Press Releases

December 19, 2007
Evergreen Investments Launches 3 New Diversified Equity Mutual Funds
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments announced the launch of three new diversified equity mutual funds to be sub-advised by Golden Capital Management, LLC, a minority-owned affiliate of Evergreen Investments. More graphic element

December 18, 2007
Evergreen Utilities and High Income Fund Declares Long-Term Capital Gain Distribution
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments declared a long-term capital gain distribution for Evergreen Utilities and High Income Fund. More graphic element

December 10, 2007
Evergreen Investments Announces Proposed Fund Mergers
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments announced that the Board of Trustees of the Evergreen Funds has approved the merger of 8 municipal bond funds into Evergreen Municipal Bond Fund. More graphic element

December 6, 2007
Evergreen Closed-End Funds Declare Monthly Dividends
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments today announced the dividend declaration for 4 closed-end funds. More graphic element

November 16, 2007
Evergreen Closed-End Funds Declare Monthly Dividends
Evergreen Investments

Evegreen Investments today announced the dividend declaration for five funds. More graphic element

October 19, 2007
Evergreen Closed-End Funds Declare Monthly Dividends
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments announced the dividend declaration for 4 closed-end funds. More graphic element

September 25, 2007
Evergreen Investments Appoints Mike Woods as Head of Financial Institutions Group
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments announced the development of the Financial Institutions Group (FIG) and the appointment of Mike Woods to lead the division. More graphic element

September 21, 2007
Evergreen Closed End Funds Declare Monthly Dividends
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments today announced the dividend declaration for Evergreen Income Advantage Fund, Evergreen Multi-Sector Income Fund, Evergreen Utilities and High Income Fund, Evergreen International Balanced Income Fund, and Evergreen Global Dividend Opportunity Fund. More graphic element

September 19, 2007
Evergreen Investments Announces Settlement with Securities and Exchange Commission
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments confirmed today that it has reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) More graphic element

August 21, 2007
Closed-End Fund Advisory: Evergreen to Hold Conference Call
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments will hold a conference call on Wednesday, August 22, 2007, at 4:15 p.m. EST to discuss market conditions related to its five closed-end funds. More graphic element

August 17, 2007
Evergreen Closed End Funds Declare Monthly Dividends
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments announced the dividend declaration for 4 closed end funds. More graphic element

July 20, 2007
Evergreen Closed End Funds Declare Monthly Dividends
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments today announced the dividend declaration for Evergreen Income Advantage Fund, Evergreen Multi-Sector Income Fund, Evergreen International Balanced Income Fund and Evergreen Utilities and High Income Fund. More graphic element

July 13, 2007
Evergreen Investments Announces Changes to Product Line, Declares Monthly Dividend for Evergreen Utilities and High Income Fund
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments announced today that the Board of Trustees of the Evergreen Funds approved the following proposals. More graphic element

July 2, 2007
Evergreen Investments Announces Portfolio Management Appointments
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments announced that effective today, Walter T. McCormick, CFA, will assume lead portfolio management responsibilities for Evergreen Equity Income Fund (ETRAX). More graphic element

June 14, 2007
Evergreen Closed End Funds Declare Monthly Dividends
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments today announced the dividend declaration for Evergreen Income Advantage Fund (AMEX:EAD), Evergreen Multi-Sector Income Fund (AMEX:ERC), formerly Evergreen Managed Income Fund, Evergreen Utilities and High Income Fund (AMEX:ERH), Evergreen International Balanced Income Fund (NYSE:EBI), and the first dividend declaration for Evergreen Global Dividend Opportunity Fund (NYSE:EOD). More graphic element

June 14, 2007
Evergreen Investments Announces Changes to Its Mutual Fund Product Line
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments announced today that the Board of Trustees of the Evergreen Funds approved the following proposals: More graphic element

June 5, 2007
Evergreen Investments Announces Portfolio Management Appointments in International Equity Portfolio Management Team
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments announced effective today that Francis Claro has been appointed head of Evergreen’s International Developed Markets Equity Team and portfolio manager of Evergreen International Equity Fund (EKZAX), Evergreen VA International Equity Fund and the equity portion of Evergreen International Balanced Income Fund (EBI), in addition to separately managed institutional and sub-advisory accounts. More graphic element

May 18, 2007
Evergreen Closed End Funds Declare Monthly Dividends
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments today announced the dividend declaration for Evergreen Income Advantage Fund; Evergreen Multi-Sector Income Fund, formerly Evergreen Managed Income Fund; Evergreen Utilities and High Income Fund; and Evergreen International Balanced Income Fund. More graphic element

May 7, 2007
Evergreen Appoints Robert Guerin as Chief Compliance Officer
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments is pleased to announce the appointment of Robert J. Guerin as chief compliance officer for the Evergreen Funds. More graphic element

April 24, 2007
Evergreen Investments Appoints Margaret Patel Lead Portfolio Manager
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments announced today that Margaret (Margie) Patel has been named managing director and lead portfolio manager of Evergreen Strategic Income Fund (EKSAX), VA Strategic Income Fund, Evergreen Balanced Fund (EKBAX), and VA Balanced Fund. More graphic element

April 20, 2007
Evergreen Closed End Funds Declare Monthly Dividends
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments today announced the dividend declaration for Evergreen Income Advantage Fund, Evergreen Managed Income Fund, Evergreen Utilities and High Income Fund and Evergreen International Balanced Income Fund. More graphic element

April 16, 2007
Advisory: Evergreen Representatives to Speak at Capital Link Forum’s Closed-End Fund Conference on April 18
Evergreen Investments

Timothy O’Brien, portfolio manager of Evergreen Global Dividend Opportunity Fund (NYSE:EOD) and Evergreen Utilities and High Income Fund (AMEX:ERH), will speak at the Closed-End Funds and Global ETF Conference sponsored by the Capital Link Forum on April 18. More graphic element

March 28, 2007
Evergreen Announces New Closed-End Fund IPO
Evergreen Investments

The Evergreen Global Dividend Opportunity Fund is the firm’s fifth Closed-End Fund. More graphic element

March 15, 2007
Evergreen Closed End Funds Declare Monthly Dividends
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments today announced the dividend declaration for Evergreen Income Advantage Fund, Evergreen Managed Income Fund, Evergreen Utilities and High Income Fund and Evergreen International Balanced Income Fund. More graphic element

March 15, 2007
Evergreen Announces Changes to Closed End Fund Product Line
Evergreen Investments

The Board of Directors of the Evergreen Funds approved the following proposals at a meeting held today. More graphic element

March 1, 2007
Evergreen Investments Announces Investment Personnel Appointments
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments announced today that Andrew Cestone has been named managing director and head of Global High Yield for Tattersall Advisory Group (TAG). More graphic element

February 16, 2007
Evergreen Closed End Funds Declare Monthly Dividends
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments today announced the dividend declaration for Evergreen Income Advantage Fund, Evergreen Managed Income Fund, Evergreen Utilities and High Income Fund and Evergreen International Balanced Income Fund. More graphic element

February 7, 2007
Evergreen Investments Appoints John Rhoades as Divisional Sales Manager
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments today announced the appointment of John Rhoades as Divisional Sales Manager of the firm’s National Broker Dealer (NBD) Retail division. More graphic element

February 1, 2007
Evergreen Investments Completes Acquisition of European Credit Management
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments, the asset management division of Wachovia Corp. (NYSE:WB), today announced it has completed the acquisition of a majority interest in privately held European Credit Management Ltd. (ECM). More graphic element

January 19, 2007
Evergreen Closed End Funds Declare Monthly Dividends
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments today announced the dividend declaration for Evergreen Income Advantage Fund (AMEX:EAD), Evergreen Managed Income Fund (AMEX:ERC), Evergreen Utilities and High Income Fund (AMEX:ERH) and Evergreen International Balanced Income Fund (NYSE:EBI). More graphic element

January 9, 2007
Evergreen Investments Announces Agreement to Acquire European Credit Management
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments, the asset management division of Wachovia Corp. (NYSE:WB), today announced an agreement to acquire a majority interest in privately held European Credit Management Ltd. (ECM) More graphic element

January 3, 2007
Evergreen Investments Announces Institutional Sales Hire
Evergreen Investments

Evergreen Investments' Institutional Division announced today that it has hired Kristen Burton and Sean Kelly as Sales Directors. More graphic element