Putnam Stable Value Fund

We offer a stable value fund as an option for principal stability and attractive income opportunities.

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Advantages of our approach

Putnam's Steven Horner, CFA, discusses differences between stable value and money market funds, including the ability to pursue smoother performance with a range of investments in bonds and guaranteed investment contracts.

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Stable Value has consistently outperformed cash markets over the past 30+ years

Stable value funds offer attractive capital preservation options in many plans because they seek stable performance, like a money market fund, while also investing in the higher return potential of intermediate-term bonds. As a result, the stable value category has an average annual return premium above T-bills of 175 basis points over the past 30+ years. See the chart below. In the chart, U.S. 3-month T-Bill Index returns are used to represent approximate government money market returns. Note, SEC reforms since 2010 have required money market funds to reduce portfolio-weighted average maturity from 90 days to 60 days and maintain both daily and weekly liquid asset requirements.

Sources: Federal Funds Effective Rate as retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; T-bill returns as represented by the ICE BofA (Intercontinental Exchange Bank of America) U.S. 3-Month Treasury Bill Index, an unmanaged index that seeks to measure the performance of U.S. Treasury bills available in the marketplace; and Stable Value returns as represented by the Morningstar US CIT Stable Value Index, which measures the performance of approximately 75% of the U.S. collective investment trust stable-value fund pooled universe.

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Putnam Stable Value Fund (“the Fund”) is not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by Morningstar, Inc. or any of its affiliates (all such entities, collectively, “Morningstar Entities”). The Morningstar Entities make no representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the Fund or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in stable value products generally or in the Fund in particular, or the ability of the Index to track general stable value products’ market performance.

THE MORNINGSTAR ENTITIES DO NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY AND/OR THE COMPLETENESS OF THE INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN, AND MORNINGSTAR ENTITIES SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR INTERRUPTIONS THEREIN.