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<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">This
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">annual
shareholder report</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">
contains important information about </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">Putnam
Emerging Markets Equity Fund for the period </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">September
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">2025, to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">August
31, 2026.</span>
annual shareholder report
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">You
can find additional information about the Fund at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.
You can also </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">request this information
by contacting us at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.</span>
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;"><b><i>This report describes changes
to the Fund that occurred during the reporting period.</i></b></span></div>
149
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
DID THE FUND PERFORM LAST YEAR AND WHAT AFFECTED ITS PERFORMANCE?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For the twelve months ended August
31, 2026, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Class A shares of
Putnam Emerging Markets Equity Fund returned </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">37.93%.
The Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">compares its performance
to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index-NR, which returned 39.25% for the same period.</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>PERFORMANCE
HIGHLIGHTS</b></span></span></div>
<div>
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<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
contributors to performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in:</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Samsung
Electronics, a consumer electronics and semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
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</td>
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<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Elite
Material, a manufacturer of printed circuit board materials</span></div> </td> </tr>
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<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing, a semiconductor foundry</span></div> </td> </tr>
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detractors from performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
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<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Tencent Holdings, an internet and technology company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in SK Hynix, a memory-chip manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
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<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in MediaTek, a semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
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The
Fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The
graph and table </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">do not reflect
the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or redemption of Fund shares.</span>
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<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>AVERAGE
ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS (%) </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Period
Ended </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026</span></div>
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<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"> </div>
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Year</b></span></div> </td>
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<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>5
Year</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>10
Year</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
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<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Class
A</b></span> </div> </td>
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</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">6.42</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">10.10</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>MSCI
Emerging Markets Index-NR</b></span> </div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">39.25</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">8.18</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">9.29</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
Class
A
0.3793
0.0769
0.1076
Class
A (with sales charge)
0.3000
0.0642
0.1010
MSCI
Emerging Markets Index-NR
0.3925
0.0818
0.0929
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For current month-end performance,
please call Franklin Templeton at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581 or visit</span><br/><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/investments/options/mutual-funds</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Important data provider notices
and terms available at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">www.franklintempletondatasources.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>KEY
FUND STATISTICS </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(as
of </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026)</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;border-top:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:74.41007194244604%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:25.58992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Net Assets</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$819,633,287</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Number of Portfolio Holdings (excludes derivatives, except purchased options, if any)</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">64</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Management Fee Paid</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$5,252,344</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Portfolio
Turnover Rate</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">74%</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
819633287
64
5252344
0.74
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
HAS THE FUND CHANGED?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective August 1, 2026 (the
“Effective Date”), The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC (“PAC”), a sub-advisor to the Fund prior to the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective
Date, and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (formerly Franklin Resources, Inc.), transferred its </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">investment
personnel and the assets and liabilities related to its Singapore branch’s investment management business to Templeton </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Asset
Management Ltd. (“TAML”), also an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (the “Reorganization”).
As of the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective Date, PAC
investment professionals in its Singapore branch became employees of TAML, and the sub-advisory agreement </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">between
Putnam Investment Management, LLC (the “Investment Manager”) and PAC with respect to the Fund was transferred to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">TAML
pursuant to an assignment and assumption agreement (such sub-advisory agreement, as modified by the assignment and </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">assumption
agreement, the “New Sub-Advisory Contract”). In connection with the Reorganization, the Fund’s Trustees approved
the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">New Sub-Advisory Contract
between the Investment Manager and TAML, pursuant to which TAML became a sub-advisor of the Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">on
the Effective Date.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The changes described above are
not expected to change the Fund’s investment strategy or the way in which the Fund’s assets are </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">managed
in any material way, are not expected to materially change the nature or level of services provided to the Fund, and will not </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">result
in an increase in the fees payable by the Fund to the Investment Manager.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span></div>
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span>
2025-09-01
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
funddocuments@putnam.com
9425
11788
11726
11261
15124
18073
12462
12992
15860
18979
26177
10000
12453
12368
11829
13542
16403
12826
12987
14944
17455
24305
0.262
0.209
0.194
0.119
0.030
0.028
0.021
0.015
0.014
0.014
0.013
0.013
0.012
0.011
0.008
0.006
0.031
Putnam Emerging Markets Equity Fund
Class C
PEMZX
2026-08-31
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">This
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">annual
shareholder report</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">
contains important information about </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">Putnam
Emerging Markets Equity Fund for the period </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">September
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">2025, to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">August
31, 2026.</span>
annual shareholder report
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">You
can find additional information about the Fund at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.
You can also </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">request this information
by contacting us at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.</span>
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;"><b><i>This report describes changes
to the Fund that occurred during the reporting period.</i></b></span></div>
237
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
DID THE FUND PERFORM LAST YEAR AND WHAT AFFECTED ITS PERFORMANCE?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For the twelve months ended August
31, 2026, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Class C shares of
Putnam Emerging Markets Equity Fund returned </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">36.94%.
The Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">compares its performance
to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index-NR, which returned 39.25% for the same period.</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>PERFORMANCE
HIGHLIGHTS</b></span></span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
contributors to performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in:</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Samsung
Electronics, a consumer electronics and semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Elite
Material, a manufacturer of printed circuit board materials</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing, a semiconductor foundry</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
detractors from performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Tencent Holdings, an internet and technology company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in SK Hynix, a memory-chip manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in MediaTek, a semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
The
Fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The
graph and table </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">do not reflect
the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or redemption of Fund shares.</span>
<div><img alt="image" src="ts8535img004.jpg" style="width:88.88888888888889%"/></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>AVERAGE
ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS (%) </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Period
Ended </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #778B8B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:47.530575539568346%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:17.489208633093526%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:17.140287769784173%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:17.83992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"> </div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>1
Year</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>5
Year</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>10
Year</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Class
C</b></span> </div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">36.94</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">6.88</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">10.09</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Class
C (with sales charge)</b></span> </div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">35.94</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">6.88</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">10.09</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>MSCI
Emerging Markets Index-NR</b></span> </div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">39.25</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">8.18</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">9.29</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
Class
C
0.3694
0.0688
0.1009
Class
C (with sales charge)
0.3594
0.0688
0.1009
MSCI
Emerging Markets Index-NR
0.3925
0.0818
0.0929
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For current month-end performance,
please call Franklin Templeton at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581 or visit</span><br/><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/investments/options/mutual-funds</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Important data provider notices
and terms available at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">www.franklintempletondatasources.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>KEY
FUND STATISTICS </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(as
of </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026)</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;border-top:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:74.41007194244604%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:25.58992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Net Assets</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$819,633,287</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Number of Portfolio Holdings (excludes derivatives, except purchased options, if any)</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">64</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Management Fee Paid</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$5,252,344</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Portfolio
Turnover Rate</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">74%</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
819633287
64
5252344
0.74
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
HAS THE FUND CHANGED?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective August 1, 2026 (the
“Effective Date”), The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC (“PAC”), a sub-advisor to the Fund prior to the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective
Date, and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (formerly Franklin Resources, Inc.), transferred its </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">investment
personnel and the assets and liabilities related to its Singapore branch’s investment management business to Templeton </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Asset
Management Ltd. (“TAML”), also an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (the “Reorganization”).
As of the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective Date, PAC
investment professionals in its Singapore branch became employees of TAML, and the sub-advisory agreement </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">between
Putnam Investment Management, LLC (the “Investment Manager”) and PAC with respect to the Fund was transferred to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">TAML
pursuant to an assignment and assumption agreement (such sub-advisory agreement, as modified by the assignment and </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">assumption
agreement, the “New Sub-Advisory Contract”). In connection with the Reorganization, the Fund’s Trustees approved
the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">New Sub-Advisory Contract
between the Investment Manager and TAML, pursuant to which TAML became a sub-advisor of the Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">on
the Effective Date.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The changes described above are
not expected to change the Fund’s investment strategy or the way in which the Fund’s assets are </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">managed
in any material way, are not expected to materially change the nature or level of services provided to the Fund, and will not </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">result
in an increase in the fees payable by the Fund to the Investment Manager.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span></div>
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span>
2025-09-01
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
funddocuments@putnam.com
10000
12407
12254
11679
15565
18460
12635
13082
15839
18800
25745
10000
12453
12368
11829
13542
16403
12826
12987
14944
17455
24305
0.262
0.209
0.194
0.119
0.030
0.028
0.021
0.015
0.014
0.014
0.013
0.013
0.012
0.011
0.008
0.006
0.031
Putnam Emerging Markets Equity Fund
Class R
PEMLX
2026-08-31
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">This
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">annual
shareholder report</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">
contains important information about </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">Putnam
Emerging Markets Equity Fund for the period </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">September
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">2025, to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">August
31, 2026.</span>
annual shareholder report
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">You
can find additional information about the Fund at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.
You can also </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">request this information
by contacting us at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.</span>
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;"><b><i>This report describes changes
to the Fund that occurred during the reporting period.</i></b></span></div>
179
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
DID THE FUND PERFORM LAST YEAR AND WHAT AFFECTED ITS PERFORMANCE?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For the twelve months ended August
31, 2026, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Class R shares of
Putnam Emerging Markets Equity Fund returned </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">37.60%.
The Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">compares its performance
to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index-NR, which returned 39.25% for the same period.</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>PERFORMANCE
HIGHLIGHTS</b></span></span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
contributors to performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in:</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Samsung
Electronics, a consumer electronics and semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Elite
Material, a manufacturer of printed circuit board materials</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing, a semiconductor foundry</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
detractors from performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Tencent Holdings, an internet and technology company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in SK Hynix, a memory-chip manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in MediaTek, a semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
The
Fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The
graph and table </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">do not reflect
the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or redemption of Fund shares.</span>
<div><img alt="image" src="ts8537img004.jpg" style="width:88.88888888888889%"/></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>AVERAGE
ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS (%) </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Period
Ended </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #778B8B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:47.530575539568346%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:17.489208633093526%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:17.140287769784173%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:17.83992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"> </div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>1
Year</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>5
Year</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>10
Year</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Class
R</b></span> </div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">37.60</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">7.41</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">10.47</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>MSCI
Emerging Markets Index-NR</b></span> </div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">39.25</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">8.18</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">9.29</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
Class
R
0.3760
0.0741
0.1047
MSCI
Emerging Markets Index-NR
0.3925
0.0818
0.0929
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For current month-end performance,
please call Franklin Templeton at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581 or visit</span><br/><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/investments/options/mutual-funds</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Important data provider notices
and terms available at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">www.franklintempletondatasources.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>KEY
FUND STATISTICS </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(as
of </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026)</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;border-top:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:74.41007194244604%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:25.58992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Net Assets</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$819,633,287</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Number of Portfolio Holdings (excludes derivatives, except purchased options, if any)</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">64</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Management Fee Paid</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$5,252,344</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Portfolio
Turnover Rate</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">74%</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
819633287
64
5252344
0.74
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
HAS THE FUND CHANGED?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective August 1, 2026 (the
“Effective Date”), The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC (“PAC”), a sub-advisor to the Fund prior to the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective
Date, and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (formerly Franklin Resources, Inc.), transferred its </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">investment
personnel and the assets and liabilities related to its Singapore branch’s investment management business to Templeton </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Asset
Management Ltd. (“TAML”), also an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (the “Reorganization”).
As of the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective Date, PAC
investment professionals in its Singapore branch became employees of TAML, and the sub-advisory agreement </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">between
Putnam Investment Management, LLC (the “Investment Manager”) and PAC with respect to the Fund was transferred to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">TAML
pursuant to an assignment and assumption agreement (such sub-advisory agreement, as modified by the assignment and </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">assumption
agreement, the “New Sub-Advisory Contract”). In connection with the Reorganization, the Fund’s Trustees approved
the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">New Sub-Advisory Contract
between the Investment Manager and TAML, pursuant to which TAML became a sub-advisor of the Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">on
the Effective Date.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The changes described above are
not expected to change the Fund’s investment strategy or the way in which the Fund’s assets are </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">managed
in any material way, are not expected to materially change the nature or level of services provided to the Fund, and will not </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">result
in an increase in the fees payable by the Fund to the Investment Manager.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span></div>
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span>
2025-09-01
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
funddocuments@putnam.com
10000
12469
12374
11859
15875
18931
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13547
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11829
13542
16403
12826
12987
14944
17455
24305
0.262
0.209
0.194
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0.030
0.028
0.021
0.015
0.014
0.014
0.013
0.013
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0.011
0.008
0.006
0.031
Putnam Emerging Markets Equity Fund
Class R6
PEMQX
2026-08-31
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">This
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">annual
shareholder report</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">
contains important information about </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">Putnam
Emerging Markets Equity Fund for the period </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">September
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">2025, to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">August
31, 2026.</span>
annual shareholder report
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">You
can find additional information about the Fund at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.
You can also </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">request this information
by contacting us at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.</span>
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;"><b><i>This report describes changes
to the Fund that occurred during the reporting period.</i></b></span></div>
106
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
DID THE FUND PERFORM LAST YEAR AND WHAT AFFECTED ITS PERFORMANCE?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For the twelve months ended August
31, 2026, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Class R6 shares of
Putnam Emerging Markets Equity Fund returned </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">38.43%.
The Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">compares its performance
to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index-NR, which returned 39.25% for the same period.</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>PERFORMANCE
HIGHLIGHTS</b></span></span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
contributors to performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in:</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Samsung
Electronics, a consumer electronics and semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Elite
Material, a manufacturer of printed circuit board materials</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing, a semiconductor foundry</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
detractors from performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Tencent Holdings, an internet and technology company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in SK Hynix, a memory-chip manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in MediaTek, a semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
The
Fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The
graph and table </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">do not reflect
the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or redemption of Fund shares.</span>
<div><img alt="image" src="ts8536img004.jpg" style="width:88.88888888888889%"/></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>AVERAGE
ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS (%) </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Period
Ended </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #778B8B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:47.530575539568346%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:17.489208633093526%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:17.140287769784173%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:17.83992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"> </div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>1
Year</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>5
Year</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>10
Year</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Class
R6</b></span> </div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">38.43</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">8.13</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">11.18</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>MSCI
Emerging Markets Index-NR</b></span> </div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">39.25</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">8.18</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">9.29</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
Class
R6
0.3843
0.0813
0.1118
MSCI
Emerging Markets Index-NR
0.3925
0.0818
0.0929
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For current month-end performance,
please call Franklin Templeton at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581 or visit</span><br/><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/investments/options/mutual-funds</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Important data provider notices
and terms available at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">www.franklintempletondatasources.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>KEY
FUND STATISTICS </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(as
of </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026)</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;border-top:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:74.41007194244604%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:25.58992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Net Assets</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$819,633,287</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Number of Portfolio Holdings (excludes derivatives, except purchased options, if any)</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">64</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Management Fee Paid</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$5,252,344</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Portfolio
Turnover Rate</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">74%</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
819633287
64
5252344
0.74
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
HAS THE FUND CHANGED?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective August 1, 2026 (the
“Effective Date”), The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC (“PAC”), a sub-advisor to the Fund prior to the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective
Date, and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (formerly Franklin Resources, Inc.), transferred its </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">investment
personnel and the assets and liabilities related to its Singapore branch’s investment management business to Templeton </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Asset
Management Ltd. (“TAML”), also an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (the “Reorganization”).
As of the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective Date, PAC
investment professionals in its Singapore branch became employees of TAML, and the sub-advisory agreement </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">between
Putnam Investment Management, LLC (the “Investment Manager”) and PAC with respect to the Fund was transferred to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">TAML
pursuant to an assignment and assumption agreement (such sub-advisory agreement, as modified by the assignment and </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">assumption
agreement, the “New Sub-Advisory Contract”). In connection with the Reorganization, the Fund’s Trustees approved
the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">New Sub-Advisory Contract
between the Investment Manager and TAML, pursuant to which TAML became a sub-advisor of the Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">on
the Effective Date.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The changes described above are
not expected to change the Fund’s investment strategy or the way in which the Fund’s assets are </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">managed
in any material way, are not expected to materially change the nature or level of services provided to the Fund, and will not </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">result
in an increase in the fees payable by the Fund to the Investment Manager.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span></div>
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span>
2025-09-01
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
funddocuments@putnam.com
10000
12534
12512
12068
16270
19533
13523
14169
17360
20855
28869
10000
12453
12368
11829
13542
16403
12826
12987
14944
17455
24305
0.262
0.209
0.194
0.119
0.030
0.028
0.021
0.015
0.014
0.014
0.013
0.013
0.012
0.011
0.008
0.006
0.031
Putnam Emerging Markets Equity Fund
Class Y
PEMYX
2026-08-31
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">This
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">annual
shareholder report</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">
contains important information about </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">Putnam
Emerging Markets Equity Fund for the period </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">September
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">2025, to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">August
31, 2026.</span>
annual shareholder report
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">You
can find additional information about the Fund at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.
You can also </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">request this information
by contacting us at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.</span>
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;"><b><i>This report describes changes
to the Fund that occurred during the reporting period.</i></b></span></div>
119
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
DID THE FUND PERFORM LAST YEAR AND WHAT AFFECTED ITS PERFORMANCE?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For the twelve months ended August
31, 2026, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Class Y shares of
Putnam Emerging Markets Equity Fund returned </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">38.31%.
The Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">compares its performance
to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index-NR, which returned 39.25% for the same period.</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>PERFORMANCE
HIGHLIGHTS</b></span></span></div>
<div>
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<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
contributors to performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in:</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Samsung
Electronics, a consumer electronics and semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Elite
Material, a manufacturer of printed circuit board materials</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing, a semiconductor foundry</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
<div>
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<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
detractors from performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Tencent Holdings, an internet and technology company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in SK Hynix, a memory-chip manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in MediaTek, a semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
The
Fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The
graph and table </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">do not reflect
the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or redemption of Fund shares.</span>
<div><img alt="image" src="ts8538img004.jpg" style="width:88.88888888888889%"/></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>AVERAGE
ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS (%) </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Period
Ended </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #778B8B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:47.530575539568346%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:17.489208633093526%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:17.140287769784173%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:17.83992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"> </div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>1
Year</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>5
Year</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:1.5pt solid #1447FF;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>10
Year</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Class
Y</b></span> </div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">38.31</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">7.96</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #778B8B;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:0.5pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">11.03</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>MSCI
Emerging Markets Index-NR</b></span> </div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">39.25</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">8.18</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">9.29</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
Class
Y
0.3831
0.0796
0.1103
MSCI
Emerging Markets Index-NR
0.3925
0.0818
0.0929
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For current month-end performance,
please call Franklin Templeton at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581 or visit</span><br/><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/investments/options/mutual-funds</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Important data provider notices
and terms available at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">www.franklintempletondatasources.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>KEY
FUND STATISTICS </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(as
of </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026)</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;border-top:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:74.41007194244604%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:25.58992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Net Assets</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$819,633,287</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Number of Portfolio Holdings (excludes derivatives, except purchased options, if any)</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">64</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Management Fee Paid</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$5,252,344</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Portfolio
Turnover Rate</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">74%</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
819633287
64
5252344
0.74
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
HAS THE FUND CHANGED?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective August 1, 2026 (the
“Effective Date”), The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC (“PAC”), a sub-advisor to the Fund prior to the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective
Date, and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (formerly Franklin Resources, Inc.), transferred its </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">investment
personnel and the assets and liabilities related to its Singapore branch’s investment management business to Templeton </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Asset
Management Ltd. (“TAML”), also an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (the “Reorganization”).
As of the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective Date, PAC
investment professionals in its Singapore branch became employees of TAML, and the sub-advisory agreement </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">between
Putnam Investment Management, LLC (the “Investment Manager”) and PAC with respect to the Fund was transferred to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">TAML
pursuant to an assignment and assumption agreement (such sub-advisory agreement, as modified by the assignment and </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">assumption
agreement, the “New Sub-Advisory Contract”). In connection with the Reorganization, the Fund’s Trustees approved
the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">New Sub-Advisory Contract
between the Investment Manager and TAML, pursuant to which TAML became a sub-advisor of the Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">on
the Effective Date.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The changes described above are
not expected to change the Fund’s investment strategy or the way in which the Fund’s assets are </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">managed
in any material way, are not expected to materially change the nature or level of services provided to the Fund, and will not </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">result
in an increase in the fees payable by the Fund to the Investment Manager.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span></div>
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span>
2025-09-01
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
funddocuments@putnam.com
10000
12534
12502
12034
16206
19421
13431
14040
17159
20590
28479
10000
12453
12368
11829
13542
16403
12826
12987
14944
17455
24305
0.262
0.209
0.194
0.119
0.030
0.028
0.021
0.015
0.014
0.014
0.013
0.013
0.012
0.011
0.008
0.006
0.031
Putnam Global Technology Fund
Class A
PGTAX
2026-08-31
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">This
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">annual
shareholder report</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">
contains important information about </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">Putnam
Global Technology Fund for the period </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">September
1, 2025, to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">August 31, 2026.</span>
annual shareholder report
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">You
can find additional information about the Fund at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.
You can also </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">request this information
by contacting us at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.</span>
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;"><b><i>This report describes changes
to the Fund that occurred during the reporting period.</i></b></span></div>
124
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
DID THE FUND PERFORM LAST YEAR AND WHAT AFFECTED ITS PERFORMANCE?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For the twelve months ended August
31, 2026, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Class A shares of
Putnam Global Technology Fund returned </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">45.80%.
The Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">compares its performance
to the MSCI ACWI Information Technology Index-NR and the Putnam Global Technology Linked </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Benchmark†,
which both returned 43.95% for the same period.</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>PERFORMANCE
HIGHLIGHTS</b></span></span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
contributors to performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Marvell Technology, a semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in ASML, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Samsung Electronics, a consumer electronics and semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
detractors from performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in Micron Technology, a producer of memory and storage semiconductors</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in SK Hynix, a memory-chip manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Out-of-benchmark
position in Roblox, an online game platform and game creation company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
The
Fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The
graph and table </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">do not reflect
the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or redemption of Fund shares.</span>
<div><img alt="image" src="ts8388img004.jpg" style="width:88.88888888888889%"/></div>
Class
A
0.4580
0.1607
0.2390
Class
A (with sales charge)
0.3742
0.1471
0.2317
MSCI
All Country World Index-NR
0.2235
0.1088
0.1258
MSCI
ACWI Information Technology Index-NR
0.4395
0.1899
0.2360
Putnam
Global Technology Linked Benchmark
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For current month-end performance,
please call Franklin Templeton at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581 or visit</span><br/><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/investments/options/mutual-funds</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Important data provider notices
and terms available at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">www.franklintempletondatasources.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>KEY
FUND STATISTICS </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(as
of </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026)</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;border-top:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:74.41007194244604%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:25.58992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Net Assets</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$1,930,823,617</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Number of Portfolio Holdings (excludes derivatives, except purchased options, if any)</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">40</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Management Fee Paid</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$9,735,794</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Portfolio
Turnover Rate</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">61%</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
1930823617
40
9735794
0.61
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
HAS THE FUND CHANGED?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective August 1, 2026 (the
“Effective Date”), The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC (“PAC”), a sub-advisor to the Fund prior to the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective
Date, and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (formerly Franklin Resources, Inc.), transferred its </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">investment
personnel and the assets and liabilities related to its Singapore branch’s investment management business to Templeton </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Asset
Management Ltd. (“TAML”), also an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (the “Reorganization”).
As of the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective Date, PAC
investment professionals in its Singapore branch became employees of TAML, and the sub-advisory agreement </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">between
Putnam Investment Management, LLC (the “Investment Manager”) and PAC with respect to the Fund was transferred to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">TAML
pursuant to an assignment and assumption agreement (such sub-advisory agreement, as modified by the assignment and </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">assumption
agreement, the “New Sub-Advisory Contract”). In connection with the Reorganization, the Fund’s Trustees approved
the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">New Sub-Advisory Contract
between the Investment Manager and TAML, pursuant to which TAML became a sub-advisor of the Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">on
the Effective Date.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The changes described above are
not expected to change the Fund’s investment strategy or the way in which the Fund’s assets are </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">managed
in any material way, are not expected to materially change the nature or level of services provided to the Fund, and will not </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">result
in an increase in the fees payable by the Fund to the Investment Manager.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span></div>
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span>
2025-09-01
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
funddocuments@putnam.com
9425
13163
16548
17341
28041
38139
26892
34678
47092
55115
80360
10000
11711
13048
13011
15161
19504
16406
18694
23076
26721
32693
10000
13199
16539
17089
26211
34894
27555
35090
47761
57826
83243
10000
12977
16880
17632
27230
35702
28388
36150
49204
59573
85758
0.679
0.123
0.098
0.039
0.020
0.018
0.011
0.007
0.005
Putnam Global Technology Fund
Class C
PGTDX
2026-08-31
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">This
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">annual
shareholder report</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">
contains important information about </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">Putnam
Global Technology Fund for the period </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">September
1, 2025, to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">August 31, 2026.</span>
annual shareholder report
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">You
can find additional information about the Fund at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.
You can also </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">request this information
by contacting us at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.</span>
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;"><b><i>This report describes changes
to the Fund that occurred during the reporting period.</i></b></span></div>
215
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
DID THE FUND PERFORM LAST YEAR AND WHAT AFFECTED ITS PERFORMANCE?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For the twelve months ended August
31, 2026, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Class C shares of
Putnam Global Technology Fund returned </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">44.70%.
The Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">compares its performance
to the MSCI ACWI Information Technology Index-NR and the Putnam Global Technology Linked </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Benchmark†,
which both returned 43.95% for the same period.</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>PERFORMANCE
HIGHLIGHTS</b></span></span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
contributors to performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Marvell Technology, a semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in ASML, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Samsung Electronics, a consumer electronics and semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
detractors from performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in Micron Technology, a producer of memory and storage semiconductors</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in SK Hynix, a memory-chip manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Out-of-benchmark
position in Roblox, an online game platform and game creation company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
The
Fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The
graph and table </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">do not reflect
the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or redemption of Fund shares.</span>
<div><img alt="image" src="ts8389img004.jpg" style="width:88.88888888888889%"/></div>
Class
C
0.4470
0.1521
0.2316
Class
C (with sales charge)
0.4370
0.1521
0.2316
MSCI
All Country World Index-NR
0.2235
0.1088
0.1258
MSCI
ACWI Information Technology Index-NR
0.4395
0.1899
0.2360
Putnam
Global Technology Linked Benchmark
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For current month-end performance,
please call Franklin Templeton at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581 or visit</span><br/><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/investments/options/mutual-funds</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Important data provider notices
and terms available at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">www.franklintempletondatasources.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>KEY
FUND STATISTICS </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(as
of </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026)</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;border-top:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:74.41007194244604%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:25.58992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Net Assets</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$1,930,823,617</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Number of Portfolio Holdings (excludes derivatives, except purchased options, if any)</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">40</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Management Fee Paid</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$9,735,794</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Portfolio
Turnover Rate</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">61%</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
1930823617
40
9735794
0.61
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
HAS THE FUND CHANGED?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective August 1, 2026 (the
“Effective Date”), The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC (“PAC”), a sub-advisor to the Fund prior to the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective
Date, and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (formerly Franklin Resources, Inc.), transferred its </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">investment
personnel and the assets and liabilities related to its Singapore branch’s investment management business to Templeton </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Asset
Management Ltd. (“TAML”), also an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (the “Reorganization”).
As of the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective Date, PAC
investment professionals in its Singapore branch became employees of TAML, and the sub-advisory agreement </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">between
Putnam Investment Management, LLC (the “Investment Manager”) and PAC with respect to the Fund was transferred to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">TAML
pursuant to an assignment and assumption agreement (such sub-advisory agreement, as modified by the assignment and </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">assumption
agreement, the “New Sub-Advisory Contract”). In connection with the Reorganization, the Fund’s Trustees approved
the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">New Sub-Advisory Contract
between the Investment Manager and TAML, pursuant to which TAML became a sub-advisor of the Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">on
the Effective Date.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The changes described above are
not expected to change the Fund’s investment strategy or the way in which the Fund’s assets are </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">managed
in any material way, are not expected to materially change the nature or level of services provided to the Fund, and will not </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">result
in an increase in the fees payable by the Fund to the Investment Manager.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span></div>
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span>
2025-09-01
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
funddocuments@putnam.com
10000
13869
17305
17991
28878
38981
27281
34909
47055
54658
79093
10000
11711
13048
13011
15161
19504
16406
18694
23076
26721
32693
10000
13199
16539
17089
26211
34894
27555
35090
47761
57826
83243
10000
12977
16880
17632
27230
35702
28388
36150
49204
59573
85758
0.679
0.123
0.098
0.039
0.020
0.018
0.011
0.007
0.005
Putnam Global Technology Fund
Class R
PGTRX
2026-08-31
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">This
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">annual
shareholder report</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">
contains important information about </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">Putnam
Global Technology Fund for the period </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">September
1, 2025, to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">August 31, 2026.</span>
annual shareholder report
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">You
can find additional information about the Fund at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.
You can also </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">request this information
by contacting us at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.</span>
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;"><b><i>This report describes changes
to the Fund that occurred during the reporting period.</i></b></span></div>
155
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
DID THE FUND PERFORM LAST YEAR AND WHAT AFFECTED ITS PERFORMANCE?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For the twelve months ended August
31, 2026, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Class R shares of
Putnam Global Technology Fund returned </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">45.43%.
The Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">compares its performance
to the MSCI ACWI Information Technology Index-NR and the Putnam Global Technology Linked </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Benchmark†,
which both returned 43.95% for the same period.</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>PERFORMANCE
HIGHLIGHTS</b></span></span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
contributors to performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Marvell Technology, a semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in ASML, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Samsung Electronics, a consumer electronics and semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
detractors from performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in Micron Technology, a producer of memory and storage semiconductors</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in SK Hynix, a memory-chip manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Out-of-benchmark
position in Roblox, an online game platform and game creation company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
The
Fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The
graph and table </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">do not reflect
the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or redemption of Fund shares.</span>
<div><img alt="image" src="ts8390img004.jpg" style="width:88.88888888888889%"/></div>
Class
R
0.4543
0.1579
0.2359
MSCI
All Country World Index-NR
0.2235
0.1088
0.1258
MSCI
ACWI Information Technology Index-NR
0.4395
0.1899
0.2360
Putnam
Global Technology Linked Benchmark
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For current month-end performance,
please call Franklin Templeton at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581 or visit</span><br/><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/investments/options/mutual-funds</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Important data provider notices
and terms available at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">www.franklintempletondatasources.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>KEY
FUND STATISTICS </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(as
of </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026)</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;border-top:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:74.41007194244604%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:25.58992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Net Assets</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$1,930,823,617</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Number of Portfolio Holdings (excludes derivatives, except purchased options, if any)</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">40</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Management Fee Paid</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$9,735,794</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Portfolio
Turnover Rate</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">61%</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
1930823617
40
9735794
0.61
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
HAS THE FUND CHANGED?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective August 1, 2026 (the
“Effective Date”), The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC (“PAC”), a sub-advisor to the Fund prior to the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective
Date, and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (formerly Franklin Resources, Inc.), transferred its </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">investment
personnel and the assets and liabilities related to its Singapore branch’s investment management business to Templeton </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Asset
Management Ltd. (“TAML”), also an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (the “Reorganization”).
As of the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective Date, PAC
investment professionals in its Singapore branch became employees of TAML, and the sub-advisory agreement </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">between
Putnam Investment Management, LLC (the “Investment Manager”) and PAC with respect to the Fund was transferred to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">TAML
pursuant to an assignment and assumption agreement (such sub-advisory agreement, as modified by the assignment and </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">assumption
agreement, the “New Sub-Advisory Contract”). In connection with the Reorganization, the Fund’s Trustees approved
the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">New Sub-Advisory Contract
between the Investment Manager and TAML, pursuant to which TAML became a sub-advisor of the Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">on
the Effective Date.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The changes described above are
not expected to change the Fund’s investment strategy or the way in which the Fund’s assets are </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">managed
in any material way, are not expected to materially change the nature or level of services provided to the Fund, and will not </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">result
in an increase in the fees payable by the Fund to the Investment Manager.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span></div>
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span>
2025-09-01
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
funddocuments@putnam.com
10000
13934
17475
18259
29455
39963
28114
36158
48980
57176
83154
10000
11711
13048
13011
15161
19504
16406
18694
23076
26721
32693
10000
13199
16539
17089
26211
34894
27555
35090
47761
57826
83243
10000
12977
16880
17632
27230
35702
28388
36150
49204
59573
85758
0.679
0.123
0.098
0.039
0.020
0.018
0.011
0.007
0.005
Putnam Global Technology Fund
Class R6
PTTEX
2026-08-31
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">This
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">annual
shareholder report</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">
contains important information about </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">Putnam
Global Technology Fund for the period </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">September
1, 2025, to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">August 31, 2026.</span>
annual shareholder report
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">You
can find additional information about the Fund at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.
You can also </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">request this information
by contacting us at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.</span>
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;"><b><i>This report describes changes
to the Fund that occurred during the reporting period.</i></b></span></div>
84
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
DID THE FUND PERFORM LAST YEAR AND WHAT AFFECTED ITS PERFORMANCE?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For the twelve months ended August
31, 2026, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Class R6 shares of
Putnam Global Technology Fund returned </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">46.27%.
The Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">compares its performance
to the MSCI ACWI Information Technology Index-NR and the Putnam Global Technology Linked </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Benchmark†,
which both returned 43.95% for the same period.</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>PERFORMANCE
HIGHLIGHTS</b></span></span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
contributors to performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Marvell Technology, a semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in ASML, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Samsung Electronics, a consumer electronics and semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
detractors from performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in Micron Technology, a producer of memory and storage semiconductors</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in SK Hynix, a memory-chip manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Out-of-benchmark
position in Roblox, an online game platform and game creation company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
The
Fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The
graph and table </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">do not reflect
the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or redemption of Fund shares.</span>
<div><img alt="image" src="ts8391img004.jpg" style="width:88.88888888888889%"/></div>
Class
R6
0.4627
0.1648
0.2432
MSCI
All Country World Index-NR
0.2235
0.1088
0.1258
MSCI
ACWI Information Technology Index-NR
0.4395
0.1899
0.2360
Putnam
Global Technology Linked Benchmark
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For current month-end performance,
please call Franklin Templeton at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581 or visit</span><br/><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/investments/options/mutual-funds</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Important data provider notices
and terms available at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">www.franklintempletondatasources.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>KEY
FUND STATISTICS </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(as
of </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026)</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;border-top:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:74.41007194244604%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:25.58992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Net Assets</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$1,930,823,617</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Number of Portfolio Holdings (excludes derivatives, except purchased options, if any)</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">40</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Management Fee Paid</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$9,735,794</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Portfolio
Turnover Rate</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">61%</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
1930823617
40
9735794
0.61
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
HAS THE FUND CHANGED?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective August 1, 2026 (the
“Effective Date”), The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC (“PAC”), a sub-advisor to the Fund prior to the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective
Date, and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (formerly Franklin Resources, Inc.), transferred its </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">investment
personnel and the assets and liabilities related to its Singapore branch’s investment management business to Templeton </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Asset
Management Ltd. (“TAML”), also an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (the “Reorganization”).
As of the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective Date, PAC
investment professionals in its Singapore branch became employees of TAML, and the sub-advisory agreement </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">between
Putnam Investment Management, LLC (the “Investment Manager”) and PAC with respect to the Fund was transferred to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">TAML
pursuant to an assignment and assumption agreement (such sub-advisory agreement, as modified by the assignment and </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">assumption
agreement, the “New Sub-Advisory Contract”). In connection with the Reorganization, the Fund’s Trustees approved
the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">New Sub-Advisory Contract
between the Investment Manager and TAML, pursuant to which TAML became a sub-advisor of the Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">on
the Effective Date.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The changes described above are
not expected to change the Fund’s investment strategy or the way in which the Fund’s assets are </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">managed
in any material way, are not expected to materially change the nature or level of services provided to the Fund, and will not </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">result
in an increase in the fees payable by the Fund to the Investment Manager.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span></div>
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span>
2025-09-01
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
funddocuments@putnam.com
10000
14010
17663
18573
30145
41140
29113
37678
51349
60305
88208
10000
11711
13048
13011
15161
19504
16406
18694
23076
26721
32693
10000
13199
16539
17089
26211
34894
27555
35090
47761
57826
83243
10000
12977
16880
17632
27230
35702
28388
36150
49204
59573
85758
0.679
0.123
0.098
0.039
0.020
0.018
0.011
0.007
0.005
Putnam Global Technology Fund
Class Y
PGTYX
2026-08-31
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">This
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">annual
shareholder report</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">
contains important information about </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">Putnam
Global Technology Fund for the period </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">September
1, 2025, to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">August 31, 2026.</span>
annual shareholder report
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">You
can find additional information about the Fund at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.
You can also </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">request this information
by contacting us at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;;">.</span>
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#161616;"><b><i>This report describes changes
to the Fund that occurred during the reporting period.</i></b></span></div>
94
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
DID THE FUND PERFORM LAST YEAR AND WHAT AFFECTED ITS PERFORMANCE?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For the twelve months ended August
31, 2026, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Class Y shares of
Putnam Global Technology Fund returned </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">46.16%.
The Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">compares its performance
to the MSCI ACWI Information Technology Index-NR and the Putnam Global Technology Linked </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Benchmark†,
which both returned 43.95% for the same period.</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#161616;;"><b>PERFORMANCE
HIGHLIGHTS</b></span></span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
contributors to performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Marvell Technology, a semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in ASML, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#30DB87;;">↑</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Overweight
position in Samsung Electronics, a consumer electronics and semiconductor company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;padding-bottom:2pt;padding-top:0pt;margin-left:7.75pt;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:1.8507194244604317%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:98.14928057553956%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Top
detractors from performance:</b></span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in Micron Technology, a producer of memory and storage semiconductors</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Underweight
position in SK Hynix, a memory-chip manufacturer</span></div> </td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#CA0046;;">↓</span></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Out-of-benchmark
position in Roblox, an online game platform and game creation company</span></div> </td> </tr>
</table></div>
The
Fund’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The
graph and table </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">do not reflect
the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or redemption of Fund shares.</span>
<div><img alt="image" src="ts8392img004.jpg" style="width:88.88888888888889%"/></div>
Class
Y
0.4616
0.1636
0.2421
MSCI
All Country World Index-NR
0.2235
0.1088
0.1258
MSCI
ACWI Information Technology Index-NR
0.4395
0.1899
0.2360
Putnam
Global Technology Linked Benchmark
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">For current month-end performance,
please call Franklin Templeton at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581 or visit</span><br/><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/investments/options/mutual-funds</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Important data provider notices
and terms available at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">www.franklintempletondatasources.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.
</span></div>
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>KEY
FUND STATISTICS </b></span></span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(as
of </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.824pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">August 31, 2026)</span></div>
<div>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:98%;cellspacing:0;border-top:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-left:7.75pt;border-bottom:1.5pt solid #6B6B6B;margin-top:10px;">
<tr style="height:1px;">
<td style="height:1px;width:74.41007194244604%;"></td>
<td style="height:1px;width:25.58992805755396%;"></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Net Assets</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$1,930,823,617</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Number of Portfolio Holdings (excludes derivatives, except purchased options, if any)</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">40</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Total
Management Fee Paid</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="border-bottom:0.75pt solid #6B6B6B;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">$9,735,794</span></div>
</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="vertical-align:top">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:left;text-align:left;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"><b>Portfolio
Turnover Rate</b></span></div> </td>
<td colspan="1" style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:bottom">
<div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding-left:2pt;padding-top:1pt;padding-bottom:0;align:right;text-align:right;padding-right:2pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;">61%</span></div>
</td> </tr>
</table></div>
1930823617
40
9735794
0.61
<div><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.024pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1447FF;;"><b>HOW
HAS THE FUND CHANGED?</b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective August 1, 2026 (the
“Effective Date”), The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC (“PAC”), a sub-advisor to the Fund prior to the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective
Date, and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (formerly Franklin Resources, Inc.), transferred its </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">investment
personnel and the assets and liabilities related to its Singapore branch’s investment management business to Templeton </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Asset
Management Ltd. (“TAML”), also an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Inc. (the “Reorganization”).
As of the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">Effective Date, PAC
investment professionals in its Singapore branch became employees of TAML, and the sub-advisory agreement </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">between
Putnam Investment Management, LLC (the “Investment Manager”) and PAC with respect to the Fund was transferred to </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">TAML
pursuant to an assignment and assumption agreement (such sub-advisory agreement, as modified by the assignment and </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">assumption
agreement, the “New Sub-Advisory Contract”). In connection with the Reorganization, the Fund’s Trustees approved
the </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">New Sub-Advisory Contract
between the Investment Manager and TAML, pursuant to which TAML became a sub-advisor of the Fund </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">on
the Effective Date.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">The changes described above are
not expected to change the Fund’s investment strategy or the way in which the Fund’s assets are </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">managed
in any material way, are not expected to materially change the nature or level of services provided to the Fund, and will not </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">result
in an increase in the fees payable by the Fund to the Investment Manager.</span></div>
<div><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span></div>
<span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">This
is a summary of certain changes to the Fund since </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">September
1, 2025</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">. For
more complete information, you may review the Fund’s </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">current
prospectus and any applicable supplements and the Fund’s next prospectus, which we expect to be available by </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">January
1, </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">2027, at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;;">https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">
or upon request at </span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">(800)
225-1581</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;"> or
</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">funddocuments@putnam.com</span><span style="clear:both;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.02pt;color:#2D2D2D;;">.</span>
2025-09-01
https://www.franklintempleton.com/regulatory-fund-documents
(800)
225-1581
funddocuments@putnam.com
10000
14010
17659
18540
30059
40983
28969
37444
50979
59823
87436
10000
11711
13048
13011
15161
19504
16406
18694
23076
26721
32693
10000
13199
16539
17089
26211
34894
27555
35090
47761
57826
83243
10000
12977
16880
17632
27230
35702
28388
36150
49204
59573
85758
0.679
0.123
0.098
0.039
0.020
0.018
0.011
0.007
0.005
*Reflects
fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements, without which expenses would have been higher.
*Does
not include derivatives, except purchased options, if any.
*Reflects
fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements, without which expenses would have been higher.
*Does
not include derivatives, except purchased options, if any.
*Reflects
fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements, without which expenses would have been higher.
*Does
not include derivatives, except purchased options, if any.
*Reflects
fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements, without which expenses would have been higher.
*Does
not include derivatives, except purchased options, if any.
*Reflects
fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements, without which expenses would have been higher.
*Does
not include derivatives, except purchased options, if any.
†The
Putnam Global Technology Linked Benchmark represents the performance of the MSCI World Information Technology Index-NR through March
31, 2022, and the performance of the MSCI ACWI Information Technology Index-NR thereafter.
*Does
not include derivatives, except purchased options, if any.
†The
Putnam Global Technology Linked Benchmark represents the performance of the MSCI World Information Technology Index-NR through March
31, 2022, and the performance of the MSCI ACWI Information Technology Index-NR thereafter.
*Does
not include derivatives, except purchased options, if any.
†The
Putnam Global Technology Linked Benchmark represents the performance of the MSCI World Information Technology Index-NR through March
31, 2022, and the performance of the MSCI ACWI Information Technology Index-NR thereafter.
*Does
not include derivatives, except purchased options, if any.
†The
Putnam Global Technology Linked Benchmark represents the performance of the MSCI World Information Technology Index-NR through March
31, 2022, and the performance of the MSCI ACWI Information Technology Index-NR thereafter.
*Does
not include derivatives, except purchased options, if any.
†The
Putnam Global Technology Linked Benchmark represents the performance of the MSCI World Information Technology Index-NR through March
31, 2022, and the performance of the MSCI ACWI Information Technology Index-NR thereafter.
*Does
not include derivatives, except purchased options, if any.