PHILADELPHIA, July 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Delaware Investments Global Dividend and Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: DGF - News; the "Fund"), a closed-end management investment company, today announced the final results of its tender offer for up to 273,187 shares of its common stock representing up to 5 percent of its issued and outstanding shares of common stock. The offer expired at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on Friday, June 27, 2008.Based on a count by Mellon Investor Services, LLC, the depositary for the tender offer, approximately 440,959.0000 shares of common stock, or approximately 8.0706 percent of the Fund's common stock outstanding, were tendered, and 273,187 have been accepted for cash payment at a price equal to $9.42, the Fund's net asset value ("NAV") as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange on June 30, 2008. Since the tender offer was oversubscribed, all tenders of shares are subject to proration (at a ratio of approximately 0.619529253) in accordance with terms of the tender offer. Following the purchase of the tendered shares, the Fund will have approximately 5,190,558.6070 shares of common stock outstanding.
The Fund is a diversified, closed-end fund. The Fund's primary investment objective is to seek high current income; capital appreciation is a secondary objective. The Fund seeks to achieve its objectives by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 50% of its total assets in income-generating equity securities, including dividend-paying common stocks, convertible securities, preferred stocks, and other equity-related securities of U.S. and foreign issuers. Up to 50% of the Fund's total assets may be invested in nonconvertible debt securities consisting primarily of government and high- yield, high-risk corporate bonds of U.S. and foreign issuers.
Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest: (1) at least 50% of its total assets in securities of U.S. issuers; and (2) at least 40% of its assets (including leveraged assets) in securities of non-U.S. issuers, unless market conditions are not deemed favorable by the Manager, in which case the Fund would invest at least 30% of its assets (including leveraged assets) in securities of non-U.S. issuers. The Fund may not, however, invest more than 50% of its total assets in the securities of any developed or emerging markets foreign country.
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