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Item 77c


On April 29, 2010 the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Fund was held to elect three Trustees and to approve the Fund's Portfolio Management Agreement with Cornerstone Capital Management, Inc. (Cornerstone). On February 12, 2010, the record date for the meeting, the Fund had outstanding 182,678,079 shares of common stock. The votes cast at the meeting were as follows:

Proposal to elect three Trustees:



For

Withheld

Richard W. Lowry

98,138,430  

28,246,287

John J. Neuhauser   

98,049,120  

28,335,597

Richard C. Rantzow  

97,967,971  

28,416,746


The meeting was adjourned with respect to the proposal to approve the Funds Portfolio Management Agreement with Cornerstone and reconvened on May 7, 2010. The votes cast at the meeting were as follows:Proposal to approve the  Portfolio Management Agreement:


For

Against

Abstain

Non-Votes

84,993,249  

16,073,754  

11,054,063  

14,263,651