EX-99 3 changeinauditor.txt Change in Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm The Board of Trustees of the Fund, with the approval and recommendation of the Audit Committee, appointed Deloitte & Touche LLP to serve as the Fund's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending October 31, 2014. Deloitte & Touche LLP replaces Ernst & Young LLP, which resigned as the Fund's independent registered public accounting firm, effective upon completion of the audit of the Fund's financial statements for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2013. During the periods that Ernst & Young LLP served as the Fund's independent registered public accounting firm, including the Fund's two most recent fiscal year, Ernst & Young LLP's reports on the financial statements of the Fund have not contained an adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion and have not been qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Ernst & Young LLP would have caused Ernst & Young LLP to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement in connection with its report on the financial statements. In addition, there have been no reportable events to the kind described in Item 304(a)(i)(v)of Regulation S-K under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934.