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The Board of Trustees of The Gabelli Global Gold, Natural Resources & Income Trust (Amex:GGN)
declared a $0.14 per share initial cash distribution payable on June 24, 2005 to common
shareholders of record on June 16, 2005.
The Board of Trustees further declared distributions of $0.14 per share for the months of
July and August.
The Fund intends to make regular monthly cash distributions of all or a portion of its
investment company taxable income (which includes ordinary income and realized short-term
capital gains) to common shareholders. The Fund also intends to make annual distributions
of its net realized long-term capital gains. Various factors will affect the level of the
Fund's income, such as its asset mix, and use of covered call strategies. To permit the
Fund to maintain more stable monthly distributions, the Fund may from time to time distribute
more or less than the entire amount of income earned in a particular period. Because the
Fund's distribution policy is subject to modification by the Board of Trustees at any time
and the Fund's income will fluctuate, there can be no assurance that the Fund will pay
distributions at a particular rate. Each quarter, the Board of Trustees will review the
amount of any potential distribution and the income, capital gain or capital available.
The Fund's initial public offering occurred on March 28, 2005 with the issuance of 16.6 million
common shares at $20.00 per share. The Fund issued one million common shares at $20.00 per
share in conjunction with the exercise of the underwriters' overallotment option on May 13, 2005.
The initial public offering and the exercise of the underwriters' overallotment option resulted
in the aggregate issuance of 17.6 million common shares and gross proceeds of $352 million.
The Gabelli Global Gold, Natural Resources & Income Trust is a non-diversified, closed-end
management investment company whose primary investment objective is to provide a high level
of current income. The Fund invests primarily in equity securities of gold and natural
resources companies and intends to earn income primarily through a strategy of writing
(selling) covered call options on equity securities in its portfolio. The Fund is managed
by Gabelli Funds, LLC, a subsidiary of Gabelli Asset Management Inc. (NYSE:GBL), which is a
publicly traded NYSE listed company.
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