Important Legal Information
Total Returns include change in share price, assume reinvestment of all distributions, and reflect the deduction of fund expenses and applicable fees. Total Returns With Sales Charge: returns reflect the deduction of the stated sales charges. Total returns, distribution rate, and yields reflect any applicable expense reductions, without which the results for those impacted funds would have been lower.
For more information on any of our funds, contact your financial advisor or download a free prospectus. Investors should carefully consider a fund's investment goals, risks, sales charges and expenses before investing. The prospectus contains this and other information. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing or sending money.
The special risks associated with Templeton Income Fund's investment in foreign debt and equity securities include currency fluctuations and political and economic uncertainty. Investments in developing markets involve heightened risks related to the same factors, in addition to those associated with their relatively small size and lesser liquidity. The fund's investment in derivative securities, such as financial futures and option contracts, and the fund's use of foreign currency techniques involve special risks as such may not achieve the anticipated benefits and/or may result in losses to the fund. The risks associated with higher-yielding, lower-rated debt securities I include higher risk of default and loss of principal. Interest rate movements will affect the fund's share price and yield. Bond prices generally move in the opposite direction of interest rates. Thus, as the prices of bonds in the fund adjust to a rise in interest rates, the fund's share price may decline. While stocks have h historically outperformed other asset classes over the long term, they tend to fluctuate over the shorter term. These and other risks are described in the fund's prospectus.