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The New Economy Fund®

Prospectus Supplement

September 12, 2019

(for prospectus dated February 1, 2019,
as supplemented to date)

 

 

 

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

 

Caroline Jones, Partner, Capital Research Global Investors, serves as an equity portfolio manager for the fund. Caroline has 20 years of experience in total (16 years with Capital Research and Management Company or affiliate). She has 2 years of experience in managing the fund and 7 years of prior experience as an investment analyst for the fund.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep this supplement with your prospectus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lit. No. MFGEBS-352-0919P Printed in USA CGD/AFD/10039-S75348

 

 

 

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/ MICHAEL W. STOCKTON
  MICHAEL W. STOCKTON
  SECRETARY

 

The New Economy Fund®

Statement of Additional

Information Supplement

September 12, 2019

(for statement of additional information dated
February 1, 2019, as supplemented to date)

 

 

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 indicated below the table, footnotes in the statement of additional information 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
Timothy D. Armour Over $1,000,000 None None None
Claudia P. Huntington Over $1,000,000 4 $138.9 1 $0.08 None
Harold H. La $100,001 – $500,000 2 $44.0 None None
Caroline Jones4 $100,001 – $500,000 None None None
             

4       Information is as of August 31, 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep this supplement with your statement of additional information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lit. No. MFGEBS-349-0919O CGD/10149-S75321