Evergreen Investments is a leading asset management firm serving more than four million individual and institutional investors through a broad range of investment products. Led by 350 investment professionals, Evergreen Investments strives to meet client investment objectives through disciplined, team-based asset management. Evergreen Investments manages over $273 billion in assets (as of December 31, 2006) including four closed end funds: Evergreen Income Advantage (EAD), Evergreen Managed Income (ERC), Evergreen Utilities & High Income (ERH) and Evergreen International Balanced Income (EBI). In March 2007, Evergreen launched a fifth closed end fund, Evergreen Global Dividend Opportunity Fund (EOD). For more information on Evergreen, please visit www.evergreeninvestments.com.