Governance
Conflict of Interest and Corporate Opportunities Policy
Nominating Committee Charter
Code of Ethics
INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS
Class I:
BRUCE B. HUBER, CLU, ChFU, MSFS - Retired. He is a former Financial Representative with New England Financial, specializing in financial, estate, and insurance matters. He is a member of the Board, emeritus, of the Millbrook School, and Chairman of the Endowment Board of the Community YMCA of Red Bank, NJ, He was born on February 7, 1930.
Class II:
PETER K. WERNER - Since 1996, he has been teaching, coaching, and directing a number of programs at the Governor's Academy of Byfield, MA. Currently, he serves as a chair of the History Department. Previously, he held the position of Vice President in the Fixed Income Departments of Lehman Brothers and First Boston. His responsibilities included training sovereign debt instruments, currency arbitrage, syndication, medium term not trading, and money market trading. He was born on August 16, 1959.
Class III:
JAMES E. HUNT - He is a Limited Partner of Hunt Howe Partners LLC, executive recruiting consultants. He was born on December 14, 1930.
INTERESTED DIRECTOR*
Class II:
THOMAS B. WINMILL, ESQ. - He is President, Chief Executive Officer, and General Counsel of Bexil Advisers, the other investment companies in the Bexil Investment Company Complex, Winmill and Co. Incorporated, Bexil, CEF Advisers, Inc., Midas Management Corporation, and Midas Securities Group, Inc. (formerly, Investor Service Center, Inc.) and Bexil Securities LLC (registered broker-dealers). He is General Counsel of Tuxis Corporation. He is Chairman of the Investment Policy Committee that currently manages the Global Income Fund, Inc., Midas Perpetual Portfolio and is proposed to manage the Fund, and he is the portfolio manager of the Midas Fund. He is a member of the New York State Bar and the SEC Rules Committee of the Investment Company Institute. He currently serves as an independent director of Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. (NYSE: EGLE). He was born on June 25, 1959.