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ANNUAL MEETING REPORT:  An Annual Meeting of
Shareholders was held on June 15, 2017.
Shareholders voted to elect Trustees of the
Fund to hold office for a term of three years or
until their respective successors shall have been
duly elected and qualified.  The following votes
were cast with respect to each of the nominees:


				For	  Withheld
Oleg Pohotsky, MBA, J.D.   18,714,751	  552,967
William S. Reardon     	   18,766,073	  501,645

Oleg Pohotsky, MBA, J.D. and William S. Reardon
were elected to serve until the 2020 Annual
Meeting.

Trustees serving until the 2018 Annual Meeting are
Daniel R. Omstead, Ph.D. and Lucinda H.
Stebbins, CPA.

Trustees serving until the 2019 Annual Meeting are
Michael W. Bonney, Rakesh K. Jain, Ph.D.
and Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph. D.

Shareholders ratified the appointment of Deloitte
& Touche LLP as the independent registered
public accountants of the Fund for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2017 by the following
votes:

For			Against		Abstain
18,852,213		190,061		225,445



Shareholders opposed a shareholder proposal
regarding annual terms of trustees by the following
votes:

For		Against		Abstain		Non-Votes
2,992,916	4,988,619	432,040		10,854,144







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