[INSERT PNC LOGO] Exhibit 17
PROXY TABULATOR
P.O. BOX 9112
FARMINGDALE, NY 11735
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| 2) Check the appropriate box on the Proxy Card below. |
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PNC Tax Exempt Limited Maturity Bond Fund
Proposal 1. To approve an Agreement and Plan of Reorganization pursuant to which Federated Short-Intermediate Duration Municipal Trust would acquire all or substantially all of the assets (except certain deferred or prepaid expenses) of PNC Tax Exempt Limited Maturity Bond Fund, in exchange for Service or Institutional Shares of Federated Short-Intermediate Duration Municipal Trust to be distributed pro rata by PNC Tax Exempt Limited Maturity Bond Fund to its shareholders of Class A or Class I Shares, respectively, in complete liquidation, dissolution and termination of PNC Tax Exempt Limited Maturity Bond Fund. | For | Against | Abstain |
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YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT
Please complete, sign and return this card as soon as possible.
Please sign this proxy exactly as your name appears on the books of the Trust. Joint owners should each sign personally. Trustees and other fiduciaries should indicate the capacity in which they sign, and where more than one name appears, a majority must sign. If a corporation, this signature should be that of an authorized officer who should state his or her title.
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Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Shareholder Meeting:
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PNC TAX EXEMPT LIMITED MATURITY BOND FUND
A portfolio of PNC Funds
SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS — November 5, 2019
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned Shareholders of PNC Tax Exempt Limited Maturity Bond Fund, a portfolio of PNC Funds (the “Trust”), hereby revoking any proxy heretofore given, designate and appoint Jennifer Spratley, Mallory Bivens, Ryan Frampton, and Lauren Kast as proxies to act at the Special Meeting of Shareholders (the “Special Meeting”) to be held on November 5, 2019 at the offices of PNC Capital Advisors, LLC located at One East Pratt Street, 5th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202, 15086-7561, at 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Time), and at any adjournment or postponement thereof.
The attorneys named will vote the shares represented by this proxy in accordance with the choices made on this ballot. If this proxy is executed and returned in time and no choice is indicated as to an item, this proxy will be voted affirmatively on such matter. Discretionary authority is hereby conferred as to all other matters as may properly come before the Special Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof and the attorneys named in this proxy will vote on such matters in their best judgment.
THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TRUST. THIS PROXY, WHEN PROPERLY EXECUTED, WILL BE VOTED IN THE MANNER DIRECTED BY THE UNDERSIGNED SHAREHOLDER. IF NO DIRECTION IS MADE, THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED “FOR” THE PROPOSAL.
