Company: EMD
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form Type: 40-17G
Source: 0001655589-25-000267
Chunk: 29

Company: WESTERN ASSET EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND INC.
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form: 40-17G
Chunk 29
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 Employee (a) is an employee of that Fund or of its investment adviser, principal underwriter, or affiliated transfer agent, and (b) who is communicating with purchasers of such securities only in person in an office of an Insured or by telephone or in writing, and (c) does not receive commissions on such sales;provided, that such Dishonest or Fraudulent Acts or other acts or omissions do not involve, and such loss does not arise from, a statement or representation which isnot(1) contained in a currently effective prospectus regarding such securities, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or (2) made as part of a scripted response to a question regarding that Fund or such securities, if the script has been filed with, and not objected to by, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. and if the entire scripted response has been read to the caller, and if any response concerning the performance of such securities is not outdated.

Except
as above stated, nothing herein shall be held to alter, waive or extend any of the terms of this Bond.

#### ICI MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY,

#### a Risk Retention Group

### INVESTMENT
COMPANY BLANKET BOND

#### RIDER NO. 4

#### INSUREDBOND
NUMBER

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

#### June 30, 2025

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

#### /S/ Swenitha Nalli
In
consideration of the premium charged for this Bond, it is hereby understood and agreed that this Bond
does not cover any loss resulting from or in connection with the acceptance of any Third Party Check,
unless

(1)such Third Party Check is used to open or increase an account which is registered in the name of one or more of the payees on such Third Party Check, and

(2)reasonable efforts are made by the Insured, or by the entity receiving Third Party Checks on behalf of the Insured, to verify all endorsements on all Third Party Checks made payable in amounts greater than $100,000 (provided, however, that the isolated failure to make such efforts in a particular instance will not preclude coverage, subject to the exclusions herein and in the Bond),

and then only to
the extent such loss is otherwise covered under this Bond.

For purposes of this
Rider, “