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| VOTE BY PHONE – 1-800-690-6903 Use any touch-tone telephone to transmit your voting instructions up until 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time the day before the meeting date. Have your proxy card in hand when you call and then follow the instructions. |
| VOTE BY MAIL Mark, sign and date your proxy card and return it in the postage-paid envelope we have provided or return it to BlackRock Total Return Portfolio, c/o Broadridge, 51 Mercedes Way, Edgewood, NY 11717. |
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THIS PROXY CARD IS VALID ONLY WHEN SIGNED AND DATED.
BLACKROCK TOTAL RETURN PORTFOLIO
This proxy, if properly executed, will be voted in the manner directed by the undersigned shareholder. IF NO DIRECTION IS MADE, THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED FOR APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSAL.
Vote On Proposal
1. | | To consider a proposal to approve an Agreement and Plan of Reorganization pursuant to which BlackRock Total Return Portfolio (“Total Return”) would transfer substantially all of its assets and certain stated liabilities to BlackRock Bond Fund (“Bond Fund”), a series of BlackRock Bond Fund, Inc., in exchange solely for Investor B2, Investor C, Class R, BlackRock and Service shares of Bond Fund, which will be distributed by Total Return to the holders of its shares in complete liquidation thereof; and |
2. | | To transact such other business as may properly be presented at the Special Meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof. |
Note: Please sign exactly as your name appears on this Proxy. If joint owners, EITHER may sign this Proxy. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, trustee, guardian or corporate officer, please give your full title. | |
Signature [PLEASE SIGN WITHIN BOX] | Date | | Signature (Joint Owners) | Date |
BLACKROCK TOTAL RETURN PORTFOLIO
SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS SEPTEMBER 7, 2007 AT 2:00 P.M.
PROXY IS SOLICITED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
The undersigned holder of shares of the BlackRock Total Return Portfolio (the “Acquired Fund”), hereby appoints Donald C. Burke, Howard B. Surloff and Brian P. Kindelan as proxies for the undersigned, each with full powers of substitution and revocation, to represent the undersigned and to vote on behalf of the undersigned all shares of the Acquired Fund that the undersigned is entitled to vote at the Special Meeting of Shareholders of the Acquired Fund to be held at the offices of BlackRock, Inc., Park Avenue Plaza, 55 East 52nd Street, New York, New York 10055 on September 7, 2007 at 2:00 P.M. and any adjournments or postponements thereof. The undersigned hereby acknowledges receipt of the Notice of Special Meeting and Combined Prospectus/Proxy Statement dated July 19, 2007 and hereby instructs said proxies to vote said shares as indicated herein. In their discretion, the proxies are authorized to vote upon such other business as may properly come before the Special Meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof. A majority of the outstanding shares of the Acquired Fund entitled to vote must be represented at the Special Meeting either in person or by proxy. The undersigned hereby revokes any proxy previously given.
This proxy, if properly executed, will be voted in the manner directed by the undersigned shareholder. IF NO DIRECTION IS MADE, THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED FOR APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSAL.
NOTE: YOUR PROXY IS NOT VALID UNLESS IT IS SIGNED ON THE REVERSE SIDE.