       Year ended    

  7/31/08   7/31/07   7/31/06   7/31/05   7/31/04  

Net asset value, beginning of period   $7.10   $7.02   $7.16   $7.03   $6.75  
Investment operations:            

Net investment income a   .50 d   .36 d   .34 d   .36 d   .44 d  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments   (.69)   .03   (.16)   .28   .31  

Total from investment operations   (.19)   .39   .18   .64   .75  
 
Less distributions:            

From net investment income   (.42)   (.36)   (.36)   (.51)   (.47)  

Total distributions   (.42)   (.36)   (.36)   (.51)   (.47)  
Increase from shares repurchased   .06   .05   .04      

Net asset value, end of period   $6.55   $7.10   $7.02   $7.16   $7.03  

Market price, end of period   $5.97   $6.21   $6.02   $6.31   $6.29  

Total return at market price (%) b   2.84   9.06   1.14   8.35   7.18  

 
RATIOS AND SUPPLEMENTAL DATA            

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)   $979,577   $1,141,997   $1,310,078   $1,396,980   $992,676  

Ratio of expenses to average net assets (%) c   .83 d   .82 d   .81 d   .84 d   .83 d  

Ratio of net investment income to average net assets (%)   7.20 d   5.02 d   4.86 d   4.99 d   6.19 d  

Portfolio turnover (%)   134.37 e   83.71 e   104.97 e   139.74 e   78.43  


a Per share net investment income has been determined on the basis of the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the period.

b Total return assumes dividend reinvestment.

c Includes amounts paid through expense offset arrangements (Note 2).

d Reflects waivers of certain fund expenses in connection with Putnam Prime Money Market Fund in effect during the period. As a result of such waivers, the expenses of the fund for the periods ended July 31, 2008, July 31, 2007, July 31, 2006, July 31, 2005, and July 31, 2004, reflect a reduction of less than 0.01%, 0.01%, 0.01%, 0.02% and less than 0.01% of average net assets, respectively (Note 5).

e Portfolio turnover excludes dollar roll transactions.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Notes to financial statements 7/31/08

Note 1: Significant accounting policies

Putnam Premier Income Trust (the “fund”), a Massachusetts business trust, is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The fund’s investment objective is to seek high current income consistent with the preservation of capital by allocating its investments among the U.S. government sector, high yield sector and international sector of the fixed-income securities market. The fund invests in higher yielding, lower-rated bonds that have a higher rate of default due to the nature of the investments. The fund may invest a significant portion of their assets in securitized debt instruments, including mortgage-backed and asset-backed investments. The yields and values of these investments are sensitive to changes in interest rates, the rate of principal payments on the underlying assets and the market’s perception of the issuers. The market for these investments may be volatile and limited, which may make them difficult to buy or sell.

In the normal course of business, the fund enters into contracts that may include agreements to indemnify another party under given circumstances. The fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be, but have not yet been, made against the fund. However, the fund’s management team expects the risk of material loss to be remote.

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies consistently followed by the fund in the preparation of its financial statements. The preparation of financial statements is in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities in the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

A) Security valuation Investments for which market quotations are readily available are valued at the last reported sales price on their principal exchange, or official closing price for certain markets. If no sales are reported — as in the case of some securities traded over-the-counter — a security is valued at its last reported bid price. Market quotations are not considered to be readily available for certain debt obligations; such investments are valued on the basis of valuations furnished by an independent pricing service approved by the Trustees or dealers selected by Putnam Investment Management, LLC (“Putnam Management”), the fund’s manager, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Putnam, LLC. Such services or dealers determine valuations for normal institutional-size trading units of such securities using methods based on market transactions for comparable securities and various relationships, generally recognized by institutional traders, between securities. Many securities markets and exchanges outside the U.S. close prior to the close of the New York Stock Exchange and therefore the closing prices for securities in such markets or on such exchanges may not fully reflect events that occur after such close but before the close of the New York Stock Exchange. Accordingly, on certain days, the fund will fair value foreign equity securities taking into account multiple factors, including movements in the U.S. securities markets. The number of days on which fair value prices will be used will depend on market activity and it is possible that fair value prices will be used by the fund to a significant extent. Securities quoted in foreign currencies, if any, are translated into U.S. dollars at the current exchange rate. To the extent a pricing service or dealer is unable to value a security or provides a valuation which Putnam Management does not believe accurately reflects the security’s fair value, the security will be valued at fair value by Putnam Management. Certain investments, including certain restricted securities and derivatives, are also valued at fair value following procedures approved by the Trustees. Such valuations and procedures are reviewed periodically by the Trustees. Certain securities may be valued on the basis of a price provided by a single source. The fair value of securities is generally determined as the amount that the fund could reasonably expect to realize from an orderly disposition of such securities over a reasonable period of time.

By its nature, a fair value price is a good faith estimate of the value of a security at a given point in time and does not reflect an actual market price, which may be different by a material amount.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. made a bankruptcy filing on September 15, 2008, subsequent to the reporting period. The reported values of the fund’s positions as of July 31, 2008 in securities of Lehman or its affiliates and in derivatives to which Lehman or its affiliates is a counterparty do not reflect these developments or portfolio transactions after July 31, 2008.

B) Joint trading account Pursuant to an exemptive order from the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), the fund may transfer uninvested cash balances, including cash collateral received under security lending arrangements, into a joint trading account along with the cash of other registered investment companies and certain other accounts managed by Putnam Management. These balances may be invested in issues of short-term investments having maturities of up to 397 days for collateral received under security lending arrangements and up to 90 days for other cash investments.

C) Repurchase agreements The fund, or any joint trading account, through its custodian, receives delivery of the underlying securities, the market value of which at the time of purchase is required to be in an amount at least equal to the resale price, including accrued interest. Collateral for certain tri-party repurchase agreements is held at the counterparty’s custodian in a segregated account for the benefit of the fund and the counterparty. Putnam Management is responsible for determining that the value of these underlying securities is at all times at least equal to the resale price, including accrued interest.

D) Security transactions and related investment income Security transactions are recorded on the trade date (the date the order to buy or sell is executed). Gains or losses on securities sold are determined on the identified cost basis.

Interest income is recorded on the accrual basis. Dividend income, net of applicable withholding taxes, is recognized on the ex-dividend date except that certain dividends from foreign securities, if any, are recognized as soon as the fund is informed of the ex-dividend date. Non-cash dividends, if any, are recorded at the fair market value of the securities received. Dividends representing a return of capital or capital gains, if any, are reflected as a reduction of cost and/or as a realized gain. All premiums/discounts are amortized/accreted on a yield-to-maturity basis.

Securities purchased or sold on a delayed delivery basis may be settled a month or more after the trade date; interest income is accrued based on the terms of the securities. Losses may arise due to changes in the market value of the underlying securities or if the counterparty does not perform under the contract.

The fund earned certain fees in connection with its senior loan purchasing activities. These fees are treated as market discount and are recorded as income in the Statement of operations.

E) Stripped securities The fund may invest in stripped securities which represent a participation in securities that may be structured in classes with rights to receive different portions of the interest and principal. Interest-only securities receive all of the interest and principal-only securities receive all of the principal. If the interest-only securities experience greater than anticipated prepayments of principal, the fund may fail to recoup fully its initial investment in these securities. Conversely, principal-only securities increase in value if prepayments are greater than anticipated and decline if prepayments are slower than anticipated. The market value of these securities is highly sensitive to changes in interest rates.

F) Foreign currency translation The accounting records of the fund are maintained in U.S. dollars. The market value of foreign securities, currency holdings, and other assets and liabilities is recorded in the books and records of the fund after translation to U.S. dollars based on the exchange rates on that day. The cost of each security is determined using historical exchange

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rates. Income and withholding taxes are translated at prevailing exchange rates when earned or incurred. The fund does not isolate that portion of realized or unrealized gains or losses resulting from changes in the foreign exchange rate on investments from fluctuations arising from changes in the market prices of the securities. Such gains and losses are included with the net realized and unrealized gain or loss on investments. Net realized gains and losses on foreign currency transactions represent net realized exchange gains or losses on closed forward currency contracts, disposition of foreign currencies, currency gains and losses realized between the trade and settlement dates on securities transactions and the difference between the amount of investment income and foreign withholding taxes recorded on the fund’s books and the U.S. dollar equivalent amounts actually received or paid. Net unrealized appreciation and depreciation of assets and liabilities in foreign currencies arise from changes in the value of open forward currency contracts and assets and liabilities other than investments at the period end, resulting from changes in the exchange rate. Investments in foreign securities involve certain risks, including those related to economic instability, unfavorable political developments, and currency fluctuations, not present with domestic investments.

G) Forward currency contracts The fund may buy and sell forward currency contracts, which are agreements between two parties to buy and sell currencies at a set price on a future date. These contracts are used to protect against a decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar of the currencies in which its portfolio securities are denominated or quoted (or an increase in the value of a currency in which securities a fund intends to buy are denominated, when a fund holds cash reserves and short term investments), or for other investment purposes. The U.S. dollar value of forward currency contracts is determined using current forward currency exchange rates supplied by a quotation service. The market value of the contract will fluctuate with changes in currency exchange rates. The contract is marked to market daily and the change in market value is recorded as an unrealized gain or loss. When the contract is closed, the fund records a realized gain or loss equal to the difference between the value of the contract at the time it was opened and the value at the time it was closed. The fund could be exposed to risk if the value of the currency changes unfavorably, if the counterparties to the contracts are unable to meet the terms of their contracts or if the fund is unable to enter into a closing position. Risks may exceed amounts recognized on the Statement of assets and liabilities. Forward currency contracts outstanding at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.

H) Futures and options contracts The fund may use futures and options contracts to hedge against changes in the values of securities the fund owns, owned or expects to purchase, or for other investment purposes. The fund may also write options on swaps or securities it owns or in which it may invest to increase its current returns.

The potential risk to the fund is that the change in value of futures and options contracts may not correspond to the change in value of the hedged instruments. In addition, losses may arise from changes in the value of the underlying instruments, if there is an illiquid secondary market for the contracts, or if the counterparty to the contract is unable to perform. Risks may exceed amounts recognized on the Statement of assets and liabilities. When the contract is closed, the fund records a realized gain or loss equal to the difference between the value of the contract at the time it was opened and the value at the time it was closed. Realized gains and losses on purchased options are included in realized gains and losses on investment securities. If a written call option is exercised, the premium originally received is recorded as an addition to sales proceeds. If a written put option is exercised, the premium originally received is recorded as a reduction to the cost of investments.

Futures contracts are valued at the quoted daily settlement prices established by the exchange on which they trade. The fund and the broker agree to exchange an amount of cash equal to the daily fluctuation in the value of the futures contract. Such receipts or payments are known as “variation margin.”

Exchange traded options are valued at the last sale price or, if no sales are reported, the last bid price for purchased options and the last ask price for written options. Options traded over-the-counter are valued using prices supplied by dealers. Futures and written option contracts outstanding at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.

I) Total return swap contracts The fund may enter into total return swap contracts, which are arrangements to exchange a market linked return for a periodic payment, both based on a notional principal amount. To the extent that the total return of the security, index or other financial measure underlying the transaction exceeds or falls short of the offsetting interest rate obligation, the fund will receive a payment from or make a payment to the counterparty. Total return swap contracts are marked to market daily based upon quotations from market makers and the change, if any, is recorded as an unrealized gain or loss. Payments received or made are recorded as a realized gains or loss. Certain total return swap contracts may include extended effective dates. Income related to these swap contracts is accrued based on the terms of the contract. The fund could be exposed to credit or market risk due to unfavorable changes in the fluctuation of interest rates or in the price of the underlying security or index, the possibility that there is no liquid market for these agreements or that the counterparty may default on its obligation to perform. Risk of loss may exceed amounts recognized on the Statement of assets and liabilities. Total return swap contracts outstanding at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.

J) Interest rate swap contracts The fund may enter into interest rate swap contracts, which are arrangements between two parties to exchange cash flows based on a notional principal amount, to manage the fund’s exposure to interest rates. Interest rate swap contracts are marked to market daily based upon quotations from an independent pricing service or market makers and the change, if any, is recorded as an unrealized gain or loss. Payments received or made are recorded as a realized gains or loss. Certain interest rate swap contracts may include extended effective dates. Income related to these swap contracts is accrued based on the terms of the contract. The fund could be exposed to credit or market risk due to unfavorable changes in the fluctuation of interest rates or if the counterparty defaults on its obligation to perform. Risk of loss may exceed amounts recognized on the Statement of assets and liabilities. Interest rate swap contracts outstanding at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.

K) Credit default contracts The fund may enter into credit default contracts where one party, the protection buyer, makes an upfront or periodic payment to a counterparty, the protection seller, in exchange for the right to receive a contingent payment. The maximum amount of the payment may equal the notional amount, at par, of the underlying index or security as a result of a related credit event. Payments are made upon a credit default event of the disclosed primary referenced obligation or all other equally ranked obligations of the reference entity. An upfront payment received by the fund, as the protection seller, is recorded as a liability on the fund’s books. An upfront payment made by the fund, as the protection buyer, is recorded as an asset on the fund’s books. Periodic payments received or paid by the fund are recorded as realized gains or losses. The credit default contracts are marked to market daily based upon quotations from an independent pricing service or market makers and the change, if any, is recorded as an unrealized gain or loss. Payments received or made as a result of a credit event or termination of the contract are recognized, net of a proportional amount of the upfront payment, as realized gains or losses. In addition to bearing the risk that the credit event will occur, the fund could be exposed to market risk due to unfavorable changes in interest rates or in the price of the underlying security or index, the possibility that the fund may be unable to close out its position at the same time or at the same price as if it had purchased comparable publicly traded securities or that the counterparty may default on its obligation to perform. Risks of loss may exceed amounts recognized on the Statement of assets and liabilities. Credit default contracts outstanding at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.

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L) TBA purchase commitments The fund may enter into “TBA” (to be announced) commitments to purchase securities for a fixed unit price at a future date beyond customary settlement time. Although the unit price has been established, the principal value has not been finalized. However, the amount of the commitments will not significantly differ from the principal amount. The fund holds, and maintains until settlement date, cash or high-grade debt obligations in an amount sufficient to meet the purchase price, or the fund may enter into offsetting contracts for the forward sale of other securities it owns. Income on the securities will not be earned until settlement date. TBA purchase commitments may be considered securities themselves, and involve a risk of loss if the value of the security to be purchased declines prior to the settlement date, which risk is in addition to the risk of decline in the value of the fund’s other assets. Unsettled TBA purchase commitments are valued at fair value of the underlying securities, according to the procedures described under “Security valuation” above. The contract is marked to market daily and the change in market value is recorded by the fund as an unrealized gain or loss.

Although the fund will generally enter into TBA purchase commitments with the intention of acquiring securities for its portfolio or for delivery pursuant to options contracts it has entered into, the fund may dispose of a commitment prior to settlement if Putnam Management deems it appropriate to do so.

M) TBA sale commitments The fund may enter into TBA sale commitments to hedge its portfolio positions or to sell mortgage-backed securities it owns under delayed delivery arrangements. Proceeds of TBA sale commitments are not received until the contractual settlement date. During the time a TBA sale commitment is outstanding, equivalent deliverable securities or an offsetting TBA purchase commitment deliverable on or before the sale commitment date, are held as “cover” for the transaction.

Unsettled TBA sale commitments are valued at the fair value of the underlying securities, generally according to the procedures described under “Security valuation” above. The contract is marked to market daily and the change in market value is recorded by the fund as an unrealized gain or loss. If the TBA sale commitment is closed through the acquisition of an offsetting TBA purchase commitment, the fund realizes a gain or loss. If the fund delivers securities under the commitment, the fund realizes a gain or a loss from the sale of the securities based upon the unit price established at the date the commitment was entered into. TBA sale commitments outstanding at period end, if any, are listed after the fund’s portfolio.

N) Dollar rolls To enhance returns, the fund may enter into dollar rolls (principally using TBAs) in which the fund sells securities for delivery in the current month and simultaneously contracts to purchase similar securities on a specified future date. During the period between the sale and subsequent purchase, the fund will not be entitled to receive income and principal payments on the securities sold. The fund will, however, retain the difference between the initial sales price and the forward price for the future purchase. The fund will also be able to earn interest on the cash proceeds that are received from the initial sale, on settlement date. The fund may be exposed to market or credit risk if the price of the security changes unfavorably or the counterparty fails to perform under the terms of the agreement.

O) Security lending The fund may lend securities, through its agents, to qualified borrowers in order to earn additional income. The loans are collateralized by cash and/or securities in an amount at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned. The market value of securities loaned is determined daily and any additional required collateral is allocated to the fund on the next business day. The risk of borrower default will be borne by the fund’s agents; the fund will bear the risk of loss with respect to the investment of the cash collateral. Income from securities lending is included in investment income on the Statement of operations. At July 31, 2008, the value of securities loaned amounted to $11,380,222. The fund received cash collateral of $11,646,260 which is pooled with collateral of other Putnam funds into 70 issues of short-term investments.

P) Federal taxes It is the policy of the fund to distribute all of its taxable income within the prescribed time and otherwise comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), applicable to regulated investment companies. It is also the intention of the fund to distribute an amount sufficient to avoid imposition of any excise tax under Section 4982 of the Code. Therefore, no provision has been made for federal taxes on income, capital gains or unrealized appreciation on securities held nor for excise tax on income and capital gains.

At July 31, 2008, the fund had a capital loss carryover of $208,119,562 available to the extent allowed by the Code to offset future net capital gain, if any. The amount of the carryover and the expiration dates are:

Loss Carryover   Expiration  

$59,441,379   July 31, 2009  

44,917,486   July 31, 2010  

80,119,935   July 31, 2011  

6,338,093   July 31, 2015  

17,302,669   July 31, 2016  


Pursuant to federal income tax regulations applicable to regulated investment companies, the fund has elected to defer to its fiscal year ending July 31, 2009 $14,566,761 of losses recognized during the period November 1, 2007 to July 31, 2008.

Q) Distributions to shareholders Distributions to shareholders from net investment income are recorded by the fund on the ex-dividend date. Distributions from capital gains, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date and paid at least annually. The amount and character of income and gains to be distributed are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from generally accepted accounting principles. Dividend sources are estimated at the time of declaration. These differences include temporary and/or permanent differences of foreign currency gains and losses, post-October loss deferrals, the expiration of a capital loss carryover, dividends payable, unrealized and realized gains and losses on certain futures contracts, income on swap contracts, and interest only securities. Reclassifications are made to the fund’s capital accounts to reflect income and gains available for distribution (or available capital loss carryovers) under income tax regulations. For the year ended July 31, 2008, the fund reclassified $7,908,250 to increase undistributed net investment income and $65,209,857 to decrease paid-in-capital, with a decrease to accumulated net realized losses of $57,301,607.

The tax basis components of distributable earnings and the federal tax cost as of July 31, 2008 were as follows:

Unrealized appreciation   $48,565,256  
Unrealized depreciation   (76,876,545)  

Net unrealized depreciation   ($28,311,289)  
Undistributed ordinary income   31,595,837  
Capital loss carryforward   (208,119,562)  
Post-October loss   (14,566,761)  

Cost for federal income tax purposes   $1,698,576,319  

Note 2: Management fee, administrative services and
other transactions

The fund pays Putnam Management for management and investment advisory services quarterly based on the average net assets (including assets, but excluding liabilities, attributable to leverage for investment purposes) of the fund. The fee is based on the following annual rates: 0.75% of the first $500 million of average weekly assets, 0.65% of the next $500 million, 0.60% of the next $500 million, and 0.55% of the next $5 billion, with additional breakpoints at higher asset levels.

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Putnam Investments Limited (“PIL”), an affiliate of Putnam Management, is authorized by the Trustees to manage a separate portion of the assets of the fund as determined by Putnam Management from time to time. Putnam Management pays a quarterly sub-management fee to PIL for its services at an annual rate of 0.40% of the average net assets (including assets, but excluding liabilities, attributable to leverage for investment purposes) of the portion of the fund managed by PIL.

In October 2007, Putnam Management agreed to reimburse the fund in the amount of $332,689 in connection with the misidentification in 2006 of the characteristics of certain securities in the fund’s portfolio. The reimbursement by Putnam Management had less than a 0.05% impact on total return during the period.

The fund reimburses Putnam Management an allocated amount for the compensation and related expenses of certain officers of the fund and their staff who provide administrative services to the fund. The aggregate amount of all such reimbursements is determined annually by the Trustees.

Custodial services for the fund’s assets were provided by Putnam Fiduciary Trust Company (“PFTC”), an affiliate of Putnam Management, and by State Street Bank and Trust Company (“State Street”). Custody fees are based on the fund’s asset level, the number of its security holdings, transaction volumes and with respect to PFTC, certain fees related to the transition of assets to State Street. Putnam Investor Services, a division of PFTC, provided investor servicing agent functions to the fund. Putnam Investor Services was paid a monthly fee for investor servicing at an annual rate of 0.05% of the fund’s average net assets. During the year ended July 31, 2008, the fund incurred $553,657 for custody and investor servicing agent functions provided by PFTC.

Under the custodian contract between the fund and State Street, the custodian bank has a lien on the securities of the fund to the extent permitted by the fund’s investment restrictions to cover any advances made by the custodian bank for the settlement of securities purchased by the fund. At July 31, 2008, the payable to the custodian bank represents the amount due for cash advanced for the settlement of securities purchased.

The fund has entered into expense offset arrangements with PFTC and State Street whereby PFTC’s and State Street’s fees are reduced by credits allowed on cash balances. For the year ended July 31, 2008, the fund’s expenses were reduced by $396,633 under the expense offset arrangements.

Each independent Trustee of the fund receives an annual Trustee fee, of which $507, as a quarterly retainer, has been allocated to the fund, and an additional fee for each Trustees meeting attended. Trustees receive additional fees for attendance at certain committee meetings and industry seminars and for certain compliance-related matters. Trustees also are reimbursed for expenses they incur relating to their services as Trustees.

The fund has adopted a Trustee Fee Deferral Plan (the “Deferral Plan”) which allows the Trustees to defer the receipt of all or a portion of Trustees fees payable on or after July 1, 1995. The deferred fees remain invested in certain Putnam funds until distribution in accordance with the Deferral Plan.

The fund has adopted an unfunded noncontributory defined benefit pension plan (the “Pension Plan”) covering all Trustees of the fund who have served as a Trustee for at least five years and were first elected prior to 2004. Benefits under the Pension Plan are equal to 50% of the Trustee’s average annual attendance and retainer fees for the three years ended December 31, 2005. The retirement benefit is payable during a Trustee’s lifetime, beginning the year following retirement, for the number of years of service through December 31, 2006. Pension expense for the fund is included in Trustee compensation and expenses in the Statement of operations. Accrued pension liability is included in Payable for Trustee compensation and expenses in the Statement of assets and liabilities. The Trustees have terminated the Pension Plan with respect to any Trustee first elected after 2003.

Note 3: Purchases and sales of securities

During the year ended July 31, 2008, cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of investment securities other than U.S. government securities and short-term investments aggregated $1,453,979,360 and $1,337,237,881, respectively. Purchases and sales of U.S. government securities aggregated $102,453,767 and $258,108,560, respectively.

Written option transactions during the year ended July 31, 2008 are summarized as follows:

    Contract   Premiums  
    Amounts   Received  

Written options outstanding        
at beginning of year   EUR   10,720,000   $ 436,472  

  USD   266,210,000   $ 8,180,564  

Options opened   EUR      

  USD   1,134,248,000   22,215,867  

Options exercised   EUR      

  USD      

Options expired   EUR      

  USD   (712,374,000)   (14,565,011)  

Options closed   EUR   (10,720,000)   (436,472)  

  USD   (539,720,000)   (10,143,872)  

Written options outstanding        
at end of year   EUR     $—  

  USD   148,364,000   $ 5,687,548  


Note 4: Shares repurchased

In September 2007, the Trustees approved the renewal of the repurchase program to allow the fund to repurchase up to 10% of its outstanding common shares over the 12 month period ending October 7, 2008 (based on shares outstanding as of October 5, 2007). Prior to this renewal, the Trustees had approved a repurchase program to allow the fund to repurchase up to 10% of its outstanding common shares over the 12 month period ending October 6, 2007 (based on shares outstanding as of October 7, 2005). Repurchases are made when the fund’s shares are trading at less than net asset value and in accordance with procedures approved by the fund’s Trustees.

For the year ended July 31, 2008, the fund repurchased 11,397,973 common shares for an aggregate purchase price of $70,807,252, which reflects a weighted-average discount from net asset value per share of 11%.

Note 5: Investment in Putnam Prime Money Market Fund

The fund invests in Putnam Prime Money Market Fund, an open-end management investment company managed by Putnam Management. Investments in Putnam Prime Money Market Fund are valued at its closing net asset value each business day. Management fees paid by the fund are reduced by an amount equal to the management fees paid by Putnam Prime Money Market Fund with respect to assets invested by the fund in Putnam Prime Money Market Fund. For the year ended July 31, 2008, management fees paid were reduced by $15,989 relating to the fund’s investment in Putnam Prime Money Market Fund. Income distributions earned by the fund are recorded as income in the Statement of operations and totaled $810,228 for the year ended July 31, 2008. During the year ended July 31, 2008, cost of purchases and proceeds of sales of investments in Putnam Prime Money Market Fund aggregated $344,667,986 and $378,549,963, respectively.

On September 17, 2008, the Trustees of the fund voted to close Putnam Prime Money Market Fund effective September 17, 2008.

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Note 6: Senior loan commitments

Senior loans are purchased or sold on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis and may be settled a month or more after the trade date, which from time to time can delay the actual investment of available cash balances; interest income is accrued based on the terms of the securities. Senior loans can be acquired through an agent, by assignment from another holder of the loan, or as a participation interest in another holder’s portion of the loan. When the fund invests in a loan or participation, the fund is subject to the risk that an intermediate participant between the fund and the borrower will fail to meet its obligations to the fund, in addition to the risk that the borrower under the loan may default on its obligations.

Note 7: Unfunded loan commitments

As of July 31, 2008, the fund had unfunded loan commitments of $1,415,770, which could be extended at the option of the borrower, pursuant to the following loan agreements with the following borrowers:

Borrower   Unfunded Commitments  

Community Health Systems   $59,836  

Golden Nugget, Inc   95,454  

Hologic   211,500  

Hub International, LTD.   13,980  

NRG Energy, Inc.   355,000  

Ticketmaster   680,000  

Total   $1,415,770  

Note 8: Regulatory matters and litigation

In late 2003 and 2004, Putnam Management settled charges brought by the SEC and the Massachusetts Securities Division in connection with excessive short-term trading in Putnam funds. Distribution of payments from Putnam Management to certain open-end Putnam funds and their shareholders is expected to be completed in the next several months. These allegations and related matters have served as the general basis for certain lawsuits, including purported class action lawsuits against Putnam Management and, in a limited number of cases, some Putnam funds. Putnam Management believes that these lawsuits will have no material adverse effect on the funds or on Putnam Management’s ability to provide investment management services. In addition, Putnam Management has agreed to bear any costs incurred by the Putnam funds as a result of these matters.

In September 2007, Putnam Management consented to an order issued by the SEC and agreed to pay a monetary penalty to the SEC relating to the omission of required information from notices sent with distributions to shareholders of your fund prior to June 2002.

Note 9: New accounting pronouncements

In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes (the “Interpretation”). The Interpretation prescribes a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of a tax position taken or expected to be taken by a filer in the filer’s tax return. Upon adoption, the Interpretation did not have a material effect on the fund’s financial statements. However, the conclusions regarding the Interpretation may be subject to review and adjustment at a later date based on factors including, but not limited to, further implementation guidance expected from the FASB, and on-going analysis of tax laws, regulations and interpretations thereof. Each of the fund’s federal tax returns for the prior three fiscal years remains subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.

In September 2006, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, Fair Value Measurements (the “Standard”). The Standard defines fair value, sets out a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. The Standard applies to fair value measurements already required or permitted by existing standards. The Standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007 and interim periods within those fiscal years. Putnam Management does not believe the adoption of the Standard will impact the amounts reported in the financial statements; however, additional disclosures will be required about the inputs used to develop the measurements of fair value.

In March 2008, Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 161, Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities (“SFAS 161”) —an amendment of FASB Statement No. 133 (“SFAS 133”), was issued and is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2008. SFAS 161 requires enhanced disclosures about how and why an entity uses derivative instruments and how derivative instruments affect an entity’s financial position. Putnam Management is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of SFAS 161 will have on the fund’s financial statement disclosures.

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Federal tax information and compliance certifications (unaudited)

Federal tax information

The Form 1099 you will receive in January 2009 will show the tax status of all distributions paid to your account in calendar 2008.

Compliance certifications

On February 28, 2008, your fund submitted a CEO annual certification to the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) on which the fund’s principal executive officer certified that he was not aware, as of that date, of any violation by the fund of the NYSE’s Corporate Governance listing standards. In addition, as required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and related SEC rules, the fund’s principal executive and principal financial officers have made quarterly certifications, included in filings with the SEC on Forms N-CSR and N-Q, relating to, among other things, the fund’s disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting.

Shareholder meeting results (unaudited)

January 31, 2008 meeting

The annual meeting of shareholders of the fund was held on January 31, 2008.

At the meeting, each of the nominees for Trustees was elected, as follows:

  Votes for   Votes withheld  

Jameson A. Baxter   131,134,779   12,090,174  

Charles B. Curtis   131,126,775   12,098,178  

Robert J. Darretta   131,050,647   12,174,306  

Myra R. Drucker   131,117,663   12,107,290  

Charles E. Haldeman, Jr.   131,174,037   12,050,916  

John A. Hill   131,121,154   12,103,799  

Paul L. Joskow   131,131,924   12,093,029  

Elizabeth T. Kennan   131,071,563   12,153,390  

Kenneth R. Leibler   131,103,916   12,121,037  

Robert E. Patterson   131,193,551   12,031,402  

George Putnam, III   131,129,232   12,095,721  

W. Thomas Stephens   131,138,830   12,086,123  

Richard B. Worley   131,131,736   12,093,217  


All tabulations are rounded to the nearest whole number.

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About the Trustees

Jameson A. Baxter

Trustee since 1994 and
Vice Chairman since 2005

Ms. Baxter is the President of Baxter Associates, Inc., a private investment firm.

Ms. Baxter serves as a Director of ASHTA Chemicals, Inc., and the Mutual Fund Directors Forum.

Until 2007, she was a Director of Banta Corporation (a printing and supply chain management company), Ryerson, Inc. (a metals service corporation), and Advocate Health Care. Until 2004, she was a Director of BoardSource (formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards); and until 2002, she was a Director of Intermatic Corporation (a manufacturer of energy control products). She is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees, Mount Holyoke College, having served as Chairman for five years.

Ms. Baxter has held various positions in investment banking and corporate finance, including Vice President of and Consultant to First Boston Corporation and Vice President and Principal of the Regency Group. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College.

Charles B. Curtis

Trustee since 2001

Mr. Curtis is President and Chief Operating Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (a private foundation dealing with national security issues), and serves as Senior Advisor to the United Nations Foundation.

Mr. Curtis is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as Director of Edison International and Southern California Edison. Until 2006, Mr. Curtis served as a member of the Trustee Advisory Council of the Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University. Until 2003, Mr. Curtis was a member of the Electric Power Research Institute Advisory Council and the University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory. Prior to 2002, Mr. Curtis was a member of the Board of Directors of the Gas Technology Institute and the Board of Directors of the Environment and Natural Resources Program Steering Committee, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Until 2001, Mr. Curtis was a member of the Department of Defense Policy Board and Director of EG&G Technical Services, Inc. (a fossil energy research and development support company).

From August 1997 to December 1999, Mr. Curtis was a Partner at Hogan & Hartson LLP, an international law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Prior to May 1997, Mr. Curtis was Deputy Secretary of Energy and Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy. He served as Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1977 to 1981 and has held positions on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Treasury Department, and the SEC.

Robert J. Darretta

Trustee since 2007

Mr. Darretta serves as Director of United-Health Group, a diversified health-care company.

Until April 2007, Mr. Darretta was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Johnson & Johnson, one of the world’s largest and most broadly based health-care companies. Prior to 2007, he had responsibility for Johnson & Johnson’s finance, investor relations, information technology, and procurement function. He served as Johnson & Johnson Chief Financial Officer for a decade, prior to which he spent two years as Treasurer of the corporation and over ten years leading various Johnson & Johnson operating companies.

Mr. Darretta received a B.S. in Economics from Villanova University.

Myra R. Drucker

Trustee since 2004

Ms. Drucker is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Commonfund (a not-for-profit firm specializing in managing assets for educational endowments and foundations), Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Sarah Lawrence College, and a member of the Investment Committee of the Kresge Foundation (a charitable trust). She is also a Director of New York Stock Exchange LLC (a wholly-owned subsidiary of NYSE Euronext), and a Director of Interactive Data Corporation (a provider of financial market data and analytics to financial institutions and investors).

Ms. Drucker is an ex-officio member of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Pension Managers Advisory Committee, having served as Chair for seven years. She serves as an advisor to RCM Capital Management (an investment management firm) and to the Employee Benefits Investment Committee of The Boeing Company (an aerospace firm).

From November 2001 until August 2004, Ms. Drucker was Managing Director and a member of the Board of Directors of General Motors Asset Management and Chief Investment Officer of General Motors Trust Bank. From December 1992 to November 2001, Ms. Drucker served as Chief Investment Officer of Xerox Corporation (a document company). Prior to December 1992, Ms. Drucker was Staff Vice President and Director of Trust Investments for International Paper (a paper and packaging company).

Ms. Drucker received a B.A. degree in Literature and Psychology from Sarah Lawrence College and pursued graduate studies in economics, statistics, and portfolio theory at Temple University.

Charles E. Haldeman, Jr.*

Trustee since 2004 and
President of the Funds since 2007

Mr. Haldeman is Chairman of Putnam Investment Management, LLC and President of the Putnam Funds. Prior to July 2008, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Putnam, LLC (“Putnam Investments”). Prior to November 2003, Mr. Haldeman served as Co-Head of Putnam Investments’ Investment Division.

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Prior to joining Putnam Investments in 2002, Mr. Haldeman held executive positions in the investment management industry. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Delaware Investments and President and Chief Operating Officer of United Asset Management. Mr. Haldeman was also a Partner and Director of Cooke & Bieler, Inc. (an investment management firm).

Mr. Haldeman currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute and as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College. He also serves on the Partners HealthCare Investment Committee, the Tuck School of Business Overseers, and the Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School. Mr. Haldeman is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.

John A. Hill

Trustee since 1985 and Chairman since 2000

John A. Hill is founder and Vice-Chairman of First Reserve Corporation, the leading private equity buyout firm specializing in the worldwide energy industry, with offices in Greenwich, Connecticut; Houston, Texas; London, England; and Shanghai, China. The firm’s investments on behalf of some of the nation’s largest pension and endowment funds are currently concentrated in 26 companies with annual revenues in excess of $13 billion, which employ over 100,000 people in 23 countries.

Mr. Hill is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Putnam Mutual Funds, a Director of Devon Energy Corporation and various private companies owned by First Reserve, and serves as a Trustee of Sarah Lawrence College where he chairs the Investment Committee.

Prior to forming First Reserve in 1983, Mr. Hill served as President of F. Eberstadt and Company, an investment banking and investment management firm. Between 1969 and 1976, Mr. Hill held various senior positions in Washington, D.C. with the federal government, including Deputy Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Deputy Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration during the Ford Administration.

Mr. Hill was born and raised in Midland, Texas; received his B.A. in Economics from Southern Methodist University; and pursued graduate studies as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.

Paul L. Joskow

Trustee since 1997

Dr. Joskow is an economist and President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (a philanthropic institution focused primarily on research and education on issues related to science, technology, and economic performance). He is on leave from his position as the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he has been on the faculty since 1972. Dr. Joskow was the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at MIT from 1999 through 2007.

Dr. Joskow serves as a Trustee of Yale University, as a Director of TransCanada Corporation (an energy company focused on natural gas transmission and power services) and of Exelon Corporation (an energy company focused on power services), and as a member of the Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Prior to August 2007, he served as a Director of National Grid (a UK-based holding company with interests in electric and gas transmission and distribution and telecommunications infrastructure). Prior to July 2006, he served as President of the Yale University Council and continues to serve as a member of the Council. Prior to February 2005, he served on the board of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (a non-profit research institution). Prior to February 2002, he was a Director of State Farm Indemnity Company (an automobile insurance company), and prior to March 2000, he was a Director of New England Electric System (a public utility holding company).

Dr. Joskow has published six books and numerous articles on industrial organization, government regulation of industry, and competition policy. He is active in industry restructuring, environmental, energy, competition, and privatization policies —serving as an advisor to governments and corporations worldwide. Dr. Joskow holds a Ph.D. and MPhil from Yale University and a B.A. from Cornell University.

Elizabeth T. Kennan

Trustee since 1992

Dr. Kennan is a Partner of Cambus-Kenneth Farm (thoroughbred horse and cattle breeding). She is President Emeritus of Mount Holyoke College.

Dr. Kennan served as Chairman and is now Lead Director of Northeast Utilities. She is a Trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, of Centre College, and of Midway College in Midway, Kentucky. Until 2006, she was a member of The Trustees of Reservations. Prior to 2001, Dr. Kennan served on the oversight committee of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Prior to June 2005, she was a Director of Talbots, Inc., and she has served as Director on a number of other boards, including Bell Atlantic, Chastain Real Estate, Shawmut Bank, Berkshire Life Insurance, and Kentucky Home Life Insurance. Dr. Kennan has also served as President of Five Colleges Incorporated and as a Trustee of Notre Dame University, and is active in various educational and civic associations.

As a member of the faculty of Catholic University for twelve years, until 1978, Dr. Kennan directed the post-doctoral program in Patristic and Medieval Studies, taught history, and published numerous articles and two books. Dr. Kennan holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle, an M.S. from St. Hilda’s College at Oxford University, and an A.B. from Mount Holyoke College. She holds several honorary doctorates.

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Kenneth R. Leibler

Trustee since 2006

Mr. Leibler is a Founding Partner and former Chairman of the Boston Options Exchange, an electronic marketplace for the trading of derivative securities.

Mr. Leibler currently serves as a Trustee of Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. He is also Lead Director of Ruder Finn Group, a global communications and advertising firm, and a Director of Northeast Utilities, which operates New England’s largest energy delivery system. Prior to December 2006, he served as a Director of the Optimum Funds group. Prior to October 2006, he served as a Director of ISO New England, the organization responsible for the operation of the electric generation system in the New England states. Prior to 2000, Mr. Leibler was a Director of the Investment Company Institute in Washington, D.C.

Prior to January 2005, Mr. Leibler served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officerof the Boston Stock Exchange. Prior to January 2000, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Financial Companies, a publicly traded diversified asset management organization. Prior to June 1990, Mr. Leibler served as President and Chief Operating Officer of the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), and at the time was the youngest person in AMEX history to hold the title of President. Prior to serving as AMEX President, he held the position of Chief Financial Officer, and headed its management and marketing operations. Mr. Leibler graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Economics from Syracuse University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa.

Robert E. Patterson

Trustee since 1984

Mr. Patterson is Senior Partner of Cabot Properties, LP and Chairman of Cabot Properties, Inc. (a private equity firm investing in commercial real estate).

Mr. Patterson serves as Chairman Emeritus and Trustee of the Joslin Diabetes Center. Prior to June 2003, he was a Trustee of Sea Education Association. Prior to December 2001, Mr. Patterson was President and Trustee of Cabot Industrial Trust (a publicly traded real estate investment trust). Prior to February 1998, he was Executive Vice President and Director of Acquisitions of Cabot Partners Limited Partnership (a registered investment adviser involved in institutional real estate investments). Prior to 1990, he served as Executive Vice President of Cabot, Cabot & Forbes Realty Advisors, Inc. (the predecessor company of Cabot Partners).

Mr. Patterson practiced law and held various positions in state government, and was the founding Executive Director of the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency. Mr. Patterson is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

George Putnam, III

Trustee since 1984

Mr. Putnam is Chairman of New Generation Research, Inc. (a publisher of financial advisory and other research services), and President of New Generation Advisers, Inc. (a registered investment adviser to private funds). Mr. Putnam founded the New Generation companies in 1986.

Mr. Putnam is a Director of The Boston Family Office, LLC (a registered investment adviser). He is a Trustee of St. Mark’s School and a Trustee of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Until 2006, he was a Trustee of Shore Country Day School, and until 2002, was a Trustee of the Sea Education Association.

Mr. Putnam previously worked as an attorney with the law firm of Dechert LLP (formerly known as Dechert Price & Rhoads) in Philadelphia. He is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School.

Richard B.Worley

Trustee since 2004

Mr. Worley is Managing Partner of Permit Capital LLC, an investment management firm.

Mr. Worley serves as a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (a philanthropic organization devoted to health-care issues), and the National Constitution Center. He is also a Director of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (a historical preservation organization), and the Philadelphia Orchestra Association. Mr. Worley also serves on the investment committees of Mount Holyoke College and World Wildlife Fund (a wildlife conservation organization).

Prior to joining Permit Capital LLC in 2002, Mr. Worley served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Investment Management and as a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, a financial services firm. Mr. Worley also was the Chairman of Miller Anderson & Sherrerd, an investment management firm that was acquired by Morgan Stanley in 1996.

Mr. Worley holds a B.S. degree from the University of Tennessee and pursued graduate studies in economics at the University of Texas.

The address of each Trustee is One Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109.

As of July 31, 2008, there were 99 Putnam funds. All Trustees serve as Trustees of all Putnam funds.

Each Trustee serves for an indefinite term, until his or her resignation, retirement at age 72, death, or removal.

* Trustee who is an “interested person” (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of the fund, Putnam Management, and/or Putnam Retail Management. Mr. Haldeman is the President of your fund and each of the other Putnam funds and Chairman of Putnam Investment Management, LLC, and prior to July 2008 was President and Chief Executive Officer of Putnam Investments.

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Officers

In addition to Charles E. Haldeman, Jr., the other officers of the fund are shown below:

Charles E. Porter (Born 1938)   James P. Pappas (Born 1953)   Wanda M. McManus (Born 1947)  
Executive Vice President, Principal Executive   Vice President   Vice President, Senior Associate Treasurer  
Officer, Associate Treasurer, and   Since 2004   and Assistant Clerk  
Compliance Liaison   Managing Director, Putnam Investments and   Since 2005  
Since 1989   Putnam Management. During 2002, Chief    
  Operating Officer, Atalanta/Sosnoff   Nancy E. Florek (Born 1957)  
Jonathan S. Horwitz (Born 1955)   Management Corporation   Vice President, Assistant Clerk, Assistant  
Senior Vice President and Treasurer     Treasurer and Proxy Manager  
Since 2004   Francis J. McNamara, III (Born 1955)   Since 2005  
Prior to 2004, Managing Director,   Vice President and Chief Legal Officer    
Putnam Investments   Since 2004    
  Senior Managing Director, Putnam    
Steven D. Krichmar (Born 1958)   Investments, Putnam Management    
Vice President and Principal Financial Officer   and Putnam Retail Management. Prior     
Since 2002   to 2004, General Counsel, State Street     
Senior Managing Director,   Research & Management Company    
Putnam Investments      
  Robert R. Leveille (Born 1969)    
Janet C. Smith (Born 1965)   Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer     
Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer   Since 2007    
and Assistant Treasurer   Managing Director, Putnam Investments,    
Since 2007   Putnam Management, and Putnam Retail     
Managing Director, Putnam Investments and   Management. Prior to 2004, member of     
Putnam Management   Bell Boyd & Lloyd LLC. Prior to 2003,    
  Vice President and Senior Counsel,     
Susan G. Malloy (Born 1957)   Liberty Funds Group LLC      
Vice President and Assistant Treasurer    
Since 2007   Mark C. Trenchard (Born 1962)     
Managing Director, Putnam Investments   Vice President and BSA Compliance Officer     
  Since 2002    
Beth S. Mazor (Born 1958)   Managing Director, Putnam Investments      
Vice President    
Since 2002   Judith Cohen (Born 1945)     
Managing Director, Putnam Investments   Vice President, Clerk and Assistant Treasurer     
  Since 1993    

The address of each Officer is One Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109.

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Fund information

About Putnam Investments

Founded over 70 years ago, Putnam Investments was built around the concept that a balance between risk and reward is the hallmark of a well-rounded financial program. We manage nearly 100 mutual funds in growth, value, blend, fixed income, and international.

Invest ment Manager   Robert E. Patterson   Mark C. Trenchard  
Putnam Investment   George Putnam, III   Vice President and BSA Compliance Officer  
Management, LLC   Richard B. Worley    
One Post Office Square      Judith Cohen  
Boston, MA 02109    Officers   Vice President, Clerk and Assistant Treasurer  
  Charles E. Haldeman, Jr.    
Investment Sub-Manager     President    Wanda M. McManus  
Putnam Investments Limited      and Assistant Clerk   
57–59 St James’s Street    Charles E. Porter    
London, England SW1A 1LD   Executive Vice President, Principal   Nancy E. Florek   
  Executive Officer, Associate Treasurer   Vice President, Assistant Clerk, Assistant   
Marketing Services   and Compliance Liaison   Treasurer and Proxy Manager    
Putnam Retail Management      
One Post Office Square   Jonathan S. Horwitz    
Boston, MA 02109   Senior Vice President and Treasurer    
 
Custodian   Steven D. Krichmar    
State Street Bank and Trust Company    Vice President and Principal Financial Officer    
 
Legal Counsel Janet C. Smith    
Ropes & Gray LLP   Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer     
  and Assistant Treasurer    
Independent Registered Public      
Accounting Firm    Susan G. Malloy    
KPMG LLP    Vice President and Assistant Treasurer    
     
Trustees   Beth S. Mazor    
John A. Hill, Chairman    Vice President    
Jameson Adkins Baxter, Vice Chairman       
Charles B. Curtis   James P. Pappas    
Robert J. Darretta   Vice President    
Myra R. Drucker      
Charles E. Haldeman, Jr.   Francis J. McNamara, III    
Paul L. Joskow   Vice President and Chief Legal Officer    
Elizabeth T. Kennan       
Kenneth R. Leibler    Robert R. Leveille    
  Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer    
 
     

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Item 2. Code of Ethics:

(a) The Fund’s principal executive, financial and accounting officers are employees of Putnam Investment Management, LLC, the Fund's investment manager. As such they are subject to a comprehensive Code of Ethics adopted and administered by Putnam Investments which is designed to protect the interests of the firm and its clients. The Fund has adopted a Code of Ethics which incorporates the Code of Ethics of Putnam Investments with respect to all of its officers and Trustees who are employees of Putnam Investment Management, LLC. For this reason, the Fund has not adopted a separate code of ethics governing its principal executive, financial and accounting officers.

(c ) In May 2008, the Code of Ethics of Putnam Investment Management, LLC was updated in its entirety to include the amendments adopted in August 2007 as well as a several additional technical, administrative and non-substantive changes.

Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert:

The Funds' Audit and Compliance Committee is comprised solely of Trustees who are "independent" (as such term has been defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") in regulations implementing Section 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (the "Regulations")). The Trustees believe that each of the members of the Audit and Compliance Committee also possess a combination of knowledge and experience with respect to financial accounting matters, as well as other attributes, that qualify them for service on the Committee. In addition, the Trustees have determined that each of Mr. Patterson, Mr. Leibler, Mr. Hill and Mr. Darretta meets the financial literacy requirements of the New York Stock Exchange's rules and qualifies as an "audit committee financial expert" (as such term has been defined by the Regulations) based on their review of his pertinent experience and education. Certain other Trustees, although not on the Audit and Compliance Committee, would also qualify as "audit committee financial experts." The SEC has stated that the designation or identification of a person as an audit committee financial expert pursuant to this Item 3 of Form N-CSR does not impose on such person any duties, obligations or liability that are greater than the duties, obligations and liability imposed on such person as a member of the Audit and Compliance Committee and the Board of Trustees in the absence of such designation or identification.

Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services:

The following table presents fees billed in each of the last two fiscal years for services rendered to the fund by the fund’s independent auditor:

Fiscal     Audit-      
year   Audit   Related   Tax   All Other  
ended   Fees   Fees   Fees   Fees  
 
July 31, 2008   $95,699   $--   $6,000   $-  
July 31, 2007   $73,650   $--   $5,450   $-  

For the fiscal years ended July 31, 2008 and July 31 2007, the fund’s independent auditor billed aggregate non-audit fees in the amounts of $74,733 and $5,450 respectively, to the fund, Putnam Management and any entity controlling, controlled by or under common control with Putnam Management that provides ongoing services to the fund.

Audit Fees represent fees billed for the fund's last two fiscal years relating to the audit and review of the financial statements included in annual reports and registration statements, and other services that are normally provided in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements.


Audit-Related Fees represent fees billed in the fund’s last two fiscal years for services traditionally performed by the fund’s auditor, including accounting consultation for proposed transactions or concerning financial accounting and reporting standards and other audit or attest services not required by statute or regulation.

Tax Fees represent fees billed in the fund’s last two fiscal years for tax compliance, tax planning and tax advice services. Tax planning and tax advice services include assistance with tax audits, employee benefit plans and requests for rulings or technical advice from taxing authorities.

Pre-Approval Policies of the Audit and Compliance Committee. The Audit and Compliance Committee of the Putnam funds has determined that, as a matter of policy, all work performed for the funds by the funds’ independent auditors will be pre-approved by the Committee itself and thus will generally not be subject to pre-approval procedures.

The Audit and Compliance Committee also has adopted a policy to pre-approve the engagement by Putnam Management and certain of its affiliates of the funds’ independent auditors, even in circumstances where pre-approval is not required by applicable law. Any such requests by Putnam Management or certain of its affiliates are typically submitted in writing to the Committee and explain, among other things, the nature of the proposed engagement, the estimated fees, and why this work should be performed by that particular audit firm as opposed to another one. In reviewing such requests, the Committee considers, among other things, whether the provision of such services by the audit firm are compatible with the independence of the audit firm.

The following table presents fees billed by the fund’s independent auditor for services required to be approved pursuant to paragraph (c)(7)(ii) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X.

Fiscal   Audit-     All   Total  
year   Related   Tax   Other   Non-Audit  
ended   Fees   Fees   Fees   Fees  
 
July 31, 2008   $ -   $ -   $ -   $ -  
         
July 31, 2007   $ -   $ -   $ -   $ -  

Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants

(a) The fund has a separately-designated Audit and Compliance Committee established in accordance with Section 3(a)(58)(A) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Audit and Compliance Committee of the fund's Board of Trustees is composed of the following persons:

Robert E. Patterson (Chairperson)
Robert J. Darretta
Myra R. Drucker
John A. Hill
Kenneth R. Leibler

(b) Not applicable


Item 6. Schedule of Investments:

The registrant’s schedule of investments in unaffiliated issuers is included in the report to shareholders in Item 1 above.

Item 7. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures For Closed-End Management Investment Companies:

Proxy voting guidelines of the Putnam funds

The proxy voting guidelines below summarize the funds’ positions on various issues of concern to investors, and give a general indication of how fund portfolio securities will be voted on proposals dealing with particular issues. The funds’ proxy voting service is instructed to vote all proxies relating to fund portfolio securities in accordance with these guidelines, except as otherwise instructed by the Proxy Coordinator, a member of the Office of the Trustees who is appointed to assist in the coordination and voting of the funds’ proxies.

The proxy voting guidelines are just that – guidelines. The guidelines are not exhaustive and do not address all potential voting issues. Because the circumstances of individual companies are so varied, there may be instances when the funds do not vote in strict adherence to these guidelines. For example, the proxy voting service is expected to bring to the Proxy Coordinator’s attention proxy questions that are company-specific and of a non-routine nature and that, even if covered by the guidelines, may be more appropriately handled on a case-by-case basis.

Similarly, Putnam Management’s investment professionals, as part of their ongoing review and analysis of all fund portfolio holdings, are responsible for monitoring significant corporate developments, including proxy proposals submitted to shareholders, and notifying the Proxy Coordinator of circumstances where the interests of fund shareholders may warrant a vote contrary to these guidelines. In such instances, the investment professionals submit a written recommendation to the Proxy Coordinator and the person or persons designated by Putnam Management’s Legal and Compliance Department to assist in processing referral items under the funds’ “Proxy Voting Procedures.” The Proxy Coordinator, in consultation with the funds’ Senior Vice President, Executive Vice President, and/or the Chair of the Board Policy and Nominating Committee, as appropriate, will determine how the funds’ proxies will be voted. When indicated, the Chair of the Board Policy and Nominating Committee may consult with other members of the Committee or the full Board of Trustees.

The following guidelines are grouped according to the types of proposals generally presented to shareholders. Part I deals with proposals submitted by management and approved and recommended by a company’s board of directors. Part II deals with proposals submitted by shareholders. Part III addresses unique considerations pertaining to non-U.S. issuers.

The Trustees of the Putnam funds are committed to promoting strong corporate governance practices and encouraging corporate actions that enhance shareholder value


through the judicious voting of the funds’ proxies. It is the funds’ policy to vote their proxies at all shareholder meetings where it is practicable to do so. In furtherance of this, the funds’ have requested that their securities lending agent recall each domestic issuer’s voting securities that are on loan, in advance of the record date for the issuer’s shareholder meetings, so that the funds may vote at the meetings.

The Putnam funds will disclose their proxy votes not later than August 31 of each year for the most recent 12-month period ended June 30, in accordance with the timetable established by SEC rules.

I. BOARD-APPROVED PROPOSALS

The vast majority of matters presented to shareholders for a vote involve proposals made by a company itself (sometimes referred to as “management proposals”), which have been approved and recommended by its board of directors. In view of the enhanced corporate governance practices currently being implemented in public companies and of the funds’ intent to hold corporate boards accountable for their actions in promoting shareholder interests, the funds’ proxies generally will be voted for the decisions reached by majority independent boards of directors, except as otherwise indicated in these guidelines. Accordingly, the funds’ proxies will be voted for board-approved proposals, except as follows:

Matters relating to the Board of Directors

Uncontested Election of Directors

The funds’ proxies will be voted for the election of a company’s nominees for the board of directors, except as follows:

The funds will withhold votes for the entire board of directors if

the board does not have a majority of independent directors,

the board has not established independent nominating, audit, and compensation committees,

the board has more than 19 members or fewer than five members, absent special circumstances,

the board has not acted to implement a policy requested in a shareholder proposal that received the support of a majority of the shares of the company cast at its previous two annual meetings, or

the board has adopted or renewed a shareholder rights plan (commonly referred to as a “poison pill”) without shareholder approval during the current or prior calendar year.


The funds will on a case-by-case basis withhold votes from the entire board of directors, or from particular directors as may be appropriate, if the board has approved compensation arrangements for one or more company executives that the funds determine are unreasonably excessive relative to the company’s performance.

The funds will withhold votes for any nominee for director:

who is considered an independent director by the company and who has received compensation from the company other than for service as a director (e.g., investment banking, consulting, legal, or financial advisory fees),

who attends less than 75% of board and committee meetings without valid reasons for the absences (e.g., illness, personal emergency, etc.),

of a public company (Company A) who is employed as a senior executive of another company (Company B), if a director of Company B serves as a senior executive of Company A (commonly referred to as an “interlocking directorate”), or

who serves on more than five unaffiliated public company boards (for the purpose of this guideline, boards of affiliated registered investment companies will count as one board).

Commentary :

Board independence : Unless otherwise indicated, for the purposes of determining whether a board has a majority of independent directors and independent nominating, audit, and compensation committees, an “independent director” is a director who (1) meets all requirements to serve as an independent director of a company under the NYSE Corporate Governance Rules (e.g., no material business relationships with the company and no present or recent employment relationship with the company including employment of an immediate family member as an executive officer), and (2) has not accepted directly or indirectly any consulting, advisory, or other compensatory fee from the company other than in his or her capacity as a member of the board of directors or any board committee. The funds’ Trustees believe that the receipt of any amount of compensation for services other than service as a director raises significant independence issues.

Board size : The funds’ Trustees believe that the size of the board of directors can have a direct impact on the ability of the board to govern effectively. Boards that have too many members can be unwieldy and ultimately inhibit their ability to oversee management performance. Boards that have too few members can stifle innovation and lead to excessive influence by management.

Time commitment : Being a director of a company requires a significant time commitment to adequately prepare for and attend the company’s board and committee meetings. Directors must be able to commit the time and attention necessary to perform their fiduciary duties in proper fashion, particularly in times of crisis. The funds’


Trustees are concerned about over-committed directors. In some cases, directors may serve on too many boards to make a meaningful contribution. This may be particularly true for senior executives of public companies (or other directors with substantially full-time employment) who serve on more than a few outside boards. The funds may withhold votes from such directors on a case-by-case basis where it appears that they may be unable to discharge their duties properly because of excessive commitments.

Interlocking directorships : The funds’ Trustees believe that interlocking directorships are inconsistent with the degree of independence required for outside directors of public companies.

Corporate governance practices : Board independence depends not only on its members’ individual relationships, but also on the board’s overall attitude toward management. Independent boards are committed to good corporate governance practices and, by providing objective independent judgment, enhancing shareholder value. The funds may withhold votes on a case-by-case basis from some or all directors who, through their lack of independence or otherwise, have failed to observe good corporate governance practices or, through specific corporate action, have demonstrated a disregard for the interests of shareholders. Such instances may include cases where a board of directors has approved compensation arrangements for one or more members of management that, in the judgment of the funds’ Trustees, are excessive by reasonable corporate standards relative to the company’s record of performance.

Contested Elections of Directors

The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis in contested elections of directors.

Classified Boards

The funds will vote against proposals to classify a board, absent special circumstances indicating that shareholder interests would be better served by this structure.

Commentary : Under a typical classified board structure, the directors are divided into three classes, with each class serving a three-year term. The classified board structure results in directors serving staggered terms, with usually only a third of the directors up for re-election at any given annual meeting. The funds’ Trustees generally believe that it is appropriate for directors to stand for election each year, but recognize that, in special circumstances, shareholder interests may be better served under a classified board structure.

Other Board-Related Proposals

The funds will generally vote for proposals that have been approved by a majority independent board, and on a case-by-case basis on proposals that have been approved by a board that fails to meet the guidelines’ basic independence standards (i.e., majority of independent directors and independent nominating, audit, and compensation committees).


Executive Compensation

The funds generally favor compensation programs that relate executive compensation to a company’s long-term performance. The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on board-approved proposals relating to executive compensation, except as follows:

Except where the funds are otherwise withholding votes for the entire board of directors, the funds will vote for stock option and restricted stock plans that will result in an average annual dilution of 1.67% or less (based on the disclosed term of the plan and including all equity-based plans).

The funds will vote against stock option and restricted stock plans that will result in an average annual dilution of greater than 1.67% (based on the disclosed term of the plan and including all equity-based plans).

The funds will vote against any stock option or restricted stock plan where the company’s actual grants of stock options and restricted stock under all equity-based compensation plans during the prior three (3) fiscal years have resulted in an average annual dilution of greater than 1.67%.

The funds will vote against stock option plans that permit the replacing or repricing of underwater options (and against any proposal to authorize such replacement or repricing of underwater options).

The funds will vote against stock option plans that permit issuance of options with an exercise price below the stock’s current market price.

Except where the funds are otherwise withholding votes for the entire board of directors, the funds will vote for an employee stock purchase plan that has the following features: (1) the shares purchased under the plan are acquired for no less than 85% of their market value; (2) the offering period under the plan is 27 months or less; and (3) dilution is 10% or less.

Commentary : Companies should have compensation programs that are reasonable and that align shareholder and management interests over the longer term. Further, disclosure of compensation programs should provide absolute transparency to shareholders regarding the sources and amounts of, and the factors influencing, executive compensation. Appropriately designed equity-based compensation plans can be an effective way to align the interests of long-term shareholders with the interests of management. The funds may vote against executive compensation proposals on a case-by-case basis where compensation is excessive by reasonable corporate standards, or where a company fails to provide transparent disclosure of executive compensation. In voting on a proposal relating to executive compensation, the funds will consider whether the proposal has been approved by an independent compensation committee of the board.


Capitalization

Many proxy proposals involve changes in a company’s capitalization, including the authorization of additional stock, the issuance of stock, the repurchase of outstanding stock, or the approval of a stock split. The management of a company’s capital structure involves a number of important issues, including cash flow, financing needs, and market conditions that are unique to the circumstances of the company. As a result, the funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on board-approved proposals involving changes to a company’s capitalization, except that where the funds are not otherwise withholding votes from the entire board of directors:

The funds will vote for proposals relating to the authorization and issuance of additional common stock (except where such proposals relate to a specific transaction).

The funds will vote for proposals to effect stock splits (excluding reverse stock splits).

The funds will vote for proposals authorizing share repurchase programs.

Commentary : A company may decide to authorize additional shares of common stock for reasons relating to executive compensation or for routine business purposes. For the most part, these decisions are best left to the board of directors and senior management. The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis, however, on other proposals to change a company’s capitalization, including the authorization of common stock with special voting rights, the authorization or issuance of common stock in connection with a specific transaction (e.g., an acquisition, merger or reorganization), or the authorization or issuance of preferred stock. Actions such as these involve a number of considerations that may affect a shareholder’s investment and that warrant a case-by-case determination.

Acquisitions, Mergers, Reincorporations, Reorganizations and Other Transactions

Shareholders may be confronted with a number of different types of transactions, including acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations involving business combinations, liquidations, and the sale of all or substantially all of a company’s assets, which may require their consent. Voting on such proposals involves considerations unique to each transaction. As a result, the funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on board-approved proposals to effect these types of transactions, except as follows:

The funds will vote for mergers and reorganizations involving business combinations designed solely to reincorporate a company in Delaware.

Commentary : A company may reincorporate into another state through a merger or reorganization by setting up a “shell” company in a different state and then merging the company into the new company. While reincorporation into states with extensive and established corporate laws – notably Delaware – provides companies and shareholders with a more well-defined legal framework, shareholders must carefully consider the


reasons for a reincorporation into another jurisdiction, including especially an offshore jurisdiction.

Anti-Takeover Measures

Some proxy proposals involve efforts by management to make it more difficult for an outside party to take control of the company without the approval of the company’s board of directors. These include the adoption of a shareholder rights plan, requiring supermajority voting on particular issues, the adoption of fair price provisions, the issuance of blank check preferred stock, and the creation of a separate class of stock with disparate voting rights. Such proposals may adversely affect shareholder rights, lead to management entrenchment, or create conflicts of interest. As a result, the funds will vote against board-approved proposals to adopt such anti-takeover measures, except as follows:

The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on proposals to ratify or approve shareholder rights plans; and

The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on proposals to adopt fair price provisions.

Commentary : The funds’ Trustees recognize that poison pills and fair price provisions may enhance shareholder value under certain circumstances. As a result, the funds will consider proposals to approve such matters on a case-by-case basis.

Other Business Matters

Many proxies involve approval of routine business matters, such as changing a company’s name, ratifying the appointment of auditors, and procedural matters relating to the shareholder meeting. For the most part, these routine matters do not materially affect shareholder interests and are best left to the board of directors and senior management of the company. The funds will vote for board-approved proposals approving such matters, except as follows:

The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on proposals to amend a company’s charter or bylaws (except for charter amendments necessary to effect stock splits, to change a company’s name or to authorize additional shares of common stock).

The funds will vote against authorization to transact other unidentified, substantive business at the meeting.

The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on proposals to ratify the selection of independent auditors if there is evidence that the audit firm’s independence or the integrity of an audit is compromised.

The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on other business matters where the funds are otherwise withholding votes for the entire board of directors.


Commentary : Charter and bylaw amendments and the transaction of other unidentified, substantive business at a shareholder meeting may directly affect shareholder rights and have a significant impact on shareholder value. As a result, the funds do not view these items as routine business matters. Putnam Management’s investment professionals and the funds’ proxy voting service may also bring to the Proxy Coordinator’s attention company-specific items that they believe to be non-routine and warranting special consideration. Under these circumstances, the funds will vote on a case-by-case basis.

The fund’s proxy voting service may identify circumstances that call into question an audit firm’s independence or the integrity of an audit. These circumstances may include recent material restatements of financials, unusual audit fees, egregious contractual relationships, and aggressive accounting policies. The funds will consider proposals to ratify the selection of auditors in these circumstances on a case-by-case basis. In all other cases, given the existence of rules that enhance the independence of audit committees and auditors by, for example, prohibiting auditors from performing a range of non-audit services for audit clients, the funds will vote for the ratification of independent auditors.

II. SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS

SEC regulations permit shareholders to submit proposals for inclusion in a company’s proxy statement. These proposals generally seek to change some aspect of the company’s corporate governance structure or to change some aspect of its business operations. The funds generally will vote in accordance with the recommendation of the company’s board of directors on all shareholder proposals, except as follows:

The funds will vote for shareholder proposals to declassify a board, absent special circumstances which would indicate that shareholder interests are better served by a classified board structure.

The funds will vote for shareholder proposals to require shareholder approval of shareholder rights plans.

The funds will vote for shareholder proposals requiring companies to make cash payments under management severance agreements only if both of the following conditions are met:

the company undergoes a change in control, and

the change in control results in the termination of employment for the person receiving the severance payment.

The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on shareholder proposals requiring companies to accelerate vesting of equity awards under management severance agreements only if both of the following conditions are met:

the company undergoes a change in control, and


the change in control results in the termination of employment for the person receiving the severance payment.

The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on shareholder proposals to limit a company’s ability to make excise tax gross-up payments under management severance agreements.

The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on shareholder proposals requesting that the board adopt a policy to recoup, in the event of a significant restatement of financial results or significant extraordinary write-off, to the fullest extent practicable, for the benefit of the company, all performance-based bonuses or awards that were paid to senior executives based on the company having met or exceeded specific performance targets to the extent that the specific performance targets were not, in fact, met.

The funds will vote for shareholder proposals requiring a company to report on its executive retirement benefits (e.g., deferred compensation, split-dollar life insurance, SERPs and pension benefits).

The funds will vote for shareholder proposals requiring a company to disclose its relationships with executive compensation consultants (e.g., whether the company, the board or the compensation committee retained the consultant, the types of services provided by the consultant over the past five years, and a list of the consultant’s clients on which any of the company’s executives serve as a director).

The funds will vote for shareholder proposals that are consistent with the funds’ proxy voting guidelines for board-approved proposals.

The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on other shareholder proposals where the funds are otherwise withholding votes for the entire board of directors.

Commentary : In light of the substantial reforms in corporate governance that are currently underway, the funds’ Trustees believe that effective corporate reforms should be promoted by holding boards of directors – and in particular their independent directors – accountable for their actions, rather than by imposing additional legal restrictions on board governance through piecemeal proposals. Generally speaking, shareholder proposals relating to business operations are often motivated primarily by political or social concerns, rather than the interests of shareholders as investors in an economic enterprise. As stated above, the funds’ Trustees believe that boards of directors and management are responsible for ensuring that their businesses are operating in accordance with high legal and ethical standards and should be held accountable for resulting corporate behavior. Accordingly, the funds will generally support the recommendations of boards that meet the basic independence and governance standards established in these guidelines. Where boards fail to meet these standards, the funds will generally evaluate shareholder proposals on a case-by-case basis.


However, the funds generally support shareholder proposals to declassify a board or to require shareholder approval of shareholder rights plans The funds’ Trustees believe that these shareholder proposals further the goals of reducing management entrenchment and conflicts of interest, and aligning management’s interests with shareholders’ interests in evaluating proposed acquisitions of the company. The Trustees also believe that shareholder proposals to limit severance payments may further these goals in some instances. In general, the funds favor arrangements in which severance payments are made to an executive only when there is a change in control and the executive loses his or her job as a result. Arrangements in which an executive receives a payment upon a change of control even if the executive retains employment introduce potential conflicts of interest and may distract management focus from the long term success of the company.

In evaluating shareholder proposals that address severance payments, the funds distinguish between cash and equity payments. The funds generally do not favor cash payments to executives upon a change in control transaction if the executive retains employment. However, the funds recognize that accelerated vesting of equity incentives, even without termination of employment, may help to align management and shareholder interests in some instances, and will evaluate shareholder proposals addressing accelerated vesting of equity incentive payments on a case-by-case basis.

When severance payments exceed a certain amount based on the executive’s previous compensation, the payments may be subject to an excise tax. Some compensation arrangements provide for full excise tax gross-ups, which means that the company pays the executive sufficient additional amounts to cover the cost of the excise tax. The funds are concerned that the benefits of providing full excise tax gross-ups to executives may be outweighed by the cost to the company of the gross-up payments. Accordingly, the funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on shareholder proposals to curtail excise tax gross-up payments. The funds generally favor arrangements in which severance payments do not trigger an excise tax or in which the company’s obligations with respect to gross-up payments are limited in a reasonable manner.

The funds’ Trustees will also consider whether a company’s severance payment arrangements, taking all of the pertinent circumstances into account, constitute excessive compensation.

The funds’ Trustees believe that performance-based compensation can be an effective tool for aligning management and shareholder interests. However, to fulfill its purpose, performance compensation should only be paid to executives if the performance targets are actually met. A significant restatement of financial results or a significant extraordinary write-off may reveal that executives who were previously paid performance compensation did not actually deliver the required business performance to earn that compensation. In these circumstances, it may be appropriate for the company to recoup this performance compensation. The fund will consider on a case by case basis shareholder proposals requesting that the board adopt a policy to recoup, in the event of a significant restatement of financial results or significant extraordinary write-off, performance-based bonuses or awards paid to senior executives based on the company


having met or exceeded specific performance targets to the extent that the specific performance targets were not, in fact, met. The fund does not believe that such a policy should necessarily disadvantage a company in recruiting executives, as executives should understand that they are only entitled to performance compensation based on the actual performance they deliver.

The funds’ Trustees also believe that shareholder proposals that are intended to increase transparency, particularly with respect to executive compensation, without establishing rigid restrictions upon a company’s ability to attract and motivate talented executives, are generally beneficial to sound corporate governance without imposing undue burdens. The funds will generally support shareholder proposals calling for reasonable disclosure.

III. VOTING SHARES OF NON-U.S. ISSUERS

Many of the Putnam funds invest on a global basis, and, as a result, they may hold, and have an opportunity to vote, shares in non-U.S. issuers – i.e., issuers that are incorporated under the laws of foreign jurisdictions and whose shares are not listed on a U.S. securities exchange or the NASDAQ stock market.

In many non-U.S. markets, shareholders who vote proxies of a non-U.S. issuer are not able to trade in that company’s stock on or around the shareholder meeting date. This practice is known as “share blocking.” In countries where share blocking is practiced, the funds will vote proxies only with direction from Putnam Management’s investment professionals.

In addition, some non-U.S. markets require that a company’s shares be re-registered out of the name of the local custodian or nominee into the name of the shareholder for the shareholder to be able to vote at the meeting. This practice is known as “share reregistration.” As a result, shareholders, including the funds, are not able to trade in that company’s stock until the shares are re-registered back in the name of the local custodian or nominee following the meeting. In countries where share re-registration is practiced, the funds will generally not vote proxies.

Protection for shareholders of non-U.S. issuers may vary significantly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Laws governing non-U.S. issuers may, in some cases, provide substantially less protection for shareholders than do U.S. laws. As a result, the guidelines applicable to U.S. issuers, which are premised on the existence of a sound corporate governance and disclosure framework, may not be appropriate under some circumstances for non-U.S. issuers. However, the funds will vote proxies of non-U.S. issuers in accordance with the guidelines applicable to U.S. issuers , except as follows:

Uncontested Election of Directors

Germany

For companies subject to “co-determination,” the funds will vote on a case by-case basis for the election of nominees to the supervisory board.


The funds will withhold votes for the election of a former member of the company’s managerial board to chair of the supervisory board.

Commentary : German corporate governance is characterized by a two-tier board system—a managerial board composed of the company’s executive officers, and a supervisory board. The supervisory board appoints the members of the managerial board. Shareholders elect members of the supervisory board, except that in the case of companies with more than 2,000 employees, company employees are allowed to elect half of the supervisory board members. This “co-determination” practice may increase the chances that the supervisory board of a large German company does not contain a majority of independent members. In this situation, under the Fund’s proxy voting guidelines applicable to U.S. issuers, the funds would vote against all nominees. However, in the case of companies subject to “co-determination,” the Funds will vote for supervisory board members on a case-by-case basis, so that the funds can support independent nominees.

Consistent with the funds’ belief that the interests of shareholders are best protected by boards with strong, independent leadership, the funds will withhold votes for the election of former chairs of the managerial board to chair of the supervisory board.

Japan

For companies that have established a U.S.-style corporate governance structure, the funds will withhold votes for the entire board of directors if

the board does not have a majority of outside directors ,

the board has not established nominating and compensation committees composed of a majority of outside directors , or

the board has not established an audit committee composed of a majority of independent directors .

The funds will withhold votes for the appointment of members of a company’s board of statutory auditors if a majority of the members of the board of statutory auditors is not independent.

Commentary :

Board structure : Recent amendments to the Japanese Commercial Code give companies the option to adopt a U.S.-style corporate governance structure (i.e., a board of directors and audit, nominating, and compensation committees). The funds will vote for proposals to amend a company’s articles of incorporation to adopt the U.S.-style corporate structure.

Definition of outside director and independent director : Corporate governance principles in Japan focus on the distinction between outside directors and independent directors. Under these principles, an outside director is a director who is not and has


never been a director, executive, or employee of the company or its parent company, subsidiaries or affiliates. An outside director is “independent” if that person can make decisions completely independent from the managers of the company, its parent, subsidiaries, or affiliates and does not have a material relationship with the company (i.e., major client, trading partner, or other business relationship; familial relationship with current director or executive; etc.). The guidelines have incorporated these definitions in applying the board independence standards above.

Korea

The funds will withhold votes for the entire board of directors if

the board does not have a majority of outside directors,

the board has not established a nominating committee composed of at least a majority of outside directors, or

the board has not established an audit committee composed of at least three members and in which at least two-thirds of its members are outside directors.

Commentary : For purposes of these guideline, an “outside director” is a director that is independent from the management or controlling shareholders of the company, and holds no interests that might impair performing his or her duties impartially from the company, management or controlling shareholder. In determining whether a director is an outside director, the funds will also apply the standards included in Article 415-2(2) of the Korean Commercial Code (i.e., no employment relationship with the company for a period of two years before serving on the committee, no director or employment relationship with the company’s largest shareholder, etc.) and may consider other business relationships that would affect the independence of an outside director.

Russia

The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis for the election of nominees to the board of directors.

Commentary : In Russia, director elections are typically handled through a cumulative voting process. Cumulative voting allows shareholders to cast all of their votes for a single nominee for the board of directors, or to allocate their votes among nominees in any other way. In contrast, in “regular” voting, shareholders may not give more than one vote per share to any single nominee. Cumulative voting can help to strengthen the ability of minority shareholders to elect a director.

In Russia, as in some other emerging markets, standards of corporate governance are usually behind those in developed markets. Rather than vote against the entire board of directors, as the funds generally would in the case of a company whose board fails to meet the funds’ standards for independence, the funds may, on a case by case basis, cast all of their votes for one or more independent director nominees. The funds believe that


it is important to increase the number of independent directors on the boards of Russian companies to mitigate the risks associated with dominant shareholders.

United Kingdom

The funds will withhold votes for the entire board of directors if

the board does not have at least a majority of independent non-executive directors,

the board has not established a nomination committee composed of a majority of independent non-executive directors, or

the board has not established compensation and audit committees composed of (1) at least three directors (in the case of smaller companies, two directors) and (2) solely independent non-executive directors.

The funds will withhold votes for any nominee for director who is considered an independent director by the company and who has received compensation from the company other than for service as a director, such as investment banking, consulting, legal, or financial advisory fees.

Commentary :

Application of guidelines : Although the United Kingdom’s Combined Code on Corporate Governance (“Combined Code”) has adopted the “comply and explain” approach to corporate governance, the funds’ Trustees believe that the guidelines discussed above with respect to board independence standards are integral to the protection of investors in U.K. companies. As a result, these guidelines will be applied in a prescriptive manner.

Definition of independence : For the purposes of these guidelines, a non-executive director shall be considered independent if the director meets the independence standards in section A.3.1 of the Combined Code (i.e., no material business or employment relationships with the company, no remuneration from the company for non-board services, no close family ties with senior employees or directors of the company, etc.), except that the funds do not view service on the board for more than nine years as affecting a director’s independence.

Smaller companies : A smaller company is one that is below the FTSE 350 throughout the year immediately prior to the reporting year.

Other Matters

The funds will vote for shareholder proposals calling for a majority of a company’s directors to be independent of management.


The funds will vote for shareholder proposals seeking to increase the independence of board nominating, audit, and compensation committees.

The funds will vote for shareholder proposals that implement corporate governance standards similar to those established under U.S. federal law and the listing requirements of U.S. stock exchanges, and that do not otherwise violate the laws of the jurisdiction under which the company is incorporated.

The funds will vote on a case-by-case basis on proposals relating to (1) the issuance of common stock in excess of 20% of the company’s outstanding common stock where shareholders do not have preemptive rights, or (2) the issuance of common stock in excess of 100% of the company’s outstanding common stock where shareholders have preemptive rights.

As adopted February 15, 2008

Proxy Voting Procedures of the Putnam Funds

The proxy voting procedures below explain the role of the funds’ Trustees, the proxy voting service and the Proxy Coordinator, as well as how the process will work when a proxy question needs to be handled on a case-by-case basis, or when there may be a conflict of interest.

The role of the funds’ Trustees

The Trustees of the Putnam funds exercise control of the voting of proxies through their Board Policy and Nominating Committee, which is composed entirely of independent Trustees. The Board Policy and Nominating Committee oversees the proxy voting process and participates, as needed, in the resolution of issues that need to be handled on a case-by-case basis. The Committee annually reviews and recommends, for Trustee approval, guidelines governing the funds’ proxy votes, including how the funds vote on specific proposals and which matters are to be considered on a case-by-case basis. The Trustees are assisted in this process by their independent administrative staff (“Office of the Trustees”), independent legal counsel, and an independent proxy voting service. The Trustees also receive assistance from Putnam Investment Management, LLC (“Putnam Management”), the funds’ investment advisor, on matters involving investment judgments. In all cases, the ultimate decision on voting proxies rests with the Trustees, acting as fiduciaries on behalf of the shareholders of the funds.

The role of the proxy voting service

The funds have engaged an independent proxy voting service to assist in the voting of proxies. The proxy voting service is responsible for coordinating with the funds’ custodians to ensure that all proxy materials received by the custodians relating to the funds’ portfolio securities are processed in a timely fashion. To the extent applicable, the proxy voting service votes all proxies in accordance with the proxy voting guidelines established by the Trustees. The proxy voting service will refer proxy questions to the Proxy Coordinator (described below) for instructions under circumstances where: (1) the application of the proxy voting guidelines is unclear; (2) a particular proxy question is not covered by the guidelines; or (3) the guidelines call for specific instructions on a case-by-case basis. The proxy voting service is also requested to call to the Proxy Coordinator’s attention specific


proxy questions that, while governed by a guideline, appear to involve unusual or controversial issues. The funds also utilize research services relating to proxy questions provided by the proxy voting service and by other firms.

The role of the Proxy Coordinator

Each year, a member of the Office of the Trustees is appointed Proxy Coordinator to assist in the coordination and voting of the funds’ proxies. The Proxy Coordinator will deal directly with the proxy voting service and, in the case of proxy questions referred by the proxy voting service, will solicit voting recommendations and instructions from the Office of the Trustees, the Chair of the Board Policy and Nominating Committee, and Putnam Management’s investment professionals, as appropriate. The Proxy Coordinator is responsible for ensuring that these questions and referrals are responded to in a timely fashion and for transmitting appropriate voting instructions to the proxy voting service.

Voting procedures for referral items

As discussed above, the proxy voting service will refer proxy questions to the Proxy Coordinator under certain circumstances. When the application of the proxy voting guidelines is unclear or a particular proxy question is not covered by the guidelines (and does not involve investment considerations), the Proxy Coordinator will assist in interpreting the guidelines and, as appropriate, consult with one of more senior staff members of the Office of the Trustees and the Chair of the Board Policy and Nominating Committee on how the funds’ shares will be voted.

For proxy questions that require a case-by-case analysis pursuant to the guidelines or that are not covered by the guidelines but involve investment considerations, the Proxy Coordinator will refer such questions, through a written request, to Putnam Management’s investment professionals for a voting recommendation. Such referrals will be made in cooperation with the person or persons designated by Putnam Management’s Legal and Compliance Department to assist in processing such referral items. In connection with each such referral item, the Legal and Compliance Department will conduct a conflicts of interest review, as described below under “Conflicts of Interest,” and provide a conflicts of interest report (the “Conflicts Report”) to the Proxy Coordinator describing the results of such review. After receiving a referral item from the Proxy Coordinator, Putnam Management’s investment professionals will provide a written recommendation to the Proxy Coordinator and the person or persons designated by the Legal and Compliance Department to assist in processing referral items. Such recommendation will set forth (1) how the proxies should be voted; (2) the basis and rationale for such recommendation; and (3) any contacts the investment professionals have had with respect to the referral item with non-investment personnel of Putnam Management or with outside parties (except for routine communications from proxy solicitors). The Proxy Coordinator will then review the investment professionals’ recommendation and the Conflicts Report with one of more senior staff members of the Office of the Trustees in determining how to vote the funds’ proxies. The Proxy Coordinator will maintain a record of all proxy questions that have been referred to Putnam Management’s investment professionals, the voting recommendation, and the Conflicts Report.

In some situations, the Proxy Coordinator and/or one of more senior staff members of the Office of the Trustees may determine that a particular proxy question raises policy issues requiring consultation with the Chair of the Board Policy and Nominating Committee, who, in turn, may decide to bring the particular proxy question to the Committee or the full Board of Trustees for consideration.

Conflicts of interest

Occasions may arise where a person or organization involved in the proxy voting process may have a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest may exist, for example, if Putnam Management has a business relationship with (or is actively soliciting business from) either the company soliciting the


proxy or a third party that has a material interest in the outcome of a proxy vote or that is actively lobbying for a particular outcome of a proxy vote. Any individual with knowledge of a personal conflict of interest (e.g., familial relationship with company management) relating to a particular referral item shall disclose that conflict to the Proxy Coordinator and the Legal and Compliance Department and otherwise remove himself or herself from the proxy voting process. The Legal and Compliance Department will review each item referred to Putnam Management’s investment professionals to determine if a conflict of interest exists and will provide the Proxy Coordinator with a Conflicts Report for each referral item that (1) describes any conflict of interest; (2) discusses the procedures used to address such conflict of interest; and (3) discloses any contacts from parties outside Putnam Management (other than routine communications from proxy solicitors) with respect to the referral item not otherwise reported in an investment professional’s recommendation. The Conflicts Report will also include written confirmation that any recommendation from an investment professional provided under circumstances where a conflict of interest exists was made solely on the investment merits and without regard to any other consideration.

As adopted March 11, 2005

Item 8. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies

(a)(1) Investment management teams. Putnam Management’s, Putnam Investments Limited’s and The Putnam Advisory Company’s (for funds having Putnam Investments Limited and/or The Putnam Advisory Company as sub-manager) investment professionals are organized into investment management teams, with a particular team dedicated to a specific asset class. The members of the team or teams identified in the shareholder report included in Item 1 of this report manage the fund’s investments. The names of all team members can be found at www.putnam.com .

The team members identified as the fund’s Portfolio Leader(s) and Portfolio Member(s) coordinate team efforts related to the fund and are primarily responsible for the day-today management of the fund’s portfolio. In addition to these individuals, each team also includes other investment professionals, whose analysis, recommendations and research inform investment decisions made for the fund.

Portfolio Leaders   Joined   Employer   Positions Over Past Five Years  
  Fund      

D. William Kohli   2002   Putnam Management   Director, Core Fixed Income Team  
    1994-Present    

 
Portfolio        
Members        

Michael Atkin   2007   Putnam Management   Director of Sovereign Research  
    1997-Present    

Rob Bloemker   2005   Putnam Management   Deputy Head of Investments,  
    1999-Present   Previously, Chief Investment  
      Officer, Core Fixed-Income;  
      Team Leader, Mortgage and  



      Government; Mortgage Specialist  

Kevin Murphy     2007   Putnam Management   Team Leader, High Grade Credit  
    1999-Present   Previously, Investment Strategist  

Paul Scanlon   2005   Putnam Management   Team Leader, U.S. High-Yield.  
    1999-Present   Previously, Portfolio Manager  

(a)(2) Other Accounts Managed by the Fund’s Portfolio Managers.

The following table shows the number and approximate assets of other investment accounts (or portions of investment accounts) that the fund’s Portfolio Leader(s) and Portfolio Member(s) managed as of the fund’s most recent fiscal year-end. The other accounts may include accounts for which the individual was not designated as a portfolio member. Unless noted, none of the other accounts pays a fee based on the account’s performance.

          Other accounts (including  
          separate accounts, managed  
          account programs and single-  
Portfolio   Other SEC-registered open-   Other accounts that pool assets   sponsor defined contribution  
Leader or   end and closed-end funds         from more than one client   plan offerings)  
Member              

  Number   Assets   Number of   Assets   Number   Assets  
  of     accounts     of    
  accounts         accounts    

William Kohli   6   $3,224,200,000 9   $1,346,000,000 9   $2,178,600,000

Rob Bloemker   16   $9,597,400,000 28   $12,798,100,000 30*   $11,643,000,000

 
Michael Atkin   6   $3,224,200,000 3   $479,600,000 5   $1,517,700,000

 
Paul Scanlon   11   $6,373,900,000 12   $1,224,700,000 5   $458,800,000

 
Kevin Murphy   10   $7,276,100,000 22   $8,746,400,000 21   $8,212,700,000

* 3 accounts, with total assets of $823,100,000, pay an advisory fee based on account performance.

Potential conflicts of interest in managing multiple accounts . Like other investment professionals with multiple clients, the fund’s Portfolio Leader(s) and Portfolio Member(s) may face certain potential conflicts of interest in connection with managing both the fund and the other accounts listed under “Other Accounts Managed by the Fund’s Portfolio Managers” at the same time. The paragraphs below describe some of these potential conflicts, which Putnam Management believes are faced by investment professionals at most major financial firms. As described below, Putnam Management


and the Trustees of the Putnam funds have adopted compliance policies and procedures that attempt to address certain of these potential conflicts.

The management of accounts with different advisory fee rates and/or fee structures, including accounts that pay advisory fees based on account performance (“performance fee accounts”), may raise potential conflicts of interest by creating an incentive to favor higher-fee accounts. These potential conflicts may include, among others:

• The most attractive investments could be allocated to higher-fee accounts or performance fee accounts.

• The trading of higher-fee accounts could be favored as to timing and/or execution price. For example, higher-fee accounts could be permitted to sell securities earlier than other accounts when a prompt sale is desirable or to buy securities at an earlier and more opportune time.

• The trading of other accounts could be used to benefit higher-fee accounts (front-running).

• The investment management team could focus their time and efforts primarily on higher-fee accounts due to a personal stake in compensation.

Putnam Management attempts to address these potential conflicts of interest relating to higher-fee accounts through various compliance policies that are generally intended to place all accounts, regardless of fee structure, on the same footing for investment management purposes. For example, under Putnam Management’s policies:

• Performance fee accounts must be included in all standard trading and allocation procedures with all other accounts.

• All accounts must be allocated to a specific category of account and trade in parallel with allocations of similar accounts based on the procedures generally applicable to all accounts in those groups (e.g., based on relative risk budgets of accounts).

• All trading must be effected through Putnam’s trading desks and normal queues and procedures must be followed (i.e., no special treatment is permitted for performance fee accounts or higher-fee accounts based on account fee structure).

• Front running is strictly prohibited.

• The fund’s Portfolio Leader(s) and Portfolio Member(s) may not be guaranteed or specifically allocated any portion of a performance fee.

As part of these policies, Putnam Management has also implemented trade oversight and review procedures in order to monitor whether particular accounts (including higher-fee accounts or performance fee accounts) are being favored over time.

Potential conflicts of interest may also arise when the Portfolio Leader(s) or Portfolio Member(s) have personal investments in other accounts that may create an incentive to favor those accounts. As a general matter and subject to limited exceptions, Putnam Management’s investment professionals do not have the opportunity to invest in client accounts, other than the Putnam funds. However, in the ordinary course of business, Putnam Management or related persons may from time to time establish “pilot” or


“incubator” funds for the purpose of testing proposed investment strategies and products prior to offering them to clients. These pilot accounts may be in the form of registered investment companies, private funds such as partnerships or separate accounts established by Putnam Management or an affiliate. Putnam Management or an affiliate supplies the funding for these accounts. Putnam employees, including the fund’s Portfolio Leader(s) and Portfolio Member(s), may also invest in certain pilot accounts. Putnam Management, and to the extent applicable, the Portfolio Leader(s) and Portfolio Member(s) will benefit from the favorable investment performance of those funds and accounts. Pilot funds and accounts may, and frequently do, invest in the same securities as the client accounts. Putnam Management’s policy is to treat pilot accounts in the same manner as client accounts for purposes of trading allocation – neither favoring nor disfavoring them except as is legally required. For example, pilot accounts are normally included in Putnam Management’s daily block trades to the same extent as client accounts (except that pilot accounts do not participate in initial public offerings).

A potential conflict of interest may arise when the fund and other accounts purchase or sell the same securities. On occasions when the Portfolio Leader(s) or Portfolio Member(s) consider the purchase or sale of a security to be in the best interests of the fund as well as other accounts, Putnam Management’s trading desk may, to the extent permitted by applicable laws and regulations, aggregate the securities to be sold or purchased in order to seek to obtain the best execution and lower brokerage commissions, if any. Aggregation of trades may create the potential for unfairness to the fund or another account if one account is favored over another in allocating the securities purchased or sold – for example, by allocating a disproportionate amount of a security that is likely to increase in value to a favored account. Putnam Management’s trade allocation policies generally provide that each day’s transactions in securities that are purchased or sold by multiple accounts are, insofar as possible, averaged as to price and allocated between such accounts (including the fund) in a manner which in Putnam Management’s opinion is equitable to each account and in accordance with the amount being purchased or sold by each account. Certain exceptions exist for specialty, regional or sector accounts. Trade allocations are reviewed on a periodic basis as part of Putnam Management’s trade oversight procedures in an attempt to ensure fairness over time across accounts.

“Cross trades,” in which one Putnam account sells a particular security to another account (potentially saving transaction costs for both accounts), may also pose a potential conflict of interest. Cross trades may be seen to involve a potential conflict of interest if, for example, one account is permitted to sell a security to another account at a higher price than an independent third party would pay. Putnam Management and the fund’s Trustees have adopted compliance procedures that provide that any transactions between the fund and another Putnam-advised account are to be made at an independent current market price, as required by law.

Another potential conflict of interest may arise based on the different investment objectives and strategies of the fund and other accounts. For example, another account may have a shorter-term investment horizon or different investment objectives, policies


or restrictions than the fund. Depending on another account’s objectives or other factors, the Portfolio Leader(s) and Portfolio Member(s) may give advice and make decisions that may differ from advice given, or the timing or nature of decisions made, with respect to the fund. In addition, investment decisions are the product of many factors in addition to basic suitability for the particular account involved. Thus, a particular security may be bought or sold for certain accounts even though it could have been bought or sold for other accounts at the same time. More rarely, a particular security may be bought for one or more accounts managed by the Portfolio Leader(s) or Portfolio Member(s) when one or more other accounts are selling the security (including short sales). There may be circumstances when purchases or sales of portfolio securities for one or more accounts may have an adverse effect on other accounts. As noted above, Putnam Management has implemented trade oversight and review procedures to monitor whether any account is systematically favored over time.

The fund’s Portfolio Leader(s) and Portfolio Member(s) may also face other potential conflicts of interest in managing the fund, and the description above is not a complete description of every conflict that could be deemed to exist in managing both the fund and other accounts.

(a)(3) Compensation of investment professionals. Putnam Management believes that its investment management teams should be compensated primarily based on their success in helping investors achieve their goals. The portion of Putnam Investments’ total incentive compensation pool that is available to Putnam Management’s Investment Division is based primarily on its delivery, across all of the portfolios it manages, of consistent, dependable and superior performance over time. The peer group for the fund, which is identified in the shareholder report included in Item 1, is the fund’s its broad investment category as determined by Lipper Inc. The portion of the incentive compensation pool available to each investment management team varies based primarily on its delivery, across all of the portfolios it manages, of consistent, dependable and superior performance over time on (i) for tax-exempt funds, a tax-adjusted basis to recognize the different federal income tax treatment for capital gains distributions and exempt-interest distributions or (ii) for taxable funds, on a before-tax basis.

Consistent performance means being above median over one year.

· Dependable performance means not being in the 4th quartile of the peer group over one, three or five years.

· Superior performance (which is the largest component of Putnam Management’s incentive compensation program) means being in the top third of the peer group over three and five years.

In determining an investment management team’s portion of the incentive compensation pool and allocating that portion to individual team members, Putnam Management retains discretion to reward or penalize teams or individuals, including the fund’s Portfolio Leader(s) and Portfolio Member(s), as it deems appropriate, based on other factors. The size of the overall incentive compensation pool each year depends in large part on Putnam’s profitability for the year, which is influenced by assets under management. Incentive compensation is generally paid as cash bonuses, but a portion of incentive


compensation may instead be paid as grants of restricted stock, options or other forms of compensation, based on the factors described above. In addition to incentive compensation, investment team members receive annual salaries that are typically based on seniority and experience. Incentive compensation generally represents at least 70% of the total compensation paid to investment team members.

(a)(4) Fund ownership. The following table shows the dollar ranges of shares of the fund owned by the professionals listed above at the end of the fund’s last two fiscal years, including investments by their immediate family members and amounts invested through retirement and deferred compensation plans.

N/A indicates the individual was not a Portfolio Leader or Portfolio Member as of 7/31/07.

(b) Not applicable

Item 9. Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Companies and Affiliated Purchasers:

Registrant Purchase of Equity Securities

        Maximum  
      Total Number   Number (or  
      of Shares   Approximate  
      Purchased   Dollar Value)  
      as Part   of Shares  
      of Publicly   that May Yet Be  
  Total Number   Average   Announced   Purchased  
  of Shares   Price Paid   Plans or   under the Plans  
Period   Purchased   per Share   Programs*   or Programs**  
 
August 1 -          
August 31, 2007   2,274,845   $6.29   2,274,845   883,681  
September 1 -          
September 30, 2007   883,681   $6.39   883,681   -  
October 1 -          
October 5, 2007   -   -   -   -  
October 6 -   1,098,795   $6.35   1,098,795   14,676,524  


October 31, 2007          
November 1 -          
November 30, 2007   1,300,734   $6.17   1,300,734   13,375,790  
December 1 -          
December 31, 2007   1,013,566   $6.27   1,013,566   12,362,224  
January 1 -          
January 31, 2008   475,073   $6.36   475,073   11,887,151  
February 1 -          
February 28, 2008   753,821   $6.11   753,821   11,133,330  
March 1 -          
March 31, 2008   861,432   $5.96   861,432   10,271,898  
April 1 -          
April 30, 2008   1,258,704   $6.17   1,258,704   9,013,194  
May 1 -          
May 31, 2008   498,328   $6.35   498,328   8,514,866  
June 1 -          
June 30, 2008   80,780   $6.18   80,780   8,434,086  
July 1 -          
July 31, 2008   898,215   $5.92   898,215   7,535,871  

*The Board of Trustees announced a repurchase plan on October 7, 2005 for which 9,757,815 shares were approved for repurchase by the fund. The repurchase plan was approved through October 6, 2006. On March 10, 2006, the Trustees announced that the repurchase program was increased to allow repurchases of up to a total of 19,515,630 shares over the original term of the program. On September 15, 2006, the Trustees voted to extend the term of the repurchase program through October 6, 2007. In September 2007, the Trustees announced that the repurchase program was increased to allow repurchases up to a total 15,775,319 shares through October 7, 2008.

**Information prior to October 6, 2007 is based on the total number of shares eligible for repurchase under the program, as amended through September 15, 2006. Information from October 6, 2007 forward is based on the total number of shares eligible for repurchase under the program, as amended through September 2007.

Item 10. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders:

Not applicable

Item 11. Controls and Procedures:

(a) The registrant's principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded, based on their evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report, that the design and operation of such procedures are generally effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by the registrant in this report is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission's rules and forms.

(b) Changes in internal control over financial reporting: Not applicable

Item 12. Exhibits:


(a)(1) The Code of Ethics of The Putnam Funds, which incorporates the Code of Ethics of Putnam Investments, is filed herewith.

(a)(2) Separate certifications for the principal executive officer and principal financial officer of the registrant as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, are filed herewith.

(b) The certifications required by Rule 30a-2(b) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, are filed herewith.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Putnam Premier Income Trust

By (Signature and Title):

/s/Janet C. Smith
Janet C. Smith
Principal Accounting Officer

Date: September 25, 2008

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

By (Signature and Title):

/s/Charles E. Porter
Charles E. Porter
Principal Executive Officer

Date: September 25, 2008

By (Signature and Title):

/s/Steven D. Krichmar
Steven D. Krichmar
Principal Financial Officer

Date: September 25, 2008


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