John P. Kayser

American Strategic Income Portfolio, Inc. III is a closed end investment trust company. Its objective is to seek capital appreciation. The company was founded on March 25, 1993 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

American Strategic Income Portfolio, Inc. II operates as a closed-end investment fund. Its objective is to seek capital appreciation. The company was founded on March 25, 1993 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

American Select Portfolio, Inc. operates as a closed-end investment fund. Its objective is to seek capital appreciation. The company was founded on March 25, 1993 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

American Municipal Income Portfolio, Inc. is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The investment objective of the Portfolio is to provide high current income exempt from regular federal income tax, consistent with preservation of capital. It invests primarily in a range of municipal securities. The fund's investments include municipal-derivative securities, such as inverse floating-rate and inverse interest-only municipal securities. The fund's investments also include repurchase agreements, futures contracts, options on futures contracts, options, interest-rate swaps, caps, and floors. American Municipal Income Portfolio, inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Nuveen Multi-Market Income Fund is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to achieve monthly income. The Fund's dividend objective is to distribute monthly income in excess of that attainable from investments in the United States Treasury securities having the same maturity as the expected average life of the Funds investments. It invests in fixed-income securities, primarily in mortgage-backed securities. The company was founded on December 30, 1988 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

American Strategic Income Portfolio Inc. operates as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. It invests in asset-backed securities, U.S. government securities, corporate-debt securities, municipal obligations, unregistered securities, and mortgage-servicing rights. The fund borrows through the use of reverse repurchase agreements. Its investment objectives are high level of current income and to seek capital appreciation. American Strategic Income Portfolio was founded on December 27, 1991 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Minnesota Municipal Income Portfolio, Inc. is a closed-end investment fund/investment trust headquartered in Minneapolis, MN

First American Minnesota Municipal Income Fund II, Inc. is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The fund's investment objective is to provide current income exempt from both regular federal income tax and regular Minnesota personal income tax. The company's investments may include municipal derivative securities, such as inverse floating-rate and inverse interest-only municipal securities, which may be more volatile than traditional municipal securities in certain market conditions. The fund's investments also may include repurchase agreements, futures contracts, options on futures contracts, options, and interest-rate swaps, caps, and floors. It was founded on October 31, 2002 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.