International Opportunistic Fixed Income

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Inception Date: 10/1/2000

FWGBIX = FTSE WGBI Ex-US
BGAX = Bloomberg Barclays Global Agg Ex-USD

Returns shown in USD

Brandywine Global Investment Management, LLC (the "Firm") is a wholly owned, independently operated, subsidiary of Legg Mason, Inc. Brandywine Global Investment Management, LLC claims compliance with the Global investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) and has prepared and presented this report in compliance with the GIPS standards. Brandywine Global Investment Management, LLC has been independently verified for the periods January 1, 1993 through June 30, 2018. Verification assesses whether (1) the firm has complied with all the composite construction requirements of the GIPS standards on a firm-wide basis and (2) the firm's policies and procedures are designed to calculate and present performance in compliance with the GIPS standards. The International Opportunistic Fixed Income Composite has been examined for the periods July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2018. The verification and performance examination reports are available upon request. Policies for valuing portfolios, calculating performance, and preparing compliant presentations are available upon request. Disclosed total firm assets represent the total market value of all discretionary and nondiscretionary, fee-paying and non-fee-paying assets under the Firm's management. International Opportunistic Fixed Income (the "Composite" ) Inception date: October 1, 2000. Creation date: January 1, 2004. The Composite includes all fully discretionary, fee-paying, actively managed International Opportunistic Fixed Income accounts with flexible country, yield and/or credit quality mandates. Approximately 90% of the holdings consist of debts of governments or related agencies of ex-U.S. with the remaining 10% in debts of either governments emerging countries or corporate high yield opportunities in the developed countries ex -US markets that Brandywine believes are going to substantially increase in value due to improving fundamental factors that affect their valuation. The Composite utilizes forward exchange rate contracts to manage its currency exposure. These contracts are valued daily using closing forward exchange rates, matched to the settlement day of the contract. These instruments involve credit risk from the possible inability of counterparties to meet the terms of their contracts. Brandywine uses WM/Reuters daily FX rates taken at 4 p.m. London time, which may vary from Benchmark indices' exchange rates periodically. The Strategy invests in approximately 17 countries. The FTSE WGBI Ex-US measures the developed countries' fixed income markets, invested in debt issues of non-U.S. governmental entities and supra-nationals. The FTSE WGBI Ex-U.S. base includes 21 countries. The Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate ex-U.S. Index provides a broad-based measure of the global, excluding the U.S., investment-grade fixed income markets, by including agencies, corporates and asset backed issues. 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Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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