Short Government Managed Account

Important Disclosures

Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal. Fixed-income securities may be susceptible to general movements in the bond market and are subject to credit and interest rate risks. Credit risk arises from an issuer’s ability to make interest and principal payments when due, as well as the prices of bonds declining when an issuer’s credit quality is expected to deteriorate. Interest rate risk occurs when interest rates rise causing bond prices to fall. The issuer of a debt security may be able to repay principal prior to the security’s maturity, known as prepayment (call) risk, because of an improvement in its credit quality or falling interest rates. In this event, this principal may have to be reinvested in securities with lower interest rates than the original securities, reducing the potential for income.

There is no guarantee that the investment objective will be realized or that the strategy will generate positive or excess return.

The Bloomberg U.S. Government 1-3 Year Index includes securities in the Bloomberg U.S Government Index with a maturity from 1 up to (but not including) 3 years. The Index includes treasuries (i.e., public obligations of the U.S. Treasury that have remaining maturities of more than one year) and agencies (i.e., publicly issued debt of U.S. Government agencies, quasi-federal corporations, and corporate or foreign debt guaranteed by the U.S. Government. Indices are unmanaged and do not incur fees. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

The Composite includes all discretionary Managed Accounts with market values greater than $50,000 managed by Loomis Sayles with investment guidelines prescribing investment in liquid U.S. dollar denominated bonds that do not allow high yield and has a benchmark of the Bloomberg U.S. Government 1-3 Year Index. Proprietary quantitative models are employed in portfolio construction and risk assessment. Loomis Sayles’s security level research and tactical sector allocation are primary alpha sources for this product. Yield curve and duration management are additional tools utilized by the portfolio management team. The Composite inception date is September 1, 2019. The Composite was created in June 2019.

Loomis, Sayles & Co., L.P. (“Loomis Sayles”) acts as a discretionary investment manager or non-discretionary model provider in a variety of separately managed account or wrap fee programs (each, an “SMA Program”) sponsored by a third party investment adviser, broker-dealer or other financial services firm (a “Sponsor”). When acting as a discretionary investment manager, Loomis Sayles is responsible for implementing trades in SMA Program accounts. When acting as a non-discretionary model provider, Loomis Sayles’ responsibility is limited to providing non-discretionary investment recommendations (in the form of a model portfolio) to the SMA Program Sponsor or overlay manager, and the Sponsor or overlay manager may utilize such recommendations in connection with its management of its clients’ SMA Program accounts. In such “model-based” SMA Programs (“Model-Based Programs”), it is the Sponsor or overlay manager, and not Loomis Sayles, which serves as the investment manager to, and has trade implementation. responsibility for, the Model-Based Program accounts, and may customize each client account according to the reasonable restrictions or customization that a client may request.