Company: PPT
Filing Date: 2025-09-26
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001133228-25-010195
Chunk: 247

Company: PUTNAM PREMIER INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-09-26
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 247
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. This peer ranking is based on pre-tax performance.

One or more of the portfolio managers of Putnam Master Intermediate Income
Trust and Putnam Premier Income Trust receive a portion of the performance fee payable by a private fund managed by Putnam (the “Private
Fund”) in connection with their service as members of the Private Fund portfolio management team. See “Other Accounts Managed
by the Fund’s Portfolio Managers—Potential conflicts of interest in managing multiple accounts” in (a)(2) above for
information on how the investment manager addresses potential conflicts of interest resulting from an individual’s management of
more than one account.

(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.

*: Assets in the fund

| Name              |     | Year |     | $ | 0 |     | $0-$10,000 |     | $10,001- 
 $50,000  |     | $50,001- 
 $100,000 |     | $100,001- 
 $500,000  |     | $500,001-  
 $1,000,000 |     | $1,000,001 and 
 over           |
| Albert Chan       |     | 2025 |     |   | x |     |            |     |          |     |          |     |           |     |            |     |                |
|                   |     | 2024 |     |   | x |     |            |     |          |     |          |     |           |     |            |     |                |
| Brett S Kozlowski |     | 2025 |     |   | x |     |            |     |          |     |          |     |           |     |            |     |                |
|                   |     | 2024 |     |   | x |     |            |     |          |     |          |     |           |     |            |     |                |
| Michael Salm      |     | 2025 |     |   | x |     |            |     |          |     |          |     |           |     |            |     |                |
|                   |     | 2024 |     |   | x |     |            |     |          |     |          |