James F. Higgins

Morgan Stanley Europe Fund, Inc. is a closed ended equity mutual fund launched by Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. It is managed by Morgan Stanley Investment Advisors Inc. The fund invests in the public equity markets of Russia, Central and Eastern European countries. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. Morgan Stanley Europe Fund is headquartered in New York, NY.

AXA Financial, Inc. provides financial advisory and insurance services. The company operates in two business segments: The Financial Advisory/Insurance and The Investment Management. The Financial Advisory/Insurance segment offers a variety of term, variable and universal life insurance products, variable and fixed-interest annuity products, mutual funds and other investment products and asset management, financial planning and other services principally to individuals, small and medium-size businesses and professional and trade associations. The Investment Management segment is principally comprised of the investment management business. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley China A Share Fund, Inc. is a closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to seek capital growth. The firm invests its assets in A-shares of Chinese companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, either by investing directly in A-shares through a licensed qualified foreign institutional investor or by gaining exposure to the A-share market through the use of derivatives. The company was founded on July 6, 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Domestic Debt Fund, Inc. is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The company's primary objective is to seek a high level of current income. It also has a secondary investment objective of long-term capital appreciation. The company was founded on January 25, 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley Frontier Emerging Markets Fund, Inc. a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to seek long-term capital appreciation through investments primarily in equity securities of companies operating in frontier emerging market countries. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Fund, Inc. is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investments primarily in emerging country equity securities. To the extent that the Fund invests in derivative instruments that the Adviser believes have economic characteristics similar to emerging country equity securities, such investments will be counted for purposes of the Fund's policy in the previous sentence. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley High Yield Fund, Inc. is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The fund's primary objective is to seek a high level of current income, and as a secondary objective, to seek capital appreciation. The fund invests primarily in high-yield securities. Its portfolio includes corporate bonds and notes, government bonds, common stocks and short-term investments. The fund interests in entities organized and operated solely for the purpose of restructuring the investment characteristics of sovereign debt obligations. It invests in various industries, including broadcasting, cable, chemicals, consumer products, diversified media, energy, financials, forest products and healthcare

Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund, Inc. is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company, whose investment objective is to produce current income. Its secondary objective is to seek capital appreciation through investments primarily in debt securities of government and government-related issuers. The company was founded on May 6, 1993 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Equitable Life Insurance Co. provides investment advice. Its products include life insurance, retirement, retirement plans for employers and investments. The company was founded by Henry Hyde in 1859 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Venatus Capital Partners LLC (Venatus Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Jeremy Burr. The firm is headquartered in Folsom, California.

Morgan Stanley Asia-Pacific Fund, Inc. is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investments primarily in equity securities of Asian-Pacific issuers and in debt securities issued or guaranteed by Asian Pacific governments or governmental entities. The company was founded on February 28, 1994 and is headquartered in New York, NY.