Company: EMD
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form Type: 40-17G
Source: 0001655589-25-000267
Chunk: 24

Company: WESTERN ASSET EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND INC.
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form: 40-17G
Chunk 24
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 least sixty (60)
days after the Underwriter has given written notice thereof to the Securities and Exchange Commission,
Washington, D.C., and to each Insured Investment Company affected thereby.

**SECTION 19.COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE TRADE AND ECONOMIC SANCTIONS**

This
Bond shall not be deemed to provide any coverage, and the Underwriter shall not be required to pay any
loss or provide any benefit hereunder, to the extent that the provision of such coverage, payment of
such loss or provision of such benefit would cause the Underwriter to be in violation of any applicable
trade or economic sanctions, laws or regulations, including, but not limited to, any sanctions, laws
or regulations administered and enforced by the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC).

#### SECTION
20.ANTI-BUNDLING

If any Insuring Agreement requires that an enumerated type
of document be Counterfeit, or contain a Forgery or Alteration, the Counterfeit, Forgery, or Alteration
must be on or of the enumerated

document itself, not on or of some other
document submitted with, accompanying or incorporated by reference into the enumerated document.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Underwriter has caused this Bond to be executed on the
Declarations Page.

#### ICI MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY,

#### a Risk Retention Group

### INVESTMENT
COMPANY BLANKET BOND

#### RIDER NO. 1

#### INSUREDBOND
NUMBER

#### Franklin Alternative Strategies Funds87170125B
**EFFECTIVE DATEBOND PERIODAUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE**

#### June 30, 2025

#### June 30, 2025 to June 30, 2026

#### /S/ Swenitha Nalli

#### NAMED
INSURED COMPANY RIDER (FUNDS-ONLY OMNIBUS)

In consideration of the premium charged
for this Bond, it is hereby understood and agreed that Item 1 of the Declarations, Name of Insured, shall
include the following:

(1)any Investment Company (or portfolio thereof) existing as of the Effective Date of this Bond that is advised, distributed, or administered by Franklin Resources, Inc. (“FRI”) or any Existing Subsidiary and which FRI has made a good faith effort to identify as a proposed Insured in the Application or any attachments thereto, provided, that FRI or any Existing Subs