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Shareholders now
have the convenience of viewing shareholder communications, including fund
prospectuses, annual reports, and proxy statements, online.
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Description
of Service
By enrolling in this electronic delivery service, you agree to receive announcements by e-mail about shareholder communications materials.
Those materials are made available electronically by issuing corporations, mutual funds and other third parties. Quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports; proxy statements; prospectuses and newsletters are examples of shareholder communications that may be made available electronically.
The announcements will include the Internet address (URL) where the materials can be found. Materials referenced within the e-mail announcement may be viewed electronically via the Internet and printed with a local printer. If the materials are not made available electronically, you will receive the standard printed materials and no announcement will be made by e-mail.
Your enrollment will be effective for all holdings in the specified account on an ongoing basis unless you change or cancel your enrollment. Please note that this service applies only to U.S. securities held either at the Depository Trust Corporation or physically in the name of Merrill Lynch.
If
you have a security position in an equity or mutual fund as of the record
date for a particular shareholder distribution and the materials to be
distributed are made available electronically, you will receive an e-mail
announcement. The content of the information provided for electronic delivery
is the responsibility of the issuing corporation, mutual fund, or third
party, presenting it. If your securities are held by a financial institution,
the broker or bank that holds your security is not responsible for content
of electronic shareowner material.
Hardware
and Software Required to Use Service
Enrollment in this electronic delivery service requires that you
have a personal computer with appropriate browser software, such as Microsoft
Internet Explorer®, Netscape Communicator®, or equivalent, and
e-mail software as well as communications access to the Internet. This
access may incur charges from Internet Service Providers and local telephone
companies. The broker, bank, issuing corporation or mutual fund will not
be responsible for the costs associated with electronic access; these
costs are the responsibility of the shareowner. Should you wish to print
materials that have been delivered electronically, you must have a printer
as well. Some issuers electronically publish their materials in Portable
Document Format (PDF). In order to view PDF-formatted documents, you must
have Adobe Acrobat Reader software. This reader is available for download,
free-of-charge, from http://www.adobe.com/.
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