Company: EMD
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001133228-25-001572
Chunk: 29

Company: WESTERN ASSET EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 29
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 net assets immediately after such issuance. In addition, the Fund may engage in additional reverse repurchase agreements and similar investment management techniques which provide leverage. Under Rule 18f-4 described below, a fund may treat reverse repurchase agreements and similar investment management techniques as subject to applicable coverage limits under the 1940 Act or treat them as derivative transactions. The Fund may purchase and sell futures contracts, purchase and sell (or write) exchange-listed and over-the-counter put and call options on securities, financial indices and futures contracts, enter into various interest rate (such as swaps, caps, floors and collars) and currency (such as currency forward contracts, currency futures contracts and options thereon, currency swaps and options on currencies) transactions and enter into other similar transactions which may be developed in the future to the extent the adviser determines that they are consistent with the Fund’s investment objectives and policies and applicable regulatory requirements. The Fund may use any or all of these techniques at any time, and the use of any particular derivative transaction will depend on market conditions. The Fund may engage in currency transactions with counterparties to hedge the value of portfolio securities denominated in particular currencies against fluctuations in relative value or to generate income or gain. Currency transactions include currency forward contracts, exchange-listed currency futures contracts and options thereon, exchange-listed and OTC options on currencies and currency swaps. The Fund will enter into OTC option transactions only with U.S. Government securities dealers recognized by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as “primary dealers,” or broker-dealers, domestic or foreign banks, or other financial institutions that the adviser deems to be creditworthy. The Fund may lend portfolio securities to brokers or dealers or other financial institutions, so long as the borrower of the loaned securities deposits cash or liquid securities with the Fund in an amount equal to a minimum of 100% of the market value of the securities lent. The Fund may invest up to 15% of its managed assets in illiquid securities, which are securities that cannot be sold within seven days at a price which the Fund would determine to be fair value.

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Summary of information regarding the Fund (unaudited) (cont’d)

The Fund may invest in distressed debt securities, which are debt securities subject to bankruptcy proceedings or otherwise in default as to the repayment of principal and/or interest at the time of acquisition by the Fund, or are rated in the lower rating categories (Ca or lower by Moody’s and CC or lower by