James Reid Holman

Merk Investments LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The firm was founded by Alexander “Axel” Merk in 2000. Merk Investments provides discretionary investment advice to registered investment companies and a closed-end fund.

Invesco Advisers, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a subsidiary of Invesco Group Services, Inc., ultimately held by Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ). The firm was founded in 1986 and previously known as Invesco Institutional NA, Inc. until April 2010 when Invesco Ltd. consolidated the businesses of their US investment advisors (Invesco AIM Advisors, Inc., Invesco AIM Capital Management, Inc., Invesco AIM Private Asset Management, Inc. and Invesco Global Asset Management NA, Inc.) under the name Invesco Advisers, Inc. They provide discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to individuals, institutional and high net-worth clients through separate accounts, wrap fee programs and US registered investment companies and other Commingled Funds.

OppenheimerFunds, Inc. provides investment advice. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 1974, OFI Global Institutional, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is also a commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the National Futures Association. OFI Global Institutional is a wholly-owned subsidiary of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (OFI), which, in turn, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (OAC). Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (MassMutual), through its subsidiary, is the indirect primary shareholder of OAC. The firm provides investment advisory services to various types of clients, including trusts, pension plans, insurance company separate accounts, foundations, corporations, ERISA qualified retirement plans, governmental plans, foreign entities (including governmental entities, corporations, investment companies and pension plans), mutual funds, private funds, and bank sponsored collective investment trusts.