Exhibit 17
PRELIMINARY PROXY CARD, SUBJECT TO CHANGE, DATED AUGUST 1. 2012
PROXY TABULATOR | 3 EASY WAYS TO VOTE YOUR PROXY |
[●] [●] | Vote by Mail: Check the appropriate boxes on the reverse side of this proxy card, date and sign below and return in the postage-paid envelope provided. |
Vote by Phone: Call toll free 1-800-991-5861. Follow the recorded instructions. | |
Vote via the Internet: Log on to www.kingproxy.com/fbr. Follow the on-screen instructions. |
form of proxy for special meeting of shareholders
the FBR FundS
THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The undersigned constitutes and appoints Neil J. Hennessy and Teresa M. Nilsen, and each of them singly, with power of substitution, attorneys and proxies for and in the name and place of the undersigned to represent and to vote all shares of Investor Class and Institutional Class stock of the FBR Focus Fund, the FBR Large Cap Financial Fund, the FBR Small Cap Financial Fund, the FBR Technology Fund, the FBR Gas Utility Index Fund, the FBR Balanced Fund, and the FBR Core Bond Fund held of record by the undersigned on August 20, 2012, as designated below, at the Special Meeting of Shareholders of the FBR Focus Fund, the FBR Large Cap Financial Fund, the FBR Small Cap Financial Fund, the FBR Technology Fund, the FBR Gas Utility Index Fund, the FBR Balanced Fund, and the FBR Core Bond Fund at 1001 19th Street North, Arlington, VA 22209 on [●], October [●], 2012 at 11:00 a.m., local time, and at any adjournments or postponements thereof.
This proxy will be voted as specified. By voting by telephone, via the Internet or by signing and dating this proxy card, you authorize the proxies to vote the proposals as indicated or marked, or if not indicated or marked, to vote “FOR” the proposals, and to use their discretion to vote for any other matter as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof. Even if you plan to attend the Special Meeting, to help ensure that your vote is represented, please vote (1) by telephone; (2) via the Internet; or (3) by completing and mailing this proxy card at once in the enclosed envelope. If you vote by telephone or via the Internet, you do not need to mail in your proxy card.
Dated: ____________________, 2012 | |
Signature(s) | |
The signature on this proxy should correspond exactly with the name of the shareholder as it appears on the proxy. If stock is issued in the name of two or more persons, each should sign the proxy. If a proxy is signed by an administrator, trustee, guardian, attorney or other fiduciary, please indicate full title as such. |
Please fill in boxes as shown using black or blue ink or number 2 pencil. | S |
PLEASE DO NOT USE FINE POINT PEN |
The Board of Trustees recommends that you vote FOR the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization and FOR adjournment of the special meeting.
1. | Proposal to approve an Agreement and Plan of Reorganization pursuant to which all of the assets of each of the FBR Focus Fund, the FBR Large Cap Financial Fund, the FBR Small Cap Financial Fund, the FBR Technology Fund, the FBR Gas Utility Index Fund, the FBR Balanced Fund, and the FBR Core Bond Fund will be transferred to a corresponding Hennessy Fund, a newly formed series of Hennessy Funds Trust, in exchange for Investor Class and Institutional Class shares of the corresponding Hennessy Fund, which will be distributed pro rata by the applicable FBR Fund to its Investor Class and Institutional Class shareholders, and the Hennessy Fund’s assumption of the FBR Fund’s stated liabilities: |
FOR | AGAINST | ABSTAIN |
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2. | Proposal to adjourn the special meeting to permit further solicitation of proxies in the event there are not sufficient votes at the time of the special meeting to approve the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization: |
FOR | AGAINST | ABSTAIN |
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3. | In their discretion upon such other business as may properly come before the meeting. |
Please check box at right if you will be attending the meeting. | ¨ |
PLEASE SIGN AND DATE ON THE REVERSE SIDE. |