RIVERSOURCE HIGH YIELD INCOME SERIES, INC.

EXHIBIT 77I

FOR COLUMBIA HIGH YIELD BOND FUND

CLASS Z

Class Z shares are offered only to certain eligible investors at net asset value
without an initial sales charge or contingent deferred sales charge on
redemption. These shares do not assess a distribution or service fee or convert
to any other class of shares.

Class Z shares are offered only to certain eligible investors as described
below:

There is no minimum initial investment in Class Z shares for the following
categories of eligible investors:

-    Any person investing all or part of the proceeds of a distribution,
     rollover or transfer of assets into a Columbia Management Individual
     Retirement Account, from any deferred compensation plan which was a
     shareholder of any of the Funds of Columbia Acorn Trust (formerly named
     Liberty Acorn Trust) on September 29, 2000, in which the investor was a
     participant and through which the investor invested in one or more of the
     Funds of Columbia Acorn Trust immediately prior to the distribution,
     transfer or rollover.

-    Any health savings account sponsored by a third party platform and any
     omnibus group retirement plan for which a selling and/or servicing agent or
     other entity provides services and is not compensated by the Fund for those
     services, other than in the form of payments for shareholder servicing or
     sub-accounting performed in place of the Transfer Agent.

-    Any investor participating in a wrap program sponsored by a selling and/or
     servicing agent or other entity that is paid an asset-based fee by the
     investor and that is not compensated by the Fund for those services, other
     than payments for shareholder servicing or sub-accounting performed in
     place of the Transfer Agent.

The minimum initial investment in Class Z shares for the following eligible
investors is $1,000:

-    Any individual retirement plan (assuming the eligibility criteria below are
     met) or group retirement plan that is not held in an omnibus manner for
     which a selling and/or servicing agent or other entity provides services
     and is not compensated by the Fund for those services, other than in the
     form of payments for shareholder servicing or sub-accounting performed in
     place of the Transfer Agent.

-    Any person employed as of April 30, 2010 by the former investment manager,
     distributor or transfer agent of the Legacy Columbia funds is eligible to
     make new and subsequent purchases in the Class Z shares through an
     individual retirement account.

The minimum initial investment in Class Z shares for the following categories of
eligible investors is $2,000:

-    Any investor buying shares through a Columbia Management state tuition plan
     organized under Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code.

-    Any shareholder (as well as any family member of a shareholder or person
     listed on an account registration for any account of the shareholder) of
     another fund distributed by the Distributor (i) who holds Class Z shares;
     (ii) who held Primary A shares prior to the share class redesignation of
     Primary A shares as Class Z shares that occurred on August 22, 2005; (iii)
     who holds Class A shares that were obtained by an exchange of Class Z
     shares; or (iv) who bought shares of certain mutual funds that were not
     subject to sales charges and that merged with a Legacy Columbia fund
     distributed by the Distributor.

-    Any trustee or director (or family member of a trustee or director) of a
     fund distributed by the Distributor.

-    Any investor participating in an account offered by a selling and/or
     servicing agent or other entity that provides services to such an account,
     is paid an asset-based fee by the investor and is not compensated by the
     Fund for those services, other than payments for shareholder servicing or
     sub-accounting performed in place of the Transfer Agent (each investor
     buying shares through a selling and/or servicing agent must independently
     satisfy the minimum investment requirement noted above).

-    Any institutional investor who is a corporation, partnership, trust,
     foundation, endowment, institution, government entity, or similar
     organization, which meets the respective qualifications for an accredited
     investor, as defined under the Securities Act of 1933.



-    Certain financial institutions and intermediaries, such as insurance
     companies, trust companies, banks, endowments, investment companies or
     foundations, buying shares for their own account, including Ameriprise
     Financial and its affiliates and/or subsidiaries.

-    Any person employed as of April 30, 2010 by the former investment manager,
     distributor or transfer agent of the Legacy Columbia funds is eligible to
     make new and subsequent purchases in the Class Z shares through a
     non-retirement account.

-    Certain other investors as set forth in more detail in the SAI.

The minimum initial investment requirements may be waived for accounts that are
managed by an investment professional, for accounts held in approved
discretionary or non-discretionary wrap programs, for accounts that are a part
of an employer-sponsored retirement plan, or for other account types if approved
by the Distributor.

The Fund reserves the right to modify its minimum investment and related
requirements at any time, with or without prior notice.