(a) and (b). As of the date hereof, CLIG, through its control of CLIM, and CLIM, in its capacity as investment adviser to the City of London Funds and the Segregated Accounts, have voting and dispositive power with respect to all 1,656,744 Shares owned directly by the City of London Funds and the Segregated Accounts, representing approximately 23.1% of the 7.167 million Shares outstanding as of December 31, 2011, as reported by the Fund. As of the date hereof, EWF, FREE, GBL, GFM, IEM, and the Segregated Accounts owned directly 171,617, 109,362, 226,118, 2,793, 214,570 and 932,584 Shares, respectively, representing approximately 2.39%, 1.53%, 3.15%, 0.04%, 2.99 %, and 13.01%, respectively, of the 7.167 million Shares outstanding as of December 31, 2011.
The resulting ownership in excess of 3% of the outstanding voting shares of the Fund by GBL, resulted from a tender instituted by the Fund which had the effect of reducing the total amount of the Fund's voting shares outstanding, and not as a result of a direct purchase or acquisition of Fund shares by GBL.
Such ownership in excess of 3% of the Fund's shares by GBL is therefore specifically exempted from Section 12(d)(1)(A) of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
(c). Information with respect to all transactions in the Shares beneficially owned by the Reporting Persons that were effected during the past 60 days is set forth below: