Company: PPT
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: N-CSRS
Source: 0000928816-25-000406
Chunk: 31

Company: PUTNAM PREMIER INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: N-CSRS
Chunk 31
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 issuers is included in the Report to Stockholders in Item 1 above. Item 7. Financial Statements and Financial Highlights for Open-End Management Investment Companies. Not applicable Item 8. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants for Open-End Management Investment Companies. Not applicable Item 9. Proxy Disclosure for Open-End Management Investment Companies. Not applicable Item 10. Remuneration Paid to Directors, Officers, and Others of Open-End Management Investment Companies. Not applicable Item 11. Statement Regarding Basis for Approval of Investment Advisory Contract. Included in Item 1 above, as applicable Item 12. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures For Closed-End Management Investment Companies: Not applicable Item 13. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Investment Companies (a) Not applicable

(b) Effective September 30, 2024, Brett Kozlowski, Robert Davis and Robert Salvin are no longer Portfolio Managers of the fund and Patick A. Klein, Benjamin Cryer and Matthew J. Walkup were added as Portfolio Managers of the fund. (a)(1) Portfolio Managers.The officers of the investment manager identified below are primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the fund’s portfolio as of the filing date of this report.

| Portfolio  
 Managers   | Joined 
   Fund | Employer           | Positions            
 Over Past Five Years |
| Albert     
 Chan, CFA  |   2020 | Franklin Advisors  
 2024 – Present     
 Putnam Investments 
 2002-2024          | Portfolio            
 Manager              |
| Benjamin,  
 Cryer, CFA |   2024 | Franklin Advisors  
 2006 – Present     | Portfolio            
 Manager              |
| Patrick    
 Klein, PhD |   2024 | Franklin Advisors  
 2005 – Present     | Portfolio            
 Manager              |
| Michael    
 Salm       |   2011 | Franklin Advisors  
 2024 – Present     
 Putnam Investments 
 1997-2024          | Portfolio            
 Manager              |
| Matthew    
 Walkup     |   2024 | Franklin Advisors  
 2005 – Present     
 Putnam Investments 
 2014-2024          | 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 Managers managed as of the fund’s most recent fiscal year-end. Unless noted, none of the other accounts pays a