0001582816-14-000381.txt : 20140626 0001582816-14-000381.hdr.sgml : 20140626 20140619134923 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001582816-14-000381 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 497 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20140619 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20140619 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20140619 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: DELAWARE GROUP LIMITED-TERM GOVERNMENT FUNDS CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000357059 IRS NUMBER: 232448704 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 497 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 002-75526 FILM NUMBER: 14930137 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE COMMERCE SQUARE STREET 2: 2005 MARKET STREET CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19103 BUSINESS PHONE: 18005231918 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE COMMERCE SQUARE STREET 2: 2005 MARKET STREET CITY: PHILADELPHIA STATE: PA ZIP: 19103 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: DELAWARE GROUP LIMITED TERM GOVERNMENT FUNDS DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19991223 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: DELAWARE GROUP LIMITED TERM GOVERNMENT FUNDS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19950828 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: DELAWARE GROUP TREASURY RESERVES INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 0000357059 S000002397 DELAWARE LIMITED-TERM DIVERSIFIED INCOME FUND C000006359 DELAWARE LIMITED-TERM DIVERSIFIED INCOME FUND CLASS A DTRIX C000006360 DELAWARE LIMITED-TERM DIVERSIFIED INCOME FUND CLASS B DTIBX C000006361 DELAWARE LIMITED-TERM DIVERSIFIED INCOME FUND CLASS C DTICX C000006362 DELAWARE LIMITED-TERM DIVERSIFIED INCOME FUND CLASS R DLTRX C000006363 DELAWARE LIMITED-TERM DIVERSIFIED INCOME FUND INSTITUTIONAL CLASS DTINX 497 1 statprosupplement.htm statprosupplement.htm
DELAWARE GROUP® LIMITED-TERM GOVERNMENT FUNDS

Delaware Limited-Term Diversified Income Fund
(the “Fund”)

Supplement to the Fund’s Class A, Class B, Class C, Class R, and Institutional Class
Statutory Prospectus dated April 30, 2014

Effective as of the date of this supplement, the following replaces the information in the section entitled “Fund summary – Who manages the Fund? – Investment manager”:

Investment manager
Delaware Management Company, a series of Delaware Management Business Trust

Portfolio managers
Title with Delaware Management Company
Start date on
the Fund
Paul Grillo, CFA
Senior Vice President, Co-Chief Investment Officer – Total Return Fixed Income Strategy
February 1999
Roger A. Early, CPA, CFA, CFP
Senior Vice President, Co-Chief Investment Officer – Total Return Fixed Income Strategy
May 2007
Brian C. McDonnell, CFA
Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager, Senior Structured Products Analyst, Trader
April 2012
Thomas H. Chow, CFA
Senior Vice President, Chief Investment Officer — Corporate Credit
October 2013
Adam H. Brown, CFA
Vice President, Portfolio Manager
October 2013
Christopher M. Testa, CFA
Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager
June 2014


Effective as of the date of this supplement, the following replaces the biographical information in the section entitled “Who manages the Fund – Portfolio managers.”

Portfolio managers

Paul Grillo, Roger A. Early, Brian C. McDonnell, Thomas H. Chow, Adam H. Brown and Christopher M. Testa, have day-to-day responsibilities for making investment decisions for the Fund.

Paul Grillo, CFA, Senior Vice President, Co-Chief Investment Officer — Total Return Fixed Income Strategy
Paul Grillo is a member of the firm’s taxable fixed income portfolio management team with primary responsibility for portfolio construction and strategic asset allocation. He is also a member of the firm’s asset allocation committee, which is responsible for building and managing multi-asset class portfolios. He joined Delaware Investments in 1992 as a mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities analyst, assuming portfolio management responsibilities in the mid-1990s. Grillo serves as co-lead portfolio manager for the firm’s Diversified Income products and has been influential in the growth and distribution of the firm’s multisector strategies. Prior to joining Delaware Investments, Grillo was a mortgage strategist and trader at Dreyfus Corporation. He also worked as a mortgage strategist and portfolio manager at Chemical Investment Group and as a financial analyst at Chemical Bank. Grillo holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from North Carolina State University and an MBA with a concentration in finance from Pace University.

 
 
 

Roger A. Early, CPA, CFA, CFP, Senior Vice President, Co-Chief Investment Officer — Total Return Fixed Income Strategy
Roger A. Early rejoined Delaware Investments in March 2007 as a member of the firm’s taxable fixed income portfolio management team, with primary responsibility for portfolio construction and strategic asset allocation. During his previous time at the firm, from 1994 to 2001, he was a senior portfolio manager in the same area, and he left Delaware Investments as head of its U.S. investment grade fixed income group. In recent years, Early was a senior portfolio manager at Chartwell Investment Partners and Rittenhouse Financial and was the chief investment officer for fixed income at Turner Investments. Prior to joining Delaware Investments in 1994, he worked for more than 10 years at Federated Investors where he managed more than $25 billion in mutual fund and institutional portfolios in the short-term and investment grade markets. He left the firm as head of institutional fixed income management. Earlier in his career, he held management positions with the Federal Reserve Bank, PNC Financial, Touche Ross, and Rockwell International. Early earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA with concentrations in finance and accounting from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.

Brian C. McDonnell, CFA, Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager, Senior Structured Products Analyst, Trader
Brian C. McDonnell is a member of the firm's taxable fixed income portfolio management team with primary responsibility for portfolio construction and asset allocation. He also serves as lead analyst and trader for residential mortgage-backed securities. Prior to joining Delaware Investments in March 2007 as a vice president and senior structured products analyst/trader, he was a managing director and head of fixed income trading at Sovereign Securities, where he was responsible for hedging and risk management of the firm’s holdings. Earlier in his career, he spent more than 11 years in various fixed income capacities with Prudential Securities in New York. McDonnell has a bachelor’s degree in finance from Boston College, and he is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.

Thomas H. Chow, CFA, Senior Vice President, Chief Investment Officer – Corporate Credit
Thomas H. Chow is a senior member of the firm's taxable fixed income portfolio management team, with primary responsibility for portfolio construction and strategic asset allocation with respect to credit and related strategies. His experience includes asset liability management solutions and credit risk opportunities that span the ratings and global spectrum. In 2001, he joined Delaware Investments as a portfolio manager, after working as a trader of high grade and high yield securities, as well as structured vehicles, at SunAmerica/AIG from 1997 to 2001. He began his investment career as an analyst, trader, and portfolio manager at Conseco Capital Management from 1989 to 1997. Chow received a bachelor’s degree in business analysis from Indiana University, and he is a Fellow of Life Management Institute.

Adam H. Brown, CFA, Vice President, Portfolio Manager
Adam H. Brown is a portfolio manager on the firm's taxable fixed income team, with specific responsibilities for the bank loan portfolio. Prior to joining Delaware Investments in April 2011 as part of the firm’s integration of Macquarie Four Corners Capital Management, he spent more than nine years with Four Corners, where he was a co-portfolio manager on four collateralized loan obligation (CLO) funds and a senior research analyst supporting noninvestment grade portfolios. Before that, Brown was with Wachovia Securities, where he worked in the leveraged finance group arranging senior secured bank loans and high yield bond financings for financial sponsors and corporate issuers. He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Florida and an MBA from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.

Christopher M. Testa, CFA, Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager
Christopher M. Testa joined Delaware Investments in January 2014 as a senior portfolio manager in the firm’s corporate credit portfolio management group. He helps manage both investment grade and high yield corporate credit. Prior to joining the firm, Testa worked as a portfolio manager who focused on high yield credit at S. Goldman Asset Management from 2009 to 2012

 
 
 

and Princeton Advisory Group from 2012 to 2013. From 2001 to 2009, he served as head of U.S. credit at Drake Management, and prior to that he was head of credit research and a high yield portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Testa has more than 20 years of experience analyzing and investing in high yield and distressed credit. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics, with a minor in government, from Hamilton College, and an MBA in finance with a concentration in investments from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

The SAI provides additional information about the portfolio managers' compensation, other accounts managed by the portfolio managers, and the portfolio managers' ownership of Fund shares.


Investments in the Fund are not and will not be deposits with or liabilities of Macquarie Bank Limited ABN 46 008 583 542 and its holding companies, including their subsidiaries or related companies (the "Macquarie Group"), and are subject to investment risk, including possible delays in repayment and loss of income and capital invested. No Macquarie Group company guarantees or will guarantee the performance of the Fund, the repayment of capital from the Fund, or any particular rate of return.


Please keep this Supplement for future reference.

This Supplement is dated June 19, 2014.