EX-99.77E LEGAL 5 ex77e.txt Item 77E Legal Matters The Adviser and certain affiliates of the Adviser are named as defendants in a derivative action which additionally names as defendants certain individual trustees of certain Van Kampen funds. The named investment companies, including the Fund, are listed as nominal defendants. The complaint alleges that defendants caused the Van Kampen funds to pay economic incentives to a proprietary sales force to promote the sale of Van Kampen funds. The complaint also alleges that the Van Kampen funds paid excessive commissions to Morgan Stanley and its affiliates in connection with the sales of the funds. The complaint seeks, among other things, the removal of the current trustees of the funds, rescission of the management contracts for the funds, disgorgement of profits by Morgan Stanley and its affiliates and monetary damages. This derivative action was coordinated with a direct action alleging related violations of defendants' statutory disclosure obligations and fiduciary duties with respect to the payments described above. In addition, this derivative action was stayed by agreement of the parties pending rulings on the motion to dismiss the direct action and the motion to dismiss another derivative action brought by the same plaintiff that brought this derivative action, alleging market timing and late trading in the Van Kampen funds. In April 2006, the court granted defendants' motion to dismiss the direct action. In June 2006, the court granted defendants' motion to dismiss the market timing action. Accordingly, the stay on this action was lifted. Plaintiff and defendants have agreed that this action should be dismissed in light of the rulings dismissing the two cases discussed above. The Court has approved a notice to shareholders regarding the dismissal, which is located at the back of this Report.