Company: PPT
Filing Date: 2025-09-26
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001133228-25-010195
Chunk: 102

Company: PUTNAM PREMIER INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-09-26
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 102
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.................................

$529,033

$

265,702

$263,331

*

In

U.S.

dollars

unless

otherwise

indicated.

#### Total

#### Return

#### Swap

#### Contracts

#### Underlying

#### Instruments

#### Financing

#### Rate

#### Payment

#### Frequency

#### Counter-

#### party

#### Maturity

#### Date

#### Notional

#### Value
*****

#### Value/

#### Unrealized

#### Appreciation
**(Depreciation)**

#### OTC

#### Swap

#### Contracts

#### Long
**(a)

Ephesus

Funding

DAC

(b)

................

0.165%

At

Maturity

MSCO

9/22/25

2,435,000

$

48,697

Total

Return

Swap

Contracts

....................................................................

$48,697

*

In

U.S.

dollars

unless

otherwise

indicated.

(a)

The

Fund

receives

the

total

return

on

the

underlying

instrument

and

pays

a

fixed

financing

rate.

(b)

Fair

valued

using

significant

unobservable

inputs.

See

Note

10

regarding

fair

value

measurements.

See

Note 9 regarding

other

derivative

information.

See

A

bbreviations

on

page

57

.

Putnam

Premier

Income

Trust**

### Financial
Statements

Statement

of

Assets

and

Liabilities

July

31,

2025

franklintempleton.com

The

accompanying

notes

are

an

integral

part

of

these

### financial
statements.

Annual

Report

39

#### Putnam

#### Premier

#### Income

#### Trust
Assets:

Investments

in

securities:

Cost

-

Unaffiliated

issuers

...................................................................

$410,787,298

Cost

-

Non-controlled

affiliates

(Note

3

e

)

........................................................

30,092,317

Value

-

Unaffiliated

issuers

..................................................................

$412,212,171

Value

-

Non-controlled

affiliates

(Note

3

e

)

.......................................................

30,147,850

Cash

....................................................................................

2,555,322

Receivables:

Investment

securities

sold

...................................................................

952,079

Rece