Robert F. Birch

New America High Income Fund, Inc. operates as a closed-end investment fund. Its investment objective is to provide high current income, while seeking to preserve stockholder's capital, through investment in a professionally managed, diversified portfolio of high yield fixed-income securities, commonly known as junk bonds. The firm invests in high yield fixed-income securities rated in the lower categories by established rating agencies. The company was founded on November 19, 1987 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Helios Strategic Mortgage Income Fund, Inc. is a diversified closed-end investment fund/Investment trust. The trust is managed by Brookfield Investment Management Inc., an investment advisor specializing in core fixed income, high yield, structured products as well as global REITs and listed infrastructure securities. Its objective is to provide high total return, including short and long-term capital gains and a high level of current income. The trust was founded on May 17, 2002 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Brookfield Total Return Fund, Inc. is a diversified, closed-end fund whose primary objective is to provide high total return, including short and long-term capital gains and a high level of current income. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Helios Strategic Income Fund, Inc. is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The company's primary investment objective is to seek a high level of current income and secondary investment objective is capital growth. The Fund invests in a diversified portfolio of securities that offers attractive yield and capital appreciation potential and consists primarily of debt securities and secondarily of equity securities. The company was founded on January 16, 2004 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Helios High Income Fund, Inc. is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. It seeks capital growth as a secondary investment objective when consistent with its primary investment objective. The company invests a majority of its total assets in below-investment grade debt securities that offer attractive yield and capital appreciation potential. It invests in corporate bonds, mortgage-backed, asset-backed securities, municipal and foreign government obligations, as well as securities of companies in bankruptcy reorganization proceedings or otherwise in the process of debt restructuring. Helios High Income Fund was founded on April 16, 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Brookfield High Income Fund, Inc. is a mutual fund-closed end company engages in the provision of investment activities. Its objective is to seek high current income by investing in bonds, debenture and debt instruments. The company was founded on July 31, 1998 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Helios Multi-Sector High Income Fund, Inc. is a closed-end investment fund/investment trust. Its primary investment objective is to seek a high level of current income with capital growth as a secondary investment objective. Helios Multi-Sector invests in a wide range of debt securities including, corporate bonds, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, convertible debt securities, distressed securities, including securities of companies in bankruptcy reorganization proceedings or otherwise in the process of debt restructuring, U.S. government and municipal obligations and foreign government obligations. The company was founded on November 14, 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Helios Advantage Income Fund, Inc. is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. It seeks a high level of current income. The Fund seeks capital growth as a secondary investment objective when consistent with its primary investment objective. It invests majority of its total assets in below-investment grade debt securities that offer attractive yield and capital appreciation potential. The company was founded on September 7, 2004 and is headquartered in New York, NY.