EDGAR Filing Documents for 0000825063-09-000023

May 1, 2009
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Mutual Beacon Fund Class A, B, C & Z Mutual European Fund Class A, B, C & Z Mutual Financial Services Fund Class A, B, C & Z Mutual Global Discovery Fund (formerly Mutual Discovery Fund) Class A, B, C, R & Z Mutual International Fund Class A, C, R & Z Mutual Quest Fund (formerly Mutual Qualified Fund) Class A, B, C, R & Z Mutual Shares Fund Class A, B, C, R & Z
	PROSPECTUS
Franklin Mutual Series Funds

		Contents

		THE FUNDS
INFORMATION ABOUT THE FUND YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE INVESTING		Mutual Beacon Fund; Mutual Global Discovery Fund; Mutual Quest Fund; Mutual Shares Fund Mutual Financial Services Fund Mutual European Fund Mutual International Fund More Information on Investment Policies, Practices and Risks Management Distributions and Taxes Financial Highlights

		YOUR ACCOUNT
INFORMATION ABOUT SALES CHARGES, QUALIFIED INVESTORS, ACCOUNT TRANSACTIONS AND SERVICES		Choosing a Share Class Buying Shares Investor Services Selling Shares Exchanging Shares Account Policies Questions

		FOR MORE INFORMATION
WHERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FUND		Back Cover

Mutual Beacon Fund

Mutual Global Discovery Fund

Mutual Quest Fund

Mutual Shares Fund

Goals and Strategies

Goals

The principal investment goal of Mutual Beacon, Mutual Quest and Mutual Shares Funds is capital appreciation, which may occasionally be short-term. Their secondary goal is income. Mutual Global Discovery Fund's investment goal is capital appreciation.

Main Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, each Fund invests predominately in equity securities (including securities convertible into, or that the manager expects to be exchanged for, common or preferred stock) of U.S. and foreign companies that the manager believes are available at market prices less than their value based on certain recognized or objective criteria (intrinsic value). Following this value-oriented strategy, each Fund invests primarily in:

Undervalued Securities Securities trading at a discount to intrinsic value.

And, to a lesser extent, each Fund also invests in:

Risk Arbitrage Securities Securities of companies involved in restructurings (such as mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, liquidations, spinoffs, or tender or exchange offers) or that the manager believes are cheap relative to an economically equivalent security of the same or another company.
Distressed Companies Securities of companies that are, or are about to be, involved in reorganizations, financial restructurings, or bankruptcy.

In pursuit of their value-oriented strategy, the Funds are not limited to pre-set maximums or minimums governing the size of the companies in which they may invest. However, as a general rule, Mutual Shares Fund currently invests the equity portion of its portfolio predominantly in companies with market capitalizations greater than $5 billion, with a small portion in smaller companies. Mutual Beacon and Mutual Quest Funds currently invest the equity portion of their portfolio predominantly in mid- and large cap companies, with the remaining portion in smaller companies. Mutual Global Discovery Fund currently invests the equity portion of its portfolio primarily (around 80%) in mid- and large cap companies, with the remaining portion of its equity portfolio in smaller companies. For these purposes, mid- and large cap companies are considered to be those with market capitalization values (share price times the number of shares of common stock outstanding) greater than $1.5 billion.

While the Funds generally purchase securities for investment purposes, the manager may seek to influence or control management, or invest in other companies that do so, when the manager believes a Fund may benefit.

The Mutual Beacon and Mutual Shares Funds expect to invest a significant portion (up to 35%) of their assets in foreign securities, Mutual Quest Fund expects to invest a significant portion (up to 50%) of its assets in foreign securities and Mutual Global Discovery Fund expects to invest substantially and may invest up to 100% of its assets in foreign securities, which may include sovereign debt and participations in foreign government debt. The Mutual Global Discovery Fund presently does not intend to invest more than a portion (no more than 25%) of its assets in securities of issuers located in emerging market countries.

Each Fund may attempt, from time to time, to hedge (protect) against currency risks, largely using forward foreign currency exchange contracts when, in the manager's opinion, it would be advantageous to the Fund to do so. Each Fund may also, from time to time, attempt to hedge against market risk using a variety of derivatives (together, "Hedging Instruments").

The Funds may also engage from time to time in an "arbitrage" strategy. When engaging in an arbitrage strategy, the Funds typically buy one security while at the same time selling short another security. The Funds generally buy the security that the manager believes is either cheap relative to the price of the other security or otherwise undervalued, and sell short the security that the manager believes is either expensive relative to the price of the other security or otherwise overvalued. In doing so, the Funds attempt to profit from a perceived relationship between the values of the two securities. The Funds generally engage in an arbitrage strategy in connection with an announced corporate restructuring, such as a merger, acquisition or tender offer, or other corporate action or event as further discussed under "Risk Arbitrage Securities and Distressed Companies," below.

The Funds invest primarily in equity securities of U.S. and foreign companies the manager believes are undervalued.

Portfolio Selection

The manager employs a research driven, fundamental value strategy for each of the Funds. In choosing equity investments, the manager focuses on the market price of a company's securities relative to the manager's own evaluation of the company's asset value, including an analysis of book value, cash flow potential, long-term earnings, and multiples of earnings. Similarly, debt securities and other indebtedness, including loan participations, are generally selected based on the manager's own analysis of the security's intrinsic value rather than the coupon rate or rating of the security. The manager examines each investment separately and there are no set criteria as to specific value parameters, asset size, earnings or industry type.

Differences Between The Funds

Although the manager follows a similar strategy in choosing investments for each of the Funds, there are certain differences. First, the Funds vary in size; second, each Fund, to a certain extent, has a different team of portfolio managers who have primary responsibility for selecting investments. Third, although the Funds may invest a portion of their assets in foreign securities (Mutual Global Discovery may invest all of its assets in foreign securities) and in small and mid-cap companies, the proportion so invested will vary. Finally the Funds may allocate foreign investments to different geographic areas. As a result of these differences, the performance of the four Funds will vary.

Main Risks

Stocks

Although this may not be the case in foreign markets, in the U.S. stocks, historically as a class, have outperformed other types of investments over the long term. Individual stock prices, however, tend to go up and down more dramatically. These price movements may result from factors affecting individual companies, industries, or securities markets. For example, a negative development regarding an individual company's earnings, management, or accounting practices may cause its stock price to decline, or a negative industry-wide event or broad-based market drop may cause the stock prices of many companies to decline.

Value investing

Value securities may not increase in price as anticipated by the manager, and may even decline further in value, if other investors fail to recognize the company's value, or favor investing in faster-growing companies, or if the events or factors that the manager believes will increase a security’s market value do not occur.

The Fund's bargain-driven focus may result in the Fund choosing securities that are not widely followed by other investors. Securities that are considered "cheaply" priced also may include those of companies reporting poor earnings, companies whose share prices have declined sharply (such as growth companies that have recently stumbled to levels considered “cheap” in the manager’s opinion), turnarounds, cyclical companies, or companies emerging from bankruptcy, all of which may have a higher risk of being ignored or rejected, and therefore undervalued; by the market or losing more value.

Risk Arbitrage Securities and Distressed Companies

A merger or other restructuring, or a tender or exchange offer, proposed or pending at the time the Fund invests in Risk Arbitrage Securities may not be completed on the terms or within the time frame contemplated, resulting in losses to the Fund. Debt obligations of Distressed Companies typically are unrated, lower-rated, in default or close to default. Also, securities of Distressed Companies are generally more likely to become worthless than the securities of more financially stable companies.

Foreign Securities

Investing in foreign securities, including securities of foreign governments, typically involves more risks than investing in U.S. securities. Certain of these risks also may apply to securities of U.S. companies with significant foreign operations. These risks, which can increase the potential for losses in the Fund and affect its share price, are discussed in more detail in the section "More Information on Investment Policies, Practices and Risks."

Smaller and Midsize Companies

Because the securities the Fund holds fluctuate in price, the value of your investment in the Fund will go up and down. You could lose money.

While smaller and midsize companies may offer substantial opportunities for capital growth, they also involve substantial risks and should be considered speculative. Historically, smaller and midsize company securities have been more volatile in price than larger company securities, especially over the short term. Among the reasons for the greater price volatility are the less certain growth prospects of smaller and midsize companies, the lower degree of liquidity in the markets for such securities, and the greater sensitivity of smaller and midsize companies to changing economic conditions.

In addition, smaller and midsize companies may lack depth of management, be unable to generate funds necessary for growth or development, or be developing or marketing new products or services for which markets are not yet established and may never become established.

Credit

An issuer of debt securities may be unable to make interest payments and repay principal when due. Changes in an issuer's financial strength or in a security's credit rating may affect a security's value and, thus, impact Fund performance.

Lower-Rated and Unrated Debt Securities

Debt securities rated below investment grade, sometimes called "junk bonds," and the type of unrated debt securities purchased by the Fund, generally are considered to have more risk than higher-rated debt securities. They also may fluctuate more in price, and are less liquid than higher-rated debt securities. Their prices are especially sensitive to developments affecting the company's business and to ratings changes, and typically rise and fall in response to factors that affect the company's stock prices. Issuers of such lower-rated debt securities are not as strong financially, and are more likely to encounter financial difficulties and be more vulnerable to adverse changes in the economy, such as a recession or a sustained period of rising interest rates. The risk that the Fund may lose its entire investment in defaulted bonds is greater in comparison to investing in non-defaulted bonds. Purchasers of participations in indebtedness, such as the Fund, must rely on the financial institution issuing the participation to assert any rights against the borrower with respect to the underlying indebtedness. In addition, the Fund takes on the risk as to the creditworthiness of the bank or other financial intermediary, as well as of the company issuing the underlying indebtedness.

Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. government. Mutual fund shares involve investment risks, including the possible loss of principal.

Performance

This bar chart and table show the volatility of the Fund's returns, which is one indicator of the risks of investing in the Funds. The bar chart shows changes in the Fund's returns from year to year over the past 10 calendar years. The table shows how the Fund's average annual total returns compare to those of a broad-based securities market index. Of course, past performance (before or after taxes) cannot predict or guarantee future results. All Fund's (hereafter "the Fund's") performance assumes reinvestment of dividends and capital gains.

After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Your actual after-tax returns depend on your particular tax situation and may differ from those shown.

These after-tax return figures do not apply to you if you hold your Fund shares through a tax-deferred arrangement such as a 401(k) plan or individual retirement account. The Fund's past performance, before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how it will perform in the future.

After-tax returns are shown only for Class A; after-tax returns for other classes of shares will vary.

MUTUAL BEACON FUND
CLASS A ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS

For the periods ended December 31, 2008

MUTUAL GLOBAL DISCOVERY FUND
CLASS A ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS

For the periods ended December 31, 2008

MUTUAL QUEST FUND
CLASS A ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS

For the periods ended December 31, 2008

MUTUAL SHARES FUND
CLASS A ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS

For the periods ended December 31, 2008

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Please see "Choosing a Share Class" for an explanation of how and when these sales charges apply.

Example

This example can help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. It assumes:

You invest $10,000 for the periods shown;
Your investment has a 5% return each year; and
The Fund's operating expenses remain the same.

Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Mutual Financial Services Fund

Goals and Strategies

Goals

The Fund's principal investment goal is capital appreciation, which may occasionally be short-term. Its secondary goal is income.

Main Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in securities of financial services companies that the manager believes are available at market prices less than their value based on certain recognized or objective criteria (intrinsic value). Shareholders will be given at least 60 days' advance notice of any planned change to the 80% policy regarding investment in financial services companies.

Following this value-oriented strategy, the Fund invests primarily in:

Undervalued Securities Securities trading at a discount to intrinsic value.

And, to a lesser extent, the Fund also invests in:

Risk Arbitrage Securities Securities of companies involved in restructurings (such as mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, liquidations, spinoffs, or tender or exchange offers) or that the manager believes are cheap relative to an economically equivalent security of the same or another company.
Distressed Companies Securities of companies that are, or are about to be, involved in reorganizations, financial restructurings, or bankruptcy.

Financial services companies are companies that, in the manager's view, derive at least 50% of their assets or revenues from the creation, purchase and sale of financial instruments or services, or devote at least 50% of their assets to this objective. These companies include banks, savings and loan organizations, credit card companies, brokerage firms, finance companies (some of which may be structured as real estate investment trusts), sub-prime lending institutions, investment advisors, investment companies and insurance companies.

In pursuit of its value-oriented strategy, the Fund is not limited to pre-set maximums or minimums governing the size of the companies in which it may invest. However, as a general rule, the Fund invests the equity portion of its portfolio substantially in mid- and large cap companies and may invest a significant portion of its equity portfolio in small-cap companies. For these purposes, mid- and large cap companies are considered to be those with market capitalization values (share price times the number of shares of common stock outstanding) greater than $1.5 billion.

The Fund may invest in foreign securities without limit. The Fund may attempt, from time to time, to hedge (protect) against currency risks, largely using forward foreign currency exchange contracts when, in the manager's opinion, it would be advantageous to the Fund to do so. The Fund may also attempt, from time to time, to hedge against market risk using a variety of derivatives (together, "Hedging Instruments").

The Fund's investments in Distressed Companies typically involve the purchase of bank debt, lower-rated or defaulted debt securities, comparable unrated debt securities, or other indebtedness (or participations in the indebtedness) of such companies. Such other indebtedness generally represents a specific commercial loan or portion of a loan made to a company by a financial institution such as a bank. Loan participations represent fractional interest in a company's indebtedness and are generally made available by banks or other institutional investors. By purchasing all or a part of a company's direct indebtedness, the Fund, in effect, steps into the shoes of the lender. If the loan is secured, the Fund will have a priority claim to the assets of the company ahead of unsecured creditors and stockholders. The Fund generally makes such investments to achieve capital appreciation, rather than to seek income.

The Fund may also engage from time to time in an "arbitrage" strategy. When engaging in an arbitrage strategy, the Fund typically buys one security while at the same time selling short another security. The Fund generally buys the security that the manager believes is either cheap relative to the price of the other security or otherwise undervalued, and sells short the security that the manager believes is either expensive relative to the price of the other security or otherwise overvalued. In doing so, the Fund attempts to profit from a perceived relationship between the values of the two securities. The Fund generally engages in an arbitrage strategy in connection with an announced corporate restructuring, such as a merger, acquisition or tender offer, or other corporate action or event.

The Fund invests primarily in securities of financial services companies the manager believes are undervalued.

Portfolio Selection

The manager employs a research driven, fundamental value strategy for the Fund. In choosing equity investments, the manager focuses on the market price of a company's securities relative to the manager's own evaluation of the company's asset value, including an analysis of book value, cash flow potential, long-term earnings, and multiples of earnings. Similarly, debt securities and other indebtedness, including loan participations, are generally selected based on the manager's own analysis of the security's intrinsic value rather than the coupon rate or rating of the security. The manager examines each investment separately and there are no set criteria as to specific value parameters, asset size or earnings.

Main Risks

Stocks

Financial Services Companies

The Fund concentrates its investments in companies operating in the financial services industry. As a result, general market and economic conditions as well as other risks specific to the financial services industry will impact the Fund's investments and its performance. For example, increases in interest rates can have a negative effect on the profitability of financial services companies.

Financial services companies are subject to extensive government regulation, which tends to limit not only the amount and types of loans and other financial commitments a financial services company can make, but the interest rates and fees it can charge. These limitations can have a significant impact on the profitability of a financial services company.

Insurance companies may be subject to heavy price competition, claims activity, marketing competition and general economic conditions. Certain lines of insurance can be significantly influenced by specific events. For example, property and casualty insurer profits may be affected by certain weather catastrophes and other disasters, including terrorism; and life and health insurer profits may be affected by mortality risks and morbidity rates.

The financial services industry is undergoing change as existing distinctions between banking, insurance and brokerage businesses become blurred. In addition, the financial services industry continues to experience consolidations, development of new products and structures and changes to its regulatory framework. These changes are likely to have a significant impact on the financial services industry and the Fund, but it is not possible to predict whether the effect will be beneficial or adverse. That depends not only upon how these changes affect the industry, but also how the particular securities in the Fund's portfolio are affected.

Because the Fund's manager is a subsidiary of a financial holding company (FHC), federal regulations applicable to FHCs may limit or restrict the Fund's ability to acquire or hold a position in a given security when it might otherwise be advantageous for the Fund to acquire or hold that security.

Value Style Investing

Smaller and Midsize Companies

Because the securities the Fund holds fluctuate in price, the value of your investment in the Fund will go up and down. You could lose money.

Risk Arbitrage Securities and Distressed Companies

Foreign Securities

Credit

An issuer of bonds may be unable to make interest payments and repay principal when due. Changes in an issuer's financial strength or in a security's credit rating may affect a security's value and, thus, impact Fund performance.

Lower-Rated and Unrated Debt Securities

Performance

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS

For the periods ended December 31, 2008

After-tax returns are shown only for Class A; after-tax returns for other classes of shares will vary.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Please see "Choosing a Share Class" for an explanation of how and when these sales charges apply.

Example

This example can help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. It assumes:

You invest $10,000 for the periods shown;
Your investment has a 5% return each year; and
The Fund's operating expenses remain the same.

Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Mutual European Fund

Goals and Strategies

Goals

The Fund's principal investment goal is capital appreciation, which may occasionally be short-term. Its secondary goal is income.

Main Investment Strategies

Following this value-oriented strategy, the Fund invests primarily in:

Undervalued Securities Securities trading at a discount to intrinsic value.

And, to a lesser extent, the Fund also invests in:

Risk Arbitrage Securities Securities of companies involved in restructurings (such as mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, liquidations, spinoffs, or tender or exchange offers) or that the manager believes are cheap relative to an economically equivalent security of the same or another company.
Distressed Companies Securities of companies that are, or are about to be, involved in reorganizations, financial restructurings, or bankruptcy.

In pursuit of its value-oriented strategy, the Fund is not limited to pre-set maximums or minimums governing the size of the companies in which it may invest. However, the Fund currently invests the equity portion of its portfolio predominantly in mid- and large-cap companies with market capitalization values (share price times the number of common stock shares outstanding) greater than $1.5 billion. The Fund may invest the remaining portion of its equity investments in smaller companies.

The Fund defines European companies as issuers (i) organized under the laws of, or (ii) whose principal business operations are located in, or (iii) who earn at least 50% of their revenue from, European countries. For purposes of the Fund's investments, European countries means all of the countries that are members of the European Union, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Eastern and Western Europe, and those regions of Russia and the former Soviet Union that are considered part of Europe. The Fund currently invests and intends to invest primarily in securities of issuers in Western Europe and Scandinavia.

The Fund normally invests in securities from at least five different countries, although, from time to time, it may invest all of its assets in a single country. The Fund also may invest up to 20% of its total assets in securities of U.S. issuers, and securities of issuers from the Levant, the Middle East and the remaining regions of the world. The Fund may attempt, from time to time, to hedge (protect) against currency risks, largely using forward foreign currency exchange contracts, when, in the manager's opinion, it would be advantageous to the Fund to do so. The Fund may also attempt, from time to time, to hedge against market risk using a variety of derivatives (together, "Hedging Instruments").

The Fund invests primarily in securities of European companies that the manager believes are undervalued.

Portfolio Selection

The manager employs a research driven, fundamental value strategy for each of the Funds. In choosing equity investments, the manager focuses on the market price of a company's securities relative to the manager's own evaluation of the company's asset value, including an analysis of book value, cash flow potential, long-term earnings, and multiples of earnings. Similarly, debt securities and other indebtedness, including loan participations, are generally selected based on the manager’s own analysis of the security’s intrinsic value rather than the coupon rate or rating of the security. The manager examines each investment separately and there are no set criteria as to specific value parameters, asset size, earnings or industry type.

Main Risks

Stocks

Individual stock prices tend to go up and down more dramatically. These price movements may result from factors affecting individual companies, industries, or securities markets. For example, a negative development regarding an individual company's earnings, management, or accounting practices can cause its stock price to decline, or a negative industry-wide event or broad-based market drop can cause the stock prices of many companies to decline.

Value Style Investing

Foreign Securities

Risk Arbitrage Securities and Distressed Companies

Smaller and Midsize Companies

Because currency exchange rates fluctuate, the value of your investment in the Fund will go up and down. You could lose money.

Credit

Lower-Rated and Unrated Debt Securities

Performance

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS

For the periods ended December 31, 2008

After-tax returns are shown only for Class A; after-tax returns for other classes of shares will vary.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Please see "Choosing a Share Class" for an explanation of how and when these sales charges apply.

Example

This example can help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. It assumes:

You invest $10,000 for the periods shown;
Your investment has a 5% return each year; and
The Fund's operating expenses remain the same.

Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Mutual International Fund

Goals and Strategies

Goals

The Fund's principal investment goal is capital appreciation, which may occasionally be short-term. Its secondary goal is income.

Main Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in securities of non-US issuers. The manager focuses the Fund’s investments on securities believed to be available at market prices less than their value based on certain recognized or objective criteria (intrinsic value).

Following this value-oriented strategy, the Fund invests primarily in:

Undervalued Securities Securities trading at a discount to intrinsic value.

And, to a lesser extent, the Fund also invests in:

Risk Arbitrage Securities Securities of companies involved in restructurings (such as mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, liquidations, spinoffs, or tender or exchange offers) or that the manager believes are cheap relative to an economically equivalent security of the same or another company.
Distressed Companies Securities of companies that are, or are about to be, involved in reorganizations, financial restructurings, or bankruptcy.

The Fund invests primarily in securities of Asian companies and European companies that the manager believes are undervalued.

The Fund will define Asian companies as issuers (i) organized under the laws of, or (ii) whose principal business operations are located in, or (iii) who earn at least 50% of their revenue from, Asian countries. For purposes of the Fund’s investments, Asian countries means Australia, China (including Korea and Taiwan), Japan, New Zealand, North Korea, South Korea and all of the countries that are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Some of these countries are considered to be emerging market countries. However, the Fund currently intends to invest primarily in securities of issuers in more developed markets such as Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.

The Fund defines European companies as issuers (i) organized under the laws of, or (ii) whose principal business operations are located in, or (iii) who earn at least 50% of their revenue from, European countries. For purposes of the Fund's investments, European countries means all of the countries that are members of the European Union, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Eastern and Western Europe, and those regions of Russia and the former Soviet Union that are considered part of Europe. The Fund currently invests primarily in securities of issuers in Western Europe and Scandinavia.

The Fund’s investments in Distressed Companies typically involve the purchase of bank debt, lower-rated or defaulted debt securities, comparable unrated debt securities, or other indebtedness (or participations in the indebtedness) of such companies. Such other indebtedness generally represents a specific commercial loan or portion of a loan made to a company by a financial institution such as a bank. Loan participations represent fractional interests in a company’s indebtedness and are generally made available by banks or other institutional investors. By purchasing all or a part of a company’s direct indebtedness, the Fund, in effect, steps into the shoes of the lender. If the loan is secured, the Fund will have a priority claim to the assets of the company ahead of unsecured creditors and stockholders. The Funds generally make such investments to achieve capital appreciation, rather than to seek income.

Portfolio Selection

The manager employs a research driven, fundamental value strategy for each of the Funds. In choosing equity investments, the manager focuses on the market price of a company's securities relative to the manager's own evaluation of the company's asset value, including an analysis of book value, cash flow potential, long-term earnings, and multiples of earnings. Similarly, debt securities and other indebtedness, including loan participations, are generally selected based on the manager’s own analysis of the security’s intrinsic value rather than the coupon rate or rating of the security. The manager examines each investment separately and there are no set criteria as to specific value parameters, asset size, earnings or industry type.

Main Risks

Stocks

Value investing

Foreign Securities

Region

Investments in a single region, even though representing a number of different countries within the region, may be affected by common economic forces and other factors. The Fund is subject to greater risks of adverse events which occur in the Asian and European regions and may experience greater volatility than a fund that is more broadly diversified geographically. Political or economic disruptions in Asian and European countries, even in countries in which the Fund is not invested, may adversely affect security values and thus the Fund's holdings.

Emerging Market Countries

The Fund's investments in emerging market countries are subject to all of the risks of foreign investing generally, and have additional heightened risks due to a lack of established legal, political, business and social frameworks to support securities markets. These risks, which can increase the potential for losses in the Fund and affect its share price, are discussed in more detail in the section "More Information on Investment Policies, Practices and Risks."

Risk Arbitrage Securities and Distressed Companies

Smaller and Midsize Companies

Because the securities the Fund holds fluctuate in price, the value of your investment in the Fund will go up and down. You could lose money.

Credit

Lower-Rated and Unrated Debt Securities

Performance

Because the Fund is new, it has no performance history.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

SHAREHOLDER FEES

(fees paid directly from your investment)

	Class A	Class C	Class R	Class Z
Maximum sales charge (load) as a percentage of offering price	5.75%¹	1.00%	None	None
Load imposed on purchases	5.75%¹	None	None	None
Maximum deferred sales charge (load)	None²	1.00%	None	None

1. The dollar amount of the sales charge is the difference between the offering price of the shares purchased (which factors in the applicable sales charge in this table) and the net asset value of those shares. Since the offering price is calculated to two decimal places using standard rounding criteria, the number of shares purchased and the dollar amount of the sales charge as a percentage of the offering price and of your net investment may be higher or lower depending on whether there was a downward or upward rounding.

2. There is a 1% contingent deferred sales charge that applies to investments of $1 million or more (see "Sales Charges - Class A" under "Choosing a Share Class") and purchases by certain retirement plans without an initial sales charge.

Please see "Choosing a Share Class" for an explanation of how and when these sales charges apply.

ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES

(expenses deducted from Fund assets)

	Class A	Class C	Class R	Class Z
Management fees	0.80%	0.80%	0.80%	0.80%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees	0.30%	1.00%	0.50%	None
Other expenses (including administration fees)	0.81%	0.81%	0.81%	0.81%
Total annual Fund operating expenses	1.91%	2.61%	2.11%	1.61%
Management fee reduction¹	-0.44%	-0.44%	-0.44%	-0.44%
Net annual Fund operating expenses	1.47%	2.17%	1.67%	1.17%

1. The investment manager and administrator have contractually agreed to waive or limit their respective fees and to assume as their own expense certain expenses otherwise payable by the Fund so that common expenses (i.e., a combination of investment management fees, fund administration fees, and other expenses, but excluding Rule 12b-1 fees and acquired fund fees and expenses) for each class of the Fund do not exceed 1.17% (other than certain non-routine expenses or costs, including those relating to litigation, indemnification, reorganizations and liquidations) until April 30, 2010.

Example

This example can help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. It assumes:

You invest $10,000 for the periods shown;
Your investment has a 5% return each year; and
The Fund's operating expenses remain the same.

Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:


If you sell your shares at the end of the period:	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A	716¹	1,100	1,509	2,646
Class C	320	770	1,346	2,912
Class R	170	619	1,094	2,407
Class Z	119	465	835	1,874
If you do not sell your shares:
Class C	220	770	1,346	2,912

1. Assumes a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) will not apply.

More Information on Investment Policies, Practices and Risks

Equity Securities

Each Fund invests primarily in equity securities, including securities convertible, or expected to be exchanged, into equity securities. An equity security represents a proportionate share of the ownership of a company; its value is based on the success of the company's business, any income paid to stockholders, the value of its assets, and general market conditions. Common stocks and preferred stocks, and securities convertible into common stock, are examples of equity securities.

Debt Securities

Each Fund also invests in debt securities. Debt securities represent the obligation of the issuer to repay a loan of money to it, and generally pay interest to the holder. Bonds, notes and debentures, as well as loan participations, are examples of debt securities.

Foreign Securities

Securities of companies located outside the U.S. involve additional risks that can increase the potential for losses in the Funds to the extent that they invest in these securities. Certain of these risks also may apply to securities of U.S. companies with significant foreign operations. These risks can increase the potential for losses in a Fund and affect its share price.

Derivative Securities

The Fund may attempt to hedge (protect) against currency risks, largely using forward foreign currency exchange contracts, where available and when, in the manager's opinion, it would be advantageous to the Fund. A forward foreign currency exchange contract is an agreement to buy or sell a specific amount of currency at a future date and at a price set at the time of the contract. Forward foreign currency exchange contracts may reduce the risk of loss from a change in value of a currency, but they also limit any potential gains and do not protect against fluctuations in the value of the underlying position. For example, during periods when the U.S. dollar weakens in relation to a foreign currency, the Fund's use of a currency hedging program will result in lower returns than if no currency hedging program were in effect.

The Fund may also attempt, from time to time, to hedge against market risks by using derivative investments, which may include purchasing put options. A put option gives the purchaser of the option, upon payment of a premium, the right to sell, and the seller of the option the obligation to buy, the underlying instrument at the exercise price.

Forward foreign currency exchange contracts are considered derivative investments, because their value and performance depend, at least in part, on the value of an underlying asset. The Fund's investments in derivatives may involve a small investment relative to the amount of risk assumed. To the extent the Fund enters into these transactions, its success will depend on the manager's ability to predict market movements, and their use may have the opposite effect of that intended. Risks include potential loss due to the imposition of controls by a government on the exchange of foreign currencies, delivery failure, default by the other party, or inability to close out a position because of the trading market becoming illiquid.

Liquidity

Each Fund may invest up to 15% of its net assets in securities with a limited trading market. Reduced liquidity may have an adverse impact on market price and a Fund's ability to sell particular securities when necessary to meet the Fund's liquidity needs or in response to a specific economic event, such as the deterioration in the creditworthiness of an issuer. Reduced liquidity in the secondary market for certain securities also may make it more difficult for a Fund to obtain market quotations based on actual trades for the purpose of valuing the Fund's portfolio.

Temporary Investments

The manager may keep a portion, which may be significant at times, of each Fund's assets in cash or invested in high-quality short-term, money market instruments, corporate debt, or direct or indirect U.S. and non-U.S. government and agency obligations, when it believes that insufficient investment opportunities meeting the Fund's investment criteria exist or that it may otherwise be necessary to maintain liquidity. For example, when prevailing market valuations for securities are high, there may be fewer securities available at prices below their intrinsic value. In addition, when the manager believes market or economic conditions are unfavorable for investors, the manager may invest up to 100% of each Fund's assets in U.S. or non-U.S. dollar denominated short-term investments, including cash or cash equivalents. In these circumstances, a Fund may be unable to pursue its investment goals.

More detailed information about the Fund, its policies and risks can be found in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI).

A description of the Fund's policies and procedures regarding the release of portfolio holdings information is also available in the Fund's SAI. Portfolio holdings information can be viewed online at franklintempleton.com.

Management

Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC (Franklin Mutual), 101 John F. Kennedy Parkway, Short Hills, NJ 07078, is the Funds' investment manager. Together, Franklin Mutual and its affiliates manage over $600 billion in assets.

Under an agreement with Franklin Mutual, Franklin Templeton Investment Management Limited (FTIML), The Adelphi Building, 1-11 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6HT, an affiliate of Franklin Mutual, is the Mutual Global Discovery and Mutual Quest Funds' sub-advisor. FTIML provides Franklin Mutual with investment management advice and assistance.

The following individuals are jointly responsible for the day-to-day management of each of the named Funds. The portfolio manager for each Fund has primary responsibility for the investments of the Fund and has final authority over all aspects of the Fund's investment portfolio, including but not limited to, purchases and sales of individual securities, portfolio risk assessment, and the management of daily cash balances in accordance with anticipated management requirements. The degree to which a portfolio manager may perform these functions, and the nature of these functions, may change from time to time. The assistant portfolio managers provide research and advice on the purchases and sales of individual securities and portfolio risk assessment.

Mutual Beacon Fund

Michael J. Embler Co-Portfolio Manager

Christian Correa Co-Portfolio Manager

Mutual Global Discovery Fund

Anne E. Gudefin Co-Portfolio Manager

Charles M. Lahr Co-Portfolio Manager

Mandana Hormozi Assistant Portfolio Manager

Mutual European Fund

Philippe Brugere-Trelat Portfolio Manager

Katrina Dudley Assistant Portfolio Manager

Mutual Financial Services Fund

Charles M. Lahr Portfolio Manager

Mutual Quest Fund

Anne E. Gudefin Portfolio Manager

Shawn M. Tumulty Assistant Portfolio Manager

Mutual Shares Fund

Peter A. Langerman Co-Portfolio Manager

F. David Segal Co-Portfolio Manager

Deborah A. Turner Assistant Portfolio Manager

Mutual International Fund

Philippe Brugere-Trelat Portfolio Manager

Andrew Sleeman, CFA Portfolio Manager

CHRISTIAN CORREA, CFA^®⁵ Portfolio Manager of Franklin Mutual

Mr. Correa has been a lead portfolio manager for the Mutual Beacon Fund since 2007. He has been an analyst for Franklin Mutual since 2003, when he joined Franklin Templeton Investments. Previously, he covered U.S. risk arbitrage and special situations at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

KATRINA DUDLEY, CFA^® Portfolio Manager of Franklin Mutual

Ms. Dudley has been a portfolio manager for Mutual European Fund since 2007. She joined Franklin Templeton Investments in 2002.

MICHAEL J. EMBLER Senior Vice President/Chief Investment Officer of Franklin Mutual

Mr. Embler has been a member of the management team of the Funds since 2001, when he joined Franklin Templeton Investments. He assumed the duties of lead portfolio manager of the Mutual Beacon Fund in 2005.

ANNE E. GUDEFIN, CFA^® Portfolio Manager of FTIML

Ms. Gudefin has been a member of the management team of the Funds since 2000, when she joined Franklin Templeton Investments. She has been a portfolio manager for Mutual Quest Fund since 2002 and assumed the duties of lead portfolio manager in 2004, and a lead portfolio manager for Mutual Global Discovery Fund since 2005.

MANDANA HORMOZI Portfolio Manager of Franklin Mutual

Ms. Hormozi has been a portfolio manager for Mutual Global Discovery Fund since 2007. She joined Franklin Templeton Investments in 2003. Previously, she was a senior vice president in the equity research department at Lazard Freres. Also, she was an economic research analyst at Mitsubishi Bank.

CHARLES M. LAHR, CFA^® Portfolio Manager of Franklin Mutual

Mr. Lahr has been a portfolio manager for Mutual Financial Services Fund since 2005 and assumed the duties of lead portfolio manager in 2006. He has been a lead portfolio manager of Mutual Global Discovery Fund since 2007. He joined Franklin Templeton Investments in 2003. Previously, he was a senior analyst for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board and also worked for U.S. Bancorp and the Principal Financial Group.

PETER A. LANGERMAN President and Chief Executive Officer of Franklin Mutual

Mr. Langerman rejoined Franklin Templeton Investments in 2005 and assumed the duties of lead portfolio manager of the Mutual Shares Fund in 2005. He joined Franklin Templeton in 1996, serving in various capacities, including President and Chief Executive Officer of Franklin Mutual and member of the management team of the Funds, including Mutual Shares Fund, before leaving in 2002 and serving as director of New Jersey’s Division of Investment, overseeing employee pension funds. Between 1986 and 1996, he was employed at Heine Securities Corporation, the Funds’ former manager.

F. DAVID SEGAL, CFA^® Portfolio Manager of Franklin Mutual

Mr. Segal has been a portfolio manager for Mutual Shares Fund since 2005 and assumed the duties of lead portfolio manager in 2007. He joined Franklin Templeton Investments in 2002. Previously, he was an analyst in the Structured Finance Group of MetLife for the period 1999- 2002.

ANDREW SLEEMAN, CFA Portfolio Manager of Franklin Mutual

Mr. Sleeman has been a portfolio manager of the Mutual International Fund since Inception. He joined Franklin Templeton Investmentsin 200 [ ]. Previously, he was [ ].

PHILIPPE BRUGERE-TRELAT Vice President of Franklin Mutual

Mr. Brugere-Trelat has been a portfolio manager of the Mutual European Fund since 2004 and assumed the duties of lead portfolio manager in 2005 and lead manager of the Mutual International Fund since Inception. He has been a member of the management team of the Funds since 2004, when he rejoined Franklin Templeton Investments. Previously, he was president and portfolio manager of Eurovest. Between 1984 and 1994, he was employed at Heine Securities Corporation, the Funds’ former manager.

SHAWN TUMULTY Vice President of Franklin Mutual

Mr. Tumulty has been a portfolio manager for Mutual Quest Fund since 2003. He joined Franklin Templeton Investments in 2000.

DEBORAH A. TURNER Portfolio Manager of Franklin Mutual

Ms. Turner has been a portfolio manager for Mutual Shares Fund since 2001. She joined Franklin Templeton Investments in 1996. Between 1993 and 1996, she was employed at Heine Securities Corporation, the Funds’ former manager.

The Fund’s SAI provides additional information about portfolio manager compensation, other accounts that they manage and their ownership of Fund shares.

The Fund pays the manager a fee for managing the Fund's assets. The table below shows the management fees paid by the Fund to the manager for its services, as a percentage of average daily net assets, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008:

	Management Fees Paid (%)
Mutual Beacon Fund
Mutual Global Discovery Fund
Mutual European Fund
Mutual Financial Services Fund
Mutual Quest Fund
Mutual Shares Fund

Mutual International Fund

The fee paid by the International Fund is equal to an annual rate of:

0.80% of the value of net assets up to and including $4 billion;
0.77% of the value of net assets over $4 billion up to and including $7 billion;
0.75% of the value of net assets over $7 billion up to and including $10 billion; and
0.73% of the value of net assets over $10 billion.

A discussion regarding the basis for the board of trustees approving the investment management contract of the Fund is available in the Fund's semiannual report to shareholders for the six-month period ended June 30.

In 2003 and 2004, multiple lawsuits were filed against Franklin Resources, Inc., and certain of its investment advisor subsidiaries, among other defendants, alleging violations of federal securities and state laws and seeking, among other relief, monetary damages, restitution, removal of fund trustees, directors, investment managers, administrators and distributors, rescission of management contracts and 12b-1 plans, and/or attorneys’ fees and costs. Specifically, the lawsuits claim breach of duty with respect to alleged arrangements to permit market timing and/or late trading activity, or breach of duty with respect to the valuation of the portfolio securities of certain Templeton funds managed by Franklin Resources, Inc. subsidiaries, allegedly resulting in market timing activity. The lawsuits are styled as class actions, or derivative actions on behalf of either the named funds or Franklin Resources, Inc., and have been consolidated for pretrial purposes, along with hundreds of other similar lawsuits against other mutual fund companies. All of the Franklin Templeton Investments mutual funds that were named in the litigation as defendants have since been dismissed, as have the independent trustees to those funds.

Franklin Resources, Inc. previously disclosed these private lawsuits in its regulatory filings and on its public website. Any material updates regarding these matters will be disclosed in Franklin Resources, Inc.’s Form 10-Q or Form 10-K filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Distributions and Taxes

Income and Capital Gain Distributions

Each Fund (hereafter "the Fund") has qualified to be treated as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code (Code). As a regulated investment company, the Fund generally pays no federal income tax on the income and gains it distributes to you. The Fund typically declares an income dividend each day that its net asset value (NAV) is calculated and pays them monthly. Your account begins to receive dividends on the day after the Fund receives your investment and continues to receive dividends through the day it receives a request to sell your shares. Capital gains, if any, may be distributed at least annually. The amount of any distributions will vary, and there is no guarantee the Fund will pay either income dividends or a capital gain distribution. Your income dividends and capital gain distribution will be automatically reinvested in additional shares at net asset value unless you elect to receive cash payments.

Annual statements. Shortly after the end of each calendar year, you will receive a statement that shows the tax status of distributions you received the previous year, including, for U.S. investors, the amount of any qualified dividend income subject to tax at capital gains rates, and, for non-U.S. investors, the amount of your ordinary dividends that are exempt from nonresident alien withholding taxes because they are interest-related or short-term capital gain dividends. Distributions declared in December but paid in January are taxable as if they were paid in December.

The Fund may at times find it necessary to reclassify income after it issues your tax reporting statement. This can result from rules in the Code that effectively prevent regulated investment companies such as the Fund, and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in which the Fund invests, from ascertaining with certainty until after the calendar year end, the final amount and character of distributions the Fund has received on its investments during the prior calendar year. Prior to issuing your statement, Franklin Templeton Investments makes every effort to search for reclassified income to reduce the number of corrected forms mailed to shareholders. However, when necessary, your Fund will send you a corrected Form 1099-DIV to reflect reclassified information. If you receive a corrected Form 1099-DIV, use the information on this Form, and not the information on your original statement, in completing your tax returns.

Avoid "buying a dividend." If you invest in the Fund shortly before it makes a distribution, you may receive some of your investment back in the form of a taxable distribution. For example, if you buy 500 shares in the Fund on December 10th at the Fund's NAV of $10 per share, and the Fund makes a distribution on December 15th of $1 per share, your shares will then have an NAV of $9 per share (disregarding any change in the Fund's market value), and you will have to pay a tax on what is essentially a return of your investment of $1 per share. This tax treatment is required even if you reinvest the $1 per share distribution in additional Fund shares.

Tax Considerations

In general, if you are a taxable investor, Fund distributions are taxable to you at either ordinary income or capital gains tax rates. This is true whether you reinvest your distributions in additional Fund shares or receive them in cash.

Dividend income. A portion of the income dividends paid to you by the Fund may be qualified dividends subject to taxation at the long-term capital gain rates. In general, income dividends from portfolio investments in the stock of domestic corporations and qualified foreign corporations are permitted this favored federal tax treatment. Income dividends from interest earned by the Fund on debt securities and dividends received from unqualified foreign corporations continue to be taxed at the higher ordinary income tax rates. Distributions of qualified dividends are eligible for these reduced rates of taxation only if you own your shares for at least 61 days during the 121-day period beginning 60 days before the ex-dividend date of any dividend.

Distributions of capital gains. Fund distributions of short-term capital gains are taxable to you as ordinary income. Fund distributions of long-term capital gains are taxable as long-term capital gains no matter how long you have owned your shares. Long-term capital gain distributions to individuals qualify for the 15% tax rate. For individuals in the 10% to 15% tax brackets, the tax rate is 0% on distributions of net capital gains realized by the Fund or on net capital gains that you realize on the sale of your Fund shares in calendar years 2008 through 2010. These reduced rates of taxation of capital gain dividends and net long-term capital gains are scheduled to sunset on December 31, 2010, unless extended or made permanent before that date.

Sales of Fund shares. When you sell your shares in the Fund, you may realize a capital gain or loss. For tax purposes, an exchange of your Fund shares for shares of a different Franklin Templeton fund is the same as a sale, and will normally generate a gain or loss that will be reported to you in your year-end tax information. An exchange of your shares in one class in the Fund for shares of another class in the Fund is not a taxable event, and no gain or loss will be reported on such a transaction.

If you have owned your Fund shares for more than one year, any gains reportable on the sale of your shares will also qualify for the reduced rates of taxation on capital gains as discussed above.

Backup withholding. If you do not provide your Fund with your proper taxpayer identification number and certain required certifications, you may be subject to backup withholding at a rate of 28% on any distributions of income (including any exempt-interest dividends), capital gains or proceeds from the sale of your shares. The Fund also must withhold if the IRS instructs it to do so.

State, local and foreign taxes. Fund distributions and gains from the sale of your Fund shares generally are subject to state and local taxes.

Discovery, Financial Services and European Funds: Each of these Funds may invest up to 100% of their respective assets in foreign securities. As global value funds and subject to certain restrictions, each of these Funds may qualify to pass through to you the tax benefits from foreign taxes it pays on its investments. If any Fund elects to do so, then any foreign taxes it pays on these investments may be passed through to you as a foreign tax credit.

Receipt of excess inclusion income by the Fund. Income received by the Fund from certain equity interests in mortgage pooling vehicles or residual interests in Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits (REMICs) is treated as "excess inclusion income." The Fund may derive such income either as a result of its direct investment in such interests or, indirectly, through its investment in U.S. Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) that hold such interests or otherwise qualify as taxable mortgage pools. In general, the Fund must allocate this income to Fund shareholders in proportion to dividends paid with the same consequences as if the shareholders directly received the excess inclusion income, and the Fund must pay a tax on any of this income that is allocable to "disqualified organizations," which are generally certain cooperatives, governmental entities and tax-exempt organizations that are not subject to tax on unrelated business taxable income (UBTI).

The rules concerning excess inclusion income are complex and unduly burdensome in their current form, and Franklin Templeton Investments is awaiting further guidance from the IRS on how these rules are to be implemented. Shareholders should talk to their tax advisors about whether an investment in the Fund is a suitable investment given the potential tax consequences of the Fund's receipt and distribution of excess inclusion income.

Non-U.S. investors.

Non-U.S. investors may be subject to a U.S. withholding tax at a 30% or lower treaty rate on all Fund dividends of ordinary income. Non-U.S. investors may also be subject to U.S. estate tax on their investment in the Fund. They also have special certification requirements that, if not met, can subject them to backup withholding on any dividends, distributions and redemption proceeds that they receive from the Fund. Each of these subjects is discussed in greater detail in the “Distributions and Taxes – Non-U.S. investors” section of the SAI.

Other tax information. This discussion of "Distributions and Taxes" is not written to provide you with tax advice, and does not purport to deal with all of the tax consequences that may be applicable to your investment in the Fund. You should consult your own tax advisor regarding your particular circumstances before making an investment in the Fund, or about the federal, state, local and foreign tax consequences of your investment in the Fund.

Financial Highlights

These tables present the Fund's financial performance for the past five years or since its inception. Certain information reflects financial results for a single Fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned or lost on an investment in the Fund assuming reinvestment of dividends and capital gains. This information has been derived from the financial statements audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, whose report, along with the Fund's financial statements, are included in the annual report, which is available upon request.

YOUR ACCOUNT

The board of trustees has approved the termination of offering Class B shares. Existing shareholders of Class B shares may continue as Class B shareholders, continue to reinvest dividends into Class B shares and exchange their Class B shares for Class B shares of other Franklin Templeton funds as permitted by the current exchange privileges. New or additional investments into Class B are not permitted. For Class B shares outstanding on February 28, 2005 and Class B shares acquired upon reinvestment of dividends, all Class B share attributes, including the associated Rule 12b-1 fee, contingent deferred sales charge and conversion features, will continue.

Choosing a Share Class

Each class has its own sales charge and expense structure, allowing you to choose the class that best meets your situation. Your investment representative can help you decide. Investors may purchase Class C or Class R shares only for Fund accounts on which they have appointed an investment representative (financial advisor) of record. Investors who have not appointed an investment representative (financial advisor) to existing Class C or Class R share Fund accounts, may not make additional purchases to those accounts but may exchange their shares to a Franklin Templeton fund that offers Class C or Class R shares. Dividend and capital gain distributions may continue to be reinvested in existing Class B, Class C or Class R share Fund accounts. These provisions do not apply to Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans.

Class A	Class C	Class R	Class Z
Initial sales charge of 5.75% or less	No initial sales charge	No initial sales charge	See "Qualified Investors - Class Z" below.
Deferred sales charge of 1% on purchases of $1 million or more sold within 18 months	Deferred sales charge of 1% on shares you sell within 12 months	Deferred sales charge is not applicable
Lower annual expenses than Class C or R due to lower distribution fees	Higher annual expenses than Class A due to higher distribution fees	Higher annual expenses than Class A due to higher distribution fees (lower than Class C)

Franklin Templeton funds include all of the U.S. registered mutual funds of Franklin Templeton Investments and the Franklin Mutual Recovery Fund. They do not include the funds in the Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust.

Class A, B, C & R

SALES CHARGES - Class A
when you invest this amount	the sales charge makes up this % of the offering price¹	which equals this % of your net investment¹
Under $50,000	5.75	6.10
$50,000 but under $100,000	4.50	4.71
$100,000 but under $250,000	3.50	3.63
$250,000 but under $500,000	2.50	2.56
$500,000 but under $1 million	2.00	2.04

Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers

Quantity discounts. We offer two ways for you to combine your current purchase of Class A Fund shares with other existing Franklin Templeton fund share holdings that might enable you to qualify for a lower sales charge with your current purchase. You can qualify for a lower sales charge when you reach certain "sales charge breakpoints." This quantity discount information is also available free of charge at www.franklintempleton.com/retail/jsp_cm/fund_perf/pub/quantity_discount.jsp. This web page can also be reached at franklintempleton.com by clicking the "Funds & Performance" tab and then choosing "Quantity Discounts."

1. Cumulative quantity discount - lets you combine certain existing holdings of Franklin Templeton fund shares - referred to as "cumulative quantity discount eligible shares" - with your current purchase of Class A shares to determine if you qualify for a sales charge breakpoint.

Cumulative quantity discount eligible shares are Franklin Templeton fund shares registered to (or held by a financial intermediary for):

You, individually;
Your spouse or domestic partner, as recognized by applicable state law, and your children under the age of 21 (each a "Family Member");
You jointly with one or more Family Members;
You jointly with another person(s) who is (are) not Family Members if that other person has not included the value of the shares as cumulative quantity discount eligible shares for purposes of that person’s separate investments in Franklin Templeton fund shares;
A Coverdell Education Savings account for which you or a Family Member is the identified responsible person;
A trustee/custodian of an IRA (which includes a Roth IRA and an employer sponsored IRA such as a SIMPLE IRA) or your non-ERISA covered 403(b), if the shares are registered/recorded under your or a Family Member's Social Security number;
A 529 college savings plan over which you or a Family Member has investment discretion and control;
Any entity over which you or a Family Member has (have) individual or shared authority, as principal, has investment discretion and control (for example, an UGMA/UTMA account for a child on which you or a Family Member is the custodian, a trust on which you or a Family Member is the trustee, a business account [not to include retirement plans] for your solely owned business [or the solely owned business of a Family Member] on which you or a Family Member is the authorized signer);
A trust established by you or a Family Member as grantor.

Franklin Templeton fund shares held through an administrator or trustee/custodian of an Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan such as a 401(k) plan (see definition below) do not qualify for a cumulative quantity discount.

Franklin Templeton fund assets held in multiple Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans may be combined in order to qualify for sales charge breakpoints at the plan level if the plans are sponsored by the same employer.

If you believe there are cumulative quantity discount eligible shares that can be combined with your current purchase to achieve a sales charge breakpoint (for example, shares held in a different broker-dealer’s brokerage account or with a bank or an investment advisor), it is your responsibility to specifically identify those shares to your financial advisor at the time of your purchase (including at the time of any future purchase). If you have not designated a financial advisor associated with your Franklin Templeton fund shares, it is your responsibility to specifically identify any cumulative quantity discount eligible shares to the Fund’s transfer agent at the time of any purchase.

If there are cumulative quantity discount eligible shares that would qualify for combining with your current purchase and you do not tell your financial advisor or the Franklin Templeton funds’ transfer agent at the time of any purchase, you may not receive the benefit of a reduced sales charge that might otherwise be available since your financial advisor and the Fund generally will not have that information.

The value of cumulative quantity discount eligible shares equals the cost or current value of those shares, whichever is higher. The current value of shares is determined by multiplying the number of shares by their highest current public offering price. It is your responsibility to retain any records necessary to substantiate historical share costs because neither your current financial advisor nor the Franklin Templeton funds may have or maintain this information.

An "Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan" is a Qualified Retirement Plan, ERISA covered 403(b) and certain non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements that operate in a similar manner to a Qualified Retirement Plan, such as 457 plans and executive deferred compensation arrangements, but not including employer sponsored IRAs. A "Qualified Retirement Plan" is an employer sponsored pension or profit sharing plan that qualifies under section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, including 401(k), money purchase pension, profit sharing and defined benefit plans.

2. Letter of intent (LOI) - expresses your intent to buy a stated dollar amount of "cumulative quantity discount eligible shares" (as defined in the "Cumulative quantity discount" section above) over a 13-month period and lets you receive the same sales charge as if all shares had been purchased at one time. We will reserve 5% of your total intended purchase in Class A shares registered in your name until you fulfill your LOI to cover any additional sales charge that may apply if you do not buy the amount stated in your LOI. It is your responsibility to tell your financial advisor when you believe you have fulfilled your LOI with sufficient cumulative quantity discount eligible shares. If you have not designated a financial advisor associated with your Franklin Templeton fund shares, it is your responsibility to tell the Fund’s transfer agent when you believe you have fulfilled your LOI with sufficient cumulative quantity discount eligible shares. Please refer to the SAI for more LOI details.

To sign up for these programs, complete the appropriate section of your account application.

Sales charge waivers. Class A shares may be purchased without an initial sales charge or contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) by certain investors or for certain payments. If you would like information about available sales charge waivers, call your investment representative or call Shareholder Services at (800) 632-2301. A list of available sales charge waivers also may be found in the SAI.

Investments of $1 Million or More

If you invest $1 million or more, either as a lump sum or through our cumulative quantity discount or letter of intent programs, you can buy Class A shares without an initial sales charge. However, there is a 0.75% CDSC on any shares you redeem within 18 months of purchase. The way we calculate the CDSC is the same for each class (please see “Contingent Deferred Sales Charge (CDSC) - Class A, B & C”).

Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees

Class A has a distribution plan, sometimes known as a Rule 12b-1 plan, that allows the Fund to pay distribution fees of up to 0.35% per year to those who sell and distribute Class A shares and provide other services to shareholders. Because these fees are paid out of Class A's assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges.

SALES CHARGES - Class B
if you sell your shares within this many years after buying them	this % is deducted from your proceeds as a CDSC
1 Year	4
2 Years	4
3 Years	3
4 Years	3
5 Years	2
6 Years	1
7 Years	0

There is a CDSC if you sell your shares within six years, as described in the table above. The way we calculate the CDSC is the same for each class (please see "Contingent Deferred Sales Charge (CDSC) - Class A, B & C"). After eight years, your Class B shares automatically convert to Class A shares, lowering your annual expenses from that time on.

Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees

Class B has a distribution plan, sometimes known as a Rule 12b-1 plan, that allows the Fund to pay distribution and other fees of up to 1% per year for the sale of Class B shares and for services provided to shareholders. Because these fees are paid out of Class B's assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges.

SALES CHARGES - Class C

With Class C shares, there is no initial sales charge.

We place any investment of $1 million or more in Class A shares, since Class A's annual expenses are lower.

CDSC

There is a 1% CDSC on any Class C shares you sell within 12 months of purchase. The way we calculate the CDSC is the same for each class (please see "Contingent Deferred Sales Charge (CDSC) - Class A, B & C").

Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees

Class C has a distribution plan, sometimes known as a Rule 12b-1 plan, that allows the Fund to pay distribution and other fees of up to 1% per year for the sale of Class C shares and for services provided to shareholders. Because these fees are paid out of Class C's assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges.

SALES CHARGES - Class R - Mutual Shares Fund, Mutual Global Discovery Fund and Mutual International Fund

With Class R shares, there is no initial sales charge.

Retirement Plans

Class R shares are available to the following investors:

Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans
Any trust or plan established as part of a qualified tuition program under Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code
Health Reimbursement Accounts and Health Savings Accounts, either as a direct investment or as a separate or managed account.

Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees

Class R has a distribution plan, sometimes known as a Rule 12b-1 plan, that allows the Fund to pay distribution and other fees of up to 0.50% per year for the sale of Class R shares and for services provided to shareholders. Because these fees are paid out of Class R's assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges.

Contingent Deferred Sales Charge (CDSC) - Class A, B & C

The CDSC for each class is based on the current value of the shares being sold or their net asset value when purchased, whichever is less. There is no CDSC on shares you acquire by reinvesting your dividends or capital gain distributions.

To keep your CDSC as low as possible, each time you place a request to sell shares we will first sell any shares in your account that are not subject to a CDSC. If there are not enough of these to meet your request, we will sell the shares in the order they were purchased. We will use this same method if you exchange your shares into another Franklin Templeton fund (please see “Exchanging Shares”).

The holding period for the CDSC begins on the day you buy your shares. Your shares will age one month on that same date the next month and each following month.

For example, if you buy shares on the 18th of the month, they will age one month on the 18th day of the next month and each following month.

Reinstatement Privilege

If you sell shares of a Franklin Templeton fund that were held indirectly for your benefit in an account with your investment representative's firm or your bank's trust department or that were registered to you directly by the Fund's transfer agent (or, to an affiliated custodian or trustee of the Fund's transfer agent), you may reinvest all or a portion of the proceeds from that sale within 90 days of the sale without an initial sales charge. This Reinstatement Privilege does not apply to: (i) a purchase of Fund shares made through a regularly scheduled automatic investment plan such as a purchase by a regularly scheduled payroll deduction or transfer from a bank account, or (ii) a purchase of Fund shares with proceeds from the sale of Franklin Templeton fund shares that were held indirectly through an Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan or a non-Franklin Templeton individual or employer sponsored IRA.

In order to take advantage of this Reinstatement Privilege, you must inform your investment representative or the Fund's transfer agent of this privilege at the time of your investment. The proceeds from the earlier sale must also be invested within the same share class as that of the sold shares, except proceeds will be reinvested in Class A shares if the proceeds are from the sale of (i) Class B shares; or (ii) Class C shares or Class R shares if at the time of investment you have not appointed an investment representative (financial advisor) of record for the Fund account(s) in which the purchased shares will be held. Proceeds from the earlier sale of Class Z shares may also be invested in Class A shares under this Reinstatement Privilege.

If you paid a CDSC when you sold your Class A or C shares, we will credit back to you the CDSC paid on the amount you are reinvesting within 90 days of the sale by adding it to the amount of your reinvestment (for example, if you are reinvesting $10,000 within 90 days of an earlier $10,000 sale on which you paid a $100 CDSC, the amount of your reinvestment will equal $10,100). The new shares issued with your reinvestment WILL BE subject to any otherwise applicable CDSC. If, however, you (except Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans) paid a CDSC when you sold (1) Class B shares; or (2) Class C shares held at the time of sale in a Franklin Templeton fund account without an investment representative (financial advisor) appointed by you and invest the proceeds from that sale in Class A shares within 90 days of the sale, you will not be credited with any CDSC paid at the time of sale. In this case, the new Class A shares issued with your reinvestment WILL NOT BE subject to any otherwise applicable CDSC.

Proceeds immediately placed in a Franklin Templeton Bank Certificate of Deposit (CD) also may be reinvested without an initial sales charge if you reinvest them within 90 days from the date the CD matures, including any rollover.

This privilege does not apply to shares you buy and sell under our exchange program. Shares purchased with the proceeds from a money fund may be subject to a sales charge.

Qualified Investors – Class Z

The following investors may qualify to buy Class Z shares of the Fund:

Current shareholders who owned shares of any Mutual Series Fund on October 31, 1996, and their immediate family members residing at the same address
Partnership shareholders who owned shares of any Mutual Series Fund on October 31, 1996, whether or not they are listed on the registration
Corporate shareholders who owned shares of any Mutual Series Fund on October 31, 1996, using the same registration, or new companies of such corporate shareholders that have been reorganized into smaller, independent companies
Shareholders who owned shares of any Mutual Series Fund through a broker-dealer or service agent omnibus account on October 31, 1996
Employees who owned shares of any Mutual Series Fund through an employer-sponsored retirement plan on October 31, 1996, and who wish to open new individual Class Z accounts in their own names

The investors listed above may buy Class Z shares subject to the following minimum investment requirements:

	Initial
Regular accounts	1,000
Automatic investment plans	50
UGMA/UTMA accounts	100
Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans, SIMPLE-IRAs, SEP-IRAs, SARSEPs or 403(b) plan accounts	no minimum
IRAs, IRA rollovers, Coverdell Education Savings Plans or Roth IRAs	250

The following investors or investments also may qualify to buy Class Z shares of the Fund:

Shares acquired by a financial intermediary that has entered into an agreement with Distributors authorizing the sale of Fund shares, in connection with its mutual fund trading platform, that the intermediary holds, directly or indirectly, on behalf of a beneficial owner who has entered into a comprehensive fee or other advisory fee arrangement with any broker-dealer, trust company, registered investment advisor, or investment advisor with assets under management in excess of $100 million that is exempt from federal registration, that is not an affiliate or associated person of the financial intermediary. Minimum initial investment: $50,000 for individual or multiple clients.
Shares acquired by a financial intermediary that the intermediary holds on behalf of a beneficial owner who has entered into a comprehensive fee or other advisory fee arrangement with the financial intermediary or an affiliate or associated person of the financial intermediary, provided the financial intermediary has entered into an agreement with Distributors authorizing the sale of Fund shares. No minimum initial investment.
Governments, municipalities, and tax-exempt entities that meet the requirements for qualification under section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code. Minimum initial investment: $1 million in Advisor Class or Class Z shares of any Franklin Templeton fund.
Current and former officers, trustees, directors, full-time employees (and, in each case, their family members) of both Franklin Templeton Investments and Franklin Templeton Funds, consistent with our then-current policies. Minimum initial investment: $100 ($50 for accounts with an automatic investment plan).
Investors buying shares with redemption proceeds from a sale of Class Z shares if reinvested within 90 days of the redemption date. For investors who owned shares of any Mutual Series Fund on October 31, 1996, the 90 day requirement does not apply. No initial minimum investment.
Assets held in accounts managed by a subsidiary of Franklin Resources, Inc.: (1) under an advisory agreement (including sub-advisory agreements); and/or (2) as Trustee of an inter vivos or testamentary trust.
Assets held in accounts managed by a state or federally regulated trust company or bank (Trust Company) either as discretionary trustee of an inter vivos or testamentary trust or as manager under an advisory agreement (including sub-advisory) or other agreement that grants the Trust Company investment discretion over those assets (Trust Company Managed Assets) if (i) the aggregate value of Trust Company Managed Assets invested in Franklin Templeton funds at the time of purchase equals at least $1 million; and (ii) the purchased shares are registered directly to the Trust Company in its corporate capacity (not as trustee of an individual trust) and held solely as Trust Company Managed Assets.
An Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan (Plan) if the employer sponsors one or more Plans with aggregate Plan assets of $1 million or more. An "Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan" includes (a) an employer sponsored pension or profit sharing plan that qualifies (Qualified Plan) under section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code), including Code section 401(k), money purchase pension, profit sharing and defined benefit plans; (b) an ERISA covered 403(b); and (c) certain non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements that operate in a similar manner to a Qualified Plan, such as 457 plans and executive deferred compensation arrangements, but not including employer sponsored IRAs.
Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans that invest indirectly in Fund shares through Fund omnibus accounts registered to a financial intermediary.
Any trust or plan established as part of a qualified tuition program under Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code, provided that Distributors or an affiliate of Distributors has entered into a contract with the state sponsor of the program or one of its service providers to provide certain services relating to the operation of the program or to provide Fund shares for purchase in connection with the program. No initial minimum investment.
An individual or entity associated with a current customer of Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC (FTI, LLC) if approved by FTI, LLC in consultation with its customer.
Unaffiliated U.S. registered mutual funds, including those that operate as "fund of funds." Minimum initial investment: $1 million in Advisor Class or Class Z shares of any Franklin Templeton fund.
Assets held in accounts under the recommendation of an investment consultant provided that (1) assets are held with a firm unaffiliated with the investment consultant’s firm; (2) the investment consultant is under a retainer or other similar fee arrangement with its clients; (3) the client is not an individual; and (4) a subsidiary of Franklin Resources, Inc. approves the investment.

Buying Shares

	Initial
Regular accounts	$ 1,000
Automatic investment plans	$ 50
UGMA/UTMA accounts	$ 100
Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans, SIMPLE-IRAs, SEP-IRAs, SARSEPs or 403(b) plan accounts	no minimum
IRAs, IRA rollovers, Coverdell Education Savings Plans or Roth IRAs	$ 250
Broker-dealer sponsored wrap account programs	no minimum
Current and former full-time employees, officers, trustees and directors of Franklin Templeton entities, and their family members	$ 100

Please note that you may only buy shares of a fund eligible for sale in your state or jurisdiction.

Account Application

If you are opening a new account, please complete and sign the enclosed account application. Make sure you indicate the share class you have chosen. If you do not indicate a class, we will place your purchase in Class A shares. To save time, you can sign up now for services you may want on your account by completing the appropriate sections of the application (see "Investor Services"). For example, if you would like to link one of your bank accounts to your Fund account so that you may use electronic funds transfer to and from your bank account to buy and sell shares, please complete the bank information section of the application. We will keep your bank information on file for future purchases and redemptions. We do not accept cash, credit card convenience checks, non-bank money orders or travelers checks as forms of payment to purchase shares.

Franklin Templeton Investor Services
P.O. Box 33030
St. Petersburg, FL 33733-8030
Call toll-free: (800) 632-2301
(Monday through Friday
5:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Pacific time)
or visit us online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
at franklintempleton.com

Buying Shares

	Opening an account	Adding to an account
Through your investment representative	Contact your investment representative	Contact your investment representative
By Phone/Online (Up to $100,000 per shareholder per day) 1-800/448-FUND or (800) 632-2301 franklintempleton.com Note: (1) certain account types are not available for online account access and (2) the amount may be higher for members of Franklin Templeton VIP Services^®. Please see “Franklin Templeton VIP Services^®” under “Investor Services” for more information regarding eligibility. *For Class Z only.	If you have another Franklin Templeton fund account with your bank account information on file, you may open a new account by phone. At this time, a new account may not be opened online. To make a same day investment, your phone order must be received and accepted by us by 1:00 p.m. Pacific time or the close of the New York Stock Exchange, whichever is earlier.	Before requesting a telephone or online purchase into an existing account, please make sure we have your bank account information on file. If we do not have this information, you will need to send written instructions with your bank's name and address and a voided check or savings account deposit slip. If the bank and Fund accounts do not have at least one common owner, your written request must be signed by all fund and bank account owners, and each individual must have his or her signature guaranteed. To make a same day wire investment, the wired funds must be received and accepted by us by 1:00 p.m. Pacific time or the close of the New York Stock Exchange, whichever is earlier.
By Mail	Make your check payable to the Fund. Mail the check and your signed application to Investor Services.	Make your check payable to the Fund. Include your account number on the check. Fill out the deposit slip from your account statement. If you do not have a slip, include a note with your name, the Fund name, and your account number. Mail the check and deposit slip or note to Investor Services.
By Wire (800) 632-2301 or (650) 312-2000 collect	Call to receive a wire control number and wire instructions. Wire the funds and mail your signed application to Investor Services. Please include the wire control number or your new account number on the application. To make a same day wire investment, the wired funds must be received and accepted by us by 1:00 p.m. Pacific time or the close of the New York Stock Exchange, whichever is earlier.	Call to receive a wire control number and wire instructions. To make a same day wire investment, the wired funds must be received and accepted by us by 1:00 p.m. Pacific time or the close of the New York Stock Exchange, whichever is earlier.
By Exchange franklintempleton.com	Call Shareholder Services at (800) 632-2301, or send signed written instructions. You also may place an online exchange order. The automated telephone system cannot be used to open a new account. (Please see “Exchanging Shares” for more information on exchanges.)	Call Shareholder Services at (800) 632-2301, or send signed written instructions. You also may place an online exchange order. (Please see “Exchanging Shares” for more information on exchanges.)

Investor Services

Automatic Investment Plan

This plan offers a convenient way for you to invest in the Fund by automatically transferring money from your checking or savings account each month to buy shares. To sign up, visit us online at franklintempleton.com or complete the appropriate section of your account application and mail it to Investor Services. If you are opening a new account, please include your minimum initial investment with your application.

Automatic Payroll Deduction

You may invest in the Fund automatically by transferring money from your paycheck to the Fund by electronic funds transfer. If you are interested, indicate on your application that you would like to receive an Automatic Payroll Deduction Program kit.

Automated Telephone System

Our automated system offers around-the-clock access to information about your account or any Franklin Templeton fund. This service is available by dialing any of the following numbers from a touch-tone phone:

Shareholder Services

(800) 632-2301

Advisor Services

(800) 524-4040

Retirement Services

(800) 527-2020

Distribution Options

You may reinvest distributions you receive from a Fund in an existing account in the same share class* of the Fund or another Franklin Templeton fund. Initial sales charges and CDSCs will not apply to reinvested distributions. You also can have your distributions deposited in a bank account, or mailed by check. Deposits to a bank account may be made by electronic funds transfer.

* Class B and C shareholders may reinvest their distributions in Class A shares of any Franklin Templeton money fund. Class Z shareholders may reinvest in Advisor Class or Class A shares of another Franklin Templeton fund. To reinvest your distributions in Advisor Class shares of another Franklin Templeton fund, you must be a current shareholder in Class Z or otherwise qualify to buy that fund's Advisor Class shares. DCS Plans may direct distributions to Class A shares if Class R shares are not offered by that fund.

If you received a distribution and chose to return it to purchase additional shares in Class A shares of another Franklin Templeton fund, you will not be charged an initial sales charge if you invest the distribution within 90 days of the distribution date.

Please indicate on your application the distribution option you have chosen, otherwise we will reinvest your distributions in the same share class of the Fund.

Retirement Plans

Franklin Templeton Investments offers a variety of retirement plans for individuals and businesses. These plans require separate applications and their policies and procedures may be different than those described in this prospectus. For more information, including a free retirement plan brochure or application, please call Retirement Services at (800) 527-2020.

For retirement plans for which Franklin Templeton Bank & Trust is the trustee or custodian, special forms may be needed to receive distributions in cash. Please call (800) 527-2020 for information.

Telephone/Online Privileges

You will automatically receive telephone/online privileges when you open your account, allowing you to obtain or view your account information, and conduct a number of transactions by phone or online, including: buy, sell, or exchange shares of most funds; use electronic funds transfer to buy or sell shares of most funds; change your address; and, add or change account services (including distribution options, systematic withdrawal plans, automatic investment plans and ordering money fund checks).

To view your account information or request online transactions, you will first need to register for these services at the shareholder section of our website at franklintempleton.com. You will be asked to accept the terms of an online agreement(s) and establish a password for online services. If you are registered for online services, you may enroll online in Franklin Templeton’s electronic delivery program for your shareholder documents. This will allow you to receive electronic delivery (through our website) of most funds’ prospectuses, annual/semiannual reports to shareholders, and proxy statements, as well as your account(s) statements and trade confirmations, and discontinue receiving your paper copies through the U.S. mail. Using our shareholder website means you are consenting to sending and receiving personal financial information over the Internet, so you should be sure you are comfortable with the risks.

As long as we follow reasonable security procedures and act on instructions we reasonably believe are genuine, we will not be responsible for any losses that may occur from unauthorized requests. We will request passwords or other information, and also may record calls. To help safeguard your account, keep your password confidential, and verify the accuracy of your confirmation statements immediately after you receive them. Contact us immediately if you believe someone has obtained unauthorized access to your account or password. For transactions done over the Internet, we recommend the use of an Internet browser with 128-bit encryption. Certain methods of contacting us (such as by phone or by Internet) may be unavailable or delayed during periods of unusual market activity. Of course, you can decline telephone buy, sell, or exchange privileges on your account application, or choose not to register for online privileges. If you have telephone/online privileges on your account and want to discontinue them, please contact us for instructions. You may reinstate these privileges at any time in writing, including online registration with respect to online privileges.

Note: We discourage you from including confidential or sensitive information in any Internet communication to us. If you do choose to send email (encrypted or not) to us over the Internet, you are accepting the associated risks of lack of confidentiality.

Systematic Withdrawal Plan

This plan allows you to automatically sell your shares and receive regular payments from your account. A CDSC may apply to withdrawals that exceed certain amounts. Certain terms and minimums apply. To sign up, visit us online at franklintempleton.com or complete the appropriate section of your application.

Franklin Templeton VIP Services^®

You may be eligible for Franklin Templeton VIP Services^® if you are currently eligible for the $250,000 sales charge breakpoint based solely on shares registered directly with the Franklin Templeton funds' transfer agent and excluding shares held indirectly through brokerage accounts. Franklin Templeton VIP Services^® shareholders enjoy enhanced service and transaction capabilities. Please contact Shareholder Services at
(800) 632-2301 for additional information on this program.

Selling Shares

You can sell your shares at any time. Please keep in mind that a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) may apply. Please also keep in mind that if you sell all the shares in your account, your account will be closed and you will not be able to buy additional Fund shares or to reopen your account.

Selling Shares in Writing

Generally, requests to sell $100,000 or less can be made over the phone, online, or with a simple letter. Sometimes, however, to protect you and the Fund, we will need written instructions signed by all registered owners, with a signature guarantee for each owner, if:

you are selling more than $100,000 worth of shares
you want your proceeds paid to someone who is not a registered owner
you want to send your proceeds somewhere other than the address of record, or preauthorized bank or brokerage firm account

We also may require a signature guarantee on instructions we receive from an agent, not the registered owners, or when we believe it would protect the Fund against potential claims based on the instructions received.

The amount may be higher for members of Franklin Templeton VIP Services^®. Please see “Franklin Templeton VIP Services^®” above for more information regarding eligibility.

A notary public CANNOT provide a signature guarantee.

A signature guarantee helps protect your account against fraud. You can obtain a signature guarantee at most banks and securities dealers.

Selling Recently Purchased Shares

If you sell shares recently purchased, we may delay sending you the proceeds until your check, draft or wire/electronic funds transfer has cleared, which may take seven business days or more.

Redemption Proceeds

Your redemption check will be sent within seven days after we receive your request in proper form. We are not able to receive or pay out cash in the form of currency.

Retirement Plans

You may need to complete additional forms to sell shares in a Franklin Templeton Bank & Trust retirement plan. For participants under the age of 59 1/2, tax penalties may apply. Call Retirement Services at (800) 527-2020 for details.

Selling Shares

To sell some or all of your shares

Through your investment representative

Contact your investment representative

By Mail

Send written instructions and endorsed share certificates (if you hold share certificates) to Investor Services. Corporate, partnership or trust accounts may need to send additional documents.

Specify the Fund, the account number and the dollar value or number of shares you wish to sell. If you own both Class A and B shares, also specify the class of shares, otherwise we will sell your Class A shares first. Be sure to include all necessary signatures and any additional documents, as well as signature guarantees if required.

A check will be mailed to the name(s) and address on the account, or otherwise according to your written instructions.

By Phone/Online

(800) 632-2301
franklintempleton.com

As long as your transaction is for $100,000 or less, you do not hold share certificates and you have not changed your address by phone or online within the last 15 days, you can sell your shares by phone or online. The amount may be higher for members of Franklin Templeton VIP Services^®. Please see “Franklin Templeton VIP Services^®” above for more information regarding eligibility.

A check will be mailed to the name(s) and address on the account, or a pre-authorized secondary address. Written instructions, with a signature guarantee, are required to send the check to another address or to make it payable to another person.

By Electronic Funds Transfer (ACH)

You can call, write, or visit us online to have redemption proceeds sent to a bank account. See the policies at left for selling shares by mail, phone, or online.

Before requesting to have redemption proceeds sent to a bank account, please make sure we have your bank account information on file. If we do not have this information, you will need to send written instructions with your bank's name and a voided check or savings account deposit slip. If the bank and Fund accounts do not have at least one common owner, you must provide written instructions signed by all fund and bank account owners, and each individual must have his or her signature guaranteed.

If we receive your request in proper form by 1:00 p.m. Pacific time, proceeds sent by ACH generally will be available within two to three business days.

By Exchange

Obtain a current prospectus for the fund you are considering. Prospectuses are available online at franklintempleton.com.

Call Shareholder Services at the number below or send signed written instructions. You also may place an exchange order online. See the policies at left for selling shares by mail, phone, or online.

If you hold share certificates, you will need to return them to the Fund before your exchange can be processed.

Franklin Templeton Investor Services
P.O. Box 33030, St. Petersburg, FL 33733-8030
Call toll-free: (800) 632-2301
or visit us online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,at franklintempleton.com

Exchanging Shares

Exchange Privilege

Class A, B, C & R

You can exchange shares between most Franklin Templeton funds within the same class, generally without paying any additional sales charges. If you exchange shares held for less than six months, however, you may be charged the difference between the initial sales charge of the two funds if the difference is more than 0.25%. If you exchange shares from a money fund or another fund that does not have a sales charge, a sales charge may apply no matter how long you have held the shares.

If you exchange your Class B shares for the same class of shares of another Franklin Templeton fund, the time your shares are held in that fund will count towards the eight-year period for automatic conversion to Class A shares.

DCS Plans may exchange Class R shares for Class A shares of another Franklin Templeton fund if that fund does not offer Class R shares.

Class Z

You can exchange shares within Class Z, or for Advisor Class shares of another Franklin Templeton fund if you otherwise qualify to buy that fund's Advisor Class. You also may exchange your Class Z shares for Class A shares of other Franklin Templeton funds without any sales charges.

All Classes

The remainder of the “Exchanging Shares” section applies to all classes.

Generally exchanges may only be made between identically registered accounts, unless you send written instructions with a signature guarantee.

An exchange is really two transactions: a sale of one fund and the purchase of another. In general, the same policies that apply to purchases and sales apply to exchanges, including minimum investment amounts. Exchanges also have the same tax consequences as ordinary sales and purchases.

Rejected exchanges. If the Fund rejects an exchange request involving the sale of Fund shares, the rejected exchange request will also mean rejection of the request to purchase shares of another fund with the proceeds of the sale. Of course, you may generally redeem shares of the Fund at any time.

Exchanges through financial intermediaries. If you are investing indirectly in the Fund through a financial intermediary such as a broker-dealer, a bank, an insurance company separate account, an investment advisor, an administrator or trustee of an IRS-recognized tax-deferred savings plan such as a 401(k) retirement plan and a 529 college savings plan that maintains a master account (an Omnibus Account) with the Fund for trading on behalf of its customers, different exchange and/or transfer limit guidelines and restrictions may apply. The financial intermediary through whom you are investing may choose to adopt different trading restrictions designed to discourage short-term or excessive trading. Consult with your financial intermediary (or, in the case of a 401(k) retirement plan, your plan sponsor) to determine what trading restrictions, including exchange/transfer limitations, may be applicable to you.

Fund exchange privilege changes/waiver. The Fund may terminate or modify (temporarily or permanently) this exchange privilege in the future. You will receive 60 days' notice of any material changes, unless otherwise provided by law.

Other funds' exchange privileges. If there is a conflict between the exchange privileges of two funds involved in an exchange transaction, the stricter policy will apply to the transaction. Other Franklin Templeton funds may have different exchange restrictions. Check each fund's prospectus for details.

Frequent Trading Policy

The Fund's board of trustees has adopted the following policies and procedures with respect to frequent trading in Fund shares (Frequent Trading Policy).

The Fund discourages and does not intend to accommodate short-term or frequent purchases and redemptions of Fund shares, often referred to as “market timing.” This type of trading activity can harm the Fund by, for example, interfering with the efficient management of the Fund's portfolio or materially increasing the Fund's transaction costs, administrative costs or taxes.

In addition, since the Fund invests significantly in foreign securities, it may be vulnerable to a form of short-term trading that is sometimes referred to as “time-zone arbitrage.” Time-zone arbitrage occurs when an investor seeks to take advantage of delays between changes in the value of a mutual fund’s portfolio holdings and the reflection of those changes in the fund’s net asset value per share. These delays are more likely to occur in the case of foreign investments, due to differences between the times during which the Fund’s international portfolio securities trade on foreign markets and the time as of which the Fund’s NAV is calculated (generally as of the close of the NYSE - please see “Calculating Share Price”). Time-zone arbitrage traders seek to purchase or redeem shares of a fund based on events occurring after foreign market closing prices are established, but before calculation of the fund’s NAV. This can result in the value of the Fund’s shares being diluted. One of the objectives of the Fund’s fair value pricing procedures is to minimize the possibility of this type of arbitrage (please see "Valuation - Foreign Securities - Potential Impact of Time Zones and Market Holidays"); however, there can be no assurance that the Fund’s valuation procedures will be successful in eliminating it.

Since the Fund may invest in securities that are, or may be, restricted, unlisted, traded infrequently, thinly traded, or relatively illiquid ("relatively illiquid securities"), it may be particularly vulnerable to arbitrage short-term trading. Such arbitrage traders may seek to take advantage of a possible differential between the last available market prices for one or more of those relatively illiquid securities that are used to calculate the Fund’s NAV and the latest indications of market values for those securities. One of the objectives of the Fund’s fair value pricing procedures is to minimize the possibilities of this type of arbitrage (please see "Fair Valuation - Individual Securities"); however, there can be no assurance that the Fund’s valuation procedures will be successful in eliminating it.

Through its transfer agent, the Fund performs ongoing monitoring of trading in Fund shares in order to try and identify shareholder trading patterns that suggest an ongoing short-term trading strategy. The size of an investor's investments and redemptions in the Fund may also be a factor in evaluating a shareholder's trading patterns. If and when a pattern of short-term trading is identified, the transfer agent will seek to restrict or reject further short-term trading and/or take other action as described below, if in the judgment of the Fund manager or transfer agent such trading may be detrimental to the Fund.

If information regarding your trading activity in this Fund or in any other Franklin Templeton fund or non-Franklin Templeton fund is brought to the attention of the Fund's manager or transfer agent and based on that information the Fund or its manager or transfer agent in its sole discretion reasonably concludes that your pattern of trading may be detrimental to the Fund as described in this Frequent Trading Policy, the Fund may temporarily or permanently bar future purchases into the Fund or, alternatively, may limit the amount, number or frequency of any future purchases and/or the method by which you may request future purchases and redemptions (including purchases and/or redemptions by an exchange or transfer between the Fund and any other mutual fund).

In considering an investor's trading patterns, the Fund may consider, among other factors, the investor's trading history both directly and, if known, through financial intermediaries, in the Fund, in other Franklin Templeton funds, in non-Franklin Templeton mutual funds, or in accounts under common control or ownership (see, for example, "Investment by asset allocators" in the SAI).

Frequent trading through financial intermediaries. You are an investor subject to this Frequent Trading Policy whether you are a direct shareholder of the Fund or you are investing indirectly in the Fund through a financial intermediary, such as a broker-dealer, bank, trust company, insurance company product such as an annuity contract, investment advisor, or an administrator or trustee of an IRS-recognized tax-deferred savings plan such as a 401(k) retirement plan and a 529 college savings plan.

Some financial intermediaries maintain master accounts with the Fund on behalf of their customers (“omnibus accounts”). The Fund has entered into “information sharing agreements” with these financial intermediaries, which permit the Fund to obtain, upon request, information about the trading activity of the intermediary’s customers that invest in the Fund. If the Fund’s transfer agent identifies omnibus account level trading patterns that have the potential to be detrimental to the Fund, the transfer agent may, in its sole discretion, request from the financial intermediary information concerning the trading activity of its customers. Based upon its review of the information, if the transfer agent determines that the trading activity of any customer may be detrimental to the Fund, it may, in its sole discretion, request the financial intermediary to restrict or limit further trading in the Fund by that customer. There can be no assurance that the transfer agent’s monitoring of omnibus account level trading patterns will enable it to identify all short-term trading by a financial intermediary’s customers.

Revocation of trades. While the Fund reserves the right to reject any purchase order for any reason, the Fund may also revoke executed purchase orders that the transfer agent reasonably concludes in its sole discretion may have been contrary to the objectives of the Fund's Frequent Trading Policy.

Account Policies

Calculating Share Price

Class A, B & C

When you buy shares, you pay the "offering price" for the shares. The "offering price" is determined by dividing the NAV per share by an amount equal to 1 minus the sales charge applicable to the purchase (expressed in decimals), calculated to two decimal places using standard rounding criteria. The number of Fund shares you will be issued will equal the amount invested divided by the applicable offering price for those shares, calculated to three decimal places using standard rounding criteria. For example, if the NAV per share is $10.25 and the applicable sales charge for the purchase is 5.75%, the offering price would be calculated as follows: 10.25 divided by 1.00 minus 0.0575 [10.25/0.9425] equals 10.87533, which, when rounded to two decimal points, equals 10.88. The offering price per share would be $10.88.

When you sell shares, you receive the NAV minus any applicable CDSC.

All Classes

The value of a mutual fund is determined by deducting the fund’s liabilities from the total assets of the portfolio. The NAV per share is determined by dividing the total net asset value of each fund’s share class by the applicable number of shares outstanding per share class.

The Fund calculates the NAV per share each business day at the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) (normally 1:00 p.m. Pacific time). The Fund does not calculate the NAV on days the NYSE is closed for trading, which include New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President’s Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

When determining its NAV, the Fund values cash and receivables at their realizable amounts, and records interest as accrued and dividends on the ex-dividend date. The Fund generally utilizes two independent pricing services to assist in determining a current market value for each security. If market quotations are readily available for portfolio securities listed on a securities exchange, the Fund values those securities at the last quoted sale price or the official closing price of the day, respectively, or, if there is no reported sale, within the range of the most recent quoted bid and ask prices. The Fund values over-the-counter portfolio securities within the range of the most recent bid and ask prices. If portfolio securities trade both in the over-the-counter market and on a stock exchange, the Fund values them according to the broadest and most representative market.

Requests to buy and sell shares are processed at the NAV next calculated after we receive your request in proper form.

Generally, trading in corporate bonds, U.S. government securities and money market instruments is substantially completed each day at various times before the close of the NYSE. The value of these securities used in computing the NAV is determined as of such times. Occasionally, events affecting the values of these securities may occur between the times at which they are determined and the close of the NYSE that will not be reflected in the computation of the NAV. The Fund relies on third-party pricing vendors to monitor for events materially affecting the value of these securities during this period. If an event occurs, the third-party pricing vendors will provide revised values to the Fund.

Fair Valuation – Individual Securities

Since the Fund may invest in securities that are restricted, unlisted, traded infrequently, thinly traded, or relatively illiquid, there is the possibility of a differential between the last available market prices for one or more of those securities and the latest indications of market values for those securities. The Fund has procedures, approved by the board of trustees, to determine the fair value of individual securities and other assets for which market prices are not readily available (such as certain restricted or unlisted securities and private placements) or which may not be reliably priced (such as in the case of trade suspensions or halts, price movement limits set by certain foreign markets, and thinly traded or illiquid securities). Some methods for valuing these securities may include: fundamental analysis (earnings multiple, etc.), matrix pricing, discounts from market prices of similar securities, or discounts applied due to the nature and duration of restrictions on the disposition of the securities. The board of trustees oversees the application of fair value pricing procedures.

The application of fair value pricing procedures represents a good faith determination based upon specifically applied procedures. There can be no assurance that the Fund could obtain the fair value assigned to a security if it were able to sell the security at approximately the time at which the Fund determines its NAV per share.

Security Valuation – Corporate Debt Securities

Corporate debt securities generally trade in the over-the-counter market rather than on a securities exchange. The Funds may value these portfolio securities by utilizing quotations from bond dealers, information with respect to bond and note transactions and may rely on independent pricing services to assist in determining a current market value for each security. The Fund's pricing services may utilize independent quotations from bond dealers and bond market activity to determine current value.

Security Valuation – Foreign Securities – Computation of U.S. Equivalent Value

The Fund generally determines the value of a foreign security as of the close of trading on the foreign stock exchange on which the security is primarily traded, or as of the close of trading on the NYSE, if earlier. The value is then converted into its U.S. dollar equivalent at the foreign exchange rate in effect at the close of the NYSE (generally 1:00 p.m. Pacific time) on the day that the value of the foreign security is determined. If no sale is reported at that time, the foreign security will be valued within the range of the most recent quoted bid and ask prices. Occasionally events (such as repatriation limits or restrictions) may impact the availability or reliability of foreign exchange rates used to convert the U.S. dollar equivalent value. If such an event occurs, the foreign exchange rate will be valued at fair value using procedures established and approved by the board of trustees.

Valuation – Foreign Securities – Potential Impact of Time Zones and Market Holidays

Trading in securities on foreign securities stock exchanges and over-the-counter markets, such as those in Europe and Asia, may be completed well before the close of business on the NYSE on each day that the NYSE is open. Occasionally, events occur between the time at which trading in a foreign security is completed and the close of the NYSE that might call into question the availability (including the reliability) of the value of a foreign portfolio security held by the Fund. As a result, the Fund may be susceptible to what is referred to as “time-zone arbitrage.” Certain investors in the Fund may seek to take advantage of discrepancies in the value of the Fund’s portfolio securities as determined by the foreign market at its close and the latest indications of value attributable to the portfolio securities at the time the Fund’s NAV is computed. Trading by these investors, often referred to as “arbitrage market timers,” may dilute the value of the Fund’s shares, if such discrepancies in security values actually exist. To attempt to minimize the possibilities for time-zone arbitrage, and in accordance with procedures established and approved by the Fund’s board of trustees, the manager monitors price movements following the close of trading in foreign stock markets through a series of country specific market proxies (such as baskets of American Depositary Receipts, futures contracts and exchange traded funds).

These price movements are measured against established trigger thresholds for each specific market proxy to assist in determining if an event has occurred that might call into question the availability (including the reliability) of the values of foreign securities between the times at which they are determined and the close of the NYSE. If such an event occurs, the foreign securities may be valued using fair value procedures established and approved by the board of trustees. In certain circumstances these procedures include the use of independent pricing services. The intended effect of applying fair value pricing is to compute an NAV that accurately reflects the value of the Fund's portfolio at the time that the NAV is calculated, to discourage potential arbitrage market timing in Fund shares, to mitigate the dilutive impact of such attempted arbitrage market timing and to be fair to purchasing, redeeming and existing shareholders. However, the application of fair value pricing procedures may, on occasion, worsen rather than mitigate the potential dilutive impact of shareholder trading.

In addition, trading in foreign portfolio securities generally, or in securities markets in a particular country or countries, may not take place on every NYSE business day. Furthermore, trading takes place in various foreign markets on days that are not business days for the NYSE, and on which the Fund's NAV is not calculated. Thus, the calculation of the Fund's NAV does not take place contemporaneously with the determination of the prices of many of the foreign portfolio securities used in the calculation. If events affecting the last determined values of these foreign securities occur (determined through the monitoring process described above), the securities will be valued at fair value determined in good faith in accordance with the Fund’s fair value procedures established and approved by the board of trustees.

Accounts with Low Balances

If your account has been open for more than one year and its value falls below $500 ($50 for employee and UGMA/UTMA accounts), we will mail you a notice asking you to bring the account back up to its applicable minimum investment amount. If you choose not to do so within 30 days, we will close your account and mail the proceeds to the address of record. You will not be charged a CDSC if your account is closed for this reason. This policy does not apply to: (1) certain broker-controlled accounts established through the National Securities Clearing Corporation’s Networking system; (2) accounts in Class B and Class A accounts established pursuant to a conversion from Class B; (3) tax-deferred retirement plan accounts; (4) active automatic investment plan accounts; (5) broker-dealer sponsored separately managed accounts (wrap accounts); (6) accounts held through a 529 college savings program; and, (7) Coverdell Education Savings Plan accounts.

Statements, Reports and Prospectuses

You will receive quarterly account statements that show all your account transactions during the quarter. You also will receive written notification after each transaction affecting your account (except for distributions and transactions made through automatic investment or withdrawal programs, which will be reported on your quarterly statement).

You also will receive the Fund's financial reports every six months as well as an annual updated prospectus. To reduce Fund expenses, we try to identify related shareholders in a household and send only one copy of the financial reports and prospectus. This process, called "householding," will continue indefinitely unless you instruct us otherwise. If you prefer not to have these documents householded, please call us at (800) 632-2301. At any time you may view current prospectuses and financial reports on our website.

If you choose, you may receive your statements, financial reports and prospectuses through electronic delivery (please see "Investor Services - Telephone/Online Privileges").

Investment Representative Account Access

If there is a dealer or other investment representative of record on your account, he or she will be able to obtain your account information, conduct transactions for your account, and also will receive copies of all notifications and statements and other information about your account directly from the Fund.

Street or Nominee Accounts

You may transfer your shares from the street or nominee name account of one dealer to another, as long as both dealers have an agreement with Distributors. We will process the transfer after we receive authorization in proper form from your delivering securities dealer.

Joint Accounts

Unless you specify a different registration, shares issued to two or more owners are registered as "joint tenants with rights of survivorship" (shown as "Jt Ten" on your account statement). To make any ownership changes to jointly owned shares, or to sever a joint tenancy in jointly owned shares, all owners must agree in writing.

Joint Account Risk with Telephone/Online Privileges

You will automatically receive telephone/online privileges when you open your account. If your account has more than one registered owner, telephone/online privileges allow the Fund to accept online registration for online services (including electronic delivery of shareholder documents) and transaction instructions online or by telephone from only one registered owner. This means that any one registered owner on your account, acting alone and without the consent of any other registered owner, may give the Fund instructions by telephone, online or in writing (subject to any limitations in telephone or online privileges) to:

Exchange shares from a jointly registered Fund account requiring all registered owner signatures into an identically registered money fund account that only requires one registered owner’s signature to redeem shares;
Redeem Fund shares and direct the redemption proceeds to a bank account that may or may not be owned by you and, if owned by you jointly with someone else, only requires one person to withdraw funds by check or otherwise;
Add/Change the bank account to which Fund share redemption proceeds may be sent, which bank account may not be owned by you;
Purchase Fund shares by debiting a bank account that may be owned by you; and
Add/Change the bank account that may be debited for Fund share purchases, which new account may be owned by you.

If you do NOT want another registered owner on your account to be able to issue these kinds of instructions to the Fund without your consent, you must instruct the Fund to deny/terminate online privileges and the ability to issue such instructions by telephone so that these types of instructions will only be accepted in writing signed by all account owners. This decision will apply to any other fund into which you may exchange your jointly owned Fund shares. Any later decision to permit these types of instructions by telephone and/or online will need to be given to the Fund in a written instruction signed by all registered owners.

Additional Policies

Please note that the Fund maintains additional policies and reserves certain rights, including:

The Fund may restrict, reject or cancel any purchase orders, including an exchange request.
The Fund may modify, suspend, or terminate telephone/online privileges at any time.
The Fund may make material changes to or discontinue the exchange privilege on 60 days' notice or as otherwise provided by law.
The Fund may stop offering shares completely or may offer shares only on a limited basis, for a period of time or permanently.
Normally, redemptions are processed by the next business day, but may take up to seven days to be processed if making immediate payment would adversely affect the Fund.
In unusual circumstances, we may temporarily suspend redemptions, or postpone the payment of proceeds, as allowed by federal securities laws.
For redemptions over a certain amount, the Fund may pay redemption proceeds in securities or other assets rather than cash if the manager determines it is in the best interest of the Fund, consistent with applicable law.
You may only buy shares of a fund (including the purchase side of an exchange) eligible for sale in your state or jurisdiction.
To permit investors to obtain the current price, dealers are responsible for transmitting all orders to the Fund promptly.

Dealer Compensation

Class A, B, C & R

Qualifying dealers who sell Fund shares may receive sales commissions and other payments. These are paid by Distributors from sales charges received from purchasing or redeeming shareholders, from distribution and service (12b-1) fees from the Fund and from Distributors' other financial resources. Dealers may also receive shareholder servicing fees for servicing investors who indirectly hold Franklin Templeton fund shares through dealer-maintained brokerage accounts as more fully described under "Shareholder servicing and transfer agent" in the SAI. These fees are paid by the Fund's transfer agent from payments it receives under its agreement with the Fund.

	Class A	Class B	Class C	Class R
Commission (%)	-	-	1.00¹	-
Investment under $50,000	5.00	-	-	-
$50,000 but under $100,000	3.75	-	-	-
$100,000 but under $250,000	2.80	-	-	-
$250,000 but under $500,000	2.00	-	-	-
$500,000 but under $1 million	1.60	-	-	-
$1 million or more	up to 1.00²	-	-	-
12b-1 fee to dealer	0.25^2, ³	0.25⁴	1.00⁵	0.50

1. Commission includes advance of the first year's 0.25% 12b-1 service fee. Distributors may pay a prepaid commission. However, Distributors does not pay a prepaid commission on any purchases by Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans.

2. For purchases at NAV where Distributors paid a prepaid commission, dealers may start to receive the 12b-1 fee in the 13th month after purchase. For purchases at NAV where Distributors did not pay a prepaid commission, dealers may start to receive the 12b-1 fee at the time of purchase.

3. The Fund may pay up to 0.30% to Distributors or others, out of which 0.05% generally will be retained by Distributors for its distribution expenses.

4. After eight years, Class B shares convert to Class A shares and dealers may then receive the 12b-1 fee applicable to Class A.

5. Dealers may be eligible to receive up to 0.25% at the time of purchase and may be eligible to receive 1% starting in the 13th month. During the first 12 months, the full 12b-1 fee will be paid to Distributors to partially offset the commission and the prepaid service fee paid at the time of purchase. For purchases at NAV where Distributors did not pay a prepaid commission, dealers may start to receive the 12b-1 fee at the time of purchase.

No dealer commission will be paid on Class A NAV purchases by Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans.

If any dealer commissions are paid in connection with a purchase which is subsequently rejected or results in any trading restriction placed on the purchaser as a result of a determination by the Fund's manager or transfer agent that the purchase may be connected with trading activity that may be detrimental to the Fund as described in the Fund's "Frequent Trading Policy," the dealer shall, upon demand, refund such commissions to Distributors.

Other dealer compensation. Distributors may make payments (a portion of which may be reimbursable under the terms of the Fund's Rule 12b-1 distribution plans) to certain dealers who have sold shares of the Franklin Templeton mutual funds. In the case of any one dealer, marketing support payments will not exceed the sum of 0.08% of that dealer's current year's total sales of Franklin Templeton mutual funds, and 0.05% (or 0.03%) of the total assets of equity (or fixed income) funds attributable to that dealer, on an annual basis. Marketing support payments made to organizations located outside the U.S., with respect to investments in the Fund by non-U.S. persons, may exceed this limitation. Distributors makes these payments in connection with the qualifying dealers' efforts to educate financial advisors about the Franklin Templeton funds. A number of factors will be considered in determining payments, including the qualifying dealer's sales, assets and redemption rates, and the quality of the dealer's relationship with Distributors. Distributors will, on an annual basis, determine the advisability of continuing these payments.

To the extent permitted by SEC and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority rules and other applicable laws and regulations, Distributors may pay or allow other promotional incentives or payments to dealers.

Sale of Fund shares, as well as shares of other funds in Franklin Templeton Investments, is not considered a factor in the selection of broker-dealers to execute the Fund's portfolio transactions. Accordingly, the allocation of portfolio transactions for execution by broker-dealers that sell Fund shares is not considered marketing support payments to such broker-dealers.

You can find further details in the SAI about the payments made by Distributors and the services provided by your financial advisor. Your financial advisor may charge you additional fees or commissions other than those disclosed in this prospectus. You should ask your financial advisor for information about any payments it receives from Distributors and any services it provides, as well as about fees and/or commissions it charges.

Questions

If you have any questions about the Fund or your account, you can write to us at P.O. Box 33030, St. Petersburg, FL 33733-8030. You also can call us at one of the following numbers. For your protection and to help ensure we provide you with quality service, all calls may be monitored or recorded.

Department Name	Telephone Number	Hours (Pacific time, Monday through Friday)
Shareholder Services	(800) 632-2301	5:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Fund Information	(800) DIAL BEN (800) 342-5236	5:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Retirement Services	(800) 527-2020	5:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Advisor Services	(800) 524-4040	5:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Institutional Services	(800) 321-8563	6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
TDD (hearing impaired)	(800) 851-0637	5:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Automated Telephone System	(800) 632-2301 (800) 524-4040 (800) 527-2020	(around-the-clock access)

FOR MORE INFORMATION

You can learn more about the Fund in the following documents:

Annual/Semiannual Report to Shareholders

Includes a discussion of recent market conditions and Fund strategies that significantly affected Fund performance during its last fiscal year, financial statements, detailed performance information, portfolio holdings and, in the annual report only, the independent registered public accounting firm’s report.

Statement of Additional Information (SAI)

Contains more information about the Fund, its investments and policies. It is incorporated by reference (is legally a part of this prospectus).

For a free copy of the current annual/semiannual report or the SAI, please contact your investment representative or call us at the number below. You also can view the current annual/semiannual report and the SAI online through franklintempleton.com.

You also can obtain information about the Fund by visiting the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC (phone (202) 551-8090) or the EDGAR Database on the SEC's Internet site at http://www.sec.gov. You can obtain copies of this information, after paying a duplicating fee, by writing to the SEC's Public Reference Section, Washington, DC 20549-0102 or by electronic request at the following email address: [email protected].

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