Loomis Sayles Disciplined Alpha U.S. Corporate Bond Fund - S/D JPY DIS H Fonds

The investment objective of Loomis Sayles Disciplined Alpha U.S. Corporate Bond Fund (the 'Fund') is total investment return through a combination of income and capital appreciation. The Fund is not managed relative to a specific index. However, for indicative purposes only, the Fund's performance may be compared to the Bloomberg U.S. Corporate Investment Grade TR . In practice, the portfolio of the Fund is likely to include constituents of the index, however, the Fund is unconstrained by the index and may therefore significantly deviate from it. The Fund is actively managed and intends to pursue its investment goal by utilizing a fundamental research-based investment approach combined with a disciplined and integrated risk assessment, seeking to add value primarily through security selection. The Fund invests at least two-thirds of its total assets in bonds and other fixed income securities issued by U.S. corporate issuers which are rated investment grade. Securities issued by U.S. corporate issuers are defined as debt obligations denominated in U.S. Dollars issued or guaranteed by U.S. or foreign issuers, including but not limited to corporations. Investment grade fixed income securities are securities rated at the time of purchase at least BBB- (S&Ps), or equivalent. The Fund may invest in fixed income securities, floating-rate securities, zero coupon securities, commercial paper, Regulation S securities, Rule 144A securities, securities convertible into equity instruments which includes up to 20% of contingent convertible bonds, and preferred stocks. The Fund may also invest up to one-third of its total assets in cash, money market instruments or other securities than those described above. This includes public debt obligations issued or guaranteed by U.S. or foreign governments (inlcuding their agencies, instrumentalities and sponsored entities) or by supranational entities. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in securitized instruments such as mortgage-backed securities or assetbacked securities including, but not limited to, Collateralized Mortgage Obligation and Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities. The Fund may invest up to 10% of its assets in securities rated below investment grade, however such securities must be rated no lower than B- (Standard & Poor's Ratings Services), B3 (Moody's Investors Services, Inc.), or B- (Fitch Ratings) at the time of purchase. The Fund will not inves...