Form 497 PRUDENTIAL WORLD FUND,
PGIM Emerging Markets Debt Hard Currency
Fund
Formerly, Prudential Emerging Markets Debt Hard
Currency Fund
PROSPECTUS — December 12,
2017 (AS REISSUED JUNE 13, 2018)
Objective
Total return, through a combination
of current income and capital appreciation
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Table of Contents
FUND SUMMARY
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The investment objective of the
Fund is total return, through a combination of current income and capital appreciation.
FUND FEES AND EXPENSES
The tables below describe the sales
charges, fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and an eligible group of related investors purchase, or agree to purchase in the
future, $50,000 or more in shares of the Fund or other funds in the PGIM Funds family. More information about these discounts as well as other waivers or discounts is available from your financial professional and is
explained in Reducing or Waiving Class A's and Class C’s Sales Charges on page 31 of the Fund's Prospectus, Appendix A: Waivers and Discounts Available From Certain Financial Intermediaries on page 46 of the Fund's Prospectus and in Rights of Accumulation on page 53 of the Fund's Statement of Additional Information (SAI).
| Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) | ||||
| Class A | Class C | Class Z | Class R6† | |
| Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases (as a percentage of offering price) | 4.50% | None | None | None |
| Maximum deferred sales charge (load) (as a percentage of the lower of original purchase price or net asset value at redemption) | 1.00% | 1.00% | None | None |
| Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on reinvested dividends and other distributions | None | None | None | None |
| Redemption fee | None | None | None | None |
| Exchange fee | None | None | None | None |
| Maximum account fee (accounts under $10,000) | $15 | $15 | None* | None |
* Direct Transfer Agent
Accounts holding under $10,000 of Class Z shares are subject to the $15 fee.
†Formerly known as Class Q.
| Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | ||||
| Class A | Class C | Class Z | Class R6(1) | |
| Management fees | 0.72% | 0.72% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| Distribution and service (12b-1) fees | 0.25% | 1.00% | None | None |
| Other expenses(2) | 2.56% | 2.56% | 2.56% | 0.88% |
| Total annual Fund operating expenses | 3.53% | 4.28% | 3.28% | 1.60% |
| Fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement | (2.48)% | (2.48)% | (2.48)% | (0.86)% |
| Total annual Fund operating expenses after fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement(3) | 1.05% | 1.80% | 0.80% | 0.74% |
(1) Formerly known as Class Q.
(2) Other expenses (which include expenses for accounting and valuation services, custodian fees, audit and legal fees, transfer agency fees, fees paid to Independent Directors and
Non-Management Interested Directors, and certain other miscellaneous items) are estimated.
(3) PGIM Investments LLC (PGIM Investments) has contractually agreed, through February 28, 2019, to limit Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense
reimbursements to 1.05% of average daily net assets for Class A shares, 1.80% of average daily net assets for Class C shares, 0.74% of average daily net assets for Class R6 shares, and 0.80% of average daily net
assets for Class Z shares. This contractual waiver excludes interest, brokerage, taxes (such as income and foreign withholding taxes, stamp duty and deferred tax expenses), acquired fund fees and expenses,
extraordinary expenses, and certain other Fund expenses such as dividend and interest expense and broker charges on short sales. Fees and/or expenses waived and/or reimbursed by PGIM Investments may be recouped by
PGIM Investments within the same fiscal year during which such waiver and/or reimbursement is made if such recoupment can be realized without exceeding the expense limit in effect at the time of the recoupment for
that fiscal year. This waiver may not be terminated prior to February 28, 2019 without the prior approval of the Fund's Board of Directors.
Example. The following hypothetical example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. It assumes that you invest $10,000 in
the Fund for the time periods indicated and then, except as indicated, redeem all your shares at the end of those periods. It assumes a 5% return on your investment each year, that the Fund's operating expenses remain
the same (except that fee waivers or reimbursements, if any, are only reflected in the 1-Year figures) and that all dividends and distributions are reinvested. Your actual costs may be higher or lower.
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| If Shares Are Redeemed | If Shares Are Not Redeemed | |||
| Share Class | 1 Year | 3 Years | 1 Year | 3 Years |
| Class A | $552 | $1,263 | $552 | $1,263 |
| Class C | $283 | $1,073 | $183 | $1,073 |
| Class Z | $82 | $777 | $82 | $777 |
| Class R6† | $76 | $421 | $76 | $421 |
†Formerly known as Class Q.
Portfolio Turnover. The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher
transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance.
The Fund is newly offered; therefore, it does not have a turnover rate for the most recent fiscal year.
INVESTMENTS, RISKS AND
PERFORMANCE
Principal Investment Strategies. The Fund seeks to maximize total return by investing primarily in the full range of sovereign, quasi-sovereign and corporate emerging market debt securities denominated in hard
currencies. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing under normal circumstances at least 80% of its investable assets in fixed-income instruments that are economically tied to emerging market
countries and that are denominated in hard currencies. The Fund defines “hard currencies” as the US dollar or any currency of a nation in the G-7 (US, Japan, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, France and
Canada). The Fund anticipates investing in derivatives, such as forward contracts, options, futures contracts or swap agreements, denominated in any currency. Such investments will be included under the 80% policy
noted above so long as the underlying asset of such derivative is a currency or a fixed-income instrument economically tied to an emerging market country and denominated in a hard currency; such investments are
subject to the Fund's limit of investing up to 25% of its net assets in derivatives. The term “investable assets” refers to the Fund's net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes. The Fund's
investable assets will be less than its total assets to the extent that it has borrowed money for non-investment purposes, such as to meet anticipated redemptions.
The Fund generally considers
emerging market countries to be countries included in the JP Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global Diversified (EMBI Global Diversified), the JP Morgan Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets Global Diversified
Index (GBI-EM Global), the JP Morgan Emerging Local Markets Index Plus (ELMI+) or the JP Morgan Corporate Emerging Markets Bond Index Broad Diversified (CEMBI Broad Diversified). Emerging market countries include, but
are not limited to, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa,
South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey. The Fund may invest to a lesser extent in lesser-developed emerging market countries that are not included in standard emerging market benchmarks and are not widely followed
by investors (commonly referred to as “frontier countries”). The Fund's investments may be highly concentrated in a geographic region or country. The Fund's fixed-income instruments may include bonds, debt
securities and other similar instruments issued by various US and non-US public or private sector entities. The Fund may invest in high-yield debt instruments or “junk bonds,” which are rated below
investment grade by a nationally recognized rating service or considered by the subadviser to be of comparable quality. The Fund is non-diversified, which means that it may invest its assets in a smaller number of
issuers than a diversified fund.
In determining which securities to
buy and sell, the investment subadviser considers country and currency selection, economic conditions, interest rate fundamentals, exchange rates, monetary and fiscal policies, trade and current account balances,
legal and political developments and other specific factors that the Fund believes to be relevant. The investment subadviser also evaluates individual debt securities within each fixed-income sector based upon their
relative investment merit and considers factors such as yield, duration and potential for price appreciation as well as credit quality, maturity and risk.
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Principal Risks. All investments have risks to some degree. An investment in the Fund is not guaranteed to achieve its investment objective; is not a deposit with a bank; is not insured, endorsed or
guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency; and is subject to investment risks, including possible loss of your original investment.
Market Risk. Securities markets may be volatile and the market prices of the Fund’s securities may decline. Securities fluctuate in price based on changes in an issuer’s financial condition
and overall market and economic conditions. If the market prices of the securities owned by the Fund fall, the value of your investment in the Fund will decline.
Bond Obligations Risk. As with credit risk, market risk and interest rate risk, the Fund's holdings, share price, yield and total return may fluctuate in response to bond market movements. The value of bonds may
decline for issuer-related reasons, including management performance, financial leverage and reduced demand for the issuer’s goods and services. Certain types of fixed-income obligations also may be subject to
“call and redemption risk,” which is the risk that the issuer may call a bond held by the Fund for redemption before it matures and the Fund may not be able to reinvest at the same level and therefore would
earn less income.
Management Risk. The value of your investment may decrease if judgments by the subadviser about the attractiveness, value or market trends affecting a particular security, industry or sector or about market
movements are incorrect.
Foreign Securities Risk. The Fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk. Foreign countries in which the Fund may
invest may have markets that are less liquid, less regulated and more volatile than US markets. The value of the Fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as
foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable government actions, and political or financial instability. Lack of information may also affect the value of these securities.
Emerging Markets Risk. The risks of foreign investments are greater for investments in or exposed to emerging markets. Emerging market countries typically have economic and political systems that are less fully
developed, and can be expected to be less stable, than those of more developed countries. For example, the economies of such countries can be subject to rapid and unpredictable rates of inflation or deflation. Low
trading volumes may result in a lack of liquidity and price volatility. Emerging market countries may have policies that restrict investment by non-US investors, or that prevent non-US investors from withdrawing their
money at will. Countries with emerging markets can be found in regions such as Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Africa.
Currency Risk. The Fund's assets may be invested in securities that are denominated in non-US currencies or directly in currencies. Such investments are subject to the risk that the value of a particular
currency will change in relation to the US dollar or other currencies. The weakening of a country's currency relative to the US dollar will negatively affect the dollar value of the Fund's assets. Among the factors
that may affect currency values are trade balances, levels of short term interest rates, differences in relative values of similar assets in different currencies, long term opportunities for investment and capital
appreciation, central bank policy, and political developments. The Fund may attempt to hedge such risks by selling or buying currencies in the forward market; selling or buying currency futures contracts, options or
other securities thereon; borrowing funds denominated in particular currencies; or any combination thereof, depending on the availability of liquidity in the hedging instruments and their relative costs. There can be
no assurance that such strategies will be implemented or, if implemented, will be effective. The Fund would incur additional costs from hedging.
Credit Risk. Credit risk relates to the ability of the issuer of a fixed income instrument or the counterparty to a financial transaction with the Fund to meet interest and principal payments as they
come due or to fulfill its obligations to the Fund. The value of the fixed income instruments held by the Fund will be adversely affected by any erosion in the ability of the relevant issuers to make interest and
principal payments as they become due. The ratings given to a debt security by certain ratings agencies provide a generally useful guide as to such credit risk. The lower the rating of a debt security held by the
Fund, the greater the degree of credit risk that is perceived to exist by the rating agency with
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respect to that security. Increasing the amount of
Fund assets invested in lower-rated securities generally will increase the Fund's income, but also will increase the credit risk to which the Fund is subject. The Fund generally enters into financial transactions with
major dealers that are deemed acceptable to the investment subadviser from a credit perspective.
Interest Rate Risk. The value of your investment may go down when interest rates rise. A rise in rates tends to have a greater impact on the prices of longer term or duration securities. When interest rates
fall, the issuers of debt obligations may prepay principal more quickly than expected, and the Fund may be required to reinvest the proceeds at a lower interest rate. This is referred to as “prepayment
risk.” When interest rates rise, debt obligations may be repaid more slowly than expected, and the value of the Fund's holdings may fall sharply. This is referred to as
“extension risk.” The Fund may face a heightened level of interest rate risk since the US Federal Reserve Board has ended its quantitative easing program and may continue to raise rates. The Fund
may lose money if short-term or long-term interest rates rise sharply or in a manner not anticipated by the subadviser.
Derivatives Risk. Derivatives involve special risks and costs and may result in losses to the Fund. The successful use of derivatives requires sophisticated management, and, to the extent that derivatives
are used, the Fund will depend on the subadviser’s ability to analyze and manage derivatives transactions. The prices of derivatives may move in unexpected ways, especially in abnormal market conditions. Some
derivatives are “leveraged” and therefore may magnify or otherwise increase investment losses to the Fund. The Fund’s use of derivatives may also increase the amount of taxes payable by shareholders.
Other risks arise from the potential inability to terminate or sell derivatives positions. A liquid secondary market may not always exist for the Fund’s derivatives positions. In fact, many over-the-counter
derivative instruments will not have liquidity beyond the counterparty to the instrument. Over-the-counter derivative instruments also involve the risk that the other party will not meet its obligations to the
Fund.
The US Government and foreign
governments are in the process of adopting and implementing regulations governing derivatives markets, including mandatory clearing of certain derivatives, margin and reporting requirements. The ultimate impact of the
regulations remains unclear. Additional regulation of derivatives may make derivatives more costly, limit their availability or utility, or otherwise adversely affect their performance or disrupt markets.
Junk Bonds Risk. High-yield, high-risk bonds have predominantly speculative characteristics, including particularly high credit risk. Junk bonds tend to be less liquid than higher-rated securities. The
liquidity of particular issuers or industries within a particular investment category may shrink or disappear suddenly and without warning. The non-investment grade bond market can experience sudden and sharp price
swings and become illiquid due to a variety of factors, including changes in economic forecasts, stock market activity, large sustained sales by major investors, a high profile default or a change in the market's
psychology.
Active Trading Risk. The Fund actively and frequently trades its portfolio securities. High portfolio turnover results in higher transaction costs, which can affect the Fund’s performance and have
adverse tax consequences. In addition, high portfolio turnover may also mean that a proportionately greater amount of distributions to shareholders will be taxed as ordinary income rather than long-term capital gains
compared to investment companies with lower portfolio turnover.
Liquidity Risk. The Fund may invest in instruments that trade in lower volumes and are less liquid than other investments. Liquidity risk exists when particular investments made by the Fund are difficult
to purchase or sell. Liquidity risk also includes the risk that the Fund may make investments that may become less liquid in response to market developments or adverse investor perceptions. If the Fund is forced to
sell these investments to pay redemption proceeds or for other reasons, the Fund may lose money. In addition, when there is no willing buyer and investments cannot be readily sold at the desired time or price, the
Fund may have to accept a lower price or may not be able to sell the instrument at all. The reduction in dealer market-making capacity in the fixed-income markets that has occurred in recent years also has the
potential to reduce liquidity. An inability to sell a portfolio position can adversely affect the Fund's value or prevent the Fund from being able to take advantage of other investment opportunities.
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Geographic Concentration Risk. The Fund’s performance may be closely tied to the market, economic, political, regulatory or other conditions in the countries or regions in which the Fund invests. This can result
in more pronounced risks based upon conditions that impact one or more countries or regions more or less than other countries or regions.
Non-diversification Risk. The Fund is non-diversified for purposes of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”). This means that the Fund may invest a greater percentage of its assets in the
securities of a single company or other issuer than a diversified fund. Investing in a non-diversified fund involves greater risk than investing in a diversified fund because a loss resulting from the decline in value
of any one security may represent a greater portion of the total assets of a non-diversified fund.
Economic and Market Events
Risk. Events in the US and global financial markets, including actions taken by the US Federal Reserve or foreign central banks to stimulate or stabilize economic growth, may at times result in
unusually high market volatility, which could negatively impact performance. Reduced liquidity in credit and fixed income markets could adversely affect issuers worldwide.
Risk of Increase in Expenses. Your actual cost of investing in the Fund may be higher than the expenses shown in the expense table for a variety of reasons. For example, expense ratios may be higher than those shown if
average net assets decrease. Net assets are more likely to decrease and Fund expense ratios are more likely to increase when markets are volatile. Active and frequent trading of Fund securities can increase
expenses.
Performance. The Fund has not been in operation for a full calendar year, and hence has no past performance data to present. A number of factors—including risk—can affect how the Fund will
perform in the future.
MANAGEMENT OF THE FUND
| Investment Manager | Subadviser | Portfolio Manager | Title | Service Date |
| PGIM Investments LLC | PGIM Fixed Income PGIM Limited | David Bessey | Managing Director and Head of PGIM Fixed Income’s Emerging Markets Debt Team | December 2017 |
| Cathy L. Hepworth, CFA | Managing Director and an Emerging Market Sovereign Strategist/Portfolio Manager of PGIM Fixed Income’s Emerging Markets Debt Team | December 2017 | ||
| Mariusz Banasiak, CFA | Principal and Head of PGIM Fixed Income’s Foreign Exchange Team | December 2017 |
BUYING AND SELLING FUND
SHARES
| Class A* | Class C* | Class Z* | Class R6† | |
| Minimum initial investment | $2,500 | $2,500 | Institutions: $5 million Group Retirement Plans: None | Institutions: $5 million Group Retirement Plans: None |
| Minimum subsequent investment | $100 | $100 | None | None |
* Certain share classes were
generally closed to investments by new group retirement plans effective on or about June 1, 2018. Please see “How to Buy, Sell and Exchange Fund Shares—Closure of Certain Share Classes to New
Group Retirement Plans” in the Prospectus for more information.
†Formerly known as Class Q shares.
†Formerly known as Class Q shares.
For Class A and Class C shares,
the minimum initial investment for retirement accounts and custodial accounts for minors is $1,000 and the minimum subsequent investment is $100. For Class A and Class C shares, the minimum initial and subsequent
investment for Automatic Investment Plan purchases is $50. Class R6 shares are generally not available for purchase by individuals. Class Z shares may be purchased by certain individuals, subject to minimum
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investment and/or other requirements. Please see
“How to Buy, Sell and Exchange Fund Shares—How to Buy Shares—Qualifying for Class Z Shares,” and “—Qualifying for Class R6 Shares” in the Prospectus for purchase eligibility
requirements.
Your financial intermediary may
impose different investment minimums. You can purchase or redeem shares on any business day that the Fund is open through the Fund's transfer agent or through servicing agents, including brokers, dealers and other
financial intermediaries appointed by the distributor to receive purchase and redemption orders. Current shareholders may also purchase or redeem shares through the Fund's website or by calling (800) 225-1852.
TAX INFORMATION
Dividends, Capital Gains and
Taxes. The Fund's dividends and distributions are taxable and will be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan
or an individual retirement account. Such tax-deferred arrangements may be taxed later upon withdrawal of monies from those arrangements.
PAYMENTS TO FINANCIAL
INTERMEDIaries
If you purchase Fund shares through
a financial intermediary such as a broker-dealer, bank, retirement recordkeeper or other financial services firm, the Fund or its affiliates may pay the financial intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and/or for
services to shareholders. This may create a conflict of interest by influencing the financial intermediary or its representatives to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your financial intermediary or
representative or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.
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MORE ABOUT THE FUND'S PRINCIPAL AND NON-PRINCIPAL
INVESTMENT STRATEGIES, INVESTMENTS AND RISKS
INVESTMENTS AND INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES
The Fund's investment objective
is to seek total return through a combination of current income and capital appreciation.
The Fund will seek to maximize
total return by investing primarily in the full range of sovereign, quasi-sovereign and corporate emerging market debt securities denominated in hard currencies. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by
investing under normal circumstances at least 80% of its investable assets in fixed-income instruments that are economically tied to emerging market countries and that are denominated in hard currencies. The Fund
defines “hard currencies” as the US dollar or any currency of a nation in the G-7 (US, Japan, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, France and Canada). The Fund anticipates investing in derivatives, such as
forward contracts, options, futures contracts or swap agreements, denominated in any currency. Such investments will be included under the 80% policy noted above so long as the underlying asset of such derivative is a
currency or a fixed-income instrument economically tied to an emerging market country and denominated in a hard currency; such investments are subject to the Fund's limit of investing up to 25% of its net assets in
derivatives. The term “investable assets” refers to the Fund's net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes. The Fund's investable assets will be less than its total assets to the extent that it
has borrowed money for non-investment purposes, such as to meet anticipated redemptions.
In managing the Fund’s
assets, the subadviser uses a combination of top-down economic analysis and bottom up research in conjunction with proprietary quantitative models and risk management systems. In the top-down economic analysis, the
subadviser develops views on economic, policy and market trends by continually evaluating economic data that affect the movement of markets and securities prices. This top-down macroeconomic analysis is integrated
into the subadviser’s bottom-up research which informs security selection. In its bottom-up research, the subadviser develops an internal rating and outlook on issuers. The rating and outlook is determined based
on a complete review of the financial health and trends of the issuer, which include a review of the composition of revenue, profitability, cash flow margin, and leverage.
The subadviser may also consider
factors such as yield, spread and potential for price appreciation as well as credit quality, maturity and risk. The subadviser may also utilize proprietary quantitative tools to support relative value trading and
asset allocation for portfolio management as well as various risk models to support risk management.
In determining which securities to
buy and sell, the investment subadviser considers country and currency selection, economic conditions, interest rate fundamentals, exchange rates, monetary and fiscal policies, trade and current account balances,
legal and political developments and other specific factors that the Fund believes to be relevant. The investment subadviser also evaluates individual debt securities within each fixed-income sector based upon their
relative investment merit and considers factors such as yield, duration and potential for price appreciation as well as credit quality, maturity and risk.
The Fund generally considers
emerging market countries to be countries included in the JP Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global Diversified (EMBI Global Diversified), the JP Morgan Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets Global Diversified
Index (GBI-EM Global), the JP Morgan Emerging Local Markets Index Plus (ELMI+) or the JP Morgan Corporate Emerging Markets Bond Index Broad Diversified (CEMBI Broad Diversified). Emerging market countries include, but
are not limited to, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa,
South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey. The Fund may invest to a lesser extent in lesser-developed emerging market countries that are not included in standard emerging market benchmarks and are not widely followed
by investors (commonly referred to as “frontier countries”). The Fund's investments may be highly concentrated in a geographic region or country.
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The Fund's fixed-income
instruments may include bonds, debt securities and other similar instruments issued by various US and non-US public or private sector entities. The Fund may invest in high-yield debt instruments or “junk
bonds,” which are rated below investment grade by a nationally recognized rating service or considered by the subadviser to be of comparable quality. However, the Fund may only invest up to 20% of its net assets
in distressed instruments, which generally are rated CCC or below by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization (NRSRO) or considered by the investment subadviser to be of comparable quality. In the event
that a security receives different ratings from different NRSROs, the Fund will treat the security as being rated in the highest rating category received from an NRSRO. Fund assets not invested in fixed income
instruments that are economically tied to emerging market countries and that are denominated in hard currencies may be invested in other types of fixed income instruments.
The Fund may invest in bonds of
any duration. Duration measures the potential volatility of the price of a portfolio of bonds prior to maturity. Duration is the magnitude of the change in price of a bond relative to a given change in the market
interest rate. Duration incorporates a bond's yield, coupon interest payments, final maturity, call and put features and prepayment exposure into one measure.
The Fund's investment objective is
not a fundamental policy, and therefore may be changed by the Board without prior shareholder approval. The Fund will provide 60 days' prior written notice to shareholders of a change in its non-fundamental policy of investing at least 80% of its investable assets in fixed-income instruments
that are economically tied to emerging market countries and that are denominated in hard currencies.
Derivative Strategies
The Fund will use various
derivative strategies to try to improve the Fund's returns. The Fund will also use hedging techniques to try to protect the Fund's assets. We cannot guarantee that these strategies and techniques will work, that the
instruments necessary to implement these strategies and techniques will be available, or that the Fund will not lose money. The use of derivatives — such as futures, foreign currency forward contracts, options
on futures, index and inverse floating rate securities and various types of swaps — involves costs and can be volatile. With derivatives, the investment subadviser tries to predict if the underlying investment
– a security, market index, currency, interest rate or some other benchmark - will go up or down at some future date. The Fund could use derivatives to try to reduce risk or to increase return consistent with
the Fund's overall investment objective. The Fund will consider other factors (such as cost) in deciding whether to employ any particular strategy or technique, or use any particular instrument. Any derivatives the
Fund uses may not match or offset the Fund's underlying positions and this could result in losses to the Fund that would not otherwise have occurred. Derivatives that involve leverage could magnify losses. When the
Fund uses derivative strategies, the Fund designates certain assets as segregated or otherwise covers its exposure, as required by the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
Because the Fund is a global fund
and invests in securities denominated in different foreign currencies, the Fund may use “currency hedges.” Currency hedges can help protect the Fund's net asset value from declining if a particular foreign
currency were to decrease in value compared to the US dollar.
Futures Contracts and Related
Options. The Fund will purchase and sell financial futures contracts and related options on financial futures. A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a set quantity of an underlying asset at a future date, or to make or receive a cash payment
based on the value of a securities index, or some other asset, at a stipulated future date. The terms of futures contracts are standardized. In the case of a financial futures contract based upon a broad index, there
is no delivery of the securities comprising the underlying index, margin is uniform, a clearing corporation or an exchange is the counterparty and the Fund makes daily margin payments based on price movements in the
index. An option gives the purchaser the right to buy or sell securities or currencies, or in the case of an option on a futures contract or an option on a swap, the right to buy or sell a futures contract or swap,
respectively, in exchange for a premium.
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Foreign Currency Forward
Contracts. The Fund will enter into foreign currency forward contracts to protect the value of its assets against future changes in the level of foreign exchange rates or to enhance returns. A foreign currency forward contract is an obligation to buy or sell a
given currency on a future date and at a set price or to make or receive a cash payment based on the value of a given currency at a future date. Delivery of the underlying currency is expected, the terms are
individually negotiated, the counterparty is not a clearing corporation or an exchange and payment on the contract is made upon delivery, rather than daily, except for non-deliverable forwards.
Swap Transactions. The Fund may enter into swap transactions. Swap agreements are two-party contracts entered into primarily by institutional investors for periods typically ranging from a few weeks to more than one year. In a standard
“swap” transaction, two parties agree to exchange the returns (or differentials in rates of return) earned or realized on particular predetermined investments or instruments, which may be adjusted for an
interest factor. There are various types of swaps, including but not limited to, credit default swaps, interest rate swaps, total return swaps and index swaps.
Swap Options. The Fund may enter into swap options. A swap option is a contract that gives a counterparty the right (but not the obligation) to enter into a new swap agreement or to shorten, extend, cancel or otherwise modify an existing
swap agreement, at some designated future time on specified terms.
Options on Securities and
Financial Indexes. The Fund may purchase and sell put and call options on securities and financial indexes traded on US or foreign securities exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. An option gives the purchaser the right to buy or sell securities in exchange for a premium. The Fund will sell only covered options.
Tax Considerations
The Fund intends to continue to
qualify as a “regulated investment company” under subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). Under subchapter M, at least 90% of the Fund's gross income for
each taxable year must be “qualifying income.” The Fund’s investment strategies with respect to foreign currencies generate qualifying income under current US federal income tax law.
Asset-Backed Securities
The Fund may invest in asset-backed
securities. An asset-backed security is a type of pass-through instrument that pays interest based upon the cash flow of an underlying pool of assets, such as mortgages, automobile loans or credit card receivables.
Asset-backed securities may also be collateralized by a portfolio of corporate bonds, including junk bonds, or other corporate and municipal securities.
Loan Participations and
Assignments
The Fund may invest in fixed and
floating rate loans (secured or unsecured) arranged through private negotiations between a company as the borrower and one or more financial institutions as lenders. These types of investments can be in the form of
loan participations or assignments.
Loan participations and
assignments are nonconvertible corporate debt instruments of varying maturities. With participations, the Fund has the right to receive payments of principal, interest and fees from the lender conditioned upon the
lender's receipt of payment from the borrower. In participations, the Fund generally does not have direct rights against the borrower on the loan, which means that if the borrower does not pay back the loan or
otherwise comply with the loan agreement, the Fund will not have the right to make it do so. With assignments, the Fund has direct rights against the borrower on the loan, but its rights may be more limited than the
original lender's.
Repurchase Agreements
The Fund may enter into repurchase
agreements, where a party agrees to sell a security to the Fund and then repurchases it at an agreed-upon price at a stated time. This creates a fixed return for the Fund, and is, in effect, a loan by the Fund.
Repurchase agreements are used for cash management purposes only.
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Reverse Repurchase Agreements and
Dollar Rolls
The Fund may enter into reverse
repurchase agreements, which involve the sale of a portfolio security by the Fund coupled with an agreement to repurchase the security, as well as dollar rolls in which the Fund sells securities for delivery in the
current month and simultaneously agrees to repurchase a substantially similar security at a future date. Either strategy involves leverage and may magnify underlying investment gains or losses.
Short Sales
The Fund may make short sales of a
security. This means that the Fund may sell a security that it does not own, which it may do, for example, when the investment subadviser thinks the value of the security will decline. The Fund generally borrows the
security to deliver to the buyers in a short sale. The Fund must then replace the borrowed security by purchasing it at the market price at the time of replacement. The Fund may make short sales “against the
box.” In a short sale against the box, at the time of sale, the Fund owns or has the right to acquire the identical security at no additional cost through conversion or exchange of other securities it owns.
When-Issued and Delayed-Delivery
Securities
The Fund may purchase securities,
including money market obligations, bonds or other obligations, on a when-issued, delayed-delivery or forward commitment basis. When the Fund purchases delayed delivery securities, the price and interest rate are
fixed at the time of purchase. For both when-issued and delayed delivery securities, delivery and payment for the obligations take place at a later time. The Fund does not earn interest income until the date the
obligations are expected to be delivered. These types of investments potentially leverage the Fund, which could magnify losses. The Fund will segregate liquid assets, marked-to-market daily, with a value equal to any
such investments. Segregating assets may cause the Fund to forgo making other potentially favorable investments.
Equity and Equity-Related
Securities
The Fund may invest up to 5% of the
Fund's net assets in equity or equity-related securities acquired by the Fund as a result of the exercise of warrants, options or other instruments attached to a fixed income instrument or as part of a restructuring
or reorganization and in exchange for the Fund's existing fixed income investment.
Investments in Affiliated Funds
The Fund may invest its assets in
affiliated short-term bond funds and/or affiliated or unaffiliated money market funds. The affiliated funds are registered investment companies under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”).
The Fund can invest its free cash balances in the affiliated funds to obtain income on short-term cash balances while awaiting attractive investment opportunities, to provide liquidity in preparation for anticipated
redemptions or for defensive purposes. Such an investment could also allow the Fund to obtain the benefits of a more diversified portfolio available in the affiliated funds than might otherwise be available through
direct investments in those asset classes, and will subject the Fund to the risks associated with the particular asset class. As a shareholder in the affiliated funds, the Fund will pay its proportional share of the
expenses of the affiliated funds, but the affiliated funds do not pay a management fee to the investment manager, since the investment manager only receives reimbursement for its expenses. Thus, shareholders of the
Fund are not paying management fees for both the Fund and the affiliated funds. The investment results of the portions of the Fund’s assets invested in the affiliated funds will be based on the investment
results of the affiliated funds.
Securities Lending
Consistent with applicable
regulatory requirements, the Fund may lend portfolio securities with a value up to 33 1/3% of its total assets to brokers, dealers and other financial organizations to earn additional income. Loans of portfolio
securities will be collateralized by cash. Cash collateral will be invested in an affiliated prime money market fund.
Temporary Defensive Investments
In response to adverse market,
economic or political conditions, the Fund may take a temporary defensive position and invest up to 100% of its assets in money market instruments, including short-term obligations of, or securities guaranteed by, the
US Government, its agencies or instrumentalities, or in high-quality obligations of domestic or
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foreign banks and corporations, and may hold up to
100% of its assets in cash or cash equivalents. Investing heavily in these securities is inconsistent with and limits the Fund’s ability to achieve its investment objective, but may help to preserve the Fund's
assets.
Other Investments
In addition to the strategies and
securities discussed above, the Fund may use other strategies or invest in other types of securities as described in the SAI. The Fund might not use all of the strategies or invest in all of the types of securities as
described in the Prospectus or in the SAI.
The table below summarizes the
investment limits applicable to the Fund’s principal investment strategies and certain non-principal investment strategies.
| Principal & Non-Principal Strategies: Investment Limits |
| ■ Fixed income instruments that are economically tied to emerging market countries and that are denominated in hard currencies: At least 80% of investable assets■ Derivatives (including swaps): Up to 25% of net assets■ Short Sales: Up to 25% of net assets (excluding short sales against the box)■ Asset-backed securities: Up to 15% of total assets■ Bank Debt: Up to 10% of net assets■ Illiquid Securities: Up to 15% of net assets■ Money market instruments: Up to 100% on temporary basis■ Borrowing: Up to 33 1⁄3% of total assets |
RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE
FUND
Market Risk. Securities markets may be volatile and the market prices of the Fund’s securities may decline. Securities fluctuate in price based on changes in an issuer’s financial condition
and overall market and economic conditions. If the market prices of the securities owned by the Fund fall, the value of your investment in the Fund will decline.
Bond Obligations Risk. As with credit risk, market risk and interest rate risk, the Fund's holdings, share price, yield and total return may fluctuate in response to bond market movements. The value of bonds may
decline for issuer-related reasons, including management performance, financial leverage and reduced demand for the issuer’s goods and services. Certain types of fixed-income obligations also may be subject to
“call and redemption risk,” which is the risk that the issuer may call a bond held by the Fund for redemption before it matures and the Fund may not be able to reinvest at the same level and therefore would
earn less income.
Management Risk. The value of your investment may decrease if judgments by the subadviser about the attractiveness, value or market trends affecting a particular security, industry or sector or about market
movements are incorrect.
Foreign Securities Risk. The Fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers or issuers with significant exposure to foreign markets involve additional risk. Foreign countries in which the Fund may
invest may have markets that are less liquid, less regulated and more volatile than US markets. The value of the Fund’s investments may decline because of factors affecting the particular issuer as well as
foreign markets and issuers generally, such as unfavorable government actions, and political or financial instability. Lack of information may also affect the value of these securities.
Emerging Markets Risk. The risks of foreign investments are greater for investments in or exposed to emerging markets. Emerging market countries typically have economic and political systems that are less fully
developed, and can be expected to be less stable, than those of more developed countries. For example, the economies of such countries can be subject to rapid and unpredictable rates of inflation or deflation. Low
trading volumes may result in a lack of liquidity and price volatility. Emerging market countries may have policies that restrict investment by non-US investors, or that prevent non-US investors from withdrawing their
money at will. Countries with emerging markets can be found in regions such as Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Africa.
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Currency Risk. The Fund's assets may be invested in securities that are denominated in non-US currencies or directly in currencies. Such investments are subject to the risk that the value of a particular
currency will change in relation to the US dollar or other currencies. The weakening of a country's currency relative to the US dollar will negatively affect the dollar value of the Fund's assets. Among the factors
that may affect currency values are trade balances, levels of short term interest rates, differences in relative values of similar assets in different currencies, long term opportunities for investment and capital
appreciation, central bank policy, and political developments. The Fund may attempt to hedge such risks by selling or buying currencies in the forward market; selling or buying currency futures contracts, options or
other securities thereon; borrowing funds denominated in particular currencies; or any combination thereof, depending on the availability of liquidity in the hedging instruments and their relative costs. There can be
no assurance that such strategies will be implemented or, if implemented, will be effective. The Fund would incur additional costs from hedging.
Credit Risk. Credit risk relates to the ability of the issuer of a fixed income instrument or the counterparty to a financial transaction with the Fund to meet interest and principal payments as they
come due or to fulfill its obligations to the Fund. The value of the fixed income instruments held by the Fund will be adversely affected by any erosion in the ability of the relevant issuers to make interest and
principal payments as they become due. The ratings given to a debt security by certain ratings agencies provide a generally useful guide as to such credit risk. The lower the rating of a debt security held by the
Fund, the greater the degree of credit risk that is perceived to exist by the rating agency with respect to that security. Increasing the amount of Fund assets invested in lower-rated securities generally will
increase the Fund's income, but also will increase the credit risk to which the Fund is subject. The Fund generally enters into financial transactions with major dealers that are deemed acceptable to the investment
subadviser from a credit perspective.
Interest Rate Risk. The value of your investment may go down when interest rates rise. A rise in rates tends to have a greater impact on the prices of longer term or duration securities. When interest rates
fall, the issuers of debt obligations may prepay principal more quickly than expected, and the Fund may be required to reinvest the proceeds at a lower interest rate. This is referred to as “prepayment
risk.” When interest rates rise, debt obligations may be repaid more slowly than expected, and the value of the Fund's holdings may fall sharply. This is referred to as
“extension risk.” The Fund may face a heightened level of interest rate risk since the US Federal Reserve Board has ended its quantitative easing program and may continue to raise rates. The Fund
may lose money if short-term or long-term interest rates rise sharply or in a manner not anticipated by the subadviser.
Derivatives Risk. Derivatives involve special risks and costs and may result in losses to the Fund. The successful use of derivatives requires sophisticated management, and, to the extent that derivatives
are used, the Fund will depend on the subadviser’s ability to analyze and manage derivatives transactions. The prices of derivatives may move in unexpected ways, especially in abnormal market conditions. Some
derivatives are “leveraged” and therefore may magnify or otherwise increase investment losses to the Fund. The Fund’s use of derivatives may also increase the amount of taxes payable by shareholders.
Other risks arise from the potential inability to terminate or sell derivatives positions. A liquid secondary market may not always exist for the Fund’s derivatives positions. In fact, many over-the-counter
derivative instruments will not have liquidity beyond the counterparty to the instrument. Over-the-counter derivative instruments also involve the risk that the other party will not meet its obligations to the
Fund.
The US Government and foreign
governments are in the process of adopting and implementing regulations governing derivatives markets, including mandatory clearing of certain derivatives, margin and reporting requirements. The ultimate impact of the
regulations remains unclear. Additional regulation of derivatives may make derivatives more costly, limit their availability or utility, or otherwise adversely affect their performance or disrupt markets.
Junk Bonds Risk. High-yield, high-risk bonds have predominantly speculative characteristics, including particularly high credit risk. Junk bonds tend to be less liquid than higher-rated securities. The
liquidity of particular issuers or industries within a particular investment category may shrink or disappear suddenly and without warning. The non-investment
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grade bond market can experience sudden and sharp
price swings and become illiquid due to a variety of factors, including changes in economic forecasts, stock market activity, large sustained sales by major investors, a high profile default or a change in the
market's psychology.
Active Trading Risk. The Fund actively and frequently trades its portfolio securities. High portfolio turnover results in higher transaction costs, which can affect the Fund’s performance and have
adverse tax consequences. In addition, high portfolio turnover may also mean that a proportionately greater amount of distributions to shareholders will be taxed as ordinary income rather than long-term capital gains
compared to investment companies with lower portfolio turnover.
Liquidity Risk. The Fund may invest in instruments that trade in lower volumes and are less liquid than other investments. Liquidity risk exists when particular investments made by the Fund are difficult
to purchase or sell. Liquidity risk also includes the risk that the Fund may make investments that may become less liquid in response to market developments or adverse investor perceptions. If the Fund is forced to
sell these investments to pay redemption proceeds or for other reasons, the Fund may lose money. In addition, when there is no willing buyer and investments cannot be readily sold at the desired time or price, the
Fund may have to accept a lower price or may not be able to sell the instrument at all. The reduction in dealer market-making capacity in the fixed-income markets that has occurred in recent years also has the
potential to reduce liquidity. An inability to sell a portfolio position can adversely affect the Fund's value or prevent the Fund from being able to take advantage of other investment opportunities.
Geographic Concentration Risk. The Fund’s performance may be closely tied to the market, economic, political, regulatory or other conditions in the countries or regions in which the Fund invests. This can result
in more pronounced risks based upon conditions that impact one or more countries or regions more or less than other countries or regions.
Non-diversification Risk. The Fund is non-diversified for purposes of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”). This means that the Fund may invest a greater percentage of its assets in the
securities of a single company or other issuer than a diversified fund. Investing in a non-diversified fund involves greater risk than investing in a diversified fund because a loss resulting from the decline in value
of any one security may represent a greater portion of the total assets of a non-diversified fund.
Asset-Backed Securities Risk. Asset-backed securities are subject to credit risk, market risk and interest rate risk. Asset-backed securities are also subject to prepayment risk, which is the risk that the underlying
debt instruments may be partially or wholly prepaid during periods of falling interest rates, which could require the Fund to reinvest in lower yielding debt instruments. Asset-backed securities are also subject to
extension risk, which is the risk that rising interest rates may cause the underlying debt instruments to be repaid more slowly by the debtor, causing the value of the securities to fall. Asset-backed securities are
subject to illiquidity risk, which is the risk that the securities may be difficult to value precisely and to sell at the time or price desired.
Risks of Investments in Loans. The Fund's ability to receive payments of principal and interest and other amounts in connection with loans (whether through participations, assignments or otherwise) will depend primarily
on the financial condition of the borrower. The failure by the Fund to receive scheduled interest or principal payments on a loan because of a default, bankruptcy or any other reason would adversely affect the income
of the Fund and would likely reduce the value of its assets. Even with loans secured by collateral, there is the risk that the value of the collateral may decline, may be insufficient to meet the obligations of the
borrower, or be difficult to liquidate. In the event of a default, the Fund may have difficulty collecting on any collateral and would not have the ability to collect on any collateral for an uncollateralized loan.
Further, the Fund's access to collateral, if any, may be limited by bankruptcy laws. Due to the nature of the private syndication of senior loans, including, for example, lack of publicly-available information, some
senior loans are not as easily purchased or sold as publicly-traded securities. In addition, loan participations generally are subject to restrictions on transfer, and only limited opportunities may exist to sell loan
participations in secondary markets. As a result, it may be difficult for the Fund to value loans or sell loans at an acceptable price when it wants to sell them. Extended trade settlement periods may, in unusual
market conditions with a high volume of shareholder redemptions, present a risk to shareholders regarding the Fund's ability to pay redemption proceeds within the allowable time periods stated in the Prospectus. In
some instances, loans and loan participations are not rated by
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independent credit rating agencies; in such
instances, a decision by the Fund to invest in a particular loan or loan participation could depend exclusively on the investment subadviser's credit analysis of the borrower, or in the case of a loan participation,
of the intermediary holding the portion of the loan that the Fund has purchased. To the extent the Fund invests in loans of non-US issuers, the risks of investing in non-US issuers are applicable. Loans may not be
considered to be “securities” and as a result may not benefit from the protections of the federal securities laws, including anti-fraud protections and those with respect to the use of material non-public
information, so that purchasers, such as the Fund, may not have the benefit of these protections.
Repurchase Agreements Risk. Repurchase agreements could involve certain risks in the event of default or insolvency of the seller, including losses and possible delays or restrictions upon the Fund’s ability to
dispose of the underlying securities. To the extent that, in the meantime, the value of the securities that the Fund has purchased has decreased, the Fund could experience a loss.
Reverse Repurchase Agreements
Risk. Reverse repurchase agreements involve leverage, which may exaggerate the increase or decrease of the value of the Fund’s assets during the term of the agreement.
Dollar Rolls Risk. Dollar rolls involve the risk that the market value of the securities that the Fund is committed to buy may decline below the price of the securities the Fund has sold. These transactions
may involve leverage.
Short Sales Risk. Short sales involve costs and risks. The Fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the Fund will lose money to the extent that the price of the security increases
between the time of the short sale and the date when the Fund replaces the borrowed security. Although the Fund’s gain is limited to the price at which it sold the securities short, its potential loss is limited
only by the maximum attainable price of the securities, less the price at which the security was sold and may, theoretically, be unlimited. When selling short against the box, the Fund gives up the opportunity for
capital appreciation in the security.
When-Issued and Delayed-Delivery
Transactions Risk. When-issued and delayed delivery securities involve the risk that the security the Fund buys will lose value prior to its delivery. There also is the risk that the security will not be
issued or that the other party to the transaction will not meet its obligation. If this occurs, the Fund may lose both the investment opportunity for the assets it set aside to pay for the security and any gain in the
security’s price.
Economic and Market Events
Risk. Events in the US and global financial markets, including actions taken by the US Federal Reserve or foreign central banks to stimulate or stabilize economic growth, may at times result in
unusually high market volatility, which could negatively impact performance. Reduced liquidity in credit and fixed income markets could adversely affect issuers worldwide.
Risk of Increase in Expenses. Your actual cost of investing in the Fund may be higher than the expenses shown in the expense table for a variety of reasons. For example, expense ratios may be higher than those shown if
average net assets decrease. Net assets are more likely to decrease and Fund expense ratios are more likely to increase when markets are volatile. Active and frequent trading of Fund securities can increase
expenses.
Securities Lending Risk. Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result, the Fund may lose money and there may be a delay in
recovering the loaned securities. Additionally, losses could result from the reinvestment of collateral received on loaned securities in investments that decline in value, default, or do not perform as well as
expected. The affiliated prime money market fund in which cash collateral is invested may impose liquidity fees or temporary gates on redemptions if its weekly liquid assets fall below a designated threshold. If this
were to occur, the Fund may lose money on its investment of cash collateral in the affiliated prime money market fund, or the Fund may not be able to redeem its investment of cash collateral in the affiliated prime
money market fund, which might cause the Fund to liquidate other holdings in order to return the cash collateral to the borrower upon termination of a securities loan. These events could trigger adverse tax
consequences for the Fund.
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Please note that, in addition to
the risks discussed above, there are many other factors that may impact the Fund’s ability to achieve its investment objective and which could result in a loss of all or a part of your investment.
More information about the
Fund’s investment strategies and risks appears in the SAI.
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PRIOR HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE OF SIMILARLY MANAGED
ACCOUNTS
The Fund is newly offered. Once
the Fund has a performance record of at least one calendar year, the Fund’s performance will be included in the Prospectus.
The Fund’s investment
objective, investment policies and strategies are substantially similar to the investment objectives, strategies, and policies of other accounts managed by the subadviser. The performance of those accounts is
summarized below in the subadviser’s PGIM Fixed Income Emerging Markets Debt Composite (the “Composite”). The Composite (inception date July 1, 1996) includes all discretionary portfolios managed by
the subadviser (using the same portfolio management team) with substantially similar investment objectives, strategies, and policies to those of the Fund.
The performance of the Composite
is compared to the performance of the JP Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index (EMBI) Global Diversified which will be the performance benchmark of the Fund. As discussed in more detail below, prior to March 1, 2006, the
benchmark for the Composite was the JP Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Plus. The JP Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index (EMBI) Global Diversified is an unmanaged index that tracks total returns for US
Dollar-denominated debt instruments issued by emerging market sovereign and quasi-sovereign entities: Brady bonds, loans and Eurobonds. It limits the weights of those index countries with larger debt stocks by only
including specified portions of these countries' eligible current face amounts of debt outstanding. An unmanaged index cannot be purchased directly by investors, and reflects no deductions for sales charges, fees,
expenses, or taxes. The benchmark returns do not include the effect of any operating expenses of a mutual fund or taxes payable by investors and would be lower if they included these effects. In addition, the
portfolio holdings of the Fund may differ from those of the account included in the Composite. Such differences do not alter the conclusion that the Fund strategy and the strategy represented in the Composite are
substantially similar in all material respects.
All historical returns shown below
reflect the reinvestment of dividends and other earnings. Historical investment performance is shown net of fees and gross of fees. Net of fee performance is presented before custodial fees and other operating
expenses but after the subadviser’s actual advisory fees and transaction costs. Gross returns do not reflect the deduction of investment advisory fees or any other expenses that may be incurred in the management
of the account.
Fees charged to clients may vary
depending on, among other things, the applicable fee schedule and the size of the portfolio. The net and gross of fee performance has not been adjusted to reflect any fees or expenses that will be payable by the Fund,
which will be higher than the fees payable by the accounts included in the Composite, and which will reduce the returns of the Fund. If the net and gross of fee performance for the Composite were adjusted to reflect
fees and expenses payable by the Fund, the returns of the Composite would be lower than those shown.
Investors should not rely on the
historical performance data shown below as an indication of future performance of the Fund. The historical performance information set forth below does not represent the performance of the Fund.
| Annualized Returns | |||
| As of December 31, 2016 | Net Return | Gross Return | Benchmark |
| 1 Year | 12.15% | 12.77% | 10.15% |
| 3 Year | 6.80% | 7.39% | 6.19% |
| 5 Year | 7.23% | 7.85% | 5.91% |
| 10 Year | 7.45% | 8.14% | 6.88% |
| Since Inception (7/1/1996) | 11.47% | 12.20% | 9.69% |
| Calendar Year Returns | |||
| Year | Net Return | Gross Return | Benchmark* |
| 2016 | 12.15% | 12.77% | 10.15% |
| 2015 | 1.60% | 2.16% | 1.18% |
| 2014 | 6.91% | 7.50% | 7.43% |
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| Calendar Year Returns | |||
| Year | Net Return | Gross Return | Benchmark* |
| 2013 | -5.25% | -4.73% | -5.25% |
| 2012 | 22.83% | 23.69% | 17.44% |
| 2011 | 5.71% | 6.45% | 7.35% |
| 2010 | 14.37% | 15.17% | 12.24% |
| 2009 | 37.58% | 38.54% | 29.82% |
| 2008 | -18.27% | -17.70% | -12.03% |
| 2007 | 6.42% | 7.17% | 6.16% |
| 2006 | 12.18% | 12.97% | 10.29% |
| 2005 | 16.96% | 17.78% | 11.86% |
| 2004 | 16.23% | 17.05% | 11.77% |
| 2003 | 36.05% | 37.01% | 28.82% |
| 2002 | 15.59% | 16.40% | 14.24% |
| 2001 | 7.38% | 8.13% | -0.79% |
| 2000 | 15.80% | 16.62% | 15.66% |
| 1999 | 27.49% | 28.33% | 25.97% |
| 1998 | -15.04% | -14.53% | -14.35% |
| 1997 | 13.92% | 14.60% | 13.02% |
| 1996** | 22.68% | 23.05% | 20.64% |
* As of March 1, 2006,
the benchmark for the Composite is the JP Morgan EMBI Global Diversified. The Benchmark tracks total returns for USD-denominated debt instruments issued by emerging market sovereign and quasi-sovereign entities: Brady
bonds, loans, and Eurobonds. It limits the weights of those index countries with larger debt stocks by only including specified portions of these countries' eligible current face amounts of debt outstanding. Source of
the benchmark: JP Morgan. Prior to March 1, 2006 the benchmark for the Composite was the JP Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Plus. This index is a liquid US-dollar emerging markets debt benchmark that tracks total
returns for actively traded external debt instruments issued by emerging market sovereign entities: US-dollar denominated Brady bonds, Eurobonds, and loans. Countries included in the index must be rated Baa1/BBB+ or
below by Moody's/S&P rating agencies. Source of the benchmark: JP Morgan. The change in benchmark was made to more accurately reflect the strategy of the Composite. The financial indices referenced herein are
provided for informational purposes only. The subadviser’s holdings and portfolio characteristics may differ from those of the benchmark(s). Additional factors impacting the performance displayed herein may
include portfolio-rebalancing, the timing of cash flows, and differences in volatility, none of which impact the performance of the financial indices. Financial indices reflect the reinvestment of income, if any, but
do not reflect the impact of fees, applicable taxes or trading costs which may reduce the returns shown. You cannot invest directly in an index.
** The returns shown are for the period July
1, 1996 through December 31, 1996.
The above historical performance
data is provided solely to illustrate the subadviser’s experience in managing accounts with an investment objective, strategy, and policies substantially similar to the investment objective, strategy, and
policies of the Fund. Investors should not rely on this information as an indication of actual performance of any account or future performance of the Fund. The accounts that make up the Composite are not subject to
the investment limitations, diversification requirements and other restrictions imposed on the Fund under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Internal Revenue Code, which, if applicable, might have adversely
affected the performance results of the Composite.
Composite gross rates of return
are calculated by asset weighting the individual portfolio returns monthly using the beginning of period values. Composite member portfolio monthly returns are calculated using the daily time weighted rate of return
methodology. Composite net rates of return are calculated by geometrically linking 1/12th of the highest standard advisory fee in effect for the respective period (currently 0.55%) to the gross composite. Annual rates
of return are calculated by geometrically linking the monthly returns. The annualized rate of return is equivalent to the annual rate of return which, if earned in each year of the indicated multi-year period, would
produce the actual cumulative rate of return over the time period. Performance for the Composite has been calculated in a manner that differs from the performance calculations the SEC requires for registered funds.
The Composite has been calculated consistent with the requirements of the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) and PGIM Fixed Income; there is no representation that the above performance is presented
in accordance with GIPS.
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The historical performance
information presented is current as of the date indicated, but may not be current as of the date you are reviewing this information. Performance results fluctuate, and there can be no assurance that objectives will
always be achieved. Other methods of computing returns may produce different results, and the results for different periods will vary.
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HOW THE FUND IS MANAGED
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Fund is overseen by a Board of
Directors (hereafter referred to as Directors, or the Board). The Board oversees the actions of the Manager, investment subadviser and distributor and decides on general policies. The Board also oversees the Fund's
officers, who conduct and supervise the daily business operations of the Fund.
MANAGER
PGIM Investments LLC (“PGIM
Investments”)
655 Broad Street
Newark, NJ 07102-4410
655 Broad Street
Newark, NJ 07102-4410
Under a management agreement with
the Fund, PGIM Investments manages the Fund's investment operations and administers its business affairs and is responsible for supervising the Fund's investment subadviser. The Fund pays PGIM Investments management
fees at the rate of 0.72% up to $1 billion of the Fund's average daily net assets; 0.70% from $1 billion to $3 billion of the Fund's average daily net assets; 0.68% from $3 billion to $5 billion of the Fund's average
daily net assets; 0.67% from $5 billion to $10 billion of the Fund's average daily net assets; and 0.66% over $10 billion.
PGIM Investments and its
predecessors have served as a manager or administrator to investment companies since 1987. As of September 30, 2017, PGIM Investments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Prudential, served as the investment manager to all
of the Prudential US and offshore open-end investment companies, and as the manager or administrator to closed-end investment companies, with aggregate assets of approximately $275.9 billion.
Subject to the supervision of the
Board, PGIM Investments is responsible for conducting the initial review of prospective investment subadvisers for the Fund. In evaluating a prospective investment subadviser, PGIM Investments considers many factors,
including the firm's experience, investment philosophy and historical performance. Subject to the Board’s oversight, PGIM Investments is also responsible for monitoring the performance of the Fund's investment
subadviser and recommending termination and replacement when deemed appropriate. PGIM Investments may provide a subadviser with additional investment guidelines consistent with the Fund's investment objective and
restrictions.
PGIM Investments and the Fund
operate under an exemptive order (the Order) from the SEC that generally permits PGIM Investments to enter into or amend agreements with unaffiliated investment subadvisers and certain subadvisers that are affiliates
of PGIM Investments without obtaining shareholder approval. This authority is subject to certain conditions, including the requirement that the Board must approve any new or amended agreements with an investment
subadviser. Shareholders of the Fund still have the right to terminate these agreements at any time by a vote of the majority of the outstanding shares of the Fund. The Fund will notify shareholders of any new
investment subadvisers engaged or material amendments to subadvisory agreements made pursuant to the Order. Any new subadvisory agreement or amendment to the Fund’s management agreement or current subadvisory
agreement that directly or indirectly results in an increase in the aggregate management fee rate payable by the Fund will be submitted to the Fund’s shareholders for their approval. PGIM Investments does not
currently intend to retain unaffiliated subadvisers.
A discussion of the basis for the
Board's approvals of the management and subadvisory agreements will be available in the Fund's Semi-Annual Report to shareholders dated April 30.
INVESTMENT SUBADVISER
PGIM, Inc. is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Prudential Financial, Inc. (Prudential Financial) that was organized in 1984. Its address is 655 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102. As of
March 31, 2018, PGIM managed approximately $1.16 trillion in assets.
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PGIM Fixed Income is the primary public fixed-income asset management unit of PGIM, with $717 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2018, and is the unit of PGIM that provides investment
advisory services to the Fund.
PGIM Fixed Income is organized
into groups specializing in different sectors of the fixed-income market: US and non-US government bonds, mortgages and asset-backed securities, US and non-US investment grade corporate bonds, high-yield bonds,
emerging markets bonds, municipal bonds, and money market securities.
PGIM Limited is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of PGIM. PGIM Limited is located at Grand Buildings, 1-3 Strand, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5HR. PGIM Limited provides investment advisory services
with respect to securities in certain foreign markets. As of December 31, 2017, PGIM Limited managed approximately $40.74 billion in assets, and PGIM Limited-Fixed Income managed approximately $35.52
billion.
PORTFOLIO MANAGERS
David Bessey, Cathy L. Hepworth, CFA, and Mariusz Banasiak, CFA, of PGIM Fixed Income are responsible for the management of the Fund.
David Bessey is a Managing Director and the Head of PGIM Fixed Income's Emerging Markets Debt Team, investing in emerging market debt denominated in both US dollars and local currencies. Mr. Bessey is
also senior portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets Debt Long/Short Strategy. Mr. Bessey started PGIM Fixed Income's Emerging Market effort in 1995 with sovereign strategist Cathy Hepworth and has grown this
business to $50 billion (as September 30, 2017). Prior to joining PGIM Fixed Income in 1989, Mr. Bessey was a project manager on various engineering projects in the United States, Asia, and Latin America. Mr. Bessey
received a BS in Geological Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA in Finance from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Cathy L. Hepworth, CFA, is a Managing Director and an Emerging Market Sovereign Strategist/Portfolio Manager for PGIM Fixed Income's Emerging Markets Team. Ms. Hepworth co-founded PGIM Fixed Income's emerging
markets debt management effort with David Bessey in 1995, together with the team growing the business to $50 billion as of September 30, 2017. Previously, Ms. Hepworth was an analyst in the credit unit of PGIM Fixed
Income's Capital Management Group, focusing on various sovereign, financial and corporate sectors. Prior to joining PGIM Fixed Income in 1989, she held analyst positions at Bankers Trust, Merrill Lynch, and Golembe
Associates. Ms. Hepworth received a BSFS from Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Mariusz Banasiak, CFA, is a Principal and Head of PGIM Fixed Income’s Foreign Exchange Team. Mr. Banasiak is responsible for developing EM currencies strategy. Mr. Banasiak is also a senior portfolio
manager for the Emerging Markets hedge fund product. Prior to assuming this position, he was a Vice President for PGIM Fixed Income's Emerging Markets Debt Team, responsible for developing portfolio strategies on USD
sovereign and local emerging market yield curves and currencies in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. Previously, Mr. Banasiak was an Analyst for emerging market debt portfolios in the Portfolio
Analyst Group of PGIM Fixed Income. Earlier, he was responsible for risk analysis and performance attribution for PGIM Fixed Income’s proprietary portfolios. Mr. Banasiak joined PGIM Fixed Income in 2004. He
received a BS in Finance from Rutgers University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Additional information about
portfolio manager compensation, other accounts managed, and portfolio manager ownership of Fund securities may be found in the SAI.
DISTRIBUTOR
Prudential Investment Management
Services LLC (“PIMS” or the “Distributor”) distributes each class of the Fund's shares under a Distribution Agreement with the Fund. The Fund has Distribution and Service Plans (the
“Plans”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act, applicable to certain of the Fund's shares. Under the Plans and the Distribution Agreement, the Distributor pays the expenses of distributing the shares
of all share classes of the Fund.
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The Distributor also provides certain shareholder
support services. Under the Plans, certain classes of the Fund pay distribution and other fees to the Distributor as compensation for its services. These fees—known as 12b-1 fees—are set forth in the
“Fund Fees and Expenses” tables.
Because these fees are paid from
the Fund's assets on an ongoing basis, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges.
DISCLOSURE OF PORTFOLIO
HOLDINGS
The Fund's policies and procedures
with respect to the disclosure of the Fund's portfolio securities are described in the Fund's SAI and on the Fund's website at www.pgiminvestments.com.
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FUND DISTRIBUTIONS AND TAX ISSUES
DISTRIBUTIONS
The Fund distributes dividends to shareholders out of any net investment income. For example, if the Fund owns ACME Corp. stock and the stock pays a dividend, the Fund will pay out a portion of this
dividend to its shareholders, assuming the Fund’s income is more than its costs and expenses. The dividends you receive from the Fund will be subject to taxation whether or not they are reinvested in the
Fund.
The Fund also distributes any net
realized capital gains to shareholders. Capital gains are generated when the Fund sells its assets for a profit. For example, if the Fund bought 100 bonds of ACME Corp. for a total of $1,000
and more than one year later sold the bonds for a total of $1,500, the Fund has net long-term capital gains of $500, which it will pass on to shareholders (assuming the Fund's remaining total gains are greater than
any losses it may have).
For your convenience,
distributions of dividends and net capital gains are automatically reinvested in the Fund without any sales charge. If you ask us to pay the distributions in cash, we will send you a check if your account is with
Prudential Mutual Fund Services LLC (“PMFS” or the “Transfer Agent”). Otherwise, if your account is with a broker, you will receive a credit to your account. Either way, the distributions may
be subject to income taxes, unless your shares are held in a qualified or tax-deferred plan or account. If your dividend distribution check remains uncashed for more than six months, your check may be invested in
additional shares of the Fund at the net asset value (“NAV”) calculated on the day of the investment. For more information about automatic reinvestment and other shareholder services, see “Additional
Shareholder Services” in the next section.
The chart below sets forth the
expected frequency of dividend and capital gains distributions to shareholders. Various factors may impact the frequency of dividend distributions to shareholders, including but not limited to adverse market
conditions or portfolio holding-specific events.
| Fund Distribution Schedule* | |
| Dividends | Monthly |
| Short-Term Capital Gains | Annually |
| Long-Term Capital Gains | Annually |
*Under certain
circumstances, the Fund may make more than one distribution of short-term and/or long-term capital gains during a fiscal year.
TAX ISSUES
Investors who buy Fund shares
should be aware of some important tax issues. For example, the Fund distributes dividends of net investment income and realized net capital gains, if any, to shareholders. Fund distributions and gain from the sale of
Fund shares are subject to federal income taxes, unless you hold your shares in a 401(k) plan, an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) or some other qualified or tax-deferred plan or account. Dividends and
distributions from the Fund also may be subject to state and local income tax in the state where you live.
The following briefly discusses
some of the important income tax issues you should be aware of, but is not meant to be tax advice. For tax advice, please speak with your tax adviser.
Fund Distributions
Fund distributions of net capital
gains are taxed differently depending on how long the Fund holds the security. If the Fund holds a security for more than one year before selling it, any gain is treated as long-term capital gain which is generally taxed at rates of up to 15% or 20% for non-corporate US shareholders, depending on whether their incomes exceed certain threshold amounts,
which are adjusted annually for inflation. If the Fund holds the security for one year or less, any gain is treated as short-term capital gain, which is taxed at rates applicable to ordinary income, subject to a maximum tax rate of 37%. Different rates apply to corporate shareholders.
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Dividends from net investment
income paid to a non-corporate US shareholder that are reported as qualified dividend income will generally be taxable to such shareholder at the long-term capital gain tax rate. Dividends of net investment income
that are not reported as qualified dividend income will be taxable to shareholders at ordinary income rates. Also, a portion of the dividends paid to corporate shareholders of the Fund will be eligible for the
dividends received deduction to the extent the Fund’s income is derived from certain dividends received from US corporations.
A US shareholder that is an
individual, estate or certain type of trust is subject to a 3.8% Medicare contribution tax on the lesser of (1) the US shareholder’s “net investment income,” including Fund distributions and net
gains from the disposition of Fund shares, and (2) the excess of the US shareholder’s modified adjusted gross income for the taxable year over $200,000 (or $250,000 for married couples filing jointly). For this
purpose, net investment income includes interest, dividends, annuities, royalties, capital gain and income from a passive activity business or a business of trading in financial instruments or commodities.
Form 1099
For every year the Fund declares a
dividend, you will receive a Form 1099, which reports the amount of ordinary income distributions and long-term capital gains we distributed to you during the prior year unless you own shares of the Fund as part of a
qualified or tax-deferred plan or account. If you do own shares of the Fund as part of a qualified or tax-deferred plan or account, your taxes are deferred, so you will not receive a Form 1099 annually, but instead
you will receive a Form 1099 when you take any distribution from your qualified or tax-deferred plan or account.
Fund distributions are generally
taxable to you in the calendar year in which they are received, except when we declare certain dividends and distributions in the fourth quarter, with a record date in such quarter, and actually pay them in January of
the following year. In such cases, the dividends and distributions are treated as if they were paid on December 31st of the prior year.
Cost Basis Reporting
Mutual funds must report cost basis
information to you and the IRS when you sell or exchange shares acquired on or after January 1, 2012 in your non-retirement accounts. The cost basis regulations do not affect retirement accounts, money market funds,
and shares acquired before January 1, 2012. The cost basis regulations also require mutual funds to report whether a gain or loss is short-term (shares held one year or less) or long-term (shares held more than one
year) for all shares acquired on or after January 1, 2012 that are subsequently sold or exchanged. The Transfer Agent is not required to report cost basis information on shares acquired before January 1, 2012.
However, in most cases the Transfer Agent will provide this information to you as a service.
Withholding Taxes
If federal tax law requires you to
provide the Fund with your taxpayer identification number and certifications as to your tax status and you fail to do this, or if you are otherwise subject to backup withholding, we will withhold and pay to the US
Treasury a portion of your distributions and sale proceeds, based on the backup withholding rate.
Taxation of Non-US Shareholders
For a discussion regarding the
taxation of non-US shareholders, please see the SAI and contact your tax adviser.
If You Purchase on or Before a
Record Date
If you buy shares of the Fund on or
before the record date for a distribution (the date that determines who receives the distribution), we will pay that distribution to you. As explained above, the distribution may be subject to taxes. You may think
you've done well since you bought shares one day and soon thereafter received a distribution. That is not so, because when dividends are paid out, the value of each share of the Fund decreases by the amount of the
dividend to reflect the payout, although this may not be apparent because the value of each share of the Fund also will be affected by market changes, if any. However, the timing of your purchase does mean that part
of your investment may have come back to you as taxable income.
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Qualified and Tax-Deferred
Retirement Plans
Retirement plans and accounts allow
you to defer paying taxes on investment income and capital gains. Contributions to these plans may also be tax-deductible, although distributions from these plans generally are taxable. In the case of Roth IRA
accounts, contributions are not tax-deductible, but distributions from the plan may be tax-free. Please contact your financial adviser for information on a variety of PGIM Funds that are suitable for retirement plans
offered by Prudential.
IF YOU SELL OR EXCHANGE YOUR
SHARES
If you sell any shares of the Fund
for a profit, you have realized a capital gain, which is subject to tax unless the shares are held in a qualified or tax-deferred plan or account. As mentioned above, the maximum capital gains tax rate is up to 15% or
20% for individuals, depending on whether their incomes exceed certain threshold amounts, which are adjusted annually for inflation.
If you sell shares of the Fund at
a loss, you may have a capital loss, which you may use to offset capital gains you have, plus, in the case of non-corporate taxpayers, ordinary income of up to $3,000. If you sell shares and realize a loss, you will
not be permitted to use the loss to the extent you replace the shares (including pursuant to the reinvestment of a dividend) within a 61-day period (beginning 30 days before and ending 30 days after the sale of the
shares). Under certain circumstances, if you acquire shares of the Fund and sell or exchange your shares within 90 days, you may not be allowed to include certain charges incurred in acquiring the shares for purposes
of calculating gain or loss realized upon the sale or exchange of the shares.
If you exchange your Fund shares
for shares of another class of the Fund, this is generally not a taxable event and should not result in realization of a capital gain or loss by you. If you exchange your shares of the Fund for shares of another PGIM
Fund, this is considered a sale for tax purposes. In other words, it's a taxable event. Therefore, if the shares you exchanged have increased in value since you purchased them, you have capital gains, which are
subject to the taxes described above. Unless you hold your shares in a qualified or tax-deferred plan or account, you or your financial adviser should keep track of the dates on which you buy and sell—or
exchange—Fund shares, as well as the amount of any gain or loss on each transaction. For tax advice, please see your tax adviser.
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HOW TO BUY, SELL AND EXCHANGE FUND SHARES
HOW TO BUY SHARES
In order to buy Fund shares, simply
follow the steps described below.
Opening an Account
Shares may be purchased through an
account with the Transfer Agent, or through an account with a financial intermediary that has an agreement with the Distributor to sell Fund shares. In order to open an account with the Transfer Agent contact PMFS
at (800) 225-1852 or write to:
Prudential Mutual Fund Services
LLC
P.O. Box 9658
Providence, RI 02940
P.O. Box 9658
Providence, RI 02940
PMFS will accept purchases of
shares by check or wire. We do not accept cash, money orders, non-US checks, credit card checks, payable through checks or travelers checks. To purchase by wire, call the number above to obtain an application. After
PMFS receives your completed application, you will receive an account number. For additional information, see the back cover page of this Prospectus. Your purchase order must be in good order to be accepted and
processed, which means that all necessary processing requirements have been satisfied. We have the right to reject any purchase order (including an exchange into a Fund) or suspend or modify a Fund's sales of its
shares under certain circumstances. These circumstances include, but are not limited to, failure by you to provide additional information requested, such as information required to verify the source of funds used to
purchase shares, your identity or the identity of any underlying beneficial owners of your shares. Furthermore, we are required by law to close your account if you do not provide the required identifying information.
This would result in the redemption of shares at the then-current NAV and the proceeds would be remitted to you via check. We will attempt to verify your identity within a reasonable time frame (e.g., 60 days), which
may change from time to time. For further information, please contact PMFS (for shares purchased through the Transfer Agent) or your financial professional (for shares purchased through a financial intermediary).
With certain limited exceptions,
Fund shares are only available to be sold in the United States, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam.
Choosing a Share Class
The Fund offers the following share
classes. Certain classes of shares may have additional specific eligibility or qualification requirements, which are explained below.
| Share Class | Eligibility |
| Class A* | Individual investors |
| Class C* | Individual investors |
| Class Z* | Certain group retirement plans, institutional investors and certain other investors |
| Class R6† | Certain group retirement plans, institutional investors and certain other investors |
* The Fund’s Class A,
Class C, and Class Z shares were generally closed to investments by new group retirement plans effective on or about June 1, 2018. Please see “Closure of Certain Share Classes to New Group Retirement
Plans” in this section of the Prospectus for more information.
†Formerly known as Class Q shares.
Multiple share classes let you
choose a cost structure that meets your needs:
| ■ | Class A shares purchased in amounts of less than $1 million require you to pay a sales charge at the time of purchase, but the operating expenses of Class A shares are lower than the operating expenses of Class C shares. Investors who purchase $1 million or more of Class A shares and sell these shares within 12 months of purchase are also subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) of 1.00%. |
| ■ | Class C shares do not require you to pay a sales charge at the time of purchase, but do require you to pay a sales charge if you sell your shares within 12 months of purchase. The operating expenses of Class C shares are higher than the operating expenses of Class A shares. |
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When choosing a share class, you
should consider the following factors:
| ■ | The amount of your investment and any previous or planned future investments, which may qualify you for reduced sales charges for Class A shares under Rights of Accumulation or a Letter of Intent. |
| ■ | The length of time you expect to hold the shares and the impact of varying distribution fees. Over time, these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than paying other types of sales charges. For this reason, Class C shares are generally appropriate only for investors who plan to hold their shares for no more than 3 years. |
| ■ | The different sales charges that apply to each share class—Class A's front-end sales charge (or in certain instances, CDSC) vs. Class C's lower CDSC. |
| ■ | Class C shares purchased in single amounts greater than $1 million are generally less advantageous than purchasing Class A shares. Purchase orders for Class C shares above this amount generally will not be accepted. |
| ■ | Because Class R6 and Class Z shares have lower operating expenses than Class A or Class C shares, as applicable, you should consider whether you are eligible to purchase such share classes. |
See “How to Sell Your
Shares” for a description of the impact of CDSCs.
If your shares are held through a
financial intermediary, you should discuss with your intermediary which share classes of the Fund are available to you and which share class may best meet your needs. Certain financial intermediaries through which you
may purchase shares of the Fund may impose their own investment minimums, fees, policies and procedures for purchasing, exchanging and selling Fund shares, which are not described in this Prospectus or the SAI, and
which will depend on the policies, procedures and trading platforms of the financial intermediary. Consult your financial intermediary about share class availability and the intermediary’s policies, procedures
and other information. The availability of certain sales charge waivers and discounts will depend on whether you purchase your shares directly from the Fund or through a financial intermediary. See “Appendix
A: Waivers and Discounts Available From Certain Financial Intermediaries” for additional information. The Fund has advised financial intermediaries of the share class features and guidelines, per the
Prospectus, and it is their responsibility to monitor and enforce these guidelines with respect to shareholders purchasing shares through financial intermediaries.
Share Class Comparison. Use the following chart to help you compare the different share classes. The discussion following this chart will tell you whether you are entitled to a reduction or waiver of any sales
charges.
| Class A | Class C | Class Z | Class R6† | |
| Minimum purchase amount | $2,500 | $2,500 | Institutions: $5 million Group Retirement Plans: None | Institutions: $5 million Group Retirement Plans: None |
| Minimum amount for subsequent purchases | $100 | $100 | None | None |
| Maximum initial sales charge | 4.50% of the public offering price | None | None | None |
| Contingent Deferred Sales Charge (CDSC) (as a percentage of the lower of original purchase price or net asset value at redemption) | 1.00% on sales of $1 million or more made within 12 months of purchase | 1.00% on sales made within 12 months of purchase | None | None |
| Annual distribution and service (12b-1) fees (shown as a percentage of average daily net assets) | 0.25% | 1.00% | None | None |
Notes to Share Class
Comparison Table:
° The minimum initial and subsequent
investment requirements do not apply to employee savings plan accounts, payroll deduction plan accounts, or when exchanging all shares of an account to an existing account with the same registration. The minimum
initial investment for Class A and Class C shares for retirement accounts and custodial accounts for minors is $1,000 and the minimum subsequent investment is $100. The minimum initial and subsequent investment for
AIP accounts is $50 (if your shares are held through a broker or other financial intermediary, the broker or intermediary is responsible for determining the minimum initial and subsequent investment for AIP
accounts).
° If the value of your Class A,
Class C or Class Z account with PMFS is less than $10,000, the Fund will deduct a $15 annual account maintenance fee from your account. The $15 annual account maintenance fee will be assessed during the 4th calendar
quarter of each year. Any applicable CDSC on the shares redeemed to pay the $15 account maintenance fee will be waived. The $15 account maintenance fee will not be charged on: (i) accounts during the first six months
from inception of the account, (ii) accounts which are authorized for
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electronic delivery of account
statements, transaction confirmations, prospectuses and fund shareholder reports, (iii) omnibus accounts or accounts for which a broker or other financial intermediary is responsible for recordkeeping, (iv)
institutional accounts, (v) group retirement plans, (vi) AIP accounts or employee savings plan accounts, (vii) accounts with the same registration associated with multiple share classes within the Fund, provided that
the aggregate value of share classes with the same registration within the Fund is $10,000 or more, or (viii) clients with assets of $50,000 or more across the PGIM family of mutual funds. For more information, see
“Purchase, Redemption and Pricing of Fund Shares—Account Maintenance Fee” in the SAI.
° For more information about the CDSC
and how it is calculated, see “How to Sell Your Shares—Contingent Deferred Sales Charge (CDSC).”
° Investors who purchase $1 million or
more of Class A shares and redeem those shares within 12 months of purchase are subject to a CDSC of 1.00%, but are not subject to an initial sales charge.
° These distribution and service
(12b-1) fees are paid from the Fund's assets on a continuous basis. The service fee for Class A and Class C shares is 0.25%. The distribution fee for Class A shares is limited to 0.25% (including up to 0.25% as a
service fee). Class C shares pay a distribution fee (in addition to the service fee) of 0.75% and 0.25%, respectively.
° With respect to Class Z shares
purchased by current and former employees (including their spouses, children and parents), the minimum initial investment is generally $2,500; $1,000 for retirement accounts and custodial accounts for minors. There is
no minimum for payroll deduction for such Class Z purchases. The minimum initial and subsequent investment for AIP accounts for such Class Z purchases is $50 (if shares are held through a broker or other financial
intermediary, the broker or intermediary is responsible for determining the minimum initial and subsequent investment for AIP accounts). With respect to Class Z shares purchased by institutional investors, including
corporations, banks, governmental entities, municipalities, hospitals, insurance companies and IRS Section 501 entities, such as foundations and endowments, the minimum initial investment for such investors generally
is $5 million.
° With respect to Class R6 shares
purchased by institutional investors, including, but not limited to, corporations, governmental entities, municipalities, hospitals, insurance companies and IRS Section 501 entities, such as foundations and endowments
and other institutional investors who meet certain requirements as detailed herein, the minimum initial investment for such investors generally is $5 million.
†Formerly known as Class Q.
Closure of Certain Share Classes to
New Group Retirement Plans
Effective on or about June 1, 2018
(the “Effective Date”), the Fund’s Class A, Class C, Class R and Class Z shares, as applicable, were closed to investments by new group retirement plans, except as discussed below. Existing group
retirement plans as of the Effective Date may keep their investments in their current share class and may continue to make additional purchases or exchanges of that class of shares. As of the Effective Date, all new
group retirement plans wishing to add the Fund as a new addition to the plan generally will be into one of the available Class R6 shares, Class R2 shares, or Class R4 shares of the Fund, as applicable.
In addition, on or about the
Effective Date, the Class R shares of any fund were closed to all new investors, except as discussed below. Due to the closing of the Class R shares to new investors, effective on or about the Effective Date new IRA
investors may only purchase Class A, Class C, Class Z or Class R6 shares of the Fund, as applicable, subject to share class eligibility. Following the Effective Date, no new accounts may be established in the
Fund’s Class R shares and no Class R shares may be purchased or acquired by any new Class R shareholder, except as discussed below.
| Class A | Class C | Class Z | Class R | |
| Existing Investors (Group Retirement Plans, IRAs, and all other investors) | No Change | No Change | No Change | No Change |
| New Group Retirement Plans | Closed to group retirement plans wishing to add the share classes as new additions to plan
menus on or about June 1, 2018, subject to certain exceptions below | |||
| New IRAs | No Change | No Change | No Change | Closed to all new investors on or about June 1, 2018, subject to certain exceptions below |
| All Other New Investors | No Change | No Change | No Change | |
However, the following new
investors may continue to purchase Class A, Class C, Class R and Class Z shares of the Fund, as applicable:
| ■ | Eligible group retirement plans that are exercising their one-time 90-day repurchase privilege in the Fund will be permitted to purchase such share classes. |
| ■ | Plan participants in a group retirement plan that offers Class A, Class C, Class R or Class Z shares of the Fund, as applicable, as of the Effective Date will be permitted to purchase such share classes of the Fund, even if the plan participant did not own shares of that class of the Fund as of the Effective Date. |
| ■ | Certain new group retirement plans or their agents will be permitted to offer such share classes of the Fund after the Effective Date, provided that the plan or its agent has or is actively negotiating a contractual agreement with the Fund’s distributor or service provider to offer such share classes of the Fund prior to or on the Effective Date. |
| ■ | New group retirement plans or their agents that combine with, replace, are otherwise affiliated with, or have third party arrangements with, a current plan that invests in such share classes prior to or on the Effective Date will be permitted to purchase such share classes. |
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| ■ | The Fund also reserves the right to refuse any purchase order that might disrupt management of the Fund or to otherwise modify the closure policy at any time on a case-by-case basis. |
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Reducing or Waiving Class A's and
Class C’s Sales Charges
The following describes the
different ways investors can reduce or avoid paying Class A's sales charge.
Increase the Amount of Your
Investment. You can reduce Class A's sales charge by increasing the amount of your investment. This table shows how the sales charge decreases as the amount of your investment increases:
| Amount of Purchase | Sales Charge as a % of Offering Price* | Sales Charge as a % of Amount Invested* | Dealer Reallowance*** |
| Less than $50,000 | 4.50% | 4.71% | 4.00% |
| $50,000 to $99,999 | 4.00% | 4.17% | 3.50% |
| $100,000 to $249,999 | 3.50% | 3.63% | 3.00% |
| $250,000 to $499,999 | 2.50% | 2.56% | 2.00% |
| $500,000 to $999,999 | 2.00% | 2.04% | 1.75% |
| $1 million to $4,999,999** | None | None | 1.00% |
| $5 million to $9,999,999** | None | None | 0.50% |
| $10 million and over** | None | None | 0.25% |
* Due to rounding in the
calculation of the offering price and the number of shares purchased, the actual sales charge you pay may be more or less than the percentages shown above.
** If you invest $1 million or more, you
can buy only Class A shares, unless you qualify to buy other share classes. If you purchase $1 million or more of Class A shares and sell these shares within 12 months of purchase, you will be subject to a 1.00% CDSC,
although you will not be subject to an initial sales charge. The CDSC is waived for purchases by certain retirement and/or benefit plans.
*** The Dealer Reallowance is the amount
that is paid by the Fund’s distributor to the financial intermediary responsible for the sale of the Fund’s shares. For more information, please see “How Financial Intermediaries are Compensated for
Selling Fund Shares” in this section of the Prospectus.
To satisfy the purchase amounts
above, you can:
| ■ | Use your Rights of Accumulation, which allow you or an eligible group of related investors to combine (1) the current value of Class A, Class B and Class C PGIM Fund shares you or the group already own, (2) the value of money market shares (other than Direct Purchase money market shares) you or an eligible group of related investors have received for shares of other PGIM Funds in an exchange transaction, and (3) the value of the shares you or an eligible group of related investors are purchasing; or |
| ■ | Sign a Letter of Intent, stating in writing that you or an eligible group of related investors will purchase a certain amount of shares in the Fund and other PGIM Funds within 13 months. |
| ■ | Purchases made prior to the effective date of the Letter of Intent will be applied toward the satisfaction of the Letter of Intent to determine the level of sales charge that will be paid pursuant to the Letter of Intent, but will not result in any reduction in the amount of any previously paid sales charge. |
An “eligible group of
related investors” includes any combination of the following:
| ■ | All accounts held in your name (alone or with other account holders) and taxpayer identification number (“TIN”); |
| ■ | Accounts held in your spouse's name (alone or with other account holders) and TIN (see definition of spouse below); |
| ■ | Accounts for your children or your spouse's children, including children for whom you and/or your spouse are legal guardian(s) (e.g., UGMAs and UTMAs); |
| ■ | Accounts in the name and TINs of your parents; |
| ■ | Trusts with you, your spouse, your children, your spouse's children and/or your parents as the beneficiaries; |
| ■ | With limited exclusions, accounts with the same address (exclusions include, but are not limited to, addresses for brokerage firms and other intermediaries and Post Office boxes); and |
| ■ | Accounts held in the name of a company controlled by you (a person, entity or group that holds 25% or more of the outstanding voting securities of a company will be deemed to control the company, and a partnership will be deemed to be controlled by each of its general partners), including employee benefit plans of the company where the accounts are held in the plan's TIN. |
A “spouse” is defined
in this prospectus as follows:
| ■ | The person to whom you are legally married. We also consider your spouse to include the following: |
| ■ | An individual of the same gender with whom you have been joined in a civil union, or legal contract similar to marriage; |
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| ■ | A domestic partner, who is an individual (including one of the same gender) with whom you have shared a primary residence for at least six months, in a relationship as a couple where you, your domestic partner or both provide for the personal or financial welfare of the other without a fee, to whom you are not related by blood; or |
| ■ | An individual with whom you have a common law marriage, which is a marriage in a state where such marriages are recognized between a man and a woman arising from the fact that the two live together and hold themselves out as being married. |
The value of shares held by you or
an eligible group of related investors will be determined by the value of your existing Class A shares calculated at current NAV plus maximum sales charge with Class B and Class C shares calculated at current NAV.
Note: Class Z shares and Class R6 shares cannot be aggregated with any other share class for purposes of reducing or waiving Class A's initial sales charge.
If your shares are held directly
by the Transfer Agent, and you believe you qualify for a reduction or waiver of Class A’s or Class C's sales charges, you must notify the Transfer Agent at the time of the qualifying share purchase in order to
receive the applicable reduction or waiver. If your shares are held through a broker or other financial intermediary, and you believe you qualify for a reduction or waiver of Class A’s or Class C's sales
charges, you must notify your broker or intermediary at the time of the qualifying purchase in order to receive the applicable reduction or waiver. Shares held through a broker or other financial intermediary will not
be systematically aggregated with shares held directly by the Transfer Agent for purposes of receiving a reduction or waiver of Class A’s or Class C's sales charges. The reduced or waived sales charge will be
granted subject to confirmation of account holdings.
If your shares are held directly
by the Transfer Agent, you must identify the eligible group of related investors. Although the Transfer Agent does not require any specific form of documentation in order to establish your eligibility to receive a
waiver or reduction of Class A’s or Class C's sales charges, you may be required to provide appropriate documentation if the Transfer Agent is unable to establish your eligibility.
If your shares are held through a
financial intermediary, the financial intermediary is responsible for determining the specific documentation, if any, that you may need in order to establish your eligibility to receive a waiver or reduction of Class
A’s or Class C's sales charges. Your financial intermediary is also responsible for notifying the Transfer Agent if your share purchase qualifies for a reduction or waiver of Class A’s or Class C's sales
charges.
Purchases of $1 Million or
More. If you purchase $1 million or more of Class A shares, you will not be subject to an initial sales charge, although a CDSC may apply, as previously noted.
Mutual Fund Programs. The initial sales charge on Class A shares will be waived for participants in any fee-based program or trust program sponsored by Prudential or an affiliate that includes the Fund as an
available option. The initial sales charge will also be waived for clients of financial intermediaries in programs that are sponsored by or available through financial intermediaries that offer Class A shares without
an initial sales charge, relating to:
| ■ | Mutual fund “wrap” or asset allocation programs, where the sponsor places fund trades, links its clients' accounts to a master account in the sponsor's name and charges its clients a management, consulting or other fee for its services; or |
| ■ | Mutual fund “supermarket” programs, where the sponsor links its clients' accounts to a master account in the sponsor's name and the sponsor charges a fee for its services. |
Financial intermediaries
sponsoring these mutual fund programs may offer their clients more than one class of shares in the Fund in connection with different pricing options for their programs. Investors should consider carefully any separate
transaction and other fees charged by these programs in connection with investing in each available share class before selecting a share class.
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Group Retirement Plans. Class A’s and Class C’s sales charges will be waived for group retirement plans (including defined contribution plans, defined benefit plans and deferred compensation plans)
available through a retirement plan recordkeeper or third party administrator. If Prudential Retirement Services is the recordkeeper for your group retirement plan, you may call Prudential at (800) 353-2847 with any
questions. Otherwise, investors in group retirement plans should contact their financial intermediary with any questions regarding availability of Class A and Class C shares at net asset value.
Other Types of Investors. Certain other types of investors may purchase Class A shares without paying the initial sales charge, including:
| ■ | Certain directors, officers, current employees (including their spouses, children and parents) and former employees (including their spouses, children and parents) of Prudential and its affiliates, the PGIM Funds, and the investment subadvisers of the PGIM Funds; former employees must have an existing investment in the Fund; |
| ■ | Persons who have retired directly from active service with Prudential or one of its subsidiaries; |
| ■ | Registered representatives and employees of broker-dealers (including their spouses, children and parents) that offer Class A shares; |
| ■ | Investors in IRAs, provided that: (a) the purchase is made either from a directed rollover to such IRA or with the proceeds of a tax-free rollover of assets from a Benefit Plan for which Prudential Retirement (the institutional Benefit Plan recordkeeping entity of Prudential) provides administrative or recordkeeping services, in each case provided that such purchase is made within 60 days of receipt of the Benefit Plan distribution, and (b) the IRA is established through Prudential Retirement as part of its “Rollover IRA” program (regardless of whether or not the purchase consists of proceeds of a tax-free rollover of assets from a Benefit Plan described above); and |
| ■ | Clients of financial intermediaries, who (i) offer Class A shares through a no-load network or platform, (ii) charge clients an ongoing fee for advisory, investment, consulting or similar services, or (iii) offer self-directed brokerage accounts or other similar types of accounts that may or may not charge transaction fees to customers. |
To qualify for a waiver of the
Class A or Class C sales charges at the time of purchase (including exchange of share classes within the Fund), you must notify the Transfer Agent, or the Distributor must be notified by the financial intermediary
facilitating the purchase, that the transaction qualifies for a waiver of the Class A or Class C sales charges. The waiver will be granted subject to confirmation of your account holdings.
Additional Information About
Reducing or Waiving Class A’s and Class C's Sales Charges. The Fund also makes available free of charge, on the Fund's website, in a clear and prominent format, information relating to the Fund's Class A and Class C sales charges, and the different
ways that investors can reduce or avoid paying the initial sales charge. The Fund's website includes hyperlinks that facilitate access to this information.
You may need to provide your
financial intermediary through which you hold Fund shares with the information necessary to take full advantage of reduced or waived Class A or Class C sales charges.
The Distributor may reallow the
Class A sales charge to dealers.
Qualifying for Class Z Shares
Institutional Investors. Various institutional investors may purchase Class Z shares, including corporations, banks, governmental entities, municipalities, hospitals, insurance companies and IRS Section 501
entities, such as foundations and endowments. The minimum initial investment for such investors generally is $5 million; however, such minimum initial investment may be modified for certain financial firms that submit
orders on behalf of their clients. A Fund or the Distributor may lower, waive, or otherwise modify the minimum initial investment for certain categories of investors at their discretion. Institutional investors are
responsible for indicating their eligibility to purchase Class Z shares at the time of purchase. Certain financial intermediaries may require that investments by their institutional investor clients in Class Z shares
be placed directly with the Fund's Transfer Agent. Please contact the Transfer Agent at (800) 225-1852 for further details.
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Mutual Fund Programs. Class Z shares can be purchased by participants in any fee-based program or trust program sponsored by Prudential or an affiliate that includes the Fund as an available option. Class Z
shares also can be purchased by investors in certain programs sponsored by financial intermediaries who offer Class Z shares of the Fund, or whose programs are available through financial intermediaries that offer
Class Z shares of the Fund, for:
| ■ | Mutual fund “wrap” or asset allocation programs where the sponsor places fund trades, links its clients' accounts to a master account in the sponsor's name and charges its clients a management, consulting or other fee for its services; or |
| ■ | Mutual fund “supermarket” programs where the sponsor links its clients' accounts to a master account in the sponsor's name and the sponsor charges a fee for its services. |
Financial intermediaries
sponsoring these mutual fund programs may offer their clients more than one class of shares in the Fund in connection with different pricing options for their programs. Investors should consider carefully any separate
transaction and other fees charged by these programs in connection with investing in a share class offered by the program before selecting a share class.
Group Retirement Plans. Group retirement plans (including defined contribution plans, defined benefit plans and deferred compensation plans) available through a retirement plan recordkeeper or third party
administrator may purchase Class Z shares. If Prudential Retirement Services is the recordkeeper for your group retirement plan, you may call Prudential at (800) 353-2847 with any questions. Otherwise, investors in
group retirement plans should contact their financial intermediary with any questions regarding availability of Class Z shares.
Other Types of Investors. Class Z shares also can be purchased by any of the following:
| ■ | Certain participants in the MEDLEY Program (group variable annuity contracts) sponsored by Prudential for whom Class Z shares of the PGIM Funds are an available option; |
| ■ | Current and former Directors/Trustees of mutual funds managed by PGIM Investments or any other affiliate of Prudential; |
| ■ | Current and former employees (including their spouses, children and parents) of Prudential and its affiliates; former employees must have an existing investment in the Fund; |
| ■ | Prudential (including any program or account sponsored by Prudential or an affiliate that includes the Fund as an available option); |
| ■ | PGIM Funds, including PGIM funds-of-funds; |
| ■ | Qualified state tuition programs (529 plans); and |
| ■ | Investors working with fee-based consultants for investment selection and allocations. |
Qualifying for Class R6 Shares
Group Retirement Plans. Group retirement plans (including defined contribution plans, defined benefit plans and deferred compensation plans) available through a retirement plan recordkeeper or third party
administrator may purchase Class R6 shares. If Prudential Retirement Services is the recordkeeper for your group retirement plan, you may call Prudential at (800) 353-2847 with any questions. Otherwise, investors in
group retirement plans should contact their financial intermediary with any questions regarding availability of Class R6 shares.
Institutional Investors. Various institutional investors may purchase Class R6 shares, including, but not limited to, corporations, governmental entities, municipalities, hospitals, insurance companies and IRS
Section 501 entities, such as foundations and endowments and other institutional investors who meet requirements as detailed below. The minimum initial investment for such investors generally is $5 million; however,
such minimum initial investment may be modified for certain financial firms that submit orders on behalf of their clients. The Fund or the Distributor may lower, waive or otherwise modify the minimum initial
investment for certain categories of investors at their discretion. Institutional investors are responsible for indicating their eligibility to purchase Class R6 shares at the time of purchase.
Other Types of Investors. Class R6 shares may also be purchased by Prudential (including any program or account sponsored by Prudential or an affiliate that includes the Fund as an available option), and PGIM funds,
including PGIM funds-of-funds.
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Class R6 shares may only be
purchased from financial intermediaries who offer such shares.
Class R6 shares are offered to
eligible investors provided that the Fund or its affiliates are not required to make or pay any type of administrative, sub-accounting, networking or revenue sharing payments or similar fees paid to intermediaries.
How Financial Intermediaries are
Compensated for Selling Fund Shares
The PGIM Funds are distributed by
Prudential Investment Management Services LLC (the “Distributor”), a broker-dealer that is licensed to sell securities. The Distributor generally does not sell shares of the Funds directly to the public,
but instead markets and sells the Funds through other broker-dealers, 401(k) providers, retirement plan administrators, and other financial intermediaries. Each Fund is managed by the Manager.
Only persons licensed with the
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”), as a registered representative (often referred to as a broker or financial adviser) and associated with a specific financial services firm may sell
shares of a mutual fund to you, or to a retirement plan in which you participate.
Rule 12b-1 Fees & Sales
Charges. The Distributor has agreements in place with financial intermediaries defining how much each firm will be paid for the sale of a particular mutual fund from front-end sales charges, if any,
paid by Fund shareholders and from fees paid to the Distributor by the Fund pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act (Rule 12b-1). These financial intermediaries then pay their registered representatives who sold you
the Fund some or all of what they received from the Distributor. The registered representatives may receive a payment when the sale is made and can, in some cases, continue to receive ongoing payments while you are
invested in the Fund. The Distributor may change at any time, without prior notice, the amount of Rule 12b-1 fees that it pays (when the sale is made and/or any ongoing payments) to financial intermediaries and
registered representatives so that the Distributor may retain all or a portion of such fees.
“Revenue Sharing”
Payments. In addition to the compensation received by financial intermediaries as described above, the Manager or certain of its affiliates (but not the Distributor) may make additional payments
(which are often referred to as “revenue sharing” payments) to the financial intermediaries from the Manager's or certain affiliates' own resources, including from the profits derived from management or
other fees received from the Fund, without additional direct or indirect cost to the Fund or its shareholders, provided that no such additional payments to financial intermediaries are made with respect to the
Fund’s Class R6 shares. Revenue sharing payments are in addition to the front-end sales charges paid by Fund shareholders or fees paid pursuant to plans adopted in accordance with Rule 12b-1. The Manager or
certain of its affiliates may revise the terms of any existing revenue sharing arrangement, and may enter into additional revenue sharing arrangements with other financial intermediaries in the future.
Revenue sharing arrangements are
intended to foster the sale of Fund shares and/or to compensate financial intermediaries for assisting in marketing or promotional activities in connection with the sale of Fund shares. In exchange for revenue sharing
payments, the Fund generally expects to receive the opportunity for the Fund to be sold through the financial intermediaries' sales force or access to third-party platforms or other marketing programs, including but
not limited to mutual fund “supermarket” platforms or other sales programs. To the extent that financial intermediaries receiving revenue sharing payments sell more shares of the Fund, the Manager and
Distributor benefit from the increase in Fund assets as a result of the management and distribution fees they receive from the Fund, respectively. Increased sales of Fund shares also may benefit shareholders, since an
increase in Fund assets may allow the Fund to expand its investment opportunities, and increased Fund assets may result in reduced Fund operating expenses.
Revenue sharing payments, as well
as the other types of payments described above, may provide an incentive for financial intermediaries and their registered representatives to recommend or sell shares of the Fund to you and in doing so may create
conflicts of interest between the firms' financial interests and their duties to customers.
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If your Fund shares are purchased
through a retirement plan, the Manager or certain of its affiliates (but not the Distributor) may also make revenue sharing payments to the plan's recordkeeper or an affiliate, which generally is not a registered
broker-dealer.
It is likely that financial
intermediaries that execute portfolio transactions for the Fund will include those firms with which the Manager and/or certain of its affiliates have entered into revenue sharing arrangements. Neither the Manager nor
any subadviser may consider sales of Fund shares as a factor in the selection of broker-dealers to execute portfolio transactions for the Fund. The Manager and certain of its affiliates will not use Fund brokerage as
any part of revenue sharing payments to financial intermediaries.
Revenue sharing payments are
usually calculated based on a percentage of Fund sales and/or Fund assets attributable to a particular financial services firm. Payments may also be based on other criteria or factors, for example, a fee per each
transaction. Specific payment formulas are negotiated based on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, reputation in the industry, ability to attract and retain assets, target markets, customer
relationships and scope and quality of services provided. The Manager and/or certain of its affiliates make such payments to financial intermediaries in amounts that generally range from 0.02% up to 0.20% of Fund
assets serviced and maintained by the financial intermediaries or from 0.10% to 0.25% of sales of Fund shares attributable to the firm. In addition, the Manager and/or certain of its affiliates may pay flat fees on a
one-time or irregular basis for the initial set-up of the Fund on a financial services intermediary’s systems, participation or attendance at a financial services firm's meeting, or for other reasons. These
amounts are subject to change. In addition, the costs associated with visiting the financial intermediaries to make presentations, and/or train and educate the personnel of the financial intermediaries, may be paid by
the Manager and/or certain of its affiliates, subject to applicable FINRA regulations.
Please contact the registered
representative (or his or her firm) who sold shares of the Fund to you for details about any payments the financial intermediary may receive from the Manager and/or certain of its affiliates. You should review your
financial intermediary’s disclosure and/or talk to your financial intermediary to obtain more information on how this compensation may have influenced your financial intermediary’s recommendation of the
Fund. Additional information regarding these revenue sharing payments is included in the SAI which is available to you at no additional charge.
Other Payments Received by Financial
Intermediaries
Administrative, Sub-Accounting and
Networking Fees. In addition to, rather than in lieu of, the fees that the Fund may pay to financial intermediaries as described above, and the fees the Fund pays to the Transfer Agent, the Transfer Agent
or its affiliates may enter into additional agreements on behalf of the Fund with financial intermediaries pursuant to which the Fund will pay financial intermediaries for certain administrative, sub-accounting and
networking services, provided that no such additional payments to financial intermediaries are made with respect to the Fund’s Class R6 shares. These services include maintenance of shareholder accounts by
the firms, such as recordkeeping and other activities that otherwise would be performed by the Transfer Agent. Sub-accounting services encompass activities that reduce the burden of recordkeeping to the Fund.
Administrative fees are paid to a firm that undertakes, for example, shareholder communications on behalf of the Fund. Networking services are services undertaken to support the electronic transmission of shareholder
purchase and redemption orders through the National Securities Clearing Corporation (“NSCC”).
These payments, as discussed
above, are paid out of Fund assets and generally based on either (1) a percentage of the average daily net assets of Fund shareholders serviced by a financial intermediary or (2) a fixed dollar amount for each account
serviced by a financial services firm. From time to time, the Manager or certain of its affiliates (but not the Distributor) also may pay a portion of the fees for the services to the financial intermediaries at their
own expense and out of their own resources.
In addition, the Fund reimburses
the Distributor for NSCC fees that are invoiced to the Distributor as the party to the Agreement with NSCC for the administrative services provided by NSCC to the Fund and its shareholders. These administrative
services provided by NSCC to the Fund and its shareholders include transaction processing and settlement through Fund/SERV, electronic networking services to support the transmission of shareholder purchase and
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redemption orders to and from financial
intermediaries, and related recordkeeping provided by NSCC to the Fund and its shareholders. These payments are generally based on a transaction fee rate for certain administrative services plus a fee for other
administrative services.
Anti-Money Laundering
In accordance with federal law, the
Fund has adopted policies designed to deter money laundering. Under the policies, the Fund will not knowingly engage in financial transactions that involve proceeds from unlawful activity or support terrorist
activities, and shall file government reports, including those concerning suspicious activities, as required by applicable law. The Fund will seek to confirm the identity of potential shareholders to include both
individuals and entities through documentary and non-documentary methods. Non-documentary methods may include verification of name, address, date of birth and tax identification number with selected credit bureaus.
The Fund has also appointed an Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer to oversee the Fund's anti-money laundering policies.
Understanding the Price You'll
Pay
The price you pay for each share of
the Fund is based on the share value. The share value of a mutual fund—known as the net asset value or NAV—is determined by a simple calculation: it's the total value of the Fund (assets minus liabilities) divided by the total number of shares outstanding. For example, if the
value of the investments held by Fund XYZ (minus its liabilities) is $1,000 and there are 100 shares of Fund XYZ owned by shareholders, the value of one share of the Fund—or the NAV—is $10 ($1,000 divided
by 100).
Mutual Fund
Shares
The NAV of
mutual fund shares changes every day because the value of a fund's portfolio changes constantly. For example, if Fund XYZ holds ACME Corp. bonds in its portfolio and the price of ACME bonds goes up, while the value of
the Fund's other holdings remains the same and expenses don't change, the NAV of Fund XYZ will increase.
The Fund's NAV will be determined
every day on which the Fund is open as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) (generally, 4:00 p.m. Eastern time). The Fund's portfolio securities are valued based upon
market quotations or, if market quotations are not readily available, at fair value as determined in good faith under procedures established by the Board. These procedures include pricing methodologies for determining
the fair value of certain types of securities and other assets held by the Fund that do not have quoted market prices, and authorize the use of other pricing sources, such as bid prices supplied by a principal market
maker and evaluated prices supplied by pricing vendors that employ analytic methodologies that take into account the prices of similar securities and other market factors.
If the Fund determines that a
market quotation for a security is not reliable based on, among other things, events or market conditions that occur with respect to one or more securities held by the Fund or the market as a whole, after the
quotation is derived or after the closing of the primary market on which the security is traded, but before the time that the Fund's NAV is determined, the Fund may use “fair value pricing,” which is
implemented by a valuation committee (“Valuation Committee”) consisting of representatives of the Manager or by the Board. The subadviser often provides relevant information for the Valuation Committee
meeting. In addition, the Fund may use fair value pricing determined by the Valuation Committee or Board if the pricing source does not provide an evaluated price for a security or provides an evaluated price that, in
the judgment of the Manager (which may be based upon a recommendation from the subadviser), does not represent fair value. Equity securities that are traded on foreign exchanges are valued using pricing vendor
services that provide fair value model prices. The models generate an evaluated adjustment factor for each security, which is applied to the local closing price to adjust it for post closing market movements.
Utilizing that evaluated adjustment factor, the vendor provides an evaluated price for each security. Non-US securities markets are open for trading on weekends and other days when the Fund does not price shares.
Therefore, the value of the Fund’s shares may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or redeem the Fund’s shares.
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Investments in open-end
non-exchange-traded mutual funds will be valued at their NAV as determined as of the close of the NYSE on the date of valuation, which will reflect the mutual fund’s fair valuation procedures.
Different valuation methods may
result in differing values for the same security. The fair value of a portfolio security that the Fund uses to determine its NAV may differ from the security's quoted or published price. If the Fund needs to implement
fair value pricing after the NAV publishing deadline but before shares of the Fund are processed, the NAV you receive or pay may differ from the published NAV price. The prospectuses of any other mutual funds in which
the Fund invests will explain each fund’s procedures and policies with respect to the use of fair value pricing.
Fair value pricing procedures are
designed to result in prices for the Fund's securities and its NAV that are reasonable in light of the circumstances which make or have made market quotations unavailable or unreliable, and may have the effect of
reducing arbitrage opportunities available to short-term traders. There is no assurance, however, that fair value pricing will more accurately reflect the market value of a security than the market price of such
security on that day or that it will prevent dilution of the Fund's NAV by short-term traders.
What Price Will You Pay for Shares
of the Fund? For Class A shares, you'll pay the public offering price, which is the NAV next determined after we receive your order to purchase, plus an initial sales charge (unless you're entitled to a
waiver). For all other share classes, you will pay the NAV next determined after we receive your order to purchase (remember, there are no up-front sales charges for these share classes). Your broker may charge you a
separate or additional fee for purchases of shares. Unless regular trading on the NYSE closes before 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, or later than 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, your order to purchase must be received by 4:00 p.m.
Eastern time in order to receive that day's NAV. In the event that regular trading on the NYSE closes before 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, you will receive the following day's NAV if your order to purchase is received after
the close of regular trading on the NYSE. The Fund will not treat an intraday unscheduled disruption in NYSE trading as a closure of the NYSE and will price its shares as of 4:00 p.m., if the particular disruption
directly affects only the NYSE. We deem an order received when it is received by the Transfer Agent at its processing center. If you submit your order through a broker or other financial intermediary, it may be deemed
received when received by the broker or financial intermediary.
Each business day, the
Fund’s current NAV per share is made available at www.pgiminvestments.com (click on “Prices and Yields,” under the “I’m Looking For…” section, and then select a fund).
Additional Shareholder Services
As a Fund shareholder, you can take
advantage of the following services and privileges:
Automatic Reinvestment. As we explained in the “Fund Distributions and Tax Issues” section, the Fund pays out—or distributes—its net investment income and net capital gains to all
shareholders. For your convenience, we will automatically reinvest your distributions in the Fund at NAV, without any sales charge. If you want your distributions paid in cash, you can indicate this preference on your
application, or by notifying your broker or the Transfer Agent in writing (at the address below) at least five business days before the date we determine who receives dividends. For accounts held at the Transfer Agent
(PMFS), distributions of $10.00 or less on non-retirement accounts will not be paid out in cash, but will be automatically reinvested into your account.
Prudential Mutual Fund Services
LLC
P.O. Box 9658
Providence, RI 02940
P.O. Box 9658
Providence, RI 02940
Automatic Investment Plan
(AIP). You can make regular purchases of the Fund by having a fixed amount of money automatically withdrawn from your bank or brokerage account at specified intervals. The minimum for subsequent
investments through newly-established AIP accounts must be at least $50 monthly.
Retirement Plan Services. Prudential offers a wide variety of retirement plans for individuals and institutions, including large and small businesses. For information on IRAs, including Roth IRAs or SEP-IRAs for a
one-person business, please contact your financial adviser. If you are interested in opening a 401(k) or other company-sponsored retirement
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plan (SIMPLE IRAs, SEP plans, Keoghs, 403(b)(7)
plans, pension and profit-sharing plans), your financial adviser will help you determine which retirement plan best meets your needs. Complete instructions about how to establish and maintain your plan and how to open
accounts for you and your employees will be included in the retirement plan kit you receive in the mail.
Systematic Withdrawal Plan. A Systematic Withdrawal Plan is available that will provide you with monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual redemption checks. The Systematic Withdrawal Plan is not available to
participants in certain retirement plans. Please contact PMFS at (800) 225-1852 for more details.
Reports to Shareholders. Every year we will send you an annual report (along with an updated prospectus) and a semi-annual report, which contain important financial information about the Fund. To reduce Fund
expenses, we may send one annual shareholder report, one semi-annual shareholder report and one annual prospectus per household, unless you instruct us or your financial intermediary otherwise. If each Fund
shareholder in your household would like to receive a copy of the Fund's prospectus and shareholder reports, please call us toll free at (800) 225-1852. We will begin sending additional copies of these documents
within 30 days of receipt of your request.
HOW TO SELL YOUR SHARES
You can sell your Fund shares for
cash at any time, subject to certain restrictions. For more information about these restrictions, see “Restrictions on Sales” below.
When you sell shares of the
Fund—also known as redeeming your shares—the price you will receive will be the NAV next determined after the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary receives your order to sell (less any
applicable CDSC).
Shares Held by Financial
Intermediaries. If your financial intermediary holds your shares, your financial intermediary must receive your order to sell no later than the time regular trading on the NYSE
closes—which is usually 4:00 p.m. Eastern time—to process the sale on that day. In the event that regular trading on the NYSE closes before 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, you will receive the following day's NAV
if your order to sell is received after the close of regular trading on the NYSE.
Shares Held by the Transfer
Agent. If the Transfer Agent holds your shares, PMFS must receive your order to sell no later than the time regular trading on the NYSE closes—which is usually 4:00 p.m.
Eastern time—to process the sale on that day. In the event that regular trading on the NYSE closes before 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, you will receive the following day's NAV if your order to sell is received after
the close of regular trading on the NYSE. You may contact the Transfer Agent at:
Prudential Mutual Fund Services
LLC
P.O. Box 9658
Providence, RI 02940
P.O. Box 9658
Providence, RI 02940
Payment for Shares You Have Sold
Shares Held by Financial
Intermediaries. Typically, if your order to sell shares is received in good order, payment will be credited to your account within 1 to 3 business days after the order is received, but
in any event within seven days. Your broker may charge you a separate or additional fee for sales of shares.
Shares Held by the Transfer Agent.
Typically, if your order to sell shares is received in good order, we will send payment on the next business day, but in any event within seven days, regardless of the
method of payment (e.g., payment by check, wire or electronic transfer (ACH)).
Restrictions on Sales
If you are selling shares you
recently purchased with a check, we may delay sending you the proceeds until your check clears, which can take up to seven days from the purchase date.
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As a result of restrictions on
withdrawals and transfers imposed by Section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, we may consider a redemption request to not be in good order until we obtain information from your employer that is
reasonably necessary to ensure that the payment is in compliance with such restrictions, if applicable. In such an event, the redemption request will not be in good order and we will not process it until we obtain
information from your employer.
In addition, there are certain
times when you may not be able to sell shares of the Fund or when we may delay paying you the proceeds from a sale. As permitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the former may happen only during unusual
market conditions or emergencies when the Fund is unable to determine the value of its assets or sell its holdings. For more information, see the SAI.
If you hold your shares directly
with the Transfer Agent, you will need to have the signature on your sell order Medallion signature guaranteed if:
| ■ | You are selling more than $100,000 of shares; |
| ■ | You want the redemption proceeds made payable to someone that is not in the Transfer Agent’s records; |
| ■ | You want the redemption proceeds sent to an address that is not in the Transfer Agent’s records; |
| ■ | You are a business or a trust; or |
| ■ | You are redeeming due to the death of the shareholder or on behalf of the shareholder. |
The Medallion signature guarantee
may be obtained from an authorized officer from a bank, broker, dealer, securities exchange or association, clearing agency, savings association, or credit union that is participating in one of the recognized
Medallion guarantee programs (STAMP, SEMP, or NYSE MSP), but not from a notary public. The Medallion signature guarantee must be appropriate for the dollar amount of the transaction. The Transfer Agent reserves the
right to reject sale transactions where the value of the transaction exceeds the value of the surety coverage indicated on the Medallion imprint. The Fund may change the signature guarantee requirements from time to
time without prior notice to shareholders. For more information, see the SAI.
How the Fund Pays for Shares You
Have Sold
Under normal market conditions, the
Fund expects to pay for shares that you have sold primarily by using cash or cash equivalents in its portfolio or selling portfolio assets to generate cash. Supplementally, the Fund may also raise cash to pay for sold
shares by short-term borrowing in the form of overdrafts permitted by the Fund’s custodian bank and/or by short-term borrowing from a group of banks through an unsecured credit facility, which is intended to
provide the Fund with a temporary additional source of liquidity. In certain circumstances the Fund reserves the right to pay for sold shares by giving you securities from the Fund’s portfolio. If you receive
securities, you would incur transaction costs in converting the securities to cash, and you may receive less for the securities than the price at which they were valued for redemption purposes.
During stressed market conditions,
it may be impractical or impossible to raise sufficient cash to pay for sold shares through the primary methods described above. In these circumstances, the Fund would be more likely to rely more heavily on the credit
facility as a source of liquidity, as described above.
Contingent Deferred Sales Charge
(CDSC)
If you sell Class C shares within
12 months of purchase, you will have to pay a CDSC of 1.00%. In addition, if you purchase $1 million or more of Class A shares, although you are not subject to an initial sales charge, you are subject to a 1.00% CDSC
for shares redeemed within 12 months of purchase (the CDSC is waived for purchases by certain retirement and/or benefit plans). To keep the CDSC as low as possible, we will sell amounts representing shares in the
following order:
| ■ | Amounts representing shares you purchased with reinvested dividends and distributions, |
| ■ | Amounts representing the increase in NAV above the total amount of payments for shares made during the past 12 months for Class A shares (in certain cases) and 12 months for Class C shares, and |
| ■ | Amounts representing the cost of shares held beyond the CDSC period (12 months for Class A shares (in certain cases) and 12 months for Class C shares). |
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Since shares that fall into any of
the categories listed above are not subject to the CDSC, selling them first helps you to avoid—or at least minimize—the CDSC.
Having sold the exempt shares
first, if there are any remaining shares that are subject to the CDSC, we will apply the CDSC to amounts representing the cost of shares held for the longest period of time within the applicable CDSC period.
The CDSC is calculated based on
the lesser of the original purchase price or the net asset value on redemption. The rate decreases on the anniversary date of your purchase.
The holding period for purposes of
determining the applicable CDSC will be calculated from the anniversary date of the purchase, excluding any time Class C shares were held in a money market fund.
Waiver of the CDSC—Class A
Shares
The CDSC will be waived if the
Class A shares are sold:
| ■ | After a shareholder is deceased or permanently disabled (or, in the case of a trust account, after the death or permanent disability of the grantor). This waiver applies to individual shareholders, as well as shares held in joint tenancy, provided the shares were purchased before the death or permanent disability; |
| ■ | To provide for certain distributions—made without IRS penalty—from a qualified or tax-deferred retirement plan, benefit plan, IRA or Section 403(b) custodial account; and |
| ■ | To withdraw excess contributions from a qualified or tax-deferred retirement plan, IRA or Section 403(b) custodial account. |
For more information, see the
SAI.
Waiver of the CDSC—Class C
Shares
The CDSC will be waived if the
Class C shares are sold:
| ■ | After a shareholder is deceased or permanently disabled (or, in the case of a trust account, after the death or permanent disability of the grantor). This waiver applies to individual shareholders, as well as shares held in joint tenancy, provided the shares were purchased before the death or permanent disability; |
| ■ | To provide for certain distributions—made without IRS penalty—from a qualified or tax-deferred retirement plan, benefit plan, IRA or Section 403(b) custodial account; and |
| ■ | To withdraw excess contributions from a qualified or tax-deferred retirement plan, IRA or Section 403(b) custodial account. |
For more information, see the
SAI.
Involuntary Redemption of Small
Accounts Held by the Transfer Agent
If the value of your account with
PMFS is less than $500 for any reason, we may sell your shares (without charging any CDSC) and close your account. We would do this to minimize the Fund's expenses paid by other shareholders. The involuntary sale
provisions do not apply to Automatic Investment Plan (AIP) accounts, employee savings plan accounts, payroll deduction plan accounts, retirement accounts (such as a 401(k) plan, an IRA or other qualified or
tax-deferred plan or account), omnibus accounts, and accounts for which a broker or other financial intermediary is responsible for recordkeeping. Prior thereto, if you make a sale that reduces your account value to
less than the threshold, we may sell the rest of your shares (without charging any CDSC) and close your account; this involuntary sale does not apply to shareholders who own their shares as part of a retirement
account. For more information, see “Purchase, Redemption and Pricing of Fund Shares—Involuntary Redemption” in the SAI.
Account Maintenance Fee for Accounts
Held by the Transfer Agent
If the value of your account with
PMFS is less than $10,000, with certain exclusions, a $15 annual account maintenance fee will be deducted from your account during the 4th calendar quarter of each year. Any applicable CDSC on the shares redeemed to
pay the account maintenance fee will be waived. For more information, see “Purchase, Redemption and Pricing of Fund Shares—Account Maintenance Fee” in the SAI.
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90-Day Repurchase Privilege
After you redeem your shares, you
have a 90-day period during which you may reinvest back into your account any of the redemption proceeds in shares of the same Fund without paying an initial sales charge. In order to take advantage of this privilege,
you must notify the Transfer Agent or your broker at the time of the repurchase. This privilege can only be used once in a 12-month period. For more information, see the SAI.
The terms of this privilege may
vary by financial intermediary. For more information, see “Appendix A: Waivers and Discounts Available From Certain Financial Intermediaries.”
Retirement Plans
To sell shares and receive a
distribution from your retirement account, call your broker or the Transfer Agent for a distribution request form. There are special distribution and income tax withholding requirements for distributions from
retirement plans and you must submit a withholding form with your request to avoid delay. If your retirement plan account is held for you by your employer or plan trustee, you must arrange for the distribution request
to be signed and sent by the plan administrator or trustee. For additional information, see the SAI.
HOW TO EXCHANGE YOUR SHARES
You can generally exchange your
shares of the Fund for shares of the same class in certain other PGIM Funds—including PGIM Government Money Market Fund—if you satisfy the minimum investment requirements. For example, you can exchange
Class A shares of the Fund for Class A shares of other funds in the PGIM Funds mutual fund family, but you can’t exchange Class A shares for a different share class of another fund.
In addition, Class R6 shares
cannot be exchanged for Class R6 shares of the Prudential Day One Funds or the PGIM 60/40 Allocation Fund.
After an exchange, at redemption,
any CDSC will be calculated from the date of the initial purchase, excluding any time that Class B or Class C shares were held in PGIM Government Money Market Fund. We may change the terms of any exchange privilege
after giving you 60 days' notice.
Note: Class B shares may not be
purchased or acquired by any Class B shareholder except by exchange from Class B shares of another fund or through dividend and/or capital gains reinvestment.
There is no sales charge for
exchanges. However, if you exchange—and then sell—shares within the applicable CDSC period, you must still pay the applicable CDSC. At the time of exchange, CDSC liable shares and free shares move
proportionally according to the percentage of total shares you are exchanging. If you have exchanged Class B or Class C shares into PGIM Government Money Market Fund, the time you hold the Class B or Class C shares in
the money market fund will not be counted in calculating the required holding period for CDSC liability.
For investors in certain programs
sponsored by financial intermediaries that offer shares of the Fund, or whose programs are available through financial intermediaries that offer shares of the Fund for mutual fund “wrap” or asset
allocation programs or mutual fund “supermarket” programs, an exchange may be made from Class A to Class Z shares of the Fund in certain limited circumstances. Contact your program sponsor or financial
intermediary with any questions.
Exchanging Shares Held by a
Financial Intermediary. If you hold shares through a financial intermediary, you must exchange shares through your financial intermediary.
Exchanging Shares Held by the
Transfer Agent. If you hold shares through the Transfer Agent, contact your financial advisor or PMFS at (800) 225-1852 or write to PMFS at:
Prudential Mutual Fund Services
LLC
P.O. Box 9658
Providence, RI 02940
P.O. Box 9658
Providence, RI 02940
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If you participate in any
fee-based program where the Fund is an available investment option, you may arrange with the Transfer Agent or your recordkeeper to exchange your Class A shares, if any, for Class Z shares when you elect to
participate in the fee-based program. When you no longer participate in the program, you may arrange with the Transfer Agent or your recordkeeper to exchange all of your Class Z shares, including shares purchased
while you were in the program, for Class A shares.
Remember, as we explained in the
section entitled “Fund Distributions and Tax Issues—If You Sell or Exchange Your Shares,” exchanging shares is considered a sale for tax purposes. Therefore, if the shares you exchange are worth more
than the amount that you paid for them, you may have to pay capital gains tax. For additional information about exchanging shares, see the SAI.
Frequent Purchases and Redemptions
of Fund Shares
The Fund seeks to prevent patterns
of frequent purchases and redemptions of Fund shares by its shareholders. Frequent purchases and sales of shares of the Fund may adversely affect Fund performance and the interests of long-term investors. When a
shareholder engages in frequent or short-term trading, the Fund may have to sell portfolio securities to have the cash necessary to redeem the shareholder's shares. This can happen when it is not advantageous to sell
any securities, so the Fund's performance may be hurt. When large dollar amounts are involved, frequent trading can also make it difficult to use long-term investment strategies because the Fund cannot predict how
much cash it will have to invest. In addition, if the Fund is forced to liquidate investments due to short-term trading activity, it may incur increased brokerage and tax costs. Similarly, the Fund may bear increased
administrative costs as a result of the asset level and investment volatility that accompanies patterns of short-term trading. Moreover, frequent or short-term trading by certain shareholders may cause dilution in the
value of Fund shares held by other shareholders. Funds that invest in non-US securities may be particularly susceptible to frequent trading because time zone differences among international stock markets can allow a
shareholder engaging in frequent trading to exploit fund share prices that may be based on closing prices of non-US securities established some time before the Fund calculates its own share price. Funds that invest in
certain fixed-income securities, such as high-yield bonds or certain asset-backed securities, may also constitute an effective vehicle for a shareholder's frequent trading strategy.
The Fund does not knowingly
accommodate or permit frequent trading, and the Board has adopted policies and procedures designed to discourage or prevent frequent trading activities by Fund shareholders. In an effort to prevent such practices, the
Fund's Transfer Agent monitors trading activity on a daily basis. The Fund has implemented a trading policy that limits the number of times a shareholder may purchase Fund shares or exchange into the Fund and then
sell those shares within a specified period of time (a “round-trip transaction”) as established by the Fund's Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”). The CCO is authorized to set and modify the
parameters of the trading policy at any time as required to prevent the adverse impact of frequent trading on Fund shareholders.
The CCO has defined frequent
trading as one or more round-trip transactions in shares of the Fund within a 30-day period. If this occurs, the shareholder’s account will be subject to a 60-day warning period. If a second round-trip occurs
before the conclusion of the 60-day warning period, a trading suspension will be placed on the account by the Fund’s Transfer Agent that will remain in effect for 90 days. The trading suspension will relate to
purchases and exchange purchases (but not redemptions) in the Fund in which the frequent trading occurred. Exceptions to the trading policy will not normally be granted.
Transactions in the PGIM money
market funds are excluded from this policy. In addition, transactions by affiliated PGIM funds, which are structured as “funds-of-funds,” and invest primarily in other mutual funds within the PGIM Fund
family, are not subject to the limitations of the trading policy and are not considered frequent or short-term trading.
The Fund reserves the right to
reject or cancel, without prior notice, all additional purchases or exchanges into the Fund by a shareholder. Moreover, the Fund may direct a broker-dealer or other intermediary to block a shareholder account from
future trading in the Fund. The Transfer Agent will monitor trading activity over $25,000 per account on a daily basis for a rolling 90-day period. If a purchase into the Fund is rejected or canceled, the shareholder
will receive a return of the purchase amount.
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If the Fund is offered to
qualified plans on an omnibus basis or if Fund shares may be purchased through other omnibus arrangements, such as through a financial intermediary such as a broker-dealer, a bank, an insurance company separate
account, an investment adviser, or an administrator or trustee of a retirement plan (“Intermediaries”) that holds your shares in an account under its name, Intermediaries maintain the individual beneficial
owner records and submit to the Fund only aggregate orders combining the transactions of many beneficial owners. The Fund itself generally cannot monitor trading by particular beneficial owners. The Fund has notified
Intermediaries in writing that it expects the Intermediaries to impose restrictions on transfers by beneficial owners. Intermediaries may impose different or stricter restrictions on transfers by beneficial owners.
Consistent with the restrictions described above, investments in the Fund through retirement programs administered by Prudential Retirement will be similarly identified for frequent purchases and redemptions and
appropriately restricted.
The Transfer Agent also reviews
the aggregate net flows in excess of $1 million. In those cases, the trade detail is reviewed to determine if any of the activity relates to potential offenders. In cases of omnibus orders, the Intermediary may be
contacted by the Transfer Agent to obtain additional information. The Transfer Agent has the authority to cancel all or a portion of the trade if the information reveals that the activity relates to potential
offenders. Where appropriate, the Transfer Agent may request that the Intermediary block a financial adviser or client from accessing the Fund. If necessary, the Fund may be removed from a particular Intermediary's
platform.
Shareholders seeking to engage in
frequent trading activities may use a variety of strategies to avoid detection and, despite the efforts of the Fund to prevent such trading, there is no guarantee that the Fund, the Transfer Agent or Intermediaries
will be able to identify these shareholders or curtail their trading practices. The Fund does not have any arrangements intended to permit trading of its shares in contravention of the policies described above.
Telephone Redemptions or
Exchanges
You may redeem your shares of the
Fund if the proceeds of the redemption do not exceed $250,000 or exchange your shares in any amount by calling the Fund at (800) 225-1852 and communicating your instructions in good order to a customer service
representative before 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. You will receive a redemption or exchange amount based on that day's NAV. Certain restrictions apply; please see the section entitled “How to Sell Your
Shares—Restrictions on Sales” above for additional information. In the event that regular trading on the NYSE closes before 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, you will receive the following day's NAV if your order to
sell or exchange is received after the close of regular trading on the NYSE.
The Transfer Agent will record
your telephone instructions and request specific account information before redeeming or exchanging shares. The Fund will not be liable for losses due to unauthorized or fraudulent telephone instructions if it follows
instructions that it reasonably believes are made by the shareholder. If the Fund does not follow reasonable procedures, it may be liable.
In the event of drastic economic
or market changes, you may have difficulty in redeeming or exchanging your shares by telephone. If this occurs, you should consider redeeming or exchanging your shares by mail or through your broker.
The telephone redemption and
exchange procedures may be modified or terminated at any time. If this occurs, you will receive a written notice from the Fund.
Expedited Redemption Privilege
If you have selected the Expedited
Redemption Privilege, you may have your redemption proceeds sent directly to your bank account. Expedited redemption requests may be made by telephone or letter, must be received by the Transfer Agent prior to 4:00
p.m. Eastern time to receive a redemption amount based on that day's NAV and are subject to the terms and conditions regarding the redemption of shares. In the event that regular trading on the NYSE closes before 4:00
p.m. Eastern time, you will receive the following day's NAV if your order to sell is received after the close of regular trading on the NYSE. For more information, see the SAI. The Expedited Redemption Privilege may
be modified or terminated at any time without notice.
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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
No financial information is
available for the Fund as of the date of this Prospectus, as the Fund is new and has no prior financial information.
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APPENDIX A: WAIVERS AND DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE FROM
CERTAIN FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
The availability of certain sales
charge waivers and discounts will depend on whether you purchase your shares directly from the Fund or through a financial intermediary. Intermediaries may have different policies and procedures regarding the
availability of front-end sales load waivers or contingent deferred (back-end) sales load (CDSC) waivers, which are discussed below. In all instances, it is the purchaser's responsibility to notify the Fund or the
purchaser's financial intermediary at the time of purchase of any relationship or other facts qualifying the purchaser for sales charge waivers or discounts. For waivers and discounts not available through a particular intermediary, shareholders will have to purchase Fund shares through the applicable intermediary to receive these waivers or
discounts.
Shareholders purchasing Fund
shares through a Merrill Lynch platform or account are eligible only for the following load waivers (front-end sales charge waivers and contingent deferred, or back-end, sales charge waivers) and discounts, as
applicable, which may differ from those disclosed elsewhere in this Fund's prospectus or SAI.
Front-end Sales Load Waivers on
Class A Shares available at Merrill Lynch
| ■ | Employer-sponsored retirement, deferred compensation and employee benefit plans (including health savings accounts) and trusts used to fund those plans, provided that the shares are not held in a commission-based brokerage account and shares are held for the benefit of the plan |
| ■ | Shares purchased by or through a 529 Plan, if applicable |
| ■ | Shares purchased through a Merrill Lynch affiliated investment advisory program |
| ■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Merrill Lynch’s platform |
| ■ | Shares of funds purchased through the Merrill Edge Self-Directed platform |
| ■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of capital gains distributions and dividend reinvestment when purchasing shares of the same fund (but not any other fund within the fund family) |
| ■ | Shares exchanged from Class C (i.e. level-load) shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date |
| ■ | Employees and registered representatives of Merrill Lynch or its affiliates and their family members |
| ■ | Directors or Trustees of the Fund, and employees of the Fund’s investment adviser or any of its affiliates, as described in this prospectus |
| ■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (known as Rights of Reinstatement) |
CDSC Waivers on Class A, B and C
Shares available at Merrill Lynch
| ■ | Death or disability of the shareholder |
| ■ | Shares sold as part of a systematic withdrawal plan as described in this prospectus |
| ■ | Return of excess contributions from an IRA Account |
| ■ | Shares sold as part of a required minimum distribution for IRA and retirement accounts due to the shareholder reaching age 70 1⁄2 |
| ■ | Shares sold to pay Merrill Lynch fees but only if the transaction is initiated by Merrill Lynch |
| ■ | Shares acquired through a Right of Reinstatement |
| ■ | Shares held in retirement brokerage accounts, that are exchanged for a lower cost share class due to transfer to certain fee based accounts or platforms (applicable to Class A and C shares only) |
Front-end load Discounts Available
at Merrill Lynch: Breakpoints, Rights of Accumulation & Letters of Intent
| ■ | Breakpoints as described in this prospectus |
| ■ | Rights of Accumulation (ROA) which entitle shareholders to breakpoint discounts will be automatically calculated based on the aggregated holding of fund family assets held by accounts within the purchaser’s household at Merrill Lynch. Eligible fund family assets not held at Merrill Lynch may be included in the ROA calculation only if the shareholder notifies his or her financial advisor about such assets |
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| ■ | Letters of Intent (LOI) which allow for breakpoint discounts based on anticipated purchases within a fund family, through Merrill Lynch, over a 13-month period of time (if applicable) |
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Effective July 1, 2018
shareholders purchasing Fund shares through a Morgan Stanley Wealth Management transactional brokerage account will be eligible only for the following front-end sales charge waivers with respect to Class A shares,
which may differ from and be more limited than those disclosed elsewhere in this Fund's prospectus or SAI.
Front-End Sales Charge Waivers on
Class A Shares Available at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
| ■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans |
| ■ | Morgan Stanley employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley’s account linking rules |
| ■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions when purchasing shares of the same fund |
| ■ | Shares purchased through a Morgan Stanley self-directed brokerage account |
| ■ | Class C (i.e., level-load) shares that are no longer subject to a contingent deferred sales charge and are converted to Class A shares of the same fund pursuant to Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s share class conversion program |
| ■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (i) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (ii) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (iii) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales charge. |
Ameriprise Financial
Class A Shares Front-End Sales
Charge Waivers Available at Ameriprise Financial
The following information applies
to Class A shares purchases if you have an account or otherwise purchase Fund shares through Ameriprise Financial
Effective June 1, 2018,
shareholders purchasing Fund shares through an Ameriprise Financial platform or account will be eligible for the following front-end sales charge waivers and discounts, which may differ from those disclosed elsewhere
in this Fund's prospectus or SAI.
| ■ | Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs or SAR-SEPs. |
| ■ | Shares purchased through an Ameriprise Financial investment advisory program (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
| ■ | Shares purchased by third party investment advisors on behalf of their advisory clients through Ameriprise Financial’s platform (if an Advisory or similar share class for such investment advisory program is not available). |
| ■ | Shares purchased through reinvestment of capital gains distributions and dividend reinvestment when purchasing shares of the same fund (but not any other fund within the fund family). |
| ■ | Shares exchanged from Class C shares of the same fund in the month of or following the 10-year anniversary of the purchase date. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to such shares following a shorter holding period, that waiver will apply to exchanges following such shorter period. To the extent that this prospectus elsewhere provides for a waiver with respect to exchanges of Class C shares for load waived shares, that waiver will also apply to such exchanges. |
| ■ | Employees and registered representatives of Ameriprise Financial or its affiliates and their immediate family members. |
| ■ | Shares purchased by or through qualified accounts (including IRAs, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, 401(k)s, 403(b) TSCAs subject to ERISA and defined benefit plans) that are held by a covered family member, defined as an Ameriprise financial advisor and/or the advisor’s spouse, advisor’s lineal ascendant (mother, father, |
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| grandmother, grandfather, great grandmother, great grandfather), advisor’s lineal descendant (son, step-son, daughter, step-daughter, grandson, granddaughter, great grandson, great granddaughter) or any spouse of a covered family member who is a lineal descendant. | |
| ■ | Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (1) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (2) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (3) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales load (i.e. Rights of Reinstatement). |
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| FOR MORE INFORMATION Please read this Prospectus before you invest in the Fund and keep it for future reference. For information or shareholder questions contact: | |
| ■ MAIL Prudential Mutual Fund Services LLC PO Box 9658 Providence, RI 02940■ WEBSITE www.pgiminvestments.com | ■ TELEPHONE (800) 225-1852 (973) 367-3529 (from outside the US) |
| ■ E-DELIVERY To receive your mutual fund documents on-line, go to www.pgiminvestments.com/edelivery and enroll. Instead of receiving printed documents by mail, you will receive notification via email when new materials are available. You can cancel your enrollment or change your email address at any time by visiting the website address above. |
| The Annual and Semi-Annual Reports and the SAI contain additional information about the Fund. Shareholders may obtain free copies of the SAI, Annual Report and Semi-Annual Report as well as other information about the Fund and may make other shareholder inquiries through the telephone number, address and website listed above. | |
| ■ STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (SAI) (incorporated by reference into this Prospectus) ■ SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT | ■ ANNUAL REPORT (contains a discussion of the market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Fund's performance during the last fiscal year) |
| You can also obtain copies of Fund documents, including the SAI, from the Securities and Exchange Commission as follows (the SEC charges a fee to copy documents): | |
| ■ MAIL Securities and Exchange Commission Public Reference Room 100 F Street, NE Washington, DC 20549-1520■ ELECTRONIC REQUEST [email protected] | ■ IN PERSON Public Reference Room located at 100 F Street, NE in Washington, DC For hours of operation, call (202) 551-8090■ VIA THE INTERNET on the EDGAR Database at www.sec.gov |
| PGIM Emerging Markets Debt Hard Currency Fund | ||||
| Share Class | A | C | Z | R6 |
| NASDAQ | PDHAX | PDHCX | PDHVX | PDHQX |
| CUSIP | 743969479 | 743969461 | 743969446 | 743969453 |
| MF239STAT | The Fund's Investment Company Act File No. 811-03981 |
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