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American Funds
Corporate Bond Fund®

Prospectus Supplement

November 1, 2019

(for prospectus dated August 1, 2019)

 

 

 

The following is added to the section titled “The Capital SystemSM” in the “Management and organization” section of the prospectus:

 

Karen Choi, Partner, Capital Fixed Income Investors, serves as a fixed income portfolio manager for the fund. Karen has 21 years of investment experience in total (12 years with Capital Research and Management Company or affiliate). She has less than 1 year of experience in managing the fund and 4 years of prior experience as an investment analyst for the fund.

 

 

 

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Lit. No. MFGEBS-355-1119P Printed in USA CGD/AFD/10039-S75392

 

 

 

THE FUND MAKES AVAILABLE A SPANISH TRANSLATION OF THE ABOVE PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE PUBLIC OFFERING AND SALE OF ITS SHARES. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT ABOVE IS A FAIR AND ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF THE SPANISH EQUIVALENT.

 

/s/ STEVEN I. KOSZALKA
  STEVEN I. KOSZALKA
  SECRETARY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

American Funds
Corporate Bond Fund®

Statement of Additional

Information Supplement

November 1, 2019

(for statement of additional information dated August 1, 2019)

 

 

 

 

 

The table under the heading “Portfolio manager fund holdings and other managed accounts” in the “Management of the fund” section of the statement of additional information is amended to read as follows. Except as noted below, footnotes to the table remain unchanged.

Portfolio
manager
Dollar range
of fund
shares
owned1
Number
of other
registered
investment
companies (RICs)
for which
portfolio
manager
is a manager
(assets of RICs
in billions)2
Number
of other
pooled
investment
vehicles (PIVs)
for which
portfolio
manager
is a manager
(assets of PIVs
in billions)2
Number
of other
accounts
for which
portfolio
manager
is a manager
(assets of
other accounts
in billions) 2,3
David S. Lee $100,001 – $500,000 3 $63.5 None 10 $5.72
Scott Sykes $100,001 – $500,000 None 1 $0.09 1 $0.23
Karen Choi4 $500,001 – $1,000,000 1 $20.7 None None
               
4Information is as of September 30, 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

Keep this supplement with your statement of additional information.

 

 

 

Lit. No. MFGEBS-351-1119O CGD/10149-S75323