SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Wells Fargo Multi-Sector Income Fund (NYSE MKT: ERC), a closed-end fund, announced today that the fund commenced a cash tender offer for up to 15% of the fund’s outstanding common shares of beneficial interest at a price per share equal to 98% of the fund’s net asset value (NAV) per share. As previously announced, the fund will repurchase shares tendered and accepted in the tender offer in exchange for cash. The tender offer will expire on May 11, 2017, at 5 p.m. Eastern Time or on such later date to which the offer is extended.
Additional terms and conditions of the tender offer are set forth in the fund’s tender offer materials, which will be distributed to shareholders. If the amount of the fund’s outstanding common shares that is tendered exceeds the maximum amount of its offer, the fund will purchase shares from tendering shareholders on a pro rata basis. Accordingly, there is no assurance that the fund will purchase all of a shareholder’s tendered shares.
This announcement is not a recommendation, an offer to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to sell shares of the fund. The tender offer will be made only by an offer to purchase, a related letter of transmittal, and other documents, which have been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as exhibits to a tender offer statement on Schedule TO. Common shareholders of the fund should read the offer to purchase and tender offer statement on Schedule TO and related exhibits, as they contain important information about the tender offer. The offer to purchase and related letter of transmittal are available free of charge at the SEC’s website (www.sec.gov) or from the fund by calling Georgeson LLC, the fund’s information agent for the tender offer, at 1-888-660-8331.
Additional information
The fund is a closed-end income fund. The fund’s investment objective is to seek a high level of current income consistent with limiting its overall exposure to domestic interest-rate risk.
The fund is leveraged through a revolving credit facility and also may incur leverage by issuing preferred shares in the future. The use of leverage results in certain risks, including, among others, the likelihood of greater volatility of the NAV and the market value of common shares. Foreign investments are especially volatile and can rise or fall dramatically due to differences in the political and economic conditions of the host country. These risks are generally intensified in emerging markets. Derivatives involve additional risks, including interest-rate risk, credit risk, the risk of improper valuation, and the risk of noncorrelation to the relevant instruments that they are designed to hedge or closely track. Bond values fluctuate in response to the financial condition of individual issuers, general market and economic conditions, and changes in interest rates. Changes in market conditions and government policies may lead to periods of heightened volatility in the bond market and reduced liquidity for certain bonds held by the fund. In general, when interest rates rise, bond values fall and investors may lose principal value. Interest-rate changes and their impact on the fund and its share price can be sudden and unpredictable. High-yield securities have a greater risk of default and tend to be more volatile than higher-rated debt securities. This fund is exposed to mortgage- and asset-backed securities risk. This closed-end fund is no longer available as an initial public offering and is only offered through broker/dealers on the secondary market.
Unlike an open-end mutual fund, a closed-end fund offers a fixed number of shares for sale. After the initial public offering, shares are bought and sold through broker/dealers in the secondary marketplace, and the market price of the shares is determined by supply and demand, not by NAV, and is often lower than the NAV. A closed-end fund is not required to buy its shares back from investors upon request.
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Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM) is a trade name used by the asset management businesses of Wells Fargo & Company. Wells Fargo Funds Management, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company, provides investment advisory and administrative services for Wells Fargo Funds. Other affiliates of Wells Fargo & Company provide subadvisory and other services for the funds. This material is being prepared by Wells Fargo Funds Distributor, LLC, Member FINRA, an affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company. Neither Wells Fargo Funds Management nor Wells Fargo Funds Distributor has fund customer account/assets, and neither provides investment advice/recommendations or acts as an investment advice fiduciary to any investor.
Some of the information contained herein may include forward-looking statements about the expected investment activities of the fund. These statements provide no assurance as to the fund’s actual investment activities or results. The reader must make his/her own assessment of the information contained herein and consider such other factors as he/she may deem relevant to his/her individual circumstances.
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