[Form of Proxy Card]
GOLDMAN SACHS CREDIT STRATEGIES FUND
C/O PROXY SERVICES P.O. BOX 9112
FARMINGDALE, NY 11735
To vote by Internet
1) Read the Proxy Statement/Prospectus and have the proxy card below at hand.
2) Go to website www.proxyvote.com.
3) Follow the instructions provided on the website.
To vote by Telephone
1) Read the Proxy Statement/Prospectus and have the proxy card below at hand.
2) Call [•].
3) Follow the instructions.
To vote by Mail
1) Read the Proxy Statement/Prospectus.
2) Check the appropriate boxes on the proxy card below.
3) Sign and date the proxy card.
4) Return the proxy card in the envelope provided.
TO VOTE, MARK BLOCKS BELOW IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS FOLLOWS:
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| THIS PROXY CARD IS VALID ONLY WHEN SIGNED AND DATED | DETACH AND RETURN THIS PORTION ONLY | |||
The Board of Trustees recommends you vote FOR the following proposals: | For | Against | Abstain | |||||
1. To approve an Agreement and Plan of Reorganization between the Goldman Sachs Credit Strategies Fund and Goldman Sachs Long Short Credit Strategies Fund, a newly-organized series of the Goldman Sachs Trust, an open-end management investment company, providing for (i) the transfer of all of the assets and the assumption of all of the liabilities of the Goldman Sachs Credit Strategies Fund, in exchange for Institutional Shares of the Goldman Sachs Long Short Credit Strategies Fund; and (ii) the subsequent distribution of such shares to the shareholders of the Goldman Sachs Credit Strategies Fund and liquidation and dissolution of the Goldman Sachs Credit Strategies Fund. | ¨ | ¨ | ¨ | |||||
2. To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof. | ||||||||
Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) hereon. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary, please give full title as such. Joint owners should each sign personally. All holders must sign. If a corporation or partnership, please sign in full corporate or partnership name by authorized officer. | ||||||||
Signature [PLEASE SIGN WITHIN BOX] | Date | Signature [Joint Owners] | Date | |||||
[Form of Proxy Card]
Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Special Meeting to be
held on January [•], 2014:
The Proxy Statement/Prospectus is available online at www.proxyvote.com.
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GOLDMAN SACHS CREDIT STRATEGIES FUND
THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The undersigned shareholder of the Fund hereby appoints Caroline Kraus, Secretary of the Fund, and Scott McHugh, Treasurer and Senior Vice President of the Fund, and each of them, the proxies of the undersigned, with full power of substitution, to vote, as indicated herein, all of the shares of the Fund standing in the name of the undersigned at the close of business on [•], 2014 at a Special Meeting to be held at the offices of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P., located at [•], and at any postponement or adjournment thereof, with all of the powers the undersigned would possess if then and there personally present and especially (but without limiting the general authorization and power hereby given) to vote as indicated on the proposals, as more fully described in the Joint Proxy Statement for the Special Meeting.
THIS PROXY CARD WILL BE VOTED AS INSTRUCTED. IF THIS PROXY IS EXECUTED BUT NO INSTRUCTION IS GIVEN, THE PROXY CARD WILL BE VOTED “FOR” PROPOSAL 1. THE PROXIES ARE ALSO AUTHORIZED, IN THEIR DISCRETION, TO VOTE UPON SUCH OTHER MATTERS AS MAY COME BEFORE THE SPECIAL MEETING OR ANY POSTPONEMENTS OR ADJOURNMENTS.
PLEASE SIGN AND DATE ON THE REVERSE
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